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It's a shame that it's going to be really choppy
if surfing doesn't work out
geet an inflatable tube, and enjoy
Chop is still fun to be in, maybe a little dangerous, but you certainly learn how to handle yourself. Also, I think some of the different period swells will be more of a hindrance than the wind. As the week progresses though, there seems to be less interference from small swells with the major wave producing one.
Yeah, i know what you're sayin
But with the chop, it's usually a real pain to get out
(if you are riding like a fish, fun shape, long board, or anything with a thick nose)
if you can't duckdive
But if you can get out there, you might be able to find a nice shoulder, and it will be a really fun week
Have fun and good luck.
I just got in from Surfing Cocoa all day. It was crap, but fun mid morning at the Pier. And then down by ocean Sports Worl, where the contest was supposed to be, it was good after low tide. I'll be tomorrow will be realy fun North of the Cape. Cocoa should be good also, but the Swell is swinging wide into the Northern spots.
I just got back at 7:30 from surfing all day in cocoa beach!
At 6 A.M-10 it was really poor, all wind chop
At 10-3ish it cleaned up a bit
At 4-7 it was really really big and pretty clean at 16th street/flying fish house.
(i'm talking like really nice left breaks that are about shoulder high, and sets as big as head high +)
It was amazing, pics to come soon!
nice... send in the pics!
Yesterday Jax was pretty choppy with little to ride, but today has been going off good. I saw some chest to head high sets, but there are too many swells going every which direction and it made riding any of the waves tough. My level of experience became painfully obvious today, and I stress the painful part.
ou guys especially from down south need to head north the more north the cleaner i surfed jax pier and micklers and me and the boys shredded 5-6+ (NO B/S) and it at micklers it was big and clean with filthy little tubes on the inside pics soon i assure you we used a go pro all day----the next few days were taking vid on a tripod and were amped cause its just looking like its building---cocoa beach dudes yall need to head north at least to St. Aug or more it will be cleaner and more fun FORSURE chuck norris uses tabasco sauce for eyedrops LATA


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Miranda Lambert, Eric Church, Luke Bryan lead 2013 CMT Award noms
(Yahoo!) - The nominees for the 2013 CMT Music Awards were revealed on Monday morning, and Miranda Lambert, Eric Church, and Luke Bryan are the lucky leaders of the pack. Each artist scored four nods each.
All three will compete against each other in the Video of the Year and CMT Performance of the Year categories.
Lambert also scored recognition in the Female and Group Video of the Year categories. Meanwhile, Church and Bryan will go head-to-head in the Male and Collaborative Video of the Year areas.
Directly following the leading trio in terms of nominations are Jason Aldean, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, and Florida Georgia Line, with three nominations each. This is the first time Florida Georgia Line has been nominated.
Last year's top nominee, Carrie Underwood, has two nod this year--as do Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley, Tim McGraw, Hunter Hayes, Jana Kramer, Kacey Musgraves, Little Big Town and rock group Journey.
In addition to his nominations, Aldean is also slated to host the event along with actress Kirsten Bell.
The CMT Awards are wholly fan voted--in order to weigh in, go to CMT.com now through June 2 and choose your favorites. The six finalists for the top honor, Video of the Year, will be announced at the beginning of the live show, and fans can then again vote during the telecast to determine the winner.
The 2013 CMT Awards will air live from Nashville June 5 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The show can also be streamed at CMT.com.
Here is the list of nominees for the 2013 CMT Music Awards:
Video of the Year:
Brad Paisley, "Southern Comfort Zone"
Carrie Underwood, "Blown Away"
Eric Church, "Springsteen"
Florida Georgia Line, "Cruise"
Hunter Hayes, "Wanted"
Jason Aldean, "1994"
Kenny Chesney, "Come Over"
Little Big Town, "Tornado"
Luke Bryan, "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye"
Miranda Lambert, "Mama's Broken Heart"
Taylor Swift, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
Tim McGraw, "One of Those Nights"
Male Video of the Year:
Blake Shelton, "Sure Be Cool If You Did"
Eric Church, "Creepin"
Hunter Hayes, "Wanted"
Jason Aldean, "Take a Little Ride"
Kenny Chesney, "Come Over"
Luke Bryan, "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye"
Female Video of the Year:
Carrie Underwood, "Two Black Cadillacs"
Faith Hill, "American Heart"
Jana Kramer, "Why Ya Wanna"
Kacey Musgraves, "Merry Go 'Round"
Miranda Lambert, "Mama's Broken Heart"
Taylor Swift, "Begin Again"
Group Video of the Year:
Lady Antebellum, "Downtown"
Little Big Town, "Pontoon"
Pistol Annies, "Takin' Pills"
Rascal Flatts, "Come Wake Me Up"
The Band Perry, "Better Dig Two"
Zac Brown Band, "Goodbye in Her Eyes"
Duo Video of the Year:
Big & Rich, "That's Why I Pray"
Florida Georgia Line, "Cruise"
Love and Theft, "Runnin' Out of Air"
Thompson Square, "If I Didn't Have You"
Breakthrough Video of the Year:
Dustin Lynch, "Cowboys and Angels"
Florida Georgia Line, "Cruise"
Jana Kramer, "Why Ya Wanna"
Kacey Musgraves, "Merry Go' Round"
Kip Moore, "Beer Money"
Randy Houser, "How Country Feels"
Collaborative Video of the Year:
Brad Paisley and Joe Walsh, "Rocky Mountain Way"
Jason Aldean with Luke Bryan and Eric Church, "The Only Way I Know"
Kelly Clarkson featuring Vince Gill, "Don't Rush"
Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw, "Feel Like a Rockstar"
Rascal Flatts and Journey, "Changed"
The Avett Brothers and Randy Travis, "Three Wooden Crosses"
CMT Performance of the Year:
Dierks Bentley, "5-1-5-0"
Eric Church, "Homeboy"
Luke Bryan and Ryan Tedder, "Drunk On You/Feel Again"
Miranda Lambert, "Over You"
Rascal Flatts and Journey, "Don't Stop Believin'"
Toby Keith, "Beers Ago"
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Cecchini, Saguaros lock up AFL West
Boston prospect collects three hits, Surprise clinches division
By Jake Seiner / MiLB.com | November 11, 2013 3:31 PM ET
Garin Cecchini has been hard at work this fall, trying to improve the way he replicates his swing and approach from at-bat to at-bat. Monday's results reflected his progress.
Boston's No. 7 prospect went 3-for-3 with two walks, an RBI and a run for Surprise as the Saguaros clinched the Arizona Fall League West with an 8-2 victory over the Scottsdale Scorpions.
"You always want to play in the playoffs," Cecchini said. "We have a great group of guys. It's one of the best teams I've ever played with."
The third baseman began his day with a ground-ball single to the left side, then walked in the third inning and came around to score on a grand slam by Milwaukee's No. 12 prospect Mitch Haniger. Cecchini led off the fifth with another free pass.
He added singles in the seventh and eighth innings, including an RBI knock in his final at-bat. The perfect day raised his AFL average to .283 with a .449 on-base percentage and a .782 OPS.
The ability to get on base has been Cecchini's most notable asset since entering professional ball as a 2010 fourth-round pick by Boston. This past summer, Cecchini split his season between Class A Advanced Salem and Double-A Portland, posting a .322 average, a .443 on-base percentage and a .915 OPS.
The 22-year-old has been making tweaks to his swing this fall, trying to recapture some stability and consistency he'd lost since the beginning of the 2013 season.
"I'm trying to be the complete player the Red Sox want me to be," he said. "I'm trying to stay on my legs throughout my swing. Keep my swing through the zone a little bit longer.
"When you make an adjustment, it's probably going to get worse before you get better because it's something different. It's something I was doing at the beginning of the year and then I got away from it."
Cecchini said the experience with the Saguaros coaching staff, headed by Double-A Bowie manager Gary Kendall, has helped him discover fixable holes in his game that he thinks will help him as he approaches the Major Leagues.
"I'm glad they were able to point that out to me a couple weeks ago," he said. "That's what they're here for, to make you a consistent big league player."
In the third, Haniger staked Surprise to a 4-1 lead with a grand slam, his fourth home run of the season. After a torrid start with Surprise, the 22-year-old outfielder had slowed of late, hitting just .256 with one homer over his previous nine games. The grand slam was Haniger's only hit Monday. He also walked once and struck out twice.
Braves prospect Kyle Kubitza doubled in a run for Scottsdale in the bottom of the second. The Scorpions cut the lead to 4-2 when No. 2 Yankees prospect Mason Williams doubled and scored from third on a wild pitch in the third.
Surprise dominated the game from there, though, posting a pair of runs in the fourth and two more over the final innings. Cleveland's No. 5 prospect Tyler Naquin went 3-for-4 with two runs and an RBI in the victory.
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Wall Street Journal editorial board member Stephen Moore claimed that enacting spending cuts is the only way to reduce government debt. However, economists argue that focusing on economic growth is a crucial part of reducing deficits.
In an appearance on Fox News' Happening Now, Moore, lamenting the fact that spending cuts were not a primary focus of the January 1 budget deal, claimed that "unless you cut spending...you can't bring that debt down."
While spending cuts could be implemented to address the deficit and debt, they are hardly the only option. Throughout the debate on budget negotiations, numerous economists felt that deficit reduction should be addressed through a balanced approach, with revenue increases offsetting the need for deep spending cuts.
Furthermore, some economists, such as the Center for Economic and Policy Research's Dean Baker, argue that focusing on deficit reduction is largely a distraction, especially considering that increased deficits over the past few years "are entirely the result of the economic downturn."
Given this fact, some economists have rightly claimed that economic growth should be a priority when attempting to address deficits. According to former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich:
The deficit is a problem only in proportion to the overall size of the economy. If the economy grows faster than its current 2 percent annualized rate, the deficit shrinks in proportion. Tax receipts grow, and the deficit becomes more manageable.
But if economic growth slows -- as it will, if taxes are raised on the middle class and if government spending is reduced when unemployment is still high -- the deficit becomes larger in proportion. That's the austerity trap Europe finds itself in. We don't want to go there. [The New York Times, 11/7/2012]
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GSA Conveys First Lighthouses Under NHLPA
June 11, 2002
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) this week marks the first two lighthouse transfers under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2002 (NHLPA) pilot disposal program. The NHLPA enables nonprofits to join federal agencies and other public bodies to obtain historic lighthouse properties at no cost.
Rondout Light, transferred yesterday to host town, Kingston, N.Y., was the first conveyance. Maintenance and preservation will be conducted by the Hudson River Maritime Museum. Tomorrow, Front and Rear Range Lights on Lake Superior in Munising, Michigan will be transferred to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, which is managed by the National Park Service.
"GSA is proud to see the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2002 become a reality," GSA Administrator Perry said. "Preservation of these national treasures reflects sound asset management, consistent with President Bush's Freedom to Manage Agenda. Working as partners, GSA, along with the Department of Interior, United States Coast Guard, states, local communities and nonprofit organizations succeeded in expanding public access to these historic properties."
In addition, GSA announced today that Tybee Island Historical Society Inc. will become the new owner of the Tybee Island Lighthouse Complex on Tybee Island, Georgia. The St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum Inc. will become the new owner of the St. Augustine Lighthouse in St. Augustine, Florida. The new owners leased and preserved the lighthouses for more than a decade.
Also to be transferred under the pilot program is Little River Light, Cutler, Maine, which will go to American Lighthouse Foundation. Others that will be transferred under the pilot program include Esopus Meadows Lighthouse, Esopus, New York, Cheboygan River Range Lighthouse, Cheboygan, Michigan, Sturgeon Point Lighthouse, Harrisville, Michigan.
Under NHLPA, GSA issues Notices of Availability to interested parties, then develops and executes conveyance documents. The U.S. Coast Guard identifies and reports excess light stations to GSA, and the Department of the Interior issues applications to interested parties, then reviews, evaluates and selects the no-cost grantee.
A group's financial ability to maintain the historic light station and adhere to historic covenants and other terms and conditions of the transfer are given significant consideration in the review process. In the event no new acceptable steward is found, the act authorizes sale of the property.
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PHILADELPHIA – The result may be routine – an Ivy League women's lacrosse championship for Penn – but the 2013 route was one never before travelled by the Quakers as Karin Corbett's club needed every minute of the Ancient Eight season – and then some – to secure the seventh consecutive Ivy crown for the program. The Red and Blue needed three overtime wins to secure the outright Ivy title with an undefeated 7-0 League record, and the thrilling 10-9 win over Princeton comes in at No. 4 on the 2012-13 Penn Top Ten.
The meeting on April 17 was everything a Penn-Princeton game should be. There were lead changes and runs by each team. There were late goals and big plays from big time players. And in the end, Penn prevailed.
There were six ties over the course of the game, the last one enacted by Shannon Mangini with 5:10 left in the game. Her unassisted tally was her second of the night and forced overtime. If it seemed as if the ball was always in her stick during the game, it was especially true in overtime as Mangini would draw three free position attempts to try and break the deadlock. After working the first two eight-meter shots to earn better looks to goal, Mangini would cash in on her third attempt, giving Penn its first lead since the 39th minute of the game.
The result was not locked up until a late Lucy Ferguson save from point-blank range in the game's waning moments, the stop setting off a raucous celebration at Franklin Field as Penn clinched at least a share of another Ivy crown. Three days later in Rhode Island, the Quakers again needed overtime – rallying on Brown for a 10-7 win. Mangini was again a key factor, scoring with 0:30 to play to tie the game, and netting one of Penn's three overtime goals. Over the course of the season, Mangini would score a pair of game-tying goals and three goals in overtime. Her three extra time goals in one season are a Penn record. She would go on to be named the first Ivy League Midfielder of the Year, also earning first-team All-Ivy and first-team All-Region honors.
Penn would capture its second Ivy League Tournament title in early May, downing Dartmouth, 10-7, in the title tilt at Franklin Field to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Women's lacrosse is in the midst of a championship run unlike any a women's program at Penn has ever seen. Seven consecutive Ivy League championships is the most by any female Quakers team, eclipsing the six titles won by women's fencing from 1982-83 through 1987-88 and is second among both men's and women's programs. In addition, the 2007-13 Penn women's lacrosse teams are tied with Harvard's 1987-93 squads for the most consecutive women's lacrosse titles by an Ivy school and is the current longest active streak of conference titles by any team in the nation.
The 2012-13 Penn Top 10 list was selected by members of the athletic department. But here is your chance to weigh in. Was this game ranked too high or too low? Who should be No. 1? Tell us what you think on Twitter with #PennTop10 or give us your thoughts on Facebook.
2012-13 Penn Top 10
No. 1 - July 17
No. 2 - July 15
No. 3 - July 10
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Preserving Disorder
posted at 8:09 pm on September 3, 2012 by Dafydd ab Hugh
The Occupiers have thundered en masse into Charlotte to protest at the convention — where "protest" has that peculiar meaning of mayhem, murder, rapine, looting, bomb-throwing, sexual assault, overdosing contests, and mopery with intent to gawk, that uniquely characterizes unwashed, doped-up, hippy "Progressivists," when they gather in dog-packs for a political wilding:
Protesters ["Occupy Charlotte"] numbering as many as 700 people have gathered in the business district of Charlotte, N.C. ahead of the 2012 Democratic National Convention. The anti-war and anti-capitalism demonstrators huddled in Frazier Park on Sunday ahead of their planned march. The group picked Charlotte for publicity because it is the location of the 2012 Democratic National Convention which is scheduled to convene on Tuesday in Charlotte's Time Warner Cable Arena.
The protesters had signs suggesting that the group included union workers, anti-war veterans, and undocumented immigrants. [I.e., the usual gang of idiots. — DaH]
"Capitalism is holding back the human race," one sign read. "Bail out people, not banks," another sign said.
At the same time, the Godfather, Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago (and erstwhile chief of staff of Barack Obama's Casa Blanca), has sent fifty Chicago cops to the Democratic National Convention, notwithstanding the parlous state of affairs in the Windbag City:
On the heels of a weekend which ended with 2 more dead and 22 more injured from Chicago street's gunshots, persons attending the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina are shocked and confused to see about 50 Chicago police officers assisting with the Convention's security.
Another surprising move regarding Chicago and the Convention this week is that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will be present to give a speech on Tuesday when Chicago is allegedly near-collapse with a teachers' strike likely to begin within a week as the city is crowned the murder capital of the country.
Does this mean that forty-four years after last time (1968), we'll once more enjoy the spectacle of Chicago thugs cracking the skulls of Lefties rioting at the Democratic National Convention? Hot rats! (Paging Messrs. Hoffman, Rubin, Hayden, "and the rest.")
Truly, the wheel has come full circle. As an earlier mayor, Richard J. Daley, put it back then, "The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder!"
One can't hardly contain oneself, can one?
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The giant horse conch weighs over eleven pounds.
That's a lot of mollusk.
The conch has a taste for snails.
So when the tiny tulip snail spots one of these behemoths, it knows it's in trouble.
The snail tries to outrun the big hunter, but it's like a tiny shuttle facing off with a star destroyer...in a battle that moves at a snail's pace.
Finally, it's overrun.
The smell of digesting snail attracts new scavengers...hermit crabs.
Instantly, the big conch is surrounded.
But the crabs aren't here for leftover escargot.
They're after the tulip snail's shell.
Hermit crabs use cast-off shells to protect their soft abdomens from predators.
They find an empty shell, use their rear legs to attach to its central column, and move right in.
When their current homes grow tight, they have to look for new real estate.
The competition is fierce.
With the conch ready to release the shell, the housing battle heats up.
Until one crab decides to jump in and close the deal.
It's a risky move.
The big conch could still be hungry.
But the risk pays off.
The crafty crab will have plenty of room to grow in his new home.
The losing crabs could end up homeless...or worse.


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By Jenny Bardsley
Last night, my 8-year-old son and I camped out in the back yard.
It was supposed to be a family affair, but my 3-year-old daughter wouldn't stop singing loudly. By 10 p.m., Daddy was zooming her inside to the house like an airplane (under great duress).
So then it was just my newly minted third-grader and me.
As we lay there together listening to the wind outside our tent, I realized how much things have changed.
Gone were the days of zooming him around like an airplane. Gone were the nights of rocking him to sleep endlessly, and wondering what was on television. Gone were the 3 a.m. wakeups and 5 a.m. snuggles.
Maybe you sometimes look at your own son and think of these things, too.
One day you're playing Russian roulette with Pull-Ups at bedtime — "Do I feel lucky or am I doing laundry tomorrow?" — the next you're folding boxer briefs that are too small to be your husband's, but nearly identical.
One day your heart hurts just to leave your 6-month-old with Grammy for a few hours because you can't bear to be apart; the next you're waiting at the bus stop and you get a call from school telling you that your son is in the office.
"What! I was driving him home? He's not taking the bus today? How could I forget my own kid!"
Out there in the back yard, I remembered it all.
Sometimes I wish that we got our children's ages in shifts. Monday they would be a baby, Tuesday a toddler, Wednesday a terrible 2-year-old, and a couple of weeks later you'd be teaching them to drive. Then the clock would rewind and you would start the cycle all over again the next month.
Maybe that would help us meet the challenges of each stage, while appreciating the high points, too.
Unfortunately, life isn't like that.
Instead of monthly doses of Bob the Builder, we get all Bob, all the time, for a full year. Then comes Star Wars, an obsession that lingers, followed by Legos, Ninjago and Pokemon.
Then, before you know it, you're listening to a 10-minute explanation of Minecraft and you still don't understand what your son is talking about.
"Is this the game where monkeys blow up balloons? I stopped paying attention when you started talking about mining for ore."
Wiser parents than I could probably chime in here about what's to come.
"If you thought Pokemon was bad, wait until you get to X,Y and Z!" (Collective parental shudder.)
It can be scary to contemplate, but sad, too. There're not many years of childhood left. I know it. I can see it right in front of me.
Today I woke up cuddled next to my third-grader. In a future tomorrow, that will never happen again.
The clock is ticking and there's no way to rewind it. I need to start paying better attention.
Jennifer Bardsley is an Edmonds mom of two and blogs at teachingmybabytoread.com.


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The Sulzberger family had to give up most of the dividends that made up their annual monetary take-away.
Sulzberger was the grandson of Adolph Ochs, who bought the Times in 1896 and turned it into a leading American paper.
Sulzberger has been, at times, less than felicitous in his explanations.
"This was not a breach of the national security," Sulzberger said, referring to his 1971 decision to release the Pentagon Papers.
Sulzberger added that, "There is nothing more I am going to say about this."
But with the first impression on this story favorable to Abramson, Sulzberger and his allies already seem to have lost.
When Sulzberger stepped down in 1997, revenue was $2.6 billion, about half of it from the newspaper.
"I thought you were checking in with Dean," Sulzberger parries.
She married a city alderman, Dr. Sulzberger, and lives happily there.
The teacher who is interested will find them discussed in Sulzberger's Am Haaretz.


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Osho,I have carried this sutra you spoke on in Pune with me for many years. It reads:
The Buddha said,
It is better to feed one good manthan to feed one hundred bad men.
It is better to feed one who observesthe five precepts of Buddhathan to feed one thousand good men.
It is better to feed one srotapannathan to feed ten thousand of thosewho observe the five precepts of Buddha.
It is better to feed one skridagaminthan to feed one million of srotapannas.
It is better to feed one anagaminthan to feed ten millions of skridagamins.
It is better to feed one arhatthan to feed one hundred millions of anagamins.
It is better to feed one pratyak buddhathan to feed one billion of arhats.
It is better to feed one of the buddhaseither of the present or of the pastor of the future than to feed ten billions of pratyak buddhas.
It is better to feed one who is aboveknowledge, one-sidedness, discipline, andenlightenment than to feed one hundred billions of buddhas of past, present, or future.
It says so much about your height and our darkness, and has produced two feelings in me: the blessing and joy of being in your magnificence, and the arduousness of how far we have to travel just to have a taste of your consciousness.
Would you please speak on this again?
One of the most fundamental things to be understood is that the distances are only dream phenomenon, they do not exist in reality. One may be asleep very lightly, one may be asleep very deeply, one may be almost in a coma.
There are distances.. If you want to wake them up, then the first, who is in a very light sleep, half awake, half asleep, can be awakened soon; but every one of them can be awakened. It is only a question of the intensity of the effort needed to awaken from the outside, and the intensity needed to be awake from the inside.
You all must have felt moments of nightmare when you want to wake up but you cannot move. And then, in a minute, you wake up. It looks so strange that just a moment before it looked impossible even to open your eyes or move your hands, and after just one minute you are fully awake.
The distance between me and you is only a dream distance, so there is no need to feel any sadness, no need to feel that it is going to be a very arduous and long journey. It is a very simple and very natural phenomenon. If you can relax - and nothing can be easier than relaxation - things will start happening on their own.


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Ian Suni
Today, more than 12 million Americans are plagued by food allergies, and each year, these allergies are the cause of over 300,000 ambulatory-care visits by children alone. With no known cure, people with food allergies must avoid even trace amounts of a food allergen in order to avoid a potentially deadly response. And not surprisingly, most people who have had an allergic response ate something that they believed was "safe."
Professor of Chemical Engineering Ian Suni and his team want to reduce the number of allergic responses to food allergens, and are researching portable sensor technologies for food allergen detection. His research has been published in a number of journals, including the Journal of Electrochemical Society, Sensors and Actuators, and Analytical Chemistry.
"We are developing technology that will allow people with food allergies to detect food allergens, such as peanut proteins, even when they are embedded within a complex mixture, like a soup or a piece of chocolate, that contains a variety of possibly interfering species," says Suni.
While currently Suni's research is academic, his research could be translated into consumer devices to detect these unexpected food allergens in the near future. "The development of commercial devices that can detect food allergens has been prevented in the past because of the complex food matrices," he explains. "We're addressing that problem to make the idea of these devices more achievable."
Suni, whose research interests span a wide variety of topics, is also researching electrochemical methods for depositing photovoltaic thin films .
He says, "Photovoltaic materials are the critical component of solar cells, since they absorb protons and convert them into electron-hole pairs, which can then be collected as a voltage or current. Electrochemical methods are likely the lowest cost technology to grow photovoltaic thin films. ."
Suni came to Clarkson in 1993 after receiving his Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University and conducting postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois. While at Clarkson, he has taught courses in thermodynamics, biochemical engineering, corrosion engineering and materials science and engineering. In 2010, he was named Director of Clarkson's new Ph.D. program in materials science and engineering.
"We hope to have a nationally recognized and ranked program within the next decade," he says. "Our materials research has long been recognized for its quality, but until recently we did not have corresponding graduate or undergraduate programs."
Suni's bread and butter course is Materials Science and Engineering I, where he stresses to his students the applications of materials science and engineering to a wide variety of modern technologies, including semiconductor devices, solar energy, and biosensors.
"Chemical engineering is all about real-world problem solving, where we can make some impact," he says. "That's what interested me in the first place and that's what I try to relay to my students."
Chemical Engineering Faculty Member Ian Suni


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Best Of :: Arts & Entertainment
Founded by Richard Laguerre, formerly of the popular roots band Boukan Ginen, the Haitian rasin group Adjah conjures the talents of dyaspora musicians living in Miami, including Georgina Padilla, Jean Francois Damas, Carline Ruiz, Jocelyn E. Gourdet, Billy Philomi, and Jimmy Daniel. To live up to its name -- which means spirit possession in Kreyol -- Adjah fuses rock and roll with a wide range of vodou rhythms. While most rasin music is founded on rara rhythms, Adjah incorporates congo, petwo, mahi, and yanvalou, making it all the more likely the gods will take over and set the crowd dancing.
Theatergoers found a lot of reasons to dislike Paul Tei this season. He played a cold-blooded child killer in New Theatre's Never the Sinner and a hot-blooded serial killer in GableStage's Popcorn. But he is so good at being bad that you can't really hold it against him. Tei is the kind of actor who looks at a role not only as an opportunity to perform but also as an opportunity to create a role. Consequently he can portray several different degenerates, and his performances never overlap. As Wayne, the gun-toting redneck in Popcorn, Tei kept us riveted to our seats -- appalled and laughing. As Richard Loeb, a wealthy young Chicago man who, along with his lover, kills a young boy on a Nietzsche-inspired whim, he was equally appalling. But Tei never let audiences simply dislike his characters. With his willingness to take risks and push the boundaries of character definition, he could make Ted Bundy funny. For example, in Never the Sinner, he dared to play this insolent, arrogant murderer as childlike and capricious -- clubbing a kid in the head one moment and going out for hot dogs the next. Tei's topnotch acting transformed these two good plays into excellent ones.
An actor's success in a dramatic role can fall into one of two categories: the ability to make the unbelievable believable, and the ability to make the believable unbelievably incredible. Bridget Connors managed to do both in her role as a young Jewish woman dying of a terminal illness. That's the believable part. Rachel's plight easily could have been a case study in Harold S. Kushner's book When Bad Things Happen to Good People. She expressed all the predictable emotions and asked all the right metaphysical questions. The not-so-believable part is the conversion experience she had, which was facilitated by her sister, a devout member of the Christian Science faith. Believable or unbelievable, Connors brought something magical to the role from the moment she stepped onstage. Her ability to be simultaneously earthy and ethereal left theatergoers feeling as though they were seeing a tragedy for the first time.
Let's give it up, finally, for the Big Dog, Joe Rose. The former Miami Dolphin wide receiver is as close to a Miami sports institution as we have at this time, at least since Dan Marino and Don Shula have retired. Hard to believe in a way. Rose hardly distinguished himself as an athlete. (His greatest claim to fame, which he'll gladly tell you about, is catching Marino's first touchdown pass.) But as a broadcaster Rose has developed into a welcome, humorous personality, the ex-jock with a soft spot for the underdog. In his appearances on WQAM, on WTVJ-TV (Channel 6), and hosting numerous charity roasts, Rose plays the doofus, willingly attracting abuse from his co-workers, especially his linemates on the First Team, WQAM's very listenable morning sports-talk show. Clearly, though, Rose is no idiot. Compared with other sports clowns, such as former Steeler QB Terry Bradshaw, we'll take the underdog every time.
With the closing of the Alliance Cinema on Lincoln Road, it looked as though this category would be consigned to the cultural graveyard. Conventional wisdom had it that nobody could withstand the gravitational pull of the multiplex. Besides that, it seemed as if an audience for art movies simply didn't exist in Miami -- or didn't exist in large-enough numbers to make financial ends meet. But that didn't deter Cesar Hernandez-Canton, Johnny Calderin, and Ray Garcia (also operators of the Absinthe House Cinematheque in Coral Gables). In January of this year they opened the 103-seat, nonprofit Mercury Theatre to high hopes if not huge crowds. Although the opening was a year later than planned, the delay actually may have worked in their favor. Their hopes of riding the entrepreneurial wave in Miami's Upper Eastside created by restaurateur Mark Soyka were enhanced by giving Soyka (the restaurant) a chance to develop a following, which it has. With Soyka (the man) as landlord, Hernandez-Canton, Calderin, and Garcia remade an old warehouse adjacent to the restaurant, featuring amenities such as tables and chairs in the lobby, twenty-foot ceilings, unusual concession delicacies, and gallery space. Soyka installed a fountain outside and added more tables and chairs. Voila! An oasis was born. Films are screened twice nightly during the week. Matinees are added on the weekends. Yes, the movies don't change all that frequently, but it sure beats the only attractions formerly available in the neighborhood: streetwalkers and strip clubs.
In 1988 Ramon Cernuda presided over an auction of paintings held at the Cuban Museum of Art and Culture. The works were created by Cuban artists who had not broken with the Castro regime. The new owner of Manuel Mendive's Pavo Real promptly stepped outside and set it ablaze in the presence of cheering protesters. (Twice the museum was severely damaged by bombs.) A year later the feds accused Cernuda of purchasing Cuban art in violation of the embargo; they raided his Brickell Avenue condo and confiscated 240 paintings. A federal judge angrily denounced the seizure and ordered the works returned. Today the backsides of those paintings display U.S. Treasury/Customs Service seals, the same ones used to label intercepted drugs. Who would have thought that eleven years later, Cernuda would be opening an art gallery specializing in Cuban art from the island, smack in the middle of Coral Gables. This past fall Cernuda Arte made its debut with an exhibition of Cuban originals by masters such as Amelia Pelaez, Wifredo Lam, and Carlos Enriquez. Currently the gallery represents six working artists. Two of them, Demi and Sinuhé Vega, are based in Miami. The others create in Cuba. They are Flora Fong, Juan Roberto Diago, Alfredo Sosabravo, and Rigoberto Pelaez. "We are very open about what we do," Cernuda says. Boy, have times changed.


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I-Comm to address communication in a changing world Oct. 3 - 6
Contact: Peggy Binette 803-777-5400 firstname.lastname@example.com
Each year the University of South Carolina brings hot topics to the forefront and addresses the latest changes in the world of multi-media journalism and information communication during its I-Comm Week.
This year, the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies is bringing communicators who are tops in their field to campus Oct. 3 – 6 to discuss topics ranging from trends in broadcast news and the latest in information technology to censorship, open-source information and war reporting.
This year's lineup will feature Craig Melvin, an anchor with MSNBC; David Axe, a war correspondent and graphic novelist; Stephen Brown, managing director of Atlanta public relations firm Cohn & Wolfe; Dr. Barbara Jones, a director with the American Library Association; and Leslie Mitchell, vice president of intelligence operations for Information International Assoc.
Most events are free and open to the public.
The week spotlights the disciplines of the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies' two schools: Journalism and Mass Communications and Library and Information Science.
Below is a schedule of I-Comm events for the public. Details are available on the college website.
Monday, Oct. 3
• 8:40 – 9:55 a.m. Lou Kennedy, CEO of Nephron Pharmaceuticals, Corp. and USC alumna, will discuss how her education has impacted her career.
• 11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. and 4 – 5:15 p.m. Stephen Brown, managing director of Cohn & Wolf, will present a talk titled "Dispatches from the Front Lines of National PR Agency Life."
• 7 – 8:30 p.m. Brown will join public relations and advertising professionals from Columbia for a panel discussion on changes in communication. It is hosted by the student chapters of IABC, PRSSA and Ad Club.
Tuesday, Oct. 4
• 11 a.m. – noon. Dr. Barbara Jones, director of the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom, will join Jay Bender, a USC journalism and law professor, to discuss censorship.
• 2 – 3 p.m. USC professors Dr. Kathy Roberts Forde and Dr. Jennifer Marshall will present a talk titled "Truth, Lies and Historical Accountability: Journalists and Archivists in the Service of Social Justice."
• 4 – 5 p.m. Leslie Mitchell, vice president of intelligence operations for Information International Associates, will discuss the importance of open source intelligence in a post- 9/11 world.
• 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. War correspondent and graphic novelist David Axe will discuss his work as a correspondent. His talk, titled "Selling War," and the reception afterward are sponsored by the Free Times.
Wednesday, Oct. 5
• 2 – 2:45 p.m. USC professor Dr. Elise Lewis will highlight a recently acquired scanner that enables USC researchers and staff to create 3-D images of artifacts and art objects. Users can manipulate an object on a computer, view each side and learn more information about it than any traditional photograph could provide. The Arius 3-D scanner is the only one in the United States, putting USC at the forefront of digitization.
• 3 – 4 p.m. Two USC professors will highlight developments in media and information and technology. Dr. Ron Brown will discuss his research on the effectiveness of games as learning tools in libraries, and Dr. Augie Grant will discuss trends in media and information technology.
• 7 – 8:30 p.m. Craig Melvin, MSNBC anchor, NBC correspondent and former WIS-TV anchor, will discuss how technology and viewer tastes are changing broadcast news.
Thursday, Oct. 6
• 2 - 5 p.m. Learn about the latest communication trends from USC students. Magellan Scholar Megan Coker will discuss her research project at 2 p.m. After a poster session, which will take place from 2:30 – 3:30 p.m., six doctoral students will discuss their research from 3:30 – 5 p.m.
For more information, contact Lisa Sisk at firstname.lastname@example.com or Dr. Kendra Albright at email@example.com
News and Internal Communications


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CNN's Blitzer let slide Gonzales' dodge of question about wrongful detentions
Research ››› ››› BRIAN LEVY
In response to a question from Wolf Blitzer about why people have been wrongfully detained by the U.S. government, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales claimed he didn't "know the specific cases" Blitzer was "referring to." Blitzer did not challenge Gonzales or point out any of several such detainments documented by human-rights groups and foreign governments.
On the November 30 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales about "others who have been picked up, arrested, held, detained for long periods of time and then released with an apology" in addition to Brandon Mayfield, an Oregon lawyer to whom the Justice Department reportedly paid $2 million and issued an apology to settle a civil lawsuit brought by Mayfield. Gonzales replied: "Well, I don't know the specific cases you're referring to, Wolf." Blitzer did not press Gonzales to answer his question about the detentions, which he could have done by asking Gonzales about specific cases in which others in addition to Mayfield have been detained without charges, including cases in which the government did, in fact, apologize.
As Media Matters for America noted, a June 2005 report by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) documented how, after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Department of Justice had used the material witness law to justify the detainment of purported terrorism suspects without charges. The ACLU-HRW report stated that "[t]he U.S. government apologized to at least thirteen material witnesses for wrongfully detaining them."
The report specifically noted apologies to Mayfield and the so-called "Evansville Eight," a group of Egyptian immigrants, including an American citizen, restaurant owner Tarek Albasti, and Olive Garden waiter Fathy Abdelkhalek, who were arrested in October 2001 after Abdelkhalek's wife reported that he had said he was "going to crash [into the Sears tower]." The report added that the FBI apparently found the men "suspicious because of their common Egyptian background, their friendship, and their social and athletic activities," but that Abdelkhalek's wife's charge about her husband was "baseless." The FBI apologized to the men, who had spent "about a week in a Chicago detention center," according to the Associated Press.
Blitzer could also have asked Gonzales about individuals who had been detained without charges and subsequently released, but without an apology from the United States. For instance, the ACLU-HRW report noted the case of Tajammul Bhatti, "a sixty-eight-year-old physician and a U.S. citizen since 1970" who served for four years in the U.S. Air Force National Guard. Bhatti was arrested on June 20, 2002, and released after six days. The report stated that "[a]lthough the Justice Department never found that he had any connection to a terrorism investigation, Bhatti never received official clearance or an apology letter from the government."
Blitzer also missed the opportunity to ask Gonzales about Maher Arar, a Canadian-Syrian dual citizen. As Media Matters noted, according to the to the Canadian "Arar Commission" inquiry, U.S. authorities detained Arar at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City on September 26, 2002, and subsequently sent him to Syria on October 9, 2002, in a practice known as "rendition." In Syria, Arar was reportedly tortured by Syrian intelligence. Neither Canadian nor Syrian officials ever charged Arar with a crime, and the Arar Commission found "that there is no evidence to indicate that Mr. Arar has committed any offence or that his activities constitute a threat to the security of Canada."
CBC News reported that the head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police apologized to Arar, and The Washington Post reported that Canada's House of Commons unanimously agreed that "apologies should be presented" to Arar on behalf of Canada. However, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay said that the Canadian and American governments could not offer an apology to Arar until his legal action against the governments is concluded, according to CBC News. The CBC also reported that MacKay received a letter from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that did not contain an apology either to Arar or the Canadian government, even though it was in response to "a formal complaint" by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in which Harper said the U.S. government needs to "come clean with its version of events, to acknowledge the inappropriate behaviour that happened in this case."
In addition, as the weblog Think Progress noted, Gonzales also could not name a mistake he has made during his time as a member of the Bush administration, although he noted that "[s]ome of his recommendations to [President Bush] have not been supported in the courts." Blitzer failed to challenge Gonzales.
From the November 30 edition of CNN's The Situation Room:
BLITZER: He converted to Islam. This is very embarrassing for the Justice Department, the fact that you've had to shell out $2 million to this guy for these false charges that were leveled against him.
GONZALES: Listen, there was a mistake made. There was a mistake made in -- in reading of fingerprints and -- and we're accountable for the -- for the successes. We're also accountable for the mistakes. And the mistake here was made by the Department of Justice. We acknowledge that, and that's why the settlement was reached.
BLITZER: But there have been other mistakes that have been made, others who have been picked up, arrested, held, detained for long periods of time and then released with an apology. Is -- is it because of the environment after 9-11? What's going on?
GONZALES: Well, I don't know the specific cases you're referring to, Wolf. Listen, as we do with every circumstance, we make an evaluation about what happened. What mistakes were made, if any. If, in fact, like such as in this case, a mistake was made, the determination was made within the department that this was the appropriate outcome. That this -- this person was entitled to this money. This person was entitled to an apology. And so that's the -- the decision that was made by the department.
And going forward, obviously, we will do everything we can to ensure that these kind of mistakes do not happen. But if they do, if there are allegations made again, you know, we'll do an investigation. And if mistakes occur despite our best efforts, then obviously, we'll -- we'll
we will work to address them and to ensure that people do not have to incur this kind of conduct in the future.
BLITZER: Looking back on the decisions that you've made, at the White House, now at the Justice Department, anything jump to mind, anything that you deeply regret, a decision that you made?
GONZALES: Oh, I -- I think that you and I -- I'd have to spend some time thinking about that. Obviously, I'm not going to say that -- that -- that I am perfect and that I've been perfect in doing my job. Obviously, I've made some recommendations to my client. Some of those recommendations have not been supported in the courts. In hindsight, you sometimes wonder, well, perhaps the recommendation should have been something different.
But I do the very best I can as a lawyer. Evaluating the law, looking at the precedent, looking at the words of the statute, the words of the Constitution, in making my best recommendation in good faith to the president of the United States. That's all that I can do. And that's what I will continue to do as attorney general of the United States.
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Genetically engineered foodsBioengineered foods
Genetically engineered foods have had foreign genes (genes from other plants or animals) inserted into their genetic codes.
Genetic engineering can be done with plants, animals, or microorganisms. Historically, farmers bred plants and animals for thousands of years to produce the desired traits. For example, they produced dogs ranging from poodles to Great Danes, and roses from sweet-smelling miniatures to today's long-lasting, but scent-free reds.
Selective breeding over time created these wide variations, but the process depended on nature to produce the desired gene. Humans then chose to mate individual animals or plants that carried the particular gene in order to make the desired characteristics more common or more pronounced.
Genetic engineering allows scientists to speed this process up by moving desired genes from one plant into another -- or even from an animal to a plant or vice versa.
Potential benefits of genetically engineered food include:
- More nutritious food
- Tastier food
- Disease- and drought-resistant plants that require fewer environmental resources (water, fertilizer, etc.)
- Decreased use of pesticides
- Increased supply of food with reduced cost and longer shelf life
- Faster growing plants and animals
- Food with more desirable traits, such as potatoes that absorb less fat when fried
- Medicinal foods that could be used as vaccines or other medications
Potential risks include:
- Modified plants or animals may have genetic changes that are unexpected and harmful.
- Modified organisms may interbreed with natural organisms and out-compete them, leading to extinction of the original organism or to other unpredictable environmental effects.
- Plants may be less resistant to some pests and more susceptible to others.
Food Sources
Tomatoes, potatoes, squash, corn, and soybeans have been genetically altered through biotechnology. Many more foods have engineered ingredients and more are being developed. Check with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for more information.
Side Effects
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates production and labeling of genetically engineered foods. Some people have raised concerns that the genes from one food that are inserted into another food may cause an allergic reaction. For instance, if peanut genes are in tomatoes, could someone with a peanut allergy react to tomatoes?
In January 2001, the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition proposed that developers of bioengineered food submit scientific and safety information to the FDA at least 120 days before the food is marketed. Further details on these foods may be found on the FDA website.
Genetically engineered foods are generally regarded as safe. There has been no adequate testing, however, to ensure complete safety. There are no reports of illness or injury due to genetically engineered foods. Each new genetically engineered food will have to be judged individually.
Sudak N, Harvie J. Integrative strategies for planetary health. In: Rakel D, ed. Integrative Medicine. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2007:chap 105.
Committee on Identifying and Assessing Unintended Effects of Genetically Engineered Foods on Human Health, National Research Council. Safety of genetically engineered foods: Approaches to assessing unintended health effects. National Academies Press. 2004.
Key S, Ma JK, Drake PM. Genetically modified plants and human health. J R Soc Med. 2008;101(6):290-298.
Review Date: 7/5/2012
Reviewed By: Jeffrey Heit, MD, Internist with special emphasis on preventive health, fitness and nutrition, Philadelphia VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc.


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Herald staff
Community Transit is finalizing plans to spend about $17 million to purchase 17 new double-decker buses to replace aging articulated buses on its daily commuter routes to Seattle.
The order means the agency that serves Snohomish County will have 40 of the buses they call Double Talls. That's the second largest fleet of double-deckers in the nation behind Las Vegas.
Community Transit's current fleet of 23 Double Talls carries about 10,000 riders into and out of downtown Seattle every week. A list of routes they operate on can be found at www.communitytransit.org/doubletall.
The new Double Talls will replace the oldest model of 60-foot articulated buses in the commuter fleet, which were manufactured in 1999.
The Double Tall can fit 30 percent more riders than the buses they are replacing and they also get better gas mileage, according to the agency.
Community Transit is using about $10 million in federal bus replacement funds for the purchase. The Legislature this year also awarded $3.9 million to Community Transit to buy Double Tall buses for Seattle commuter service. Community Transit will spend about $2.5 million from its bus replacement reserves for the order.
The final price of the buses is still being negotiated.
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I just purchased an item on Extended Licence. The file was Flash that is typically made in vectors and the "Resolution" was set to "Resizable". On paying for the file and downloading it turns out that everything in the game is vector apart from the main items of the game. I was very disappointed with the author who explained that resizable doesn't meant that you can make the images bigger?!
Update: The auother has just told me that games for computers SHOULD be PNG and NOT Vector because it it is better for the processor?!!! This is such a lie to hide things up right?
Can I please have any advice/feedback from any others here Flash Pro's or not
Thank you.
Elliott saidI am not going to explain you the theory with game Realizable and the option you need to do on the making .
Update: The auother has just told me that games for computers SHOULD be PNG and NOT Vector because it it is better for the processor?!!! This is such a lie to hide things up right?
But actually the best advantage that vectors have over bitmaps(image type) is that they can be scaled (up and down) and translated without losing any the shape fidelity, but indeed complex Vectors are slower in performance than the same visual element rendered as a bitmap (image type).
Most applications using a combination of the two. Knowing how to use those 2 options are important as it can have a huge impact on the performance of your game.
So overall you will see better performance if you render original graphic as a bitmap and i guess your game is with IDE flash platform so in this case the dev` is right regarding performance which most game here on AD are based on image type.
I gave you a little explanation about the topic and i can write 10 pages about the subject and i am sure you don't want to read this long explanation on the help file .
You can also have a master game making in the freelance world that will cost you 10 G in the open market ,so for $10 game cost no matter how you look at this , it's a bargain price
First of all I don't understand what you mean by "everything in the game is vector apart from the main items of the game". What actually are you referring to by "everything" and "main items"? If everything is vector, what are main items?
So it's hard to say anything without having a look at the item because things really depend, but I'll try to explain what I understand from your message.
Obviously the main problem here is the misunderstanding of "Resizable". What I understand is you expect everything to "scale" when you resize, correct? That's not necessarily the case with resizable projects. Basically, a resizable project is which adjusts its elements so no "gaps" appear around in flash player area or things aren't "cropped".
Let's say you have a RPG game and you resize it. As far as I understand, you expect character sprites or map tiles to get "bigger" properly, right? You see, that's not necessary. A resizable RPG may keep everything same size but when you resize, it has more screen area now so player sees more areas of the game map while exploring. This still counts as "resizable".
Also about PNG vs. Vector; as far as I know, bitmap datas (PNG in your case) ARE INDEED better than having vectors. Though again, it depends on how complex the graphics are, with simple stuff I guess it does not matter. But complex graphics are easier to handle as bitmaps.
I hope what I say makes sense and explains a bit
Edit: tsafi replied while I was writing
Thank you for your reply. This has been a big help.
Although it would be great to have advice on the first and main part of my question. What does resizable mean? Because when I go to GraphicRiver and we see say a PSD file and it says that it is 1200px x 800px or some say then are resizable because they are made in Ai and are vector.
When the file I bought says it is reziable but in fact it isn't then there is a problem with the description.
The item is not a bargain and I did not pay $10 for it I paid $50. As you know it costs $10 on the basic licence somehow I imagine you are speaking as a friend of the author (WOW!!!). The game is useless to me if it is NOT resizeable. I do not like all of these lies and the deception.
And it only costs 10 g for a game if the game is 1. made to spec and 2. exclusive to the buyer. If a game here costs $10 as you so coincidentally put in and it can easily sell for 1000 times then the author gets the same money!
If anyone (independent) can explain how this is acceptable I would be very happy.
Hi Kurt,
Sorry I posted at same time!
All of the elements are resizable but the main item is birds that fly over head and you shoot them. I cannot resize the birds. It seems odd that on Envato GraphicRiver resizable can mean another thing from here. It's rather obvious that a "window" can be resized. I expected the whole game to resize which is the case of all of the other games that I have purchased here.
Everything resized!
Thanks for you help.
Ok I am confused a little, is it clear now or you need more explaining? I'll write some more just in case.
Elliott said
It seems odd that on Envato GraphicRiver resizable can mean another thing from here.
Yes it is different unfortunately. Images are just a single image you work with. "resizable flash" on the other hand means if the SWF somehow adjusts itself to different player sizes.
Elliott said
It's rather obvious that a "window" can be resized.
Yes it is obvious that Flash player can always be resized however if a project is not resizable, then gaps appear on sides or things get cropped. So this "resizable" does not necessarily mean every element is actually resizable vector. (Though if you are buying single drawn animation for example, it does mean it is vector.)
So about bird example, as long as the background and game panel are modified to fit the stage yes, it is considered "resizable" project in Flash world. Birds do not have to "scale" along with everything.
Elliott saidMan com-on bro Sorry telling you this i have no flash dav` friends here that make games and I don't know what game you are referring, and any way most of my good friends i mean the one with brain scratch and mental issue move to TF market long time ago, but we are all flasher here and most of us know one other in a forum type of speak.
If anyone (independent) can explain how this is acceptable I would be very happy.Thanks
Regarding realizable meaning, if the browser shrink or start at let say 600×800 all element will move base on XY according to the size of the browser in most case none of the dev here will rescale the object if the browser re-size.
For full re-size and rescale object we will probably target each layout from start but no one will probably do it here for $10 or $50 only cos` slavery isn't our thing


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World Shakespeare Festival 2012: Troilus and Cressida
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Date: August 30, 2012 4:11:52 PM EDT
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On Troilus
I'm afraid I found the whole production to be pretentious nonsense, which any member of the audience not familiar with the play would have been completely baffled by. The only saving grace was Scott Handy's Ulysses.
Lord save us from productions such as these.
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Subject: Cressida
I was very much intrigued by the many observations made on the Wooster Group & RSC Troilus and Cressida in Stratford-upon-Avon. What some considered to be a shallow crowd-pleaser, I perceived as a mélange of styles and emotional appeals that did the play's complexities great justice – perhaps because the conjunction of two companies and their concepts by "the chance of war" led to a surprising consonance in dissonance. The Woosters, who enacted the Trojans in a sort of Native American dress, constantly, if discreetly, monitored suspended TVs and small screens attached to the stage floor as metronomes for their pacing of movements and speech. I am grateful to Tom Cartelli for identifying the exact documentaries and films that were used as analogs of ritualistic and other modes of behaviour. We could not really, nor were we probably meant to, see the films while the play was being performed – and I was not aware that the actors were quite literally addressing the film figures – but the production sent us back to our TV sets, although with good reason, I trust. I think the documentaries as pacemakers or dialogic prompters led to what Hardy sees as Brechtian alienation, because the funny walks, if I may say so, and the distended way of speaking took most of the emotion out of the human interaction and gave it an archaic as well as an inexorable quality. This was certainly my response to the separation scene between Troilus and Cressida. "So it goes." The Greeks (i.e. the RSC) successfully represented a world of tired exhibition of static power, often creating a soundscape of distorted speech in Thersites's wheelchair-driven incursions on the empty stage. Male bodies were displayed as comic grotesques, with Ajax representing the stupid, Achilles the intelligent side of what it takes to win a war. I did not find these schwarzeneggerian displays of muscle cheap, but rather bizarre. And frankly, very amusing. Certainly the inertia of the hulks fits the theme of Greek war power being stymied by Achilles' strike. That said, what Ulysses managed to achieve, was to make Achilles genuinely afraid of losing his prestige – this was really well acted by Joe Dixon (Achilles)! A bit of topicality there as well. Perhaps surprisingly, the brutality of Cressida's reception by the merry Greeks was toned down – and Tom tells us why – and the same is true of the killing of Hector by Achilles' Myrmidons. Perhaps this was done in order not to taint Achilles's image as Patroclus' lover – that love was in this production almost more foregrounded than the one between Troilus and Cressida. In Dieter Dorn's Munich production of 1986, Hector was crassly impaled by the rout of Myrmidons while Achilles was looking on with considerable lust. There is a parallel between the present-day Troilus and Cressida and the one of 1986: Dorn also set his action in a space resembling a huge teepee, and many of his figures were clearly dressed as Native Americans. More on this in Wilhelm Hortmann, Shakespeare on the German Stage, pp. 325-327


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WATTS - Michael "Big Mike" Cummings stands in front of David Starr Jordan High School on a warm Thursday afternoon.
At nearly 6 feet 2 inches tall and about 380 pounds, 49-year-old Big Mike is the kind of man you'd want to meet in a dark alley.
He'd buy you a sandwich and give you a ride home.
Dressed in tan khakis and a red-and-black woven shirt, he recalls "creating a lot of havoc" in the violent world of Watts' notorious public housing projects.
Big Mike now gets up at 4 a.m. several days a week to make a 95-mile drive from Apple Valley to help students avoid gang violence on the way to and from school.
"So while they're at school, they'll be able to learn and do all they can to get their education," he says.
The program is called Safe Passages and is a part of the nonprofit We Care Outreach Ministries, which he founded with his wife Sauna in 1999.
Big Mike ran the streets of Watts until he turned his life around after a 24-month sentence in jail.
"I got caught up dealing drugs, and then after that I got caught up using drugs," he says. "I ended up doing an attempted robbery, went to jail and it changed my life."
The transformation was sparked by the first Scripture verse his mother sent him while he was locked away.
Matthew 6:33: "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
Big Mike is now an ordained minister in the Church of God in Christ denomination.
"I just dedicated my life to showing kids the right way and letting them ride on what mistakes I made," he says.
The California Wellness Foundation has honored him with a $25,000 Peace Prize for his efforts.
Big Mike, who makes a living through his towing business, turns inside and walks toward the gym to watch a junior varsity basketball game.
There, he meets with Andre "Low Down" Christian, a boulder of a man with a massive chest and thick arms.
His hair is pulled back in braids. He has a scar on his left cheek. He's been shot 13 times.
A gang intervention specialist, Low Down joins Big Mike on the bleachers.
He says his biggest regret about the gang life was "the hurt I put on other people. I'm glad I lived it out, (so now I can) help others."
After a low-scoring first quarter, Low Down and Big Mike agree to meet at Watts Towers. Big Mike ambles back to the main entrance of the school.
The final bell rings. Students pour out of class. Big Mike stands on East 103rd Street.
"My concern is from here, this way," he says, pointing west to the Jordan Downs housing project. "We got no groups gathering, no one holding steel. Everything's looking good now. We're gonna move up the street."
He climbs into his gray van and turns on some music. Old soul drips out of the speakers. Big Mike likes the Chi-Lites.
On a corner he meets with "Elementary" and "Chilly Will". Big Mike laughs and says everyone has a street name. He can name young people and street veterans alike, as he drives through Watts.
"If you want to be effective in stopping violence, you got to know everybody," Big Mike says.
Elementary and Chilly Will wear fluorescent green vests. They also help kids get home. It's a team effort by those who have seen unspeakable violence during their decades on the block.
Big Mike catches up with a another friend on the corner. They sing a hymn while Elementary talks Watts.
"As far as the projects, it's just everyday people trying to survive," he says. "Good people. Working people. (But) mis-education and economic strangulation are the mother and father of violence."
Big Mike is ready to roll. He wants to check on more volunteers. And the kids.
He drives past San Miguel Elementary School and Markham Middle School. Along the way he honks his horn and waves at passersby: Big Hank. A kid he tells to get back on the sidewalk. An old friend who blew his mind on angel dust.
He stops at Watts Towers. Low Down is there. So is 52-year-old Donny Joubert from the Nickerson Gardens housing project.
"I think the things we accomplished, it just makes the community better," Joubert says.
They're joined by Cynthia "Sista Soulja" Mendenhall. The 50-year-old Crip-turned-peace activist doesn't want to be confused with the rapper of the same name.
"I'm not fiction," she says.
Sista Soulja lost a son to gang violence in 2006. Anthony Owens Jr. was gunned down in the Imperial Courts housing project, where the PJ Crips reign. The 25-year-old man was not a member of the gang.
Sista Soulja speaks of peace in the same way a veteran gangster would talk about his turf.
"You gotta be ready to die for this," she says.
The late afternoon sun falls on Watts Towers. It's cold now. Sista Soulja looks to Big Mike. Tears fill her eyes.
"This ain't got nothing to do with money," she says of Big Mike's award. "You can't put a price on life. He's not just a pastor. He's a brother, a soldier."
Big Mike heads home.
Along the way he gives a little tour of death. A kid shot on a basketball court. Another gunned down near Jordan High. He collects obituaries and recalls funerals. He's lost count.
"Sometimes I wonder is it ever going to stop, is the shooting going to stop, is the killing going to stop," he says. "But I just keep doing what I do."
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