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I am trying to use the line shape tool. However, the shape stroke type affects the arrows. Does it mean that I have to draw the line first, without the arrows, and then add the solid arrows to the line
I am trying to use the line shape tool. However, the shape stroke type affects the arrows. Does it mean that I have to draw the line first, without the arrows, and then add the solid arrows to the line
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One way to accomplish this is to create and arrow brush or download an arrow brush set.
Create a brush.
1. Use the custom shape tool, and select an arrow from the Custom Shape Picker.
2. Create an arrow to your liking. You can use shape (turn stroke off) or path. If you use path, make the arrow a selection and fill with black. (you can change the brush color at the time of use, for now make it black)
3. Click EDIT > DEFINE BRUSH PRESET. Name your brush and click OK.
Arrows in a line.
1. Choose your brush tool and select the arrow brush you just made from the Brush Preset Picker.
2. Open the brush panel. Check "Shape Dynamics" and run the minimum diameter to 100%.
3. Go to "Brush Tip Shape" and set your spacing to your liking.
4. Choose or create a layer you would like to place the arrows on. Create a line with the pen tool set to path.
5. Right click on the path and choose "Stroke Path".
If your using a curved line and you want the arrows to follow the line, choose "Direction" under "Angle Jitter" in the "Shape Dynamics" widow of the brush panel.
Hope that helps. If this is not what you were talking about, then disregard.
Among the many ways to achieve it, in CS6 you can now use the the line tool in shape mode to make a dashed line. There are now options similar to Illustrator's stroke and fill functions for shape layers.
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Donny gets a from me for his --- "You're psycho!" and "You're an embarrassment" and his statement at the end about rethinking his relationship with her. I hope, for his sake, that he means it.
Donny gets a from me for his --- "You're psycho!" and "You're an embarrassment" and his statement at the end about rethinking his relationship with her. I hope, for his sake, that he means it.
Yea, they were definitely very entertaining to watch but you are right. Because of her BB status she got the TAR spot when someone else could have beat them out fairly. But I think they realized that character was exactly who they were looking for
I finally got my sister to watch TAR with me this year, and she didn't recognize Alison at first (she did watch BB and knew who she was). I said to look at her closer. Ironically, the moment my sister recognized her was during Ali's tantrum with the dogs telling Donny that they're OVER (remember the slo mo effect then freeze frame?) My sister was all *gasp* "Is that the Bi---g Shot from BB???" (She had to use the euphemism because her 3 year old daughter was in the room. ) Just sayin' those two went at each other harshly and it didn't help their situation much. I think it's the bus ride that did them in -- they didn't take the express bus.
I am so glad they are gone. I loathed her (I saw her on BB and she was horrid). Donny - what is your problem guy? He is a good looking man and I am sure he can find someone better than that controlling b__ch. I guess the producers think whining, screaming, tantrum throwing babies are what the audience wants to see and that is why they cast her.
Exactly! Conspiracy theories were spinning in my head. Thank God TAR is too classy to take the low road to artificially keep those two on.Originally Posted by BravoFan
What I saw of the map looked like a straight grid. How could they have gone so wrong?
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Because Donny's a dumbass. He's a hottie and a cutie, but really not the brightest bulb in the room. Watching him just standing there and looking bewildered at the map was painful.Originally Posted by hepcat
Alison made a major mistake by holding the dogs and giving Donny Doormat the map; another major mistake she made was agreeing with Donny to take the bus instead of a cab--that totally did them in.
I have to disagree with you there. It seems that all the decisions that led to their downfall were made by Donny. (The dogs, the bus ride...).Originally Posted by BoBoFan
I agree, but you missed his most important poor choice: Allison. In Allison's case, he was her poor choice. Having now seen him, I understand why she found the men in the BB4 house so interesting last year. A conversation with a sponge might be more interesting than one with Donny.Originally Posted by happybanana
That may be, but the bowling moms were with them for a good part of that task and they also seemed pretty lost.Originally Posted by SCRUMPOT
I'm glad they are both gone, but I have to admit that, in a certain way that I just can't explain, they were entertaining. Alison's reaction to the dogs "having fun" was priceless.
I can't understand why Ali took the dogs...it seems like Donny would have been able to keep them in better control than her,plus I think she would have been better at reading the map and/or getting someone to help them.


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On paper, Bernard Hopkins (52-5-2, 32 KOs) shouldn't beat Chad Dawson (30-1, 17 KOs) on Saturday at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ. But, on paper, nothing Hopkins has been doing recently has made sense. In December 2010, Hopkins, then 45, was supposed to be cashing out of a 22-year career, flown in to Quebec to be sacrificed to 27-year-old WBC light heavyweight titlist Jean Pascal. It really wasn't a matter of "if" Hopkins would be beaten and forcibly retired, the experts were only stuck on "how" it would happen. But Hopkins would survive knockdowns in the first and third rounds to put on a boxing clinic in the final two-thirds of the bout and wind up with a disputed draw. Five months later, Hopkins would once again walk into Pascal's adopted home province but, this time, turn in a clearly dominant and undeniably winning performance to get the unanimous decision and become, at 46, the oldest fighter to win a world title. Hopkins' firs...
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The election of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard to the leadership of the Australian Labor Party is a positive move for Labor and for the nation.
Settling the leadership question gives the Federal Labor Party the opportunity to focus solely on defeating the Howard Government at the next election.
The people of Newcastle and Australia expect nothing less from us.
Both Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard have recently visited Newcastle, were well received and are well aware of the issues facing our community.
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In moving forward with a new leadership team, I also offer my thanks to Kim Beazley and Jenny Macklin.
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WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) - Officers with the Wilmington Police Department were on the scene of an accident that happened Thursday afternoon just after 3 p.m., involving 2 children, according to officials.
Jamarion Holt, age 10, was riding a pocket bike with his passenger Jacqual Goodman, age 11, when he tried to stop for a red light, but he hit the gas instead of the brake and as he entered the intersection, he was hit by driver Nancy Prickett Jones, of Wilmington, who had the green light.
Ms. Jones was driving a blue Buick headed eastbound on Dawson St. while the children were riding a pocket bike headed south on S. Tenth St. at Dawson St., when they were hit, according to the preliminary investigation.
Neither of the children were wearing a helmet at the time of the accident, according to officials.
Both children were sent to the hospital. Jamarion had a leg injury and was transported to NHRMC for treatment. Jacqual, the passenger, suffered serious head injuries and was transported to NHRMC and was being prepped to go to Chapel Hill for more treatment. No update on his condition is available at this time, according to officials.
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Loads of celebrities have been getting involved in Comic Relief and helping to raise money for good causes.
On the big Friday night show the Wanted will be singing the official Red Nose Day song, and there'll be performances from Adele, JLS and Take That.
Comedians including Harry Hill and Michael McIntyre will be bringing the laughs and watch out for a special sketch from the cast of Doctor Who.
In 25 years of Comic Relief, £650 million has been raised for charity.
So far this year, there have been some record-breaking Red Nose moments.
Blue Peter's Helen has done a dare-devil tight-rope walk and Chris Moyles is attempting the longest radio show ever- 51 and a half hours!
A team of stars including Olly Murs trekked for 100km across the desert in northern Kenya, and raised more than £1 million.
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Siphon is an add-on that lets you sync a list of add-ons between multiple Firefox installs. Big deal, you might be thinking, Firefox already has Firefox Sync, and that can sync add-ons between browsers. Well, you'd be right, except that Siphon provides the ability to manage which add-ons are installed and kept in sync on each browser via an easy-to-use management interface.
The list of add-ons is stored on the Siphon server by default (you need to set up an account), but you can use your own server if you prefer by using the Siphon API. Siphon currently doesn't synchronize add-on preferences or personal data between Firefox installs, only the list of add-ons.
I could see being very useful for people who use Firefox across a bunch of different machines and have a collection of add-ons that would like to install on each machine without having to download each one individually. It could also be potentially useful for corporate IT departments who want to ensure that a company's employees have all of the tools that they need on installed on their browsers.
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Five people drowned as torrential rains flooded southern Bulgaria on Monday, breaking a dam wall and submerging a whole village under 2.5 metres of icy water, officials and rescuers said.
Three elderly men drowned in their houses in the village of Biser, in southeastern Bulgaria, mayor Zlatka Valkova told state BTA news agency.
National radio meanwhile reported that two more people died when their car was swept off a bridge into a swollen river near the southern village of Madzharovo.
The worst-hit regions of Haskovo and Svilengrad declared a state of emergency as floodwaters from the Arda and Maritsa rivers shut Bulgaria's major Kapitan Andreevo checkpoint on the border with Turkey.
Authorities warned both Turkey and Greece of massive floodwaters coming down along the two rivers.
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"People are in panic. Ninety percent of the village is underwater," regional mayor Mihail Liskov said on the radio.
Several teams of emergency workers, a special army unit and helicopters were battling to evacuate its 800 trapped inhabitants as many houses remained only accessible by boats.
Civil defence force chief Nikolay Nikolov warned that several smaller and two bigger dams in southern Bulgaria - Ivaylovgrad and Studena - were on the brink of overflowing and that people in the region should also be ready to evacuate.
Landslides meanwhile derailed the locomotive of a train from Belgrade to Istanbul near Svilengrad on the Turkish border, causing no injuries but leaving at least a dozen foreigners stuck for more than six hours.
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Former Monroeville manager McKinney files suit, claims unfair firing
Former Monroeville manager Lynette McKinney filed a lawsuit against the municipality saying council's action last month to fire her was "unreasonable and arbitrary."
The complaint seeking declaratory judgement filed last week requested that an Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas judge determine whether McKinney, 47, legally is entitled to $44,000 of severance pay, $29,000 in benefits such as sick days and vacation days, and legal fees associated with the lawsuit.
Council denied McKinney a severance package because she was removed "with cause," Monroeville solicitor Bruce Dice said.
But the ordinance drafted to remove her doesn't specify one charge against her, said Forest Hills attorney Jack Cambest, who is representing McKinney.
"We're saying the ordinance is vague and unconstitutional," Cambest said.
And the terms of McKinney's former contract that address severance pay also are vague and therefore invalid, according to the lawsuit.
McKinney's contract reads that she would not receive severance pay if she is "found liable for (an) intentional act relating to the performance of her duties."
Her lawsuit said the contract does not state who must find her liable or what constitutes an intentional act relating to the performance of their duty.
Dice argued that while specific charges were not included with the ordinance to remove McKinney, the charges were read aloud at the same public meeting and therefore are valid.
Charges read aloud at the Jan. 6 meeting included failure to conduct evaluations of department heads and failure to provide information about an ongoing internal investigation of the computer dispatch system to three members of council.
Dice cited section 704 of the Monroeville Home Rule Charter that reads the removal of a manager "shall not be subject to review by any court or agency."
"(The HRC) was passed by the people, not by some council," Dice said.
If McKinney is denied a court hearing or if a judge rules against her, she would not receive a severance package — according to the terms of her former contract.
After council members removed McKinney, they appointed former Monroeville manager Tim Little as the interim manager.
Mayor Greg Erosenko said last week he is confident that council eventually will name Little as the new manager.
"There's no movement on that," Erosenko said. "But I'm sure that will change in the future."
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The Health Trust awards one-time grants to support events and projects. Community grants range from $250 to $5,000 for activities such as health fairs or community convenings that directly support The Health Trust's strategies.
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When one thinks of wetlands in the Chesapeake region, what usually comes to mind are the vast, tidal salt marshes lining thousands of miles of Bay shoreline. These tidal, or estuarine, wetlands play a crucial part in the Bay's ecology. But there is another type of wetland that has an equally important—but often overlooked—role.
Non-tidal, or palustrine, wetlands are usually found near the Bay's streams and ponds. They can also be found in poorly drained depressions. Water levels in non-tidal wetlands can vary from a few inches to three feet deep.
Of the total 1.5 million acres of wetlands in the Bay watershed, about 1.3 million are non-tidal. The Bay watershed's two most common types of palustrine wetlands are scrub-shrub and forested wetlands.
Alders, willows, buttonbush, swamp rose and silky dogwood can be found in scrub-shrub wetlands.
Forested wetlands are usually characterized by green ash, sweet and black gum, willow and pin oak, and red and silver maple trees.
Non-tidal wetlands perform a variety of functions vital to a healthy and thriving Bay watershed:
Non-tidal wetlands are packed with nutrients and are one of the most productive ecosystems on earth.
They host a multitude of wetland plants which in turn provide habitat for numerous animals.
Non-tidal wetlands are the nursery grounds for a wide variety of Bay creatures, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, waterfowl and songbirds.
Non-tidal wetlands also protect and improve water quality and control flooding and erosion, providing additional benefits to people living in the Bay watershed.
Non-tidal wetlands remove excess nitrogen and phosphorous from groundwater. They also contain sediment loads and absorb chemical and organic pollutants before they can enter streams and rivers, and eventually the Bay.
Just like a sponge, non-tidal wetlands help prevent flooding during large rain events by temporarily storing floodwaters then slowly releasing them.
Non-tidal wetlands act as a natural buffer between high ground and fast-moving waters, inhibiting property erosion.
Fishing, swimming, boating, waterfowl hunting, bird-watching and nature photography are popular activities in and around non-tidal wetlands.
Bay Program partners at the federal, state and private levels are heavily involved in protecting and restoring these valuable non-tidal wetlands throughout the watershed.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wetlands Reserve Program and Pennsylvania's Growing Greener Program provide funding to help landowners restore wetlands on their properties. Private groups such as Environmental Concern and Ducks Unlimited are also experts in wetland conservation and restoration throughout the Bay region.
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HOUSTON - A man crossing a street was seriously injured after being hit by a vehicle in southeast Houston.
The accident happened around midnight Wednesday on Bryant Road and the Gulf Freeway.
Investigators said a man was walking on the sidewalk and began crossing Bryant Road when a car came around the corner, did not stop at the stop sign, and hit him.
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I changed the nameservers to point to my client's new site at her new host. After I saw the new site in my browser, I started testing and discovered that http://domain.com showed the new site but http://www.domain.com showed the old site. I spent hours whacking my head on the htaccess file trying to solve this. Eventually, it just started working. I could have finally hit on the right htaccess configuration, but don't think I tried anything new.
Which leads me to think that that perhaps the www version of the site didn't propagate at the same time that the non-www version did. Is that even possible???
If it is I'm going to eat my head. All those hours for nothing.
Does anyone know about this?
Good night,Kim
The DNS theory is possible. Also, it could be your ISP cached the DNS, or something else got cached along the way causing the old site at the old IP address to be viewed. Whenever I have to tinker with DNS, I always use a proxy server after making the changes to see if they have been reflected due to caching. Whereas my ISP may cache the IP address for up to an hour or more after changes, the proxy sites don't have it cached and can enable you to view the new site at the new IP address much sooner. There are a bunch of proxy sites, one I tend to use is hidemyass.com. Also, flushing your computer's DNS cache can be helpful.


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New theory Old Practice
"Nonviolent action has three major applications: social change, social defense, and third party nonviolent intervention. Trailblazers, both Quaker and not, have shown that nonviolent action can be a tremendously powerful way of expressing our testimonies. Learning the differences and dynamics of the three applications, and therefore the possibilities of strategy, enables us to become even more the kind of practical idealists that made Quaker leaders in countless movements." - from the Author's Notes.


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Jaeger Repair Personnel Only: Four New 'Pacific Rim' Viral Posters
by Alex Billington
April 9, 2013
Source: MovieViral, STYD
For Jaeger Pilots Only. One this summer's other highly buzzed about action movies is Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim, featuring giant robots vs giant monsters. Warner Bros has been teasing the sci-fi world del Toro created through viral photos of the Kaiju destruction, now things continue. MovieViral and STYD have found two brand new viral posters, created by the Pan Pacific Defense Corps (the group making the Jaegers) which also has its own website. These are probably better seen actually printed and on display at somewhere like Comic-Con, but nonetheless it's cool to see them as we near the start of the summer season.
Update! Two more Pacific Rim viral posters, with more being revealed daily on the PacRim Facebook page:
Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth) is directing Pacific Rim from a script by Travis Beacham. The film follows a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi), who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger, a massive robot designed to fight legions of monstrous creatures known as Kaiju, which started rising from the sea years ago. They stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse. The film also stars Idris Elba, Ron Perlman, Charlie Day and Clifton Collins Jr. Warner Bros will release Pacific Rim in theaters in 3D on July 12th. See the full trailer.
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Edward Woodward Dies
The Wicker Man star was 79
Edward Woodward, star of The Wicker Man, Callan, Hot Fuzz and the classic TV show, The Equalizer, has died. He was 79.
His agent, Janet Glass, has confirmed that Woodward passed away, surrounded by his family, at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, following a long illness. He was surrounded by his family.
The Croydon-born star, affectionately nicknamed Ewah Woowah, was perhaps most famous for his iconic TV roles – he played ace secret agent Callan in the British series of the same name from 1967 to 1972, and then the titular The Equalizer, aka Robert McCall, in the wildly successful US TV show in the mid-80s. He also did a stint on EastEnders earlier in the year, a stint which marked his last on-screen appearance.
But his film career was equally storied, with standouts including Breaker Morant (famous for his defiant cry of "Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!"), Champions and Hot Fuzz, in which he played the seemingly jocular Tom Weaver.
But it is for his role as the strait-laced, puritanical copper, Sgt. Tom Howie, in Robin Hardy's classic horror, The Wicker Man that Woodward will be best remembered; his cries of terror at the end are, quite simply, indelibly haunting.
Edgar Wright has written an excellent and moving blog about Woodward, which you can read here.
Woodward is survived by his wife, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em star, Michele Dotrice, and four children.


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Hello, I hope everyone had a great Christmas and are revved up for an amazing New Years! I have been really busy lately with Christmas and family things, but I had a few minutes so I figured I would post a blog. Christmas seems to come and go quicker every year, this year was no [...]
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A COUNCIL competition for residents to save on their council tax bill has become a rollover.
Hyndburn Council's Cashback Challenge means residents can receive the cashback equivalent to Hyndburn's element of their council tax if the borough recycles 200,000 tonnes of waste.
Leader Miles Parkinson said: "Even though the overall target of 200 tonnes has not yet been met, residents have still increased recycling by 85 tonnes.
"This is the equivalent to an extra 340,000 glass bottles or even 500,000 newspapers; an achievement that residents should be extremely proud of."
The rollover will run until March 2013. If recycling targets are met, 40 lucky households will receive the cashback equivalent to Hyndburn's element of their council tax.
Checks will be made after the prize draw to ensure the winners are recycling their waste.
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TAMPA — Even at his most deflated, Schyler Miles still came up a half-pound too heavy.
Giddy anticipation for the Westchase Colts' season opener had been sabotaged by a scale. Schyler, then an 8-year-old on the back end of his chubby phase, had weighed just a few Jolly Ranchers above the 90-pound limit for his division.
For three months, he had logged distance runs with his dad — a personal trainer and former state champion wrestler — to whittle his weight down to Tampa Bay Youth Football League standards. Minutes remained until one final weigh-in. Schyler scurried for deprivation.
"I had a little cup; I just kept spitting in it. That's what I usually did," said Miles, now a brawny three-way senior captain for undefeated Berkeley Prep. "Just chewing bubble gum and spitting."
Saliva was supplanted by tears at the final weigh-in. Schyler was a few ounces above the limit.
It remains the only organized football game he has missed in a decade.
"And he never wants to miss a snap," Buccaneers coach Dominick Ciao said.
Neither tweaked knee nor hyperextended elbow has deterred Berkeley's defensive cornerstone. If the 11-0 Bucs possess a portrait of resilience, it's their 6-foot-2, 225-pound inside linebacker with a taste for the ball and distaste for junk food.
The de facto quarterback in Ciao's 4-4 scheme, Miles leads the team in tackles (82), caused fumbles (four) and instinctiveness. At fullback (and occasionally tight end), he has 16 carries for 52 yards, with four catches for 88 more.
"I just think he has a tremendous instinct to get to the football," said Ciao, whose team hosts recent nemesis Fort Meade on Friday in a Class 3A region final. "Plays downhill, plays fast, great anticipation. … He's a football player."
Brandon Miles, his coach with the Colts, said he saw that from the time his only child was in pull-ups. The first sign was physical.
"The kid is built like a tank," said Brandon, who won a state wrestling title at Indianapolis' Ben Davis High before dabbling in wrestling and football at Indiana University.
"I use this analogy all the time, but from the time he was a small kid, I knew he was a linebacker. If this kid walks like a duck, talks like a duck, acts like a duck, he's a duck. And I'm talking in terms of a linebacker, because he has that look, you know."
That look would be refined by a diet devoid of sugar and saturated fats. Brandon, a trainer at a North Pinellas- and Westchase-based boot camp for women, essentially outlaws junk food in his Palm Harbor home.
A typical meal for Schyler on the eve of a game likely includes organic chicken or beef, accompanied by a baked potato and whole wheat pasta slathered in non-fat Alfredo sauce. Afterward, father and dad will adjourn to the living room to study game tape.
They've done it for years, sometimes more than once a week. The result: the 3.0 student at Berkeley is, by all accounts, a 4.0 student of the game. Of his college offers, the five he's most seriously considering are Notre Dame, Iowa State, Florida, Cincinnati and West Virginia.
"I think it's my instinct, just where I'm always near the football," Schyler said when asked to identify his best attribute. "I'm not the biggest guy, not even the fastest guy, but I work hard and just go 100 mph every play."
Friday, he'll try once more to drop weight — off the figurative shoulders of him and his classmates. Fort Meade (9-2) has been their albatross, winning all three games vs. these Berkeley upperclassmen.
But unlike last season's two meetings, the Miners must travel, for miles.
And through Miles.
"It's just this year we've got a strong group of seniors to lead us," he said. "It's been different than any other year. Everyone's dedicated this year and just wants it really bad."


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Ships Of Gold - The Story
First of all: Thanks to all these great artists who have joined 'Ships of Gold' so far and thanks to those who will decide to build their own ship some day. Without you this project would have been impossible.
Back in early 2011 Pamela Grigg Black (US) sent me the lyrics of 'Ships of Gold'. When I started working on the song it was never meant to be a shared song as it is now. After the song had been released as one more 'Almondized' song I considered the universal approach of the lyrics and wondered if it was possible to attract friends, musician all over the world to let them make their own interpretation of the song. It was. Some close myspace friends of those days started working on the song and went far beyond the initial idea which was giving them soundtrack to let them add new vocals or instruments they thought the track might need.
After myspace had 'died' I've tried to interest more musicians for the concept and mainly did on Reverbnation. Incredible which styles and genres are available. Some versions of the song let you hardly grasp the original tune which is much appreciated. One cover song in the player rather relates to one of the other versions and less to the original. A detail that makes me smile. Everybody inspires everybody. And yet it is still Ships of Gold.
When I started this S.o.G. page I hadn't found any similar musical project in the net. Probably there is but if not ... then there is something almost historical going on here:)
I know S.o.G. has influenced some other 'concept pages' that can be found on RN. And the members of these projects can be partly found on Ships of Gold and vice versa too. I'm very happy that the idea of sharing music as well as joining musicians all over the world has come true.
Everybody who'd like to interpret Ships of Gold in theirown style should give me a shout. Everybody is welcome.
Thank you for reading. Thank you for all the support, friendship, creativity and inspiration.
Happy sailing
~ kappi (links to all artists contributing to S.o.G. can be found in the bio)


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It's clear to me that students don't understand tone. Not one bit. They just don't hear the inflection. It's not as if they don't try; they just misread. Over and over again. And while I'd love to do all the "voices" for them in every single text we read there simply isn't the time.
In order to combat student "deafness," QR codes offer the ability for students to listen clearly to text as performance. Consider a unit of study that depended on students listening and reviewing.
While QR codes could be used to direct students to any type of podcast, they are incredibly helpful for teaching poetry and short speeches. In such a context, students have the ability to choose their own "text" and listen, review, take notes, even evaluate.
Imagine an assignment where before being given the text or speech or poem, they're made to choose based on title alone. To ask them to construct a choice by simply examining a title is a lesson in itself. This type of an assignment allows students choice, teaches listening skills and focuses on the significance of tone. To begin with, consider using resources like The Writer's Almanac or The Poetry Foundation. They both offer wonderful readings that can easily be turned into QR codes. If you'd rather use speeches, try History.com's wonderful resource of audio and video speeches including many from presidents. American Rhetoric also offers MP3 audio files for many of its top 100 speeches.
Basic Assignment Overview
- Review our QR Tutorial to use web address to create QR Codes.
- Ask that students bring Smartphones, tablets or iPods as well as headphones.
- Offer students two QR codes for two different "texts." Provide them the title and/or speaker.
- Ask that students simply listen and construct a series of observations. If your QR codes are for speeches you might ask students to SOAPSTone based simply on what they hear.
- Provide students the actual text for their choice. Have them listen a second time and annotate looking specifically towards how tone is created.
- Ask them to construct an overall evaluation/review of the text's tone.
While the steps are simple and the idea unoriginal, the purpose ultimately is to get them to listen. Too often they resign themselves as soon as we pass out paper. Instead, ask them to listen first and respond second. Providing them a "second" reading is crucial and listening offers them the ability to truly reflect upon style, purpose and tone. I've included a sample poetry based lesson featuring QR codes as an example of how something like this could work.


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Here's How Madonna Stays In Shape For Her Man-Child
If you're like me, you often wonder how Madonna keeps herself in prime, looking like she's dying physical condition for stealing and/or dating children depending on which direction the blood crystal points in the morn. Turns out her secret is rigorous soccer ball lifting. One hour of soccer ball lifting in the morning, followed by more soccer ball lifting in the afternoon. And for dinner, a sensible meal of soccer ball lifting. I don't really understand how it works, but her dark ways are not for us to comprehend as much as tremble in fear of and prepare a sacrifice to. For example, today she demanded Cambodian child on a leafy goat head platter, so now I've got find my good braising pan. Dames, amirite?
UPDATE 9.1.11: Here's all I can say about the now-missing photos: Today – and this rarely happens – I was told by the photo agency these were licensed from that they were no longer for publication. Later in the day, another photo agency issued blanket takedowns of two other Madonna sets which, fortunately, we weren't running because it's a pain in the ass to remove these. I'm not pointing any fingers here, but dark sorcery is afoot. Be wary.


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The Pulitzer Prizes, an annual award for print journalism and the arts, were announced on Monday. The Los Angeles Times and the New York Times both received two awards each, and the award for fiction went to Jennifer Egan for her novel, "A Visit from the Goon Squad." Jeffrey Brown has an excerpt from his conversation with Egan. Continue reading
Writer Kwame Dawes has traveled to Haiti over the past year to report on and write poems about people's experiences after the earthquake. Jeffrey Brown's conversation with Dawes continues a series of reports in partnership with USA Today and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Continue reading
On the final night of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, the anchor looks back at the show's 34-year history and ahead to the new PBS NewsHour. Continue reading
Journalist and author Alex Jones speaks with Jeffrey Brown about the uncertain future of journalism, as well as his new book, "Losing the News." Continue reading
The perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby this week continued to examine his involvement in the leak of a former CIA operative's name to the press. The case has called into question the use of unnamed sources and other journalistic practices in Washington. Continue reading
A Web site created a stir by publishing a story claiming Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., had plans to use a purported Islamist upbringing of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., against him in her presidential campaign. Experts discuss the struggle to separate fact from fiction in the news. Continue reading
Numerous books written by journalists have been published on the war in Iraq and on President Bush. A journalist and two historians discuss the impact these writings will have on historical accounts. Continue reading
Prominent news anchors are sometimes treated as celebrities by their viewers and the media. A media columnist examines what level of personality and opinion is appropriate in news reporting. Continue reading
Senior correspondent Margaret Warner, who has been ordered to leave Iran where she was reporting for the NewsHour, talks about the mood now that President Ahmadinejad has rejected U.N. demands to stop processing uranium. Continue reading


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This article was published 30/4/2013 (1575 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A protest that delayed the opening of the Portage Diversion by 12 hours on Monday could have had dire consequences for four municipalities downstream, provincial officials said Tuesday.
While the government sought a court injunction to remove protesters -- which for a time included an opposition MLA -- greater water flows than expected were heading east along the Assiniboine River, officials said this afternoon.
The government sought to open the diversion to prevent flooding due to ice jams at 11 a.m. The gates did not open until 11 that evening.
The protest — and the involvement of Portage la Prairie Conservative MLA Ian Wishart — dominated debate in the legislature this afternoon, with Infrastructure and Transportation Minister Steve Ashton terming it unacceptable and irresponsible.
Ashton repeated those statements in a later news conference, flanked by the deputy ministers of Infrastructure and Transportation and EMO.
"What happened yesterday was irresponsible, was not acceptable. It created a real risk. It put other Manitobans at risk," Ashton told reporters.
The municipalities that could have been impacted by ice-jam induced flooding, had the Portage Diversion not been operated, included the RMs of Portage and Cartier, Headingley and St. Francois Xavier, officials said.
"If the opening of the diversion had been delayed further, residents and properties downstream could have been affected by a surge of water than occurred after an ice dam broke upstream of the diversion," the province said in its flood bulletin.
"After the ice dam broke, inflows to the reservoir during the night reached 13,000 cubic feet per second, with 7,000 cfs directed to the diversion," according to the bulletin. "An instantaneous peak with ice resulted in inflows to the reservoir reaching 17,000 cfs with 10,000 cfs directed to the diversion at 8:20 a,m. (today)."
Meanwhile, ice jams against a bridge along the Whitemud River at the town of Gladstone caused some overland flooding yesterday. Levels on the Whitemud are dropping upstream of Gladstone today.
The Seven Regions Health Centre in Gladstone required some minor sandbagging on a road access point, but the facility is not at risk, the province said. Ten area homes experienced minor flooding. There were no evacuations.


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Hoyer: We Ought To Be Mitigating The Whole Impact Of The Sequester
"I rise in opposition to this piece of legislation.
"The editorial board of USA Today was scathing yesterday in its assessment of where the blame for this sequester should lie. And I quote: 'No Members of Congress should be surprised at the havoc brought by the sequester. After all, they caused it, and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood repeatedly warned them about its consequences.'
"But flight delays are just the tip of the iceberg, visible above the waterline for most Americans, and as time goes on, without a big balanced deficit solution to replace the sequester, more of that iceberg will surface, more Americans will be negatively affected.
"While I want to end these delays for passengers in Maryland and across the country, I will oppose this bill because it fails to address the whole impact of sequester. Let me share just a handful of examples of how the sequester will affect Americans.
"Education: Head Start, 70,000 children will be kicked out of Head Start. Nothing in this bill deals with them. Furloughs to cause delays in processing retirement for disability claims – nothing in this bill deals with them. Four million fewer Meals on Wheels for seniors. 600,000 people dropped off WIC – nothing in here for them. Housing: 125,000 less HUD rental assistant vouchers – nothing in here for them. Emergency unemployment insurance cut 11% for two million out-of-work Americans – nothing in here for them. FDA: 2,100 fewer food safety inspectors, an 18% cut – nothing in here for them. Longer waits to approve new drugs – nothing in here for them. Defense and homeland security: furloughs equivalent to 1,000 fewer federal agents, FBI, border, etc., on the job; one third of combat air units are grounded – nothing in here for them. 89,000 agency-wide furloughs in IRS, up to seven days, including taxpayer assistance centers – nothing in here for them. They serve 89,000 taxpayers trying to find help. [Note: Rep. Hoyer misspoke – the figure is 97 million taxpayers.]
"We ought not to be mitigating the sequester's effect on just one segment when children, the sick, our military and many other groups who will be impacted by this irresponsible policy are left unhelped. Instead of dressing this serious wound with a small band-aid, let's get to work on a real solution, let's go to conference, let's get a big deal, let's deal with all the adverse consequences of sequester, not just those that affect the powerful air travelers of America. We ought to help them, but we ought to help everybody else as well."


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Cycle of arrests repeats for Pittsburgh deadbeat father suspect
John Zajch once again is sitting in the Allegheny County Jail on charges of ducking child support payments dating back 18 years to Litchfield County, Conn.
Allegheny County sheriff's deputies say he's one of the county's top deadbeat dads — No. 5 on a list of 50 — and owes $109,781 in support payments.
Zajch, 42, of Mt. Washington has been arrested five times since 2009 for nonsupport, yet county officials say they have little choice but to keep jailing him until he starts to pay.
"This guy, he's a tiny percentage of what we deal with every year," said Judge Kathryn M. Hens-Greco, administrative judge for the county's Family Court Division. "For the system to have some perception out there that we have integrity, people like him have to go to jail."
The sheriff's list of most-wanted deadbeat dads includes 50 men who together owe more than $3.4 million. Seven of them, including Zajch, owe more than $100,000 apiece. Forty-three others owe amounts ranging from $53,448 to $89,516.
In 2009, the most recent year statistics were available, Allegheny County residents owed $131 million in child support, and the Family Division collected $106 million of that. Hens-Greco estimated that about 20 percent goes unpaid each year, but not all of the cases are because of parents like Zajch.
"Times are tough," the judge said. "People lose their jobs, and they just get behind."
Zajch established permanent residence in Allegheny County in 2009. He brought his support woes with him.
"He owed over $100,000 before he even got here," said Lt. Jack Kearney of the sheriff's office. "He owed the money to Connecticut. They were unable to collect it, and when he moved from Connecticut, the case just automatically transferred here."
According to county court records, Zajch was arrested on contempt charges March 23, 2009, and Sept. 9, 2009, and again this year on April 21 and 26. Deputies nabbed him for a fifth time May 6 when he failed to show for a May 2 court hearing. He can't get out of jail unless he pays $5,000, or finds a job where wages can be tracked by the county and he makes regular payments. His child turned 18 in August, so the money won't continue to accrue, but he must pay what he owes, including potential damages or interest.
Hens-Greco said jailing scofflaws defeats the purpose of family court. That's why people like Zajch are given multiple chances to find work and pay what they owe, she said.
"It's only a very minuscule number of people willing to sit in the county jail to avoid making child support payments," she said. "Guys like him, yeah, we're going to follow him. If he doesn't pay what he's promised to pay, yeah, we're going to yank him back. Now he's going to sit in jail until he pays."


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Basically the appeal is that it would allow all content to be challenging and fun no matter the level you rise to--but without negating the gains you get for building your character. If you skip killing giant rats for a quest early on, for instance, if they die in one hit later it trivializes them; but if they're as hard as golems from mid game just because you're now level 25 it trivializes leveling and character building, which is honestly worse (IMHO).
I think the best times it has worked is when leveling itself scales, but gear does not. Therefore that genlock in the op example would die quicker because you now have an iron sword. Other times the level scaling only works at something like 90% so you do have an advantage in early areas compared to later areas.
Either way, I'm hard pressed to point to a perfect example of it in games so far, as it usually skews too far one way or the other on the trivialization scale.
myztikrice 3 years ago#12
You have better spells/abilities and are smarter. Just because they have the same stats as golems and your level doesn't mean they're comparatively harder. I don't think it trivializes leveling or character building at all.
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Ningishzida (Topic Creator)3 years ago#13
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I think it could be a good thing, but I haven't really seen it work right yet. The closest was actually, funnily enough, guild wars 2; considering a single player game should have those mechanics nailed down easier.
^ Good post.
I did lots of research on level scaling, after Oblivion shoved it down my throat and nearly choked me to death with it, and I found out that some of my beloved master race RPGs also have level scaling, but it was done so mildly that you hardly ever noticed.
For example, Baldur's Gate 1 will have one wolf at lvl 1, but if you come back to that spawn point at max lvl, there might be three wolves there. But the difference is those wolves ARE wolves, with base wolf stats, they only pasted two more in there to give you something to laugh at and kill as you went past. Similarly, Baldur's Gate 2 might throw a lich into an undead encounter, if you're >lvl20.
Arcanum scales gear and enemies in random encounters, but everything in core main quest and sidequests is static (though somewhat random).
Neverwinter Nights scales spawn number directly to player level, but it's so subtle you won't know unless you cheat in 20 lvls, and suddenly you're up against 20 beggars instead of 2. But they're still beggars, they don't have HP bloat.
So level scaling has probably always been with us, but it's been implemented in a subtle way so that we can't really detect it unless we actively seek it out. And if you're gonna put in lvlscaling (and you really shouldn't), that's how it should be - more or less undetectable to the player.
Gothic 2: NotR avoid level scaling of enemies and gear, everything has the balls to be what it is fullstop. The game repopulates the world at plot-progression intervals, it's all handplaced, and I think this is the best way to go about things.
Level scaling of Origin magnitude is a casual phenomenon, it's in there to sterilize games for the masses so they can't make a wrong choice, and always can get by without adjustments or reflection.
All Ning has to do is admit that WRPGs are laughable in the face of the true master race- JRPGs.
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PraetorXyn 3 years ago#15
I thought it failed by being incredibly bland and shallow compared to its Infinity Engine predecessors.
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Ningishzida (Topic Creator)3 years ago#16
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I thought it failed by being incredibly bland and shallow compared to its Infinity Engine predecessors.
Well yeah, it did claim to be a spiritual successor. But the thing is, generic story aside, the lore, characters, writing, quests and origin stories were actually very well done. And the tactical framework had the potential for so much, except that all encounters are ruined by level scaling.
I guess by "biggest failure", I'm talking about what stops me playing Origins these days, now that I've exhausted the Infinity Engine offerings (and I definitely have, including mods). So I'm looking to Origins, and the brick wall for me replaying it is simply level scaling, as I play these games more for tactics than anything else, and Origins does flirt with me on that level with it's tactical framework and potential to far exceed IE battle system, especially when you throw a few mods in there to make combat more faster (similar to IE @ 60 AI updates), and more lethal.
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Dawnshadow 3 years ago#18
So how do you do an open world game with set levels? Wouldn't making certain areas high level, by their very nature, force a character into a "correct" path? If your open world game says "no, you can't clear the quest that sends you to this cave because the RNG made it a level 20 cave and you're level 5, come back in six hours" it's not open world anymore, and you're punishing the player of making the "wrong choice" of not guessing how the developers wanted you to play their "open world" game.
Then, even if a player was skillful enough (or good enough at exploiting cheap mechanics, or savescummed until the RNG went in their favor) to play in a higher leveled area, when they come back to the lower level zone it's trivial and they have an hour or two of one-shotting everything in their path. No challenge means no gameplay.
For an open world game, I'd rather see level scaling that sets as you quest in a region (so you can't pop your head into a region as you pass by and have the enemies be low level when you come back to actually quest there.) Come to the city of Dageron for the first time at level 12 and the wolves are level 10. Finish questing there, then come back at level 60 and the wolves are still level 10. Arrive at level 8 in the next game and the wolves are level 6, and stay level 6. Go the other direction entirely and reach Dageron at level 40 in your next game, and instead of normal wolves you find winter wolves that are also level 40 (because the top level for wolves is 15 and something needs to spawn here.)
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The real failure was the total lack of reactivity and consequences to player choices. There is nothing after 5 minutes that sticks around until the game resumes the status quo. It's really shallow, nothing you do even matters until you pick which ending you want.
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PraetorXyn 3 years ago#20
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So how do you do an open world game with set levels? Wouldn't making certain areas high level, by their very nature, force a character into a "correct" path? If your open world game says "no, you can't clear the quest that sends you to this cave because the RNG made it a level 20 cave and you're level 5, come back in six hours" it's not open world anymore, and you're punishing the player of making the "wrong choice" of not guessing how the developers wanted you to play their "open world" game.
People that actually know how to build characters and use proper tactics and strategy can scrape by in areas they really shouldn't be in. Then later on when they're finished their build those areas may as well be a school playground. It rewards you for intelligence, perseverance, and you generally get unique pieces of equipment or other loot to justify the risk you took.
In a scaled game, you get what, some randomly leveled piece of garbage that's probably worse than what you already have.
Though it's far from a difficult game, starting Fallout: New Vegas is a perfect example of this. If you want to properly build your character, you put your Intelligence at level 6 if you have all DLC's, then you need to make your way to New Vegas at level 1 in order to get the Intelligence implant before level 2. This basically means you have to head through the quarry and dodge around Deathclaws at level 1.
Doing this allows you to get the most skill point upon level up. There's many more skill points in the game than are necessary assuming you have all DLC's, but you have to have your Intelligence at 7 or so.
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