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It was thanks to a synergy between two existing aspects of the engine that get to play together really well. One is UV-mapped voxels, the other is meta-materials.
Here is how it works: A single meta-materials describes a type of terrain. For instance, mountain cliff. Within this single meta-material you may find different materials. In the case of a cliff that could be exposed rock, mossy rock, grass, dislodged stones, dirt, etc. An artist gets to create how the meta-material surface is broken down into these sub-materials. The meta-material also has a volumetric definition, which is a displacement map and can be carefully tied to the sub-material map.
When you are close to the meta-material's surface, it must be rendered as full geometry. This is because features in the meta-material, let's say a rock that sticks out, can measure up to dozens of meters. This content must be made of actual voxels so it can be harvested, destroyed, etc. It is not just a GPU displacement trick.
As you are farther away from these features, using geometry to capture detail becomes expensive. You face the hard choice of keeping a high geometry density or dial down geometry and loose detail.
The new terrain system can dial down geometry, but keep the appearance of detail by using automatically generated textures for the metamaterial. For the close range, it still uses geometry to capture detail, but at a certain distance the meta-material displacement can be represented with just a normal map. High resolution sub material textures for grass, rock, etc. are not needed anymore. A single color map is able to capture the look of the metamaterial from this distance. These are only a few extra maps that can be reused anywhere in the scene where the meta-material appears.
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The Chargers roster still needs this; it stills need that.
There is one positive, though, to its current makeup.
San Diego has a new offense under coach Mike McCoy and offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt. As the team installs the building blocks during the ongoing first phase of its workout program, most of the skill position players who will make this roster are here to listen.
While easily two starters could be drafted this month onto the offensive line, wide receivers like Malcom Floyd, Vincent Brown, Eddie Royal and Robert Meachem are present. Same with tight ends Antonio Gates, John Phillips and Ladarius Green and running backs Ryan Mathews, Danny Woodhead and Ronnie Brown.
"We're going to build this system over time," McCoy said last month. "Ken Whisenhunt is going to do a great job. He has a great plan in place for the direction we want to head in as an offense and with the rest of the offensive staff."
As attendance goes, wide receiver Danario Alexander is an exception.
The restricted free agent is weighing interest around the league before deciding whether to sign his one-year, $1.323 million tender. The situation is expected to be resolved this month. No team can submit an offer sheet to the Chargers after April 19. San Diego would have five days to match that offer, or it'd lose Alexander to that team without receiving draft compensation in return.
A resolution sooner rather than later may be ideal.
On April 16, the team begins a three-day voluntary minicamp.
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Q: When will the Chargers find a strong safety? They needed one last draft but weren't positioned to take the best one, Mark Barron. How about Kenny Vaccaro this year at pick 11? -Dave S.
A: I wouldn't look for that. A steady presence alongside Eric Weddle is not viewed as a key missing part to this team's success. The draft is where we see the Chargers address, first and foremost, the offensive line, and that likely will begin in the opening round. If they were to go defense first and offense later, a greater need exists on the front seven than in the secondary. Factoring the holes on offense, the draft's safety depth and the roster's presence of a rehabbing Brandon Taylor — who could develop to become that guy — Vaccaro to the Chargers would be a considerable shock.
Q: Hey Michael, I understand we're strapped because of our salary cap situation. But with that said, do you believe we could still make a move on draft day, i.e. a trade for like Branden Albert and then draft Chance Warmack or Jonathan Cooper? –Linh H.
A: In one regard, you're not far off. If the Chargers are to do something especially aggressive this draft, I expect it will relate to addressing the offensive line. They must fill that need, and if it requires creativity, little should be counted out.
But the cost to acquire Albert will create pause. There's the loss of draft compensation for him. There's the price of negotiating a long-term deal — his one-year franchise tender is presently worth $9.828 million. Together, those two resources seem too rich to spare. And there's the fact such a trade would require the Chargers and Chiefs to be willing to do business in the same division, which could be prohibitive in and of itself.
Given there is no guarantee a left tackle like Lane Johnson or a guard like Cooper or Warmack is available at pick 11, how the Chargers address their offensive line this draft is arguably the most intriguing and important personnel challenge of Tom Telesco's tenure to date.
Q: Why did Telesco not approach Eric Weddle about restructuring his contract? Giving Jared Gaither the June 1st designation and deferring the bulk of the cap hit to next year suggests Telesco is looking to free up cap for 2013. Restructuring Weddle's contract could've provided similar 2013 cap savings. I understand the brass may not be willing to double-down on their investment in Rivers due to his declining play (still to be decided whether the decline is a function of the OLine or #17 as well), but why not double-down on Weddle? – Zach P.
A: My understanding is the Chargers philosophically prefer to avoid restructuring contracts to create cap space. Even in the case of an All-Pro player so steady as Weddle, a contract restructure pushes guaranteed money into the future, limiting the team's future flexibility. The Chargers, as a rule of thumb, would rather not hamstring themselves.
If, hypothetically, the team was to restructure a Weddle or Rivers, what that accomplishes most is permitting the team to spend heavily now in free agency. That contradicts Telesco's preference to use free agency as a way to supplement a roster, not build one. We saw last year how spring spending is not synonymous with fall success. If the Chargers restructured guarantees to the future only to follow one high-priced free agency bust with another, this roster would be in some hole.
It's interesting to look elsewhere in the league. The Steelers reportedly have restructured 13 contracts the past three years, most in the NFL over that span. You see the pickle they're in today, strapped for cap and staring at the possible loss of restricted free agent Emmanuel Sanders to rival New England. Getting in a situation where they cannot reward and retain their own players is one the Chargers want to avoid.
What are your honest thoughts of drafting Tyrann Mathieu if he's available in the fourth round? -Haroon A.
A: I see Telesco as willing to gamble here or there on a high-upside athlete with some character concerns. Extra homework always plays into those decisions, which can sometimes explain why some draft-eligible players visit more teams than others at this time of year. (See: Kiko Alonso, Sam Montgomery and Manti Te'o visiting the Chargers. You form a grade on film. You solidify it in person.) The danger comes when too many of those players are in the same locker room — that can overrun its culture — or when a player has too many red flags to be considered worth the risk. For San Diego, the latter is Tyrann Mathieu. Look for a honey badger someplace else.


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The one that keeps it short and sweet visiting the best of Balkans
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The Movies.com Review: 'Kick-Ass 2' is One Desperate Do-Over
There's plenty of ass-kicking in Kick-Ass 2. It's not terrible ass-kicking. In fact it's fairly decent ass-kicking. Speaking as someone with VHS tapes of nothing but dozens of Yuen Clan fight scenes stripped of whatever context they once had and chaotically compiled into their own homemade not-narrative of face-kicks and skull-breakage, my vote is always for more ass-kicking. So good going, Kick-Ass 2. You almost deliver an acceptable amount of grade-B ass-kicking.
But then there's this whole movie trying to get in the way of the ass-kicking. That is a problem.
In this sequel that behaves like a reboot that behaves like a confused puppy chasing its own tail, Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) has given up his amateur superhero status to focus on high school. However, his sidekick, Hit-Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz), doesn't want to abandon her secret identity at all. She wants to honor her dead father, Big Daddy, and disobey her guardian (Morris Chestnut) with more crime fighting, an extracurricular far preferable to dating boys and fashion-rolling with the Mean Girls. At the same time, Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey) gathers up the teen vigilantes for his Justice League-style crew just as Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) embarks on a mission of vengeance, assembling his own team of supervillains and renaming himself The Mother$@#^&!. A showdown ensues. But to what end?
Stuck on that question, positioning itself as both comedy cheerleader for mindless vigilante violence and then as half-serious commentary on the same misguided ideas, the film changes its mind about what it is and what it wants to be from moment to moment. It commits to nothing more pressing than the task of recruiting fresh audience members who'll reliably confer a buzzy cultural status, a tipping point in the service of better box office and, ultimately, Kick-Ass 3.
The confusion spills over onto its characters, with Taylor-Johnson appearing disinterested in the task of carrying a film, Moretz forced out of her battle costume for much of the running time and Jim Carrey's fascinating born-again Christian warrior (and his awesome masked dog) sidelined. And just when the script muddles itself into a corner, extreme violence breaks out as a distraction.
Worse, by assuming audiences need to be brought up to speed on the story so far -- not an unfounded assumption, as it's an act of charity to think of the first installment as a thing that lots of people actually saw -- the entire project feels like an endless game of starting over. And over. Reminders provided, plot points rehashed, and endless chatter about identity issues presumably cleared up in the first film. You thought The Amazing Spider-Man felt like it arrived too soon? Well, this is a second chapter that comes off like a desperate do-over.
But still, there's that ass-kicking. It's nasty and hard-R violent, which counts for something, somewhere. Just not enough for here or now.
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If you follow politics, you've probably noticed that a certain character with classic good looks and black-and-white views (a bit square, you might say) has drawn a lot of attention this week. No, not that guy…we're talking about the Etch-A-Sketch! The classic toy is famous for its transience—just shake it to start afresh—but did you know it can also be used as a more permanent medium? Jeff Gagliardi of Lyons, Colorado has been making and selling Etch-A-Sketch drawings for over 35 years.
So, there's such a thing as a professional Etch-A-Sketch artist? How did you become one?
It basically happened to me. I didn't seek it out. When I was young, maybe 18, my nephew had one and I picked it up and started drawing the Taj Mahal. I set it aside and kept playing, but when my sister saw it, she said "Oh my God, where did this come from?!? " So I started to see what I could draw on it, exploring. It's funny—I went to the New York School of Visual Arts and I'm a painter, but people would push past my paintings and want to see these Etch-A-Sketch pieces. In one way it was a little bit frustrating, but in another way it was amazingly freeing: If people look at it and laugh out loud, that's okay. I'm not trying to be serious. I'm just trying to see how far I can push this, how much I can do. I've specialized in reproducing famous artworks. People buy them, and I've had the pleasure of seeing them in museums.
What do you do after you've completed a piece? How do you preserve it?
The first few I did, I sold as is. People just hung them on their wall – you can tilt them sideways to hang it on a wall, just don't shake them! To make the permanent ones, at first I started drilling out the back and shaking the powder out. You make a tremendous mess doing it yourself. My wife has been very patient! Fortunately, after a few years the Ohio Art Company that makes them gave me a special type of 'master' Etch-A-Sketch that you can easily take the back off and move to a different backing that has no powder or mechanisms, so it's completely sealed and perfect.
It must take a lot of patience to make such detailed drawings using continuous lines.
Yes, a good deal of time is in the plotting of it. One of the real stretches is doing things in portrait mode, like the Mona Lisa—you have to draw it sideways. I always try to do the hardest part first, and I think, if I can get that right, everything else will follow. With the Mona Lisa, it was her face, her smile. I didn't care if it looked positively like her, I just wanted to capture the spirit. And there's one with the cast of the Wizard of Oz, the first thing I did was kind of this arc of the sunset behind everyone. There's a lot of false starts, a lot of trial and error.
Your work has been displayed in museums. How do viewers react?
There's this moment of disbelief and I just love that. You shouldn't see the Mona Lisa on an Etch-A-Sketch! I've heard people say things like "Oh, he did it with lasers," or other explanations of things which would be much more complicated than what I actually did.
And I understand you helped set a Guinness World Record?
Yes, last year in Lyons, my neighbor and I organized a "Sketch-A-Palooza" that set a world record for the most people (372) Etch-A-Sketching at the same time. It was really fun, we had people from very young to as old as 94, sketching Steamboat Mountain from the park here. Some of them were very good, I was really impressed.
Are you currently working on anything?
Well, two years ago I had a terrible accident and fell off my roof and broke both my arms at the wrist, so my Etch-A-Sketching days are behind me. I can't help but see the irony and humor in this: Of all the injuries to happen to all the people, the Etch-A-Sketch guy breaks his wrists! So I don't much work in that medium now, but painting's not a problem, and I do graphic design for a living.
What's the last piece you did?
It's based on Picasso's Guernica, using three Etch-A-Sketches in a triptych. I used to joke that Picasso's work already looks like it was done on an Etch-A-Sketch; a bunch of squiggly lines and strange shapes! But this is actually the only serious thing I ever tried, inspired by September 11. It's disconcerting to see an act of heinous inhumanity depicted on a child's toy. I'm hoping to exhibit it someplace.
Any advice for would-be Etch-A-Sketch artists?
The real secret of it is the ability to retrace a line. And it can be very frustrating, as you can imagine. If you mess it up in any way, you just gotta shake it and start all over. There are times when I've gotten right to the end of something and made a mistake, and I'll be honest, you just wanna cry. But hey, if it was easy, everyone would be doing it.
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The following OECD assessment and recommendations summarise chapter 2 of the Economic Survey of Hungary published on 11 February 2010.
How to ensure fiscal sustainability?
A major step toward fiscal sustainability has been taken with the adoption of the fiscal responsibility law that introduced strict fiscal rules and established a non-partisan fiscal council to oversee implementation. The new fiscal council holds the potential to raise public awareness about the need for fiscal consolidation and to ensure "checks and balances" for fiscal policy implementation. Hence, it is of utmost importance that the fiscal council benefits from broad political acceptance. The new fiscal rules aim at lowering the debt-to-GDP ratio over time and introduce annual spending targets for each of the next three years. By focusing on the debt ratio and moving towards a medium-term expenditure setting, the framework deals appropriately with Hungary's sustainability challenge given politicians' proclivity to overspending during election years. The Fiscal Responsibility Law has just begun to be implemented and, with two major elections taking place in 2010, it would be best to allow some experience to accumulate before considering substantial changes. However, the operational framework of the rules appears to be somewhat complex. To increase public ownership of the rules, the fiscal council should prepare, as soon as possible, an operational manual describing the step-by-step process for implementing the rules, including key budgetary variables, dates and responsible governmental and parliamentary units.
As mentioned above, the recent changes in the tax system, by switching from labour to consumption taxes, are steps in the right direction. However, at a constant level of taxation, economic distortions could be reduced by considering further cuts in labour taxes, financed through higher property taxes (accompanied by improved property registry) and/or emissions taxation. Further tax cuts would also increase welfare gains since marginal tax rates are high, with negative impacts on growth and employment. However, this would require first to reduce the size of the government – which is very high in Hungary, especially in comparison to countries with similar living standards – so as not to deteriorate fiscal sustainability. A striking feature in Hungary is the large share of public service expenditure, suggesting inefficient public administration. Another feature is the comparatively high level of outlays on social protection, reflecting generous social transfers and attractive incentives for early retirement, despite recent measures taken by the government. Finally, health-care spending, while not dramatically different from most OECD members, does not deliver adequate outcomes by international standards. While some improvement has been made, further efforts are needed to increase efficiency.
Hungary's public administration is one of the least efficient among OECD and accession countries, pointing to potentially large efficiency gains (Figure 2). One potential source of savings appears to lie in reduced staffing; central and sub-national workers account for almost 20% of total domestic employment, which is high in comparison with other OECD countries, although it reflects low total activity ratio as well. Hence, the government should continue to streamline public sector employment. Another source of saving could be outsourcing, given that the degree of outsourcing is rather low in Hungary at the central government level compared to other countries. Greater use of outsourcing for public services could raise efficiency of service provision, but care would have to be taken to ensure transparent and competitive contracting, to reduce the risk of corruption. This would require the government to strengthen public procurement monitoring capacity and the State Audit Office, and enhance the political will in support of the Office's enforcement. The recent legislation enhancing the control mechanism of the Public Procurement Office is a step in the right direction. More generally, to help maintain the momentum of public administration reform, the government should establish a unit with a mandate to both promote and assess reform progress. It should also revisit and pursue recommendations of the 2006 State Reform Council's comprehensive stocktaking of overlapping tasks in government agencies.
Estimated public service efficiency frontier in OECD countries
1. A composite indicator for public administration outcome based on international surveys on the quality of justice and the level of corruption, both taken from the Global Competitiveness Report, and the levels of bureaucracy in the economy measured by OECD's Product Market Regulation indicator.
2. Spending in 2006 for Canada and Slovenia, 2005 for New Zealand. Spending on general public services (excluding interest payments) and public order and safety.
Source: OECD calculations based on OECD (2009), OECD National Accounts Statistics (database), October; WEO (2008), The Global Competitiveness Report 2008 2009, World Economic Forum; OECD (2009), International Regulation (database), July.
A major challenge for public expenditure reduction is the anticipated rise in public expenditure related to ageing. Past and recent reforms of the pension system – in 1998, 2007 and May 2009 – should lead to a slower increase in pension costs. In the future, the government should increase the statutory retirement age in line with increases in life expectancy.
The health status of the Hungarian population is among the poorest in the OECD; in particular, male life expectancy at birth is the lowest, while that of women is the second lowest. Despite multi-casual factors, one of the most important determinants is the health-care delivery system. Although Hungary's public expenditure on health care is below OECD and EU15 averages, the share of private spending on health (including the traditional under-the-table payments) is estimated to be the highest in the EU, at around 30% of total spending on health. There is thus an obvious need to raise "value for money" in the health sector, all the more so in light of impending ageing-related growth in demand for health services.
Recently, the government has achieved some successful reforms, principally in reforming the pharmaceutical market, but the reform agenda spelled out in previous OECD Surveys remains mostly valid. Efforts to tackle the thorny issues of formal patient co-payments and devolution of the payer function from the Social Security Fund to a mix of private/public insurance schemes have encountered strong political resistance. The authorities should seek consensus toward the goal of introducing patient co-payment to instil some cost-consciousness and help eliminate under-the-table payments. The authorities should also continue to strengthen the gate-keeping role of general practitioners. Reform is also crucial for the government to be in a position to manage the financial impact of ageing-related increases in health-care spending. Based solely on ageing, Hungary's public spending on health care is projected to increase relatively modestly, but the government should plan for possible long-term budgetary impacts of rising demand, and especially the likely greater use of more costly improved medical technologies.
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sigprocmask − examine and change blocked signals
#include <signal.h>
int sigprocmask(int how, const sigset_t *set, sigset_t *oldset);
sigprocmask() is used to change the signal mask, the set of currently blocked signals. The behaviour of the call is dependent on the value of how, as follows.
The set of blocked signals is the union of the current set and the set argument.
The signals in set are removed from the current set of blocked signals. It is legal to attempt to unblock a signal which is not blocked.
The set of blocked signals is set to the argument set.
If oldset is non−null, the previous value of the signal mask is stored in oldset.
If set is NULL, then the signal mask is unchanged (i.e., how is ignored), but the current value of the signal mask is nevertheless returned in oldset (it is not NULL).
The use of sigprocmask() is unspecified in a multithreaded process; see pthread_sigmask(3).
sigprocmask() returns 0 on success and −1 on error.
EINVAL The value specified in how was invalid.
It is not possible to block SIGKILL or SIGSTOP. Attempts to do so are silently ignored.
If SIGBUS, SIGFPE, SIGILL, or SIGSEGV are generated while they are blocked, the result is undefined, unless the signal was generated by the kill(2), sigqueue(2), or raise(3).
See sigsetops(3) for details on manipulating signal sets.
kill(2), pause(2), sigaction(2), signal(2), sigpending(2), sigprocmask(2), sigqueue(2), sigsuspend(2), pthread_sigmask(3), sigsetops(3), signal(7)


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Google Nexus 10 full review
Google's Nexus 10 is a larger version of its impressive Nexus 7. Find out about this Android Jelly Bean tablet in our Nexus 10 review. Updated on 02/07/13.
Since the Nexus 7, there has been a raft of rival devices including the Apple iPad Mini, Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Barnes & Noble Nook HD.
The 10in side has been less so, with few stand-out exceptional devices to rival the full-sized iPad. Google's Nexus 10 is the first Android tablet of the year which looks like it has a package which can seriously take on the iPad. See Google Nexus 10 price in UK and specs.
Even with big name releases from the likes of Sony with its impressive Xperia Tablet Z, the Nexus 10 remains our top Android tablet offering fantastic hardware and software for a more than reasonable price tag.
The iPad 4 remains its biggest rival but Apple's tablet is still more expensive so it's not exactly a no brainer.
Google Nexus 10 review: Design
The design of the Nexus 10 isn't too far removed from the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) but there are enough variances to easily tell the difference. It's not a surprise since the tablet is made by Samsung.
Like most 10in Android tablets, the Nexus 10 is designed in a landscape orientation. It has a Gorilla Glass 2 front and plastic casing. The material has a soft and grippy feel to the touch, but doesn't match the quality of the iPad or some Android tablets like the Asus Transformer Prime.
The Nexus 10 is comfortable to hold in either landscape or portrait mode. It's both thinner and lighter than the most recent iPad at 9mm and 604g.
Phyical power and volume buttons are located on top of the tablet while ports are located on the sides. It's refreshing to find that the Nexus 10 uses a microUSB port to charge rather than a proprietary one. See also: Group test: what's the best Android tablet?
Google Nexus 10 review: Build Quality
As we've mentioned, the Nexus 10 doesn't have an aluminium body like the iPad. Build quality is excellent but not quite up to the standards set by Apple.
There's a thin plastic section which surrounds the rear facing camera with a spotted pattern. This is removable but you won't need to take it off. The information which legally has to be printed on the tablet can be hidden behind it but there's a better reason for it. It also serves as a place to attach a 'book cover' similar to Apple's Smart Cover, available for £24 from the Google Play Store.
Google Nexus 10 review: Hardware
If you're after a tablet with impressive specifications then the Nexus 10 will satisfy. Samsung has equipped it with its own 1.7GHz Exynos 5250, a dual-core processor based on the ARM Cortex-A15 architecture. Backing this up is an impressive 2GB of RAM.
In the GeekBench 2 test the Nexus 10 crushed its rivals with a score of 2505. A new tablet record proving this is one speedy tablet. Its nearest competition, the iPad 4, scored 1769.
The Nexus 10 couldn't beat the iPad in every benchmark, though. It scored an average of 1329ms in the SunSpider JavaScript test – a respectable result but the iPad 4 managed a swift 854ms.
In terms of graphics, the Nexus 10 is very competent. In the GLBenchmark test it managed a good 27fps thanks to its quad-core Mali-T604 GPU. The result is better than the iPad 3's 22fps but not as good as the iPad 4's 39fps.
Aside from the scientific numbers, performance is excellent. The Nexus 10 quickly responds to any input or command. Apps open quickly and pinch zooming in the Chrome browser is silky smooth.
There are two storage options to choose from with the Nexus 10 – 16GB of 32GB. Like Apple, Google has decided to not include a microSD card slot for additional storage. If 32GB isn't enough then you'll have to opt for a tablet with a memory card slot or a higher capacity of internal storage.
The last two iPads have had an impressive Retina quality screen as a great selling point. The Nexus 10 goes even further with a whopping 2560 x 1600 resolution – the same as the 13in MacBook Pro with Retina display. Google calls it the "world's highest resolution tablet display".
A pixel density of 300ppi is nothing short of incredible. Everything displayed on the screen looks super sharp and detailed. We found the screen very responsive and viewing angles are astounding.
At 16:10 the aspect ratio is good for watching films, and there's also the bonus of front facing stereo speakers – much more appropriate than a lot of tablets which have rear facing mono speakers.
The Nexus 10 is well connected with Bluetooth and dual-band 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi with MIMO (multiple input multiple output) antennae and Wi-Fi Direct. There's also NFC (near-field communications) and GPS. If you want mobile data on-the-go you'll have to tether the Nexus 10 as there is no 3G or 4G model.
As we said earlier, the Nexus 10 has a microUSB port for charging and connecting to a PC. It also has, to our delight, a micro HDMI port so you can connect the tablet to an external display like a TV or a monitor. Sadly, a cable isn't provided in the box.
Lastly, there's a 'Magnetic Pogo pin charger' on the bottom edge of the tablet. However, at the time of writing, there's nothing in the box to use with this and we can't find a docking station to purchase anywhere. We assume accessories will arrive in due course.
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- Unit Description
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- Assessment Tool
- an assessor resource that builds a framework for writing an assessment tool
- Assessment Template
- generate a spreadsheet for marking this unit in a classroom environment. Put student names in the top row and check them off as they demonstrate competenece for each of the unit's elements and performance criteria.
- Assessment Matrix
- a slightly different format than the assessment template. A spreadsheet with unit names, elements and performance criteria in separate columns. Put assessment names in column headings to track which performance criteria each one covers. Good for ensuring that you've covered every one of the performance criteria with your assessment instrument (all assessement tools together).
- Wiki Markup
- mark up the unit in a wiki markup codes, ready to copy and paste into a wiki page. The output will work in most wikis but is designed to work particularly well as a Wikiversity learning project.
- Evidence Guide
- create an evidence guide for workplace assessment and RPL applicants
- Competency Mapping Template
- Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners. A template for developing assessments for a unit, which will help you to create valid, fair and reliable assessments for the unit, ready to give to trainers and students
- Observation Checklist
- create an observation checklist for workplace assessment and RPL applicants. This is similar to the evidence guide above, but a little shorter and friendlier on your printer. You will also need to create a seperate Assessor Marking Guide for guidelines on gathering evidence and a list of key points for each activity observed using the unit's range statement, required skills and evidence required (see the unit's html page for details)
- Self Assessment Survey
- A form for students to assess thier current skill levels against each of the unit's performance criteria. Cut and paste into a web document or print and distribute in hard copy.
- Moodle Outcomes
- Create a csv file of the unit's performance criteria to import into a moodle course as outcomes, ready to associate with each of your assignments. Here's a quick 'how to' for importing these into moodle 2.x
- Registered Training Organisations
- Trying to find someone to train or assess you? This link lists all the RTOs that are currently registered to deliver ICPCF341C, 'Set up machine for complex sequenced or multiple folding'.
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1.3. Availability of all job related components is checked
2. Set up reel system (OR Element 3)
2.1. Unwind and rewind reels are set up and adjusted according to job specifications
2.2. Webbing procedures are carried out according to job specifications
2.3. Web control system is set up and adjusted according to job specifications
2.4. Reels are spliced/joined according to job specifications
2.5. Folder and sheeter are set up and adjusted according to job specifications
3. Set up sheet system (OR Element 2)
3.1. Feeder is set up and adjusted according to job specifications
3.2. Double/misfeed detectors are set up according to job specifications
3.3. Sheet pick-up and transportation system is set up and adjusted according to job specifications
3.4. Transfer systems are set up and adjusted according to job specifications
3.5. Material delivery is set up and adjusted according to job specifications
4. Set up machine for complex sequenced or multiple folding
4.1. Buckle/knife folding units are set up and adjusted according to job specifications
4.2. Folding rollers/belts/rails are set up and adjusted according to job specifications
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5.1. Minor in-line printing/converting/binding units are set up for basic processes and adjusted according to machine requirements and job specifications
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6. Conduct sample run
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6.2. Machine is set up and operated to produce a specified sample according to OHS requirements, manufacturer's specifications and enterprise procedures
6.3. Sample is visually inspected and/or tested or laboratory testing is organised according to enterprise procedures
6.4. Results are interpreted to determine adjustment requirements
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FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2008 file photo, author Philip Roth poses for a photo in the offices of his publisher Houghton Mifflin, in New York. Roth, 79, has said that after looking back on his long and prolific career he decided he had written enough. The novel "Nemesis," published in 2010, apparently will be his last. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)
NEW YORK (AP) — Philip Roth, 79 and looking fit in recent photographs, has said that after looking back on his long and prolific career he decided he had written enough. The novel "Nemesis," published in 2010, apparently will be his last.
Other authors, some of them years older, are carrying on.
Elmore Leonard, winner this year of an honorary National Book Award, is 87 and says the prize inspired him to write more novels. The winner of the National Book Award for poetry, David Ferry, is 88. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, 81, had a novel out in the spring and has said she's working on a new one. Tom Wolfe's "Back to Blood" came out this fall and he has more fiction and nonfiction planned.
"Being an octogenarian is just a hobby of mine," Wolfe, 81, says with a laugh, "something I do at night."
Just this fall, new works came out from 97-year-old novelist Herman Wouk, 93-year-old poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and 90-year-old historian Bernard Bailyn. Author-playwright A.E. Hotchner, 92, has a book of essays about aging due in February. The first novel in more than 30 years by James Salter, 87, will be published in April. The first novel by William Gass, 88, since 1995, is expected in March.
"I think that the barriers have pretty well fallen," says Hotchner, whose career dates back to adapting the stories of his friend Ernest Hemingway for 1950s television productions. "When Hemingway died, he was 61 and he really looked old. Writers used to fade out by the time they were 70. A phenomenon like Herman Wouk was virtually unheard of."
Hotchner and others say that thanks to better medical care and cleaner living, creative expectancy has never been higher. Nathaniel Hawthorne was just 59 when he died, in 1864, and had described himself as "wrinkled with time and trouble." Some of the greatest 20th century authors, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to John Steinbeck to William Faulkner, were heavy drinkers and never made it to 70. Gass likes to joke that authors now live longer because of "better booze."
"During the 1950s, the academic world was full of people who drank too much," Gass says. "The parties were cocktail parties and pretty potent. Now, there are dinners with nice wines."
"Ernest (Hemingway) said that life is like a bank account and how you use it is your determination," Hotchner says. "You can withdraw it in a hurry and live a very short life. Or you can be more careful, not that you baby yourself, but that some moderation is necessary."
Wouk's editor, Jonathan Karp, says that Wouk has always taken good care of himself. The author's first book came out more than 60 years ago, but his lifestyle has remained steady — work, family and religious faith, studying the Torah daily. The author of such favorites as "The Caine Munity" and "The Winds of War" keeps up with modern trends, working in Skype and text messages for his latest, "The Lawgiver."
"He has such vitality," Karp says. "I was on the phone with him the other day discussing our publishing campaign for about an hour and he finally ended the conversation because his personal trainer had just arrived."
Gass says that he had heart problems a few years ago and may well have died without receiving stents, a procedure unavailable before the 1980s. The author of "Omensetter's Luck" and other books didn't simply recover, but had the mental and physical power to expand a short work of fiction into his new novel, "Middle C."
Salter's upcoming novel is called "All That Is," the story of a book editor and his romances that retains the themes of erotic exhilaration and emotional distance of such previous works as "A Sport and a Pastime" and "Light Years." He has worked through much of his 80s on "All That Is," aware that at a certain age the mind does not quicken or expand, but also compelled by nature to continue.
"You can't stop writing," says Salter, who notes that Roth is reportedly in active correspondence with his biographer, Blake Bailey. "Even if you say you're not writing books anymore, you're making notes, perhaps writing in your journal. I dare say, even when you feel, 'Christ, I can't do it anymore,' you're still observing life and taking things in. You're thinking, 'I'd love to write that story. I wonder how I'd do it?'"


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5 Cute Hairdos to Wear Under Your Winter Hat
Floppy Hat: Tousled Curls
Subtle, understated curls will allow the hat to take center focus but still create a put-together look, says Mika Fowler, a Beverly Hills-based hairstylist who works with Olivia Munn, Emma Roberts, and Annalyne McCord. "It also diminishes the volume that is taken up from the floppy hat by not creating any bulk." Here's her step-by-step:
1. Work about a dime-sized amount of a light serum through damp or dry hair for shine. Fowler recommends Joico's Reconstructive Color Therapy Oil.
2. Using a 1-inch curling iron, curl the hair in equal sections, stopping about halfway up since your hat will cover the top of your hair.
3. As each curl falls, lightly spritz with hairspray to keep the curl locked in without a sticky feeling.
Looks best on: rectangle faces
Fedora: Asymmetrical Styles
Whether you wear it straight or angled, "the brim of a fedora compliments an asymmetrical hairstyle by creating interesting lines, which has slimming effects to the face," says Meaghan Frayne, artistic development director at Manhattan's Angelo David Salon. Tresemmé celebrity stylist John D, who styles Selena Gomez, suggests this technique.
1. Using a small-barrel curling iron, curl one-inch sections of hair, gently pulling on each strand after you release the barrel to loosen the curl.
2. Once all your hair is curled, create a deep side part and pull your hair over one shoulder.
3. Gently brush through to create smooth waves, and fasten with bobby pins at the nape of the neck to secure the style.
Looks best on: round faces
Beanie or Beret: Side-Swept Bangs
"Both hats are great to show off long bangs and showcase your face, which looks longer in a beanie or beret," says Andre Walker, seven-time Emmy-winning celebrity hairstylist. You don't even need bangs to pull off this look if you follow his steps.
1. If you have long bangs, sweep them to the side, using a little hair pomade so they stay put. Bangless? Part your hair down the middle.
2. Pull the rest of your hair into a ponytail, flip it up and cover it with the hat so only your bangs are visible.
Looks best on: square faces
Newsboy Cap: Faux Bob
Since only the top of your head is covered, a newsboy is perfect to show off a real or faux bob, as the hat will draw eyes to the bottom of this short cut. John D explains how to create a faux bob that looks real.
1. Curl 1- to 2-inch sections of hair with a medium-barrel curling iron.
2. Use a rat-tail comb to create a horseshoe-shaped part that goes from one corner of the hairline (just above the arch of the eyebrow) to the next. Clip this hair up.
3. Take the rest of your hair and back-brush just enough to get the hair to "come together." Lightly smooth any unruly frizz and spritz with hairspray to hold it.
4. Beginning at the nape of the neck, roll up sections of hair, wrapping them around two fingers to tuck under and create a faux bob. Pin into place with bobby pins and continue rolling hair up and pinning on the sides, aiming to keep the length even.
5. Once all hair is pinned, unclip the top section of hair and fine-tune the final style. (The shorter layers of your hair can hang over the bobbed length or they can be tucked and pinned as well.)
Looks best on: heart faces
Trapper Hat: Top Knot
"These are such a fashion statement on their own that it is best to show off the hat as much as possible," Walker says. Pull your tresses up so they easily hide under the trapper and let it have all the attention with John D's tips.
1. Roughly blow-dry hair to add texture.
2. Curl 1 1/2- to 2-inch sections of hair using a 1-inch curling iron. (The idea is to create a round movement to the hair, which helps your locks wrap easily into a nice, round bun.)
3. Secure hair into a high ponytail at the crown, then backcomb the pony and twist it into a loose top knot, securing with pins (don't worry if it's a little messy since it'll be hidden). Cover with your hat.
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Moderator: Cartographers
natty_dread wrote:As for the towers, they will likely be redrawn at some point. In fact I believe a lot of the graphics of this map will be changed/improved somewhat after the gameplay is fixed in place.
natty_dread wrote:isaiah40 wrote:Heirn Tower/Wizard has a very big advantage over Tamar wizard/tower. Heirn can get the shrine and village long before Tamar can get the unicorn/gold bonus. Heirn has to go through 12 neutrals to receive the shrine village bonus. Heirn now has approxiamately 7 men per turn plus the +2 auto on the village while Tamar is getting the minimum of 5. In a couple of more turns Heirn now has Spirit guard and receiving 10 men per turn while Tamar is fighting to get 5. I suggest swapping Mana5 and S06 around. In this way it will give Tamar an opportunity to at least have a fighting chance.
Swapping Mana5 away from Tamar is not a really good idea, the Mana fountain after all gives an instant bonus so depriving Tamar of it would do more harm to him than good I think...
What if I move the unicorn from Ta08 to Ta09 so Tamar has fewer neutrals to get to the gold and shrine?
isaiah40 wrote:Um, yea, sorry forgot about this. Anyways, looking at this again, how about moving the shrine at S06 to TA5? Yes Tamar tower will have to go through 2 more neutrals to get the bonus. Not exactly the same as Heirm Tower, but at least Tamar will have a chance. You can then leave the unicorn where it is to help block Heirm a little from getting the second shrine.
iancanton wrote:is it possible to widen the heim river, move the s06 shrine to s04 and move the s04 boat to s06?
iancanton wrote: also, all towers are 2 steps away from the nearest bonus, except heim, who is only one away. swapping he07 with mana6 is an easy fix.
iancanton wrote:the other change i'd like to see is for the n04 shrine to move to me06 to provide some protection for merin tower (especially from aris tower, but also from forces coming via the n05 boat) if desired or an alternative bonus to mana2 if combined with deyr village. merin is fairly easily reached from most towers except heim.
natty_dread wrote:iancanton wrote: also, all towers are 2 steps away from the nearest bonus, except heim, who is only one away. swapping he07 with mana6 is an easy fix.
Actually, that'd bring the shrine even closer to Heim, and that won't do... I'll just redraw some regions to make the distance 2.
Victor Sullivan wrote:moving Mana5 to Ta06 would give Tamar a well enough bump
Victor Sullivan wrote: IMO, Merin is the one that's screwed. It doesn't have any real accessible resource pairs (even the Mana Fount is a bit more than a hop and a skip away), plus it has to deal with Aris, since Aris can only go toward Merin. I still think Aris needs an alternate route.
natty dread wrote:Victor Sullivan wrote:moving Mana5 to Ta06 would give Tamar a well enough bump
All the mana founts are at distance 3 from their tower... well except for Aris which is 4. Anyway I'm not convinced that moving the mana fount closer would give a sufficient "bump", it just means 2 less neutrals to go through to get the same bonus...
natty dread wrote:There is an alternate route for Aris, the ferry at N05. And Merin has a mana fount in an easily defensible place, along with a shrine nearby... to me it seems Merin's got nothing to worry about.
Victor Sullivan wrote:True, but getting a slight head start would help. And I think the relative sparsity of his 'dominion', if you will, could leave him under-the-radar enough to secure it. Moving the Mana Fount closer (even to Ta02) could help him get a head start on this... It's something to think about at least.
Victor Sullivan wrote:What if you moved the ferry from N05 to N03?
Victor Sullivan wrote:Alternatively, perhaps adding a shrine to S01 would do well? It seems to me that would put Tamar at a relatively even standing with Heim.
isaiah40 wrote:Victor Sullivan wrote:Alternatively, perhaps adding a shrine to S01 would do well? It seems to me that would put Tamar at a relatively even standing with Heim.
This would work, and you can leave the manna Fount where it is. This will give Tamar an equal chance.
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"Our Cultural Center" Episode 7 continues to bring us into a non-profit arts world with comedy.
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Cheap bus tickets from Pretoria to Nelspruit
1 bus schedules from Pretoria to Nelspruit on Wednesday, May 27. Price starting at ZAR 280.00 traveling on Intercape
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Bus prices to Nelspruit costs between ZAR 280.00 to ZAR 280.00 each seat.
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This bus route leaves at 05:30 from Pretoria.
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This bus price from Pretoria costs about ZAR 280.00.
The bus fares can vary from onboard bus services, daily promotions and bus seats availability.
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On average, find 1 daily schedules to Nelspruit from Pretoria.
Usually are 7 departures every week on this bus route.
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It is an average of 1 bus times every day.
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On this journey to Nelspruit, you get on board at Pretoria.
Moreover on arrival, get off the bus at Nelspruit.
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The first bus to Nelspruit is at 05:30.
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The government's first estimate of economic growth at the beginning of 2018 was better than expected: GDP increased at a 2.3 percent annual rate in the first quarter, the Commerce Department said Friday — above Wall Street estimates of 2 percent.
This first read on economic growth is, for better or for worse, being seen by some as a test of the efficacy of the Republican tax cuts. The Trump administration has promised 3 percent GDP growth or better, due in large part to the tax cuts that were passed late last year. At that rate, sustained over many years, the tax "plan will pay for itself with growth," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said last week, not for the first time.
The Commerce Department report contains plenty of mixed messages. On the one hand, economic growth slowed from the 2.9 percent rate recorded in the fourth quarter, despite the tax cuts taking effect in January.
On the other hand, the growth was indeed stronger than expected. The first quarter typically sees slower growth due to weather and post-holiday cutbacks, so the falloff was no surprise, and supporters of the tax cuts have room to argue that the better-than-expected results were driven at least in part by the tax cuts.
But the signals are far from clear, and the data can be sliced and diced to support any number of conclusions.
For example, Greg Ip of The Wall Street Journal said in a series of tweets Friday morning that the data from the fourth quarter was likely distorted by post-hurricane vehicle purchases and home repair; excluding auto sales and residential investment results in stronger growth numbers for the first quarter. Making other adjustments to the data related to fluctuations in the oil market produce a growth estimate close to the 3 percent Republican target.
At the same time, some of the data point to an economy that is still below the 3 percent growth level. J.P. Morgan economist Michael Feroli said that "much of the upside surprise in the headline number was accounted for by stronger-than-expected federal government spending," which he expects will be revised lower. Former Obama economic adviser Jason Furman noted that the first quarter number was boosted by a "volatile inventory buildup" that will not likely be repeated.
Looking at the data as a whole, Bloomberg's Sho Chandra concluded that "the results underline the difficulty of achieving President Donald Trump's goal of 3 percent sustained growth, despite corporate and individual tax cuts that went into effect in January."
Why it matters: Ultimately, a single data point, itself an initial estimate, covering a few months can't tell us definitively about the success or failure of the tax cuts, or anything else for that matter. The question itself is important — Nick Timiraos of The Wall Street Journal tweeted that this "disagreement matters because you end up with large deficits if Trump is wrong" – but one report isn't going to settle the issue.
The bottom line: The great majority of economists agree that the GOP's fiscal stimulus will boost growth in the next year or two; the question is what happens after that. And we won't know the answer to that question for several years at least. As Greg Ip put it in the conclusion to his "tweetstorm" on the GDP report, "Bottom line: Trump promised 3% sustained supply-sided growth; a demand-driven burst lasting from 2017 to 2019 doesn't qualify. It will be a while before we know if the U.S. got the former, not just the latter."
A final point: The Commerce Department report makes it clear that its initial report is "based on source data that are incomplete or subject to further revision by the source agency," and a second take on first quarter growth will be released on May 30. Joseph Lavorgna, chief economist at the investment bank Natixis, points out that GDP revisions are typically quite large, more than a full percentage point on average since 2000. That means that the range for the revised growth estimate is between 0.8 percent and 3.8 percent — a large enough spread to conclude that the initial report is little more than "statistical noise," Lavorgna wrote in a note to clients Friday.


text: Like the title said, this was 100 times harder than Algalon, we must have wiped on this for atleast 8 hours. If this link doesn't work search, "Play(3 manned) vs Sartharion 3 Drakes" on youtube. Much love and thanks for the encouragement of more videos like this from you guys! Love you all.


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Pre 1.1 BoEA was undeniably too potent. Instead of using a measured tool to nerf it you smashed it with a sledge hammer. The initial redesign was not even worth the points nor putting on a hotbar, the current 3 still don't provide enough sustain.
I could understand if you didn't want people to sustain solo but then you have Mages and Clerics running around palming the keyboard with impunity while Warriors (who don't outgear the area) have to stick to small pulls and drink inbetween.
These abilities still aren't worth speccing into. The sustainable specs solo incredibly slow and are also for the most part energy starved.
I don't want an easymode button but make them more potent or redesign them. Perhaps a large heal on CD or a Temp buff on a CD with the pre 1.11 healing on it, anything but the garbage heals they currently provide.
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to be prodded by the sharp edges,
and dripping red life onto their preys shadow"
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capn crunch was my fav cereal as a kid. Product looks good.
iNViCTuS - I tried to Email you, but it bounced. Email to me: firstname.lastname@example.com if you want to talk to me privately.
Whoa.. it's THE Captain Crunch.. What an honor. One of the worlds greatest hackers/phreaks of all time. If for some odd reason there's some one who dosen't know who John Draper is, here's a link to his site: http://www.webcrunchers.com/crunch/P...tory/home.html
I look forward to reading more of your post and threads.
I have to say. It's an honor to finally meet Cap'n Crunch. And here at our own AO Forums! Well Cap. . . . Just wanted to say Welcome. I hope you enjoy ur stay here at AO. Looking forward to reading your posts. Take care.
- Rogue
"Never give in-never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy!" - Winston Churchill
RogueSpy here is another link you may need. www.chapstick.com
Nobody like their ass kissed with chapped lips....
Bite me Quad! :P
Thanx, I'm honored to be here, but tommorrow I travel to Instanbul Turkey to speak at a security conference. So not sure if I'll have an opportunity to particiapte while on my trip. Perhaps when I get to Amsterdam, I might have time to do this.
Captian....Nice to see a fellow Californian here. Stockton huh....nice place. I am here from Sacramento.
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What I'm reading at the Watcher's Council
You can read this great stuff too:
Council Submissions
- The Political Commentator – Hurricane Sandy has been a "big f—ing deal!" in New York and New Jersey!
- The Noisy Room – Even Without Bread, We Must Have Circuses
- The Colossus of Rhodey – What the Right constantly has to deal with
- Rhymes With Right – Thus Ends Any Semblance Of Relevance Of Civil Rights Leaders
- The Razor – The Health Care Rebellion Begins
- GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD – Winning Friends and Influencing People
- Gay Patriot – After 4 years of Hope & Change, Nation Is More Divided Than Ever
- Bookworm Room – A foreign policy/war powers law establishes that the unnecessary deaths in Benghazi were Obamas responsibility
- The Right Planet – #BenghaziQuiddick
- The Mellow Jihadi – Military Doctors, They Are Special
- VA Right! – Poll Skew Report: Skew History for Each Poll
- Joshuapundit–A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
- The Independent Sentinel – We Are All Socialists Now
- Simply Jews – Did Tzipi Livni have sex with Arabs when working for Mossad?
- The Glittering Eye –It's Not The Country…
Honorable Mentions
- Right Reason – Returning to the Hallowed Halls of Higher Education
- Ask Marion – Picking a U.S. President… in 2012… Now Just One Day Away From a New Start
- The Prate's Cove – Racist Democrats Fail To Elect African Americans West And Love
Non-Council Submissions
- Yid With Lid –The Jewish Star Endorses Mitt Romney submitted by The Political Commentator
- Mark Steyn –Biggest Big Government can't keep lights on submitted by The Noisy Room
- OpenMarket.Org – Did Bush Save General Motors? Obama Messed Up Chrysler submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
- Georgia Tip Sheet – Lowery: all whites are going to hell submitted by Rhymes with Right
- Via Meadia – Why the Ambassador Died submitted by The Razor
- Telegraph – Could Iran's Supreme Leader be more cautious than we think? submitted by GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD
- Bing West/The Corner –Cynicism Confirmed submitted by Gay Patriot
- Barry Rubin–One Thousand and One Articles Later: Why Obama Should be Voted Out of Office Today submitted by Bookworm Room
- American Thinker – Obama's Taqqiya Unravels submitted by The Right Planet
- Chicago Boyz –Decline is Not Inevitable submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
- Daily Caller – The Daily Caller's guide to getting drunk on election night submitted by VA Right!
- Michelle Malkin – Obama gets his "revenge," but conservatives must stand tall submitted by Joshuapundit
- The Foundry – Now Is a Time for Commitment submitted by The Watcher


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As House Republicans scrambled to finish drafting their tax bill, President Trump tossed a new issue into the debate, tweeting his support for including the repeal of the Obamacare individual mandate as part of the tax overhaul.
The idea is being promoted by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) mentioned it on Fox news minutes before Trump's tweet. House Ways and Means chair Kevin Brady had dismissed the proposal earlier this week, but it may be in play on Capitol Hill now that the president is expressing support — and now that Republicans are so obviously struggling to find new sources of revenue for their bill.
A CBO report from last December found that repealing the individual mandate — which would result in 15 million fewer people having health insurance by 2026 and thus lower federal spending on subsidies and care — would reduce the deficit by $416 billion over 10 years, a big number that could be applied to the revenue losses caused by tax cuts.


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GSC @ Dartmouth necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 351 diseños de 69 diseñadores freelance.
Dartmouth Graduate Programs
Dartmouth's graduate programs are small and selective and are designed to provide more flexibility than the professional Ph.D. program usually allows. Breadth within the discipline, significant teaching experience, and a broadly conceived research-thesis project are the basic elements in each of the programs. Research achievement is naturally the most fundamental aspect of the Ph.D. program, and the limited enrollment in each program ensures the student a close apprentice/colleague relationship with his or her research supervisor. Most students are expected to teach during part of their graduate career, and considerable emphasis is placed on carefully supervised teaching experience of increasing responsibility.
Current and Prospective Graduate Students
This Logo will serve as Dartmouth Graduate Studies' Logo.
1) The logo MUST be in theme (i.e., substantially similar in width, length, style, typeface, and general direction of the design) with the other logos of the graduate professional schools at Dartmouth. Please note that all these logos are in crest/shield style. Links to the graduate and professional schools can be found here:
Dartmouth Medical School at:
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2) The logo should not include words. All letters should go either under, above or on the side the logo where we can use the logo independently (i.e., without words).
3) The founding date of the Graduate Programs should be on the logo. We
were founded in 1960.
4) The features inside should involve the river water wave present in the other three logos as two lines with two peaks, and might involve the current logo with a tree, but does not have to.
5) The logo must be single-color (green and white) in Dartmouth green*. Ultimately we would like to produce it in different colors, sometimes
black and white and sometimes green and white.
*The "official" Dartmouth color is Pantone Matching System (PMS) 349. On the web, it's expressed as #00693E; the CMYK equivalent is C93 M33 Y92 K25. If that's all too technical, the color commonly called "forest green" is the closest equivalent."
6) The logo is to represent Dartmouth as a long-standing and highly respected institution of higher learning. Please read up on Dartmouth history.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two dozen business, labor and civic leaders, including the chief executives of major U.S. corporations such as Ford, IBM and Wal-Mart, will meet President Barack Obama to discuss how to control the federal deficit, said the White House on Monday.
Obama was scheduled to meet labor and civic leaders on Tuesday, followed by a meeting with business executives on Wednesday. A White House official said the leaders would discuss "the best ways to move our economy forward and find a balanced approach to reduce the deficit."
Unless the president and lawmakers agree, a combination of tax increases and government spending cuts will take effect in early 2013, the so-called fiscal cliff that would reduce the deficit but harm the U.S. economy.
Expected at the meeting on Tuesday were four labor leaders - Mary Kay Henry of the Service Employees International Union, Lee Saunders of the public employees union AFSCME, Dennis Van Roekel of the National Education Association and Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO, the umbrella organization for U.S. labor.
Also at the session on Tuesday would be leaders of civic and politically progressive groups. They were John Podesta and Neera Tanden of the Center for American Progress, Robert Greenstein of the think tank Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Laura Burton Capps of Common Purpose Project, Max Richtman of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security, Justin Ruben of MoveOn and Deepak Bhargava of Center for Community Change.
Business executives invited to meet the president on Wednesday were Mark Bertolini of Aetna Inc, Ursula Burns of Xerox Corp, Kenneth Chenault of American Express Co, David Cote of Honeywell International Inc, Michael Duke of Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric Co, Andrew Liveris of Dow Chemical Co, Robert McDonald of Procter & Gamble Co, Alan Mulally of Ford Motor Co, Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo Inc, Ginni Rometty of IBM, and John Watson of Chevron Corp.
Reporting by Charles Abbott; Editing by Lisa Shumaker


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Among all the changes happening to FamilySearch.org, they have moved the TechTips site to be integrated into the FamilySearch.org Blog. It is now in a list of categories for the Blog and the posts will appear in chronological order. You might notice, however, that there seems to be some issues with the RSS Feed. I have subscribed several times and sometimes the posts appear and sometimes I find that they have not.
We are having a lot of discussion about the status of the FamilySearch.org website at the Mesa FamilySearch Library because of the changes to Family Tree and other parts of the site, it has been up and down all the past week. I guess we all need to be patient with changes.
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New York Avenue Beach Bar
U.S. & World
Opening: Mid May
645 New York Ave. NW, Washington, DC
This soon-to-be hot spot is going to steal the hearts of every beach lover in the tristate area. The multiple bars will be laid out on top of nearly 80 tons of sand and furnished with patio decor including lounge chairs and picnic tables. Customers are welcome to lounge or get rowdy with a selection of cheap beer and rum punch. The owners have signed a deal with a food truck to pull right into the bar to serve only the best and greasiest food drinkers tend to crave. Sounds like heaven on earth to me.
Bainbridge Street Barrel House
Opening: Labor Day Weekend
625 Bainbridge St., Philadelphia, PA
Mario Fetfatzes of the Bella Vista Beer Distributors family has begun renovating a three-story vacant corner building on Sixth and Bainbridge streets. Fetfatzes' big plans for the space include a 30-tap system of unique beers, whisky and wine.
Superba Snack Bar
Opening: Early June
533 Rose Ave., Venice, CA
Top chef extraordinaire Jason Neroni has partnered with Paul Hibler on several projects but most recently hitting the press is Superba Snack Bar, a "pastaria" that is sure to be bursting with flavor and style.
Opened: Late March
1935 West Ave., Miami Beach, FL
This 1,800-square-foot juice bar offers more than 28 "alive" juices made from fresh, preservative-free fruits and vegetables such as the Spicy Pie, Root Chakra and the Total S.C.A.M., which contains maca (a natural stimulant). Founder Matthew Sherman has been a holistic life coach and has supplied South Beach with his own unique cleanses.
Opened: March 30
2842 South Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach, FL
Malcolm's replaces the Bernstein project, owned by Omphoy Ocean Resort. Chef Michael Wurster, an alum of Le Cirque and Lutece, will offer fresh Florida cuisine along the lines of sea urchin custard with lobster royale and caviar. The menu will offer two options—a five-course meal or a nine-course meal—so come hungry.
H-Town Streats
Available: April 25- May 5
Various locations, Houston, TX
From April 25 to May 5 this globally inspired Houston food truck will serve one free bizarre taco concoction to each customer. Delicacies includes grilled shark, fried alligator, crickets and scorpions inside a taco shell (what!?). Wonder why anyone would put such despicable meats and insects into a taco? There really isn't a reason, just bragging rights that you ate alligator.
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Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 manual page repository
Ubuntu is a free computer operating system based on the Linux kernel. Many IT companies, like DeployIS is using it to provide an up-to-date, stable operating system.
Provided by: xscreensaver-data_4.24-5ubuntu2_i386
sonar - display a sonar scope
sonar [-ping hosts-or-subnets] [-background color] [-sweep-color color] [-low-color color] [-scope-color color] [-grid-color color] [-text-color color] [-ttl integer] [-font font] [-ping-timeout int] [-team-a-name string] [-team-b-name string] [-team-a-count int] [-team- b-count int] [-no-dns] [-no-times] [-debug]
The sonar program displays a sonar scope on the computer's screen. This scope polls a sensor as the sweep goes around the scope and dis‐ plays what it finds as bogies on the screen. The program is designed to support different modes representing different types of sensors. Currently the only implemented sensors are a simulator, and a network ping function that pings hosts and plots the results on the scope.
sonar understands the following options: -background Color The background Color of the screen not covered by the scope. -sweep-color Color The color of the brightest part of the sweep. -scope-color Color The color of the circular part of the scope. -grid-color Color The color to the grid lines overlaying the scope. -text-color Color The color of the text identifying bogies on the scope. -ttl integer "Time to live": visible time of a Bogie. Try values between 10 (very short) and 100. -font font The font used to display text on the scope. Default "fixed". -ping-timeout int The amount of time in milliseconds the program will wait for an answer to a ping. -ping hosts-or-subnets The list of things to ping, separated by commas or spaces. Elements of this list may be: simulation to run in simulation mode, instead of pinging real hosts (this is the default if the program is not installed setuid); hostname to ping the given host; A.B.C.D to ping the given IP address; subnet to ping the local class C subnet (the nearest 255 addresses); subnet/NN to ping a different-sized local subnet: e.g., sub net/28 would ping a 4-bit subnet (the nearest 15 addresses); A.B.C.D/NN to ping an arbitrary other subnet: the IP address specifies the base address, and the part after the slash is how wide the subnet is. Typical values are /24 (for 255 addresses) and /28 (for 15 addresses.) filename to ping the hosts listed in the given file. This file can be in the format used by /etc/hosts, or it can be any file that has host names as the first element on each line. If you use ssh, try this: sonar -ping $HOME/.ssh/known_hosts -no-dns Do not attempt to resolve IP addresses to hostnames. -no-times Do not display ping times beneath the host names. -team-a-name string In simulation mode, the name of team A. -team-b-name string In simulation mode, the name of team B. -team-a-count int In simulation mode, the number of bogies on team A. -team-b-count int In simulation mode, the number of bogies on team B.
Configuration of the targets to ping is best done by setting X Resources. background (Color) See option -background, above; default value is black. sweepColor (Color) See option -sweep-color, above; default value is #00ff00. scopeColor (Color) See option -scope-color, above; default value is #003300. gridColor (Color) See option -grid-color, above; default value is #00aa00. textColor (Color) See option -text-color, above; default value is #ffff00. ttl (integer) See option -ttl, above; default value is 90 or one sweep. ping (string) See option -ping, above. If set to default, it will ping the contents of /etc/hosts if possible, otherwise, will run in sim‐ ulation-mode. font (font) See option -font, above; default value is fixed. pingTimeout (Integer) See option -pingtimeout, above; default value is 3000. teamAName string See option -team-a-name, above. Default value is F18. teamBName string See option -teamBName, above. Default value is MIG. teamACount int See option -teamACount, above. Default value is 4. teamBCount int See option -teamBCount, above. Default value is 4.
In order to use the ping sensor, this program must be installed as setuid root, so that it can create an ICMP socket. Root privileges are disavowed shortly after startup (just after connecting to the X server and reading the resource database) so this is believed to be a safe thing to do, but it is usually recommended that you have as few setuid programs around as possible, on general principles. chown root.root sonar chmod u+s sonar In ping-mode, the display is a logarithmic scale, calibrated so that the three rings represent ping times of approximately 2.5, 70 and 2,000 milliseconds respectively. This means that if any the hosts you are pinging take longer than 2 seconds to respond, they won't show up; and if you are pinging several hosts with very fast response times, they will all appear close to the center of the screen (making their names hard to read.) ping(8)
Copyright © 1998 by Stephen Martin. <firstname.lastname@example.com> Copyright © 2000-2004 by Jamie Zawinski <firstname.lastname@example.com> Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, pro‐ vided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in sup‐ porting documentation. No representations are made about the suitabil‐ ity of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
Stephen Martin <firstname.lastname@example.com>, 3-nov-98. Thanks to Tom Kelly for suggesting a modular approach to the sensor among other things. Thomas Bahls <email@example.com> hacked the "ttl" option, 12-jul-98. Better subnet support and command-line processing by Jamie Zawinski, 17-Jul-00.