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In the spring and summer, neon hues and color blocking were prominent themes and trends in the fashion world. Patterns, mixing prints, and even adding lace for a touch of vintage were popular, too; but these trends weren't limited to the clothing tucked into fashionistas' closets. They trickled into the furniture and interior design world, splashed onto walls, fabrics, furnishings and more.
According to Robert Black, owner of Fashion by Robert Black in Scottsdale, fashion and furnishings are quite connected.
To emphasize just how strongly linked furnishings and fashion are, Fashion by Robert Black and Feathers Fine Custom Furnishings are partnering up for a free, week-long event of design-related presentations and new product introductions. The event is aptly named Fall Furniture Fashion Week.
Taking place at Feathers' showroom, new furniture designs and single spaces by Feathers will be on display. Attendees will also spot vintage pieces from Fashion by Robert Black in the showroom throughout the week.
Speakers at Fall Furniture Fashion Week will cover topics related to textile design, furniture styles, wall finishes/papers, art and accessories, furniture design and manufacturing, draperies, fashion-influencing interiors, color psychology and trends, and more.
One speaker in particular, Barbara Kaplan, will be covering color discovery and how color influences and impacts one's life and home. This will take place on Saturday, Nov. 10., and on Thursday, Nov. 8, she will also be on a design panel with Black and Jeff Low, Scottsdale designer of some of the nation's top nightclubs (Pussycat Lounge), lounges (Six), restaurants (La Bocca in Tempe) and hotels (W Scottsdale). They will be discussing fashion, art and interiors.
Fall Furniture Fashion Week will take place Tuesday, Nov. 6 through Saturday, Nov. 10. Two presentations will be held daily, one at 10 a.m. and one at 2 p.m.
For more information about Fall Furniture Fashion Week and to register for the event, visit feathersdesign.com/events. The full schedule of speakers can be found here.
Fall Furniture Fashion Week
When: Tuesday, November 6 – Saturday, November 10, 2012
Two presentations held daily – 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Where: Feathers Fine Custom Furnishings
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Contact: (480) 905-1396
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Empty nesters and entrepreneurs transform parts of their residence into a home office and office workspace
With nearly a quarter of the employed workforce working from home in 2010, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and an increase in stay-at-home entrepreneurial moms (or WAHMs, work-at-home moms), garages, patios and children's bedrooms have been rearranged and transformed into home offices.
Jeff Hillis, co-owner of Hillis Bolte Luxury Builders in Scottsdale, has witnessed this trend over the past year as well.
"We have many corporate clients and regional sales managers that have chosen to make Scottsdale their home base and incur more traveling rather than moving their families to be closer to their corporate offices or their territories," Hillis says.
About 30 percent of Hillis Bolte's projects include some form of an office addition or remodel. Hillis says the home office remodel is Hillis Bolte's No. 3 most requested project, with kitchen and baths ranking at No. 1 and No. 2.
"We have worked on approximately 10 office projects last year," Hillis says, "with an increase to 12 to 13 this year."
What's important to consider when remodeling a room into an office is location, experts say.
According to Christine Cox, designer and owner of CC Interior Design in Phoenix, homeowners must keep their workspace separate from their personal space.
"Location is important for a productive workspace," Cox says. "Clients need to make an assessment of what their needs are."
For instance, if you have children around, where will you hold your conference calls? Find a quiet, closed-off workspace. Or, will you have clients coming to your home? Consider having separate access to your home so they don't have to walk through the house.
"It's very important to have business separate from your personal life," Cox says.
Cox adds that planning is important as well, especially space planning ― knowing the amount of space required for your home office remodel. This includes making sure your furniture will fit in the room, before you spend the money.
Hillis Bolte also emphasizes planning during the beginning stages with its clients. Through a Q&A session, Hillis Bolte "gets them thinking about their overall needs and desires" in order to maximize any room or space with an architect or an interior designer on board, Hillis says.
"The most common mistakes people make when doing a remodel on their own is that they don't start with a good design," Hillis adds. "The best way to get the most value out of a project is to create a reasonable budget and utilize the skills of the builder and designer."
Some easy ways to turn a room into an office include reworking the closet into a useful work storage area. Cox suggests opening up the closet space by removing the doors and adding a built-in. Hills adds that this is both practical and appealing.
Hillis also suggests replacing the carpet of the space with wood or stone flooring, giving the room more of an office feel.
Both agree that doors should be added to close off the space and create separation from the other rooms in the home.
"The key to any office remodel is for it to never look or feel it was a previous bedroom," Hillis says.
Lastly, you can't forget about technology, and your Internet, electrical and phone lines. Ask yourself if you have adequate outlets that will keep up with your day-to-day tasks.
Regarding your phone line, Cox says it's best to keep your business line separate from your personal line. Hillis agrees and recommends to start out with an IT professional to help with your overall computer and technical needs.
Whatever your home business may entail, be sure you plan it out thoughtfully. The more time you put into it, and the more help you seek, the higher the chances the final product will become a productive, regret-free space.
"Everyone seems to find a way to maximize the home office and stay focused and productive," Hillis says. "It seems that there are many more positives than negatives with the home office."
For more information about turning one of your spare rooms into a home office:
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Cross country adds recruits
May 11th, 2012 |
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) cross country coach Danelle Readinger announced the signings of two student athletes for the fall of 2012. The newest Pomeroys include Erin Harnett from Fishers High School (Fishers, Ind.) and Sarah Hudson from Terre Haute West Vigo High School (West Terre Haute, Ind.).
Erin Harnett has been a member of the Tigers varsity cross-country team for four years.
After coming back from an injury in her junior season, she recorded her personal best of 19:49 at the Hoosier Crossroads conference. Also during her junior year, she received the team's mental attitude award.
Harnett is the recipient of the prestigious Saint Mother Theodore Guerin scholarship, which recognizes students who have used their unique experiences, aptitudes and abilities to make a difference in their local communities and beyond. She plans to study education at the College.
"Erin is a strong competitor and her enthusiasm for the sport will add strength to our team," commented Readinger.
Harnett is the daughter of Cary Harnett and Jill and Dan Daupert.
During her high school career, Sarah Hudson earned four varsity letters and earned all-conference honors in Western Indiana Conference three times. She twice qualified for regionals. In her senior year, her personal record was 21:00 at Sullivan High School.
A scholar athlete, Hudson is the recipient of the Top Ten on 10 scholarship and plans to major in pre-professional studies-physical therapy. She is the daughter of Connie and David Hudson.
"Sarah's work ethic, dedication and mental toughness will add energy that will serve our team well," said Readinger. "She will be a great asset."
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Butternut Squash Bread Recipe
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"This yeast bread is scrumptious served warm or toasted," promises Agnes Miller of Marshall, Illinois. "A friend shared the recipe years ago."
Recommended: Baking with Squash
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- 2 packages (1/4 ounce each) active dry yeast
- 1/2 cup warm water (110° to 115°)
- 1-1/4 cups mashed cooked butternut squash
- 1 cup warm whole milk (110° to 115°)
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 1/3 cup butter, melted
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 7 to 7-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add squash, milk, eggs, butter, sugar and salt; mix well. Gradually add 3-1/2 cups flour; beat until smooth. Add enough remaining flour to form a soft dough.
- Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.
- Punch dough down. Shape into three loaves; place in greased 8x4-in. loaf pans. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 30 minutes.
- Bake at 375° for 25-30 minutes or until tops are golden. Remove from pans to cool on wire racks. Yield: 3 loaves.
Originally published as Butternut Squash Bread in Taste of Home October/November 1995, p12
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Noël Coward reportedly asked "Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?" Well, maybe not every morning, Noël, but we certainly like it very much indeed. Who wouldn't? Champagne is not only one of the most perfect drinks on the planet, but it is also probably one of the most perfect wine-making regions anywhere. We're not talking about the weather, which can be a little bit too much like ours for our liking; we are talking about the symbiotic relationship of its producers.
With their consistent style, availability and prestige, big Champagne Houses such as Laurent-Perrier and Pol Roger (who are family-owned), have built up Champagne's incredible reputation and this has made it one of the most famous and emulated wines on Earth. These larger producers are able to promote the Champagne brand overseas, support smaller producers by buying their grapes and innovate by playing with fermentation in oak, dosage (very dry) styles and organic viticulture. The smaller producers, therefore are very fond of their big brothers… But what about the little brothers? Well, we wuv them, big time.
We especially wuv 'Grower Houses', such as Pierre Gimonnet, Drappier and Antoine Remy, who grow the grapes and make the wine themselves, rather than buying in the grapes or the wine to create a blend. H Blin is a co-op of growers that works on a similar principle. These Growers also sell their grapes on, but are doing this less and less as demand for Grower Champagne grows. Happy days. The other great thing about smaller and lesser known outfits is that they invest all their efforts and finances on making the best wine they can from their vineyards, which results in very good value wine with a strong sense of place. So what about the stuff in the bottle? Well, it is composed of one, two or all of the following grapes: Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier and, traditionally, Houses would create a blend of these, without being steered by which grapes grew locally. However, the past 10 years or so has seen producers making the most of the grapes that thrive in their vicinity. Pierre Gimmonet, for example, are situated on the Côtes des Blancs and so exclusively use Chardonnay, which thrives there. H Blin use a lot of Pinot Meunier, which does well in the Vallée de la Marne and Drappier, based in Urville, which predominantly uses Pinot Noir. Drappier also use historic grape varieties such as Arbane, Petit Meslier, Fromenteau and Blanc Vrai, which have lower yields but exceptional character – and look set to make a comeback (hooray!) That's all from us, all you have to do now is decide what's for breakfast.
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With an extended break between games after sweeping the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first round of the playoffs, the Canadiens decided to try something new Monday to simulate game-day conditions.
Instead of practising at 10:30 Monday morning in Brossard, the team held a "morning skate". That was to be followed by a scrimmage at the Bell Centre at 7 p.m. that will be closed to fans and the media. The 10 members of the Hamilton Bulldogs who have been practising in Brossard will be worked into the lineups for the scrimmage. The Canadiens will also hold a "family activity" at 5 p.m. at the Bell Centre.
"We don't yet know when our series against the Bruins will start, but we haven't had a game in a while and we wanted to have the best preparation possible, so this is why we organized the day in this way," Canadiens coach Michel Therrien told reporters in Brossard. "We also thought it was important for the players' families to experience the moment, so we added an afternoon activity which adds them to the schedule."
The Canadiens were still waiting to hear from the NHL when their Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Boston Bruins will start.
The Canadiens will not practice on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the Canadiens' P.K. Subban will not be a repeat winner of the Norris Trophy as the NHL's top defenceman. The league announced the three finalists for this year's award on Monday and they are Boston's Zdeno Chara, Chicago's Duncan Keith and Nashville's Shea Weber.
Here's how the lines and defence pairings looked at Monday's morning skate:
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(Photo by Allen McInnis/The Gazette)
Canadiens stage cone-of-silence game, by The Gazette's Dave Stubbs
Bruins vs. Habs: As it must be, by The Gazette's Dave Stubbs
It won't be easy, but pick Habs in seven, by Jack Todd
Morning skate interviews (video), Canadiens.com
Subban ready to take the heat in Boston, montrealgazette.com
Lucic thrives as playoff villain, montrealgazette.com
Past stats vs. Bruins meaningless, by The Gazette's Pat Hickey
After long wait, Canadiens can now prepare for Bruins, NHL.com
A happy birthday to Ginette Reno, Stu on Sports blog
Bruins as ready as ever to take on Canadiens, Boston Globe
You can trust these Bruins, Boston Herald
Chara, Keith, Weber voted Noris finalists, NHL.com


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In separate bowls, soak the maitake and shiitake with warm water to cover for 10 minutes. Remove and set aside. Soaking water may be saved for later use in soup stock.
Heat up oil in a sauce pan, sauté garlic and onions for 2 minutes. Add shiitake, maitake, carrots and zucchini, sauté 3 minutes. Add all other ingredients, except pasta, cover and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes over a low flame.
While the sauce is cooking, prepare the pasta according to package directions and drain when done. Serve the hot marinara over the cooked pasta.
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white shark hit a guy swimming in truro cape cod this past summer to whoever said its only a matter of time. bit him in the leg, lucky to be alive.
I found this site somewhere a while back. You can see all the reported shark attacks from all over the world. But I think most (non-fatal) were in FL. Scary, as I surf at the poles pretty often close to where Lydia was captured http://www.sharkattackfile.net/incidentlog.htm
My sis worked at MGH when this guy was airlifted in... said it didn't look good (obviously.. f*in shark bit his leg off). She also said that he was aware of the shark chillen in the area yet continued to splash around.Quote:
white shark hit a guy swimming in truro cape cod this past summer
yeah he was swimming 300 ft offshore possibly had a buddy with a boogy board out there or something. ppl on the beach saw it thrashing around him and stuff... crazy. surfing the cape is kind of creepy because there are so many seals around that pop up right next to you. once i saw the back of a seal breach swimming and it kind of spooked me even though thinking back there was no fin so...my buddies got a good laugh at my reaction.
Anyone else hear the warning to stay out if the water at Mayport because ocearch was chumming for another great White today? Didn't stop me or anyone for that matter 'cuz it was head high. Saw a stationary ship a mile or so out and was wondering if that was them...
Don't worry everybody. im thinking about telling Ocearch not to chum the clean waves. And i carry Binoculars and a VHF radio.
Sorry Florida. i can't see you with my binoculars and my VHF won't reach that far. Still thinking about asking Ocearch why not chum offshore?
Now found in the Gulf, caught by a couple local fisherman up the road from me ...


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|Bad Day at Hillsboro
One man's expensive lesson in towing and salvage.
By Ben Ellison
Martin Manin is the first to admit that the boating accident he had last winter in South Florida was his fault, and he remains grateful that Sea Tow came to his aid in mere minutes. But he's so bitter about how that tow was handled financially that he's willing to share his nautical embarrassments with the world if it helps some of us to learn about the darker side of the boat towing business.
It was around noon last March 31 when Manin headed his 46-foot Sea Ray, Sony Boy III, out through Hillsboro Inlet. He and his family--young grandchildren included--were en route from Fort Lauderdale to Lake Worth, and it was such a lovely Sunday for boating that he decided to take a leg outside. The skies were clear, winds had been less than ten knots from the southeast for more than 36 hours, and predicted seas were one to two feet. What Manin did not anticipate was the nearly full-moon ebb tide current that could both square those small seas and set him slightly sideways toward the inlet's notorious south reef.
Just outside the breakwaters, when Sony Boy III started slamming as current met waves, Manin got nervous, considered turning around, and throttled way back. In that moment of indecision, he let his boat drift out of the channel, then felt a crunch, indicating contact with bottom, and both engines shut down. Manin issued an anxious distress call on VHF channel 16. However, moments later, by his recollection, further wave action floated Sony Boy III into the calmer waters inshore of the reef, and he was able to restart both engines. Shortly thereafter, TowBoatU.S., Sea Tow, and a local sheriff's deputy arrived on the scene.
When Manin told Sea Tow that he would try to take the boat in under her own power, Capt. John Estey, who was at the helm of the Sea Tow boat, advised him that running with damaged props and/or shafts could cause serious transmission damage or worse. Manin accepted this inarguably sound guidance and says he then tried to show Estey his Sea Tow membership card. According to Manin, the captain said, "I'll get your card later," passed him a line, and towed him approximately one and a half miles to a public dock.
Next, Sea Tow Fort Lauderdale owner Tim Morgan arrived and did an underwater inspection of Sony Boy III. Manin says Morgan told him that his boat had suffered an estimated $10,000 worth of rudder, prop, shaft, and hull damage (close to the actual $14,000 repair). When Manin again tried to offer his Sea Tow card, Morgan reportedly explained that this case was a salvage operation not covered by his membership. According to Manin, who admits to still being stressed about the incident, Morgan then said that his fee, paid by Manin's hull insurer, would be a percentage of the repair cost and asked Manin to sign a standard salvage agreement, which he did.
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High feed prices brought on by the 2012 drought have spiked hog slaughter to its highest level for the current year as U.S. pork producers search for ways to reduce their skyrocketing feed bills. As a result, more hogs are arriving at the nation's packing plants.
"Last week's federally-inspected hog slaughter came in at a huge 2.265 million head, the highest level of the year and up a whopping 6.7 percent from one year ago," according to Steve Meyer and Len Steiner, authors of the CME Group's Daily Livestock Report.
Hog slaughter the last couple of weeks reflects the significant increase in sows arriving at processing facilities. "According to data from the University of Missouri, sow slaughter is running 10 percent or more above a year ago," says Rich Pottorff, Doane chief economist.
Pottorff believes the trend will continue through the fall season further weighing on hog prices for the remainder of 2012 and into first quarter of 2013. "Sow slaughter is expected to stay high for at least the next couple of months," he says. "Futures prices show big losses for hog production through this fall and winter."
The breakeven cost for hog production over the next twelve months will be around $185 to $190 per head, says Mark Greenwood, vice president relationship management, AgStar Financial Services, Mankato, Minn. "Pork producers are looking at a loss of between $20 to $30 per head for the next six months."
Pottorff also sees the negative trend continuing. "Hog prices have fallen sharply in the last few weeks and there is little chance of recovery anytime soon," he says. "The breeding herd numbers in the USDA's September Hogs and Pigs report will almost certainly be down from June and from last September. Farrowing intentions for fourth quarter will also be down."
As animal liquidation grows, Greenwood says two things to watch will be sow slaughter and the number of weaned pigs entering the United States from Canada. "The economics of selling weaned pigs on the open market without a contract are abysmal," he says. "Currently, weaned pigs are selling around $7."


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Polar Bears, Sharks on CITES' Menu
Increased trade protection for polar bears and sharks are on the agenda of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) next week in Bangkok, officials said Thursday.
"We expect proposals on polar bears, sharks and manta rays will go to a vote," convention secretary general John Scanlon said.
The CITES meeting, which is to begin Sunday and run through to March 14, is drawing more than 2,000 delegates from 177 countries.
The delegates are to consider about 70 proposals on increased or decreased trade protection for endangered species by placing them on the convention's Appendix I, which prohibits all traffic in a species, or Appendix II, which restricts trade to assure it is "sustainable".
The United States proposed that the polar bear, whose survival is being threatened by melting ice around the Arctic Circle, be placed on Appendix I while other countries have proposed that five shark species and the manta ray be placed on Appendix II.
Three of the shark species designated for Appendix II are popular species for use in shark fin soup, a Chinese delicacy.
China and Japan have traditionally voted against efforts to include marine animals under convention protection in the past.
"I think it is going to be a tight vote," Mr Scanlon said.
This year's meeting was also expected to spotlight a recent boom in the illicit trade in African ivory and rhinoceros horn, fuelled by political instability in Africa and a surge in demand in increasingly prosperous Asia.
The convention estimated that 25,000 African elephants were killed for the illegal ivory trade in 2011 and last year 668 rhinos were slaughtered for their horns, a popular panacea in Vietnam and China.
Host Thailand has come under pressure to ban or better regulate its domestic trade in ivory sourced from Asian elephants, which has allegedly precipitated a large trade in smuggled African tusks. It has been threatened with trade sanctions if it fails to do so.
"I think you will see Thailand will take significant measures to improve its domestic performance, but a trade suspension is always possible," Mr Scanlon said.


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Bully: Scholarship Edition and five other 360 games now playable on Xbox One
Xbox One owners can now play six more Xbox 360 titles thanks to backward compatibility, and one is Rockstar fan favorite Bully: Scholarship Edition.
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Golden Week sale kicks off on US PSN with Catherine, Dark Souls, Ground Zeroes, more discounted
It's Golden Week in Japan and Sony is celebrating the festivities by putting quite a few Japanese-inspired games and movies on sale in North America until May 4. Titles such as Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes, Catherine, Dark Souls, Hatsune Miku, Mega Man 9 and more are discounted.
PS Plus EU: next round of free games live today - friendly reminder
PlayStation Plus members across Europe have another batch of free games to look forward to from today, starting with Hitman: Absolution.
EU PS Plus May update adds Catherine, Sine Mora, Malicious, Velocity Ultra
Sony has added three new PS3 games and two for PS Vita to PlayStation Plus for May in the way of Catherine, Sine Mora and Velocity Ultra.
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Sony has announced its European PS Plus content for May. Subscribers can look forward to free downloads of Hitman: Absolution, Catherine and more.
Catherine and Persona art books release digitally on PSN Japan
Catherine and Persona have both received the eBook treatment on Sony's PlayView app in Japan, along with a third book dedicated to the works of artist Shigenori Soejima. All three books feature plenty of finished art, early concepts and insight from their creators. Check out pricing and screens below.
Deep sleep: why we need to talk about Catherine
With the arrival of its long overdue PAL release, Stace received a text from a friend asking about Catherine. The following is a transcript of their conversation.
EU PS Store update, February 8 - Shank 2, The Simpsons Arcade, Gotham City Impostors, Catherine
Following the US update overnight, SCEE's gone live with this afternoon's store update for Europe. Full banana includes Shank 2, The Simpsons Arcade and Gotham City Impostors, as well as full versions of Mortal Kombat and Catherine for Plus users. Get the list below the break.
Catherine European release to come with special art booklet, soundtrack CD
Deep Silver's announced this morning it's to bundle a special art booklet and soundtrack alongside pre-orders of Catherine alongside the game's European release next month. The content that will come with the Atlus love thriller will not be available outside of pre-orders. Catherine launches on February 10 on PS3 and 360
Catherine confirmed for February 10 in Europe
Deep Silver's announced this lunchtime it'll release Catherine in Europe on February 10, just in time for Valentines Day.
Stray Sheep Edition of Catherine announced for Europe
Deep Silver, the European publisher of Catherine, has announced a special Deluxe Edition Stray Sheep Edition of the game will be released alongside the standard edition in February 2012.
Catherine EU release narrowed down to February
Deep Silver's narrowed the release timing of Catherine's European release, confirming it'll launch the Atlus thriller in February. The game's European release was announced this summer. It's also been confirmed the European version will feature a reversible cover of Catherine and Katherine, the game's two main love interests.
Atlus' yearly earnings supported by Catherine sales and Persona series
Index, the firm which owns Atlus, has reported sales of ¥22,934 million for the period of September 1, 2010 through August 31, 2011.
Report - Deep Silver to launch Catherine in Europe in Q1 2012
MCV's reporting that Catherine's European launch will happen in Q1 next year.
Catherine slated for Australian release
QV Software has picked up Atlus life sim puzzler Catherine for Australian release.
Weekly Wrap – US sales hit 5-year low, CS:GO announced
QuakeCon's passed, and Gamescom lies ahead. You're in the eye of the news storm. Frightened? Don't be. The Weekly Wrap is here to tell you what it all means. And give you a hug. If you want one.
Catherine moves 200,000 units in first week
Atlus has tweeted a picture of a cake, which shows that Catherine moved 200,000 units in the US at launch. Earlier this week, Tim Pivnicny, VP of sales and marketing at Atlus stated that sales for the title had "exceeded" the firm's "highest expectations," and that it was the "largest launch in the 20-year history […]
Quick Quotes: Catherine is "largest launch in the 20-year history of Atlus"
"Catherine has exceeded our highest expectations. It released last week to tremendous critical acclaim and fan response, bolstered by the release of a demo a couple weeks prior, and continues to generate discussion among fans for its mature themes, engrossing subject matter, and frantic, challenging gameplay. It is fitting, then, that Catherine can boast the […]
Tuesday Shorts - Just Dance 3, fringe financials, Twittah
Next week is going to be epic. This week? Yeah, not so much.
Catherine on-disc files hint at PC port, realistic design
Content pulled from the Western release of Catherine suggests Atlus had a PC port in mind at one stage.
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Bully: Scholarship Edition and five other 360 games now playable on Xbox One
Golden Week sale kicks off on US PSN with Catherine, Dark Souls, Ground Zeroes, more discounted
PS Plus EU: next round of free games live today – friendly reminder
EU PS Plus May update adds Catherine, Sine Mora, Malicious, Velocity Ultra
PS Plus EU: May update revealed, adds free Hitman: Absolution, Catherine & more
Catherine and Persona art books release digitally on PSN Japan
EU PS Store update, February 8 – Shank 2, The Simpsons Arcade, Gotham City Impostors, Catherine
Catherine European release to come with special art booklet, soundtrack CD
Atlus' yearly earnings supported by Catherine sales and Persona series
Report – Deep Silver to launch Catherine in Europe in Q1 2012
Quick Quotes: Catherine is "largest launch in the 20-year history of Atlus"
Tuesday Shorts – Zynga targets China, Dwarf Fortress class, iPad magic, more
Tuesday Shorts – Zynga sued, Shinobi's Creed, indie delights, more
Friday Shorts II: Champions, Atlantis, Zynga, F2P iPad, movies
Quick Quotes: Atlus on changing Catherine's cover art for the Western market


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Correspondence Management Solution
The Correspondence Management solution streamlines personalized correspondence creation and management. Business users can intuitively assemble individualized customer correspondence with pre-approved content blocks, interactive media elements, and pre-filled electronic forms. It is then delivered securely to the customer enabling them to fill in the appropriate information and submit it back to continue the process eliminating wasteful paper submissions.
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This article was published 12/11/2012 (1743 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
When Harley-Davidson needs new owner's manuals translated into 22 languages, or mining companies up north need to advertise in Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun, where do they go for help?
To a company in St. Boniface that's quietly been translating for some of the world's biggest companies in more than 100 languages for the last 20 years.
Parenty Reitmeier Inc. employs 70 people at its offices on Des Meurons Street and relies on 320 translators around the globe. It was started by a bilingual high school dropout from St. Pierre-Jolys.
Farm kid Jean-Pierre Parenty left school in Grade 11 and went to work as a grain trader on the floor of the former Winnipeg Commodity Exchange. When he was 32, the stress of the job got to the married father of two.
"I sold my exchange seat not knowing what I'd do next."
A friend asked if he could translate documents dealing with futures trading into French. Because of the complexity and jargon, translators in Winnipeg said they were unable to do the translation: "(They would say) 'We don't understand what that means in English,' " Parenty said.
Knowing the language and the highly specialized lingo of the business, he translated a thick stack of documents in a month and made around $4,000.
The die was cast.
"Within nine or 10 months, I was able to make a living out of my basement," he said. "I could find the work and be the middleman between clients and translators."
Initially, he found clients connected to the grain business in Winnipeg, including the Canadian Wheat Board, the Canadian Grain Commission and the Canadian International Grains Institute.
He opened an office with one phone and one computer and hired an officer manager from a credit union who became his business partner.
"JP was good at selling and coming back with these contracts," said Diane Reitmeier. She helped get the systems in place and find the right people to get the translation projects done in the days before the Internet caught on.
It wasn't easy, Reitmeier said. Two weeks after she started, Parenty had to go on the road. She worried about what to tell potential clients who called looking for translation services.
"He told me, 'Just say, We do that all the time,' " she said with a laugh, "and we'd figure it out."
And they did.
Back then, a firm in the seemingly not-so-cosmopolitan city of Winnipeg offering translation services was a hard sell in Canada, however. Parenty went south and drummed up new clients in the United States.
"As long as you deliver good quality on time, they don't care where you're from," he said.
Within two years, they'd tapped into the mechanical and automotive industry. Now, Parenty Reitmeier translates owner and service manuals for Polaris, Honda, Kia and Harley-Davidson.
It specializes in translation for the mechanical and financial sectors and people doing business in Northern Canada.
"We've become extremely good by not generalizing," Parenty said. "We do a few things really well."
The biggest challenge isn't dealing with more than 100 languages, it's dealing with so many different types and versions of software each company uses, never mind Mac or PC.
The pace of business is moving faster, and clients want their translations done more quickly now, too, Parenty said.
"Ten years ago, it was eight weeks. Now it's two to three weeks."
Most of the subject matter is "extremely dry" but accurate translation is critical.
They've had the Harley-Davidson contract for 13 years, since the firm they replaced made a major mistake. A manual advised the operator when bleeding the bike's brakes to refill the brake lines with oil, not brake fluid -- a simple mistake with potentially serious consequences.
"It could cause an accident," Parenty said.
The company carries insurance in case that happens but has never had to use it, he said.
Project managers at their newly renovated two-storey building are in charge of translation jobs and ensure they're done correctly and on time.
"It's critical they know the language and the culture very well," Parenty said.
That's especially true for the North.
"The northern market is very different," Reitmeier said. The culture is different and the pace is different, she said. Companies usually leave translation services until the very end and set tight deadlines for them to meet, Parenty said. In the North, that can't happen. Translators in the North used by Parenty Reitmeier have different values and priorities and aren't likely to translate 3,000 words into Inuktitut or Inuinnaqtun in a day, Parenty said.
"We need to understand that and work with that," Reitmeier said.
Employees make up a global village
LAST week, Statistics Canada figures showed Canada's growing language diversity, and Winnipeg's Parenty Reitmeier is cashing in on it.
Its employees from around the world see it as a fringe benefit.
"It's great -- there's so many people from so many different cultures," said Aleid Haenen from the Netherlands. She'd never heard of Winnipeg until she had a chance to work at the company for a year as an intern.
"An internship in Canada looks good on a resumé," Haenen said. She's part of the company's Dutch team working on Honda manuals that need 1.8 million words translated.
"It's a huge project."
In the desktop publishing department, Arlene Laplante is changing North American English into British English for Harley-Davidson's Shoptalk magazine. She's switching z's to s's in the word organization and switching program to programme, as examples. Nearby, a colleague is going over an electrical schematic in Spanish, making sure the translation fixes are done. Behind him, Julius Banares from the Philippines is editing a voice-over for a training video recorded in the company's studio earlier in the day.
Joel Marcon left his Manitoba government job with translation services two years ago to work for the growing company. Now he's training new project managers. On Tuesday morning, he was showing a linguist from Mexico City -- whose specialty is trademarks and patents -- and a communications graduate from the Netherlands how things are done at Parenty Reitmeier.
Neither woman had heard of Winnipeg before getting their new jobs.
"It's a big deal for us to get foreign workers here," founder and co-owner Jean-Pierre Parenty said. "All the work we do here we stole from Europe or the U.S."
It's good for Winnipeg's economy, he added.
"Seventy (more) people now call Winnipeg home -- 70 families are here paying taxes and buying groceries," Parenty said.
And they're helping to put Winnipeg on the map by word of mouth.
"One hundred people in Holland will now know where Winnipeg is. Before, they didn't know it existed."


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Trespassing on the MBTA
Trespassing on the right of way is a very dangerous activity and a criminal offense, Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 160 Section 218. It does not make a difference whether a person is walking on commuter rail train tracks or on the train tracks of a subway. People do not belong there.
Commuter Rail Tracks:
Acela train lines have overhead electrical lines that carry 30,000 volts of electricity. Never attempt to touch these wires for any reason. Notify the Transit Police, MBTA Official or an MBCR Official if you have an emergency or notice a problem with these wires.
Commuter rail and Acela trains travel at extremely high speeds. Train speeds should never be underestimated. Trains that weren't there moments ago can appear only feet away due to its traveling speeds. When standing on the platform ensure that you stand behind the yellow line. It is recommended, however, to stand back far away from the track bed as possible. Commuter rail and Acela train do not always stop at all stations.
Another common misconception is that a person will be able to hear a traveling train approaching towards them and they will have time to leave the track area. This is not true. Commuter rail trains travel quietly as they glide on the rails. A person would not have enough time to react when a commuter rail train approaches from behind them.
Train conductors, who operate commuter rail trains from the front engine, do not have a lot of time to react when observing someone on the tracks. Depending on the train's speed, proximity, weather conditions, and several other factors, the train may not have the ability to stop in time.
Don't risk it. Stay off the tracks. Train tracks are for trains only!
Subway Tracks and the Third Rail:
Subway tracks pose the same threat as commuter rail tracks, and sometimes the danger is even greater. Several subway lines use a "third rail" as a form of electric power. The third rail is exposed and runs along side of the subway train tracks and it carries 600 volts of electricity. Walking on subway train tracks carries the same dangers that are present on commuter rail tracks, with the additional danger of the exposed third rail. Worse, when on subway tracks in a dark tunnel, there is no escape from an oncoming train when walls enclose the track area.
Trackless trolleys and buses:
Beware if you come across a down wire do not attempt to touch or pick up, immediately notify the Transit Police. Trolley, trackless trolley and Silver Line Bus wires carry 600 volts of electricity.Learn more about Operation Lifesaver
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It's 5,000 miles from Seattle to Paris as the crow flies. Despite the distance, the Emerald City is shining proudly in the area of pastries—good news for those who can't quite cross the Atlantic for the real thing.
The most ubiquitous pastry round these parts is the plain croissant, with enough choices to warrant a comparative tasting challenge. (I've chosen two that are the cream of the crop.) But it doesn't stop there—you can find lesser known pastries, such as kouign amann, as well as Japanese bakeries with inspired takes on French classics.
These 10 pastries all stand out in the shop, bearing the right levels of buttery flavor, sweetness, appealing texture, and a little something extra which would make me point and say, "You want that one."
About the author: Jay Friedman is a Seattle-based freelance food writer who happens to travel extensively as a sex educator. An avid fan of noodles (some call him "The Mein Man"), he sees sensuality in all foods, and blogs about it at his Gastrolust website. You can follow him on Twitter @jayfriedman.


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Professional quality for tight places. Durable aluminum tube handles. Straight cutting head for more accurate cuts. Extremely sharp cutting blade. Easily adjustable blades for a perfect cut every time. Made in Switzerland.
Includes adjustment key.
Length 16 inches, weight 1 pound 8 ounces. Recommended cutting capacity is 1.4 inches.


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Drive-by shootings intended to settle petty disputes and protect gangland turf have surged in Sydney but overall gun crime in NSW has halved since the 1990s, according to the latest figures.
A shooting in a public place occurred once every three days in Sydney last year with such incidents increasing by 143.9 per cent in the past 16 years.
But a report into long-term gun trends by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research found that the total number of criminal incidents in the state involving a gun dropped by 48 per cent between 1995 and 2011.
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Gun murders, armed robbery and unlawfully discharged firearm offences all fell significantly while "discharge firearm into premises" type incidents rose from 41 in 1995 to 100 incidents in 2011, creating a puzzling trend for police and firearms experts.
Don Weatherburn, the director of BOCSAR, said better security, the move to a cashless economy and a reduction in heroin supply since 2000 had resulted in fewer armed robberies.
"People just don't have the huge wads of cash around that they used to have," he said.
Yet these trends have coincided with an increase in the number of illegal handguns circulating on Sydney's black market.
The commander of the firearms and organised crime squad, Detective Superintendent Ken Finch, said police intelligence suggests there are more illegal handguns coming to Australia from overseas or the domestic legal market.
"There has been a push in NSW to make the legislation and regulations in terms of gun ownership tighter and we have had several special operations targeting gun crime for some time," he said.
Police have previously attributed the rise in drive-by shootings to a disparate mix of bikie turf-wars, family disputes, "idiot copycats" and petty fights or score-settling carried out by mostly young men with increasingly easy access to a gun.
Figures obtained by the Greens MP David Shoebridge earlier this year show that the number of registered handguns in NSW increased by 24 per cent in six years.
"The number ... has exploded from 33,858 in 2005 to 42,127 in late 2011," he said.
A small portion of these were diverted to the black market either by theft or corrupt dealers and owners and were bought by criminals for up to $15,000.
Mr Shoebridge said handguns were used in 87 per cent of drive-by shootings.
Dr Weatherburn said it could be argued that armed robberies were a far bigger threat to the public because they were usually inflicted on innocent people.
"Whereas your drive-by shootings tend to be gang-related shootings - no comfort for people who live in those suburbs of course."
He said gang members and organised criminals involved in lucrative criminal enterprises such as drug trafficking couldn't take their disputes to court so resorted to drive-by shootings.
"It's basically an attempt to intimidate the opposition or take revenge on the opposition or settle disputes or settle scores."
He said the "broader picture" of firearm crime is better now than it was in 1995.
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I'd like to implement Viral Patel's cool dynamic read more links to a page I'm working on. I'd like to add another level so that I could embed some of these links into another div...See demo here
Can I add this to the java or would it be better to create another script using a different div id?
Unfortunately the example page is returning a 404
Apologies link fixed.....
I'd also like to allow h and p tags inside the comment div if possible?
The link in your first post points to http://jsfiddle.net/valleysboy/P7Jtz/ and this is still returning a 404
Sorry Pullo only chaged the quoted link its - http://jsfiddle.net/valleysboy/jvCSe/ (i'll wake up)
Hi there,
So the demo's working now.I can see three divs which display extra content when I click on the more link.
But what is it exactly that you are trying to do. I didn't quite get it. Could you elaborate a little.
I'd like to have the same
 that could have the 3 divs inside of it - essentially another level up? (hope this makes sense).
You'd like to have three
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Some random text

Some more random text

Some more random text

Some more random text

Is that what you mean?
Apologies I should have added the html - Yes that is exactly what I'd like - also I cant seem to add any html elements inside the div's like
  tags - it stops the jqery from working, I'd like to fix this also if possible???
This works just fine for me. Here's a fiddle to demonstrate: http://jsfiddle.net/openFiddle/9bDJ6/5/
The other problem is a little trickier.You're trying to toggle divs within a div which is toggleable and this cannot work with your current code.
If I was you, I would use the show-hide plugin instead. Its homepage is here: http://papermashup.com/demos/jquery-show-hide-plugin/I've also made you a small demo here demonstrating nested content: http://hibbard.eu/blog/pages/show-hide-plugin-demo.htmlIt is entirely configurable. If you don't like the animation effect, you can disable that.
GENIUS - code is really well explained - thanks so much Pullo very appriciated!


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Call for Nominations: William E. Hope '01 Spirit of Princeton Award
Walter E. Hope '01 Spirit of Princeton 2013 Announcement
Nominations for the eighteenth annual Walter E. Hope '01 Spirit of Princeton Awards, which honor undergraduates for their positive contributions to campus life, are due by noon Monday, April 15, 2013.
Spirit of Princeton winners have demonstrated a strong commitment to enhancing the undergraduate experience through contributions to student organizations, athletics, community service, religious life, residential life and the arts. All undergraduates are eligible to be nominated, and any member of the University community may submit a nomination.
Nominations can be submitted to the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students at 313 West College, or via e-mail to email@example.com. For details and instructions on how to write and submit a nomination, please visit the award's website.


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This document contains release notes and installation instructions for Adobe® Flex® 4 SDK.
About Flex 4 SDK
What's new
Installation instructions
Compatibility issues
Using Datavisualization with the Flex SDK 4
Using Automated Testing with the Flex SDK 4
Known issues
Flex 4 Documentation
About Flex 4 SDK
Flex 4 SDK includes the Flex framework (also known as the Flex class library), Flex command-line compilers, the Flex debugger, the ASDoc utility, and the debugger version of Flash Player and AIR runtimes. Use the Flex 4 SDK to develop, compile, and deploy Flex applications that connect to XML and SOAP web services or connect to various server technologies such as PHP, ColdFusion, Java, and .NET using a server technology such as BlazeDS. Flex applications can be built and configured to target browsers via the Flash Player runtime or desktops via the AIR runtime.
What's New in Flex 4
This section lists some of the major new features and changes for Flex 4 SDK. See the What's New in Flex 4 article for more information on new features.
A new and powerful component skinning architecture, known as "Spark". To learn more about the Spark skinning architecture, see the Introducing Skinning in Flex 4 article.
A set of components that use the Spark architecture that can be mixed and matched with the MX components that are available in Flex 3. To learn more about the Spark architecture and components, see the Brief Overview of the Spark Architecture & Component Set article.
Support for declarative, dynamic MXML graphics, as well as for static, optimized FXG graphics.
A new default look (the "Spark" theme) for MX and Spark components which support a new set of styles.
More powerful layout capabilities, including support for MXML graphic elements, improved support for rotation and other transforms, support for assignable custom layouts, and enhanced z-order management capability. To learn more about layouts in Flex 4, see the Spark Layouts with Flex 4 article.
Numerous new and/or improved effects, including support for animating MXML graphic elements, support for animating arbitrary types via custom interpolators, a more flexible easing API, and more automatic behaviors. To learn more about effects in Flex 4, see the Effects in Adobe Flex pair of articles.
3D effect support.
Animation of Flash filters, including Pixel Bender shaders.
More advanced text support, based on the Flash Text Engine and the Text Layout Framework, as well as support for CFF (Compact Font Format) fonts.
Improved compiler performance.
New MXML language features, including the MXML 2009 namespace, much improved support for States, and the Declarations, Library, and Definition tags.
CSS enhancements, including support for namespaces, descendant selectors, ID selectors, multiple class selectors, and pseudo-selectors for component states.
Convenient syntax for two-way databinding.
ASDoc improvements including support for Linux platforms, comments defined in mxml files, and creation of DITA XML files that allow for documentation to be displayed as tooltips within FlashBuilder.
Improved HTML templates, based on SWFObject.
Hosting of SDK runtime shared libraries (RSLs) at adobe.com.
Additional locale support for developing localized applications.
Support for JAWS 11 – As of version 4, Flex supports the JAWS 11 screen reader.
Installation instructions
The Flex SDK installation is delivered as a ZIP file and contains the Flex framework, Adobe AIR framework, and command-line tools, such as the mxmlc command-line utility, Adobe AIR command-line utility, the ASDoc utility, the Flex command-line debugger, and the debugger version of Flash Player.
Uninstall Current Flash Player
You should use Flex SDK with the latest version of the debug Flash Player 10. Prior to installing the Flex SDK, you should uninstall your current Flash Player.
Windows-Plugin-based browsers
Run the appropriate uninstaller available from this Tech Note.
Run the appropriate uninstaller available from this Tech Note.
Manual removal (for users who installed the plug-in via Install script):
Delete the libflashplayer.so binary and the flashplayer.xpt file in directory /home//.mozilla/plugins/
RPM removal:
As root, enter the following command:
# rpm -e flash-plugin
Click Enter and follow the prompts.
Install the Flex SDK
1. Download Flex SDK ZIP file from the Adobe website or the Adobe Open Source site.
Create a directory to contain Flex SDK
Extract the Flex SDK ZIP file to this directory. The Flex SDK contains the following directories:
/ant — Contains Flex Ant Tasks.
/asdoc — Contains helper files for the ASDoc tool that creates HTML documentation from your MXML and ActionScript source code.
/bin — Contains the mxmlc, compc, asdoc, and fdb utilities. The bin directory also contains the jvm.config file, which specifies Java settings that you can modify, if necessary.
/frameworks — Contains compiled framework classes, configuration files, and framework source code.
/lib — Contains JAR files used by the utilities.
/runtimes — Contains installers for the Adobe AIR runtime inside the air directory and installers for debug versions of Flash Player 9 inside the player directory.
/samples — Contains sample applications.
/templates — Contains HTML templates for Flash Player detection and browser integration and inside the air folder, a sample Adobe AIR application.xml file.
Ensure that the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is installed on the computer and that the java_home/bin directory is defined in the system path. JRE 1.5,or 1.6 is required.
Install the appropriate debug Flash Player from the install_root/runtimes/player/platform directory.
(Optional) When the Flash Player installation finishes, restart your computer to ensure that the updated Flash Player browser plug-in is enabled.
Compatibility issues
Backwards compatibility compiler argument – There are a number of Flex SDK backwards compatibility changes in Flex 4. You can return the behavior to Flex 3 by using the compiler argument: -compatibility-version.
To get the full list of issues, please refer to the Flex 4 Backwards Compatibility document. You may also learn more about the differences between Flex 3 and Flex 4 in this article.
Using the Data Visualization components with Flex SDK 4
As of Flex 4, automated testing support is part of the SDK distribution.
Using Automated Testing with Flex SDK 4
As of Flex 4, automated testing support is part of the SDK distribution.
Known issues
This section contains selected known issues. For a complete list of Flex issues and their status, see the public bugbase. The public bugbase lets you search for known issues, comment on them, and add new bugs.
Tip: Use Filters to customize your search.
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-17285 – Focus does not work correctly for components that draw off-screen in Internet Explorer. Button, RadioButton, CheckBox, and Sliders draw shadows into the "negative territory." If these components are placed at (0,0), they won't correctly be picked up when tabbing to switch the focus.
The workaround is to either move the component so it's not at (0,0) anymore and doesn't draw anything off-screen, or to change the component skins and create a custom skins that doesn't draw shadows starting at (-1, -1).""
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-20140 – item renderer selection gets out of sync when transitions are used
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-20270 – If some visual elements appear in some states and not in others, you may need to add a transparent Rect to cover the entire hit area to prevent an infinite loop of state changes.
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-20880 – Masking a UIComponent is not currently supported
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-20944 – spark.components.VideoPlayer – Removing VideoPlayer While Playing Doesn't Remove Audio
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-23050 – backgroundImage is not supported with Spark skins theme
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-23154 – Avoid setting backgroundColor on a global style selector. This style gets picked up by several components that may cause unintended behavior to avoid this, set the backgroundColor style on specific components instead of on the global style selector.
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-23416 – RTE if TextArea is used in List ItemRenderer. Workaround is to import import flashx.textLayout.elements.TextFlow; and add this to the List typicalItem="{(TextFlow(data[0]).deepCopy())}"
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-23452 – Tooltips cannot display 4-byte characters on Windows.
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-23911 – Sorting or dragging/dropping of pending or failed items isn't supported.
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-24055 – When Alert is used in a module but not defined in the main app, current moduleFactory should be passed to Alert.show() so Alert can pick up styles correctly.
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-24060 – When module uses Alert but the loading Application does not. A variable of type PopUpManager should be added to the loading Application to avoid Runtime Exception.
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-25270 – AddAction/RemoveAction interferes with DisplayObject sharing
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-25302 – VideoPlayer unable to load Amazon Cloudfront videos
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-25513 – Incremental compiler fails to pick up metadata changes. Work around to do full compile. You can also download a patched .jar from the bug which fixes the problem.
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-25618 – In Firefox 3.6, Scroll bars show in browser after first click.
Workaround is to add the following to the style section of the HTML template:
a:focus, object:focus {
outline: none;
-moz-outline-style: none;
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-25521 – List doesn't respect its Layout's typicalLayoutElement
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-25412 – Spark List isnt updating renderers correctly when specifying custom itemRendererFunction and using virtual layout. Workaround: Reset the itemRendererFunction to the same function after setting the data provider.
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-25419 – List renderer transitions get stuck when allowMultipleSelection is true
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-25358 – Elements with a 3D rotation inside a Scroller are affected by the scrollbars of sibling elements
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-25480 – Rotate3D can cause elements to not be clickable when they have a non-zero z value
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-25231 – Spark MXDataGridItemRenderer leaks content outside of its bounds
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-25773 – The ant script to build themes requires a compc.jvm.args parameter. Workaround: Pass in compc.jvm.args:
ant -Dcompc.jvm.args=-Xmx512m
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Australian shares rose 0.9 per cent on Friday to reach a seven-week closing high, with top miners supported by rebounding iron ore prices and the broader market up ahead of China's industrial production data over the weekend.
China's new leaders were likely to stick with the 2012 growth target of 7.5 per cent when charting a course for next year.
"One of the reasons for the gains is better news we've seen from China and expectations the economy there has stabilised and growth has improved modestly," said Michael McCarthy, chief market strategist at CMC Markets.
Top global miner BHP Billiton climbed 1 per cent and rival Rio Tinto Ltd edged up 0.4 per cent.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index gained 42.5 points to 4,551.8, according to the latest data. It slipped 0.3 per cent on Thursday.
"That reflects very positive sentiments and confidence,"said Michael Heffernan, an economist at Lonsec. "Europe is becoming a less and less worrisome issue, and the American issue looks like it's going to be sorted out one way or another."
Investors are also becoming more confident now that a series of Australian economic data this week is out of the way, said McCarthy.
"I wonder with a number of national data hurdles cleared, if those investors who've been buying dividend returns are back in the market today," he said.
Australia's gross domestic product rose 0.5 per cent in the third quarter, roughly in line with forecasts though the smallest rise since early 2011, while employment data beat expectations for a second month in November, with the jobless rate surprising everyone with a drop to 5.2 per cent.
Meanwhile, the Australian market took a positive lead from Europe, said Chris Weston, an institutional dealer at IG Markets, after the European Central Bank (ECB) discussed negative deposit rates at its meeting on Thursday.
"The big move overnight was that the ECB is considering negative deposit rates, which could be really quite good for other assets as well," Weston said.
The major banks all advanced, led by a 1.1 per cent rise in Westpac. The nation's biggest lender, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, rose almost 0.9 per cent.
Retailers rose ahead of the Christmas season, led by department store David Jones, which climbed 2.0 per cent. Wesfarmers, owner of supermarket chain Coles, ended 1.0 per cent higher.
But Myer Holdings backed off from earlier gains and lost 0.5 per cent, after saying at its annual general meeting that a challenging retail and economic environment is continuing both in Australia and internationally.
Among defensive stocks, blood products maker CSL jumped 2.5 per cent and telecommunications company Telstra added 0.2 per cent.


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Sociology minors take four (4) required courses and one (1) elective course for a total of five (5) courses.
The following four (4) courses are required of all Sociology minors:
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- SOC2000 Social Inequality – Class, Gender, and Race (SP)
- SOC3000W Social Theory (FA)
- SOC3100 Research Methods (FA)
The Department strongly recommends that Sociology minors take SOC3000 and SOC3100 by the end of their junior year.
Sociology minors' one (1) elective may be chosen from the following list of regularly offered courses:
- SOC1600 Happiness
- SOC2050 Social Work
- SOC3150 Social Movements
- SOC3300W Sociology of Education
- SOC3370 Urban Sociology
- SOC3400 Population Problems
- SOC3450 Sociology of the Family
- SOC3550 Ways of Knowing II: Statistics (Spring)
- SOC3600 Sociology of Health
- SOC3625 Crossing Borders: Sociology of Immigration
- SOC3800 Sociology of Gender
- SOC3850 Sociology of Aging
- SOC4000 Internship
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Dropped food on the floor? We've all been there, and for whatever reason, we like to invoke the five second rule. It basically means it's okay to eat it as long as it hasn't been on the ground longer than, you guessed it, five seconds. However, it may not always be the best rule to follow. Do you know what happens to dropped food at five seconds?


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PEMBROKE, Maine — Local residents were joined by people from other Washington County communities Friday in railing against and questioning a proposed project to build a dam-like structure across the Pennamaquan River to generate electricity.
Ted Verrill, president and CEO of Halcyon Tidal Power, and Ramez Atiya, a Utah physicist who is chairman and chief technology officer of the company, briefed the audience of about 70 people on the proposed project, then solicited questions and comments in a meeting at the town office that lasted about three hours.
In the two preceding days, company officials met with state and federal regulators to present information of about 45 studies associated with the project to assess potential environmental impacts. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission must approve the study plan.
The proposed 1,616-foot, $125 million tidal "barrage" across the river between Leighton Neck and Hersey Neck would enable the company to harness the powerful tides of the Cobscook Bay and produce electricity with an array of underwater turbines.
The studies the company has proposed would be the "most comprehensive" ever proposed for a tidal energy project, Atiya said Friday. They would examine potential impacts on water quality and flow and the marine environment, including plants, invertebrates, fish and marine mammals. Some data would be tested with computer models to make predictions.
Atiya repeatedly asked people attending the meeting to reserve judgment about the proposed project until the studies are completed and the results analyzed, "so we can reach a dialogue on an informed basis."
Verrill estimated that the project would create about 150-200 jobs during construction and that the facility would employ about 40-60 people to operate it. It could potentially draw tourists, he said, as similar projects elsewhere have done.
In addition, the town, which collects about $1.2 million in revenue annually from real estate taxes, would receive over $1 million yearly in new revenue from Halcyon, he predicted, although that figure would decline as the facility depreciates.
While two people did speak in support, most speakers, however, were against the project or raised questions about it. Those who spoke included residents of Pembroke, a mixture of people with long ties to the area, transplanted retirees and summer residents. The objections raised frequently generated applause.
"I don't think it's a good idea," Charles Gillies said.
Another speaker, Susan Treiber, criticized Atiya and Verrill for presenting "a lot of vague" information.
The project, even with the jobs it would bring, would create the need for more public services, argued Stephan Sanfilippo of Pembroke, originally from Brooklyn, New York.
"It's hard to live here. … You have to work at it living here. … We love this place," he said.
"We're afraid that we're going to lose this bay," Deirdre Whitehead of Pembroke said.
"That's a legitimate concern," Verrill replied.
Atiya suggested the project could be a "showcase" for similar projects. The technology could be applied elsewhere to supply 20-30 percent of the world's need for power, he said.
However, Newell Lewey, a resident of Pembroke who is a member of the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point, suggested that 40 years into the future people elsewhere may say, "Pembroke was a disaster. Let's learn from that."
"It's scary," another unidentified man said.
Ken Ross seemed to sum up the concerns of many residents and others when he said the issue goes beyond whether the project is technically feasible and if the studies show little potential environmental impact or impacts that could be mitigated.
"I think the biggest questions," he said, concern the impact on the lifestyle of the residents as well as ecological integrity.
"This bay is the very last major unspoiled bay on the East Coast," said Ross, who referred to it as both an ecological and national "treasure." The project, if it goes forward, would be the beginning of industrialization of the bay, he argued.
In its 2010 filings with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the company estimated the facility would generate 80,000 megawatt hours of electricity annually. That is enough to provide power to about 13,000 homes, according to Atiya.
Verrill said earlier this week that he hopes the studies would be completed, the data analyzed, and the findings made available to FERC so that it can make a decision about permitting the project in mid-2016.
The studies should begin late this year or in early 2015, said Verrill. Construction, which would take about 15 months, could begin as early as 2016, and the facility could be operating by late 2017 or early 2018.


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(82 minutes) The following presentation was recorded on April 15, 2009 at Men Can Stop Rape's Men and Women as Allies National Conference on the Primary Prevention of Men's Violence Against Women. Based on experiences from Latin America, Asia and Africa, the presenters share promising practices for engaging men, boys, women and girls in overcoming and preventing sexual violence.
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Drug bust in Quincy
Search warrants were served at two Quincy homes by the Gadsden County Drug Task Force netting four arrests last week.
Fender-bender in Hobbit parking lot
Three parked vehicles were hit by a truck Friday around 11:00 a.m. in the Hobbit American Grill parking lot at US 27 and Potter Woodbery Road.
A teller of tall tales
The following is part of a summer-long series that Herald Editor Byron Spires will spin for the enjoyment of our readers. Chapter 5
Local woman has close ties to New London tragedy
In light of the recent Rural Summit on school safety and tragedies such as Sandy Hook the following story is about the worst school disaster in American history.
Bates, Dupree win Joe Cantey golf tourney
The team of Ben Bates and Jim Dupree defended their title as champions of the annual Joe Cantey Golf Tourney held Saturday and Sunday at the Havana Golf and Country Club.
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Jeremy Lynch, the Athletic Director at East Gadsden, has resigned and accepted a job at the Tallahassee Leon High School athletic department.
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A FOUR week trial which will see GPs treat some patients who arrive at Colchester's A&E department has been agreed.
The trial, which will see some patients with non-urgent ailments and injuries treated by GPs rather than A&E medics, could form the precursor to a permanent Urgent Care Centre at Colchester General Hospital.
The centre, which would not be opened until next year at the earliest, would see patients who do not require immediate care diverted to either GPs or other departments for more suitable treatment.
With the A&E department becoming busier every year, health bosses are encouraging people to visit the nearby walk-in centre or calling NHS 111.
The trial was agreed by Colchester Hospitals Trust and North East Essex clinical commissioning group last week.
A commissioning group spokesman said:"We are working very closely with Colchester Hospital currently to help them work through the pressures they have in treating and discharging patients efficiently to allow the A&E department to work smoothly."


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Why Use Gallery Walk?
Use Gallery Walk to promote class discussion, higher order thinking, cooperative learning, and team building.
Palmerstown, 2004. Higher Order Thinking, accessed 12 November 2004.
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Gallery Walk:
- dedicates time for students to practice discussing, debating, organizing, and writing the
language of earth science rather than just hearing ideas presented by the instructor;
- promotes the use of higher order thinking skills like analysis, evaluation, and synthesis when faculty choose the proper level of abstraction when designing questions; Learn more about creating questions for Gallery Walk using Bloom's Taxonomy
- emphasizes the collaborative, constructed nature of knowledge because students work in teams to synthesize information written from a variety of perspectives (Taylor, 2001); Learn more about cooperative learning
- encourages alternative approaches to problems, because students are exposed to a variety of perspectives posted at different discussion "stations" (Taylor, P. 2001);
- reassures students that their voices, ideas, and experiences are valued because students are more likely to share ideas among a non threatening group of peers (Taylor, P. 2001);
- provides an opportunity to gauge prior knowledge, skills, and misconceptions. The existing conceptual framework of students can be challenged and, if faulty, corrected during the "report out" phase of the Gallery Walk; Learn more about common student misconceptions in the earth sciences
- acts as an ice breaker because students need to interact with classmates and the instructor when debating responses at each Gallery Walk "station"; and
- encourages movement around classroom as groups move from "station" to "station", interrupting the lethargy that sometimes results from being seated for long periods.
How to Use Gallery Walk. Learn more here.
- Taylor, P. 2001. Gallery Walk, http://www.cct.umb.edu/gallerywalk.html (more info) 3 October 2004.


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Outline cookie with full-strength red Color Flow icing and tip 3; let set. Flow in with thinned red icing; immediately place Sugar Pearls sprinkles. Let dry.
Outline cookie with full-strength yellow royal icing and tip 3; let set. Flow in with thinned yellow icing; let dry. Using tip 2 and full-strength royal icing, alternately pipe rose, violet and blue vertical lines; repeat piping horizontal lines. Let dry.
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Astros' hopes of ending streak crushed by late HRs
Bullpen gives up three homers, eight runs in seventh; Carter hits slam
ANAHEIM -- Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Saturday night's marathon seventh inning put together by the Angels is that the Astros found a way to get Mike Trout out ... twice. It was the rest of the lineup that proved to be problematic.
The seventh inning was nothing short of a nightmare for the Astros, who began the frame with a three-run lead and 50 minutes later had watched the Angels send 14 hitters to the plate and score a season-high eight runs.
David Freese and Albert Pujols both hit two-run homers off reliever Anthony Bass to give the Angels the lead, and C.J. Cron capped the outburst with a three-run blast off Josh Zeid to send the Astros to their sixth consecutive loss, 11-5, at Angel Stadium.
"That was a tough inning right there," Bass said. "You look on video and balls were just coming back over the middle of the plate for them. They were hitting everything. If I make some pitches on the corners, it's a different ballgame. It was a tough one."
The Astros built a 5-1 lead through three innings on the strength of Chris Carter's second grand slam of the season, and they got six good innings from starter Scott Feldman before the bullpen imploded. Bass (1-1), Tony Sipp and Zeid combined to throw 74 pitches in the seventh.
"When you talk about using three guys and throwing 70 some odd pitches in one inning, that's a tough inning for anybody," Astros manager Bo Porter said. "We just could not avoid the long ball, obviously. That really hurt and it just seemed like every mistake we made they took advantage of it and couldn't miss it."
The Angels had six hits in the seventh, including the three homers, and had four batters reach on walks (one intentional). Even when Zeid struck out Kole Calhoun with two outs, he reached on a wild pitch.
"Once that inning got rolling, our guys didn't want it to end," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "They just kept passing that baton and doing whatever they had to do and got some key hits."
The Astros made it a point to upgrade their bullpen in the offseason by signing veterans Jesse Crain, Matt Albers, Chad Qualls and Jerome Williams while acquiring Bass. Crain and Albers are hurt, Williams has been let go and Qualls isn't getting many opportunities as the closer.
Houston's bullpen has an 11.69 ERA in 22 1/3 innings in the team's last eight games (1-7).
"It's tough, but at the same time nobody is going to feel sorry for you," Porter said. "We're all pros here and we're going to have to find a way to rectify it, and it's going to be up to the guys that we have here to get it rectified."
Freese's pinch-hit homer off Bass cut the Astros' lead to 5-4, and Bass got Trout to fly out with a runner at first for the second out. Pujols crushed the next pitch and sent it over the left-field wall for his 511th career homer, 45 of which have come against the Astros in the regular season.
That gave the Angels a 6-5 lead, but they were only getting started.
"They have a good team and we just weren't making the right pitches," Zeid said. "We've got to do better and be more aggressive. I know I've got to be more aggressive. We'll come back at it tomorrow and try to do better."
Feldman put himself in line for a win by throwing six innings and holding the Angels to two runs and six hits for his third consecutive quality start.
"That's a tough one," Feldman said. "Hopefully, we don't have too many more like that, but it happened. It's baseball. I've probably been a part of a few innings like that myself. It's one of those things I've got to forget about it and come back tomorrow and try to win the game."
Brian McTaggart is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Hi.I can only write HTML4/5 and CSS2/3 and that at an intermediate level... no JS or PHP/MYSQL.
A client wants a slideshow on his site. If possible he would like one that can scroll through a horizontal line of thumbs, and when any thumb is clicked upon it zooms to the whole size of the browser window.
OK, every wish isn't alway available but as a tattooist it is important to him that people can get a real close look at his work (Tattoos).
I write with Tach HTML Edit... it has a few components that you can insert into a page including slideshows but currently they only zoom to about 6-70% of the viewport, others in the beta version additionally break my layout, though as it is a beta I'm sure they are working on it.
I have three questions...
1). The most pressing is... are there any free or comercial slideshows out there that I can insert into a web page? And additionally wont require me to understand JS or AJAX or something?
2). What do you professional coders do... do you write your own or are you using a program such as DreamWeaver to insert such content.
3). Lastly I'm after a bit of advice... I'm no spring chicken at 48 so I don't have years to spend learning something that'll probably all change as soon as I've learned it anyway.I write raw code and have been thinking of learning JavaScript as it appears to be an all round tool for web-design.However, people keep telling me that I shouldn't be writing raw code but should be using either 'Word Press' or something like DreamWeaver as people just want something fast that does the job. Additionally, there is a widget for just about anything... including slideshows.
I'm thinking that if I learn JS and also get my hands on Dreamweaver that I might get the best of both worlds. Will there really be a place for RAW coders in the next 5-10 year?
Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
I know that a lot of hand coders don't like this, but I have used it and it works well. jQuery has all types of different slideshows to choose from and it is pretty easy to add to a web page.
While it's of course possible to hand code these things, unless there are specific benefits to do that, a re-usable 3rd party plugin for a popular JavaScript library like jQuery is often perfect as it will be quick to implement and deploy. Something like a lightbox (http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/) sounds like it would be appropriate for your situation for example.
JavaScript is definitely a great language to add to your arsenal of web coding skills!
Wordpress and Dreamweaver are quite different things though. If you need some Content Management on websites you build, Wordpress can be quite handy to get that set up, it's probably something worth having a play with. DreamWeaver is primarily a development tool for building web pages. Regardless of that though, even if you are using one of these you'll still need to get stuck in to raw code anyway.
It's funny you say that, because about 5 - 10 (15?) years ago, there was a trend of people using DreamWeaver, Frontpage etc. to build their webpages in a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. Often though this would produce absolutely horrible code, and even now, DreamWeaver's code is no great beauty.
There will be a need for hand coders for a long time to come, as the web grows, so do the languages that are used on it. The client side consisting primarily of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The server side has many more languages including PHP, .NET, Ruby, Python (and many more).
I think that web programming isn't just about "building websites", it's very often building "web applications". Think Social Media sites like Facebook and Twitter, Email providers like Gmail and Yahoo, online Office apps like Google Docs and Zoho, online surveys/forms like Survey Monkey and Wufoo. All of these applications would need to be hand coded, a "code generator" would only get you so far with those kind of things, and as a result you wouldn't have the same knowledge about how and where things are done in the code base, which can be an important factor if you need to bridge gaps between for example, the client and server.
I would let my visitors do the work. They surf, they use and they take control over the website.
As for modern browsers, visitors can zoom in on a webpage by pressing buttons "Ctrl +", works for the whole page, so aswel for the images it contains.You don't have to code anything, it's in the browser
Remember, a good programmer is a lazy programmer.
Your point is well taken, but what on earth does that have to do with a photo gallery?
This is a ratch, but you could maybe put those thumbnails side by side in a <div> of a defined width and styled with overflow:auto to get the horizontal scrolling effect, then link the thumbnails to their zoomed-in versions and use a script like Fatbox (or is it Lightbox?) to get something like the Javascript effect you seem to be describing.
There's also a script called "Zoomify" that might do what you want too. Maybe.
Zoomify resembles how Google Maps zooms into things.
Fatbox, lightbox, thickbox, shadowbox, fancybox, clickbox, futurebox, slimbox, facebox.
So many different names!
Although I agree with what AussieJohn has said, I think that I can add my :twocents:
Errr... yes and no.
There are certain plug-ins and already-made scripts that will allow you to do whatever you want to do with a minimum knowledge of the language but you do need that minimum... or at least, you need to read the instructions. Most of the time, this involves applying the right class to the element that needs to be added to the lightshow but sometimes it also means some basic touches to the script itself (again, following the instructions)
I only use DW in code view and although it does include this kind of javascript programming with it, DW uses Spry, a javascript library that I don't like (because I don't use it). JQuery is by far the most popular javascript library and I visit jquery.com to know if there is anything alredy built that I can use.
No use of reinventing the wheel unless I look at the code and I see that's really terrible.
Another extremely popular javascript library with thousands of scripts created for this type of job is mootools. Lightbox, a free script for slideshows (and which will do what you want) was created with Mootools. Probably is the most widely used one.
Having said this, if you're going to use JQuery, you can find similar scripts for JQuery so don't give it a second thought.
Things do change but mainly its name. Learn JQuery and then, if you feel like it, Javascript. It shouldn't take you that long to learn the basics, maybe 2-3 months. Even less, depending on the amount of hours you spend. Being a master is something else, of course
People are wrong.
First, as AussieJohn pointed out, DW is only a developing too, and WordPress is a content management system which has nothing to do with development. True, WP does provide lots of plugins to help you with your development, and it gives you a good starting point to build a site. But it is a content management system and its goal is... to manage content, not to create websites.
It doesn't matter what they say, you may add as many plugins as you like to get the result that you want (that is, use the code someone else programmed for you) but at the end of the day, if you want clean HTML, you need to hack it yourself. That means that you need to know HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP.
We will be still here. Automated stuff can only go this far. It will help loads to speed up your development and shorten the times for delivery. But you still need an expert to get it perfect
I have to disagree somewhat with the jQuery learning curve. I needed it for a client's web photo gallery and found a script that I could implement within a couple of hours.
That's true, and I even think there are non-jQuery routes for him to take too. Plain, old, vanilla scripts that would read maybe a rel attribute of the images he chooses and will turn those into fancy effects.
A quick Google search can yield you a lot of results, asad1!
This one called Highslide JS seems promising! The script is written for you, so it's just for you to implement.