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"A Great Cigar for the Money"
This was a very good cigar. I love it's flavor. My only complaint is that the burn is sometimes uneven but the best 2 hours spent smoking.
Dom R in Ontario September 11, 2013
"Very Flavorful"
This was a very good cigar. I love it's large ring gauge and it's flavor. My only complaint is that the burn can sometimes be somewhat uneven but otherwise this is a great buy!
Shane in Minnesota April 23, 2012
"super FREAK..OHHH SUPER FREAKEY"
the maxx made me ...FREAK OUT..DA..DA..DA..DA...DA.DA.DA FREAK OUT... hey in the top 2 or 3 in this sampler, need some time for this one ,good slowww burn, great taste and aroma well built cigar,looks good,great draw.I've smoked these before great then and great now, i will buy more in the future...oh...yea
russell in brigantine,nj January 27, 2012
"Very good and tasty Cigar"
As a Cigar smoker over 30 years I liked "The Freak" it is well over a medium class cigar, excellent taste and the price is very affordable, I'll keep smoking MAXX
Sarkis in Montreal, Canada May 14, 2011
"Good smoke"
Good smoke not the greatest but far from bad.
Zach S in So Cal February 7, 2011
"its my wake up with a cup of coffee/mmnngood"
Yup, it burns uneven if you puff it quick-but WOW what a stogie!!
scott r in newport nc October 31, 2010
"the worst"
Sorry guys,
This has to be the worst cigar I've ever had. My all time favorites are Oliva O and Camacho Corojo. Today I finally finished the last of the Freaks (bought the box over a year ago); the first one was bad and today the last one was equally bad. The wrapper is so thin it just fell off. When it was half finished it resembled what an exploding cigar must look like after detonation. The flavor (what I could get) was very good. Can't blame it on the storage humidor as everything else burns fine and tastes better.
Bob in Gladstone, VA January 18, 2009
"good smokeing cigar any time of the day."
enjoying a freak right now thanks famous smoke shop for your speedy service not to mention your Great selection of fresh fine cigars.
barry pagano in westchester il. January 13, 2009
"Crap shoot, but when you're lucky they're great!"
Appearance is very intimidating, but the flavor is unbelieveable. Occasionaly I get one that has an inconsistent burn, but when you're lucky, it's the best smoke in my box. I love em!
tom in Oregon November 26, 2008
"#1 Go to Smoke"
These are hands down the best go to cigar ive had ...I purchase a box each month and usually have one every evening, as far as people saying they burn unevenly...well i would tell them they need to learn how to properly light a good cigar!!
Mark in Ohio September 3, 2008


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Gem in the Prem
So, who will win: City or United? We break down the tale of the tape
The way people have been foaming at the mouth about Monday's Manchester derby, it could be deemed a disappointment unless something truly dramatic happens -- like, say, Mario Balotelli getting four simultaneous red cards, going berserk, severing Jonny Evans' right leg and using it to beat on Howard Webb's bald skull like a bass drum. And we're pitching the likelihood of that happening at around 75 percent.
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Let's face it: The odds of this game even living up to the prematch hype, let alone to the surreal Champions League drama of the past week, are about the same as Luka Modric and Gareth Bale wearing Tottenham jerseys next season. This dose of realism doesn't mean that a tactical borefest is in store -- both teams want a decisive win as badly as Pep Guardiola needs a soothing antacid -- but we're not likely to see the equivalent of Brazil versus Italy in the 1982 World Cup, either.
Ever since the 2011-12 fixture list was announced, all roads and punditry have pointed to this fixture at the Etihad. Even after City delivered an October 6-1 mauling of United, the Red Devils' worst Old Traffordian thumping in 56 years, Sir Alex Ferguson's men are too murderously competitive to simply roll over, especially for a club they have held in such disregard for the past 44 years.
By March, the natural Mancunian order had been reasserted, with United atop by as many as eight points and City's championship dreams fading like 'Arry Redknapp's chances of managing England. As City went from swaggering to staggering, Mancini begrudgingly welcomed back Carlos Tevez, the epically selfish but talented striker who had sucker-punched his team's title hopes when he went AWOL for four months. The prodigal Argentine then ignited a resurgence that has seen the blue-nosed stepchildren cut United's lead to three points with three games remaining.
So here we are: 1 versus 2, Red versus Blue, the perennial alpha dogs versus the long-suffering underachievers, good old-fashioned British bulldog spirit versus mouth-watering Johnny Foreigner ball-wizardry.
It's the Gem of the Prem, and since it has all the makings of a heavyweight prize fight, let's go to the tale of the tape.
The Glazers of Manchester United (by way of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers) are a known and loathed rapacious pestilence. While their seven-year organized pillage through Old Trafford has yielded plenty of silverware -- four EPL titles and a Champions League win since 2005 -- the latest meticulous financial reporting estimates that Familia Locusta has also siphoned more than $750 million out of the Red Devils in the form of debt, interest on loans, bank charges and personal payments.
At the Etihad, Sheikh Mansour hasn't leveraged anywhere near as much debt because, well, he makes Bill Gates look like a miserable pauper, spending more than a billion pounds since 2008 on transfer fees, player wages and the takeover itself.
Considering that the oil barons could buy out the Glazers with the loose change buried beneath the cushions on their private jet -- not to mention being willing and able to comfortably outbid the Red Devils on any player just for kicks -- it's no contest. Also, only half of Manchester hates Mansour. They all hate the Glazers.
Advantage: City
Home-field advantage
Not that traveling three miles up the road makes this much of an away game for Manchester United, but its away record in 2011-12 is unrivaled: 12 wins, three draws and two defeats and a plus-23 goal difference. That said, City's record at home is Bayern Munich good: 16 wins, one draw and an obscene plus-41 on the goal ledger.
And Etihad Stadium is certainly more suited to this sort of rarefied occasion. With six individually themed suites, including the famed Harvey Nichols Platinum Room, along with 66 hospitality enclaves, City's home is the right kind of posh. It even does weddings, which could come into play should Tevez slot home the winner and Roberto Mancini decide to finally renew his vows with the Argentine after threatening to divorce him only a few months ago.
Advantage: It's tight, but we have to give it to the crudités at the Etihad over the prawn sandwiches at Old Trafford
Title pedigree
Stonehenge was the pinnacle of modern architecture the last time City was relevant to a title chase, while Manchester United has more titles than Arsene Wenger has water bottle-throwing hissy fits at the Britannia Stadium. Think about it this way: The last time United won the league, its stars were Wayne Rooney, Nemanja Vidic and Edwin van der Sar. The last time City won it? Fire, sharp sticks and Francis Lee.
Advantage: United
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Managerial hoodoo
Sir Alex Ferguson is the Jedi master of media and manager manipulation. Just ask Kevin Keegan and Rafa Benitez, both of whom had the temerity to trade barbs with the wily old Scot in previous title run-ins; the resulting Fergie Stress Disorder left both men in psychological tatters. Rafa in particular was so frazzled that he couldn't last a full year at Inter Milan. Yet Sir Alex has considerably more respect for his managerial rival across town, going so far as to call Mancini "a proper football man," which might explain Yoda's recent measured approach. Unable to mask his disappointment at choking away a 4-2 lead with 10 minutes to play at home to Everton, Ferguson conceded that "we've given [City] the initiative," a turn of phrase more poignant than pointed.
More saturnine platitudes followed: "This is the biggest Manchester derby in history," and "if City win I don't see them losing the title." While Fergie connected with some strong jabs by noting that Tevez's recall from golfing exile reeked of "desperation," the Argentine's four goals over the past three games have tempered the sting from Sir Alex's barrage.
Meanwhile, Mancini's early-season hubris has been replaced with some brilliantly stone-faced verbal catenaccio. After losing to Arsenal (the nadir that left many experts vouchsafing the race was done), his tone was one of "we have six games left, so never say never." Then, after thumping an at-the-beach Norwich City side 6-1, the Mancinulum swung effortlessly to "the title race is still over" and "it is impossible for us to win this title" motifs. The is-he-serious kicker? "I think even if we win this game, [United] are favorites." With the media pressure deflected, United's uncharacteristic late-season swoon has left City in a position that only the most over-the-blue-moon fan could have wished for.
Advantage: City
Least embarrassing exit from Europe
City mailed in the early games in the Champions League's group of death (finalists Bayern Munich, Napoli, Villarreal) before putting up a fight to Sporting Lisbon in the Europa League. Meanwhile, Fergie's men suffered the worst defeat in Switzerland since the banking industry started throwing names the IRS' way, by falling to plucky FC Basel before being tiki-taka'd into oblivion by Europa League finalists Athletic Bilbao in the Lesser Cup.
Advantage: City
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Celebrity groupies
Manchester United: Justin Timberlake, Usain Bolt, Thom Yorke
Manchester City: Liam and Noel Gallagher, Ricky Hatton, Rick Wakeman
In short, an international all-singing, all-dancing sex symbol; the fastest man on earth; and the frontman of a hipster-worshipped supergroup (Radiohead) on one side; and a couple of Oasis oafs, a gypsy pugilist and an interminable prog-rock pianist on the other.
Advantage: United
WAGs on display
United: Daniela Martins (Nani's fiancée), Coleen Rooney, Kate Wathall (Jonny Evans' girlfriend)
City: Raffaele Fico (Balotelli's latest squeeze), Kimberly Crew (Joe Hart), Charlene Suric (Gael Clichy), Christel Castano (Pablo Zabaleta)
Advantage: British tabloids
Sideline sartorialists
Ferguson is a noted devotee of minutiae, relentlessly poring over the stats, tapes and scouting reports. He shops for players, not clothing, hence his wardrobe reflects his persona -- gray, wool and grimly functional, capped with school principal black shoes or, on muddy days, a dull pair of Nikes.
For Mancini, you're only as good as you look, which might explain why he's been dressing like a Rat Pack holdover all season long. Armani suits, cashmere scarves, dapper overcoats, all draped just so. His overall thread count is as superior as Manchester City's goal difference.
Advantage: City
Key matchup
Paul Scholes versus Yaya Toure
If, as expected, both sides cram the midfield, these are the two baton-wavers who will be asked to orchestrate the pace of the contest.
Theirs is a matchup of contrasts; Scholes is the elder statesman whose 37-year-old legs have held up to the frenetic pace of the modern EPL quite nicely. If anything, his 225-day retirement galvanized the ginger ninja and helped him analyze enough games from his couch to understand what United was lacking (tempo, vision, composure) and how he could supply it.
Yet squaring off with Toure will be a formidable challenge. If Antonio Valencia is United's key in attack, in many ways the gangly Ivorian is City's heartbeat in the middle. Where teammate David Silva conjures up the silky offensive magic, Toure is all kinetic energy and ball-winning ferocity, much like a modern-day Roy Keane. Scholes and his midfield sidekick, Michael Carrick, will labor to contain Yaya's marauding box-to-box runs.
It's not just moving forward, either, that makes Toure so valuable; when he stays home and screens the back four with his muscular presence, he removes the pocket of space in which Rooney likes to operate. If Toure can keep Rooney from pinging cross-field balls to Valencia or Nani and then racing into the box to get on the end of their lethal crosses, City will have negated United's biggest attacking threat.
Advantage: Ask us after 20 minutes on Monday
The wild cards
United: Antonio Valencia
Forget Nani, Chicharito or Danny Welbeck. The man who can really make United hum is its injury-prone Ecuadorian winger, who was once famously unveiled as the de facto replacement for the incomparable Cristiano Ronaldo. Since coming back from injury in December, Valencia has missed only one minute of available Prem time and has managed a Cantona-worthy 13 assists, more than double anyone in the league over that period.
The key to his dynamism isn't his stellar pace -- although it should be more than enough to get behind the more leaden Clichy or Aleksandar Kolarov -- but rather his direct, uncompromising running. There isn't a defender in the league Valencia won't try to turn inside-out en route to the touchline before delivering a menacing cross (think last season's version of Gareth Bale). Plus, you'll get no nefarious flopping from AV; it's not in his muy macho DNA to go down softly.
City: Who plays up front?
The beauty and challenge built within Mancini's squad is that there's world-class competition at nearly every position. Nowhere is this dilemma more apparent than in the attacking third, as all of City's strikers carry major risk-reward factors.
There's Tevez, fresh from his self-imposed sabbatical and recently displaying all the qualities that made him so unplayable before his Munich meltdown: four goals and two assists in City's past three romps, and a subliminal connection with countryman Sergio Aguero that has restored his club's early-season verve. Aguero, for his part, is aggressive and quick but struggles if he's left to create for himself. Edin "the Bosnian Andy Carroll" Dzeko has tallied 13 goals and three assists in 28 Prem games this season, but any predatory instincts around goal are eclipsed by his lack of assertiveness against robust defending. Then, of course, there's Balotelli, whose entire career is dissonant and abstract: a brilliant, powerful finisher but an idiosyncratic, Dennis Rodman-esque ego that makes him appear as if he's performing in another dimension.
Assuming that Mancini goes for the throat, which tandem does he pick?
Advantage: City, as its problem of abundance is the best kind to have
The shot stops here
Scholes may have come out of retirement with Sir Alex's coaxing, but the EPL's most consistent keeper did not, as van der Sar remains happily put out to pasture. His replacement, the paillard-thin David de Gea, has found his feet after some severe early-season problems with his hands. The de Gaffes are one of the reasons City even has a chance Monday, but are offset by the fact he lost his most commanding aerial defender when Vidic went down with a knee injury.
Mancini gets to roll out Joe Hart, England's No. 1 by acclamation, in response -- for in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. After all, Hart's closest competition is Clint Dempsey's favorite keeper, Robert "Nutmeg" Green.
Hart has more clean sheets (15 to 11) and does better under the high ball (36 crosses caught and only three missed compared to de Gea's 24-4 ratio), but United's Spanish shot-stopper is in slightly better form, probably because he's had more work to do. Though his defense did him no favors in last weekend's 4-4 draw with Everton, any consistent United watcher will readily concede that de Gea has vastly improved in recent weeks. In a game likely to be tight, is anyone convinced Hart is unbeatable? After all, it only takes one botched save. Right, Rob?
Advantage: Too close to call
As delicately poised as this one is, United is going to pay the piper for its failure to deliver the hammer blow in the past two weeks. And when Tevez scores the winner against the club for which he played 99 games before Fergie pushed him to the door marked "Adios," there won't be enough claret in the cellar or racehorses in the barn to console Sir Alex's bruised and battered ego.
Score: City 2, United 1
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Databases for Free
Anywhere data needs to be stored and organized, a database is needed. Sid shows what's available.
by Sid Wentworth
In addition to needing an operating system, some embedded systems will need a structure for organizing data. In this article I discuss various ways of storing and retrieving data. Where appropriate, I include references to free packages that may be what you need.
UNIX, on which Linux is based, has a long history of supporting relatively fast, highly reliable filesystems. While Linux filesystems are not directly based on the UNIX ones, Linux does offer reliable storage options.
The default Linux filesystem, called ext2, has been in service for about eight years. While there have been some minor enhancements during that time, the basic structure remains the same and reliability has never been questioned.
The one disadvantage of the ext2 filesystem is that after a system crash, it is necessary to run a check program to repair any possible damage. This increases system startup (boot) time and, if there is severe damage, could require manual input. This problem is not unique to Linux file systems but is something you should be aware of.
An alternative type of filesystem is called a journaling filesystem. In this filesystem, a transaction log is maintained so that the filesystem itself can perform recovery rather than requiring an external program. Such a filesystem was added to UNIX system V about ten years ago. The Reiser filesystem, a type of journaling filesystem, recently became available for Linux. It is, however, relatively new, so we don't have a good history of reliability yet.
Now, on to specific approaches for data storage and retrieval. All these methods will run on top of whichever Linux filesystem you select.
The most basic way to store data is to save it in regular files. These files are commonly called flat files because there is no indexing information available. You must read the file sequentially to search for a particular datum.
UNIX systems have included what are called DBM routines. While not precisely a database, DBM provides a handy method for storage and retrieval of data using access keys.
Just to make things a little confusing, you will be able to find libraries called dbm, ndbm, gdbm and db. Rather than offer an exhaustive list of options, I address one specific alternative: the Berkeley DB. Originally from the BSD version of UNIX, Berkeley DB is available as a commercial product from Sleepycat Software.
Before you reach for your wallet, let me explain what commercial means here. Sleepycat makes Berkeley DB available at no charge, including source code, if you use the software internally only or if you make your marketed product's source code freely available. If you find this licensing scheme unpalatable, look into ndbm. It may be a better choice for you.
Back to Berkeley DB. What it is not is a relational database package. It is, in fact, a C-callable set of functions that allow you to store and retrieve key/value pairs. These key/value pairs can be pretty much anything you want (that is, any data type and any length up to 2<+>32<+> bytes), which gives you the flexibility to do what you want. Additional features include the ability to have multiple databases; keyed and sequential access to records; memory-mapped, read-only databases; and record locking.
You can download the whole package from the Sleepycat web site, http://www.sleepycat.com/. What you will find included are three packages, the data store, concurrent data store and transactional data store.
As we move through this list, we get more features, but that means more code space and more overhead. The basic data store only offers support for one writer and multiple readers. The concurrent data store adds support for multiple writers, while the transactional data store adds locking options and the code necessary to handle hot backups and disaster recovery. Again, the right choice depends on your application.
While the native language of Berkeley DB is C, interface libraries have been built for other programming languages including Perl, Python and Tcl.
If you still need more capabilities, open-source relational databases are available. Relational databases allow you to store data in uniform structures called tables. Each table has rows and columns. Each row represents one data set or record, and each column represents a particular field within the record. For example, a table of your friends might have their name, phone number and date of birth. The table might look like the one shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Example of Relational Database Table
The power of relational databases comes when you create multiple tables and are then able to associate them using a common column in each table. This operation is called a join. For example, let's say you had a second table that contained your friends' names and their e-mail addresses (see Table 2).
Table 2. Example Table for join
By performing a join operation on these two tables and selecting the Name, Phone and E-mail columns from the result, you could produce a list containing these three columns. While this is a very basic look at what a relational database is, I expect you get the idea of where this could lead.
All that is the good news. The bad news is that in order to realize the power of a relational database you have to learn a query language. The most popular of these languages is SQL, which stands for structured query language. Originally developed by IBM, ANSI and the International Standards Organization (ISO) published SQL standards in 1986 and 1987. Subsequent standards have been a joint effort of ANSI and ISO.
Besides entering SQL statements yourself to access data, applications program interfaces (APIs) are available for most other programming languages that allow you to access SQL databases.
One important capability of a relational database is called a transaction, which allows you to identify a set of database updates that are to be treated as one event. That is, you can be assured that either all of them will be performed or none of them performed. For example, in an accounting application, you need to guarantee that a debit is performed only if the related credit is also performed.
Unlike Berkeley DB, most relational databases contain separate client and server parts. What this means is that rather than linking the database system code with your program (like Berkeley DB), you only link with the client. The client code then uses a communications protocol such as TCP/IP to communicate with the server.
The advantage of this client/server approach is that you need not run the client and the server on the same computer system. Thus, this approach scales well. The disadvantage is the additional overhead of supporting the communications protocol. Again, the right choice will depend on your application.
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Carnegie Mellon researchers are developing new mapping tools to track dangerous CO2 emissions and excessive carbon footprints. We are helping the auto industry design more fuel-efficient cars and tools to find the best use for biofuels.
Carnegie Mellon's experts in the fine arts are pioneering environmental solutions in architecture and the university has one of the nation's top ranked programs in sustainable design.
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NEW YORK (AP) - A baseball fan says he was ejected from Yankee Stadium for leaving his seat to use the bathroom while "God Bless America" played.
Bradford Campeau-Laurion filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against New York City and the Yankees.
The lawsuit contends he was made a victim of political and religious discrimination on Aug. 26.
It says two police officers who ejected him were enforcing a Yankees policy that keeps spectators in their seats during the song.
A spokeswoman says the city law office has no immediate comment. A Yankees representative did not immediately return a call.
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D. J. David B. Spins Comics-Tunes: The Fantastic Four Minus One
I was originally going to spotlight Alvin and the Chipmunks today, but this BREAKING NEWS has pushed Ross Bagdasarian to the back burner for now.
The Fantastic Four is no more. Yep, the First Family of Marvel, stars of The World's Greatest Comic Magazine, have lost one of their own. Since "The Fantastic Three" just doesn't have the same ring to it, the remaining members are going out of business. The comic book that bears their name will cease publication after 50 years.
I won't give away the details but if you're curious you can read the whole sad story here.
Suffice it to say, it just won't be the same without the FF. More importantly, I have a Fantastic Four song that I've been saving for just the right occasion — and this is it!
Click the link below to hear The Fantastic Four Song. Who knew it would be their swan song?
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Be a Santa to a Senior®, the popular campaign that has delivered 1.2 million gifts to needy seniors throughout North America in the past six years, is gearing up again this holiday season during a time when seniors may need more of the bare necessities to survive.
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Prior to the holiday season, the participating local non-profit organizations will identify needy and isolated seniors in the community and provide those names to Home Instead Senior Care. Christmas trees, which will go up at the Church of St. Therese, 4137 Portsmouth Blvd, and Walmart, 1521 Sam's Circle in Chesapeake, on November 15, feature ornaments with the first names only of the seniors and their respective gift requests. Holiday shoppers can pick up an ornament, buy items on the list and return them unwrapped to the store, along with the ornament attached. Volunteers will then collect, wrap and deliver the gifts to area seniors.
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DE Minor talks Washington State visit
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Houston Lamar defensive end
Zelt Minor
's official visit to Washington State over the weekend provided the senior prospect with a relatively new experience.
And it was one he enjoyed.
"It was one of the first times for me seeing snow," Minor said. "It got down to 13 [degrees], and it was snowing everywhere. It was snowing the whole weekend."
He said he handled it just fine.
"There wasn't a bunch of wind, so I was able to deal with it," the three-star prospect said. "I was good."
Minor, an SMU commitment and the nation's 65th-ranked defensive end, is getting plenty of late attention after a stellar senior season. The 6-foot-3, 260-pound Minor was one of the best defensive players in the Houston area, becoming a finalist for the Touchdown Club of Houston's Defensive Player of the Year Award. He also was one of the biggest reasons his team made it all the way to the Texas Class 5A Division I championship game.
Originally a Houston commitment, Minor flipped to SMU on Oct. 24. Since then, he has picked up offers from Utah, Washington State and most recently, Texas Tech.
As the interest heats up, Minor is contemplating his future with just a few weeks remaining until national signing day. But his visit to Washington State was a positive experience and offered him the chance to see a lot of things.
"I looked around at some of the facilities that they're building now and the ones they currently have," Minor said. "I got to see the school, the academics and what they had to offer, and I looked at some of the majors that they have, different things like that."
He also got to speak with recruiting and operations assistant Jarrail Jackson while on the trip. Jackson, like Minor, has Houston roots, having graduated from Houston Yates High School.
"He understands everything that goes down and how the recruiting process goes. He kept it very blunt with me," Minor said. "That's the kind of person I like. Don't beat around the bush, don't sell me stories or tell me lies. Just be straightforward with me. He's that type of person, where he was just telling me straight up. I know a lot of coaches tell you what you want to hear. The things that he told me about going to Washington, I experienced with my own eyes."
He said the coaches didn't pressure him to flip his commitment but instead wanted him to have a chance to see and experience the campus for himself.
"The campus was beautiful," Minor said. "The weekend was a great experience. We don't have too many things that Washington has down here."
As for SMU, Minor's official visit there is scheduled for Jan. 25. Texas Tech could make an in-home visit to Minor before the end of this week, and he said he's considering setting up an official visit there once he talks with the coaches face-to-face.
"Texas Tech offered me last week," Minor said. "It was crazy. I know things about Texas Tech, and I know that's a good football program too."
It's all a lot to take in for Minor, who is mulling all options heading into these final weeks. He said the fact that SMU has been committed to him plays a role, but it's a decision that's all his own. When could a decision come on whether to stay with SMU or flip to another school?
"I honestly don't know," Minor said. "I couldn't give you an answer, just to be straight up. SMU has been with me for the longest, I know that. At the end, it's my decision. It's no one else's. It's a decision I'll have to deal with three, four or maybe even five years in college."


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20 Bedlam years later, Parker has no excuses
The ringing telephone caused the first pangs of doubt.
He won't answer.
No way.
And even if he did, would Brent Parker really want to talk?
Twenty years have passed since he dropped a Bedlam-winning touchdown in the back of the Lewis Field end zone. Twenty seasons have come and gone since the wide receiver became the Earnest Byner of Oklahoma State football. All these years later, the mere mention of his name still turns stomachs among Cowboy fans.
Who knows what might have come of the 1988 season had Parker caught that ball?
The phone rings again.
The doubt rises more.
Why would Parker talk?
Of course, this week marks the 20th anniversary of that Bedlam botch, but it sure won't be cause for celebration. Just like the Cowboys, who are having one of their best seasons in decades, Parker has moved on. He's living and working in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He's a husband and a father, a traveling salesman and a pee wee coach.
Surely, the last thing he would want to do is meet a total stranger and talk about the moment that's forever with him, the failure that's always linked to his name.
Suddenly, a click on the phone line, then a voice.
"Hello, this is Brent. How can I help you?"
'Good fit for Brent'
Brent Parker isn't well-known beyond the borders of Oklahoma, and even here, his name usually comes up only around Bedlam. The 1988 edition was an instant classic, after all. It was OSU's first nationally televised game of the season. It was the country's first chance to see Heisman Trophy hopeful Barry Sanders. It was a great showcase that ended with a colossal blunder. The Drop. So, where is Parker now two decades later? Legitimate question, but would Parker want to answer it? He didn't need to agree to an interview. He didn't need to explain that play all these years later. He didn't need to talk about his life since. Parker, after all, came from a proud athletic tradition. His father, Bill, played football at Memphis State. Oldest brother, Brad, played at Colorado, and middle brother, Billy, had a scholarship to Arizona State before a horseback riding accident cut short his football career. All of the Parker boys blossomed in Southern California. Even though Bill and Betsy Parker were longtime Oklahoma residents, they moved west to open their own business. In Mission Viejo, there were abundant athletic opportunities for their boys. Many former pro and college athletes lived in the posh Los Angeles suburb, and Brent Parker soaked up their knowledge starting at a young age. His pee wee football coach had played for the Raiders. Three of his high school coaches had played in the NFL, too. All of them taught lessons that would serve Parker well for years to come. "Three things are going to happen to you in any sporting event you do," he was told. "One, you're going to do something good. Two, you're going to face somebody who's as talented as you are. And three, you're going to screw up." The moral of the story — "The difference between a winner and a loser is how you're affected by all three of those things." Who knew how profound that lesson would be? Certainly not Parker. He became a hot-shot receiver at Capistrano Valley High, catching passes from Todd Marinovich, the robo-quarterback who set a national high school passing record before drugs derailed his career. During a camp at UCLA before his junior year, Parker ran a 4.48 in the 40-yard dash. That opened the recruiting floodgates: Penn State. Nebraska. UCLA. Oklahoma. Arkansas. Colorado. Oklahoma State. The godfather of modern recruitniks, Max Emfinger, ranked Parker as the second-best receiver in the country. His father called some friends around college football for advice. "What," he would ask, "would be a good fit for Brent?" One of the folks he called was his oldest son's position coach at Colorado. His advice: "I'd go to Oklahoma State." His name: Les Miles. Even though he would one day coach the Cowboys, Miles had no ties with the program then. What he saw, though, was a high-octane offense with elite-level players. Thurman Thomas. Hart Lee Dykes. Mike Gundy. Even with Barry Sanders still a relative unknown, the Cowboys nevertheless looked loaded. OSU wasn't at the top of his list, but Parker decided to make a recruiting visit there. He quickly realized that everything from the scheme to the school, the coaches to the players was a fit. Parker thought it was perfect.'Something extra'
Brent Parker was the blue-chip recruit from Mission Viejo. Mark Walker was the blue-collar preacher's kid from Guthrie. And freshman year at OSU, they were assigned to live together. The players didn't get to pick roommates that first year, and the coaches couldn't have paired two freshmen who seemed more opposite. Sometimes, they didn't even seem like they were speaking the same language. "'Dude' everything," Walker said of the way Parker talked. "Dude this. Dude that." He laughed. Truth is, Parker and Walker became fast friends. They suffered through two-a-days together. They endured the growing pains of playing as true freshmen together. And eventually, they went to Fellowship of Christian Athletes meetings together. Walker, now the football coach at Edmond Memorial High School, had been involved with the group for years. Parker had never been a part. He didn't grow up in a religious family. Truth be told, the Parkers' religion was sports. For more than a year, Parker went to FCA meetings, listening to the message and soaking up the meaning. People around him noticed a change. "You could tell that there was something extra," Walker said. Midway through his sophomore season, Parker made a profession of faith. Less than a month before Bedlam.'He dropped it'
Much like this season, the Bedlam build-up in 1988 was extreme. The Cowboys rolled up points in bunches, scoring more than 40 in their first seven games. Spurred by a magical season from Barry Sanders, they were No. 12 in the rankings despite stubbing their toe at Nebraska. The Sooners suffered their own early season loss at the hands of Southern Cal, but they had rebounded to No. 8 in what would be Barry Switzer's last season in Norman. OU had the more complete team, OSU the more explosive offense. Brent Parker was a piece of that machinery. Even though guys like Hart Lee Dykes and Jarrod Green were the pass-catching stars, Parker was a burner who could draw defenders and help keep pressure off the big-play receivers. "He was a real good player, an intelligent player," said Houston Nutt, then the receivers coach at OSU, now the head coach at Ole Miss. "Very hard worker. Excellent hands." The Cowboys needed every weapon against the Sooners. After spotting them two quick touchdowns, the Cowboys outscored the Sooners 28-10 over the next three quarters. They took the lead for the first time midway through the fourth, only to have the Sooners answer with a 13-play, 80-yard drive that ended with a Charles Thompson touchdown and lasted more than six minutes. The Cowboys faced a long field and a short clock. What happened next is the stuff of legend and YouTube. The images are grainy, the graphics rudimentary, but you can see Gundy hitting Dykes on a pair of long passes that moved the Cowboys into Sooner territory. You can see Switzer snuffing out a cigarette on the Sooner sideline. You can see Sanders making a couple of nifty runs to put the Cowboys at the 20-yard line. You can hear the crowd erupting and the bands wailing. Then, you can see officials whistling Cowboy fullback Garrett Limbrick for a personal foul that turned a fourth-and-short into fourth-and-a-mile with less than a minute remaining. You can hear ESPN play-by-play man Roger Twibell say, "Limbrick was blocking, but you saw the man, No.MORE FROM NEWSOK
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You say in Human, "This is a look from inside Cerulea."
[Outside Cerule, detainment cell guardroom]
Here is where the gate guards take breaks from their work. A scuffed table with a stick figure scratched into the top sits under an empty coat rack. On the west wall is a lone square window, its light nearly blocked by a giant cork carving of a duck perched on the sill.
You see a cork duck and a mirror.
Obvious exits: east.
Looking in the mirror...
You see Zilal the young female Human.
She has long legs; close-cropped brown hair; grey eyes and tanned skin.
She is tall for a Human, and fit.
She looks healthy.
Zilal is carrying nothing in her left hand and an etched walking stick in her right hand.
She is wearing a dirty white corlith shirt, some plain tan trousers, some shabby loden ankle-tie sandals and a black muslin cloak.
You pick at a mirror.
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Windows has hundreds of thousands of programs. Because of this great volume and lack of a central store, software discovery (aka finding new and useful programs) is extremely difficult. With our Windows Software of the Day [6] initiative, dotTech aims to change that. Everyday we post three programs, allowing our readers to discover new software, daily. Enjoy! [Subscribe to our Windows section to never miss an article: RSS Feed [4] | E-mail [5]]
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[9]Recording your screen is something incredibly useful. It can be used to show off projects, to explain by example, and much much more. However, finding a high-quality and free screen recorder is a very difficult task. There's the free Camstudio, but its recording capabilities border on terrible, and it's always very laggy and has terrible compression. Entire Nepflex Screen Recorder, a free screen recorder that doesn't suck.
Nepflex uses the Xvid codec, meaning it has high levels of compression and yet low levels of artifacts. This is a double whammy of win. In fact, not only does Nepflex feature nice compression, it's fast, too. I used to have a nice little video here, but it drained my Dropbox public links. Sorry!
As you can see, Nepflex was nice and fast. It definitely had some issues where the graphics failed to update, but those are fairly minor, and other free recording software have them much much worse. It's a great solution to recording your screen and is entirely free, too!
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[12]Need to check your Gmail? Don't want to open a browser? Mail Notifier is definitely for you. It not only lets you check one account's email, but as many as you can possibly add, and does it all securely with HTTPS.
Mail Notifier is a very simple application. All it does it check for and display notifications for new email messages from Gmail or Google Apps accounts. Its simplicity also means that it's easy to translate, resulting in availability in 14 different languages, ranging from Turkish to Vietnamese. It also has a low memory footprint–under 6MB of RAM right now–so it can run on any computer that runs Windows 7.
If you're looking for a free Gmail notifier, Mail Notifier is an awesome app.
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[15]The Windows 7 logon screen is a fun thing to customize. Most people don't and wouldn't even begin to know how, so it provides a nice little way to personalize that's more unique than normal. However, apps like previously-seen Logon Changer [16] aren't very well integrated into Windows and don't offer all of the functions that should be available. Logon Screen is different.
Logon Screen is very nicely integrated into Windows. When you right click pictures, for instance, instead of just being able to set a picture as your desktop background it will also offer to set it as your logon background. It also adds a Logon screen item to the desktop context menu, allowing you to quickly change things from there.
It also lets you change the text and button styles from the default opaque to light or dark shadows, which lets you blend your background better. It also lets you require users to press Ctrl+Alt+Del before they can log in, much like Windows Professional and Server do. It's all-around a very nice app and is very well designed.
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Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe.. History of the Indian Tribes of the United States: Their Present Condition and Prospects, and a Sketch of Their Ancient Status. Volume 6. . Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1857. [format: book; image], [genre: government document; report]. Permission: Northern Illinois University
ALL causes of intestine quarrels and dissensions were ultimately removed, during Mr. Adams' administration, by the negotiation of treaties defining the boundaries between the tribes; 579 and the policy of western migration was promoted by the force of convincing argument. The primary arrangements for the expatriation of the Cherokees and Choctaws had been commenced by the Indians themselves in 1817 and 1820. Their transference to the West was, however, a tedious operation, and only undertaken after a thorough exploration of their new territory had been made. The Indian exercises great caution, and is never in a hurry in the transaction of business; he must have time to think. One after another, the tribes residing in the southern and middle, and, finally, to a considerable extent, those in the northern latitudes, adopted the plan, and accepted locations west of the Mississippi, for those surrendered on the east of that river. It was an object to preserve pacific relations with those indigenous tribes in the west, on whose territories the eastern tribes were to be concentrated, and who yet possessed the title to the soil. These stern lords of the wilderness, the Osages, the Quappas, the Kanzas and their compeers, required to be kept at peace not only with the United States, but also with each other, and with the tribes emigrating from the east of the Mississippi. Parties of the migrating Indians required, from time to time, to be directed to the places on which they were to reside; and to be furnished with the means of beginning life there. It was likewise necessary that their annuities, derived from former cessions of country, should be apportioned between the eastern and western divisions of the tribes, in accordance with their respective numbers. Sometimes, the tribes settled in positions, whence their restless spirit induced them to remove and re-locate elsewhere. Murders not unfrequently occurred, and frontier wars were only prevented by judicious negotiations, military watchfulness, and by the system of compensation, customary among the Indians. These onerous official duties were ably performed by the veteran Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis. The most important tribes of the Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois Indians, had so far entered into arrangements for their removal, as to have sent out either pioneers or emigrant parties. Early in the month of April, 1827, Ellksattawa, the Shawnee prophet, arrived at St. Louis, from Wahpakenetta, with the Shawnee tribe, on their route to the West. This was the celebrated man, who, assuming the prophetic office, had, in 1811, incited the aborigines to wage the war against the United States, in which the Indian hosts were led to battle by Tecumseh. This war, instead of originating a new era of prosperity for the Indians, and limiting the advance of civilization, as Ellksattawa had assured them, had produced the diametrically opposite effect. After the defeat and death of Tecumseh, the prophet had himself fled to Canada, where he lived for some years, until the long continuance of peace removed all apprehension of further mischief from his oracular voice, when General Cass permitted him to return to his tribe at Wahpakenetta, where his people, having directed their attention to farming, and the raising of horses and cattle, had made considerable advance in arts, industry, and civilization. He was a man of original ideas, strong purpose, and much natural shrewdness, and was well adapted, by his easy manners, and by habits of extreme abstemiousness, as well as by his total lack of selfishness, to attract the favor of the Indians. In stature, he was considerably above the average height, his body was very spare, and his countenance always wore an austere aspect, which, with the loss of one eye, over which he constantly wore a patch or blind, tended to more deeply impress the Indians with an idea of his sanctity of character. His revelations were promulged with all that careful attention to manner, circumstance, time, and place, necessary to ensure them full credit; and but few men of his class, possessing such marked peculiarities, have figured in Indian history. Bowed down with the accumulated weight of years, he was now the leader of his tribe in their journey to a land of refuge; and, as such, was received by the Superintendent, and officials at the West, with friendship, respect, and kindness. Assuming an oratorical attitude, he said, in effect, "that he had come, in obedience to the desire of the President, whose wishes had been communicated by the agent. His Great Father at Washington had seen that the Shawnees owned but a small piece of land, and that the whites were pressing upon them so much that they could not long remain on it in prosperity. That, to ensure their preservation, and enable them again to become a great nation, he would give them a new location in the West, where the sun shone as brightly, and the soil was as rich, on which they might live forever, under their own laws. He had advised them to send a party to view it, and judge of its fitness. He had promised to sustain them on the way, and pay them for their improvements, orchards, and agricultural implements left behind. They received this voice as the voice of wisdom and kindness. They regarded it as one with the voice of the Great Spirit, which he had himself heard. It came over the Alleghanies as the pleasing sound of many waters. The old men at first objected to the plan. At last, the young men reviewed the subject, and said, let us go and look at the land. He had got up and came with his people. There were 200 persons with him. There were some left behind, who would also come. They did not come of their own motion. It was the great Ruler of the land who sent them. It was his promises that he came to test. He now asked that they should be carried out. They were hungry, and had worn out most of their clothes. Their horses were lean and poor. They must rest to gain strength." 580 The removal of all the Indians to the west of the Mississippi went forward, partly by their own volition, and partly under the influence of the Government officials. The movement was founded on the strength of treaty stipulations alone. The more closely the plan was examined by both white and red men, the more favor it received. Congress was much interested in the project, and several acts were presented to the consideration of both Houses, which had for their object to facilitate and give the force of legal security to the plan. February 1st, 1825, the Senate passed a bill "for the preservation and civilization of the Indian tribes within the United States;" but it failed to receive the sanction of the House of Representatives. December 27th of the same year, the House instructed their Committee on Indian Affairs, to devise a plan for allotting to each tribe a sufficiency of land, "with the sovereignty, or right of soil, in the same manner that the right of domain is secured to the respective States of the Union." In January, 1826, the bill brought forward in the House, at the previous session, was referred to the Secretary of War, with the view of obtaining such information as the subject demanded. Mr. Barbour made a very elaborate report, but no final action was taken in the matter. The principles then discussed were, however, incorporated in the treaty formed May 8th, 1828, with the Cherokees, which secured to that nation a permanent home in the West, under the most solemn guaranty of the United States, by which this territory was granted to them forever, with an appended stipulation that they should be provided with plain laws, and the individuality of the right to the land acknowledged whenever it should be desired.
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe.. History of the Indian Tribes of the United States: Their Present Condition and Prospects, and a Sketch of Their Ancient Status. Volume 6. . Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1857. [format: book; image], [genre: government document; report]. Permission: Northern Illinois University Persistent link to this document: http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/file.php?file=schoolcraft6.html |


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2012 NFC West defense ranks thru Week 3
September, 28, 2012
Mike Sando | ESPN.com
A periodic look at where NFC West defenses rank and potential areas to address:
- Arizona Cardinals: No complaints here after holding Tom Brady to 18 points and Michael Vick to seven.
- St. Louis Rams: Chris Long collected two sacks against Chicago, but the overall production has lagged. That needs to change with two home games coming up.
- San Francisco 49ers: The 49ers opponents have scored touchdowns on all five trips inside the red zone. That is stunning. San Francisco' allowed its fifth red zone touchdown in Week 6 last season.
- Seattle Seahawks: While the Seahawks limited Tony Romo and Aaron Rodgers to 19 points, they watched those QBs combine to convert 14 of 28 times on third down.
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Executive Summary
Use Cluster Profile
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This report presents a profile of the printing industry and defines a use cluster. Prepared as background for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics' analysis of printing use cluster chemicals, this report presents an overview of the chemicals, technologies, and processes used in the printing industry. Based on published information, this report's preparation involved neither original research nor an industry survey.
A use cluster is defined as a set of competing chemicals, processes, or technologies. Traditionally, EPA assessed the potential hazards and exposure scenarios of specific chemicals, and, generally, left the evaluation of potential substitutes as a post-risk assessment consideration. The use cluster approach considers all substitutes within a given use, and leaves consideration of alternate uses as a potential follow up activity.
Extremely limited information was found on the volume of chemicals used in the printing industry; however, information was found on inks and ink raw materials. In 1991, the U.S. market for printing ink was 1.9 billion pounds. The printing ink market is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 2.2 percent through 1996 when the domestic market is expected to total almost 2.2 billion pounds. Of the raw materials consumed in U.S. ink manufacture in 1991, excluding water, hydrocarbon and oxygenated solvents accounted for 35 percent, resins for 26 percent, oils (minerals oils as well as natural and synthetic drying oils) for 19 percent, pigments for 17 percent, and a wide range of additives for the remaining three percent. Similar information was not available for cleaning solvents or other chemicals used in the industry.
Printing Industry
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The printing industry is comprised of firms engaged in printing as well as firms which perform services for the printing trade, such as platemaking and bookbinding. The industry also includes firms engaged in publishing newspapers, books, and periodicals, regardless of whether or not they do their own printing. Firms functioning outside of what is traditionally defined as the printing and publishing industry also perform printing and related activities. For example, firms in many industries do printing in order to produce materials for internal use (i.e., in-plant printers). Other examples include: firms doing textile printing; manufacturers of products, especially packaging, that contain incidental printing; and manufacturers of printed circuit boards.
There are several estimates of the number of firms in the printing and publishing industry. Based on Census data, in 1987 there were about 58,000 firms operating a total of almost 62,000 establishments. The number of firms had increased to about 60,000 in 1993. However, the Census estimate does not include firms that do printing or related operations but whose primary activity is not printing or publishing. A.F. Lewis Co., Inc., a leading source of statistics for the industry, estimates that in the late 1980s there were almost 70,000 establishments in the U.S. performing some combination of prepress, press, or postpress operations. Almost 60,000 of these establishments were believed to have presses. It is believed, however, that these data excluded most of the screen printers. Their inclusion leads to an estimate of about 100,000 printing establishments in the U.S.
While the industry accounts for a significant portion of the Nation's total volume of goods and services, it also represents the largest conglomeration of small businesses in the domestic manufacturing sector. Nearly 80 percent of the plants in the industry employ less than 20 people. Most firms in the industry serve local or regional markets, though some printers and many publishers reach national and international markets.
In 1987, the industry employed approximately 1.5 million people with an annual payroll exceeding $33 billion. While employment remained steady, payroll increased to $39 billion in 1993. The Bureau of the Census estimates that in 1987, the total value of shipments for the printing and publishing industry was over $136 billion and by 1991 was almost $157 billion. When taking inflation into consideration, however, the industry experienced a decline in value of shipments of more than 2.0 percent over that period. The total value of shipments for 1993 was expected to be over $176 billion, which in constant dollars represents a return to 1987 levels. These estimates, however, exclude perhaps $90 to $100 billion worth of printed goods produced by in-plant printers and quick printers and by packaging manufacturers. The industry's poor performance during 1987 through 1991 was due primarily to overall sluggish economic growth during the period, particularly the recession of 1990 to 1991. Based on constant dollar sales, the printing industry is expected to grow by 3.8 to 5.3 percent annually between 1990 and 2000. Strong growth in the industry will result from a recovering U.S. economy as well as demographic trends favorable to the industry such as a substantial growth in the number of households and school-age children.
The printing industry is a very diversified and sophisticated industry owing to the multiplicity of printing processes utilized. The five most common printing processes, lithography, letterpress, flexography, gravure, and screen printing, currently account for about 97 percent of the value of the output of the U.S. printing industry. Based on the estimated value of 1990 shipments by the U.S. commercial printing industry, lithography accounted for 47 percent of the market; gravure, 19 percent; flexography, 17 percent; letterpress, 11 percent; and screen printing, 3 percent. The importance of letterpress, until the 1940s the dominant printing process, is declining very rapidly and is being replaced by lithography and flexography.
Printing Process Background
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Some of the printing processes have several major subprocesses based primarily on the types of substrate or products printed. Lithography is divided into three subprocesses: sheetfed offset, heatset web offset, and non-heatset web offset. Gravure includes publication gravure, packaging gravure, and product gravure. Flexography consists of publication flexography and packaging flexography.
In addition to the five major printing processes already mentioned, there are various plateless printing processes. All comparatively new technologies, these include: electronic printing processes such as xerography and laser printing; ink jet printing; magnetography; thermal printing; ion deposition printing; direct charge deposition printing; and the Mead Cycolor Photocapsule process. Plateless printing processes are gradually becoming an important force in the industry because of their relative ease of use and the growing application of computer controlled printing operations. Although plateless processes accounted for only about three percent of total U.S. printing industry output in 1991, they are forecast to have a 21 percent market share by 2025.
The five major printing processes are distinguished by the method of image transfer and by the general type of image carrier employed. Depending upon the process, the printed image is transferred to the substrate either directly or indirectly. In direct printing the image is transferred directly from the image carrier to the substrate. The direct printing processes are gravure, flexography, letterpress, and screen printing. In indirect, or offset, printing, the image is first transferred from the image carrier to the blanket cylinder and then to the substrate. Lithography, currently the dominant printing technology, is an offset process.
Image carriers can generally be classified as one of four types: relief, planographic, intaglio, or screen. In relief printing, the image or printing area is raised above the nonimage areas. Of the five major printing processes, those relying on relief printing are letterpress and flexography. In planographic printing, the image and nonimage areas are on the same plane. The image and nonimage areas are defined by differing physicochemical properties. Lithography is a planographic process. In the intaglio process, the nonprinting area is at a common surface level with the substrate while the printing area, consisting of minute etched or engraved wells of differing depth and/or size, is recessed. Gravure is an intaglio process. In the screen process (also known as porous printing), the image is transferred to the substrate by brushing ink through a porous mesh
Printing Process Description
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Each printing process can be divided into three major steps: prepress,
press, and postpress. Prepress operations encompass that series of steps
during which the idea for a printed image is converted into an image carrier
such as a plate, cylinder, or screen. Prepress operations include composition
and typesetting, graphic arts photography, image assembly, and image carrier
preparation. Press refers to actual printing operations. Postpress primarily
involves the assembly of printed materials and consists of binding and
finishing operations.
Within each process, a variety of chemicals are used, depending on the types of operation involved. Prepress operations typically involve photoprocessing chemicals and solutions. Inks and cleaning solvents are the major types of chemicals used during press operations. Depending on the finishing work required, postpress operations can use large amounts of adhesives. This is especially true where the production of books and directories is involved. Of all the chemicals used in a typical printing plant, inks and organic cleaning solvents are the categories used in the largest quantities. Many of the chemicals used in the printing industry are potential hazards to human health and the environment.
The printing industry has been experiencing a period of great change, much of it fueled by the already widespread and still rapidly growing application of computers to the printing industry. In addition to the rapid growth of plateless technologies discussed above, major industry trends include:
- Increased automation.
- Continued rapid development in computer-based front-end platforms (e.g., desktop publishing).
- Advances in telecommunications and the introduction of digital data exchange standards.
- Development of new image carrier and image carrier preparation technologies
including direct-to-plate and direct-to-press processes and waterless
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Costan Rican Airplane Hotel Takes Flight: The Costa Verde Resort now features a hotel suite constructed in an around a 1965 Boeing 727. [Inhabitat] And for the backpacker or traveller on a budget, don't forget about the Jumbo Hostel in Stockholm.The Preservation of Darkness: France is looking to establish an "anti-light-pollution reserve" surrounding a historic observatory in the Pyrenees. "The goal is to establish a zone with a radius of six to nine miles around the 130-year-old Pic du Midi mountain observatory so that views of the cosmos are not spoiled by intrusive light on the ground." [Discovery News]
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