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Re: NVidia and XRandR 1.2
Somebody raised a question about usefullness of XRandR....
I see one big need for XRandr 1.2 support. After Xinerama phasing out, there is no measure that will support this requirement:
- Multiple monitor setup and a touchscreen on one of them
Example is a tablet PC connected to a (big) monitor when docked. More and more people use this kind of setup. More and more people use touchscreens. Hey, I want all my monitors to be touchscreen-enabled, and I want multiples of them. That makes me more productive.
Think of it for a minute...
TwinView presents "one monolithic screen" to X and all programs. It leads to the touchscreen translation to the whole desktop. So you touch something on one monitor, but the pointer jumps to another monitor. It is completely useless - the touchscreen does not work like that AT ALL.
It happens because X and all the drivers and software have no information whatsoever of monitors configuration. It is hidden by TwinView. This creates numerous problems that make implementation of the above requirement IMPOSSIBLE. Not difficult, tricky, but IMPOSSIBLE.
XRandr makes it POSSIBLE everywhere except NV. And there is no good alternative so far. Well, A-T-I comes close, they do support XRandr (I wonder if that mention will cause the message to be pulled).
Here's the link:
new fglrx for Ubuntu 8.10
People, chime in with your problem
: do you use multiple monitors? Do you use touchscreen? Is TwinView enables you or does it stand in the way?
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Reverend Dr. Gregory P. Nelson BIO
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the pastor of Delaine Waring African Methodist Episcopal Church ; located at 680 Swan Street in
Buffalo, NY. Although he was just recently appointed at Delaine Waring on May 27, 2012, he has been pastoring since 1988. Rev. Nelson hails from Egg Harbor, NJ, where he is the proud father of two children, Denise 22 and Ashley 20 and grandfather to Nelson and Daniel. He served as Interim Pastor at Macedonia Baptist Churchin Neptune NJ . 1988-1999. Rev. Nelson has had prior AME pastorates at: St. Stephen's, Newtonville, NJ (Youth Pastor) 1989-92, St. Peter's, Shippensburg, Pa. 1992-97, St. Paul, Waynesboro, Pa. 1997-2001, Greater Bethel,
Harlem, NY 2001-05, Waters Memorial, Philadelphia, Pa. 2005-08, Bethel, Milford, De. 2008-12. Rev. Nelson has a Bachelors of Science degree in Religious Education from Andersonville BaptistCollege in Camilla, Ga. and a Masters of Divinity from Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pa. Rev. Nelson is currently completing a Doctor of Ministry (D. Min) in Urban Pastoral Counseling at Faith Theological Seminary in Baltimore, Md.
Rev, Gregory Nelson is a Prince Hall Mason. While in Delawarehe served in Lodge #8 as Assistant Chaplain and as Grand Lodge Assistant Chaplain. He is also a member of the National Action Network, where he was appointed to serve as President of the Delaware Chapter by the Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder and CEO of the National Action Network. Rev. Nelson is listed in "Who's Who" among African American Seminarians, (2008) Rev. Nelson also serves as an Assistant National Chaplain of the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses (NCGCC), founded by the late Rev. Dr. Thomas A Dorsey. Rev. Nelson is a national and international
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Ruth Reichl, author of our December Leonard Lopate Show Book Club pick Comfort Me with Apples, invited the Wall Street Journal into her upstate kitchen. She spoke about her custom-designed kitchen, her favorite dishes to make for friends, and the meal that changed her life. Read the article here.
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At some point during this Bahamas trip, the Kentucky Wildcats have to come back down to earth, right? That was the expectation Tuesday as the Cats headed into their third game in three days in the sweltering Kendal G.L. Isaacs National Gymnasium in Nassau, Bahamas. Against a collection of Puerto Rico national team reserves thirsty for a little redemption after getting embarrassed by 25 points on Sunday, some letdown was anticipated from UK.
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Plus a really lousy joke
Tucked away in a corner of Siena, Italy, is the Sinagoga Ebraica. Built in 1786, it still hosts weekly Shabbat services for the tiny remnant of the Jewish community in the town as well as a few of the visiting students at the University of Siena.
The history of the Sienese Jews has many of the normal benchmarks of European Jewry: centuries' old roots, a former ghetto, some anti-Jewish measures including a tax, noted success in trade and excellence in study, susceptibility to the whims of local marauders, an eventual decrease in the community's population, and a number of deportations during World War II (commemorated by the plaque to the left of the door).
It's a beautiful synagogue in a stunning little town. While en route to the synagogue, I befriended a Jewish pilgrim from Queens–by way of Brazil–who told me the following joke:
What is the difference between an Italian mother and a Jewish mother?
An Italian mother says "If you don't eat, I'll kill you!"
A Jewish mother says "If you don't eat, you'll kill me!"
Turns out, there are crickets in Italy.
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(CBS) -- It must be getting close to the NFL season if Peyton Manning and Eli Manning are back, taking over the airwaves with commercials. They blew the roof a few years ago with a "Football Cops" parody commercial for DIRECTV and dropped a "Football on Your Phone" rap video before last season.
It went so well they rolled it back for this year, rapping "Fantasy Football Fantasy" in the latest DIRECTV ad.
There's no shortage of amusement or randomness in this ad.
Most of it is silly stuff with the Manning brothers pretending to be rappers. You could do a five-picture still photo shoot of that and it'd be amusing.
At some point it goes full Samberg and veers into the bizarre, mentioning Chris Johnson giving haircuts and Joe Namath making stew with your mom.
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What is Organic Cotton?
In an effort to live greener lives, people around the world are turning to options such as organic foods, building materials, and even fibers, such as cotton. How fast is the organic fiber market growing? According to the Organic Trade Association, fiber sales grew 10.4 percent in 2009 to reach an impressive $521 million.


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Fighting, perhaps, their biggest battle for survival, the Maoists have begun the tactical war in key regions of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra.
A glimpse of it came to the fore in the last two days when the Maoists, besides carrying a spectacular attack in Kondpal area of Sukma district in Chhattisgarh where they killed 15security personnel, carried out simultaneous ambush attacks in three other places of - Bijapur on the tip of south Chhattisgarh, Khammam in Andhra and Gadchiroli in Maharashtra.
After successful elections in Chhattisgarh despite their boycott call, the Maoists were desperate to make their presence felt and regain respect and fear among tribal.
Called the tactical counter offensive campaign (TCOC) in Maoists parlance, the offensive is usually launched when Maoists are keen to carry out recruitment or want to have a big meeting of their senior leaders to take stock of their operations and discuss future plans.
"TCOC is generally launched to divert the attention of security forces by undertaking guerrilla offensives at several places simultaneously. This time the reason could be to launch a spectacular attack somewhere else by keeping the security forces confused and busy in different pockets. But we are factoring this in our strategy to deal with them," a senior CRPF official said.
While Sukma attack carried out by Darbhaghati commander, Surendra under the overall guidance of Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC) commander P Ramana, the other three attacks were also carried out by DKSZC local units.
Alert after these attacks, the Centre has rushed in 3,000 elite commandoes of CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) to key areas with instructions to launch precision strikes with an aim to inflict maximum casualties on PLGA of CPI (Maoist).
States have been given specific instructions to spare special task force (STF) to assist CoBRA units who are adept in moving swiftly in jungles and remain there up to 10 days without much ration.
To make the attacks very precise to avoid civilian casualties, the Cente has also ordered to press maximum number of UAVs in service and fly for long hours over key stretches of Chhattisgarh, Odisha Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Andhra borders where Maoists guerrillas try to concentrate and inflict maximum damage taking the help of borders.
States polices and paramilitary forces have also been asked to make maximum use of their Intelligence apparatus among the tribal population. Intelligence inputs indicate that the Maoists are planning to launch such simultaneous attacks in Jharkhand, Odisha, Maharashtra and Bihar too.
However, Centre's problems do not end here, as there are not enough security footprints on the ground to dominate the region.
Centre's security heavy approach, which came under severe criticism during Chidambaram's period as union home minister, needs an overwhelming presence of security personnel. His period saw paramilitary forces increase their strength to 1,70,000 only in the Bastar region. The Centre still finds it short of the desired number.
Bastar is much bigger than Kerala. How can you expect 1.7 lakh troops to make their presence felt in such a large land mass and in face of such a wily enemy who dissolves in tribal population? I cannot tell you exactly what kind of numbers we need there but yes we need substantially more than the present or else the fight will remain difficult," a senior official said.


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ORLANDO, Florida – President Barack Obama was winning laughs at a packed restaurant on the campaign trail Saturday, where he was introduced to a boy born in his home state, Hawaii.
At a bustling eatery Gator's Dockside, the incumbent president sidled up to a table of 10 people including five children, at which a woman signaled to Obama that one youngster was born in Hawaii.
"You were born in Hawaii? You have a birth certificate?" Obama joked to the boy, whose table burst into laughter.
The US president long has been a target of "birther" theorists who have suggested his Hawaii birth certificate was a fake, and he was perhaps ineligible for high office.
Obama took his case Saturday to the most contested part of the biggest swing state, Florida, and told 11,000 people in St Petersburg, "you've got a big choice to make" ayhead of the November 6 election against Republican Mitt Romney.
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Chapter 1 - The Basics of Layers: Layer Functions and Creation
Chapter 2 - Layer Management: Concepts of a Layer-Based Work Flow
Chapter 3 - Object and Image Area Isolation in Layers
Chapter 4 - Masking: Enhanced Area Isolation
Chapter 5 - Applying Layer Effects
Chapter 6 - Exploring Layer Modes
Chapter 7 - Advanced Blending with Blend If
Chapter 8 - Breaking Out Components
Chapter 9 - Taking an Image through the Process
Chapter 10 - Making a Layered Collage or Composite Image
Photoshop's Essential Tool List
For some reason, no one ever wants to be a beginner. It is as if some shame is attached to not inherently knowing the basics, even if you have never done something before. Many students in the Photoshop courses that I teach online assume they aren't beginners, and they jump into courses that are over their heads, for fear of the stigma of being a beginner. But everyone at one time or another is a beginner, and even savvy users sometimes learn from going over the basics.
Working with Layers starts with understanding some basics about layers, what they do, and how to locate all the functions. In this chapter we explore the Layers palette, see how all the basic layer functions are situated in the Layers palette and menus, learn how to create layers, apply layer functions, and use viewing preferences. We'll run through a hands-on no-knowledge-necessary example of using layers and see some of what layers can do. This chapter will help make sure we are all starting off with the same basic understanding of and familiarity with layers. With that introduction under our belt, we can look forward to applying layers to images.
Please note that although this book will look at many tools and features, it will focus on the explanation and exploration of using layers. Photoshop Help can provide more depth or information about tools and their applications not provided by the text of this book. To find Photoshop Help, click Photoshop's Help menu and choose Photoshop Help, or press Command+/ or Ctrl+/ (Mac or PC).
What Is a Layer?
Images are usually considered to be two dimensional. That is, when images get printed on a piece of paper or displayed on a screen, they have a height and width only. Although there may be an appearance of depth, there is no actual depth. The images are flat, and they lack that third dimension.
Whenever you view images fresh from a digital camera, the image is flat and two dimensional on your screen. This is true, even though the color image is actually stored as separate red, green, and blue (RGB) grayscale components in the file (see Figure 1.1). The components of your RGB image are combined by the computer when the image is displayed, and the result is a two-dimensional color image rendered on your computer screen in full color. That is, several components (in this case the red, green, and blue light components) are combined to produce the color result.
In a similar way, multiple layers can combine and still result in a two-dimensional image. Layers act as additions to your image that overlay one another as you add them to the layer stack (see Figure 1.2). These additions are full color as opposed to the grayscale RGB components. When an image with layers is displayed in Photoshop (or Elements and other programs that can recognize images stored with layers) the result is still a two-dimensional image made from a composite of the layers (see Figure 1.3). Each individual layer stores complete RGB color that combines in two dimensions, as if you were looking down through the layers from the top of the layer stack.
Adobe called the virtual stacking of images "layers" because they act like a layered stack of transparent images. New image content is added to the original image and creates adjustments contained in distinct layers, building on changes over the original image content. Layer additions make change happen without changing the content below the new layer, and that is known as "nondestructive" editing: pixels from the original layers are virtually, rather than actually, altered. This ability to make additions to the image in layers keeps changes and alterations more fluid and movable, allowing you to finesse and sculpt the image result without "destroying" original image information.
Let's take a quick look at what this means in Photoshop by making a change to an image and experimenting a little with the advantages offered by layers first hand.
During Try It Now exercises, refrain from exploring palettes and images and taking detours from the steps as you are working through the exercise. I know it is easy to get distracted by shiny things. Clicking here or there during the steps may easily cause the step-by-step procedures to fail if you don't know what you are doing or how to return to the exact state of the image before your distraction/ exploration. Explore after you've achieved success with the steps the first time. If it doesn't work the first time, give it a second try!
Try It Now
1. You could use any flattened image for this exercise, but open Sample_ 1.psd on the CD included with the book (see Figure 1.3).
2. Choose the Paint Brush tool from the Tool palette, or press B on your keyboard to select the Paint Brush tool.
3. Set your Brush options to a 100 percent hard brush, 20 pixels in diameter. Be sure the Flow and Opacity are 100 percent and the Mode for the brush is Normal (see Figure 1.4).
4. Create a new layer in the image. To do this choose Layer>New>Layer from the Layers menu at the top of the Photoshop program screen. The New Layer dialog will appear. Change the Name from Layer 1 to MyName, and click OK, leaving the rest of the defaults as is. A new layer will appear in the Layers palette, named MyName. (If the Layers palette is not showing on your screen, choose Layers from the Window menu. You will see a thumbnail, or smaller view, of Sample_1.psd in the Layers palette.)
5. Use the brush to write your name quickly in script right across the image by clicking and dragging the brush right on the image (see Figure 1.5). Your attempt at writing your name will come out on the MyName layer in the Layers palette.
6. Choose the Move tool by pressing V on your keyboard. Check the Options bar and be sure the Auto-Select box is not checked.
7. Click and drag on the image in a circle.
8. Press Command+E/Ctrl+E (Mac/Windows). This will merge the MyName layer with the Background.
9. Choose the Move tool by pressing V on your keyboard. The settings should be the same as in step 6.
10. Click and drag on the image in a circle.
What should happen is that your name should move around the image without affecting the original background. You can move the signature wherever you want. Though we won't go this far right now, you could distort, rotate, and resize the signature without directly affecting the image below, as it remains in its own layer. If you shut off the view for the MyName layer (click the eye icon to the left of the layer in the Layers palette), you see the original image with no change. This is the core of nondestructive editing: image changes remain isolated from the original layer. But now let's be a little more destructive and see what happens without layers to compare the difference.
You'll find you can't move the signature. This is a layer property of the Background-it is locked and will not move. You have to double-click the layer in the Layers palette (right on the thumbnail), and that will convert the Background to a layer (accept the defaults in the New Layer dialog that appears by clicking OK). Once you do that and try to drag the signature again, you'll drag the whole image. If you try to shut off the view you shut off the whole image. All parts of the image, at this point, have combined. In essence, that is Layers in a nutshell: you have separation between the correction and the result, and you can separate them at any time. This ends up being a huge advantage in editing your images. Layering allows you to work on distinct image areas while retaining new image information separately in new layers and original information in the Background below. This ability to retain original image information while building in changes separately is known as nondestructive editing; you retain the original image information undisturbed as you make changes by adding image layers. Each change is incorporated as if it were made on a transparent sheet over your image that can be removed or reordered. The layers are stored separately in the working image file and when saved to layer-friendly formats (TIFF, PSD, PDF). During editing, layer content can be viewed and managed using the Layers palette (see Figure 1.6).
Create layers as needed, for infinite adjustments to your images, and store them with the image. When needed, copy layers within the current image and to other images. At any time, they can be adjusted and revisited for further changes. Each layer is a distinct visual object that can fill the entire image plane, though the visibility of individual layers and layer content is affected by layer properties such as Mode, Opacity, Masking, Clipping, and Visibility. These give the user flexibility in incorporating layer content.
Whereas the basic functionality of layers simply allows you to keep image content and changes separate, the separation allows you the advantage of customizing how image areas combine. Control gives you advantages that allow you to achieve results that would otherwise be impossible or extremely difficult in an image without layer capabilities. Each of these capabilities will be explored through the examples and exercises in this book.
Layer Palettes and Menus
One of the keys to making use of layers is using layer functions. The bulk of the layer functions are found between the Layers palette, the Layers palette menu, the Layer menu, and Layer Style dialog.
NOTE: Menus are listings of functions and features by name that can be selected with a click. These menus may be on the main program menu bar, but they may also be attached to palettes or other menus as submenus. Palettes (and dialogs) differ from menus in that they are floating windows that may have buttons or other graphical interface options that go beyond just a listing of features by name.
The Layers palette (see Figure 1.7) is really a command center for controlling layer views and how layers combine. Open the Layers palette by choosing Layers from the Windows menu.
Simple buttons on the palette allow you to access many powerful features at a click. For example, you can toggle the visibility for individual layers on or off, add effects, create new layers, duplicate layers, and delete them. Other button features allow you to lock layer transparency, color and transparency, position, or the entire content of the layer (transparency, color, and position). For a listing of Layers palette features see Table 1.1.
Photoshop's Layers palette menu and the program's Layer menu share much of the same functionality, with a few exceptions depending on the current editing task. Both menus are context sensitive, meaning that available functions appear depending on what features can logically be applied. Options are grayed out when not available. Although functions on the menus represent many of the same things, accessing those functions in different ways may affect how layers are created and handled in the image.
It is not necessary to memorize all the functions and menus; there will be layer functions you rarely use and those you will perhaps never use. Those you use frequently will become automatic and are likely already attached to shortcuts that you will learn out of habit. The graphic reference to the functions (Figure 1.7) will prove to be a handy guide if you are not very familiar with layers. What is more important than memorization is to know what type of functions are available and generally where they can be found and what type of access the program provides to those functions. That way even if you don't know the exact tool or function, you at least know where it can be located. Rolling over tools and icons on the palettes in Photoshop will reveal tool tips that name the item/function, and using these actively in the program as you edit will help you become familiar with all the functions in context.
There will be occasional mention of version-specific features in exercises (including features in newer Photoshop versions); however, in most cases if you are using an older version of the program or even Photoshop Elements, it will not have an impact on your work with images or completion of the exercises in this book or use of the book's techniques.
Types of Layers
There are several distinct types of layers that can be created in your images. All layers are visible in the Layers palette, though some (Adjustment layers, Type layers, and layer groups) are represented by icons. The types of layers are listed in Table 1.2.
The distinction between Background and normal layers is an important one. Background layers serve a distinct purpose as the base for your images while simultaneously losing a lot of the functionality of free-floating layers. Certain tools will behave differently when applied to Backgrounds and other tools cannot be applied at all. For example, the Eraser tool will erase to the Background swatch color rather than transparency as it would in other layers. You cannot apply a layer mask to the Background layer.
The above reference is just a quick look at the vast capability of layers. Handson experience with layers in realistic situations will familiarize you better with how to look at and control layer content and the advantages they provide for editing images. That is the purpose of the rest of the book. Before getting into creating your first layers, let's take a quick look at controlling what you see on the Layers palette by reviewing layer viewing preferences, and then we'll practice making a few layers.
Layer Viewing Preferences
Layer viewing preferences determine how you see thumbnails in the Layers palette. Set these preferences on the Layers palette menu. To get to the Layers palette menu, open the Layers palette; it helps to have an image open as well so you can see the differences resulting from changing the settings.
Try It Now
1. Open any image in Photoshop.
2. If your Layers palette is not already in view, choose Layers from the Window menu.
3. Click on the Layers palette menu button at the upper right of the Layers palette.
4. Choose Panel Options from the menu that appears. The Layers Panel Options dialog will appear (see Figure 1.8).
5. Choose your preference for the size of the thumbnail that you prefer to view.
Either the second or third option from the top is recommended for thumbnail viewing. This will allow you to get an idea of layer content without taking up too much of your screen. No view will prove to be completely adequate when trying to distinguish layers. Although the largest thumbnail gives the best view of the layer content, it may prove to be too large for many of the exercises in this book, as the layers will cascade off the screen. The None option will take up the least amount of screen landscape, but will make you rely entirely on layer naming, which negates the value of visual cues.
You can change this option at any time; it applies to the palette, and not to actual layer content.
Getting Started Creating Layers
There are many ways to create new layers in Photoshop, and the methods serve different purposes. Table 1.3 describes various methods and the most common techniques to execute them.
Try It Now
1. Open a new image that is 500 x 500 pixels in RGB with a transparent background.
2. Use the options in Table 1.3 to create all of the layer types.
If you take a moment and sit down in front of the computer and run down the bullet list, you can test out creating all these new layers. Of course there are reasons to create layers, but right now gain some familiarity with the basic creation methods. This will help you locate them later when you need them, and play is a great way to become familiar and comfortable with creating layers. It won't be long till we are immersed in serious layer work!
If you do go through the exercise of creating the layers, you'll notice that different layer types are created with different icons in the Layers palette. Table 1.4 shows the icons and what they mean.
At this point we have dissected enough of the Layers palette and the things that you will see there to have a reasonable orientation as to what to expect.
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I know he's expected to start a bidding war between the big market clubs, and the Reds wouldn't be expected to compete. The same thing was said about Chapman though, and we got him. If we got creative, we could clear payroll space for him. Moving a few of the players nearing arbitration for other missing pieces (like Cueto or Volquez) could help, as well as choosing not to retain players we have cheap replacements for like Cabrera and Hernandez. If we maybe moved Phillips, or Cordero with a couple prospects and chipping in on his salary, I think the team could make it work.


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New book discounts theory of marijuana as top US cash crop
For years, legalization advocates have argued that marijuana is America's leading cash crop, outranking corn, wheat, soy and a host of other heartland staples produced on an industrial scale.
Bringing pot production above ground, the argument goes, could produce a $30 billion tax bonanza for cash-strapped governments and a huge savings for law enforcement and prisons.
But new research dumps cold water on many of these claims, concluding that far from being America's biggest cash crop, marijuana probably isn't even in the top five. Rather, marijuana might make the top 15, "ranking somewhere between almonds and hay and perhaps closest to potatoes and grapes," the researchers say.
These findings are part of a new book , "Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know," by a team of researchers and public policy experts from Carnegie Mellon University, Pepperdine University, UCLA and the RAND Corp.
The authors, Jonathan Caulkins, Angela Hawken, Mark Kleiman and Beau Kilmer, analyze the costs and benefits of legalizing marijuana, challenging many commonly held assumptions on both sides of the issue.
In particular, the authors take aim at a widely cited 2006 report by Jon Gettman, a former director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, that valued America's annual marijuana production at a whopping $35.8 billion.
According to Gettman's estimates, America's domestic marijuana crop consists of 56.4 million marijuana plants cultivated outdoors worth $31.7 billion and 11.7 million plants cultivated indoors worth $4.1 billion.
"The domestic marijuana crop is larger than Cotton in Alabama, larger than Grapes, Vegetables and Hay combined in California, larger than Peanuts in Georgia, and larger than Tobacco in both South Carolina and North Carolina," Gettman wrote.
His report ranked California as the nation's top producer, responsible for more than one-third of the marijuana harvest, with an estimated output of $13.8 billion.
But these statistics are wrong, according to the new book.
The authors write: "Analyses purporting to support the claim (that marijuana is the nation's leading cash crop) must contort the numbers, citing the retail price of marijuana but the farm-gate price of other products, or pretending that all marijuana consumed in the United States in sinsemilla, or ignoring the fact that most marijuana used in the United States is imported, or simply starting with implausible estimates of U.S. production."
Gettman's figure of $35.8 billion is particularly specious, the authors contend, because it comes from multiplying a weighted average price of $1,606 per pound by an inflated annual production figure of 22.3 million pounds. The resulting number "is larger than the best estimates of the retail sales value of all marijuana consumed in the United States - including the marijuana that is imported," according to the book.
Gettman, a columnist at High Times magazine, said he stands by his research, noting "differences of opinion" with the authors on many key variables, from the size of a joint (he says that on average, it's about 1 gram when you account for waste) to the percentage of marijuana consumed in the United States that is domestically produced (he says the figure is climbing because more people prefer home-grown, boutique weed).


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Four members of the New Zealand U20 team have been accused of raping a Cape Town woman following Friday's Junior World Championship final.
According to The New Age, the police have confirmed that a woman has laid a complaint of rape against a group of New Zealand players. Forensic experts from the SAPS were at the Southern Sun Hotel Newlands on Saturday looking for DNA samples and other leads.
'The victim could not tell detectives who raped her because she couldn't remember anything about the incident,' said police spokesperson Colonel Vish Naidoo. He also confirmed that none of the New Zealand players were prevented from leaving the country.
The report in the The New Age quotes hotel staff who were present when the 22-year-old woman arrived on Friday night. She told the front desk that she was visiting her cousin, but apparently knew exactly where to find the players.
The woman called her parents to fetch her on Saturday morning and her parents are insisting on opening a case of rape. The rugby players left the hotel at midnight on Saturday.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade told the newspaper on Sunday that they were aware an issue was raised with the local police before the New Zealand team departed.
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10. Just clap on the cuffs, Duff.
9. Buy some new rope, Hope.
8. Tie a tight knot, Scott.
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6. Learn how to spank, Hank.
5. Bind him in leather, Heather.
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You'll cause him some brain pain,
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So before I was pregnant pooping was always a relaxing thing that left me feeling better. But NOW....I have to check the toilet to make sure the baby didn't come out!! WTH is birth going to feel like then!! Anyone else think they are pooping out the baby??!!!!
OMG I think I just pooped out my baby!! TMI!!
Hahahaha! This is funny :) Labor is nothing like pooping, though, hehe
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LOL! When I was a FTM I had issue with constipation so when I strained I felt like my vajayjay was bulging. I was a little concerned, LOL! Now with this one I know more and better. I drink more water, eat more fiber and when I feel like I may have to strain I pretty much back off go drink some prune juice and get it over with about an hour or two later (sorry if that's TMI). Thank GOD that I haven't had to deal with hemorrhoids so far. And I'm praying to God that they stay away.
Nothing worse than having a flare up and having to push out the baby too. When the epi wore off and I had a tear to accompany my baboon booty it was...not very nice. Though it was funny when my husband who witness the beauty of child birth said, "I was thinking what's that bubble?" Now, it's funny as hell.
I voted "quit your bitchin..." (even tho I dont think that you are bitching!). I CANT POOP! I WANNA POOP!It is not fair...
and on top of that...it hurts...because I feel like I AM gonna push out the baby!
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I can't relate... I've always had constipation issues. Since being pregnant and taking my prenatals everyday, I've been more regular than ever before. It's the one thing that's excellent about being preggo for me
I have problems with pooping! I said to my doc that I was having problems and she told me to take stool softner 2 times a day and drink milk of magnisa! So anytime I feel like " I'm pooping the baby out" I just go and drink a shot full of milk of magnisa and 1 hour I'm running to the bathroom!!!!! So maybe you ladys whom is having this problem, just go buy the walmart brand of that stuff and it should help! Plus after I take that stuff and I poop my brains out, I feel 10 lbs lighter!!!! no joke!!! Good luck!!!
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I had really bad pooping issues with my first pregnancy (this is my 2nd). I've always been a very fast, easy pooper. Then I got pregnant with my first and I swear to God there were times I thought I would literally die trying to pass some of the poops and yes, I did briefly wonder if I would poop the baby. LOL I disagree with a previous poster, though...don't worry about pooping during delivery. You'll probably be numb and even if you do poop, you won't even know. So help me God giving birth was easier than some poops I made that third trimester.
I know what you mean...a little. Lately my who-ha gets really sore very easily so like days after dh and I have sex, yep I can pretty much expect that my poopies will hurt and I'll feel somewhat odd like I need to stop pushing in fear baby will come out. But of course since the cervix is not dilated that baby won't come out no matter how long you push. For me when my who-ha is sore like that I really feel more like I already gave birth than in the process. The other day my tummy hurt so bad b/c I had to go and every time I'd try to go it hurt so bad, I felt like I was gonna burst a blood vessel or something. I was so torn on what to do so I had to just work myself up to bigger pushes! Sounds aweful I know!
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Well, I was in labor with my DD (now almost 3) for 10 hours so im pretty sure I won't poop this one out. lmao! But I had to spend an extra few days in the hosp. after she was born (high bp) and was terrified when when my urge to go came. Things were pretty tender down there. I actually pushed the button for the nurse and asked her nicely to come to my room. I informed her that I needed to go poo and she gave me the funniest look and pretty much said "Well..... go then".


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TwinView Kubuntu 10.4
So after an entire two days trying to get this to work on my laptop LCD it appears I cannot get this to run on both my laptop LCD and my External LCD (HDMI Connected)
Note, I can run one or the other but not both. I am trying to set this up on a Sony Vaio VPCF127FX, Kubuntu 10.4, Nvidia 330M, Drivers 195.36.24. Attached is my xorg document.
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
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The ConnectedMonitor and CustomEDID options apply to an entire GPU, so specifying different values for the different screens on a single GPU can lead to unexpected and confusing results. To make sure things work the way you want, you should probably specify the same things for both screens:
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0, DFP-1"
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Oh and by the way, since the title of your post is "TwinView Kubuntu 10.4", I should point out that what you've configured is called "separate X screens", and is *not* TwinView. If you want TwinView, get rid of Screen1 and just set
Option "TwinView"
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I would also like to mention that nvidia-settings doesn't detect the external monitor UNLESS I disable the laptop LCD in the xorg.conf. Then it detects it as DFP-1.
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I thought I'd mention that I love you! That worked, now any hints on how to get my alps touchpad working or EVGA's UV+ 19 external USB (Display Link) Display adapter to work?
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Parking is available off Highway N, just north of Cottleville City Hall. Click here to map your route.
This trail is a part of the Dardenne Greenway. Click here for details on finished trail connections, maps and more.
Trail Conditions
Trail maintenance is provided by the City of Cottleville. Please call Cottleville City Hall for trail conditions or to report an issue at 636-498-6565.
Trail maintenance on portions of St. Charles Community College and its associated properties is provided by St. Charles Community College.
Trail maintenance north of SCC is provided by the City of St. Peters.
About Cottleville Trail on the Dardenne Greenway
The trail project along Dardenne Creek begins at Mid Rivers Mall Drive near the south bank of the creek. The trail is complete for one mile westward to Highway N near Cottleville's new City Hall.
Great Rivers Greenway worked with the City of St. Peters to develop a the trail from Woodlands Sports Park to existing trails at Dardenne Park. The project includes a 180-foot bicycle/pedestrian bridge over Dardenne Creek to Rabbit Run Park as well as a nature observation overlook and native wildflower restoration areas. The City of St. Peters has built additional trails connecting Rabbit Run Park and Glen Travis Park to the Dardenne Greenway.
A 1.5 mile trail connection from Legacy Park to Woodlands Sports Park was completed in the Spring of 2014. The new section links together two existing sections of the Dardenne Greenway in Cottleville and St. Peters, as well as multiple existing trails in nearby parks--offering nearly five miles of continuous connectivity for walking, running and biking!
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Points of Interest Along the Trail
Woodlands Sports Park
The 92-acre Woodland Sports Park is located southwest of Dardenne Creek along the floodplain. The park offers numerous recreational features including soccer fields, baseball diamonds, softball diamonds, two fishing lakes, two pavilions, a half-acre prairie roundabout and a paved 1-mile perimeter trail. The southern trailhead for the Dardenne Greenway at Rabbit Run is located here.
Woodland Sports Park is home to diverse ecosystems, such as woodlands, wetlands, swamps and temperate prairies. The floodplain region along Dardenne Creek supports plant species such as the marsh elder, sumpweed and wild bean.
Jack Gettemeyer Park at Rabbit Run
From woodlands to wetlands, Jack Gettemeyer Park at Rabbit Run consists of 109 acres of diverse ecosystems and features amenities including athletic fields, a basketball court, a playground, a gazebo and pavilion, and approximately two miles of paved trails. There is a nature overlook where visitors can observe prairie, creek and forest wildlife. Another striking feature of the Dardenne Greenway at Rabbit Run is a 185-foot, single-span pedestrian bridge that crosses Dardenne Creek between Woodlands Sports Park and Rabbit Run.
Legacy Park
A shelter and fishing dock can be found at the the east end of Harmony Lake in Legacy Park, and "botanical vignettes" can be found along the trail on the St. Charles Community College campus.


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So if the dystopian Scanner equals something like Life plus Dick, what do you get when you drop that tab after having choked down an order of Fast Food's Schlosser-plus-Slacker?
"Ooh," says Linklater excitedly. "You get a pretty creepy vision of our country right now." The nation's other frightening Texan, 45 going on 24, is sitting poolside at his trés chic Cannes hotel, comfortably clad in last year's National League Championship jersey and chuckling at the thought of his two line drives to the center of the corporate American void. "Scanner," he says, "is set 'seven years from now,' but that really means right nowthe post 9-11 world of surveillance. It's tragic on an individual level, whereas Fast Food is the tragedy of a system or a mind-set."
Never merely dark (or any other single thing), these movies work by shifting in shape and tonenot unlike the kaleidoscopic "scramble suit" that Scanner's junkie narc cop Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves) wears at the office. The director is something of a shape-shifter himself. After two separate chats with him in Cannes, one ostensibly for each movie (but who could keep them apart?), I find that Linklater can't really be pegged except as someone who lives to blur the lines (Dick would call it "bilateral dysfunction"). This American filmmaker in France defies his monotonously assertive national cinema by playfully shrugging at the dialectic, the disconnect, the evocative paradox.
"This is going to sound like an American cliché, but despite everything that's fucked-up about the U.S., I feel kind of optimistic in some abstract-ass way," he says. "At some point in the future, hopefully, we'll look back and not be able to believe what a rough time it was. That's actually what Dick was saying in the '70s, but it resonates today. The characters of A Scanner Darkly are fighting their own war against this big, oppressive, quasi-governmental corporation. There are no bad guys in either movieit's just the world we're living in."
Fast Food's putative protagonist (Greg Kinnear) is a Mickey's marketing exec who's only half outraged to discover that his bosses are literally selling shitty food. Hardly bucking the system when he learns that the meatpacking plant's "gut table" conveyor is making for some especially unhappy meals, Kinnear's Don Henderson simply disappears from his investigation and from the movie becoming, Linklater says, a representative of our collective absence from activism.
"Don is like most of us who incorporate disturbing facts into our psyches and then carry on with business as usual," Linklater says. "I think we all battle against living in some kind of elitist or cynical denial. I mean, I agree that Guantánamo was horrific, but I didn't take to the streets. I'm busy. I got mouths to feed. I'm 'fighting the good fight.' I'm guilty of torture, in a way."
The question of Arctor's culpability within his own culture of addiction is even trickier: A paranoid with enemies, both cop-out and cop, Dick's "ultimate everyman" begins the Scanner movie at least three times removed from his authentic self, then undergoes psychosis and brain damage with the help of a habit-forming substance even crappier than Mickey's Big Ones. In the end, our hero is ignorantperhaps blissfully, perhaps forgivably, and maybe not.
If Linklater leaves the big questions of his movies to their audiences, how does he think they'll respond when Scanner opens in July and Fast Food in the fall? "You can never prove or predict the cause and effect of anything, whatever its purpose," he says. "When The Jungle was published a hundred years ago, they enacted the FDA. But in today's world, we're more likely to see legislation enacted to prevent us from criticizing the way things are. In Texas, it's against the law to criticize an agricultural producteven though this [fast food] industry is potentially harming us. I guess Fast Food Nation would be immune to this law for being 'fiction.' Or would it? Kind of interesting, isn't it? I mean, can Fox Searchlight enact legislation to prevent you from writing a bad review of my movie?"
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