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Xbox and the PC: A perfect match?
By Stephen Lewis
Stephen Lewis considers the tensions between Xbox and its old-school rival, the PC
At a recent event, Phil Spencer of Xbox announced that numerous titles previously exclusive to Xbox One would be making their way to PC; namely Gears of War Ultimate Edition, Forza Motorsport 6 Apex and, a few weeks ago, Quantum Break. This is not entirely out of the ordinary as in the past some Xbox games have eventually made their way to PC, such as the original Gears of War and the first two Halo games. Yet Spencer also hinted at the fact that the Xbox One may soon become an upgradable piece of technology, not dissimilar to PCs where the titles above are soon to make their debut. This raises two questions: Is releasing games on PC that were originally Xbox exclusive a good idea? And will an upgradable Xbox One be worth it when you could do the same on PC?
The first of these depends on the games: Forza 6 has already been available for a long time on XB so the die hard fans will most likely have it already, as will most others who enjoy racing games and own the console. Quantum Break however is more interesting as it is a brand new IP, and free copies for PC come with a pre-order on XB, so is it worth buying the standalone PC version when you could possibly get both for the price of one. Yet just this January the buying power of the PC was proven when Rise of the Tomb Raider was released as it sold over three times as many copies as the XB version in its launch month.
The upgradable Xbox is the more confusing issue. There have been rumours for years that one day consoles will go away, perhaps to be replaced by streaming services built into TVs, much in the same way that many people moved from DVD to Blu-Ray and then ending up with Netflix built into a smart TV or box connected to it. An upgradable Xbox would mean that instead of spending a few hundred pounds every couple of year for the next console, it could instead be spread out over a longer period in smaller amounts. But what is the point of a console doing this when upgrading and modifying has been part of the PC mentality for so long? A PC can do more than a console—that much is obvious—but with Xbox exclusives becoming available on PC, is Microsoft shooting itself in the foot in the console market and slowly leaning toward a 50/50 split, or more, with the PC, where it is a major force in the business market? Perhaps we will get more news on this at E3 in June.
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Warner ist ein Einschlagkrater am Ostrand der Mondvorderseite im Osten der Ebene des Mare Smythii, nordöstlich des Kraters Kiess und südöstlich von Runge. Der Krater ist sehr flach, da das Innere mit den Laven des Mare geflutet wurde.

Der Krater wurde 1976 von der IAU nach dem US-amerikanischen Ingenieur, Unternehmer und Astronomen Worcester Reed Warner offiziell benannt.

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By D R Manu'ari from Wellington, NZ
Sunday, 26 July 2009 20:48 PM
While I am not directly affected by the above issue, please allow me space to briefly voice some concerns on the matter.
I was once a student at USP and I know what it is like to try and make ends meet with the little money that SIG is paying to our students there. With the current situation in Fiji, it does not require a rocket scientist to figure out that inflation rate will also increase, and even so given the recent devaluation in the Fiji dollar.
Hence, I think for the government to reduce the student's allowance in the sense of currency value is uncalled for. I understand that our economy is encountering difficult times calling for tough actions and decisions to be made. But there are things that must be considered and approached with sensitivity. For the students, their allowance is their life and to cut it is gravely detrimental.
I think, instead of cutting out on the students' allowances which is a worthy long-term investment, our political leaders and Members of Parliament should take the initiative and demonstrate to us that they are responsible leaders as they always claim and cut off on their own allowances and entitlements. Why is it always easy to put the burden on other people whenever we ecounnter tough economic situations than to make personal sacrifices yourselves as leaders? I thought our motto was "To Lead is to Serve." Now, it is "To Lead is to be Served?"
I hope ordinary Solomon Islanders, parents, guardians and relatives of the students will be able to effectively have your say on the issue and other national issues in the upcoming general elections and make sure that leaders are accountable for their actions.
God Bless our beloved Solomon Islands.
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What If Yahoo Had Acquired Facebook?
Nearly nine years ago, Facebook (FB) discussed an acquisition agreement with Yahoo (YHOO). Unprecedented at the time, a high-riding Yahoo sought to purchase the young social network for $1 billion. Like most tech acquisition offers, Yahoo hoped to leverage its size and capital advantages in order to buy Facebook before the company realized its full potential. At the time, in July 2006, Yahoo boasted a market capitalization of more than $40 billion, which is higher after accounting for inflation, and ended the year with revenues of more than $6 billion. Facebook on the other hand was only two years old; it had nearly nine million users, and generated a mere $30 million in revenue. Although Yahoo's offer was opportune, Zuckerberg convinced the other members of his three-person board to reject it.
Today, Facebook is the 14th largest company in the world, with a market capitalization of $225 billion, annual revenues of more than $13 billion, and 1.4 billion active users. In contrast, Yahoo's growth has ironically stagnated since 2006. Its market capitalization still hovers around $40 billion, however Yahoo's annual revenues are now $1 billion lower than those generated in 2006. This dichotomy presents an interesting question: where would Yahoo be if it had successfully acquired Facebook?
Much of Facebook's success over the past nine years is attributable to Mark Zuckerberg's leadership and company vision. Zuckerberg has constantly innovated within, and improved upon, Facebook's business model. As such, the company can more easily adapt to market conditions. For example, aside from Zuckerberg, few predicted the future popularity, and importance, of mobile technology. However, as Peter Thiel revealed, had Facebook sold to Yahoo, Zuckerberg would have left the company. And without Zuckerberg, Yahoo would have undoubtedly struggled to predict, and respond to, consumer demand shifts.
Given Facebook has since, at times, deviated from Zuckerberg's plans, one could surmise that Yahoo may have shaped the company into a profitable asset. Yahoo's core revenues are generated via digital advertising. Since Yahoo was once at the forefront of digital advertising, it's reasonable to assume Yahoo would have used Facebook to increase its advertising presence. Facebook's 9 million users would have instantly generated greater revenues. Furthermore, if Yahoo focused on growing Facebook's user base, it would simultaneously grow its digital advertising platform.
Additionally, Facebook could have provided Yahoo with an advantage in popularizing its Internet search engine. In 2006, Yahoo was a viable contender against Google (GOOG), as both battled for Internet search engine supremacy. As such, by acquiring Facebook, Yahoo could have integrated its search engine within Facebook's interface. Therefore, every time a user searched for a friend or company (on Facebook), Yahoo would serve as the filter and acquire valuable consumer data. In turn, Facebook users would inevitably become accustomed to the functionality of Yahoo's search engine, thereby increasing their likelihood of externally using "Yahoo search."
In retrospect, Zuckerberg clearly made the right decision by choosing not to sell to Yahoo. However, as with any deal of this nature, predicting the future health of both companies is impossible. For investors, reflecting on successful acquisitions and rejected offers not only provides historical context for future negotiations, but it also provides insight into how quickly market landscapes can change.


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In what is becoming the ultimate "tell" that the globalists are losing ground, Joe Scarborough on Sunday revived his "President Bannon" smear. Of course, Scarborough may have his own motivations to push Trump to appease the "No Labels" crowd and his new friends at Harvard. He apparently is the top mouthpiece for the White House's globalists—the dynamic duo of Gary Cohn and Dina Powell along with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.
It has been five months since Clemson's January 9, 35-31 squeaker over Alabama that handed the South Carolinians a college football national championship. Now, it has been confirmed that the team is slotted for a June 9 visit to the White House, according to The Post and Courier.
At his press conference this week, a fiery Nick Saban sounded off on taking Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) opponents lightly.


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Q: SPIM print ascii char I have to write a little program in assembly for the MIPS architecture. To be more specific it should be a procedure which takes a register and prints the value of it. It is allowed to use everything excepted a call of print_int. My procedure does:
1. Split up the given register into digits
2. Convert them into ascii
3. Store them on the stack
I now have values like 52 or 53 on the stack and I want to print them with print_string but how can I achieve this?
Thanks for your help.

A: You write 3. Store them on the stack. Since you are allowed to use everything excepted a call of print_int why don't you store them in succesive memory bytes before using print_string to ouput the result.

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Q: how calculate correlation betwen multiple variables using R i have database in excel i need to calculate the correlation betwen all variables in my database and after do graphique i need to know how do that using R
i use  :
 M<-cor(Donn2[,-1])
> M
                          Litrage produit Rapportinjection      Format Nbre passage eau
Litrage produit                 1.0000000       0.20415852  0.27658465       0.67426686
Rapportinjection                0.2041585       1.00000000 -0.12380173       0.31795429
Format                          0.2765846      -0.12380173  1.00000000      -0.05253294
Nbre passage eau                0.6742669       0.31795429 -0.05253294       1.00000000
Pertes totales PF(%)           -0.5233907      -0.07581707 -0.52733899      -0.22555675
Pertes PF secteur 3 (eur)              NA               NA          NA               NA
Coût pertes Secteur 3 (L)       0.6742669       0.31795429 -0.05253294       1.00000000
                          Pertes totales PF(%) Pertes PF secteur 3 (eur) Coût pertes Secteur 3 (L)
Litrage produit                    -0.52339068                        NA                0.67426686
Rapportinjection                   -0.07581707                        NA                0.31795429
Format                             -0.52733899                        NA               -0.05253294
Nbre passage eau                   -0.22555675                        NA                1.00000000
Pertes totales PF(%)                1.00000000                        NA               -0.22555675
Pertes PF secteur 3 (eur)                   NA                         1                        NA
Coût pertes Secteur 3 (L)          -0.22555675                        NA                1.00000000

i have some value with NA what that mane is just in one variable when i have NA
and when i use ;
> corrplot(M, type="upper")

i have coorgrame i have something like that :

why i get result like that with value NA ?
thank you

A: By excluding all character and factor variables you could use cor() function.
Here, an example using iris dataset
data(iris)
cor(iris[,-5])


Legendary rocker Tom Petty died October 2, following a heart attack in Los Angeles; he was 66. Over the course of his four-decade career, Petty deftly combined roots rock with mainstream pop to create a long string of classics, including as "American Girl," "Don't Come Around Here No More," "Free Fallin," "Refugee," "The Waiting" and many more. In the live realm, Petty spent the last 22 years shaping his sound with FOH engineer Robert Scovill, and that long, trusted audio relationship began with 1995's "Dogs With Wings" tour, backing the triple-platinum Wildflowers album. In remembrance of Petty, PSN looks back at the start of that era with a tour profile from our May, 1995 issue—a story that found the artist adopting then-cutting edge technologies like in-ear monitors and Scovill devising a precursor to the modern-day Virtual Soundcheck capabilities found on today's digital mix system.
Legendary rocker Tom Petty died October 2, following a heart attack in Los Angeles; he was 66. Over the course of his four-decade career, Petty deftly combined roots rock with mainstream pop to create a long string of classics, including as "American Girl," "Don't Come Around Here No More," "Free Fallin," "Refugee," "The Waiting" and many more. In the live realm, Petty spent the last 22 years shaping his sound with FOH engineer Robert Scovill, and that long, trusted audio relationship began with 1995's "Dogs With Wings" tour, backing the triple-platinum Wildflowers album. In remembrance of Petty, PSN looks back at the start of that era with a tour profile from our May, 1995 issue—a story that found the artist adopting then-cutting edge technologies like in-ear monitors and Scovill devising a precursor to the modern-day Virtual Soundcheck capabilities found on today's digital mix systems.
NEW YORK—With some veteran rockers, it takes the will of God to get them back out on the road; a monumental tour once every five or six years is the best their fans can hope for. Tom Petty, on the other hand, seems to always be on the go—if he hasn't already made a stop in your town this year, you can be sure he'll come through in the next 12 months. Known to fans and critics alike as a consummate performer, he, along with the Heartbreakers, is on tour again in the Dogs With Wings tour, supporting his recent Wildflowers album. Petty and Company knock out the trademark mellow-yet-rockin' tunes one after another, and before you know it, a few hours and a plethora of hit songs have gone by.
The friendly demeanor that Petty displays throughout his shows is no act either, as members of his crew will tell you at the drop of a hat what an easy artist he is to work for. They also note that he's open to trying new things.
"Tom talked into his mic and his reactions were, 'Oh God, these sound terrible; oh, these sound horrible; oh, there's something way wrong. There's no bottom.' And I'm saying, 'Well, they don't sound that bad, Tom' and I'm tweaking and he thinks they're broken. After 10 minutes, he had me try them and they were 6-8 dB down in level, real high, paper thin. Tom summed them up, 'They sound like the air-tube earphones you used to get on airplanes'—and they really did.
"I said, 'Tom, right off the bat, I'm sorry. Here, you try mine' and when I put my Future Sonics in his ears, he tried them and said, 'Oh, this is living now, this is it!' It was just night and day."
After some testing, Petty decided to only wear one ear monitor, and he uses it for about 70 percent of the show. "He went with wearing only one because he didn't want to be in his own little world, which can sometimes happen. He worried that if he's having a real good mix in his ear-phones, it may not be like that on stage. He likes the ambient sound on stage. We're using old Vox tube amps and such up there and he likes the sound, so primarily I'm using the ear monitors as a reinforcement with vocals, acoustic guitar...little accents as opposed to the full mix and being completely self-absorbed. They're working out great," said Hendry.
The ear monitor apparently sounds good to Petty--perhaps too good, as Hendry explained: "Tom has a soft, delicate voice and his music is very dynamic so he can sing very soft on to the mic, pick real soft on his acoustic strings. The ear monitor was working so efficiently in his ear that, unconsciously to him, he was backing off the mic. He was singing away and it's sounding great, but all the time, he was putting less and less input in the mic, so consequently, Robert (Scovill, front-of-house mixer) was struggling. I was mixing fine for Tom, but on stage, the band was going, 'Can you bring his vocal up?' So after, he was aware of the fact and he keeps right on the mic now; consequently, he backs the volume of his ear piece down."
Petty happens to make things a bit easier for Hendry because he likes to stay put on stage, surrounded by four wedges; having to chase Petty around with mixes appropriate for one ear with monitor and one without would be no picnic. Still, when Petty does walk around, his vintage Vox and Bassman amps bleed directly into his vocal mic; he uses the ear monitor's mix of the vocal mic as a reference for guitar solos instead of Hendry having to mix solos specially for his ear.
A 56-channel Midas XL3 is being used for mixing monitors, providing 12 mixes on stage as well as ear monitor mixes (Drummer Steve Ferrone also uses an ear monitor; Hendry uses a monitor set up with him that has a number of subs and an Aura Drum Shaker under the stool as well). Effects-wise, Hendry uses a few Yamaha SPX-990s, an Eventide H3000 and "a host of gates and compression—the usual." Hendry noted that Petty prefers to go almost completely dry with his sound, both with what he hears and what he delivers to the audience—"He uses a little effects pedal for a certain guitar part in 'Mary Jane's Last Dance' and this to Tom is like 'Whoa!' His roadie guy says he's like a 16-year-old kid in the guitar center for the first time."
Robert Scovill is manning the front-of-house boards for Petty on this cross-country jaunt, mixing on a Gamble 56EX console and using a horde of processing equipment not normally seen on the road--"I use a lot of the same stuff I use in the studio when I'm touring--out of habit or comfort." Some of that "stuff" includes Neumann microphones, an SPL Vitalizer, Tube Tech preamps used on bass and snare drums and vocals, and a new Tube-Tech LCA2B dual limiter used on acoustic guitars. "I just absolutely love that one to death," Scovill noted.
"There's a dbx 160 on Tom's vocal, funny enough, per some conversations with Don Smith. He said he'd been around the mill with Tom in the studio and he found that the 160 really works magic on Tom's vocal, even better than the later ones like the 160x. So I'm using a combination of that and the 1176 on Tom's vocal. The 1176 is standard; I use it all the time, and I know Petty and Mike Campbell (Petty's longtime guitarist) are both big fans of it. I have some Summit DCL100 and 200 compression. I use different kinds of compression for different kinds of instruments. I have the characteristics of them tailored to certain instruments."
Ever the perfectionist, Scovill was still fine-tuning the show when Pro Sound News visited the tour. "Today, we brought in some Lang EQ and some Tube Tech EQ; I'm going to try them on Tom's vocal tonight. As far as effects processing goes, this show doesn't really call for a lot of it. It's very low-key on the processing side. We don't use the 'R' word much around here: Reverb. If you listen to Petty's record productions over the last few years, they've been very natural sounding and pretty dry for the most part, but I think they're very cool sounding. Any digital processing I do out here is very tight ambiance. I like the new set of ambiance programs in the t.c. electronic M5000; they're really good. I use that primarily on drums and piano, and the Eventide H3000 on vocal, t.c. electronic delays on the vocals, and that's about the extent of it. I did just get a new Alesis Quadraverb 2 though and I must say I am pretty impressed it. I hope I can find a slot for it though, because there's not a lot going on out here in Digital World," Scovill remarked.
The 96-box PA, provided by Electrotec of Westlake Village, CA, is divided into zones, each with its own crossover and EQ—the long throw section, short throw section, underhungs and center fill cabinets down in front—allowing Scovill to control the tone of the nearfield PA as well as the mix and level. "I've been real happy with the Electrotec PA; it has performed well on the tour. Petty has been an Electrotec staple for countless years. I've been using it for years as well and know it inside and out," said Scovill.
Also on tour with the band are 56 channels of ADAT, plugged into the insert point, before any insert gear or the console, to track each show. "When the band's done, you just rewind the tape, push play and there's your mix sitting there, just as it was during the show, and you can work on your inserts or anything. You can come in, put on last night's performance, walk around, listen to any instrument in the room, work on your inserts or judge microphone placements…it lets you tune the PA much more effectively.
"Funny enough, we brought the multi-tracks out with the intention of capturing some songs for B-sides, as well as multitracking for some documentary shoots we were doing with VH-1. I went into Electric Lady in New York to do some mixing of three songs. Well, I also make two-track references every night on DAT with audience and ambiance mics and the whole nine yards, and we brought those in just as reference because we liked the way they sounded. We futzed around with it for three or four hours, trying get it to sound as good as the two-track mix, and finally ended up just using the two-track mix. It was like 'Man, why are we banging our heads against the wall? This sounds fine.' As Petty would say, "Hey, good is good; don't mess with it." I believe they're going to release 'I Just Want To Make Love To You,' by Muddy Waters, and 'Diamond Head,' a song by the Ventures—which are both in the show—and maybe a Byrds song, probably 'Won't Be Wrong.'"
Since Petty spends months touring, he goes out of his way to make it easier for everyone involved--and that includes the tour schedule. Reflecting a growing trend among touring artists, Petty's itinerary has weeks set off at a time, allowing the band and crew breaks in their hectic schedules. Hendry observed, "Nobody gets too burned out; after four weeks, you can start to get on each other's nerves, but then you go home for a week and come back refreshed. The tour is very nicely thought-out. Most of the guys on the tour, we've all been doing this for 20 years; Tom, Michael, guys in the band have kids, and the tour is very oriented to keeping that in mind. I've done a lot of tours like Motley Crüe and tours like that, which are good fun, believe you me, but they're not kid-oriented or family-oriented that way."
Months into the trek, Hendry was still impressed by the range of people attending Petty's concerts—and their reactions to shows: "The audience will range from high school kids right up to 45-50-year-olds who have their kids in their arms, clapping away. It's really good, everyone's up dancing, right up until the very end. Nobody leaves."


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Q: Background Mouse simulation I'm writing a program in C# that is attaching on to another process and reading memory etc. from this other process. I'm looking for a way to simulate mouse movements in this other process, but the other process specifically blocks methods such as PostMessage, SendMessage etc. I'm trying to stay away from injection or memory writes, so those aren't an option for this. I've been told the best way would be to create a virtual mouse driver and hook it on to the other process. Anyone have any other ways I could do this or how I would go about hooking a virtual mouse driver?

A: Would using a seperate program such as autohotkey, to drive the mouse moving be doable? Because thats what I'd do.

A: I'm not sure what program you're targetting but I've seen cool workarounds for games that block PostMessage (games that shall go unnamed ;p).
I don't know if hooking virtual mouse drivers would work. I've heard of the approach before but my feeling is that if PostMessage is blocked then it would be fruitless. Don't mouse drivers just send messages to the game window using standard windows messages anyway?
The most common way that I've seen developers block PostMessage/SendMessage is to copy the Windows DLL from the system folder and distribute it with the the game (I wonder if this is even legal?). Since the DLL loads the functions local to the game's address space, the game can block off other processes from accessing those functions by ensuring that the caller is also local to the game's address space.
A simple way to bypass this would be to inject a DLL into the game's process and hook into their functions. However, developers are saavy to this approach and can still block your call by performing certain checks at the entry point of the function (I'm not sure what these checks are). From what I understand, a simple way to then workaround this check is to define the first few bytes of the PostMessage function yourself, then jump to a point after the check within PostMessage.
I don't want to elaborate any more because what I'm discussing is quite specific and the topic is very deep, constantly changing, and doesn't really target people on Stack Overflow.
All of these things I've mentioned are basic ideas I picked up from surfing various game hacking forums -- those are the places to look for this kind of question. The game hacking community is pretty tight with their information but after enough time passes everybody is willing to share their approaches :)

A: In developing SCAR (a RuneScape macroing program), the developers eventually had to build a wrapper around the java file (called SMART) and have a "fake mouse" inside this wrapper take could be controlled using basic function calls. I don't know how to do this in C#, but it is possible in Java. Before SMART, you either had to allow your mouse to be used (so moving the mouse directly) or use something called "Silent Mouse". Silent mouse hooked into java.exe and the functions in its JVM and controlled mouse inputs, just as Kai described. However, as Kai also described, this was very easily detectable, so no one used it.


We have recently upgraded to 14.3 from 13.2. Post upgrade we are observing below issue.
with jelly:http library code is not getting saved. however same code is working in another environment which is in 13.2.
I did not see any change impact in GEL library in 14.3.
I am assuming this is not an On-Demand environment.
That said, look in you PPM lib directory and see if you have the taglib jar.
If not, you could just download it and drop it in the lib folder.
commons-jelly-tags-http.jar doesn't ship with Clarity (13.2 or 14.3). Putting it into the /lib folder and using it would not be supported, so if there are any issues with scripts using this library (relating to http processing or thread safety) or any issues suggesting problems with class compatibility or conflicts, then it will be necessary to remove and disable this as the first step.
Good point Nick, I had assumed that they had already done this as I doubt that commons-jelly-tags-http.jar or commons-jelly-tags-interaction.jar was shipped in 13.2.
Yes, that's true that commons-jelly-tags-http.jar file was not shipped and it was downloaded and placed in 13.2 version.
So, for this new commons-jelly-tags-http.jar file compatible with 14.3 version is required ?
So what actually happens when you try to save the script? Messages on screen? Errors in the app logs? Do those same problems occur with the example above?
I agree with Nick. I just looked through the commons-jelly-tags-http.jar and while there isn't any logging it does throw exceptions when it doesn't like something. Given that is the case, you should be seeing exception errors in you log file if it wasn't liking something.
Best guess -- maybe a firewall issue on that server.
In app log I could not see any detail related to this issue.
I will check on the firewall issue and update here.
which provides the ability for jelly to interact with the console. Given that you most likely are running your Gel script in the process engine, there would be no way for a user to answer a question posed in the Gel script.


Not just any Slaw, Apple Slaw!
I love a good slaw and this is something I may not have tried it if it wasn't for my friend and fellow blogger Kimbrough Daniels. This is no ordinary slaw; no mayonnaise and no celery seed but there is apple, red onion, shallots and cilantro. It is light and refreshing with lots great flavor.
My husband loved it and I knew he would, he loves anything with apples. And this is a great salad to take to a picnic because you don't have to worry about the mayo getting bad!
In a jar with a lid combine all dressing ingredients. With lid tight, shake well until combined. Place all the slaw ingredients in a large bowl, pour dressing over slaw and toss until the slaw is well coated. Chill for at least 30 minutes and enjoy!
*My husband suggested using Granny Smith apples to make it more tart…I think I'll give it a try next time I make it because I will be making it again!


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Hi could someone take a look at the image and tell me what font is being used, or tell me a font that is very close.
Thanks for your help mate, i will look into Rexlia, or maybe i will model it myself cant be hard but i need a template for a model.
Thanks for the heads up on Identifont and WhatThe Fonts didnt even know they existed.
Speaking of fonts, this site is really cool, nice fonts (genuinely) most free too!
Nice find Matt, can never have enough fonts.
Also try http://www.dafont.com/ nice easy to use visual interface.
http://www.dafont.com/uss-dallas.font is very close as are http://www.dafont.com/bombardier.font and http://www.dafont.com/federation-starflee.font but narrower.
and if you're looking for Nasa-alike http://www.dafont.com/nasalization.font is pretty cool.
Thanks Tobian i think the links you sent especially bombardier and federation starflee font are the ones. I have the nasalisation font already.
Thanks for the help, i realised strictly it was not a font but wondered if there was one around the same or similar and you seem to have hit the money.
Corel products are all but useless to me but having an extra 350 TT fonts lying around is pretty handy. It's even worth picking up the Corel7 CD's in your local software bargain bin for $4 if you can still find them.
Thanks Hopper i will have a mooch around see if i can find it in amongst all this junk i call an office.
Oops .. sorry .. finger dyslexia strikes again.
In case you find a Corel CD - that was AFSTAMPExt.ttf, not AFSATMPExt.ttf. swapped the A and the T.


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The solution presented is **highly customizable**.

![DZTSMiniWebBrowser_demo_animation](http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/695/guk.gif "Demo animation")

## Screenshots

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[screenshot2_thumb]: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7604222/GitHub/TSMiniWebBrowser/shot_02_thumb.png
[screenshot2]: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7604222/GitHub/TSMiniWebBrowser/shot_02.png
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[screenshot3]: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7604222/GitHub/TSMiniWebBrowser/shot_03.png

## Features

TSMiniWebBrowser offers the following **features**:

* Back and forward buttons
* Reload button (*optional*)
* Activity indicator while page is loading
* Action button to open the current page in Safari (*optional*)
* Displays the page title at the navigation bar (*optional*)
* Displays the current URL at the top of the "Open in Safari" action sheet (*optional*)
* Customizable bar style: default, black, black translucent.

As you can see, there are some items that are "optional". That means that you can configure the browser to display or not those items, depending on your app needs.

Moreover, TSMiniWebBrowser **supports 3 presentation modes**:

* **Navigation controller mode**. Using this mode you can push the browser to your navigation controller.
* **Modal mode**. Using this mode you can present the browser modally. A title bar with a dismiss button will be automatically added.
* **Tab bar mode**. Using this mode you can show the browser as a tab of a tab bar view controller. The toolbar with the navigation controls will be positioned at the top of the view automatically.

## Usage

If you are OK with the **TSMiniWebBrowser defaults**, you can simply use this snippet to create and display the browser:

	TSMiniWebBrowser *webBrowser = [[TSMiniWebBrowser alloc] initWithUrl:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://indiedevstories.com"]];
	[self.navigationController pushViewController:webBrowser animated:YES];

If you prefer, you may **customize** the browser behavior. There is also a **simple Demo app** within the project. To test the tab bar mode go to the `application: didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:` method in `AppDelegate.m` and set the `BOOL wantTabBarDemo = NO;` value to `YES`.

	TSMiniWebBrowser *webBrowser = [[TSMiniWebBrowser alloc] initWithUrl:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://indiedevstories.com"]];
    webBrowser.showURLStringOnActionSheetTitle = YES;
    webBrowser.showPageTitleOnTitleBar = YES;
    webBrowser.showActionButton = YES;
    webBrowser.showReloadButton = YES;
    webBrowser.mode = TSMiniWebBrowserModeNavigation;

    webBrowser.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlack;

    if (webBrowser.mode == TSMiniWebBrowserModeModal) {
        webBrowser.modalDismissButtonTitle = @"Home";
        [self presentModalViewController:webBrowser animated:YES];
    } else if(webBrowser.mode == TSMiniWebBrowserModeNavigation) {
        [self.navigationController pushViewController:webBrowser animated:YES];
    }

## Adding TSMiniWebBrowser into your Xcode 4 project

To add the TSMiniWebBrowser component to your project you simply need to drag & drop the entire "TSMiniWebBrowser" folder. There are only two files, apart from the icon images.

This project uses **ARC**.

## Original TSMiniWebBrowser Licence

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We're funding a gentleman, a doctor, who goes into countries of the world and trains [health care workers] on how to solve the clubfoot…without an operation. It's all done by manipulation, and it's fascinating.
The interesting thing is that the gentleman who actually founded the method died, and this fellow found his papers and asked the family whether he could continue doing the good work and they said yes, and he's gone off and done it.
Now you think, well, so what? But if you're in downtown Bangladesh and you have clubfoot, you're kicked out of the family. There's an economic problem. You can't go to school. You're picked on by a whole bunch of people. Nine times out of ten you can't get a job.
Now, can you just imagine the young kid suddenly being able to walk and not being on the outside of the circle? Being on the inside of the circle? Don't you think that'll make you feel pretty good?
Notice the donor's initial explanation. He describes the science without fanfare, explaining that it works, and that he is confident in the credibility and efficacy of the work he is funding.
But then his focus changes, and he reveals his deepest motivation for giving.
By placing himself in the position of those who suffer from clubfoot, he can imagine the total reversal of fortunes that is possible when the condition can be cured using non-costly, non-invasive treatments.
From this information, we can see that the individual impact of clubfoot treatment is what matters most to this donor. He describes a problem on a personal level, and then envisions a promise for a future when the problem is solved. His explanation is succinct, societally relevant, and emotionally compelling.
This kind of description is not unusual; in fact, it is a prime example of the type of information donors are interested in learning about the work they support.
Do your physicians, researchers, and scientists share information about their important work in a way that inspires donors?


In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, built at the turn of the century in Germany, on which she discovers everything that she herself can do with music and what music, in turn, does for her. Yet after marrying, she emigrates with her young family from Russia to America, at her husband's frantic insistence, and her piano is lost in the shuffle.
In 2012, in Bakersfield, California, twenty-six-year-old Clara Lundy loses another boyfriend and again has to find a new apartment, which is complicated by the gift her father had given her for her twelfth birthday, shortly before he and her mother died in a fire that burned their house down: a Blüthner upright she has never learned to play. Orphaned, she was raised by her aunt and uncle, who in his car-repair shop trained her to become a first-rate mechanic, much to the surprise of her subsequent customers. But this work, her true mainstay in a scattered life, is put on hold when her hand gets broken while the piano's being moved--and in sudden frustration she chooses to sell it. And what becomes crucial is who the most interested party turns out to be. . .
CHRIS CANDER graduated from the Honors College at the University of Houston, in the city where she was raised and still lives, with her husband, daughter, and son. For seven years she has been a writer-in-residence for Writers in the Schools there. She serves on the Inprint advisory board and stewards several Little Free Libraries in her community. Her first novel,11 Stories, won the Independent Publisher Gold Medal for Popular Fiction, and her most recent, Whisper Hollow, was long-listed for the Great Santini Fiction Prize by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance. She is also the author of The Word Burglar, which won the 2014 Moonbeam Children's Book Award (silver).


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Chapter 925 revealed two new Devil Fruit users among the Blackbeard Pirates.
Catarina Devon, known as the "Crescent Moon Hunter", ate the Inu Inu no Mi, Model: Kyubi, a Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruit that allows her to transform into a nine-tailed fox while Shiryu of the Rain has eaten the Suke Suke no Mi, a Paramecia-class Devil Fruit which gives him the ability to turn himself and other things invisible.
With this fruit, he is able to cut opponents without being spotted, taking them by surprise.
I have this weird theory: maybe Shiryu will be Sanji's counterpart on Blackbeard's crew. Shiryu got the invisible devil fruit from Absalom. Way back on Thriller Bark, Sanji says that Absalom got the devil fruit he always wanted.
If Sanji would master Observation Haki, then it would be good against Shiryu's invisible devil fruit.
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Omicron Variant discovered in Colorado Thursday
Health Health |
Eliza Noe
enoe@craigdailypress.com
Moderna COVID-19 vials seen inside the storage container at Moffat County Public Health, located on Pershing Street.
Craig Press file
The Omicron Variant has been detected for the first time in Colorado, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Routine contact tracing found that a woman in Arapahoe County — who had just come back from a visit in the southern part of Africa — had tested positive for the variant.
"She is experiencing minor symptoms and is isolated and recuperating at home," CDPHE said in a news release. "She had been fully vaccinated and was eligible for the booster vaccine but had not received it yet."
The Colorado State Public Health Lab conducted testing on the patient's test to confirm that it was a match for the omicron variant. This particular patient's test was flagged for extra testing because of where she had been traveling — since Omicron was first identified in the southern part of Africa.
CDPHE recommends that people who have traveled internationally recently get tested 3 to 5 days after they return from their trips, and on Thursday, President Joe Biden announced that all inbound international travelers must test within one day of departure — regardless of vaccination status or nationality — in order to help slow the spread of the Omicron Variant.
CDPHE has been working closely with Tri-County Health Department on contact tracing and thus far, no close contacts have received a positive test. Colorado is now the third state in the U.S. to identify the variant. As recently as Thursday morning, Minnesota identified a case in a man who had recently traveled and stayed several days in New York City, and the first was spotted in California on Wednesday from someone who had also traveled in Africa. Five cases had been discovered in the New York City metropolitan area as recently as Thursday evening.
In a statewide press conference, Dr. Rachel Herlihy, state epidemiologist for Colorado, joined Gov. Jared Polis shortly after the news of the Omicron case in the state broke. In addition to advising vaccines as the most effective prevention tool against the spread of the virus, Herlihy said getting COVID tested is another layer in protecting the public's health.
"Colorado has one of the highest rates of whole-genome sequencing in the country, but of course testing relies on individuals going to get tested. Testing is a fundamental part of our response," Herlihy said. "Getting tested, wearing a mask, getting vaccinated, physical distancing, washing your hands, all of those strategies remain the same. At this stage, we still have lots of questions about the severity and transmissibility of Omicron."
Because of how recently the omicron variant was discovered, there are still a lot of unknowns around how severe it is compared to the Alpha (or the original) variant of COVID-19 or the delta variant. In recent months, Delta has been by far the dominant variant identified in Moffat County and is more likely to result in a breakthrough case — or a positive case in someone who is already fully vaccinated.
Right now, Herlihy said, there is no evidence to suggest that masks or vaccines would be less effective against Omicron.
"Thanks to Colorado's sophisticated lab and hard work, we have identified the first case of the Omicron variant in Colorado. Now is the time for caution, not for panic, so get vaccinated, get boosted, and get your children ages 5 and up vaccinated," Polis said on Thursday. "If you're concerned about this new variant and your loved ones, get vaccinated and get boosted and I urge the remaining Coloradans who have not stepped up to protect themselves with the vaccine to get off the sidelines."
According to data from CDPHE, 53.2% of eligible Moffat County residents have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Eight new positive cases were reported in Moffat County Thursday, and 9.2% of tests over the past week have come back positive. This, according to CDPHE, makes Moffat County a "high-risk" community. If that positivity rate exceeds 10%, Moffat County will move to a "severe-risk" category, and if it drops below 7.5%, the county will move down to a "moderate-risk."
A variant of a virus is created when a specific virus mutates naturally. Variants are common with viruses like the flu, which is why it is recommended that flu shots are taken every year since a different variant is more dominant each year. This week, CDPHE is sending a bus for citizens looking to receive monoclonal antibody treatments to battle against severe symptoms and potential hospitalization.
Last month, hospitals across the state of Colorado were struggling with increased hospital capacity. Though more local hospitals like MRH remained stable, increased capacity elsewhere could have affected transportation of patients who needed higher care.
"We're less worried about exceeding our hospital capacity than we were two weeks ago," Polis said. "But when this virus throws spitball after screwball, who knows where we will be two weeks from now, especially after the holiday gatherings."
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About The Oboe
Have you ever wondered what gives the oboe that very special sound that cuts through the orchestra, and whose sonority is so different from other instruments?
The oboe belongs to a family of woodwind instruments. The soprano oboe, which is heard most frequently, is pitched in concert C. Oboes are usually made of wood, but can also be made of synthetic materials. The soprano oboe measures approximately 65 cm (25 1⁄2 in) long, has silver or silver plated keys, a conical bore and a flared bell. The oboe is a double reed instrument. The term double reed refers to the fact that the reed inserted in the top of the instrument consists of a piece of folded cane folded over and opened at the top, in such a way that the two pieces vibrate against each other. Many oboists make their own reeds, so that the reed will be tailored made to create the sound sought by te musician. The plant that oboe reeds are made from is Arundo donax. It is in the grass family, and it is not a direct relative of bamboo. Arundo donax. Ancient reed instruments used the same plant as we use today. The cultivation of cane for woodwind reeds has long been in the Var Region of southeastern France. However the grass is now being harvested in many other countries (Argentina, China, Mexico, Spain, Turkey).
The sound of the oboe is produced by blowing into the reed with enough pressure to make the air column vibrate. Its distinctive sonority is a function of the double reed combined with the shape of the conical bore: the sound is not replicated in any other wind instrument, and may be used to great effect. Other oboes in the family which are commonly encountered nowadays are the bass oboe, the oboe d'amore, which is pitched in A, and the cor anglais ("English horn") which is pitched in F. The term English horn is a misnomer, since the instrument is neither a horn, nor English. The most likely source of the name is from the French "cor anglé" or "angled horn" probably because of the instrument's relationship to an earlier instrument with a curved shape. The standard oboe instrument in C was called a "hautbois", "hoboy", or "French hoboy" from the French; the compound name consists of haut ["high"] and bois ["wood", "woodwind"]). There is a long history of instrument building, performance of the instrument and teaching of the oboe in France. The spelling of oboe was adopted into English c. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French name. A musician who plays the oboe is called an oboist. Today, the oboe is ubiquitous. Commonly used in orchestras, chamber music, and concert bands, it can also be heard in film music, folk music, jazz, rock, and popular music.
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Hamilton attempts to defuse his recent comments about Bottas and Perez
By Reuters Nov 9, 2021
Mexico City - Seven-times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton moved on Monday to defuse comments he made about Mercedes team mate Valtteri Bottas and Red Bull's Sergio Perez after Sunday's Mexico City Grand Prix.
The Briton, who trails Red Bull rival and Mexico race winner Max Verstappen by 19 points with four races remaining, took to Instagram to clarify his words.
"Yesterday I said that VB left the door open and naturally people will jump to criticise," he said in relation to his observation that Bottas, on pole, left room for Verstappen to seize the lead into the first corner.
"We are a team and we win and we lose as a team. There is not one single person responsible for winning or losing, we do it together good or bad. You may be able to beat us but you can't break us.
"Onto the next one Valtteri, let's keep pushing bro."
Red Bull's car was far superior, Hamilton says after Verstappen's Mexican victory
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Living legend Lewis Hamilton can still make fist of F1 title race
Hamilton also told reporters after the race that he knew the Red Bull was quick because Perez had got close up behind him.
The Mercedes driver said on Monday he wanted to "make sure people don't read what I was saying wrong."
"I have a lot of respect for (Perez) and think he's doing a great job in his new team. He's improved so much this season and I know how hard it is to progress with a new team, it takes time," he added.
"My comment was simply that following another car in Mexico is the hardest thing due to the low drag we all have. That's why there is very little overtaking.
"However, he was able to follow so closely which highlights just how much more downforce they were able to carry."
Perez finished the race in third place, with Hamilton second.
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Home Happening Now Mississippi church that refused to close burned down, Arson suspected
Mississippi church that refused to close burned down, Arson suspected
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Per Tom Dees of FOX13 Memphis:
First Pentacostal Church Holly Springs. Arson is Suspected. Investigators say the church was spray painted with graffiti and set on fire. There was a major explosion in the back of the church that blew out the front.
Fox 13 Memphis reports a church in North Mississippi was destroyed after an explosion caught the building on fire. What was left of the First Pentecostal Church was still smoldering five hours after the fire started. Investigators said they picked up multiple spray paint cans that may have been used for graffiti and that there was a large explosion near the back of the building that blew out the front.
Fox News reports the First Pentecostal Church of Holly Springs in Mississippi burned down early Wednesday morning. The congregation had been in a legal battle to continue holding services despite the novel coronavirus outbreak and subsequent lockdown orders.
The building went up in flames between 2-4 a.m. Investigators said the church was spray-painted with graffiti before an explosion blew out the front of the building, according to Fox 13. Maj. Kelly McMillian of the Marshall Count Sheriff's Department confirmed the fire to be a criminal act of arson.
Thomas More Society senior counsel and lawyer for the church, Stephen Crampton, spoke with Fox News about the fire and said the perpetrators spray-painted a message that read, "I Bet you stay home now you hypokrits."
"We're in a time where I don't think it's any secret that there's a growing hostility toward churches, across the board," Crampton said. "And now, here are churches like First Pentecostal that are sort of stirring up the waters by being outspoken and somewhat firm about seeking to protect their Constitutional rights."
He added, "They've had bad comments [sent their way] on social media. … There is just a segment that takes issue with the church standing up, and the church just being the church."
Crampton represented First Pentecostal in court after its pastor Jerry Waldrop was cited for holding Easter Sunday services. The Thomas More Society also claimed police disrupted a Bible study group held 10 days after the citation.
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Q: Correlation not significant because there is not enough variance? I have a question about correlations again.
I have a dichotomous variable that I want to correlate with the another one (metric) by using the point-biserial correlation coefficient. I get a non-significant result (n=28). But my concern is that one of the variable has almost no variation in the values: 27 observations are $1$, 1 observation is $0$!
In other words, no matter what value variable 2 has, variable 1 has in almost every case the value 1.
Can this be the reason why a correlation is not significant?

A: It's possible to get high point biserial correlation even with 27 $1$'s and a $0$. Indeed, you can get as high as 1, so it's not that:
  y <- c(0,rep(1,27))
  x <- y
  cor(x,y)
[1] 1

-- and making x continuously distributed doesn't substantively alter that conclusion:
  y <- c(0,rep(1,27))
  x=c(rnorm(1,0),rnorm(27,100))
  cor(x,y)
[1] 0.9987537

This corresponds to a $t$ statistic of 102.036 on 26 d.f.
On the other hand, see the advice in the wikipedia page on the point-biserial:

One disadvantage of the point biserial coefficient is that the further the distribution of Y is from 50/50, the more constrained will be the range of values which the coefficient can take. If X can be assumed to be normally distributed, a better descriptive index is given by the biserial coefficient

Since we saw it's possible to get a high correlation, you might wonder what the restriction can be. I assume that they mean "if we restrict $x$ to be normally distributed" -- because then it can be limited:
 x <- sort(rnorm(28,100))
 (rpb <- cor(x,y))
[1] 0.4682661

Much smaller. But still potentially significant:
 pt(-rpb*sqrt(26/(1-rpb^2)),26)*2
[1] 0.01196686

A thousand simulations suggest that when the smallest x goes with the lone zero, the correlation is mostly between 0.3 and 0.5, and about 60% of the values are significant at the 5% level.
So if the continuous variable is restricted to have a normal margin, even then the correlation - while typically a lot smaller than what it otherwise possible, can still be significant.

A: @Glen_b examples showed that a strong correlation is not strictly impossible in this situation but I think your intuition is right. Limited variation (for example range restriction) can bias sample correlations toward 0. The problem is not merely one of "significance", the correlation also appears systematically smaller than it would be if you would consider the whole population.
28 is not a huge sample either so perhaps the problem is simply a lack of power.


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The award-winning women's leadership project, The Hot Mommas Project, announces its 2009 panel of judges. The judges will score cases/stories by women aged 18 and older who want to serve as role models and supporters for other women and girls. Submissions will be accepted through January 31, 2009.
Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV (1888PressRelease) December 18, 2008 - What do the executive producer of the popular, box office hit "Lord of the Rings", a Stay at Home Mom (SAHM), the most influential woman in social media, and a Harvard Business School professor have in common? They are all on the "Hot Mommas® Project" case competition judging panel announced on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets. Case-authors participating in the competition, which will run through January 31, have the opportunity to see their story published in a leading Prentice Hall textbook and featured in PINK magazine.
The "Hot Mommas Project" is an award-winning leadership project raising self-efficacy of women and girls through exposure to role models. The project produces case studies demonstrating the full range of factors influencing a woman's success. At the conclusion of the case study competition, all submitted cases will be made available to educators and others online. The goal of the project is to produce the world's largest women's case study library.
"I'm delighted to have such a diverse panel, because role modeling isn't about just one set of skills. Our judges and case-writers embody a range of personal and professional abilities that you'd expect to see in authentic role models," said Kathy Korman Frey, founder of the Hot Mommas Project and George Washington University School of Business adjunct professor of management.
Judges will read and rate a maximum of five cases. The cases will be rated based on quality of: professional / business and personal issues set forth in the case, as well as discussion questions, teaching notes, appendices, and links.
The Hot Mommas project is housed at the George Washington University School of Business and is included in the mission of the GWSB Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence. The project is supported in part by a gift from Linda Rabbit. To participate in the project, or nominate a dynamic female role model over 18, please contact The Hot Mommas Project team at the email provided. Winners will be announced on March 10, 2009 in concert with International Women's Day.
Adriana Alarcon Efrach – Part-time SAHM. Former Executive Director, The Latino Coalition Foundation.
Ann Handley – CCO, MarketingProfs.com. Voted the most influential woman in social media.
Ashgar Mostafa – President and CEO, Entourage Systems, Inc.
Barbara Kasoff – Co-Founder, President and CEO, Women Impacting Public Policy, Inc.
Cynthia Good – Co-Founder and CEO, PINK Magazine.
Donna Messer – Canada's leading expert in networking.
Ellen Mishkind Thrasher – Director, SBA Office of Entrepreneurship Education.
Karen Kerrigan – President & CEO, Women Entrepreneurs Inc. and SBE Council.
Lisa Osborne Ross – EVP, Ogilvy Worldwide. Former Dep. Dir., Federal Glass Ceiling Commission.
Marc Silverstein – Nationally-known host of Food Network and Discovery shows.
Mark Ordesky – Executive Producer, Lord of the Rings.
Myra Hart – Harvard Business School Professor (retired). Founding officer of STAPLES.
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Susan G. Duffy – Assistant Professor of Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership at Simmons College.
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SECTION – segment, part, component, or in terms of photography a crop of a larger view. Have you ever taken a photo of something and then cropped it to add interest, to improve composition or to zoom in on something? I do it often. For this challenge I am showing a cropped view of Rovinj, coastal town in Istria.
With the approaching Labour Day I am taking a couple of days off and will be linking to your posts on Tuesday. This also means that we are going to skip Black and White Sunday this week. See you all very soon.
I crop all the time, partly because I can never see what I'm photographing in my very scatched screen. But never with results like this. You've got the silky shimmer of the sea, the brickwork, the blue-green window frames, the perfectly placed spire, those wonderful oblongs of orange and red, and then the absolute forest of connectivity devices. So much glorious detail. Enjoy your unconnected days!
Oh a nice crop – great detail visible, especially all those satellite dishes.
Have a great restful weekend Paula!
I crop a fair bit, mainly when there's something I want to highlight for a blog post. Sometimes to improve composition or remove something irritating like litter.
Here is my London crop to highlight the bus and give a hint of what's beneath the bridge.
Enjoy your time off. Interesting that Labour Day here is in September and not May.
GREAT topic and ironically, that's exactly what I was doing today. You would never know you'd cropped that photo. It's looks perfect!
Lovely crop and a beatiful music. Parabéns Paula!!!
Very detailed and precise, it doesn't look like a cropped photo…!
Have a good time , happy holidays !
I have started cropping more. Your example is perfect Paula. Enjoy your time away!
I also love to do some cropping!! Your photo is just stunning! Have a nice break!
About a third of the way across from the left there's a browny red building. I've seen a close up of that little 'street' on the water's edge. A good friend was there some years ago. I've always wanted to visit. 🙂 🙂 Lovely, atmospheric shot, Paula. Enjoy your hard earned days off. I shall be in Bristol, celebrating an 80th with a different and very lovable friend.
🙂 Thank you, Sue. I will have to get ready for our trip tomorrow. I will link to entries on Tuesday. Just this once I will skip B&W Sunday. See you!
This should make you smile!
What made me smile about your shot is the incongruity of all the old buildings, some in urgent need of repair by the look of it, and the modern (ish) satellite dishes dotted all over them!
You can see similar scenarios over here. Drive through any run-down area and you are bound to see a satellite dish on the roof and maybe a brand new Beemer or SUV parked outside.
People's priorities often baffle me.
Paula I just love this photo- the perspective and the colors against the water are beautiful. I often crop for interest. Enjoy your days away!
Yes, Rovinj 🙂 Have you been there?
Yes, I visited the town some years ago. Really enjoyed the old town and I would love to go back some day.
Merci, obrigado, gracias, et tout çà.
Et bon week-end du 1er Mai.
Great history in horizontal layers, the ancient stones (thought they may be newly place there) of the breakwater, the recently renovated lower storey, the older more dilapidated upper storeys, they the crowded satellite dishes and aerials of the 21st century, finally the solitary medieval tower.
Thank you, Linda 🙂 I'm back now.
Cropped to a great composition, Paula.
Paula…your image awakens a desire to travel…to connect with a world beyond. Hope your days off nourish your soul.
HOPE YOU HAVE A GOOD TIME , PAULA!
Beautiful photo. I love this.
Is there a black & white sunday post today?
Not this Sunday, I'm away for Labour Day. Next challenge is on Thursday and next Sunday.
Gorgeous detail and clarity in this shot, Paula.
Wow! Paula, you are a magician. Have a restful long weekend.
Magnificent Paula! What a stunning coastline.
Thank you, Lisa. Croatian coast is really wonderful.


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The Closely Held Corporation: Its Capital Structure and the Federal Tax Laws
William J. Rands
The labyrinthine provisions of the Internal Revenue Code make a decision on whether or not to incorporate a closely-held business astoundingly complex. To decide properly, one must understand the terms "C corporations," "S corporations," a partner's "distributive share," and a host of other cryptic concepts.' Even those initiated into the inner sanctums of Subchapters C2, K3 and S4 must advise their clients that their counsel.is based on the enterprise's projected revenues and expenses, estimates that may prove to be far off the mark. Moreover, changes in the Internal Revenue Code have been so constant that no one can feel confident in assuming that the tax laws in X number of years will be the same as they are now. Despite these nettlesome problems affecting this most common of business decisions, one might not feel too exercised, if, after incorporation, he could be rid of the layers of abstruse tax law, free to fomulate plans for business reasons. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Whether one likes it or not, tax considerations continue to be vital elements in strategic business planning even after the decision to incorporate has been made. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the tax laws on a key aspect of post-incorporation planning - formulation of the capital structure of the closely-held corporation. The paper tries to identify and explain the various components in such a capital structure effected by the tax laws. It examines several of the amorphous tax issues affecting capital structures, e.g., the debt-equity distinction. And, where appropriate, it seeks to evaluate the policy implications of the impact of the tax laws on capital structures.
William J. Rands, The Closely Held Corporation: Its Capital Structure and the Federal Tax Laws, 90 W. Va. L. Rev. (1988).
Available at: https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/wvlr/vol90/iss4/4
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Beyond The Class Notes…
Posted by Just Another Film Buff under All Posts, Cinema of France, Review | Tags: Cinema of France, Entre Les Murs film review, Entre Les Murs movie review, Entre Les Murs review, Homework, Laurent Cantet, multiculturalism in films, Palm D'Or winner 2008, School in films, Teachers in films, The Class film review, The Class movie review, The Class review |
To Sir, Sans Love
Ever since the ultra-slow moment of lunatic ecstasy took shape in Zero for Conduct (1933), schools in cinema have always been about kids. Everything revolves around them, for good or otherwise. They have been the be all and end all through the decades no matter how complex the scripts got. Even when the films, such as To Sir, With Love (1967), had the teachers as the focal point, the protagonists were always hinged to the acts and moves of the students. Or they turned the table around completely. Some of these films would have this altruistic, uncanny, omniscient and awe-inspiring teachers where the student community is a monolithic entity that served merely as the outlet to emotions. Palm D'Or winner Entre Les Murs (The Class, 2008) (perhaps Half Nelson (2006) too, which I have not seen) breaks all these rules and formulae in a naturalistic and unforced fashion.
The Class is a film where multiculturalism is written right on the face. It does not take the issue as a matter-of-fact as the other films of the year do, but cleverly, builds a premise that enables it to confront it straight on. It does not have a script that tries to be subtle and hence be cheeky enough to implant a message or two. That doesn't mean The Class does not have a message. It sure does and in loads. It just doesn't try to hide it. In fact, it attempts to highlight the same. Mr. Cantet avoids the temptation of placing the kids at the edge of the frame and takes them head on (and in focus) as individuals and not as outcasts or marginal. The diversity in Entre Les Murs is not restricted to just nationality or ethnicity, In fact, it goes even beyond the disparities of language, sexual orientation and religious customs, into regions of personal likes and dislikes. To the point where the term 'diversity loses meaning and it all boils down to individuals, who are like human islands with personalized cultural traits.
The Class presents us two worlds – one each of the students and the teachers – that exist on their own without apparent causality. These are truly independent worlds whose inhabitants have their own problems to attend to, their own private jokes and their own reasons for celebrations. The teachers are assigned a big responsibility of handling multicultural students and that too, in a not-so-reputed school. The teachers have not only to handle this responsibility carefully, but the task of gaining an identity as a teacher in spite of the school. François' (François Bégaudeau , also the author of the book on which the film is based) personal problems only add to the complication. So do the students, who seem confused about where they belong or who they are. And the class forms the playground for both parties to work within the system and find a place and name of their own.
I believe The Class is a film that has to be watched exactly twice. It is like that stretch of time where you have just quarreled with your friend and you are recollecting what exactly went wrong, only to discover that nothing did. Both the sides and their arguments seem correct upon objective evaluation and the mess seems just like the result of a moment of misplaced subjectivity. This problem arises because the story of The Class is filtered through a highly flawed protagonist. He may psychologically be meaning good, but what his actions at the end of it seem rash and unfitting. So are the acts and intentions of the troublesome Souleymane (Franck Keita). I'm sure that we would have had a symmetrically placed opinion had the tale been told through the eyes of Souleymane. This is precisely the reason I say the movie should be watched twice – in order to understand the two sides instead of passing judgments on them or taking a complacent stand.
The Class works even on a very basic level as it explores the explosive atmosphere between the teacher and the students in the class. This is a very tricky relationship indeed. The teacher tries to cut some slack in order to encourage interaction, ease up his job and ultimately gain reputation among the students. The students being the majority, on the other hand, try to display their wit or skill and get a upper hand in this cat and mouse game. But all this is laid on the foundation of a solid principle. That the adult is always the boss. The kids in Entre Les Murs realize that and try hard to keep themselves in control whenever they can. François too tries not to overstress the principle and to listen to the children as responsible individuals. But a small perceived disturbance, lands to shatter the balance and to provide the dramatic momentum to the film. Funny that this extremely talkative film is the successor of an exceedingly quiet one at Cannes.
The other day, I saw an orphaned girl speaking on TV after she had been admitted to a institution for children. She was speaking in Hindi and was using masculine forms of speech throughout. One could instantly make out the circumstances and environment in which she spent the previous years of her life. The importance of language is a vastly underestimated one and the extinction of languages is as critical as any other issue. The Class is a very talkative film as I said but it is these very words that support its premise. The world seems to have changed so much that the demarcations between the student and the teacher become blurred. They learn French grammar and vocabulary from François. They learn words like "Austrian" and "Argentine" which seems to be much sought after. François learns terms like "honky" and what not from the kids. It doesn't look like degradation of culture, but rather as the evolution of an alternate culture that has much to teach as the existing one does. A lot of dialectical dialog in the film has gone over my head and understanding that perhaps would help one to see the socio-cultural patterns that are established during the conversations.
There is obviously a pitfall in a situation where a director intends to make broader comments using seemingly minor elements of the film, in this case – the children. One cannot make them too simplistic that it falls laughably flat nor too elaborate such that the elements themselves lose identity (of course, there are exceptions where the intention is not to preserve the elements but to map them completely). Kiarostami's phenomenal film Homework (1989) is perhaps the bible for directors who want to make film that refuses to compromise on any level. Like Homework, but far less perfect, The Class elicits social, cultural and political structures of the society present outside the school through the interaction and behaviour of the students.
Although there are some forced moments here and there in the film, The Class for a large part is an unpolished film. It does not provide us easy questions or comfortable answers. It carefully avoids all clichés of conventional movies that earnestly move towards a self-congratulatory climax. At the end of The Class, one might be expecting François to pin up the self-portrait of the expelled Souleymane or at least provide a symbolic close to it. No, Mr. Cantel avoids that. Nor does he sweeten anything when the hitherto quiet student insists that she has not learnt anything the whole year. Mr. Cantet is perhaps asking us to see them as they are. Some people just can't be brought into the clockwork of the system and the system in turn should not pat itself for bringing about the change.
"The System" here may not just denote an educational institution but a larger entity that Mr. Cantet has miniaturized into the four walls of a classroom (Interestingly, "Entre Les Murs" translates to "Between the Walls"). In what may be a metaphor for France itself, Mr. Cantet uses the class to make a commentary on the authoritative mentality of the establishment that tries to impose its values upon its variegated set of inhabitants. Those who don't conform to the standards set by the system are either marked or expelled. The students feel what the school teaches is irrelevant and outdated, the school feels the what students know is useless and fake. As the whole class – the teacher and the students – vacate the room for winter break, we realize that this ordinary room, which could well have been a hospital, a post office or a shop, was given meaning only because of the presence of the system and its constituents – like our earth that is divided by man-made boundaries with its inhabitants having to adhere to a synthetic feeling called patriotism.
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Contact the Rounders Association. There's quite a good DVD which has some techniques, I believe.
Bowling action has to be smooth and underarm which limits the range of techniques, but holding the ball in four fingers with the thumb behind it is effective to give side to the ball if you flick the thumb as the ball is released. Holding four figers on the outside of the ball and the thumb on the insie, nearest the leg is also effective. Rotate the thumb back and the fingers forward as the ball is released.
Are your bowlers standing at the front of the square and rolling the ball down off one stride like table skittles or running across the squad to generate pace?
Hi, is it possible I could have any rounders info you may have? Its tough finding resources for this sport.