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Vanguard 8x42 Endeavor ED II Binocular
Item Description
Vanguard's Endeavor ED II 8x42 offers top-of-the-line quality at an affordable price. With the ergonomic,open-bridge design, a large, easy-to-adjust focus wheel and long eye relief, this binocular is built for comfort during long outings. Exceptional light transmission and remarkable color resolution and contrast comes from premium ED glass and fully multi-coated lenses. The Endeavor ED is waterproof and fogproof and comes with the Vanguard premium lifetime warranty.
|Extra-low Dispersion (XD) Glass
|Enhances resolution, color, and contrast.
|Fully Multi-coated Lenses
|Increase light transmission with multiple anti-reflective coatings on all air-to-glass surfaces.
|Phase Correction
|Enhances resolution and contrast through roof prisms.
|BaK-4 Prisms
|Optimize light transmission.
|Roof Prisms
|Appreciated for a streamlined shape and durability.
|Magnesium Alloy Body
|Is sturdy and resistant to corrosion.
|Rubber Armoring
|Provides a secure, non-slip grip.
|Multi-position Eyecups
|Twist up and down for comfortable viewing with or without eyeglasses.
|Center Focus Wheel
|Adjusts both binocular barrels at the same time.
|Locking Right Eye Diopter
|Adjusts for differences in a user's eyes. Located by the right eyepiece.
|Tripod Adaptable
|Can be mounted using standard ¼-inch threading. Adapter sold separately.
|Optics are sealed with O-rings to prevent moisture, dust, and debris from getting inside the binocular.
|Barrels are filled with nitrogen gas to inhibit internal fogging.


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Reciprocating Compressors
Performance, efficiency, reliability and low maintenance in the most demanding upstream, midstream and downstream applications.
Dresser-Rand is a leading natural gas supplier of reciprocating compressors, offering products ranging from medium to high-speed separable units driven by engines or electric motors, to large, slow speed motor driven process reciprocating compressors.
Applications for our reciprocating compressors include —
- Upstream production (LNG, gas lift, boil-off / residue gas, export, natural gas gathering, natural gas liquids, shale, coal bed methane, enhanced oil recovery – CO2 for natural gas injection)
- Midstream (gas transmission and storage, natural gas gathering, gas injection, FPSO and FLNG, fuel gas, natural gas processing – inlet, sales, refrigeration)
- Downstream processing (petrochemical plant gas-to-liquids, hydrogen production, various other refining applications, cool gas, methanol and ethylene, ammonia, nitric acid, and urea)
- Power generation (fuel gas)

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The New York State Senate and Assembly passed the Power NY Act of 2011 on June 22. This legislation ends a long-standing stalemate over power plant siting. The bill enacts a new Article X of the New York Public Service Law (PSL), replacing a statute that lapsed in 2003. The new Article X establishes a centralized certification process for electric generating facilities. All parties expect Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., to sign the bill into law.
The legislation's reach is broad. With limited exceptions, all proposed generation projects exceeding 25 MW, regardless of fuel source, will be included in the new process. Existing facilities that seek modification can do so as long as it would not result in an increase in capacity of more than 25 MW. In addition, facilities constructed on lands devoted to industrial uses are limited to a generating capacity of 200 MW or less.
The new Article X shares many of the features of the old statute: It creates a siting board composed of state agency commissioners and public members; provides intervenor funding for municipalities and local parties; consolidates and coordinates state environmental review and permitting requirements; and provides authority for the siting board to override 'overly burdensome' local laws.
The legislation also addresses some matters that were unclear under the prior law. For example, it provides greater detail on issues such as coordinating permitting authority with the New York State Department of Conservation (NYSDEC) on federally delegated programs, such as the Clean Air Act.
The bill also clarifies that connecting transmission lines that do not qualify for Public Service Commission review under Article VII of the PSL will now be subject to the new Article X.
Developers should note that the siting board will not begin accepting applications until after NYSDEC promulgates regulations addressing environmental justice issues and setting standards for power plant carbon-dioxide emissions. The legislation directs NYSDEC to issue these rules within 12 months of the law's enactment. The siting board is also required to issue regulations within the same deadline.
In the interim, projects may proceed under existing law. Any projects that are under a state or local application process on or before the effective date of the new regulations will have the option to continue under that process or opt in to the new process.
Once the siting board is up and running, developers will be offered a pre-application mechanism similar to the practice under the prior law. Applicants, agencies and intervenors can stipulate the scope of the studies to be undertaken and then submitted with the application.
A project sponsor's preliminary scoping statement will be subject to public comment and review, and developers will be required to provide intervenor funding to ensure substantive public participation in the pre-application phase.
The legislation describes the information that will be reviewed as part of the permitting process and the evaluations that the siting board must make in considering an application. Project developers will be asked to submit information on facility design, environmental and health impacts, economic factors and available alternatives, as well as a determination of any disproportionate impact on a community that would give rise to environmental justice concerns. Developers must also provide additional intervenor funds in the application phase, at least half of which is to be disbursed to municipal parties.
The bill sets a one-year time frame for review and action on a completed application, but the siting board has authority to extend the schedule by another six months.
Expedited processing of an application is available when an existing major electric generating facility would like to expand or add a new facility adjacent to the existing facility, so long as the project results in a reduction in adverse air and water impacts and an improved heat rate.
The new Article X will also require the siting board to make specific findings. Many of these evaluations address the same issues that were assessed under the prior law. Several relate to the identification of the expected environmental impacts of a project. As part of its overall decision, the siting board must be able to conclude that adverse impacts have been avoided or minimized to the maximum extent practicable.
The legislation also requires the siting board to determine whether a project serves the public interest and that it is a 'beneficial addition to or substitution for' other electrical generation. This latter standard is new and will have to be interpreted by the siting board, either in its own rulemaking or in future cases.
In addition, the new Article X makes provisions for post-decision challenges and imposes procedural and substantive limits on potential claims. The bill prohibits the use of intervenor funds for litigation purposes. It also provides that aggrieved parties must seek rehearing with the siting board before approaching the courts.
Judicial challenges must be brought in the courts of the Appellate Division, bypassing the trial-court level, within 30 days from the issuance of the siting board's decision on the application for rehearing. The bill also provides for deferential review under the 'substantial evidence' standard.
Finally, the new Article X largely divests the state courts of jurisdiction to determine any cases that seek to stop or delay construction of a generation facility that has received a certificate from the siting board.
Energy project developers and financiers may see numerous advantages to the new Article X process, as it provides a clear road map to guide the decision-making process and puts some restrictions on project opponents' ability to delay certificated projects through litigation.
At the same time, there are new elements to the legislation that will need to be developed and interpreted by the siting board through its own rulemaking process over the next 12 months. Developers looking to participate in project siting in New York should pay close attention to the siting board's next steps.
Elizabeth Grisaru is counsel and Terresa Bakner is a partner at Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, an Albany, N.Y.- based law firm. They can be reached at email@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com.


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"Decadence" is a minimal clean and light colour template for business, educational or personal website. Comes in two versions: for desktops and for mobile devices.
- Full-width horizontal scroller
- Navigation menu with submenu (dropdown) and "beep" sound
- 3D rotating teaser boxes
- CSS3 rollovers and fades
- Parallax effect for infinite scroller
- Modal windows with custom scroller (allows unlimited amount of content per page)
- Newsletter and Contact form based on Google Docs (working)
- Light mobile version
- and more (test the demo to view all features)
Folder includes:
- 11 HTML files (desktop version)
- 10 HTML files (mobile devices version)
- 6 CSS files
- 11 js files
- Help file (as html page with screencasts)
Credits: almost all images for the demo are scans from my personal collection of photos, postcards and posters circa 1880-1918. Track "The War To End All Wars" is by Bleiburg (Germany).
Ideal view: iMac (Chrome, Safari)
Screeshots are taken on Chrome, iMac.
Things to note:
- Contact form is Google Docs based. Test the demo
- Template is tested in: latest major browsers on Mac and Windows + IE9 + iPhone 4S
- Wordpress version is not (will not be) available
- Minimum screen resolution for this template is 1280px x 800px
- Adapted for tablets (viewport only). Available for mobiles.
- Do not expect IE to work as well as Safari and Chrome do
For extra articles about customisation of template please visit my blog
Thank you!
Small update 17.12.12 A couple of fixes for new versions of Firefox.


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count2infinity wrote:I suppose you two missed the words "like those".
How did he get back to and in Gotham? How did he paint the bat symbol with gas? HE'S FREAKING BATMAN, THATS HOW! Why did they send all the police force into the tunnels? Because the police commissioner was out of his mind. Those are not major plot holes in my book.
and i guess you missed the part where i said individually they were fine, but the point is they add up.
for someone who argues so much, you're really not very good at it.


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I think I may give up my Cookie Research Project. I'm not sure I can better the cookie from this week - although the only credit I can take is in selecting a good recipe. I take my cookies in on Wednesdays, and since Wednesday last week was Bonfire Night I thought I'd do a parkin-inspired number. This also enabled me to legitimately use the word 'treacle' a lot, since it is one of the key ingredients of parkins and gingerbreads, and is also one of my most favourite words. Treacle is actually a very old word - it used to mean an antidote to poison, which is why springs with supposedly curative properties were sometimes known as 'treacle wells'. It's amazing what you learn when you have to give a lecture on pre-Reformation popular religion. Treacle is also mentioned in Alice in Wonderland - one of my favourite children's books - when the dormouse at the Mad Hatter's teaparty tells a story about a treacle well.
While treacle is a very good word, it is not a very tasty ingredient on its own, and so the batter for this cookie wasn't at all nice (though I did check, just in case). I'd been looking around for a gingerbread cookie when what should turn up in Dan Lepard's baking column in the Saturday Guardian, but - chocolate parkin biscuits. I haven't made any of his other recipes but I've been saving quite a few of them to try and he said that these cookies were crispy, which is what my colleagues seem to like. They involve a bit of melting, a bit of stirring, a bit of chopping of crystallised ginger, some oats, and then when the batter was cooled I put it in the fridge overnight so that I could bake them on Tuesday night. I was a bit worried this might have an adverse effect on a melted batter, but it seemed to do fine and actually made it very easy to handle.
The smell these cookies produced when they were baking was divine, and The Scientist was already hovering by the oven when they were ready to come out. He said that they were absolutely the best ones so far and rated them a 9. High praise indeed. They also scored amazingly highly with my colleagues - an average of 9.4 with all 9s and 10s. Comments were quite extensive this time - 'Scrummy!', 'gooey & very tasty!' and 'delicious, I liked the oats' were just a few. One of the French lecturers even stopped me in the ladies' to ask if I was the cookie baker and could she have the recipe as they were so good! I think they were so popular because they were very moist and very gingery. However, I do have a confession to make: between the chilling and shaping and chatting to The Scientist at the same time - *I forgot to add the chocolate chips*!! So they're not really choc chip cookies at all and as such I'm not really sure they should legitimately be part of my investigation. However, since they were so popular and blatantly stand alone with no choc chips involved, I am choosing to keep them in anyway. After all, my tasters couldn't care less what cookies I bring in as long as they appear in the kitchen. I really liked them too and I think that adding chocolate would actually detract from the oats and the ginger. I'd be interested to try it with chocolate another time to see. Especially if it gives me another opportunity to talk about treacle.
The Bonfire Night one: recipe here
Friday, 7 November 2008
The Great Cookie Research Project: The Bonfire Night One
3 comments:
- Johanna said...
definitely my sort of biscuit - I even love the name chocolate parkin biscuit - and I loved all your treacle info too! How could you go wrong with something so dark and sticky!
- 9 November 2008 at 08:15
I never knew that about treacle wells, I think I assumed it was all part of the surreal world of Alice.
- 9 November 2008 at 15:28
- Lysy said...
My sentiments exactly Johanna!
Munchkin Granny: I'm glad it's occasionally useful to have a historian for a daughter!
- 10 November 2008 at 09:20
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The Chads
Bill Parcells drafted Chad Pennington in 2000 out of Marshall and grabbed him again when the Jets cut him loose in favor of Brett Favre in 2008. It was a gift. Pennington lead Miami to an 11-5 record and an AFC East title. The Dolphins appeared to have found a franchise quarterback until Pennington injured his throwing shoulder in 2009. Enter Chad Henne. The second-round pick out of Michigan was the heir apparent, but proved to be inconsistent and ineffective. Re-enter Pennington, who was named the starter for a Nov. 14, 2009 game against Tennessee. Pennington lasted two plays before injuring his shoulder again. Henne also was injured in that game, which the Dolphins won behind Tyler Thigpen.
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Patch 1.04:
FIXES Fixed an issue related to full shared unit control and allied play that could cause one or more players to lose the ability to train or upgrade their own units. Fixed an issue that caused the experience point bars in Battle.net profiles to improperly reflect recently gained or lost points. Fixed a graphic issue related to the ladder profile and the scroll bar.
BALANCE CHANGES Humans: Divine Shield duration increased to 15/30/45 from 10/20/30. Humans: Divine Shield cooldown changed to 35/50/65 from 60/60/60. Humans: Avatar cooldown increased to 180 from 120. Humans: Resurrection mana cost reduced to 200 from 250. Humans: Sorceress acquisition range increased to 700 from 600, improving the frequency with which Slow is auto-cast. Undead: Banshee acquisition range increased to 700 from 500, improving the frequency with which Curse is auto-cast. Undead: Anti-magic Shell is once again dispellable. A summoned unit under a shell does not take damage from the dispel, but will lose the shell. Undead: Anti-magic Shell mana cost reduced to 50 from 75. Undead: Sleep duration decreased on Hero units to 5/10/15 from 10/20/30. Undead: Web duration decreased on Hero units units to 7 from 20. Undead: Animate Dead mana cost reduced to 250 from 300. Undead: Player-controlled Ghouls no longer turn off pathing against units when they are instructed to harvest lumber. Undead: Possession now takes 1 second to cast, up from 0. Orcs: Wards are no longer hit by Huntress Moon Glaive bounce. Orcs: Critical Strike no longer receives damage from Thorns Aura. However, the Blademaster's base attack associated with a Critical Strike still interacts with Thorns appropriately. Night Elves: Thorns no longer interacts with Critical Strike. Night Elves: Mana Burn mana cost reduced to 50 from 75. Night Elves: Mana Burn drain amount reduced to 50/100/150 from 100/200/300. Night Elves: Mana Burn cooldown reduced to 7 from 9. Night Elves: Huntress damage reduced to 1d3+14 from 1d3+15. Night Elves: Metamorphosis cooldown increased to 180 from 120. Night Elves: Cyclone duration reduced to 10/5.5 from 30/6 (normal unit/Hero units). Night Elves: Starfall cooldown increased to 180 from 120. Night Elves: Druid of the Talon (in Night Elf form) acquisition range increased to 700 from 600, improving the frequency with which Faerie Fire is auto-cast. Night Elves: Ballista Impaling Bolt no longer functions with "Attack Ground." Night Elves: Ancient Protector cost reduced to 160/80 from 240/100. Night Elves: Ancient Protector hit points increased to 600 from 550. Night Elves: Ancient Protector armor decreased to 1 from 2. Night Elves: Ancient Protector minimum range reduced to 0 from 200. Night Elves: Ancient Protector ranged attack damage reduced to 1d10+44 from 1d13+51. Night Elves: Ancient Protector damage type changed to pierce from siege. Night Elves: Ancient Protector splash damage reduced. Creeps: Murloc Mutant damage increased to 1d5+24 from 1d2+12.
MAP CHANGES Many minor changes were made to many maps due to the balance changes made in patch 1.03 and patch 1.04. Some examples include: (4) Lost Temple - Added more shallow water to the islands. Center creep camp is a bit harder. Added Ogre Magi to the corner Ogre creep camps. (6) Moonglade - Reduced all creep camps approximately 2 levels. (8) The Crucible - All start locations should now be very similar, close to trees with enough room to build. All Goblin Merchant creep camps are now farther off the main path. (10) Dustwallow Keys - Fixed the choke point in the bottom left. Moved Razormane creeps off the main paths. (12) Ice Crown - Fixed the creep levels so that all camps are equal.
Patch 1.03
NEW FEATURES Each AI player can now be set to one of three different settings: Easy, Normal, and Insane. Allied AI will teleport to human allies' towns when the towns are under attack. Allied AI will ping the minimap to indicate where they are going to attack next. Messages can now be sent when the "Waiting for Players" dialog is up. Added PowerPC optimizations and MacOS X 10.2 specific acceleration to the graphics engine.
FIXES Fixed an issue with building reimbursement that could credit a player twice for canceling a building. Fixed a crash that could occur when the system date was set to > 2038. Fixed map loading crash that could result from custom units that sell too many items. Fixed crash with Avance Sound cards. The fix requires a minor change to your registry. If you are experiencing this problem, please contact our technical support staff. Fixed a crash that could occur when loading a corrupted save file. Fixed a crash that could occur on custom maps during some unit creation events. Fixed an issue causing localized versions of maps to be passed unnecessar-ily. Fixed Mass Teleport crash that could result from a target unit's dying before spell completes. Fixed save/load map interaction that could result in an unresponsive game. Fixed an issue related to unit selection and upgrading Human towers. Fixed an issue with Dreadlord that could cause him to not take damage from Unholy Frenzy if he had the Sleep skill. Fixed some AI mining issues that could occur when their original town hall was destroyed. Fixed an AMM chat message bug that could disconnect you if an AMM team game message was sent just before game launch. Fixed an issue that allowed players to save after choosing "Continue" in a single-player mission. Fixed a supply issue related to the Demon Hunter and his Metamorphosis ability. Fixed Zeppelin drop exploit as a method of building locating through fog of war. Fixed an issue with saving while "Waiting for Players" dialog was up that could result in a soft lock. Fixed an issue that could create an invincible Mountain King. Fixed an issue related to graphical display of auras from aura-generating items. Fixed an issue with Anti-magic Shell so it now properly interacts with magic-immune and non-magic-immune summoned units. Fixed disappearance of Sentinel owl in conjunction w/ AOE-targeting circle. Fixed an issue with Huntress' bouncing missile that would allow it to hit a secondary target even if it missed the primary target. Fixed an issue with rooted Ancients that would cause them to trigger Goblin Land Mines. Fixed an issue related to Hero illusions' carrying a Ring of Protection. Fixed an issue with Town Portal spell art. Fixed an issue with hit point/mana upgrades and Polymorph. Fixed an issue with the Abolish Magic ability and allies. Fixed an issue with poison that could kill a unit. Poison, by itself, should only take a unit to the brink of death. Fixed an issue related to the interaction of Shift-adding units to a group and unit deaths. Fixed an issue related to replays, selection circles, and changing player perspective. Fixed an issue with Cyclone and moving units creating aerial footprints. Fixed keyboard screen scroll and "Waiting for Players" interaction. Fixed several minor text and tooltip issues. Fixed a few improper combat sound assignments on creeps and NPCs. Frost Wyrm attack now also slows air units. AI Keepers of the Grove no longer cast Force of Nature on different cliff levels. Night Elf AI now uses the Wisp's Renew ability effectively. Disease (Plague) and poison no longer wake sleeping units. Moon Glaive bounce no longer hits invisible units. Demon Hunter's attack while in Demon Form no longer damages self or allies. Upgraded building shadows no longer update through the fog of war. Necklace of Spell Immunity no longer drops a Blademaster's Wind Walk. Observers no longer gain full player UI when entering a loaded game. Observers no longer get gold/lumber/supply UI when selecting neutral buildings. Fog of war updates properly now if you are alt-tabbed out of game. War3 now warns you when you save game or screenshot or profile if there's not enough available disk space. Improved "We're Under Attack" messages so they trigger at more appropriate times.
WORLD EDITOR FIXES Fixed Macintosh World Editor crash. Added Unit Editor field for building upgrades. Increased number of possible dialog buttons from 5 to 12. Added blank entries for all units that don't normally have abilities or attacks, allowing a user to potentially add these through the Unit Editor. Added Unit Editor field to set unit sounds to that of another unit type. Reorganized limits on pre-placed neutral units. Neutral hostile buildings now count towards the "unit" limit of 512, and only passive buildings count towards the "building" limit of 96. Fixed bug where map auto-save could bypass object limit checks. Fixed Sound Editor bug that would sometimes delete an imported sound file from the map if it was imported from outside the War3 directory and the Test Map feature was used before the map was saved. Fixed force issue that would cause Force 11 when you selected Force 10 for a trigger in the editor.
BALANCE CHANGES Humans: Brilliance Aura has been reworked, and is no longer % based. It now adds a fixed amount of mana per second to units under its power -- .75, 1.5, and 2.25 respectively by level. While it's just as effective with mass spell-casters, players will find it is less powerful (though still exceedingly useful) with Heroes. Humans: Divine Shield now costs 25 mana, down from 75. Humans: Blizzard no longer goes up in radius as the level of the ability increases. Humans: Water elementals now last 60 seconds, down from 75. Undead: Gargoyles' ground attack was substantially upgraded. They now do 21-24 damage, up from 16-18 damage. They also have less armor (3, down from 5), but also hit harder against air units, doing 51-63 damage, up from 46-57 damage. Note that they are still just as effective against air units as they were before, but their ground attack has been much improved. Undead: Death Pact now costs 50 mana (down from 75), and can be cast twice as frequently as before (15 seconds cooldown from 30). Undead: Lich Heroes now have far more hit points, as they now have 15 str + 2/level, up from 13 + 1.6/level. Undead: Frost Armor is now an auto-cast spell which will target units under attack if auto-casting is enabled. Frost Armor also costs less mana -? 40 down from 50. Undead: The Spirit Tower Upgrade now costs 160/40, up from 120/40. Undead: Crypt Fiends' attack was slightly improved. Orcs: Headhunters have more hit points (350, up from 280), but also strike more slowly. Orcs: Stasis Trap no longer stuns friendly units, but has a shorter duration (6 seconds, down from 12 seconds). Stasis Traps, when they are set off, also destroy other Stasis Traps within their area of effect. Orcs: Kodo Beasts now have 1000 hit points, up from 790 hit points. They also attack more slowly than before. Orcs: Orc Barracks cost less lumber: 50, down from 70. Orcs: Watch Towers now do 16-18 damage, down from 19-22 damage. Orcs: Grunts now have 700 hit points, up 20 from 680. Orcs: Shaman's attack is far less powerful. They attack somewhat more slowly, and also do 11-12 damage, down from 14-16 damage. Orcs: Stasis Ward and Sentry Ward no longer inhibit movement or building construction. Night Elves: Sentinel can now be removed from a tree with various dispels (Wand of Negation, Dryads, etc.), as well by attacking the tree with a peon or siege unit (previously, the tree had to be destroyed -? now it merely has to be damaged). Night Elves: Mana Burn no longer affects units with Mana Burn (Demon Hunters, Satyr Soulstealers, Felhounds, etc.). Night Elves: Thorns is now a %-based ability that reflects 10%, 20% or 30% of melee damage dealt by level. Night Elves: Wisp's sight radius increased by 25%. Night Elves: Detonate now does 225 damage against summoned creatures, up from 150. Night Elves: Non-tree buildings now have 5 armor, up from 2. Night Elves: Ballistae now have an "Attack Ground" command. Night Elves: Force of Nature cooldown reduced to 20 seconds, down from 30 seconds. Night Elves: Treants now last 60 seconds, down from 75 seconds. Night Elves: Eating trees now gives a constant, non-stacking healing effect for 10 seconds. Night Elves: Moon Wells now spend mana on health and mana replenishment separately. For instance, if you sent a 0-mana, nearly dead Demon Hunter to a Moon Well, and the Moon Well had 100 mana, your DH would gain 25 mana, and 100 health. Before, the Hero would gain 200 health and 50 mana. This change does not affect the benefits of healing a unit without mana. Creeps: All melee creeps in between levels 1 and 5 are slightly more powerful. Creeps: All creeps of level 6 or higher now have Hero magic resistance. Creeps: Creeps of level 7 or higher will behave more intelligently in general. Creeps: All creeps of level 7 or higher now deal Chaos damage. Creeps: Level 10 Dragons no longer have spell immunity. Creeps: Many minor creep balance tweaks to damage and abilities. Creeps: Mercenaries are now more accurately priced in general, which in most cases amounts to price decreases. Items: Scepter of Mastery no longer will drop randomly in multiplayer maps. Items: Tome of Power, Mask of Death both increased in level (8 to 9 and 8 to 10 respectively). Items: Wand of Lightning Shield is now a level-3 item, down from level 6. Items: Sentry Ward item now comes with 3 charges, down from 5. Items: Periapt of Vitality now gives 150 hps, up from 100. Items: Pendant of Mana now gives 250 mana, down from 300. Items: Tome of Experience now gives Heroes 150 experience points, down from 200.
Patch 1.02a
Added localized Battle.net messages.
Patch 1.02:
FIXES Fixed an issue that allowed players to abuse dragons with Devour. Fixed ajor game revisions. (1.01 replays cannot be viewed with the 1.02 vean issue with dragons that could cause them to divert attacks.
BALANCE CHANGES Necklace of Immunity, Tome of Greater Experience, and Goblin Land Mines no longer randomly drop in multiplayer games. Scroll of Resurrection & Scroll of Animate Dead item level increased. Bridges are no longer destroyable on the (6)Stromguarde.w3m map.
NOTE: Replays are incompatible between major game revisions. (1.01 replays cannot be viewed with the 1.02 version of Warcraft III.)
Patch 1.01b:
Fixes a problem where players were disconnected from a game as it was starting and thus getting a loss.
Patch 1.01 Game Changes
Minor Fixes Fixed an issue with control group selection. Fixed an issue with "Observers On Defeat" option causing games to end when an observer would quit. Fixed an issue with preselection events and Fog of War. Fixed an issue with spacebar events working when the game was paused.
Balance Changes
Raised cooldown on several Creep spells Goblin Sappers can no longer be loaded into Goblin Zeppelins Humans: Mortar Team (hit points reduced from 380 to 360) Orcs: Catapult (hit points reduced from 500 to 425) Orcs: Shaman (Bloodlust attack rate decreased from 50% to 40%) Undead: Meat Wagon (hit points reduced from 450 to 380) Night Elves: Ballista (hit points reduced from 450 to 380) Night Elves: Druid of the Claw Master Training (cost reduced from 250/100 to 150/50, upgrade time reduced from 75 sec. to 45 sec.) Night Elves: Priestess of the Moon (Starfall damage reduced from 75 per wave to 50 per wave, duration increased from 30 sec. to 45 sec., damage factor reduced to 35% vs. buildings) Night Elves: Treant (damage reduced from an average of 17 to 16) Night Elves: Ancient Protector rooted damage increased from 43-65 to 52-64 (58 avg) Night Elves: Demon Hunter (Mana Burn ranged increased from 25 to 30) Night Elves: Moon Wells now give 50% mana back and 200% health Night Elves: Keeper of the Grove (Force of Nature cooldown increased from 20 sec. to 30 sec.) Night Elves: Nature's Blessing upgrade is now first available at Tree of Ages instead of Tree of Eternity
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(The Frisky) -- It's undeniable that marriage and relationships in general look nothing like they did 40 years ago. What's happened? Women's lib, skyrocketing divorce rates, the death of the nuclear family -- and that's just for starters. The whole game has changed.
A writer considers cohabitating before marriage crucial because it provides new insights into the other person.
Sometimes I think that each generation exhibits a reactionary trend to their predecessors.
I am part of the "divorced parents" era. Although my parents are still married, about 60 percent of all people I meet my age come from broken homes. While this phenomenon didn't necessarily make us "anti-marriage," it has certainly made us "marriage cautious" or "marriage disillusioned."
As a modern woman I know the statistics -- if I ever do tie the knot, I know it ain't gonna be all sunshine and roses. And that's why I plan to be as sure as I can possibly, possibly be.
Before I exchange any vows, I've made a vow to myself: I MUST live with someone before I marry them. I'm not alone in this thinking. About 70 percent of couples are cohabiting before marriage these days, according to research from the University of Denver.
Now, I've heard all this "Why buy the cow, when you can get the milk for free?" business (wait, why does it have to be a cow?). And guess what? I don't care because it's not about my milk; it's about the farmer. That's why when Jeff and I were getting serious, I felt the natural next step would be for us to move in together.
When people say, "You never really know someone until you live with them," they are speaking the truth. Even though Jeff and I had been dating for a year before we moved in, I had no idea I would discover so many new things about him. The Frisky: How NOT to move in together
Our first major moving-in fight totally caught me off guard.
"I am going to take up more of the closet because I have four times as many clothes as you," I laughed as we were unpacking.
"No, I want half of the closet. We share this place," he said, not laughing.
"Are you serious right now?"
"Yes." And he was.
He proceeded to spread his four shirts out while I crunched my 50 million blouses, dresses, and pants into exactly one-half of the closet. The Frisky: Debate this -- should you live together before marriage?
Another surprising moment was our first laundry time together.
"Can you throw my towel in with your wash?" I asked casually.
"No, I don't really want to mix our laundry."
"Wait -- really?"
"Yeah ... we should do our laundry separately." I was speechless. The Frisky -- How to survive the first 30 days of moving in together
Other things I learned about Jeff: He always paid his bills on time; he didn't mind doing my dishes; he spent a great deal of time cataloging his music collection; he was frugal, except when he splurged on important purchases; he was consistent night and day; and, most importantly, he was an extremely caring and generous person (except when it came to closet space).
Living together is a two-way street. I'm sure Jeff had no idea that I hated doing dishes, slammed doors when I was angry, liked to eat out for almost every meal, couldn't control myself around his ice cream, and hated to sit around the house doing nothing.
Even though Jeff and I ended up splitting after three years, I would not have traded the experience for anything. We're still good friends and sometimes I call him up just to remind him about the closet fight. We both find it amusing in retrospect. Living with Jeff gave me a more realistic perspective of marriage and relationships.
That's why I'm very skeptical about the recent University of Denver study that suggests that couples who live together before marriage have a way better chance of getting divorced. Really? The study suggests that couples who cohabitate may be entering into marriage for the wrong reasons -- like financial convenience, testing out the waters, or because of a "We're already here, why not?" mentality. The Frisky: First time for everything -- shaking up
While the study may have a point, I don't think it changes my mind in the least. The findings make me no less cautious about marriage. You're damn straight I want to test-drive the car before I purchase it (to use another awful analogy). And believe me, this "cow" will be in the driver's seat before she ties the knot.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Playroom Alphabet Border
I have been wanting to paint an alphabet
on our playroom wall for the past 2 years.
Alas, I didn't want to actually stand on a ladder
and do it so...
I procrastinated.
Sometimes my procrastination pays off...
when I saw this genius solution
(this beautiful alphabet over at the Snail's Trail)
I knew I'd met a woman after my own heart.
I must say, I've been coveting this scrapbooking
paper set for sometime at our local Walmart
(in the scrapbooking aisle)
but needed a good reason to buy it.
Then, I saw her post and realized that she used
the exact same paper set
(woo-hoo) !!
It was my arts and crafts destiny.
I was supposed to buy it and use it in our playroom
(or at least that's what I told my husband
when he came home and saw what I did!)
And yes, if you were curious...
I put it up on the wall
with my CM tape runner.
Before I added this lovely alphabet,
I hung our Eric Carle alphabet flash cards
from this curtain wire I purchased at IKEA.
It's a less permanent solution if
you're not down with the tape runner
on the wall idea.
I also use the wire to display kid's art work
and seasonal decor.
(those are just little curtain clips that I clip the art with)
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Legends of the Star – Cliff Harris
This week's "Legend of the Star" is one of the best defensive players in Cowboys history, none other than Cliff Harris. Although Cliff was not drafted in 1970, he was invited by the Cowboys to training camp where he shocked his coaches with his intense style of play. Although the organization had just drafted the highly touted Charlie Waters, the Cowboys surprised everyone in the league when they announced that Cliff Harris would be the starter at free safety for the season opener.
Cliff Harris single handedly led the secondary with his "all-out" style of play and due to his relentless pursuit of the ball carrier he was soon nicknamed "Captain Crash" by his teammates. His devastating hits struck fear in the hearts of any ball carrier that got in his way. The new nickname became synonymous with his hard-nosed, bone-crushing style of play and many football experts credit Cliff Harris for changing the way the free safety position is played today.
His rookie year was interrupted due to military service, but he returned just in time to help the Cowboys win Super Bowl VI over the Dolphins. He continued playing at free safety for the next 9 seasons, and began to compile some incredible achievements while playing one great season after another. He was considered by many to being the most dominating defensive player in the NFL during his tenure. In a stunning decision, he announced his retirement following the 1979 season to pursue his business ventures.
Harris finished his 10 NFL seasons with 29 interceptions, which he returned for 281 yards and 1 touchdown, and 18 fumble recoveries, which he returned for 91 yards. He also gained 418 yards on punt returns and 1,622 yards returning kickoffs.
During his short yet remarkable career, he made 5 Super Bowl appearances and was chosen for the Pro Bowl six consecutive times. He is in the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame, the NAIA Hall of Fame and Sports Illustrated Writers named him their Dream Team free safety. In 2004 he was selected to the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor for his contributions to the franchise. He truly was a "Legend of the Star" in every sense and I enjoyed telling you a little about this great Cowboy.


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Singer Kelly Clarkson is reportedly dating Reba Mcentire's stepson.
The Stronger hitmaker has been candid about her struggle to find the perfect mate but earlier this month she confessed to having a secret boyfriend.
Clarkson played coy about their relationship and stopped short of revealing his name, insisting, "He understands how much I work and I understand his stuff, because he's in the business. It's just easier."
Now TasteofCountry.com has identified Clarkson's new man as Brandon Blackstock – the stepson of 56-year-old country star McEntire and singer Blake Shelton's manager.
According to the site, the couple was spotted together at a Grammy Awards after-party in Los Angeles last month.


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Alfresco Adds iGoogle Access to Social Computing Platform
Creates Google Gadgets for Internal and External Content Mashup in the Workplace
LONDON - December 4, 2007 – Alfresco Software, Inc., today announced the launch of Alfresco Enterprise Google Gadgets for ECM, which lets business users manage, create and edit enterprise content with traditional enterprise control from within their iGoogle homepage, and combine internal and external content and services. A preview will be made immediately available for download and to the 30,000 members of the Alfresco Content Community.
A new generation of knowledge workers uses internal and external content, services and networks as if they were one. To perform better in their job they are bringing external tools and services from the home into the office. This is driving enterprises to re-evaluate their strategy on content, services and user driven tools for knowledge worker productivity.
iGoogle supports the use of specially developed gadgets to display content on a user's home page. The gadgets are interactive mini-applications that can be placed anywhere on the user's desktop and used to search and deliver a wide array of personalized information. Google Gadgets can be created by Google, as well as by third-party developers, using Google's Application Programming Interface (API). Alfresco's Enterprise Google Gadgets provide iGoogle corporate users with access to Alfresco's powerful ECM capabilities, enabling portal-based mashup of content from both internal and external sources.
Initially, Alfresco has developed three easy-to-use Enterprise Google Gadgets to enable users to mashup enterprise content. These are:
- Search – Document and content search>
- Space browser – Document library for browsing spaces (folders), creating and editing content
- My Tasks – Enables workflow task management, attachments and task filtering
"Alfresco Enterprise Google Gadgets enable users to leverage Alfresco's ECM capabilities and tools from within their iGoogle home page. This continues our focus on enabling users to mashup internal and external content, services and tools using an open approach and open standards," commented John Newton, CTO and co-founder, Alfresco Software. "The Gadgets were developed in a matter of days using Alfresco's Web Scripts technology, which provides a rapid application development approach based on a Web-oriented REST-style API. Older SOA approaches would have taken much longer to develop this type of integration."
Alfresco will be among the first organizations to implement Alfresco Enterprise Google Gadgets for ECM, letting more than 30,000 Alfresco Content Community members access the Alfresco Content Community Web site via iGoogle.
Alfresco Enterprise Google Gadgets will also be available as part of Alfresco's new Social Computing Platform (see accompanying news release).
To download Alfresco Enterprise Google Gadgets, please visit http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373&package_id=238411.


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As a leading equipment and services provider in the Korean film and broadcast market for more than 15 years, Besco has earned a strong reputation among its customers and partners. The company was the first to consult to leading broadcasters and post-production facilities on end-to-end file based workflows from content acquisition to delivery.
June 3, 2013, 11:09 am
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April 17, 2013, 10:46 am
Arqiva has established an innovative content ingest and delivery system based on Signiant's software that ushers in an elegantly simple and highly efficient approach to file-based workflow automation.
April 1, 2013, 4:50 am
At NABShow 2013 in Las Vegas next week, the market leader in software for intelligent file movement will demonstrate its FIMS implementation in action, and discuss the company's technical leadership in the development of the FIMS test harness and RESTful interfaces for FIMS...
March 27, 2013, 4:39 am
With super-simple interfaces delivered from the cloud, enterprise-class security, storage control and acceleration, Media Shuttle defines a new class of file sharing solution tuned for extreme files - high-value digital assets that may be tens or hundreds of gigabytes in size.
March 27, 2013, 4:39 am
CloudSpeX matches file types and metadata against a cloud-based directory of published specifications to ensure that assets comply with customer-defined delivery format requirements.
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Companies have long since had a need to share files.
February 12, 2013, 10:14 pm
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Feinzig joins Signiant from Sermo, the largest online physician community in the U.S., where as CFO, he helped scale the digital media company across multiple channels and regions. Prior to this, Feinzig was vice president of finance at Gomez - an Internet infrastructure company - during the time when the rapidly growing SaaS company was in the SEC filing process to go public and was sold to Compuware in a highly successful transaction.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey Senate has voted to ban treating or storing waste products created by natural gas drillers.
The legislation approved Monday also stops the use of waste water from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for deicing or suppressing dust.
The Senate passed the bill by a 33-4 vote. It has not yet been considered by the Assembly.
Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a similar measure passed by a prior Legislature, saying it appeared to violate the interstate commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Environmentalists say new information has emerged. There currently are no fracking operations in New Jersey.
The Senate bill deals with waste from out-of-state.


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ESTES PARK —High winds were expected to make it perilous overnight in the Marys Lake community southwest of Estes Park, as the Fern Lake fire blazes a few miles away.
Winds could gust up to 70 mph until about 3 a.m., and a critical "red flag" fire danger warning remains in effect until 6 a.m. Monday.
After 250 firefighters tried to hem in the fire Sunday, 150 were assigned to the fire overnight, mainly in home-protection mode, Sheriff Justin Smith told residents at a town meeting Sunday night.
He said he hoped the planning and concern were in vain, but he said residents should pack their most valuable belongings in advance and flee if they get the call.
"If it was me, and I had livestock, I'd have them out and ready to go," Smith said.
At 9 p.m., sustained winds were between 30 mph and 40 mph in the area.
Firefighting helicopters and air tankers were grounded Sunday afternoon because of winds, as ground crews shored up the perimeter. The Fern Lake fire started from and illegal campfire Oct. 9 in remote terrain and has spread to 3,580 acres, but as of Sunday evening, only a privately owned cabin has been lost. No firefighters have been injured in the steep, rough terrain of Rocky Mountain National Park.
If wind gusts push the fire into the treetops — as they did late Friday night and early Saturday morning — residents connected to about 1,100 phone lines could be forced to flee.
Authorities were concerned about the Marys Lake area, about 4 miles southwest of Estes Park.
"I don't really want to kick anybody out of their homes if I don't have to," Smith told the full house at the Estes Park meeting.
Pre-evacuation notices have been sent to phone lines west of Marys Lake Road, from Moraine Avenue and Rock Ridge Road South to Colorado 7 and Fish Creek Road.
He said once the wind dies down, authorities would have a much better idea of when existing evacuees would be able to go home.
The fire remained at 20 percent containment.
Residents of Estes Park were not on alert to evacuate Sunday night, however. The business district of Estes Park was hazy and smelled strongly of smoke Sunday morning.
"You expect it to be hot and smoky in the summer, but in December?" said Larry Airgood, manager of the Wynbrier Ltd., a wildlife gallery in Estes Park.
He speculated that wildlife in the fire zone would be OK unless the fire covered a great distance in a short time overnight.
"The fire has been burning for a while, so they've already done whatever they're going to do," Airgood said.
As with Colorado wildfires last summer, people with breathing problems should stay indoors and avoid exerting themselves, fire-information officer Traci Weaver said at the community meeting.
Early Saturday, wind gusts of up to 75 mph doubled the size of the blaze and pushed it 3 miles to the east in 35 minutes. At about 1 a.m. Saturday, residents of 583 homes along the Colorado 66 corridor were forced to leave and remained evacuated Sunday.
About 250 firefighters were on the scene Sunday, and "more are on the way," the sheriff said.
A Type 1 team of federally trained and funded firefighters took command of the battle from local authorities Sunday evening.
The fire is burning winter-dry grasses and dense lodgepole pines, but it primarily has lingered by consuming beetle-killed trees in abnormally dry conditions.
Windy conditions return Monday with gusts up to 45 mph. Breezy conditions could linger in the area until Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.
The overnight fire-danger warning included areas above 6,000 feet in elevation in central and southeast Park County, Boulder and Jefferson counties, and west Douglas County.
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According to Adam Rubin of ESPN New York, Assistant GM John Ricco said the team could still sign additional starting pitchers, despite the recent signing of lefthander John Lannan to a minor league contract.
It's probably a good idea to bring in another arm or two and have them compete this Spring and then provide the team with some depth at Triple-A in case we need it.
The good thing is that they do consider Mejia as the favorite for the fifth spot in the rotation and that deGrom and Montero are also options.
I can't wait for Spring Training to start already…
(Joe D.)
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The Mets signed former Washington Nationals lefthander John Lannan to a minor league deal on Saturday, but where does he fit in with the Mets staff?
He is certainly at a crossroads in his career. He's appeared in just twenty games over the course of the last two seasons and has been released by two different teams.
But he's just a couple of seasons removed from his 33 start, 182.2 inning season with the Nationals when he finished with a 3.70 ERA.
Still, I can't see him realistically competing for the number five spot in the rotation this spring.
As long as one of the young studs are ready to go – with Jenrry Mejia being the frontrunner – I don't see Lannan leapfrogging Mejia, Jake deGrom or possibly even Rafael Montero. The only pitcher really being challenged is Carlos Torres.
Torres is projected to be the long man/spot starter. He pitched well for the Mets in 2013 after being called up and earned himself the spot. It's Torres' to lose.
If Lannan's minor league contract includes an opt out if he's not called up by a certain date (like the one Torres had last year), he may possibly get a call-up by that date if he's pitching well in Vegas and the Mets need a fresh arm.
As far as making the Opening Day roster, unless he's the second coming of David Price, Lannan is likely competing for a job as the long reliever and hoping he'll get the nod because he's a lefty.


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Hello, all.
As some of you may know, e_mattis and I have been busy exploring the possibility of
a Puppy for the small and/or home business.
As hansol has stated recently, here
and in the following messages, a small entrepreneur can save a lot of money using
Puppy. Furthermore, he found that setting up a Puppy for business was easier than
doing so on another major distro.
e_mattis has already published his Small Business Puppy about 16 months ago, which
is focused on Point-of-Sale. It can be obtained at:
, but also at ally's Internet Archive,
Puppy section, and at Puppus DogFellows' more selective site.
As for me, I adopted another approach and opted for assembling in a single pet a
number of business templates and resources accessible through a icon and menu on
the desktop. It can be downloaded here:
It resulted from discussions on the general business thread on the French side of this
board, at:
If you know French, it's worth the effort. It's a great resource, if I may say so! You'll find
there a lot of useful URL's and projects for business, from both sides of the Atlantic,
not just in French.
Obviously, the business field is huge, and no one person can consider having all the
skills necessary to come up with a Business Puppy satisfying a majority of business
So we need help. I'll re-post a private post by Eric, which sums up nicely the type of
help that is needed to bring such a Puppy to fruition.
hey musher0,
(...) It would have to incorporate some accounting, some inventory, some time/
employee management, a POS, and possibly some advertising. Those are the main
areas I can think of at the moment. (...)
Contributions from Puppy-ists with Puppy and business experience in one of the fields
above will be welcome. We'd also like to hear from people having experience with co-
ops and / or community-business models, not just from single-operator and/or small
corporation-type businesses. Business is business, and we need all sorts of focuses
to enlighten the project at this point.
One level up from the nuts and bolts of putting an Enterprise Puppy together, ideas are
also welcome on the subjects of:
- financing (crowd-sourcing?) such a project (or not!), pros and cons, etc.
- what to watch for in dealing with / respecting GPL, BSD licences and the like,
- how to present the finished product (CD, USB, PuppyBox (?!), whatever) and
- pricing ? Or should it remain all free...
__ (A lot of work and added-value is going to go in in this project though. If free, how do
__ you motivate the contributors to a
- marketing the project generally.
Also, on the computer front:
- in your
(yes, experience,
opinion, please), is there a Puppy
version that would be best-suited for Puppy Enterprise. (This means
among other
a Puppy with drivers for not-so-old and current computers, with up-to-date wi-fi
and printing drivers.)
- thinking forward, would a Puppy Box be desirable for running a Puppy SOHO?
(Like, say, a modified ChromeBox.)
So this is a take-off for Puppy SOHO, on a wing and a prayer, for now!
Wish us luck if you can't contribute or give feed-back?!
Best to all. BFN.
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Location: Williamston, SC
Posted: Sun 18 May 2014, 17:50
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Well, in case anyone is interested, i've started collecting all the programs/files that went into the SBP in hopes of putting together something that resembles a general retail environment. Most of the retail systems I have encountered have 3 main bodies - the frontend, inventory, and back office.
Front end is mainly the point-of-sale operations and is closely fused with the inventory
The inventory system is just that - a means of accounting for the items /services being sold
The back office is where all the "paperwork" and such is being done. reports on sales, cash flow, inventory levels, etc. etc. The details involved in the back office particularly is an area which more information is needed.
As this project is an attempt to help the Small/Home business arena, I am sure there are avenues other than just retail that need to be explored. Ideas, suggestions, and assistance is appreciated!
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Posts: 517
Location: Pune, India.
Posted: Mon 19 May 2014, 01:17
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Hi musher0,
I can't give you experience, just some observations.
Working for a big automobile manufacturer in India, I have seen some small scale manufacturing units.
Their computers mainly have programs such as -
1) Tally ( For accounting and book keeping),
2) Autocad (Mainly for 2D drawings)
3) Catia (For 3D cad data)
4) PDF readers (Some drawings come in pdf format)
5) Outlook (For Emails)
6) Printers
7) scanners
8 ) Fax
9) Good hassle free network connector.
10) Nice browser.
And not everyone uses newer hardware.
Hope this helps.
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
- Ken Thompson
"We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run."
- Amara's Law.
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Posts: 6730
Location: Earth
Posted: Mon 19 May 2014, 12:46
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Excepting for the mainline 64bit distros and PhatSlacko, most every PUP still do not understand how to incorporate full-SAMBA in a single distro, even though newest V4 SAMBA has reduced its ISO footprint to 11MB. 01Micko makes one of the best I've ever seen (yours for the asking), For any business (or home office) solution, this is NOT an option,
it is a necessity
Also, one of the biggest problems that still exist in Puppyland is the notion that ISO size impacts system behavior, even though many understand the myth. Use, business-needs, ease-of-use, and system requirements are THE most important issues for
any system
. If a SOHO is built,
make it a SOHO!
Focus on benefit (and performance, if need) ... forget the size angle as this IS NOT IMPORTANT. Consider it to be best of breed for its purpose(s).
I just saw a demo of a consultant showing Business on a Tablet. He never, once, said anything about SIZE. But, did focus exclusively on benefit...benefit...benefit.
Hope this is helpful as you plan the directional offering(s)
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Posts: 12542
Location: Stratford, Ontario
Posted: Mon 19 May 2014, 13:00
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gcmartin wrote:
For any business solution, this is NOT an option, it is a necessity.
This comment surprises me. I would think that the last thing a business wants is for their employees to be setting up shared folders on their own machines. This is exactly how privileged data gets accidentally exposed to the rest of the world.
Is it not better to run a Samba server on the business network, through which employees can share data using Samba client tools?
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Location: Earth
Posted: Mon 19 May 2014, 13:09
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This is correct. I agree. But, you also KNOW that the SAMBA client allows offloading data, too AND that the SAMBA client is built into EVERY PUP. So, I'm a bit surprised you made that statement.
I was considering the Puppy focus of a internal PC providing the kinds of thing necessary to run a small business office where the Puppy machine can be either central or working together with other LAN elements where it is integrated.
The ability of the local administrator to manipulate his SOHO for his needs must include good and easy connectivity for the elements of their business needs. Thus, they can make the discretionary decisions appropriate for use in the home or to run the small office.
Hope this clarifies.
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Posts: 13524
Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada
Posted: Mon 19 May 2014, 17:43
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Many thanks, people !
Keep your ideas coming !
You have the kind of insights that this project needs!
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I was born to love and not to hate. (Sophocles)
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Posts: 12591
Location: Mer méditerrannée (1 kms°)
Posted: Tue 22 Jul 2014, 04:15
Post subject: Everybody can give his own opinion.
Subject description: Please take a glance at business category
Please take a glance at business category, and give your opinion to applications. That help a lot the newbies, avoiding testing what was found good ... or Bad.
There are so many with last post signed pelo. admnistrator will hate me !
There are 53 topics, Are they too many ? Perhaps Libre Office is enough ?
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LIBRE OFFICE has a small database.
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Posted: Sat 05 Mar 2016, 23:35
Post subject: MoneyDance please me
MoneyDance please me
As i only makes my accounts once a month, sometimes less, i use bank apps for other subjects. In Linux business means money.
When you work , he boss often don't let you know what is the value of operations. You deal with quantities.
These quantities are valued by the accounting department, or sales one, to define a sale price.
By using as currency Hours, kms (miles), kilogrammes, ... MB ! these apps can be used more than once a month at home.
For your shopping, or car overhaul.
Passenger Pelo ! don't ask him to repair the aircraft. Don't use him as a demining dog .... pleeease.
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Posted: Wed 09 Mar 2016, 08:13
Post subject: Moneydance is more for our financial minister
Subject description: than for the housekeeper.
after checking it Moneydance is more for our financial minister than for the housekeeper.
Passenger Pelo ! don't ask him to repair the aircraft. Don't use him as a demining dog .... pleeease.
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Once again politicians have shown contempt and ignorance. They took away term limits against the publics twice referendum. Now, in Flushing, for the benefit of businesses they intend to change traffic patterns on Main and Union Streets. I remind them if they had built the bus terminal planned over thrity years ago, there might not be a problem.
If they make Main St. north and Union south the result will be:
People going to Flushing, Queens Hosp, and Jamaica will have the equivalent of a 3 block walk from subway to their busses, and the sick, elderly, pregnant, et al who were never given even bus shelters much less a terminal to wait in will be further exposed to the weather elements.
There is money for stadiums, extension of subway, etc. etc., but nothing for pedestrians.
The stores along these routes already break the 36 inch law of extending their ware out on the sidewalks making walking
difficult. Now it would be even more so.
It is time to get rid of these "machine" politicians who are more for businesses than the people who elected them and pay their salaries.
Use the Municipal parking lot to fulfill the 30 year old promise of a bus terminal and thus eliminate the major cause of congestion. Enforce the no turn laws on the corner of Main and Roosevelt by putting police there at all times instead of sporadically.
Erect bus shelters like the ones Manhattanites have in abundance.
Vote out the politicians that ignore the will of the people.
Get rid of Bloomberg and his no term cohorts.
Restore the running and planned improvements to people who need them and know where they are needed and not too greedy
politicos and their friends.
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A bill aimed at stamping out wage discrimination was blocked Wednesday as too few senators voted to move forward with the legislation, the Wall Street Journal reported Nov. 17. The Paycheck Fairness Act was short by two votes.
The bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives last year and would have amended the Equal Pay Act to limit the defense that employers can use to respond to charges of wage discrimination based on sex, among other actions. In a press statement, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis said she would continue fighting for the legislation so "women are not treated as second class citizens by employers who refuse to compensate them in a fair and equitable manner."
You know what to do, contact your senator and tell them that you want them to stand up for equal pay.


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Nokia has taken an opportunity to go into some detail about the Lumia 925 and its antenna improvements, utilising the aluminium to wrap around the sides of the Windows Phone. The "ring" of metal acts as part of the phone's radio system, with stripes that separate the antennas (main antenna at the bottom with two more towards the top of the device) from the other sections of metal.
The blog post notes that whether the owner is on GSM, WCDMA or LTE, it will provide consistent performance, as well as adjusting the "balance of power" between the antennas depending on how the Lumia 925 is currently being held. Woah; crazy stuff. The end result is the same radio performance as one would expect from a wholly polycarbonate design, but with an interesting aluminium twist.
It's humorously noted that should a Lumia 925 user hold the phone with two hands covering each and every edge of the device, this will have a negative impact on the signal. But it's stated this is the case with every other mobile phone. So relax, folks. We're not going to see the repeat of what happened with a competitor product only to have Stephen Elop state that we're all holding the darn thing incorrectly.
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The traditional perparation method was to double boil the custard, but these days people steam it. I am not sure if double boil and steam produce same texture of custard, any ideas? To make it healthier, I used only eggwhites instead of whole eggs. You may adjust the amount of milk to obtain consistency desired.
Ingredients (2-3 servings):
3 large egg whites
360ml fresh milk
2 tbsp condensed milk
1 tbsp ginger juice (add more if desired)
- In a mixing bowl, bring together all ingredients and gently mix until sugar is dissolved.
- Strain the mixture then fill individual serving bowls or ramekins.
- Double boil over lowest heat for 15-20 minutes.
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Green Social Work: From Environmental Crises to Environmental Justice
Green Social Work: From Environmental Crises to Environmental Justice
ISBN: 978-0-745-65401-0 July 2012 Polity 200 Pages
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DescriptionSocial work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-key role in environmental issues that increasingly impact on people's well-being, both locally and globally.
This compelling new contribution confronts this topic head-on, examining environmental issues from a social work perspective. Lena Dominelli draws attention to the important voice of practitioners working on the ground in the aftermath of environmental disasters, whether these are caused by climate change, industrial accidents or human conflict. The author explores the concept of 'green social work' and its role in using environmental crises to address poverty and other forms of structural inequalities, to obtain more equitable allocations of limited natural resources and to tackle global socio-political forces that have a damaging impact upon the quality of life of poor and marginalized populations at local levels. The resolution of these matters is linked to community initiatives that social workers can engage in to ensure that the quality of life of poor people can be enhanced without costing the Earth.
This important book will appeal to those in the fields of social work, social policy, sociology and human geography. It powerfully reveals how environmental issues are an integral part of social work's remit if it is to retain its currency in the modern world and emphasize its relevance to the social issues that societies have to resolve in the twenty-first century.
1. Introduction
2. A Professional Crisis within Social and Environmental Calamities
3. Reclaiming Industrialization and Urbanization for People
4. Industrial Pollution, Environmental Degradation and People's Resilience
5. Climate Change, Renewable Energy and Solving Social Problems
6. Environmental Crises, Social Conflict and Mass Migrations
7. Environmental Degradation, Natural Disasters and Marginalization
8. Scarce Natural Resources and Inter-Country Conflict Resolution
9. Interrogating World Views: From Unsustainable to Sustainable Ways of Reframing Peoples' Relationships to Living Environments
10.Conclusions: Green Social Work
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"A very important and valuable argument for social work's engagement with environmental issues … Hopefully, it will be seen as a step along the path to a truly and deeply transformed social work."
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"A rallying cry for the 're-politicisation' of social work."
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"This book could not be more timely. The global crisis caused by climate change, environmental degradation, and food and water insecurity has created fertile ground for global inequalities. The role of social work in intersecting between people and policy can ensure that the human rights of the most vulnerable are protected and that socially just solutions are enacted. I applaud Lena Dominelli on her book and see it becoming a seminal social work text."
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"Lena Dominelli has done it yet again with another first in social work education! In Green Social Work, she combines her usual interests in human rights, poverty and inequality, and social justice with that of climate justice. Pragmatic intervention strategies and case studies are provided that make the book a necessary companion for educators, practitioners and students of social work and related disciplines."
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"Green Social Work makes an important contribution to explicating the links between the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Lena Dominelli convincingly argues that social workers are key to articulating the social with the environmental, and provides environmentalists with valuable insights into the ways in which societies' more vulnerable people and communities experience social-environmental disadvantage."
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- Compelling new book that presents a new social work perspective on environmental issues
- Argues that if social work's mission is to enhance people's well-being, then environmental issues have to be dealt with head-on
- Offers an optimistic solution to enhance the lives of marginalized communities by engaging with environmental issues under the auspices of 'green social work'
- Written by a respected and provocative world-leading social work academic


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The new Audi A3 will be present at next week's Paris Motor Show in Sportback form. It'll have five doors and a freshly revamped design. Unfortunately, and expectedly, we won't be getting the Sportback on our shores.
American's just don't care about hatchbacks, it's always been this way, so instead, we'll be getting the A3 Sedan. We'll have more on that model soon.
The Sportback is "long and lean," according to Audi. Though don't get too excited, it's still not as small as the last generation, if it was, you could color us impressed.
However, the new five-door model is only 35 millimeters longer between the axles than the three-door version, and that's actually something to write home about, especially when most new cars grow in drastic spurts.
The numbers get even better! The five door, when equipped with the 1.4 TSFI engine, tips the scales at an almost unheard of 2656 lb.. Seriously, there are only a handful of cars weighing that little produced today. If only they could make it that light with a quattro drivetrain…. This lightweight is thanks largely to Audis ultra lightweight design principle, saving as much as 200 lb. compared to the previous model.
We wouldn't really call the A3 a performance car, but of it's motor options, of which there are three, the 1.8 TFSI is the quickest. It churns out a modest 180hp and will jaunt to 60mph is 7.3s while topping out at 144mph. The funny thing is it gets the worst fuel mileage of the bunch, but it's still pretty stellar at 42mpg! This might just be the most fun and economical car to be released in the near future, at least affordably. Do you smell an A3 Sportback Cup? Hmm…
For those looking for even better efficiency, the 2.0 TDI gets the job done with 150hp and nets 63mpg, while only taking just over a second longer to get to 60mph. Past that is the 1.4 TSFI, the lightweight, making 122hp and getting 57.6mpg.
Either way, at least for Europe, the A3 Sportback sounds like it's going to be a hit, in any trim. It also seems like it'd be a great fit here in the US to compete with buyers looking for something nicer than a Prius, so hopefully the sedan doesn't let us down.


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"Being from New Orleans completely dominates my sense of style," said the actress, who's also starring in "Jayne Mansfield's Car," the forthcoming film directed by Billy Bob Thornton. "There is a drama and a funk to New Orleans. It's the last place people play it safe. They celebrate the vibrancy of life."
Following her divorce in 2010, LaNasa moved to the 950-square-foot bungalow to be near her son and his ill father, Dennis Hopper. The 1953 house was rundown and needed an update, but her priorities were not about remodeling but simply getting settled.
"Dennis was dying," she said. "I just wanted to be there for my son."
After Hopper died in May 2010, LaNasa, who had worked as an interior decorator before her acting career took off, decided to stay in Venice, where she viewed the nondescript tract home as a blank slate.


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