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Faasos also provides bulk orders on all cuisine, one can choose from Indian, Italian, Chinese,etc. Faasos is offering discount upto 20% on party orders. You need to order minimum of Rs.1500/- to avail disount of 20% on Party orders. The respective offer is only valid on Mobile app.
Herein, we have the simple steps with which one can order using Fassos coupons easily:
Step-1: Copy coupon code
Click to open the best deal on Zoutons for Faasos. "Copy Code" and move to the redirected link.
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Add the desired dishes to cart and View order details
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In the coupons/credits section, apply the copied code and click on "Apply".
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Once the coupon shows status "Applied", you must move on to select the payment mode.
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After selecting your preferred mode of payment, click on "Place Order".
Everyone want credits to enjoy adding it to the bill. All you need to do is sign up with Faasos and give your referral code to your friends for them to sign up, further you earn 125 credits when your friend signs up using your referral code and your friend get 100 credits too. Share the merriment with your friends!
If there is any cancellation and if the delivery boy is already at the restaurant to pick up your food then you are fully responsible for its payment and no refund will be provided. The payments should be made by debit card and credit card only.
Faasos offers on Fast Food
Faasos provides a wide variety of fast food options from which you can select your preference and hog on to your finger licking food which will be served hot as it has been prepared in your kitchen itself. The store offers chole bhatoore, aloo poori, chole kulche with chaach, omelet, muesli etc in its variants under fast food category. Order your food from Faasos Offers on Fast food and avail 15% discount on your order. If you are a new user then you can avail a flat 20% discount on your very first order placed under the store. One must shop under this sale to grab a quick tasty bite of yummy food when you are short of time or are so dead tired to cook food.
Chole kulche
It is one of the most relished dishes for foodies. Chole gives you a good bite, while soft baked kulche with tamarind chutney pulls it all together. Wash it down with a glass full of Chaach and there you are ready to go with an overloaded tummy. This food item is one of the most favorite and most ordered fast food product by daily customers of the store. It is available for Rs 180 only. The meal has got 4.7/5 rating from the previous buyers. Incorporate the purchases with faasos coupons to get cashbacks up to Rs.1000/-
Paneer tikka pav slider
What else can you demand when you get a pav loaded with paneer and veggies that can be enjoyed with tomato ketchup or green mint and tamaring chutney? This meal looks like a big hot dog but is actually a desi meal prepared with loads of masalas and sauces. You can purchase this slider for Rs 190 from the store and order a hot cup of coffee to gulp it down.
Faasos offers on North Indian Food
India is a country of rich heritage and varied culture and with different cultures comes different variety of food and cooking styles. North Indian food is famous across the globe for its richness, aromas and taste along with an endless variety. You must give north Indian cuisine a try from the faasos store if you are really willing to experience the true flavours of the country. The store offers a variety of options on its menu like: metthi paneer, bhuna mutton, chicken korma, rajma, chole, aaloo paranthas, smoked butter chicken and so on. Order food under Faasos offers on north Indian food and get 30% off on all orders placed.
Bhunna chicken in curd
This dish is a popular delicacy of North India where the chicken pieces which have been marinated in yogurt are cooked with butter and are flavoured with Indian spices and again cooked to perfection in a clay oven. The aroma of different spices and curd mixed together is unstoppable. You can have this dish as a snack or can also try it with rumaali roti and vinegar onions.Chicken dahi wala is available for Rs 250 with additional charges for the rumaali rotis.
Paneer butter masala
This is a paneer dish that is cooked with loads of butter and different spices. The taste of this dish is a bit sweet and spicy. It is a gravy dish which has loads of tomatoes and garlic as the main ingredient. Makhan wala paneer is generally ordered with tandoori breads and vinegar onions. You can buy this course for Rs 250 from the store. Also invest Faasos coupons to get better discounts on food orders.
Faasos offers on Biryani and Rice feasts
We all love to eat rice and it is also the easiest way to fill your empty tummies quickly. Faasos offers a feast for rice lovers it its exclusive category of biryani and rice feasts where you can order from unlimited options available under different dishes prepared along with rice. It doesn't matter if you are vegetarian or non vegetarian there is a dish for everyone.
Most preferred products under this category are: chicken biryani, vegetable biryani, egg rice feast, bhuna chicken rice, dahi wale rice, chicken jumbo rice, chole signature rice and so on. It provides you yummy flavoured rice opped with finger licking topping for your to enjoy your food. Faasos offers 20% cashback on your order placed under this category if you make your payment using paytm virtual wallet. Also, the use of faasos coupons from Paytm can get extreme favours on discounts.
Chicken jumbo rice
Loose your senses with the best chicken biryani which comes loaded with chicken pieces and is served with green chutney and spring onions on top. The rice are perfectly cooked and blended in unlimited spices. This finger licking biryaani is spicy and rick in aromas. Your mouth starts oozing waer the moment it comes in front of you. This delicious meal is available on the store for Rs 275 only.
Chole signature rice
Not to loose heart if you are a vegetarian as faasos has something in store for everyone. Gran a signature platter of chole biryani which includes rice boiled and fried with onion rings and then topped with loads of white chole and yummy curry along with green chutney to double the temptation. This rice platter can be bought from the store for Rs 245 only exclusive of all taxes. Explore and use Faasos coupons in return of which the new and existing users get discounts on total payable value.
Faasos offers on Desserts
Give a treat to your sweet tooth and enjoy some finger licking and mouth watering sweets from the store. The store provides a wide variety of packed sweets ready to be delivered to your doorstep. Order the best ice creams and frozen yoghurts from fassos and give relief to your taste buds. Order food from a number of options like: cakes, gulab jamun, kheer, cheesecake shots etc under this category and get a maximum discount of 35% on your billing amount.
Gulab jamun
These melt in mouth sweet dumplings are the one dessert which can make your knees go weak in anticipation! Now served in a tub pack of 10 pieces these feast for the eyes can be purchased for Rs 275 only. You can enjoy your gulab jamuns as it is or can also top them up with a scoop full of chilled rabri and some rose water to add up to your dessert.
Order a chilled creamy bowl of kheer topper with loads of kesar and dry fruits and relish your meal. Kheer is considered to be the most lover sweet appetizer. It is a blend of rice cooked in milk along with cardimons and then topped with pistas, kajus and almonds. A 50gm bowl of kheer can be purchased for Rs 75 only. Check out the best deals via Faasos coupons rendered to all the users.
Faasos offers on breakfast
It is a very famous saying that our breakfast is the most important meal and we must eat it like a king. Breakfast is the meal which actually provides us energy for a hectic day. We generally tend to skip our breakfast or grab some quick bites and do not take it seriously. Faasos provides a variety of breakfast options from which you can order your first meal and give a kick start to a healthy and happy day. Order from a large variety of options available on the store like: aloo paranthas with curd, muesli, omletts, pav bhaaji, meat balls, pan cakes etc. the store offers an overall discount of 25% on its products under this category. Apply codes under the Faasos coupons to maximum the savings and minimize spendings.
Matar kulche
Matar kulcha is one of the most loved street foods of North India. It is a Punjabi dish and hence is spicy and delicious. The yellow peas are boiled and cooked in a thick curry and topped with loads of onions, tomatoes and green chilies. A special spice is also added to the peas which consists of salt, red pepper, black pepper, heeng and garam masala which gives it a luxurious aroma. The peas are eaten with kulcha i.e. fermented bread which is heated with butter or ghee and then served. This meal can be purchased from the faasos breakfast store for Rs 180 only.
Pav bhaaji
Pav bhaaji is basically a maharashtrian dish which consists of mash of different veggies boiled and cooked together with loads of spices added to it to give it a spicy taste. It is eaten along with pav which is a bun cooked in butter. The dish is served with onion rings and lemon. It gives you a different aroma and tangy taste. The snack can be eaten with green chutney also. Order this dish from the faasos store for Rs 170 exclusive of all taxes. Special faasos coupon codes can be applied in order to avail best benefits.
Faasos offers on signature wraps
Place your order for a variety of special wraps from the store and avail a 20% discount on your order. There is a wide range of wraps available under vegetarian and non vegetarian variants of the store. You can place your order from some of the most preferred toppings like: Mexican potato salsa wrap, veggie delight, American sausage wrap, chicken pizza wrap etc. The toppings are endless and you will be surprised by the sweet and tangy texture of the wraps as they melt in to your mouth leaving a strong taste on your tongue.
Chicken salsa wrap
Sliced salamis tossed with jalapenos, black olives, American corn, pizza sauce and mozzarella cheese in a hearty Maida Paratha wrap makes this wrap a complete delight for the non vegetarians out there. you can enjoy it with tomato ketchup or can order extra dips to make it more interesting. Grab a can of chilled coke and enjoy your wrap. This product can be purchased from the store for Rs 225 only. It has been given a 4.7 star rating by the previous buyers.
Mexican potato wrap
A unique combination of Potato shots and Corn Salsa, with dripping Chipotle flavoured cheese, wrapped in a fluffy Lachha Paratha is a must try under this category of the store. You can enjoy this wrap with a chilled cold drink to quench your thirst and can also order any sweet appetizer to complete your meal. This wrap is available on the store for Rs 190 and has been rated as the most lovable wrap by the vegetarian foodies.
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The Toronto Raptors kicked off their NBA Eastern Conference first-round playoff series against the Washington Wizards on Saturday, with franchise ambassador and rap superstar Drake cheering on from the sidelines at the Air Canada Centre.
But rather than rock Raptors swag, the Toronto-born rapper opted to wear a Humboldt Broncos hockey jersey by way of tribute to the victims of last week's tragic bus crash in Saskatchewan.
Seated at his customary courtside spot, the 31-year-old pointed to the sky when he was shown on the giant screen, prompting a loud ovation from the crowd.
Twitter users across Canada unsurprisingly took notice, with many of them lauding Drake for his gesture and praising the Canadian sports fraternity for rallying around those affected by the crash.
Drake's tribute comes on the day that Broncos head coach Darcy Haugan and team statistician Brody Hinz were laid to rest in Humboldt, Sask., and defenceman Logan Boulet was remembered at a service in Lethbridge, Alta.
Sixteen people died as a result of the crash, while 13 suffered injuries.
READ MORE: Hospitalized Humboldt Broncos get visit from Stanley Cup
The Raptors defeated the Wizards 114-106.

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text: This set of 6 stainless fish knives and forks probably dates from the early to middle part of the 20th Century. The form is Old English Tipt, a timeless pattern. Harrison Fisher has been a knife maker in Sheffield (England) for over 150 years. The set is very good quality – nicely balanced and in very good condition – I would guess they were little used. The knife is 8 in. and the fork is 6.75 in. They are marked with HF & Co...


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Zach Wahl's mom cures MS with paleo
I noticed that Zach Wahl's testimony on marriage equality had gone viral on Facebook. In his speech, he mentions his mother's struggle with multiple sclerosis. How is she doing? Apparently, she's gone from wheelchair to walking thanks to her versions of a paleo diet rich in fruits, vegetables, wild fish, seaweed and grassfed meats (including organ meats):


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1.Sugar - 1 cup
2.Flour - 1/2 cup
3.Chocolate chips - 3/4 cups
4.Butter - 3/4 cup or 1 1/2 stick (But I have used 1 stick)
5.Eggs - 3
6.Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
Double Boiler Method:
Chocolate has to be melted in a double boiler method.Take a bowl,add water .Now take the chocolate chips , butter in a heat proof bowl and place it on the water bowl.The chocolate bowl,shud not touch the water.There shud be enough gap between the water and the chocolate bowl.Now place the double boiler on the stove at mediul flame.After 10 to 15 minutes,chocolate and butter would have melted well.mix it thorougly,untill all the chocolates melts.Take it off from the heat and cool completely.
Pre heat the oven for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.
* Take a mixing bowl,add eggs and vanilla essence.Beat them well.
* Now add , sugar to the mix and scald them well.
* Now pour the melted chocolate and mix.
* Slowly fold in the flour and pour the mix into the greased baking tray.
* Bake the brownies for 30 to 40 minutes or untill toothpick comes out clean.
* One more signal to turn off the oven is,it will start raising a bit.
* Once cooked,cool completely and transfer it to the wire rack.
Sprinkle powder sugar on top of the brownies and cut it.
I wanted my brownies to be bit gooey,so I took it bit early.Coolingcompletely will help the brownies to cut evenly.Using buttered knife,will be very helpful in cutting the brownies.
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We just saw the 2013 GL at the New York Auto Show, but it looks like Mercedes prematurely leaked three pictures of the upcoming AMG version before anyone was supposed to see it.
UPDATE Yeah, so Mercedes confirmed this morning that it's just the AMG body kit on a GL500. Boo. For some reason we want a GL 63 AMG.
The pictures aren't hidden at all; they're in a slideshow right on Mercedes' Future Models page. Most of the pictures in the slideshow are of regular 2013 GLs, but there are also three pictures of what looks like the AMG version.
Each picture has the disclaimer, "European models shown. Images are approximate only," but the basic GLs look exactly like the ones we saw in New York down to the American license plates.
There has never been a GL AMG before, but it could only have either the corporate 537-horsepower, 5.5-liter turbocharged V8 or the 621-horsepower, 6.0-liter turbocharged V12 from the upcoming SL65 AMG.
In terms of the exterior, all we can see are larger front air intakes and new five-point rims.
AMG rims are optional on all Mercs, but full AMG bodykits are not typically optional equipment. There's a chance this is just an appearance package, but what's the fun in that? We want an AMG GL. For some reason.
The last time a manufacturer leaked an upcoming model on their website, it was Cadillac with the XTS. They pulled the picture fairly quickly. How long will it take Mercedes to realize what they've done?
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Toys R Us is betting that 15 toys ranging from a flying, inflatable remote-control fish to tiny collectible monsters will be big hits this holiday season. For holiday shoppers looking to get a jump on their lists, here are Toys R Us' suggestions:
- Air Hogs Hyper Actives by Spin Master, $49.99: Radio controlled miniature racing cars.
- Air Swimmers Extreme by Animal Planet, $49.99: Inflatable fish and shark balloons that are radio controlled and seem to swim through the air. Helium tank sold separately.
- Lalaloopsy Silly Hair dolls by MGA Entertainment, $34.99: Rag dolls with button eyes and bendable hair. They come with an accompanying pet with a bendable tail.
- LeapPad Explorer by Leapfrog, $99.99: A tablet-like device which children can use to read books, play educational games and take pictures.
- Monster High Fearleading 3-Pack by Mattel, $42.99: Three dolls which are offspring of famous monsters, dressed in "Fear Squad" cheerleading outfits.
- Moshi Monsters Moshling Mini-Figures 3-pack by Spin Master, $5.99: Tiny collectible monsters related to a hit online game.
- My Keepon by Wow! Stuff, $39.99: A bright yellow blob-like robot that dances to music.
- Nerf Vortex Vigilon by Hasbro, $24.99: A foam dart gun that launches foam discs up to 50 feet.
- Ninjago Lightning Dragon Battle by Lego Systems Inc., $79.99: A 645-piece construction set offered exclusively at Toys R Us with characters from Lego's popular Ninjago line.
- Poppin' Park Elefun Busy Ball Popper by Hasbro's Playskool, $29.99: A colorful elephant that can launch plastic balls and plays music.
- Power Wheels Dune Racer by Mattel's Fisher-Price: $279.99. A child-size dune buggy that can ride over grass, gravel and mud.
- Radica Fijit Friends by Mattel, $49.99: Robotic toys that dance and respond to squeezes and spoken words.
- Sesame Street Let's Rock! Elmo by Hasbro, $69.99: An Elmo doll that sings and comes with a drum, tambourine and microphone.
- "Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure," by Activision, $69.99: A video game that includes action figures that can be placed in a portal and then appear in the game.
- The Trash Pack Garbage Truck by Moose Toys, $19.99: A garbage truck that can hold 10 collectible Trashies, which are tiny collectible characters. It comes with two special edition Trashies and is a Toys R Us exclusive.
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AppWeb is a very fast, small-footprint, standards-based, portable server, specifically developed for use by embedded devices and applications. More information can be had on http://www.appwebserver.org/
Looking for up-to-date ipkg package of AppWeb!
The newest stable version of AppWeb is 2.4. Could someone please upadate the install-package to this version? Thanks in advance.
I don't like the bug of 2.1.0-1: Please could anybody can explain how to install an older working version of AppWeb. I tried everything with ipkg (-force-downgrade etc.) but nothing worked.
Bug in 2.1.0-1
I installed this in march so for people who just started the ipkg install, this bug will cause indexes not to work. For example instead of seeing index.html after starting you will get a 404 error. This error is found in this link http://www.appwebserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=597&highlight=index If you want appweb you need to install the previous version.
A workaround is to set the 404 to the default (index) page ! Put the line
How to install AppWeb
Install Openssl if not already installed.
Install Openssh if not already installed.
Install AppWeb
After the install you will want to modify the configuration file to your preference. It should be at /opt/etc/appWeb.conf [Edit: it's /opt/var/appWeb/appWeb.conf now]
Some things you will probably want to change is:
Note: The management pages for the NSLU2 are on a different web server that is set to port 80. That will need to be changed before you set appWeb to port 80.
But I would start the server with the default setting to make sure it works.
Run /opt/etc/init.d/S81appweb to restart AppWeb
You can look in the ./share/hdd/conf/opt/var/appWeb/logs/error.log file to see if there are any errors.
To see if the server started you can do ps to list the processes that are running.
You should see a line like:
900 ttyp0 root 3716 R /opt/sbin/appWeb -f etc/appWeb.conf
If appWeb is not there, then there was an error and you will need to check the error.log file to see what failed.
To see if you can connect to the server you can type in ipaddress_of_nslu2:7777 (for the default port) in a web browser.
For Example: 192.168.1.77:7777
You should get a page that says:
One thing that will stop it from running is not having the Openssl and Openssh packages installed. If you don't want to use these packages you will need to edit the appWeb.conf file and comment out the entries for Openssl and Openssh.
Setting AppWeb to port 80
First you have to change the port of the current web server that does the NSLU2 management pages.
Bring up in a browser the NSLU2 management pages. By default it is 192.168.1.77.
Click on Administration (it may ask you for the username and password)
On the submenu under Administration click on System
Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page to the Location section.
Under the second check box (Enable UPnP? Support) there is a box with the number 80 in it. Change that number to something like 8080 so the management pages will be on port 8080. So now when you need to pull up the management pages you need to type in something like this: 192.168.1.77:8080
Click on the Save button at the bottom of the page. It will make the change immediately so if you try to click on anything else you will get an error from the browser. Just go to the url that you typed in to get to these pages and put :8080 after the ip address and you should be working again.
Now to change the AppWeb port
Telnet into your box.
Go to the /opt/etc directory(cd /opt/etc)
Edit the appWeb.conf file.
Scroll down a bit till you find a line that says: Listen 7777
Change the 7777 to 80
Save the file and exit.
Now restart appWeb by typing in: /opt/etc/init.d/S81appweb
Now go back to your browser and type in the ip address of your slug without anything after the last number (192.168.1.77)
You should see the same page as you saw above when installing appWeb.
If you get a browser error you may need to make a few more changes.
Try rebooting the NSLU2 first before going through the following.
There seams to be a problem with not having enough entropy. I really don't know what the means but here is a way to get around the problem.
Go to /opt/etc/init.d
Edit a file called S81appweb (this is the file that starts appweb)
This is how it should look now:
if [ -n "`pidof appWeb`" ]; then
/bin/killall appWeb 2>/dev/null
/opt/sbin/appWeb -f etc/appWeb.conf &
You need to add two lines to this file so it looks like this:
if [ -n "`pidof appWeb`" ]; then
/bin/killall appWeb 2>/dev/null
rm /dev/random
ln -s /dev/urandom /dev/random
/opt/sbin/appWeb -f etc/appWeb.conf &
Save and Exit the file.
Now type in /opt/etc/init.d/S81appweb to restart appWeb.
Go back to your browser and try to get to the appWeb server again.
If it still doesn't work I would restart the NSLU2 and try again.
It works for me so if you have problems you may want to Ask for help. There could be other issues that may be stopping appWeb from working.
I found that the httpPassword utility doesn't work because some libraries have been missed from the ipkg (namely libmpr.so). I have only got a native build environment working, and I've hit a dead end. I got as far as:
@echo " rm -f $(CLEANIT)" | $(BLDOUT)
which is expanding to:
@echo "rm -f ./bldout.o ./getopt.o *.a *.o *.lo *.tmp *.bak core *.out *.map *.sym" | bldout
which would cause busybox to report as follows:
BusyBox v0.60.4 (2004.05.28-07:40+0000) multi-call binary Usage: busybox [function] [arguments]... or: [function] [arguments]... BusyBox is a multi-call binary that combines many common Unix utilities into a single executable. Most people will create a link to busybox for each function they wish to use, and BusyBox will act like whatever it was invoked as. Currently defined functions: [, ash, basename, busybox, cat, chmod, chown, cp, dd, df, dmesg, echo, free, halt, hostname, id, ifconfig, insmod, kill, killall, klogd, ln, ls, lsmod, mkdir, mknod, mkswap, mount, mv, pidof, ping, ps, pwd, reboot, rm, rmmod, route, sh, sleep, swapoff, swapon, sync, syslogd, tar, test, touch, umount, vi
This is because before the binary version of bldout is created a symlink is created to the busybox 'cat'. But, in doing so, busybox can't tell what binary is being called and complains. Ignore the messages and let it continue, they will clear up eventually when the binary version of bldout has completed.
I have managed to build appWeb natively and also built it with PHP and run some scripts with a bit of hacking around, although the php libs are not properly located and more complicated scripts fail.
I have not managed to get appweb 2.0.x building and running properly yet.
For more information look at the mailing list archives where I documented the progress in some detail.
Workaround to create httpPassword files for Windows-users
Download Windows version of AppWeb from http://www.appwebserver.org/downloads/appWeb/index.html
Unzip file
Run setup and install AppWeb within Windows
Look for file httpPassword.exe within program files directory
Create httpPassword-files as needed
Transfer files to AppWeb installation directory (e.g. /opt/var/appWeb)
Problems integrating PHP into appWeb
In certin contexts functions contained in the PHP-Expansions can not be found (e.g. sem_get() results in 'Fatal: Call to undefined function...')
appWeb can not find the php.ini file. Therewith the setting in the php.ini have no effect. Create a link in the appWeb working directory to the php.ini
ln -s /opt/etc/php.ini /opt/var/appWeb/php.ini
Restart appWeb.
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Three Students Arrested for Bringing Guns to Berkeley High Campus
Three Berkeley High School students were arrested on campus today in two separate incidents for bringing — and in one case discharging — firearms on campus, a school district spokesman said.
Two students were arrested after a gun they brought to the school went off in a bathroom, and the third was arrested a short time later for having an unloaded handgun, Berkeley Unified spokesman Mark Coplan said.
The school was temporarily put on lockdown while officials responded to the incidents, which started at about 8:45 a.m. when a custodian heard what sounded like a gunshot on the southeast side of campus, Coplan said.
The custodian saw two students walking out of a bathroom near some portable classrooms before leaving the campus, so he told a safety officer on the street that he thought the students had been involved with the gunshot.
The safety officer ran after the students while he radioed the safety team and the Berkeley Police Department, Coplan said. The rest of the safety team did an initial campus closure, which involved putting an administrator or a safety officer at each entrance.
The suspects circled around the campus and tried to enter from the other side, but the safety team knew who they were looking for, Coplan said.
The students were apprehended when they tried to re-enter the school grounds, and they were handed over to Berkeley police.
The suspects were interviewed extensively and denied any involvement in the gun's going off, but at about 11 a.m., they finally admitted dropping a gun on Haste Street, Coplan said.
The bullet had gone through the bathroom wall out toward the street, away from the direction of the classrooms, and nobody was injured.
Meanwhile, when the school was locked down, an unrelated anonymous tip came in that a student on campus might have had a handgun.
Two safety officers escorted the student from class and took him to a detention office where Berkeley police were waiting. The officers searched him and found an unloaded handgun, Coplan said.
All three students, who are 16 and 17 years old, were arrested and taken to Juvenile Hall.
The first two were arrested on suspicion of reckless discharge of a firearm and with possession of a firearm, Coplan said. The third was arrested on suspicion of possession of an unloaded firearm.
Today marked the third time in three months that police have responded to guns on the Berkeley High School campus.
He said officials would use today's incidents to see what practices can be put into place to prevent firearms on campus, and to obtain information from the students.
"In all three of these incidents, none of them indicated there was intent" to use the firearms, he said. "It was kids showing off guns, and that's frightening."


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According to the newspaper China Daily, pollution levels have gotten so bad they're creating respiratory problems, prompting residents to seek air purifiers and face masks. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
BEIJING -- If you have been following China's state-controlled news media you could be forgiven for thinking that clear blue skies -- not oppressive and choking smog -- have been the rule this winter.
But, finally, they seem to have noticed there is a problem.
Days after huge smog clouds settled on some of China's most important cities, The People's Daily ran two articles on the pollution crisis Monday.
And while one headline declared that "Beautiful China begins to breathe healthily," the article itself detailed the extent of the problems.
Experts and environmentalists describe the impact that air pollution has in China, which burns half of the world's coal.
China Central Television News Channel also covered the issue extensively over the weekend.
Visibly high levels of air pollution were probably behind the admissions that the smog -- dubbed "fog" by many -- had reached dangerous levels.
On Monday, air pollution reached "critical levels" in 67 of China's cities, CCTV reported.
State-run media has even begun citing statistics from international environmental group Greenpeace that indicate that more than 2,500 people probably died prematurely in Beijing in 2012 because of air pollution.
Thousands of deaths estimated
Greenpeace estimated that in 2012, more than 8,000 people suffered premature death in four major cities -- Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Xian.
Wang Zhao/AFP-Getty Images
Two people wearing face masks make their way along a street in Beijing Tuesday.
Patients in Beijing hospital's respiratory and pediatric departments increased significantly recently, The Beijing Evening News reported.
About 30 percent of the more than 9,000 patients treated every day at Beijing Children's Hospital in the week that ended Sunday were suffering from respiratory problems, the newspaper added. The hospital declined NBC's interview request.
Despite the bad news, some environmentalists were celebrating over the weekend.
"I'm kind of telling myself it's great that the air pollution reached this level so that the people and the government can finally pay attention," Li Bo, a board member of non-profit group Friends of Nature, said.
Beijing's bureau of environmental protection held a rare press conference Monday to explain the severity of the pollution problem, and outline an emergency plan to reduce the levels of harmful air particles.
The government's recent attention to the issue comes after decades of prioritizing economic development over environmental conservation, critics say.
'How come we survive?'
On the streets, many seemed unconcerned.
Ma Xin, a 22-year-old street vendor who sells leather coats, said he did not believe Beijing's air was all that harmful.
"If Beijing's air is as bad as you say, how come we survive?" he said, dismissing data about air quality.
And Gong Jingyan, who has a masters degree from a top-tier Chinese university and works at one of most prestigious banks in China, said while she realized the "air is harmful," she did not like wearing a mask because "they look ugly."
Gong takes a different approach in an attempt to combat air pollution. "I drink water boiled with pear to help my lungs stay clean," she said.
Huang Xue, a manager at a public relations firm, also expressed concern, but said there was little that could be done.
"We never had this concept of protecting ourselves from air," she said. "The only thing I could think of doing was to stay indoors."
"I am not convinced a mask can do a lot," she added. "Besides, my 18-month-old son will never keep a mask on."
However, there is at least one way to cope: Leave town.
As soon as Beijing resident Gao Lin, a part-time lawyer and a mother of two, saw Saturday's record-breaking pollution levels, she bought tickets to Sanya, a resort island in the South China Sea.
"We are leaving tomorrow," Gao said. "The only way you can escape from bad air is to leave Beijing."
NBC News' Yanzhou Liu contributed to this report
Related stories:
Beijing's pollution could cut 5 years off life span
Video: Is this the worst pollution in the world?
Chinese pollution protesters clash with police


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2014's Most Danceable
Hey people, just got through eating Indian fast food here in Delhi, where my host mom and her friend forced me to speak Hindi to the manager like a trained monkey. Anyways it goes like this:
Host mom: There's the manager!! Use your Hindi use your Hindi use your Hindi!
Me: ahhhhdkrivjrhivhdAapka restaurant bahut accha hai (your restaurant is very good).
In honor of my involuntary dance deprivation, and the new year, here are the top five most danceable songs that I became addicted to in 2014. Some of them were released earlier, shh. Enjoy:
Sean Paul – Hey Baby
This song AUGH. Never became a big hit in the U.S. so I haven't gotten to rock a dance floor with it yet… heard it in Serbia and it completely turns me up. If you like, have a look at the official movie, with the Nikeata Germaican Dance Team. I didn't post it, just in case any of my family reads my blog and gets offended by the scantily clad women. Actually if you are one of my family members please don't listen to any of these songs..
Jhene Aiko – The Worst
Perfect for slow-angry dancing. SORRY (elderly) FAMILY MEMBERS I KNOW SHE'S SCANTLY CLAD. I don't think my grandma reads this. But she does know how to internet, so who knows.
Bailando – Enrique Iglesias
I know I've posted this song before, but it needs to be heard. I really like Sean Paul's part on the English version, but the Spanish version seems like less of a we-only-listen-to-English-songs coupout.
Tonight (Best You Ever Had) – John Legend
First heard this on the Kizomba dance floor, and holy hell is it romantic. About to turn it up and dance with my boyfriend actually. Excuse me a second>>>
Feelings – Maroon 5
AUUHHHHAKLAJ:F LOVE THIS SO MUCH RIGHT NOW. Addicted, currently.


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"I reconstructed images that followed me since I was a child. Of an Italy that I would have liked to have seen, but that no longer exists and perhaps never existed except in my own fantasy." —Paolo Ventura
Village Fair (Festa di paese), 2005, is from Paolo Ventura's War Souvenirs, his series of fictional World War II tableaux. Each image in the series features a detailed construction, meticulously designed and built by the artist. Some of the characters that inhabit the stage-like settings are toy action figures, others are made from fired clay; all are roughly the same size as Barbie dolls. Each setting takes about a week or longer to build, and is destroyed after Ventura photographs it. When Ventura was a boy in Italy, he spent time with his grandmother listening to stories and looking at family photographs from both World Wars. According to Ventura, 90% of the photographs sent home by European soldiers during WWII were taken in photographic studios, as most of the soldiers were too poor to own their own cameras. Ventura expressed the desire to enter these studio photographs and then exit out into the real context of the soldiers' lives. And so he places these wartime figures into his constructed streets and alleys; into death, loneliness, amusement, war, and desperate love--all in reduced, but realistic scale. Ventura seeks to deceive and create confusion between what we see and what we think we see.
Paolo Ventura (born in Milan, 1968) studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan in the early 1990s. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Forma International Center for Photography, Milan; Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France; Fotomuseum Den Haag, Netherlands; and Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris. Ventura is represented by Hasted Kraeutler, New York. He lives in New York City.


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Solakar Flamewreath
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|60 Elite
|Rookery, Upper Blackrock Spire
Solakar Flamewreath is spawned at the end of the "Father Flame" event in the Upper Blackrock Spire Rookery. The "Father Flame" event can be trouble for the unprepared and many groups choose to skip it. The event that spawns him begins by looting the pillar in the left side of the Rookery, surrounded by eggs and elite dragonkin.
The Rookery is full of whelp eggs that hatch if a player gets too close. While the whelps are easily defeated in smaller numbers, they can quickly overwhelm a group if not attended to promptly. Great care should be taken at all times to avoid hatching the eggs. Note that trying to clear the eggs beforehand is futile, as they have a fast respawn timer.
Begin by clearing out the few dragonspawn that occupy the Rookery as you enter. For this event the raid should be positioned as one large group inside the Rookery. This is to minimize LoS problems and to maximize the effectiveness of AoE attacks.
One character must activate the pillar in the far end of the room. It is practically impossible to approach the pillar without going near a few eggs and they will hatch. You can either kill these whelps or use a character capable of stealth. Even though stealth won't prevent the eggs from hatching, the stealthed character won't get aggro from the hatched whelps and after a short while they will despawn.
When the room is clear and the group positioned, the character at the pillar can loot it and start the event proper. The event spawns five waves of 2 dragonkin mobs ending with Solakar Flamewreath. The waves of dragonkin are combinations of Rookery Guardians and Rookery Hatchers. It is very important that all DPS is focused on the Rookery Hatchers as soon as possible. The hatchers move from egg to egg hatching them and adding whelps to the battle. The sooner they are killed the easier the encounter.
Solakar Flamewreath himself is a straightforward encounter and is relatively easy.
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The talk shows were sort of all over the place this week. Oprah had on the thousands of members of the Osmond family, rape victims, and age-appropriate fashion, while The View welcomed Damon Wayans on the couch, where the girls realized he's a chauvinist pig, only to have Teri Hatcher reveal the next day that she can totally get down with that. Talk about putting the "desperate" in Desperate Housewives. Sheesh! But of course, the highlight of the talk show week for me was Tyra's "Vagina Dialogues," not necessarily because some Jezebel staffers were in the studio audience (but, duh, it does play a part in my interest), but really because that episode was like clip-show heaven. But another great moment in useless TV was Tyra's first makeover episode of the season. You know what that means...weaves! Get a gander after the jump.
So Tyra sent the lucky participants of her makeover episode a cake to tell them the good news.
It's like, "I'm gonna tell you how to dress. Eat me." And we all know the drill at this point. Everyone gets a weave. So I'm just gonna give everyone else Tyra's weave. Just 'cause.


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Proba-2 shows solar eruption that touched Earth
Polar skies glowed with ghostly auroras last week during the biggest geomagnetic storm of 2010. The event owed its origin to a solar eruption a few days earlier – revealed here in high-speed detail by ESA's small Sun-watcher Proba-2.
Eruptions like this one have several components, most notably solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). Solar flares are caused by sudden impulsive releases of magnetic energy from the surface of the Sun.
The flare seen here took place at 11:54 CET on Saturday 3 April. It was officially classed as 'weak', though still involved temperatures of tens of millions of degrees and around the same energy the human race consumes on Earth per year.
Significantly, this eruption was lined up with Earth, sending a vast number of charged particles hurtling towards us. Travelling at around 500 km per second, the front of this CME reached Earth the following Monday, 5 April.
The resulting geomagnetic storm was the most powerful in more than three years. It provoked dazzling auroras but no damage was reported to potentially susceptible systems such as satellites and GPS, communications and electrical power infrastructure.
Solar flares are rarely visible in ordinary light, but are often spectacular at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. The ESA-NASA SOHO mission has been a solar flare 'watchdog' producing remarkable images for approaching 15 years, but last year a new 'pup' made it to Earth orbit: ESA's small satellite Proba-2.
Measuring only a cubic metre, the satellite is crammed with technology demonstrations but also carries science payloads: its SWAP (Sun Watcher using APS detectors and imaging processing) instrument is only the size of a large shoebox, but gathers images much more frequently than SOHO's equivalent sensor.
"SWAP acquired an image every 100 seconds during the flare while SOHO manages one around every 15 minutes," said David Berghmans of the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB), overseeing SWAP operations. "This means we have about 40 images compared to five to six for SOHO, allowing us to see clearly the full range of phenomena associated with such an event."
Most notably, during the onset of the flare itself, a faint puff of material can be seen erupting in a downward direction from it – this is the CME beginning its journey Earthward. It is followed by a spreading 'EIT wave' as the area around the flare goes dark then, finally, glowing loops of cooling plasma as the Sun's magnetic field knits itself back together again.
As well as SWAP, Proba-2 also carries a second Sun-monitoring payload run contributed by ROB: LYRA (Large Yield Radiometer) is a solar radiometer measuring solar radiance at key ultraviolet wavelengths. SWAP and LYRA observed the flare simultaneously, the latter instrument recording a dramatic four-fold radiation peak.
"LYRA adds an extra dimension to solar monitoring," said Jean-François Hochedez of ROB, LYRA Principal Investigator. "It records at high frequency the extreme ultraviolet brightness radiated by the relatively 'cool' solar corona, seen by the SWAP imager, but also phenomena occurring at lower temperatures in the dense chromosphere just above the surface. In addition it examines the rapid variability of the very hot corona - its two metallic filter channels sample extreme ultraviolet pass bands but also the soft X-ray range where the ten million degree corona expresses itself."


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In the course of the Plenary sessions, the Chair asked the delegates to comment on the kind of text they would like to see adopted as the outcome of this Conference.
A first series of speakers took the floor to tell of their determination to see a legally-binding document become the outcome of this Conference. They said that if the text was finally agreed to by all, there should be no reason why the agreed measures would not be binding. While it is true that regional organizations will play a key role in implementation, there are a number of general principles that will apply in all instances. These should be codified in a legally-binding document.
Several delegates indicated their willingness to continue the process beyond the August deadline if this leads to the adoption of a convention. A delegate argued that the transformation of the text into a convention would be merely a technical exercise, and if the document is too comprehensive, certain key elements could be retained in a convention and would be supplemented by other documents such as a General Assembly Resolution.
Enforcement by the coastal States is one of the areas in which a legally-binding document would prove most useful. Past experiences have shown that no action can be taken against those States that have refused to abide by the regional arrangements. A new treaty-law approach could solve this problem, and it might best be achieved through an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) approach similar to the one in the conventions on climate change and biodiversity. A delegate said that a draft convention had been submitted to the Secretariat by a number of Latin American countries and should be available to the delegates by the end of the week. This document was tabled by Ecuador on the last day of the session.
The representative of a coastal State said that measures need to be binding. If measures are not accepted at the global level, they will not be any more acceptable at the regional level. A delegate said that those who oppose the adoption of a legally-binding document are those who want the over-fishing to carry on as it has up to now.
Settlement of disputes is another area in which a convention would provide more certainty and predictability. Safeguards could be included to ensure that some specific conditions are met before any enforcement measure is taken. A delegate said that one should distinguish what is illegal from what is wrong and a convention alone can ensure that unfair practices stop.
A number of States said that they were quite flexible on the form of the outcome as long as there is agreement on the substance. A delegate said the final text would make little sense if it did not apply to the stocks throughout their range.
Several representatives of distant water fishing States were of the view that a legally-binding document was not required. Meaningful results can be achieved through other means. The drift-net ban resolution was given as a good example, but a coastal State answered that there is no common measure between this very simple resolution and the scope of what this Conference is trying to achieve.
One delegate characterized a convention as expensive and lengthy to implement. Drafting a convention goes beyond the mandate of this Conference under Resolution 47/192. It was also argued that States would not be as willing to compromise if they felt that they would be legally-bound by the outcome.
The representative of a small island developing State suggested that the measures be adopted by consensus and they would then be implemented and become the custom before ratification and entry into force. A delegate also remarked that most of the States favoring a legally-binding document are also those who want to limit the scope of the Conference to the high seas.
The Chair concluded the debate on this section by saying that this issue had been simmering from the beginning and he felt this exchange of views had been constructive.
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I wasn't expecting to read this when I got out of bed this morning... BoyGenius has dropped word (and drawn up the nice logo above that I borrowed for this post) that Duetsche Telekom will bring T-Mobile to Canada in 2009. The info came to the BG via tipster, so it is unconfirmed. From BG:
- Deutsche Telekom has been pre-approved for a financing and protocol agreement which will allow them to introduce T-Mobile to the Canadian market (subject to restrictions in all provinces except Ontario during a 6, 12 and 18 month trial period that expires in 2010), and also pre-approves them for testing roaming, cell tower reception and international data agreements.
- The person heading up the Canadian division of Deutsche Telekom will be Canadian, in compliance with the Canadian Business Ethics law
- Deutsche Telekom already owns the name T-Mobile in Canada under a US Parent Office international exchange program.
- They plan to launch T-Mobile in Canada in 2009.
- Currently, as we all know, Rogers is the only GSM game in town. With T-Mobile's entrance into the Canadian market, data rates are going to plummet quickly. DT also plans to introduce an unlimited BlackBerry plan to the Canadaian market to be priced at $75/month. Basically telling Rogers to go screw themselves.
- T-Mobz Canada is set to offer many of the devices we're used to seeing here in the U.S. like the Sidekick line and T-Mobile's HTC products. I guess that's bye bye Fido Sidekicks?
From a consumer standpoint and as a Rogers customer in Canada I wouldn't mind seeing more GSM carrier competition come to town, especially if it means data rates will drop. I guess we'll have to stay tuned on this one...
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AT&T customers have been receiving warnings from the carrier saying that their phones will soon stop making calls. That's technically true, but the network change isn't coming until 2022. Here's what you need to know about the transition to VoLTE (HD Voice) on AT&T.


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The ramblings & obsessions of a fisherman's wife! ~ a potpourri of history, genealogy and books. Also some general ramblings if they take my fancy!
Friday, 1 June 2012
Carnival Of Genealogy 118:Reading
I can't remember my first book. I ponder that I might have had one of those cloth books that children get, but I can not be sure and when I asked my Mum if she could remember she didn't give me an answer, just that look, the one that says "don't be ridiculous!"
I recall reading and sharing the various Mr Men books, when the series was just Mr Men, before the series expanded in view of equality and created Little Miss books! I had a small collection of Ladybird books and the small Observer series of books and I seem to recall that I had the book on stamp collecting.
I was not much of a comic fan, but as part of my pocket money treat from my Grandmother I was a reader of several comics. Lamb Chop, Little Star and Twinkle. As I approached my teenage years I seem to think I read another, but can not recall its name. I do remember reading Smash Hits magazine when I was about 14. There was also Christmas Annuals produced to accompany the comics.
Into adulthood, and my reading is very varied, much like this blog. My personal book collection comprises of mainly historical texts - general history, or history relating to specific areas, times, people and includes historical fiction. I also have collated quite a few novels over the years and like to read sets in order.
The Alphabet Series written by Sue Grafton a favourite and in complete contrast novels by Jennifer Chiaverini featuring Elm Creek, a fictional quilting community. I also have lots of genealogical books and various autobiographies. Upon the shelves there are books relating to the day job, pharmacy, education and management.
I love reading, and of course books in general. I love bookshops and can not walk past one. If I wander pass a charity shop or selection of stalls I always head to the book stalls and shelves. A few years ago we had a wonderful weekend break in the Welsh border town of Hay on Wye. Home to at least 30 bookshops. It was wonderful! You can see a selection of photos HERE.
It was those early days of sitting with a book on my Grandmother's knee that created my real love of reading and books. My Mum is a reader too and even now we trade books and chats about our current reads. So as I sit in my study, surrounded by all the books, papers and what my beloved husband would call chaos I can, for lots of those books remember the where and when and how much!
We are in a digital age and as such even books are not exempt! - now the owner of a Kindle and iPad and various applications for reading books upon I can add to my book library in a virtual sense. That said, there are simply some books which have to be bought, held and enjoyed.
Over the last 4 or 5 years I have parted with some, either given them away to charity shops or sold via eBay and Amazon. The books I have now are like old friends and I am busy cataloguing them via LibraryThing.
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Julie, seems like we get to know one another well by what, when and how they read books. Thanks for the invitation to your life in books. Also related to paring down the deluge of books to those that are now my friends, that have guided me to this time and place.ReplyDelete
I missed that treat of being read to by one's grandmother. Lucky you. As I read through the entries for this edition of the COG I find that many more people seem to identify early reading with a grandparent than with a parent. It's lovely that you have those precious memories. Thanks for sharing and for participating in the COG, Julie!ReplyDelete
ENid Blyton, Jennifer Chiaverini - a, the joys of finding others who like the same books! Great post!ReplyDelete
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Isn't it interesting that so many of us mad geneabloggers are also reading addicts?! Also interesting how formative it can be, having one's grandmother read you stories...my grandchildren climb up to be read to and I sit surrounded on all sides. I must tell my quilt-mad friend about those books too. Agree that holding and reading a book is an extra treat and really special books must be in print not e-books...probably why those bookshelves never empty.ReplyDelete
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Charlemagne's ambition was to create a new Rome when he made Aachen the centre of his empire in around 800. The imperial palace's chapel – the oldest part of the cathedral today – was to be the religious centre. The mighty octagonal domed building is now thought to have been built in a mere ten years or so. A unifying architectural masterpiece, it brought together forms from the eastern and western parts of the Holy Roman Empire. Charlemagne was buried in the Palatine chapel following his death in 814. His sarcophagus can be found in the Gothic chancel, near to the still-intact imperial throne.
Containing exquisite relics from late antiquity and medieval times, the cathedral treasury in the cloister is one of the finest in Europe. It also features artefacts such as the silver and gold bust of Charlemagne and the Cross of Lothair dating from around 1000, which is still shown to faithful followers as a liturgical object on major religious holidays. Since the Middle Ages, the cathedral along with its relics has become increasingly important as a pilgrimage site. However, it was the imperial coronations that kept Aachen at the centre of world politics over the centuries. More than 30 German kings were crowned here between 936 and 1531 – in a building that could hardly be more solemn and majestic, and that makes every visit to the former imperial city of Aachen a memorable one.
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When Matthew Butterick mentioned this series as a good online source for reading about typography, he also mentioned its general bias towards InDesign in the examples I give. That's true. And while I deal with and have dealt with plenty of other tools, software and otherwise, for editing, writing, drawing, setting and composing what will ultimately become design that's typographic in nature, InDesign, particularly the few-generations-old InDesign, is the one I regularly turn to when working with digital type.
I have to a limited extent touched on the most popular typographic medium, hypertext, and its conveyance, your browser, but it's still unnecessarily complicated to talk about a simple concept in a simple way, say, kerning, or small caps, when web standards aren't there yet, and there's no good way of ensuring that the results I'm getting are the ones you'll get. Other stuff like columnar layout and text flow, H&J, baseline grids, and the ability to detect the size of final output, are altogether missing from browsers or in their infancy. All that, and the fact that a fixed medium lends itself well to making a single set of arbitrary and finite adjustments here and there is one of the things that has always drawn me to print work, and for this specific purpose (demonstrating the principles of typography), caused me to remain with a tool made for print production. (That said, I do plan to focus more on typography in the new medium as part of Using Type, but I've had a good long run so far sticking to the basics in the old.)
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As a kind of wrap to what I've written in the series thus far I thought, 'This writing isn't really giving much of a glimpse into the typographer's brain; more like the brain stem.' These principles I've covered aren't what typographers talk about, just as musicians rarely discuss fingerings, or emergency room doctors their stitching technique. These become built-in, and felt, and what happens beyond that point in the creative process becomes much harder to describe. That's where I want to go though. At least get to something concrete that articulates a principle better than, 'You've just got to feel it.' There's wisdom in following one's instincts, but if the reader doesn't see the reasoning that leads to the platform from which the typographer instinctively leaps—to the next decision, little good it does. Those benefited are almost exclusively the readers who already understand the concept, those who also 'just feel it.'
Anyway, forget all this. I'll get to it and either strike gold or retreat. Today, and over the next couple of weeks, I want to talk more about what happens inside that typographer's brain stem. And this is shop talk, the painter reviewing his list of brushes and ladders, the photographer his lenses. Kind of as a last final rundown, I want to go specifically over the conscious decisions made working with InDesign before the first project file opens.
General note on setting defaults
When in InDesign, or any of the major CS or CC Adobe apps, the way to set a program-wide default is by setting something while no documents are open. To make document-wide defaults, (and I'm actually not sure this works everywhere) you specify something while nothing in the document is selected. There are other defaults, such as New Document and Print menu defaults, which are set within those menus using a Save Preset dialog.
The defaults
With no documents open, consider what to keep from what's already chosen for you by default. In the Character palette, set the font family and size if you have one in mind. Here I set mine to Jordi Embodas's Pona 9 pt and leave the leading set to auto. That's what the parentheses mean.
Now, this next part is important. Set the kerning value to Metrics. This, not optical, should be your default. See above.
Also, through the top rightmost button on the Character palette, which looks like a tiny down arrow next to three horizontal lines, enable Ligatures and Contextual alternates. This last one allows for example complex connected scripts to work as intended.
On to Paragraph. Select the Align to baseline grid option at the lower right. I also recommend hyphenation being on by default. Change if you disagree, or if the language you primarily work in doesn't have a very good hyphenation dictionary or whatever.
The place you set up the baseline grid is under (on the Mac) InDesign > Preferences > Grids, or the same under the Edit menu in Windows. Here I set my increment to 6 pt, and Start at the top, 0 in.
And of course I use points and inches because I'm an American, but if you'd prefer millimeters and centimeters, the same can be set one dialog up from Grids in Units and Increments.
Unless you work primarily with Pro fonts, the following is ill-advised: Go to Advanced Type and set the Small Cap height to 25%. And while you're at it, you may consider altering the superscript and subscript values. What will this do? Instead of InDesign surreptitiously inserting fake small caps, this setting will make all fake small caps terribly noticeable. You can then go and replace them with properly drawn and proportioned real small caps. The same goes with these settings for super- and subscripts.
Lastly, hyphenation and justification. Follow these settings, referring to my post on the subject to know when to deviate, for example, when exporting a PDF to be read primarily on-screen you should never scale glyphs. These are set from the top rightmost corner of the Paragraph palette. After looking at it, I think I'll have to revisit my decisions on the hyphenation of certain words or words that lie in precarious places.
That's it for now. What am I leaving out? Next week we'll continue on the subject of defaults. Thanks again goes to Jordi Embodas's Pona (my new default!) for setting the title.


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MEDINA, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 5, 2018--
International Inc. (NYSE:RPM) today reported record sales, net
income and diluted earnings per share for its fiscal 2018 third quarter
ended February 28, 2018.
Third-Quarter Results
Net sales grew 7.8% to $1.1 billion in the fiscal 2018 third quarter
from $1.0 billion in the fiscal 2017 third quarter. Organic sales
improved 1.8%, while acquisitions added 3.1%. Foreign currency
translation positively affected sales by 2.9%. Net income was $40.2
million versus $11.9 million in the fiscal 2017 third quarter.
Third-quarter earnings per diluted share were $0.30 compared to $0.09
reported last year. Third-quarter net income included an income tax
benefit of $5.9 million, compared to year-ago income tax expense of $4.3
Income before income taxes (IBT) was $34.7 million versus year-ago IBT
of $17.0 million. Consolidated earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT)
were $56.7 million, up 52.6% from year-ago EBIT of $37.1 million.
During the quarter, the company recognized a non-recurring $0.01 per
share net tax benefit as a result of the enactment of the Tax Cuts and
Jobs Act on December 22, 2017, and an additional $0.08 per share benefit
from the resulting lower U.S. statutory tax rate. In January, the
full-year guidance that was communicated included a $0.10 per share
benefit from the lower corporate tax rate, of which $0.08 per share was
recognized in the third quarter.
"RPM's operating performance for the third quarter was outstanding,
despite severe, continued industry-wide headwinds from higher raw
material costs. We continue to generate exceptional EBIT leverage,
reflecting the early success of cost savings initiatives we began
implementing last year and rigorous SG&A spending discipline we have
exercised throughout this year," stated Frank C. Sullivan, RPM chairman
and chief executive officer.
Third-Quarter Segment Sales and Earnings
Industrial segment sales increased 9.2% to $569.2 million from $521.4
million in the fiscal 2017 third quarter. Organic sales improved 2.2%,
while acquisitions added 2.8%. Foreign currency translation positively
affected sales by 4.2%. IBT increased 52.1% to $17.8 million, compared
to year-ago IBT of $11.7 million. Industrial segment EBIT for the
quarter of $20.3 million was up 38.8% from last year's EBIT of
$14.6 million.
"Our industrial segment, representing over 50% of consolidated sales,
increased EBIT by nearly 40% through greater SG&A cost leverage, despite
higher raw materials costs. Our Tremco Roofing and international polymer
flooring businesses did extremely well, partially offset by continued
weakness in Brazil and mixed results in Europe," stated Sullivan.
Sales in RPM's consumer segment increased 6.4% to $363.4 million from
$341.4 million in the fiscal 2017 third quarter. Organic sales improved
0.7%, while acquisitions added 4.2%. Foreign currency translation
positively affected sales by 1.5%. IBT was $29.1 million, down 2.3% from
year-ago IBT of $29.8 million. Consumer segment EBIT declined 2.1% to
$29.3 million from $29.9 million in the fiscal 2017 third quarter. Last
year's consumer EBIT included a $4.9 million intangible impairment
charge on the Synta product line.
"In our consumer segment, prior-year acquisitions continue to drive
incremental sales and our organic growth has outperformed that of our
peers in the consumer space. However, the overall sluggishness in
consumer point-of-sale takeaway over the last several quarters
continued. We expect a robust advertising schedule in the fourth quarter
to position the consumer segment for accelerated growth in fiscal 2019,"
stated Sullivan.
Third-quarter sales in the company's specialty segment increased 6.5% to
$170.1 million from $159.7 million a year ago. Organic sales increased
2.7% and acquisitions added 2.2%. Foreign currency translation
positively affected sales by 1.6%. IBT was $22.8 million, up 51.9% from
year-ago IBT of $15.0 million. Specialty segment EBIT improved 52.6% to
$22.7 million from $14.9 million a year ago. Last year's specialty EBIT
included a European facility closure charge of $4.2 million.
"Sales were brisk in our restoration, OEM and pleasure marine coatings
businesses, which were partially offset by expected declines in our
edible coatings business as a result of a patent expiration. Specialty
generated very strong improvement in EBIT, largely as a result of SG&A
cost savings actions we began implementing last year, including a plant
closure in Europe, and tight spending controls this year," stated
Nine-Month Results
Nine-month net sales grew 8.6% to $3.76 billion from $3.47 billion a
year ago. Net income was $252.1 million compared to $53.8 million in the
year-ago period. Diluted earnings per share improved to $1.87 from $0.41
in the first nine months of fiscal 2017. IBT was $299.2 million versus
year-ago IBT of $58.6 million. Consolidated EBIT was $366.1 million
compared to year-ago EBIT of $118.2 million. Prior-year results included
pre-tax impairment charges of $193.2 million, a pre-tax charge of $12.3
million for exiting a business in the Middle East, and a pre-tax charge
of $4.2 million for a plant closure in Europe.
Nine-Month Segment Sales and Earnings
Sales for RPM's industrial segment increased 9.4% to $2.0 billion from
$1.83 billion in the fiscal 2017 first nine months. Organic sales
increased 3.7%, while acquisitions added 3.5%. Foreign currency
translation positively affected sales by 2.2%. IBT was $174.4 million,
up 15.3% from year-ago IBT of $151.3 million. Industrial segment EBIT of
$182.0 million was up 15.2% from EBIT of $157.9 million in the first
nine months of fiscal 2017, which included a charge for exiting a
business in the Middle East.
In the consumer segment, nine-month sales were up 8.1% to $1.21 billion
from $1.12 billion in the first nine months of fiscal 2017. Organic
sales improved 0.2%, while acquisitions added 7.2%. Foreign currency
positively affected sales by 0.7%. IBT was $146.6 million, compared to a
year-ago loss before income taxes of $40.7 million. Consumer segment
EBIT was $147.1 million compared to a loss of $40.6 million in the first
nine months a year ago, as a result of impairment charges.
Specialty segment sales increased 6.9% to $555.7 million from $519.6
million in the first nine months a year ago. Organic sales increased
2.8% and acquisitions added 3.4%. Foreign currency translation
positively affected sales by 0.7%. IBT was $90.4 million, up 17.9% from
year-ago IBT of $76.7 million. Specialty segment EBIT improved 18.2% to
$90.1 million from $76.3 million in the same period a year ago, which
included the charge for a plant closure in Europe.
Cash Flow and Financial Position
For the first nine months of fiscal 2018, cash from operations was
$140.7 million, compared to $173.5 million in the first nine months of
fiscal 2017. Capital expenditures during the current nine-month period
of $72.8 million compare to $80.1 million over the same time in fiscal
2017. Total debt at the end of the first nine months of fiscal 2018 was
$2.18 billion, compared to $1.98 billion a year ago and $2.09 billion at
the end of fiscal 2017. RPM's net (of cash) debt-to-total capitalization
ratio was 54.0%, compared to 58.0% at February 28, 2017 and 54.8% at May
31, 2017.
At February 28, 2018, RPM's total liquidity, including cash and
long-term committed available credit, was $966.9 million. "We continue
to aggressively pursue acquisitions and reinvest in our existing
businesses," stated Sullivan.
Business Outlook
"On a consolidated basis in the fourth quarter, we expect RPM to
generate mid-to-upper-single-digit sales growth that will drive
double-digit EBIT growth, reflecting continued tight SG&A spending
controls, despite the challenging higher raw material environment.
Overall, these anticipated results are consistent with what we
communicated back in January," stated Sullivan.
"As for the performance of our segments in the fourth quarter, we expect
sales growth in our industrial segment in the mid- to upper-single
digits, driven by continued strong performance in our Tremco Roofing
liquid applied products, as well as favorable foreign currency
translation. For our consumer segment, we expect sales growth in the
mid-single-digit range and for the specialty segment, sales growth in
the low-single-digit range," Sullivan stated.
The company currently expects its income tax rate to be in the 26% to
27% range in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018, which includes the lower
U.S. statutory income tax rate. The company noted its tax rate could
change as the IRS continues to issue guidance on the new tax law.
"We are narrowing our fiscal 2018 earnings guidance upwards to a range
of $3.05 to $3.10 per diluted share from our previous guidance of $3.00
to $3.10 per diluted share, reflecting our expectation of a continuation
of solid top-line sales and double-digit EBIT growth," stated Sullivan.
Webcast and Conference Call Information
Management will host a conference call to discuss these results
beginning at 10:00 a.m. EDT today. The call can be accessed by dialing
888-771-4371 or 847-585-4405 for international callers. Participants are
asked to call the assigned number approximately 10 minutes before the
conference call begins. The call, which will last approximately one
hour, will be open to the public, but only financial analysts will be
permitted to ask questions. The media and all other participants will be
in a listen-only mode.
For those unable to listen to the live call, a replay will be available
from approximately 12:30 p.m. EDT on April 5, 2018 until 11:59 p.m. EDT
on April 12, 2018. The replay can be accessed by dialing 888-843-7419 or
630-652-3042 for international callers. The access code is 46126364. The
call also will be available both live and for replay, and as a written
transcript, via the RPM web site at www.RPMinc.com.
About RPM
RPM International Inc. owns subsidiaries that are world leaders in
specialty coatings, sealants, building materials and related services
across three segments. RPM's industrial products include roofing
systems, sealants, corrosion control coatings, flooring coatings and
other construction chemicals. Industrial companies include Stonhard,
Chemical and RPM
Belgium Vandex. RPM's consumer products are used by professionals
and do-it-yourselfers for home maintenance and improvement and by
hobbyists. Consumer brands include Rust-Oleum,
and Testors.
RPM's specialty products include industrial cleaners, colorants,
exterior finishes, specialty OEM coatings, edible coatings, restoration
services equipment and specialty glazes for the pharmaceutical and food
industries. Specialty segment companies include Day-Glo,
Wood Finishes, Mantrose-Haeuser,
Brands, Kop-Coat
and TCI.
Additional details can be found at www.rpminc.com
and by following RPM on Twitter at www.twitter.com/RPMintl.
For more information, contact Barry M. Slifstein, vice president –
investor relations, at 330-273-5090 or email@example.com.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information
To supplement the financial information presented in accordance with
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the United States ("GAAP")
in this earnings release, we use EBIT, a non-GAAP financial measure.
EBIT is defined as earnings (loss) before interest and taxes. We
evaluate the profit performance of our segments based on income before
income taxes, but also look to EBIT as a performance evaluation measure
because interest expense is essentially related to acquisitions, as
opposed to segment operations. For that reason, we believe EBIT is also
useful to investors as a metric in their investment decisions. EBIT
should not be considered an alternative to, or more meaningful than,
income before income taxes as determined in accordance with GAAP, since
EBIT omits the impact of interest in determining operating performance,
which represent items necessary to our continued operations, given our
level of indebtedness. Nonetheless, EBIT is a key measure expected by
and useful to our fixed income investors, rating agencies and the
banking community all of whom believe, and we concur, that this measure
is critical to the capital markets' analysis of our segments' core
operating performance. We also evaluate EBIT because it is clear that
movements in EBIT impact our ability to attract financing. Our
underwriters and bankers consistently require inclusion of this measure
in offering memoranda in conjunction with any debt underwriting or bank
financing. EBIT may not be indicative of our historical operating
results, nor is it meant to be predictive of potential future results.
See the financial statement section of this earnings release for a
reconciliation of EBIT to income before income taxes.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" relating to our
business. These forward-looking statements, or other statements made by
us, are made based on our expectations and beliefs concerning future
events impacting us, and are subject to uncertainties and factors
(including those specified below) which are difficult to predict and, in
many instances, are beyond our control. As a result, our actual results
could differ materially from those expressed in or implied by any such
forward-looking statements. These uncertainties and factors include (a)
global markets and general economic conditions, including uncertainties
surrounding the volatility in financial markets, the availability of
capital and the effect of changes in interest rates, and the viability
of banks and other financial institutions; (b) the prices, supply and
capacity of raw materials, including assorted pigments, resins, solvents
and other natural gas- and oil-based materials; packaging, including
plastic containers; and transportation services, including fuel
surcharges; (c) continued growth in demand for our products; (d) legal,
environmental and litigation risks inherent in our construction and
chemicals businesses and risks related to the adequacy of our insurance
coverage for such matters; (e) the effect of changes in interest rates;
(f) the effect of fluctuations in currency exchange rates upon our
foreign operations; (g) the effect of non-currency risks of investing in
and conducting operations in foreign countries, including those relating
to domestic and international political, social, economic and regulatory
factors; (h) risks and uncertainties associated with our ongoing
acquisition and divestiture activities; (i) risks related to the
adequacy of our contingent liability reserves; and (j) other risks
detailed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including the risk factors set forth in our Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the year ended May 31, 2017, as the same may be updated from time to
time. We do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise
any forward-looking statements to reflect future events, information or
circumstances that arise after the date of this release.
EBIT is defined as earnings (loss) before interest and taxes. We
evaluate the profit performance of our segments based on income
before income taxes, but also look to EBIT as a performance
evaluation measure because interest expense is essentially related
to acquisitions, as opposed to segment operations. For that
reason, we believe EBIT is also useful to investors as a metric in
their investment decisions. EBIT should not be considered an
alternative to, or more meaningful than, income before income
taxes as determined in accordance with GAAP, since EBIT omits the
impact of interest in determining operating performance, which
represent items necessary to our continued operations, given our
level of indebtedness. Nonetheless, EBIT is a key measure
expected by and useful to our fixed income investors, rating
agencies and the banking community all of whom believe, and we
concur, that this measure is critical to the capital markets'
analysis of our segments' core operating performance. We also
evaluate EBIT because it is clear that movements in EBIT impact
our ability to attract financing. Our underwriters and bankers
consistently require inclusion of this measure in offering
memoranda in conjunction with any debt underwriting or bank
financing. EBIT may not be indicative of our historical operating
results, nor is it meant to be predictive of potential future
February 28,
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Houston, it appears we are closer to a stadium deal.
Four years after the San Jose Earthquakes relocated to Houston amid concerns that stadium talks in the Bay Area weren't as hopeful as expected, the Dynamo on Tuesday moved one step closer to finalizing a deal for a stadium East of downtown Houston.
"We're getting close to the proverbial finish line," Dynamo president Oliver Luck said Tuesday. "We see the light at the end of the tunnel, and it's not the light from an oncoming train."
While any agreement ultimately will need approval, Luck the movement to build a new stadium will get the decisive signatures. With the Houston Chronicle reporting specific dates for each of the various entities beginning with the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority board on Thursday, dates certain for these approvals offer a definitive step forward opposed to the vague string of 60-90 day extensions and deadlines that have come and gone.
"Basically, we needed two big political entities, the city and the county to get involved," Luck said. "We came to an agreement in principle and now we just need to legislatively enact it. It's not just a fait accompli, but I have all the confidence in the world that folks will do what they have pledged to each other to do, so we're getting close to the finish line."
To help get the deal to the finish line, Luck was appreciative of the effort put in by new Houston Mayor Annise Parker as well as the outgoing mayor.
"Former Mayor Bill White did a great job of putting the framework together, but [the stadium] couldn't get pushed over the finish line" Luck said. "The new mayor came in and, like a lot of big cities in this economy, the city is faced with several big issues. She said, though, that this is something that's been on the backburner and we'll make an effort in the first couple of months to try to resolve it. And she was able to do that, and we are very grateful for the work she's been able to do."
While the proposed location in Bellaire and other suburban locations were discussed, Luck has believed throughout the process that a stadium downtown is critical to the success of the team and the league with its supporters in Houston.
"The most important thing was to be 'major league,' and that means in our community to be downtown," Luck said. "We've been able to see other stadiums and venues [in MLS] and get an idea with what works and what doesn't work. We believed in order for the Dynamo to be successful and in order for MLS and soccer to grow, we needed to be next to our three big brothers, the Astros, the Texans and the Rockets. We had various locations that courted us but we felt we needed to make this work for the long term and that meant being in the thick of things."
In the interim, Houston will continue to play at Robertson Stadium. While the venue has been more than adequate to serve the Dynamo in the short term, getting control over the additional streams of revenue from a potential new stadium and having control over the actual facilities has been an important goal for the club throughout.
"It's important like it is to every MLS club to generate revenue and control the quality," Luck said. "That's been one of the biggest issues we faced playing in a college stadium. Not only were we not generating revenue, but we couldn't improve on the quality of any services, whether it be parking, concessions or restroom facilities."