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As part of its Grumpy Editor series, LWN.net looks at PDF viewers including the KDE applications KGhostview and KPDF. The author was impressed by KGhostview and sees a bright future for KPDF.
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So, if kpdf starts adding support for different file formats and all these other cool features, does this mean that kghostview will get phased out? I've always felt that kpdf was kind of unnecessary since it seemed to have just a subset of the features of kghostview, but it looks like soon it will be the other way around. Thoughts?
By Ari at Sun, 2004/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: kghostview vs kpdf
Kpdf does not handle postscript files.
By Luciano at Sun, 2004/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: kghostview vs kpdf
So as with the editor Kghostview will remain because it does something which KPdf can't, right?
What is most important to me is speed.
I think many Windows-users would like to pay a lot of money for a fast pdf browser plugin. Adobe's Reader is a pain and under Linux it is outdated.
By Bert at Sun, 2004/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: kghostview vs kpdf
You didn't read everything Enrico said or his English is too bad? :-D
Almost everything in kpdf is abstracted, i mean, we have a PDF generator class that returns things the skeleton of the apps uses, you could program a PS generator class that provided the same things our PDF generator class provides and the skeleton would be the same. This is the theory and we would probably have some problems as formats offer a different subsets of things, but the viewer would mostly work.
By Albert Astals Cid at Mon, 2004/12/13 - 6:00am
In my experience (freebsd 5.2.1, kde 3.3.1), kpdf if several orders of magnitude faster when rending certain things. In particular, items with high vector contents, such as the maps available here:
However, the loss of vertain functionality sometimes requires that I use kghostview, but rarely. The 30 seconds to draw the map, compared to instant drawing in kpdf is a huge difference.
By Troy Unrau at Sun, 2004/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: Speed
And that certain functionality is? We can fix it if we don't know it.
By Albert Astals Cid at Mon, 2004/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: Speed
I meant "We can't fix it if we don't know it."
By Albert Astals Cid at Mon, 2004/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: Speed
it's not something kghostview provides but two killer features for kpdf would be:
(Let me elaborate on the second point. Too often if the pdf is not perfect/too complex Linux pdf viewers ruin the page size/aspect ratio or print the text upside down. Now the view options often allow to correct that but when you want to print the pdf it absolutely doesn't work and all print settings etc are useless.
By anonymous coward at Mon, 2004/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: Speed
1 is already done in the experimental branch
2 would be a good feature but i think it'll have to wait :-D
By Albert Astals Cid at Mon, 2004/12/13 - 6:00am
How about full screen?
One key feature that I haven't been able to find in kghostview or kpdf right now is the ability to switch full screen. I mean, *real* full screen, not the "full screen" mode of kghostview which keeps the scrollbars and makes an awfull transition between slides. I'm still using acroread because it has a really neat full screen mode that is suitable for presentations. I think having this feature is of higher importance than copying images or text from the document.
I really hope it is going to be implemented in one of these two tools (which are still great anyway) soon. Or even better - in the two. What's the point of using free software to make your slides if you have to rely on proprietary software to display them properly to the audience?
By Gnurou at Mon, 2004/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: How about full screen?
just to confirm - your wish is to hide the scrollbars when you do fullscreen?
Also what do you want changed with the transitions exactly?
By JohnFlux at Mon, 2004/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: How about full screen?
Yes - a fullscreen mode is suitable for doing presentations if it fills these three requirements:
- The screen is only occupied by the current slide (no gui),
So far, kghostview and kpdf lack such a fullscreen mode (and seeing the comments below, I'm not alone to think that :)). I guess the two first points can be easily fixed, and the rendering is already good for both tools. The third point would require some sort of double-buffered rendering, where the next page is rendered off-screen before being displayed. I guess this is what acroread does, since there is a slight delay between pushing the pagedown key and actually seeing the slide appearing.
To have an exact idea of what I mean, just run acroread on a slides presentation and switch to fullscreen mode, then navigate between the slides. Something as neat as fullscreen mode is badly needed, I think.
By Gnurou at Mon, 2004/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: How about full screen?
Ooops - my remark about transitions only applies to kghostview, where it is clearly apparent that the slide is drawn from top to bottom on a white background. Kpdf does them right.
By Gnurou at Mon, 2004/12/13 - 6:00am
PDF Viewers and presentations
I create PDF presentations. As far as I can see neither KPDF nor KGhostview support the fullscreen mode I need for this. Adobe Acrobat does.
By Laurie Savage at Mon, 2004/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: PDF Viewers and presentations
Or: Fullscreen in tabbed fullscreen browser
I use a webbrowser as my primary interface.
By aile at Mon, 2004/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: PDF Viewers and presentations
Will kpdf support all the transition effects in pdf
By Ask at Mon, 2004/12/13 - 6:00am
Still not good enough :(
I wish that once come a day that I can abandon acroread to view PDFs generated by Illustrator or Scribus. So far Acrobat Reader is the only PDF viewer that gets transparencies, embeded fonts and colours right.
By testerus at Mon, 2004/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: Still not good enough :(
What do you mean with "still"? Are you using CVS version from experimental branch?
By Davide Ferrari at Mon, 2004/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: Still not good enough :(
Not yet. How is kpdf more advanced than plain xpdf? Does the CVS-HEAD-Version work with kdelibs 3.3.x ? Is there a dedicated homepage or mailinglist?
By testerus at Mon, 2004/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: Still not good enough :(
Well I wrote those docs, so a bit of explanation and some additional info:
Scribus is arguably the most capable PDF generator of any OSS application. A bit of a brag I know, but I also have the testing with professional PDF pre-press tools to back it up;). Scribus also generates almost the complete set of PDF presentation effects, including: articles,bookmarks, annotations, PDF forms (submit-table with php) and full screen transition effects, javascript in PDF etc . Nothing in the OSS world has come along until Scribus to push the edge on these features and be so capable in pre-press/commercial printing.
I've tried CVS KPDF a week or so ago and it is a major improvement and very encouraging to see. Kudos to the devels. It is far more user friendly than xpdf and has many of the things missing from other OSS viewers. I tested it with a PDF from Scribus, which usually breaks every OSS viewer I have ever tried except for GSview and Ghostscript. Excepting the missing annotations, it rendered just fine.
The reason we recommend Acro Reader is mostly no other PDF viewer properly displays the following: 1) CMYK colors in PDF 2) All the Javascript and PDF Form Features 3) ICC Color Management 4) Correct display of transparency, which is part of the PDF 1.4 spec. 5) Some PDF viewers ignored embedded fonts. 6) Wine does a pretty respectable job of running both Acro Reader and the full Acrobat Professional 5.0.5. Not 6+ yet. So, it is a diffcult recommendation to make, sadly...,but in honesty to our users, no other choice at the moment.
By mrdocs at Tue, 2004/12/14 - 6:00am
kpdf bug...
I ran into a bug in kpdf a few months back, and I'm wondering if its still around or not..
I tried to print a document through kpdf, but it when the printout finished, it was missing the images.. Which made my doc kinda useless (it was mostly screen shots and the like..)
The space was there for the images, just no images..
By garion at Mon, 2004/12/13 - 6:00am
manipulating PDF files
I would love to see KPDF being able to rotate, crop, extract, delete pages etc. Stuff which usually only the professional Adobe Acrobat can do. It's very useful to fix scanned documents.
By Benjamin Nelson at Tue, 2004/12/14 - 6:00am
Removing colors
The feature I would appreciate most (apart of text searching and text/image selections) would be the possibility to remove the dark/gradient background and inverse the colors. So I could print some white-on-black sldes without wasting a lot of ink.
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The Mercenary Review and Bonding Commission (MRBC) is an independent supra-national organisation that serves as the Human Sphere-wide official registrar for all legal mercenary units. Created in 3052, it is the successor of ComStar's Mercenary Review Board (MRB) that previously filled the same role.
The MRBC functions as a mercenary guild, brokering and arbitrating mercenary contracts in the endless wars in the Inner Sphere and also in the Periphery. Apart from registering mercenaries and providing a ranking system to gauge performance and reliability, the MRBC also serves as a court of arbitration in contract disputes for both employers and mercenaries. If a mercenary unit is not registered with the MRB/MRBC then it is usually (but not always) considered to be no legitimate mercenary, and therefore not subject to POW rights, among other drawbacks.
While operated by ComStar as the MRB, it was at the same time also a criminal extradition service, a prisoner exchange and ransoming service, and a banking house. Arbitration of contracts by ComStar's Mercenary Review Board provided a valuable safeguard on both sides, as any unit failing to perform contracted services after taking an advance found itself unable to evade ComStar's almost universal reach. ComStar informed other potential employers of a rogue unit's actions, and had the power to threaten an Interdiction against any House employing such a unit. To ensure fair dealings on the part of employers as well as those they hired, the MRB provided for a panel of ComStar administrators to hear claims concerning breaches of faith and to judge the veracity of complaints. Upon reaching a verdict, the panel broadcasted its findings throughout the Inner Sphere. As the reputations of mercenary units and their employers have a bearing on subsequent negotiations involving other units or Houses, violating contractual terms offered little profit to any concerned[1]. The MRBC still offers all these functions but to a lesser degree, due to being a separate organisation from ComStar.
The Mercenary Review Board[edit]
Formed in 2789 by ComStar founder Jerome Blake, the Mercenary Review Board allowed ComStar agents to serve as brokers for all mercenaries and their employers in the Inner Sphere.[1] The planet Galatea with its numerous Hiring Halls became the "Mercenary's Star", the greatest center of the mercenary trade in the Inner Sphere where mercenaries could train, rest, repair and negotiate their contracts.
While publicly accepted as a means to ensure neutral dealings for all parties, ComStar in truth created and maintained the MRB as a clandestine means to monitor and control mercenary forces. Attempts by mercenaries themselves to setup their own competitors to the MRB, such as the short-lived Mercenaries Guild (2956 — 2968), fell prey to the determined opposition of ComStar to prevent any threat to its role as a neutral arbiter of inter-House dealings.[1]
The rise of Outreach[edit]
The first real change in the mercenary business in centuries occurred over several years, and did not affect the Mercenary Review Board as such. Wolf's Dragoons, one of the premier and most influential mercenary units, were granted the world of Outreach in 3030 and began to establish it as a new Hiring Hall. The center of the Inner Sphere's mercenary business began to gradually shift from Galatea to Outreach.
The end of the Mercenary Review Board[edit]
ComStar lost most of the trust that the powers of the Inner Sphere had previously placed in the organisation because of the ramnifications of the failed Operation SCORPION and when their clandestine collaboration with the invading Clans was revealed in 3052. In the schism that followed the upheaval within the organization, the Word of Blake zealots broke away and ComStar reverted from a mystical sect to a commercial provider of communications and other technology. Bereft of their status as a impartial and trustworthy power, ComStar could not muster the authority anymore to control and arbitrate the mercenary business as they used to. During the peace summit that ComStar Primus Sharilar Mori held on Terra in the spring of 3052, the Draconis Combine announced that they no longer recognized ComStar as a neutral mercenary contract arbitrator; the Capellan Confederation and Federated Commonwealth followed suit. After 263 years, the MRB essentially collapsed.[1]
The Mercenary Review and Bonding Commission[edit]
To salvage something out of the deteriorating situation, Precentor Martial Focht proposed at the summit that ComStar would abandon control of the MRB, and to have it re-form as a jointly administered committee made up of representatives from each government[2]. The defunct MRB was dissolved in 3052 and replaced with the Mercenary Review and Bonding Commission (MRBC) in the same year already[3][4], although the Mercenary Review and Bonding Accords were only signed in 3054[4]. The MRBC essentially took over the MRB's business in what appears to have been a seamless transition.
Besides the five Great Houses of the Inner Sphere, the MRBC was made up of representatives of the Free Rasalhague Republic and the St. Ives Compact. ComStar was allowed to maintain an active seat, and another seat was granted to Wolf's Dragoons, arguably the most famous mercenary unit in existence at the time, as a representative of the mercenaries.
Outreach, the home of Wolf's Dragoons and by now already the premier hiring hall, was chosen as the official home of the new MRBC following a suggestion from the Federated Commonwealth representative at the summit[2]. In reference to Wolf's Dragoons, who represent the mercenary trade and are regarded as the yardstick against which to measure the success of a mercenary unit, the quality ratings for mercenary units established by the MRBC became colloquially known as "Dragoon Rating".
While Outreach had been an important hiring hall before, the establishment of the MRBC spelled the end for Galatea as the official center of the mercenary trade until the Jihad. Galatea subsequently fell on hard times, although it remained a hiring center for less-reputable (or simply less successful) mercenary commands. In 3062 the MRBC returned to set up a satellite office on Galatea, with plans announced for furter MRBC offices on Solaris VII, Arc-Royal and Northwind—a move viewed by many as an attempt to prove the MRBC's neutrality and shed the impression that it was effectively run by Wolf's Dragoons.[5][6]
The scouring of Outreach[edit]
Following the massive destruction inflicted on Outreach by the Jihad in 3067, the MRBC moved back to Galatea, where they had previously only maintained a subsidiary bureau. It is reportedly still active during the Dark Age, still as the primary authority on the mercenary business.[citation needed]


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Chelsea win takes back seat
Chelsea 4 Norwich City 1: FOR CHELSEA, it is the best of times, it is the worst of times. After a weekend in which the Londoners extended their lead at the top of the Premier League with a style befitting a club that have just been crowned European champions for the first time, Chelsea are compelled to confront uglier matters.
The international break offers the club no rest from the accusations of wickedness in which they are caught up. It does, however, give Chelsea a prime opportunity to come up with a convincing response to those accusations. It is essential that the club figure out how to do the right thing.
That could mean much more than fining Ashley Cole for his tweet. The club have launched disciplinary proceedings against their left-back over his scornful online reaction to the publication of the FA-appointed disciplinary panel's reasons for finding the Chelsea captain, John Terry, guilty of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand. "The image of the club is very important to us, of course," said the manager, Roberto Di Matteo, by way of explanation for the decision to take action against Cole.
"We have rules and if anybody breaks them there is disciplinary action taken against them. We strive to have high standards. Hopefully, going forward we can be better in showing those. I wouldn't say I am a disciplinarian but you need rules to be able to work and live together."
That rationale could be used to support much wider action from Chelsea, since Cole's tweet is the least serious of the offences of which some of the club's most senior members have been accused. Chelsea's captain has not only been found to have racially abused an opponent – a grave enough offence in itself – but the clear implication from the FA's 63-page ruling is that he, Cole and club secretary David Barnard were then less than open about it.
Terry will spend the international break consulting with his legal advisers to decide whether to appeal against the panel's ruling and his consequent four-match ban and £220,000 (€272,000) fine. Chelsea say that, in the interests of due process, they will wait to hear Terry's decision and any resulting proceedings before determining what, if any, action they take against him. Chelsea also say they have a view on what Terry should do next and will make it known to him, though the decision ultimately rests with the player.
If Terry accepts his ban and decides against an appeal, Chelsea will have a more important decision than who to play at centre-back for fixtures against Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United. First, they would have to decide whether Terry could remain as captain of a club that professes to have zero tolerance of racism. Then the club would have to decide whether stripping Terry of the captaincy would be punishment enough.
It would not be easy to dismiss a player who has been at the club since his youth, contributed to the most successful period in their history and become such a talismanic personality that he has been tipped to become manager. But it might be harder to make a case for not sacking him. The same could be said of Cole and Barnard at a time when Cole is seeking a lucrative new contract as this one runs out at the end of this season.
England are expected to omit Cole from the squad for the World Cup qualifiers against San Marino and Poland and not only because the defender has a slight ankle injury. Roy Hodgson was contemplating making Cole captain for what would have been his 100th cap against Poland, but the panel's findings and Cole's reaction must now make it unlikely that he will progress beyond the 98 mark.
Di Matteo says that for the moment he is picking his team solely on the basis of performance on the pitch and that is why Cole and Terry started against Norwich. But as they think more on the matter while on a break from competition over the coming week, Chelsea may consider a different approach more appropriate. Even the notion of Cole fulfilling a scheduled appearance on Thursday in the club's shop to sign copies of a book commemorating Chelsea's European Cup win may seem unpalatable.
Di Matteo says the media should concentrate more on the fine football his side are playing – this win was routine thanks to goals from Fernando Torres, Frank Lampard, Eden Hazard and Branislav Ivanovic, after Grant Holt had put the visitors ahead. But until the Terry and Cole cases are satisfactorily resolved, details such as the manner of the goals that gave them a win over Norwich will remain minor.
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The Affordable Care Act covers services from mental health to drug abuse treatment to breast pumps, but not your pearly whites. Jen Wieczner explains on Lunch Break.
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BABSON PARK, Mass.—The visiting MIT Engineers scored twice in each half en route to a 4-0 victory over Babson College this afternoon in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) field hockey action this afternoon. With the victory, MIT earned the NEWMAC regular season title, their first regular season championship since winning the NEW 8 Conference title in 1996.
MIT concludes their regular season at 15-3 (6-2 NEWMAC) while the loss drops Babson to 8-11 (4-4 NEWMAC).
Four different players factored in the scoring including seniors Katie Kaufmann (Olney, Md.) and Anna Teruya (Hockessin, Del.). Sophomores Maddy Wharton (Swarthmore, Penn.) and Molly Duffy (New Providence, N.J.) also added goals for the Engineers. Sophomore goalkeeper Casey Landry (Peabody, Mass.) made four saves to post her sixth shutout of the season for MIT, who has won nine of its last 10 matches.
Teruya opened the scoring just 2:18 into the contest following a penalty corner when she tipped in a shot from Kauffman past Babson goalkeeper Jess Pashos (Winchester, Mass.) and inside the right post for the 1-0 advantage. Just over five minutes later, Duffy added her team-leading 19th goal of the season to give the Engineers a 2-0 lead just 7:34 into the game. Following a scramble in front of the cage, Duffy collected a loose ball and was able to lift her shot over Pashos for the goal.
Kauffman pushed the MIT advantage to 3-0 at 52:28 when she took a cross from Kimberly Barker (Camden, N.Y.) on the right wing and buried a shot from point-blank range inside the left post following a penalty corner. Wharton would score her third goal of the season at 63:11 off a hard shot from just inside the top of the arc off a pass from Duffy to make the final margin 4-0 for Engineers.
Sophomore Morgan Lockwood (Feeding Hills, Mass.) and Courtney Weaving (New Preston, Conn.) led Babson with three and two shots on goals, respectively. Pashos made nine saves in a losing effort for the Beavers.
MIT will be off until next weekend when they will host the NEWMAC semifinals and championship, starting Saturday in Cambridge. Babson College will play a NEWMAC quarterfinal on Tuesday at a time and location to be determined. The conference will release all tournament pairings following the completion of play in all games this weekend.


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Sharyl: What's your comment on the latest that we know about possible viewing of information by Susan Rice under President Obama?
Sen. Graham: If there were incidental contacts, not surveillance, between Trump officials and foreign agents or officials, did Susan Rice have access to that information? Did she request it be unmasked, and what did she do with it? I don't know if that's a crime or not, but I sure am uncomfortable with that. I don't know if she did it, but here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to ask the people who did the collection: did Susan Rice ever request from you the names of people on the Trump team that were caught up in the incidental collection, and did you provide her with any names? Then, if she, if she did, call her in and say, why did you do it and what did you do with the information?
Sharyl: If this was done to President Trump and his team during the campaign at a time when nobody really thought he was going to win, doesn't that raise a question in your mind of whether it was possible it was done to other candidates?
Sen. Graham: Yeah, here's what I don't quite understand. Why should they listen to a conversation between somebody running for President and a foreign agent unless you believe that person's committed a crime? So, if I'm talking to a foreign leader as a United States senator, it's one thing to be monitoring the person I'm talking to for intelligence gathering, it's another thing to listen to my conversation. There's a separation of powers issue here. As a member of the legislative branch of government, I don't want the executive branch of government collecting my conversations even if they're incidental because I don't want them to know what I'm talking about. This is really scary to me. I understand incidental collection is part of the process, but when you have government officials like myself, the Trump team, I think you should cut the machine off.
Sharyl: I have a high-ranking intelligence official who worked under President Obama tell me that the incidental collection is used as an excuse that sometimes bad actors have wanted to collect intel on somebody so they find somebody around them as a way to collect intel on them without putting their name on a FISA application for example.
Sen. Graham: Well that would be going around the warrant process. A FISA warrant allows you to follow particular people, their foreign agents. You can do it on an American, but you've got to go and get a warrant from a court. So the bottom line about incidental collection, I could see how you could manipulate the system. If there's any indication that people set up incidental collection to avoid the FISA warrant process, that would be a devastating story. I don't know if that exists or not, but I'd be willing to talk to anybody who believes it did.
Sharyl: When will we see hearings on this? Sen. Graham: Hopefully in May. I'd like to call Clapper and Brennan. They should have awareness of what was collected. I want to talk to the people who collected the information and ask them a simple question: Did Susan Rice ever request of you or your organization the unmasking of somebody caught up in incidental collection, particularly a Trump person? If she did, then I want her to come in and say why she requested that, why, what she did with it.
Sharyl: Susan Rice or anybody else.
Sen. Graham: Or anybody else.
Sharyl: That asks for that.
Sen. Graham: And I can say about Susan Rice and Ben Rhodes, I have no idea what they did here. I'm not going to prejudge. But I do know during Benghazi which you're well aware of, that she started the storyline of a protest caused by a video. It was always a terrorist attack on day one. They manipulated the information, I think for political reasons. So, when it comes to Susan Rice and Ben Rhodes, verify, don't trust.


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I created the topic in other weather because it is weather related...go there to discuss it
21 Apr 2009
As many of you know, the new Yankee Stadium was recently opened. Since its opening, an above average number of homeruns have been hit. Many of them have been hit to right field. There are speculations that something in the stadium's construction has caused a sort of wind tunnel which is pushing the ball out. Accuweather meterologist Bernie Rayno believes that there is in fact a wind tunnel of sorts being created. http://www.accuweather.com/news-weather-fe...#extremes"%5dAccuweather%20Article%5b/url%5d
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What are your thoughts on the new stadium? Could the wind be pushing the balls out? Is it to early to tell? Will it change as spring goes into summer and the air warms up?
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in the proverbial "calm before the storm" we should all wait and chat here
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and feel free to move it if you want...it probably belongs in non topic stuff but since its in between storms it will be weather related
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Judge Will Review If Apple/Samsung Jury Foreman Withheld Pertinent Info
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At the December 6, 2012 hearing, the Court will consider the questions of whether the jury foreperson concealed information during voir dire, whether any concealed information was material, and whether any concealment constituted misconduct. An assessment of such issues is intertwined with the question of whether and when Apple had a duty to disclose the circumstances and timing of its discovery of information about the foreperson.While this is an interesting move, and worth watching, I doubt much will come out of it. Hogan did admit that he'd had legal issues in the past with a former employer, but no one delved into who or why.
During voir dire, Hogan did disclose that he had been involved in litigation with a former partner when the judge asked him if he had ever been involved in litigation.Again, most of this aspect is just a sideshow to the eventual long series of appeals that will come in this case -- and I doubt that the judge will find misconduct here. But just the fact that judge is considering it makes it worth following.
Hogan has noted, in response to Samsung's allegations, that the judge didn't ask for a complete listing of all the lawsuits he had been involved with.


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Amtrak set a new overall ridership record in fiscal year 2013, while effectively maintaining passenger levels on its Northeast Corridor service despite the disruption caused by Hurricane Sandy last fall, the national rail company said today.
The operator carried 31.6 million passengers in the year ending in September, Amtrak said in an announcement. More than one-third of those passengers came from its Northeast Corridor services, totaling 11.4 million and marking the second strongest year ever for the region.
With its 10th ridership record in 11 years, Amtrak's usage is growing despite the tepid pace of the national economic recovery. Tony Coscia, chairman of the agency's board of directors, pointed to the rising demand for inter-city rail across new demographics.
To tap into that demand, especially among younger riders, Amtrak has focused on electronic ticketing, developed its Wi-Fi system and relied more on social media to speak to customers, Coscia said. The company has taken those steps over the last two years, while ensuring robust service schedules between major metropolitan areas.
"All of these things, we think, have expanded our customer base to meet a growing market demand among categories of passengers that, historically, Amtrak has not been able to reach," Coscia said. "So, notwithstanding the fact that there's been some level of sluggishness in the economy, we've seen our best years ever."
Acela Express, Amtrak's high-speed service between Boston and Washington, D.C., carried about 3.3 million passengers in fiscal 2013, down 1.5 percent from the year before, the operator said in a news release. The Northeast Regional Service, which offers more stops, ticked up 0.4 percent to just over 8 million riders.
Usage was steady for the period despite the devastation of Sandy last October and two other incidents on Connecticut's Metro-North service.
Coscia, a partner with law firm Windels, Marx, Lane & Mittendorf, in New Brunswick, said Amtrak has expanded ridership while aggressively managing its balance sheet. He said "an indication of real progress at the company" was the decrease in its annual operating subsidy from the federal government, down to about $370 million last year from $450 million in recent years.
That number doesn't include funding for capital projects, but Coscia said improving the operation of the railroad will "create a level of confidence" among those who invest in Amtrak, including federal and state governments and the private sector. Such confidence goes a long way in supporting projects such as the Gateway tunnel, the Amtrak-led effort to build new rail tunnels under the Hudson River.
"(W)e think that the stronger an operating entity that Amtrak becomes … the better they'll feel about considering investments in the railroad," he said.


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More than half of the world's population now lives in urban areas and that figure is projected to increase in the future. Increasing urban populations have resulted in tremendous pressure on urban environments including urban forests, or all the vegetation in an urban area, which provide important positive externalities to urban residents.
Urban forests provide ecosystem services, including carbon sequestration and storage, energy savings and shade, storm water runoff mitigation, aesthetic benefits, and attenuation of the effects of the urban heat island. Yet, urban growth has resulted in a decline in urban forest structure and related function in the United States, elevating the importance of research to understand how the interactions between people, their institutions, and the biophysical environment influence the sustainability of urban ecosystems.


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In recent years, a raft of books about major league baseball stadiums have been published. And why not, since for many fans their fondest sporting memories have to do with the sights and sounds of being at the ballpark.
The romance for these venues, however, isn't limited to the big leagues. Allen Barra makes that point abundantly clear in his book Rickwood Field: A Century in America's Oldest Ballpark. Rickwood Field opened in 1910 in Birmingham, Ala., and thus predates even the oldest extant big league stadiums, Boston's Fenway Park and Chicago's Wrigley Field, which opened in 1912 and 1914 respectively.
Beyond the physical structure, however, is a history that traces the evolution of the sport and the social changes wrought in the game's most storied Southern hotbed. Many of the greatest names in baseball passed through Rickwood's gates over the years, either as minor leaguers on the way up or as major leaguers on teams that stopped over in Birmingham on their way north from spring training.
In 1921 the Yankees and Dodgers squared off there, and over time everybody from Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Dizzy Dean, Rogers Hornsby, and Satchel Paige to Ted Williams, Hank Aaron, and Willie Mays (a Birmingham native) did star turns at Rickwood.
At the turn of the last century, Allen Harvey "Rick" Woodward, the son of a local iron baron, felt Birmingham – a booming industrial center at the time – needed a ballpark befitting its stature. He set about erecting one modeled after Philadelphia's Shibe Park, the first concrete-and-steel sports structure in the United States. Woodward fused his first and last names in naming the park.
Birmingham was the epicenter of black baseball up through World War II, as the game was highly popular with African Americans working and playing for in the steel mills and iron mines, and cheering for the Black Barons Negro League entry.
Although Birmingham was racially more progressive than other parts of the South due to its industrial base, it also was the city of Bull Connor, the public safety official who ordered the use of fire hoses and attack dogs against civil rights demonstrators. Before becoming notorious as a segregation enforcer, Connor was a popular play-by-play broadcaster for the all-white Birmingham Barons. The Sporting News, in fact, called him the "most popular baseball announcer in the South."
Ironically, the first integrated professional game was played at Rickwood in 1954 between the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago White Sox, without incident. Birmingham's baseball fans, it appears, were more interested in seeing major league players than they were in insisting upon racial divisions.
Architecturally, Rickwood has its share of distinctive features, including the "Crow's Nest" on the grandstand roof, cantilevered field lights, and a Spanish mission-style façade that owes its appearance to a design craze inspired by a Hollywood movie starring Mary Pickford. These have been preserved by the Friends of Rickwood, a nonprofit organization formed in 1992 to keep this landmark from crumbling.
An appendix to the book explains the many steps taken by this group to keep the ballpark intact and operative despite the loss of the minor-league Birmingham Barons, who played there from 1910 to 1987. The Barons moved to a new stadium in the suburbs, but now Rickwood serves as a civic asset that hosts about 200 games a year, including those of high school, college, and amateur teams.
Here are 10 other things I learned from "Rickwood Field":
1 - Rick Woodward, the owner of the minor league's Birmingham Barons, not only dressed in a Barons uniform when Rickwood Field opened on Aug. 18, 1910, he actually threw out the game's first pitch – not just a ceremonial toss.
2 - In what appeared to be a classic case of sending mixed signals, Rickwood Field was rented to black baseball teams when the white Barons were on the road, but also to the Ku Klux Klan for its rallies. There was a method to this madness, however, since accommodating the Klan kept Klansmen from wanting to burn the ballpark down.
3 - Bill Stern, a famous New York-based sportscaster during the 1930s, was fond of relating an apocryphal story of the longest home run in baseball history, presumably hit by Babe Ruth at Rickwood Field. Ruth's blast reportedly landed in an open box car or coal tender on the nearby railroad tracks and never hit the ground until the train reached Atlanta several hours later. The real oddity: Stern never witnessed a game at Rickwood but perhaps felt that few would ever be able to confirm what he claimed happened in faraway Birmingham.
4 - Rickwood played a role in the evolution of scoreboards. In 1928 it added a distinctive 40-foot-high board in left-center field that was innovative for its day. The board featured drop-in slots to show the inning-by-inning scoring. There also was section for scores of major league games. Refurbishing this board was one of the first projects in restoring the park in the early 1990s.
5 - Abe Saperstein, the white basketball impresario who founded the Harlem Globetrotters, was active in baseball, too, and helped to open doors for black players such as Satchel Paige. He once arranged for the Birmingham Black Barons to play in Yankee Stadium.
6 - Bear Bryant, who later became the University of Alabama's legendary football coach, attended a game at Rickwood Field in 1948 in order to see local teen sensation, Willie Mays, who played left field for the Black Barons while still a student at Fairfield Industrial High School. Mays was also an outstanding quarterback.
7 - The last professional player to bat over .400 was Artie Wilson of the Birmingham Black Barons, who compiled a .402 average in 1948. (Ted Williams was the last major-leaguer to achieve the feat, by batting .406 in 1941.)
8 - Bobo Newsom, one of the best-traveled pitchers in major league history, ended his professional career with the Birmingham Barons in 1951. He is the only pitcher from the 20th century who won more than 200 career games but had a losing lifetime record (211-222).
9 - Hank Aaron, a native of Mobile, Ala., hit two home runs at Rickwood Field for the Atlanta Braves in 1974 during a spring training game just two weeks before he broke Babe Ruth's career mark with his 715th lifetime home run. Twenty years earlier, as a shortstop on the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro Leagues, he played there in an exhibition against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
10 - Charlie Finley, the flamboyant owner of the Oakland A's during the team's 1970s heyday, grew up in near Birmingham and became the Birmingham Barons' batboy. After he bought the A's in 1960, he assembled a powerhouse farm team in Birmingham that featured such stars as Reggie Jackson, Rollie Fingers, and Joe Rudi. Noted baseball statistician Bill James has called the Birmingham A's the greatest minor league team ever.
Ross Atkin is a Monitor staff editor.


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Reviewed by Jacob M. (age 9)
My favorite part was when Frank and Joe were playing darts. When somebody threw a dagger at Frank, but Joe saved him. This story reminds me of my life because my brother Jesse always steels my stuff and doesn?t admit it. I have to prove it just like Frank and Joe have to prove who took/found the money. I think this book is great and I really liked it because it?s exiting and I like mysteries.
I recommend this book because it?s good and it really didn?t end like I thought it would. If you like mysteries this is the book for you.


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Bunnybean's #CBR4 Review #7: Judy Moody and Stink: The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure Hunt by Megan McDonald
In this story, there are two kids: Judy Moody and her little brother Stink. They start out on a ferry boat with their parents and end up on Pirate Island. They meet a Pirate named Scurvy Sam, who tells them about a buried treasure on the island.
They try to find the treasure all over the island and follow clues that Scurvy Sam gives them. They go all over the place: people's houses, restaurants, and even gardens.
In the end, they find the treasure, and everyone on the island cheers. My favorite part is when Judy and Stink are surprised by Scurvy Sam and yell out "Ahh! Who are you? Where did you come from?"
There are lots and lots of Judy Moody books. Stink has his own books, too. I'll probably read some more.
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Pleasure State - Lolita De La Huerta The exquisite romance between the sumptuous satin and Floral lace this oh so pretty lingerie collection offers not only a padded plunge but a soft cup boudoir style triangle bra to compliment the exquisite lace brief and thong. Colour combination of Sand Dollar and Bright white shell is soft and alluring.
Pleasure State - Lolita De La Huerta Soft Cup Black Bra
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Question Set for Pol S 340 Test #3 (17 Nov.)
Eight of these twelve questions will be on Friday's test. Each question will be worth 12 points (students are granted 4 points so the total points will equal 100). Partial credit will be given, so leaving a question blank on the test means a sure loss of 12 points.
Each question presumes that lecture is a source. Authors are mentioned by name to aid students in identifying which readings are relevant to answering the question.
Sample Question: "How does rule under a neo-patrimonial regime differ from rule under a democratic regime? How does the capacity and autonomy of the state differ under each regime-type?"
SampleAnswer: Under a democratic regime, citizens in society vote a government into power, and that government commands the state apparatus. While the government is accountable to the people via elections, the state apparatus is should be autonomous from societal interference. Otherwise, unelected people would be determining what the state does, not the government that people elected. Under neo-patrimonial rule, the government is highly autonomous from society because patrons control citizens' access to the government and state apparatus. Citizens depend on patronage rather than see the states provide them with services. An example would be villagers seeking assistance from tribal elders, rather than state officials. The state apparatus usually lacks capacity.


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15 Totally Delicious Sandwiches for Your Lunchbox
It wasn't until about a year ago that I became an avid sandwich eater. Before the fateful day when I consumed The Perfect Sandwich, I never understood the appeal – why not just consume the ingredients in salad form? Why did everything turn out so soggy? But lo', sandwiches have so much more to offer when done right.
You see, it's all about the quality of the ingredients (especially bread), and awesome spreads and lots of textures. These 15 sandwiches have all that going on and then some. It's about time you made your lunchbox proud.
What is your favorite lunch sandwich? Any tips or ideas for what makes the perfect sandwich?
Sandwiches that are great eaten cold...
- 1 Boiled Egg, Seared Asparagus & Pickled Onion
- 2 Chickpea of the Sea
- 3 Mozzacado Sandwich
- 4 Roasted Sweet Potato, Goat Cheese & Arugula Sandwiches
- 5 California BLT with Avocado and Basil Mayonnaise
- 6 Crisp Tuna-Cabbage Salad
- 7 Farmer's Lunch Sandwich
- 8 Bánh Mì with Lemongrass Tofu
- 9 Cuban Sandwich
- 10 Eggplant Caponata Sandwiches with Mozzarella & Basil


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Some Suggestions On How To Celebrate World Intellectual Property Day
from the have-fun dept
- Read the Constitution of the United States. Focus on the part of Article 1, Section 8 that says the purpose of securing a monopoly on works for a limited time is only "to promote the progress of science and useful arts."
- Read up on Thomas Jefferson's concerns about intellectual property laws.
- Read the book Against Intellectual Monopoly that includes all sorts of research highlighting how intellectual property has hindered, rather than advanced, innovation and creativity.
- Take a look through The Chilling Effects archive to learn how many companies are misusing intellectual property to stifle free speech.
- Support the EFF for helping to stand up to those who want to take away fair use rights.
- Read up on how the RIAA's litigation process works and explain how that helps promote music in any way.
- Send some prior art to the US Patent Office.
- Ask the US Patent Office why they consider prior art the only test for obviousness, even though the law is clear that an invention needs to be both non-obvious and original.
- Learn the difference between innovation and invention and ask why intellectual property seems unfairly tilted towards invention when it's supposed to be promoting innovation.
- Explain how extending intellectual property protection on songs already written puts in place the incentives for those songs to be written.


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Need to know ow to satisfy women in sex? You want be able to satisfy a woman with just having sex with her; it's more in avoid than that, you will leave her craving more. If you think for one moment all it takes to satisfy women in sex is banging her head against the head board for thirty minutes thinking you have really satisfied her, when all you have really did was gave her a splitting headache; you are mistaken. Where is the foreplay, the passion, the excitement? In general for a man to be satisfied all he needs is for the woman to show and he's content, but women are more complex than that. She will need to be aroused, teased and squeezed in order for you to satisfy her.
Don't stop until she's done. Men can be selfish at times when it comes to pleasing women. He may feel just the act of having sex is satisfying and if he's satisfied after the sex is over then the woman is to. Perhaps when he ejaculates that marks the end of great sex, not realizing that not enough touching and stimulation was received to satisfy her. So the next time you ejaculate and it's written all over her face she needs more to send her to orgasmic heaven, try to continue stimulating her through oral or finger gratification. It also helps to stimulate her doing and before sex.
Compliment her physical attributes. Women love compliments, even if she feels likes she's very beautiful. Sometimes a woman can be her own worst critic especially when it comes to her body and showing it when having sex. Express how stunning you think she is when you see her in the buff. This will take her focus off how she thinks she looks to you and put her focus more on enjoying sex with you and the more she gets into it the more satisfy she will become.
Acknowledge women verbal commands. Don't be afraid to ask her how you performed. Women can be very vocal especially when it comes to having great sex. If she tells you what she likes or don't like, don't take it as a put down or an insult, but more as constructive criticism; which will put you on the road to satisfy women in sex more often.
Learn to read nonverbal communication. The woman may not use her words to express her dissatisfaction, but her body language and the expression on her face may be a dead giveaway that she is not enjoying having sex with you and she is just waiting for it to be over. Now is not the time to panic, it's not too late to turn this around; think fast. Start caressing her breast and it's always a good time for a passionate kiss even gentle kisses on the neck and ear can help turn this around and make this more of a satisfying experience for the woman in question.
Don't be in a rush to have sex with a woman. Its true women usually last longer during sex. A man may want to argue it's because he is doing all the work, but whatever the case may be when you are done the woman may not. You have forgotten one important thing; to arouse and excite her before having sex. While you are in the moment of having thrilling sex, and at your climax, she might still be in the warming up phase and you are almost done. You will then realize this woman is not satisfied even though you were.
Always make sure to think of the woman first because you are going to be satisfied in sex. Kissing, caressing, teasing, oral or finger stimulation and talking dirty or some things you can do to ensure she receive sexual satisfaction.


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Yes, I have had the pleasure of riding the Temavento board some more times now.Jimmy Mazzanti wrote: Thank you for your impressions
did you have the chance to ride here again?
The love to the orange lady just grows with every session!
There is no doubt that it is faster both upwind and downwind when comparing it to my old 2012 North.
Also I have lined up with a 2013 North, a 2012 Aguera, a 2013 RRD Rapida and a ML Custom. And against all boards the result was possitive as well. But the 2013 North were not on correct trimmed fins and the rider on the ML had pain in his ribs, so a little unfair to compare...but still. All riders on the other boards were much more experienced than me, so I was proud just beeing able to keep pace with someone I have not been able to follow before.
But back to the temavento board. When standing in the straps the feeling is much more relaxed than what I am used to. Of course it is hard for the legs, but not as it used to be. The board just find a steady way to go through the chops and you do not have to use force to keep the right position.
The board is light - maybe not as light as I expected (ap. 5,8 kg.) - but still ok light. The footstrap position is just where you want it. And also here I think it is easier to be in the right foot position without using force. The balance of the board also feels better. I do not have to put as much weight on the back foot, which maybe also is the reason that my legs are not that tired. Downwind the board is a little more loose, this I am starting to get used to, and when I get it, I think it will be much faster as well. I just need to switch off my brain


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Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) Configuration Examples
From DocWiki
Overview of ACE Configuration Examples
This wiki provides configuration examples for a wide range of ACE features and implementations. Note that this is not an exhaustive list of configuration examples and we plan to update the examples as time permits. Please feel free to add your own configuration examples so that all ACE users can benefit from them. If you do contribute your own example(s), please change the IP addresses in your example to private or reserved addresses in the following ranges (10.0.0.0. to 10.255.255.255, 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255, and 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255) and change your host names to ones that are generic (for example, SERVER1).
Note: This wiki is not intended as a substitute for the normal Cisco technical support process. If you have a Cisco support contract and need assistance, please contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC). If you do not have a support contract, try the Cisco Support Community.
The configuration examples in this wiki include the following:
Administrative Configuration Examples
Routing and Bridging Configuration Examples
Security Configuration Examples
Server Load-Balancing Configuration Examples
Virtualization Configuration Examples
Technical Marketing Engineer (TME) ACE Configuration Examples
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However, proponents of the BID have scheduled a series of meetings in an attempt to clear up any confusion and concerns.
"We are trying to peacefully negotiate and we are willing to work," said Ruben Pena, a liquor store owner and community activist. "I think we will feel better if we can come to an agreement."
Pena has been outspoken in his opposition to the BID, arguing it would drive local business out of the neighborhood and make way for chain stores.
However, after a Steering Committee meeting in November, he said that he has found positive aspects of the plan that would benefit the community.
"By bringing people like Ruben Pena, who have been vocal critics, we're able to negotiate this plan a little bit to make it better for everyone," said Seth Taylor, executive director of the 82nd Street Partnership and a BID supporter. "We're making a lot of headway."
The annual fee that business owners would have to pay would be roughly $900, depending on the size of each business. A vote on the BID by local business owner is tentatively scheduled for early next year.
At the last meeting, the committee discussed ideas such as including vendors on the board of directors, how to make the BID more affordable, and what it can do for the community.
The concept of allowing street vendors a say on the board is controversial because they do not have to pay the assessment, but will benefit from the BID's services.
However, Taylor hopes that this will limit or eliminate any friction that vendors and brick-and-mortar business have with one another because it would allow for constant discussions.
One issue that has surfaced is that the BID looks to improve crime prevention along Roosevelt Avenue, where allegedly a number of illegal prostitution houses operate through the protection of local gangs.
"They're thriving because of the conditions along Roosevelt Avenue," Taylor said of the gangs. "They see quality-of-life improvements and community organizing as a threat to their illegal and illicit operations."


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G1735, Reviewed December 1993
With ever-increasing fuel costs, heating with wood has again become very popular with Missourians. But this increased use of wood-heating equipment brings with it the need for constant, careful attention to assure the safe and efficient use of this heat source. One area often ignored is the special care needed for the chimney.
Creosote accumulation is the main reason for cleaning a chimney. If the buildup of creosote on the chimney's inside surface ignites, a chimney fire results. Chimneys need cleaning to prevent this buildup and thus reduce the possibility of a chimney fire.
The extremely high temperatures (up to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit) of a chimney fire can damage the chimney. The heat can warp metal chimneys and crack the tile liner on masonry chimneys.
Never use water on an extremely hot chimney fire, since this quick cooling can also crack the tile liner or warp the metal chimney. After the fire has been extinguished, have the chimney checked for warped metal or a cracked tile liner.
If you don't repair cracks or holes in the flue, the next chimney fire could be even more dangerous. Even during normal use, the sparks generated by the fire in the stove could go through the cracks or holes into the attic or the framework surrounding the chimney. This could cause a serious house fire, resulting in loss of property and possibly loss of life.
To avoid this tragedy, you need to establish a cleaning schedule that will free your chimney of creosote buildup. This schedule can range from once every couple of weeks to no less than once a year. How often you clean the chimney depends on the amount you use your stove, the type of wood you burn, the type of wood-burning unit you have and the way you operate the unit.
If, however, a chimney fire occurs, follow these steps to reduce your losses:
You can either clean the chimney yourself or hire a professional chimney sweep. Chimney sweeps who will do a thorough and professional job are available in many communities. Watching a sweep clean your chimney would not only be educational, but would also help you decide whether or not to tackle the job yourself next time.
Before deciding to clean your chimney yourself, consider your physical condition. Cleaning a chimney can be strenuous work. Pulling a chimney brush the height of the chimney can strain the back and other muscles. Make sure you are up to the job before starting.
If you do decide to clean your chimney yourself, make these preparations before beginning the actual cleaning job.
Now you are ready to start cleaning the chimney. The best time to clean is when the chimney is still warm, since creosote comes off a warm surface easier than a cooler surface. But make sure the fire is completely out.
The following are some of the more common methods for cleaning chimneys:
Now that the chimney is clean, it's time to go back inside the house to clean up the soot and creosote that has fallen to the bottom of the chimney. If you are cleaning a fireplace, carefully remove the seal from the fireplace opening and sweep the soot and creosote into containers. Make sure you sweep out the accumulation on the smoke shelf above the damper, too. It is better to use an industrial or shop vacuum cleaner for this job. After this initial cleanup, use a wire brush to scrape off the deposits from the inside of the fireplace and from around the smoke shelf. Tidy up the area, and you're finished.
Remember, chimney fires are very dangerous and are a major cause of wood-burning related house fires. The more you do to keep your chimney in good working condition, the safer and more efficient your wood-burning operation will be.
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