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Fantastic Article about KEVIN MINTER and what he means to his team(full of defensive stars).. This speaks volumes to what kinda player he is...
Oct 711:06AM ETBy Gary Laney | ESPN.com Recommend3 Comments3Email Print GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- When Kevin Minter left LSU's 14-6 loss to Florida with cramps in the third quarter, LSU was leading 6-0 and had stymied Florida's offense all day.
When he came trotting out of the locker room and into the game some 20 minutes later, the Tigers were behind 7-6 and Florida was driving again.
That's the kind of impact LSU's junior middle linebacker had on the game.
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Linebacker Kevin Minter led the Tigers with 20 tackles against Florida.
His 20-tackle day was the second best effort in LSU history, one tackle short of Al Richardson's school record set in 1982. What further illustrates Minter's contribution, though, is what happened when he left the game. Seams that Florida started to find with a misdirection running game -- Minter would often close the gaps in a heartbeat and turned promising plays into minimal gains -- turned into gaping holes. A Gators running game that had struggled to find ways to piece together a couple of good plays was, all of a sudden, gashing the LSU defensive front.
"He showed up with a tremendous game to help us try to take a win," defensive end Barkevious Mingo said. "But it takes a team effort. The team should've rallied around that and got him off the field."
He did get off the field, but not in the way he wanted. With LSU's offense going three-and-out on six straight possessions, Minter, like many of his defensive teammates, wore down and Florida's running game was ready to take advantage. It forced Minter to the locker room for intravenous fluids to solve a cramping issue in both legs on a hot, muggy day.
When he came back from the IV, Florida had scored and was driving again. His return didn't immediately stop the Gators -- running back Mike Gillislee scored the second of his two touchdowns -- but the Gators didn't score again.
"They took care of me [in the training room]," said Minter, who added that both of his legs locked up. "I was fine after that."
And Minter had done so much to take care of the Tigers before he went down.
With LSU stalling on offense and the Gators abandoning their vertical passing game after five sacks in the first half, Minter had ample opportunities to make stops.
Among his tackles were three for loss. In the second quarter, he had back-to-back sacks of Florida quarterback Jeff Driskel. When the Gators did sustain a drive, Minter was there to halt it, stripping Florida's Frankie Hammond of the ball at the LSU 20, killing the drive after teammate Kwon Alexander recovered it.
"I think Kevin played his butt off," LSU coach Les Miles said. "He has given us great leadership and he is the captain of our team. He is exactly what you want from a college football player."
That Minter is earning that kind of praise on a team so full of stars is remarkable. The Tigers entered the season with NFL draft picks all over the field, starting with defensive ends Sam Montgomery and Mingo, tackle Bennie Logan and defensive backs Eric Reid and Tharold Simon.
Minter's reputation fell somewhere behind all those players on a defense that's among the best in college football.
Halfway through the schedule, it's hard to argue now that he isn't LSU's best defensive player. Already the team leader in tackles coming into the Florida game, he's now threatening to run away with the lead at 54. He leads the team with 8.5 tackles for loss and now has two sacks.
Minter, perhaps subdued by the sting of defeat, was humble when taking questions about his performance.
"I was just working hard," he said, "and doing what I could for my team."
That he was so dominant is consolation on a night when the Tigers were knocked off their preseason pedestal.
If LSU can get its woeful offense on track, the solid play from Minter could make the Tigers every bit as formidable on defense as last season, when linebacker was considered a weakness. On Saturday, Lamin Barrow and Alexander also played well and were also, at some point, knocked out of the game because of minor injuries.
As Florida found something that worked with a misdirection rushing attack, LSU was losing linebackers -- "That misdirection running game, it kind of caught us on our heels a little bit," Minter said -- and their value to the defense became more apparent.
Already formidable on the defensive line and the secondary, the Tigers are now also getting elite play at linebacker, particularly from their rising star in the middle
Whats everyone's take on Mike Gilislee RB Fla?? In fact, whats everyones take on the rb class this yr? If Eddie Lacy , Joseph Randle, Giovani Bernard, and Leveon Bell come out, to go with Steph Taylor, Montee Ball, Kenjon Barner, Jonathan Franklin, and Christine Michael, Mike Gillislee whos the best??
I'm having kind a tough time judging this yrs RB class.. I almost would want to wait and see who falls, because i think most of those guys are tough to distinguish, exactly whos the better value.. I forgot Andre Ellington, even though hes not that impressive to me...
If i had my choice, i'd probably go Eddie Lacy, Steph Taylor, Giovani Bernard, Montee Ball, Mike Gillislee,Kenjon Barner, Joseph Randle, Jonathan Franklin, Leveon Bell, Christine Michael, and Andre Ellington , in that order.. Thats just me personally.. Stephon Taylor is the most underrated RB in this class i believe, all though Jonathan Franklin is pretty underrated as well.. I do think we could use a bruiser back if we don't bring Brown back, and a guy like Eddie Lacy to go with David Wilson is mighty scary.. obviously we probably got bigger fish to fry, so RB early where Lacy would go, is probably outta the question..
RB is crazy this yr, and its not quite the class of last yr, by any stetch..
I think we need... correction. It would be wise to take a RB somewhere in the mid-late rounds; more mid than late. Not sure If Bradshaw's legs can hold up as a full time starter, Andre Brown is starting to collect leg injuries that are wear and tear injuries ( meaning never 100% and will resurface upon high impact activity) and we don't know what we have with Scott. I might be being a little hasty as there are more pressing needs.
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The act of having a of bowel movement, defecating, dropping the deuce, crapping, pinching one off, going poo, taking a dump, basically having a real good shit.
Mary asked Scott "Where are you going?" as she noticed the newspaper tucked under his arm and the book of matches held in his hand. It instantly dawned on her he had a pressing need to go poo. No sooner had she come to this conclusion when he confirmed her suspensions with a quick, loud, fart, followed by an almost immediate reply. Scott's answer was prompt and to the point, "Well, its about time to drop the del!" he said with a pleased look on his face.
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ONSLOW COUNTY - An autopsy report released Tuesday ruled that the death of a two-month-old boy, allegedly by the hands of his Marine father, was a homicide.
The Pitt County Medical Examiner's Office ruled the death of Deklin King as a homicide caused by blunt force injuries of head. The child suffered skull fractures and other injuries, and passed away on Feb. 13th.
King's father, Camp Lejeune Marine Jordan King, 27, was charged with his son's murder. He was being held under no bond at the Onslow County Jail.
According to arrest warrants, King fractured his two-month-old son's skull in two places. The child also suffered severe bruising in the back of the head. The baby's crying may have set the father off, said Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown.
"The injuries were so severe to the vital organs of the baby [that] without the life support, he could not live," Sheriff Brown said.
King brought his son to the US Naval Hospital after the assault on February 8th, and the infant was later transported to Vidant Medical Center, deputies said. At 11:00 a.m. on Feb. 13, the baby's life support was removed. He died about two hours later.
A neighbor said he had no idea that an attack took place.
"I didn't see anything coming out of there," said William Corzo, who lives just down the road from the Kings. "No screaming, no yelling; nothing like that. It's sad. It's a two-month-old baby. It's literally heartbreaking."
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From Mid US Honey hot line 763 658 4193 report of SEPT 20 One load sold at 1.46, seller described his crop as fair .Speaker comments on the mid US crop.....not sounding like a good crop
From Mid US Honey hot line 763 658 4193 report of SEPT 20 One load sold at 1.46, seller described his crop as fair .Speaker comments on the mid US crop.....not sounding like a good crop
Every one seems to know that except the packers. Then the conversation goes "I heard such and such area had a great crop, lots of honey out there, blah blah blah... some good Argentina, plenty of honey from China or blends or adulterated honey on the market so I can offer you this price", which is usually disappointing from the beekeeper's point of view. It would be kinda nice if they had another tune to their repertoire. I mean it's getting kinda boring hearing the same old song and dance.
How much can you sell your honey for Jean-Marc? I'm offering $1.30/lb.
Mark Berninghausen
I sold a load $1.60 Canadian, sorta had too, it was sitting outside under tarps in a not so secure place. I was not desperate for the money but I wasn't looking for work that would have been required to get an extra shipping container, move bees to make room for it. Then move the honey wait a whole bunch of time and maybe get an extra 10 cents or perhaps 25 cents. I'm sure the market is going upwards but how high and when will it move upwards? $1.60 sounded fairly reasonable at the time.
A good marketing plan has to involve selling "some" honey
Ian Steppler >> Canadian Beekeeper's Blog
wixons paying 1.45
HONEY MARKET FOR THE MONTH OF September, 2009,issued oct 15 2009
see USDA Price Reports, click on National honey report
Maybe the honey "bubble" has burst and prices will be trending downward.Maybe demand has fallen off and the so called shortage will become a oversupply
Using the inflation calculator at http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
and using some past historic honey prices, bulk honey sold for .50/lb in 1973= 2.40/lb in 2008
Prices varied over the following years, influenced by large crops, imports, from a record high of $0.61 per pound in 1981 to $0.54 in 1993.
.61/lb in 1981=1.43/lb in 2008 .54/lb in1993 =.79/lb in 2008
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Irwin, I just scanned quickly over the NHB report. I'm not sure why you speculate that the honey bubble has burst or why demand is decreasing? I didn't see that there but I wasn't paying attention too closely.
Just seems to me that looking at the prices reportedly being paid in sept,in USA, are not reflecting a world shortage of white honey.Plus we have a short US and Canadian crop.No doubt packers are waiting for the official report on these crops
Current Canadian prices are higher than US,compliments of our strong rising loonie.
The US prices I think have something to do with the present economic conditions in the US where some commodities are still in the deflation mode.If we look at the last 3 years of prices ,honey has come along way, doubling in price from 2006, and personally I think it has along ways to go, but I could be wrong
I think you are right, Irwin.
I think the big boys are trying to sell the idea that prices will ease because that is what they want to see happen.
No problem. I am doing the same just in reverse. I want to see prices increase, so I talk them up. One simply has to consider the source to decode the message. Buyers used to call any such talk about rising prices Beekeeper Talk. So I consider the Buyer Talk to be just as tainted.
Im reading a new book about the healing power of honey now. Surely I am not the only person in the world doing that. (Healing Honey by Dr. Lynne Chepulis http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Honey-.../dp/1599424851)
I see no way but up for world honey prices, even if only as a result of inflation. But with honey being grossly undervalued for what seems like a century, I cant imagine the price falling substantially. On the contrary, if the trend towards natural sweetness continues, which I feel certain it will, the relative price of honey should keep climbing too.
By relative price, I mean despite the inflation component, honeys value relative to glucose, oil and toothpaste: honey will be VALUED more, regardless of what it is compared to. Just a rise in price due to failing values in currency does not guarantee honey is keeping pace with inflation. If we lose too much more ground from inflation, we are off the map.
With honey having only about 1 % of the sweeteners market, we sure dont need many more mouths to embrace it and the demand will have doubled. We dont need the entire 6 billion people on earth on board. All we really need is a simple test the consumer can do at home to test whether the product is real honey or has been cut with some manufactured syrup.
I have a copy of an old bee magazine from the late 1800s (US) and it has a 17 year diary of a beekeeper whose records showed all of his expenses, sales and pounds produced each year. I will have to find it and post his data soon.
However, based on his experience with honey production, cost and sales (from over 125 years ago) my thoughts are that the price of honey was pretty well stable in the last one hundred years. My opinion is based on the fact that I used his prices and plugged them into an inflation chart from the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank and came up with an inflation adjusted price of slightly over $1 per pound.
The bad news is that I don't know whether this gentleman sold his honey at a wholesale or retail price (which makes a difference). Honey prices appear to have remained constant to the US Dollar and inflation rates. This makes perfect sense whilst we were on a gold standard (until 1971).
Now, I believe that the most important factor in determining what prices we could get for honey at the wholesale (bulk) level is how much our dollar appreciates or depreciates to a basket of other major currencies.
The US Dollar has decreased by 44% since the beginning of 2000 against the EURO (ending May, 2009). This would mean a price increase of honey to maintain the status quo of about 79% since the year 2000.
What was the price of honey in the year 2000? I'm not 100% certain, but was it around $0.80 per pound? If so, then the price of $1.50 US Dollar is just keeping up with the US Dolllar's depreciation against our major trading partners.
The question that I would be asking myself is how much higher or lower is the US Dollar going to go in the next 5 to 10 years? The answer to that question will shape the focus of my bee operation. I believe that the US government has no choice but to deflate the US dollar to pay back all of our nation's debt.
Looking back to the year 2000 how the US Dollar has declined against our major trading partners as a base year and projecting a similar decline in the next ten years, then honey prices should be well over $2.25 per pound at the wholesale level IMHO. On the other hand, we could see $2.25 per pound during 2010 or 2011...
P. S. I am not an economist, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
I went back over my books to see what the 2000 crop paid. I had two semi loads that sold for $.62 a pound for wht. honey.
The US is in a big honey shortage right now. If you are a producer in the US, you are the one setting the prices. I only produced 49 ton this year, which is a short corp for me. The 2009 crop is a thing of the past for me. The packers didn't like my prices but they paid them. I had to hear how they couldn't make anything this year because of the high price of honey. They was just trying to keep there customers. And I'm just one selling my crop to stay in business each year. It's OK that the producer make out some years too. If it wasn't for the producer producing honey, the packers wouldn't have anything to pack. And if it was for you packer packing and selling our honey we would need to produce it.
I can't wait to see what 2010 crop is going bring. I just hope 2009 wasn't the peek year.
I can't see any reason why the 2010 crop should fetch any thing less than the 2009 one is fetching.
Those poor packers (oh dear, I'm out of tissues to wipe my eyes with) would do better to stop crying about not making any money and start selling honey at prices they too can benefit from. If they can't do that, they might as well go broke as far as I am concerned. They are not good for the industry, nor for me. Anyone who can't sell honey in today's marketplace is not a salesman, he is a supplier only.
My prediction is though, that by the time 2010 is over, everyone will be wishing they had held over the 2009 crop, or part thereof anyway.
The Eastern States of Australia are experiencing drought like you wouldn't believe. Honey flows are just not happening, well, maybe one day per week, but my bees are living day to day, week to week. We get an hour or two of spring every day as the weather goes from frost to fierce dry wind and piercing hot sun. In the evening, we may get another little touch of spring, but there are less bees alive then.
Meanwhile, the retail market's awareness of honey continues to expand. It is only the people within the industry who refuse to change their rhetoric! Bad Luck for them!
Just checking on the honey price. I've had packers call me in the past two days looking for honey. I know when the packers start calling the price is getting ready to go up. I only wish I still had a load of honey to sell. The load quotes was above $1.50+. Which for me I sold everything sofar this year early for $1.65 an up, to the smaller guys. I think the shorage is starting to show.
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(Feb. 26, 2008)--The 24th annual UTSA Alumni Diploma Dash is almost here. Benefiting the Alumni Scholarship Fund, UTSA track athletes and alumni programs and services, the walk/run is 9 a.m., Saturday, March 1, at the Convocation Center on the 1604 Campus. Diploma Dash also serves as the San Antonio City Championship Race.
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Cash prizes, trophies and medals, and running shoes will be awarded for Men's and Women's Open and a round-trip American Airlines ticket will be awarded to Overall First Place Winners. Men's and Women's Masters categories receive prizes and trophies. Custom medals will be awarded in 13 age categories and to Clydesdale and Filly divisions. Each participant receives a long-sleeved Diploma Dash t-shirt and "goodie" bag.
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Hm, fair enough.
Just ordered the drill bits, bulkheads, and gravel, as well as some loc-line for my returns. Point of no return is back that way...somewhere.
The budget I'm tallying up is a little more than we'd anticipated (no local source for Black Diamond grit), but still on track.
What I'm thinking for the returns is they come out inside the overflow box, but the loc-line carrys them over and into the tank. If that doesn't work out (physically doesn't fit or whatnot), I'll go back to the original plan of boring through the overflow box, but still use loc-line to adjust the flow. Gives me more options, anyway.
Thanks for all the input, everyone - I will post updates in my tank thread (will link to it once created). This is starting to get a little off-topic.
Air pump should add more air to the bio filter area, and air is about 20% oxygen, so yes, that would. Do not seal off the lid so tight the air will not escape, though. And that would allow CO2 to escape.
I think I would skip the bubbler.
The check valves are only going to be used on the return side - if the power goes out I don't drain that extra 5 gallons to get below the return openings. (or whatever amount it is) To be honest, I probably don't need them...the tank will be able to accommodate at least 5-10 extra gallons, and the coast-to-coast/BeanAnimal overflow system should only drain something like 2-4 gallons at most (what's in the drain pipes + weir height).
Here's another thought I just had - among the equipment I inherited are a number of air pumps. What about using an air pump + stone(s) in the bottom area below the bio-filter? Would that not allow significant oxygenation for the bacterial colony?
Function wise i love them both. The lava rock gives you so much bio area. All you can do is try. No one can tell you what you will be happy with. like me what i thought i would like(look wise) and what i really want(ease of cleaning) i only found out after my second try.
on other note i dont use check valves. i drill a hole above water line. a small amount drains back but if you account for that your good. for me the pay off no check valve= clear route to tank. will take pic tomorrow...lol stupid work gets in the way of my hobby.
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Ah, okay, so it's just maintenance differences - the functional aspects you are happy with on both?
I've already got the plexiglas, so might as well give it a try. Since I'm ordering the diamond hole saws for the main tank, I might just get a glass top and drill it.
Also considering adding in a drip tray, but will try out this method first - I will be testing this in the garage for a week or two prior to moving indoors.
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So between the two, it looks like you're happier with the sump that supports less water but uses a wet/dry filter.
Why are you happier with the second?
Also, why are you unhappy silicon on plexiglas? (I've just cut the baffles from some spare plexi I had lying around and am about to silicone them in)
They both hold about the same amount of water. First sump is over filled today because i topped it off. The way i put the filter in is hard to service but personally i felt looked more "store bought". My plastic top is not the nicest but with so much flow i get lots of " splater" outside of sump.
bio wise they hold about the same amount of lava rock. i am trying both large rock and pebble size.
im happer with second one because its just pull drawer out and slip pad in. All drip and splatter is self contained. soon i will make full cover to go over rest of sump.
Second pros...
structure already there just drill holes in drawers.
easy to pull drawer out and replace filter pad.(i buy bulk and cut myself)
i left room for large heater. first one i didnt think about that(no room for 300w heater)
I may in the future rebuild first like i did second.
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So between the two, it looks like you're happier with the sump that supports less water but uses a wet/dry filter.
Why are you happier with the second?
Also, why are you unhappy silicon on plexiglas? (I've just cut the baffles from some spare plexi I had lying around and am about to silicone them in)
I keep seeing the word simpler so i thought i would throw some ideas other for you. This is something i have in place and find very effective.
Personal experance is that you will be unhappy with siliconing anything but glass.
My first sump i went about in the same direction as you and it works but im not 100% happy with.
lava rock
2" drain 1" supply
My second try im much happier with.
First sump runs one 55gal @ 550ish gph
second one runs 2 55gal each tank gets 200ish gph.
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Bad drawrings, but you get the idea. The top returns will get flex line in the hopes of saving some GPH. Also, unions will be used wherever the can be best hidden. I believe check valves will have to be used for the returns.
Okay, so without the filter socks, we lose the 'splashing' onto the bio-filter media, but gain much simpler serviceability.
Edit: Yes, it will have plenty of room around it. I will make some 'ledges' of acrylic or pvc, then silicone them to the glass walls. I would not zip tie socks because if they clog, nowhere to overflow (granted the BeanAnimal overflow deals with that...but why design in a clog).
Also, yes, it will be ALL pot scrubbies, beyond this new addition of a coarse filter pad.
- Moved the heater to the bottom 1/4 of the tank.
- Flat lid.
- Coarse foam held in place by egg crate riser.
- Drew in the overflow on the baffles.
Next up, figuring out how the actual plumbing will work.
Much simpler, much easier to maintain, and a lot more surface for use as a filter. Will it all be biomedia? Scrubbies? You could do coarse sponge in one, and finer sponge in the other. (then no need for socks)
Should be easy to clean as long as the lid and down pipes can move enough to clean the media. Don't wedge this in under the tank in a way that makes it hard to maneuver.
A secure lid will help retain CO2, so don't skimp on the lid.
To hold up the socks, why not zip tie them with the reuseable zip ties? Remove them for cleaning and zip them back on.
Keep the heater low so that if the water level drops for any reason the heater is still below the water. The water falling over the baffle will circulate well, and get warmed. No need to position the heater so high up.
I have used small chunks of PVC pipe under egg crate for a similar set up, you could use that to support the stack that you have.
I would cut a notch in the taller baffle just in case the other route gets blocked. Leave enough of this one up to support the lid as needed, but cut out some, too, as an emergency bypass.
More thinking equals this.
- Simpler two-chamber design - 'dirty/drain' and 'clean/return'.
- Pot scrubbies are on shelves for easier maintenance (can just rinse out the top shelf when crud builds up).
- Drains are now in an enclosed area (the overflow will be a slot cut out near the first baffle's top).
- Lower water level to allow for splashing onto bio-filter.
- Each drain now gets its own filter sock, even emergency drain.
- Heater placed so that it heats the water entering the clean chamber.
A note on the 'lid' piece: It looks fancy, but in reality is more required for filter sock mechanical attachment. I might bypass the fancy lid (cut/bent acrylic) and just do hangers, but it might be nice to make the entire water system enclosed, perhaps limit evap and room humidity issues.
Revised. Filter sock is the white thing. No more refugium.
Edit: Forgot to revise the baffle heights - they will be at an appropriate height to still allow for splashing out of the filter sock onto the pot scrubbies. The second line (lower) is the new water line. This design loses about 5 gallons of water, but makes a little more sense. The only item I'd probably change is to do multiple filter socks and separate the drain lines a bit.
Wow, that's some great input, thanks Diana. I will work on a re-design, but thought I'd mention that the chamber after the pot scrubbies is the refugiu, those two layers are MTS and gravel. Did not put in the plants, either.
edit: Oh right, and I did not picture the filter sock that will be the initial mechanical filter.
Bio media can be in the air, with water running through it. Does not have to be submerged. The bacteria have high oxygen needs, but also grow in the soil in your garden. As long as it is not a desert! (They even grow in the desert, but probably a small population!)
I think I would arrange the baffles so that the water splashes into the bio media, increasing the oxygen content to benefit the bacteria.
What about putting the pot scrubbies in the first chamber? Or combine chamber 1 and 2 for larger volume? Then put something like a spray bar with very coarse holes over the bio media so the water is spread out over it.
I think the very thin bit of media you have between the baffles before the pump chamber is too small. Subject to filling up with debris. Yes, the water can flow over and then into the pump chamber. However, if you want that fine a media I would use a larger piece.
How about arranging some grids in the media chamber so that all the sponges, floss and similar material has a large surface area (as shown by your brown and grey media), and does not have to be too thick.
Also, follow the water flow: It never passes through the brown or grey sponge media.
Here is what I would do with the baffles:
First pair: Omit.
Allow the scrubbies to half fill chamber 1 and 2.
Second pair: Leave them. They are fine.
Put some egg crate or similar in stacks alternating with sponges so the water flows down through coarse-medium-fine
Third pair: reverse these so the water flows under from the sponge chamber, then over into the pump chamber. No media between these.
Tank set up looks OK, yes, figure out how close to the edges is OK to drill the glass. Leave plenty of safety margin.
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Guests included HRH The Duke of Gloucester; General the Lord Richard Dannatt; RUSI's Director General, Professor Mike Clarke, and Royal Armouries' Chairman Wes Paul.
The Chesney Medal is the highest award in the gift of the Council of RUSI and was first awarded in 1900. The award's purpose is to mark a life-long distinguished contribution in the defence and international security fields, to the benefit of the United Kingdom and/or the international community. Other beneficiaries have included Sir Winston Churchill in 1950 and Baroness Thatcher in 2000.
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The decline of the American newspaper is a story often told in bold print.
Foreign bureaus shuttered, mass layoffs, and — just up the road at the Boston Globe — threats of oblivion.
And here in the Renaissance City, the Providence Journal has had its own headline moments — most recently, a downsizing that claimed some 100 jobs in March.
But the low-profile stuff — quarterly earnings reports, obscure circulation statistics, a late baseball score that doesn't make it into print — can say as much, or more, about the health of a newspaper.
And the low-profile stuff has been troubling, of late, for the ProJo.
Just this week, the paper's parent company — Dallas-based A.H. Belo — reported a first-quarter loss of $103.1 million, including a one-time $80.9 million write-down on the value of the ProJo and a $4 million charge related to the layoffs at the Providence paper and other Belo properties.
Even without one-time costs, Belo reported an $18.1 million hit for the first three months of the year — about double what it lost during the same period last year. And for a company counting on the Web as salvation, this little disturbing factoid, buried deep in the report: Internet revenue was down fully 24 percent from last year.
Of course, the decline owes something to an economic downturn that has battered all manner of media. Advertising, after all, is one of the first expenses a struggling business cuts.
But there is reason for long-term concern, too. The ProJo, like other newspapers, is coping with the steady migration of advertising from print to the web. And the paper's slow diminution seems to have reached a tipping point with readers.
The latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations show the paper's average weekday circulation dropped 13 percent from March 2008 to March 2009, landing at 120,783. That's double the circulation drop that hit the paper between March 2007 and March 2008.
Sunday circulation, meanwhile, fell off 12 percent — also doubling the previous year's rate of decline. And the newsroom is feeling the pinch. There were the layoffs in March and an earlier round in October. But there are other changes, too.
One newsroom veteran said the indignity of a cost-cutting push for earlier deadlines hit home last month when the paper published an abbreviated, mid-game report on the Red Sox first tête-à-tête with the Yankees this season. "I don't get how you can shut out something so basic — the Red Sox," said the source.
Word around the newsroom is the deadlines may be pushed back again. But there is other disheartening news. Belo, which also owns the Dallas Morning News, the Denton Record-Chronicle in Texas, and the Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California, is seeking 2.5- to 15-percent pay cuts across the company in a bid to save $10 million.
The Providence Newspaper Guild, which represents news and advertising staff, must agree to the cuts since its contract calls for a 2 percent pay hike this year. And the union leadership, after consulting the rank-and-file, has asked for job security and other tradeoffs in exchange for the pay cuts.
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McCain grumbles about having to build "the goddamned fence"
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Vanity Fair profiles St. John, a man of conscience who strayed from the path by joining the Republican Party. What doth it profit a man to gain the Oval Office, asks author Todd Purdum, if he should lose his soul to Bush's theocrat war machine?
You know what, Todd? You can have him.
A day earlier, in Milwaukee, in front of an audience of more sympathetic businessmen, McCain had been asked how debate over the immigration bill was playing politically. "In the short term, it probably galvanizes our base," he said. "In the long term, if you alienate the Hispanics, you'll pay a heavy price." Then he added, unable to help himself, "By the way, I think the fence is least effective. But I'll build the goddamned fence if they want it."
Don't worry; no matter how much we may want it, no one's building the goddamned fence.
Here's something for the "Christianists" among us:
"Yes, he's a social conservative, but his heart isn't in this stuff," one former aide told me, referring to McCain's instinctual unwillingness to impose on others his personal views about issues such as religion, sexuality, and abortion. "But he has to pretend [that it is], and he's not a good enough actor to pull it off. He just can't fake it well enough."
And of course his fatal attraction with the left:
The battle between Bush and McCain in 2000 was bitter, with Bush supporters in South Carolina spreading rumors that McCain was insane and that he had fathered a black child. (McCain and his wife, Cindy, are the adoptive parents of a girl from Bangladesh.) Bush and McCain traded insults involving each other's moral standing. A year later, with bad feeling still so high that strategist John Weaver had been virtually blackballed from working in Republican politics, Weaver went so far as to sound out Democratic Senate leaders about the possibility of having McCain caucus with them. This would have put the Senate, then divided 50–50, into Democratic control. Aides to two senior Senate Democrats say it was never clear how serious McCain himself was about the proposal, and any possibility that it might actually happen was short-circuited when another Republican, James Jeffords, of Vermont, made the move first, in 2001.
Romney's people e-mailed me the link to his exploratory committee's new website today and I was going to ignore it, but after this? Go on — explore Mitt.
As with all pieces about McCain, inevitably there's something to admire too. The surge is going to happen, and it's unlikely to do much good, but at least it gives us a chance. And that chance is exceedingly important:
He went on: "My difference with these people who are saying, 'Threaten the Iraqis with leaving and then they'll do more'—that assumes that they can or will do more. And there's no way that you're going to have any kind of stability without security. Political progress cannot take place unless you have the fundamental elements of a security situation. So, do I know it would be a tremendous strain on the army and Marine Corps? Absolutely. But I saw the kind of impact of a broken army, a defeated army and Marine Corps, after Vietnam. And I'd much rather have 'em take a strain and have some success than be defeated."…
I look you straight in the eye, my friend, and tell you: I want to be president of the United States. I don't want to be president of the United States so badly that I'm going to do something that I know is not right for the security of this nation and the young men and women that are defending it. So, if this position [of supporting a troop increase] makes me viewed as too militaristic, or unrealistic, or whatever it is, I will more than happily take those political consequences, because I'll sleep a hell of a lot better."
I believe him. Read the whole thing. And look out for the description of the injuries inflicted upon him by the VC, followed by the "workout" anecdote involving Bush which I hope to god is apocryphal. Although I kind of suspect it isn't.
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Hottest Cakes For Northern California Brides
Cakes that make a statement
by HCTG Senior Staff Writer Jolene Rae Harrington
Your wedding vows brought everyone to tears, the guests are raving about the food, and the band is so lively that even old Aunt Ethel took a spin on the dance floor. Now it's time for the Grand Finale, and all eyes turn to…the wedding cake. Maybe it's been displayed in a corner for guests to admire in mouthwatering anticipation; or perhaps it makes a dramatic entrance as your caterer wheels it into the ballroom. Everything has gone perfectly so far, yet you wonder: Will it be divine or will it be a dud?
If you've entrusted your dessert to one of the Bay Area's hottest confectionery wizards, you needn't worry. Your cake is sure to be not only a masterpiece of cutting-edge style but also the embodiment of gastronomic ecstasy.
If you're like most brides, you want your celebration to convey something unique about you and your husband-to-be. Working closely with a cake maker to create your own wedding cake is one way to "express yourself" at your reception. The best dessert artists only do custom work, and it all begins with the consultation. In a private brainstorming session with your cake maker, you'll look at photos from their past designs, exchange ideas and taste some samples. Sonya Hong of Butterfly Cakes in San Francisco comes to consultations armed with colored pencils and her sketch pad, and will do a rendering of the proposed cake right before your eyes.
Sam Godfrey of Perfect Endings, whose fantastic creations have been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and in O Magazine, emphasizes that before planning a cake, each aspect of the wedding needs to be taken into consideration. Where will it be held? During what time of year? Will you be having a garden reception or dining in an elaborate ballroom? What will the bride wear? What type of cuisine will be served? Which flowers and colors has the bride decided on? "The cake should look like it belongs in the environment in which it is displayed," explains Godfrey, and tying the cake into the rest of the design elements helps create a cohesive look and feel. Often cake makers ask the bride to bring in color swatches, their dress or a photograph of it, and the name of their florist.
Such details can also directly inspire the cake maker's creative genius. For one high-society wedding held in Grace Cathedral, Katrina Rozelle of Katrina Rozelle Pastries & Desserts baked an ornate beauty with each luscious tier linked by baroque arches and garnished with roses similar to the one's in the cathedral's courtyard. Beth Robideaux, the pastry chef at Michael's on Main in Aptos, baked a groovy "mod" cake with neon-colored polka dots that matched the wedding invitations of one couple who had decided on a retro 60s theme. Godfrey, Hong and others often take their cue directly from the bride's gown. The richness of satin, delicate clusters of seed pearls or an intricate pattern of embroidered lace incorporated into the cake's landscape mirrors the bride's attire, and makes a striking visual motif.
Cakes might even capture a couple's sentimental nuances. Kay Dillon of Beaux Gateaux recalls that at one consultation, the bride and groom showed up with a sack of paperback books that had special meaning for them. "They asked if I could bake a cake that depicted them as vintage leather-bound first editions." The edible books, which included a volume of bright red marzipan with gold calligraphy and gilt-edged pages, looked good enough to read, and the couple had something strikingly original to present to their guests.
For Maralyn Tabatsky, the baking pro behind Have Your Cake, a concoction she dreamed up for a second marriage stands out in her mind: "The bride wanted a true showpiece that also made the children of their new extended family feel included. We started with the idea of a large sandcastle, then added details like a moat, and small pails and shovels bearing the names of each child." The bride and groom themselves were depicted lounging in beach chairs, dressed in tux and pearls!
Catch the Wave
Although bakers still field requests for the traditional white Victorian cake, the current trend is definitely for something more streamlined and classic. Butterfly Cakes' chic, contemporary approach has made this patisserie newcomer an immediate success. Picture the difference between a poufy prom dress from the 50s and a sleek number by Valentino, and you'll understand why Hong bypasses fussy embellishments in favor of sophisticated polish. Feminine details are still "in," but are applied with more style, discretion and innovation.
Design themes in demand include cakes made to resemble gift boxes with life like ribbons and bows of frosting or chocolate, and edible gift cards. Cakes resembling a stack of hatboxes are a whimsical way to capture the flavor of yesteryear. Rather than the typical rounds, Susan Morgan of Elegant Cheese Cakes suggests mixing up the shapes, and perhaps piling the layers off-kilter for greater dynamics. Her signature re-creations of gorgeous Limoges boxes come with gold hinges, white scrollwork, and gradations of French blue that make them seem like they belong in a fashionable 19th century drawing room.
Also in vogue are styles that evoke cultural heritage. Elegant Cheese Cake's "Frosty Fruit Cake" has a Mediterranean flair, with sugared pears, figs and grape clusters that recall a Tuscan vineyard. Sam Godfrey takes the cake with his 12-foot Pagoda of magenta, blue and purple, lined with hand-painted chinoiserie panels, elephants at the base, and frosted Samurai swords. For a Hawaiian bride, Butterfly fashioned the "Tropical Island Cake," with gum-paste hibiscus and icing in a traditional Hawaiian print design. Their banana cake with mango-cream filling was also a refreshing summer treat. Another seasonal offering that worked perfectly was Beaux Gateaux's "Haunted House," made for a Halloween wedding where the wedding party wore costumes. Making frequent appearances at weddings-by-the-sea are coastal cake accents such as chocolate seashells, marzipan starfish, and sugar sand.
The Color of Cake
"White on white is out; color is in," says trend-watcher Karina Diaz, a San Francisco wedding photographer who appreciates the way a really special cake can light up the lens. Susan Morgan agrees: "Cake trends follow fashion trends, and this season red is hot, hot, hot." One baker designed a cake frosted entirely in fiery red, which signified good luck to the couple's Chinese-American relatives. "More and more people are asking for jewel tones," observes Maralyn Tabatsky, whose whimsical application of blues and purples in her stacked cakes would brighten up any venue.
Both real and hand-crafted edible flowers add splashes of color to the usual monochromatic palette. "Real blossoms make the cake look fresh," Karina Diaz observes, "especially in an outdoor setting." Roses, orchids, calla lilies and even cheerful gerber daisies are sought-after selections, but these days anything goes. Some of the most spectacular blooms you'll see on cakes are actually fashioned of chocolate, and virtually indistinguishable from thereal thing. Morgan's spectacular "Good Luck Cake" features tiers of "bamboo reeds"—really rolled chocolate—in beige to pale green hues right out of nature. The luscious red roses atop the cake are also chocolate, but you wouldn't guess it until you took a bite! Most cake makers work directly with a bride's florist. "The flowers on the cake might coordinate with the bridal bouquets, boutonnires, even the centerpieces, for a very 'tied together' look," says Sam Godfrey.
Cake Do's & Don'ts
Flowers can play another important role by separating the tiers. Plastic pillars are way pass, but a cluster of yellow rose buds between layers? Bellisimo! Another faux pas is the traditional topper. Be it a bell, dove or a plastic bride and groom, nix the chatzkes and use flowers instead. If you really want a topper, consider having it constructed as part of the cake design, such as Have Your Cake's comical jack-in-the box with the bride and groom popping out of the top. Katrina Rozelle often crowns her creations with a silvery standing monogram of the couple's initials. Another exception to the Topper Ban is if you've found something truly lovely and vintage, such as an antique picture frame, or a pair of expertly handcrafted statuettes from your parent's wedding. In that case, the nostalgic theme should also be woven into the rest of your event.
Good Enough to Eat
Back in the olden days, wedding cakes were meant to be seen but not necessarily eaten—guests would take a bite or two of the dry slice with the sickeningly sweet frosting to be polite, then hastily set it aside. Of course, post-millennial Bay Area partygoers have much higher expectations. "When you bite into your cake, your mouth should say, Wow!" asserts Sam Godfrey. For many, the best way to guarantee such exuberance is by using chocolate. Sonya Hong reveals, "I have people come in all the time and ask me, 'Is it okay to have a chocolate cake?' I tell them to order whatever they really like." Kay Dillon says half of the orders she gets at Beaux Gateaux are for rich chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling. Chocolate isn't just hiding on the inside—it also makes a bold showing in the frosting. In the hands of an artist like Susan Morgan, chocolate takes on whole new identities, and she is known for her exceptional use of a white chocolate blend to create her lifelike roses.
Naturally, Morgan's company specializes in all varieties of cheesecakes, customized to suit particular tastes. Maybe it's our inner child expressing itself, but she says candy add-ins are all the rage, like Butterfingers, toffee, or Heath bars. Katrina Rozelle agrees: "People are really going a little wild, adding all kinds of fruits and nuts, too." Kay Dillon doesn't keep a menu of flavors because she's always making up new combinations for her clients. One of her most inspired creations was a Mandarin Orange Mousse Chiffon Cake, delicately scented with the rose petal wine the bride was serving with dinner. What if you like vanilla toffee crunch and he insists on carrot cake? No problem—you can choose a different flavor for each layer. "A cake should be as adventurous and interesting on the inside as on the outside," Bob Doxey of Theobroma reminds us, and his company offers exciting versions of European classics.
For those who still want a touch of the Victorian in their wedding, why not choose the "Chocolate Lavender Cake"? Lavender was traditionally added to give chocolate a delicate sweetness, and in Theobroma's adaptation, two layers of rich chocolate cake join three layers of chocolate lavender souffl pastry and lavender buttercream, with a side of lavender syrup.
If there are any Mediterranean elements in your wedding, be it setting, cuisine or heritage, wrap it all up with one of Theobroma's enticing Modern Mediterranean offerings. The always-delicious chocolate/hazelnut duo makes their "Giandua Cake" simply irresistible, especially when it's flavored with frangelico and finished with chocolate ganache. Or make your guests an offer they can't refuse with the Sicilian Wedding Cake, three tiers of polenta filled with chocolate buttercream, accompanied by warm galliano caramel sauce.
Wait, There's More
If you're planning an intimate reception, there's nothing like presenting your guests with their very own miniature wedding cake. Katrina Rozelle bakes tiny three-tiered desserts and says, "I love to watch the guests' faces when they're served this charming, completely unexpected jewel of a cake. It simply takes their breath away!" How about a special sweet for your sweetie? Groom's cakes are making a major comeback, especially when they're uniquely his—shaped like a soccer ball, a tackle box or even a laptop computer!
Wedding orders at Elegant Cheese Cakes also include a "Day-after Cake," a small present of a dessert with an edible gift card bearing the names of the bride and groom. When the last handful of rice has been tossed and you're alone at last, share this petite pastry together as husband and wife, and savor the success of your celebration and the brightness of your future.
Mmmmm…how sweet it is!
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Anti-Hacker Tool Kit: Reverse Engineering Binaries
Your computer seems to be running slower than normal. The router shows that your computer is transmitting data out to the Internet without you knowing it. Friends are complaining about you sending them e-mails you never composed. Determined to see if you have a Trojan running on your computer, you take a look at your process list to see if there is anything out of the ordinary. Much to your dismay, you notice a program running that you have never seen before and didn't explicitly start. You have been backdoored by malware.
There are many questions you should be asking in these situations. What does the program do? Does it use network resources? Can outside hackers now access my computer? Am I being used as a zombie for DDoS attacks? This chapter will focus on methods and tools you can use to determine what these programs do and how they do them, without having the source code. In the past, reverse engineering was something of a black art. Typically it involved some type of decompilation using a tool such as IDA or GDB to extract the assembly out of the binary, and the best you could hope for was to have that assembly converted into a low-level C code that you could use to understand what was going on. These tools have evolved, however, and you no longer need a PhD in Computer Science to be able to reverse engineer binaries. That being said, however, a brief primer will go miles in helping you understand when to use certain tools and when to use others.
Anti-Hacker Tool Kit: Reverse Engineering Binaries
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The most flawless couple. They met on tumblr and met in person on December 19th. Everyone looks up to them and admires them. They are the definition of OTP. They are both beautiful. Heather is a tan, dark haired beauty, and Danielle is a white, tall, dark haired lovely. They are both so beautiful together and have given love a reason and given us hope. They are better than Jenna and Tasha
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Translate your core experience principles, not pixels.
A user experience is not confined to a single device anymore. It can flow from one device to another or be shaped by multiple devices simultaneously. Brands and manufacturers have to consider the growing number of devices and variations as potential touchpoints that users may have with any given product, media experience or service.
Designers and developers have to create interface solutions that feel native across platforms and device types. The number of interfaces possible explodes when you factor in Android, iOS and Windows on phones, tablets and desktops and all the variations of screen sizes and resolutions. There is no design-once, deploy-everywhere magic button that turns an iOS design into an Android-appropriate UI, nor is it as simple as taking a phone version of a UI and stretching it up one-to-one to fit on a tablet. Careful considerations for each device are necessary. We'll walk through a few high level scaling concepts and then get to some useful methods (and math) you can put into practice.
So there is no magic button but there is hope. There are many ways to improve the quality of your work when tasked with designing once, and deploying everywhere. We have gathered the insights that have helped us create scalable solutions that actually go to market.
Extending experiences across platforms and devices requires a holistic approach that considers the unique contexts, not only of the device specs, but also of the user's location and intent. This all has to be framed by the big picture: what is this particular device's role in a multi-touchpoint, multi-device service offering? This type of thinking is why we partner with companies to define user interface frameworks that define the right adaptions at each touchpoint.
The considerations for creating a new instance of an existing UI on another platform or resolution is never just a matter of asking how the graphics scale. Scaling a design from one platform to another requires understanding differences in interaction paradigms, graphics handling, animation capabilities, file formats, and beyond. Start by designing a valuable experience and then carefully consider the additional value that each device can bring to that product or service.
Recognizing the need at both the strategic service level and at the individual device level Punchcut has devised a method we call Device Personas.™ Device Personas ensure we integrate the strengths of each device individually. We consider the unique inputs, sensors, and contexts of use for each device and the role they play in the larger ecosystem that become a service, product or media experience.
Translate principles not pixels. Your core brand and experience philosophies should stay true regardless of device or touchpoint, even though the specifics of the screen design may change radically. Additionally, hire smart people to realize your vision. You may be reading this looking for Cliff Notes answers to these tough questions. In a space that's evolving this rapidly the questions are changing as often as the answers.
Your core experience philosophies should stay true regardless of device or touchpoint.
Between iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and other platforms and devices there are over 200 unique screen sizes and resolutions (see our article Pixel Proliferation: A Toolset For Managing Screen Resolutions). While you ought to keep the big picture in mind, don't attempt to solve at the detail level for too many unique screen types at once. Understand the audience of your product and choose a widely adopted resolution and platform as your primary target that will give you the largest reach to your primary audience. Careful considerations of scale and positioning of design elements can be made along the way with a good awareness of secondary target screens and resolutions.
Understanding the difference between scaling to a larger (or smaller) resolution and changing the proportions of a display size is very important. Even in a situation where the resolution is simply double the amount of pixels, simply doubling each individual assets' resolution might not get you the result that you are looking for. If your pixel density changes based on the size of the physical screen you will need to carefully evaluate the new touch areas of actionable items, sizes of graphical styles applied to components, and legibility of text sizes.
Changes in screen proportion when scaling to a new device don't always go hand in hand with resolution changes and require repositioning of design elements rather than scaling. Because of this difference not every resolution change always has to require an entirely new library of assets. Sometimes support for a new resolution and device screen proportion could be as simple as a few assets that are designed to scale accompanied with guidelines on how to reposition certain elements on the screen.
Here is an example of a situation that has a small change in resolution and also a change in screen proportions. Scaling a handset design from a 480 x 800 resolution to a 540 x 960 resolution is only a difference of 12% size increase in width and a 20% increase in height. A small percentage increase like this doesn't always justify a complete redesign or a completely new library of assets. Scaleable UI problems like this can sometimes be solved by following a few guidelines.
Nothing substitutes for seeing a design on the target device. This is especially the case in multi-device design engagements. With tools like LiveView (for iOS) and cloud file systems like Dropbox (for iOS and Android) or SkyDrive (for Windows), viewing designs at their real size is simple enough not to be a barrier to design. A realistic view of your design lets you make informed design decisions and evaluate in real time. Things like legibility, tappable button sizes, color matching, contrast and spacing become instantly clear. If your target device is handheld, you can immediately evaluate things like button placement based on how you actually hold the device. For extra credit, execute motion transitions and build an interactive prototype. You will notice the difference when you reveal your design to a client or colleague by handing them a device with the design loaded on it. There really is nothing like the real thing when designing a device experience.
The Flexible layout approach to design and implementation of user interface is a method that alleviates some of the challenges of supporting multiple devices and resolutions. Whether it's responsive web design with HTML (repeat-x, repeat-y), or native apps like Android (9-patch), and iOS (stretchable pixel dimensions) each platform has its own way of reducing the footprint of assets. This reduction of asset size has a number of purposes, one of which is to create assets in a format that allows them to be programmatically scaled up without compromising the visual fidelity. Creating assets in scalable formats also increases performance, reduces download time, and for developers, reduces the headache of keeping track of large asset libraries. Also, clear documentation of what assets can be drawn programmatically, what assets can scale and what assets cannot, will drastically reduce the number of assets you actually have to produce and maintain. A detailed understanding of these different scalable formats can help you implement a design without compromising its visual integrity.
For example, let's say there are three sizes for a set of icons:
16 x 16
48 x 48
72 x 72
1. Find the prime factors corresponding to each target icon size
16 = 2^4
48 = 2^4 x 3
72 = 2^3 x 3^2
2. Multiply each of the unique factors with the largest exponent
2^4 x 3^2 = 16 x 9 = 144
So it follows that if you design your icons at 144 x 144 they will scale down nicely to all of your target sizes because each of your target sizes is a factor of 144. If this was all way too mathy for you, try it this way:
1. List out the multiples (n x 1, n x 2, n x 3...) for each target size (where n is the target icon size)
So in our example these are the multiples for each size:
16, 32, 48, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 144, 160...
48, 96, 144, 192, 240, 288, 336, 384, 432, 480...
72, 144, 216, 288, 360, 432, 504, 576, 648, 720...
2. Now just find the lowest number they all have in common
16, 32, 48, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 144, 160...
48, 96, 144, 192, 240, 288, 336, 384, 432, 480...
72, 144, 216, 288, 360, 432, 504, 576, 648, 720...
Still too mathy? This is the nature of it. Just keep the main principle in mind: you're not just designing for the largest size needed (in this example that's 72), you're designing at the size that enables you to scale down with the best chance of staying 'on pixel', which is so crucial in UI design. (In this example that size is 144).
Visual designers need to understand the basics of resolution, screen density (pixel density) and the way proportional changes affect a design system or framework. Look at your solutions in the context of your end target, and make real-time, informed decisions throughout your design process. Lastly, a detailed understanding of different scalable formats and how they are used will help your design teams integrate with development teams and realize your design without compromising quality.
UI experiences are just as important to users as they should be to brands that want consistent expressions from product to product and from device to device. While there is no magic button there are best practices and insights that can be leveraged to create quality designs that scale gracefully. Understanding your users, their devices and how they use them should be every designer's first step.
Getting scaling right is critical, but it's only a tactic in the bigger picture. The strategy has to incorporate the big picture, which should start with a user experience framework that is flexible to the ways services will be delivered, or content consumed, at every device touchpoint.
We've addressed some of the aspects of deploying consistent interfaces and we are not overstating the importance of getting this right – thereby avoiding sloppy mistakes at worst and costly rework at best. Yet, the macro strategy that defines how a company or brand will address the exploding landscape of devices is crucial. We partner with companies to give them a fuller understanding of the facets involved. We create the user experience frameworks, the device personas and the design guideline documents for our clients to ensure their strategy leads to the most appropriate and successful connected experiences.


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Jurisprudence—The Casey Anthony Verdict
Original post made by Cindy Cross, Parkside, on Jul 7, 2011
The Casey Anthony murder trial has kept America hooked on commentary by Nancy Grace and other legal pundits for the last couple months. Not since the OJ Simpson in 1993 has there been such media coverage of any other murder. People called in sick to stay home and watch the trial.
The Casey Anthony trial had all the makings of a Masterpiece Theater who-dun-it; the main suspect is a good looking young sociopath, the grandmother who lied under oath to protect the accused, the grandfather who is hiding an illicit affair, on and on the cast of interesting characters goes.
The main element that enthralled America was the pursuit of justice for the adorable little girl, Caylee Anthony, who lost her life under mysterious circumstances. Who did it? From the evidence it seemed like a slam-dunk first degree murder charge. It seemed that Casey wanted to be free from the ties of motherhood and save face with her family by claiming it was a kidnapping.
The trial came to an astounding end when the jury rendered Not Guilty on all charges. Nothing. Nada. Nil. Casey Anthony will be set free next Wednesday, free to compete in hot body contests, free to live her life any way she sees fit. Free to tell all the lies she wants. All while Caylee Anthony is dead.
What happened? Many see that there was only circumstantial evidence—nothing strong enough to convict. Was I watching the same trial? If Casey Anthony didn't do it—who did?
Is our justice system flawed? Many who faithfully watched the trial fell into two camps—those who liked defense attorney Jose Baez and sided with an acquittal, and those who hated Jose Baez and sided with first degree murder. It became personal. Did the jury hold the same feelings that influenced their verdict?
Should the U.S. consider a legal system like France and England who hold the accused guilty until proven innocent? It's hard to fathom that a little child could be killed, whether intentionally or by accident, and no one is held accountable.
What, if anything, can we do as a nation, to make sure that justice has more common sense? Isn't that only reasonable?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 8, 2011 at 6:30 am
Somebody needs to get a life. Watching too much tv leads to stunted, biased ideas expressed in inane ways.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 8, 2011 at 11:58 am
I agree with Cindy Cross. I mean I stayed home from work and watched the whole trial. I believe that watching court TV is good for America. I also believe that we should change the fundamental notion of "innocent until proven guilty" based on this ONE trial. It only makes sense. There has never been another miscarriage of justice until now. You know like the financial executives who sold bunk derivatives to the world that toppled the global economic system, or the people who sold loans to minorities so they could reap the commissions. Or priests who sit in bungalows because the statute of limitations ran out, or crooked cops caught setting up men for drunk driving. OR like in SF where drugs were stolen, hundreds of cases were tainted and nothing done to the perpetrator. How about the drug dealers that make hundreds of thousands of dollars off our kids every year and sit in their mansions. Or the for profit educational institutions bilking billions out of our service men. Those are trivial. But this case, yest this case ... let's change our legal framework. Oh, one more thing ... can we have more dramatic court TV because I want to stay home more and see if there any other basic tenets of American Democracy I want to topple.
a resident of Carlton Oaks
on Jul 8, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Yeah, but SOMEbody must've killed the kid. Kids just don't drown by accident!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 8, 2011 at 12:11 pm
You might want to check your facts here. British and Napoleonic law both include presumption of innocence among their primary tenets.
Additionally, all the members of the European Union are bound by the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of the Council of Europe; Article 62 states: "Everyone charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law."
I think the discussion might better be geared toward the idea that all 12 jurors have to agree on a verdict, as opposed to a simple (or even super) majority, as is the case with civil trials in the U.S.
I think a case could be made for a shift that would let a jury decide with a majority of 7 or even 10 of the 12 members.
It's also worth noting in a discussion like this that TV coverage of trials has both positive and negative aspects.
Consider the Simpson case, the slow speed chase and the outside information we got that the jury never saw.
Also consider Nancy Grace as a worst-case scenario: has Ms. Grace ever come out in favor of someone charged with a crime? Has she ever done anything about the now hundreds of innocent people that DNA profiling has exonerated?
That said, I think American justice is right where it should be. It may not be the best, but it's better than anything else that's been tried.
a resident of Livermore
on Jul 8, 2011 at 10:10 pm
Justice has been done...it's time to moveon.com.
Many American's don't have much faith in the American system of justice?


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...yet California already has a confirmed AHB presence....and RIFA for that matter.
...yet California already has a confirmed AHB presence....and RIFA for that matter.
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
Guzman-Novoa is one of the biggest critics of using morphometric measurements. DuPraw (1965) according to Ruttner (1975), was unable to delimit scutellata from capensis by wing venation (Hive and Honey Bee 1992 pg. 36).
"When FABIS was being written, it carried a disclaimer that if the bees in other areas were different then the bees in the FABIS survey or another area, then different standards were to be developed and used." - Dee Lusby.
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Regards, Barry
FABIS does not measure wing venation. USDA-ID does cubital index of the wing venation but does not give it much weight. The first visible sternite carries much more weight. For an experienced tech there is enough data to determine managed from feral colonies, and possibly sub-species, though that is not the purpose of USDA-ID. Bee morphometrics has come a long way since 1965, 1975, or 1992. There are hundreds of thousands of DNA validated samples in the database now. Capensis from Scutellata is a far more challenging analysis and fortunately not pertinent in America yet. We are curently working on research to just that end. DR. Jamie Ellis, who completed his doctorate on Scutella in South Africa many years ago, returned there a couple of months ago with my co-worker for updated morphometric research. The University of Florida has the rapid DNA analysis to validate morphometrics.
I am not at liberty to share the name of the state near you that is requiring sub-species certification now. It is creating a lot of work for our tech, Kelly.
why are you not at liberty to say which state if it is a law?
He works for the State of FL and he isn't supposed to.
Mark Berninghausen
AmericanBK - Just a dumb question, but wouldn't morphometrics have some issues with all the cross breeding going on. Russians, AHB, Cordovans, Italians, germans, beeweaver, and Romulans, all mixing with feral bees at any time. Heck, you could have a cordovan hive and a queen cell with AHB gene in it that is mean has heck. It gets passed through check stations and bingo the evil one emerges.
I hope they have some significant structural measurements to go on... but maybe a color shift is enough to go on, but darn, that sure blows any scientific rigor out the door IMHO But I is the village idiot. But I honestly thought that only the Xercus group was the only folks in the zoological world that were still using color patterns for identification.
Going back under my rock, but I remember the c. rufus fight well, know folks with scars from the earliest DNA fight. Even with genetics they were dealing with muddy water. I pity the folks in this fight. Sounds like someone that is a breeder knows someone that needed election funds.
"But I read it on the internet so it must be true"
Hybridization does not hinder identification with USDA-ID. It does present a challenge during FABIS with some smaller bees like Egyptian and possibly German. Then we follow-up with USDA-ID and DNA if USDA-ID is inconclusive. The database in USDA-ID compared nearly 100,000 USDA-ID identifications with DNA results. It is very accurate and can even identify feral bees from managed for an experienced tech.
The measurements are slightly different and cluster in a different quadrant when graphed.
Morphometric measurements? (as if I really know what that means)
Cluster in a different quadrant when graphed? Please elaborate?
Does "cluster" used here refer to the common understanding of most beekeepers or the cluster of morphometric data? Or what?
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Mark Berninghausen
Here is a link to a Dave Cushman page on morphometric measurements:
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Thanks Rader.
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I think there was a nice selection of blocks and Mariposa did a great job in mixing them up good for us.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
I think there was a nice selection of blocks and Mariposa did a great job in mixing them up good for us.
Life is short, live it while you still can. QuilterMomma
quilterMomma i agree with you ,she did a great job, i love all of my blocks ,and im ready to do it again /
Love all the blocks. I had lots of fun doing this swap.
Treat people the way you want to be treated!!
Thought you might like to see how my Chicken Quilt came out!
Upper Part up close
Bottom Half up close
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So cute! I'm glad you showed us. I NEED to do mine!
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Lv2sew-- your wall hanging is really great!
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I love your quilt Luv2sew! Soooo darling! I HAVE to do something with my blocks! Maybe make two or three? LOL! I have soo many blocks that I can't put them on my design wall in my current abode. LOL! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you! It was great finally putting it together!
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I had a couple days off from work and I finally got a layout I liked and got my funky chicken top put together. Thanks again for the great blocks that were swapped
luv2sew and cavmom both the wall hanging and quilt are awesome. Looking at cavmom's quilt I think I will see if another swap comes up so I will have enough for a large lap quilt size.Very nice ladies. Thank you for sharing.
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Construction site near me was tossing some perfectly good lumber the other day so I helped myself to the pile and have managed to construct several items to use around the farm with it.
Today, I built a top bar hive. Measures 14 inches wide at the top (interior measurement), 9 inches deep, and 47 inches long. One inch plywood for the bottom and sides and the ends are a couple 2x6's on one side and a broken 2x12 on the other. Found a couple the same length, so I had to do no cutting for this build. I even used recycled screws to assemble it because I am too cheap and lazy to drive to the home depot for more.
All I need now are some top bars and a cover. May have to bite the bullet and actually spend 5 bucks on the lumber for the top bars.
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Giants dont need a run stuffer at all, they need a 3 tech. They have their 1 tech in Linval.
Thats what they were hoping Austin would be.
If Sheldon Richardson fell to the giants he would fit perfectly.
Kwaan Short has some major questions about his motor and playing every down. Richardson for is on the smaller end for DT at 295 pounds and just had major shoulder surgery. You want a 3 tech guy thats what Marvin Austin is being groomed for. But if you wanna stop the run you gotta get a young Run stuffer who you can groom and develope. Look at the Raven even now. You have Ngata and Cody as DT's both 340lbs plus able to rip thru Double teams and crush ball carriers. I believe Jesse Williams or John Jenkins even Kwame Gathers would be good picks for the Giants. Bleacher Report has Jesse Williams as the best pure NT in this years draft when it comes to stuffing the run and they also believe him to be the hardest hitting DT/NT in the draft. Plus he has the ability to play the other techniques on the Dline. I just think Williams from Bama is gonna really move up draft boards come the combine. He may not even make it to the Giants.