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Nutritional management of acute and chronic equine laminitis
Laminitis is an important equine disease, with evidence of its significance going back to the beginning of recorded history. Today, laminitis is said to be the most common reason for a horse to be presented for veterinary treatment, with an overall incidence of about 2 percent in the United States.1
Changes to the foot are theorized to be due to a disturbance of blood flow to the region as a result of an inflammatory mechanism from toxic, metabolic or enzymatic effects or from traumatic or mechanical factors. The final common pathway is thought to be one of mediation of extreme inflammation within the hoof capsule that eventually damages the laminar tissue severely, leading to detachment of the coffin bone. Possible contributors to the development of laminitis include endotoxemia, glucocorticoid administration, endocrine disturbances and excessive concussion on the structures of the foot. Additionally, various nutritional factors have been linked to the initiation and recurrence of the disease process.Nutrition and initiation of the disease
According to the National Research Council (NRC), several factors have been implicated in the etiology of acute laminitis.2 Nutrition-related factors include excessive ingestion of rapidly fermentable carbohydrates (i.e., starch, sugars or fructans) as a result of overfeeding cereal grains, excessive intake of lush pasture or bolus feeding of a commercial fructan (inulin). Intake of black walnut shavings, insulin resistance and obesity have also been linked to the development of laminitis.
"There are several nutritional laminitic models, but what they are actually doing to the horse is unknown — whether it's directly related to nutrition or an indirect effect is the question," says David Hood, DVM, PhD, Foot Diagnostic and Rehabilitation Clinic, Bryan, Texas.
Although several factors have been associated with the onset of laminitis, the exact mechanism by which these factors trigger laminitis is still unknown.


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This city is blanketed with churches. Downtown Presbyterian, Cross Point, First Baptist, Midtown Fellowship. But many of those who come here seek a different kind of spiritual kinship that can be found only at local shrines devoted to music: Ryman Auditorium and the Grand Ole Opry House, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, and the Historic RCA Studio B.
If these places were ranked in order of importance, purists might point to the Ryman, which was built in 1892 and housed the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 until 1974.
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[this is a guest blog from Charles Barton, blogmaster of Nuclear Green at nucleargreen.blogspot.com. Left-atomics agrees with the general understanding of the technological explanation for nuclear weaspons/WMD proliferation given by Charles--DWalters]
Two, Four Six, Eight, We Don't Want to Proliferate
Members of the British House of Commons have the right to submit questions to members of the Government . In 1992, Labor MP Bob Cryer ask the following question:
"To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information he has about how North Korea was able to build a military grade plutonium production reactor outside international safeguards based on blueprints of the United Kingdom military magnox plants at Calder hall, Sellafield."
The British Foreign Secretary Mr. Douglas Hogg responded : "Technical information about the Magnox reactors at Calder hall, Sellafield has been in the public domain for over 25 years. We continue to urge the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to fulfil her obligations under the non-proliferation treaty and sign an agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency which would place all of her nuclear facilities under safeguards".
The British government, in its great wisdom, allowed the blueprints of the Calder Hall Magnox Reactors to be declassified. The Magnox reactor was, after all, a primitive power generating reactor, that had been offered for sale to other countries. By the mid 1960's its design was dated.
But the Calder Hall Magnox Reactors were not just innocent power reactor, they were graphite reactors capable of burning natural uranium as fuel. Natural uranium burning required frequent fuel changes, but military planners knew that it the fuel change cycle was speeded up, the post reactor fuel would be an excellent source of reactor grade plutonium. The primary function of the Calder Hall Magnox Reactors was weapons grade plutonium production. Power production was an after thought.
During the 1950's and 1960's the militant British Coal Miners Union, was a thorn in the flesh of the British Government, the British Economy, and the British public. Electrical power generation in the UK was dependent of Coal mined by Union Miners, and thus the possibility existed that the British ability to generate electric power would be lost in the event of a long coal miners strike. Thus the British government proposed to give the Calder Hall Magnox Reactors the ability to generate electricity. The catch was that electricity produced by Calder Hall Magnox Reactors would be far more expensive than electricity produced by coal fired plants, but the British government had an answer to that. The real function of the Calder Hall reactors was the production of weapons grade plutonium. Thus the British built a series of Magnox reactors for dual purpose use.
By the mid 1960's Magnox reactors were technologically obsolete, and the British saw no reason to withhold the blueprints from the public. Thus anyone who could cough up the considerable blueprint copying fee, could obtain a copy of the Calder Hall blueprints for his or her personal use and pleasure. There was one tiny question about this British government decision. The Calder Hall Magnox Reactors were built for decidedly military purposes. They were relatively simple, and easily to duplicate, by nations which possessed a far less substantial knowledge and industrial base than the United Kingdom. The plans for the Calder Hall Magnox Reactors, were open to be stolen by soviet spies, and probably were. The Soviets in turn would have been in a position to pass on the Magnox plans to what they regarded as friendly countries. The Soviets might well have regarded the technologically unsophisticated Magnox as a perfect "nuclear research starter kit", for North Korea, exactly because building one was within North Korea's industrial and technological reach. It would, however, not been beyond the capacity of North Korea to obtain the Magnox plans without Soviet help.
The Magnox reactor is the ideal type reactor for the anti nuclear types, and indeed the Greenpeace script sounds as if every reactor is a Magnox . This is not true, and the North Koreans knew exactly what they were doing, when they decided to focus their nuclear weapons program on plutonium production from the Magnox type reactor.
Only two nuclear moderators have been ever been used for Weapons grade plutonium production. They are Graphite, and Heavy Water. All of the major nuclear powers appeared to have exclusively relied on graphite reactors for military Plutonium production. Israel and India have used heavy water reactors for the same purpose. Which ever type of reactor is used, the presence of the moderator allows natural Uranium to be used as a nuclear fuel. The fuel is burned for a relative short period of time in order to maximize the production of Pu-239. The longer the fuel stays in the reactor, the more other types of Plutonium - Pu-238, Pu-240, Pu-241, and Pu-242 - build up. From the stand point of the weapons designer, the creation of other forms of plutonium in a nuclear reactor is an highly undesirable development.
Pu-238 is just plain hot, in addition to being radioactive. Managing the heat and radiation from from Pu-238 would be a significant challenge for weapons designers, because in a weapon incased with a outer shell of high explosives, the heat will build up until the layer of explosives melt, rendering the weapon useless. PU-240 poses an even bigger problem. Although it is not not fissionable under reactor conditions, it fissions spontaneously at an alarming rate. No less than 415,000 Pu-249 atoms fission every second, for every 2.2 pounds (1 kg) of Pu-240. Pu-241 is fissionable in a reactor, but it is quite radioactive. Furthermore, Pu-241 emits beta particles, and transmutes itself into even more highly radioactive Americium-241. When withdrawn from LWRs, Reactor grade plutonium is 53% Pu 239, 25% Pu-240, 15% Pu-241, 5% Pu-242 and 2% of Pu-238.
According to Carson Marks. "Reactor-grade material would generate more than 10.5 watts per kilogram. As Gerhard Locke has recently emphasized, a crude nuclear explosive containing perhaps eight kilograms of reactor-grade plutonium would put out nearly 100 watts of heat-much more
than the eight watts emitted from the approximately three kilograms of weapons-grade plutonium he suggests would be in a modern nuclear warhead. Since the high-explosive (HE) around the plutonium core would have insulating properties only a few times poorer than wood (about 0.4 watts m-oC-1 ) only 10 centimeters of HE could result in an equilibrium temperature of the
core of about 190°C.5 Apparently, the breakdown rate of many types of HE begins to become significant above about 100°C.
Johan Swahn of the Technical Peace Research Group of Chalmers University in Goteborg, Sweden has developed data indieating that the surface dose exposure rate of material such as the reactor- grade plutonium is about six times larger (and MOX-grade over eight times larger) than that from the weapons-grade material which, again, is handled routinely.Marks speaks of nuclear explosions with reactor grand plutonium, but not nuclear weapons.
Two nuclear weapons designers, Carson Marks and Alexander DeVolpe have debated the usefulness of reactor grade plutonium in weapons. DeVolpe pointed to two tests:
1. The two UK "Totem" 1953 experiments in Australia, which were designed to evaluate the yield reduction resulting from plutonium of less than weapons grade".
2. The 1962 United States nuclear test which appeared to involve an intermediate grade plutonium.
DeVolpe argues that "[a]lthough the Totem explosive yield was highly destructive, they evidently confirmed that it was not good enough for military-quality weapons. Because these results would have been shared with the US, we can guess that the [1962] Nevada test might have been conducted with plutonium closer to the low end (81%) of the definition". He adds, that the British were quite disappointed with their 1950's test results.
DeVolpe argued that information about the 1962 test was probably distorted for political reasons. Most of what we know about the test comes from a series of terse statements:
"The 1962 detonation involved plutonium of a quality below that of weapons grade. To reinforce its 1967 announcements that "high-irradiation level reactor-grade plutonium can be used to make nuclear weapons," the US government added in 1977 that "a nuclear test was conducted using reactor grade plutonium" and "it successfully produced a nuclear yield." As a result of the Openness Initiative formulated by Secretary O'Leary, DOE announced in 1994 that the plutonium was "provided" by the UK and the upper limit of explosive yield was 20 kt."
DeVolpe also pointed out, "[c]ompared to data released about other nuclear detonations, the information disclosed about the 1962 test has little substance". According to DeVolpe the French "scorned the US government affirmation that it successfully exploded a weapon made with 'reactor-grade' plutonium."
DeVolpe argues that the quality of the plutonium in the 1962 device would have then been considered "reactor grade", but in the 1990's it would have been classified as fuel grade. He argued that public accounts of the 1962 Nevada test was inconsistent with published data on the 1950's British "Totem" experiments.
DeVolpe complains about the continued classification of information the 1962 test, long after far more information of conventional plutonium devices had been declassified. This would include general information on device design, plutonium quality, plutonium metallurgical chemical form, and Explosive yield. DeVolpe argues, "A lower yield would be suggestive of greater resistance to proliferant use. No nation with other options would choose such material as the basis for a nuclear-weapons program, and none are known to have done so".
Los Alamos chief weapons designer Carson Marks, together with Marvin Miller and Frank von Hippel, responded to DeVolpe's argument. Many of their arguments would seem very ambiguous. For example, they state, "The information disclosed about this test in 1977 represented a compromise between policy makers in the Carter Administration who wished to high-light the proliferation risks of of civilian plutonium use and those responsible for protecting classified weapons-design information".
This statement highlights the political influence on the 1977 statement, but does not respond to DeVolpe's argument that more was classified on the 1962 tests, than was classified on nuclear weapons test conducted at that time. If the goal of the Carter Administration was to high-light the proliferation risks of of civilian plutonium use, maintaining the classification of information that was inconsistent with that goal would have certainly been possible. DeVolpe argued that the classification of the 1962 was idiosyncratic, the Marks et al statement does not conflict with DeVolpe's argument.
Marks et al, made a further statement: "To our knowledge, all U.S. nuclear weapons use weapon-grade plutonium, i.e. plutonium with an isotopic fraction of at least 93.5 percent Pu-239. The same is probably true of the weapons in the arsenals of the other weapon states. There are several reasons for this. One of these is that the natural-uranium-metal fuel used in early production reactors had to be discharged after low U-235 burnup because of both reactivity and metallurgical fuel constraints. Such reactor operation naturally produces plutonium with a high Pu-239 fraction. It was also recognized that radiation exposure to workers fabricating plutonium weapons components in glove boxes would be minimized if the plutonium had a low fraction of the higher plutonium isotopes".
They added,
"However, the most important factor in motivating the high Pu-239 content plutonium in early nuclear weapons was the problem of pre-initiation of the chain reaction. In nuclear designs such as the Nagasaki weapon, where the chain-reaction was designed to be initiated at the point of maximum core compression, neutrons from the spontaneous fission of the even plutonium isotopes (primarily Pu-240) could pre-initiate the chain-reaction leading to significant reduction of the yield of the device.
Even with very high Pu-239 plutonium used in the Nagasaki bomb, there was an estimated 12 percent of reduced yield from this cause. For weapon-grade plutonium as defined today, this probability would have been considerably higher -- on the order of 50 percent -- unacceptably high to the U.S. military. This provided one of the many motivations for going to more sophisticated designs of fission weapons which incorporated faster assemblies and smaller quantities of fissile material. The introduction of "boosting," i.e. having a low-yield fission explosion ignite deuterium-tritium fusion in the primary releasing neutrons which increase the fission yield by an order of magnitude, further reduced the sensitivity to pre-initiation".
They conclude, "we are not arguing that a proliferator would not prefer weapon-grade plutonium or highly-enriched uranium to reactor-grade uranium. However, the possible use of reactor-grade plutonium cannot be discounted".
It is also important to note that Marks et al, did not challenge DeVolpe's discussion of to the British "Totum" tests.
A 1998 Indian test might be shine a little more light on the subject. In May, 1998, India tested a series of nuclear devices. At least one of those devices was believed to use reactor grade plutonium. The yield was reported to be between 0.2 and 0.6 kilotons, but some Indian scientists speculated that it was much smaller.
Finally, we ought to take a further note of the "Totum" experiments. These experiments used plutonium from the Calder Hall Magnox reactors and were conducted because plutonium from the Calder Hall reactors had a relatively high Pu-240 content, although probably >10%. The first test is reported to have produced an explosion on around 10 kilotons. But the exact sized of the second explosion is something of a mystery, with estimates running as high as 7 kilotons, and as low as 0.25 kts.
Finally we ought to look at the 2006 North Korean nuclear test, which probably used "fuel grade plutonium from their Magnox type reactor. Prior to the test, the North Koreans told the chinese that they intended to set off a 4 kt nuclear device. Estimates of the actual size of the North Korean device varied widely with estimates running as low as 0.1 kts and as high 1.0 kt. Since the seismic reading fell into to the range of a large conventional explosion, some experts suggested that the North Koreans had not used a nuclear device at all. The Wall Street Journal suggested that the blast was equivalent to the explosive force of about $100,000 worth of ammonium nitrate. It was not clear if the North Korean test had been a success, a failure, or not even a test.
Finally we ought to observe that all but one tests of nuclear devices with more than weapons grade levels of Pu-240 were conducted with Plutonium from Magnox reactors. The British 1953 Totum tests were conducted with a >10% level of Pu-240 and were deemed less than satisfactory. Given the published statement that the Plutonium for the 1962 Nevada test came from a UK source, it would appear that the source was a Magnox reactor. The Pu-240 content ran up to 15%. Finally the plutonium for the Indian sub lt test came from a heavy water reactor. The exact Pu-240 content was unclear.
Thus it would appear that no nuclear test has ever been conducted using plutonium extracted from LWR "spent fuel". Such Plutonium can include as much as 25% Pu-240. With so much Pu-240, the dangers of a spontaneous and premature explosion would be enormous. The amount of neutron radiation from such a device would be significant enough to require more than glovebox containment.
Finally it should be noted, that as Carson Marks has suggested, no nation has chosen to build nuclear weapons from using "reactor grade plutonium". Even North Korea chose to use plutonium that was near weapons grade, and their test of the explosive properties of that material may well have ended in failure.
Considering that no nation has ever even attempted to build a nuclear device using plutonium from
spent light water reactor fuel, the case that reactor grade plutonium containing as much as 25% Pu-240 can be weaponized is open to question. In fact the history of nuclear proliferation efforts i9s not consistent with the notion that reactor grade plutonium woule ever be used as a nuclear proliferation tool. Even if such a reactor grade plutonium weapon were possible, easier routes to nuclear proliferation seem likely. The North Koreans seem willing to sell their possibly defective technology to the highest bidder. The many members of the A.Q. Kahn nuclear proliferation gang
have never been arrested, and Kahn appears to be on the loose again. Kahn was able to procure of Pakistan the technology to build nuclear weapons, and the Kahn gang was known to have sold nuclear weapons technology to North Korea, Iran and Lybya. The South Africans developed an uranium separation technology that allowed them to enrich about 80 kgs of uranium every year to the 80% U-235 level, that is required for weaponized use.
The evidence is thus that even small nations like South Africa, given a determined government, may posses sufficient industrial, scientific and technical resources, may be able to develop the technology to produce a small number of nuclear weapons, without using reactor grade plutonium. The evidence is further that the cost of producing conventional nuclear weapons by conventional routes is not highly expensive, and the weapons produced are far more likely to produce predictable results. The probable continued survival of the A.Q Kahn criminal proliferation organization, and recent reports of North Korean involvements in building a reactor in Syria suggest that conventional proliferation resources are available to rogue states which wish to produce nuclear weapons. Thus alleged the civilian power reactor-proliferation link appears to be utterly without merit. Reactor grade plutonium produced by civilian power reactors, would appear to be a very undesirable proliferation tool, while inexpensive and far superior proliferation tools are available through criminal organizations and rogue states, to even small countries which wish to acquire nuclear weapon.
Granted the availability of superior, low cost proliferation options, arguments that reactor grade plutonium from light water reactors constitute an added proliferation risk appear irrational. Thus the so called danger of nuclear proliferation risk ought to be taken off the table in discussions of the advantages and disadvantages of power production from reactors. building power reactors effectively adds no added risk of proliferation avove the super means already available to the would be proliferator.
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Lauren Alaina Surprises Fans With Scotty McCreery Duet in Los Angeles
It's been nearly a year to the day that Lauren Alaina and Scotty McCreery took the 'American Idol' stage together for the last time, but that doesn't mean the Season 10 finalists have drifted apart due to their hectic schedules since competing on the popular reality competition.
During her May 22 tour stop opening for Sugarland at the historic Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, Alaina surprised fans by inviting her 'American Idol' pal onstage to perform the country classic, 'When You Say Nothing at All.' The love ditty was first made popular in 1988 by the late Keith Whitley, but the tune also became Alison Krauss' first (and only) solo Top 10 country single in 1995. Judging by the crowd's reaction, a studio version from the Alaina and McCreery would fair equally as well at radio (watch video below).
Alaina will remain on the road with the 'Stuck Like Glue' duo for the remainder of summer. Her debut album, 'Wildflower,' was released last October and and sold an impressive 69,000 copies in its first week on the shelves. The album has produced two hit singles for Alaina, including the Top 30 'Georgia Peaches' and her debut radio hit 'Like My Mother Does.'
McCreery propelled to superstar status upon being named the 'American Idol' winner in 2011. His debut album 'Clear as Day,' which also dropped in October, has sold more than one million copies on the strength of two Top 20 singles, 'I Love You This Big' and 'The Trouble With Girls.' The North Carolina native is currently touring with Brad Paisley as opening entertainment for the superstar's 2012 Virtual Reality Tour.
"@ScottyMcCreery it was great to see you last night(: thanks for coming ad singing with me!" Alaina tweeted Wednesday, adding, "You sounded great as always."
Though they're good friends now, the two will go head-to-head once again soon, both vying for the USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year trophy at next month's CMT Music Awards. Click here to vote.
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On 15 May 1957, Stanley Matthews made his last appearance for England, setting two national team records in the process.
The occasion was a World Cup qualifier against Denmark in Copenhagen. When Matthews stepped onto the pitch, he was 42 years, 103 days old, making him the oldest player in national team history. It was the 54th national team appearance for the outside right, bookending a career that reached all the way back to 29 September 1934, when he made his debut in a win against Wales. He would have had many more caps but for the intervention of World War II, which put a halt on international football for a seven-year period from 1940 through 1946. Still, his tenure of 22 years, 228 days remains the longest term of service for any England player.
England proceeded to beat the Danes 1-4, virtually securing their World Cup berth with one qualifier remaining. But Matthews, despite having featured in each of the preceding qualifiers for the tournament, was not called up for the final one and retired from international football soon afterward.
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== Add Recordings ==
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To add the recordings you need to follow instructions as for translations.
Artikulate and go to the dialog "Course editor" (top-left button) and the choose "Edit courses" option.
Choose a language for which you would like to do recordings for and the appropriate course.
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In order to record phrase it and the record button .
you can listen to what you have recorded by pressing the play button.
If you like the recording choose "Replace existing recording" option or otherwise record yourself again.
When you done with the phrase, change its status to "Completed" and close the phrase by clicking the button next to it.
You can now do more recordings but you will need to save your changes before exiting the program choosing the OK button on the top of the screen.
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=== Tagging phonemes for phrases ===
This article explains how to create and work on courses. The explained concepts follow the course life cycle and we refer to technical terms from that description. For creating courses or working at existing ones Artikulate must be configured to work on a course repository. If that is done, you can open Artikulate and use the internal course editor as explained in the following.
There are two possible ways how to create courses:
When creating a course from a skeleton, usually one wants to maintain a course prototype (=skeleton) that than is used to provide courses for different languages.
Currently, the Artikulate team uses a special course skeleton (called "basic course skeleton") to coordinate creation of basic language courses. The basic course skeleton contains units prototypes and phrases for the topics
The goal is to cover basic vocabulary from different areas that are important when learning a new language.
In order to create a new language course, open the course editor (the top-left tool button). Then we have to perform the following steps:
After this you should see the course with the phrases in English as they are in skeleton. Save your changes by pressing OK button at the top of the screen. You can see that now all the phrases are in English and they are tagged as "unknown". This means that they still need to be translated into appropriate language.
Once you have created a new language course and updated it with course skeleton you can start translating your phrases.
You can now proceed with editing other phrases. Remember to save all changes to the course by pressing the "OK" button at the top menu bar.
To add the recordings you need to follow similar instructions as for translations.
You can now do more recordings but you will need to save your changes before exiting the program by choosing the OK button on the top of the screen.
Artikulate uses language specifications (called "phonology") that define lists of available phonemes for a language. In short, a phoneme is a natural sound of a language. (For a detailed explanation see e.g. [1].) We need such a phonology for every language to be able to tag phrases by the sounds that are specific to this language. Using phoneme tags for phrases enables users to select specific phonemes that they want to improve and hence allows a more focused training.
The already available languages can be found in the subdirectory data/languages.
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Before the 2011 season started, necessity forced Mike Magee to slide into the middle of the field from his usual role as a forward for the LA Galaxy.
On Saturday, a greater need demanded a resonsibility that required Magee to offer one of his finest moments as the Galaxy lost both Donovan Ricketts and Josh Saunders to an injury and straight red card, respectively.
Magee answered the call by stepping in goal and holding San Jose scoreless for more than one half as the teams tied 0-0 at Buck Shaw Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
While he has played several positions at various levels of soccer, Magee's positions did not include goalkeeper.
"Never. Not even in a non-competitive match," Magee said of the times he'd played in goal before.
However, a need arose in the 43rd minute. After the defending MLS Goalkeeper of the Year resumed his netminding responsiblities for the Galaxy following Jamaica's exit from the Gold Cup, Ricketts's return to starting lineup was short lived as he collided with countryman Khari Stephenson in front of the LA goal.
Ricketts suffered an injured left arm and was replaced by Saunders. The move did not catch Saunders unprepared, as he'd started three matches while Ricketts was away on international duty.
However, Ricketts's replacement did not last long. Saunders was sent off in the 43rd minute for elbowing San Jose's Stephen Lenhart after Lenhart poked the ball out of his hands.
With a large, gaping hole in goal, Magee did not hesitate to raise his hand.
"I nominated myself," said Magee. "I think I looked around. Looking back, I don't know why."
Initially, Magee tried to take it one minute at a time before the gravity of the situation set in.
"When I first went in there, I wasn't nervous at all," he said. "I only thought I had to make it 10 minutes, and then we'd have a great plan at haltime where I'd be back on the field. And then we got back in (to the locker room), and it started hitting me that I was going back in goal, and that was pretty nerve-wracking."
Reduced to 10 men and having to play with a field player in goal, the Galaxy did not appear in a strong position to maintain their unbeaten run. With nothing to lose, Magee found encouragement from his boss.
"Bruce (Arena), he gave me all the confidence," Magee said. "He said to have fun with it and don't worry about it."
The Quakes quickly tested Magee, who knocked the ball around on several San Jose attacks designed to capitalize on the inexperience of LA's de facto goalkeeper. Magee wound up with four saves and did his share in preserving not only the shutout but also the team's ongoing 10-game unbeaten streak.
LA likely never envisioned how their goalkeeping situation played out on Saturday, but how the match unfolded may help boost the team's morale and confidence.
"The fashion we won it definitely helps the team come together," Magee said. "I think the (nine) guys out there in front of me, they had to play one of the hardest games of the year. That's definitely a game we could all celebrate and laugh. It was one of those games that we needed everyone to win, including three goalkeepers. I wanted to help us."
The Galaxy face a tricky situation heading into their next league match, on July 4 against Seattle. With Ricketts injured and Saunders suspended, the only healthy 'keeper on the roster is Brian Perk.
However, Magee has more than one half of goal-less action this season. Might he be an option?
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Comparison between ICAO PANS-OPS and US TERPS
Aerodrome operating minima (AOM) are calculated by operators based on information supplied by national authorities in their AIPs. This information typically consists of approach and departure procedures which assure safe separation between the aircraft and known obstacles located close to the procedure in question. These procedures are based on obstacle clearance domains constructed using internationally accepted standards.
Two main sets of procedures exist:
- ICAO Procedures, described in ICAO Doc 8168 Procedures for Air Navigation Services (PANS-OPS). PANS-OPS procedures are the international standard and are used throughout Europe and in most other countries world-wide.
- US Terminal Instrument Procedures (TERPS), described in FAA Directive No 8260.3B. US TERPS are used in USA and in certain other countries. These include Canada, Korea, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan. Some NATO military procedures are also based on US TERPS standards.
Pilots should be aware that there are significant differences in obstacle clearance criteria between procedures designed in accordance with ICAO PANS-OPS and US TERPS. This is especially true in respect of Circling Approaches where the assumed radius of turn and minimum obstacle clearance are markedly different (see below). US TERPS Change 21 (May 2009) introduced measures which have reduced the differences between the two methods, nevertheless, significant differences remain.
Circling Approaches
Minimum Visibility
Both PANS-OPS and US TERPS assume values of minimum visibility available to the pilot at the lowest obstacle clearance altitude (OCA). These values are calculated differently and therefore, may result in different AOM. Table 1 shows the lowest value of visibility assumed by each method:
|Aircraft category
|Minimum Visibility
|1.9 km1.026 nm
1,900 m
6,233.596 ft
|2.8 km1.512 nm
2,800 m
9,186.352 ft
|3.7 km1.998 nm
3,700 m
12,139.108 ft
|4.6 km2.484 nm
4,600 m
15,091.864 ft
|6.5 km3.51 nm
6,500 m
21,325.459 ft
|Minimum Visibility
|1.6 km0.864 nm
1,600 m
5,249.344 ft
|1.6 km0.864 nm
1,600 m
5,249.344 ft
|2.4 km1.296 nm
2,400 m
7,874.016 ft
|3.2 km1.728 nm
3,200 m
10,498.688 ft
|3.2 km1.728 nm
3,200 m
10,498.688 ft
Minimum Obstacle Clearance (MOC)
ICAO PANS-OPS uses a varying MOC which increases with aircraft category as shown in Table 2:
|Aircraft category
|Obstacle Clearance m (ft)
|90 m295.276 ft
|90 m295.276 ft
|120 m393.701 ft
|120 m393.701 ft
|150 m492.126 ft
US TERPS uses 300 ft91.44 m as MOC for all aircraft categories.
Thus the pilot of a Category D aircraft carrying out a circling procedure using TERPS minima would have 94 ft28.651 m less obstacle clearance than using PANS-OPS procedures.
Radius of Circling Domain
Both systems use a radius that increases with aircraft category and is based on TAS and bank angle. Both systems assume a 25 kt46.3 km/h
12.85 m/s wind factor.
Aircraft Category is based on threshold IAS (1.3 x Stall IAS) and is shown on Table 3:
|Aircraft Category
|Threshold IAS
|less than 91 kts168.532 km/h
46.774 m/s
|91 kts168.532 km/h
46.774 m/s or more but less than 121 kts224.092 km/h
62.194 m/s
|121 kts224.092 km/h
62.194 m/s or more but less than 141 kts261.132 km/h
72.474 m/s
|141 kts261.132 km/h
72.474 m/s or more but less than 166 kts307.432 km/h
85.324 m/s
|165 kts305.58 km/h
84.81 m/s or more (but less than 211 kts390.772 km/h
108.454 m/s)*
For PANS OPS only*
For PANS-OPS, the TAS is based on aircraft altitude and the visual manoeuvring IAS (Circling IAS). The latter is shown on Table 4:
|Aircraft Category
|Circling IAS (kt)
- Table 4: Visual Manoeuvring IAS used by PANS-OPS
For US TERPS, TAS calculation is based on aircraft altitude and threshold IAS appropriate to category (shown on Table 3).
PANS-OPS assumes a bank angle of 20° for aircraft of all categories. US TERPS assumes a bank angle which varies with aircraft category, but is never less than 20 ° - see Table 5:
|Aircraft Category
|Bank Angle (degrees)
- Table 5: Bank Angle used by US TERPS
Because the IAS used for TAS calculation is greater and the assumed bank angle is lower, the radius of the circling area used in PANS-OPS is larger than that used in US TERPS. This means that an obstacle within the assumed circling area calculated using PANS-OPS criteria might fall outside the obstacle area calculated using US TERPS.
This is believed to have been a major factor in the following fatal accident, which resulted in considerable loss of life:
Additionally, pilots not aware of the increased bank angle expected in US TERPS calculations might in certain circumstances stray outside the circling area due to the increased circling radius.
In summary, circling procedures based on US TERPS calculations afford considerably lower safety margins than those based on ICAO PANS-OPS. It is therefore essential that pilots understand these differences and are aware of the basis of calculations for all airfields at which they intend to operate. The basis for calculation of minima is usually printed on the approach plate (see Further Reading: Jeppesen Chart Basics - a presentation).
National authorities or operators may require adjustments to be applied to operating minima to compensate for these differences.
Some other less significant differences exist between ICAO PANS-OPS and US TERPS. For details refer to the relevant documents listed below.
Related Articles
Further Reading
- Circling Approach Discussion Paper, FSF European Advisory Committee, 24 January 2011
- ICAO Doc 8168: Procedures for Air Navigation Services - Aircraft Operations (PANS-OPS), Volume II: Construction of Visual and Instrument Flight Procedures
Note:Some of these references may refer to pre-Change 21 versions of US TERPS.


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We know that Google has a family of new Nexus 7 tablets coming soon, but none of the details are official. So far we expect a $99 entry-level version, an ultra-thin model with 32 GB storage, and possibly a third device somewhere in-between. According to a new leak from a UK retailer, it appears the new 32 GB version will retail for the same price as the old 16 GB model.
A reader sent us a shelf tag that shows the Nexus 7 32 GB listed for £199, the exact same price that the 16 GB model launched at in the UK. In the United States the 16 GB version sold for $249, so we can assume that the 32 GB version will also sell around $249.
We don't know if any other specs will change, but we can confirm that ASUS and Google are sticking with the Tegra 3 processor. The recent release of Android 4.1.2 also suggested a new revision of the Nexus 7 might use a different power management chip. Previous rumors have also said we might see a Nexus 7 with a 3G modem, but we haven't seen any evidence to back up those claims.
I still consider the Nexus 7 to offer the best Android experience for a 7-inch tablet, but you might want to hold off your purchase with price drops just around the corner.


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Top 12 Spiritual Life Articles of 2012
- Compiled & Edited by Crosswalk Editorial Staff
- 2012 28 Dec
How can I find the "good life?"
How can I heal and get past what's too hard to get over?
Can I increase my faith?
Can I find strength in tough times?
Does God still speak to us?
And what's so bad about profanity?
These questions and more were tackled in some of our featured articles in 2012. These articles all appeared on the Spiritual Life channel, and were ranked in popularity by pageviews.
We invite you now to take another look.
Top 12 Spiritual life Articles of 2012
12. When the Encourager Needs Encouragement by Rebecca Barlow Jordan
Occasionally, all of us experience times when depression or discouragement creeps in unannounced. If you're an encourager, remember to encourage yourself in the Lord, to rest and recharge, and talk to trusted friends and loved ones.
11. How to Find the Good Life by Whitney Hopler
This article, based on Pete Wilson's book Empty Promises: The Truth About You, Your Desires, and the Lies You're Believing, points back to Jesus as the way to fulfillment. By breaking free of the idolatry of achievement, approval, power, money, religion, and appearance, we can truly experience the good life God wants for us.
10. How to Get Past What You'll Never Get Over by Whitney Hopler
This article, based on John F. Westfall's book Getting Past What You'll Never Get Over: Help for Dealing with Life's Hurts, admits that you can't always "get over" serious hardship. Some painful experiences irrevocably change your life. But will you invite God to help you get past it and continue with your life?
9. Three Ways to Increase Your Faith by Rebecca Barlow Jordan
How do you increase your faith? Rebecca Barlow Jordan used to struggle with this as a young Christian. But in time she's learned three simple ways to help build and increase our reliance on God.
8. How to Find Strength in Tough Times by Whitney Hopler
This article, based on Ron Wagley's book Finding Strength in Tough Times: A Biblical Approach for Conquering Life's Hardships, reminds Christians that we have access to the Holy Spirit, who will empower us to overcome each hardship we face when we ask God to help us.
7. Five Ways to Find Healing From Your Past by Rebecca Barlow Jordan
Are new beginnings possible? Is healing a reality? How do we confidently release the past and embrace the future? This author suggests: see yourself as God sees you, remember grace, medidate on God's word, forgive, move forward, and cultivate balanced work.
6. Six Truths About God That Can Change Your Life by Rebecca Barlow Jordan
Feeling discouraged? Are you in need of inspiration? Read this article for comforting and encouraging truths about the character of God.
5. You Cannot Do "All Things" Through Christ by Byron Yawn
This author revisits Philippians 4:13 reminding readers that just as Paul couldn't get out of prison, we cannot achieve all personal goals simply by having faith in Jesus. Rather, he suggests, that whether we face imprisonment (as Paul did) or other trials of life, Christ sustains us through them all.
4. How to Ask God for a Miracle by Whitney Hopler
This article, based on Linda Evans Shepherd's book When You Need a Miracle: How to Ask God for the Impossible, we are reminded that we can always approach God with confidence if we trust in His Son, Jesus Christ. So don't hesitate to pray about anything, including miracles!
3. How to Hear From God Regularly by Whitney Hopler
This article, based on Dallas Willard's book Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God, this author reminds us that God is constantly speaking to people. But too often, they miss out on hearing God's messages because they seek His guidance only occasionally – usually when they're going through a crisis or facing a major decision.
2. 8 Ways God Speaks to Us Today by Rebecca Barlow Jordan
God treats each of us as unique children. None of us is a cookie-cutter Christian. Because of that, God doesn't "speak" the same way to all of us. He may use an audible voice. But more often, he may speak through the Bible, Jesus Christ, nature, other believers, music, circumstances, his Holy Spirit, and through prayer.
1. What's the Big &%#*! Deal About Profanity? by Craig Groeschel
You might be like a lot of people who say, "Profanity, violence, and sex in the movies don't really bother me." If you're a Christian, though, wouldn't you agree that there has to be a boundary somewhere?
...and Five from the Archives
The following articles would have made the above list, except that they aren't from 2012. They were originally published on Crosswalk in a previous year, but were recycled this year to a new audience that in most cases cherished and appreciated them more than the original one!
Does God Really Answer Prayer? Yes, in Four Ways by Dr. Ed Young
How Christian Women Can Mentor and Be Mentored by Kelley Matthews
10 Ways to Determine God's Calling in Your Life by John Piper
What is 'New Age' Religion, and Why Can't Christians Get on Board? by Barbara Curtis
Detoxify Your Soul by Whitney Hopler
Publication date: December 28, 2012


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by Jacob Gershman
The University of Kansas is coming under fire from a free-speech watchdog group for suspending a journalism professor over his controversial tweets about the National Rifle Association.
David Guth, an associate professor of journalism, was put on indefinite administrative leave on Friday for implying on Twitter that he wished violent harm upon the families of the NRA.
Hours after last week's Washington Navy Yard rampage, the professor reportedly tweeted: "#NavyYardShooting The blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters. Shame on you. May God damn you."
A spokesman for the NRA called Mr. Guth's remarks "disgusting" hate speech and called for his firing. By the week's end, the chancellor of the public university had ordered his suspension "in order to prevent disruptions to the learning environment for students."
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a Philadelphia-based group that advocates for free speech on college campuses, came to Mr. Guth's defense in a letter emailed to the chancellor on Sunday.
"While KU is free to speak out against Guth's comments, it may not, consistent with its moral and legal obligations under the First Amendment, punish him for expressing his views," FIRE's letter said.
The letter goes on to say that the university "risks dramatically chilling the free expression of all members of the KU community by allowing any impression to persist that his speech did not merit the First Amendment's protection."
Mr. Guth declined comment. He told the Associated Press earlier that the university's move was "painful" for him but agreed to take an earlier than planned sabbatical to allow "some time for cooler heads to prevail." He also blamed the NRA for waging "an unrelenting campaign of harassment" against him.
A Kansas University spokeswoman declined to comment on FIRE's letter and reiterated that Mr. Guth wasn't on any kind of sabbatical but on administrative leave.
As Law Blog mentioned earlier, the Supreme Court has said that the government may not punish public employees who speak out "as citizens about matters of public concern," with some exceptions.
"So long as employees are speaking as citizens about matters of public concern, they must face only those speech restrictions that are necessary for their employers to operate efficiently and effectively," the high court ruled in 2006.
"I don't think a university could claim that their interest in efficient operations justifies punishing a professor for speech protected by the First Amendment," Will Creeley, FIRE's director of legal and public advocacy, told Law Blog.
Public university professors may have additional protections in their labor contracts.
The constitutional protections though don't encompass unprotected forms of speech, like incitement or harassment. But FIRE officials think the professor's comments can't be construed as either one. Incitement, it notes, must be intended and likely to produce "imminent lawless action."
After last year's Newtown, Conn., school massacre, University of Rhode Island professor Erik Loomis was the center of a similar controversy after he tweeted that he wanted "Wayne LaPierre's head on a stick," referring to the NRA leader.
The president of the University of Rhode Island, David M. Dooley condemned the professor's remarks, saying the university doesn't condone "threats of violence."
Some academics criticized the university for not defending Mr. Loomis's speech rights. The university's president then clarified that the professor's personal remarks were protected by the First Amendment "however intemperate and inflammatory they may be."
View this article at The Wall Street Journal.
Schools: University of Kansas Cases: University of Kansas: Anti-NRA Tweet Results in Professor's Suspension


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A Novel
I Heard That Song Before
A Novel
At the center of her novel is Kay Lansing, who has grown up in Englewood, New Jersey, daughter of the landscaper to the wealthy and powerful Carrington family. Their mansion -- a historic seventeenth-century manor house transported stone by stone from Wales in 1848 -- has a hidden chapel. One day, accompanying her father to work, six-year-old Kay succumbs to curiosity and sneaks into the chapel. There, she overhears a quarrel between a man and a woman who is demanding money from him. When she says that this will be the last time, his caustic response is: "I heard that song before."
That same evening, the Carringtons hold a formal dinner dance after which Peter Carrington, a student at Princeton, drives home Susan Althorp, the eighteen-year-old daughter of neighbors. While her parents hear her come in, she is not in her room the next morning and is never seen or heard from again.
Throughout the years, a cloud of suspicion hangs over Peter Carrington. At age forty-two, head of the family business empire, he is still "a person of interest" in the eyes of the police, not only for Susan Althorp's disappearance but also for the subsequent drowning death of his own pregnant wife in their swimming pool.
Kay Lansing, now living in New York and working as a librarian in Englewood, goes to see Peter Carrington to ask for permission to hold a cocktail party on his estate to benefit a literacy program, which he later grants. Kay comes to see Peter as maligned and misunderstood, and when he begins to court her after the cocktail party, she falls in love with him. Over the objections of her beloved grandmother Margaret O'Neil, who raised her after her parents' early deaths, she marries him. To her dismay, she soon finds that he is a sleepwalker whose nocturnal wanderings draw him to the spot at the pool where his wife met her end.
Susan Althorp's mother, Gladys, has always been convinced that Peter Carrington is responsible for her daughter's disappearance, a belief shared by many in the community. Disregarding her husband's protests about reopening the case, Gladys, now terminally ill, has hired a retired New York City detective to try to find out what happened to her daughter. Gladys wants to know before she dies.
Kay, too, has developed gnawing doubts about her husband. She believes that the key to the truth about his guilt or innocence lies in the scene she witnessed as a child in the chapel and knows she must learn the identity of the man and woman who quarreled there that day. Yet, she plunges into this pursuit realizing that "that knowledge may not be enough to save my husband's life, if indeed it deserves to be saved." What Kay does not even remotely suspect is that uncovering what lies behind these memories may cost her her own life.
I Heard That Song Before once again dramatically reconfirms Mary Higgins Clark's worldwide reputation as a master storyteller.
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1. "It may be that I've set my standards too high, but ever since I was young, I've been into the classic love stories of the Brontë sisters" (page 29). Discuss any similarities between Kay's story and the stories of the Brontë sisters.
2. The novel alternates between Kay's first-person narration and the third-person omniscient narrator. What did you like or dislike about this format?
3. When Kay finds Peter sleepwalking from the pool, she asks herself, "why, in that altered state, did he go through the motions of trying to push something into the pool or pull something from it?" (page 50). What is the answer to Kay's question?
4. Of the following quotes, which, if any, do you feel is the main theme of the novel:
• "There are none so blind as those who will not see" (page 153).
• "Money! That's the cause of most crimes, isn't it? Love or money"(page 220).
• "But even when you're crazy about someone, at some point you can have enough" (page 289).
5. "But to anticipate something, and then to see it actually take place, is the difference between nightmare and reality" (page 99). Is Kay brave or naïve for standing by her man? Explain your answer.
6. The Carrington mansion itself is an important part of this story. What is its role and what does the house symbolize?
7. "I never forget the fact that I am their employee, but I am als see more


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The mud run scene in Charleston just got a bit muddier.
The Rugged Maniac series, in its third year at Boone Hall Plantation, serves almost as a preseason test for mudders, who have three mud/obstacle course runs in the Charleston area for three consecutive weeks.
Rugged Maniac, one of several corporations that organize mud runs nationally, moved from the fourth Saturday in March to this Saturday. Participants, which have numbered in the 2,000 to 4,000 range the past two years, should be prepared for chillier than usual mud and water obstacles in the 5K featuring 18 challenges.
Meanwhile, Charleston's original mud/obstacle race, the 17th annual Citadel Bulldog Challenge, which is typically held this Saturday, has moved to April 20 and is bracketed by two other events.
The semi-inaugural Mega Mud Run Challenge (which did a bit of a trial run last fall) precedes the Bulldog Challenge by one week. The event will be held April 13 at Legare Farms on Johns Island.
And the first Project Mud will be April 27 at the Charleston Tea Plantation on Wadmalaw Island. Project Mud bumps up with the first mud run in the state, the 20-year-old USMC Ultimate Challenge Mud Run at Fort Jackson in Columbia.
Bottom line: If you like mud runs, you couldn't be happier than a hog after the rainiest February in Charleston's history.
Registration for Rugged Maniac closed a week ago, but the other races still are open. Go to www.citadel.edu/bdc, megamudrunchallenge.com or www.projectmud.com.
Get your '80s on by roller skating for a cause: Crisis Ministries.
Skate for Shelter will be held 7-9 p.m. Thursday at the Hot Wheels Skating Center, 1523 Folly Road on James Island. Participants are urged to dress up in their favorite '80s wear and bring canned goods. The cost to skate is a friendly $3, which includes skate rentals.
For those who don't know the good work of Crisis Ministries, it provides food, shelter and hope to Charleston's most vulnerable citizens, its homeless, and is reliant on the financial and volunteer support of the community.
Two small 5Ks will be held at 8 a.m. Saturday. The Windsor Hill Hawk Trot will be in North Charleston and the White Gables Charity 5K in Summerville. For details, go to the Charleston Running Club website's calendar at www.charlestonrunningclub.com.
One week from Thursday, on March 14, the ninth annual Catch the Leprechaun will be held at 6:30 p.m. at Mount Pleasant Memorial Waterfront Park.
This is the fourth year it's been held at the park, which has helped establish it as one of the more popular races in the Charleston area. Since 2010, Leprechaun has grown from 319 finishers to 880, and as of last Friday was on pace to beat that latter figure by more than 20 percent. The town has capped the race at 1,200.
"I think the popularity of the race is due to a couple of things," said race co-director Mike McKenna. "In a nutshell, it's a fun race that supports a great cause. ... It's a night race, which features a bagpiper, prizes for people who finish before the Leprechaun, pots of gold for the winners and a post-race party. It's different, and I think people appreciate it."
The cost to register is $30 until Wednesday. It goes up to $40 on race day. The event benefits Pattison's Academy, a local school for children with multiple disabilities that provides programs for physical, speech and occupational therapy along with specialized educational instruction.
And while those who failed to sign up for Pedal 4 Pattison's in January aren't able to participate, the biggest little fundraiser in Charleston still deserves a little ink.
On Saturday, more than 100 people will be "Spinning" for four hours in the sixth annual Spinning marathon fundraiser for Pattison's Academy. In five years, this self-contained fundraiser has raised more than $700,000 for the school.
One of the founding organizers, Rebecca Young of Charleston Ride, said that if people would like to donate to the cause, they can support the Pattison's Kids team at bit.ly/10a1vy0.


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1. Re: sidecar.xml generatorBobLevine Jun 29, 2011 5:21 AM (in response to Johannes Eckert)
You sir, are a superstar!
Thanks for sharing that with the community.
2. Re: sidecar.xml generatorTonyRedhead Jun 29, 2011 6:40 AM (in response to Johannes Eckert)
Hi Johannes,
Thanks for the generator it's much easier than handcoding the xml file and it's going to save a lot of time :-)
3. Re: sidecar.xml generatorFlorent_Romanet_SICPA Jun 29, 2011 7:01 AM (in response to Johannes Eckert)
thanx for sharing!
4. Re: sidecar.xml generatorTomek Kuczborski Jun 29, 2011 7:01 AM (in response to Johannes Eckert)
Johannes, super work!
I have also made a tool for generation of sidecar.xml but using the Filemaker engine.
Below is a screenshot of Article Entry View (with mock-up)
I did not publish it, because it looked like that functionality would be soon obsolete... It has a basic mock-up functionality, so one can test how the metadata fits in place. But I could not implement drag-n-drop of articles in Table View, as in your solution. Congratulations!
5. Re: sidecar.xml generatorvividi Jun 29, 2011 8:06 AM (in response to Johannes Eckert)
To Johannes,
Could I ask were to find any articles I add to the sidecar generator.
Would these articles be located on my local hard drive, or the acrobat.com server, having never used a .xml sidecar generator before where can I find these files for .xml conversion do I use my main indesign .indd file or the saved version within the folio builder any further details would be helpful.
6. Re: sidecar.xml generatorJohannes Eckert Jun 29, 2011 8:27 AM (in response to vividi)
you create your folio/magazine in the folio builder the normal way.
The sidecar.xml file is used to add metadata to the articles (like title,
author and settings) and determine the order of the articles.
The articles and inddesign-files are located on your harddrive. In
InDesign's folio builder panel you gave every article a name, that is the
"article name" in the sidecar.xml generator.
7. Re: sidecar.xml generatorAnselm Hannemann Jun 29, 2011 8:29 AM (in response to Johannes Eckert)
Thank you! This is so cool. Thanks for sharing again.
Just said "what adobe can't offer, the community does it itself"
8. Re: sidecar.xml generatorjeffyerkey Jun 29, 2011 8:38 AM (in response to Anselm Hannemann)
Very cool -- thank you!
-- Jeff
9. Re: sidecar.xml generatorJohannes Eckert Jun 29, 2011 8:40 AM (in response to Johannes Eckert)
You are all welcome. It's great to share things with the community and actively being invovled.
Digital Publishing is driving us all (crazy, sometimes) ,-)
10. Re: sidecar.xml generatorBob Bringhurst - Adobe Jun 29, 2011 9:56 AM (in response to Johannes Eckert)
Excellent job, Johannes. I linked to your generator from help, which I'll update later today.
With the next release, using the sidecar.xml file won't be necessary to re-order articles, but a lot of people still like to use the sidecar.xml file for importing a folio folder. It's especially useful if you end up needing to rebuild a folio for whatever reason. Thanks!
11. Re: sidecar.xml generatorJohannes Eckert Jun 29, 2011 10:03 AM (in response to Bob Bringhurst - Adobe)
Thank you, Bob.
My generator looks a lot like the folio editor on acrobat.com because that is a convenient way of keeping the overview of all the article medata. I suspect the next release of folio builder panel to be not dramatically different in interface wise, so a cell-based overview of article metadata may be useful even then.
12. Re: sidecar.xml generatorCasey Jensen Nov 1, 2011 12:00 PM (in response to Johannes Eckert)
I just wanted to update this post to remind users this is a very useful tool, and resolves some of the major problems and frustrations with the Folio Producer in its current state (Slow, buggy, and crashes).
We're using a modified iteration in conjunction with a SQL backend to persist the data (as there are limits to the length of a URL, and our users might forget to save the URL).
Thanks again Johannes for your work on this.
13. Re: sidecar.xml generatorJohannes Eckert Nov 1, 2011 12:55 PM (in response to Casey Jensen)
The url is included in th xml file. But yes, i thought about the url length
limitation, but never encountered it. In google chrome i could successfull
edit and reload 48 articles with metadata in every field. I assume chrome
can handle longer urls than other browsers.
I just hope nobody will lose any data because of that :-^
(mobil gesendet)
Am 01.11.2011 20:00 schrieb "Casey Jensen" <email@example.com>:
14. Re: sidecar.xml generatorJohannes Eckert May 11, 2012 7:19 AM (in response to Johannes Eckert)
Just a heads up, that ther is a complete new version of the sidecar.xml generator up now:
The new version is not only built up from scratch, it supports a few new things
— importing any old sidecar.xml file for editing
— previewing in a simulated browse view (somehow accurate if you have "Helvetica Neue" installed)
— logic that prevents you from using incompatible settings
I want to thank anyone giving me responses and to Tomasz Kuczborski for showing me his generator above in person, wich brought me on the idea of integrating a preview as well.
15. Re: sidecar.xml generatorGusgsm Jun 18, 2012 11:45 AM (in response to Johannes Eckert)
I've just tried it for the first time and... WOW! Johannes, You're Da Man! Thanks a lot
16. Re: sidecar.xml generatorJohannes Eckert Jun 18, 2012 2:37 PM (in response to Gusgsm)
thank you for your feedback. always great to help the community.


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some green
Earlier today I started doing a bit of organizing. January is always a month I spend time purging extra things and sorting what to keep vs get rid of. I really crave simplicity and not much color, but a little green is always fresh and reminds me Winter won't last forever.


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A brand new gameplay video of The Last of Us shows pure horror.
I think its time for me to get a PS3 again
Ladies & Gentleman we have our GOTY.
To hell with that, Im calling it now, Game of the Generation
i want this game than any thing else this gen
i don't care if it got GOTY awards
i don't care if it got the Game of the Generation
all i care about is getting my hand on this game
and play it untill my hand bleed
just stick it into my veins
and what makes this game is even harder
the freaks if they got you ..one bite and you are dead..ONE DAMN BITE
i also love the way the blood splatter when he was bitten...feel very real
Well I for one am glad that i've left xbox live for good, got god of war ascension pre-ordered so i'll be enjoying the last of us demo :)
And I look forward to the PS4 reveal and picking one up in 2014 when its released in the UK. PS4 is the only console im getting next gen.
Although PC is still my main for multiplats.
Looks brilliant, its a shame this is the only game im buying for the ps3 though.
For me GOTY will be either this or GTA V.
@Spinalc0rd what has the 360 got to do with this?
Incredible. It just looks so FUN. That's what matters!
but I love ND! I never got to finish Siren or Dead Space (the only 2 horror games I tried!) but Damn ND, it's like you guys are teasing me to get this no matter what!
Thanks for laughs kid. Lego City gets that.
The gal used a gun? Whew. My concerns about baby-sitting/escorting are gone.
Good one, Emerald-Kaos/Bungie/etc. Your comments are hilarious.....No wait, what I meant was childish, unfunny, and disruptive.
Nail in the coffin for Resident Evil.
@black911 & @bathyj
That statement is premature. Especially when GTA V is coming out in the same year.
@badz149 how can you hate survival horror games? -__-
Before this video, I thought the game was just Uncharted great, but now it's gone beyond that in my opinion.
This or BioShock Infinite. But that's just me though.
Wow, Naughty Dog. This was so unexpected. I knew it'd get scary but damn, not like that.
@ Zool 08
you don't already have one? shame on you lol jks
it's definitely time to invest in a PS3, even if it's just for this game.
I previously had 2 Ps3's Fat & Slim unfortunately because of personal circumstances had to sell them :-(, so elts hope third time luck, this and Beyond Two Souls.
me want now aahhhhhhhhhhhh. that's so awesome chills chills,i haven't had a game give me the creeps like that's since the 1st couple of resident eveil games.
hmm a third person game where you shoot zombies in a shadowy subway station. With a flashlight.
Gordon freeman looks up from his whiskey and gently shakes his head.
Honestly what is the big deal about this game?
why every one is getting tons of disagrees when they say any thing positive about the last of us ?!
Because 2010(alan wake) was the last of 360.
So day mad..
Also what ND will do next gen scares me.
Haha you call that tons of disagrees? Try going into a Halo topic or anything 360 related of interest. You'll not only see people ghost disagreeing but a couple of trolls pop out of the woodwork to have their uninformed opinions greet the comments section.
On topic: This looks like it's in a league of its own. Looks like Sony left the best for last.
this isnt trolling.
The comments on that are just desperate trolls.
You have nothing to complain about
It's some kind of tradition here on N4G, you should be glad the "tons of disagrees" isn't that much on PS3 games, as it is on Nintendo/MS games. The hate on people suporting'em is astonishing, and worrying.
I'm not being a fanboy, not supporting and attacking any company or game, it's a fact you can go and see by yourself. Go to a Nintendo new, see someone saying something like "I like the WiiU, having fun with it" and... see. Just see.
On topic: I'm pretty bad for realist games, actually I have a PS3 for games like Disgaea and Nino No kuni... never tried Uncharted. Doesn 't appeal to me. But man, this game looks awesome.
You guys need to stop complaining about disagrees. NO ONE IS OBLIGATED TO AGREE WITH A OPINION. It is totally possible for someone to not share your exact thoughts on certain things.
i understand, but when someone comments
"i like xyz game, it's not completely dumb"
the disagree's to it seem like their saying
damn, I'm speechless...
It's better than I expected...
Survival Horror + some rpg element, it' day one for me
whoaa ND already secured my wallet
Yeah it looks great, can't wait for it. If you're after a survival horror with rpg elements to get you through until then though, and have a gaming pc, I recommend Staker -
Incredible tension.
I'm watching this on my phone and I'm creeped out!
That throaty scream noise.......I despised that in the Ring and now these guys make that noise! I'm going to move my PS3 into the toilet. Can't afford to clean that many pants.
lol GOTY and "game of the generation" off 2 minutes of 'visual' gameplay...these comments, what a lovely unbiased site.
lls but whatever, looked great. Didn't know this was supposed to have some scary elements to it.
While the game does look great.... A handful of comments hardly speaks for the entire site.....I guess when a game looks good gamers should just say meh...
Is called "Opinion" everyone body has one, doesn't mean you have to agree or like it.
Well, the only people who wouldn't think this had at least a shot at goty would be a fanboy. It's not hard to see, even from a technical standpoint! that this is a marvel of a game, from very a very talented game developer. This game looks beyond amazing, even people that don't like the genre can agree that this game looks intriguing. Please give some credit to this game, that it so rightly deserves.
Well mr.blaze what if thats his goty? Is that ok or does he need to ask your permisiion? Dont even act like people...fans don't do simular things with other games.
Im just voicing MY opinion, not trying to shove it down anyones throat, or even change theirs.
It was mentioned when they first announced the game but this is the first time we've actually been shown what "the infected" look and act like.
I did lol about the GOTY comment. It looks brilliant, but I think Bioshock Infinite is likely to be the better of the two.
Post Pandemic Edition on sale at gamestop.com again.
Holy crap, the atmosphere in this game is chilling. I'm calling GOTY material right now.
Nintendo fanboys have to watch that video
They need to see how zombie u should have been done lol
okay no need to spoil myself ay more.. i just wanted to see the infected gameplay and i got it..
I'm ready for it!
ps. i may give a look to the MP gameplay lol just because i'm curious.. but that's it!
Yep i would have sold my PS3 since i'm getting a PC but i would miss out on some good multiplatform games that are not available on PC and some great first party games for PS3.
I am soooo happy that I preordered the Survival Edition.
Think it's time I finally upgrade to a surround sound system for playing games.:) Thank god for a bigger than expected tax refund.
This game reminds me of Manhunt, im really buying a PS3 now.
yea me 2 a nextgen manhunt but with gameplay choice
Why'd you sell it? With Uncharted, Killzone, Gow, Lbp, Ni no Kuni and etc.
My god Naughty Dog! Are you freakin serious?
That 2 mins of footage was scarier than the entire Dead Space 3 demo or the entire Resident Evil 6 game. Love the atmosphere & those sounds are chilling.
Naughty Gods have resurrected Survival Horror.
Expect others to immitate this next gen.
I think they'll struggle to match it graphically next generation ... you wait and see. If you want the next leap on PS hardware, you know where to look and it 'aint' third party games.
damn it. I hate survival horror... I HATE IT, I get scared within the first sound!!! everything dark!! nooo.
I will play through this game. Its my duty
The last horror game I tried to play was Rule of Rose on PS2. Gave up less than an hour in.
But DAMMIT! I'll be buying this game.
yeah I got chills just by watching this clip, imagine full game...gulp.
video games never scare me, but that.
holy shit.
I didnt think it was scary at all tbh.. and the AI seemed meh at best hope that was like a demo on easy mode or something... Game looked graphically impressive though lighting effects and detail was on point.
Its not that the ai is bad, its just that those things cant see. I think they said that they can only see with sound. The sound creates images for them. Like a bat, for example.
I see so the AI only has one sense to react to? sound. They would have to have lots of environment interaction(table bumping, random can kicking) where you would have to be extremely careful to keep the suspense and difficulty of trying to avoid them and stay alive. Standing right in front of one and shooting its head off doesnt seem that exciting or scary or difficult. I know you die hard ps3 supporters will disagree w/ me seeing my above disagrees but just hoping Naughty pulled it off correctly. That vid didnt impress me but I could be wrong.
Own all 3 UC and a NaughtyDog supporter just giving an unbiased opinion.
Yeah, that was bad AI even for zombie-AI: Can't see you with direct flashlight in their faces (makes sense story-wise I guess), can't hear you when you shoot at them or throw things around, and even when they're "alert" and jump towards you it seems that they do nothing and just turn around to another distraction...
It's as if walking crouched puts you in invisible mode. I hope they were just flashing out the engine and it's not how the zombie AI will be in this game. The previous gameplay segments shown with human opponents were better AI-wise.
You don't know how the AI played out based on one video. EVERY preview out there has not put the fungi AI is their concern most likely due to the fact they got HANDS-ON gameplay and tested out different scenarios. We know 2 things:
1) Clickers can't see. PERIOD. Your flashlight argument is void.
2) Being "alert" does not give enemies omnipresence. This is the problem with AI this generation. The enemies abilities are limited to either limited or NO sight.
"It's as if walking crouched puts you in invisible mode."
Yes, if you were dealing with an enemy that relies something other than "sight". Did you remember the very FIRST trailer when Joel cocked his gun? That was when the clickers started to attack?
I don't see how your criticism is anyway valid, try reading all the previews and you'll realize the only concerns are either the "listen" mode or the unpolished graphics.
greg miller from ign said they told him they made it easyer and added extra ammo in that 20 min demo 2 show the full range of gameplay
o and i dunno how but adam sessler said they still need 2 update the visuals 2 final form so adam sessler says the gonna look even better!!!!!!!!! wtf i say but look it up
@ DigitalAnalog
But I CAN tell how the AI played out *in this specific video*. Unlike the clickers, we do have eyes and can see how they react to everything the player does.
Did any of the hand-on reviews praise the fungi AI? Did they describe how intimidating they can be? I didn't see anything positive about them, which is a cause for concern IMO.
Other than that, your excuses for the bad AI are really terrible:
1) I mentioned myself that this argument is invalid because of the design. The point is that when you limit this sense by design, you need to account for that by increasing other senses - and this does not seem to be the case here.
Gears of War which is purely an action game managed to pull that one off with the blind Berserkers and you had to walk REAL slow if you didn't want to be detected. Why can't the enemies here properly react to sound?
2) It's not about omnipresence: it's about the ability to react to a single (or at most 2 considering the friendly AI) threats on the screen once being alert. Some games manage to have amazing enemy AI working in parallel to the player or a bunch of players.
Halo's Flood version of the zombies is one such great example of how to accomplish this kind of horror feeling without giving the enemies omnipresence, and the AI in L4D (especially for the special infected) is another great example - while the director in L4D does have omnipresence, the single entities do not, and yet they manage to provide an amazing and horrifying challenge for the player.
Anyone who encountered a witch in L4D knows how everyone switches immediately to "oh my god guys don't make a noise" mode, but here we don't see that the player even needs to account for the AI around him - he crouch-runs past them while throwing things and shooting and they just circle-round doing practically nothing.
The only time I saw an enemy actually hitting the player was when one just jumped on him from behind although he wasn't there a second ago - as if enemies just magically spawn behind the players like they do in Resident Evil (and GTA, and COD). I hope this isn't the actual case here, because this isn't a very good AI implementation IMO.
3) I guess that this is the difference between trailers and gameplay: the gun scene in the trailer where they started attacking was done great, but that was a trailer. In the actual game we actually see the player RUNNING (yes, he's crouching, but his walking speed is actually pretty close to full fledged running) past enemies making all kinds of noises (not just heavy footsteps). I would expect them to jump on you when you make too much noise but here they just seem to move randomly.
You have to understand that this is MY feedback (as well as thehitman's) based on what we actually see in the video and therefore we raise our concern. You're not a designer of the game so it's not even aimed at you. We simply want to see the best game we can get.
Why the sudden need to dodge feedback not even targeted at you and make excuses for it?


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PORTLAND, Ore.—An Oregon woman who spent more than a decade in hiding after a fatal crash built a life with her two children while living illegally in Canada.
Jean Keating was living in the rural Manitoba town of Minnedosa, population 2,500, about 300 miles north of Grand Forks, N.D., The Oregonian reported ( http://bit.ly/12DMNff).
After the fatal 1997 crash, in which she faced manslaughter and drunken-driving charges, Keating stopped contacting her attorney. Police believe she crossed the Canadian border with her children, ages 1 and 3, in 1998.
For more than a decade, she appeared to have built a new life in a new country, but trouble followed her. She was arrested several times in Canada, including on a charge for drunken driving.
Despite encounters with law enforcement, she managed to keep her past a secret. In early 2013, that secret began to unravel, apparently by Keating's own doing. A Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable heard rumors about a woman named "Jean McPherson" in town who bragged about getting away with manslaughter in the U.S.
He emailed a border-enforcement task force, which found that there was no "Jean McPherson" living as a legal immigrant in Canada. But when they compared the fingerprints for "Jean McPherson" with those on record for Keating in Oregon, authorities found a match.
Officials don't know how she entered Canada, said Lisa White, a spokeswoman for Canada Border Services Agency, but in the late 1990s, it was not usually necessary for U.S. citizens to show a passport when crossing into Canada.
Immigration authorities arrested Keating in Canada on April 4 and issued a deportation order two weeks later. She was detained in Winnipeg because of flight risk until June 12, when she was deported to North Dakota. Keating has been barred from ever entering Canada again, White said.
Members of Keating's family still in Oregon could not be located by The Associated Press on Saturday. Keating's oldest child would be older than 18, but it's unclear who was assigned custody of the younger child.
Keating was returned to Oregon this week, where she is accused of first-degree manslaughter in connection with the 1997 death of 65-year-old Jewel Anderson.
Police say Keating, then 38, sideswiped Anderson's car on Interstate 5 near Albany, sending it careening through the center lane and into another car. Anderson died at the scene.
Keating's arrest brought to an end years of searching by Linda Anderson, the 51-year-old daughter-in-law of Jewel Anderson.
Periodically over the past 15 years, Anderson had logged on to resume a methodical online hunt for the woman accused of killing the Anderson family's matriarch as she drove to church.
Linda Anderson had turned to "be your own detective" websites in hopes of finding Keating.
"I'd type her name in, type her children's names in to search. There would be other Jean Terese Keatings, but they wouldn't line up," Anderson told The Oregonian.
But on Father's Day weekend, Oregon State Police investigators called to say Keating had been arrested in Canada. She was astonished.
"It was just too much," Anderson recalled.
Anderson attended a court appearance and said she asked prosecutors and the judge to hold Keating accountable for the life she took and her years on the run.
She said Keating "looked like she had been through the ringer" and that she had a "smirky grin" on her face.
Anderson said she got to read a statement on behalf of the Anderson's family.
"I'd say we as the family feel the justice system has failed us already," she said. This time, she said, she doesn't want to hear that Keating is out on bail at any point.
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St. Louis Cardinals closer Jason Motte faces reconstructive elbow surgery if his condition doesn't improve in the next three weeks or so.
It would be another huge blow to a team that has already lost pitcher Chris Carpenter and shortstop Rafael Furcal for the season. The Cardinals pretty much stood pat after losing to the San Francisco Giants in the NL championship series last fall.
Motte, who had a career-high 42 saves last season, has been shut down since late March because of a strained right elbow. He wasn't cleared to throw after a second MRI exam Tuesday didn't show sufficient improvement and revealed a tear.
A first MRI exam was inconclusive because of inflammation, and Motte said range of motion and other indicators had improved somewhat.
"I'm still optimistic," Motte said after the Cardinals beat the Reds 5-1 Tuesday. "I'm not doing anything more to hurt it, so it's kind of out of my hands, honestly.
"We're doing everything we can to get it better."
General manager John Mozeliak said the team should have a good idea by early May whether the 30-year-old right-hander will be able to pitch this season.
"Surgery is definitely on the table if he's not throwing by then," Mozeliak said. "Rather than drag this thing out all summer, we put a soft deadline on it to find out."
The news comes a day after stand-in closer Mitchell Boggs was charged with six earned runs in one-third of an inning during Cincinnati's nine-run ninth. Other options include Fernando Salas, who led the team with 24 saves in 2011, and rookie setup man Trevor Rosenthal.
Motte signed a $12 million, two-year contract in January that avoided arbitration. He said Dr. George Paletta, the team physician, told him it's far from certain that he'll need surgery.
"We're going to keep doing the rehab stuff," Motte said. "Hopefully it helps me get better."
Before the team learned the news about Motte, manager Mike Matheny said it was too early to make any changes. Boggs was hurt by four walks - two intentional - in what he called "the worst outing of my career," but remained confident after Monday's 13-4 loss that he is the man for the job while Motte is out.
"Whenever you lose a guy like that it's tough on everybody, but at the same time we're professionals and we have a job to do," Boggs said. "I can't speak for anybody else, but speaking for me I've got to execute better. I didn't make enough good pitches, and there's nothing other to say than that."
It's no surprise to Matheny that players consistently deny feeling extra pressure when thrust into a new role.
"That's what they've been trained to say and what they're trained to do," Matheny said. "But the ninth inning is different, and a lot of guys who have been successful at it have also had struggles."
When staff ace Adam Wainwright was a rookie, he filled in as closer for the 2006 World Series championship team after Jason Isringhausen was sidelined with a hip injury. Wainwright earned the save in the Series clincher, and then joined the rotation the next year.
"So, it might not necessarily mean how you start but how you finish," Mozeliak said. "We may need more time and clarity on who that will be."
Mozeliak said he didn't anticipate Motte seeking a second opinion.
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She wasn't trying to go incognito, but Emily Blunt was barely recognizable with her new hair color on Monday night.
"That's not Emily Blunt," one reader commented after we posted a photo to Instagram of Blunt at the Gotham Independent Film Awards in New York. "Yep, that's not Emily Blunt," someone else agreed.
But yes, it was Emily Blunt — and yes, she'd gone blonde! The British star debuted a strawberry-blonde hue at Monday night's gala, hiding the hair color in a pretty, twisty updo, but leaving some light-colored strands out for us to see.
The actress — a natural brunette — often experiments with her hair color, having gone lighter for roles in the past and most recently rocking an ombré look.
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NASHVILLE (AP) – The Tennessee Department of Children's Services says case workers can no longer remove children from homes without a hearing in court.
The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/1f694tI) reports the agency told employees this month about the change, which comes on the heels of a pair of U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals opinions that said case workers have to abide by a constitutional amendment that guarantees people the right against searches and seizures without a warrant.
The move has received criticism from child advocates and juvenile judges, who say the safety of children is already being affected.
Before the court ruling, case workers and their supervisors could decide on their own whether to remove a child but had to petition a court to review their actions within 72 hours. The federal court found that practice was unconstitutional.
"I think they are being overly cautious," said Rob Huddleston, an attorney who is often appointed as guardian ad litem to represent the interests of children. "I do not agree with how they are reading the Sixth Circuit opinion. I think they are trying to protect caseworkers from liability instead of protecting children. My sense is this policy is going to be short-lived until something tragic happens."
Doug Dimond, the department's chief legal counsel, said he believes the only way caseworkers can remove a child from a home without a formal court hearing is if the situation meets a narrow definition of "exigent circumstances," which means there is a risk of harm that is "serious, immediate, physical or specific."
Davidson County Juvenile Court Judge Sophia Crawford said DCS officials were offered a middle ground, but declined. She said juvenile judges are willing to issue temporary, emergency orders known as "ex parte orders" to caseworkers who attest to a child being in danger.
"Myself and magistrates are available on a 24-hour basis to address any problems or questions that arise as the department works to protect children," Crawford said. "We've gone over and above by reminding them (DCS) we are available on a 24-hour basis for any issue that requires a court order of protection of children. As a juvenile court judge, I feel comfortable that we can do what we need to, but I don't have any control over the policies and procedures of the department."
Dimond said DCS could change its policy, but won't make a decision until the end of the year.
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