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Lost my original wedding ring and bought this in it's place. Beautiful vintage style ring. Held up it's shine and very durable. A perfect accessory ring or for any wedding...
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Miadora Sterling Silver 1/3ct TDW Diamond Ringby Miadora
ITEM#: 12942157Made of sterling silver and set with 35 stunning white diamonds, this highly polished ring is complete with milgrain edging. The round-cut diamonds are set in a open flower design connected by circles, bringing to mind an ancient Celtic design. The timeless design of this ring is the perfect complement to casual or business casual attire.
- Center cut: Round
- Diamonds: 35
- Total diamond weight: 1/3* carat
- Color: H-I
- Clarity: I3
- Setting: Prong, bezel
- Collection: Victoria by
- Metal: Sterling silver
- Finish: High polish
- Metal weight: 5.13 grams
- Ring setting: 22 mm wide x 8.5 mm long x 3 mm high
- Band: 8.5 mm wide
All weights and measurements are approximate and may vary slightly listed information. *T.W. (total weight) is approximate. 1/3 carat T.W. may be 0.28 to 0.36 carat. Treatment code N (diamond). See Treatment Guide for further information.
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Lost my original wedding ring and bought this in it's place. Beautiful vintage style ring. Held up it's shine and very durable. A perfect accessory ring or for any weddingRead More
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When I got this ring, I wondered if 19th Century paste diamonds were making a comeback; the diamonds were that bad. So, liking the setting quite well, I popped those fully opaque little stones out, and it is now a much brighter, more attractive piece.Read More
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the love faded for this ring
Looked great on, loved wearing it, but after a few months the silver faded and looks grey and fake, must not be real silver, disappointed.Read More
great buy!
Ring arrived quickly and in a nice little box, it looks great and my girlfriend loved it! The recommendation to get a half size larger due to band width is one that should be followed! I did this and it fits perfectly. I will certainly buy from here again in the future.Read More
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IF you are looking for an intricately and delicately detailed ring, this is for you... which is just what I wanted. IF you are looking for diamond bling, look elsewhere. The diamonds aren't shiny and are actually quite cloudy... not very good quality but I was looking for a band to replace my wedding set that was very detailed and this fits the bill. I do not find it scratchy but I knew it probably wouldn't be smooth since it is so detailed. I am very pleased with the ring and can't wait to wear it for a long timeRead More
Dull and lackluster
ring is dull and lackluster. diamonds look glued in their sockets, not set by prongs. Overall the ring has an off-white to yellowish tint, making it look perpetually dirty and cloudy.Read More
Silver nice diamonds are like little white pebbles
Bought this for my sister as a gift for being my maid of honor. I am going to need to return this ring because the diamonds in it look like little broken white pebbles. I was very disappointed as I have bought diamonds from Overstock before for much less then I paid for this ring and they looked ok but this is horrible.Read More
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I was really excited about this when I saw it and read the reviews. The first hour I had it on 2 of the diamonds fell out. It was not the quality I thought it was and I have purchased serveral things from here. Very dark and dull looking ... not as bright as the picture. I do not recommend anyone purchase this!!Read More
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It took a couple of days to get use to it cause I don't usually wear rings. a couple of the little diamonds fell out but other than that I still love it.Read More
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Tiffinee Harvey connected on her first multi-home run game of her career. Still, it was not enough as the Saint Leo softball team (19-26, 6-10 SSC) fell to the Nova Southeastern Sharks (38-15, 14-6 SSC) 7-2, Friday evening from University Field.
In the Sunshine State Conference tilt, Harvey posted two of the teams three hits. Alex Garris was responsible for the other as she reached on a single. Ashton Whidden picked up the loss for the Lions, falling to 13-12 in 2010, while Jaime Walker pitched well in relief allowing six hits and two earned runs over 5.1 innings of work.
NSU swung hot bats all night as they collected 12 hits. The Sharks opened up the scoring in the first inning plating two runs on three hits. The big blow in the inning came from Saladrigas, as she doubled home the final run of the inning.
Harvey answered the Sharks' challenge in the bottom half of the inning when Harvey blasted a solo shot over the right field fence to cut the lead in half.
Now with a 2-1 lead, Nova loaded the bases in the second inning. With one swing of the bat, Lauren Lopez sent a bases-clearing double to the centerfield fence to extend the NSU advantage to four, 5-1.
Nova tacked on two more runs in the fifth and sixth innings to make the score 7-1. Still, Harvey continued to do her part in keeping the Lions in the contest, smashing her second solo blast of the night over the right field fence. The Lions could not plate another run as they fell to the Sharks for the fifth-straight time.
The Lions will conclude the SSC series with a doubleheader against the Sharks on Saturday, April 17. First pitch is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. with the game two to follow after.

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Bernice Dykes Toole, 90, of Greensboro died Friday, January 10, 2014 at her home. She was born April 14, 1923 in Bonifay, Florida. She retired after teaching for thirty years, of which twenty-eight years was at the Greensboro High School. She was a member of the First Baptist Church, Greensboro.
Visitation will be Monday, January 13, 6:00-7:00 P. M. at the Charles McClellan Funeral Home, Quincy. Service will be Tuesday, January 14, 11:00 A. M. at the Providence Baptist Church, Greensboro with interment in the Providence Cemetery.
She is survived by her husband of 58 years, Johnnie B. Toole; daughter, Ann (James Brady) Hall of Greensboro, Stepdaughter, Sue Ellen Marlow Murray of Columbia, S. C.; grandchildren, Johnnie, Jimmy and Tim Hall, Stephanie Marlow Edwards, William Floyd Marlow, Mandi Rodriguez and Ricky Rodriguez; eight (8) great-grandchildren; and seven (7) great-great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Covenant Hospice, 1921 N. E. Capital Circle, Tallahassee, Florida 32308.
She was predeceased by a son, Floyd Marlow.
Charles McClellan Funeral Home, Quincy, FL in charge of arrangements.
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Three injured people were trapped when a number of cars collided early this morning.
The pile-up injured six people at about 4.30am in Leatherhead Road, Chessington, near the Monkey Puzzle Beefeater Grill.
Two Epsom fire engines and three London fire engines were called to the scene.
A man, 28, with back pain and an ankle injury was taken to Kingston Hospital and three patients were taken as a priority to St George's Hospital in Tooting.
A London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said staff treated a woman, 22, with back pain, a man, 35, with leg and chest injuries and a woman with a serious leg injury.
A air ambulance control car, four ambulance crews, two duty mangers, a medical team in a car and a hazardous area response team rushed to the scene after being called at 4.35am.
Firefighter Jane Northeast said: "Three people were trapped so firefighters extricated and removed them.
"We were back here at half past six but I imagine it was still going on after we left.
"Police have got to investigate and see what happened."


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25 Things About Jessica Chastain
Everything you need to know about Jessica Chastain, star of The Help, The Tree of Life, The Debt, and the new film Zero Dark Thirty.
-Heather Taylor
Whether you're red-y or not (see what we did there?), Jessica Chastain is taking the silver screen on by storm. The redheaded starlet is proving that roles for women in their 30's are still alive and kickin': She picked up a total of 7 starring roles last year alone. Two of these films, The Tree of Life and The Help, have already been received to great acclaim and have placed Chastain alongside the likes of Brad Pitt and Emma Stone. With a much-talked-about performance in Zero Dark Thirty next (in cinemas nationwide January 11!), we're awfully curious about what the California native is like. Here are 25 things you may not know about Jessica Chastain:
1. Born in Northern California, Jessica stands at 5'4"- exactly the same height as your esteemed writer.
2. A graduate of The Juilliard School in NYC, Jessica received a scholarship to pursue her drama major from actor (and alumni) Robin Williams.
3. Her star sign is Aries, hence her energetic nature and her creative flair for the arts.
4. She's an all-natural redhead.
5. Need her to cry? Jess is up to the task, remarking that she has "a bottomless well of tears." No eyedrops necessary for this girl!
Read 25 Things About Emma Watson
6. You won't find Jessica munching on any turkey or bacon- she is a proud vegan. She also comes from a big pro-veggie family: Her mother is a vegan chef.
7. One of her biggest dreams is to buy her mother her very own food truck.
Jessica in 'Zero Dark Thirty,' in cinemas nationwide on January 11, 2013.
8. For The Help, Jessica had to gain 15 pounds (not to mention change her hair color) to play blond bombshell Celia Foote. She described it as "torture" and got her curves by downing cartons of soy ice cream, which she microwaved and drank. Ick!
9. Actress Helen Mirren is a huge fan of Chastain's, having seen "[her] younger self" in her. She also praises the star for her "dogged" perseverance.
10. Tom Cruise taught Jessica how to run, albeit indirectly:The Debt costar Sam Worthington encouraged her to run like the celeb by teaching her the secret of arm pumping.
11. Jessica is a trained dancer and ballerina who described her first running scene in The Debt as running "like Gumby" with stick-straight arms.
12. Though the running is good, Jessica is also a devout yoga disciple.
13. Her grandmother tells her to be more sexual. Jessica's grandmother is very pro-showing lots of "skin, skin, skin," as Chastain revealed in an interview with Conan O'Brien.
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A PSYCHOLOGIST accused of having a sexual relationship with a client will have his misconduct hearing held in secret – to spare the embarrassment of the complainant.
Dr John McCarron is said to have had sex with a woman, known only as 'Client A', on two occasions in March last year.
McCarron, employed by Lancashire Care NHS Trust, had treated her at his private practice for several months before the alleged misconduct.
McCarron is said to have set the married woman 'homework' in relation to her sexual interests as part of her treatment.
He allegedly sent a string of sexually explicit emails and texts between March and April last year and had sex with her twice.
McCarron is not attending, but is represented at a four-day Health Care Professionals Council hearing in Manchester, where he could face being struck off if he is found guilty of misconduct.
But a HCPC panel ruled that the entire hearing should be held in private to protect the identity of the main witness in the case.
HCPC solicitor Julie Norris noted the 'legitimate public interest in knowing what is happening' because of the 'serious allegations', but applied for the witness' evidence to be private because she is 'traumatised and embarrassed' and does not wish the events to 'be laid open in public'.
McCarron is employed by the NHS in adult occupational therapist, but has been in private practice since 1997.
While a consultant psychologist for the former Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Community Mental Health Team, he was rebuked by his ruling body in 2007 after telling a patient to 'pull yourself together' and branding another a 'waste of space'.
Finding that Dr McCarron had not intended to insult clients but that the effect of his approach had been insulting, the 2007 committee reprimanded him and ruled he had breached its code of conduct. The hearing continues.


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The head of St John's School, Marlborough, Dr Patrick Hazlewood, announced today that he will be retiring from the post in April next year.
Staff were informed of Dr Hazlewood's retirement this morning and an email has been sent out to parents.
He will remain in his post of chief executive of Excalibur Academies Trust, which includes St John's.
Jane Butler, chairman of governors at the school, said: "Dr Hazlewood will have led St John's for almost 19 years and I'm sure that you will, like the governors and many previous parents and students, recognise his enormous contribution.
"St John's governors look forward to continuing to work with Dr Hazlewood in his role of chief executive of Excalibur and to working with a new principal to continue the success of St John's."
Governors plan to advertise for Dr Hazlewood's replacement from September, with the intention of a new principal being in post at the start of the summer term 2015.


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Mejia gives up late homer as Mets fall to Cubs
Montero impresses in allowing one run over 7 1/3 innings
NEW YORK -- The Mets lost, 2-1, to the Cubs at Citi Field on Sunday afternoon, their first loss in three games against Chicago this weekend. It was a tight one that might have tilted the other way had Starlin Castro not hit a go-ahead homer in the ninth or if the Mets had figured out Chicago right-hander Jake Arrieta before he departed after seven scoreless innings.
But given the Mets' place in the standings and the time of year, the most important development wasn't the final score. It was the fact that Rafael Montero, a right-hander making his sixth Major League start, fashioned his most impressive outing yet by spinning 7 1/3 innings of one-run ball.
"It was really good for him to have a game up here where he knows he can be successful," manager Terry Collins said of Montero, who could very well end up back at Triple-A Las Vegas with Jacob deGrom on track to return to the rotation next weekend. "No matter what happens here in a few days, certainly he has to be very happy with the way he threw today -- and his confidence has got to be pretty high."
Montero exhibited a degree of resiliency previously unseen from the 23-year-old, bending but not breaking as he navigated a strikeout-prone Cubs lineup into the eighth inning -- the deepest he has pitched as a Major Leaguer. Chicago put the leadoff runner on in five of Montero's eight innings, but only one of them scored.
The Cubs' lone run off Montero scored in the fourth. Javier Baez drew his first walk in 55 Major League plate appearances, and Luis Valbuena brought him in with a two-out, line-drive single to right field.
By the time manager Terry Collins took the ball from him in the eighth, Montero had held the Cubs to one run on five hits and two walks. He struck out six -- half of them via swings-and-misses on his changeup -- and didn't give up a home run for the first time.
All of that represented a significant improvement over his five-run, five-inning effort against the Nationals on Tuesday, when he was a spot-starter fresh off a plane from Las Vegas and didn't exactly know where his locker was when he walked into the Mets clubhouse.
Much of Montero's effectiveness was the result of a good changeup. He threw it only 7 percent of the time against Washington, according to brooksbaseball.net. But with the encouragement of pitching coach Dan Warthen to attack hitters the way he did in the Minors, nearly one-quarter of Montero's offerings on Sunday were changeups.
"You saw how effective his secondary stuff is. We had heard his changeup is outstanding, and today he showed it. He showed great use of it, great location with it," Collins said. "Once they started going up there looking for some offspeed stuff, he snuck some fastballs by guys that he hasn't been doing."
Added catcher Anthony Recker: "He was able to start [the changeup] for a strike and drop it out of the zone a lot. It had good depth on it, too. It was a good pitch for him today. We tried to use it as much as we could."
The Mets had their chances, despite being held to four hits for a third consecutive game. They put the leadoff man on base four times, and twice he stood on second before the first out. They didn't convert until the eighth, when Curtis Granderson singled to plate Eric Young Jr.
New York went 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position and stranded four runners while playing without two of its biggest bats. David Wright sat out with a sore left shoulder, and Travis d'Arnaud gave way to Recker for a day-game-after-a-night-game reprieve.
Arrieta allowed two hits while striking out nine over his seven innings. Collins credited his big curve for much of that.
"I just had a good feel for it, and was able to throw it in multiple counts for a strike below the zone -- so it was there for me when I needed it today," Arrieta said. "[Catcher John] Baker saw that it was a pretty effective pitch, especially with the life off the fastball."
Jenrry Mejia gave up Castro's long ball in the ninth. The Chicago shortstop sent a first-pitch fastball over the fence in right.
Tim Healey is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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For about £110, admirers can buy pendants containing Barbie's sparkling eyes, bracelets made from her manicured hands or earrings fittingly crafted from her little plastic ears. Or how about a necklace made from her breasts...
<snip>The full genome of the Neanderthal, an ancient human species probably driven to extinction by the first modern humans that entered Europe some 45,000 years ago, is expected to be recovered shortly. If the mammoth can be resurrected, the same would be technically possible for Neanderthals.<snip>
Alex Jacob wrote:All Girl Saudi Rock Band. Their web-site where you can hear their hit song Pinocchio. NY Tomes Article.
Researchers have uncovered what may be a universal cause of aging, one that applies to both single cell organisms such as yeast and multicellular organisms, including mammals. This is the first time that such an evolutionarily conserved aging mechanism has been identified between such diverse organisms.
"It is remarkable that an aging mechanism found in yeast a decade ago, in which sirtuins redistribute with damage or aging, is also applicable to mammals," says Leonard Guarente, Novartis Professor of Biology at MIT, who is not an author on the paper. "This should lead to new approaches to protect cells against the ravages of aging by finding drugs that can stabilize this redistribution of sirtuins over time."
Both Sinclair and Oberdoerffer agree with Guarente's sentiment that these findings may have therapeutic relevance.
"According to this specific mechanism, while DNA damage exacerbates aging, the actual cause is not the DNA damage itself but the lack of gene regulation that results," says Oberdoerffer. "Lots of research has shown that this particular process of regulating gene activity, otherwise known as epigenetics, can be reversed—unlike actual mutations in DNA. We see here, through a proof-of-principal demonstration, that elements of aging can be reversed."
this particular process of regulating gene activity, otherwise known as epigenetics, can be reversed—unlike actual mutations in DNA. We see here, through a proof-of-principal demonstration, that elements of aging can be reversed
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On December 13th 2008, there will be rallies in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth to protest against the Government's plans to censor the Internet in Australia.
13th of December 11am - 3pm Brisbane Square
13th of December 11am-4pm Town Hall
13th of December 12pm-5pm State Library
13th of December 12pm - 4pm Parliament
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The report, which draws on more than 250 scientific studies from around the world, concentrates mainly on wildlife, identifying effects in a range of species.
"Males of species from each of the main classes of vertebrate animals (including bony fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) have been affected by chemicals in the environment.
"Feminisation of the males of numerous vertebrate species is now a widespread occurrence. All vertebrates have similar sex hormone receptors, which have been conserved in evolution. Therefore, observations in one species may serve to highlight pollution issues of concern for other vertebrates, including humans," the report concludes.
A Queensland man has been charged for re-publishing on a video-sharing site a viral video of a man swinging a baby around like a rag doll.
The controversial three-minute video had already been published widely across the internet and shown on American TV news shows. The clip can still be found online today.
Chris Illingworth, 60, a father of four from Maroochydore, thought he would share it with fellow users of Liveleak, a site similar to YouTube but focused on news and current events. In two years, he has uploaded hundreds of videos to Liveleak.
His home was raided on Sunday, November 30, by Queensland Police from Task Force Argos, which specialises in combating child pornography and child groomers.
He was charged with using the internet to access and publish child-abuse material and is scheduled to appear in court in Maroochydore on December 18.
It is understood that he had no involvement in the creation of the video, which cannot be published on this website for legal reasons.
The baby is laughing and smiling at the end of the clip, but the video has attracted criticism from child-welfare advocates because of how vigorously the man swings the baby by its arms.<snip>[/url]
An internet cartoon showing characters modelled on Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson engaging in sex acts, is child pornography, a judge has ruled in a landmark case.
In February at Sydney's Parramatta Local Court, Alan John McEwen was convicted of possessing child pornography and using his computer to access such material.
He was fined $3,000 and required to enter a two-year good behaviour bond in relation to each offence.
McEwen appealed against the conviction, but it was dismissed in the NSW Supreme Court on Monday, with Justice Michael Adams concluding a fictional cartoon character is a "person" within the meaning of Commonwealth and NSW laws.<snip>
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We take a final look at our favorite songs of the 1960s, listing our individual top 10s and musing on a handful of tracks our writers believe should have made the final cut.
We start our five-day countdown of Pitchfork's 200 favorite songs from the 1960s with a look at Nos. 200-151.


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The Advisory Board of The Salvation Army of Milwaukee County is pleased to announce that Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame safety LeRoy Butler will serve as the Honorary Chair of the organization's annual Red Kettle Campaign.
In this capacity, Butler will participate in a variety of Red Kettle Campaign events throughout southeastern Wisconsin, including a benefit concert on Fri., Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m. at The Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, featuring a performance by Frank Sinatra, Jr.
From a disabled youth, spending much of his childhood in leg braces, Butler went on to become the most durable defensive back in the storied history of the Green Bay Packers. Playing in more games than any other defensive back (181), Butler was consistently productive, as he is the fourth ranked interception leader in team history (38).
Surviving an impoverished childhood in a poor area of Jacksonville, Florida, and suffering through serious leg and foot problems that confined him to a wheelchair as a youth, Butler experienced a miraculous healing in the seventh grade. He went on to be a three-year starter at Florida State before becoming the Packers second round pick in 1990.
Butler became a starter in his second season, and remained there until he retired after the 2001 season. Butler is the originator of the "Lambeau Leap" beginning when he jumped in the end zone stands after he returned a fumble for a touchdown in 1993. Selected to the Associated Press All-Pro team four years in a row in the mid 90's, Butler was part of the Packers Super Bowl winning team in 1996 and was also named to the NFL 1990's All-Decade team.
Butler has remained active in the community through many ventures, including his Leroy Butler Foundation, which assists women undergoing breast cancer treatment obtain the assistance they need to focus on the job of healing versus the financial impact to their families. His other philanthropic work centers on empowering young people to use their individual strengths and talents while working together as a team to inspire their peers to better the community.
The Salvation Army's relationship will include the organization being recognized on Butler's new cookbook, with a Salvation Army logo on the back cover, and a 300-word narrative on The Salvation Army included in the book. In addition, the organization will work with Butler on its annual winter coat and toy drives.
The November 2 benefit concert is titled "Sinatra Sings Sinatra" and features songs that Frank Sinatra, Sr., sang in over 50 years of performing, many of which Sinatra Jr. witnessed first hand. A portion of the show includes a photo gallery depicting Sinatra's "look" throughout each decade while Sinatra, Jr. sings the songs that best represented the times. The show includes such classics as "I've Got You Under My Skin," "One For My Baby," "New York, New York," "Luck Be A Lady" and "Strangers In The Night."
Tickets, on sale for $125, $85, and $60, can be purchased by calling 414-286-3663 or visiting www.pabsttheater.org.
For more information, call 414-302-4300 or visit www.SAmilwaukee.org.
About The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army, an evangelical part of the universal Christian church established in London in 1865, has been supporting those in need in His name without discrimination for 129 years in the United States. Nearly 30 million Americans receive assistance from The Salvation Army each year through the broadest array of social services that range from providing food for the hungry, relief for disaster victims, assistance for the disabled, outreach to the elderly and ill, clothing and shelter to the homeless and opportunities for underprivileged children. Approximately 84 cents of every dollar spent is used to support those services in 5,000 communities nationwide.
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Topic: Jogging is meant to be good for you, right???
Or perhaps not....at least here in Bonnie Dundee right now......
'I was pretty scared' — jog turns into a sprint for runner attacked by buzzard
A large bird of prey is terrorising runners at Riverside Nature Park in Dundee."
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/News/Dundee … zzard.html
Think of the positives though....at least it will get your times up! Sorry, couldn't resist!!!


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Some phishing scams use phone calls to gather confidential information, via automated phone call or email saying an account or debit card has been compromised. The scam asks that a phone number be called to resolve the issue, which requests private information is entered in to the phone to verify identity. These types of phone-phishing scams, sometimes called "vishing," have become more common with the increasing popularity of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which allows telephone calls to be made from computers instead of from traditional phones. Once the information is entered it is compromised and the scammer moves onto his next victim.
Phishing Using Surveys
These phishers send out a survey, claiming that they represent a bank or another company. The survey may start out with harmless questions to get you comfortable with responding, but then they ask for confidential information. Often, people are told they will receive a gift certificate or other reward for participating. This technique has been used over the phone in the past, but is now being used online as well. The bank will never ask for private or account information via survey.
Phishing Using Customer Authentication
This scam usually involves an email saying that your Internet Banking account has been accessed from multiple computers and will be shut down unless you click on a link, which then asks you to input your account number and password. If you receive this type of email, it is a scam; delete it without clicking on the link or responding.
In another variation, you may receive an email telling you that you need to click on a link to set up "challenge questions" that the bank would then use to confirm your identity during any future logins. The bank does ask you to establish security questions and answers, but only AFTER you've logged into Internet Banking and confirmed your identity.
Unlike phishing, scammers using a technique called "pharming" don't lure their victims with emails. Instead, they install malicious software or use other techniques to re-direct a user to a fraudulent website – even if the user types the correct address into their browser or uses an existing bookmark for their bank's website. So how can users protect themselves? If you're going to enter confidential information on a website, first check to be sure the site has a valid certificate from a service such as VeriSign®. Click on the padlock icon in the browser's status bar to see the certificate, and check to be sure the name on the certificate matches the website.
Regularly run anti-virus and anti-spyware software to update your computer with the latest security patches and a firewall. If you notice something suspiciously different about the way your Internet Banking is functioning, call the bank to verify that you are using the correct site.
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Google's SSL homepage now has a promotional message that encouraged visitors to try Gmail: "Switch to Gmail. Free email from Google". The message linked to a page titled "Welcome to Gmail" that shows some of the advantages of using Gmail: lots of space, mobile access, less spam, labels and search.
"Gmail is built on the idea that email can be more intuitive, efficient, and useful. And maybe even fun. Creating an account is quick and free."
The page doesn't include a Gmail screenshot, a video that shows Gmail in action, but it invites visitors to create an account.
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Hi,I'm new here and in awe of you guys and gals! Fortunately, I already have a wonderful web site that was made for me by a very nice young man just out of college. Unfortunately, he has moved out of the area and I have been unable to contact him. I'm an artist and I need advice on how to add a simple, basic "Image Gallery"? to one of the pages of my site. I need one image at a time per page with a < (previous) arrow to the left of the centered painting and a > (next) arrow to the right. Under the painting I would like four lines of text describing the work (title, material, size, and price. Which forum do I go to for this information? Thank you very kindly for your help as I am not knowledgeable in web site design. I know how to access my HTML web pages and change text, paste a few lines of code or add a link, but that's it. I have not added my web site address because I'm not sure if it's appropriate to do so. If requested, I will be happy to do so if it helps to solve my problem. Thank you all for any kind advice you give me. Respectfully, Tony
Hi Tony. Welcome to the forums.
It's fine to post a link, so please do. If you are happy for this to be pretty simple and basic, it won't be hard for you to do, and we can talk you through it. This forum is fine for the purpose.
My web site is www.antoniobranco.com if you click on Originals on the top navigation bar you'll open up the page I want the Image gallery to be on.Again, any and all help will be greatly appreciated.Tony
There are lots of nice slideshow scripts out there that are pretty easy to set up and are free. Firstly, though, tell us as much about the gallery as possible. For example,
I'm trying to work out which would be the best gallery option to go with.
If it helps, the ratio range of my work falls in between 1 x 1.25 (a 24" wide x 30" high painting) to 1 x 1.62 (a 48" wide x 78" high painting).A slide in from the right would be perfect.Thanks for your help,Tony
A nice option might be to go with bxslider: http://bxslider.com/examples/slideshow-adaptive-height
It has a lot of options, including text under each image. For example, you could modify the HTML code on that page from this:

to something like this:

This is a caption, and some other useful information about this work of art.

This is a different caption, and some other useful information about this work of art.

This is a totally different caption, for a different work, and some other useful information about this work of art.

It would then need plenty of styling, but that's a later issue.
It's quite easy to set up a slider like this. Have a look at the instructions that come with it, download the files and have a play around, and let us know if you need any help.
Thanks Ralph,Ok, here goes. I don't know why but when I download the files on the site you gave me I can't open them. Obviously, I'm doing something wrong. Anyway, I tried clicking on the "view source" on my mouse and I printed out the code from the page on the screen. I've printed it below. I know I'll need to change titles and text to fit my page but, is this the basic general code that I need to start playing with?Two things I definitely want: infinite loop (so that when I click next on the last image I go back to the first one) and four captions under the image.Tony

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$('.bxslider').bxSlider({ nextSelector: '#slider-next', prevSelector: '#slider-prev', nextText: 'Onward →', prevText: '← Go back'});

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Hi, I've been working on this for awhile. Sorry for the delay, but it seems so complicated to me. Before I even attempt to insert this into my web site can you please tell me if I'm going in the right direction? Thanks a million. Tony

Custom next / prev control selectors

Little Blonde Girl

Oil on wood

30" x 24" / 76cm x 61cm

$ 10,000

Black chalk on paper

15" x 11" / 38cm x 28cm

Not for sale

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You've got a long way to go, there, but you've sort of got the idea. I've attached some working files for you to help you get started. Download the link below and double click on it to open it. inside, you'll find two main files:
Double click on test.html to see just the slider in action, and then double click on index.html to show a rough example of it embedded in your page.
Hope that helps!
thanks ralph!....i'll start working on this in the morning!....the sooner i get this done the sooner i can get back to painting....tony
Cool. Let us know how you go.
I've made the rough changes you suggested ralph. See my Originals page for the results : ) ...Again I thank you for all your help....I could never do this by myself.....It's back to the art studio for me...I eagerly await the next move...regards...tony
I would go with a ready made image gallery with an admin, and just insert it into my site, and upload photos through the admin area, like SimpleGallery or any other script. Google for this, there are plenty of options on Google.
The code I posted above showed how to get it up and working, but you missed some of the cues, I guess. For example, in your HTML you included the link to the bxslider.css file, but you didn't think to upload the bxslider.css file, it would seem. The same with the bxslider.js file and the jquery.js file. Make sure to upload all the files in that folder I sent you to the same folder ans the original.html page. They are all needed.
Thanks for being patient.....On my FTP File Manager Page on my host site (Go Daddy)I was able to upload into the directories files... bx_loader.gif, controls.png, and little_blonde girl.jpg and mother.jpg to the IMG folder. I uploaded....bxslider.js and jquery.js into the JS folder.....and finally the bxslider.css and styles.css into theCSS folder.....I tried and tried but couldn't figure out how to upload any of these files into the HTML code of the Originals page....am I getting closer?...Tony
Incredible!!!..I just checked my Originals page and there's an image there!!!...I know most of you guys are laughing right about now and I don't blame you, but any success, even if by accident, is welcomed....signed _frustrated but happily painting in NY..tony
Hi Tony. I was trying to make this as easy for you as possible, so I said:
upload all the files in that folder I sent you to the same folder ans the original.html page
I guess that wasn't clear, but I was telling you to take all those files that are in the one folder I sent you and put them in one folder on your server—the folder where your Originals page is. (I often have trouble getting people to read instructions. . My graphic designer never reads anything I write, no matter how carefully I write my instructions.)
Anyhow, ultimately it's better to put them all where you did put them, but now we have to tell your Originals page where they actually are, because it isn't designed to guess.
On your Originals page, for example, you now have this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="bxslider.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css" />
That href bit is a "path" to the css file. It is saying, "look in side the same folder as this originals.html file and find the bxslider.css file". The browser looks, and says "o hell, I can't find it!"
So you have to change that path.Now, look at the link to your bootstrap.css file:
<link href="http://www.antoniobranco.com/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet">
Aha! Your originals.html file is able to find that CSS file, because the path is pointing to the actual location of that file: it's looking inside the /css/ folder, where that file actually lives!
So that's what you need to do for bxslider CSS files. You can either do it likt this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.antoniobranco.com/css/bxslider.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.antoniobranco.com/css/styles.css" type="text/css" />
or this
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/bxslider.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/styles.css" type="text/css" />
You don't actually need to include the domain name in those paths.
Now, of course, you are going to have to do that same for all the paths—to the JS files and to the images.
Your browser is trying to find your js files here:

Now, once again, the browser is saying "huh?" That's because those files are not where you are saying they are. You need to tell the browser where to find them, so if you have them, say, here—http://www.antoniobranco.com/js/bxslider.js—then you need to update the path just as you did for the CSS files.
For the images, you rightly placed the little girl image in the images folder and told your browser about it:
<img src="images/little_girl.jpg" />
So make sure to do the same for the other gallery images.
But there are some other images that your CSS file links to. In the bxslider.css file, you have this:
background: url(images/bx_loader.gif) center center no-repeat #fff; /* line 56 */
background: url(images/controls.png) no-repeat 0 -32px; /* line 105 */
background: url(images/controls.png) no-repeat -43px -32px; /* line 110 */
background: url(images/controls.png) -86px -11px no-repeat; /* line 148 */
background: url(images/controls.png) -86px -44px no-repeat; /* line 163 */
Each of those red paths is now wrong (because those images are not inside the CSS folder, where those links are pointing), so you have to change them. There are two options. The easiest way is to add an extra / at the start of each one. E.g.
url(/images/bx_loader.gif)
The alternative is to add this at the start of each path: ../
url(../images/bx_loader.gif)
But the first option is easier and a bit more reliable, so I'd go with that.
OK, so I've given a lot of advice here, my my expectation is that you won't read it very carefully ... but PLEASE DO! If things don't work, read it again, and again, and again! Because I find most people just skim, and then get into a mess, and I have to spend a lot more time than I should have to repeating myself. If I've left anything out, or made a mistake, at lest you've know it wasn't your fault that it didn't work.
So, good luck.
Hi Ralph, I read your message several times and have tried to follow your directions to the letter. I made the changes you advised, including the ones in the bxslider.css file. I changed all five of them from url(images/bx_loader.gif) etc. to url(/images...). I also changed the img src="---" from img src="images" to img src="img" because that's where my gallery images will be. I am currently re-reading everything over and over. Regards, Tony
Ralph, One more thing I forgot to add...in the HTML code in the Originals page......do lines 114-120 belong here at the end of the document, or does this section of code belong on top in the  section? I keep going over this in my head and I'm thinking it should be inserted somewhere just above the beginning of the . Isn't this the code for how the images slide in from the right or am I crazy? Also line 114 has the following green colored code which I did not type in but the "system" ? added in //<! [CDATA [line 120 also has the following green code // ] ] again, not typed by me. Tony
Hi Tony. You've actually done well this time, so congratulations. You are nearly there.
Indeed, I was surprised it wasn't working, but then noticed some errors in your HTML. For example, look at this code I gave you:

Little Blonde Girl

Oil on wood

30" x 24" / 76cm x 61cm

$ 10,000

Black chalk on paper

15" x 11" / 38cm x 28cm

Not for sale

Little Blonde Girl

Oil on wood

30" x 24" / 76cm x 61cm

$ 10,000

Black chalk on paper

15" x 11" / 38cm x 28cm

Not for sale

and what you have on your page:

Little Blonde Girl

Oil on wood

30" x 24" / 76cm x 61cm

Black chalk on paper

15" x 11" / 38cm x 28cm

Not for sale

Old man

Black ink on paper

7.5" x 5.5" / 19cm x 14cm

$ 500

OK, so I'm calling on your keen artist's eyes to spot the differences.
Those differences might not be causing the whole problem, but some of them are deal breakers. Might as well stick with what I've given you to start with, especially as it works.
As for the //<! [CDATA [, yes, just delete is and try to keep that part of the code just as I gave it too.


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Unleash student creativity with Adobe Generation
May 14, 2012
We've launched an exciting new initiative this week called Adobe Generation. In a nutshell, this is a series of four online courses (each lasting ten weeks), designed to teach UK students (age 14-19) key skills they will need to succeed in a range of creative careers. Games Design is the first course we are running, which we kicked off last night, and it's developed by a fab team of teachers and industry experts from across the world.
As well as getting an insight into all the ins and outs of games design, students get to learn from some of the brightest creative talent around at the moment. Sessions are taught over Adobe Connect by different creative experts, including US games designer and educator Roxana Hadad, who teach a specific element of games design and give insights into their working lives. They also set weekly tasks for students to complete ahead of the next session, which are reviewed and commented on on a student forum.
For students looking to brush up on their skills in between sessions, we've made a bunch of web-based learning resources available, including video tutorials, 'how to' guides and a recording of each session. And if that wasn't enough, we're also giving a certificate to each student who completes the course – which will look great on their CVs and UCAS applications!
The Games Design course is running every Thursday from 7-8:15pm until July 12th– check out www.adobegeneration.com to sign up or to get more information.


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For a century, people who value and enjoy the outdoors have turned to L.L.Bean to help them make the best of their adventures. They also look to us to be strong stewards of our natural resources and to support our communities.
Given our rich outdoor heritage, we focus giving on national and local outdoor conservation and recreation organizations. To this end, L.L.Bean has given more than $14 million to local, state, regional and national conservation organizations in the last ten years. We also support Maine communities in education, health and human services, and the arts with grants, product donations and by supporting the volunteer commitments of our employees.
One result of our ongoing support of these efforts is that we receive many more requests than we can fund. Please review the qualification guidelines below before submitting a request.
- Grants are made only to qualified, federal tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations
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Primary activities include the maintenance and protection of our natural resources; efforts to engage more young people in activities that are relevant to our product line, such as camping, hiking, cycling, canoeing, kayaking, fly fishing, hunting, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing; and programs that have proximity to L.L.Bean Retail Stores.
Some of our recipients include the National Park Foundation, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, The Student Conservation Association, The Nature Conservancy, Maine Audubon, Trout Unlimited and National Wild Turkey Federation. For a more comprehensive list, click here.
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L.L.Bean has donated over $6 million to health and human service organizations in the past ten years, primarily through the United Way in communities where we have a physical presence. These donations reflect our confidence in the United Way allocation process and our belief in supporting the physical and emotional well-being of our employees, their families and our neighbors. Because of our significant leadership gifts in this area, we are not accepting requests from health and human service organizations at this time.
L.L.Bean has contributed over $4 million to statewide initiatives in Maine such as Junior Achievement and Jobs for Maine's Graduates, as well as local education partnerships. Our support is limited to the following Maine school systems: Freeport, Portland, Lewiston, Brunswick and Bangor. We do not fund education initiatives outside of Maine.
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We support organizations that enrich the cultural development of our local Maine communities, including the Portland Museum of Art, Maine State Music Theatre and the American Folk Festival in Bangor. We only offer support to arts organizations in Freeport, Portland, Lewiston, Brunswick and Bangor, Maine.
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She's one of the biggest musical artists on the planet, a style icon, a CoverGirl, and one of Ellen's close friends -- it's P!NK! She's won Grammys, sold out concerts worldwide and she's also become a special friend of Ellen's show. She's been part of some incredibly memorable moments, like when she dropped by while she was very pregnant, and when she took over for Ellen's monologue on her birthday, and when she sent in a home video of her adorable son! Don't miss what happens when she reunites with her friend today!
Then, Disney Channel superstar and runner-up on the hit show "Dancing with the Stars" -- it's ZENDAYA! The video for her hit "Replay" has garnered over 56 million views on YouTube, and she's here to perform it! If you love her on her show "Shake It Up," you don't want to miss this!
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The Two GolfersTrick brain teasers appear difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.
Tom and Ben were professional golfers and keen rivals. One day during a game, they had each scored 30 when Ben hit a bad shot. Tom immediately added 10 to his own score. Tom then hit a good shot and he had won the game. Why?
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Quit has called for the immediate withdrawal of 'Australian' themed duty-free cartons of cigarettes, saying it is a blatant attempt of the tobacco industry to exploit Australia's image to sell a deadly product.
Cartons of cigarettes bearing outback imagery and flaunting pictures of national icons like the kangaroo and koala next to marketing slogans such as "Another Proud Australian" and "Real Australian" are being offered to travellers leaving Australia.
Acting Director of Quit, Ms Suzie Stillman, said the cigarette cartons were a cynical attempt by the tobacco industry to associate the laid-back, outdoorsy Australian lifestyle with their deadly products.
"Cigarettes are a product that when used as directed kill up to 2 out of 3 lifetime users, which is hardly something that should be connected to the clean, fresh images of the Australian outdoors."
"For the tobacco industry to dress these products up as some sort of colourful souvenir representing Australia is pretty low. Unfortunately it is not surprising behaviour from an industry that is always looking for new ways to try and associate positive attributes with their toxic products."
"Australians can be justifiably upset at these quintessentially Australian images being sullied to promote cigarettes."
Cigarette cartons using images of New Zealand have just been removed from sale in New Zealand after protests from health groups branded the inclusion of national symbols on cigarette cartons an insult.
Ms Stillman said this latest trick to take advantage of popular tourist images to sell cigarettes once again throws the spotlight on the sale of duty-free cigarettes in Australia.
"The Commonwealth Government must act to remove the tax exemptions that presently apply to cigarette purchases by travellers entering or leaving Australia."
"Significant progress in efforts to encourage people to quit smoking have been made over the last few years, so it would certainly be consistent with other strong tobacco control initiatives to see an end to the duty-free sale of cigarettes," said Ms Stillman.
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Neither Rain, Nor Snow, Nor Sleet . . .
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- Social Justice Minor
Social Justice Certificates
The Global and Local Justice Initiative offers three minor programs. The certificates attend to similar phenomena, but they approach them from different perspectives and tend to frame problems at different levels of analysis. Both minor aim to enable students to understand the sources of social injustice and to work toward positive change.
The undergraduate Peace and Social Justice minor, housed in the School of Social Work, focuses on:
- Peace and peace-making
- Personal and interpersonal skills useful in the process of seeking peace and justice
- Conflict resolution
The undergraduate Global and Local Social Justice--Power, Society, Culture minor and the Graduate minor in Global and Local Social Justice, both based in the Departments of American Studies, Political Science, and Sociology, the School of Social Work, the School of Public Health, and the Women's and Gender Studies Program, focus on:
- Analysis of systemic and structural causes of injustice and war
- Preparing students to engage social and political institutions to promote social change
- Understanding the social and political structures that advance or inhibit social justice
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Trying to progress my knowledge this week my learning some socket programming.
I coded a simple http server and have now finished a server and client for simple file transfer. I wanted to add to this by adding a data transfer rate per second print out on the client. Not sure how to do this, searching on google hasn't brought up anything very helpful.
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Katie's Healthy Bites: Hold The Fat, Not the Flavorby Katie Cavuto-Boyle in Uncategorized, March 13, 2011
Healthy eating is not about depriving yourself of your favorite foods or the creamy textures we all crave. Healthy eating is about moderation and simple swaps that can make a dish less caloric, more nutritious and of course super tasty. Here are a few of my favorite healthy swaps that can make a dish more figure friendly without jeopardizing the deliciousness.
- When making soups and sauces, puree white beans or starchy vegetables like potatoes and squash to create a thick, creamy texture and mouth feel without adding the cream, like this squash soup from Ina Garten (pictured.) This is a great swap for people with dairy intolerance as well!
- When making mashed potatoes, skip the butter and cream (or slash the amount) and opt for evaporated skim milk, light sour cream or a little olive oil to create a similar texture and flavor.
- When making pesto, swap half the oil for water or vinegar like white balsamic. You can cut the calories without losing the bright flavor.
- Use smoked spices like smoked paprika instead of bacon to create a similar savory flavor profile without the fat.
- Swap bison for ground beef to decrease saturated fat, cholesterol and calories, like in these slimmed-down bison patty melts.
- Use apple butter or apple sauce in place of oil/butter in baked goods — it will create flavor and moisture while keeping your treats less fattening.
TELL US: What are your favorite healthy swaps?
Katie Cavuto Boyle, MS, RD, is a registered dietitian, personal chef and owner of HealthyBites, LLC. See Katie's full bio »
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PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania women's lacrosse team allowed No. 2 Maryland to score just 14 seconds into Wednesday night's game at Franklin Field, and the Terps never looked back as they dominated all facets of the game to defeat the Quakers, 15-5.
Maryland doubled its lead before the game was two minutes old, made it 4-0 before it was 13 minutes in, and held a 9-2 advantage. Given the extremely rainy conditions, the only drama in the second half was to see what the final score would be.
Iris Williamson had Penn's first goal, with 16:40 left in the first half, to briefly stop Maryland's opening run, but it was only brief -- the Terrapins scored just 22 seconds later, added another one 31 seconds after that, and then scored three more times in a span of 1:02. With just under 14 minutes left before the break, it was 9-1 Maryland.
Penn settled down on defense after that, and the only goal before halftime came from the stick of Lely DeSimone.
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Lucy Ferguson started in goal for Penn, but was pulled late in the first half; she ended the game three saves. Her replacement, Carly Churchill, also had three saves in playing 35 minutes on Wednesday night.
Draws played a huge role in Wednesday's game. Head Coach Karin Corbett ran at least four different players into the circle during the course of the night, but none of them could stop the Terrapins who gained 18 of the game's 22 draws.
Penn returns to action on Sunday at Vanderbilt. The Quakers and Commodores will get going at 1 p.m.
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Like last year the university of Aachen helped us organize the Crystal Space conference. It was again a great success. The weather was nice (sometimes a bit too nice) and about 40-50 people attended. On the organizational side we decided to do things a bit differently this year. We now had two tracks: a user track with demos and talks that are useful to people who use Crystal Space and CEL, and a developers track. This last track was more informal with several of the devs talking about an important subject in Crystal Space. In these talks we made plans and discussed things to do in the future.
This conference wouldn't have been possible without the organizational help of the university of Aachen (the ZLW/IMA RWTH-Aachen department) and the financial help of the sponsors: CAE, Software and Support Verlag (software-support.biz), ZLW/IMA (www.zlw-ima.rwth-aachen.de), and RWTH Aachen (www.rwth-aachen.de). So a lot of thanks to these companies! I especially want to thank Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Henning for giving us the permission to organize this conference and of course Uschi Rick and Mareike Lueken for doing the actual organization before and during the conference.
One of the important highlights of this conference was the presence of Ton Roosendaal (project manager of Blender. He wanted to talk to us about the new Apricot project. This is going to be a collaborative project between Blender and Crystal Space. You can read more details about this project here.
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We plan about seven team members. Here you see an initial idea of how this team could look like:
- Crystal Space: core developer, bug fixer, render engine: Frank Richter (Germany). We decided to pick Frank for this role since he has a huge amount of experience with almost every part in Crystal Space and he knows a lot about shaders (this is going to be very important in Apricot).
- Crystal Space: integrator, scripter: Pablo Martin (Spain): Pablo made blender2crystal. It goes without saying that this places Pablo in an ideal position to serve as the bridge between Blender and Crystal Space. In addition Pablo has a lot of experience with Python, Crystal Space and Crystal Entity Layer.
- Blender: integrator, tools: Campbell Barton (Australia): Campbell has a great deal of experience with Python in Blender and helped a lot on blender2crystal already. He is the ideal choice for helping Pablo with the integration task.
- Blender: character anim tools: Brecht van Lommel (2-3 months): Brecht is also part of the Peach project and will take an important role as an advisor. In addition he will also be able to tackle a bigger coding task.
For the following roles we have no people yet. We plan to do a recruitment campaign in the near future. This recruitment will be organized mainly via the Blender artist community, because we are looking for the best designers possible. Proficient Blender experience is a requirement. Having past CS experience is a great extra, but no requirement:
- Lead game designer, levels, gameplay (Blender)
- Textures, modeler, 2d and 3d designer (Blender, Gimp)
- Character animator (Blender)
For audio we will depend on external contributions (sponsor). Someone in the team will be responsible for integrating it into the game.
Marten Svanfeldt is available for physics coding, render manager coding, advising role in general, ...
Campaign Support / Game DVD
Concept: The plan is to produce a DVD with the the full game experience, including movie playback (intros), user accounts, configs etc. There will also be good (video) tutorials/howtos, the full studio database, and a 64 page full color DVD size booklet with documentation + tutorials. Game + DVD will run on Windows+Linux+OSX
Explore: get funding for extra authors, writers to come over? Jorrit will write booklet docs + tutorials. Philippe: has an E-learning authoring system we could use. Needed: Blender side author. Do docs and game translations?
Need incentive for early sponsors; like credits, or a title screen with all names scrolling?
Getting the artists first in the team will help us making nice mockups and ideas for the above.
Planning Proposal
This is a proposal. Not yet a fixed plan:
- Aug 27 2007: announce recruiting
- Sept 20 2007: team defined
- Oct 12-14 2007: presentation Blender conference
- Nov 1 2007: start donation/presale campaign
- Nov xx 2007: preproduction workshop, and Dutch Game Days (NLGD) presentation
- Jan 2008: START
- June/July 2008: DONE
- July 15 2008: presentations CS Conf
- Aug 2008: presentations GDC europe
- Nov 2008: presentations NLGD
CS development needed
We have to work on several features in Crystal Space to make this project possible. Here is a list of a few of the major needed improvements:
- New character animation module. Align with blender or re-use code?
- Threading, at least physics/collision in parallel. Preferably character module?
- Trees+grass render system, also might require render-to-texture?
- Render Manager. Work on this is already in progress by Marten Svanfeldt.
Blender development
- Python UI for CS editing & export, custom properties.
- Texture memory issue (ogl) for library system in Blender.
- Playback & prototyping.
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Is object oriented programming in javascript used?
Yes but only by those who don't realise that prototyping is far more powerful.
If you use object oriented processing in JavaScript you are only using a small fraction of what the language is capable of.
Prototyping isn't object oriented?
Object oriented programming is just a technique, the same way that procedural programming is. You can write procedural or OO code in JS, just as you can with PHP, Python or Ruby.
One important way that JS differs from those other languages is that it uses [prototypal inheritance rather than classical (i.e. class-based) inheritance. As felgall alluded to, prototypal inheritance is more powerful than classical inheritance, although it is possible to [URL="http://www.crockford.com/javascript/inheritance.html"]emulate classic inheritance in JS](http://alexsexton.com/blog/2013/04/understanding-javascript-inheritance/).
No it isn't. Prototyping has approximately the same relationship to object oriented that object oriented has to procedural. Just as object oriented is far more powerful in many ways than procedural, prototyping is far more poweful than object oriented.
While you can write procedural or object oriented code in JavaScript, if you limit yourself to using those then you are missing out on the really powerful parts of javaScript.
OK. Well, actually, JavaScript is indeed object oriented, and "prototyping" is an object oriented design pattern. Where JS differs from languages like Java or C++ is in how they create new objects (based on a class blueprint vs based on a prototypical instance) and how they implement inheritance (classes inheriting from other classes vs objects inheriting from other objects via the "prototype chain"). But all of these behaviors nonetheless fall under the object oriented umbrella (software using a collection of interacting objects, where an object is a data structure with state and behavior bundled together).
Perhaps you'd like to clarify with code examples how you distinguish writing "prototyping" code vs writing object oriented code.
Well it depends.. If you like OOP then you have to use it.
There's little consensus about what OOP means when comparing programming languages. It's the same thing with browser sniffing. The browser is IE but it sends out a FF user agent string. Perhaps being more specific about the features you're after would help spawn more productive answers.
Anyway, to the best of my knowledge, JS is best called "object based". This is to say that JS doesn't have specific mechanisms for classes which are found in a form or another in other languages. But this doesn't mean that JS can't emulate those patterns or even came up with some patterns of its own. Also, because JS is so flexible, a lot of patterns emerged and are still emerging.
Some patterns try to emulate OOP from Java or Ruby, for example. Others give different interpretation for the prototypal pattern in JS. In the end, for every feature like encapsulation, inheritance, there are a number of patterns. All you need to do is to make an educated choice given a specific problem.
@felgall ;
Isn't it prototyping is just part of OOP?Because as far as I know prototyping is just like extending the class?Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Also can you give a sample demonstration codes showing it's POWER ?
Thanks in advance felgall.
Prototyping in JavaScript is a a reference chain, a reference tree. It's an easy way to get objects to share properties. This saves memory.
The problem is that if the reference tree grows too deep, then there are performance penalties.
So, the new wave JavaScript is "favor composition over inheritance". This keeps the reference tree shallow, permits objects to share properties, which save memory and doesn't have a negative impact on performance.
The simple rule is if the prototype chain is more than two-three levels deep, use composition instead, even if it means loosing the prototype mechanism on the way.
I've wondered myself what we should consider the prototype chain limit to be. I've never actually bothered to measure the performance differences before. So I googled around and found that someone has already set up a jsperf test.
Most browsers seem to have comparable speeds, except for the latest Chrome, which blows them all out of the water.
The latest Firefox and IE10 show similar patterns. Calling a function directly is moderately faster (10-15% or so), but calling a function through any of 1, 2, 3, or 4 prototype levels seems to take roughly the same amount of time.
Chrome's results are downright weird. Calling a function from any prototype level was actually faster than calling the function directly. :shifty:
Most browsers, and especially Chrome, are slipping in so many and various kinds of optimizations that it's getting harder to look at a line of code and be able to predict how it'll perform. :-\
EDIT: This other jsperf test, on the other hand, has an almost identical setup, yet produces very different results.
EDIT EDIT: Actually, that second test has a bug in it. z.prototype = new z should have been z.prototype = new y. After I made that change, then the results started looking more like the first jsperf test.
JavaScript clearly has the basic features of object oriented programming.You can create objects that encapsulate data and objects can have methods that can manipulate object's data.Objects can inherit properties and methods from other objects through prototype link.You can use instanceof operator to check in objects is instance or a known type.
Now that JavaScript is popular server-side language it certanly shows all the limitations that I mentioned, but nevertheless it still works pretty well in node.js and because of original goal to be very easy to learn, it looks like Node.js popularity is growing very fast.
Since in JavaScript functions define scope, then depending on the inheritance pattern, actually there are more ways to make private members: in the constructor function or with IIFE (closures).
And if you're talking about access modifiers, then read-only (writable: false) is not the equivalent for private, enumerable: false is.
Possible isn't the same as intuitive. You can create private members of a JS class, but its not intuitive. Far from.
While this leads to a very flexible and powerful language (albeit a bit sparse, though newer versions of the EMCA script standard do support "protected" and similar keywords) it does mean it will never be able to outperform it's compiled cousins.
While we are on the subject, PHP occupies a weird worst-of-both-worlds middle ground. While it's interpreted, that interpretation is by file rather than by line as with Javascript. As a result, PHP has all the limits of a compiled language with all of the limits of an interpreted one, and none of the advantages of either unless byte code caching is employed.
Are there any other languages that have prototypal inheritance? I mean other than JavaScript?
That's the thing: you don't have classes in JavaScript. Newer ECMAScript try to change that, but only as syntactic sugar. Sure, you can emulate classes, but the ones that emulate classes in JavaScript are the ones coming from Java or C++, that can't wrap their heads around prototype-based programming.
There is no out-of-the-box support for encapsulation as in "restricted access to object's member", but it does support encapsulation as in "an object has method properties too". Newer ECMAScript try to change that.
I wouldn't say this is true. JavaScript is classless, even with newer syntactic sugar. It doesn't use class constructors to instantiate new objects, it uses object cloning to build new objects that inherit from other objects. JavaScript inheritance is by delegation (prototype). JavaScript inheritance is by concatenation.
I'm not sure how you fit JIT into all this. I'm pretty sure you can delegate or concatenate in Java or C++ for prototype patterns. I'm pretty sure you can copy or clone instances in Java and C++.
Also, C++ doesn't JIT. In fact, Java used JIT trying to prove it outperforms C++, which is pretty lame. C++ compiles to native. This means a platform specific optimization as close to the metal as possible. JIT produces a bytecode, which is a platform-free general optimization.
Yes, and this is true for Perl, Python, Ruby etcetera. What's the point?
Yes. Lua, Object LISP. Also, using extensions, Perl, TCL, Python.
Everything you said is great. I want to add just one little nuance, mostly because I've heard this terminology occasionally used elsewhere as well. I don't think "clone" is the right word to describe how JavaScript creates objects. Whether we're speaking in casual conversation or programming jargon, the word "clone" means an exact and independent copy. The "independent" part is important, because we don't get that feature from the way JavaScript creates objects. The new object will still be affected by changes to the original.
var original = {
name: 'foo'
var isThisAClone = Object.create(original);
// it's an exact copy
console.log(isThisAClone.name); // foo
// but...
original.name = 'bar';
// it's not independent of the original
console.log(isThisAClone.name); // bar
I believe it is.
The nuance is more detailed inside the cloning mechanism, the inheritance method.
You want to shallow copy object methods (delegation) and you want to deep copy object state. Though there are cases where you want to deep copy everything and decouple objects completely.
It's the terminology used in many libraries, with the nuances I mentioned above:- http://lodash.com/docs#clone- http://lodash.com/docs#cloneDeep- http://underscorejs.org/#clone
If you want a better word for it, then extend is another one used in many libraries, though it has slightly different functionality:- http://lodash.com/docs#assign- http://underscorejs.org/#extend
What I believe to be a point of confusion is how objects are always passed by reference in JavaScript. So, copy or clone, the result is the same when it comes to complex types. You need to specify deep to make things clear.
And yet, Object.create doesn't do any copying of any kind -- neither shallow nor deep. That's why changing even just primitive values of the original affects the "clone".
But none of those clone implementations use Object.create or the prototype chain to produce the result. Probably because that wouldn't give us the behavior that we would expect of a clone.
Not a point of confusion. Not even primitive values are copied. That's why changing a primitive value of the original still affects the clone.
Probably the least ambiguous is to say that x inherits from y, because JavaScript does inheritance only one way, and we know what behaviors that implies. It probably shouldn't be ambiguous to say that x extends y or that we extended y to produce x, but alas some libraries implement extend as a "mix in".
True. You have prototypes. And everything in javascript is an object. Even the functions are objects.
"class"ical inheritance"prototyp"ical inheritance
They are two different things. Javascript doesn't have classes because it doesn't need them. You can emulate classes in the prototypical paradigm if you want to because it is much, much more powerful.
Newer ECMAScript try to change that, but only as syntactic sugar. Sure, you can emulate classes, but the ones that emulate classes in JavaScript are the ones coming from Java or C++, that can't wrap their heads around prototype-based programming.
Or the ones that feel the language needs that functionality. I know I once did. Now, I'm not so sure if it needs it.
Actually, there is - but it isn't intuitive. It involves exploiting how scope works in js.
There are no prototype patterns possible in Java or C++ because these languages cannot (well, probably more accurate to say should not - buffer overflowing is a key exploit concept) arbitrarily execute data as code.
Javascript allows you to compose wholly new blocks of executable code on the fly. This just isn't possible in Java, C, or any other compiled language, precisely because they are compiled languages.
Also, C++ doesn't JIT. In fact, Java used JIT trying to prove it outperforms C++, which is pretty lame. C++ compiles to native. This means a platform specific optimization as close to the metal as possible. JIT produces a bytecode, which is a platform-free general optimization.
Java doesn't JIT code in the manner that a JS interpreter does. The bytecode of compiled Java runs on a specialized java virtual machine. You can run C code for a 68000 processor on an x86 machine with a virtual machine - hell you can run assembler for older processors on a virtual machine if you want. This is how MAME, BZSNES and the myriad other emulators out there work.
But Java doesn't allow you to recompile the byte code at run time in any meaningful way. JavaScript does. JavaScript pays the price for this trick though - it's hella slower than Java or C.


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