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Archive for May 2013
Creating responsive maps with Leaflet, Google Docs
Note: This is cross-posted from Lee's data journalism blog, which you can read over there by clicking here.
Quick: Name five people you know who don't have a smartphone.
Stumped? Yeah, me too. The fact is more and more people have smartphones and are using them to keep up with the world.
What does that mean for news app developers? We need to be especially conscience of the mobile platform and make sure everything we build for the web is compatible on the smallest of screens.
One great way to do this is creating apps through responsive design. The idea behind responsive design is creating one web page for all users, as opposed to making separate pages for desktop and mobile computers.
Then we simply add, rearrange, subtract or tweak features on a web page based on the size of the browser the user has when they are viewing the app.
Maps can be difficult to manage on mobile platforms, especially when you add in legends, info boxes, etc. But they are not impossible. Fortunately Leaflet, an alternative to Google maps, is designed to work especially well on mobile platforms.
In this example, we will be loading data into a Google spreadsheet and using Leaflet to map the data on a responsive map.
1. Learn a little bit of Leaflet
Before we start, it would probably be best if you familiarize yourself with Leaflet. Fortunately, their website has some wonderful walk-throughs. I'd recommend going through this one before going anything further.
2. Grab the code
Now, go to my Github page and download the template.
The Readme file includes instructions on how to set up a basic map using Google spreadsheets and Tabletop.js, which is a wonderful tool that allows us to do all kinds of things with data in a Google spreadsheet, including map it using Leaflet.
3. Edit your index.html page
After you have followed the instructions on my Github page, you should have a map ready to go.
All you have to do is go into the index.html page and edit the title of the map, as well as add your own information into the "sidebar_content" div. Also make sure you add your name to the credits because you deserve credit for this awesome map you are putting together.
4. How does it work?
Now open up your map in a browser. If you rearrange the browser window size, you'll notice that the map rearranges its size. The other components on the page also automatically readjust.
Some of this is done with the Bootstrap web framework, which was designed with responsive designing in mind.
I've also added my own CSS. One easy thing I've done with elements on the page is declare their widths and heights using percentages instead of pixels. This ensures that the components will automatically be adjusted regardless of the screen size.
Take a look at our css/styles.css file to get an idea of what I'm talking about:
/* Body */ body { padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; margin: 0; height: 100%; } html { height: 100%; } /* Map */ #map { position: absolute; float: left; top: 1%; height: 98%; width: 100%; z-index: 1; }
The map's height is 98 percent and width is 100 percent, ensuring it changes its size when the browser changes its size. If we set it to 600 pixels wide, the map would stay 600 pixels wide, even when the browser was adjusted.
– You'll notice some other changes. For instance, if you have a wide screen, the map's sidebar will be on the right side of the screen. We did this by using absolute positioning to place the sidebar and its content on the page:
/* Sidebar */ #sidebar { position: absolute; top: 2%; right: 1%; height: 96%; width: 30%; z-index: 2; border: 1px solid #999; padding-left: 1%; padding-right: 1%; background-color: #FFFFFF; background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.9); } #sidebar h3 { line-height: 30px; } #sidebar_content { float: left; width: 30%; height: 70%; position: fixed; overflow: auto; padding-top: 5px; }
The sidebar's "right" position is set to 1 percent. This ensures that the sidebar will appear only 1 percent from the right side of the page. Additionally, its "top" position is set to 2 percent. This, effectively, pushes it to the top right corner of the screen.
We also used percentages to declare widths, heights and padding lengths for the sidebar.
– You'll also notice when your browser is reduced drastically, the content of the sidebar disappears off the page. Instead, we have just the title of the sidebar at the top of the page. This is done with CSS media queries:
/* Styles from mobile devices */ @media (max-width: 625px) { #sidebar_content { display: none; } /* Sidebar */ #sidebar { position: relative; margin-top: 0%; float: left; left: 0%; right: 0%; top: 0%; padding-left: 2%; padding-right: 2%; height: 35px; width: 96.5%; } }
Basically what the above code is saying is: If the browser is 625 pixels wide or smaller, apply the following CSS styles. These styles would therefore apply to almost all mobile phones. So what you are saying to the browser is: If this is a mobile browser, apply these styles to the elements on the page.
The first thing we do is hide the "sidebar_content" div, which is within our main "sidebar" div. Besides the "sidebar_content" div, we also have a div within the "sidebar" div called "sidebar_header" for our title. The template sets the title to "Tabletop to Leaflet" initially, although you should change that to match your project.
We hide the "sidebar_content" div with the property "display: none." Hiding it ensures that the only thing left in our "sidebar" div is the title. Then the sidebar is pushed to the top left corner of the page using absolute positioning.
From our js/script.js file:
// Toggle for 'About this map' and X buttons // Only visible on mobile isVisibleDescription = false; // Grab header, then content of sidebar sidebarHeader = $('#sidebar_header').html(); sidebarContent = $('#sidebar_content').html(); // Then grab credit information creditsContent = $('#credits_content').html(); $('.toggle_description').click(function() { if (isVisibleDescription === false) { $('#description_box_cover').show(); // Add Sidebar header into our description box // And 'Scroll to read more...' text on wide mobile screen $('#description_box_header').html(sidebarHeader + '
Scroll to read more...
'); // Add the rest of our sidebar content, credit information $('#description_box_content').html(sidebarContent + '
' + 'Credits:' + creditsContent); $('#description_box').show(); isVisibleDescription = true; } else { $('#description_box').hide(); $('#description_box_cover').hide(); isVisibleDescription = false; } });
The above code first grabs the information from the "sidebar_content" div, then places it in the "description_box" div. It also sets our toggle function, which is activated when the user clicks on the button with the class "toggle_description."
– The "description_box" div is also styled similarly to the "sidebar" div. The big difference is the "description_box" div is hidden by default because we only want it shown if we are on a mobile phone. The button with the class "toggle_description" is also hidden by default.
From our css/styles.css file:
/* 'About this map' button, description box */ /* Mobile only */ .toggle_description { display: none; z-index: 8; position: relative; float: right; right: 0%; top: 0%; } #description_box_cover { display: none; z-index: 10; position: absolute; top: 0%; width: 100%; height: 100%; background-color: #444444; background-color:rgba(44,44,44,0.9); } #description_box { position: absolute; display: none; z-index: 11; width: 92%; height: 93%; padding-top: 1%; padding-left: 1%; padding-right: 1%; left: 2.5%; top: 2.5%; border: 1px solid #999; background-color: #FFFFFF; background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.9); } #description_box h3 { padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 15px; }
Now we do the opposite with the "toggle_description" when compared to what we did with the "sidebar_content" div.
With the "sidebar_content" div, we had it shown by default then hidden on mobile phones using CSS media queries. With the button, we hide it by default and then show it on mobile phones using a CSS property of "display: inline."
From our css/styles.css file:
/* Styles from mobile devices */ @media (max-width: 625px) { .toggle_description { display: inline; } }
As a noted above, when someone clicks on that button, jQuery toggles between hidden and shown on the button with the class "toggle_description". It is hidden by default, so it is shown when the user first clicks it. Then when the user clicks the blue X button (which also has the class of "toggle description"), the box disappears.
A similar philosophy is in place to hide and show the credits box.
That should give you a good idea of what is happening with this map. Feel free to fork the repo and create your own awesome maps.
Have any questions? Don't hesitate to leave a comment.


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There are loads of free weather apps available for download from the Apple App Store and the Google Play store. However a majority of them end up disappointing, mainly for the quality of view or displaying weather details which cover a very large area so are not that specific. Sky Motion claims to able to give you an exact weather reading where you are in real-time as well as provide all the normal weather app features such as severe weather alerts and periodical forecasts. But how does the app measure up?
The app uses weather radars located around your country to calculate exact readings on what the weather's like where you are. It also lets you correct and report the weather to improve the accuracy of the weather being reported locally. The best feature really is the minute-by-minute rain feature, distinguishing Sky Motion from other free weather apps.
The Sky Motion interface does not integrate a radar map but has a simple clean display with only the temperature and expected weather conditions for the next two hours on-screen. You are able to add different locations to swipe through and set personal preferences such as the unit of temperature. However that does not give you much to look at. Still you can navigate to other features such as the hourly, daily, or weekly forecast and the rain feature can be of invaluable assistance.
But despite the accuracy, the app is not very graphically exciting to look at and its major downfall for most of us around the world is that it only really functions properly at this time within the USA and Canada, despite being available for download from any app store.
The Good
- Minute-by-minute rain feature
- Accurate weather conditions to your position
- Ability for users to update the weather conditions
The Bad
- Unexciting clean display
- Only available in USA and Canada
The Verdict
If you are looking for a really accurate weather app that simply tells you the weather locally in locations across the USA and Canada then this is the app for you. There are no exciting graphics to copy your screen to share online, and the interface is simple and easy to use. The ability for users to update the local weather also adds a further degree of accuracy and you really haven't go much to lose by downloading Sky Motion for free and trying it out. We will wait to see if the functionality improves so it can be used in the rest of the world but for North America-based app users then this is certainly worth a look.

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RECIPE: 'Live G Free' Very Berry Muffins
Aldi is my favorite store these days and my newest obsession. They have crazy prices, and some really nice gluten-free products, and organic products. I decided to try the Live G Free Baking Mix to make some muffins. They turned out fantastic. I am going to play a little more with this great baking mix, and you should too! It is a very versatile mix, and tasty for a gluten-free option.
'Live G Free' Very Berry Muffins
1 Box G Free Baking Mix
1 cup finely chopped strawberries
1 cup blueberries
juice of 1/2 a lemon
a healthy splash of grenadine
2 Tbsp. sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
dash of salt
1/4 cup melted butter
1 egg
1/2 cup toasted coconut and vanilla greek yogurt (I get this at Aldi with the baking mix-vanilla works too)
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup milk or almond milk
berry, vanilla or honey flavored granola for topping
Preheat oven to 350˚.
In a large bowl, whisk the egg with the sugar until thickened. Add the yogurt and whisk. Then add the melted butter and whisk. Add the baking mix, then add the milk, then whisk. The batter will be thick.
Add the berries with all their juices, and fold in until evenly distributed. Spray a large muffin tin with nonstick cooking spray. Spoon batter in each mold until 2/3rds full. Sprinkle granola on top, and bake for about 30-35 minutes, rotating the pan once. Let cool in pan for about 10 minutes, then invert onto a cooling rack to cool completely. Makes about 10 large muffins.
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|Bloody Hammer by skeats
The wonderful thing about my "current" (when I get the models...) Blood Angels list is that it can easily change to a whole different kind of beastie with just a few tweaks. The main roster is based almost entirely in close combat. Sure, I got a few meltaguns in there, but they function mainly as can openers so that the Marines can get their hands on the squishy stuff inside their transports. But what would happened if a swifted the balance a little bit and introduced some more ranged firepower elements to the list? Enter the Blood Hammer!
Basically, the Blood Hammer is your standard DoA jumpers list with a good measure of Devastators for fire support. As you may know, Red Devs are very cost effective. A hundred and thirty points for a Signum and four Missile Launchers? Yes, please! Okay, still not as good as Longfangs but still much better than their Vanilla counterparts and all around excellent for their given job. Add in the fact that you can make them a lot more survivable than any other MEQ race out there and their value proliferates. But more on that little bit later.
Let's see my first draft of the list (again, found here):
Librarian, Jump Pack, The Blood Lance, Shield of Sanguinius
2 x Sanguinary Priest, Jumpack, Lightning Claw, Meltabombs
Sanguinary Guard, Power First, Inferus Pistol
10 Assault Marines, 2 Meltagun, Sergeant (Infernus Pistol, Lightning Claw)
10 Assault Marines, 2 Meltagun, Sergeant (Power Fist)
5 Assault Marines, Meltagun
3 x 10 Devastators, 4 Missile Launchers
Not too bad I guess. I had 10 Marines in each Devastator squad on the ground that they could be split into combat squads and thus be able to shoot at 6 different targets. I also added the small 5 man Assault Squad for scoring purposes and also to add that extra oomph I might need.
However, I still wasn't sure of the list's worth. Spending 240 points for a meat shield, which would otherwise be useless, wasn't a wise stratagem. Furthermore the added benefits of being able to target more enemy units suddenly didn't seem much if you consider that 2 Missiles usually do diddly squat. After looking in my favourite place for list building ideas (which is 3++ and not White Dwarf, contrary to popular belief) I came up with some changes:
Librarian, Jump Pack, The Blood Lance, Shield of Sanguinius
Honour Guard, Jumpacks, 4 Meltaguns, Meltabombs
Sanguinary Priest, Jumpack, Lightning Claw
Sanguinary Priest
Sanguinary Guard, Power First, 2 Infernus Pistol
Techmarine, Jump Pack, Combi Melta
2 x 10 Assault Marines, 2 Meltaguns, Sergeant (Power Fist, Melta Bombs)
5 Scouts, Camo Cloaks, Sniper Rifles, 1 Missile Launcher
3 x 5 Devastators, 4 Missile Launchers
There are a few key concepts in this list. First of all, the Techmarine will fortify a large piece of terrain for your Devs and Scouts (unupgraded priest can join them) to sit inside. Now they will get a 3+ cover save (2+ for the scouts!) and Feel No Pain. I don't think they could get any more survivable than that! Okay, maybe inside a Land Raider but then they couldn't fire their weapons. With the addition of the scouts, the firebase is now scoring. Well dug in and able to contest an objective. Pretty neat.
After that, the Techmarine still is a pretty good suicide melta unit. He could kill you a vehicle and make his points back, so why not? He gets a Jumpack for free (he exchanges it with his servo arm) and with a combi melta he ends up costing a very reasonable 60 points. With BS 4 it's a hit or miss thing but then again you don't have much to lose deepstriking him close to an enemy vehicle. Additionally, if he survives (he has a 2+ save you know) that initial suicide attack, he could be a big nuisance to your opponent. He could tie up small shooty units or stay hidden behind LoS blocking terrain and pop out in the last turn and deny your enemy an objective. Quite nifty.
All in all, there are 8 Meltaguns, 2 Infernus Pistols, one combi Melta and 6 Meltabombs in the army. Enough to stress out even a Land Raider spammer. Keep in mind that they are all in models with DoA that makes them even more accurate as to when they arrive on the table and how close to the target they are going to land. Together with the 12 Missile shots from the Dev they form a formidable force against mech, MC spam and MEQ opponents alike.
Furthermore, the list retains it's close combat punch. You still got 3 Feel no Pain/Furious Charge bubbles and 3 capable close combat units (Sanguinary Guard and the Assault Marines). Even if the Devs/Scouts get hard pressed from an incoming enemy they could launch a desperate charge which could be effective, against some enemies, with all those S5 attacks. Anyway, one of the assault units could be placed close enough in order to protect the firebase.
And the most beautiful thing about it? I only got to have a couple of units (Scouts, Tactical Marines) and the list would be almost ready. Fortunately, I got a lot of unused Missile Launchers from my Imperial Guard heavy weapon teams which can easily be converted to fit the Devs. I've also acquired a couple of Black Reach Missile Launchers models and I even still got this guy:


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Richard Farmer
VJ, I wonder if you might just compare Edgeline a little bit to Memjet. There's been a lot of talk lately on Memjet. And --
Vyomesh Joshi
I think there's a lot of talk there but they need to introduce a product first. That's how I always think about it. We take all of our competitors very seriously, but they have shown a prototype and we could always show a prototype in our lab three or four years ago. So in my mind, there is a lot of work from showing a prototype to commercialize a technology and actually introduce and get the feedback from the customers. So there is a lot of work to do. But, clearly, what they are telling you, and telling all of us, inkjet is a great technology, and I think that's the clear, clear confirmation that we are getting in terms of where we want to go for high-throughput color.
The second thing, in my mind, is they are showing a lot of concepts. I think they need to focus on which particular customer segment that they want to focus their technology and make a contribution. Because it's very easy to show concepts, but then you have to really decide that, okay, this is the customer that you want to go after and make a contribution. I think in our mind
Edgeline is a lot of hard work and $1.4 billion we've spent on scalable printing technology. This is really the implementation that as I talked about, going from home to small and medium business to retail photo kiosks to large format business now, entering into the enterprise market. I think that you need that kind of a scale, and you get kind of a volume to really have reliability and quality and performance that Hewlett-Packard is showing. So they have a lot of work to do to get that kind of a volume, get that kind of a manufacturing processes and cost structure to be really effective.
Richard Farmer
So, bottom line, you feel like Memjet's very unlikely to be a material threat to your Edgeline business and your other core printing business in inkjet and laser in the next couple of years?
Vyomesh Joshi
We take everybody seriously, so it's their job to figure out how to make a contribution. We focus on our customer.
Later in the Q&A, Richard Gardner of Citibank sought to compare the Xerox (NYSE XRX) WorkCentre 7600 series and Canon ImageRUNNER 5180 to Edgline CM8060 and CM8050 Color MFP models, and Joshi, not shying away from comparisons, suggested he also include the Ricoh AFC 3260!
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Why You Should Replace iPhoto With A Free App Called Lyn [Mac]
If you want the organisational changes that you made to your albums and photos to be reflected in the Finder, then iPhoto certainly isn't the app for you. If you're looking for a more convenient way to organise your photos, the free Mac app, Lyn makes getting the job done very easy.
Its intuitive and easy-to-use interface will have your photo library organised in no time at all, making it a great alternative to iPhoto. Photos can be displayed in one of three ways. As large thumbnails:
As small thumbnails, with a large preview of the selected image:
Or as a list of very small thumbnails and the photo's EXIF data:
When viewing large or small thumbnails, you can easily access the photo's EXIF data in a convenient sidebar, by clicking on the blue information button in the top right hand corner of the screen.
While there is no one-click way to import all of your photos from a camera to Lyn, you can still access all of the files from the camera and do a quick drag-and-drop to get the job done.
Opening any given photo allows you to zoom in and out, show the image's actual size, rotates the image, and opens it in full screen, amongst a few other options.
Lyn's strength is in its layout. The menu of directories and folders makes it much easier to drag and drop images from one folder to another.
The application gives you full control when organising your photos as you would want them in your folders – a feature that is sorely lacking from iPhoto. Any change made in Lyn is reflected in the Finder.
Create new folders, move and delete images quickly from the comfort of one screen without having to switch from one Finder window to the next. If you need to locate the image in your Finder, Lyn makes it as easy as possible.
While it is possible to delete images directly from within Lyn, using the keyboard shortcut, CMD-Delete, you can't delete folders. That said, it is a small inconvenience as you can easily do this from the Finder. Another con to using Lyn is that it displays all files in any given folder, whether or not they are images.
Lyn supports a wide variety of images, including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, animated GIF and Raw. The app also allows you to display beautiful full screen slideshows of your photos.
Lyn's preferences are limited mainly to the way that it displays and opens images, as well as the general display of the app's fonts and colours.
Lyn is in public beta until December 1, 2010, so hurry up and download it while you can.
If you are looking for some some basic editing features, along with the ability to organise your photos, then Picasa How To Edit Your Photos in Google Picasa Read More is your best bet. Not only does it give you an easy way to organise Introduction To Google Picasa: View, Folders and Toolbars Read More , Picasa also has the added advantage of allowing you to sync your photos to your online Google account, giving you a quick and easy way to back up your images.
What app do you use to organise your photos? Let us know in the comments.
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"I lost a lot of friends in Viet Nam and it was [Tet] 68. It'll be 50 years in Feb 2018. My biggest trigger is getting behind a diesel truck. It takes me back, I have found it makes a difference with Seven. He knows that if I get behind a diesel truck it bothers me, so he starts barking at me to distract me from my thoughts. I can honestly say that PTSD doesn't go away entirely, but the team at K9s on The Front Line definitely understands it and they have been the biggest help I have had with it. Thank you K9s on the Front Line, best thing to happen in my life.
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Becca is currently a freshman at Dowling Catholic and is overjoyed to be apart of the Dowling Catholic Post. Her likes include celery, iced coffee, (faux!) fur coats, and is a self-declared tofu connoisseur. When she's not on the softball field, you can find her posting on her iconic spam account, rawr.xdxd. You can also find her hanging out in room 609, most likely taking high-quality selfies with some of her upperclassmen bffs #lonefreshman and her teacher bff, Mrs. Triplett.
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Bravo to Joe: Manchin right not to follow leader on debt vote | Martinsburg Journal
When Sen. Joe Manchin voted against a bill to expand the national debt last week, he knew full well his opposition would not stop the measure. It passed the Senate handily, by a 64-34 vote.
Manchin, D-W.Va., was the only Democrat to vote against the measure. Every one of the others followed orders from Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and President Barack Obama. A few Republicans joined them because the bill originated in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives.
Given Obama's success in the court of public opinion, Republicans in the House had no realistic choice but to vote for the debt expansion, in the hope a deadline they set for spending cuts later this spring will result in at least some progress in reducing the federal spending deficit.
But Manchin was right to vote "no." At some point, he has stressed, Congress must stop "kicking the can down the road" on deficit spending. The nation already is $16.5 trillion in debt - and something must be done about the problem.
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Joke of the Month
A young girl had been suffering from severe headaches and had tests run by her doctor. The doctor said, "I'm sorry miss, but you have a massive brain tumor."
The girl started crying and said to her mom, "I'm only 15 years old. I don't want to die."
The doctor said, "Well this is modern medicine. There is an experimental technique for a brain transplant, but it's expensive."
The girl's mother said, "Don't worry, dear. How much does it cost?"
The doctor replied, "Well, a male brain is Rs 10,00,000 and the female brain is Rs 25,000."
The mom said, "No problem. But why is the male brain more expensive then the female brain?"
The doctor replied, "Because the female brain is USED!"
- For an instant anti-wrinkle face mask mix 3 drops of lemon with egg-white. Apply a thin coat on your face. Leave the mask on for 15 minutes and then wash off.
- Papaya juice is excellent for removing warts, corns or blackheads.
- Condition your hair by beating together 2 eggs, 1 tbsp castor oil, 1 tbsp glycerine, 1 tsp malt vinegar, 1 tsp coconut oil. Apply after initial shampoo. Leave for half-hour and wash off.


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How to change the thing amongst the other things in that thing…maybe.
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By strange fortune, I got the Early Access build of a "space sim" on Steam. (Actually, according to Wikipedia this genre is called "Space trading and combat simulator". I guess that's more useful than calling all first-person games "shooters".) I tried it, and like a lot of Early Access games I kind of felt like it went public way too soon. So I tried another, just to compare. It was also pretty half-baked and not in any state to provide entertainment. I might write about them later,
Remember the whole Derek Smart thing? Way back in 1996 Mr. Smart released Battlecruiser 3000AD. It was, as far as I can tell, a one-man effort. He hyped the game with fervor and was famous for his aggressive responses to criticism. (On Usenet. Remember that place?) The game was notoriously rough at launch, but he stuck with it and – according to the internet – made it right in the end. Since then he's made a habit of giving away his games once they're done selling, and seems to have done well for himself. He could be compared to people like Peter Molyneux, John Romero, and Phil Fish, but the truth is he's very much his own thing. He's mellowed quite a bit since the 90's. He's got his own development company now, but I'll always see him as the original indie.
After seeing everyone heap so much shame on Battlecruiser 3000AD, it's really odd to see these new sims come along and outright sell their pre-alpha builds. I feel like the internet needs to heap some shame on these projects, or apologize to Derek Smart.
No. That's not true. I don't really think we need to unload hate on these new indies. It's just strange how the industry has changed, and sometimes it's hard to see how we got from there to here.
For the record, I have't played a space sim since Freelancer. And I friggin' hated Freelancer for being shallow, dull, and railroad-y. I've heard that people have fixed it up with mods, but I've never had the urge to go back. (And now that I think of it, I haven't seen the disks in years. It's possible I don't have the game anymore.)
I don't know why I have this sudden urge to play a space sim. The last one I liked was the short-lived Earth & Beyond. Before that, I think it was Starflight, way back in 1992 or so. I haven't spent a lot of time with this genre and I don't really know what's good.
Which brings me to the point of this meandering heap of anecdotes: What's good out there? No need to suggest Eve Online. I admire the game from a distance. I love the drama, intrigue, and unique community structure the game has created. But I wouldn't enjoy playing the game. I just don't like PVP, and in Eve PVP is kind of the point.
So, have any space sims you'd really recommend? Have any you want to rage against? I'm most interested in seeing where the genre has gone in the last few years or so.
A video discussing Megatexture technology. Why we needed it, what it was supposed to do, and why it maybe didn't totally work.
The Death of Half-Life
Valve still hasn't admitted it, but the Half-Life franchise is dead. So what made these games so popular anyway?
Shamus Plays LOTRO
As someone who loves Tolkein lore and despises silly MMO quests, this game left me deeply conflicted.
Grand Theft Railroad
Grand Theft Auto is a lousy, cheating jerk of a game.
Batman v. Superman Wasn't All Bad
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released IR-2016-169 on December 13th providing the 2017 optional standard mileage rates. Beginning on January 1, 2017 the standard rates for the use of a car (also vans, pickups or panel trucks) will be:
- 53.5 cents per mile for business miles drive;
- 17 cents per mile for medical or moving purposes;
- 14 cents per mile in service of charitable organizations.
Taxpayers always have the option of calculating the actual costs of using their vehicle rather than using the standard mileage rates.
Per http://www.irs.gov these and other requirements are described in Rev. Proc. 2010-51. Notice 2016-79, posted today on IRS.gov, contains the standard mileage rates, the amount a taxpayer must use in calculating reductions to basis for depreciation taken under the business standard mileage rate, and the maximum standard automobile cost that a taxpayer may use in computing the allowance under a fixed and variable rate plan.


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Lew Welch, 1926 - 1971
"Lew Welch moved with his mother to California following his parents' divorce. Following a stint in the Air Force, Welch attended Oregon's, Reed College in 1948 where he met poets Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen. His senior thesis was about American poet Gertrude Stein which greatly impressed William Carlos Williams who had visited the college and met the three poets. He admired Welch's early poems and tried to get his Stein thesis published. Welch later made a trek east to visit Williams at his home in New Jersey.
After a brief period of wandering, Welch was accepted into the University of Chicago and attempted to earn his Master's degree. Welch hated Chicago. By 1951 he had a nervous breakdown. He went into analysis and psychotherapy. He married and worked as an advertising copywriter for Montgomery Ward, where he came up with the famous Raid slogan "Raid Kills Bugs Dead." He was working here at the time of the famous poetry reading at the Six Gallery in San Francisco.
His friends Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen were gaining prominence as Beat poets and Welch felt a renewed interest in writing again. His entry into the San Francisco poetry world coincided with the end of his marriage and loss of his white-collar day job. To support himself he drove a cab in San Francisco. His experiences behind the wheel would inspire the poems Taxi Suite. Lew Welch is included in many Beat Generation anthologies. His book of collected poems Ring of Bone was first published in 1973.
In 1959 Welch met Jack Kerouac and took to the road with Kerouac, also on this trip was friend Albert Saijo. They drove from San Francisco to New York. Welch would appear in Kerouac's novel Big Sur as the "lean rangy red head" Dave Wain, always ready for a good time.
Like many creative individuals, Welch was troubled by the need to earn a living while keeping his mind and time free for creative expression. Welch published and performed widely during the 1960s, and taught a poetry workshop as part of the University of California Extension in San Francisco from 1965 to 1970. But the old inner demons were never far.
Despite his burgeoning success his bouts with depression and heavy drinking continued and after the break up of another relationship in 1971 Welch returned to the mountains. On May 23, 1971, Gary Snyder went up to Welch's campsite and found a suicide note in Welch's truck. Despite an extensive search Welch's body was never found. He left the following note, found by Snyder:
"I never could make anything work out right and now I'm betraying my friends. I can't make anything out of it - never could. I had great visions but never could bring them together with reality. I used it all up. It's all gone. Don Allen is to be my literary executor- use MSS at Gary's and at Grove Press. I have $2,000 in Nevada City Bank of America - use it to cover my affairs and debts. I don't owe Allen G. anything yet nor my Mother. I went Southwest. Goodbye. Lew Welch." [online sources]
♣ In fact nobody knows for certain what happened to Lew Welch. He simply disappeared.
The Chicago Poem
I lived here nearly 5 years before I could
meet the middle western day with anything approaching
dignity. It's a place that lets you
understand why the Bible is the way it is:
Proud people cannot live here.
The land's too flat. Ugly, sullent and big it
pounds men down past humbleness. They
stoop at 35 possibly cringing from the heavy and
terrible sky. In country like this there
can be no God but Jahweh.
In the mills and refineries of its south side Chicago
passes its natural gas in flames
bouncing like bunsens from stacks a hundred feet high.
The stench stabs at your eyeballs.
The whole sky green and yellow backdrop for the skeleton
steel of a bombed-out town.
Remember the movies in grammar school? The goggled men
doing strong things in
showers of steel-spark? The dark screen cracking light
and the furnace door opening with a
blast of orange like a sunset? Or an orange?
It was photographed by a fairy, thrilled as a girl, or
a Nazi who wished there were people
behind that door (hence the remote beauty), but Sievers,
whose old man spent most of his life in there,
remembers a "nigger in a red T-shirt pissing into black sand."
It was 5 years until I could afford to recognise the ferocity.
Friends helped me. Then I put some
love into my house. Finally I found some quiet lakes
and a farm where they let me shoot pheasant.
Standing in the boat one night I watched the lake go absolutely flat.
Smaller than raindrops, and only here and there,
the feeding rings of fish were visible 100 yards away -
and the Blue Gill caught that afternoon
lifted from its northern lake like a tropical! Jewel in its ear
belly gold so bright you'd swear he had a
light in there. His colour faded with his life. A small green fish...
All things considered, it's a gentle and undemanding
planet, even here. Far gentler
here than any of a dozen other places. The trouble is
always and only with what we build on top of it.
There's nobody else to blame. You can't fix it and you
can't make it go away. It does no good appealing
to some ill-invented Thunderer
brooding over some unimaginable crag.
It's ours. Right down to the last small hinge it
all depends for its existence
only and utterly upon our sufferance.
Driving back I saw Chicago rising in its gases and I
knew again that never will the
man be made to stand against this pitiless, unparallel
monstrosity. It snuffles on the beach of its Great Lake
like a blind, red, rhinoceros.
It's already running us down.
You can't fix it. You can't make it go away.
I don't know what you're going to do about it.
But I know what I'm going to do about it. I'm just
going to walk away from it. Maybe
a small part of it will die if I'm not around.
feeding it anymore.
Lew Welch
1959 – Jack Kerouac & Lew Welch . . .
from Jack Karlos 'Eternity Unzipped'1966, (unpublished manuscript).
"A couple of days after my ship docked at Brooklyn and I had squared away the work that had to be taken care of before I could get leave I took off for Manhattan and found Jack in the Cedar Tavern, he was with another guy he introduced as Lew Welch. The Cedar Tavern was in Greenwich Village and the main hang out for the abstract expressionist painters and to a lesser degree writers – like John Ashberry, Gregory Corso, Leroi Jones, and Frank O'Hara. The Cedar bar had no TV and no jukebox.
In '54 Jackson Pollock had been barred after one of his drunken violent rages, and around the same time so had Kerouac – for pulling his dick out and pissing in a jug of beer on the table of a well dressed party who were there 'digging the scene'. There were lots of fist fights in this bar. It had a genuine undercurrent edge of violence and unpredictability to it. Later, after he became famous with the publication of On The Road, Jack was allowed back in the Cedar because of the amount of people that were drawn to him like a magnet, crowding the bar and spending up big."
♣ An aside: 1957 - Jackson Pollock - from Jack Karlos, Journals 1957 – 1972]
'Back in 1954 . . . Jack introduced me to the painter Jackson Pollock who I jokingly referred to as Bollocks. Pollock didn't get it, maybe because he was a yank and bollocks was an English slang term. Thereafter Jack, with a straight face, would say bollocks instead of Pollock. He didn't know that Jack was taking the piss out of him. Jack really liked his paintings though, he reckoned they were saturated with Tathagata and that just by standing in front of one of Pollock's paintings it was possible for a viewer to have an instant awakening. Whenever Jackson came in the door Jack would yell out "Hey – Bollocks ! over here man, come and have a drink." and Jackson would come unsmiling towards Jack's table, loaded with drinks and empty glasses. I heard later that Jackson eventually found out what 'bollocks' meant and one night drunk he confronted Jack out the front of the San Remo where he had been lurking. He threw a punch breaking Jack's nose. Jack lost his cool and punched Pollock decking him and then sat on his chest and grabbing Pollock by both ears began bouncing his head off the footpath – two or three times – before Norman Mailer and William de Kooning dragged him off. Jack had been drinking heavily and on Benzedrine which might explain his explosive reaction. Gregory Corso was with Jack and he'd been drinking and on bennies too and he proceeded to 'sink the slipper' into Pollock's ribs as Jack was bouncing the head." Jack Karlos, Journals 1957 – 1972
"The three of us hung out together for a few days, then Lew wasn't around anymore, but while he was it was him and Jack who did all the talking – (and most of the drinking). Talk of all kinds of things most of which went right over my head. But one theme that came up a lot with them and it stuck with me thereafter was – "HOW FUCKED EVERYTHING WAS" – how fucked America and the world in general was – and how fucked the 'beat scene' was becoming.
Jack was also disillusioned with Ginsberg's predilection for public fame and acclaim, which they talked about – surprisingly both thought Ginsberg's poetry was overrated. Jack said Allen was a 'show pony' prancing and dancing to his ego's need for public love – his driving force rather than poetry. They said the only half decent thing he had ever written was Howl. They also talked about Ginsberg's arrogant and ignorant dismissal of Buddhism as being something worth looking into. Buddhism came up a lot in their talks. I had no idea of what they were on about. But from then on I was curious and began to take an interest, and later got hold of a couple of books on Buddhism. These two guys were riveting to listen to when they were together.
Watching and listening to them was entrancing – at times the hair on the back of my neck literally stood on end. Once the drinking started though they went through the night till dawn before crashing. Like Jack, Lew Welch had depth about him. You felt a lot was happening under the surface. He had laughing eyes and he was quick to laugh, but there was an undercurrent of sadness about him too, just like Jack. He was a gentlemanly guy and very likable. Another thing that was talked about was personal powerlessness and hopelessness. When I asked about Lew a few days later Jack said he'd gone back to the west coast. He missed Lew, and went quiet for the remaining days that I was in town.
There were always a bunch of others around Jack wherever he went, guys and women. But every now and again he would suddenly just get up and leave, simply walk away without a word – when he wasn't totally pissed and still had some control. Couple of times he grabbed me aside and told me to wait outside for him, then five minutes later he would come out and we would head off to an apartment he used as a sort of refuge in an old building on East 7th Street, Jack grabbing a bottle of wine on the way. He let himself in with a key that was stashed somewhere on the stairs or landing? Later I found out the flat was Allen Ginsberg's. Jack said it was the perfect beat pad, that it was just what the Dr Sax had ordered.
When he didn't want to be with anyone else but also not wanting to be alone he liked to have my company. Though he never told me why and I never asked. But once when he wasn't drunk he said it felt good to have me around, but nothing about why. Maybe it was because we only saw one another in between long spells away. Or maybe it was because I was younger than he was and I took an interest in what he had to say – sort of getting educated by him. He had a way with words did Jack, his talk flowed off his tongue as smooth as a shot of Drambuie goes down your throat – and his insights hit your brain just like that shot of Drambuie does – with a sudden jolt of clarity and the feeling of being connected to the world soul – like a veil that you never even knew was there is suddenly lifted away from your eyes. He wasn't hard to be around.
It was only when my ship was docked in America either on the East or the West coast that we got together for a few days. After that first time in Harlem in '54 he told me if I was ever on the west coast, how to find him. Maybe another reason was the block of hash the size of a cigarette packet that I brought in whenever my ship in came via one of the ports where it was readily available – Karachi, Bombay, Aden, Port Said. The stuff from Karachi was the best because that came down from Afghanistan and was very pure and strong.
With Lew Welch and Jack, we roamed from bar to bar, jazz joint to jazz joint, beat café to beat cafe – that's how he described these places - this beat hangout, this subterranean joint, this hipster joint – but it was the San Remo where he mostly hung out. The San Remo was on the corner of MacDougal and Bleeker Sts in the Village, it had wooden booths, a black and white tiled floor, and a pressed-tin ceiling. A lot of other writers hung out there too, some painters too - like Larry Rivers, and sometimes musicians. Some of these characters I met briefly or had a few drinks with, some I got to know better later, others I knew by sight and whose names I picked up listening to the talk while I was in Jacks company. Jack yelling out and waving his arm when someone came in the door "Hey - Gore [Vidal] – over here man, come over and drink with us." Or John Clellon Holmes. Tennessee Williams was often there. Miles Davis would come in sometimes usually with a couple of other black guys and women. It was mostly only creative people there – writers, musicians, painters – but there was also those who weren't artists themselves and like me loved being around the high energy of the creative crowd. There was a lot of talk about what each one was doing – what they were working on, plays, novels, poems, paintings, music.
Charley Parker and Miles Davis.
In New York I knew that I could always find Jack in the San Remo and if he wasn't there I could find out where he was – everyone knew him, everyone liked him. There was an electricity about Jack that spilled off him even when he was quiet, it touched everyone who came anywhere near him. In his company you had the feeling that everyday life itself was an awesome thing, that just to be alive and on the street was a kind of miracle. But he was also a contradiction – he had a definite sense of naivety and simplicity about him and also he had deep insight into things – but he had darkness in him too. There were times when he came out with a lot very pessimistic stuff – like 'how fucked it all was'. "Everything is fucked." he would sometimes suddenly yell out of nowhere and anywhere, wherever he was at the time. Then he would simply get up and walk away without another word to anyone, leaving everyone behind – including me." Jack Karlos – 'Eternity Unzipped' 1966, (unpublished manuscript).
Lew Welch . . . poems
Taxi Suite (excerpt: 1. After Anacreon)
When I drive cab
I am moved by strange whistles and wear a hat
When I drive cab
I am the hunter. My prey leaps out from where it
hid, beguiling me with gestures
When I drive cab
all may command me, yet I am in command of all who do
When I drive cab
I am guided by voices descending from the naked air
When I drive cab
A revelation of movement comes to me. They wake now.
Now they want to work or look around. Now they want
drunkenness and heavy food. Now they contrive to love.
When I drive cab
I bring the sailor home from the sea. In the back of
my car he fingers the pelt of his maiden
When I drive cab
I watch for stragglers in the urban order of things.
When I drive cab
I end the only lit and waitful things in miles of
darkened houses
Not Yet 40, My Beard Is Already White.
Not yet 40, my beard is already white.
Not yet awake, my eyes are puffy and red,
like a child who has cried too much.
What is more disagreeable
than last night's wine?
I'll shave.
I'll stick my head in the cold spring and
look around at the pebbles.
Maybe I can eat a can of peaches.
Then I can finish the rest of the wine,
write poems 'til I'm drunk again,
and when the afternoon breeze comes up
I'll sleep until I see the moon
and the dark trees
and the nibbling deer
and hear
the quarrelling coons
The Image, As In A Hexagram.
The hermit locks his door against the blizzard.
He keeps the cabin warm.
All winter long he sorts out all he has.
What was well started shall be finished.
What was not, should be thrown away.
In spring he emerges with one garment
and a single book.
The cabin is very clean.
Except for that, you'd never guess
anyone lived there.
Thus shall you think of this fleeting world -
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream,
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.
(End verse of The Diamond Sutra)
Lew Welch poems previously published at following sources:
The Lew Welch Papers – Online Archive of California
Lew Welch Poetry – Poemhunter.com
The Portable Beat Reader ed. Ann Charters, Viking Penguin, 1992
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September 29 - October 1, 2014 Seattle
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The title of this post is just a thought running through my head at this particular moment. "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back." Plato actually said that and I'll be damned if he wasn't thinking of me when it popped right out of his mouth and someone jotted it down for later.
The thought is actually wrapped around a secret project I've kept myself busy with, and is probably meaningless to the majority of readers who pop by–ogle the Plato graphic, and wander off again.
For the rest of you, if you've been paying attention you'll know that I'm working on an erotic scene, which is a genre I've never explored before in my writing. The scene itself has a lot of moving parts to it. It's an exploration, a new experience, a last night together, and a goodbye. After a rocky start, where I was in a panic that I wouldn't be up to the challenge, things are beginning to flow better. A lot of that has to do with my genius collaborator–who shall remain nameless lest someone try to steal their heart away. (I don't always play nice–fair warning!)
Thinking about the scene as it's evolving, what have I learned as I yank the words from my uptight head? Well, rule number one–relax. If I'm not relaxed, everyone reading will be uncomfortable.
Is it really that simple, though? No, it's not.
I can hear you head scratching and thinking, She's nuts… Sex is fairly straightforward, right? Well, when you translate those emotions into writing, you might think of it in terms of making mad passionate love right smack in the middle of Times Square.
Any takers? Didn't think so.
Of course, when you write a love scene, no one is getting arrested (I hope), but you have to open yourself up–becoming totally vulnerable in the process, and then invite people to watch.
It's a process, and it's one I'm finding has put me in touch with things I never knew about myself. I doubt my writing will ever be up to par with the big names, but it's highly personal in a way I never expected. And for me, Times Square is looking more and more appealing…


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We interview power house collaborating duo MyBack consisting of Albin Myers and John Dahlback during their US Tour and before their performance at Mansion Nightclub
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Entrepreneur, music addict, workaholic, House Music DJ and founder of WMC 24/7. A businessman at heart and a software engineer by profession, music has always been my passion and ever since discovering house music I've fallen in love with the music, the artists and the whole scene. That is why I created this project, its my passion.


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(NASHVILLE SKYLINE is a column by CMT/CMT.com Editorial Director Chet Flippo.)
Much like your grandfather's old 1953 Cadillac, the Hank Williams legend needs to be wheeled out of the barn every few years, gassed up and oiled up and taken for a spin, just to see how she still drives.
Turns out she still runs pretty good, yes sir.
The late architect of all things good about mid-20th century country music, as well as all good country that has followed in his wake, still remains a pretty sturdy legend.
Largely unschooled in the ways of composition and musically wise beyond his young years, Williams burned through an eternity of living, loving, suffering and songwriting and performing in a few short years. And left a red-hot musical catalogue behind when he flamed out at age 29 in that legendary last ride in his robin's egg-blue 1953 Caddy convertible on his way to a gig that he is doomed to try to make for all eternity.
The story has everything Hollywood loves. A handsome young backwoods youth, beautiful blondes, overnight stardom, Cadillacs, rock n' roll (ahead of its time), fan frenzy and enough drugs, sex and alcohol to fuel movies and TV shows for years to come. And the romantic, tragic early death of our star. And the mystery of a lost daughter.
Hollywood, not too surprisingly, has not done too well by Hank Williams. The quasi-official movie that came out a little more than a decade after his death remains a laughable example of movie-making clichés at their peak. Your Cheatin' Heart starred the ever-tan young Hollywood hunklet George Hamilton (Elvis Presley was actually considered for the role) as a less-than-believable Hank, and a cast of stock characters from Hollywood was trotted out. The result was characters who are walking clichés, speaking in accents to cringe at, uttering cornpone sayings, singing lame music and hurling unbelievable sentiments at the audience.
Since then, Hollywood has shied away from any more sanctioned attempts at putting Hank up on the silver screen. The chief reason over the years has been control of the music. That's still the major obstacle.
That's not to say the legend has not seen its share of attempts, some brave and some foolhardy, to film the legend inspired by Hank, if not his actual life story itself.
There are a few such films worth mentioning, that are still very much worth seeing. The most recent, the exemplary Crazy Heart, featured a worthy performance by Jeff Bridges as an over-the-hill Hank-ish character trying for a comeback. Robert Duvall performed similar yeoman's duties in Tender Mercies, as did Rip Torn in the memorable Payday.
Not surprisingly, the films are mainly concerned with the myth after the stardom ends, after the star's fire burns out, when the alcohol and drugs and phony friends and crooked businessmen have all extracted their toll from the star and left only a husk of a man.
The latest film venture into Hank Williams land is The Last Ride, which attempts to compress the essence and meaning of his life and career into the last couple of days of his life. His life and career have hit rock bottom at the end of 1952, and on a pitiful and ultimately futile comeback try, he tries to make it to a New Year's Eve show in Charleston, W.Va.
The Last Ride, which is labeled a "fact-based dramatic film," concerns itself with that last drive northward from Montgomery, Ala. The trip and the movie turn into a two-day encounter between the sickly, oft-intoxicated music star and a young, new driver hired to chauffeur him. Both characters make Important Self Discoveries along the way.
The Hank character here, who calls himself both "Luke" and "Mr. Wells," is portrayed by Henry Thomas of E.T. fame. (By the by, Williams often went by the name "Herman P. Willis," and his alter ego was "Luke the Drifter." But there was no "Mr. Wells" in his history.) Thomas does not look or sound like Hank Williams very much, but he gives it a valiant try, right down to the terminal-sounding hacking deep cough.
Remember that I mentioned up top here that music rights are always the stumbling block regarding Hank Williams movies? You will not hear Hank Williams sing on The Last Ride soundtrack, for obvious reasons. You do briefly hear Hank's spoken voice, since that has apparently eluded copyright control. But it's very disconcerting here for a Hank Williams fan to hear a WGN/Chicago radio announcer introduce "the song 'Cold, Cold Heart' written by Hank Williams" and then hear a strange voice (in this case a singer named Doug Anderson) actually singing that song.
And did Hank Williams ever actually say, "Have a nice day" or "Have a good one"? I don't think so.
The real star here is the 1953 blue Cadillac convertible. A truly noble car, it floats serenely through rain and snow, cruising across the Alabama and Tennessee countryside (actually central Arkansas, where this was filmed). Ultimately, it delivers the Hank character to his final destination. And we all know what that is.
Ultimately, The Last Ride is a small but brave movie that tries very hard.
Hank Williams was much larger than that.


text: We are excited to announce the acquisition of a new property in Middle River with a beautiful community pool! Summer is a great season in Maryland. It's a great time to visit the beach, go boating, and enjoy cooling off in a pool. Remember, to always watch children when they are swimming and be sure to follow pool rules including no running and no diving. If you are interesting in living in this community in Middle River, contact us for a tour!


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Dudmoor Farm
Riding School and Golf Course
Dudmoor Farm
Riding School and Golf Course
Situated in the Avon Valley below St Catherine's Hill, Christchurch, Dudmoor Farm offers horse-riding lessons for all abilities.
We offer private and group lessons. Our group lessons have a maximum of 5 riders, all of a similar standard. We also try and keep children and adults separate unless otherwise requested.
We also offer walking treks out onto the heathland surrounding
St Catherine's Hill. Suitable for beginner riders, these treks offer an introduction to riding as well as the opportunity to see the wildlife, in this very attractive and little known area of Christchurch. We have direct access to this area, with no road work being required.
During the holidays we run children's pony days, where kids get to have a long lesson and spend time with the ponies, as well as learning about how to look after them. These days get booked up quickly so please enquire early! (See Calendar for more details).
Hot and cold drinks as well as ice creams and confectionary are available.
Riding School Licence Holder: Emma Hornsby
Riding School Licence Number: SR146990
A Warm Welcome


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Ravens pick up quarterback Jimmy Clausen
Team places Flacco on Injured Reserve
The Baltimore Ravens claimed quarterback Jimmy Clausen off waivers, general manager and executive vice president Ozzie Newsome announced Tuesday afternoon.
To make room for Clausen on their active roster, the Ravens placed quarterback Joe Flacco on Injured Reserve with a knee injury.
A six-year NFL veteran, Clausen was waived by Chicago on Monday after seeing action in two games this season. In those two contests, he completed 23 of 40 passes for 184 yards, zero touchdowns and one interception.
While playing in Chicago for then-Bears head coach and current Ravens offensive coordinator Marc Trestman during the 2014 campaign, Clausen started one game. In that contest, he connected on 23 of 39 passes for 181 yards, two touchdowns and one interception.
Originally a second-round draft choice by the Carolina Panthers in 2010, Clausen has played in 19 career games (12 starts), completing 206 of 387 attempts for 1,965 yards, five touchdowns and 11 interceptions. The 6-2, 210-pounder out of Notre Dame started a career-high 10 games as a rookie in 2010.


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Boustany Foundation Fully Funded Cambridge University Scholarship in UK, 2018
Deadline: May 15, 2018.
The Boustany Foundation is inviting applications for Boustany MBA scholarship. The students of any nationality can apply for this scholarship. The aim of the Boustany MBA scholarship is to enable and encourage academically able students from any nation.
The Cambridge MBA is one of the world's leading business programmes, taught at one of the world's most prestigious universities. It is a 12-month programme covering the full range of general management issues relevant to contemporary business practice. As well as providing you with a thorough grounding in the business essentials, we also allow you to develop areas of special interest through project work and electives.
The Boustany MBA Cambridge Scholarship is granted once every two years for a one year course at Cambridge University, Judge Business School. The next Scholarship will be awarded for the class commencing Autumn 2018.
Candidates must have excellent academic backgrounds and have enjoyed considerable success in their careers to date.
Course Level: Scholarship is available for MBA program at the University of Cambridge.
Study Subject(s): Scholarship is awarded in business administration at University of Cambridge.
Scholarship Award: The Scholarship offers the following:
- Financial aid amounting to £23,000 towards tuition fees
- Travel and accommodation expenses related to the internship.
Scholarship can be taken in the UK
- Candidates must have an excellent academic background and show considerable promise.
- Although the Scholarship can be awarded to candidates of any nation, priority will be given to candidates of Lebanese descent.
- Candidates may apply for the Scholarship only after receiving an offer of admission from the Cambridge MBA programme
Nationality: The students of any nation can apply (priority will be given to candidates of Lebanese descent) for this scholarship.
Entrance Requirement: Candidates must have excellent academic backgrounds and have enjoyed considerable success in their careers to date.
College Admission Requirement
Test Requirement: No
English Language Requirements: Applicants from outside the home country will often need to meet specific English language/other language requirements in order to be able to study there.
How to Apply: The mode of applying is electronically. Please send a copy of curriculum vitae with a photograph, GMAT scores and acceptance letter from the University
If you wish to apply, please send a copy of your curriculum vitae with a photograph, GMAT scores and acceptance letter from the University to: firstname.lastname@example.com
If shortlisted, you may be invited to an interview with the Foundation. One candidate will then be awarded the Scholarship
The Scholarship will be awarded during the month of June 2018.
Application Deadline: The application deadline is May 15, 2018.
Visit the Official Scholarship Website for more details and to apply.


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The English meaning of Rodriguez is Son of Rodrigo. In Spanish, the use of the suffix "ez" which means "the son of", is very common.
The surname Rodriguez is a patronymic name, which means that it is derived from a man's given name, usually a father , paternal ancestor or patron.
There are many indicators that the name Rodriguez may be of Jewish origin, emanating from the Jewish communities of Spain and Portugal.
When the Romans conquered the Jewish nation in 70 CE, much of the Jewish population was sent into exile throughout the Roman Empire. Many were sent to the Iberian Peninsula. The approximately 750,000 Jews living in Spain in the year 1492 were banished from the country ...


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Bullingdon Community Centre Peat Moors Headington, Oxford OX3 7HS Oxfordshire United Kingdom [Map]
Orinoco is the Oxfordshire Scrapstore. It is a charity, based in Oxford, UK that promotes re-use, art and creative play through education and direct action. From our Scrapstore in Headington we sell scrap items for art, play and creative projects, new art materials, household paint and a range of DIY materials.
The Orinoco Scrapstore is open from 11am to 4pm on Saturdays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
We also hold a swap shop on the second Saturday of every month. Doors open at 11am and the swap shop runs until 4pm.
The Swap Shop is a great chance to get rid of all kinds of unwanted but re-usable items and/or pick up something useful. You don't have to bring something to take something away – and you don't have to take anything if you bring something. There is a cafe serving tea, coffee, cakes and snacks including home made samozas and baguettes.
So what are you waiting for? Sort out those old clothes, toys, CDs, books, plants, ornaments, kitchenware, pictures, furniture, household paint, tools, garden tools…


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Pearson on the Creed. Carefully printed from an early edition. With Analysis and Index by E. Walford, MA Post 8vo. 5s. An Historical and Explanatory Treatise on the Book of Common Prayer.
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HOUSES UNITED / For those who live in cohousing, home is where the community is
As a kid growing up in the busy beehive of a large apartment complex on the north side of Chicago during the '50s, Joan Lichterman got used to having a lot of people in her life: She and her friends were constantly in and out of one another's homes -- playing games, sharing meals, listening to the radio and watching TV.
And when her youthful imagination conjured up the future, things stacked up pretty much the same.
"As I was growing up," says Lichterman, "I had a fantasy of living cooperatively with all my best friends."
Although she spent a year after high school living on a kibbutz in northern Israel, Lichterman's dream seemed to fade with time. She returned to the United States and eventually moved west.
Since 1977, she has lived alone in a one-bedroom apartment in North Oakland. But not for much longer: Last week, Lichterman and other members of the North Oakland Cohousing group moved ahead on a deal with Project Kingfish LLC to purchase two lots at Telegraph and Claremont avenues and build what will eventually be the city's fourth cohousing complex. If all goes as planned, she will soon be living out her fantasy in a diverse, close-knit community consisting of about 33 households.
The Bay Area "is the epicenter of cohousing," said Lichterman, a writer and editor who works for the University of California. "It's just amazing how quickly the idea is spreading."
The idea to form a group and take part in the design and development of a neighborhood and live in community with both private and shared space originated in Denmark. American architects Charles Durett and Kathryn McCamant, who met (and later married) while studying at the Royal Academy of Art and Architecture at the University of Copenhagen, brought it to the United States in the '80s. In 1989, Durett published his book "Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves." Two years later, the first cohousing community, Muir Commons, was built in Davis.
There are now about 5,000 people living in 93 cohousing communities in 21 states. California, with 43, has the most, followed by Washington (17) and Massachusetts (16). In Northern California, cohousing communities have sprung up in Oakland, Berkeley, San Jose, Morgan Hill, Pleasant Hill, San Mateo, Cotati, Davis and elsewhere. A hundred more are in various stages of the formation process -- two of the most recent in Grass Valley (Nevada County) and Fresno.
"At first," recalls Durett, who lives with his family in a 34-unit cohousing community in Nevada City, "we had to fight hard just to get our cohousing projects built. I had a police chief look me in the eye once and say, 'Hey, Chuck, multi-family housing equals crime.' "
Recent studies, points out Durett, prove the opposite: There are fewer reported incidents of crime in cohousing communities than in surrounding neighborhoods.
Another obstacle cohousing advocates faced was nimbyism -- people with the "not in my backyard" attitude.
Cohousing "was a completely new concept," Durett said, "and people are always worried about something new. Now the number of neighbors who come out against a cohousing project has dropped."
And now that cohousing has a track record, Durett said things are easier. It's easier to get a loan to build a cohousing project. And, it's easier to find an architect to design it, a city to accept it and a contractor to build it.
It has also become more efficient. Initially, the idea spread primarily through word of mouth, at churches and synagogues and elsewhere. Now there are considerable resources -- national and local networks -- designed to bring those interested in cohousing together and guide them through every phase of the project, which usually takes several years, to completion.
Through three firms, Durett and his wife continue to pursue the quest they undertook as students. McCamant and Durett Architects, with offices in Nevada City and Berkeley, designs cohousing communities throughout the United States.
Five projects are on the boards, Durett said, and feasibility studies are being done on a dozen more. The Cohousing Co. is primarily a consulting firm. The Cohousing Partners, his wife's company, is devoted to development, mostly in California.
Durett says he has noticed a new flexibility in cohousing development. An example can be found in Frog Song, built in Cotati in 2003, which incorporated 6,700 square feet of commercial space in its design. The community leases out the street-front commercial footage and contributes to the economic viability of the town.
Another development has been the construction of adjacent cohousing communities. This, too, started in Denmark, which has about 35 of what Durett calls cohousing clusters. There are only a few clusters in the United States, but Durett expects more.
Still another trend has been an attempt to diversify the income levels within a cohousing community by incorporating subsidized nonprofit rental units alongside market-rate units.
Trends aside, the main impetus behind the continued growth of the cohousing movement, says Durett, remains the same: People have a strong desire -- as well as a need -- to live in community with others.
"I experience the rewards of living communally -- sharing meals, et cetera," says Karen Hester. "It feels like an extended family. You have people you can turn to and depend on for fun as well as the challenges of life."
An event organizer who also does some cohousing consulting, Hester has been a resident of Temescal Creek Cohousing in Oakland since it began 7 1/2 years ago. The community consists of nine households, as well as a common house, shared by 16 adults and 7 children. "People are very curious about what we're doing," says Hester. "And people are quite envious."
There are, of course, challenges. Occasionally, there's more noise and clutter than someone living in a single-family detached home would have to deal with. Some cohousing residents are easier to get along with than others. And sometimes she finds the process of consensus -- the governing principle by which cohousing communities operate -- slower than she would like.
"But these have been the most productive, as well as the most rewarding, years of my life," says Hester. Lichterman, who decided to pursue cohousing after attending a conference sponsored by the Cohousing Association of the United States (www.cohous ing.org) in Berkeley in 2001, says successful cohousing is similar to maintaining a good relationship. You need good communication skills, patience, the ability to set boundaries and to know when to pick your battles.
"You have to put the needs of the community foremost," she says. "Not everyone in the community may like one another, but everyone is central to the well-being of the community. It's a lot different philosophy than me, me, me."
Cohousing advocates tend to bristle at the word "commune" -- the shared living and financial arrangement popularized during the '60s by hippies.
In cohousing communities, each household is privately owned. The development is usually structured as condos or set up as planned-unit developments. The units typically sell the same as market-rate housing and can be sold at will, anytime, by the owner. There is also, typically, common space -- a unit, usually centrally located, where residents gather two or three times a week for communal meals.
Some of the shared units contain a play area for children, an office, recreational and laundry facilities, a workshop and guest rooms.
One similarity, however, between the communes of old and cohousing communities is a desire to conserve resources. "There is the idea that we need to live a little more lightly on the earth," Lichterman said. "I've always felt that way."
Cohousing developments usually take advantage of the latest advances in green architecture. In Durett's Nevada City community, for example, the average energy bill is a mere $9. Communities may also save money by sharing tools -- a communal lawnmower and garden implements -- rather than having a set for each household. For some, it's the best of both worlds.
"There are many people who are looking for a way of creating community," says Lichterman, "and one of the things I think that is so attractive about cohousing is that you have community and when you want privacy you just close your door."
At Swan's Market Cohousing in Oakland, says Neil Planchon, residents -- 30 adults and seven children -- may get together two or three nights a week for dinner. Others will take part in a weekly work party cleaning the deck or grooming the garden.
"People want to spend time with their neighbors instead of crossing the road to avoid them," Planchon said. "There's an opportunity to be with a wide range of people."
"We've got people here who are introverts," says Betsy Morris. "It's not like we're socializing all the time." Morris, who lives at Berkeley Cohousing with her partner, Raines Cohen, says that the movement has evolved in recent years. "It's been a relatively white, middle-class movement," she says. "But at the last conference I saw more people of color, and there's a lot more movement in making affordable communities."
Perhaps the biggest new development in the movement has been the creation of senior cohousing. The first community, Glacier Circle, was established in Davis a little less than a year ago. Silver Sage Village in Boulder, Colo., and Elderspirit in Abingdon, Va., are two others. The Elder Cohousing Network (www.eldercohousing.org) provides resources.
One of the attractions of senior cohousing, Morris said, is that it can be an alternative to assisted living. By taking care of one another, seniors can maintain their independence longer. They also avoid being isolated by age -- a not uncommon circumstance in America's youth-oriented culture.
"The idea," says Morris, "is that the quality of life comes from sharing."
Some groups are interested in sharing more than others.
Another fairly recent idea in cohousing, says Morris' partner, Cohen, is that of specialization. Groups are forming around a shared philosophy, religion or even eating habits, such as Buddhism and vegetarianism.
Cohen, a board member of the Cohousing Association of the United States who lived at Swan's Market before moving to Berkeley Cohousing in 2003, has also noticed a more open attitude on the part of some developers.
"When the market was climbing, they could sell anything they built," says Cohen. "But now we're seeing more developers who welcome the opportunity to have a project presold. It's something that any developer could do, but it takes a certain perspective, a willingness to build trust."
And while much of the earlier cohousing development took place in the suburbs, where land was more plentiful, the bulk of it now is in urban infill.
As now planned, Lichterman's North Oakland Cohousing community (www.northoaklandcohousing.org) will reside in a five-story building conveniently near transit, parks, a farmers' market, and within walking distance of downtown Berkeley and Oakland's Chinatown.
"We all have fantasies about living in some kind of home," says Lichterman. "It's just not necessarily the one with a white picket fence."


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Most of my friends won't relate to this because they aren't musicians, but one of the things I miss most right now is not playing live music. Sure, it was only in the choir. But we practiced at least every other week, and played 13-14 songs every Sunday.
It's only been two weeks, but I realized last night that I was a bit sad and that it was because I was missing that part of my life. Sure, we can jam to YouTube or whatever else is out there, but nothing, nothing beats the feeling I get playing in front of people.
And it also completely clears my mind, at least for a little bit. You can't play live and worry about bills, or the corona virus, or your job... everything is focused on the moment.
So how is the current situation affecting you when it comes to being a musician? Are you missing lessons, weekly jams, gigs, whatever? This may be the one group in your life that will understand.


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Post your review here to enter the competition!
Hard to believe it may be, but there are actual real people behind Bikemagic.com, RoadCyclingUK.com and SheCycles.com (aka "the Magicalia cycling group"). If you're at this year's Cycle Show (ExCel, London, 14-16 October) you can meet the team and, perhaps more compellingly, get a chance to win some top prizes.
Win a Marin B-17 worth £675
BM's got a lovely Marin B-17 trail hardtail (worth £675;) up for grabs, while RCUK's offering a Kinesis road bike and SheCycles has a shiny Specialized road bike, women-specific of course. To enter the draw, you just need to head to the test track in the middle of the hall, go for a spin on a bike – any bike, although the like the ones you can win will be available – and then head for the Magicalia encampment on stand M38 to post a short review on one of our sites. Once you've done that you'll automatically be in the relevant hat – we'll pick a winner out once the show's closed.
The rest of the show should be pretty impressive, too. Having outgrown Islington's Business Design Centre, Cycle has moved out to Docklands and the considerably bigger ExCel. It's a good time of year for a bike show – we've just had the big trade shows and this'll be the first opportunity to see lots of brand-new stuff in the metal.
Chuck in a load of bike action including trials, criterium and duathlon and plenty of other attractions and it's looking like a fine day out. And you can snaffle a bit of a discount on your tickets, too – book online, put "Magic" in the special box and you'll get an extra quid off.


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Remember Me
The MLRC Annual Dinner was held at the Sheraton Hotel in New York on Wednesday night, November 12th...and it was quite a gala. The room was filled with well over 500 MLRC members and their guests, friends of MLRC, and invited guests.
Howard H "Tim" Hays, former owner and publisher of Press-Enterprise of Riverside, California, was presented with MLRC's William J. Brennan, Jr. Defense of Freedom Award. Under Mr. Hays, Press-Enterprise brought not one, but two, landmark cases to the Supreme Court of the United States on questions of access to court, and by extension other governmental, proceedings. He is a hero to all who recognize the profound value of the First Amendment rights of the press and public that he championed.
Mr. Hays was introduced by Gary B. Pruitt, Chairman of the Board, President & Chief Executive Officer of The McClatchy Company. Gary's remarks, along with the other remarkable materials from this program, will be on the MLRC website in the near future, as will those of Harold W. Fuson, Jr., Vice-President and General Counsel of Copley Press, and Chair of the MLRC Board of Directors, who presented the award to Mr. Hays.
Also at the Dinner was a panel led by Brian Williams of NBC News. The discussion – entitled "In the Trenches Revisited: War Reporting and the First Amendment - Part II" – was the second installment on the subject of covering war for America. This panel focused on covering Iraq, what they experienced, what stories they found, and what stories require more attention. A transcript from that panel will also be posted on the MLRC website.
MLRC wants to thank all of the participants in the Annual Dinner program.
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Building Features
Safety and Security
- Robinland building is located at the heart of the city. A ride away from Cebu's major malls (SM, S&R, Parkmall, J Mall), ports and airports.
- 'Shape 8 Fitness Center', located at 2nd Floor. Opens from 6:00am – 9:00pm, Monday to Saturday
- 'Emmaus Chapel', located at 3rd Floor. For spiritual needs, open to public and has regular masses every Sundays and first Fridays.
- Margarita Family Cuisine, located at 8th and 9th Floor. Open to public, a place for romantic dinning, joyful parties, and serious meetings. Room deliveries are available to unit owners.
Building Features
- Structurally sound construction, the building sits on top of 398 friction-type drive piles, driven individually into the earth's bedrock.
- Basement parking for hot and rainy seasons
- New 1500+kVA Gen-set on standby for 24/7, will serve all floors together with Aircon use while units owners have option for power transfer.
- Above standard hallways and common areas, hotel-type lobby
Safety and Security
- Equipped with electronic fire alarm and suppression system. Sprinklers and smoke detectors are made available for every unit.
- Well-maintained elevators with floor coding for traffic and security.
- 24/7 CCTV surveillance is provided for elevator, common areas and hallways.
- 24/7 deployed security and maintenance personnel with 1 guard per floor.
Please mention "ROBINLAND RESIDENCES" with your comment in the comment box when you have inquiry.


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After a rowdy evening watching the Felice Brothers over at Habana, I met up with Joe Pug for a Lone Star before heading to a late night loft party on Brazos where he was invited to perform a short acoustic set.' It turned out to be the perfect ending to a long day at SXSW.
There were only 20 people there, including longtime Joe Pug supporter and blogger at Songs:Illinois, Craig Bonnell.' Sometime last year, Craig hosted a house show and invited Joe to perform and shortly after I started to hear a lot of talk about Joe Pug around Chicago.
Joe wowed the relaxed audience, playing three or four tunes including "Hymn 35" from his fantastic EP Nation of Heat.' My apologies for the poor video quality, the lights were dim and color video got a bit too grainy.
Video: Joe Pug – Hymn 35 (Live at SxSW 2009)
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