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Long before the chants of "Ig-gy, Ig-gy" or "Kip-per, Kip-per" echoed within the Saddledome walls, there was one syllable that resonated from the Flames faithful. Every time the original #12 lit the lamp, in one harmonized tone, the sounds of "Looooooooooooooooob" could be heard from the stands.
Håkan Loob's name is not often included amongst the likes of Nieuwendyk, Fleury, MacInnis, Vernon, or even Iginla and Kiprusoff, as the all-time greatest to play here in Calgary; but I'm telling you here and now, it would be a mistake to over-look the contributions he made to this organization and this city.
What started this series off was the noting of the Flames particular phenomena of taking risks with draft choices. We saw it with Sergei Makarov and while you would never really look to compare the careers of the two players, there are some similarities in the two, even though they seemed to be polar opposites.
In his younger years, Loob was a multi-sport kid. He started playing hockey at the age of five, but also delved into other interests like tennis, soccer, handball and even sailing. As a teen he was one of Sweden's top table tennis players. But at the age of fifteen, he made the decision to drop all external interests to focus on the game of hockey and his division three senior team, IK Graip.
After two years in division three, he spent a couple more with division two's Karlkrona IK. From there he would he would play with Färjestad Bollklubb in the Elitserien (SEL), scoring 15 goals and 19 points in 36 games. With his help, FBK won their first title as SEL champions.
In his four years with FBK, Loob would be a better than 1PPG (1.15PPG), including his historic 1982-83 season where he tallied 42 goals and 76 points. Both records he still holds today.
Two years prior, the Calgary Flames would select Loob in the 9th round, 181st overall. Much like the Makarov pick, selecting Loob was a risk. At 5'9" and 176 lbs, many thought Loob was a too small for the North American game, which in turn made him a huge gamble. Much like Makarov, Loob was considered a wasted pick since the Flames would be in tough to convince Loob to leave the controlled type European game to come play in the free-wheeling NHL.
After his record setting season in '82-83, Loob was seriously injured in the finals against Stockholm's Djurgarden. Would this be the deciding measure against Loob coming to play in North America where there was more body-checking on a smaller ice surface? With all of the Flames attention on him, it ended up being a turning point in his career. Unlike Makarov, the Flames were not going to have to wait until Loob reached the twilight of his career to see their draft choice come to fruition. At 23, Loob decided to make the transition to the NHL.
In his debut season with the Flames, Loob scored 30 goals and registered 55 points, good enough to be named to the All Rookie Team. Unfortunately, due to his previous experience with the SEL, he was not considered a rookie, making him ineligible for Calder consideration.
In his second season in the NHL, Loob would improve to 37 goals, tying him for the team lead with countryman, Kent Nilsson, and 72 points. After the departure of Nilsson in the 85-86 season, Loob would entrench himself as a quiet leader amongst his teammates, assuming the role as top goal scorer for the club (31) and placing in the top five for points for both the regular season and in the playoffs as the Flames made their first run to the Stanley Cup.
Loob's numbers dropped the following year due to a shoulder injury that would eventually require surgery. As a result, he would have his least productive NHL season with 18 goals and 44 points. It was a contentious time for the young Swede and his family. Already he was contemplating returning home to Sweden, and it took everything the Flames management had to convince him to stay. Rolling the dice a second time doesn't often pay out, but it did for the Flames. When Loob returned for 1987-88 season, it would result in another historic record setting chapter in his career.
Håkan came back with a vengeance. He would the Flames in goals and manage a 1.35 PPG average for a 106 point season. The record setting highlight came in the last game of the year in front of a capacity crowd, when he scored his 49th and 50th goals of the season, making him the first and only Swedish born player to score 50 in the NHL (a record that continues to stand to this day). He also set a Flames record for scoring five hat tricks that season and his fifty goals placed him sixth in the league in that category.
And lest we all forget that he received the Viking Award as voted on by his Swedish peers in the NHL.
Even though the Flames brass had convinced him to stay in North America when he yearned to return to his homeland, Loob was still an instrumental cog for Sweden on the international stage. In that same year, he was a standout on a well balanced team that featured dominant players. His 9 points in 8 games helped the Swedes win their fourth Gold medal at the World Hockey Championships.
We all know the significance of the 1988-89 season for the city of Calgary, the Flames and of course Lanny MacDonald. The three are all inter-twined with a special play… on a special night, that was actually all started by a special player.
Though he only played six season in Calgary, in the NHL even, Håkan Loob left his mark with this team. 193 goals, 236 assists for 429 points in 450 games. In the end there were just some things that were more important and it was only a matter of time before something had to give.
Following the Flames Stanley Cup, Loob had finally made the decision that it was time for him and his family to return to Sweden. Both of his children were of the age that he felt that if they stayed in North America for much longer they would lose too much of their Swedish heritage, so he left.
His departure from the Flames wasn't based on contracts, in fact the Flames tried rolling the dice for a third time by throwing a lot of money at the right winger, but it wasn't about the money. There were no hard feelings between player and management. Håkan Loob was only 28 years old – he was in the prime of his career. With his skill and the quality of the team, he was more than capable of more 50 goal seasons and more Stanley Cups, but for his family, it was time to go home.
"I have to realize my family is a big thing in my life. I could probably play another few years, but I'm just happy with the six years I had in Calgary. Cliff Fletcher treated me as well as anybody ever treated me in my whole life. I think Calgary Flames were pretty happy with what I've done for them and I'm certainly very happy with what they've done for me." —Loob in 1989, explaining his reasoning for leaving Calgary
Upon returning to Färjestad and the SEL, Loob picked up right where he left off before joining the Flames. In 40 games he tallied 22 goals and led the league with 53 points. He bettered that the following year with 33 goals and his 66 points, which again led the SEL. He was awarded the "Golden Helmet" as the league's most valuable player as voted on by his peers. He would do that all again the very next season as well.
Loob played four more seasons in the Elitserien, retiring in 1996. Despite the six seasons he spent in the NHL, Håkan retired from the SEL as the all-time leading goal scorer with 305. In commemoration of his skill and his loyalty to Sweden and the Elitserien, the league created the Håkan Loob Trophy, which is awarded to the player that scores the most regular season goals in the SEL.
Loob's story didn't end with retirement and neither did his success. Färjestad promoted him to GM and in his first two seasons in the role he was rewarded with two championships. In his eleven years as the GM for his team, he would reach the finals eight times and take home four championships. The Färjestad organization rewarded his success by promoting him to team president in 2008.
Though returning to Sweden was something Håkan Loob could not resist, he never turned his back on his second family, the Calgary Flames. He continued to follow the team and keep in touch with close friends such as Joe Nieuwendyk.
Related – I will never forget the night last season, when Pat Steinberg was on Overtime talking about the Flames struggles as being a playoff bubble team. The fans were angry and frustrated that it was always the feeling of one step forwards was followed with two steps back whenever they approached the 8th seed spot. It was poetic when Pat returned to the phone lines, only to have Håkan Loob on the other end of the call. He had been talking to Craig Conroy while Conny was scouting in Sweden and had learned of the state of the fans faithfulness. He took it upon himself to call and let everyone know that he believed in the team.
By the end of the story it didn't matter if it was the Flames that took a chance on Loob, or if Loob took a chance on the Flames. Both parties were the better for the relationship. It may be wild speculation on my part, but it might just have been the success the Flames had in gambling on a late round pick that led them to take the chance 3 years after Loob, when they drafted Sergei Makarov. Whether it was only getting Loob at the beginning of his career or Makarov at the end, both players left us wondering "what if".. What if we had had both of these players for the majority of their careers? It would have been something special to see them both on the same team, the magic they might have created, especially when you throw Kent Nilsson into the mix.
He may not have had an extended career in Calgary, but he was one that made the most of the time he did have here. Just like it was only a matter of time before Loob had to choose between the NHL and his family, it will only be a matter of time before the Flames organization will have to decide whether or not to honour Loob as "Forever A Flame". Personally I think it's a no brainer…but for now we honour him as the 7th best draft pick in Flames history.
The Rankings
|Hakan Loob
Flames top-10 picks of all time
- 7 – Hakan Loob
- 8 – Mike Vernon
- 9 – Dion Phaneuf
- 10 – Sergei Makarov


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STS-92, Mission
Control Center
The STS-92 astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Discovery are preparing for their return to Earth with a planned touchdown on the 3-mile long Shuttle Landing Facility runway at the Kennedy Space Center at 1:14 p.m. CDT, weather permitting.
A high pressure system sitting over the eastern seaboard is expected to produce windy conditions that could result in cross winds in excess of acceptable limits at the time of today's planned landing. Mission managers will closely watch weather conditions in Florida today, working with the Spaceflight Meteorology Group in Houston and complemented by real-time weather observations by Chief Astronaut Charlie Precourt flying the Shuttle Training Aircraft at the landing site.
The crew was awakened at 5:17 a.m. today to begin landing preparations to the sounds of the U.S. Air Force theme "Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder." Mission Commander – and Air Force Colonel – Brian Duffy quickly responded that "You had a couple of us standing and singing up here looking out the window, looking at the wild blue yonder and hoping to enter it today."
If weather conditions permit and the crew is given a "go" to begin their deorbit preparations, they will close Discovery's payload bay doors at 9:27 a.m., the crew will put on their pressurized launch and entry suits and strap into their seats just after 11 a.m. Entry Flight Director LeRoy Cain is expected to poll the flight control team for the final decision for the de-orbit burn 20 minutes prior to the planned firing of Discovery's orbital maneuvering system engines at 12:07 p.m. which will set the STS-92 crew up for a landing at KSC at 1:14 p.m. CDT. There is a back up landing opportunity one orbit later if needed. The second opportunity would involve a de-orbit burn at 1:43 p.m. and landing at 2:50 p.m. CDT.
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The 2013-2014 Season marks the 40th Anniversary for Penobscot Theatre Company, the most Northeastern year-round, professional theatre in the country. The company, which owns and operates the historic Bangor Opera House, proudly announces its upcoming season lineup.
The 2013-14 Season opens with laughs. Ken Ludwig's The Fox on the Fairway
Next, something scary! Billed as "the most brilliantly effective spine chiller you will ever encounter," The Woman in Black combines the power and intensity of live theatre, with a cinematic quality inspired by the world of film noir. First mounted on the London stage in 1987, The Woman in Black, is now one of the longest running plays on the West End. So what makes The Woman in Black so frightening? The whole theatre is the set. Written to take place in a "small Victorian theatre," the Bangor Opera House could not be more perfect.
This year's special holiday offering is truly fun for the whole family. Originally created by Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Cinderella: A New Telling of an Old Tale is a buoyant, lyrical and enormously entertaining telling of the familiar fairy tale. In the usually saccharine world of holiday entertainment, this irreverent musical comedy delights in crossing barriers, especially the one between audience and actors. No child in the house will resist proffering his or her foot, as the Prince, glass slipper in hand (size 5A: this is a fairy tale, after all) searches the crowd for Cinderella. In this joyous, roaringly funny, magical, musical holiday production, goodness triumphs, evil is banished from the Kingdom, the Prince gets his girl–and the girl gets her shoes.
A new play for a New Year! In 2010, Northern Writes audiences went wild for Orono playwright, Travis Baker's one act play, One Blue Tarp. Its positive reception encouraged Mr. Baker to continue crafting his story into a full-length play about a man in a coastal Maine town who decides to defend his right to have a pile of junk under a blue tarp in his front yard in an unorthodox manner — by sitting down. Baker, who teaches creative writing and college composition at The University of Maine, received the prestigious 2013 Clauder New England Playwright Competition for One Blue Tarp and PTC is thrilled to give this comedic, thoughtful piece its world premiere production!
In March, let the warfare begin! God of Carnage, the Tony Award-winning play about the savage underbelly of playground politics, centers around two pairs of parents whose sons have been involved in a playground scuffle. Though they meet to discuss the matter politely, as the evening goes on, the parents become increasingly childish, resulting in adult behavior that degenerates to a level far below that of an adolescent brawl. AJ Mooney and Jeri Misler star in this gripping night of comic catastrophe.
For the final play of the 40th Season, Penobscot Theatre will produce the quintessential American classic, Our Town. With original music composed and performed nightly by Lincoln, Maine-based musician Jacob Augustine and with PTC alum and Bangor native Monica Willey returning to play Emily, this Our Town is both a celebration of what has been and a hopeful glimpse of what will be – in the next 40 years.
In addition to the regular season lineup, Newport hints at surprises to be announced later in the season. "Stay tuned," she says. "This could very well be our most ambitious season to date. Once you're over the hill, you know, you pick up speed."
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2012 Distinguished Professor John Kopchick uses a water bottle to show how his team at the Edison Biotechnology Institute visualized the structure of human growth hormone.
Photographer: Chris Franz
Kopchick's lecture was heavy on humor, drawing laughs from audience members including Ohio University President Roderick McDavis and First Lady Deborah McDavis.
Photographer: Chris Franz
President McDavis and 2012 Distinguished Professor Mark Halliday greet Kopchick outside the Baker Theater Lounge. "Dr. Kopchick possesses the very characteristics we seek in our Distinguished Professors," McDavis said.
Photographer: Chris Franz
Mar 20, 2013
By Corinne Colbert
The discovery of human growth hormone receptor antagonist—and its development into a blockbuster drug that has helped thousands of people around the world and made tens of millions of dollars for Ohio University—resulted from two happy accidents.
That was the message of the 2012 Distinguished Professor Lecture delivered on March 18 by John Kopchick, Goll-Ohio Eminent Scholar and professor of molecular biology. Kopchick is a faculty member in the Biomedical Sciences Department in the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and a member of the Edison Biotechnology Institute.
In a rollicking presentation that included snippets of songs by Dean Martin and Garth Brooks and a lesson in OHIO football history, Kopchick revealed not only the brilliance that earned him the Distinguished Professorship, but also a great sense of humor.
As its name suggests, human growth hormone regulates an individual's physical development. Too little HGH, and you have dwarfism. Too much and you have a form of gigantism called acromegaly.
Kopchick became interested in HGH in the early 1980s while working as a molecular biologist for Merck, the pharmaceutical company. After joining the OHIO faculty in 1987, he continued to study the compound.
Which led to the first happy accident: An experiment that Kopchick and his then-graduate student, Wen Chen, expected to end with a giant mouse produced instead a dwarf mouse. "Wen Chen was afraid to show me [the results] because I was so convinced we'd get a big mouse," Kopchick told the audience.
Kopchick, Chen, and other OHIO scientists published their findings in the December 1991 issue of the journal Molecular Endocrinology. Asked for an image to put on the journal's cover, Kopchick joked that the journal could use the image only if it used OHIO's green and white as the background colors. When he received his copy of the journal and discovered that he'd been taken seriously, Kopchick said he ran across campus to the president's house and demanded to see then-President Charles Ping.
"I forgot that he'd just had two knee replacements the week before," Kopchick said. "He was so nice to be excited about it."
Kopchick then engaged in a long and fruitless search for a company that would sponsor his work to developing the discovery into a medication. Enter happy accident number two.
Kopchick's workout partner at the time was Joe Dean, a former OHIO football standout who was an assistant football coach. Kopchick complained to Dean about his trouble in finding a backer for their compound. "Joe said, 'John, why don't you give my old friend Rick a call?'" and jotted a name and phone number on a Post-It note. Kopchick put it in his workout shorts pocket, where his wife found it while sorting laundry. Kopchick immediately made the call.
Dean's "old friend" was Rick Hawkins, BA '72, a member of the undefeated 1968 Bobcats football team. Hawkins had become an entrepreneur in drug development; he and Kopchick formed a company called Sensus to develop and test the drug that became known as pegvisoment. Approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2003 and now licensed to Pfizer, Somavert (pegvisomant for injection) has sales of more than $200 million a year and has earned the University more than $80 million in royalties—making OHIO one of the top four schools nationwide in royalty income from products based on campus research.
The more important return on the investment, Kopchick said, was the thousands of people with acromegaly, a form of gigantism, whose disease has been alleviated by Somavert. Among them was a 37-year-old father of two from Sweden who was diagnosed with acromegaly at age 32 and who would not have lived to see his children graduate from college without Somavert.
"It doesn't get any better than that," said a clearly emotional Kopchick.
Kopchick's EBI team also has developed a transgenic mouse with disrupted receptors for GH. These mice are dwarf, fat and unexpectedly long lived—in fact, one of those mice won the Methuselah Mouse Prize from the journal Nature for the longest-lived laboratory mouse. He died just shy of five years, or the equivalent of 150 human years.
Recently, humans with the same type of mutation in the GH receptor have been reported to be dwarf, fat and not to have any types of cancer, very similar to what was found in Kopchick's mouse line.
"Our mice are saying something fundamental about what's happening in people with dwarfism due to a deficiency of GH action," Kopchick said.
The team has published a paper (which, Kopchick proudly noted, includes many undergraduates as co-authors) in the current issue of Molecular Endocrinology, discussing the effect of GH on fat tissue. The cover features a picture of one of the EBI "fat" mice—against a green-and-white background. That sent Kopchick running across campus once again.
"I ran up the stairs in Cutler Hall and said, 'Dr. McDavis, guess what?!"
2011 Distinguished Professor Mark Halliday reads his poem at the Distinguished Professor Lecture March 18.
In keeping with tradition, John Kopchick was introduced by the previous year's Distinguished Professor. Professor of English Mark Halliday, though, made the introduction in a rather untraditional way: in rhyme. His poem paid tribute not only to Kopchick, but also to Ohio University's dedication to the exploration of the human condition across a myriad of disciplines.
Introduction for Distinguished Professor John Kopchick
You probably didn't think I could do this in verse;
but I will exercise my poetic skills, for better or for worse.
When a poet gets to introduce a molecular biologist it's a great opportunity —
or so my colleagues have told me, implying that with impunity
a poet can say anything he or she pleases,
since poets are not expected to cure diseases
by comprehending hormones or other microscopic juices,
whereas a scientist like Professor John Kopchick deduces
relations between molecules which I can't begin to name
and why they recombine as new compounds or stay the same.
Actually such brilliance in biochemistry gives me anxiety
because traditionally it's part of poetry's piety
to believe that the strange turmoil of human existence
maintains forever a profound resistance
to logical analysis and laboratory proof.
Fortunately, though, our fine university includes under one roof
the sciences and the arts, because for both,
in different ways, the challenge is to understand and foster human growth.
Together on this round nexus of chemical systems called Earth
we study the infinite entanglement of life for all we're worth —
a curriculum whose complexity is so demanding
that we need every kind of understanding
in order to avoid being extinguished
and thus we are grateful for a biologist so distinguished
as John Kopchick, whose work does much to illumine
what is human.


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November 28, 2013
A humanitarian cause may get you out to a meeting with others of like-mindedness this week. You'll meet some interesting people, and also get a new view of how you are perceived by others if you go. Enjoy! Soul Affirmation: I spend the week celebrating me.
Lucky Numbers: 19, 27, 44
Everybody's in a full-moon frenzy regarding relationship issues. Listen to what others are saying, and chart your own course through this week. If you are in a relationship, remember what brought you together with this person in the first place, and be glad for what you've had. Soul Affirmation: My smile is a radiant light to those I encounter
Lucky Numbers: 8, 21, 29
Your intuition is trying to tell you something. Be still for a bit and let the message come. You know when to exercise caution, and when to let go and revel in pleasure. There's much pleasure in your life this week. Soul Affirmation: I keep my eyes open for business opportunities this week.
Lucky Numbers: 5, 12, 28
Put one of your new ideas into action this week and see how it feels as you work through your routine. You are in command of how you think this week, so use this beneficial energy to accomplish some of the things you've been wanting to do. Soul Affirmation: I paint my world in colors of the rainbow.
Lucky Numbers: 10, 19, 24
Every positive idea you have is likely to be challenged this week, so you may want to keep your brilliance under wraps until at least tomorrow. Your ideas are sound and good; don't take others' rude behavior personally. Soul Affirmation: I let go and let the spirit run my life this week
Lucky Numbers: 19, 30, 42
This week's the week to communicate those ideas. People will seem to be much more receptive and less grouchy. Make sure that your ideas have some practical actions that can be taken, so that people will know how to respond to you. Soul Affirmation: I love many people this week
Lucky Numbers: 6, 12, 19
You are the messenger of freedom this week, and if you are not careful with your words, you'll find that some people don't want to be liberated. Not to worry, just go your merry way and enjoy yourself. Others will learn from what you are doing. Soul Affirmation: I let my instincts light my way this week.
Lucky Numbers: 18, 20, 45
Your creativity is pulling you in a wonderful direction. Act on your impulse to create beauty in your life. Pay attention when your nearest, dearest friend is trying to tell you something. Your impatience to get to the next project could cause you to miss a valuable signal. Soul Affirmation: Charm is my middle name this week.
Lucky Numbers: 23, 27, 54
Keep a low profile at a family get-together. Someone wants to scuffle, but won't be able to if you don't present yourself as a target. Your checkbook needs looking into; you'll feel better if it's balanced. Soul Affirmation: I am patient with all that comes my way this week.
Lucky Numbers: 32, 45, 51
Your home life is important to you this week. Get the family together to take care of some fall clean-up chores and make it a party that everyone will remember with joy. Take the lead on bringing happiness to the occasion. Soul Affirmation: I seek connection with the best that is in me.
Lucky Numbers: 23, 43, 46
Daydreaming will work wonders for your spirit this week. Let your imagination fly freely and follow up on ideas in a leisurely way. You are able to accomplish some very rewarding and life-affirming tasks. Soul Affirmation: I celebrate those around me.
Lucky Numbers: 9, 50, 52
Congratulations on your positive attitude this week! While others may be dragging, your spirit is full of energy. Enjoy the power-surge of good feelings, and you'll be lifting others' spirits just by being you. Soul Affirmation: The true path is mapped out by my impulses.
Lucky Numbers: 14, 17, 19


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The rain is pounding the windshield in true tropical downpour fashion. The narrow, snaking mountain road seems on the verge of washing out with torrents of trash-infested water flowing along it. Nothing like an army of plastic water and juice bottles charging down a jungle trail to liven up a trip to the Bob Marley Mausoleum.
My wife and I had planned on renting a car for our Jamaica driveabout but when we ran into three couples we knew at a resort in Montego Bay, it seemed renting a van and driver might make more sense. So we hammered out a deal with a local to be our driver for a few days. His name was Roosevelt.
The charming and streetwise 48-year-old Jamaican knew the area, the hot spots and the people so all we needed to do was pay the bill and ride his Magic Bus, a 1999 Toyota HiAce 14-passenger van. It needed some bodywork and there was a well-deserved wear hole in the driver's seat, but with only 398,000 kilometres of Jamaica on the odometer, Roosevelt felt it was just getting broken in. Yeah Mon!
For this leg of our rideabout, I'm in the front seat beside Roosevelt, but since the fourcylinder diesel HiAce is righthand drive, I'm in my normal driving position, albeit without a steering wheel. I'm rarely a passenger so I relax and soak up the countryside and the impressive manoeuvres of the drivers on the laid-back Caribbean island.
"Rastaman vibration, yeah."
Lisa wails out the opening words to one of her favourite Bob Marley tunes from the second row of seats. Before she can sing the next line, she hears "POSITIVE" from me in the front and someone sitting behind her.
Through the laughter, she manages "Geeze, you guys know the words to that song?" "Well we were singing Rastaman Vibration in a college dorm when you were only five years old, Lisa," I offer, referring to the voice in the back that belonged to Al McPhail from Perth Andover, N.B.
Al and his oh-so-charming wife Pam have been close friends for a long time. I met Al at Mount Allison University in 1969. Ten years later, Ken Langley and I talked him into quitting his executive job at Customs & Excise in Ottawa to run our office while we drove a Halifax-built Volvo 245DL around the world and onto the front cover of the Guinness World Records.
The night before our excursion to the Marley Mausoleum, Al's cousin Charlie, head of maintenance and engineering at our resort, had driven us to a village in the hills south of Montego Bay. Anchovy was off the tourist beat and we dropped in at a bar with walls plastered in posters of near-naked women, an open-air body shop at one end of the parking lot and Charlie's barbershop of choice at the other.
The dark 20-minute mountain drive from "Mo Bay" was like a circus ride fraught with near misses, people in the middle of the road selling all sorts of things and at times, uncontrolled laughter.
The next stop was a hole-inthe-wall bar in Awful Gully, where I had a rousing game of dominoes with a local lady who was all smiles and laid a few perfect "Yeah Mons" on me.
But today it's Roosevelt and his spanking clean HiAce van with reggae music blasting and his gaggle of grinning gringos to transport.
"I don't mind driving a rightdrive vehicle, Roosevelt." I tell him. "I find shifting with the left hand a bit awkward though. Tricky to do a proper powershift from second to third when you have to pull forward and toward yourself with the left hand rather than pushing the stick shift up and away with the right."
I don't know if Roosevelt is following my reasoning but at the next stop he pulls away in first gear, slips it gently into second and then executes a perfect backhanded-pull-powershift from second to third. It looks like a magic act, but it is one smooth shift.
The rain finally eases up and we pull into Nine Miles and eventually the gated parking lot of the Bob Marley Mausoleum. Locals offer us "ganja," sodas and a beat-up umbrella in the parking lot but Roosevelt ushers us past them.
The visit is one of the highlights of our 100-hour Jamaica visit and the beaches of Negril are just what a Nova Scotian needs in January. The Montego Bay resort is fine too, but the time on the road in Roosevelt's HiAce will stay with me forever, even though I never drove.
Too soon it's time to fly back to Canada. Of course, Roosevelt drives us to the airport. He seems sad to say goodbye. So am I. "We have met before, long ago." Roosevelt whispers as he bear hugs me at the terminal. "In another life."
Yeah Mon.


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what you are trying to do is way over my head...but to start you out: the P45 is not 49x26mm (imagesize)..all the manufacturers list the exact imager sizes of their backs on their websites...the focal length multiplier only helps people coming from film if they want to see what their lenses will be on their digicams or with their MF backs, a lens does not change optically just because you change the imager (or film) size behind it...you just use more (or less) of the circle of illumination (what the lens can project)....sorry if you already know all this, like i said i was really only able to follow half your post...[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=71710\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Eric,The diagonal angle of view, in degrees, is = 2 * atan(D/2/F)where D = Diagonal of sensor, mm F = Focal length of lens, mmIf you wish to determine the horizontal angle of view, replace D with the horizontal length. Similarly, if you want the vertical angle of view, use the vertical length in place of D.Example:35mm lens with a Leaf 75 (V=36, H=48, and D=60 mm):AOV (V) = 54°AOV (H) = 69°AOV (D) = 81°As for the multiplier, is determined by the ratio of the diagonal as compared to the 'parent' frame, where the 'parent' frame is 35mm film for a 1D2, 30D, etc, with a D=43 mm. But for MF, such as a 645, the film diagonal is approximately 75 mm. So, for the Leaf 75, with a diagonal of 60 mm, the factor is 75/60 = 1.25. This means a 645 system based 50 mm lens on a Leaf 75 will behave like a 62.5 mm lens. The 50 mm lens on the smaller sensor will thus function as a slightly longer focal length (more telephoto-like).However, many reference a 35mm film. In that case, the multiplier for a Leaf 75 is 43/60 = 0.717. This means that the same 50 mm lens on a Leaf 75 will behave like a slightly wide-angle 35 mm lens (that is, 50 mm * 0.717 = 35.8 mm).The same 50 mm lens on a 500CM square format Hasselblad seems even wider (D = 85 mm; 50 mm * 43/85 = 25 mm), but only if you compare the diagonal view, which is what most manufacturers quote for lens angles of view. That is, the horizontal 60 mm length is the same for one side of the 645 and the 6x6 cameras, so the horizontal (landscape orientation) angle of view is the same for either format when using the same lens.Regards, Robert[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=71955\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
P45 active sensor is 49.1 x 36.8mm, so closer to 5x4cm than 6x4.5, yielding a crop factor of somwhere around 1.22x for 645 format? Math whizzes invited to reply...I'm going to a shoot.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=72390\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Hello,I am a 3D animation interactive developer working on a project where a gesigner will be able to place a computer-generated object and place it interactively into a still photo.In order to do this, I need to generate a value (field of view) that is used in the synthetic 3D scene. This value is derrived from a formula based on film back size and focal length.I have experimented with several formulas and they all resemble this:Field of View = 4 * arcsine ( frameSize/( focal length * 4))
However, I seem to be missing something. as I plug in frame sizes for various film backs like the P45 49.1mm x 26.8mm , the resulting view needs to be scaled up or down..similar to a digital multiplier or crop factor? (i'm reading these terms from various internet articles so I may be using the terms wrong). It seems like the formula works for *film* back sizes and needs some sort of additional factor to compensate for image sensor sizes
Does anyone have any knowledge of crop factors or digital multiplers in DSLR backs like the P21, P25, P30, P45 and even other filmbacks like Leaf Aptus, HaselBlad, Canon EOS-1D Mark2?


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Matthew Michael Lyon
April 16, 1970-July 27, 2012
Walnut Creek, California
Matthew Michael Lyon died unexpectedly Friday evening, July 27, 2012 while hiking to meet Boy Scouts from Troop 820 as they completed a 30-mile backpacking trip on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Matt was born in Salt Lake City on April 16, 1970. He was raised in Pleasanton, California and graduated from Amador Valley High School. He served a two year mission in Guatemala for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Following his mission he attended UC Davis where he earned degrees in Economics and International Relations. He married Eleanor L. Valencia on September 15, 1995 in the Oakland LDS Temple. He worked for Accenture for 16 years. He is survived by his wife Eleanor, children Connor, Jordan, Maxwell, and Sierra, parents Michael and Susan Lyon of Pleasanton, brothers Nicholas (Chelsea), Daniel (Holly), and Christian of San Francisco, niece Madison and many loving aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Matt lived a life of selfless service to others and filled many church roles, including his most recent as the Bishop of the Walnut Creek II Ward. Matt enjoyed exploring the California coast, backpacking, gardening, home improvement projects, and spending time with his family and friends. He found beauty in nature, art, music, good literature, and always looked for the good in others. He touched many lives with his witty humor and easy-going nature. He loved his family above all and will be missed by all who knew him.
A website has been established to allow friends and family to serve, support as well as share photos and stories. Please visit lyonfoundation.com


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Rebuilding Cities After Sandy: 3 Keys to Climate Resilienceby -
As negotiators in Doha move toward a new global climate agreement this week, politicians and planners in the United States are still busy absorbing the lessons of Hurricane Sandy.
With half of all Americans living near the ocean, Hurricane Sandy provides a wake-up call for state and municipal authorities in coastal areas nationwide. New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo is leading the way, pledging a new generation of storm-resistant infrastructure and forming three commissions to explore how the state can better prepare for climate change's coming impacts.
Sandy wrought a 1,000-mile trail of damage in towns and cities along the East Coast shoreline. As climate change intensifies, more severe storms (and storm surges), rising seas, extreme heat, and other destructive impacts loom on the horizon. How can New York City; Newark, N.J.; and other cities hit by Sandy rebuild in ways that avoid a repeat of the devastation that deprived millions of the basic essentials of modern life? How can other coastal cities adapt to become more resilient to a warming climate?
Put simply, they need to "build back better," a phrase first coined by President Clinton following the 2004 Asian tsunami. In practice, this means coupling short-term efforts to get communities back on their feet with longer-term urban development that adapts to expected climate change impacts.
As they seek to make our coastal cities and towns more climate resilient, urban leaders should adopt three key approaches that we believe will be critical to success:
1) Build Green as Well as Gray
As we saw from Hurricane Sandy and other destructive, recent storms, cities from New York to Miami to Houston need to develop infrastructure that reduces the vulnerability of homes, commerce, and services.
This does not mean walling-in every coastal community with huge barriers or dikes. Where cities meet shorelines, "green infrastructure" can often meet the same need. For example, Maryland's state government is buying up wetlands and marshes to provide buffers against future storm surge. And in New Jersey, the restoration of South Cape May Meadows provided a natural seafront barrier that helped the area fare much better than others when Sandy hit.
Within cities, forward-looking municipal authorities are experimenting with climate-resilient infrastructure, such as heat-resistant, permeable pavements in Chicago and water-collecting rain gardens in Philadelphia that slow storm-related runoff. In Los Angeles, incentives for homeowners to install rooftop solar power enable the city to spread risk and reduce energy disruption when power outages strike.
2) Spend Today, Save Tomorrow
The toll on the U.S. economy from climate change and extreme weather events is mounting. The insurer Munich Re estimated that over the past 30 years, weather-related catastrophes cost more than $1 trillion in North America alone, an average of more than $34 billion per year. Insured losses increased from $9 billion in the 1980s to $36 billion in the 2000s. Hurricane Sandy's economic costs are on track to exceed $70 billion in New York and New Jersey alone.
Clearly, there are large, near-term costs to making U.S. cities more resilient. But the future pay-off is likewise significant, enabling our economy and society to weather the storm as climate change impacts unfold in the years to come. Choosing green over gray infrastructure is one way to help slash the bill.
When it comes to reducing destructive stormwater runoff, for example, WRI analysis found that maintaining wetlands to soak up sea surges cost $ 0.47 per thousand gallons compared with $3.24 for conventional controls like storm drains. New York City already employs green infrastructure to control stormwater runoff, an investment that will save $1.5 billion over 20 years, and North Carolina has gone the same route.
3) Plan Smartly, and with Public Support
If cities are to adapt smartly and cost-effectively to global warming, municipal and state authorities must embed climate considerations into planning. This will require both new engineering approaches to rebuilding, and new processes for making fundamental decisions about the future of our cities.
Practical examples of new planning approaches already exist. The Thames Barrier, for example, protects London from storm and tide surges. But this may not always be the case, depending on how fast and high the sea rises. So the designers included options to raise the barrier or build a new one and crafted a "decision map" to guide future Londoners in matching unfolding climate impacts with appropriate actions.
A high degree of public engagement and buy-in will also be essential given the tough choices cities will need to make. The views and values of citizens whose lives will be most affected must count as authorities ponder questions such as: Should multi-billion dollar barriers be erected to protect city borders? Should new development be forbidden along vulnerable areas of shoreline? Politicians and planners cannot make such momentous decisions alone.
Time to Act
As Sandy vividly revealed, America's densely populated northeast hub—including the country's financial and political capitals—is highly vulnerable to climate impacts. New York and Newark, N.J., according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, rank among the 20 world cities most susceptible to rising sea levels.
Governor Cuomo and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, among others, have indicated that rebuilding efforts must take account of the new climate context. As thousands of people continue to rebuild their homes and lives after Sandy, "building back better" must become more than a slogan. It should be the basis of a new, climate-resilient approach to urban development across the nation.
Analysis was provided by Heather McGray, Johan Schaar, and Ayesha Dinshaw, of WRI's Vulnerability and Adaptation team.


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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Hello Readers! I thought I'd post an update as it has been a few weeks. Without race reports and such I just don't have that much to blog about.
What's new? Well, summer vacation has come and gone! I went back to work on Monday. Every year the summer goes by more quickly. You know how that is. Time does fly by. I no longer wish for Friday as Friday is here before I know it.
I don't mind being back at work at all. Monday was actually a fun day as many of the students came in to pay their activity fees and I was able to catch up with them. Students won't be back until after Labor Day so I have a few weeks to get ready.
My Dear Tyler moved out at the end of July. Oh, talk about a heartbreak! As I was an emotional wreck all summer knowing the move was near but I was sure to tell Tyler that this is all working out perfectly. We want him to go to college, to be successful, to work, to be independent. That is just what he is doing; however, it is a change and I have difficulty with changes. I realized that I NEED to be NEEDED! I didn't raise needy boys but being needed is something that fulfills me. Something I can work on. Tyler is only 38 miles away, hello! I see him every week at least once or more and it is all working out perfectly. No More Tears as Ozzy would say..
On the bodybuilding endeavor..I'm 7 weeks out to the NPC Northstar. EEK! Workouts are going great. I'm lifting roughly an hour, 5 days a week. Running 5 miles a day in the AM and about 20 minutes of hills/sprints in the PM after I lift. My building phase is over, I have built some quality muscle and now the fat removal has begun! My body looks as if it belongs to two different people. My upper body is lean and my lower body is not! I've always held most of my fat in my butt/thighs and that certainly isn't changing.
I don't know if I can get the lower body lean in 7 weeks but I will try. I am doing my best and that is all that I can ask of myself. It's difficult to know how much cardio to complete as my body is completely accustomed to running and I don't know how much fat that is burning. My body is also used to eating low calories and performing well. Most BBrs are able to use cardio to burn the fat away as it is a new shock to the body. Mine, not so much.
I am posing each day, working on the mandatory poses. I haven't yet perfected which music I am going to use. Probably Metallica, music only, I don't think I want any words. Julia was very happy with my posing last Saturday. I have finally perfected the lat poses, which were my worse poses. I'll be adding auxiliary poses soon to create my night routine.
My suits are ordered. A plain black lycra for prejudging and a glitzy rhinestone covered one for evening. Fun!
Now that I am back to work my schedule has changed. Instead of running with Topaz on the trail each morning I'm running with him out on trail near home in the dark before work or getting on the treadmill for HIIT. After work I head home, pick up Troy, bring him back to school for football practice. Practice is 4 hours so I have plenty of time to head over to the gym to get my lift on, back home for another run session. This session either consists of hills/sprints or Topaz run. Home again for plenty of time to get dinner ready and head back into town to pick up Troy. It works! I am able to plan plenty of time to get everything in. My energy level is high.
My nutrition changes a bit every week. I make sure I am drinking 1.5-2 gallons of water each day. I eat every 3 hours, a protein and vegetable. Usually a ton of greens, cucumber, tomato, green pepper and chicken breast with olive oil and vinegar as my garden is at full peak now. Lots of fresh veggies! A few days a week I have oats, sweet potato or brown rice. I drink 1 or 2 protein shakes a day post workout and usually right before bed to get those last protein grams in for the days total.
That's about it. Thanks for the emails/comments wondering where I am. I am here and all is going well!
7 comments:
- Olga said...
Julie, LOVE your back. And I thought mine was ok...well, for a non-BB, on an off-training pattern. But now I see what the strive is for. No body fat on you! I am not sure I can ever acheive this. I lost quite some, but so much is around, and I stopped, again, now! How to jump-start? You're right, our bodies are so used to cardio...
Tyler is so close by, it's wonderful. Hang tough. Our jobs as parents is to give all we can, and then let them go...I heard that from some wise woman:)
Frayed Ends of Sanity!!!!!
- Helen said...
Wow do I ever remember that first year when I sent my one and only off to college (13 years ago now). Until she was gone, I'd never realized how much of MY life was all about HER life. I think I just about drove my Mr. to drink!
But, it all works out and the best part is that they come back because they want to, they actually want to be with you! It's just the next stage and it's a good one.
- Londell said...
Looks like your hard work is paying off... So is Tyler far away or close enough you can visit. My son went 900 miles away and I hate it, but it is good for both of us...
- Carol said...
Wow, Julie! As a blossoming massage therapist I so want to give you a back massage! I could really learn muscles and the direction of the fibers hands on from you!! Nicely defined! Glad you had a good summer and you are learning to take the next step of Mom-hood in your usual positive stride! See you soon!
- brooks shoes said...
Great update...Wish you luck.
- Olga said...
Couple of weeks left? Will we hear update, or the final show-down? Hope you are well.


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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Members Only
Lately, I've been part of a closed writers' forum on Facebook. I'm also part of a locked forum on Rallystorm. Though I'm also active in the Querytracker forums, there's something nice about being able to celebrate/complain/babble on a private forum.
It's been both a stress reliever as well as a place where I don't have to worry about asking stupid questions.
Do you belong to a locked forum online? Where do you go when you need to vent privately about writing, without the universe listening in?
Posted by Lydia Kang at 5:00 AM
46 comments:
- Sarah said...
I don't belong to any forums. I tend to email a few close acquaintances with my news or my fears or whatever, and I provide support to my friends that way as well :)
- November 30, 2011 at 5:11 AM
- Laura Pauling said...
I email with writing friends or talk on the phone with them. :) You iz cool. :)
- November 30, 2011 at 5:16 AM
- E. Arroyo said...
I don't belong to any private ones. I vent in the car, alone. LOL And I think the universe does listen.
- November 30, 2011 at 6:00 AM
- Natalie Aguirre said...
I don't belong to any forums that I really participate in. I'm too busy and it's hard enough to keep up with blogs.
- November 30, 2011 at 6:06 AM
- Connie Keller said...
I don't belong to any forums. They sound fun though.
My writing friends get to hear about all my complaints, anxieties, and insecurities either by phone or email. And I pray.
- November 30, 2011 at 6:55 AM
- DL Hammons said...
I used to dabble in forums, but that was before I started blogging seriously. But they were open forums, anybody could contribute. I use my Critique Partners when I need to vent...which isn't often.
- November 30, 2011 at 6:59 AM
- Karen Jones Gowen said...
I've not been part of one but I can see where it might be helpful. I vent to my husband LOL, poor guy. I was part of a Facebook writing group but never did anything with it so bowed out.
- November 30, 2011 at 7:01 AM
- Jessica Bell said...
That place is helpful, isn't it. :)
- November 30, 2011 at 7:08 AM
- Unknown said...
I'm a member of several open forums but haven't visited them in a long while. Not since I've made tons of blogging friends.
I like our private forum. :)
- November 30, 2011 at 7:27 AM
- B.E. Sanderson said...
I used to frequent a couple writers' forums - not sure if they were locked or not. I got tired of the infighting and general snertiness. Since then, I've tried to join others, but the magic is gone for me. If I need to vent privately, I either do inside the comfort of my home, or I have a couple writer friends I can email.
- November 30, 2011 at 7:59 AM
- Jax said...
A few years ago when I was prepping for a spinal fusion surgery, I joined a scoliosis forum. I asked every single stupid question you could think of. There were always great responses from people who went through it already. I promised that after the surgery I would post about my recovery...but I was too high on meds and too much in pain to care. Maybe I'll venutre over there now...
- November 30, 2011 at 8:01 AM
- Talli Roland said...
I'm with Laura - I email and call writer friends, then whine to them. Oh, the fun for them! :)
- November 30, 2011 at 8:26 AM
- storyqueen said...
I think it's cool you have a private forum for such things...
the closest thing I have is an in-person writing group...but we meet very rarely these days.
- November 30, 2011 at 8:33 AM
- Carol Kilgore said...
I think a private forum would be wonderful. I have critique partners and dogs.
- November 30, 2011 at 8:40 AM
- Laurel Garver said...
I'm thankful to belong to two crit groups that meet in person. I know I can always pick up the phone or IM when I need a little encouragement or to just vent.
- November 30, 2011 at 8:43 AM
- mooderino said...
I tend to save my venting for real world acquaintances (lucky them). And then of course there's my blog. Once every couple of months I'll rail against something.
- November 30, 2011 at 8:44 AM
- Emily Rose said...
I don't belong to any private forum, but I can see where it would be nice.
- November 30, 2011 at 8:55 AM
- Bossy Betty said...
No, but I do have a closet where I can go and talk to my blankets. Sometimes we let the pillows in, but only when they present their cases in a good way.
- November 30, 2011 at 9:05 AM
- Slamdunk said...
Those are good resources.
No, my poor dog has to listen to my complaints and he is good as long as he gets his daily run.
- November 30, 2011 at 9:12 AM
- Old Kitty said...
I talk to Charlie and email people who are used to my venting! LOL!
Take care
- November 30, 2011 at 9:13 AM
- Elizabeth Varadan, Author said...
I do belong to one closed forum on FB because I was invited in by a writer friend. But I don't visit it as often as I should. I belong to two face-to-face writer's groups, and those, plus writing, plus blogging, etc. keep me pretty busy. But I've been thinking lately that I should get more involved in this one. Your post is a nice nudge.
- November 30, 2011 at 9:14 AM
- Southpaw said...
Nothing for me, but I can see how it would be nice.
- November 30, 2011 at 9:34 AM
- David P. King said...
Interesting. I have not joined in on such a feature. Does sounds appealing. The problem is it's sure to suck up more time that I already don't have. It's worth investigating, though. :)
- November 30, 2011 at 9:54 AM
- A Lady's Life said...
Now I seem to remember a Members only jacket.That was from way back and I didn't know they still made them.
I like blogging and really, there is not much I want to say in private since it will never be private once said.lol
- November 30, 2011 at 9:55 AM
- Precy Larkins said...
I do belong to a couple of private forums, though lately, I haven't had time to visit either one of them or participate in the discussions. It's good to be involved in one because there are just some things we'd rather keep private but be able to talk to our friends about at the same time, without fear of the public's prying eyes. ;)
- November 30, 2011 at 11:11 AM
- Linda Gray said...
Though we've never belonged to a closed forum or anything like it, we do have the freedom of venting to each other. Just knowing that we can email one another~and our other close writing friends~bring such a sense of relief. Every writer needs that!
- November 30, 2011 at 11:22 AM
- Suze said...
I vent in person with my closest friends, though I don't typically vent. I'm more a musing girl, I think.
- November 30, 2011 at 12:32 PM
- Meredith said...
I've never even heard of locked forums--I'll have to check them out! I mainly vent in emails to my best friend. :)
- November 30, 2011 at 1:24 PM
- Ghenet Myrthil said...
I've never heard of this either but it sounds cool! For now, I reach out to the writer friends I know in real life and vent/celebrate with them. :)
- November 30, 2011 at 1:29 PM
- Krispy said...
Nope, no private online forums for me. I just complain to people in real life, haha, or through email. :)
- November 30, 2011 at 1:33 PM
- Cynthia Chapman Willis said...
I've never tried the locked forums. When I need to vent or yap about writing and everything associated with it, I turn to my writing pals, both online and offline. Where would we be without our writing buddies? : )
- November 30, 2011 at 1:43 PM
- Karen Lange said...
I just joined one and haven't participated much yet. I need to get on and check it out. Thanks for the reminder! :)
- November 30, 2011 at 2:30 PM
- Vicki Rocho said...
I'm not participating in any forums at the moment. I can barely keep up with blogging and the WIP. When I need to vent, it's an email to a trusted soul or a phone call (because a phone call doesn't leave any evidence behind!)
- November 30, 2011 at 4:18 PM
- Jennifer Hillier said...
I'm a member of Absolute Write but mostly lurk, and I haven't even really done that in the past year. I think it's super important, though, to have a way of talking to other writers and venting. Publishing is stressful, yo! And there's so much they don't tell you. Most of my venting these days takes place on the phone, with other writer friends. It's made all the difference in keeping me sane.
- November 30, 2011 at 4:58 PM
- Golden Eagle said...
Nope. I just rant to myself in a journal or complain to someone I know in person. :P
- November 30, 2011 at 5:56 PM
I guess it boils down to what is the primary purpose we write for. I write for the pure pleasure it gives me. It doesn't really concern me whether it is good enough, or could be better. I am comfortable with the fact that it probably won't appeal to many people - yet another wonder of the diversity of life. It's probably very obvious that I don't rely on my writing for an income. This has also been the main reason that I have avoided 'formal' writing courses, etc. For me, writing is both a mystery and a journey - I just accept the next word which comes around the corner. I really appreciate the questions you raise Lydia. They prompt deep discussions between me, myself and I. Cheers
- November 30, 2011 at 6:21 PM
- Alex J. Cavanaugh said...
I'm part of the BBTCafe group on Yahoo Groups. We're all authors and graduates of the BBT class.
And I have a black Members Only Jacket when I was younger. Yeah, I did.
- November 30, 2011 at 7:13 PM
- J E Fritz said...
Is it wrong that I don't know what a Members Only Jacket is? I guess I'm a bit too young for that one (I was a toddler in the late eighties).
I'm always a little nervous about posting in forums when I'm in a venting mood. On the internet, nothing is ever really gone and I'd hate for my big mouth to get me in trouble. Phone calls are more satisfying anyway.
- November 30, 2011 at 8:52 PM
- Lenny Lee said...
hi miss lydia! i didnt ever hear of a locked forum. yikes! i dont think i could wanna be locke up with people when i got a lotta venting to do. ack! for me i mostly go out in the wood back of our house and talk to the squirrels & birds and at night to the raccoons. sometime i use my slingshot and shoot peanuts to the squirrels or shoot them so they smash then on trees if im real mad.then the squirrels dont gotta peal them. ha ha.
...hugs from lenny
- November 30, 2011 at 9:15 PM
- Miranda Hardy said...
I'm not a member of an online private forum, but I vent to my writing partner. Her ear is probably about to fall off. Not really. I just enjoy writing and I won't let anything ruin that love. I will, however, complain now and again about my publishing fears.
- December 1, 2011 at 4:58 AM
- Bryan Russell said...
Isn't that what accidental mass e-mailings are for?
- December 1, 2011 at 7:26 AM
- LTM said...
I never had a Members Only jacket either! Another thing for the list...
Yeah, I'm in one of those closed FB writers forums (so are you!) But I still don't feel comfortable ranting anywhere but in private, one on one emails. Or in person with poor hubs...
:D It's tough. Hope things are going well for you, my friend! <3
- December 1, 2011 at 10:54 AM
- Chris Phillips said...
I tried to join those, but they said I wasn't cool enough. :sniffle:
- December 1, 2011 at 12:16 PM
I vent to writing friends via email. Sometimes I vent to my husband, but he doesn't really get it. No matter how you do it, it's really important to have someone private to let those feelings out to. Don't keep them bottled in, and don't let them explode all over the internet.
- December 1, 2011 at 1:00 PM
- Amie Kaufman said...
I'm not a member of any locked forums, but I can see the value -- my venting tends to happen via email and IM!
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The religion factor probably varies depending on what state you're in. In very religious states,\ its likely that most of the leaders are also very religious, so religion is more likely to be snuck into the agenda.
Our daughter has been in GS in Colorado (two separate troops) and Oregon. Each of them had differing views on using the text in their pledge, but all agreed that adherence wasn't strictly required. No proselytizing took place, especially notable as my wife was a troop leader for a time and had some religious kids in her troop. In all, the girls (by my observation) were welcomed in spite of what their beliefs said. I recall discussions of religion were put off for "the Parents" to hold, not the troop.
My daughter is not sold on the idea of staying in or completing many of the projects in spite of the long term benefits of Scouting or earning a Gold Award (supposed to equal the Eagle Scout level), but that's a discussion between a Parent and a Teenager. erf.
If you're looking for a reasonable long-term activity, GS isn't bad, but they won't change the pledge. Look into Camp Quest, there's probably one near enough for you to carpool with another parent. Also, we got into target archery a couple of years ago, lotsa fun for the family!
Thanks for being the control in this group. I hear you. If I was looking for a group for myself, I'd skip on the scouts.
As a Mom, I'm thinking I need to give my little girl the chance to "make nice" with a diverse peer group and to learn how she feels. I get frustrated at the lack of non-religious youth activities, too (they even have the community sports teams).
I attended church camps and was even a counselor one year... Odd that they didn't ask me back :) I survived and am stronger for the experience - I think I might just owe my daughter similar opportunities.
The Girl Scout Promise can be made in English, Spanish, or in American Sign Language with the same meaning.[13]
On my honor, I will try:
To serve God and my country,
To help people at all times,
And to live by the Girl Scout Law.[14]
The Promise is often recited at Girl Scout troop meetings while holding up the three middle fingers of the right hand, which forms the Girl Scout sign. Girl Scout policy states that the word "God" may be interpreted depending on individual spiritual beliefs. When reciting the Girl Scout Promise, "God" may be substituted with the word dictated by those beliefs. The Girl Scout Motto is "Be Prepared."
I think we're headed this direction. Thank You :) I plan on being pretty involved and hope to catch any problems while they are small.
I searched on facebook for our chapter and found a local troop leader. She seemed quirky and educated. That she would support and advertise her pro-choice stance is very encouraging. If she is typical of the local group, we will be just fine!
Thanks everyone for the responses! My daughter has herself all spun-up and committed to the idea already, my husband was sold from the word "cookie". I'm mostly just excited about all the corny photo-ops and seeing my firstborn in khakis :)
Wish us luck
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The main project grouping is "The Planet Series" project set. This series of projects is designed to bring Linux to life, in the Home or Office, to fulfill the complete spectrum of communications and life-style technologies for all non-enterprise consumers. These projects start at Mercury with the development environment required to get you started, and end at Pluto with connectivity from your LAN to the rest of the universe. This project group is further serviced with the enterprise-class CHAOS and CosMos, providing limitless processing capacity to the computationally starved. Other projects, grouped as such, include intelligent agents, stop-motion animation, and various other non-project bound papers.
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Here I am!
I'm the misleading Mage..
I mean it has to be me, right?
There are only two Mage bloggers and one of them give misleading information.
Well, I don't give accurate theorycrafting mumbo-jumbo that is more appropriate in an engineering manual.
Which poses a dilemma… if I am the misleading Mage, who is the one with the good information?
It could have been Euripedes… NO NOT THAT euripides, OUR Euripedes… the good one, the cool one, the one we are crying about losing but excited about his fiction blog.
It could be one of the other 69 (/snicker) Mages on my Mage blog roll… more maybe the other dozen that I have been too busy to add.
It could have been Larisa.. after all, she is a respected blogger… she's a blogging Mage, if not a Mage Blogger… well she is that, was that, her earlier posts go very close to theorycraft, but really, like all Mages she has grown beyond the numbers, the rotations, the…
you're a noob if you don't do x
She is not just intelligent, she is sophisticated.
Alright.. she's HAWT! (but maybe only a Gnome can appreciate that!)
More to the point, maybe only Mages can appreciate that.. you see there are some very important differences between Hunters and Mages and this is very apparent in the bloggers that write about them
We is Smart, they is dumb!
Well, of course intelligence is relative.. sure I can't pull an engine apart (well, I'm sure I can pull it apart.. putting it back together…), and I sure as hell don't know the spots that fleas like to hide on a smelly, wet wolf pet.. I guess that's kinda intelligence.. kinda maybe…
But they need all those tech schools… they need 45 different bloggers that they can spend 10 weeks with while they learn how to turn auto attack on (WHAT? It's on by default! there's your mistake right there!).
They could go to one Mage blog.. maybe even two, even if the second one was misleading.. but that would be information overload… that would be like telling them you can put two bullets in the gun at the same time, only to see them try to stuff the 2nd right in there after the 1st..
Maybe if I use a hammer… a big hammer…
Even BRK mentioned in the podcast that all will be revealed in Cataclysm…
Hunters don't just feign death… they feign smart and this will be revealed when Blizzard strips them of their feign-mana-bar.
Mages don't need to be educated – we just know!
You can't play a Mage unless you are smart, you die, repeatedly, time after time…
then you reach level 2…
unless you are smart enough to be a Mage.. then you don't die until the Huntard beside you feigns after pulling aggro…
… but I just read about feign death here on page 4,386 of Huntarding for Dummies!.
When a Mage asks another Mage…
How do you Mage?
The other Mage will reply.
Sort your basic rotations, then flow with the music. You will know what to do when the time comes!
Does the newbie Mage need more information to pull Aggro?
Hell NO!
We are power.. we are MAGES!
Huntarding is a science, Maging is an ART
Hunters need their 45 blogger instruction book. Without it, they would be left with an Ikea table and 4 spare screws..
Efficient.. maybe..
Likely to fall apart under the slightest bit of stress, definitely… it also gets expensive using all that tape to hold it together long enough to avoid a wipe.
Whereas, you can't teach a Mage how to Mage.
Sure you can teach them not to pick their nose while unleashing a Pyroblast, but the thing about Maging is… we ween the hunters out in the first 20 levels… 10 for most of them when they discover there is no auto-fireball
(yes it takes them 10 levels.. like it takes these 1337 hunter's 10 levels to learn how not to kill their future companions… then another level to learn how to feed them, if ever.. you know some Hunters just tame new ones every time the previous one deserts them!).
It's like saying Gnome engineering is a science… it's not, it's an art. You can do it or you can't.
Yes, Mages only NEED to press 1-3 buttons…
Good Mages KNOW how to press them all, and when, and against who, and what will happen (well we all know what will happen… we've all visited the spirit healer courtesy of a Mage before right?).
We don't NEED to press them, we WANT to press them.
You don't get a symphony with 3 instruments, you get it with an orchestra.
We Mages make beautiful music with our magic. It's not something you can learn from a blog. It's something we are born with, then grow into while waltzing through the hordes with Fire, Ice and Arcane.
I know my Mage Music, you can read about it, while you read about me.
Quite simply, you are a Mage, or you are not!
There are only two Mage blogs…
lol… FOOLS!
You think we would mix with you mere mortals in a public house on the ground?
You think Dalaran floats in the sky by accident?
Consider yourself to be privileged to walk the ground beneath our conjured ivory towers!
It is true that most Mage bloggers started their Mage Blogging adventures because of the apparent lack of, well, Mage Blogs.
Yet, that is the first test on the trial of power.
You need to seek knowledge, not just grab the well thumbed copy of Field & Scream off the nearest shelf of the nearest convenience store.
Quite simply, if you can't find more than 2 Mage blogs, you are not worthy of finding more than 2 Mage blogs.
Yes, even the new Mage bloggers discover this.. wielding their level 1 Mage blogging skills they start to build their tower of words, only to discover they are not alone, but held in high esteem by the rest of us for rising to the challenge.
They are dress wearing…
Umm, sure we are dress wearing.
Ohhh yeah…
Real men don't eat quiche… don't dress in pink… don't use beauty products…blah, blah, blah…
We are prepared to raid in negligee, to PvP in skirts, to Arena in frocks.
Yes, there are times we need to Iceblock, yes there are times we need to Blink… maybe even use a little sleight of hand to become transparent or create illusionary copies of ourselves…
We never cower in fear, nor feign(t) at the sight of an incoming mob.
Just because we are secure in our power, not needing to dress ourselves in oily engine parts-turned armor we are weak?
Talk to the Fireball!
…Frost Wielding…
lol yeah… that must bug you hah.
Seriously though, BRK was talking about playing the game (spec you love) without fear that you would be left from a raid…
- Fire… topping DPS charts…
- Arcane… topping DPS charts…
- Frost… topping DPS charts…
Yeah, if you can work the magic like Krizzly can, you top the charts and make the hunters /cry
But then, that… that is ART… not science!
Enjoy your time as a sheep
… and they are short…
Well, there's the dwarf calling the Gnome short…
Umm what is that word that modern society uses to describe short people…
I'm sure it isn't Gnome!
Hunters blog to save the inept, we blog to share the fun
Nearly every Mage blog you encounter will have a theorycraft post, maybe even two or 3.
Often there will be a prepatch post about our new superpowers.
We don't need any more.
We can't teach what we do.
What we can do, is:
- Share the joy, the joy of destruction, the joy of death… other people's deaths.
- We can share the joy of a slow fall, a polymorph, a blink.
- We can share the joy of victory against the odds
- We can share the joy of learning a new composition, one that will sooth the savage beast (err. death is classified as soothed is it not?) or rock the house down.
- We can share the inspiration
For truly, being a Mage is being inspired…
Being a Mage blogger is being inspiring…
The award to the most misleading Mage blogger goes too…
Larisa and I knocked up a couple of theory craft posts a while back for a returning Mage Blogger that has become so engrossed in his arcane studies that he hasn't come down from his tower to answer the door bell.
So, just to set the record straight, over the next couple of days, I will unleash the mighty power of Mage theorycraft from a Gnome's perspective.. two Gnomes to be precise.
Gnomer and Out!
PS: Thanks to all the crew at Hunting Party Podcast and BRK as well for giving us a laugh during episode 34 (Episode 35 is about PvP Hunters… you know /autoattack /afk)… I know it was in good humor and, just in case you missed it, so is this post (ha.. got ya! if you do it twice you are a a hunter… kk?). I hate to admit it, but it was good to hear the BigPinkDressWearingKitty's voice… I hope I inject half that joy for WoW into my posts.. I know I feel it, and it's great to hear it reflected in someone else's!
PPS: Thanks to Larisa for getting me to use my newly reestablished internet quota to download and share in the laugh (I had to wade through an hour of boring Hunter stuff to get there though… errr… jk!)
PPPS: Thanks to complete strangers Wordpain, for lending me the robe and Alfas for joining me in a bit of Gnome Mage Dress-wearing-Dorf-Hunter silliness
PPPPS: I got BRKBarbie to level 2 through.. can you guess… umm yeah.. /AFK auto-attack.. good to know some things haven't changed… and they think this stuff is hard?
They should try conjuring strudel for 25!
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Oh, I'll be sure to remind you!
Yeah, just dust me off once in a while when you have nothing else to do. Remember to oil my head!
Also keeps my head nice and shiny. As long as I don't glitter...
I'm so bloody intelligent I no longer have the need to spell. And the formaldehyde on the mattress--it's called disinfectant. No wait, don't try to shower in it...
Hey, thanx for finding it! I thought that's where the formaldehyde smell was coming from.
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Rest easy, Google... The much-hyped new search engine Cuil (pronounced "cool"), purports to index more Web pages than any of its rivals. But based on its Monday debut, the new site poses little immediate threat to industry leader Google, or even its nearest competitors, Yahoo! and Microsoft, in either relevance or breadth of results it delivers.
"Anybody who thought [Cuil] was this Google killer can really see now that no, that's not going to happen today and the likelihood is that's not going to happen a year from now," says Danny Sullivan, internet search guru and editor-in-chief of SearchEngineLand.
Despite its lackluster performance, Cuil (which means wisdom or knowledge in Gaelic) got so many visitors on Monday, that its servers crashed around 3 p.m. E.T. "Due to excessive load, our servers didn't return results. Please try your search again," the site read intermittently throughout the afternoon. But even when it was working, the results were fair, at best. Enter a keyword such as "mint" and the first result that comes up isn't the herb or flavor but the U.S. Mint. Type in "Obama," and one of the sub-categories Cuil suggests is "Hispanic-American Politicians". And Cuil lacks the special tabs for news, video, local and image results used by the leading sites.
The hype over Cuil, in fact, may be testament to the power of a great back story. Cuil is the brainchild of ex-Google staffer Anna Patterson who developed the TeraGoogle indexing system that Google still uses today and her husband Tom Costello, who developed search engines at Stanford and IBM. Cuil indexes some 120 billion Web pages. (Google, on the other hand, claims to scan more than a trillion pages, but only indexes those that are useful, according to the company.) The Cuil team generated so much buzz for its venture that it managed to raise some $33 million in financing. But the acid test of any search site is the results it generates, and for now, anyway, Cuil falls way short of the industry's leaders, and even, for that matter, of many startups.
Cuil's distinctive design, in which results appear in three columns across the page, also allows for longer previews of each site's content. But other search sites make better use of page real estate. SearchMe, which launched earlier this year, offers full-page snapshots in its results, through which you can flip like the album covers on iTunes. And the No. 4-ranked search engine, Ask, also uses a wider layout to display both images and sub-categories for refining one's search.
Cuil has a distinctive, if old-fashioned, approach to indexing websites. Instead of ranking them based on popularity, as Google does, it focuses on the content of each page. That may make sense in theory after all, the most popular restaurants, for example, rarely serve the best food but it is precisely the model that Google broke away from in order to give users more relevant results. That could explain why a Cuil search on "insomnia" directs the user to the American Insomnia Association rather than to the Wikipedia entry on the subject pulled up first by most other search engines.
The one area where Cuil excels, however, is user privacy. Whereas Google stores user-specific searches for up to 18 months, Cuil never stores personally identifiable information or search histories. Privacy has become a growing concern among users of search sites ever since America Online inadvertently released the searches of 658,000 of its users in 2006. But that's unlikely to be enough to persuade most users to switch from their search engine of choice. "Anybody who thinks the next Google killer is going to come along is banking on something that's unlikely," says SearchEngineLand's Sullivan. But if the Cuil story is any indication, that won't stop people from spending fortunes on trying to beat the odds.


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Unless you've been maintaining radio silence since the end of last season, you know that Troy Daniels is in training camp with the Charlotte Bobcats this week. Like most undrafted free agents, Daniels will face an uphill battle in order to actually grab a roster spot. VCU fans justifiably want to know what kind of shot Daniels has of making the team. Let's have a look.
Factor No. 1: Roster space.
NBA rosters consist of 13 active players, plus two inactive spots. The Bobcats currently have five guards – Kemba Walker, Gerald Henderson, Ramon Sessions, Jannero Pargo and Ben Gordon – signed to guaranteed contracts.
While Charlotte could certainly choose to carry three shooting guards, don't expect them to drop a point guard to free up the space, according to Bobcats' beat writer Rick Bonnell of the Charlotte Observer.
@VCUHorns Pargo is guaranteed. More importantly, Clifford said a veteran 3rd point was imperative.
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Coniferous forest regions have cold, long, snowy winters, and warm, humid summers; well-defined seasons, at least four to six frost-free months
Between the tundra to the north and the deciduous forest to the south lies the large area of coniferous forest. One type of coniferous forest, the northern boreal forest, is found in 50° to 60°N latitudes. Another type, temperate coniferous forests, grows in lower latitudes of North America, Europe, and Asia, in the high elevations of mountains.
Coniferous forests consist mostly of conifers, trees that grow needles instead of leaves, and cones instead of flowers. Conifers tend to be evergreen, that is, they bear needles all year long. These adaptations help conifers survive in areas that are very cold or dry. Some of the more common conifers are spruces, pines, and firs.
Precipitation in coniferous forests varies from 300 to 900 mm annually, with some temperate coniferous forests receiving up to 2,000 mm. The amount of precipitation depends on the forest location. In the northern boreal forests, the winters are long, cold and dry, while the short summers are moderately warm and moist. In the lower latitudes, precipitation is more evenly distributed throughout the year.


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Health club operators can help to improve the health of children in their community. Here are 10 ways in which fitness facilities can make a difference.
- Partner with schools
Staff from American Family Fitness, Glen Allen, VA, visit local schools for their Family Fitness Nights. During these events, instructors lead karate, kickboxing or hip-hop classes, and the club employees design an obstacle course.
- Help at-risk kids
Many times, children become overweight or obese because their neighborhoods are too unsafe for them to exercise outdoors, and they don't have access to healthy food in grocery stores. To help underprivileged children in urban areas, American Family Fitness invested $500,000 to reopen a teen center for the Boys and Girls Club.
- Offer free seminars for community members
Club owners can offer courses on healthy cooking for families or invite group exercise instructors to teach a children's fitness class.
- Bridge the gap
Often, children who don't participate in team sports can get swept under the rug, says Eme Cole, co-owner of Jump Ahead Academy in Chicago. For the past year and a half, she has worked with 200 children using her facility's specialized fitness equipment and offering children's group exercise classes.
- Provide age-appropriate programming
When American Family Fitness opened a new location in Glen Allen, VA, the club owners created special programming, an exergaming room and exercise studios for children ages 9 to 14, says general manager Jill Lakey. Since the tweens often don't enjoy working out alongside the younger children, the club also set aside a separate Kid Zone for children 8 and under.
- Take physical education classes on the road
Michael Heim, the fitness manager for Elmwood Fitness Center, created a $300,000 mobile fitness unit a year and a half ago. Each semester, the New Orleans health club partners with four public schools. Twice a week for 12 weeks, students climb aboard the 50-foot long, 8-foot wide trailer and work out on nine pieces of child-sized exercise equipment. Last semester, 260 students completed the program, and this semester, Heim expects 500 kids to work out in the mobile fitness unit.
- Serve as a destination for field trips
Many schools can't afford to invest in a full line of cardiovascular and strength training equipment. To help the students in these schools, some fitness facility owners invite local students to work out at their facilities. They give the students a day pass so they can invite their parents to join them on their next visit.
- Train kids how to work out on the fitness floor
American Family Fitness offers a FitKids program for children ages 9 and older. Children meet with a personal trainer, receive an equipment orientation and then take a test. If they pass the test, they then are awarded with a badge and allowed to work out on the fitness floor with their parents.
- Serve as an advocate for policy change
Last year, American Family Fitness visited the Virginia state legislature to support HB 242, a bill that mandated physical education for at least 30 minutes for grades K-12.
- Get your voice heard
Fitness professionals with school-aged children can volunteer for the local PTA, campaign for more physical education in their kids' schools, and help to increase awareness of the importance of physical activity and sound nutrition for children.
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Authorities are investigating the slayings of five people whose bodies were found in a house in the tiny Scott County community of Manchester. A suspect is in custody.
Illinois State Police spokeswoman Monique Bond says the victims were found early Wednesday morning in the southwestern Illinois community, 50 miles west of Springfield. She didn't have any details on the deaths or the circumstances surrounding the capture of the suspect.
A school superintendent in the area says he was informed by sheriffs early Wednesday morning that the victims had been shot to death. Les Stevens of the North Greene School District says he canceled classes because authorities warned him at the time that the suspect was at large. The district has since been informed that the man was captured.


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Fifty Carriers Have BlackBerry 10 in Shakedown Mode
Research In Motion's new BlackBerry 10 and the devices that will run it are on track for their promised market debut early next year.
That's the word from RIM CEO Thorsten Heins, who said Wednesday that some 50 carriers are testing BlackBerry 10, a crucial step in getting its next-generation smartphones ready for launch.
"I'm very pleased to confirm that we have passed a critical milestone in the development of our brand new mobile computing platform," Heins said. "This process will continue in the coming months as more carriers around the world formally evaluate the devices and our brand new software."
That's great news for RIM, which has been scrambling to launch BlackBerry 10 after numerous delays. Those postponements have cost it the all-important holiday shopping season, so it's crucial that RIM hits its early 2013 deadline. And this is promising news indeed. RIM shares are trading up well over 4 percent following its release.
Here's Heins's statement if full:
I'm very pleased to confirm that we have passed a critical milestone in the development of our brand new mobile computing platform, BlackBerry 10. In the last week, BlackBerry 10 achieved Lab Entry with more than 50 carriers — a key step in our preparedness for the launch of BlackBerry 10 in the first quarter of 2013. We made this commitment during our recent results conference call and we have delivered. This process will continue in the coming months as more carriers around the world formally evaluate the devices and our brand new software.
I have spent the last several weeks on the road visiting with carrier partners around the world to show them the BlackBerry 10 platform and to share with them our plans for launch. Their response has been tremendous. They are excited about the prospect of launching BlackBerry 10 in their markets. Our respective teams are now engaged on the technical and commercial preparation of the launch of BlackBerry 10 and the lab entry is an important milestone in that context.
The hard work will not stop here as we build towards launch. Our developer teams are continuing to generate momentum to bring a wealth of applications to BlackBerry 10, our enterprise teams have started to present BlackBerry 10 devices and services to our business customers, and our engineers are fully mobilized to ensure that BlackBerry 10 launches flawlessly in the first quarter of 2013.