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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — No progress to report in negotiations with Congress, President Barack Obama today singled out for praise the few Republicans who say they're open to aspects of his approach to averting looming government-wide spending cuts, seeking to turn up the heat on GOP leaders ahead of Friday's deadline.
Obama rejected a proposal floated by Senate Republicans to give the president more flexibility to pick and choose which programs should be cut to reach the $85 billion over seven months mandated by the so-called sequester. "There's no smart way to do that," he said.
"These cuts are wrong. They're not smart, they're not fair. They're a self-inflicted wound that doesn't have to happen," Obama added at a shipbuilding site in Virginia.
Republicans criticized the president for taking his arguments outside Washington, instead of staying to work out a plan before the deadline.
"The president has been traveling all over the country, and today going down to Newport News, in order to use our military men and women as a prop in yet another campaign rally to support his tax hikes," said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.
The White House has warned the $85 billion in cuts could affect everything from commercial flights to classrooms to meat inspections. The cuts would slash domestic and defense spending, leading to forced unpaid days off for hundreds of thousands of workers.
The impact won't be immediate. Federal workers would be notified next week that they will have to take up to a day every week off without pay, but the furloughs won't start for a month due to notification requirements. That will give negotiators some breathing room to keep working on a deal.
With Boehner and other GOP leaders refusing to entertain the president's proposals, Obama turned to the few rank-and-file Republicans who have suggested they are open to solutions that include raising new revenues to replace some of the cuts.
"I've got to give Scott Rigell credit," Obama said, referring to the Virginia Republican who traveled with him on Air Force One to call attention to the need to find a way out of the looming cuts.
Obama acknowledged it was politically difficult for Republicans like Rigell to be seen with Obama, but said that he's part of a chorus of Republicans urging Congress to strike a deal. He pointed to Virginia's Republican governor, Bob McDonnell, and to Sen. John McCain, who was set to discuss the sequester along with other topics later today in a meeting with Obama and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
"I boarded the plane knowing that some would potentially misinterpret this," Rigell told reporters traveling with the president.
He criticized Obama for not putting forward a detailed plan to stop the sequester, but said he disagrees with the GOP leadership that there's no room to raise revenue or others who suggest the sequester should go into effect.
"Even if you hold the view that defense spending should come down, this is not the right way to do it,"Rigell said.
At Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia's largest industrial employer, Obama renewed his effort to warn of the dire consequences the cuts could have on military readiness and local economies. He spoke in front of a massive submarine propeller, with workmen and the few female employees watching up from the cavernous assembly floor and down along railings from three open levels above.
"The threat of these cuts has already forced the Navy to cancel the deployment and delay the repair of certain aircraft carriers," Obama said.
Mike Petters , president and CEO of factory parent company Huntington Ingalls, said in an interview that the company will probably "throttle back" plans to hire between 10,000 and 15,000 workers over the next five years because of the budget uncertainty. He said his biggest headache in running the business is the continuing resolution.
"Fundamentally how do you do next year's budget if you don't know what this year's is like? So there's a lot of turmoil there and a lot of confusion," he said. "And what we're telling the workforce is look, there's a lot of stuff moving around out there, please try not to get too distracted by that."
The Navy has already delayed a long-planned overhaul of the USS Abraham Lincoln at Newport News Shipbuilding as a result of the budget uncertainty, and other plans call for delaying the construction of other ships.
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Got this a few days ago, right before Raya. Pre-ordered it from a local shop so the orice was good. =3
Now to see when I can build my now high stack of Gunplas... busy life I'm having this year.
Oh, yes. Selamat Hari Raya to those celebrating it and have fun visiting!
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Weekly health rail, with items on terriers "helping" fight IPF in humans, common hangover myths and more.
Quote of Note "People may be a little startled at first to learn about this idea -- 'You're kidding me, you actually think there's promise in studying this dog to help my dad with this disease?' And the answer is -- 'Yes.'" Mark Shreve, chief operating officer of the patient advocacy group Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis, based in San Jose, Calif., on new theories about idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The disease kills more than 40,000 people in the U.S. each year, and a condition just like it attacks West Highland White terriers. Doctors believe they can join forces with veteranarians to find the best treatment for the disease. – Source: HealthDay News Health Tip: Setting the Record Straight on Hangovers Here are some common alcohol-related myths and what really happens, courtesy of WebMD: A morning mimosa eases a hangover: Not for long: The "hair of the dog that bit you" remedy just pushes a hangover to later in the day. Hangovers set in when blood-alcohol levels start to fall; the worst symptoms strike when levels reach zero, says alcohol researcher Robert Swift, M.D., Ph.D., of Brown University. A better a.m. cocktail: Gatorade, to replace lost electrolytes (the chemical messengers that help your body function effectively), and water, to counter dehydration (which can leave you weak, dizzy, light-headed, and cotton-mouthed). Popping acetaminophen before bed makes the morning easier: You're wrong about two things -- choice of drugs and timing. When you take acetaminophen, most of it is converted in the liver to harmless compounds. But when you've been drinking, the liver is so preoccupied with metabolizing the alcohol that it processes the painkiller in a separate pathway where these compounds can become toxic, causing liver inflammation and permanent damage. Stick to ibuprofen, says David J. Clayton, M.D., co-author of The Healthy Guide to Unhealthy Living. And, he says, don't take it before bed: The drug's effectiveness peaks in about four hours, so it won't do anything for you by morning. Eating before bed will mute a hangover: Nice try, but food has to be in your stomach before you drink to help a hangover. If you're busy digesting steak, your martini will be delivered to your bloodstream more slowly, giving it less of a chance to accumulate to the headache-worthy levels. (All food slows digestion, but fat does it best.) Beer before liquor, never been sicker: There's nothing about the chemistry of these drinks interacting with each other that makes you sick the next day. With any alcohol, your inhibition to drink more diminishes as you drink, so you start drinking faster. If you stick with beer, you don't get drunk as fast because its alcohol content is lower than that of liquor. If you switch to the hard stuff, you end up on the express train to hangover city. Number to Know: 2 People in Massachusetts who recently died from drinking milk tainted with listeriosis, a GateHouse New England newspaper reported. What is listeriosis? According to the CDC, it is a serious infection caused by eating or drinking food contaminated with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. The disease affects primarily pregnant women, newborns and adults with weakened immune systems. For tips on how to avoid listeriosis, visit www.cdc.gov. Children's Health According to a new study performed in Sweden, children who are exposed to secondhand smoke as babies are more likely than children who weren't exposed to develop allergies to indoor allergens and food. Scientists think the smoke inflames airways and leads to sensitivity. – Source: Reauters Health Senior Health Fish oil – or more specifically, DHA – can help prevent Alzheimer's disease if the oil is taken at the first signs of Alzheimer's. Now scientists say they think they know why: People with Alzheimer's generally have low levels of a brain protein called LR11. Fish oil contains an acid that causes brain cells to produce the LR11 protein. – Source: WebMD Healing Herbs WebMD recently released a list of 10 herbs that are starting to attract interest from scientists as being beneficial for a variety of conditions. Over the next couple weeks, we'll highlight some of these healing herbs. St. John's Wort: Research has confirmed this herb's power to relieve mild to moderate depression and anxiety as effectively as many drugs -- without a lot of the side effects. It also might help you sleep more soundly. St. John's wort not only contains melatonin, but it also increases the body's own melatonin, improving sleep, says a report from the Surgeon General. GateHouse News Service


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It's a 3-point parade for UConn women
Storrs - UConn guard Bria Hartley hopes she's finally rounding into form.
The junior guard, who missed much of the preseason and the first two games of the year with an ankle injury, had 20 points Tuesday night, to help the third-ranked Huskies to a 94-37 rout of Marquette.
"It has felt like I was a step behind, being out for that long and then coming back and not being able to play the way I wanted to - not improving, not getting better at certain things," Hartley said. "The only thing you can do is just work hard, keep pushing yourself. I tell myself: eventually it's going to get better."
Hartley was 0-for-7 from 3-point range Saturday in a six-point win over St. John's. She hit 5 of 7 against the Golden Eagles, tying a career high.
She came in averaging just over 8 points a game after putting up 14 a game last season.
"She played hard," said Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, who led the Huskies with 22 points. "She was the Bria Hartley I remember. We need Bria Hartley to play like the old her. We need her to score in double digits every night. We need her to be aggressive on defense and make sure she's penetrating and making things happen for our team."
Mosqueda-Lewis also made some things happen, hitting her first eight shots and her first five 3-point attempts.
Six Huskies scored in double figures, including all five starters. Caroline Doty added 12 points, making all four of her 3-pointers for the Huskies (21-1, 8-1 Big East), who were coming off a lackluster six-point win at St. John's.
Brookly Pumroy had 11 points to lead Marquette (11-11, 3-6), which has never beaten UConn in nine attempts.
Marquette opened the game with a 3-point basket from Chelsie Butler, but that was the only lead the Golden Eagles would enjoy.
UConn responded with a 19-0 run, capped by Doty's third 3-pointer of the game. A pair of free throws from Kelly Faris gave the Huskies their first 30-point lead at 38-8 midway through the first half and the rout was on.
Coach Geno Auriemma had criticized Mosqueda-Lewis recently for not looking for her shot as much as she should. She responded by hitting all seven of her attempts in the first half Tuesday, including five from behind the arc. Mosqueda-Lewis now leads the nation with 67 3-pointers. She came into the game ranked second in accuracy from behind the arc hitting just under 50 percent of her attempts.
"I never want her out of the game, ever," Auriemma said. "Tonight she didn't commit one foul. I want it to be like that all year. I don't want her to even think about fouling anybody."
Marquette, meanwhile, made just six baskets as a team in the first half, shooting 20 percent from the floor. They went into the locker room trailing 62-17 at halftime.
UConn did not let up much in the second half, leading by as many as 58 points. The Huskies were 15 of 23 from 3-point range and shot 55 percent from the floor.
"They jumped all over us," said Marquette coach Terri Mitchell. "Tonight was brutal and we just have to find a way to move on."
Stefanie Dolson returned to the UConn lineup after missing the St. John's game with a stomach bug and chipped in with 15 points. With the junior center on the bench, the Red Storm matched the Huskies, scoring 26 points in the paint. UConn had 30 inside points Tuesday, to just 14 for Marquette.
"It was something that I don't want to go through again, cause it was really weird," Dolson said of sitting out a game. "It felt good to be out there and playing with the team, and playing the way we did."
Katherine Plouffe, Marquette's leading scorer, was held to just four points. She didn't score in the teams' first meeting this season, an 85-51 UConn win on Jan. 12.


text: Some people like to express themselves through speech, others through song, and yet others find that their hair-style does all the talking. Here are three brand new hairstyles to give your Hero a truly unique look: cornrows, afro and asymmetrical bob. These items will be added to your gift queue in the Sanctuary, and will be available when clothes are unlocked in the storyline.


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The "Nice Guys" of OK Cupid wags a finger at dating site members who claim to be nice guys but are anything but. Nice Guys of Westeros is a brilliant goof on that concept, excerpting the imaginary dating profiles of Game of Thrones' not-so-charming bachelors.
The Tumblr also has profiles for Jorah Mormont, Viserys Targaryen, and Xaro Xoan Daxos. So far, Hodor is sounding like the most datable character.
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Once colder weather hits, so does dry, dull skin. What works in warmer months just won't do for chillier climates. Not to worry, a few simple fixes to your skin care arsenal and your skin will be happy, healthy and glowing in no time.
Let's take it from the top. Our face is our window to the world and tells a story of its happiness whether we are smiling or not. Dry, irritated skin is lack-luster and tends to show more redness. This is a sign that skin is upset. While covering with more makeup may be a tempting quick fix, it is not the answer.
Pure plant oils are the perfect solution for dry, irritated or otherwise unhappy skin. A healthy facial oil will moisturize, heal and rejuvenate any skin type, even problem and sensitive skin. But oils do more than simply moisturize, they can also be used to cleanse and reduce breakouts. Rose hip oil is especially beneficial — with anti-aging, skin-softening and blemish reduction properties. Other good-for-skin plant oils are almond, apricot, avocado, coconut, sesame and olive.
You may wonder why your skin seems to be breaking out if it is drier than usual. If you are continuing to use your warm weather skin care you may be stripping your skin of its natural oils, which will cause over-production and breakouts. Try FACES Wild Rose Cleansing Milk for creamier, gentler cleansing this time of year. INTENSIVE Cleanser is also very nourishing and supplies anti-aging benefits.
Exfoliation is still very important in cold months, just be sure never to exfoliate skin that is irritated. Mild exfoliation should be done once or twice weekly to remove dry, dead skin cells. Skin will be able to more easily absorb nourishing treatment and moisture and will look fresh and healthy. FACES Wild Rose Exfoliating Wash gently exfoliates skin while cleansing and lending moisture.
Moisturizers should be more intensive this time of year, as well. INTENSIVE Day Cream SPF 5 contains healthy skin oils (olive, sweet almond and jojoba) to hydrate and protect skin from harsh elements and is perfect for sensitive skin.FACES Wild Rose Liposome Intensive Night Cream provides serious healing and HYDRO Sensation Moisturizing Cream works wonders for treating those prone to acne.
The body needs special attention this time of year too. Gentle exfoliation, with a scrub or dry brush, will help keep skin soft and smooth. Try BODY EFFECT Anti-Cellulite Scrub to slough skin and add a hit of moisture. BODY EFFECT Anti-Cellulite Oil Spray after bath or shower will keep skin soft and supple and delivers skin nourishing plant oils, not to mention a delicious scent. For a more intensive body treatment, or for seriously sensitive skin, use Neutral Body Lotion Intensive.
Don't forget those digits. Hardworking hands can become dry, cracked and red in no time flat. Use Basis Hand Cream throughout the day for grease-free moisturization. At night add a layer of BODY EFFECT Hand Cream SPF 5 to hands and cover with cotton gloves. This age old remedy has been handed down for years and truly works. And be sure not to overlook nails and cuticles, as they too feel the effects of colder months.
These cold weather skin care suggestions, along with a healthy diet and plenty of filtered water, should keep you glowing all winter long.


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Our very first prep was building a "personal emergency resource kit for everyone" for exactly this kind of thing since we live very close to an interstate highway designated a "Hazardous Cargo" route and close enough to a major rail artery. Add to that the dangers of wildfire and we knew, that no matter how badly we wanted to stay, we might have to go in order to survive.
...Where exactly would I find out if the highway I live is designated as a "Hazardous Cargo" route...
arent we supposed to be preparing to bug in OR bug out depending on the nature of the disaster? I dont see why one would be "preferred" over the other.
This sign is posted along all hazardous cargo routes. Even though this is an ad for a mousepad, it does show what the sign looks like. http://www.zazzle.com/hazardous_cargo_route_highway_sign_mousepad-144046376298048780
Seen them on and around military bases. But here in Illinois I've never seen one on a interstate highway or lower-level road.
Here, I see them on the routes that lead through heavily populated areas. I don't think they are required in rural areas, but I may be wrong. I haven't been able to stumble onto a reliable source.
I've never seen one in Indiana.
Cheryl, I was going to say you had something more dangerous just south of you but, apparently, they closed Newport. At least you don't have to worry about that. The Professor


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Holly Aluminium Set of 7
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Holly Aluminium Dice
Holly is one of our Pollock Inspired Range of colours. Enjoy our take on the world of Jackson Pollock.
All our Aluminium Metal Dice are CNC machined, with each of the dice perfectly weighted at 99.5%, then engraved to maintain their perfect balance. Our Aluminium is Anodized, which is an electrochemical process that converts the metal surface into a decorative, durable, corrosion-resistant, anodic oxide finish.
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Herb oil
- 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh oregano
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh Italian parsley
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary
- 6 1- to 1 1/4-inch-diameter golden baby beets with green tops attached (about 1 bunch)
- 6 1- to 1 1/4-inch-diameter candy-cane-striped (Chioggia) baby beets or golden baby beets with green tops attached (about 1 bunch)
- 1 2-pound butternut squash, peeled, halved, seeded, cut into 1/2-inch cubes (about 4 cups)
- 1 1/2 pounds russet potatoes, peeled, cut into 1/2-inch cubes (about 3 cups)
- 1 pound garnet yams or other yams (red-skinned sweet potatoes), peeled, cut into 1/2-inch cubes (about 2 cups)
- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
Recipe Preparation
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Whisk all ingredients in small bowl. DO AHEAD Can be made 4 days ahead. Cover and chill. Bring to room temperature and rewhisk before using.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Cut greens and stems off all beets; discard stems. Coarsely chop enough beet greens to measure 4 loosely packed cups. Bring medium saucepan of salted water to boil. Add greens and cook just until wilted, about 1 minute. Drain well. Set aside. Scrub beets; place in 8x8x2-inch glass baking dish. Pour half of herb oil over beets; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cover baking dish with foil and roast beets until tender when pierced with small sharp knife, about 1 hour. Remove from oven and let beets stand until cool enough to handle. Peel beets; cut into 1/2-inch pieces and reserve. DO AHEAD Beet greens and beets can be made 1 day ahead. Cover separately and chill.
Increase oven temperature to 375°F. Combine squash, potatoes, and yams in large bowl. Add remaining herb oil and toss to coat. Sprinkle generously with salt and pepper. Spread vegetable mixture evenly on large rimmed baking sheet. Roast until vegetables are tender when pierced with knife and lightly browned around edges, stirring and turning vegetables occasionally, about 50 minutes. DO AHEAD Can be made 2 hours ahead. Let stand uncovered at room temperature. Rewarm in 350°F oven until heated through, about 15 minutes.
Stir beets and beet greens into roasted vegetables; dot with butter cubes and continue to roast just until beets are heated through, 5 to 10 minutes. Transfer vegetable mixture to large bowl and serve.


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LM&MS necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 24 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
Lifestyle Mobility And Medical Supply
First time business owner starting a boutique medical supply business, selling scooters, power wheelchairs, hospital beds, and other home medical equipment. The business aims to be professional, yet attentive to the personal needs of our customers. Looking for something that conveys security, sustainability, professionalism, yet also has a comforting, personal touch to it. We are aiming to be the medical supply store that people trust and feel comfortable coming to.
Our market is mostly elderly people and those in need of mobility devices. There are many companies already out there, but we aim to stand out due to our customer service. Thus, we need a logo that will convey our uniqueness and our professionalism at the same time. The logo must be very readable since our customers are seniors.
Aiming for the logo to stand out from the rest of the business cards on the rack. Need to keep the printing costs down-would prefer not to have a broad spectrum of colors. Logo needs to be clear & readable, but we are a fresh company who aims to bring customer service back into the industry, so logo should also reflect a liveliness & personal touch. When I look at a rack of business cards, I want my eyes to go straight to this logo-I want to instantly know that this company is in the medical field, but there is something new and special about this company that catches my attention. This is what I want my logo to convey. Business name is a little long, so I would like to have "Lifestyle Mobility" the focus of the business name, "and Medical Supply" should be smaller or something different. Scooters and power wheelchairs are our main focus, & medical supplies are kind of secondary.
Please, no cartoons, no clip art, no times new roman font, etc. The only color I want to definitely stay away from is orange. Need the logo & all other materials to be in all the proper formats please. Attached files are just ideas-I like the formality of 1st file but not the maroon, & I like the blue in the 2nd one but not the icon.
*** Logos with matching business card/letterhead samples would be preferred, that way I can see what it will look like on paper so I can estimate printing costs. Many more projects to come, including websites and holding corp's logo/stationary/business cards,etc. Thanks designers!!
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Hey All!
I am a newbie in Java but have come across a problem I can't really grasp.
If you can, please enlighten me, as my head got stuck on this issue
Alright: assume an ArrayList with objects of class Employee which all have names, id's and salaries. Problem - find the minimum salary.
So, I understand that I need to create a for loop, but here's where things become tricky. I have no problem of finding min/max of INT in Arrays, or longest/shortest strings in ArrayLists, and even max salary in this ArrayList (i.e. for loops).
I do not want to use Collections or similar methods - so where do I do it wrong?
int lowest = ArrayList.size(); for(Employee s:ArrayList){ if(s.getSalary()<lowest){ lowest = s.getSalary(); } }
? - lowest becomes ArrayList.size(), but not the smallest salary.


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Friday, April 23, 2010
Playmates Warp Factor Series...
If you are a regular reader of this blog you know how much I love the Star Trek Playmates toy line from the 1990s. In past articles I looked back at various different aspects of the line. Today I'll be taking a look at the line's last big push at retail with the final major assortment of Star Trek items from Playmates. These toys where released under Playmates new Warp Factor Series banner with the Paramount Toys logo right next to Playmates'. This new branding for the line featured one of the widest ranging assortment of Star Trek items ever put out by Playmates. With declining sales and constant battling for highly coveted shelf space in the boys toys aisles, Playmates figured the glory days of Star Trek toys at brick and mortar retailers were probably growing short. In prior years the company had started to focus more on exclusive items through specialty retailers. In Playmates mind if this was going to be the end of the line it would certainly go out with a bang. 5 more waves of figures hit shelves before Playmates officially cancelled the 4.5 inch line at mass retail stores. Along with these five waves of 4.5 inch figures Playmates released a wide assortment of role play toys and miniature playsets to compete with the highly popular mini figures fad of the times that had been so lucrative for such properties as Micro Machines, Mighty Maxx, and Polly Pocket.
The first wave of figures, which focused on the Deep Space Nine episode "Trials and Tribble-ations" launched with a major promotional push featuring the Triple Tribble Game sweepstakes which was supported by some of Star Trek's major licensees of the time including Interplay, Marvel Comics, Simon and Schuster Pocket Books, and off course Playmates. Paramount even offered multiple prizes themselves including a trip to Hollywood, a piece of the Deep Space Nine set, and an official Starfleet Uniform crafted by the studio's wardrobe department. Other companies like Dairy Queen and Pioneer also jumped on the bandwagon offering their own prizes and promotions. This was a pretty big contest with some major sponsors for a toy line that had already been on the market for over five years.
Subsequent waves included such figures long requested by fans as Ilya from The Motion Picture, Leeta from DS9 and Spock, Kirk, & Edith Keeler from the fan favorite episode "The City on the Edge of Forever".
Playmates also finished up their earlier line of Starfleet Academy figures by releasing figures of Cadet Data, Cadet Crusher, and Cadet Troi completing the assortment of TNG characters in this subset that had originally hit shelves more than 2 years earlier. These three figures did not include the Academy Test Simulation CD-Rom that had been issued with the original assortment.
A line of 6 inch figures focusing on characters from the Next Generation also showed up at retail early on during the Warp Factor Series run. These figures all had a specific action feature.
I didn't particularly like these 6 inch offerings until the third wave focusing on characters from Deep Space Nine was released. This wave eliminated the stupid action features focusing instead on better sculpting and in packaging the figures with some really awesome display pieces in the shape of the characters' respective control consoles. Sisko came with a kick ass replica of his command chair from the bridge of the Defiant.
I really wished we'd gotten more of these 6 inch figures with such cool accessories. Looking back on them now it seems these Galactic Gear accessories were the precursors to the bridge pieces included with the new movie figures. The idea of including bridge pieces wasn't really new to the Galaxy Series Trek figures from 2009.
At least eight more 9 inch figures where released in the early months of the warp Factor series featuring such characters as Odo, Bashir, Janeway, and Chakotay. Kay Bee toys was the best place to find these. They had so many of these a year later they had to put them on clearance at most locations.
Playmates went full force into the mini figures and playsets market with their Strike Force assortment. Having previously tested the waters with their innerspace line the powers that be figured it was time to offer an entire line of these miniatures.
These ships and playsets followed in the footsteps of Galoob's Star Wars Micro Machines line. Two character heads opened up to reveal fully equiped play environments just like Galoob had done in previous years with their Boba Fett and Stormtrooper helmets. Playmates used the popular Trek Alien species of the Borg and the Klingons as the themes for these two sets. The Borg set introduced the ridiculously crazy idea of a Borg temple. Nowhere in the series mythology was there ever any hint that a Borg would have any use for a temple so I wonder what were the Playmates designers smoking when they came up with this atrocity.
Playmates popular line of Role Play toys came to an end with two of their best offerings ever, the Starfleet Phaser from Star Trek 6 and the long requested Klingon D'K Tahg knife. Both where welcomed by fans who regulary attend conventions in costume. Remember this was a time before companies such as Master Replicas came around, so the Playmates weapons where the best bet for cosplay fans.
The last vehicle released by Playmates would be the Defiant Destroyer from Deep Space Nine. This one didn't disappoint in any way. Even today it can fetch hundreds of dollars on ebay mint in box.
After this Warp Factor series wrapped up the only new major release from Playmates came the following year in the form of 9 inch and 12 inch collector's figures from Star Trek Insurrection. The other items in the Insurrection line where repackaged pieces that had been previously released. The Insurrection line was not as widely available as the Warp Factor line. The end was near. After that the line went on to a few more limited releases as store exclusives at Target and online stores such as New Force Comics. It would be a decade before we'd get any new Trek toys from Playmates. And now once again the future of the line is in great doubt.
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Saturday, April 3, 2010
Nostalgic G's Star Trek collection pt. 2...
I recently updated the Star Trek collection display. Here's some pics from the latest changes.
Make sure to check out part 1 here.
Make sure to check out part 1 here.
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Eat right, live long and prosper...
From a 1989 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine here's an ad produced by the American Cancer Society featuring Spock.
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pretty much the only political issue that i get worked up about is immigration — mass immigration to be specific. too much immigration (esp. all at once) just doesn't seem like a good idea to me, for several reasons: 1) assimilation is *not* a thing ('cause of human biodiversity) — what you get with a large influx of a different people (or peoples) into a society is change, or at least division (see Albion's Seed and American Nations), not assimilation — and while change is not necessarily a bad thing, i think we should be cautious, since no one can know what the outcome will be; 2) diversity doesn't seem to work very well, not if you want a free and open and liberally democratic nation; and 3) the negative economic effects, in particular the supply of too much cheap labor.
that last reason really applies to african americans, which is why i can never figure out why they're not more p*ssed off at the current immigration situation.
in 2013, three members of the u.s. commission on civil rights — abigail thernstrom, gail heriot, and peter kirsanow — wrote a letter to the congressional black caucus (cbc) outlining the disastrous consequences the recent mass immigration has had on lower-skilled african-americans and how an amnesty would just further exacerbate those. i can't see anything to argue with in their letter (looking away from their obvious cluelessness re. human biology and hbd), so i'm just going to reproduce it here (stole it from here — my bolding). too bad the cbc are just another bunch of corrupt politicians who don't give a sh*t about their constituents:
Hon. Marcia L. Fudge, Chair Congressional Black Caucus
2344 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515
Dear Chairman Fudge:
We write in our individual capacities as three members of the eight-member U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and not on behalf of the Commission as a whole. In light of recent debates on comprehensive immigration reform, we are writing to address a rarely-discussed effect of granting legal status or effective amnesty to illegal immigrants. Such grant of legal status will likely disproportionately harm lower-skilled African-Americans by making it more difficult for them to obtain employment and depressing their wages when they do obtain employment. The increased employment difficulties will likely have negative consequences that extend far beyond economics.
In 2008, the Commission held a briefing regarding the impact of illegal immigration on the wages and employment opportunities of African-Americans.1 The testimony at the briefing indicated that illegal immigration disproportionately impacts the wages and employment opportunities of African-American men.2
The briefing witnesses, well-regarded scholars from leading universities and independent groups, were ideologically diverse. All the witnesses acknowledged that illegal immigration has a negative impact on black employment, both in terms of employment opportunities and wages. The witnesses differed on the extent of that impact, but every witness agreed that illegal immigration has a discernible negative effect on black employment. For example, Professor Gordon Hanson's research showed that "Immigration . . . accounts for about 40 percent of the 18 percentage point decline [from 1960-2000] in black employment rates."3 Professor Vernon Briggs wrote that illegal immigrants and blacks (who are disproportionately likely to be low-skilled) often find themselves in competition for the same jobs, and the huge number of illegal immigrants ensures that there is a continual surplus of low-skilled labor, thus preventing wages from rising.4 Professor Gerald Jaynes's research found that illegal immigrants had displaced U.S. citizens in industries that had traditionally employed large numbers of African-Americans, such as meatpacking.5
Illegal immigration has a disparate impact on African-American men because these men are disproportionately represented in the low-skilled labor force. The Census Bureau released a new report on educational attainment after the Commission issued its report. This report, released in February 2012, found that 50.9 percent of native-born blacks had not continued their education beyond high school.6 The same report found that 75.5 percent of foreign-born Hispanics had not been educated beyond high school, although it does not disaggregate foreign-born Hispanics who are legal immigrants from those who are illegal immigrants.7 However, Professor Briggs estimated that illegal immigrants or former illegal immigrants who received amnesty constitute a third to over a half of the total foreign-born population.8 Foreign-born Hispanics who are in the United States illegally are disproportionately male.9 African-Americans who have not pursued education beyond high school are also disproportionately male.10 These poor educational attainment levels usually relegate both African-American men and illegal immigrant men to the same low-skilled labor market, where they must compete against each other for work.11
The obvious question is whether there are sufficient jobs in the low-skilled labor market for both African-Americans and illegal immigrants. The answer is no. As Professor Briggs noted in his testimony to the Commission, "In February 2008 . . . the national unemployment rate was 4.8 percent, but the unemployment rate for adults (over 25 years old) without a high school diploma was 7.3 percent."12 During 2007, "Black American adult workers without a high school diploma had an unemployment rate of 12.0 percent, and those with only a high school diploma had an unemployment rate of 7.3 percent."13 These statistics suggest both that there is an overall surplus of workers in the low-skilled labor market, and that African-Americans are particularly disfavored by employers.14 More recently, Professor George Borjas of Harvard wrote:
'Classifying workers by education level and age and comparing differences across groups over time shows that a 10 percent increase in the size of an education/age group due to the entry of immigrants (both legal and illegal) reduces the wage of native-born men in that group by 3.7 percent and the wage of all native-born workers by 2.5 percent. . . . The same type of education/age comparison used to measure the wage impact shows that a 10 percent increase in the size of a skill group reduced the fraction of native-born blacks in that group holding a job by 5.1 percentage points.15'
Furthermore, these statistics reflect an economy that was not experiencing the persistent stagnation we are experiencing today. The country's economic woes have disproportionately harmed African-Americans, especially those with little education. In 2011, 24.6 percent of African-Americans without a high school diploma were unemployed, as were 15.5 percent of African-Americans with only a high school diploma.16 Two and half years into the economic recovery, African-Americans face particular difficulty obtaining employment. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the seasonally adjusted January 2013 unemployment rate for all black Americans — not just those with few skills — was 13.8 percent, nearly twice the white unemployment rate of 7.0 percent.17 The economy has a glut of low-skilled workers, not a shortage.
Not only do illegal immigrants compete for jobs with African-Americans, but that competition drives down wages for the jobs that are available. Harvard professor George Borjas writes:
'Illegal immigration reduces the wages of native workers by an estimated $99 to $118 billion a year . . . . A theory-based framework predicts that the immigrants who entered the country from 1990 to 2010 reduced the average annual earnings of American workers by $1,396 in the short run. Because immigration (legal and illegal) increased the supply of workers unevenly, the impact varies across skill groups, with high school dropouts being the most negatively affected group.18'
Immigration, both legal and illegal, resulted in a disproportionately large increase in the number of high school dropouts in the labor pool. This caused a drop in wages among the poorest and least-educated members of the workforce.19 As discussed above, these people are disproportionately likely to be African-American men. Furthermore, there is evidence that wages for these men have not just failed to increase as much as they would have in the absence of illegal immigration. Their real wages, the number of dollars they take home at the end of the week, have actually diminished. Julie Hotchkiss, a research economist and policy advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, estimated that "as a result of this growth in the share of undocumented workers, the annual earnings of the average documented worker in Georgia in 2007 were 2.9 percent ($960) lower than they were in 2000. . . . [A]nnual earnings for the average documented worker in the leisure and hospitality sector in 2007 were 9.1 percent ($1,520) lower than they were in 2000."20 A $960 annual decrease may not seem like much to a lawyer or a doctor. But as President Obama noted in regard to the 2012 payroll tax cut extension, an extra $80 a month makes a big difference to many families: "It means $40 extra in their paycheck, and that $40 helps to pay the rent, the groceries, the rising cost of gas . . . ."21
The consequences of illegal immigration for black men and the black community in general are not limited to wages. In another study, Borjas found that lower wages and fewer jobs also correlate with an increase in the black incarceration rate.
'Our study suggests that a 10% immigrant-induced increase in the supply of a particular skill group is associated with a reduction in the black wage of 2.5%, a reduction in the black employment rate of 5.9 percentage points, and an increase in the black institutionalization rate of 1.3%. Among white men, the same 10% increase in supply reduces the wage by 3.2%, but has much weaker employment and incarceration effects: a 2.1 percentage-point reduction in the employment rate and a 0.2 percentage-point increase in the incarceration rate. It seems, therefore, that black employment and incarceration rates are more sensitive to immigration rates than those of whites.22'
Both lower wages and incarceration likely contribute to one of the most serious problems facing the African-American community today: the dearth of intact nuclear families. The disintegration of the black family began to accelerate during the 1960s. It is one of the great tragedies of modern America that the disintegration of the African-American family has shown no signs of abating.23 Seventy-two percent of African-American children are born out of wedlock.24 It is now commonly recognized that children born out of wedlock are far more likely to experience a host of negative outcomes than are children raised by their own biological, married parents.25
Married men are more likely to be employed and to have higher earnings than unmarried men, although the relationship between marriage and economic success is complex. However, it is obvious that men who are unemployed or are incarcerated are far less appealing prospective spouses than men who hold down a steady job.26 Yet there are fewer and fewer jobs available — and at lower wages — for men in traditionally masculine industries.27 Giving amnesty to illegal immigrants would only exacerbate this problem facing low-skilled men, who are disproportionately African-American. The dearth of job opportunities gives these men less confidence in their ability to support a family, and gives women reason to fear that these prospective husbands will be only another mouth to feed.
Granting amnesty to illegal immigrants will only further harm African-American workers. Not only will the low-skilled labor market continue to experience a surplus of workers, making it difficult for African-Americans to find job opportunities, but African-Americans will be deprived of one of their few advantages in this market. Some states require private employers to use E-Verify to establish that their workers are in the country legally. This levels the playing field a bit for African-Americans. If illegal immigrants are granted legal status, this small advantage disappears.
Furthermore, recent history shows that granting amnesty to illegal immigrants will encourage more people to come to the United States illegally. The 1986 amnesty did not solve the illegal immigration problem. To the contrary, that amnesty established the precedent that if you come to America illegally, eventually you will obtain legal status. Thus, it is likely that if illegal immigrants are granted legal status, more people will come to America illegally and will further crowd African-American men (and other low-skilled men and women) out of the workforce.
Before the federal government decides to grant legal status to illegal immigrants, due deliberation should be given to what effect such grant will have on the employment and earnings prospects of low-skill Americans generally and black Americans specifically. We respectfully submit that granting such legal status is not without substantial costs to American workers.
Abigail Thernstrom Vice Chair
Gail Heriot Commissioner
Peter Kirsanow Commissioner
Cc: Congressional Black Caucus
1 U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS, THE IMPACT OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ON THE WAGES AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES OF BLACK WORKERS [hereinafter THE IMPACT OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION], available at http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/IllegImmig_10-14-10_430pm.pdf.
2 Id. at 3, Finding 5:
Illegal immigration to the United States in recent decades has tended to depress both wages and employment rates for low-skilled American citizens, a disproportionate number of whom are black men. Expert economic opinions concerning the negative effects range from modest to significant. Those panelists that found modest effects overall nonetheless found significant effects in industry sectors such as meatpacking and construction.
3 Id. at 26.
4 Id.at 37, 38-39
5 Id. at 31.
6 CAMILLE L. RYAN & JULIE SIEBENS, U.S. CENSUS BUREAU, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT IN THE UNITED STATES: 2009 (Feb. 2012), at 7, available at http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p20-566.pdf.
7 Id.
8 THE IMPACT OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, supra note 1, at 35-36.
9 Peter Skerry, Splitting the Difference on Illegal Immigration, NATIONAL AFFAIRS (Winter 2013), at 5 ("Of the undocumented immigrants over the age of 18 currently residing in the U.S., there are approximately 5.8 million males, compared to 4.2 million females."), available at http://www.nationalaffairs.com/doclib/20130102_Skerry.pdf.
10 THE IMPACT OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, supra note 1, at 52; see also Anne McDaniel, Thomas A. DiPrete, Claudia Buchmann & Uri Shwed, The Black Gender Gap in Educational Attainment: Historical Trends and Racial Comparisons, 48 DEMOGRAPHY 889, 890 (2011) ("It is well known that black males trail black females on a range of key educational outcomes, including high school graduation, college enrollment, and college completion."), available at http://jrnetsolserver.shorensteincente.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/fulltext.pdf.
11 THE IMPACT OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, supra note 1, Statement of Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., at 37.
[I]t is not everywhere that there is likely to be significant competition between low skilled black workers and illegal immigrant workers, but there are ample circumstances where there is – such as the large metropolitan labor markets of Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami and Washington-Baltimore. Moreover, some of the fastest growing immigrant concentrations are now taking place in the urban and rural labor markets of the states of the Southeast – such as Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia, which never before were significant immigrant receiving states in previous eras of mass immigration. Indeed, about 26 percent of the nation's foreign-born population are now found in the states of the South – the highest percentage ever for this region. There is mounting evidence that many of these new immigrants in this region are illegal immigrants.
12 THE IMPACT OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, supra note 1, Statement of Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., at 36. 13 Id.
14 Id., Statement of Harry J. Holzer, at 41.
Other evidence, including that by ethnographers, indicates that employers filling low-wage jobs requiring little reading/writing or communication clearly prefer immigrants to native-born blacks, and encourage informal networks through which immigrants gain better access to these jobs. The native-born black workers likely would be interested in some, but not all of these jobs, depending on their wages.
15 George Borjas, Immigration and the American Worker: A Review of the Academic Literature, Center for Immigration Studies (April 2013), available at http://cis.org/immigration-and-the-american-worker-review-academic-literature?utm_source=E-mail+Updates&utm_campaign=344e45830d-Borjas_Study4_8_2013&utm_medium=email.
16 U.S. DEPT. OF LABOR, The African-American Labor Force in the Recovery (Feb. 29, 2012), at Chart 3, available at http://www.dol.gov/_sec/media/reports/BlackLaborForce/BlackLaborForce.pdf.
17 BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, Employment situation summary (Feb. 1, 2013), available at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm.
18 Borjas, supra note 15.
19 Id.:
[The simulation] shows that immigration particularly increased supply at the bottom and top of the education distribution. Immigration increased the effective number of hours supplied by high school dropouts to 25.9 percent, and those of workers with more than a college degree by 15.0 percent. In contrast, immigration increased the number of hours supplied by workers with 12 to 15 years of school by only 6 to 8 percent. Overall, immigration increased effective supply by 10.6 percent during the two-decade period. Because of the skewed nature of the supply shift, the simulation shows that immigration particularly affected the wage of native workers at the two ends of the education distribution. The large supply increase experienced by high school dropouts decreased the wage of this group by 6.2 percent in the short run and 3.1 percent in the long run. Similarly, the wage declines for the most highly skilled workers (those with more than a college degree) were 4.1 percent in the short run and 0.9 percent in the long term.
20 THE IMPACT OF ILLLEGAL IMMIGRATION, supra note 1, at 46.
21 Amie Parnes, Obama: Payroll tax cut extension will help with higher gas prices, THE HILL, Feb. 21, 2012, available at http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/211765-obama-payroll-tax-cut-extension-will-help-with-higher-gas-prices.
22 George J. Borjas, Jeffrey Grogger, and Gordon Hanson, Immigration and the Economic Status of African-American Men, 77 ECONOMICA 255, 256 (2010).
23 Kay Hymowitz, The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies, CITY JOURNAL (Summer 2005), available at http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_3_black_family.html.
24 Jesse Washington, Blacks struggle with 72 percent unwed mothers rate, ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 7, 2010, available at http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39993685/ns/health-womens_health/t/blacks-struggle-percent-unwed-mothers-rate/#.UWR6fZPvvn4.
25 See id. ("Children of unmarried mothers of any race are more likely to perform poorly in school, go to prison, use drugs, be poor as adults, and have their own children out of wedlock."); see also W. Bradford Wilcox and Jeffrey Dew, Protectors or Perpetrators: Fathers, Mothers, and Child Abuse and Neglect, Center for Marriage and Families (Feb. 2008), available at http://www.wbradfordwilcox.com/Dad.abuse.pdf:
[A] 1996 federal study found that the overall rate of child maltreatment among single- parent households was nearly double that of two-parent families: 27.3 children per 1,000 were maltreated in single-parent families, whereas 15.5 children per 1,000 were maltreated in two-parent families. Another study found that 7 percent of children who had lived with a single parent had been sexually abused, compared to 4 percent of children who lived in an intact, biological family. Still another study found that children were half as likely to suffer physical abuse involving a traumatic brain injury when they lived in a household with their father, compared to children living in a fatherless family.
Research also indicates that children living in stepfamilies are more likely to suffer from abuse. One study by David Finkelhofer of the University of New Hampshire and his colleagues found that "children currently living in single parent and stepfamilies had significantly greater lifetime exposure than those living with two biological or adoptive parents" to five different forms of victimization—sexual assault, child maltreatment, assault by peers or siblings, being a victim of a crime, or witnessing violence. Other studies have found that children are markedly more likely to be killed or sexually abused by stepfathers, compared to children living in an intact, married household.
26 See Hannah Rosin, THE END OF MEN (2012) 8–10 (a single mother's description of her daughter's underemployed father as "one less granola bar for the two of us").
27 Id. at 71–97 (2012).
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So, like pretty much every other fanboi out there, I now have iOS7 installed on my iPad and iPhone. In the main I've been quite impressed. I'm still running an iPhone 4S and I was worried it would struggle. Two things I did notice though were music playback and battery life were both shocking. I've had this problem in the past when the iPhone 4 came out. I was on an iPhone 3 and the latest version of iOS struggled to play music without stuttering. I had joked that Apple deliberately caused older hardware to do this to force upgrades, and then duly went and got an iPhone 4 which solved any speed issues. This time round I wasn't so sure it was hardware related. For one thing, every time I opened the music app there was network access, and music wasn't stuttering, it was just stopping, or refusing to play.
Googling the situation wasn't helpful. The internet is rife with stories about iOS7, the new music player and people having unrelated problems, meaning my searches were brining up useless news articles and forum posts. To that end I'm going to describe the problems I had so maybe others migh find this and get a solution.
The first problem was music would just stop. Press play again and nothing would happen, or maybe it would play a second or two, and then stop.
Next up was the bizarre behaviour of me pressing 'next' and seeing my iPhone keep skipping tracks. It was almost as if it was considering the track, and then discounting it, moving onto the next one. Sometimes it would skip a number of tracks before finally deciding it would play one.
Then there was the issue of near constant network access when the music app was open, and really poor battery life, probably because of the network access.
Lastly there were some odd songs on my iPhone. I rate all my music and have rules that put 5*, 4* and a random selection of 3* tracks onto my phone. This does mean that each time I sync I get a slightly different selection of tunes, but I was sure I'd set some of these tracks not to sync.
It turns out the explanation, and solution was very simple. The problems seemed to occur when I had limited network access so I wondered if iOS7 was doing anything funky with the music app and phoning home. A quick check of the Music app preferences yielded:
Seems my phone was now trying to play music I'd bought off the iTunes Music Store, but that wasn't on my phone. A quick change of settings to:
And the number of tracks on my phone dropped by 1,000, those that were left played instantly and the problems all went away.


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Colmar Brunton necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 280 diseños de 95 diseñadores freelance.
Modernising the Colmar Brunton logo to better reflect the brand attributes of energetic and contemporary.
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Colmar Brunton is Australia's largest independent market and social research agency - and we work with some of Australia's largest blue chip companies in providing the latest insight into their customers. We are a full service agency and provide numemous different research products/approaches.
The current Colmar Brunton logo is 20 years old and needs modernising to better relect this growing company and changing brand values.
Please refer to the current company logo at http://www.cbr.com.au
- Must retain the current corporate orange - but the teal is not mandatory. open to new colours here
- Needs to communicate that we grow our clients business by giving 'direction'
- Possible organic feel
- Keep 'intelligence' as a tagline
- I want the logo to be energetic - and represent the philosophy that our staff are the smartest, full of energy and most innovative people around
- I also want it to be clean, bold and contemporary
- I don't want the archer - it is too masculine and arrogant.
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Penn State students have a holiday from classes on Monday, Jan. 17, the observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but many will commit the day off to serving the community as part of a University-wide commemoration of King's legacy. This year, Penn State Lehigh Valley will serve as the host for dozens of students from the Northeast Regional Penn State campuses as they gather in Center Valley to honor the vision of King and perform service at locations throughout the area.
At 9:30 a.m., Arthur Romano, a certified nonviolence trainer and accomplished international educator, will present "Call to Conscience: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Message of Nonviolence Today." A performance by The Holmes Family, a gospel music group from Allentown, will follow.
At noon, the students, who represent the Lehigh Valley, Hazleton, Mont Alto, Wilkes-Barre, Worthington Scranton, and Schuylkill campuses, will depart for their service projects.
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A mayor has been banned from almost every pub in his town after a long-running row with a local landlord.
Teesdale Pub Watch imposed a 12-month ban on councillor Tony Cooke, mayor of Barnard Castle in County Durham, for allegedly being rude to staff at the Beaconsfield pub while buying a pint of shandy.
He offered an apology for any perceived slight after the incident almost exactly a year ago but publicans Andy and Sue Hill did not accept it.
At a meeting of the Pub Watch scheme on Wednesday night, the majority of the 20 members voted in favour of barring Mr Cooke for a year.
Callers to his home were referred to the town council by a woman answering the phone.
A spokesman for Barnard Castle Town Council said: "The town council is extremely disappointed to learn of Pub Watch's decision. It is of serious concern that the decision was based on an alleged incident of exactly a year ago and that Pub Watch presumably chose to reach their decision without receiving any evidence from or on behalf of councillor Cooke."
The council said the Mayor may appeal against the ban once he has formally received a letter from the scheme informing him of its decision.
A Durham Constabulary spokeswoman said: "The Pub Watch scheme is run by licensees who make their own decisions about matters relating to crime and disorder on their premises.
"This incident occurred a year ago and was brought to Wednesday's meeting by a town publican. The decision to bar the mayor for 12 months was taken by the members who were present and the matter has at no time been subject to police investigation or enquiry.
"The police do not make decisions about who is excluded from the Pub Watch scheme and do not vote."
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Archive for December, 2011
Minneapolis, Minnesota Business Owners Beware of Vapor Intrusion
If you do business in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area, you need to be aware of and prepared for the problem of vapor intrusion. Vapor intrusion takes place when the contaminants trapped in the soil under your commercial building and the water running into it are contaminated with volatile organic compounds, heavy metals, petroleum products and other potentially hazardous materials. Over time, those contaminants seep into the living space of the factories, warehouses, storage buildings, offices and other commercial facilities you operate within the Minneapolis, Minnesota area.
That contamination can really put your employees at risk, since many of the materials implicated in vapor intrusion also play a role in various health problems. Unless you have your Minneapolis, Minnesota area business tested for vapor intrusion, you can never really know whether or not your employees and your livelihood are at risk.
It is important to have your Minneapolis, Minnesota area business tested for vapor intrusion, even if you had the soil and the groundwater tested thoroughly before you started construction on your various commercial buildings. That testing is valuable, but it is not a substitute for specific vapor intrusion testing. It is vital to have your firm tested by a licensed contractor with experience in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area, since different parts of the country have different problems with vapor intrusion.
Test Your Minneapolis, Minnesota for Vapor Intrusion Today
If you have not yet had your Minneapolis, Minnesota area business tested for vapor intrusion, it is important to do so as soon as you can. When you contact a qualified vapor intrusion contractor, the representative will test your commercial buildings thoroughly to determine exactly where the contamination is coming from. Once they have pinpointed the source of the problem, they will be able to help you develop a mitigation plan that meets the needs of your business and your budget as well.
There are a number of ways Minneapolis, Minnesota business owners can effectively deal with vapor intrusion problems. The exact nature of the cure will depend on where the contamination is coming from. A contractor with specific experience in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area will be able to help business owners develop a mitigation plan that will make those vapor intrusion problems a thing of the past. It all starts with having your Minneapolis, Minnesota business tested. Until you have the warehouses, office buildings, factories, storage spaces and other commercial buildings you own tested for vapor intrusion, you will never know the true extent of the problem, or how you can fix it and keep yourself and your workers safe from harm.
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PHP had become almost a forgotten language, with a lapse of more than 10 years without a new major version after PHP 5.0 in 2004. PHP 7.0 is a major version with several improvements and new features which have brought it to the level of other modern languages. In this series of articles, we shall discuss new features in the various PHP 7.x versions.
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Another new product, Google announced during today's press conference is "Chrome to Phone. It's an extension which allows to to quickly and easily send links and other information from a Desktop or Laptop PC to an Android smartphone. The new Chrome to Phone extension adds a button to the Google Chrome browser that instantly sends the current web page, map, YouTube video or selected phone number or text to any Android smartphone running Android 2.2/Froyo. For now, the Chrome to Phone extension is available in English only but Google hope to expand to other languages soon.
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In Kill Your Darlings, one-time wizard Daniel Radcliffe returns to the hallowed halls of academia, this time to play a bespectacled literary icon of a different sort: a teenaged, painfully shy Allen Ginsberg, the artist as a closeted young man. The film is set in 1944, the year the poet first started cutting class as a freshman at Columbia University and spending his nights with a group of like-minded, soon-to-be-famous wordsmiths. Among them was jockish playboy Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), throwing footballs and insults before he went on the road, and oddball rich kid William Burroughs (Ben Foster), huffing gas long before he became an exterminator. And at the center was Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), a devil-may-care troublemaker and the glue that held the group together. They were thick as thieves, these new libertines, until an act of violence severed the ties that bound them.
Plenty have explored the seminal, collegiate salad days of Ginsberg and his cohorts, with even the writers themselves revisiting them through their own prose. But Kill Your Darlings may be the first Beat flashback to feel like an X-Men prequel—a kind of Beat Generation: First Class, built on the presumed excitement of seeing these iconic figures as fresh-faced youngsters, spewing the doctrines of their so-called New Vision as though they were nascent catchphrases. Yes, this is the type of movie in which characters write a manifesto aloud, like musicians in a bad biopic, coming up with that hit refrain in an "aha" moment. Like most films about writing, Kill Your Darlings has no clue how to visualize the creative process; filmmaker John Krokidas resorts to a flurry of montage, cutting between Ginsberg agonizing over his typewriter in a dorm room and—in what better well be based in fact, because otherwise, ugh—creating massive collage mosaics from the ripped-out pages of lit classics. Krokidas also sets some of the gang's antics to modern music, using TV On The Radio's "Wolf Like Me" to propel a banned-book raid in a darkened library. Perhaps this is a tribute to the way his subjects dared to break the rules. Or maybe he just thinks that all the talk of howling will evoke "Howl."
The saving grace of Kill Your Darlings is its sordid romantic angle, a narrative thread that pulls the film away from wink-wink allusions and into more serious emotional territory. At heart, this is a love triangle, one that drops a smitten Ginsberg between the charismatic Carr and the latter's stalkerish benefactor, David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall), similarly bewitched by the young, sexually ambiguous heartbreaker. Even before the scenario explodes into violence—culminating in a true-crime climax built from hard fact, hearsay, and invention—Krokidas has mined it for fine speculative melodrama. His performers, too, are mostly outstanding: DeHaan, the spookily talented young star of Chronicle and The Place Beyond The Pines, makes Carr as magnetic (and cruelly manipulative) as he needs to be. Radcliffe, meanwhile, rarely seems to be attempting an imitation, opting instead to play his real-life poet as just a mixed-up kid on the cusp of greatness. To that end, his most naked moment isn't the much-ballyhooed gay sex scene, but instead an impromptu reading of an early work, laying his soul bare to a couple of smartass peers. For a moment, it's as if Ginsberg has come to life onscreen—through his words and not some cheeky reference for avid Wikipedia users.


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Tigers Not Able To Make Gamache's Performance Stand
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee State softball returned home to host the Tiger Classic. In the fourth game of the day, the Tigers took the field, but came up short in a 1-0 loss at the hands of Youngstown State.
TSU (3-8) could not give starter Olivia Gamache the run support in a game where the senior was in control through most of the game. Gamache fell to 0-4 as she pitched 6.2 innings allowing a run on five hits and a walk.
The senior surrendered a hit in the second and two hits in each of the fourth and seventh. The final stanza was the one to derail Gamache as the Penguins picked up a leadoff double and a two-out double to make the score 1-0. Shea Morris entered the game to retire the last batter.
The Tigers went down in order in the seventh to give YSU (3-2) the win. Casey Crozier (2-1) held the Tigers to three hits and three walks, while striking out 11 batters.
TSU threatened in the first off a single and a stolen base by Courtney Gearlds, as well as a walk by Lindsey Burgess. Crozier would end the threat by striking out the side.
The Tigers attacked again in the third as Kiarra Freeman opened the inning with a single and moved to second on a passed ball. Jayna Hanawahine sacrificed Freeman to third before Gearlds reached after being hit by a pitch. The freshman swiped her second base of the game giving the Tigers another great opportunity with one out and runners in scoring position. Once again, Crozier would avoid any damage by sitting down the next two Tigers.
TSU would get lead off runners on in the fourth and sixth, and picked up a one-out walk in the fifth, but again could not push a run across home plate. The Tigers would leave seven runners on over the course of the game.
Kate Morris notched a hit and finished 1-for-3.
On Saturday the Tigers will face Western Michigan at 1:00pm and will play Temple at 7:00pm in the final game of the day. Both games can be heard on TSUTigers.com.
Tiger Classic - Day One - Results
Game 1 - Dayton 3, Temple 2
Game 2 - Western Michigan 14, Dayton 2
Game 3 - Temple 11, Western Michigan 3 (5)
Game 4 - Youngstown State 1, Tennessee State 0


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Getting Women Back Into IT
Much research has been done on mothers who drop out of the workforce to raise a family; nearly three of 10 moms of children younger than 18 in the United States don't work. But what about those women who try to break back in? In fields where intense pressure is placed on professionals to constantly update their skills, such as IT, this can be a particularly arduous process.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that 28 percent of mothers in the United States with children younger than 18 don't work; among mothers of infant-age children, the percentage climbs to nearly half.
Less information is available about the experience of women who try to return to work after a break in their careers. In fields where intense pressure is placed on participants to constantly update their skills, such as IT, this can be a particularly arduous process.
One firm is helping moms get back into IT.
This month, ThoughtWorks, a Chicago-based software consultancy, is starting a four-week training class for women looking to get back into IT. The retraining class will focus on getting the women's programming skills back up to speed, and could potentially end with a job offer.
"Someone who has been out for 10 years is going to have rusty programming skills, so we are going to teach them the basics of Java and other fundamentals the first two weeks," says Jackie Kinsey, people director at ThoughtWorks.
The number of women working in IT has actually declined since 2000. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women accounted for 28.9 percent of the overall IT workforce in 2000. In 2006, though, women made up only 26.2 percent, dropping even while IT employment hit an all-time high.
ThoughtWorks placed ads in various newspapers but most often, it was friends or significant others who spotted them60 women have expressed interest so far, of which 12 will join the first pilot class, which will be held in Britain. Not all of these women had left their jobs just to have children, though, In fact, Kinsey estimates that about 70 percent joining the group were returning from raising a family. this is the case for about 70 percent of the group.
"A couple women said they'd had bad experiences in organizations and had left IT disillusioned," she said. "We found that there is a definite gap in the market in training for women who have left the job market. The feedback we've had is really positive. They appreciate that we have recognized them as a community."
Carolyn Leighton, CEO, founder and chairwoman of WITI, a leadership organization for women who work with technology, applauded the approach. "When you're dealing with a high-demand area like IT with a relatively low supply relating to demand, the biggest mistake companies make is falling back on old ways of recruiting," she says. "Women need a different approach if companies are really invested in bringing them back. A lot of women are put off by meat-market-type environments such as job fairs."
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text: Zar 696 Posted June 20, 2009 Well I have been doing photo maniputlation for a while so I thought I would make a tutorial. This tutorial is for medium advanced users who already know how to do most of the things I am going to show. Alrightythen lets start! So go and pic an image that you have during the day time. Try to pick one without very many distracting objects like bright colored cars or animals etc. Here is mine I took in Southern Utah in the High Desert. Now de-saturate the whole picture; add contrast, and at the same time; lower the brightness. Now take your airbrush and brush over the areas on the ground that you want shadowed. Then set the mode to 'Hard Light'. So no that the ground layer is set up we need to work on the horizon line and above. Select the top half and make it it's own layer. Now adjust the shadow levels for certain areas (circled in white). Once I picked the areas I wanted adjusted for shadow levels I faded the layer into the background layer. Then make a new layer, set it to multiply, and brush in all the bright sunlight coming from it's direction in the origional photo. Then I put the layer to 88% opacity so you can see some of the light for adjusting it later on. (set to multiply) Now it is time for highlights and moon light. Pull out all the areas that you want effected by the light souce. Duplicate some of those areas and boost the contrast and brightness. Now blend them (it might be easier to just dodge some of them.) Then for moonlight make a new layer and make a blue spotlight effect by using a soft brush an brushing around and setting it to screen mode. Now take your brush tool and spot around the areas that you think will be good for doing moon reflections and set this layer to overlay. Now go through and highlight some edge areas and make some lighting adjustments to bring out the highlights. Check the overall light levels. Merge all the layers or make an applied image layer and then adjust your contrast, and add effects (dodging, etc) and little details to what you like to finish it up! Before: http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/5263/gedc10471.png After: http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/2610/gedc104710.png Post your results here if you try it! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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How close are the Maple Leafs to turning around their on-ice fortunes when the NHL's principals figure out how to divvy up theirs?
The way Brian Burke has told it, they're very close. This is a team, the president and GM has said, that "could have made the playoffs" the past two seasons.
"We could have traded this pick in the draft, gotten a 30-year-old, somehow (squeaked) in," he said back in April.
In case your memory needs refreshing, Burke said the Leafs didn't make the playoffs in either of the past two seasons — they haven't made it since 2004, the longest active absence among their NHL brethren — because he chose not to make it.
Presumably he considered the bothersome frenzy of media coverage and community goodwill that would accompany a post-season run in Toronto — presumably he did a back-of-a-napkin calculation of the millions upon millions in profit the home dates would have raked in for his organization — and swiftly said to himself, "Nah."
Reasoned Burke: "I'm not interested in making the playoffs unless it is a part of a championship. It seems a mile away. That is the goal. Not to get in in the eighth spot, get your ass kicked and stand up here and say: 'Yeah, but we were in the playoffs.' I'm tying to build a championship team."
We only rehash those series of statements because, less than six months after they were spoken, they already rank among the Most Memorable Reactions to Forgettable Chapters in Toronto Sports History. They're right up there with the moment former Raptors GM Rob Babcock called a 33-win season "enjoyable," and the day ex-Leafs GM Cliff Fletcher uttered the words "draft schmaft" — this after trading away the top pick the New York Islanders turned into a goaltender named Roberto Luongo.
Maybe they're only words; maybe they're windows to truth. Certainly Burke's recent messaging has been, like Burke himself, full of contradictions.
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A fan could take his most recent in a line of post-mortems as a reason for optimism. After all, Burke was insisting the Leafs were a late-season move or two away from being a playoff team.
On the other hand, a fan could take Burke's words as a depressing comment on the state of a once-proud franchise.
The past year's Stanley Cup winners, the Los Angeles Kings, were the Western Conference's eighth-place team. The eighth-place team in the East, meanwhile, racked up 92 regular-season points — the same point total accumulated by the Washington Capitals, who only used their senseless post-season squeak-in to orchestrate a rousing first-round ouster of the defending Stanley Cup champions from Boston. Doubters of the powers of the eighth seed might also remember the Edmonton Oilers and their memorable spring of 2006. Despite possessing the worst regular-season record of Western playoff teams, the Oilers defeated Burke's Anaheim Ducks in the conference final and came within a game of Canada's first Stanley Cup since 1993.
And yet, given all the evidence of parity — given that the NHL playoffs have become a lottery of sorts, wherein almost anything seems possible for anyone who stays relatively healthy — Burke claims he assessed the Leafs' chances and decided, "Nah."
Given all that, one might assume the Leafs would have spent the past six months repairing the huge holes in the roster. And yet Burke, who spoke in April of a need to "retool" the talent, especially at centre and goalie, has done next to nothing of the sort.
Check that. Toronto did acquire James van Riemsdyk, a career winger who the Leafs have said they may try to transform into that long-coveted centreman. Van Riemsdyk, at least, constitutes a necessary beef-up of the forward unit. And certainly the much-speculated trade for Luongo, who would have to approve a move to the centre of the hockey universe, would be a game-changer in goal. James Reimer and Ben Scrivens, after all, carry around enough question marks to make them NHL unknowns. Luongo's long record suggests he's a reliable horse. In four of the past five seasons, the Leafs have finished either 29th or 30th in team save percentage. In the past five seasons, Luongo has ranked 12th, 3rd, 18th, 5th and 14th in individual save percentage. He'd be a filler of a massive void, albeit possibly a contractually punitive one.
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Assuming Luongo arrives and van Riemsdyk is relatively effective; assuming 2011-12 standouts like Joffrey Lupul and Jake Gardiner can repeat their success; assuming Phil Kessel keeps on scoring and Dion Phaneuf allays concerns about the validity of his captaincy; assuming Randy Carlyle, the hard-driving coach who has previously clashed with Lupul, doesn't alienate the bulk of the dressing room by the season's midpoint by trying to turn a roster largely created for a run-and-gun coach named Ron Wilson into a more disciplined defensive unit — assuming all that, not to mention NHL-worthy progress from the cadre of youngsters who've been succeeding in the AHL, it's hard to imagine the Leafs won't be contenders for a playoff spot.
Indeed, there's reason to be optimistic in Leafland. Pro sports is designed to be idiot proof, after all, and sometimes the design even works. In the past 10 seasons, all 30 NHL teams have been to the post-season at least once — even the Leafs. It'll be nine years since the last Toronto-based playoff game come April.
Then again, on questions of playoff worthiness, Burke is clearly the only guy to ask. He's certainly the only human being on this planet with keen enough powers of observation to separate eighth-place pretenders from Stanley Cup contenders. Leaf fans (and Burke's Leaf bossmen) are justifiably wondering when he'll use those rare talents to create a defining moment that doesn't involve a press conference.


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Apple released iOS 5.0.1 yesterday for all iPhone users. The firmware update was supposed to fix the battery drain problems that iPhone owners have experienced since updating to iOS 5 or buying an iPhone 4S. Post-update release and people are reporting worse battery life than before.
Is this the beginning of the end to quality in Apple products? Dubbed "batterygate" by the media, iPhones with iOS 5 or 5.0.1 seem to be losing power while sitting idle.
In a 9to5Mac poll with over 10,000 votes, over 52 percent said they didn't have a battery issue to begin with, over 29 percent said their iPhones were still battery hogs and a little over 18 percent said that battery life was improved with the iOS 5.0.1 update.
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The polled data isn't conclusive by any means and personal mileage will vary but it does show that people are facing real battery probs. Personally, I didn't even have an issue with my battery on my iPhone 4 running iOS 5. Naturally, I updated to iOS 5.0.1 (with over the air update — finally!) and I noticed its battery starting wonking out on its own.
With a full charge at around 5 p.m. yesterday, I popped my newly updated iPhone 4 off the charger and let it sit idle. By 11 p.m. it was already down to 23 percent — with a few emails checked in between and maybe a Yelp search. That's not normal if it's losing that much power when the phone is off.
I'll be doing a clean restore of my iPhone 4 today, but in the meantime, have you experienced any battery issues with iOS 5 or worse battery with iOS 5.0.1?


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Ocantos EGonzalez, Jonge CKiewiet, Nickerson DW. 2014. The Conditionality of Vote-Buying Norms: Experimental Evidence from Latin America. American Journal of Political Science. 58:197–211.
Gonzalez-Ocantos E, De Jonge CKiewiet, Meléndez C, Osorio J, Nickerson DW. 2012. Vote buying and social desirability bias: Experimental evidence from Nicaragua. American Journal of Political Science. 56:202–217.
Butler DM, Nickerson DW, . 2011. Can learning constituency opinion affect how legislators vote? Results from a field experiment Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 6:55–83.
Fowler JH, Heaney MT, Nickerson DW, Padgett JF, Sinclair B. 2011. Causality in political networks. American Politics Research. 39:437–480.
Bennion EA, Nickerson DW. 2011. The Cost of Convenience An Experiment Showing E-Mail Outreach Decreases Voter Registration. Political Research Quarterly. 64:858–869.
Michelson MR, Nickerson DW. 2011. Voter mobilization. Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science. :228.
Nickerson DW, Rogers T. 2010. Do you have a voting plan? Implementation intentions, voter turnout, and organic plan making Psychological Science. 21:194–199.
Arceneaux K, Nickerson DW. 2009. Comparing negative and positive campaign messages: Evidence from two field experiments. American Politics Research.
Farrar C, Green DP, Green JE, Nickerson DW, Shewfelt S. 2009. Does discussion group composition affect policy preferences? Results from three randomized experiments Political Psychology. 30:615–647.
Arceneaux K, Nickerson DW. 2009. Modeling certainty with clustered data: A comparison of methods. Political Analysis. 17:177–190.
Arceneaux K, Nickerson DW. 2009. Who Is Mobilized to Vote? A Re-Analysis of 11 Field Experiments American Journal of Political Science. 53:1–16.
Nickerson DW. 2008. Is voting contagious? Evidence from two field experiments American Political Science Review. 102:49–57.
Nickerson DW, . 2007. Does email boost turnout. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 2:369–379.
Nickerson DW. 2007. The ineffectiveness of e-vites to democracy field experiments testing the role of e-mail on voter turnout. Social Science Computer Review. 25:494–503.
Nickerson DW. 2007. Quality is job one: Professional and volunteer voter mobilization calls. American Journal of Political Science. 51:269–282.
Nickerson DW. 2006. Hunting the elusive young voter. Journal of Political Marketing. 5:47–69.
Nickerson DW, Friedrichs RD, King DC. 2006. Partisan mobilization campaigns in the field: Results from a statewide turnout experiment in Michigan. Political Research Quarterly. 59:85–97.
Nickerson DW. 2006. Volunteer Phone Calls Can Increase Turnout Evidence From Eight Field Experiments. American Politics Research. 34:271–292.
Nickerson DW. 2005. Scalable protocols offer efficient design for field experiments. Political Analysis.
Green DP, Gerber AS, Nickerson DW. 2003. Getting out the vote in local elections: results from six door-to-door canvassing experiments. Journal of Politics. 65:1083–1096.
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This project completed a modeling evaluation of a hybrid gas water heater that combines a reduced capacity tankless unit with a downsized storage tank. This product would meet a significant market need by providing a higher efficiency gas water heater solution for retrofit applications while maintaining compatibility with the half-inch gas lines and standard B vents found in most homes. The TRNSYS simulation tool was used to model a base case 0.60 EF atmospheric gas storage water, a 0.82 EF non-condensing gas tankless water heater, an existing (high capacity) hybrid unit on the market, and an alternative hybrid unit with lower storage volume and reduced gas input requirements.
High performance water heaters are typically more time consuming and costly to install in retrofit applications, making high performance water heaters difficult to justify economically. However, recent advancements in high performance water heaters have targeted the retrofit market, simplifying installations and reducing costs. Four high efficiency natural gas water heaters designed specifically for retrofit applications were installed in single-family homes along with detailed monitoring systems to characterize their savings potential, their installed efficiencies, and their ability to meet household demands.
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The day-to-day activities of the Cruwys/Cruse one-name study with occasional diversions into other topics of interest such as DNA testing and personal genomics
Thursday, 9 July 2009
Genealogy Wise social networking website
Genealogy Wise is effectively a simplified version of Facebook without all the distractions and, like Facebook, it is completely free of charge. You can have genealogy friends, you can create groups for the surnames you are researching or join groups created by other people. There is a forum for discussions, a blog section for general genealogy musings, and a facility to upload videos.
No official announcement about the launch has yet been published, but word has already started to spread on Facebook and in the Twitterverse and blogosphere. At the time of writing 654 members had signed up and 259 groups had been established, but there is a constant stream of new members and the numbers seem to be increasing exponentially. Many of my fellow members of the Guild of One-Name Studies have been among the early adopters who have rushed to claim ownership of the group for their particular surname before anyone else beats them to the post. I have already set up groups for the surnames Cruwys, Cruse and Kennett. I have also set up another group for the county of Devon. Now I just need you all to come and join my groups. You can find my profile page on Genealogy Wise here.
If the website is to be a useful resource for genealogists the membership will have to reach a critical mass with millions rather than hundreds of users. However, judging by the enthusiasm of everyone who has used the site, I suspect that it won't be too long before that critical mass is achieved as soon as word starts to get out on the genealogy mailing lists and in the press. Although many genealogists now use Facebook there are still some who are wary of the whole idea of social networking. I suspect that a specialised genealogy social networking site will be more appealing. Genealogy Wise will never be a replacement for Facebook but will surely become a useful complementary resource and one which we will be using more and more in the future. I look forward to seeing you there.
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Genealogy Wise seemed to be a nice site when I was first invited to join a few days ago. As of today it seems to have been hijacked by GoDaddy.com and that is all that appears when I try to look at posts or go to the website to sign in.
- 16 July 2009 at 13:08
- Debbie Kennett said...
I've had the same problem. I've reported it on the GenealogyWise Facebook page. I hope they get it sorted out soon. It's a nice site and has proved to be very popular and addictive.
- 16 July 2009 at 13:11
I get emails from genealogywise about people posting comments but like others, cannot access the site because of "go daddy". I was really looking forward to accessing this new site, but I guess maybe not. I would like for this new site to make it.
- 16 July 2009 at 16:17
- Debbie Kennett said...
Genealogy Wise is back online again now. Whatever the problems were they seem to have been sorted. Have fun!
- 16 July 2009 at 16:20


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
Thom, maybe I misread the press release but it sounded like the whole DRM issue was relaxed. Part of the old cableCard process was that it was only an OEM solution, but now anyone can buy these cards and build their own systems. In fact I think I read somewhere else that Ceton has another card using the same chips that they have linux drivers for.
If this is ever going to be the whole house solution multiple HD TV thru something other than an HDHomeRun is going to be a necesity.
It mentioned in another thread that the DRM was being relaxed. I guess it just depends on how much it is relaxed. I'll try to find it.