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A major thrust or goal of InDesign CS6 is making our life easier, by making it easier to be flexible with the different layout projects that we're working on. If you're doing any kind of publications, you must be flexible and nimble in this market. So if you're doing a catalog for print, for example, like here we have a student catalog that's going to be printed, we might also want this to be available on the iPad for people to download, we might want to put it on a Kindle, we might want to make an interactive PDF, and up until now, to do that kind of work, you'd have to create multiple InDesign documents and copy and paste, and if you updated text in one, you have to update it in all the other ones, and so on.
Now, you saw in a previous video how you can now link content between different documents or between pages in the same document. So that is one way that we're moving toward a more flexible kind of workflow. That kind of concept of linked objects actually is just part of the whole environment that InDesign CS6 is in, when it comes to flexible layouts. In addition to linked objects and linked content, we also have alternate layouts. We have something called liquid layouts and liquid layout rules.
We have auto resizing text frames. So the idea is that you would create a starting layout by spending a few minutes with the objects here. You can then easily create different versions of that layout or renditions for different output devices. So I know there are a lot of different concepts that are combined and that work together in this whole goal of creating what we call flexible layouts, and in this chapter, I want to talk about a couple of the major new features in InDesign CS6 that contribute to this: alternate layouts and liquid layout rules.
In this first video, I'm just going to give you the overall concept so you understand what I am talking about, and then we'll dive in to each one of these in specific detail in different videos in this chapter. So what is an alternate layout? An alternate layout is simply an alternate of a single page, or any subset of pages, or all the pages in this document, that are saved in the same document. If I wanted to do a second version of the cover, for example, I wouldn't have to do a Save As and create a whole new document of just the cover; I could actually embed it right here in this document.
So to create an alternate layout, I can go to the Layout menu and choose Create Alternate Layout, or I can come right here in the Pages panel and choose Create Alternate Layout. When I create an alternate layout, I can give it a name. I can give it the size. Let's say that I just want to have the same exact size, I just want a different look to it. So I will just call this Cover1, and we're going to use this, the original layout, as a source page. And I still want it to be Landscape. It is a tabloid page.
By the way, I've changed some of the settings in this dialog box, and I will be talking about the settings in later videos, but if you're following along with your own files, just change your settings to match. I am going to leave all of this as is and just click OK. But first, I am going to say I only want page 1, so I just put a colon and then the number of the page. Otherwise, it will create an alternate layout of the entire document, which is often what you want if you're doing an article for a magazine that's going to be on a tablet. So if we resize this a bit, you can see there is Cover1.
So here is the original and Cover1. And so in Cover1, we can say oh, you know what, we don't want--let's look at it in normal view, and we'll get rid of some artwork. Let's see. I think I will just do something like this, get rid of that, and that. There you go! So now we have two versions of the cover. So I will size it, and then you can see there's Cover1. There's original. And you can move these alternate layout names around. You can make as many alternate layouts as you want.
We could create another one that is maybe smaller. So I could say I want another one that's actually letter size, but I still want it to be landscape. And we'll call this Cover3. And now because I didn't specify a page, it just made an alternate layout of the entire document, and there is my letter-size page at the top. And so I'd come to this page and then I could manipulate the items on this page, just as though while working in a separate document.
But notice that the text frames are linked, because that was one of the settings when I created an alternate layout. So if I edit any of the text in the parent frame here, that's going to automatically cause the other ones to be out of date, and I can update them. Now, when I created that alternate layout, the last one that's a letter-size-- let's take another look at that-- obviously it's not fitting. If you look at this in Preview, a lot of it was cut off. But one thing that I could have done that I didn't when I created that was I could have applied what's called a liquid layout rule.
And that means telling InDesign what to do with the elements on this page when I tell it to create another page that's a different size. You maybe familiar with Layout Adjustment which still exists in CS6, but liquid layout rules are like the big brother, and I have a better example of what I mean. Here we have a brochure from the graphic design department at Roux Academy, and it is laid out as a horizontal brochure. Let's zoom in a little bit. So it's one page with some color blocking, graphics, and so on.
And let's say that we want it to look like this, a vertical one. So this is what we have in mind. I just did this so you could picture it, but we want to do a letter-size brochure that looks like this. Now, to change the orientation, we can go to the File menu and choose Document Size, or we can just use the Page tool. The Page tool was introduced in CS5, you may remember. So if I select the Page tool and now I just change the orientation from landscape to portrait, it doesn't do much good; it sort of looks like what a layout adjustment might look like.
The elements are still here and I still have a lot of work to do. But here's another example of the brochure that is in horizontal, and here I've done a little bit of work to it with some liquid layout rules. So let's take a look at that. If I go to the Page tool, here you see Liquid Page Rules. And I am going to be going over all of these in the upcoming videos. But this one is Object-based and now with this one, if I go ahead and switch it to portrait, the objects look much closer than the other one did.
So we're trying to get to this. So if I ended up with this, then all I'd need to do is--let me switch to Normal mode--we could move this over, and get this out over here, move this text frame over here, and maybe widen it a little bit, like that, and here it was, what we're trying to get to. Now, let's go back to the original version of my landscape brochure that was prepped, so I am going to choose Revert. And this is what it looks like in Preview, just one page.
Now, these two things, these two concepts can be combined: alternate layouts and liquid layout rules. This time, instead of doing a version that's called vertical, I am just going to make an alternate layout in this document that is vertical. So I will say Create Alternate Layout. So I will just accept letter V. I want it to be vertical. But look at here, look at Page Rule. I could combine these two new features-- alternate layouts and liquid layout rules--so that when I create an alternate layout that is a different size of the page, InDesign will help me along by manipulating the objects there according to the liquid layout rules that I have set. And again, I am going to go over these in detail in other videos in this chapter.
Let's just click OK, and there it is. So now I can see one right next to the other, and I can edit both of them in the same document and the stories are linked as well. Now that you've seen an overview of where Adobe is going with liquid layout rules and alternate layouts and combining them, let's take a look at each one of these aspects in detail in other videos in this chapter.
- Working with the Conveyor tool to link objects and map styles
- Applying Liquid Layout rules
- Using flexible columns
- Creating auto-sized text frames
- Accessing recently used fonts
- Fitting frames to more types of text content
- Exporting to EPUB 2 and 3 using new controls
- Inserting HTML and Edge content into a layout
- Creating a PDF form with interactive text, radio, and checkbox fields
- Mapping text styles in linked objects


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I make it to a pub about twice a month. Odd for a beer blogger, I know, but there it is. So generally I try to make the trip count. Last night, I made it down to the Widmer Gasthaus to try the new Collaborator beer--CXI, made with loaves of pumpernickel. I live a lot closer to It's a Beautiful Pizza, where this beer is purportedly also pouring, but I wasn't taking any chances. Go to the source: go to the brewery.
The very nice waitress took my order and I settled in with the Blazers game playing overhead. A few minutes later, she returned. CXI was not available, nor would it be all evening. (?) Chagrined and mystified, I ordered an alt. Nice beer, but I've had it dozens of times. So what gives? Why is a beer, barely out a week, not available at the brewery that produced it? And I was even considering a growler!
Already cultivating an old man's propensity toward crankiness, this kind of thing is no benefit.
Update. Widmer just tweeted that Collaborator is back on tap. (Fat lot of good it does me.)
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Flag on the Play: Unnecessary Shortage of Beer
Posted by Jeff Alworth at 9:25 AM
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4 comments:
- Jared said...
And my comment about breweries underproducing limited releases was dismissed...... Well glad someone else is starting to feel a little bothered by it.
- 11:10 AM, November 19, 2009
did you go to the pizza place?
- 12:56 PM, November 19, 2009
- Bill said...
What I want to know is, how can we get you out to a pub more often?
- 1:25 PM, November 19, 2009
- Jeff Alworth said...
Bill, I've noticed that the free beer enticement works pretty well.
(Actually, that's a lie. I'm just lame.)
- 1:40 PM, November 19, 2009

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Event: 10th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Technologies [viewed]
This conference aims to provide a platform for dialogue on overcoming technical, legal and political barriers to the implementation of greenhouse gas mitigation technologies, focusing almost exclusively on carbon capture and storage (CCS). Among the ten conference themes are: developments in CCS technology; CCS infrastructure; relation between CCS and climate policy; legal aspects of CCS; public perception of CCS. The International Energy Agency (IEA) Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme is the guardians of the GHGT conferences, which are held every two years.


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Buttars Has a Friend in Matt Barber
Since Utah Sen. Chris Buttars made his inflammatory remarks about homosexuals last week, virtually nobody from the Right has rallied to defend him. In fact, so far, the best he's been able to get are some vague statements from the state's Eagle Forum affiliate defending his First Amendment right to say what he wishes.
But when nobody else will speak up for a hateful bigot, you can always count on Liberty Counsel's Matt Barber to come through. And once again he has done so with flying colors, choosing to focus his ire on Utah Senate President Michael Waddoups for having "caved to pressure by an anti-Christian homosexual hate group" in stripping Buttars of his Judiciary Committee chairmanship:
"If you need a prime example of why the Republican Party is presently spiraling into the abyss of political irrelevancy, you need look no further than to Utah," said Barber. "The conservative majority in both Utah and across the country is starved for leaders who will represent the traditional values upon which our great nation was founded, and who will do so boldly and unapologetically. Sen. Buttars has done just that. He was elected in Utah to represent his constituents and the conservative values they hold near and dear. He's been tested and has passed that test. By bucking left-wing extremism and speaking truth in plain and simple terms, Buttars has shown true leadership. Although his comments certainly lacked in political correctness and were quite direct, they were acutely accurate. Wouldn't it be nice if more politicians would speak directly and accurately?
Senator Waddoups has played right into their hands. He's given their radical left-wing agenda an illusory air of legitimacy. He had a golden opportunity to shine here by standing firmly behind Senator Buttars. He could have told these liberal extremists to take their extremism elsewhere. Instead, he threw Senator Buttars under the bus.
"Waddoups' equivocation is a slap in the face to his own constituents. He's indirectly told every American who holds a biblical view of sexual morality and who rightfully believes that radical homosexual activism poses a grave threat to our American culture, that they should be ashamed of these traditional beliefs – that they should keep these beliefs to themselves.
"Therefore, I'm asking that people contact Sen. Waddoups and respectfully request that he immediately reinstate Sen. Buttars to his post as chairman of the Judiciary Committee and publicly apologize to both Buttars and to the millions of Americans whose traditional values Waddoups has impugned," concluded Barber.
This leads one to wonder if there is anything that anyone could ever say about gay people that Barber wouldn't immediately defend? Sadly, the answer to that seems to be "no."
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In 1940, ranger Sinias Nyalunga was awarded the Bronze Medal of the Royal Humane Society for risking his life to dive into the river to rescue a woman and her baby who had been swept off the bank by floodwaters.
The Crocodile River would almost certainly have been the northernmost border with Swaziland had a rather dubious 19th century land deal not been conducted between the Transvaal Land Commissioner, Abel Erasmus, and an unnamed Swazi chief, in which the Swazi border was pushed 80km southwards in exchange for 12 cases of gin.
The Crocodile Bridge area is a juxtaposition of open grassland and dense thorn thickets. It's one of Kruger's driest areas - receiving about half the average Park rainfall.
The Gate is named after the Crocodile River, which forms the southernmost boundary of the Kruger Park. The river gets its name from the number of crocodiles that it has and would certainly be one of the most dangerous to try to wade across.
Crocodile Bridge is the most direct access point to the game-rich south-eastern grasslands of the Park, and sighting opportunities open up very quickly after entering the Park. The game drives here are part of what is known as the "Southern Circle" which has a reputation for good lion-spotting. Several prides operate in this area, each with its own distinct hunting techniques and behaviour patterns.
In recent times, this has often led to problems of lions crossing the Crocodile River and attacking livestock outside the Park. At one point during the early 1970s, the situation got so bad that 26 escaping lion had to be shot during an 18-month period. The Crocodile Bridge area also has the highest percentage of Kruger's white rhino population.
There are two main routes between Crocodile Bridge and Lower Sabie - the Gomondwane Road (H4-2) and the Nhlowa Road (S28).
Crocodile Bridge Rest Camp is on the banks of the Crocodile River a few kilometres from the entrance gate. Situated in the sweetgrass knob-thorn, marula savanna, it was once briefly the headquarters of the old Sabie Game Reserve. The camp is an excellent place to stop for a meal when coming either in or out of Crocodile Bridge Gate. There is a reasonable restaurant, a convenience store where one can buy snacks and essentials, a gift shop, petrol station, post office and emergency first-aid post.


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Computing Arts: Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities Conference (DRRH 2001) will provide a major forum for the creators, users, distributors and custodians of electronic resources in the humanities to present and discuss their work, experiences and ideas.
The first major conference devoted to issues in humanities computing generally in the Australia-Pacific region, DRRH 2001 seeks to bring together scholars, academic researchers, publishers, librarians and archivists in the region and beyond, with key speakers in the field, to foster the exchange of ideas and to extend the use of digital resources, techniques and tools in humanities research and teaching.
Scope and Keywords
DRRH 2001 intends to attract the reporting of relevant work in a broad range of fields, including archaeology, art history, history, languages and linguistics, literary studies, music, performing arts, as well as work detailing techniques and issues associated with the creation and use of digital texts, databases, images, sound, video and digital mapping.
Possible Keywords: humanities computing; scholarly editing; text encoding; text analysis; textual studies; computational linguistics; GIS mapping; digital libraries; archival description; digital imaging; image delivery; iconic visualisation; multimedia; languages; scripts; special characters; unicode; electronic publishing; markup languages (TEI, EAD); XML; coordination and collaboration issues and outcomes; funding.
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Rioting and looting because the President is out of touch with the people, says Moyano
Argentine dissident organized labour leader Hugo Moyano claimed on Friday that President Cristina Fernandez is out of touch with the people and "the lackeys she has are scared of her and can only say stupid things". Moyano's strong words followed accusations by the government that he was behind the extended rioting and looting that hit several Argentine cities on Thursday and Friday.
"I think the president is out of touch. She sends these blokes to say a lot of stupid and idiotic things. The government can't pretend to be serious with these lackeys", underlined Moyano without naming any official but in direct reference to cabinet chief Juan Manuel Abal Medina and Security Secretary Sergio Berni whom he described as a "devalued Rambo".
The teamsters boss said that the government's officials were a pack of 'bigmouths' that can only repeat stupidities and this is because "the government has no answers, no replies so it then tries to play the role of the victim and accuses the workers"
"These officials are acting as in the time of military dictatorships. They accuse whoever they please and invite people to come and bash us. They are provoking people into violence, when in reality teamsters are victims because many of our lads had their cargoes stolen and were also beaten", insisted Moyano.
The teamsters' leader pledged that "these gentlemen will have to repeat what they are saying before court. They are constantly accusing and disqualifying the workers and the official media are scaring the people to make them think that we who represent workers are responsible for what is going on".
The Government created the conditions for the lootings, not workers underlined Moyano.
Earlier on Friday Cabinet Chief Abal Medina said that the supermarket lootings and widespread violence in several cities across Argentina were linked to anti-government union leaders Hugo Moyano, Pablo Micheli and Luis Barrionuevo.
In Campana, there is someone linked to the Teamsters union stressed the cabinet chief during a ceremony at the Government House. Violent people do not rest and seek to keep on putting a spoke in the wheel, he added.
Berni in Bariloche, (where the looting started on Thursday) with 400 Border Guards patrolling the Patagonian resort said that the looting was 'organized' and 'respond to political issues', and then linked them directly to the dissident unions and their leaders such as Moyano and Pablo Micheli.
"They are isolated incidents clearly organized which attempt to distort social peace, and spoil the great moment Argentina is living" said Abal Medina who added "nobody was after food: they were after plasma TVs, LCD, electrical appliances and drinks".
Asked to be specific about those responsible for organizing the incidents that spread to several provinces and major cities such as Rosario and metropolitan Buenos Aires, Abal Medina said that "the government of Neuquen pointed out to dissident groups from unions and other governors told us they had seen sectors linked to teamsters and the gastronomic union in the incidents".
"We're talking of people who clearly have political intentions", affirmed Abal Medina.


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Julie Herrera, a case manager at North Shore Medical Center, attended the hospital's Better Hearing and Speech event to learn more about communication disorders. Lance Wiener, Speech Language Pathologist, gave information on speech and language disorders and the treatments and therapies available to help these conditions.
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The best news is that there is, for the first time in seemingly forever, no chance of rain today through Tuesday, with only a slight chance on Wednesday or Thursday.


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Apparently it... well I'll just let them tell it because I know very little about the process:
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., blasted an omnibus spending bill over its inclusion of language that could restrict the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in its efforts to update its outdated water control plans for the drought-ravaged river basins that serve Georgia, Florida and Alabama. Isakson and Chambliss voted against the spending bill, which passed the Senate Tuesday evening by a vote of 76 to 17.
Voicing their disapproval on the Senate floor, Isakson and Chambliss criticized the broken appropriations process in Congress that allowed the language to be inserted into the spending bill without any debate or consultation of senators from affected states. The language could block the Corps from meeting its statutory obligations and unnecessarily injects Congress into an issue that should remain in the hands of the Governors of the three affected states.


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The few months has seen a growth in malicious spam targeting user logins, passwords and confidential information, according to a Kaspersky Lab report. The report also revealed that while the volume of spam was down by 2.4 percentage points, the proportion of malicious spam grew more than 1.5 times.
Compared to the previous quarter, Q3 2013 saw the level of phishing emails increase threefold. Trojan-Spy.HTML.Fraud.gen topped the rating of the most popular malicious program spread by email. This malware is designed to look like an html page used as a registration form for online banking services and is used by phishers to steal financial information.
The third quarter of 2013 was full of newsworthy events which grabbed public attention, such as the birth of the royal baby in the UK, the FBI hunt for Edward Snowden and the railway accident in Spain. All this news was used by fraudsters to distribute malware. The links contained in these emails led to compromised websites which redirected users to a page with one of the most popular exploit kits – Blackhole. In October, the author of Blackhole, known as Paunch, was arrested in Russia. What this will mean for the future of the kit remains unclear, but Kaspersky Lab experts suggest it could lead to a drop in the number of malicious "news" mailings.
"In the third quarter we came across a very interesting mass mailing where the fraudsters imitated a reply from the technical support service of a large antivirus company. The email informed the user that a file which he had allegedly sent for analysis turned out to be malware. The 'technical support engineer' attached a 'signature', advising that it would disinfect the computer. However, if users opened the attachment, they would find a malicious program detected by Kaspersky Anti-Virus as Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.q.," commented Darya Gudkova, Head of Content Analysis & Research at Kaspersky Lab.
There was little change in the leading spam sources by country in Q3. The location of botnets appears to be relatively stable, or at least there is a lull in the active relocation of botnets. Asia remained the number one regional source of spam (56.51 per cent). It was followed by North America (20.09 per cent) and Western Europe (13.47 per cent).
The full version of the spam report for Q3 2013 is available at securelist.com.
About Kaspersky Lab
Kaspersky Lab is the world's largest privately held vendor of endpoint protection solutions. The company is ranked among the world's top four vendors of security solutions for endpoint users*. Throughout its more than 15-year history Kaspersky Lab has remained an innovator in IT security and provides effective digital security solutions for large enterprises, SMBs and consumers. Kaspersky Lab, with its holding company registered in the United Kingdom, currently operates in almost 200 countries and territories across the globe, providing protection for over 300 million users worldwide. Learn more at www.kaspersky.co.uk
* The company was rated fourth in the IDC rating Worldwide Endpoint Security Revenue by Vendor, 2011. The rating was published in the IDC report "Worldwide Endpoint Security 2012–2016 Forecast and 2011 Vendor Shares (IDC #235930, July 2012). The report ranked software vendors according to earnings from sales of endpoint security solutions in 2011.


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Recording Zoophilic Follies!
The pledge rewards are really shaping up! I am excited to give them out once they are done.
I will be sending out mp3's of the Redcat performance soon, but... Read more
Thank You!
Thanks everyone for the support!
The show was quite a success, and we are preparing pledge rewards as we speak. As soon as they are ready I'll start contacting everyone... Read more
Meet our designers
We had a great rehearsal with everybody today! The band and singers are sounding great, and the puppetry is really starting to come together. It's going to be quite a... Read more
Meet the musicians
Hey, we're at $655! Thanks everyone, we are getting so close. Let's keep up the momentum!
I want to introduce the awesome instrumental musicians that are bringing the music for ... Read more
Final push of rehearsals!
We just had a piano/vocal rehearsal tonight, and everyone is sounding great!
Check out the websites of our super-talented singers:
Timur Bekbosunov (Daedalus): http://www.theoperaoftimur.com/
Dorian Wood (King Minos/ Minotaur): http://dorianwood.com/
Abby Travis... Read more
Almost halfway! Check out our LA Stage Times post
Wow, we're nearly halfway there!
You guys are awesome!
If you haven't yet, check out librettist Sibyl O'Malley's post in LA Stage Times about Zoophilic Follies
- Daniel


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Out on a limb from the rest of Umbria, ORVIETO is perfectly placed between Rome and Florence to serve as a historical picnic for tour operators. Visitors flood into the town in their millions, drawn by the Duomo, one of the greatest Gothic buildings in Italy. However, once its facade and Signorelli's frescoes have been admired, the town's not quite as exciting as guides and word of mouth make out. This is partly to do with the gloominess of the dark volcanic rock from which it's built, and, more poetically, because it harbours something of the characteristic brooding atmosphere of Etruscan towns (it was one of the twelve-strong federation of Etruscan cities). Two thousand years on, it's not difficult to detect a more laidback atmosphere in the cities east of the Tiber – founded by the Umbrians, a sunnier and easier-going people. All the same Orvieto is likeable, the setting superb, the Duomo unmissable, and the rest of the town good for a couple of hours' visit. And you could always indulge in its renowned white wine if you're stuck with time on your hands.
It is the first impressions of Orvieto from afar that tend to linger; its position is almost as remarkable and famous as its cathedral. The town, rising 300m sheer from the valley floor, sits on a tabletop plug of volcanic lava, one of four such remnants in the vicinity. It starts to look fairly average again from the dismal town around the train station, but hit the twisting 3km road up to the old centre and you begin to get a sense of its drama and one-off weirdness. Orvieto's old centre is compact and walkable: all of the main sights are within a twenty-minute stroll of the Duomo.


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Zaglul's death Probe body formed
Staff reporter A five-member probe committee was formed on Sunday to investigate the bus crash that killed senior journalist Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury. Mashiar Rahman, director (Administration) of BRTA, will head the probe committee. The other members of the body are- Shyamal Dutta, editor of the Daily Bhorer Kagoj, Imtiaz Ahmed, deputy commissioner of Traffic Division (North), Nahmudul Hasan, arban planner of Dhaka Transport Co-Ordination Authority (DTCA), and Khandakar Mahbubur Rahman, traffic control officer of Dhaka North City Corporation. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader disclosed it to the journalists after inaugurating the traffic awareness campaign on the Manik Mia Avenue in the capital in the morning. Lions Club of Dhaka Cambrian Friends, Leo Club of Dhaka Cambrian Friends and Leo Club of Dhaka Cambrian organised the programme with the association of BRTA. Abdul Qauder said the nation has suffered an irrevocable loss with the sad demise of renowned journalist Zaglul Chowdhury. He added that the traffic awareness campaign should be continued to curb road accidents. Former managing director and chief editor of state-run Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury received severe injuries to the head while he was getting off a bus in the city's Karwan Bazar on Saturday night. Later he died after he was taken to a hospital at Panthapath.


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The Cat Who Hated MeClaire Diaz-Ortiz
When I was born, my parents were in year 12 (13?) of the life of E.B. the cat. E.B. (whose real name escapes me), was acquired during my mother's college days, and lingered on throughout my parents' roaring twenties and then into my introduction into their life.
E.B., sadly, never liked me much. There were many reasons, and most of them were terribly obvious. I was human, she was not. I was my parents firstborn human, she was not. I had a bed, she did not.
And so, with the determination that only cats seem to muster, she made it clear that she didn't like me, couldn't stand me, and wanted me packed up and out. Sneering, shunning, and snide cat-language remarks were all part of her repertoire when I entered the room, and my parents soon began to feel that E.B. was asking them to choose. Sadly for E.B., it was the Sophie's choice that never was, and she lived in a state of incessant jealousy, anger, and bitterness. Her place had been taken, and she would never rise above it.
This incredible video, showing the inner thoughts of one French cat named none other than Henri, seems to express everything I believe poor E.B. thought about me, day and in day out, as she stared resentfully at me in my high chair, eating peas and mashed bananas. Such inner cat lines as "I am imprisoned" and "My thumbs are not opposable" seem to convey the overwhelming bitterness that many cats — like E.B. — appear to feel, no matter their circumstances.
Sadly, the story of E.B. is a bad one.
When I was small, and she was sick of lavish attention being extended to the first (human) child my parents had ushered into the world, she left. My parents dutifully put up signs around the neighborhood, searching right and left for signs of their beloved black and white. When she never reappeared, it was assumed that E.B., like any good self-sacrificing cat, had (sadly) gone away to die.
I shouldered this burden for years. (The burden of knowing I had kicked out the cat.) And then, in my own college days, I went in for a de rigueur allergy test. They pricked my back with things and then took vials to look at under microscopes. When they brought me in next, the doctor, proudly, pronounced the result.
Allergic to cats!
E.B. must have known. Of that, I am convinced.


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Doctor accused of running pill mill, license suspended
Dr. Michael Dietch ran pill mill out of apartment, officials say
Published 7:51 AM EDT Sep 06, 2013
A Daytona Beach doctor's license has been suspended after being accused of running an illegal pill mill out of his apartment.
Dr. Michael Dietch was arrested for pot possession last year.
In the Health Department report, investigators said they found patient files on the floor and furniture of his apartment.
According to investigators, on the floor were several spiral notebooks which recorded patient visits.
Related: Florida mug shots
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Daytona 500 winner Trevor Bayne said Friday he admires Tim Tebow and wishes he displayed his faith as strongly as the quarterback does.
Bayne was the upset winner in a thrilling finish last year in the Daytona 500, and the 20-year-old Baptist has used his newfound fame as a platform for his religion. He said he talked to Tebow over the phone in the whirlwind media tour following his victory and that the Denver quarterback gave him useful advice.
The two met in person briefly at the ESPYs and have since exchanged occasional text messages.
"He gave me a lot of great advice because he's been through things that I had not yet got to, and now I've experienced them and his advice really helped out," Bayne said.
"Tebow is a great guy. He is everything that he says he is, and I think that's what's so awesome because we see so much in our world of people talking up a good game ... but they are not what they say they are. I think he really is."
EMPORIA, Kan. — During the week, Gary Smith is Emporia's Police Chief but on Sundays he has been preaching — not to police officers, but to members of the Emporia Presbyterian Church. Emporia is a city of about 25,000 residents in the eastern part of the state.
Since June, Smith has filled in as a preacher while the Rev. Mike Sorsen has dealt with the debilitating effects of Lyme disease. Everybody in the congregation of about 250 people pulled together, Smith said.
"I'm just one of the folks that stepped up," he said.
CRANSTON, R.I. — Police are investigating threats on social media directed at the 16-year-old atheist at the center of a legal battle over a prayer banner at her public high school in Rhode Island.
Cranston police Maj. Robert Ryan said Friday authorities are questioning people who have threatened to harm Cranston High School West student Jessica Ahlquist.
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the removal of a prayer banner at her school. The Rhode Island American Civil Liberties Union sued the city and School Committee last year over the prayer. Ryan said investigators are focusing on five to 10 people. He said most of the threats are from Cranston residents.
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I understand that is 27,000 metric tons of corn, rice, and corn-soy blend. The two ships from Houston, Texas, are supposed to arrive at Nampo in North Korea on May 6th and May 22nd. Of the $15 million tranche that we announced the other day, 50,000 metric tons of corn, we believe that the ships carrying that corn can arrive in approximately two months. Now, we are part of a larger international effort. Other countries, many of them closer to North Korea, will be donating food as well. We assume that those closer will be getting the food in a nearer time to the North Koreans, and that will help serve some of the short-term need to get food to the people and the young kids who need that food. If the World Food Program asked us to engage in any kind of a swap, I'm sure we'd consider it. But we have to rely on the organization of the World Food Program in this instance. And I think that we have responded. We have certainly taken the leading position in the world in responding to this. We're offering more money. We're offering a greater volume of food than any other country. We will be flexible in the way we do this because we want to be helpful to help resolve the problem. Q: You mention countries closer. He and Tony Hall say that the Japanese, who are close, have been reluctant to contribute any new food because of the political problems they have been having with North Korea. Has anybody joined the United States in this last -- in response to this last appeal? BURNS: I don't have a tally list. You'll have to ask the United Nations, which is coordinating this. I'm sure that other countries have. But I just -- I don't have the list in front of me. Now, the Japanese have -- you know, they have been reluctant in the past. They'll have to make their own decisions. We do believe there is a humanitarian imperative here. The World Food Program is focusing on kids, six years of age and under, who are either malnourished or, in some cases, starving. So we think there's an humanitarian imperative and on that basis we made the decision -- not on a political basis, but humanitarian. Any follow-ups on North Korea? Ron? Q: In New York, apparently, the North Koreans are looking for more food commitments before they commit to the four-party talks. Is that something the United States can make any more commitments on? BURNS: I think the United States has done what it can in committing to $25 million in food aid. I'm not aware of any initiative within the State Department or the U.S. government to try to see if we would ratchet that up. We've also said very clearly, we don't believe it is wise to link questions of food delivery with political questions, like whether or not we re going to have a peace treaty to end the Korean War. Now, yesterday, Chuck Kartman, our negotiator, reported to you that he had found encouraging progress in his day-long talks with the South Koreans and the North Koreans. They'll meet again tomorrow on a trilateral basis in New York. We, of course, hope that at the end of the day tomorrow, we'll be able to say that the North Koreans and the South Koreans and the United States have agreed, along with China, to four-party talks. We hope we can get there, but I can't predict that. We'll have to see where we are. I understand that after the trilateral meeting, probably on Saturday, there'll be a bilateral meeting between the United States and North Korea to discuss the MIA issue, the agreed framework, to discuss the possible opening of liaison offices in each other's capitals. Today, I think there are some informal working-level conversations underway among the three countries, but Chuck Kartman is testifying before Congress here in Washington. That's the reason why -- one of the reasons why the talks couldn't continue today in New York. So we're hopeful that the talks might be successful, but it's never over until it's finally over. So we have to be a little bit skeptical until we get to the end. Q: It is a generally known fact that North Koreans are suffering from food shortages. However, Mr. Son Song Pir, who is North Korean Ambassador to Moscow, said yesterday there is no food crisis whatsoever in North Korea at all. BURNS: He must be misinformed. Q: Yes. BURNS: Because we have heard directly from North Korean government officials that there is a food shortage. That's what they said at the United Nations and that's what they've said at the United States. So I can't explain adequately the reasons for this very curious statement out of the North Korean Minister to Moscow. Q: Officially he's an ambassador saying -- announced in front of -- you know -- BURNS: That statement is at complete variance with everything else the North Koreans have told us. 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close over 28 and start assuaulting that key 30 level next week.. show me something
you're such a whiner. you offer nothing to this board.
curious what do you offer....... this stock should be higher then this... all i care about is shareholder value
You'll see it when you believe it....... Mr. Duggan (HE KNOWS)
well, my timeframe goes a little beyond a few months. hell, why don't we look at the 3 day chart for an even shorter timeframe. i guess you can see whatever you want to see
Your timeframe and my timeframe are irrelevant. Waithamcross didn't buy in (or didn't start posting) until after 2Q earnings, so he's complaining that the pps hasn't moved since then.If you're going to argue a point, make sure you have your facts right.
my facts are straight fella. the 1 year chart shows the stock has made tremendous gains and if you are going to look at such a small period of time then yeah, you can see whatever you want to see. go away. you're useless.
Okay, so you're not very bright. I'm sorry about that. Someone complains about pps movement in a particular period of time and you trot out the whole glorious history of the stock to prove them wrong. Then someone points out that you're posting nonsense and you throw a tantrum. Pure genius.
actually, the stupidity is coming from you. i think a 1 year chart shows a much more realistic view of the stock's performance than just a few months. the stock has been on a meteoric rise, as pointed out by the 1 year chart. a stock does not always go straight up and it will go through periods of consolidation but the move over the last year has been incredible. unfortunately, as i pointed out above, you're stupid so you are unable to graspt the entire picture. are you now going to proclaim the stock is a total loser based on the last 2 days? dork!


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Warner Bros. sets up Mel Gibson, Joe Eszterhas drama about Jewish hero
In what's sure to be a controversial development, Deadline is reporting that Warner Bros. has set up an as-yet-untitled historical drama being co-written by Mel Gibson and Joe Eszterhas. The controversial part? It's about a Jewish guerrilla leader who's celebrated by Jews every year on Hanukkah.
The leader in question is Judah Maccabee, who with his father and four brothers led a successful rebellion against the Greek-Syrian Selecuid Empire in the second century BCE to regain control of Judea. Following the triumphant revolt, Jewish religous practices were reasserted in the region after being banned by its former rulers.
Gibson will collaborate on the script with Eszterhas while also exercising a first option to direct. Whether or not he takes the helm, he'll be serving as a producer on the project through his company, Icon Productions.
Gibson has reportedly desired to put a Maccabee biopic together for years, though with recent controversies - including a notorious anti-Semitic rant during a drunk driving arrest in 2006 - he hasn't exactly endeared himself to the Jewish community. In other words, the commercial viability of the project seems questionable.
The actor/director originally came to major blows with Jewish audiences during the run of his blockbuster 2004 religious film "The Passion of the Christ", which depicted the final few hours of Jesus Christ in graphic detail. Critics asserted Gibson had intentionally painted the film's Jewish characters in a negative light and subsequently labeled the film as anti-Semitic.
Speaking of commercial viability, "The Beaver" - Gibson's most recent film - flopped back in May with less than $1 million in domestic receipts. His last directorial effort "Apocalypto" was more successful, grossing over $120 million worldwide on a reported $40 million budget.
As for the reclusive Eszterhas, his last screenwriting credit was on the 2006 film "Children of Glory", which commemorated Hungary's 1956 Revolution. Earlier in his career he was one of the most sought-after scribes in Hollywood, with credits including "Flashdance", "Jagged Edge", "Basic Instinct", and "Showgirls".


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In today's Wall Street Journal Jason Zweig makes a bold statement claiming gold mining stocks as being cheap ("Is Gold Cheap? Who Knows? But Gold Mining Stocks Are"). While denying any ability in valuing gold he argues gold companies are cheap at a P/E of 14.
Coming from the editor of the most recent edition of "The Intelligent Investor" I found this logic abominable. In today's market a P/E of 14 is not even that impressive. Walmart sells for 11 and Wells Fargo at just over 9, so by his same logic those companies must be steals.
One of the companies Zweig mentioned was Barrick Gold (NYSE:ABX), and it is currently trading at a price to earnings of around 14 or right around the average of the S&P 500 index. On further inspection of the company you will see some particular trends which don't seem favorable. The first being operating and net margins in 2010 were the highest in 12 years and likely farther yet as I only went back to 1999 figures. Not surprisingly margins have trended up over the last 10 years as the price of gold has gone up.
Of additional concern was the company's net loss and free cash flow loss in 2009. It was not a small loss, but a gaping $4.48 billion loss that would wipe out profits the company made collectively in 2008 and 2010. I don't need to look for an explanation for the loss; solid businesses don't have such catastrophic losses. Wells Fargo, which is the largest lender of home mortgages, still managed to squeeze out a profit in the worse possible mortgage environment for each of the last three years. If Barrick can't sustain positive earnings in the best of times for gold producers, then you must wonder about the caliber of the business.
Zweig, however, does acknowledge the possibility of gold tumbling to $900. A fall of that magnitude would bring earnings crashing down. How probable that event is makes all the difference, but I would bet it's not all that improbable. By contrast a bank such as Wells Fargo could get hit with a $10 billion lawsuit relating to mortgage servicing. The bank could see an exodus of its customers to credit unions.
Various other risks could manifest themselves. These risks though I can safely assume are highly improbable. Even if the bank were to be hit with a $10 billion lawsuit it would not be as catastrophic as a crash in gold prices to gold miners. If gold were to fall to $900 earnings would be impaired for years to come. By contrast a huge lawsuit would be shrugged off in a year by Wells Fargo and future earnings would return to normal. Casual examinations of stocks such as Zweig's can prove quite costly. His idea of "cheapness" of stocks is also suspect.
Benjamin Graham, whom Zweig's column is referencing, has a much more narrow notion of cheapness, and a P/E of 14 is certainly north of his range. Though I enjoyed Zweig's commentary in the 2003 edition of "The Intelligent Investor," his column certainly does not meet the same standard of reasoning.
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More than fifty years ago, the Great Books Movement started at the University of Chicago with the idea that ordinary people could meet and discuss the enduring ideas and issues found in classic writings. The Great Books Foundation promotes reading and conversation about great literature through discussion groups.
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The Zephyrs' hitting woes continued Thursday night while the Cubs belted three home runs as New Orleans fell 4-0 at Zephyrs Field.
New Orleans' bats have fallen silent against Iowa as the Zephyrs have managed just three runs in 33 innings during the home stand.
"They say that hitting is contagious, and it's showing that right now," Zephyrs Manager Andy Haines said. "We've scored one run in the last however many innings. We just haven't scored much, but Elih (Villanueva) gave us a chance tonight. He did his job, but we just couldn't score any runs."
The Cubs stranded seven runners in the first three innings including the bases loaded in the first, but Iowa broke through in the fifth inning. The Cubs (60-54) took the lead as Logan Watkins opened the fifth with an infield single followed by a towering two-run home run to left field by Javy Baez (3-for-5), who is the fifth-ranked prospect in minor league baseball. It was Baez's 21st home run of the season and second in the past three games.
Elih Villanueva (9-7) pitched well through five innings allowing two runs on six hits and five walks. He struck out four in 101 pitches.
While the Cubs took advantage of one Villanueva mistake, the Zephyrs bats struggled against Cubs starter Dan Straily (5-6), who pitched six shutout innings allowing four hits and one walk. He struck out five on 91 pitches and allowed just one extra base hit. Straily started the season with Oakland before being traded to Chicago as part of the Jeff Samardzija trade on July 5.
"I've just working on some adjustments the last three or four weeks I've been here, and it seemed like it all came together tonight," Straily said. "It's just been a few mechanical things that I saw on the video. I'm just trying to get back to the pitcher that I am. Everything was better tonight. The bite on my pitches was better, so I just want to continue to get better."
New Orleans (56-57) tried to rally in the sixth when Zack Cox (1-for-2, walk) belted an one-out double to the center field wall, but Justin Bour grounded in a rare 4-1 put out, thanks to a formation shift when the second baseman fielded the ball in shallow left field.
The Cubs padded their lead in the seventh when Kris Bryant belted a solo home run down the right field line followed just two batters later by Mike Olt's solo shot down the left field line. Both runs came off reliever Grant Dayton.
The five-game series will wrap up tomorrow at 7 p.m. before the Nashville Sounds begin a four-game series at Zephyr Field on Saturday.
MARISNICK TRADED TO HOUSTON: Zephyrs center fielder Jake Marisnick is headed to Houston after he was part of six-player deal that sent Astros right-hander Jarred Cosart, outfielder/second baseman Enrique Hernandez and Minor League outfielder Austin Wates to Miami for prospects Marisnick, Colin Moran, Francis Martes and a 2015 competitive balance Draft pick.
Marisnick was optioned back to New Orleans on Wednesday prior to the deal. Marisnick made one pinch-hitting appearance Tuesday for Miami after being called up on Monday. With the Zephyrs this season, Marisnick played in 89 games batting .277 (95-for-343) with 10 home runs, 16 doubles and 40 RBI.
"Personally, I'm going to miss Jake because of his talent and the way he goes about it," Haines said. "He plays so hard, and honestly, I feel like he was one of the most improved players on the club. He's a guy we're going to miss. We're excited for the guys we're going to get, but we're also happy that he can go to Houston and start in the big leagues."
Marisnick is scheduled to start Thursday for the Astros while Wates has been assigned to New Orleans and should join the team on Thursday. Marlins pitcher Dan Jennings and infielder Ed Lucas were also optioned to New Orleans on Thursday.


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The Australia and New Zealand currencies advanced for a third day against the yen as rising commodities prices supported the outlook for exports.
The New Zealand dollar, known as the kiwi, maintained gains against most major counterparts from yesterday after Auckland-based Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd., the world's largest dairy exporter, said whole-milk powder prices reached a two-month high. Demand for the South Pacific nations' currencies was limited before U.S. data forecast to show housing starts hovered around the highest level since 2008, adding to speculation the Federal Reserve will refrain from further stimulus measures.
"Higher commodity prices are lending some support to the Aussie and kiwi," said Daisaku Ueno, a senior foreign-exchange and fixed-income strategist at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co. in Tokyo, a unit of Japan's biggest listed bank. "Good U.S. data are essentially a plus for the growth-related currencies, but no additional stimulus from the Fed as a result may be a disappointment at the same time."
Australia's dollar rose 0.1 percent to 83.06 yen at 4:16 p.m. in Sydney from the close yesterday, when it gained 0.5 percent. The Aussie slid 0.3 percent to $1.0477, following a 0.2 percent advance yesterday. The kiwi fetched 80.60 U.S. cents from 80.71, after yesterday climbing from 80.37, the weakest since July 27. It added 0.2 percent to 63.90 yen.
The Thomson Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index of raw materials rose for a second day yesterday, gaining 0.5 percent. The yield on 10-year government notes in Australia climbed today as much as 16 basis points, or 0.16 percentage point, to 3.52 percent, rising above the central bank's overnight cash-rate target, for the first time since March. The key interest rate is currently held at 3.5 percent.
Milk Prices
Whole-milk powder for October delivery rose 7.3 percent, according to a trade-weighted index on Fonterra's GlobalDairyTrade website. The near-term contract gained to $2,870 a metric ton, the most since June 19.
U.S. housing starts were at a 756,000 annual pace in July after reaching a 760,000 rate in June, the fastest since October 2008, according to the median estimate of economists in a Bloomberg News survey before today's report.
Fed Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said the U.S. economy probably won't lapse into recession in 2013 and that new stimulus wouldn't spur growth. He spoke in a CNBC interview yesterday.
The U.S. central bank has held its target for overnight bank lending in a range of zero to 0.25 percent since 2008 and plans to keep it there at least through late 2014 to stimulate the world's biggest economy. The Fed also bought $2.3 trillion of mortgage and Treasury debt from 2008 to 2011 in two rounds asset purchases known as quantitative easing, or QE.
Upside Surprise
"If U.S. data continue to surprise to the upside, then the market is likely to scale back expectations of QE, which could result in a risk-off response," strategists Mary Nicola, Kiran Kowshik, Michael Sneyd and Steven Saywell at BNP Paribas SA wrote in a note to clients yesterday.
In China, Premier Wen Jiabao said easing inflation is allowing room to adjust monetary policy. The Asian nation, Australia's biggest trading partner and New Zealand's second-largest export destination, has cut the reserve-requirement ratio for banks three times starting in November and lowered interest rates in June and July.


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I have posted updates and if you follow the instructions then it won't repaint and you will have highest win rate.Ignored
I have posted updates and if you follow the instructions then it won't repaint and you will have highest win rate.Ignored
If you have any suggestions so that indicator do not repaint, you are welcomeIgnored
You changed the rules but not the code right?
Hi all.
You indicator is interesting. Thanks for show it.
Indicator repaints cause it based on BB and BB is a live indicator. But you can probe how i describe at chart attached.
For Sell. Draw a horizontal line at 50% last histogram below 0 line. When first bar touch this line enter a sell order. No need wait bar close if you wont. Exit when price touch horizontal line drawed at 50% level of last histrogram bar secuencial above 0.
I dont know if you understand it. Apologize my english.
You can probe at simulator and coment it.
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2nd trade with this system..Ignored
what is the calculation of this histogram indicator.... I didn't see it based on the width of BB bands?Ignored
I didn't see the histogram value changing once the candle corresponding to it, is closed. Am I missing something?
Histogram indicator and Template file is attached.
When to use:Use this this system during EU and US session
When Not to use:Be careful before any important (Red Report in Forexfactory.com) report is released.
Note: When histogram value turns into positive/negative value, wait until candle close. Sometimes Bar already touch the opposite band before histogram value turns into negative/positive value then in that case do not place order.
Many traders visited this thread and some of them worried about repainting...Ignored
setup..u can check on the page 1..Ignored
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I do not have MQ4 file of histogram because i did not create that file. I have tested more than 100 trading systems and i downloaded from any of one system. I really do not remember what is source of that indicator but i just found that there is another indicator which is same as my histogram indicator and name of that indicator is "fisher1". You can go to the trading system Fisher/Float and download the MQ4 file if it is available.
I am not just here to promote my thread but my purpose is to provide such system which is profitable for new...Ignored
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hi aahmad29,
your strategy seems have high win rate,i will test more later.
How long have you used this indicator and which pairs do you trade?
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Rapala as a Confidence Bait
Every angler should have a confidence bait or maybe two. Doing so improves his odds, and I explain why in Better Bass Fishing.
Mine is a lipless crankbait, preferably a Spot or Rat-L-Trap. I've caught bass up to 12-4 with it.
For my neighbor across the lake, it's a small, floating Rapala. Unless he is using live bait, it's the only thing that he throws in our little clear-water fishery. He catches plenty of bass on it, too. One evening last summer, he handed the rod to me, and I immediately caught a 5-pound channel catfish with the bait.
Also, I've tried other swimming minnows while he is catching fish with the Rapala. No luck. For whatever reason, fish in this lake want the "wounded minnow" developed by Finnish fisherman Lauri Rapala back in 1936.
And based on the bait's success worldwide, I'm guessing that it is the preferred forage of lots of other fish around the world as well.
Here's a little background on the bait from the Rapala company:
The brand was unofficially founded in 1936 when Finnish fisherman Lauri Rapala made one simple, yet genius observation: Big fish eat little fish, particularly the wounded ones. As he fished the waters of Finland's Lake Paijanne, he noticed how predator fish would dart into a school of minnows and attack the one that swam with a slightly off-centered wobble again and again.
This elegant insight led Lauri to pick up a carving knife to whittle, shave and sand the original Rapala fishing lure. With makeshift household materials such as cork, tinfoil and melted photographic negatives, he crafted and painstakingly tested a lure that perfectly mimicked the action of a wounded minnow and would ultimately become the forefather of the legendary Original Floating™ Rapala.
From these humble origins, the greatest fishing story ever told began. As anglers around the globe began to catch more and bigger fish with the lure, the legend of Rapala grew. It became clear that the Rapala's groundbreaking 'wounded minnow' action was the key to triggering strike after strike from fish of all species in nearly any application.
In 1959, Normark Corporation was established and set out to increase distribution of Rapala lures to U.S. fishing enthusiasts, helping to offer the brand's innovative designs to more people than ever before.
Since the inception of Lauri Rapala's original lure, Rapala has become a market leader known to anglers worldwide as the standard in functionality and high quality.
Today, more anglers put their faith in Rapala lures and accessories than any other brand. In fact, Rapala now consists of such world-known brands as VMC, Blue Fox, Williamson, Luhr-Jensen, Storm, Terminator, Sufix, Trigger X and ICE FORCE.
Confidence in the company's ever-growing selection of products has spread to more than 140 countries worldwide and is validated with approximately 20 million lures sold annually and the prestigious claim that more world-record fish have been caught on Rapala lures than any other brand of fishing lures.


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Vocational education
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n JACKSON – The Mississippi Construction Education Foundation recently awarded grants to eight Mississippi schools with 19 vocational programs designated as Accredited Training and Education Facilities by the National Center for Construction Education and Research. The grants included a $500 cash incentive grant and $200 worth of e-learning books.
The eight schools receiving funds are Forest/Scott County Career & Technology Center, Greenville Technical Center, Hancock County Vo-Tech Center, Itawamba County Vocational Center, Lawrence County Technical & Career Center, Pontotoc Ridge Career & Technology Center, Simpson County Technical Center and West Point Career & Technology Center.
Honors Day, society
inductions upcoming
n OXFORD – Outstanding students from all disciplines and the top teacher on campus will be recognized Thursday at the University of Mississippi's 65th annual Honors Day Convocation.
The convocation begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Ford Center for the Performing Arts. Forty-six students are to be awarded Marcus Elvis Taylor Memorial Medals for academic excellence and one faculty member is to be recognized as the campuswide Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher of the Year.
At separate ceremonies, new members are to be inducted into the university's top two student honor societies. Phi Kappa Phi has scheduled a ceremony Thursday at 3 p.m. in the Ford Center. Phi Beta Kappa holds its ceremony Friday at 2 p.m. in the Paul B. Johnson Commons Ballroom.
Honors Day convocation guest speaker is David Willson, UM's band director and 2007 Hood Award recipient.
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As MMA is nearly legal in every state, one state is halting all combat sports from being approved within the state. Effective right now the Oklahoma State Athletic Commission has halted approving event permits for all combative sports (MMA, Boxing, etc.) the Commission regulates for events after March 31st, this according to the Director of Oklahoma State Athletic Commission, Joe Miller who talked with MMAValor regarding the matter.
It should be noted that there is one boxing event scheduled for April 7th 2012 but that was approved only because they requested and were approved prior to the issues that have arisen.
Those issues are money, or better yet the lack thereof. But there is a little more to this story than the Commission not having any money. The UFC has threatened the Oklahoma State Athletic Commission with legal action against the states Pay-per-view law, which has been in effect since 2004. The law means the promoter most pay the Commission based off receipts from their PPV, which according to Miller is approx. $80k per year from the UFC.
Without this tax the commission would no longer have the funds to operate. In an email to MMAValor, Miller laid it out thus:
"It takes approximately $360K for the Commission to provide regulation for the approximately 275 events per year we regulate. The Oklahoma State Athletic Commission does not receive any state funding. We are funded solely from license fees, assessment on live events, and an assessment on pay-per-view events. We receive approximately $137K per year through license fees and assessments on live events. Receipts from Pay-per-view are approximately $240K per year. About $80K per year comes from UFC PPV. The UFC has threatened a law suit against our PPV law unless our legislature repeals our PPV law during this legislative session. The Commission loses either way. OK has been collecting on PPV since 2004 and this is the first time the issue has been brought to light. For the Oklahoma Commission to survive and for Combat Sports to continue in Oklahoma it will be up to the Oklahoma legislature to come up with a solution to the funding shortfall. You can do the math."
What do you guys think?
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In a longstanding departmental tradition, Dr. Tsui recently traveled with a group of Millsaps students to the annual meeting of the Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association (AMSA).
Part of that longstanding tradition is a legacy of winners in the student paper competition. This year, Wade Smith became part of that legacy when he won second place in the undergraduate paper competition.
Wade was one of four majors or minors in Sociology & Anthropology that travelled with Dr. Ming Tsui to present a paper at the meeting. All of the students were excellent representatives of the College and the department. Here is a list of the students and their paper titles:
The papers the students presented came out of Dr. Tsui's "Social Stratification: Class, Gender, Race" class. This was the 44th annual meeting of AMSA. This year's theme was "SOCIOLOGY: From Social Problems to Social Future."
The department congratulates all of the students for representing Millsaps so well at the conference.


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Supply teaching job again today. 4th in a row!
I grabbed a wedge of quiche on my way out the door (before 7) and ate it in the car.
I got a new tea the other day, Celestial Seasonings Bengal Spice. I LOVE the smell of it!
The box says "Brimming with cinnamon, ginger, cardamom and cloves, a cup of our aromatic Bengal Spice tea is like a trip to an exotic spice market in a faraway land. This adventurous blend is our caffeine-free interpretation of Chai, a piquant Indian brew traditionally made with black tea. Try Bengal Spice with milk and sugar for a true Chai experience" (I didn't add the sugar)
Ingredients: Cinnamon, roasted chicory, roasted carob, natural flavours (??), ginger, cardamom, black pepper, cloves and nutmeg.
It's as good as it sounds :)
The students were very good today. That's always nice. Last class, grade 9 math. They were done the work half way through the class so we got out a Star Wars Monopoly game to play. After school I went to the chiropractor.
I don't want to jinx it (knock on wood) but I [I]think[/I] my back [I]may[/I] be getting slightly better :)
I stopped at an antique store and had a second look at a dresser that I like.
When I got gas I did NOT buy candy!
I got home and had a small sliver of quiche. And then I had a handful of pistachios, [SIZE=1]and maybe nibbled on some butter while I was cooking[/SIZE] BUT, for the 4th day in a row, I had NO WINE! I know! I had mineral water in my wine glass.
We had pan fried fish (cod maybe??) fried potatoes and zucchini, and a cucumber/feta/olive salad. With half of a mango for "dessert" I made another Bengal Spice to take to play practice.
I left my iPhone at home!! I felt so...naked...without it.
Something I ate in the past few days doesn't agree with my skin. For the 1st time in months, I have a pimple on my chin :(
It appeared yesterday morning...I hope it's not the Cacao Nibs :( Of course, Monday and Tuesday I was experimenting with high fat, so I had more cream and cheeses than normal...maybe it's that.


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Tiffin reports
An Indiana woman reported Sunday evening her children were being abused in Tiffin and New Riegel.
A 100-block Melmore Street man reported Sunday evening the landlord took his belongings.
A person reported Sunday night an assault at Hedges-Boyer Park, 491 Coe St.
A first-block Egbert Park Drive resident reported Monday morning the residence was entered overnight.
A person reported Monday morning damage to glass at PNC Bank, 550 W. Market St.
A 600-block South Sandusky Street woman reported Monday morning several items came up missing when she moved.
A 200-block Elm Avenue woman reported identity theft Monday morning.
A first-block Center Street resident went to the station Monday morning to report the theft of a utility trailer.
A 100-block First Avenue resident reported Monday afternoon neighborhood children had been breaking into a vacant building.
A 100-block Schonhardt Street woman reported Monday afternoon she was trying to move out, and a person broke things.
County reports
A 500-block East SR 18 woman reported Sunday evening her ex-boyfriend took items and damaged her trunk lid.
A woman in the 6000 block of East CR 38 reported a physical dispute Sunday night.
A person in the first block of Lelar Street reported Monday morning theft by credit card by a former employee.
Fostoria reports
A person reported Sunday night two girls were throwing items at cars near West Center and North Main streets.
The principal of Riley Elementary School, 1324 Walnut St., requested an officer Monday morning for vandalism.
A 700-block Eastern Avenue man went to the station Monday morning and reported he was notified fraudulent credit lines were opened in his name.
A person from Below Insurance Services, 307 N. Main St., reported a scam Monday morning.
County accidents
A vehicle was reported in the ditch at North TR 111 and West CR 38 Monday morning.
A person reported Monday afternoon a bus hit a parked car in the parking lot at Seneca County Opportunity Center, 780 E. CR 20.
Fostoria accident
Rachel N. McClellan, 27, of Fostoria, was cited with backing without due regard after an accident in the 300 block of East Tiffin Street May 8.
Fostoria fire
Firefighters were called to an open burning investigation at 1020 Buckley St. Sunday evening. They advised the resident of open burning laws again.
Probate Court
Bonnie Jean McClelland, Fostoria.
Robert E. Vogel, Tiffin.
Marva M. Coffman, Tiffin.
John K. Schetter, Tiffin.
Robert F. Martin, Tiffin.
David A. Rhodes, Tiffin.
Emil Becker, Tiffin.
Robert M. Flood, Attica.
Marriage license applications
Nicholas Andrew Lee Spell and Amy Joanna Lehosit, Tiffin.
Matthew Allan Schock, Attica, and Brianne Elizabeth Henney, Bellevue.
Cody Tyler Krupp and Timberly Anne Zimmerman, Tiffin.
Christopher Eric Close, Bellevue, and Brooke Marie Hall, Green Springs.
Michael Allen Biddle and Connie Marie Biddle, Fostoria.
Aaron David Comer and Danielle Ann Page, Tiffin.
Jeffrey Lee Spires and Angela Nicole Stewart, Fostoria.
Kyle Andrew Cessna and Amber Lynn Salazar, Fostoria.
Zachery Ryan Sipperley and Anna Christine Costilla, Tiffin.
Fostoria Municipal Court
James E. Reinhart II, 516 N. Poplar St., pleaded no contest to two theft charges, 30 days jail, seven days credit, one year of community control, $270, $260; pleaded no contest to failure to control, own recognizance bond, $161.
Nicholas R. Thomson, Findlay, preliminary waivers on three burglary charges, own recognizance bond, bound over to Seneca County Common Pleas Court.
Garrett D. Bays, Findlay, preliminary waivers on three burglary charges, own recognizance bond, bound over to Seneca County Common Pleas Court.
Michael S. Delarosa, 411 Ash St., pleaded no contest to open container violation, $135.
Ashleigh N. Riley, Fremont, pleaded no contest to driving under Financial Responsibility Act suspension, $297.
Albert S. McBeth, 903 Lincoln Ave., pleaded no contest to speed, $134.
Tiffany A. Jackson, 246 W. Lytle St., pleaded no contest to failure to control, $145.
William W. Waltermyer, 331 W. High St., pleaded no contest to start/back violation, $145.
Corn: $6.08
Wheat: $6.03
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I'm back with a bunch more CookieCrazie chatter.
ONE WEEK from today, Friday, June 1, 2012,
Many cookiers will be busy busy busy signing up for
If you are nervous about getting one of the 200 spots for the event,
check out Mike's tips on helping you secure a spot.
There's some new things on the CookieCon site:
Set your clocks for June 1, at 7:00pm Mountain Time (6:00pm West, 8:00pm Central, 9:00pm East). Tickets will be available for purchase through Karen's Cookies,
but a link will be provided on the CookieCon website.
CookieCrazie Fave Pics/Tutos of the Week
Exquisite Heart Cookie by Nadia of My Little Bakery
Girls Night In Collection by Christine of Sugar Cravings
Simple Graduation Cookie Platter by Callye of SweetSugarBelle
Rock Cookies by Andrea of Cupookie
Memorial Day Flag Cookie Platter by Lisa of BearFootBaker
Let's Talk About Hue - Color Basics by Georganne of Lilaloa
Simple Striped Cookies in RWB by Callye of SweetSugarBelle
CookieCrazie's Week in Review
Personal Side
My college graduate son just got a job doing what he loves to do!
Yippee. That's a huge answer to prayer. :)
I'm gearing up for the Ukraine Women's Bible study that I'm going teach
in July. I got a huge chunk written the other day. Still lots more to go.
Can you believe the summer is here?
It's going to be hot, hot, hot here all weekend.
Enjoy the long weekend.
I'll be inside staying cool and working on my UA Bible study. :)


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Editor of Deal: Sale 'Quiet Triumph' on 'Sad and Uncertain Day'
Here is a parting note about the closing of The Deal magazine and the sale of the company sent to staff by Bob Teitelman, the magazine's editor in chief.
From: Robert Teitelman
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 9:45 AM
Subject: One last note
Folks: This will undoubtedly be the last wandering note you get from me as your editor in chief. And no, it is not about the yearend issue. The news is now public. After nearly 14 years – 13 almost to the day of publishing – I will be leaving along with some of your colleagues. New ownership is arriving and undoubtedly a new way of doing things will arrive with them. Perhaps these will produce a better product; perhaps not. This is, I know, a sad and uncertain day but I don't want to finish up here on a melancholy note. As I've said many times over the years, eventually we would be sold. And, indeed, to be sold in reasonable shape, with a stable business model, and somewhere in the neighborhood of profitability, is something of a quiet triumph, given our years of losses and crises and searching. Who would have imagined, in those early days, that we would have lasted so long? (Give credit to Bruce's deep pockets.) How many other publications have fallen by the wayside in those years?
I've long been proud of this newsroom. Yes, we had our limitations. We were constantly juggling bodies to get everything done and everything covered. We could have had more scoops or displayed more enterprise, though you can say that about nearly everyone. We were resource constrained. We had our dysfunctions, our failures and our moments of lunacy, not to say the Friday Wine Club. But we also effectively pioneered this particular subsector of financial journalism. Enough folks here cared enough about the subject to make themselves into legitimate experts, with deep relationships. We never stopped trying and I always thought there was a vast amount of creativity dampened by the increasing reality that we lacked the resources to pull new ideas off. It's true, we developed a brand (helped along again by Bruce's money), which the business folks always treat as if it were some magic amulet. But more importantly, we gained credibility with some of the most discriminating readers and users on the planet; if there is a reason to buy us, that's it, though credibility is an infinitely fragile quality won or lost every day. And after the breakdowns and miscues of the first Daily Deal – a nightmare to close – this newsroom developed into an extremely efficient operation. Each year, it seems, we saw headcount fall and the sheer number of things to report, edit, art and produce grew: dailies twice a day, magazines, newsletters, data, blogs, videos, Webcasts, conferences, custom projects. Somewhere around 2000, the newsroom boasted nearly 120 people (yes, it was nuts), not including a veritable army of overseas stringers. For the last few years we've made do with around 65, supplemented by a mere handful of stringers in Europe. How did this happen? Folks learned what they needed to do, and when, and they executed day after day after day. Everyone multitasked: daily and magazine; Web and print; video and conferences. Despite the usual personality issues, we learned to collaborate across platforms. We were, in that slippery phrase, platform agnostic. We hit deadlines.
I would add two additional things we should be proud of. We knew early on that we needed to get sophisticated fast. To do that required keeping talented reporters and editors and letting them explore their beats. Inevitably, we lost our share of folks; some departures were serious blows. But we developed a newsroom where, I think, reporters felt they could go as deep as their mental capacity (that wayward thing) could take them. Time was always short, and the demands for copy inexorable, but I don't ever remember saying don't tackle a subject because it's too difficult. We wanted complexity and we wanted nuance. I wish we had written more profiles, both institutional and personal. I wish that we could have predicted the future more accurately. I wish we were smarter and more enterprising. (And I wish, oh how I wish, that we had sold more advertising too.) But I do believe that the powerful combinations of daily and magazine, Web and print, allowed us to satisfy the two sides of the editorial brain: the appetite for news and the need for analysis and meaning. Sophisticated coverage requires both those poles, and the tensions they engender.
There's a lot of memories here to be sorted out and weighed in time. But for now I can only thank the folks that have labored in this newsroom, past and present. We undoubtedly deserved better, like those options coming into the money. But we can all be proud for what we did here, in good times and bad, for persevering and caring and trying to engage this most subjective and elusive of professions in the right way – the professional way. The grey heads among us know this is rarer than you'd think. So I toast (yes, I will be toasting) all Dealers, past and present. It was (mostly) fun. And that's all you can ask. Bob


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Save Our Schools!
In 2011, the Republicans in the Texas House dealt a devastating blow to our children's public schools.
And HD 34 State Representative Connie Scott rigidly followed the party line on every key vote.
So far, almost 11,000 teachers have lost their jobs and, overall, the state is short 15,000 teachers. School districts everywhere are raising class sizes, shutting down campuses or eliminating critical programs.
The only thing the Republicans didn't attack were standardized tests, so the average Texas student still spends one out of every four days – 45 days a year – taking or preparing for a standardized test.
Abel Herrero thinks Scott got it backwards. He says they should have scrapped the tests and protected our schools.
As our State Representative, Herrero will send out an SOS – Save Our Schools! He backs a plan that will:
• Free up teachers to spend more time with each child
• Eliminate money-wasting standardized tests and state red tape
• Reinstate class size limits
• Restore programs for dropout prevention and educational equality
The choice is clear: Better schools with Herrero or worse schools with Scott.
Senior Citizens Deserve Better
Thousands of senior citizens in House District 34 – and hundreds of thousands across the state – depend on Medicaid for their health care.
In turn, doctors who treat Medicaid patients depend on the state to reimburse them for their services.
But in 2011, House Republicans decided to slash the doctors' reimbursements. They cut them so low that some doctors have stopped seeing Medicaid patients, while others are refusing to take new patients.
Obviously, Connie Scott wasn't thinking about the seniors in her district when she cast that vote.
As someone who grew up with a single mom, Abel Herrero understands how important Medicaid can be to a person's wellbeing and life. He will make sure that seniors can get access to the health care they deserve by ensuring that their doctors receive the reimbursements they need.
Seniors can count on Herrero. They can't count on Scott.
Windstorm Insurance: Too Much For Too Little?
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has jacked up its rates, and the Legislature allowed TWIA to raise rates again this year.
At the same time, there are real questions about whether we will receive the service we deserve the next time a hurricane strikes. Thousands of residents in Galveston were outraged when TWIA systematically denied their legitimate claims.
Trying to look like she sides with homeowners, Connie Scott recently wrote a letter scolding the state Insurance Commissioner about TWIA.
Except there was a little problem. Texas Watch, a non-partisan consumer group, gave Scott a "0" for opposing critical TWIA reforms 10 separate times, including voting to allow this year's rate increase.
Abel Herrero will be on our side. He'll fight against rate increases and demand that TWIA provide the service we have paid so much for.
Herrero listens to homeowners. Scott obeys big insurance.
Jobs and the Economy: Herrero Takes The Lead
As State Representative, Abel Herrero was a leader in creating a business environment that would attract new employers to the Coastal Bend and create new opportunities for all of us.
Working with local business leaders, Herrero spearheaded an effort to expand area educational opportunities. In particular, he secured $4 million from the state to create a mechanical engineering program at Texas A&M Corpus Christi.
Meanwhile, Herrero played a key role in solving a major problem.
Various companies had dumped used drilling mud and other harsh chemicals into the Ballard Pits and covered them with only a layer of dirt. Years later, the chemicals were seeping from the pits into the soil. There were real concerns that the nearby Nueces River and area homes could be contaminated during a flood.
In addition to creating serious health risks, potentially, such contamination could have also raised red flags to businesses thinking of moving here.
Prior to Herrero's assistance, the state had discovered and studied only one pit. However, to fully insure the safety of area residents,Herrero convinced the state to expand its search and investigation to other parts of the 291-acre site. Sure enough, more pollution threats were found and eventually eliminated, thanks to Herrero's persistence and help.
Just like he did before, Herrero will work hard to create more jobs and more business growth in our community.