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Does exactly what I expected and does it fairly nicely.
There's a few "glitches" in the UI when creating the pricing tables, I've had the Price portion randomly disappear on save. Yes, I'm sure I entered it.
It's also unclear when entering Features what the 2nd line is for, and the templates are inconsistent in places. Some display the price using a $ by force, and some don't, so you have to enter it yourself.
The upgrade seems pretty reasonably priced if I need it too.
Meets my expectations
This plugin is nice but there is a new one called PriceFish which is so much newer and has analytics as well
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I got this question for a reader yesterday, and I admit to having no idea what the "icon bar" is. Turns out it's what they call the little bar at the top of the SmartPhone screen.
The question was "how to use MS standard Plugin control such as icon bar", and by this we (meaning the Visual C++ for Device team, which doesn't have intimate knowledge of all of the features of different variants of Windows CE like PocketPC and SmartPhone) figure the question is actually how do I turn on and off the various icons on that bar. The means to do this appears to be the SHNotification* APIs documented in the SmartPhone 2003, PocketPC 2003, and Windows CE .NET SDK References. There is also an MFC sample called "NotifyMe" in the PocketPC 2003 SDK relating to this.


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3 stags as they started to walk towards us, this was after we'd taken quite a few photos and I think they started to get a little weary of us so started to come towards us to ward us off as they wondered across to a new area to graze.
This is a great shot. I love their grumpy looking faces!
thanks! Yeah they're certainly not scared, they all circled each other at one point, thought I was going to shoot them clash, would of made my day!
Amazing picture, Yeah I would not want to get too close to that 14 point!


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Canadian plane and train manufacturer Bombardier reported a slight dip in net profits Thursday, saying aircraft orders and deliveries slipped during the third quarter.
Bombardier Aerospace's revenue also fell to $4.06 billion from $4.2 billion during the same three-month period a year ago, the Montreal-based manufacturer said.
Excluding certain costs and gains, adjusted earnings dropped to $165 million, or nine cents a share, just below analysts' expectations of 10 cents, for the quarter ended September 30.
The previous year, Bombardier had reported earnings of $173 million, or nine cents a share as well.
Bombardier Aerospace's revenues came to $2.0 billion, a drop from $2.3 billion for the same period last fiscal year.
The division delivered a total of 45 aircraft during the quarter, compared to 57 a year earlier. It also received 26 net orders, compared to 83 a year ago.
"In Aerospace, results were in line with our guidance, but the low order intake and overall market conditions were a disappointment," said Bombardier president and chief executive Pierre Beaudoin.
Bombardier launched its new CSeries medium-range jetliner -- its biggest ever plane -- on its maiden flight last month, putting the Canadian manufacturer in direct competition with Airbus and Boeing.
Turning to trains, the company's transportation division reported revenues of $2.1 billion, compared to $1.9 billion for the same period last year.


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I'm printing to labels. The source PDF is offset somewhat from the labels. I can measure the offset... is there a way to nudge, scale or skew the printout to match up?
I was just able to do this yesterday with pdfedit. What I cannot seem to figure out how to do yet though is to script this from the terminal.
In pdfedit, load the document. Click on the set page transformation matrix icon.
On the first tab, click on Translate (shift) page and set which pages you want to operate on.
On the Page translation (second) tab, set the x and/or y translation values.
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Actor Josh Hutcherson waved to the cameras while arriving at ABC studios for Jimmy Kimmel Live a little while ago. Josh has been busy promoting the final installment of The Hunger Games,
For his travelling clothes, he chose the J Brand Tyler Slim Fit in Black with a skull t-shirt and some black sneakers. We have seen the Tyler fit on many celebrities and each one interprets them differently, but I love how skinny they are. They seem to fit guys nice and slim, like they do on Josh here, so that's a bonus. Buy J Brand for men at East Dane.
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Posing while at ComicCon, Josh Hutcherson wore a pair of All Saints Cigarette Jeans in Black, with a white tank top and gray overshirt. Josh and his co-stars, Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth, are busy promoting the last installment of the Hunger Games.
I know these jeans are listed as black by AllSaints, but they look especially like a washed out grey to me. I think the wash looks nice paired with the dark brown boots, it's a great contrast. You can buy All Saints online from Allsaints.com.
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Josh Hutcherson posed with his co-stars at the Escobar: Paradise Lost Press Conference during the Toronto International Film Festival. The actor kept his look all black with pair of A GOLD E Slim Jeans in Ink Black and a black button-down.
A GOLD E is a brand that I recently came across. What I love about them is that even though they are more affordable, they didn't skimp on the quality and fit. The way the jeans are cut and the placement of the pockets are where they should be to flatter. How many of you have tried A GOLD E? You can click here to purchase these jeans from their website for $99.
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He wore Diesel's Shioner 661D jeans with a white tee and sandals. Josh wore these jeans out to the Teen Choice awards over the summer. We haven't spotted that many guys out in Diesel recently, so it's great to see Josh wearing them. You can buy men's Diesel jeans online at SSENSE.


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Many nonbelievers equate faith with certainty, or with a desire for explanations: how the world came to be, why the good suffer, etc. And it must be said that many unreflective believers make superstitious use of religion. But few of the serious believers I know think of faith in this way. For most it is a kind of perception, a form of gratitude, and very far from anything like explanation or certainty.
There is so great a divide between these ideas of what faith means that they really need exploring. We need to ask why people who say they have no need for faith insist they know the experience of those of us who do believe, when they themselves admittedly have no aptitude for belief; it's like a tone-deaf man who insists on explaining the nonmeaning of music.
There is plainly a version of faith, one with an ancient pedigree, that rules out doubt of any sort. It was probably not all that difficult to sustain in a period during which most of your contemporaries claimed to share your belief, at least paying it lip service—a time when belief was seen as a desirable thing, or when peer pressure made it seem so.
While I can say the creed and mean it, I cannot say it the way I would (for example) recite multiplication tables. My belief that this is true is asserted not as a recitation of simple facts, but in the face of the possibility that it may not be, in the deep...
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The only reason he was a face in the first place is because the people he beat up happened to be heels or nameless jobbers.* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/TheShield. Even after his heel turn.* BaldOfAwesome[=/=]BaldOfEvil: Depends on whether he's face or heel.* BarbaricBully: Ryback's underwent a "bully" gimmick for a while, which had him terrorize random enhancement talent backstage.* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: A main event match featuring Wrestling/JohnCena and Wrestling/CMPunk that ended with a few ''Wrestling/{{WWE NXT}}'' wrestlers making their invading debut to the main roster. Are we talking about the 2010 debut of Wrestling/TheNexus (which Skip Sheffield was a part of) or the [[Wrestling/TheShield Ambrose/Rollins/Reigns]] attack on Ryback at ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries'' 2012?* BerserkButton: BOWLIES, during his alliance with Paul Heyman. He seemed to flip-flop between being a BOWLIE and hating BOWLIES for the rest of his heel run.* BigBeautifulMan: Referred to as such by Wrestling/PaulHeyman, though it's actually an aversion.* BigEater: During ''Wrestling/WWEToughEnough'', Wrestling/AlSnow gave an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HY3g4CGdM0&feature=g-vrec interview]] about Ryback constantly sneaking large amounts of food around and getting in trouble for with Bill [=DeMott=] for it. Years later, [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] gave an interview also describing Ryback's eating habits.** It's pretty much become his character, used to describe him literally as well as metaphorically in terms of in-ring competition. * TheBigGuy: As a face.** TheBrute: As a heel. Although he actually started referring to himself as "the big guy" after his heel turn.* BloodKnight: His face gimmick was to pretty much to beat a guy (or pair of guys) down, then promptly ask for more guys to beat down.** Cena probably put it best on the 10-15-12 episode of RAW when he said that Ryback was probably the ''only'' man in the company who didn't give a damn about the WWE Title; he just wanted to beat down Punk.*** This comment ''may'' had come back to bite Cena in the ass.* BoisterousBruiser* BreakupBreakout: Due to his injury, he was barely in the Nexus at all. However, back in 2010, very few people would have guessed that Skip Sheffield would later become a bigger star than anyone else in the original Nexus. While he hasn't been center of a high profile angle the same way Barrett was, he's been far more consistently high on the card. While [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] is a much bigger star than Ryback, he was never really a part of Nexus, being kicked out in less then a week.* CanonDiscontinuity: He was in no way shape or form part of Wrestling/TheNexus. What they acknowledge is that he was part of NXT season 1, before getting hurt.** DiscontinuityNod: A close look at his ring gear reveals a subtle (if not accidental) one, in that he wears arm bands on his biceps with a huge "R", right where the Nexus armband(s) would be.* CatchPhrase:** Most notably, "'''FEED! ME! MORE!!'''". Other catchphrases include; "'''WAKE UP'''" when entering the ring, "'''I HIT! ''HARD!'''''" while he assaults his opponent, and "'''FINISH! IT!!'''" before Shell Shocking the opponent.** "'''RYBACK! RUUUUUULES!'''" ** "Everybody loves the big guy!"** "IT'S FEEDING TIME!"** After the match is over and Ryback has won (usually decisively): "'''DONE!'''"** As Skip Sheffield, he had "Yup yup yup, what it do!"* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Established in kayfabe, he lifted up two jobbers at the same time, but the jobbers were small and scrawny. He also tossed one of Miz's stage couches out of the ring after interrupting one of his shows, but seeing how it barely made an impact as it landed, it was very lightweight. By contrast, he showed considerable difficulty getting the 360-pound Tensai up on his shoulders for the Shell Shocked, a slightly modified Samoan Drop, whereas his predecessor {{Wrestling/Goldberg}} managed to hoist up Big Show vertically for a Jackhammer (though Tensai had dead weighted Ryback on the move, while Goldberg had Show's full cooperation). He has, however, managed to get the even ''larger'' Wrestling/MarkHenry up onto his shoulders for the move, with some help from Henry. Then he does it to Khali and does his signature walk around twice.* TheChewToy: A minor example; the poor guy just doesn't seem to have much luck. He already [[GameBreakingInjury had a hard enough time getting to the main roster.]] And, he'd probably have the WWE title already if other people didn't keep sticking their noses into his business.* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: If his twitter rants and behavior in the ring as of 2014 are any indication.* {{Cowboy}}: As Skip Sheffield.* CrowdChant: When Ryback prepares for the Meat Hook Clothesline, he backs into a corner and thrusts his right shoulder forward three times, pauses, and then repeats until the opponent gets up. With each thrust, the crowd chants in rhythm: "FEED! ME! MORE! FEED! ME! MORE!" He even gets this reaction as a heel.* DemotedToExtra: Came within seconds of winning the WWE Championship. ''Several times.'' Had since slipped further and further down the card and had been in an afterthought tag team with Wrestling/CurtisAxel for around a year.* {{Determinator}}:** Fought for over a year to come back from a broken leg (see GameBreakingInjury below).** Gave John Cena a run for his money in their Last Man Standing match at Extreme Rules. An Attitude Adjustment through a table? Speared through the barricade? Splashed through a table by Cena and blasted in the face with a fire extinguisher? He ''kept.'' ''coming.'' ''back.''* DumbMuscle: As Skip Sheffield.* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: They actually tried having him cut a promo once back toward the beginning of his undefeated streak. Either his mic skills needed work or they decided that TheQuietOne was the way to go, because now he only says a few words at a time, although that seems to be changing.* [[EveryYearTheyFizzleOut Every Month They Fizzle Out]]: Was made to look like a beast on TV during his initial face run but went a full year of failing to win ''every'' match he had on Pay-Per-View, bookended by victories over Curt Hawkins and Tyler Reks at Money in the Bank 2012 and Chris Jericho at Money in the Bank 2013.* {{Expy}}:** His large, imposing figure, [[BaldOfAwesome shiny pate]], and tendency to beat opponents in dominating fashion recall Wrestling/{{Goldberg}}, which the crowd invariably [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] with the appropriate chant during his matches. In interviews, Ryback sees the comparison as an insult (because he considers himself to be a more passionate and harder worker than Goldberg) while Goldberg treats it as a compliment (as fans are still chanting his name years after his retirement).\\\\Ryback even, perhaps foolishly, utilized a Spear/Tackle maneuver at the TLC pay-per-view in 2012. You get one guess as to how the fans responded. But by now, [[http://whatculture.com/wwe/ryback-debuts-his-new-goldberg-look.php he fully embraced the comparaison and started wearing attire based on him]].** He has also been compared to the Wrestling/UltimateWarrior because of his...interesting promos. His voice is even similar to Warrior's.* EyeScream: For a while, he came down to the ring with an eye that was bright red. This came from an accident involving a kettle bell if Daniel Bryan is to be believed.* ExactWords: Ryback said he wouldn't let John Cena get up in their Last Man Standing match. Cue the end of the match, where Ryback drove Cena through the PPV set onto a ''metal brace.'' The match was called a No Contest, but whereas Ryback was standing, albeit helped out by officials, Cena was carted off on a stretcher in a neck brace.* EyeTake: Ryback has huge eyes that don't blink very often at all. Makes him look rather intimidating.* FaceHeelTurn: Heavily implied when he Shell Shocked John Cena on April 8th. The fans (for better or worse) cheered it like he finally got his hands on the top heel, which made it really difficult to tell what the intended reaction was.** A week later, WWE decided to drive home that he's a heel now when they had him act like a complete coward when face to face with Cena.* FlatCharacter: His character can really be summed up by his catchphrase, "Feed Me More". This makes a ''little'' more sense if you know about insider terminology ("feeding" someone to a wrestler means to put them in a SquashMatch specifically to make the winner look better) and Ryan Reeves' backstage rep for being a BigEater. But it also means that on the rare (no pun intended) occasion that Ryback cuts a promo, he tends to use a bizarre amount of food-related metaphors and puns.** Alternatively, a very intense, odd, BloodKnight, since he feels genuinely unsatisfied with the jobbers he's been given and craves more suitable competition.* ForcedMeme: "Feed Me More!" The guy ''has to lead his own chants''.** Whenever a face, he always becomes very much over with the WWE universe, so you'll hear the crowd say it LONG before he does in the match.* GameBreakingInjury: The poor guy broke his leg right as the Nexus angle took off in 2010, keeping him out of the ring for well over a year. Although, given what his previous character was and how the Nexus angle turned out for everyone involved ''not'' named Wrestling/DanielBryan... this may have been to his benefit.* GreenEyedMonster: Possibly. One of the reasons he gave for turning heel was that he was sick of living in John Cena's shadow.* GroinAttack: A blatant nut-shot from referee Brad Maddox kept him from winning the WWE Title. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Maddox would pay dearly for his actions soon after.]]* GutturalGrowler: His voice is low and ''extremely'' raspy.* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Went through a heel turn and a face turn on a single episode of Monday Night Raw (November 10, 2014). First, crushing Wrestling/JohnCena with a Spinebuster when confronted by both Cena and Wrestling/TheAuthority to join their respective Survivor Series teams (Ryback claimed that he's "Not afraid of The Authority, but [he] doesn't see John Cena's name at the bottom of The Big Guy's paycheck." Cue Spinebuster). The implication was that he had turned heel and would fight for The Authority at Survivor Series, but throughout the night, each of the other members of the team continued to rub him the wrong way with repeated visits to his locker room, and it finally boiled over at the end of the night, when Kane interfered in Ryback's match against John Cena, despite being told by The Big Guy to stay out of his way. Ryback cleaned house and destroyed nearly every member of The Authority, apparently turning face again.** It wasn't so much a turn as it was a MistreatmentInducedBetrayal with Kane costing Ryback the match with Cena and giving him a boot to the face. The next week, Ryback essentially considered himself neutral until Cena delivered an [[ArmorPiercingQuestion armor-piercing statement]] that the guy who constantly proclaims "Feed! Me! More!" suddenly doesn't want to eat at the "big table." That moved Ryback to make up his mind and cement his HeelFaceTurn by joining Team Cena and clearing Team Authority out of the ring to close Raw.* HulkSpeak[=/=]PunctuatedForEmphasis: Initially, his gimmick consisted of a lot of this, but as he's spent more time in the WWE, he's become slowly more articulate.* InformedAttribute: He's known as "The Big Guy", and he is a very large man at 6' 2'' and 290 pounds. However, quite a few wrestlers are just as or even taller than he is, so he isn't as imposing over them as his nickname implies.* InvincibleHero: While he's lost his fair share of matches as a face, very few, if any of them, have been clean losses. His record as a heel was pretty even.* {{Jerkass}}: Big time with his heel turn.* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: His Rybaxel run had shades of this with him being good friends with CurtisAxel and his 2014 return is this, especially if you look at his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdk1S3ySgLk backstage promo]] where he thanks his fans for supporting him even when he failed before.** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpBYZetmb5k Rybaxel split]] was wonderfully sincere. They're great friends but they lost... often, and after their respective returns they agreed to stop teaming, at least until they had both re-established themselves as singles competitors.* {{Leitmotif}}: If Ryback's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOSitBxpTWg YouTube channel]] is to be believed, he is accompanied by his WWE theme music wherever he goes, be it the gym, a drive-through or the hardware store.* LightningBruiser: Dude's so big, it's usually quite the surprise when he proves how agile he actually is and manages to pull out a move someone of his size wouldn't normally do, like a high knee in the corner or a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M50cC7ySJ5E Corkscrew Piancha.]]* MilkingTheGiantCow: An integral part of his entrance.* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: The explanation behind his FaceHeelTurn was that he was there to help Cena every time Cena was attacked by the Shield, but Cena didn't return the favor when Ryback was attacked by them.* MusclesAreMeaningful: Used in kayfabe, but averted in real life, in spite of his defined physique he's got problems lifting up guys like Tensai (though it should be noted that Tensai dead weighted him on one occasion, and he succeeded in an attempt before and after this incident). He'd also lost an arm wrestling match against the much smaller Daniel Puder back in Tough Enough 4.* NiceHat: Since turning heel in April 2013, Ryback began to wear a skullcap during promos and any time he's not wrestling.* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: He did this to rogue ref Brad Maddox, after destroying him in the match they had, he then outright annihilated him then threw him into a waiting ambulance. (Keep in mind that this ''wasn't'' an ambulance match. [[ForegoneConclusion The ambulance just showed up because they knew what was going to happen.]])* OhCrap[=/=]HellIsThatNoise:** For a lot of his foes, the moment his audio cue hits. '''"FEED! ME! MORE!"'''** For a brief period of time around Extreme Rules 2013, he's had begun to drive an ambulance out, so the first thing his opponents usually heard was the siren.* OnlyFriend: The only person he follows on Twitter is his former tag team partner Curtis Axel.* PermaStubble* PetTheDog: Comforted Vickie Guerrero after she was fired.* {{Portmanteau}}:** Ryback is actually the combination of his first name Ryan and his original nickname, "Silverback".** Taken to new levels with his continued partnership with CurtisAxel, which the announcers were forced to call (with a straight face) "Rybaxel."* PromotedFanboy: Has been a wrestling fan since he was five. Also invoked this himself when he responded on a radio show to the Goldberg chants he draws: he says the difference is that Goldberg was in it for the money, but he's in wrestling because he loves it.* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: A not uncommon spot in his matches is for his opponent to try and kick him, only for him to catch their foot leaving them open for one of his signature lariats.* TheQuietOne:** Rarely ever talks, and when he does it short and to the point.** With his heel turn, that aspect of his character has been scaled back. He began to cut a lot more promos, and they were pretty standard length.* RealLifeWritesThePlot: A very straight example of this. As much as WWE liked Ryback, they didn't plan on giving him a WWE Championship match as early as they did - but after John Cena had surgery to repair an injury and [[CueTheFlyingPigs took longer to heal than originally planned]] (and keep in mind that Cena's known for usually coming back ''faster'' than expected from legit injuries), they had to go to him as a backup.* RedBaron:** WWE tried to give him [[BigEater "The Big Hungry"]] as one, but it didn't stick, and they just stopped calling him that. Wrestling/JerryLawler occasionally refers to him as the "Sin City Cyborg" (which is a ShoutOut to the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''-inspired gimmick he had in FCW), but that doesn't seem to be sticking either.** More recently (mainly after his Heel turn), he's been called the "Human Wrecking Ball."** And as Skip Sheffield, he was [[DumbMuscle "the cornfed meathead."]]** His mini-tron (the screen underneath the large "Titantron" screen) features a graphic of a bear trap, which has given him a smattering of nicknames along the lines of "The Walking Bear Trap."** He ended up giving himself the Nickname"The Big Guy" and it ended up sticking. * RedemptionPromotion: Inverted and played with. As a face, Ryback was practically unstoppable, usually requiring massive amounts of interference or a well-organized group like The Shield to be defeated. After his heel turn, his opponents were generally allowed to get much more offense in against him, although he still usually wins, except for title matches. 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The '05 Dodgers stink.
And you probably shouldn't invite Milton Bradley and Jeff Kent to the same fondue party.
Both these things are true, but they are not related.
For the better part of a week now, I haven't been able to open a newspaper or visit a Web site without reading about how the Bradley-Kent incidents reveal a debilitating chemical imbalance at the heart of the Dodgers. The team is bad, so the theory goes, because its character is deficient, because it's made up of combustible Bradleys and cantankerous Kents who don't mesh and don't hang with each other. The team would be better, so the theory goes, if only these boys were Boy Scouts, if only they would gather 'round the campfire singing songs and swapping stories.
That's sweet, but it's also pretty much bunk.
The Dodgers' failings aren't nearly so mushy or pop psychological. They're actually quite transparent. The list includes, but is not limited to, the following:
• Their single best player, Eric Gagne, pitched 13.1 innings and posted just eight saves this year; and his replacement for much of the season, Yhency Brazoban, despite the mellifluous way Vin Scully pronounces his name, has been ugly (5.82 ERA and .276 BAA).
• Bradley and J.D. Drew, guys good for .835 and .931 OPS, respectively, have each missed 40-plus games due to injury. And Jose Valentin, Odalis Perez, Brad Penny, Jayson Werth and Wilson Alvarez, all of whom were counted on to be key contributors, have spent considerable time on the shelf as well. In fact, according to Joe Sheehan at Baseball Prospectus, the club had lost 984 days (fourth-most in the bigs) to the disabled list as of a week ago.
• Groundball pitcher Derek Lowe has found his home-run groove, giving up 26 of them, including 15 in pitcher-friendly Dodger Stadium, through 28 starts.
• Jim Tracy thought starter Edwin Jackson was ready, and Paul DePodesta believed Scott Erickson had a heartbeat. Both were sadly mistaken.
• Meanwhile, Tracy and Depo are at philosophical odds. One is more inclined to think traditionally, and the other is more interested in divining and exploiting market inefficiencies. That means guys like Hee-Seop Choi (who might be a very inexpensive source of power should he ever, you know, get some at-bats) get stretched like a pair of Levi's between two plow horses and never get in any kind of a flow.
• The defense has committed 85 errors, turned only 116 double plays (both rank in the bottom third of baseball), and treated the fans in the stands to hundreds of cheap, wholesome laughs the likes of which we haven't known since Dick Van Dyke was tripping over ottomans.
• Cesar Izturis stopped hitting in June (and never really walked to begin with), but he and his .302 OBP stayed in the leadoff spot until injuries in late August finally sat them down.
• Overall, the Dodgers hit .256 as a club (as bad as the Clemens-starving Astros) and score just 4.28 runs a game.
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Wikimedia Commons/Julia AlleyneThe 2012 Summer Olympics begin on July 27th, and the United States will try to lead all countries in medals won for the fifth straight Olympics.
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The UK vote to exit the European Union has given new momentum to euroskeptic, anti-immigration movements elsewhere. Experts discuss the political and policy lessons that can be learned from Brexit and applied to debates in Europe and North America, including how to address public anxiety over immigration and identity, while managing migration in a globalized economy.
The educational needs of immigrant students in primary and secondary schools pose a growing challenge for policymakers and educators. Speakers will discuss supplementary funding to support the educational needs of migrant-background students, and will provide an overview of the mechanics of school funding for such children in Canada, France, Germany, and United States, examined in an upcoming report.
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Release of a major report that describes and analyzes the immigration enforcement system in the United States as it has developed and grown in the quarter century since the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 launched the current era of enforcement.
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The Quality of Retrospective Reports in the Malaysian Family Life Survey
In this paper, the authors review studies that have evaluated the quality of retrospective data collected in the 1976-77 and 1988 Malaysian Family Life Surveys. The evaluations considered the internal consistency of the data, expected relationships between variables, comparisons with external contemporaneous data sources, and analyses of replicate reports. The authors summarize what has been learned about data quality by subject area. The topics include: marriage; fertility and fertility-related events, such as contraception, miscarriages, birthweight, and breastfeeding; infant and child mortality; education; housing; earnings; and migration. The authors conclude that accuracy is greater for qualitative reports than for amounts and durations, events associated with major life changes are recalled better, and the quality of reports is greater for more educated respondents and more recent events. The authors discuss the implications of these findings for research and for the design of future surveys.
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Merchant-loans provider Capital Access Network has raised a little capital of its own, scoring a $30 million round from Accel Partners as the investor continues to seek out companies that serve small- and medium-size businesses. The deal took about nine months to consummate and took more than a little convincing on the part of Accel Partner Kevin Efrusy. "They weren't looking to raise money. We wanted to put in more (than $30 million), but that's all they would take. They're believers in their company."
Fisker Automotive is watching a snowballing effect from last year's delay of the roll-out of its first plug-in vehicle, which is now leading the Department of Energy to delay loan payments and to layoffs at the company's Delaware plant. The company, one of the largest recipients of venture capital in clean technology, and a recipient of federal stimulus funds, has faced several setbacks as it brings its new cars to the market.
Also in today's VentureWire: Applied Proteomics has raised a $22.5 million Series B and hired a CEO as it prepares to develop a series of diagnostics designed to give doctors a better read on how to treat individuals suspected of heart disease, cancer and other conditions…Unity Semiconductor, a developer of memory chipsthat had raised more than $80 million in venture capital, said it has been acquired by Rambus for $35 million in cash…and Anamitra Banerji, who helped start Twitter's advertising platform, has joined Foundation Capital as an entrepreneur in residence.
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Sony says it's no longer playing catch up with Xbox Live
Eric Lempel, SCEA's director of PSN operations, has said that the service is no longer playing catch up with Xbox Live.
"I don't think there's a lot of 'catch up' [with XBL] any more. In some cases, I think we've got more, and we've got some other things they don't have," he told Industry Gamers.
"In terms of strengths, of course we're still free, and we're giving you a lot for free. It's not just free online gaming, but we've got PlayStation Home, which is a massive community and application that's totally free to use. I think there's a lot we're doing that in some cases they're not doing, and I don't see a lot of things they're doing that we're not."
Lempel also elaborated that Sony did not want to go the Apple route with various software options, especially for PSP.
"Right now our free catalog consists of demos, wallpapers, themes and videos about games. I don't think we want to degrade the experience you get from a PSP. Because [iPhone] is not a gaming-centric device, I think a user picks it up and says, 'This is kind of dumb, but I don't care because I know this device wasn't intended for games'…. we don't want to see a bunch of little things that don't quite make sense or provide a good experience because I think that takes away from what the device is intended for."
Just for reference purposes only, the amount of people that purchased an iPhone amounted to 3.79 million in quarter one of 2009 alone, which represented 123 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter.
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NEW YORK (AP) _ A man accused of running the escort service that
led to the downfall of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer will
plead guilty. That's according to Mark Brener's attorney.
The 62-year-old will appear in a Manhattan federal court Thursday, after having negotiated a plea deal with the U.S. attorney's office.
The agreement is similar to one reached with Cecil Suwal, who ran the day-to-day operations of the escort service. Suwal pleaded guilty to a pair of federal conspiracy charges. Her plea bargain calls for between 21 and 27 months in prison, although a judge can depart from the recommendation.
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Cajun singer, musician Zachary Richard recovering from stroke
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LAFAYETTE — Cajun singer and songwriter Zachary Richard is recovering from a stroke but may have to cancel or postpone a Canadian tour scheduled to start Oct. 29, a close friend said.
Richard, 60, is making a good comeback from the stroke, which affected one side of his body but not his voice, Todd Mouton told The Advertiser newspaper in Lafayette, La.
"The whole thing was so scary," Mouton said. "But we're excited with his progress. Doctors say he should have about 100 percent recovery."
The newspaper reported Friday that Richard suffered the stroke late Sunday, Oct. 17.
"By Monday afternoon, he was already able to pick up his guitar and put out a few licks," Mouton said.
He said Richard hopes to make recording dates scheduled early in December.
"Zach will be back," Mouton said. "He's very confident about that and what motivates him is his desire to do more writing, recording, performing and activism for the causes that he loves."
Richard had to slow down on his promotional work for "Le Grand Gosier," a double-sided single and video produced to help raise awareness for the many issues facing the people of the Louisiana Gulf Coast.
Richard received his first recording contract when he was 21 and has released 20 albums since, recording in both English and French. He has also published three volumes of poetry.
In 1996, he founded Action Cadienne, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the French language and Cajun culture of Louisiana. Richard is a decorated as a musician and activist in Louisiana, Canada and France.
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The seeds of various plants were used as weights because their mass reputedly varies so little. Carob (Ceratonia siliqua), which has given its name to the carat, is particularly famous in this regard. But are carob seeds unusually constant in weight and, if not, how did the myth arise? The variability of seeds sampled from a collection of carob trees (CV=23%) was close to the average of 63 species reviewed from the literature (CV=25%). However, in a perception experiment observers could discriminate differences in carob seed weight of around 5% by eye demonstrating the potential for humans to greatly reduce natural variation. Interestingly, the variability of pre-metrication carat weight standards is also around 5% suggesting that human rather than natural selection gave rise to the carob myth.
Seed weight is generally considered to be one of the least plastic of plant traits (Harper 1970). The optimal seed size is commonly supposed to reflect an underlying trade-off between seed size and seed number, where seedling survival increases asymptotically with increasing seed size but at the cost of decreased seed production (Smith & Fretwell 1974). Under this model any variability around the optimum seed size is seen as maladaptive. However, variability might increase when there is sibling competition for maternal resources (Banuelos & Obeso 2003) or when the parent differentially provisions offspring according to their genetic quality (Bernasconi 2004). In contrast, variability might be particularly low when species can regulate the size of the fruit crop, e.g. through selective abortion of seeds (Rocha & Stephenson 1991) or when additional external selection pressures such as size-selective predation operate (Moles et al. 2003; Gomez 2004). Species are, therefore, likely to exhibit different degrees of variability in their seed crops.
It is popularly believed that the carat, the unit of weight for gemstones, is derived from the name of the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua L., Fabaceae, see photo in electronic supplementary material) via an ancient weighing system based on its seeds. Carob was reputedly selected in this regard because the mass of its seeds is unusually constant (Tolansky 1962; Harper 1970; Daniel 1972; Janzen 1979). The idea that species historically used for weighing were specially selected because their seeds do not vary in weight seems to be believed by, and may originate with, people who were using seeds for that purpose (Bauer 1969). In the case of carob, the myth has been widely propagated, despite apparent variation between seeds from a single pod (figure 1) and a variety of published claims which are contradictory, usually based on only a single tree, and make no comparison with other species (Tolansky 1962; Daniel 1972; Janzen 1979). Here, we attempt to unravel the relationship between the carat and the carob and propose an explanation for the myth of constant seed weight.
There appears to be a long history of a weight carrying a name associated with carob and with a mass close to that of a single carob bean. For example, the ancient Greeks had a small weight, the kerat, while the siliqua (from the Latin for carob, siliqua Graeca) is the smallest subdivision (1/1728) of the Roman pound (Smith 1870). Incidentally, the measure of gold purity—also called the carat (UK English) or karat (US English)—derives from the time of the Emperor Constantine when a new gold coin was struck at 72 to the Roman pound, meaning that each coin weighed 24 siliquae or carats. While the exact modern equivalents of ancient weights are of course unknown, various methods such as weighing ancient coins, give widely accepted values for the siliqua in the range 189–192mg (Smith 1870). According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED 1989) the word carat first appeared in 1555 but its weight varied from place to place prior to its standardization at 200mg in 1907 (Zhengzhang 1991).
While it seems highly likely that the carat is based on the carob, the question remains whether carob was chosen for the commonly stated reason that the seeds are unusually constant in weight. If not, it suggests that human selection played a part in establishing the carob myth. We tested the first question by weighing carob seeds from a large number of trees collected from around Mallorca and comparing their variability to that of 63 other species. We tested the second by conducting a direct test of people's ability to infer differences in the weight of seeds by eye and by comparing the distribution of carob seed sizes with the distribution of carat weight standards around the world prior to 1907.
To assess carob seed variability we sampled 28 trees from a collection at Sa Granja agricultural research station, Mallorca. The trees, half of which were female and half hermaphrodite, differed in size and fell into two distinct age groups: older trees dating from before the establishment of Sa Granja in the 1930s and younger trees added since the 1970s. The collection of younger trees was assembled by collecting branches from a wide variety of individuals from around the island and grafting them onto a standard root stock. We weighed all the seeds from two pods on different branches from each tree (N=550) but, consistent with other studies, excluded 59 seeds (10.7%) which were aborted, predated or grossly misshapen. Seed weights reported in the main text are means and their standard errors.
We analysed differences in seed weight with mixed-effects ANOVA and variance components analysis using restricted maximum likelihood and implemented with the NLME software for R and S-Plus (Pinheiro & Bates 2000). Age, gender and size of the trees (trunk diameter) were treated as fixed effects, and tree and pod (within tree) were treated as random effects. We analysed variability in seed weight (CVs) within trees and pods to see whether mean seed weight or seed number affected variability. We also tested whether pods containing aborted seeds had lower variability than pods which did not.
The seed size perception study was carried out at IMEDEA. Twenty participants were asked to select the heaviest from each of 12 randomly presented pairs of seeds. They were not allowed to handle the seeds. Each seed pair had the same average mass, 200mg, but a different CV (0–30%). Data on the weight of the carat in 17 different locations worldwide prior to 1907 were taken from Zhengzhang (1991).
Background information on C. siliqua can be found in a comprehensive review of the literature by Batlle & Tous (1997).
The average mass of seeds from female trees (200.5±2.47mg) was very close to the metric carat (200mg) while seeds from hermaphrodite trees were lighter (175.8±7.1mg) possibly reflecting the cost of pollen production (figure 2a). However, average seed mass was unaffected by the age or size of the trees (mixed effects ANOVA; age: F1,26=0.7, p=0.406; size: F1,26=0.1, p=0.704). There were, however, significant differences between individual trees and pods within trees (likelihood ratio tests for individual trees: , p=0.0007; pods within trees: , p<0.0001). Variance components analysis showed that approximately one-third (30.4%) of the variation in seed mass occurred between trees and two-thirds within trees (13.4% between pods within trees and 56.2% between seeds within pods).
Carob did not have unusually low variability when compared with 63 other species including nine other Fabaceae (see table, electronic supplementary material; figure 2b): the CV for carob was 22.7% (females=19.3%, hermaphrodites=24.4%), for other Fabaceae 19% and across all species 25%. Carobs producing larger seeds had lower variability (figure 2c) but despite this effect, trees with an average seed mass equivalent to the metric carat (200mg) still had a CV of 14.7%. The relationship between mean seed weight and variability was the same for both female and hermaphrodite trees (gender: F1,24=0.1, p=0.83; gender×mean seed weight: F1,24=0.1, p=0.82). Coefficients of variation for seed weights within pods ranged from 3 to 51%. The relationship between the CV of seeds within pods and mean seed weight per pod was also highly significant (F1,25=27.8325; p<0.0001) so that pods with large seeds were less variable, but variability was unaffected by both seed number per pod (F1,25=3.0922; p=0.091) and the presence of aborted seeds (F1,25=2.1945; p=0.151).
When asked to identify the heaviest from a pair of seeds, people did better than chance for almost all pairs (figure 3a), e.g. more than 70% of people could correctly identify the heavier seed when the CV was just 10%. We assume people inferred differences in carob seed mass from differences in size since the relationship between carob seed mass and volume is known to be linear (R2=0.71; Zhengzhang 1991). This ability to accurately discriminate such small differences in weight would allow a carefully selected sample of seeds to have greatly reduced variability, undoubtedly far lower than in a random sample. Indeed, the distribution of carat weight standards around the world prior to metrication in 1907 has a coefficient of variation of 3.6% in contrast to that of 34% for our seed sample (including all aborted and misshapen seeds; figure 3b versus c). Interestingly, human selection has penalized against both extremes, 44% of our seeds are smaller than the range of carat weights and 27% are larger.
The etymology and mass of the carat support its direct descent from the carob bean via the ancient Roman siliqua. However, our analysis shows that carob is not unusually invariant in seed mass when compared to 63 other species. The variability of carob seeds within individual pods and trees declines with increasing seed mass, most likely because the variance remains constant, giving some pods with large seeds very low CVs. This new observation provides one possible explanation for the carob myth; however, it seems more likely that the myth arose from consideration of collections of seeds used for weighing, which had already been subjected to strong human selection. Our study shows that people are remarkably good at selecting seeds by eye, and can discriminate differences in weight of around 5%. In this instance, human selection seems, unusually, to have been stabilizing rather than directional leading to a distribution of carat weights around the mean weight of carob seeds rather than at the higher end of the distribution. This might reflect the conflicting interests of buyers and sellers, one of whom would always prefer bigger seeds and one of whom would always prefer smaller. Carob was perhaps chosen for use as a weight simply because of its ready availability—it spread widely around the Mediterranean in Classical times from its centre of origin in the Horn of Africa and southern Arabia (Ramón-Laca & Mabberly 2004)—and perhaps owing to its useful size. It is likely that one-carat diamonds were traded in ancient times even in Europe: the marks of diamond drills have been found on Roman antiquities (Gorelick & Gwinnett 1988) and even on beads in Yemen dated to the fourth century BC (Gwinnett & Gorelick 1991), raising the possibility of a truly ancient association between diamond and carob.
We thank: Joan Tous for putting us in contact with each other; Karl Petruso for encouragement; Maja Weilenmann, Gwilym Lewis and the American Museum of Natural History for help with literature; Marc Hall, Rowan Hooper, Jasmin Joshi, Petra Lindemann-Matthies, Christine Müller, Glen Reynolds, Bernhard Schmid, Andy Wilby and two anonymous reviewers for comments.
published estimates of seed size variability
carob pods on a carob tree
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Those opposed to access had a poorly planned rally scheduled for this past Saturday. Upon realizing that their timing was off, they apparently decided that the order of the day would be to turn the narrative to a slander of the DEC and outdoorsmen in general. Mrs. Perley claimed that clean water isnt about politics, yet introduced Rep. Kitzmiller as her hero and a key speaker. What did he do with his time? He referred to outdoorsmen as whiny, petulant 3-year-olds, and he did so in a mocking pantomime. He then proceeded to run down the DEC decision. Not only was this unprofessional in my opinion, it was exemplary of being a poor sport.
Correct me if Im wrong, but neither Mrs. Perley nor Mr. Kitzmiller is a scientist. This is, and always has been, about not in my backyard. Mrs. Perley claims concerns about water quality, but her water comes from her well, at her house, on the pond the pond she doesnt appear to want to share with the rest of us. The proper thing to do at this point would be to shake hands, say, Good game, and accept that it is time to create a proper carry-in access.
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