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by Mike Ferlazzo, DCW staff
This article originally appeared in the June 1, 2007 issue of Drum Corps World (Volume 36, Number 3), mailed to subscribers on May 24, 2007.
June 3, 2007 — Cheyenne, WY . . . This year's rebirth of the Casper Troopers is a classic tale of good coming from bad. You can almost hear the corps' trademark Battle Hymn Chorale — which will be its field warm-up this year — accompanying this feel-good story.
All the Troopers' leadership and boosters polled at its pre-season camp in Cheyenne seemed to agree that Drum Corps International's decision to shut down the corps following the 2005 season due to delinquent Internal Revenue Service reporting and mounting debt may have been the best thing that happened to the organization. While the imposed season off seemed like a devastating blow to "America's Corps" at the time, it ultimately acted like an extended retooling retreat for its new management team, which now has the corps poised to be bigger and better for its competitive return this summer.
"Yeah absolutely, I think it was in the best interest of everyone," said Corps Director Fred Morris. "I think it's a great model from which to rebuild such organizations that have to do that. We had a breath of fresh air if you will. It gave us a chance to realign ourselves from the management and financial standpoints and really sit down and see where we wanted to take this organization — for not just one year. We've got a long-year battle plan."
"I think that as difficult a decision as it was to take '06 off, it kind of broke a cycle for us and enabled us to really step back and regroup and get our feet under us and be able to do the things we're able to do now," said Executive Director Mike Ottoes, a Trooper alumnus and Cheyenne businessman. "We had a pretty good business in place to support us in terms of the bingo hall and it's doing really, really well this year. It's in a beautiful new building (opened in February 2006), which is helping us a lot with the customers. It's a great place to go play bingo. And Casper's economy is doing really well. All of Wyoming's economy is doing well which, of course, helps us. The bingo hall has been the main reason we've been able to deal with the debt and do the things that we're doing right now."
While the corps' bingo operation has paid the biggest dividends, it also got a big financial boost from "A Night with the Stars" on June 9 — a fund-raising program hosted by retired U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson and Dr. Pete Simpson and featuring well-known regional bands, live and silent auctions, and celebrity bingo. The organization has also launched its Honorary Troopers booster program and a $30,000 new uniform drive.
The end result — Ottoes reports that the corps retired its "sizable" debt in May, a month in front of the target date.
The Troop is as big
as it's been in 20 years
As for the corps, the Troopers aren't just planning to return at the same size and strength as they left. In fact, the 64 brass (including 12 tubas), 27 percussion (8S-4T-5B-10PP), 24 color guard and two drum majors for a total of 117 members is believed to be the largest Troop they've fielded since last making DCI Finals back in 1986.
They'll be using brand-new equipment too — the brass on new B-flat Yamaha horns and the percussion on new Pearl drums and Adams pit equipment — and performing in new Stanbury uniforms, a contemporary upgrade of the corps' classic U.S. Calvary classics.
The all-Navy blue "commander" look will literally contain pieces of the corps' original 1957 uniform, with the black gauntlets trimmed in gold sporting three buttons that were taken from those uniforms. The new look will also be topped with an original Trooper standard as the corps will be going back to the black felt cowboy hats made by the Rockmount Hat Co. in Denver. The hats were obtained by Trooper booster Lou Taubert, who previously worked for Rockmount and now owns his own western store in Casper.
Like the uniform, the 2007 program, "Awakening: Rebirth of a Legend," will have a more contemporary feel and look — from the more interpretive and modern movements and equipment use in the color guard, to the tilted snare drums and more relaxed and sensitive playing style in the battery, to the more blended and balanced B-flat brass sound. The Western-themed contemporary book features music of composers Joseph Curiale, Dave Brubeck and Gordon Goodwin.
But Troopers alumni and fans will also recognize plenty of trademark references to the corps' famed heritage during a program that, in effect, transitions from its proud past into a more modern future. Fans should watch for some original military equipment work in the guard, a "Troop" shout at the end of the opener while the battery does its crossed saber stick visual, a color presentation at the end of the ballad, several tags from Casper's most classic music and, naturally, the "sunburst."
Make no mistake, these are new Troopers — 75 percent are drum corps rookies, according to Morris, but they'll be presenting a show that should appeal to young and old alike. And that has the members excited.
"With the whole new corps uniform and guard uniform and a whole new look, I think people are going to say 'Holy cow, where did these people come from?,' " said Victoria Romero, the age-out guard captain from Albuquerque, NM, one of just three Trooper veterans in this year's guard.
"Everything is so brand-new and the show is so different," she said. "It's not old-style Troopers. I think people are going to be wowed and amazed, but yet they're still going to see that we try to keep the past and are not just trying to change the Troopers. We're trying to mold it into something that can be great and I think the crowd and the judges — and even the people inside the corps — are going to love every second of it."
The color guard goes Code Black
Romero has loved the more modern jazz interpretive style being choreographed by new color guard caption head Charles Williams. While this is Williams' first drum corps staff position, but the former Bluecoats member directs perennial Winter Guard International medalist Code Black from the Houston, TX, area and he's brought some of that Texas flavor to the Troopers with many of the new members coming from his winter guard.
That has made an immediate impact on Casper's guard, which has struggled in the past due to inexperience and constant staff turnover.
"I've noticed that the past few years before this one, we had a bunch of new people coming in and a bunch of people who didn't know how to spin. So we really had to start from the beginning and went through a lot of different staff both years," said Romero. "So it was hard to get a base and grow from it because we were always changing.
"And now this year, most of these girls are from Code Black color guard," she said. "The staff and these girls won a gold medal [at WGI], so they all can spin, so we never had to start from the beginning, except for a few. I can see so much potential. Starting now is where we ended in 2004 and 2005."
That was the plan according to Morris, who revels in the corps' history, but has assembled a creative team that will lead it into the world of modern drum corps.
"We got them [the Troopers] into the current century I guess," said Morris. "As you watch the activity, you see where it's going. To remain competitive, you've got to run with the dogs or stay on the porch. So we decided to do that and I assembled a team with a very creative, modernistic approach to the activity — musically and design-wise. We wanted to put a fresh face on the thing, but still keep our foot on the bag, so to speak."
"We planned and we prepared and you always just plan your work and work your plan. We've managed to do that pretty successfully," he said.
DCI's 2007
Cinderella story?
The Trooper's comeback this summer has a feel like the Blue Stars' return to division I for the first time in 24 years last season. That Cinderella story propelled the Blue Stars all the way into semifinals in 2006, finishing 14th.
Troopers' brass sergeant, Kyle Trader of Longmont, CO, marched with the Blue Stars last year after spending the previous two with the Troopers. He has experienced a similar energy in Casper's camp this season as it, too, gets ready for a triumphant return.
"I was actually talking to Dieter Wise recently — he's the baritone section leader and the guy who actually got me into the activity — and I said, 'Man, some of these things I'm feeling right now I felt at Blue Stars when I was there last year,' " said Trader, a trumpet player who was chosen to debut the corps' new uniform to the other members. "I just feel that energy from being something unique in that year that nobody else can top. On top of that, we're the Troopers, so who can top that uniqueness? Nobody can.
"So the vibe around here, even though the weather's been kind of bad for us the last couple of days, is that everybody's been keeping their smiles on for some of the day. They're just pushing through it and they can just see the finished product."
In the case of Troopers, that may be a case of youthful exuberance with so many drum corps rookies in a corps that has an average age of just over 18. That's why it's up to people like Wise and age-out Drum Major Mark Crimm of Casper to not only provide them experienced leadership, but also a sense of where this legendary corps has been and where it's going.
"Seeing so many new people has been quite a bit of a challenge. Trying to get them to really buy into who the Troopers are and to try and teach them the history has been kind of exciting, to be honest," said Crimm, who led the new Troopers through the corps song with interlocking crossed arms on this night.
"You just witnessed us singing the corps song and I think that's the third night that we've sung it since all-days have started. We're going to be singing it every night and before shows. I was a little bit worried because sometimes people don't go for programs like that, but the first night we sang it, I actually walked into a battery rehearsal, and they stopped rehearsing to memorize the corps song.
"So, it's been fun to see people who have no idea of what this corps is," he continued. "People have no idea of really what drum corps is coming into this activity, coming into this program, and they're the ones who are making it what it is. They're the ones who are going to make it the future Troopers. It's been really exciting to be able to mentor and talk to some of these people and teach them who we are."
He's not the only one who's having fun.
Morris said that he has to pinch himself every day because things are going so well with a corps that is both exciting and new. He reports that the high percentage of new members was actually part of the recruiting plan. They hope to give those rookies a good experience and entice them back as veterans as they plan to return the corps to its previous competitive heights.
"I want to get it back to national prominence, like they once were," Morris said. "The kids deserve it. We're working as hard as everyone else and, hopefully, we're laying the foundation for that.
"I think we really are."


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Defensive end Marques Douglas is returning to where his career started, as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers dealt the eight-year veteran to the Baltimore Ravens on Wednesday.
The Bucs did not release the terms of the deal, but NFL Network reported that it includes a late-round pick in 2009 and, potentially, a pick in 2010.
Douglas (6-foot-2, 292 pounds) came to Tampa Bay in a free agent deal on March 18 and he was expected to compete for a spot at defensive end.
Douglas' trade brings the Bucs down to 74 players entering Thursday's game with Houston.
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k so heres the scenerio ---- brock (me) has a teacher at school who hates his guts. i did absolutely nothing wrong to this man until i got pushed to a point where i couldnt take it. i have ag mech.and tech. which is a class where you bring in "projects" and work on it. big wig (the teacher) is failing me simply for the fact he hates me. other students sit around and bs and do not bring in anything to do. i have done a custom exhaust on my truck, made a deer stand, fixed a shelf for my mom, assisted my one friend with numerous projects and im still getting a 45% in a class that has no tests or homework? it doesnt make sense to me ? it wouldnt bother me but due to this grade i lost my good student discount on my insurance im usually a 3.2ish gpa student but this one ruined that and its really really ing me off what can i do ? ive gone to the principal and she said theres nothing she can do?
TRY HARDER!!! If you are doing all you can possibly do, which sounds like you may not be since you bring up the fact that other students sit around and BS too, then he cannot fail you on simply a matter of liking you or not.
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Hang in there dude!its got to get better,eventually!
My opinion(and sometimes I'm an idiot)is that there my be something in the way you carry yourself ,or your mannerisms that this teacher just takes in a way that is bothersome to him. I mean,there's a good chance your doing something that you may not be aware of the way it affects this guy. The best answer is to do the hardest thing. That to me is to put away any attitude you may already have and go to him calm and cool to ask questions about the way he thinks of you. Explain what your telling us , but try to do it without antimosity. Don't get me wrong , if your swoll because of his attitude toward you,your probably justified to feel that way. What I am saying is that when fixing this problem becomes the most important thing to you, you'll find a way to approach the teacher ,get some answers,and talk about this. Straight up tell him,I'm making a crappy grade in here,what can I do to turn it around? And don't take no for an answer.keep us informed and good luck!
Confront the teacher with your parents. Find out WHY he does not like you. Maybe its a misunderstanding. Or maybe.................. he is a member of PETA. Then your just screwed.
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Give it everything you got to make a good grade
be a gentelmen to him as well as others
I was in a similar situation bout 26 yrs ago and I did just that and I got all got marks on my last eveauation with the boss
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I agree that you should talk to him w your parents. That will bring out the real reason. Than do what he asks.It is better to keep your mouth closed & be thought a fool, than to open it & remove all doubt!!
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I'd have him point out all the reasons and examples of why you are falling short in his class.....if he's got his act together and is legit then he should be able to show some reasonable examples that translate to your current standing..if he's merely being an azz then he wont be able to come up with anything substantial. Surprise him and put him on the spot. Definietly involve the parents too.
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sorry havent been on ..long weekend.... but anyways my mom met with him a few weeks ago and she even says the guy is a moron he told her i could do stuff then when i try and do it either the tools are broke or he says its not an acceptable project. mom talked to the princiapal and she said that they have been gettin reports like this all year. tomorow mornign im gonna go talk to the guidance counciler
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I had a teacher like this, and so did my son. The one I had was just degrading and mean if you were not one of his favorites. The one my son had failed every paper he wrote. I had my son submit one that I did in college and got an A on and she failed it. You should have seen the look on that teachers face when we had a little conference with her, the principle, and I.
Despite what the teacher does, be respectful and work hard as others have noted, make sure to keep your parents in the loop and do not get discouraged. Try for a transfer if nothing else.
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Movement Conservatives
I've always considered this term an oxymoron. Anybody who knows anything about Burke gets this. Ideally my students get it as well, given that they should know some of what I know about Burke, which is greater than nothing but shy of authoritative. This term also illustrates a rift between theoretical expectation and empirical reality. True conservatives shouldn't be a movement. True conservatives should weigh any action against the potential for unintended consequences. But, then, movement conservatives have as much in common with Burke as I do, a point somewhat illustrated in this excellent read by David Roberts.
Roberts nails two of the conventional wisdoms held here at LGM. First, increased polarization in American partisan politics is not symmetrically distributed. Although the left has crawled further left, the right is sprinting towards the cliff. It's the right who are moving. Citing both political science (Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal) as well as Galston (also of The Democratic Strategist) and Mann from Brookings, Roberts offers a compelling account which demonstrates the asymmetry in contemporary polarization. His argument is perhaps best captured by the following quote:
The national Republican Party, by contrast, has now been almost entirely absorbed by the far right. It rejects the basic social consensus among post-war democracies and seeks to return to a pre-New Deal form of governance. It is hostile to social and economic equality. It remains committed to fossil fuels and sprawl and opposed to all sustainable alternatives. And it has built anepistemological cocoon around itself within which loopy misinformation spreads unchecked. It has, in short, gone loony.
Such an epistemological cocoon allows for this sincere exhibition of hilarious lunacy noted by Erik a few days ago.
Second, "centrist" pundits are, well, idiots.
Instead, pundits — and, to be fair, lots and lots of non-pundits — cling to the presumption of symmetry. Their minds rebel at asymmetry, especially extreme asymmetry. The notion that "partisans on both sides" are preventing a sensible middle course is deeply rooted to the point of catechism.
Which nicely sets up the money shot of Roberts' post:
Maddeningly, when pundits actually lay out what that sensible middle course would look like, they end up describing Obama's agenda. Benjy Sarlin at TPM put it best: "Pundits Urge President Obama To Back President Obama's Proposals."
It is this political environment that allows for Mitt Romney to vociferously run against an ACA that is close to the very Massachusetts plan that he signed. It allows for voters in the "center" and the right to disbelieve that Romney supports the Ryan budget when the specifics of the latter are spelled out for them (
I saw this within the last week, but I can not find the link / cite to it. Ergo, I could just be making it up. h/t commenter Howard, I've now attached the link.) And it might even allow for John McCain to say, presumably with a straight face, that it wasn't the 23 years worth of tax returns which cooled McCain to selecting Romney as his VP running mate, it was that Sarah Palin was the better candidate all along.
Back to our pal Burke: "It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the publick to be the most anxious for its welfare." I wonder whom Burke would find the loudest complainers of the past
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Beyond the Comfort Zone: 6 Ways to Build Independent Thinking
The shift toward applying more executive function (EF) within learning and assessment will cause some discomfort in teachers and students. The transition will not eliminate the need for memorization, as automatic use of foundational knowledge is the toolkit for the executive functions. Memorization, however, will not be adequate as meaningful learning becomes more about applying, communicating and supporting what one knows.
One way you can help your students shift from blindly following instructions and memorizing single right answers is to help them recognize their successful use of executive functions throughout their learning experiences. Start by going through your units of instruction and assessments to recognize where students have previously activated their EFs so that you can review these accomplishments as they are achieved in subsequent units. As you review, keep a list of executive functions nearby, and seek opportunities in which EF activation is well suited for other units.
The end result will be a greater awareness by the students, not only for how their brains work, but also for how they can push themselves to connect what they can recall with real-world problems and opportunities they encounter.
Low-Risk Experiences Using EFs in Common Core Topics
Using your grade- and subject-appropriate topics, the following examples can be modified or serve as suggestions for building knowledge and understanding using executive functions.
You'll probably find that, in spots, you're already doing this. Regardless, the goal here is to help you recognize the EFs for your own awareness, and to support your students as they are successful in identifying and using them on their own. In doing so, they will build confidence about facing uncertainty, strengthen their growing neural networks of EFs through activation and application, and find more pleasure in the adventures of constructing knowledge.
EFs and How to Activate Them
1. Supporting Opinions
Students are paired with classmate(s) who have the same opinion on comfortable topics that do not require formal evidence. They share reasons for their opinions and select one or two that they feel are most convincing to share out in class discussion. Topics might include:
- Favorite television show
- What interpretation of an optical illusion is most evident to them (e.g. vase or two faces in profile)
- Best breed of dog for house pet
2. Prioritizing
This could be a timeline assignment in which students prioritize evidence from the text that supports the importance of a selected event.
3. Evaluation of Motive or Intent
Students interpret material to determine why it was created. For example: "Why do you think this cartoon shows the cows talking and all the other animals silent?"
4. Organizing Time, Thought and Actions
Involve students in planning long-term assignments and revising existing plans. This would include:
- Estimating how long each part of a long-term assignment will take.
- Writing down the estimate and keeping records of actual time spent.
- Using this data for predictions and revisions in the future.
Also, break challenging tasks into small segments that can be completed with satisfaction in a reasonable amount of time, and keep track. If students are not achieving their goals with appropriate effort, modify the goals into either smaller segments or provide more scaffolding.
5. Cognitive Flexibility and Supporting Opinions
- Give students assignments requiring more than one way of finding a solution.
- Have them develop two different hypotheses and give their reason for selecting the one they choose to evaluate first.
- Have them predict two possible outcomes of a future event and give reasons for defending both choices. For example:
- Mostly cloudy or clear at 11 AM next Tuesday?
- The winner of an upcoming election?
- A city that will be selected to host the Olympics?
- The outcome of an upcoming Supreme Court decision?
Here, cognitive flexibility and supporting opinions are also activated in interpreting source validity, comparing media and evaluating perspective.
6. Interpreting Source Bias or Accuracy
- Have students compare perspectives of the illustrator, artist or author in representations of Pocahontas in the Disney film, a classic portrait and a written description.
- On the students' choice of topics, have them find one website that they feel gives well-supported information and one that they feel is biased (not supported by sufficient evidence). In class, small groups will evaluate the criteria for website accuracy and bias (using executive functions such as deduction, prioritizing and judgment).
- Groups will create a list of their criteria for determining if a website is valid and its evidence supported, and a list of what they feel are characteristics of biased websites.
Make it clear to students that, rather than giving them premade checklists that do not promote development of judgment, your goal for them is to begin constructing the criteria they will use for critical analysis of valid websites in the future.
A Mindset for Real Learning
Given opportunities to recognize and reflect on their previous and ongoing successful, enjoyable use of executive functions, students will build a mindset that recognizes the potential for pleasurable exploration and discovery using personal strengths as a desirable way to learn. This makes it possible to replace the fear of uncertainty with the joy of discovery, and the recognition that the memories they construct are durable.
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These strategies seem to be easily applicable to an English or history class, however, I can only think of ways to use prioritizing and organizing time, thoughts, and actions for a math classroom. Both would be in reference to a project. I'd love additional ideas for applying these concepts to math.
Hi Carisa,
Having taught middle school math for 5 years, I have written about ideas for linking neuroscience to mathematics, including my last book. You can link to any of these free links and if you go to the actual book link on ASCD you can link to several free chapters.
Video interview about Learning to Love Math: Teaching Strategies that Change Student Attitudes and Get Results, ASCD author interviews
Learning to Love Math: Teaching Strategies That Change Student Attitudes and Get Results http://www.ascd.org/Publications/Books/Overview/Learning-to-Love-Math.aspx
Why Writing Is Crucial for Math and Science Why Writing Is Crucial to STEM
It's About Me! Not Just Someone Else's Science and Math Writing across the Curriculum http://EDge .ascd.org/_Its-About-Me-Not-Just-Someone-Elses-Science-and-Math/blog/4276886/127586.html?b=
Education Week: 'Math Anxiety' Explored in Studies: Researchers Probe Causes of Math Anxiety. Published Online: May 16, 2011.
Comparing Fractions: A R.A.D. Lesson for Second Grade Math By Malana Willis
http://EDge .ascd.org/_Comparing-Fractions-A-RAD-Lesson-for-Second-Grade-Math-By-Malana-Willis/blog/2554993/127586.html
Lots more frree links to my articles, webinars, and videos via my website www.RADTeach.com
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This is a great article. I work with students at our local Boys and Girls Club. I am always seeking ways to integrate their content with their personal experience. Clearly, most children do not have the personal reference points to fully process and understand the information they are expected to learn. Finding opportunities to prompt the exploration of EF is critical to help make meaningful connections between what is being covered instructionally and how it relates to the student personally and socially. It also gives them the tools to continue processing information and experiences in this fashion on their own. It is all about empowering achievement. Thanks again!


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A Canadian strategic assessment of the American mood: cranky and disengaged
- By Thomas E. RicksThomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at email@example.com.
Americans are unhappy and in a hunker-down mode, says a strategic assessment by a Canadian defense institute that is being rolled out today:
Americans are war-weary, disappointed with what has been achieved at great expense, and feeling exploited by ungrateful allies. Debate is intensifying over how national interests should be defined and the degree to which the security of Americans requires expenditure of lives and treasure in faraway places. The rising mood of disengagement coupled with a fragile economy will make it very difficult for the administration to send large forces anywhere in 2012 unless security interests are openly threatened or humanitarian need is overwhelming.
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Citation: Sharrer, M.J., Summerfelt, S.T., Bullock, G.L., Gleason, L.E., Taeuber, J. 2005. Inactivation of bacteria using ultraviolet irradiation in a recirculating salmonid culture system. Aquacultural Engineering. 33:135-149. Interpretive Summary: Recirculating aquaculture systems may require an internal disinfection process to control the amplification of pathogens and other microbial populations. We evaluated use of UV irradiation for controlling and mitigating microbial populations and certain water quality parameters within intensive fish farming systems. Research results determined the UV irradiation dose required to inactivate total heterotrophic and total coliform bacterial populations using a side-stream of water flow from an operating high-density aquaculture recirculating system. The results are significant in observing that the UV irradiation dose apparently required for effective inactivation of certain bacterial populations in recirculating aquaculture system water may be nearly two orders of magnitude higher than conventional design recommendations for non-reuse applications. This finding is important for biosecurity and product quality planning.
Technical Abstract: The objective of this research was to determine the ultraviolet (UV) irradiation dosages required to inactivate bacteria in a commercial-scale recirculating salmonid culture system. Research was conducted in the commercial-scale recirculating system used for Arctic char growout at the Conservation Fund Freshwater Institute (Shepherdstown, West Virginia). This recirculating system uses a UV channel unit to treat 100% of the 4,750 L/min recirculating water flow with an approximately 90 mW-s/cm2 UV irradiation dose. However, a second UV irradiation unit was operated at a constant intensity to treat a side-stream flow of water pumped from the commercial-scale recirculating system's low head oxygenator (LHO) sump. The side-stream waterflow ranged from 0.15-3.8% (i.e., 7-180 L/min) of the entire recirculating flow so as to regulate the water retention time (i.e., from 3-70 sec) within the UV irradiation unit and thus produce a range of UV irradiation doses (mW-s/cm2). UV irradiation doses of approximately 75, 150, 300, 500, 980, and 1,800 mW-s/cm2 were applied to determine the dose required to inactivate total heterotrophic bacteria and total coliform bacteria. Total heterotrophic bacteria counts and total coliform bacteria counts were measured immediately before and immediately after the side-stream UV irradiation unit. Total heterotrophic bacteria in the recirculating system required a UV dosage in excess of 1,800 mW.s/cm2 to achieve a not quite 2 LOG10 reduction (i.e., a 98.00.4 % reduction). In contrast, total coliform bacteria were more susceptible to UV inactivation and complete inactivation of coliform bacteria was consistently achieved at the lowest UV dose applied, i.e., at approximately 77 mW-s/cm2. These results suggest that: (1) the UV dose required to inactivate total heterotrophic bacteria - and thus disinfect a recirculating water flow - was nearly 60 times greater than the 30 mW-s/cm2dose typically recommended in aquaculture; and, (2) inactivating 100% of bacteria in a given flow can be difficult, even at excessive UV doses, because UV irradiation cannot always penetrate particulate matter to reach embedded bacteria. We present a hypothesis that the recirculating system provided a selection process that favors bacteria that embed within particulate matter or that form bacterial aggregates that provides shading from some of the UV irradiation, because the bacteria in the recirculating water were exposed to approximately 100-120 mW-s/cm2 of UV irradiation every 30 minutes.


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Lots of people take protein drinks and one of my training partners drinks something called 'wired'.
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This volume focuses on the variation in skull pneumatization in^anthropoid primates. The authors begin with an overview of phylogeny of skull pneumatization in vertebrates, and then focus on the growth, morphology, physiology, and evolutionary history of the paranasal sinuses of primates. Selected themes on the craniofacial morphology of humans and higher primates are also covered. Research on these key structures may provide new insight into primate evolution as well as useful information for clinicians who work with the variety of bony and mucosal structures of the paranasal sinuses.
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NCAA Chapel Hill Super Regional Game Three Quotes
North Carolina Head Coach Mike Fox
Opening Statement:
"First of all, I want to congratulate Chad [Holbrook] and South Carolina on a phenomenal, phenomenal year. It's almost unimaginable that if you go back to 2006 that one of the two programs has been in Omaha the last eight years, and sometimes both of us [were] there at the same time. I have a great deal of respect for Chad and their staff. Chad did a lot of great things for this program and put us in this position when I first got here, so my hats off to them. I'm just very happy for these guys. Cody Stubbs, especially, one of our seniors who transferred here. I'm happy for all of them, but he always told me all he ever wanted to do was play in Omaha. He's a senior, so he gets an opportunity to do that. It's a special time for us and our program, and I'm proud of all these guys."
On if the way his
team advanced makes going to Omaha any sweeter:
"Maybe a little bit. I'm just happy that these 27 guys and all our support staff, the people that have been around our program...that's the joy in going, that everybody gets to experience it. I'll maybe reflect back on it, [but] I just can't remember some of the other ways we got there. I mean I do, but this one is sweet. This one is very special. We've had a lot of people help us besides our players and they are going to get rewarded as well."
On facing NC State in
"Ask Coach [Scott] Forbes and Coach [Scott] Jackson, they were excited in the locker room because they don't have to do a scouting report. That's the first thing Coach Forbes said when he came in, but they'll watch every game and we know a lot about them."
Junior 3B Colin Moran
On if he thought the
game was slipping away in the sixth inning:
"I don't think anyone really thought it was slipping away, but I really didn't want that play by Chaz [Frank] to decide the game. Knowing that it was the last home game for him and all the seniors, the last thing I wanted was for something like that to be the last memory. I was really just trying to...I thought he might catch it and that would have been my third double play, so I was just happy it went by him."
On how the team
responded to Frank's error:
"I just told him to relax, it's not a big deal, [and that] we'll come back anyway. Everybody wanted to win for Chaz, especially after that play...really all the seniors. We really wouldn't have been here without Chaz, so it was important to pick him up."
Freshman RHP Trent Thornton
On his emotions and
the overall atmosphere of the game:
"It was the best feeling I've ever had. Just knowing that we're going to Omaha. We've been through a lot this year. This is probably the most fun I've had playing with any team. It's emotional, going to Omaha. Being a little kid, that being your dream and finally getting to go."
Junior LHP Kent Emanuel
On if his last two
outings were on his mind today:
"They weren't. It didn't matter if I would have given up 20 runs or thrown a perfect game. It's always going to be the same. I'm there to compete against the batter and get him out. It really doesn't factor in to how I pitch, what happens before."
South Carolina Head Coach Chad Holbrook
Opening Statement:
"Congratulations to North Carolina. Obviously, it's an incredible season they've had thus far. 57-10 is an incredible feat. That being said, it's a very, very disappointing day for us. I felt like the game was there for us to win, and we didn't make some plays that we normally make and do some things that we normally do. You've got to credit North Carolina. They got a big home run there in the second and pushed across three there in the sixth, and that opened the gates there for them a little bit. Baseball is a game in inches. That's just how it is. Inches on the ball down the line, inches that Joey [Pankake] could've caught the ball to lead off the sixth inning, inches that could've been strikes on a 3-2 count with bases loaded. Sometimes things don't necessarily go your way. But you also have to make your own breaks and make plays. We didn't make the plays there in the sixth when it counted."
"North Carolina is a terrific, terrific team. There's not too much difference between the two teams, and ultimately we didn't do enough to win the two games that they won. It'll haunt me for a long time, but I'm also awfully proud of our players. They represented this program and this university the right way all year long. They've done things on the field that surpassed things done here before, and they way they've represented the program with community service, what their GPA was, they've done everything we've asked them to do."
On the team's nine
errors this series:
"It's unfortunate it happened this time of year. In postseason play, when you're playing a great team, every little mistake is magnified. We made our fair share this weekend, and it's disappointing. We lost two games, and both games were there for us to win. It's disappointing, especially when the games are so important. But, at the same time, we've played good defense all year or we probably wouldn't be sitting up here right now. You have to give North Carolina credit too. They put the ball in play and put pressure on."
On how the team did
this season:
"I'm proud of my team, and I'll be more proud of them the more separation I can get from this feeling right now. They did everything I asked them to do. They battled, and there's no way anyone faced more adversity than we faced throughout the course of the year from an injury standpoint. They kept their head above water and competed every single day. We didn't always play great, but we always played hard. They represented this jersey and all the players that played before them, and at the end of the day, that's all I can ask."
"This is my first year as a head coach, and they treated me incredibly well, and it was a great experience for me. We'll try to build upon this experience and put ourselves in this position again next year."
"Columbia is my home, and I love the University of South Carolina with all my heart. I wish I could've done more to get our guys five or six more runs. I'm a lucky guy to be the coach at South Carolina and to represent so many former players and former greats in the big leagues and guys that have played in Omaha and won national championships."
On next season:
"I expect to be in this spot next year. That's just the expectation at South Carolina. Hopefully we can win one more game next year. I'm excited about the good group of guys we have coming back next year and excited about the newcomers coming in."
Senior LHP Tyler Webb
On his career at
South Carolina:
"It's been a great four years here at South Carolina, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. I wouldn't trade one of the teammates that I've shared it with. We've had a great group of guys and a good run. To this point, it's definitely the highlight of my life. I'll cherish the memories for a long time."
Senior LHP Adam Westmoreland
On his career at
South Carolina:
"I've been here since Coach Holbrook started, and it's been a growing process the entire time. This year we all put it together, and thought we had a good team to make a good run and continue our postseason success, but North Carolina is a good team, so we can't take that away from them."
On keeping composure
after the ball tipped off Joey Pankake's glove:
"I don't really think it's tough to keep your composure. As pitchers we try to have a one-pitch mentality. If something happens, you just have to forget about it and move on. I made a mistake to [Colin] Moran, so there's nothing really you can do about it. Just make a better pitch next time."
Sophomore CF Tanner English
On the team's nine
errors this weekend:
"Our defense has been good all year. It's just one of those things, the ball really doesn't bounce your way. That's just baseball. You can't really dwell on that. It's just how it goes sometimes."
On the value of the
past two seasons in coming back next year:
"The last two years, I learned to play all nine innings. Coach Holbrook always says the most relaxed team and the team that's having the most fun is going to play their best baseball, and that's when you have your best chance to win. I think we did that this weekend. We really had a blast playing the game. Things just didn't go our way. Next year, we'll do the same thing. We'll take the freshmen under our wings and teach them to do that too and see how it goes from there."


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After its recent focus on children and original shows, Netflix is turning its attention back to bulking up its movie library for adults. The subscription-video company announced an exclusive deal with Weinstein Co. for the film producers' movie catalog starting in 2016.
The deal—much like recent ones Netflix has struck with DreamWorks Animation and Walt Disney—is designed to differentiate the service from what is available on rivals such as Amazon, YouTube, and Hulu Plus. Showtime was also bidding to continue its licensing deal for material from Weinstein, which has produced films such as Lee Daniels' The Butler, Django Unchained, and Silver Linings Playbook.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed—Harvey Weinstein termed it "probably the biggest deal" ever for his company—but Lazard Capital analyst Barton Crockett estimated that Netflix will pay roughly $30 million per year, based on a rate of 10 percent of box-office take for domestic pay-TV rights. Weinstein's box office averaged $277 million for 2011 and 2012. Netflix has 28.6 million U.S. subscribers, with rates starting at $7.99 per month.
The Weinstein deal, like the ones for children's programming, comes after Netflix made a large push over the past year to create its own new shows like House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black.
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Rich Tullo, an analyst with Albert Fried & Co., calls the deal "a decent idea" but signals a future weakening in the company's DVD business. Two years ago, Netflix made a disastrous bet that it could spin off its DVD-by-mail unit and push customers toward more streaming. "While not flashy," Tullo wrote yesterday, "DVD still drives Netflix profits and DVD margins, while in decline, are still greater than domestic and international streaming margins."


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What? You actually got a second date? Well, good for you. Now the trick is to make the new love of your life think that you're a person of sophistication and taste — the sort who knows not to comb his hair with the salad fork or challenge the hostess to a drinking contest in the middle of the dining room. And where better to prove (or pretend) that you know your stuff than at Fruition — Denver's ultimate melding of casual and upscale sensibilities, of comfort food and classical technique. Chefs Alex Seidel and Drew Inman and partner/FOH man Paul Attardi have used their years of experience to a create a restaurant that serves the kind of food your mom might've made if your mom was Betty Crocker, Julia Child and Alain Ducasse all rolled into one, in an atmosphere that's charming, accessible — and intimate.
Yes, we understand that few people are going to run out and drop twenty bucks on a sandwich. But the lobster-salad sandwich at the Ship Tavern is well worth the price. Essentially a lobster roll, it loads what must be half a Maine lobster, perfectly cooked, onto a homemade brioche roll, and binds everything together with a thin mayonnaise that tastes handmade. Take your time savoring your sandwich in one of the corner booths at the Ship Tavern, a venerable, if somewhat unseaworthy of late, institution in the Brown Palace. You've paid for the privilege.
The Arada Gebeya, one of the great spice markets of Africa, is located in central Addis Ababa. And now its namesake restaurant, Arada, has brought the true flavors of Ethiopian cuisine to the center of Denver, introducing a flock of customers to its deliciously authentic fare. Although this city has a surprisingly large number of Ethiopian restaurants, Arada is the best of the bunch. In its relatively new digs on Santa Fe, the dining room is small but lovely. But once the food arrives, all of your attention will be on the large platters of white tibs and sambusa, incredible raw-beef kitffo and doro wat in a fiery red-chile sauce. Everything comes family style, complete with injera and exotic sides.
For thirty years, Szechuan Chinese Restaurant has been doing business in one of the worst imaginable locations in all of restaurantdom — but somehow it's managed to build, and keep, a dedicated crowd of regulars. They flock here for the friendly, accommodating service, the huge menu with well over a hundred options, and the low prices and large portions. But really, Szechuan would need to offer just one thing, and we'd keep coming back. This kitchen makes the best dumplings we've found in Colorado. And that alone is reason to hope that Szechuan manages to stick around for another thirty years.
Salt-brined and grilled pork chops in cider-blue cheese sauce with mashed potatoes, a steak topped with bacon, roasted quail with a pecan grit cake and cranberries. Such dishes translate into one thing: a quintessentially American restaurant. At Duo, chef John Broening and his crew have been quietly redefining the standards of American cuisine, incorporating local and regional elements into classic presentations, touching always on those things that American cooks do better than anyone else: simple meats, comforting sides, rough but artistic plating. And in the process, Broening is blazing a trail for other American chefs, showing how American food can be at its absolute best.
Ba Le Sandwich, a small, brightly lit sandwich shop smack in the middle of Denver's best Vietnamese-restaurant neighborhood, is a destination both for Vietnamese immigrants looking for an honest taste of home and adventurous gastronauts looking for a taste of foreign climes on the cheap. Both appreciate the banh mi, the classical collision of French and Vietnamese culinary tradition that resulted in a wonderful spread of sandwiches — most of them some variety of pork — on short baguettes. At Ba Le, you'll find sliced pork and spicy pork, pork pâté and pork cutlets, with topping options of sliced cucumbers, sprouts — whatever you like. No matter what you choose, you'll get out the door for under five bucks, with a lunch that beats any fast-food offering.


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In a series of tweets, rapper/businessman 50 Cent announced that TMT Promotions (his venture with Floyd Mayweather) is no more and he is going it alone as a boxing promoter under the name SMS Promotions.
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Have been disappointed in the gas mileage of my 2011 535XiGT. There are about 7,000 miles on our vehicle, and combined road and street mpg averages only between 19 - 20. We alway fill with premium gas. We typically drive conservatively, and don't understand why the gas mileage is not higher? One of the reason why we did not purchase the 550Xi was the mileage issue. Would appreciate any advice or mileage comparisions that could be offered. Has anyone found a fuel brand that consistantly offers higher mileage?
my 550 averages about 16 mpg. You're doing much better than mine. 50% h'way.
2011 550iX GT, 2011 MB C300 sport, 2003 Porsche C2 Cab (turbo conversion)
I'd say I'm about where you are with 50-50 driving. In just city, I'm around 17-18. On highway, I'm 24-25.
ditto for me. I am getting about 19 mph in mixed driving. I find myself driving differently with the energy recovery system. I used to always have my foot on the accelerator of the X5, feathering power (unless braking). I think this is left over from driving my 2002. Now with the 535GT I let the car coast whenever I can. I am amazed at how long it will coast effortlessly even though it is turning the alternator... I take my foot off the gas and let the injectors shut off.
I have not tested it yet, but I wonder how cruise control affects gas mileage. While I think it normally saves gas on other cars - does cruise control always keep gas flowing through the injectors? When I drive on the freeways I coast on the downhill sections.
I have seen the charging occur while on cruise, but it takes a fairly long grade to do it. In fact, on one long grade, while in cruise, it actually downshifted a couple of gears by itself - I'd never had a transmission do that on its own while in cruise.
While in Germany, I averaged about 23mpg on mine, and that saw maybe 350 miles on the Autobahn, at the max breakin speed of 100mph at times, and generally 70-80mph the rest of the time. In driving it back from the Performance center to NH, mostly interstate, sitting mostly at about 70-75mph on cruise, I got over 30mpg on two tanks. It's lower now during the winter, partly because of the temps, but partly because of the winter tires don't roll as freely. I'm getting in the low 20's mixed driving, but I'm not driving much...retired, and most of the things I need are close by, so I have to take it out and get it really warmed up occasionally to ensure the oil isn't getting too much moisture in it. I did a bit over 700miles in Germany, and the trip back home after redelivery was a bit over 1000, so the vehicle didn't have a lot of miles on it. On one longer trip last fall, about 2500 miles, I averaged about 27mpg, and that included a week of running around town when at a couple of stops. The last day on the way home was about 1000-miles, and the overall trip mileage slowly went back up.
Make sure the tire pressure is where it should be. I've been mostly using Shell, but on trips, will use anything. If you aren't aware of it, BMW along with about 5-6 other manufacturers have recommended fuel brands. This list changes as formulations change and the tests get repeated. check out www.toptiergas.com for that consortium's recommendations. BMW's stand is you should either use one of those on the approved list on a regular basis, or periodically use a fuel detergent engine cleaner addative on a periodic basis. Cheaper and easier to just use one of their approved gasolines. BTW, that consortium include a bunch of different car manufacturers.
I only occasionally use Cruise and I have never seen the recovery indicator come on. This is why I wonder if fuel economy suffers while in cruise, particularly if the freeway has grades.
I run my tire pressures 2 lbs high to decrease rolling resistance. Comfort does not suffer.
I admit to using Costco gas - which may or may not be formulated with Top Tier levels of detergent. That is why I also will add Techron every few months.
I have been pleased with the fuel economy of the 535. Certainly beats my previous 4.4.
interesting that sunoco canada is on there but not US.
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I was looking at the list of top tier retailers and noticed BP was not on the list.
I found the following info on another forum from 04/2010:
I would love to run the super duper gas from Germany/Austria, but not at $8.50 a gallon. On the way back from Vienna to Munich, we took about an hour of the trip off the beaten path. My Autobahn speeds where always over 80 and usually between 90-100 with a slow accel up to 120 at one point. Computer claimed 24.5 prior to getting into traffic in Munich for the 4 hour or so trip.
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I have a 2010 535i GT with 23,000 miles . We took a 9000 mile trip around the country and up into Canada. We averaged 26.7 mpg by the trip computer. When we did an actual calculation it was generally up to a mile per gallon less. The last 2000 miles driving shows 27.7mpg. We recently took a trip from Atlanta to N.C. On this trip we got 33 mpg on trip computer and actual measurement. We used Costco gas-lots of places now have additional additives that bring it to tier 1. We have adaptive cruise control and use it almost all the time on the highway. The speed limit was 55 to 70 mph and we go about 4 miles over that.
The big thing I have noticed is how much the A/C affects the mpg. We get our best mileage when the A/C is not running. Driving at 74 mph or less w/o AC we get over 30 mpg always. Same speed 98 degree we get 28mpg big difference. At 80 mph it drop below 30 to 28.
The GT has a relative high CoF of drag .34 compared to my S-class mercedes of .28 so it takes more gas to move it thru the air at higher speeds.
So drive in cooler weather below 74 mph and see what happens!
wife has almost 9000 miles on her 535xi GT, I would say mostly city driving (highway driving is usually during busy times, so stop and go as well), and we've had the blizzaks on for most of those miles. she's averaged 19.1 mpg. kind of funny since we traded in the 06 750Li in order to get better gas mileage. that got 18.9mpg . . . ha! I expect it to improve with the regular summer tires, and I've gotten 26-27mpg on the highway. wife complains about the mpg, but I think it boils down to driving style. I enjoy occasional spirited driving, yet still average 22 mpg in my vert. makes me wonder just exactly how my wife drives . . .
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Where I live in MD, I have found that one chain of convenience stores (Highs Dairy Stores) provides me with the best mpgs in both gas and diesel vehicles. The gas is labeled Shell and Citgo, but their mpg performance isn't any different.
BTW, if you look at my sigpic, all I can say is that your individual mileage may vary.
If I drive a lot of city, it is about 13~14. If I do a pure highway, it is @ 21 at best.
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I drove from Amsterdam to Paris, around 500 km, with 93 km/h and 6.9l/100 km on average. It was mainly highway. I was amazed to be as low with 530d. In the city it is about 10-11 l/100 km on short drive.
Drove from Atlanta down to Savannah in our new (800 mile) 2012 535i GT. Had the cruise set to 84 and averaged 25.7 on the way down. 24.8 on the way back.
Bryan Burnworth
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12 535i GT DSMB/Cinnamon Welt 1/31/2012
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update: visited the in-laws this weekend. 500 miles roundtrip, almost all highway, cruise set at 78 mph with a/c on. averaged 28 mpg (450 miles, 16.05 gallon). wife still getting 19 mpg with half city/half highway driving, and still complains. I pointed out that even though she drives 20K miles/year, if gas goes from $4/gal to $5/gal, it will cost her an extra $20/week in gas. relatively small price to pay for such a nice car . . .
09 335 vert - ED Feb 09
06 325 vert - gone
05 G35x - winter
Thanks for info, and taking time to respond. Much appreciated.
How would you like the equivalent of around $9-10/gallon like most of Europe has to pay? Last April, I filled up twice, and it cost me in the range of $140 each time in Germany, and the price of fuel has gone up a fair amount since then.
While the actual fuel cost is similar to here, their taxes are MUCH more. But, at least in many countries, their roads are better. You don't see potholes very often in Germany primarily because they put a lot more base and overall thickness in them, and maintain the grade and drainage better. Lived there for a few years and really enjoyed it.
Now, if we'd get our act together and not be a debtor country, plus the fact gas is priced in dollars, things might improve. our lousy balance of trade pushes the value of the dollar down, making fuel in world terms go up since the dollar is worth less. Until then, don't count on it.
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This will be my first year spending a winter up in the "salt belt." Since I moved up here, I have noticed lots of cars all rusted out. I'd like to take care of mine the best way possible, and I'm worried about underneath. Does undercoating actually help protect the bottom of the car?
I see several products at my local auto parts store, and there's a shop nearby where I can pay them to throw it up onto a lift and let me spray away, but I don't want to waste my time or money if they're not effective. What do you all think?


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Linux Mint's purpose is to produce an elegant, up-to-date, and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop based on Ubuntu. Some of the reasons for the success of Linux Mint are:
It's one of the most community driven distributions
It is a Debian-based distribution and as such it is very solid and it comes with one of the greatest package managers
It is compatible with and uses Ubuntu repositories. This gives Linux Mint users access to a huge collection of packages and software.
It comes with a lot of desktop improvements which make it easier for the user to do common things
There is a strong focus on making things work out of the box (WiFi cards drivers in the file system, multimedia support, screen resolution, etc)
New features in Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon
Linux Mint 18.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2021. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop experience more comfortable to use.
Linux Mint 18.1 "Serena" Cinnamon Edition
Cinnamon 3.2
New screensaver
The screensaver in Cinnamon 3.2 was redesigned and rewritten from scratch in Python. Not only does it look better, but it's also much faster, more responsive and more customizable than the old one.
The new Cinnamon 3.2 screensaver
Background slideshows set in Cinnamon continue to play in the new screensaver.
On laptops the battery power is shown, so you can see if you're running low without having to log in.
We also thought about music fans. You no longer need to unlock the screen to mute the sound, and if you're throwing a party and using your computer as a jukebox, you can have the media controls right there in the screensaver, so you can let people skip to the next song without giving them access to your session.
The screensaver can also show if you missed notifications (not their content, for privacy reasons, but how many).
Better look and feel
Thanks to upgrades and new implementations, Cinnamon 3.2 brings back some visual changes which had been disabled in the past for stability reasons:
It is now possible to make Cinnamon play a sound when a notification pops up. This is a new setting available in "System Settings" -> "Sound" -> "Sound Effects".
The most striking difference in the new Cinnamon though is the removal of "box pointers". The shape of the menus used to "point" to their parent object, creating a gap between applets and panels and making it hard for applets to properly stick to the edges of the screen.
The removal of these pointers not only cleans up the visual aspect of Cinnamon, it also opens up new possibilities and more flexibility for theme artists.
Under the hood, the removal of box pointers also means the removal of a significant amount of code and the disparition of some long-standing bugs.
Improved hardware support
Cinnamon 3.2 features support of iio-sensor-proxy. On computers equipped with compatible accelerometers, Cinnamon is able to auto-rotate to respond to orientation changes.
In addition to "synaptics", the new "libinput" touchpad and input driver is now also supported.
Vertical panels
Cinnamon 3.2 supports vertical panels, so you can now place panels on the side of the screen.
Vertical panels
Note: Although this is trivial for an applet developer, it is the responsibility of each applet to define whether or not it can be shown vertically, and how to do so.
Other new features
Here are more new features which were introduced in Cinnamon 3.2:
Other improvements
Cinnamon 3.2 also brings the following improvements:
New search bar
Xed, the text editor, was given a brand new search bar.
When searching, the text is no longer obstructed by a dialog box. Instead, the search bar appears at the bottom of the editor.
Searching in Xed
The search finds results while you are typing and you can jump from one result to the next by pressing Enter.
This makes it much easier and faster than before to find or replace something.
You might be used to this kind of search already, as it is used in other popular applications such as Firefox, Eclipse or Sublime (which it was inspired from).
UI improvements
Xed also received the following UI improvements:
Note: The screenshot above shows Xed running as root with the Mint-Y-Darker theme to highlight this.
Monitor blanking
Xplayer, the media player, was given the availability to blank other monitors.
Blanking the other monitor in Xplayer
If you have more than one monitor, you can now press the "Blank Other Monitors" button when playing a video in full screen. Your video will continue to play and all your other monitors will turn black.
The blanking can be toggled back and forth and automatically stops if you leave fullscreen or close the player.
This feature is also available if you plug an external monitor to a laptop, so it allows you to blank the external monitor, or to blank the laptop itself without having to close the lid.
You could already do this by switching monitors off manually, or by closing laptops lids, but that was troublesome for some people because of power management settings, the settings daemon reinterpreting your monitor configuration (thus moving your windows) or in the case of issues with energy saving (that's common on Dell monitors for instance).
Other improvements
Xplayer is now fully compatible with EXIF orientation tags. In other words, it will now automatically detect and automatically rotate videos which were captured sideways or upside down.
The rotation plugin is now enabled by default, so you'll also be able to manually rotate videos out of the box. Just press Ctrl+R or click on "View -> Rotate" to rotate a video.
The subtitle plugin is now also enabled by default. If you're watching a movie and you want subtitles for it, just click on "View -> Subtitles -> Download Subtitles".
Downloading subtitles in Xplayer
Other improvements given to Xplayer include:
Interpolation was improved in the XViewer image viewer, reducing pixelation and aliasing in zoomed pictures.
The ability to rotate pictures was provided by a plugin. It is now part of the core application.
The Xreader PDF and document viewer received many bug fixes and improvements which were backported from Evince and Atril.
The main view now features HiDPI support.
Shadows look better.
The X-Apps project continues to facilitate cross-desktop efforts at producing better environments.
New libraries and resources were made available to help cross-desktop development, not only in X-Apps applications but also in other projects.
For example, Xplayer's ability to blank other monitors isn't implemented in Xplayer itself, but in libxapp, and this feature is available to other applications.
Part of the keyboard layout management in Cinnamon 3.2 is implemented in libxapp too, and that also is available to other applications or other desktop environments.
Update Manager
A new column is available to show where updates come from and sort them by origin.
Kernel updates in the main view are shown with more clarity than before and their version is made more prominent.
Browsing the list of available updates
In the kernel window, kernels are now sorted by version and recommendations are given for both the most stable and the most secure kernels.
Browsing the list of available kernels
The list of updates is no longer refreshed if an update fails or if it is interrupted.
Changelogs are now cached and only downloaded when needed.
Name resolution (the name given by the update manager to a group of package updates) and support for special characters were improved.
The layout of the security policy screen was improved.
The version number of the update manager now appears in the "Help -> About" dialog window.
Language Settings and Input Methods
The Language Settings checks are more exhaustive than before. In previous versions, full support for a particular language included its language packs and localized versions of popular applications such as Thunderbird and Firefox. This now includes a lot more packages such as dictionaries, help packages, fonts, and optional components which depend on the list of applications you installed.
Installing language support
The "Input Methods" configuration tool was completely redesigned. In the past, you were presented with a list of input methods and you could choose the ones you wanted to install. This was a bit confusing to novice users. Not only did it install support for other languages than the one they wanted, but they often didn't know which input methods were relevant to their language.
This was changed in Linux Mint 18.1. Users now choose a language and the tool installs the appropriate input methods for it.
Installing input methods
Thanks to a new collection of flags, the language settings now fully support HiDPI.
Software Sources
The Software Sources tool was given support for anycast IP global mirrors.
Anycast IP mirrors are now available
These mirrors provide multiple servers across the World and automatically redirect your requests to the appropriate server.
Unlike other mirrors which are located in a particular country, these mirrors are more or less "Worldwide" and available to all users.
The MDM display manager, which is responsible for the login screen, received many technical improvements:
System improvements
In the default software selection, Banshee was replaced with Rhythmbox.
Banshee was a great application but it suffered many regressions lately, due to lack of development upstream and its reliance on Mono.
Rhythmbox provides most of its features and we made sure it integrated properly with our various environments:
This release ships with linux-firmware 1.157.5 and the Linux kernel 4.4.0-31.
Artwork improvements
"folder-color-switcher" now supports theme inheritance. You can modify the color of your folders even if you're using Mint-Y or Mint-X-Dark.
Linux Mint 18.1 features a superb collection of backgrounds from Anders Jilden, Andres Nieto Porras, Alberto Restifo, Graziano Capelli, David Marcu, Dorin Vancea, Emma Hall, Eric Kilby, John Chavez, Joe Gardner, Juergen Donauer, Jan Vasek, Kace Rodriguez, Lionello DelPiccolo, Maxime Staudenmann, Petra Fischer, Philippe Wuyts, Robert Lukeman, Sylvain Guiheneuc, Stephen Radford and Sam Schooler.
An overview of some of the new backgrounds
Main components
Linux Mint 18.1 features Cinnamon 3.2, MDM 2.0, a Linux kernel 4.4 and an Ubuntu 16.04 package base.
LTS strategy
Linux Mint 18.1 will receive security updates until 2021.
Until 2018, future versions of Linux Mint will use the same package base as Linux Mint 18, making it trivial for people to upgrade.
Until 2018, the development team won't start working on a new base and will be fully focused on this one.


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Everyone is buzzing about the release of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra this weekend. Rated PG-13, it promises to be action-packed and full of big battles and violent scenes.
Like Transformers, G.I. Joe is based on a classic kids' toy. Although older generations who grew up with Transformers and G.I. Joe action figures will undoubtedly flock to the theater to relive a bit of that childhood magic, but what about the little ones who idolize these toys today?
Do you think violent movies based on kids' toys are a bad idea? Would you take your children to see G.I. Joe or Transformers? Are you concerned that they turn innocent playtime pals into something ominous?
What do you think about violent movies based on kids toys? You tell us!


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one for the books,
Here's one for the books,
My first tiling job! layed the subfloor,layed the cement board we will not go in to those issues.:whistling2: Anyway i measured the distance from the doorway subtracted the space for the grout drew out a straight starting point from the wall and proceeded to lay tiles all was going well (keeping the tiles straight and level :huh: ) then Get to the doorway and :eek: "why am i going to have to cut tiles when i measured for a whole tile finish" Doh, the 12x12 are not 12x12 why is it that things are labled something then in small print "oh by the way tiles are 11 3/4" i cannot tell you how many times i have been caught by this and i still forget to check..:laughing: but hey my 4" tiles are 4" go figure.
I too have this problem
I was getting ready to tile my back plash the other day. Making a varied pattern. So I went out and cut my entire tile pattern :thumbsup: and decided to just lay them out to see how it was going to look. DOOE :eek: I forgot to make the adjustment and ended up cutting all over again. I hate it to!:censored: Oh well its all pert of the fun!:laughing:
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