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By Dr. Silva-Flores, fifth-grade teacher
April 2001
Part I: Reading and Language Arts
Goal: Students will learn the history, nutritional value, and properties of the banana.
Objectives: Students will
1. use predicting strategies for reading comprehension,
2. identify facts and details for reading comprehension, and
3. summarize a reading excerpt.
Materials: handouts, large chart paper, markers, paper, and pencils
1. Tap into students' prior knowledge of the subject by asking them to brainstorm about what they know about bananas.
2. Script their answers on large tablet sheets.
3. Pass out handouts about "Bananas' History, Nutrition, and Variety."
4. Give students instructions: They must read articles (handouts) and prepare reports for their peers on their reading.
5. Students break into groups of threes and give oral reports to each other.
6. Students get back together in one big group and discuss the information they learned about bananas.
7. Students answer questions about bananas.
Part II: Math
Goal: Students will learn the history, nutritional value, and properties of the banana.
Objectives: Students will:
1. estimate the outer and inner length of a banana using the metric system,
2. estimate the circumference of a banana using the metric system,
3. measure the actual circumference and outer and inner length of a banana,
4. use subtraction to identify which estimates were closest to the actual answers,
5. estimate the weight of the banana with and without its peel using the metric system,
6. weigh the banana with and without its peel, and compare the results to the estimates.
Materials: bananas, handouts, rulers, yarn, pencils, and scales
1. Tap into students' prior knowledge of the subject by asking them to identify what they might measure using milliliters, centimeters, decimeters, meters, and kilometers. Do the same using measurements of mass.
2. Students estimate the circumference and length of the banana and record their estimates on their handouts.
3. Students estimate the weight of the banana and record it.
4. Students measure the actual circumference, length, and weight of the bananas.
5. Students subtract the estimated measurements from the actual measurements and see who came the closest.
Part III: Science
Goal: Students will learn the history, nutritional value, and properties of the banana.
Objectives: Students will
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2. formulate a hypothesis, and
3. explain the hypothesis about the density of the banana with and without its peel.
Materials: bananas, handout, container, water, and ice cream.
1. Ask students to think about the weight of the banana; ask them to hypothesize whether the banana (with its peel on) will float in water
2. Students put the banana (with its peel on) in the water and observe.
3. Students remove the peel and observe what happens when the peeled
banana is put into the water.
4. Students explain their observations on their handouts.
5. Students discuss these observations.
6. Students develop a theory to explain their observations on the effect
of the banana's peel on its floatation properties.
7. Students share their information with the rest of the class.
8. Make banana splits and eat them!
The banana is a very old fruit. It is mentioned for the first time in history 600 years before Christ was born (B.C.). The existence of a banana plantation can be traced back to China in the year 200 after Christ was born (A.D.). Islamic conquerors brought the banana back to Palestine, and soon it spread all over Africa. Many centuries later, in 1502, the Portuguese started the first banana plantations in the Caribbean and in Central America.
Bananas are very nutritious. They are 99.5% fat free. They have no saturated fat, no cholesterol, and no sodium (salt). They have vitamins B1, B2, B3, B6, and C, and contain minerals such as potassium and phosphorous. If your body does not have enough B6, then you get weak, easily become angry, and cannot sleep well at night (suffering from insomnia). Bananas are ideal for sports persons. The mineral potassium is important for the brain to function well. That is why the banana is called BRAIN FOOD.
The banana plant is NOT a tree. It is a giant herb related to the palm tree. There are about 400 different types of bananas. The word "banana" comes from the Arabic word for "finger." Bananas are used for many things. They can be eaten fresh, baked, roasted, barbecued, fried or mixed into a recipe. Bananas can be eaten in a "banana smoothie" ("plátano con leche"), in banana cakes, and in salads.
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Bramble is an old fashioned word for raspberries or blackberries. Most folks think of potatoes when they think of Irish cuisine but potatoes were only introduced in the 1600s. Before that, oats were the main source of carbohydrates and Irish Oatmeal is still extremely popular as a healthy Irish breakfast.... Read more.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. In a medium bowl, combine the raspberries, rhubarb, honey, and arrowroot flour. Toss to coat. Pour the fruit mixture into an 8 x 11-inch baking dish.
In a medium mixing bowl, combine the granola and Irish rolled oats. Add the tahini and honey to the granola and oat mixture, and use your fingers to work the mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs. Pour the crumb mixture evenly on top of the berry/rhubarb mixture.
Place the baking dish in the oven and bake for 40 minutes, or until the filling is bubbling and the crumble is golden brown.
To make the creamy topping, place the yogurt in a mixing bowl and add honey. Stir until mixed. Serve the Irish Bramble-Rhubarb Crumble warm with a spoonful of creamy topping.
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Boy oh boy, does Zdeno Chara not want to talk about Andrej Meszaros
|03.06.14 at 12:01 pm ET
Bruins captain Zdeno Chara is among the friendliest professional athletes in Boston, so it was a bit odd to see just how much he didn't want to indulge the media Thursday morning upon the team's acquisition of his former Ottawa teammate and countryman Andrej Meszaros.
Chara was very short when asked about the team picking up Meszaros, a Slovak defenseman with whom he has played in both Ottawa and the Olympics.
After his session with the media was over, Chara was back to his normal self, politely explaining he would rather the media find out what they want to know about Meszaros from Meszaros directly.
Following is the transcript of Chara's session Wednesday:
Q: What can you tell us about —
A: Nothing. Ask him.
Q: Yeah?
A: What do you want to know?
Q: Your relationship with him, what he brings to the table. Anything. What've you got to say?
A: Ask him. He's going to be the best guy to ask all those things. You should know. You watch hockey.
Q: I know how much he weighs, how tall he is, where he's played and everything.
A: Do you watch [his] games, too?
Q: Yeah.
A: So you should know those things.
Q: Is it good to have another Slovak on the team?
A: I don't look at it that way. I look at it as it's nice to have more depth on the team. That being said, he's a Slovak. Obviously it's nice to have a countryman, but I don't look at it what nationality guys are. I just like to have more depth on the team. For sure he brings that dimension.
Q: So you're glad he's here.
A: I think I've answered, no?
Q: What do you remember about Meszaros in Ottawa?
A: I think he broke into the league when he was in Ottawa. We had some good chemistry and we used to play together on national teams, but he's just a normal guy. He's nothing that's different than anyone else. He's just a good guy, works hard, is a physical guy. Strong guy, plays the game that way.
Q: Were you whispering in Peter [Chiarelli]'s ear to get him?
A: No.
Q: Rough couple of years with injuries for Meszaros. When you saw him in Sochi, is he still the same player?
A: I'm not talking about injuries. We can't talk about injuries. That's one thing, and another thing is, when I saw him in Sochi, what was the question?
Q: How did he look? Is he still a good NHL guy?
A: I'm not there to judge anybody's performance. I'm here to play a game and so is everybody else, so I'm not going to be judging anybody else's performance. As a team, we didn't perform well. You saw the results. We ended up being 11th.
Q: Do you feel good about the depth?
A: Well we need that. We lost Dennis [Seidenberg] early on, and right now Adam [McQuaid] is on hold. For sure, we need some depth. I guess it was no secret that's what we were looking for in the last few weeks or months.
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2013 BMW X1 arrives in India on 14th Feb (100 Photos)
BMW revealed its newly designed 2013 X1 SUV at the 2012 New York Motor Show in April last year. X1 is the most sold BMW car in India. BMW India will launch the same on 14th February 2013.
BMW first showed the X1 to the world at the 2008 Paris Motor Show as a concept. BMW X1 production began in 2009. It is sold in India as CKD units from the BMW India plant in Chennai. The X1 is offered in a range of petrol and diesel engines. Internationally, the small SUV is offered in 2.0L and 3.0L petrol engines offering power in the range of 150 PS to 304 PS while 2.0L diesel engines are also on offer, which deliver power in the range of 116 PS to 218 PS. BMW X1 competes with Audi Q3 in India, which was launched in 2012.
BMW India currently offers the X1 in only sDrive options of 18i and 20d. Considering Q3 available in AWD system, it is expected that BMW will introduce the xDrive option with all wheel drive in X1 for India. More details and images from the BMW launch floor on 14th Feb 2013. Stay tuned.
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Owner of Atlanta Water Damage Restoration Service Broadens Services
Stephen Elliott, owner of structureMEDIC, a water damage restoration service in Atlanta, has begun work on concrete removal for a Buckhead home.
Atlanta, Ga (PRWEB) March 21, 2013
Stephen Elliott, owner of water damage restoration service structureMEDIC, has begun work on a Buckhead home doing work that was previously outside the scope of services that his business is known for. StructureMEDIC is primarily a water damage and storm damage restoration service in Atlanta that specializes in mold removal, but owner Stephen Elliott is specially trained to perform a variety of home restoration services, including concrete removal, which he is currently performing on the home of his Buckhead client. Elliott is removing a three-foot-tall solid concrete patio topped with a stonework inlay.
To break up this concrete patio, Elliot is using a Bobcat Compact Track Loader fitted with a Hydraulic Breaker, a jackhammer bit specially designed for this kind of concrete work. To use this specialized equipment, Elliott had to undergo training so that he could use the Hydraulic Breaker effectively.
The concrete patio is being removed so that a more attractive front porch can be built. In order for the rest of that project to go smoothly, the concrete patio must be removed correctly so as not to damage the house. This important for more reasons that the homeowner´s peace of mind; if the patio is not removed correctly and the outside of the house is damaged, attaching a porch to it safely and securely will be more difficult. This is why it is important to hire a trained restoration crew, like Elliott´s at structureMEDIC, to work on your home.
"It´s important to keep up with client needs," says Elliott. "You never know what people will need, so we always try to be ahead of the game and be ready to do whatever is needed, and that means being trained to work with a variety of equipment and materials."
StructureMedic is a 24-hour water damage repair and home restoration service in Atlanta, Georgia. If recent weather has caused water, mold, smoke, or fire damage in your home or business, call structureMedic´s team at 404-934-5967 or toll free at 1-800-764-4613. You can also visit them at http://www.structuremedic.com for additional information.
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Hope you have a great one! We will have to do a belated birthday shot in St. Louis. Any big plans for the big day?
Hope you have a great one! We will have to do a belated birthday shot in St. Louis. Any big plans for the big day?
"Now class, I'd like for you to transition from downward dog....straight to FULL BRING!!!"
Happy B-Day Elisa!!! DON'T give in to the temptation to snag one of those IOWA shirts you've been talking about. ; ) I just can't understand how anyone thinks they look good in IOWA gear (obvious jelousy.)
Those of you who think you know it all really annoy those of us who actually do ;)
Happy birthday girl!
Your friend Wool E Bull asked me to tell you happy birthday!
Super 32 Challenge - October 26-27, 2013
"Good things happen when you wrestle for a full seven minutes." -- Jayson Ness, post-finals press conference
Haha... Thanks everyone...
I won't be wearing any Iowa gear, I promise! I just think they're cute! I already have my special shirts for each wrestling day... don't worry - one in particular that may get a few people talking....
Homer, unfortunately, I'm what they call "lame" and will not be doing anything special... I plan on spending my extra time in STL this year making up for being lame and fully intend on "bringing it."
Star - Aw man, I miss Wool E. Bull... I need to come down and visit NC... I miss Chapel Hill terribly!
www.transplantgames.org -- Honor
Happy Birthday Elisa. You aren't lame.(well maybe a little)
RIP Jacob Schlottke; KR1963 and rpayton
Cheers Elisa! Wish I was going to STL... but I'll be home working on the HS banquet stuff.
"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind." -- Abraham Lincoln
Happy BDay Elisa!!


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DALLAS A destination engagement... and a wedding... in one day?
Sounds impossible, but a smitten Dallas man pulled it off.
Amanda Roman and Ryan Leak had dated for five years, and when he was ready to propose, he planned the surprise of a lifetime.
'How in the world did we keep this secret? I have no idea,' Leak said. 'The grace of God!'
Over the course of a year, he devised a plan to bring Amanda and more than 100 family members and friends to Miami for the very big day.
It was June 7, 2013, and Leak hired a videographer to capture it all. Roman was blown away.
'I just have this incredible guy who not only said that he loved me, but proves it,' she said. 'I just felt really loved, and honestly, it was like I was on cloud nine; I felt like I was living in a fairy tale!'
But how does a man confidently plan everything from decor, to food to favors... and trust that his bride will love it?
That's easy. He 'raided' her Pinterest page! Roman had pinned hundreds of ideas, and he took it from there.
Except for one key element.
'Amanda got to pick her own dress. We actually convinced her to go wedding dress shopping a year earlier,' Leak said.
Well done Ryan Leak. Now, how do you top that?
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Baseness: On Guantánamo
It wasn't long after Batista fled that US officials started wondering aloud how Gitmo might be used to invade Cuba. If Castro could somehow be provoked into attacking the base, the United States would have the perfect pretext for retaliation. This was at least part of the thinking behind the Bay of Pigs invasion. But if Cuba could not be tricked into providing provocation, perhaps provocation could be fabricated. Such was the rationale for a handful of foiled and unimplemented US plots hatched in Castro's first three years, most of which had the same script: dress up some Cuban exiles like Castro's militiamen, have them "attack" the base, then "respond" in full force. During the Cuban missile crisis, with Soviet missiles aimed at the base, Robert Kennedy asked "whether there is some other way we can get involved in through, uh, Guantánamo Bay, or something, or whether there's some ship that, you know, sink the Maine again or something."
Castro, too, seemed at times more concerned with using the base as a publicity prop than with the base itself. For him, Gitmo and its employment practices were a useful rallying cry: evidence and reminder of the whole system he claimed to stand against. In 1961 he forbade Cubans from accepting new jobs on the base, forcing the United States to ask the Jamaican government to send more workers. But he didn't force current employees to quit; the economic repercussions would have been too unpopular.
After Castro cut off the base's water supply in February 1964, President Johnson ordered the firing of some 80 percent of the Cuban employees who commuted to work on the base. In Hansen's account, when presented with the choice between Cuba and the base, "many commuters" chose to sever all ties with Cuba and defect. "To this day there remain aging Cubans on the base." This cursory account obscures several fascinating specifics. As Lipman points out, over six waves of layoffs, 448 Cubans chose to come live on the base; 750 others, however, were allowed to continue commuting. As of last March all but two of the commuters had retired, and those two have only one significant responsibility: to hand-deliver pensions to their former co-workers (only those who were not fired, of course).
As for the defectors, most did not stay in Gitmo but instead became US citizens. Some returned to Cuba. As of March, when I stopped by their community center on the base, only thirty-two remained, ensconced in what amounts to an assisted-living community of single-story homes a short drive from Camp X-Ray, an open-air, bare-bones detention center built in the 1990s to house Cuban asylum seekers. Camp X-Ray reopened in 2002 to house alleged terrorists, and now it sits vacant and overgrown with plant life. The remaining Cuban defectors are, in my experience, happy to see visitors and eager to talk about their decades of life in Gitmo. What their existence means I can't say, but surely they warrant more than a single parenthetical reference in Hansen's book, which is keen to depict Guantánamo Bay as a palimpsest marked by international history, and contains many scenes of bored Americans getting drunk. (Lipman doesn't appear to have interviewed any remaining permanent residents either. And none of her many academic reviewers noted this oversight, even though several criticized her for overrelying on her handful of Cuban interviewees.)
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Inattention of this sort affects the last two chapters of Hansen's book in ways perhaps more obviously vexing. The penultimate chapter details the Gitmo-linked fate of Haitian refugees. It's an amazing story, and for the most part Hansen tells it well. Though the full saga begins in the 1970s, the most relevant episode involved the detention of Haitian refugees—more than 34,000––on the base between 1991 and 1992. The goal of the George H.W. Bush administration was to deny immigration to as many of the Haitians as possible. And so in numerous courtrooms the argument was advanced that the US Constitution did not extend to Cuban soil, Gitmo included, or to the high seas on which the Haitians were picked up. The vast majority of the Haitians detained at Gitmo were repatriated to the land of their persecutors, where many were murdered by François Duvalier's militiamen.
After most Haitians had been cleared out, 233 remained. These were the refugees who, despite having managed against the odds to establish a credible fear of persecution in their home country, had also tested positive for HIV, making them ineligible to enter the United States under the terms of a 1986 law sponsored by Senator Jesse Helms. These men, women and children spent their days in extremely primitive, unhealthy and humiliating conditions. Several were given birth control injections without their consent. For many, Gitmo was the first place they'd learned they had HIV; several didn't believe their diagnosis, and so refused all medication. Many went on prolonged hunger strikes; at least four attempted suicide. Those who "misbehaved" or refused to confess wrongdoing in impromptu, unregulated courts-martial risked beatings and solitary confinement. Throughout his first presidential campaign, Bill Clinton expressed strong opposition to Bush's policies toward Haitian migrants, but once in office he made no effort to reverse them. Hansen ends the chapter with two overlapping court cases. In one, advocates for the Haitians went before the Supreme Court to argue that the United States was violating international and domestic laws governing the handling of asylum seekers. Six days later, they argued the more specific case of the HIV-positive detainees in a Brooklyn District Court. The district judge ordered the government to let the detainees go. The Supreme Court, however, sided 8 to 1 with the government: the US laws in question had no bearing outside the United States.
Two pages later the chapter is over, the eerie precedent well established—and the reader has no idea what happened to the HIV-positive Haitians. Hansen never mentions they were released in New York and Miami; a 2003 investigation in this magazine [see "The Legacy of Guantánamo," July 21, 2003] found that many were still waiting for their asylum applications to be processed. Others had died from AIDS. Some suffered from persistent psychological problems caused by base trauma. Children born in Gitmo were living as stateless people: neither the United States nor Haiti would grant them birth certificates. In Guantánamo these Haitians, like the base's permanent residents, drop right off the page.
The book's final chapter, in which Hansen considers Gitmo's most recent use—as a center for the indefinite detention and torture of foreign Muslims—is the one most flawed. Hansen leans heavily on well-known Gitmo investigations and analyses by Jane Mayer, Philippe Sands, Karen Greenberg, David Cole, Joseph Marguiles and Clive Stafford Smith. Jumping between their books, and a few interviews of his own, Hansen summarizes the sad, familiar story of how hundreds of men—the alleged "worst of the worst"—made their way through the United States' global network of gulags to Guantánamo Bay. He also retraces the trail of memos in which the Bush administration justified torture.
Hansen does not make use of the books by or interviews with post-9/11 detainees. Had he focused more on the experiences of Gitmo's victims, he might have written a slightly different ending. "Closing Guantánamo," he notes in his epilogue, "might inadvertently allow both the administration itself and the American public to sidestep the bigger question of how Guantánamo fits into the nation's larger detention archipelago….What is happening at Bagram? Where else is the United States detaining people? Under what conditions and for how long?" Good questions all, and ones Hansen might have pushed a little further with regard to Guantánamo Bay, whose geography of detention is not as well understood as he seems to think. Readers of his book will not learn that since 9/11, in addition to the military prisons at Gitmo he discusses, the base has also hosted secret CIA prisons—black sites within the base—about which almost nothing is known. Nor does he mention Camp Seven, a prison used to hold "high value" detainees previously held in black sites around the world. Much about this camp is shrouded in mystery, including its location on the base; what conditions and rules prevail there; and the makeup of Task Force Platinum, the team that runs it. On my visit in March, I asked one of my handlers why Camp Seven wasn't included in my tour or the information pack I'd been given. "As you know," I was told, "Camp Seven is a secret. No one knows about it."
Later that day, I was taken on a tour of the detainee hospital. There it was explained to me that each day some classified number of hunger-striking detainees—about eleven, though in the past it has been well over a 100—are each day forced to consume Ensure nutrition shakes, often through enteral tubes. My guide cracked jokes about the variety of flavors on offer—vanilla, chocolate, butter pecan and strawberries and cream—and how they influenced the flavor of detainees' belches. President Obama has ordered Gitmo to operate in accordance with Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. That article prohibits force-feeding, because by almost all definitions except for the one adopted in the past decade by the US government, force-feeding is torture. Perhaps it is not "as bad" as waterboarding—or "what happened before," as it was more than once euphemized by soldiers I met—but it is torture. And yet in the closing pages of Guantánamo we learn that "by all appearances, the torture and systematic abuse of detainees ended at Guantánamo long before Barack Obama took office." And later on the same page: "A place that has come to symbolize America's fall from grace post-9/11 now demonstrates the power of symbols themselves to inhibit clear thinking." Indeed.
Not long after I finished reading Hansen's book, I checked the online Federal Business Opportunities database to see if the government was seeking bids on new Gitmo-related contracts. Just posted: a call for "two (2) sanitation and decontamination systems for sanitizing equipment such as riot gear."


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CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 is a graphics editor created by Corel which you can download to perform high precision vector modification to images, create blueprint schemes for printing out data or create high-quality objects with the Mesh tool.
This free trial software may suit your needs in case you need a standard set of drawing tools like layer support, effect generation, particle reproduction or more advanced vector-levelling tools.
Even if you require something more specialized for working with web objects, it comes fully supported with content management functions and advanced integration features. Fully integrated support from multicore processing also makes this program a fast solution to exploiting your system capabilities.
Powerful image editing software
This suite has a wide the range of tools and functions. It supports some different file types such as multimedia web content.
One problem with this program is that numerous tools and functions could be confusing to new users. The complexity of some functions can be an issue, but if you require a good graphic editor, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 is a good choice for achieving great results.
Tools and alternatives
The minor complexity issues that come with many of the tools tools are acceptable, given that the workflow and the new interface is easy to use. Whilst the interface is similar to the old one, it now allows a much higher level of customization and all the new tools are clearly visible.
There is other software with similar tools such as Adobe Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. These tools are significantly more complex to use, yet offer few additional advantages.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 Features
Below you can find the main features of this graphic editor:
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- Supports more than 100 file formats (JPEG, DOCX, AutoCAD, PNG, TIFF, RTF, and CGM)
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- Mesh Fill Tool to offer better color transitions and an enhanced Color Palette Manager with new Pantone profiles like the Pantone Goe system and the Fashion & Home Palette to customize your own color palettes
- New Pixel View to create your designs more accurately
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For further information you can visit the author's site .
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 is a good solution when it comes to graphic work. It has interesting features that will make your work much easier with some practice.
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An Image-Editor that delivers a Remarkable Creative Power and Flexibility
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It may be hard to live in the shadow of those big names. Just like CorelDraw Graphics Suite it is always been overshadowed by the programs of Adobe's much luxurious Creative Suite. However Corel's flagship suite is continuing to play the game. What I like about CorelDraw is that they remain determined and made an outstanding update. In this version CorelDraw Graphics Suite X5 has included applications for layout, illustration, photo-editing, animation and web graphics that is much better with prior versions.
In addition, I like the few modifications to the drawing tools and adding a few new ones. It also incorporates a new tool that facilitates you to link objects by connecting it with a line. Power TRACE lets you convert bitmaps into vector images with higher precision. Also, the Mesh-Fill tool is more resourceful and there is a new transparency option.
I believe CorelDraw Graphics Suite X5 is one of the most extensive suites of graphics software available. It is also a lot smoother to handle, unlike its competition. For me, this software is always been the first choice since CorelDraw3 because of its versatility and a cheaper price than the other but yet powerful tool.
- It has much improved features
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On Wednesday, May 28, 2014
I am not yet an expert graphic artist, but I found CorelDraw Graphics Suite X5 an excellent tool for editing and designing. This software is manageable to use and very quick to load on my computer. This program has a wide range of abilities to offer. These include the Photo-Paint editor, the Swish miniMax2 animation tool, and the new Corel Connect browser.
In my opinion, CorelDraw X5 has gone up a few levels. Performance wise, this program is quite fast since its multi-core support. Its interface is now more intuitive and the features are now more flexible than ever. This software is uncomplicated to install and it also has numerous tutorials to get you started. However, if you are well-informed about this program, you can just simply jump straight in the application proper.
All in all, CorelDraw Graphics Suite X5 is a fine graphic software. The output quality of this software is very striking and its color management tool is astounding. If you want a powerful graphic tool with cheaper price than the other, CorelDraw X5 is the one for you.
- Features are now much flexible
- The performance is a bit fast
- Some tools might be confusing for starters
A Good Product That is Much Cheaper than Adobe Creative Suite
By Rose Sincro
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"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver". - Niccolo Machiavelli
bug wise it is indeed improving quickly, bugged quests arent the main problem post launch. Its the intrusive single player parts in all the wrong places that are ruining the multiplayer part of the game.
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Joined: 10/10/03
Yes that's another on that makes me laugh, "PvE levelling is too slow", "Veteran levelling is too slow". Who are all these guys who are already Veteran rank then?
My favourite was the guy who wrote the review about how slow it was last week, about 20 days into the game and he was Veteran rank eight! :D
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Joined: 1/10/11
I never had many bugs to begin with, playing Daggerfall Covenant. I've had to relog twice, once for stuck on loading screen, once to get a quest going. I've been stuck in a swinging animation a few times. Game crashed 2 times. Hmm what else... There's some others that I cant remember, but it's a normal evening playing ESO to me if I dont encounter a single bug. Not once I encountered anything gamebreaking or major, not even close so far, just some normal and to be expected stuff.
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Joined: 2/12/09
Originally posted by lifeordinary
I just dinged veteran rank 3 and I've been level 50 for more than a week now. I'm aiming for VR 10 to be able to see Craglorn, but it's going to be a long grindy ride. It sucks because I want to try out other classes aswell, but since you're already doing all quest on 1 character I don't bother leveling an alt, it's just too boring.
I think putting veteran ranks in the game was a mistake from ZOS, people were VR10 in a few days anyway, despite the content being 3 times longer than intended... That's the only reason I can see ZOS implemented the grind to go to all the other zones after you're max level, just because they want to make the content longer for 1 character so you're not high level soon. You don't need players who burn through your content like that and start whining, if the new content patch comes out they blast through that in a week and start crying for more again. It's a neverending story.
Now for the players who do like to chill out and maybe level an alt if they want to, they're kinda screwed right now. Because ye sure you can level an alt if you want. But the content takes that long that you're really not in for another long grind. It's not even shortened out if you have a max level character... It's the same 100000 quest you need to do again -.-
Man I'm happy when I'm VR10 and that shouldn't be a good thing.
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Joined: 4/26/08
The only major bug I can speak of that is really something that needs to be fixed is ability lockup during fights, whereas I am unable to attack or use any hotbar abilities and will remain this way until either I or the mob is dead. I would have thought this might of been fixed by now seeing as it has been this way since early access (didn't play enough in beta to test it). So far it only seems to be dual wielding with my dragonknight, whether it also happens with other classes I am unsure.
Moral of the story, sh*ts annoying yo.
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Joined: 8/05/11
Zenimax is indeed doing a good job in improving the overall gaming experience.
About bugs:
I always wonder about players complaining about the game being full of bugs. This weekend I reached a playtime of 120 hours (VR1) and I have found only 3 bugged quests so far. All could be solved by the player by following certain actions or restarting the quest.
One thing I found out while questing through the zones of Ebonheart Pact: Even though a quest works perfectly fine, players sometimes complain in region chat about that particular quest being bugged. Usually these players have not READ the quest dialogue or did not check the hints / objectives in their quest journal.
i got like 5 uncompletable quests in AD veteran 1 - 5, bugs are still highly apparent
Originally posted by Asariasha
tell that to my level 43 nightblade who literally couldnt progress into coldharbor because i was content locked to my level 20 story quest, which took ZOS 2 weeks to abandon for me so i could re-do it, in which time i had already hit vet 1 on a sorc i started when i realised i couldnt progress my nightblade any further, even after about 12 emails to and from customer support and a 45 minute phone conversation... yes some quests were just people being stupid.. but there was a high amount of gamebreaking bugs.
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all the bugs I have encountered are still intact, and the combat still keeps breaking. Maybe it's been server load issue.
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Originally posted by Krayfish
This is the main thing that's bothering me now. It happens to me on my templar using 2h weaps. And it seems to happen when I'm in a boss fight. The armor repair costs are irritating when I die because of this. It happens to me about twice a play session.
I also get weird lag and then disconnected, maybe 2-3 times a session, which is like 4 hours at a time.
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Originally posted by mbrodie
I'm sorry that you experienced such bugs. Could you please explain more in detail about that lvl20 storyline bug and why Zenimax had to abandon (abort?) your quest?
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I finished the main story yesterday and I've encountered quite a few bugs along the way up to molag bal final battle. They are still very much alive.
The labyrinth thing is completely bugged. I have to jump on a pillar with the light on my hand and then facing my target I have to jump left and send the light in mid air lol.
This of course doesn't always work. I saw some people saying "its supposed to be a challenge" lol come on, no it's not. It's bugged simple as that. After going through that part and another part full of mobs, the game teleports me back to the initial part of the labyrinth where I have to do that crap all over again. Me and some other 20 naked people jumping off the pillar.
The "army" that they mention in the dialogues (which are broken, sometimes they don t move their mouths, sometimes they dislocate their jaw while talking, sometimes the dialogue doesn't match what its written), are just a few mobs along the way hardly an army. Your friendly NPC followers though are as useless as they get, they just stand right next to an enemy with their weapons sheathed, looking at them and then they say how badly wounded they got and can't fight anymore lol.
Everything was such an immersive breaking experience, I couldn't care less about the final battle, I just killed molag bal fast and get the hell out of there.
The worst part of it all its how they introduce you, the excuse they give you, for you to go and complete the other faction's zones. "So hey! You're all done now BUT your adventure has just begun! Why don't you forget all these past glorious deeds you've made saving the world, oh great champion, and go to your enemies' faction zones as an unknown vagabond and do more glorious deeds???"
2 more entire faction zones of BORING quests that I must do to reach the level cap. No other alternatives at all! Quest or unsub! Or AOE powerlevel like a brainless zombie through hordes of mobs.
The main quest story made the questing just bareably even though its very buggy. I really can't put myself through another 2 faction zones. It's like another 50 normal levels if not more. The feeling of reaching the end of the main story and knowing that you've only reached 1/3rd of the game is priceless, in a very negative way.
Maybe if the quests were fun to play, with dynamic events along the way, NPC's that really help you, content challenging enough that require the help of the unknown players that pass by you all the time bunny hopping. Maybe then the quests were worth doing.
I really wanted this game to be good but it's just not good. PVP may save this but its all messed up aswell.
Originally posted by Kinado
Yep, naked pillar jumping, it was so ridiculous it made me laugh. I accidentally "dodge launched" off the lower platform (not the pillar) and got it.
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Originally posted by Kinado
The point is that they have been largely addressed, especially at lower levels. A single bugged quest (which you belabored at length) is unfortunate, but it's not anything close to typical. I just ran a toon through Glenumbra with absolutely no hitches, for example.
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Spoiler Alert!!!
I haven't seen many bugs in my entirety of playing, but I've only ran into one this past week. Varen wouldn't heal me for some reason while marching against Molag Bal. On my first time through, he healed me like every 5-6 seconds lol. This time around, he just stood there like a blind old man XD
Originally posted by Asariasha
it was fixed in a patch a couple of patches ago... it was the one where you watch lyris and abnur have an argument and she punches him in the face, basically when i got upto watching it the client bugged out and booted me, when i logged back in i was unable to interact with the npcs or reset the personal instance to get it to work, a lot of people experienced this bug and it had nothing todo with internet.. (i have fibre optic 100/40 thats never dropped out in 2 years) and i have a beast gaming rig, so it wasnt my computer.. it was just simply an issue with client programming and the server tech they're using, being a main story quest i was unable to abandon it myself and it ended up take 3 weeks from the time i reported it and started dealing with customer support, after the first week and seeing nothing was going to happen in a timely manner i rerolled a sorc and got it to vet 1 before they fixed my nightblade...
in daggerfall until the recent patch, people were locked from completing several quests in bangkorai due to mobs just not exsisting, there was a quest in stormhaven which didnt have enough crates to interact with.. basically twice through 1 - 50 there was at least 2 quests per zone that were physically uncompletable and it wasnt any of the ones people were complaining about in chat, for the most part the ones people were complaining about werent actually broken.
I'm an achievement whore and like my 100% zone completions and checking off all the achievemnts, my vet 5 sorc has like almost 3k achievement last time i checked and especially in veteran levels you HAVE todo all the quests in the zones to stay on track or you fall way behind in exp so being unable to complete quests is a big problem.


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York, although having alot to...
York, although having alot to see, overcharges and charges for just about everything. Dont go to the museums or into the york castle. They want more than it is worth. If you are going to London the museums are free and much bigger. Although some things will be different is it really worth it?
Definitely NOT a tourist trap!...
Definitely NOT a tourist trap! York's New Theatre (as was then called) was built on the present site in 1744 on the site of the old St. Leonard's Hospital. It was renamed the Theatre Royal in 1769 when the Management paid £500 for a Royal Patent. The stage that was graced by Sarah Siddons, Henry Irving and Edmund Kean has seen pantomime and opera, ballet and variety, tragedy and even Professor Cocker's 'fifteen educated horses'!
The theatre has been adapted so many times that it is difficult to know how much, if any, of the architecture is original, but you can still see the vaulted remains of the medieval hospice in the Theatre Club and backstage. Beneath the stage is a well, which we like to call Roman but is probably only medieval!
Until 1821 the building was essentially Georgian in design, almost certainly rectangular in shape like the Georgian Theatre in Richmond, Yorkshire. Gas lighting was installed in 1824; various refurbishments took place between 1835 and 1880, resulting in a new Victorian Gothic frontage. The main entrance was originally in Duncombe Place, as St. Leonard's Place was not created until 1835. Even as late as the 1960s, however, gallery-goers came in from Duncombe Place - keeping them separate from richer patrons!
Jorvik Viking attraction. It...
Jorvik Viking attraction. It is expensive and a real rip-off. We got there early to avoid the line, which can be quite long, but found that even the 30 minutes we spent was not worth it. It is like a short, less interesting version of Disney's Pirates of the Carribean for much more money. Do yourself a favor and spend your time seeing one of the many other spectatular attractions in York.
The Jorvik Centre, Coppergate...
The Jorvik Centre, Coppergate (just to the left of me in this picture).
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I've been a tour leader with Explore since 1995. When I'm not guiding outside during summer months, I work in an office in Ajaccio, Corsica.
Being a tour leader, for me, is all about meeting great people. The GR20 tour (Grand Randonnée) translates as 'Great Trek' and Corsica offers one of the toughest long-distance routes in Europe. It's hard, so when you get a small group of strangers thrown together, they swiftly become dependent on each other to make it to the end. I've met some great characters, made some great friends, and laughed a lot along the way.
Beautiful mountains and a terrain that's different every day is what I love so much about Corsica. Not to mention swimming in super jacuzzi-like rock pools; smelling the fragrant maquis vegetation; waking up with the first light of dawn, feeling healthy, watching the red kite birds and the cheeky mountain chuffs; relaxing around a warm fire; and tucking into a hearty bean stew. I think it's so important to try to get the most out of every day.
In my spare time I like to be outside, riding race-horses on the beach, going walking, fishing, swimming, and sleeping out under the stars.
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← Melvyn Bragg attacks Richard Dawkins' 'atheist fundamentalism'
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What an insult; bracketing Richard and de Botton together!
Melvyn has launched a sad tirade against Strawkins here, which leaves him looking like the ignorant and disrespectful one. He's become more intolerant and bigoted recently, against an atheism that dares to speak its name. The series he did on the KJV seems to have lit a fire of stupid inside him, making him much more of a faitheist.
Bragg argued that reason was not "the primary source of knowledge".
"We start with emotions and passions and feelings, the roots of which we don't know and perhaps will never know," he said.
The article misrepresents what Bragg says slightly; obviously reason alone gets us nowhere - that was Hume's point. Without evidence from our senses we have nothing to reason with. But just because our first encounter with the outside world is our senses, this does not mean they are trustworthy - they're just the only inputs we have! As Bragg says, reason then 'steers and sorts' these inputs, I would say 'controls' them. So, reason and evidence is the root to knowledge, our senses being the source of all our evidence ultimately. And, of course, that's what Dawkins thinks too, I'm sure.
I do believe there are things I can't know. I do believe that there are things beyond the human mind, and oddly enough, I respect those things...
But if they're beyond his mind, how does he know he respects them? Is it really the behaviour of a sane and intelligent man to respect that of which he knows nothing?
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Re: Insurrection
JarodRussell wrote:
BillJ wrote:
JarodRussell wrote:
That has never been the case. It's always the needs of the upper few that outweigh everything else.
But in the
Star Trek
universe it isn't suppose to be that way...
The particles were about to be collected by a corrupt Starfleet Admiral and criminal scum that also worked with the Dominion. In the film they also talk about how the Federation didn't know about what happened there (Rua'fo talked Dougherty into ordering the attack on the Enterprise so that the Federation Council didn't get information about what happened there, because it would lead to endless debates).
None of those guys were trustworthy. Dougherty tried to butter Picard up when he said it was going to help billions. The Son'a had the technology, and the Son'a would set the price for the fountain of youth. Only the richest would get a share of it. So the Ba'ku would have lost everything for greed. And THEN it became clear that the Ba'ku were only about to get eradicated because the Son'a wanted the particles all for themselves (because they were dying) AND wanted revenge. That was actually pretty clear.
What's actually "pretty clear" is that you're using loaded emotional terms like "criminal scum" and "corrupt admiral" in place of actual arguments. Whether the motives of the Son'a were as pure as driven snow or not is irrelevant. First, they had just as much of a claim to the planet as the Baku as you and others defending the Baku keep ignoring. You can't defend the Baku's right to the planet while deriding the Son'a rights.
And again, this was not about "stealing" the planet. No one was going to take the planet because it was going to be uninhabitable. SFdebris in his review of the film compares the situation to moving a few cabins that are downstream so that a river can be dammed, thus providing electricity to millions. They're not TAKING the planet, they're moving the inhabitants so they won't be harmed by a process that would harm them.
This is why the analogy to imperialism is a false one that substitutes loaded terms for an argument.
Also, if you reject "the needs of the many" argument, you basically reject the entire basis of democracy, the welfare state, etc. Otherwise, the needs of the aristocratic few should prevail, and their wealth and power shouldn't be touched to give the masses greater control over their own lives. It continues to amuse me to see folks defending the property rights of an entitled few over the greater good for billions.
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DOH sends team to Abra to check on anthrax reports
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MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Health has dispatched a team to investigate suspected anthrax cases in Abra.
The DOH said several suspected cases of cutaneous anthrax were reported in Lagangilang, Abra, during the last week of December 2012.
To date, 23 cases have been detected, all males and with age ranging from 2 to 52 years old.
"A DOH team is now assisting local officials in coordination with the Bureau of Animal Industry in the conduct of an outbreak investigation," the agency said.
But no death was reported, it added.
Anthrax is endemic in the Philippines. It generally affects animals such as carabao (water buffalo).
The patients in Abra apparently showed signs and symptoms compatible with cutaneous anthrax. But the DOH still warned the pubic against eating contaminated meat, especially those from so-called "double-dead" animals.
"Dead animals should not be used as food source to eliminate risk from illnesses associated with sick animals, like anthrax," the DOH said.
According to the DOH, cutaneous anthrax commonly occurs as a result of unsafe handling of dead animals that allow resilient anthrax spores to cause notable skin lesions via minor cuts in the exposed body surface.
"Humans become secondarily infected after exposure to diseased or deceased animals. Three forms of the disease may exist, namely cutaneous, inhalational and gastrointestinal depending upon the mode of transmission. Both inhalational and gastrointestinal forms of anthrax are rarely found," the DOH explained.
"Those who develop skin lesions two to five days after handling deceased animals or contaminated flesh should seek medical advice," the health department said.
Apart from skin lesions, other symptoms of anthrax virus include muscle pain and itchy skin, headache, fatigue, stomach pain, sore throat and dry cough, high-grade fever, difficulty in breathing and abnormal bleeding.
The DOH cited the importance of proper handling of carcass.
"In communities where animals die unexpectedly, proper handling of carcass with personal protective equipment is important," it said.
It added that death of these animals should always be reported to proper authorities.
Likewise, the health department strongly recommended the vaccination of animals against anthrax.
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