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If you were too busy showering Mom with love, gifts and – let's be real – a cocktail or two to keep up with the Kardashians, we've got you covered.
Here's what you missed this Mother's Day weekend:
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5. Lookin' Good, Jennifer Aniston!
" "" "" "0" ]Aniston took a walk on the dark side, saying goodbye to her lighter locks on Friday. The bride-to-be showed off a sleek brown bob, which is just her latest style move after going back and forth with hair extensions since she initially chopped her do. Check out her new look.
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4. If Charlize Theron Was a Cat Lady …
" "" "" "0" ]Leave it to Theron to make a sweater presumably covered in cat hair look oh-so-purrrfect. In one of her most memorable sketches as host of this weekend's edition of Saturday Night Live, the actress channeled a cat lady working at Whiskers 'R' We. We wish we could give her an A-Cat-Emy Award. Watch her on SNL.
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3. Just Call Them the Dream Team
" "" "" "0" ]There was no shortage of action on the sidelines at Saturday's Brooklyn Nets game: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jay-Z and wife Beyoncé watched the home team defeat the Miami Heat 104-90. Now, we're just waiting for a follow-up duet titled "Dunk in Love." This is what we call team spirit!
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2. Who Popped the Question?
" "" "" "0" ]Cheryl Hines and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. have some big plans: "Yes, they are engaged," a source close to the situation tells PEOPLE of the couple, who began dating in 2012. Send your congrats to the happy couple!
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1. Kim Kardashian Had the Best Weekend Ever
" "" "" "0" ]It was hard to keep up with all of the major things happening with Kardashian these past few days. After celebrating at her Parisian-themed bridal shower Saturday, she marked her first Mother's Day as a mom with daughter North and fiancé Kanye West. Sharing an aww-out-loud snapshot, she wrote on Instagram, "This little girl changed my world in more ways than I ever could have imagined! Being a mom is the most rewarding feeling in the world!" What did West gift his bride-to-be?


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U.S. State Tax Receipts Rose Third-Straight Quarter, Group Says
State tax revenue rose 3.9 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, the third consecutive gain, as a recovering economy boosted receipts from sales and personal-income levies, a study of 48 states shows.
Increases occurred in 42 states, according to data compiled by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany, New York. Compared with July through September of 2008, tax receipts in the 48 states fell 7 percent, the group said.
"With three straight quarters of growth, the trend is clearly positive," Robert Ward, the institute's deputy director, said yesterday in an e-mailed comment. "The problem is that states have been down so long, it's hard to say where up is located. Revenues are still below the level of two years ago, because of very sharp declines in 2009."
The longest recession since the Great Depression cost millions of Americans their jobs and homes, leaving states to cope with dwindling revenue and mounting budget deficits. Employment increases in New York and Texas last month led gains in 41 states, according to Labor Department data, a sign that the nation's job market may be stabilizing.
New York had the largest third-quarter increase in tax receipts, collecting $577 million, or 4.5 percent, more than a year earlier, the institute said. The gain was mainly driven by higher personal-income tax collections and growth in payments of levies on retail sales, the group said.
Alaska Down Most
Alaska reported the largest drop in tax revenue among six states that had declines, the institute said. Alaska receipts plunged 48 percent, mainly because of lower collections from oil and gas producers, it said.
Personal-income tax payments, which made up 41 percent of total third-quarter tax revenue, rose 4.7 percent nationwide compared with the 2009 period, the institute said. Collections were down 6.9 percent from two years earlier, it said.
California and New York had the biggest dollar gains in receipts from personal-income taxes in the three months through September, with increases of $610 million and $315 million, respectively, the institute said. Alabama, with an 18 percent jump compared with a year earlier, had the biggest percentage increase. Hawaii had the largest decline, at 54 percent, because of a delay in tax refunds from 2009, the group said.
Sales tax collections increased by 4.1 percent in the third quarter, compared with a year earlier, the institute said. Receipts were 5.1 percent lower than two years earlier.

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From the time I was a child, my mother read to my brothers and me. As a result, reading is one of my passions. I love books the entire family can enjoy, so I tried to create this novel in like manner. This story first came to me in a dream, then the characters became such a part of me, invading my waking hours as well as my sleep, that I finally put pen to paper. I have tried to bring the characters to life in such a way as to touch the readers' hearts, thus allowing them to feel empathy for the characters' daily struggles, embrace their joys, plus rejoice in their triumphs. If perchance you see your name within the pages of this book, it is purely coincidental.


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Another interesting creation from traxxas. They're attempting to enter the scale/trail truck segment with a shorted variation of the slash 4x4 chassis....
The thing to think about when you're deciding is where are you going to drive it.
What kind of terrain will you drive it on? How much room do you have?
Same here. I like the all aluminum chassis and the cantilever suspension.
You were looking for cvds for a high stress application, so you bought integy brand ones?
Sometimes it really is worth buying a higher end product, like MIP brand ones.
Was wondering about that. The original put quite a bit of leverage against the mount on the chassis. I like your MB shock tower mod. Very clean looking.
Sounds good. PM sent about moving this thread.
About how fast is it now and how much faster do you want it to be?
That's good to hear. I've bought from him a few time off ebay. Didn't know he had any other store.
If these are going to be rentals, I'd go with shaft drive. If it was for you, belt would be fine, but with a rental car, you can bet that there will be people who drive it like they stole it. I think...
Sorry I took so long. I've done a lot of looking and only found one widener kit that will work with the stock clod wheels. All others convert it to 14mm, 19mm, or 23mm hexes. These give you exactly...
+1 The tires are Tamiya, but the chassis isn't. Not sure what it is. Would be kinda strange to stick an Orion system in a no-name chinese car.
There, that's better.
Stock ones are 2.2/3.0 short course wheels with 14mm hexes.
I'm pretty sure that the ridgecrest uses wraith axles with a ax10 transmission.
You may have to use wideners. Juggernaut wheels would probably help, but those are even harder to find(except for the aluminum ones). Wideners often use the stock stub axles with barrel nuts. Those...
Did it come with a saver adapter for hitec? I started out using the futaba adapter, but although it does fit, it was a bit too loose and it stripped out. I upgraded mine to one made for an Associated...
Just saw Tamiya's video of it in action. It definitely has less torque roll than the txt-1. No doubt due to the standard setup and 8 shocks.
4ws would definitely be a plus. How is your hs645...
Man, that body turned out great. How's the suspension feel?
In regards to your question in post 26, bodies made for the tmaxx or revo 3.3(there are tons of those) should fit fine.
Looks good. Take your time and enjoy the build.
Nice! Are you going to try out the stock tires or use the clod ones right away?
See how you like them when it's all built. You can always add foam later if you want them firmer.
Currently I'm using the stock motors with an HPI GT esc I got when my brother upgraded his...
Depends how much heavier the txt-2 is. The txt-1 came with clod tires and it has no problems with them(I own a txt-1).
Yeah, they are some beefy tires. No need for foams there.
Yeah, hard to tell. Depends on the service carrying it. USPS is like playing russian roulette, lol.
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Kardashians Get 40 Times More News Coverage Than Ocean Acidification
by Shuana Theel, via Media Matters
Carbon dioxide emissions are not just warming up our atmosphere, they're also changing the chemistry of our oceans. This phenomenon is known as ocean acidification, or sometimes as global warming's "evil twin" or the "osteoporosis of the sea." Scientists have warned that it poses a serious threat to ocean life. Yet major American news outlets covered the Kardashians over 40 times more often than ocean acidification over the past year and a half.
Rising carbon dioxide emissions have caused the oceans to become around 30 percent more acidic since the Industrial Revolution, and if we do not lower the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, the ocean surface could be up to 150 percent more acidic by 2100. At that level, the shells of some plankton would dissolve, large parts of the ocean would become inhospitable to coral reef growth, and the rapidity of the change could threaten much of the marine food web. According to the National Research Council, the chemical changes are taking place "at an unprecedented rate and magnitude" and are "practically irreversible on a time scale of centuries."
Despite a boom of recent scientific research documenting this threat, there has been a blackout on the topic at most media outlets. Since the end of 2010, ABC, NBC, and Fox News have completely ignored ocean acidification, and the Los Angeles Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, CNN, and CBS have barely mentioned it at all.
While most coverage described the basic scientific phenomenon or listed ocean acidification as a serious environmental challenge, the Wall Street Journal dismissed the problem. All three mentions of ocean acidification from the Journal were from columns that downplayed the threat — there was not a single straight news article interviewing scientists. One of those columns was a full article devoted to distorting and cherry-picking the science on ocean acidification. The Journal also published a letter to the editor (not counted in this study) from the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Chris Horner who summarily dismissed ocean acidification as "the latest nominee to supplant troubled CO2-warming theory." But the threat is nothing to shake off.
Since the Industrial Revolution, global surface temperatures have increased by about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit. But we would have warmed up more if the ocean did not absorb about 30 percent of the CO2 we release into the atmosphere. At first scientists focused on the benefits of this absorption in reducing the amount of warming expected to result from CO2 emissions. But more recently they have been studying how dissolved CO2 is increasing the acidity of the ocean. These changes are happening rapidly, harming the ability of species to adapt to them. As the National Research Council explained in a comprehensive 2010 report, the ocean ecosystems on which humans rely "evolved over millennia to an aqueous environment of remarkably constant composition," but are now facing major chemical changes due to human activities:
The chemistry of the ocean is changing at an unprecedented rate and magnitude due to anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions; the rate of change exceeds any known to have occurred for at least the past hundreds of thousands of years. Unless anthropogenic CO2 emissions are substantially curbed, or atmospheric CO2 is controlled by some other means, the average pH of the ocean will continue to fall. Ocean acidification has demonstrated impacts on many marine organisms. While the ultimate consequences are still unknown, there is a risk of ecosystem changes that threaten coral reefs, fisheries, protected species, and other natural resources of value to society.
Organisms forming oceanic ecosystems haveevolved over millennia to an aqueous environment of remarkably constant composition. There is reason to be concerned about how they will acclimate or adapt to the changes resulting from ocean acidification–changes that are occurring very rapidly on geochemical and evolutionary timescales.
The following chart from the report shows that ocean pH remained fairly constant over hundreds of thousands of years and is projected to fall considerably during this century:
An increase in carbon dioxide directly lowers the pH levels of sea water, making it more acidic. Sea water is alkaline (basic), not acidic, but scientists use the term acidification to refer to the water becoming more acidic. Higher carbon dioxide levels reduce the amount of calcium carbonate minerals, with which many organisms form their shells and skeletons in a process called calcification. Ocean acidification will make it more difficult for many calcifying organisms like shellfish and coral to build their shells and skeletons and will cause the water to be more corrosive to some organisms' already built shells.
The sea butterfly, a snail-like type of zooplankton, could be the earliest victim of ocean acidification. As they awkwardly flap through the ocean, sea butterflies smaller than a lentil are eaten en masse by salmon and many other sea creatures. This makes them very important for the oceanic food web. But by 2050, they may not be able to form their shells in the Southern Ocean any longer. And by the end of the century, the projected acidity levels would dissolve their shells.
Coral reefs will also dramatically decline and several species of corals will face extinction if we do not reduce our carbon emissions. Coral reefs are the home to so much biodiversity that even though they make up less than 1% of the ocean, one in every four sea species depend on coral reefs.
Ocean acidification poses yet another threat to coral reefs that are already endangered due an increase in widespread coral bleaching from global warming, overfishing and agricultural runoff.
Damaging ocean life could have costly impacts for humans: one study found that coral reefs alone provide a $29.8 billion global net benefit per year from fisheries, coastal protection, tourism/recreation, and biodiversity. Coastal communities, including those in Florida and Hawaii, would be hard hit by the loss of protection from storms and tourism from scuba divers and snorkelers.
And the impacts of ocean acidification on the oceanic food web would hurt many of the fisheries that provide 1.5 billion people a significant amount of food. Just earlier this year, scientists "definitively linked an increase in ocean acidification to the collapse of oyster seed production at a commercial oyster hatchery in Oregon, where larval growth had declined to a level considered by the owners to be 'non-economically viable,'" according to an Oregon State University press release about the study. Almost 50 percent of U.S. fishery revenue comes from shellfish and crustaceans, species that may be affected by ocean acidification because they depend on calcium carbonate to make their shells:
In sum, ocean acidification is a major threat to our oceans and the millions of people who depend on them for their food and livelihoods. Yet 77 percent of Americans say they have read or heard nothing about ocean acidification, according to a 2010 survey conducted for the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. Of the 23 percent who say that they have heard of ocean acidification, only 32 percent understand that ocean acidification is caused by carbon dioxide. In other words, less than 8 percent of Americans understand the very basics of one of the largest threats to our oceans — and a major culprit for that ignorance is the national media.
This Media Matters study is based on a search of Nexis and Factiva from January 1, 2011 through the morning of June 26, 2012. The search terms used for Nexis were: "(ocean! w/10 acid!) or (ocean! w/10 carbon) or (ocean! w/10 chem!)" and the equivalent search was used for the Wall Street Journal at Factiva. For the daytime programming at MSNBC and Fox News, we searched an internal database for terms such as "ocean" and "acidic." The study included articles in all sections of the newspapers, but did not include any newswire reports that were run in the paper. A newspaper article whose focus was on ocean acidification was labeled a "full article," and any mention less than a full article was labeled a "mention"; a TV segment that explained ocean acidification at some length was labeled a "full segment," and any segment that mentioned that oceans were becoming more acidic was labeled a "mention."
The results for the Kardashians were based on a Nexis and Factiva search for "Kardashian!" and included all results. These results do not include daytime programming for Fox News and MSNBC because they are not in the Nexis database.
Shauna Theel is a researcher with Media Matters for America. Jocelyn Fong created the graphics for this report. This piece was originally published at Media Matters and was reprinted with permission.
12 Responses to Kardashians Get 40 Times More News Coverage Than Ocean Acidification
Who are the Kardashians? I thought they were some sort of space aliens; have they arrived on this planet? Are they really as ugly as they are in their pictures?
This is quite a review of key points on ocean acidification.
Maybe I wasn't the only one distracted by the headline hook about media and Kardashians. Kardashians are an advertising machine, so this leads to the question of what companies have an incentive to sponsor news on ocean acidification?
When I buy a can of tuna or salmon, I wonder if the processors and vendors ever support news media coverage of the acidification. Other industries like tropical vacation travel could chime in, too.
For God's sake this is not news. Today the Supreme Court decision knocks Sandusky from the top spot and everyone knows anything about pop culture is of more interest to the average media consumer than the economy, crime or politics. Most people are sheep, they do not pay attention to the really important issues, they only pay attention if the herd becomes alarmed, they frequently create alarm over trivial matters, and what passes for entertainment for the vast majority of them is truly pathetic.
BUT, if we are not going to do anything about CO2 emissions we might as well ignore what is happening to the oceans. No plan means no solution. If fat heads and tails are your thing then you might as well enjoy the chump fest on the Kardashians.
A full spectrum media 'blackout' amounts to an all-out coverup. Why it's almost as though everyone suddenly agreed to STFU about attacking Iran until after the election. Anyone notice how instantaneously that looming existential crisis magically disappeared from the airwaves? Mustn't upset the markets during our 'democratic' process you know.
The Kardashians are a threat. They are slowing dissolving human brains.
And I'm pretty sure the higher Kardashian concentration, the lower the PhD concentration.
They are space aliens. They've hijacked the media and drawn our attention on a dire threat to our sustainability and to millions of key species. Trojan horse via explicit tapes.
The kardashians pay for a lot of this "news", perhaps this is a model who's time has arrived for Global Warming and monies can be found to advertise the same way.
The oyster industry can import seed oyster or spat. This practice introduces diseases into wild populations but most of that was damaged more than a hundred years ago. Introduced bryozoans are so prolific.
Sea grasses help to mitigate carbonic acid by pulling carbon out of the water fast enough to reduce the pH. That only a small fix though. Most sea grasses won't grow in fjiords or deep embayments. They grow on bottoms in shallow bays and rocky headlands on the West Coast and near barrier islands on the East Coast.
Maybe the Great Barrier Reef can be partially saved through mitigation. If it isn't submerged too quickly.
Rim shot!
The GBR is under attack from several sources, not the least of which is the new state govt hell bent on ripping every last atom of coal out of the ground before the carbon price renders it worthless, ME
There was a new paper by Gruber in Science that says the Pacific Ocean along the west coast of North America will be undersaturated for aragonite within 40 years. As usual not one west coast paper reported on this issue. It should be noted that undersaturation occurs about the same time whether we follow a A2 or B1 emissions scenario. Anyone who would like to watch real time Ph buoys can look for C-CAN acidification. I am a shellfish fisherman and although I follow the science on O/A very carefully the insidious effects on shellfish recruitment will be very difficult to document. The oyster aquaculture industry has documented the lethal effects of undersaturated seawater. For those of dependent on wild fisheries I am afraid time has already passed the point of no return. Emissions are still increasing , we will do the best we can to document our decline . It's a beautiful world , it will be a bummer to watch it die.


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Roger likely has the same problem with Non-Sequitor.
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Some years back the "roland hedly" character tried to claim the us had sent forces to central america 700+ times.
Let's see. Counting grenada, it's 2. The earlier one was when a nut from our country took over costa rica and we went down and kicked him out. (Cuba's not central america, before anyone mentions that.)
Another strip had "quotes" from Gingrich. Except not one of them was a quote from Gingrich, having been said by other pundits and politicos.
Um where exactly did you get your history? Grenada is a small island in the Caribbean, just like Cuba. the other time we sent forces to Central America was Operation Just Cause in Panama, in 1989, when the US went after Manuel Noriega. And if you actually believe the facts from a cartoon character, then you might have bigger issues than a lack of geography and US military history.
If you're basing your evaluation on Roland Hedly, who is notoriously incompetent by design (that is, for the sake of humor), then maybe you just don't get humor.
Seriously? You folks are arguing about Hedly being a stand-in for Trudeau? Oh my god, talk about exercises in misapplied wankerism
Our newspaper always hid Doonesbury. You'd never know which page it was going to be on, and some days it didn't appear at all. Eventually I gave up looking for it.
Doonesbury was largely responsible for my becoming such a fan of comics in general at a young age
Any comic so subversive that it had to be hidden on the Editorial page just HAD to be read
I can't even remember anymore why I started clipping comics from the newspaper and saving them, but the oldest comic in my archive of over 300,000 is a Doonesbury from January of 1978
Over the years Doonesbury went from a must-read for me to something I no longer wanted to read. Trudeau started taking the wrong position too insistently on too many things.
Hate? Where? Not in Doonesbury.
Trudeau was exaggerating somewhat but the USA since its inception have invaded the Americas over the centuries. Even claimed it as its own domain on influence. See the Monroe Doctrine.
As @William Weedman said, Grenada is also and island as Cuba, but you forgot about the invasion of Panama in 1989.
You also forgot the invasion of Nicaragua in 1912, the intervention that caused Panama to get independence from Colombia motivated by the US interest in the construction of the Canal (naval forces were sent though they didn't disembark AFAIK) , and interventions in Honduras where US troops were sent in at least seven different times.
And those are just at the top of my head as they are related by being part of the "Banana Wars".
@Nab… believes all kinds of ridiculous stuff, don't get it started.
That's interesting. I became a comic fan when I was too young to get "Doonesbury" most of the time.
I was probably around 10 – 13 when I started reading it, don't know how old I was when I started to "get" it
I rarely look at a newspaper anymore.
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Theories of environment and development tend to preemptively strip developing-country firms of environmental agency, depicting them as passive targets of market, regulatory, and ideational influences originating elsewhere. This research examines the processes by and conditions under which developing-country firms actively "import" environmental norms, programs, and practices, drawing on a case study of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex)—one of the world's largest oil companies and the only nationally-owned, developing-country oil company that has adopted a cooperative corporate climate policy. The article demonstrates that the company's decision to support action on climate change resulted from efforts by climate policy entrepreneurs within Pemex's environment division. They showed agency in choosing to prioritize the climate issue, in scanning their institutional environment for a climate policy template, in adjusting the template to suit Pemex's particular circumstances, and in promoting the climate policy to internal and external constituencies. The research also highlights the prominent role of private sector channels in processes of environmental norm diffusion.
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Alt, H, G, K Send to Back – Send the selected object behind all other objects. – Home > Drawing > Arrange > Send to Back
Alt, H, G, R Bring to Front
Alt, H, G, F Bring Forward
Alt, H, H Distribute Horizontal
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Overlays are an aggressive disruptive method of getting users attention. If abused or not implemented properly, visitors may leave the site. Especially on mobile, due to the limited screen size, there are better solutions. As usual it depends on the context and content. Highly recommend that you evaluate the need for a (mobile) overlay on a per-project/per-application basis.
Some applications that could be using overlay (but could be handled with an alternative):
Alternative solutions:
Some principles (if overlay is the only option):
General behaviour
Examples and best practice
A reasonable example is the cookie lightbox of www.Hertz.com on mobile:
– Manage expectations. It seems to appear 1-2 seconds after the homepage is loaded, so the user still knows he's on the right website and can still act on the cookie request. (dispite that lightbox may not be the best solution for cookie permission)
– Closing. There is a clear, branded "< back" button placed on the top of the overlay, making it quick and easy to close or ignore the message.
– Flexible. It takes up the full real-estate of the screen and if there's a lot of content this is not a problem, it can be quite tall.
Because of the limited mobile screen size and the uasbility requirements listed here, content needs to be limited and overlays are often not ideal on mobile. Overlays that are limited in content and user-triggered may be an exception. In any case overlays must behave properly, as outlined in the principles above. I recommend to make a list of on what pages overlays are needed and approve the need for a (mobile) overlay on a per-project/per-application basis. If you have little control over this, offer guidelines (in the CMS or another form) to help the client realise the negative consequences of mobile overlays and offer suitable alternatives. Consider limiting the use of mobile overlays for the sake of conversion and the client's own sake. Provide a overlay solution that can handle any type of (large) content and test it well.
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When designing you generally have these layout options. Using any of these patterns often will have pros/cons and consequences on the flow and rest of the page design. Possible factors/pro-con considerations influencing your decision are:
Vertical tabs
CON: Everything is shown expanded resulting in information overload and clutter.
PRO: No sub-navigation is needed
Accordions – popular with mobile (risks)
Anchor links
'More details' link (half-way accordion)
Horizontal tabs
Row of links
Row of buttons
Rollover tooltip / toast message
Navigate to a different page
'next' button
Progressive menu (or expandable tree) – popular with mobile
Filters (or row of toggles)
Swap content (flip div)
A combination – e.g.
, expand an accordion, slider/carrousel, … (for lightbox overlays that appear after a user clicks something)
Further reading:
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In this article I briefly discuss the possibilities of annotating your designs, with the option of quickly removing annotations when you don't want to show them in your deliverable.
Let's face it: Axure doesn't have an quick and clean way to annotate your wireframes. This can be a pain when you are using your designs for different purposes:
1) you want an annotated version of your designs for functional documentation,
2) but you also want a clean non-annotated version.
Annotation is typically done with call-outs or "numbers in bubbles".
In Axure the standard way to annotate your wireframes is using footnotes. Unfortunately these footnotes are very small and can't easily be customised.
Unfortunately there is no quick and easy way to publish an Axure without your call-outs.
The best I can suggest is to temporarily delete or move the call-outs off the screen before publishing. Repeat this for every page you want to publish without call-outs.
with call-outs
without call-outs
There isn't the ease like layers in Photoshop. Axure does have dynamic panels. These work a bit like layers as you can quickly show/hide/move them, even in your clickable demo. But to edit a layer's content you have to click around a lot (see demo http://screencast.com/t/mItXg1bqsg) switching back and forth between the annotation layer and the wireframe layer until the annotation is at the correct position.
If you go for the delete option, then you may also want to use the group feature of Axure. This way you can quickly select all call-outs at once (and then undo the change. Before you start, make sure to save your file as a different version, so that you don't lose your original call-outs locations.
I would go for either of these options, depending on the project. I usually just use custom annotations (option A) but then keep the call-outs in my click-demos. That's because deleting them all just takes too much time. It might not be acceptable for all client presentation though.
Other options like the built-in yellow Axure footnotes/annotations like this: are advanced but unfortunately not easy to maintain. They are also hard to read.
Hope they improve this in the next Axure release!
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PIE framework @ http://www.widerfunnel.com/conversion-rate-optimization/how-to-prioritize-conversion-rate-optimization-tests-using-pie ++
A poll @ http://seewhy.com/blog/2010/09/21/website-conversion-priorities/ gave:
See also Prioritizing Usability book/pie chart by Nielsen
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Sketchboards are popularised by Adaptive Path. Wireframes as a first step are too slow and detailed. The collaborative use of the sketchboard opens up the design process to everyone involved (all stakeholders including clients, visibility for management). Designers need a quick way to explore many different possibilities of the bigger picture, solo or in collaboration.
User flow –
Sketchboard – your starting point? "inspirational material such as personas or requirements are used as a starting point to drive the conceptualization process"
Experience map – typically showing the full concept, official deliverable and usually not sketched
Canvas flow
Wireflow – mix between wireframes and user flow
Speech bubbles – used as a starting point per user, or showing the thought processes step-by-step for one particular user, these are annotation elements
From: Sketchboard before you wireframe – Treehouse Blog
See http://www.slideshare.net/ugleah/sketchboards-prototypes-presentation
and http://www.boxuk.com/blog/using-sketchboards-to-design-great-user-interfaces
1. Gather the inputs:
On the left side of the sheet (label it "Input" and optionally draw a dashed vertical line to separate it from the wireflows that sit on the right-side)
– sitemap
– scope items
– objectives
– add criteria (requirements/user stories) (
– users (personas, facts)
– success metrics
2. Sketch, sketch, sketch
Start sketching on separate papers
Then sketch full pages using this single-page template (1-up) to "zoom in" on a particular thumbnail idea with slightly more detail
3. Start your sketchboard
– "Once you're happy with the position and grouping of your sketches, replace the Post-It headings with inked ones – a big chisel tip Sharpie works well (just make sure the ink doesn't bleed through the brown paper and onto the wall!) "
4. Share and iterate
– take it to your team in a tube
– take (seperate) notes for feedback (not on the board)
– go back and add summarized changes as annotations to your board
"During the evaluation sessions, annotate your sketches, use Post-It notes, and amend or create new sketches as required to capture feedback, suggestions and corrections"
5. Start wireframing
– THEN make the wireframes and/or prototype on the computer
$ Tools
– Drafting dots (sticky)
– Mobile whiteboards (lightweight, useful if you lack wall space) or large piece of cardboard
https://www.flickr.com/photos/13513390@N05/albums/72157663384228863 Tip
Related articles
See also:
Types of deliverables WP post
Learn more
http://konigi.com/book/sketch-book/work-fast TIP videos
More videos @ http://lanyrd.com/search/?q=sketchboard
Ideas, tools, alternatives
A.K.A. : Mindmap, wireflows, wiremaps, user flows, customer flow, user journey, concept maps, ux flow, ux flowchart, and sitemaps.
Prezi is a less linear, more free-form and animated way of telling a story. Alternatively, zoom in manually in powerpoint, or another way to easily navigate in a large canvas.
Collaborative design workshops
"For complex products, it's helpful to understand the system at a high level, before anything gets fully designed, prototyped, or built. I like to call this method of flowcharting "wireflowing". It's a hybrid of traditional sitemaps, flowcharts, and wireframes. The benefit is that you can start to make UI-level decisions & establish consistent patterns quickly, while maintaining a relational understanding of how everything fits together.
[Seperate post]
More tips in dashboard design and information design (info visualisation), design for simplicity, etc.
The main focus should be a self-explanatory journey that can be easily shared.
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Dear Full House Prince,
As a Filipino Wikipedian, I hope you are aware of the passage of Republic Act No. 10175, also known as the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, which was signed into law by President Benigno Aquino III on September 12, 2012. Currently, there is a discussion on the Tambayan, the noticeboard for Philippines-related topics, about a proposed blackout of the English Wikipedia in the Philippines in order to protest the passage of RA 10175, similar to the blackout against SOPA and PIPA held earlier this year. I feel that your input on the subject will definitely help in the discussion.
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I know how to create a histogram (just use "with boxes") in gnuplot if my .dat file already has properly binned data. Is there a way to take a list of numbers and have gnuplot provide a histogram based on ranges and bin sizes the user provides?
We started with Q&A. Technical documentation is next, and we need your help.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
yes, and its quick and simple though very hidden:
check out
to deal with ranges just set the xrange variable.
I have a couple corrections/additions to Born2Smile's very useful answer:
Be very careful: all of the answers on this page are implicitly taking the decision of where the binning starts - the left-hand edge of the left-most bin, if you like - out of the user's hands. If the user is combining any of these functions for binning data with his/her own decision about where binning starts (as is done on the blog which is linked to above) the functions above are all incorrect. With an arbitrary starting point for binning 'Min', the correct function is:
You can see why this is correct sequentially (it helps to draw a few bins and a point somewhere in one of them). Subtract Min from your data point to see how far into the binning range it is. Then divide by binwidth so that you're effectively working in units of 'bins'. Then 'floor' the result to go to the left-hand edge of that bin, add 0.5 to go to the middle of the bin, multiply by the width so that you're no longer working in units of bins but in an absolute scale again, then finally add back on the Min offset you subtracted at the start.
Consider this function in action:
e.g. the value 1.1 truly falls in the left bin:
Born2Smile's answer is only correct if the bin boundaries occur at (n+0.5)*binwidth (where n runs over integers). mas90's answer is only correct if the bin boundaries occur at n*binwidth.
Do you want to plot a graph like this one? yes? Then you can have a look at my blog article: http://gnuplot-surprising.blogspot.com/2011/09/statistic-analysis-and-histogram.html
Key lines from the code:
I have found this discussion extremely useful, but I have experienced some "rounding off" problems.
More precisely, using a binwidth of 0.05, I have noticed that, with the techniques presented here above, data points which read 0.1 and 0.15 fall in the same bin. This (obviously unwanted behaviour) is most likely due to the "floor" function.
Hereafter is my small contribution to try to circumvent this.
This recursive method is for x >=0; one could generalise this with more conditional statements to obtain something even more general.
We do not need to use recursive method, it may be slow. My solution is using a user-defined function rint instesd of instrinsic function int or floor.
This function will give
Why? Please look at perl int function and padding zeros
As usual, Gnuplot is a fantastic tool for plotting sweet looking graphs and it can be made to perform all sorts of calculations. However, it is intended to plot data rather than to serve as a calculator and it is often easier to use an external programme (e.g. Octave) to do the more "complicated" calculations, save this data in a file, then use Gnuplot to produce the graph. For the above problem, check out the "hist" function is Octave using
I have a little modification to Born2Smile's solution.
I know that doesn't make much sense, but you may want it just in case. If your data is integer and you need a float bin size (maybe for comparison with another set of data, or plot density in finer grid), you will need to add a random number between 0 and 1 inside floor. Otherwise, there will be spikes due to round up error.
With respect to binning functions, I didn't expect the result of the functions offered so far. Namely, if my binwidth is 0.001, these functions were centering the bins on 0.0005 points, whereas I feel it's more intuitive to have the bins centered on 0.001 boundaries.
In other words, I'd like to have
The binning function I came up with is
Here's a script to compare some of the offered bin functions to this one:
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Three Kings - The Rise of an American Empire in the Middle East After World War II. Lloyd C. Gardner. New Press, N.Y., 2009.
This concisely written and well documented work covers the "Truman Doctrine…the essential rubric under which the United States projected its power globally after World War II…the ideological foundation for the "imperial presidency." Lloyd Gardner focuses his analysis on the Middle East, although the imperial trends expanded globally through the Americas and on into Asia as the old empires faded and the U.S. took their place. More specifically it is a study of "U.S. maneuvers to replace the British in the region of signal importance, the Middle East." The signal importance of the region contains two factors: oil, the regional resource that enticed the British into the area in the first place; and 'international communism' and the rhetorically inflated fears of a grand international conspiracy to attack and dominate the world.
When I first started my readings on current events as related to 9/11, the attack on Afghanistan and then on Iraq, it soon became clear that Palestine was symbolically at the heart of the problems in the Middle East. Beyond that, it is also at the heart of other problems involving human rights, international law, the U.S. government, and corporate power among others. The Second World War ended with the violent remainders of various empires imploding on themselves, most significantly the British Empire collapsed in India and the Middle East. Right from the outset, the Palestinian situation was identified as a "major stumbling block" to U.S. imperial ambitions as "Of all the political problems which call for solution in this area the Palestine question is probably the most important and urgent at the present time."
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Between Israel and oil
Israeli influence was already well under way in Congress, as the 1944 election campaigns of both parties supported the Zionist movement. Regardless of any concerns about Palestine, Roosevelt supported the unrestricted right of Jewish immigration into the region. Later, Truman followed this with his "demand that one hundred thousand refugees be admitted to Palestine," acknowledging that "a Jewish homeland in Palestine "would command the support of public opinion in the United States." Counter to this, George Marshall of the State Department "feared a conflict that could spread out, involve the entire Arab world, and jeopardize American oil interests and internal stability of the nearby governments." Sixty years later and the truth of Marshall's concerns are obvious.
Saudi influence was the other side of the dilemma. With its vast oil reserves and strategic positioning, the House of Saud required much attention, eventually setting up "the symbiotic relationship forever linking American oil interests to the survival of the Saudi royal house." Again, sixty years later, the House of Saud survives on U.S. beneficence in spite of its connections to revolutionary insurrection throughout the Middle East and its apparent central role in the events of 9/11.
Palestine, major stumbling block or not, simmered and boiled as it encountered U.S. and global indifference to the plight of the refugees, to the unending occupation, and more importantly as it encountered the oil interests of the west and the irrational fears of international communism.
Between communism and oil
Gardner identifies the fear of communism as an excuse to establish military and corporate ties with the diverse elements in the Middle East. Egypt under Nasser, Iran under Mossadegh, and Iraq increasingly under the influence of the Ba'athists and Hussein are the focus of his main presentation. The political rhetoric and the behind the scenes manipulations are well described by Gardner, reinforcing the perspective that support would be given to whomever as long as that 'whomever' remained on the U.S. side.
The long term results are well known - or should be - with the Shah installed as the U.S. puppet in Iran eventually leading to the Islamic revolution and theocratic government in Iran. The misadventures of Hussein are well known, his early CIA and U.S. military and economic support leading to an abrupt about face when he was no longer wanted by the U.S. Egypt was defeated, then stalemated Israel, and is now the nominal democratic puppet of the U.S. absorbing large sums of U.S. aid dollars to maintain the peace with Israel and contain the refugees in Gaza behind a steel curtain.
Communism, once the convenient excuse to establish military ties and try to contain Soviet 'aggression', has now been replaced with the fear of terror, a more amorphous and impossible to defeat opposition as long as the occupations of Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan remain. Gardner touches upon the U.S. interest at the time in creating an "Islamic pact" that "because of its heavy religious content…would provide a natural bulwark against communism." While Gardner does not deal with the modern developments of this idea, the mujahideen insurrection against the Soviets in Afghanistan is a direct descendent of this formulation with the drastic unintended consequences of today's regional fiasco.
The bomb, refugees, and the Six Day war
Gardner closes off his ideas briefly touching on the Johnson and Kennedy eras which led into the Six Day war. One of the topics touched on is that of the Israeli nuclear efforts at Dimona. Right from the beginning the Israelis established their ambiguity about the presence of nuclear weapons saying "it would not be the first to introduce such weapons into the area, but it would never be the last," hinting perhaps at first to build or use a bomb, or if someone else obtained it, then "pre-emption was a proper answer."
At the time of these concerns, the refugees numbered over one million, increasing the difficulty of a commitment to a settlement of the problem. With the Six Day war, the Israelis gained control over all the territory of Palestine, creating an even larger problem with refugees from the nakba. Similar to other Israeli wars, Gardner hypothesizes that the U.S. gave a "signal" to Israel to come up with an "excuse" for the attack. In another similarity President Johnson "did not insist on an early truce, but delayed applying pressure foe a cease-fire until Israel had achieved its territorial objectives on all Arab fronts: Egypt, Syria and Jordan."
These two tactics remain at the forefront of Israeli military attacks, with the 2006 attack on Lebanon and the 2008-09 attack on Gaza operating under pretences of terrorist aggression and supported by U.S. silence on the significant abrogation of international law in both cases.
"Three Kings"
While the main title is used very sparingly as a theme for Gardner's work, it is appropriate to the manipulations of the U.S. superseding Great Britain as the imperial power in the Middle East, and the unconditional support given to the House of Saud by U.S. political, military, and corporate interests. This is a fact filled examination of the post war era, placed in context of previous actions, making obvious connections to the problems that trouble the Middle East today. For readers looking for a strong political overview of the immediate post war years in the Middle East this work is an excellent volume to begin with.
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Jason's down and out in Jersey.
And now comes word that AI's done for the duration in Philly.
Two teams, in the push to the playoffs and each down a superstar, set to meet in the last week of the season.
Who do you take?
Let's make it interesting. Forget one game. Let's make it Kidd's Nets without Kidd vs. Iverson's Sixers without Iverson in a steel-cage, seven-game death match.
Call it a man-down showdown. Call it the Scottie Pippen Championships of the World.
You're thinking if the Nets have K-Mart back, they've got the edge. But I'll take Philly, and I'll do it for this one reason: While it's true that Eric Snow ain't no Jason Kidd, it is also true that he ain't no Lucious Harris, either.
Let's keep going. Let's try a few what-ifs.
What if it were the 'Melo-less Nuggets against the LeBron-less Cavs? Listen, I like Carlos Boozer. If there's a Sophomore of the Year award, he's my guy. After last night's 23 and 20, I'm giving him the Greatest Professional Athlete Named Carlos hardware over Carlos Delgado, especially since Carlos Palomino is long-retired. Like I said, I like him. A lot.
But not enough. Give me the Nuggets. And if it's not too much trouble, could you throw in one of those powder blue jerseys? I like those, too.
How about the Lakers without Shaq vs. the Spurs without Duncan? L.A.'s still got Kobe? Never mind. Too easy.
So instead, let's say Minnesota minus KG against San Antonio without Duncan, and let's say that it's not that Rasha Nesterovic can't hang with Michael Olowakandi; and it's not that Bowen can't stick Latrell; and it's not that Parker isn't up for Cassell ... oh, wait a minute, yes it is. That's exactly what it is. Sorry.
And what about Detroit without Big Ben going toe to toe with Indy short one Jermaine? Rasheed's turnaround J is smooth and deadly, but I'm taking Artest and the Pacers, mostly because I'm afraid of what Ron might do to me if he found out I didn't.
That's enough of the current crop. But we're not finished playing. Let's go to the wayback machine.
No-Magic Lakers and No-Larry Celts, circa mid-'80s. It pains me to say it, but I said it a thousand times then and I'll say it again now: Damn you, Kevin McHale.
Wilt-less Lakers vs. Russell-less Celtics? This one's L.A. by way of West Virginia, if you get my meaning.
And the Blazermania Blazers without the Big Redhead against the Sixers short one Doc in '77? I know Walton loves Dave Twardzik and Johnny Davis and all, but I'm pretty sure George McGinnis couldn't care less, and I know I couldn't.
All right, but let's get serious now, let's kick this thing out beyond hoops.
The Sopranos minus Tony vs. Sex In The City minus Carrie. Is it just me, or is SJP one of the more annoying, inexplicable superstars of our time? How exactly did she happen? Is she Letterman's fault?
The Beatles without John vs. The Rolling Stones without Mick. Screw Mick -- It's Keith's band anyway.
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"The Godfather" minus Brando vs. "Apocalypse Now" minus Brando. In one, you've got Pacino coming of age as an actor. In the other, you have Sheen doing that spooky, self-indulgent underwear dance. I'm looking past an annoying Talia Shire and a wasted Diane Keaton and going with "The Godfather."
The Neighborhood without Mr. Rogers vs. Sesame Street without Elmo. Mr. Rogers was like the JKidd of the Land of Make Believe. He distributed the rock. He was the floor general. If you take him out, there is no Neighborhood. Elmo's cute and cuddly, but he lives off in his own little world. He doesn't make the players around him better. If he's gone, Sesame Street rolls on without a hitch.
Cheers without Sam vs. MASH without Hawkeye. You could complicate this by doing a whole Coach/Woody vs. BJ/Trapper thing; but at the end of the day, it gets down to a question of which uptight, annoying female lead is less offensive. Hotlips bugs, but she's a peach next to Diane and Rebecca.
The Giambi Brothers without Jason vs. The Coen Brothers without Joel. To be honest, I can never tell Ethan and Joel apart. Jeremy I remember, though. Give me Ethan, and give me "Fargo" and "Miller's Crossing" and "Lebowski on DVD while you're at it.
Harold minus Maude vs. Starsky minus Hutch. The highlight of Bud Cort's career after playing Harold in 1971 was his role as Brother Jacques in "The Chocolate War" in 1988. The highlights of Paul Michael Glaser's career, post-Starsky, include a stirring turn as Harry Houdini in 1976 and a small, but solid, performance as Dave, the ex-husband, in this year's "Something's Gotta Give." Advantage, Starsky.
Penn without Teller vs. Charlie McCarthy without Edgar Bergen. Two words: "Child's Play."
For all you Louis Jordan fans ... Beans without cornbread vs. Saturday Night without a fish fry. You know you gotta eat; you know you gotta go with the beans.
"Raging Bull" minus DeNiro vs. "Chinatown" minus Jack. That leaves Joe Pesci to slap Faye Dunaway and Faye Dunaway to slap Joe Pesci, and she's his sister, she's his daughter, she's his sister, she's his daughter. Ah, hell, it's a push.
"Hoosiers" without Hackman vs. "The Longest Yard" without Burt. What are we talking about? In both cases, you just shut it down. Send the kids out with an extra tub of popcorn or some Red Vines or something, but there won't be any movie today.
The Go-Gos without Belinda Carlisle vs. The Bangles without Susannah Hoffs. One of these women did a very tasteful Playboy shoot. You make the call.
And we'll close with the biggie. Nick minus Jessica vs. Ashton minus Demi: Ashton's an Iowa boy. He comes by his wrestling moves honestly. Two-point take down!
Wrestling. That's a sport. That reminds me, this was a hoops column once upon a time. You know what would be cool? An injured Kidd wrestling a wounded Iverson.
Who do you take? ...
Eric Neel is a regular columnist for Page 2. His "On Baseball" column will appear weekly during the baseball season.


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Yes, that's a real flower in my hair. I hate fake flowers
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They are souls of small children. (Me explaining how the flowers in my hair stay fresh. Then laughing hysterically at the expression on people's faces.)
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If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
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Aliases for CHUK Gene
Aliases for CHUK Gene
External Ids for CHUK Gene
- Entrez Gene: 1147
- Ensembl: ENSG00000213341
- UniProtKB: O15111
Previous HGNC Symbols for CHUK Gene
Previous GeneCards Identifiers for CHUK Gene
Summaries for CHUK Gene
This gene encodes a member of the serine/threonine protein kinase family. The encoded protein, a component of a cytokine-activated protein complex that is an inhibitor of the essential transcription factor NF-kappa-B complex, phosphorylates sites that trigger the degradation of the inhibitor via the ubiquination pathway, thereby activating the transcription factor. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
GeneCards Summary for CHUK Gene
CHUK (Conserved Helix-Loop-Helix Ubiquitous Kinase) is a Protein Coding gene. Diseases associated with CHUK include cocoon syndrome and ectodermal dysplasia 10b, hypohidrotic/hair/tooth type, autosomal recessive. Among its related pathways are Signaling by GPCR and Immune System. GO annotations related to this gene include protein homodimerization activity and protein kinase activity. An important paralog of this gene is IKBKE.
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot for CHUK Gene
Serine kinase that plays an essential role in the NF-kappa-B signaling pathway which is activated by multiple stimuli such as inflammatory cytokines, bacterial or viral products, DNA damages or other cellular stresses. Acts as part of the canonical IKK complex in the conventional pathway of NF-kappa-B activation and phosphorylates inhibitors of NF-kappa-B on serine residues. These modifications allow polyubiquitination of the inhibitors and subsequent degradation by the proteasome. In turn, free NF-kappa-B is translocated into the nucleus and activates the transcription of hundreds of genes involved in immune response, growth control, or protection against apoptosis. Negatively regulates the pathway by phosphorylating the scaffold protein TAXBP1 and thus promoting the assembly of the A20/TNFAIP3 ubiquitin-editing complex (composed of A20/TNFAIP3, TAX1BP1, and the E3 ligases ITCH and RNF11). Therefore, CHUK plays a key role in the negative feedback of NF-kappa-B canonical signaling to limit inflammatory gene activation. As part of the non-canonical pathway of NF-kappa-B activation, the MAP3K14-activated CHUK/IKKA homodimer phosphorylates NFKB2/p100 associated with RelB, inducing its proteolytic processing to NFKB2/p52 and the formation of NF-kappa-B RelB-p52 complexes. In turn, these complexes regulate genes encoding molecules involved in B-cell survival and lymphoid organogenesis. Participates also in the negative feedback of the non-canonical NF-kappa-B signaling pathway by phosphorylating and destabilizing MAP3K14/NIK. Within the nucleus, phosphorylates CREBBP and consequently increases both its transcriptional and histone acetyltransferase activities. Modulates chromatin accessibility at NF-kappa-B-responsive promoters by phosphorylating histones H3 at Ser-10 that are subsequently acetylated at Lys-14 by CREBBP. Additionally, phosphorylates the CREBBP-interacting protein NCOA3. Also phosphorylates FOXO3 and may regulate this pro-apoptotic transcription factor (PubMed:15084260).
IkappaB Kinase (IKK) is an enzyme complex that forms part of the NF-kappaB signaling pathway. The IKK complex is comprised of three subunits (IKKalpha (IKK1), IKKbeta (IKK2) and IKKgamma (NEMO)), the alpha- and beta-subunits are catalytically active whereas the gamma-subunit has a regulatory function.