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NY Spotlight On Success Pre-Launch Celebration
Before we go 'Live" we'd like to INTRODUCE you to NY Spotlight on Success.
April 10, 2012 (Newswire.com) - NY Spotlight On Success was created by Diana Navarro and Joe Corbalis who decided to not only combine their visions but to share this vision with selected guests and enhance their talents, goals and visibility. This Pre-Launch is an introduction and celebration of what this new brand of event is.
Some of you may know Diana Navarro, broadcasting host, intuitive consultant and vocalist..... She uses her intuitive skills and experience to sense who wants to succeed for the highest good. So on the ongoing events there will be writers, singers, artists of all sorts, business professional, non-profits, agents, and more.
This launch will provide a preview of what's to come in a festive, conducive environment all guests will enjoy. That means people who are at a high frequency, success-driven and have a higher understanding of things, will naturally grativate towards NY Spotlight on Success.
Some may Joe Corbalis, entrepreneur, network professional, social connector.....Having met countless people networking over the past 5 years, he was looking for a way to bring them together. He realized that no matter what walk of life, there is always someone who shines, stands out and deserves the Spotlight.
You make know their backgrounds but find out more what they are doing together as NY Spotlight on Success.
Registration (RSVP) is required. You may bring guests but make sure to RSVP them.
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On the ongoing basis we are creating LIVE events featuring select guets. Network with NY's most successful Professionals. The Events will broadcast live worldwide. Join a diverse crowd of Business Professionals, Entrepreneurs, Entertainers, Artists, News Makers, Altruists and Investors for an evening of Elegance, Ambiance, Great Food/Drink from Select NYC Venues. You'll find us at Fine Restaurants, Lofts, Galleries, Storefronts & More.
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MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) - A California State University employee is introuble with the university for posting a computermessage urging opponents of handicapped parking to do ``somethingnasty'' to people who use wheelchairs.
``If anybody wants to start up an anti-handicapped parking coalition letme know,'' Jody Dunkel wrote in a message posted ona university bulletin board Jan. 6. ``You vow to yourself that the nextcripple in a wheelchair you see you're going to dosomething nasty and annoying to them.''
Dunkel, 22, said Friday that the message wasn't meant to be takenseriously.
``I wrote it to be controversial and stir things up,'' he said. ``It wasextreme humor.''
He said a disabled person who was offended by the message sent it touniversity officials.
Dunkel has worked as a Web page designer at the school's Monterey Baycampus since he graduated last spring.
University President Peter Smith would not say how Dunkel was beingdisciplined, citing employee confidentiality.
Dunkel also wouldn't say what his punishment was, but he said he stillworks at the university.
The message frightened some of the university's 100 disabled students.
``It may be a joke, but subtle things like that hurt just as much asovert statements,'' said Greg Lukas, 52, who uses awheelchair.
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Table 1:
Pressure ulcer stages and attendant dangers.
Stage I
Intact skin with nonblanchable redness of a localized area usually over a bony prominence.
The area may be painful, firm, soft, warmer, or cooler compared to adjacent tissue.
May indicate persons at risk of ulcer progression
Stage II
Partial-thickness loss of dermis presenting as a shallow open ulcer with a red-pink wound bed, without slough (necrotic tissue).
May also present as intact or open serum filled blister.
May progress to stage III if pressure is not relieved
Stage III
Full-thickness tissue loss.
Subcutaneous fat may be visible, but bone, tendon, and muscle are not exposed.
Slough may be present but does not obscure the depth of tissue loss.
May include undermining or tunneling.
May progress to stage IV if pressure to wound area is not relieved
Stage IV
Full-thickness tissue loss with exposed bone, tendon, or muscle.
Slough may be present on some parts of the wound bed.
Often include undermining and tunneling.
Osteomyelitis (infection of the bone) may develop in wounds with exposed bone
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DEAR JOAN: Lulu is a 95 percent indoor calico cat. We allow her out in the backyard only when we are with her and can keep an eye on her. She likes to stay with my husband as he gardens, and she doesn't try to leave or climb the fences.
A pair of towhees has made a nest in one of our small trees. Lulu knows it is there, but has never made an attempt get to it. The parents not only are aware of Lulu, but they seem to want to provoke her. For example, she may be dozing on the patio and one of the birds will walk right up to her chirping. When she is in the house, the birds will walk back and forth in front of the large glass sliding doors, as if they are daring her to pounce.
This bird behavior is really strange. All the other birds stay out of the yard when she is out there. These two do everything they can to get her attention. By the way, they knew Lulu lived here before they began their nest building.
I wondered if they "think" they are protecting their eggs and young by making themselves a target. What do you think?
Terri Goldberg
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DEAR TERRI: I think you've got some sadistic birds there. Actually, these birds seem to have decided that the best defense is a good offense. They see poor Lulu, who has never lifted a paw against them, as a threat and their actions imply they are ensuring it stays that way.
I'm not sure why the towhees are more aggressive than other birds, but perhaps they have more to protect — their nest and young.
Lulu has so far shown the patience of a saint, but you can't rely on her stores of reserve forever. Be sure to keep a close watch on her so that she doesn't crack.
DEAR JOAN: We planted sunflower seedlings that were 2 feet high a few weeks ago. Now our bird friends are eating the leaves.
The birds are small, gray in color with a yellow breast. What do they find so tasty about leaves? Bugs or just taste?
Bob and Karleta Atkinson
DEAR BOB AND KARLETA: Those are lesser gold finches, and they just love the taste of sunflower greens. Finches are mostly seed eaters with a particular craving for Niger thistle, but they also love sunflowers and kale, if you happen to have any of that.
It appears to be a problem primarily in California, although finches pull the petals off daisies in other parts of the country.
Not much you can do other than hang some sparkly things in hopes or frightening them off.
DEAR JOAN: I think I may have found a possible answer to keeping raccoons and other animals out of the yard.
I was having a problem with raccoons rolling up my lawn every night. I tried all sorts of things, but nothing worked and I worried about using things that could be harmful to my little dog.
So I bought a spray bottle and the cheapest bottle of mouthwash I could find (it smelled and tasted terrible). I sprayed it all over my yard and the next morning there was no evidence of raccoons.
I did this for a couple of nights, then stopped. The next morning I found small patches of overturned lawn so I started doing it again. This time, I did it for two weeks before stopping.
They have not returned these past several weeks. I love this method because my dog can play on the grass and lick his paws without suffering harmful effects — not sure if it helps his breath any, though.
Mary Deverel
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DEAR MARY: New slogan for the mouthwash folks: Kills germs that cause bad breath, and repels raccoons. Works for me.
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Sometimes, no matter what you do, you can't figure out where your phone is even though you know it's nearby. In these situations, you can make the phone make a loud noise by using a remote app.
1Search the "where's my droid" app in the Play Store. Click "Install" to install the app. Click "Open" to open it.
2Click "Next" in the app setup screen. Then, enter a phrase you'll remember into the "ring attention word" box. Click "Next" twice more to complete setup.
3Select "Ring setup" from the list of options on the app's main menu.
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Editor's Note: An excerpt from Closets, Combat, and Coming Out:
The first two minutes of my military experience were a blur. No sooner had I gotten off the bus and retrieved my luggage, as directed, and stood in front of it, I made the mistake of glancing at the drill sergeants out of the side of my eye. They entered the area with their chest- jutting, tough-guy swagger. They seemed somehow larger than life: tall, angry, and terrifying. These big, angry-looking white men were the opposite of the warm and caring Corporal Garvin. They meant business, and first up on the agenda was to scare the living hell out of all of us.
"Look straight the fuck ahead!"
My frightened gaze inadvertently met the first drill sergeant's hardened and steely one. I'd never seen an overweight, yet muscular, middle-aged man move as lithely as he did. He leaped over the other recruits' bags and between their shoulders to move between the four rows of recruits and somehow place his face millimeters in front of mine in the blink of an eye.
I felt every eyeball in the room on me, the lone pepper spot in a sea of baldheads and clean- shaven white faces. I felt weak and exposed. The other recruits were doing their best to focus their attention directly forward and pretend not to notice the scene that was being performed by our new superior for their benefit.
Why couldn't it have been somebody else? I thought to myself. Why can't I ever just blend in?
The drill sergeant looked at me, studying me. Although I was trying to maintain my forward gaze. I realized it was bordering on the impossible, and decided on a split-second act of defiance. I looked him directly in the eyes, trying desperately to swallow the fear that enveloped me. Maybe this old bastard would respect me for it. Maybe he would think I'm not someone to be fucked with. Maybe I could get his old white ass to think I was some thug from the projects of Detroit instead of a solidly lower-middle class geek from Ohio with a two-parent family background that was like The Cosby Show. Well, maybe The Cosby Show if neither of the kids were Cliff's and he was a control freak who beat the shit out of Claire every once in a while.
I studied the drill sergeant while trying to maintain my gaze. His face was wide and heavy, as age had obviously crept in and started the inevitable decline in his looks. His face was heavily lined, his chin was weak and his cheeks sagged. The ridiculous drill sergeant cap, which most closely resembled an upside down bowl on top of a plate, placed an ominous shadow over his hollow eyes. As I looked into them, using every bit of my resolve to keep his gaze, I sensed a white-hot hatred that simmered below the surface. I engaged him there for what seemed like hours, giving him my brand new 'don't fuck with me' look. In my mind I thought of every rap video, every "hood" movie I'd ever seen with a young black guy killing someone, selling drugs or robbing someone, men who I was told by my thuggish cousins that I could never be like because I liked books instead of rap music, writing instead of sports.
The drill sergeant's eyes twinkled and a smile spread widely across his lips. Suddenly, I was afraid, and I felt a wave of fear unleash within me. I knew what was coming, which was possibly the worst thing that could come out right now. This had followed me since the sixth grade in Ohio, and it appears that it just hopped the flight down to the South. He looked directly at me with that'you're fucked'grin for a few moments more, then stepped back to make his pronouncement to the roomful of recruits that I would be spending the next six months with.
"What are you, a fucking faggot?" he said.
It was less of a question and more of a pronouncement, made loud enough so that everyone in the staging area could hear it. "This motherfucker was eyeballin' me because he's a fucking, faggot! Yeah, that's what you are, right?"
I flinched, taking two steps back and nearly falling backwards over the luggage that was stacked neatly behind me. I quickly regained my footing. That would not be a good way to start this process. I had to think quickly, to do something that would end this now.
"No, Drill Sergeant!"
The words came out of my mouth as unexpectedly as the vomit a few hours after I'd had my first shots of whiskey on my seventeenth birthday the past summer. His head whipped back around toward me. The other recruits and the officers staged in front of us were barely pretending not to pay attention any longer. This was quickly becoming quite the scene.
"What the fuck did you say?"
"No, Drill Sergeant, I'm not a faggot, Drill Sergeant!" I yelled.
"Then stop eyeballing me like you want to fuck me!" he said, pausing for a moment to look at the nametag stitched to my fatigues mid-sentence.
I looked up, and noticed that he had moved back into position close to my face. This time, he didn't yell, and his words sliced through my fun and games attitude like a scalpel through flesh. They were quiet, almost a whisper. These words were intended for me and nobody else.
"You ever eyeball me like that again and I will fucking end you, you motherfucking faggot," he spat.
I waited for a smile, for some sign of the showy badass he had put on for the company for the last five minutes, but there was none there. It was the real him, and he wasn't a fan of my fake bravado or the little stare down I had given him earlier. I was confused and looked down, but instinctively looked back up and straight ahead. Through my peripheral vision I could've sworn I saw the faintest smile on his face, but there was nothing happy about it. It was grim and fearsome, somehow devious. For the first time since I had come to Fort Benning, and the Army on a whim, I was afraid. Whatever he and his cohorts had in store for me and the other 124 recruits over the next six months wasn't going to be fun. Playtime was over.
ROB SMITH is an openly gay Iraq war veteran, journalist, lecturer, and LGBT activist. He served for 5 years in the United States Army as an Infantryman, earning the Army Commendation Medal and Combat Infantry Badge. His memoir, Closets, Combat and Coming Out (Blue Beacon Books) is available on Amazon.com and wherever LGBT books are sold. For more information on Smith, visit RobSmithOnline.com, or follow him on Twitter @RobSmithOnline.


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The Winners in 2014
All the premises that achieve the Best Bar None (BBN) award receive a certificate to display in their premises.
We will continue to promote the scheme and the member premises throughout the year. Congratulations to the winners:
- Best Bar/Nightclub and overall winner: Bodo's Schloss 2a Kensington High Street
- 1st place runner-up Best Bar/Nightclub: The 606 Club 90 Lots Road
- 2nd place runner-up Best Bar/Nightclub: Notting Hill Arts Club 21 Notting Hill Gate
- Best pub: O'Neills Earl's Court Road
- 1st place runner-up Best Pub: Builders Arms Kensington Court Place
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Only work and No gain for youngsters? No, now starting to work at a young age can get even more gains. Not that you miss out on the real spice of childhood, but it can be tasted even while you are shooting. Yes!
We are talking about the International Youth Day, a day to cherish the young talent, a day to appreciate the good about all youngsters. We, at TellyBuzz, have contacted a few young and talented actors who have started their career as actors at a very young age. Let's find out what they have to say -
"To me International Youth Day means celebrating the future our youth has and the talent they possess because we are the tomorrow of this nation. I started working as soon as I turned 17. This has taught me to become more responsible and independent at a very young age. Earlier, I was very shy and quiet, even during the early days of shooting Ek Hazaron Me Meri Behena Hain since everyone was elder to me. I had no company on the sets since there was no one of my age group. In addition, everyone used to pamper me a lot and they used to get food for me from home.
However, I also missed many things since I started working at an early age. We were a group of five in college, but later it was only four. In addition, whenever my friends used to put up photos of them having fun on social networking sites, I felt left out and jealous too.
I do not have any idol from the industry as such. I believe that individuality makes you what you are and who you are. When you idolize someone, you unconsciously start following the footsteps of that person. I do appreciate the acting of Deepika Padukone and Kareena Kapoor. When I started with my first show, I got all the experience to handle media and fame. By the time, Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behena Hain happened, I was all prepared to face every situation."
"To me International Youth Day means respecting the talent of the youth and appreciating them internationally as well. Getting in the entertainment industry at a young age is really good and is all together a new experience. I have learnt a lot from everyone. Everyone has always treated me as their younger brother or son. I do not think that I have missed anything because I started working at an early age. I have done everything what a normal kid does.
I idolize Aamir Khan and Amitabh Bachchan from the industry. Getting so much fame at my age makes me feel happy. People have started recognizing me and with just one serial I have got this popularity. I am very thankful to God and my parents."
"For me, International Youth Day is where lots of people represent the youth. New actors, new talent is appreciated. and this gives a nice feeling.
I started working when I was 8 years old and then Balika Vadhu happened when I was just 10 years old, and now I am doing Sasural Simar Ka. I feel proud to have got a lot of experience. This experience will help me shape a better future for myself. I believe, we should never stop learning and one should keep learning until you die.
All my seniors have always liked me and treated me well. Fortunately, I have worked with some really great people like Jayati Bhatiaji and Surekha Sikriji. They are proud to see my progress and how I have grown as an actor. From the industry, I idolize Sushmitha Sen, Aishwarya Rai, Kajol, Konkana Sen Sharma and Vidya Balan.
I have never felt that I am missing out on something. A kid who loves cricket will go to school, come back and play cricket. In the same way, I love acting. I go to school, come back and start shooting. I too enjoy with my friends and go out for dinner like normal kids.
I like the kind of recognition I have got because people appreciate my work. I have always got a good response. I feel people should keep loving and blessing me the same way like they have always done."
"I think International Youth Day is all about celebrating and encouraging the power of youth and direct them in a good way. I am so blessed to have an experience of 13 years in the industry at such a young age.
It is my mother's upbringing that has helped me to be what I am today. My seniors have always appreciated my work. They have always told me to be who I am, to achieve great heights. I got ultimate support from them. Initially, for 10 years I did only ads and few movies. So, I have never missed on anything in my childhood as I grew. That experience is helping me now.
I idolize two people – Ranbir Kapoor and Ekta Kapoor. Since the past 13 years, I have been handling all this love and recognition. I am very comfortable with the media and the also the love showered by the audience."
"International Youth Day is a good day to appreciate and inspire the youth. I really love my work, and if you love your work, you will definitely enjoy what you are doing.
I respect all my seniors and they have always treated me well. Everyone has pampered me a lot. I started working when I was 15 years of age. Yes, I do feel I have missed a few things. Once you start working, college does not happen at all. But, I made friends on the sets and we always had fun.
I idolize Ram Kapoor. I really love it when fans come and mention that they love me. They keep commenting on the social networking sites, their feedback and criticism helps me improve. I also keep interacting with my fans."
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Three people were injured at an outdoor sports complex in Oregon when a monster truck struck a barrier and plowed into the crowd during a Labor Day Weekend show.
The injured, whose names and conditions had not been released today, were taken to the hospital in Eugene, Ore., for treatment. Deputies with the Linn County Sheriff's Office said the victims' injuries were not life threatening.
Dan Mills, owner of the Harrisburg MotorSports Complex in Harrisburg, where the accident occurred, said he believes the truck's hydraulic steering went out during a race, causing the driver to lose control of his vehicle.
"It went to the right and there wasn't anything he could do to stop it," Mills told The Associated Press. "This was my worst fear - what happened. … It was the freakiest thing I've ever seen."
More than 1,000 spectators were on hand to see "Monster Air 2012? on Saturday.
Despite the accident, Mills said a show scheduled for today would go on as planned, however as an added precaution, spectators would not be allowed in the area where the accident occurred.


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Poulsen future still unclear
Christian Poulsen still does not know if he has a future at Liverpool, according to his representative.
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Christian Poulsen still does not know if he has a future at Liverpool, according to his representative.
The Denmark international proved to be a major disappointment in his first season at Anfield, having been signed by former manager Roy Hodgson last summer.
Kenny Dalglish only used Poulsen on six occasions and the 31-year-old did not play again after the 1-0 defeat at Braga in the Europa League in early March.
This, combined with the summer signings of midfielders Jordan Henderson and Charlie Adam, has been taken as an indication of Liverpool's desire to offload the former Juventus man.
But Poulsen's representative, Jorn Bonnesen, claims he and his client are in the dark, as he told Onside.dk when asked if they knew about Liverpool's plans: "No, we do not.
"Now we wait and see what happens."
Liverpool director of football Damien Comolli has announced that, following the signings of Henderson and Adam, attention will now turn to selling unwanted members of the squad.
But Dalglish and his players are due to fly to the Far East on Sunday to begin a pre-season tour and Poulsen is expected to travel.
Liverpool announced earlier on Friday that teenage defender John Flanagan has signed a contract extension.


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A win-win evaluation process
In the past, Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) has experienced challenges with some high-value procurement processes, where bidders inadvertently did not demonstrate how they met some of a contract's requirements. The result was that—for relatively minor administrative reasons—bidders would be disqualified, resulting in fewer bids, less choice and, ultimately, a less competitive environment for bidders. This frustrating situation costs both the Government and bidders, and dramatically slows the procurement process. To build upon lessons learned from these procurements, and in an effort to streamline and simplify the procurement process, PSPC has developed a new process for evaluating bids in consultation with industry and with its client departments.
The new process
This bid evaluation process, launched as a pilot by PSPC in 2013, gives all bidders the chance to fix minor errors and omissions that would have seen their bids rejected under the regular evaluation process.
Under the two-step process, bidders are sent a preliminary evaluation report to advise them which requirements were not met. This allows them to respond with additional information to comply with the requirements.
Positive results for Canadians
The Honourable Judy M. Foote, Minister of Public Services and Procurement, who announced the contracts on March 15, 2015, said that the recent procurement of Naval Remote Weapon Stations is a clear example of how the two-step process can lead to positive results.
The winning bid had the highest technical score and was 43 per cent under the client's budget. This demonstrates the power of good process in achieving value for Canadians," said Minister Foote.
Who has used it?
So far, the new process has been piloted on National Defence projects, including the following:
- Integrated Soldier System
- Medium Range Radar
- Naval Remote Weapon Stations
- Headquarters Shelter System
- Contracted Airborne Training Services
- Articulated Aerial Platform
We're pleased with the outcomes of the Naval Remote Weapon Stations process," said the Honourable Kent Hehr, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence. "
The contract will create jobs for Canadians and deliver modern weaponry systems needed by the brave men and women of our Royal Canadian Navy so that they can continue to defend themselves safely against naval and aerial threats."
Other stakeholders have been pleased as well. "
Raytheon Canada Limited recognizes the benefits to both industry and the end user for using the two-step bid evaluation process. It allows for fair, open and transparent dialogue throughout the bid process. We commend Public Services and Procurement Canada on this positive change to the bid evaluation process," explained Terry Manion, Vice President and General Manager, Raytheon Canada Limited.
The success that PSPC has had with the two-step bid evaluation process clearly demonstrates the Department's commitment to making it easier for suppliers to do business with the Government of Canada. PSPC is modernizing procurement practices so that they are simpler and less administratively burdensome.
This process is also part of the Department's efforts to maintain a high standard of client service and ensure that procurement processes reflect modern best practices, as outlined in the Minister of Public Services and Procurement's mandate letter.
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After uninstalling AZ Wizard, the above mentioned error still appears - how
do I get rid of this message?
Look in Word's Startup folder for an AZWizard add-in and delete it.
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Perfect - it is gone - Thank You!
You're welcome.
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
When opening word 2007 get Microsoft Visual Basice compile error in hidden module AZWizardModul. How do I clear it? I have tried uninstalling Avery, does not work error remains. HELP
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
How do I get to word startup folder
Close Word and use Windows Explorer to navigate to the Word Startup folder.
The location of Word Startup is under the File Locations button in Word
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP
Thanks for this tip. I LOVE YOU!!!
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Gravity never sleeps.
I just began having this problem. Can someone put this in layman's terms for
me. I am not a computer idiot but I am running Windows Vista and using Windows
Explorer, the only Startup folder I see is under "Office12"; there is no Word
folder. I would appreciate step by step directions if not too much trouble.
The default location of the Word startup folder is a couple of levels below
a hidden folder (meaning that Windows' search refuses to show it to you),
and the actual location is different in Windows XP versus Vista or Windows
7. However, there is an easy way to get there.
Copy this line and paste it into the address box of Windows Explorer (the
file manager, not the web browser), then press Enter:
it is possible to change the location Word uses for its startup folder by
using the Folder Locations button in Word's Options dialog, but it is not
very common and you would probably know about it if you had done so.
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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all may benefit.
Thanks for the info. Your hyperlink worked like a charm; however, Windows
Explorer states that folder is empty. It returned the string "AppData,
Roaming, Microsoft, Word, Startup" as the folder location. I assume I did
everything correctly but nonetheless, the folder is empty. Any more
suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for such a
timely response!!
There is another possible location:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\STARTUP
Also, look in Control Panel > Programs to see if there is an Avery
Wizard package that can be uninstalled.
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EURO 2012 Quarter-finals; England vs. Italy Preview, Prediction and Pick
There are 31 comments on the www.pickf.com story from Jun 20, 2012, titled EURO 2012 Quarter-finals; England vs. Italy Preview, Prediction and Pick. In it, www.pickf.com reports that:England will meet Italy in EURO 2012 quarter-finals after both team hit before the EURO 2012. Who will win and advance into semi-finals?. Check the England vs. Italy match preview, prediction, pick, head to head, analysis, lineups, scores, highlight and result
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United States
#1 Jun 20, 2012
italy will win by 2 goals to nil baloteli will score double insha allah
Mumbai, India
#2 Jun 20, 2012
England will win 1-0
Toronto, Canada
#3 Jun 20, 2012
it will be a very close and difficult team for both teams, but italy is probably better equipped and more experienced at this type of siege metality do or die game and will probably find a way to prevail.
Georgetown, Guyana
#4 Jun 20, 2012
England to win 2-1
#5 Jun 20, 2012
Italians will move on pirlo and derossi
Since: Jan 12
#6 Jun 21, 2012
England 2-1 FTW.
"I can't stand giving up "
Since: Jun 12
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#7 Jun 22, 2012
Will be close could see it going 2 extra time but England with 2-1 win Rooney & Young
(even tho I'm a Tottenham fan) but I don't care who scores just that we will win ;)
Since: Jan 12
#8 Jun 22, 2012
Yea I'm thinking Roo and Walcott scoring the 2 or maybe Chamberlain if he gets the time. The Gunner wingers look dangerous and Young seems a bit timid and out of place at the moment and I'm a United fan.
Sorry to here about Harry being sacked. Absolute shocker. Where you think Modric will end up if he leaves?
"I can't stand giving up "
Since: Jun 12
Location hidden
#9 Jun 22, 2012
Thinking maybe rest young use him as a sub & start walcott this time. & yeah I know mate some spurs fans are asking 2 much from the club atm we not like city or chelsea we didn't buy our way 2 get where we are. Not long ago we was lucky just 2 finish in the top half u know harry took us bottom 2 8th then 4.5.4 that's really good 4 us man u no worries I gotta my coz & mates support them & Modric I can see going 2 Madrid sorry if anything I want him out the country
Since: Jan 12
#10 Jun 22, 2012
Yea I just don't understand getting rid of Harry. Doesn't make sense right now at all.
So many fellow United supporters want Modric. I'm personally not sold on him in the EPL. Yes, he has his moments but all players do. The great ones just have more of them and more regularly and Modric seems to go quiet for long spells in big games especially. I might be wrong. I wouldn't want him at United though as I've been wanting Sneijder but hopefully Kagawa will fit.
Kitchener, Canada
#12 Jun 24, 2012
the game was not as close as i thought it was going to be. at the end of the day it turned into a one sided affair, italy could have easily won by two or three goals and italy did deserve to win the game even if it was on penalties. germany has never beaten italy in world cup or euro cup competition.
#15 Jun 25, 2012
fo0r those of you that think Germany is going to walk all over the Italian team....let me set the record straight for you........in international play.......historically.....Ge rmany has never defeated Italy head to head..........ever.
Germany let a badly over matched Greece score two goals against them.......Italy's defense and offensive attack is at least twice that of Greece.
Italy 1 Germany 0.....you heard it here first.
Since: Jan 12
#16 Jun 25, 2012
It's hard to disagree with you. I can see a 1-0 grind out classic Italian victory or a high scoring affair(5+ goals total)which would favor Germany especially if Germany score first.
Italy's defense wasn't impregnable vs. England it was more that England found every way they could to muck up and choke to remain historically accurate. England could've easily had 2 goals and Germany if given those same chances more than likely will NOT choke. Will be a great game to watch for sure.
#17 Jun 26, 2012
ouch...we must have been watching different games.
Italy controlled the ball 65% of the time, had 20 shots on goal compared to england's 4, had 15 shots off target compared to england's 5. by those stats alone it is apparent england was very lucky to draw.
however, i will agree that if germany manages to get its offense going....it will a long day for italy. their defense is not that of years past.....that's for sure.
Since: Jan 12
#18 Jun 26, 2012
No, we saw the same match and it was painfully obvious Italy controlled basically the entire match. I didn't bring that up because I thought it was obvious to everyone. It's just that England actually had 3 point blank shots on Buffon. 1 by Johnson, Rooney skied a header from a few feet out and Young just had to place it in the bottom right with the inside of his foot but hits the defender who's on the ground square in the back.
Most of Italy's shots on goal were from distance and harmless. The ones that hit the posts DeRossi's was a mis hit and the other was a cross into the box.
All in all, yes while Italy controlled the game they also didn't put as much pressure as you'd think they could have on England due to England's defense actually being the only real bright spot and Italy's attack being lackluster. There really wasn't much of anything scary about Italy's build up and box play and if England could have actually held onto the ball and strung a few more consecutive passes together they really could've won.
Since: Jan 12
#19 Jun 26, 2012
Can you honestly say Italy dominated the game vs. England like the Spaniards do to basically everyone else? Or, was it that England allowed Italy the possession with the intent on countering? I tend to see it as England allowed most of it. It's just England was so bloody poor once they got the ball it just made Italy look that much better.
I'm not English and slightly biased or nothin... ;)
#20 Jun 27, 2012
nahhhh...i never suspected you might be.......:)
did you watch spain vs italy? the spanish didn't dominate play in that game....in fact, they were lucky that a slight lapse in the italian defense allowed them a score. actually......they were very lucky balotelli played like the headcase he is.......
he blew enough chances that he could have easily scored a hattrick against the english.
england depends too much on the hail mary pass plays to have an effective offense, they've been playing that sort of football for the past 60 years...you'd think they'd evolve a bit by now.
anyways........germany vs italy looks to be a great pairing.......
Since: Jan 12
#21 Jun 27, 2012
Yea I watched it and you're right but we all know Spain in the last 4-5 years would never resort to parking the bus and relying on a weak counter attack like England is doing. Italy took it to them physically with no fear and a good game plan and almost came out with a win. Barcelona has lost when played like that and it's the blueprint on how to beat Spain.
Christ! I hate it when England resort to their archaic long ball style or lack thereof. I was hoping that crap would end when Shearer retired from playing and consulting but it seems so ingrained in their DNA now they just can't help but resort to it when their original game plan gets busted.
It's funny too, no team in the EPL plays long ball like England's national team does outside of whatever team happens to have Crouch at that time and that's only a handful of times per game to keep the back line honest.
English football needs a new culture brought in but they need a clear out first. At this point I'd say none of the starting 11's job is safe except for Hart. Get rid of them all because they've had too much time to prove they can produce and they play like an Under-8 team most times...pathetic.
#22 Jun 27, 2012
i think english league soccer, like that of all of european league teams is being transformed and influenced by the influx of foreign players and foreign coaches/managers. this is probably why the epl has lately relied less on the long ball game....but when you put an all english team with an all english coach.....they go back to the old standby tactic.........well....that's my theory.........
anyways....enjoy spain-portugal..........i'm at work and will only be able to watch the highlights later tonight!!
Since: Jan 12
#23 Jun 27, 2012
It's being influenced yes but when is the last time you saw a Roy Hodgson club side play out and out long ball? He's never coached it and the players individually for their clubs all play a fast paced attacking style WITH possession...Maybe the Queen likes the long ball and tells them what to do? I don't know. It's truly baffling.
Sorry you have to work but it's halftime and you're not missing much in the game. No real chances from either side to speak of but Portugal isn't backing down which is nice.
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When Dewey started Weekly Geeks, one of the first projects she encouraged was for Geeks to link their book reviews to each other. I want to invite you to share your reviews with me!
These are my book reviews. If you've read and reviewed any of these on your blogs, please leave your permalink for me. I've created a nifty form in the sidebar to the right (look for the tab "Share a Review")
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Novel stem cell assays for Alport Syndrome
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The potential of stem cells represents one of the greatest opportunities in medicine. They are found in embryonic tissues and adult organs and have potential uses in therapies designed to repair and regenerate organs. Recently, scientists have discovered how to reprogram adult cells by introducing four regulatory genes causing them to lose their characteristic adult properties and behave more like embryonic stem cells. These cells termed inducible pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, become more immature in nature and can be maintained in a lab dish indefinitely. The establishment of iPS cell lines from patients with Alport Syndrome has an extraordinary potential for new drug discovery and personalized medicine. This is where the study of iPS cells lines could provide information about an individual patient to select or optimize that patient's preventative and therapeutic care. It will also enable us to understand Alport Syndrome in a way we've never been able to before, advancing the potential of human iPS cells for modelling the genetic disorder and for the screening of new drug compounds. Read more about Dr Ricardo.....


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"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings…." ~William Arthur Ward
Thanksgiving is just around the corner here in the United States. I love that this holiday serves as a reminder to pause and give thanks for the abundant blessings we have. However, the practice of gratitude should extend beyond November, don't you agree?
I strive to weave appreciation, thankfulness, and acknowledgement into our family's day to day life. Here are a few favorite ideas from our home, and I hope you'll share your gratitude practices in the comments, as well.
Thankful from A to Z
Do you and your kids ever play the alphabet game? To play, you take turns saying a word, starting with A and trying to get all the way to Z. For the thankful version, you just have to say things you are thankful for. Simple and sweet, plus I love hearing what my girls come up with for letter x!
The best thing…. Game
Here's a fun game for your next car ride or family walk. One person starts the game by saying The best thing about ______ is….., and everyone else chimes in with a positive comment about that person, item, or idea. For example, I might start the game with The best thing about shoes is…., and the girls might chime in with they keep our feet warm or they let me walk on rocks.
Here are some topic ideas to get you started, although I've found my kids have no trouble thinking of ideas!
- a person's name
- something in nature
- today
- our neighborhood
- cars
- our hands
- day of the week
- animal
- food
- holiday
- our home
I love this game because it helps us look for the good in everything – and yes, your kids will probably try to stump you with things like poop, garbage, and throwing-up. Don't say I didn't warn you!
Write it Down
You've heard of gratitude journals, right? This type of journaling is a simple, daily practice for acknowledging our blessings, no matter how small. I love keeping a personal gratitude journal, where I write 3-5 things I am thankful for each day. I've found that the more I write in my gratitude journal, the more I seek out things to be thankful for during the day.
I also like doing more public writing with the whole family, so I can model and share gratitude practices with my girls. Here are some ideas for writing about gratitude with your family:
•Fill a wall or window with thankful sayings on sticky notes.
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•Tape a large piece of paper to the wall for a week or longer. Encourage everyone in the family to add words and drawings to create a thankfulness poster.
•Set-out a jar for each member of your family, along with a stack of paper strips and pens. Write notes of gratitude to each other, over time, till the jars are full. (Take dictation for the littles.) Then sit down and read your jar full of loving, thankful words. What a great boost for not-so-awesome days!
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In our family, we often talk about the idea that gratitude is not just a feeling, it's an action. I am far from perfect at this, but it's a great thing for me to practice side-by-side with my girls.
•Write thank you notes. Write them for obvious things, like birthday gifts, but write them for small things or just because, too.
•Brainstorm ways kids can pay forward a good deed – doing a sibling's chore, offering to help before being asked, etc.
•Schedule time on your family calendar to show unexpected gratitude to people you love and appreciate.
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[USL] Peter Mellor, a staff coach with the United States Soccer Federation since 1992, has joined United Soccer Leagues as its first national technical director.
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Originally published Saturday, May 31, 2014 at 7:03 PM
Savoring southern Italy's 'cucina povera'
Food-focused travelers can enjoy fine meals from humble ingredients in Lecce and learn how to make such food at a crop of culinary schools.
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"La cucina povera." Often translated as "the food of the poor," the Italian term seems unlikely to make mouths water or inspire serious foodies to blow their vacation budget on a cooking course.
But in and around the city of Lecce, deep in Italy's heel, a crop of culinary schools and cooking teachers is encouraging travelers to embrace this traditionally marginalized food and to master the recipes of the extremely humble (and remarkably resourceful) local fare, which lies far at the other end of the culinary spectrum from haute cuisine.
Prepared with local produce, sundry leftovers and pastas, these unembellished peasant and working-class dishes are taking center stage. As a result, Lecce, long cherished for its beautifully chiseled Baroque and Renaissance churches, is now drawing food-obsessed travelers, including some noted chefs and restaurateurs, eager to transform fava beans, turnip greens, broccoli raab, chickpeas and breadcrumbs into unexpectedly flavorful dishes.
"The former aristocracy demanded that the poor workers hand over the lion's share of their toil," said Silvestro Silvestori, who in 2003 founded the Awaiting Table Cookery School in Lecce, a pioneering program that has imparted the secrets of boiled chicory, pickled hyacinth bulbs and other local bounty to more than 2,000 guests who have attended its weeklong cooking courses. "What the wealthy didn't care about were the legumes and weeds, and that's where our kitchen begins."
"Over generations this human ingenuity began to take shape, so that really good things could be made from the humblest ingredients," said Silvestori, an Italian American from Michigan whose grandmother hailed from Lecce. "I'd liken 'la cucina povera' to 'soul food,' as the genesis for both was the profound necessity of the neglected and subjugated."
Cooking classes
Though the cooking schools and classes vary in duration from a few hours to several days and occupy structures ranging from simple apartment kitchens to extravagant palazzos, many programs blend similar ingredients: an easygoing familylike atmosphere; visits to local markets; convivial group meals; wine and olive-oil tastings; and instruction in English.
"Thanks to women going to the market, cultivating the products and cooking the food in a certain way, they have transmitted the culture," said Cinzia Rascazzo, founder of a Lecce cooking and food-tour outfit called Stile Mediterraneo.
If you book classes at Alle Due Corti restaurant, you'll spend three days led by the head chef Rosalba Da Carlo. Squeeze into the apartment kitchen of Il Gusto del Tacco (The Taste of the Heel) and you'll be working alongside the cookbook author Anna Maria Chirone Arnò as you whip up dishes like puréed broad beans with fried bread and green peppers.
Even Silvestori points out his debt to the opposite sex. "I picked up the habit of cooking with older women here in the Salento," he said, referring to the region of Puglia that contains Lecce. The area, he added, "is where I developed my personal style as a cook. I'm a 43-year-old heterosexual college-educated male, but I cook like an older provincial woman."
Cook in Puglia is one cooking school which exclusively employs women around the region to lead its classes and demonstrations in local styles.
"We are doing something that our grandmothers taught us — making great recipes and inventing recipes with a few healthy ingredients," said Ylenia Sambati, who in 2010 created Cook in Puglia and began recruiting its network of teachers — including her own mom. "Our cooking classes have an ancestral meaning. The hearth. The olive grove. For these sacred acts we need old ladies."
Gianna Greco, co-founder of Cooking Experience, also parlays the tutelage of her grandmother into dynamic cooking classes, which unfold in a former 17th-century monastery tucked in Lecce's historical core.
Stile Mediterraneo was founded when Cinzia Rascazzo, a Harvard MBA who worked for Goldman Sachs in New York and London, quit investment banking several years ago to "do something to help my region," as she put it one afternoon while showing off the centuries-old palazzo that serves as headquarters.
The business is another fully familial affair. Rascazzo's sister, Marika, a cardiologist, is her partner and sometime co-teacher. The palazzo, situated amid olive groves and vineyards just outside Lecce, belonged to their grandfather. Their grandmother taught them to cook.
"When I was living abroad I always noticed that only Tuscany and Northern Italian regions were getting all of the attention," Rascazzo said. "Nobody knew about Puglia or our way of eating, or our wines or our producers. It was just Mafia, pizza, spaghetti — the usual things associated with the south."
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Bedford Modern School crews are celebrating after winning five events in the Bedford Small Boats Head on, Sunday October 14.
Henk Kroon, Fabio Titmus, Matt Brooks, Adam Dingley and cox Gavin McWilliams were victorious in the IM1 coxed four, while Alex Hewitt, Richard Herbert, Josh Taylor, Simon Whitaker and cox Fergus Dale won the Novice coxed four category.
The J16 coxed four comprising Olly Clarke, Dan Tredget, Guy Woolford, Bruno Jones and cox Gavin McWilliams completed their race in a very fast time of 6.49mins, while the J14 coxed four of Callum McIntyre, William Tillet, George Keech, Oliver Fitt and cox Gavin McWilliams were also victorious, winning their race against Bedford School by nine seconds.
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PRNewswire/ - ING, a leading provider of employer-sponsored retirement plans for educators, businesses, government and not-for-profit entities, recently awarded Rebecca Brewer, a biology teacher at Troy High School in Troy, Michigan, the top prize in the national 2011 ING Unsung Heroes awards program. As the first-place winner, Brewer will receive $25,000 to add to her initial $2,000 grant to help fund "Mini-Med School," the program she is implementing that takes her students beyond simply dissecting organs, to actually simulating surgeries.
"Rebecca Brewer finds ways to not only teach students but reach them to facilitate authentic learning," said Mark Dziatczak, principal, Troy High School. Brewer's project is designed to move 11th and 12th grade biology students from simply dissecting preserved specimens to also performing mock surgical procedures on the organs. As an example, after they go through classroom learning about the anatomy of the heart, the next day, students will dissect the preserved heart.
To take the learning to the next level, students are informed the next day that their patient had a heart attack and they will have to diagnose and treat the symptoms. Additionally, medical experts who have an existing relationship with the school because of the school's medical job-shadowing program, which Brewer has managed for the last seven years with the local hospital, will come in to talk to the students.
For example, a cardiac surgeon would visit the class on heart surgery day and a neurosurgeon on brain surgery day. Ultimately, Brewer will engage her more than 100 AP Biology students in authentic learning experiences. The students will be graduating with not just exposure to medical procedures, but actual practice performing skills done on a surgeon's operating table, including how to suture a wound, the basics of performing bypass surgery, craniotomies and many more procedures.
Because they will be gaining a much better sense of what it truly means to be a surgeon through practical applications, Brewer hopes the lessons inspire students to become the future doctors of tomorrow. Ideally, Brewer, who lives in Lake Orion, would like to expand the program beyond the walls of her own classroom and develop a guide for biology teachers nationwide.


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The aroma of the dry leaves was great: soft, clean, not overly grassy. The dry leaves themselves were a long, thin, crispy, mixture of green and yellow leaves and stems. The brewed tea aroma is very very soft, a little too soft. Again, probably because I didn't measure the leaf correctly. I hate when I mess up brewing a new tea. It makes me not even want to write a note about it.
But here we go anyway. I apologize for my incompetence in advance. I'll add a little more leaf to the second steeping and let you know how that turns out. This first cup is surprisingly good, even though it's a little watery. I can tell that this is fantastic tea if brewed correctly.
Okay, second cup! I steeped this one for 2 minutes 45 seconds at 176 degrees. The liquor is still basically clear, but the flavor is stronger now. For some reason, this tea reminds me of the way cotton candy melts in your mouth. It's sweet, but not too much so. This must be what people call umami. I'm not sure I've ever experienced a texture like this in a drink. Simply exquisite.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The "New Directions in Campus Urbanism," a two-day discussion with architects, landscape architects, planners and historians in leading roles shaping the future of campuses and cities, begins today (April 11) at The Stuckeman School within Penn State's College of Arts and Architecture. Around the world, the connection between universities and communities is growing. For many, the university campus is a paradigm of an elite enclave, while others see it as an energizing force for the towns and cities around them. The university and its campus are known as centers of teaching, research and economic development, with hundreds of new and renewed campuses being built around the world. Yet we are only beginning to understand the potential of the university as a force in shaping places, on and beyond the campus. If the most important design project of the 21st century is a robust, resilient urbanism, how is the campus shaping it for today and the future?
This evening, colloquium convener and Stuckeman Chair in Design Innovation Ray Gastil will present a brief overview of "New Directions in Campus Urbanism," and introduce "Campus and City: An Evolving Boundary," a talk by Sharon Haar, associate dean of the College of Architecture, Design and the Arts and professor of architecture at University of Illinois, Chicago.
On Friday, April 12, there will be two "Case Study in Context" sessions, followed by a "Next Steps" roundtable. The morning session, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., will begin with "The Disaggregated Campus and other Decampments of the University," with a focus on the future of the University of Toronto, one of the largest urban universities in North America, where speaker Richard M. Sommer serves as dean of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design Professor of Architecture and Urbanism. This will be followed by Arizona State University's Phoenix Urban Research Lab, presented by its founding director, Nancy Levinson, now editor and executive director at Places@DesignObserver. Maxine Griffith, executive vice president, government and community affairs and special adviser for Campus Planning, will present Columbia University's current campus design and planning.
The afternoon case study session, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., will begin with the contemporary university campus in China in urban and historical context, presented by Ron Henderson, professor of landscape architecture and Asian studies, and department head. James F. Lima, a nationally renowned expert in strategic planning and the economics of place-making, will present his perspective on the relationships between campus projects and urban revitalization.
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The Cambridge, Mass., city council on Monday passed a resolution officially recognizing same-sex marriages, but that doesn't mean gay couples can start applying for marriage licenses at City Hall on Tuesday. The state's highest court last week ruled it unconstitutional to bar gay couples from marriage and gave the legislature 180 days to pass laws that conform to that decision. Monday's resolution in Cambridge means that the city will be ready to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples as soon as the legislature gives the OK. "We want to have the clerk ready to go at a moment's notice so as soon as possible we can issue those marriage licenses," councilor Brian Murphy said.
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Today I attended the second year of the Chicago Web Conf at 1871. These folks threw a great conference and really elevated the whole conference. The folks running the event video recorded the presentations so hopefully they'll get those up soon. In the meantime I thought I shared some of the rough notes I took with some of the links I was able to round up.
A/B Testing Your Design with Real Users – Will Hacker
I wasn't able to find the any public resources related to this talk. Sorry for the lack of links.
A/B Testing Lets You
- Lets you know what's going
- Lets you test your solution
- Small changes who can lead to big changes
- Low effort to test those changes
- Takes some of the opinion out of design
- Better solutions to market faster
Recommends using Optimizely.
Path, Properties, Paint: HTML5 Canvas and the Pervasive Pixel Painting Protocol by Justin Love
The API
- You can use CSS as a string to effect objects in canvas
- Lines: width, caps and joins
- .beginPath() and .closePath()
- .moveTo() and .lineTo()
- .arc()
- .transform()
- .scale()
- .rotate() angles are radians
- Canvas really is just a grid of pixels even though its elements are vector based
- Drop shadows don't reflect transforms
- Images can be loaded into canvas
Immediate Mode vs. Retained Mode
- Immediate mode overwrite pixels when you write. If you put a circle over a box and then move the ball the box won't be there.
- Canvas is an immediate mode
- SVG is a retained mode
More stuff
- Animation Timing: Don't use setInterval use setTimeout
- You can layer canvases if you need a layered effect
- Dynamic favicon with canvas.
- Saving a Canvas: data-URL
Designing the Hi-DPI Web by David Demaree – My Favorite Presentation
I did take notes on this, but his presentation was so kick-ass I recommend you just go through his presentation slides. They are very through.
HTML on steroids – Angular.js by Oren Golan
Angular.js is like HTML on Steroids it has a small learning curve and was started by a googler
Who is Using It?
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- Sony
- Colingo
Cool Things
- Declarative approach
- 2-way data binding
- Plain old JS objects
- Easy to test
Sketching Your Way to a Better Design by Russ Unger
I didn't really take notes on this talk, because it was more like a mini-workshop then a talk. The basic premise of the talk was that by sketching you can flush out more ideas faster. Basically if you aren't sketching, YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG! Which I completely agree with. Sketching is huge part of my process and the other designers I work with.
The workshop was basically a design studio, which generally is a workshop that takes stakeholders, designers and developers and give them an opportunity to flush out and share ideas via sketching. So during the talk Russ ran the crowd through the details. We ended up doing a five minute sketching session trying to generate eight ideas. Russ then showed how you could take this sketching to the streets to get some quick usability testing.


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After many years lurking in the forums I thought it was time to register and contribute something myself.
Here's a few pics and details of an unconventional hovercraft I built about 6 1/2 years ago:
Striking from a hidden base in South-East England, etc.
One evening, whilst my better-half was out of the country on business, I dug out the old design I'd done for a Snowspeeder flying under ground effect. Realising that you'd need to build it as a true hovercraft (boo), out come the Art of Empire, the old AMT/Ertl plastic kit and the Star Wars Chronicles. Liberal quantities of whisky and orange later and I have a set of roughly 1/10th scale plans and a foamcore shell. Morning after was not pleasant.
I'd like to point out that this speeder was more a proof-of-concept tech demo than a proper prototype. So it's quite crap, as it was built from stuff I had lying around in the house. The RC kit is old Futaba Challenger 35MHz gear (not for ground use), the fan unit is a Morley*, powered by a random 540-size truck motor (timing waaaay out). Servos are standard S418s. The scale was derived from the requirement of fitting the fan within the form at somewhere between the extremes of center of thrust and center of gravity.
The main construction materials are 5mm foamcore, 0.8mm aluminium tube and various sizes of carbon fibre pultrusions and tubing. Liberal quantities of Zap were used to hold it together. The main guns are spring-loaded to reduce crash damage.
The cooling vanes are used for steering - deflection is about 25 deg. from neutral and sufficient to turn the craft on the spot. Fan efflux can be diverted in varying degrees to both drive and lift. The semi-rigid skirt, not shown in the photos, raises the speeder up off the ground by about 15mm, at a neutral AOA.
Operation is noisy and slow, but much more fun than the last man-capable hovercraft I worked on.
I reckon it's possible to tweak this design into a nice little craft. The only really tricky bit is the requirement for an in-scale tapered skirt. Alternatively, the cheap prebuilt toy hovercraft now on the market could provide that component.
I still have all the templates and formers needed to cut and assemble the foamcore shell. If there is any interest I can scan and make available.
One day I might even complete this one...
*The fan unit is supposedly one of the prototype Morley ducted fans, given to me by a chap who had a glider which Jim Morley landed a little too aggressively.
Welcome to the boards Fanboy,
What a fantastic first post. And you have templates drawn up?
Omg, yes, e-mail them, or post them, this is just one more project I have no time for but have to try...
And if nothing else, some of the scale modelers would just love to build so well from junk around the house. I'll send them by and let them have a peek here.
Many thanks for the kind words. I dug the sketches and templates out of storage and have also remembered a few more details:
1. There was a taped-together proto-prototype made from corrugated cardboard, to check for balance and rigidity. Most of the internal walls and bracing were lost for the foamcore version. Foamcore is great if you don't intend to play outside.
2. The craft was very noisy in operation, due to the manky pre-production fan unit and mismatched truck motor. Also, the drive assembly is mounted on a carbon fibre tubing support frame and rigidly bonded to the foamcore shell. Anyone have flat-panel speakers?
3. I took a wild guess at the proportion of fan efflux needed for lift, and despite including a servo-driven adjustable baffle plate, was far too cautious.
4. Very high ground loading. I attempted to minimise the skirt and hide it within the profile of the craft. Not easy, as the wing anhedral is greater than it looks.
5. The design is actually 1/12th scale, and dates from September, 1997.
6. The final plenum chamber was a simple box affair and the skirt made from a very slippery plastic sheet (not sure where it came from). Long since gone, I'm afraid.
7. Wildly unstable at speed, due to the very small skirt, which was almost as wide as long. A gyro would be useful in a revised craft.
8. The design was a composite, adapted from many sources. That said, it's the best accurate design I could produce, and is as close to 1/12th scale as possible.
I have found the four A4 pages of sketches, ten A4 pages of technical development and five A3 sheets of scale plans, along with final templates for most of the bits for the foamcore version shown above. Give me a few days and I'll see what I can do.
These pics were taken a few months ago for a friend who wanted to a look. Video? If I make a new skirt assembly I certainly will. We were hoping for enough snow this winter to 'fly' it, but the climate change in recent years seems to have put an end to that.
I would imagine that you could attach five A3 sheets of scale plans as Jpgs to one of your posts.
If the resolution isn't high enough then we can look at e-mailing these across the pond.
You have the scale modelers in shock at Starship Modeler ...
Like the rest of us they are confused as to why it is considered "Crap".
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It's English reticence. We have a modesty which does not allow us to blow our trumpet too loudly. Often for good reason, but not in this case!
Superb model.
My apologies for the delay in posting plans. Real life takes priority on occasion, I'm afraid.
I've placed higher-res versions of the images I posted here, with a few additions.
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Pretty good submission, it does have a sense of chaotic and uncontrollable anger. The high pitched sounds that are kinda typical to this kind of hardcore industrial is slightly annoying especially considering the fact that the song is a bit repetitive. It has a good variety overall but some segments are dragging too long imo. There's a couple awesome break too. All in all a good track!
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OMG gabber gabber gabber
boom boom boom
nice gabber energy.. then you add in that smooth break and sloly filter the gabber back in.. good to break up repetition - and then OMG KEY CHANGE - it's got a great sorta chase energy to it going on too :)
dunno if I woulda faded it out though - shoulda added a nice crash ending imo/
haha def. a cool song.. funnily enough this might have even qualified for last month's contest - voice acting ravers hehehe
overall a pretty solid track :)
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
The first 30 seconds put a smile on me. It's so angry in an unrestrained way that it's almost cute. Like watching a baby cry his balls out.
But then it got a little repetitive quite quickly. I feel that the lead instrument sounded like "nagging", which is a perfectly reasonable thing for an angry person to do, but not the ONLY thing they do. However, that nagging instrument carried most of the song. Maybe you could have sneak in some SCREAMING? ERUPTION? And at the end, package those layers together and deliver a final rage combo meal punch?
Speaking of the ending, I don't think anger just dies out like that. Fading out loses so much of the momentum you built up. The most obvious thing I can think of is to go chaotic for a bit and end with an emphatic "BAM!!!" But you probably have more creativity than I do.
Despite all the very personal opinions I said above, I think this is decent. Gets the angry point across. And it sounds like you had a blast making it. So that's good :)
All very valid points, maybe I can edit before the deadline to take into account a few of your thoughts!
Thanks for the detailed review!
Rated 2 / 5 stars
Not bad, but I give 2 stars .:(
lol, you are more use to my softer tracks arent you??? This is angry for the contest, angry music seems to be frowned upon here on NG :(
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I'm glad I found a website called Newgrounds. You can always find the best music, animation, art or games here.
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Beautiful drawing! You seem to have a lot of creativity, and you have good tactics for drawing. Keep it up, and I can't wait to see more of your work.
OMFG! This is ABSOLUTELY one of my most favorite drawings I've ever seen. It's beautiful!
beautiful dream! 10!!
looks very cool!


text: Well it has begun...Santa was kind enough to leave a cold smoker and various dust under the tree, and Wade was even kinder and sent me some cure, (I had originally ordered from Amazon, and you have to be careful what they send you), instructions, and a few treats, THANKS WADE! Just a small 1kg cut to begin - here it is getting cure and pepper. Though I am really excited to use Szechuan pepper it will have to wait until I get at least one simple, delicious result. This is important for obtaining "continued cooperation from other interested parties" (wife's ok to buy even more meat) It is pretty thin at one end, but since it is belly bacon anyway I figure it will still produce. I have been flipping every day, an it is now day 8. There are some juices, but not a lot, and that makes me worried. Are there any other indicators I can look for to ensure it is working as it should. I was expecting more liquid in the bag. Anyway, that is where we are so far...Once we get a bit further along I will post an update.


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BurnoutJunkie wrote:Ah, understand - hmm, not sure,Ā I'll ask the question of those I know - but it does answer the question as to why, with 'group' texts, I receive separate threads! Now I know, cheers!
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