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How to Convert RTF to PDF in Windows 8
Need to save RTF to PDF format, so you can share it with workmates or on the Internet more easily? To be honest, though RTF is a cross-platform format for documents, if people who haven't installed Microsoft Office, they will not be able to open received RTF documents as well. And this will never happen to people if the files they received are in PDF format since there are so many free PDF readers to open PDF files. In this case, to make sure the success of distributing a RTF file, you should convert RTF to PDF format. Follow the steps below to learn how.
Step 1. Download RTF to PDF Converter
Click to download the RTF to PDF Converter. After getting the .exe file, double click it to install on your Windows computer. It works so well with Windows 8, Windows7, Windows XP, and Windows Vista computers. Here RTF to PDF Converter for Mac trial version is available as well. If you have an iMac, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro, you should download the Mac version.
Step 2. Import RTF files
Double click the quick start icon on the desktop to launch the Windows RTF to PDF Converter. Click Home Tab on the very top of the main interface. From the Create submenu, you'll see options named as From File and Combine. They both allow you to save RTF files as PDF format.
- Clicking From File, then you need to browse your computer for the RTF file and open it. As you open it with Wondershare PDF Editor, it will be opened as a PDF file. All you need is to save it a PDF file.
- Combine means you can add a variety of RTF files, graphics, and images, etc. and combine them into a single PDF file. After clicking Combine, you'll see the Combine Files window. From here, just add needed files and click Combine to combine these files into a single PDF file.
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If you find any typo in a newly created PDF file, you can open the PDF file with the RTF to PDF tool. And then click the Edit tool in the Home menu to correct the typo. Additionally, you can add watermark to the PDF file as well.
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Londoners Go Mad for the iPhone 4S on Launch Day [Gallery]
Londoners who can't wait to get their hands on the new iPhone 4S have been forming huge queues outside of Apple's Covent Garden and Regent Street retail stores this morning, hoping to get their hands on the latest device before they're all gone. Here's a few snaps from the U.K. stores.
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On June 26, Niceville officers were called to a residence on 30th Street, according to the call history. The caller was having issues with her 6-year-old son kissing and hugging girls. She asked for an officer to explain the consequences to the child. The officer spoke to the child and told him he "could not be touching and kissing girls."
On June 27, officers were called to a residence on Florida Street, the call history said. The caller complained the juveniles had egged the back of his house. He believed there may have been four juveniles involved.
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Nostalgia for the Criminal Past by Kathleen Winter
Filed under: Poetry, Post by: Siwar M, Reviews
Kathleen Winter's Nostalgia for the Criminal Past is a delightful work of re-personalizing the past. How can one remember and write the specificity of a narrative that has been taken over by a communal history—one that has become mankind's past? What do the expulsion from Eden or Apollo 11 have to do with singularity since their appropriation by a male world? Winter re-personalizes these narratives; her language reaching back to an emotional sensibility accurate to the extent of reworking what we think we know about these common stories. Her wit, humour, and keen poetic eye subtly take over our presumptuous knowledge; the result is a human singularity we didn't know we were craving so much.
In "Nostalgia for Apollo", Winter writes:
I miss their elevated heart-rates
at the takeoff, god-like, their views of Earth's
swirled atmosphere, their cowboy tendency
to terseness, their ticker-tape parades, their quaint
faith in our nation, their quaint male
universe in which I was a lovely
and silent child.
Winter's detailed descriptive elements in these lines define a speaker presence and an authority of voice that allow an intimacy—as ironic as this intimacy is—that transforms the Apollo mission into a singular experience observed by this "lovely" and "silent" child. The communal and the individual are conflated, their boundaries confused. Yet, the affect is not one of alienation, but rather, perhaps, a rewriting of the difference between what is singular and common. One that carves a space for Winter—and the rest of us—in writing and poetic expression.
The voyeuristic speaker in a "male world" is a common theme in this book. Eve and Eden come up twice, in delightfully humorous and poignant ways. "Morning Poem" is an excellently horrifying account of a car accident. The range of intellectual and emotional work that Winter achieves through preciseness of language and variation of form (she uses both prose poems, long open field-like lines, and sparse short stanzas) make Nostalgia for the Criminal Past an admirable debut and a valuable book of contemporary poetry.
Two Interesting Articles on Arab Feminism
Filed under: Opinion, Post by: Siwar M
If you are at all interested in the Arab Spring, Arab Feminism, The Blue Bra of Tahrir Square, the consistently offensive "portrayal" of the niqab and/or hijab, these two articles are for you. One appeared in Foreign Policy's Sex Issue, and a response to it on Al Monitor.
To give a piece of my mind here, as much as I agree with ElTahawy's rage at the treatment of women, I was, indeed, offended by the photographs of the nude, body sprayed woman. It brings to mind the annoying habit of "sensationalising" Arab and Muslim women's issues. Why does it have to be about the hijab or niqab? Why does it even have to be about religion in the first place? Aren't we over these offensive, cliche, and orientalist portrayals yet?
Honour Killings and a nine year old's stand against it.
Filed under: Opinion, Post by: Siwar M
This pretty much made my day.
One of the most controversial topics in Jordanian (& Arab) Feminist issues is Honour Killings. Honour Killings are in no way a "religious matter" as some people try to identify them (in regards to their defense or their protest). Honour Killings is a phenomenon that is the outcome of sexism and lack of education. It is about the control over a woman's body by her family members–often, the men. It is when a family member kills a woman if she is suspected of having soiled her family's honour by engaging in sexual activity (or in some cases a mere nonsexual relationship) outside of marriage. What makes this social issue even more problematic is that there is a legally reduced sentence for murderes accused of Honour Killings in Jordan.
There have been numerous activist groups trying to combat Honour Killings and spread awareness in Jordan. There are petitions being signed and books written on the subject; and people have been trying to change the law, as well as the cultural view toward the moral legitimacy of Honour Killings, for years.
Now, this is the part I am excited about:
A nine year old girl, who was told she was unable to sign a petition called "Where do We Stand?" protesting Honour Killings because she is not of legal age yet, wrote this lovely letter : (translation from Arabic is my own, & am afraid so much of the cuteness and brilliance of this is lost between languages)
I am Raneem Abdullah.
I am a nine year old girl, and I cannot sign the "Where do we stand?" petition. But I am a girl, and I am against Honour Killings committed against girls, because it is not anyone's right to rob someone else of their right to live. I have to defend my rights and express my protest against killing girls, and protest this view that is not so nice toward girls in society.
I have to defend my rights and learn how to do it now.
So what if I am only nine years old?
I am going to sign anyway:
Raneem Rashad Abdullah Mohammed
A reader may think: why is this so impressive?
I think it is extremely impressive that a nine-year- old has such a strong opinion. It is so impressive that she feels that she should (& can!) express her opinion. It is so impressive that she does not understand why her age would not allow her to have an opinion. The amount of awareness and defiance in this letter amazes me.
In my experience, many people in Jordan, especially women, do not feel "entitled" to a voice, or to such a strong opinion. I remember discussing Honour Killings in an undergraduate class where almost all of the 30 students did not understand the problematic logic behind a woman "representing" her family's honour, or the horrifying logic leading to a murder justified in the name of "honour".
Reading this Feminist statement coming from a nine year old girl restores my belief that change is possible. This feminist challenges my belief that violence against women is not as engrained in our Jordanian (or American for that matter, regarding issues of sexual violence, rights to abortion, etc) cultural psyches as I have always thought it is.
Why is Feminism Important?
Filed under: Opinion, Post by: Siwar M
For me, this is an interesting blog entry to write, especially because I felt a compulsion to write a similar one a couple of months ago on a social media platform called 7iber in Jordan. The question that I seem to encounter a lot, both in Jordan and the US, is "Why feminism? Isn't it obsolete? Why is it important?".
At AWP, while I was at So to Speak's book fair table, a writer, also a woman, questioned feminism (alongside our Nonfiction Editor's biological gender; she tactlessly asked him if he used to be a woman.) She asked, "Why feminist? Isn't that over?" Our Nonfiction editor tried to engaged her in conversation, informed her how our editors are a mix of women, men, and genderqueer individuals, and how our definition of feminism is broad and inclusive. Her response was dismissive at best. I didn't say anything at all, but I thought, you should have come to our panel. You should have seen how feminism is important, how Arielle, Eloise, Ru, Mack, and Cate talked about it. How they revealed statistics, personal and professional anecdotes, and how we discussed the essential, yet sometimes problematic, idea of the label.
Call for Submissions & Happy New Year!
Filed under: Announcements, Post by: Siwar M
Our reading period for the Fall 2012 Issue opens today! We are looking for great poetry, nonfiction, and art , as well as fiction for our Fall 2012 contest, which will be judged by Ru Freeman.
(Note that Ru is also a participant in So to Speak's AWP panel, titled "Troubling the Label:When Does a Text Become Feminist." Make sure you attend the panel and swing by our bookfair table in Chicago this February/March!!)
For the full submission guidelines, please visit our Submit page.
To get a feel for what So to Speak enjoys reading and publishing, get a subscription or purchase a back issue!
Wishing you happy reading & writing in 2012!
The So to Speak staff


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"IT'S BEEN called the Galapagos of the subsurface." Barbara Sherwood Lollar's enthusiasm for the fertile watery world her team has found 2.5 kilometres beneath Earth's surface is palpable. The water circulates through fractures in the rocks of a Canadian copper mine. Dating techniques indicate it has been isolated from the rest of the planet for up to 2.64 billion years – making it a time capsule from the early days of life on Earth.
Better still, it is packed with hydrogen and methane – chemicals that microbes love to eat. "What we have here," says Sherwood Lollar, a microbiologist at the University of Toronto in Canada, "is a plate of jelly donuts." While she has yet to confirm whether the water is inhabited, she says the conditions are perfect for life.
The team dated the water using the radioactive decay of elements in the rocks to inert gases. Potassium, for instance, gradually decays to argon. So argon levels in the water help establish how long it has been sitting in the rock fractures, isolated from the rest of the world. This and other proxies suggest the water is between 1.5 and 2.6 billion years old.
Older samples have been found, but all of these are microscopic pockets of water trapped within rocks, not large enough to harbour life. "What is unique about this water is that it has the potential to be an ecosystem," says Christopher Ballentine of the University of Manchester in the UK, whose lab carried out the dating analyses. "Because there is a large volume of fluid, the water can react with the rock to generate hydrogen and methane. Suddenly, we have all the chemicals to support life," he says.
The team of microbiologists at the University of Toronto are scanning their water samples for signs of microbial life. Sherwood Lollar says she has a hunch they will find bacteria, but she is almost as excited at the prospect of finding nothing at all.
Water that is 1.5 to 2.6 billion years old is a time capsule from the Precambrian – a period when life was dominated by single-celled organisms. "If future searches do yield [indigenous] microorganisms they would provide enormous insight into the evolution of life on our planet," says Tullis Onstott at Princeton University.
Equally, finding lifeless water would give us an unprecedented window on the primordial soup from which life might have evolved.
"The problem on Earth is that life has dominated for billions of years," says Sherwood Lollar. "This could be a tiny place where we still have a remnant of the kinds of prebiotic conditions that might have existed on early Earth." In the long run, Sherwood Lollar hopes to find a whole series of these enclosed water worlds, each from a different period in Earth's prehistory.
Further afield, she and Ballentine point out that the rocks from the Canadian mine are similar in chemistry and age to rocks in the subsurface of Mars – suggesting fertile conditions could persist inside the Red Planet for millions of years.
This article appeared in print under the headline "The deep, dark lake frozen in time"
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Pre-accession assistance helps the countries that are candidates for membership of the European Union to satisfy the accession conditions (the Copenhagen criteria). Considerable investment is required if the candidate countries are to bring their institutions and standards in line with the Community acquis and to be able to meet their obligations as Member States.
Pre-accession assistance to the candidate countries is a key factor in the Union's pre-accession strategy and is determined by the accession partnerships.
For the period 2007 – 2013, the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA) will be the sole funding vehicle, replacing the pre-accession instruments from the period 2000 – 2006 (Phare, Sapard for structural measures in agriculture, Ispa for infrastructure development in the fields of the environment and transport, the special pre-accession instrument for Turkey), as well as the CARDS programme for the Western Balkan countries.
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YUM!! I made this last night for my family and it was a big hit with them. I cut the recipe in half for us 4 but next time I'm going to use the whole can of cream of mushroom soup to make the sauce a little thicker. This recipe is a keeper. Another nice thing about it is that it only takes 30 minutes to bake. It's a quick and easy recipe.
Excellent !!!!!!!! I used left over chicken, broccoli and brown rice.
I also used Chicken broth instead of milk. I also topped it with chedder cheese and Frenches Onion rings. My family loved it. I'll definately use it again and even make it for pot luck.
I altered the recipe a little, but it was very good, and I will make it again. I used about 2 lbs of boneless, skinless chicken breasts, which I pounded out to about .5 inches. (They completely covered the bottom of my 13x9 baking dish.) I sauteed one large onion and 1 tsp of Christopher Ranch minced garlic in butter and olive oil. I mixed that with one can of Cream of Chicken with Herbs soup plus the milk that the recipe calls for. I don't like mushy broccoli, so I took a fresh head of broccoli, peeled the stalks, and cut it into spears. I put two spears on each chicken breast. I poured the soup/onion mixture over everything and baked for about 45 minutes. I turned out perfectly! The broccoli got nice and roasted and wasn't mushy, and the onion mixture plus the herbs in the soup was very flavorful. The broccoli stalks were still kind of woody, so next time I will just get two broccoli crowns and leave the stalks off. I would also like to try this with fresh asparagus and red peppers.
My husband and son loved this dish. I used raw cubed chicken breast, mixed frozen vegetables instead of broccoli and egg noodles. I added a little more milk and some sour cream. Delish.
Delicious! I used green beans instead of broccoli, because I'm not too keen on broccoli. My chicken didn't quite bake all the way, we had to microwave it a little. But I'll just bake longer next time. May try with some cheese on top next time, too. I really liked how simple it was to put together.
I love this recipe, you can play with it a lot. It's easy and simple. I always season the chicken to help with the bland taste and I also add seasoning to the cream of mushroom so in the end it tastes delicious and flavorful. I also use a broccoli medley with cauliflower and carrots to add more color to the dish.
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A workshop in Britain set to be led by an Israeli expert on negotiation and conflict management was canceled after pressure from a pro-Palestinian national union.
Moty Cristal was due to deliver a lecture for a National Health Service workshop on negotiation, conflict resolution and crisis intervention this week, but received an email April 27 from organizers saying that the event was canceled, The Guardian reported. The email said the lecture was canceled "on the grounds that it is Unison's policy and also that of the Trades Union Congress to support the Palestinian people," according to the Guardian.
Unison is Britain's largest trade union, representing 1.3 million public service workers. It has frequently voted in favor of a general boycott of Israel. The Trades Union Congress has voted against such boycotts, though it favors a boycott of West Bank goods.
"I'm furious from a professional point of view and deeply disappointed from a national point of view," Cristal told the Guardian. "I have always been perceived first and foremost as an expert rather than an Israeli. But here people didn't have the wisdom to look behind the Israeli flag to my professional contribution."
Union members "would find it difficult to be lectured in conflict resolution by someone from Israel," a Unison spokeswoman told the Guardian. Cristal and his company, Nest Consulting, have worked with Palestinian and civil action organizations.
Cristal said his lectures stress the "importance of having dialogue between people with different ideas."
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I thought it was more about how cooking made the food easier to digest as it broke down certain enzymes / proteins... Plus cooking can make food last longer (smoking it for example).
These things allowed more efficient consumption of the hunted food, more consistent food supply, and fewer food borne illnesses.
Then we became less nomadic.
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Then humans had more time to argue via the internet.
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The proteins are not broken down at the 1deg level by cooking. It just isn't hot enough. They will still have the same amino acid sequence and they for damn sure will still have intact amino acids.
They will be be broken down partly or completely at higher levels of organization (denatured, not destroyed). Put simply, we all know proteins like to take shapes so they can do things. Muscle proteins arrange themselves in fibers for pulling against each other. Enzymes are little globs that swallow things up and catalyze reactions for twisting them into new shapes. Ribosomes are little beads that move along nucleic acids and read them.
Proteins in these original shapes are nutritionally inferior to denatured (cooked) proteins. For damn good reasons, our bodies will not absorb proteins in their natural state. We don't trust our food. It has good reason to want to poison us, after all. So your body has to denature ingested proteins. Flatten them out, unroll them, string them out into their constituent little links of amino acids. This removes a lot of the ability of proteins to screw with your body (this is related to why certain poisons are nearly harmless when ingested but life-threatening if injected into your blood).
Cooking does a lot of this work for us. Your body can't, obviously, provide temperatures of 300+deg F internally, so it uses acids and enzymes. This doesn't get all of the work done, either in time or simply because the protein resists that method of digestion, so a lot of protein is "wasted" - passes through your system undigested.
Certain nutrients ARE potentially broken down by heating. Vitamin C, for instance, you should get from uncooked fruits. Note that PLANTS WANT YOU TO EAT FRUIT, evolutionarily speaking, so FRUIT IS VERY BIOAVAILABLE in terms of nutrients in a raw state. Generalizing from fruit is, I suspect, part of the flaw in the perspective of raw foodists.
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High pressure and conventional boiling had a significant loss rate of total glucosinolates (33% and 55% respectively) regarding fresh raw broccoli, due to the leaching into the cooking water. On the other hand, steaming had minimal effects on glucosinolates and vitamin C.
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I agree with what is being said here, but I do want to point out that one can not require cooked food for normal health. Homo Sapiens is evolved to do just fine with room temp food. If there has been some loss of ability to process cool food in the last 10,000 years due to the use of fire to cook, I would regard that as a problem along the lines of widespread loss of 20/20 vision.Now darkness comes; you don't know if the whales are coming. - Royce Gracie
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Also, cooking shotguns a number of problems - maybe we can digest raw lean beef or raw egg white but not cooking them increases their viability as vectors for fungus, bacteria, parasites, etc that I'm not sure we ever tolerated - we just died sooner...
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Sure, people are generally omnivorous. You can drop your ass into the woods and eat bark and leaves and grass and as long as you don't hit anything directly poisonous you'll probably live.
You sure as hell won't be at optimum health though.
These raw foodists would all DIE if dropped into actual nature for a couple of weeks.


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Fencing in farm toy funMichelle Blegen's inspiration as a farm-toy entrepreneur came as a mother who was unhappy with the flimsy plastic fences available for her children's make-believe livestock pens and corrals.
By: Lloyd Omdahl,
Michelle Blegen's inspiration as a farm-toy entrepreneur came as a mother who was unhappy with the flimsy plastic fences available for her children's make-believe livestock pens and corrals.
That dissatisfaction remained a minor annoyance until the day a couple of years ago that her husband sent her an e-mail about the Innovate North Dakota competition for entrepreneurs.
That was the nudge she needed to explore the feasibility of making metal toy fence sections, both more durable and more realistic than the cheap plastic imitations she found in stores.
During her spare time, the mother of five who works full time in the Farm Service Administration office in Fargo, delved in and drafted business and marketing plans.
Nobody seemed to make fences the equal of the life-like models of livestock that are a mainstay of farm play. "At least I haven't been able to find them," Blegen says.
Blegen made it past the first round of competition before being eliminated, but her idea lived on as My Little Ranchhand – "Buckaroo Basics: Toys Tough Enough for Cowboys."
As of a few months ago, she sells toy fence sections. The parts are die-cast in Winona, Minn., and painted with a special nonchip coating in Fargo and available in a variety of colors and styles.
Blegen operates the small business out of her home on a livestock farm in rural Cass County, about 45 miles southwest of Fargo near Kindred, where her family raises beef cattle and horses.
"Basically Old McDonald's farm," she says. Her husband also works full time off the farm as manager of an edible bean plant in Casselton. "We basically work day and night."
Although the Blegen farm is on the edge of the Red River Valley, Blegen has staked out her corner of cyberspace, with a Web site (mylittleranchhand.com) that has connected her with customers in far-flung locations including Idaho, Utah and Nebraska in addition to North Dakota and Minnesota.
She also listed her fence panels on eBay, the Internet auction site, and sent handbills to livestock sale barns with a request that they post them, a source of word-of-mouth advertising that seems to be spreading in cattle and horse country.
"Basically that's where I've gotten my sales so far," she says. "My plan is to go to trade shows to put up booths, but frankly, they're expensive."
And time-consuming for a mother who works full time outside the home.
If the fence line does well, she hopes to expand her toy line with an eye toward nostalgic adult collectors, including people who grew up on a farm but now live in a city.
"North Dakota used to be dotted with little farms," she says. "Everybody had a couple of cows."
Her dream is that some day her toy fences will be on the shelves in farm-supply stores, alongside other toys. "That's my ultimate goal, to see them sold in stores," she says.
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A survey of climate change in theater here and in the UK in the New York Times focuses mostly on "This Clement World," a new musical play by Cynthia Hopkins, and includes a telling quote from the writer:
"Alcoholism is an excellent metaphor for the climate change crisis," she announces at one point onstage. "We're addicted to behavior that is making us sick."
Idea makes sense, if you think that denial is central to alcoholism and our culture's response to climate change.
Here's a trailer, narrated by the playwright.
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3:35 PM EDT, July 5, 2011
So did you have your partner for this weekend's race at Daytona? Love it or hate it, it appears as if two by two racing, couple skate, tango racing or what ever you want to call it, is here it stay at Daytona and Talladega. But is it all that much different than what we had before? I mean, we still managed to have the big one?
"We do have the two-car tandem so it's a little bit different," said Dale Earnhardt Junior. "But at the end we're in a big pack and it's still restrictor plate racing."
Still it has become so important to have not only a partner, but one that can help you get to the front, it's kinda like finding a date to the prom isn't it?
"This time was different because last time we didn't know how extreme this would be so they didn't work it out before they got here," said Trevor Bayne. "This time, they already had that planned before they got here."
And this is a dance that you don't where want to be left with out a parnter. So what happens if you don't have a partner, your partner leaves you for a "better dancer", or guy wrecks out of the race?
"You don't even have a chance if you have a single-car team," said Bayne. "You just have to wait on another guy to crash out and pick him up."
That being said, it really looked as if the single car teams are some of the beneficiaries of this kind of racing. Casey Mears and Joe Nemechek actually lead laps this weekend. When was the last time we saw that. Once they got hooked up with a dance partner, it looked like anyone could win the race, and that is kind of fun. We won't see that at Kentucky this weekend, I can promise you that.
I know the drivers hate this kind of racing, especially on a nights when 30 of the 43 cars end up being involved in one of the accidents.
"It's so hard to see how many hours these guys put into these cars to have it torn up in the blink of an eye like that. But it is what it is," said Earnhardt.
But watching at home, it is fun to watch and think that Mears or Nemechek or Landon Cassill actually have a chance to win the race. I personally don't like restrictor plate racing, but I really enjoyed Saturday night's race for that reason. If we could keep that factor, and get ride of the accidents it would be perfect. But I know you can't have one with out the other.
Let's say NASCAR were to listen to the drivers and try to break up couples skate at the Daytona International Speedway. Is there anything they can do?
"You fix the front and the back of the car so if they have contact, there is an inclined angle that would drive the rear wheels off the ground to stop it. It's easy to stop it if NASCAR really wants to stop it," said Jack Roush, car owner and an engineer. "But it's exciting racing. Daytona and Talladega both have been known for the fast speeds and for all of the excitement that is unique to those two racetracks. And we've got something now that I think is no less exciting than it's been, and it's no more hazardous or less hazardous than when we had the 30-car drafts. I think that's what we'll have to deal with when it comes to Daytona or Talladega."


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Zynga has released their newest iPhone and iPad game for animal lovers called Dream PetHouse. In this game, you are in charge of raising hundreds of adorable pets in a huge treehouse and making them has happy as can be.
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I find it amusing, that with the TiPB staff always chastising Samsung for "copying" Apple...they'd actively advertise products from a company that does nothing more than reskin and release someone else's creations.
I like checking your posts, this page has been added to my bookmarks in firefox.
Ya but it's like 5 seeds per 10 frames so it's not enough to really do anything. The only way to actually do something is to spend real $ and but them.
Karen, I had the same question and I wrote to zynga and they said u had to buy them. The last 2 days however, I've received a notice when I start the game that I can get free nuts at Facebook.com/DreamPetHouse. When I try to go there I only get the app again. Don't see anywhere to get free anything. :(
I'm trying to build the Clover Dog house but it keeps saying I don't have enough space. How much space do you actually need for that particular house? I need to know A.S.A.P.
I've been surfing online greater than 3 hours these days, but I by no means discovered any interesting article like yours. It's pretty price enough for me. Personally, if all webmasters and bloggers made excellent content material as you probably did, the web shall be a lot more helpful than ever before.
Can anyone tell me which house has the black horse in it? It;s not easily identified by the pictures. What would be great is a guide that tells you exactly what pet in in which house
Thankyou!! I feel the same way!! I spend forever in the chimney thinking it was the raccoon and it turned out to be a black cat.
What animal is in the comfy clouds? Also has anyone gotten the palace?
The pond has a really cute turtle, the den has a brown bear, Don't know about the shrub. The black horse is in the "Rockey". I'd like to know what lives in the playground. Been searching for a complete list online too!
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The vineyard uses organic and biodynamic methods of grape cultivation. Their vines are planted in tight European style spacing of 3'x7' with over 2000 vines planted per acre. (Traditional California vineyards use 8'x10' spacing.) This increased planting density along with their "Guyot Simple" trellising system has produced some exceptional fruit from this cool growing area. See video at VineStories.
The wines are made with minimal intervention and mostly produces wines that have been unfined and unfiltered allowing more of the natural flavors to show in the wine. The produce Pinot Noir, Syrah, Chardonnay, Sangiovese, Viognier, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris and an Amador County port.
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|Four-year starter, the past three at left tackle. Decent athleticism; played tight end in high school. Shows the necessary quickness to play left tackle in the pros. Excels in pass protection. Showed steady improvement throughout his career.
|Doesn't have a great overall build. Came to BC as a 260 pound tight end, so he's added a lot of weight already but could add some more. Lacks the explosiveness to be a great run blocker. Not a finisher; does a nice job holding off defenders but rarely dominates them.
|Castonzo is a nice prospect with the potential to start at left tackle but there are legitimate concerns about his strength. He's a tall, lanky guy and just lacks the brute strength necessary to slow down some of the more powerful pass rushers in the NFL. Few players have his athleticism and size, so someone may role the dice in the late 1st round, but I would wait until at least the 2nd. He has a long way to go before he's ready to be a great NFL player, and there is a decent chance that he ends up a complete bust.
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Most intriguing battles at the Senior Bowl
Von Miller vs Ryan Kerrigan
There aren't many elite 3-4 pass rushers in this year's draft class, which is typically one of the most sought-after positions early in the draft. Both Miller and Kerrigan are capable of playing outside in the 3-4 scheme and a number of teams could be in the market for them in the 1st round. Both players grade out very close and this could be an opportunity for one to get the upper hand.
Jake Locker vs Ricky Stanzi
Talent-wise, there's no comparing Locker and Stanzi (Locker wins easily). Production-wise there's also no comparing them (Stanzi wins easily). If Locker plays up to his full potential, this should be his opportunity to reclaim his consensus 1st-round grade. However, if he is out-played by Stanzi – who plays with a similar style and has a comparable skill set – Locker is almost certain to fall out of the 1st round.
Gabe Carimi vs Anthony Castonzo vs DeMarcus Love
Do we have a left tackle in this group? All three are fringe 1st-round prospects and what holds them back is the question about their position. None of the three have the elite athleticism you look for in a left tackle, but all three had productive careers on the left side in college. Seeing all three on the same field will help clear up the picture as to who has a legitimate case to be a 1st-round pick.
Mike Pouncey vs Ben Ijalana vs Rodney Hudson
Who is the top interior lineman in Mobile? Entering this week I give a slight edge to Ijalana, but we have yet to see him face elite competition. With a solid week Ijalana could become a potential 1st-round prospect, much like Mike Iupati used the Senior Bowl as a spring board last year. However, Pouncey and Hudson will have that same opportunity. All three have different body builds and are very different players, making this an interesting competition to watch. [updated: Mike Pouncey has elected not to participate].


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I'm a little surprised that Honda built a brand-new platform with a five-speed box. I'm sure the bike doesn't need it, but I don't know of any motorcycle that isn't improved with a six-speed.
This sort of cost-cutting compromise that may turn people off is what has me worried about sales of this bike. The other big area is suspension - no upside down forks and other than rear preload, no suspension adjustments whatsoever.
A think a $10,299 CB1100 with USD fork, rebound adjustments, and a six-speed box would sell more bikes than the $10K bike we're getting.
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well, you are probably right, but a) if you're Honda and you are trying to make this bike price competitive, it doesn't make much sense to put a high $$$ suspension on it - especially when most of your target market will probably never adjust the suspension anyway, and b) I doubt that it really NEEDS a 6 speed tranny. My FJR had 5, and it was fine. My Nomad has 5, and it's fine. I once had a bike with a 4 speed, and it was fine. Even if they decided to put a 6th gear in it doesn't mean that the new 6th would be any higher than the current 5th (if that makes sense). If you put a really tall 6th gear in there, then people are going to complain about poor performance in top gear. It's a compromise, and somebody is going to complain no matter what you do.
Honda has a really sweet CB1000 for the people who want something that is a little more "cutting edge".
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Several bonds that will be priced on Nov. 3 and fund projects across Riverside County — construction of an animal care facility, an 800 MHz public safety radio communication system, and the leasing of several buildings — were given an "AA-" rating on Thursday by Fitch Ratings.
"The negative outlook reflects Fitch's concern that the effect on the economy of the real-estate market and the real-estate market's severe deterioration will stress Riverside County's traditionally well-managed finances," a news release states. "Continued credit strength will depend on the county's ability to control spending and maintain its above-average reserves throughout the economic downturn. Further deterioration of the strong, currently well-diversified economy could also pressure the rating."


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Theunis Piersma's article regarding the health issues of weightless space flight, while certainly correct about the biology (13 November, p 30) was incredibly pessimistic. Artificial gravity should solve all the physiological issues mentioned.
While the exact level of artificial gravity required to maintain health is unknown, Earth's gravity would likely be the upper limit. Constant acceleration at 1 g may be beyond the capabilities of current propulsion techniques for an interplanetary journey, but 1 g centrifuges are a possibility. James Lackner and Paul DiZio showed that, by gradually increasing spin rates, humans can acclimatise to over 7 revolutions per minute without motion sickness (Journal of Neuroscience Research, vol 62, p 169). Tether systems, in which one vehicle is rotated around another, could also be used to keep mass, costs and motion sickness down.
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Anime is in Japan is popular among a small community and is now viewed throughout the world. Anime itself is considered a form of limited animation. Anime can be broadcasted either through television or released directly to video, which are often called OVAs or OAV (Original Animation Video).
Anime can be hand drawn or computer-assisted. It is used in television series, films, video, video games, commercials, and internet-based releases, and represents all genres of fiction.
The history of anime begins at the start of the 20th century, when Japanese filmmakers experimented with the animation techniques that were being explored in France, Germany, the United States, and Russia. The oldest known anime in existence was screened in 1917; it was a two minute clip of a samurai trying to test a new sword on his target, only to suffer defeat.
By the 1930s, animation became an alternative format of storytelling compared to the underdeveloped live-action industry in Japan. Unlike America, the live-action industry in Japan remained a small market and suffered from budgeting, location, and casting restrictions. The lack of Western-looking actors, for example, made it next to impossible to shoot films set in Europe, America, or fantasy worlds that do not naturally involve Japan. Animation allowed artists to create any characters and settings.
The success of Disney's 1937 feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs influenced Japanese animators. Osamu Tezuka adapted and simplified many Disney animation techniques to reduce the costs and number of frames in the production. This was intended to be a temporary measure to allow him to produce material on a tight schedule with an inexperienced animation staff.
During the 1970s, there was a surge of growth in the popularity of manga—which were often later animated—especially those of Osamu Tezuka, who has been called a "legend and the "god of manga". His work and that of other pioneers in the field, inspired characteristics and genres that are fundamental elements of anime today. The giant robot genre (known as "Mecha" outside Japan), for instance, took shape under Tezuka, developed into the Super Robot genre under Go Nagai and others, and was revolutionized at the end of the decade by Yoshiyuki Tomino who developed the Real Robot genre. Robot anime like the Gundam and Macross series became instant classics in the 1980s, and the robot genre of anime is still one of the most common in Japan and worldwide today. In the 1980s, anime became more accepted in the mainstream in Japan (although less than manga), and experienced a boom in production. Following a few successful adaptations of anime in overseas markets in the 1980s, anime gained increased acceptance in those markets in the 1990s and even more in the 2000s.
The pronunciation of anime in Japanese, ɑnime, differs significantly from the Standard English which have different vowels and stress. (In Japanese each mora carries equal stress.) As with a few other Japanese words such as saké, Pokémon, and Kobo Abé, anime is sometimes spelled animé in English (as in French), with an acute accent over the final e, to cue the reader that the letter is pronounced, not silent as would be expected in English. However, this accent does not appear in any commonly used system of romanized Japanese and is not in frequent enough use to be recognised by the Oxford English Dictionary.
In English, anime can be used as a common noun ("Do you watch anime?") or as a suppletive adjective ("The anime Guyver is different from the movie Guyver"). It may also be used as a mass noun, as in "How much anime have you collected?" and therefore is not pluralized as animes.
In Japan, manga can additionally refer to both animation and comics (although the use of manga to refer to animation is mostly restricted to non-fans). Among English speakers, manga usually has the stricter meaning of "Japanese comics". An alternate explanation is that it is due to the prominence of Manga Entertainment, a distributor of anime to the US and UK markets. Because Manga Entertainment originated in the UK the use of the term is common outside of Japan. The term "animanga" has been used to collectively refer to anime and manga, though it is also a term used to describe comics produced from animation cels.
Anime is commonly referred as an art form. As a visual medium, it naturally places a large emphasis on visual styles. The styles can vary from artist to artist or by studio to studio. Some titles make extensive use of common stylization: FLCL, for example, is known for its wild, exaggerated stylization. In contrast, titles such as Only Yesterday or Jin-Roh take much more realistic approaches, featuring few stylistic exaggerations.
While different titles and different artists have their own artistic styles, many stylistic elements have become so common such that they are described as being definitive of anime in general. However, this does not mean that all modern anime share one strict, common art style. Many anime have a very different art style from what would commonly be called "anime style", yet fans still use the word "anime" to refer to these titles. Generally, the most common form of anime drawings are "exaggerated physical features such as large eyes, big hair and elongated limbs... and dramatically shaped speech bubbles, speed lines and onomatopoeic, exclamatory typography. The influences of Japanese calligraphy and Japanese painting also characterize linear qualities of the anime style. The round Ink brush traditionally used for writing Kanji and for painting produces a stroke of widely varying thickness.
Anime also tends to borrow many elements from manga including text in the background, and borrowing panel layouts from the manga as well. For example, an opening may employ manga panels to tell the story, or to dramatize a point for humorous effect. This is best demonstrated in the anime Kare Kano.
Variations to proportion can be modded. Super deformed characters feature a non-proportionally small body compared to the head. Sometimes specific body parts, like legs, are shortened or elongated for added emphasis. Mostly super deformed characters are two to four heads tall. Some anime works like Crayon Shin-chan completely disregard these proportions. It is enough such that it resembles a Western cartoon. For exaggeration, certain body features are increased in proportion.
A common approach is the large eyes style drawn on many anime and manga characters. Osamu Tezuka was inspired by the exaggerated features of American cartoon characters such as Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, and Disney's Bambi. Tezuka found that large eyes style allowed his characters to show emotions distinctly. When Tezuka began drawing Ribbon no Kishi, the first manga specifically targeted at young girls, Tezuka further exaggerated the size of the characters' eyes. Indeed, through Ribbon no Kishi, Tezuka set a stylistic template that later shōjo artists tended to follow.
Coloring is added to give eyes, particularly the cornea, and some depth. The depth is accomplished by applying variable color shading. Generally, a mixture of a light shade, the tone color, and a dark shade is used. Cultural anthropologist Matt Thorn argues that Japanese animators and audiences do not perceive such stylized eyes as inherently more or less foreign.
However, not all anime have large eyes. For example Hayao Miyazaki is known for not having large eyes and having realistic hair colors on his characters. In addition many other productions also have been known to use smaller eyes. This design tends to have more resemblance to traditional Japanese art. Some characters have even smaller eyes, where simple black dots are used.
A wide variety of facial expressions are used by characters to denote moods and thoughts. Anime uses a different set of facial expressions in comparison to western animation.
Other stylistic elements are common as well; often in comedic anime, characters that are shocked or surprised will perform a "face fault", in which they display an extremely exaggerated expression. Angry characters may exhibit a "vein" or "stressmark" effect, where lines representing bulging veins will appear on their forehead. Angry women will sometimes summon a mallet from nowhere and strike someone with it, leading to the concept of Hammerspace and cartoon physics. Male characters will develop a bloody nose around their female love interests (typically to indicate arousal, based on an old wives' tale). Embarrassed characters either produce a massive sweat-drop (which has become one of the most widely recognized stereotype motifs of anime) or produce a visibly red blush beneath the eyes, especially as a manifestation of repressed romantic feelings. While common, the use of face faults is optional. Some anime, usually with political plots and other more serious subject matters, have abandoned the use of face faults such as Gundam Wing and Teknoman.
Like all animation, the production processes of storyboarding, voice acting, character design, cel production and so on still apply. With improvements in computer technology, computer animation increased the efficiency of the whole production process.
Anime is often considered a form of limited animation. That means that stylistically, even in bigger productions the conventions of limited animation are used to fool the eye into thinking there is more movement than there is. Many of the techniques used a comprised with cost-cutting measures while working under a set budget.
Anime scenes place emphasis on achieving three-dimensional views. Backgrounds depict the scenes' atmosphere. For example, anime often puts emphasis on changing seasons, as can be seen in numerous anime, such as Tenchi Muyo. Sometimes actual settings have been duplicated into an anime. The backgrounds for the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya are based on various locations within the suburb of Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan.
Camera angles, camera movement, and lighting play an important role in scenes. Directors often have the discretion of determining viewing angles for scenes, particularly regarding backgrounds. In addition, camera angles show perspective. Directors can also choose camera effects within cinematography, such as panning, zooming, facial closeup, and panoramic.
The large majority of anime is traditional animation, which better allows for the division of labour, pose to pose approach and checking of drawings before they are shot favoured by the industry. Other mediums are mostly limited to independently-made short films, examples of which are the silhouette and other cutout animation of Noburo Ofuji, the stop motion puppet animation of Tadahito Mochinaga, Kihachirō Kawamoto and Tomoyasu Murata and the computer animation of Satoshi Tomioka (most famously Usavich).
Anime distribution companies handled the licensing and distribution of anime beyond Japan. Licensed anime is modified by distributors through dubbing into the language of the country and adding language subtitles to the Japanese language track. Using a similar global distribution pattern as Hollywood, the world is divided into five regions.
Some editing of cultural references may occur to better follow the references of the non-Japanese culture. Certain companies may remove any objectionable content, complying with domestic law. This editing process was far more prevalent in the past (e.g. Robotech), but its use has declined because of the demand for anime in its original form. This "light touch" approach to localization has favored viewers formerly unfamiliar with anime. The use of such methods is evident by the success of Naruto and Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block, both of which employ minor edits.
With the advent of DVD, it was possible to include multiple language tracks into a simple product. This was not the case with VHS cassette, in which separate VHS media were used and with each VHS cassette priced the same as a single DVD. The "light touch" approach also applies to DVD releases as they often include both the dubbed audio and the original Japanese audio with subtitles, typically unedited. Anime edited for television is usually released on DVD "uncut," with all scenes intact.
TV networks regularly broadcast anime programming. In Japan, major national TV networks, such as TV Tokyo broadcast anime regularly. Smaller regional stations broadcast anime under the UHF. In the United States, Cable TV channels such as Cartoon Network, Disney, Sci-Fi, and others dedicate some of their time slots for anime. Then the Anime Network specifically shows anime. Sony based Animax and Disney's Jetix channel broadcast anime within many countries in the world. AnimeCentral solely broadcast's Anime in the UK.
Although it is a violation of copyright laws in many countries, some fans add subtitles to anime on their own. These are distributed as fansubs. The ethical implications of producing, distributing, or watching fansubs are topics of much controversy even when fansub groups do not profit from their activities. Once the series has been licensed outside of Japan, fansub groups often cease distribution of their work. In one case, Media Factory Incorporated requested that no fansubs of their material be made, which was respected by the fansub community. In another instance, Bandai specifically thanked fansubbers for their role in helping to make The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya popular in the English speaking world.
The Internet had played a significant role in the exposure of anime beyond Japan. Prior to the 1990s, anime has had limited exposure beyond Japan's borders. Coincidentally, as the popularity of the Internet grew, so did interest in anime. Much of the fandom of anime grew through the Internet. The combination of internet communities and increasing amounts of anime material, from video to images, helped spur the growth of fandom. As the Internet gained more widespread use, Internet advertising revenues grew from 1.6 billion yen to over 180 billion yen between 1995 and 2005.
Some American animated television series have singled out anime styling with satirical intent, for example South Park (with "Chinpokomon" and "Good Times With Weapons"). South Park has a notable drawing style, which was itself parodied in "Brittle Bullet", the fifth episode of the anime FLCL, released several months after "Chinpokomon" aired. This intent on satirizing anime is the springboard for the basic premise of Kappa Mikey, a Nicktoons Network original cartoon. Even cliches normally found in anime are parodied in Perfect Hair Forever. Also, in the episode "The Son Also Draws" of Family Guy parodies anime with an appearance by Speed Racer and his trainer. The two speak in poorly-dubbed English, with every phrase punctuated by a "Ha-HA!". Anime conventions began to appear in the early 1990s, during the Anime boom, starting with Anime Expo, Animethon, Otakon, and JACON. Currently anime conventions are held annually in various cities across the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Many attendees participate in cosplay, where they dress up as anime characters. Also, guests from Japan ranging from artists, directors, and music groups are invited. In addition to anime conventions, anime clubs have become prevalent in colleges, high schools, and community centers as a was to publicly exhibit anime as well as broadening Japanese cultural understanding.