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The CSU's digital marketplace initiative began in 2003 to increase student and faculty success by cutting the costs of educational information, hardware, and software, while serving the technological needs of students, faculty, and staff. However, many of the latest programs currently being considered by the CSU have been brought forward by the CSU Textbook Affordability Task Force, which commenced a series of meetings in January 2007.
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Another CSU project praised in the report was MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching), a web-based resource implemented in 1997. MERLOT is a digital library and interactive collection of 16,000 online digital course materials designed for a variety of learning styles that invites faculty collaboration on teaching and learning materials.
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PRICE - Jeannie Fowler, age 29, passed away on April 16, 2013 in Price.
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North Country Hospital CEO Claudio Fort told Lockridge on Jan. 5 that his position at the hospital was ending.
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Amy Cochran of Enosburg is a retired science teacher and former farmer herself. Her neighbor has a large farm with approximately 1,200 cattle. According to Cochran, the neighbor uses formaldehyde regularly on the farm.
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BARTON, VT - Tuesday, Barton Town voted two new members to its select board in a special election. Two of the three board seats were left empty by resignations, leaving the town without a functioning board since the beginning of December. With the seats filled by the end of Tuesday night, the new board held its first meeting last night.
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A handheld (gasless) piezo igniter came with my canister stove. Considering that a sealed bag of strike-anywhere matches is my backup, would you take the piezo igniter, or a mini bic? Or take the piezo and use a bic as backup, and leave the matches at home? I guess what I'm asking is, how reliable is the piezo, like this here: http://www.amazon.com/MSR-Piezo-Igniter/dp/B00CHI0L1GIf you say leave the piezo at home, I assume you are recommending using a bic to light the canister stove?
Edited by Bolster on 05/10/2014 23:56:55 MDT.
Piezo igniters have a bad reputation for failure at high elevation, so I've never bothered with them. For ignition, I use either a mini bic or else a full size lighter as my primary, and I carry a pack of paper matches wrapped in plastic for a backup. That is because I generally cook with Esbit, and it needs some flame. If you are using a canister stove, then you might be able to ignite it with the spark from an empty lighter, but you better test that.--B.G.--
A separate piezo lighter is no more reliable than an attached one and has the possibility of being dropped or lost. I like a Bic for daily use with matches in a match safe and a firesteel for the most stable backup.
Edited by dwambaugh on 05/10/2014 21:47:18 MDT.
Dale, there are too many people running around with a firesteel in their emergency kit, and they couldn't start a fire with it if their life depended on it (and someday it might!).--B.G.--
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I've used refillable Ronson Piezo lighters for years. They're cheap.Some of them fail quickly, others last for years. If one lasts for a trip, I'll figure it's a good one and make it a spare. Sometimes one will die on a trip so I revert to spare, so I carry a third one just in case.(This may lead you to think they're unreliable junk : )I bought expensive one from REI. Consumed fuel so it ran out quickly. Kind of heavy. It did light in a windstorm though.Never used piezo at altitude, but I never go to altitude.I've used flint and steel lighters, and they get wet, and then they don't work, although it is possible to dry out in pocket. Plus, the flint and steel abrades my thumb, especially when wet.
"Piezo igniters have a bad reputation for failure at high elevation, so I've never bothered with them."LIke all mechanical devices piezo igniters can break and for that reason you should carry a backup of some sort. However based on what I have read the big problem with piezo ignitors is probably related to air fuel mixture. The air fuel mixture of a stove will changes with altitude and that could make it more difficult for the piezo to ignite the fuel. One advantage of of the Kovea / MSR ignitor you can move it to different locations around the burner and you might find a location that works better at altitude verses the location that works best at lower altitudes. Most stoves have the piezo mounted in one location which may not be the ideal location at altitude. I got one last december and I have not yet used itso I cannot say how well it works. However it does appear to be mechanically robust.
For me, the important part of the backup isn't WHAT but WHERE. Namely, somewhere else, not in my cooking set-up. Typically, I've got two mini-Bics. One with my cook kit. The other with repair / first-aid stuff that really gets taken out. I have trouble imagining starting pine needles or wax paper with a piezo.*I use a built-in piezo to light the barbecue at home for the first year. Then it dies (that's 50-100 uses) and then I install a new one or revert to a long-handled butane lighter.*Always remember that your canister makes excellent tinder. By way of example: on a ocean beach in Alaska, I went in first in my sea kayak and got lucky. I made it through 5-foot breakers we didn't see from oceanside. I tried to wave my wife off, but she was already coming in and got dumped on just as she was trying to get out of her boat. I wanted a fire fast for her, so I dug a quick trench for my stove, lit my canister stove, put driftwood over the stove until the driftwood was going nicely, and then reached in and removed the stove. The was a big warming fire real quick that way.
Steven: Yes, thank you, I could not remember the name of the company that makes the MSR igniters: Kovea, that's it. David: My biggest reserve about the gasless piezo lighter is what you mention; a bic is multi-use (wood fire or canister or alcohol) whereas the piezo only works for canister. I noticed an Amazon review that said the gasless piezos don't even ignite an alcohol stove. The MSR/Kovea ignitor and a mini bic weigh the same. The bic is a little more hassle to use to start a canister stove. Both the "store backup separately" and "canister as wood fire starter" are good tips, will remember these, thanks.
Edited by Bolster on 05/10/2014 23:59:35 MDT.
Typically there is not quite enough energy in the spark to ignite the gas coming out of the stove. You can be lucky, but not always. yes, I have tried hard to gett he hand-held Kovea one to work reliably. I failed.I use a Bic.cheersPS: and like David I carry a spare in the emergency kit.
Edited by rcaffin on 05/11/2014 02:55:48 MDT.
I have an old Primus canister stove("Ultralight" @7oz!) that saw occasional use for ~15yrs, and don't recall needing anything but the piezo to light it, though it sometimes takes several tries. Trust is another thing altogether, though. I've never fully trusted it. I'd call it being "pleasantly surprised" that it lights sometimes, when it doesn't work immediately.I also use a Bic, as my newer stove has no built-in lighter, and carry a firesteel as backup that I use with alcohol stoves, too.
And what about a firestarter ? (Relatively) Cheap, light, works all the time (ok, sometimes more then one strike is needed) and can be used for a long time (the minimum I've seen is 3000 strikes).
> And what about a firestarter ? Needs two hands, which makes lighting a stove inside the tent tricky: how much gas leaks out while you fumble with the striker? And getting a spark can be difficult when your hands are shaking with the cold. Otherwise, outside in fine weather, no worries.Cheers
The amount of energy required of a spark to ignite a gas mixture depends critically on the gas/air ratio:Min Bics have the gas/air ratio much better controlled than what comes out of a stove burner head, but even thay can fail at altitude, apparently. I've had no trouble at 2500m (which is not very high).
I've heard of numerous failures of Piezo ignition at altitude. Haven't used one myself - I always use a mini-bic or equivalent. I have never had one fail, but I always carry two, one in the bag with the stove and one in my personal kit bag. I find that in fact I use almost no gas(the spark of the lighter lights the gas from the stove most of the time) so I've been carrying the same two lighters for many years. I always take off the little childproofing device.
I don't know what constitutes "altitude" but I routinely use a piezo igniter above 11,000 feet with few problems. It takes a couple of tries when the canister is nearing the end of its life and the remaining mixer isn't as volatile, but it lights.My backup is both a mini bic and some strike anywhere matches. I also carry a small magnesium striker that I am fairly proficient with but it has been decades since I last had a traditional fire backpacking, but I am confident I can get a fire started if I need to.
Stuart's very helpful graph (at least it is to me) suggests that as air-fuel ratios get richer at elevation, that could be the failing of piezo sparkers. If at first you don't succeed, try with a lower burner setting. And maybe rotate the stove in the wind to shift the fuel/air ratio a bit, perhaps enough to get ignition at higher elevations.If someone wanted a science experiment (Hikin' Jim?) they could mark their needle-valve positions and note what range of stove settings allow for piezo ignition at elevation. Everything gets harder when the oxygen molecules are further apart i.e. everything else needs to be optimal.
I've had two Kovea piezo igniters and neither worked reliably! Mini Bic for me, w/ paper matches in the first aid/repair kit as a back up.
This weekend I did a ski overnighter with my wife. I was culling my crap pile at home prior to the trip and left my emergency fire starter kit (mini Bic and Weber fire Bloks) at home since there was no burnable fuel along the route (snow-covered Alaskan high-country). Potential big mistake. Since we were deep in snow country, the only means of making water was melting snow via my Jetboil. At the end of the first day the piezo sparker started giving me fits after years of reliable service. It was a mechanical thing, having to do with the return spring in the push button igniter. Something so simple, and yet it put in jeopardy the only means to get water on a long and strenuous ski trip. Yeesh! I got the stove going finally, melted a lot of snow, and filled all our containers for the trip home. That was enough to remind me to bring a second ignition source even if there is no fuel along the route to build an emergency 'fire'.
Edited by Philip.AK on 05/12/2014 01:35:26 MDT.
Stuart,Where did you find this graph? I'd like to know what the typical F/A ratio is for generic camp stove, at sea level.Then extrapolate to, say 3,500 meters, and annotate the horizontal axis.The spark energy of a typical piezo is pretty low, and as the oxygen content goes down it seems like the likely hood of ignition would go down as well (as suggested by the ascending portion of the curve beyond 0.10 F/A).Thanks.
Edited by greg23 on 05/12/2014 07:45:55 MDT.
it is interesting to note that many of those who know what they are doing carry two mini bics, and backup matches. hmmm ..not saying that's right or wrong ... but, if listening to the voice of experience ..---so ; on the subject of mini bics, i find that my first try ratio goes up if i pre-prime it upside-down for a moment prior to striking. i think this floods the area with liquid fuel, but at any rate, it works Great.piezo ? had a StormProof turbo lighter for almost an hour one time. what a pos, though it had a remarkably tough case, with a bit of effort, it crushed sweetly in my vise.it was a good investment too, beause for only $32 i still have reliable fire starting.cheers,v.
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So Many Paths
Self-Designed Interdisciplinary Majors Cross Traditional Departmental Lines
By Lynn Conlee and Caroline Ponseti ′15
The poet Robert Frost writes of taking a road less travelled and concludes by speculating that, in his golden years, that road will have made all the difference in life. Perhaps that is how students who pursue self-designed interdisciplinary courses of study will feel when they look back on their years at Rhodes.
To date, the college offers 12 interdisciplinary majors. Each of these combines courses from two—or often more—departments to create an academic path for students that matches their intellectual interests. In addition to these existing interdisciplinary majors, students can self-design a curriculum tailored to their individual goals—but such an effort requires much due diligence and hard work on the student′s part.
"Self-designed interdisciplinary majors are for students who cannot find within our existing majors and minors a course of study that satisfies their intellectual and career interests, ," explains Steve Wirls, associate professor with the Department of Political Science and chair of the Education Program Committee (EPC), which approves self-designed majors. "Rhodes has a wide array of disciplinary majors and a large and growing number of interdisciplinary majors. Self-designed majors are, in a sense, a student′s last resort."
The steps to seeking a self-designed interdisciplinary major ensure that students devote plenty of discussion and planning to their proposal. "It′s a high bar to clear because the student must design a coherent course of study from scratch," says Wirls. "The EPC′s threshold question is, 'Why can′t you accomplish your academic objectives through some combination of existing majors and minors?′ If a student can provide a persuasive answer, then he or she is a candidate for a self-designed majors."
Wirls recommends that students interested in a self-designed interdisciplinary major begin by talking in depth with their advisors. Dy′nelle Todman ′15 is doing just that as she prepares to finalize her academic major. Her decision-making process reflects the difficulty inherent in going outside the existing majors structure to generate a truly original interdisciplinary course of study.
A member of Rhodes′ women′s basketball team, Todman, from Athens, GA, found herself benched in high school due to an ankle injury. "I didn′t know what I was going to do with all of my free time," she explains. "So I started hanging out at the Boys and Girls Club." Her interactions as a basketball coach for the underprivileged youth there cultivated an interest in the nonprofit sector, largely from a business point of view.
She entered Rhodes with a loose plan to major in business, but a course in urban studies inspired her to broaden her academic focus. "I took the class and thought, 'This is something I want to do,′ " she says. The urban tie-in with her business studies drew on separate components of her Boys and Girls Club experience.
Todman′s options, in consultation with her main advisor, Dr. Pam Church, were to merge the business and urban components of her interests into a self-designed major; to double major in Commerce and Business and Urban Studies; or to continue with her current interdisciplinary major and add an Urban Studies minor. She settled for now on continuing with the established Economics/Commerce and Business interdisciplinary major, taking urban studies courses along the way.
"I don′t think she will do a self-designed major," says Church, associate professor with the Commerce and Business Department and director of Rhodes′ graduate program in accounting. "The Economics/Commerce and Business is a demanding interdisciplinary major that requires students to take the senior seminar in both areas."
Still, the lure of adding an urban studies component to her major has Todman seeking input from Dr. Elizabeth Thomas, director of the Urban Studies Program. "Because I′m a sophomore, I haven′t decided what I′m going to do with other classes yet," says Todman. "When I see something I like, I think, 'Hey, does this fit in?′ Then I go to talk to my advisors, Dr. Thomas and Professor Church, and we try to make it work."
Todman′s ideal career involves a position that would allow her to work on the administrative side of a nonprofit while still having ample interactions with children. "I want to work with kids in general, not just underprivileged kids," Todman explains. As she continues with her Economics/Commerce and Business major, she plans to focus on business management, including a course called Management of Organizations in the fall.
Forging a Unique Discipline
The option for self-designed interdisciplinary majors first appeared in the college catalogue for the 2007-2008 academic year. To date, nearly 70 students have graduated with self-designed majors. One student contributing to that total this spring was Bethany Larkin ′13, from Atlanta.
Larkin′s expansive academic focus immersed her in two traditionally divergent research settings: the lab and the community. Her interest in global health disparity gaps inspired her to integrate the fields of sociology and biology to create her own major, which focused on sociocultural impacts on a person′s health.
As a part of a sociology project, Larkin interviewed cardiac patients at Methodist North Hospital to analyze the social determinants of patients who have contracted cardiac conditions. This field research with Dr. Tom McGowan, associate professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology & Sociology, was the driving force behind her decision to pursue a self-designed interdisciplinary major that would allow her to further explore global health problems.
With the help of McGowan and her biology advisor, Dr. Laura Luque de Johnson, assistant professor in the Department of Biology, Larkin developed her own curriculum that encompassed both the study of biological diseases and courses in sociology that explore the prejudice in the human condition that contributes to global health disparities. Her courses ranged from Microbiology and Molecular Immunology in the Biology Department to Social Theory and Demography of Health in the Anthropology & Sociology Department.
In true interdisciplinary spirit, Larkin was able to incorporate courses from other academic arenas to broaden her understanding of world beliefs toward health care. Last fall, she took the class Music and Healing to satisfy her artistic foundation requirement. "I was tying in these aspects of history of music and healers who incorporated sounds and vibrations into their medicinal processes," she says. "That was really cool."
The true culmination of all interdisciplinary majors occurs in a student′s senior capstone project. For hers, Larkin tied in experiences from study abroad, bacteriology research, and internships to create a comprehensive project that looked at how recent discoveries in bacteriology are informing the need for a more holistic and preventive model of health care.
"Within that framework, I′m looking at the implementation of community health workers as a realistic solution for addressing some of the changing needs in health care," she explains. "One of the problems that I see with our current system is that we have this business side of health care that looks at technology and pharmaceuticals and how to develop an economy out of the health-care model. At the same time, you have these idealistic sides of health care, with nonprofit organizations that look at human rights and how to close health disparity gaps. I′m interested in coming up with ways to have both of those sectors work together."
The linchpin of Larkin′s success has been her close ties with both McGowan and Luque de Johnson as she has worked through her four years at Rhodes. "A month never went by," she says, "where I wasn′t sitting in Professor Luque de Johnson′s office for over an hour just bouncing ideas off her and talking about global health problems. I also sat down with Professor McGowan one on one every week to discuss how to improve my senior seminar."
She has been able to translate Rhodes′ learning environment into the way she looks at public health. "Rhodes is very much about integrative education," says Larkin. "That′s what I want to do. I want to start integrating ideas and beliefs to improve health care outcomes."
Accordingly, she is taking the next steps toward developing her career in global health. "Three years down the road, I want to get my master′s degree in public health and business and pursue a final degree in global health," she says.
An Education in Perseverance
When speaking of the EPC′s role in approving self-designed interdisciplinary majors, Wirls is not reluctant to say that many first-time applications are returned for extensive revisions. "It′s not quibbling," he says. "We do the same when seasoned faculty propose a new major. Designing a coherent major is a very serious and complicated task. It′s good for the students, because it requires them to be more deliberate and precise about what they are doing."
That was the experience of David Bergen ′13, also from Atlanta. "I was a math major freshman and sophomore year, and I decided I didn′t want to do that," he says. "I was always interested in creating films. I knew Rhodes didn′t have a program for that. So I talked to some people who were in film studies classes and were thinking of similar things. I met with the head of the film studies program between sophomore and junior year and started making a proposal for my major. I submitted the proposal to the committee. They had some changes that they wanted to make. I had to meet with several different people. Ultimately, the EPC accepted it."
Bergen′s career aim is to teach film on the high school level, so he also tacked an education minor onto his self-designed film studies major. Proposals such as the one Bergen presented to the EPC help keep faculty abreast of student academic interests and can often lead to the creation of new interdisciplinary majors. The development of a curriculum for a film studies major is currently under way, due to the number of students applying for self-designed majors in that discipline.
Classes in art, English, philosophy, and film studies, in addition to directed inquiries with his advisors, formed the heart of Bergen′s academic curriculum. In tandem, Bergen wrote a senior seminar paper for Dr. Rashna Richards, director of Film Studies, one of Rhodes′ interdisciplinary programs, and began making his capstone film through a directed inquiry film production course in the art department with Professor Liz Daggett.
"I made a 20-minute horror film," he says. "I wrote it, directed it, starred in it, scored it. It premiered on campus at a special screening of advanced film projects. I′m going to submit it to the Indie Memphis film festival. It′s like the grand project of my major, all coming together."
Early Interest Charts a Course
While it took Bergen a couple of years to shift his academic program to film, Sarah Bacot ′13 took a class as a first-year student on gender in 19th-century America and quickly saw how an interdisciplinary program combining Gender and Sexuality Studies (GSS)—already interdisciplinary in itself—and History could shape her academic future. The idea for her major came from Dr. Judith Haas, former director of the GSS program.
"The interdisciplinary nature of a GSS major and history major really appealed to me. It meant that I would be able to take a number of different courses with a common thread, in that all related to each other," she explains. "What I really wanted was to find what the overlap would be in all of my other classes: GSS and philosophy, religious studies—all of it."
True to Wirls′ description of how self-designed interdisciplinary curriculums must carefully integrate the best selection of classes appropriate to the major, Bacot′s advisors pored over course offerings. "It wasn′t about 'you need courses from this and courses from this.′ It was about what courses went best with the overall theme and goal of my major."
For Bacot, a native of Diamondhead, MS, that meant history courses such as Islamic History and Civilization; Jews, Christians, Muslims in Medieval Spain; and Black and White Women in the South, along with GSS classes, including Feminist and Queer Theory and Feminist Philosophy. Stirred into the mix were Philosophy of Race and Psychology of Gender and Language "so that I could again have ways to ground and explore gender and sexuality as a field in a number of disciplines and relate that back to the history papers I was writing and be able to incorporate historical context into a number of disciplines," she says.
Not only did her major introduce her to many disciplines, it also presented numerous opportunities outside the classroom, as well. "I was an intern at the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center. Last summer, I worked with Pam Detrie, associate director of the Rhodes Counseling Center, to design a fellowship on campus and worked as an LGBT fellow. That relates directly to what I was doing in terms of Gender and Sexuality Studies," says Bacot. As part of her summer LGBT fellowship, she organized and set up the Queer Resources Room in Briggs. The room offers books and films and a gathering place for LGBT students and their allies.
"I am really appreciative of Rhodes for my community experiences," Bacot says, "because Rhodes′ location and Rhodes′ emphasis on giving students what they want or need academically really made it possible for me to do this in the first place."
Urban Setting Yields Dream Job
In his college search, Robbie Cook ′13 fell in love with the liberal arts approach—but his affinity for urban design added another necessary criterion. "When it came down to it, I realized I really needed to go to a school in a city," says Cook. "I needed to be surrounded by people, by ideas, by energy—not a cornfield."
For Cook, from Fort Worth, Rhodes′ location in the heart of Memphis made it the perfect fit. "Driving around Memphis, I could see myself getting involved with the organizations that make Memphis unique and significant, and I′ve had the ability to do that through my curriculum."
Cook′s studies allowed him to view Memphis from an angle unique to Rhodes. His dual love for international and local politics and their interactions led to a self-designed interdisciplinary major in Urban Studies and International Studies. "I loved studying the way large countries interact with each other, like the way the United States interacts with nation-states like France," Cook explains. "At the same time, I didn′t want to lose community and grass roots aspects."
His challenge was to combine these fields to create a comprehensive curriculum. Cook dubs his study abroad experience the linchpin that made his major work. During Semester at Sea, he sailed to nine countries around the Mediterranean and studied architecture, art, and religion. "It bridged the gap between theoretical international studies from Memphis with real-world, practical applications of what I was learning in urban studies," Cook explains. "I decided it would be more interesting to take the large-scale analytical aspects of international relations and combine them with the local and federal level of urban studies to create this comprehensive lens to look at urban social problems to design space and see how people interact in that space."
From International Politics Since 1945 to Green Urban Design in the Mediterranean, a course he took when he was abroad, Cook experienced a truly interdisciplinary major. Though courses from the Department of International Studies and the Urban Studies Program formed the core of his curriculum, his major incorporated nine departments, including Political Science, Economics, and History.
With the guidance of Urban Studies′ Dr. Thomas and Dr. Stephen Ceccoli of the Department of International Studies, Cook created a solid foundation for his pursuit of a career in international real estate development and city planning. "I don′t have a specific concentration. But to be able to attack it from nine different ways—it was a lot of fun."
"Cook has taken advantage of opportunities—and in some cases, created new opportunities—to extend his learning beyond the classroom," says Dr. Thomas. Cook participated in the evaluation of HOPE VI, a federal public housing program, as a member of Professor Heather Jamerson′s research team. The team assessed the redevelopment of the Cleaborn Homes public housing area in Memphis. In addition to conducting data collection and analysis, Cook worked with a variety of stakeholders, including professional planners, city officials, and public housing residents. As a result of his contributions to the evaluation project, Cook was offered an internship position in the planning department of the Memphis-based architecture firm Looney Ricks Kiss.
All of his hard work at Rhodes has paid off: "I got my dream job. May 15th, two days after graduation, I went to work for a real estate developer in Fort Worth. I am a project manager for a build that′s practically in my backyard. Since high school, I′ve wanted to get in on this project. Now I get the chance to run the whole thing. I′m the happiest person in the world."


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A new version of the Calibre eBook reader, editor, and library management software, has been released and features even more options to edit books.
Calibre is mostly used as an eBook converter and reader, but it can do a lot of other things as well. One of the latest features added to the application is the ability to edit books, which is something that very few other apps can do.
As you can imagine, editing books is actually a very complete operation and the Calibre dev has already made numerous fixes and changes to this feature. Today's update is mostly about book editing, but there are also a few other changes as well.
According to the changelog, a new tool that can be used to easily add a cover to the book has been implemented and it automatically generates the HTML wrapper and takes care of marking the covers files as covers in the OPF. This is very helpful, especially for people with large libraries with books with no covers.
Also, the performance of inline spell checking has been improved and that is noticeable when editing large HTML files (over 100KB in size), the syntax highlighting feature now runs in the background, reducing user interface latency when editing large files, a new function (group_re) has been added to use regular expressions with groups, a check for HTML files with non UTF-8 encoding declarations has been implemented, and an option to make filtering the word list case sensitive has been added.
The developer also made a number of other improvements. For example, the integration with ebook.de broken has been fixed, the dc:rights metadata is now preserved during a conversion, non-BMP unicode characters are no longer causing matching tag highlighting to be slightly off on Linux platforms, and an error that occurred if an HTML file linked to a missing stylesheet has been corrected.
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Hello. I was just wondering ifit is possible to stop windows from being moved or resized once they're put somewhere.
For instance I have my computer/my docs and the bin open up right in the centre of the screen. Sometimes though I accidentally open two windows at the same time, the second always seems to 'tile' over the first so you can see the first, which is all well and good, but once closing the windows and reopening them, the positions of the second 'tiled' window is remembered for the other windows meaning they all open off centre. Its annoying to have to reposition them again.
Can this be changed so they always default to one window position at all times, so they always revert to it even after being moved, or even better some sort of lock to prevent them from being moved/resized at all?
Thanks for any help.
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My Computer > Tools > Options > General tab > 'Open each folder in the same window'.
well you can right click on the task bar on bottom of your screen. The task bar is where that bar is with the start on it.It is the default position of the task bar the bottom of the screen but you can move it.Still though it is called the task bar. Right click the task bar you will see you have a choice of cascade windows , tile windows vertically. tile windows horizontally.
You could USE the tile vertically option. Then all you do is just click on the maximize square on the right corner top of the window and enlarge the window you want to fill the screen .Then the window is centered with just a click. Then you click the maximize button again and the window goes back to its smaller state.And all the open windows under it are seen as they are still open.
Use your mouse pointer to drag any window to the desired size you want it to be .Once you size the window by using your pointer it should stay that size everytime you open it in future.So you could have every window set to open at a different size.Whatever size you fix the window at using your mouse pointer it will remember that size until you change it again using your mouse pointer.
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Just got my first BFN
I knew it was too early to test... according to FF, I'm 9DPO, but I still think they have my O date wrong and I'm really 7 or 8 DPO. Either way, I was expecting yet not expecting a BFP at the same time.. does that even make sense?! What is it about these tests that are so addicting? I know you ladies here will understand :)
I'm still havin symptoms (assuming they aren't all in my head) so I guess I'll test again on Mother's Day, which was originally when I was going to take the first one. Must...resist...urge...to...test...tomorrow...morning...
i have been testing every second day lol. i know they will be negative bc i think its to early for me, i am resisting going to the store tomorrow and buying a bunch lol. i went through the first 8 i had lmao. it takes me a long time to get a positive. good luck, i hope you get that bfp on mothers day :)
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