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The provision of care to an immediate family member who has cancer, serious heart problems, serious memory problems, an intellectual disability, a physical disability, chronic illness, alcohol or drug problems, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia or psychosis, bipolar affective disorder or other serious chronic mental problems. Provision of care includes helping with washing, dressing or eating, paperwork, housework, getting around or taking medications, or keeping company and giving emotional support.
Chronic conditions
A physical condition or disorder that has lasted, or is expected to last for six (6) months or more. May also be referred to as a long-term health condition or chronic disease.
The occurrence of more than one mental disorder at the same time. Comorbidity may refer to the co-occurrence of mental disorders and the co-occurrence of mental disorders and physical conditions.
Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI)
A comprehensive modular interview which can be used to assess lifetime and 12-month prevalence of mental disorders through the measurement of symptoms and their impact on day-to-day activities.
Contact with family or friends
Whether in contact with any family and/or friends, and the frequency of the contact. Contact includes visits, phone calls, letters, or electronic mail messages.
Country of birth
The classification of countries is the Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC). For more detailed information refer to the Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC), 1998 (cat. no. 1269.0).
Days out of role
The number of days in the 30 days prior to interview that a person was unable to work or carry out normal activities or had to cut down what they did because of their health.
A maladaptive pattern of use in which the use of drugs or alcohol takes on a much higher priority for a person than other behaviours that once had greater value. The central characteristic is the strong, sometimes overpowering, desire to take the substance despite significant substance-related problems.
Depressive Episode
A state of gloom, despondency or sadness lasting at least two weeks. The person usually suffers from low mood, loss of interest and enjoyment, and reduced energy. Their sleep, appetite and concentration may be affected.
Disability status
Whether has a disability, the level of core-activity limitation (none, mild, moderate, severe or profound), and whether has a schooling or employment restriction.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fourth Edition (DSM-IV)
The DSM-IV is a handbook for mental health professionals that lists different categories of mental disorders and the criteria for diagnosing them. The DSM-IV focuses on clinical, research and educational purposes, supported by an extensive empirical foundation.
Drug Use disorder
Drug Use disorder involves the harmful use and/or dependence on drugs. Drugs include the use of illicit substances and the misuse of prescribed medicines. Four drug categories have been included in this survey:
A suite of rooms contained within a building which are self-contained and intended for long-term residential use. To be self-contained, the suite of rooms must possess cooking and bathing facilities as building fixtures. Examples of types of dwelling include: separate house; semi-detached, row or terrace house or townhouse; flat, unit or apartment; and other dwellings, including caravan, cabin, houseboat, and house or flat attached to a shop.
A disorder characterised by constant or constantly recurring chronic depression of mood, lasting at least two years, which is not sufficiently severe, or whose episodes are not sufficiently prolonged, to qualify as recurrent depressive disorder. The person feels tired and depressed, sleeps badly and feels inadequate, but is usually able to cope with the basic demands of everyday life.
People aged 15 years and over who had a job or business, or who undertook work without pay in a family business for a minimum of one hour per week. Includes persons who were absent from a job or business.
Employed full-time
Employed persons who usually worked 35 hours a week (in all jobs) and those who, although usually working less than 35 hours a week, worked 35 hours or more during the reference week.
Employed part-time
Employed persons who usually worked less than 35 hours a week (in all jobs) and either did so during the reference week, or were not at work in the reference week.
Family composition of household
Refers to the family composition of the household to which the respondent belonged. In this publication households are categorised as lone person, couple only, couple family with child(ren), one parent family with child(ren), and other households.
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
A disorder involving anxiety that is generalised and persistent, but not restricted to any particular environmental circumstances. It is chronic and exaggerated worry or tension, even though nothing seems to provoke it. Symptoms are variable, but include complaints of persistent nervousness, trembling, muscular tensions, sweating, light-headedness, palpitations, dizziness and epigastric discomfort. The person may also anticipate disaster or worry excessively about health, money, family or work.
Government support
Cash support from the government in the form of pensions, benefits or allowances.
Harmful Use
A pattern of use of alcohol or drugs that is responsible for (or substantially contributes to) physical or psychological harm, including impaired judgement or dysfunctional behaviour.
Health risk factors
Characteristics that may increase the likelihood of injury or illness, for example level of exercise, smoking, alcohol/drug consumption etc.
Hierarchy rule
When hierarchy rules are applied, a person is excluded from a diagnosis, even though they have sufficient symptoms to meet criteria, because they have another disorder that is thought to account for those symptoms.
Includes sleeping in public places, homeless shelters, a tent, an abandoned building or couch surfing when a person has no other choice.
A group of residents of a dwelling who share common facilities and meals or who consider themselves to be a household. It is possible for a dwelling to contain more than one household, for example, where regular provision is made for groups to take meals separately and where persons consider their households to be separate.
Household income
Derived as the sum of the reported personal cash incomes of all household members aged 15 years and over. Household incomes were then divided into quintiles; 1st quintile is the lowest income, 5th quintile is the highest income. Cases where household income could not be derived are excluded before quintiles are created.
A lesser degree of mania characterised by a persistent mild elevation of mood and increased activity lasting at least four consecutive days. Increased sociability, over-familiarity and a decreased need for sleep are often present, but not to the extent that they lead to severe disruption.
Immediate family member
Parents, parents-in-law, grandparents, brothers and sisters, children, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and spouse/partner.
Time spent in gaol, prison or correctional facility.
Index of disadvantage
This is one of four Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFAs) compiled by ABS following each Census of Population and Housing. The indexes are compiled from various characteristics of persons resident in particular areas. The index of disadvantage summarises attributes such as low income, low educational attainment, high unemployment and jobs in relatively unskilled occupations. For more information refer to Information Paper: An introduction to socio-economic indexes for areas (SEIFA), 2006 (cat. no. 2039.0).
Industry of main job
A group of businesses or organisations which perform similar sets of activities in terms of the production of goods and services. For more information refer to the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC), 2006 (cat. no. 1292.0).
International Classification of Diseases-Tenth Revision (ICD-10)
The ICD-10 is the tenth edition of the international standard diagnostic classification for all general epidemiological purposes, many health management purposes and in clinical use. The ICD is produced by the World Health Organization and is used in the diagnosis, study and classification of diseases.
Labour force status
Persons aged 15 years and over who were 'employed', 'unemployed' or 'not in the labour force' as defined.
Level of exercise
Based on frequency, intensity (ie walking, moderate exercise or vigorous exercise) and duration of exercise (for recreation, sport or fitness) in the week prior to interview. From these components, an exercise category was determined using factors to represent the intensity of the exercise. Categories were grouped according to the following levels of exercise:
Level of highest non-school qualification
The highest level of educational attainment. For more information refer to the Australian Standard Classification of Education (ASCED), 2001 (cat. no. 1272.0).
Main source of personal income
Includes employee cash income, unincorporated cash income, government cash pensions or allowances, property cash income, superannuation/annuities, transfer from private organisations and transfer from other households.
A disorder in which mood is happy, elevated, expansive or irritable out of keeping with the person's circumstances lasting at least seven days and leading to severe disruption with daily living. The person may exhibit hyperactivity, inflated self-esteem, distractibility and over-familiar or reckless behaviour.
Marital status
Based on registered marriage status with the inclusion of de facto relationship. See also Registered marital status and Social marital status.
Mental disorder
According to the ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders, a disorder implies 'the existence of a clinically recognisable set of symptoms or behaviour associated in most cases with distress and with interference with personal functions' (WHO 1992, p5). Most diagnoses require criteria relating to severity and duration to be met.
Mental health problem
Problems with mental health, such as stress, worry or sadness; regardless of whether they met criteria for mental disorders.
Misuse of drugs
Misuse of drugs in the 12 months prior to interview. Refers to the use of illicit drugs and/or the misuse of prescription drugs. People must have misused the same drug more than five times in their lifetime.
Not in the labour force
People who were not in the categories 'employed' or 'unemployed' as defined.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Characterised by obsessions (recurrent thoughts, ideas or images), compulsions (repetitive acts) or both, which cause distress or interfere with the person's normal functioning.
Occupation of main job
A set of jobs that require the performance of similar or identical sets of tasks. As it is rare for two actual jobs to have identical sets of tasks, in practical terms, an occupation is a set of jobs whose main tasks are characterised by a high degree of similarity. For further information refer to Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO), First edition, 2006 (cat. no. 1220.0).
Panic attack
A panic attack is a discrete episode of intense fear or discomfort that starts abruptly and reaches a peak within a few minutes and lasts at least some minutes.
Panic Disorder
Panic disorder is recurrent attacks of severe anxiety (panic), which are not restricted to any particular situation or set of circumstances (ie do not occur in the presence of a phobia, or in situations of danger) and are therefore unpredictable.
Perceived health needs
For each type of help, perceived health needs of respondents were classified as follows:
Physical condition
A medical condition, illness, injury or disability including: asthma; cancer; stroke (or the effects of a stroke); gout, rheumatism or arthritis; diabetes or high blood sugar levels; and any other heart or circulatory condition. Information was also collected about the presence of the following physical conditions only if they had lasted for six months or more: hayfever; sinusitis or sinus allergy; emphysema; bronchitis; anaemia;epilepsy; fluid problems/fluid retention/oedema (excluding those due to heart or circulatory problems); hernias; kidney problems; migraine; psoriasis; stomach ulcer or other gastrointestinal ulcer; thyroid trouble/goiter; tuberculosis; back or neck pain or back or neck problems. The presence of any other physical conditions were not determined.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
A delayed and/or protracted response to a psychologically distressing event that is outside the range of usual human experience. Experiencing such an event is usually associated with intense fear, terror or helplessness. The characteristic symptoms involve re-experiencing the traumatic event (flashbacks), avoidance of situations or activities associated with the event, numbing of general responsiveness and increased arousal.
Prevalence of mental disorders
The proportion of people in a given population who met the criteria for diagnosis of a mental disorder at a point in time.
Psychological distress
Derived from the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10). This is a scale of non-specific psychological distress based on 10 questions about negative emotional states in the 30 days prior to interview. The K10 is scored from 10 to 50, with higher scores indicating a higher level of distress; low scores indicate a low level of distress. In this publication, scores are grouped as follows:
A mental disorder in which the person has strange ideas or experiences which are unaffected by rational argument and are out of keeping with the views of any culture or group that the person belongs to.
Registered marital status
An individual's current status in regard to a registered marriage, ie whether he or she is widowed, divorced, separated, married or never married.
Section of state
This geographical classification uses population counts to define Collection Districts (CDs) as urban or rural. Population counts are used to define a geographical area as a major urban area (population of 100,000 or more), other urban area (population of 1,000-9,999), bounded locality (population of 200-999) and rural balance (the remainder of the state/territory). For more information refer to Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC), 2007 (cat. no. 1216.0).
Service for the Australian defence forces
Includes persons who had overseas qualifying service, serving and ex-serving Australian Defence Force members.
Services used for mental health problems
Services used for self-perceived mental health problems in the 12 months prior to interview. Services include admissions to hospitals and consultations with health professionals for mental health. An individual may have considered they had a mental health problem prior to using services, or may have come to the realisation following consultation with a health professional.
Smoker status
The extent to which an adult was smoking at the time of interview, and refers to regular smoking of tobacco, including manufactured (packet) cigarettes, roll-your-own cigarettes, cigars and pipes, but excludes chewing tobacco and smoking of non-tobacco products. Categorised as:
Social marital status
Social marital status is the relationship status of an individual with reference to another person who is usually resident in the household. A marriage exists when two people live together as husband and wife, or partners, regardless of whether the marriage is formalised through registration. Individuals are, therefore, regarded as married if they are in a de facto marriage, or if they are living with the person to whom they are registered as married.
Social networks
For respondents who had contact with family and/or friends, whether they can rely on or confide in them if they were faced with a serious problem. See Contact with family or friends.
Social Phobia
A persistent, irrational fear of being the focus of attention, or fear of behaving in a way that will be embarrassing or humiliating. These fears arise in social situations such as meeting new people or speaking in public. A compelling desire to avoid the phobic situation may result.
Standard drink
A standard drink contains 12.5ml of alcohol. It is important to note that the serving size will determine the number of standard drinks per serve, as shown by these approximations:
Substance Use disorder
Substance Use disorders include harmful use and/or dependence on drugs and/or alcohol.
Suicidal behaviours
Three experiences are included as suicidal behaviours:
Type of health professional
Type of health professionals:
Type of help for mental health problems
A range of assistance provided by health services for mental health problems:
Type of medication used for mental health
Refers to the type of medication reported by respondents as used for their mental health in the two weeks prior to interview. May include medications used for preventive health purposes as well as medications used for mental disorders and includes vitamins and minerals, natural and herbal medications and pharmaceutical medications.
People aged 15 years and over who were not employed during the reference week, and:
World Health Organization (WHO)
The WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.
The WHO Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) is a simple tool for assessing disturbances in social adjustment and behaviour in patients with a mental disorder. The current version (WHODAS II) represents a complete revision, reflective of WHO's current thinking about functioning and disability.
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Microsoft is in talks for its Windows hypervisor to be readmitted to the Linux-for-the-cloud project OpenStack.
Rackspace, one of the prime movers behind OpenStack, said the cloud team is working with Redmond after Hyper-V was removed from the project's code because nobody was maintaining or updating it. Microsoft's software, branded "dead wood", was kicked out for the upcoming release of OpenStack called Essex at the start of this month.
Mark Collier, OpenStack founder and vice-president of business development and marketing at Rackspace, told The Reg: "We have spoken to them [Microsoft], they are interested."
He called the booting of Hyper-V as "more a bump in the road than an internal decision to move away from it".
He said: "I think over the long run you will see a number of different hypervisors including Hyper-V. This was an unexpected bump in the road rather than a U-turn. They have approached us and asked if could we put our heads together and come up with a plan. We are more than happy to help anybody make their technology part of OpenStack."
Jonathan Bryce, OpenStack project chairman and chief technology officer and founder of the Rackspace Cloud, echoed Collier's words in conversation with The Reg, saying Microsoft asked for their input.
"It was a situation where we all worked together quickly in the beginning to get it in," he said of how Microsoft's work with OpenStack had started. "It's something that happens in software."
Microsoft joined the OpenStack project in October 2011 and had worked with cloud startup Cloud.com to integrate Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V with the OpenStack code. Unfortunately for Microsoft, Cloud.com was bought by Citrix Systems and the tiny startup's people redeployed to work on the OpenStack Citrix cloud.
There had been talk by OpenStackers in January of removing the Hyper-V code and Microsoft at the time issued a statement saying it remained committed to OpenStack.
Asked by Microsoft to comment after the removal, Redmond stuck to its original statement, giving nothing new away. "Microsoft is committed to working with the community to resolve the current issues with Hyper-V and OpenStack," a Microsoft spokesperson told us for this article.
Hyper-V is Microsoft's virtualisation engine for Windows Server 2008 R2 and it would help sales of Windows – and prevent losses to Linux – if Hyper-V could be tuned to smoothly deploy, manage and run OpenStack systems. And Microsoft has worked with other open-source projects on Windows elsewhere to tackle deployment, performance and management. ®
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No one won Wednesday night's Powerball drawing, which is good news for somebody: There will be an even bigger drawing on Saturday night.
As of Friday, the jackpot hit $600 million. That's the largest jackpot in Powerball history and the second biggest lotto drawing overall. A sole winner opting for an immediate cash payout would suddenly have an extra $376.9 million on hand, which would make that lucky gambler wealthier than both Mitt Romney and Beyoncé Knowles.
There are many ways to spend that sort of fortune. Here are 12 suggestions:
- Reduce the nation's debt: The jackpot could reduce the United States' $16.7 trillion debt by about 4 thousandths of a percent. If a winner wanted to feel more useful, he or she could alternatively choose to pay off the entire $200 million government debt for the Kingdom of Tonga, a small nation in the South Pacific, and still have money to spare.
- Give $5,454 to every single one of the 110,000 people living below the poverty line in Washington, D.C.
- Give about $11,765 to each of the estimated 51,000 homeless people living in Los Angeles county.
- Help young professionals: The average 25-year-old owed about $20,326 in student loan debt last year, according to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. With $600 million, a Powerball winner could wipe out debt for nearly 30,000 recent graduates.
- Pay the bills of American consumers: A winner could bail out more than 38,000 credit card debt-saddled American households. According to nerdwallet.com, the average American household kicked off the year owing credit card companies $15,422.
- Give the children of Malawi an education: Annual secondary school fees in Malawi range from less than $30 to more than $700. In a country where more than 40 percent of the population lives on less than $1 a day, even the least expensive options are still too costly for many families. A Powerball winner willing to donate $300 per pupil could easily cover the cost of one year of schooling for more than 2 million Malawians.
- Blow it on a mega-yacht. Or maybe two: Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko made headlines when he bought a 394-foot ultra-luxury yacht, equipped with its own helipad. It rang in at $300 million.
- Buy fancy cars: The most expensive car on the market, according to thesupercars.org, is a Lamborghini Veneno. Each one is priced at $3.9 million, which means a Powerball winner could afford 153.
- Take a round trip space voyage every day for the next 20 months: A trip to outer space with five friends costs $1 million with Virgin Galactic.
- Buy a sports team. According to a Forbes report earlier this year, the San Antonio Spurs and Brooklyn Nets are in your price range.
- Produce the most expensive movie in history. "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," which ranks among the priciest, had a budget of about $330 million.
- Buy Downton Abbey, which was valued at $400 million by the Movoto real estate blog. Or you can but this Beverly Hills mansion, which is actually on the market. The "Legendary Beverly House" can accommodate a 400-person sit down dinner, has an art-deco night club wine cellar, two projection rooms, a spa, gym, massage room, tennis court, indoor bar, media center guest house and an eight-car garage. The property, which appeared in "The Godfather" and "The Bodyguard," goes for $115 million. You'll probably need the rest of your winnings for furnishings and upkeep.


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Code == Data: The Basics
There have been a lot of blog entries lately about code versus data: which is more valuable, are they the same, or maybe different, and so on. Most recently, here. That blog entry argues that code is data, and points out Turing's work on universal Turing machines as an example. The dual argument, that data is code, can be attributed to Church, thereby completing the pair of early computer science figureheads. This won't be new to most advanced computer science students, but I was unable to find a single place where it's written down.
To start, two special cases will be helpful. I will be assuming that the reader knows the basic evaluation rules of lambda calculus. The technique here will be the same: use an appropriate function to represent data.
Special Case 1: Finite Enumerated Types
Suppose I want to write lambda calculus expressions to represent the four cardinal directions (north, south, east, and west), and left and right turns. Here's what I'm shooting for, in Haskell.
data Dir = East | West | North | South left East = North left West = South left North = West left South = East right East = South right West = North right North = East right South = West
To do this in lambda calculus, I need four "data" values, and as promised they will be defined as functions.
East := λabcd.a West := λabcd.b North := λabcd.c South := λabcd.d
(Note that I'm using
:= to denote definition of short-hand names; it is not, of course, part of the lambda calculus itself. In particular, you have the right to complain loudly if I try to give circular definitions; there is no such thing as direct general recursion.)
These are functions that take four parameters and return, respectively, the first, second, third, and fourth ones. Now defining functions case-wise on these values is trivial:
left := λd.d (North) (South) (West) (East) right := λd.d (South) (North) (East) (West)
Now the
left function take a parameter
d, which is itself a function, and operates by calling that function and passing it four arguments. Now if the function happens to be
East, then it will return its first result, thereby correctly concluding that north is a left turn from east.
Special Case 2: Church Numerals
A slightly more involved data type is natural numbers. Alonzo Church defined natural numbers in terms of Church numerals. The idea is that a natural number n is a function which iterates another function n times on some initial value. For example, using the functions above, we can say that:
0 left North = North 1 left North = West 2 left North = South 3 left North = East 4 left North = North
So the first few natural numbers are:
0 := λfx.x 1 := λfx.fx 2 := λfx.f(fx) 3 := λfx.f(f(fx)) 4 := λfx.f(f(f(fx)))
And here are a few operations on these natural numbers. It can take some hard work with a pencil and paper to see why some of them work.
inc := λp.(λfx.f(pfx)) add := λpq.(λfx.pf(qfx)) mul := λpq.(λfx.p(qf)x)
General Case: Algebraic Data Types
Algebraic data types are a general approach to defining data types in a programming language. A type may have several different forms, each of which may have several fields. Another way of saying this is that an ADT is a sum of products of other types. Here's an example in Haskell:
data Discount = FixedAmount Double | Percent Double | Rebate Date Double
In other words, a discount is either a fixed amount of money at purchase, or a percent off the purchase price, or a rebate of some amount that happens at some future date.
Another example:
data Tree = Leaf Char | Branch Tree Tree
So a tree is either a leaf, or a branch node whose left and right children are trees in their own right.
Both of the special cases above are also algebraic data types. Directions have four forms, each of which is an empty product:
data Dir = East | West | North | South
Church numerals implement natural numbers defined as:
data Nat = Succ Nat | Zero
As you may guess, we're going to write functions to represent any kind of data of any algebraic data type as a function in the lambda calculus. The idea will be this: we will ask the person using the data to write a handler for each form that the data may take. Then they'll give us all of these handler functions, and we'll use the one that applies. So a value of some algebraic data type will be a function that takes a bunch of handlers, and produces the result of one of them. Examples follow:
For the
Discount data type, the value
FixedAmount $2.75 looks like this:
FixedAmount $2.75 := λfpr . f ($2.75)
In other words, this is a function that takes three handlers f, p, and r (one for fixed amounts, one for percentages, and another for rebates). It then calls the first handler, passing it the amount of the fixed discount.
To calculate the amount of money to hand someone as they are buying an item at a price p with a discount d, one may write:
d (λa.a) (λp.(p*a)) (λda.0)
The first handler says that if the discount is for a constant amount, you give back that amount. The second says that if the discount is for some percent, you multiply it by the price and give that back. The third handler says that if the discount is a rebate to be filled later, you don't give them anything right now. This is all done by calling the data as a function.
To use a Church numeral, you pass it two handlers. The first says what you want back if it's the successor of another number. The next handler says what to do if it's zero. Using this, we can write a slightly wordier version of the
inc function from before:
inc := λp.p (λfx.f(pfx)) (λfx.fx)
The second handler is just a value, since there are no fields in that case.
So there you have it, not only is code a type of data (Turing's approach), but also data is a type of code (Church's approach).
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Piers Cawley / Apr 7 2008 3:18 pm
I've always taken == to be commutative. Or, as Abel & Sussman put it, data is just dumb code and code is just smart data.
Piers Cawley / Apr 7 2008 3:23 pm
Drat… always check your citations even when you're just commenting. That's Abelson.


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Better start thinking up more "K" names.
Kourtney Kardashian revealed to E! News that she and her boyfriend Scott Disick are expecting again.
"We feel so blessed to be having a little girl and to be able to share this new experience with Mason," said Kardashian, referring to the couple's 2 year-old son.
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US Weekly has a story about Lindsay Lohan from Tuesday night - she was at a club and Francesca Eastwood was there celebrating her birthday and some girl sh-t went down. Francesca Eastwood is Clint Eastwood's daughter and she's in that reality show his wife is doing on E! that I'm not sure anyone watches but that automatically means she's a lower tier celebrity now.
According to US, a source claims that Francesca was with friends, oblivious to Lohan's presence, but Lohan charged over and ordered her to leave:
'I'm a star, she's a nobody, get her out of here!'"
Obviously, the source is Francesca Eastwood, or someone connected to Eastwood. Eastwood is dating photographer Tyler Shields who has worked with Lohan in the past. As we know, Lohan doesn't share and she doesn't play nicely with other girls. Of course she tried to get Eastwood thrown out. And of course Eastwood decided to tell the magazine about it. And the best part about that is that Eastwood, C List at best, is playing Lindsay Lohan's ass. Lindsay Lohan can't even throw down with the C List anymore.


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Two films that pay tribute to the silent era in Hollywood got a little love in return on Tuesday - in unexpected ways.
Hugo, a children's fantasy based on the career of French cinematic pioneer Georges Melies, led the pack, with 11 nominations, as the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences turned the Oscar race on its ear.
The Artist, a silent black-and-white film from France that had been a front-runner in many run-up awards, including the Golden Globes and many critics' groups, followed with 10.
Among the other nine films up for multiple awards - a list that included the long-shot surprise, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Steven Spielberg's previously overlooked First World War melodrama, War Horse, got six nominations. The Descendants, Alexander Payne's bittersweet tragedy about a man mourning his injured wife that was expected to challenge The Artist as top vote-getter, landed five, and The Help, a crowd-pleaser set in the civil-rights era in the southern United States, got four, including two nominations for best supporting actress.
The best picture nominees were The Artist, The Descendants, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Hugo, Midnight in Paris, The Help, Moneyball, War Horse and - in another Academy Award surprise - Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. The academy changed its rules this year so it could have between five and 10 nominations.
Among the missing in the best picture category was the year's biggest-grossing movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part 2, which scored three nominations: for art direction, makeup, and visual effects. The movie brought in more than $380 million at the domestic box office; by contrast, The Artist has grossed $12 million.
Malick was among the best-director nominees, along with Martin Scorsese (for Hugo), Payne, The Artist's Michel Hazanavicius, and Woody Allen for Midnight in Paris. Conspicuous by his absence was David Fincher, director of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which was also snubbed in the best-picture category.
It was a good day for Canada: Monsieur Lazhar, by Montreal director Philippe Falardeau, was nominated for best foreign film, as was Agnieszka Holland's In Darkness, a Canada-Poland-Germany co-production that was produced by Canadians Eric Jordan and Paul Stephens and written by Toronto's David F. Shamoon. It's the second year in a row that Canada has been nominated for the award, following Denis Villeneuve's Incendies last year. In addition, two animated shorts from the National Film Board of Canada, Wendy Trilby's Wild Life and Patrick Doyon's Dimanche/Sunday, are nominated.
"This is one of the most intense mornings in my life," said Falardeau in a statement. "What is happening to the film is galaxies away from what I had initially hoped for. I say this, of course, in a good way. I rejoice in the fact that such an intimate film can find its way alongside Hollywood productions, proof that there is not only one path to artistic and public recognition."
Christopher Plummer got a nod as best supporting actor for his role as an older man who comes out of the closet in Beginners. In addition, Canadian composer Howard Shore was nominated for the score for Hugo, a category that comes with unexpected controversy this year: Ludovic Bource, who composed the score for The Artist, borrowed some musical phrases from the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock movie Vertigo, which caused Vertigo star Kim Novak to complain. However, Bource was nominated anyway.
There was a major surprise in the best-actor category: Mexican actor Demian Bichir was nominated for his role as a gardener struggling for success in the small film, A Better Life. He joins George Clooney as a husband coping with his ill wife's adultery in The Descendants, Jean Dujardin as the charming silent film star in The Artist, Brad Pitt as baseball manager Billy Beane in Moneyball and - another twist - Gary Oldman, winning his first ever nomination for his performance as the quietly effective spy, George Smiley, in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
It was a good day for Clooney - who also picked up an adapted-screenplay nomination as co-writer of The Ides of March - and Pitt, who was also one of the producers of Moneyball.
Among the missing: Michael Fassbender, who had won critical praise for his role as an unhappy sex addict in Shame, and Leonardo DiCaprio, who got warm notices for his performance as J. Edgar Hoover in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar, a film that otherwise got a cool reception.
In the best-actress category, the nominees included two women who played real people: Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in middle age and senescence in the biopic, The Iron Lady, and Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe, shooting a movie in London in My Week with Marilyn. The other nominees are Glenn Close for her turn as a woman disguised as a man in Albert Nobbs, and Viola Davis as the outspoken maid in The Help. The wild card is Rooney Mara for her breakout role as the angry Goth hacker in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Her slot had been variously assigned to Tilda Swinton in We Need to Talk About Kevin, newcomer Elizabeth Olsen in Martha Marcy May Marlene, or even Kirsten Dunst in Melancholia.
Joining Plummer in the supporting-actor category are Kenneth Branagh, playing Sir Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn, Jonah Hill as Pitt's statistical-genius sidekick in Moneyball, Nick Nolte as an alcoholic former boxer in Warrior, and Max von Sydow for his wordless performance in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, a post-9/11 drama that got mixed critical response.
Albert Brooks, who had won plaudits for his role as a gangster in the overlooked thriller Drive - the movie got one nomination, for sound editing - was the main snub here, and there had been some support for Patton Oswalt as the lonely man who befriends Charlize Theron in Young Adult.
The supporting-actress nominations went to Berenice Bejo, the ingenue in The Artist, Jessica Chastain as the outsider trying to crash the social circle in The Help, Janet McTeer as another cross-dresser in Albert Nobbs, Octavia Spencer as the edgy and angry maid in The Help and - in another academy surprise - Melissa McCarthy, the hilarious bridesmaid whose scene involving an upset stomach and a bathroom sink is the most famous image of the comedy, Bridesmaids. That left no room for Shailene Woodley's breakout performance as the angry teenager in The Descendants.
The animated-feature nominees are A Cat in Paris, Chico & Rita, Kung Fu Panda 2, Puss in Boots and Rango. Conspicuous by its absence is Cars 2, which got unusually lukewarm reviews for a Pixar film. Also left out was Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin, a motion-capture movie that made do with a nomination for its music.
The academy sprinkled a few surprises among the other nominations, as well: an original-screenplay nod for Margin Call, J.C. Chandor's smart, indie look at the American financial collapse. Among the other nominations is A Separation, the Iranian film that is the presumptive front-runner for the foreign-film Oscar. It's also the first foreign-screenplay nominee since The Diving Bell and the Butterfly in 2007.
The smallest category turned out to be best song, which had just two nominees, both from family films: Man or Muppet from The Muppets, and Real in Rio from Rio. That left no room for Madonna's Masterpiece from her film W.E., which won the Golden Globe.
The Oscars will be presented Feb. 26.
Here are the major Oscar snubs and surprises:
• Although The Artist got most of the pre-nomination publicity, Hugo led the field with 11 Oscar nominations, although none was for acting.
• The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick's poetic but elusive film about growing up in Texas, got a best-picture nomination, and Malick was nominated as best director.
• Bridesmaids, a well-received (if vulgar) comedy, didn't get one, but Melissa McCarthy was nominated for best-supporting actress for her hilarious (if vulgar) turn as a bridesmaid with diarrhea.
• Mexican actor Demian Bichir was nominated as best actor for A Better Life, a well-received film that nonetheless made less than $2 million.
• Rooney Mara won a best-actress nomination, even though her film, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, didn't get a best-picture nod.
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part 2 didn't get any acting nominations.
• Albert Brooks was left out of the supporting-actor field, despite his head-snapping turn as a genially violent gangster in Drive.
• Drive got just one nomination: for its sound editing.
• Neither Cars 2, a Pixar (read: Oscar-friendly) film, nor The Adventures of Tintin, Steven Spielberg's rousing motion-capture adventure, was nominated for best animated film.
• David Fincher wasn't nominated as best director for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Steven Spielberg wasn't nominated for War Horse.
• Michael Fassbender, who had been considered a shoo-in, didn't get a best-actor nomination for his performance as a spiritually empty sex addict in Shame.
• Tilda Swinton didn't get a best-actress nomination for her excoriating turn as a grieving mother in We Need to Talk About Kevin.
• Ryan Gosling (Drive, The Ides of March, Crazy, Stupid, Love) wasn't nominated for anything.
• Uggie, the Jack Russell terrier in The Artist, who was actually the subject of an on-line push for a supporting actor nomination.
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Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Apr
Pages: 238
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Student Access to Digital Learning Resources outside of the Classroom. NCES 2017-098
KewalRamani, Angelina; Zhang, Jijun; Wang, Xiaolei; Rathbun, Amy; Corcoran, Lisa; Diliberti, Melissa; Zhang, Jizhi
National Center for Education Statistics
Educators, policymakers, and parents alike are focused on ensuring the academic success of the nation's students. These efforts interact with the expanding use of technology, which affects the lives of students both inside and outside of the classroom. Thus, the role that technology plays in education is an evolving area of research that continues to grow in importance. While access to technology can provide valuable learning opportunities to students, it does not guarantee successful outcomes. Designing successful practices for student use of technology is but one piece of the puzzle in the continued effort to elevate the educational experiences of all students. Schools, teachers, communities, and families play a critical role in successfully integrating technology into teaching, learning, and assessment. Recent legislation acknowledges the growing role that technology plays in students' daily lives. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides guidance to state governments on how to receive supplemental federal funding for public education. ESSA requests that the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) conduct the following research: (1) An analysis of student habits related to DLR outside of the classroom, including the location and types of devices and technologies that students use for educational purposes; (2) An identification of the barriers students face in accessing DLR outside of the classroom; (3) A description of the challenges that students who lack home internet access face, including challenges related to student participation and engagement in the classroom, and homework completion; (4) An analysis of how the barriers and challenges such students face impact the instructional practices of educators; and (5) A description of the ways in which state education agencies, local education agencies, schools, and other entities, including partnerships of such entities, have developed effective means to address the barriers and challenges students face in accessing DLR outside of the classroom. This report draws upon the most recently available nationally representative data sources, existing research, and relevant state and local intervention efforts to examine the five research areas identified in ESSA, and to provide an overview of student access to DLR outside of the classroom.
Descriptors: Access to Education, Access to Computers, Internet, Computer Use, Barriers, Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Learning, Race, Ethnicity, Poverty, Geographic Location, Comparative Analysis, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Reading Achievement, Scores, Problem Solving, Incidence, National Competency Tests, Computer Literacy, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Tests, International Assessment, Science Tests, Influence of Technology, Educational Practices
National Center for Education Statistics. Available from: ED Pubs. P.O. Box 1398, Jessup, MD 20794-1398. Tel: 877-433-7827; Web site: http://nces.ed.gov/
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Numerical/Quantitative Data
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: National Center for Education Statistics (ED); American Institutes for Research (AIR)
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: National Assessment of Educational Progress; Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: EDIES12D0002
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This question may came up when you try to build a JSR 168 portlet or attempt to open one in JDeveloper 11g R1 PS3. In the latter case what happens is that your portlet gets automatically upgraded to a JSR 286 portlet. Given that JSR 286 supersedes JSR 168, most of the time this doesn't cause problems. However, if for some reason you HAVE to create or edit a JSR 168 portlet without upgrading it, you'll need to use a Patch Set 2 or earlier JDeveloper for it (or any other tool supporting JSR 168 portlets).
Despite the fact that JDeveloper automatically upgrades your portlets, deploying JSR 168 portlets to the Fusion Middleware 11g Patch Set 3 is fully supported.
This topic is covered by the Oracle Fusion Middleware Upgrade Guide for Oracle SOA Suite, WebCenter, and ADF:
18.104.22.168 About Upgrading JSR168 Portlet Producers to JSR286
Oracle WebCenter 10g supports Java portlets based on the Java Portlet Specification, JSR 168; Oracle WebCenter 11g supports Java portlets based on Java Portlet Specification version 2, or JSR 286. JSR 286 is an extension of JSR 168, and is backward compatible with JSR 168.
In Oracle WebCenter 10g, Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge is based on and conforms to JSR 301, whereas in Oracle WebCenter 11g, Oracle JSF Portlet Bridge conforms to JSR 329.
In JDeveloper 11g, when you open for the first time an existing portlet producer application containing JSR 168 portlets, portlets are automatically upgraded to be JSR 286 compliant. If the application is a portlet bridge application, it is further automatically upgraded to be JSR 329-compliant.
In most cases, the upgraded portlets continue to work exactly as they did before. However, there are a few cases in which JSR 168 portlets function differently when upgraded to JSR 286; these portlets must invoke a JSR 168 compatibility mode to run under JSR 286.
In Oracle WebCenter 10g, a portlet producer application contains the
oracle-portlet.xmlfiles. When you upgrade a portlet producer application, the
oracle.portlet.xmlfile is deleted, and all its details are moved to
portlet.xml. The navigation parameters stored in
oracle.portlet.xmlare converted into public render parameters and are added to
portlet.xml. For information about how JSR 168 parameters are handled in an upgraded JSR 286-compliant portlet producer application, see Section 16.4, "Migration of JSR 168 Portlet Producers to JSR 286: Handling of Portlet Elements."
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These programs are designed to produce well-trained professionals and are aimed at broadening student potential, enhancing technical versatility and, in some instances, providing the opportunity for changes in career path. The Master of Engineering programs are course-only, professionally oriented degree programs and require a minimum of 30 credit hours. There is no thesis or comprehensive examination requirement. The student, in consultation with an MMAE academic advisor, prepares a program of study that reflects individual needs and interests. The advisor, the department's Graduate Studies Committee, the Department Chair, and the Graduate College must approve this program.
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On the flip-side of breadwinner women are men whose careers are secondary in terms of hours and earnings or those who stay home to care for children or run the household, either by design or by default because they lose their jobs.
The latter group gained a lot of new recruits in the last two years, with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives dubbing the economic downturn a "he-cession" because men accounted for 71 per cent of those who lost their jobs, with deep cuts in male-dominated industries such as manufacturing.
Ottawa resident Michael Vickers has stayed at home with his children while his wife works since his first son Alec, now five, was born.
"The first summer was hard because it was culture shock," he recalls. "I'm there in the park going, 'Hmm, it's kind of all moms. I don't know people and the etiquette and I feel a little out of place here. Where are the other dads?'"
In hopes of finding them, Vickers founded Ottawa<P>Home.Dads, which is the only Canadian online community he knows of for stay-at-home dads. The group now boasts 50 to 60 members and a core group of a dozen who get together regularly for park play-dates or to "take over" mom-dominated playgroups.
"I always think it's funny when the discussion turns to, 'Oh, breastfeeding, that was really hard or my labour was really hard,'" he says. "I could chime in, I have some experience and opinions as an observer and assistant, but I probably shouldn't get into the nitty-gritty of it or you're going to think I'm weird."
Though full-time caregiver dads are becoming more common — especially in Ottawa, where government workers have access to generous parental leave and salary top-up — Vickers says a lot of people still can't process the idea. He knows one dad who attended a suburban playgroup and was asked not to come back because his presence was "freaking out" the other participants.
"The conversation will often turn to stereotypical male things like sports of tools or cars, but it also goes back to where's the best playgroup or don't you hate when you're trying to get dinner on and the kids won't leave you alone?" he says about playground chat among dads. "It's less about the gender and more about the role you're playing."
Initially, Vickers and his wife only planned for him to stay home until they felt Alec was old enough for daycare, but the years stretched on and Calum, now two, joined the family, and Vickers continued to stay at home. If he had a career he was more invested in, he says he might have made a different choice, but he plans to be at home for the next year or two and then he'll face the same dilemma as women who take time off: how to get back into the workforce.
"What I get a lot of times — and I'm never quite sure how to read it — is a lot of other men saying, 'Oh, you're really lucky to be able to do that,'" he says. "And I think that probably is genuine. I sometimes wonder if they're kind of going 'Oh, you're lucky you can afford to do that,' and I kind of go, 'Listen, let me tell you, we can't really afford to do it.'"


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Flowers? Check. A gift? Check. President Barack Obama said he had both and was ready for a Valentine's Day date with the first lady.
Speaking in suburban Atlanta on Thursday, Obama said his wife, Michelle, made him promise to get back to the White House in time for their date.
He did, of course, several hours before they left the White House together for the short ride to chef Jose Andres' restaurant Minibar.
Obama had joked earlier that getting flowers is easier with a Rose Garden right outside the door.
Except the garden was devoid of colorful roses, or flowers of any kind, on Thursday.
The White House Rose Garden, located just outside the Oval Office, was started in 1913 when first lady Ellen Wilson began planting roses there.


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Publishing Hears Echoes of Netflix Business Model
Offering unlimited television shows and music for a flat monthly fee has worked for Netflix Inc. and Spotify AB. Will it work in the book industry?
It is a question of intensifying debate in the publishing industry right now, as two digital startups plan launches of rival e-book subscription services this fall. If successful, the new services could pose fresh challenges for brick-and-mortar bookstores already struggling to cope with the growth of e-book sales and low prices of physical books offered online.


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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Obama administration is turning to the Supreme Court as it seeks to block public release of photos apparently depicting abuse of suspected terrorists and foreign soldiers in U.S. custody.
President Obama changed his stance on pictures said to show U.S. personnel abusing detainees.
Justice Department lawyers late Thursday told a federal appeals court in New York -- the same one on which high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor sits -- to hold off a ruling ordering release of the material, saying they plan to ask the justices to hear their case.
The government said it would proceed "absent intervening legislation" from Congress.
The "motion to recall" comes after President Obama ordered government lawyers this month to object to the court-ordered release of photos depicting the mistreatment of prisoners held in Iraq and Afghanistan, reversing an earlier White House decision. The Pentagon had been set to release hundreds of photos in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The ACLU -- which filed the initial lawsuit for disclosure -- has criticized the administration's about-face, saying it "makes a mockery" of Obama's campaign promise of greater transparency and accountability, and damages efforts to hold accountable those responsible for abusing prisoners.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in September that the photos must be released. The president now says doing so "would pose an unacceptable risk of danger to U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq." Sotomayor has served on that court since 1998 but was not involved in that particular appeal.
Last week, the Senate voted for the Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act, which would limit the reach of the Freedom of Information Act in this instance. The House could adopt a similar provision next month as part of an omnibus spending bill.
The government has until June 9 to file its initial appeal with the Supreme Court.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan, herself a finalist for the upcoming high court vacancy, told the New York-based appeals court that if Congress passes the disclosure amendment, Defense Secretary Robert Gates could "preclude release under [the Freedom of Information Act] of the photographs at issue in this case."
In court documents filed this week, Gen. David Petraeus -- the top U.S. commander in the region -- argued that public access would have a "destabilizing effect" on Pakistan and other U.S. partners in the battle against al Qaeda.
"Newly released photos depicting abuse of detainees in U.S. military custody in Afghanistan and Iraq would negatively affect the ongoing efforts by Pakistan to counter its internal extremist threat," wrote Petraeus, the chief of U.S. Central Command.
U.S. allies in the region already "struggle with their populations' perceptions that they are merely instruments of the U.S. government and do not have their citizens' best interests at heart," and releasing the images "would likely deal a particularly hard blow" to American efforts in those countries, he stated.
He predicted that a likely result of the photos' release would be "civil unrest via spontaneous demonstrations in Pakistan's largest cities."
Forty-four photos are covered in the ACLU request for release, but others could be released under the earlier appeals court ruling.
The justices would be under time pressure to decide whether to accept the government's appeal for review, before the court recesses for the summer in late June. They would not return until late September, when Sotomayor would join them if confirmed.
The case is ACLU v. Department of Defense (06-3140).
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TL;DR version: A little pricy but I like the Nest Thermostat and Nest Protects.
In June, I installed the Nest Learning Thermostat in my house and over the Thanksgiving holiday I installed a few Nest Protects as well. The integration of the Protects with the Thermostats and the application was really good although the install of one of the Nest Protects didn't go quite like their install made it out to be. I could go on more about all of it but if you've read the reviews online, there isn't more that I can say that hasn't already been said. They just work and work well.


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Jaba wrote:Hopsinshadie wrote:RayRay33 wrote:It was recorded before the Lose Yourself you know.
That means its older than the actual 8 Mile soundtrack.
Its a DEMO
Oh shit. Really? WOW! That means I can't tell the difference between his old voice and new voice since I thought it was the new Eminem!!!!
Are you dumb as fuck... -_-
Original Demo...
Do those words mean ANYTHING to you?
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By Cynthia Hamilton
In 1978, Semp Russ left a bequest of $2.9 million to the San Antonio Area Foundation. Since that time, the endowment fund created by this legacy gift has distributed almost $9.3 million in grants to local nonprofits. Today the Semp Russ Fund has a balance of more than $5.1 million.
So, how does $2.9 million – $9.3 million = $5.1 million? Funny math? Not at all — just the time value of money and the power of endowment.
Endowments are important to nonprofits and donors, but for two very different reasons. For nonprofits, endowments generate income that funds critical programs even during tough economic times. Donors who contribute to endowments ensure that their support for a charitable cause lives on long after their death.
Nonprofits put off creating an endowment fund because they think they don't have the staff resources or donor support needed to raise money for operations, capital improvements and an endowment. Donors are most willing to give from their current income for projects that have immediate impact. So, time and again, endowment campaigns go on the back burner, right next to the organization's need for a planned giving program.
Given the short-term priorities of both donors and nonprofits, how do they partner to create and build an endowment fund that will provide significant and lasting support for the organization's mission? There is actually a very practical solution to this dilemma. When nonprofits combine endowments and planned giving in the conversation, they lay the foundation for the most significant contribution a donor can make: a gift from their estate at the time of their death.
A 1999 study by Boston College and subsequent research by the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship have projected that, in the U.S., more than $50 trillion in assets will be transferred from one generation to another over the next 50 years. If just 5 percent of this wealth were invested back into the community through charitable donations, the resulting endowments would generate an estimated $125 billion in grants each year…in perpetuity.
This summer, the San Antonio Area Foundation is partnering with the Waco Community Foundation and Austin Community Foundation to commission transfer-of-wealth studies in our service areas. What we learn will be shared with local nonprofits and used to generate discussions and stimulate giving that puts the power of endowment to work in our communities for generations to come.
Cynthia Hamilton is Vice President of Development and Donor Services at the San Antonio Area Foundation.


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CCML contains current and popular books, audio books, and e-books for adults, teens, and children. We also have two newspapers, over 40 magazines titles, and a dynamic DVD and Blu-ray collection. Large print titles and interlibrary loan services are available.
The majority of our collection circulates for four weeks with the exceptions of best sellers and new publications, DVD's and Blu-rays, and magazines, which circulate for two weeks. All items are renewable via www.espl.org, by calling the library, or in-person at any of the Eastern Shore Public Libraries (ESPL).
Wi-Fi and computers with Internet and printing capabilities are available to patrons with a valid library card. Reservations are available for the computer lab for educational purposes. For a small fee, CCML also provides printing, faxing, scanning, and copying services.
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Kapitall Raises $13M to Make Investing Online a Great Game
Kapitall Inc., an online investment platform that wants to make trading stocks as easy, appealing and addictive as playing "Candy Crush" or fantasy sports, has raised $13 million in Series B funding, Chief Executive and Chairman Jarrett Lilien told VentureWire.
Based in New York, Kapitall competes against a bevy of incumbent online platforms–like E*Trade, TD Ameritrade, Scottrade and USAA–and a fast-growing class of innovative, new online trading sites.
Among new platforms that have attained venture funding to serve the everyday retail investor are Wealthfront Inc., Spacetime LLC's Robinhood.com and the international markets-focused Tradepop platform from InvestLab Inc.
Mr. Lilien said his company is on a mission to win over a new generation of retail investors, and to win back investors who lost a great deal of faith in the market following the dot-com bust, and stock market crash of 2008.


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Blue Springs, Mo. -- Birds are diverse and resourceful creatures, which is why people can become obsessed with watching them. The Missouri Department of Conservation's (MDC) Burr Oak Woods Nature Center at 1401 N.W. Park Road in Blue Springs is holding a kickoff event for a year dedicated to birds on Saturday, Jan. 12.
Special programs will be held throughout the day for "The Big Year 2013: A Celebration of Birds at Burr Oak Woods." The theme is borrowed from the book The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature and Fowl Obsession, by Mark Obmascik. The story is about three obsessed birders who travel far and wide to spot species of North American birds. A 2011 Hollywood movie was also based on the book.
The program at Burr Oak Woods will include guided bird watching hikes at 7 and 8:45 a.m. Information about a Burr Oak Big Year birding competition will be provided at 9 a.m. Bird banding demonstrations will be given in the solarium from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Keynote speaker will be Timothy Barksdale, with presentations at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Barksdale is a birding expert and a videographer who served as a consultant for "The Big Year" movie. The movie will be shown at 3 p.m.
Workshops will also include how to attract birds to your yard and how to identify birds.
All events at Burr Oak Woods Nature Center are free. For information, call 816-228-3766 or go to mdc.mo.gov/node/280.


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CALLS to have a memorial built as a permanent reminder of the massacre of indigenous people at Lake Weyba have been openly rejected by one Sunshine Coast MP.
BREAKING: A highly infectious illness has left a Sunshine Coast school decimated with staff and students affected.
AN ACADEMIC who wrote the most comprehensive account of the Murdering Creek massacre has solved some of the mystery as to what happened at Lake Webya.
A MULTI award-winning Sunshine Coast gelato has a mouthwatering birthday gift for all its customers.
RECORDS are set to be smashed on the Sunshine Coast over the next month, bringing a million-dollar bonanza flowing into the economy.
AS A Queensland police counter-terrorism expert, Darryl Johnson learnt a lot about bombs, but he never saw the time bomb coming that nearly claimed his life.
YVONNE has still not seen her son, Chris, four months after he tied the knot with the love of his life, Grant, on Bride and Prejudice.
A PROMINENT Sunshine Coast pastor used his key Sunday message to apologise if words from the Bible had been used to condone domestic violence.
A PROMINENT shopping centre has posted up new signs with strong warnings in response to a surge of people using car parks who are not going to the shops.


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QuickBMS: File Extractor and Reimporter
Files extractor and reimporter, archives and file formats parser, an advanced tool for reverse engineers and power users, and much more.
the full source code of the tool, it's separated from the executables to reduce the size of the download and avoiding confusion to the users.
on Linux it's enough to go in the src folder and launch make.
Download Executable:
Scripts for Specific Games And HomePage itself can Be Found Here
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Its good program but we need something to reinject/reimport back from scratch without keeping existing pack files. I believe FitGirl use modified version of quickbms that have this ability but its her private tool.
use quickbms -r (see reimport.bat)
or use razor's file injector
PS: you can replace the files to extracted in the original file with 0s to achieve the better compression
PPS: some scripts also transforms raw data to other formats like DDS etc which can't be injected as they are you have to preserve the rawdata
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I tried quickbms not long ago to recreate pack file from scratch(read reinject data files into *new* pack file) with "-r", but it gave me error that I need original pack file for output. For that reason I believe you cannot use it to extract/uncompress data files, delete original pack file and then recreate it from scratch. I think you meant that instead of deleting pack file, you "zero" it inside with that option to be able to compress it to almost nothing and ship it along for later reinjection? So just to keep its structure hierarchy with empty data?
As for Injector Maker I know it can create from scratch and I saw video how to do it with .forge files, but I thought its not universal for other formats and especially in conjunction with quickbms extract? Because quickbms also decompress individual data inside. I am not sure how would Injector Maker handle this. As you say you have to preserve raw data but I havent found an option in quickbms to not decompress. If somebody can step in here and give a few tips/examples I would really appreciate it, this is the only thing limiting me after spending lot of time understanding SREP/ARC/LZMA.
Also one more thing, I had problems re-importing using quickbms way too often even when it unpacked data without error, thats why I never felt very reliable about it. Errors and/or warnings like, I think even some files skipped. That would be problem if you "zero" on unpack and then it fail or skip to re-inject some files randomly?
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OMG I just did it and it work! I was able to repack in FitGirl-style game(Raiders of the Broken Planet) by repacking its resource files. But! Not only simple quickbms command with default script like everybody else can do, I had to modify it for reimporting because memory mapped import doesnt work on that game. So I ended up learning about BMS scripting language, headers/flags, compression etc. You know for a n00b like me this was quite achievement, so glad... and finally can actually have a sleep.
Big thanks PrinceGupta2000 for hinting on zeroing data pack capability of quickbms, that was the trigger .
PS(For those curious how I was able to put " compressed blocksized" pack back together, simple, I used normal "clog" without fragmenting through memory mapped "append" command. I expected it not to work and was ready to modify header flags but alas, it wasnt necessary. Game use lz4 btw(ztool wont work), original script for extract is castlevania.bms)
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I am not sure if I should not had opened new topic, but since it is related to my previous posts here I will reply here for now.
So regarding my "reimporting journey", that I spent pretty much these holidays on, I found that most pack files worked fine with above method except 2: Data02.packed and Data00.packed. I dont like half-backed job even though these 2 represent no more than 25% of game. So I started experiencing custom repacking with lz4 command line compressor and almost came to same data.
The thing is, original dump files have different position of the block crc - in beginning, but latest command line compressor is putting it at the end of the block.
- original: 22 16 00 00 33 9D BE 62 FF 08...(data)
^First 4 bytes are (compressed size - 8 bytes), next 4 bytes is block crc, then goes typical token and data.
- repacked(omitting first 4 bytes header): 70 40 AD 14 16 00 00 FF 08...(data)
^here size is right before FF 08, or 14 16 00 00. Block crc in this case would be located at the end of the data block not between "size" and the "token/signature"
Also every original file dump regardless of size have this exact 8 byte(4byte "size" followed by 4byte crc) structure.
Can someone tell me which version of lz4 had this format? I am sure its not a matter of different command options.
Thanks a lot.
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Most probably streaming compression,
If i can recall it correctly there is option '--no-crc'
In commandline version if not play around with the api ur self, if don't wanna do it either use diff bt remember if diff are too big it doesn't make sense to use it, try to reproduce dumps as near as possible
I myself will play around with streaming api,,, they are well documented and very easy
If u r sure lz4 is giving you original dump just not with the crc , log them and append them to dumps yourself and then inject them
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It is chunk streaming indeed, of 256kb's.
Crc is needed, its just that command line is putting it in wrong place(after block not before it). I am considering recompiling lz4.exe with changes but if my basic changes give compile/runtime error I dont know if I have a stamina to go through all code.
I was considering xdelta but found that compressed data are still not exact, they are almost but very few variances still, but any other settings combination went only further away. Thats why i need new crc not just dump original data with xdelta changes. I believe it should work after that.
or maybe you can only replace only compressed data with 0 and leave checksum
and after compression(of already extracted lz4-unpacked dumps), copy compressed(restored) dumps leaving last 4 bytes of checksum
Finally it seems to be working! I modded lz4 cmd tool to include crc before data and then manually removed header and tail. Tested single file that previously crashed the game worked! I am confident it should hopefully work for the rest.
But I need to modify lz4 further to remove frame header and tail as I wont do it manually for thousand files. Once done, I will create new topic and upload it here. With such lz4 users will be able to re-import certain previously non-doable games with simple quickbms+custom lz4 - ala FitGirl.
Btw Prince, that wouldnt work, crc is block crc and since compression is not exact it would crash the game. Also block crc is in each few kb's within the compressed file not only beginning and you would have to be able to recognize it among other random bytes. But I did had that in mind at beginning.
I asked u if compression is exact or not and assumed it was exact for the replies
Find the exact level or use diff
I told you its not exact:
"..but found that compressed data are still not exact, they are almost but very few variances still.."
I was not able to get same data with *any* settings combination, I believe they used completely different version. Also original lz4 author told me he never made any version where block crc is at the beginning.
And diff is no solution because of crc as mentioned already.
But, things should work now with my modded lz4 tool, wait and see...
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This past Friday and Saturday, Christ Church United Methodist on 4614 Brownsboro Road held their third Worth New York trunk show, where attendees could purchase clothing from the New York-based fashion house for 50 percent off retail. The pieces on hand were from Worth's various trunk shows for the autumn/winter 2012 season, and proceeds from the trunk show went to both Wesley Manor Retirement Community and Portland Promise Center.
CCUM Friendship Class member Glenda Thacker, who worked for Worth New York for 10 years, explained to Louisville.com the upscale clothing label's reasoning for choosing to show their wares four times a year in customers' homes, stating that it was "just the way they started out, rather than having stores," allowing Worth and its representatives to have "a very personal relationship" with the clientele. When it came time for Thacker to host the trunk shows, she opted to turn the affair into a charitable shopping event benefiting the two local charities where the Friendship Class has had long-held relationships.
Regarding the 60-member organization itself, President Ron Scherzinger described the Friendship Class as a group of "Christian people who are very friendly and just help each other in all different ways," as well as the local community and the Methodist Church, from their participation in international and local missions to fundraisers such as their trunk show.
As for the success of the Friendship Class's third Worth New York show, though Thacker didn't have the final figures at press time, she did note that this show had already exceeded the previous shows in raising funds for Wesley Manor – who provide financial support and full service to their elderly residents – and Portland Promise Center, the West End-based organization devoted toward low-income families and children.
To see what you might have missed, as well as to purchase pieces from their collection or to schedule a trunk show of your own, visit Worth New York at www.worthnewyork.com.
Photos: Louisville.com/Cameron Miquelon and Facebook/WorthNewYork.


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Blue Leaf Graphics had een nieuw logo ontwerp nodig en lanceerde daarom een wedstrijd op 99designs.
Een winnaar werd gekozen uit42 ontwerpen ingezonden door21 freelance designers.
My client needs a logo for their company Pamper Me Pet Boutique.
Pamper Me Pet Boutique
Gourmet Treats and Accessories for Your Pampered Pet
Desired Color Scheme:
Blue but open to other color schemes
Desired Style:
Fun and Sophisticated
Accepted File Formats:
Illustrator File
My client needs a logo for their new company Pamper Me Pet Boutique with "Pamper Me Pet" being the company name. They sell gourmet pet treats, pet accessories, and pet toys mainly for our canine and feline friends.
Using the name inside the logo is not necessary, but creating some type of design so that when people hear the name, they'll remember the logo, and vice versa.
Client likes the color blue, so go ahead and play with different shades but they are open to other color choices so have fun with it. Logo should NOT look cartoony and should be modern, fun and sophisticated.
Will be giving regular feedback. If we do not find a logo we like we will not choose a winner so be creative. We also reserve the right to extend the contest if a winner is not chosen within two weeks.
UPDATE: Great designs all but maybe I should be a little more specific. It's hard cause my client wasn't quite sure what she wanted but now that some designs are coming in it's easier for her to make a decision in this regard.
Client is looking for clean, professional branding. Take the cutesy out of it. Go for more of a fun stylish professional look, maybe web 2.0'ish but something that will be able to print on t-shirts, banners, business cards and packaging. This logo needs to be embedded in peoples minds when they hear the name Pamper Me Pet Boutique. Yes Pamper Me Pet is the name of the company but Boutique needs to be in there as well.
I know you can all come up with something that will rock our socks off thats why I started the contest. Please no dog bones or paws, the logo needs to be a little more abstract as products are for both cats and dogs, and maybe more in the future, so it needs to be flexible.
Thanks again for all of your designs so far and we look forward to some rocking ideas.
Bekijk hoe een ontwerpwedstrijd werkt of leer meer over logo ontwerpdiensten.


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Does the player resume at the last position when a disc is reloaded?
Yes, as long as BD-Java on the disc doesn't prevent it. According to the manual (Advanced Operations / Memory and Automatic Resume) the player will remember the stopping point of up to five discs when they are ejected or the player is powered off. Blu-ray discs with BD-Java cannot be resumed by the player automatically. You have to use the programming on the disc (if such exists) to set a bookmark or some other saved point. The studios are responsible for disc authoring issues that the player cannot override.
If you don't want the disc position to be remembered, press Stop twice before ejecting the disc or turning off the player, or press Stop when the "resuming" message appears when the disc is loading.
Can output resolution and other controls be changed during playback?
Yes, most adjustments can be made on-the-fly without halting playback. The manual (Advanced Operations / Output Resolution) recommends ejecting the disc before changing resolutions. I don't know why this would be necessary, other than perhaps to minimize HDMI handshaking issues with touchy A/V receivers or displays. Changing output resolution during playback seems to work fine.
Does the player come with a Blu-ray calibration and evaluation disc?
Yes, the Spears & Munsil High-Definition Benchmark Blu-ray Edition. The manual is online: Spears & Munsil High-Definition Benchmark Blu-ray Edition User's Guide. Although the disc is not specific to OPPO players, OPPO assisted with its production. Many thanks!
The disc is available separately from OPPO at the Spears & Munsil order page.
It is also listed at Amazon: Spears & Munsil and is sold by AVSForum (link?)
Does the AVS HD 709 calibration disc work on this player?
Yes, both the AVCHD and HDMV versions of the AVS HD 709 calibration disc work on this player when burned onto DVD. I presume they work on burnable Blu-ray media also, but haven't tested it. The AVCHD version will also work when copied onto a USB device. See [#is-avchd-video-supported Is AVCHD video supported?]
Does the player have a setup wizard?
Yes, see the manual (Installation / Setting Up the Player - Easy Setup Wizard). The Wizard runs the first time the player is turned on. If you prefer you can cancel it and make all your adjustments with the Setup menu directly. Of course, all the settings the Wizard makes can be changed manually later. See the manual text for a complete description. The Wizard steps are:
You can rerun the Wizard at any time. See [#how-do-i-rerun-the-setup-wizard How do I rerun the Setup Wizard?]
- Primary output: HDMI or Component
- Output resolution: Auto, 1080p, 1080i, 720p, 480p/576p, 480i/576i, and Source Direct
- Aspect ratio: 4:3 vs 16:9 and their options. This is the shape of your display screen, not the aspect ratio of the discs you play. Use 16:9 Wide/Auto to have the player pillarbox 4:3 DVD titles.
- Audio setting: Advanced is for receivers supporting HDMI 1.3 and high bit-rate streamed audio formats. Compatible is for everyone else.
Does the player have an adjustable audio delay?
Yes, up to 200 milliseconds. See the manual (Setup Menu Options / Video Setup / A/V Sync). Note that this applies only to HDMI audio.
What writeable disc formats are supported?
See the manual (Important Information / Compatible Disc Types). Supported media formats include DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD-RW and DVD-R. Dual-layer discs and CD-R/RW are also supported. Users report than BD-R and BD-RE work.
What are the Zoom features of the player?
The Zoom settings are described and illustrated in the manual (Advanced Operations / Zooming and Aspect Ratio Control). The Zoom levels are the same as on the OPPO 983H. Special features include:
The special Zoom settings are available only for HDMI. Component output uses a series of linear scaling steps.
- Underscan to compensate for displays with overscan.
- Vertical Stretch for Constant Image Height projectors.
- Full Screen for black bar haters. This works for both 4:3 and widescreen "Scope" titles. It zooms them just enough to eliminate the black bars on the sides or above and below. The image is trimmed on the edges but the aspect ratio is otherwise correct.Note that Full Screen is also the correct setting for zooming 4:3 letterboxed DVDs to full screen width.
Is there a bit-rate meter?
Yes, on the On-screen Display. It shows combined audio/video bit rate.
What is Demo Mode?
See the manual (Setup Menu Options / HDMI Options / Demo Mode). Demo Mode splits the screen vertically so that certain picture adjustments modify only one half of the screen. The effected controls are:
- Detail Enhancement
- Edge Enhancement
- Noise Reduction
Does the player support Deep Color?
Yes, see the manual (Setup Menu Options / HDMI Options / HDMI Deep Color). The entire display chain must be HDMI 1.3 or later, and must support Deep Color, which is an optional, not mandatory part of the HDMI 1.3 standard. Note that there are no Deep Color Blu-ray or DVD discs. There is no interpolation for Deep Color in the BDP-83 or its Anchor Bay ABT2010 video processor. The extra bits (color depth) available in the HDMI 1.3 Deep Color mode are used to preserve the precision of calculation. For example, any time color up-sampling, color space conversion, brightness and contrast adjustment, and other video processing is applied to the 8-bit/channel signal, the result can have fractions. In an 8-bit system the fractions are truncated, but in the Deep Color mode the fractions are preserved so the data delivered to the display is more accurate.
Some AVRs and displays give only lip service to 12 bit 4:2:2 or Deep Color 4:4:4 -- accepting the format as input but then immediately stripping off some or all of the low order bits prior to actually using that video stream. For example, many so-called Deep Color displays have physical display elements that can only handle up to 10 bits per component. The video processing engines inside the display feeding those display elements may also only do their math at 10 bits per component or even 8 bits.
Some Deep Color displays only actually implement Deep Color if you are feeding them a 1080p/24fps video stream -- i.e., not 1080p/50 or 1080p/60.
The result of all of this is that sometimes the only way to know what format is best for the HDMI connection is simply to try them all and see.
A Rant
I hope people understand that Deep Color does not mean "deeper color" and that it is of (nearly?) negligible benefit when playing Blu-ray and DVD discs.
Deep Color does not make your blacks "blacker" or your reds "redder." The most you can get along those lines is a characteristic of your display, not of the disc or player.
Deep Color (which ought to be called "greater than 8-bit color") provides a finer gradation of shades between the colors encoded on the disc. It is conceivable that Deep Color might reduce banding in some images, although I never see banding in real films (as opposed to cheaply produced logos and fx screens). Someone could produce a test pattern demonstrating the effect with and without, but I haven't seen one yet.
The sad truth is that Blu-ray and DVD use the same rather limited 8-bit greyscale and color gamut.(Rec 601 vs Rec 709 is a very slight standards difference, not a change in gamut).
Turning on Deep Color doesn't change that. Both disc formats record their images as 8-bit YCbCr 4:2:0, meaning the color resolution is only 1/4 that of the black-and-white resolution.(This saves a lot of space and the eye is rather insensitive to color resolution anyway).
Using greater than 8-bit computations when doing Chroma Upsampling to restore full color resolution may do something to preserve a more accurate color image, but it is a very minor effect.
Does it come with an HDMI cable?
Yes. Length: 6ft. OPPO says:The cable has been tested and verified to support 1080p/60Hz with 36-bits Deep Color. We have not gone through the certification process for the HDMI 1.3 or Category 2 ratings.
Can subtitles be repositioned?
No, not at the moment. Maybe in the future.
This is a feature the Constant Image Height users would like. It would shift subtitles out of the black bars and onto the image itself.
Anyone using full screen zoom could also benefit.
Why is it so difficult to shift subtitles on Blu-ray?
Although it is possible to shift subtitles on DVD, this is much more difficult on Blu-ray.
Subtitles are part of the "protected video path" which is cryptographically protected. A vendor would need permission and certified code from the BDA to break into the path and adjust the subtitles. So far, this support has not been forthcoming.
It is another consequence of Digital Rights Management.
Since subtitles occupy a tiny amount of disc space, the studios could easily provide alternative subtitle tracks shifted into the image area, but this practice has not been widely adopted. Immortal Beloved is a title that does it this way.
Are there custom output resolutions like 768 or 1024?
Can the front panel be turned off entirely?
Yes, as per the manual (Setup Menu Options / Device Setup / Dimmer Control). This can be done either from the remote or from the Setup menu. The power light remains on.
Does the player support 1080i50 Blu-ray sources?
Yes, 1080i50 content is supported. The output depends on the player resolution and TV System settings:
There is no 24p output available for this type of source. Obviously, your display must be capable of receiving a 50hz signal if you want to use one of those options. Frame rate conversion is handled by the ABT chip when Primary Output is set to HDMI, or by the decoder chip when Primary Output is set to Component. We do not have details on the frame rate conversion algorithms. See the List of Blu-ray movies authored in 1080i50.
- when resolution is Source Direct: 1080i50
- other resolution settings produce the expected result and the frame rate is determined by the TV System setting:
- when TV System is NTSC: 60hz
- when TV System is PAL or Multi: 50hz
What HDMI CEC functions does the player support?
OPPO says:The HDMI CEC controls are based off of the commands typically used by Sony. They are designed only for the most basic of functionality, such as Power On/Off and play controls. They are not designed to support advanced functions like Resolution or Setup.


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All Systems Go necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 300 diseños de 73 diseñadores freelance.
All Systems Go
All Systems Go is a new company providing IT support in the following areas; running cable, managing and repairing servers, desktops and laptops; as well as virus and malware removal, software and hardware upgrades and setting up wired and wireless networks.
Roughly 85% of my work is mobile and done on-site.
My target audience is small business owners, non-profit organizations and home users.
I want to convey professionalism without appearing too "corporate", combine with a friendly and approachable vibe.
***About 85% of my work is mobile and done on-site, it would be nice to try to incorporate that as well.
I am open to all color schemes and designs.
As mentioned above, this is an open canvas to work with; this is a new company, I have don't have a website yet, or any color schemes to match.
The new logo is going to be used on the future website as well as business cards and stationary and should be provided in the proper formats.
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
I would like the logo to appeal to both small business as well as home users. While I do not want it to appear too corporate, I am also not a fan of the typical "nerd" themes that are often found in this line of work. I am looking for an interesting balance of the two.
Although I am not a fan of using the initials "ASG", I am willing to consider it if it is done in a tasteful manner. I would like the logo to contain some type of graphic, but this is not a requirement.
One item that is an absolute must, is that I would like the logo to include the words "Computer Solutions".
To sum it up simply:
-Balance between corporate and home user appeal
-The words "Computer Solutions" should be used.
-Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
-Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
-Would rather NOT use initials "ASG"
-Please no "nerd" or "geek" themes
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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(Editor's note: Dr. Seuss' recent birthday sparked this ode to belly putting.)
By Charles Prokop
Special to ARMCHAIR GOLF
Copyright © Charles Prokop. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
Would You Like to Belly Putt?
Would you like to belly putt?
Hold that stick against your gut?
Swing it here and swing it there?
Make that ball go anywhere?
Or would you like the sweeper best?
Lock that stick against your chest.
Let it swing, just go tick-tock.
You can putt just like a clock.
Is anchored putting here to stay?
What do you say, USGA?
Can we use these special clubs?
No more yips? No more flubs?
Keegan Bradley, Adam Scott,
Billy Haas, you made them hot.
It's been there for oh so long,
But did you win and make it wrong?
It was once just for old farts,
Those whose games had come apart.
But now young guns use anchors too,
Can we blame it all on you?
I still swing my putter free,
It's like my other clubs, you see.
But should I care how others hit?
Should I throw a hissy fit?
I've tried them all, I still can't putt.
Guess I've got a ticklish gut.
So I'll keep doing what I do.
And other folks? It's up to you.
Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss, and please accept my deepest apologies.
Charles Prokop is a clinical psychologist who writes about golf at fairwaywords.