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Top 6 Diesel Powered New Cars
Although diesel is more popular in places like Europe than in the United States, today's highly efficient diesels are a particularly good choice for American drivers, too. Take, for instance, the 4-cylinder, turbocharged diesel in the 2013 VW Beetle TDI. At 41 miles per gallon highway, it offers the fuel economy of a hybrid but performance closer to that of a gasoline V6. And while hybrids are typically most efficient in city driving, diesels achieve more miles per gallon than conventional gas vehicles on the highway, too.
With a growing lineup of powerful and efficient diesels already on the market and more on the way, now is a good time to reconsider the diesel. Those who have not driven a diesel in years will certainly be surprised at how clean, quiet and responsive the modern diesel has become. In fact, diesel's advantages have helped it achieve broad success in a variety of vehicles. Efficiency and dependability make diesel the engine of choice in trucking. Those same characteristics, along with spectacular power, have helped diesel-powered racing cars to beat gas-powered ones on the track.
These six vehicles reap the benefits of the latest diesel technology, making them compelling choices for those who value all-around efficiency but demand performance, capability and dependability, too.
2013 Mercedes-Benz E350 Bluetec
Like other German automakers, Mercedes-Benz benefits from a long and rich history of building diesel-powered vehicles. In the middle of the current Benz sedan lineup is the E-Class. It's our choice for an efficient diesel highway cruiser with luxurious appointments and outstanding safety. The 2013 Mercedes-Benz E350 Bluetec achieves 32 mpg on the highway and, with its large fuel tank, has over 600 miles of highway range on a single tank. The 3.0-liter turbocharged V6 makes only 210 horsepower, but with 400 lb-ft of torque, it's nearly as quick as the E350 with a gas V6. Always focusing on passenger safety, Mercedes equips the E350 Bluetec with a range of safety equipment, such as its PRE-SAFE collision mitigation system and a driver alertness monitor. And, of course, the accommodations are top-notch and include a standard glass sunroof, dual-zone automatic climate control and wood interior trim.
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2013 Ford F-250 Super Duty Platinum
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not rate fuel economy for heavy duty trucks like the Ford F-250, but those who depend on the capabilities of such a vehicle for work or play know that diesels offer an unmatched balance of power and efficiency. One of the best is Ford's Power Stroke diesel, available in the F-250 Super Duty. Not only does the turbocharged 6.7-liter V8 make an ample 400 hp -- more than the standard gas V8 -- but it also cranks out a massive 800 lb-ft of torque. That means the F-250 can tow 14,000 pounds or even more with a fifth-wheel trailer. In a working role, the Power Stroke can handle the demands of the job site. On the weekends, the F-250 can handle that boat trailer, horse trailer or camper with ease. For the first time, the 2013 F-250 Super Duty can be equipped with Platinum trim. It transforms the F-250 into a luxury machine with fine interior and exterior appointments, a long list of convenience features and Ford's SYNC with MyFord Touch infotainment system.
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2013 Volkswagen Beetle TDI
On the more affordable end of the diesel-powered spectrum is the 2013 VW Beetle TDI, which has a manufacturer's suggested retail price of just $23,495. The 2.0-liter 4-cylinder engine uses a turbocharger and a common-rail direct injection system to achieve respectable power and excellent efficiency. Peak output of 140 hp and 236 lb-ft torque makes the Beetle feel quick. Yet the Beetle TDI's engaging driving dynamics don't come at the expense of fuel economy. With a standard 6-speed manual, the Beetle TDI is rated at 28 mpg city and 41 mpg highway. The 6-speed DSG automatic transmission does slightly better in the city but suffers by 2 mpg on the highway. Sure, the Beetle TDI is a green choice, but unlike most hybrids, the retro-style Beetle has a playful design that stands out from the crowd.
2013 BMW X5 xDrive35d
The BMW X5 is a popular choice in the luxury SUV segment, and the xDrive35d diesel engine option makes it an even more compelling choice. The diesel X5 comes with standard all-wheel drive for improved traction in wet, snowy or slippery conditions. Its 256-hp 3.0-liter twin-turbo diesel engine provides outstanding fuel efficiency compared to competitors. It is EPA-rated at 19 mpg city and 26 mpg highway, or about 3 mpg better than an X5 with the base gasoline motor. The diesel X5 is versatile and luxurious, too. A panoramic sunroof, leather seats and high-tech driver assistance technology, such as adaptive cruise control, are all standard. A third-row seat is an option for those who need space for more than five passengers.
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2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee EcoDiesel
Similar to the diesel X5 but more affordable, a redesigned Jeep Grand Cherokee should arrive later this year, and a new diesel version will be part of the lineup. Called the Grand Cherokee EcoDiesel, this American-built SUV gets a 3.0-liter diesel V6 producing 240 hp and 420 lb-ft of torque. Jeep says that the diesel-powered Grand Cherokee will achieve 30 mpg highway, giving it best-in-class efficiency. And thanks to ample low-end torque, the 2014 Grand Cherokee EcoDiesel claims a towing capacity of 7,400 pounds, so towing a boat or small camper should be relatively effortless. The new Jeep will be available in 2-wheel and 4-wheel drive variants. The 4x4 model will offer the most capability off-road, but its efficiency will likely suffer slightly.
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2014 Mazda6 SkyActiv-D
Like the Grand Cherokee EcoDiesel, the upcoming Mazda6 SkyActiv-D, powered by a 2.2-liter twin-turbo diesel engine, isn't in dealer showrooms just yet. But it's coming later this year and will be yet another fuel-efficient diesel choice for American drivers. The midsize Mazda6 is freshly redesigned for the 2014 model year. While official fuel economy estimates and specifications have not yet been released, we expect efficiency similar to the Volkswagen Passat TDI, a diesel-powered midsize sedan rated at 43 mpg highway. The Japanese-spec version of the Mazda6 SkyActiv-D includes several additional fuel-saving technologies we could see on the American version, too. Those include regenerative braking and a start-stop system that saves fuel by shutting down the engine at idle.
Small, fuel-efficient, gasoline-powered cars, hybrids and electric vehicles remain popular choices for light-duty use in urban areas and are ideal for drivers with short commutes. But for those who need more capability, better highway economy for longer trips and unmatched range, diesels remain the best choice. And with more diesel-powered vehicles in the U.S. market, new-car shoppers can choose from a broad lineup to find a model that suits their particular needs. The heyday of the diesel in America may yet lie ahead.


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Coker men's golf coach Danny Allen has announced today that Brandon Greenplate has signed a national letter of intent to join the Cobras. Greenplate will join the team beginning in fall 2014.
"Brandon is a tremendous golfer that will only get better as he continues to develop," said Allen. "Brandon has faced some good competition during his high school and summer seasons, and has finished with some impressive numbers. I have no doubt that he can be a very special player for us here at Coker."
Greenplate hails from York, Pa., where he attends Dallastown Area High School. A four-year letterwinner in golf, Greenplate was named the York Area Division 1 High School Player of the Year and finsihed 16th at the PIAA state championships in 2012. Greenplate also lettered in basketball.
Brandon is the son of Brian and Nina Greenplate.
Pictured: First row (L-R): Nina Greenplate, Brandon Greenplate, Brian Greeplate. Second row: Dr. Kevin Duckworth (Dallastown Principal); Brooke Schoffner (Golf Coach); Tory Harvey (Director of Athletics).
Release written by sports information intern Sharod Williams '13.

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DETROIT (AP) — Rick Porcello pitched a four-hitter for his second straight shutout, leading the Detroit Tigers to a 3-0 victory over the Oakland A's on Tuesday night.
Porcello (11-4) only had one career complete game before blanking the Rangers on June 26, but is now the first Tigers pitcher since Jack Morris to throw back-to-back shutouts. Morris threw three in a row in July 1986.
Porcello is 3-0 with 24 scoreless innings over his last three outings. He also became the first pitcher since Baltimore's Jeff Ballard on Aug. 21, 1989, to throw a shutout without a walk or strikeout. No Tigers pitcher had done it since Dizzy Trout in 1944.
Torii Hunter had an RBI grounder in the fourth inning and J.D. Martinez hit a two-run homer in the sixth.
Brad Mills (1-1) took the loss for Oakland, allowing three runs and six hits with three walks in six-plus innings.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tim Lincecum followed his second career no-hitter with another vintage performance, pitching eight sharp innings to lead San Francisco to the shutout.
Lincecum (7-5) allowed four hits, struck out six and walked two. He worked out of a bases-loaded jam with no outs in the fourth and stayed out of trouble the rest of the way, helping San Francisco snap a four-game losing streak since his latest gem against San Diego.
Pablo Sandoval hit his 100th career homer to cap a three-run fourth, and the Giants scored twice in the fifth to chase Marco Gonzales (0-1) in the left-hander's second career start.
Gonzales gave up five runs and seven hits in 4 1-3 innings. St. Louis has lost three straight and four of five.
NEW YORK (AP) — David Price came within one pitch of extending his remarkable strikeout streak in leading resurgent Tampa Bay past New York.
James Loney hit a go-ahead home run in the sixth inning and the Rays matched their longest win string of the season. Derek Jeter tied Lou Gehrig's team record for doubles as the Yankees equaled their worst skid this year with their fourth loss in a row.
Price (7-7) struck out nine — he fanned at least 10 in each of his previous five starts, and was trying to join Pedro Martinez, Randy Johnson and Nolan Ryan as the only pitchers to accomplish the feat six straight times.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Stephen Strasburg bounced back from his worst outing of the season with 7 2-3 dominant innings, and Jayson Werth had two doubles and three RBIs in Washington's fourth straight win.
Anthony Rendon added a two-run double for the Nationals.
Strasburg (7-6) tied his career high by allowing seven earned runs in 4 2-3 innings in his last start, and was 0-2 with a 7.27 ERA over his last three.
Tuesday night he struck out eight and walked one while giving up one run. The Rockies didn't get a runner past second until DJ LeMahieu's homer in the eighth.
He was lifted after walking Corey Dickerson with his 111th pitch of the night.
Christian Friedrich (0-3) allowed five runs in 3 1-3 innings for Colorado, which has lost 13 of 15.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Seth Smith hit a home run and scored three runs and Carlos Quentin homered and drove in three runs to lead San Diego.
Smith had three hits as the Padres finished with a season-high 16 one night after managing just one hit in a 1-0 win over the Reds.
Ian Kennedy (6-9) pitched six strong innings, giving up one run and seven hits with a walk and three strikeouts to get his first win in nearly a month.
Quentin's two-run homer in the four-run, seventh inning was the key blow when the Padres extended their lead to 7-1.
Mike Leake (6-7) allowed three runs and 11 hits in 5 2-3 innings.
CHICAGO (AP) — Kole Calhoun homered and scored twice in the nightcap to help Los Angeles complete a doubleheader sweep of Chicago.
Howie Kendrick added two hits and scored two runs as the Angels won their second straight and moved to within 3 1/2 games of first-place Oakland in the AL West.
The Angels beat the White Sox 8-4 in the opener of a twin-bill quickly arranged after Monday's game was rained out and are 5-0 against Chicago this season.
Jered Weaver (9-6) worked 5 2-3 innings for the win, allowing nine hits while striking out six. Chicago starter Scott Carroll (2-5) took the loss after pitching six-plus innings and giving up seven runs on 10 hits.
In the early game, Albert Pujols hit his 509th home run, Mike Trout connected for a three-run drive and Garrett Richards (9-2) allowed two hits in eight innings.
Pujols' solo shot, his 17th homer of the season, came off starter Hector Noesi (2-6) and put the Angels ahead in a four-run fifth. Trout's homer tied the score earlier in the inning.
Jose Abreu hit his 26th home run in the first to give Chicago a 3-0 cushion.
MIAMI (AP) — Ed Lucas' single scored the winning run from second base with one out in the 11th inning, snapping Miami's four-game losing streak and sending Philadelphia to its fifth straight loss.
The Marlins won their ninth consecutive game when Henderson Alvarez starts, matching the longest such streak with a pitcher in franchise history. Alvarez allowed two runs in seven innings.
Pinch hitter Jeff Baker singled to start the 11th inning against Justin De Fratus (2-1), advanced on a sacrifice and scored without a play on Lucas' opposite-field hit.
The Phillies overcame a 4-2 deficit in the eighth with back-to-back two-out homers by Marlon Byrd and Cody Asche off Kevin Gregg.
Bryan Morris (6-0) pitched two innings for the win.
The Marlins' Giancarlo Stanton singled home a run to increase his RBI total to 61, which leads the NL.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Nelson Cruz hit his 26th home run, and Steve Pearce and Caleb Joseph also went deep against rookie Nick Martinez to help Baltimore breeze past skidding Texas.
Pearce and Cruz delivered solo shots in the first inning and Joseph connected with a man on in the second. It was the third homer in two nights for Pearce, and Cruz hit his third in seven games on his 34th birthday.
Signed as a free agent to a one-year contract, Cruz is closing in on his career high of 33 home runs with Texas in 2009. He is already one homer short of matching his total last year with the Rangers, a season cut short by a 50-game suspension as part of the Biogenesis performance-enhancing drug scandal.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cleveland turned an unorthodox triple play that required two replay reviews, and David Murphy broke out of a 1-for-44 slump with three hits against Los Angeles.
Lonnie Chisenhall hit an early two-run homer off Josh Beckett (5-5). Murphy, Nick Swisher and Yan Gomes also drove in two runs apiece for the Indians, who had been held to one hit in back-to-back shutout losses to the Mariners and Dodgers.
This was the Dodgers' seventh attempt at their first four-game winning streak of the season. Instead, they were knocked back into second place in the NL West one night after overtaking San Francisco.
Rookie left-hander Kyle Crockett (2-0) came on after Justin Masterson failed to get through the fourth inning with a 5-2 lead. All three of Crockett's outs came on the 7-2-4 triple play.
Adrian Gonzalez homered for Los Angeles.
HOUSTON (AP) — Robinson Cano and Kyle Seager had three RBIs apiece, James Jones added two and a seven-run sixth inning helped Seattle score a season high in runs.
Cano drove in two to give Seattle the lead in the first and hit the first of the five doubles in the sixth ining that tied a franchise mark and pushed the lead to 10-1.
Hisashi Iwakuma (6-4) went six innings, giving up a run on seven hits while striking out seven.
Jones' three hits included a triple. Seager doubled and hit a solo homer in the ninth as the Mariners also set a season-high with 18 hits.
Jarred Cosart (8-6) tied a season-high by allowing six runs on nine hits in 5 2-3 innings to end a four-game winning streak.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Starling Marte hit a two-run double to tie the game with one out in the ninth inning and then scored on pinch-hitter Ike Davis' single two batters later to propel Pittsburgh.
The Pirates were shut down for eight innings by Arizona starter Wade Miley before rallying in the ninth. Neil Walker and pinch-hitter Gregory Polanco started the inning with singles against Miley. One batter later, Marte hit a drive to the wall in center off closer Addison Reed (1-4).
Andrew McCutchen was intentionally walked and Davis singled to right, scoring Marte easily.
Ernesto Frieri (1-3) earned his first win with the Pirates after working a scoreless ninth.
Miley allowed four hits in eight-plus innings, striking out 10. He is winless since May 10.
BOSTON (AP) — Luis Valbuena broke a ninth-inning tie with a sacrifice fly that carried Chicago past Boston.
Anthony Rizzo started the inning with a single off Koji Uehara (3-2) and went to third on a double by Starlin Castro. Valbuena then lined a shot to medium right field. Mookie Betts made the catch, but his throw was off line and Rizzo scored easily.
The double was the 37th extra-base hit for Castro, who entered the game tied with Troy Tulowitzki of the Colorado Rockies for the major league lead among shortstops with 36.
Pedro Strop (1-3) pitched a perfect eighth and Hector Rondon worked the ninth for his 11th save in 13 chances.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Joe Mauer drove in two runs before leaving with an injury, Eduardo Nunez homered and Minnesota beat Kansas City.
Mauer extended his hitting streak to 12 games with a two-run double down the left-field line in the fourth inning, but was noticeably limping as he ran to second base. The team said he has a strained muscle on his right side and will be evaluated Wednesday.
Ricky Nolasco (5-6) earned his first win in five starts, allowing one run and eight hits in six innings.
Eric Hosmer had four hits for the Royals.
ATLANTA (AP) — Andrelton Simmons' two-run single sparked a three-run fourth that sent streaking Atlanta past Daisuke Matsuzaka and New York.
Curtis Granderson and Daniel Murphy hit two-run homers for the Mets, who have lost three straight and six of seven.
The Braves overcame a shaky start from Mike Minor to protect their half-game lead over Washington in the NL East. Atlanta has won six straight, its longest streak of the season.
Shae Simmons (1-0) took over for Minor in the fifth and pitched 1 2-3 scoreless innings. Craig Kimbrel earned his 26th save by striking out Eric Young Jr., Granderson and Bobby Abreu in the ninth.
Matsuzaka (3-3) allowed five runs on seven hits and three walks in five innings. He has lost three straight starts.
TORONTO (AP) — Jose Bautista and Colby Rasmus hit solo home runs, and Drew Hutchison struck out a career-high 10 to snap a two-start losing streak for Toronto.
The Blue Jays ended a three-game losing streak, one shy of their season high, and won for the third time in 14 meetings with Milwaukee.
The Brewers had their four-game road winning streak end as they lost away from home for just the third time in 13 games.
Starting for the first time since leaving a June 22 game at Cincinnati with a strained left hamstring, Bautista gave the Blue Jays an early lead with a two-out blast off the facing of the second deck in the first inning. The homer was his first since June 6 against St. Louis.


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Brad Moulton necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 124 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
We are a publishing company that offers a magazine to the insulated concrete form industry. Most of our readers are builders and contractors. We are launching a professional group/association with additional services that our clients can purchase in addition to the magazine.
Logo needs to appeal to the builder/contractor. Blue collar worker proud to wear a baseball cap with this logo on it. These are F150 truck driving hard working buddies.
We have attached a couple of construction logos and images that reflect the the strong masculine image we want to portray. Remember that our audience is concrete based and not steel.
Things that the contractors work with daily and might look cool incorporated into the design are:
Stacking forms and filling them with concrete
Foam Block form (photo "foam_form.jpg" attached)
Pumper truck (pic3_roll.jpg) would look cool as a silhouette in the background
pour.jpg, and worker.jpg, workerB.jpg, shows worker pouring concrete into the form
Illustration of Worker and test must contain: ICF Builder Group
CAN (not required) use some form of the existing ICF Builder Magazine logo (orange square logo attached) would like to see different colors or versions of same logo incorporated...
Strong, clean design is most important. Should reproduce easily in color as well as black and white. Will go on anything from letterhead, brochures to hats, clothes etc...
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Birthday is an exceptionally unique day for everybody. Best Birthday presents are the inclination and recollections that we provided for somebody on their birthdays. Companions are the best some portion of our life, you can't envision existence without companions, they make us idealize. Birthday is the best event for our life. Birthday travels every which way… Read More »


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No specimens have been seen capturing prey, but the stomach of preserved specimens contained small crustaceans, mostly copepods. The bell shape of the web, along with mucus produced by glands around the mouth, maybe be used to capture zooplankton. The bioluminescence of the suckers is also thought to be used to attract prey, but this has not yet been confirmed.
Animal Foods: aquatic crustaceans; zooplankton
Primary Diet: carnivore (Eats non-insect arthropods); planktivore


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The Public Oyster Seed Ground Vessel Permit Appeals Board will meet on Tuesday, December 4, 2012. The meeting will convene at 9:30 a.m. in Suite 200 of the University of New Orleans' Advanced Technology Center located at 2021 Lakeshore Drive in New Orleans.
Agenda items for the meeting of the Public Oyster Seed Ground Vessel Permit Appeals Board are as follows:
1. Approval of Minutes from September 25, 2012 Meeting
2. Hearing of New Permit Appeals
a. Curtis Alfonso
b. German and Dodie Garcia
c. Paul McIntyre
d. Mark S. Tayamen
3. Set next meeting date
4. Receive Public Comments
5. Adjournment
This Board was established by Act 922 of the 2008 Regular Legislative Session for the purpose of hearing appeals of vessel permit denials by LDWF. Act 922 requires that anyone commercially harvesting oysters on the public oyster seed grounds and reservations, except those in Calcasieu Lake and Sabine Lake, must do so from a vessel holding a public oyster seed ground vessel permit issued by LDWF.


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Malli wrote:Its also my feeling in cases where the animal is acting "high" or narcotized, that it's not necessarily that the medication isn't doing what its supposed to but the dose may be a little off - often a decrease in dose even by 1/4 will take away the odd behavior and looks.
I think this is a good point. I would say more than 90% of the tripawds who have an issue with tramadol, do back off the dosage a bit and continue to use it for the length of time prescribed, which is generally 10 - 14 days.


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Sri Rasikananda -- Disappearance
Rasikananda Prabhu preached Krishna consciousness in northern Orissa after the disappearance of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. He was the principal disciple of Shyamananda Goswami.
- Video: Rasikananda Pandit, with Chaturatma dasa
- Article: I Have Found the Future of Vaishnavism, the Story of Rasikananda Prabhu, by Satyaraja dasa
- In the Krishna.com Store: Book: The Story of Rasikananda Pandit, by Bhakti Vikas Swami
- Rasikananda Pandit mentioned on ISKCON Desire Tree
- A visit to the ashram of Rasikananda by the Bhaktivedanta Research Centre
Pictured are the footprints of Rasikananda Pandit, courtesy of Bhaktivedanta Research Centre.
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Using LED backlighting in LCD TVs is no longer news. Over the last few months we've seen a flurry of new TVs from a growing number of brands all exploiting the technology. Yet the Philips 46PFL9704H makes LED feel all shiny and futuristic again, simply by virtue of how damn good it is.
The 46PFL9704's play for your AV heart begins as soon as you take in its crisp, metallic (brushed aluminium, metallurgy fans), two-tone design, offset by the spectacle of Philips' Ambilight system spilling from three of the TV's sides.
If you dont have the space for the 46PFL9704 then there is the 40-inch version as well, available for around £1800.
Its siren call merely grows louder, too, with the discovery of five HDMIs, an Ethernet port and a USB input among its connections.
The 46PFL9704's feature count, meanwhile, is fearsome, even by Philips' usual 'kitchen sink' standards. The interesting stuff starts, of course, with that all-important LED backlighting system. This takes the 'traditional' direct approach, rather than the edgemounted system pushed by ultraslim TVs like Samsung's B7000 and B8000 models.
As a result, the 46PFL9704 can deliver local dimming, where clusters of LEDs can have their brightness adjusted individually depending on the content of the part of the picture they serve. In theory this allows pitch blacks (where the LED arrays are switched off) to sit right along side ultra-bright whites (where the LED arrays are switched on fully).
What's more, the 46PFL9704 sports a massive 224 individually-controllable LED segments – 75 per cent more than was present in last year's 42PFL9803. This ought to reduce local dimming's issues with lost shadow detail and 'haloing' around bright objects.
Crazy contrast
The potentially much more precise LED lighting has been partnered with a new panel design, resulting in Philips' ground-breaking claimed contrast ratio of 5,000,000:1. Of course, anyone who believes such a figure probably also reckons the moon is made of cheese and the Earth is flat, but our Tech Lab's measurements of a 343,000:1 contrast ratio in Vivid mode, and 224,000:1 in Standard, are very impressive.
The other big attractions of the 46PFL9704 are its built-in internet access, and a potent brew of video processing that chiefly comprises Philips' über-powerful Perfect Pixel HD system and a 200Hz engine (actually a combination of 100Hz with a scanning backlight).
In the current market, Philips 'net functions are the most advanced, particularly the inclusion of an Opera web browser, meaning you are unrestricted in the web content you can call up on your bigscreen.
Going through everything Perfect Pixel HD does would take far too much space, so suffice it to say that although you need to take care with some settings (more on this later), when the Perfect Pixel-driven images are at their best they are arguably the finest I've seen from an LCD TV.
Suck it and see
Such hyperbole will doubtless have our more cynical readers headed straight for their nearest AV Moaner forum. But it's hard to imagine anyone watching a well-calibrated 46PFL9704 disagreeing with me.
The single most devastating element of the 46PFL9704's pictures is their black level response, in terms of both the depth of grey-free black reached while showing the spacescapes of the latest Star Trek opus on Blu-ray, and the amount of shadow detail reproduced with dark interior shots. This latter achievement is particularly startling, since the loss of shadow detail is usually considered one of the weaknesses of direct LED technology.
The Philips' viewing angle is good, too, so the black level response hardly reduces at all if you have to watch the TV from an angle. Making the 46PFL9704's black level prowess all the more dramatic is the extreme brightness and vibrancy of the rest of its pictures. Here again you can clearly appreciate the worth of LED local dimming, as the image scarcely needs to dim its overall brightness at all to keep black levels looking excellent, even when an image contains a stark mixture of brights and darks.
Colours are exceptionally rich, yet they're painted with excellent subtlety, range and blend finesse, meaning that the 46PFL9704 is as at home with EastEnders as it is with The Incredibles.
Next there's Perfect Pixel HD's effective touch with sharpness. As well as producing extremely precise clarity and detailing with HD, the 46PFL9704 makes standard definition pictures look sharper and more 'HD' than possibly any other brand can manage. This extra detail is accompanied, too, by nowhere near as much noise as I've seen on other manufacturer's engines.
On the downside, the HD Natural Motion system can still generate some low-level artefacts, like shimmering around the edges of moving objects, even if you use it on its lowest setting. But these artefacts are less distracting than ever before, leaving the benefits of the processing standing prouder. Plus, of course, you can turn the system off entirely – though inevitably this will lead to a marginal increase in motion blur.
Other negatives include problems with the advanced sharpness tools. They're poorly thought out and can make pictures look ridiculously noisy. Also, none of the presets get close to 6,500K.
Finally, there is a trace of haloing around very bright objects. But you only really notice this if you're sat stupidly close to the screen.
It's back to good news with the 46PFL9704's audio performance. The TV uses the tried-and-tested Philips system of two dome tweeters in the front and two mid-bass drivers mounted in large volume speaker boxes on the rear. The result is powerful, dynamic and clear.
King of the castle
Yes, the 46PFL9704 is expensive. Yes, the 46PFL9704 is demanding. But provided you show it the care and attention it deserves, the 46PFL9704 is also nothing short of outstanding.
Of course, 2010 looks like being the Year of LED TV, with ever more feature-packed and slickly-designed models set to launch in the coming months, but I can easily recommend this current Philips TV to anyone after a high-end bigscreen.
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- Complete the course(s) at Saddleback College with a satisfactory grade, which is defined by a grade of A, B, C or P for "Pass" (formerly CR). Grades that are not acceptable are C-, D, F or NP for "No Pass" (formerly NC)
- Submit a College Prerequisite Evaluation Form with a transcript from high school or another college to the Language Lab that demonstrates satisfactory completion of the prerequisite course. Use the lab email or FAX listed above.
- Complete an assessment exam in the Language Lab; this option is only available for French, German, Persian, Portuguese and Spanish. All other languages must take an assessment exam with an instructor teaching their target language.
Corequisite Labs
A corequisite is a companion course that is required to be taken concurrently with the target course. The information presented, or the practice gained, in the corequisite course is considered necessary for success in the target course. Students must be concurrently enrolled in both sections.
Currently, Spanish is the only language that does not require a corequisite lab.
Examples of target and corequisite courses are given below, where the target course is presented first, followed by its corequisite course.
International Languages
- ARAB 2 - Elementary Arabic; ARAB 902 - Arabic Language Lab
- CHI 1 - Elementary Chinese; CHI 901 - Chinese Language Lab
- GER 4 - Intermediate German; GER 904 - German Language Lab
For an International Language course from levels 1 - 4 (where the level of the course is included at the end of the course's name), you will be required to enroll in a 0.5 unit corequisite lab for that language. If you fail to complete the required 24 hours of lab time, then you will receive an NP ("No Pass") for the lab.
Spring 2019, Study Abroad in Salamanca, Spain
Lab Rules & Regulations
- Check-in first at the front desk before you use a computer and again as you leave. Student must remain in the lab at one of the language lab computers while logged in. Sitting elsewhere in the building is not considered as being present in lab.
- It is the student's responsibility to log in and out for attendance. Failure to do both will be recorded as non-attendance. A student found falsifying attendance time will be reported to the instructor and subject to disciplinary action.
- Time limit: the maximum time per day is 2 hours (every day, all semester). You must be logged in for at least 15 minutes for any time to be recorded.
- Login or logout input errors must be reported to the attendant at the time they occur for correction. Errors reported after-the-fact cannot be corrected. Do not go to the lab weeks or months later asking the attendant to remember your attendance.
- Students may not login to lab while class is officially in session.
- Lab hours may not be completed in any other computer lab on campus. Only hours in LRC 258 will count as lab time. Time spent in the lobby, in tutoring area, in the 3rd floor library, IMC or other computers on campus do not count as lab hours.
- Online lab hours are to be completed online using course specific software.
- If you leave the lab for 5 or more minutes, please sign out on your way out. The attendant will be taking role periodically to make sure you are in the lab. If you are not present, your time for the day will be canceled.
- Do not log anyone in or out of the lab but yourself. If found doing so, you and the individual you logged in/out will have your time for the day deleted and subject to disciplinary action.
- If you are detected infringing on any of the lab rules your hours completed for the day will be deleted.
- The language lab is intended only for learning via technology for the language course in which you are currently enrolled.
- Please, no homework for classes other than the language class in which you are currently enrolled.
- Internet use is only allowed for language work directly related to the language class in which you are currently enrolled.
- No use of internet for social networking or anything not directly pertaining to your language class. Questionable activities will be relayed to your instructor for subject matter approval/verification.
- You cannot watch your own DVD. Check out DVD's from the 'Movies' catalog at the front counter.
- No check-out material to take home.
- No eating, no drinking (Bottled water is permitted), no smoking, no sleeping, no texting, no laptops, iPhones, iPad or other electronic devices.
- No loud conversations or otherwise disruptive behavior.
- Turn off cell phones.
- Do not bring friends or family to the lab unless they are currently enrolled in lab.
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- Inappropriate use of lab computers or disregard of lab rules will result in disciplinary action, will be reported to your instructor, and expulsion from lab.
- Lab/college personnel reserve the right to monitor all computer related activities performed by students within the lab with the use of monitoring technology.
- Saddleback College students are responsible for regulating their own conduct and for respecting the rights and privileges of others in accordance with the Code of Conduct set by the SOCCCD Board of Trustees (AR 5401). Saddleback students are expected to conduct themselves in a manner compatible with the function of the college as an educational institution and respect and obey all civil and criminal laws. Failure to show respect for the standards as set forth by Saddleback College is cause for disciplinary action.
Language Lab Coordinator
International Languages Department Co-Chair
Office: LRC 320
Phone: (949) 582 - 4985
Email: Contact Carmenmara Hernandez-Bravo
Senior Laboratory Technician
Office: LRC 202
Phone: (949) 582 - 4534
E-mail: Contact Lynda Gravesen
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Phone: (949) 582 - 4534
E-mail: Contact Steven Nguyen


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That Voodoo That You Do
More than a fashion accessory, the Mask of Shadows is grafted into Michael LeRoi's
chest. With the voodoo powers of the mask, LeRoi can become Shadowman,
a being of immense power and the ability to cross over into Deadside, the realm
of the dead. Mama Nettie, a voodoo priestess, has used her powers to receive a
dark omen of an immense evil gaining power within Deadside. In order to stop the
forthcoming Armageddon, she instructs LeRoi to journey into Deadside, find the
Asylum (a haven for dead killers and Dark Souls) and destroy it. Why worry? It's
not like you can die or anything…
is the newest 3D platform title to come down the pipe. With a creepy mood and
adult subject matter, this game doesn't treat you like an eight year-old. Shadowman
has made its rounds through all the systems, and now it has arrived on the Dreamcast.
The voodoo is the same to the end, as this version is almost the same as the PC's.
You control Shadowman from a third person view, focusing on exploration and collection. All the while, you must shoot the lost souls and demons that try to hinder your quest (how do you kill something that's already dead?). The main items that you must collect are the Dark Souls; the more you collect, the more locked gateways on earlier levels you'll be able to open and the stronger you'll become. Other voodoo items will let you touch fire or climb up waterways.
Shadowman uses a combat aiming function similar to Legend
of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. You can lock-on to an enemy, and then move relative
to him. While the function works decently, Zelda's "lock-on" had a cleaner,
more refined feeling. In Shadowman, the lock occasionally gets lost when
you step too far to the side or if something comes between you and the enemy.
Furthermore, the lock is not very flexible and often you find yourself locked
on a distant enemy while a closer enemy claws at you. Needless to say, it sometimes
gets frustrating. I also just wish he could turn faster.
When you defeat an enemy, their soul is left behind. These souls nourish your
health. When you're Michael and you die in the game, you just go to Deadside,
where you're Shadowman. If you're Shadowman and you die, you just
start again from a checkpoint since you're already dead. Isn't immortality great?
Overall, there is a lot of platform jumping in the game, but rather than being overly frustrating like other third-person games (*cough Tomb Raider 3 *cough*cough*), it feels easy and natural.
When you move between different game locations, you'll get a loading screen.
Unfortunately, the loading screens really disrupt the flow of the game. The illusion
of a fully realized world would have seemed more convincing without the wait.
Even with the nonlinear nature of the game, the world of Deadside still has a
separated "levels" feel to it.
One neat feature is that the difficulty level keeps increasing as you get
further into the game. Areas that were nearly empty the first time through are
brimming with the undead the next time around. The enemies seem somewhat weaker
on the Dreamcast version than the others.
Influenced by movies like Seven
and the poetry of T.S. Eliot, the designers have created a very stylish game.
While the writing is infused with a feeling of deep meaning, the characters still
seem to follow standard archetypes, with the familiar good vs. evil . . . or in
this case, evil vs. evil-er.
On top of that, the characters could have used more exposition. If the back
story of LeRoi were included, gamers would feel more driven to keep fighting during
the times when they're stuck looking for some key item. There is a comic book
called Shadowman that the diehard fans of the game can go pick up. I believe
that the comic book's storyline is already dealing with a completely different
bearer of the Shadow Mask.
The graphics of Deadside successfully embody the dark and chilling mood set
by the plot. Because Deadside is an imaginary place, the different visual elements
of caves, gothic architecture, and dead things don't have to follow the full rules
of reality. That said, there are certain areas of the "Liveside" that, in contrast,
just don't look as good as Deadside (stupid constraints of reality). The Dreamcast
manages to look on par with the PC, but the framerate could have been tuned up.
Also, during key animation sequences, such as being transported from Liveside
to Deadside, everything is sped up. Its awkward and doesn't set the mood like
the PC version did.
Sound-wise, Shadowman excels. The environmental noise, occasional music
with chanting, and shrieks of the enemies keep the game scary. The cries and screams
of the undead remind me of my former, crazy roommate who talked to himself; which
by itself is freaky enough for me (and the rest of us. ~ Ed.). In the Asylum,
you'll find shrines devoted to various serial killers. As you enter one shrine,
the eerie chants of a Latin hymn start in the background; enter another shrine,
and you'll hear rock-a-billy twisted into an evil noise. Shadowman is a
great game to play in the dark with the sound turned up, just make sure the neighbors
don't get mad.
Shadowman's gothic, artsy flavor is certainly refreshing, and it is
almost equal to the PC, but underneath all the English Lit, the actual gameplay
isn't all that innovative. While it isn't new, the familiar elements of an exploration
game are done well. To the uninitiated, Shadowman can get tiresome quickly
due to loss of interest in the plot and repetitive exploration. For those willing
to keep searching the realm of Deadside, however, you'll find an above-average
exploration in the world of the dead.


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GR: "When it comes to racing games, you have to get two things right or everything else will be wrong. First, your game has to have a fantastic sense of speed and it needs to convey that to the player in every second of gameplay. Second, the cars in your game need to feel different enough to be unique, yet comfortable for people who can't make up their mind. When you consider Criterion's track record, it's difficult to worry about these two issues.
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Before Autism touched my life, I considered myself the kind of mother who pretty much had it together. Before Autism, I worked a full-time executive position, where my obsessive and control freak tendencies served me well. My three children were used to the daily routine of full-time school or daycare. Weaning, potty-training, bedtime issues, discipline, those were things OTHER mothers struggled with, for me it never seemed like a huge deal. I managed to sail through the first 9 years of motherhood without wrinkling my designer clothes, mussing my perfectly relaxed hair, or chipping a french manicured nail. I could never understand what other parents complained about. I was so smug and arrogant. I could not imagine what must go on in the houses of the lady behind me in the check out line with the screaming, rebelling children. I would think to my myself "home girl needs to get it together".
I thought I was done having kids, so my fourth pregnancy was a huge surprise in the midst of a tumultuous time in my career. I was at a crossroads and very uncertain on where I would go professionally. So although my new son was unexpected, I did feel some comfort in the fact that in this at least, I know what I'm doing. What's that saying "If you want to see God laugh, tell him your plans"? I assure you it must have been comedy hour in heaven.
Everything with Spike was different from the start. It was also my first attempt at being a full-time stay at home mom. I was so sure it was going to be a breeze. I imagined myself a cocoa-colored Donna Reed and Mrs. Huxtable rolled into one. I'd spend all day calmly breastfeeding my adorable infant, selflessly volunteer in my older kid's classrooms, never miss school assemblies and cook gourmet dinners every night. I would greet my husband at the door with a kiss after work and in my spare time start writing that bestseller. My house would be spotless. My life would be spotless. Right?? WRONG!
Breastfeeding was a disaster, Spike seemed to be allergic to everything I managed to swallow and at 6 weeks we were in ICU getting his intestines biopsied as they tried to deal with his severe milk and soy allergies. It only got more chaotic from there. He was an exhausting infant, instead of having more time for my other children and husband I had less. It didn't get any easier as he became a toddler. I fought with my husband and myself daily on whether or not he was really as different from other kids as he seemed to be. I struggled with what was "normal".
By the time Spike was two, between dealing with all the trials and tribulations that come with a child on the spectrum, two highly sensitive yet extremely gifted children, an older toddler doomed to suffer from perpetual middle-child syndrome, a half-neglected husband and a stagnant career, I was a hot mess. I didn't recognize myself in the mirror. Who was this woman with the sloppy ponytail, ragged cuticles and chocolate milk on her sweats? I didn't recognize her. I had no confidence in myself as a mother, as a wife or as a writer.
Still in the midst of chaos and half on autopilot, I managed to trudge on through dozens of doctor's visits and hundreds of therapy sessions. I stopped predicting the outcome and just delved into the process. And then, just when I stopped waiting for them, small miracles began to happen. I figured out just the right ingredients to make it through a grocery trip without a meltdown. Spike made eye contact with a stranger without running in fear. My mom was able to pick him up and hold him. These seemingly small feats felt like climbing Mt. Everest to me. I had started to accept Spike for who he is and not who I wanted him to be. Slowly through this process, the patience and acceptance I learned from Spike started to carry over into my relationships with my other children, my husband, and most of all myself. As Spike learned structure, I learned to be less rigid. As he learned boundaries, I learned to be more open. We've both learned a lot.
After Autism, my pursuit of perfect is a lot more realistic these days. I know my life will never be spotless. I am much more concerned with how things feel rather than how they look. In discovering who Spike is, I've found myself. I've found a fierce determination, an unwavering patience and a capacity for a deep all-encompassing love that I never knew was possible. I know in my heart God blessed me with Spike to mold me into the mother, the woman and the writer, I was always meant to be.
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That's beautiful and so is your son. My son isn't autistic, but God teaches me through him everyday. And God prepared me for the responsibility of a husband and son when he tasked me with being my mom's caregiver.
Spike is ADORABLE! I am a mother of a son with autism as well. I really like the honesty in your post.
Well done. I will share.


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Anti-Aliasing TweaksDecember 02, 2004
Horizontal kerning is pretty easy in Photoshop: use the Alt or Cmd + arrow key combination, adjust at will, repeat as necessary. But what about vertical kerning?
The problem is this: it's relatively easy to match kerning between words in Photoshop by using the built-in kerning controls. Adjusting anti-aliasing requires a bit more effort, but it remains completely do-able.
However, there seems to be a built-in dependency on where you set type on the canvas which I can only describe as a vertical anti-aliasing starting point. It appears that the fine adjustment of horizontal letter-spacing isn't enough control, as baselines can either fall on a precise pixel, or on a percentage point somewhere between two pixels.
In the first image to the left, the two lines of type have been kerned equally. The top example is crisper, whereas the bottom example is fuzzy, particularly around the bottom of each letterform.
In the second image to the left, the two "e" letterforms have been scaled up a few hundred percent, and in the bottom row a white grid has been overlaid. This close-up shows that the left "e" has a more solid letterform, especially on the horizontal strokes (the crossbar, the stroke under the bottom counter). The right "e" has much heavier horizontal strokes, anti-aliased across two pixels, and looks more blurry and wispy.
The main difference between these type examples is where they were set on the canvas with the type tool. What appears to be happening is that the starting point can either be an integer pixel value — and thus render closer to the pixel grid, as in the first example — or a fractional pixel value, which throws the entire letterform slightly off the pixel grid.
So the problem then, is how to control this? Once type is set, horizontal adjustment is possible in sub-pixel values thanks to the kerning tools. But vertical adjustment only appears to be possible with the Move tool, which operates on whole-pixel values.
The only solution I can see is to keep re-setting with the Type tool, and hope that through trial and error it'll eventually set properly. Someone tell me there's an easier way.
And there is an easier way. The answer comes from Scott Gould:
You can move text vertically in sub-pixels, as long as you're editing the text in question (i.e. text is highlighted or there's a text cursor flashing away), by using the Ctrl/Apple key temporary move tool. For reasons that sorta, kinda make sense, this won't work on "Sharp" or "Crisp" antialiasing. With "Strong" or "Smooth", you're all set.
Works great, thanks Scott.
Reader Comments
I ran in similar issues some years ago. My solution has been twofold:
First, I make my web page comps in Illustrator, not Photoshop. I prefer the increased freedom to move and resize text blocks, and the superior typography tools (although, with CS, this advantage has lessened). Nonetheless, I still find it more flexible.
Second, when I bring my comps into Photoshop, I do so at 288 DPI — exactly 400% of normal size. I work at that resolution until done, and then sample down to 72 DPI. I never have any problem with irregularly fuzzy text.
Not exactly a solution for your Photoshop problem, but I'm pretty sure that Fireworks (at least MX 2004) snaps objects, including text, to whole pixels… magnification of all text I've create results in exactly the same pixel pattern for a given letterform (assuming the same kerning).
I'm so glad you said something about this!
All I've been able to do to is magnify the text enough to see the quality of anti-aliasing, and then make very small adjustments to the font size, tracking and kerning. And although it never occurred to me until I read your post, making small adjustments to the baseline shift would probably satisfy the need to adjust the text vertically without having to change the font size (which primarily adjusts the upper edge of the type, but also changes the lower edge enough to be useful at times).
Unfortunately, it's all just a kludgy workaround until we get a tool that can do this for us.
Heh, how'd known… I've was wondering about that myself for a while, but couldn't even imagine where to start looking for solution, so I never looked. Thank you for that clarification.
Wow Dave I love the mini-redesign! Excellent. I too am glad to hear about this and that I am not the only one. I don't use photoshop, but I get pretty much the same problem in Paint Shop Pro.
Dave, try messing with the character height percentages… depending on the font, if you go up to about 103-104%, it can fix this problem, but it won't be enough to make the text look stretched or elongated at small pixel sizes…
I run into this even worse doing design in Japanese; kanji are pretty much unreadable aliased below 11px and antialiased below 9-10px, so sometimes a little height tweaking makes a huge difference.
Do you set your type with zoom more than 100%? If you're at 100%, a screen pixel is an image pixel, and I'd guess your mouse can only move one screen pixel at a time, right? So you probably won't be able to click at fractional pixel values in the first place.
I can't seem to replicate the problem on my Photoshop 7.0 though. At 100%, I get consistent horizontal and vertical positioning wherever I click. At higher zoom, horizontal positioning varies, but vertically it's still pixel-crisp. Indeed, I just can't get the baseline to shift.
Could it be a CS-only thing? Though that doesn't explain Ben's comment above…
I have this same problem when using the underline text feature. Sometimes perfect, othertimes the underline is touching the baseline/letterforms.
When you say vertical kerning, I think your refering to leading? If so, you can adjust the leading to fractional units. ie: 12.5 points, pixels etc. this should fix it. However, I really like the snap to pixel grid solution from cyomega in comment 1.
I feel like I've seen the answer to this before… I know you can adjust the baseline for a given character/string in a text zone (Shft+Alt+up/down) however this seems to go up/down 1px - not the 2pt/px that it claims to do. I'll keep searching… but I swear there's an answer, and I swear I've seen it before =/
Theoretically, you could turn on "snap to grid", set the snap distance to 1px, and then grab and drop the text. This should align the type with the pixel grid, after which you can nudge with the Move tool to get perfect positioning. I know it sounds a bit kludgy (it is), but it's the only way I can think of at the moment.
I generally try to stay away from the kerning and just go with 'none' in the anti-alias box. But that's just my preference of design. I could see how the soft anti-alias would be nice when you're going to be needing some solid transparency on any given background color.
When someone figures this out I'd be interested in knowing.
If it's any consolation -
Photoshop user since 1997 -
Same problem -
Same solution.
…Not for lack of wanting.
Right up front I'm going to apologize for the pedantic nature of my post. And I *know* you know this already, but there are others that may not. So with that out of the way…
Kerning refers to the process of adjusting the spacing between letter pairs.
Tracking refers to the process of adjusting the spacing between all the letters on a line or in a block of type.
Word Spacing refers to the process of adjusting the spacing between words.
Photoshop CS offers adjustment menus for Tracking and Kerning on the Character palette. In order to adjust Word Spacing you have to choose Justification from the Paragraph palette menu.
Thanks for everything you do :)
- Steve
I've often noticed the difference in anti-aliasing between multiple settings of the exact same type, but have always been too lazy to figure out why. Glad to see that someone else did the work for me. :)
As for solutions, I certainly don't have anything between that cyomega's suggestion…
BTW - Love the holiday header.
You can solve the problem.
The text have to be created inside a 'text-area' eg: by click dragging a text-area as opposed to just single clicking anywhere inside a document.
In a text-area, you can when in text-editing mode, hold your mouse over one of the handles of the textarea (eg upper handle) and you can then move this handle with subpixel precision, thus moving the text slightly up and down.
This results in a better anti-alias. screenshot:
Can anyone confirm this is a solution, as I was not aware of the problem before :) (tested in photoshop 7/win)
You can move text vertically in sub-pixels, as long as you're editing the text in question (i.e. text is highlighted or there's a text cursor flashing away), by using the Ctrl/Apple key temporary move tool. For reasons that sorta, kinda make sense, this won't work on "Sharp" or "Crisp" antialiasing. With "Strong" or "Smooth", you're all set.
Scotts Answer is awesome. This also fixes my underline problem. Nice one. Thanks.
Try turning off "Fractional Widths" in the Palette options (the "(>)" in the upper-right corner of PS7 for Mac). It seems to make things much better.
I also love the new header.
I've encountered the same problem with Flash MX 2004 and I've yet to find a way to find the right positioning on the canvas to avoid the fractional pixel problem. It seems to rear its head with sIFR and fonts that have thin portions of the glyph, but becomes unnoticeable with larger fonts. I hear Macromedia is working on it though for the next release.
I don't know about Photoshop, but I haven't noticed that problem in Fireworks.
I do know that when you're working with pixel fonts in Flash, the text box needs to be plaed on an even numbered x,y coordinate. If not, then the text is fuzzy.
Perhaps there could be a similar issue in Photoshop?
I have experienced this in about Version 4 for the first time (and remember setting text again and again to avoid it).
Thanks Scott for posting this simple solution. It works great. Unfortunately the Help-File doesn't mention how Anti-Aliasing works, but my guess is that "Sharp" and "Crisp" settings don't apply any vertical anti-aliasing at all and therefore cannot cause this problem.
You can even repair a blurred baseline by changing the setting from Strong/Smooth to Sharp/Crisp
I've used a simplified process similar to Jim Royal's (post#6) for quite some time.
If I've got isolated web text to create or update, I've always set them in ILLUSTRATOR, bypassing the frustrating shortcomings in Photoshop.
This process has never failed to produce text with crisp baselines for me since IllustratorV6. I've never played with PhotoshopCS, so I can't say if it has the same kind of control.
The keys in my technique are:
* create an RGB mode document (I recommend turning colour management settings OFF for this)
* setting up a bounding box (no stroke; invisible or chosen matte RGB colour fill) with the top left corner point snapped to an inch/72pt grid
* positioning/snapping the first text baseline to a distance in whole number/non-decimal points from the top of the bounding box
* using whole number/non-decimal point leading on multiple lines
* adjust the bounding box to fit the text using only the bottom right corner
* at 72ppi anti-aliased, either export it to your raster format of choice for futher editing or just "Save for Web…" (which is a good preview as well)
If you export as a PSD with an invisible bounding box, you can place the text in it's own layer in a more complex layout. Obviously, the text won't be editable. You could, however, always use text layers for position only, and set your final text in illustrator.
Since I don't own AdobeCS, I've used InDesign to set text the same way with "visual kerning" when I'm too lazy to manually kern; then export as EPS, and import/rasterize in Photoshop at 72ppi.
Whoa. Been over a year since I last posted here:
My immediate thought was that baseline shift could handle this, and sure enough it can.
The trick is not to use the keyboard shortcuts Kyle mentioned, because they adjust the baseline by 1pt (not 1px) at a time, which is pretty coarse for adjusting anti-aliasing.
Instead, open the character palette and type in your adjustments. The character palette is inherited from InDesign, so it has DTP-level precision - you can adjust baseline shift in one-hundredth-of-a-point increments if you wish.
I just tried it with some 3pt, 10pt and 30pt Arial Regular, and in each case shifting in one-tenth-of-a-point increments produced a noticable shift in anti-aliasing.
Vertical Kerning? I think you're talking about leading if you're speaking of the relative space between lines. Kerning by definition is a horizontal concept.
The issue here is more one not of spacing but of finding a way to create clean smaller type.
The method I use is to set my type at the desired size - say 10 point. I then blow it up quite large to examine my horizontal strokes, both the caps and lower case. If there's an extra fuzzy pixel (or several) on top of the letter "E" I increase or decrease my point size randomly by tenths or hundredths of a point. Finding the right size that's clean is paramount.
While I'm doing this I've got a second window open in Photoshop showing me my art at 100%. I stare at that while kerning in the large window, minutely manipulating my horizontal spacing (kerning) for maximum cleanliness, especially of the letter "l" and any characters with absolute horizontals or verticals. Back and forth over and over, including spaces between words. It's a pain and makes you miss print, but fuzzy type is hard on the eyes and looks unprofessional.
In some typefaces one can find the perfect size for lower case but upper won't come clean. Or vice versa. In such cases I just pick a different face. Some just don't draw well at all below 14 point or so.
Though I've posted an addendum in the body of the article, I'll reply here too — the issue isn't leading, as some have suspected. Leading is the space between lines, whereas we're only talking about a single line of type. The issue is that vertically, the type doesn't sit quite on the pixel grid and its anti-aliasing is too blurry as a result.
The best solution has been suggested by Scott Gould; use Cmd (or Ctrl) and the mouse to move the type around the canvas in units below a single pixel to better align it with the pixel grid.
Other solutions suggested, including baseline adjustment, micro leading adjustment, and changing the font size by fractions of a pixel will probably work as well, but Scott's suggestion seems like the method Adobe intended for addressing this problem. It's what I'll use from now on.
For me, the most convenient is to adjust the height of the characters, exactly as "cam c." suggested.
I think Dave found the best answer with the CTRL/Apple key trick, but the percent adjustment I mentioned is useful when, for example, one part of a letter is on the pixels, and another is between pixels… it works horizontally too.
I mentioned it primarily for Japanese kanji… when you have a character that potentially could have 5 or 6 parallel horizontal or vertical lines, at anything below about 14-15 pixels, some height adjustment can make a huge difference.
I found that Scott Gould's solution doesn't work for me (Photoshop 7, Windows) - it just moves the carat to the start of the text (or end, depending on whether you pressed up or down).
However, further to Sander van Dragt's suggestion, it is possible to move the text (even if it wasn't created using a dragged-out textbox) at a sub-pixel level provided you have the anti-aliasing method set to strong or smooth. Simply press Control-T (or Command-T) to transform the text layer, then assuming you are zoomed in at more than 100%, nudge the text layer using the cursor keys. You should then see the text anti-aliasing change.
An important detail to note is that if you create the text while the document is at 100% then the text will anti-alias the same every time. If you create some text while zoomed in and others while zoomed out, then you definitely start to notice a difference.
Also, when moving the text over the "pixel grid" it is necessary to zoom in a few steps (and much easier to see what's going on). This is probably somewhat obvious but should be mentioned.
As for Ben Darlow's comment that it doesn't work on Windows… I think he is trying to use the arrow keys while editing the text… that doesn't work, you just have to use control/apple to temporarily get the move tool and drag by hand. Zooming in and using Free Transform is a good method to use if you want to use the arrow keys to nudge.
And yes those pesky underlines drove me crazy until I figured this out!!
Oh, and as for Flash… just make sure the text object is sitting at an even pixel value (and make sure the info palette is showing you the location from the UPPER LEFT of the object). By even pixel value I mean an integer like 8.0, 16.0.
If the text is embedded in movieclips, do the same for every movieclip in the heirarchy. Also Centered text will always have a problem because it doesn't have a consistent x,y in the upper left.
Still anti-aliasing is finicky in Flash… especially when you want to be compatible with Flash Player 6, but this should help in most cases.
There's another simple solution, similar to Scott Gould's, which works for shifting text in sub pixel values. It can be used to sort out the problem of underlines sticking to the bottom of text (rather than having a gap).
Zoom in, press Ctrl+T (Splat+T on mac) and use the cursor keys to move the text sub-pixel increments.
Works every time.
Beat me to it Aegir, that's the method I use as well. CTRL + T, arrow keys to position, then Enter to commit. Easy!
ROTFLMAO @ "Splat + T"
That is by far the best interpretation of the Command character I have ever seen.
Aegir gets an A+
I would argue that any text that is so small that this is an issue on, shouldn't be anti-aliased at all! This is a problem (that I have managed to get over) that I had with Quartz text-smoothing on its inception. The limitations of the screen simply don't permit such small text to be anti-aliased.


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With Mother's Day right around the corner, there is a lot of talk about "super moms." Meet the real deal: Karen Nyberg can fly through the air as if there weren't any gravity. That's because where she works, there isn't any. She takes a break from training in Star City, Russia to chat with Parenting about preparing to leave her husband and 3-year-old son behind to spend six months at the International Space Station.
The number one thing that our Parenting readers will probably want to know is: what is it like to be in space?
It is absolutely incredible. I was there in 2008 on a shuttle flight. Unfortunately, that was a very short mission of only fourteen days. I remember the first day we opened the big door of the space shuttle and I was able to look out at the back windows of the flight deck. It's pretty much indescribable, how beautiful it is. The feeling of floating like a superhero is amazing. I'm so excited to do it again.
How do you feel like becoming a mom has changed the way you approach your job?
That's a good question. I think I've always been somebody who has worked very hard to excel at absolutely everything I do and I never accepted "good enough." Since I've become a mother, I've realized that in order to balance my life with my family and my job, I need to accept "good enough" on some things and that's okay. I think I've learned to do that.
Have you told Jack where you're going? Does he understand or get upset?
The longest I've been away from him at this point is about five weeks. He's 3 years old, so it's really hard to tell exactly what he understands. But we do tell him that mommy is going to live on the space station. When he sees a picture of the space station, he knows what it is. He knows what a rocket is. He knows that the space station travels around the Earth. He knows that in the space station there's no gravity and things float. It's really hard to tell if 3-year-olds understand it at a deeper level than that. But I'm looking forward to being there and sending down videos for him, showing him simple things like what I'm eating and when I'm playing around and sharing that with him.
What does a normal day for you look like now as you're training for your upcoming mission and being a mom to your son?
I'm in Star City Russia right now. I've been here for a couple of weeks and we're pretty much done with the final preparations. We've had final examinations, which are simulations in the Russian segment of the space station and in the Soyuz, which is the rocket that is taking us up to the space station. It's pretty intense!
I did bring my son here with me and I was able to spend time with him on the weekends and in the evenings. We had our final ceremonial events at the Red Square yesterday, after we passed all of our exams. I now have some free time that I can spend with my husband and my son.
That sounds lovely! Do you feel that it's difficult to manage training and being a mom? Do you have any tips for other working moms?
It's almost like when you bring the brand new baby home—nobody really gives you instructions. We go through all this training, everything from driving a car to the training we go through in college. When it comes to being a parent, you kind of learn by doing. One of the main things that I try to do is not make it negative that I'm leaving. I never insinuate that there's anything negative about what's going on and I keep him a part of the life that we're leading. It's a normal thing.
How did your own mother encourage you in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)?
My mother was awesome in that she let me do anything I wanted. I grew up in a very small town in Minnesota. My mother was unable to go to college and she just wanted me to be able to do anything I wanted. She taught me to sew and to do a lot of the stuff I need to do at home. Anytime I wanted to join a sport or do anything academic, it was always encouraged. I think that for parents of other little girls—just let them dream, let their imagination roll and do whatever it is that they want to do.
Do you have any plans for Mother's Day while you're in Russia?
My plan for Mother's Day is just to relax with my family.
Does the distance from your loved ones and family feel more tangible in space than when you are away from them on Earth?
That's hard to say. I know that when I'm on Earth I can have a video conference with my son and husband every single day. When I'm in space, we have an internet protocol phone that I can call them on every day. However, video conferences will only be once a week and I think that's going to be a little unusual. But I hope to video tape some of the things that I'm doing and send it down as frequently as possible, so that they can see what I'm doing on a daily basis.
Your son is probably still setting lots of milestones. Have you agreed that your husband should capture some of Jack's firsts or big moments while you are in space?
I think there will be a lot of pictures taken and a lot of video taken. My son will be starting preschool in September, so I will miss his first day of school. Which makes me sad, but there will be a lot of pictures and my husband is going do a great job of getting him out the door to his first day of school.
Do you hope that he'll will follow in your footsteps? Is he displaying an aptitude for science?
He actually is displaying an aptitude for science! He loves to understand things. He loves to look things up. We'll go to Google and he'll say he wants to look up an animal and probably look up about 20 different animals in a fifteen-minute period. He loves the planets. He loves to talk about the planets. He loves dinosaurs. He loves to look down at the wheels of his cars and trucks and say, "we need to fix this!" So I definitely think he has an aptitude and I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up in some sort of technical field when he's an adult.
Aside from your family, what creature comforts will you miss most when you are away from Earth?
My bed is an important one. I was only in space for two weeks on my shuttle flight, so I'm not sure I ever became very comfortable with sleeping without gravity. But from what I heard from other people, it becomes extremely comfortable. So maybe in a couple of months, that won't seem so important to me anymore. Another thing is coffee in a cup; we drink our coffee in bags.
What is the biggest misconception regular people have about astronauts?
Oh gosh. We are just normal people. All of us have very normal lives with normal families. We just happen to be in a job that is an extraordinary job. We're so lucky to do it, but we are just ordinary people.
What do you think is your biggest struggle as a parent?
You always wonder if you're doing the right things for your children. I have struggled with whether it is a good thing for me to leave my three-year-old for six months. But after going through it in my head for a long time, this is a dream I had since I was a young child, myself. I don't think I would be setting a very good example for my son if I were to give up on my dream. So I think that's one of the biggest things and it is going to be very hard to say goodbye to him next week.
How does the International Space Station help us on Earth? Karen Nyberg shares a short message about the lab in space in this new video:
To learn more about Karen, follow her on Twitter at @AstroKarenN.


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Welcome to the Prehistoric Journey Online Guide. This guide is
your companion to making the most out of your visit to Prehistoric
Journey with your students.
The Prehistoric Journey Educators Sourcebook was developed to
help educators prepare for a class visit to Prehistoric Journey and
to provide resource information about the history of life on Earth.
The Educators Sourcebook includes background on each of the main
sections of the exhibition, suggestions for how to explore the
exhibition, self-guided tours, and student investigations that can
be used to enhance your visit.
Note: The Educators Sourcebook was originally published in 1995
when Prehistoric Journey opened and does not reflect updates to the
Table of Contents (PDF | 1.6MB)
Early Life (PDF | 974KB)
Paleozoic Era (PDF | 4MB)
Mesozoic Era (PDF | 4.5MB)
Cenozoic Era (PDF | 4.8MB)
Self Guided Tours (PDF | 633KB)
Investigations (PDF | 1.7MB)
Glossary (PDF | 637KB)
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Disneyland Park
Critter Country
Kids, Tweens, Teens, Adults
Thrill Rides, Water Rides, Dark, Loud
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Embark on a rollicking log flume ride featuring characters and songs from the classic Disney film Song of the South.
Glide along a colorful bayou in a hollow log—past delightful singing critters—to a thrilling 5-story splashdown!
Gently drift past rocky caves, vine-strewn streams and
sun-drenched meadows as you accompany
happy-go-lucky Br'er Rabbit from his home in the Briar Patch on a search for his Laughing Place. But be warned: Br'er Bear and Br'er Fox are in hot pursuit of the roaming rabbit and they'll do anything they can to catch him!
Much to See and Do
During your approximate 9-minute log-flume adventure, visit such whimsical watering holes amid Chick-A-Pin Hill as:
Songs to Make You Sing
Splash Mountain invites you to clap and sing to several classic Disney songs, including:
A Colorful Cast of Southern Characters
Over 100 talking, singing, storytelling Audio-Animatronics critters call Splash Mountain home. In addition to Br'er Fox, Br'er Bear and Br'er Rabbit, a cast of backwoods critters, including geese, frogs, raccoons, possums, bees and alligators offer up their own slice of southern hospitality during your adventure.
Based on the 1946 Disney classic Song of the South, Splash Mountain tells the bumbling yarn of crafty Br'er Rabbit. After leaving his home in the Briar Patch, Br'er Rabbit embarks on a quest for adventure, fortune and his "laughing place," while trying to outwit Br'er Bear and Br'er Fox who want to eat him.
The Secret of Briar Patch
When captured, Brer Rabbit pretends to be frightened of the Briar Patch, but he has a secret: the Briar Patch is actually his favorite hideaway, his Laughing Place.
Take the plunge down Splash Mountain and discover Br'er Rabbit's laughing place for yourself!
Guests can surely expect to get wet on this attraction, which includes 950,000 gallons of water, 3 dips and a massive 5-story waterfall. Where you're seated will determine how wet you'll likely get. Riders in the back may just experience a sudden splash or spray; those who opt for the front can expect to get soaked.
Longtime Disneyland Park Guests might find many of the Splash Mountain critters familiar. Much of the cast originally made their Disneyland debut at the classic theme park show America Sings, where they performed patriotic melodies in Tomorrowland from 1974 to 1988.
When America Sings successfully completed its run, the beloved performers were recruited to make the trip over to Critter Country for the opening of Splash Mountain in 1989.


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During combat when your so furious, you deliver a punch that packs so much strength, force and energy that it cause's your enemy to simply explode.
Homeless man wakes up after being urinated on. He becomes so furious and he cocks backs his arm to deliver the Mad Dog Punch. Then it happens the urinater just becomes a million pieces on the floor.
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The San Antonio Spurs return home with a five-game winning streak Wednesday night when they look for some revenge against the New Orleans Hornets.
The Spurs swept both of the games on their two-game road trip, besting the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday night, then defeating the Philadelphia 76ers, 90-85, on Monday.
The Sixers built a seven-point lead into the fourth quarter after the Spurs were up by as many as 17 in the second stanza. San Antonio brought back its varsity group and ended the game with a 15-3 run to get the victory.
The Spurs held the Sixers to one point over 13 possessions in the final frame and collected their NBA-best 33rd win. Oklahoma City also has 33 wins.
"We finally got stops at the other end," Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich said. "We were fortunate to get the win."
Tim Duncan led the way with 24 points and 17 rebounds. Tiago Splitter also had a double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds. Tony Parker scored 20 points in the victory and Kawhi Leonard added 16.
The Spurs fell to the Hornets in New Orleans on Jan. 7. That night, four Spurs scored in double figures, but San Antonio only shot 28.6 percent from beyond the arc.
That victory played a huge part in the Hornets' recent turnaround. They've won seven of their last nine, including two in a row on the road.
Since Eric Gordon returned from a knee injury, the Hornets are 8-4 and Gordon leads the team in scoring at 17.4 ppg.
On Monday, New Orleans toppled the visiting Sacramento Kings, 114-105. They had a 25-point halftime lead and played sloppy in the second half, but held on for the victory.
"We got a win and that is the most important thing obviously," said Hornets coach Monty Williams. "We didn't like the sloppy play in the second half, but I am not going to dwell on that. There are things that happened in the game that we will try to correct tomorrow in practice. The good thing is our guys felt badly about it and that is something that shows character."
Ryan Anderson came off the bench with 27 points on 7-for-14 shooting from the 3-point line.
Greivis Vasquez had 19 points and 11 assists. Gordon chipped in 16 and rookie Anthony Davis, who stepped on a ref's foot and tweaked his leg, and Al-Farouq Aminu both cracked the 10-point mark.
Davis declared himself ready for Wednesday night immediately after Monday's win.
"It's fine," he said.
The Spurs are 18-6 in their last 24 against the Hornets and New Orleans has won only twice in San Antonio since the 2007-08 season.


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BLACKPOOL netted a goal in each half to see off Blackburn and maintain boss Michael Appleton's unbeaten start to life at Bloomfield Road.
Rovers had more than their fair share of chances in the first half but Wes Thomas had headed Blackpool in front by the time Simon Vukcevic rattled the post for the visitors.
Henning Berg's side were unable to muster anything like a similar threat in a second half of few chances, and switched off late on to let former Rangers defender Kirk Broadfoot net a first Seasiders goal.
Appleton has now masterminded two wins from three outings, having begun his tenure as Ian Holloway's replacement with four consecutive draws.
The result moves Blackpool three points and four places above Blackburn, who are floundering in 15th place in the npower Championship having won once during Berg's nine matches at the helm.
Bob Harris enjoyed his second start of the season for Blackpool at left-back in place of the suspended Steven Crainey, while Gary Taylor-Fletcher was named among the substitutes after recovering from a hamstring injury.
Berg sprung a surprise by dropping former England goalkeeper Paul Robinson and naming Jake Kean in his starting XI - one of four changes to the Blackburn side thrashed 4-1 by Cardiff eight days ago as Gael Givet, Colin Kazim-Richards and Vukcevic earned recalls.
Blackpool were perhaps surprised by the sight of on-loan Galatasaray forward Kazim-Richards launching a long-throw in the second minute and Vukcevic was allowed space to fire over.
The visitors were quickest out of the blocks and Seasiders defender Craig Cathcart required a last-ditch challenge to deny Jordan Rhodes from Kazim-Richards' cross, before Matt Gilks made saves in quick succession to thwart Rhodes and Vukcevic.
It was therefore against the run of play when Nathan Delfouneso crossed from the left for Thomas to glance in with the assistance of a statuesque Blackburn defence in the 24th minute.
Dickson Etuhu had a chance to bring Blackburn level after the half hour but shot wide from Josh King's clipped cross as Blackpool failed to fully clear a corner.
Kean was nearly caught out by a clever Tiago Gomes free-kick from the left before Scott Dann produced a vital block to divert an Ince effort at the end of a solo run into the side netting.
But it was almost all-square at the break as Vukcevic rattled the post with a shot on the turn.
Kazim-Richards and Thomas both hobbled back into the action following injury scares during a scrappy start to the second half.
England Under-21 winger Ince appeared the most likely source of extending Blackpool's lead and, after breaking free of the Rovers defence to test Kean low to his right, he exchanged passes with Harris for the latter to fire over in the 65th minute.
Harris managed to extend Kean when the Rovers keeper pushed a rasping free-kick behind, but the points were made safe from the resulting corner.
Gomes' outswinging delivery from the right found Broadfoot to thump home unmarked with nine minutes to play.
Givet thought he had a consolation but was flagged offside before Dann almost compounded Rovers' misery by heading against his own post in stoppage time.


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Meet the Avengers [Infographic]
If you're looking for a new superhero costume, the Avengers can make for good inspiration. With classic characters like Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Thor, and Black Widow, there's a huge variety of styles and looks to choose from. Brush up on your knowledge of these iconic characters before you buy with some help from Costume SuperCenter's Meet the Avengers infographic!
Meet the Justice League [Infographic]
If you've got a family of heroes at home and you're looking for the perfect group costume, turn to the first family of comic book heroes. Led by the trinity of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, the Justice League was the first real super team, and with this infographic from Costume SuperCenter, you can find out some interesting facts about the inspiration for your potential costume!
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When it comes to superheroes, there might not be any more iconic than The Batman. His costume is instantly recognizable, his adversaries, like The Joker, are household names, and if he's put in a movie, it's an almost guaranteed blockbuster. Learn some things about the Dark Knight that you may not have known before, though, with Costume SuperCenter's Five Facts about The Batman infographic.
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Who better to vanquish evil on All Hallow's Eve than a team of superheroes? Whether Batman's vigilante justice or Captain America's do-gooder attitude is more your style, we have everything that you need to pull together a super Halloween costume. The great part about dressing as a superhero is that no matter whether you're flying solo or avenging villains as a group, your costume makes sense.
We carry a variety of Marvel Universe and DC Comics character costumes, like
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Every hero needs a villain; that's why we invited you. Every villain has a tragic backstory that makes them more human, from the Joker to Thanos, and explains exactly why they are the way that they are. And every hero has a history that shows exactly how they overcame obstacles to not only survive, but thrive. Whether you chose to go as a superhero or a villain this Halloween, we have a costume that will make you the life of the party. The great part about superhero and villain costumes is that even if you show up to a party solo, everyone will still know who you are. Captain America will always be Captain America, and Catwoman will always be Catwoman. But they're also a great opportunity for a group costume. Encourage the whole family to dress like Earth's mightiest heroes, the Avengers, or get your group of friends together as the Suicide Squad.
Or maybe go for an unconventional couples costume: the
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Look up in the sky, it's a bird… it's a plane… it's… whoever you want to be when you choose from our large selection of superhero costumes! These outfits are perfect for Halloween but really shine at events like comic con and movie releases. Picture this. You're in line to see the newest Avenger's movie with all of your friends and you're all dressed like the actual Avengers!
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