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Gamespot Score: 8.0 (Great)
My Score: 8.3
(+) Pros: - Makes exploring the first Yggdrasil Labyrinth fresh again, - New story mode brings us a cast of likable companions with colorful personalities, as well as a decent story, - Classic mode enhances the old EO formula from the original, - Brilliant character builds and team possibilities as usual, this time further enhanced by the Grimoire system, - New stratum exclusive to the game is a wonderful addition to the already great ones in the original game, - Many other neat little additions that spice up the experience.
(-) Cons: - Grimoires are random as shit, - One save file.
Gameplay Time: 50 Hours +
Here we are again with one of my favorite franchises from the brilliant minds at Atlus, "Etrian Odyssey". Having played every game in the series up to date, I refuse to stop at the very idea of a remake and instantly jumped in on the very opportunity I got my hands on the game. Of course, as with every game in the series before it, I enjoyed "Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl" to no end, and it was only a matter of time before my life was consumed by it. The dungeon crawling is as addictive as ever, drawing your own maps was still satisfying, discovering an old labyrinth with brand new characters that actually HAVE personalities was fun, and most of all, they tweaked the classes here and there, making experimenting for new builds and team combinations a freaking blast. Being a remake, there are a lot of small neat additions here and there, while the main marketed feature was a full blown story mode with fully voiced characters and proper scenarios, there's a lot more to "EOU" than you'd think, making it a refreshing, engrossing experience on its own.
You play as a nameless Highlander, a clan of ancient warriors pledged to keeping peace to the world and fighting for their unique sense of justice. By the order of your clan head, you are to head to Etria as the representatives of the Highlanders to answer their call for help regarding a new ruin that appeared out of nowhere. Once there, you report to Radha Hall and are given a task to prove yourself with. Once you do so, you are sent to the new labyrinth that's been causing all the trouble: Gladsheim. After some exploration, you come across a statis capsule that houses a young human girl dressed in weird clothing. She activates and awakens from her cold sleep, but a trio of adventurers nearby are attacked by a camel monster. Together with the girl who just awoke, the 5 of you take down the monster. The 3 then introduce themselves as adventurers from a foreign land, Lagard, they are here to study Gladsheim. The girl who awakens has amnesia, and wishes to follow you lot in hopes to regain her memories. Thus the 5 of you form a group dedicated to exploring this new, unknown ruin.
|Shopping for weapons...neat.
If you haven't played "Etrian Odyssey" before, then this is a great place to start. Not only is this the first "EO" game so many years ago that's been refined to be better than ever, it also has a new story mode attached to it to appeal more to the general JRPG audience. Whether or not you've played the first game before, this is an amazing pickup. While mostly similar, the Yggdrasil ruins of Etria have received minor tweaks here and there to be slightly more interesting for veteran explorers. Some FOE placements have been adjusted, some floors have been slightly remapped, and of course, improved visuals are a welcome addition. For new explorers, this is even better, the very first Yggdrasil labyrinth proves to be one of the most challenging and interesting ones in the entire franchise, this is a wonderful opportunity to jump right in.
The Yggdrasil Labyrinth is fun and all, but let's talk about the main reason why people even want to give this remake a second look: the story mode. In every vanilla "EO" game, you simply create your team of characters and off you go, there isn't much "characterization" or "personality" in your characters beyond the portraits which you choose for them. Its more about going around and completing missions or quests where you get dialogue from the NPCs that you decide to help, your characters are always silent protagonists. For once, the Story Mode in "EOU" gives us a full team of fleshed out characters plus a single, silent protagonist which makes choices in certain story segments, "Persona style". These guys make comments while exploring the labyrinth, they groan when attacking, they cry in pain when hit, just like how any party member in a story driven RPG would. Its definitely a nice touch, especially since we get so many extra cut scenes with them around, it makes the journey a lot more entertaining since we actually have companions this time around. And these guys are likable, I can easily say that I grew attached to them throughout the entire journey...they're cool people that manage not to hit too many cliche JRPG character troupes.
|You crab f**k!
The story as well...its actually decent enough. Other than the main heroine, there isn't much significant character development for the other guys throughout the course of the plot, but the game does do a good enough job for us to like them. Certain bits and pieces of the story get revealed the deeper you head into both the labyrinth and Gladsheim, things are intriguing enough to keep us playing, in my opinion. If you play the story mode, you're in for a different kind of "EO" experience. However, if you choose the classic mode, the mode that persists from the original, there are some changes as well. Admittedly, even though its mostly the same as before, voiceovers for NPCs, 3DS specific features like the guild house, grimoires, and a slightly changed labyrinth make for a fairly refreshing experience through a familiar journey.
Being a first person dungeon crawler/RPG, the game plan is simple and is the same as the previous "EO" games. You traverse a massive 30 level labyrinth, each level with its own unique layout, map out that level while battling monsters, doing quests, gathering resources and avoiding FOEs, then locate the stairs and move on to the next level. Its a fairly straightforward concept that's incredibly fun and in depth, the amount of things you can do in each level is massive. After going through some floors you are greeted with a boss of the stratum, in which beating will have you move on to the next stratum, which has its own themes. In the story mode you are immediately given 5 characters with fixed classes that can be changed at a later time, for the classic mode, you create a team of your own 5 guys. As usual, each class has their own skill tree and you can build them differently, plus, creating your own combination of classes with their own specific builds is pretty fun and satisfying.
|The poison, cure the poison, Simon.
While that by itself is fun, "EOU" introduces a brand new grimoire system. This pretty much allows your characters to have skills that are exclusive to enemies and other classes. In "EOU" there's something called a grimoire chance, which occurs during battle and gives your character a chance to create a grimoire stone. This stone can inherit skills to it based on the character's action AND the action of the monster he/she is facing. Upon generating the stone, it may contain skills of the character who made it, it may contain skills of monsters, or both. Either way, this stone can be equipped by another character and he/she can use the skills in that stone. This is, strictly speaking from an experimental standpoint, pretty damn cool, as you open up even more opportunities for party building and team combinations. Imagine an Analysis/Dilution, spear assisting Highlander...that dude is going to do some nasty, nasty damage.
Another new addition to the game, something that I mentioned earlier, is the introduction of the new labyrinth, Gladsheim. This is as good as another brand new stratum that you'll be exploring throughout the game's story. You won't be able to go through the whole thing from the get-go though, part of Gladsheim will be unlocked as you finish the main stratums in the Yggdrasil Labyrinth. Its a fun new stratum that's as good as the other ones in the game, though you'll take awhile before you can see it all.
|Death, death right in front of you.
In addition to all that, "EOU" gives us even more to play with. There's now a guild mansion that you can go back to in town, which is attended to by an actual maid, a housekeeper. Its here you can do all your streetpass sharing with friends and mess around with your grimoire stones. You can further enhance the possibilities of your characters by fusing and creating new grimoire stones with even more skill combinations. As for the maid, Rosa, she gives you power ups as the keeper of the mansion, and as you proceed throughout the game you get even more house keepers which can give you different kinds of power-ups before you leave for a labyrinth expedition.
|Rosa...whatever will we do without you.
As for the cons of the game, I only have 2 major complaints. Grimoires, while fun and interesting (they bring a whole lot of experimentation to the game), are incredibly random and sometimes frustrating to hunt for. Especially during the later stages of the game, where the game is incredibly hard on its default difficulty (expert, of course), GOOD grimoires are pretty much mandatory. The grimoire skill selection process is so random that its SO HARD to get high leveled skills. Finally, with 2 modes to the game, Story and Classic, having only ONE save file is almost a crime and outright ridiculous. I don't want to have to delete my story mode save file to play the game again in classic mode. I understand it if its a vanilla EO game with only a single, classic mode, but here? Come on Atlus.
All in all I'd call "EOU" a successful remake of the original "EO" game. With "EO2" sitting on my desk ready to be played, I cannot wait to see what else Atlus has to offer in terms of these remakes. Also, with "EO5" on the horizon, I'm so glad to see that the franchise is still doing well enough to garner this many games. "EO" is definitely one of my favorite dungeon crawling franchises, and its nice to see it still grow.
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Early Intervention, The Child Trust Fund and Cuts
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The age of austerity is spoken of without a second thought now, but spending cutbacks are relative to a situation, and for the past 10 years of financial boom (that is before the crash) it might appear that throwing money at problems was the UK solution, particularly at a local level.
This resulted in many different agencies, not working joined-up, to try and solve problems and/or find solutions, while treading on the toes of other frontline workers in the process.
Take Sure Start for example, one of the very best initiatives to be attributed to the New Labour Party of its time in office. Sure Start once had a 'Children's Centre' model, it has slowly over time developed into an 'arm' of the welfare state by emphasising "getting mothers into work" and spotlighting teenage years, rather than focusing on early years and early interventions.
A demos report on parenting entitled Building Character took note of Sure Start in the section on policy directions pointing out there is not only a strategic risk of losing focus, but also economic dangers in doing work in an area that is already the remit of another public service.
There are a great deal of initiatives set up to try and get Mothers back into work and many more still whose role it is to spotlight teenagers – perhaps predictably the age of prosperity was the age of money wasting. Along with the bursting of the housing bubble in America, the economy soon was to be damned, for which we will pay, in spite of bailouts.
What was necessary thereafter was to fix what we shall call the double-spending problem in public services.
The advent of internet shopping has bought about what is known as e-money (as you can guess, this is money that is redeemable online), and this money is easy to duplicate. So, the boffs started to work out ways to rectify what had started to be called the double-spending problem. Those boffs made tracks to solve this problem by making it so every time e-money was spent a computer bank is notified to take note of every sale (so as to curb duplication).
Public spending has is its very own double-spending problem, though fortunately government have their very own cohort of boffs and they have realised the Total Place initiative.
The initiative, currently in its pilot stage in several authorities including Birmingham, aims to join up different services in the public sector with the intention of re-emphasising roles and remits, removing communication barriers between services which ought to be more joined up (as any frontline worker will inform, communication features as a major problem between, say for example, those working within children's services and those working in mental health services, who would both benefit a great deal if communication barriers were removed – which in many instances they are – on a wider, national scale) and eventually making it far easier to ascertain what, and what is not, value for money.
With children's services – in 2008\9 costing £63.18bn of the £620.685bn of total spending (around 10%) – it is crucial at once to recognise that austerity should definitely not affect some areas, but a sensible strategy be employed to identify where spending should reallocated to.
The Action for Children/NEF document Backing the Future made the very important and plausible case that spending should remain in carefully targeted areas of early intervention, in spite of the looming time where many areas of the public sector will be fighting over money from a smaller pot. Their report claimed to prove that "a 10-year investment of £191 billion in targeted interventions, such as working with families to keep children out of the care system, or improving parenting skills, will deliver a net return of £269 billion" though assured us that if at first this looks like a tremendously huge sum of money, to compare it with "the £4 trillion cost over 20 years of continuing with the current paradigm under which we continue to pay the costs of what are preventable social problems."
Furthermore, these sums are only the ones they would declare to the treasury; their estimates are "for every £1 invested annually, between £7.60 and £9.20 of social value is generated for individuals, families, communities and other local services."
One measure I suggest we don't cut is the Child Trust Fund (savings and investment account for children born on or after 1 September 2002 which the government adds a £250 voucher to, in order to start their account, which can be topped up by parents, family or friends to a maximum of £1,200 a year). At an event on the CTF held by the Fabian Society recently, Carey Oppenheim of the IPPR, to the question of whether the fund was a wasteful use of public spending, replied no, adding that it was a small price to pay for something that has so much potential in social value, noting that it was an easy target for cuts because there would be, strictly speaking, "no losers".
David White of The Children's Mutual also added that it would be invaluably beneficial for "youngsters to arrive at adulthood with … opportunity" such as is the potential of the fund.
Critics may see it as wasteful, but they forget the added social value of it, others may see it as demonstrating the government's need to rely on assets in their welfare schemes, but they forget that the child trust find should not be seen as party political, but as an inexpensive gesture. Though further, as something that can actually go a long way for children when their transition into adulthood comes, much like is the case for early intervention initiatives also, which for the reasons I've explained, should be spared the axe.

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COMMENT Australia's Attorney-General, Nicola Roxon, yesterday introduced a Discussion Paper on Privacy Breach Notification (PDF).
The release of the paper almost certainly caused cheers in the vendor community, as The Reg is aware of at least one multinational software company that has made breach notification laws the centrepiece of its lobbying efforts because they will instantly expand the market for its products.
While some Reg readers may therefore feel relieved that every day such laws stay off the statute books is a day on which they don't have to buy or implement that software, a more pragmatic view of the paper's release could ask why the government has chosen to initiate a discussion about such laws after it commenced discussion on data retention laws.
Australia, as the Discussion Paper noted, agreed that such legislation was a good idea back in 2008, when the Australian Law Reform Commission delivered a major review into the Privacy Act. Many of the recommendations from that review have since been enacted but breach disclosure laws have not.
The paper also notes that the EU and other nations around the world got this kind of law up years ago and have, especially in the USA, commenced a second generation of debate to fine-tune the laws.
All of which means debate on breach notification could have started years ago.
The Discussion Paper therefore goes over a lot of old ground, and the questions it says need answering could have been asked at any time since 2008. Those questions, for the record, are:
- Should Australia introduce mandatory data breach notification laws?
- What kind of breaches should trigger notification requirements?
- Who should decide whether notification is necessary?
- What should be reported and how quickly?
- How should a notification requirement be enforced?
- Who should be subject to a mandatory data breach notification law?
All of those questions become rather more pressing in the light of Australia's proposed data retention regime.
A better question may therefore be: "Why is Australia only considering these questions now, when such legislation has been operating elsewhere for a while without any notable problems?"
The answer is likely to lie in political priorities that have made other issues more important.
Roxon therefore seems to be asking worthy questions, but at the wrong time. And with time running out for this government, it seems unlikely these questions will be answered in a timely fashion for those with the most to lose – Australia's citizens. ®


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CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS – Many Americans have forgotten, or never learned about, the Alger Hiss case. One of the most dramatic trials of the 20th century, it helps explain not only the rise of McCarthyism in the early 1950s and the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, but also the contemporary roles of Rush Limbaugh, Ted Cruz and the tea party.
The Hiss case casts light on why conservatives and liberals are suspicious of each other, on their different attitudes toward elitism, on their understandings of patriotism and on the parallel universes in which they seem to live.
In his 1948 testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Whittaker Chambers, a writer and editor for Time magazine and a former communist, identified Hiss as a Communist.
Hiss adamantly denied the charge. He said he didn't know anyone named Whittaker Chambers. Encountering his accuser in person, Hiss spoke directly to him: "May I say for the record at this point that I would like to invite Mr. Whittaker Chambers to make those same statements out of the presence of this committee without their being privileged" [against judicable claims of libel]?
Chambers took Hiss' bait. In an interview on national television, Chambers repeated his charges. In response to the libel suit, he produced stolen State Department documents and notes that seemed to establish not merely that Hiss was a communist, but that he had spied for the Soviet Union. Hiss was convicted of perjury.
The conviction was stunning, for Hiss had been a member of the nation's liberal elite. A graduate of Harvard Law School and a law clerk for the revered Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, he held positions of authority in the Agriculture, Justice and State departments. He was tall, handsome, elegant, gracious, even dashing.
At his 1949 perjury trial, an extraordinary number of liberal icons served as character witnesses for Hiss, including two Supreme Court justices (Stanley Reed and Felix Frankfurter); John W. Davis, who was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1924; and Adlai Stevenson, who was to become the Democratic nominee for the presidency in 1952 and 1956.
By contrast, Chambers was short, plump and badly dressed. He was a college dropout. After abandoning communism, he became a conservative and a Christian, and he saw the 20th century as a great battle between communism on one hand and religious devotion on the other.
When Chambers initially made his charges, many people, especially on the left, thought he must have been motivated by some personal grievance against Hiss. Chambers responded:
"Mr. Hiss represents the concealed enemy against which we are all fighting and I am fighting. I have testified against him with remorse and pity, but in a moment of history in which the nation now stands, so help me God, I could not do otherwise."
As Chambers detailed his relationship with Hiss and their joint work with the Communist Party in the mid-1930s, the sheer accumulation of personal details threw Hiss' denials into serious doubt.
Chambers knew a lot about Hiss' son and wife, his hobbies, his various apartments, his automobiles and more. In explaining his relationship with Chambers (whom he ultimately acknowledged knowing), Hiss spoke with apparent conviction, but he also seemed to offer an odd brew of evasions and concoctions.
The Hiss case split the country. Many liberals thought that Chambers was a liar and perhaps a madman. Chambers explained their reaction in a way that fit with, and helped spur, a widespread view on the right: "The simple fact is that when I took up my little sling and aimed at Communism, I also hit something else.
"What I hit was the forces of that great socialist revolution, which, in the name of liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat formlessly, but always in the same direction, has been inching its ice cap over the nation for two decades."
From the beginning, Hiss contended that Chambers intended "to discredit recent great achievements of this country in which I was privileged to participate," including the New Deal.
Among conservatives, Chambers became a hero, and his 1952 autobiography, "Witness" (moving, poetic, an unforgettable mixture of pessimism, spirituality and hope), was an instant classic.
Most of those who have carefully studied the case, and who have explored evidence emerging long after the trial itself, have concluded that Chambers was telling the truth and that Hiss did indeed perjure himself. But the legacy of the case extends well beyond the issue of Hiss' guilt.
Chambers' broader charge — that liberalism was a species of socialism, "inching its ice cap over the nation" — polarized the nation. His attack on the patriotism of the Ivy League elite reflected an important strand in American culture, and it helped to initiate suspicions that persist to this day.
Liberals are no longer much interested in Hiss' conviction, yet they are puzzled, and rightly object, when they are accused of holding positions that they abhor.
We can't easily understand those accusations, contemporary conservative thought or the influence of the tea party without appreciating the enduring impact of the Hiss case.
Cass R. Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University professor at Harvard Law School, is a Bloomberg View columnist. He is the former administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and the co-author of "Nudge" and author of "Simpler: The Future of Government." E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Here are selected articles by Florence Barrett-Hill taken from Beautymagonline.com, an online magazine style blog Florence pioneered back in 2001, and was online for 18 years. -Enjoy!
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Florence Barrett-Hill is an internationally acclaimed dermal science educator, practitioner, researcher, and author with a vast experience covering all aspects of professional aesthetic therapy and paramedical skin care.
Florence's special area of expertise is effective skin analysis and has written numerous books and developed many specialist training programs around that topic. During the late 1990's, Florence began developing The Pastiche Method® of advanced skin analysis; a progressive and effective technique to more accurately determine skin types and skin conditions. The method focuses on the cause of skin conditions to appropriately target interventions as opposed to treating the symptoms only.
Today, the method has been adopted or assimilated in to many skin diagnostic procedures practiced by skin care professionals around the world, and is an integral part of curriculums of progressive aesthetics and skin care colleges.
Florence has trained both generic and brand specific philosophies, understanding the wide range of treatment modalities, and their place in the industry. With wide experience from owning and operating clinics, through to paramedical technical experience in the post operative care of burns survivors and plastic surgery patients and the formulation of skin care products, Florence is a uniquely talented industry practitioner who intimately knows her subject and is passionate about continually raising the standards of professional beauty therapy and skin care.


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Osteoarthritis, also called degenerative joint disease, happens when the cartilage in a joint breaks down. Cartilage allows the bones in a joint to glide over one another. When the cartilage breaks down, the bones rub together. This causes pain, swelling, and loss of motion. Osteoarthritis most often affects the hands, neck, lower back, knees, and hips.
Your healthcare provider can help you find ways to reduce pain, move better, and protect your joints from further injury. Changes in your daily activities can also help. These changes may include weight management, exercise, pain control, joint protection, and medication. If these don't help, surgery may be an option.
Weight management
Extra weight can put stress on your joints and increase pain. This happens most often in the weight-bearing joints, such as your hips, knees, and ankles.
Weight loss is not easy, but even losing a small amount of weight can help. Talk with your healthcare provider about ways to lose weight. Diet changes and exercise can help. A dietician or nutritionist can help you with eating healthy. In some cases, medication or weight loss surgery may help.
Exercise is a key part of arthritis care. Exercise strengthens the muscles that support your joints. It also lessens joint pain and stiffness. And, it helps to improve your overall health. You should try to do a variety of exercises to build strength and improve your lung and heart health. All exercises burn calories and can help you lose weight. It is critical to talk with your healthcare provider prior to starting an exercise routine. Your healthcare provider can help you determine what type of exercise routine and intensity level is best for you. Your healthcare provider may also be able to give you handouts on exercise techniques or refer you to a physical therapist to learn the optimal exercise routine for your needs.
|A man uses resistance band to strengthen his shoulders and arms.
The types of exercise are:
- Strengthening exercises. These can be done with exercise bands or resistance bands (inexpensive exercise aids), or with weights.
- Aerobic activities. These exercises keep your heart and lungs strong. Moderate aerobic activity for 30 minutes most days of the week is recommended. You can even break it up into three 10-minute increments. Activities such as swimming, walking, cycling are good choices.
- Range of motion/stretching activities. These can lessen pain and stiffness and help you move better.
- Balance exercises. These help you maintain balance and improve your daily living. Yoga and tai chi are excellent examples.
Start exercising slowly each time by gently moving your joints. Warm up for at least 5 to 10 minutes before any exercise. Talk with your healthcare provider:
- Before starting an exercise program or adding new exercises to your daily routine
- When a joint becomes painful or swollen
- About taking pain medication or using ice or heat before or after you exercise
Joint protection
To lessen pain and protect your joints from further damage you should:
- Balance rest with activity. It's important to be active and to exercise every day. But, you should rest in between periods of activity.
- Take care of your joints. There are things you do every day that can make your joint symptoms worse. And, there are better ways of doing those same things. For example:
- Store heavy kitchen items at waist-height so that you can easily get to them.
- Use aids like long-handled graspers and jar-openers.
- Recognize pain. If your joints hurt more than usual, you may have done too much.
- Sleep. It's important to get enough sleep each night. Sleep gives your energy to be active during the day. It also helps you to feel better overall. If you are having trouble sleeping, or don't feel rested when you wake up, talk with your healthcare provider.
Over-the-counter and prescription medications can help reduce the pain and stiffness from osteoarthritis. They include:
- Pills, topical medication (rubbed on the skin), and injections into the joint
- Pain relievers, such as acetaminophen, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), like ibuprofen
It's very important that you talk with your healthcare provider before taking any medication for arthritis. Even medications that are available without prescription can cause serious side effects. Some can make other medical problems worse and interfere with other medications.
Each person reacts differently to these medications. If one medication doesn't work for you, your provider may prescribe a different one.
Pain control
Although medications can help control most arthritis pain, you can also try:
- Relaxation techniques. Deep breathing, yoga, or easy stretching can help.
- Cold and heat. Applying ice packs, moist heat, or hot showers and baths can help lessen pain and stiffness. Ask your healthcare provider what he or she suggests.
- Other methods. Massage, acupuncture, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation or TENS (a small device that delivers light impulses to the nerves) can also help.
If other treatments don't work for your arthritis, you may need surgery.
- Arthroscopic surgery. During arthroscopic surgery, the healthcare provider uses a special tool called an arthroscope to see and work inside your joint. It may be done to remove loose or damaged cartilage and bone. It can also be used to smooth or reposition bones.
- Joint replacement surgery. Joint replacement surgery is when the damaged joint is replaced with new man-made joints. The knee and hip joints are replaced most often.
Talk with your healthcare provider about the benefits and risks of these procedures.
There are many ways to handle the pain of osteoarthritis. Work with your healthcare provider to figure out what's best for you.
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Isaiah S. and Martha Lang papers, Series I, Box 1, Folder 3: Calvin Clark, 1858
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|Isaiah Sanborn Lang, a farmer, was born in 1823 and lived in Candia Village, New Hampshire. Lang married Martha Ladd in 1848, and they had several children. The papers of Isaiah S. and Martha Lang span the period 1858 to 1928 and consist of correspondence to Lang and his wife from various relatives and a small amount of business records. Approximately one-half of the correspondence is from Lang's maternal uncle, David M. Sanborn. All the Sanborn correspondence was written from Maryland locations, including Baltimore City, Marriottsville (Howard County), and Hanover (Howard County). In his letters, Sanborn calls himself an abolitionist, although he mentions his slave, Elize, several times. He also discusses economic and social conditions in Baltimore during the Civil War. Additional correspondents of the Isaiah and Martha Lang include relatives who moved to the frontier area of Minnesota: Ann Jane Campbell, A. E. Clay, Elizabeth Clay, James P. Clay and Ursula Stone. These letters contain economic and domestic information about frontier farming in Minnesota. A teacher friend, W. A. Worthen, of Laurel, Maryland also wrote several letters to Isaiah Lang describing his new life in the "South" and providing information about Lang's uncle, David M. Sanborn. Complete information may be found in the finding aid to the collection at: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1250.
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White Papers e Application Notes
Modeling Microwave Waveguide Components: The Tuned Stub
The waveguide device modeled here specifically demonstrates the exploration of a small, but very important, subset of components of the family of microwave hardware devices designed to facilitate the optimized transfer of power from the generating source to the consuming load. Each of those components is called, in electronics terminology, a Tuned Stub.
A stub is a length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected to the active circuit at one end only. This paper models a rectangular waveguide with three adjustable stubs distributed along the upper surface of the waveguide. The waveguide stubs are hollow, as is the waveguide, and they are each electromagnetically connected to the inner cavity, at right angles to the central axis of the waveguide via an aperture in the wall of the waveguide. In this case, three (3) stubs have been added along the length of the waveguide to optimize the tuning performance.
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On raising a son on the autism spectrum, progressive politics, pop culture, and coffee addiction.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Goodbye tonsils, hello ice cream!
I have tried to be honest about it. Really, I have. We read Curious George Goes to the Hospital, and I pointed out all of the things that happened to George that will also happen to him. I told him about waking up with a sore throat. I told him about losing his voice for a while. But for Bud, the operation means two things: presents and snacks.
His surgery is not scheduled until 11:00 a.m., which means we'll have a long, breakfast-free morning - particularly problematic in light of his new medication-induced appetite. So here's the plan:
He can eat solids until midnight. He's asleep now, but I told him that I'd wake him up at 11:00, and he'll be able to eat whatever he wants. He's downright giddy about it.
He can have clear fluids until 9:00 a.m. I've explained that on Operation Days, the doctor says that you have to have apple juice, Popsicles, and jello for breakfast. Bud thinks this is his kind of doctor.
Bud told me that after an operation, you get to have presents. That are wrapped. That include movies. And toys. I have taken careful notes.
I told Bud that because of his sore throat he'll need to have Popsicles and jello and ice cream and juice and yogurt and applesauce until he feels better. He did the pre-surgery grocery shopping with me. I said "yes" a lot. He can't believe his good fortune.
His backpack is packed with his stuffed bear and a stack of Tubbies, George, and Pooh DVDs for the recovery room. I've promised to download Dierks Bentley Live from Bonnaroo to his iPod before we leave, despite the fact that iTunes warns me of explicit lyrics (but, really, how bad can it be?) Bud is feeling good and is prepared to take the operating room by storm.
Of course, I understand that all this may change the moment we enter the hospital tomorrow, or even the moment I remind him that there will be no toast for breakfast. But I'm rolling with it for now, and keeping my fingers crossed, and hoping that he's not too angry with me when he wakes up tomorrow with a sore throat like no sore throat he's ever had before.
But one step at a time.
For now, I'm planning out the menu for our midnight breakfast, and I'm sending out this post to ask all you thinkers and prayers and senders of energy to channel a little of that thought and prayer and energy this way tomorrow.
We'd be happy to send you some ice cream in return.
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- Ms. TK said...
The elves are sending good thoughts your way.
Pop by my blog if you don't know what I mean.
What is Bud's favorite flavor? The girls are digging the slow-churned peppermint - so seasonal, you know.
- December 11, 2007 9:23 PM
- Maddy said...
Sending some right along post haste! I'm so much on automatic pilot in the mornings that when I was going into hospital myself I duct taped the coffee machine so that I wouldn't scupper my chances in the wee small hours.
Best wishes and best of luck
This is my calling card or link"Whittereronautism"until blogger comments get themselves sorted out.
- December 11, 2007 9:36 PM
- gretchen said...
Oh, you both sound so brave! My spirit will be right there with you in the waiting room, holding your hand, trying not to cry. (I'm such a big baby).
Don't worry, and hurry up and post tomorrow to let us know how it went.
- December 11, 2007 10:06 PM
- Ami said...
Thinking of you both.
Not easy to get through.
Please update as soon as you can.
And keep the ice cream. You and Bud can eat it, I don't need the extra calories.
- December 11, 2007 10:10 PM
Good luck to the both of you! I've never had my tonsils out, so I have no idea what happens. :) You`ll both be fine.
Explorations in Life
- December 11, 2007 10:11 PM
- kirsten said...
best wishes from us - sounds like you've been honest but positive about it, which i'm sure is the right thing.
- December 11, 2007 10:20 PM
- kristen spina said...
Good luck! The midnight breakfast sounds wonderful and I hope Bud is able to hold on to his good spirits throughout.
I'll be thinking of you and sending good thoughts your way. I hope you are bringing someone along to hold your hand in the waiting room.
- December 11, 2007 10:21 PM
- Jen said...
Oh good luck tomorrow! For what it's worth, good fried of ours had her daughter's adenoids out this summer - and was surprised at how quickly she recovered. Fast healing to Bud! He deserves it :o)
- December 11, 2007 10:34 PM
- Ange said...
Prayers and thoughts to you guys. Is it outpatient or overnight? Bubba pretty much just slept the whole day, then he was crabby, and then he was bouncing off of the walls. He wasn't quite 5 though. My one warning? If Bud doesn't like medicine (he will probably have to take pain medicine and maybe an antibiotic) watch out for the flying IV block. Those things HURT! In anycase, any surgery is scary in my opinion although the hospital people will tell you over and over again it is more scary for the parents than the kids. Trying to make light for you, but I would be a nervous wreck too.
- December 11, 2007 10:41 PM
- MOM-NOS said...
Kristen, the hospital only allows one person to go in with Bud for the pre-op and post-op time, and since the surgery itself is pretty quick that will be the bulk of the time he's there, so I'll be doing this one solo. I've got lots of people who will be sitting by phones, ready to spring into action, though, so I think we'll be in good hands!
Ange, if all goes well it will be day surgery, but they're prepared to admit him if he's having a hard time of things. I'll have a bag packed and waiting in the trunk, just in case.
Breaking news: the midnight breakfast was a success. Bud scarfed down a metric ton of food almost without opening his eyes, then fell back to sleep without a fuss. So far, so good...
- December 11, 2007 11:53 PM
- Stimey said...
I'll be thinking of you guys. I hope Bud enjoys his ice cream!
- December 11, 2007 11:59 PM
- graceunderautism said...
sounds like you have a really great plan in place. I think I will have to tuck it away for just incase. I can't imagine what the reaction to the "sore throat" will be. I know my J can't even stand a normal one from a cold or allergies. Prayers are coming yours and Bud's way. I hope everything goes just as planned.
- December 12, 2007 12:03 AM
I was 8 when I had my tonsils out and the hospital only had banana and root beer popsicles.....and THAT really was the worse part!!!!!
I did carry a dixie cup around with me for a few days so I could spit and not swallow!
and I'm remembering pooka shells!!!! (a tonsillectomy day gift!) Good Times!
Sending good thoughts and prayers to you and Bud.
So jealous you went to see Dierks! ....He didn't come to town this year (and I live in his hometown!)
I have all the moms, dads, parapros and teachers sending letters to get the idiots to stop the ransom campaign.....Hope we can stop the madness!
- December 12, 2007 12:20 AM
Sending you our prayers and good wishes for Bud's recovery.
Keep the faith,
- December 12, 2007 1:06 AM
- mommy~dearest said...
We'll be thinking of you, and hoping for a speedy recovery!
- December 12, 2007 5:55 AM
- Maggie Rosethorn said...
Best of luck to you and Bud; the worst part for my daughter was the taste of the liquid pain medication (she still, 13 years later, refuses liquid medications). Bud will be in my thoughts. Let us all know how it went.
- December 12, 2007 7:11 AM
- Beth Allums said...
Oh Bud. Poor Baby.
I just had my tonsils out at 33 in Sept. I am glad he gets to do it now, because it was not fun as a grown up. Please take it easy, NO Dairy for a few days! (mucus issues) applesauce and oodles of noodles are good. Take it easy, and cuddle a lot.
Keep us posted.
Watch out for scabs coming off too early, soft food for longer than you think you need it. And keep the pain meds coming, and lots of rest.
- December 12, 2007 10:35 AM
- Niksmom said...
By the time you see this, Bud will be tonsil-free. I've been thinking of you guys for days already so the universe has all the good wishes for you both to have a low-stress, low-oain experience! xoxo
- December 12, 2007 1:38 PM
- Jenn said...
What a little trooper! I hope today went well. Sending up prayers for the little guy right now. Will be anxiously awaiting an update.
- December 12, 2007 2:03 PM
- kristina said...
Hope it went well-------the popsicle diet may be just the thing!
- December 12, 2007 4:51 PM
- Daisy said...
Hugs to Bud...and to you. Here's hoping you have a minimum of worry and his surgery goes smoothly.
- December 12, 2007 9:21 PM
Sending lots of love and good vibes your way.
xoxo karen in ca
- December 13, 2007 10:49 AM
- floating in space said...
Sending wishes for a speedy, ice cream-filled recovery!
- December 13, 2007 12:53 PM
- Susan said...
Having my tonsils out was a high point of my life. This was back in 1965, and I read Curious George Goes to the Hospital and loved it! I loved my new fuzzy pink bathrobe and the little gifts in the pockets. LOVED all the ice cream. The whole thing was a major treat. I'm writing this after reading your post-surgery post, so I know it went great for Bud too. Hooray!!!!
- December 13, 2007 8:30 PM
- Susan said...
Edit: I just read that CGGTTH was published in 1966! So that must have been the year of my tonsillectomy.
- December 13, 2007 8:32 PM


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Since I was last on call, the hospital has installed these signs in the bathrooms (sorry for the bad picture, it's a cheap cell phone camera).
Given the IQ's of some of the folks I deal with, and how they tend to take everything quite literally. I would NOT want to be on the hospital janitorial staff these days.


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Gaming at CES to Span Kinect-Like Controls for PCs, But Nothing Major From Nintendo
Nintendo will be exhibiting for the first time at the Consumer Electronics Show in 16 years, but don't expect the game-console maker to announce anything substantial this week.
Rather than competing among the throng of exhibitors attempting to be noticed at the show, Nintendo will host a private event in two weeks to preview its 3DS, a new handheld game player that provides a 3D experience without the need for special glasses.
Invitations to the Jan. 19 event in New York City have already been sent to reporters, who will have the opportunity to play games on the device, watch demonstrations and hear a presentation from President and COO of Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime.
So, without major news coming from Nintendo, what else can we expect at CES from the gaming space?
We'll be watching for news from among more than 35 exhibitors that are attending from the games industry. They include AMD, HP, Intel, LevelUp, Logitech, Microsoft, Nintendo, Nokia, Sony, Alcazar Entertainment, Cosmi, DC Comics/Warner and DreamWorks Animation, and gaming retailers, such as Amazon and GameStop.
One of the stars will likely be Microsoft's Kinect, the Xbox accessory that uses cameras to track a player's movements to allow them to play games without a traditional controller.
In all likelihood, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who kicks off CES with a pre-show keynote address on Wednesday, will use the venue to brag about the Kinect's runaway success.
This holiday season Microsoft expected to sell 5 million Kinects after saying it sold 2.5 million Kinects in the first 25 days. It's been sold-out at many retailers for weeks, but we haven't heard whether it met its 2010 target. At least, not yet.
Microsoft is banking on the Kinect to widen the demographic of the Xbox beyond the hardcore gamer, so widespread adoption will be key.
Another company that is already getting attention in the days leading up to CES is PrimeSense, which Microsoft licensed the core Kinect technology from.
The Israeli company is planning to show how the motion-controlled interface can be used for the PC.
The device will be similar to the Kinect because it will allow users to interact with a PC without a mouse or keyboard. It won't be only for gaming, but also for typical PC activities, like accessing the Internet and browsing media.
The device is expected to be ready for the PC next year — but this time, not from Microsoft, reports BusinessInsider.com. Rather, PrimeSense is teaming up with PC and peripheral maker Asus.


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|September 04, 2013
What Beijing looks like on a gloriously clear day
It is not uncommon to see tourists and residents in Beijing frequently check their smartphones and laptops to get the city's latest air quality readings, such is the problem with pollution.
This year has been particularly bad as the Chinese capital has been blanketed by smog on most days. The gritty, dangerous air has shrouded buildings and caused flights delays.
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But these better days seem few and far between. Recent data from measurements of particulates in the air, indicated levels fluctuating between "very unhealthy" and "hazardous," according to the US Embassy's Beijing Air, an air-quality monitoring apps.
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Taking action
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These measures may not be nearly enough, but they're still music to the ears of Beijing's 17 million residents who have been spluttering in the city's bad air.


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Why History?
"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"
Cicero, 106-43 BCE
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- What historical events and processes have meant for ordinary people in their personal and collective experience.
- The degree to which history is shaped by large economic, social, political and cultural forces, and the extent to which individuals and groups exert influence upon these processes.
History at UAS
At the University of Alaska Southeast, you receive individual attention in your history program. After completing a general introduction to U.S., World, or European history, you can pursue specific interests through upper-division courses at UAS, national student exchange programs, and study abroad. In addition to the emphasis in history, you will select two secondary fields in social sciences from anthropology, economics, government, psychology, and sociology. The specific focus in your program will depend upon your personal, academic, and career goals.
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In a draft class littered with quality forwards, the Houston Dynamo were optimistic that one of their top targets would fall to them.
Unable to move up in the draft, the Dynamo bided their time using the 18th pick allotted to them on a player that has been on their radar for several years: Louisville forward Colin Rolfe.
"We liked him last year and watched him this year and our appreciation for him didn't go away," Dynamo head coach Dominic Kinnear told MLSsoccer.com. "When it came to our pick, we talked about taking the best player and also filling a need, and he fit that position. As his name stayed there as the draft was going down, we thought we'd have a good pick on our hands."
As a 6-foot tall striker who can hold the ball and finish with aplomb, Rolfe's availability at No. 18 was a surprise to Kinnear. The two-time All-American and 2010 Hermann Trophy finalist was projected to be a top pick in last year's draft but chose to return to Louisville for his senior season instead.
Despite duplicating his nine-goal junior year performance, Rolfe's stock took a dip heading into Thursday's draft. The dip was fortunate for the Dynamo, as they believe the Michigan native has the toughness and skill to be a quality forward in MLS.
"When you think of the way Louisville plays, he played as a lone striker a lot and for him to get those goals is pretty positive," Kinnear said. "We play a lot of games during the preseason and we'll give him a chance to play."
In addition to Rolfe, Houston selected combine standout Warren Creavalle, a midfielder from the University of Central Florida, with the 37th pick.
"I think every day he played he looked good," Kinnear said of Creavalle's performance at the combine. "He's very confident and comfortable on the ball. At that time in the draft I thought it was a good pick."
Kinnear confirmed the club tried to trade up in the draft; but felt the teams at the top were happy with the players they took. In the end the Dynamo feel confident their draft haul will pay off.
"At the end of the draft we all looked at each other and congratulated everyone because it was a job well done," Dynamo president Chris Canetti told MLSsoccer.com via phone. "It feels like we had a good draft under the circumstances."
Darrell Lovell covers the Houston Dynamo for MLSsoccer.com.


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In the meantime, plenty of content to work on. As Morlano has said, it is trivial to change the look and layout.
In the meantime, plenty of content to work on. As Morlano has said, it is trivial to change the look and layout.
Revision as of 08:21, 16 January 2011
- 1 Target Audience
- 2 Design
- 3 Editing the Main Page
- 4 Historical Discussions to 22 September 2010
- 4.1 Layout
- 4.2 Language Sections
- 4.3 Process for major Wiki changes
- 4.4 Column versus Contents Layout, etc
- 4.5 Suggestion
Target Audience
The Main Page is expected to be used by:
- New users
- Advanced users
- Technical users
- People not fluent in English
All groups are important. The design is intended to direct each of these groups to the information they need, without emphasising one group over another.
Because the Main Page is a unique portal, for a wide-ranging audience of different interests, the Main Page has a unique design intended to highlight the distinction between the different and largely unrelated areas.
Other pages should be on one topic, and should follow a standard and simple Wiki design.
Editing the Main Page
The Main Page design requires the use of HTML markup, making the source code more complex. It should not normally be necessary to ever edit the Main Page.
The content for the Main Page is stored within templates. To edit these templates, you can choose to edit the Main Page. Scroll down to the bottom of your web page and you will see a list of the templates used in the Main Page. You can click on these templates which you can then view and edit as you would for any other Wiki page. The changes you make in the templates are automatically included in the pages that use the templates, including the Main Page.
Templates are used because the same information can be used on more than one page. In particular, it is useful for the main page for each country. Those that speak English will use the Main Page templates. And countries that don't speak English can still include the English templates until such time as a local language translation is used.
Historical Discussions to 22 September 2010
Objectives of the design change
Hm I´m not sure if the latest changes do realy improve the usability. What was wrong about the old layout without a table. Sorry, but now it looks a little bit confused. morlano
The first two things you see are how to get started with Waze, hitting all the problem areas at once, and that Waze supports different languages. So you can immediately jump your your country/language, without being put off by a swathe of English.
Then how to help develop Waze as a next logical step, side by side with current problems.
Finally at the end, giving people encouragement that Waze is at work with various projects and developments. Why your pet project hasn't been implemented because there are bigger, more urgent developments being worked on. And then more technical stuff.
So you can get to everything from the front page. Working down from beginner to ultra advanced.
Yes we could lose the table, but I want to be able to see Getting Started, and my country at first glance. And there's plenty of space that can be used. --Waynemcdougall 09:01, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
This discussion is only concerned to the use of the table. The contextual changes are without doubt a great improvement. --morlano 11:03, 19 September 2010 (CET)
The use of tables
Some suggestions from the w3c on the use of tables for markup languages (here HTML).
And some guidance from mediawiki concerning tables. -- morlano 14:03, 18 September 2010 (CET)
In summary there are those who argue that table should only be used for tabular data, and others who use tables for layout because (before CSS) that was the only way to do it. That is a slightly separate issue from how the layout should appear because you can create the same effect without tables.
I am a purist. I agree tables should be for tabular data. I think there is a small argument that the objectives proposed are in fact tabular.
But I used tables because
- table tools are built into the Wiki
- Wikipedia does it that way :-)
- it will be easier for other people to maintain and change it, using built in Wiki formatting commands
- cluttering the source code with div style='float:right;width:50%' etc was just going to put people off editing, and get broken by people who didn't know CSS
So given the same effect can be done using the purist CSS, and given the good reasons that tables were used for the same effect, I think the real debate should be on the resulting layout, rather than how it is made.
Remembering that it is just proposed for the Main Page
The conclusion on the mediawiki page (second paragraph) was: "As a general rule, it is best to avoid using a table unless you need one. Table markup often complicates page editing.". For great usability and clear representation. --morlano 11:15, 19 September 2010 (CET)
What other Wikis do
I do not agree with the layout changes.
We already learned how a wiki page is organized and how the layout works. There are a lot of wikis on the web and they all are, more or less, looking the same. So we get used to it. -- morlano 14:03, 18 September 2010 (CET)
And yet when you look at Wikipedia and German Wikipedia you find they use tables on their own front page. For the same reasons I do. I think the first, front page can be exceptional. --Waynemcdougall 20:01, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Maybe the front page needs an exceptional layout. --morlano 11:17, 19 September 2010 (CET)
Colours on the Front Page
What sense do the colors make? Is there a code which I do not understand? morlano
The colours don't mean a lot. Green for getting going. Red for problems. Otherwise just making it more attractive. --Waynemcdougall 09:01, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
O.K.. Color to draw attention on important sections. --morlano 11:15, 19 September 2010 (CET)
There is a complaint on the forum about kindergarten colours. Maybe a lighter shade, or possibly a border. I'd still like to show that these are radically different areas, but of importance so it's not a hierarchy. Time for some experiment. --Waynemcdougall 05:51, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Language Sections
On the main page the complete english information should be available (maybe within sections and subpages) and then there should be links to language pages where the specific or translated information could be found. So moving language specific links to a dedicated subpage would make it more easy to keep track of and you can see what already had been translated. -- morlano 14:03, 18 September 2010 (CET)
This is one of the changes I made --Waynemcdougall 20:01, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Yes, I have seen. But all the english content and subpages from the main page are copied over. Now it´s hard to see what content is available in the specific language (on the subpages). The separated pages for each language are a great improvement and cleaning up the front page. --morlano 11:33, 19 September 2010 (CET)
It appears on the forum that one person thinks all those links should be on the front page.
My feeling is that the aim needs to be each country/language page is a front page portal for them - the Wiki is supposed to be about support - over time they should all become fully supported in that language. Yes, we could have the language pages with just the language specific links and nothing else. But that doesn't encourage growth in the future and means you have to look in two places for your answer. One place that is going to be all English.
No good answer, but perhaps that is because we are still in transition.
--Waynemcdougall 05:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
English in the Language Sections
I agree with you concerning the contextual changes although in the language sections you are still confronted with a lot of english because the links are only copied over. -- morlano 14:03, 18 September 2010 (CET)
1. By creating a separate page for each language, that gives Wiki contributors the chance to tailor it to their language as much, or as little as they prefer. You will see that the Italy and Czech pages have already started that transition. 2. By putting the sections in templates, it allows language pages to choose whether they are all native language or a mixture of English and native language. We can expect in the early days of Waze that many people will have some fluency in English as a second tongue so this is tolerable. Particularly for rapidly changing information like bug reports, it would require a major commitment for someone to maintain this information in their own language. They have that option. But if it isn't taken, the option is at least available, with their own language headings, and additional information around the English language template insert. So it can be: here's the important stuff in our language, and if you can handle it, here's more related content but you'll haver to deal with it in English. And if you don't like it, you can translate it for us. --Waynemcdougall 20:01, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Process for major Wiki changes
Maybe major changes to the wiki should be discussed first befor valuable work is invested.
EDIT: Please do not only roll back the version, as I still think structure and information is now much better and should only be organized another way.
-- morlano 14:03, 18 September 2010 (CET)
Or you can look at the old page and realise that it was rotting away without useful updates, direction and purpose, growing without reason or structure and completely unhelpful.
The work invested has been the content. Layout is trivial and easy to revert. Some times are for discussions and some times for action. There wasn't even a discussion page on the main page. There's no permanent harm and a push for improvement.
There's more effort being put into this discussion section. :-)
And I've gone and moved things around here to try and keep some order. Also without consultation. Hope you don't mind. Previous versions are available. --Waynemcdougall 20:01, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
I agree with you that the changes to the content are a great improvement. But the representation of the content now is confusing to me. No discussion that the old main page needed some cleaning and improved structure. In my opinion:
- A table of content and a linear organization makes scanning the text on pages easier (usability).
- Using tables where appropriated as for tabular data or for comparing statuses rather than for layout purposes makes it more easy to contribute for novices (clean code).
- Using color to catch attention on important themes is fine (usability).
Maybe you are right that the main page needs to be exceptional and we only need some additional formatting like headlines and paragraphs to make organization clear. --morlano 11:50, 19 September 2010 (CET)
Column versus Contents Layout, etc
The current page is a usability and maintainability nightmare, there's a lot to be improved (to put it in a positive way).
What needs to go: - The mismatched table layout: tables add nothing to the content, rather they distract a lot and make it hard to find the right content. The various cell sizes only add to the confusion. Why is the left column so small? It suggests that that content is less relevant. - The colors need to go as well, they do not add any value the way it is now (and probably are the result of trying to make the table more accessible). They really strain the eyes the way it is now, without adding to usability (only obstructing). - The wiki headers need to come back, it will create an index automatically, so a user can find the content he is looking for instantly, or at least very quick. A user needs to scan the whole page now, in order to find the specific bit he needs. Currently it us written like a book (you have to read all) instead of a manual (get the parts you need *now*).
Please use some more wiki-style formatting, it has been proven usable...
Just a quickie, way more readable: Main Page Test
--robin1979 00:26, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
It has also been proven not to be the most welcoming for new users on a front page, which is why Wikipedia and others make an exception for their front page.
The tables columns are sized by your browser.
The value of the colours is that it shows that these are distinctively different areas. And the green subtly tells us there is where to go. The red subtly warns us about problems and dangers.
The presence of the contents immediately pushes everything down. You speak Polish you come in,. You will see nothing on the front page about Poland or Polish. You have to read an English link to hope there is something further down. It's side by side so you immediately see there is support for you in your language.
Remember. It's not about sitting down and reading it. It's about jumping off to the section you need. --Waynemcdougall 06:02, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
"Remember. It's not about sitting down and reading it. It's about jumping off to the section you need." Exactly what I'm saying. Because of the huge scattered information now (really, there is no *logical* order in the cells), you now need to read all of it. There's a reason manuals have index pages and not huge tables as the first chapter.
The 'Contents' mechanism of the Wiki does its function really good, please do not try to reinvent it. I like the new content you put on here, but I (and lots of others) really dislike the way the mainpage turned out visually. --robin1979 09:58, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Totally disagree with "Because of the huge scattered information now (really, there is no *logical* order in the cells), you now need to read all of it." Rubbish.
There are 5 reasons you come to the Wiki. New users, beginning Wazers. First section you see - getting started. You go straight there and work down. Second: You want to help with waze...there you go...look and see what you can do. Third: You've got a problem. Is it a problem? Is it just you? Is there a fix? A workaround? Do you need to report it? Is someone working on it? Go to the Problem section. Fourth: What's happening in the Waze world? What improvements are coming? Whats being worked on? Has my big issue been forgotten? What's the future of Waze? Where's the Waze Road map. Fifth: technical. How does Waze routign work? where's the source code?
Note that these are ordered from most likely and common to least likely. The more experienced the user, you just move down to the next section that helps you.
And then there are those users for whom language is not their first language, or a language at all. All these people may come for the first 5 reasons, but we let them immediately jump to the page that caters to their language needs.
So there is a rationale for the ordering. And to describe it as "scattered" is absurd. It is ordered and categorised. --Waynemcdougall 00:11, 22 September 2010 (UTC) Robin1979:"The 'Contents' mechanism of the Wiki does its function really good, please do not try to reinvent it."
I think it is unncessary clutter and too much English at the top of the Main Page. This point is debatable. --Waynemcdougall 00:11, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Robin1979:I (and lots of others) really dislike the way the mainpage turned out visually.
Lots of others? Well four that I know of. Two (that I know of) are in favour. Of course we can expect those who don't like something to say something. Those who like it aren't going to complain. :-) --Waynemcdougall 00:11, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Let's let it settle and refine for a while (until 30 September?), see if Dror makes any comment or contribution, see what a few others say and decide if we go for the Deutsch look.
In the meantime, plenty of content to work on. As Morlano has said, it is trivial to change the look and layout.
I find it a bit hard to navigate to a parent page of the child page I might have stumbled upon from Google. Can we/you, I don't know who, but can the pages include more ways to get to their parent page, such as at the top or at the bottom, a link to return so navigating to another option might be easier. I couldn't find Area Manager information by clicking from the links on the left or through the main page. A bit of discontinuity it feels like.
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CES shows evolution of digital entertainment
The International Consumer Electronics Show is kicking off in Las Vegas in the first week of January.
With the legendary Comdex trade show officially closing its doors earlier this year, CES now ranks as the primary event of the year for the North American IT and consumer electronics industries.
Only the massive CeBIT show in Germany exceeds the sheer volume of attendees, exhibitors and announcements expected in Las Vegas from January 6 to January 9.
The crush of attendees can be overwhelming for first-time visitors who weren't around for the Comdex crowds of the late 1990s, but this year fewer people will attend the show than last year, according to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), which produces the International CES show.
The CEA spent more time qualifying attendees this year to make sure everyone in attendance has a legitimate attachment to the consumer electronics industry, said Kristen Peiffer, a CEA spokeswoman. The show is not open to the general public, and the CEA does not allow the blogging community or other independent observers to attend the show.
About 120,000 people are expected to gawk at large digital televisions and listen to national recording artists perform their songs courtesy of the satellite radio industry, she said. Last year, around 130,000 people attended the event, Peiffer said.
The 2005 show will have a record number of exhibitors with 2,400 companies expected to hawk their wares, Peiffer said. These companies will occupy 1.5 million square feet of the sprawling Las Vegas Convention Center, including space in the parking lot in front of the centre, she said.
The content of this year's show should be similar to last year's, in which a number of PC and consumer electronics companies laid out their visions of how the two product categories are becoming intertwined.
Companies such as HP, Microsoft, Sony and Philips have used past shows to paint a picture of this converged world, but those companies are now showing consumers the products that will make it all happen, said Stephen Baker, director of research with NPD Techworld in Reston, Virginia.
The modest success of products such as portable music players, smart phones, wireless home networking devices and satellite radio receivers shows where the rest of the industry is headed, he said.
Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates will open the show on the evening of January 5. Gates unveiled concepts such as smart watches and Tablet PCs to CES attendees in past years. Last year, he discussed the Portable Media Center, a handheld video device.
HP's CEO Carly Fiorina will also address conference attendees in a keynote speech. HP rolled out several digital cameras, printers and media-oriented products over the past year to introduce consumers to the concept of managing their media files on a PC.
Fiorina is expected to introduce new PCs and new partners during her speech. Last year, she surprised conference attendees with news of a partnership with Apple to distribute the HP iPod and bundle the iTunes music store software with HP PCs.
Some PC-related companies, such as Intel and Gateway, reworked their approach to the consumer electronics market for 2005.
Paul Otellini, Intel's president, used last year's show to announce Intel's intention to produce a microprocessor for digital rear-projection televisions, in hopes of capturing some of the market dominated by Texas Instruments. But the company canceled that project in October, and now wants to spend more time getting its existing processors into new niches, such as set-top boxes and digital video recorders.
Intel is scheduled to make an announcement at the show with Linksys Group, a leader in wireless home networking devices, and Intel CEO Craig Barrett will also give a keynote address.
Gateway has pulled back from the consumer electronics market after completing the purchase of low-cost PC vendor eMachines earlier this year. Gateway still sells digital televisions, but has backed away from a grand strategy of introducing products in numerous consumer electronics categories and will not appear on the CES floor.
Traditional consumer electronics companies such as Sony, Panasonic and Samsung are not content to let the PC companies define the next era of the consumer electronics industry. All three companies plan to hold press conferences and take up significant space on the show floor with their LCD televisions, mobile phones, gaming consoles and digital video recorders.
While the PC companies and consumer electronics companies fight over the future direction of their products, a similar type of convergence is taking place in the mobile phone industry. Mobile phones are becoming much more sophisticated computing devices that can send and receive data, play music and video files and support game software.
Texas Instruments President and CEO Gary Templeton will update attendees on the company's plans for new chips for mobile phones, and Motorola Chairman and CEO Ed Zander will also present his company's view of the market.
CES showcases the business of digital entertainment, but savvy attendees make sure to put business aside, at least for a few hours, to take in the spectacle of the show floor. Weary travellers will still be able to sample reclining chairs with built-in massagers, zap aliens on video game demonstrations and soak up the free food and drink provided at numerous evening parties.
And if all that isn't enough, the pornography industry -- no stranger to PCs or digital televisions -- will hold its annual Adult Entertainment Expo down the street at the Sands Expo Center during the same week.
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Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 12.10: Ready for Windows 8
For AMD Radeon™ HD 5000, HD 6000 and HD 7000 Series users, Microsoft® has certified today's AMD Catalyst™ 12.10 release as "compatible with Windows 8." With this driver, these products offer full support for WDDM 1.2, which is an updated model for graphics drivers that Microsoft has developed to ensure smooth performance and wide compatibility in their new operating system.
Target-Independent Rasterization (TIR): TIR is a new rendering path that enables superior anti-aliasing in Direct3D driver applications
Native Stereo 3D Support: Windows 8 natively supports stereoscopic 3D gaming and videos via compatible applications
Unified Video API: Video playback has been integrated into the DirectX® 11 API, enabling simultaneous video and gaming content. Transcoding performance may also be improved for supporting applications.
Optimized screen rotation for rotation aware devices
Improved sleep/resume performance
Optimized GPU power consumption
Major technologies / features also supported under Windows 8:
AMD Eyefinity technology
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
AMD Dual Graphics
AMD CrossFire technology
AMD Overdrive
AMD Catalyst Control Center
Vision Engine Control Center
Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 12.10: AMD Catalyst Mobility support for AMD Enduro™ Technology
AMD Catalyst Mobility now includes support for AMD Enduro™ Technology. AMD Enduro Technology is currently supported on all notebook Intel IvyBridge platforms and AMD Comal platforms that support the AMD Radeon HD 7900M, 7800M, 7700M.
AMD Enduro™ Technology for Notebooks delivers:
· Unbeatable battery life
· GPU accelerated performance for gaming, video, and compute apps
· A Seamless and automatic experience
New Enduro™ Technology features found in Catalyst 12.10:
Re-designed Catalyst Control Center user interface
View all profiled applications
View recently run applications
Profile applications based on power source
Expert mode control and customization
Performance centric AC
Battery centric DC
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· Crysis 2: Resolves performance issues seen in CrossFire mode
· Darksiders 2: Resolves screen flickering seen in CrossFire mode
· Max Payne 3: Resolves Menu flickering when Anti-Aliasing is enabled through the Catalyst Control Center
· FIFA 13: Improves CrossFire performance, and improve single GPU performance
· Project C.A.R.S.: Resolves screen flickering seen in CrossFire mode
· Natural Selection 2 - Resolves Menu flickering when Anti-Aliasing is enabled through the Catalyst Control Center
Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 12.10 (from AMD Catalyst 12.
Tri and Quad CrossFire + Eyefinity configurations – Users will no longer see lower than expected performance in certain DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications
FireFox – corruption is no longer observed on CrossFire configurations
Enabling Overdrive settings no longer increases clocks in all power states
AMD Video Converter support is available in AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta Windows 7 and Windows Vista packages
Resolves the system delay observed when opening the Windows Audio system tray on Multi-GPU configurations to configure HDMI Audio settings
Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 12.10 Linux Driver: New OS Support
This release of AMD Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems
Ubuntu 12.10 early look support
RHEL 6.3 production support
AMD Catalyst™ 12.11 Beta:
More Performance on the World's Most Popular Games
For more advanced users, we are also making the AMD Catalyst™ 12.11 Beta available today. This driver introduces significant performance improvements for many games across ALL 28nm AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series products: HD 7700, HD 7800 and HD 7900.
Check out our blog posting on Catalyst 12.11 Beta for more information
Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 12.11 Beta
· Performance gains seen on the entire AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series:
· 10%-15% more performance in Battlefield 3 in most cases
· More than 20% in certain missions and sequences (Comrades)
· Up to 7% more performance in Metro 2033
· Up to 10% more performance in DiRT Showdown
· Up to 8% more performance in Sleeping Dogs
· Up to 12% more performance in Civilization V
· Up to 10% more performance in StarCraft II
· Up to 8% more performance in Sniper Elite: V2
AMD Catalyst Mobility 7970M performance for AMD Enduro™ Technology supported platforms has been substantially improved for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications. An updated driver for 7970M users featuring AMD Enduro™ Technology with additional DirectX 9 performance improvements will be released soon.
· 3DMark Vantage – Up to 15%
· 3DMark 11 – Up to 12%
· AvP – Up to 11%
· Battlefield 3 – Up to 25%
· Crysis 2: Up to 45%
· DiRT Showdown – Up to 62%
· ETQW – Up to 8%
· Hard Reset – Up to 8%
· Just Cause 2 – Up to 90%
· The Chronicles of Riddick – Up to 4%
· Shogun 2 – Up to 56%
· Sniper Elite V2 – Up to 60%
· Tom Clancy's HAWX – Up to 56%
· Unigine Heaven – Up to 33%
· Wolfenstein – Up to 9%
· Super Sample Anti-Aliasing has now been enabled in the AMD OpenGL driver
Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 12.11 Beta
Resolves performance issues (where GPU activity runs at lower values than expected) seen on the AMD Radeon HD 7870


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2012 Recall Petitions
In Wisconsin, election petitions have always been public records, and in the interest of transparency, the Government Accountability Board continued that tradition by posting copies of the petitions online.
Recall petitions were removed from the website in early 2013 because the recall process is complete. They are still available in electronic format by making a public records request. The cost is $40 for four DVDs containing all the petitions in PDF form. Send requests and make checks payable to: Wisconsin Elections Commission, PO Box 7984, Madison, WI 53707-7984.


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U.S. stocks close sharply higher Friday, dollar slips
NEW YORK, New York - U.S. stocks closed sharply higher on Friday, while the dollar fell.
The Dow Jones industrials continued on their road to a record high, consolidating above the 26,000 level. The key index on Friday finished 269.25 points or 1.03% ahead at 26,412.30.
The Standard and Poor's 500 added 19.09 points or 0.66% tp 2,907.41.
The tech-laden Nasdaq Composite gained 36.90 points or 0.46% to 7,984.16.
The euro rose to 1.1305 by the New York close on Friday.
Sterling strengthened to 1.3080. The Swiss franc rose to 1.0024.
The Canadian dollar firmed to 1.332, while the Australian and New Zealand dollars rose to 0.7171 and 0.6763 respectively.
The Japanese yen went against the trend, sliding to 112.00.


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(e)MERGE: ZERO1 Street Festival
Join us in re-imagining San Jose's SoFA District to look and feel how people imagine Silicon Valley to be. (e)MERGE is the ZERO1 Biennial street festival featuring outdoor projects by over 100 emerging artists whose innovative and experimental works engage with a range of radical new technologies.
Friday September 14, 2012 from 6pm-Midnight
SoFA district in downtown San Jose
(on South First Street between San Carlos & Reed Streets)
Free and Open to the public
Open late! Come see Biennial art exhibitions at the ZERO1 Garage (439 S. 1st Street) plus the Tech Museum, ICA, MACLA, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, WORKS/San Jose and more!
Some projects will also be up on Saturday Sept 15th on S. 1st Street
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We are thrilled to announce that many Jewish overnight camps in New England have expressed great interest in being included in InterfaithFamily's Jewish Camps that Welcome Interfaith Families resource webpage! These wonderful camps have made it very clear through their enthusiasm and commitment to welcoming campers from interfaith families that being a welcoming and open community is an important part of the good work that they do. Some camps have a space on their website that expresses the camps' dedication to welcoming and supporting current and prospective campers from interfaith families and answer frequently asked questions from interfaith families.
Thank you URJ Camps Crane Lake, 6 Points Sci-Tech Academy, and Eisner! We would love to see more camps in New England across the country follow suit. Efforts like these truly make a difference in creating a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere for all campers. Boston-area camps that wish to be included on our resource page can contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The traditional camp enrollment season is winding down. While a few camps may still have spots available, most are full. But don't despair! If you haven't or can't register your children for June/July sessions, you haven't missed the 2014 Jewish summer camp boat! In most cases, camps still have beds available for second session, which typically starts mid- to late-July and ends mid-August.
Choosing to go to overnight camp is a big decision with many factors to consider. The first question most parents ask is "Is my child ready for overnight camp?"
Camp directors tell us that a good guideline is if he or she has slept over a friend's house successfully. If they have, you, the parent, are likely to be the one who is unsure if you are ready. To assist prospective families with the decision-making process, most camps offer opportunities to visit and get a real life "taste" of camp.
Camp JORI has a family camp at which families stay for a three-day weekend, giving them a mini camp experience without having to commit to sending their child(ren) to a two-week session. Other camps also offer a "taste of camp" where campers can visit for three-to-four days. If the dates of the multi-day visits don't fit with your schedule, most camps also have tours throughout the summer and Tel Noar invites prospective families to attend their Super Camp Day. If a particular camp is of interest to you and you don't see a sampler event, do a little digging on their website or contact them.
Through fantastic programs that the Foundation for Jewish Camp and their Boston-area partner CJP Camping Initiatives offer like BunkConnect and One Happy Camper, summer camp has become more accessible to families who might not otherwise send their children because of the financial burden. For more information and tips about these programs, see our blog post from this week about the best questions for an interfaith family to ask a prospective camp.


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ASUNCION, Paraguay - Ten prisoners in a jail in Paraguay have been killed after a riot broke out on Sunday.
Half of those killed are believed to have been beheaded, while three were burnt to death.
The riot is believed to have been an offshoot to a vicious brawl between two warring factions in the prison, which is located at San Pedro de Ycuamandiyu, the capital of San Pedro Department, situated around 400 kilometres northeast of the Paraguayan capital Asuncion.
The riot is understood to have broken out at about midday on Sunday and continued through to about 3:00pm, at which time it was brought under control.
The "confrontation" was between "two feared criminal organizations" the Ministro del Interior (Minister of the Interior), Juan Ernesto Villamayor said Sunday.
"All of the dead belong to the narco groups," he said.
One of the factions is believed to consist of drug dealers from Sao Paulo in Brazil known as Primer Comando da Capital, while the other is believed to comprise drug traffickers from both Brazil and Paraguay, and is known within the prison as the Rotela criminal group.
Prison and local law enforcement officials have launched an investigation into the riot and the deaths.
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