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You have the day off, so you went to spend time in front of the fire to escape from the city. But suddenly you hear a squeak. Who is it? Darn mosquitoes! Now the battle begins against the pesky mosquitoes. You thought ahead and packed bait and three sprays, one of which is flammable. You can do this! Try to hold out as long in this protracted battle.
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One cute frog wants to get out of her swamp, and it's now finally possible. Finally, she has a real chance to leave her native place, but needs to collect a certain number of coins. Therefore it is necessary to dodge the traffic from slugs and avoid a wide variety of traps.
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Collect berries in this fun and crafty game. By collecting 3 similar berries in row, you pocket the group. Hold onto what you have, be careful not to lose any from your pocket! Have fun!
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Triangle Steve travels the realms. This time, fate has led him to the world of TETRIS. To pass the level, he will have to jump on the falling figures which will lead him to the portal. Hindering our hero will be many falling blocks and guns fired from walls. The bonuses are along for the ride, and may fall with the blocks as well. Use unprecedented skill and dexterity to help Steve in this dangerous but exciting journey.
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Cemetery Warrior - Frightful and dynamic 3D shooter. You have 3 weapons at your disposal - an endless machine gun, rocket launcher and plasma gun. Unlike other games where you're given a limited amount of missiles, here you can just keep 'em coming! Realistic physics - the enemies fly off, pound on the walls and hang from the fence!
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Cool Races is a simple racing game in which you can play without rules, if you want. Choose from 9 cars or more cars and several different tracks. Many 3D effects including realistic car damage. This is a great game for racing fans.
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X-tank is a super-weapon, able to change the course of the war. Hundreds of scientists and ordinary citizens worked on the creation of this instrument of death. And it rolled off the assembly line, with black finish that absorbs hits from energy beam weapons, powerful psychic protection, the ability to self-repair by nanobots and heavy plasma gun capable of melting a few meters of armor in seconds.
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According to legend, the ancient temple kept by the sacred Shuriken is able to defeat the evil dark entities. A brave Ninja goes in search of a legendary artifact to protect his village from the forces of darkness. Controls: W, A, S, D - movement U - Teleportation I - Throw Shuriken
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The description: One warm, sunny day, Ginzi and his girlfriend Loana peacefully walked in the woods. Suddenly and from out of nowhere an awful phantom appeared and abducted Loana. Ginzi snaps into action, and sets out to rescue his beloved. Your problem to help the protagonist to reach the phantom's lair and release his girlfriend. The principle of game is rather simple: press assigned letters to move ahead, onto new adventures and dangers.
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You begin play as a beginner pilot, but you'll soon develop into an experienced pilot. The objective of this game is to fly from one airport to ferry passengers elsewhere. But beware, the routes are often fraught with many hidden dangers including Zeppelin poachers which must be picked off. Set the optimal screen resolution and take flight. Good luck!
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Free, easy and fast way to import Microsoft Outlook 2010/2013/2016 auto-complete list cache into selected mailbox or data file from XML, NK2 or DAT format files. For your convenience, Outlook add-in and standalone Windows launcher application included with the product.
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Turn your PC into a video surveillance system that monitors your home/office from a remote location. Detect motion and trigger alerts like sounding an alarm, recording audio and video, taking photos, broadcasting video, and sending email notifications. Configure WebCam Monitor in minutes using any USB camera. Video broadcasts can be viewed from any PC. The scheduler turns monitoring on and off to fit your schedule.
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The main character from an earlier age was experiencing a strange dream, over and over. For a while it stopped, but then it came back with a vengeance. He could no longer close his eyes, as visions of the dream were now stuck in his head. After six days without sleep he was in a mental hospital, where he died in his sleep under the influence of a potent sedative. You will see the last dream of the protagonist and try to unravel its secrets ...
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Dander Zone is an addictive 3D shooter. You find yourself in a dark abandoned hospital where they conduct experiments on humans, some of whom have turned into zombies. You'll have to fight these creatures. They know nothing, only that they want to kill you. The only chance to survive is to kill all of them and find the exit from the hospital.
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Another iteration of the timeless Arkanoid with interesting graphics, special effects, and many types of blocks and bonuses. But this time it's not so simple. A distinctive feature of the breakout from the others is the ability to buy upgrades for the platform and for the world. Number panel is to the right of the screen. Collect money from the blocks to enhance gameplay!
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Dynamic arcade with a view from the top, a robot running through the laboratory robot killing other robots. At the end of the level you may spend points earned to upgrade your character. Controls are somewhat similar to the tanks in Dendy.
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VISCOM DVD Player playback ActiveX SDK 4.01
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NEWORLEANS-- New Orleans police found a little girl wandering alone around the Uptown area early Monday morning, though now she is safe with her family.
The 4-year-old girl was found near the corner of General Pershing and Coliseum streets around 2 a.m. Monday.
Police say she could not tell officers what her name is or who her parents are.
Around 7 a.m. the family received a call from a neighbor that their child was on television, so they called the Eyewitness News newsroom to get the number for the local police station. Not long after they were at the station picking up their daughter.
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Shares of Buffalo Wild Wings kicked to a record high Monday, following an analyst's view that the World Cup soccer tournament was packing its sports restaurants.
Robert Derrington of Wunderlich Securities told clients there was "standing-room-only attendance for yesterday's World Cup match featuring the U.S. vs. Portugal, and long wait times (over an hour) for any tables for viewership in either the bar, dining room or patio of B-dubs locations we polled yesterday evening."
On Monday, shares of Buffalo Wild Wings rose $9.33, or 6 percent, to close at an all-time high of $166.25.
June is usually a slow time for the Golden Valley-based wings chain, whose 1,000-plus wings-and-beer restaurants draw the biggest crowds for football in the fall, the NFL playoffs during the winter, and college basketball's NCAA tournament in the spring.
But the month-long World Cup in Brazil has emerged as a ratings powerhouse. On Monday, ESPN said the U.S.-Portugal match was the network's most-watched sporting event ever, outside of college and professional football.
ESPN said 18.2 million viewers watched Sunday's game, the most ever for a soccer game broadcast in the United States. Another 6.5 million U.S. viewers watched the game on the Spanish-language Uni-vision network.
Four years ago, the World Cup matches were held in South Africa, presenting time-zone issues for live telecasts in this country. Because of that, the 2010 World Cup had only "a slight benefit to our same-store sales," the company said.
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"Interestingly, our sources told us that regardless of what various matches were being featured since the World Cup began, World Cup viewership in B-Dubs has consistently been very strong, with most of the 'soccer powerhouse matches' including Mexico, Brazil and Germany especially well attended."
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|Nov 6, 2007, 11:52 AM
Core Image Filters: Is it meant to be so slow?
Perhaps you are getting tired of me starting new threads. However, I thought I should just start a new topic, since this has nothing to do with memory management. It's more like performance and optimization methods.
I am still building image Filterizer as an exercise. However, I am not using the same approach, so you may need to redownload the project.
I am using a filter in core image called Disk Blur. I apply the filter onto the image, using a value above 20, and it is SLOW. That's ok, if it's a heavy filter. But when I try to scroll the or resize the window, it really is slow, as if it applies the same filter over and over again. Can you tell me why is this happening?
I thought that when I applied the filter to the image and made that image my main image to be drawn, I avoided forcing the processor to reapply the filters, thus saving memory, and processor resources. However, I see that this isn't the case.
Here is the project. Any recommendations?
|Nov 6, 2007, 12:13 PM
From the docs:
|Nov 6, 2007, 12:52 PM
|Nov 8, 2007, 11:10 AM
I used NSImage and it didn't make any difference... Am I doing something wrong? I loaded the file as an NSImage, then in each filter, I used Core Image. Then, I converted the resulting Core Image to NSImage, and I displayed that to the NSImageView. However, I see no change in performance.
|Nov 8, 2007, 11:18 AM
You probably need to convert it to an NSBitmapImageRep and add that to the NSImage. This can be done using NSGraphicsContext's graphicsContextWithBitmapImageRep method. There is sample code for this here http://developer.apple.com/samplecod...listing16.html
|Nov 8, 2007, 12:23 PM
Hm... So let me get this straight.
At first, I have an NSImage. I take that NSImage and convert it to a CIImage object in order to apply some filters. Then, I will need to make an NSBitmapImageRep from the CIImage object and add that representation to the NSImage object that will be displayed on the NSImageView? And I will make that using the NSGraphicsContext?
|Nov 9, 2007, 03:09 AM
The problem that you have is that CIImages are calculated on the Graphics Card. Then to draw them in a NSImageView requires you to copy them from the VRAM into an allocated chunk of RAM and then draw them back into the VRAM to show it on the screen. This is slow not only because there are multiple copy operations but because you are never supposed to do that it is not optimised. So instead of doing the VRAM -> RAM first and then RAM -> VRAM it might do one bit at a time through each operation. Very slow indeed. Also there is a bug in the Core Image Framework where if you copy an image from the VRAM to the RAM it leaks memory, a lot of memory, equivalent to the size of the image. I designed a program that did this with video from the iSight and it leaked about 250MB per second. Bear this in mind if you do it.
If you are only interested in showing it to the user then keep it in the VRAM and render it using an NSOpenGLView subclass (there is a good example here, http://developer.apple.com/samplecod.../listing9.html).
If you want to do some other pixel level alterations not using a CIFilter then you are going to have to copy the data down into an NSBitmapImageRep but beware of the bug mentioned above.
|Nov 9, 2007, 09:41 AM
Got it. Thanks a lot for the information, I will put it to good use. However, I have a question.
Why do I make that move from the VRAM onto the RAM? Actually, that will happen during applying the filter. But that will happen only once. After that, when resizing the window or moving the scroll view, only the NSImage is called for redraw. And that is already on the RAM. I am not calling anything that would require the graphics card to intervene.
So, why does resizing take so much processor speed? Is it because of the bug you mentioned? A memory leak has been created? And that bug exists in Leopard?
|Nov 14, 2007, 07:15 AM
Speed is retained by keeping the information on the GPU and in it's VRAM. Copying data back is slow, as Chris says, especially if the image is large (sounds like it must be as you're scrolling around it).
Creating an NSBitmapImageRep, or drawing to an NSImageView will create a host copy (i.e. one on the CPU side). This is because these are not GPU based classes families. NSImage (I think) has been expanded to be able to contain CIImages, so creating an NSImage from a CIImage probably doesn't have a high cost, but you only do this to do something like draw it in a NSImageView, so the cost comes somewhere in the chain of events.
By keeping the CIImage, and using an NSOpenGLView, everything stays on the GPU, so no speed cost, and no memory leak.
Two other points:
1) Large images will be slower (obvious, but bare it in mind)
2) Changing inputs requires things to be recalculated, and defeats caching.
The second one is important.
Say you've got your image going through a blur. If you say [blurFilter setValue":x ForKey:@"blurRadius"] in drawRect:, then every time the image is redisplayed the filter will re-blur the whole image. If you don't it can re-use the image from last time round.
All you want in your drawRect method is drawImage: call and no other messing with the filter chain. If you're doing video or animation, that will cause slow down, but should still be elsewhere in your code so it's only done when necessary.
In my (limited) experience this is far bigger than host<->GPU transfers.
|Nov 14, 2007, 03:45 PM
The image I test it on is only 96 kbytes. And my system config is in my signature.
-(void)drawRect:(NSRect)rect { NSLog(@"redrawing now..."); [theImage drawInRect:[self bounds] fromRect:[self bounds] operation:NSCompositeSourceOver fraction:1.0]; }
Btw, this is a very serious bug. How come apple has not fixed this memory leak?
|Nov 14, 2007, 05:34 PM
I have had bugs filed which can cause an application crash because APIs that Apple exposed in 10.5 weren't properly guarded (A malformed search predicate hard-locked an app back in the WWDC seed)... and they still are open issues.
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|Nov 16, 2007, 03:29 AM
So theImage is an NSImage there right?
Might be time to get Shark out and profile your app. It's in your /Developer/Applications/Performance Tools. Start it, run a debug build of your app, hit the start button in shark, and then make your app do it's slow thing. After 30 secs shark will stop recording, analyize for a bit, and hopefully tell you where you're spending your time.
Sharks a really good tool, and worth learning how to use. Sometimes, it's not the thing that you expect that's slowing you down.
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Recently a pilot was practicing high--speed maneuvers in a jet fighter. She turned the controls for what she thought was a steep ascent--and flew straight into the ground. She was unaware that she had been flying upside down.
This is a parable of human existence in our times--not exactly that everyone is crashing, though there is enough of that--but most of us as individuals, and world society as a whole, live at high-speed, and often with no clue to whether we are flying upside down or right-side up. Indeed, we are haunted by a strong suspicion that there may be no difference--or at least that it is unknown or irrelevant.
Rumors from the Intellectual HeightsThat suspicion now has the force of unspoken dogma in the highest centers of Western learning. Of course, one has to assume in practice that there is a right-side up, just to get on with life. But it is equally assumed that right-side up is not a subject of knowledge.
Derek Bok was president of Harvard University for many years, and in his "President's Report" for 1986-1987 he referred to some well-known moral failures in financial circles and the political life of the nation. He wondered out loud what universities might do to strengthen moral character in their graduates.
"Religious institutions," he continued, "no longer seem as able as they once were to impart basic values to the young. In these circumstances, universities, including Harvard, need to think hard about what they can do in the face of what many perceive as a widespread decline in ethical standards."'
Bok points out that in other days "the instructors aim was . . . to foster a belief in commonly accepted moral values" (p. 10). Now all is changed: "Today's course in applied ethics does not seek to convey a set of moral truths but tries to encourage the student to think carefully about complex moral issues." One senses that the governing assumption of his discussion is that these two objectives are mutually exclusive.
"The principle aim of the course," Bok continues, "is not to impart 'right answers' but to make the students more perceptive in detecting ethical problems when they arise, better acquainted with the best moral thought that has accumulated through the ages, and more equipped to reason about the ethical issues they will face" (p. 10).
Later he quotes Carol Gilligan to the effect that "moral development in the college years thus centers on the shift from moral ideology to ethical responsibility" (p. 30). One should not miss the point that Bok puts "right answers" in queer quotes, and that Gilligan holds what one has before college to be "ideology"--that is, irrational beliefs and attitudes. They are faithfully expressing the accepted intellectual viewpoint on the common moral beliefs that guide ordinary human existence.
Finally, in coming to the conclusion of his report, President Bok remarks, "Despite the importance of moral development to the individual student and the society, one cannot say that higher education has demonstrated a deep concern for the problem . . . Especially in large universities, the subject is not treated as a serious responsibility worthy of sustained discussion and determined action by the faculty and administration" (p. 31).
But the failure of will on the part of educators that Bok courageously points out is inevitable. Had he strolled across Harvard Yard to Emerson Hall and consulted with some of the most influential thinkers in our nation, he would have discovered that there now is no recognized moral knowledge upon which projects of fostering moral development could be based.
There is now not a single moral conclusion about behavior or character traits that a teacher could base a student's grade on-not even those most dear to educators, concerning fairness and diversity if you lowered a student's grade just for saying on a test that discrimination is morally acceptable, for example, the student could contest that grade to the administration. And if that position on the moral acceptability of discrimination were the only point at issue, the student would win.
The teacher would be reminded that we are not here to impose our views on students, "however misguided the student might be." And if the administration of the university did not reach that decision, a court of law soon would.
Of course, if a student seriously wrote on a test that 7 times 5 equals 32, or that Columbus discovered America in 1520, we would be permitted to "impose our views" in these cases. It would not matter by what route the student came to such conclusions because these cases concern matters that--quibbles aside--are regarded as known. That is what marks the difference.
Why Be Surprised?But if indeed there is now no body of moral knowledge in our culture, then a number of things highly positioned people express surprise about are not surprising at all. Robert Coles, professor of psychiatry and medical humanities at Harvard and a well-known researcher and commentator on matters social and moral, published a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education on "The Disparity Between Intellect and Character."' The piece is about "the task of connecting intellect to character." This task, he adds, "is daunting."
His essay was occasioned by an encounter with one of his students over the moral insensitivity--is it hard for him to say "immoral behavior"?--of other students, some of the best and brightest at Harvard.


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David Cain threw a boomerang and caught it in his mouth three times.
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David, how far can you toss one and catch it in your mouth? I'd love to see a distance record!
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Well, with my large range boomerangs, I catch them on a spoon I hold in my mouth (the rangs have a hole in the center). I've always wanted to try to do a proper mouth catch with one, but it's a scary proposition. I might have to try it sometime soon.
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The Ram is a private, independent, family-owned and operated restaurant business. We were born on February 26, 1971 when our founders took their entrepreneurial spirit and experiences they received making pizza and serving beer at Shakey's Pizza Parlor to open their own restaurant. That first restaurant was called the Ram Pub, which was a "Deluxe Tavern" that served hot food, including cook-your-own burgers and steaks, along with beer and wine.
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Celtica - Pipes Rock is an international band with members from Scotland, America and Austria. The band is available to perform in any location, worldwide.
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If i have turned off experience on a character can i still boost it to 90 or will it award all the levels but do nothing?
If i have turned off experience on a character can i still boost it to 90 or will it award all the levels but do nothing?
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I'm 99.9% sure that it would still be boosted to 90, because there's a difference between getting actual xp and recieving the levels through the boost system.
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You aren't granting exp, you're granting levels. Though it may give warning to spare twink tears.
The character would still get boosted to level 90 because these levels are coming from an internal system, not through actual experience. But it can't hurt to ease your mind by turning on experience again.
Most likely the wisest Enhancement Shaman.
Though it may give warning to spare twink tears.
I tried this a few times. It uses up your "boost", but your character stays the exact same level - yet your character's still fully equipped in level 90, 489 ilvl greens. It's amazing, and ensures you're super strong whilst leveling.
but not really
The boost occurs in the character screen, not in game. Even with XP off, you will still boost.
Last edited by -Superman-; 2014-03-10 at 01:26 PM.
Unless you mean solo the entire other team?
OT: I have no idea. I would presume that, as others have said, it would just go *POOOF* on the character screen, directly adding levels and not XP, but that's just a guess.


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Today is Blog for Lesbian Health Day in honor of the upcoming National Lesbian Health Summit taking place March 6 through 8, 2009, in San Francisco. It's only $30 registration for both days. "Instead of it being just a boring conference, we want to use it as a place to build grassroots, community-based conversations on our health and what health issues affect us. AND most importantly, how we can be leaders in championing our health and getting TPTB to pay attention to our health. This is a critical moment in our nation's history and we want to make the most of it."more


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Pork Chops with Anchovy Sauce
|Anchovy fillets
|Unsalted butter
|4 Tablespoon (At Room Temperature)
|All purpose flour
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Olive oil
|1 Tablespoon
|Pork loin chops
|2 Pound, pounded
|Dry white wine
|1 1⁄2 Cup (24 tbs)
|Beef stock
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Ground pepper
|To Taste
|Minced parsley
|1 Tablespoon
1) Rinse anchovies under running cold water and pat dry with paper towels.
2) With a sharp paring knife or vegetable peeler cut four orange peels into 1/2-inch-wide strips. Reserve orange.
3) Blend anchovies and butter in food processor with steel blade and process until smooth.
4) Transfer mixture into small bowl, seal in a plastic wrap and refrigerate.
5) Put flour in pie pan or on sheet of waxed paper.
6) Heat oil in large heavy nonaluminum skillet over medium-high heat until hot.
7) Pat dry pork chops with paper towels. Dredge chops with flour, shake off excess, and fry chops in skillet browning each side for 4 minutes.
8) Cut chilled anchovy butter into small cubes.
9) Place the chops in the platter, covering loosely with foil, and place on stove top.
10) Add fat from skillet, add wine and boil over medium-high heat, stirring constantly.
11) Blend in stock and boil mixture for 3 to 4 minutes till reduced to 2 tablespoons.
12) Reduce heat and add anchovy butter to skillet, whipping till butter is merged. Cook on simmering heat for 1 to 2 minutes.
13) Add pepper remove sauce from heat and place on stove top.
14) Place pork chops in 4 dinner plates.
15) Add sauceon the top and sprinkle minced parsley.
16) Serve with a twist of orange rind and a sprig of parsley.


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Nature provides beautiful free materials for holiday arrangements
Want to impress your guests with gorgeous holiday centerpieces, door decorations and coffee table toppers without bursting a budget already stressed to the max?
Sharpen your eyes and your pruning shears, and start cutting all of the free foliage, branches, seed pods, pine cones and perhaps even some late-blooming flowers in your backyard or your neighbors' or friends'.
(Those responsible for our parks and designated natural areas frown on such behavior, so as tempting as it might be, keep your clippers holstered when you visit such places.)
Then take some time to look through your boxes of ornaments and other Christmas decorations. Pull out a few items to add glitz and glamour to the branches and cones.
"Always cut and collect more than you think you'll need," Rick Pudwell said as he showed an audience at Dixon Gallery and Gardens how to make holiday arrangements using mostly natural and free materials.
Pudwell is director of horticulture at the Memphis Botanic Garden, where his skills in floral design are almost always on display in the lobby of the Visitors Center and at many special events throughout the year.
Before his program at the Dixon, he and some key volunteer elves, Emelia Miekicki and Selby Horton, had spent more than a week decorating the Goldsmith Civic Garden Center for the holidays.
Instead of the usual evergreen Christmas tree, this year he chose to hang hundreds of gilded ornaments and dried Spanish moss from the leafless branches of two deceased green ash trees.
He moved quickly on from that task to prepping six containers with floral foam and some key branches for the Dixon program. At the end of the hourlong presentation, he had made six unique arrangements, a speed few amateurs could match.
His only purchased fresh materials were some red roses and white Formosa mums. His own backyard supplied two camellias, the light pink Debutant camellias and white Snow Flurry.
The off-white blooming orbs of fatsia, a plant appreciated more for its large glossy leaves, were clipped at the botanic garden.
Pudwell says his containers always tell him which materials to use and how to place them.
A shallow basket covered in birch bark must have whispered its desire to have striking red-berried branches of deciduous holly placed next to two soaring stems topped by the dried seed pods of a Formosa lily.
And to keep them company, the basket requested the soft needles of white pine, some pine cones and evergreen holly branches.
A gold oblong container wanted to cozy up with Harry Lauder's walking stick, a shrub named for an old Scottish comedian who performed using a crooked branch as a cane.
Pudwell arched the contorted, twisted branches above the container to create a framework for branches of cotoneaster, a shrub with orange-red berries that gracefully hang in clusters from the branches; twigs of oriental spruce, one of the few blue-needled conifers that thrive here; red roses, the burgundy fall foliage of oakleaf hydrangea, pine cones and — la pièce de résistance — pheasant feathers.
(Feathers are also used effectively in the branches of a Christmas tree in the lobby of the Dixon Gallery along with fresh magnolia leaves that breathe life into the faux tree. Members of the Memphis Garden Club used other natural materials in decorations throughout the building.)
Understated and elegant, green-and-white arrangements are appropriate at dress-up dinners and celebrations like New Year's Eve.
An ivory ceramic container begged Pudwell for the frond-like branches of Green Giant arborvitae, white Formosa mums and Snow Flurry, a camellia with white peony-like flowers.
But to give the arrangement more presence and height, Pudwell added upright oak twigs and dangled glittery snowflake ornament from them.
Pudwell enlisted help from Kyle McLane, assistant director of horticulture at the botanic garden, to make a square-ish frame for a door decoration from birch branches.
Once the frame healed from the pain of construction, it wanted its right angles softened with flowers.
Pudwell responded by attaching fluffy Debutant camellias to several floral foam holders attached near those angles.
Sprigs of the red-berried and tiny-leaved yaupon holly added another delicate piece.
A few days before Pudwell's presentation, the Dixon held its annual boxwood wreath-making workshop.
About 20 participants made the traditional door adornments by sticking sprig after sprig of boxwood prunings into floral foam wreath forms. Most found it surprisingly easy to make the kind of wreath prized by the colonists in Williamsburg, Va.
Celia Chastain, Dixon's floriculturist who has already made more than 20 boxwood wreaths this year, had only simple instructions: "Have all of the sprigs going in the same direction around the wreath form, and keep sticking them in until you can't see the foam."
When you trim 6- to 8-inch sprigs from boxwood, especially at the top of the shrub, light enters the center of the plant, promoting new growth. So clipping to make wreaths is good for the shrubs.
Chastain got all of the sprigs used for the workshop by pruning the boxwood hedges at Woodlawn Plantation in LaGrange, Tenn., an historic community about 50 miles east of Memphis.
"Dina Bender (one of the owners of Woodlawn) donated all of the sprigs from her 100-year-old plants," Chastain said. "I've been pruning them for more than 20 years."
After the wreaths were assembled, participants sprayed the twigs with the Wilt Pruf, a product that reduces moisture loss in foliage.
Then big red bows were attached.
Some of the participants planned to hang their wreaths on their doors; others were going to lay them flat and attach tapered candles to them for advent wreaths.
For others, they will become fresh evergreen rings to encircle punch bowls or big pillar candles.
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Mediation: a possible asset for EAPs: though mediation is not always a good fit for workplace disputes, mediation services can provide EAPs with another tool to add to their repertoire of skills.
After talking with the officer, I obtained his reluctant permission to call his ex-wife to discuss their song problems. To my surprise, she said she was willing to come to my office and talk with her ex-husband about the issue. I was even more surprised when, out of mutual concern for their son, they agreed to work together to resolve their conflict. Almost immediately thereafter, their son's behavior improved greatly.
It is difficult to overstate how wonderful it feels to work with an employee and help him/her successfully resolve a problem. In this particular case, the successful intervention with the police officer helped get me interested in the issue of mediation.
At that time, the City of Savannah was facing a number of workplace conflicts that also beset many larger organizations. These conflicts typically arose as a result of miscommunication between two workers but then grew; bringing others into the fray. Over time, the unresolved conflict would cause all sorts of work performance problems.
Though I was often asked by supervisors to address these conflicts, I began to realize that I was not always effective in resolving the underlying disputes and could benefit from learning a new skill. I wondered if there was a way to use formal mediation training to become better equipped to resolve conflict in the workplace. The city's Human Resource Department not only offered to pay for me to be trained but also encouraged several other city employees to register for the training.
I completed the basic 20-hour mediation training and then proceeded to seek certification as a mediator, which required undergoing observed mediations, co-mediations, and supervised mediations. I then applied to the Office of Dispute Resolution under the State Supreme Court to become a mediator.
With my background in therapy I found mediation training to be easy, though the mediation model is a more formal process of getting disputants to come to the table to talk about the problem. This model is good at setting guidelines, motivating the disputants to find resolution, and using techniques like caucusing when the disputants can't reach harmony Mediation also seeks to find concrete solutions to problems--in fact, at the end of the process, the disputants are expected to put the solution to their problem in writing.
I received a lot of support from the Human Resources Department in seeking to be more proactive toward resolving conflicts. The department rewrote the city's grievance policy to focus more on conflict resolution--for example, including mediation as a tool for supervisors to resolve conflicts (with the understanding that it would be overseen by the EAP). Human Resources also created a new position, that of employee relations coordinator, to help establish employee focus groups and address issues causing employee conflicts. The employee relations coordinator and the EAP work together to teach managers at all levels better techniques for resolving conflicts.
Since these changes were implemented, there have probably been an average of five or six mediation procedures conducted each year. Most of them have helped the disputants resolve their conflict, and I believe many EAPs could benefit by incorporating mediation into their conflict resolution toolbox.
Mediation and dispute resolution is a growing field that has been dominated by attorneys who are in the lucrative position of spending many hours trying to help people resolve conflicts while charging very high fees. Now" several other professions whose members do not charge such high prices are entering the mediation field. These new entrants include EA professionals who have chosen to get involved with mediation because of their work with employees in conflict.
Although mediation has its limits and should never be offered without a thorough explanation of its strengths and limitations, I feel it can work well for both internal and external EAPs and with both large and small companies. To understand how mediation can be effective in your EAP practice, you need to be aware of the following issues:
Certification. Though I have heard of some EA professionals who have taken a course or read a book on mediation, I would not regard anyone as a mediator unless s/he is certified. Mediation training is all well and good, but it is no substitute for certification.
Neutrality. EA professionals sometimes find it difficult to play the role of mediator because a mediator needs to be "neutral." Many times, an EA professional will already have talked with an employee before a problem reaches the point of requiring mediation. EA professionals need to know when to resist trying to be the mediator and instead call upon another source of mediation services. Being certified as a mediator gives an EA professional access to a network with other mediators who can provide backup support. EA professionals need to be sensitive to the need for neutrality and be able to operate as the "gatekeeper" for mediation services for their client organizations.
Authority levels. Mediation does not work well in resolving conflicts between supervisors and employees; rather, it is best suited to conflicts between disputants who are on similar work/power levels.
Role of management. Mediation needs to be driven by management. Once you agree with a supervisor to mediate a conflict, "walk" the supervisor through the process of making the referral to ensure it is based on workplace performance. An example would be for the supervisor to call both employees into his/her office and tell them their conflict is affecting workplace performance and is being referred to the EAP for mediation. You will find that mediation works very well when supervisors motivate the disputants to resolve their conflict. (Two employees may ask to have their conflict mediated but, where possible, the supervisor still needs to be notified of the process.)
Alternate solutions. Always view mediation as a "last resort" for dealing with employee conflicts and encourage managers and supervisors to use any and all other tools at their disposal to resolve a conflict. When asked by a supervisor to mediate a conflict, discuss the issue to see if there are other approaches the supervisor could take. Keep in mind that mediations are complex and take a lot of time (both yours and the disputants') to conduct properly.
Confidentiality. When the disputants come to the table in a traditional mediation, confidentiality is usually the protocol. In the case of a workplace dispute referred by a supervisor, however, the mediator should consider not respecting confidentiality in two areas: First, if a resolution is reached, the agreement needs to be put in writing and sent back to the supervisor to use as a tool to ensure both employees abide by its terms in the future; second, if a disputant refuses to participate in the mediation, the mediator needs to stop the process and inform the supervisor of the employee's actions.
Although mediation is not always a "clean fit" for workplace disputes, more and more EA professionals are offering mediation services to their clients. While mediation is certainly an attractive tool to add to your repertoire of business services, I would encourage you to be careful in how you apply mediation skills to your practice. Playing the role of "gatekeeper" for mediation services for your clients may provide you an opportunity to work more closely with management in their attempt to resolve workplace conflict. Networking and contracting with other mediators may provide you not only with service support but also protect you from problems.
Workplace conflict is an issue that EA professionals need to keep on their agendas. Mediation can be a great tool in addressing this issue. As one supervisor told me, "Mediation says to an employee, 'You may not like the people you work with, but you've got to find a way to work with them.'"
Chris Wilburn is an employee assistance coordinator for the City of Savannah (Ga,) and has been in the EA field for 17 years. He helped establish the South Georgia Chapter of EAPA and served as its president for nine years. He can be reached at Chris_ firstname.lastname@example.com.
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|A's agree on $6.5M, 2-year contract with Nakajima
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The A's finalized a $6.5 million, two-year contract with Japanese shortstop Hiroyuki Nakajima on Tuesday, filling a void created by the departures of Cliff Pennington and Stephen Drew.
This marks the second straight offseason that Beane has added a prominent international player, with the team having signed Cuban defector Yoenis Cespedes to a $36 million, four-year deal last winter.
If Nakajima can have anywhere the success that Cespedes had as a rookie, the A's would be ecstatic. Cespedes was major part of the team's surprising season, batting .292 with 23 homers and 82 RBIs to help lead Oakland to the AL West title and first playoff appearance since 2006.
The A's achieved that despite having the lowest payroll in baseball at $59.5 million and they didn't need to break the bank to sign Nakajima. The contract also includes a $5.5 million club option for 2015, but Oakland's top draft pick last year, high school shortstop Addison Russell, could be ready for the majors by then.
Nakajima, 30, is an eight-time All-Star in Japan and a three-time Gold Glove winner. He has a .302 career batting average with 162 homers in 11 seasons with the Pacific League's Seibu Lions. He has hit 20 or more homers in a season four times. He batted .311 with 29 doubles, 13 homers and 74 RBIs in 136 games for the Lions last season, earning All-Star, Gold Glove and ``Best Nine'' recognition.
He also has extensive international experience, having participated in both the 2008 Olympics and 2009 World Baseball Classic for Japan.
Nakajima will get a $1.25 million signing bonus and base salaries of $2.25 million next year and $2.5 million in 2014. He can earn up to $1.3 million in performance bonuses next season. Whatever bonuses he earns will be added to his salary in 2014, when he can earn up to $600,000 in bonuses based on playing time. Nakajima could earn as much as $9.2 million his first two years.
There is also a $500,000 buyout if the A's don't exercise their option for 2015, and Nakajima will be eligible for free agency at the end of the deal. The contract also includes awards bonuses and various perks including an interpreter, flights to and from Japan and moving expenses.
Nakajima nearly came over to the majors last offseason after the New York Yankees bid $2.5 million for his rights. But when New York could not agree to a contract with Nakajima, he returned to the Lions and the Yankees kept their money. Nakajima was a free agent this offseason, so the A's did not need to pay a posting fee.
The A's got little offensive production at shortstop this year, when Pennington and Drew earned most of the playing time. Oakland's shortstops collectively batted .203 - second lowest in the majors - with 12 homers and 46 RBIs. The .272 on-base percentage from the team's shortstops was also lowest in the majors.
The A's dealt Pennington to Arizona in October in a three-team trade for outfielder Chris Young.
Drew, acquired in a midseason trade with the Diamondbacks, became a free agent when the A's declined a $10 million mutual option. He agreed to a $9.5 million, one-year deal with Boston this week, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because Drew needed to take a physical before the contract could be finalized.
Oakland also traded outfielder Collin Cowgill to the New York Mets for minor league third baseman Jefry Marte. Nakajima takes Cowgill's spot on the 40-man roster.
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Solyndra Republicans, Why the GOP Cannot be Trusted
On Friday, July 20, Politico reported that GOP leadership in the House beat back an attempt by recalcitrant members of their own caucus to continue to quietly support the sort of pork spending that gave us Solyndra in the first place.
House GOP leadership has been beating the Democrats up for the pure wasteful spending that was Democrat support for the now bankrupted "green energy" company Solyndra. But a few Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee wanted to buck the anti-bailout theme and quietly keep the spending program that allowed the "loans" to Solyndra to continue.
According to Politico:
At least three House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans had publicly expressed reservations about the GOP-backed "No More Solyndras Act" during the past week. They griped, to varying degrees, about a provision that would effectively end the loan guarantee program — and argued that it needs to be reformed, not killed.
As Politico noted, the Wall Street Journal also lambasted these Republicans calling them the "Solyndra Wing" of the GOP and chiding them for loving corporate welfare.
The three Republicans hoping to re-open the corporate welfare spigot are Joe Barton (Texas), Michael Burgess (Texas), and Phil Gingrey (Georgia).
So, as we can see here, there is a large and powerful block of the GOP that is fully in support of the sort of disgusting, un-American waste, and pork barrel spending that results in such programs as the "loan guarantees" that sent millions of U.S. tax dollars into the black hole that is Solyndra — a company that will never pay back the so-called loans afforded it by Democrats wishing to help Obama campaign contributors.
This is why the GOP cannot be fully trusted. The party is only nominally the fiscally responsible party, but not a party that is wholly dedicated to that goal. Certainly there are no Democrats that are for fiscal responsibility, but unfortunately there are too many Republicans that are just like the socialist, big-government, nanny state-loving Democrats.
This is why such activists as Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform are necessary. This is also one of the reasons why the Tea Party sprang to life like it did. If the GOP was really the party of fiscal responsibility the Tea Party would never have arisen in the first place. The Tea Party arose in response not just to Democrats and Obama but to failed Republicans, too!
Much as we are forced to support the GOP because the alternative is disaster, we also have to remember the disasters just under the skin of the Republican Party, those waiting to burst free if we stop holding them to account. Sadly, conservatives are only in the GOP by default, not choice.
It's a shame that we have a socialist party in the Democrats and a party that would love to join them if only we'd look the other way in the Republicans.
It is also why the Tea Party is the only force still out there in American politics trying to keep the fires of liberty burning and holding our government accountable to the Constitution.
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Former Stanford Scientist Melanie Yelton Joins LumiGrow as Director of Research
As the new head of LumiGrow's research program, Dr. Melanie Yelton leads the entire horticultural lighting industry forward in discovering new ways to elicit desirable crop characteristics through the use of LEDs.
Novato, CA (PRWEB) February 12, 2013
LumiGrow, Inc. (http://www.lumigrow.com), the market and technology leader in smart horticultural lighting, today announced that Melanie Yelton joined the Company as director of research. Dr. Yelton´s appointment furthers the Company´s ability to engineer and customize energy-efficient LED greenhouse lighting systems that improve plant growth, seed and fruit production.
Dr. Yelton brings twenty years of experience in leading research and developing coursework for Stanford University to her new role at LumiGrow. She´ll work closely with the LumiGrow product design team along with academic and commercial partners in quantifying plant morphological enhancements achievable through LED lighting. Dr. Yelton´s research will begin with the study of commercial crops and model organisms including Brachypodium distachyon and Arabidopsis thaliana. LumiGrow is expanding the plant growth and demonstration facility at its corporate headquarters to support the work of Dr. Yelton and her team.
"Melanie´s research benefits our customers exponentially," said LumiGrow CEO Kevin Wells. He continued, "LumiGrow is already recognized for providing highest-quality LED lighting. We´re leading the industry to exciting new frontiers as we equip our customers with the ability to programmatically coax out desired crop characteristics with light."
Dr. Yelton completed a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship in microbial signaling between Rhizobium and alfalfa at Stanford University. She earned a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of California, Davis, where her work focused on plant pathogens. She holds an M.S. in the biochemistry of photosynthesis from the University of South Carolina, Columbia and a B.S. in biology from Virginia Tech. The recipient of numerous academic awards and accolades, Melanie is a patent holder for her work involving filamentous fungus such as Aspergillus strains. Earlier in her career, she served as director of sequencing at the Stanford DNA Sequence and Technology Center, a division of the Human Genome Project.
About LumiGrow, Inc.
LumiGrow, Inc., the leader in smart horticultural lighting, enables commercial growers and agribusinesses to reduce energy costs, achieve operational efficiencies and improve crop yield. LumiGrow offers a range of third-party proven solutions for use in greenhouses, controlled environment agriculture and scientific research chambers. LumiGrow solutions are eligible for energy efficiency subsidies from Pacific Gas & Electric, Puget Sound Energy and other utilities. The Company´s 1,000+ installations include three of the top five global agribusinesses, leading produce and flower growers, algae producers, Top 100 garden centers, more than 200 universities and the USDA. Headquartered in Novato, California, LumiGrow is privately owned and operated. For more information, call (800) 514-0487 or visit http://www.lumigrow.com.
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Public Libraries: Lights Out and Silver Boots on
Sarah Ormes with her predictions for the future of Public Libraries and the Internet.
March 2001, issue27, regular column
It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine), Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the E-Book
Sarah Ormes explores the e-book from a Public Libraries perspective.
January 2001, issue26, feature article