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Release Notes: This release added support for converting XFA forms to standard forms. In order to cater for this requirement, the values from an enumeration named FormType can be passed to the Document.Form.Type property. Developers can now use a single approach to set access privileges when creating new PDF documents or manipulating existing PDF files. Moreover, adding layers to PDF documents and getting the destination URL of a hyperlink in PDF documents are also supported. It also enhanced PDF to image conversion, saving PDF files in a particular PDF version, deleting images from PDF files, and much more.
Release Notes: This releases the ability to create subsequent files with body contents only when converting multi-page PDF to HTML format. Printing PDFs with Windows services, support for resource loading callbacks for HTML to PDF conversion, converting PDF files to PDF/A_3b compliant format, XML to FDF conversion, XSL-FO to PDF with new DOM, digitally signing PDF with timestamp server support, and several other great features are also part of this release. It also enhanced PDF to TIFF conversion, working with annotations, and much more.
Release Notes: This release added support for determining PDF generation progress and introduced a new feature for controlling image quality when adding a stamp. When adding metadata to PDF files, developers can create/register a new metadata namespace with a prefix. A new property was introduced to provide an option to render table in a new PDF page. Numerous improvements were made in PDF to HTML conversion, HTML to PDF conversion, image to PDF and PDF to image conversion, stamping PDF files, manipulating text inside PDF documents, PDF to XPS conversion, and various other features.
Release Notes: This release now supports simple and advanced PDF to HTML conversion. The simplest conversion of PDF to HTML can be accomplished with two lines of code, and the output can be displayed in a Web browser. Other features introduced in this release are the conversion of MHT to PDF format, extracting signature information from digitally signed PDF file, exporting PDF bookmarks to an XML file, performance improvements for PDF concatenation, and several other enhancements.
Release Notes: This release introduces a new feature which lets you convert PDF documents to XML (MobiXML) and a feature to determine whether the source PDF file is signed. As shown on the blog page, you can verify whether the source PDF file is signed without providing the signature name. This release enhances the features PDF-to-DOC conversion, customization in saving and referencing images during PDF-to-HTML conversion, PDF-to-image conversion, PDF-to-PDF/A conversion, and image-to-PDF conversion.
Release Notes: Annotation manipulation was improved. The document object model in the Aspose.Pdf namespace now has the capability to create tables in PDF documents, and while generating the table, you can specify border information for table and cell objects. Double borders around table and cell objects can also be created.
Release Notes: This release introduces a new feature in Aspose.Pdf for .NET that allows developers to only restrict numeric values to be entered inside Form fields. It provides great capabilities for converting PDF files to DOC, DOCX, Image, HTML, and various other formats. During the PDF to HTML conversion process, the images inside a PDF are saved with SVG compression, but you may consider saving them in raster format (PNG/JPEG) so that the size of images is reduced. Recently, one of the customers had the requirement to split the CSS file based on individual pages instead of generating a single CSS file.
Release Notes: This release added support for converting PDF documents to Excel worksheets. Individual pages of the PDF file appear as separate worksheets. PDF files can now be saved directly to SVG. During PDF to HTML conversion, you can now specify a separate folder for the image files. PDF to PDF/A_1b, PDF to XPS, TIFF to PDF, XSL-FO to PDF, and text extraction are supported.
Release Notes: This release includes new features like PDF-to-EPUB conversion, dynamic XFA to PDF or image conversion, getting the status of a PDF printing job (finding out whether the process completed successfully or got stuck in the middle of execution), and specifying a particular page number to open when viewing the document. PDF-to-EPUB conversion is as simple as EPUB-to-PDF conversion. This release also includes other fixes related to converting PDF to HTML, converting PDF to image, creating tables inside a PDF file, manipulating bookmarks, and converting PDF to PDF/A.
Release Notes: This release provides the long awaited feature that allows you to convert EPUB files to PDF format. With the release of this version, the TextStamp object supports wordwrap. Aspose.Pdf for .NET has been capable of converting a particular PDF page to image formats for some time. This release introduces the feature to export PDF pages to image formats using MediaBox bounds. This feature is introduced in PNG, JPEG, and TIFF devices. The product is also optimized for better PDF to image conversion, and the size of the output images is now smaller.


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The second largest city in South Africa is home to an invigorating mix of cultures which make for colorful visits any time of year. Cape Town is also located near many of the country's premier wineries, offering marvelous mountain vistas and impressive 17th century Dutch architecture. Swimming, surfing, and snorkeling are all popular activities in the area, as are tours of the city and harbor which afford stunning views of the South African coastline.Browse Sample Trips
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How to Model Fluid-Structure Interaction in a Water Balloon
Phillip Oberdorfer December 15, 2017
The physics behind filling a water balloon seem simple at first glance, but involve a rather complex interplay of fluid flow and a nonlinear hyperelastic material. Fortunately, it is easy to set up and solve this type of model in the COMSOL Multiphysics® software. Let's see how…Read More
Phillip Oberdorfer September 6, 2017
When simulating heat transfer in fluids with forced convection, we can often neglect the influence of temperature variations on the flow field unless the requirements on accuracy are very high. Computing the flow field independently might substantially decrease the computational cost with a negligible impact on accuracy in the solution. In this blog post, we demonstrate the advantages of using a one-way coupling in the COMSOL Multiphysics® software with a nonisothermal flow example.Read More
Phillip Oberdorfer November 15, 2016
At the COMSOL Conference 2016 Munich, simulation engineers and researchers from around Europe came together to share their work and achievements. Although there were many innovative and inspiring presentations on using the COMSOL Multiphysics® software in a variety of application areas, six of the conference papers and posters stood out among the rest. Learn more about the best papers and posters from the COMSOL Conference 2016 Munich below.Read More
Phillip Oberdorfer October 20, 2016
Last week, the COMSOL Conference 2016 Munich brought together academic and industry simulation experts from all over Europe. Now, we would like to share some photographs of the event with you. If you joined us at the conference, try to find yourself in the photo slideshow!Read More
Phillip Oberdorfer April 21, 2016
We previously wrote about how engineers at IAV, a leading automotive engineering company, used simulation to reduce sloshing in vehicles. Today, we'll demonstrate how to set up your own sloshing tank model in COMSOL Multiphysics using a separated two-phase flow model with two fluids that have a large difference in density.Read More
Phillip Oberdorfer December 9, 2015
When a vehicle rapidly accelerates or brakes, the liquid within its tanks moves back and forth, producing dynamic forces and splashing — a process known as sloshing. Using COMSOL Multiphysics, a team of simulation engineers at IAV found that these forces could be efficiently reduced through the numerical optimization of the internal wave breakers, without impeding the fluid supply. Today, we'll explore this force reduction approach and the principles behind it with our own tank geometry example.Read More
Phillip Oberdorfer April 9, 2015
Stirling engines, or heat pumps, are systems that are able to work on incredibly low temperature differences. In fact, some types of Stirling engines only need human body heat in order to operate. Here, we explore the dynamics of this interesting machine that you can build at home and demonstrate how to model it using COMSOL Multiphysics.Read More
Phillip Oberdorfer August 18, 2014
Safe and cost-effective drilling is a major issue in the oil and gas industry. In addition to the common prospecting risk, the borehole itself provides uncertainties that are not desired, but unavoidable. Today, we would like to show how numerical simulations can help here. The goal is to predict the stability of an open-hole multilateral well for deciding if the well will need expensive mechanical stabilization — or not.Read More
Phillip Oberdorfer May 23, 2014
The use of geothermal heat for building climatization is a cost-effective and sustainable method. In part three of our Geothermal Energy series, we will have a closer look at shallow tubing heat collectors. An accurate prediction of their thermal performance, considering both the piping layout and local thermal properties, turns out to be an appropriate job for the Pipe Flow Module.Read More
Phillip Oberdorfer April 24, 2014
In the second part of our Geothermal Energy series, we focus on the coupled heat transport and subsurface flow processes that determine the thermal development of the subsurface due to geothermal heat production. The described processes are demonstrated in an example model of a hydrothermal doublet system.Read More
Phillip Oberdorfer March 28, 2014
In this first entry of our new Geothermal Energy series, we introduce the concept of modeling geothermal processes and the many physical phenomena involved. We also show you an example model of a borehole heat exchanger.Read More


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This is it — the last Watcher's Council submissions for 2012. Looking back, it's been a good year for opinionated bloggers, although I wish I could say the same for everyone else. I'm not sure that I'm looking forward to 2013. Nevertheless, the Watcher's Council is always good. BTW, I hope that, when you read through this list, you also take some time to read the posts from our Honorable Mentions, a great list made up of friends of the Council, as well as former Council members.
Council Submissions
- Joshuapundit–A Game Change In Syria
- The Noisy Room – Big Business and Marxist Collusion – Bourgeois Socialism
- The Political Commentator – If your employee did these 10 things, would you fire them?
- The Independent Sentinel – Gun Control Move Is Political Theater – Here's Proof
- Simply Jews – The Guardian report on Christmas in Bethlehem
- VA Right! – Virulent 'Pro-Choice' Rhetoric, ADHD Drugs, Video Games to Blame for School Shootings
- The Right Planet – A Real Plan for Recovery …
- The Glittering Eye –Do We Really Want Less Work or Investment?
- The Razor – The Conscience Pangs of a Drone Pilot
- Rhymes With Right – A Silly Anti-Gunnite Argument On Second Amendment Rights That Needs Dismissing
- The Colossus of Rhodey – Dopey WNJ Letter of the Week
- The Mellow Jihadi – Suicide Strikes the Navy, SEAL Commander Down
- Bookworm Room – The Leftist delusion of a world without danger
- Gay Patriot – Larry Elders message to the GOP: Explain how Democratic policies hurt the poor
- GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD – Best Chick For The Gig
Honorable Mentions
- Right Truth – The Worst Woman of 2012
- Ask Marion – Simpler Times – A Groetzmeier Christmas
- Crazy Bald Guy – My review of "Brave"
- Wolf Howling – The 2nd Day Of Christmas
- The Pirate's Cove – Campaign 2012: The Titan of Entitlements
Non-Council Submissions
- American Thinker/Anne Lieberman – Against Nothingness submitted by Joshuapundit
- Larry Corriea/Monster Hunter Nation –An opinion on gun control submitted by The Noisy Room
- Sultan Knish –The Perfect Prison submitted by The Political Commentator
- Victor Davis Hanson – Let the Real Fat Cats Pay Their Fair Share submitted by The Independent Sentinel
- The Socialism of Fools – The New Laocoon submitted by Simply Jews
- Marathon Pundit – Chicago Teachers Union offers class cutting strategies to members submitted by VA Right!
- Thomas Sowell – Gun Control Ignorance submitted by The Right Planet
- J.D. Tuccille/Reason.com – Gun Restrictions Have Always Bred Defiance, Black Markets submitted by The Glittering Eye
- The Patriot Perspective –David Gregory Violates DC Gun Law On National TV Update:CNNs Don Lemon Admits To Breaking Gun Laws, Too? submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
- Seraphic Secret–Jew Without a Gun submitted by Bookworm Room
- Ann Althouse –Scenery chewing in the Theater of Outrage over Wayne LaPierre's unremarkable news conference. submitted by Gay Patriot
- Taki's Magazine –10 Facts About Brooklyn Natives submitted by The Razor
- Urban Grounds – Does Anybody at the Texas Tribune Even Own a Gun? submitted by Rhymes with Right
- The Delaware Libertarian – The Inquisition of Mr. Marvel submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
- Real Clear Markets/Bill Frezza – Clement Moore Revisited: Twas the Night Before Fiscliff submitted by The Watcher
- Boston Globe/ Michael Kranish – The Story Behind Mitt Romney's Loss In The Presidential Campaign submitted by The Watcher


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depth purposes, and what else do we have to lose? If Tate really comes on strong and stays healthy(dear God please), and with DG waiting in the wings, I agree a Percy Harvin type role would be great. It sounds like with his speed, he is too talented to let sit out a year.
Also, assuming his passing ability improves, he'd be a great lateral pass - then down field pass type option threat.


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Counsel to BritainIssue: Fall 2003
IN THE aftermath of the Iraq War, it is clear that the United States possesses military power unequaled by any other combination of powers in the world. That military power is backed by an economy as big as, and more productive and innovative than, the five next economies combined. It is also backed by an overwhelmingly pervasive popular culture--and by a vibrant high culture, as repeated American success in capturing British literary prizes demonstrates. In the recent crisis, the United States was prepared to use that power in a distasteful but urgent cause.


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Fat Burger Kid is a fast food burger restaurant in the Bedford Point neighbourhood of Staunton Island, Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto III. Their advertisement which says "We've got bigger buns!" is a slang for people with big butts, concerning the name of this restaurant. The name 'Fat Burger Kid' could be a reference to the American-Canadian burger restaurant, Fatburger.


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(MCT) — BLOOMINGTON — A storm system that could bring an inch of snow to the area late this afternoon could have an effect on New Year's Eve travel.
Ed Shimon, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Lincoln, said a small band of snow will pass through the Central Illinois area late Monday afternoon, but it is not likely to create too many problems for travelers.
"The Bloomington-Normal area is going to be right on a dividing line and it may be a situation where there is only a trace on the south side and maybe an inch on the north side," he said. "It just appears to be a very narrow band."
For those traveling, Shimon said those going north, should expect some travel problems. The heaviest band of snow is likely to be in the Peoria area, which could see a couple of inches.
Today's high is expected to be around 34 degrees, which is one degree higher than the average, but then the temperatures are expected to drop.
"It's going to stay cold for about a week or so," he said. "People aren't going to like it."
The high on New Year's Day will be around 17 degrees with an overnight low of around 5 degrees. The highs for the remainder of the week will be in the low- to mid-20s. The overnight lows will range from 12 to 14 degrees, he said.
The record low temperature for New Year's Eve morning was minus-14 degrees, set in 1968. The warmest was 63 degrees set in 1897.
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The recent purchase of a 9,647-square-foot office complex in Venice for $650,000 was the 22nd deal for Port Charlotte investor Andreas Kirchberger in Southwest Florida since March.
Kirchberger's Golden Key Properties LLC bought the complex at 405 Commercial Court in Venice from KMB Financial Group Inc., a Sarasota company managed by furniture store owner and financier Ed Kalin, who provided the buyer a $400,000 loan.
KMB Financial purchased the building for $268,000 in March 1999.
All told, Golden Key has spent nearly $11 million to buy everything from vacant lots in Charlotte County to 27,000 square feet of office space in Venice's Lakeview Office Park.
Some of his other purchases include:
• $825,000 for a 24,000-square-foot office condo complex at 31 Chailett Road in Rotonda.
• $1.15 million for 34,000 square feet of office condo space at 2555 N. Toledo Blade Blvd. and 2580 Commerce Parkway in North Port.
• $3 million for a 44,317-square-foot office condo complex at 942 Tamiami Trail in Port Charlotte.
• $515,000 for three unfinished office buildings at 2851 Placida Road in Englewood.
• $1.65 million for two commercial warehouses totaling nearly 40,000 square feet at 24050 Tiseo Boulevard in Charlotte Harbor.


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VANCOUVER — Wally Oppal, lead commissioner at the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry — which is investigating the circumstances surrounding serial-killer Robert Pickton's murder of vulnerable women from the Downtown Eastside — has taken a role as a gunshot victim in a film about a serial killer.
But the former B.C. Attorney General is unapologetic about his involvement in a movie about a man hunting down and killing victims — at a time when the commission has undergone administrative upheaval and has been accused of paying inadequate attention to the voices of poor and aboriginal women in the Downtown Eastside.
"I don't see anything inappropriate about it," Oppal said Thursday, before appearing at a policy forum on vulnerable and intimidated witnesses at the downtown Vancouver Public Library branch.
"Listen, nobody has been more passionate about what has gone on here (at the Inquiry) than me," he said. "So on a Sunday morning between 9 and 1, I go and do a bit part in this movie on my own time. And there is certainly no intent to show any disrespect to anything here. And the balance of the day I go work on what we are doing.
"So absolutely I make no apologies for that," Oppal added. "I am entitled to have a life. I am working day and night on this and there is hardly a day I don't go into the office."
However, family members of some of Pickton's victims expressed surprise over his choice to participate in the film.
Ernie Crey, whose sister Dawn Crey was murdered by Pickton, is one of the few family members who remains supportive, although often critical, of Oppal in his role as the inquiry's commissioner.
But Crey said Thursday he is "surprised Mr. Oppal would take part in a movie shot while labouring under a tight deadline to complete his work as the head of the Missing Women's Inquiry.
"While he does have a right to a private life, he should have taken a pass on his debut as a film star," said Crey, who took the stand as a witness for more than two days at the start of the inquiry's formal hearings.
The film, titled The Bailout, is a fictional tale of a man who lost everything in the 2008 crash and is exacting revenge by systematically killing investment bankers. It's the creation of director Uwe Boll, perhaps best known for work on campy films like Postal, BloodRayne and House of the Dead.
Oppal has a cameo as one of the marked-for-death stockbrokers, alongside developer Bruce Langereis.
This week, pictures of the pair cropped up showing Oppal costumed in a bloodied dress shirt.
He said that he was invited to do the bit part as an extra because "a friend of mine is the producer."
Scenes were shot on location in Vancouver last week.
B.C. Civil Liberties Association president Robert Holmes said although Oppal had a long record of public service and his integrity wasn't in question, his choice to participate was bad optics.
"I don't think anyone can question his integrity and at this point if he wants to go off and be a movie actor that's his choice," he said.
"The problem is, the optics of this right now are problematic because the public I think . . . has at the very least assumed that this inquiry is being dealt with on a full-time basis."
As for the subject matter of the film, Holmes said, "it is fiction. but at the same time, I think it doesn't show the sensitivity that is required in that position. I think frankly, it adds to the perception that the Missing Women's Inquiry has not been handled in as deft a manner as it should have been."
Oppal shot back that if the BCCLA "spent less time complaining about what I did on a Sunday and more taking part in this inquiry, it might be more fruitful."
The Inquiry is set to wrap up on June 30.
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An anonymous reader writes "Linux-gamers.net has posted a thorough, although harsh, comparison of free software shooters. It compares seven open source shooter games in a lengthy discussion. Few have gone to the trouble of comparing and carefully examining the genre before. The author ranks the games in the following order (best to worst): Warsow, Tremulous, World of Padman, Nexuiz, Alien Arena, OpenArena, and Sauerbraten. In making these choices, it claims to use gameplay, design, innovation and presentation as criteria and includes a short history of free software shooters in the introduction."


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With Xbox 360 now over seven years old, gamers that have subscribed to Live Gold have spent over $400 to access the service. Tomorrow, Microsoft will announce their next-gen console--but will they announce a next-gen Live service to go along with the new hardware? If so, what does Microsoft have to do in order to keep people paying year after year? Many gamers are quite content with paying for Gold, if only because the service offers more than the competition. Fans like @rezonolicious think the fee is worth it for the "superior online" offered by Live. @passthemstickss points out that Live has private and party chats, and the addition of new media partners on Live allows him to "use it as a cable box," helping him save $15 every month.
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Search Continues For Michael Karwan In Hudson Valley
The search continues in Manhattan and the Hudson Valley for Michael Karwan, the autistic 19-year-old from Marlboro who has been missing since late Tuesday
Marlboro Police posted on the Township Facebook page that Karwan is still missing and that local, state and federal agencies are all part of the search.
Port Authority Police and the FBI have joined the search following a sighting at the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan. The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office tells News 4 New York Karwan was given directions to Marlboro, New York in the Hudson Valley, just over 100 miles north of his New Jersey home.
He was spotted at the Bridgeview Plaza shopping center in Highlands, New York according to a post on the Lloyd Police Facebook page.
Michael left home without his cell phone, money or medication. His facial hair grows in quickly according to his father Walter and he may now have a full beard.
Michael's autism is high functioning. According to WebMD. high functioning autistic people likely have average or above-average intelligence but slower social development while eager to interact with others may have difficulty doing so. Without his medication,
Walter is especially worried about his son since the weather is expected to turn colder tonight. "His parents have told us he does take medication, and they're in fear if he does not take that it will be hard, difficult for him to function to a certain aspect and make decisions," Lt. Peter Pessullo told News 12 New Jersey. "They feel he may be confused."
Michael is described as a high-functioning autistic white male standing 6 feet tall, weighing 220 pounds with brown eyes and black hair. He is considered to be a missing endangered person.
Anyone sighting Michael should call NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS, Lloyd, New York Police 845.691.6102 or the Marlboro Township Police Department at 732-536-0100.
- Marlboro police continue search for missing autistic teen, Michael Karwan / News 12 New Jersey
- Police Search for Missing Autistic Teen from New Jersey / News 4 New York


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22 U.S. Code § 262m–7 - Assessment of environmental impact of proposed multilateral development bank actions
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(a) Assessment required before favorable vote on proposal
The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director of each multilateral development bank not to vote in favor of any proposal (including but not limited to any loan, credit, grant, guarantee) which would result or be likely to result in significant impact on the environment, unless the Secretary, after consultation with the Secretary of State and the Administrators of the United States Agency for International Development and the Environmental Protection Agency, determines that for at least 120 days before the date of the vote—
(1) an assessment analyzing the environmental impacts of the proposed action, including associated and cumulative impacts, and of alternatives to the proposed action, has been completed by the borrower or the bank and has been made available to the board of directors of the bank; and
(b) Access to assessments in all member countries
The Secretary of the Treasury shall seek the adoption of policies and procedures, through discussions and negotiations with the other member countries of the multilateral development banks and with the management of such banks, which result in access by governmental agencies and interested members of the public of such member countries, to environmental assessments or documentary information containing comprehensive summaries of such assessments which discuss the environmental impact of prospective projects and programs being considered by such banks. Such assessments or summaries should be made available to such governmental agencies and interested members of the public at least 120 days before scheduled board action, and public participation in review of the relevant environmental information should be encouraged.
(c) Consideration of assessment
The Secretary of the Treasury shall—
(1) ensure that an environmental impact assessment or comprehensive summary of such assessment described in subsection (a) of this section accompanies loan proposals through the agency review process; and
(d) Development of procedures for systematic environmental assessment
The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with other Federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of State, and the Council on Environmental Quality, shall—
(1) instruct the United States Executive Director of each multilateral development bank to initiate discussions with the other executive directors of the respective bank and to propose that the respective bank develop and make available to member governments of, and borrowers from, the respective bank, within 18 months after December 19, 1989, a procedure for the systematic environmental assessment of development projects for which the respective bank provides financial assistance, taking into consideration the Guidelines and Principles for Environmental Impact Assessment promulgated by the United Nations Environmental Programme and other bilateral or multilateral assessment procedures; and
(2) in determining the position of the United States on any action proposed to be taken by a multilateral development bank, develop and prescribe procedures for the consideration of, among other things—
(e) Use of United States personnel
The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Interior, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, the Administrator of the Agency for International Development, and the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shall—
(1) make available to the multilateral development banks, without charge, appropriate United States Government personnel to assist in—
(C) preparing environmental studies for projects with potentially significant environmental impacts; and
(f) Reports
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The Secretary of the Treasury shall submit to the Committees on Foreign Relations and Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs of the House of Representatives—
(A) not later than the end of the 1-year period beginning on December 19, 1989, a progress report on the efficacy of efforts by the United States to encourage consistent and timely environmental impact assessment of actions proposed to be taken by the multilateral development banks and on the progress made by the multilateral development banks in developing and instituting environmental assessment policies and procedures; and
(g) Multilateral development bank defined
In this title, [1] the term "multilateral development bank" means the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, the African Development Bank, the African Development Fund, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Inter-American Investment Corporation, any other institution (other than the International Monetary Fund) specified in section 262r (c)(2) of this title, and any subsidiary of any such institution.
[1] See References in Text note below.
Source(Pub. L. 95–118, title XIII, § 1307, formerly § 1308, as added and renumbered § 1307,Pub. L. 101–240, title V, §§ 521, 541(f)(4),Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 2511, 2519; amended Pub. L. 105–118, title V, § 560(b),Nov. 26, 1997, 111 Stat. 2426; Pub. L. 108–447, div. D, title V, § 593(a),Dec. 8, 2004, 118 Stat. 3037.)
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This title, referred to in subsec. (g), is title XIII of Pub. L. 95–118, which is classified to sections 262m to 262m–7 of this title. For complete classification of title XIII to the Code, see Tables.
2004—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 108–447, § 593(a)(1), added subsec. (a) and struck out former subsec. (a) which related to assessments required before favorable vote on action proposed to be taken by banks that would have a significant effect on the human environment.
Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 108–447, § 593(a)(2), amended heading and text of subsec. (g) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: "For purposes of this section, the term 'multilateral development bank' means any of the institutions named in section 262m–2 (b) of this title, and the International Finance Corporation."
1997—Subsec. (a)(1)(A). Pub. L. 105–118, § 560(b)(1), substituted "borrower" for "borrowing country".
Subsec. (a)(2)(A). Pub. L. 105–118, § 560(b)(2), struck out "country" after "borrower".
Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 105–118, § 560(b)(3), added subsec. (g).
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The Phils start the season with a walk-off win as John Mayberry, Jr. hits a bases-loaded single to cap a three-run ninth as the Phils defeat the Astros, 5-4.
The Phils end opening day with a walk-off win via a bases-loaded ninth inning single by John Mayberry, Jr., as they defeat the Astros, 5-4.
The Phils and Astros spent the first five innings in a pitchers' duel between Phils' starter Roy Halladay and Astros' starter Brett Myers, with Halladay giving up only three hits, while he struck out six batters, while Myers would give up just two hits. The Astros finally took the lead in the sixth as, with two men on base, and with one man out, Bill Hall hits an RBI ground out, 4-3, scoring Angel Sanchez, who had earlier singled, then went to third on Hunter Pence's double, giving the Astros a 1-0 lead, while sending Pence, who had earlier doubled, over to third base. The Astros would increase their lead in the seventh as, with two men on, and with one man out, Michael Bourn hits a two-run triple, knocking in Brett Wallace, who had lead-off the inning with a single, moved up to second base on Humberto Quintero's single, then went to third on Myers' sacrifice bunt, 3-4, and Quintero, who had earlier singled, then went to third on Myer's sac bunt, giving the Astros a 3-0 lead. The Astros then took a 4-0 lead when Sanchez hits a sacrifice fly, scoring Bourn. The Phils then started to come back in their half of the seventh as, with two men on, and with nobody out, Ryan Howard hits a sac fly, scoring Placido Polanco, who had earlier walked, moved up to second base on Jimmy Rollins' single, then went to third on catcher Quintero's passed ball, making it a 4-1 Astros' lead, while sending Rollins, who had earlier singled, then moved up to second base on the pass ball, on to third base. The Phils then made it 4-2 Astros as Raul Ibanez hits an RBI ground out, 3-unassisted, knocking in Rollins. The Phils then went to work in the ninth as, with two men on, and with one man out, Ben Francisco hits an RBI single, scoring Rollins, who had started the rally with a single, then went to second base on Howard's single, before stealing third with Francisco batting, making it a 4-3 Astros' lead, while Howard, who had earlier singled, would stop at second base. Then two batters later, after Carlos Ruiz had loaded the bases with a single, moving both Howard and Francisco up a base, and with still one man out, Wilson Valdez hits an RBI single, scoring Howard, tying the game up at four-all, while sending Francisco to third, and Ruiz to second base. One batter later, with the bases still loaded and with one man out, pinch hitter John Mayberry, Jr. hits a ball over the center fielder Bourn's head for a walk-off RBI single, scoring Francisco, to give the Phils a 5-4 walk-off win.
Roy Halladay received a no-decision as he pitched six innings, giving up a run on five hits, while he struck out six. J.C. Romero pitched to one batter, giving up a run on a hit. David Herndon pitched an inning, giving up two runs on two hits. Ryan Madson pitched a 1-2-3 inning, striking out two batters. Danys Baez received the win (1-0, 0.00) as he pitched a scoreless inning, giving up a hit and a walk. Brett Myers also received a no-decision as he pitched seven inning, giving up two runs, only one of which was eamed, on three hits and three walks. Wilton Lopez recorded his first save of the season as he pitched a scoreless inning, giving up a hit. Brandon Lyon blew his first save attempt of the season before taking the lost (0-1, 81.00) as he gave up three runs on six hits.
The Phils had ten hits in the game, with Jimmy Rollins (Singles), Ryan Howard (Singles, RBI (Sac Fly)) and Wilson Valdez (Single, Double, RBI) leading the team with two hits each. Ben Francisco (Single, RBI), Carlos Ruiz (Single), Pinch Hitter Ross Gload (Single) and Pinch Hitter John Mayberry, Jr. (Single, RBI) had the other four Phils' hit. Raul Ibanez knocked in the other Phil run on a ground out.
The Phils (1-0, 1st-T NL East) will continue their opening season series with the Astros (0-1, 3-T NL Central) tomorrow with a night game at Citizens Bank Park. The game will start at 7:05 pm Eastern Daylight Time. The Phils will send to the mound Cliff Lee, who last year, with the Mariners and Rangers, went 12-9 with a 3.18 ERA. He will be trying to give the Phils a chance to start the season off with two straight wins. The Astros will counter with Wandy Rodriguez, who last year went 11-12 with a 3.60 ERA. He will be trying to give the Astros an even record.


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Julian Draxler will consider future in summer but won't leave Schalke in January
Julian Draxler will consider his future again in the summer but does not intend to leave Schalke in January.
Last Updated: 21/11/13 7:55am
The 20-year-old Germany midfielder was a second-half substitute in the 1-0 win over England at Wembley on Tuesday night.
While Draxler openly admits he is a big fan of the Barclays Premier League and has been linked with moves to both Arsenal and Manchester United, he insists his full focus this season is on making continued progress with the Bundesliga side to secure a place in Germany's World Cup squad for Brazil.
"For my club, I have the chance to play nearly every game, it is important for me to improve myself," he said.
"I have said every summer I have to look what is the best for me and I will do in the summer again and we will see what happens.
"But no way. I won't switch then (in January)."
Germany's goal at Wembley was scored by captain Per Mertesacker with a towering header late in the first half.
The 6ft 6ins defender has settled well at Arsenal, where he was joined in the summer of 2012 by fellow German international Lukas Podolski, with club-record signing Mesut Ozil arriving for £42million on transfer deadline day this September.
Draxler has only heard "nice things" about life at the Emirates Stadium, with the Gunners currently top of the table.
He added: "I have always said English teams are very big clubs and Arsenal is of course one of them.
"Of course, I sometimes speak to Mesut or Per about the team, about the club, and they always have good words and they tell me nice things.
"You never know what happens in the summer, but Arsenal is a very, very nice team.
"They always have very young players, they play attractive football and that is what I like.
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If you're like us and find it impossible to stop drooling over the grilled cheese sandwich available at Grahamwich, perhaps G.E.B. can break your concentration for a little bit. Graham Elliot's latest Chicago restaurant opened this week in the West Loop, and though the initials simply stand for "Graham Elliot Bistro," some of the other descriptions the restaurant is throwing around, like "rock meets church decor" with "tiki inspired cocktails," conjure up a lot of confusing images. Still, we are very excited to see that nothing on the menu costs more than $20. That's a trend we can really get behind.
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The coming film "Kingsman: The Secret Service" is about an "independent international intelligence agency" that recruits a seemingly misfit street kid into its super-competitive, hazardous training program.
An agency member played by Colin Firth, sees potential in the smart but misguided youth, played by Taron Egerton. The film, directed by Matthew Vaughn and also starring Michael Caine and Samuel L. Jackson, appears to mix rapid-fire violence with James Bond-style humor and a hint of "Harry Potter" wizard training. The film is scheduled for release in theaters Oct. 24.
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Nothing to see here, a blurb from a blog, kdawson strikes again
Do not RTFA, the summary is TFA
What, you mean I unknowingly read the article itself? Great, and I was about to break my previous record of going the longest without reading TFA.
We should all start writing nonsense and see how much of it we can get kdawson to approve. Those sites have pretty simple and straight forward layouts and the only problem I see is the 2nd one has too many colors with those buttons in the middle.
Agreed, if anything, TFA can be construed as racist by implying the Japanese aren't conforming to Westernized characterizations of their culture.
Many of the TFA's "assertions" of "Japanese simplicity" fall apart when the sites are translated into English text.
Many of the TFA's "assertions" of "Japanese simplicity" fall apart when the sites are translated into English text.
Exactly. My bullshit-o-meter went off as I read the summary, and upon visiting each site I clicked the "English" link and saw a perfectly acceptable layout for a government or business website. I think the author is put off by the Japanese written language more than anything; by necessity it requires use of a lot of what would otherwise be white space on an English-language page.
Exactly. If you've ever seen a Japanese news paper you would know that they can be quite visually overpowering. Not because of kanji or anything but because of liberal use of color, dramatic fonts and a high density of articles per page. For some reason they just don;t find it as overpowering as we do. So why should Japanese websites be any different?
Stay tuned until after the break where we show you Europeans sophisticated complicated food, Africans display amazing ability for dance and South Americans demonstrate impeccable soccer skills...
Because that is how their culture has been for a long time. Look at Japanese TV, Media, etc... Why should their websites be any different? Also what is this myth that all japanese love the zen of minimalism? I have a couple of japanese friends and the amount of crap they cram into their tiny apartments is amazing. Minimal? Not a chance... Maybe a few esoteric ones that get press are... Just like here in the states... but most are living in tiny quarters with a lot of stuff because they are not multi-billionaires to afford a > 130 sq meter apartment that is zen like...
Japanese people are different than the typical USA suburbanite because of culture and living on a postage stamp of an island. the article might as well ask why Norwegian websites dont come in a box you have to assemble yourselves because they all work at and live Ikea.
Because IKEA is swedish?
Because IKEA is swedish?
But isn't Norway part of Switzerland?
Even worse, the sites linked look JUST LIKE OUR airline and government sites. Compare the first with American Airlines site. The same. In fact, the layouts are nearly identical on these versus US equivalents. Maybe it's because most of us don't read Japanese that it looks more confusing... but if you ignore that, the sites look THE SAME.
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The longer you stay here, the more you ignore it, or your brain makes you ignore it.
When I open those webpages, I just see a normal web page. I am way too used to over cluttered web here, that my brain automatically filters what I need. I probably feel very lost on a simple designed western web page. Like, where is all the content?
I used to notice this with websites. About the time that the AdBlock extension for Firefox came out, I had developed an inability to see any content in a web page that was placed in the region I was accustomed to ignoring banner advertisements. It took me a while to reprogram my eyes to actually look in that region again after I started blocking ads.
Ever been to Tokyo?
Yes, I lived there for a number of years, including a few brief periods during which my projects included web applications.
There are some places in the city (for instance near Shinjuku Station) that are covered with lights, flashing signs and colorful buildings (even the occasional giant motorized crab, if you look carefully).
However, there are even more places in Tokyo that are always quiet. You don't even need to leave the Yamanote Line. Take a walk between Ikebukuro Station and Sugamo Station sometime.
It's no surprise that you've only seen busy streets if you haven't gone far from the big stations.
To get back on topic, the idea that Japanese web sites are on the whole somehow over-complicated is a bit bizarre. If anything, the key difference between web design in Japan and web design in America, is what seems to be a lag of several years. Technologies that seemed rather commonplace in America such as Ajax, or even widely accepted best practices like CSS-based layout were fairly rare in my experience.
I don't have time to find good examples at the moment, but it's anything but difficult to find a Japanese web site that looks like it came straight out of 1995.
And it's not just confined to advertising. Everywhere you go you are subjected to escalators that beep when you approach the end, traffic lights that play Japanese folk music when you cross the street, trains with their own theme songs that play at every stop, garbage trucks with their own theme songs. Japan is a very stimulating place to be.
And I think that as a result, Japanese people have a higher threshold for stimulus than other cultures in less densely populated countries. What I may find loud or tasteless because it overloads my senses, Tokyo residents seem to have no trouble processing. What I find to be tasteful (Facebook, if you can call it tasteful), a Japanese person would find very boring (compared to Mixi, which is MUCH more colorful and packed to the brim with emoticons).
Every supermarket plays its own catchy theme song on infinite loop
So you're saying that shop BGM in video games such as console RPGs and Animal Crossing actually happens.
Everywhere you go you are subjected to escalators that beep when you approach the end, traffic lights that play Japanese folk music when you cross the street
Those are for the blind. AFB has been trying to get more aural feedback in U.S. cities.
trains with their own theme songs that play at every stop, garbage trucks with their own theme songs.
I'm starting to see where the Japanese RPG designers get their ideas.
I love the tissues, wish they did that here. Super handy.
I would love to know why we can't have vending machines that server both hot and cold beverages and will take a 10,000 yen (~$100) bill and give you back dollars instead of just coins.
But this is off topic so I'll stop.
Another explanation - Kanji is much denser than English, but attention thresholds are similar, so they need smaller boxes to deliver bite-sized messages to the readers. Smaller boxes means more boxes, which means more clutter.
A quick search (site:.cn, site:.jp, site:.vn, site.kr, site.kh, site:.th) suggests Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese sites are sparser than sites with Kanji or Hanzi.
It's well known that Kanji (Japanese pictographic characters) are much faster to skim than English words.
Human beings are better at recognising shapes and pictures than words which are made up of several characters. You can look at a block of Kanji text and get a general sense of what it is about, so web pages which appear crowded to us are not difficult to skin for a Japanese reader.
Japanese is quite concise when it comes to conveying basic information too, and web pages/newspapers/magazines are typically
Could it be that HTML is an english based language, that could lead to the problem. HTML and Style Sheets have english based features in them. Allowing native english speakers to guess on a style attribute and have a fighting chance to be right. Although Many/Most Japanese know english, they don't necessarily think in english thus making Style Sheets much harder to learn, and a Lot of HTML and style sheet more of an issue of Copy Paste then a full design.
Something about being able to read the characters makes it seem less cluttered. I used to think signs in Chinatown were overcrowded and very loud, but when I spent an extended time in China and learned to read, it no longer seemed very cluttered. Easier to read from a distance, though.
A dutch program from my youth tried to explain dyslexia by showing street signs in Hebrew, rather then dutch. It looked apparently very confusing. Except to my mother who could read it. The clutter wasn't there for her because she parsed it as readily as dutch.
ANY foreign language will look cluttered because you brain is trying to create meaning out of chaos and failing. If you watch a loading dock you will see chaos. A person who knows the process will see organization.
People who say in this topic that Tokyo is crowded obviously never been to Time Square or for that matter the Kalverstraat. But your brain can parse those signs and classify them as unimportant.
Your brain, being inhabited in tasty meat, is trained to react strongly to things it doesn't expect because it expects them to be a hungry animal on the lookout for said tasty meat. We don't have to notice that tree we have grown up around, but we have to notice the addition of two eyes and a twitchy tail to its branches.
Here is a simple test: Install a japanese language pack in your OS and change the setting so everything is in japanese. Notice how cluttered it all of sudden is? Excactly the same layout, but you suddenly can't find anything.
For that matter, put slashdot through google translate and see how suddenly the site seems filled with random ramblings by sociopaths who live in their mothers basement.
Yeah they really aren't more cluttered than similar "anglo" pages.
From what I see the Japanese tend to be more fond of multi-tone pastel colour schemes even for business/corporate stuff.
Click on the links from: http://www.ntt.com/index-e.html [ntt.com]
And compare with the links from: http://www.ntt.com/index-j.html [ntt.com]
The first I'd say is more "US" style. The second is more "Japan" style.
Not saying it's a 100% thing - there's plenty of diversity around. And maybe I've just been seeing a biased sample of sites.
Ah, finally, someone who GETS it.
Traditional Japanese woodcut printing originally came from early Dutch traders in the 16th century, and they style and design, minimalist economy of line gives a nod to some of Albrecht Durer's work; (though their anatomy and proportion always maintained a strong influence from China and other centers of art in the region, from hundreds of years prior).
Japanese design was pilfered in the West, back in the 19th century, and popularized by, well, I guess Wright, mostly, (thoug
Really. Any shopping area in Japan that I have been to is loud, bright and flashing. I see no reasons why commercial web sites should be any different.
The first thought that popped into my head was "Simplicity? This is the same country that has heated toilet/bidets with automatic air freshers built in."
It's super happy most fun!
> Japan's strong cultural preference for simplicity in design
What? It's the exact opposite.
This is my only real complaint about Japan. I can't stand the shops here. There are colored flashy signs everywhere, and you can always hear at least a dozen different adverts at the same time.
Likewise every device is ridiculously complex. My fan has 6 buttons and a remote control. Just to blow air! And the toilet has a dozen buttons and two knows to adjust seat and water temperature. Everything is completely overdesigned.
Did you figure out how to use the three shells?
I'm still stuck on that one.
The idea of "cleaning" your butt using toilet paper seems rather strange and unhygienic to me. Definitely cleaner if you use soap and water. If someone has "stuff" on his hands and was going to make you a sandwich, I'm sure you'd rather that someone wash his hands "hospital/surgeon style", and not just use toilet paper to wipe it off... Yes even if that person uses gloves (not like someone else is going to help him put the gloves on)...
True, but people tend not to make sandwiches with their arses. Except in Pakistani restaurants when a white guy comes in.
If someone has "stuff" on his hands and was going to make you a sandwich, I'm sure you'd rather that someone wash his hands "hospital/surgeon style", and not just use toilet paper to wipe it off...
Who the heck doesn't wash their hands anyway after using toilet paper for its intended use!? I can *barely* accept someone not washing after taking a leak, but refusing to do so after a number 2 is just disgusting.
At first, the water spraying in your ass is really strange, but it cleans much better than wiping.
You are supposed to wash your face with that water spray. Very refreshing for your pleasure.
I don't get what the fuss is about... Japanese sites look perfectly clean to me. For example: http://apple.co.jp/ [apple.co.jp]
Hell, they even make wrapping up a store purchase [gaijinchronicles.com] complex.
On average, simplicity is not any cultural standard. What is standard though, is the high tolerance to complexity. Japanese is inherently a complex language, and with everyone being fairly well educated, we don't need things to be dumbed down to get a message. If there are 26 buttons, we will read the labels, and click on the right one.
And yes, it would be better if all sites were sublime and beautiful, but I would say the same about US sites.
There are those who practice simplicity, and our Japanese masters
this is a fairly stupid [read:ignorant] article. 1) in japanese, the websites mentioned in the article are relatively simple. 2) japanese like their content information-dense. pick up a japanese newspaper sometime (or a hot pepper guidebook). it's not that the design is cluttered. it's that they are very eco-friendly when it comes to using paper [read: they like to cram a lot together to save space]. it's very anglo-centric to declare their design to be so cluttered, considering these two things.
Google Chrome offered to translate the pages in question.
After translation it looks cleaner. I stopped looking at the characters as a mess of intelligible symbols but instead as words that i understood.
Here's a great example of the effect in reverse.
http://slashdot.jp/ [slashdot.jp]
Looks no more crowded than any western site I have ever seen, if you view all the chars as text then it is relatively clean and simple ?
Looks no more crowded than any western site I have ever seen, if you view all the chars as text then it is relatively clean and simple ?
Or at least similar to Western sites. For example http://www.tomshardware.com/us/ [tomshardware.com] looks just as cluttered, especially with Japanese characters: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://www.tomshardware.com/us/%23redir&sl=en&tl=ja [google.com]
A preference for simplicity in design does not imply a preference for a simplification in design.
"One should make things as simple as possible; but not simpler."
--Albert Einstein
Simplicity is highly prized wherever the clutter is superfluous or gimmicky. In 'classical' computer science fields such as language and operating system design, this is given the synonym "elegance".
But that is not the same at all as cutting away useful material simply so that you have less material. Even Ubuntu users were wild once Gnome decided that being able to configure sounds for systems events was something that was unnecessary. This was (contrary opinions notwithstanding) an oversimplification.
Japanese website design works differently to western design for a number of reasons. To begin with, the typical font size is somewhere around (the equivalent of) 16pts due to the requirements of distinguishing many and much more complex characters. Up your zoom level by two factors and see how many non-Japanese websites fail to look cluttered.
Also, decent support for native and interoperable characters (and decent support for fine-grained character placement) has historically been poor for Han/Kana scripts, which need it far more than Latin scripts do. Hence why huge chunks of Japanese websites regularly use images of text rather than text. Part of this is admittedly stylistic, but it is still due to the desire to cram different sizes of font into a "block" shape; this is much more common in Japanese due to the fact that ALL characters inherently take the same space and so they are more commonly written into a "grid" than on a "line", logically speaking.
In short, there are many reasons - some technological, some cultural, some stylistic, some inscrutable - for why things are as they are and will remain so for some time to come. But it's not as simple an issue as you might think at first.
Asian websites seem to reflect pictures of downtown areas of major asian cities - Tokyo, Hong Kong, parts of Beijing, Vietnam, etc. Shockingly, their major cities don't look terribly different from western megalopolises like NYC and London. Their colorful ads just happen to have asian character sets, which have a lot more lines and end up looking more busy to the western eye. Have you looked at yahoo.com/ [yahoo.com] or amazon.com [amazon.com] lately? I mean, Yahoo has cleaned up their image some, but it's still very cluttered and messy. I can only imagine what Google News.jp [google.co.jp] or
Anyways, my point is, websites are driven by advertising. Websites of local languages are going to look similar to the Times Squares and Piccadilly Circuses of the world, in their local languages and alphabets. Certain color combinations might make certain alphabets stand out better. Helveltica (and all the child fonts it's spawned over the years) happens to look really good in Red, White or Blue on a White or dark colored background, which is probably why western advertising all looks the same for the most part. People tend to use more asian color schemes for party invitiations when using Comic Sans, and that font everyone loves to hate, Papyrus, tends to look best Black on white on tan.
Many Chinese websites also seem to want to jam everything onto the front page. I used to find it disorienting and confusing but I guess my eyes are accustomed to it now.
http://www.taobao.com/ [taobao.com]
I compared the two sites and if you think the Japanese site is good in any way I can only say you're giving the cultural thing too much credit. The header of that site is the only thing that look well designed.
The 4x6 grid of colorful banners is so all over the map in colors and fonts that you have to mentally refocus when reading each of them. And the color choice on the text on the left side is too thick to see the details and they don't even try to break the lines properly. (Only seen this done well by s
canadians are rural country bumpkins who have nothing serious or pressing to discuss so they ramble on and on and "eh" this and "aboot" that and pretty soon you lost track of what you were interested in or talking about so you zip up your parka because the sun is going down (it just rose an hour ago!) and you just go just go and click any link to pass the time
but we're talking about national culture and character informing website design, which, to me, is an equally ret
So a blogger looks at five websites and makes a cultural conclusion based on that? That's just not science.
I've been to Japanese websites, and sometimes instead of words they use a single Unicode character to denote a link. That's minimalism.
Zeldman has been around the web...a LOT. It's actually HIMSELF that is obsessed with the minimal (see alistapart.com [alistapart.com], and he must think he can speak for the Japanese just because he has a minimalist POV.
Glyphs? All I see is a bunch of squares.
If you call that cluttered, you have obviously never seen the web sites of Swedish tabloids [aftonbladet.se].
Always a scrolling ticker, two big, flashy, animated popups in the corners, something popping up near the bottom, the actual content is obscured in 50% or more.
I can show you very ugly mainstream sites in the "Western" Internet too: AOL [aol.com] or MSN [msn.com].
As for non advertisement sites, Japanese ones tend to have much less clutter. Ever read around the Japanese Wikipedia? A typical article looks like this [wikipedia.org], which is much less frills then the English counterpart [wikipedia.org] (e.g. much less images, and that's pretty common for Japanese sites).
I checked all three examples and I can't find a single word of text. It's all just meaningless pictures!!!one
The Japanese character set is bigger, bolder and to my western eye rather scruffy and scrawly. All characters are also the same size as CAPS so it feels like their websites are shouting at you.
I was working on a Japanese site recently and during production we had it all set to English so that we knew what we were referring to within it. Design wise it was a nicely put together clean and simple site. As we neared the end of development we switched it all over into Japanese and suddenly it looked crowded and
compared to the web sites in China. In China, not just web sites, all UI have terrible "busy" problems, everything has to be jammed onto the same page. Have you seen an application with 233 buttons on the UI? Yes, that's all the functionalities of the system, and I personally counted the buttons.
I've been working in Shanghai for 7 years. Initially, I just couldn't understand why customers wants us (the vendors, system integrators, developers etc) to put so many things on the same. It's simply not good to have menu, or navigation. Everything has to be presented on the same display. And every customer wants flying ads, flashing images and icons, animation, sound, popups, etc, etc.
After so many projects, I finally started to understand, although I hate it, and would not use it personally.
And everything turns into a vicious cycle that feeds onto itself. There's simply no way to explain to the customers.
The big cheese is not the final user of the system or the web site. He would look at it at most for 5 minutes. Therefore, as long as it looks animated, seems to have a lot of functions and information, it'll be good. How it affects the end users is not his problem.
So true, so true. I saw so many things that were screwe
I think having so many buttons on a page is due to the fact that its very easy to skim glyph style languages. ie the character for fish, tuna, cod, haddock, etc, all look similar in japanese or chinese but those words look completely different in english. If you had a list of 233 animals in english it would be hard to find "tuna" out of that list. So we tend to make a hierarchy where you first select between fish, cat, dog, bird, and then select the exact fish you want. In say japanese, you can scroll down
Nothing new here.
Being extremist one-way only exacerbates being extremist the other way, which is why Japan has so many contrasts.
The main reason they have such flashy things everywhere is probably because the traditional culture of Zen, Tao etc. became overwhelming, and they wanted something different.
then I'm not sure whether these sites would seem all these busy at all. I suspect that they just look like they are confusing, because I'm confused and don't understand them. That's my fault, not theirs. I'm the one that doesn't speak the language.
For example, compare the sony site with the same sort of thing on itunes [apple.com]. Doesn't look all that different, and might even have fewer elements.
Merely being blinded by the inscrutable oriental stereotype. Translate it into "American" with some simple search and replace and it becomes blindingly cliche.
Start with "paradox between Japan's strong cultural preference for simplicity in design, contrasted with the complexity of Japanese websites"
Some search and replace later:
"paradox between America's strong cultural preference for thin women, contrasted with the obesity of American Walmart shoppers"
It is the oldest (non-)story in the book, convince fol
Wow. I should have caught this post sooner. Major slashdot emergency.
Here is Japan Airlines:
http://www.jal.co.jp/ [jal.co.jp]
So here is American Airlines:
http://www.aa.com/ [aa.com]
Jp Gov site:
http://www.stat.go.jp/ [stat.go.jp]
US Gov site:
http://www.uspto.gov/ [uspto.gov]
Ugly Jp Consulting site:
http://www.e-netten.ne.jp/ [e-netten.ne.jp]
Horrible US Consulting site:
http://www.bryantwebconsulting.com/ [bryantwebconsulting.com]
Now for some better pages:
http://www.au.kddi.com/ [kddi.com]
http://www.sony.co.jp/ [sony.co.jp]
http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/ [sony.co.jp]
http://bape.com/ [bape.com] (you cannot see the JP site from the US)
http://www.capcom [capcom.co.jp]
Oooh. I like the Sony site. It's using Javascript to animate everything with no Flash in sight. Smooth, pretty and fast!
Though, I hope Flash remains the defacto standard, not just because it's so easy to block, but also because with Flash being so easy to make, it's also the bottom rung for bad designers. I don't want bad designers taking their garbage and learning how hard-code it into websites where I can't selectively turn off or on various elements. Flashblock is great! You only turn on the stuff
Japan has a strong cultural preference for simplicity in design? Who is this hack Jeffrey Zeldman? Clearly spoken by someone who doesn't know the first thing about Japan outside of the tired old stereotypes. Visit Japan and tell me Japanese prefer simple design. They prefer clean design about as much as American or European designers do. I'd say Europeans, in fact, are the kings of minimalist design with everyone else inevitably copying their style, including the Japanese. Simply walking the streets of Japa
Thank you. Very well put.
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water pump shot, what about timing belts?
Posted 12 October 2012 - 04:32 PM
Posted 12 October 2012 - 06:04 PM
the pump itself might be fine, if its leaking from the seal you may just be able to put a new gasket on it. the pumps are pretty notable for failure so most people would just throw the $30 at a new one while they have it apart. if the water is coming out of the case or the neck where the pulley is the pump is dead.
Posted 12 October 2012 - 06:40 PM
Posted 12 October 2012 - 07:43 PM
what happens if you leave the covers off?
Check out this thread if you want to see most of the pros and cons. I don't use them, makes it a lot easier, I can change my water pump in about 20mins (one of the downsides to an Autozone pump, they break a lot, but it's got a lifetime warranty). I haven't had any issues, plus the timing belts on this are really easy to change with no covers on it, so even if they do fail, you can keep a spare set in the car. The engine is non-interference, so it won't damage anything.
Posted 12 October 2012 - 07:59 PM
Posted 12 October 2012 - 08:25 PM
Regarding the water pump, when it is completely shot, the fan will wobble and chop up your radiator. Which is another $160 in parts. Plus you may be stranded out in the boondocks. The tow could be real expensive.
After draining the radiator and removing: the auxiliary fan, the fan blades, the alternator, all three front timing covers, the inertia fan belt pulley, and the left side timing belts, most people will not be pinching penneys in what they replace. You might find shot timing belt pulleys for instance. Will you have replacements if you discover that and still get a rapid turnaround? Or do you have a backup vehicle? Subaru dealers will charge a fortune for their parts. Then you have to get there with your car out of commission. The 5 bolts that attach the water pump may also just be lose. If the water pump was installed without caulking in the top drain hole, then dirt has been working it's way into the bearings. 15,000 miles is quick for a water pump to go out, but then maybe the seller told you a little fib. Rock Auto sold me a cracked water pump and then wanted it back so that they could sell it to someone else. Sooner or later, you are going to need another water pump, new belts, new pulleys, new timing belt gear, and replacement used timing belt covers with through bolts. You might as well have them all on hand before you start tearing into your only transportation.
Posted 12 October 2012 - 08:42 PM
... just to be sure it IS in fact the water pump how do you tell? its dripping off the timing covers onto the ground coming from the water pump area but the space is just too crammed to see a weep hole...
Well, I found interesting that Nobody has suggested that the 90º Degrees 5/8" Hose in the Top of the Water Pump, could be the Culprit; and those fail more often than Water Pumps, also a Water pump Fail usually doesn't develop such a small leakage that let you drive with it for so many miles...
So, I Kindly suggest you to Start by Looking There, and let us Know how do you find that 5/8" hose.
Good Luck!
Kind Regards.
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USC Spartans' Dana Landers, Alabama's Leslie Jury have been best friends since about age 9, when they began playing together in the Mauldin Recreation League.
An Alabama player was perhaps more thrilled than even any of the Spartans when the NCAA softball tournament brackets were disclosed during a televised selection show Sunday night and USC Upstate popped on the screen.
Leslie Jury, a sophomore pitcher for the defending national champion Crimson Tide, leaped out of her seat and cheered at her team's viewing party.
Her best friend is USC Upstate second baseman Dana Landers.
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"I was so excited," Jury said. "I couldn't believe it."
"It's awesome," Landers said. "I'm just so happy to be going to Tuscaloosa to see here and, hopefully, be on the field with her again. That would be a lot of fun."
USC Upstate, tournament champion of the Atlantic Sun Conference, will play at 4:30 p.m. Friday against Western Kentucky. With a win, the Spartans would almost surely take on Alabama, which opens with Jacksonville State in the double-elimination regional.
Landers and Jury have been best friends since about age 9, when they began playing together in the Mauldin Recreation League. They played on the same travel teams growing up and continued their relationship while also becoming rivals at different high schools as two of the best players in the state.
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"The funny thing," Landers said, "is that when we were younger, I was the pitcher and she was the shortstop. As we got older, we figured out that I was not going to be a pitcher and she was meant to do that."
Jury is 11-4 this season with five shutouts and a 2.75 ERA, opponents hitting only .233. As a freshman, she went 16-7 with a 2.69 ERA to help the Crimson Tide win the national title. Landers, meanwhile, is batting .322 with six homers, eight doubles and 27 RBIs. She has made only one error all season for a .992 fielding percentage.
Also on some of those travel teams were USC Upstate players Cheyenne Griffin from Byrnes High School and Lindsey Greeson from Stanley, N.C.
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USC Upstate (41-10) or Western Kentucky (41-16), with Ratings Percentage Index rankings of 47 and 28, respectively, would be the favorites to meet 10th-ranked Alabama (42-13 with an RPI of No. 6) in the championship round. Jacksonville State (30-25), which came from the middle of the pack to win the Ohio Valley Conference title, owns an RPI of 167.
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Jury and Landers last faced each other as high school seniors in 2011.
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