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Adam brauchte ein neues Briefpapier Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 428 Designs von 88 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Design the 99designs community's Prepaid 99designs MasterCard! Read the brief for card specifications, download a debit card template and get started! The winning designer receives the $500 prize and will be featured on our blog when the cards arrive!
A few tips:
1. Keep it simple.
2. Don't stray from 99designs' colours (white, orange, purple, and grey).
3. Keep it fun.
4. Avoid world maps, globes, etc.
99designs is proud to soon offer Prepaid 99designs MasterCards, courtesy of Payoneer. Payoneer is a wide-reaching payment gateway offering a more secure and robust alternative to some other gateways we've dealt with (without mentioning names). Your Prepaid 99designs MasterCard will work anywhere credit or debit cards are accepted, making receiving prize money easier, regardless of where you live.
And, we want you to design them!
Download a template, available in Illustrator (1.2MB) and Photoshop (0.8MB) file formats.
We're after an attractive 99designs branded front of card design that you would be proud to own and show your friends. Go wild!
If you need inspiration, take a look at some other Payoneer card designs.
The card itself must conform with ISO standard ISO 7810 ID-1 and ISO 7813. The ID-1 format specifies a card size of 85.60 × 53.98 mm (3.370 × 2.125 in). Additionally, the corners should be rounded with a radius of 3.18 mm.
MasterCard provide more details on Card Identification Features (7MB, PDF). The 'Debit MasterCard' (with the 'Debit' hologram) information is most relevant.
Final artwork required in layered vector format, or high quality print resolution (min. 300 dpi).
Also, the card must include the following elements:
- 99designs logo (mono/colour depending on background) - Payoneer logo (white/dark grey type depending on background) - Account number* (16-digits, plus 4-digits repeated underneath) - Expiration date* (including "VALID THRU") - Cardholder name* - 99designs.com* - Debit hologram* - MasterCard® brand mark* - Outline* surrounding both the Debit hologram and the MasterCard® brand mark
* These elements are fixed and may not be repositioned.
As an aside, if you can more accurately match the embossed type—as per the Payoneer examples: go for it. Otherwise, stick with the template. Also, I believe the embossed type can be re-coloured.
- AVOID using stock illustrations and photography. We support, and prefer, original artwork. - DO NOT reposition the account number, expiration date, cardholder name, web address, Debit hologram, or MasterCard® brand mark. - DO NOT alter the Debit hologram, or MasterCard® brand mark, in any way.


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A stunning riverfront spot nestled on the banks of the Kolan River, Miara is a popular weekend destination for locals and visitors alike.
Just 45 kilometres north of Bundaberg's city centre, Miara is a popular fishing spot with secluded beaches, bush and parklands, and a family friendly fishing village atmosphere. The park is ideal for the angler seeking a tranquil and relaxed holiday getaway, with plenty to keep the rest of the family entertained including a playground, kiosk and barbecue hut.
Note: Information on listed products and services are provided by the operator and were correct at the time of publishing. Rates are indicative based on the minimum and maximum available prices of products and services. Please visit the operator's website for further information. All prices quoted are in Australian dollars (AUD).


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Jared Joyce Says No To Shark Tank, Yes To Edison Nation With Five Minute Furniture
I missed the episode but heard all about Jared turning down a pretty sweet amount of money. However, a "sweet amount of money" is relative to someone as smart as Jared Joyce. Sounds like he's going to be just fine. Details here:


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Lighting Bitmaps in Papervision
Dec 08
Technology 3d, actionscript, code, flash, flex, papervision, pv3d 1 Comment
This is a technical article explaining how to code a light source into your Papervision 3D scene. Papervision is an open source 3d library for the Flash platform.
Lighting in Papervision is a very useful tool. It helps add realism to your 3D project. Often times, you will have a scene or 3D objects that have textures on them using bitmaps. You can easily add lighting effects to these textures.
First you'll need to add the following import statements:
import org.papervision3d.lights.PointLight3D;
import org.papervision3d.materials.shaders.PhongShader;
import org.papervision3d.materials.shaders.ShadedMaterial;
Phong Shading is a set of 3D rendering techniques which includes a model for reflecting light onto surfaces. It was invented by Bui Tuong Phong at the University of Utah, who published them in his 1973 Ph.D. dissertation.
Where you set up your scene, just create a light source
light = new PointLight3D();
In the part where you create your 3D objects that you want to light, you will create a PhongShader based on the light source and a ShadedMaterial based on your BitmapMaterial and your PhongShader. Please note that it HAS to be a BitmapMaterial and not a BitmapFileMaterial.
var earthBitmap:Bitmap = new earthAsset() as Bitmap;
var mat:BitmapMaterial = new BitmapMaterial(earthBitmap.bitmapData, true);
// create a shader using the light source
var phongShader:PhongShader = new PhongShader(light, 0xFFFFFF, 0x000000, 10);
// create the material based on the Phong shader
var phongShaderMat:ShadedMaterial = new ShadedMaterial(mat, phongShader);
globe = new Sphere(phongShaderMat, 200, 20, 20);
view.scene.addChild( globe );
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Eataly's crazy expensive food and products
Well, Eataly is open and everyone is going. No, I mean it, like the entire city of Chicago was inside the new River North Italian market after its grand opening Dec. 2. I ventured out this week to take a quick, single lap around the store, with the goal of finding the most expensive items I could spot. Here's what I found. (NOTE: If you bought everything in this gallery, it would cost $5,364.78 and you would feel happy and sad at the same time.) -- Mick Swasko
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The white B6 Omnidirectional Lavalier Microphone from Countryman is a miniature lavalier microphone measuring only 0.1" in diameter. It features a 3.5mm locking connector and connects to select Roland recorders with audio on the left channel. The B6 microphone provides high-quality audio with low distortion at SPL up to 130 dB on 48V phantom power. The aramid cable, combined with the ultra-thin diaphragm, ensures low handling noise. The tiny size, combined with natural sound pickup, makes the microphone easy to position for ambient noise and feedback rejection.
The included changeable protective caps (+0, +4, and +8 dB) provide moisture resistance and allow you to adjust the frequency response to suit different applications or to match other microphones. Each of the three omni caps has a different high-frequency response characteristic that controls the amount of crispness or sibilance (response at 15 kHz). This microphone ships with the +4 dB protective cap attached, which boosts the perceived amount of presence in your sound while leaving the lower frequencies unchanged. You can switch to the 0 dB cap in case of problems when using this microphone with high-frequency feedback.
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Captain's Report
It's a Southern Thing...
Not surprisingly, Trophy dealers south of the Mason/Dixon line had the most demand for this design because that is where the protected bays, bayous, narrow estuaries, and bone fish flats are. Like many conventional center consoles, these Bay Boats have a casting platform in the bow, but they also have another one in the stern. This gave backwater fishermen not only a stable platform, but also a good vantage point for spotting fish to say nothing of ripples or floating grass that might have fish under them. But as it turns out, the southern boys [As you might have guessed, Capt. Steve is not one of them—Ed.] didn't have a lock on the fan base. Northern boaters took to them as a sort of an all-glass bass boat because they loved its hose-and-go capability. So much for targeting a single market.
So where do the Yankees use them? Believe it or not there are lots of places in the north to use these boats – rivers, lakes, water reservoirs. They can be used in Maine and in Canada in protected water by people who have lobster pots set in water not likely to have to deal with the North Atlantic. They are fine for Barnegat Bay and western Long Island Sound and places like Oyster Bay.
And, Really Far North...
You might be surprised at the number of bay boats on the West Coast of Greenland and across Nunavut which are used in the six weeks of August and early September when the ice is broken up. They use them close to shore on nice days and farther out in places like Smith Sound during the few weeks they can get between the ice flows.
The Usual Suspects...
Of course the 2101 Bay Boat has all the fish-friendly features we've all come to expect on bay boats. Three insulated, overboard draining fishboxes (52 gallon bow, 23 gallon port bow, 15 gallon aft), dual aerated livewells (28 gallons aft, 15 gallon forward console), a raw water washdown, and lockable rod storage are all present and accounted for. Additional rod storage can be found under the gunwales and vertically in the T-top rocket launchers. Stainless steel can be found in all cleats and rails, casting seats for the bow and stern are standard.
The Trophy 2101 Bay Boat has a LOA of 21'8" (6.6 m) and a beam of 8'6" (2.59m). She has a dry weight of 2200 lbs (998 kgs) and a fuel capacity of 56 gallons (212 L). She comes standard with a 150-hp Verado, and can handle up to a 225-hp Optimax. Trophy is owned by the Brunswick Corporation, the same outfit that owns Boston Whaler. Why would Brunswick own Trophy when it also owns the world-famous Boston Whaler? Simply because not everyone can afford a Whaler. By having the premium Boston Whaler at the high end of the price point scale, and Trophy at the lower end, Brunswick can appeal to a far greater number of people.
Affordable Doesn't Have to Mean Just Cheap...
The two or three companies selling the largest number of center console bay boats and skiffs the last decade are not the ones building high-quality, high price-point boats. They are building just the opposite. And for anglers or casual boaters who want an affordable boat but also one that is built by a company that can't afford to cut corners on the important safety aspects of a bay boat, Trophy offers what we think is a viable alternative. The fact is that Trophies are both affordable and engineered by people with actual college degrees in engineering – not a couple of good ole boys who decided to get into the boat business using an old Whaler hull as a plug. (The way most people get started building in this class of boat.) These folks are nice guys and they are usually great fishermen. We admire their pluck and entrepreneurial spirit, but there is something comforting knowing one is out in a boat that has gone through rigorous designing and engineering. After all, if an engineer at Trophy is stumped with a problem, he can call up his counterpart at Boston Whaler and get what is probably the best answer available, based on 50 years of experience.
How Much is "Affordable?"
The Trophy 2101 Bay Boat has a base MSRP of $29,680, plus $1,275 for "Destination & Packaging" charges when powered by a 150-hp Mercury Optimax 2-stroke engine. That makes it $30,955, plus tax. If you don't have a trade in, our guess is that you actually get the boat for the MSRP price or even less. At that price the boat is Spartan, but many people won't need much more than some lines, ground tackle and a USCG safety package. In order to get an idea how much the boat would cost all up outfitted for the way we might go boating for it we went to Trophy's clean, simple website. There we found a handy "Build your Boat" software page that let us pick the options we wanted, add it all up, and with its loan calculator even figure out what our monthly payments would be.
Here are the options we put on our hypothetical boat: steering wheel ($145), bow casting chair ($265), pull-up cleats ($460), half swim platform ($475), raw water washdown ($210), freshwater shower ($480), aft bench seat ($730), leaning post with rocket launchers ($1,295), center console cover ($325), bimini top ($600), tandem axle trailer ($4,600). We can save $215 if we get the "Pro Package" (compass, trim tabs, VHF, and dual batter switches) for $1,365. Total price: $41,905. Obviously on things like the canvas, VHF and the trailer you can save money by buying and installing these things yourself. And if saving a few hundred dollars is important, then do it, because you won't hurt the dealer's feelings. Whichever way you go with this boat, bare or loaded, we think it is a good value for money and should be on your short list.
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Marine Electronics
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|Washdown: Raw Water
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|Optional T-top
|Outlet: 12-Volt Acc
|Swim Ladder
|Swim Platform
|Transom Shower
|Bimini Top
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We've returned several times to the vital question of how the fighting in Lebanon is going. It's frustratingly hard to get a good fix on the military situation, but, for what it's worth, Ze'ev Schiff, writing in Haaretz, doesn't think it's gone especially well:
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is the figure leading the strategy of changing the situation in Lebanon, not Prime Minister Ehud Olmert or Defense Minister Amir Peretz. She has so far managed to withstand international pressure in favor of a cease-fire, even though this will allow Hezbollah to retain its status as a militia armed by Iran and Syria.
As such, she needs military cards, and unfortunately Israel has not succeeded to date in providing her with any. Besides bringing Hezbollah and Lebanon under fire, all of Israel's military cards at this stage are in the form of two Lebanese villages near the border that have been captured by the IDF.
If the military cards Israel is holding do not improve with the continuation of the fighting, it will result in a diplomatic solution that will leave the Hezbollah rocket arsenal in southern Lebanon in its place. The diplomatic solution will necessarily be a reflection of the military realities on the ground.
We've tried to present both sides of this question, but, for what it's worth–not much–my sense is that the IDF hasn't made as much headway against Hezbollah as we would have wished, perhaps because the Israeli government has not allowed the IDF to expand the ground war.


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In her first season of action, Kara recorded 254 kills which placed her third on the team and she was a member of the All-Big West Freshman Team ... She led the team with 22 aces and appeared in all but four of UCSB's 111 sets ... Her 2.37 kills per set were third on the team ... Averaged 2.81 kills per set and 2.73 digs per set during conference play ... She tallied 284 digs, which ranked her fourth on the Gauchos as did her 2.65 dig per set average ... Had nine double-doubles ... Had 16 kills and 14 digs in UCSB's five-set win at Cal Poly on Oct. 9 ... Kara had four games with at least 15 kills and had an attack percentage of .343 against Pacific on Oct 15 ... She finished the year third on the team with 293.5 points and second on the team with 284 digs ... Had 31 total blocks (four solo).
High School
In her junior and senior years at Quartz Hill High, Kara led the Rebels to consecutive undefeated Golden League seasons...As a senior she was named Golden League Player of the Year and First Team All-CIF Southern Section...Also served as the team's captain...As a junior was also a First Team All-CIF Southern Section pick as well as First Team All-Golden League and was named the Best Outside Hitter in the Golden League...Averaged 5.6 kills per game with a 51.4 hitting percentage and a 60.8 kill percentage...Helped team to CIF quarterfinals as a senior and semi-finals as a junior...That was the furthest the school had gone in the state tournament...Named the 2009 Quartz Hill High Female Athlete of the Year...Also competed in soccer and was named the 2007 Defensive Player of the Year.
Was a three-year player on Revolution Volleyball, serving as the squad's outside hitter...Helped lead the team to a Gold Division finish and subsequent improved finishes at the Volleyball Festivals in Reno and Phoenix.
Kara Corine Sherrard came into this world on May 8, 1991 to James and Roberta Sherrard...Enjoys skiing, swimming, going to the beach and traveling with her parents...Lists "The Notebook" as her favorite movie... Calls "Twilight" and other mysteries her favorite reads...While she has yet to declare a major at UCSB, Kara would like to be a physical therapist or sports trainer...Has a brother, Michael...Calls her parents her personal heroes.


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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
"That was the wrong button, Nigel."
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I particularly liked the associated video. The cruise ship was flying??????????
- January 17, 2012 at 2:55 PM
First is was heavily discounted cruises for the summer season, now European vacations at steep discount. But really I think I will just go to Mexico, it is safer.
- January 17, 2012 at 3:39 PM
What I want to know- did the announcement that the plane was going down begin with the phrase "For your convenience...?"
- January 17, 2012 at 4:19 PM
- Jacob said...
You know, I'm not as concerned that they accidently played the message as I am that there is a pre-recorded message at all. Does it happen enough they need a pre-recorded message?
- January 17, 2012 at 5:28 PM
"In August 2010, a message announcing, "We may shortly need to make an emergency landing on water," was played by mistake on a British Airways flight from Heathrow to Hong Kong."
How often does BA anticipate water landings that they have a button for this message?!?!?!
- January 17, 2012 at 8:03 PM
- Mike Looney said...
I'd much rather they play that by accident then them not play it for real
Just saying.
- January 17, 2012 at 9:18 PM
It's less that it happens often enough that they need an annoucement and more that you don't want the pilots busy making an announcement when they should be trying to land in the water.
- January 18, 2012 at 1:43 PM


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I have a problem which I am not able to define correctly. But it's got to do with backgrounds. And scene composition. And yes, I am not artistically trained. And I suspect that might have a lot to do with it.
Backgrounds - they look really easy and obvious when I see the finished artwork of talented artists. Yet, it's incredibly hard to start drawing backgrounds from a blank comic panel. I know that looking up reference pictures can help, but I am not always able to get the exact angle or background I want. Without references, my backgrounds generally suck.
Secondly middleground - this is where I think it gets really tough. How does the background seamlessly integrate with the foreground character? I know that much of it has to do with composition and perspective, but while it's easy enough in principle, it is so so hard to achieve even when copying from reference particularly for outdoor scenes. Somehow or the other I am unable to put together a composition for a scene I have in mind. Vague ideas of location don't help either. The learning curve seems overwhelmingly hard, particularly composition.
Third - location details. How much of detail do I need in backgrounds to convey obvious information of location? Like for example: this character is standing just outside a court building. Without details, backgrounds look bland and uninteresting. But I guess if I solve the earlier problem, it might be easier to tackle this one.
As a result of the above two I am almost discouraged from drawing any more. I feel I sorely lack the talent to compose pictures, even if my basic drawing skill is improving... I feel that technically I have improved in drawing albeit slowly, but my composition is sorely lacking.
I have a few art books on perspective and such, but even though I get the theory part, it's totally another thing to apply it to the specific scene you have in mind and for which you cannot find an exact reference picture for.
I guess I'll have to practice a lot more, but still, pointers would be helpful. At the moment, it appears like I'm simply stumbling in the dark.


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This Positive Life: Tyrone Lopez on Being an HIV-Positive Voice in the Tohono O'odham Nation
August 1, 2013
In terms of raw numbers, the HIV epidemic among Native Americans may not seem as dire as it is among African Americans and other ethnic groups. However, Native Americans are the group with the third-highest rate of new HIV diagnoses in the U.S.; and compared with other races/ethnicities, Native Americans have poorer survival rates after diagnosis and face special HIV prevention challenges, including poverty and culturally based stigma.
People like Tyrone Lopez, of the Tohono O'odham nation, work in their own communities in hopes of reversing these trends. After a relationship with an IV drug user, Tyrone became HIV positive and started becoming a voice for all people living with HIV -- gay, straight, man, woman and otherwise -- in his nation. He announced his status and sexuality over the radio, he does education and prevention work among incarcerated Native Americans, and now that he also drives the van that shuttles his clients to doctor's appointments and other services, he doesn't sleep in late anymore, either.
Can you start by describing how you found out you were HIV positive?
I ended up with an opportunistic infection. I ended up with PCP (Pneumocystis pneumonia). I was in the hospital for about three weeks. They were running all kinds of tests; they weren't too sure. Then they finally asked if they could run an HIV test. After that, I said OK.
They kept me in isolation for those three weeks, actually. So it was a little bit hard. I was pretty weak, and stuff like that. But my aunt and my cousin came -- my mom just ran into them. And the doctor came in and said, "While we're going to do that, there's a chance that ... you know how things are. They may not go well."
So my aunt and my cousin -- well, my sister -- wanted to stay. I call her my sister, not my cousin. But they wanted to stay. And I said, "No." I said, "Go home. Remember what time I'm supposed to have this, and just take some time and do a little prayer for me. And that's it."
But at the time they didn't know. I had my legs out, and my sister had said, "God, your legs are so skinny." So I covered them up, because I was a little bit embarrassed when she said that. And so after that I hadn't really told them, but I figured they knew what I had.
What year was this?
This was in 2003.
OK. So, now, just so I can get clear on the timing and everything: You had PCP?
You had already had it for three weeks before, and been in the hospital before they did an HIV test?
Well, they were running everything when I first went in. They thought it was TB. They thought it was maybe some type of pneumonia or fungal infection, whatever. And then they asked if I could do the HIV test, and I said, "Sure." I said, "Just as long as I can get better; that's no problem."
But I was sick first, and I ended up in the hospital. They sent me back home with some medication. But the following day, I still wasn't feeling good. My parents had taken off for a party, so I had talked to my next-door neighbor. (He was getting ready for his date. I kind of felt bad for that.) I said, "I need to go to the hospital, and I need to go now."
At the time that you tested positive in 2003, did you realize that you were at risk for HIV?
Yes, I did, just because of who I was dating at the time. Number one, they were an IV drug user. And, granted, they started getting a little bit lazy, where they were getting money from their parents, or Grandma. And so, you know, it just kind of became worse and worse. So I had an idea who I got it from. Because they did take an HIV test, and they came back and told me. They were really mad at me, calling me all kinds of names, and stuff like that. Then, about a day, maybe two days later, said, "Oh, it was a false positive."
I never thought about it until way later on. Because, at that time, tests were taking at least two weeks. So I figured he knew. But he never said anything about it. And me, being who I am, I just didn't think, "OK, we're going to have to start using protection." Because I was young. I was probably in my mid-20s at the time. The person I was dating was like seven years older than I was.
It's just one of those things, where you never think about it ... until after.
What did you think, and how did you feel, when you first found out that you were positive?
Believe it or not, I was OK with it. I think the doctor was more somber than anything else. He was a doctor that everybody liked. He was cute -- you know, in a military uniform. Everybody that I knew really liked him a lot.
But the thing is, he was an infectious disease doctor, which was good. And he was more somber. He just came in, put his hand on mine, and said, "Mr. Lopez, I hate to say this, but your test came back positive."
And I said, "OK."
It didn't hit me, or anything. I was OK with it. Of course, they gave me medication to take when I got back home. It was just, I was dealing with it, probably a lot better than most people.
I knew it was through sex. Because I didn't do any IV drug use or anything like that. I think that's why, like I said, that's why I was more calm, and knowing ... But the funny thing was, when I was in the hospital, I kept on seeing this commercial, saying, "Know your status." And when they told me about my status, I'd probably seen it twice after that. And that was it.
I usually tell people when I do talks in my sessions that I'm not mad or anything like that. God gives you what you can handle. And I think, since there are really not that much advertisements on TV or anything like that, it's easier for me to kind of come out, in a sense ... especially to my communities that I serve.
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Left 4 Dead 2 Gets Wicked Cricket Bat
No doubt an homage to zombie cult hit Shaun of the Dead, the bludgeon was revealed in an image (seen left) provided by IGN.
The bat joins Valve's growing assortment of melee weapons for the sequel, including a chainsaw, frying pan and fire ax.
Set to include five new campaigns and new multiplayer features, Left 4 Dead 2 arrives this November.
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The nation's biggest cooperative housing complex, Co-op City in the Bronx, is getting a government-insured $621 million loan that will require it to stay in an affordable housing program for decades.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development announced the agreement Wednesday. Wells Fargo & Co. is making the loan. Government entities are guaranteeing it.
The loan will pay for various maintenance and repair projects at the 44-year-old complex. It's home to about 60,000 people.
The complex will pay off an existing, more expensive mortgage. It expects to save $150 million over 14 years.
Herbert Freedman is a managing agent for Co-op City. He says the new loan will let the complex do needed work without raising charges to owners.


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Hi. Im a moderator on one of the ustream chat channels. #north-american-bear-center-w. We have to keep it family friendly since the reason for its existence is to teach about bears. Especially to kids. Which is nice and Ustreams adobe flash based chat client did well at giving me tools to accomplish that. Thank you. However I have an old tin lizzy computer running an athlon cpu without SSE2 but with a Linux operating system. So adobe flash clients and went from being consistently unstable unreliable and problematic while running chat and a live stream (as you can probably swear to on the ulcers and bar tabs of your server IT crew and whoever paid to make an app for ustream to ply on ipads and androids) all the way to completely unusable for me and indeed most Linux and many mac users. So I switched to an IRC client (Xchat) to chat on and spent a lot of effort splicing together enough flash to watch the live stream with on Linux and prayed to the gods of internet sanity for eventual HTML5 live streams from ya'll.
Once i changed over to an IRC client to moderate a chat channel (Xchat is my Client I use as a moderator after trying most all IRC clients , even Light IRC the flash based client which ustreams chat client seems to be a fork of. XChat is best for modding while Chatzilla seems user friendliest for simple chatting) BUT as good as it was being able to connect reliably and accurately and speedily using an IRC client, I had to figure out ways to moderate a flash based chatroom without all the mod tools in ustreams flash client. Doubly so since there is still some wrong (outdated from info on your help faqs regarding commands to use. http://ustream-helpers.com/how-to/useustreambot On that page you still give the exclamation point command lines which do not seem to work on flash based or simple IRC clients.) So as an IRC newb with no direction to turn I went into your help channels. Always got friendly and polite help but few of your help Techs know a lot more than a newb about coding IRC commands which are only found in ustreams flash IRC client. Many times the ones who seem to know most are the ones who are the busiest especially during days with server probs. as anything since ustream is in the top ten maybe top five largest busiest IRC chatservers in the world. But it only helped me a little. I still needed to be able to delete comments and toggle the capability to post URLs and to Pause Chat and to unpause chat and to slow chat and to unslow (yes I know theres no such word as unslow) chat with an IRC client or quit doing volunteer work for bear.org. Not even the mighty Google could shed any light on it for me. Just dead ends and crybags from justin TV and Wyldride and others noaning for the good old days of streaming. And IRC coding gods were too far above my Newb IRC level to give much pity or direction to me. We were seperated by huge language and learning barriers
But thats just my rant explaining why and how I got here on Ustream's Helpful Ideas from Ustream User's section of your help forums. I come bearing the gift of usable command line syntax for anyone else who finds themself moderating in my shoes. There will be a small answer for IRC newb questions about this and it WILL be on Ustreams help forum (unless you delete my post because Im overly aggressive towards that slimy outfit adobe who uses Linux apache servers to make a mint off of flash while not seeing fit to support Linux or make flash work.properly on ANY platform. But i digress
Without much further adio here are some codes which a moderator using a regular IRC client can use on ustream chat channels to perform needed moderator functions:
To pause your chat channel so that no users except moderators can post comments:
/mode #your-channel-name-here +P
To unpause your chat channell and allow comments from users:
/mode #your-channel-name-here -P
To slow your chat channel for normal (non moderator) users. Users must wait 60 seconds between posting comments.
/mode #your-channel-name-here +Z 60
To unslow your chat channel for all users:
/mode #your-channel-name-here -Z
To allow all chatters to post links in your chat channel:
/mode #your-channel-name-here -U
To prevent all users from from posting links in your chat channel:
/mode #your-channel-name-here +U
To find out the hostmask of a user who has recently (5 minutes or less) left your chat channel. (for instance the user might be a hit-and-run troll who has already left your channel, but you still want enough information to ban him so he cannot return):
/WHOWAS nickname_of_targetted_user
To delete a specific comment made by a specific user from your channel so that other users cannot see it. :
/notice #your-channel-name-here REMOVE nickname_of_targetted_user exact_text_which_will_be_deleted
In the above command lines you need to be careful to use the exact capitalization of letters and spacing that you see or it will not work. Also you need to replace the colored text with the proper text from your chat channel and situation.
So you will replace #your-channel-name-here with your channel name. It might be something like #supercool-video-1-1-1 or #my-ustream-chat-channel. But it belongs to you, it starts with a " # " and there is no other exactly the same on ustream servers
You will replace nickname_of_targetted_user with the full user nickname of the user you want a command top act upon. So if his nickname is TommyTwoToneTroll22 be sure to type or copy/paste in the whole TommyTwoToneTroll22 not just Tommy or TommyTwoToneTroll.
You will replace exact_text_which_will_be_deleted with the exact string of letters numbers and spaces you want removed. If you forget a space or anything else the ustream servers wont be able to find a match and nothing will be deleted. Copy/paste is your pal here.
OK if I ever get real ambitious i might do a small tutorial on how to easily implement these long strings with only a few keystrokes in X chat. Especially if anyone shows interest.
Who am I kidding? Nobody but maybe a very bored Evelyn wood read all the way through a rant and wall of text to reach the end of this post There wont be interest.


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Tales from Poland's home front: A Jew in the Warsaw Ghetto
This book supplies perhaps the last unwritten chapter in the history of the Second World War. One reason it has taken so long is that for Poland the war did not end until 1989 or, to be exact, 1990, when a treaty with Germany was at last signed. Another is the magnitude of the subject, involving as it does almost every theatre of the war and a human tragedy of staggering complexity and scale played out on several continents. The Polish armed forces were deployed widely, both conventionally and underground. The civilian population did not share a common experience, as the invaders broke it down by ethnic and social background and treated it accordingly. But the difficulties that faced historians taking on the subject do not end there, and they are part of the story.
The Soviet Union projected its own version of events, falsifying evidence on a massive scale. Poland's Western allies clung to their narrative of a good war fought for democracy and decency, in which Poland had no place and which its fate actually contradicted. The socialism and engouement with all things Soviet which reigned in academe and the media in the postwar period cast the Poles and their sympathisers in the role of crypto-fascists. Emigré Polish historians, usually incapable of shedding their emotional involvement, sounded strident at best. Foreign historians were impeded by language barriers and seemingly impossible complexities, and tended to be either too sympathetic or too condescending, or both.
For Britons, the fate of Poland after 1945 had the added inconvenience of being a painful reminder of their country's decline and diminished influence in the Allied councils at Tehran and Yalta. For Poles, it was difficult not to see the whole thing in personal terms: Poland had fought from the first to the last, and Poland had been betrayed.
There was little understanding of, or sympathy for, Poland in the West. Statistically, Russia had suffered far greater losses. Stalingrad and the siege of Leningrad, even Dresden and Hiroshima overshadowed the tragedy of Warsaw, even though the human and material losses were much greater. In terms of sheer horror, the Holocaust outranked all other tales of suffering, and although half of the victims were Polish citizens and it took place almost entirely on Polish territory, it did not figure in the popular imagination as part of the Polish story.
The Nazis and Soviets deliberately set their victims against each other, and after the war Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, Lithuanians and even the evicted Germans staked rival claims of victimhood which usually involved belittling the sufferings of the others and accusing them of collaboration, further clouding the picture. Not the least of the difficulties facing the historian was that what the population, Jewish or otherwise, endured bears no relation to the experience of the Second World War in any other part of the world, except in Manchuria and parts of southeast Asia. It was so grotesquely unthinkable that it was unbelievable to the average inhabitant of a Western democracy.