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Preview: Game #32 Bruins @ Leafs - Komarov out, Lupul confused
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March 23 2013 01:04PM
Hockey news doesn't typically happen on Fridays, and hockey blogs aren't frequently read on Fridays, so we often don't post a lot of things on Fridays. However there have been a few small events that have arisen between the end of the Leafs last game against Buffalo and Saturday afternoon that would warrant a few eyeballs.
First there was Joffrey Lupul's public questioning of the league's disciplinary decisions. Then Leo Komarov was placed on injured reserve. Then came speculation that hey, maybe Ryan Hamilton will play with Tyler Bozak and Phil Kessel tonight. So there's lots of activity floating around, and lots of discussion, but I think we'll focus most of this on the game against the Boston Bruins tonight on Hockey Night.
LFR6 - Game 31 - Down with Goons
Steve Dangle
March 22 2013 01:09PM
I meant to talk about the game and ended up ranting about goons. Screw goons.
You OTT'a believe the Leafs lost in a shootout to Buffalo 5-4
Cam Charron
March 21 2013 09:17PM
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A talent agent is sitting in his office. He hears a knock on a door and opens it up, and it is Frazer McLaren. It is Colton Orr. Both are standing in the doorway. "What can you do," asks the talent agent, who has had a very long day and is very tired. He is visibly frustrated and annoyed with the sudden appearance of these two thugs.
"Not much," says Frazer McLaren. "I can stand on a guy's wing and not skate very fast. I can visibly restrict Jay McClement's abilities. I can also, in a pinch, absolutely fill in a guy's face if the situation requires it."
"There's this puke on the Sabres named Patrick Kaleta," continues Orr. "Maybe he'll dive across the half the ice on a weak shove and stop play. I'll go out on the ice for the next faceoff. I will crosscheck him hard across the back. I'll break my stick across him and impale him with the remains."
"Good grief!" says the talent agent. "What do you call an act like that?"
Colton Orr and Frazer Mclaren say in unison: "The Aristocrats!"
Recap below.
Preview: Game #31 Leafs @ Sabres - Lupul suspended two games
Cam Charron
March 21 2013 03:16PM
So Lupul was suspended for his hit on Victor Hedman for two games, and I have to say I'm quite surprised. Ryan Hamilton was called up to fill Mike Komisarek's spot in the lineup, so he'll play for the Leafs in Buffalo. Leafs without Lupul, but the bigger absentee in this game is Thomas Vanek, out with a lower-body injury for the Sabres.
I didn't see the play with sound on, but I'm guessing it's from when Vanek was hit by a Christian Ehrhoff slapshot against Montreal on Tuesday in the team's 3-2 win. Might have been Ehrhoff, I could be wrong there, but Vanek missed the second half of the game. He came out to do a skate during a TV timeout and is still practicing with the team so poolies, it probably isn't long-term.
The Sabres have been pretty well a two-man team this season. The other guy is Ehrhoff.
LFR6 - Game 30 - Dangle Curse Broken!
Steve Dangle
March 21 2013 01:10PM
THE STREAK ENDED!!! YESSS!!!!!!! Oh and I got engaged BUT THE STREAK ENDED YESSSS!


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Three years ago, working vice for the NYPD, Dan Champion uncovered a sex slavery ring run by a kingpin known only as the Fat Woman. Obsessed with bringing her down, Champion infiltrated a world of sexual obsession and perversity. He broke the case, but the case also broke him. He started taking drugs and soon began to form hallucinations a dead child prowling the streets of New York a beautiful woman named Samantha who would have given him the love he always wanted—if shed only been real.
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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
For attacking DoJ and FBI websites, Anonymous can now be officially classified as terrorists.
Warrants are out.
These teenage/early 20's yuppy Europeans are going to cry themselves to sleep while shitting out of their mouths in Gitmo.
Are u seriously saying this or are u being sarcastic,if not sarcastic then do some research these so called 20 something Yuppies took down Stratfor the very think tank designed to defeat said yuppies,who then did a Robin Hood with all the stolen data.
To me this suggests some real intellect at work here,after all they have united a mass outcry and public opinion not seen in our times,so if your self violates a copy right law,or are suspected of terrorisim just think back to this post when as no doubt u are an American u are shitting it in Gitmo !!
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Ok, two things. Firstly, terrorism, despite what the newspeakers in congress want you to think, involves using violence to spread terror, not just being opposed to the US government. While I do not approve of Anonymous and I think they hurt the anti-SOPA cause, they are not terrorists by any stretch of the defintion.
Secondly, megaupload really is no different than youtube. It allows user to upload content that they created themselves and hosts it for download. It complies with DMCA takedown notices. It has the support of many prominent entertainers who use it to host their content legally.
And I suggest that you get off your high anti-piracy horse. Even those coporations that are against piracy abuse copyright law. The RIAA and MPAA have a clear contempt of fair use and regard it as nonexistant. They abuse the current law by spamming takedown notices based on word searches that amount to a unsupervised computer pressing control-F over and over. And worse of all, every company that spread (and still spreads) the software that lets you file-share is owned by the same companies that are lobbying against it. CNET Download website is the primary provider of file-sharing software, and it's owned by... CBS, one of the main supporters of SOPA and PIPA.
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Hmm, that last mesage was posted without me even giving this stupid board software the go ahead to do it. Who writes this stuff?
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They're only terrorists under the US governments description of a terrorist as anyone who dares disagree with what they have to say. Look at the US government's treatment of it's own people. The Land Of The Free is looking about as free as China at the moment. You even have police drones flying overhead spying on you - it's only the fact that the American media is in the governments pocket that prevents half of the people in the US realising that they have no more freedom than the average Arab. Western governments send their people out to die fighting against the very types of regimes that they themselves run.
Douche bag? I presume that's some kind of playground insult. Not being American and being over the age of 10, I wouldn't know. It is, however, a well known fact that some people resort to insults when they sense they are losing an argument.
Personally, I'm convinced that these new laws they tried to get through have little to do with piracy and are just a way for the huge media companies to regain the control and influence they have lost due to the internet. They're panicking and intend to use these laws, or laws like them, to stifle internet based competition.
Governments go along with them because they realise other potential uses for such laws. If we fall asleep, they'll quietly introduce laws like these when we're all distracted by the latest American war in the Middle East. We'll all wake up one morning and think we've been moved to China.
The real problem is that half of the western world is sleep walking into this. They believe everything their government tells them. They actually believe they have a voice and that these things are being done on their behalf.
A final thought: Getting to vote for one of two parties that follow the same mantra every few years does not equate to democracy. Bear that in mind.
Actually... Terrorist: Someone who uses terror as a mean to achive their goal. Sounds a awful lot like Anonymus to me... And before anyone actually hail them as "heroes" i like to point out that they do infact use the exact same tactics to get what they want as every other terrorist group from ETA to IRA to Al'Qaeda... With the sole difference of doing it on-line. This is ofc good since it keeps the bodycount down but it is still pretty much the same thing.
Did WB have a choice with Batman Arkham Knight... In short.. No.
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I find the laws ridiculous but you know what's more ridiculous? The US government trying to screw with the affairs of other countries. I mean it is one thing to come up with some stupid laws for your own country but when your laws affect other countries as well, now that's absolutely ridiculous.
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I agree. No one should protest about anything, because any sort of protest is an act of terrorism and that's bad.
.. and SOPA/PIPA is not a weapon that corporations like SONY could and would use against competitors, that would be a bad thing and the American government would stop that from happening.
Wouldn't it? Please someone tell me it would protect us from bad laws, please.
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Wherever you go, there you are.
At the same time we DO have to blame parasites engaged in Piracy for the problem also. Simply waving about "free speech", and "infringing on Freedom", is childish, the sheeple response Piracy advocates want of the situation.
There are going to be lots of problems over this coming up I predict, not the least of which the OP pointed out. At the same time we DO need to NOT have our vision side-lined by those who most wish it, those that profit from inappropriate pirating of other people's intellectual efforts.
My guess is most of you are fairly intelligent, so lets check some human nature reflex points: Prior to the Internet engaging in Piracy involved a whole lot more effort given the physical MEDIA in operation by which that would occur. Hard copy. Publishing/publishers. You had copyright infringement around, but it's prevalence was regulated not only by laws protecting the owners of intellectual works, but by the simple fact it was physically harder to accomplish.
Now? Anyone can get ahold of about anything almost intantly and be off with it in a matter of seconds. The World if FILLED with people who want recognition, a buck, whatever, and the floodgates have been opened with the "freedom", and instant data-power of the Internet Pipleline. No matter how you want to debate the topic, or think "freedom" is completely open ended with no constraints or boundaries (it's not, never has been, ever, and can never be it's impossible), the fact remains Piracy entered a Golden Age when the gates to the Internet opened up.
A solid solution does need to be found. But getting to that solution is going to take true, mature, objective HARD CORE thought, not reactionism where people curl all up taking sides out of bias and rabid "moral position".
I've had articles pirated, copied in total, to other people's blogs and sites, zero reference or link back to my article site where I should be getting the hit . . . because of the open ended nature of the Internet, search tools, cut/paste, and no real way to protect oneself as an actual creative souls (as opposed to a lazy Thief) except in after-the-fact, large scale effort on my part, as the OP pointed out in her post. While the Thieves have for the most part ez-street.
I've written some articles, been published in a couple of magazines. Write stories some, have some that have, surprisingly to me, filled out to where I actually believe they could be an animation or even movie someday . . . if I had the contacts and can get the storyboards filled out properly.
Wherever you go, there you are.
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This legislation is rediculous. So glad the massive public outrage has made them shelve it for now.
If it passed then the biggest offender would be google. They link to just about everything on the internet, including LOTS of pirated stuff. As they are linking to it, even though they are not hosting it they would be liable. Thats how rediculous this is.
It was never going to be effective. Just look at The Pirate Bay. They had a massive raid and got all of their servers stolen etc etc, but were back up and running at full capacity within 4 days. I have heard rumours that megaupload is back as well under a different IP.
Its all about massive corporations like viacom, sony, disney etc wanting to control the internet because they didnt react fast enough and provide a viable way for people to access their content digitally when the technology was emerging. They went down the route of Blu-Ray/HD-DVD when the rest of the world was thinking digitally. Now the technology to pirate content is far more developed and widespread than legal sources and they are panicking because they are going to become extinct.
Its not the artists that support SOPA, in general (except metallica et al) the artists want their work to be seen by as many people as possible. Popular recording artists are already producing music themselves to a professional standard and releasing it online for free, or very little(radiohead etc) completely bypassing the recording companies. Artists dont make much money from record sales anyway. They get their big advance for signing and make money from concerts, but the record company takes 90% of the money from sales...
It also shows just how corrupt the US political system is. In the UK its illegal for a company/person to give money to an elected official to support their cause because it leads to politicians not doing the will of those who elected them, instead doing the will of those who bribe them. Sadly the US political system is based around these bribes. Why do you think people/companies give money to Presidential campaigns? The whole system needs to be changed to stop travesties like SOPA happening.
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Logic be damned!
The bills, as they were, like 99% of what happens in US politics, were lobbyist written garbage.
Of course the mega-corps would love to control everything, if they were allowed to, but they still have to answer to the people in same fashion and the protests were loud enough to shelve this terrible legislation.
That is something I don't think anyone here disagrees with.
But that doesn't take away from the illegality of copyright infringement nor does it somehow make it "OK" to steal.
As I understand it, megaupload was shut down because they were found to be actively paying people in some cases to seed copyrighted material for illegal download/sharing. Pretty clear night and day violation of law, and in my view morally wrong as well.
Yes, the mega-corps are fighting to save a dying business model, and they need to get with the times and realize that things have changed.
Look at why Netflix is so popular and why Blockbuster is shut down. Hell, even Kodak the once-great staple of film is now bankrupt.
Instead of innovating and offering services people are willing to pay for, they are fighting to the last breath to save their crumbling media models.
That, also, is something I don't think anyone here disagrees with.
The point, however, is that none of this justifies knowingly and willfully downloaded media that you KNOW is copyrighted, and there is no justification for willfully breaking the law.
Anonymous are not heroes, they are criminals and deserve any punishment they receive when they are brought to justice.
Good luck though FBI anti-hackers and such, good luck lol
Voluntary boycott of goods/services, voluntary black outs, etc. are the PROPER, legal way to oppose something like SOPA. Make your voice heard, vote with your wallets because $ is the one language they'll understand most clearly.
Hacking DoJ / FBI websites and such is NOT.
I've probably been lurking for way, way too long.
No i think you are wrong. Anonumus have a very bad habit of taking a non-compromising stand that basically says "it is they way we want it or the button is pushed" and they use fear and threats to bend people to their way. How is this any different from any other terroist group. The fact that they have YET to directly kill anyone is insubstansial to the fact. After all the only reason terrorists kill people is because it is the easiest and quickest way to build a connection between the actions of the groups and fear.
Not saying people should not protest... just saying that there are better ways to do it then to set off the digital version of a bomb at the source of your irritation. Then again... Maybe that is a new way of doing it... Let's go down to the local Tax office and toss a few rocks through the windows... Or pring large posters with all the information about the poeple who work there and paste them all over town.
Or why not simply park huge trucks infron of the doors to the postal offices...
Not an OK strategy in my mind, and still a form of terrorism in my mind.
Did WB have a choice with Batman Arkham Knight... In short.. No.
This have been a good conversation
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Mythic did it right with DAoC. There's no need for a community forum, because you can get all the feedback you need through feedback forms like Mythic had for DAoC. Forums are almost nothing but a place where people whine, complain, and troll. I'm fine without forums. So this addresses your first point. Your second point is moot if the first point is followed.
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Oh I guess those who paint signs and stuff with airbrushes on the walls in the streets illegally are ALSO terrorists then and should all be sent to some secret version of Guantanamo bay to be interrogated, and spied upon then?
SOPA is pretty much online version of Patriot Act - an authoritarian anti-constitutional idea that some mega-corporations or organizations found "useful".
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"Yesterday is history, Tomorrow a mystery, and today is a gift"
These laws will not pass.
Reid a some Ranking GoP already blocked the vote.
Every polition is tip toe-ing around it.
Kinda like privatizing Social Security, any politican who brings it up is shot down.
BUT now big corprate America wants it, all the drug companies, motion pictures etc etc.
If they can BUY the politians, which is done everyday by lobbiest, some form of law may be past in a few years.
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No... Unless they actually state that "Yeah... unless you do as we say, we will repaint your entire building/(insert thing here) with defamation test and images." If they do... Yes.. then you should most likley take them in to at least police custody. If they just do it... Then i just think they should be fined and forced to clean it up... preferably with a toothbursh...
You are so intent on being offended that you fail to see what i am saying... If somone said: Yeah... We are going to hack in to the bank and spread every ones details including personal spending and account information if site X(who is connected to the bank) does not do Y... Would that be OK with you as a customer of that bank.
In my mind.. it is not. And that is the type of "heroism" that Anonymus do....
Did WB have a choice with Batman Arkham Knight... In short.. No.
This have been a good conversation
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SOPA and PIPA may not pass, but do you expect politicians in pursuit of campaign donations to not introduce some bill to placate the Hollywood moguls who have already threatened to stop contributing to those politicianms that don't stay bought?
Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/205491-consumer-group-accuses-hollywood-of-threatening-politicians
So i would expect watered down versions of the bills to be introduced that can be strengthened later. You cant relax, because they wont relax in the pursuit of money.
Video explaining SOPA/PIPA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9h2dF-IsH0I 14 minutes but a good explanation.
F2P/P2P excellent thread.
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And those street painters are doing it to either promote their art or promote their ideals too and quite a lot of those things have ideological meanings and messages.
Or hell, people doing flashmobs are also terrorists.
People go around with the words "hacking", but what the so called anonymous(i refuse to call them that since anonymous is a virtual public unconsciousness and not some sort of organized or real group) did this time IS pretty much virtual equivalent of coming to some government building and painting a message on it. Not even that. Its more like painting some mesasge on A government POSTER(since thats exactly what those websites are).
Sure in some totalitarian state that is punishable in the same vein as terrorism, but in normal democratic society, thats the same as unsanctioned protest and is in no way same as terrorism.
Its funny that its already what, ten years since USA started using that as excuse for everything and some people STILL do it? I guess term "terrorist" is a new bogeyman that has replaced cold war period's "communist" bogeyman.
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pew pew
With the closing of megaupload, and 50 sites that connect to it, I dont see why they dont just pass SOPA/PIPA, I say its worse they can take down individual sites without a second glance from the millions of people that use it every day including me.
Maybee they can make a few hundread thousand more jobs for people that all they do all day is watch the interent for online piracy, thats money well spent, lmao.
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Originally posted by eycel
I remember your previous post about how there should be no copy protection on anything, pirating software is not bad, its not like stealing a car because your making a copy, there is no value in the creative element etc etc.
You probably have terabytes of pirated music, movies and games dumped on a network storage device and cant stand the thought of having to pay for somthing youve probably been stealing most of your life.
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Some MMO's that are up and coming ask for ideas on what the players would like to see in their games in the way of clothes and tattoo's etc.
Of course the easiest way for any user to show what they like is to post a link or picture thats already on the net. SOAPA and PIPA would kill this interaction.
What amazed me all about this is that I was speaking to an American the other day and he had never heard of this SOAPA or PIPA. When I told him about it he asked what dumb country thought of that law..........


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In Painter 11 Essential Training, John Derry, one of the original Painter authors, demonstrates basic and advanced creative techniques that can get beginners up and running. He also shows old hands the new features that can get a creative vision out of the head and onto the canvas. John demonstrates how to establish an easy workflow in Painter by using a Wacom tablet, and he explains how to create, edit, and publish projects. Exercise files accompany the course.
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Well, as we've been going on our tour of color control in Painter, we've now looked at the Mixer palette. Then next area up is the Color Sets palette. I'm going to open that up and you will see what this is, is a group of colors and there are many applications I can think of where you would want to be able to save colors for later retrieval. In fact, again from the traditional side of the tracks, there are a set of colors that you want to be able to get for instant retrieval. Those are colors out of the tube. Okay.
Most people working with paint are very aware of the traditional colors that they'll get either out of a tube of oil paint or acrylics and this palette that you see here is the one that actually comes by default in Painter. But I'm going to show you something that a lot of people probably never realize is actually there. This can be changed, this particular palette, in a very dramatic way. So I'm going to go to the Colors Sets option toggle here. We can look at this menu and you'll see right down here I can turn on something called Display Name.
When I do that, look what happens. We now have the color set that is based on all the naming conventions of traditional tube colors. And just to explore this a little more in depth, I'm going to go ahead and pull this out. Because this is actually a pretty big palette and even though you can look at it and scroll through it, it's little bit easier to see here what's going on. This is literally all of the different colors that you would associate with traditional painting. So if I want to use Scarlet Lake for example with my brush, I can do that and I can go grab Carmine red, or I can get Magenta.
But people who come from the traditional world are going to be very happy to see that oh, I don't have to kind of try to guess what the color is. I can find something like Yellow, Green, or Prussian Green. These colors are already in here and as you can see using the particular brush here, the Artists Oils dry brush. I'm just kind of mixing and playing around with these. So I have got built into Painter a literal entire set of traditional paint color using the traditional naming convention here and they have been matched very accurately to those colors.
So right after that, just by turning on this little Display Name, you'll go from this, which is interesting, but you know what is it? To actually be able to display this with the traditional names on. Now, all Color palettes do not have naming conventions automatically in them. This particular one does and because it's such an important set of naming conventions, I felt it important to show you that. But you can actually have other color sets. This is one that comes with Painter, but there is actually several of them in there and there is a couple of ways to get at them.
You can certainly get at colors from the Options menu here, but another way to get to it is, if we go down to the bottom here. I'll close this up a bit now. You'll see there is a little Library icon. When I click on that, that also gives me the access to various types of management of color sets. So if I want to open the color set, I can say Open Color Set and this whole thing is telling you that if you would make changes to this, you'll lose them. You'll have to go through the process of saving the color set, which I'll show you here in a moment. But I'm just going to ahead and say Load for the time being.
And if you go into Painter-- and then let me back out here on my Macintosh, but on Windows, you again go to the same place. You are basically going to go to the Painter application folder. Okay, so I'm going to Corel Painter 11 and we have a nested folder within there. Support Files and then within there, we have Color Sets. When we finally get there, you'll see that I've got a whole bunch of different color sets that I can select from. Any many of these, they've just been saved and you may never use them, like Colored Pencil Set, which is kind of nice.
I'll open that up and here is a bunch of colors that have been saved based on commercial colors, from colored pencils. Now, this one, as I was saying earlier, here I'll say Display Name. It's empty. It doesn't have it. So you are not going to find that automatically in there. I just want to clarify that with you, the default color set, and in fact now that I've opened this, this opens up another interesting thing. There is nothing that says default color set anywhere in the library, when I go back to Open Color Set. If you want to get to that original color set, we'll look over here.
This Artist Oil Colors, that is that color set that is there by default and it's the one that has the name associated with them. And it will come up by default without those on. That's why it's a little hidden, that this pretty important feature is there. You do have this available. So Color Sets give you just a really great way to access repeatable color. Now, there are some other things that you might want to use this for and to start this off, I'm going to go ahead and go to my Exercise Files here and in Chapter 4, I've got an image that I'm going to open up that's actually a photograph.
And one another things that you can do is you can take any image and it's kind of interesting to seen it happen with a photograph, but it could be another painted image you have. One of the things I can go in here and I can say I want a new color set from image. So I go ahead and say New Color Set from Image. What it just done is just gone through and picked out the major colors within that composition. So now, if I go here, I can start painting with colors that are based on the colors found in that color set. So that's a nice way to actually automatically build a set of colors based on existing imagery and you have got options.
Let's take a look at what we have in the Mixer. This earlier set of colors that I mixed. Well, I can go in here and say I want a New Color Set from the Mixer. When I do that, now I get a set of colors chips that are essentially based on the Mixer itself. So I have different ways that I can actually create these color sets. Yet another way to do it is to go in and I'm going to say I want a New Empty Color Set. Okay, so now, I've got an empty color set. I could for example, either use the Eyedropper to pick colors up off of an image, or I could very precisely go through and say well I want to start with some dark red, for example.
And then I go down here and say Add New Color to the Color Set. I'll click on that. That adds that and then I probably be kind of organized about. I moved that so it's a little lighter. Add that one, I'll get a little lighter. Add that one, I'll go to the full saturated color and that. So I'm just kind of going through from a darker shade and tint of this particular hue and working through it. And I could continue to build it as large as I want. But now I've got these colors stored and I can go ahead and then save this color set.
So I could go in here and call this reds for example, and I'll just go ahead and save it out on the desktop here and I'll go ahead and say Save. So now, if I were to open a color set, perhaps we'll go back to the Artist Oils that we have opened earlier. Now, if I want to get back to that, as long as I know where it is, all I have to do is go back to Open Color Set. We know it's on the Desktop. I click on that and there is my file for the reds. So I have the ability to create a new color set as well.
And finally, I'm going to once again here open up the color set that we started with, because it's a one that really show this rather interesting feature. We're going to go back to the Painter folder, which I'm going to find in my Applications folder on the Macintosh. Corel Painter 11 folder/Support Files/Color Sets and Artist Oils. So we've got all these. Another nice thing you can do here is you can organize how a particular set of colors in a color set are organized. I also have the option of looking at this in different ways.
And if we now go up to the Color Set options menu, I can adjust the Sort Order. So I can go here and say I want to sort these so that it's primary by hue, then lightness or brightness and then finally saturation. So I want to do that. I get them ordered in that particular order. Or I can go in here and look at it so that lightness is primarily how it's organized. And I can go through and also look at it how it is by saturation. So it's actually starting from the least saturated to the most saturated and finally whatever way it was saved, you can bring that up as well.
So you have got different ways in which you view and organize the ways these colors are displayed. The last thing I'll show you here that's useful is you can adjust the Swatch Size. So I can go in here and I can change this. Actually that is at 16X16. But if I change this to say 24X24, well now I get a much larger size of swatch. But I can even go in and customize this further. I can say Customize and now I can adjust this down to whichever size and I can see it in advance. So if I want a lot of colors but I don't want to take up a lot of space and I feel like I can get to that color, I can go ahead and take this down to some very kind of small palette that doesn't take up a lot of space and then work with it in it's minimal size.
So what you can basically do here is manage colors that you want to repeat and you have a number of choices in which to organize it. You can create new color sets. You can retrieve color sets. You've really got a very novel way in which to store colors that you're going to want to use over and over again. And as I've been saying about Painter's color controls, you've really got a lot of different ways, to create and manage and access color. So Color Sets is really kind of the container for large number of colors that you want to store together.
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Tickets for Day 3 of next year's 3rd Investec Ashes Test Match at Edgbaston Stadium have sold out - just nine days after being released on public sale.
The Ashes return to Birmingham between 29 July and 2 August next summer, with Alastair Cook's England team looking to avenge the 2013/14 series defeat in Australia by reclaiming one of the most coveted trophies in world sport.
Gareth Roberts, Commercial Director at Edgbaston, said: "The Ashes is the biggest Test series in the world and next year's match will be the 14th that has been contested at Edgbaston and the first since completing our £32 million redevelopment of the South Stand.
"Whilst Day 3 has already sold out, we're fast approaching capacity for Day 4 and we would encourage fans to secure their seats now to avoid missing out on one of the biggest sporting events of 2015."
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Trott's Ashes walkout was a 'con' says Michael Vaughan
There's new criticism over cricketer Jonathan Trott quitting the Ashes in November, with former captain Michael Vaughan calling it a 'con.'Read the full story ›
England take 1-0 lead in Ashes series after tense Test
England have won the first Ashes Test after a tense match at Trent Bridge, beating Australia by 14 runs.
Alastair Cook's side lead the series 1-0.
Cricket fans arrive at Trent Bridge
England close in on victory in first Ashes Test
England require four more wickets to clinch the first Ashes Test against Australia, who were 137 runs short of their target at the close of day four.
The tourists finished the day on 174-6, chasing a target of 311, after Stuart Broad and Graeme Swann took two wickets each at Trent Bridge.
Australia's hopes of salvaging an unlikely victory rest largely on the young shoulders of first innings hero Ashton Agar, who was promoted to No.8 in the Australian batting order and is at the crease on one not out.
Party atmosphere at Trent Bridge expecting a win
A variety of fancy dresses can be seen at Trent Bridge today, with England fans hoping for a party, if the team can claim a victory on the pitch.
The outfits have made for a celebratory atmosphere, with fans dressed as famous characters, and even brides.
Joe Root takes important wicket just before tea break
England head into the tea break with Australia on 111 for 2 on the fourth day of the first Test at Trent Bridge.
The final ball of the session saw part-time bowler, Joe Root, take the crucial wicket of Australian number 3, Ed Cowan, who was caught at slip by Warwickshire's Jonathan Trott.
Nottinghamshire bowler Stuart Broad claimed the other wicket of the session, trapping Shane Watson LBW for 46.
This morning, Warwickshire batsman Ian Bell reached his century, eventually falling to Mitchell Starc for 109. That helped England to 375 all out - a lead of 311.
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Ashes: first Test hopes rest with Midlands men
Ahead of the fourth day of the first Ashes Test at Trent Bridge, the hopes of England lie with their men from the Midlands.Read the full story ›
Bell and Broad guide England towards strong Ashes lead
Ian Bell and Stuart Broad put on a vital partnership as England's lead over Australia passed 200 in the first Ashes Test at Trent Bridge.
Bell and Broad are currently at the crease building a patient 66-run partnership, putting the hosts on 284-6 in their second innings - a lead of 219.
Bell is England's top scorer in the innings on 71 not out, while Broad is 30 not out.
Lunch update: Trott anchors England innings
Warwickshire batsman Jonathan Trott is unbeaten on 37, as England head into the lunch break on 98/2 at Trent Bridge.
Captain Alastair Cook won the toss and decided to bat first, but he did not last long in the middle himself. He returned to the dressing room after scoring 13.
Trott then joined Joe Root at the crease, with the pair scoring quickly until Root was bowled by Peter Siddle for 30.
That brought Kevin Pieterson in, who was dropped on 1 by Australia wicketkeeper Brad Haddin.
But that was the only real scare, and the pair made it through to lunch, with England in a decent position going into the afternoon session.


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|2 Pint (Fresh Or Cubes)
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|Egg yolks
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Stir in 3 level teaspoons curry powder, add 3 scant tablespoons flour and blend, add 1 teaspoon paprika.
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Remove from the heat.
Film the top with 2 tablespoons cream to prevent a skin from forming.
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Picture: Leonardo DiCaprio on the set of new Sam Mendes movie "Revolutionary Road" Due for release in December 2008 Tribeca, New York City - 02.06.07
THE AVIATOR star LEONARDO DiCAPRIO has helped to launch an international campaign to raise awareness of the billions of people in the world without access to clean water.
The actor has signed a petition calling on US President George W Bush and other government leaders to commit to a legally binding UNITED NATIONS treaty declaring clean water as a basic human right.
Speaking on World Water Day in San Francisco, California, yesterday (22MAR05), he said, "We are here to help raise awareness about what is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity today."
DiCaprio screened a short film he helped produce called WATER PLANET, which highlights the need to conserve the world's limited supply of fresh water and provide greater access to it for more than 1.2 billion people.
The film will be distributed from next month (APR05) on the internet, at film festivals, on television stations and at schools to educate the public about what DiCaprio calls the "growing global water crisis".23/03/2005 21:35


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Man with dementia, schizophrenia reported missing
Chron.com | December 24, 2013 | Updated: December 24, 2013 12:21am
Jose Martinez vanished on Monday afternoon. (HPD)
A 61-year-old man police say suffers from dementia and schizophrenia has been reported missing.
According to an alert issued by Houston police, Jose Martinez, of Missouri City, was last seen on Monday at 4:30 p.m. in the 10100 block of Bissonnet. He was wearing blue jeans and a black coat with the company name "Securitas" on the back.
Martinez is described as Hispanic, 5 feet 5 inches tall, and weighing 140-150 pounds. He has brown eyes and black/gray hair. He also goes by the nickname "Papi."
If you have any information on his whereabouts, call HPD at 713-731-5223.


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How to boost Nigeria's agro exports, by experts
The Federal Government has been urged to conduct quality inspections on all shipments of agro exports to prevent possible rejection at the European Union market.
Speaking with The Nation, the Country Representative, Research Into Use (RIU), a programme sponsored by the United Kingdom Department of International Development, Dr Utang Ugbe, said importers rejection of agro produce from Nigeria is supported by genuine quality problems.
He said the government has to work with farmers on quality control procedures, adding that the poor quality of agric commodities such as cassava, cocoa and cashew has limited the profitability of farmers in the export market.
He said export of these products to the EU has grown rapidly in recent years but that Nigeria has lost a sizeable share of the market because inspectors found such exports below standards.
He urged the government to improve the quality control process from the farms to the sea ports.
He said inspection of agro exports should be made before they are shipped out of the country to ensure their quality conform to established standards, adding that farmers face delay in getting their produce inspected at the seaports.
He observed that some farmers have lost a lot of money due to agro produce deteriorating in moisture level after being kept for a long time at the ports.
In the context of EU policy for quality export, he said Nigerian exporters must make moves to promote greater value-added processing in agricultural product chains prior to export.
He said exporters should provide support services to the farmers such as helping to manage their plantations, fight against fruit flies, and implement certification or traceability programs on the plantation.
He called for continous investment on quality and product differentiation, adding that the market for agric commodities is a growing one. To develop a vibrant and competitive agric-export sector, he said the nation needs to encourage the development of related industries and services (certification services, packaging material, input, and laboratory capacity).
He added that the key to improving the competitiveness of the value chain is reducing the cost of inputs, technology and services, and also providing an important source of revenue and employment in the country.
The Project Manager, Cassava Adding Value for Africa (C:AVA), University of Greenwich, United Kingdom, Dr Kola Adebayo, said local agricultural commodity companies are facing a difficult environment with profit margins dropping sharply.
He said the companies are facing rising business costs. Price volatility for produce, he stated is making it difficult for them to keep up with the costs.
Adebayo said farmers have experienced increasing cost over the last few years, getting inputs, farming and getting the produce through the supply chain until it gets through to customers.
He said input costs such as land and labour have increased.
He said good logistics arrangement should be put in place to allow agro produce to be exported in large volumes and in good conditions.
He said emphasis should be on increasing input storage, improving handling facilities and building new food centres.
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Prop. 39 seeks to change tax formula to benefit in-state firms
Drive favors taxes solely of sales in state
When Indiana shifted its corporate tax formula to what is known as a "single sales factor," meaning companies pay state income taxes based on their percentage of profits from sales in the state, General Motors supported the change.
GM has two metal fabricating plants and a headlamp assembly factory in Indiana, and the company was a member of the Indiana Single Sales Coalition that lobbied for the law that took effect in 2006.
A decade earlier, the company had been a member of the Good Jobs Coalition in its home state of Michigan, where it endorsed the single sales factor as a measure that would "send a powerful message to job providers to locate and expand in Michigan."
But when the California Legislature this year sought to convert this state's corporate tax formula to the same single-sales arrangement used in Indiana, Michigan and 11 other states, GM was one of a handful of companies to form a group called Californians Against Higher Taxes to fight the proposal.
GM has no factories in California.
And that, argue supporters of Proposition 39 on the Nov. 6 ballot, illustrates why California should make the change. The single-sales factor, they say, would benefit companies that have factories and workers in California by putting them on a level playing field with out-of-state competitors that like the system just fine as it is.
The current system, adopted as part of a hard-fought budget deal when the state was facing fiscal Armageddon in February 2009, gives companies an option. They can either pay taxes based on the percentage of their sales in California, or they can used a weighted formula that also factors in how much property and how many employees they have in the state.
The latter option allows companies that have only a small percentage of their operations based in California to pay lower state taxes than do competitors that employ thousands of California workers.
Proposition 39 would take away that option, and require all companies to pay taxes based solely on the percentage of their sales in California. By making that change, it would increase corporate tax revenue by an estimated $1 billion a year as a result of higher taxes that would be paid by large corporations with mostly out-of-state operations.
"The current model provides an unlevel playing field for California businesses in comparison to their competitors outside of California," said Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles. "There is no incentive for exporters of goods to California to create jobs or expand in California. And if you are a California company, if you want to expand your payroll you're de-incentivized to create jobs in California."
Opponents of Proposition 39 are led by the California Manufacturers and Technology Association, a trade group that lobbies for the interests of the manufacturing and technology industries.
In a legislative hearing examining Proposition 39 last month, CMTA lobbyist Dorothy Rothrock said proponents are "ignoring the significant contributions of out-of-state companies in California that would pay higher taxes simply because they have significant sales in California."
She noted companies that make consumer products might be based elsewhere but often have operations in California with thousands of employees. She said one such company, which she didn't name, would have a 60 percent higher tax liability if Proposition 39 passes.
"Proposition 39 will make things worse by raising taxes on job creators," Rothrock testified.
For its first five years, Proposition 39 would dedicate half the increased revenue generated by the change to a Clean Energy Job Creation Fund, which would be used to support energy efficiency retrofits and alternative energy projects in public schools, universities and other public buildings.
That money, de Leon notes, would be certain to create jobs in California because all the funded projects would be within the state.
After those five years, all additional corporate tax revenue would go to the state's General Fund, the main source of revenue used to finance general state operations — principally, schools, health and human services, prisons, and public universities and colleges.
Supporters of Proposition 39 have raised about $22 million, nearly all of it in personal contributions from Thomas Steyer, a billionaire San Francisco investor.
No campaign committee has yet been formed to support an opposition campaign. And supporters have staged an aggressive campaign designed to discourage big businesses from funding anti-Proposition 39 efforts.
The group has called public attention to the role of GM, International Paper and Kimberly Clark in lobbying against the single-sales proposal when it was before the Legislature this year. It had also singled out a fourth company, Chrysler, until the automaker pledged this month that it would not actively oppose Proposition 39.
In late August, initiative supporters commissioned Survey USA to conduct a poll in which voters were told about the role of those companies in opposing the California proposal after they had supported similar proposals in other states, and then asked how that affected their perceptions of those companies.
In each case, the favorability rating of those companies dropped from positive to negative.
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'American Idol' Exit Interview: Chikezie
One person who isn't disappointed? Chikezie. Well, he may be disappointed. But he isn't surprised.
"I knew I'd be in the Bottom Three and I knew I was going home and that was OK with me," says Chikezie, talking to the press the day after his booting.
Indeed, Chikezie was the first Idol singer sent to the Bottom Three on Wednesday's show and his reaction was no more than an understanding nod. Chikezie had almost the exact same reaction the night before when the judges criticized his rendition of "If Only For One Night." In fact, he'd told the camera beforehand that he knew the judges had recommended he not sing ballads, but he preferred to go his own way.
"It's kind of like running on a diving board," Chikezie says. "You know that the diving board is eventually going to end, so you run even faster. You know? That's the way I looked at it. The judges, I knew that at least Simon would not like it, so it took a lot of the pressure off, because then I didn't have that to worry about. Now I'm just performing for the sake of performing, which is what I love to do."
He adds, "If I'd gotten another chance to do it, I'd do it the exact same way, because that's the only way I could have gone home happy, is by following my heart, because if I'd done something that wasn't me and then I'd gone home, I would have been so upset that I didn't follow my heart."
It's been a multi-year journey for Chikezie, who had auditioned before on several occasions, making it to the final cuts of Hollywood Week last season.
"Going to Hollywood last year and getting all the way to the very end of Hollywood only to get sent home, that was probably what told me 'OK, there's something missing, I know there is. What is it?'" he recalls. "And I just went home and studied, studied, studied. I studied music styles. I studied artists. I would videotape myself performing and I would say, 'What's missing? Why aren't people connecting? Why aren't I connecting?'"
The way Chikezie puts it, all of that studying made it much easier when he made it into the Top 24 this season.
"Not to say that it's the easiest thing in the world -- it's very difficult -- but it was easier than I thought it would be," he clarifies. "I thought I would have to be this person or look this way or act this way to get through, but I was just being myself and I made it and then I kept going and going and going. I'm like 'Oh my goodness, this train is still moving.'"
Other highlights from Chikezie's exit interview:
On his 10-year-plan: Ten years? I would like to see myself getting at least one Grammy, that's for starters. I really want to get started with my career, with my music career, and get to work with that and start making albums and making music that makes me feel good and hopefully makes others feel good. Acting? Who knows? Why not. Why not try everything? I'm the type of person, I like to see what I can do. I like to know what my boundaries are. I'm always testing myself to see what I can accomplish.
On the sort of music he'd like to make: Basically, I love the idea of fusion. I love the idea of bringing together several different styles to make something new, make something fresh, make some people have never heard before. I really respect artists like
On learning his performance style even though he's never attended a concert: I didn't know that it was a skill to be had, you basically just do whatever you feel is right whenever you're on stage. You basically do all of that stuff that you say 'Oh, that would be cool if I could do that' and all of the stuff that you do when you think nobody's watching, just all the crazy stuff, if it comes to mind, why not? Just go for it.


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Maedell Oswalt Hambright
Published: Saturday, June 18, 2005 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, June 17, 2005 at 11:00 p.m.
TUSCALOOSA | Maedell Oswalt Hambright, age 79, of Tuscaloosa, died June 16, 2005 at DCH-Tuscaloosa. Services will be 11 a.m. today at Memory Chapel Funeral Home with Rev. Billy Gray officiating. Burial will follow in Memory Hill Gardens with Memory Chapel Funeral Home, a Dignity Memorial Provider, directing. Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the funeral home.
She was preceded in death by her parents, William Edgar Oswalt and Roberta Rice Oswalt; son, Larry Hambright; sisters, Marie Jarman and Mable Doughty; and brother, Macon Oswalt.
Survivors include her husband, Lawrence Hambright; daughter, Jackie Hambright Hughes; son, Dennis Hambright (Terri); brother, John M. Oswalt; seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Maedell was a loving wife, mother and sister, known to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren as "MaMa Brite." She was always there for everyone. She loved baking cakes. She was a joy in many peoples' lives.
Pallbearers will be Chris Hughes, Chad Hambright, Lance Hambright, Eric Hambright, Taylor Hambright, Richard L. Doughty, Steve Jarman and Rick Jarman.
Honorary pallbearers are Dr. Ross Vaughn, DCH Cancer Center physicians and staff, DCH 6th floor nurses and staff, and Ester Sunday School class.
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