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She's following up the most successful Toast to the Coast fundraiser in 2012 - highlighted by a land donation worth $600,000 - in organizing the Lemon Bay Conservancy centerpiece event from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6, at the Boca Bay Pass Club.
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"This is my first time doing anything like this," Dahms said from her Cape Haze home. "I'm very nervous."
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Toast to the Coast 2012 festivities drew 235 attendees from miles around, said Vanessa Smith, Lemon Bay Conservancy director of development. RSVPs will be capped at 250 this year.
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(CNS Business): Local financial expert and director of one of Cayman's largest business conglomerates, Don Seymour, is the latest person to wade in on alternatives to the premier's direct tax proposals, many of which appear to have been ignored. Seymour has proposed an infrastructure fee based on miles driven that could bring in some $40 million, as well as directorship fees, boat licensing fees, garbage fees attached to water bills and a liquidator fee. However, despite the premier's calls for solutions, most of Seymour's ideas appear to have been rejected. Warning that government will not collect on the payroll tax, Seymour is mystified why government has not consulted anyone on such a critical issue.
"This is the most important decision that our country has ever faced yet it's evident that our community was not consulted on such a drastic change in our economy," said Seymour, who is the managing director of DMS Offshore Investment Services and the founder of the dms conglomerate, one of Cayman's most successful homegrown businesses.
"It's inexplicable that the government would hold a referendum to gauge public sentiment for OMOV [one man, one vote] yet unilaterally decide that it's acceptable to impose direct taxation. A question that significant should have been on the referendum ballot as the taxation decision was literally announced days after the vote. Imposing direct taxation makes OMOV seem trivial; and even Greece consulted its people," Seymour told CNS Business this week.
One of a number of people from the private sector who are believed to have offered options to the payroll tax, Seymour said government had to find a rational as well as sustainable approach to balancing its budget.
"It cannot expect to finance its deficits on any one segment of our community," he said. "Implementing a payroll tax would remove our competitive advantage in attracting talent to the Cayman Islands. It would also dramatically increase the cost of doing business, simply because the employer pays the employee."
The tax added to work permit fees would make it considerably more expensive to hire in Cayman than any competing jurisdiction, Seymour said, as he warned that collecting and enforcing would be costly and virtually impossible. "The government is trying a hit an extremely fast moving and ingenious target with the payroll tax. There is little chance that payroll tax legislation can keep pace with the speed and agility of tax structuring in the private sector."
Although there has been virtually no consultation on how government can address its mounting public financial crisis during this budget cycle, Seymour said he had been asked about the directorship fee, but even he did not know whether government had followed through with his recommendations or had come up with another plan because he had not been shown any details.
in addition to his suggestion about the directorship fee, he proposed an infrastructure fee that could raise around $40 million for roads and infrastructure. With 55,000 registered vehicles in Cayman that are licensed and inspected by DVL, all of which have odometers, government could implement a road user fee of 10 cents per mile and collection would require only a simple software change at DVL.
He said the fee could be varied and higher for commercial or luxury vehicles and less for eco-cars and drivers in the eastern districts could get annual credits. "It's a very flexible structure to accommodate the varied needs of the community," Seymour added, but government has dismissed it on the basis that it will hurt poor people.
"The fear that the infrastructure fee would impact poor people is not well founded. Poor people don't own cars," he said, speaking from knowledge because of the many people he supports in the community. "Having any car in Cayman brings expenses. Government requires the car to be registered and insured. To be registered it needs to be road-worthy so it needs to be maintained properly, which means repair expenses and mechanics are not cheap. Insurance is not cheap. Fuel is not cheap."
Seymour also suggested a liquidator fee. Insolvency, he said, is a major business in Cayman and a fee of $5 - $10 per insolvency hour would be insignificant when added to a bill but could raise many millions for government. "Every structure that is established eventually dissolves so it is justifiable that CIG earns a fee at the beginning, during and now at the end of the life of the structure, since a proper functioning infrastructure is needed throughout to support the industry," he said. "These funds could be earmarked for the construction of the new court house that is so badly needed by the judiciary."
Like most people in the private sector, despite being Caymanian and not impacted by the tax, Seymour warned of the real dangers associated with this type of tax.
He also said the discriminatory nature of the tax was not just between expatriates and Caymanian employees but between government employed expatriates who will not be caught in the payroll tax net and private sector ones who will.
"Even if discrimination between Caymanians and expats is permitted under the Constitution, surely discrimination between public and private sector employees must not," he added.
Here's a suggestion
Here's my suggestion for a simpler and fairer alternative to Don Seymour's idea of a road usage fee based on miles travelled: replace the flat fee for an annual car licence (currently $185 if I recall correctly) with one based on the engine capacity of the car. I would suggest $0.10 per c.c. of engine capacity. All log books show the cc of the engine, so it would not require any significant change to the system.
On that basis those driving smaller-engined (and therefore almost invariably more economical and less polluting) vehicles would pay less than those driving large, expensive vehicles. A 1.6L car would even, at that rate of fee, be slightly cheaper to license than at present. However, a 5.7L SUV would be charged $570. Since the vast majority of the 55,000 cars on the roads have engines bigger than 1.8L, many of them considerably so, this would raise several millions of dollars in revenue.
But most importantly it would do so in an absolutely equitable manner, and at no additional cost to collect.
I can see the point that a mileage-based fee penalises those with long commutes to work, or who have to drive for medical or other reasons (it also creates an incentive to the dishonest to falsify their odometer reading). But under my suggestion it does not matter how many miles you drive, and it is in essence a voluntary tax. You may have to drive, but you do not have to drive a monster truck. And let's face it, if you can afford a 5 litre car, you can afford $500 a year to license it.
Yes, cutting expenditure should be the priority, but we have to face the reality that some additional revenue will have to be raised. If that is the case, let it at least be fair, easy to collect and hard to evade. I believe my suggestion meets those tests.
Everyone please stop with
Everyone please stop with ideas of how to raise revenue that the govt will just waste. Ideas should be to save money. Stop spending on ridiculous project eg the free solar panels. (15mil). Stop the freeness.
How much is the Directorship
How much is the Directorship Fee, and will it only be appied against non-Caymanian Directors? LOL!
Director poses options to tax
"Having any car in Cayman brings expenses. Government requires the car to be registered and insured. To be registered it needs to be road-worthy so it needs to be maintained properly, which means repair expenses and mechanics are not cheap. Insurance is not cheap. Fuel is not cheap."
Mr. Don Seymour, I'm afraid that you are contradicting yourself here. I have a very modest car. I struggle to pay all those fees that you have outlined. I cannot possibly afford to pay any more but it is critical that I have my car since there are a number of issues, one being medical, and unfortunately the bus system is still not great. Better than it was but they do not cover all routes and there is still a fair amount of walking involved. Due to a medical condition, I cannot undertake that.
I know that you do a lor for the community and I want to commend you for that. However, this suggestion is not a good one unless you are prepared to personally help those of us who need it. For starters, you could lower the motor vehicle insurance rates offered by your company.
Seymour for Premier! Some
Seymour for Premier! Some excellent suggestions.
the problem is the government
the problem is the government is refusing to make cuts, they need to meet the issue half way...
Most East End drivers do a
Most East End drivers do a average of 10000 to 25000 miles per year on their cars so it looks like the new license fee for those would be around $2500.00 per year, I think we pay enough already with the gas taxes per gallon and the car fees to licensing depart along with duty cost on the car when you import it, it is quite simple tell the Gov't to stop spending wastefully then come back to us in 10 years with new revenue ideas
Tax on cars
Seymours idea on cars was plains daft. How can you penalize people from East End and North Side that travel to George Town each day. As to poor people there are a lot of kids starting work that borrow from the banks to get new hot rod cars. Don you do not know your own people. Stick to providing thousands of directorships.
As to liquidation fees. Accountants provide lots of services including audit, accounting, company management, directorships and insolvency services and they pay very large fees for their licences. Why discriminate against liquidators. Way out man.
Can someone please explain
Can someone please explain why abandoned buildings such as the old Hyatt are left without heavty fines for every month or year they're kept their? I know the threat has been made but has there been any follow through? Following up on all the abandoned buildings would collect revenue and keep the island looking better wouldn't it?
Also why are large corporations such as the Ritz allowed to keep a running tab of outstanding duties owed without a payment plan?
Lastly why is a source of revenue such as simple traffic violations turned into an expense by sending them through the court system? The police give you a ticket and pay it at the DMV. Seems pretty simple to me. Of course I'm not referring to violations that could result in suspension of license.
According to this articlehttp
According to this articlehttp://cnsbusiness.com/content/cima-regulates-17-trillion the Cayman Islands regulates $1.7 Trillion. A small fee of 0.004% of each funds' assets under management would generate $68M in revenue for the Islands annually, meanwhile costing each fund $800 (for a fund with assets of $20M), $2000(for a fund with $50M) and $200,000 (for a fund with $5B).
As the numbers show, this 'community enhancement fee' will have but a small impact on funds' overall financial position, but a tremendous impact on the financial position of the Island.
Though some may argue that it will drive away funds from establishing here...compared to our top competitors, I'm sure this micro fee could be justified.
Fund Administrators are looking at tremendous increases in expenses (due to the fact that workers will demand more$ to compensate for new tax) which ultimately means a less talented workforce or less profit.
My $0.02
The "fund business", which is
The "fund business", which is the engine of Cayman's Financial Economy, is not an indentured servant that will endure tyranny on a whim. It is free to come and go as it likes, and it will flee if adversely penalized. Introduce any new additional costs which reduce our competitiveness and the business case for Cayman changes. The mere contemplation of taxation, introduces uncertainty, which repells serious investors.
Certainty amoungst investors
Certainty amoungst investors comes from knowing that a country has a stable government. The fee therefore would be a contribution directly to keeping the country that they depend on, in a state that remains beneficial for them. Win-Win situation. Everything has a price, even the stability of a nation. And what better way to stabalize than by taping into the very resource that has helped shape our growth all these years.
The biggest problem is communication, if it looks like an unfair tax - and is percieved to have no clear benefit to the fund managers, then why on earth would they want to stay here? Right now they are probably thinking funds will be hit next...That being said if this strategy was communicated in a way that they would understand the reason for it - to keep stability without introducing income tax - I'm sure they would be willing scrape a few crumbs our way.
No-one actually believes crap
No-one actually believes crap like this, do they?
No they won't. They only
No they won't. They only reason they deal with Cayman is to keep those "crumbs" in their pocket. They don't come because you're such fine and generous people.
Your argument is not logical.
Your argument is not logical. If setting up shop in Cayman saves a fund $10 more than the competitor, you're saying that they'll move if we charge $0.10 and they still make $9.90. You're saying that they'd rather accept $9.90 less by moving to somewhere else? Does that makes sense to you?
I am well aware that these funds are not here because of the aesthetics the island has to offer or the 'generous people' that you so sarcastically make reference to. It is common sense to know that they are here because it is financially benefical.
The point being: There is a margin to work with and adjusting that margin by a small amount (0.004%) will make but a small difference (crumbs) for them, but a large benefit for us.
You say they'll move because of the idea of direct taxation, I say they'll move quicker if theres no one here to process information and more importantly if the country faces political instability.
Stepping back, recall that Cayman was amongst the first of the offshore jurisdictions to 'comply'; that was considerably prior to the spectre of FATCA, and even today, Europe renews its intention in company with the major ONshore powers, to sort out OFFshore. Seems to me that Cayman energy is wasted by the widening of on-island divisions when resources need to be combined to maintain Cayman's dominance in offshore finance. I therefore find Seymour's discussion (and some others) an initial step back from the brink.
A tax is a tax is a tax! I
A tax is a tax is a tax! I say we address the unnecessary and unbelievable abuse in the spending of government funds before trying to milk the public more. STOP THE WASTE! STOP THE FRAUD! STOP THE GRAFT! STOP THE ______________! (You name it!)
Mileage Tax Bad - CI$/US$ Exchange Rate Deduction Better
I don't agree with the proposed miles driven charge. Some people people on modest incomes need a car to be able to keep their employment and the expenses of operating the car for that purpose already represent a major proportion of their income. It would also hit people doing school runs and the like unfairly. The people that would pay the least are those on the SMB strip that only drive from home to an office and George Town and back; yet many of those are the people with the highest incomes.
In any event if it was thought to be the right thing to tax why not just increase the price of fuel as consumption is mileage based and larger / inefficient cars would automatically pay more? Which may additionally have a spin of environmental benefit as it would incentivise people to buy more fuel efficient and electric vehicles.
I think the suggestion elsewhere that the Government take half of the spread on the US$/CI$ exchange rate is a good one. The exchange rate is fixed so the banks are currently making 2.4% on these transactions for nothing. In Bermuda where I believe the dollar is pegged at the same value as the US$ the banks get no such benefit as US$ and Bermuda currency can be used interchangeably. For avoidance of doubt the US$/CI$ exchange rate should be legislated to stay at the same rate so customers would not notice a difference, it would merely reduce the "money for nothing" earnings of the banks.
I don't usually agree with
I don't usually agree with this man, although he has obviously done a great deal to where he has gotten today, which I respect. And I do agree with some of the suggestions but most of all, how can the government waste so much money on nonsense to keep themselves in office and (apparently) not a penny on searching out alternative solutions that would keep the UK happy, balance the budget and maybe even secure more voters to them?? I don't care who comes up with the solutions, I spend my money on charitable contributions weekly and I see the return. I refuse to pay into a fund that will be swallowed by the big black hole of a pocket Mckeeva has.
It's a sad time for Cayman. It's hard for us, as Caymanians, because even though we are finally coming together, we are not being heard. Very disheartening and very frightening.
Instead of the road user fee
Instead of the road user fee why not just charge everybody $5 per day for sunshine? If it rains we wont have to pay, but if there is sunshine we have to pay...
Don Seymour suggesting a tax
Don Seymour suggesting a tax on directors is like turkeys voting for Xmas - they have so many directorships at dms between Don and his cronies that if the tax per appointment was decent enough dms could alone fill the budget deficit?
As you said they have so many
As you said they have so many directorships at dms, so if he's proposing a fee for the directorships, would his company not have to pay out the nose? So he's making the suggestion because he understands the term "sustainable income" and acknowledges the CIG's need for an increase in revenue!
No - his suggestion is
No - his suggestion is irrelevant - it's a done deal, but it's better to agree with something you can't stop, than object and be seen to be unable to stop the measure from being introduced?
It's the old 'Not invented
It's the old 'Not invented here' syndrome at work again.
This is exactly the same brickwall that blocks re-cycling, alternative energy, electric cars, in fact anything that makes sense.
Thank You Mr Seymour,
Mr. premier continues to claim that only those that "wish to harm the Cayman Islands" and "Create conflict in the community" oppose his new tax.
It is very comforting to have repsected business people like Mr. Seymour and Mr. Travers giving their unbiased opinions. People of thier stature cannot be ignored. We need more of these big business men to weigh in. If we all get together Mr. Premier cannot bully any more. He will have to listen because he cannot bully the whole island.
THANK YOU again Mr. Seymour for having the guts to step forward. You are not alone, we are all here with you.
Thank you for these
Thank you for these suggestions, I do hope someone in Government is listening.
Why can't government just balance the books properyly and stop wasting government funds. End of!
because votes in West Bay are
because votes in West Bay are REALLY expensive
Exactly. Why should everyone
Exactly. Why should everyone else have to pay for their incompetency?
This poor person lives in the
This poor person lives in the Eastern districts because I can't afford to live in town. I have caught the bus for the last 5 years and have finally managed to get an old, but roadworthy car. Compared to the absolutely appalling bus service we have in the Eastern Districts, I now actually get home in daylight and have a whole extra 2 hours a day. I am also able to get back out on a night after 8.00 pm, after the (useless) bus service has stopped. I have also discovered that other than the initial outlay in purchasing my vehicle, the cost of petrol per week is only marginally more than I paid to catch the bus. So I don't take Mr Seymour's comments about this proposed infrastructure tax lightly, nor do I appreciate it. For once, I am with the government on this one - this will only make us poor people suffer more.
Any blood left in the stone after this
I recall CIMA implemented introducing the regsitration of master funds this year. The Honourable Mr Bush (the Premier) - stated that the fee would raise and addtion $7million dollars per annum.
As this was not researched properly many of the expected master funds, did not meet the required definition and did not have to register.
I fear that the 10% proposed enhancement will be the same. Optamistic budgeting, but not enough research.
Statistically - there will be some people leaving now, particularly those in the middle income range of $37-$80k as other jursidiction pays better (even after tax). These people will be replaced after a few months - but at what cost. There will be the loss of the expected 10% fee, the loss of pension withdrawls, the loss of rental income and other monies spent around the island by this group of people. therefore we will not be able to obtain the expected 2012/13 revenue stream.
I am sure based on the audit general reports we will outspend our budgets (all goverments due) so we will therefore be in a worse position that expected.
Then what do we do??????
To all goverment officals, and the premiers office, Caymanians, Status holders and work permit holders - the cayman islands owes a significant amount of debt exess of $64million.
Why has the goverment not asked the people who live here (all of us) to donate or contirbute to reducing the debt?
If there are 45000 people in the island and at a min 5000 who earn over $150k a year, there are more than 100 firms who make greater than $10million profit a year - could the goverment just ask for a pledge and contribution to eliminate the debt.
The maths is easy:
5000 weathly indivudals donate $10,000 ($1,000 per month for 10 months) = $50 million
20 000 middle income (45-149K) to low income donate $1000 ( $100 per month for 10 months) = $20million
100 firms donate $100,000 = $10million
That is roughly $80 million dollars - that should eliminate the debt.
No taxes, no increased fees, fixes our country in 1 year.
and goverment can look at implementing a 5% enhancement fee to work permit instead of paying it to pension but the 5% pension contirbution by an employer would remain to ensure the investment power of the pension funds is not hurt.
These are alternatitives - unless Goverment asks we will not know if the people of Cayman would do so, but I would if it means stabilizing our country.
Oh great, so those of us who
Oh great, so those of us who simply cannot afford to live on SMB, South Sound and GT who have moved to the Eastern Districts would have to pay more taxes because we have further to travel to work? I think an infrastructure fee based on mileage is a ludicrous suggestion which only hits the poor people yet again.
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When we win, it's because we're not gun shy. The offensive play caller on this team needs to be drugged and locked in a trunk for the duration of the game. Look at the plays when we win games-we aren't afraid to throw down field. When we lose, we lose because we run 3 yard passing routes on 3rd and 12. We throw broken screens on long, we just dink and dunk ourselves into the shithouse and wind up losing games we should've won. When we go downfield with the ball, it ends up positive way more often than it does negative. Some play callers are just flat out afraid to take any kind of risk.
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Does anyone know how @chriscoyier uses SVG images on his latest article with PNG fallback for older browsers/devices that do not support it?
I would also like to see an article about this or something in the snippet section.
I just don't put a fallback in, in that case, just cause the site itself only support IE 9+
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@chriscoyier I'm also only supporting IE9+. However, you mentioned in one of your articles that some devices (I think it was an android tablet) do not support SVG. Would this work also (I can't test for Android)?
It defines a background composed of the SVG image and a transparent gradient. The last makes only gradient-capable browsers (which also understand SVG) to process the SVG part.
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Pauginer's invisible gradient technique seems to work well to me (thanks!), and it's fairly simple compared with other solutions. I'm still sort almost kinda supporting ie8, so having some fallback seems like a good plan.
With the new higher resolution (2560x1440) monitors, and high resolution mobile devices, transitioning to SVG images seems like a wise course of action for clip art, some icons, etc. There's an inherent challenge with phones like the Galaxy S IV in delivering content to a 1920px screen that could be on a 3G connection, and SVG seems like a good solution.
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I think it's two! I had one tonight, it's alright, made me feel a little sick but I dunno if that's my tummy kicking up a fuss about the change from solids to ludicrous amounts of liquids over the past two days!
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Cult East London garage indie band Fair Ohs have released their new single Salt Flats. Salt Flats is out now on X-Ray Recordings, and as well as being available as a straightforward digital download, the track can also be bought on flexi-postcard. Flexi-postcards can be played on normal record players, and each copy will come with a bonus download of b-side Gold Hill and a personal message from the band.


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Nov 26, 2009, 07:56 AM | #1 |
How to Page curl a PDF?
The bosses at work want a page curl effect on the PDFs we upload to the site. You know so it looks like a real book.
Anyhoo... the site is nearing completion and we are no where near sorting this page curl effect thing because its proving almost impossible to find anything that will work as intended. Can anyone tell me where I may find an OSX app or plugin (Quark or Acrobat) that will allow me to create a PDF with the page curl effect? I have spent days on google looking and while there are one or two options they are ridiculously expensive including £2.50 per page and £750 for an app. I am under the impression that Acrobat 9 has this page curl effect built in? How well does it work? Would the transition remain embedded in a PDF once we upload it to a server? InDesign CS4 also has this ability but everything is done in Quark 7 and would take a herculean effort to get everything onto InDesign. We only have Design Standard CS3 (Acrobat 8 & Indesign CS3) and Quark 7. Is there anything I can conjure up with these apps? I'm open to other options like using Keynote (if possible) or some other app as long as its not stupidly expensive and or too complicated and produces either a PDF or SWF that we can then create hotspots for links. Hope someone can help! Last edited by MacBoobsPro; Nov 26, 2009 at 08:02 AM. |
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Nov 26, 2009, 08:04 AM | #2 |
I haven't got round to doing this yet (just gone to CS4) but it can be done in CS4 - I thinbk you'd have to export as a SWF though as opposed to staying as a PDF to allow other people to view without the latest Acrobat. Or take a look at issuu - free and pro versions - I keep meaning to try this - a client has been using them and really rates them. Oh sorry just read your using Quark - just a thought - is there anything in Quarks Interactive designer that can do this..? |
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Nov 26, 2009, 08:17 AM | #3 |
I've not used this, but noticed it just the other day.
InDesign CS4 lets you can select Page Transitions by control clicking on a page in the Pages palate. The resulting dialog shows a page curl option, but as the dialog suggests, its for .swf files only.
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Nov 26, 2009, 08:21 AM | #4 | |
Anyone think this might be the way to go? I would still need to be able to create 'hotspots' for links within the swf, or if they are created in the PDF before exported as swf would they remain once converted to swf? Issuu.com looks good but they want £10 a month and I dont think the bosses will go for that. The PDFs need to be hosted at issuu too, as far as i can tell. |
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Let us know if you find anything better and how you get on /Doug
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Nov 26, 2009, 09:25 AM | #6 | |
Plus we dont have Flash. When you say I can create the links in Indesign how exactly do I do that? Is it as simple as dragging a hotspot in Acrobat? The boss wants our clients entire advert to be clickable not just a web link or email link. I've already learnt CSS and Dreamweaver for this bloody website, created a site but apparently that isnt good enough. So now they are paying someone else to create a site but I still end up figuring out how to go about it. |
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Nov 27, 2009, 05:37 AM | #7 |
Sorry, bit of a short reply this time ...
But yes, in InDesign CS4, open the 'buttons' panel. This will let you turn an object into a link. So you you could if you need to just draw a box with no fill or stroke over an area to make it clickable. These should carry over into any swf you export. You can also set hover and click effects using the 'buttons' panel. Can't say I've tried it in a live project, but I've played and it seems OK. I've attached a couple of screenies which may or may not make this clearer Hope that helps! /Doug
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Nov 28, 2009, 01:58 PM | #8 |
From your description, I think you are just looking for a simple 'pageflip' online application for viewing the PDFs, similar to how some magazines let you preview their content as though it were a real book?
I've played with various freebie versions of this over the past few years: http://pageflip.hu/ The freebie version requires the use of flash [and can probably only be used for personal sites], but for a mere 45euros I think the one user/site commercial license would be enough for your needs. I haven't done it, but supposedly you won't have to use flash at all and can dynamically add all the artwork via an XML file telling it where each page is located: http://pageflip.hu/help.html#setupxml Then I'd suggest allowing users to download the normal PDF version or viewing online in this pageflipping version. Hope that helps! |
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Nov 9, 2012, 02:13 AM | #9 |
well, great, thanks very much for sharing your information with me. I have download the software and find it works fine, really very appereciated!
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Paper and cardboard games are more fun than computer games because....
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I will send a reward to the participant who has the most original observation, if there is one of course. I am the sole referee here....: _ )
Well, I will say that paper and cardboard games are more fun because of the personal interactions and body language reading that is missed in computer games...
But saying that I wouldn't say that OLDER paper and cardboard games are better than the modern board game which has had a true Renaissance in the last decade and have much better interaction, better mechanics, shorter game time, more choices, etc. 2011 might be another breakout year of new games with intriguing mechanics as they build upon past successes.
I prefer to call them "face to face" games, having also tried out "tabletop" and "analog" games. Calling them "face to face" games emphasizes the very important rich social interactions that can take place in these games.
One huge advantage of face to face games is that they can be adjusted easily by the participants or facilitators to create a better gaming experience.
If you are playing a video game and there's something you don't like about it, there's very little you can do in most games. (Some games allow modifications to get around this.)
But with face to face games, each play is a unique experience of games, players, and context. The players can change the rules, the components, the ending condition, or really anything they want about the game (assuming all agree) to make it fit better with the situation.
It's all about play, and it's much better when the players control the game instead of the game controlling the players.
Face-to-face is a very thoughtful description, and your observation very pertinent. One of my friends (a French friend) uses the term, présenciel, from présence, and logiciel, the French for software.
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Glad you brought this topic up. I do agree that the 'face to face' games are more engaging. The full dimension-experience can draw in more participants - those with different likes and levels of gaming experience. I think we can observe body language and pick up earlier when someone needs encouragement or help to fully engage.
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What would your priorities be if elected to this office?
Make Illinois a "Destination Economy" for job creators (Fiscal Stability / Pension Reform / Ethics Reform). Suburban Interests. When Sen. John Millner endorsed me, he said, "Kirk Dillard is DuPage County's voice in Springfield." Whether it is protecting raids of suburbanites money from the Tollway and METRA, or fighting for suburban school funding which holds property taxes down, I fight for area taxpayers and their families.
What sets you apart from the other candidates?
Results. Unlike my opponent, I have a proven ability to build cross-party coalitions without sacrificing my core Republican values. I have the demonstrated ability to sponsor and pass significant legislation, and the gravitas and stature to stop the Quinn's/Madigan's lock on Springfield. I have the maturity, temperament and demeanor to represent our values, and those of our families. I have never voted for a general tax increase.
What should first be done by the state to keep businesses that have strongly voiced the possibility of leaving, such as CME and Sears?
The State needs to have a comprehensive overhaul of its tax structure. We need to lower the cost of doing business and cut regulatory red tape. We would not need incentives if we had the proper business climate. We need to focus on small, medium and family-owned businesses, not just the big guys. Please go to www.kdillard.com and click on the "30 Tips" to see my complete plan to make Illinois a "Destination Economy" for job creators.
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First, my daughters are in the College Illinois program. The program has been suspended, but the state must live up to its contractual and moral obligations to the parents, students and grandparents. The state should adequately fund higher education so that the massive tuition increases thrust upon college families would not so significantly raise the cost of College Illinois (i.e. hold tuition down). Fortunately, Illinois has the "Bright Start" program for tax-free college savings.
What should the government do to create more jobs?
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Do you support a gaming bill that would increase the number of casinos or other gambling venues in Illinois? Should a casino be built in Chicago?
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What do you suggest for property tax relief?
As Gov. Edgar's Chief of Staff, working with former Sen. Dan Cronin as its Sponsor, we passed the property tax cap bill, which eliminated the annual double-digit property tax increases that were being experienced by DuPage County taxpayers. Unlike my opponent, I vote for measures which will lower the burden on property tax payers by looking for less burdensome forms of taxation and as an effective legislator bringing back monies from Springfield for school construction, infrastructure projects, etc. that hold down local property taxes. Lowering property taxes is a paramount concern to me! I find it astonishing that when the value of homes drop, local government's property tax levies rise!
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The administrative overlap of 870 separate school districts is highly inefficient. Aswith the elimination of the ROE superintendents, planning is critical. You can incentivize the consolidation by offering a big stick to consolidate or as long as we make sure that student performance does not suffer. But I have learned in my time in state government that this is an emotional issue, and must be accompanied with incentives and suitable penalties. The savings should be returned to the classroom or taxpayers.
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Abolish this program. I have pushed this issue farther than any other legislator to the brink of passage. Last Fall, Gov. Quinn, at my urging, and with the help of the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board used my legislation to put abolishment of this controversial dinosaur of a program before the General Assembly for one final vote on passage. Sadly, Speaker Madigan refused to call the bill for its final lethal injection. Rep. Sandra Pihos, Senate Republican Leader Radogno and I have reintroduced legislation to abolish this program, and I am confident it will pass this year.
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Abraham Lincoln and Governor Richard Oglesby (who is my wife's great-great grandfather) who coined the term "Railsplitter" and nominated Lincoln for President, and oversaw the construction of Lincoln's Tomb.
Each was an orphan, and self-taught man, who rose up and saved our nation. Gov. Oglesby, during the Civil War, was wounded and lived the remainder of his life, including his three terms as Governor, with a musket ball embedded in his chest.
Both Lincoln and Oglesby were founders of the Republican Party. These were remarkable self-made men who overcame overwhelming obstacles.
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He is a complete lying dirtbag who endorsed Obama for president, is for illegal immigration and allowed Chicago democrats and organized crime associates to jobs in Illinois while he was Chief of Staff to Edgar. He allowed Janis Cellini, sister of convicted felon Bill Cellini to put inqualified outfit connected people on the payroll.