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So can all the improvements Epson has brought to the TW5500 really be seen onscreen? Indeed they can.
Since it was such a divisive element of the TW5800, I think a good place to start would be by covering the massive improvement Epson has delivered to its frame interpolation processing.
The trick with the new system is, effectively, that it's become cleverer at recognising its own limitations. And so whereas the earlier frame interpolation engine tended to break down into obvious glitching and flickering when the amount of motion it was required to deal with became too great for it to handle, the latest system deactivates the frame interpolation processing automatically at times of extreme duress, reverting to a less processing-heavy, artefact-free pull-down arrangement.
With the TW5800, I personally found the Frame Interpolation system borderline unusable on anything other than its Low setting - a setting which wasn't really powerful enough to reduce judder all that much. With the TW5800, though, the more powerful Normal frame interpolation mode massively reduces judder in the image while, crucially, generating hardly any distracting processing side effects.
The scene where Bond arrives in the Bahamas in Casino Royale is a severe test of any motion compensation system, with its rapid tracking shots of cars and boats, and objects within the frame moving at a different rate to the camera pan. Yet where the TW5800 showed clear signs of glitching and shimmering haloes around moving objects with these shots using its normal or high frame interpolation settings, the TW5500 is pretty much rock solid.
The TW5500's more adaptive approach means there's perhaps a touch more judder in, say, the portrayal of the beach huts behind Bond's Ford Focus as it flies towards his swanky hotel. But personally I'd trade a fraction more judder during really fast camera pans over aggressive processing artefacts any day.
When all's said and done, the TW5500's frame interpolation system is arguably the first such technology I've seen on a projector that significantly improves the clarity and fluidity of the picture without causing artefacts more distracting than the judder it's designed to remove.
In fact, I'm confident that even some of those die-hard purists who argue that judder is part of the cinematic experience and should be left alone might find themselves 'turned' by the TW5500's frame interpolation efforts. Which is about as high a recommendation I can give, considering what an inherently stubborn bunch such dyed-in-the-wool purists invariably are!
If you're STILL not convinced that Frame Interpolation has any place in your movie-loving world, though, please note that the TW5500 allows you to deactivate all of its Frame Interpolation processing completely if you so desire.
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If you believe half the fun of listening to a great song is sharing it with friends, a new app might just be music to your ears.
MyStream is a music-streaming app that lets you share what you're listening to with others on the same Wi-Fi network or via Bluetooth. Consider it similar to using a headphone splitter -- but in this case you need not be tethered to your friend.
Setting up the free app takes only about one minute as you need to give yourself only a profile name and enable audio streaming. Now, anyone connected on your wireless network (or Bluetooth) will see your profile name under "Streamers" and can tap to open up what you've got to share, be it songs, podcasts or audio books.
MyStream is meant to expose you and your friends to new music, but the app doesn't promote piracy. You cannot save the song you're listening to, for example. Plus, there's an icon you can tap to buy the song on iTunes.
You can pause tracks, skip forward or back between them and adjust volume -- but you can't move forward or back inside a song.
Also, keep in mind that while you can listen to full songs with other users who are live streaming -- up to 20 people over Wi-Fi or five through Bluetooth -- you must be listening to the same track at the same time. Otherwise, you can choose to import music into your MyStream playlist, but your friends can hear only a 90-second clip of your songs.
To clarify, you can hear full songs if your friends are also listening to them, but only 90 seconds if they're not.
The app also includes a social-networking element as you can broadcast what you're listening to on your Facebook profile page.
MyStream is a great idea and a well-executed app. Sure, it has restrictions, like being able to hear only 90 seconds of the song if your friends aren't live streaming it, but it does build upon most other social music apps.
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Is the wine industry embracing social media marketing?
Wine is a business where first impressions, quality and packaging mean everything. I recently found myself asking how can wine be marketed in a way which not only promotes the internal creativity of the product, but also looks for an innovative approach to marketing the product. Members of the millennial generation are increasingly becoming prominent consumers, drinkers and purchasers of wine. My research led me to consider the emerging importance of social platforms as a factor in developing the marketing strategies of wine and whether social media techniques are being used to engage with wine drinkers and successfully promote brands within the industry.
The wine-drinking demographic is changing rapidly with the inception of Generation Y or The Millennials; the young, cool, trendsetters with disposable incomes.
The US Wine Market Council sees this generation as encompassing 21-36 year olds, however they feel this generation is so important that it has split it into two groups: Younger (21-28) and Older (28-36). The research suggests that the older half of the group tend to drink wine several times a week at least, if not every day. Although Baby Boomers make up a larger percentage of wine drinkers, the Millennials collectively consume more than any other group with 38%. In the near future, we can also assume that the Millennial group will not only expand due to more people turning 21 but also that the Baby Boomer generation will shrink as they grow older and move into the 67+ group. If we consider the use of social media in this sector, the Millennials are a generation who have grown up with the internet, and more recently have been active participants in the emerging growth of social media. Therefore it is a fair assumption that social media marketing techniques would be a relevant and effective way of marketing wine to the largest demographic in a way that will directly engage and interest them.
Incorporating digital marketing and social media techniques into wine marketing strategy
If we take a look at the data above, in particular Total Engagement, we can see that the alcohol industry as a whole has generally seen huge developments in its engagement with consumers over Facebook in a very short period of time. Consumers are engaging on their terms, although brand posts dropped by around 50% between January and July, total engagement with the posts didn't fall by anywhere near that amount and in fact some of the total engagement figures saw a rise. This demonstrates that customers are increasing their interaction with branded Facebook pages and in turn their engagement with the brand. It is interesting to note that there is only one wine producer within the top 15 alcohol brands ranked for Facebook engagement. The reasoning behind this is the majority of beer and spirit producers are owned by large conglomerates like Diageo who have larger pooled marketing budgets and brand profits year on year.
This led me to question why Yellow Tail has so successfully utilised social media marketing techniques compared to its competitors. For example, if we look at Jacob's Creek, it has around 375,000 followers on Facebook, but this is dwarfed by the 1 million+ followers of Yellow Tail. The key to Yellow Tail's success is its focus on cross-platform marketing so it has simply incorporated social media into a defined cross-media strategy. Essentially it doesn't see social media as a quick-fix option but more of a marketing tool which can assist in its global marketing efforts.
The two quotes above are taken from a Yellow Tail marketing review and outline several reasons for Yellow Tail's social success over other wineries. Firstly, reducing its brand pages to one overarching global page has allowed it to promote to its consumers swiftly and concisely while optimising levels of engagement and outreach. In contrast to this, it operates several Twitter handles allowing it to organise how it engages with users and at what time. It also works with AnalogFolk to ensure that there is always someone to respond to consumers' needs and desires 24/7 which is great for an international brand dealing with timezone constraints. This leaves the consumer feeling like they are constantly engaged with the brand and promotes further brand loyalty.
If we look above we can see an example of the aesthetics of one of Yellow Tail's social campaigns. The iconography suggests the campaign is aimed at the millenials with lots of bright colours and relaxed wording. The campaign also relies on the use of social media and mobile to enter again suggesting the desired demographic is the tech-savvy millenials. It is useful to note it also ties in with the colours used in the Yellow Tail labels thereby strengthening the brand recognition.
Consumers are now defining how digital media can work with the wine industry according to Vin Tank, a digital company focused on developing marketing solutions for the wine industry. More than 14 million consumers have mentioned wine online; this figure continues to grow with approximately 450,000 users creating new mentions every month. Additionally, 1.5 million people are having online conversations about wine daily. The majority of this content is posted to social platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter but can also be attributed to other sources such as wine blogs and digital apps.
Now that we've established that consumers are using social platforms to talk about and engage with alcohol brands and wine as a whole, let's take a look at what producers and those that market the product are doing to develop their social presence. I have used data from ABLE, which has been surveying American and French wineries over the past three years on their use of social media as a marketing tool.
The above data clearly demonstrates to us that US wineries are utilising social media as a marketing tool much more. Unsuprisingly the social platforms that are being used the most by both nations are Facebook and Twitter. If we consider the US aka the New World's willingness to adopt advances in technology in production of wine then we can see this willingness matched by marketing techniques.
Benefits of social media
The above graph depicts the main outcomes wineries see from utilising Facebook (and social platforms in general) as a marketing tool. It is interesting to see that around a third of all wineries found social media played a positive part in their business activities. Some of the key benefits they found were creating awareness, promotion of events and generating engagement with customers. In terms of ROI, 57% said engagement on Facebook drove customers to their wineries and just under half of the wineries said their interaction with Facebook generated sales.
The type of content being produced on all social platforms by wineries and marketers is fairly generic, tending to feature an image of a bottle with a promotional link to the product – fairly unimaginative indeed. Both the US and French wineries are utilising all forms of content, with text and photos being slight leaders. It's interesting to note that videos still hold a relatively small share of content type. As the sector is generally considered to be fairly creative it would be fair to assume that producers and marketers would capatalise on this ethos and focus on developing more interactive ways to market wine such as videos. I predict that in the near future, the producers and marketers of wine will begin to include more innovative, creative content that is focused on engaging users further than the typical PR text content.
Case study – Tesco Wine: "The Social Wine" Project
An example of the wine industry utilising the power of social media was seen in 2013 when Tesco created the initiative "The Social Wine". The concept is simple: Enotria's marketing manager Harry Fawkes came up with the idea several years ago to develop a wine with the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), an initiative which returns profits to local African communities, which utilised social media to create the first 'crowd-sourced' wine. The idea was pitched to Tesco, which turned the idea into reality.
The desired outcome was to connect ordinary customers with wine, breaking down the high social barriers often associated with the wine industry. The wine was chosen from a blind tasting by Tesco officials; Tesco's social media fans were then asked to submit ideas for a name as well as a design for the label. From there, Tesco created a shortlist of entries and the final winner was chosen through Tesco's social media platforms. The winner, Rebecca Boamah, won a trip to the vineyard in Stellenbosch.
As we can see above, around 70% of wineries wished to increase their Facebook activity in 2012, highlighting the importance of encompassing digital media into marketing strategies. This demonstrates to us the importance wine producers see in digital marketing and its importance in the near future.
As the wine drinking and purchasing demographic changes, so does the marketing strategy for the product. Social media isn't the answer to instant digital marketing success, but definitely a great tool that will assist in the move from traditional marketing techniques to global digital strategies that will improve a brand's overall social outreach, brand awareness and consumer engagement. Alan Krompf of Mutineer Magazine summarised this concept perfectly: "Digital media has not only influenced the way Millennials receive information, it has revolutionized the way the wine industry communicates in general. Millennials are a revolutionary demographic for wine, and we've only seen the tip of the iceberg."
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NASA's long-term plans to return humans to the moon and then push on to Mars remain a possibility.
All week, we heard rumblings that the Human Spaceflight Plans Committee created by the Obama White House to evaluate our manned exploration program might kill off the new Ares rocket program. The committee's head denied that any such decision had been made in a press conference Friday.
"As far as our committee is concerned, it would be completely wrong to say that Ares is dead in the water," said Norm Augustine, former CEO of Lockheed Martin, and head of the review.
With the Apollo 11 40th anniversary looming, all kinds of attention has been focused on whether NASA would return to the moon. The plans that are currently under review were born in 2004, when President George W. Bush announced his Vision for Space Exploration, which included returning to the moon, building a base, then heading for Mars.
That may have sounded great, but it put NASA in a tough spot. First, the agency had trumpeted its success with less expensive robotic missions, not manned flight, and Bush's priorities seemed likely to defund robotic missions. Second, the Space Shuttle program has been slated to come to an end, leaving the United States without a national option to get up to the International Space Station or into low Earth orbit at all. So, NASA had to design a program that would get humans to orbit, to the Moon and to Mars.
Working with those issues, NASA came up with the Constellation program. The plan goes like this: First, a slim rocket, Ares I, would send people in the Orion space capsule into orbit some time during the next decade, then back to the moon, and finally to Mars. A separate, larger rocket, the Ares V, would carry cargo.
The program has come under fire from many parties. Some say NASA should focus on robotic science missions instead of human exploration. Others say NASA needs more sharply defined priorities. The best architecture for getting to low earth orbit probably isn't the best way to get to the moon, which again probably isn't the best path to Mars. Even Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, has come out against NASA returning humans there.
In the battle to steer NASA policy one way or the other, all kinds of technical details are being marshaled by parties on all sides.
"Some of these rather subtle technical issues get to be very important in whether options make sense," Augustine said.
But the basic problem is that NASA doesn't have enough money to do everything that's being asked of the agency.
"Congress and the White House should reduce the 'too much with too little' pressure that has led to disaster in the past and that characterizes NASA's predicament today," argued MIT's Space, Policy, and Society Research Group in a whitepaper released last December.
The job of the Human Spaceflight Plans Committee is to figure out which pieces of the "too much" should go. They've asked NASA to provide several alternative plans for the Ares I, which they'll mark up and present to the White House by the end of August. It's unclear what they'll recommend, but the sheer profusion of alternatives suggests that changes are likely to be made.
One thing that must be said about the Committee: It has shown a persistent dedication to openness in its proceedings. While they aren't tipping their hand about specific suggestions, Augustine and the committee are actively maintaining an excellent website where they answer questions and provide easy access to documentation. They are also holding a series of public meetings later this month in space centers in Houston, Huntsville, Coco Beach, and Washington, D.C.
Correction 4:31 pm: Updated President George Bush to clarify that the Space Exploration Vision originated with George W. Bush, not his father.
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Social Media: Broaching the Next Frontier
The 2009 National Credit Union Marketing Spectrum Conference promises to be a spectacular display of topical workshops and keynote presentations designed to take you to a gold medal finish. Set in Vancouver, British Columbia, host to the 2010 Winter Olympics, this year's conference will no doubt be a perfect opportunity to discuss how credit unions can break away from the competition and take top spot atop the podium.
Network with credit union marketers from across the country, learn how to mix the right combination of information and creativity, explore new methods that will challenge your credit union's competitiveness, promote the spirit of growth and camaraderie and celebrate your achievements with your colleagues.
Who Should Attend?
- Managers responsible for credit union or Central marketing, communications,
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- Credit union General Managers, Branch Managers, or Strategic Partners
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This is a discussion on New leather heading out the door within the Defensive Carry Holsters & Carry Options forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Super nice (bookmark)....
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I'm not into brown, but your holsters are very nice and clean looking. I'm impressed.
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Two Brothers Arrested Saturday Night
The Chillicothe Police Department reports that at about 10pm, they were called to 346 East Second Street for a man inside a house with a handgun.
Officers found that Tyler Johnson had allegedly assaulted his mother, then brandished a small-caliber handgun. Tyler was still inside and refused to come out.
The Special Response Team and Negotiators eventually talked Johnson out of the residence, and he surrendered at about 11:45pm. Johnson charged with domestic violence and inducing panic.
Additional charges may be pending, and Johnson is the subject of other investigations by the Police Department.
immediately after the arrest of Tyler Johnson, his brother Justin Johnson arrived at the scene. Justin entered the perimeter and ran at officers, with his hand in the waistband of his pants and yelling obscenities. Officers attempted to arrest him but he began fighting with them. After a brief struggle, Justin was able to be arrested. He was charged with obstructing official business and resisting arrest.
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The Beauty Bus Foundation recently celebrated industry volunteers who bring beauty into the lives of homebound and terminally or chronically ill individuals and their primary caregivers free of charge. The foundation honored their 75 volunteers with a Mexican-themed cocktail and appetizer award reception. Calling attention to the tremendous support by beauty professionals and individual volunteers who help drive the bus, the Beauty Bus Foundation recognized four exceptional individuals and a salon of the year for making the mission of Beauty Bus possible.
Salon of the Year: ROB|B Salon. Salon owner and Beauty Bus board member Robbie Schaeffer did the very first Beauty Bus visit, and ROB|B Salon, the first OPI Concept Salon, has never stopped. Every nail technician at ROB|B Salon has volunteered and the ROB|B Salon team goes on client visits weekly, provides bags of beauty on visits, and participates in numerous events.
"Bus Driver" of the Year: Michael Bassett. Bassett is a professional graphic designer who has spent countless hours designing the Beauty Bus logos and all print materials.
Beauty Buddy of the Year: Beverly Kessler. This award is given to the non-beauty professional who not only attends home visits and events, but does so with passion and compassion for the clients and their caregivers.
The Beauty Bus Foundation delivers beauty services, including manicures and pedicures, to homebound and terminally or chronically ill individuals and their primary caregivers free of charge.
Beauty Professional of the Year: Janine Jarman. Jarman, the owner of Hairroin Salon in Hollywood, Calif., was the first hairdresser to go on a Beauty Bus visit and has been on more visits than any other beauty professional volunteer.
The Melissa Award: Jennifer Zide. Given to the volunteer who most embodies the spirit of the Beauty Bus Foundation, this award was founded in memory of Melissa Marantz Nealy. Zide is a professional makeup artist who has worked on countless movie and television sets.
The Beauty Bus Foundation hopes to double the number of clients it can serve in 2011, but needs the professional beauty industry's help. "We have big dreams and need more volunteers to reach them. If you, or someone you know, wants to learn more, please contact us. There is always room for more volunteers on our bus," says Alicia Liotta, cofounder of the foundation.
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last two days i grabbed the bondo and started working on a few spots that needed some attention
tonight i will order my outertierod, wheel bearing and shift rebuild kit from GAP
last two days i grabbed the bondo and started working on a few spots that needed some attention
tonight i will order my outertierod, wheel bearing and shift rebuild kit from GAP
New (to me) rain guard and rubber.
What I did to my Cabriolet today, I took a picture of a random rabbit that happened to be near my volkswagen rabbit.
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Drove mine to and from work twice today. Then drove to Wal-mart to pick up some oil for my Volvo and Dinner for the Girl and myself. Very nice 85+ degree day here in PA. Many more to come.
Painted over some spots that i patched over with some bondo.
just some random gray and flat blacks that i had laying around. I'll probably grab some more flat army green and redo the entire car after.. we'll see
I drove it. High 80's is southern VT today.
Turned 128,000 miles on Etienne #1 driving it to work yesterday.
I love the mileage I get with this car.
91 Burgundy Etienne #1
91 Burgundy Etienne #2
08 Blk 2.0T GTI
73 Yellow Super Beetle Convertible
Finally fixed my ****ing horn!!!!:d
In the last week I've:
Installed new front wheel bearings, both sides
Replaced bad drivers side wheel hub
Replaced factory 7 spoke alloy's with new 16in rims
Installed new instrument cluster
Installed smoked tail light and side marker lenses
Starting to look good!
Next week, hopefully I'll get the rear brakes updated to disc!
Dropped the top and top her to work, had a great time the weather is still nice in Miami.
i painted my borbet type Ms black they look like completely different wheels they came out awesome!!!
put all my new parts in the back seat so if i get pulled over for riding without an inspection sticker i can say i am on the way to the garage to drop the car off lol..
today, well earlier today.. I go some tunes in the cabby. I threw in a decent headunit and so far got 3 speakers working! I haz Tunez
Installed new door strikers, and ordered a oil pan and valve cover gasket.
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Today pulled both wheel hub assemblies tomorrow getting new wheel bearings and hubs pressed in reassembling and putting the corrado steallies back on
New valve cover gasket, and I repainted the cover. Also a intake mod, took out restrictor part, stuff the flexible part in the airbox, trimmed so flap would work, and extended intake down to fender area using part of a shopvac extension
New ignition switch in under an hour!
shes almost 9.....loves the car....lol...
ordered a new top, black one to replace the ugly, torn white one i have. Should be fun, have read as many how to's as are out there.... Still seems a little scary but it shouldnt be that bad.


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Common Core: When Plan B begins to look pretty good
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College and Career PathwaysRigorous academic standards, such as the Common Core State Standards, will prepare students for college and careers. The Foundation supports policies that set high academic standards and provide rigorous preparatory courses and dual-enrollment options for students.
Nobody said elevating the nation's academic standards would be easy.
Even so, it must have been an uh-oh moment in the Common Core community this week when the Florida Board of Education questioned the state's readiness for the 2014-15 rollout.
And then Education Commissioner Tony Bennett, one of the nation's Common Core gurus, called for a Plan B in case the assessments being prepared by a consortium of states aren't ready. This is like watching the ship Captain preparing the lifeboats.
If any state should be prepared for Common Core, you'd think it would be Florida – the reformer's Graceland for high standards and accountability. But as crunch time nears, there is growing concern about the ability of teachers and technology to handle the new standards and assessments. My concern isn't so much Florida. It is what this might say about everybody else.
Cost is a major worry.
The Florida Board of Education requested $400 million for technology devices and upgrades, including more bandwidth capacity. That is a lot of money, even for a state that is a national leader in testing and hasn't been cheap about funding it. And if Florida has a hard time meeting the technology requirements, consider the impact on states far behind us.
I used to work for a school district. And trust me. We can't have maintenance crews running fiber optic cable in May 2015. Remember those movies when someone throws a switch and power goes out across the city? Think of billions of gigabytes of algebra hitting insufficient digital capacity at the same time.
Bennett also is concerned about the ability of 22 states in the PARCC consortium to agree on common assessments and common cut scores. The range of states in PARCC goes from Massachusetts to Mississippi.
This is where the goal of rigor will clash with reality in classrooms.
Bennett apparently isn't convinced it all will be worked out by 2014-15, which is Plan A.
Hence his call for Plan B, just in case.
And I guess the lesson to be learned by other states is this: Get your own Plan B in order.
That we have Common Core assessments up and running smoothly by, say, 2018 is more important than having them sputtering and crashing in 2015 because of a mad dash to the finish line.
Common Core presents one of those rare opportunities where we have political leaders, education leaders, teachers and reformers in something akin to alignment – if not on accountability provisions associated with Common Core, at least on the merits of the standards themselves. In Florida, 85 percent of teachers who attend training sessions like what they are being trained to do.
And that is to teach critical thinking skills and more in-depth knowledge.
Let us cling to this moment.
Implementation issues must be managed so Common Core critics don't parlay them into deal-killing issues. If so, we'll never get to 2018.
Interestingly enough, Kentucky already rolled out a Plan B last year. The state developed its own Common Core assessments. And judging by how closely its proficiency rate matches NAEP proficiency, it apparently did a pretty good job. Kentucky did an even better job in preparing everybody for the large drop in scores that accompanied the more rigorous assessments. And somehow, amidst all that, it got the teachers up to speed.
I'm sure Kentucky will share how it did all of the above. This is what we do. We learn from each other.
New York also will have a Plan B in place. It is beginning the transition to assessments based on Common Core this year, in advance of PARCC.
In my mind, if we have the standards in place in 45 states, and teachers prepared to teach them by August 2014, I would declare it a "I'm going to Disney World'' moment.
Plan B can handle it from there until Plan A is ready.
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Mike Thomas @MikeThomasTweet
Mike Thomas serves in the communications department, writing editorials and speeches. Prior to joining the Foundation, Mike worked for more than 30 years as a journalist with Florida Today and the Orlando Sentinel. He has written investigative projects, magazine feature stories, humor pieces, editorials and local columns. He won several state and national awards, and was named a finalist in the American Society of New Editors' Distinguished Writing Award for Commentary/Column Writing in 2010. As a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, he wrote extensively about education reform, becoming one of its chief advocates in the Florida media. Mike graduated from the University of Florida with degrees in political science and journalism. His wife is a teacher and he has two children in public schools. Contact Mike at email@example.com
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[…] In the aftermath of yesterday's caution delivered by education commissioner Tony Bennett that Florida needed to prepare itself for Plan B on implementation of Common Core Standards and it's PARCC assessments, Jeb Bush's education foundation acquiesced. From Mike Thomas in the Foundation for Excellence in Education's blog: […]
FloriDUH is the Graceland of education accountability? Well you know what happened to Elvis and Graceland don't you? Let's hope the same happens to Common Core, the next great scam perpetrated by Jebby and his privatization cronies!


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So we have the baby home, finally, but tandem nursing is not going well at all. I'm not a big person, and my kids - well they're big compared to me. I'm constantly scared my toddler is going to hurt my newborn, esp. as she is a bit crazy when she's nursing. Also I'm massively sick and can't get better, and I suspect this is in part due to the crazy amount of milk I'm having to produce, since toddler drinks as often as newborn, but in toddler sized portions.
The icing on the cake has been that my inlaws are in town taking toddler out to help me, which has done a number on my supply. I'm engorged half the time, then this morning toddler stays home - and newborn gets dehydrated. I did not see pee for 4 hours straight. I can't take this any more and I want to wean the toddler.
The thing is my toddler is not ready to wean at all. Her life revolves around her nursies, and her relationship with food has never been that great. So, any suggestions on how to do this? I've tried limiting, but as this morning, I often don't have the mental energy to enforce boundaries, and she is not ready at all, she has horrible screaming meltdowns and really resents the newborn for nursing. I can't blame her, it's my fault for not weaning her sooner, but don't really know what to do. Maybe cold turkey is the way to go here.
Hi Deeka
Things are hard at the moment for you - it's perfectly normal and acceptable to have all the feelings you have, resentment, guilt etc, but do try try to let that go, easier said than done - I appreciate that. I'm just wondering how old your toddler is, you mention that nursing is very important to her, so therefore I'm not sure that going cold turkey will help in this situation - it may make her even more resentful towards your newborn.
Do you nap with the baby when you can? - if the in-laws are here - is an ideal moment to build up your strength to deal with the limits that you can try to set, maybe set up some playdates with some friends so that your dd is distracted but not feeling like she is being pushed out the way, give her the role of the big sister, helping you change baby's nappy, if you need to go to the toilet ask her to look after the baby so that she has a specific role to play, helping mama is a wonderful thing for big brothers and sisters to do, but then it all depends on the age of your toddler, if you can then once a day when the baby is not nursing take that time not necessarily to nurse - but you can if you want, but just to have cuddles to reassure her that you still love her, do special little things with her, have like a special tea time with her, cut up fruits together, do tasting sessions, try things that maybe even you don't know so that it would be a special adventure together.
It's a difficult time - I know - I went through something similar with my kids, but the thing for me was finding a moment in the day that I could give only to our dd, just 5 minutes made her feel reassured that we hadn't replaced her, also letting her know that, at the moment, not liking her baby brother or sister is OK, hurting the baby isn't ok but knowing that you understand that it's difficult to share her space in the family with someone new is hard.
Hope this has helped some, and keep posting to let us know how you are getting on, seeking out a support group for breastfeeding such as LLL would be beneficial especially as many groups now have toddler meetings where this sort of thing comes up quite a bit - you may just need that support around to to help you get through this difficult moment. Good luck and take care of yourself.
My older DD is nursing again after a 5ish month break during pregnancy, and I'm feeling some of the same feelings as you. She's back at it with renewed excitement and it can be really trying.
Here are some things I've been trying to do. I'm trying to remember them all. I feel like I've had to put way more thought into this than I expected... and some moments I feel just like you. And others I feel so happy that they are both nursing.
- time wakings in the morning so I can nurse DD1 (S) in her bed alone (DD2 is in our bed at that time), 'filling her up' with solo mama-love. I find it starts the day off much much better if I can nurse her by herself in her own space and she wakes up slowly with lots of attention.
- I almost never nurse them together. It's way too stimulating for me and every little touch or movement by S makes it worse. I end up holding her hands still and snapping at her if we do it, which makes me feel resentful and she's not getting what she needs out of nursing which is attention and closeness. She's getting a lot better about taking turns.
- I went to the monthly meeting of our local La Leche League last month (even though I had to force a tantruming S into the carseat to get there) and I met 3 other moms who've tandem nursed. Just talking to them made me feel 100 times better and now I know there's somewhere I can go to unload a little, which feels really good and S had a fabulous time playing with the 2 other 'big kids'
- I'm reading Adventures in Tandem Nursing, and it talks about giving the older child undivided 10 minutes as soon as the newborn is asleep, before doing the laundry or making that one phone call etc. I'm not very good at this, but I'm trying and it does make a difference.
- talking a lot to S about her own babyhood and how she got to nurse all by herself for so long, we made an album on iphoto with pictures of her breastfeeding as a newborn and baby and of her starting to eat food, talking about how Z needs milk to grow so she can get big enough to play with.
- I try to give S as long a session in the morning as she wants, but the rest of them I have to limit them somewhat or she'd stay on forever and I can't take that on top of nursing a growth spurting infant, even if Z would let me sit with S all day. I sing the ABC song or Twinkle Twinkle, or say she can have 5 sucks (and I count them out on her fingers, giving her a little hand massage at the same time). S always wants to try both sides so it's often 5 sucks per side (and both hands massaged). By bedtime I'm seriously touched out so I'm really firm about these limits. And maybe because she learned to fall asleep without nursing during my pregnancy, she seems to be ok with it.
- I bought a new water bottle with a straw spout, so I don't have to undo anything to drink. I take it everywhere with me and try to always keep it filled.
- S loves almond milk (the vanilla one with sugar in it) so if I really don't feel up for nursing her that's what I offer (it's a big treat for her) and I try to make sure I cuddle her and read a book with her close by the same time.
- S just stopped napping consistently, but I agree with trying to lie down and nap-nurse the baby once during the day. It's so much easier to be patient with the older kid when you're not exhausted. I've been putting on a 30 min video here and there to get some time to do this. I find myself feeling really easily frustrated and snappish at her when I'm tired or hungry.
That's a long list and I'm sure there are more things I'm doing to try to balance this ever-evolving relationship. It's not easy but I do think it's worth giving it a go trying some boundaries/self-care for you before trying to wean cold-turkey. Your older DD has just had the hugest transition of her life and if you do end up weaning her, going a slower, gentler route is sure to be a lot easier on her.
Big hugs and hope you can find some real-life support to take more breaks and recharge yourself so you have the stores to give both your kids.
This is me! Happy to still be able to share this with my 2 year old one minute, but feeling overtouched/violated/resentful/angry the next. On top of that, her latch is sometimes messed up and she bites a little, and when I try and end the nursing session she freaks. out....as in shrieking, clawing at my breast, and ripping at my shirt and bra (exactly the sort of response that makes me amenable to letting her nurse!). I've managed to limit it to first thing in the morning when she wakes up, and right before bed. Its helped a lot, and even though there are times when it so aggravating that I want to claw my own face off and not have her touch me anywhere, I can suck it up and get through it because its just the morning and bedtime. It took 6 weeks of my mat leave to get there, but it helped. I told her stories about how she only had booby when she didn't have any teeth, and how lucky she is now because she can have lots of other food now that she's bigger. Also, whenever she needed me, I told the baby (whether he was awake or not, needing me or not) that Fiona needed me and that he would have to be patient. I don't know if that helped with the nursing, but it did with other things.
I still thoroughly hate it sometimes (far frm the majority of the time), but it does get better when its not all. the. time. I know that when she finally does wean I'll be a little sad on some level, and that when the time comes I'll be glad that I was able to continue until she was ready.
I hope it gets better for you.
Mama to F (3/09) and S (3/11); and never forgetting my babe gone too soon (4/10).
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#8673 closed Bug (fixed)
Chrome: cannot select and remove Page Break (pagebreak)
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- Use a Chrome browser (I have 17.0.963.26 (Developer Build 0 Linux))
- Go to http://ckeditor.com/demo
- Insert the Page Break and select it (click it)
- Press a 'Delete' key
The status bar shows "body pagebreak", however pressing a 'Delete' key does nothing.
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comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by j.swiderski
- Keywords Webkit Opera added; chrome pagebreak selection delete remove removed
- Status changed from new to confirmed
- Version changed from 3.6.3 (SVN - trunk) to 3.6
The issue has been reproducible on all operating systems on Webkit and Opera browsers from CKEditor 3.6 rev [6904]
It is not possible to select page break and delete it using either Delete or Backspace key.
- In Windows pressing backspace acts like back button in this case.
- It is still possible to select page break and delete it. Just place the cursor below page break and press Shift+left arrow few times to select the page break. Pressing Backspace or delete will work in this case.
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by davidw
I worked around this by adding the following to my own code, snipped from the pagebreak plugin itself:
if (CKEDITOR.env.chrome) { editor.document.on( 'click', function( evt ) { var target = evt.data.getTarget(); if ( target.is( 'div' ) && target.hasClass( 'cke_pagebreak' ) ) { editor.getSelection().selectElement( target ); } } ); }
comment:3 Changed 3 years ago by m.lewandowski
- Owner set to m.lewandowski
- Status changed from confirmed to assigned
comment:4 Changed 3 years ago by m.lewandowski
- Status changed from assigned to review
With code from PR allows Chrome to select page break. Pushed to t/8673 at dev.
comment:5 Changed 3 years ago by m.lewandowski
- Status changed from review to review_passed
comment:6 Changed 3 years ago by m.lewandowski
- Milestone set to CKEditor 4.3.3
comment:7 Changed 3 years ago by m.lewandowski
- Resolution set to fixed
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Fixed with git:1eb5d94f61f1f9 (merged to master) at dev.
comment:8 Changed 3 years ago by m.lewandowski
With revision git:a335dadb7be2 we included all webkit based browsers, coz it turned out that Safari had this issue too.


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They say ignorance is bliss. Now that might work for some folks but for Muslims, that is one epic FAIL of a belief.
And in our experience, we found that the one area we Muslims are super ignorant about are our finances, the things we spend money on, the jobs that we work in, the contracts we sign, our businesses, how to buy and sell correctly, all the thousands of transactions that happen in front of our eyes every day of which we are an integral part. Yet we have – at worst – no concern, and at best little idea of whether we are falling into haram and thereby ruining our Dunya as well as our Akhirah.
Think about the following scenarios and see if they relate to you:
- If you walk into the shop to buy a packet of Doritos but then see a promotional packet of Walkers which enters you into a competition – is it permissible to buy the Walkers?
- You need credit on your phone – there's a deal on at the moment which offers $20 worth of calls for only $15. Is that halal?
- My pension plan has just been explained: my employer is happy to pay a whopping 10% contribution from his side if we go for a Final Salary option – is it a green light?
- You know the answer to that question! The advert then continues, "Call 0845 666 666 and choose the right letter to win a cruise to the Caribbean! Calls cost no more than 25p/per minute or text your answer for a one-time charge of one pound only!" Are you like, "Pass me the phone Mum!" or "Do I look that dumb?"
- Our local Islamic bank is a life-saver! They've been able to introduce an Islamic loan for five grand! I can now get the car I wanted – right?
- I love that game at the fair –you know the one when you pay a quid and use the mechanical crane arm to choose your favourite ted... erm, toy for your kid. But man, I can never do it! The operator always gets it first time, but I can't. Hold on, is this game even halal?
- No better time than the present to buy that house – and my local bank is offering a mortgage at very good rates whereas the Islamic bank is not only more expensive but I've looked at the contract – it's exactly the same thing! Or is it?
- I bet that I can get home before you can! But hold on, surely it's haram to say things like that? That's gambling!
- If there's anything safe to invest in then it has to be gold. And guess what, you can actually buy it online now using your Paypal account. But is this halal or haram?
- You went to the protests but no joy – tuition fees for University are here to stay. Thankfully though, a student loan is available which won't be charging interest, it'll just be index linked to inflation rates instead. So that's allowed isn't it? Right? Hello?
- Debit cards are all over the place now but there's always that hotel you love staying at which won't accept anything but credit cards. I really need one! And anyway, I'll never pay any interest on it ever because it'll clear every month anyway. Surely that's halal?
- Time to organize the Mosque 5-aside Football Tournament but committees being committees, they're not putting up any funds. No problem, we'll just charge each team a £10 entry fee with the winning team sharing the £100 prize. That's halal right? We're a mosque!
You know that you found yourself in there somewhere! The reality of course is that we are all getting involved in these and thousands of other transactions every single moment of our lives and it's time to be able to know how to understand all these issues and get answers so as to protect our Akhirah through keeping it Halal all throughout our lives.
This seminar, held with the support of one of the experts and pioneers of furthering our understanding of legal and financial matters as Muslims - the 1st Ethical Charitable Trust - will enable you to deal with and find solutions to these situations. We will also be going through the theory and together tackling practical case-based examples on:
- Understanding the impact of Halal and Haram upon ourselves in this life and the next
- Explaining the Islamic ethos to wealth, work, and business
- Debunking the words Mu'amalat and Buyu' to bring the Fiqh of Transactions and Sales to a level which we can all understand
- Exploring the concept of money and its use, the banking system, the Capitalist system and in contrast Islamic economic theory and Islamic finance
- Studying the Fiqh of Contracts
- Studying the Fiqh of Promises and their legal consequences, the Fiqh of Charity and non-Sale Contracts
- The impermissible aspects of business and contracts, such as riba, gharar, fraud, legal tricks etc
- An in-depth study of Mufti Taqi Usmani's epic paper presented to the WEF in Davos
- A detailed look at the concept of "dharoorah" or necessity and its validity
- Investigating real contracts from popular products such as credit cards, bank accounts, Islamic bank products
- A detailed look at the investment market, pensions, shares, stocks, bonds etc.
- Money management and how to be Islamically on point as well as making the Dunya work for you as opposed to the other way round
- A detailed look at all the above situations and all other contemporary challenges such as car leasing, inflation, loans, competitions, foreign exchange and the burgeoning investment market to name but a few
- Studying the factors on how to bless and increase our wealth from the Qur'an and Sunnah
And so much more insha'Allah!
Taught in detail by Sh Yaser Birjas, this double-weekend seminar will give you everything you wanted to know about contemporary matters as well as in-depth study of classical Islamic finance in the form of traditional "Mu'amalat".
"I loved this class. I have much more clarity on buying a house, how to make a raffle halal, cc usage on whether it is a need or not, being responsible with loans, and how almost everything is a contract between two parties. I know much more deeper how to avoid making $ on $, but also that administrative fees/services are allowed. Very grateful to take this double weekend. I leave more Confident, and Relaxed in my transactions with money. Thanks!"
Jehad Abedelal, Chicago
"Sheikh Yaser Birjas is a mark of trust and a stamp of "not to miss out" kind of class. Be it about love, marriage or finance, Sheikh Yaser always make us learn touchy and/ or hardcore subjects in Islam in an enjoyable interactive manner and full of encouragement towards united pools of business ideas and creations el hamdulilah. It even made me believe and think hard about a business plan of a project I barely dreamt about out of low confidence in my abilities. He taught us the etiquettes and ways of dealing with money, loans, buying/selling houses, investing, etc on a daily basis. Simply AMAZING!"
Chirine Martin, New York City
"I loved this class. Very informational. Shaykh Yaser Birjas really knows how to make learning about money interesting. I recommend this for people who're old enough to work with money. I also recommend a good nights sleep before this class because sleeping in this class means that when you wake up you'll be VERY lost. Said from experience."
Alina Bokhari, Houston
"All I can say is that this is the very reason that I signed up with AlMaghrib's degree program in the first place! This gets to be a very technical class but it gives the opportunity to think outside of the box and allow you stay as far away from riba (usury) transactions as much as possible. May Allah greatly reward Shaykh Yaser because explaining the real definition of "necessities" in Islam helped many of realize how easily we throw the word around. The class gives real examples of the different contracts and transactions we deal with every day such as credit cards, ATMs, stocks, mortgages, partnerships etc Alhamdulilah this was more than worth the two weekends invested into this class. Jazakum Allah Khair for everyone who assisted in making this class possible."
Baker Assaf, New Jersey
We hope to see you all at this course which just might make you realize that the price of Paradise is very much worth finding out about whether it's in pounds, dollars, pesos, baisas or paisas. Purify your Paisa, and you will find Paradise is there for the taking by knowing the halal and running a mile from the haram! And so we called this course:


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It is with great consternation and regret that I write this note. After careful consideration I decided to officially cancel the 23rd Annual Symposium on Computational Orthopaedic Biomechanics. Contributed to the decision has the dwindling community support and lack of funding. The reality is that nothing ever stays the same; there is a need for change.
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This is the first announcement for the 23rd Annual Symposium on Computational Methods in Orthopaedic Biomechanics (the "pre-ORS" meeting). Detailed information on the meeting format and registration, maps to the meeting site, and the sponsors for the meeting can be found on the symposium website at http://www.pre-ORS.org.
Location: The symposium will be held on Friday, March 27th, 2015 on the Campus (inside the brand new Student Union Building; http://www.unlv.edu/maps/su ) of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in Las Vegas, Nevada. The site is conveniently located along the S. Maryland Parkway and University Road, less than 2 miles southeast of the location of the Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society.
Registration: Pre-registration for the meeting will be available electronically at: http://www.pre-ORS.org/preregistration.html. We strongly encourage those interested in attending to pre-register for the symposium online through the meeting website so that we can adequately plan to accommodate everyone. Interest was great enough last year to require that registration be closed prior to the date of the symposium. As usual, registration and participation are free of charge. Deadline for pre-registration is 02/21/2015.
Objectives: The purposes of the symposium are to communicate the most current ideas on the impact of computer-assisted techniques in the field of orthopaedic biomechanics, to educate scientists, engineers, and researchers in the use of these techniques, to promote the use of computer technology in biomechanics research, and to welcome new researchers into the field. In keeping with the tradition of the symposium, this meeting is a forum for "junior researchers" to present their ongoing research involving computation in orthopaedics. Therefore, presentations are expected to be given by the student/postdoc primarily responsible for the research. The symposium will provide ample opportunity for personal interaction with faculty and other symposium participants, and will be a unique educational experience for the presenters. The pre-ORS is the premier international forum on the use of a new breed of computer based tools in orthopaedic biomechanics.
Topics: This 23rd annual meeting will feature three topics:
· Multi-Scale Approaches to Computer Modeling or Orthopaedic Tissue
· Algorithms for Simulation of Time-Dependent Processes
· Micro- and Nano-Scale Biomechanical Modeling of Tissue Behavior
Note: Abstracts are requested for all areas of computational research of interest to the general orthopaedic biomechanics community. However, in order to be accepted, a strong emphasis needs to be placed towards the focus areas.
Abstract Submissions & Presentations: As in the past, this meeting is a non-archival forum for graduate students and postdocs to present their ongoing research. The deadline for submitting abstracts for the symposium is Monday, December 22, 2014. Abstracts not exceeding one page should be sent via email as attachments in .pdf format to email@example.com. Any questions concerning abstract submission can be sent to this email address as well. Please be sure to include abstract title, list of authors, and authors' affiliation(s). Text should be structured in a dual column format and font size not be smaller than 8pt. If possible, use the template provided on the pre-registration page.
Date & Time: Friday, March 27, 2015, 7:30 AM–8:00 PM
Location: University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
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Registration: Free of charge. Pre-register at http://www.pre-ORS.org/preregistration.html
pre-registration deadline Friday, February 21, 2015
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Hi everyone. I would like to finish our basement and am having water issues. There is no sump pump or gravity drain that I have found so far. There are cracks in the slab of the floor and during really big rains, we get water up through those cracks.
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Garcia gets past Herrera; Wilder KOs Scott in one
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In his Puerto Rico "Homecoming," WBC/WBA super lightweight champion Danny "Swift" Garcia (28-0, 16 KOs) won a hard fought majority decision over Mauricio "El Maestro" Herrera (20-4, 7 KOs) on Saturday night at the Coliseo Ruben Rodriguez in Bayamon. Garcia had all sorts of problems with the non-stop punching and defensive skills of Herrera and was lucky to win a very close and competitive fight by scores of 114-114, 116-112, 116-112.
In a WBC heavyweight eliminator, unbeaten 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Deontay Wilder (31-0, 31 KOs) demolished Malik Scott (36-2-1, 13 KOs) in the first round. Wilder took his time until he saw an opening and lowered the boom. It looked like a left to the temple, followed by a grazing right that sent Scott sprawling. Time was 1:36 as Wilder once again showed frightening punching power.


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Russia gives green light for transgender drivers to stay on the road
By Liisa Tuhkanen
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Russian officials have given transgender citizens, many of whom have felt increasingly persecuted by the state in recent years, the green light to keep on driving after a new road safety decree sparked panic that they would be banned from the road.
The decree, a legal amendment which includes a list of symptoms from the World Health Organization's international classification of diseases, lists trans sexuality among the medical conditions that could prevent a person from driving.
But a government official said that a mental or behavioral disorder in itself was not a reason to stop someone driving.
The law would affect only those suffering from chronic and prolonged mental disorders with severe or persistent symptoms, Health Ministry spokesman Oleg Salagai told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
This description applies to less than one percent of patients in the category 'disorders of adult personality and behavior', under which trans sexuality is classified in the current WHO system, Salagai said.
LGBT groups also said the law was highly unlikely to have practical implications for gender minorities.
"Decisions on driving bans are made by a psychiatric commission," said Kseniya Kirichenko, a lawyer and a board member of the Russian LGBT Network.
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Saw a range fire review of the G30S...
Looked as if it had very minimal recoil...or it could have been the shooter....
does anyone have an opinion....thinking this may be my next CCW....
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Saw a range fire review of the G30S...
Looked as if it had very minimal recoil...or it could have been the shooter....
does anyone have an opinion....thinking this may be my next CCW....
I think my G30 is pleasant to shoot. I don't see the advantage of the 30S. The only downside of the G30 is the weight, mainly that of the ammo, not the .1" more in slide width.
I've got the SF also......the Mags suck.
I have never heard of it so I just looked it up. Glocks website says it is built on the 30sf frame with a slimmer slide for concealed carry ... But the hole gun is 1/100 of an inch wider that the G30sf. I don't understand but it interests me. I'm going to find me one and see. Looks like I'm going to the gun shop soon.
Glock 30S | G30S | .45 Caliber Pistol | GLOCK USA
Glock 30 SF | G30 SF | .45 Caliber Pistol | GLOCK USA
Thank you for the post
I saw this announcement from SHOT show. I am very interested in a G30s or one of the new Gen 4s.
I checked with my LGS and they hadn't even heard about the new releases and hence they had no idea when they hit the street.
I wonder if the "new" S is any different from a 36/30. The slide of a Glock 36 works very nicely on a G30SF frame.
I know one difference is that you used to have to buy 2 Glocks to make that combo. It looks like Glock finally did what many others have done to avoid the fat slide of the 30.:congrats:
If that's the only difference, I see no need of the weapon so I'm curious if the SF is going away....?????
I have not measured the G-36 slide width but I know putting one on a G-30 allows you to use the same holster that you may have for your G-17/19/23/22 etc.
I would tend to believe the sf will go away with gen 4. Just a hunch, but Glock can cut costs that way.


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Watney interview after Round 1 of Zurich Classic
Following an opening-round 69, Nick Watney reflects on his play in the 2013 Zurich Classic of New Orleans with Fred Albers from SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio.
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TH(ink) NOTE actionable research and analysis for the magazine industry
The Definition of a Print and Digital Magazine
September 06, 2007
There are many digital initiatives today in the magazine world: from repurposing printed material and posting online blogs to mobile phone messages and broadcasting original audio and video content. Though these attempts have varying degrees of success engaging consumers/readers they do not represent the essence of the magazine today and what it will continue to be in a digital format.
By David Renard
with Nick Hampshire and Bob Sacks
A magazine is a very distinct unit which has the following six key properties regardless of the delivery medium used: •
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Metered: a magazine is divided into defined "pages" of content that are presented together; in print this is not only bound sheets of paper but also, as has become more prevalent with the stylepress, pamphlets, lithographs or other objects; on-line these "pages" can follow a more traditional model (used by www.monkeymag.co.uk) or one of new models which includes the intuitive horizontal scrolling model (developed by www.firstride.com); Edited: the editor selects the articles and images, and on-line the videos and sounds, that fill each "page" as opposed to supplying a stream of aggregated data (news, articles, images, video) that is selected automatically by virtual intelligent agents; Designed: the included content is arranged and formated to enhance the reading and visual experience; Date-stamped: an issue is published on a specific date which becomes the indelible time stamp of the publication; Permanent: in a magazine all the content for an issue is set by its release date; even though the edited content for an issue can be more than what each reader is presented with, to allow for varying levels of customization, once it is created, it is set and can no longer be changed or corrupted apart for minor revisions; Periodic: a magazine is created to have subsequent issues and it may have more than 52 a year or, in the end, only be published once.
To remain relevant as they move online, magazines will need to retain the above critical components while embracing the interconnected multimedia possibilities of the digital world. In both print and bytes, they will continue to differentiate themselves through their metering, or "pagination", which provides a certain tempo that promotes discovery: the reader is presented with a manageable set of new articles, images and,increasingly videos and sound. Though the experience of reading a digital magazine (like those offered by vendors that include Zinio, Nxtbook, and Texterity) is mostly un-fulfilling today due to inherent limitations of carrying and reading on today's screens (e.g. computer, TV, mobile phone), these are true digital periodicals that retain the six key properties. Yet, they differ significantly from their printed cousins not only because of format and the type of content used, but also
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Definitions: Magazine: Metered, edited, and designed content that is intended to be periodically delivered to the reader in a format that is date-stamped and permanent. Stylepress: Unconventional, high-end boutique magazines that differ from traditional periodicals through their physicality, design, content, and focus on discreet communities.
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because of the possibilities of allowing for minor revisions (e.g. version 1.01), news tickers that are fed by RSS feeds, and detailed user/usage tracking, bane of the current physical magazine distribution network. As the right medium (e.g. e-paper, Apple's iPhone) and software (e.g. multi-touch) develops to accommodate both new functional (e.g. connection to the Internet, video) and user/reader (e.g. flexibility, sharpness, portability) requirements, digital magazines will thrive and embody the core of the industry.
By David Renard
with Nick Hampshire and Bob Sacks
Over the next 15 years, the digital magazine will grow to become 30% of the magazine market (0.7 probability). Within 25 years they will represent more than 75% of the market for periodicals (0.8 probability). Today's investments in websites webzines, blogs, audio and video streaming are undoubtedly important but these are not what a printed magazine will evolve into in the digital realm. They lack varying degrees of date-stamping and permanence, and a defined set of edited and designed "pages" (see the Magazine Comparison Scale). They are only content elements and distribution vehicles for the publisher's/magazine's brand. Similarly, content aggregation is a very useful functionality to provide customers, but it departs from the present and future business of publishing magazines. For magazines to compete on the basis of supplying the latest news would mean entering the major battles brewing between on-line news aggregators (e.g. Yahoo News, Google News), news services (e.g. Associated Press, Reuters) and newspapers. A fight that most magazines, culturally, are not prepared for. All these products can and, in many cases, will generate important sources of advertising and/or user income but they are not what magazines will become.
Magazine Comparison Scale: Metered
Call to Action In this rapidly evolving market for magazines, publishers must know how their content is being packaged and sold. keeping the integrity of the magazine on-line will help to protect it from the great leveling force of the internet and limit its involvement in the battles that will increasingly be played out in the realm of news and its distribution. They must formulate a strategy for both their printed and digital magazines, which, combined, will remain a significant part of their business, as well as for all their other digital initiatives. Understanding that, though the medium will change and a a number of hybrid solutions will appear, the six critical components (metered, edited, designed, date-stamped, permanent, and periodic) of a magazine will not. And, having a very well defined roadmap today towards multi-platform magazine publishing and content distribution, which are distinct sets of products, is critical for publishers wishing to help define the future of the industry.
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France Telecom (FT) has announced plans to launch a very high speed fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) pilot programme to households in Hauts-de-Seine and Paris, which will go live before the summer of 2006. Based on the result of its test phase, it plans to cover other regions of France or abroad in 2007.
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Could this be the new Under Armour Player Glove Maryland will be wearing in 2013? We sure as hell don't mind them. The glove, which is on display at #LaxCon right now, is very different from the 2012 lacrosse Continue Reading
We made it down to Baltimore this weekend for the IMLCA Convention and saw a lot of things we liked. One of the things we were blown away by was the Under Armour Player glove. A University of Maryland themed Player Continue Reading


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The two previous issues of the Economist magazine cover different aspects of the functioning of companies and the impact they have on shareholder value and other aspects of society.
One set of issues (discussed here and here) deals with the increase in activism among shareholders. While activist shareholders are making their impact felt in companies around the world, there is a question regarding the identity and motivations of such investors and whether their activities will engender short-termist behavior at the cost of long-term prospects of companies. Professor Stephen Bainbridge, who is a key proponent of the director primacy model, takes issue with the shareholder primacy approach that considers shareholders as owners of the corporations whose paramount nature drives the analysis of corporate organization and functioning.
Closely linked to these issues is Economist's Schumpeter column that reviews a new book titled "Firm Commitment" by Professor Colin Mayer which reconsiders the nature and purpose of a company. The question again relates to whether the goal of shareholder value promoters short-termism, and whether this can be mitigated. The solution proposed in the book is the creation of a new class of companies – trust companies – that would go beyond mere shareholder interest and also balance the interests of other stakeholders.


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25 June 2009
States Rights Discussion
For an interesting discussion on states rights and the WBTS, click here. The 8 minute clip is from the Jefferson Davis ~ An American President documentary and includes commentary from several noted academics.
The clip on the documentary site is also worth watching.
Posted by Richard G. Williams, Jr. at 6:00 PM
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Every year, around Lincoln's birthday, I remind friends that during 1861-65, Georgia was part of a nation whose President was Jefferson Davis. With many States passing 10th Amendment resolutions, Davis is looking better and better. Great clip!!
- 25 June, 2009 18:52
- Johann Van De Leeuw said...
Perfectly clear. Very very good!! This is the most concisely accurate description of state sovereignty I've seen.
Thanks for the link Mr. Williams!
~Yours in the Faith and the Cause,
A Pvt. of the 4th Virginia Regiment.
- 25 June, 2009 19:13
Hey Johan, I had a gg-grandfather in the 4th VA, Company I. What's your connection?
- 26 June, 2009 12:11
- Johann Van De Leeuw said...
Er, they're the only Confederate infantry unit based in Ohio that I know of...my Co. is A. What is your gg-grandfather's name? Nathaniel Logan? BTW, by birth I should probably be in either the 22nd? or 36th? Va. regiments, which were raised near Charleston. Are you going to the 145th New Market this year? I won't be there, but my company will be. Look them up, The Wythe's Grays, Co. A, 4th Va.
In Christ,
- 27 June, 2009 15:56
Johann- I had to shake my head and look at the calendar. The New Market reenactment was 16-17 May. About a month and a half ago by my reckoning.
- 27 June, 2009 18:23
Johann, my ancestor James Hall served in Co. I until Appomattox. I did not go to 145th New Market, but I would have liked it. Been there many times and consider it very special since the VMI boys defeated Sigel's Union troops there. Thanks for your interest.
- 28 June, 2009 13:49
- Johann Van De Leeuw said...
I'm sorry about the New Market thing- what about Cedar Creek?
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Chisako Kakehi awaits trial. She is dubbed the Black Widow, after the spider that eats its mate.
Arrested on suspicion of murdering eight lovers to inherit their wealth, her case is notorious in Japan as much for its body count as for the shortcomings of the investigation.
It is reported that no autopsy was performed on six of those eight at the time of death, a situation experts say points to a flawed system. They say the country's low postmortem rate may mean criminals are getting away with murder.
In 2014, 11.7 percent of "unusual deaths" — the term used for cases in which cause is not immediately clear — resulted in autopsies, National Police Agency figures show. That compares with 40 percent in England and Wales in 2014. And in Sweden, autopsies are performed on 95 percent of "unclear" deaths, according to the National Board of Forensic Medicine.
"The low autopsy rate means there is a higher chance crimes are being overlooked," said Hirotaro Iwase, professor at the forensic medicine department of Chiba University.
Despite government pledges to increase the autopsy rate to 20 percent by this year, the figure remains around half that. Iwase attributes this to a shortage of forensic specialists as well as budget cuts at public universities, which carry out most postmortems.
Some university forensic departments are on the verge of collapse: Twenty out of Japan's 47 prefectures have only one professor performing autopsies, according to the Japanese Society of Forensic Medicine.
In the Kakehi case, police initially concluded her previous partners died from illness. Her arrest only came after they discovered her most recent husband, 75-year-old Isao Kakehi, died from cyanide poisoning. They reviewed the earlier cases and found a pattern.
The 69-year-old has been charged with three murders and one attempted murder. Police investigated four other cases but ultimately could not find sufficient evidence to charge her, media reports have said.
According to OECD data on safety published in 2015, the homicide rate, or the number of murders per 100,000 people, was only 0.3 in Japan. It was 5.2 in the US, 0.6 in France and 0.5 in Germany.
There were 933 murders and attempted murders in 2015 in Japan, police figures show, with the number declining since 2004. However, the low autopsy rate may be hiding the true figure, experts say.
"I believe crimes would be less overlooked if there is a system where autopsies are conducted on bodies where the cause of death is unclear even if the cases are not suspicious," said Shinichi Kubo, a forensic scientist at Fukuoka University.
Hidemichi Morosawa, an expert on police investigations at Tokiwa University, suspects part of the problem is that the police prefer to avoid the burdensome workload demands of murder cases.
"Police should send as many bodies as possible for autopsies" to increase the chances of detecting foul play, he said.
But because of the shortage of qualified forensics staff, police with more than one corpse needing urgent examination often have to drive hours to other prefectures to get autopsies performed.
Three men died before police in 2010 arrested Kanae Kijima, who allegedly killed her boyfriends by carbon monoxide poisoning — she drugged her victims and then lit charcoal burners in a confined space as they slept.
The police initially concluded the first victim had committed suicide, as burning charcoal was a common form of suicide, and therefore they did not conduct a postmortem. Kijima was eventually sentenced to death.
And in 2007, when teenage sumo wrestler Takashi Saito died during training, the police initially attributed it to heart failure. His parents, suspicious of the circumstances and apparent wounds on his body, demanded an autopsy, which determined he had been beaten to death.
Performing autopsies is arduous and can take up to two days if a body is badly damaged, Iwase said, adding that specialists face a high risk of contracting Hepatitis C or HIV.
And despite such challenges, forensic scientists on university salaries often earn less than doctors working at even small hospitals and must juggle their autopsy work with academic research and teaching.
Police have been beefing up the number of officers qualified to conduct visual postmortem inspections, jumping to 340 last year from 160 in 2008, according to the NPA, the police agency.
They must have more than 10 years of experience in murder cases as well as 10 weeks of special training, said Kazuhito Shinka, who heads the NPA division supervising postmortems.
"It's important for police to cooperate with doctors with forensic knowledge," he said.
But Shinka added that it is important to investigate the dead person's relatives thoroughly for potential motives for murder to come to light.
Iwase said authorities have "lost their motivation" to improve the situation.
"Ministries are running away from their responsibilities and they're avoiding budget requests. As a result, the autopsy rate does not improve," he said.
In a sign lessons are being learned from the Kakehi case, from April police will conduct toxicology tests on all bodies they handle.
Iwase noted that toxicology tests can help determine the cause of death.
"You cannot detect crimes just by conducting an autopsy," he said. "You need to fully carry out a toxicology test as well. Otherwise you'll miss crimes."


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This is not a gif. It is an actual video of Fedor doing infinate press ups.
the myspace one is proper genius fell off the chair laughing, stop it lol, my rib is bust and everytime i laugh it hurts
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A lot of LE Agencies are still buying 9mm guns, that doesn't mean I have to. Also, the reason that most fatal shootings he investigated involved small caliber guns is because the thugs can't afford much more. Just go to an police auction where they auction off guns used in crimes...about 90% of these are chambered in something smaller than 9mm. It's also a long known fact that thugs love the '9' because you can spread more bullets.
but, as always...shot placement is key. If you can hit with a bigger bullet the better are the results most likely. :)
btw; the .357 Magnum is a well proven manstopper for a long time.


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