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.. yep, .. it's time again for a new roundup with last week's best tutorials and articles found on the interwebs. It's all about HTML, CSS, responsive web design, graphics, SEO, WordPress and more. A broad scale of topics, but never-the-less the underlying focus is on Design.
Also I see this as my personal bookmarks of great articles from the Community of the last period. These hand-picked articles and tutorials are categorized by their main topics. The best way to keep track of these tweets is simply to follow me on Twitter.
Webdesign Coding: CSS, HTML, Javascript, PhP, APIs, etc.
Media Query width and vertical scrollbars – Media queries are a great tool for changing a website's layout depending on parameters like viewport width, but it can be very annoying when browsers do not do the same thing.
What size is my viewport? – Responsive web design is making a positive and lasting impact to the web as we know it. Along with most change comes new scenarios. I think it's safe to say that supporting a flexible viewport is at the top of the list.
Simulate "float: down" – To sum up, he had a list of elements floated to the left. However, he wanted to float items top to bottom on each column and not left to right on each row.
How To Create HTML5/CSS3 Columns for All Browsers – In this article I want to look at creating your own website layouts from scratch using bare-bones HTML and CSS codes.
10 Creative Techniques Using CSS3 Box Shadow – In this article I want to share 10 code snippets relating to brilliant CSS3 box shadow designs. I'll explain how the code works and how you can implement each box shadow into your own website.
Why You're a Bad PHP Programmer – We all have our bad habits. In this article, we'll go over a list of bad practices that are worth examining, reevaluating, and correcting immediately.
CSS Selectors Level 4: The Path to CSS4 – Even now, just as you are still learning to use CSS3 and HTML5, those talented folks at W3C have released a working draft of the Level 4 standards of CSS Selectors, creating a buzz that CSS4 is near.
Stylish Blockquotes And Pull Quotes In Web Design: Tips & Examples – When you need to express dialogue or repeat a quotation from another source this is the perfect HTML style. Today's post to look at how you can create stylish blockquotes and pull quotes.
It's All About HTML5 "Section" Element – HTML5 new "Section" element seems a great solution to a common problem faced by most of the web developers while dividing a web page into various visible sections comprising of blocks, areas, boxes, regions.
A beginners guide to SASS, part 1 – I thought it's time to write a simple introduction to getting you started so that you understand what I'm talking about. And I'm sure as soon as you understand the potential you'll use it on your own projects.
Getting Started with Modernizr – Modernizr is a JavaScript Library used by many popular websites. We have not actually dug into what Modernizr is. So, in this post we will specifically discuss this JavaScript Library.
HTML 5.1 and the main element – The new
main element currently hovers between inclusion in the final HTML5 spec and 5.1, depending on how quickly it is implemented in browsers.
main was felt by many developers to be the element missing from HTML5
Using to Avoid Orphans – This isn't something to be abused, for sure. You'll end up getting entity crazy. But it's a good option to have in a quick rut or where you do have control.
20 tips for building modern sites while supporting old versions of IE – Over the past few years, we've spent a lot of time talking to web developers and the one thing we hear more than anything else is just how difficult it is to build sites that work well across various browser versions and devices.
The Absolute Beginner's Guide to CoffeeScript – CoffeeScript is a language that gets compiled to JavaScript. Code in .coffee files are not interpreted at run time, like JavaScript, but are compiled into .js files.
Your logo is still an image… and so is mine! – spriting an
img allows us to use the correct semantics and also take even more advantage of sprites! A machine sees an
img labelled 'CSS Wizardry' and a user sees my logo!
Usability, User Experience, Responsive Webdesign, Mobile, etc.
Windows on the Web – When people start a task on one device and then complete it on another, they don't want different content or less content, tailored for the device. They want the same content, presented so they can find it, navigate it, and read it.
Why and how to not use hover styles on touch devices – On mobile devices (phones and tablets), users use their finger, and there's no more way to just hover over an element on a webpage—hovering and "clicking" are invoked by the same action: tapping.
The new rules of the responsive web – Design is about meeting a need in a way that is visually pleasing, but also that works to meet the needs of the user. Making sites that can refactor themselves for small screens is just the beginning.
OOCSS & RWD – Responsive Web Design goes hand in hand with OOCSS. Adopting the object oriented technique to CSS whilst creating a responsive site causes your site to be more consistent when it comes to viewport size changes and also makes development of page structure and how an element adapts on a viewport changes a lot easier.
Responsive Design on a Budget – Over the last year or so we've seen an increasing emphasis put on the performance aspect of building responsive websites, there's no point building a beautiful, scalable, touch-friendly site if it uses up half your monthly bandwidth allowance just to load the homepage.
10 More Responsive Navigation Solutions – Last year converting your navigation into a
<select> drop-down menu was all the rage. Now, its all about the "three line" toggle menu, drawer-style nav and animated side panels (Facebook-a-like).
Responsive design: the problem with mobile ads and how it can be overcome – Advertisers clearly do not understand responsive advertising, which could work to their benefit but instead costs them exposure.
You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means – Recently seeing more and more authors writing about techniques like mobile first, adaptive web design, and RESS and many others terms with what seems to be a misconception of these terms.
On Layout & Web Performance – Outside of initial page load problems, "layout thrashing" is the most common performance problem I see in dynamic web applications. This is particularly true for Single Page Applications which build and destroy views on the fly.
Looking Beyond User-Centered Design – User-centered design has served the digital community well. So well, in fact, that I'm worried its dominance may actually be limiting our field.
Web Performance 101: An opinionated guide to the 22 links every developer should read – If you're just starting out on your web performance journey, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by how much there is to learn about something as "simple" as making pages faster.
Webdesign in Common, Web Typography, jQuery, Tools, etc.
Almost Flat Design – Flat design is both hot and controversial in world of user interface. Flat design is beautiful and refreshing. It's also generally faster to design and easier to make responsive. If it was a graphic design trend, it'd be well received.
8 Fundamental Typography Tips for Designers – Many web designers spend too much time and energy on the overall theme of their sites but forget entirely about typography, so I decided to share with you some typography tips.
Web And Design Trends 2013 – The Internet, as key part of nowadays technology, keeps changing and evolving, according to the main trends that people are following. Thereby, we have decided to create this complete guide to ..
Optimizing your Website Speed, Tools and Tips – After you design a responsive retina ready website using all the latest web standards, the next step is to consider speed. Research has shown decrease in sales or visitor conversion being linked to speed of the website.
Five killer ways to use parallax – There are many ways to add depth and richness to your website designs. The Parallax technique of scrolling two or more different image elements across different site lines has become one of the most popular methods for delivering depth and movement on websites.
The best image compression tools – Save bandwidth and accelerate your site's performance with these powerful free tools. In particular, are you sure that any graphics you're using are fully optimised for the web?
Successful Web Design Comes Down to the Details – It's the little things that can take a site design from average to extraordinary and neglecting the details can essentially ruin a site concept. Think about color and shading, text, and alignment and grids when outlining your next project.
26 Open Source Tools & Scripts for Web Developers – I have put together this fantastic gallery of 26 fresh open source tools for serious web designers & developers. You will find tons of helpful JavaScript libraries and CSS frameworks which are perfect for new web projects.
Planning Your Web Design with Sketches – Planning a website doesn't have to be completely digital. Learn how sketching wireframes can help you speed up and innovate your creatives.
Which Color Converts The Best? – Different colors can lift us up, or bring us down. There is also a psychological side to colors, color is an essential part of how we experience the world. But do colors really matter for conversions?
Flat Design: Can You Benefit from the Trend? – With many redesigns and new websites employing a flat design scheme, the trend is appearing almost everywhere, both on websites and in app design.
Collection of Useful Open Source CSS Resources – There are loads of free scripts to download and include in your website projects. Developers are constantly releasing their work under open source General Public Licenses.
A Peek at Internet Explorer's Developer Tools – I hate debugging, and have never met any developer who argued otherwise. It's a drag to have to go through your code and figure out why it's broken.
Graphic Design, Brand Identity, Typography, Print Design, Icons, etc.
25 Fresh and New Adobe Illustrator Tutorials – Improve your skills with the following new Adobe Illustrator tutorials. They are very creative and a good source of learning new vector techniques.
10 essential tips for flawless typography – Ensure that your typography hits all the right notes with these 10 tips that every designer needs to know.
Why Designers make the best brand strategists – If you're inventing or transforming a brand, somewhere in the process you'll be working with a Designer or Design Firm who will be tasked with bringing your "brand strategy" to life. Brand design is not decorated brand strategy
An inside peek into the Polygon design process – It's not every day you get to design a big ass new editorial site from scratch. This is a look into the design process for Polygon, the second of two huge projects tackled by Vox Product in 2012.
How to design for screen: 7 things print designers need to know – The transition from design for print to design for screen can be a tricky one, but follow these 7 pro tips and you'll soon be on your way to pixel perfection. Making the move from designing for print to designing for screen, and particularly for the web, can be a frustrating process.
10 Ways to Brand Your Blog or Website Efficiently – These days, there are millions of nice-looking blogs all over the Internet and killer content is everywhere. Now, it takes a little more effort to make your blog stand out from the crowd.
Blogging, Social Media, Writing, Content Strategy, Email, etc.
The Six Signs of an Authoritative Blog – How do you identify the best, the most popular, the most authoritative, blogs to connect with? Well, you can't judge a blog by its cover … or its design, or its author, or even the subject matter.
Is Your Business Guilty of These 6 Blogging Mistakes? – However, just because everyone has a blog doesn't mean everyone is doing it right. Whether you're just launching a blog for your business, or you've been blogging for awhile, it's easy to fall into some blogging bad habits.
Your Calls to Action Should Go Below The Post – If you want to lead your readers to more information, then it's fine to work those links into the body of your article. But if you want them to share your content, then you have to let them read it first.
15 Things You Should Know Before You Start Blogging – The guides and the infomercials and other bloggers all make it sound like working online is this wonderful experience, a stress-free lifestyle where you can work when you want, play when you want and the money just comes pouring in.
Best Sublime Text Packages for WordPress Development – It is a great editor out of the box, however there are a few packages that can really make it fly. The ones I mention in this post are especially target towards WordPress development.
11 Principles to Design a Great WordPress Theme – Use these 11 principles to design a great WordPress theme that earns you applause instead of raspberries.
How to Create a Social Networking Website on WordPress – It is now possible to create your own social networking site in the popular CMS (Content Management Software) platform, WordPress using fairly easy community plugins
A Comprehensive Guide to the Best WordPress SEO Plugins – A list of the most widely used SEO plugins available for WordPress. Most of these plugins are free. Rest assured, they'll give you the SEO edge you need for your online venture.
10+ useful SQL queries to clean up your WordPress database – After years of usage, your WordPress database can contain weird characters, be filled with data you don't need anymore, and so on. In this article, I'm going to show you 10+ SQL queries to clean up your WordPress database.
3 Tips For Optimizing Images In WordPress – Why should you care about image optimization? Using the proper image format and resolution can not only make your website load drastically faster, but can actually improve the quality of images as well.
5 Common Mistakes When Backing Up WordPress – Don't let the simplicity of backing up WordPress leave you with an inadequate back up plan. In fact, there are plenty of back up tools out there that don't get the job done well enough. Here are five back up mistakes to avoid.
WordPress Backup, Data Recovery and Its Significance – How will you retrieve the data lost? Without the data you won't be able to take your business further, in fact, you may have to confront a hefty loss in the near future.
Search Engine Optimalization, Conversions, Analytics, etc.
The Intersection of SEO and User Experience – With best practices from both disciplines combining to create an environment that's both easily accessible to the search engines and highly engaging to the actual visitors that wind up on your site.
SEO Mistakes Experts Need to Avoid – SEO's stop making mistakes and try to adapt new SEO changes. You can surely improve your website's ranking if you avoid the mistakes mentioned above and act wisely.
3 Commonly Overlooked WordPress SEO Tweaks – WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world, particularly with Internet marketers and SEOs. Its a great system that is easy to use and provides a huge amount of flexibility. Here are some advanced techniques to give your site that extra push
Optimizing Content for Search Engines and Users – Techniques you can use to improve the visibility of your content. Structuring your content in a meaningful way can help a lot. By using the 'right' keyword in strategic places, search engines get a better idea about the topic of the page.
5 Tips for Using Google Webmaster Tools – One of the best tools you can use to analyze your online business is Google Webmaster Tools. But seeing all those stats and knowing how to use them are two different things.
The SEO of Responsive Web Design – Switching over to a responsive web design will be a big challenge, but with the way the industry is moving, it'll prepare you for the future, and put you a step ahead of your competitors.
12 Awesome Keyword Tools for Your Website – The Internet abounds with keyword tools. Some of them are free, and some of them come with monthly fees. Which ones are worth your while? We've compiled a list of 12 of the most effective keyword tools.
Fresh and Creative CSS Tutorials – To help out you learn we have collected some CSS tutorials that we're sure you want to take a look at. If you're an apprentice or if you want to find out new tricks to add to your CSS sheets view the tutorials.
Flipping Circle Slideshow – Today we want to share a simple and fun circular slideshow with you. It's an experimental concept and the idea is to flip a circle in a specific angle depending on which spot of the circle we click
How to Create a CSS3 Mega Drop-Down Menu – In this tutorial I will teach you how to create a pure CSS3 Mega Menu. Mega Menus are usually used on corporate/e-commerce websites, but they become more popular because they are a great way to display/organize content.
CSS 3D folding list with social buttons – I was thinking about having a nice looking 3D folding list that contains the main social buttons and when people reach at the end of an article, the initial folded list would smoothly unfold.
How To Build a jQuery Tabs Widget with Ajax Content – In this tutorial I want to demonstrate one such method for creating dynamic content tabs. We will load in external HTML data from local files pulled via Ajax commands.
Freelance, Business and Workflow Related Stuff
Best and Worst Link Building Strategies for Freelancers – Search engines like Google are very sensitive to the links that point back to your site. So how can you make sure every link you get is helping and not hurting?
How To Estimate a UX Project – In this post I'll list a few different approaches you can use to estimate your next UX project. I'll focus on estimating client-facing work, as that's where most of my experience lies, but many of the principles translate to internal projects as well.
How to Find Enough Work to Keep an Entire Agency Busy – When you've got a whole team working at your agency, you have to make sure that you have enough projects to keep them all busy. If you don't, idle employees can hurt your bottom line and freelancers can go elsewhere.
Freelancing Problems–What Can Go Wrong? – What can go wrong with freelancing? The answer is that quite a lot can go wrong.
7 Pricing Mistakes That Can Seriously Stifle Sales – Today, I'm going to do some of the heavy lifting for you, and below you'll get a breakdown (in plain English) of some of the worst pricing mistakes you can make, informed by some of my favorite research studies on pricing.
How to upsell your clients – In this article, I'm going to give you the benefit of my experience, and hopefully by the end of it you'll know how to upsell clients, so they'll never want to go anywhere else.
10 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Become a Freelance Web Designer – There are literally hundreds of reasons why you should become a freelance web designer. But let me tell you why it's a bad idea.
Advertising as a Freelancer: Keys to Success – The following suggestions highlight 10 ways a freelancer can advertise his or her skills and climb up in the freelancing ladder.
F*cking Brilliant, a great Read or just magnificent Tips!
Less Aesthetic, More Design – Flat aesthetic is great. Skeuomorphism is fine too. It's even okay to gush over sexy UI on Dribbble and explore aesthetic fads in your own work. Just don't forget the other 90% of what makes a design comprehensively great.
Performance As Design – Ultimately performance is about respect. Respect your users' time and they will be more likely to walk away with a positive experience. Good performance is good design. It's time we treat it as such.
Setting a Performance Budget – Set a "budget" on your page and do not allow the page to exceed that. This may be a specific load time, but it is usually an easier conversation to have when you break the budget down into the number of requests or size of the page.
Pixels don't care – For the first time in human history, it's possible to be represented (almost) solely through the merits of your work. There's plenty of prejudice and intolerance in our world — and in our industry. But never forget that pixels don't care.
Flatliners – Coming together to develop better interfaces is an amazing idea — doing it under the banner of a singular aesthetic is not. Evolving the way we think about designing for the screen is wonderful, but mimicry en masse…? That's another story.
Tech Tips: Style Guides For The Win – This is extrememly helpful and it gives the developer a lot of time to ask the pertinent questions of the designers to make sure that all the things in the comps are truly what was intended.
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If you are a pasta fan this one is for you. Fix it with any pasta of your choice and sit back and enjoy. Mouth watering flavor and sure to fill you up.
Serves 4 to 5
-- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
-- 2 medium onions, finely chopped
-- 4 ribs celery, finely chopped
-- 2 carrots, finely chopped
-- 4 cloves garlic, sliced
-- 1 pound ground venison
-- 1 pound ground beef
-- 4 ounces slab bacon, finely chopped
-- 2 16-ounce cans of tomatoes, crushed (preferably homemade)
-- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
-- 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves
-- 1 cup dry red wine
-- 1/2 cup heavy cream
-- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
-- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
-- 1 box Fettuccine noodles
-- 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, plus extra for serving
1. Heat olive oil in a heavy-bottomed pot over medium heat until hot. Add the onions, celery, carrots, and garlic and cook for 5 minutes or until vegetables are translucent.
2. Increase the heat and add venison, beef, and bacon, stirring often.
3. Add tomatoes, tomato paste, wine, and thyme. Bring to a boil, then lower to a simmer for 1 hour.
4. Meanwhile, bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add 1tablespoon of oil and 1 tablespoon of salt to the water. Add Fettuccine to the water for about 12 minutes or until al dente.
5. Add heavy cream and nutmeg to the sauce. Simmer about 8 to 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Remove from heat, and let cool.
6. When the pasta is cooked, drain and place the noodles on 4 to 5 plates. Top the pasta with the sauce. Divide the Parmesan cheese among the plates and serve.
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Grace and Frankie will have 13 episodes.
Who was best: John Cusack's Nixon? Jane Fonda's Nancy Reagan? James Marsden's JFK?
Photos of Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, Billy Joel, Billy Joel's dog, and more.
Featuring a whole bunch of important people ... but mostly Oprah.
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Jane Fonda is Catherine Keener's free-love mom.
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She'll play a Ted Turner-like character.
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AYDEN WATCH: Three-year-old Ayden is hanging out in Phaedra's office, helping her with some light filing and financial statements. They FaceTime Apollo and Ayden lets him know that he's busy "working at mommy's office right now," but to please bring him his new "big bike." Ayden is the best. Everybody should be like Ayden. Further proof: Mama Joyce arrives at Phaedra's office to have a chat and I'm immediately worried about her being in the room with an innocent child whom she could easily suck the life force out of. But ever-competent, Ayden handles the situation. When Mama Joyce coos/growls at him, but he won't talk back, Phaedra says if he wants a treat, he needs to talk to her. Ayden looks directly into Mama Joyce's steely eyes and very deliberately whispers to his mom, "I don't want a treat." Oh, it is rich. From the mouths of babes.
Mama Joyce has come to Phaedra for some legal advice (about how to make sure her daughter keeps her rich, even if she gets married). She says Todd said he wouldn't sign a prenup, when what he really said was that he wouldn't make a decision right there at the dinner table when she threatened him with a Marvin Gaye song a few episodes ago. Phaedra says she wants to make sure Mama Joyce is "educated and knowledgeable about what she's talking about," which I assume means she has never actually met this woman. She says as long as Kandi has a will (she pronounces it "wheel), then there's nothing to worry about.
Naturally, Mama Joyce then starts telling off Pheadra for introducing Kandi to Todd. "He's little, he's short, he got a big head; Kandi's short, she got a big head," she says to the shortest member of the cast with the biggest head. She starts waving her hands around and saying, "thank you very much" like she's made an important point. Mama Joyce manages to stun Phaedra – yes, Phaedra – into silence for a while, but she eventually picks her jaw up long enough to say that Kandi thinks Todd is the one and so does she. And then the devil possesses Mama Joyce as she sneers, "That's why I could choke you right now." Phaedra's jaw reintroduces itself to the floor.
If I have to watch Kenya and her boy pal, Brandon, twerk their way around one more house, I think I might lose it. While Kenya is packing, she first tries to act like she didn't know Savannah was a city that existed, then turns onto the Sextgate subject that she's, apparently, so tired of talking about. She says she doesn't trust Phaedra as far as she can throw her, "and because she weighs about 200 pounds or more, we all know that's about an inch," which is the second comment she's made in two weeks about how much Phaedra – a very tiny woman who recently had a baby – weighs, and I am having absolutely none of it. In case anyone wasn't thoroughly charmed yet, she pulls out a firearm and threatens bodily harm to her Savannah travel-mates with the following pun/riddle/rambling: "If a donkey is feeling froggy and they want to leap, they can leap all the way to the emergency room. 'Cause they just got shot in the ass." I'm sorry, what? And also, don't do that.
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Holding Back My Dyslexic Son
Please give me your thoughts on holding back a first grader who has been diagnosed with developmental dyslexia. My son turned seven in February, and is very mature for his age. He has poor reading skills and his self-esteem has been totally deflated this year due to his struggle with reading. He is being tutored on alphabetic phonics four days a week and this will continue throughout the summer. He will be making a move from a private school into public school. If we choose to hold him back will this do even more damage? It concerns me that his peers will be so young. I would appreciate your input on the pros and cons of this situation. Thanks.Question:
Retention is definitely a complicated issue -- one that deserves careful consideration and a fair amount of research.
With all of the research that has been done on the topic of retention, a more definitive conclusion should have been reached by now. However, there are children for whom retention worked and other children for whom retention failed. Rather than looking at the research solely, I think it is important to also weigh your child's particular considerations.
Children who are good candidates for retention are generally younger students who lack the maturity and social skills needed to be successful in academics. The students who are struggling academically and who also have birthdays close to the cut-off date are usually those who are considered for retention. Retention is also more effective for younger children, particularly kindergarten and first graders, than for older children.
Retention has lost favor with many educators because there is some evidence that retention does not work for most students and may in fact add to their continued troubles with academics. What educators do favor are other interventions -- ways in which a child may be brought up to grade level in reading or other academic areas. Instructional strategies and specialized programs such as Reading Recovery (a one-on-one reading program) and Success For All (a small group reading program) are popular alternatives to retention, allowing a child to advance with his peer group while still getting the instructional support that he needs to become a better reader.
Let's look more closely at your own child now. His February birthday would make him significantly older than the youngest person in his class should he repeat first grade. I share your concern about him being more socially advanced than his classmates, especially since you describe him as being very mature already. While repeating a grade would put him at the top of his class academically, it may not be to his advantage socially. He is receiving some intervention in the form of tutoring on phonics, which will support his growth as a reader. You may want to supplement this by investing in any one of the quality phonics/reading programs available today, such as "Hooked on Phonics" or "The Phonics Game." Check with his tutor for her recommendations. There is also a great deal of excellent software on the market that could improve his reading skills, such as "Kid Phonics2," "Reader Rabbit," "Interactive Reading Journey," and "Carmen Sandiego Word Detective." With all of this assistance available to your child, it is reasonable to assume that he can and will become a more successful reader.
To assist your decision-making process, you may want to make an appointment with the principal at your son's new school. Explain your concerns about your son's dyslexia and the interventions that have been tried with him. Ask about programs that the school has that your son might benefit from, including peer tutoring and small group instruction. You may also want to ask if there are specialists or classroom teachers who are experienced in working with dyslexic children. You will probably get some good information from the principal and it will help you feel more comfortable with your decision regarding your son's grade placement.Answer:


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Very Good
Excellent for GP Racers
posted by GPRacer (NORWOOD, MA) Jan 29, 2009
Member since Jan 2009
2 out of 2 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
Above Average
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
posted by ThirtyPlus (FULLERTON, CA) Dec 8, 2008
Member since Oct 2008
2 out of 2 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
With that said, let me get started.
Single player gets old after awhile.
Online mode is absolutely EPIC. Awesome races with real people and great graphics.
The graphics are absolutely SWEET.
The sound is a little off, but a dramatic improvement from the past.
The replay is Horrible. Here's why:
You cannot cycle back and forth between riders, camera angles. In other words, if you like 2 camera angles, and you want to cycle between them, you need to cycle thru all the other camera angles before you get back to the one you like.
Before, you could hit X to cycle forward, and O to cycle backwards. Now, ONLY X WORKS. You can only cycle in one direction? HUH????
You cannot SAVE replays.
So I love the ONLINE mode of this game. Only problem is that this game does not have a large fanbase. When you SEARCH for ANY ONLINE GAME, you are hard pressed to find one.
Online mode is excellent, but no one plays.
I would buy this game if more online players were available to race with... but there are hardly any, if any at all.
Best yet.
posted by bobbykniev (MOCKSVILLE, NC) Apr 22, 2009
Member since Aug 2007
1 out of 1 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
Above Average
i just expected more, I guess. . .
posted by racerboy (SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, HI) Oct 31, 2008
Member since Oct 2007
3 out of 7 gamers (43%) found this review helpful
Very Good
Perfect for a select few....
posted by rnmike (LA MESA, CA) Jan 5, 2010
Member since Jan 2010
Really Bad
Not what I thought
posted by KEITH6578 (RUTLAND, VT) Oct 9, 2009
Member since Sep 2008
posted by frizzo (OMAHA, NE) Jan 13, 2009
Member since Dec 2008
Game glitch
posted by nyricanf15 (SHALIMAR, FL) Jan 4, 2009
Member since Jan 2008
Very Good
a good game if you are into sport bikes
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Member since Jul 2008
Simply Awful
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Member since Dec 2006
Very Good
On bike view makes this game stand out.
posted by Sparge (CINCINNATI, OH) Nov 7, 2008
Member since Jun 2008
Moto GP
posted by narde15 (CHICAGO, IL) Nov 6, 2008
Member since Aug 2008
customizations were their, a nice variety of bikes, you control pallet can vary from arcade,on the kiddy side to simulation on the other side of the spectrum. i had a bad experience with the online aspect of it, but its was vary close to launch.
i just had to many other games id rather play i may pick it up again in the future.this game would be better if it was released like 3 months ago.


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A team of explorers who had been preparing for an epic six-month long journey to the North Pole abruptly canceled those plans yesterday just a few days before their scheduled departure. The expedition had been more than two years in planning, but poor ice conditions in the Arctic have made it incredibly dangerous to travel there. Worse yet, they fear dangerous encounters with polar bears who have seen their habitat greatly reduced due to changing environmental conditions.
Alex Hibbert, James Wheeldon, Anastasia Kim and Anders Rasmussen, the four members of the Dark Ice Project team, had been hoping to embark on what would have been a historic and record breaking expedition within the next few days. Their journey was to have started in Qaanaaq, Greenland, from which they would have traveled north into the Nares Strait, across the frozen expanse of the Arctic Ocean all the way to Ellesmere Island. From there, the route would have continue all the way to the top of the world, eventually reaching the North Pole itself, before making a return trip back to where they started. That plan would have taken them to the Pole in the dead of winter, where they would have faced not only extreme cold, but also complete darkness for 24-hours a day.
Earlier in the week the team made a supply run to a depot that they intended to collect once they had gotten underway. That trip gave them the opportunity to examine the ice they'd be moving over in the weeks ahead, which brought serious cause for concern. They discovered that conditions were far more dangerous than they had been anticipating. In fact, the ice was not forming as rapidly, or solidly, as they would have hoped, which meant an already treacherous journey has become nearly impossible. The general loss of ice in the Arctic has been an ongoing issue in recent years, and it has become a major problem for any explorers planning on heading to the North Pole in 2014.
As if that wasn't enough to of a threat, the lack of ice has also diminished the size of the habitat for the numerous polar bears that live in the region. That has forced them all into a much smaller area, where they are aggressively hunting for food even at this early stage of the winter. Those bears don't tend to exhibit any fear or shyness around man, and have been known to stalk humans in the past. With such a high concentration of them in one area, the Dark Ice team felt like they were just asking for trouble by attempting to travel through the bears' hunting ground.
Despite these set backs, the team says they still plan to try to salvage the expedition in some way. They are all fit and ready to go. They have plenty of food and other supplies, and morale is high despite the fact that they are no longer going to the North Pole. What they have in mind has yet to be revealed, but they will continue to explore the Arctic during the winter in some capacity. Hibbert, who is the team leader, says that they are currently recruiting dog sled teams to assist them on whatever they plan to do next.
It sounds like they're going to try to make the best out of the situation. With two years of planning behind the Dark Ice Project, there is no doubt a level of disappointment amongst the four teammates. Hopefully they'll get some serious experience in the Arctic this year for a possible second attempt at the North Pole next year.


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Dr. Tedros holds talks with the UK Home Office's Minister of Security
Addis Ababa, 8 February 2014 (WIC) - Dr. Tedros Adhanom held talks with the UK Home Office's Minister of Security, James Brokenshire on Thursday (February 6).
Dr. Tedros noted that Ethiopia and the UK enjoyed robust bilateral relations in various areas of cooperation.
He said Ethiopia valued and cherished its relations with the UK "as a model of bilateral relations."
He underscored Ethiopia's readiness to further deepen its relations with UK in the area of security.
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Brooklyn Nets coach Jason Kidd was suspended for the first two games of the National Basketball Association season after pleading guilty to driving while ability impaired after he crashed into a utility pole on Long Island last year.
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Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks won their first National Basketball Association championship and left LeBron James still searching for a title.
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Victory For Victor At The Toronto Pro SuperShow
Victor Martinez's win at the 2013 Toronto Pro SuperShow proves that he's back in a big way!
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One could say that New York's Victor Martinez's IFBB Pro Bodybuilding career has had more ups and downs than Donald Trump's elaborate corporate jet. In 2007, it looked like he was on his way to becoming an IFBB Hall Of Fame recipient after winning the Arnold Classic and coming within a whisker of knocking off reigning Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler that fall in Las Vegas. Then his luck took a downturn as he suffered a serious leg injury in 2008. If that wasn't bad enough his sister was found murdered in 2009. In spite of all the setbacks he regained his former championship physique and journeyed to Spain and won the 2011 Arnold Classic Europe. The celebration was cut short however, as he was arrested by US immigration officials on his way home due to supposed immigration violations. After spending months locked up in detention where the lack of quality food and training virtually wiped out his physique, he finally got released and began comprehensive training again only to suffer a serious biceps tear.
As we flash to the present it is hard to believe that in spite of all Victor's past wins and his elite status in Pro Bodybuilding he fails to qualify for this year's up coming Mr. Olympia battle in Las Vegas. When he announced that he would be competing at the IFBB New York Pro Championships everyone figured he would be a sure bet to win and qualify for the Mr. Olympia! But once again Victor drew a losing hand when massive newcomer Mamdouh "Big Ramy" Elssbiay literally stomped over everyone including Victor to take the title.
For the past three years, Sudbury's Ron Hache has been working on his dream of promoting Canada's version of the Arnold Sports Festival in downtown Toronto. In its third year, the Toronto Pro SuperShow is now the biggest fitness event in Canada and it grows bigger and better each year. The climax of the three-day event came late Saturday night with the crowning of the men's IFBB Pro Bodybuilding winner. Up until this year we haven't been treated to Mr. Olympia caliber contenders in the pro lineup. That's not to say that last year's winner Bill Wilmore wasn't a deserving winner, but the best he could do this year was 7th. Fortunately, the battle weary Martinez didn't get the impression that all he had to do to win was show up in Toronto. In fact, several other top IFBB Pros finally clued in that the Toronto Pro show might be a nice opportunity to earn a Mr. Olympia qualification and some spare cash. Ontario's own Fouad Abiad also had dibs on the title and momentum was in his favor as he had huge support from his many hometown fans.
Fouad came into the competition sporting noticeable size and mass increases. In fact, the guy just looked huge and awesome and had he been just a trifle drier, he might have handed Martinez another frustrating set back. Regardless, his second place finish was very impressive and provided him momentum for his next outing.
This year's Toronto Pro SuperShow featured some pretty intimidating muscle freaks including fifth place Moe Bannout of Lebanon and sixth place Clarence Devis of Belgium. Moe was so knurled and hard that he appeared to be forged from hammered steel. In the mass department Canadian fan favorite Frank McGrath is no slouch and sported some pretty impressive size and awesome muscle density that was good enough to earn him a respectable 4th place finish.
In every competition someone has to carry the banner for the smaller but superbly balanced and symmetrical guys. At this year's Toronto Pro SuperShow it was New York's Jonathan Delarosa who took up the cause, sporting splendid full-bellied muscles and spot on conditioning that earned him third place.
Fortunately, in his quest to earn a trip to the Olympia, the battle-scared Martinez didn't take his conditioning and the Toronto Pro SuperShow for granted and showed up in fantastic condition. The exquisite balance, shape and pleasing symmetry that only gifted genetics can deliver were all there. When you add spot on conditioning to the mix, you have a winning package that Victor had it in spades. While graciously accepting his first place trophy and winner's check it was evident that the expression on his face was a combination of both relief and joy!


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April 25 — The Transportation Department plans to send a comprehensive proposal on the regulation of crude oil and ethanol transport by rail to the White House Office of Management and Budget sometime during the week of April 28, according to Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.
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The safety of allowing legacy DOT-111 rail tank cars to continue transporting crude oil and ethanol has been called into question following a series of recent derailments, including a July 2013 accident in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, that resulted in 47 deaths. The National Transportation Safety Board and the Association of American Railroads have both called on the DOT to require the phaseout or retrofit of existing DOT-111 cars that don't feature enhanced design features, including thicker tank shells and puncture-resistant shields on both ends.
Foxx's announcement came one day after Transport Canada said it will immediately prohibit the use in hazardous materials service of about 5,000 DOT-111 rail tank cars that are not equipped with continuous bottom reinforcement and will require the phaseout or retrofit of all DOT-111 rail tank cars that don't meet new safety design standards within three years.
Foxx said the DOT plans to work collaboratively with the OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs to release the rule to the public and initiate a formal public comment process as soon as possible.
An official with the American Petroleum Institute told reporters April 24 that the industry is willing to work with regulators on the upgrade of older tank cars used to transport crude oil and ethanol, but only if data justify the design changes.
Bob Greco, group director of downstream and industry operations at the API, said April 24 the industry hasn't yet seen data that would support a rapid phaseout of existing DOT-111 rail tank cars. He said a mandatory phaseout of the older tank cars, which still make up the bulk of the fleet used to transport crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken shale region and other production areas, would be "a very poor policy decision."
Greco said it was too early to comment on the new Canadian regulations, but said the API would like to understand the information that pushed Transport Canada to decide on a three-year phaseout and retrofit period.
"We think these are safe cars that, when operated properly, can be used safely," Greco said. "I think we need to understand what the benefit of the retrofit is. We want the data to tell us where we should be going on retrofits."
Greco spoke to reporters during a media lunch on the role of rail in transporting energy resources. The API plans to hold a series of media lunches on energy transport issues, part of a new infrastructure campaign highlighting the need for a reliable, safe energy supply chain.
The petroleum industry adopted the voluntary CPC-1232 standard, which has a number of safety design features not included in the older DOT-111 tank cars, for all new tank cars ordered after Oct. 1, 2011. Greco said the API projects' "state of the art" CPC-1232-compliant cars will make up 60 percent of the crude oil fleet by the end of 2015, while noting that any sort of phaseout requirement would affect the remaining 40 percent of the fleet as well as the ability of industry to move crude oil.
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Greco and Prentiss Searles, marketing issues manager at the API, both said the industry needs to have a better understanding of a model developed by researchers supported by the Railway Supply Institute and Association of American Railroads to assess the safety of different tank car designs.
Todd Treichel, director of the Railway Supply Institute/Association of American Railroads tank car safety research and test project, shared statistics on the "conditional probability of release" of different tank car designs with the National Transportation Safety Board during an April 22-23 forum on rail safety. Treichel said an assessment of incident data from 29,900 total accidents indicated that 4.2 percent of tank cars built to meet an enhanced design proposal supported by the Association of American Railroads would be expected to release some product when involved in a derailment, compared with 26.6 percent of legacy DOT-111 rail tank cars that are not equipped with protective jackets.
Greco said the conditional probability-of-release statistics was derived from a proprietary model that has not been shared with the petroleum industry.
"The problem is we don't fully understand how they got to this conditional probability of release number," Greco said. "We need to understand the assumptions that go into that."
Searles noted that the API would like to make sure regulators look at all risk factors in assessing the effect that different design requirements would have on safety.
Searles said several of the proposed design enhancements would add weight to each tank car and reduce the capacity of each car, meaning it would take more cars to transport the same volume of crude oil or other product. He said the proposed requirements, including requiring a 9/16-inch-thick steel tank, would reduce the capacity of DOT-111 rail tank cars by between 10 percent and 13 percent, meaning that between 10 percent and 13 percent more tank cars would be needed to transport the same amount of product.
Greco said regulators must consider whether possible new design requirements would actually reduce risk, or if they would "shift risk" by increasing in the number of tank cars carrying flammable liquids on the rails.
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Downtown Miami's version of Grand Central Park is set to open to the public Friday evening.
The five acres of rubble and debris where the old Miami Arena once stood was transformed thanks to the spearheading of local activist, Brad Knoefler.
Lush greenery, a range of 250 trees, and even a plaza where a number of concerts and festivals are expected to take place, is now a welcome site and possibly, a bit of inspiration for downtown development.
Grand Central Park, located at 700 N. Miami Ave., will have its official grand opening at 5 p.m.
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The new app from Honda will use technology dubbed "Vehicle-To-Pedestrian" that incorporates a smartphone's GPS and Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC for those playing along at home), in order to warn driver's when a pedestrian steps out into the road. A light will flash on a drivers dashboard to tell the driver about the pedestrian while the walker will also get an alert for their smartphone.
Perhaps no one has broken the news to Honda that this app already exists and it's called -- wait for it -- vision! One would think that common sense would dictate, "Hey, I should take my eyes off the phone and look at the intersection ahead because I'm driving a Hummer in a school zone and don't need to tweet right now." Right?
What Honda doesn't realize is that by the time the app lights your dashboard up, you're about to hit a pedestrian. And by the time the pedestrian's phone has buzzed to warn them, (you know, because there are cars in the street sometimes), the aforementioned pedestrian is probably bouncing off the hood of the car.
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Document Type Master's Dissertation Author Coetzee, Bernard Walter Thomas firstname.lastname@example.com URN etd-11192008-102251 Document Title Implications of global change for important bird areas in South Africa Degree MSc Department Zoology and Entomology Supervisor
Advisor Name Title Dr B F N Erasmus Co-Supervisor Dr B Janse van Rensburg Co-Supervisor Dr M P Robertson Supervisor Keywords
- afforestation
- alien invasive plants
- bioclimatic niche modelling
- climate change
- conservation planning
- conservation prioritisation
- ensemble modelling
- human population density
- irreplaceability
- transformation vulnerability
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The Important Bird Areas (IBAs) network of BirdLife International aims to identify sites that are essential for the long-term conservation of the world's avifauna. A number of global change events have the potential to negatively affect, either directly or indirectly, most bird species, biodiversity in general and associated ecological processes in these areas identified as IBAs. To assist conservation decisions, I assessed a suite of ten landscape scale anthropogenic pressures to 115 Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in South Africa, both those currently placing pressures on IBAs and those that constitute likely future vulnerability to transformation. These threats are combined with irreplaceability, a frequently used measure of conservation importance, to identify the suite of IBAs which are high priority sites for conservation interventions: those with high irreplaceability and are highly vulnerable to anthropogenic threats. A total of 22 (19%) of the South African IBAs are highly irreplaceable and are highly vulnerable to at least some of the pressures assessed. Afforestation, current and potential future patterns of alien plant invasions affect the largest number of highly irreplaceable IBAs. Only 9% of the area of highly irreplaceable IBAs is formally protected. A total of 81 IBAs (71%) are less than 5% degraded or transformed. This result, together with seven highly irreplaceable IBAs found outside of formally protected areas with lower human densities than expected by chance provides an ideal opportunity for conservation interventions. However, all the pressures assessed vary geographically, with no discernible systematic pattern that might assist conservation managers to design effective regional interventions. Furthermore, I used the newly emerging technique of ensemble forecasting to assess the impact of climate change on endemic birds in relation to the IBAs network. I used 50 endemic species, eight bioclimatic envelope models, four climate change models and two methods of transformation to presence or absence, which essentially creates 2400 projections for the years 2070-2100. The consensual projection shows that climate change impacts are very likely to be severe. The majority of species (62%) lose climatically suitable space and 99% of grid cells show species turnover. Five species lose at least 85% of climatically suitable space. The current locations of the South African Important Bird Areas network is very likely ineffective to conserve endemic birds under climate change along a "business a usual" emissions scenario. Many IBAs show species loss (41%; 47 IBAs) and species turnover (77%; 95 IBAs). However, an irreplaceability analysis identified mountainous regions in South Africa as irreplaceable refugia for endemic species, and some of these regions are existing IBAs. These IBAs should receive renewed conservation attention, as they have the potential to substantially contribute to a flexible conservation network under realistic scenarios of climate change. Considering all the global change threats assessed in this study, the Amersfoort-Bethal-Carolina District and the Grassland Biosphere Reserve (IBA codes: SA018; SA020) are the key IBAs in South Africa for conservation prioritisation.
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