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Limo Hire Bolton
Travelling around Bolton in your luxury stretch limousine is an experience in itself, For your knowledge we have provided some usefull information about the area you are traveling in.
Bolton is a large town in Greater Manchester, in the North West region of England. Situated close to the West Pennine Moors, 10 miles (16 km) north west of the city of Manchester, it is the largest and most populous settlement within the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, and has a total resident population of 139,403.
Historically part of Lancashire, Bolton originated as a small settlement in the moorland known as Bolton-le-Moors. During the English Civil War the town was a Parliamentarian outpost in a staunchly Royalist region. In 1644 Bolton was stormed by 3,000 Royalist troops lead by Prince Rupert of the Rhine. This attack, which later came to be known as the Bolton Massacre, resulted in 1,600 residents being killed and 700 taken prisoner.
Noted as a former mill town, textiles have been produced in Bolton since Flemish weavers settled in the area during the 15th century, developing a wool and cotton weaving tradition. The urbanisation and development of Bolton largely coincided with the introduction of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution however. It was a boomtown of the 19th century and, at its zenith in 1929, 216 cotton mills and 26 bleaching and dying works, making it one of the largest and most productive centres of cotton spinning in the world. However, after World War I the British cotton industry declined sharply and by the 1980s cotton manufacture had virtually ceased in Bolton. Bolton today noted for its premier league football team Bolton Wanderers F.C. who play from the Reebok Stadium.
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When it comes to limo hire Bolton, nobody beats Style Limousines. With the highest spec limousines available as well as many custom made vehicles, we offer something different to the lancashire limousine hire scene. Our reputation for quality limo hire in Bolton is not only down to fantastic choice of luxurious limos for hire, but also our unrivalled customer service and attention to detail. We apply the same attention to detail when we commission a new limousine for our fleet. Afterall, someone wanting to hire a limousine in Manchester or hire a limousine in Cheshire needs to be able to set themselves apart with a night to remember, and that's exactly what hiring a limo from Style Limousines is all about. If you're looking to hire a limousine in Bolton to see the sights, take in the nightlife or arrive in style, our custom limousines are perfect.
Bolton is well served in terms of both the local road network and national routes. The A6, a major north–south trunk road, passes through Hunger Hill and Westhoughton. The A666 (sometimes referred to as `The Devil's Highway' because of the numeric designation) is a 4-lane dual carriageway which acts as a spur from the large M61/M60 motorway interchange, carrying traffic to and from the town centre. The A666 continues North, up through Astley Bridge, Egerton and on into Darwen and Blackburn, Lancashire. The M61 itself has three dedicated junctions serving the borough.
Bolton is served by the National Express coach network.
Bolton is located on the Manchester loop of the West Coast Mainline and as such is served by Virgin West Coast trains passing through Manchester Piccadilly station. There are regular commuter services between most of the local stations and Manchester. The Bolton metropolitan area is served by the following railway stations:
Bolton Trinity Street - a town-centre transport interchange
Bromley Cross
Hall i' th' Wood
Horwich Parkway (for the Reebok Stadium - Bolton Wanderers FC)
Moses Gate
The town's name, (in full, Bolton-le-Moors) has been recorded over the years with many derivations of spelling including Bothelton, Boulton and Bolton-super-Moras. However, the exact origins are not totally clear from historical records. There have been three main hypotheses – one is that because of its location in the valleys of confluencing moorland rivers, it is derived from "Bowl Town",] another suggesting it is a derivation from the Saxon words "bolt" and "tun", meaning "arrow" and "stockade" respectively. A final suggestion is from the words "boul" and "town", where boul means a monument or central feature, though the boul itself is unidentified. A further possibility is that "bol" derives from the Norse for farm and "ton" from the Norse for town.
Early history
Evidence of a Saxon settlement exists in the form of religious objects found when the present Victorian parish church was built.
The town was given a charter to hold a market in Churchgate in 1251 by King Henry III of England. It was then made into a market town and borough by a charter from the Earl of Derby, William de Ferrers, on January 14, 1253.
English Civil War
During the English Civil War, Bolton supported Parliament and the Puritan cause, unlike most of the rest of Lancashire. The town was twice attacked unsuccessfully until the third assault on May 28, 1644. Prince Rupert's army along with troops under the Earl of Derby, attacked the town. There were 1,500 dead, and 700 taken prisoner. It became known as the Bolton Massacre.[9]
Textile manufacture
The town's position on the west of the Pennines provides a damp climate. It is this feature which probably led to Flemish weavers, fleeing the Huguenot persecutions in the 17th century, to eventually settle here, as moisture-laden air allows for the spinning of cotton with little breakage. The cotton industry was to provide the catalyst for the town's expansion between the 14th and 19th centuries. Large, steam-powered textile mills eventually dominated the town's skyline, providing the major employment and defining the rhythm of the working week, so much so that an annual shut-down for maintenance in late June became the Bolton holidays. There were also some large iron foundries in the town as well as other engineering works, many connected with the cotton industry. Bolton was Worktown in the Mass-Observation project which has left us with many photographs taken around the town by Humphrey Spender as part of that project.
Civic history
Until the early 19th century, Great Bolton and Little Bolton were two of the eighteen townships of the ecclesiastical parish of Bolton le Moors. These two townships were separated by the River Croal, with Little Bolton on the north side of the river and Great Bolton on the south side. In 1838, Great Bolton, most of Little Bolton and the Haulgh area from Tonge with Haulgh township were incorporated under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 as a municipal borough, making it the second to be created in England, after Devonport. Further additions were made to the borough, with part of Rumworth in 1872, and part of Halliwell in 1877. In 1889, Bolton was granted County Borough status and became entirely self-governing and independent from Lancashire County Council jurisdiction. In 1898, it was extended further by adding the civil parishes of Breightmet, Darcy Lever, Great Lever, the rest of Halliwell, Heaton, Lostock, Middle Hulton, the rest of Rumworth (which had been renamed Deane in 1894), Smithills, and Tonge, plus Astley Bridge Urban District, and part of Over Hulton civil parish. The County Borough of Bolton was abolished in 1974 and became a constituent part of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater
Parliamentary representation
Under the Reform Act of 1832, a Parliamentary Borough was established for the town. The Bolton constituency had two Members of Parliament who both represented the whole borough. The Parliamentary Borough continued until 1950 when it was abolished and replaced with two parliamentary constituencies, Bolton East and Bolton West, each with one M.P.
In 1983, Bolton East was abolished and two new constituencies were created, Bolton North East (which covers a large part of the former Bolton East), and Bolton South East (which covers most of the former Farnworth constituency). Also in 1983, there were major boundary changes to Bolton West, which took over most of the former Westhoughton constituency.[17][18]
Bolton Parish Church
The Parish Church, dedicated to St Peter, is a fine example of the gothic revival style. Built between 1866 and 1871 of Longridge stone to designs by Paley, the church is 67 ft (20.4 m) in width, 156 ft (47.5 m) in length, and 82 ft (25.0 m) in height. The tower is 180 ft (54.9 m) high with 13 bells. The first known church on the same site was built in Anglo-Saxon times. It was rebuilt in Norman times and again in the early 1400s. Little is known of the first two churches, but the third building was a solid, squat building with a sturdy square tower at the west end. It was modified over the years until it fell into disrepair and demolished in 1866. Fragments of stone and other artefacts from these first three buildings are displayed in the museum corner of the present church. Today, the present parish of Bolton-le-Moors only covers a small area in the town centre, but until the 19th century it covered a much larger area and was divided into eighteen chapelries and townships. The neighbouring ancient parish of Deane once covered a large area to the west and south of Bolton and the township of Great Lever had been part of the ancient parish of Middleton.
Bolton Town Hall
Situated in the town centre, the Town Hall is an imposing neoclassical building. It was designed by William Hill who later designed the Portsmouth Guildhall. Opened on 5 June 1873 by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later as Edward VII), it was built on the site of an old Pot Market which had previously been known as Market Square. In the 1930s, the building was extended, by Bradshaw Gass & Hope, with additional office space which almost doubled in size. Incorporated within the Town Hall are the Albert Halls. The original Albert Hall was destroyed by a massive fire on 14 November 1981. It took three and half years for the complete internal reconstruction work to be finished. Reopened in 1985, the new Albert Halls now comprises two separate halls and several function rooms.
In recent times, the town has swapped much of its heavy industry for service-based activities including a large number of data processing and call centres and also hi-tech electronics and IT companies. It attracts shoppers from all over the north of England and further afield, not only to the Victorian splendour of the town centre but to newly developed Middlebrook retail park, home to Bolton Wanderers, the Bolton Arena, leisure facilities, shops, pubs, restaurants and sundry other businesses. The town retains a variety of more traditional industries, employing people in, amongst other things, aerospace, paper-manufacturing, packaging, textiles, transportation, steel foundries and building materials. The area of Horwich around Middlebrook has been designated by Bolton Council as the `Bolton Economic Development Zone', and is currently seeing much building work, predominantly office space for law firms and business headquarters.
Tourism plays an important part in the local economy, with visitor attractions such as Hall i' th' Wood (the home of inventor Samuel Crompton), Smithills Country Park and Smithills Hall, Rivington, Last Drop Village, Barrow Bridge mill village, Bolton Steam Museum and the civic museums in the town centre. Residents and visitors alike can make use of the facilities at Leverhulme, Moss Bank and Queen's parks.
Bolton is the birthplace of the Reebok brand. The company's European headquarters are located in the Reebok Stadium. Bolton is also the home of the family bakery, Warburtons, who began their business in 1876 on Blackburn Road in Bolton.
Bolton has also has a strong presence in the Aerospace industry through the production of military missiles and systems. This centred round the British Aerospace (BAe) factory in Lostock which formerly had the largest machine shop in Europe. BAe also had factories in Farnworth, Wingates and in the Spa Lane area of Bolton. The Lostock factory has been reduced drastically over the last couple of decades with the bulk of the buildings being sold off. A workforce of around 300 people continue to work there under the BAE Systems subsidiary MBDA. Current missile systems produced there include; ASRAAM, Rapier and Storm Shadow which are in service with the RAF and various forces around the globe. Bolton Council has launched a large-scale series of redevelopments of the town centre.
Bolton is home to a leading independent day school, Bolton School, whose Boys' Division originated around 1516. It was endowed by Robert Lever in 1641 and again by William Hesketh Lever (later Lord Leverhulme) in 1898, allowing it to be rebuilt alongside a new Girls' Division on its current site in Chorley New Road. The town can also boast Lord's Independent School, established by Mr Lord, a local eccentric, in 1906.
Bolton also has its own modern university, the University of Bolton. Formerly Bolton Institute of Higher Education, it gained university status in 2005 and has seen much building work and growth since.
The town's secondary schools include Canon Slade School, Thornleigh Salesian College, Turton High School Media Arts College and Smithills School, which boasts a world champion brass band. Bolton also has a community college which provides further education to many in the borough and has many sites throughout, as well as Bolton Sixth Form College, which comprises North and South campuses. The Bolton Teaching and Learning Centre serves schools as a central point for online materials. The Bolton Steam Museum has several restored working steam engines.
Bolton is home to the Premier League football club, Bolton Wanderers F.C.. Formerly playing at Burnden Park they now play at the Reebok Stadium. Indoor facilities for sports training and major racket sports tournaments are provided courtesy of the newly built Bolton Arena, which was used for some of the events in the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Bolton is also home to one of North West England's largest Field Hockey Clubs, Bolton Hockey Club. The oldest football club in Lancashire, Turton F.C., was formed in a village on the moors above Bolton in 1871 and is said to have introduce the Association game to the county. There have been recent claims that their original ground, which is still in use, is the oldest surviving football ground in the world. It is claimed matches were played there since the 1830s. Speedway racing, then known as Dirt Track Racing, was staged at Raikes Park in the pioneer days – 1928 – when the venue was short lived. Bolton also has a rugby union club, Bolton R.U.F.C. Bolton Blaze is a baseball club that was started in 2003, playing their home games at The Ball Park at Stapleton Avenue. In addition to the adult team, there is a junior team, Bolton Bears. Bolton Baseball dates back to 1937 with a team called Bolton Scarlet's.
Culture and society
According to a survey of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Boltonians are the friendliest people in Britain. Bolton is one of the more deprived boroughs in England according to the Indices of Deprivation 2000.] It is the 28th most deprived in England in terms of numbers of people who are income deprived. A third of the borough's population lives in seven wards which are amongst the 10% most deprived in England. Despite this, Bolton is currently experiencing much attention and is experiencing an influx of people, leading to property prices increasing faster than most other parts of the UK] The borough already contains traditional and also increasingly affluent areas including Heaton, Horwich, Harwood and Smithills.
On 13 February 2003, Bolton was granted Fairtrade Town status. Bolton's oldest public house is Ye Olde Man and Scythe, dating from 1251 – one of the oldest remaining public houses in England.
Bolton has a theatre called The Octagon along with many small, independent groups such as Bolton Little Theatre, Farnworth Little Theatre and the Phoenix Theatre Company. Inside the town hall there is also a large theatre and conference complex called The Albert Halls,[27] named after the Prince Consort, Prince Albert whose early death in 1861 at the comparatively young age of only 42 would eventually lead to many buildings and monuments throughout Great Britain and her vast empire being named in his memory. The Halls opened on 5 June 1873. Visual arts are also represented in Bolton via Bolton Museum and Art Gallery which has a fine collection of both local and international art.
Le Mans Crescent, (currently home to the central library, museum, art gallery, aquarium, police station, magistrates' court and town hall) is to be at the centre of a new Cultural Quarter. This area will no longer house the police station and magistrates' court; instead the library and museum are to be extended into these sections of the building, along with other new cultural projects. These works are to take place during a large-scale expansion and improvement project, which is set to more than double the size of the current town centre and improve its appearance, infrastructure and amenities.
Bolton Central Library was one of the early public libraries established after the Public Libraries Act 1850, opening on 12 October 1853 in the Exchange Building on Market Square (present day Victoria Square). The library moved to its present site in Le Mans Crescent on 4 July 1938.
The town's local daily newspaper is The Bolton News, formerly known as the Bolton Evening News. There are weekly free papers, such as the Bolton Journal and Bolton Council's free monthly newspaper, Bolton Scene.
The town falls under the BBC North West and the ITV Granada television regions, which are served by the Winter Hill transmitter near Belmont, just to the north-west of the town. Local radio is provided by Tower FM, a station which broadcasts across Bolton and Bury.
Cultural references
The industrial village of Barrow Bridge became Millbank in Benjamin Disraeli's novel Coningsby. Bolton is referenced in the famous Monty Python's Flying Circus Dead Parrot sketch, in which it is the location of the shopkeeper's brother's pet shop. The shopkeeper's brother (played by Michael Palin), incorrectly describes the town as Ipswich. On being challenged by Mr Praline (played by John Cleese), Palin's character defends himself, claiming (wrongly) that Ipswich is a palindrome of Bolton. Cleese's character retorts, "It's not a palindrome. The palindrome of Bolton would be Notlob. It don't work." As a consequence, Bolton is sometimes humorously nicknamed, "Notlob". Bolton is also referred to in Monty Python's "Blackmail" sketch, in which the host of the gameshow "Blackmail" (played by Michael Palin) announces that if a Miss Betty Teal from Lancashire sends the show 15 pounds, he will refrain from revealing her lover in Bolton.
Spring and Port Wine by Mayo playwright, Bill Naughton was filmed and set in Bolton. The Family Way based on Naughton's play All in Good Time was also filmed and set in Bolton. More famously Peter Kay is from Bolton and much of his comedy TV series That Peter Kay Thing and Phoenix Nights are set in the town. The latter was filmed at St Gregorys Social Club in Farnworth, and an episode of the former was set at Bolton West services on the M61.
Many Bolton buildings have also stood in for other towns and cities. Bolton Town Hall stood in for an East European bank in the 1980s film Sleepers and Le Mans Crescent has featured as an upmarket London street in the Jeremy Brett version of Sherlock Holmes.
Notable people
Bolton has produced its fair share of actors, comedians, musicians, sports personalities, engineers, inventors, politicians, authors and other notable people. They have all made a mark in different periods of time, whether at local, national or international level.


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AmeriCorps Week Activities are Everywhere
May 6, 2009
AmeriCorps Week is almost here and we'd like to let you know about some of the amazing projects going on throughout the country to celebrate national and community service! Just click on a bullet for more info. or to sign up… don't live in one of the areas below? Get the full list or search for AmeriCorps Week Projects here.
- Official Opening Event (NYC)- Getting Green Done! Saturday, May 9th 9:00am
- I AM AMERICORPS (online, ongoing)- photo and awarness project
- 2009 St. Cloud Service Day Project (St. Cloud, MN)- Monday, May 11th
- 6 days 6 ramps (various cities, FL)- May 8-17th
- All MEMBER Service Clean-Up (Pittsburgh, PA)- May 12th 1:00pm
- AmeriCorps In Your Community (Souix City, IA)- May 14th 6:30pm
- AmeriCorps @ Bat (Washington DC)- May 16th 7:05
- Official Closing Event (Flint, MI)- Russ Mawby Signature Service Project– Friday, May 15-16th
So, no matter where you live there's a way to participate! If there's not an event scheduled for your community, consider creating your own or participating virtually in the campaign (the I AM AMERICORPS project above). And don't forget to share with us how YOU celebrated… we love to hear what you're doing!
Viva la service!
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So famous that it needs no introduction, Mellben Seafood at Ang Mo Kio is well-known for its outstanding crab dishes. Despite intense competition from Uncle Leong Seafood located just diagonally opposite, Mellben always emerged the winner with its longer queues.
Having dinner with a friend there some Fridays ago, we ordered a chilli crab, a claypot crab beehoon and a plate of fried kang kong with abalone mushroom, which cost close to $100 inclusive of drinks.
Living up to every bit of its reputation, the claypot crab beehoon is undoubtedly one of the best in Singapore. Filled with the concentrated sweetness of crab and the delightful fragrance of milk and spices, the mouthwatering gravy is creamy and flavorful.
The irresistable chilli crab with its luscious spicy gravy, goes very well with the fried man tou (Chinese buns).
Having dined at both Mellben and Uncle Leong on several occasions, I still could not tell the difference between the quality of their crab dishes.
Although more people seem to like Mellben as evident by its longer queues, I prefer Uncle Leong simply because I find that its prices are less expensive and its service faster. Try the two and decide for yourself too.
Mellben Seafood
Blk 232 Ang Mo Kio Ave 3
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Mellben Seafood
Posted by kensongs at Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Labels: ang mo kio, coffee shop, crab bee hoon, crabs
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Just tried Mellben yesterday, and its definitely worth a try. Never had Crab Bee Hoon, but its great. Very tender crab in a nice buttery, milky broth. Oh, the queues are outrageous...get there early to be seated quickly.
Thanks for all your posts Ken, it's my go to site for food in Singapore.
- July 4, 2010 at 7:19 PM
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Protected and Productive: How To Create A Safe, Structured Workplace
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No matter what type of business you own, creating and maintaining a healthy work environment is a primary goal. Healthy workers are happy workers. Safe operations mean less time and money spent addressing injuries or shortfalls in how you run the business. Here are four excellent ways to ensure that your business runs smoothly.
The Shoe's Fit
If you own a small business that presents a low risk for injury or illness, your safety plan may simply be to hold weekly meetings to address concerns of the staff. However, if you handle food or have a large business, you'll need to address the specific aspects of safety in your plan—cross contamination or procedure in the event of injury.
Assess Concerns and Identify Hazards
Bringing your employees into the loop, either in an informal meeting or through more structured communication can often help you to focus on the areas that need the most regulation. Knowing the opinions of the people who work for you and experience the working environment can also help you to cogently assess problems that general policy might overlook.
Hit the Books
When you design your policy, you should be familiar with OSHA regulations for workplace safety, common practices of other businesses in the same industry, and the scale of preparedness and infrastructure needed to implement your plan. In other words, do you simply need a checklist for a shift supervisor or do you require a full-time manager who will oversee production safety?
Training and Safety Culture
Providing excellent hazard management training for your employees at regular intervals will not only help to mitigate damage or injury. It will also ensure that you build a culture of safety among your staff. They will be mindful of risks as they work, and have a firm idea of how to handle crises should they arise. Your employees should also be informed of where to report injuries, if they happen, and when to report by. According to the work injury lawyers at Diederich Law Firm, failing to report an injury can hurt an employee's chances of obtaining workers' compensation benefits. For the protection of your employees, keep them informed of everything they need to know to both avoid and deal with workplace injuries.
In order to effectively keep your workplace safe, it's important that you stay up to date on the latest policy from OSHA and other organizations. You should also make a point of providing regular refreshment training for your employees, and structured communication by which they can help to address issues that arise unexpectedly. As well, having standard, but flexible policies regarding illness or high-risk circumstances in your business can help you to ensure that illness is not spread without consideration and no one foments a dangerous situation due to an unaddressed condition.


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U.S. Supreme Court
Burnet v. Clark, 287 U.S. 410 (1932)
Burnet v. Clark
No. 180
Argued November 14, 1932
Decided December 12, 1932
The taxpayer was interested in a corporation engaged in river and harbor improvement work, as majority stockholder and president, and devoted himself largely to its affairs. He was also interested in other concerns engaged in similar work, and had investments in other corporate shares. He treated the corporation as a separate entity for taxation, and made separate personal income tax returns. Through endorsement of obligations of the corporation, and sale of its stock, he suffered net losses in 1921 and 1922, for which he claimed deductions in his return for 1923. He was not in the business of endorsing or buying and selling securities.
The losses did not result "from the operation of any trade or business regularly carried on by the taxpayer," and, under the Revenue Act of 1921, § 204, were not deductible from gains of succeeding years. P. 287 U. S. 414.
61 App.D.C. 217, 59 F.2d 1031, reversed.
Certiorari to review a judgment reversing a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals, 19 B.T.A. 859, which sustained an order of the Commissioner determining a deficiency in income tax. Cf. the cases next preceding and following.
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|Seeking fresh ideas … Hum!
When I first started making LoSt, the idea was for a small 7DRL shooter with card based mechanics and no hit points (getting hit was game over). That didn't scale well, however, and was gradually transformed into the current combat system.
|Wounds UI
Initiative: All events have a speed value, with actions performed in a fixed order each turn. Melee precedes missile attacks, which in turn precede movement. If you're next to an enemy, you can back away, but giving your enemy a free attack. Also, actions can be "interrupted" by incoming attacks. The idea was to give melee an edge in close quarters: If you're wielding a knife and facing a shooter, your best bet should be to get up close and stab your foe before they get a chance to shoot you.
Randomness: The system is mostly deterministic. Attacks have fixed damage, and there is no probability "to hit". Instead, melee sometimes deal grazes (half damage) or critical hits (effect depending on weapon). Firearms have a chance of going wild, depending on conditions like cover and skills.
|Game changer
There's also been a problem with balancing damage. Comparing a club and a knife, they both deal 2 BLs, but the club spreads the damage over several HLs, whilst the knife puts all of it in a single HL. At the end of the day, the knife is almost unambiguously better, since it has the chance of depleting HLs more quickly.
However unbearable I find the current states of affairs, this system has been in place for years now, and me stumped as to how to fix it. Should I try to make something different altogether? Introduce a standard hit points system? God forbid! I'm giving the current rules another chance, and started by just tweaking the existing values.
Here are some of the changes I'm trying out currently:
Damage output: I made mostly everything deal a little less damage. I figured the lower tier weapons (bowie knives, tools, whips) can deal just a single BL in damage, and still be better than unarmed fighting, since unarmed fighters are unable to score critical hits. Increasing the player's health might also be an option here.
Bruise regeneration: Bruises now regenerate every second turn, and healing the last BL of a HL takes another extra turn.
Interrupted actions: I've disabled this almost completely. If an actor gets hit right before carrying out an attack, that attack is no longer blocked, but rather guaranteed to be a graze/wildshot. At point blank range, a wildshot will hit the target about 50% of the time.
This already works better than before, even if it's basically the same rules. For one thing, a couple of angry animals won't kill you in a single turn, even though it's still bad to get surrounded. The slowed regeneration rate means that there is more time to apply actual tactics, like spending a turn to reposition, without all bruises being reset. The fact that the last bruise in a HL takes an extra turn to heal also gives an advantage to weapons which deal damage over several HLs. A weapon dealing 2 BLs to a single HL still has an edge when it comes to quickly whittling down your enemies HLs, whilst a weapon dealing 1 BL to two separate HLs is less of an immediate threat, but will give an advantage a few game turns down the road.
I may still have to make some more fundamental changes to how combat works, but it's refreshing just to see the game work slightly different from what I've grown accustomed to.
Props unbound
Inspired by the moderate success with switching around combat rules, I'm also trying some changes to the inventory system. Again, some pretty arbitrary principles had grown out of the original game (some of them outlined in an earlier post). For instance, I felt that limiting actors to carry only six items at any time was pretty neat, since dead dudes would just drop all their loot in a nice circle around themselves.
Now, I've upped the inventory cap to 12 items, which really just lets the player carry more trash around (although balance issues may arise later). Secondly, props are now dropped and picked up from adjacent hexes rather than the one you're currently occupying.
The effect on gameplay is minimal, but I may keep it this way, just because it offers a solution to a problem I've been having: how to give props to NPCs? I didn't want a separate "give" command, so instead I implementing a heavy-handed system for offering NPCs stuff by dropping it in their field of vision. This is how you currently collect bounties from judges, by plopping the severed head of a goon in their vicinity. God only knows if a single player has yet picked up on the fact that this is a thing, as it's only vaguely hinted at in the dialogue. But if props are dropped onto the hex right in front of to you, the system pretty much gives itself: Simply invoking the "drop" command when facing an NPC should make for a pretty intuitive and smooth interface.
|Current shop layout, and more spacious mockup
D=door, s=shopkeep, c=counter, p=props
I'm slightly concerned that some veteran RL players may find this counterintuitive. It's still possible to pick up items you're standing on, but that has the disadvantage of not properly teaching how it "should" be done. Players who fall into the habit of walking on stuff to pick it up, will in effect be wasting a turn as opposed to players who fall naturally into using the new system. There are some possible ways to fix that, either by making it a free action to pick something up, or even let props on the ground block movement. This last solution would mean some pretty drastic changes to tactics, but might even work when I start making everything a bit more spacious, which is something I've planned in any case.
Come what may, it's always good to break habitual thinking by changing the rules around a bit. Every dead end explored is a step in the right direction.
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KIEV, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Austria's Erste Group Bank could decide by the end of the year to sell its loss-making Ukrainian unit.
"Ukraine has not lived up to (our) expectations of economic development and the group is considering the question of whether it should continue working on the Ukrainian market," Erste Bank (Ukraine) spokeswoman Yelena Pavlovskaya said on Monday.
She said a decision could be made by the end of this year.
Several other banks from Western Europe have already left Ukraine or are reducing local exposure.
"We are analysing the market now, the option of selling the bank is being considered but the option of staying in the market is being considered as well," Pavlovskaya said.
Erste bought a small bank in Ukraine in 2006 and as of July 1, 2012 it had assets of 9.8 billion hryvnias ($1.2 billion), making it the 22nd largest lender among Ukraine's 176 banks.
Like many other Ukrainian banks, Erste has struggled since the 2008-2009 crisis when the Ukrainian hryvnia fell 60 percent against the dollar. The bank has reported losses since 2010.
Sweden's SEB and Swedbank have closed down retail operations and Germany's Commerzbank is selling its local subsidiary Forum to Ukrainian businessmen.
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I read a lot, especially in the middle of the night to erase negative thoughts. Lots of Anita Shreve novels lately, Life of Pi, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, etc. Last night I was reading parts from one of those Chicken Soup books, you know-the inevitable triumphs from impossible situations. Even realizing how emotionally manipulative these vignettes are, I still was reduced to blubbering but some of that was out of self pity. Poor me, poor me. Nobody likes me. Everybody hates me. think I'm gonna eat some worms.
During the day, I am on the computer. One of my favorite blogs is Cancer Bitch (http://cancerbitch.blogspot.com/) who refers to herself in the 3rd person. She is a year out of treatment and is doing fine but rode that cancer roller coaster with style and sarcasm. Perhaps I should start referring to myself in the 3rd person as redundantly, Cancer Crab.
The Asiatic and tiger lilies have a distinct order of blooming: first the pinks, then the deep reds, then the oranges and finally the yellows. I'm right in the middle of reds, the oranges are just starting to open. The white and pink star gazer lilies I had have perished in my incompetent hands. Some of the calla lilies I got for my birthday are in bloom.
My day lilies are about to bloom also.
I ran 106 miles during the month of June. This works out to be about 3 lbs of fat. I think of pounds of butter stacked up-same density. It was cool this morning facilitating my long run. I turned in the opposite direction of talkative lady. I saw one car the whole time I was out there. An added bonus, too cool for bugs. I am covered with bites. Either there are more bugs this year or I heal more slowly from their attacks. They seem to find my cancer blood tasty. In the past, mosquitoes would rarely land on me.
Today I go to orientation for parents at Naomi's community college. She herself is on some wild goose chase with that boyfriend.


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Secondhand Chic: 10 Toronto Vintage Stores to Get Fab FindsFind Hotels
The secret of most Torontonian style mavens? Our vintage stores. Aside from being an affordable way to shop, vintage shopping in Toronto is sure to refresh your wardrobe, draw attention and earn you points in the hip hoods. Here are 10 of the city's best bets for vintage finds.
Courage My Love
With stock ranging from exotic costume jewelry to repurposed dresses to retro barware, Courage My Love offers the experience of being inside a bohemian fashionista's tickle trunk. Since 1975, a devoted following has enjoyed losing track of time scouring this eccentric mix of merchandise. (14 Kensington Avenue / 416-979-1992.)
Thrill of the Find
Specializing in European labels (think: Prada, Gucci, and Chanel), Thrill of the Find is named after the feeling of finding that perfect piece in the racks. Lifelong collector Mireille Watson prides herself on her selection of high quality, well cut, designer dresses, skirts, and jackets. It won't take long to find your thrill in this well laid out Leslieville shop. (1172 Queen Street East / 416-461-9313.)
Filled from floor to ceiling with a vibrant selection of clothing, accessories, and eccentric curiosities from the late 1800's through to the 1970's, Gadabout is a one-stop-shop for creative vintage wardrobe add-ons. If sifting through crates, bins and racks is your game, Gadabout is sure to offer you an afternoon of fun and finds. (1300 Queen Street East / 416-463-1254.)
Penny Arcade Vintage
For those whose fashion idols include icons like Patti Smith or Debbie Harry circa 1975, Penny Arcade will not disappoint. Offering a curated selection of used, vintage and consignment for rockers at heart, the clothing racks here are all killer, no filler. The minimal décor, no-nonsense store layout, and friendly service make Penny Arcade's higher price point well worth it. (1177 Dundas Street West / 647-346-1386.)
Black Market Vintage
Be beckoned in by the "$10 for everything (yes everything!)" sign outside and head down to the basement haunt that is Toronto's pioneering vintage store. Called the "punk rock granddaddy of second hand stores," The Black Market started off as a collection of pop-up shops in 1980 and grew into the 7,000 square-foot megawarehouse that brings surplus, vintage T's and alt-poetry chapbooks under one roof. (256a Queen Street & John Street / 516-599-5858.)
Three Fates Shop
For women who want unique style options and a fun place to shop, Three Fates offers vintage finds alongside new clothing from Canadian and American brands. Vintage boots, floral dresses, structured skirts and plaid shirts are just some of the pieces you'll find at Three Fates, and the price generally doesn't exceed $50 for any item. (1394 Queen Street West / 416-901-1533.)
69 Vintage
Love vintage but hate rummaging? 69 Vintage is a well-organized treasure trove of expertly curated clothing. Here, on the trendy Ossington strip between Dundas and Queen, you'll find fashions and accessories worn by local icons like Emily Haines – and no second-hand-store smell. (921 Queen Street West / 416-516-0669.)
House of Vintage
A can't-miss stop on Queen West for designer junkies, House of Vintage keeps a vast selection of furs, boots, bags and frocks in a spacious Parkdale warehouse. Testament to his eye for fashion, owner Dennis Adamis launched a second store in London, England a few years ago, which has been thriving ever since. (1239 Queen Street West / 416-535-2142.)
I Miss You Vintage
One of Toronto's more upscale vintage stores, I Miss You Vintage houses an elegant selection of cocktail dresses and women's clothing from the 60's and 70's. If you're looking for the perfect dress for a fab event, this is the place to find it, along with a matching pair of kitten heels. (63 Ossington Avenue / 416-916-7021.)
Stella Luna
This tiny hole-in-the-wall boutique in Parkdale is as well-loved as it is unassuming. In a space no bigger than Carrie Bradshaw's walk-in closet are dynamic, fashion-forward vintage pieces in brands like D&G, Allan Cherry, Holt Renfrew and more. Savvy and chatty owner Crispian Underwood will help you find what you want and be totally honest about how it looks. (1627 Queen Street West / 416-536-7300.)
Toronto's vintage stores offer not only a way to find fantastic souvenirs for low prices, but also a one-of-a-kind day of exploring. Shop like a local. Shop vintage!


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When it comes to backing up apps, the selection is few. It's good to know that those few are all actually pretty good. Perhaps the most famous of which is Titanium Backup. Now, Titanium Backup will be getting some real competition from an application called Carbon Backup from Koushik Dutta, developer of ClockworkMod Recovery.
It is still a work in progress, but a lot of improvements have been made for Carbon Backup. Beta 3 of the app has just been released and it has a myriad of fun new features. It is mostly performance enhancements and bug fixes. However, there are some other new features. Among these is Box.net support. Also, backup and restore processes are now shown in the notifications.
Perhaps the biggest feature is that you can now easily back up your apps without rooting your phone. This is a huge deal. Since backing up applications is a primary excuse to root one's device, the ability to do so without requiring root could be huge.
If you'd like to watch rather than read, the video that shows how this works is posted at the bottom. Using a desktop it's possible to backup applications without root. It requires installing the Android SDK and learning some ADB.
Carbon Backup allows for this process to occur with a friendly user interface. In case it's not obvious, you'll need a computer for it. Then it's a matter of connecting the phone app to the computer app and then back up all you want to.
When will Carbon Backup hit the Google Play Store?
The current beta release of Carbon Backup is timed and will expire on January 30th. Koushik plans to have it on Google Play by then. Word has it that there will be a free version and a paid version. So there will be permanent and easy access soon.
As stated, the app is still in beta. When it becomes a full release, that's when things will get really interesting. While it may be just a guess, it's not ridiculous to believe that this could be a legitimate competitor of Titanium Backup and apps like it.
Has anyone given this a try or is anyone planning on giving this a try when it hits the Play Store next week? Let us know what you think about Carbon Backup.


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RIVERSIDE, Calif. – BYU-Hawaii kept things interesting until the end, but fell 97-90 to Cal Baptist on Wednesday night in the Van Dyne Gymnasium.
Cory Lange led the Seasiders (12-8, 9-6 PacWest) with a career-high 29 points, including four 3-pointers. Lange's previous career-high was 25 points against Chaminade last season. Justin Park contributed 19 points, while Scott Friel recorded a double-double of 15 points and 14 rebounds. Justin Yamzon and Ian Harward each added 13 points.
Gelaun Wheelwright led all players with a career-high 38 points. Taj Spencer recorded a double-double for Cal Baptist (18-5, 9-4 PacWest) with 19 points and 12 rebounds.
BYU-Hawaii shot 58.1 percent from the field and 56.3 from behind the arc, holding Cal Baptist to 45.8 and 50, respectively. The Lancers outrebounded the Seasiders 38-32 and took advantage from the charity stripe connecting on 86.4 percent (19-22) of their free throws.
After trailing for most of the first half, Cal Baptist roared out of the break to tie the game at 54 on a 7-point run by Wheelwright and Spencer. The Seasiders built back up a slight lead until Spencer tied it again at 60 with 11:43 remaining. The teams traded leads until Wheelwright hit two shots from the perimeter to lead a 12-3 run to take the lead for good at 81-73 with 4:33 left.
The Lancers started the first half on an 11-2 run with five points from Wheelwright to take the 14-6 lead early. Friel sparked a 7-point answer to close the gap to 14-13 with 14 minutes remaining.
A 9-0 run with two 3-pointers from Yamzon gave BYU-Hawaii a 22-17 advantage with under 12 minutes to play in the half. Park started his hot shooting and recorded eight points during a 13-2 run, pushing the Seasiders ahead to 37-23.
Cal Baptist closed the gap back to single digits with a 7-0 run, making it a 37-30 game with four minutes in the first half. BYU-Hawaii answered back with a 7-point run of its own before Jordan Giusti hit a 3-point jumper at the buzzer make it 46-38 in favor of the Seasiders at the half.
BYU-Hawaii tried got back within two possessions twice in the final two minutes of the game, but were unable to get any closer.
The Seasiders finish their road trip on Friday at Azusa Pacific at 7:30 p.m. PST. Live stats, video and audio will be available online.


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Productivity, Cost, and Technical Efficiency Evaluation of Southeastern U.S. Logging Contractors
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Indicators of the overall economic health of the southeastern U.S. logging industry was determined by measuring technical efficiency, and by analyzing the demographic, organizational, business, productivity and cost information with a variety of quality control tools. Data Envelopment Analysis, a non-parametric statistical tool, was used to measure the technical efficiency associated with each logger year.
Demographic information, including age, experience, and education, appeared to have only minimal impacts on contractor efficiency, indicating that business, operational, and environmental factors have greater influence on efficiency.
Groups of observations with low proportions of total cost relating to equipment and consumables tended to have the highest median efficiency scores. Observations with lower median efficiency tended to have higher proportions of their costs associated with equipment and/or consumables. These trends indicate that efficiency, or operating in the area of least costs, is not necessarily in the best interest of the logging contractors or the wood supply system as a whole. These contractors are not in the process of building equity, which is important in order to maintain a productive supplier force.
There was an upward trend in yearly production and costs during the period. Production and cost levels generally increased from 1990 through 1995, before dropping off in 1996.
Yearly efficiency was cyclical, but appeared to be in a general state of decline for the period. The Wilcoxon signed rank test ruled that 1996 was statistically lower than the previous 6 years at the 90% confidence level. The efficiency decline was due in part to the inability of productivity increases to keep pace with inflation throughout the 1990's, influence of fixed costs, and the period of pulp an paper market oversupply in the mid 1990's.
The relationship between efficiency and profitability was examined using marginal cost and revenue analysis. Profits were not collected as part of this study, therefore an arbitrary rate of $12 per ton was assumed. These analyses served to point out the approximate scale size associated with maximum efficiency and revenue. Efficiency is an important prerequisite of profitability, but when green tons of wood is considered the output of the process, the point of maximum efficiency is not always where efficiency is maximized.
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We don't know how many movies Marvel Studios has in the early stages of development but we do definitely know as of today which film is coming next!
2011 will see the introductory solo films of Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger, followed by the epic team-up adventure, The Avengers, in 2012. For a long time we have pondered what film would accompany The Avengers that year and we can now say that it'll definitely be Runaways.
In July, we found out that Runaways was targeting a production start somewhere in the first half of 2011, between January and July but today, Production Weekly confirms that it will in fact being principal photography in March, one month after The Avengers begins shooting.
The timeframe update came through a Tweet several hours ago:
Update: Marvel's "The Runaways" (aka "Small Faces"), is scheduled to begin filming in March in L.A.
I don't understand the "Small Faces" part of it but I certainly hope Runaways will not be retitled to that... It could be a code name for the project, similar to "Frostbite" for the Captain America shoot.
Debuting in 2003 from creators Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona, Runaways is an award-winning comic series which follows the story of a group of six teenagers who learn that their parents are super-villains. Together they gather weapons and run away to learn more about themselves and the powers they have, using them for good. It takes place in LA so it's good to know they're shooting on location.
As I mentioned in our last discussion on Runaways, this puts Marvel on course to continue with their plan of at least two features a year. The question now becomes, will those be the only two Marvel Studios movies hitting theaters in 2012? There's Iron Man 3 and Ant-Man which we know are coming eventually, perhaps in 2013, and then there's Dr. Strange, Iron Fist and others that have writers and are in pre-production.
As we enter the Fall season, expect the rumors about casting the young heroes to start rolling in. We at least don't have to deal with that on the director front with Peter Sollett (Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist) having already signed for the job.
Share your thoughts in the comments and with us on Twitter @rob_keyes and @screenrant.
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I teach at a HS that for decades was in the top 5% of high schools in our state. Last year we were in the top 15% for our state science scores yet over half of our students were not proficient by the state standards. By 2014 all 100% of our students must be proficient. In our haste to improve our scores we have turned our classrooms into places where these state exams are talked about all the time. Valuable instructional time (that should be used to work on inquiry skills) is spent worrying about state tests. Lost in the confusion are the students, the joy of learning and the joy of teaching.
The emphasis on test preparation HAS revealed a lack of interest and effort on the part of the students. They have very little stamina when it comes to reading the test questions and they have poor reading skills to begin with.
Here is a question from a benchmark Study Island assessment that is supposed to mirror the types of questions that the students will see on the state test.
Most of my students got this wrong. The students were very clear that they "gave up." They all complained that this was "so much reading." When I write questions like this on my own assessments I find the same thing. The students just don't have any "stick-to-it-ness." Many students have grown accustomed to assessment questions that are short and sweet and never rise above lower order thinking skills.
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Mediabrands Reorganizes, Hires Talent from Microsoft and Facebook
Interpublic Group of Cos.' is making a wave of senior management changes at its media agency umbrella unit Mediabrands.
Mediabrands told Ad Age that, as part of a series of shifts, UM's Jacki Kelley and Initiative's Jim Hytner are being promoted to Mediabrands roles. Additionally the company has hired former Microsoft chief creative hire Gayle Troberman to help market the group and Facebook's former global agency team director, Sarah Personette in a senior post at UM.
So what's prompted all these moves? The company is trying to adopt more broadly a growth strategy that it believes was successful in a few international markets last year. For example, in Australia, IPG Mediabrands grew revenue 20% in 2011 and will double that number for 2012. One thing that made the region's operations unique was having a Mediabrands CEO role that could focus on the bottom line of the overall group while the CEOs of individual agencies were enabled to spend more time with clients and focus on providing the best, most-up-to-date solutions for clients.
Now IPG Mediabrands is looking to replicate that structure across the globe as it implements a major overhaul. This marks its second leadership shuffle in a little over a year. The network has added a layer of global leadership across its major regions --North America, G-14 and World Markets -- and replaced individual agency CEOs with leaders who have media planning and strategy backgrounds.
As part of the changes, Jacki Kelley, global CEO of UM, and Jim Hytner, global CEO of Initiative, have both moved into new Mediabrands roles. Ms. Kelley assumes the role of North America CEO and president of global clients. She'll oversee operating units across Mediabrands agencies, as well as multi-national clients with headquarters in North America.
Mr. Hytner will take on the same role for G-14 while managing multi-national clients with headquarters in the region. Andrea Suarez will continue to oversee World Markets, the third major Mediabrands region. In individual G-14 markets, such as Australia, that already have Mediabrands CEOs, those CEOs will now report into Mr. Hytner.
One big hire for Mediabrands is Ms. Troberman, previously the chief creative officer at Microsoft. She will serve as Mediabrands' new chief marketing and ideas officer, and be responsible for creating more integration between Mediabrands and the clients' creative agencies --even if they are outside of Interpublic. She'll also be working with certain clients of Mediabrands "to get people telling stories for them," according to the agency.
Andrea Suarez will continue in her role as CEO of IPG Mediabrands for World Markets. All Mediabrands leaders will report in to global Mediabrands CEO Matt Seiler.
At Initiative, chief strategy officer Jim Elms will succeed Mr. Hytner as global CEO. Daryl Lee, global chief strategy officer at McCann Worldgroup, will take over Ms. Kelley's role as global CEO of UM. He had been UM's head of global strategy before joining Worldgroup a few years ago.
The reorganization will also affect agency heads in North America. Peter Mears, CEO of Mediabrands Canada, will move into the role of president of Initiative North America. He will replace Nick Pahade, whom the agency appointed as North America CEO only last March.
Sarah Personette will replace Yin Woon Rani, who joined UM in September 2011 as North America president. Ms. Personette had most recently served as global agency team director at Facebook, and prior to that she held senior roles at Facebook and Publicis Groupe's Mediavest.
The agency said that Mr. Pahade will assume a new role within IPG, but could not yet discuss the details. It's not yet clear whether or not Ms. Rani will choose to remain at the agency group.
What the agency network learned and back in October, said global CEO Mr. Seiler, was that six Mediabrands-led markets in G-14, including Australia, performed better than the eight without the Mediabrands CEOs. In addition to replicating that model with new Mediabrands hubs, he said the objective of the reorganization is to enable agency CEOs to focus on delivering customized content and media strategies for clients, as well as to implement a structure that will better position the agency to "take full responsibility for a client's total business outcome." "It's hard to do at a holding-company level due to conflicts; it's hard to do at an individual operating-unit level, because [the agencies] don't control enough of their total marketing spend; but it's easiest to do at the media-holding-company level, where you have the specific expertise and the scope and scale," he said. "It's kind of like Goldielocks."
He added that the changes in North America are not indicative of the agencies doing poorly under the relatively new leadership. Rather, he explained, "Learning from our cluster structure and from individual markets had not been as advanced then," when the group brought on Mr. Pahade and Ms. Rani, both of whom came from non-media backgrounds. Mr. Pahade was known more for his digital expertise, having most recently run web-based media-services agency Traffiq. Prior to joining UM, Ms. Rani led the GlaxoSmithKline consumer health-care team at WPP's Grey Worldwide.
In 2011, Mediabrands' global revenue grew 10.6% to $949.2 million. Non-U.S. revenue accounted for $604.8 million, while U.S. revenue was $344.4 million, according to the Ad Age Datacenter. UM's worldwide revenue in 2011 was $490 million, while Initiative's was $317.9. Interpublic formed Mediabrands in 2008 to oversee its media-agency operations.
In addition to the CEO changes, Guy Beach, president of G14 for UM, will become COO of IPG Mediabrands North America, reporting into Ms. Kelley. Marc Bresseel, president of Initiative for G14, will move into the role of president, clients and services for IPG Mediabrands G14, reporting into Mr. Hytner.
Mediabrands agencies include: Initiative, UM and new shop BPN, as well as specialty groups such as Orion, MagnaGlobal, Geomentum and Ansible, among others.
The move marks the second major reorganization in a week at Interpublic, following the holding company's decision to shift DraftFCB's media planning group and accounts to IPG Mediabrands.


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I was recently asked by a fellow developer how to block the next button in Lectora, so that the user must click all the buttons on the page before the user could proceed. This is something I do all the time, and I imagine many other developers also encounter. I'm a graphic designer and a very visual person, so I'm going to show you, visually, how I make this happen.
So, here I've started with a tabbed Lectora template Interaction from our ever-growing Template Library. Many of our interactions will work well if you want to play along.
First, we need to disable the next button. Click on the page and go to Page Properties Ribbon: Inherit Settings, which opens a popup. I make sure to select "Specific objects from parents" and move the course's next button to the Excluded list (shown below).
Next, we'll want to put a next button on this page only, so I would just copy and paste the course's next button on this page. Make sure the button is set up to be "initially hidden" in the button properties ribbon.
Initially, you might think, "Oh, I can just add an action on button six that will show the next button when clicked." But what if the user clicks the buttons out of order? How can we make sure they click ALL SIX buttons, in any order, and then see a next button appear? The answer… Variables.
Are you new to variables? Don't worry, I'll walk you through them. When I was first getting started in Lectora and was learning about variables, a helpful friend told me to imagine that variables are packages which you can add information to, (I'll show you *what I mean later). So, let's create a variable by adding an action that modifies a variable. I'll name this variable "Button" in this example, but you can name yours what you like. Now that you've established this new variable, you'll be able to Add "A" to the Button variable, like in these screen shots below.
You'll want to add a similar action to each button on the page, using this same variable, but this time adding a different letter to the Button variable. So for the second button, you'll want to add the letter "B" to the variable, Button 3 will add "C" to the variable, and so on.
Finally, we'll want to add an action to the buttons that will show the next button if the user has clicked all six buttons. (Back to my friend's idea). Imagine the button variable as a package, you can then imagine the letters to be unique marbles. In order to show the next button, all six unique marbles must be in the package. In my example, the next button will show once all six letters are added to the Button Var. As you can see in this screenshot, I have added an action that shows the next button if all the conditions are true: Button Contains A, Button Contains B, C, D, E, and F.
Now, technically you're done, but say your user returns to the page. Do you want to make them click all six buttons AGAIN? Probably not. What I like to do is add an action, that on show of the page, reveals the next button if all those same conditions are true.
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Jia Jiang adventures boldly into a territory so many of us fear: rejection. By seeking out rejection for 100 days -- from asking a stranger to borrow $100 to requesting a "burger refill" at a restaurant -- Jiang desensitized himself to the pain and shame that rejection often brings and, in the process, discovered that simply asking for what you want can open up possibilities where you expect to find dead ends.
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Rebecca is a founding member and co-artisitc director of Fluff productions. She has been involved in production and appeared in the following productions for the company: Be My Baby (Old Red Lion), The Ark, The Bride and The Coffin (Old Red Lion) Bluebeard (Old Red Lion -Critics Choice) Lichentongue (Underbelly, Edinburgh Festival) Alice's Adventures in the New World (Old Red Lion and UK Tour) and World Enough and Time (The Dalston Bunker).
Other stage credits include: Carbon Dating (The Brockley Jack) The Taming of The Shrew and King John (Queens Film Theatre, Belfast) Behind the Curtain (The Kings Head) Sorry Wrong Number and The Hitchhiker (The Old Sorting Office) Away in a Banger (The Courtyard Theatre). Film Credits include: Picture Perfect (Miramotion Pictures) Janice (Low Fat Films) Loony in the Woods (Ramar Productions)


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Satisfactory Academic Progress for Financial Aid Eligibility: College of Health Related Professions
I. Introduction
Federal and State regulations require that all students receiving financial aid, including all federal and state aid, must maintain satisfactory academic progress.
II. Policy
All students must maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) in order to continue in their chosen major, but also to maintain financial aid eligibility. Your academic standing will evaluated at the end of each spring term.
III. Satisfactory Academic Progress
Failure to meet these requirements may result in the suspension of financial aid:
IV. 1st Appeal of Financial Aid suspension
Please note, being permitted to continue your studies by the Educational Policy Committee does not automatically reinstate your Financial Aid eligibility.
Students who fail to meet the SAP requirements listed above may apply for a one time waiver to re-establish eligibility for Federal aid. At the end of the Spring term, your SAP status will be re-evaluated.
In order to qualify for this one time only waiver, the student must submit the following forms:
A financial aid hold will be placed on the student's account until the forms are received. Failure to submit the forms will result in the suspension of the student's financial aid.
V. Subsequent Appeal(s) of Financial Aid suspension
A student whose aid has been suspended due to a failure to meet the Satisfactory Academic Progress requirements, after having previously received a waiver, may appeal the denial on the basis of circumstances beyond his or her control. The appeal must be made in writing and must adhere to the following requirements:
The appeal must arrive at the Office of Financial Aid no later than the end of the first week of class. The Financial Aid Appeals Committee will review the appeal and will send a written decision to the student within two weeks of receiving the appeal.
VI. Reinstatement of Financial Aid
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The Innova Gravity Vidar 29+ tire has been on our radar for awhile now. One of my long-lost, gnome-fest cousins, Martini, ran these on his Krampus, last winter and I found out about it from the ever-vigilant, Julio Dot Com. Julio also mentioned that the price on the Vidar was less than $40! Flash forward to last week – We ordered a set of them from Amazon for $34.95 each. They came in yesterday and we put them on the Park Tools digital scale. Our test tires weighed 920g, and 949g. Not bad, considering this is a wire bead tire.
The Vidar is definitely not lacking in size. With the uninflated tire layed out flat, the bead to bead measures 180mm and the tread to tread is 84mm. We mounted one up on a 50mm wide, Surly Rabbit hole rim and the casing was 78mm wide and the tread width was 80mm. The tread is moderately aggressive, with rectangular cut outs in the center of the widely spaced knobs, which should make them shed mud pretty well. I'm looking forward to see if they grip better than the Knard that I've been running for the past couple of weeks. This has been a really wet spring in Wisconsin and when the trails are legally open, there's still been plenty of greasy corners, where the Knard is sort of a drifters delight (as a rear tire). I'll find out later today, if (Darth) Vidar, likes the mud, sand, roots, rocks and hero dirt out at Kettle.
Is there such a thing as a bargain in bike parts? Well, we're going to put these tires to the test over the next 4-6 weeks and see. We'll share that report later this summer. Till then, you can see how the Gravity Vidar's spec's compare with all of the other tires that we've tested at our Tire Data Page – http://plusbikes.com/the-plus-bikes-tire-sizes-and-weights-list/


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When and if you get bored with FC Road (we know that's less likely to happen), there's JM Road right next to FC Road. So, next time, make sure you explore these places on JM Road.
1. Mohan Kulfi
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Thought of starting the list with my favourite one. Every flavour of kulfi here is worth a try. And they have it in scoops too. Malai or badam kulfi is simply mesmerising.
2. Panchali
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One of the most adored restaurants by Punekars, Panchali serves great South Indian breakfast. Their wada sambar is highly recommended.
3. Mathura Pure Veg
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When you're in a mood to indulge in typical Khandeshi food, you head to Mathura. Their pithla, sev bhaji and Khandeshi bharit are a must try. Maswadi is another fun starter you can explore, and Mathura also has yum modaks during Sankashti Chaturthi.
Tip: Order a glass of buttermilk beforehand if spicy food is not your thing.
4. Supreme Corner
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Regular visitors claim that Supreme is the ultimate place in Pune for Pav Bhaji and Pizza. Well, why not! The crazy waiting time might be a pooper, but it's so much worth!
5. Chaat at Sambhaji Park
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While some may have their reservations about roadside chaat, the joy of sitting on a green lawn and indulging in finger licking bhel is something else, right? Go for it.
6. Aaoji Khhaoji
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When you crave paranthas next time, drop by here. While the ambiance is not so fancy, the taste is pretty good.
7. Shiv Sagar
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Always an option (well, a saver when you are outta options, actually). But we suggest trying this only after trying out the rest on the list. The pav bhaji here is again a great pick.
So, ditch FC Road this time and try out these places. Let us know about your favourite eateries in the comments below.
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Noah's fine appropriate, and a lesson
Bulls center Joakim Noah had to be punished.
Not because of political correctness, which many believe is running amok in society.
Noah was fined because he was wrong on many levels when he angrily lashed back at a fan Sunday night.
It was wrong to respond to a heckler in the first place. It was wrong to use profanity. It was especially wrong to blurt an anti-gay slur.
Just think how hurtful Noah's behavior was to his gay teammates. Oh, he doesn't have any on the Bulls? How do you know?
Phoenix Suns president and CEO Rick Welts surprised many down there by revealing recently that he is gay.
Sports figures suddenly are expressing opinions on various issues of sexuality.
Charles Barkley essentially said he would rather win with a gay teammate than lose with a straight teammate. New York Rangers winger Sean Avery declared on the side of legalizing same-gender marriages.
It is within this context that the Noah incident occurred during Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals in Miami.
Monday the NBA fined Noah $50,000 "for using a derogatory and offensive term from the bench." Why the amount was half what Kobe Bryant was assessed for hurling the same word at a referee wasn't explained.
If anything, Noah's offense was worse because it came after the Bryant incident, when NBA Commissioner David Stern laid down a no-tolerance policy for intolerance. The league has gone as far as to initiate a media campaign against gay slurs.
A precinct that hasn't been heard from so far concerning Noah is Jerry Reinsdorf, a champion of equal opportunity in sports.
Reinsdorf's general manager with the Sox, Kenny Williams, is black. The team's field manager, Ozzie Guillen, is Hispanic.
So it would be in character for Reinsdorf to issue a statement condemning the anti-gay word Noah blurted.
Reinsdorf could even announce that the Bulls will hold Noah out of one game, though not during the current playoffs.
Making Noah miss a game now wouldn't be fair to his teammates. However, how about making him sit out next season's opener, with or without pay, if only as a symbolic gesture?
Noah might not even be opposed to further discipline considering how contrite he has been since Sunday's incident.
"I just want to apologize," Noah reiterated Monday. "People who know me know I'm an open-minded guy. I'm not here to hurt anybody's feelings."
There is no reason to doubt Noah's sincerity. He has indicated no pattern of prejudice against any group during his four years with the Bulls.
"I think what Jo said is just something out of frustration," teammate Luol Deng said of the slur. "He's got to do a better job of controlling his emotions."
Frustration is no excuse for saying what Noah said. Nor is being one of the NBA's most emotional explosive devices. Nor is the disrespect from a fan. Nor is being one of the Bulls' most likable players.
So the league had to let the world know that it won't harbor the behavior Noah demonstrated. Now it wouldn't be bad for the Bulls at the ownership level to make it clear in so many words that it loves Noah but hates what he said.
Then hopefully everybody can move on, all the better for a lesson learned.


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Infectious Disease Case Study
Companion slide set to the video demonstration, "Defending Against Microbes," showing how best to teach the lesson of the same name. Students investigate the human immune system and solve a crossword puzzle featuring vocabulary related to the immune system and microbes.Students use evidence to determine whether a patient has a cold, flu or strep infection, and discover the differences between bacterial and viral infections.
Author(s): Nancy Moreno, PhD, Barbara Tharp, MS, Deanne B. Erdmann, MS, Sonia Rahmati Clayton, PhD, and James P. Denk, MA
Infectious Disease Case Study
Safety Considerations
What Do You Know About Being Sick?
The Case of Allison
Disorders and Symptoms
Let's Talk About It
Let's Talk About It
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Science Education Partnership Award, NIH
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Sobi files to expand Kineret® label to include CAPS
Sobi (STO: SOBI) has filed an application for an EU Marketing Authorization with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for Kineret® (anakinra) for the indication of cryopyrin associated periodic syndromes (CAPS).
The filing is based on positive safety and efficacy outcome data from a long- term treatment study in children and adults with neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease (NOMID), the most severe form of CAPS. The EMA filing follows the filing for Kineret for NOMID with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in July 2012, which has been granted priority review with an expected approval date of 25 December 2012. "The filing of Kineret for CAPS and NOMID in the EU and the US respectively are important milestones on Sobi's journey to increase our support for the pediatric rheumatology field as well as for the rare disease community as a whole," said Dr. Geoffrey McDonough, CEO of Sobi. "In reaching these goals, we aim to provide an important treatment option to benefit patients affected by IL-1-related conditions." Commenting on Sobi's decision to file, Dr. Marco Gattorno of Gaslini Children's Hospital in Genova, Italy and Principal Investigator of the Eurofever Registry for Autoinflammatory Diseases, stated: "CAPS is a life-long, severely debilitating disease where patients suffer substantial pain and progressive reduction in their quality of life. We need to find these patients early and to provide demonstrated safe and effective treatment options to avoid disease progression leading to organ damage. Each patient is different, and the addition of new treatment alternatives would lead to increased flexibility and better opportunities for optimal treatment for all patients." About CAPS Cryopyrin associated periodic syndromes (CAPS) consist of three rare, autosomal dominant autoinflammatory conditions of varying severity and oftentimes overlapping symptoms. At the milder end of the scale (FCAS), it is characterized by life-long, cold-induced inflammatory episodes of fever, rash and malaise. When of intermediate severity (Muckle Wells syndrome), it is typically associated with more intense and enduring flares and morbidity, including progressive hearing loss and kidney failure secondary to amyloidosis (a condition where amyloid proteins are abnormally deposited in organs and/or tissues). In the most severe form (NOMID/CINCA), it is associated with increased mortality and nearly continuous rash, fevers, chronic aseptic meningitis, sensorineural involvement, craniofacial abnormalities and bone lesions. The incidence of CAPS is estimated to be 1:1,000,000 worldwide. CAPS is characterized by uncontrolled overproduction of IL-1 beta. IL-1 induces a number of inflammatory responses such as fever, pain sensitization, bone and cartilage destruction and acute plasma protein response. About Kineret (anakinra) Kineret is a recombinant protein drug approved for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Kineret blocks the biological activity of IL-1 by binding to the interleukin-1 type 1 receptor, expressed in a wide variety of tissues and organs. IL-1 is a key mediator of inflammation and driver of autoinflammatory diseases in both adults and children. For more information on Kineret see the Summary of Product Characteristics. For further information, please contact: Birgitte Volck, Senior Vice President Development, Chief Medical Officer Tel: +46 8 697 20 94 About Swedish Orphan Biovitrum (Sobi) Sobi is an international specialty healthcare company dedicated to rare diseases. Our mission is to develop and deliver innovative therapies and services to improve the lives of patients. The product portfolio is primarily focused on inflammation and genetic diseases, with three late stage biological development projects within hemophilia and neonatology. We also market more than 40 products for companies in the specialty and rare disease space. Sobi is a pioneer in biotechnology with world-class capabilities in protein biochemistry and biologics manufacturing. In 2011, Sobi had total revenues of SEK 1.9 billion (€ 214 M) and about 500 employees. The share (STO: SOBI) is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm. More information is available at www.sobi.com.


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The 44-year-old former US envoy visited the baseball game between Doosan Bears and KIA Tigers held in the city as the big fan of Doosan Bears.
While he was serving as the US ambassador he often visited baseball games, enjoying chicken and beer just like any fan of baseball in South Korea.
Lippert left his post as the US ambassador in January of 2017, landing a high-profile job as the vice president of Boeing Company. Lippert was in charge of international affairs of the US aviation giant.
Lippert attended the baseball game in Gwangju as he visited South Korea one day earlier on his business trip.
He had been serving as the US envoy since he was appointed as the US ambassador to South Korea by then US President Barack Obama in May of 2014.
Lippert was knived by a South Korean man at a breakfast gathering in a hotel in Seoul on March 5, 2016. He was injured on his right cheek and wrist, undergoing a surgery.
However, his love for South Korean and its people never shrunk. He enjoyed walking his dog on the streets, hobnobbing with the locals.
Who Is Mark William Lippert?
He was recently designated by US President Barack Obama as the US ambassador to South Korea, it was announced on April 30, 2014.
Lippert, a Stanford-educated Asia expert, had been with Obama as his close aide and confidant since 2005 when he was appointed by Obama as his foreign policy advisor.
But he started his career in the foreign service area at the age of 27. He worked at Senate's foreign relations sub-committee.
He is the principal advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the Secretary of Defense on international security strategy and policy related to the nations and international organizations of Asia and the Pacific, their governments and defense establishments, and for oversight of security cooperation programs, including foreign military sales, in the region.
Prior to being confirmed in April 2012, he completed a two-year mobilization to active duty in the United States Navy. During that time, which included a deployment to Afghanistan, he served as an intelligence officer for Naval Special Operations Forces.
Mr. Lippert served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff for the National Security Council in 2009. In 2008, he was Deputy Director for Foreign Policy on the Obama-Biden Transition Team and Senior Foreign Policy Adviser on the Obama for America campaign.
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From 1999 to 2000 he was a foreign and defense policy adviser to Senator Tom Daschle and the Senate Democratic Policy Committee.
Mr. Lippert's military awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal for his service in Iraq.
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a B.A. in Political Science and holds an M.A. in International Policy Studies from the same institution. He also studied Mandarin Chinese at Beijing University.
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