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Everyone wants to get more consistent color. Everyone wants to trust the colors that you see on screen and get better, more accurate output, but to accomplish this we have to delve into the realm of color management. Now Chris Murphy, who co-authored the great book "Real World Color Management", notes that talking about color management in InDesign can quickly become, in his words, explosively complex. And that is so true! In fact, even though I am going to talk quite a bit about color management here in this chapter, if I use words or concepts that are mysterious to you in any way, I encourage you to go view his video title on the Online Training Library, called Color Management Essential Training. He goes much further into this than I can in this title.
Okay. That said, let's dive in and tackle InDesign's Color Settings dialog box, which you can find by going to the Edit menu and choosing Color Settings. The Color Settings dialog box has a lot of very confusing features, but let's take them one at a time. Settings gives you a bunch of presets that Adobe recommends as the settings that you might want to use inside the Color Settings dialog box. If you change this, all it is really doing is it's changing the settings within the dialog box. It's just a bunch of presets. I usually use the General Purpose preset here in InDesign, but I use the Prepress setting in Photoshop and I do not want to get into all the technical reasons why I do that, but in general, I find it more useful for my setup to do prepress in Photoshop.
The only problem there is if you do that, you are going to find that this says Unsynchronized at the top and you know, Adobe makes a big deal about things being synchronized across all the Creative Suite applications. It is really not that necessary once you really learn about what you are doing, but in general, I think it is safe as long as you have General Purpose in InDesign and Photoshop set to Prepress, it is fine. But I am going to leave this set to General Purpose here in InDesign. Oh, I should point out there is an Advanced Mode in this dialog box. If you turn on Advanced Mode, you just get a lot more Options. For example, here is a bunch of other presets, but in general, I just do not bother with that.
The other thing that you get with the Advanced Mode are these Conversion Options. For example, you can choose which Color Management Engine to use. I just leave it set to Adobe. In fact, I think there is no reason to use anything other than that personally. You can change your rendering intent. Maybe once in a blue moon you might want to change that. I don't know. I don't want to get into rendering intent too much here. It is very rare that you would need to change that and you can choose whether to use the Black Point Compensation which again very, very rare that you would need to change that. I personally just leave Advanced Mode off. That seems to work in most cases.
Okay. Let's talk about working spaces. This is important. Every InDesign document has a CMYK and an RGB profile that it uses when it doesn't know what else to use. For example, let's say you define a CMYK color in the Swatches panel. Well, what CMYK are you basing it on? What profile? That's right. The CMYK working space profile defined right here. Here is another example. Let's say you download an image off the web and it doesn't have an embedded profile in it and you import it into InDesign. Well, what RGB profile should InDesign assume it to be? That's right. The RGB working space profile. So these are the Default Settings that InDesign uses when it doesn't know what else to use. It's very rare, in fact, I can't think of any good reason to change the RGB to anything other than SRGB. I don't know. It maybe some very obscure corner case, but generally SRGB is a safe bet there.
Now the CMYK working space you might want to change. It is rare, but you might want to change. For example, let's say you are a magazine and you are going to be outputting to the same printing press, same ink, same paper stock, and your printer has given you a specialized color profile for that output condition. You could choose that here and then all the new documents you create will be targeted to that condition. So that would be a good reason to change the CMYK working space here. Similarly, if you know that you are going to be printing on a sheetfed coated paper all the time, all your documents are going to brochures that are going to printed on sheetfed, you might as well choose that now and InDesign will then just assume that your documents are targeted towards that. For the rest of us, you know, setting this to the regular US Web-Coated Swap, at least here in North America is a good safe bet.
Now, Color Policies. I would say that unless you have a very good reason to, just leave these set to the defaults. That set I will tell you a little bit about each one of these. RGB is set to Preserve Embedded Profiles, which means that if you import an RGB image and it has an embedded profile, then you should honor that. You should tell InDesign you want to use that profile. If you set it to off, it will just ignore the profile and you will get very weird and probably unpleasant results. If you set it convert for working space, you are probably also going to get unpleasant results. I can't think of a good reason to use anything other than Preserve Embedded Profiles right now.
CMYK. Well, let's see. Once again there are some edge cases where there maybe reasons to change this. The current value, the default value of Preserve Numbers (Ignore Linked Profiles) has kind of a cryptic comment there, but what that means is if you import a CMYK image into InDesign and let's say there is 50% cyan in that image, then just go ahead and pass it through as 50% cyan. Do not try and color manage that document. Do not try and change the colors at all. In fact, even if there is an embedded profile in one of those CMYK images, just ignore it. That's what this means. Ignore Linked Profiles, meaning ignore the embedded profiles in your CMYK documents and you know, in general, that sounds little crazy, but in general, it tends to work best.
That's said, If you find yourself in a situation where you know a lot about color management and you are receiving a number of CMYK images from different sources around the world and these images have embedded profiles and you need to respect those profiles for some reason, then maybe change this to Preserve Embedded Profiles. That way the profiles will actually be honored and the CMYK images will be converted at print time or when you make a PDF, but for most of us, leaving this set to Preserve Numbers is a good safe bet and in fact, even if you do import a CMYK image and you do want to honor that, I will tell you later on in this chapter how you can do that even if this is set to Preserve Numbers. So I leave that set to Preserve Numbers and just on a one-by-one basis, choose on my CMYK images whether I want to honor the profiles. I just like this value much more.
Now Profile Mismatches. I am just going to tell you now in InDesign, I leave these off. On the other hand, in Photoshop, I have them turned on. That's one of the big differences between the General Purpose and Prepress. In Prepress, these are all turned on, but in General Purpose, they are turned off and the reason is in Photoshop, I really want to know when I have a document that has a different color setting than I am used to using. That's important to me in Photoshop, but in InDesign it would probably do nothing but confuse you, if you have those turned on. It is not just you. It confuses me too.
It is really quite confusing what's going on there. I want to be really clear here. These Profile Mismatches or Missing Profiles, this has nothing to do with importing images. This only has to do with when you open a document that somebody has sent you or you open an old document or something, if it has a different profile, in other words, if it has different working spaces and different policies than your current Color Settings dialog box, then it would give you a mismatch or if it doesn't have any profile associated with it, then it would give you a missing profile. But that is just InDesign document as a whole and in general, I do not care if it has different settings. It is rare that I care. I typically just wanted to open in InDesign and InDesign will by default honor those settings, so it is not like it is throwing them away, it will honor those settings in that document and everything is just hunky-dory.
So that said, I leave them off. I recommend you do too. I will point our there is also Load and Save button in this dialog box. You could, if you wanted to save all your settings to a CSF file, send them to somebody else and they could import it with a load document, but I have honestly never needed to that, so I just ignore those buttons myself. Now there is one other very important thing to note in this dialog box and that is the settings that you choose here do not affect the current document that is open and it does not affect any other documents you have already made. This is only setting things up for new documents that you create in the future. It is a weird thing, but that's the way it works. Now as for documents you have already made like this one, unfortunately, it is somewhat painful to change the policies on these and that is why you generally want to set them up before you create the document, but you can however change the working spaces of your existing documents relatively easily using the Assign Profiles and Convert to Profile features and that's what I am going to be covering in the next movie.


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|Strategies for Organizing Your Doll Collection
Your doll display may be the most important part of organizing your collection--it certainly is the most visible. Your doll display can set the tone for an entire room in your house, and its the "face" of your collection that you will most often share with your friends and family
First Things First: Where to Display?
If you have finished Part One of this series, then you have completed a review of your collection, and you have a group of dolls that you have set aside for display. The next thing you have to do is to consider WHERE your collection will be displayed
Some collectors are lucky and have an entire room devoted to displaying their collections (often, an unneeded extra bedroom in their home, or a den). Other collectors have to give considerable thought to this question, especially if they are tight for space in their home or apartment. In a smaller home or apartment, dolls can be displayed in small groupings around the home--perhaps a curio cabinet in the living room or bedroom, a few dolls on a shelf or around a small doll-sized table in a guest room, or even dolls placed on a high shelf in a child's room (very high, if you have curious, young children who might want to play with the dolls....).
When selecting the room(s) in your home for doll display, you need to keep various considerations in mind regarding conservation and preservation of your dolls (see General Principles of Doll Conservation: How To Make Your Treasures Last for detailed guidelines). In general, try to keep your dolls displayed away from direct sunlight, strong artificial light (especially florescent lights and hot lights), and curious pets and children. Dolls should also not be displayed in areas with extreme temperatures--TRY to display your dolls in a temperature controlled room--a basement or attic space without heat and air conditioning is probably not a good choice. Also, cigarette smoke can discolor dolls and give them an odor that cannot be removed easily, so if you have a family member who smokes, TRY to display your dolls in a room off-limits for smoking.
And, of course, dust and dirt will make your dolls dingy over time, and make them attractive to insects, which brings us to the consideration of....
Display Shelving, Supply and Options
Once you have selected the rooms for display of your dolls, you need to decide what sort of shelving/furniture you wish to use for display of your dolls. The cheapest option are open shelves on brackets--the type you can purchase at a hardware store or Home Depot. The downside of this type of shelving is that it doesn't protect the dolls--it allows dust and dirt to get to them. Also, the shelves work better for a modern collection than an antique one. However, the shelves (if white) are relatively unobtrusive on white walls, AND they work well for collectors who don't want to be separated from their dolls by glass. These shelves also work very well for boxed modern Barbie dolls.
An antique collector might want to chose antique furniture for display of their dolls--perhaps an antique curio cabinet or bookshelf. Old barrister bookcases work well for small all-bisques or miniatures. Old shop cabinets made from dark woods also work well for antique doll displays. If you DO use an old wood cabinet for display, make sure you line the shelves with muslin or other fabric, since wood has acidic chemicals which can destroy fabrics.
One way to get large amounts of display for your dolls is to buy shop fixtures! The Barbie, Gene and Tyler dolls displayed at left are displayed in a very large and relatively inexpensive white shop fixture cabinet. Compared to new curio cabinets, new shop cabinets are cheaper and larger--and you can configure the height of each shelf to the height of your dolls. Plus, they tend to have sliding glass doors in the FRONT, which lends much easier access to rearranging your dolls than do cases with back or side entry. To find shop fixtures, check for suppliers in your local yellow pages.
Tips For Effective Display
Once you have the room and the shelves, you are ready to display your dolls! There are many ways to display dolls effectively, but here are some ideas to get you started:
- Display dolls by size--Barbies with Barbie-sized dolls, Genes with other 15 1/2" fashion dolls.
- Display dolls by type--bebes with bebes, poupees with poupees, baby dolls with baby dolls.
- Display dolls by color--dolls in all white here, dolls in bright red there (the first three suggestions can greatly help cut down on visual clutter in a room with a large number of dolls displayed).
- Don't crowd your dolls! If you have the space, don't push your dolls all together. This creates a visual mess, and can actually damage your dolls outfits by crushing fibers.
- If you have room, display your dolls in little scenes or tableaus. If you have antique fashion dolls, display them with appropriate antique furniture made for them. If you have Gene dolls, display them engaged in an activity or using their furniture. Antique dolls can be having a tea party--vintage Barbies can be in a Suzy Goose furniture room. Baby dolls in baby carriages and doll-sized high chairs, etc!
- Display a doll time-line--if you have dolls from many eras, display them according to the time of their manufacture.
Now, your dolls are ready for viewing! But..what about the dolls we set aside last week for storage? We'll tackle the issue of how to properly store dolls next week.
Task Two: Displaying
Task Three: Storing Your Dolls
Task Four: Taking an Inventory
And, Don't Miss: Strategies For Organizing Your Dolls: An Overview
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I know that V2^n is on both sides so cancels out, but not sure what to do next.
How to rearrange and get T2 from this equation?
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I know that V2^n is on both sides so cancels out, but not sure what to do next.
Now you need to have a go at factorising T2^n out of the equation to get T2^n on its own.
P1(P2V2T1/T2P1) power n = P2V2 POWER N
I will suggest that you have to take an 1/n to both sides because form this there will no effect on your equation.
after that you will say that at the left side you will be get rid of power n. and your equation will be re-arrange like
P1 Power 1/n (P2V2T1/T2P1)= P2 Power 1/n x V2
1/T2= P2 power 1/n x v2 x p1/p1 Power 1/'n x P2V2T1
t2 = p1power 1/nxp2v2t1 / p2 power 1/n x v2 x p1
if i am wrong then please tell me the rigth one method to re-arrange that equation.
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Dr. Brian J. Winnie is the Director of Choral Activities & Voice at Southwestern College. He teaches courses in undergraduate choral conducting, vocal pedagogy and diction, and choral methods. He is also the Artistic Director and Founder of the Southwestern College Choral Union, conducts the A Cappella Choir, SC Singers, Musical Theatre Ensemble, and is head of the voice department. An active festival conductor and adjudicator, Dr. Winnie has worked with festival choirs throughout the United States in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Washington, Kansas, and Alaska.
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Jodi Bartley is currently a Master's-level graduate student in the Mental Health Counseling program at Plymouth State University. She already holds a Master's degree in Educational Psychology, but hopes to embark upon a new career in counseling after PSU. At the Center for Rural Partnerships, Jodi coordinates major conferences such as the Northern Forest Higher Education Resource Network.
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Anastasia is a history/political science double major, and is working on a project gathering post secondary education resources and any other opportunities for the North Country of NH, but in particular resources available for the displaced mill workers in the region. She is working on this project with Ian Blakeney as well.
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Substitution #3: Replace a high-calorie beverage with a low-calorie beverage
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Rain or shine, the show must go on.
In less than 24 hours, the gates will open for the 2013 Salem Fair.
WDBJ 7 got a sneak peak at some of the newest things the fair has in store this year.
"Man, it's awesome," said Andy Deggeller. "It's awesome."
Deggeller is the general manager for Deggeller Attractions which is the company that runs the fair.
His company just invested $200,000 into the fair's Ferris wheel.
"You're going to notice it as soon as you come in," he said. "It's pretty bright and it's pretty spectacular actually."
Deggeller is excited to show off the new lights in this year's fair.
"It just adds to the overall experience out here, ya know. Everything looks a lot neater. When it's brighter, it's more exciting and people have a better time."
Not only does it add to the experience, but it also cuts down on Deggeller's cost to run the fair.
The new LED lights are 60 percent more efficient than the old incandescent lights he replaced.
"They added a lot of different patterns," he said. "You can look at it for 20 minutes and not see the same thing, too. It's pretty cool."
What's also cool is that Deggeller's team of nearly 200 crew members are already helping to boost business in Salem just in time for opening day and the holiday weekend.
"They have to the restaurants, they have to get groceries and fuel so they're spending money then you add entertainers, you add to that the exhibitors and the independent food vendors, there's about 600 people living here for 2 weeks," said Director of Civic Facilities Carey Harveycutter.
The fair is also welcoming a brand new ride called Vertigo. It was delivered on Tuesday to the Salem Civic Center and it is more the 80 feet tall.
There will also be new food vendors featuring things from frog legs to fried gummy bears.
The gates open on Wednesday at 4 pm.
Fair officials expect to bring in anywhere from $9 to $11 million dollars over the next two weeks.


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Clan WarsEdit This Entity
- 1.0 - Introduction
- 2.0 - Going Into Battle
- 3.0 - Interface
- 4.0 - Understanding RSC's Standards
- 5.0 - Finding a Real Clan
- 6.0 - Tactics of Play
- 7.0 - Free for All
- 8.0 - Frequently Asked Questions
Clan Wars is a mini game available to both free to play and members where your clan has to defeat the other in an all out battle to victory. Work together with your team and you will be able to gain bragging rights.
To win this mini game you will have to utilize and take full use of your team to win. Having a well balanced clan of melee, mage, and ranged players will prove an advantage to you. Clan wars is a safe mini game unless an option is selected to allow loss of items upon death, meaning you can wear your best and most expensive equipment and not worry about losing them on death.
Clan Wars is located in the Gamers' Grotto north of Falador. Enter the cave and head east to find the lobby, along with a bank chest where you can access all your equipment. Clan Wars is available on all worlds, meaning less world-hopping to specific worlds. However, world 17 is where you can find the biggest team action.
|Main Pile
|Your clan's pile which has the most people on it for a faster kill.
|A player who can hold off the other clans main pile for a long period of time. People who last long are often referred to as "tanks".
|Deathdot (DD for short) is to form on one spot (usually by using the 'Walk on' click or using the minimap). This is used at the beginning of the fight in order for a clan to be organized and be on the same pile. When the opposing clan rushes at you, you should aim to have a pile already set out for a fast kill.
|Prayer is used to enhance your tanking. In free to play fights, you'd often use protect from melee and in members fights most likely magic due to barragers. It is essential for you to figure out what style of attack the opposing clan is attacking with and switch prayers accordingly.
|Fall in
|A fall in is a ranked official of a clan telling players to follow him/her. When your clan gets disorganized, doing this will help maintain everyone and choose a new target for a new main pile and of course, a quicker kill. It is also smart to do this when your clan finishes off a pile in order to not get players running off thus being more organized.
|To hug is to get around a wall or rocks in order to shake the main pile off of you and gather more time for you to eat.
|A hybrid changes from melee gear to mage gear (preferably mage gear that has a positive mage attack bonus). The hybrid helps to bind the main pile so he/she does not move. The best hybrid gear to keep in your inventory is Druidic Robes from the Fists of Guthix mini game. An alternative can be a regular wizard robe set that can be bought at places such as Thessalia's Clothing Shop. In pay to play, hybrid is slightly different. They still do change from regular to magic gear but binding is not as useful in pay to play as it is in free to play fights due to more advanced gear. That is why barraging/blitzing is important in members fights as it acts as a bind - but stronger.
|Sniping (attacking) is often used in free to play fights. When a leader calls a fall in, the player attacks the leader in order to frustrate him into calling a bad pile. Often the fall in leader does get frustrated and MAY pile you (remember to hug and pray). If a leader has called a pile and a hybrid is binding, someone would most likely say, "snipe their hybrids" in order to stop binding and help the player tank better.
|To transition is to switch piles quickly from one to another expecting to get a quicker kill or a knock out.
The only requirements to play Clan Wars are to be in a clan chat and to be inside the waiting room area. If you personally wish to do more for your clan, and you have the Captain rank or higher in the clan's chat, then you can declare on other clans yourself, and lead your team to war! Before the fight begins, there is a wall in the middle of the battlefield separating the two teams. The upper right hand corner of your screen will tell you how long until the war begins (on the left in Runescape High Detail. Note: Playing on Runescape High Detail with all the features MAY lag). When this timer reaches 0 seconds, the wall will drop into the floor and you will be able to attack your opponents.
Also in the upper left hand corner you can find: the name of your clan and the amount of players left on the battlefield for your clan. Under your clan information is your opponents clan information. Theirs will always be listed as "Opposing clan" regardless of their name.
Below are the interface for setting up a clan was fight between clans. After challenging another player, an interface pops up with many options.
First Team to... - Knock-out(No run-ins) / 25 / 50 / 100 / 200 / 400 / 750 / 1000 / 2500 / 5000 / 10000 / Most kill at end
In knock-out mode, the arena is closed once the battle begins, and no-one may enter or re-enter the fight. The last surviving clan wins.
Stragglers - Kill 'em all / Ignore 5
Time limit - 0:05 / 0:10 / 0:30 / 1:00 / 1:30 / 2:00 / 2:30 / 3:00 / 4:00 / 5:00 / 6:00 / 8:00 / No limit
On death you keep your items (Yes/No)
Combat Rules - Here you can choose what styles of combat you wish to use. You can choose from allowing melee, magic, range, prayer, summoning, use of food, or the use potions.
Clan Wars Classic - A varied landscape littered with lava pits, crumbled walls and dead trees.
Plateau - A barren plateau rising from a sea of lava. Very few obstacles.
Forsaken quarry - An abandoned mine featuring low obstacles such as rocks and puddles.
Blasted forest - A dead forest featuring high obstacles such as trees.
Turrets - Small turrets are scattered around this battlefield. Good for sniping.
Over time, Runescape Community has gained much popularity in being one of the finest forums around, if not the best. Through Clan Discussion, the most beastly clans have been seen on the battlefield; from the Wilderness all the way to the Clan Wars arena. The difference between clans and teams is that the communication is very much different. A "clan" in World 17 could easily break up after a successful day because they are not stable - players who go to World 17 are most likely looking for some fun but not to return again. For serious clanners, Runescape clans that have evolved out of Runescape Boards (RSB) have much better communication due to having their own forums and creating a family-like clan. In fights, these clans use communication devices over microphones to choose who to pile and to keep order within the clan. In a Clan Discussion topic in Runescape Community, all but one or two clans did not use Teamspeak or Ventrilo. Runescape Community has also shown their outstanding ability in the past as well - with the MSSSW wars whereas almost every time RSC has won. In the recent Fight Pits event, RSB Vs. RSC, a ~1000 man event, RSC won with less than 300 because of its superiority in communication.
Now that you have learned the difference between clans and teams - you will be wondering where your place is. Are you tired of those fights with the minimal ten player clans? What you can do is come stop by Zybez's Great Hall subforum. There are many clans to choose from and the Looking for a Clan subforum is active daily for players in need of more clan members, just like you!
The above is a picture of a melee player. It is important to bring some sort of magic negating armour such as Karils (an alternative can be Black D' Hide). In the place of the Backpack, you can bring a Fire Cape and the Skill Cape is somewhat helpful since it has the same bonuses as a Obsidian Cape.
Instead of simply eating shark-shark, you could use a Saradomin brew with a combination of a shark. Eating two sharks in a row will give you food lag whereas you can't eat quick, but the shark and the brews are stackable and this is the fastest way for people to tank when being piled (this method goes for all types of combat styles). While you eat one Shark for 200 life points, you could eat a Saradomin Brew with a Shark for 360 life points.
When using a Dragon spear, the special can help tremendously by stunning your target for 5 seconds. Using this, your clan can attack the target and if lots of people use the special, then it's assured your target can't move at ease. This is especially useful when people can't put mage gear on because of the melee players from the opposing team targeting them. This requires 1/4 of your special bar (like a Dragon Dagger) so make sure to not use all of your specials at once.
The above is a picture of a ranged player. The middle pictures shows a cheaper alternative to the right utmost picture which has expensive gear. For expensive gear, you can also have Armadyl gear and with the cheaper gear you can have a Rune Full Helm or Black D' Hide Chaps. The inventory picture's Verac gear can be replaced with Rune if needed. Diamond bolts (e) often come off as expensive so players tend to use Mithril or Adamant Bolts as they are near the pricing of 100 coins each. The Ava Accumulator is practically always essential to rangers as it saves bolts/arrows.
The above is a picture of magic gear that is advanced. The very left picture shows the inventory and the Karils' leathertop/Verac's platekirt is optional, but useful if the opposing clan uses melee. The reason for a Karils' leathertop is because there are lots of blitz/barragers and this proves to be a very good hybrid setup. The Purple sweets in the right, bottom hand corner are useful because they can restore 10-40 life points, but more importantly 10% run energy. Tanks in members fights are often hard to catch up to with melee and if there are no mage players around, this provides to be useful as they're stackable. The super restore potions are there for you to restore prayer or if you drink the Saradomin Brew's (this makes all your stats go down, but heals life points). Remember to bring runes accordingly to what spell you wish to use (the current setup is for ice barrage). The right picture shows a very advanced setup for mage players while the middle shows a cheaper alternative.
The game play in Clan Wars is rather simple: attack the enemy's clan until there are no more of them left. That being said, there are not that many tricks/tactics of playing it, but if done correctly, they can prove to achieve victory quite easily. Once again, the term clans and teams come into effect. In clans, officials lay out specific rules but in teams, it's almost impossible to set out rules. Here are some tactics that will keep you in line no matter what the terms come to.
Defending is easier than attacking, deathdot once again, is what is used by most clans. When a clan comes nearby and gets a click on their target, your clan must do so the same so when rushed - you too can have a main pile. It's important not to send out snipers in the beginning of the fight but when you don't need binders so that the Opposing Clan's hybrids do not bind - yours do.
In the north end of the clan wars arena, there are two additional portals that directs you to the new Free for All Arena. The different colours differentiate between safe and unsafe. If you go into the red portal, you will lose all your items upon death. If you goto the white portal, you will lose nothing when dying. If another player kills you in the dangerous portal, they will receive your lost items as loot.
The Free for all arena is a multi combat area. This means you may be piled by 50 different players and die very quickly. Many clans goto this place to fight so watch out for them if you are there fighting. Oftentimes, they fight towards the northern section while nonclanned people remain close to the exit.
A: If you have activated the Items dropped on death option your gravestone will not appear so you will lose your items.
A: Yes, simply click the portal and enter your friend's name or a name of that person's clan. They must be inside the portal to watch.
A: Yes, all players capable can summon familiars and use them to fight within the mini game.


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YES, WE'RE OPEN... for now!
YES, both Comix Connection locations will open at the normal 10AM time... but we're not certain we'll stay open all day. Just in case you live at the bottom of a mineshaft, there's a hurricane improbably named "SANDY" stomping around the East Coast who is dumping rain all over us and will continue to be a nuisance for at least a day or two. Winds and rain may increase to ridiculous levels, thus causing us to possibly close early. If you're coming in today (and why not?... comic books are entertainment that requires no electricity to enjoy) you may want to call ahead to be certain we're still open, especially if conditions worsen. See you soon?
(I still can't believe FEMA doesn't recommend stocking up on comic books at times like this. In addition to their entertainment value, comic books are also great tinder for starting fires and can also be used as toilet paper. You probably could use them to staunch bleeding from wounds suffered during the Looting Phase too! Win/win!)
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Rum Spiked Quatro (4) Leches (Milk) Cake
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Author Notes: This recipe is inspired from the Dulce De Leche Cake in saveur.com which itself is inspired from the well known Latin American Tres Leches Cake. It is a wonderful sponge cake baked in a 9x13 pyrex that I then soak with a combination of evaporated milk, condensed milk, and heavy cream, all spiked with some rum, and topped with a 4th type of milk (Dulce de Leche). I sometimes must resist hard not to drink it all by itself. Hey, I can't help myself. I am from the Caribbean so I love anything with rum in it. I then top the cake with a store-bought dulce de leche. I have decreased the amount of cake batter as in the original recipe so that it absorbs better the liquids, and I have also cut down the amount of condensed milk (from a ful can to 1/4 of a can) in order to reduce the sweetness. As you bite into the cake, you will feel you are in heaven and all your worries are gone. D) If you like dulce de leche icecream, or anything that has caramel in it, you will love this dessert. You can also make it into any type of holiday confection. For example, for Easter, as in the picture, you can put in the middle of the cake a small chocolate egg (with wrapping) as decoration. For Christmas, you can put a few marashino or candied cherries and mint leaves in the middle… —Regine
Serves 12
- 2/3 cup 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- 4 tablespoons rum, divided
- 1/8 teaspoon Five Spice powder (see notes)
- 1/4 teaspoon grated lime zest
- 1 1/2 cans (each can is usually 12 oz) of evaporated milk
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
- 1 16 oz jar dulce de leche (see notes)
- 1 1/3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 1/3 teaspoons baking powder
- 4 eggs separated, room temperature
- 1/3 cup whole milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/4 of a 14 oz can of evaporated milk
- Heat the oven to 350°. Spray a 9" × 13" baking pan pyrex (I prefer the latter).
- Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt into a bowl and set aside. In a separate container, mix milk with 1 tbsp rum, vanilla, and zest. To measure the 1/3 tsp portion of the baking powder, just eyeball it using a teaspoon. Put the egg whites into a large bowl and beat with electric mixer on medium speed until soft peaks form. Note soft peaks mean that when you lift the beater, tips that curl over are formed. While the mixer is still running, gradually add the sugar and continue beating again to soft peaks. Add the egg yolks one at a time, beating well after each addition. Alternately add the reserved flour mixture and the milk mixture in 3 parts, beating until smooth after each addition.
- Pour batter into reserved baking pan and bake until golden brown, about 30 minutes. Set the cake aside and let cool slightly for 30 minutes.
- Whisk together the sweetened condensed milk (again eyeball amount to only take 1/4 of what is in the can), evaporated milk, heavy cream, five spice, and the remaining 3 tbsp rum in a bowl. Using a skewer or toothpick, poke the cake with holes all over, penetrating to the bottom of the pan. Pour the milk mixture over the warm cake and set aside to let cool completely.
- Carefully cover the cake with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Spread the dulce de leche across the top of the cake. I like to take a fork and draw lines all over the dulce de leche. Be careful as you spread the dulce de leche as it can get stuck to the top of the cake. My trick is to drop various spoonfuls of the dulce de leche all over the cake and then spread but pressing lightly so that the top of cake (crumbles) does not mix with the dulce de leche.
- NOTES: The Five Spice powder (I usually buy the McCormick brand) is a blend of ground cinnamon, cloves, star anise, pepper, and ginger. It is also wonderful in spice cakes and hot chocolate. For the dulce de leche, I do not recommend the one that comes in a can (similar to the cans used for condensed milk). Instead, buy a more traditional one in an international/Latin American store. The brand Goya among others sells a 15 oz jar of it (it's OK if it is not 16 oz exactly). Dulce de Leche is also known as "cajeta de leche", "milk caramel spread."
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Thai Language, Translation
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New businesses and individuals usually need a verbal translator as well as written translation in order to function well in Thailand. A good service provider with a wide range of rates and services can be found at www.thai-english-translation.com Their website also discusses many elements of the Thai language and issues in translation.
Learning the Thai language is the key to opening the doors to a wide variety of Thailand experiences as well as allaying frustrations, and it's also important to understanding the Thai culture. A good place to learn the Thai language is the Thai Language Hut, run by a good British guy, Mark Shee, whom I know and recommend. It's located near the Phrom Pong skytrain station, down soi 43, colocated with Travel Today Asia. They can also suggest things to do in Thailand!
Learning to speak Thai is well worthwhile, and better sooner than later.
I find it fun, though challenging. Attitude has certainly helped me.
As you learn Thai, you will not only become more functional and less frustrated, but you will also extend your range in the Thailand experience, and also come to appreciate the culture. The extent of your understanding of the Thai culture will be limited by how well you understand the language, as it is the core of the Thai mentality.
Nonetheless, I know many expat managing directors and others who have spent years in Thailand and not learned the language. I, myself, had spent 4 months in Thailand before I started to learn the language, as all the Thais I dealt with could speak good English. Professional Thais can usually understand and can often speak English well.
Whether to learn Thai, and how much, all depends on what kind of existence in Thailand you wish for in your experiences, and how much you are really willing to work to learn the language.
The good news is that the language isn't really very difficult, the most difficult part is the first few months when the hearing part of your brain needs a little experience with this language's various sounds. Also, your brain starts to process the patterns, which are simple for Thai. After you learn a little bit of the language, you start to learn it faster and it becomes fun.
Other websites cover the Thai language very well, and I'd rather not reinvent the wheel (though their teaching/learning style often differs from my own). Instead, I would like to just point out the main features of the Thai language, give some tips about learning the basics, and relate my experiences in learning Thai. After that general guidance, I list some websites and non-web resources to help you.
Thai language is easier to learn than European languages in these ways:
Thai language is more difficult to learn than European languages in these ways:
Most expats learn just basic spoken Thai, not written Thai. However, the alphabet doesn't take long to learn, and it has helped me to see words and hear them better as well as pronounce them more clearly.
Many expat men learn Thai by falling in love with a "long haired dictionary" and lovingly remembering every sound they speak, both from phrase books and when out-and-about together. It's a good way, just copying them, and love certainly helps memory! It's best if you find a pleasant tutor who pronounces words fully. I should admit that this was my first big jump forward in learning Thai, one particular lady with a radio quality voice and gentle, lovely personality.
If it's an office or other high class lady arrangement, then the foreigner will learn a classier dialect. Otherwise, the foreigner may learn a lower status choice of words, phrases and pronounciations, especially if you learn from a bargirl. Like everywhere, your choice of language partially establishes your class and respectability.
Countless times, I have heard foreigners proudly exercising their learned Thai to other Thai people in a professional environment, but using "bargirl Thai" (some bargirls speak well but many do not). Imagine walking into an office on Wall Street and speaking street language from the lower part of town. Imagine a Thai executive coming up to you and saying "I ain't got no phone number for da big guy of Acme. Gimme it." There are also a lot of crude words, phrases and gestures. Further, there is a different accent for various parts of Thailand, and Thais may know where your pronounciation teacher came from.
If you use the Isaan (northeast) dialect, well, did you know that the vast majority of prostitutes come from Isaan, the dryest, most remote and poorest part of Thailand? Most prostitutes also have a 6th grade education or less, from a country school. This is not to judge prostitutes as bad, as I don't think that categorically, but if you want to speak Thai in an office environment and gain the respect of the highest number of people, then it's best to recognize the differences in regional dialects, including the bar microcosms.
Thailand is a class conscious society much moreso than the West, and polite charm rather than assertiveness helps get one ahead. Thai is a politely spoken language in good business, and as there are different ways of saying the same thing in general social conversation, sensitive word choice can make a difference in the course of things. It may be good for you to appreciate the differences. While it's not a majorly significant factor if a foreigner of established position or skills speaks some bar Thai while trying to speak the local dialect, and Thais will generally forgive non-native speakers and take it all in good humor, nonetheless it's at least enjoyable to be sensitive to all elements.
It is always recommended that you learn Thai from a formal school. However, realistically, in this busy and unpredictable world, what businessperson can schedule in regular classes?
I, the Thailand Guru writer, never has attended a Thai class nor hired a professional tutor, but I can speak it fairly well, and can read and write it. Nonetheless, if I could go back and do it all again, then I would attend classes and then hire a professional tutor after I had learned a certain amount.
Instead, the spoken part I learned initially from a Thai lady I fell in love with and who had a good sense of humor, was patient and genuinely helpful, spoke very clearly with full and proper pronounciation, and had a quality voice. From there, I have used special friendly opportunities to improve my Thai.
One way to remember Thai words, especially if it's not convenient to see their spelling, is to picture something in your mind. For example, the word for "mirror" is "krajoke", so you might picture a crack/krack and then think of a broken mirror as bad luck and joke about the superstitious. Krack joke. Krajoke. Likewise, a vehicle like a car or bus is a "rote", so picture a "row" of cars in traffic. Row, rowt / rote.
Funny story: One day with my girlfriend in a mall, she saw a kangaroo with a baby in its pouch which was removable as a separate doll. The word for kangaroo is "jing-joe". I already knew that "true heart" was "jing jai" so I pictured the opposite, a guy named Joe hopping from lady to lady to remember "jing joe". So I joked "jing jai, mai chai jing joe" (true heart, not kangaroo). She laughed and told the story to many people. She circulated among some superstars, and less than a year later a popular Thai song came out which had a line that said "Jing jai mai chai jing joe" which was a hit! So I guess I made the nation laugh.
(I also made up a word "pu-ching" which did not previously exist in the Thai language. People ask what should we call a Thai transvestite, "him"/"pu chai" or "her"/"pu ying", so I just merged them as "pu-ching". However, this deliberate effort hasn't caught on, unlike the flippant joke.)
A few simple notes which don't fit anywhere else:
Passively hearing a foreign language is easier than creatively speaking it. Thus, understanding Thai will be easier than speaking it. The same applies to Thais in hearing/speaking English.
Many Thais are shy about their English.
However, be careful about Thais who don't normally hear English. They will often pretend that they understand, and say "yes", when in fact they don't understand. This is a common problem in Thailand! Tip: Sometimes, you must speak slowly and clearly, and choose your words carefully, avoiding slang and sophisticated words.
Learning to Read Thai
As noted before, most foreigners who can speak Thai cannot read or write Thai at all. If you don't have time for classes, then you might want to follow my rather substandard way of learning to read Thai.
The written part I learned from reading my name written in Thai, Thai street signs, company names, and various other words whereby I knew the sound so I could start to figure out which letter made what sounds. That was supplemented by presenting some questions to Thai friends who explained some of the rules of Thai spelling & pronounciation.
To this day, I can read all geographical signs and many words and sentences, but I still don't know the names of many of the letters of the alphabet! It would be like an Asian knowing how to read/pronounce the word "gift" but not knowing "gee, i, ef, tee". I learned the sound every letter makes a few years before I learned the names, and I still don't know the names of some of the letters.
Based on this, I can get around on transportation systems with no English, fill out basic forms with no English instructions, understand some basic instructions written in Thai, and read a lot of signs. Most enjoyably, I can see the roots/origins of many words. For example, the Thai word for "newspaper" is "nong-sue-pim" which literally means "book typed" (as I had already learned the words for book and typing). "Police" is spelled "tam druit" which means "do inspection" though it's pronounced "tal luit" which sounds like "do blood" (and how I originally remembered the word before seeing it spelled).
Many words are pronounced a little bit differently than they are spelled, but most words are pronounced exactly as spelled.
The absence of space between words is not a big problem after you learn to read some Thai because you start to both recognize words and see the patterns of particular letters which tend to denote the endings and beginnings of words, as well as recognizing words in the stream. However, it's still not as easy as if there were spaces between the words.
(Thai is my fourth language, after Spanish and Russian. The latter a different alphabet, not a problem after a week. But Thai introduced no-spaces and tone challenges.)
I get along well enough for my own purposes, but I recommend that you do better than me, and I am very impressed by those rare expats who can do better than I do -- and relieved to not need to step up in handling communications tasks around us! These guys have almost invariably learned it formally. Therefore, I recommend you take some classes.
When you speak and read Thai well, it can become a burden when you are with expats who don't. It's fine if they enjoy dealing with the challenge and you don't mind just kicking back patiently with your time and let them flounder. I have a difficult time letting others make mistakes without helping them with the solution. However, when you need to get business done, then there's no time to waste on fun and you must help them. Likewise, I need help -- I have professional translators in my office, and I take one to my business meetings so that I don't miss anything.
The most pressing need to learn the written Thai language is just finding your way around. Many signs with geographical names do not have an English, "romanized" (A-Z) version. (If you can't read Thai, then you would be oblivious to this.) Sometimes, they are romanized but there are many different ways to romanize, for example:
Ram Indra = Raminthra
You can go down one expressway and see the romanized name of the same town or exit road spelled differently on different signs as you approach, but of course the Thai name is the exact same on every sign.
Of course, many don't have ANY English, especially when you go well outside of city centers.
There is no single standard set of rules for transliteration (i.e., romanization) of Thai into English, and vice versa, to the best of my knowledge. If there is, then not many people follow them. For example, different books on learning to speak Thai, written by language professionals, use different romanization systems (usually discussed at the beginning of the book). After reading one book, if you pick up another then you may need to learn a considerably different way to learn pronounciation by romanization.
It is better to just learn to read and right the Thai letters, and forget about romanization!! Think in Thai.
The ability to read Thai certainly helps in pronounciation, both correcting major mistakes as well as refining your pronounciation. After seeing how something is written in Thai, I have been able to hear a significantly different sound in Thais speaking the word, and after that I spoke so that I was better understood.
I don't recommend my 100% "osmosis" method of learning Thai, but if you're like me and you just don't have the time to formally learn Thai, then with a positive and funloving attitude you can still do it.
(But you won't learn much under the influence of alcohol. Try a nice tea or coffee instead.)
If you have the time, then I recommend you learn Thai more systematically, and get to know Thai better than I do:
There are several websites that can help you learn to read Thai but first you need to be able to view Thai fonts. We have done everything we can to make this automatic for your browser, by properly coding our web pages, but if you cannot view the Thai fonts automatically then you will need to take one or a few easy steps, which we might be able to guide you thru.
Test: ���� If this doesn't show a sanskrit font, then click here.
To view the Thai font on Thai websites, you need one of two things:
ThailandGuru plans to give more detailed instructions on the above three options ... in the future, and if there's demand. I've also done quick consulting work to configure peoples computers to load the Thai font, either at their place or at my office (in a nice Thai suburban area!).
An English-Thai and Thai-English on-line dictionary called Lexitron is on-line thanks to NECTEC at http://www.links.nectec.or.th/lexit/lexitron.html. However, you need either the Thai font... No sound.
The Audio Resource Center has sound files at http://thaiarc.tu.ac.th/thai/thphrase.htm and a bulletin board at http://thaiarc.tu.ac.th/wwwboard/wwwboard.html ... FAILED!!
There's a helpful introductory website for a Thai language newcomer, 100% romanized (i.e., no Thai script), at http://www.fortunecity.com/oasis/cannes/42/speakthai.html
It's best to stick with one product for learning Thai, because they all romanize Thai and have different ways of spelling Thai words with roman letters.
It is also good to choose a contemporary product, because many Thai people will tell you that many of the reprinted books use a lot of "old" Thai which isn't used in today's society. Also, some products just aren't very considerate and practical. A farang child or language academic learning Thai isn't the same as a businessperson or tourist learning Thai. Get the product best suited for your application.
I've seen & heard several of the multimedia CD products, but not many of the tape products, and the following is mainly just from user inputs and an occasional exposure. I'd rather not mention several products I saw but did not like, and which others did not like, either. (I'd rather not say bad things, but ignore them, sorry.) Anyway, some of the computer multimedia CD and tape products you can get:
Rosetta Stone
The best I have seen is the Rosetta Stone CD. Rosetta Stone makes CDs for many languages, so you must get the Thai one in particular. The software took awhile to figure out, but once you do, it's a nice and effective way to learn.
It has a series of lessons from the most basic to advanced.
For example, the first set of lessons includes photos which you click on, whereby it speaks the word in Thai and shows the spelling in Thai and the word in English. You can speak back into the microphone, and can compare your voice profile with the voice profile of the Thai speaker.
You eventually get into sentences, and on from there.
A friend of mine bought it in the U.S., and it cost over $100, and worth it to him.
Transparent Language
I have not seen this product, but one guy says to try www.transparent.com and follow thru looking for 51 Languages of the World in the CD-ROM learning section. You can get all 51 for $50 or you can get the Thai-English for $20. You can order from:
Transparent Language, Inc.
One report states that Office Max sells the 51 for $30, though it's unlikely every Office Max stocks it.
It will only teach a few hundred words or phrases, but it does it with several options:
It's been called a good value. Thanks to "Jack" (but I don't know who he is, or if he works for them).
The 'Linguaphone' package is available overseas and offers 4 cassettes and 2 workbooks. In London, it's quite expensive at �108.00, and is available at:
Linguaphone Institute Ltd.
I haven't seen this one, but it was recommended.
There are many schools which teach Thai to foreigners. Typical costs are around 300 baht per hour, more or less (about $10/hour in 2008). You can either join a classroom of other foreigners or else get one-on-one instruction.
Some schools even offer an education visa (ED), but I don't know how long immigration will continue to accept these as they have become quite popular with foreigners.
ThailandGuru's Thai Language Tutorials
A good list of Thai language tutorials and other information can be found at www.geos-oceania.com/links/thai-language.htm , the GEOS International Group's "Oceania" division. GEOS offers English Language Colleges in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and South Africa in modern facilities.
The quickest way to learn Thai is one-on-one with a tutor, including out in public practicing it, which is quite fun. The service www.ThaiEnglish.com offers this from time to time, especially on weekends when they are more leisurely.
You can also practice in the bus by reading advertisements, shop signs and street signs.
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Nicolas Sarkozy is taking the lead in trying to resurrect the moribund Middle East peace process.
This week, the French president dispatched his top diplomat, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, to Washington with a string of initiatives aimed and bringing the Israelis and Palestinians back to the table. An offer to host a peace conference in Paris attracted much of the attention. But Mr. Juppe also offered new ideas on how to deal with the thorny issue of Hamas, the militant Palestinian organization deemed a terrorist entity by the U.S., according to French officials.
Last month, Hamas formed a unity government with the secular Fatah party headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. As a result, Israel said it would refuse to participate in any talks with Mr. Abbas as long as he remained aligned with Hamas. The Obama administration said Hamas would have to renounce violence and recognize Israel's right to exist before it could take part in internationally sanctioned negotiations.
Mr. Juppe offered a way around the standoff, according to French officials. Ministers in Mr. Abbas's new government, largely expected to be technocrats rather than political leaders, would have to sign "letters of mission" that attest to their commitment to renounce violence and recognize Israel's right to exist. That way, these officials say, even if Hamas itself doesn't formally take these steps, the new Palestinian government would be seen as in compliance with international demands.
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The State Department has responded coolly to many of Paris's ideas. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday that a peace conference wouldn't be constructive unless the Israelis and Palestinians are both committed to a clear set of negotiation principles – something that doesn't exist at this time. U.S. officials said there also remain concerns that Hamas could use its inclusion in a Palestinian government to gain access to international aid while continuing to pursue a military campaign against the Jewish state.
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