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More informationLiving Language In-Flight Swahili is the perfect boarding pass to learning Swahili before you land.
There's no better way to make use of all that spare time on a plane than to master the essentials of a language. This 60-minute program is the simplest way to learn just enough to get by in every situation essential to both the tourist and business traveler.
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Poor nations offer interesting opportunities for investors seeking tomorrow's emerging markets. Several exchange-traded fund managers are already investing in Africa and the Caribbean, taking advantage of opportunities in frontier markets that are showing promise. The MSCI Frontier Markets Index, which tracks stocks in remote locales from Angola to Trinidad and Tobago, has gained 15 percent this year. While that gain lags a 57 percent rally for MSCI's Emerging Markets Index and a 21 percent gain for its World Index, it's an impressive record given the low entry point for investors.
Portfolio inflows into these remote markets are huge. Africa posted a 27 percent jump in foreign direct investment in 2008, compared to a 13 percent jump for Latin America and the Caribbean and 17 percent for Asia, according to U.N. data. The financial crisis last year saw withdrawals of $49 billion, but more than $44 billion of that have since returned in the first seven months of the year.
The Afro-Caribbean stock markets continued their steady climb in September on growing confidence about the global recovery. Investors are slowly losing their risk aversion. South Africa's main index rallied 13 percent in the third quarter as mergers make a return and interest rates remain low. Africa's largest cell phone firm, MTN Group, is in merger talks with Bharti Airtel, India's largest cell phone company and Naspers Ltd., Africa's largest media group, has bought 91 percent of Brazil's BuscaPé.com for $342 million to expand in Latin America.
In Botswana, the economy expanded 1.3 percent from a year ago as diamond mines reopened and farming surged. Gross domestic product rose amid rising demand for diamond. The mines account for 70 percent of Botswana's exports. East Africa is attracting foreign investors by the scores. U.S. private equity firm, Emerging Capital Partners, has invested $25 million in telecoms, Internet and media firms in Kenya and Tanzania. A technology boom is sweeping across Africa, as even the poor take advantage of cell phones to invest in local stock markets.
In Egypt, the Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchange index has gained 30 percent since July. The gains for September alone are 15 percent. In the Caribbean, Jamaica's index rose nearly 2 percent in September while the Trinidadian index slid less than a percentage point. In anticipation of financing from the International Monetary Fund in October, Jamaica was trying to slash government spending. Inflation has improved and growth rates are back up at 5.5 percent. It has large reserves and has regained macroeconomic stability.

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Former NHL player and enforcer Georges Laraque claims in a new book that steroid use in the NHL was commonplace.
According to Laraque's new book, "The Story of the NHL's Unlikeliest Tough Guy", enforcers in the NHL routinely took steroids to help them gain weight before reaching the pros and took different substances, such as Ephedrine, so they would be desenstized before a fight. Laraque did not name any players in his book.
The NHL and NHL Player's Association have not yet responded to Laraque's claims.
Laraque started his career in 1997 with the Edmonton Oilers and later played for the Phoenix Coyotes, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Montreal Canadiens. He has amassed 1,126 penalty minutes and has 153 career points.
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The work and life of the late photojournalist John Launois is found in the new memoir, "L'Americain: A Photojournalist's Life" and will be discussed by his son and co-author Chris Pan Launois along with legendary journalist Donald S. Connery who had worked in the field with Launois and wrote the book's forward.
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Shooting 22 pistol competitions with my Hamerli was fun and challenging but, after I got really good at it I lost interest. Being a deer hunter and not always having time off of work during the one week season, I decided it would be nice to have a rifle in the car so if time allowed on the way home from work I could maybe get in an hour or two. Well, the work car isn't the biggest and the rifle would not fit in the trunk, and the back seat is out of the question even if covered might be obvious to it's nature. Hey how about a pistol? would fit into the trunk, easy to transport, cool. Now came my next situation, what manufacturer and caliber? My State does not allow semi's for hunting so a revolver or single shot is what I'm allowed. Next step what manufacturer, after reading countless forums, magazines, and loading manuals it was obvious to me the Ruger. Although Smith's have a huge following the reloading manuals with hot loads say; "For Ruger and TC only!!" Not an engineer but came to the conclusion of a more robust gun. (Let the daggers come).
Choose a 454 in caliber for its power and flat shooting. Went to the range with the Ruger Super Rehawk and placed one of my 22 targets out at fifty yards. Left hand in my pocket, right hand on the revolver nice light touch of the trigger, Ka-Boooom. Good freaken gocka mucha, thank God nobody was at the range watching how I almost dropped the gun. Second shot both hands on the gun with a death grip. Problem no hits on the target, so brought it in a bit to twenty five yards I thought very embarrassing. Still no hits, what the heck these sights must be way off. Had to buy more shells as I ran out. A 4x4 piece of card board discovered there were some hits all over no rhyme or reason. More research. Bought RCBS Rockchucker started loading my own, it took a good 500 rounds to finally group 4 inches at fifty yards off hand (both hands). Well this all happened over a couple of months missing deer season because did not dare head out with the way things were. That's how I became addicted to big bore handgun shooting.
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"He was not something I would want to run into… I would feel totally intimidated. I would be horrified for the kids to be around him."
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Calm in Saudi Arabia Speaks VolumesBy
The contrast between Libya and Saudi Arabia on Feb. 23 couldn't have been more striking. As Qaddafi loyalists fought rebel forces east of Tripoli, oil majors such as Total (TOT) and ENI (E) cut or suspended their Libyan oil production, while the U.S., Britain, and Italy prepared to send ships and planes to evacuate their citizens. On the other side of the Arab world, Saudi King Abdullah returned from three months of medical treatment abroad laden with gifts for his subjects. Abdullah, known as the people's king, announced $36 billion worth of new jobless benefits, education and housing subsidies, and debt write-offs. The government even unveiled a new sports channel.
The world is focused on the tragic events unfolding in Libya, which have alarmed U.S. policy makers and spooked markets into bidding oil above $100 a barrel. Yet a nonevent—the unrest that is not occurring in Saudi Arabia—could prove just as important in determining the future of the region and the world economy.
If Saudi Arabia's people—including a sizable Shiite minority—keep supporting Abdullah's regime, then the country can bring its vast reserves of oil into play to make up for any production lost in Libya or other crisis-crippled states. If instead Shiite unrest spills over from neighboring Bahrain into the Saudi state and puts production at risk, the world will be in a very dangerous place.
Observers like Peter Zeihan, of geopolitical consultants Stratfor, are betting that Saudi Arabia will escape the turmoil. "Odds are the Saudis would hold on because they have much better social control in the form of policing powers, and they are better able to insulate the minority group that might like to see a change from events in the outside world," he says.
It would be unwise to say definitively that Saudi Arabia will emerge unscathed. Yet 86-year-old Abdullah has proven an able ruler. Under him and his influential Oil Minister, Ali Ibrahim al-Naimi, the kingdom has expanded its oil production capacity to about 12 million barrels a day; actual production is about 8.4 million barrels a day. The government has a 35,000-man force just to protect key oil and gas installations. "I don't really see any credible risk to their oil infrastructure," says Jarmo Kotilaine, chief economist at Jeddah-based National Commercial Bank.
The kingdom is also investing in its citizens, including minority Shiites in the oil-producing region of the Eastern Province, through generous social programs. Saudi Aramco, the giant state oil company, has made sure to employ a large number of Shiite workers to give them a stake in its success.
Ordinary Saudis have started to benefit from King Abdullah's educational programs. Yasser Abbass, a 28-year-old Shiite, got full tuition and board while studying for a master's in business administration at a California university. "The government's program took care of most of my expenses during my studies, including tuition, health coverage, and monthly allowance," says Abbass, who returned to the kingdom and got a job as an investment banker in Riyadh.
The kingdom's role as the world's main oil exporter is more critical than ever as Libya, Africa's third-largest oil producer, and Algeria, the continent's fourth, confront popular uprisings. Libya pumps 1.6 million barrels a day, according to data from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, and exports mostly to Europe.
"Saudi Arabia has built up its spare production capacity so it can handle any supply interruption in the market," says Carsten Fritsch, a Frankfurt-based analyst at Commerzbank. "Saudi Arabia can handle it unless there is a combined impact of protests in North Africa and in another large Gulf Cooperation Council oil producer." So far, none of the major Persian Gulf oil producers have seen the kind of political instability that has affected production in Libya.
Saudi Arabia has about 3.5 million barrels of untapped daily production capacity for emergencies, the International Energy Agency says. That's more than double Libya's output. The Saudis would need at least 30 days to bring this capacity online, says Erik Kreil, the U.S. Energy Dept.'s specialist on oil market disruptions. Minister al-Naimi said on Feb. 22 that OPEC is ready to step in to meet a shortage caused by a disruption in shipments from Libya. "Saudi Arabia and OPEC will be ready to meet that shortage, if and when it happens," he said.
Despite al-Naimi's assurances, Brent oil futures, the benchmark price for two-thirds of the world's crude, have climbed 10 percent since Feb. 15—just before Libya began to unravel and passed $108 a barrel for the first time since 2008. Prices will continue to escalate while the Saudis tap their spare capacity and refiners, chemical makers, and speculative traders scramble for their piece of a shrinking global supply, Kreil says.
Oil traders are haunted by the specter of 2002-2003, when political unrest and an oil industry strike in Venezuela interrupted the flow of crude exports from one of the primary suppliers to the U.S. market. While the world waited for the Saudis to deliver on promises of extra crude, oil futures traded in New York surged 51 percent in the span of three months to the highest price since the outbreak of the first Gulf War more than 12 years earlier. A similar runup now in the Brent contract used to price Middle East crude would translate into prices in excess of $160 a barrel. If the Venezuelan experience is any guide, prices from such a spike would not stay high for long. After Saudi supplies began flowing in the spring of 2003, U.S. crude prices tumbled 37 percent in two months.
The difference between 2003 and now is that the current crisis is in the Mideast, where upheaval has proved contagious. Gianna Bern, a former BP (BP) crude trader now at Brookshire Research and Advisory, puts it this way: "The real concern is that if we see these sorts of disturbances spread to Saudi Arabia or Iran, then we're going to see turmoil in energy markets go to another level, an unprecedented level."
All the Arab states that emerged from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I are vulnerable, Stratfor's Zeihan says, because none have managed a normal transition of political power. Saudi Arabia has been under the thumb of the same family since its establishment. Even if Saudi Arabia avoids unrest this time, it has to continue Abdullah's reforms to prevent an upheaval. Says former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Richard Murphy: The Saudis need to keep creating jobs and more importantly give their citizens "a sense of participation in government."
The bottom line: Saudi Arabia has thus far escaped tumult thanks to tighter market controls and better social programs than its neighbors.


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Thinking of you once again today.
I know you are looking over all of us and see all of the "happenings" that have been going on around here. First off, Nugget is such a mess. She has such a hard time controlling her anxiety that she has had to go back and forth to the vet to have shots and dips for her red mange. Luckily I catch the spots early enough that she doesn't have to suffer through lengthy treatments. She also has what is known as "food aggression" and gets very mean when it is time to prepare/serve dinner. We have a routine for all five dogs that helps us to avoid any mishaps as a result but, the other day, Daddy didn't follow the rule and Nugget got bit by your younger Brofur Braun. She was off to the vet again for stitches in her nose. We are hoping that the love and support we show her on a daily basis will help her to overcome much of this.
Your sisfur Austin is getting up there in age and is really starting to show the signs. I find myself spending extra time with her giving lots of love & kisses & cuddles because I know the day will come (sooner than any of us would like) when she will join you over Rainbow Bridge and the two of you can play together like you used to. She takes arthritis medicine and has a hard time getting moving in the mornings compared to her younger self but she still has these bouts of energy that hit her and she is running like a pup & playing with all the other dogs.
Braun is still the anti-social dog he has been since he was a baby. He only loves me and I am ok with that. He plays either by himself or with me and when he wants to cuddle he wants all the other dogs off the bed. His personality is so funny and different than any other dog I have ever known.
Ginger is doing so much better with her fears. You know the abuse she suffered before coming home with us and it has literally been years for her to finally break through and we can truly see how comfortable and safe she feels in our home now. She even stays in the living room when it is time to break out presents, etc. Remember she used to run into the back room and hide on the other side of the bed anytime anything new was in the house. Love has truly brought her out of her shell.
Tina stole dad's heart. She sticks to him like glue. When daddy gets up in the mornings before work she is the only dog in the room that has to go with him. If you do not let her out with her daddy she will sit in there and bark until you do. All the others jump on the bed and go back to sleep with me. Tina also LOVES to crawl in our bed after we fall asleep even though she just got this brand new AWESOME new pet bed a few weeks ago. She is so funny when she jumps up she immediately "hunkers down" so no one sees her and then slowly crawls her way up the bottom of the bed, under the covers, until she is right beside her daddy. She is a funny little furbutt!
I guess you saw Austin spill my dinner last night huh? I immediately though of you when that happened. I will never forget the many things you would spill when I had them in places I was sure you would never reach. Somehow it was always funny because the look on your face was priceless. Funniest moment ever was when you stole that turkey leg out of the trash and ran down the hall like there was no tomorrow trying to get to your room before the dogs realized what you had. You made me laugh so much.
I miss you and love you always and forever. I am sure you have noticed I have not been able to get another cat yet. It still hurts too much. This November will be three years but it still feels like yesterday. *tears*
Today is another Birthday where I do not get to hold you or play with you. I only get to cry for you. Telling you I miss you so very much seems pointless as you already know...you listen to me over Rainbow Bridge. It is just damned hard on days like today because I start to reflect back on when I first got you...valentine's day, when you first meowed, when you made the decision for me that my pillow was "our pillow", your 1st/2nd/3rd/4th/5th/6th Birthday and all others that followed.
We have had some interesting things going on around the Smith house lately and sure wish you could be there to share them. Your human sister has her very first boyfriend and Daddy isn't too happy about that. Your human brother is going into the Marines in August & I sure wish you were here to see him off.
Great...now I am crying again. I am sorry that all I can give you now for your Birthday are tears. But, they are tears of love. You are missed so very much!
Happy Birthday by little Grouchy Butt!!
Hey Sweet Boy! I am sure missing you right now! Well, I miss you every day but this last week has been hard because (1) we have a new family member you never got to meet and (2) this is your favorite time of year. You used to LOVE to run and play in the back yard with the dogs when it was like this. You were so darned frisky! I still recall all our friends and some neighbors being absolutely amazed that you would run out and play in the yard with the dogs. Little did they know you were a dog in a cat's body!
Never forget me as I will never forget you. I still get tears when I come on here and I still get tears when I go in the spare room which used to be your room. You loved having an entire room to yourself so the dogs woulnd't bother you when you weren't in the mood.
I love you Groucho!
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The recent constitutional reform of the Mexican energy sector will catapult Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) into an unfamiliar competitive market environment. The rules of the game are not yet in place, but the former state monopolies over oil and gas exploration and production and electricity generation activities expect to compete in the broader national energy market side by side with other state and privately owned companies. This expectation has both Pemex and CFE scrambling to find a place in a new world and gain a competitive advantage against the newcomers.Read more
On March 21, 2014 Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) submitted its round zero proposal to the Secretaría de Energía (SENER), Mexico's department of energy. Read more
Continuing a liberalization trend commenced with the signing of NAFTA, Mexico has amended its Political Constitution to allow the participation of private capital in its upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas businesses. Read more
The Mexican government published in the Diario Oficial de la Federación, its official daily gazette, a Decree amending Articles 25, 27 and 28 of the Constitution (the "Decree"). The Decree became effective on December 21, 2013 (the "Effective Date") and, except as set forth below, requires that the government further enact implementing legislation within 120 days thereof. Read more
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Bearcats Celebrate Senior Day with 8-5 Win over Memphis
May 11, 2014
CINCINNATI - The University of Cincinnati baseball team picked up some early offense and hung on for an 8-5 win over the University of Memphis Sunday afternoon on senior day at Marge Schott Stadium.
Before the game, Cincinnati honored seniors Justin Glass (Fort Wayne, Ind./Carroll), Ethan McAlpine (Cincinnati, Ohio/Moeller), Ryan Quinn (Sparta, N.J./Sparta), Matt Ring (Muncie, Ind./Yorktown) and Matt Williams (Mason, Ohio/Cincinnati Hills Christian) in the final home game of their careers.
The Bearcats (22-27, 6-15 American Athletic Conference) picked up a series win against the Tigers (26-26, 7-14 American) and have won six of their past seven contests.
UC scored six of its eight runs in the first two innings and added a pair of insurance runs in the fourth. Glass and sophomore Ian Happ (Pittsburgh, Pa./Mt. Lebanon) hit homeruns and each finished with a pair of RBIs. Sophomore Devin Wenzel (Blandon, Pa./Fleetwood Area) and freshman Connor McVey (Mason, Ohio/Mason) also added two RBIs apiece.
UC freshman starter Andrew Zellner (Farmersville, Ohio/Valley View) went five innings, scattering four runs on five hits while striking out a career-best eight batters and moving his record to 4-3 on the campaign. Redshirt freshman Colton Cleary (Nicholasville, Ky./Lexington Catholic) pitched four innings of relief, giving up one run on four hits, striking out three and earning his fifth save of the year. UC's 11 combined strikeouts were a season high.
Bryce Beeler got the start for the Tigers lasting just over an inning and was pulled in the bottom of the second, giving up six runs on five hits and striking out a pair. He took the loss and is 2-2 on the season.
In the bottom of the first, Williams and Happ got on with back-to-back bloop singles to center and right field, respectively. Glass was hit by a pitch and Wenzel ripped a single to left center field to plate Williams and Happ. Glass and Wenzel advanced on a wild pitch before McVey doubled over the third basemen's head to bring them both home and put Cincinnati ahead 4-0.
In the second, Williams was hit by a pitch and Happ homered over the right field fence to increase the lead to 6-0.
Memphis got on the board in the fourth, scoring a pair of runs on two hits and a UC error but the Bearcats extended the margin to 8-2 in the bottom of the fourth with their second homerun of the game. Glass hit is fifth of the season over the right field wall, scoring Happ who had reached on a walk to open the frame.
Memphis continued to chip away, adding another pair in the top of the sixth and a final run in the bottom of the seventh, but Cleary was strong in relief and some quality defensive plays kept the Tigers from mounting a strong comeback.
The Bearcats return to action Tuesday, May 13 traveling up I-71 to face Ohio State at 6:35 p.m. ET in Columbus. UC will close out the regular season May 15-17, taking on No. 5 Louisville in a three-game set in the Bluegrass State.


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No "none of the above" option? I own both and have tried both. The SmartCarry is more comfortable and more concealable, but it's rather difficult and ungainly getting to your gun if it's needed. I know they claim differently, but that's my experience. I also pocket carry a S&W 642 in a Desantis Nemesis pocket holster on occasion. Pocket carry is OK if I am wearing cargo shorts or a bulky jacket.
Unless you wear pants like Bozo the Clown or MC Hammer, neither carry method is comfortable if you ask me. I will use either as needs dictate, but 90% of the time, it's IWB for me.


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As we've come to expect from Samsung, the PX2370's aesthetics are arresting – and we mean that in a good way. There's no 'touch of color' here, but most will likely prefer the monochrome scheme of this model: we certainly do. Its even-sized black bezel is fetchingly set off by a deep transparent surround, an effect repeated in the stand and semi-transparent smoked black base.
Though there's quite a bit of glossy black plastic, it's more resistant to fingerprints than any such finish we've come across recently, and you can avoid touching it altogether thanks to the thick transparent edge. Overall, this monitor is very slim (26.5mm at its thickest point), and its design is cohesive and eye-catching. Indeed, we prefer its angular body to Samsung's previous, generally curvier efforts.
At the bottom of the bezel resides the power switch, highlighted by a faint white curved LED strip and a chrome outer edge. Though it looks like a physical button, the switch is actually activated by touch, and is very sensitive.
The PX2370's controls, on the other hand, are actually physical buttons, hidden away behind the right-hand side of the bezel with identifying icons on the monitor's extremely slim side. These buttons would have worked a lot better if the VGA-sync button (which incidentally lacks any secondary function) had been moved away from the OSD controls. Unfortunately this is not the case, and since all five buttons are the same shape and size, it's easy to get confused. However, starting at the top they lie naturally under your four main fingers and offer positive feedback, though the monitor does tend to wobble a little when pressing them.
Shortcuts include brightness control, MagicBright presets (Custom, Standard, Game, Cinema and Dynamic Contrast) and input selection. Unfortunately we found input switching - whether manual or automatic - to be frustratingly slow, but that's only an issue if you're part of the minority that switch inputs regularly.
Anyone familiar with the OSD on a recent Samsung display won't find any surprises here. Despite only using three colours it's attractive, with informative icons and a logical layout. All the usual options are on hand, though there are a few Samsung-exclusive 'Magic' additions which are only found on its high-end TN-based monitors (we realise that's an oxymoron).
The most controversial of these is probably Magic Angle, a set of specially adjusted 'view angle' presets which alter picture characteristics to compensate for TN technology's inherently poor viewing angle performance. While it's nice to have if you usually sit in the same orientation to your display, it wouldn't be necessary to begin with if a superior panel technology was used.
Magic Lux and Magic Eco, on the other hand, would make genuine enhancements for any monitor. The former controls the PX2370's ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts backlight brightness depending on the amount of ambient light, while the latter lowers backlight brightness to permanent maximums, making an already frugal monitor (thanks to its LED backlighting) even more energy efficient. In fact, after calibration the PX2370 stayed below 19W, and activating the lowest Magic Eco setting of three brought this down to an impressive 12W average.
Can you please bug Samsung to release a nice, cheaper 27" with 2560x1440 resolution, already?! I'm mystified why they won't move beyond the stale 23/24" 'Full HD' size we've had for years now.
When Samsung and the big volume producers get involved, it'll finally start a bit of price competition with Dell and Apple.
will you be reviewing the XL2270HD soon? I'd like to read a full review so can compare to LD220HD before purchasing one or the other
While you can advise the F2380 instead because of the contrast image quality mind you that also offers black crush, the contrast is superb upto 3000 to 1 for a monitor but is more business orientated, this screen has 2ms response time and according to other review sites almost match a 120hz monitor in response time, the F2380 has 5ms and is very slow for movies and games for my taste, i have the previous version of this screen the XL2370 wich also has 2ms and as fast as the PX2370 screen, better colour reproduction (below Delta 1 after calibration) but no Magic Angle features, but also can be compensate by selecting Gamma values to make darker or brighter the screen if you sit from below, you can advise better contrast screens(like CPVA)or better angle screens (like IPS) but the response time always kill them, maybe WOLED from LG can be the answer but not right now, until then i prefer the XL2370 TN faster screen, good colour reproduction after calibration, with the same design of the P2370 screen (the base is more attractive and has blue crystals in the neck¡¡¡) and also a lot more brightness than the PX2370 reaching 450 cd/m2 rather than 250cd/m2, you can take advantage of this brightness in movies too and looks superb and is cheaper...
G.I.Joe 720p – No Flash with the camera, just a representation of the brightness that can be achieved with the monitor, the lost of contrast is abismal because there´s no flash .
@Sullivan McIntyre:
Yes, we too would love to see some more competition in the 2560x1440 IPS 27in sector.
Here's hoping!
We'll see what we can do...
If you'd care to read again, I recommend the F2380M. The 'M' stands for multimedia, hence why it has HDMI compared to the business version that doesn't. The F23-series is PVA rather than TN, so response times can't necessarily be directly compared.
Contrast is also far better on cPVA than on TN, meaning the latter's 'extra' brightness is utterly pointless. Also, I and anyone else who cares more about practicality than shallow looks will prefer FULL adjustability to the rubbish ergonomics of this monitor's stand, no matter how pretty it is.
Finally, for those who don't care about these factors, there's always the http://www.trustedreviews.c... which I mentioned as an alternative. In the end of course, get what appeals to you, we can only (hopefully) help to inform your decision.
Even the M model for multimedia has black crush man, response times always matters if you dont want to see weirdness in your playback movies, brightness means a lot i cant go back to a standard 250cd/m2 screen now and is even more espectacular in games like Battlefield Badcompany 2 the reflection of the sun in the san,d among others effects, is unbeliavable, seems like your are in the desert, equally with movies like GI Joe, also all the explosions are super impressive, the other screens for me are dull and slow.
Heres a comparison table between the two screens, the worst response time in the XL2370 is as good as the best response result of the F2380M, and in colour reproduction both are pretty much the same below delta 1 in average ...
So same level of colour presision but better response times, i choose that over a better stand, if you are very tall just put a few books below the screen, at least for me thats way better than black crush(lost of detail) + slow screen... will be interesting to know how much contrast the F2380M can achieve without the lost of black detail, maybe no so wow after that.
Well I came here hoping to find a balanced, impartial and sound review that I can feature on my website. Unfortunately your review is shrouded in clouds of doom, gloom, hatred, unsubstantiated opinion and unsupported ideas. You talk about 'poor contrast' yet don't give any figures to back up what you are saying. It is all good and well talking about the contrast of the F2380M, or at least, the figures quoted - but if you were writing at a truly useful level you would point out that the 3000:1 quoted contrast is only obtainable by setting brightness to 35% (a.k.a 'text mode'). This is no good for films and games - add to this the horrendous and I mean horrendous glaring trails of red and purple and lack of differentiation of blacks and any cPVA panel currently available is not in the least bit attractive for gamers or movie lovers. The high brightness of the PX2370, on the other hand, helps bring out an extra level of immersiveness to games and movies. It is not as if the PX2370 visibly bleaches everything - you can't simply say that "black levels aren't as good as some other panel using a completely different technology therefore brightness doesn't matter" - especially without supporting figures. Likewise - you talk about colour accuracy without giving specific examples or any real idea of how you tested this. The truth is that the PX2370, like the XL2370, is a very strong TN panel. It shares the inherent flaws of the TN technology it uses but provides a stunningly bright, efficient, responsive and attractive screen.
@Mike Scott:
Ermmm, okay then. "Unfortunately your review is shrouded in clouds of doom, gloom, hatred, unsubstantiated opinion and unsupported ideas." Excuse me, did you actually read the review?! (Also, do you write TV soap scripts?) Quoted from page 3: "Ultimately though, what every monitor should be about is image quality, and here the 23in PX2370, with its Full HD (1,920 x 1,080) resolution, scores decently." I'm POSITIVE about the image quality - in fact, I'm generally positive about this whole monitor, except that it is too expensive ("This is all fairly encouraging, but there's little doubt the PX2370 is expensive for what you get.").
"It is all good and well talking about the contrast of the F2380M, or at least, the figures quoted - but if you were writing at a truly useful level you would point out that the 3000:1 quoted contrast is only obtainable by setting brightness to 35% (a.k.a 'text mode')." This is NOT a review of the F2380M, and we didn't encounter any of the "horrendous glaring trails of red and purple and lack of differentiation of blacks" or black crush you mention on its smaller cPVA cousin (http://www.trustedreviews.c.... But maybe I just couldn't see them through the clouds of doom, gloom and hatred.
I'm buying 2 of them today! Is it possible to get it in a nice tomato red?
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In one swift moment, a fall wiped away his memory. All he knew for certain was that someone wanted him dead - and that he had better learn why. But everywhere he turned there seemed to be more questions - or people too willing to hide the truth behind a smoke screen of lies. He had only the name he had been told was his own, his mysterious skill with a gun, and a link to a half million dollars' worth of buried gold as evidence of his past life. Was the treasure his? Was he a thief? A killer? He didn't have the answers, but he needed them soon. Because what he still didn't know about himself, others did - and if he didn't unlock the secret of his past, he wasn't going to have much of a future.
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"Another Great Louis L'Amour Story"
As a Louis L'Amour fan, I've seen the movie, read the book, and have now enjoyed "The Man Called Noon" in audiobook form. The audiobook being my preference.
Steven Mendel gave a great performance.
If you've never read Louis L'Amour, this would be a great first. If you're a fan, it's a must!
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Have read some Louis L'Amour books many years ago but not this one. I liked the mystery and almost detective like nature of the story. Only iritant was the same questions within the central characters mind repeated perhaps too often in the narrative. Otherwise an enjoyable story with some vivid detail of the characters, countryside and area.
Well read, some narrators grate but I enjoyed this narrator's style and voice.
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Surveying the Emergent Care Landscape: Preparing Students for Emergency Dental Patients
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It is extremely important for a dental student to develop the skills to effectively diagnose and treat the dental emergency patient. New York University College of Dentistry has developed a simplified approach to aid our dental students in the effective diagnosis and treatment of the emergency patient. The innovation involves using the acronym SOAP and a step by step interactive model to aid a dental student in accurately diagnosing a dental emergency.
*Presented at 2013 ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition
General Information
- To develop the diagnostic skills necessary as D2 and D3 dental students to triage and treat the emergency patient.
- To acquire information thorough data collection.
- To recognize the origin of pain.
- To address the patient's chief complaint.
- To have a plan of action.
- To alleviate the patient's pain.
- To develop the critical thinking skills required to establish a differential diagnosis through the logical progression of our algorithm.
- SOAP, Interactive, Critical Thinking Skills, Emergency Dental Patients
Authors & Co-Authors
Primary Author
June Weiss, DMD
New York University College of Dentistry
Morey Gendler, DDS
New York University College of Dentistry
Bruce Brandolin, DDS
New York University College of Dentistry
David Hershkowitz, DDS
New York University College of Dentistry
Effectiveness and Significance
Our algorithmic approach to evaluating a dental emergency is a unique, simple, and effective training model. It encourages students to accurately diagnose and treat a dental emergency. The interactive model integrates clinical and didactic knowledge with the end result being predictable and accurate emergency dental care. The students polled said the chart helped them use an interactive mode to integrate information and help them accurately diagnose an emergency patient.
Special Implementation Guidelines or Requirements
We plan to use the SOAP chart in the dental clinic.


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I'm in my 60s now. I liked King Crimson from the moment I heard them in the late 60s. Same for Yes and Barclay James Harvest. It was only later that I heard them called progressive. Gentle Giant and BeBop Deluxe came later. Mars Volta in the last decade. They are all somewhat complicated, very rewarding to close listening and sounding like annoying noise if used as background music. I guess the same could be said for Zappa and Beefheart. I guess I really don't know what makes it what it is, some some I like and some I don't, like every other genre.
of course the Dead Can Dance....are all very good also.
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As stupid as it sounds,I almost included the Flaming Lips and Porcupine Tree in my list, but thought they were in the "psychedelic" genre. I love becoming a prisoner of manufactured musical sub-genres. I do love Dead Can Dance.
was Rock that had a orchestra as a back up. Or if an actual orchestra wasn't present then it still had lots of dramatic and theatrical elements.
Progressive (to me anyway) always meant more involved or more sophisticated.
I guess I'm not very evolved because I never cared for it much.
chord changes.
So many dumb people with smart phones...
Mostly j/k...
So much of what I used to listen to decades ago is called progressive nowadays. I probably never would have listened to it back then if it had been called progressive, because I generally didn't like that stuff.
Nowadays, from what I've heard, "progressive" means elevator music. Stuff that I'd listen to on my death bed (and who the hell buys these death beds anyways?). Sorry.
IOW the definition of "progressive" music has changed a lot since the 70s. Somewhere along the line "alternative" and "progressive" got jumbled together.
And your decades old progressive rock?
Pick out just about any modern band that's called prog now, and I'll give you my opinion. It's just my taste after all, which does lean to dynamic/intense/emotional music.
As for the old stuff, just some examples of what I listened to in the 70s (and still do) that are usually referred to as prog now, but we didn't have that term for this type of band back then, at least around here. What we called prog was Yes/Caravan/KC/early Genesis etc., generally British.
What we didn't call prog (here) ~40 years ago that many call prog now that I listen to: Family, Curved Air, Renaissance, Magazine, Barclay James Harvest, Be Bop Deluxe. You get the idea. Not hugely popular, adventurous, sometimes out there. I *do* agree that this should have been called prog by us, because it was. But music was (over) labelled/categorised back then, that's how it was sold. I like things better now.
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There are so many sub-genres in music today and I think Prog probably has the most. I also grew up with the classic prog bands such as Yes, KC, Genesis, Caravan, etc. I still listen to Close to the Edge, Tales of Topographic Oceans, Relayer, Lamb Lies Down, Larks Tongue in Aspic, Red, etc.
But over the years I've gone towards the Prog metal side. As mentioned above, Porcupine Tree has become one of the leading modern prog bands. A few more of my favorites include Dream Theater, Grails, Opeth, Haken, Riverside, Symphony X, Spock's Beard, Mastodon, Tool, Odd Logic, Anathema, Fates Warning, OSI, Transatlantic, Ihsahn, Green Carnation, Pain of Salvation, Frost and Devin Townsend.
I think it would be safe to say that not all of a bands albums would be considered Prog. For instance, Opeth's later albums are more Prog than their earlier albums. Two bands that are also like that are Kansas and Rush.
Hopefully we didn't hijack the thread too much and to go back to the O.P, I think a lot of Prog has been influential but it doesn't have to be influential to be Prog.
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Ufology converted by John's Book of Revelation?
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A piece by Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker [March 5th, 2012, The Big Reveal, Page 78 ff.] about Elaine Pagel's new book, Revelation: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation [Viking], has some quotes that apply to ufology and the UFO community.
I've substituted words that pertain to religion and inserted words with a UFO patina to make my point, whatever that point may be. I'll use [brackets] for the substituted words…
"Apparently, when you have made up your mind to believe that your [UFO] is [ET}, neither death nor disappearances will discourage you. [A UFO] presence is proof; [a UFO] non-presence is proof; and non-presence can be conjured into presence by wishing it to be so." [Page 79]
"Allegorical pictures of [UFO events] have a way of weaving in and out between the symbolic and the semi-psychotic." [ibid]
"But [UFO] people like the violent otherworldly stuff, and give it a lot of non-allegorical license to do its thing." [ibid]
"Don't squishy doctrines of transformation through personal illumination always get marginalized in mass movements?" [Page 80]
"…the open-minded, non-authoritarian side of [ufology]…quickly succumbed to the theocratic side, gasping under the weight of those heavy [early UFO tomes]. [ibid]
"The truth is that punitive, hysterical [ufology] thrives, while soft, mystical ones must hide their [conjectures] somewhere in the hot sand. [ibid]
That's it.
The Gopnik piece is a must-read that applies to hermeneutics rather than ufological internecinity, but I see a direct correlation.
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|One of my best memories of night sailing happened about 10 years ago as I was sailing down the Cheaspeake. Sundown happened about several hours before and I was enjoying the peace and solitude of the night with the gentle breeze as I made my way toward Solomons when all of a sudden a bright light shown on the cockpit from astern. Why was I not more vigilent in keeping a watch for those freighters and barges that travel the bay? As I looked astern expecting to see the outline of a fast approaching ship to my relief it was the full moon rising. Wow....what a sight.
|Two summers ago took off for a 40 miles sail across lake erie to the islands. It was so dark I could only see the shape of our sails carving across the stars. Sailed all night close hauled at 7 knts...directly to my destination...perfect.
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However I can tell you now that after a few years, you'll only record the weather, wind, boat speed, course etc - the rest you'll have stored in your memory.
I think Steely Dan makes some good cruising music.
In my earlier 20 I did two transatlantic trips and one inparticular was just an awesome experience I would like to have captured in a bottle. We were 6 days out of Falmouth England on a broad reach of about 15 knots in a large Baltic when I came topside for the 2-6 AM watch and when I finally settled in The beauty of the night sky, being all alone in the universe 6 days from any land over came me for hours. hearing the hissing of the boat through the water trailing a phos[phescent wake with only the light of a wanoing cresent moon made me really small and understanding the miracle of my being where I was.
Even now 35 years later I can close my eyes and go back to that place...I will never forget it
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Dawn can be very liberating if it has been a stressful night - crappy weather, traffic, making a landfall - especially combinations of the above.
Or first time sailing in the dark was interesting, and uplanned. We had just purchased our new, old boat and where moving it down the Puget Sound from Port Townsend to Olympia in October. We planned to spend the fist night in Kingston, which we should have gotten to just before dark. A few hours out, the engine over heated and died. This was my first inboard engine, so it had a lot of systems I was new to. We put up the sails and beat into a 20+ knot head wind in a bit of a chop and let the engine cool.
As the sun went down, we where sailing at night for the first time on a new to us boat in waters we weren't familiar with in conditions that where as bad as we had ever been in (although they weren't really bad, just unfamiliar) and with our 2 young daughters on board.
At first we were a bit terrified, but after sailing for a while we stopped (mentally) and took stock. We could see just fine due to the moon, stars, and/or city lights. We could see all the ships and ferries around just fine. We had charts and knew where we were. We could sail just fine and could easily maneuver out of anyone's way. We found a spot on the chart we could sail into and set anchor if needed, and we had a radio if things got way to out of control. Sure, it wasn't as planned, wasn't as comfy as we hoped. Sure it was cold and miserable in October in the PNW, with no dodger, lots of wind and spray coming over the bow. But we where safe, making progress and had a plan whether the engine worked or not.
After this mental break, we both really looked around and enjoyed the unique experience we had never had before. It was beautiful,the city lights, the moon and stars, the ships slipping by in night, the wind pushing the boat along to a safe place for the night. Life was good. I'll never forget that night.
As we neared Kingston, we fired up the engine as I had not been able to find anything wrong, and figured we could at least get into the harbor before the engine overheated again. We made it in just fine, the engine never overheated again, I suspect we sucked some kelp or something up against the water intake, which came off as we sailed.
We got into port about 11pm, found a slip and tied up of the night. The girls where both asleep down below and as my wife and I hugged on the dock, we felt like conquerors, heroes, on top of the world, like we could do anything. We had faced adversity, overcome obstacles and brought our boat, and our family safe into port. That's a feeling that isn't unique to sailing alone, but is not common in most people's lives these days and like someone said before, it's not something you can explain to someone who doesn't sail or at least who doesn't do something similarly as crazy. Normal people just don't get it when we tell the story. All they can say is "Wow, you call that fun?!?" Yes, yes I do.
The next day we sailed from Kingston to Gig Harbor. We stopped on the way at Blake Island to let the girls run and stretch our legs. As we where leaving, we where talking to some folks there who couldn't believe we where going on that day, as we wouldn't get in until after dark. "It's OK" I said, "We enjoy night sailing..." like we where experts now. We had been into Gig Harbor many times on our last boat, so entering at night didn't bother us there.
We've come a long way since then and have had several all night passages since then, perhaps I'll write up more about those later.
Thanks for this thread and all the stories. I've enjoyed others experiences, as well as the prodding to remember and reminisce about my own.
|Being on watch at night is a wonderful thing if the conditions are right. Some of my best memories from the Navy are of starry nights watching from the bridge. They mirror my first moonlit night sail on Puget Sound sailing from Everett, WA to Port Ludlow on my Catalina 27. The beauty of a sunset and the peaceful easy feeling of sailing along in the dark is wonderful, but the shipping traffic in the Sound keeps you attentive and ready for anything.
Does overnight racing count?
I don't have any long passages, but I have two races, 55 and 80 miles respectively. Two vastly different experiences:
Eastport to Solomons, Md. on my 3.75ktsb. We were immediately left behind at the starting line and raced alone all night. The sky was crystal clear, and the moon was full and bright all night long. On each tack, the running lights illuminated the foot of the jib eerily, but the water was a beautiful silver. There was only one commercial ship all night. The heavily tilted and inactive Sharp's Island Light loomed over us like a sleeping sentinel at one point. The pink and orange dawn arrived, illuminating James Island, pine trees and pelicans. It was gorgeous.
Governor's Cup (Annapolis to St. Mary's College) on a C&C 35MkIII
In this race, we were in the middle of our competiton all night. It was an ugly, upwind pounding the entire way, with no moon, under a sky of hammered lead. It was somehow comforting to have the running lights of our competition nearby, but it was always nerve-wracking when they'd tack in front of you and their black sails would blot out what little ambient light remained. There were phospherescent jellyfish in the water, that when the hull slammed down, would flash brightly as they slid down along the hull. Dawn brought Point No Point, Point Lookout and the St. Mary's river. We fired up the oven and cooked this delicious cream cheese and sausage breakfast pastry as we raced. Best fed crew in the fleet.
I love night sailing. Working the bow at night is scary - but really fun...at least in the relatively minor conditions we were in (20 knots and 5-6 footers). I could see where it could be terrifying though.
Even so, the stars, the dolphins, the phosphorescence, the sounds, amazing. The unlit oil rigs...not so much.
|I really enjoy sailing at night. One of my favorite moments was on a sail from Ustica (a beautiful island by the way) to Sardinia. There were three of us and we were doing single watches and, during my watch at night, dolphins were rushing the boat beam on. The bubbles and bioluminescent trails were incredible almost like live torpedoes. Fantastic!
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2014 Nissan Murano Previewed in Resonance Concept
The future is today at Nissan's Auto Show display in Detroit. Just minutes ago the Japanese carmaker rolled out a swoopy-looking crossover concept called the Resonance.
This five-passenger vehicle is powered by an advanced hybrid drivetrain. The heart of the system is a 2.5-liter gasoline four-cylinder engine. It's backed up by a high-performance electric motor and the company's latest Xtronic continuously variable transmission (CVT). A compact lithium-ion battery juices the system. For inclement weather the vehicle is also equipped with all-wheel drive.
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Hmmm, I'm kind of liking this. Saw many more photos on Autoweek web site. Looks swoopy and modern. Interior shots were interesting too. Wonder if they will carry over our V6. I suspect that the style will be toned down for production.
hmmm. to me it seems that it looks like a murano a leaf and a juke had a baby toguether. the front looks jukish, the body muranoish, and the electric part comes from the nissan leaf.
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I hope the floating roof concept makes it in, love the look of the back, don't know how big the rear opening would be though.
From the side, this thing looks like the Saturn Aztec. Which, by the way, was not a very popular vehicle. Will more than likely be toned down. Concept vehicles are usually designed to WOW the crowd. Actual production version is waaaaaaaay toned down.
Definitely tone it down a bit. Do you think Nissan has plans on building a hybrid MO? Or promoting maybe the platform to do so?
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It's mentioned in the article...
Some parts look good, others just look like worlds fair exercise in futuristics. That center stack only had two controls....wonder how much an improvement over BMW idrive single control? Drive train sounds like it would be good for 40 mpg though :-)
Too Japanese amine' for me. Not interested.
At least it's not as bad as some of the other Japanese concepts. One I saw a year or so ago looked like an anime cat with whiskers up front. :p
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Where Do Our Federal Taxes Go?
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As the deadline for filing state and federal tax returns approaches, we have put together the following resources to help you understand what your tax dollars support. We also highlight reports and educational materials on closing tax loopholes and improving overall tax fairness.
Where Do Our Federal Tax Dollars Go?
The federal government collects taxes in order to finance various public services, including Social Security, national defense and health care services. As federal policymakers and citizens weigh key decisions about revenues and expenditures, it is instructive to examine what the federal government does with the money it collects. The chart below is from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
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Where Do Our Federal Tax Dollars Go? Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Federal Income Taxes on Middle-Income Families Remain Near Historic Lows, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Federal Budget 101, National Priorities Project
Who Pays Taxes in America? Citizens for Tax Justice
Washington, We Have a Revenue Problem, The American Prospect and Demos
Policy Options to Raise Revenue, Citizens for Tax Justice
Ryan Budget Would Cut Taxes for the Rich and Make Seniors, the Disabled, and Children Pay for it, Economic Policy Institute
Ryan Budget a Windfall for Special Interests, Devastating to Public Priorities, U.S. PIRG
Tax Cuts in Ryan Budget Would Give Millionaires $265,000 on Top of Bush Tax Cuts, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Chairman Ryan Gets 62 Percent of His Huge Budget Cuts from Programs for Lower-Income Americans, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Buffett Rule: A Basic Principle of Tax Fairness, The White House
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Public investments by the commonwealth educate our children, keep our communities safe, move people to work over roads and transit systems, and care for seniors, children and people with disabilities. 87 cents of every state General Fund dollar is spent on education, health and human services, or public safety. See the graphic below detailing General Fund spending in 2011-12.
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Corporate tax loopholes at the federal level allow corporations to shift foreign profits into accounts in Ireland, the Netherlands, Bermuda and other tax havens to avoid U.S. corporate taxes. These gimmicks are so well known they have nicknames — the Double Irish and the Dutch Sandwich — and they have a huge cost, as much as $90 billion a year.
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Corporate Tax Loopholes Cost Pennsylvanians $4.4 Billion Last Year, PennPIRG
Corporations in PA Asked to Disclose State Taxes, Keystone Research Center
Bill to Close Pennsylvania Tax Loopholes Doesn't Get the Job Done, PA Budget and Policy Center
Corporate Tax Dodging In the Fifty States, 2008–2010, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy/Citizens for Tax Justice
A Majority of States Have Now Adopted a Key Corporate Tax Reform — "Combined Reporting," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Strengthening State Fiscal Policies for a Stronger Economy, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Commentary: Close the Loopholes: Pennsylvania Needs Fair Taxes, PA Budget and Policy Center
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Loopholes for Sale: Campaign Contributions from Corporate Tax Dodgers, U.S. PIRG
Big No-Tax Corps Just Keep on Dodging, Citizens for Tax Justice
Representation Without Taxation: Fortune 500 Companies that Spend Big on Lobbying and Avoid Taxes, U.S. PIRG and Citizens for Tax Justice
White House Plan to Close Special Interest Tax Loopholes Is the Right Approach to Reform, But Details Matter, U.S. PIRG
Obama's Corporate Tax Plan Points the Way to Reform, Center for American Progress
The U.S. Has a Low Corporate Tax, Citizens for Tax Justice
Why We Need A Minimum Tax on U.S. Corporations' Foreign Profits, Center for American Progress
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A fair tax system asks citizens to contribute to the cost of government services based on their ability to pay. Pennsylvania's tax system performs poorly when it comes to tax fairness. The wealthy pay a small portion of their income in taxes, with a higher burden falling on lower- and middle-income families. As the table below shows, in 2007, the poorest 20% paid more than 11% of their income in sales, property and income taxes, while the top 1% paid less than 5%.
The ITEP Guide to Fair State and Local Taxes, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
Making State and Local Taxes Fair Game, Demos
The Impact of State Income Taxes on Low-Income Families in 2011, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Rich Americans Are Not Overtaxed, Center for American Progress
Misconceptions and Realities About Who Pays Taxes, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Pennsylvania's Tax System Among the Most Regressive
Working families in Pennsylvania pay a far higher share of their income in state and local taxes than their wealthiest counterparts. A study by the Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy found that middle-class earners in 2007 paid nearly double the share of their income in taxes than the very wealthiest Pennsylvanians. For minimum-wage earners, the share of family income spent on taxes was even larger. The study ranked Pennsylvania's tax system as the ninth most regressive in the nation.
Other Tax Day Resources
Taxes Matter Series, The American Prospect and Demos
Tax Day 2012, National Priorities Project
Thinking About Tax Policy, Part 1: The Most Important Tax Reform Chart, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' Off the Charts Blog
Thinking About Tax Policy, Part 2: Taxes Today Are Low, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' Off the Charts Blog
Reality Check on Who Pays Taxes, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' Off the Charts Blog
Paying Taxes to the Boss: How a Growing Number of States Subsidize Companies with the Withholding Taxes of Workers, Good Jobs First


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The Riverside Arts Council introduces Collaboration X, a new collaborative art group originating through RAC's Riverside Arts Project gallery at Riverside Plaza. Through inspiring and cultivating creative thought and action, the group hopes to involve and touch the entire community. The 10 members of the group are: Raymond Argumedo, Sydney Atherton, Nick Bahula, Amanda Millar, Nathaniel Osollo, Jeff Ribaudo, Jon Roach Brosius, Rick Rodriguez, Arnold Romero and Rachael Dzikonski, Program Manager of the Riverside Arts Council.
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Wow!! It's really much much better!! Completely different and now you really showed a real PSD template. Congrats! But of course, as charlie said, keep having some improvements, not problems like it had.Going back on what you said:
When I open this old template now, I saw many errors and now it was clear for me why I god reject.That's what I said to you (more or less, I tried at least):
But I think your problem might be that you still have no idea of the difference in quality between your template and the other from this site: try to see it.
I said because it happen with me a lot. Surely (I think) it happen with everybody.
Still hungry, still trying see it. haha
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Drive_Alienn, about templates posted by charlie4282, the structure may be similar, but the design and style is totally different. Must also admit that this site is already well saturated with different concepts, but they are small details that make your product be unique/different, what matters is to make the best possible product that will attract site visitors, and moderates of Envato are very strict for you to become the best in your area. Still has many things that I believe you do not know, for example read the series about design on Tuts +: < http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/series > Have many things there!!
About the shadows, in fact I also see no problems, but the way it was put was not very good, continue testing new ideas, erase and start again. For me it happens direct, even more when I get a long time without creating any design, "delay" until back the inspiration. But I think your problem might be that you still have no idea of the difference in quality between your template and the other from this site: try to see it.
Hope this helps.
I liked, but have many things to improve yet and, unfortunately, you probably will get rejected. However, your "concept of design" is very good, need only some update about techniques and features: try a wider grid (if you are using grids) and learn more about the theories. Another point is that you have more chances in the HTML and WordPress category, don't try PSD, the template have to be very beautiful and almost perfect. A tip to learn more about designing templates is buy one here and try to recreate/copy (just for learning purposes). Of course you can't sell your version of the template, but it's good to understand better how things work.
That's all! Sorry for my english and good lucky!
Thanks again! I'll fix this problems!
Really really thanks for your attention!
Position the image and the gallery was a little bit bad in my grid, check out: https://redpen.io/rgwkjn
I have some other good ideas for the header and I will think better about the footer.
Do you think that the text of the posts is bad for reading?
Thanks a lot!
Thanks a lot for the replies until now! charlie4282, I saw now some design errors in the aligment and I don't know what better about the spaces, I'll study more about it. With respect to the footer and header, what I could better? Is it too clean?
smithy6300, I don't understood the "lappy lol" (sorry for my poor english). But you are saying about the layout be too large, isn't it? It's because some contents overflow the wrap and I have some other reasons. About the typography, I'll also study more.
Check out here: https://redpen.io/c7v394
The initial purpose of the theme is to be for WP, but it will have so many PSD Files and I am doing with a lot of details. The second observation is that the template does not allow light images, it's a bad thing? Well, anyway, what do you think?
I quite liked, but I have some suggestions:
- Give more space for elements, I end up getting breathless with all the content together.
- Improve the typography
I liked it, but I think you should improve the consistency of the overall design. I'm no professional, but I already know that these are basic design problems.
I think if you send the theme without this changes you will get a "soft reject" (that's not bad), but I don't know, this reviewers are crazy..
That's my opinion! Good Lucky! And… sorry for my poor english.
This is very strange, because the layout mixed color magenta with black, instead of green. I tested on "browsershots" and the template appears normal in chrome for all operating systems. I really don't understand what are happening, anyway thanks a lot!