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Map Blue was written by Charlie and Joe Gunyon. It uses data from the 2010 US Census combined with survey data from the General Social Survey to predict likely political orientation based on some very basic demographic information.
You can configure the map to display the data in two ways. The first (and default) way is to show the net Democratic votes in each block compared to the block with the most net Democratic votes. For example, if the map is displaying 2 blocks, block 1 has 10 Democratic votes and block 2 has 5 Democratic votes, block 2 will be half as opaque as block 1. Of course, if there are more Republican votes than Democratic votes, the block will be red.
The second way is to show percentages, i.e. this block is 90% Democratic. This can be more useful as a rough overview, but in general, the first method is much more useful.
We use the 2010 Decennial Census because it contains information down to the census block level. This level is very high-resolution; any higher and we're talking individual addresses.
There are some downsides to this approach. Because of the scale of the Decennial Census, key demographic information, like religion, income and education level, is left out. Additionally, the data can be outdated.
We would like to use additional data sources (ACS data, SAVI, etc.) to try and augment the data from the Decennial Census, however, we lack the time and money to do so.
Map Blue uses some moderately advanced web techniques that require a modern browser. Your best bet is to use Google Chrome. Firefox will work, but tends to be slow.
You can speed things up by zooming in. The more blocks Map Blue has to draw, the harder it has to work. For example, zooming far out in urban areas might draw 50,000 census blocks. That's a tall order.
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Surf Your Watershed (SYW) has provided simple access to a rich collection of watershed information since its release more than 20 years ago. SYW has recently been decommissioned because of technology migration and related security issues.
A replacement application is currently in development, with an expected released date of Fall 2019. How's My Waterway?, Version 2, will incorporate much of SYW's content and expand relevant watershed information. Please watch this page for periodic updates on How's My Waterway? Version 2.
During the interim period, the web sites listed below provide a wide variety of watershed related information:
- River Network:
- River Network is a nonprofit connecting nearly 6,000 water-focused organizations, agencies, businesses, and communities for greater local impact and healthier rivers across the U.S. Its project "Who is Protecting your Water?" will offer an interactive, searchable map of thousands of organizations, agencies, and indigenous communities protecting water across the U.S. This website performs a role similar to EPA's former website Adopt Your Watershed.
- How's My Waterway? Version 1.0: https://watersgeo.epa.gov/mywaterway/
- This website offers a 10 by 10-mile search box through which users can learn the condition of local streams, lakes and other waters anywhere in the US in plain language, and what's being done. Map and list formats are available. Version 2.0 will replace this website later this year.
- Watershed Index Online: https://www.epa.gov/wsio
- This website provides online tools and data for viewing watershed characteristics within user-selected geographic areas anywhere in the conterminous United States.
- Recovery Potential Screening: https://www.epa.gov/rps
- This website provides comparative watershed indicators, assessment methods and example projects as well as a full national set of state-specific watershed comparison tools that use the Watershed Index Online datasets.
- Healthy Watersheds Protection: https://www.epa.gov/hwp
- This website covers protection projects and analysis methods for protecting aquatic systems via landscape approaches. Included in this site is a preliminary assessment of watershed health in each of the 48 conterminous states.
- WATERS GeoViewer: https://www.epa.gov/waterdata/waters-geoviewer
- Simple access to stream network search for water information as well as watershed delineation and associated landscape attributes.


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Laird Cashman wrote:This set was pure genius on the part of the designers, reason being that the gate was a brilliant asset; however, this set had no dimension, depth, or width of wall.
Before the release of this set I purchased the larger gates from bricklink. The low brick count limits these sets and something has to give, Im glad it wasn't the minifigure count. Compare for example against tower raid 7037 that has plenty of depth and is basically two individual three dimensional units.
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Tycho McKorley wrote:I think it was definitely one of the strongest sets of the KKII line. That said, the design of the wall itself was a little weak, but it always seemed to me it was supposed to supplement some larger castle that never got released.
I always thought this would be a good set for a young builder to be able to purchase and put together with Royal Kings castle.
I think this set with 8821 Rogue Knight Battleship are the pick of KK2 match them with the viking chess set and Royal kings castle and what a complete castle range for 2006.


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Madonna's iconic conical-bra corset designed by Jean Paul Gaultier has sold for approximately $52,000 at a Christie's sale in South Kensington, London.
Although the singer has recently been making headlines in places like Russia for her outspoken statements, it was her British fans who shelled out to own some of the singer's vintage concert memorabilia.
The costume, worn by the singer on her 1990 Blonde Ambition tour. The corset features pale pink-and-green sequins and green fringe along the bottom.
While the costume was only estimated to bring in about $24,000, the item sparked a bidding war more, and resulted in a price more than double what was expected.
The 54-year-old singer wore the scandalous outfit for a mere three songs onstage, including her hit "Hanky Panky." Check out the bedazzled corset below.
A few of Madonna's other costumes were sold at the auction as well, including a black Lycra two-piece she wore while performing "Vogue," which went for $26,000.


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Sunday, March 7, 2010
Happy Birthday, Crafty Girl
I made a card recently using the Embellish magazine's newest color challenge. Very spring!
The background is stamped with Background Basics: Tin Type and the spools of ribbon and the sentiment come from Studio Style. I thought I needed to add something under the sentiment, so I chose a beautiful little Prima flower, but I'm not sure it was just the right thing...
Thanks for coming by!
"Happy Birthday, Crafty Girl" (all PTI unless noted)
Stamps: BB: Tin Type, Studio Style
Ink: Rich Cocoa (Memento), Melon Berry, Walnut Stain (Ranger)
Paper: New Leaf, Melon Berry, Hibiscus Burst, Lemon Tart
Other: Apron Lace border punch (Fiskars), Hibiscus Burst satin ribbon, Foam tape, Copic markers, Prima rose
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- Genevieve said...
Very pretty Melissa & the wee flower looks great X
- March 7, 2010 at 8:26 AM
- Nancy L. said...
o Melissa, this is beautiful!! soooo pretty!!
- March 7, 2010 at 10:06 AM
- Diane Jaquay said...
Gorgeous, I LOVE it!!!
- March 7, 2010 at 10:57 AM
- IamDerby said...
Melissa this is beautiful! I really like it, the flower too
- March 7, 2010 at 11:03 AM
- Aimes said...
Oh I can't wait for this set to arrive on my doorstep now! What a super cute card! Love the flower, looks great (think it'd look kinda bare without it!)
- March 7, 2010 at 12:13 PM
- Jenni said...
very intresting! i like the flower, i think it adds jsut the right touch!
- March 7, 2010 at 12:40 PM
- Cheryl said...
Very cute! I love the colors you chose.
- March 7, 2010 at 1:32 PM
- Taheerah said...
Really fun card Mellissa! Seeing all those reels of ribbon in those different colours together makes me happy! Love the Tin Type background too!
- March 7, 2010 at 6:55 PM
- B said...
Oh how fun is this! :) Love the fun use of colors and the flower under the sentiment!
- March 7, 2010 at 8:42 PM
- Ted said...
Melissa, this is a great card and I think that little flower under the sentiment is perfect. It's almost reminds me of one of those icing flowers on a birthday cake. Very cute! :)
- March 7, 2010 at 9:05 PM
- Anika said...
Cute card! I adore those spools of ribbon! This looks like a fun challenge, I might have to give it a try!
- March 7, 2010 at 9:46 PM
- Sherry said...
Just darling!!
- March 7, 2010 at 9:57 PM
- Lori said...
You are right, I love the colors!! Such a fun card!!
- March 7, 2010 at 11:06 PM
- Heather P. said...
This is SO pretty!
- March 8, 2010 at 12:19 AM
- Anonymous said...
Very cute. Love this stamp set, dont you?!?
- March 8, 2010 at 1:00 PM
- Valentina Fussell said...
I love this! This is one of my favorite sets and it looks so sweet with the colors! Thanks for playing along with us at Embellish!
- March 9, 2010 at 10:22 PM
- Mariana Grigsby said...
Your card is perfect, Melissa! The tiny rose looks great! Thank you for participating in the Embellish Color Challenge!.
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Lee Roy McGalliard, 81, passed away peacefully on March 3, 2012 with his daughter by his side. Lee was born in Miami, FL and raised in Pelham (Cotton), GA. As a young boy he worked in the fields picking cotton, as a grocery bag boy, in a diner and at the Coats & Clarke thread mill. He played semi-pro baseball and retained his love of the game throughout his life. In 1950 he joined the Navy serving on the USS Boxer during the Korean War and was stationed at Moffett Field. Near the end of his enlistment he met Nita at a dance in Stockton and they married 6 weeks later. Upon Lee?s honorable discharge they moved to Pelham, GA for a brief time before returning to CA where they lived in the Bay Area throughout their lives. Lee retired as Battalion Chief after 30 years with the Moffett Field Fire Department. A part-time job in 1963 at the Saratoga Horticultural Foundation grew into a passion for Lee. The knowledge he gained inspired him to start Lee?s Landscape & Maintenance which he ran for over 40 years before relocating to Pleasanton in 2006. It was his nature to teach anyone with an interest how to prune and care for their trees, shrubs, and especially roses.
Lee was a 3rd degree Mason over 50 years at Pelham GA Lodge 312, 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason over 40 years, and an Asiya Shriner over 35 years. He was past president of the Shrine Golf Club. Lee was an avid golfer. Lee & Nita were past members of Saratoga Country Club. He and son-in-law Keith won the Santa Clara County 2 Man Best Ball tournament in 1985.
Lee was a devoted husband, father, grandfather. Most of his adult life he worked two jobs at a time. He was extremely proud both his grandsons attend Santa Clara University. Lee was predeceased by his dearest darling wife of 55 years Nita, son Mark, granddaughter Ashley, his parents and 6 brothers and sisters. Lee is survived by his daughter Jan Wheaton (Keith), his adoring grandsons Curtis & Scott, all of Pleasanton, and many nieces & nephews. Lee loved to be around people and everyone found his southern charm engaging. He was a good friend to all who knew him and will be dearly missed by many friends and family.


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Hello! My name is Christel Overgaard and I live in southern Sweden near the sea. I am retired and love it. About 12 years ago I came into contact with scrapbooking and it has developed into a great interest and a wonderful hobby. I have a big family and it´s my big motivation when I do the layouts, I fill binders to all the children and grandchildren. Therefore, I mostly do layouts, but some cards will also be made when needed. I like to photograph, I am a member of a photo club and it is a good combination with scrapbooking.
I like to interpret drawings and pictures and participate in many challenges each month. I probably can ot say I have any particular style, but like to challenge myself with new things. I get inspiration by looking around at all the talented scrapbookers and websites.
I am so glad to be a guest on ARTastic this month and hope that I can inspire others. Thanks!
Please visit my blogg http://titteovergaard.blogspot.se
Thank you so much for joining us during October Christel - your work is just beautiful.
There is still time to play along with us at ARTastic this month - some lovely prizes on offer and as the saying goes "you have to be in it to win it"!


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Marc Phily - Logistics Manager Amaury Sports Organization (ASO)
You're the Logistics Manager for the Dakar Rally. Can you tell us what your role entails?
I'm in charge of operations, meaning I coordinate all the activities of ASO's many partners throughout the race, from managing airplane and boat transportation to ground operations and food services, etc.
Sodexo has been an official Dakar supplier for seven years. What do you think is the partnership's main strength?
Sodexo is a vital partner. It was our first experience in South America seven years ago and we had to totally remake our internal organization, which was based on procedures tailored to Africa. Sodexo's operations in South America, its professional expertise and its knowledge of the field helped us adapt to the new environment very quickly.
Which Sodexo area of expertise do you think makes the difference in meeting such a huge logistical challenge?
Sodexo's strength in an event like Dakar is, of course, its business-specific expertise, but also its extensive experience in other tough environments such as mines, offshore platforms—basically hard-to-reach places. Plus its speed of execution, which is vital in the shifting, nomadic world of Dakar.
What are the participants' expectations in terms of "quality of life" during the race?
The living conditions of participants are fairly precarious during the race. The bivouac serves as the competitors' "home": we have a responsibility to make their life there as easy as we can, by providing them with as many services as possible to create a minimum of comfort, even in the middle of the desert. Food services are key to the racers' well-being and an important opportunity for the 50 nationalities in the bivouac tent to mix and socialize. After putting in grueling days, this time is important to racers and our job is to promote their quality of life by offering them the services they need to relax and rest.
Does the 2015 race present a new challenge?
Every year we set higher goals to improve the level of service. This year, for example, we're setting up a bakery service in Chile and Argentina with Sodexo, where we will reheat the bread on site. It's a new challenge, but there are many more still to come!
How would you characterize the relationship between ASO and Sodexo teams?
The relationship between ASO and Sodexo teams is a key success factor. We started working together seven years ago and so we know the people we're working with today very well. This mutual trust enables us to meet the challenge together and go about our business calmly. Working in close proximity and talking things over are how we find solutions to every problem and make significant improvements year to year. We partner on other big events such as the Tour de France and have many values in common.


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Book review: A showcase for Vermont food and farmers
The Vermont Farm Table Cookbook, 150 Home-Grown Recipes from the Green Mountain State, by Tracey Medeiros. Photographs by Oliver Parini. 254 pages. Paperback. Published by the Countryman Press, Woodstock, Vermont. $19.95.
This is a cookbook that was just waiting to be written. Given Vermont's attention to local food, diversified agriculture, and family farms, the only wonder is that someone didn't write it earlier.
The Vermont Farm Table combines recipes with short profiles of the farms, breweries, farmers markets, and restaurants the recipes, and many of their ingredients, come from. It's also a picture book. Lots of cookbooks include photographs of food that make your mouth water. This one does, too, but in addition, it's a Vermont Life-style photo show of forests, fields, gardens, and farmers.
Predictably, there's a lot of "brand" ingredients involved here. For instance, it's likely possible to make a fine New York strip steak without WhistlePig whiskey, but if it doesn't turn out to be quite the dish you'd envisioned, you can probably blame the cheap brand of whiskey you used instead of WhistlePig.
It's about time to say here that I have theories about cookbooks, the main one being that the best cookbooks — the most worn ones on my shelves — tell you how to put together ingredients you're likely to already have in tasty ways you haven't thought of before.
To a large extent, this book does that. The maple-glazed sweet potatoes with walnuts and cumin that we made Thursday night were terrific, easy to prepare and didn't even require a trip to the store. The recipe comes from Square Deal Farm in Walden, owned by Sarah Lyons and Ray Lewis, sugarmakers who also raise Pinzgauer cattle and pasture fed pigs.
There are lots of recipes in this book that are as simple and inexpensive: for instance, asparagus and brown rice from Pomykala Farm; Full Moon Farm's hearty toasted sandwiches with heirloom tomatoes; Kimball Brook Farm's hefty corn chowder; Butterworks Farm's maple cornbread; Longview Farm's leg of lamb; or the amber ale-braised highland beef chuck roast from Shat Acres in Greensboro Bend.
But be prepared to shop as well as cook if you plan to use this book, which may be part of its purpose.
It also helps to be a gardener. Some of the simplest recipes rely on ingredients you'll find at a farmers market, or in your own garden, but probably not at Price Chopper.
For instance, there's no way that Full Moon Farm's hearty toasted sandwiches are going to be as tasty without Brandywine tomatoes, which you're highly unlikely to find in a grocery store, given their relatively short shelf life, odd color, and lumpy shape. Grocery stores, and the growers who supply them, long ago traded in flavor for longevity and appearance.
But I think it would be fair to assume that a major purpose of this particular cookbook is to introduce local ingredients, as well as their sources, the idea being to reconnect people to good food and where it comes from.
Author Tracey Medeiros is marketing Vermont and its farmers here, but also providing Vermonters themselves with information about where to find fresh, local meat, produce, cheese, fruit, and maple products — and what to do with them.
Not surprisingly, the weakest section of the book is that which deals with seafood, Vermont not being known for its fresh scallops and shrimp. But the main reason I say that is because the recipes tend to come from restaurants rather than from farmers, and are thus more complicated.
Yes, I would love to make butter poached halibut with forbidden black rice, beet dashi, and fennel salad, but I have no idea where I'd get two fennel bulbs, stalks removed, bulbs trimmed, and a cup of dried shitake mushrooms, as well as two star anise pods.
That recipe comes from a Burlington restaurant, rather than a farmer — a restaurant that's committed to fresh, local food, but the recipe does not suggest where the ingredients might be found. Most cooks, outside of chefs, aren't likely to traverse the state in order to locate what they need for dinner.
Some of the ingredients called for in this book include vanilla bean paste, root of celeriac, hulled hemp seed (isn't that illegal?), arrowroot, fennel bulbs, and pomegranate molasses.
Like I said, you might have to shop in order to use this cookbook.
As a book about Vermont farmers, it succeeds admirably. The brief profiles are of people who grow, raise, or prepare Vermont food in all its fresh diversity. We all know that superior maple products, great apples, a variety of cheeses, and grass fed beef and free range poultry are grown here. But cranberries? Rabbit? Flowers?
As a cookbook, for the most part, it approaches cooking with solid but creative ideas about how to use the wealth of local products that Vermont has to offer. The Vermont Farm Table is better than many I own and seldom open unless I have a rare day to spend hours in the kitchen.
I can't wait until the squash crop comes in and we get to prepare grilled coconut delicata squash, or roasted root crops, or winter squash with roasted garlic.
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Master Flying Geese through three fat quarter quilt projects. Plus, add Flying Geese to traditional blockscreating personalized variations and all-time favorite quilts.
Guidance from professional pattern designer Monique Jacobs, formerly Monique Dillard, will empower you to add your own creative twist to traditional blocks with custom patterns of graceful Flying Geese. During class, you'll create classic quilt projects with flawless Flying Geese and without wasting fabric. Get comfortable cutting and piecing Flying Geese as you make a decorative pillow. Blend Flying Geese into traditional Courthouse Stepped blocks for a lap quilt with soaring visual interest. Make a large quilt with on-point blocks featuring swirling Flying Geese, half-square triangles, flip corners, and a brilliant secondary star pattern! Along the way, learn pressing and piecing tips for beautifully precise projects.
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Anyone in the SLO/AG areas in the 4.0 - 3.5 range wanting to play regularly on Sunday afternoon's? I would love to start playing again, it's been a few months! Please text me!
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Just texted. I'm also available weekends if anyone wants to get some games/volleying in.
I'd be interested. As a matter of fact we are getting together to play tomorrow (sunday) at 11am at CalPoly. It's a tennis meet-up group. You are welcome to join us.
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2008 Red Wine Napa Valley
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The Red Wine is approachable in its youth, but will cellar well for years of enjoyment. The wine is well balanced, has a beautiful aroma, complex and layers of fruit flavor. Our Red Wine can be enjoyed with a variety of food, or by itself.
Wine Specs
Vintage 2008
Varietal Merlot
Appellation Napa Valley
Harvest Date October 2007
Sugar 0.00
pH 3.7
Aging 18 Months
Fermentation 35 Days
Bottling Date July 2010
Residual Sugar 0.00
Alcohol % 14.5
Wine Spectator 91
Robert Parker 91
Wine Profile
Ratings The 2008 Red Wine from proprietors Raj and Shilta Patel is a blend of 48% Merlot, 39% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Malbec, and the rest Petit Verdot. It is a slightly down-sized version of the Proprietary Red. No. 1, but still impressively endowed, with a deep ruby/purple color, loads of sweet black currant fruit, some kirsch, licorice, and spice. Medium to full-bodied, it is not quite the seamless tour de force of the 2007 No. 1, but it is still an outstanding wine. Drink it over the next 10-15 years. An impressive discovery during my sojourn in Northern California were these wines from Patel. -Robert Parker, Wine Advocate #192, December 2010: 91 Points Copyright 2010, The Wine Advocate, Inc. - Reprinted with permission
Production Notes We adhere to strictest quality standards. From the vineyard, the clusters are all hand-sorted, 100% de-stemming, the berries are again hand sorted, berry by berry. After three to five days of cold pre-fermentation in small open-top fermenters. We start fermentation by adding yeast and four to five weeks later; the fruit is gently pressed and moved to barrel where it finishes the remaining secondary fermentations. The wine continues to the carefully age in new French oak barrels from artesian French Coopers. To assure proper aging we age our wines for about eighteen to twenty months in a combination of rare barrels from Ana Selection and Darnajou. After many blending trials, the wine is bottled, unfine and unfiltered.
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Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch will soon be trading jerseys and going over to Team Apple—a move that has some Apple-watchers perplexed. Adobe confirmed Lynch's job change late Tuesday following a regulatory filing that revealed Lynch's plans. Apple later confirmed the move as well, saying Lynch's title at Apple would be VP of Technology and that he would be reporting to current hardware head Bob Mansfield.
"Kevin Lynch, Adobe CTO, is leaving the company effective March 22 to take a position at Apple," Adobe said in a statement sent to various media outlets. "We will not be replacing the CTO position; responsibility for technology development lies with our business unit heads under the leadership of Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. Bryan Lamkin, who has recently returned to Adobe, will assume responsibilities for cross company research and technology initiatives as well as Corporate Development. We wish Kevin well in this new chapter of his career."
Lynch originally hails from Macromedia, which was purchased by Adobe in 2005, and his main focus was Flash. This is the main reason for raised eyebrows following the news of his departure for Apple. When former Apple CEO Steve Jobs published his "Thoughts on Flash" essay in 2010 that essentially explained why Flash would never make an appearance on Apple's iOS devices, Lynch personally penned Adobe's response, "Moving Forward."
"Clearly, a lot of people are passionate about both Apple and Adobe and our technologies. We feel confident that were Apple and Adobe to work together as we are with a number of other partners, we could provide a terrific experience with Flash on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch," Lynch wrote at the time. "However, as we posted last week, given the legal terms Apple has imposed on developers, we have already decided to shift our focus away from Apple's iPhone and iPad devices for both Flash Player and AIR."
Immediately after that, Lynch went on the offensive, accusing Apple of becoming Big Brother. "I think it's like 1984 in a lot of ways," he said during the 2012 Web 2.0 Expo. "I don't think it's the role of the company to exercise judgment on what people should use. That's the role of society and the law."
A little more than a year later, Adobe ended up killing off Flash for mobile.
So why would Lynch suddenly want to go over to the dark side? That part isn't entirely clear; AllThingsD cites an unnamed source saying Lynch originally wanted to be CEO of Adobe but eventually settled on a less senior role at Apple "coordinating the company's hardware and software teams." (Then again, the position may not be too shabby, given the fact that Bob Mansfield already tried to retire once and will eventually leave Apple again sometime in the future.)
We have no doubt that Lynch's former anti-Apple stance was fueled in part by his loyalty to Adobe, but some outsiders are still left wondering why Apple would hire him; others are hailing it as a huge win for Apple. Whatever the case, Lynch clearly wants to help Apple make its mobile products better—without the help of Flash.


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Sites We Like: The Arm Letterpress, Farmigo, and Pixelivery
A letterpress studio, farm-fresh food, and pixellated tees in this week's sites we like.
The Arm Letterpress is a studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that has a variety of workshops and classes as well as press time available to the public. Both the navigation and the slideshow headlines are set in the elegant (and versatile) Freight Sans, which pairs neatly with FF Tisa in the body.
Farmigo helps farmers across the country bring fresh, locally-grown food to their communities. Museo's good-natured and sturdy form goes hand-in-hand with the site's cheerful illustrations and bright color.
And United Pixelworkers are bringing style to your wardrobe as well as your website with Pixelivery, choosing classic Futura PT for the same fun, bold expression as their iconic designs.
That's all for this week; share sites that you like in the comments.


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Reduce plastic waste!
Transform an everyday task into something you enjoy. Our Limited-Edition Warm Vanilla scent is rich and sweet, like caramelized vanilla. You'll feel like you've just stepped into a cozy kitchen with sugar cookies baking in the oven. The rich, naturally sourced ingredients leave your skin clean, soft, smooth and moisturized. Ideal for the bathroom as well as the kitchen.
Purified Water ( Aqua); Glycerin; Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate; Decyl Glucoside; Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Leaf Juice ; Sodium Cocoyl (Apple) Amino Acids; Caprylyl Glycol; Glyceryl Oleate; Panthenol; Allantoin ; Triethyl Citrate; Citrus Aurantium Dulcis/Sinensis ( Sweet Orange) Peel Oil; Vanillin ; Cinnamomum Cassia (Cassia) Leaf Oil; Sodium Benzoate
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Cycling's fiercest and best-known competitor waved a weary hand at his pursuers, saying that he no longer had the strength for the fight to prevent them declaring his seven Tour de France titles to be the spoils of cheating. To those who had been following this drawnout affair, there was a more easily believable reason for his seeming capitulation: to contest the charges would be to air the evidence. As damaging to his reputation as tactically throwing in the towel was, it was apparently preferable to facing the avalanche of dirty laundry that a public hearing would have produced. Now we have at least a portion of that unheard testimony in book form and Hamilton's first-hand account of a career spent riding both with and against Armstrong is toxic enough by itself. With the help of the journalist Daniel Coyle, Hamilton details a cloak-and-dagger, syringe-and-cellphone existence. Coded text messages lead to hotel room appointments for blood transfusions. Drugs are handed out to favoured riders on the US Postal Service team in paper lunch bags. Soy milk cartons in the fridge hide blood bags. Armstrong's handyman allegedly follows the Tour de France by motorbike, delivering the blood-booster erythropoietin (EPO) on demand. The insider terminology is half-seductive, half-comical: steroids are "red eggs"; EPO is "vitamin E" or "therapy" or "Edgar" (Allan Poe). The brief period when a rider might test positive – after ingestion and before a drug has cleared his system – is "glowtime". It conjures a picture of US Postal Service riders pulsing gently in the living rooms of their apartments like fireflies as dusk falls on the Catalan town of Girona, where most of them lived. Coyle recognised that his co-author's credibility had been damaged by years of lying about drug use and set out to satisfy himself that this account would be watertight. He interviewed eight former US Postal Service riders, as well as mechanics, doctors and team assistants. The pair travelled to Spain and France so that Coyle could check Hamilton's descriptions of hotel rooms in which the rider claims he and Armstrong underwent transfusions. That may not be enough to sway Armstrong's core constituency, the cancer community, whose belief in him as an inspirational survivor is a matter of faith. Armstrong has questioned Hamilton's honesty and motives. Yet to dismiss this book as fantasy would be to believe that a respected journalist and a cast of witnesses had colluded in one man's nove - lisation of his life – libelling a number of wealthy and influential people in the process. Indeed, given the UK's litigant-friendly libel laws, that the original manuscript seems to have crossed the Atlantic largely intact is its own endorsement. The book's collaborative nature is a weakness as well as a strength. Chunks of information crucial to the wider narrative are jemmied into Hamilton's first-hand account of his career and his voice sounds too much like Coyle's. Anyone familiar with Coyle's earlier book Lance Armstrong's War will recognise the way he seizes on a phrase or observation he feels particularly pleased with and then repeatedly quotes it back to himself – and to us – like a barrister building an unanswerable, if slightly wearying, case. Hamilton has to fight for our attention. After a career spent trying to escape Armstrong's shadow as a rider by imitating his methods, he differentiates himself from his old teammate in retirement by opening up. However, he remains a supporting character in his own book and his honesty fails him in moments of selfjustification. Early in his career, riding clean, he complains about being cheated out of his livelihood by the dopers. Then, when he joins them, he's simply levelling the playing field. This not only ignores the clean riders he is cheating out of their livelihoods in turn but the evidence of the rest of the book: even among other dopers there were few who could afford to compete with the drugs, doctors and support system that Hamilton had access to while he was riding for Armstrong. It was when he left to lead a team of his own that things went wrong. His new doctor's storage system failed, producing a horrifying episode in which the rider realises that he's transfused a bag of his own dead blood cells. Eventually, he tested positive. Prior to that, Hamilton claims, his former team leader had alerted the authorities to his doping. For Armstrong, who has always stuck to cycling's code of silence and excoriated other riders who dare to break it, this might be the most personally hurtful allegation in the book. According to Hamilton, Armstrong isn't just a fellow cheat – he's a fellow snitch. Gary Imlach presents ITV's coverage of the Tour de France. 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Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Neurocognitive and Cardiovascular Function in Children With Down Syndrome (TRIO)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01808508
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : March 11, 2013
Results First Posted : February 8, 2016
Last Update Posted : February 8, 2016
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Many individuals with Down syndrome (DS) have breathing problems during sleep. This is called obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). OSAS is very common in individuals with Down syndrome because of the shape of their face and tongue and because of their low muscle tone. OSAS can cause a lot of health problems including behavioral and learning problems as well as heart problems.
The purpose of this research study is to look at the effects of treating OSAS in individuals with Down syndrome with a machine called Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP). The investigators want to see if treatment of OSAS improves learning, behavior and heart problems.
|Condition or disease
|Down Syndrome Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome
|Device: Continuous positive airway pressure Device: Sham or placebo continuous positive airway pressure
|Not Applicable
All individuals participating in the study will be evaluated for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) with a baseline sleep study. Based on the results of the sleep study,individuals with OSAS will be randomly assigned into two groups. One group will receive continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and the other intervention group will receive sham CPAP(placebo) for four months. CPAP is a machine with a mask that fits over the nose, is worn during sleep and helps keep the airway open. Sham CPAP (placebo) is a machine that looks and sounds like a CPAP machine but does not give pressure so it does not treat OSAS. Individuals with normal breathing during the sleep study will not receive a machine, and will serve as controls.
Individuals will also have baseline tests including blood tests, an echocardiogram (pictures of the heart), a walking test and learning tests. After 4 months, the baseline tests will be repeated in all participants. At the end of the study, all individuals with OSAS will get treatment.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|27 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Neurocognitive and Cardiovascular Function in Children With Down Syndrome
|Study Start Date :
|September 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|March 2014
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|September 2014
Active Comparator: Group 1- Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
Group 1 will receive therapeutic CPAP for 4 months.
Device: Continuous positive airway pressure
Continuous positive airway pressure is a machine used with sleep which compresses air delivered via a nasal mask and thus helps stent the airway open.
Other Name: CPAP
Placebo Comparator: Group 2-Sham Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
Group 2 are individuals with OSAS who will receive sham or placebo continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for 4 months.
Device: Sham or placebo continuous positive airway pressure
Sham or placebo CPAP is a machine used instead of therapeutic CPAP. This machine is similar to a therapeutic CPAP machine but has built in leaks and does not deliver pressure. It is not effective in treating OSAS.
Other Name: Sham or placebo CPAP
No Intervention: Group 3- No Intervention
Group 3 are individuals with normal breathing during sleep who will not receive any intervention and will be used as a control group.
- Change in Epworth Sleepiness Scale From Baseline to End of Study [ Time Frame: 4 Months ]The primary aim of the study is to assess the relationship between obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and the neurocognitive and behavioral outcomes of individuals with Down syndrome. Sleepiness was assessed using the pediatric version of the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS). The ESS is a self-administered questionnaire with 8 questions. It provides a measure of a person's general level of daytime sleepiness, or average sleep propensity in daily life. The ESS asks people to rate, on a 4-point scale (0, low to 3, high) their usual chances of dozing off or falling asleep in 8 different situations or activities that most people engage in as part of their daily lives. The total ESS score provides an estimate of a general characteristic of each person's average level of sleepiness in daily life (0= no chance of dozing/no daytime sleepiness to 24=high chance of dozing/lots of daytime sleepiness).
- Change in Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) Total Score From Baseline to 4 Months [ Time Frame: 4 Months ]The change in behavioral domain was measured by the Child Check Behavior List. The CBCL is a widely used method of identifying problem behavior in children. Problems are identified by a respondent who knows the child well, usually a parent or other care giver. There are 2 versions based on the child's age (CBCL/1½-5 for use children 18 months-5 years; the CBCL/6-18 for children aged 6-18 years). The checklists consists of a number of statements about the child's behavior and responses are recorded on a scale: 0 = Not True, 1 = Somewhat or Sometimes True, 2 = Very True or Often True. The preschool checklist contains 100 questions and, school-age checklist contains 120 questions. 8 sub-scores (1 for each of 8 syndromes: anxious/depressed, withdrawn depressed, somatic complaints, social problems, thought problems, attention problems, rule-breaking behavior and aggressive behavior) are calculated, each ranging from 0 (normal) to 16 (clinical behavior).
- Change in the Left Ventricular (LV) Mass Index Score From Baseline to 4 Months [ Time Frame: 4 Months ]The change in left ventricular mass index score, measured on echocardiography, was used to assess the relationship between obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and cardiovascular function of individuals with Down syndrome. Left ventricular (LV) mass was calculated from M-mode measurements of the LV end-diastolic dimension, the thickness of the interventricular septum and the thickness of the LV posterior wall, and presented as a z-score.
- Change in the Distance Walked on a 6 Minute Walk Test From Baseline to 4 Months [ Time Frame: 4 Months ]As secondary outcome of the second aim, we will use the distance walked during the 6 minute walk test.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|8 Years to 20 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Aged 8-20 years
- Down syndrome (based on the characteristic phenotype)
- Families provide informed consent and child provides assent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subjects and families who do not speak English well enough to undergo psychometric testing.
- Subjects living in institutions where there is no primary caregiver to participate in the neurocognitive/behavioral battery.
- Major chronic lung disease such as chronic aspiration.
- Previous or current CPAP therapy.
- Participation in a weight loss program.
- Craniofacial or neuromuscular conditions other than those associated with DS.
- Untreated hypothyroidism. Participants with normal thyroid function tests will be included in the study.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01808508
|United States, Pennsylvania
|The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
|Principal Investigator:
|Carole Marcus, MD
|Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
|Responsible Party:
|Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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|First Posted:
|March 11, 2013 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|February 8, 2016
|Last Update Posted:
|February 8, 2016
|Last Verified:
|December 2015
Down syndrome
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome
Continuous positive airway pressure
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Sleep Apnea Syndromes
Sleep Apnea, Obstructive
Down Syndrome
Pathologic Processes
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Respiratory Tract Diseases
Signs and Symptoms, Respiratory
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Sleep Disorders, Intrinsic
Sleep Wake Disorders
Nervous System Diseases
Intellectual Disability
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Neurologic Manifestations
Abnormalities, Multiple
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The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) recently announced that The Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) has approved the agency's Interim Remedial Action Plan (IRAP) for 9901 Alameda property as part of the overall Jordan Downs public housing redevelopment project. The latest development paves the way for a 2014 clean-up of the 21-acre former factory site adjacent to Jordan Downs.
"We are pleased with this latest development that will at last allow us to clean-up this industrial site," said Douglas Guthrie, president and CEO of HACLA. "This agency approached the DTSC three years ago requesting approval of a clean-up process. HACLA's commitment to remediate the site and convert it from its current condition into a productive resource for the community remains unchanged."
The 21-acre site adjacent to Jordan Downs had been used for industrial purposes for many decades prior to HACLA's decision to acquire it in 2008. HACLA's initiative set the stage for clean-up of the land. HACLA voluntarily entered into an agreement with the DTSC to remediate the site. As such, HACLA will follow the state standards and requirements dictated by DTSC to test, prepare and implement a remediation plan.
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Meet the Boss: Ryan Howard, CEO of Practice Fusion
Meet the Boss By Suzanne Herel
When Ryan Howard had breakfast with venture capitalist Peter Thiel in April, the billionaire left Howard with the check - for $1 million.
The unexpected investment marked a turning point for Howard's company, Practice Fusion, which provides doctors and other health professionals a free, Web-based electronic medical record system.
Practice Fusion has exploded in the market, fueled by federal incentives - President Obama's stimulus package includes $44,000 to $64,000 for health providers who adopt digital record-keeping for Medicare and Medicaid patients.
The San Francisco company recently logged more than 120,000 members who are using the system to track 20 million patients. It also links 70,000 pharmacies and 200 labs. By patient volume, it's bigger than Kaiser.
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What a difference a few years can make.
"At the end of '08 we were out of cash," said Howard, 36. "We were fledgling, we had a couple thousand users, the market was a disaster."
He was keeping the company afloat any way he could - he sold his car and also used the rent he was collecting from a home he still owned in New Hampshire.
One of his passions - racing Ducatis - also proved fortuitous, albeit painfully. After Howard tore a rotator cuff in an accident, he used the insurance payout to make payroll.
"One of our core values is: Be scrappy," he said. "I was beyond scrappy. I went above and beyond whatever a human being would have done."
Howard comes by his upstart attitude naturally.
Born in Rochester, N.H., to parents who soon divorced, he recalls his mom holding as many as four jobs at once to make ends meet. He attended public school but after his girlfriend became pregnant, dropped out of high school. He earned his GED by the time his son was born and would go on to receive a degree from St. Mary's College and study at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
Leans to the left
"People ask me, 'Why do you lean left?' When I was a kid, we were low income, we always had free lunches at school," Howard said. "There was one point where the city helped us, there was fuel assistance, we got windows and we had heat.
"That to me made my quality of life dramatically better and shaped a lot of my political beliefs."
As a young man, Howard unwittingly received an education in sourcing, manufacturing and shipping from the ground up in the factories where he worked in New Hampshire. That's how, he said, he "inadvertently fell into" supply chain technology.
Move to Bay Area
In 1999, no longer with his high school girlfriend, Howard moved to the Bay Area, where he got a job with Brown & Toland, managing their information technology.
"I really started to understand the market," he said. "Eighty percent of doctors are in small offices. The average primary care doctor makes 120 grand a year. At Brown and Toland, I was basically the IT guy for 1,500 doctors."
If patients' bills were so tangled, what did that say about their health records, Howard wondered, noting that an average person sees 19 doctors in a lifetime.
Meanwhile, research indicates that nearly 200,000 people die each year as a result of their cumulative medical information not being available to their providers.
"I didn't really have a great answer," he said. "But the worst possible way to solve it was for doctors to manage the technology."
Cloud computing, which allows users to run software that lives on remote servers, hadn't yet hit the tech world by storm. But Howard realized that a Web-based solution was exactly what he was looking for.
He established Practice Fusion in 2005 and launched the service in 2007. It now employs more than 100 people.
The service stores the medical records in two data centers secured by armed guards and biometric security systems; the information is immediately available to members via the Web. And on Tuesday at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco, the company demonstrated mobile apps it is beta testing.
The company, Howard said, is only 1 percent of what it will be.
"The sky's the limit, with the data being the holy grail," Howard said, noting that the information can be used for predictive modeling - for example, what kind of health problems should a doctor be looking for in a 45-year-old with particular health characteristics? What sections of the country should be priorities for vaccines in a flu outbreak?
What's next
Next up, Howard wants to bring patients further into the fold.
"One of the most powerful ways in my mind is trying to create a health record for you that you'll use from birth to death, one source of truth where your data lives," he said. "Our goal is to reach every patient in the country."
Ryan Howard
Work: Founder, CEO, Practice Fusion
Age: 36
Family: Son, 17
Residence: Pacific Heights, San Francisco
Hobbies: Racing his Ducati, mixing music, Shaolin Kempo, lifting weights
Can't live without: Jug of protein powder
Quote: "One of our core values is: Be scrappy."
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Hello PicaJet Development Team! First of all, I'd like to aplogize for the length of this post. When I started using PicaJet a week ago, I began making a 'short' list of possible improvements and, well...the closer the program is to the perfect piece of software, the more I suggest things that in my mind would get it there. So anways, with that disclaimer, here's my post:
Thank you SOOO much for finally creating the image organizer that does everything all the other ones do and so much more. After trying Zoombrowser, Adobe Photoshop Album and Picasa, though liking parts of each, I always felt each one had things that the others didnt, and even that all of them lacked a key organizational system that really made sense. After trying PicaJet FX for literally 5 minutes, I realized that Id finally found my image organization software tool. It's so intuitive and I find myself saying, "I wonder if it can do thi...oh! sure enough! It can!" It seriously is the best image database organization software out there.
I also love making great software even better. So here's a list of things I think would be nice to include/fix in the order I'd like to see them (if possible):
-Provide an undo for when you accidentally assign a category to an unknown number of pictures you didnt intend to.
-Save the focus of a certain picture when switching sorting in location or categories (such as when using the previous view history). If Im assigning categories and accidentally select a category instead of expanding the subcategories, when I press the back button (side note: a shortcut key for 'back'? maybe alt-left/right arrow keys?), Id like the picture or particular date/location I was last viewing to also be navigated to in the middle pane. Its a pain to have to remember where I was and go find it again. Also, I'd like it if I find a picture in date mode and want to quickly just see the other pictures in that folder, when I switch to locate by file location, if it didn't return me to the top of the picture list (like currently), but instead navigates to and highlights the specific folder the image is in and keeps that image visible (near the top) in the middle pane thumbnail collection.
-Have the option for normal ctrl-clicking for selecting multiple arbitrary files or to use a toggle selection method which would select any image you clicked and keep it selected (like someones constantly holding ctrl down). Sometimes I'll ctrl click 100+ scattered files and in my haste let up on the ctrl button too quickly on the last one and lose selection on all the images I had just selected.
-It'd be nice to have the option of applying all pending quickedit commands regardless if you have the pictures selected or not. If you've accidentally deselected a picture with a pending quickedit commandlike a whole bunch of rotates--it's hard to go find them again. Maybe have a shortcut to apply quickedit commands (shift-ctrl-E? to prevent someone from accidentally hitting it, but it'd still be there). And itd also be great to have the option of not seeing the 'this operation cannot be undone. Continue?' dialog on subsequent applications of quickedit commands...or maybe just for the duration that picajet session.
-Along a similar vein, itd be nice to update all exif/iptc data for only those files that have had them changed. Right now, to make sure I get all categories updated in the IPTC keywords, I have to select All files, press Ctrl-A and then update exif/iptc data, but that takes a LOOONG time just to process the ones that havent been changed.
-I use a separate program to go through and change the EXIF picture taken date on files to account for time zone changes (its easier than constantly changing the camera time) but PicaJet doesnt recognize the date change (reverting to original doesnt help, even if I reimport it. I think it senses a duplicate and doesnt relink). Does it keep a separate copy of all the exif data of all the pictures in the database file (this seems to be the case due to some disparities between certain EXIF/IPTC data reported in PicaJet and that reported by IrfanView)? If so, there should be an option to update it. That might help the renaming problem too (being that if a picture gets renamed outside, picajet doesn't recognize it and goes on pretending a picture with the old name still exists). Also, what date does picajet use to sort by? Picture taken, Original, or Digitized? Picture taken would be my preference (though I can change one date to another if PicaJet could re-recognize the date change)
-I might have missed something but I think it's currently not possible to be able to select all images in a folder along with all subfolders without ctrl clicking all the folders in question. It'd be nice to be able to select all pictures from a particular folder down. (alt-click?)
-I like the fact that the folder watch list can catch when images have been added, but if they've been renamed in an outside program, it'd be nice to have picajet not only recognize the new one but recognize the old one is gone.
-Make the preview mode match the default windows viewer behavior a little more (like scrolling forwards is 'zoom in' instead of 'zoom out'). Also, I think I might like the scroll wheel--without ctrl--to do the smart zooming (keeping the ctrl click-drag, too...that's cool) instead of picture navigation. Ive always found the scroll wheel very handy to not only zoom, but kind of act as a lateral navigation tool on an image if it zooms in on where the cursor is located. Id also include the arrow keys along with current PgUp and PgDn to navigate next/previous picture (also the behaviour of windows viewer and many other viewers).
-Enable navigation through pictures (forward and back) in a slideshow with the arrow and PgUp/PgDn buttons.
-Make F (view fullscreen) also default to making the picture fullscreen (like the slideshow does), and have the fit to screen actually use the entire screen to fit to (/ and * seem to do the same thing in fullscreen mode, which is not to fit the image to the entire screen, but leaves a 1 border around the photo at least for the images I was trying it on)
-Make an option to keep zoomed pictures 'smooth'/antialiased in preview mode (like currently), or leave it so that upon zooming in you'll be able to see individual pixels
-Change the zoom increment on the wheel to something non-linear so that the percieved zoom is a little closer to the same (something like 10 12 15 20 25 30 40 50 60 80 100 120 150 200, etc...). When zoom scrolling, its pretty quick to go from 20 to 200, but takes forever to go from 1000 to 4000%.
-Show total # of files in a folder when it's collapsed (including subfolders), but when it's expanded, show just the # of files in that main folder.
-A shortcut key to go back to browse mode from preview mode (like B?). It'd also be nice to include what the shortcut key is in the tip strip when you pause over a button (like slideshow being F12). You can see that in the menu, but it'd be nice to have the tip strip say View Slideshow (F12)
-It might be nice to beef up the help file. Unfortunately, while the help file is, well helpful (mostly) it does read in a few places as though the writers first language might not be English. Many sentences could be made clearer and more informative. Most everything is intuitive, but every once in a while Ill encounter something that I'd like to read up on. When I get an error saying file is less than the import limit when I have the 'ignore less than' box unchecked, I try to search the help file it doesn't return anything. Same with searching for how transitions work in the slideshow, or trying to find out which of the many EXIF dates picajet uses to categorize on. The data in the help file could also be split up a bit. It seems like really good advice on how to use the program is somewhat buried in a few pages, and in a few cases its hard to quickly find answers to specific questions. (though most questions I had I usually could figure out within 5-10 minutes) One good example is category or keyword should really have its own entry in the index tab. Instead, upon using the search feature, I found the material describing the clip icon in the pieces of advice page. Probably an overall good page to read, but might not be somewhere someone looks if they have a very specific question they're looking for.
-Like other posters have indicated, include a manual sorting option. Logical place would probably be when photos are sorted without groups. Theres already a no sorting option under the arrange by in the right click menu. Seems ripe for including manual sorting. Alternatively, I don't know if it's actually used by some pictures, but there's a 'sequence number' field in the exif data that could be utilized to keep a manual sort so any rearranging could be kept within the file. If there were two identical sequence numbers, then (barring the use of fractional numbers like 1.5) it could default to date sorting.
That's it for now. Keep up the great work! I've been spreading the word and hopefully you'll get a few new clients!
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Thank you for this huge proposal list We will taken into account your suggestions. Unfortunatelly at this time I can't answer to you in detail about each of points.
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 5:55 am
Post subject: Re: A ton of suggestions
I second the suggestion to have a way to show images that have changed and update their IPTC/EXIF data. Maybe along those lines provide an option to "Write Changes to IPTC/EXIF immediately" so you never have to know if the file has the latest info or not.
Another suggestion (and something that's blatently from Adobe Elements 3) is the ability to group/stack a set of images together, and only show a selected one. For example, If I have 10 very similar pictures of a flower, I could select all 10, and then "stack" the images, and only show the highest rated/chosen one (so they only take up the space of 1 thumbnail, with some indication that its stacked). Its nice because if you take a bunch of pictures of the same thing you can keep reduce the amount of workspace they take up, if they're mixed in with other pictures.
Oh, and one other small bug. When I double click on a thumbnail, most of the time there's a weird rendering bug that shows the thumbnail on the full view page after the screen has redrawn.
Thanks, and keep up the good work.
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Why would anyone want espresso that tastes like a very small, poorly prepared cup of brewed coffee? If I wanted the experience of brewed coffee - I'd order a chemex or pour-over or aeropress. That way I'd get a well-prepared cup, right?
So if someone orders an espresso... what makes you think they really want brewed coffee... just poorly prepared? Seriously.
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
First Line Grabber #13
GENRE: YA Urban Fantasy
Emma hadn't slept in three days.
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Yes, but only if the next sentence grabbed me. This one is fine in the sense that it doesn't put me off, but it didn't really hook me, either.ReplyDelete
Yes, I'd read ahead to find out why she couldn't sleep, but I need to know more in the next few sentences.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 23, 2012 at 9:42 AM
No. There's no character or action here, so I'm afraid on it's own, this doesn't spark any interest for me.ReplyDelete
I want to know why she hasn't slept.
Yes... but only because I'd expect the second sentence to explain why and grab me then. It doesn't put me off but it doesn't well on its own either.ReplyDelete
Yes. I want to know why she hasn't slept in three days.ReplyDelete
Yes. It immediately makes me curious to know WHY she hasn't slept in that long.ReplyDelete
Yes. I'd read the next sentence or two to see why but if that doesnt hook me this would turn into a no.ReplyDelete
- mflemingFebruary 23, 2012 at 10:04 AM
Yes, it grabs me just enough to read on some more.ReplyDelete
Yes, although I'm on the fence. Your second sentence would need to be awfully grabby.ReplyDelete
Yes. I want to know why not, and you haven't bogged me down with unnecessary details, so I'm going to keep reading to find out.ReplyDelete
This creates conflict right away. If she's exaggerating, I want to know why she's having trouble sleeping. If she literally hasn't slept in three days, I want to see the effects of that, since it's very dangerous.
No. I'm on the fence here, though. I am curious why she hasn't slept, but I feel like the fact that she hasn't slept could be shown rather than told. Honestly it's hard to critique this without any more. If the next few sentences are great then this could be fine, but as it stands alone, it doesn't do it for me.ReplyDelete
Curious what happens to someone who hasn't slept for three days.
I was debating on this. If the second sentence was strong, it could carry it, but on its own it felt like maybe she was exaggerating rather than literally being sleepless for 3 days. I'm intrigued, but could you show it rather than tell us?
Yes. It opens up a good question, but the next line better hint as to the answer.ReplyDelete
No. Strong sentence and I was on the fence, but I'd need more to be truly drawn in.ReplyDelete
No. I don't know why this is special. It could be completely normal for this person.ReplyDelete
Yes. I'd read on only to find out why she hasn't slept. But it borders on maybe not for me. If the next sentence doesn't explain I probably wouldn't continueReplyDelete
Yes, but that's a pretty tepid yes for an emotionless statement. The next sentence would have to be pretty good.ReplyDelete
Yes. Simple and it makes me wonder about your character -- this is a good start!ReplyDelete
Yes :) To find out what's keeping her from sleeping.ReplyDelete
- SMKraftyFebruary 23, 2012 at 12:50 PM
Yes, but only barely. I need a little more reason- hopefully in the next sentence.ReplyDelete
Yes. I would keep reading because I want to know why she hasn't slept.ReplyDelete
- PlumbagoFebruary 23, 2012 at 1:24 PM
Yes, but it's almost a no. I don't care yet about Emma and so I'm ready to be bored. However, she obviously has a problem so I'd read another sentence or two to find out more.ReplyDelete
Simply because I want to know why and that will keep me reading.
- HeatherFebruary 23, 2012 at 1:49 PM
Here's my problem with these kinds of starters: The story isn't about the fact that Emma hasn't slept in three days. The story is about either what has interrupted her sleep or what happens because she hasn't slept. The line needs at least a teaser of that to get me interested.
Yes. I'd read on a few more sentences to find out why.ReplyDelete
Yes. But only barely. It really depends on the next sentence.ReplyDelete
Yes. I've had insomnia, and it sucks. I'd want to know why she hadn't slept. I'd read on to see the next sentence - if it was something good, I'd keep going.ReplyDelete
Yes, because I want to know why.ReplyDelete
No. I don't care about Emma yet. I need to sympathize with her.ReplyDelete
Yes. I want to know why she hasn't been able to sleep. I'd at least read long enough to see if the reason was interesting. If it was, I'd keep going from there.ReplyDelete
No. There are so many various reasons why a person may not have slept, that it's not enough to pull me in. I'm missing a sense of where this is going.ReplyDelete
YES-- I can't imagine how awful that must be, and why she's suffered this way.ReplyDelete
No. It just seems like a relatively easy problem to solve: lie down and go to sleep then. If we knew why she couldn't sleep it might work, though.ReplyDelete
Yes. But, I'd hope that the next couple of sentences give an interesting or intriguing reason for the lack of sleep. It grabs me because obviously not sleeping that long is not normal, and I want to know why.ReplyDelete
No. Insomnia's such a common problem that this doesn't give me a strong sense of the character or the conflict.ReplyDelete
Yes, to finish the concept. Other interesting things need to happen quickly to make me keep reading.ReplyDelete
No. I think more is needed to set the opening scene. Alot of us go days without sleeping ....I know I have. So what makes this characters story different? Adding a little more hook will turn this around.ReplyDelete
No. Too many reasons she might not have slept that are not interesting. Insomnia, new baby, new job - I think you need more specificity in the first line - something that leaves the reader wanting the second line.ReplyDelete
Yes. I think it could be stronger, but it wouldn't stop me from reading. Maybe something like, "Three sleepless nights left Emma feeling..."ReplyDelete
No. I don't feel like I'm inside Emma's head (assuming she's your protagonist). Open showing Emma's fatigue, instead of telling us she hasn't slept in 3 days.ReplyDelete
Yes, mostly because it is a short sentence with enough of a hint at a problem to read on a bit. The next sentence will need to add more punch.ReplyDelete
- Abbe HogganFebruary 25, 2012 at 2:54 PM
It's borderline, but I'm interested enough in "why?" to keep reading. And I like that it's a simple, clean sentence. Makes me think I'll enjoy the writing, that I won't get bogged down in unnecessary dependent clauses or excessive description.
There is enough here, a question of why?, that keeps me interested to find out more about this character.
Yes, but tentative. It did make me want to know why, but it was a bit generic.ReplyDelete