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On Friday, country music star Willie Nelson was busted for having pot on his tour bus. El Paso Times>>>
Houston is not known for environmentalism, but recently, the capital of the oil industry has started a variety of green initiatives in an effort to keep up with the times and, hopefully, save money. Texas Tribune>>>
Officials from around the country look to Texas for a drug used in lethal injections. USA Today>>>
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The first lip required 12 stitches after the president sustained an injury during a basketball game. NPR>>>
The FBI stopped a Somali-born American citizen from setting off a bomb at a Christmas tree lighting in Portland, Oregon. The Oregonian>>>
Leaked State department documents offer an inside look at American diplomacy: Libyan dictator Mumammar al-Qadhafi uses Botox, Kim Jong-Il is a "flabby old chap" and other pearls of wisdom. NY Times>>>
A majority of troops told the Pentagon this summer they didn't care if gays were allowed to serve openly in the military. AP >>>
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Barbara Bush and Sarah Palin feud. Trail Blazers>>>
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Boost for breakfast clubs in London from L&Q and the Greggs Foundation
Published by Alex Cater for L&Q in Education and also in Health
Less privileged primary schools across London are going to be helped to set up free breakfast clubs for the next school year by a partnership between L&Q housing association and the Greggs Foundation.
Targeting 15 schools most likely to benefit from the additional support, the project will be funded by a grant of £50,000 from the L&Q Foundation.
Talks are underway with primary schools in the boroughs of Newham, Enfield, Hackney, Waltham Forest, Greenwich, Lambeth and Southwark. The first breakfast clubs are expected to open their doors in September.
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, says, "Through the Mayor's Fund for London and our other schools programmes, we're already achieving a great deal to ensure more young Londoners have a good start to the day. This new investment in breakfast clubs by L&Q and Greggs means that from September even more youngsters will be set up for a day of learning at school."
Paul Nehra, L&Q's Community Investment Manager, says, "We want to ensure that all school pupils have an equal platform to achieve and succeed and breakfast clubs are a great way to do that. Fifteen London schools with clear evidence of need will now have the opportunity to provide a free healthy breakfast thanks to the L&Q Foundation and our partner the Greggs Foundation. We look forward to seeing the positive outcomes of the project."
Jackie Crombie, Greggs Foundation Manager, says, "We are delighted to be partnering with L&Q to extend our reach across London. Research has found that pupils who have eaten breakfast are more punctual and have better concentration in class, as well as more energy and enthusiasm. This has led to improvements in overall academic performance and has made a real difference to children's learning."
Breakfast clubs have been strongly supported by Boris Johnson, whose own Mayor's Fund for London is seeking to open 50 additional clubs in the capital by 2016.
Providing a filling breakfast completely free of charge, breakfast clubs ensure that all pupils have access to a healthy morning meal that can help improve concentration and classroom behaviour. Parents are also able to have a safe place to drop off their children before work without expensive child care costs, enabling single parents especially to more easily access employment.
Breakfast clubs can help build relationships, both between pupils—by providing a time for socialising before the start of the school day—and between the school and those parents benefitting from the extra support.
Greggs will provide the bread for the breakfasts, which organisers will be able to pick up each morning from their nearest shop. The clubs will create opportunities for volunteering as they are expected to be run through a combination of parent volunteering and teacher support. The rest of the food for the breakfast clubs will be bought by the club organisers with funding provided by L&Q.
Greggs have been running breakfast clubs since 1999 and have a wealth of experience making connections with schools and delivering an excellent service. There are more than 280 Greggs breakfast clubs currently operating in the UK, providing 15,000 breakfasts every school day.
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Ok. Get the tissues out. This is a weepy.
It takes a lot of guts to get up on that Britain's Got Talent stage and face those judges, especially Simon Cowell.
Medical receptionist Marea Smothson admitted she was terrified at the very thought but was determined to give it a shot and showcase her incredible talent.
As she walked onto the stage, looking extremely shy and humble, Simon could be heard saying: "This is not going to be good."
Simon! When will you learn? Looks can be deceiving, and just like Susan Boyle and Jonathan Antoine before her, Marea proved Mr. Doubtful wrong.
Turning her back on the audience to put on glasses, Marea transformed and launched into her comedy impressions 'Celebrity Weakest Link' routine.
She was brilliant as Anne Robinson, hilarious as Coronation Street stars Deirdre Barlow and Audrey Roberts and scarily similar to former MP and Strictly star Ann Widdecombe, leaving the judges, including Simon, practically speechless.
Alesha Dixon said: "Totally unexpected. You just transformed. I'd love to see you do more, that was very good, well done."
Amadna Holden agreed: "It was just a lovely surprise. I wasn't expecting you to be as good as you were. You had confidence when you were being the other people and standing there now, I can see you're still terribly shy. I think your daughter should be really proud of you, you did very well."
What would David Walliams think of Maria's routine, after all, he is our resident funny man?
He said: "It was brilliantly funny and you've put a lot of work into getting the impressions right. I think you're a born performer cause you're actually shy in yourself and you like being other people and so actually I love the transformation."
It all rested on Simon. Had Marea done enough to change the sceptical judge's mind?
"The problem you've got Marea is you've got a confidence issue. That confidence issue has got to disappear right now as you're really really talented Maria, but for this to work you've got to walk out onto a stage with ten out of ten confidence because the minute an audience feels nervous, it doesn't work. So the question is whether you've got that determination going for you. Do you think you can handle this pressure?"
After a pause, the doting mum replied "yes."
With yeses from David, Alesha and Amanda, Simon said: "I don't normally like this kind of act I've got to tell you. Your body language when you walked on was a little defeatist… but I've got a good feeling about you, so I'm going to say yes."
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EAST PROVIDENCE — A suspect believed to be the man dubbed the "Bearded Bandit" after a series of bank robberies in Rhode Island and Massachusetts has been taken into custody at a Massachusetts motel.
Authorities say the man, and a fake beard, were found at the Motel 6 in Seekonk at about 2 p.m. Wednesday.
The Boston Herald is reporting that Justin L. Worley, 33, is expected to be arraigned today in Taunton District Court on charges including possession of Class B drugs, armed robbery and being a fugitive from justice.
East Providence Police Chief Joseph Tavares tells the Providence Journal that one of his police sergeants spotted two vehicles linked to some of the robberies at the motel. He says several police departments and the FBI were involved in the arrest.
Police say there have been at least eight robberies linked to the "Bearded Bandit" since February, the last occurring Tuesday at a Pawtucket Credit Union branch in East Providence.
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I never can figure out daylight savings/ifyouaskmeagiantwasteof/time. It maketh no sense and I am far too busy/uninterested in changing my clock around and gaining or losing that extra hour of sleep. I think I need to move to Arizona where they don't mess with this junk.
We took the Nub out to trick or treat of course, like all good parents do, and it wasn't until we got home some hours later that it did dawn on me that we just played knock knock pass the swine flu at every house we went to. How this did not occur to me before the fact I am mystified. MY KID IS GOING TO GET SWINE FLU FROM TRICK OR TREATING AND IT'S ALL MY FAULT BECAUSE I MADE HIM GO, he's one year old, he had no choice, victim. Stupid H1N1. Stupid Kalli. Now I have to go chuck all the candy I had carefully planned on stashing away to get me through until Thanksgiving, because for all I know it's teeming with microscopic harbingers of death just waiting for me to peel back that plastic wrapper and dive in to uncertain doom.
Trick or treating=overrated and apparently life threatening. Uggh, kill me now.
Wait, I don't mean that.
Wait, I don't mean that.
Oddly enough, I miss Provo. There is no more beautiful place on earth in the fall than that little slice of loveliness nestled deep in the heart of the Wasatch Front.
I can't believe I just typed that sentence.
Apparently baking late at night on Halloween will make you wax poetic, note to self.
On our way home, after dancing around with the death virus, we cruised down 9th east and just for old time's sake hit up the Crest drive through for a couple of crisp 32 oz DP's, (oh Crest drive through, how I've missed you and your skanky window girls).
Talk to me in 2 weeks and I'll tell you whether or not it was all worth it (i.e. no swine flu).
At least the DP was good and my kid was cute, is cute. Success in my book by any level.


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- CommentAuthoryourwelcome
- CommentTimeSep 12th 2013 edited
Thanks for Zotero!
I'm trying to extract the annotations from PDFs on a GNU/linux 64 machine (Ubuntu 12.10) with Zotero 4.0.12 plugin on firefox. The extraction previously worked as expected (after following instructions to install pdftotext and pdfinfo and creating symbolic links in the Zotero data directory (called pdftotext-Linux-x86_64, and pdfinfo-Linux-x86_64) to their executables (in /usr/bin)).
Recently, however, when I try to extract annotations zotero just hangs with the pop-up message 'extracting annotations'+progress bar. I can cancel the pop-up with ESC, and firefox returns to normal, but the annotations are not being extracted, no matter how long I wait.
Pdfinfo and pdftotext seem to be working: I can call them outside of Zotero, and they certainly do convert pdfs to text (as their name implies-- but I can't find my annotations in their output). However, pdftotext ALWAYS seems to generate the following errors, irrespective of the PDF files that are being worked on "Syntax Error (392865): Bad block header in flate stream". These errors are generated even if an output txt is successfully generated.
I have the latest pdfinfo and pdftotext (0.20.4-0ubuntu1.2) available in the Ubuntu Quantal repository.
Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT: This bug seems to have been resolved on Zotfile 3.1 updated 04/feb/2014 on Zotero 4.0.16. Hurray!
extract annotations is not a Zotero but a Zotfile feature. You should post in the Zotfile thread, though I don't believe the developer is terribly motivated to troubleshoot individual issues with annotations. You can try to see whether the program you use for annotating makes a difference. Annotation extraction doesn't rely on pdftotext, but on pdf.js
- CommentAuthoradamsmith
- CommentTimeSep 12th 2013
I assume Zotero 4.0.13 is a typo, that's not yet been released.
Sorry, all-in-all that was a pretty ill-conceived question: pdftotext is not used for annotation extraction and this is not the appropriate forum.
- CommentAuthoryourwelcome
- CommentTimeSep 12th 2013
I'll try on the Zotfile forum and will report back if there is a solution.
(the Zotfile thread is here on the forum https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/5301/15/zotfile-zotero-plugin-to-rename-move-and-attach-pdfs-send-them-to-ipad-extract-pdf-annotations/
- CommentAuthoradamsmith
- CommentTimeSep 12th 2013
Hello again,
- CommentAuthoryourwelcome
- CommentTimeNov 2nd 2013 edited
I think the problem is with pdf.js, and perhaps due to my firefox java plugin. For example, I can't view annotated PDFs in firefox's pdf.js, at all (non-annotated are fine). Furthermore, I have a warning message my Firefox Add-ons/Plugins page regarding (one of) my Java Plug-ins: I think its deactivated because its out-of-date (despite being the newest available for my platform).
So, this isn't a Zotfile or Zotero problem. Just thought I'd share my findings. Given Java's headache, I may look into alternative ways that I can use pdftotext and other poppler-tools (as used in Mac's Zotfile) to extract annotations.
- CommentAuthoraurimas
- CommentTimeNov 3rd 2013 edited
It may be true that some annotations might not be "extractable", but in order to figure that out, we would need to know how those annotations were produced. What software did you use? Do you have a sample PDF that you could share?
Hi Aurimas,
- CommentAuthoryourwelcome
- CommentTimeNov 3rd 2013 edited
Thank you for the clarification regarding pdf.js and javascript.
The annotations were made in an Andriod Acrobat Reader, synced through Dropbox back to a linux machine. It also doesn't extract on a windows 7 machines, so maybe it is indeed the note-taking program. Any recommended alternatives to Acrobat for highlighting/annotating on Android? I'll try to find one and try again.
Yes, I can provide a sample annotated PDF. See the link below. This was annotated in same way as described above, and the annotations were previously extracted with no major problems, but now I'm unable to do so with it or any annotated pdf.
Thanks a millon for the assistance. Link below
That doesn't open properly in pdf.js for me, either (i.e. the second page - the one with the annotations - doesn't load at all.), so that would seem to be a general problem.
- CommentAuthoradamsmith
- CommentTimeNov 3rd 2013
It's interesting that you say these used to extract fine, because Zotfile ships its own version of pdf.js which hasn't changed for half a year.
Yes, I also cannot view the annotated page in pdf.js. I think this is the key.
- CommentAuthoryourwelcome
- CommentTimeNov 3rd 2013 edited
This behaviour started ~mid-August 2013. Previously, this pdf had its annotations extracted just fine. Maybe that is approximately the time that pdf.js was last updated... anyway, looks like I'll have to dig around with new/older versions of pdf.js to see what the problem is. Not sure how to start: I can't go to the Mozilla pdf.js bug page because Zotfile has its own custom pdf.js. The Zotfile developer seems swamped and not to interested in Linux or Windows.
Looks like the latest development version of PDF.js is able to display the second page, though it does not display the highlighting. I'm not sure if that means that the extraction will not work.
- CommentAuthoraurimas
- CommentTimeNov 3rd 2013
The error (with a sample PDF) should be reported on the Zotfile thread so that the Zotfile developer can figure out how to proceed.
- CommentAuthoryourwelcome
- CommentTimeNov 3rd 2013
Thanks again, that is interesting to know that at least the pdf pages, but not annotations, are displaying in the develpment version of PDF.js. I'll try posting on the Zotfile thread...
Submitted a ticket for pdf.js https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/3885 with a minimal test case.
- CommentAuthoraurimas
- CommentTimeNov 3rd 2013
The problem was recently fixed in pdf.js and I have adopted the same fix to the development version of zotfile. With this fix, the annotation are extracted correctly!
- CommentAuthorJoscha
- CommentTimeJan 8th 2014
So submitting a tickets for pdf.js worked great in this case. Thanks aurimas!
I am reposting on this thread from here https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/33061/pdf-text-screwed-after-sync-to-webdav-server/#Item_5, apologies if this is the wrong place
I have had problems with extracting annotations from clearscan pdfs
clearscan OCR gives me:
"I P h [:?Yh M&P'Yh +U.&Mh [:.h 7R+-?M&7.h ?Yh U.SU.Y.P[.+h ' e h &?U.h B ^ [ h [;. SU?MRU+@&Hh P&[^U.h R2h [;.h 7R+-?M&7.h M&eh ' . h U.SU.Y.P[.+h APh R[:.U" ( :1)
searchable image OCR gives me:
"As it brought new life to his intellectual interests it also awakened a new feeling for life itself through the mediation of the woman." ( :1)
just discovered this recently after I had converted dozens of scanned books from searchable image to clearscan (much clearer and 20-60% smaller) and began highlighting in pdfexpert 5.0 on ipad mini
as much as I understand it, the clearscan removes the searchable background image and replaces it with vector fonts so maybe they're not extractable, but www.sumnotes.net does it fine
any suggestions?
if I understand you correctly, you're in the wrong thread. This thread is about ZotFile's "Extract Annotation" feature, not about Zotero's full text indexing of pdf files. If I'm right about this and you're talking about indexing in general, please continue on the original thread.
- CommentAuthoradamsmith
- CommentTimeJan 9th 2014 edited
I think I am in the right thread, I'm sending a pdf to my tablet with zotfile, annotating, then returning pdf to zotero standalone and extracting annotations with zotfile, I'm not posting about indexing in zotero
ok, right thread then. If you open the annotated PDF in Firefox, i.e. with pdf.js: do you see the annotations? Can you select and copy text?
- CommentAuthoradamsmith
- CommentTimeJan 9th 2014
I opened an annotated clearscan pdf file in firefox with pdf.js, I can see the highlighted text and I can select and copy text, but when I extract the annotations I still get the same garbled extracts
Can you post a sample PDF somewhere?
- CommentAuthoraurimas
- CommentTimeJan 9th 2014
@Joscha, is the annotation extraction code for pdf.js written specifically for Zotfile (e.g. updateMarkup in canvas.js)? I can't find any reference to it anywhere else. I think the issue here is that the text in the PDF is represented with wide characters (16 bit) and it's not handled correctly. I've got it sort of working, but I'd rather report this upstream so it can be fixed properly.
- CommentAuthoraurimas
- CommentTimeJan 10th 2014
Apologies if I have misled but have just seen the thread title, I am using win 8.1 on laptop, to iPad mini tablet, not Linux if that makes a diff?
- CommentAuthormjowen
- CommentTimeJan 10th 2014
aurimas, pdf.js doesn't support the extraction of annotation itself so the version included in zotfile is modified. updateMarkup is one of the function I added. Others are charInAnnot and makeCharDims (I think they are the important once). The other important thing is that the version in zotfile is based on a pdf.js version from roughly a year ago. pdf.js development is pretty rapid and automatically merging in the new changes often does not work. It might be the case that pdf.js started supporting this example pdf sometime between a year ago and now. I ported the zotfile modification to a more recent pdf.js version maybe 2 month ago. The result is here but still has problems with spaces and some other issues. Looking at the commits in my fork of pdf.js at https://github.com/jlegewie/pdf.js might give you a good idea of the changes. Anyways, if you can fix it in zotfile directly, go ahead. In general, the annotation supports should be updated to the most recent pdf.js version and really needs a proper testing mechanism so that new versions can easily be compared to old version for a number of test pdfs. Otherwise, it can happen that modifications break other things. I won't have time to do this myself and it would really be something for which I could need help!
- CommentAuthorJoscha
- CommentTimeJan 10th 2014
ps: The other fix, which started this discussion, was very easy and I just implemented it in zotfile by looking at the corresponding commit for pdf.js.
(@mjowen - good to mention that, but in this case there's no difference. The problem is the same on linux)
- CommentAuthoradamsmith
- CommentTimeJan 10th 2014
Problem solved! I can now get both hightlights and comments, using Zotfile 3.1 updated 04/feb/2014 on Zotero 4.0.16 (both standalone and firefox addon).
- CommentAuthoryourwelcome
- CommentTimeFeb 6th 2014
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Putting Our Best Foot Forward
Several local charities and schools in our area are in need of shoe donations and thats where South Georgia Banking Company (SGBC) is stepping in.
Throughout the month of October, SGBC will accept shoe donations at our branches located in Tift, Colquitt, Turner and Crisp counties. New or gently used shoes are preferred and can be dropped off at collection stations located in each branchs lobby. All donations benefit charities and schools within each county. Recipients of donated shoes in Colquitt County include The Watson House, Serenity House and K-7th graders in the Colquitt County School System.
The Watson House is a Christian-based recovery residence that ministers to men who have completed detoxification and a residential treatment programs. Their goal is to help these men get back on their feet and begin a new life free from alcohol and/or drugs. Donations of mens shoes in any size and style are greatly appreciated.
At Serenity House, a shelter and transitional living facility for victims of family violence, they help abused women and children take a step in the right direction through a variety of services including emergency shelter, counseling, legal advocacy and more. They are in need of womens shoes in all sizes and types.
The idea to host this shoe drive stemmed from our 2010-2011 marketing campaign Partners in the Walk of Life,'" said Bob Montgomery, City President in Moultrie. We are always looking for new ways to get involved and make a difference. It is important to extend our community relationships beyond banking services and this drive is the perfect opportunity to do so.
SGBC's Keith Brown (right) presents donated men's shoes to the Watson House.
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Right to Farm-SB 1100 Does Not Pass
First the bad news- despite the best efforts of a coalition of more than 20 organizations and the backing of many sponsors and most importantly, the calls and emails of our members, neither MC 16-12, HB 722 or SB 1100- all bills seeking to protect farming from being prohibited in the Reserve under homeowner covenants- passed the General Assembly before the end of the 2012 session. Read all the background here.
We would like to thank sponsors Senators Montgomery, Garagiola , Frosh, Madaleno and Raskin. Along with Delegates Lee, Mizeur, and Miller. Got a minute- say thanks!
The following organizations were steadfast partners in pushing for these bills: Audubon Naturalist Society, 1000 Friends of Maryland, Environment Maryland, League of Women Voters, Montgomery County Civic Federation, Conservation Montgomery, Montgomery Victory Gardens, Maryland Horse Council, Montgomery Farm Bureau, Montgomery County Ag Advisory Committee, Sugarloaf Citizens' Association, growingSoul, Manna Foods, Izaak Walton League, Montgomery Soil Conservation District, Mixed Greens Inc., Montgomery County Park and Planning, Montgomery County Council, Montgomery County.
But… we remain undaunted and next session we will be seeking state level recognition of the public policy behind the Reserve- the underpinnings of the right to farm bills taken up this session. This will be a powerful step in cementing the Reserve as a place with purpose, and that purpose is farming.
It is clear that more needs to be done to show the importance of the Reserve to our representatives in Annapolis- even some who represent the county itself are unaware of its history or even existence. And so we redouble our efforts and rely on all our supporters and the allies that do get it- like Delegate Mizeur:
"The agriculturally-based principles we are working hard to advance in the legislature – buying local food and other products, preserving open spaces, protecting the environment through sustainable agriculture, and safeguarding Maryland's agricultural history – are only achievable if Maryland family farmers are given the ability to operate successfully. Hampering that ability, especially in regions like the County Agricultural Reserve specifically created for farming, would be harmful for our agricultural future." - Delegate Mizeur- MoCo District 20
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The leader of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, Masud Barzani, says he plans to hold an independence referendum within months.
In an interview with the BBC, Barzani said the time is right for a vote as Iraq is already effectively partioned.
"We will hold a referendum in Kurdistan and we will respect and be bound by the decision of our people and hope that others will do likewise," Barzani said.
Barzani said he could not set a date yet "but definitely it's a question of months."
He said the final decision would be left to the Kurdish regional parliament.
Barzani told Voice of America that the current situation in Iraq is "chaotic and scary."
"Now, along a 1,050-kilometer border, we face terrorists and radical groups and people who are unknown to us," he said. "This is a new situation. I doubt if Iraq will go back to what it was. Maybe only God knows what will happen."
Barzani said Iraq has not been run in a way to make the Kurds feel they are partners and stakeholders in the administration of the country.
"The Kurds did not bring about the dangerous situation [that threatens] the integrity of Iraq. We did not create the situation in which Iraq finds itself today," he told VOA. "We have not partitioned Iraq. Rather, it was others who brought about this catastrophe and broke up Iraq into pieces.
"We will turn to the public ballot," he added. "The decision that will be made will be in favor of the people of Kurdistan."
Barzani's comments come as Sunni fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have swept across large parts of northern and western Iraq in June and declared a "caliphate" in territories seized across Iraq and Syria.
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YokesYokes are the power tools of Magnetic Particle Inspection. These handheld electromagnets create a magnetic field into a workpiece. The most common type of Yoke is an AC Model.
AC Yokes, and the magnetic field they produce, are the simplest type of Magnetic Particle Inspection Equipment. AC Yokes are used to rapidly inspect for surface cracks. Cracks can be located on any type of workpiece subject to: loads, stress, heat (cold), chemicals, even bacteria.
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
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The Man Who Was Going Nowhere
- Waking up in a strange cabin, our narrator discovers a man staring at him. The man has a medical background and has nursed the narrator back to health.
- The man tries to explain how the narrator is on the trader schooner of one Captain Davis. But all the narrator hears is a voice that sounds like a mix between a growl and a human voice. Weird.
- Paying the growl no heed, the medical man talks about the injections he gave the narrator. The narrator interrupts and asks for actual food. With the ten-or-so days adrift on a barren sea, his stomach must be rumbling something fierce.
- The mutton isn't ready yet though. So, instead of getting food, the medical man asks to hear the narrator's story. Then he suddenly leaves and complains about the howling.
- An argument occurs between medical man and some unknown person; it might have ended with fists. We don't know about the narrator, but that seems a tad worrisome coming from the man who was injecting you with unknown substances beforehand.
- When the medical man returns, the narrator tells him his name—it's Edward Prendick—and his story.
- We learn a bit about the medical man, too. Apparently, he has done some research in biology, and he seems to miss London terribly.
- The medical man goes to fetch Prendick's mutton, and the growling returns with "savage anger" (2.22). Prendick asks what it is, but the medical man either doesn't hear him or ignores him. Which do you think it is?
- After a day of eating and sleeping, Prendick feels good enough to walk around the ship a bit.
- Finally, we learn the medical man's name is Montgomery when he gives Prendick new duds to wear.
- Prendick asks where the ship is going. Turns out, its ultimate destination is Hawaii. Good on you, Prendick. But before anyone can get their tan on, Montgomery has to be dropped off at his destination. It's a secluded island in the Pacific with no name. You know, the perfect set up for a super villain's lair.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – April 20, 2012 – Arkansas Sens. Mark Pryor and John Boozman, along with Mississippi Sens. Roger Wicker and Thad Cochran, have issued a Senate resolution recognizing the 75th anniversary of Ducks Unlimited and lauding the organization's history of conservation success in the state and across North America. The resolution was passed on Thursday.
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Hi all, just trying a new 5.2.9 Hylafax+ install on Fedora 9 to enable color receive faxes and fix some ECM problems with newer (but yet discontinued) HP 1250 fax machines. Using Mainpine modems in class 1. I <THINK> I have properly patched, compiled, and installed libjpeg. I <THINK> I have properly compiled JBIG-KIT. But I <KNOW> that libtiff 3.7.2 is giving me a patching error: 1 of 2 hunks failed. Line 720. At this point, my brain oozed out onto my shoes. Anybody have any brainpower to share on this one? Note: I am using all the files from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=148904 Regards, .Ron >>> Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 12/06/06 11:55AM >>> Ron Pettis wrote: >Just recently replaced a "receiving-only" pool of color V.34 fax machines with some USR Sporsters on a Fedora Core 5 system running Hylafax 4.3.0 in Class 1. The drives are a software RAID1. > >It's been running beautifully for 2-3 weeks so we've opted to purchase Rockforce Duo+'s in order to once again take advantage of the v.34 speeds/compression. We also figure that at the same time we'll implement the color capabilities of the previous setup. (Our external sales force uses the color capability of their fax machines [HP 1240 Fax Machines] when faxing to us). > >But before we install the new boards and go down this path, we've got a few questions. > >Our existing setup receives the standard tiff-fax, does a tiff2pdf on it, and emails the PDF (via mSMTP) to our email server. > >We're using the stock libraries (libtiff, etc) that ship with the distro, no modifications to any libraries. >My research on this indicates that we'll need to make changes to libraries and patch them, etc., as in: > >http://www.hylafax.org/content/Handbook:Advanced_Server_Configuration:JPEG_and_JBIG_Faxing > >I'm not sure I understand the step-by-step procedures to accomplish this. Can someone steer me in a procedural direction what I must do? The more research I do on this, the more confusing it seems to get. > > Those words in the referenced handbook are mine and were taken from the HylaFAX HOWTO which can currently be found here: http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/howto/install.php#ss2.5 There are still some things there that need to be updated, for example, statements of "CIELAB" need to be changed to "ITULAB" instead. A general step-by-step procedure is this: 1) patch libjpeg, build, and install it. This will most likely require that you install the patched libjpeg in a peculiar way to coexist happily with your existing libjpeg, or that you replace the existing libjpeg with it and rebuild all libjpeg-dependent packages against the patched library. If the system is fax-dedicated then I just do a minimal install and remove anything that depends on libjpeg... and then I do the patch/build/install procedure for libjpeg. libjpeg is a very slow-moving development, and although I expect the ITULAB JPEG support to eventually make it into the source repository in some form for their v7 release, for the foreseeable future patching libjpeg will always be required... unless your distribution patches it for you... or unless changes in libtiff make this step unnecessary. 2) install JBIG-KIT 3) patch libtiff, build, and install it (--with-jbig). The next libtiff (after 3.8.2) release will have JBIG support built-in (all you'll need to do is ./configure --with-jbig), but for now the JBIG patch is still required. It will also need to be patched for ITULAB JPEG support. The provided patches will not ever be integrated into libtiff as they are because libtiff's JPEG support will be reworked entirely by the libtiff developers (apparently for their v4 release)... and apparently ITULAB JPEG support will come differently than the way done with the patches, and so it may be possible that this future libtiff development will deprecate the need (at least for HylaFAX users) to patch libjpeg. There are some shortcomings to the libtiff ITULAB patch. The one that is foremost on my mind is the incapability that tiffcp has to work with ITULAB JPEG TIFF files. Something broke the patch's tiffcp functionality between 3.7.2 and 3.8.2. tiff2ps, however, does work, and I don't intend on fixing tiffcp - since the libtiff developers are reworking things in the not too-far-distant future. 4) install HylaFAX, use Class 1/1.0, and configure the modem with "Class1ColorJPEGSupport: yes". I would recommend using HylaFAX+ instead of HylaFAX from hylafax.org as there have been some changes to this stuff since I moved my work to sourceforge. I think that the hylafax.org maintainers eventually ported all of the changes into the hylafax.org codebase, but honestly, I'm not certain of that or if 4.3.1 has even been tested at all with color fax receiving. The newest versions of these patches for libjpeg and libtiff can be found in SRPMs that are found here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=148904 >Will a JPEG'd-tiff convert to PDF with tiff2pdf? Will I instead need to tiff2ps and ps2pdf? And will Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0/7.0 display it correctly? > > No, yes, and it depends. I assume that you refer to libtiff's tiff2pdf. Although it does properly convert the JPEG'd TIFF into PDF it leaves the ITULAB JPEG data in the same colorspace (merely changing the TIFF wrapper for a PDF one), and I've not yet seen any PDF viewer that can properly view ITULAB JPEG. However, the bin/tiff2pdf script that comes with HylaFAX *will* convert ITULAB JPEG TIFFs into viewable PDFs - because, yes, it uses tiff2ps and then ps2pdf. All PDF viewers that I have used, including Acrobat Reader, can view those resulting PDFs (tiff2ps+ps2pdf). >Also, what modem config file changes would be recommended, knowing our exclusive use of HP 1240's as senders? >Are the elements at the following site still relevant? > >http://www.hylafax.org/content/Handbook:Basic_Server_Configuration:Modem-specific_Guidance > > I've given you the config file changes needed and I can't comment on the hylafax.org handbook, as I don't read or maintain it, but the HOWTO that I indicated above augmented by the content of this e-mail should be the most accurate reference at the moment. >The goals are to once again have the following features: > >1) Receive at the v.34 speeds >2) Use the modern compressions/error corrections >3) Honor the color capability and send color PDF's > I think that you mean *receive* color faxes and *send* them as color PDFs to the receipient. HylaFAX currently cannot *send* color faxes (it can *receive* them). 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Rotherham Titans are delighted to announce Ben Rath has been added to the squad.
Twenty years-old full back Ben Rath joins from National League One side Fylde and will link up with his new team mates on Monday.
Ormskirk-born Rath stands at 6' 2" and has represented Lancashire U16, U20s, Seniors, North U20's and England Counties U20's and considers his best rugby moment to date as scoring the winner for Lancashire seniors at Twickenham in front of 20,000 spectators.
Rath is no stranger to the Titans as he made an appearance in pre-season for them this year against Hull Ionians in August; catching the eye as he scored two tries and four conversions in the 75-0 rout.
Titans Lee Blackett commenting on Rath's arrival said, "I'm pleased that Ben is joining up with us, he's a young guy who's got bags of potential and if he works hard and applies himself he can go a long way in the game. His ability to change direction at high speed is very impressive and as a result he's capable of causing destruction in opposition defences."
Rath himself is thrilled at the opportunity to be involved with the Titans and said, "I am delighted to have joined Rotherham Titans and to be given the chance to play full time rugby; it's an ambition that I've had from a very young age. Now I'm here I intend to work very hard and improve all of my skills and my fitness levels.
"As hard as it's been having a full time job and working hard to get myself into this situation, the hard work only starts here and now. It's a big step up, but it's a step I feel ready to take and I will be working hard so when the opportunity arises I will be ready to grab it both hands.
"I want to continue to improve and to be able to play in the top tier of English rugby and to continue to make my parents, friends and family proud.
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.... I'm still here, I have been busy working on the final touches of the book, it's very, very nearly finished a few tweaks here and there and then it's off to the Frankfurt Book fair eek! I have just been on their site and it says.....
"The Frankfurt Book Fair is the most important marketplace for books, media, rights and licences worldwide. More than 7,300 exhibitors from 100 countries, 299,000 visitors and over 10,000 journalists"
& my little book, I hope Belle & Boo will be OK and not too over whelmed by the enormity of it all, as I wont be there to hold their hands!
Meanwhile a very talented friend of mine has recently launched her new website One of a kind Boutique I would love you to take a look and stop by her blog and say "hi".
If you mention Belle & Boo in the comments section once you have completed your order you will receive a free badge
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Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of Key Charge Against Miami Lawyer
It's been a long and strange trip, but it finally might be time to put the lid on the Ben Kuehne saga. On Monday, a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit sided with a lower court ruling from earlier this year which dismissed the main count of the indictment against the prominent Miami lawyer. Click here for the opinion ; here for the AP story. Click here and here for earlier LB posts on Kuehne.
Kuehne was indicted last year on money laundering charges arising out of his writing opinion letters that Colombian drug kingpin Fabio Ochoa had enough money free from the taint of drug trafficking to pay some $5.2 million in legal fees. Kuhene was paid about $200,000 by Miami attorney Roy Black's law firm and others involved in Ochoa's defense.
A portion of the funds were traced to a businessman named Hernando Saravia, who transferred some of the purportedly legitimate cash from Ochoa to Black. But Kuehne didn't know that Saravia had been cooperating with federal prosecutors and that some of the money was from illegal drug proceeds being handled by undercover U.S. agents.
Late last year, Miami federal judge Marcia Cooke found that Kuehne could not be prosecuted because the funds were for legitimate legal services. On Monday, the Eleventh Circuit largely agreed with Cooke, finding she was "eminently correct" to dismiss the unprecedented indictment against Kuehne and two others on money laundering charges under the federal statute. The panel concluded that Kuehne was protected by an exemption in federal money-laundering statutes carved out by Congress for defense attorneys in 1988.
According to the AP, the Justice Department declined to comment, but it had said in a statement last year that it "approaches with great care" any possible prosecution of a defense lawyer. In this case, though, it said prosecutors were confident they had clear evidence of wrongdoing against Kuehne.
The ruling Monday was welcomed by defense lawyers, wrote the AP, who had feared that a successful prosecution of Kuehne would force them to stop taking cases involving defendants whose financial situations are murky.
"This is a huge win not just for Ben Kuehne but for criminal defense lawyers," said David O. Markus, a Miami attorney who helped write a friend of the court brief on Kuehne's behalf for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. "It sends the message to the government that criminal defendants are entitled to representation and criminal defense lawyers are entitled to represent clients without having this dark cloud hanging over their heads."
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The Padres last night acquired right-handed pitcher Cha Seung Baek from the Seattle Mariners in exchange for right-handed reliever Jared Wells.
The 6-foot-4, 225-pound Baek is 29 and a native of Pusan, South Korea.
He has pitched parts of four seasons with the Mariners and is 0-1 this season with a 5.40 earned run average. Baek has appeared in 10 games with the Mariners, including one start. He has allowed 28 hits and 18 runs in 30 innings.
Baek has a 10-9 major league record in 37 games (24 starts) with a 4.96 ERA. He has a career strikeout-to-walk ratio of 6 1/2-to-1.
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Blogs Liberty and Power "Geithner Plan"Feb 19, 2009 10:06 pm
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1. There are up to five different ways of defining bank insolvency, and most discussions equivocate among them. While many of the banks may face"regulatory insolvency" because of failure to maintain mandated capital, they are not necessarily insolvent under GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles). The government imposition of the former is worsening the situation.
2. The capricious nature of government policy is making it more difficult for the banks to weather the crisis and is piling on losses much larger than they otherwise would suffer.
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Hempton argues that banks have economic value arising from lending profits. However, those lending profits are dependent on the spread between loan and deposit rates. What would that spread be in the absence of FDIC deposit insurance? Loan rates already reflect risk-based pricing, so they would not change much. Deposit rates, on the other hand, would have to spike to retain risk-adverse depositors. In other words, in a true free market, the banks would be insolvent. All of their collective "economic value" stems from a taxpayer subsidy. This is hardly consistent with "solvency".
As for government actions "piling on" losses, please remember, again, that many of these banks would have failed were it not for government intervention.
Let's be consistent. Free-market thinkers should argue for bank bankruptcy. Because this has systemic implication, the only alternative is temporary government receivership. Pretending that current shareholders own anything of value: perpetuates a fiction dependent on taxpayer generosity, and; refuses to let our capitalist system punish risk takers.
Conservatives would like to believe this is all a mark-to-market misunderstanding because it lets them off the hook. The "hook", in this case, is the need to let capitalist risk-takers fail.
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Many of you will have read that Skandia recently announced a simple, competitive and customer focused unbundled pricing structure for the platform. Contrary to some industry pundits, this price is competitive without taking account of fund manager rebates. I stress this at the outset so that you read this article in context - I am a champion of rebates (aka discounts) for the benefit of the customer and not for platform profit.
Even with so-called "clean" 100bp-or-less share classes, there is still an opportunity for fund groups to continue to pay any excess incremental rebate
In the unbundled world, fund manager rebates cannot be retained by platforms, but must be passed on for the benefit of customers in the form of additional units – more investment for the same money. One has to infer that the FSA recognises the benefits such arrangements will have for customers.
As I write this, not all fund groups have confirmed their share class models, or whether they will continue to pay rebates to platforms post R Day. I strongly believe that most fund groups will retain their 150 bps retail share class for legacy business and re-registration purposes and consequently rebate the former trail amount. Even with so-called "clean" 100bp-or-less share classes, there is still an opportunity for fund groups to continue to pay any excess incremental rebate.
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Largely due to its short history, the capability of the Chinese pharma outsourcing industry is quite segmented at this time. No single company is able to provide a full scope of services covering all technical areas of R&D and manufacturing.
As a result, companies that wish to outsource projects must break them into fragements and separately outsource the pieces to several vendors. Even though many China-based service providers have the ability to develop robust and scalable chemical processes for any complex compounds, their strong service capabilities are eclipsed by the fact that they can't provide additional services such as manufacturing of APIs under FDA or EMEA-certified cGMP conditions.
Today, many Western pharma/biotech companies, in particular the small- to medium-sized ones, prefer integrated service from a CRO or a CMO. They expect the service provider to not only be able to develop a robust production process, but also to manufacture the API on a large enough scale to support drug candidates in preclinical and/or clinical development.
The Chinese pharma outsourcing industry has become a major force. Although, at present, not many China-based service providers are in the position to make acquisitions or mergers abroad, having a business operation closer to customers is a model many Chinese service providers are considering.
As more experience is accumulated, it is likely that the service capabilities of many China-based service providers will be enhanced. In addition to vertical growth, more consolidations will occur in the near future, which will go a long way toward providing integrated services.
In the not so distant future, Chinese companies will expand their services to include biology- and molecular biology-related areas. These service providers will be rewarded by small-sized pharma/biotech companies that prefer one-stop shopping. In addition, small but well-established China-based CROs/CMOs will further strengthen their service capabilities by developing new technologies in niche areas, thus becoming favored partners for large pharma or biotech companies.
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Colleges and universities from throughout the state participated in the Idaho Lottery Scratch Ticket Design Contest, submitting more than 100 entries to the Idaho Lottery.
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The paper proposes Metropolis adjusted Langevin and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampling methods defined on the Riemann manifold to resolve the shortcomings of existing Monte Carlo algorithms when sampling from target densities that may be high dimensional and exhibit strong correlations. The methods provide fully automated adaptation mechanisms that circumvent the costly pilot runs that are required to tune proposal densities for Metropolis-Hastings or indeed Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and Metropolis adjusted Langevin algorithms. This allows for highly efficient sampling even in very high dimensions where different scalings may be required for the transient and stationary phases of the Markov chain. The methodology proposed exploits the Riemann geometry of the parameter space of statistical models and thus automatically adapts to the local structure when simulating paths across this manifold, providing highly efficient convergence and exploration of the target density. The performance of these Riemann manifold Monte Carlo methods is rigorously assessed by performing inference on logistic regression models, log-Gaussian Cox point processes, stochastic volatility models and Bayesian estimation of dynamic systems described by non-linear differential equations. Substantial improvements in the time-normalized effective sample size are reported when compared with alternative sampling approaches. MATLAB code that is available from http://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/research/rmhmc allows replication of all the results reported.
|Riemann manifold Langevin and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo methods
|Bayesian inference, Geometry in statistics, Hamiltonian Monte Carlo methods, Langevin diffusion, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, Riemann manifolds, MULTINOMIAL PROBIT MODEL, METROPOLIS-HASTINGS ALGORITHMS, LINEAR MIXED MODELS, MARKOV-CHAIN, BAYESIAN-ANALYSIS, FISHER INFORMATION, ADAPTIVE MCMC, DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY, EXPONENTIAL-FAMILIES, STOCHASTIC EPIDEMICS
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Milberg Weiss: Merger Talks Break Down; An Alum Retires
Merger talks between embattled class-action firm Milberg Weiss and San Francisco's Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein have broken down, reports the Recorder. "We're not having any discussions," said Robert Lieff. "I think they've decided to go their own way."
In May a grand jury indicted Milberg Weiss on charges that it paid plaintiffs millions of dollars in exchange for filing scores of lawsuits. Since then, 20 of its partners have left or are leaving the firm — close to half the total. The government charged the firm, as well as partners David Bershad and Steven Schulman, with fraud. The defendants have all maintained their innocence.
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Schulman — unrelated to the aforementioned Steve Schulman — has reportedly been cooperting with the ongoing probe of Milberg Weiss. Bernstein Litowitz says his retirement has nothing to do with the Milberg investigation. I've been doing this for 33 years, so it's a big deal for me, said Schulman, who will continue teaching at the University of San Diego Law School. "I'm just burned out, and ready to do something new.


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text: From writer/director, Jake Hull, comes Trunk'd an unapologetic road trip comedy complete with a pimp, a mayor, hillbillies and blackmail. All of this rolled together in a healthy dose of raunchy, offensive, stupid, bust a gut comedy. Through the glazed over eyes of its narrators, Trunk'd follows Adam (Kevin Zaideman, Chance in Hell), his brother Paul (Dan Cummins, Comedy Central Presents), his best man Jesse (Austin Anderson, America's Got Talent) and his cousin Rob (Michael Leamen) as they travel from Nebraska to Texas and back again, all in an effort to dispose of the body of a deceased call girl whom they find unresponsive the morning after Adam's stag party.


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> I have an application that runs on several handhelds. We are using the J9 runtime and the personal profile, and developing with eclipse.
> Some of our devices are running Pocket PC 4.2. No problem there - the problems I describe below don't occur. However, one of our devices is running Windows CE 5. On this device, when I call dispose() on our frame, I'm getting the following exception stack trace:
> Exception caught in event loop: java.lang.NullPointerException; event loop continuing ... java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Menu.releaseWidget(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.dispose(Unknown Source) at java.awt.MenuComponent._removeNotify(Unknown Source) at java.awt.MenuBar._removeNotify(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Frame._cleanUpShell(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Frame._removeNotify(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Component$RemoveNotifyRunnable.run(Unknow n Source) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessa ges(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(U nknown Source) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Un known Source) at java.awt.BBToolkit.start(Unknown Source) at java.awt.BBToolkit$4.run(Unknown Source)
> This is causing a problem, because when our application starts, we have native code that looks for an application window that already exists, and displays it (so we only get one instance running). But since dispose() is bugging out, the native code actually finds the leftovers of the previous window, but then can't display it - so the user can't open the app, and they have to soft-reset between runs of the app.
> Oddly, using j9.exe throws the above exception, but must do some extra cleanup, because I can run the app again w/o a soft reset. But, I'd rather use j9w so my users don't have to see the java console.
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text: Local wrestlers, Chippewa Falls' Izzy Balsiger and Quinn Miracle along with Eau Claire Memorial's Alastair Keys all advanced to Friday's WIAA Division 1 state semifinals with two victories in Thursday. SportScene 13's Jenn Chapman reports from the Kohl Center in Madison with highlights and post-match reaction from Thursday night's D1 state quarterfinals. For all the wrestling scores, go to wiaawi.org


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|Using Viscosity Modifiers to Reduce Effective Diffusivity in Mortars
|August 01, 2012
|Three viscosity modifiers (a commercial shrinkage-reducing admixture, a polypropylene glycol, and cellulose ether) are used to reduce the effective diffusivity of chloride ions through mortars during a one-year exposure. Two delivery mechanisms were studied: adding a viscosity modifier to the mix water; and diluting the viscosity modifier in water, pre-wetting fine lightweight aggregate (LWA) with the solution, and replacing a portion of the sand with the pre- wetted LWA, which is equivalent to the practice of using LWA for internal curing. After a 28- day curing period, the cylinders were submerged in a 1 mol/L chloride solution. After 6 months and 12 months of exposure, micro X-ray fluorescence analysis was used to profile the radial chloride concentration under ambient air pressure. The effective diffusivity was estimated by regression, assuming ideal Fickian radial diffusion. Compared with the control mortar (no admixture, no LWA), the addition of the viscosity modifier to the mix water reduced the effective diffusivity by nearly a factor of two, and the combined effect of pre-wetted LWA reduced the effective diffusivity by a factor greater than two. Therefore, the use of these viscosity modifiers has the potential to double the service life of any concrete that may be subjected to degradation that depends upon diffusion, such as corrosion of the steel reinforcement and sulfate attack.
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Francis Nazario: Doting New Father
Published: February 17, 2002
Francis Nazario loved jet skis, Mustangs, visiting Disney, redoing the house that his mother had grown up in, his wife and his 8- month-old daughter, Lena. Not in that order. He would put new pictures of Lena on his computer's screen saver almost every day. He couldn't wait for her to do something new, his sister, Mary Beth Deleto, recalls.
He also enjoyed his job as a back office operations manager at Cantor Fitzgerald, said his wife, Julie. "I'd call up and he'd be laughing," she said. "They'd be telling jokes, and I wondered if they ever got any work done."
The two were high school sweethearts. "We knew, from when we first started dating, on Sept. 5, 1989, that we were going to spend the rest of our lives together," Mrs. Nazario said.
The man who was just learning how to be a good father was devoted to his own, taking care of him for six years after his mother died. They lived together in the family home in Jersey City, and the younger Mr. Nazario, 28, shopped for his father and later visited him regularly in a nursing home.
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Over in France, the scene was of methodical but urgent activity. On 14th June, the Germans had marched into Paris. The Luftwaffe was doing the job it did best. As a tactical air force it was settling in to new quarters. The French campaign had been hugely successful but at the same time it had been costly. A large number of aircraft had been lost. Air operations, as part of a successful campaign involving hugely ambitious thrusts on the ground, inevitably meant taking big risks. Most of them came off but even when they didn't, there was a high cost to pay. Many replacements were needed. At the same time, new headquarters had to be set up. Luftflotte 2, under the command of Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring, chose Brussels for theirs. It was a city with excellent communications. Down in France, the airfield at Epinoy, halfway between Cambrai and Douai, was extensive but still needed to be put shipshape, German fashion. Communications had to be established with headquarters in Brussels. Spares and ammunition had to brought in, workshops set up, catering staff had to be recruited, food ordered, but in a couple of weeks this was all done. The Luftwaffe was used to it. It was their purpose in life. Now they were at least operating without opposition. For them it was a relatively easy task.
Luftflotte 3, had its headquarters in Paris, with its fighter HQ in Cherbourg. From there, it controlled a number of bases in Brittany and Normandy. They were under the command of Generalfeldmarschall Hugo Sperrle, a very large bear-like man, who was, nonetheless, a very professional man. He liked everything done properly. Under his command it was. Preparations were in hand from Brittany in France right along the coast up to the northern most tip of Norway. It was here that Luftflotte 5 was based, to cover the North Sea, with headquarters at Stavenger and under the command of Generaloberst Hans-Jürgen Stumpff.
Britain was faced, therefore, with the enemy getting ready across the sea on the western coast of Europe. It was still too early to be clear about what would happen next. But the Luftwaffe was preparing for every eventuality, even an air battle over Britain itself.


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Basically, run the game in logging mode. Use the + and - keys to cycle through and find the texture you are looking for. Hit enter on a texture you want to change, this saves the texture to the hard drive. Then open it with your favorite photo editing software, I use gimp and make the changes you want. To upscale is never enough, you'll just see the same texture slightly smoother if you use a scaling algorithm (built into the upscale function). You need to go in and fix what you don't like: re-draw straight lines, use clone tool to eliminate bleeding, use smudge tool to smooth areas, and re-draw/paint details that can't be salvaged etc...
Once I have it cleaned up I like to add bump maps to areas that have unique textures. There is a plugin built into gimp for this and you can create and/or choose patterns and textures as the bump map. Tweak the settings to your liking. So if you look at Wrex's armor I added a Kevlar type bump map to the non-plated parts of the armor, a rough metallic bump to the plated areas, and a diamond pattern bump to the dark parts. It takes experimentation with the patterns and the bump map tool to get the desired look.
Then once the colored texture is to my liking, I like to generate a new normal map which will Incorporated all of the textures and tweaks I just created. There is an add-on for this in GIMP. Again it takes experimentation with the plug-in to find a desired look. Once I have generated a new normal map I like, I blend it (using layers and "grain merge" mode) with the original normal map. I use the original because it maintains all of the 3D data ( the depth and light angle that the developers captured from the 3D model), if I only used the one generated from my re-texture the result is very flat and characters don't "pop" (This is because it's generated from a 2D Texture and is missing the 3D data from the model). It took me months think of and get this technique down, but I like the results.
So in short you need to have or develop some photo editing skills, an eye for what you want, and the tools mentioned above to do it. Also, you need time, time, time :). The great thing about Gimp and TexMod is that they are free.
The sorting of textures is a pain. You need to make sure you copy all of the names of the textures you want in a pack into a TexMod.log file. Set up the directory just like I state in my tutorial on Moddb. The difference here is you go to "Package Build" in TexMod and select the log file and click "build", then name the .tpf appropriately. Voila you should be able to load the textures into the game and see how they look.
Be prepared to re-do everything again and again, as sometimes what looks great in 2D looks awful in game ;)


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Everton Message Board
FarhanEverton FarhanEverton Jan 30, 2013 19:43 Flag
Will Everton buy during the windows,where should they strengthen & are wages a stumbling block?
So do you fellow Evertonians think everton will buy anyone in the window?
Where do think the team needs strengthening?
Furthermore are wages a Stumbling block to signings?
I look forward on your thoughts on the matter.
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A Yahoo! User Jan 31, 2013 19:54 Flag
I think we should hold fire for this season.
I believe we are going to be even better next season when some of the boys settle in and we get them all fit to play.
If I see a weakness its Phil Neville yes he has done us well but he now lacks speed and seems to have lost his passing ability.
Coleman and Gibson back to strengthen our defence we are giving away to many easy goals.
first things first neville and moyes are gone so we do not need to know what they are doing on the everton webb site; now the answer to your question YES we do need to buy and we need younger eager players not has beens, because if we dont invest now in a few more youngsters then we will be back to fighting relugation again and may just go down. squads need fresh players to gee them up and bring new ideas along with them.


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Isms, on 09 September 2012 - 07:14 AM, said:
As far as the thief runes go, precision isn't a trait that you need. The extra bleed from "Sharpened Edges" on crit is extremely low, and isn't worth investing into precision for alone. Thief runes also do not effect your condition damage, as these runes are made for power builds, which this is not. I chose afflicted because almost all of our damage comes from bleeding and poison, and the 15% increase in duration is an obvious choice.
Thief runes do bring some condition damage (+57 total), but I can see your point when condition is the key. Is the death nova from the 6th rune really that good? I haven't tested it, but it would be tempting for me to go 5/6 afflicted and bring a 6th with a stat I liked for the 1st tier such as Grenth.
p.s. I know I'm criticizing a good bit of this, but I just wanted to say that this is still one of the best builds I've seen on these forums so far.
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Man arrested for videotaping under women's skirts
Oxnard Police arrested a 39-year-old Santa Paula man
POSTED: 04:16 AM PDT Mar 25, 2013 UPDATED: 10:15 PM PDT Mar 25, 2013
Oxnard police arrested Santa Paula resident Mario Cervada over the weekend, for secretly videotaping women under their clothes.
The recent crimes happened as the victims shopped at Costco in Oxnard.
They say Cervada hid his iPhone to take pictures and videotape women..
The victims usually wore a skirt or dress.
Police say Cervada has done this before, one location includes the Target store in Camarillo.
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