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|2006-01-01, 23:05
|Link #81
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Cardboard Box
Age: 35
Sasurai, I love your background. Did you use a brush to create those as well?
Only thing to fix IMO is the blurred shadow of your character. It doesn't fit in too well with the sig so just remove that blur completely, and you have a perfect sig.
I love the colouring.
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|2006-01-02, 00:27
|Link #82
Kira_Naruto, the ecchi
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: http://www.exciting-tits.com/
@ XxChris43xX .. Nice complete set of Bleach Captains .. all 13 of them ^-^ . Where's your name? 75%.. Add another 10% after you slap your name on it
@ ForeverGoNe .. Cool. Nice style .. like it very much. 98%. Can I copy the style
@ KiNa .. My skills (If I ever have any to begin with ) have rusted >.< . Too busy to play much these days + I'm still sulking over my lost rep point =_=
|2006-01-02, 12:36
|Link #86
Not Enough Sleep
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: R'lyeh
Age: 42
|2006-01-02, 13:45
|Link #87
I am mowing clowns
Join Date: Dec 2005
Signature Sizes
Hey all...
Please watch your signature image sizes. If you haven't already done so, please read our signature size limits. It's part of our Forum Rules.
An image without 1-2 lines of ASCII text above or below can be 50,000 bytes or less, and a maximum of 500 pixels wide x 160 pixels tall. You can find your image size properties either by looking at the files when its on your computer or after you've uploaded it. Right Click on the image and choose "Properties...".
An image with 1-2 lines of ASCII text above it or below it can be 50,000 bytes or less and a maximum of 500 pixels wide x 120 pixels tall.
If you need help with file size reduction, I suggest posting a question in this thread -- Workshop for Avatars, Signatures, etc. or send me a private message and I'll be glad to help you out. -- Also...some of you may want to re-read the first post in this thread. Rule #1 especially. Thanks.
Kira_Naruto Love the long blue hair and your choice of Font is interesting - 8/10
Shay Excellent design, licentious, good use of AS user-name, nice choice of stock images, pink. - 9.7/10
|2006-01-03, 07:58
|Link #92
Kira_Naruto, the ecchi
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: http://www.exciting-tits.com/
You have to rate =_= .. Its ROD Rate. Or. Die! ... =_=
@ 107 .. Seldom see a black and white siggy. The BG is quite .. urm .. nice? but feels a bit kinda empty near KB's forehead A 72% . And throw a border around it will ya .. As I almost sure that Catgirls will strike out your post later on like he did twice in this page alone here's the sig for others should they want to rate it
And why the h### is it called pink.jpg?
|2006-01-03, 12:50
|Link #93
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Cardboard Box
Age: 35
107 - Lose the black outline around the figure of your character. Either Apply it to the whole border or just leave it out. Never have an incomplete border unless it actually looks appealing. 6.5/10
Don't get discouraged, fix that little outline problem and come back to get a new rating =).
For a first attempt, it's good. The background's focus blends well with the character though .
Lina Inverse - Not bad. I liked your previous signatures though. The first thing that comes to mind is the background really doesn't go well with the picture of... (I don't watch Shuffle so I don't know -_-). I like the angling of the shot, it creates perspective but the fact that the edges look pixelated, I hate it. Overall, 6.8/10
|2006-01-04, 02:37
|Link #94
Kira_Naruto, the ecchi
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: http://www.exciting-tits.com/
@ Lina .. You remind me of my old self before.. used the max possible allowable dimension available for signature Kinda look pixelated a bit tho and the rotation is a big minus .. you've improved a bit from the last sig KUTGW 74%
@ KiNa .. Much better then my last quick attempt IMO.. I so love my .. BG. and of course the lovely Tamaki The camouflage name is intended so do you think its a bad decision?
|2006-01-04, 12:51
|Link #96
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Desert, USA
Age: 32
It's been a while since I've posted here and I think it should be time I brush up on Photoshop. This is from before the storm.
ForeverGoNe, Very well done. Such a compact signature and yet it is able to evoke so much. I especially like the dotted line border. 9.8/10
Kira_Naruto, Beautiful background with a nice personal grungy touch to it. The only thing that I really feel may take away from the sig is the coloring of the text. 9.6/10
Vulkanito, Simple and gets the job done. Funny also. 9.6/10
|2006-01-04, 17:17
|Link #98
dn ʎɐʍ sıɥʇ
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Northern Ireland
Hey hey hey Drakeys back <^o^>
and with a new siggy and everthing !!!
anyway to rating
ForeverGoNe looks very cool and the image goes nice with the backround however the text could be better its quite small and looks kinda odd the way it curves down..... other than that goodjob
Kira_Naruto oh oh some1s been slacking while i was away ! =p change the text color and try to tidy the edges of her hair and it'll look real nice. n.n
|2006-01-04, 22:47
|Link #99
"Show it to me"
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: In solitude, where we are least alone
Kira Naruto: As always it still looks good as ever 9/10
i0td: it's Misuzu very nice, i like the sky bg but it looks a little bland 9/10
Drake: very innovative, matching it to kill bill 9/10
|2006-01-04, 23:30
|Link #100
Kira_Naruto, the ecchi
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: http://www.exciting-tits.com/
@ Cyz .. I always mistook you with the gifmaker at the bleach forum >.< .. That one is Cybuster -.- . Yours : I would say that the main Tsubomi image is rather pixelated since the source is quite tiny. The BG, while simple are quite nice as well. Still anything with Tsubomi and Kareha owns .. So .. 72% . Try to find a bigger source :/ hard, when it comes to Tsubomi, I know. :/
@ KiNa .. so my camo name was not an instant hit .. Redid my sig.. but I think I have to do it once again I fear.. the name placement looks a bit out of place
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|2006-08-31, 01:01
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|2006-08-31, 01:09
|Link #22
Yummy, sweet and unyuu!!!
Join Date: Dec 2004
Oh no all them Del Ray translators are going to be out of a job!
Actually your stance intrigues me....
Out of context do you get annoyed when you go to restaurants and see dishes named "chow mein", "korma" and "sushi"
imho language of an anime/manga is suppose to convey over a story that the author wants to share with us (and make a buck too ), a characters little quirks are part of the story and if a translator takes that away then they are doing more then translating as they are changing a character and therefore changing the story.
Japanese have lots of quirks in their language which can't be translated via language or local understanding (girl nick names suffixes for example).
For someone to believe that desu is unacceptable to the western market to me says that they believe that market is closed minded and stupid which it most defiently not. It would be even worse now if they decided to keep in unyuuu and nano, because even through they have kept my favorite character "in character", they would have just rubber stamped Sui as a "yesu" to a lot of the western readers.
Just going back to the food example I could imagine going to an Indian restaurant and asking for a curry... The chicken one with which is kinda spicy and coconuty.... but wait curry that word isn't English, nor is beef or pork etc etc as they are adopted words form other countries, but they are in the dictionary... nooo my head hurts...
The usage of yes on the end of a statement when I read it is like underlining and bolding, or just plain stupid. ie "The lack of desu is stupid yes?", [STUPID]"I am eating pizza yes"[/STUPID], desuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu is a quirky usage of desu
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|2006-08-31, 01:24
|Link #23
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Tejas
Age: 43
I'm not sure precisely what you're referring to - they haven't kept any of the idiosyncratic speech in Negima or Tsubasa Chronicles. I can't really speak for Nodame Cantabille, Pastel, Gacha Gacha, xxxHOLiC, Othello or Genshiken because I've never read any of them in Japanese (though I am reading them in English). I've looked all through my copy of Air Gear and the most I can find is they stuck a note in the end about why they translated one instance as "this way". But they did translate it.
|2006-08-31, 03:02
|Link #25
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Brill, Tirisfal Glade
Well, if they really had to translate ~desu, I am glad they translated it to 'yes'. After all, ~desu does sound and does mean 'yes' or 'is it' after all. Though I'm am annoyed that they don't keep the ~desu, but still.....'yes' is still better than anything they could come up with.
'Yes' is still ok. '~yesu' can just go to hell.
|2006-08-31, 03:18
|Link #26
Yummy, sweet and unyuu!!!
Join Date: Dec 2004
Therefore a true translation would have to put is(u) or are(u) in the middle to a sentence.....
This issue is(u) that everyone uses desu, but Sui uses desuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu which is(u) her thing and when people use yesu they are playing on the fact that when you hear desu it sounds like des (no u), so Sui would say it like yesu with a u.....
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|2006-08-31, 04:00
|Link #27
Blazing General
Join Date: May 2006
Location: CA
Age: 32
That's why honorifics are often left in manga: it's a clear-cut expression of factors (familiarity and politeness) that in the equivalent English would just be expressed in tone. They're often important to understanding dialogue that would have to be changed considerably (to incorporate obvious levels of politeness and familiarity) to have the same impact in English, so they're left alone.
However, if you take away 'desu' every thing Suiseiseki says still has the exact same meaning.
Screw it, I spent all this time typing this, and now in the process of reasoning out the last sentence I come to agree with you. Even if it has no real meaning, it's the same as the honorifics, it allows you to explicitly emphasize something when in English you just depend on tone. Long live '~desu'.
|2006-08-31, 09:10
|Link #28
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
Wait.. what am I saying. yesu wont be a 4chan meme. It will be an Animesuki meme!! I demand the creation of a yesu~ banner!
In anycase, thinking over on it just now, maybe I'm over reacting. For lovers of RM, nothing will really take desu~ away. Desu has characterised and made Suiseiseki for us, and nothing can change that or take it away or replace it fully in our hearts (insert 21-gun salute). Interestingly, however, I pictured Suiseiseki saying 'yes' in the tone and way she says 'desu' (no it wasnt yesu~). Kikaifan said something about tone; and yes the same tone can be used for different words.
Like I said earlier, my only fear is for those for whom the translation is the first contact with Rozen Maiden.
|2006-09-01, 06:56
|Link #29
Yummy, sweet and unyuu!!!
Join Date: Dec 2004
Bit of a rewind back to the TP and yesu fiasco... I don't want RM to do badly so I have decided to buy the butchered version and then write to them politely explaining to them my feelings in regards to changing desu to yes.... Maybe if we all do this we would be supporting RM, but also let them know of the immense distress it has caused
|2006-09-01, 08:33
|Link #30
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
|2006-09-01, 09:33
|Link #31
Yummy, sweet and unyuu!!!
Join Date: Dec 2004
|2006-09-01, 10:08
|Link #33
Yummy, sweet and unyuu!!!
Join Date: Dec 2004
|2006-10-07, 02:25
|Link #35
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
Volume 1 release 05/2006 Volume 2 release 09/2006
Click for larger images. And sorry, I only have the EL translated covers.
Created by Peach-Pit
Published by Gentosha Comics, Inc.
Serialized in Comic Birz
Translated by TOKYOPOP to English
There are currently only 2 volumes out in English; while the manga in its native language has 7 volumes out.
Release Dates for the Volumes (source):
Vol. 1 - 24 March 2003
Vol. 2 - 24 December 2003
Vol. 3 - 24 September 2004
Vol. 4 - 24 December 2004
Vol. 5 - 24 August 2005
Vol. 6 - 24 January 2006
Vol. 7 - 24 September 2006
I wonder if its possible to move the posts relating to the Manga into this thread? I remember some good discussion on TP's translation querks. (lemme just find the posts)
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|2006-10-07, 09:50
|Link #37
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
Yes, there are Mandarin translations available! Riker should know more about how many and where to get them. There are also German, French, Thai and Italian translations. XD
I stumbled upon this:
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|2006-10-08, 02:06
|Link #38
Rozen Detective
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Germany
Age: 35
Oh, wow, finally Rozen Maiden has its own forum!
Anyway, there's an old thread for the Rozen Maiden manga. Maybe it should be merged into this one.
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|2006-10-08, 06:23
|Link #40
Join Date: Jan 2004
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After voting against the $85 billion budget necessary to fund Virginia government three times over the past two months, the state Senate abruptly took up and passed the spending plan Wednesday.
The 21-19 vote in favor of a budget conference committee report came a day after it was all but killed in the partisan crossfire of a Senate where Democrats and Republicans hold 20 seats apiece.
One moderate Democrat, Sen. Charles Colgan of Prince William County, broke with his party and joined Republicans to give the budget the one-vote majority required for passage.
"It took the courage and the statesmanship of one Democratic senator, Chuck Colgan, to secure this outcome for the good of the citizens of Virginia," Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell said in a statement released Wednesday.
Democrats had balked Tuesday over the Republicans' refusal to grant an additional $300 million for a high-priority northern Virginia mass transit project, the extension of Metrorail to Dulles International Airport.
On Wednesday, Colgan and other senior Senate Democrats stayed mostly out of sight and in discussions during a day of rolling recesses as lawmakers considered Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell's vetoes and amendments to other bills passed during the 2012 General Assembly.
The budget bill remained alive because the special session called to act on it was recessed -- not adjourned -- on Tuesday. As the political fallout settled in Wednesday afternoon, the bill was called up for reconsideration in the Senate and, without debate, passed.
Passage came about 10 weeks before the current budget expires June 30
The budget bill now goes to McDonnell for consideration.
Democrats contended that the annual costs for commuters who use the Dulles Toll Road would rise from $2.25 one way to $6.75 each way within a few years, reaching an annual cost of as high as $3,500. The Washington area's airports authority oversees both toll road operations and the rail extension.
They argued that the sharp increase was an undue burden that could stifle the economy of northern Virginia, the state's most populous region, which provides 40 percent of Virginia's tax revenue. They called for taking the funding from other projects, particularly a bypass around Charlottesville and one converting U.S. 460 between Hampton Roads and the Richmond area into an interstate-like highway south of the James River.
McDonnell refused.
"That's because there's no glory for a governor to put money on a former governor's project. You want your own legacy," said Sen. David Marsden, a Democrat whose western Fairfax County district makes heavy use of the toll road. After decades of discussion, work on Metro's Silver Line to Dulles was begun under former Gov. Tim Kaine, a Democrat.
Legislative Republicans also held firm against diverting money for transportation projects elsewhere in Virginia to the Dulles project or authorizing more borrowing for it.
"That would be like long-term borrowing for you to buy gas for your car," said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Walter A. Stosch, R-Henrico.


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Taped at Boston's Royale on March 1st, Moontower alumnus Brendon Walsh's stand-up special for Comedy Central's new series, The Half Hour, premieres on Friday, May 25th at 11pm/10pm CST.
Taped at Boston's Royale on March 1st, Moontower alumnus Brendon Walsh's stand-up special for Comedy Central's new series, The Half Hour, premieres on Friday, May 25th at 11pm/10pm CST.
Here at Moontower HQ, we are elated that 5 of the 10 nominees for the 2012 Comedy Awards "Club Comic" category will be performing this April as part of the festival roster. They are:
Hannibal Buresss
Moshe Kasher
John Mulaney
Chelsea Peretti
Rory Scovel
The Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival extends well-deserved congratulations to this talented group of stand-ups, which includes other nominees Ted Alexandro, Pete Holmes, Anthony Jeselnik, Kumail Nanjiani, and Amy Schumer.
Comedy is obviously so subjective and art as competition has an inherent degree of dubiousness [see: The Grammys, Carrot Top besting Bill Hicks at the 1994 American Comedy Awards, and every other film that lost the Academy Award for Best Picture to Rocky in 1976]. However, it is hard to quibble with this nominee list. And speaking to the caliber of the second annual Comedy Awards:
"Nominees are selected by the prestigious Comedy Awards Board of Directors. The 2012 Board includes: Adam McKay, Blair Kohan, Brad Grey, Budd Friedman, Carol Burnett, Caroline Hirsch, Chris Rock, Conan O'Brien, David Steinberg, Geof Wills, George Schlatter, Greg Cavic, Jamie Masada, James Dixon, Jay Roach, Jim Burrows, Jim Gosnell, Jimmy Miller, Joan Rivers, Jon Stewart, Lily Tomlin, Martin Lesak, Michael Rotenberg, Mitzi Shore, Peter Principato, Ray Romano, Rick Greenstein, Rory Rosengarten, Sandy Wernick, Sharon Jackson, Stephen Colbert and Steve Levine.
Winners will be selected by the Comedy Awards Voting Body, comprised of professionals from the comedy community including producers, writers, performers, directors and stand-ups. In addition, comedy fans from around the world will cast their votes in online-only categories here at The Comedy Awards."
The 2012 Comedy Awards will take place on April 28, 2012, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City.
The show will premiere on Comedy Central on Sunday, May 6th, at 8pm CST.


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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - I love japan! Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in I love japan! Goto page Previous 1, 2, 3 Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Culture View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message semilimJoined: 17 Sep 2007Posts: 2 Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:33 am Post subject: Hello! I am interested in japanese culture so I visited Japan last month. The weather is very hot but I enjoyed my trip so much. If you go to Tokyo, I really recommend Harajuku. You can buy pretty things and eat sweet crepe. In addition, You can go to Meiji shrine that is very close. I was impressed by traditional beauty. The one thing I felt so sad is I couldn't eat Sushi. I didn't have any chance to eat it. Do you like japanese food? If you like it, please recommend for me. Or what is your favorite thing in Japanese culture? Back to top lanceskyJoined: 07 Apr 2006Posts: 14 Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:34 pm Post subject: Janpa is notorious for its adult vedio. we are the benifitor. i have hearded it is commonly found that a son always has sex with his mom. i just have no idea why a son can rape his mom,the most close person to his heart. the deformed heart and the short figure. japan is suffering economic recession. the failure of Sony is a good example. Back to top toroliniJoined: 11 Apr 2007Posts: 2Location: El Salvador Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:23 am Post subject: Hi, I love a lot things about Japan for example: The Culture, The perfection in all things that people make, etc. Well, I specially remember a Robetech Anime because being future cartoon series and having been the begin about the animes nowdays. Bye. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Culture All times are GMT - 8 HoursGoto page Previous 1, 2, 3 Page 3 of 3 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


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SimsonCS needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 194 designs submitted by 61 freelance designers.
Simson Creative Solutions
We are two young swedish computer science graduates running a small software development company. We do everything from webpages to mobile apps. We want a logo that we can use on our website and on business cards etc. Our goal is to make new, cool and exciting stuff.
Our target audience is small to medium size businesses that want websites, custom software and mobile applications. We want our customers to know that we think outside the box and are always trying to find the optimal solution.
A part from that our goal is to develop smaller applications for iPhone, Android and web for individuals and also some open source development.
We want a simplistic logo with our company name and a icon that we can use where our name is to long to use. We want the logo to convey that we work with web and mobile application development and that we strive to be creative and think out of the box.
The logo we have now (you can find it attached to this document) is very simplistic but does not convey what we do. We would like the new logo to have some graphical element integrated with the company name in some way. The "icon" graphic should be original in its design so it can be used without the company name and still be recognized as our brand.
The logo should also be playful but not in any way childish. As far as colors go we are open for anything but we should be able to use it on different types of backgrounds and materials such as T-Shirts and envelopes.
Listed below are some logos we particularly like:
Simplistic but also very expressive, clean and simple - http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/60578
Also very simple but expressive - http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/117970
Discrete and fun - http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/122033
We like the illustrative and fun feel of this logo - http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/121600
We would like the design in the following formats:
Print file format - .ai
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Top Five Cities You Don't Want To Play Xbox Live In
It was recently reported that a Xbox Live player was banned as his place of residence was in Fort Gay, West Virginia. Even after trying to explain to Microsoft, he got no where. Finally, after being banned for a few days, missing a team's competition (which they lost), the Xbox staff finally realized the error of their ways.
Stephen Toulouse, director of policy and enforcement for Xbox Live said that was a miscommunication."Someone took the phrase 'fort gay WV' and believed that the individual who had that was trying to offend, or trying to use it in a pejorative manner," Toulouse said. "Unfortunately, one of my people agreed with that. … When it was brought to my attention, we did revoke the suspension."
We took a virtual tour around the world and found a few other places that may not make it under Microsoft's policy.
Warning: Some of these will be inappropriate for small children, and a few adults
- 5. Wetwang, Yorkshire, England
- 4. Bald Knob, Arkansas
- 3. Twatt, Scotland
- 2. Fucking, Austria
- 1. Intercourse, Pennsylvania
If you know of any places, let us know in the comments below.


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i can't understand what're the developer thinking!
why don't you fix this sh*t error?!
I think this is not really an error but a design decision. Until Xfce 4.2 (or 4.0) the desktop did not show icons at all. Some prefer that (I do -- my work Windows PC has one icon on its desktop -- the trashcan), others use the desktop as alternative to bookmarks/favourites etc.
What xfdesktop (the program that draws your desktop) does is show the contents of the desktop folder. It does not act as a file-manager. Windows on the other hand seems to use Explorer to draw its desktop; same applies to Nautilus for Gnome and Konqueror for KDE 3.x, so in all cases a file manager (with copy/paste functionality) manages the desktop.
Both bugs ask for a fairly significant deviation in design for Xfce -- a step not to be taken lightly.
I agree that the current state for Xfce is not obvious as it suggests similarity to these other desktop environments, but has got it only halfway implemented. I guess that is what compromised look like.
i can't understand what're the developer thinking!
why don't you fix this sh*t error?!
If the dev prefers it this way it will never change. If you'd prefer something different just install something else.
I wanted single click on the desktop so I installed Nautilus and use that for my desktop, it also simplifies samba browsing.
Simon. (^_^)
TIP: Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
i really like xubuntu mor than gnome / ubuntu
however, because this , i can't continuos using xubuntu.
so, if i install nautilus replace thunar, this error can be resolve?
how to do that?
sudo apt-get install nautilus
Y - Yes install these
Then Xfce -> Settings -> Settings Manager --> Autostarted apps
Click Add Name - nautilus, command "nautilus --no-default-window" without the quotes. Click OK.
Click OK to close.
Click on Desktop in the Settings manager and remove the tick for Allow Xfce to manage the desktop.
Log out, log in and nautilus is now your desktop.
Simon. (^_^)
TIP: Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
nautilus is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
notice: i'm using ubuntu and install xfce-desktop beside
i don't need to reinstall nautilus. thanks you, i'm done.
can i stop thunar on start?
on start up time , this desktop is load thunar, and after that, it's load nautilus.
can i remove thunar?
Do everything after the installation, this makes Nautilus run your desktop, exactly as it did in Gnome.
Simon. (^_^)
TIP: Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
even it's a bit too late, I found the same "problem" (but it's not a probleam - Tarricone said) and try to solve by myself.. it is not possible..
this is the discussion from http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3804 until 06 of march.. It said everything on two post..
------- Comment #2 From Kevin Day 2009-03-06 17:06:28 UTC -------
I can confirm this problem on xfce 4.6.0.
The menu does appear on right click and the paste option is visible but shaded
The cut from the desktop problem also exists.
The problem also exists with copy from the desktop
I can confirm that cutting and pasting through the file manage to the file
manager works flawlessly.
Note: I do not have hal enabled nor installed.
Note: dbus does exists, is installed, and is running.
------- Comment #3 From Brian J. Tarricone 2009-03-06 20:41:07 UTC -------
It's not a "problem," it's an unimplemented feature.
It's not my work, but maybe this thread can be closed..
-linux user #483530
-registered machine 403135 --> hal9002
-registered machine 394211 --> hal9001


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Gluten is basically a special type of protein that is found in foods such as cereals, certain grains, and wheat. One of the main purposes of gluten is to keep the elasticity intact in foods during the fermentation phase of food production. Gluten makes bread "chewy," and prevents other foods from having a sticky, doughy-like texture.
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Court told of suicide bombs plot
Terrorist plotters planned to detonate a series of suicide bombs in an attack that could have been bigger than the July 7 atrocities, a court has heard.
Irfan Naseer, 31, and Irfan Khalid, 27, travelled to Pakistan for terrorist training before returning to the UK in July last year, jurors at Woolwich Crown Court were told.
In one conversation, Naseer was heard agreeing that the July 7 attacks had not done enough damage because there were no nails in the bombs.
The two men, along with Ashik Ali, also 27, are accused of being "central figures" in the alleged extremist plot.
Ali told police in interview that the plan had involved him wearing a suicide vest as well as carrying a gun, the jury heard.
The group also discussed the use of poisons and attaching blades to the side of a vehicle before driving it into a crowd of people, it is claimed.
Prosecutor Brian Altman QC told the court: "The police successfully disrupted a plan to commit an act or acts of terrorism on a scale potentially greater than the London bombings in July 2005 had it been allowed to run its course.
"The defendants were proposing to detonate up to eight rucksack bombs in a suicide attack and/or to detonate bombs on timers in crowded areas in order to cause mass deaths and casualties."
All the men are accused of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts, which they deny.
In total, 11 men of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin were arrested over the alleged plot, and one woman. The trial continues.


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Within the past two weeks, a few people have asked about or commented on my absence. Being a man of insistent "responsible genes," Ive decided to pass along this explanation, feeble as some may think it is.
First, radiation for prostate cancer ended April 25. Now, I wait, get checked periodically, and take shots that I hate having to take.
Over the nine weeks during radiation, the round trip drive of almost three hours each day, five days a week, plus the fifteen minutes of radiation saw to it that I had great amounts of time in which to thinkalways a dangerous thing for a guy like me, who never stops thinking to begin with (I listened to books on CD, but still managed to think).
When I began this blog, my intent was to pass along to consumers some of what really goes on in the wine world as opposed to what others want consumers to think goes on. I also had a decided bent against ever becoming a wine critic, as my view of aesthetic criticism is not the mainstream view of that occupation.
If I am to be honest with myself, the secondary intent for vinofictions was to gain access to people who might be in a position to buy my writing services.
In truth, neither of the intents seems to have panned out much.
After initial interest from some important online bloggers who sent readers my way, my lack of flashy, some might say sensationalistic writing ultimately relegated vinofictions to the low end of the readability scale. I have no idea how many people read or have read the blog (I have tracked the hits, but that baloney isnt as telling as some believehits are not necessarily readers).
In addition, others have pointed out, and I have come to agree that the majority of wine blog readers are either in the business, wannabes in the business, or hard geeks. And in addition to that, Ive learned that few want to read a blog for information beyond the opinions concerning the drinkability of this or that wine; in some cases, telling the truth behind the many myths that continue to circulate concerning myriad subjects connected to wine has gotten me into more trouble than the blog is worth.
Speaking of worth, the blog did manage to pull off a few incidents concerning my second intentto attract an editor or twobut not nearly enough when I compare what my print writings (including books) have garnered for me when it comes to getting future writing gigs. Either not enough editors read wine blogs or I'm a poor excuse for a writer–or both. Still, in spite of the possibility concerning my talents, the fact that I have had the good fortune over the years to become a professional writer, who needs the time to write so that I meet my deadlines, often came into conflict with trying to maintain a blog that brought no direct revenue at all.
In sum, vinofictions may or may not be around much longer. I havent made a definitive decision about it. I know only these two things: right now, I am not inspired to write anything on the blog; and I have just received a contract to write what will be my fourth book, a project that requires much research and that will take up much of my time. The new book, plus the three columns I continually bang out on a regularly scheduled basis, the wines.com blog entries that I produce twice each month, and the scattered magazine articles that diminishingly, but still come my way will conspire to lessen the energy if not the ideas necessary to maintain regularly scheduled vinofictions blog entries.
Finally, not only have I faced a health ordeal, Im getting older and less inclined to spend as much energy on speculative concepts as I once had.
To my four or five die-hard readers, I say thanks for reading, commenting, and overall support under the radar through emails. Vinofictions will remain online and maybe one day soon Ill actually have something worthwhile to post to it.
Copyright Thomas Pellechia
May 2011. All rights reserved
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Tendering Some Love to the Players…….Tendered Players 2008
The Greatest thing a player can learn on a day like today is how much his club loves what he does on the field for them. But sometimes even that get a bit blurred and the images seems to fade a bit before the reality comes that you either have a new start somewhere else, or you contact your old team and see if they just wanted you at a cheaper price.
Every December 12th, the MLB goes through this sadistic tactic of non-tendering and tendering contracts to the arbitration eligible players on their rosters. Some people are shoe-ins to get picked up because of talent or maybe even a low cost towards the next year budget. Others are looked at under a microscope and the decisions might come down to dollar signs and not talent or ability.
That is the sad reality of this date. You could be an up and coming talent, or a veteran that just had an off year and you could be looking for a job in a heartbeat after midnight tonight. Also, just because they decided to offer you a contract doesn't mean that the wheels stop turning and you might still be dealt to another team and they will make the decision on your fate again, and maybe at a financial disadvantages.
So on and on tonight I will be adding to this blog until I have a final idea of who, what where, when and why might pop up and bite some unsuspecting player on the buttock. Seriously here, there will be some surprises tonight. Some players might be getting held ransom for a financial sacrifice, while other might be rewarded for unforeseen changes in their game or ability. Which ever come about, it is not the end of the world or a career with any of the players tonight.
Everyone will find a place to play in 2009, it might not be the town you are currently playing in, but it also might turn into the best decision of your life. Just because you came up with a certain club does not mean that there are not other staffs or coaches' salivating that your name is on the list tonight. People always have choices in life. The path we take is not predestined as many believe, but they are earmarked with signs and signals we either adhere to or avoid.
The players on this list still have had the honor to play at a level that few people ever achieve in life, on or off the ball field. And with that in mind, you have to remember the sacrifices and the sweat and tears that got you to this level will be rewarded again.
So as we embark on this night when some believe a dream has ended, you have to remember that through every closed door there is another opportunity maybe even down the hall. Here is the list of the guys who got the love and admiration of their clubs tonight. This list will be in no certain order, but will be update throughout the night.
Tampa Bay Rays:
Gabe Gross ( OF )
Dioner Navarro ( C )
Jason Barlett ( SS )
Willy Aybar ( INF )
Grant Balfour ( RP )
Kansas City Royals:
Esteban German ( INF ) 1-year contract
John Buck ( C )
Mike Jacobs ( INF )
Mark Teahen ( OF )
Brian Bannister ( SP )
Kyle Davies ( RP )
Jimmy Gobble ( SP )
Zack Greinke ( SP )
Joel Peralta ( RP )
Florida Marlins:
Jorge Cantu ( 3 B )
Dan Uggla ( 2 B )
Cody Ross ( OF )
Jeremy Hermida ( OF )
Rick Nolasco ( SP )
Josh Johnson ( RP )
Alfredo Amezaga ( RP )
Logan Kensing ( RP )
Dallas McPherson ( INF )
Philadelphia Phillies:
Shane Victorino ( OF )
Ryan Howard ( 1 B )
Ryan Madson ( RP )
Jayson Werth ( OF )
Eric Bruntlett ( INF ) 1-year contract
Clay Condrey ( RP ) 1-year contract
Joe Blanton ( SP )
Cole Hamels ( SP )
Greg Dobbs ( INF )
Chad Durbin ( RP )
Seattle Mariners:
Eric Bedard ( SP )
Aaron Heilman (SP, RP )
Felix Hernandez ( SP )
San Diego Padres:
Scott Hairston ( OF )
Luis Rodriguez ( INF )
Jody Gerut ( OF )
Heath Bell ( RP )
Atlanta Braves:
Kelly Johnson ( INF )
Matt Diaz ( OF )
Jeff Francoeur ( OF )
Mike Gonzalez ( RP )
Omar Infante ( INF )
Casey Kotchman ( 1 B )
Boston Red Sox:
Kevin Youkilis ( 1B )
Jonathan Papelbon ( RP )
Javier Lopez ( RP )
Minnesota Twins:
Jason Kubel ( D H )
Matt Guerrier ( RP )
Los Angeles Dodgers:
Russell Martin ( C )
Andre Ethier ( OF )
Johnathan Broxton ( RP )
Oakland Athletics:
Rob Bowen ( C ) $ 535,000 1-year contract
Justin Duchscherer ( SP )
Jack Cust ( OF )
Chicago White Sox:
Dewayne Wise ( OF ) 1-year, $ 550,000 contract
Wilson Betemit ( INF ) 1-year $ 1.3 Million contract
Detroit Tigers:
Ramon Santiago ( INF ) 1-year $ 825,000 contract
Marcus Thames ( OF )
Fernando Rodney ( RP )
Bobby Seay ( RP )
Joel Zumaya ( RP )
Justin Verlander ( SP )
Edwin Jackson ( SP,RP )
Cleveland Indians:
Kelly Shoppach ( C )
Chicago Cubs:
Chad Gaudin ( RP ) 1-year $ 2 million contract
Ronny Cedeno ( INF )
Reed Johnson ( OF )
Neal Cotts ( RP ) 1-year $ 1.1 million contract
Mike Wuertz ( RP )
Kevin Gregg ( RP )
San Francisco Giants:
Jack Taschner ( RP )
Toronto Blue Jays:
Jason Frasor ( RP )
Brian Tallet ( RP )
Brandon League ( RP )
Jose Batista ( INF )
Pittsburgh Pirates:
Nate McLouth ( OF )
Adam LaRoche ( 1 B )
Ryan Doumit ( C )
Zack Duke ( SP )
John Grabow ( RP )
Tyler Yates ( RP )
Paul Maholm ( SP )
St Louis Cardinals:
Rick Ankiel ( OF )
Chris Duncan ( OF )
Todd Wellemeyer ( RP )
Colorado Rockies:
Garrett Atkins ( 3 B )
Clint Barmes ( 2 B )
Jorge De La Rosa ( SP )
Taylor Buchholz ( RP )
Jason Grilli ( RP )
Huston Street ( RP )
Cincinnati Reds:
Edwin Encarnacion ( INF )
Milwaukee Brewers:
Seth McClung ( SP, RP )
Prince Fielder ( 1 B )
Rickie Weeks ( 2 B )
J J Hardy ( S S )
Corey Hart ( OF )
Dave Bush ( SP )
Washington Nationals:
Ryan Zimmerman ( 3B )
Josh Willingham ( OF )
Scott Olsen ( SP )
Shawn Hill ( RP )
Willy Harris ( SS ) 2-year $ 3 million
Houston Astros:
Brandon Backe ( SP )
Geoff Geary ( RP )
Wandy Rodriguez ( SP )
Tim Byrdak ( RP )
Jose Valverde ( RP )
Humberto Quintero ( C )
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim:
Chone Figgins ( 3 B )
Robb Quinlan ( INF )
Maicer Ituris ( INF )
Ervin Santana ( SP )
Mike Napoli ( C )
As tonight comes to a close at midnight, the name will still be pouring in and this liost might not be totally complete by tomorrow afternoon. But I will do my best to be sure that you all have the latest listing of all players tendered contracts on December 12th.
I will also so a listing of the players who are deemed free agents now that their respective teams have put them on the open market. That listing might be a bit different as I want to block everyone into their respective positions, instead of teams for the non-tender list.
I will have that listing working by tomorrow afternoon and I have not decided yet if I might make prediction on what might happen to those players. As the night grows and the list gets longer, I will determine if that would be entertaining and informative to all of you.
Love Me Non-Tender Candidates 2008…Part Two
As they leave the bright lights and glitter of Las Vegas tonight, the decisions and the problems of the 30 MLB General Managers and their respective departments are not over. Even if they are flying in luxury accomodations, the GM's and their staff know that the next 24 hours can also make or break a season by selecting the right players to help the squad in 2009. For tomorrow bring more sticky situations to try and either keep or jettison players who might make a difference in 2009.
So in the morning on this Friday, December 12th, every team in the major leagues must decide to either tender contracts to their arbitration-eligible players, or set them free as more glut in the 2009 free agent market. And while in past years the non-tendered players weren't considered to be difference-makers, the list could be more interesting this year. There are several players on this list who either had bad situation on their teams or might have been fighting back from injuries in 2008.
Players who are "tendered" on Friday are considered signed for 2009 at a salary to be determined, not less than 80 percent of his salary the previous season, and both sides continue negotiating. If a deal cannot be struck, the team and the player will each file a proposed 2009 salary in early January. Those figures are exchanged on Jan. 19, and a date for a salary arbitration hearing is then set for Feb. 1-21.
If the sides still cannot come to terms before the date of the hearing, a representative for the team and one for the player present a case before a panel of arbiters, which chooses one salary or the other. On the other hand, if a player is not tendered a contract before Friday's deadline, he becomes a free agent.
A nationwide economic downturn has affected how Major League Baseball teams are conducting business, and in an effort to cut corners, the number of non-tendered players could increase, based solely on the market's projected rise in their salaries based on arbitration data and past results.. The same can be said for the quality of those players. Some of the guys being considered for non-tender have been great contributors to their teams in the past, but not during the 2008 season.
Past players non-tendered include David Ortiz, Rick Ankiel, Ryan Franklin, David Eckstein, and Chad Durbin. Usually at least a few useful guys are unearthed. I am going to submit a few names that are being considered to be non-tendered starting at midnight tonight. Some of these names might sign free agent contracts with their old teams, but usually if a player is released from that team, they tend to float to another organization instead of resign with their old clubs.
The Toronto Blue Jays will have to make decision on four of their players on Friday as to if they are being considered as future pieces to the Blue Jays picture in 2009. General manager J.P. Ricciardi said this week that Jason Frasor, Brian Tallet, Brandon League and Jose Bautista are all likely to receive an offer. Ricciardi noted that Frasor, Tallet and League are all in the plans to rejoin Toronto's bullpen, which led baseball with a 2.94 ERA this past season.
Of the three relievers, Frasor is the most likely to not receive an offer, considering he's due for a raise after making $1.125 million in 2008 and the Jays are strapped for cash this winter. Last season, the 31-year-old Frasor posted a 4.18 ERA in 49 games for the Blue Jays, serving as a middle reliever. Across 47 1/3 innings, the right hander struck out 42 batters and issued 32 walks. Frasor limited hitters to a .208 batting average, including a .174 mark against right-handed batters.
The 31-year-old Tallet, who earned $640,000 in his first year of arbitration in 2008, established a career best with a 2.88 ERA last season. The left hander appeared in 51 games and registered 47 strikeouts against 22 walks over 56 1/3 innings. Tallet was especially tough on right-handed hitters, holding them to a .230 average.
League, 25, is eligible for arbitration for the first time this off season after making $400,000 in 2008. Last season, the hard-throwing right hander posted a career-best 2.18 ERA out of the bullpen, with 23 strikeouts and 15 walks in 31 appearances. In his 33 innings, League had a 3.71 groundball to flyball ratio and limited right-handed hitters to a .200 average. The Blue Jays acquired the 28-year-old Bautista in a trade with the Pittsburgh Pirates in late August and the utility man appeared in 21 games for Toronto down the stretch. Overall, Bautista hit .238 with 15 home runs and 54 RBIs in 128 games with the Pirates and Jays in '08, when he earned $1.8 million.
Another ex-Rays has popped up on the non-tender candidates list coming into Friday night's deadline to offer contracts to arbitration eligible players. The Braves aren't sure exactly how Matt Diaz fits into their plans for the 2009 season, but the veteran outfielder can at least feel good about the fact that he seemingly fits into these plans.
Among the group of Braves who are eligible for arbitration, Diaz, who missed most of this past season because of a torn ligament in his right knee, was seemingly the only candidate to be non-tendered by Friday's midnight ET deadline. But all indications are that the Braves are looking forward to having a healthy Diaz on their roster. He could platoon in left field or simply provided a reliable right-handed bat off the bench. Diaz, Mike Gonzalez, Casey Kotchman, Jeff Francoeur, Kelly Johnson and Omar Infante are the arbitration-eligible players expected to be tendered contracts by the Braves on Friday.
The Dodgers face a handful of non-tender decisions by Friday night's deadline, with the focus . Takashi Saito. He is arbitration eligible, but only if the Dodgers tender him a contract. And even though he's the highest-rated reliever in the National League over the past two years, the club might effectively release Saito, who missed two months with an elbow injury.
Money isn't the burning issue for the Marlins as they approach the non-tender deadline. If they want, they have the allocation to sign all 10 of their remaining arbitration-eligible players. The team must decide if it wants to retain everyone, or pursue other options.
In all, Florida has 10 arbitration-eligible players who must be either tendered a contract or not. The list includes much of the team's nucleus: Dan Uggla, Jorge Cantu, Cody Ross, Jeremy Hermida, Josh Johnson, Ricky Nolasco, Alfredo Amezaga, Logan Kensing, Joe Nelson and Dallas McPherson. Of the group, the possible non-tenders appear to be Nelson and McPherson.
Uggla, Cantu, Ross, Hermida and Amezaga are position players who will be tendered. Now, the Marlins are continuing to explore possible trades for Hermida. Johnson and Nolasco are the leading candidates to be the Opening Day starter. Kensing and Nelson are right hander relievers.
Baseball's non-tender deadline should come and go on Friday night without consequence for the Mets, whose arbitration-eligible players will play significant roles on the team in 2009. But the Mets have little reason not to retain their eligible players: Ryan Church, John Maine, Pedro Feliciano, Duaner Sanchez and Jeremy Reed.
Church, 30, hit .276 with 12 home runs in 90 games last season, his first with the Mets. He was the team's most productive hitter until a concussion sidelined him in May and created a series of lingering effects that plagued him for the rest of the season. Church, who agreed to a $2 million contract to avoid arbitration last off season, will enter Spring Training as the starting right fielder.
Maine, 27, is expected to be the third pitcher in a starting rotation that also includes Johan Santana and Mike Pelfrey. Coming off right shoulder surgery that prematurely ended his season, Maine will be arbitration-eligible for the first time. Feliciano, 32, produced a 4.05 ERA and two saves last season as one of the Mets' two primary left-handed relievers. He also avoided arbitration last season by agreeing to a one-year contract worth $1.025 million.
Reed, 27, is the outfielder the Mets received as part of the 12-player trade Wednesday that also landed them Putz. He is expected to assume Endy Chavez's role as a fourth outfielder.
Sanchez, 29, will begin his second full season since missing a year and a half after two surgeries on his pitching shoulder. General manager Omar Minaya has said publicly that he expects Sanchez to be more successful this season, especially now that the presence of Francisco Rodriguez and J.J. Putz will allow him to pitch earlier in games.
Pitchers Shawn Hill, Scott Olsen and Tim Redding, outfielders Willie Harris and Josh Willingham and third baseman Ryan Zimmerman must be offered contracts by Washington or they will become free agents. Entering the Winter Meetings, the Nationals had to make decisions on seven players, but the club released reliever Jesus Colome on Wednesday.
He appeared in 61 games and had a 4.31 ERA while being used as a setup man last season. As for the rest of the players, Olsen, Redding, Harris, Willingham and Zimmerman most likely will be offered contracts. However, Hill will be a tough decision. He has had elbow problems the past four years in Washington and has pitched in a combined 34 games.
The White Sox are expected to tender contracts to Bobby Jenks and DeWayne Wise prior to Friday night's 11 p.m. CT deadline for all arbitration-eligible players. This duo stands as the only two arbitration-eligible players on the team's 40-man roster.
Jenks, 27, could earn 10 times more than his $550,000 salary for 2008 if he goes through the arbitration process, having emerged as one of the game's steadiest closers. Despite being attached to a great deal of Hot Stove trade talk deemed by general manager Ken Williams as "just rumor and innuendo," the burly right hander enters the 2009 season as the second-fastest pitcher to reach 100 saves in Major League history. Jenks accomplished this feat in just 187 games, trailing only Kazuhiro Sasaki's total of 160.
Wise had a rags-to-riches story in 2008. Independent baseball in New Jersey looked to be his season-long vocation, until Minor League director Buddy Bell, who knew Wise from their days together with the Reds, encouraged the White Sox to bring the 30-year-old veteran into Minor League Spring Training.
Wise ended up becoming an outfield starter against primarily right-handed pitchers during the final two weeks of the season, replacing the injured Carlos Quentin, and hit .248 with six home runs, 18 RBIs and nine stolen bases over 57 games. Wise also hit the White Sox first postseason home run in the American League Division Series against the Rays.


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Monday, March 25, 2013
How many corn acres will be planted in 2013?Tweet
What is your guess for the March 28th USDA projection for planted acreage for corn? Likely, if you are not planting as much corn as others, you think the number will be on the low end of the 96-99 million possible range. On the other hand, if you are planting more, you might be on the higher end. Regardless of what USDA's estimate is for Prospective Plantings, there are too many variables for it to be anything more than an educated guess, as of March 28. How far the market takes the number to the bank will be anyone's uneducated guess.
USDA's statisticians in the National Agriculture Statistic Service are talented and do a great job at what they do but are limited to their policy of making estimates based on normal weather conditions. With the weather being rather uncooperative with crop production, it is also uncooperative with statistical estimation.
There is any number of variables that may affect the USDA estimate, says University of Illinois marketing specialist Darrel Good.
- The total acreage available for spring crops has some uncertainty because of the decline in acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, which is down 2.6 million from last year. Good says, "How much of that reduction will be planted to crops in 2013 is not known." Some of the 600,000 acres of winter wheat were likely planted in former CRP, but wheat acres do not always follow a prior year's crop and sometimes are double-cropped, so doing the math is not easy.
- Spring weather conditions will be a complicating factor because of the potential for an increase in prevented plantings. With more crop insurance this spring, there could be an increase in prevented plantings just because of the higher enrollment. However, weather issues are highly variable from year to year, and Good says, "Prevented planted acres totaled only 1.24 million acres in 2012, after being quite large in 2009, 2010, and 2011. In those three years, prevented plantings were reported at 4.18 million, 6.89 million, and 9.62 million acres, respectively." And with the potential for spring flooding in areas of snow cover on the northern plains, what amount of acreage could be abandoned?
- Acreage will also be a function of crop prices, regardless of geography. Corn and soybeans will compete with rice and cotton in southern states and price ratios are drivers there. In the Cornbelt, soybeans had been in the driver's seat for several weeks, but the corn to soybean relationship has dropped recently from nearly 1:2.3 to 1:2.1.
- Delays related to cold and wet soils could have an impact. Although current technology and equipment sizes have demonstrated that substantial acreage can be planted in a week, when that week will start remains in doubt. With 6-15 inches of snow across a wide swath of the Cornbelt, fields could be cold and wet for some time to come. Meteorologists have indicated that a cold March is followed by a cold April, and then a warm May, for the most part. With the yield penalty for late planted corn, Good says, that calendar will begin shortly, "For much of the Midwest, that optimum planting window is from about mid-April through early May, with increasingly large yield penalties after mid-May."
While USDA's statisticians will be working off trend yields, and despite seed still being in the bag, the predictions can be made that include normal weather. However, with all of the potential variables, including the opportunity to flex between corn and soybeans based on the lack of nitrogen applied last fall, significant changes could come all the way up to the time the planter gets to the field.
USDA's projections for planting intentions later this week include many variables that make an accurate prediction quite difficult. Delays in planting due to the weather, increased potential for prevented planted and acreage abandonment due to flooding, uncertainty about how much of the newly released CRP acres will be planted, and changes in crop price relationships over the next several weeks could all have a significant impact on final acreage.
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Mike Norton and Dennis Hopeless bring you The Answer #1, from Dark Horse Comics!
"The library is closed, sir, and you – you have punctuation on your face!"
When a strange superhero busts into your workplace warning you of impending danger, you run. That's the lesson Devin Mackenzie has learned in The Answer #1. The new superhero comic by Mike Norton and Dennis Hopeless features a wild new story about a distinctive new character.
What's remarkable about The Answer #1 is how inscrutable the title character is. Despite a visage that screams to the reader, all we know about the character is that he's a violent superhero who seems to always show up whenever there's some criminal activity about, and who applies his own brand of justice that always results in massive casualties and lots of property damage. There's no origin story, no glimpse behind the mask, and no internal monologue coming from the guy (assuming it is a guy in the costume). Still, much like Devin herself, we pretty much have to trust whatever he's saying because he seems like he's probably one of the good guys. Certainly, he's better than the armed gunmen in ski masks that are shooting up a research library, anyway.
We do get to know Devin Mackenzie, though. The lead character of The Answer #1 is a brainy and charismatic librarian who enjoys a good puzzle or trivia game. When she receives a complex puzzle box for her birthday (an item she describes as "Rubik's Cube's sexy older brother"), she's on top of the world. That's when The Answer shows up, just before the bad guys. Norton and Hopeless stick with Devin for most of the page space in the issue. The story is told mostly from her point of view, and she's a character we get to know and want to root for. She has an effortless charm to her that's just easy to follow. With some clever plotting and snappy monologuing, we learn a lot about her in a short amount of time. Norton and Hopless lay out the story very smartly; they use one page to establish her intelligence (knowing all the answers on an episode of Jeopardy!), follow that with a page that establishes her relationship with her mother, and the next page contains the beauty shot of the artifact that the story of The Answer hinges upon. The puzzle box acts as a type of narrative key that opens the story up and brings the main character into the larger story (which comes crashing onto her doorstep, really). Once that's all figured out, we cut away to scenes of The Answer out there in the night doing his thing, as well as to a ballroom where a speaker delivers a type of motivational talk that espouses the role of chaos in the achievement of success in the modern world. It's a lot of high-minded flimsy philosophy that somehow connects to Devin and to The Answer. It's unclear exactly what all the different plot elements have to do with one another, but they do all come together in the issue before setting up a fun chase scene.
It's all fun stuff, and it all makes for a breezy but entertaining read. The Answer #1 relies a lot on latent expectation (even before getting to the great cliffhanger) and sets up a whole world of story possibilities in a short amount of time. Mike Norton's clean and eye-catching art style simply looks great. With his work on his webcomic Battlepug and on Image Comics' It-Girl and The Atomics (both of which are great reads as well), Norton was already a busy artist before The Answer #1, but his art doesn't suffer from the workload. He utilizes simple page layouts that work really well for this story. The action moves smoothly, and the quiet scenes that rely on internal monologue still deliver a lot of information to the readers eyeballs. The colors by Mark Englert are vivid and they establish the light mood of the comic very well. Some of the lettering comes off a little obtrusive, but there's a good amount of text that's necessary to read through, particularly in Devin's scenes. Overall, the book is as strong visually as it is narratively. Certainly, the design of The Answer is striking, if only for the fact that it moves the superhero insignia up to the face, of all places, from the chest (the usual resting spot for that particular design trope). It immediately shows you that this may not be the same old superhero story. This is an idiosyncratic vision that makes the genre feel just a little more refreshed.
There's a lot going on in The Answer #1, but all the balls are thrown up into the air in such a way that they set up a lot of things the reader is going to want to learn more of. In that way, as a first issue of a brand new concept, the issue is a pure success. It's a fun, funny, and entertaining read that promises a joyride of a comic book story in the next three issues while providing an energetic read on its own. The Answer #1 is a comic that will make a reader want to know what's going to happen next in the story.
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Dimitrije (Pavlovic) of Serbia
His Holiness Dimitrije (Pavlović) (in SerbianЊегова светост Димитрије патријарх српски) was the first Patriarch of all Serbs after 1766.
Early life
He was born in Požarevac in 1846 into the family of Stojan and Milosava Pavlović. He finished primary and high school in Belgrade. He graduated from the Old Seminary in Belgrade in 1868. He was a teacher until 1870, when he was ordained a priest and appointed as a chaplain in Lapovo.
After being widowed in 1873, he continued his education in Belgrade University (in this time called the Grand School) . He graduated with a degree in philology. Fr. Dimitrije was then a teacher in Belgrade Seminary from 1878 to 1884.
On November 8, 1884, he was elected Bishop of Niš, as part of the so-called uncanonical hierarchy. Fr. Dimitrije was tonsured. He remained in this see until 1898. When Metropolitan Mihilo came back in Serbia, all bishops from this uncanonical hierarchy retired their sees. Bishop Dimitrije left for France, where he continued his studies.
Bp. Dimitrije came back to Serbia in 1899, becoming state advisor and later Bishop of Šabac. He was elected Metropolitan of Belgrade and the Kingdom of Serbia on August 19, 1905. Metropolitan was forced to leave Serbia together with the king, government, and Serbian army when they were overpowered by the joint forces of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria in 1915. He returned to Serbia in 1918 with the victorious forces of Field Marshall Petar Bojović and the Regent Aleksandar.
After the Serbian church was unified, Metropolitan Dimitrije was elected "Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, and Serbian Patriarch". His enthronement took place on October 31, 1930. During his tenure three new dioceses were created (Češko-moravska, Bihaćko-petrovačka and Američko-Kanadska), and an old one reestablished (Braničevska). He also consecrated 16 new bishops.
He also opened a Patriarchal Printing House in the Rakovica Monastery. Archimandrite Platon (a future hieromartyr) helped him. Patriarch Dimitrije wrote a Service to "Saint Stefan the Despot", whom he canonized, in 1927.
He was also a translator from Church Slavonic. He is the author of one of the best translations of Hilandar Typikon. He established "Bogoslovlje", the magazine of Orthodox Theological Faculty in Belgrade.
Patriarch Dimitrije founded a foundation for the support of orphans of priests and the Churches of Saint Demetrius in Ratkovići (where he was a teacher), and of the Holy Mother of God in Belgrade.
Patriarch Dimitrije died on April 6, 1930 in Belgrade. He was buried in Rakovica Monastery according to his wishes.
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I live in Colorado and now that the weather is getting nice I am hitting the trails with a renewed vigor but I have some questions. Please, anyone with an opinion should reply.
Most of my hikes are done with my wife and my toddler. He is 2 1/2 and weighs 30 lbs and I carry him 95% of the time in a special backpack for youngins. I weigh 215 lbs, the pack itself is about 3-4 lbs and my gear/clothing is another 5-8 lbs (depending on how many diapers and snacks the little guy needs). My superior math skills tells me that I am shunting damn near 260 lbs of weight everywhere we go. As you can tell, I get a solid work out and it is a lot of fun for everyone. I do have a question here:
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Gene Simmons Family Jewels Announces Season Eight Premiere Date
Those of you who have waited patiently for the next glimpse into the lives of Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed will not have to wait much longer. A&E announced that the eighth season of 'Gene Simmons Family Jewels' will premiere on May 28 at 9PM with a special one-hour episode.
Last season ended with Tweed finally making an honest man out of the Kiss bassist after 28 years together. The final two episodes, which dealt with the engagement and the wedding, were the show's two highest-rated broadcasts ever, averaging 1.8 million viewers. The upcoming season looks to build upon the show's new success by showing if/how marriage has affected their lives.
One of the main plots will involve Shannon's desire to adopt a child despite the objections of Gene and their children, Nick and Sophie. The show will also take viewers on their honeymoon in Africa, tackle Gene's first tour as a married man and watch Nick as he comes to terms with how similar he is to his father.
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South India includes major states in peninsular India and the two island groups of Lakshadweep and Andaman and Nicobar.
There are many cities in South India. Below is a list of the nine most notable. Other cities are listed on their specific regional page.
Other destinations
See also: Kannada phrasebook
One of the major differences between the South and the rest of India are the languages spoken. The four major languages, Kannada (in Karnataka), Malayalam (in Kerala), Tamil (in Tamil Nadu) and Telugu (in Andhra Pradesh) are all Dravidian languages entirely unrelated to the Indo-Aryan languages, such as Hindi, spoken in the rest of the country, though they contain many loan words from Sanskrit. Even the scripts of all four languages, while originally Indic, have diverged quite radically from Devanagari.
As a rule, throughout the South, English is better understood than Hindi. The Tamils, in particular, have resented Delhi's occasional attempts to impose Hindi on them, and many will find it offensive if you try to talk to them in Hindi. Learning a few words of the local lingo, on the other hand, will go down a treat. Outside Tamil Nadu, Hindi is still usable as all educated people will have learnt Hindi in school, though it is not widely spoken in rural areas.
In addition to the big four above, there are also plenty of other languages. Karnataka, in particular, has Coorgi speakers in Kodagu district plus Tulu and Konkani speakers along the coast near Goa.
Get in
By plane
South India has more international airports than rest of India with regular connections to almost every corner of the world. Chennai is the main air gateway into southern India, fielding flights from all over the world. Kochi is one of the largest airport after Chennai with regular connections from Middle East and South East Asia as well as popular tourist oriented charters. Recently with opening of new Bangalore International Airport and Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, air connections to almost every part of the world is ensured. Other popular options are Thiruvananthapuram International Airport, Kozhikode Airport, Trichy Airport, Mangalore Airport and Coimbatore Airport.
Get around
South India's Dravidian architecture is quite different from the rest of India. The most obvious, and often striking, feature is the gopuram perched on every temple entrance, a stepped, steeply rising pyramid carved with layer upon layer upon layer of fantastically detailed and brightly painted statues.
Important historical temples include Mamallapuram (7-9th century) and Hampi (14-16th century),Jewish syngagoue in Kochi, while the busiest active pilgrimage sites today are Tirupati, by some measures the entire world's busiest, and Madurai, which has been operating continually for over 2,500 years.
India's best scuba diving can be found in Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep.
South Indian food is quite different from that elsewhere in the country, being mostly rice-based. They also make greater use of pulses. The typical meal is sambhar or koottu (a watery curry) with rice, or avial (mixed vegetables) with rice. There are regional variations too — the coastal regions make greater use of coconut and fish. In the coast, it is common to use grated coconut in everything and use coconut oil for cooking, while someone from the interior could be surprised to learn that coconut oil, can in fact, be used for cooking.
A very incomplete list of typical standalone Southern dishes, all of which are commonly eaten for breakfast:
All of these can be eaten with plain yogurt, and chutney, a condiment that can be made from practically anything. South Indian cuisine is predominantly vegetarian, though Chettinad, Andhra and Kerala cuisines use meat heavily and are a lot more spicier. Coffee (kaapi in Tamil) tends to replace tea in the south.
A South Indian speciality is the banana leaf meal, served on, you guessed it, a banana leaf. This consists of steamed rice served with about two to six vegetable dishes like sambhar, dry curry, rasam (a thin, peppery soup), koottu along with curd and buttermilk. For a non-vegetarian meal, curries or dishes cooked with mutton, chicken or fish are included. Meals are often accompanied by crisp appalams. Refills of curry and rice are often free, with men with buckets walking around to serve you more. After a final round of rice and curds or buttermilk or both, a traditional meal is concluded with a small banana and a few betel leaves and nuts. If served on a metal tray instead of a banana leaf, a set meal like this is known as a thali instead.
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Worcester, Mass. – Kameron Klauber and
Molly Duffy tallied goals 1:37 apart midway through the second half
to help MIT rally to a hard-earned 4-2 victory over host WPI in New
England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC)
field hockey action on Tuesday evening. With the win, MIT
pushes its record to 11-1 overall and a perfect 4-0 in conference
play while WPI dips to 4-7 on the season and 0-3 in NEWMAC
The game started out at a frantic pace with each team denting the scoring column in the opening two minutes. The visitors struck first when Kimberly Barker knocked home a feed from Molly McShane at 1:14. WPI answered back 31 seconds later as Paige Hanson netted her first goal of the year following a pass from Megan Linskey.
WPI took a 2-1 lead into the locker room at the half when Danielle Antonellis emerged from a scrum in front of the net and set up Linksey for her fourth goal of the season.
MIT applied pressure throughout the second half and were rewarded at 50:41 when Klauber deposited her team-best 13th goal in the back of the net to level the score at 2-2. The visitors continued to push forward and at 52:18 saw Duffy net what proved to be the game-winner following a dish from Jessica Oleinik.
Cambridge's Engineers sealed the victory with just 1:17 left in the contest when Katie Kauffman buried a rebound following a penalty corner.
Keri Dixon made three saves in net for MIT en route to picking up her 11th win of season. Freshman Liz Dufresne made six stops for WPI, who received two defensive saves Katye Milligan and one each by Becca Sharpe and Katelyn Comeau.
For the night, MIT enjoyed a 16-7 bulge in shots and a 13-6 edge in penalty corners.
Next up for both teams are 1:00 p.m. NEWMAC road contests on Saturday afternoon. WPI heads to Springfield for a rematch of last's year NEWMAC quarterfinal contest won by the Pride while MIT ventures to Wheaton.


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Monthly or Quarterly Injectable HIV Antiretrovirals Are Safe and Effective in Early Study
August 5, 2013
GSK744, an investigational integrase inhibitor, and TMC278 LA (a long-acting, injectable form of the NNRTI rilpivirine [Edurant]) both showed safety and efficacy when administered in once-monthly or once-quarterly doses, according to a study presented at IAS 2013. There were no drug-related serious adverse events and all adverse events were either mild or moderate.
The phase 1 study, conducted by GlaxoSmithKline and Janssen, assessed the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of GSK744 (when given intramuscularly or subcutaneously) in conjunction with TMC278 LA (injected intramuscularly). The researchers enrolled 47 HIV-uninfected individuals (17 female and 30 male) with a median age of 39.5. Thirty-five were white, 10 black, and two of another race.
All patients were given an oral lead-in of GSK744 (also known as S/GSK1265744) at 30 mg/day for 14 days, followed by a week-long break, to assess safety and tolerability. Seven of the 47 patients discontinued the oral GSK744 because of non-drug-related adverse events or dizziness. The remaining 40 were given an 800-mg "loading dose" of GSK744 through intramuscular injection, and then randomized into four cohorts.
All four cohorts showed relevant plasma concentrations of the drugs within three days, meaning concentration levels were high enough to be considered effective. Between doses, concentration levels remained well above 90% inhibitory concentration (IC90) for both GSK744 and TMC278. The plasma concentration levels of TMC278 LA were comparable to taking oral rilpivirine at 25 mg/day.
Three people withdrew during the injection phase, two for non-drug-related adverse events and one for self-limited rash. The most common event not related to injection site reaction (ISR) was headache, but there were no serious adverse events (grade 4 or higher). Local ISRs were common, but generally well tolerated and self-limited.
The researchers concluded that injections of GSK744 with TMC278 LA were safe and generally well tolerated in healthy adults, with monthly or quarterly doses showing long-lasting and effective levels of plasma concentrations. Further study and clinical evaluation will be needed.
While these drugs are still in early stages of study, the hope is that they can act as long-lasting PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) or effective treatment for HIV-infected patients that could replace daily pills.
View the study abstract and presentation slides.
Warren Tong is the research editor for TheBody.com and TheBodyPRO.com.
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Hello Super Kite Day Friends,
We are glad to bring you another amazing snowkitecamp by Super Kite Day hosted by Lolo BSD & Abe Alzouman.?
We have 9 places each week from the 21st January - 4th February 2017. The cost of the camp is €270 per week. Which includes accommodation, breakfast, free entry to prize draw, free access to Flysurfer test point and the chance to snowkite one of the best spots in the world. The Col du Lautaret in the French Alps.
Week 1 takes pace 21st January -28th January
Arrival @ 6pm - Depart @ 10am.
Week 2 takes place 28th January - 4th February
Arrival @ 6pm - Depart @ 10am.
This is the location of the 2017 snowkitecamp. It's right next to the Briancon town center.
20 route de PRAMOREL Hameau de PRAMOREL
05100 Serre-Chevalier
The SKD snowkitecamp is aimed to give people a opportunity to snowkite and help guide them on how to do it right. We are working with kite legende snowkite school so if you would like dedicated lessons we can help you get a nice discount.
Flysurfer Kiteboarding are supporting the SKD snowkite camp with a test point which will include Speed5 and Peak 2 so this is your chance to test new fresh gear.
Get 10% discount at Hotel Des Glaciers on food and drinks exclusive to SKD guests, get free WIFI on the spot.
For information about the ski resort and more activities check out the official Serre Chevalier website.
Get live updates from our Facebook event page.
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We look forward to seeing you at the Super Kite Day snowkitecamp next year.
Get booking now and request your spot at the SKD 2017 snowkite camp.
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Community Updates
The Community Updates article is updated at least twice a month by Michael Shiloh. Updates are also mailed to the openmoko-community mailing list, and major updates are also sent to the announce list.
Mailing lists
There are several [Mailing lists]. Archives of these lists can be searched with [Markmail]. There is a [Nabble web interface] to read and post to the lists.
The [openmoko community mailing list] is perhaps the most active. As of July 2008, its volume amounts to dozens of messages per day. Openmoko people are there too.
You may ask for help on the [support mailing list]
There is always a good group in the IRC channel #openmoko on FreeNode. If you aren't an IRC-er, you might want to review the discussions anyways:
(Courtesy of the NSLU2-Linux project)
Within the time contstraints of middle Europe, the Freenode channel #neo1973-germany is also active and members switch to english on demand.
You can also hang out in #openmoko-cdevel (the community developers channel) on chat.freenode.net if you have development questions.
Discussion Forums have been opened: The Unofficial OpenMoko Forums.
Community site based on trac
The German Neo1973 community created a Trac-based web site with SVN version control for their community projects: http://neo1973-germany.de/ The most notable project is Zad, which consists of a GUI and daemons for GSM/GPRS muxing, GSM, GPS and more, written using Enlightment for smooth, smooth, fast, alpha-blended graphics and glib and dbus for daemons, but the actual code of the project is all python. And yes, you can even make phone calls with it (even without "echo").
The old community wiki is at http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/, since the release of the official wiki at http://wiki.openmoko.org/, it should no longer be used for OpenMoko. Please help integrating the content of the old wiki into this wiki. Please note that you cannot just copy from the old wiki, as the old wiki is (unfortunately) not clearly licensed and the content on this wiki is licensed under GNU FDL. You will instead need to rewrite the articles.
When you have integrated/rewritten an article, please update the old wiki with clear information that you have moved the information, so others do not update the old page.
Useful content that has been transfered
OpenMoko compatible cellphone providers
Useful content that should be transfered
Software ideas
- a really mixed up list of software and hardware ideas - Please name your page Wishlist:Pagename and add 'Category:Ideas' if you rewrite one of these
- software ideas
Hardware stuff
Coding instructions
Development news
Developer news of progress being made on OpenMoko.
Wishlist item: User's Manual
An User's Manual targetting a non-hacker audience has been started. I mean one of those small books you get when you buy a new phone. They are full of pictures, describe basic steps of phone usage and are translated into as many languages as possible.
--Bart 10:14, 2 October 2007 (CEST) I am Dutch, if a dutch user manual is needed I'd love to help.
Fradeve11: I give my appreciament and time to translate an user basic manual in Italian ;) very good idea!
darktim: I will do the German part. I'm not a coder, so that could be my contribution ;)
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The Department of English at Marquette University is a community of scholar-teachers and students who embrace the traditional Jesuit conception of liberal education inspired by St. Ignatius of Loyola. Grounded in this tradition, the department focuses on the study of "humane letters," which is accorded a central and indispensable place in Jesuit education and defined as the study of grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history.
Informed by this tradition as well as by contemporary English Studies, the department includes nationally and internationally prominent faculty and offers the following programs of study: three undergraduate majors (English Literature, Writing-Intensive English, and English Language Arts), three undergraduate minors (English Literature, Writing-Intensive English, and Literatures of Diverse Cultures), an M.A. degree in American and British literature, and a Ph.D. degree in American and British literature.
[Note: For a discussion of Jesuit concepts of "humane letters," see The Constitutions of the Society of Jesus, Chapter 12: "The Subjects Which Should Be Taught in the Universities of the Society."]


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Our Pride Month extravaganza continues, but we will be shifting gears a bit today.
After two weeks visiting with a noted Australian author, Benjamin Law, with his unique perspective on the gay scene in Asia, we circle back home to meet an equally remarkable personality who is making waves with his groundbreaking move, Before You Know It.
This is the SEX WISDOM show and I have the distinct pleasure of welcoming the award winning filmmaker and documentarian, PJ Raval. He is here to discuss his movie, which features three senior and elder gay men. I know, what in the world was he thinking?
PJ goes out of his way to make the invisible visible by shining his spotlight on an often-ignored segment of our youth-oriented culture and the result is nothing short of stunning. Stay tuned as we find out how and why.
PJ and I discuss:
- Kyle Henry who brought us together;
- The role of the editor in creating filmmaking art;
- The documentary and how it is different from fictional story telling;
- How he came to choose the film's subject matter;
- Storytelling tapping into something more universal;
- The community of independent filmmakers;
- The difference between documentary filmmaking and journalism;
- His editorial style;
- The public viewing experience;
- Before You Know It…a cautionary message;
- Who is PJ Raval;
- How long it took him to create his film;
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Hopefully, when folks have to face losing a loved one, they will be as blessed as I have been with positive experiences.
Hopefully, when folks have to face losing a loved one, they will be as blessed as I have been with positive experiences.
Perhaps then, they will understand why serving as a hospice volunteer speaks with the volume turned loud.
Volunteers can assist with shopping or household maintenance, or allow family caregivers the opportunity to take care of necessary errands and get time away from the house. Family members appreciate a visit from a compassionate friend who understands what they are going through.
Volunteering can include visiting, reading, taking walks, writing letters, bringing in music, supervising visits with pets, or just listening to a loved one as they work through their life�s hardest journey.
Hospice volunteers can work closely with the hospice�s professional bereavement staff in duties that range from assisting as a support group facilitator to serving refreshments and helping with mailings to clients and families.
With both of my parents, when they exhaled their last breaths, I stood by their sides, holding their hands and praying for their safe passage from this world. I am very proud that my family allowed our parents to die with dignity and respect. It was the very least we could do for the people who gave us life.
This is why people volunteer with a hospice.
If I can make one moment more pleasant, or if I can help bring an atmosphere of dignity to dying, then I have been blessed to travel along one of life�s universal journeys.
Call 689-0300 or 902-1632 if you want to join Emerald Coast Hospice�s volunteer staff.