, you got thrown into a huge crowd where table after table of artists (Mostly illustrators) sold their awesome pieces. There were colleges there with printed portfolios of their graduating seniors, illustration and comic books sort of like the annual the Society of Illustrators makes there. Those were free and up for grabs, so you know that I grabbed one of each so I could look at them for inspiration on a rainy day! Their works included a book for illustration, one for cartooning, and another for comics!
Also attending were artists who did prints in double color and triple color, as well as artists whose work I had funnily enough put up on my inspiration board for my digital illustration class! I picked up some postcards from her, and I also picked up business cards like crazy! I didn’t miss a change to drop mine off at a table either!
I overall loved the experience, getting to see other artists with different inspirations, meeting people I admired, as well as seeing famous ones from afar (The guys from the YouTube channel Drawfee were there! They’re hilarious!) With the tickets having been only $7 to get in, you know I’ll definitely be there again next year! Hope to see you there!
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I thought NC would be a good compromise. I really like the Asheville area, though it is expensive too, but I could get more for my money there rent wise and probably not be priced out as fast as in Denver. I thought I would try it out though while I figure other things out possibly.
But when I was there, it rained on and off for a couple of days, and I developed a pressure headache and a pain flare up. When I got out of there to dryer ground, it subsided. Here in SE Michigan, there was a three-day period of rain and clouds and I was in terrible pain with a bad migraine.
I used to live in NE Ohio and remember being in more pain there than I ever was living in Colorado later on.
I really want to try living in NC - Asheville or maybe the Triangle area but I am so worried about pain flare ups and being miserable as a result. I also have a TMJ injury that really flared up on me as well. The storm pressure caused swelling in that area that even my mother could see by looking at me.
So I guess I am asking here if anyone has moved to an area where there are more low pressure systems and more humidity and if your body has acclimated over time or if you had to move eventually somewhere dryer. I love moisture in the air and greenery. I can deal with heat and humidity, but it's the sudden barometric pressure changes and rain that sort of gets to me.
I'm worried about going somewhere and taking out a year's lease and being miserable. But I want to try something new as well and I like that part of NC.
I did, I was for a few weeks in the north of the Netherlands and woah...! Well, I did feel well pain-wise, but came back home with a bunch of new things. Getting used to that climate is hard, it's so moist over there! They say summer over there feels like being in a tropical island or a Brazilian jungle! Super rainy as well... I might need to get used to that if I move there, no idea how long it can take, but I think the place where you are going is way less humid and less rainy! So I think you will be ok.
Hi Trellum. Glad you liked it over there and it sounds like the stress of travel would flare up things alone by the time you got back. It is going to rain for a few days where I am now and I am going to see how I do. I get a sort of trial living in Michigan for now. I might decide to just go there and do a six month lease so I am not stuck for a year if it doesn't work out and I get really miserable with pain. Thanks for the response. I think it is not as bad in Asheville either as it can get in SE Michigan with the surrounding great lakes. Supposedly the mountains break up some of the systems in AVL.
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Q: Why is start page missing from sitemap.xml? I'm rather new on the Magento platform, but I've noticed a weird thing on a couple of my clients' websites. The home page is missing from the sitemap.xml.
In all cases the clients' home page is a CMS page and the CMS page has a URL key that is "home". Off course, the page www.client.com/home exists as a page and in the sitemap, but I am missing www.client.com in the sitemap. 
This is really frustrating since I want to submit an as accurate as possible sitemap.xml to Google and Bing. Does anyone have a solution for this?

A: The reason for this behavior is found in the function Mage_Sitemap_Model_Sitemap::generateXml. Here magento loops through the categories, products and cms pages and creates the xml nodes for each item. As you noted in your question the /home entry exists as this is covered by the cms pages.
There are events for manipulating the category and product collections specifically for the sitemap but sadly there are none for the cms pages. I would suggest the following, either:


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*Rewrite Mage_Sitemap_Model_Sitemap and add your own checks/fire a cms event after the collection is loaded,

*Listen to the collection load after event and check to make sure, the collection is the cms page collection and your request comes from the generation of sitemaps,


With either of these options you should be able to update the value of the url when dealing with the home page to be the website's home url and not the cms page url_key.
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