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The 2003 iteration of the Digital Arts and Culture (DAC) international conference series is to be held on the city campus of RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia from May 19 to 23, 2003.
MelbourneDAC:streaming wor(l)ds will bring together an international cohort of artists, practitioners, developers, theorists and teachers to define and explore major themes and ideas confronting contemporary new media practice. The 2003 event will explore the theory and practice of computer gaming, ergodic narrative, distributed and/or immersive performance environments, and streaming media with a particular focus on the real, imagined and wished for worlds that these things create.
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DAC was founded in 1998 by Espen Aarseth as an international conference focusing on new media theory and practice in critical contexts. DAC seeks to bring together new media artists and theorists in a spirit of collaboration and exploration. It has nurtured a significant international community of young and innovative researchers, artists and scholars in the interdisciplinary field of new media, and has become the benchmark conference for research and collaborative endeavour in new media. DAC offers a forum that recognises the importance of bringing together leading practitioners from art and theory for the exchange of ideas and to develop international professional networks and knowledge economies. MelbourneDAC:streaming wor(l)ds intends to continue this role through the papers, panels, forums, and exhibition it hosts, and the innovative series of collaborative workshops and events that will be undertaken by all conference participants. The mission of MelbourneDAC is to exchange ideas and promote new developments in digital arts and culture and to ensure that all participants develop relevant and sustainable professional communities.
A call for papers will be distributed shortly.
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All conference material will be published (all participants will receive their copy during MelbourneDac).
A mentoring process will be available to postgraduate students and new academics who wish to have feedback in the development of their contributions.
A moderated announcement list for all interested in receiving additional information and updates is available. Subscription details at
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The U.S. labor market remains front and center today following another disappointing monthly jobs report this morning. Thursday's report from Automatic Data Processing (ADP) had raised hopes that we would break the negative cycle of back-to-back disappointing jobs numbers of the last three months. But it was not to be, as this seems to be the new norm on the labor market front.
There is no doubt now that the brief spurt of labor market momentum during the winter months is now firmly behind us. Economists will debate the causes of the economic slowdown this Spring, but the trend is quite clear. Monthly job gains averaged 75K in the second quarter, down sharply from first quarter's monthly pace of 226K.
The question at this stage is whether these jobs numbers are bad enough to prompt a fresh response from the Fed. I thought a number around 50K today would qualify for that type of response, but today's number is not much better. But irrespective of what the Fed does or does not do, these numbers are not good enough to produce a meaningful improvement in household buying power.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (:BLS) reported June non-farm payroll gains of 80K, below the roughly 100K expected and the 77K jobs in May (revised higher from 69K originally reported). The revisions trend was mixed, with May revised higher and April revised lower. For context, keep in mind that monthly job gains totaled 84K in June 2011. The unemployment and the labor force participation rates remained unchanged at 8.2% and 63.8%, respectively.
Thursday's ADP report of strong private sector job gains seems like a distant memory now as we can't see any of those jobs in today's BLS report. A total 84K private sector jobs were created in June, with the government sector suffering job losses of 4K. This compares to private sector jobs of 105K in the month before and 102K in June 2011.
Manufacturing added 11K jobs in June, compared to 9K in May and 10K in April. Service sector jobs totaled 71K, down from 126K in May and 81K in April. Temp jobs increased, up 25.2K in June from 18.6K in May. The average workweek edged by 0.1 hours to 34.5 hours, while average hourly earnings increased by 6 cents to $23.50. The June average hourly earnings are up 2% from the same period last year.
Either way you slice it, today's report doesn't paint an inspiring picture of the U.S. economy. It isn't so much the difference between the 80K jobs reported this morning and the expectation of about 100K, but the fact that we are witnessing another slowdown in the economy.
The only positive one could take away from this report is that the labor market recovery is still underway; it may be slow, halting and underwhelming, but the economy is nevertheless producing jobs and not shedding them. Given the unfavorable global backdrop, with Europe in recession and China slowing down, that has to count for something.
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Cosplayer Callesto > Costume of Rapunzel (Tangled)
- Most Recent Photo
- 03-05-2012
- Series
- Tangled
- Character
- Rapunzel
- Year Completed:
- 2011
- Construction Difficulty:
- Normal
- Awards
- First Place - Renaissance Fair 2011; Hall Costume Award - ALA 2012
- Costume worn at:
- Anime Expo 2011
- Anime LA 2012
- Comic-Con / San Diego Comic Con International 2011
- FanimeCon 2012
- FanimeCon 2011
About this Costume
- Construction Details:
The pattern for the bodice was hand drafted to match the seams in the movie; it is made with an inner layer of coutil, and has steel bones. Piping on the corset is hand made bias tape from silk dupioni. I hand dyed the corset fabric, and then screen printed it with Rapunzel's flowery print which I hand drew out for my screen. The skirt is also hand dyed and screen printed with hand painting in the middle panel, to give it a metallic sheen. I'm currently working on hand embroidering the designs around the bottom of the skirt, not sure if that'll ever be finished since it takes yearsss and I'm lazy haha.
Remade my corset for ALA 2012; I made some alterations to my pattern draft, hand dyed the fabric again, but this time used cotton twill for interfacing.
- Personal Thoughts:
- Love this movie SO much! It turns me into a 5 year old haha. This is probably going to be one of my top favorite costumes of all time because of all the custom work and time that I put into it. So it's a bit of a love child you could say lol
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Week 7 Cheat Sheet: Is Tavon Austin a bust?
We're six weeks into the 2013 NFL season, which is far too early to start grading the 2013 NFL Draft just yet. Truthfully, I like to take one or two full years before "grading" draft classes, but in the knee jerk Twitter-ized world of NFL Draft punditry, grades are demanded from us the day a player is selected, let alone 700 days later. That's how it works. You roll with those punches and those wounds live — large and in plan sight — online forever.
I'm the not-so-proud owner of one of the singlehanded worst Draft Day grades in NFL Draft history. I gave the Seahawks' 2012 NFL Draft — one that netted Seattle stars Bruce Irvin, Bobby Wagner, and oh, a guy named Russell Wilson — a "D". Word for word, I said on the Saturday night of that year's draft weekend, "They've got Matt Flynn. Why did they need to take a 5-10 quarterback in the third round? I don't get it and I'm not sure GM John Schneider does either."
So, yes, I was wrong there. Very wrong. Grossly wrong. And yes, I'd like two years to fully evaluate this year's draft class. But I simply don't have that luxury. Fans want answers and they want them now, and six weeks into this season, I'm already looking like a fool on one first-round selection from April. My big Draft Day screwup for the 2013 NFL Draft? So far, it looks like I got a little too excited over the eighth overall pick.
The Rams traded up in the first round to draft diminutive wideout Tavon Austin out of West Virginia.
Though others had their doubts about Austin's size (listed at 5-foot-8, but could be closer to 5-foot-6), I thought this was the very best pick of the first round. I loved St. Louis' aggressiveness, getting in front of the Jets (who I'm told wanted Austin at ninth overall) and getting the biggest playmaker in college football from a season ago.
Through six weeks, Austin's been invisible. Nothing. Zilch. He has had drops, he's gone backwards on punt returns, and in last Sunday's win over the Houston Texans, though completely healthy, he played just four offensive snaps. Isaac Bruce and Torry Holt have made more of an impact on the 2013 St. Louis Rams than Tavon Austin.
Sniffing around, it seems as though there's a few ways we can take this.
The first is the least fun: the rational one. Maybe Austin's still finding his place in the Rams' offense. He's still just 22-years-old, we're just six games into the 2013 season, and there's still plenty of football left to be played. Booooring.
The next route we can take is the accusatory one. More fun, yes, and great for talking heads and message boards, but maybe not the right one. In this instance, the easy guy to blame is Rams offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer.
Long a frustration to Jets fans looking for a less traditional ho-hum offense, Schottenheimer is now in St, Louis, calling the plays for a Rams offense that looks eerily similar to the Jets one he left behind. The big difference? The Jets never had a Darren Sproles/Percy Harvin-esque player in their offense.
Schottenheimer's not exactly viewed as Mike Martz or Chip Kelly when it comes to offensive ingenuity, but when you've got a guy as dynamic as Austin, you'd like to think there's a way you can incorporate him.
"It's just the way the game went," coach Jeff Fisher said, via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "We didn't have a whole lot of plays, didn't have a lot of opportunities on offense."
I suppose. But even still — four snaps? Really? It's not like Decker, Welker, and Demaryius Thomas are atop of him on the depth chart.
The third way to go is the one that seems the most knee-jerky and reactionary. Blame the player. And yes, in this instance, it's fair to say that some of the blame could go to the rookie, Austin. Consider this — on his 28 touches this season, Austin has averaged just 6.03 yards per carry. More damning, perhaps, is the fact that he has seven drops when compared to his 24 catches this year. Perhaps Austin hasn't picked up the offense. Maybe he's not ready for the big leagues. If that's the case, it's as much a black eye on the Rams' front office as it is on Austin. After all, he didn't draft himself eighth overall.
I went goo-goo, ga-ga over this pick. The selections of Austin and linebacker Alec Ogletree in the first round had me doing flips and giving the Rams an A+ back in April.
Once again, I could look like the fool. Only this time, I won't be alone.
This Week's Peter Schrager Podcast: Great stuff from FOXSports.com's newest hire, the dashing Jimmy Traina. Fresh off a two block walk from the Sports Illustrated offices, Jimmy and I discussed the birth of "Hot Clicks", his daily column on SI.com, and what he hopes to do at FOXSports.com when he starts next week. We also had Armen Keteyian, the investigative reporter from CBS, on to discuss big-time college football and his upcoming Nick Saban piece on "60 Minutes". One of the two guests discussed Eric Decker's sex life. It wasn't Armen. Download here.
Cheat Sheet Trivia Question of the Week: The Broncos have now scored 265 points this season, most in NFL history through a team's first six games. Which team held the previous record through six weeks?
Now, on to the picks.
Week 6 Record: 8-7
Overall Season Record: 51-41
Seattle at Arizona: The scheduling gods were none too kind to the Cardinals this year, giving them the 49ers and Seahawks back-to-back weeks with just four days in between. Arizona's banged up on the defensive side of the ball, and Marshawn Lynch didn't practice on Tuesday. Expect an old-fashioned slugfest. I like the Cardinals in an upset. Remember, the Cards beat the Seahawks here last year, too.
The Pick: Cardinals 23, Seahawks 20
Tampa Bay at Atlanta: I've picked the Bucs to win every game so far this season. They're 0-5. I'll stop picking the Bucs to win every game, moving forward.
The Pick: Falcons 27, Buccaneers 17
Cincinnati at Detroit: A.J. Green vs. Calvin Johnson. Suh vs. Atkins. There's some cool stuff here. And Joseph Fauria's three touchdowns and three boy band inspired celebratory dances may have stolen the headlines this week, but I was impressed with backup receiver Kris Durham's eight-reception day in last week's win over Cleveland. Durham, amazingly enough, was Matt Stafford's college roommate at Georgia. He has to know all about his quarterback, including his sleeping habits, whether he cleans up after he eats cereal in the morning, and what his AOL Instant Messenger Away Message was. Yes, that was an AIM reference.
The Pick: Lions 27, Bengals 16
Buffalo at Miami: How about the Bills' rookie class? EJ Manuel is a bona fide starter and face of the franchise, Robert Woods is a go-to receiver, Marquise Goodwin is a legitimate deep threat, and Kiko Alonso could be the best Bills linebacker in over a decade. Not bad. The Dolphins have had a week to prepare and lick their wounds after that bad Ravens loss, though. I'm taking them.
The Pick: Dolphins 20, Bills 16
New England at New York Jets: If the Yahoo! Sports report is accurate, the Patriots will be without defensive leader Jerod Mayo for the rest of the season. If history has shown us anything, the Patriots will find a way to adjust and win 11 games. That includes this one.
The Pick: Patriots 21, Jets 9
Dallas at Philadelphia: Though it was all about Chip Kelly's offense this summer, it's the Cowboys who actually have the most points in the NFC through six weeks this season. Foles, Vick, it doesn't matter. Without DeMarcus Ware in the lineup, I'm going with Philly.
The Pick: Eagles 34, Cowboys 24
Chicago at Washington: The Redskins are in the dreaded "Must Win" mode this weekend. At home, I think RG3 will find a way and save the season ⦠at least for now. It doesn't get any easier for Washington. They head to Denver the next weekend.
The Pick: Redskins 27, Bears 23
St. Louis at Carolina: The Rams defense came alive in Houston last weekend and showed they can perform outside of St. Louis. The Panthers have Cam Newton. I'm all in on that dude. I've been all in since the very start. Games like this are the ones he needs to win to be put in that Wilson, Luck, Kaepernick conversation. He will.
The Pick: Panthers 31, Rams 23
San Diego at Jacksonville: I need another Jimmy Johnson pregame speech for the Jaguars. Heck, I need another Jimmy Johnson speech for everything I do in my daily routine. Brushing my teeth, riding the subway, avoiding my friends' "Who should I start in fantasy football this week" texts — I want Jimmy to pump me up for every last one of them. Whatta ya say, Coach?
The Pick: Chargers 30, Jaguars 20
San Francisco at Tennessee: Hello, Vernon Davis! The tight end broke out in Sunday's win over Arizona, hauling in over 170 receiving yards in the first half alone. The 49ers are winners of three straight games. Let's make it four.
The Pick: 49ers 24, Titans 21
Cleveland at Green Bay: The Packers showed me something against the Ravens last week. Going on the road, losing Randall Cobb and James Jones early on, and winning without Clay Matthews is almost more impressive than putting up 40 points in Lambeau. Aaron Rodgers, a lot like Tom Brady, just goes to work with what he has. He'll find a way against Cleveland.
The Pick: Packers 31, Browns 26
Houston at Kansas City: It's tough watching Matt Schaub and the Texans crumble in such epic fashion. And now, they're going against a red hot Chiefs team, in front of a stadium that just broke the all-time sound record, and doing so in front of a nationally televised audience? When it rains, it pours.
The Pick: Chiefs 30, Texans 17
Baltimore at Pittsburgh: How far down are the Ravens and Steelers that their game isn't even the premier CBS game in the 4 o'clock slate? I shed a tear for this rivalry if that scheduling is a sign of anything. The greatest matchup of the past decade could have one last fight in it. The two teams play Sunday and Thanksgiving. Expect nothing less than the usual hate-fest. I'm taking the Steelers in this one, but it'll be decided by a field goal. It always is.
The Pick: Steelers 16, Ravens 13
Denver at Indianapolis: Whether he likes Andrew Luck or not, Jim Irsay needs to thank Peyton Manning for that beautiful new stadium of his. Marvin Har rison and Edgerrin James are going to be in the house for this one, and so will an angry, motivated, and touched Peyton Manning. I'll take that guy, no matter the stadium, no matter the opponent. Blowout, too.
The Pick: Broncos 38, Colts 23
New York Giants at Vikings: Remember the day you got back from your best vacation and went into work the next morning? That's how watching this game will feel coming off of Colts-Broncos. Two disappointing teams, bad quarterback play, and agitated fans. Great. Adrian Peterson will go bonkers on that Giants rush defense.
The Pick: Vikings 34, Giants 23
Cheat Sheet Trivia Answer of the Week: The 2000 Rams, not to be mistaken with the 1999 "Greatest Show on Turf" Rams, scored 262 points through the first six weeks of the 2000 season.
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Whether you believe (or care) that Maurice Fulton, a house producer known more for his techno-tinged outré-disco than the whoop-whoop of the genre, actually hooked up with three Finnish dudes to record this album of shape-shifting techno-jazz (as in, not techno-y or jazz-y, but somehow as improvisational and propulsive) pretty much doesn't matter. Electronic music can be inspiringly imaginative, but its subgenres can get pretty clique-y, which is why Carl Craig plays with different tempos and styles under as many monikers, and techno stalwart "Mad" Mike Banks' best track is actually a strip-bar electro jam called "X Squared" recorded under his Electric Soul moniker. But no matter who authored these tracks, it's a compliment to Fulton, the Finns, whomever, that they sound like the work of four people and, more important, that they sound this good. When the soul-clap drums come in on the burpin' ugly synth-bass of "Mom the Video Broke," it feels like a house track that jacks your body. Then there are the jaunty rim-shot drums and piano of "Naoka's F," striding along with its standup bass before the whole thing gets Calgon-take-me-away'd by bubble-bath synths—outta nowhere, but perfectly so. Older singles such as "Where's Jason's K" sound more conventionally four-on-the-floor, if only because the freaked frequency of "The Fly" and its batshit synth squiggles are so purely acid house with a live drummer pounding the beat beneath it—the best of techno and jazz. "Nelson's Back" may sound like a P-Funk soundcheck for five minutes, but when the William Orbit mirror-shaded synths come in only to austerely bow out to real pianos, you realize Syclops' real talent is not succumbing to the myopia of repetition, managing to gel just as much as it weaves.
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By Anthony J. Lockwood
Dear Desktop Engineering Reader:
As a Desktop Engineering reader, no doubt you are well aware of what direct digital manufacturing could mean for your company. The problem is that your boss or your boss's boss most likely doesn't get what an investment in DDM could really mean to the bottom line. So, when the subject of DDM comes up, you get blown off with a line that sounds something like "the machine is expensive; how long will it take to pay for itself?"
Sigh. Not that the old ROI question is inappropriate, it's spot on from the fiduciary point of view. Rather, it's that metrics — as in dollars — are what spur on the honchos, and you really do not know a formula to provide a good answer. Well, hard dollars are a key part of today's Check It Out sponsored by Stratasys, and all the data is there for you to engineer the formula to explain why DDM is the right investment for your company. Get a pad and pencil out to take notes.
Today's video and complementary PDF is about Oreck. You've seen their commercials on TV. They've been making vacuums since 1963, and they were an early adopter of DDM in the form of a pair of Stratasys Fortus 3D Production Systems.
The issue here is that Oreck is both a mass production and low-volume manufacturer. Each of its product lines use some 40 to 50 custom production assembly pallets, which are used to precisely hold things like covers so that the vacuum's guts can be assembled quickly and efficiently.
Now, prior to DDM, Oreck used traditional silicone or epoxy molds and urethane castings with inserts to create these fixtures. The Fortus with its FDM additive build process gave the engineers at Oreck the option to create the fixtures themselves. In fact, Oreck uses the Fortus throughout the enterprise: prototypes, full mockups, specialized assembly tools, and fixtures for their testing stands, CMMs, and CNCs. They even make some of the models you see in ads and TV commercials.
Besides that, what has DDM meant to Oreck? Well, they say that they get a dollar savings of up to 65 percent in fixture production costs (they cite a $100,000 project). Now, do the math for the boss. If you have one or multiple product lines and you could potentially reduce production costs by up to 65 percent with a Fortus 3D Production System, what would that translate to in hard dollars? Then, all you need to do is get pricing from Stratasys, extrapolate savings over time, and figure out the ROI for the boss. The answer might surprise the two of you.
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SACRAMENTO — With no opponent last year, Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla glided through the election season. But the Concord Democrat spent campaign money as if she were fighting for her political life.
In burning through $407,000 of her donors' money in 2012, Bonilla took a half-dozen flights in and out of California, including a trip to Maui to be wined and dined by lobbyists. And she held dozens of lunches and dinners — described in spending reports as "campaign strategy" meetings — across the state, 62 in all. The tab: $11,567.
Bonilla was hardly alone in blurring the line between personal and professional uses of her campaign donations, an examination by this newspaper shows. Yet she and her colleagues can expect their spending sprees to go unchallenged.
It's a glaring weakness of California's campaign-finance reporting system, making it ripe for abuse: It's hard to verify whether the expenses of Bonilla and other politicians and office-seekers are legitimate. The law is vague, saying candidates can dip into their treasuries for anything with a political, legislative or governmental purpose. In addition, there are only minimal requirements when it comes to reporting — saying how many people ate at a restaurant, the cost and location. And few questions are raised if those details are missing.
"We would like to see campaign spending regulated at a higher threshold so that the money is actually spent on campaigns and not used as slush funds," said Phillip Ung, a lobbyist for Common Cause, an organization that advocates for greater transparency in politics.
The state Franchise Tax Board and Fair Political Practices Commission conduct random audits on about 10 percent of the campaign finance forms candidates file with the Secretary of State's Office. But the tax board and FPPC, the state's political watchdog agency, focus mostly on egregious violations of the law, allowing many potential violations to slip by. And the Legislature has little interest in fixing a system that allows its members to treat themselves to expensive meals and trips, often gaining access to the powerful and connected.
Trips to far-flung, exotic destinations are increasingly commonplace. Former state Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, last year spent $6,198 on a trip to Turkey, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and London. Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, spent $13,711 on two trips that took him to Moscow, London, New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong.
"I know we get criticized for it, but we don't use public funds, there's no international quid pro quo, and it helps my understanding of different issues like high-speed rail," DeSaulnier said. "I understand that people think it's elitist, that it's something we're taking advantage of — and I guess I enjoy the trips. But this makes me a better person, more knowledgeable about the global economy we live in."
Simitian agreed. Such trips "make us better legislators" by gaining a greater understanding of other cultures, said Simitian, who recently returned to his old job as a Santa Clara County supervisor.
Last year, former Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco, was term-limited and had no election, but she pulled $329,252 out of her campaign kitty, which she says was necessary to lay the groundwork for a 2014 run for the state Board of Equalization.
She took more than 30 airplane trips, mostly in California. In addition, Ma doled out $44,268 for travel, lodging and meal expenses for Bob Twomey, her district director. But few details about Twomey's trips are provided in Ma's campaign reports, which don't say whom he traveled with, where he went and for what purpose.
Twomey told this newspaper the money was spent to fly nearly 200 interns around the state to attend political events, a group that he said was dubbed the "Ma Squad."
But when asked to show receipts for the expenditures, Twomey balked.
"I'm not sure that's required," Twomey said. "These are all legitimate expenses. You've got to feed them. Is there a way to verify? As far as doing additional disclosure, I'm not sure anybody is willing to do that."
Assemblywoman Nora Campos, D-San Jose, spent $1,829 on a Maui trip to attend the Pacific Policy Research Foundation conference, a weeklong retreat set up by lobbyists and big contributors to lavish luxury on legislators. She also spent $1,524 for a trip to Orlando, Fla., where she attended a five-day National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference with her husband and son. They stayed at a Disney World hotel.
"The trip was for educational purposes, and she wanted her son to be with her, so her husband accompanied her so he could baby-sit him," said Linda Rapattoni, Campos' spokeswoman, who added that "any expense paid for her husband and son were paid with personal funds."
Unless complaints of potential abuse are brought to the attention of the FPPC by the media or others, the expenses generally go unscrutinized.
The FPPC has 30 staff members in its enforcement unit, overseeing the campaign spending of thousands of elected officials and office-seekers, so its ability to track the abusers is limited, said Ung of Common Cause. And under FPPC Chairwoman Ann Ravel, the agency has placed a stronger emphasis on investigating larger cases — such as the fraud case of Democratic treasurer Kinde Durkee and last fall's anonymous $11 million donation from secret out-of-state groups to a pair of ballot initiative campaigns.
Ravel indicated she wasn't sure whether sifting through restaurant and hotel receipts would be a good use of the FPPC's time. "You could be getting so much volume and requiring so much detail to get at a couple of scofflaws," she said.
But Bob Stern, a former top FPPC official who helped write California's original campaign finance regulations in 1974, argues that legislators and candidates should at the least be required to say not only how many people are attending a meal or fundraiser, but also who attended.
"You can't require them to record a conversation," Stern said. "So I guess I'd say, 'Who are you with? Are you with your wife or husband, or are you with your consultant? If you had a fundraiser, who gave to you and how much?'"‰"
Referring to Assemblywoman Bonilla's "campaign strategy" lunches and dinners despite the fact that she ran unopposed, Stern said: "Clearly, 62 meals is a lot for a year. I'd question it."
In an interview, Bonilla said she was active in the campaigns for Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown's tax-hike measure, and to defeat Proposition 32, the measure that would have curbed labor's political clout. She said she also helped out in other candidates' races.
The weekly meals at such establishments as the Salted Pig in Riverside and the Shady Lady Saloon in Sacramento "was the form of campaigning I engaged in," Bonilla said. "In this line of work, that's where a lot of meetings take place. You can't do them in your office, and most people are available to you in a meal."
Besides the trip to Maui, Bonilla also flew to legislative conferences in Monterey; San Diego; Pasadena; Portland, Ore.; Dallas; and Charlotte, N.C.
She said her Hawaii trip, at the lobbyist-sponsored Pacific Policy Research conference — the same trip she and her husband had taken the previous year — was to study cap-and-trade, the federal health care law and regulatory issues. In all, Bonilla used $3,706 from her campaign funds to attend the weeklong affair.
"It was certainly an enjoyable trip to Hawaii, but the actual time spent in conference was very substantive, and it was information I valued receiving," Bonilla said. "My choice was not to spend taxpayer dollars."
Not that she had much of a choice. State law prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars on trips out of state.
Contact Steven Harmon at 916-441-2101. Follow him at Twitter.com/ssharmon.
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The Bay Area News Group's examination of Bay Area legislators' 2012 campaign finance reports found a lot of details lacking. Here are some examples:
Joe Coto, the former Assembly member who lost a state Senate race to Jim Beall, D-San Jose, listed that 40 people attended an $8,000 fundraiser at Coyote Creek Golf Club. But he wasn't as forthcoming about a $4,950 fundraiser at an Oakland Raiders game, specifying only that the money went for game tickets. Coto also paid his daughter Lisa, who appeared in a TV ad with him, $24,080 as a consultant.
Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Salinas, provided intricate details about some of his expenditures. He reimbursed a staff member $43.09 for helium for balloons at a campaign event. But he didn't go into details of a pair of trips, in April and June, to Arizona with a "household member" that cost $961. He provided no details about a US Airways $449 flight in October, or two Southwest Airlines flights worth $680 in January. He also spent $3,389 on artwork and frames for his office.
Assemblyman Jim Frazier, D-Oakley, listed two payments totaling $991 for Humphrey's on the Delta, a steak and seafood restaurant at the Barbara Price Marina Park in Antioch — under the campaign paraphernalia/miscellaneous category. There were no details on what paraphernalia or miscellaneous items were bought there, nor how many people were fed.
Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, spent $796 for a fundraiser at a San Francisco 49ers game. There was no information on how many people attended, who attended, nor how much he raised.
Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, preferred the Oakland A's Coliseum as a place to hold a meeting at a cost of $320. No details were given on who attended and for what purpose.
Sen. Bill Monning, D-Santa Cruz, spent $999.68 for candidate and staff lodging at the Luxe Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. There are no details on what the purpose was or the length of the stay, or even when. Nor did he report how many staff members went on the trip. He also provided no details about four stays at the Best Western in Sacramento ($477) or a night at the Peachtree Inn in San Luis Obispo ($177). He did provide the number of guests — five — who ate with him at the Wild Donkey Cafe in San Luis Obispo for $167.
Former Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi, maligned for shoplifting $2,500 worth of clothes at Neiman Marcus in San Francisco, was precise in detailing who was at meetings and meals with her, and the topics they discussed. She also listed a $6,274 payment in 2011 to San Francisco-based Singer Associates. Consultant Sam Singer acted as her spokesman during her shoplifting crisis.


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I was wondering if you had pen pressure but then I saw you created this with a mouse. owo That's amazing. Well done! *thumbs up*
This is really lovely as is :) Along the lines of what Air said, another option if you use layers would be to do the sunlight effect on a separate layer, then use the soft eraser on low opacity to soften the sunlight effect just a bit. :) 5 ♥s
Fab draw kujowolf...5/5.
The colours look wonderful,,and the trees too,,Air has put a great tip in already for the sunlight,,this looks a lovely place to be ,,You are doing wonderfully Kujo,,,,:))5♥s
oh before i forget,the floor fill with flowers looks cool.
undone to go back to what you have before the blur,hope this help.i use what i said,when i made my light sources:)
airbrush in low opacity and combine with transparency will help to make the lines invisible,also after that if you put blur is will erase them even more,it will spread the light surce,if you dont like how the blur effect looks,you can always click
thanks for the comment,that buterfly draw and poem goes together with the other one.well for a mouse you really did good,you capture the effect of the sinrise in the woods.the only thing is did you use a pencil or airbrush for the light effect,
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COLVILLE, Wash. (AP) — The Stevens County prosecutor says a reserve deputy who fatally shot a man last fall at his rural home won't be charged. The prosecutor said yesterday that 65-year-old John Peterson aimed his gun at reserve Deputy Nick Wolfe on Oct. 19. Wolfe fired one shot, killing the Vietnam War veteran. Peterson had recently moved to Washington from Minnesota.


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Pamplemousse Grille, 514 Via de la Valle, Solana Beach, 858-792-9090. Three-course dinner $50, kids $25, 3:00--8:00 p.m.
Poseidon, 1670 Coast Boulevard (at 15th Street), Del Mar, 858-755-9345. Set menu with many entrée choices, $18--22, kids $11, 5:30--9:00 p.m.
Red Tracton's, 550 Via de la Valle, Solana Beach, 858-755-6600. Next to the racetrack, à la carte menu includes turkey entrée ($20); 2:00--9:00 p.m.
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Arterra, San Diego Marriott Del Mar, 11966 El Camino Real, Carmel Valley, 858-369-6032. Three-course dinner with local-grown produce, choice of entrées, about $50, kids half price, noon--8:00 p.m.
A.R. Valentien, Lodge at Torrey Pines, 11480 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, 858-453-4420. Dinner $65, kids $30, may be sold out.
Elario's Bistro and Sky Lounge, Hotel La Jolla, 7955 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, 858-459-0541. Traditional buffet with a sky-high view, $30, kids $16, noon--8:00 p.m.
Galoka, 5662 La Jolla Boulevard, Bird Rock, 858-551-8610. Organic vegan Indo-fusion dinner, call for details.
George's at the Cove, 1250 Prospect Street, La Jolla, 858-454-4244. Regular à la carte menu plus chef Trey Foshee's seasonal specials. Turkey entrée $26, kids $16, 1:00--9:00 p.m.
La Valencia Hotel, 1132 Prospect Street (at Herschel), La Jolla. Thanksgiving in three venues.
Mediterranean Room, 858-551-3765, four-course dinner, $55, kids $27.50, casual atmosphere.
Cafe La Rue, 858-551-3761, dinner $55, 5:00--9:30 p.m., business casual dress.
Sky Room, 858-551-3744, $65, starts at 2:30 p.m., jacket required, may be sold out.
Marine Room, 2000 Spindrift Drive, La Jolla, 858-459-7222, www.marineroom.com. À la carte holiday menu with a close-up ocean view and adventurous cuisine. See website under "special events" for menu. Expensive, open 11:30 a.m.--7:30 p.m.
Nine-Ten, Grande Colonial Hotel, 910 Prospect Street, La Jolla, 858-964-5400. Chef Jason Knibb (a Trey Foshee protegé) rides the range at a four-course Thanksgiving menu, $42, kids $19, 2:00--8:00 p.m.
The Shores, Sea Lodge, 8110 Camino del Oro, La Jolla, 858-456-0600. Family-friendly atmosphere, buffet $30, kids $15 age 7--12, under 7, $2 per year, 11:00 a.m.--8:00 p.m.
Top of the Cove, 1216 Prospect Street, La Jolla, 858-454-7779. Three-course prix-fixe dinner with a view, choice of entrée, $48, 1:00--7:00 p.m.
Torreyana Grille, Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines, 10950 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, 858-450-4571. Holiday buffet $37, $15 kids, noon--8 p.m.
AJ's, Shelter Pointe Hotel, 1551 Shelter Island Drive, Shelter Island, 619-221-8000. Brunch buffet $29, $14 kids, 10:00 a.m.--3:00 p.m.
The Atoll, Catamaran Resort Hotel, 3999 Mission Boulevard, Mission Beach, 858-539-8635. Brunch buffet $33, kids $16, 11:00 a.m.--3:00 p.m., includes complimentary paddle-wheeler cruise to Bahia and back. Dinner à la carte (no cruise), turkey $20, kids $12, 5:30--10:00 p.m.
Bahia Resort Hotel, 998 West Mission Bay Drive, Mission Beach, 858-539-7635. Brunch buffet $33, kids $15, includes complimentary paddle-wheeler cruise to the Catamaran Resort and back, 11:00 a.m.--3:00 p.m. Dinner (no cruise) $20, kids $10, 5:30--10:30 p.m.
Baleen, Paradise Point Resort, 1404 Vacation Road, Mission Bay, 858-490-6363. Buffet side dishes, sit-down entrées in charming resort setting, $59, $27 kids, 11:30 a.m.--8:00 p.m.
Bali Hai, 2230 Shelter Island Drive, Shelter Island, 619-222-1181. Family ambience, traditional buffet $20, kids at reduced price, 11:00 a.m.--8:00 p.m.
Blue Pearl, the Dana on Mission Bay, 1710 West Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay, 619-222-4198. Special menu, marina view, call for price (moderate), 8:00 a.m.--8:00 p.m.
Harbor's Edge, Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, 1380 Harbor Island Drive, Harbor Island, 619-692-2255. Regular à la carte menu, 6:30 a.m.--10:00 p.m.
Alfiere, 619-692-2778, regular (expensive) menu, seasonal specials, 6:30 a.m.--10:00 p.m.
Humphrey's by the Bay, 2241 Shelter Island Drive, Shelter Island, 619-224-3577. Champagne brunch with a marina view, $35, $16 kids, 11:30 a.m.--4:30 p.m.
Kaiserhof, 2253 Sunset Cliffs Boulevard (West Point Loma Boulevard), Ocean Beach, 619-224-0606. Call for details.
Thee Bungalow, 4996 West Point Loma Boulevard, Ocean Beach, 619-224-2884. Three-course dinner in cozy cottage, numerous festive entrée choices, about $35, 11:00--8:00 p.m. May be sold out.
Third Corner, 2265 Bacon Street (across from sister restaurant Thee Bungalow), Ocean Beach, 619-223-2700. Three-course dinner with several entrée choices, about $35, 1:00--8:00 p.m.
Tom Ham's Lighthouse, end of Harbor Island Drive, Harbor Island, 619-291-9110. Convivial buffet $23, kids $14, $8 under age 7, 11:30 a.m.--9:00 p.m.
World Famous, 711 Pacific Beach Drive, Pacific Beach, 858-272-3100. Right on the boardwalk, all-day à la carte brunch, about $28, kiddie discount, 11:00 a.m.--8:00 p.m.
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Butcher Shop Steakhouse, 5255 Kearny Villa Road, Kearny Mesa, 858-565-2272. Holiday buffet with turkey, prime rib, etc., $25, kids $13, 11:00 a.m.--8:00 p.m.
94th Aero Squadron, 8885 Balboa Avenue, Kearny Mesa, 858-560-6771. Traditional buffet in a faux-farmhouse with airport view, $24, kids $13, 11:00 a.m.--8:00 p.m.
The Tickled Trout, Ramada Plaza Hotel, 2151 Hotel Circle South, 619-291-6505. Traditional holiday dinner, family atmosphere, $22, kids $10, 11:00 a.m.--7:00 p.m.
San Diego
Bertrand at Mister A's, 2550 Fifth Avenue, Uptown, 619-239-1377. A spectacular view, and a three-course menu with three entrée choices, $45, from 2:30--8:30 p.m.
Buster's Beach House, 807 West Harbor Drive, Seaport Village, 619-233-4300. Waterfront location, regular à la carte menu, moderate, 11:30 a.m.--9:00 p.m.
Cafe Pacifica, 2414 San Diego Avenue, Old Town, 619-291-6666. À la carte holiday menu includes turkey entrée at $19, 3:00--9:00 p.m.
Grant Grill, U.S. Grant Hotel, 326 Broadway, downtown, 619-239-6806. Traditional holiday brunch buffet in historic Victorian-era hotel, call for details.
Hob Nob Hill, 2271 First Avenue, Uptown, 619-239-8176. À la carte holiday menu, with full turkey dinner, many other entrée choices, about $17, kids $7.75, open 7:00 a.m.--9:00 p.m.
Hornblower Cruises. Tickets/boarding at 1066 North Harbor Drive, downtown, 619-686-8715; online reservations at www.hornblower.com. Thanksgiving champagne buffet afloat, check website for prices and times.
Imperial House, 505 Kalmia Street (at Sixth Avenue), Uptown, 619-234-3525. Sit-down dinner by Balboa Park, many entrée choices, $25, $17 kids, 1:00--7:00 p.m.
Lael's Restaurant, Manchester Grand Hyatt, One Market Place, downtown, 619-358-6735. Buffet $43, kids $22, 11:30 a.m.--6:30 p.m.
Laurel Restaurant, 505 Laurel Street (at Fifth Avenue), Uptown, 619-239-2222. Call for details.


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The Art Gallery of York University is seeking video submissions by students and emerging artists for a series of screenings that will take place at the AGYU in November 2007. This is an open call and we encourage experimental works and diverse thematic approaches/subject matter, but works should be no longer than 8 minutes, and should be in DVD format. Multiple submissions are welcome. Please drop off submissions to the AGYU offices by September 14th, 2007, or mail submissions to:
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BALTIMORE, April 2 (UPI) -- Ricardo Rodriguez allowed just one run and four hits in seven innings Wednesday night as the Cleveland Indians rebounded from a 13-inning loss on Opening Day to defeat the Baltimore Orioles, 4-2.
Rodriguez (1-0) walked one and struck out two. His only mistake was a two-out homer to Tony Batista in the second inning.
Jose Santiago gave up a leadoff homer to Deivi Cruz in the eighth before Danys Baez recorded the final three outs for his first save.
Omar Daal (0-1) took the loss, yielding four runs and eight hits in 6 1/3 innings in his Orioles' debut.
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Rodrigo Diamanti, who is the creator of the "SOS Venezuela" campaign, was the subject of a social media hash tag that alarmed human rights defenders worldwide -- "Liberen a Rodrigo," Spanish for free Rodrigo.
Diamanti was detained Wednesday, interrogated without access to legal counsel, and released on probation Friday night. He was charged with two crimes, his attorney Nizar El Fakih tweeted in Spanish, and will not be allowed to leave the country.
"I'm with @RDiamanti," Ek Fakih weeted. "He is in good condition [and is] very tired because he hasn't slept."
Venezuelan reporter Maria Alesia Sosa, who was in communication with his attorney on Twitter, tweeted late Friday in Spanish that Diamanti was facing charges of possession of explosive devices and obstruction of public roads, and that there was a criminal investigation in progress.
Diamanti's sister Claudia Diamanti, who lives in Washington, D.C., and his friends and colleagues tweeted that Venezuelan authorities had detained the political activist Wednesday.
In Venezuela, any one who is caught "red-handed" can be detained for 48 hours without charges.
The arrest happened days after Diamanti protested that Venezuelan authorities raided the office of his "Un Mundo Sin Mordaza," a World Without Censorship, He founded the Caracas-based organization to promote awareness on human rights abuses, his sister said during an interview with CNN.
Diamanti has also organized several other non-governmental organizations to promote political activism including "Futuro Presente" and "Liderazgo y Vision."
The World Economic Forum released a statement late Friday saying the organization was "deeply concerned" for Diamanti, who became a member of their global shapers community in 2012.
"Rodrigo is a human rights advocate and community builder who actively works to encourage freedom of expression," the statement said. "The outpouring of support for Rodrigo is a testament to how much his work and contributions are appreciated both locally and around the world."


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A crowd of protesters from various environmental groups gathered outside the Getty mansion in San Francisco Wednesday night where they called on President Obama to reject construction of a pipeline that would transport oil from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast.
The president was attending a fundraiser at the mansion - one of two events he was attending in the city Wednesday.
Holding signs and chanting "stop the pipeline," protesters from a group called CREDO, the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and other organizations - gathered in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, a pipeline that if approved, would carry oil extracted from tar sands in Canada more than 1,700 miles to refineries in Texas.
Advocates of the pipeline contend that construction of the pipeline would create jobs, and would be more energy efficient than transporting the oil by truck or rail.
Opponents say it would carry "dirty oil" that contributes to global warming. They also worry about oil spills if the pipeline is built.
"It's a very passionate crowd that wants to deliver a message to the president from this base," said Becky Bond, a spokeswoman for CREDO, the organizer of the protest. "They don't want to see the president on the wrong side of history." Organizers estimated more than 1,000 protesters turned out.
San Francisco police did not immediately return a call seeking information about possible arrests during the protest, but organizers said that no arrests had been made.


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that the official 2010 entry list for Le Mans, published this week, reveals is the comeback of Jaguar to La Sarthe.
The Leaping Cat has a fine history at Le Mans, having thus far claimed a total of seven outright victories with the C-type, D-type, and the outrageously fast Group C XJR-9 and XJR-12.
But Jaguar hasn't been represented at Le Mans since the GT1 XJ220 DNF-ed back in 1995, so it's great to see that a Jag is heading back to the Circuit de la Sarthe and the RSR XKR GT (check out the spec here) is a fine machine to be wearing the legendary badge.
Okay, so the team is a US-run outfit with two Americans and a Belgian behind the wheel, and Jaguar itself is now owned by an Indian company, but Jaguars still feel as British as a wet Bank Holiday Monday and the art of queuing.
Plus it's given Jaguar the opportunity to wheel out some of its Le Mans old hands and to take this publicity shot of the RSR XKR alongside a C-type, a D-type and an XJR-9 LM - and for that we are certainly most grateful.
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Harvard researchers build robotic fly that lifts off
Harvard University researchers have for the first time replicated in a tiny, bug-like robot the agility of the common fly. With a gossamer body of micro-scale electronics, the penny-sized robot can lift off, hover, and maneuver — albeit only while tethered to a leash that supplies power and provides information about its location in mid-air.
"It's the goal of creating the most agile man-made thing that's ever existed,'' said Rob Wood, an engineering professor at Harvard and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
The progress reported Thursday in the journal Science is the culmination of more than a decade of work, and is an important step toward a goal first outlined in a $10 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation: to create a colony of RoboBees that can fly by themselves and coordinate their collective movements to achieve tasks. It is still unclear what the best application would be for a fleet of airborne bug-sized robots, but the technology could have a wide range of uses, from surveillance to pollinating crops.
Wood says he tries to steer clear of discussing the applications of his wing-flapping fly robots, in part because he's wary of the bias that appears in nearly every work of science fiction. Once a robot appears in the plot, Wood notes, things most likely won't end well for the people. He doesn't see that as an issue for his tiny robots.
For one thing, the delicate feats of flying are impressive, but they're not all that robust yet. Nearly every trial ends with a crash, and the RoboBee protoypes don't last forever. When pressed, he says possible future applications of such technology include situations where it might be too hazardous to send a person, whether it's search and rescue or a hazardous environment.
But even that won't be forthcoming anytime soon; Wood said it'll be years before swarms of insect robots become viable. Wood sees the real rewards of his robot-building efforts in technologies that may have little to do with mimicking insect flight: the lighter, smaller electronic components necessary to build the robots could spur a new generation of gadgets.
A former student has founded a Cambridge startup company called Vibrant Research that is working on commercializing some of the technologies and manufacturing techniques developed in the laboratory.
The work is still far from completion: the flies do not have their own sensors on board their slight electronic bodies, in addition to relying on an external power source.
Vijay Kumar, an engineering professor at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in the work, said the new study was an important demonstration of the feasibility of insect-sized flying robots.
"I hope some day we will have robots like this [to] help with search and rescue, disaster response and law enforcement,'' Kumar wrote in an e-mail. In his laboratory, he has been working on building robot swarms, and he noted that his own robots could be far smaller and more dextrous if they could be made more like insects.


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Saracens were crowned Premiership champions after surviving an astonishing onslaught at the end to beat Leicester 22-18 at Twickenham.
The London side were far more creative and attacking throughout and thoroughly merited their victory as a blistering man-of-the match performance by Schalk Brits and some nerveless kicking by Sarries' 19-year-old fly-half Owen Farrell denied the Tigers a 10th title.
Saracens went into the match with a reputation for conservative rugby, but shocked the nine-times champions by opening up the match at every opportunity.
Farrell was outstanding from the start, distributing the ball brilliantly and making probing runs into the gaps left by the uncharacteristically disorganised Tigers defence.
But it was Saracens scrum-half Neil de Kock who made the first clear chance of the match, bursting through into the Tigers 22m after five minutes and getting almost to the try line before being stopped. Leicester killed the ball to deny a try-scoring chance from the follow-up, earning a yellow card for Ben Youngs, but Farrell slotted over the penalty to put Saracens ahead.
Yet the pre-match underdogs were unable to build on the chance, with Matt Stevens - back at Twickenham for the first time since returning from his drug ban - conceding a kick in front of the posts just five minutes later which Toby Flood put through the posts.
Saracens remained in the ascendancy, enjoying both the lion's share of possession and field position, so when de Kock picked up the ball while offside to gift Leicester a 6-3 lead it was against the run of play as the game reached the 20 minute mark.
The scores were level just three minutes later when George Chuter gave away another penalty, and more pressure from Sarries - including a drop-goal effort from 30m that Alex Goode really should have landed - finally turned into a try when Farrell broke up the right.
A lightning switch saw the inspirational Saracens hooker Brits open up Leicester with a perfect diagonal run through a gap left by Chuter, and James Short took the offload then did well to touch down in the corner.
Another penalty put Saracens even further ahead before a daft mistake by Stevens 25m in front of the posts let Flood bring the scoreline back to 16-9 before half-time.
Judging by the manner in which they began the second-half Leicester had clearly been given an ear-bashing by their coaching staff at half-time, immediately keeping the ball much more effectively and giving away far fewer chances.
But for all their possession the Tigers failed to make any try-scoring chances, while the kicking of Flood - making just his 10th Premiership start after a season interrupted by injury and internationals - was at fault for missing two straightforward penalties that Leicester's pressure had forced.
Yet he landed a far tougher effort with 12 minutes left to cut the deficit to just four points, giving Leicester hope of turning it around to defend their title.
Five minutes later a moment of indiscipline - far from the first - by Horacio Agulla conceded a penalty on the left edge of the pitch which Farrell did brilliantly to convert, putting Sarances seven points clear again.
But straight from the restart Steve Borthwick conceded a penalty that Flood landed to bring the Tigers' back within four points.
That sparked an astonishing climax to the match which saw Leicester camped on the Saracens' try-line for over 10 minutes after the clock turned red.
But Saracens' defence held firm time and again, and when a Leicester blunder gave away a penalty Farrell was left to boot the ball into the crowd and confirm his side as Premiership champions for the first time.


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The Witcher 2 - GOG sells 35k, Steam 195k
This is an interesting one from the business side because Steam sales figures are extremely rare. In an interview at Eurogamer that coincides with CD Projekt's "Investor Day", Marcin Iwiński says GOG sold 35,000 digital copies of The Witcher 2, while Steam moved 195,000. Apparently all the others added together amounted to a mere 10,000. This mix is interesting but it also flies in the face of other claims that digital is outstripping retail with the game having sold 1M altogether - possibly the strong sales in Eastern Europe might skew that:
35000 copies on GOG is sadly not high number.
Maybe game sold better in Retail because people like to have box when it commes to RPG games ?
The GOG number compared to Steam doesn't surprise me. For most, why would they bother with GOG when they can go straight to Steam.
The retail sales is very interesting. I knew they would be significant, but I didn't think it would be that significant.
Because most people either don't give a shit about DRM or don't perceive Steam as the DRM it is.
Maybe people aren't aware GOG even exists. Steam is much more popular. This may explain such a low number thru GOG.
On the other hand, even the 35k on GoG get them a significant part of their investment back.
I think STEAM has now reached the status of a game drive-by shooting for Joe Average.
Those who don't identiy it for what it is (I won't name it to prevent a flamewar, but you know what a software is called that prevents you from using your bought software the way you want it) have the client running like friggin facebook. And if sth interesting comes up it is their way of buying. Sad but true.
Retail boxed on the other hand still wipes the floor with all DD services combined - that is sth very satisfiying and comforting for me.
I like steam, I love gog, but I still want boxed versions the most.
Just adding to the WTF regarding the GoG numbers, I guess it's mostly ignorance.
So in 5 years it's quite possible there won't be a retail version for certain products.
I like steam, I'd rather use GOG for the drm free but for me it comes down to price, plus you buy a couple games on steam its going to be running anyway. With origin i find to be a huge pain in the ass to have running, EADM (the client before) used to allow you to install and you could turn it off.
In my opinion I love downloadable games I much rather have that than a box anymore. (CDs in the drive is annoying)
The presentation of the Witcher 2 retail box swayed me
I love Steam, but went GoG to help them maximize their profits. I've got several games on Steam, even if I have hard copies too.
I hear a lot of people saying they buy from Steam so they can have all their games in one place. Steam makes it pretty easy to add any game to their game list. Personally, I use my desktop for all my game shortcuts… but I think a lot of folks aren't real interested in bothering with alternate methods. They know Steam so they use that.
Though right this minute Steam is in a pretty bad way.
I picked it up the other day at a Best Buy for $29… not sure if it was incorrectly marked, but it was marked down. Last copy there. I swear, downloading the updates took almost as long as installing the thing off the disk. I'm going to post some impressions in the appropriate forum.
35,000 is still excellent in my opinion.
The only problem I have with steam is that as new their prices are almost double compared to retail. Why would I pay double to get digital?
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*Relativity has acquired worldwide rights to Gina Prince-Bythewood's next film "Blackbird," reports Deadline.com.
The film stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Noni Jean, a hot new artist who has just won a Grammy and is primed for stardom. But the pressures of success compel her to nearly end her life until she is saved by a young police officer. They fall hard for each other, despite the protests of their parents who want each to focus on their own career ambitions. But he might be the missing piece to unlock her artistic potential.,
Nate Parker and Danny Glover co-star.
Prince-Bythewood will direct from her script; Relativity has acquired worldwide rights and will finance the film. Relativity CEO Ryan Kavanaugh is producing with Stephanie Allain.
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Pupils at Stanton Pre-School celebrated their achievements at a special leavers assembly.
Dressed in their best clothes, they walked down a red carpet to receive individual awards including Andy Murray and Dr Dolittle accolades.
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New Jersey's job picture hit several unwelcome milestones in 2012, particularly in August, when the state's unemployment rate rose to 9.9 percent, the highest in 35 years.
Local economists anticipate slow growth at best in 2013, with potential for downswings if Atlantic City's casino industry continues its slide.
Meanwhile, some unemployed residents say they are eager to see things turn around.
"I try to be as optimistic as possible when I'm looking at forecasts. It's just very difficult to be optimistic for next year," said Michael Busler, a business professor at Richard Stockton College and a fellow at the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy.
This year has been one of the most difficult for economists to forecast, Busler said.
There are a host of uncertainties nationally and in South Jersey: the effects of potential federal tax increases and spending cuts known as the fiscal cliff, how Atlantic City responds to 2012's declining revenue, and whether Hurricane Sandy will affect summer tourism.
A panel of the National Association for Business Economics recently projected national unemployment next year would average 7.7 percent, which is what it was in November.
"In the national economy, there are a lot of variables, and the consensus view is we're not going to get a lot of growth next year," Busler said. "With regard to the local economy, things may be a little bleaker."
In Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Ocean counties, 61,600 people were counted as unemployed in October, compared with 24,400 five years ago, according to data from the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
Richard Perniciaro, director of the Center for Regional and Business Research at Atlantic Cape Community College, said one bright spot is the region's second-home owners and retirees, who are not as affected by unemployment.
"In terms of employment overall, you hope we can get a little more slow growth, but certainly we hope we can hold our own in 2013," he said.
Perniciaro said he does not expect Atlantic City's casinos to add much to the region's employment figures.
"If there's a turnaround in the casino industry, I don't see it as an employment turnaround. You kind of hope they stabilize and grow noncasino revenues. I don't think that's going to generate a whole lot of employment," he said. "The only way you'll get real employment gains is new casinos or one of the poorly performing casinos gets bought and someone turns it around into a high-performing casino."
Margate resident J. Monroe Palzer, 37, hopes for a brighter local economy in 2013.
Palzer, 37, said he was laid off in December from his longtime job with a fire and water restoration company, after a rush of work and 70-hour workweeks from Hurricane Sandy-related repairs.
"Then I was told we can't use you anymore," he said. "I'm the kind of guy who wants to work all the time. I can't stand sitting at home. It makes me happy to support my family and my kids, and it's scary. I really do hope it (the economy) gets better."
Mike Jones, 52, of Atlantic City, said he was laid off from his casino restaurant job early in December and was told it would be temporary. A casino veteran for 19 years, Jones said he sees nongambling attractions as key to Atlantic City's fortunes, as well as an improved economy along the East Coast.
"I just know things have been tight. I live in Atlantic City, and you can feel it. I don't know how to explain it. People have the look," he said. "Some people are not working the hours they usually work or working cut hours."
Edgar Montero, 37, of Atlantic City, was laid off in December on the same day the Ventnor retail store where he worked reopened after rebuilding from storm damage.
"I'd hope there'd be more jobs out there," he said.
Richard VanDyke, 54, of Atlantic City, has been looking for a job for a year. He sees little hope for a brighter 2013.
"2012 was bad, but I think 2013 will be even worse. I don't see any improvement in the economy or the job market," he said. "I just don't see any pulling out of it in the next year or two."
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WORCESTER -- With a population of just over 170,000, Worcester is the second-largest city in the state and the third-largest in New England (behind Boston and Providence).
Despite this, many Worcesterites feel their hometown suffers from the Rodney Dangerfield syndrome: no respect. Or, at least, not enough of it. They have a point.
Although long overshadowed by Boston, the Worcester area has a distinct identity, a lively cultural scene, many attractions, and claims to fame that range from the engagingly quirky (the yellow smiley-face logo and shredded wheat were both invented here) to the profoundly significant (the liquid-fueled space rocket and the birth control pill also were developed locally).
Worcester's attractions include the remarkable Higgins Armory Museum, which displays the country's largest collection of suits of armor (more than 100 of them, many very rare and beautifully ornamented) in a re-created castle banquet hall that plunges visitors into the Middle Ages. It sounds gloomy, but in fact is fascinating and family friendly: Young would-be knights and ladies fair can try on replicas of medieval costumes and armor, for example.
Another one-of-a-kind place is Union Station, a local landmark since 1911. Closed for almost a quarter-century, the massive, ornate, and gleaming white twin-towered train station in Washington Square was painstakingly restored a few years ago at a cost of $32 million. It is served by both Amtrak and the MBTA commuter rail and also houses a first-class restaurant, a jazz and blues club, and a small museum devoted to the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The Worcester Art Museum ranks among the country's best medium-size art museums. The permanent collection consists of more than 30,000 works spanning 5,000 years; the early American paintings are particularly noteworthy. The museum also was one of the first to recognize photography as an art form and to collect the work of leading photographers.
Also, Mechanics Hall, built in 1857, was originally used as a venue for lectures; Charles Dickens and Henry David Thoreau gave talks and readings here. Lovingly preserved, the hall, with superb acoustics, is used today for concerts and special musical events.
In an era when the locally owned independent bookstore seems to be a vanishing species, Worcester boasts New England's largest: Tatnuck Bookseller. Occupying a cavernous former machine tool factory, Tatnuck has some five miles of shelves with both new and used books. It also sells stationery, cards, candles, toys, and gifts and has an excellent restaurant with an outdoor patio.
Worcester's official emblem is the heart, symbolizing its location in the center of both the state and the region. Over the last 30 years or so, its own civic center, the downtown business district, has had what amounts to open-heart surgery in the form of several urban renewal projects.
These projects gave the city the Centrum, Arena, and Convention Center complex along with Worcester Common Outlets, an enclosed two-level atrium shopping mall. The mall is also home to Worcester Foothills Theatre, the city's resident theater company.
The convention center attracts gatherings and meetings from all over New England; the arena is used for sporting events, including home games of the local hockey team, the Worcester Ice Cats; and the Centrum hosts big-name music concerts. Last month, the complex was renamed the DCU (Digital Credit Union) Center, although locals still use the old names.
Once flourishing, Worcester Common Outlets has lost customers to suburban malls in recent years and now has fewer than half the 100 or so stores it had originally. It is set to close next year and the building converted to housing and office space.
Shopping in downtown Worcester may leave a bit to be desired, but the restaurant scene is vibrant. Good and interesting, often ethnic, restaurants are all around the city, but the acknowledged Restaurant Row is Shrewsbury Street, which runs east from Washington Square.
In a mile-long strip along Shrewsbury, something like two dozen restaurants range from funky diners and trendy little bistros to old-fashioned family dining rooms. This was Worcester's Little Italy, and while a number of good Italian restaurants are here, you can also eat Indian or Mexican and get sushi.
Worcester's entertainment and cultural scene is quite lively for a city this size. Here's a sampling of upcoming events.
''Keeping Shadows: Photography," at the Worcester Art Museum through Jan. 2, marks the centenary of the historic photo exhibition the museum mounted in 1904, one of the first in this country by an art museum. Photographs range from 19th-century daguerreotypes to pictures taken by NASA space probes and include work by masters such as Ansel Adams and Alfred Stieglitz.
At the Higgins Armory Museum through June is ''Now Thrives the Armorers," an exhibition of arms and armor represented in the plays of Shakespeare.
''Perfect Crime," a contemporary murder mystery, is at the Worcester Foothills Theatre through Nov. 21. A musical version of Dickens's ''A Christmas Carol" will run Nov. 26-Dec. 23.
At Mechanics Hall, the Boys Choir of Harlem is scheduled Nov. 29 and the Vienna Boys Choir Dec. 8. On Dec. 4, the Music Worcester organization presents Handel's ''Messiah," featuring the Worcester Chorus and the Worcester Symphony Orchestra.
On Dec. 18, Kenny Rogers, Billy Dean, and Rebecca Lynn Howard will be at the DCU Center, and on Dec. 19, Keith Lockhart will conduct a holiday concert by the Boston Pops Orchestra.
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Does SIZE Matter? Liquidity Provision by the Nasdaq Anonymous Trading Facility
I examine the effects of Nasdaq's introduction of an anonymous trading facility called SIZE. I compare SIZE to competing ECNs in terms of liquidity and market impact. Despite rapid growth, SIZE has not yet attained a significant market share and rarely influences short-run price evolution. I conclude with discussion of the Nasdaq-ECN mergers and speculate about a role for SIZE in trading listed securities.
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Police showed the photos on the third and final day of a preliminary hearing to determine if Holmes should stand trial for the attack last July that killed 12 people and wounded 58.
In court, police also revealed pictures they say Holmes took of the theatre a month before the attack in Aurora, Colorado.
One shows an exit door like the one investigators say Holmes propped open the night of the atrocity.
Defence lawyers chose not to call any witnesses during the hearing in Centennial, saying the rules of the hearing severely limited what evidence they could present.
They had been granted permission to call two people to talk about Holmes' mental state.
Judge William Sylvester said he will rule by Friday on whether Holmes should stand trial. Prosecutors have yet to say whether they will seek the death penalty.
If the judge decides Holmes should stand trial - as appears increasingly likely - a new arraignment would be held on Friday.
The defence had been expected to use Holmes' mental instability as a reason he should not go on trial, but are now expected to opt for an insanity defence.
They have previously said their client is mentally ill.
However, that strategy could be viewed as at odds with the methodical way in which the attack appears to have been carried out.
Police say Holmes stocked up on weapons, ammunition and body armour in the months leading up to the massacre, and that he elaborately booby trapped his apartment with improvised napalm.
On Tuesday, police testified that Holmes was seen playing puppets just after his arrest, using paper bags that had been put over his hands to preserve any potential evidence.


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I am using the Collections theme, and would like to change the title and scroll over text of the "photos" icon to read "portfolio". Can anyone tell me how to do that?
The blog I need help with is rogerswrites.com.
Hi, I don't see a way to do that because all the icons use the same CSS class. Changing one would change all of them to the same thing, and the hover text is set in the theme PHP script files, and those cannot be edited.
All the icons use the same CSS class, but each post format section has its own class, so this should do it:
.photos .post-format-title {
font-size: 0;
.photos .post-format-title:after {
content: "Portfolio";
font-size: 2rem;
@justpi, thanks for catching that. I probably should have gone to bed earlier. :)
Thank you both so much! Justpi, it worked very well, thank you!
You're welcome!
"Portfolio" shows ok in Firefox but it's misaligned in Safari. Yours is a premium theme, so I can't use it in my test blog to find out what's wrong: thesacredpath can probably tell us.
Portfolio seems aligned the same in Safari and FF for me. Are you talking about the entire block not being aligned with Quotes at the bottom @justpi?
I do see a slight difference in the spacing between Portfolio and the smaller text below it.
I meant the word isn't centered; here you are:
Hmmm, interesting @justpi. I see the misalignment in Chrome, but not in Safari 7.0. What version of Safari are you on?
Screenshot from Safari 7.0: https://i.cloudup.com/9zoy4qOldf-3000x3000.png
I'm ashamed to say I'm on 5.1.10...
No need to feel ashamed. 5.1 was a good version. Not sure what is causing that issue. on Chrome though - or Safari 5.1 for that matter. I think it has something to do with the font size 0, but that is just a suspicion.
Probably (but I have used this kind of trick many times, with no such side-effect.)
Assuming I can trust Web Inspector on this, the alignment gets corrected if I add this to .photos .post-format-title:after:
display: block;
Any way to make something disappear, other than font size 0? (I mean except display none, which won't do when you need its before or after.)
Any way to make something disappear, other than font size 0?
Possibly "visibility," but stuff like that can get pretty tricky/hacky. Another (fairly common) hack is to use "text-indent: -9999px" to hide text but keep the element's space in tact.
Thanks Sheri. I'm familiar with both, but they won't do in cases like the above.
I think both would work actually—not that they're needed now, your solution seems to work great. I was just proposing alternate ideas since you asked (your last question seemed unanswered when I was spot-checking threads).
.photos .post-format-title {
visibility: hidden;
.photos .post-format-title:after {
display: block;
content: "Portfolio";
font-size: 2rem;
margin-top: -2.5rem;
visibility: visible;
.photos .post-format-title {
text-indent: -9999px;
.photos .post-format-title:after {
display: block;
content: "Portfolio";
font-size: 2rem;
margin-top: -2.5rem;
text-indent: 0;
All 3 examples in this case seem sixes to me with your "display: block;" update. :)
Thanks again! Sorry for the sloppy reply: I guess I should have said they won't do without additional rules.
(On a funny note, I sort of hate the text-indent hack: whenever I see it I can't help thinking that the text is still there, only it's hanging in midair some 4 feet left of my monitor...)
:) Now I'm not going to be able to see the text-indent hack any other way! You're right, it's like there's text floating out to the left somewhere. I do see why some people use that hack for accessibility reasons though—from what I understand, screen readers still read indented text, so that's the main reason you'd want to use it (to hide text but keep it readable for screen readers). In this user's case, it's not needed because they're replacing text. I wasn't reading too closely before because you had the issue resolved—I was more interested in the CSS techniques part of the conversation.
I've never seen the font size 0 hack before btw, and I like when I see different/interesting stuff in these forums! I *really* like conversations like this one because it helps me think more critically about techniques.
I like such conversations too!
Screen readers? Interesting - hadn't thought of that. On the other hand, I think I've seen cases in the CSS of some themes where a decent display:none would have been fine; could be wrong, though.
You've never seen the font-size:0 hack? Then I can claim I invented it!
But that's not true, of course: I merely thought of it independently. Now that you pointed this out, I searched and found it in the CSS of at least a couple of themes.
As you understand, I thought of it as a way to keep something in place but make it take up zero space. On a couple of cases it produced some strange artifacts in my Safari. (Care for a screenshot if and when I manage to reproduce this?) To get rid of them I had to add color:transparent.
Nah (on the screenshot). I'll test it myself if I should run across it in the forums again, and I'll keep it in the back of my mind as a possible solution for some cases too.
Cheers :)
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calculate department costs allocated to sales
Triton Company's copy department, which does almost all of the photocopying for the sales department and the administrative department, budgets the following costs for the year, based on the expected activity of copies:
|Salaries (fixed)
|Employee benefits (fixed)
|Depreciation of copy machines (fixed)
|Utilities (fixed)
|Paper (variable, 1 cent per copy)
|Toner (variable, 1 cent per copy)
The costs are assigned to two cost pools, one for fixed and one for variable costs. The costs are then assigned to the sales department and the administrative department. Fixed costs are assigned on a lump-sum basis, 40 percent to sales and 60 percent to administration. The variable costs are assigned at a rate of 2 cents per copy.
Assuming the following copies were made during the year, 2,870,500 for sales and 3,108,750 for administration, calculate the copy department costs allocated to sales.
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