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These are done with Kimberly Cameron's kit, Baby Bumblebees
Find her kits in her store at Make It Scrappy!
A poem dedicted to my daughter.
The Life of an Epileptic
We are a unique breed
To be normal is all we plead.
For that wish runs away,
Because our true nature will haunt us till our last day.
For some, hope stays,
But for others, from this path we cannot stray.
For death to us is near,
For we do not know how long we may be here.
Because all it takes is one,
For our lives to be done.
For some the near death experience is real,
And for those the scars will never heal.
For this thing we can barely control,
And on us and others, it takes a toll.
For all we can do is guess and hope for the best,
And pray that God will take care of the rest.
For this is the life of an Epileptic,
For this is my cross to carry, and I accept it.
Written by: Aaron A.
Monday, February 18, 2008
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TELL CITY—Logan Flannagan and Mariah Blake were Tell City's only winners in a 94-33 girls track loss to Southridge Tuesday.
Flannagan won the 300-meter low hurdles in 49.65 seconds.
She placed second in the 110 intermediate hurdles in 17.47, seven-hundredths of a second behind the winner, and was also second in the high jump at 4 feet, 10 inches.
Blake won the 400 dash in 1:07.06 and took second in the 800 in 2:46.2.
Hannah Schaefer placed second in the 100 in 14.03 and in the 200 in 29.53.
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For more than a decade, scientists have been trying to solve the mystery of the "colony collapse disorder" that is killing honeybees by the millions.
In an area that utterly relies on bees to pollinate our nut and fruit trees and the rest of the cornucopia of products we grow in the Northern San Joaquin Valley, this mission is critical.
There are many suspects, but one has become the focus of scientists worldwide. Over the past two months, several studies have pointed to a family of pesticides widely used in agriculture but also found in backyard products.
A four-year analysis by 29 scientists reviewing more than 800 peer-reviewed reports concluded for the first time that insecticides called neonicotinoids, or neonics for short, are "causing significant damage" to beneficial insects and are a "key factor in the decline of bees." Chemically similar to nicotine, the insecticide impairs honeybees' ability to forage for pollen and lessens their ability to rebuild their colonies over winter.
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Just as startling, the insecticide was linked to drops in birds and reptiles, according to the Worldwide Integrated Assessment. Not only does the pesticide kill insects, it changes the tunneling behavior of earthworms, and creates health problems for snails and aquatic life – all part of birds' and reptiles' diets.
While debate still rages, regulators must realize that bees are a critical component of our food supply and they must be protected. Since colony collapse disorder was first seen in 2006, it has been estimated that 90 percent of bees were lost. Since then, their numbers have recovered slightly.
"We are witnessing a threat to the productivity of our natural and farmed environment equivalent to that posed by organophosphates or DDT," Jean-Marc Bonmatin of the National Center for Scientific Research in France, who is one of the lead authors of the assessment, said in a news release. "Far from protecting food production, the use of neonics is threatening the very infrastructure which enables it."
Various reasons have been given, including parasitic mites, malnutrition and loss of natural foraging habitat, or a combination of those and other factors. But the threat posed by neonics was not among the top reasons beekeepers reported for loss of their colonies last year, said Eric Mussen, an apiculturist of the UC Davis. Parasitic mites and starvation were cited as the top two causes.
"Colony collapse disorder is a consequence of overwhelming stresses," Mussen said. "Among other stresses, the bees are living in a pool of pollution. It's a combination of everything beekeepers are putting in their hives and we are putting into the environment."
California farmers depend on bees pollinating 870,000 acres of almond trees in February and March for a $3 billion harvest. After pollinating plum and cherry trees, then citrus blooms in April, honeybees are trucked throughout the United States where they provide an essential service that produces $30 billion in crops each year.
The loss of such an integral factor to worldwide agriculture triggered the scientific studies and a re-evaluation of neonics by regulators.
Last year, the European Union restricted the use of neonics for two years. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is re-evaluating their use. Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it will phase out the use of neonics in federal wildlife refuges in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii.
In California, the state Department of Pesticide Regulation began re-evaluating neonics in 2009 but doesn't expect results until 2016. Seven years is a long wait.
Scientific research may take time to determine the cause, but there is a prime suspect that could be taken out of our backyards, and our fields and orchards.
We should have learned a few lessons by now in tinkering with the environment: Too often, we have introduced a solution to one problem only to create an unintended but more harmful consequence.


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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
By Darryl Mason
3 days ago a Huntsman spider as big as as Homer-sized donut ran in the back door. I saw it run in. I saw it from the end of the yard. I ran for the back door, but it was too late. It was already turning a corner in the hall, and disappearing under furniture.
It was Christmas, who's got time for a war with a spider that big? That would be a mission. You're in and out, too much to do. We tried as hard as possible to ignore each other's presence, particulary after midnight. When it ran across the roof, it did it in a way that seemed to say, "Ahh, sorry, I need to be over there, so...I'll make it quick."
You can get used to that. No big deal. Spider got to do what a spider got to do.
What was unnerving was its habit of suddenly running at me when I went to open the back door. It happened four times. It's not there, suddenly it's there, clearly running at you as fast as it can. Fck that for a joke.
I didn't shriek, not once, as it ran at me ad I leapt out of its way, so I have matured somewhat since my 20s. But after the 3rd time, I thought about going out a window rather than going near the back door again.
The fourth encounter was just then, in the last minutes of Christmas Day 2012. I had to take rubbish out. No, not this time. I wasn't going to pushed around by some spider, even if it could cover half your face if it decided to stretch itself over your nose and eyes while you're sleeping.
It was time for me to stand my ground.
Or get something to smash the living shit out of it with.
No, spiders can spin webs, I can't, spiders might not be smarter than humans, but they're forward thinkers, and that's intelligence. Intelligent enough anyway. We could deal with this like reasonable beings.
Hand on the door, and out it came again. Fck me, was it even bigger than yesterday?
In that single second the Huntstman took to close the distance between where it had been hiding behind the base of a cupboard and where I stood, I was sure I could actually hear its legs clicking on the tiles. It ran across my bare foot, paused, and then stopped at the door. I didn't scream, but I didn't breathe either, so...
The Huntsman didn't run up the screen door, it just stopped there at the bottom, like it was waiting. Waiting for me to open the door....
It was waiting. That's why it ran at me when I went to the back door. It didn't want to be inside, it wanted to get the hell out.
I opened the door, and the spider ran out. Off into the night. I noted what I can only describe as an impatient haughtiness to its departure. Like it had things to do and places to be, and I had screwed up its plans.
Like I had wasted its time.
And as it disappeared into midnight shadows of the garden and...it was the wind, of course, the wind and the Christmas beer, spiders don't cuss out humans, impossible, but I heard something, something like :
"You asshole. You made me miss Christmas."
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On the Presumption of Mainstreaming: Ideals and Reality16 January 2018
Prof Lani Florian
Bell Chair of Education, University of Edinburgh
Concerns about inconsistencies in how the presumption of mainstreaming in Scottish schools is being applied has prompted the Government to review its guidance on this topic. In support of the current public consultation on the duty to provide education in a mainstream school, this public lecture considers the pros and cons of this policy and asks whether it still has a place in Scottish education.
Tuesday 16 January 2018
5.00pm, Godfrey Thomson Hall
Reception immediately following the lecture
Register at: https://mainstream-lecture.eventbrite.co.uk
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Sponsored by Moray House School of Education and Godfrey Thomson Trust


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A boutique plantation villa by the Periyar Wild Life Sanctuary and Cardamom hills of Kattappana. An Ideal nature hide-out for all types of travelers.
A stream, which meanders through the property, appears at one point and mysteriously vanishes at another point. No wonder the place is called Mayapott meaning the mystical point in Tamil. This unique plantation hide-out features two fully furnished bedrooms and one villa suite room, a two bed private spa, dining area on a covered bridge, common fire place, a reading room and 100 acres of lush green cardamom plantation where privacy will be the password for nature lovers to relax, rejuvenate and refresh!
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Dr. Eisele's work at UW Bothell includes teaching curriculum design, child development, contexts of schooling, culminating portfolios, and reflective seminar courses in the Teacher Certification and Master of Education programs. She also supervises student teachers in the field. As consultant to schools and preschools she has provided numerous workshops in Washington and Vermont. Following an interest in schooling in South India, she has worked with teachers and students there on four occasions.
Courses Taught at UW Bothell:
CHID 298 - Orientation for Study Abroad in India
GEN ST 350 - Independent Fieldwork (in India)
CHID 474 - Asia Study Abroad (Auroville, India)
B EDUC 402 - Human Growth and Learning
B EDUC 406 - Introduction to Field Experiences
B EDUC 416 - Instructional Design and Assessment
B EDUC 425: Professional Practice Seminar
B EDUC 435: Supervision of Student Teachers
B EDUC 491: Global Perspectives on Schooling
B EDUC 515: Perspectives on Curriculum Integration
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Selected Publications:
Teachers' centers' influence on classroom practice. Written as chapter for book on Teachers' Centers by Watts, H. & Keeney, L.
The year of the sparrow: An anthology.
Leader's curriculum guide for the year of the sparrow. This was a project for Roots & Shoots, the young people's branch of the Jane Goodall Institute.
A program evaluation of two elementary schools in Edmonds, Washington on the year-round calendar.
Program evaluation for the graduate secondary teacher education program (GSTEP) of Seattle Pacific University. Seattle: Seattle Pacific University.
International partnership story project: A brief overview & history. Winter 1994 Newsletter. Moretown, VT: Parents & Teachers for Social Responsibility.
The challenges and joys of multi-age classrooms. Written for distribution by Seaview Heights Elementary School, Edmonds, WA.
The monkey's dilemma: A Soviet-American children's fairy tale. Moretown, VT: Parents and Teachers for Social Responsibility.
Journaling for the non-journaler. Cornish, NH: Mill Brook Associates in Education.
Good-er minds: A study of the development of cognition of preschool children. Unpublished master's thesis, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.
Some good rejoicements: A study of early language. Unpublished master's thesis, University of Vermont,
Burlington, VT. (Used as a text by Dr. Heidi Watts, Antioch University, New England, Keene, NH.)
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This has been "an exceptionally political year" in the words of one analyst, starting with the problems of the euro zone and concluding with all eyes on Washington as the U.S. teetered atop the "fiscal cliff."
While there aren't as many major elections scheduled for 2013 (2012 saw the U.S., Russia and France go to the polls and China anoint its new leader), there is plenty of potential for international politics to deliver market-moving surprises, according to analysts.
"Whether newly elected or once popular, elected leaders are finding their approval ratings steadily declining," Tina Fordham,senior political analyst at Citi, pointed out, citing plunging ratings for France's President Francois Hollande and Russia's Vladimir Putin.
(Read More: Game-Changing Elections in Europe 2012 )
The threat of popular uprising has not abated, and could be fueled by wider information access in countries like China, Fordham warned.
"Global political elites currently face a combination of challenges almost unprecedented in the modern era during peacetime, and a greater level of public scrutiny, thanks to wider access to information, than at any time in history," she added.
Two of the world's potential trouble spots – Israel and Iran – are holding elections next year, Israel in January and Iran in June.
Whatever way you look at it and whoever wins, the probability of a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities is going up, Alistair Newton, senior political analyst at Nomura, told CNBC, though he added the odds were still pretty low.
"Markets are going to continue to put a political risk premium on political turmoil in the Middle East."
(Read More: How Changing Middle East Will Affect Oil Price)
The Israeli election is likely to result in a victory for Benjamin Netanyahu's hawkish government, according to Newton. He warned that this could lead to more unrest, although Netanyahu is likely to be sensitive to international pressure too.
China is viewed as stable after the leadership transition – but so was the Middle East before the Arab Spring. There is rising popular awareness of corruption in the world's second-biggest economy, as Fordham pointed out, with data from the Pew Global Attitudes Project suggesting half of all Chinese now state that corrupt officials are a "very big problem," an increase from 39 percent in 2008.
(Read More: China's New Leaders)
And of course the euro zone crisis still has plenty of potential to disturb, despite a year of apparent progress by its policymakers and the promise of the European Central Bank President Mario Draghi to do"whatever it takes" to save the single currency.
"The one thing that really concerns me is the social tension. If you look at disposable incomes for the middle class and earnings for lower earners in Europe, they've never been worse off. This crisis has really benefited the one percent at the expense of the rest," Steen Jakobsen, chief economist at Saxo Bank, told CNBC.
"People naively think that being inside the club of Europe is protecting them for some reason."
Elections in Germany, the euro zone's paymaster, in September and in Italy, one of its most worrying states, in March are likely to be key pivots for where Europe goes next year.
Germany's election will be particularly anxiously watched. Greece will be kept in the euro zone at least until the German election because of Merkel, according to Newton, who says there is a 65 percent chance of a grand coalition led by Angela Merkel to emerge from the polls. He downplayed the risks of a surprise, and added that a grand coalition led by the rival SPD is likely to also want to keep Greece in the euro and be even more pro-European than the current regime.
"The euro zone scenario is it just grinds on and nothing really dramatic happens," Newton said. He believes that politics won't dominate the market landscape in the same way as last year.
(Read More:If Germany Sneezes, Does Euro Zone Catch Cold?)
On the other hand, Jakobsen warned of growing support for "more extremes" in Germany "because finally the crisis moves through its front door," and the same in Italy.
"People become socially dissatisfied and then more radical," he said. "We have ignored the unemployment rate. It's socially a disaster."
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LYNCHBURG, Va. (Feb. 5, 2005) - The East Tennessee State women's tennis team won its first match of the 2005 season on the road against Liberty University by a score of 6-1. With the win ETSU improves to 1-2, while Liberty drops to 0-1 in their season opener.
ETSU started off the evening's match by winning all three doubles matches for a 1-0 lead. Senior Gemma Halim (Jakarta, Indonesia) and freshman Olya Batsula (Minsk, Belarus) paired at No. 1 to defeat Jonita Randolph and Martyna Hanusz, 8-4. At No. 2 Elena Volobueva (Barcelona, Spain) and Sandie Knight (Adamstown, Australia) defeated Nichole Duncan and Andreea Cotuna, 8-3. Jewel Aldea (Charleston, S.C.) and Masha Ilina (Kyiv, Ukraine) teamed in the No. 3 slot to defeat Mayra Prado and Sarah Henry, 8-0.
In singles competition, the Bucs continued their success garnering five of the points. Wins for ETSU came from Ilina at No. 1 (6-7, 6-1, 11-9), Knight at No. 2 (6-1, 6-0), Batsula at No. 3 (6-0, 6-2), Halim at No. 4 (6-4, 6-2, and Aldea at No. 5 (6-1, 6-3.
"It feels good to get our first win of the season," stated head coach Steve Brooks. "We played well and hopefully we can keep this play up."
Weekend tennis action continues for the Bucs tomorrow as they travel to Blacksburg, Va. to take on the Virginia Tech Hokies at 10:30 a.m.
East Tennessee State 6, Liberty 1
1. Batsula/Halim (ETSU) d. Randolf/Hanusz (Liberty) 8-4
2. Knight/Volobueva (ETSU) d. Duncan/Cotuna (Liberty) 8-3
3. Ilina/Aldea (ETSU) d. Prado/Henry (Liberty) 8-0
1. Masha Ilina (ETSU) d. Jonita Randolph (Liberty) 6-7, 6-1, 11-9
2. Sandie Knight (ETSU) d. Martyna Hanusz (Liberty) 6-1, 6-0
3. Olya Batsula (ETSU) d. Andreea Cotuna (Liberty) 6-0, 6-2
4. Gemma Halim (ETSU) d. Nichole Duncan (Liberty) 6-4, 6-2
5. Jewel Aldea (ETSU) d. Sarah Henry (Liberty) 6-1, 6-3
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Filomena Booth Artist artworks for sale
Artist: Filomena Booth
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When most people think of abstract art, they tend to think of art that is difficult to understand without an esoteric explanation by a highbrow, big city art critic or created by an angst driven starving artist in a dusty garret. That is not the kind of abstract art I like to create. My original paintings are usually inspired by nature or music and are intended to lift the spirit. My journey as an artist began a long time ago. After several years spent teaching art to high school students and several more years raising our 3 sons, I was finally able to devote myself to creating art. What initially started as a project to decorate my own home, quickly became a full-time business of supplying custom art to interior designers. In time, I "discovered" the internet and began showing my work to the world. My original paintings are found in collections throughout the US and Europe. Today, I market my paintings almost exclusively online. I also teach abstract painting workshops throughout the state of Florida. Be assured that you are purchasing an original work of art, created with only the finest professional artist materials. Filomena Close


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novieimpact921 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 132 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
Your Duel
Basically My site will be where people can create a Duel.
A Duel is when they post something that other users can vote.
For example, Iphone V Blackberry.
Hot Guy A VS Hot Guy B
Toy Story 3 V Gromeo And Juliet
Ronaldo V Messi
People will vote to decide a winning duel etc.
Tagline must be at the bottom and say Your Vote, Your Winner...
Make logo word Your in Black and Duel in Red :)
Please dont make the faces too close...
The target market should be aged between 18-40.
The Logo must be web 2. style, must be Unique. No crappy clip art images. No crappy colors or fonts.
I am looking for style, creativity and good colour.
The logo must also be in transparent format so it can fit any background.
Ideally, I would like the logo to be designed on a white background since my upcoming site will be a white background.
I want the logo to place emphasis of a DUEL.
Perhaps you might want to use two faces, looking at each other, these faces can be black shadow silhouette figures.
Demographics - A young, trendy Facebook audience. This audience is males and females who would love to create Duels and get people to vote for their duel etc.
The tagline must say something like "and the winner is..."
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robertphtx needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 51 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
We are a small residential design firm, in business since 2004. Our office is in the Austin, Texas area. We have been reworking our website and have decided to also have our logo reworked.
You can view our old dilapidated logo at: http://www.pd-d.com
If you review our website in its entirety please forgive some of the spelling and grammar errors. We know we have some but just have not had the time to clean up or finish it yet.
We are trying to present more of a professional image as we are making the move up to a wealthier clientele type market. Our market not only includes the state of Texas but most other states in the US as well. Our clientele is as follows:
• Individuals making six figure incomes, usually professionals, and educated.
• Home designs are more along the lines of a luxurious type, usually high end homes of 3,500 to 7,000 sq. ft. and larger for these types of clients
Our logo will be used on our website, business cards, stationery, drawings border, and sales literature. Sized similarly to what's on our website (maybe slightly smaller) and/or the full side of a large business card. We can make size changes if needed so not so important.
We would like a logo that is more representative of a higher class (professional) firm but still remain simple.
We would love to have the new logo in our maroon color but open to other colors and/or possibilities. For those who choose to keep our favorite Maroon Color in their designs; Color info: Hexadecimal color value= #600025; (HSB)= H:337 S:100% B:38%; (RGB)= R:96 G:0 B:37
The following is a list of preferences in no particular order:
• Should be appropriate to our industry and market (as noted in our target audience)
•Preferably no house silhouettes or anything that might resemble a real estate agencies logo (nothing cartoonish)
• Possibly elegant or fancy
• Preferably no symbols (logos) just letters, let me clarify - we would prefer to just have the letters PD&D (designed for the image we are trying to achieve) BUT may be open to the right symbol with the letters
• Please no stock images or clip art in the logo
We will require file formats as follows:
must have – jpg
we do have adobe photoshop elements so can use most associated file types.
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BEAUTY OP-ED | The long and winding road... to 10,000 steps a day, part II
SO HOW hard can it be to get those 10,000 steps if people in other countries do it simply going about their day? (Ahem, well done, Australia (9,695 avg steps/day and Switzerland with 9,650/day).
I slipped a pedometer into my pocket and, for a month, have clocked every single step I've taken during which time I had the chance to be in Europe and the US. (For a bit of background on my personality (since I thought this test would be easy peasy), I am an active person. Some people choose the path of least resistance. I generally chose the one that makes me sweat.)
It was a slap in the face then when my month-long trial to reach 10,000 steps a day started with a fizzle rather than, say, long walks. Starting in Chicago, I came in at paltry amounts totalling between 2,000 and 6,000 for the first few days. I went at it with resolve the following days and started to hit 9,000... just. I'm starting to think the shock with which the researchers greeted the findings that Americans are sedentary was sarcastic.
If I tried really hard – and did a few last sad laps around my floor in the building when I came home at night -- I'd hit 10,000. But it was always followed with the severe dread of having to go for a walk down yet another road that was straight as an arrow for as far as the eye could see the following day. Those are the only kind of streets in Chicago.
Until October 12th, I hadn't consistently hit 10,000 for an entire week. Over the following weekend in New Haven, CT for a wedding my husband and I stayed on the edge of campus instead of in the middle with everyone else. And boy was I happy we did. Every day we clocked 13,000 plus steps. Brilliant. At least now I know that those extra pounds in college could have been avoided had I walked a bit more (and stayed away from the kegs).
And from there it was a cake walk, albeit a long one.
Particularly when I got to London and realized just why so many Europeans seem fitter. They get – in the cities at least – incredible amounts of invisible exercise (they also eat less. Much less, although you'll never catch a European eating something as pointless as fat-free cheese. They'll eat the full-fat variety but simply don't eat the entire block of it in one go). The kind you don't know you're doing but adds up to one serious calorie burn at the end of the day.
Running late!? Sprint up an escalator of, seemingly, hundreds of steps. In Chicago I don't even get the option to walk up steps or escalators (there is no standing on the right. people block the entire thing) except the 20 at the gym to reach the locker room.
Next bit of invisible exercise?
I decide to walk to my appointments instead of cabbing it because I'll get there faster on foot than sitting in traffic. It all adds up, every little segment of exercise I can snatch throughout a packed day.
In London, there were days when, simply going around the public transit system and walking from meeting to meeting, I clocked up 18,000 steps. Other days it was approximately 13,000. Sometimes 15,000. But never did I dip below 10,000.
Not even close.
On the contrary, no matter what I did, I was well above it, and that's without setting foot in a gym, a place I am required to visit daily in Chicago if I want to stay healthy and keep my saddle bags in check. In London and Cambridge both, I was constantly walking, going up and down stairs. It was easy to be on the move. A few minutes of walking or moving every couple of hours tallied an impressive amount of exercise (and weight-bearing at that) completed unwittingly.
I was doing double what I have to actively and labouriously attempt to complete in a US city. When I was living in London full time I was ten pounds lighter than my lightest weight in Chicago, even with the gym sessions.
With horror, I realize that my first day back in Chicago I barely scraped the underbelly of 6,000 steps. In fact, my first three days back I collectively walked the same amount of steps I walked on my last day in London. PA-THE-TIC.
But, you know what? That's the last time. At least I hope it is.
It might be near impossible to clock 18,000 steps (or roughly 6 miles) a day in Chicago but I'll damn well get as close to 10,000 as I can and pair it with 30 minutes to an hour in the gym on a regular basis.
When in Rome and all that, right? Although, you'll never find me scootering up to the all-you-can-eat buffet for seconds and thirds because I'm too big to walk. I have to draw the line somewhere when adopting to local customs.
How much do you walk a day? Think you could do the recommended 10,000? Any tips on getting there for those who don't?
For anyone out there looking to walk more, I highly suggest a pedometer. It's common sense that seeing the figure will make you pay more attention to it and thus act. I know it has for me.
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Application Of The Month: KTouch
As part of the May 2002 issue of "Application of the month" series on KDE.de, Klaus Stärk has interviewed Håvard Frøiland, author of KTouch. KTouch is part of the KDE Edutainment Project and provides a quick and fun way to learn the useful and impressive skill of touch typing. See the main homepage for further details and screenshots -- the interview follows.
First of all: Congratulations for publishing the first official release of the KDE Edutainment family.
First of all I would like to say thank you on the behalf of the hard working KDE Edutainment team. I have not
We are currently preparing new programs for the KDE3.1 release: a maths plotter program, a Japanese language
How did you start the KTouch project and who else is involved in it?
KTouch was started as a way of learning C++ and QT. I had previously started a couple of other projects based
I have had small contributions to KTouch from various people with translations, training files, keyboard
Do you know of any plans for CD-ROM-based CBT-programs (Computer Based Training) for the KDE Edutainment
Not yet I think. At least I have not heard of anything like that. The KDE-Edutainment project started just
Do you have any more features planned for KTouch?
Yes, I want to finish the statistics page. As you can see there are a couple of missing pages in it. I have
I also want to remove the splash screen and write a touch typing tutorial to go in the help page. And while I
What do you think about Open Source and what is the reason for you personally to publish KTouch under the
I am mainly doing this for fun, and I am glad that so many people can use this application since it is GPL.
I like the idea that this application is meant for educational purposes, as I feel this group often has
Do you know other KDE developers? Do you know them just virtually or in person as well?
I only know a few people very briefly, just some of the girls and boys in the kde edu project. And of course
I don't know any of these people in person though, only through e-mails or IRC.
How much time do you usually spend per week working on the KDE project?
It really depends, it goes up and down. In the past I have got most of it done when I have had heaps to do at
What's the most common Desktop Environment used on your workplace? (If not KDE, why not? :-)
Well, I haven't started there yet. But I am afraid that most of the stuff is running on Windows at the moment.
Here in Germany, we had an initiative called "BundesTux"
I am not sure about this, but I know that we have a big project called "Skolelinux", and
What's your opinion about the future of "Linux on the desktop"?
I can't see how we can avoid it. A Linux solution running KDE is in my opinion much better than a Windows
I also think it would have helped if we had a distribution that only focused on a graphical environment for
What's the configuration of your computer, and which Linux distribution do you use for your daily work ?
At the moment I am running Mandrake 8.2 and KDE 3.0 on a 600 Athlon processor, with 128 mb memory. It runs
What do you do in your spare time when you're not coding for the KDE-project?
My biggest interest is climbing and spending time with friends. I am also keen on bush walking and like
Thanks a lot for joining the "app-of-month" :-)
Thanks for choosing KTouch, this was fun. ;-)
Håvard Frøiland: firstname.lastname@example.com
KTouch: http://edu.kde.org/ktouch
Klaus Stärk: firstname.lastname@example.com
Application of the month: http://www.kde.de/appmonth
Formatting suggestion
This interview would be a lot more readable if the questions were bolded or indented or somehow differentiated from the answer.
By Carbon at Mon, 2002/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: Formatting suggestion
Also, it would be nice if I could access the KTouch homepage :)
(Konqueror gives a sigfault when clicking on the link)
By rve at Mon, 2002/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: Formatting suggestion
It works perfectly fine here... It's a quite simple page.
By Navindra Umanee at Mon, 2002/04/29 - 5:00am
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AAHHH, here it crashes too:(
By gogo at Mon, 2002/04/29 - 5:00am
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I also get a sigfault when clicking on the same link ;-(
By Andreas Pietzowski at Mon, 2002/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: Formatting suggestion
Have you compiled konqueror with obj-prelinking? I have the same issue here. :(
By altrent at Mon, 2002/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: Formatting suggestion
hmm, I'm having the exact same problem
By cxvx at Mon, 2002/04/29 - 5:00am
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I'm using the TexStar rpms (KDE 3.0 stable with optimizations, without obj-prelink) for Mandrake 8.2 ( see http://www.pclinuxonline.com )
There are a few other sites that crash on me, but not many..
By rve at Mon, 2002/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: Formatting suggestion
Huh? What? Aren't the questions already bolded? I didn't do the markup, I just used what was provided, but it seems fine to me.
What browser are you using?
By Navindra Umanee at Mon, 2002/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: Formatting suggestion
The questions are bolded, as I provided them. Must be a problem with your browser. I tested it with Konqui 3.0, Netscape 4.78, Netscape 6, Opera 5.0 and Mozilla 0.94 - works fine in all these browsers.
By Klaus Staerk at Mon, 2002/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: Formatting suggestion
Doesn't look bold in my Konqueror 3.0 either..
Maybe there's a small bug in Konqueror which prevents bold tags to be used within paragraph tags?
By rve at Mon, 2002/04/29 - 5:00am
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Huh. Can someone suggest a fix? The HTML file (w/out header/footer) for the interview is attached.
By Navindra Umanee at Mon, 2002/04/29 - 5:00am
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It's definitly a bug in Konqueror..
I just browsed the KDE bug list and there have been more problems with the bold and other tags, 1 bug is still open (dated last year)
I'll take a look at the KHTML source myself in a few days.
As for a solution: maybe it can be solved using inline style tags? (CSS)
By rve at Mon, 2002/04/29 - 5:00am
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The bold works okay in Konqueror 3.0.1 (KDE 3.0.1) from CVS as of last week.
By George at Tue, 2002/04/30 - 5:00am
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That's great news!
By rve at Tue, 2002/04/30 - 5:00am
Wow, hey, this is a great app!
By blashyrkh at Mon, 2002/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: Wow
I agree! KTouch is ruly.
Congratulations on having the first on-topic post.
By ace at Mon, 2002/04/29 - 5:00am
Great app ...
... so simple and elegant, and so addictive!
I couldn't stop typing either, such a lot of fun! And of course I had to
After having tried KTouch for 10 minutes I really felt the progress.
It's a great app, thank you!
By AC at Mon, 2002/04/29 - 5:00am
Re: Great app ...
I absolutely can *not* recommend KTouch.
What does a /real/ typing tutor do ?
First: It teaches you the ten-finger system
KTouch does not do any of these. I installed two revisions of KTouch
Much better is GNUTypist. It is a console based application (yeah learn typing fast over an internetted ssh connection ;-D), that can read the datafiles of many different familiar applications. Alos the ones of KTouch, btw, but even here you will not find any instructions on where to put your fingers. KTouch simply does not have them. The GNUTypist lessons, however, do show this and are overall more professional.
By jon at Wed, 2002/05/01 - 5:00am
Re: Great app ...
Considering that the QWERTY layout keyboard is *designed* to slow down your typing (since mechanical typewriters couldn't keep up), who says the "10 finger" location is best anyway?
I type with 6 fingers. A, S, D, and L, :/;, "/' on my keyboard. Spacebars is thumb, and Enter key is right pinky or right ring-finger depending. Left pinky for shift, control, etc.
I also type 120 wpm with 85% accuracy, and 80 wpm with 95% accuracy.
I failed typing class in high school.
Why? Because I had already been typing for 8+ years before I took the class and they wanted me to "unlearn" what was working well for me.
Now, take the Dvorak keyboard for instance. A much more intuitive keyboard layout, but if you try to put your 10 fingers where the "old school" wants you to have them and you'll end up breaking a knuckle.
I say pooh!
As long as you know where the keys are, who gives a sh*t how you type, just as long as you can.
By anon at Wed, 2002/05/01 - 5:00am
Re: Great app ...
The whole QWERTY thing is a myth. There's a few pages out there that I'm too lazy to find right now that explain it all in excrutiating detail.
I think there was _some_ merit to the idea that the design was meant to keep a typewriter's machinery from jamming up, but in many tests proved no slower than any other setup. It ended up succeeding because of company/marketing reasons.
By Anonymous Typist at Wed, 2002/05/01 - 5:00am
Re: Great app ...
My grandfather worked for Underwood typewriters.
I can assure you, the QWERTY layout is *not* a myth, and was specifically engineered that way to slow down typists and prevent the arms and hammers from jamming up.
I have two Underwood typewriters in my attic. Both can only handle typing around 50-60wpm before they jam up.
By anon at Thu, 2002/05/02 - 5:00am
Re: Great app ...
well, most ppl hate the 10 finger system.
By 10 finger at Thu, 2002/05/02 - 5:00am
Re: Wow
This app slowed me down on my typing, I can already type at 150 wpm, the only thing that I need to work on is probably, um....10 key? I hate numbers, but that's never been a problem for me, because...well...I just don't care for numbers and I already know where all the numbers are on the key board, it comes with years of typing experience, that you learn where all the keys are on the keyboard, as a matter of a fact it only took me a minute to type all of this
which would be at about 111 wpm, pretty fast eh? that's with out mistakes.
By Dennis Blackburn at Tue, 2004/12/21 - 6:00am
Re: Wow
Plenty of mistakes:
"um...10 key?" What is that supposed to mean? Maybe you mean "10 *keys*", with an 's'?
"key board" You have an extra space there.
"with out" Another extra space.
Other mistakes include missing punctuation and/or inappropriate punctuation.
Maybe the app is slowing you down for a reason?
(Note: I'm not claiming my own post is error-free.)
By ac at Tue, 2004/12/21 - 6:00am
edu vs. science
I'm just wondering if there is a similar kde-science initiative? I still think that linux/unix system have a great market share among scientists. I'm not talking educational programs that teach you calculus or the periodic table, but rather tools that are geared especially towards a scientific audience. KLyx was a truly great program in the right spirit, but it hasn't been around since KDE 1 :(
What I would want is:
* A decent illustration app. Hopefully Kontour will do.
* A professional quality plot component. This is a real problem today - when saving plots from for instance Matlab the font sizes etc are all fixed. If the image is resized in the word processor the font sizes are as well resulting in a document/book with slightly varying plot appearance. It would be awesome to have a plot component where you can change the label sizes, line widths, oline styles etc globally using normal formats/styles/whatever! (killer warning)
* A numerical maths program like Matlab or Octave. Just put Octave in a KDE-window and add support for the above mentioned plot objects and ... wow!
* A flow chart program (Kivio)
* Perfect PDF generation from all of the above.
* Anything else you can think of (but the above mentioned programs would be a more than decent start!)
Am I just dreaming?
By Johan at Thu, 2002/05/02 - 5:00am
Re: edu vs. science
> KLyx was a truly great program in the right spirit, but it hasn't
Yes, you are. Must be some sort of nightmare. There was a KDE2 port of
By Melchior FRANZ at Fri, 2002/05/03 - 5:00am
Re: edu vs. science
KLyX was a port of LyX to KDE. Development always lagged behind LyX, though, and since LyX will soon be GUI-independent (i.e. available in Qt and Gtk flavours as well as the old ugly xform widgets) it should provide what you're looking for. See http://www.lyx.org
By Robin at Thu, 2002/05/23 - 5:00am
i've enjoyed this
I Like this program! I've played all the way to level 26. Edutainment is a good name; the program is fun and I believe gives good practice. To better teach typing to beginners, rather than just provide practrice, perhaps some incorporation of proper hand position training would be nice.
By Juln at Thu, 2002/05/02 - 5:00am
KDE3 version?
Hey, I'm looking to move my Dad to Linux/KDE. All he uses Windows for is web browsing, email, and to practice typing! I don't want to give him KDE2, tho. Is there a KDE3 version anywhere, (I didn't see one)?
Those keyboard buttons can use some themeing, too ;-) If there's a KDE3 version mind if I add it? Want to impress the old man with KDE :)
By Mosfet at Thu, 2002/05/02 - 5:00am
Re: KDE3 version?
You need to look for a kdeedu package for your distro (or compile it :) http://download.kde.org/stable/3.0/
By ac at Fri, 2002/05/03 - 5:00am
Re: KDE3 version?
I see. The webpage should be updated, too, tho ;-) I just looked there and didn't see it.
By Mosfet at Fri, 2002/05/03 - 5:00am
Not enough layouts
There doesn't seem to be support for Dvorak. "??????" would be nice too, but I don't really need support for Russian. Not yet at least.
By Vadim at Fri, 2002/05/03 - 5:00am
Great name...
...so what are you going to call the KDE app which changes the access time of a file? :-)
By Jon Evans at Wed, 2002/05/08 - 5:00am


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"The last few years have caused global third-party logistics providers to reconsider the structure of their businesses within a shifting industry. Many of the CEOs [participating in the survey] reported adopting new strategies that are more conservative in nature with respect to both market expansion and new service offerings." –Joe Gallick, senior vice president of sales, Penske Logistics, commenting on the 17th Annual Survey of Third-Party Logistics Providers
Make no mistake: while things are slowly getting better, especially in the freight world, things are still mighty tough out there.
"The recession, by any measure, is worse than anything we've experienced in the last three or four decades," noted Noel Perry, senior consultant with FTR Associates and principal of research firm Transport Fundamentals, at McLeod Software's recent user conference (an event covered by my editorial comrade Brian Straight with his usual aplomb.)
"What we can say with some certainty is that we are in an era where the economy recovers slowly," Perry added – and that applies to the freight market as well.
William Strauss, senior economist and economic advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, noted at FTR's 2010 Transportation Conference a few weeks back that the current economic downturn resulted in a 4% drop in the gross domestic product (GDP) U.S. economy. That's a far deeper drop than what occurred in the recessions of the 1970s and 1980s (3%) but not as bad as the Great Depression (a 26% drop), he explained.
Strauss added that we've not seen a "normal" bounce-back yet from the so-called "Great Recession" of 2008/2009. In the 1980s, for instance, the "bounce back" resulted in 6% economic growth. Instead, we're seeing smaller growth numbers, he noted – starting in the first quarter at around 3% and now down to 1.6%; trending out to 2.4% GDP in 2010 and 2.9% GDP in 2011.
It's numbers like those that are making all the firms servicing the freight world – truckers, railroads, and third party logistics firms (3PLs) alike – very cautious in their future planning. Yet there are good signs out there, too – and that's something the freight industry needs to take note of as well.
The real good news for the trucking industry, FTR's Perry said, is that growth in trucking is outpacing GDP by some 4% to 2.5%, respectively, for the year.
Another positive sign is the trade deficit, which has started falling again – something Perry calls "the best news I've heard in the last four or five months." Historically, when the trade deficit falls, that corresponds to a growth in domestic freight, he noted. So when the deficit grows – as it has for much of the past decade – it translates to a drop in domestic freight of about 1% per year, Perry pointed out.
A possible reason for this "renewal" within the U.S. domestic freight market can be gleaned from the 17th Annual Survey of Third-Party Logistics Providers, a project sponsored by Penske Logistics and presented at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals annual global conference this past week by its author Dr. Robert Lieb, Professor of Supply Chain Management at Northeastern University.
The survey's findings are winkled out from responses by 31 CEOs heading up 3PLs across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific (APAC) – companies responsible for generating approximately $37 billion in revenue last year.
One of the report's key findings is that 87% of those 3PL CEOs noted that some of their manufacturing customers have begun to move toward "near-shoring" options in the past year – a trend that is expected to trickle down to 3PLs in the years to come.
The 3PL CEOs in all three regions are also considerably more bullish about future revenue growth prospects of not only their companies but also for the 3PL industry as a whole than they were last year, Lieb found:
• One-year company revenue growth projections were 10.4% for North America (6.9% in 2009), 7.2% for Europe (-3.3% in 2009), and 22.5% of APAC (12.9% in 2009). The average three-year company growth projections were 10.6% for North America (11.8% in 2009), 8.3% for Europe (8.7% in 2009), and 19.5% for APAC (16.7% in 2009).
• One-year regional 3PL industry revenue growth projections averaged 7.3% for North America (3.5% in 2009), 4.8% for Europe (-1.4% in 2009), and 15.4% for APAC (10.7% in 2009). The average three-year regional 3PL industry growth projections were 7.8% for North America (7.9% in 2009), 5.4% for Europe (4.9% in 2009), and 12.9% for APAC (11.7% in 2009).
It's also worthy to note that despite a more positive outlook on the market, 3PL executives – much like their counterparts in trucking – are taking a far more conservative approach in terms of expansion plans.
"The CEOs involved in this year's surveys are more optimistic about growth prospects than they were last year, but appear to be more cautious about how growth will be achieved," said Lieb.
"They are likely to spend more time 'qualifying' new accounts, while devoting less attention to accounts in industries that are more cyclical in nature," he added.
Here's how that "conservatism" is playing out, Lieb (at left) noted:
• The global economy continued to pose a challenge in 2009, with 48% of companies surveyed failing to meet revenue growth projections, while 80% of them still managed to be profitable.
• Some 25 of the 31 CEOs surveyed reported their companies were profitable during 2010, with three reporting they broke even, and three reporting their companies were unprofitable
• Pressure on 3PLs to share risk with their clients increased in 2009, with 28 of the 31 CEOs reporting that their companies now have performance-based contracts with many of their clients. Only five of the companies were involved in significant merger or acquisition activity in the year.
• Eighteen of the CEOs reported that their companies had put new risk management programs in place during the past year, with increased pressure to share risks with customers now a major factor in the industry.
• Among the other important problems mentioned were price compression and procurement's growing role in the North American survey, the slow economic recovery and decreasing margins in Europe, and managing increased costs and dealing with "unrealistic competition" were highlighted by the APAC CEOs.
The survey also determined that while labor numbers imply an upturn for 3PLs, with 87% of the companies beginning to rebuild their workforces in 2009, many of the CEOs said they will focus more on developing part-time rather than full-time positions, to keep their operations more flexible in the face of future swings in the freight market.
So while the freight picture sure isn't rosy by any stretch of the imagination, there are some bright spots out there – especially longer-term trends that may see more manufacturing, and thus jobs and freight, moving back to our shores. Let's hope that trend, at least, continues to gain strength.


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Mayor Rob Ford came out of his office Thursday afternoon and said he saw he no reason to resign, hours after Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair said investigators have recovered a digital video file that depicts Ford and is "consistent with what had been previously described in various media reports."
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Ford said he could not comment on Blair's announcement because the matter is before the courts. However, Ford has not been charged with any crime.
"I think everybody has seen the allegations against me today. I wish I could come out and defend myself, unfortunately I can't, 'cause it's before the court and that's all I can say right now," Ford said. "I have no reason to resign, I'm going to go back and return my phone calls, gonna be out doing what the people elected me to do and that's save taxpayers money and run a great government."
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• Police chief Bill Blair says police have recovered video
• Says video is consistent with earlier media reports about Ford
• Ford friend and alleged drug dealer Alexander Lisi arrested for extortion
• Mayor refuses to comment on court documents
• Ford in close contact with Lisi, calls many times a day, court document revealed
• City Hall staff said Lisi appeared to be mayor's only close friend
• Ford staffer thought he was using illegal narcotics, Lisi was providing him
• Police were using a pole camera to monitor Lisi's home
• Police installed a 'tracking device' on Lisi's Range Rover on August 8
Chief Blair also announced that police had on Thursday taken into custody the mayor's friend, Alexander Lisi, and charged him with extortion. Police said "the accused made extortive efforts to retrieve a recording."
The police chief added: "As a citizen of Toronto I'm disappointed. It's an issue of significant public concern."
Chief Blair said the video was recovered as part of the Project Traveller raids on alleged gang activity in the city's northwest end this summer.
"I think it's fair to say the mayor does appear in that video but I'm not going to get into the detail of what activities is depicted in that video," Chief Blair said in a news conference at a police headquarters.
He said it is "consistent with what had been previously described in various media reports."
The Toronto Star and Gawker.com reported earlier this year that they saw video of the mayor smoking crack cocaine and making a homophobic slur about Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.
"The video forms part of the evidence in support of the charge" against Lisi, Chief Blair said, but nothing in the video file warrants a charge against the mayor.
Police did not contact Mayor Ford after Tuesday's discovery of the video. Investigators have yet to interview the mayor in relation about the video, Chief Blair said. A warrant to search the mayor's house never been issued, he added.
"We've done our job here," says Chief Blair. He said a second digital file that was "relevant" had also been recovered.
"I have been advised that we are now in possession of a recovered digital video file relevant to the investigations that have been conducted. That file contains video images which appear to be those images which were previously reported in the press, with respect to events that took place, we believe at a house on Windsor Road in Etobicoke."
The home is the same as where the mayor was pictured with murder victim Anthony Smith.
A number of councillors called for Ford to resign given the allegations.
"At this point, the mayor needs to either step aside or step down," said Councillor Jaye Robinson, who was kicked off his executive earlier this year after making similar calls.
"Now we know what I was saying 6 months ago — he has personal issues — has been confirmed. But on top of that, he has just lost all his credibility."
Court documents revealed
Blair made the extraordinary announcement shortly after court documents were released, revealing Ford's close relationship with Lisi, an alleged drug dealer.
Toronto police assigned one of its most senior detectives to specifically investigate allegations that Ford is captured on a cell phone smoking crack cocaine, according to the documents.
Details of the probe are contained in a lengthy "information to obtain" (ITO) used by police to obtain a search warrant in the case of Alexander Lisi, a friend of the mayor's who is accused of drug trafficking. A judge ordered portions of the ITO released to media.
"On May 18th, 2013 Detective Sergeant [Gary] Giroux was assigned to investigate the matter brought forth by the Toronto Star and gawker.com and their allegations against Mayor Rob Ford. Specifically to investigate the existence of a cellular phone containing a video of Ford smoking crack cocaine," the sworn affidavit states.
The massive document includes pictures of Ford interacting with Lisi. The pair would often meet in parking lots and once met in "the woods." Lisi was under intense police surveillance, the document says, and says Lisi used a number of counter-surveillance techniques to avoid being followed.
On June 18, the affidavit shows, police installed a pole camera "to monitor Lisi's address," noting, "the camera can be viewed remotely online on a secure site by authorized officers."
Payman Aboodowleh, a volunteer football coach at Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School, where Ford coached the team, told police that Lisi met Ford through him. He told police he was "mad at Lisi because he was fuelling the mayor's drug abuse," the document says.
Police were surveilling Lisi from the ground and the air
On June 26, police used officers on the ground and in the air to watch Lisi. He left his house in his Range Rover, drove to Benway Drive and switched cars, leaving in a red convertible Mustang, the document says.
He visited an auto detailing shop, and then went home and moved a heavy backpack from the trunk to his house. He joined someone in a Volvo and went to Richview Cleaners. He left cupping something in his right hand.
Police watched Lisi take a small cooler bag from his garage and put it in the trunk of the Mustang and a white plastic bag in the passenger side. He drove to a parking lot near Centennial Park in Etobicoke and walked to a soccer pitch where he met with Mr. Ford, the document says.
After speaking with Ford, Lisi returned to his car, took the white bag with something in it, added cans of juice to the bag, walked to Mr. Ford's Cadillac Escalade, opened the door and placed the bag on the centre console.
Lisi then rejoined Ford, who was now walking with a toddler. The toddler was placed in the back seat of Mr. Ford's SUV. After the two spoke, Ford drove away.
The transaction, in the context of a drug investigation, seemed to concern police, who secretly photographed it and documented it.
The affidavit describes an elaborate game of cat and mouse in mid-July between Lisi and officers who police had hired to, in the affidavit's term, "surviel" (sic) him. The police observe Lisi, in his driveway, switching cars, fetching cars, adding new licence plates to cars. At one point, they note that, "Lisi was pulled to the curb where it appeared as thought he was watching the traffic as it drove by him; this location is just north of Mayor Ford's residence…. Lisi was misplaced in the area of Edenbridge Drive and Knoll drive."
The document also alleges that Ford visited an Esso gas station and when Ford was inside, Lisi placed an envelope inside the mayor's vehicle.
On Aug. 14, police say Lisi was seen coming and going from his home on numerous occasions. Around 7 p.m., he drove to Centennial Park, where he met up with Mayor Ford, who was watching his child's soccer game.
"The two met for almost an hour, at times the conversations appeared to be somewhat heated (arms flailing, pointing fingers etc.)," the ITO states. "Lisi at one point gave Mayor Ford his cellular phone to look at; the Mayor did so and handed it back to Lisi after a few seconds."
On Aug. 18, Lisi was observed leaving his home, eventually making his way to the Richview Cleaners and later meeting with Mayor Ford outside the Scarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy. Police believe Mayor Ford, Lisi or another man who came to the academy with Lisi figured out they were under surveillance, and all three men quickly left the area.
"Mayor Ford and Lisi then circled the neighbourhood for a short time," the ITO states.
Two days later, on Aug. 20, Lisi parked by the mayor's home on Edenbridge Drive in Etobicoke, according to police surveillance notes. Investigators say Lisi began using his cellphone, then walked through the wooded area behind Mayor Ford's house; about an hour later he walked down the mayor's driveway.
On Aug. 21, Lisi had another brief phone call with the Deco Adhesives number, and later that day, Mayor Ford, Lisi and another man were observed at the Steak Queen Restaurant on Rexdale Boulevard.
"All three appeared to be under the influence of alcohol and or drug but not to the state of impairment," the ITO states.
"Mayor Ford appeared disheveled with a large sweat stain circling his stomach, sweating profusely from his forehead, his eyes were squinting as he walked, his suit jacket was wrinkled and he wore it without a tie. He was observed leaving with what appeared to be 3 Styrofoam food containers in bags."
After their meal, the trio stopped by the Esso gas station near Mayor Ford's home to pick up coca-cola and cigarettes; they also allegedly attempted to pick up a pack of "white Zig Zags," rolling papers used for marijuana, but the store did not have any.
The ITO also confirms that a surveillance aircraft was utilized as part of the Project Brazen 2 investigation, but police scaled back that part of the probe when residents began to complain about the plane overhead.
On Aug. 22, police received a call from Ford staffer Sheila Paxton indicating that the mayor had noticed a vehicle following him for a week and a half, and he was "very concerned." The mayor's chief of staff, Earl Provost, also made inquiries with police about the vehicle following Mayor Ford, but police declined to provide the vehicle's registration information, saying it was confidential.
"Provost further advised that Mayor Ford is getting angry at Provost because he can't give him what he wants," the ITO states.
A police note on the ITO reads as follows: "I believe that the above attempts by Provost to obtain registration details for Mayor Ford clearly indicate that Mayor Ford is utilizing his position and the powers of the Office of the Mayor, to obtain information not available to regular citizens."
Constant phone calls between Ford and Lisi
In July, police obtained a "production order" which allowed it to view a list of the telephone calls that Lisi made on his Rogers cell phone with a number of people, including Mayor Ford, Richview Cleaners, Fabio Basso, Liban Sayad and three people in the mayor's office: Brooks Barnett, Thomas Beyer and Isaac Ransom.
The court file shows that Mayor Rob Ford repeatedly called Lisi in March, 2013. One line notes: "March 28, 2013: (Anthony Smith is killed). Lisi and Mayor Ford speak 7 times."
In March, 2013, Mayor Ford called Lisi's cell phone 44 times. On March 30, Ford called Lisi twice; the same day, Lisi phoned Fabio Basso, a man whose house appeared in a photo of the mayor connected to an alleged crack video, five times.
Police found four numbers associated with Mayor Ford in Lisi's phone records, including the mayor's OnStar, cellphone, home line and a fourth number believed to be a second home landline.
Between June 25 and July 19, Mayor Ford called Lisi 27 times, records indicate; 19 of those calls were from the OnStar number in the mayor's Escalade.
During the same time period, Lisi called the mayor 18 times, but only called his cellphone once — a "dramatic change" from previous phone records, police say.
On July 11, police allege, Lisi placed a package in the mayor's Escalade at an Esso gas station without speaking to him, after the pair exchanged brief phone calls earlier in the afternoon.
"Lisi can be seen walking around near the Mayor's Escalade still holding onto the manila envelope," the ITO states. "Lisi appears to be looking around, possibly scoping out the area. Shortly after this image he walks along the passenger side of the Mayor's Escalade and walks out of frame… Mayor Ford exits the Esso Station, gets back into his Escalade and exits the parking lot."
Under a heading called "Project Traveller and the Rob Ford connection", the police affidavit details surveillance that occurred at 15 Windsor Road, a home "believed to be a "Trap House" (crack house) for the named parties to sell drugs from."
15 Windsor is believed to be the backdrop of a now infamous photo that shows Mayor Ford with a man who was later murdered [Smith], and two other men who were later arrested. It alleges that surveillance crew observed activity consistent with drug trafficking and that "no known persons" were seen. "There were no arrests or seizures made during this operation."
Then, large swaths of information are blacked out, but there is a first reference in the document to Lisi, with his address and a brief description of his interactions with Toronto police. A subsequent line states "a unified search query of Mayor Rob Ford does not reveal that his phone was reported stolen."
Also interviewed by police in the document was Nico Fidani, a former junior member of Ford's staff. Two detectives spoke with him on June 26, at the police 22 Division station. Much of what he told them is redacted from the document before it was released to the media.
"If the Mayor is obtaining illegal narcotics then it is probably Sandro who is taking him to get them," Fidani told police, according to the affidavit.
Lisi, Ford met in secluded woods area, left behind vodka, juice bottles, police document says
On Aug. 12, police allege, Lisi's Range Rover was parked in a lot on Royal York Road, and investigating officers discovered the mayor's Escalade in a nearby parking lot for the Scarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy. The Escalade is "heavily tinted," and neither of the two men were seen inside, the ITO says, noting Lisi was seen walking back to his vehicle from the area of the school a short time later.
A day later, on Aug. 13, police say they observed Lisi at home loading a large cooler bag into his Range Rover. Later in the day, he allegedly received a call from a cellphone associated with Deco Adhesive Products; Deco, an Etobicoke company founded by the Ford family. A short time later, the ITO says, Lisi left his home in the Range Rover.
"Lisi travelled to and parked on Westmount Park Road, he parked near a foot path that leads north into Weston Wood Park," the ITO states, noting Mayor Ford was observed at the same time leaving a local gas station and parking near a footpath that leads south into Weston Wood Park. "Lisi and Mayor Ford eventually met and made their way into a secluded area of the adjacent woods where they were obscured from surveillance efforts and stayed for approximately one hour."
They left separately in their own cars, the ITO says. Police later seized a vodka and juice bottle from the spot where the two had met, and left replacement bottles behind to conceal the fact officers had been there.
Ford refused to answer reporters' questions about the documents Thursday morning at his home in Etobicoke. He screamed at media to "get off my property."
The nearly 500-page document was released Thursday morning, one day after Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer found no "principled basis" on which the court should give notice to dozens of named parties.
Several media outlets filed an application to access the massive ITO (information to obtain a search warrant) after police this month raided a west-end dry cleaners, arresting owner Jamshid Bahrami and Lisi, the mayor's friend and occasional driver.
The document, called an Information to Obtain a Search Warrant, referred to as an ITO, is a lengthy compendium of information used by police to convince a judge to issue a warrant that will allow them to search private property to further a drug investigation.
While not facts proven in court, it is information that officers swear gives them "reasonable and probable grounds to believe" there is evidence of a crime.
This ITO was used by Toronto police to search Lisi's home at 5 Madill Street, and was sworn before a judice of the peace on Oct. 2 by Detective Constable Ali Nader Khoshbooi.
This ITO is unusually long and detailed for such a document.
For months, police have been investigating the mayor and a number of his associates, including Lisi, as part of Project Brazen 2, an offshoot of the June guns-and-gangs sweep dubbed Project Traveller.Rob Ford investigation: ITO photo index
Although it began when Lisi was allegedly caught trying to trade drugs for the mayor's stolen cellphone, Brazen 2 was far from a simple drug probe. Toronto police put veteran homicide detective Gary Giroux in charge of the sensitive investigation, and cast a blanket of silence over his squad's work.
Before Wednesday's ITO release, few details of the project had emerged; there were reports that a Cessna was employed to track the mayor's movements, and a leaked police document shed some light on Brazen 2's genesis. The document revealed that police first picked up on Lisi's name in March — two months before reports of an alleged video showing Mayor Ford smoking a crack pipe — when he was captured on an intercepted communication related to Project Traveller.
"Lisi was heard to be brokering the return of a cellular phone stolen from an associate of his, with a payment of marihuana," the document states. Although the document does not name the associate, it was allegedly Mayor Ford.
In June, after rounding up dozens of suspected gang members in the Project Traveller sweep, police began conducting surveillance on Lisi and discovered his connection to Mr. Bahrami's dry cleaning business in Etobicoke. Investigators allege the pair, both charged with drug trafficking, were working together to sell marijuana out of the dry cleaners.
Lisi — who has multiple previous convictions dating back to 2001, including assault and threatening death — has been described by Mayor Ford as a "good guy" who is on the "straight and narrow." The two are friends, and Lisi, who was angling for a job with the city of Toronto, sometimes drove the mayor around in his Range Rover.
Mayor Ford also wrote a character reference this past June when Lisi was being sentenced for threatening to kill a former girlfriend, touting the accused's "tact and diplomacy" and lauding him as "an exemplary member of my campaign team."
One of Lisi's neighbours said she frequently saw Mayor Ford stop by; he parked at the curb and interacted with Lisi through the window of the car, neighbour Carol Peck said. A report in the Toronto Star said Lisi made "aggressive attempts" to retrieve the alleged crack video after the story broke in May.
In one of his only public responses to the ongoing scandal, Mayor Ford has said he does not smoke crack cocaine, and "I cannot comment on a video that I have never seen or does not exist." He has repeatedly declined to comment on Brazen 2 or on the specifics of the Lisi case, saying the matter was "before the courts."
Faced Wednesday with the imminent release of the ITO, Councillor Doug Ford, the mayor's brother, said only: "I am not even paying attention to all that… Rob is the most honest politician in the country."
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It has been said, Not everything that is learned is contained in
books. Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience
with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion, which source
is more important? Why?
New Books had been publishing every year. There are a lot of books that contain new things, ideas or studies updates. Many people buy new books every month, so that they will be update to the new version. And therefore they will know a little bit more with the new book. Not very single topic is well described from a book, but it is very described from many books, which means that we can get informations and read things from many books because probably most people will not find it in just a book. We need to buy new books in order to find the information that we need. But, people will not have the source to buy all those books and they will just read the first generation book and will know the base of what really is.
People who likes to read, they will spend all there money buying the new version and will read all of it. But what they really do not know is that nowadays we have the new technology arising which is the so called: Internet sources. It is important to mention that books are very usefull and will help you to increase your knowledge of the topic people are reading but how much knowledge will they offer you? Do they offer you the same amount as the internet? Well, unfortunately no because the internet is huge and bigger than the book and not everything of the internet can fit to a single book even the thicker book. Nowadays people can not entirely find all the thing that they desire to read in a book because it lacks of information needed, and therefore, people are now using the new technology instead of books. As a matter of fact, books are important and play an important role in our life such as the basic things that people should know and books only requires you to read what they give you rather than what the source of the internet can offer you.
There are many advantages while navigating on the internet. First, we need a device called computer, or any other device that internet can be accessible to. Then, as many teachers say: "Not everything from the internet is true because people might lie about it and invent non-existed things and ideas" It is true about it, not everything that people read on the Internet will be real. The reason why this happens is because they did not have books as a reference and they did not take the time to buy the new books and at the end will invent unreal stories. It is good to read some books instead of just going to the internet. The internet source should be like a complement of your reasearch. For example, people will first read a book and will find the basic information about their research paper. Then, if they want to take more knowledge about it, they will search it on the internet and will compare whether it is true or not.
Another case is that people should know exactly where to search for their information they need. If they go to webpages that are just people posting and chatting informations that had been asked for, then this is a wrong place to search. People should search for educational webpages and try to differentiate it from other non-educational pages. So in other words, they need to know the right place to do their researches and be sure that the webpage is credited as a educational one. While doing so, they will probably find the information they had been looking for and will try to compare it with their bases, in this case, the books.
Therefore, I consider that books are very useful as a base or as a key for you to look more information of it on the Internet. Every single topic and ideas cannot be find in just a simple book because all those information will not be capable to fit into it. In other words, we can say that the Internet source will be like a complement or a annex to the information given from books.


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Spring is here. Not officially on the calendar. But the daffodils are blooming in eastern NC, which means... it is spring.
We planted white daylilly bulbs and transplanted daffodils into our yard this weekend. The air was crisp and reminiscent of fall, but the bright pastel colors of the new lime green grass and the butter yellow daffodil blooms told a different story. Michael is the green thumb in our family. He told our pastor this weekend that I was an excellent cook and could make anything I put my mind too, but give me a plant and it would be dead in a week. I'll forgive him since he complimented my cooking!
Michael wants our yard full of blossoms this spring. This is the first yard that has ever been "his" and he is really enjoying learning how to landscape. He was outside all day on Saturday and most of Sunday. Thankfully I was just responsible for cooking and cleaning the bathrooms. I can handle that.
In an effort to be more "budget conscious" I'll be trying to make meals from our pantry this week and to some extent for many of our meals in the future. I've gotten into a bad habit of running to the grocery store several times a week for a few little things, and then spending more than I had planned. A grocery store can be very dangerous territory for me. I love shopping for groceries, I have a hard time saying "no" to something not on my list. I can pass up Walmart, Target, and probably any other department store in the book... but grocery shopping is fun to me and I enjoy it way too much!
The ingredient of the week is bananas! I have not always liked bananas, and I am still rather picky about eating them. I do love a good banana nut muffin, and banana breads (like the one Natalie just made) especially with some cream cheese spread on top! I plan on making a banana pudding this week with homemade gluten free vanilla wafers, since I didn't get around to it last week.
Thai Chicken and Peanut Stir-fry
Sauteed Cabbage
Natalie's Cornmeal Pancakes
Lean Turkey Sausage
Cinnamon Baked Apples
Simple Spaghetti and Meatballs
Tossed Salad
Sea's Sweet and Sour Tofu (for me) (chicken -- for Michael)
Green Beans
Sweet Baby Carrots
Tacos with Homemade Salsa
Tamale Pie
(Depending on what ingredients we have on hand)
Breakfasts and Baked Goods:
Elizabeth Barbone's Sandwich Bread (with some whole grain variations)
Real Southern Banana Pudding *recipe coming!
Quick Banana Nut Muffins (with GF Master Mix in place of flour and leavening in recipe)


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At 4pm on the 12th of September 2001, (the day following the destruction of the Twin Towers in New York) the National Security Council was reconvened. Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of State for Defence, raised a question: "Why shouldn't we go against Iraq, not just Al Qaeda?"2006. Baghdad is the most dangerous city in the world, and the most dangerous road in this city, between Baghdad airport and the Green Zone, is nicknamed Route Irish by occupying forces.Liverpool, August 1976. Five-year-old Fergus' eyes lit up when he met Frankie on his first day at school. They?ve been in each other's shadow ever since.In the spring of 1986 as teenagers they skipped school and drank cider on the ferry over the river Mersey, dreaming about future adventures and travelling the world.
In September 2004, Fergus (ex-SAS) persuaded Frankie (ex-Para) to join his team in Iraq and earn £10,000 a month tax free as a private security contractor. Their last chance to "load up" in this increasingly privatised war. Together they risked their lives in a city steeped in violence, terror, impunity, greed, and awash with cash - US dollars, by the billion.
In September 2007, Frankie, "in the wrong place at the wrong time", died on Route Irish. Fergus, torn by grief, rejects the official explanation. Now he investigates his soul mate's death in his own special way, as lessons from Iraq unravel in Liverpool. Only Rachel, Frankie's partner, and Fergus' friend, grasps the depth of his sorrow, and the lethal possibilities of his fury. Can Fergus find out what happened to Frankie on Route Irish?
But there's a much more critical task ahead of him. Can he find his old self again, and that sense of joie de vivre he once shared with Frankie 20 years ago on the River Mersey? You can take the contractor out of war, but can you take the war out of the man?


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LIFE AND TIMES OF $CROOGE McDUCK (UNCLE $CROOGE #285-296, April 1994-February 1996). Sticking (for the most part) to Barksian "facts," Rosa went above and beyond a merely sequential approach. He carefully filled in the cracks between Barksian adventures, fleshed out the personalities of Scrooge's previously shadowy relatives, and posited various encounters between the young (or, more precisely, the pre-"Christmas on Bear Mountain") Scrooge with future friends, future foes, and various historical figures. One can certainly flyspeck some aspects of Rosa's flights of fancy, but one can't deny that, like the driven "A student" who wants to make his or her term paper something REALLY special, he put his all into this monumental effort.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS "at 2 o'clock in the morning" on the last day of holiday vacation. The resulting product is a mishmash of interesting detail, frustrating anachronisms, and indescribable muddle, sort of the literary equivalent of... hmm, how should I put this?...
Hortense. Remarkably, "Dime" ultimately subsumes into a pile of incoherent goo despite a good deal of evidence that writers Ken Koonce, David Weimers, and Richard Esckilsen (more specifically, the mysterious Esckilsen, who provided the "story" and has no other credit listed on IMDB; K&W wrote the teleplay) performed at least some degree of moderately heavy lifting, to the extent that they consulted and used "facts" from not one but several stories that were not written by Barks. Since they took the trouble to do that extra work, you would think that the end product would reflect a fair bit of care and thought. No such luck.
Even at the time of the episode's original release, Joe Torcivia and I recognized that "Dime" was a rather poor excuse for a Scrooge biography, and we bombed on it rather savagely in our DUCKTALES INDEX. I certainly don't want to retract that negative review, BUT... I will qualify it, just a bit, by specifying that the ep's most egregious sins are committed at the beginning and at the end. The middle, including most of Act Two, actually isn't so bad (or, at least, is measurably less dreadful). The "middle game" features a reasonably good, though rushed, take on the Barks story "The Great Steamboat Race" (UNCLE $CROOGE #11, Sept.-Nov. 1955), throwing in some amusingly cynical touches to match Barks' own. Chapter two of Rosa's LATO$M, "The Master of the Mississippi," which relates the story of the original "steamboat race" of 1880 that formed the backdrop for the Ducks' 1955 adventure, is certainly more ambitious and detailed than "Dime"'s take on the competition, but at least the DT version of the tale, which supposedly takes place in the same time frame as Rosa's, can stand next to "Master" without looking completely ridiculous.
their appointed time. HD&L then pull the rock of all rocks with their lame excuse as to why they replaced the Old #1 Dime with their "lucky quarter." Even in a strictly DT context, this makes absolutely no sense, and both GeoX and Greg rightly jumped on it with both (non-webbed) feet. Having worked on one of the first episodes to feature Magica De Spell's quest to snare Old #1, Koonce and Wiemers should never have let this misguided idea get beyond the first draft. Then again, the entire episode ignores previous DT "facts" about Scrooge's early life and emigration as revealed in "The Curse of Castle McDuck," and why should only one previous episode have the honor of being ignored?
velocipede) to get to his Uncle Catfish's dock, and the "Wild Western" appearance of Scrooge's forlorn "Oklahoma timberland" all indicate that most of the events of Scrooge's story (at least, up until the time he "goes international" in Act Three) must be taking place during the 19th century. Which means, of course, that Young Scrooge's "newly-invented electric bagpipes" are a flat impossibility. You tell me how the isolated Cottage McDuck is getting its electricity.
Time Teasers" when creating "On Stolen Time," and I'll grant him the benefit of the doubt again in this instance, but let's just say that I find the juxtaposition of the following images to be mighty... suggestive.
Following Young Scrooge's truncated traipse through the Klondike (Goldie? Never heard of her), "Dime" provides us with a few final memorable moments after the lad is bilked out of his gold stash by the "Oklahoma timberland" salesman. Given that the Scrooge of DT's "Back to the Klondike" was already as "tough as the wolves" and had arguably enjoyed a romantic relationship with the sexiest gal in the region, it requires some mental gymnastics to accept the idea that the post-Klondike Scrooge could be cheated so easily, but at least the sequence is consistent with the portrait of Young Scrooge presented earlier in this particular story. There follows the Beagles' train hold-up, Scrooge's "having a blast" (and temporarily losing Old #1, not to mention his plaid wardrobe), and Scrooge's use of "Scottish warfare" to bring the Beagles low. We'll also see bagpipes used as weapons in the second season's "Full Metal Duck," though the effects of the pipes are played more for laughs there. Here, given that one of the Beagles admitted earlier that Ma Beagle (who, let us be clear, is NOT the same as the Ma Beagle who appears in contemporary Duckburg) had committed murder to obtain clothes, I think it is entirely appropriate that the Beagles have a much harder time dealing with the squealing squash-machine.
Magic Hourglass didn't have as direct an influence on Scrooge's fortune as the dime does here -- and all due to sheer, dumb luck!
Marking Time" in which Louie blows off "dummy" Dewey for thinking that the coal in Bubba Duck's cave should already have formed into diamonds as an indirect apology for this ridiculous scene. As if to twist the knife, Scrooge subsequently shoves his dubious diamonds into his giant mattress in what may be another reference to "The Invisible Intruder," in which Scrooge's ambition is to have a huge bed. Leave it to this episode to display its not-inconsiderable level of comics-derived detail as a tag end of one of the series' lamest incidents.
So, overall, this "term paper" gets a failing grade, albeit one that is given with at least a twinge or two of regret. It's tempting to think that all would have been well had the series followed Greg's advice and turned "Dime" into a two-part story. Based on the available evidence, though, I'm not sure that Esckilsen, Koonce, and Weimers would have known how best to fill the extra space. 30 additional kilt and bagpipe jokes wouldn't have cut it, but I'm afraid that that would have been the most likely scenario.
(Greg) Scrooge storms off as he tells Duckworth to begin the yearly polish as we cut to the downstairs drawing room as Mrs. Beakly and Webby ha[ve] joined in for fun. They gather around the room complete with dime on glass which I guess Scrooge moved from the Money Bin after Dime Enough For Luck which is quite smart methinks.
Based on "Magica's Shadow War," "Magica's Magic Mirror," and "Send in the Clones," the Money Bin location of "Dime Enough for Luck" was the exception, rather than the rule.
(Greg) Scrooge wants it all as the bank manage is hardly amused as Scrooge claims that he was the 8th grade treasurer and that's enough for him to get thrown out of the bank with a wussy bump.
Another unwarranted Americanism creeps into Scrooge's Scotland. I think that they call grades "forms" in the British system.
(Greg) Another scene changer as Scrooge is riding a bicycle towards the ruined river boat as Scrooge narrates that he hoped that Catfish's skills would rub off of him. Scrooge does an excellent chin up on the door entrance and crashes the bicycle off-screen inside since it had no brakes during the time period see.
A nice detail!
William Callaway) and he's French see. Hew sounds like he's talking African American for some reason and faking the French. Somehow; I do not like where this is going.
As is stated later, Ribbit's accent is actually a Cajun accent. Actually, the strange thing about Ribbit is not his accent; it's the fact that he's a man-sized frog in the DuckTales "universe"! Doesn't it seem as though TaleSpin would be a more "natural" place to see a character like that?
Forget coal, elephants, and diamonds: Scrooge's "coal slapper" is what I choose to regard as Scrooge's finest "business moment" in "Dime."
The "forced" way in which Alan Young reads this joke is actually funnier than the joke itself. It's as if Scrooge, in an indirect "fourth wall" reference, is daring us not to laugh.
Next: Episode 63, "All Ducks on Deck."


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The 70 dollar Sennheisers make everything sound like I'm listening to a radio. What price range am I supposed to look at before things start getting good?
My PS3 is dead. Not happy.
Real men just hack off the limb, Agent D.
Augh. Sort of debating picking up another PS2 to have on hand in case mine dies, since they quit making them.(Unlike LINK398, I actually have money to buy this stuff. I'm just deliriously cheap for things that aren't food).Anyway, currently rewriting my design docs for that game engine I wrote when I was a senior in college. I want to translate it into Common Lisp and focus on end-user functionality. This might mean removing some of my arbitrary limits, like maps having to be 32 x 32 tiles with no scrolling. Agent D, that sounds like a pinched or enflamed nerve. I think if you had circulation problems you'd be getting pain or cold spots.
Quote from: Starmongoose on April 17, 2013, 12:41:30 PMReal men just hack off the limb, Agent D.Dude, if I lose an arm or my eyesight, I'm killing myself. I refuse to live without the ability to use both hands or see what I'm doing.


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I am looking for a wordpress plugin in order to sell the access of some webpages on my website. I mean I am not looking for a "membership" plugin.
I mean the user has to pay in order to view the page. The user also has to pay again, if he wants to view a second paid page. And he has to paid a third time if he wants to see a third paid page, etc.
If he logouts, then he should be able to login later to the website and then to have again access to the pages that he paid for.
I have looked so many plugins that I start wondering if what I want exist ?
I mean I have looked at s2member, Paid Membership Pro, etc. But this is all about "Membership": you have to create 1 specific "Membership Level" for each page you want to sell ! What about if you have 1000 pages and you want that the access to each of those pages costs 20EUR ?
If any of you have an idea.. (even if i have to paid to get the plugin).
Thanks a lot.


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Vinen necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 130 diseños de 32 diseñadores freelance.
Our company is in the early startup phase and we are seeking design help in creating a logo and a matching social media icon in establishing our identity. Our team is developing a unique application to help professionals make relevant connections within the Twitter Ecosystem. These connections will help professionals connect to peers, clients and potential employers. A user will start by building their own professioal profile page for their Twitter profile, we will also provide a unique platform to manage information from other professionals they follow on Twitter for their career.
Target Audience is focused in on professionals who actively use social media for different aspects of their personal and professional life. This application is a Twitter App. Think of LinkedIn for the Twitter Ecosystem (not the logo but the application itself) We believe our target audience are heavy users of Smart Phones and regularly communicate with friends over social networks. They are likely to be tech savvy and younger. We also plan to capture active job seekers and employers so the design should be fun, friendly yet clean and professional. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.twizam.com. This site is temporary and will most likely be redesigned once applications are closer to release. Please do not use this site as a reference for design.
I'm updating the requirments to be less restrictive and introduce more creativity. The priority of the design is finding a signature font design. I will leave it up to the designer if he / she wants to inocporate a small icon in the overall design. Some examples might be a resume icon, a bird holding a resume in its mouth, or any other creative ways to design a custom logo that fits our comapny's target audience.
We are partial to a blue color, but this is not a hard requirement. However the blue color should not be identical to Twitter's colors as we want to avoid future copyright problems. Similar colors are okay, but I will leave this up to the designer.
In addition we are looking for a social media icon to match. See the following examples: http://barloweinteractive.com/image…active.jpg
The social media icon should consist of the letters "tz" For designers that are really ambitious, we would love to see the tz icon with a thumbs up incorporated into the design. This last part is not required. The reason for this is users will be able to place this icon on their individual blogs. If a blog reader finds the content insightful, they can click on the tz thumbs up logo to say nice job. This click will translate into a score that will be displayed on the professional profile page of the person who authored the blog. This feature is known as receiving a "Twizam" A made up actionable word for our brand.
I hope this enough detail, if not please let me know and I will try to provide more information that will be useful in creating a great design. I will also be happy to answer any questions.
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