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This article was published 14/12/2010 (2444 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
First things first, the CFL released today its December edition of the 2011 Canadian Draft rankings and that's of particular interest to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, who currently hold the first overall pick (but are said to be trying to deal to move down in the first round and grab another later pick).
The interesting name on the list is Vaughn Martin, ranked fourth overall. The guy's obviously got talent - he's already been drafted and is playing for the San Diego Chargers of the NFL. That's a risky pick for any CFL team and, in particular, the Bombers who need Canadian help now.
The other thing to consider is the receiver position. As much as everyone would like to see the Bombers upgrade there, the late-season play of Cory Watson and the team's expected pursuit of Brandon product Chris Bauman – should he reach free agency and not be re-signed by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats – might make that less of a priority than expected, especially early in the draft.
Here is the CFL release:
CFL Prospects: December 2010 Rankings
TORONTO - The Canadian Football League's Scouting Bureau published today its December edition of the top 15 prospects eligible for the 2011 CFL Canadian Draft. Joining the top 15 list are two new faces, Concordia offensive lineman Anthony Barrette (13) and Saskatchewan receiver Jade Etienne (15), while the original top three ranked players remain in the top positions.
As first published in September, the projected number one prospect continues to be Philip Blake, a 6'3", 315 pound centre from Toronto who plays at Baylor University, where he has also played offensive tackle.
The next top 15 prospects list will be published in April prior to the draft and after the 2011 Evaluation Camp which is to be held from March 4-6 in Toronto, Ontario.
Top 15 CFL Canadian Draft Prospects
1. Philip Blake OL Baylor -- (1)
2. Scott Mitchell OL Rice -- (2)
3. Anthony Parker SB Calgary -- (3)
4. Vaughn Martin DT Western/San Diego -- (8)
5. Tyler Holmes OL Tulsa -- (9)
6. Moe Petrus OL Connecticut -- (4)
7. Nathan Coehoorn WR Calgary -- (7)
8. Matt O'Donnell OL Queen's -- (6)
9. Renaldo Sagesse DL Michigan -- (5)
10. Henoc Muamba LB St. FX -- (11)
11. Hugh O'Neill P/K Alberta -- (10)
12. Pascal Baillargeon OL Laval -- (15)
13. Anthony Barrette OL Concordia -- (-)
14. Matt Walter RB Calgary -- (14)
15. Jade Etienne WR Saskatchewan (-)
And now the tidbit...
Had this passed along by a friend of the family – former Bomber head coach Dave Ritchie is now the boss of the Zurich Renegades and will be moving to Switzerland in the new year. Good luck to the old guy. Spoke to him this fall and he desperately wanted to get back into coaching.
To read about Ritchie's hiring, click here.
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Maybe you're right men,if the online is such a big part of game then its best to wait for money and buy the god damn game. But how does signs/coop work,can i see something in game if you wrote in you's ? If i want help with some boss,how do i know that guy won't attack me ?
Otherwise i'm waiting for this paycheck for 2 weeks now,maybe if i find somewhere cheap DS i'll aquire it :3 oooo This is happy idea :3
Ps. Come one men playing with gamepad couldn't be more easy :D Its easier then playing with K/M for sure.
And if you summon someone from a white/gold sign, they will help you and actually can't attack you (they CAN grief you by kiting a bunch of enemies, but most don't seem to realize that). If someone uses the orange sign soapstone to write a message, that goes into the global message system and somehow pops up in other places depending upon RNGs and upvoting. Then there is the PvP aspect of it which is an entire post in and of itself.
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Inspired byt Mafia II's plot/mechanics infusion I'm trying to play GTA IV straight, no fighting, killing, nicking or anything of the sort unless it's required for storyline progress, and driving as law abiding as is possible without getting bored.
The idea is to test the story on it's own merits basically and try and really play it in a way which makes dramatic sense, rather than simply going postal and killing fifteen grandmas in between each plot incident. I wanted to see if doing this gave subtext and more weight to Niko's narrative arc.
It was going quite well. There were a few hitches like the time that I realised that I was driving off with my date's car who I had only just met (went back, dropped it off and walked home), or when a speeding ambulance hit me which made me hit the cops which meant I had to run over someone to escape. But it was plausible enough.
Then my next mission involved me happily agreeing to shoot three Jamaican dudes and then invading a home at the behest of a man I'd only just met and who had openly admitted was paranoid and stoned off his face. There was a nice emergent moment that would have made it all just seem like some shifty business gone way out of control, but the fact that my character happily agreed to do it again sometime afterward as though it was no big deal sort of ruined any pretense that Niko was looking to make something honest of himself and just got in a little deep.
From my brief time with the game before I always felt that it was the open world elements which made a mockery of the supposed moral conflicts that the game is trying to push, but it's actually the plot in hindsight. The plot of a man who never asks for anything legitimate in regards to work at any point and embraces beating people up and killing them without hesitation on his first few days in the country.
It's been great fun so far but it's galling to see that they have literally everything there to make it the story they want to tell-a huge, bustling, unpredictable world full of colour and culture and vibrancy and systems and incidents in which it would be easy to create tensions and sense of a fate and powers bigger than the protagonist-and that the only thing holding it back is the literal script. I'll keep on with it though.
It looks very pretty with the ENB shaders too, although everything is a little bright inside.
Finally completed Halo on Legendary (read: hardest difficulty) and I'm glad I did. It's still so very fun. The game gets so much better with the introduction of the Flood (barring The Library level) where the 3-way fight allows you to sometimes move out of combat in favour for slinking on by, or at least helping an enemy to make someone easier prey later. Not to mention by then you've got the shotgun, a weapon made for the purest intentions of denying anyone who comes within 20m of you any sense of life, fly around with the banshee and you're starting to work out little tricks that can help you.
What I really like about the difficulty modes in Halo titles is how they force you to change how you play. Yes you take a little more damage, but there's a much greater demand for tactical thinking; when should I use what grenade? Should I hold onto this weapon later on so that I can hope there's some ammo for it? I think maybe once or twice in the entire campaign did I melee an Elite to death, and they were from behind where it's an instant kill. Unlike Heroic (a step down) where you can just about get away with it, or even normal where it's a totally valid tactic, melee is a matter of last resort. It is a shame that there's almost a reliance on the killer combo of the plasma pistol (charging it and firing creates a homing EMP that drains the shields of any foe) and the pistol (it has a zoom and if not for the shotgun, is your de facto ultimate killing machine), but with the 3-way later on, you can start mixing and matching as the foes you fight varies so much, you simply can't rely on anything. Even the shotgun, which if you're not careful with, you will run out of ammo.
What I like most though are just those set-piece moments that Bungie completely nailed. There are very few gaming experiences as brilliant as the final trench run in the warthog, with the theme tune blaring, the distance to travel and the timer in the corner reminding you that you need to get the hell away. Throw on top of that the fighting between forces in the run and various things exploding and you've got a final level made of fun. It is certainly one of my very favourite endings, giving you a real sense of satisfaction for getting through the game.Powered by Steam. And biscuits. I'm also a twit and dabble in creative writing.
Think I've found out why people keep comparing Mafia 2 unfavourably to GTA. There are icons all over the road map pointing the way to clothes stores, all selling the same coats which you can completely buy out early in the game. There are gun shops that you'll never have to visit because the only real opportunity to use them is in the missions, and the missions provide you with all you'll need. There are diners you'll never use because eating food only restores a miniscule amount of unneeded health, the rest regenerates. Why is this stuff here? The game keeps handing me wads full of cash and I have nothing to spend it on. If it wants me to invest solely in a linear single-player storyline like the decent Mafia 1, then play to that. Don't skin GTA and wear it's hollowed out face as a mask, then hand me meaningless half extras all leading to dead ends.
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30-12-2012, 11:17 PM #11148Steam: Gundato
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My mate came over and he wanted to see Dark Souls,i have been speaking about it whole week so i decided to play it. We went to fight black knight and oh my god,he was kicked my ass.. Then we went to fight that robot-pig and kicked his ass! But i didn't got his head as helmet,we hoped for that so there was disappointment..
Then we fired GTA4,he was playing with K/M on foot and i was driving with gamepad,and i don't know why people say its better to drive with joystick because i did very bad,we died so many time because of me. With mouse you can freely rotate camera while driving and it makes such an easier experience,also shooting while driving is much better. But you need to look that i moded GTA so its really difficult now,one shot kills you,one big crash with car and you can't drive it anymore,also i switched sound effects so they're MUCH better now lol.
We had fun time :3
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A bunch of GOG games I bought to play over the holidays.
Freespace 2 with the Open mod. I had never played this before and it's gorgeous and fun. Reminds me of my childhood days with Wing Commander.
Arx Fatalis with the Arx Libertatis mod. Stills holds up well to this day.
Neverwinter Nights Diamond with a bunch more mods too.
And Primordia, an enjoyable point & click adventure with some good voice acting and art stye.
Just finished Mark of the Ninja. I think I should have seen that ending coming, but I totally didn't. Therefore, holy crap.
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They might just have been throwing in features for the sake of it, but I really feel the game is too clever and the hints at there being something else behind it too strong for it just to have been an unnecessary or poorly thought through addition.
To me, Mafia II's open world felt both necessary to the plot whilst being no bigger than that. Treat it as a diversion from missions, pop into a shop on the way home, tune up cars, that sort of thing. You just need to chart the difference between having not much money and having some basically, and you don't get that without shopping. Also about the freedom that that money gives-to pay bribes, resepc and replate your car, that sort of thing. It's a shortcut to making more of the world than you can without it, unless you want to get arrested or drive all around the city every time you cause an offence.
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Huh. Well, that's a miracle. Almost nobody turned into a chryssalid zombie in a Terror Mission this time and I managed to minimize the civilian casualties. That's what I get for researching lasers!
I might start a Pacifist run on Deus Ex: Human Resources today. Err, Semi-Pacifist run, grr....
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Playing darksiders is like comic coming to life,coming from Dark Souls to such a colorful game feels really weird,also not hard at all even on apocalyptic settings.
Been playing a bit of Minecraft, mostly just helping my ex with some of her gigantic builds. Not really sure how I feel about a server that is basically survival but most people can switch to creative when they want. Feels a bit schizophrenic.
Still, nice that my Minecraft finally runs without constant lockups.
Also a bit more of Spec Ops: The Line. It's one of those rare games where trying to get achievements actually amuses me. Normally I don't care at all and I'm not sure why this is different.
Anyway, I took the Pacifist run and start not-killing and avoiding guards-who-are-obviously-need-to-be-shot at Sarif. I actually found areas that I've never been to before and making me more cautios as I explore the place. But the urge to pull that trigger is just so goddamn strong in this game.
31-12-2012, 03:53 PM #11158The Medallion of the Imperial Psychopath, a Napoleon: Total War AAR
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Beat black knight,got some titanite shard,also he was guarding a corspe with some blue ring,need to check out what does it do.
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As for the armored boar, lure the few skeletons away from the open area leading to the boar and kill them. Then, run around and lure the boar into the fire on the right side (when facing the staircase). Watch out for more enemies from the staircase on the right side... and the archers... But yeah, as you progress through the game, you'll get to the point where you are crushing enemies like that boar, and the black knight, on a whim. And that's not because you are just that powerful (although better weapons do massively help), but your effectiveness in combat becomes so honed through the game because every encounter is potentially deadly. You're a blunt instrument now... you'll be a katana later.


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Saint Leo University head softball coach John Conway has announced the addition of 2012 National Champion and former University of Alabama standout starting catcher Kendall Dawson to the Lions' coaching staff for the 2013 regular season.
Dawson will serve as the team's bench coach and will assist Conway in both infield and catcher development. Additionally, she will be the team's academic liaison, in addition to recruiting and travel coordinator.
She will officially begin her duties in January 2013.
A native of Plant City, Fla., Dawson spent four seasons with the Alabama Crimson Tide. While in Tuscaloosa, Dawson was a two-time Southeastern Conference All-Defensive team honoree, as well as an All-SEC second team selection as a senior. Academically, Dawson also excelled as she earned her place on the SEC Academic Honor Roll as a junior and senior.
On the field, Dawson reigned supreme behind the plate compiling a .988 fielding percentage. In total, she committed only 18 errors in 1,507 chances and threw-out a program-record 44-of-80 base runners.
Her four-year efforts on the field culminated with the Crimson Tide winning the 2012 College World Series over the Oklahoma Sooners, two games to one.
Dawson's best all-around season came as a junior as she threw-out 17-of-22 base runners, while posting a career-best 21 RBI.
Playing in 201 total contests, Dawson made 161 starts. The defensive standout also shined at the plate as she collected 23 extra-base hits and 57 RBI over the course of her four seasons.
View a short video of Dawson's record-breaking throw-out below.
View her complete bio here.
For more on the softball program, visit SaintLeoLions.com.


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Mozart, Tome 1 : Le Grand Magicien
This is the story of Mozart from his young age to his last breath, and his intriguing connection with the spiritual world, which allowed him to go deep and create masterpieces like "The Magic Flute". Wonderfully easy storytelling, great research based on the letters of Mozart and nice vivid remake of Strasbourg, Vienna, Paris, Munich and other cities where Mozart lived and played. 4-book series.


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You need to find the year, month, and day values for today's date.
Use erlang:now(), and now_to_datetime to get a date structure type representing today.
1> {{Year,Month,Day},_} = calendar:now_to_datetime(erlang:now()). {{2004,8,27},{23,33,40}}
Using the io or io_lib module, you can easily convert a date structure to a string.
% Note: This example uses the above form to bind Year, Month, and Day 2> io:fwrite("Today's Date is ~2B/~2B/~4B\n", 2> [Month, Day, Year]). Today's Date is 8/27/2004 ok
We can get fancier and show the time as well.
3> {{Year,Month,Day},{Hour,Min,Sec} = 3> calendar:now_to_datetime(erlang:now()). {{2004,8,27},{23,33,40}} 4> io:fwrite("Today's Date is ~2B/~2B/~4B ~2B:~2.10.0B:~2.10.0B\n", 4> [Month, Day, Year, Hour, Min, Sec]). Today's Date is 8/27/2004 23:59:06
Note the use of the three-part B format specification. The first part is the number of digits to show (2), the second is the base of the number (decimal in this case), and the third is a character to fill any single-digit numbers with (in this case, we want leading zeros).
Ideally, it would be nice if a few convenience functions were available to provide locale-specific date and time formats, but these do not seem to be present in Erlang at this time.


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The Trinity with Saint Catherine and a Bishop Saint
about 1500
Wood, 152.5 x 128.5 cm (overall)
Genre: European Art, Sculpture
Location: Gothic Room
Accession Number: S30n21
This highly accomplished monumental work was carved by an unknown sculptor active in northern Germany or Denmark. A sculpture by the same artist, which displays the same voluminous but organized curls in the hair and beard, comes from Tjustrup near Copenhagen (Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen). The sculptor may have been based in Lübeck in northern Germany, which was an important artistic center at this period.
Representations of the Trinity — God the Father, Christ, and the Holy Ghost symbolized by a dove — became popular in northern Europe beginning in the twelfth century. This sculpture depicts the specific theme known as the Seat of Mercy or the Throne of Grace (in German, Gnadenstuhl), in which God the Father holds the body of the crucified Christ on his lap. Here, Christ opens his hand to display his wound, and gestures to his side, as the enthroned God embraces his son.
On the left, Saint Catherine looks at a book and holds the spoke of a wheel, instrument of her martyrdom. At her feet is a tiny figure of Maxentius, her tormentor. On the right, a bishop saint, perhaps Nicholas, makes a sign of benediction. Although now set in a nineteenth-century frame, these figures would have formed the original center section of an altarpiece, probably accompanied by wings with smaller figures.
Source: Alan Chong, "The Trinity with Saint Catherine and a Bishop Saint," in Eye of the Beholder, edited by Alan Chong et al. (Boston: ISGM and Beacon Press, 2003): 31.
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WWII B-17 Pilot
1943 — Germany
Arnold Martin enlisted in the USAAC on August 16, 1940. He became an aviation cadet and was commissioned 2nd Lt. May 19, 1943. Sent to Great Ashfield, England in August 1943. Assigned to the 385th Bomb Group, 548th Squadron. Co-piloted on raid over Bremen, Germany October 8, 1943. Co-piloted the next day in B-17 "Miss Nonalee" on famous raid over Marianburg factory in Germany, October 9, 1943. Aircraft developed engine trouble and had to turn back. Pilot ordered the crew to bail over Denmark and all were captured. MACR 824. Pilot landed the B-17 and escaped. Martin spent 15 months in Stalag Luft III. Forced to march from Stalag Luft III to Stalag VII A in January 1945. Liberated April 29, 1943. Discharged from USAAC December 1946. Joined USAFR and flew until 1950.


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Berea, OH (SportsNetwork.com) - The Cleveland Browns agreed to terms with offensive lineman Joel Bitonio, the team's second-round draft pick in the 2014 NFL Draft, on Sunday.
Bitonio was selected 35th overall with the third pick in the second round. He appeared in 51 games at Nevada and started his final 38 games.
The 6-foot-4, 305-pound California native was credited with allowing just two sacks on 821 pass attempts.
Cleveland has now come to terms with five of its six players from its 2014 draft class.
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Burch & Cracchiolo partner Susanne E. "Susie" Ingold has been elected to the board of directors of The Arizona Humane Society. She has been committed to AHS since 2005 and been a member of the "Compassion with Fashion" annual fundraising luncheon committee since 2010.
Ingold has practiced at Burch & Cracchiolo for fifteen years concentrating her practice in labor and employment, commercial and general liability litigation and construction. She also serves as co-chair of the firm's Construction Defect and General Liability section.
Ingold received her J.D. from the University of Arizona and her B.A. with honors from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. Ingold also currently serves on the University of Arizona Law College Association board of directors. Recently, she was a member of Valley Leadership's Class XXXIV which concluded in June 2013.


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PALM BAY, Fla. - The Indian River Lagoon has been in peril over the last year. Manatees, dolphins, pelicans, fish and other habitat that call the estuary home have washed ashore.
The die-off has left fisherman and recreational users of the lagoon demanding answers from local lawmakers on what they're doing to fix the environmental treasure.
"Find out what the problem is and then have the proper people come in and take care of it," said Brevard County resident Carol Cunningham-DeVoe.
Her husband, David, said, "We love coming here. They really need to do something about that before it gets out of hand."
Brevard County commissioners say they've heard the concerns that residents have been expressing over the past year. So, Thursday night they are sponsoring a workshop, focusing on ways to tackle the declining health of the once pristine waterway.
A panel of federal, state and local lawmakers, along with area environmentalists, will be in attendance, taking questions from folks concerned about the lagoon.
DeVoe said, "They need to spend money, get involved and figure out what they can do about it."
According to county officials, it may take billions of dollars to get the Indian River Lagoon back where it once was. They say restoring the river's filters, like clams and oysters, along with reducing pollutants and the removal of muck, are just some of the steps they need to take as soon as possible.
Thursday night's meeting started at 6 p.m. at the Ted Moorehead Lagoon House and is scheduled to end at 9 p.m.
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48 hours trying to sort this out. Sorry if book questions should not be here but this is the only site I can find
OK has anyone got a link to the code examples of 4th ed of Kevin Yank's Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site? Not on the site where it is supposed to be and Sitepoint books have ignored my requests for help.
No need to read on just my opinion of a company I would NEVER buy a BOOK from nor do any business with.
Why the hel** does the link for code examples for an older edition not only NOT WORK but then FORCE YOU to the new edition. That is hugely disrespectful of existing customers.
I LIKE working with books. OK the 4th edition is not completely up to date but a quick run through would help lots.
I find it the height of arrogance for Sitepoint to not only remove the code from the book's page (the link in the book implies it is good news as you will never lose the CD!!!!!!) but then to have the gall to redirect the code link it to new book after not supporting the old one - unbelievably arrogant inappropriate marketing.
By all means do a redirect AFTER the code has started downloading but to delete the code and just point to the new book is the height of … I don't know but I feel like I have been dumped on from a great height.
I have just spent eight hours in broken hardware hell and was going to charge through the book in about 4-8 hours. It was going to be light relief.....
This book is still on sale and in many libraries. It really does Sitepoint no good being seen as "evil" (in the Google sense), rapacious and just plain mean.
I certainly will never buy any of your books again nor sign up for any of your courses. Sorry as a company Sitepoint is simply not to be trusted to honor its commitment to its customers.
Hmmm this was not a "support" question. This was a request for help from other members and a general complaint.
I continue to be very unimpressed with Sitepoint's commitment to its customers.
Hi shomer, welcome to the forums,
It's early morning SitePoint time. Assuming they work 9 to 5 they should be in the office soon.
@HAWK; can get in touch with the business side and find out what's what.
TBH, I think it's more a case of poor housekeeping than evil intent that the code links break. I see Mittineaque has provided the files in your other thread.
These days, SP is placing the code on GitHub, so hopefully that will stop this happening in future.
Thanks have got the files now I think. Just a HORRIBLE customer experience.
And it cold not have happened at a worse time.
My main i7 has broken down and five HOURS on trying to get a new SSD to work
Hmm if you say so. Bit odd that the code link goes to the new book.
And even if an error why no response to email and...
Still lost three or four hours on this.
Hi @shomer; ,Apologies for your bad experience, it sounds super frustrating.We never ignore requests for support so I wonder if there is an issue with your emails getting through. I'll have one of our support team respond to you as soon as the office opens.
Thanks. To be honest my hardware problems have been sooooooooooooooo horrendous that I am not really in the mood for this venture.
Ah well.
Such is life.
Hey shomer, really sorry to hear about the trouble you've been having here. Are you able to DM me the email address you used to contact us? From a quick search in our support system I can't seem to find your message, but I could just be looking in the wrong place.
Most importantly, here's a Dropbox link you can use to download the code archive:https://www.dropbox.com/s/1gfk8mex6xansle/phpmysql4-code.zip
I agree it's not ideal that we are pointing people to the updated edition of the book. That's mainly down to technical limitations that came about when we retired SitePoint's ancient shopping cart system last year — all of the code archives were tied up in there, and we had trouble finding a sensible way to manage older editions of our books. There was a big backlog of tasks involved in the changeover and this meant that we probably weren't as diligent with our housekeeping (to borrow ralph.m's phrase) on this particular issue as we could have been.
Now, it should go without saying that you're welcome to contact us at support any time to request a copy of the code archive. Most of the time you shouldn't have to wait more than 12 hours to get a response back from us, often much less.
I'm going to have a conversation with our dev team today and see whether we might be able to create some slightly better quality resources for readers of our older books, especially when we are redirecting people from older pages. In the meantime, if you need them all of our past code archives (going back to 2003) are linked here:http://www.sitepoint.com/code-archives/
If you have any other questions or feedback, feel free to email me directly at firstname.lastname@example.com.
That's a handy resource, Tim. Perhaps any outdated code URLs (listed in the books) could be redirected to this page?
I noticed not all titles were links. I'm assuming those books don't have a code archive and so are not linked. But maybe it could be reworded a bit to make that clear?
Tim thanks for that. Sent Hawk the email. Just discovered the errata link points to the home page of the new book.
I have ZERO problem with the promotion of the new bool but the appropriate link should also work. Anyhoo have had a nightmare with WAMP installations trying out the old book so will try and look at the new


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Hippotragus niger
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Hippotragus niger
|Species Authority:
|(Harris, 1838)
|Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:
Common Name(s):
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Four subspecies are usually recognized: H. n. niger, H. n. kirkii, H. n. roosevelti and the isolated Giant Sable (H. n. variani) from Angola. As for many other antelope species, the validity and precise distribution of most of the described subspecies are uncertain. An extensive study of the geographical genetic structure of Hippotragus niger identified three genetic subdivisions representing a Kenya and east Tanzania clade (H. n. roosevelti), a west Tanzania clade (H. n. kirkii), and a southern African clade (H. n. niger) (Pitra et al. 2002).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group
|Mallon, D.P. (Antelope Red List Authority) & Hoffmann, M. (Global Mammal Assessment)
Listed as Least Concern as Sable are currently estimated to number ca. 75,000, and population trends are more or less stable in protected areas, increasing on private land and decreasing elsewhere (25%). The overall conservation status is unlikely to change, since any further decrease in the free-living population may be compensated by the continued growth of its numbers on private farms and conservancies. The latter should continue in view of this spectacular antelope's aesthetic appeal and its high value as a trophy animal. Nonetheless, certain subpopulations remain vulnerable, in particular that of the Giant Sable in Angola.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|The Sable Antelope formerly occurred widely in the savanna woodlands of southern and eastern Africa, with an isolated population (Giant Sable) in central Angola, between the Cuanza and Luando Rivers and immediately north of the Luando. They have been eliminated from large areas of their former range by meat hunting and loss of habitat to the expansion of agricultural settlement and livestock (East 1999). This range reduction has been most marked in Mozambique, where they survive only in good numbers in Niassa in the north, and in the western Gaza province, southeast DR Congo, and north-east Tanzania (East 1999; Estes in press). Sable have been reintroduced to many parts of their former range, but have also been introduced to areas where they never naturally occurred, including to Swaziland (East 1999).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Angola (Angola); Botswana; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Namibia; South Africa; Tanzania, United Republic of; Zambia; Zimbabwe
|Additional data:
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|Summation of available population estimates gives a total population of about 54,000 Sable, but this does not allow for undercounting bias in aerial surveys or parts of the species' range for which estimates of numbers are unavailable. East (1999) estimated the total population at 75,000, of which about half occurs in and around protected areas and one-quarter on private land. The population in the Selous ecosystem probably represents the largest free-ranging population in Africa. Overall population trends are more or less stable in protected areas, increasing on private land and decreasing etsewhere (East 1999).
Total numbers of the Giant Sable surviving are estimated (2007) at 200-400 (P. vaz Pinto in litt to ASG, 2007).
Like other ungulates of the miombo woodlands, the Sable occurs at low density in comparison with ungulate densities in semi-arid savanna. Wilson and Hirst (1977) estimated density at 4/km² in the Matetsi area of SW Zimbabwe, which they considered the best Sable habitat in southern African.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|A savanna woodland species, very closely associated with the miombo Brachystegia woodland zone. The Sable is an "edge" species that frequents the woodland/grassland ecotone; it spends the wet season in woods open enough to support an understory of grasses no more than 30 cm high on well-drained soils, and in the dry season emerges onto the grasslands in search of green grass and forbs (Estes in press). They are both gramivorous and folivorous, although grass makes up the bulk of their diet (Estes in press, and references therein).
|Major Threat(s):
Sable have been eliminated from large areas of their former range by meat hunting and loss of habitat to the expansion of agricultural settlement and livestock. Poaching and armed conflict have been a major threat, specially for the Giant Sable (H. n. variani) and Sable populations in Mozambique. Further decline in the distribution and numbers of the Sable Antelope may occur in the more northerly parts of its range in future, unless the expansion of human populations and livestock is countered by the implementation of higher levels of protection and management of wildlife in countries such as Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique (East 1999).
The survival of the Giant Sable through more than 20 years of civil war is highly encouraging, but its survival remains precarious as many Angolans who fled the Luando Reserve during the mid-1970s flood back to areas they had formerly evacuated. There have been recent incidents of hybridization of Giant Sable with Roan Antelope in the Cangandala N.P. (Vaz Pinto 2006).
Inbreeding, evidenced by increased calf mortality, is a major risk in many of the smaller, privately owned herds (Grobler and van der Bank 1994).
|Conservation Actions:
Sable sunrvive in good and generally stable numbers in areas such as Moyowosi-Kigosi, Katavi-Rukwa and the Ruaha and Selous ecosystems (Tanzania), Kafue (Zambia), Liwonde (Malawi), Okavango and Chobe (Botswana), Hwange, Matetsi, Sebungwe and the Middle Zambezi Valley (Zimbabwe) (East 1999). The population in Kruger N.P. (South Africa) has been in decline (Grant and van der Walt 2000). In addition, there are relatively large, increasing numbers on private farms and conservancies in Namibia (extralimital), Zimbabwe and South Africa (East 1999).
Luando Reserve and Cangandala N.P. are the essential strongholds for Giant Sable (East 1999). There have been calls for the establishment of a Giant Sable National park to encompass both these protected areas (Walker 2002).
Sable are held in captivity, although no individuals of the Giant Sable subspecies are held captive.
Hippotragus niger variani is listed on CITES Appendix I.
East, R. (compiler). 1999. African Antelope Database 1998. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Estes, R. D. 2013. Hippotragus niger. In: J. S. Kingdon and M. Hoffmann (eds), The Mammals of Africa. VI. Pigs, Hippopotamuses, Chevrotain, Giraffes, Deer, and Bovids, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, UK.
Grobler, J. P. and Van der Bank, F. H. 1994. Genetic heterogeneity in sable antelope (Hippotragus niger Harris 1838) from four southern African regions. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 22: 781-789.
Pitra, C. , Hansen, A. J., Lieckfeldt, D. and Arctander, P. 2002. An exceptional case of historical outbreeding in African sable antelope populations. Molecular Ecology 11: 1197-1208.
Vaz Pinto, P. 2006. Hybridization in Giant Sable: a conservation crisis in a critically endangered Angolan icon. IUCN/SSC Antelope Specialist Group Gnusletter 25(2): 14-16.
Wilson, D. E. and Hirst, S. 1977. Ecology and factors limiting roan and sable antelope populations in South Africa. Wildlife Monographs 54: 1-109.
|IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group. 2008. Hippotragus niger. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T10170A3179828. . Downloaded on 19 August 2017.
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On the ground level, our tulips look like brightly colored Easter eggs, while the intense yellow daffodils bring poetry to mind along with a knowing smile. So often, our spring bulbs are smashed to the ground by gale-force March winds and rain. Those snarly storms have been mostly absent this year, after wreaking some terrible damage late last year.
Or was it all the rain in March that caused this huge set of blooms this year?
I have specie rhododendrons that are covered with blooms and small, newer rhododendrons that have bloomed long before the proposed seven-year wait for blooms. Specie rhododendrons are the parents of our hybrid rhododendrons that are noted for their huge and brightly colored blooms.
If you are interested in the specie type of rhododendrons, then you must visit the Rhododendron Specie Foundation (RSF) Garden in Federal Way. Even if your summer and fall houseguests/visitors arrive past the main bloom period, the plants themselves are quite special, even without their flowers.
Specie rhododendrons have a striking number of different foliage types so that, in many ways, the flowers themselves become less important. The hybrid rhododendrons, due to standard hybridization techniques, have basically dull-green, somewhat-narrow foliage. They have become ubiquitous due to their very showy and wide-ranging colorful blooms.
Most people, when they talk about wanting dramatic foliage in their gardens, look to the tender banana plants, or the Phormiums, which soon become impenetrable thugs in our small gardens.
A journey to the RSF garden is a visual delight at any time of the year. Yes, they sell plants. Also at the garden, the staff is able to educate us about many, many companion plants.
Special ferns
Having turned my back on the common hybrid rhododendrons, I have, however, fully embraced the native sword fern, Polystichum munitum. You have seen it holding up our hillsides, with its old green and brown fronds smashed down to the ground. It is a very useful plant for stopping hillside soil erosion. Its unique beauty is lost out in the wild, but in our gardens, one can make that beauty visible.
The old fronds need to be cut back to the core. Then, at this time of the year, the fat and fuzzy, bronze fiddleheads unfurl at a great pace. They are fascinating to watch in the spring garden and are quickly followed by tender, green, luxuriant fronds. Once established, these ferns can exist with no additional summer water. Think it through: Our "native" hillsides are not irrigated during the summer months.
I use these ferns to soften all the uninteresting edges of my garden. The steep slope by the garage, for example, is not where I want to spend "gardening" time. The ferns thrive and get their "haircut" once a year.
Once you have seen the beauty in ferns, then your next step is to familiarize yourself with Judith Jones' fern emporium Fancy Fronds in Gold Bar, Wash. She has been at this collecting, propagating, selling gig for many, many years. Her list of Dryopteris ferns makes me salivate.
Start with Dryopteris wallichiana: Its fronds are 3 feet high, with great articulation along the fronds.
Or her description of a smaller, special fern: "Sunset Fern (Dryopteris lepidopoda) — This has become one of my favorite Dryopteris, with its brilliant orangey-red, new, unfurling fronds, which slowly evolve into a sheeny olive-green.… I first saw this in Martin Rickard's Shropshire garden in 1991 and [was] able to bring spores back so I was able to introduce it into the U.S. market in my 1993 catalog. The species names translates as 'scaly foot,' so I opted to dub this with the common name of 'Sunset Fern,' in reference to its brilliant spring color so reminiscent of an Arizona sunset."
More than gardening tasks
Enough reading and writing — it is time to run to the garden. The sun is out, and the list of tasks is long.
They say that spring is when everything happens at once in the garden. There is some truth to that, but, oh, the joys that all this unfurling brings to the soul. Gardens are more than just a list of tasks. They are strong visual reminders about continuity and renewal.
MADELEINE WILDE is a longtime Queen Anne resident. To comment on this column, write to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Artist and photographer Diane Burko is not interested in painting quiet pretty landscapes; her canvases are about melting glaciers, eroded mountain ranges and large fragments of ice floating in chaotic waters. She is interested in showing the forces that are shaping change in nature and to do so, she works closely with scientists who are documenting and measuring our planet's environmental transformations.
Along the walls of Burko's ample studio in Center City, Philadelphia, there are half a dozen paintings in progress. Her work table has a rich palette of white, green and blue paints. All flat surfaces are filled with topographic charts, official aerial photos, fat volumes of statistical studies from NASA and U.S. Geological Surveys and lots of maps.
This is clearly a place where art and science live together and inform each other. She describes the painting she is working on.
"It's a diptych. On one side is a map of Antarctica with a landscape based on photos I took on a recent trip to Antarctica," explains Burko, "and on the right is a graph about how ice melts in different parts of the world, there are no dates or numbers. It's just an implication, just a graphic thing and there's also color lines."
A marriage of art and science
Creating a visual language that conveys geological research is a goal shared by scientists like Rutgers University researcher and geography professor Asa Rennermalm, who invited Burko to show her work and to lecture about her experiences at the Zimmerli Museum on campus.
"Burko has another way of conveying environmental change than I do," says Rennermalm, a hydrologist specializing in Arctic climate change. "I measure things, I model things and summarize things in figures and tables and scientific papers and in conference presentations. Diane does it by making paintings or photography and for most people, that makes it more accessible and that creates an interest and curiosity among people to learn more."
Rennermalm, who specializes in climate change, sees Burko as a scribe of sorts crafting an archive of things on the way to being lost .
"In a way it's a bit sad to see that some landscapes are gone for the rest of my lifetime and so it's beautiful to see that it's captured by her art," she says. "It provides a record of something that was here and now it's gone".
Flying over the Arctic
But photos alone don't do the trick. They provide a basis for most of Burko's "before and after" imagery.
To feed her artistry, Burko goes on location, to Alaska to look at shifting glaciers, to Hawaii to fly over an erupting volcano, to Scandinavia to look at receding fjords.
In 2013 Burko spent her time commuting, so to speak, between the two Poles. And as she has done for decades, she teams up with groups of scientists who are deeply immersed in measuring climate change.
"What was fascinating," says Burko, "is to walk in these places and literally plant my camera in the ice and observe how the landscape has transformed. It takes millions of years for glaciers to form, but these glaciers just keep receding, there's nothing left. Out of 150 glaciers that used to be in Glacier National Park I think there are only 35; the rest are glacier lakes. That's pretty astounding."
Burko says that trip to the national park was a turning point for her.
"With all that new information and facts, I just got charged. I feel there's no going back, there's no other way I could make a beautiful painting that didn't have another purpose and exchanging ideas with and collaborating with glacial geologists throughout the world. It's a much richer life that I have and I feel I'm making a difference, people tell me I'm making a difference."
So much so, that Burko is now an invited member of the University of Colorado's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.
Sensing change
Visualizing ecological transformations is at the core of the exhibition "Sensing Change" at The Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia. The show, which runs until May 2, features Burko's work along with that of other artists who want to interpret and translate serious research on climate change through their art . Christy Schneider curated the exhibition. She says Burko uses data as a point of departure, but her art transforms it into a gateway to scientific insight.
"That idea," says Schneider, is reflected in one of Burko's paintings. "I'm thinking of a painting in which she has the lines of a glacier receding, and she uses red, purples and a pinkish color and a yellow. Her color choices tell you increasing danger, like going from a yellow light to a red light. And that knowledge she brings as an artist is color and what it means."
Burko says she's always been attracted by monumental landscapes.
"I'm a girl from Brooklyn, so I don't want to paint asphalt, I want to look at these incredible awe inspiring spaces and I sort came to that, I wanted to be taken by surprise by that, I'm sort of like a discoverer."
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Can dogs detect cows in heat by smelling their saliva?
They can, say German researchers with the Clinic for Animal Reproduction in Berlin, but not with complete accuracy.
During the study, the researchers trained 13 dogs of various breeds (both male and female) to detect estrus-specific smells in the saliva of dairy cows. Five dogs had no experience in scent detection, but eight had been previously trained to detect narcotics or cancer.
"We demonstrated that dogs could discriminate between saliva samples from cows in estrus and in diestrus but that overall accuracy was insufficient," say the researchers in an interpretive summary of the research, published in the February 2013 Journal of Dairy Science.
The dogs' overall accuracy was 57.6 percent, or 175 out of 304 samples, with a range of 40 to 75 percent.
Read an abstract of the research here.
Source: Journal of Dairy Science, Volume 96, Issue 2, Pages 1081-1084, February 2013, C. Fischer-Tenhagen, B.-A. Tenhagen, W. Heuwieser.


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03 February 2012
Did you hear the news? (that was a joke, I'm sure you did.) The Tigers signed Prince Fielder to an un-goodnessly large contract that will pay him over $200 million (American) dollars over the next nine years. This contract will, in all likelihood, prove to be a gross overpayment, but I won't be complaining as he and Cabrera combine to hit a billion home runs for the next several years.
Now that the initial shock and excitement has worn off, we're all left with the same question: what do you do with two hefty first basemen? As we all know, there are two answers. Door number one leads to one of the two playing first base and the other acting as the designated hitter on any given day. Door number two leads to Cabrera moving back to his "natural" position at the hot corner (there can't be anything "natural" about a 6-4, 250 lb man playing third base, can there?).
The first choice would be relatively simple to implement for this season. The addition of Prince effectively and completely makes up for the loss of Victor Martinez, so it's really just a plug-and-play solution. The big problem arises when Victor returns by the start of the 2013 season. What do you do when you have three really good hitters that need to be in the lineup everyday, but you only have two lineup spots available? You could try to trade Victor, but you'd get literally nothing in return (unless you eat a large portion of the money) because he has little to no excess value in his contract. That's a less than ideal solution. You could try to trade Cabrera, but then, what would have been the point of all of this? Door number one works for a year, but I think it would lead down a path that ends up in front of door number two.
What the Tigers really need to do is see if Cabrera can stick at third base. So the question becomes, how bad can we allow him to be in the field before we need to squash the experiment? To answer this question, we need to figure out what the differences in the lineups would be with Cabby at third and at DH.
(more after the jump)
In either case, Jackson would play center field, Prince would play first base, Avila would catch, Peralta would man shortstop, Boesch would probably hold one corner outfield spot, and Santiago would (hopefully) get at least 50% of the time at second base (someone needs to play defense in the infield).
The difference would be at third base, designated hitter, and corner outfield.
With Cabrera at third base (option #1), Delmon Young (a very, very bad defensive outfielder) would be available to DH and Ryan Raburn could play the outfield.
With Cabrera at DH (option #2), Delmon Young would probably play in the outfield every day (I would still prefer Raburn, but Jimmy is Jimmy) and a platoon of Inge and Kelly would take over third base.
Let's explore this using 2011 numbers.
The difference in hitting would be between Raburn's bat and the platoon bats of Inge/Kelly. Based on 2011 (and figuring 600 plate appearances, 300 each in the Inge/Kelly platoon), the advantage goes to Raburn (option #1) by 20.4 runs* (2 wins!).
*To calculate batting runs, I used the players' hitting values from their FanGraphs player page as a per plate appearance rate.
On defense (option #1), the difference would be Cabrera's glove plus Raburn's (outfield) glove versus Delmon's glove plus the glove of the Inge/Kelly platoon. Before considering Cabrera's defense, option #1 has the advantage by 6.6 runs (using career UZR/150 at the position in question).
Adding these together means that option #1 (playing Cabrera at third base) would give the team (roughly) a 27 run advantage. So, that would pretty much be Cabrera's margin for suckiness at third base in order for him to "work" there. He has to be no worse than 27 runs below average (on the season).
Could he possibly be that bad? Mark Reynolds was the worst third baseman in baseball last year with a -30 UZR/150 (his "real" UZR third was -22.8, but he only played about three-quarters of his games there). He's one of only two players since 2001 to have a UZR/150 worse than 27.0 in a season (of players who made 3B their primary position). The players were Reynolds last season and Ryan Braun in 2007.
Cabrera was never a good third baseman, but his career UZR/150 at the position is -4.5. He hasn't played it with any regularity since 2007 (and he's added bulk since then), but he would have to be six times worse now to hit the -27.0 mark.
Cabrera has a career -2.7 UZR/150 at first base. Using a quick positional adjustment rule of thumb (that third base is approximately 12 to 15 runs "harder" than 1B), we could project Cabrera to be something like -15 to -18 runs at third base. That's very, very bad, and it would put Cabrera in the running for worst third baseman of the season, but it would still be above our estimated break even point by about 10 runs (or one win!).
After looking at all of this, I really hope the Tigers stick it out with Cabrera at 3B for as long as possible. Allow him time to work out some of the kinks and re-learn the position. If he can get to the point where he's only really bad in the field (and not really, really bad), then it will be worth having him out there, even if it still looks ugly.
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The FT's US economics editor Robin Harding had an excellent scoop this week on the US plans to change the calculation methodology for the national accounts in a move that will lift US GDP by 3 per cent in July. Even better, he explained that the changes to the way the US statistics authorities plan to count intangible investment and military procurement were not a unilateral act, but part of a United Nations coordinated approach. What effect would this have on Europe, I wondered.
Well, after a root around Eurostat's website, the UK's ONS methodology pages and some academic articles, I am really excited. The bottom line for people with better things to do is that Eurostat reckons GDP in most EU countries will also go up by about 2 to 3 per cent. The amount depends on the quantity of R&D expenditure carried out (good for Germany, Sweden and Finland, bad for Greece) and amount of military kit purchased every year (good for France and the UK). With some exceptions, every EU country has to put in place the new European System of Accounts by September 2014. But it gets even more interesting. Read more


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A disabled pensioner was robbed in her own home in what senior detectives are calling a "despicable act."
At about 4.30pm on Monday, the 72-year-old victim, who suffers from physical disabilities, went to answer the door to her flat in Sandbrook Court, Moreton.
She was confronted by two men who pushed the front door open, causing the pensioner to lose her balance and fall.
The men then entered the flat and stole a large amount of cash from the victim's handbag before leaving.
Fortunately the victim was not injured by the fall, but police say she has been left distressed by her ordeal.
The burglars both had dark hair and were wearing dark clothing, possibly tracksuits.
Detective Inspector Paul Parry said: "Fortunately incidents such as this are rare, and I am sure the local community in Moreton will agree that this was a despicable act and we need to find the two men responsible so that justice can be done."
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So after waiting one week for a repsonse of the headmaster of socket.io on my email I decided to ask my question here. When I'm trying to install socket.io when having node.js installed using "npm install socket.io" in cmd I get this output. I really don't know anything about it so I leave it up to people who understand it.
Please provide the additional logging details that are found in C:\Program Files\odejs\pm-debug.log
Those are there for a limited time, but I'll edit this post when I get on my pc. Off to the hairdresser now.
Sorry for late reply, I kept getting 500 - Internal Server Error when trying to post the code here. Found out that it was just way to much so I uploaded it to pastebin: http://pastebin.com/rtJPiesi
Near the end, from line 2375 is where the log tells you that the problem is to do with the install of firstname.lastname@example.com
That install is performed at line 1619, and you can see the failure beyond that.
I don't get any of that debug message, can you look into it for me? I really don't know what all of that means.
I'm pretty sure that the google groups forum for socket.io will be the best place for you to get help with this socket.io issue.https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/socket_io
I find this answer elegant, non-informative, arrogant, useless and insulting. if you don't know say so. when a newbe is asking for help is for a reason and this answer DID NOT HELP!. the twit asking for help was kept in the dark after this elegant answer as before help was asked for.... way to go mr. guru.....
You'll be pleased to know then, that he did post later on at that forum and a reply arrived for him from someone who was more capable of helping him with his issue.https://groups.google.com/d/msg/socket_io/6lhwpcXliFs/lDd2uawaAhwJ
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At the same time that I just discovered that the Adobe Magazine is back (it used to be PROXY), John Nack posted before I even had the chance. Download the free magazine http://www.adobemagazine.com/
A lot of talk on Web 2.0 too, there's a 20 minute video that really breaks it down to nice digestible pieces of information… this is the next big thing… don't miss it!
The concept of being able to deliver Rich Internet Applications is a science all by itself. Taking into consideration the wealth of technology that we can take advantage of (think Java, J2EE, Flex, Coldfusion, AJAX, XML, XSLT, the list goes on), our customer showcase site will show you the a handful of customers that were able to push the limits and communicate in a much more interesting, richer, more compelling way.
So last week, we had the Acrobat 8 for Print Professional Workshop (as part of the Creative@Work series in Singapore). It wasn't as fully packed as the CSS Workshop, but still it was as engaging… some of the information we shared were the "staples" of an Acrobat/PDF workshop. Talking about PDF as a file format, as a standard (the PDF/A and PDF/X). Not to be missed of course is a little bit of review on PDF Settings, the Export PDF command and the File> Print PS comparisons.
A good piece of document though, is of course found on the adobe website (complete with diagrams and visuals… for those who don't like to read, hehehe). A solid starting point for those who want to understand how Acrobat's functionality and feature-set provide and delivers advanced tools for creating, collaborating on, and controlling the output of high-quality Adobe PDF files.
And if your still hungry for more resources, then, this is the place to be, with documents and articles on everything you need to know about Publishing and Printing (I'd like to do a special mention on the one that helps you CREATE THE PERFECT PDF! It's just like finally finding the perfect pineapple pie recipe — or pineapple tarts for a singaporean, I suppose).
Also, even if fonts have been under the radar recently, I still think OpenType needs a little bit more attention than it is getting. It's a wonderful technology that combines the ease of use of TrueType fonts and the pizzaz of the postscript font technology. Plus it's crossplatform and it can contain over 65,000 glyphs!
Revisit OpenType here and be amazed once again 🙂
This could be one of the longest entries I've ever logged… but I'm having fun…
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Because I have nothing else at this point in the morning, I've been meaning to tell somebody this:
There are a lot of ads I love (Heineken), and a lot I hate (Geico's pile of money). On WFAN radio there's now an ad for this lawyer who supposedly gets people out of traffic tickets, speeding, etc. Just give him your license and your credit card, and you don't even have to show up for court, he says.
The guy's name is Seth Katz. At the end of the commercial, we're told that the next time a policeman taps on your window, tell him who your lawyer is.
Can you imagine? What do you suppose would really happen if a state trooper pulls you over for speeding or driving under the influence or whatever, and he taps on your window and you tell him, "Seth Katz is my lawyer …." ?
Do you think you might get no ticket, or a whole pile of tickets?
We've been telling you since the day that John Tortorella was hired that Mike Sullivan will be his next and only assistant coach this coming season. Sullivan was under contract to Tampa until this month. Now it appears he's about to be officially signed.
Here is the latest on the Cherepanov investigation.
Your favorite blog is now available on Twitter: You can find it at twitter.com/rangersreport, or, as twitterers know it, @rangersreport.
Also, our last video chat is still available online. Click here to see it.
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I feel that Jello Rabbit's ban should be lifted, with the following reasons.
- He's a great aspect to the wiki
- He didn't sock yourself
- Although he assisted a sock, I'm assuming he didn't think he'd go and edit Pokémon Wiki
- The block was a bit of an overkill for what had happened, all he did was edit a talk page.
- He truly have meaning on this wiki
It's been close to two months since his ban went through, and I feel that since it was a bit of an over kill, it should be lifted. Opinions? – Jäzzi 17:31, August 2, 2011 (UTC)
Agreed. Though I do think he should not run for adminship or rollback. --Bullet Francisco (talk) 16:19, August 5, 2011 (UTC)
- I agree with you on that. There are some things that should be allowed and some that should. Running for rights is one that he shouldn't. – Jäzzi 16:29, August 5, 2011 (UTC)
From Tech. Wiz. in Chat: wish I could help in that lifting a ban forum, but if it means anything, this is what I think / 6 months was a bit too much / he had good intentions / but as a penalty, he should only be able to run for RLB rights / and then for admin rights after the expiry of the block / so for 4 months / no admin rights / ok thanks! – Jäzzi 16:41, August 5, 2011 (UTC)
- No, I disagree. He should not be able to run for Rollback or Admin. --Bullet Francisco (talk) 01:53, August 6, 2011 (UTC)
From Tech. Wiz. in Chat: "I didnt know what the story about his ban was really about until today. I want restate what I have to say. He shouldnt be able to run for any rights at all and should be grateful for the lift." Crimsnnavy C S 02:14, August 6, 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, I'm not all positive he will edit though, I've seen him on other wikis, and he seems very power hungry, no offense to Jello though. --Bullet Francisco (talk) 03:41, August 6, 2011 (UTC)
From Tech. Wiz. in Chat: "I totally have been wanting to say that, but it is true. I had joined the Donkey Kong wiki and one is his few edits was a message to a crat asking for sysop rights. I dont want to sound mean or anything, but he is certainly power-hungry :/" – Jäzzi 03:51, August 6, 2011 (UTC)
Agreed.Bullet Francisco (talk) 18:29, August 7, 2011 (UTC)
Ok so I have read the discussion regarding the sock. I think that Jello was manipulated by the other user into not telling us about it. He then didn't say anything when the other user suggested in banning all our admins here. Jello also said that he really wasn't interested in editing this wiki again anyway. I think he should be allowed to edit, not allowed to go for user rights until 2012, and be under a probation of some sort. Technology Wizard · talk
- Neutral: I could go either way if he is unbanned or not. He will be watched though. Technology Wizard · talk
- Weak Oppose: While he seems to have good intentions, he seems to get a little pushy about this forum. So I am going to try to stay neutral in this. Crimsnnavy C S 21:03, August 27, 2011 (UTC)


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That's right, today is the start of Global Entrepreneurship Week! Throughout this week (November 14-20), millions of young people around the world have joined a growing movement of entrepreneurial people, to generate new ideas and to seek better ways of doing things. With countries spanning across six continents, they have come together to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week, an initiative to inspire and embrace innovation, imagination and creativity.
As some of you probably already know, NFTE is partnered with Global Entrepreneurship Week with our World Series of Innovation online challenge which is currently taking place. The World Series of Innovation presented by Microsoft is a fun, experiential classroom activity that allows middle or high school students to think creatively and invent new products that address every-day opportunities. The top 3 teams from each category have already advanced and are now in our online voting stage of this year's challenge. Visit our website to vote for your favorite innovative idea!
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text: President James K. Polk is the most successful one-term president in the history of America. He set an agenda of lowering tariffs, settling the parallel dispute with England, Admitting Texas into the union and acquiring California. He accomplished all of his agenda and expanded the United States by 1/3. He also micro-managed the Mexican - American War successfully. After his term in office he died shortly after due to all the stress.


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Last week, the excellent Paul Francis, political editor of the Kent Messenger, reported that Kent, the most significant selective county left in England had come up with a clever plan: to make the entry test for grammar schools "tutor-proof".
This idea comes up a lot, largely from people promoting selection. You can see why: it is often presented as a means of squaring a problem. They can argue that grammar schools help bright poor children while dealing with the fact that very few get into them.
But, in truth, a properly administered test, which accurately captures the education enjoyed by people at the age of 11, should exclude large numbers of poor children. Not because they are intrinsically less able. But, at 11, the poor-rich divide is already a chasm. Read more


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MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – Artillery is critical military occupational specialty (MOS) in the Marine Corps that impacts the tide of battle with an array of long-ranged weaponry designed to wreak havoc on our nation's enemies.
Lance Cpl. Tayevion Edwards, a Cleveland native, is a Forward Observer with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). Edwards works with Advanced Field Artillery Data Systems to assist Marines manning mortars or a variety of batteries with locking onto and hitting designated targets.
"My goal is to make sure that we hit the target without any fratricide and provide support to meet mission success," said Edwards.
Edwards stands around five feet and nine inches tall. He stares with relaxed eyes through his glasses, and speaks quietly in a soft tone.
"I joined the Marine Corps after high school because I wasn't interested in college, and I wanted to try something different," said Edwards.
Edwards is one of five children in his family. With one older sister, two younger sisters and a younger brother he is the only one currently in the military.
"I like what I do. It's hard work, but I'm happy and the experiences are great," said Edwards.
Edwards deployed with the 26th MEU for eight-months aboard the USS Kearsarge during its operations in the 5th and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility.
Sgt. Dylan Pierce, a 26th MEU administrative specialist from New Bern, N.C., said, "He was definitely a key component to the success of our unit during deployment."
Edwards' skills were tested and applied during deployment when he was tasked with helping coordinate operations involving the Kearsarge's artillery battery to ensure safety and accuracy.
"He definitely matured over deployment, and did really well having been chopped over straight from his MOS school," said Pierce.
Edwards joined the MEU after completing his occupational school and immediately became immersed in work, because the MEU began its pre-deployment training in September 2012.
"He demonstrated knowledge of his MOS throughout the deployment, and learned a lot during our operations," said Pierce.
Pierce said Edwards demonstrated his well-rounded abilities as a Marine, demonstrating efficiency in his tasks, mission oriented mind-set and initiative to take on tasks. Pierce believes Edwards has the potential to be a great leader with these traits supporting him.
"I plan to reenlist and continue my career as a Marine," said Edwards. "I'd like to eventually be a Joint Fires Observer (JFO) and call in close air support and artillery fire myself."
A JFO interacts with controllers located in communications towers and pilots, or artilleryman to help call-in and order air strikes or long range support during field operations.
Edwards said he enjoys what he does and what the Marine Corps has taught him.
"Honor is the most important thing the Marine Corps taught me," said Edwards. "I want to be an honorable man, honor my family and do great things."
Pierce said Edwards is a benefit to the team, a good Marine and predicts Edwards will do well in the Marine Corps and will one day be a great leader.
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AN innovative new project has been launched to help people with disabilities improve their fitness and activity levels.
The University of Worcester is behind Push2Health which has been devised by Dr Andrea Faull, senior lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology, and Haydn Jarrett, senior lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science, both at the university.
It is hoped those taking part will be able to benefit from university facilities and build their fitness and confidence levels.
The initiative, which is also serving as a research project, sees participants take part in gym sessions and adapted circuit training as well as trying out a variety of different sports.
"It's been very pleasing to see so many people show such enthusiasm for the sessions," said Dr Faull.
"The feedback we have received from them has been excellent."
The pilot project ends in the middle of April, but Dr Faull is looking at ways of building on the project.
Anyone interested in taking part in the next programme should email Dr Faull at email@example.com or by calling 01905 855265.


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TITUSVILLE, Fla. - A car crashed into a house in Titusville, injuring a person inside the house and the driver, according to police.
Titusville police said the crash happened around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday on Barna Avenue.
Two people were inside the home when police said a driver lost control of a car and crashed through a side wall of the house. The driver of the car and one person inside were injured, said police.
The crash left a large hole in the side of the house.
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- Playing the bad boy in Latin America is no longer the easy game it was: the FT welcomes the return of economic rationality.
- Overfishing and pollution may be behind a rise in violent piracy and kidnapping for ransom in southeast Asia.
- Sleeping arrangements in first- and business-class cabins are the competitive weapon of choice as airlines vie to woo the global one per cent.
- On the anniversary of the Rana Plaza catastrophe, a Guardian interactive traces the journey (and human cost) of the shirt on your back.
- Moscow is playing a new 'great game' Ukraine in which the primary tools are local assets, in the shape of Ukraine's political and security elites.
- The WSJ is tracking the fallout of the latest wave of sanctions in real time.
- Nato's eastern European members are nervous about the alliance's ability, or even willingness, to counter Russia.
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Steve Goodman's "Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear"
Interesting review of Steve Goodman's book on sonic weapons by Geeta Dayal. The book is a very thorough look at history and implications of sonic weapons. Read the review here.
Steve Goodman, Toby Hayes, and I will be working on some projects around this subject over the next year. I'm hoping to spend sometime reverse engineering a LRAD speaker system used in crowd control.
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Project management professionals are needed in countless industries, and careers in the field typically involve high levels of responsibility. Career opportunities exist in fields as wide ranging as IT, construction, and pharmaceuticals. Thus, project management makes a crucial, (though widely dispersed), contribution to the UK's economy.
Professionals in the field must have strong analytic and communicative skills, an aptitude for decision-making, and often the ability to budget efficiently. Effective managers are excellent multitaskers and organised individuals who can motivate teams of coworkers and coordinate projects with many aspects.
Recruitment agencies frequently offer vacancy listings for those specialising in programme management, business analytics, and project support. The majority of jobs are to be found in large firms, but many smaller businesses also require project management services.
Salaries vary widely throughout the UK and depend largely on the industry of specialisation. Employers typically seek applicants with extensive industry experience, who possess either NVQ or academic degrees. Certifications obtained through business management training courses give candidates a distinct advantage over the competition, and can help those already employed capture opportunities for career advancement. Overall, the best employment prospects are found in London, which also tends to be the highest paying region for project managers in the UK.


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St. Mark's Basilica
Natural History Museum of Crete
food, location, accomodation Beach sport entertainment could be done by hotel and included in hotel price partly but not by a third party team. Windsurfing or water skiing training would be as plus.
The hotel is on the beach so that was useful with the children. There was not much to do in the local area of the hotel.
Friendly hotel good facilities good buffet selection. Italian Restaurant particularly good.
Location and big rooms Their service no mini bar in hotel


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Stanford and the BNF Release 14,000 Images of the French Revolution
Stanford University and the Bibliothèque nationale de France have partnered on the French Revolution Digital Archive, a collection of more than 14,000 high-resolution images. The archive has two areas of content, including Images, which contains about 12,000 individual images of prints, illustrations, medals, coins, and other objects. The section on Parliamentary Archives contains primary source documents arranged chronologically. Users can browse by date or subject, and search both the Images and Parliamentary Archives sections at once or individually. The project also contains an excellent timeline of the Revolution.
For more information, check out the French Revolution Digital Archive!
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If you've ever carried a baby around for any length of time you know that a carrier is ESSENTIAL. This asian style carrier is lovely and it will keep working as your child grows since it holds both infants or kids as old as 3-4. The maker also offers nice snuggly inserts for infants. Plenty of styles to choose from if this one isn't your cuppa.


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Stanmore knocked Enfield out of the Middlesex County Cup third round on Sunday, progressing with a 158-run win.
The hosts' victory was aided by a feeble batting display from Enfield but the foundations had been laid long before, thanks to a century from Steve Mehra.
Stanmore's opener helped himself to an unbeaten knock of 108, which put the home side well on their way to a total of 240 for six.
Kush Patel added 59 and Dipesh Jadav scored an unbeaten 28 to supplement Mehra's superb stand.
Jason Sarna was the most effective bowler for the visitors, claiming three for 62, but despite having Stanmore at 58 for three at one stage, Mehra made sure the hosts remained in control throughout.
In reply, openers Chris Barrell and Joe Naughton each made six, before Peter Lazarus was dismissed for five to leave the visitors 17 for three.
Forty from Tony Sayers went some way to steadying the innings but the writing was on the wall and no other Enfield batsmen reached double figures.
Mukesh Batt ripped through the tail-end to finish with impressive figures of four for seven as the visitors were removed for 82.
Marc Reingold took three for seven and Steve Reingold two for 34 as Stanmore eased into the next round.
Potters Bar were held to a frustrating draw by relegation-threatened Stevenage in the Saracens Herts League Premier Division on Saturday.
Batting first, hosts Potters Bar set about posting a total of 192 for six from their 35 overs.
Opener Liam Gough (61) started well but the hosts faltered and were at 74 for three when Don Manuwelge stepped up to the crease and scored 58.
Manuwelge's dismissal slowed the run-rate once more as Syed Ali Kazmi enjoyed a productive spell with the ball, taking four for 57.
Stevenage's response started slowly, with openers David Carr (18) and Gary Brown (six) leaving the visitors on 37 for two.
Eighty-three from the impressive Ali Kazmi helped the away side threaten briefly but they finished on 174 for seven as time ran out.
Rahul Panta was the star bowler for Potters Bar, taking three for 72.
Mill Hill extended their winning streak to seven matches with a win at Tewin in their Division Seven clash.
Batting first, the hosts repelled the Village's bowling attack, with Patterson (82) and Williams (41) making important totals.
Good contributions from the tail saw the home side finish on 202 for nine. Majid Asif took three for 37 and Graham Burton took three for 62 for the visitors.
An opening stand of 121 from Greg Vaughan (90 not out) and Dan Potter (53) broke the back of the chase before four wickets fell in the next ten overs.
With 30 runs still needed, Ben Dawson came to the crease with five overs left to bat.
Dawson subsequently smashed 26 runs in a single over to bring the match to an end in style.
Finchley's Middlesex County Premier Division clash was abandoned due to rain after eight overs.
Sayed Bukhari (20) and George Charlton (9) were going steadily when the decision was taken to abandon the match.


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YATE'S newest head teacher is putting her sense of moral purpose into practice.
Kim Garland, who took over at Brimsham Green School this term, said she knows the job will be a challenging one but she is determined to improve pupils' aspirations and give them the best possible start to adulthood.
"I know I am going to face challenges every day but I am really excited about it," she said. "I have a sense of moral purpose about it and that is what drives you on."
Ms Garland, 39, comes to Brimsham from Redland Green School in Bristol which she helped to establish in 2006 before becoming deputy head teacher from 2008.
She has worked in education since 1995 including as an advisor to the local authority in Berkshire and at a special educational needs school in Devon.
"Working with lots of different schools has impressed on me the local context of a school so that you can adapt and personalise what you do," she said. "Brimsham has a genuine community feel at the school.
Students are incredibly supportive of each other and they know teachers are here to help.
"Already it is very inclusive, something that is very important to me, and as staff I think it is our duty to teach more than just subjects.
"We want students to leave school not just with qualifications but the skills to be successful and to be ready for whatever life throws at them. It is about that moral purpose."
Ms Garland, who takes over from Alun Williams who left last summer, has spent the term getting to know the school, its staff, students and parents.
"Without exception they have been genuinely welcoming and it is great to feel part of a new team," she said. "I want to raise the aspirations of students, that is definitely a priority.
"Many of our students should be considering university as a route through. It won't be the right decision for all but we should enable them to be in a position where they can.
"I am aiming to exceed expectations and challenging them all the time."
Ms Garland said she intended to ensure sixth form provision was an 'attractive offer' and equipped students for the next stage in life.
After GCSE results dipped last year, she said staff were feeling confident about this summer's exams.
"The English department was incredibly disappointed by the results but they have responded in a very positive way," she said. "I have looked at grades from December and we are on track to be as successful as 2011."