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A proposal by the city of Fairfax to cut some minimum staffing requirements for its firefighters has sparked a potential conflict between the city and nearby George Mason University.
According to the city, its fire and rescue squads spend as much as about $1.2 million servicing the university each year, while only receiving a fraction of that amount in return.
"We recommend a reduction of the minimum staffing level policy of the fire department with regard to the city's truck (ladder) company," City Manager Robert L. Sisson wrote in his recommended fiscal 2013 budget memo to the City Council. "This would reduce daily minimum staffing on the truck company from four personnel to three personnel.
"This change to the [fire department] minimum staffing policy will allow overtime expenses to be reduced by approximately $212,000."
In a subsequent presentation before the City Council, Fairfax City Fire Chief Dave Rohr voiced his concerns with the possible reduction.
"I thoroughly understand the fiscal situation that you are in," he said. "It is a difficult situation for all of us, but the decision in my eyes cannot be made for fiscal reasons. It is a life safety issue, for the citizens and the firefighters alike."
To explore alternatives during an April 10 work session, the City Council asked Rohr to compile a report outlining the frequency of fire and rescue calls to Mason so it could better understand costs involved.
In his April 12 report, Rohr said there were 418 fire and rescue calls made exclusively by the university in 2011.
"This equates to approximately 8 percent of the total calls run by the fire department," he wrote. "Two-hundred-eighty-four calls were EMS-related ... 88 calls were suppression related (fires, alarms and hazmat incidents) and 46 calls were other incidents (elevator incidents and public service calls)."
At Fire Station No. 3 — the station nearest to Mason — at least 25 percent of all EMS and fire calls served by the station in 2011 came from the university, Rohr said.
Calculating the Mason calls against the total number of calls within the city for the same year — and contrasting that against the fire and rescue department's 2011 operating budget — Sisson said the city estimates the Mason calls cost the city between $800,000 and $1.2 million.
George Mason University Chief of Staff J. Thomas Hennessey Jr. thinks that number is too high.
"That's not even close to what we think," he said. "The county provides a lot more support for us than does the city and they don't estimate nearly that," he said. Hennessey declined further comment.
But Dan Schmidt, Fairfax County Fire and Rescue spokesman, said the only time county firefighters would ever respond to a Mason call would be to assist Fairfax City fire and rescue squads.
"It's their call, we only assist," he said. "Fairfax City only has two fire stations, so some of their calls need more equipment and that's the only time we would assist. … I think [Mason] might be confused and not really know what they're saying. They probably see a lot of Fairfax equipment that's intermingled with the city's — and we might even bring more equipment than the city brings, because they only have so much — but the only reason we would ever be there would be to augment [the Fairfax City] fire department."
Since 2011, Mason has provided Fairfax City with $150,000 per year to help out with its fire and rescue service calls, according to the university. It also recently has agreed to raise that amount to $200,000 starting in fiscal 2013.
"The university provides the city with $200,000 a year and that is something that we are not obligated to do at all," university spokesman Dan Walsch said. "It is something that most institutions of higher learning — certainly within Virginia — do not do with their local fire departments."
But Sisson maintained the fire department cannot afford a potential seven-figure annual deficit in terms of services it provides to the university.
By its own account, the city fire department is in dire financial straits and in desperate need of additional funding.
For the past three years, Rohr has asked the City Council for money to conduct a feasibility study for renovating Fire Station No. 33, which was built in 1979 and is showing its age.
Rohr said the station, located at the intersection of Fairfax Boulevard and Plantation Parkway, is no longer adequate for the needs of its firefighters.
"We simply are outgrowing it," he has said in numerous requests for funding to the council. "There are areas of the sleeping quarters that have no sprinkler system in place, and it lacks a sufficient diesel-exhaust system."
Because of a lack of storage space, equipment is housed in truck bays, preventing their optimal use, Rohr said.
"We have drive-through bays, but because of equipment storage needs, our trucks are forced to back in," he told the city planning commission in 2010.
Earlier this year, in the fire department's proposed fiscal 2013 Capital Improvement Projects request, Rohr estimated a feasibility study to examine whether the station could be renovated would cost about $50,000.
"It doesn't sound like a lot, but we were not able to approve that study and get it into the budget for next year," Sisson said on April 27. "All jurisdictions have been pressed financially for the last four to five years, and we are no different. We have had to explore all expenditures and potential revenues, and reassess many of our partnerships. The cost of fire and rescue calls to [Mason] is one that certainly seems to show a high level of disproportionality."


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Modern alchemy. Turning a line. More than Dr. Faust's deal with the devil, projects in FAIR Germany, EURISOL (when it starts) and CERN to crack the lotto with numbers 114 and 184 a "doubly magic" combination of 114 protons and 184 neutrons being "Robinson Crusoe's" Island of stability". This project which is more important than the Higgs (which nobody talks about) could give insight to new energy source for the future of this earth. Looking in to neutron rich nuclei could open new possibilities.
The island of stability has been somewhat hyped up right from the start which was back in the 60s if I recall correctly. At that time it was predicted that much heavier elements would have half lives in the millions of years. That has not materialized. Even element 114 in its present incarnation, with admittedly not as many neutrons as ideally required is only slightly more stable than its neighbors in the periodic table.
author of "A Very Short Introduction to the Periodic Table", 2011,OUP
What I would like to know is how the 'chemical' experiments on elements like 112, 114 etc. are conducted and how one can speak f an enthalpy of sublimation for one or two atoms, as frequently seems to be done in this literature.
If elements 120 and above are potentially stable and possibly useful, why not skip straight to synthesizing them rather than something that might exist only for a few fractions of a second?
In the same spirit, why take undergraduate maths when you can skip to graduate maths and get to all the good stuff right away?
According to Pyykko, the theoretical expert in this field, the largest possible nucleus has atomic number 172.
Pyykkö, Pekka (2011). "A suggested periodic table up to Z≤ 172, based on Dirac–Fock calculations on atoms and ions". Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 13 (1): 161–8.
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"blow up Nagasaki". Wrong place for colloquial language. Would need to be expressed with a touch of more sensitivity towards the victims of said event.
Not only that: "thus end the second world war" is giving it a positive meaning and justifying it as a happy event to happen.
Certainly, being a little more "politically correct" in this context is desirable. However, concerning the end of World War Two, the statement you criticize -"thus end the second world war"- is correct.
The Japanese are fierce, proud and devoted fighters (the kamikazes being the epitome of this strenght). However, due to the destruction of most their factories, they could still fight for a long time, but could never take the upper hand against the United States. Their honor code dictated that they continue fighting until their last breath, though. "Better death than dishonor" is the mentality of the warring nippons, from the samourais until today.
For the United States, there were two options. Either reduce to ashes every military base and factory that Japan owned and climb back towards Honshu (the main island of Japan, where Tokyo is), conquering every island one by one with bombers ; wreaking a massive amount of destruction and death all the while it took to finally bring Japan to capitulation. That could possibly span over several years. Or, you could dwarf their efforts and courage by a spectular blow. This is why the weapon created by the Manhattan Project was put to use by President Truman in August 1945. Only through total demoralization of the enemy troops could the United States insure a quick victory, which in the end was undoubtedly preferable for Japan.
So, of course, it wasn't a "happy event" : war is hell. However, using the Bomb is without a doubt the best option that could have been taken, and it did, without a doubt, "end the second world war".
That is exactly where my eye jumped. A pretty heavy-handed tangent. Perhaps worthwhile to mention that plutonium is the most famous of these atoms but adding in politically charged views about history in a piece on modern chemistry seems doesn't seem necessary.
Americans completely flattened 99/103 major cities in Japan. Only two were done by nuclear weapons and although they demolished two cities quickly, arguably the fires caused by air raids in Tokyo produced more financial and human costs.
My main complaint, as I imagine the original posters is too that when you add something like that to an article it changes the nature of the response - would we even think about WWII if the author didn't mention Nagasaki (a beautiful, if provincial, town)?
Surely there were more than two options to finish the war? What you describe is the justification of an atrocity. Still an atrocity.
I am the original poster, and I got to say, for balance, I should have introduced my little criticism with a phrase like "in an otherwise enjoyable article", where "enjoyable" is the only praise I can rightfully give, being in no position to comment on the physics.
@T.Ware's comment notwithstanding (and he's right), there was another option: 'blow up' an island or whatever, demonstrating what could be done if the war were not to end.
Yes, the Japanese could, in that case, have simply kept fighting, the illusion being that the US would never, ever use the weapon on civilians.
We did, though.
This article nicely brings the development of the Periodic Table and the addition of elements into a larger historical context than our current search for element 119. Along with the Periodic Table, also the methods and the context of the experiments have developed. The case of a single scientist working diligently in his laboratory often all by himself is ever more rarely encountered. Nowadays, experiments aiming at discovering new elements constitute massive efforts of international and often fairly large collaborations. In our case, the crew performing this experiment at the "TransActinide Separator and Chemistry Apparatus" (TASCA) at GSI Darmstadt is some 50+ scientists and engineers strong, involving partners from about 20 research centers from all over the world, where they all bring in their special contribution, without which such an endeavor would not be possible. In this number, many of the experts at the GSI which make this experiment possible are not even included yet. It is a pleasure for me to represent the TASCA collaboration and to have the privilege of working with every single one on the team. Singling out my name is an oversimplification which I would like to correct here.
Christoph Düllmann, Spokesperson of the TASCA collaboration
Nice reading your comment above. Shows your selfless effort.
I have a qs though; Do you believe that such element exists in nature and that's why you trying to produce ? If not, then where does it end ? Meaning, theoretically speaking, can one just keep on creating new elements by "mixing" some previously identified elements ?
It would have been interesting if the article had made brief mention of the properties expected of the super-heavy atoms that are predicted to be feasible within the lower "island of stability." This would give some sense of how such novel elements might be useful.
Macroscopic properties are difficult to discern from extrapolation of the nuclear physics. Boiling/melting temperatures could be estimated, but more useful or practical properties such as those arising from making an alloy would be much more difficult to predict
Remember to consider separately nuclear quantities (half-life, decay mode...) and chemical quantities (boiling/melting points...)! Extrapolations of chemical properties base on chemical properties of lighter elements. (Note that besides extrapolations, advanced quantum chemical calculations yield predictions for the chemical behavior, e.g., also of element 119.)
The atomic nucleus does not influence the chemical behavior of an element, and we will therefore learn nothing about the chemistry of a superheavy element simply from measuring its nuclear properties.
As my chemistry professor would say "Physics is like asking 'What do neutrons and protons do?' While chemistry is like asking 'How do electrons interact?'"
The series of elements was complete with no gaps from 1945 (when promethium was added) to 1982, when meitnerium (no. 109) 'leapfrogged' hassium (no. 108), and again from 1984 to 1999, when the first claim for element 114 was made. Since then the sequence of claims and confirmations has been too irregular for it to be clear when gaps have appeared and disappeared. Until somebody can find a way to add enough neutrons to stabilize these very heavy nuclei they will remain an evanescent curio.
Congratulations on exceptionally well written article on super-heavy elements. The prospect of a new row of the periodic table with the coming of 119 is indeed an exciting one. It should also be noted that when element 117 was synthesized a couple of years ago, this represented the first and probably the last time that the periodic table was 'complete' meaning there were absolutely no missing gaps. When Mendeleev discovered the periodic table in 1869 he famously left many gaps and predicted the properties of many of these missing elements. These elements were found and behaved almost exactly as he had predicted. With the advent of the concept of atomic number in the early 1910s it became clear that just seven gaps remained to be discovered within the old boundaries of the periodic table which stood at 1-92. Even before the last of these seven elements were found the trans-uranium elements began to be synthesized. But only now do we finally have a zero-gap situation. This is what Dr. Dullman is doing his best to end.
Dr. Eric Scerri, UCLA.
author of "A Very Short Introduction to the Periodic Table, OUP, 2011
and website at ericscerri.com/
I imagine that upon seeing this comment from Dr. Scerri the author of this piece is jumping rope someplace, unable to stop smiling. I know I would be.
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The Internet was never designed to be safe. The Internet was designed to be something that always worked, no matter what. Now when you are aware of this you can more easily understand why hacking is becoming such a fast growing industry. The Internet is a great place for criminals. The US government wanted the Internet to be nuclear proof, but it also became an open place and criminals are attracted by that kind of environment. This article will give you some insights when buying an antivirus software so you can protect yourself online.
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How long will it take me to read this article?
-About 5 minutes.
What do I need?
-Nothing, besides an interest in buying an Antivirus Software.
What will I learn reading this article?
-Important factors to consider when buying an Antivirus Software.
Should I use a Antivirus Software?
Yes, you should always have a antivirus software installed on your computer. You might have heard about people using the web without using antivirus software, and you think you can do the same. I think this is possible if you are an experienced Internet user and most of your digital life is backed up in the cloud. The average user should not, since this is just an unnecessary risk. The minimum level of Internet security for the inexperienced Internet user is a Free Antivirus Software.
There is also a collective aspect of using antivirus software. The number one source for your computer to get infected are actually from your your friends and family. If you have an antivirus software installed on your computer, it's more difficult to infect your computer with malware. By being safe, you will not infect your friends, relatives, colleagues or even clients. By keeping your computer safe, you keep others safe as well.
Should I buy an Antivirus Software or use a Free Antivirus Software?
There is no difference between a free antivirus software and a purchased antivirus software when it comes to their ability to find a computer virus. Both the free softwareand the purchased software use the same virus signature database. The difference is in all the extra protection you get when you choose the purchased version of a antivirus software. This could be parental control, identity protection or Behavioural detection, which means that your software can detect viruses before they are found by the security company. The software recognizes that a software might be behaving in a bad way and stopps it before it does any harm
The biggest difference however is in terms of support. When you buy a antivirus software you are entitled to support flr the software. When you run into trouble there is someone you can call and ask for advice. If you are an inexperienced Internet user, this is a great feature and well worth the investment once trouble comes knocking on your door. It's like insurance, you really appreciate it when an accident occurs.
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All antivirus software do what they are supposed to be doing, they protect you from viruses. What makes them different are their features and the set price of the software.
I personally prefer F-secure. I like their software due to of the intuitive design. Since it's not a well known brand in many markets, the price is also affordable in my opinion. AV-Comparatives is also a company who do tests of software like F-Secure. They believe F-secure is the best Antivirus Software for 2011. Below is AV-comparatives review of F-secure.
"AV-Comparatives notes that being the overall best product of the year does not mean that a product is the best product for all users in all scenarios. What it means is that the product has receive the highest ratings in several tests, including malware protection, false positive rates and impact on performance. F-Secure and Avira were the only two products to receive an "Advanced+" rating for all seven of AV-Comparatives' tests in 2010."
Now when you have read this article, I hope you have a greater understanding why everyone should use a antivirus software when using the Internet!
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John P. Elwood is a partner at Vinson & Elkins in Washington, D.C., specializing in appellate litigation and review of administrative action. He served as senior deputy in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel from 2005 until 2009 and served as an assistant to the Solicitor General from 2002 until 2005. Previously, he was an attorney in the department's Criminal Division, where he argued cases in the federal courts of appeals and tried criminal cases in federal district court. Elwood also represented the Justice Department as an ex officio member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission and as a member of the Advisory Committee on Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Elwood has received both the Attorney General's Award for Exceptional Service and the Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service — the Justice Department's two top awards for lawyers.
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ABC News reports that the House Republicans have a doomsday plan in mind should the fiscal cliff talks fail to reach an agreement: Total surrender!
The concept is for the House to give President Obama the middle class tax cut extension he is seeking without any extension of the upper income tax cuts and to give him "nothing else". That is to say, according to ABC, "no extension of the debt ceiling, nothing on unemployment, nothing on closing loopholes. Congress would recess for the holidays and the president would face a big battle early in the year over the debt ceiling."
The network reports, "Two senior Republican elected officials say this doomsday plan 'is becoming the most likely scenario.'" In a variant of the Mel Brooks comedy "Blazing Saddles," were the sheriff puts a gun to his own head and warns that if anyone moves, he'll "shoot the sheriff," the Republicans are, in effect, saying that if Obama doesn't give in, he'll get his way. Brilliant strategy. It's for great thinking like that that we elected a Republican House to serve as a check on the president.
The Republican Party appears willing to surrender its only leverage in return for nothing — zip, zero, nada, zilch — in the way of spending cuts. Some may say that the debt limit would give Republicans leverage, but we have been down that game of chicken before and we know that John Boehner won't pull the trigger.
But polls show that people want spending cuts more than any tax relief and that they are quite prepared to watch spending drop if the savings are used to cut the deficit. And economists all warn that failure to cut the deficit — and extending the tax cuts without spending cuts will add to it — could send us into another recession.
Obama's post-election arrogant intransigence is a gauntlet the House must pick up. The GOP leadership needs to demand that spending cuts be put on the table in a fixed ratio to tax increases. Boehner needs to say to Obama: "for each three dollars of spending cuts you propose, I will propose a dollar of tax increases — if the cuts are real."
Instead, Obama and the Republicans are playing an elaborate game of Alphonse and Gaston, each asking the other to go first in putting a plan on the table. Boehner needs to change the debate so that they put their plans on the table simultaneously according to a fixed ratio of spending cuts to tax increase. Agree on the ratio and then let each side propose its half — let the Republicans propose their revenue increases and let Obama propose his spending cuts.
Obama will want to cut defense and nondefense discretionary spending rather than poverty and means-tested entitlements. Republicans will want the opposite. Republicans will suggest revenue increases that cap deductions and eliminate special tax breaks while Obama will want a straight rate increase on the top end of the scale. But that's what bargaining is for. That's what should follow the first two steps:
1. Agree on a cuts: taxes ratio
2. Ask the Democrats to propose cuts and the Republicans to suggest taxes for their parts of the ratio.
Once those two basic steps are in place, a realistic compromise is possible.
Obama should be willing to follow the Republican lead in cutting deductions, loopholes and tax incentives (called tax expenditures in budgetese) while the GOP should embrace the spending cuts the president proposes. The exception would be if Obama's cuts are deep in the defense sector, the Republicans should hold out for non-defense cuts. Most likely the Republicans will not get Obama to cut entitlements, but they should accept this compromise in return for no increase in rates. A cut in deductions will raise revenues. A rise in tax rates will be a dramatic disincentive to earning and investing.
There's a difference between good bargaining and surrender, and Republicans in the House need to learn the difference.
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Tigers starter on the rise since last year's dud at Angel Stadium
The last time Rick Porcello pitched at Angel Stadium, he didn't get out of the opening inning.
Three infield singles, three ground balls through the middle and a couple of softly hit line drives led to the Angels batting around. The one hard hit Porcello gave up was Mike Trout's grand slam his second time up, punishing Porcello for a hanging curveball.
In short, Porcello had the outing from hell at Angel Stadium on April 20, 2013, and had his future questioned for it. To say he has been a different pitcher since would be an understatement.
"I think I'm a different pitcher now than when they got to me," Porcello said earlier this season. "Nine runs in one inning, it's one of those days where you just kind of don't even remember that. I know I'm better than that."
Said catcher Alex Avila: "Last year's game was just a bizarre first inning. There were a lot of infield broken-bat hits, something that I had never seen, a bizarre inning. In a situation like that, you're trying to figure out something to do. What you're doing is working, but you're not getting the result."
Porcello quietly went 13-6 with a 3.79 ERA the rest of that season, then built a resume for All-Star consideration this year. He's 25-11 with a 3.63 ERA since that outing, allowing 280 hits over 290 1/3 innings with 27 home runs, 67 walks and 211 strikeouts.
What could've been the end point for his days as a promising starter with the Tigers instead became a starting point for his rise as one the better young arms in baseball. For that reason, he has no reason to think about ghosts from that April afternoon.
His revenge came in Detroit this April, when his seven innings of one-run ball put him and the Tigers on the winning end of a pitching duel with Hector Santiago.
Three months later, they meet again.
Santiago is coming off one of his strongest starts of the season, despite battling illness.
The left-hander threw five scoreless innings against the Orioles on Tuesday, allowing two hits and striking out two in what Angels manager Mike Scioscia called a "very gutty performance."
"I definitely didn't have my legs under me," Santiago said. "I didn't get to work out in the three, four days leading up to my start, and I usually work out every single day and run. I didn't get to do that from being sick."
Santiago is 2-7 with a 4.02 ERA in 17 games (13 starts) this season, and he's pitched progressively better since returning to the starting rotation in June.
"He's given us a big boost since coming back into the rotation," Scioscia said. "He's an important guy for us whether he's in the rotation or whether he's in the bullpen. He's a guy that can do a lot of things for you."
Angels: Hamilton slated to return Sunday
Josh Hamilton was out of the starting lineup Saturday, still nursing a sore left knee after leaving Friday's game early.
Hamilton said his knee felt better Saturday, and manager Mike Scioscia expects him to return to the lineup for the series finale.
The 33-year-old left fielder had started 46 consecutive games, although three of his last seven starts had been as the designated hitter.
"It's just spillover from playing a lot and sometimes you just need to take a half-step back and catch your breath a little bit," Scioscia said.
Scioscia said Hamilton wanted to play Saturday but the Angels chose to give him the day off.
"He was laboring to move [Friday], so it was obvious that it had gotten to a level where we want to err on the side of caution," Scioscia said.
Tigers: Dirks close to resuming rehab
The Tigers could be picking up another left-handed bat soon -- but not necessarily via trade.
"I think Andy Dirks is going to come back here," general manager Dave Dombrowski said when downplaying the chance of trading for a left-handed hitter. "He's making progress again. I think he's going to help us."
That return might not be as far off as expected. Manager Brad Ausmus said Dirks has been making progress during workouts in Florida and could resume his Minor League rehab assignment in the coming days.
"We're hopeful if he feels good on Monday that we can maybe restart his assignment," Ausmus said Saturday.
Dirks played in six games for Class A Lakeland this month before being pulled off his rehab assignment July 16 with lower back soreness.
Worth noting
• The Angels haven't had a homestand where they went .500 or worse since early May, when the Rangers and Yankees each took two of three at Angel Stadium. They are 5-4 on the 10-game homestand entering Sunday's finale.
• Porcello has been a better pitcher on the road this season, going 8-2 with an even 3.00 ERA in 72 innings away from Comerica Park.
Michael Lananna is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Get better responsiveness when editing with key tools like Upsample, Blur Gallery, Smart Sharpen, Blur Gallery, Liquify, and Puppet Warp. A next-generation Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine delivers more immediate results with OpenCL, even when editing your largest files.
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Adobe Generator
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Real-time image asset generation
Skip the hassle of manual asset slicing and export when designing for screens. As you work, Photoshop CC uses Adobe Generator technology to save tagged layers and layer groups as individual image files in formats you choose, all collected in a single folder.
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Also included: Improvements to Camera Shake Reduction, including UI enhancements and HiDPI preview support for retina display; new controls to modify the range and fuzziness for Shadows, Highlights, and Midtones; and more.
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All-new Smart Sharpen
Rich textures, crisp edges, and distinct details. All-new Smart Sharpen is the most advanced sharpening technology available today. It analyzes images to maximize clarity and minimize noise and halos, and it lets you fine-tune for high-quality, natural-looking results.
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Camera Shake Reduction
Save shots you thought were lost due to camera motion. Whether your blur was caused by slow shutter speed or a long focal length, Camera Shake Reduction analyzes its trajectory and helps restore sharpness.
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Adobe Camera Raw 8 and Camera Raw as a filter
Apply Camera Raw edits as a filter to any layer or file, and then enhance them any way you want. And with new Adobe Camera Raw 8, you get more precise ways to heal images, fix perspective distortions, and create vignettes.
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Image resizing improvements
The Image Size command now includes a method to Preserve Details and provide better sharpness while enlarging images. In addition, the Image Size dialog box has been updated for ease of use.
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Editable rounded rectangles
Resize shapes, edit them, and re-edit them — before or after they're created. Even edit individual corner radiuses in rounded rectangles. If a shape is bound for the web, export CSS data from the file to save time.
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Multi-shape and path selection
Select multiple paths, shapes, and vector masks at once. Even in multilayered documents with lots of paths, you can easily target the path (and any layer) you want right on canvas using a new filter mode.
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Adobe Edge Reflow CC integration
With just a click, bring the assets from your Photoshop mockup into Edge Reflow CC to quickly adjust your layouts to fit all your desired devices. It's responsive web design made easier by Adobe Generator.
Extended features included
Photoshop CC now includes the advanced 3D editing and image analysis tools that were previously in Photoshop Extended.
System anti-aliasing for type
Get a realistic preview of how your type will look on the web with an option that closely matches the anti-aliasing of your Mac or Windows system.
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Behance integration
Share projects directly from within Photoshop to your Behance portfolio.
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Sync settings
Synchronize your workspace settings — including preferences, brushes, and actions — across multiple computers.
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Expanded Smart Object support
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Improved 3D painting
Live previews are now up to 100x faster and more responsive when you paint on 3D objects and texture maps. With the powerful Photoshop painting engine, you can make any 3D model look terrific.
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Improved type styles
You spend hours getting text to look just right. Type styles let you save your formatting as a preset that you can then apply with just a click. You can even define type styles to use across all your Photoshop documents.
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Enhanced CSS support
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Conditional Actions
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Minimum/Maximum filter enhancements
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Workflow timesavers
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And so much more
Also included: Support for Indic languages, the ability to export CSS code directly from layers or groups, enhancements to preset migration, and more.
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Crew of the Arctic Sunrise visit the abandoned Russian settlement / coalmine of Pyramiden, on Svalbard. Girlguides Miryam Justo and Yvette Sena Blankson went ashore to see with their own eyes and discovered there's not only beauty in the Arctic. Seen everywhere in the settlement were enormous amounts of junk, garbage, wrecked gear, abandoned homes and personal items left behind. An international crew is currently on a month-long expedition in the icy Arctic. Greenpeace is campaigning for a global sanctuary to be declared around the uninhabited area of the North Pole.07/04/2012
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The Uptown Downtown Shrug Pattern is a sleeveless summertime shrug that you can wear two ways. Shaped armholes give a neat fit, while the collar/bottom edge is much fuller on one side than the other. Worn one way, the garment forms a long, slimmer, more casual silhouette. The first option has a sweet small collar with a full, long lower back and front edge. Switch this shrug into a new look by flipping it over and swapping the armholes. Suddenly, this beautiful crochet shrug forms a lovely capelet that keeps your shoulders warm over a bare dress or top. The second options creates a shorter length for a flattering dressy effect. Either way you choose to wear the Uptown Downtown Shrug, this crochet garment can be overlapped in front or pinned in a variety of ways for a closure. You get all of this with one garment.
Uptown Downtown Shrug Pattern is made using a soft worsted-weight yarn in the color of your choice. The lacy look is versatile for elegant or casual attire. Wear this short or long version with jeans and a lightweight shirt for the ultimate casual look. Pairing the shrug with a cocktail dress or elegant skirt adds texture to your overall look. The Uptown Downtown Shrug Pattern includes instructions for sizes from Small to 5X-Large. The comfortable two-style crochet garment will add options to your current wardrobe. Select a yarn color that compliments the items currently in your closet and have fun watching this shrug shrug transform into a finished piece.
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I really rather hope that this guy doesn't start with changing the formatting to match BSD style first. That's just a stupid rat-race with no ending. This is what the guy who talked about BSD/KMS in XDC toulouse started out with, we haven't heard from him in 2 years.
The only thing that makes sense is the bare minimum infrastructural changes needed to run decently under some BSD kernels, and then regularly pulling in updates with minimal pain and overhead.
Oh, if only DRM drivers were not made a whole and complete part of the linux kernel monolith... Like we had it 5 years ago... Then the different codepaths for different linux and bsd kernel versions could happily live together. It really will not be that big of a API mess, and what will be there shouldn't be too hard to abstract cleanly.


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Thanks for sharing Norma. Franko, your pizza looks absolutely fabulous, it really does, but I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole! Not only do I not do fake eggs, as Norma so graciously pointed out, I don't like mushrooms either. There! I said it! I DON'T LIKE MUSHROOMS!!! .............but what a wonderful looking crust you have there.
For sure Jimmy Dean next time and maybe fresh eggs too, just maybe break'em open over the cheese
Frank, I have broken the yolks most every time I have used them on pizza.DonThat is what i had in mind is to break the yokes. Will post pics when i try this.
Sorry to offend anyone
Guess i shoulda not used eggbeaters I thought it tasted Great but still will use real eggs next time. Sorry to offend anyone
Franko, don't mind me. I'm not offended at all. I hope I didn't offend you. It was mentioned that I don't care for Eggbeaters and I then expanded on that remark to include mushrooms. Just a little tongue-in-cheek, as it were. It really is a good looking pie, especially the crust. Please feel free to put anything on a pizza that you like.


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Now that proud celebrity daddy-to-be Kanye West dropped the big Kim Kardsahian pregnancy news on December 20, 2012, and her reveal of the baby's sex on June 2, 2013, lots of questions have been pouring in about what Kimye's baby might look like. While we don't have a crystal ball to peer into, we did a little baby composite photo magic and came up with this craziness.


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+ | [http://sfhomeless.wikia.com/wiki/San_Francisco_Homeless_Resource SF Homeless Resource Wiki] | ||
+ | [http://211bayarea.org/ 211] - Call 211 for food, helath care, shelter referrals, resources and info | ||
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* Get involved with [http://www.homesnotjailssf.org/wb/pages/faqs.php Homes Not Jails] | * Get involved with [http://www.homesnotjailssf.org/wb/pages/faqs.php Homes Not Jails] | ||
* Free shelter chart [http://www.freeprintshop.org/download/shelter_english.pdf] | * Free shelter chart [http://www.freeprintshop.org/download/shelter_english.pdf] | ||
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* Camp in Golden Gate Park or one of SF's forested areas | * Camp in Golden Gate Park or one of SF's forested areas | ||
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Basically, noisebridge was born free and pure. It was composed of excellent hackers who had the highest goals in mind of creating a physical space where people could come anytime and create things. We thought that by renting a space with an open-door policy and inviting more hackers to make use of it, the purity of the initialized meatspace would sustain. Unfortunately, reality is an aggressive dog. -Jake (spaz)
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Noisebridge is not your home, it is your hackspace
There is broad consensus that living at Noisebridge or sleeping overnight is not excellent. That means you should not do it. Noisebridge is a place for hacking on creative uses of technology, not somewhere to live or crash out. Our lease prohibits people from living here, and people living at Noisebridge reduce its utility for those who want to hack.
If you are sleeping at Noisebridge anyone has the right to ask you to wake up and hack or leave. As a community, we agree that it is not acceptable to argue, be rude, or go back to sleep after someone has asked you to wake and hack or leave. If you fail to wake up and hack or leave when asked, you should expect to have your behavior discussed at a community meeting, and you are likely to end up being unwelcome here.
People who sleep at Noisebridge may find themselves awakened by the Rooster Brigade.
If you'd like to talk about the issue of sleeping, please join Noisebridge's discuss list at: https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss
Resources instead of living at Noisebridge
General Info
SF Homeless Resource Wiki 211 - Call 211 for food, helath care, shelter referrals, resources and info
Where to store your belongings
- Storing stuff on member shelves is not excellent. Member shelves are for projects, material for hacking, and so on. They are not for general posessions.
- City Storage, 150 Otis St. (between Gough and Duboce), 415-557-6339, Hours: 9am-3:30pm
Where to shower
Where to get food
- Glide Memorial Church
- Look up Tastebridge meeting nights
- Volunteer at SF Food Not Bombs
- Martin de porres House
- Free Eats Chart
Where to get free wifi / computer access
- Noisebridge wireless access is excellent
- Public libraries, housing projects and some other city facilities (map)
- St Anthony's Computer Lab
- Monkeybrains.net free wifi hotspots (corner of 19th and mission, dolores park, numerous other locations)
- McDonalds, Starbucks, Union Square, the Metreon
Where to sleep
- Get involved with Homes Not Jails
- Free shelter chart [1]
- Hostels (some will let you do work trade), co-ops (some rent cheap bunks or sublets)
- Camp in Golden Gate Park or one of SF's forested areas
Lists of free meals, food pantries, medical, hygiene, etc.
- Project Homeless Connect
- Free Printshop - Regularly updated charts of Free Eats, Free Shelter, Free Medical & Mental health care


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My 5-month-old daughter is teething, but she hasn't gotten her first tooth yet. How should I care for her teeth when they come in? - Nicole
The American Dental Association (ADA) recommends that babies start seeing a dentist by their first birthday. But good dental care starts before a child's first tooth comes in. Running a damp washcloth over a baby's gums daily will help clear away harmful bacteria.
Parents can brush kids' teeth as they come in with an infant toothbrush, using water with just a smear of toothpaste until about age 2. After age 2, most kids can spit while brushing. Use a pea-sized amount of toothpaste, with supervision, until around age 5.
Many parents are surprised to learn that even babies can develop tooth decay if good feeding habits aren't practiced. Putting a baby to sleep with a bottle might be convenient, but it can harm the baby's teeth. When the sugars from juice or milk remain on a baby's teeth for hours, they can eat away at the enamel, creating a condition known as bottle mouth. Pocked, pitted, or discolored front teeth are signs of bottle mouth. Severe cases result in cavities and the need to pull all of the front teeth until the permanent ones grow in.
Never let your baby fall asleep with a bottle in her mouth, and set specific times for drinking because sucking on a bottle throughout the day can be equally damaging to young teeth.
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The View from the Bottom of a Fiscal Abyss
Forty-one dollars in tax increases for every one dollar in spending cuts. That's the shrewd deal Speaker of the House John Boehner negotiated with President Barack Obama. Obama, Boehner and other congressional leaders have known for a year and a half that these automatic tax increases and so-called spending cuts – also known as the fiscal cliff, or sequestration – were coming, and yet they did nothing. In fact, Obama seemed to gleefully taunt Republicans after his re-election in November, as though he wanted to go over "the cliff." He taunts them still, and it will get worse.
Of course, the dolts who returned him to office see nothing wrong with penalizing the most productive people in our society in order to give them (the dolts) more free stuff. The indoctrination they have received in our government schools has taught them that even if two plus two equals four, it doesn't matter because somehow the geniuses who represent us in Washington can make it equal seven.
Apparently, Obama was so exhausted from those two speeches he gave this week that he had to resume his multi-million dollar vacation the next morning. In fact, it was so important that he get back to Hawaii, the president left town without even signing the bill he had told us was so crucial to save us from economic Armageddon.
Before leaving, however, he informed the country that he will entertain no further debates – with Congress or anyone else, apparently – about how much of our great-grandchildren's money he is spending. This is just a preview of the arrogance that will be on full display during his second term.
It is an inane joke to even talk about spending cuts in Washington. The last president to prevail upon Congress to actually cut government spending was Calvin Coolidge in the roaring twenties (hint: that's why they roared). Today, what passes for a "cut" is actually nothing but a smaller increase in what they planned to spend.
Imagine a family that made $100,000 in 2012 but spent $150,000, putting the difference on a credit card. Their plan for 2013 (while still earning $100,000, mind you) was to spend $300,000. However, on New Year's Eve, they decide to be "responsible" and only spend $250,000. In Washington, D.C., instead of a $100,000 increase in spending, this would be called a $50,000 cut.
Of course, in Barack Obama's world, members of our hypothetical family would be forced to change their lifestyles to accommodate the government. The stay-at-home mom would have to go to work in order to pay for the increased costs of gasoline, food, clothing, housing, insurance, health care, and everything else the family needs to survive. And that, of course, when added together with what could be found in the children's piggy bank, would reclassify the family as "rich," which would necessitate an additional tax penalty in order to make them pay their "fair share."
There is now talk of a challenge to Boehner for the position of Speaker. Do you think it will make a difference? Would House Majority leader Eric Cantor be a better negotiator? Would he be able to stop this spending spree? In the United States Senate – run by Democrats – they have not even passed a budget during Obama's entire first term.
In a matter of weeks, this temporary New Year's Eve fix will culminate in exactly the debate Obama claims he simply will not have, the one over raising the debt limit another two trillion dollars – that's a two with twelve zeros behind it – which will not even fund this out-of-control government for six months.
This is not a fiscal cliff. This is fiscal insanity. It is a fiscal abyss, and we are about witness the view from amidst the rubble at the bottom of it.
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Optional Webelos Activity Badges (or "Pins") Workbooks (a.k.a. Worksheets) can help Scouts organize notes, listen actively, and document their work. Leaders and parents can quickly see if a Scout is understanding. Workbooks allow group instruction with individual attention. Click an activity badge below for the current requirements or the corresponding workbooks.
Here are examples of some of the extra materials that you will need are included in the workbook:
- The blank US Map for: Forester
- Graph paper for: Engineer
- The Safe Swim Defense plan your are to teach and follow is included in: Aquanaut and Readyman
- The BSA Home Safety Checklist and Energy Audit needed for: Family Member
- Internet links are at the end of each workbook. For instance, check out the free online video lesson links in: Outdoorsman, Readyman, Artist, and Aquanaut.
Cub Scout Belt Loops and Pins Worksheets and Boy Scout Merit Badge Worksheets are also available.
Email the worksheet developer with any comments or ideas: Craig.
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Jo Nesbø's books have been translated into forty-seven languages. He is the author of the Harry Hole series, as well as The Son, Headhunters and several children's books. He has received the Glass Key Award for best Nordic crime novel. He is also a musician, songwriter, and economist and lives in Oslo.