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Discussion in 'Tree Climbing, Pruning, Felling' started by Guest, Nov 13, 2011.
It all comes down to time.
Whats your minimum charge for a tree job? Shouldnt take long to remove and the splitting should go pretty fast for 20' of pine even if using a maul. Probably going to be burned in an outdoor firepit. I'd be looking at less then an hour myself for this job but depends on what equipment you've got.
I am new to the tree removal biz and I have a customer that wants a 20 ft pine cut down. It sounds like he had the top cut off previously so it was originally bigger than a 20 ft tree thus it is much larger in diameter. What should I charge? He's also talking about having it split into firewood for him (I don't know why he wants pine for firewood). How much extra for that?
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If you have hardware acceleration applied, go into settings, video settings, acceleration, disable libstagefright, disable mediacodec, and try and see if that works, otherwise choose software acceleration without choosing multi-threaded decoding.
the key to get this to work is to not have libstagefright or medicodec applied in hardware decoding. If you have to, then apply software decoding without multi-threaded decoding. It might take a reboot for this to work, or simply play a file with hardware decoding and then choose the above settings.
Let me know if that works for you. This also works on the xbmc for ouya application.
after turning off hardware acceleration you will need to re-enable it when playing anything larger than 720p.
I was looking at advancesettings.xml options to see if I could disable hardware for xvid only but I don't see that option, and trying to enable it only for avc, etc did not work. If I could figure out a way to play said files with xbmc for ouya automatically from gotham then I would do that.

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Hospira Inc.'s (HSP) second-quarter 2012 earnings (excluding special items) of 51 cents per share beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 49 cents. However, earnings fell short of the year-ago figure by 45.7%.
The reported quarter's earnings were hurt by lower revenues and higher costs. On a reported basis (including special items), the company suffered a loss of 2 cents per share as opposed to the year-ago earnings of 85 cents.
The Lake Forest, Illinois-based company came up with revenues of $1.0 billion in the reported quarter, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $986 million. Revenues were, however, 2.9% lower than the year-ago figure due to adverse foreign currency movements and the slowdown in production at the company's facility in Rocky Mountain, North Carolina.
Quarter in Details
The Specialty Injectable Pharmaceuticals (:SIP) business, the biggest contributor to Hospira's revenues, performed disappointingly in the quarter with sales from the segment declining 4.6% (down 1.7% at constant currency) to $644.2 million. This segment includes generic injectables as well as proprietary specialty injectables. The SIP unit includes drugs such as the generic version of Sanofi's (SNY) oncology therapy Taxotere.
Sales in the Medication Management (MMS) segment climbed 3.5% (up 5.7% at constant currency) to $255.1 million. Sales in the Other Pharma division declined 5.9% (down 4.4% at constant currency) to $134.0 million.
Geographically, the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa (:EMEA) and the Asia-Pacific (:APAC) markets contributed $810.3 million (down 2.9% at constant currency), $135.3 million (up 11.0% at constant currency) and $87.7 million (up 6.5% at constant currency), respectively, to total revenue in the reported quarter.
2012 Outlook
The company continues to expect top-line growth in the range of -1% to 2% on a constant currency basis. Foreign exchange is expected to negatively impact the top line by 1 to 2%. The company expects 2012 adjusted earnings at the low end of the projected range of $2.00–$2.30 per share. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2012 currently stands at $2.11 per share.
Hospira now expects cash flow from operations in the range of $475-$525 million (previous guidance: $575-$625 million) in 2012. The company continues to expect capital expenditures in the range of $350-$400 million. Depreciation and amortization continues to be projected in the range of $240-$260 million.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Boeing Co. said Tuesday that it's too early to know whether a proposal to eliminate a program to upgrade the cockpits of C-130 aircraft will affect the number of jobs the company plans to move to Oklahoma City.
The federal budget plan President Barack Obama released Monday would end the program, saving the Department of Defense an estimated $2.3 billion through fiscal year 2017.
The government notified Boeing in January that the program would be put on hold in March, company spokeswoman Jennifer Hogan said. Boeing's contract for the project was worth about $200 million this year, she said.
"They haven't given us a contract termination, so we're still working," Hogan said.
Four aircraft have already been upgraded and sent to Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas, where they are being tested by Arkansas Air National Guard crews, Hogan said.
"The fifth one will be delivered in March, and those five will make up the fleet the Air Force will use for the customer test program," Hogan said. Once the fifth plane is delivered, the program will be put on hold, she said.
Hogan said she didn't know when Boeing would learn whether the program would be restarted or discontinued permanently.
"This is a slow process," she said.
Boeing announced plans in 2010 to move about 550 employees from Long Beach, Calif., to Oklahoma City, with about 230 of them working on the C-130 Avionics Modernization Program upgrades and the remainder on a similar program involving the B-1 aircraft.
About 110 employees, including engineers involved in the design of the C-130 modifications, have moved to Oklahoma, Hogan said.
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TORONTO, July 25 (UPI) -- Investigators said a baby grand piano stolen from a Toronto hospital was recovered after being sold to a business by one of the alleged thieves.
Toronto Police said the Boston Steinway, worth more than $26,000, was stolen July 14 from Toronto General Hospital during daylight hours and was returned to the facility Wednesday after being located at a Peel Region business by Peel Regional Police, the Toronto Sun reported Thursday.
"Peel Regional Police found the piano, turned it over to us and we returned it to the hospital," Constable Tony Vella said.
Police said the piano was sold to the Peel Region business by Artem Stanislav Timofeyev, 27, who is being sought on charges of theft over $5,000, trafficking in stolen goods over $5,000, exposing a counterfeit mark and fraud over $5,000.
The other two suspects, whose images were recorded by security cameras, have not been identified.
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On the Movement for Lynching Memorials
Examining why the documentation of racialized violence is necessary.
We're republishing Francey Russell's piece about the move to commemorate victims of slavery and lynching in light of the recent white-supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. There has been unfortunately little progress made in reckoning with America's racist past of late: just as activist Bree Newsome was arrested for removing the Confederate flag from South Carolina's state capitol in the wake of the murderous rampage of Dylann Roof in Charleston in 2015, this month Takiyah Thompson was arrested for tearing down a Confederate monument in Durham, North Carolina. As such, memorializing victims of racial hatred is becoming more important by the day. As Francey puts it, "When done well, memorials can function as the basic units for a counter-narrative, for a new way into the world." To donate to the Equal Justice Initiative, which is working to memorialize victims of lynching, click here.
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In his eulogy for Reverend Clementa Pinckney, one of the nine individuals killed in the Charleston massacre last year, President Obama affirmed that taking down the Confederate flag on South Carolina's state capitol "would be one step in an honest accounting of America's history. A modest but meaningful balm for so many unhealed wounds." The next day, Black activist Bree Newsome scaled the statehouse flagpole to remove the flag herself. By the time she made it to the top, the pole was flanked by cops, who arrested her upon her descent. She was charged with defacing a monument. Newsome later explained her action, saying: "Every day that flag is up there is an endorsement of hate." A month later, the South Carolina House voted to remove the flag, but the charges against Newsome were not dropped.
Confederate-flag enthusiasts claim it is simply a way of honoring the valor of Confederate soldiers, an expression of Southern pride. But in Columbia, as elsewhere in the South, the capitol's flag was not actually a holdover from the end of the Civil War. South Carolina's governor erected the flag in 1962 to protest desegregation and the civil-rights movement. In effect, the Confederate flag was strategically planted as an endorsement of institutional racism precisely when such institutions were being threatened.
"It wouldn't be crazy not to want to go to Alabama, or Mississippi, or Georgia, or America," says Bryan Stevenson, lawyer, professor, and founder of the Equal Justice Institute (EJI), a legal nonprofit based in Montgomery. "I've lived in Alabama for 30 years, and I still feel anxiety and doubt and insecurity living in that state. I am very worried about being victimized and injured and attacked and menaced because I am Black." Stevenson is deeply invested in thinking about how the United States remembers and symbolizes its history of racism. He is one of the country's most active advocates for the construction of memorials to victims of slavery and lynching.
In February of 2015, the EJI published "Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror." The report documents the history of "racial terror lynching" in a dozen Southern states between 1877 and 1950, and notes that "no prominent memorial or monument commemorates the thousands of African Americans who were lynched in America." In a response to the report, the New York Times editorial board argued that America's history of lynching must be integrated into the national conversation about America's past and present. The board endorsed the EJI's call to construct memorials for the victims of racial lynching as an essential part of the work of acknowledgment.
The board endorsed the EJI's call to construct memorials for the victims of racial lynching as an essential part of the work of acknowledgment.
This past December, in Brighton, Alabama, the EJI raised a memorial for William Miller. A white mob lynched Mr. Miller in 1908. He was a coal miner and a union organizer blamed for the bombing of his boss's home (the explosion was in fact set off by whites trying to undermine unionization). The memorial sits near City Hall, recognizing one of the many mostly forgotten and unrecognized victims of lynching and testifying to an American practice and legacy.
At present, there are about a dozen such lynching memorials across the country which were built independently of the EJI. But the EJI's aim is to organize a coordinated national effort to ensure not only that all victims are remembered, but also that America as a whole comes to understand its history. The memorials are meant to function as a partial remedy to what Stevenson calls the "complete absence of awareness and understanding — just total ignorance — about the legacies of slavery." The Brighton memorial to William Miller is the EJI's first official lynching marker, and there are six others currently in the works. To do justice to every person who was lynched, the EJI will have to erect nearly 4,000 more.
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Memorialization is an American tradition. In her book Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America, American-studies professor Erika Doss describes the memorial mania phenomenon as: "an obsession with issues of memory and history and an urgent desire to express and claim those issues in visibly public contexts." There are national memorials to the first and second World Wars, and to Vietnam and Korean War veterans. There is a Martin Luther King Jr. memorial, and there is the Emancipation Memorial: built in 1876, funded entirely by freed slaves, with its design overseen entirely by white people, the bronze sculpture shows Lincoln standing and gazing down at a Black man crouching at his feet. There is also the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, which commemorates the Confederate soldiers who died fighting in the Civil War.
Memorialization is an American tradition.
But there is no national memorial to slavery, and there is no national memorial for victims of lynching. This is truly staggering, and yet there is little collective sense of outrage. It is certainly not part of the national conversation.
"America [is] a post-genocidal nation that has never owned up to this fact or to the narrative of racial difference that we created," says Stevenson. "We were never motivated to address the narrative created through slavery, because we were never ashamed." Shame does not come easy for anyone or any nation. But, Stevenson thinks, "we've done a very poor job in this country confronting our failures. The American psyche is built on success and triumph. We've come to associate apology or acknowledgment of failure with disloyalty." While the 13th Amendment abolished slavery, the country never directly addressed or apologized for the narrative of racial difference that supported it.
The EJI is currently working with town and city councils to build its markers, all of which would be simple, relatively small, and specific to each individual victim. The memorials are small bronze plaques, with the victim's story written in raised gold. Rather than placing such memorials in a special, marked-off area — like the National Mall — these memorials would be integrated into our everyday world. "With the memorials," says Stevenson, "our objective is really to create a different landscape, where every community that experienced a lynching has to own up to that."
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In response to increasing public attention on the police treatment and killings of Black people, scholars, academics, and journalists have argued that police brutality needs to be understood through the lens of lynching. In a recent interview in The New Yorker, poet Claudia Rankine said of the spectacle of Mike Brown's death: "The sort of execution-style shooting takes it to this whole other place that starts approaching the language of lynching, and public lynching, and bodies in the street that people are walking around." In a similar vein, philosopher Judith Butler wrote about our "racially saturated field of visibility" in her analysis of the footage of the beating of Rodney King.
For Rankine and Butler, lynching and racism need to be conceived not just as acts or ideas, but as a way of seeing the world and a language for making sense of it. This language is part of what make it possible for trained police officers to see 18-year-old Mike Brown as a "demon," or to make the split-second judgment that 12-year-old Tamir Rice was a threat grave enough to require shooting bullets into his small, child's torso. They make it possible for a grand jury to see no reason to bring such killings to trial.
For Rankine and Butler, lynching and racism need to be conceived not just as acts or ideas, but as a way of seeing the world and a language for making sense of it.
Consider some of the common reasons given for a lynching at the turn of the century and through the 1960's, social transgressions so minor and unpredictable as to be practically unavoidable: being obnoxious, acting suspiciously, arguing with or insulting a white man, living with a white woman, race troubles, unpopularity, demanding respect. Consider some of the circumstances that led to someone getting killed in recent years: selling loose cigarettes, broken taillight, shoplifting cigarillos, knocking on a door seeking help with car trouble, mental-health crisis, playing with a toy in the park.
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For Stevenson, video footage of police killings is crucial for cultivating white people's capacity to see the police as a force of racial oppression forged by postbellum policy. But he also sees a risk. As he points out, "we've accommodated ourselves to seeing violence on screens without being burdened by it."
Just as the killings can be understood as a new form of lynching, so too can the interest in watching be seen as a new version of the documenting and distributing of images of lynching at the beginning of the 20th century. Lynchings have always been spectacles. In response to news stations that played and replayed the police shooting of Walter Scott, professor Britney Cooper wrote in Salon, "Black folks are being treated to an endless replay of this murder on cable news. There is no collective sense that being inundated with video and imagery of these racialized murders of Black men by the police might traumatize and re-traumatize Black people who have yet another body to add to a pile of bodies. Black death has become a cultural spectacle."
Lynchings have always been spectacles.
By insisting that we remember the history of lynching and let it inform our sense of the present, lynching memorials and other practices of remembrance would cultivate the much-needed collective experience of being burdened by these images. But without such sense of burden and historical understanding, images of racialized murders will not disrupt but will instead simply circulate.
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Stevenson often compares America's discomfort with the memory of its mistakes to other countries' efforts to bear witness to their brutal histories. He sees South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission as one model for collective reckoning with the moral failures of the past; he sees Germany's commitment to memorialization as another. "In Germany, swastikas are illegal. There are memorials everywhere. You are almost required to encounter the legacy of the Holocaust."
Memorials intervene in the world. They interrupt movement. They reroute our thoughts and bulldoze our feelings. They change what we remember, what we celebrate, how and what we see. Of course, they can also be seen as cheap gestures facilitating collective self-congratulation and the cessation of real social change. But as Bree Newsome recognized, flags and memorials are not merely symbolic or ornamental; they are fully symbolic, the shared symbols by which we make sense of the past and the present. The Confederate flag functions as one such symbol, and a lynching memorial stands as another. When done well, memorials can function as the basic units for a counter-narrative, for a new way into the world.
When done well, memorials can function as the basic units for a counter-narrative, for a new way into the world.
Memorials transform the landscape. But the EJI is also working to preserve part of that landscape. Besides the markers, the EJI is also engaged in an archival project of collecting soil from every location where a person was lynched in the state of Alabama. The EJI and volunteers take some earth from these sites and place it in jars labeled with the names of the victims. Both the markers and the soil-collection project acknowledge that the past is buried in us. It's shaped this land, sits on the surface of the earth, and runs deep in the ground.
Memorials guarantee nothing in terms of our shared future, and they will never eradicate the tendency to careen toward forgetfulness with respect to the past. But they have the power to trouble that tendency and disrupt our habits. With these markers, the past arches up to meet us, and in the same moment we are confronted with a new understanding of the present and a new sense of ourselves. But only if we are willing, only if we shift some of the burden, and change the way we bear it.
Francey Russell writes about art and film and is a PhD candidate in philosophy.


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Reading, Pa. – The Reading Royals, ECHL affiliate of the Washington Capitals of the NHL and Hershey Bears of the AHL, announced that the organization has agreed to terms with forward Nikita Kashirsky.
Kashirsky, who was born in Moscow, Russia, played 63 games for the Royals last season — 41 in the regular season and all 22 it took for the Reading to capture the Kelly Cup. That marked the second ECHL championship for Kashirsky, who was a member of the 2009 Kelly Cup champion South Carolina Stingrays.
Kashirsky began last year in Russia's Kontinental Hockey League, playing one game with Moscow Spartak. He returned to North America and was signed as a free agent by the Royals on Dec. 27. Kashirsky proceeded to record 44 points (17g-27) in just 41 regular season games.
Kashirsky played all 22 post-season games for the Royals, racking up 20 points (5g-15a), which was third best on the team in playoffs. His 15 assists tied for the league lead in that category.
In 2011-12, Kashirsky led the Gwinnett Gladiators of the ECHL with 49 points (16g-33a) in 64 games. In his two pro seasons prior to that, Kashirsky played primarily with South Carolina, but also logged considerable time in the AHL, playing 39 total games with the Springfield Falcons, Manitoba Moose and Hershey Bears. In 2008-09, Kashirsky completed a stellar four-year collegiate career with Norwich University with a selection as an RBK Hockey First Team All-American. During his time at Norwich, Kashirsky registered 144 points (73g-7a) and 111 penalty minutes in 110 total collegiate games.
Upon completion of his collegiate career, in March of 2009, he joined South Carolina for 13 regular season games (3g-4a) and then proceeded to become a critical member of the Stingrays' 2009 ECHL Kelly Cup Championship run, racking up 18 points (6g-12a) in the 21 games it took for South Carolina win it all. Over the course of four separate appearances in the ECHL post-season, Kashirsky has recorded 41 total points (13g-28a) in 52 playoff games.


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Steve Jobs Named 'Most Fascinating Person of 2011'
In a first for Barbara Walters' annual "Most Fascinating Person of the Year" program, Steve Jobs was posthumously honored with the title.
Last night, Walters told audiences that Jobs was being considered for the title when he announced his retirement in August. When he died in October, Walters said, she knew her team was "sticking with their choice."
Never before has anyone been named Person of the Year posthumously; rules for contention require the person be living. But as Walters explained, "rules were made to be broken."
Jobs was known for many things: his vision, creativity, determination, and success. He helped form Apple, Inc. and revolutionized personal computing with the creation of the Macintosh in 1984. During the 27 years since then, Apple, Inc. has grown rapidly and been at the forefront of change.
According "DigiTimes Research" analysts, "13.5 million all-in-one PC's will ship this year, and iMac will lead the charge with an estimated 3.7 million shipments."
The iPod debut in 2001 led to instant popularity and several models, including the iPhone.
On Walters' special, Disney President and CEO Bob Iger spoke of Jobs' work ethic, which was very demanding: "He wanted things insanely great and would accept nothing less than that."
But there was a softer side to Jobs, who married Laurene Powell in 1991. He was the father of four and was known for being a devoted family man. "Family and Apple were the two most important things in his life," according to Iger.
Jobs was also a philosopher and gave the commencement address at Stanford University in 2005. The video has since gone viral and gained increasing popularity among Jobs' followers.
He famously told the crowd, "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
Jobs "was always seeing something we couldn't and that's what makes him the most fascinating person of 2011," Walters concluded.
Jobs died at the age of 56 after a long battle with a rare form of pancreatic cancer.


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Harden has a setback in recovery
By Eric Gilmore / Special to MLB.com
"The latest is I'll take a few days off from throwing," said Harden, who was examined by a doctor in the Bay Area earlier this week. "I guess you could call it a setback. We'll kind of go day to day."
Harden opened the season on the 15-day disabled list with what the A's are calling a right shoulder injury. But he stressed that the injury is to the teres major muscle, and has nothing to do with his "rotator cuff or labrum."
Harden said rest and rehab should solve this problem, and he admitted that he probably pushed too hard to get back.
"I was close before, feeling good, and kind of hit a point where I kind of got set back a little bit," Harden said. "It basically just needs a little more time. It's frustrating. You want to be out there. Really, it's just a little more time -- then building back up. It wasn't quite ready to get to that point of high-intensity work.
"I maybe just pushed it a little too much. ... It's hard not to. That's always been a problem for any athlete. That's just what you do. It's human nature. You want to be out there. Yeah, I may have done that. Ended up probably making this whole thing take a lot longer than it would have originally."
Gonzalez visits local school
OAKLAND -- One day after pitching six shutout innings against the Tigers, A's left-hander Gio Gonzalez did some work in the community on Friday afternoon.
Gonzalez, along with team mascot Stomper, visited Manzanita SEED Elementary School in Oakland. Manzanita was one of two California public schools named a 2010 National Title I Distinguished School by the National Title I Association.
Gonzalez took part in an assembly at the English/Spanish immersion school. Students answered trivia questions -- those with correct answers received an A's hat that Gonzalez autographed -- and math questions. He also did a Q & A with the students at the assembly, which was a reward for their achievements.
A's flagship station adopts all-sports format
OAKLAND -- The A's flagship radio station switched from a country music format to all sports, all the time on Friday.
Entercom Communications launched what it called the largest market FM sports station in the nation, SportsRadio 95.7.
"With eight professional sports teams, several outstanding college teams and some of the best fans in America, we believe that the Bay Area deserves a great FM-sports-talk station," Entercom market manager and vice president Dwight Walker said in a release.
"SportsRadio 95.7 will deliver live and local programming, exciting play-by-play sports, and the most entertaining and informative sports-radio experience for Bay Area fans. There is a lot to talk about, and a lot of people who want to talk sports."
Entercom owns several other sports-talk radio stations, including WEEI in Boston. It will compete for listeners with KNBR, which operates two all-sports AM stations in the Bay Area.
"Numerous cities in America, including Detroit and Philadelphia, have been able to support two successful sports stations, and San Francisco will do it as well," Walker said. "Launching SportsRadio 95.7 FM will provide this market with an outstanding alternative."
The station is already a broadcasting partner with the San Jose Sharks.
LaRoche gets another start at third
OAKLAND -- Andy LaRoche was in the starting lineup at third base and regular starter Kevin Kouzmanoff was on the bench on Friday night for the second straight game.
A's manager Bob Geren said he might give the hot-hitting LaRoche an extended look at third base. Does he have a chance to win the starting job?
"Hey, we're trying to win games, and if a guy is contributing and helping us, I'll find a way to keep him in there, yeah," Geren said before Friday night's game against Detroit. "That's the same with anybody -- not just him, but in general. We're not swinging the bats all that well. So if somebody's swinging it, I've got to get him in there."
LaRoche is hitting .333 to Kouzmanoff's .171. Kouzmanoff has also committed four errors to just one for LaRoche, who was a non-roster invitee to Spring Training and made the Opening Day roster.
Geren said he expects Kouzmanoff to work his way out of his slumps at the plate and in the field.
"I even told him, 'Guys have ups and downs fielding, they have ups and downs hitting,'" Geren said. "Right now, he's having a rough time with both of them. But I have confidence he will break out both offensively and defensively, because he's done it in the past."
Eric Gilmore is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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April 15, 2014 at 11:26 pm #251850
Hello, I have version 1.4 of angular and want to update with the current version. Is there an automatic update procedure, as is the case with the themes provided with wordpress, so angular update without overwriting any customization of my current version.
Because of course, is what happens if I copy the new version of angular FTP.
Thank you in advance, DamienApril 16, 2014 at 1:40 am #251882
Hi agirjuste!
No, WordPress will always write over the entire theme folder when installing an update so you will need to update your files manually using the version.txt in the full download as a guide for which files to update.
DevinApril 20, 2014 at 11:11 am #253565
Thank you, but when I copy the folder framework to version 1.4 to 1.8, the function" Angular Template Builder" disappears in the admin. So I went back to 1.4 for this reason. What should I do to fix this?
Best regards, DamienApril 21, 2014 at 1:39 pm #253759
Thank you for the update.
I'm sorry but we can't help you with this because we don't know which files have been modified. Next time, please create a change log to keep track of the modified files or use a child theme to preserve the modifications. You need to update the theme if you upgrade wp to 3.9 then redo the modifications.
IsmaelApril 21, 2014 at 5:23 pm #253938
Hello, I'm not sure it will be understood. When angular installed in wordpress in the administration area there is the function with angular "theme options" and "template builder".
With "Template builder", you can access a screen to create dynamic templates. However in angular 1.8, this screen disappears. It is not possible to modify the previously created templates or create new ones.
Templates do exist and work well, but this function before you provide to modify or create angular disappeared in angular 1.8.
Is this an oversight, a bug? What can I do to bring back this feature?
This feature disappears when I replace "Framework 1.4" by "Framework 1.8" :
April 23, 2014 at 5:16 am #254757
As far as i know there is no Angular 1.8, i have 1.7 on my local installation and i'm able to see and use the Template Builder with no issues. It should be right here:
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JosueApril 23, 2014 at 3:20 pm #254984
Josue thank you for your reply. But to make the migration, I'm referred to "versions.txt" file which calls for angular switch to 1.8, when on wordpress 3.9 which is my case.
See below, I've put a copy of the early "versions.txt" file included with the download of the upgrade of 1.8 angular.
As you say it works in 1.7, so I will migrate to 1.7 angular. But nevertheless it does seem that there is a bug on angular 1.8. Unless I'm missing something, in this case what?
cordiallyApril 23, 2014 at 3:29 pm #254997
Actually … I can not go in 1.7 either, because it is the result of replacing "framework" that created the problem, as I return to 1.4.
I downloaded the 1.8 and angular migration "framework" has a problem that it can not be available with the 1.7 migration …
I do not know what to do. Is it be possible to download the 1.7 migration, to see if it works there?
thank youApril 24, 2014 at 8:06 pm #255763
Not sure what could be happening but when I activate Angular 1.8 on my live dev install with WordPress 3.9 running I have no issues seeing the template builder or the theme options.
I would suggest trying to first deactivate all active plugins then check again, Next, download your version of the theme and then do a full upload of 1.8 and see if things work at that point.
DevinApril 25, 2014 at 1:13 pm #256060
Thank you for your help,
I tried to disable all plugins, then install 1.8 angular … without success.
So I came back in 1.4 … and my class managed system in wordpress not working. Rather than bother me, I asked my ISP to restore to restore the situation.
By screening, I will stay in 1.4 for the moment. If you have the idea of a simple procedure to make me try. Otherwise, a priori angular wordpress 1.4 + 3.9, it looks to go :-)
Otherwise, other solutions 1.4 overwriting all the files of the 1.8 without distinction. Apart from the fact that the problem remains, it forces me to redo all my design by hand and I'm not even getting there easily …
thank you,
DamiebApril 26, 2014 at 9:26 am #256497
Thank you for the info.
This must have something to do with the customization that you did on Angular 1.4. Note that you need to upload the whole Angular 1.8 theme files, not just the "framework" folder. If possible, please create a test site with WP 3.9 and the fresh copy of Angular 1.8. Post the login details here and set it as a private reply. We would like to check it. We're really not sure what's wrong with your installation because the update is working fine on ours.
IsmaelMay 1, 2014 at 9:12 am #258783
Thank you Ismael,
Alternatively crush all angular 1.4 and copy 1.8 file and redo the template.
To do this copy all files angular 1.4 somewhere as a backup, and then run over by angular 1.8. See if problem resolved. If this is the case, I custumise hand to find my blog as I want.
If still problem, I go back to 1.4 angular I saved. What do you think? What bothers me, it's lot of work!
DamienMay 2, 2014 at 9:44 am #259257
Yes, this sounds like a plan. In fact there shouldn't be any problem with the update because we didn't change the data or database structure. However sometimes a writing error may occur in the database and this unfortunately can break the entire dynamic template data because we use serialized data to store the templates.
PeterMay 3, 2014 at 8:33 am #259646
Hello, I copied all angular 1.8. Then copy the few files I had modified 1.4 for customization and it's all good.
thank you
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The tale of the extraordinary existence and times of Lucky , whose
leading character, a marvelous horse , narrates the entire tale , being
supplied with the minds, vocabularies and values of humans , (actually,
it's the voice of Lukas Haas) . The beautiful scenery , photography and
music enhance the story of Lucky's adventures . It starts in 1914 ,
when a German supply ship is en route to Namibia with a cargo of work
horses when one of the captive horses gives birth to a foal . The colt
is soon separated from his mother and arrives in a mining community .
Lucky is a horse that was born in captivity but achieves his dream of
running free with the help of an orphan stableboy (Chase Moore) . When
war breaks out , the farm is bombed and the stable is abandoned , the
lonely pony flees into a nearby South African desert , where empathizes
an Oryx and a native girl who looks after him become his companions and
teach him to survive .
Enjoyable kiddie film about the adventurer life of a wonderful horse and the feats on the African desert . As the animal has to survive on his own , as the horse deals with a plucky orphaned boy who works at a stable , an antelope , befriends a native little girl and many other things . The scenes featuring the horses were breathtaking , colts racing over desert , a filly and pony trotting together , their sinewy legs moving together in smooth rhythm, elegant stallions rearing up; they were all absolutely beautiful . It is treated in good sense and high sensibility , though some moments results to be some boring and slow-moving , suffering from terminal hoof-in-mouth disease . The redundant voice-over and the sugary music score combine to enhance the glories of nature, one of which, after all, is silence . Exotic and colorful cinematography by Dan Laustsen (Silent Hill, Brotherhod of the wolf, Mimic) . Sensitive musical score with emotive leitmotif by Nicola Piovani , who had previously won an Academy Award for ¨Life is beautiful¨ . For the music lover, ¨Running Free¨ is an emotional ride in which the music all too well toys with the human soul. The music is so delicately composed, performed, and chosen for the movie that it is worth seeing just to enjoy the soundtrack. Written and produced by the French Jean Jacques Annaud , an expert on animal films such as ¨The bear¨ and ¨Two brothers¨ . Sergey Bodrov's first English language movie , who had formerly directed the notorious ¨Prisoner of the mountains ¨, and subsequently the spectacular ¨Nomad¨ and ¨Mongol¨ ; furthermore realized another picture with animal as ¨Bear's kiss¨. Rating : Acceptable and passable , worthwhile watching ; despite seems to be widely ignored . The flick will appeal to children and horse lovers , however the picture failed at box office . The bottom line is if you love animals at all, especially horses, then you will completely adore this film.
A rather nice boy and his horse picture. Or is it a horse and his boy? There are some great animal shots. (It must have been hell getting the horses to "act.") The film is shot in Namibia, the setting for the story, and there are some superb scenes. My only problem with the film was the rather absurd off camera narration by the horse. And even if they had to use this tired device, they could have chosen a better voice than the wimpy one they did. But all in all, it made for a pleasant enough evening and I imagine for a horse lover (which I am not) it would be sublime.
This is a lot like "Black Beauty", with the exception that it is narrated (by Lucas Haas) from the horse's perspective . It is entertaining, however there is nothing special / or that has not been seen before. Worth watching, but don't expect to be overcome with emotion, as it is also very predictable.
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Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) designs, develops, manufactures, and markets digital telecommunications products and services, including developing and licensing wireless technology and manufacturing semiconductors for mobile phones.
Share Repurchase
On March 5, 2013, QCOM announced a new $5.0B stock repurchase program to replace the prior $4.0B stock repurchase program, which had $2.5B of repurchase authority remaining. Repurchases under this program will be made using the company's cash resources and may be commenced or suspended at any time or from time-to-time at the company's discretion without prior notice. Repurchases may be made in the open market, through 10b5-1 programs, in privately negotiated transactions or through the use of derivative instruments. QCOM currently has 1.72B shares outstanding. With this new repurchase program, up to 73-74M shares could be repurchased based on the current trading price, reducing up to 4.2-4.3% of total outstanding shares.
Dividend Boost
QCOM's Board of Directors had approved a 40 percent increase in the company's quarterly cash dividend. The dividend will increase from $0.25 to $0.35 per share, or $1.40 per share annually. This gives the dividend an approximate 2 percent yield based on the current price level.
As quoted from Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm,
"In recognition of our strong financial position and continued growth in our business, we are pleased to increase our quarterly cash dividend to a record 35 cents per share and to introduce a new $5.0 billion stock repurchase program. Our business model continues to generate strong operating cash flows that enable us to invest in and execute on our strategic priorities, while also returning capital to stockholders. Since these programs began in 2003, we have returned $19.9 billion to stockholders through a combination of stock repurchases and cash dividends."
On February 12, Rod Hall, the analyst from JPMorgan, indicated "As the windfall from high 28nm chip demand recedes into the rearview mirror we believe this eventual market deceleration is likely to become more of a focus for Qualcomm investors." JPMorgan sees 37% smartphone growth in 2013 and expects growth slowing to 17% in 2014. 3G ASPs are likely to begin declining this year as cheaper tablets and smartphones weigh into the mix. On the other hand, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) is catching up to the mobile segment. However, QCOM will continue to benefit from the increasing population of smartphones and the demand for next-generation wireless technology, LTE. QCOM will also gain from the trend for larger display for smartphones. Lastly, QCOM will deliver new Snapdragon 800 and 600 processors, where Snapdragon 800 will deliver 75% better performance than S4 Pro processor while Snapdragon 600 will deliver up to 40% better performance. Snapdragon 600 processor is expected to be available in commercial devices by the second quarter 2013.
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While the growth rate is expected to decline, increasing dividend and boosting share repurchase will help improve shareholders' value and unlock the value of QCOM's huge cash pile. With QCOM's solid balance sheet and strong cash flow generation ability, QCOM remains a great long-term holding. With the increased dividend, QCOM looks even more attractive for investors seeking balance mixed of income and growth. QCOM remains a solid buy.
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In "The Jazz Photographs of Milt Hinton" there is a picture of Billie Holiday, reunited with the great Count Basie, rehearsing in a New York City television studio. Basie sits at a piano with Holiday standing behind him. She seems to be giving the pianist a serious chewing-out or at the very least telling him something sassy. For his part Basie, wearing his trademark porkpie hat, looks up at her with a you-old-devil grin on his face. The year, 1957, was one of Holiday's last good ones.
Another photo by Hinton, taken two years later, captures the 43-year-old Holiday during her final recording session. She's alone in the frame, apparently staring at her sheet music. But in fact she's listening to a playback of her own voice -- which, after years of heroin abuse and heavy drinking, had withered into an old woman's croak. Holiday seems to realize for the first time what she's done to herself: She looks devastated, her eyes wet, her teeth clamped down on her lower lip. She died later that year.
"Her voice was not what she wanted it to be," recalls Hinton, now 87, speaking over the phone from his home in Jamaica, New York. "I got a lot of flak for taking that picture, but I wanted to show how she felt about it."
Forty-five of Hinton's photographs are now on display at the Hollywood Art and Culture Center. Hinton is not a professional photographer per se. He's a jazz bassist whose career stretches back to the late Twenties, when he was a session man for various Chicago musicians, most notably the innovative pianist Art Tatum. In 1936 the famous and flamboyant singer Cab Calloway made Hinton part of his band, one of the hottest and highest-paid ensembles of its time. Hinton found himself in the company of bright young players such as Chu Berry, Dizzy Gillespie, Cozy Cole, Illinois Jacquet, and Ben Webster.
One of them -- Hinton can't remember who -- gave him a very nice, $25 Argus camera as a birthday present one year. It was the start of a major avocation for Hinton, who became not only a photographer but a chronicler of some 60 years of jazz history.
Hinton, who has played on more jazz records than perhaps anyone in the business, has been part of the inner circle of the jazz world for his entire adult life. His camera has captured everyone from Duke Ellington to Wynton Marsalis, usually at work recording, rehearsing, or playing.
"I had it in my mind to take pictures then of musicians the way we musicians see us, not the way photographers see us," Hinton says.
In Hinton's photographs the backdrops are often the same: the acoustic baffling of recording booths, the white walls of rehearsal spaces. And the props don't vary much. Musicians hold their instruments as they sit on chairs and scan the sheet music on the stands before them. Which is exactly what makes Hinton's modest black-and-white pictures so captivating. There are no lights set up to catch a perfect curl of smoke, no inspired camera angles, no heightened chiaroscuro. Though Hinton unarguably has a keen eye, a nice sense of composition, and a knack for seizing the moment, what he takes are essentially rather handsome snapshots. What Hinton saw, day in and day out, as a working jazz musician, is what his camera saw.
Walking around the exhibit is like hanging out with some of the most legendary names in jazz. There's the burly saxophonist Cannonball Adderly perched on a metal folding chair that hardly looks able to support his massive bulk. He smokes a cigarette with the same thick but nimble fingers that played the lighthearted bop that was his trademark.
Doc Cheatham, the aged trumpeter, is also here. He greets the camera with a big smile, a pipe between his crooked teeth, looking exactly like a man who's beaten the odds. While most trumpeters lose their breath by age 60, Cheatham only began to find his distinctive style as a solo player around the age of 70.
On a railroad platform in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, stand trombonist Tyree Glenn and trumpeter Chu Berry. Expected to become a major force in jazz, Berry was killed in a car accident at the age of 33. Hinton still has Berry's pipe and watch -- they were given to him by the trumpeter as he lay dying on the asphalt near his wrecked car.
In another photo are two more brilliant young men, the trumpeters Danny Barber and Dizzy Gillespie, sitting on a bench on a train in 1940. Bundled up in hats and overcoats, they've fallen asleep against each other. In another image, made in Nice almost 50 years later, a graying Gillespie sits surrounded by a group of French schoolchildren. Upon his instructions they've all put their fingers to their lips and puffed out their cheeks. But Diz has them beat: His elastic cheeks are stretched out so far that they threaten to engulf his nose.
For the younger generation, jazz is as much about style as music. Some of Hinton's pictures could serve as models of coolness. Basie's porkpie hat, for instance, is always set at the perfect angle. The pianist Bob James embodies the jazz-nerd aesthetic, his pale face offset by severe, black-framed glasses. Best of all is Gerry Mulligan, one of the original Mods: close-cropped hair, dark shades, slim tie, and checked blazer, with his baritone sax at his side.
For Hinton and his generation, however, jazz had other undercurrents, the most obvious one being racial segregation. A handful of Hinton's photographs are conscious documents of the color barriers he and his colleagues found in the South. Hinton poses various musicians in front of telling signs such as "Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, Lunches -- For Colored Only." One memorable picture shows a group of musicians, obviously having just arrived in town, hamming it up happily at the "colored entrance" of a large building.
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"I wanted to catch that for the simple reason that today my children don't know that that happened," notes Hinton. "I wanted them to see what we had to go through, where we had to eat and sleep and where we couldn't eat and sleep. So I took pictures of what it was then."
It will come as news to no one that the very people who gave this nation one of its most important musical idioms were treated as second-class citizens for decades. But Hinton's pictures bring the issue into sharp focus, even when he's captured a scene as simple as the black singer Sarah Vaughan rehearsing with the white pianist Bob James.
"I wanted also to show that the world was racist, but we was musicians," explains Hinton, "and we didn't care what color you was. We was musicians."
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A friend e-mailed to remind me of something I had long forgotten.
"I still owe you a theater date," he wrote, referring to that time in New York City when a delayed flight had made him late for a Broadway play.
That began a back and forth of "Do you remember?" as one memory dovetailed beautifully into another about that trip.
"Remember how much we laughed?" he asked.
And I laughed again recalling the joyous laughter of that glorious autumn afternoon. We had strolled down Fifth Avenue in the pleasantness of the mild September day, chatting merrily.
We crossed the street in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral and saw him. Salt and pepper hair and beard, skin badly weathered from years of living on the streets. In front of Sak's, he had spread a blanket to panhandle from those who scurried by.
There on the raggedy, dirty cloth, sat the most atrocious looking dog. She had the head of a German shepherd and the body of a collie, a mystical creation that looked like two dogs sewn together. Warily, her pale blue eyes watched each passerby. A hand-made sign warned, "Please do not pet Sparkle. I rescued her from being a fighting dog and she is scared."
Our laughter halted and we approached him. His name was Billy. He explained proudly how he had rescued Sparkle.
"It's amazing how much you can love a dog, isn't it? I'd be lost without mine."
Despite a couple of missing teeth, he smiled beatifically. Pure light radiated from his face. "Oh, she's my absolute joy!" he declared emphatically. "I don't know what I'd do without her."
Later, we talked long into the night of how one hapless soul had miraculously saved another. Three months later, I flew to New York for a meeting on a brutally cold day. It was 10 degrees with cruel winds.
"Sak's," I instructed the driver.
When the cab pulled up, I saw Billy and his friend, Lauren, and on the same raggedy blanket covered in rags was Sparkle.
"Billy!" I called, hurrying toward them. "I've come to check on y'all."
As the wind stung our eyes, we discussed money needed to board Sparkle during the cold. That resolved, I spoke softly.
"Remember my dog, Highway?" He nodded. Tears spilling over, I continued. "She died suddenly last month."
Then came that unforgettable moment. As I crumbled into a sob, they hugged me tightly. Three people divided by class but united by the commonality of the vulnerable human spirit. What a powerful awakening. Blessed in life, I was comforted by two who aren't. The heart, I realized, knows not class or status, only love and need.
Yes, I'd long forgotten the canceled theater plans. But Billy and Sparkle? I shall never forget them.
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Best Buy to Reward Gamers with $100 Trade-in Credit for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Best Buy has a new promotion that will give customers $100 credit for their trade-ins of the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360.
The credit will come in the form of a Best Buy gift card and is valid from now until Nov. 23, the day after the Xbox One launches, reported Polygon. The deal began on the 13th.
"Not all products are eligible for trade-in. Includes working Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 only. Not available in all locations. Trade-in value may vary. Condition, documentation and accessories may affect value. Device must power on to be considered working. Devices that are cracked, have a broken factory seal or have water damage are not considered working for purposes of this offer," the terms and conditions read.
For Black Friday, Best Buy will be slashing the prices of the last-generation consoles and offering big savings on bundle packages.
A PS3 bundle with, The Last of Us and Batman: Arkham Origins will go for $199.99, which would normally go for $367.97. Featured games will only be $34.99, down from $59.99 on some of the newest releases.
Best Buy will also be offering gamers a two-year discount membership, called Unlocked Epic Gaming Package, for $120. This will allow frequent buyers of games a 20 percent discount every time a new game is purchased.
The package became available on Nov. 10, and further bonuses include points doubling for every dollar received on a trade in and purchase. The points can be used for anything in the store, and those signed up will receive 50 percent off a new strategy guide, and a coupon that lets the gamer buy two used games and get one free.
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Hyundai Motor India total sales up 4% in January
The country's second-largest car maker Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) on Friday reported 4.25 percent rise in its total sales at 52,024 units in January 2013.
New Delhi: The country's second-largest car maker Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) on Friday reported 4.25 percent rise in its total sales at 52,024 units in January 2013.
The company had sold 49,901 units in the corresponding month previous year, HMIL said in a statement.
In the domestic market, the company recorded an increase of 1.19 percent in sales at 34,302 units compared to 33,900 units in the year-ago period.
Exports of the company also went up by 10.76 percent to 17,722 units during the month under review from 16,001 units in the same period previous year, the statement said.
"The market was subdued on account of macro-economic factors. For Hyundai, the year has started on a positive note with growth in its domestic and export sales... Marketing initiatives in rural markets are bringing volume growth," HMIL Vice President (Sales and Marketing) Rakesh Srivastava said.
The change in price differential between petrol and diesel rates has increased interest in petrol cars, reflecting in the waiting period for models like Eon, and petrol variants of i20 and Verna, he added.
In the A2 segment (Eon, Santro, i10 and i20), the company sold 45,297 units, while sales in the A3 segment (Accent and Verna) stood at 6,164 units in January 2013.
The company sold 55 units of the sports utility vehicle Santa Fe during the month. Sales of luxury sedan Sonata stood at 20 units, while Elantra witnessed 488 purchases.


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On a winter trip to the island of Domaro, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja to visit the lighthouse at Gåvasten. And Maja disappears, without leaving even a footprint in the snow. Two years later, Anders returns and slowly realises that Maja's disappearance is not the first inexplicable tragedy to strike the islanders.
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When I finished editing the second draft of Trollbooth a month ago, I realized I had a few different projects I needed to work on this year. Some of them have firm deadlines; others are more open-ended, but all are important to me. I want them finished, and I want to share them. I can't do that […]
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"I call my jacket a wolf jacket. It's from Uff, like the bag, too. The leggings are from Lindex and the shoes from Gina Tricot.
I like to mix different materials like velvet and chiffon. I like clothes with interesting details like studs and pearls. Most of my clothes are black-and-white but last summer I learnt to wear neon colours, too."


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say a nursing attendant has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a patient at County-USC Medical Center
The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday (http://lat.ms/OHtwJe ) that Terence Tekoh was taken into custody on suspicion of sexual penetration with a foreign object. The 25-year-old is being held on $100,000 bail.
Sheriff's officials say the alleged assault occurred Wednesday in an examination room. The victim was waiting for a medical procedure.
Tekoh was employed by a private company that provides medical personnel for the facility. Officials say he was fired after the allegations were reported.
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The federal republic of Austria is a landlocked state of Central Europe. Area: 83,858 sq km (32,378 sq mi). Pop. (1995 est.): 8,063,000. Cap.: Vienna. Monetary unit: Austrian Schilling, with (Oct. 6, 1995) a free rate of 10.04 Schillings to U.S. $1 (15.87 Schillings = £1 sterling). President in 1995, Thomas Klestil; chancellor, Franz Vranitzky.
The year 1995 was an eventful one in Austria. On January 1 the country became a member of the European Union (EU). Vienna was allowed to remain neutral for the time being but would cooperate in the construction of a future European Security System. Austria, which had already joined the "Partnership for Peace," aspired to membership in the coming European economic and currency union. Although the country had a hard currency and was the third wealthiest country in the EU, as measured in purchasing power, it might not meet the EU's stringent criteria for economic stability. Franz Fischler, the Austrian minister of agriculture, became commissioner of agriculture and rural development for the EU.
After the October 1994 national parliamentary election, in which both the Social Democrats (SPÖ) and the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) lost seats, the parties concluded a coalition agreement that November. Erhard Busek subsequently lost his positions as vice-chancellor and as chairman of the ÖVP. He was replaced in both offices by Wolfgang Schüssel, who also took over the Foreign Ministry from Alois Mock.
In spite of a favourable business cycle, economic growth, higher employment, and a rate of inflation finally lowered to 2-3%, the gap between state revenues and expenditures had been wide for quite some time, and the budget deficit and state indebtedness became even greater in 1995. In order to hold the value of the schilling and to meet the EC criteria, it would be necessary to bring the budget deficit to 2.7% and state expenditures to 65% of gross domestic product by 1998.
Disagreements over how to achieve this soon arose, however. The SPÖ, which supported higher taxes, and the ÖVP, which sought greater spending cuts, failed to reach a compromise. The coalition collapsed on October 12, and Chancellor Franz Vranitzky scheduled new elections for December 17. When the elections were held, Austrians rejected the sharp turn to the right many had predicted and gave the SPÖ 38.3% of the vote. Schüssel, leader of the ÖVP, lost his chance to form a rightist coalition government when his party garnered only 28.3%, and Jörg Haider's right-wing Freedom Party--third, with 22.1%--suffered its first electoral setback since 1986.
The unsolved murders of four Gypsies and a series of letter-bomb attacks caused anxiety among the populace and revealed differences of opinion on the relative importance of safety and civil liberties--for example, on the question of wiretapping. One leader of a neo-Nazi radical-right group was sentenced to a prison term. Meanwhile, an Austrian national fund for the victims of the Nazis in World War II was set up, with an initial capitalization of 500 million Schillings.
Accusations of sexual abuse of seminarians at the hands of the nation's highest Roman Catholic dignitary, Hans Hermann Cardinal Groer, caused a wave of revolt among the laity, many of whom had been unhappy with the leadership of the church for some time. The consequences were a massive flight from the churches, financial disaster, and a popular initiative signed by more than 400,000 people. Groer's successor as archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Schönborn, sought a way to mediate between the unpopular conservative leaders and the reformers, who demanded, among other things, more consultation on appointments, relaxation of celibacy requirements, admission of women to the priesthood, and less interference by the church in sexual matters.
The number and severity of commercial insolvencies in 1994-95 reached heights heretofore unknown. The loss for 1995 was reckoned to be between 50 and 60 billion Schillings. In the foreground was the bankruptcy of Konsum, the flagship of the Social Democrats and the unions.


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But at least people are talking.
Four days after the launch of "Day One," Mitt Romney's newest campaign ad, YouTube commenters are still divided on how to react.
The minute long ad shows what might happen if Romney beats President Barack Obama in November and what would happen on his first day in office. The job-focused footage features plenty of smiling faces, handshakes, and farm equipment.
On Wednesday morning, more than 430,000 people have viewed it and 1,098 people had "liked" it. Unfortunately for Romney, 1,002 had "disliked" it. While that's nowhere near some of the most disliked campaign ads on YouTube, it's significant that viewers are so evenly split.
The comments section became a battleground for those for and against Romney and the video.
"I choose lower gas prices and will be voting for President Romney!" wrote one commenter on YouTube.
"Huh… Funny that when Mitt Romney was the governor, masschusetts was 47th in job making," responded another.
The discussion also rolled over to Facebook, where Romney had posted the video twice, once on Friday and again on Sunday. There the video has received more warmly and combined, the video had gained more than 50,000 "likes," almost 10,000 comments and nearly 1,000 shares.
As also, commenters argued the merits of their own candidates, however some expressed disappointment in Romney for turning his back on his past political records, as noted by John J. McCarthy:
"Its really sad you cant be yourself Mitt. I believe your a really caring, compassionate and moderate republican. You cant move to the center because you have been jaded and sold out to the far far right. What a waste of someone that could really meet Americans in the middle and make this country work for everyone."
But for some, the shortfalls of Obama's time in the White House outweigh Romney's past, as Ossil V. Macavinta wrote:
"That's vision! Let's vote this time on track record. Romney help brought to life Sport Authority, Staples, Domino's Pizza and was responsible for ONE of the MOST Successful Winter Olympics. If you were to ask yourself, what did President Obama do that made him qualified for the job? Did he actually make a contribution to the economy by adding new jobs such as Sports Authority, Stables etc.? I can't think of anything that comes to mind, except that he was a 2 year Senator with Community Organizing experience."
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After years of speculation and rumors, Hillary Rodham Clinton is remaining a woman of mystery.
The rumored presidential candidate, 66, stopped by The Daily Show on Tuesday, July 15, for a sit-down with Jon Stewart, but remained tight-lipped on her plans for the future.
Clinton came on the show to promote her new memoir Hard Choices, but Stewart, 51, had no desire to talk about the book. After praising her writing, the talk show host got real and said simply, "I think I speak for everybody when I say, no one cares, they just want to know if you're running for president."
Stewart originally speculated that Clinton would announce her candidacy of President of the United States on his show, but he was not so lucky.
"You know, Jon, I was going to make an announcement, but you kinda spoiled it for me," Clinton said. "The big spoiler! So you know, I'm just going to have to reconsider."
While she wouldn't confirm or deny her supposed plans to run for office, Clinton did joke her way around it. Taking a mock aptitude test, the former Secretary of State expressed her preference for a home office without corners—potentially one of the oval variety.
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Clavicular Head of Sternocleidomastoid Muscle
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[Continued from above] . . . It arises from two origins: the sternal head arises from the superior border of the manubrium of the sternum, while the clavicular head arises from a wide band on the superior edge of the clavicle. From these origins, the heads extend obliquely posteriorly and laterally across the neck where their fibers fuse into a single muscular body. The unified SCM continues to run posteriorly and laterally to insert at the mastoid process, a small mass of bony tissue on the temporal bone of the skull. The course of the SCM can be traced through palpation of the neck by turning one's head to the side and feeling for a bulging muscle running from the sternum and clavicle and ending posterior to the ear.
Compared to the sternal head, the clavicular head is thinner and wider, as it has a much larger origin along the medial third of the clavicle. Its muscle fibers run almost vertically compared to the oblique fibers of the sternal head.
The sternocleidomastoid muscles produce several motions within the neck, depending on whether one or both muscles are operating. When one SCM muscle contracts, it pulls the mastoid process towards its origins, pivoting of the head and turning the face toward the opposite side of the body. Both SCM muscles working together draw both mastoid processes towards the origins, resulting in flexion of the head toward the chest.
The sternocleidomastoid muscles can also work with the scalene muscles as muscles of deep respiration. When other muscles of the neck hold the head steady, the SCM muscles can pull the sternum and ribcage superiorly toward the neck. This elevation of the ribcage increases its volume, pulling more air into the lungs.
Strains of the SCM are common minor muscle injuries. Turning the head suddenly, whiplash, or sleeping with the neck in a strained position are some of the factors that can lead to SCM strain. While painful, this condition is not usually serious and can be treated with rest, massage, stretching, and NSAIDs.
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When I run into people like this I just shake my head and think they are doomed to burn out before making any money. The sales network for this product is fairly saturated. I would rather not disclose the product to keep the answers focused on the probability of success with this type of marketing.
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You know exactly what you're cooking for your Fourth of July party, but have you considered adding some good, old-fashioned American style to your bash?
I've got some Fourth of July party decorating inspiration for you!
DIY Fourth of July Cupcake Toppers
Shopping list:
- Cardstock
- Lollipop sticks or flat toothpicks
Want to serve a classic chocolate cupcake that still looks patriotic? Make a July 4th cupcake topper! Print out patriotic party circles or other chosen design on card stock, and trim with a craft punch or scissors.
I highly recommend using a craft punch, especially if you're making lots of these! As you can probably tell from my photos, trimming with scissors can be very, very tricky.
Plus, if you use a craft punch, you can keep more of the contrasting background, and have pretty edges. After you've cut or punched out your party circles, tape them to a lollipop stick or flat toothpick.
Tip: If you're not into paper toppers, make flag ribbon cupcake picks instead!
Pinwheels Paired with Flowers and Watering Cans
Shopping list:
- Red, white or blue artificial flower bunches
- Mini red, white or blue pinwheels
Make good use of your cute watering can! Pick up a few mini pinwheels and a single bunch of white or red flowers at the craft store. Arrange your flowers and pinwheels in your favorite watering can.
Place your creation wherever you need a bit of patriotic color, or use it as a centerpiece.
Fireworks on Ice (That's pretty bottled water.)
Shopping list:
- Fireworks Duck Tape or red, white, or blue Duck Tape
- Bottled water
If you're having an outdoor party, you'll likely provide plenty of bottled water. Why not make the bottles part of the party? Just remove the labels and apply a band of patriotic tape around the middle of the bottle.
If you choose the Fireworks Duck Tape, you may have to order it online, but I found a ready supply of solid red, white, and blue rolls of Duck Tape at my local store.
Tip: For fun, include mustache tape instead of plain white!
Wheelbarrow of Drinks
Shopping list:
- Favorite bottled beverages and ice
- Miniature flags or flag ribbon for decorating
Keep your favorite bottled drinks cool with a thirst-quenching wheelbarrow! Clean your wheelbarrow, and then stick a few miniature flags into the ice, or tie flag ribbon to the handles.
Bushel of Drinks
Shopping list:
- Favorite bottled beverages and ice
- Patriotic flag ribbon
- Bushel basket
- Plastic trash bag
Pick up a bushel basket from the craft store and line it with a trash bag that's taped or stapled to the basket. Decorate the handles with flag ribbon, and add ice!
DIY Watermelon Keg
Shopping list:
- Watermelon (of course) and knife
- See link below for materials list for watermelon keg
If you don't have a cute drink dispenser for your fruit punch, it's entirely possible to make one using a watermelon! The kind folks at the National Watermelon Promotion Board have directions on how to make a watermelon keg. Tip: Also learn how to make a watermelon ribbon basket.
DIY Vintage Fourth of July Banner
Shopping list:
- String or twine
- Clothespins
- Vintage Fourth of July images (available at etsy)
Add some vintage flair to your patio or other party space. Print out vintage Fourth of July postcard images on card stock. Trim the images. Cut some string, and attach your postcards with clothespins!
Light Up for After Dark
Shopping list:
- Citronella candles
- Tiki torches or strings of lights
Unfortunately, the sky won't be lit with fireworks the whole night! For outdoor parties, don't forget to add strings of lights or tiki torches. Citronella candles are always appreciated! They not only provide light, but will help keep pests away. Tip: Use your patriotic Duck tape or flag ribbon to decorate plain metal candle buckets.
I hope you've found a few ideas to use for your Fourth of July party!


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What do we know about AI?
Creating AI as a worthy opponent for players was a great challenge for us. We did a great job of balancing difficulty and pleasure to form a challenging computer enemy. But AI still needs a bit of polishing so we are working on it more. Denis is spending some time fixing the combat AI, which went crazy and used special abilities in a way they were not designed; for example, powerful strike and aimed shot had issues. Also, the AI misplaces the units of characters with two blades and pikes. The new build version is being tested and we continue our job (while we dont have too many new bug reports).
Everybody loves special effects.
Preparation to improve game effects is one of Nicolays longest and labour-consuming projects. Almost everything hes been busy with during last 1,5 years is related to this task. His special effects work includes rewriting all shaders to provide DOF, SSAO and HDR support, volumetric fog, multiple light sources and ghosts transparency level. So we are also talking about giving our game even more rich visual component.
When will the new patch come?
Patch 0.906 will be huge, because we are planning to add a scenario editor. Of course editor wont work without some other supporting features, so its necessary to do a lot of work again for letting game fully use the editor resourses (for example, mod catalog support). And of course, what we need is more and more testing.


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