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Harmony Brewing wins top honor at neighborhood business awards
It was a gala family affair last night as brothers Barry and Jackson Van Dyke and their sister, Heather Van Dyke-Titus, won the prestigious Gerald R. Helmholdt Grand Award for their Harmony Brewing Co. at the 23rd Annual Neighborhood Business Awards presented by the Neighborhood Business Alliance.
It also was the second consecutive year that a new brewer walked off with the honor. Last year, Brewery Vivant's Jason Spaulding captured the award.
"We weren't sure whether we wanted to go with yet another microbrewery again this year after last year's Grand Award winner. But the truth is, the project at Harmony Brewing Co. is great in so many ways that it would be hard not to give them the nod," said Mark Lewis, Neighborhood Ventures executive director.
Lewis said one reason why Harmony Brewing was tabbed is it filled a gaping hole at the entrance of the Eastown Business District by opening at 1551 Lake Drive SE. The address once was home to a liquor store that went out of business about a decade ago, and the location had been vacant until the neighborhood brew pub came along.
Another prominent honor went to Locus Development, which won the John H. Logie Business Champion Award. The prize honors the leadership the firm's partners John Green and Andy Winkel have shown for furthering economic development in the city's neighborhood business districts.
A third outstanding honor, the P. Michael Wanroy Volunteer in Business Award, went to Jenn Schaub. Schaub is a neighborhood revitalization specialist with Dwelling Place of Grand Rapids and has done most of her work in the Heartside Business District.
The SpeakEZ Lounge at 600 Monroe Ave. NW was named the Best New Business and Duthler's Family Foods at 1226 Madison St. SE won the Best Longstanding Business Award. The Best New Construction Award went to Arnie's Bakery Kafe at 815 Leonard St. NW and the Best Reuse of a Building honor was captured by the Sun Title Agency at 1410 Plainfield Ave. NE.
In all, 15 awards were handed out last night at the Wealthy Street Theater, where Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell hosted the event. A complete report on all the winners, and much more, can be found in Monday's Grand Rapids Business Journal and online that morning at grbj.com.


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The trouble with running a tourism industry that offers a once-in-a-lifetime experience is that, well, people tend to do it just the once.
So how does New Zealand get repeat visitors, especially when we're so far away from so many of our best markets? Your average well-travelled Brit might get to New Zealand once in their lifetime, but they'll pop into France - and in the course of a lifetime spend a lot more of their pounds in France - every other year.
At the moment, our international brand is built around a couple of big-ticket concepts: The 100% Pure experience and The Hobbit. I'm dubious about the Hobbit thing, but for more than a decade the 100% brand has been terrific for us. However, having developed a strong brand, we must do something interesting with it.
Let's move from being a one-hit attraction by promoting our events. Instead of inviting the world to do a bungy jump at AJ Hackett's stunning Kawarau Bridge site - the birthplace of commercial bungy - let's invite them to an annual extreme sports festival in Queenstown.
The Aussies do it well. They have moved on from simply pointing at Uluru or the Opera House and expecting the tickets to be clipped. Today, their regions compete fiercely for visitors' attention with local events at the forefront of their marketing campaigns. Let's do the same.

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The Future Of Social Is Mobile (#SWChat)
Thanks to everyone who took part in this weeks Social Workplace Twitter Chat event (#SWChat).
The Future Of Social Is Mobile
In the last couple of years, mobile technology has advanced so much that it has become an extension of ourselves. Demand is high causing costs to sky-rocket, where the price of a handset can cost more than a 3 piece leather suite.
This event is looking at why the smartphone has become so popular and how we see the market evolving over the next 5 years.
Event Statistics
- No. of Tweets = 1700 (NEW RECORD)
- No. of Contributors = 126
- Reach = 651,000 (NEW RECORD)
- No. of impressions = 5,900,000
Full Transcript Report via @hashtracking
Questions Asked
Q1) If u turned ur phone off, how long before Social (media) Anxiety Disorder (S.A.D) kicked in?
Q2) Why has the smartphone become such an important device for communicating and consuming content in recent years?
Q3) How do you see social and mobile evolving over the next few years?
Q4) It is imperative companies invest in providing smartphone devices to all its employees. Agree/disagree?
Q5) Do you see a future where companies have their own in-house app stores for employees to access?
Q6) What smartphone app would you like to have that doesn't exist today?
Shared Reference Material
- Do You Suffer From Social (Media) Anxiety Disorder? via @davidchris
- Do You Suffer From Social Media FOMO? [infographic] via @mashable
- People Who Are Constantly Online Can Develop Mental Disorders via CBS Charlotte
- 79% Of US Smartphone/Tablet Users Have Used Them For Online Shopping via nielsenwire
- Life Before The Smartphone [comic strip] via @elabuzz
- Texting Takes Over Talking In The UK Says Ofcom Study via BBC News
- Humour [image] from Brad Wood
- The Future Of TV Is Two Screens, One Held Firmly In Your Hands via Fast Company
- Executive Order on National Security And Their Communications via The White House
- Is Mobile Africa's Future by Ben Martin
- The Distractions Of Social Media in 1673 via @tomstandage
- Smartphones Usage Statistics Of US Consumers via Nielsen
- Barclay's Bank Develops Internal App Store via computing.co.uk
- 50% Of American Mobile Owners Use Their Phones While Watching TV via psfk
- The Flight From Conversation via New York Times
- How Tech Is Changing College Life [infographic] via @mashable
- Mary Meeker: More Data, More Mobile (SoLoMo) via Mike Boland
- Mobile Apps Will Drive The Future Of THe Internet via SocialMediaToday
Useful #SWChat Links
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Dems fret over Obamacare
Democrats are fretting that Obamacare is going to crush their hopes of big gains in the midterm elections, just like it cost them the House in 2010.
And as bad-news headlines and big-time dips in the polls pile up, the signs of anxiety are starting to show.
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On Monday night, South Carolina's Elizabeth Colbert Busch, a favorite of the Democratic left, couldn't get away from the law fast enough, calling Obamacare "extremely problematic" — a quote that got wide play from GOP groups like the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Sen. Max Baucus warned that there could be a "train wreck" if the Obamacare outreach doesn't improve — and he helped give birth to the law in the Senate.
And during at least two meetings with administration officials last week, Democrats told the White House they don't like how the law's implementation and messaging are going.
( PHOTOS: 10 alarmist quotes on health law ruling)
It's no wonder why: On Tuesday, a Kaiser Family Foundation poll showed just 35 percent of Americans hold a favorable view of the law, right as the administration is planning to roll it out.
All the panic forced President Barack Obama to rush to the law's defense, saying at a news conference Tuesday: "Even if we do everything perfectly, there'll still be, you know, glitches and bumps. … And that's pretty much true of every government program that's ever been set up."
Obama's goal was to dismiss what he called "all the hue and cry and, you know, sky-is-falling predictions about this stuff."
Don't bet on that happening. Democrats have been fretting about the law since it passed, and they're not exactly falling in love with it now either.
(POLITICO Roundtable: Obamacare still poses problems for president, Dems)
The NRSC latched onto Colbert Busch's comments from Monday night, sending out a press release boasting that she joins a "chorus of Democrats who are running for office and running from Obamacare."
Colbert Busch, considered one of the most prominent Democratic candidates in the country, distanced herself considerably from Obamacare Monday night in a debate with former Gov. Mark Sanford.
She has to appeal to voters in a conservative district, just like other Democrats running in states or congressional districts next year will have to win over conservatives and independents, too.
But the Democrats were always going to face this moment — they designed the law so all of the core pieces would go into effect in 2014, in a midterm election year. And they also needed a lot of complicated pieces to work together smoothly: health coverage for everyone who asks for it, new marketplaces of health insurance in every state, expanded Medicaid coverage for low-income people, and — of course — the hated individual mandate.
( PHOTOS: Supreme Court upholds health care law)
Democratic strategist Chris Lehane says this all makes sense: midterm voters tend to be more moderate, and a lot of Democratic incumbents will be running in Republican-leaning states this year.


text: I wanted to post an article that I think will help allot of new android users. This information will make life with Android allot smoother and you will have a better time with your phone if you decide not to use task killers. I have been using Android OS sense January and would like to share my experience. I came from using Windows mobile OS and everyone knows if you used even a windows computer that processes running can bog a system down. This just isn't the case with Android. The first week I used Android I was killing apps right and left thinking that it needed to be done. Within 2 weeks my phone and apps were force closing and the phone would even reboot on me. Then I caught wind of the fact that I shouldn't be killing apps. It was hard to change my thought process about it but after reading this article and then following it my phone never lagged and I could go weeks without even having to reboot the OS. So here is the link. I did post this in another thread but after reading that thread I wanted everyone to get a chance to read this. Make up your own mind about it, but just be warned that killing tasks can hurt the OS. FAQ: Why You Shouldn't Be Using a Task Killer with Android Geek For Me – Android CDMA Sprint Hero http://androidboss.com/android-and-task-killers-dont/ http://www.androidspin.com/2010/05/25/why-you-dont-need-a-task-killer-app-with-android/ http://www.androidcentral.com/how-properly-set-and-use-task-killer-oh-yes-i-went-there <----Thank to keatre for this one. Another Users experience http://www.geardiary.com/2009/12/29/is-a-task-killer-necessary-for-android/ http://androidforums.com/motorola-droid/18334-task-killer-apps-truth.html http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=378312e87bb09cba&hl=en


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They finally re-released it? I need a link, STAT.
Fun fact: The CG image above is actually a lot closer to the original character design. There's no firm explanation for why they turned her hair green or put her in harlequin clothes other than to make things look more colourful.
Still, it'd be nice if there's a cheat code that would restore the SNES colours we're all used to…
(yeah, "all" – if you're not, you need to become so)
XIII came out in 2010, Jackass.


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So if the Republican Party were to truly become more moderate...
I'll buy that Republicans need to become more moderate when Democrats lose elections for being too far left. That used to happen. It doesn't anymore. The media feeds the beast that is our bipolar political process. As long as a group of people (gun owners, pro-life, and other social conservatives) find no home in the Democratic Party, they'll find it in the Republican Party, where they will continue to wield influence. If memories are long enough, 2014 will be a shellacking. Personally, I think that's the number one reason the gun issue is being pursued so hard on the left: hopes that memories will fade in two years, and offer some protection to those who supported gun control. In the meantime we're guaranteed a dizzying array of crises, one leading to another, to another, with one Party getting its nose bloodied every step of the way. I'm betting memories will be short.
Could the Tea Party become an official third party that appears on ballots?
I'm with Bill on this one. The Tea Party has a foot in the door in the Republican Party already. It would be shooting itself in the foot to start from scratch, and strengthen the Party whose methods and results they directly oppose. No, they'll continue to wreak havoc in Primaries.


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Is it possible to make an Apache server like this
Apache/1.3.41 Server at user.it.uu.se Port 80
display hidden files (i.e., those who start with a dot) in a specific directory? I have some configuration there that's accessible (no problem), only those files don't show when I navigate to that directory. (Of course, you could set up an HTML interface with links, etc., even automatize update, but I'd rather just view the files like any others.)
It's my school's server, so I can't configure it apart from putting a file in that directory, telling the server to override the habit of not showing hidden files. Is this something you normally do, and, if so, how?
The system, if it matters (with
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The announcement that Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg would publish a book about the workplace, women's role in it, and how gender inequality still affects all of us, seemed to be greeted with equal parts anticipation and dread. Some potential readers couldn't wait to hear what Sandberg would have to say, while others predicted that it would just be another salvo in the "mommy wars" – the endless debate over whether or not women who are parents should work full-time and what is best when raising children.
"Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry," proclaimed the book's publisher, Knopf Doubleday. "This means that women's voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives… Sandberg digs deeper into these issues, combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to cut through the layers of ambiguity and bias."
Sandberg's book was released on March 11. Today, holding the No. 1 position for hardcover nonfiction sales on The New York Times bestseller list, the book has garnered largely positive from book reviewers.
"Sandberg ... has written a brave book that is unabashedly personal and political," Monitor reviewer Anna Clark wrote. "'Lean In' serves as a kind of philosophical and practical toolkit for women with ambitions of all kinds, and an education and inspiration for men who are aware that their workplaces and home lives are diminished when women are only a fraction of who they can be."
New York Times reviewer Anne-Marie Slaughter spoke positively of Sandberg's voice in the book in her review.
"Sandberg is not just tough, however," she wrote. "She also comes across as compassionate, funny, honest and likable…. Most important, Sandberg is willing to draw the curtain aside on her own insecurities."
Talk-show titan Oprah Winfrey also gave big a thumb-up to Sandberg's work. "[It's] the new manifesto for women in the workplace," she said.
NPR reviewer Maureen Corrigan was less enthusiastic about Sandberg's execution but overall did applaud her effort. Corrigan said she found parts of the book dull but that she'd still "slide 'Lean In' into my teenage daughter's bookshelf."
"I dozed off twice while reading it," Corrigan wrote. "Most of the book is kind of blah, composed of platitudinous-corporate-speak-intermixed-with-pallid-anecdotes.... 'Lean In' may not be the most impassioned or entertaining feminist manifesto ever written and, sure, Sandberg is somewhat blinkered by her big bucks and privilege and inhibited by corporate caution. Yet, it's great to have a woman with such a platform speak up about sexism."
Of course the book has also had its share of detractors. Writing for Atlantic, Christina Hoff Sommers charged that Sandberg "is mired in 1970s-style feminism."
"An up-to-date manifesto on women and work should steer clear of encounter groups and boys-must-play-with dolls rhetoric," she wrote. "It should make room for human reality: that in the pursuit of happiness, men and women often take different paths."
And WBUR writer Carey Goldberg identified what she calls "Sandberg's biggest blind spot": that some mothers don't want to work while their children are young.
"Our greatest obstacle is not any girly self-doubt," Goldberg wrote. "It is a rigid workplace culture that won't let us ratchet down. It is employers who do not offer flexible alternatives that drive parents out, by offering only a binary choice between full-time-plus or the highway."
Online reviews of the book have also been divided, with some readers singing its praises and others finding the content objectionable.
"This is a life-changing book, if you let it be," an Amazon commenter named Cathryn Michon wrote. "By writing truthfully ... about her own failings and insecurities, Sheryl Sandberg tells every woman who reads this book that they are not alone if they ever pulled back from their ambitions, whatever they may be."
Michon also deplored "the vicious criticism" that has been hurled at the book. "The fact that there has been this much venom spewed at the writer of a business book (does anybody know what Jack Welch's dad did for a living or who paid his college tuition? Does anyone care?) tells you everything you need to know about how the playing field for women in business is in no way equal," she wrote.
But a commenter on Goodreads named Aryn said she couldn't see what the fuss was about.
"I am confused by this book, [because] it doesn't inspire me at all," she wrote. "In fact, it makes me wonder if the other women around me actually feel this way??? I can't seem to relate to [Sandberg's] frame of mind. Maybe it's a generation thing? Maybe it was how I was raised, but I don't feel the same insecurities."
Given the book's strong sales, one thing seems certain: "Lean In" – and the debate over its content – won't be going away anytime soon.


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KC to play key role in WWI centennial observance
Panel to plan major events to be based at Liberty Memorial
President Barack Obama has signed a bill placing Kansas City's World War I Museum and the Liberty Memorial at the center of the nation's observation of the upcoming World War I centennial.
A blue-ribbon Centennial Commission to figure out how to mark the anniversary will be headquartered in Kansas City and the nation's only monument and museum to the war.
"We have the best collection in the United States. We have the best scholars here. We have so much happening here," said Denise Rendina of the World War I Museum.
"It is the proper place to have the Centennial Commission based," said Kansas City Mayor Sly James. "And it's the proper place to have the centennial take place."
The debate over whether World War I should have its own monument on the National Mall in Washington, similar to the memorials for World War II, Korea and Vietnam, continues.
"We are leaving the discussion of what happens in D.C. to the people who live in D.C.," Rendina said.
An advocate for a Washington-based monument, David DeJong, said the Washington effort will continue.
The Centennial Commission will be appointed later this year and will have 12 members, three of whom will be appointed by the White House. The rest will be appointed by Congress and veterans groups. The commission will have to raise its own money for events, but the Liberty Memorial and World War I Museum should have a role.
"We are also guaranteed a seat at that table because we, as the museum, will be involved as to what we, as a nation, should be doing," Rendina said.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver joined the rest of Missouri's Congressional delegation to push for the bill. In a statement, Cleaver said, "Soon, the eyes of the nation and indeed, the world, will be on Kansas City as we prepare for the centennial commemoration of World War I."


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I started this site in 2002 because my boyfriend and I could never find enough good sites on the web featuring girls playing with themselves and other girls, so we decided to make our own. My videos are unscripted, all natural, and always feature real orgasms. I love all types of girls. The goal with each Yanks Girl is to provide you an intimate glimpse into what sex means to her. I only use female videographers because girls are much freer to express themselves sexually around other women. I always watch the content first and if it's hot I pass it on to my helper to put on the site. She is a girl as well.
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Discover/Reignite/Intensify your love for Labyrinth
After recently attending a sign-along version of 1986′s Labyrinth, I have found a new love and appreciation for a movie that I have loved since I was a child. Never heard of it? (Gasp… me passing out…. me hitting the floor) Well then let me introduce you the magical world of Jim Henson who has created some of the most inventive and genius characters in pop culture.


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Poor Mark Zuckerberg. He's now one of the world's run-of-the-mill billionaires and no longer on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. But it's worse, his fortune has now dropped from $13.7 billion to $12.1 billion and Facebook stock doesn't look like it's heading upwards.
In May, we wrote about how Zuckerberg is no longer on the billionaires index of the world's Top 40 billionaires, with such names as Warren Buffet and the Koch brothers (think good vs. evil.) Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both Google founders, are still on the list, as well as Oracle's Larry Ellison, Microsoft's Bill Gates and Amazon's Jeff Bezos. No. 1 on the list is Mexico's Carlos Slim Heru, a media magnate who also dabbles in banking, retail and construction and is worth an estimated $75.1 billion.
But because Facebook shares have again dropped after its recent earnings report, Zuckerberg's fortunes have also followed suit. MarketWatch points out that Facebook is operating on a net loss of $157 million (non-GAAP) and investors should not expect rising shares. Instead, they will be further diluted.
In essence, if you bought Facebook shares, your fortunes will also be headed downward like Zuckerberg's.


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All I want to eat is spinach. I'd love to throw a little blue cheese on a spinach salad. But I can't!
I'm also craving asparagus, chocolate and cereal! Oh yeah, and Stouffer's Macaroni and Cheese???
All these signs point to one thing… this mama is expecting baby #3! Due Thanksgiving Day-ish!
First Trimester + Writing a Food Blog = Toaster Struedel and Green Beans for dinner???
No really, I will do my VERY BEST to post a recipe each night. But, I just might end up eating Toaster Struedels (or Stouffers or asparagus) while the rest of my men eat their dinner! 😉
If you have any tips or experiences on how to best handle the whole "I just can't seem to stomach what I just cooked" pregnancy issue, please share them! (I know this will pass in a few weeks, but in the mean time…)


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Z.O.D. Dystopian Waterworks
Z.O.D. Dystopian Waterworks
We designed these 3d-printable files to be optimized for home printing and cover a wide (and expanding) variety of themes and genres. Whether you use them for RPG dungeon-delves, wargaming scenics, or anything else, these tiles print and assemble fast and easy and come off your build plate ready to paint!
This set includes the basic tiles for the Dystopian Waterworks theme, as well as corresponding model bases.
-Z.O.D. tiles are optimized to print along the Z axis, meaning you can get high definition on details, use less material (0% infill), and fit more tiles per print.
Because of the vertical printing, each floor tile is reversible, printing with two floor textures each.
-Z.O.D. tiles print easily in one piece and never require support material.
-Tiles easily slide or snap together for a firm hold, ensuring that each piece you print is textured to be part of the map.
-Each tile segment prints in an average of 45 minutes, and you can print one at a time to avoid curling if that's an issue for your machine.
-All genre themes will interlock, allowing you to mix and match from any set.
Z.O.D. tiles are designed for use with 28mm/Heroic scale miniatures, though we will offer options for 15mm and 6mm scale gaming as well.
-Wall tiles use their own channels and do not infringe on the floor grids, each of which perfectly accommodates a 25mm/1" base.
-Try printing your Z.O.D. tiles in black filament (ABS or PLA) and skip the priming phase, painting directly onto the surface!
NOTE: Because these pieces rely on certain print settings, you'll want to observe the following print guidelines;
-Try printing one tile at a time first.
-Print at 0% infill for the best results.
-You don't need support, but a raft may be helpful (depending on your printer and material).
-We print ours at a .2 layer height, though you could try for higher resolution if you prefer.
-We've had equally good results in both ABS and PLA.


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Ital Cicli Systems Zurich, modest beginnings with PEP Magni frames in the mid 1970's.
The history of Zurich frame builder Leo Estermann.
The story of an almost new 1988 Bianchi x4, ridden only a few km's. Winner of Road Bike Of The Year at Pushies Galore 2015.
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The ground should have no less than 5 planar tears measuring 5' X 10'. It is from these fissures that the Riftspawn will be able to materialize.
The rift squares are considered difficult terrain, and any hero that begins or ends their turn on one takes d10 psychic damage.
…The Rite way to close a planar rift…
If you do not seal this planar rift, the kingdom will be overrun by Far Realm monstrosities! The breach must be sealed at all costs!
Encounter/Utility: +3 to skill check or attack roll.
Daily: +5 to skill check or attack roll.
Failing this check results in a backlash of the potent energies involved. The character making the check loses one healing surge.
SPECIAL – You receive a conditional penalty to the check for each point of damage taken between the end of your last turn, and the beginning of the current one.
Failing this check causes all creatures with the Aberrant type within 6 squares to immediately target the character.
Insight – (Moderate DC, 2 successes allowed) – By concentrating, you can almost hear what these creatures are thinking. Alien thoughts…but still recognizable! You call out to aid a companion with that knowledge. (give an ally a +5 bonus to any attack roll or skill check until the beginning of your next turn).
Failure indicates that the splintered minds of the far realm have overwhelmed you. You receive a -2 to Will defense for the duration of the encounter, and may not make another insight check this encounter.
Perception – (Moderate DC, Unlimited uses) - By visibly tracing the lines of power fueling this ritual, you can target the various symbols & Runes that are sustaining it.
Failing this check results in a backlash of the potent energies involved. The character making the check loses one healing surge.
Basic attack roll vs. High AC – By smashing the delicate machines supporting the ritual, you damage the magics raging inside of it.
Failure indicates that the hero has failed to damage the portal, but drawn the attention of all the creatures currently manifested. They all disengage from their current activity, and attack the hero to the best of their ability.
A small sacrifice…
The inherent order of permanent magical items is anathema to the portal. For each item cast into the swirling gate, one automatic success is granted. Item must be a minimum of level.3
Endless mass of flesh –
At the beginning of The mindripper's initiative, place D4 fully materialized Riftspawn in any of it's adjacent squares (see Split). They act immediately.


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Ten things you may not know about CSU at Hawaii
Here's our weekly edition of "Ten things you may not know" — this time regarding Saturday night's Colorado State (3-4, 1-1 Mountain West) game at Hawaii (0-6, 0-4).
As usual, special thanks to the respective schools' sports information departments.
1. It's the way of the world: The official name of Hawaii's home stadium is now "Hawaiian Airlines Field at Aloha Stadium." Yes, that's the long-time home of the NFL's Pro Bowl.
2. This is the first time that Hawaii has been winless through six games since the 0-12 disaster of 1998.
3. The only Coloradan on the Hawaii roster is sophomore Brenden Urban, a reserve offensive lineman from Littleton who played high school football at Chatfield. Urban transferred to Hawaii from Adams State in Alamosa.


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Puffed up: Less pressure, bigger bosom
Q. Maybe you slept through chemistry, but you remember Boyle's law, right? "Reduce the pressure on a gas and it will expand." For extra credit, apply this principle to inflatable bras in airplanes, dignitaries guzzling champagne underwater, and fliers eating beans. R. Russell
A. The Associated Press reported about a flight where a sudden depressurization in the cabin caused a bosomy stewardess's inflatable bra to begin expanding to, oh, about size 46, and climbing. Then a female passenger, seeing the stewardess's plight, handed her a hairpin that she used to stab herself repeatedly in the chest. A male passenger, mistaking the action for attempted hara-kiri, rushed forth and wrestled the stewardess to the floor.
It took a while to restore order on the plane.
As for the dignitaries, they had gathered to celebrate the completion of a tunnel under the Thames River by imbibing a little bubbly on location. No matter that the champagne seemed lifeless and flat: They drank their fillm anyway.
But upon their return aboveground to reduced atmospheric pressure, the drink began to release its gas– fast.
"The wine popped in their stomachs, distended their vests, and all but frothed from their ears," said the Journal of Chemical Education.
"One dignitary had to be rushed back into the depths to undergo champagne recompression."
Finally, when World War II pilots began complaining of severe bouts of intestinal gas, it became clear that a few beans eaten on the ground can feel like a lot more in the relative depressurized environment of high-altitude flight. Rx? A bean-lean diet for the grateful airmen.
Q. It has been reported that the wealthy don't play state lotteries unless the jackpot grows enormous, at which point probability theory says the game may become a good bet. How good? What's the theory here? J. Kluge
A. A fair bet is one where the "expected winnings" exceed the ticket price, says Williams College economist Victor Matheson. For example, a recent Powerball jackpot reached $260 million with odds of winning at roughly 1 in 120 million. So multiply the $260 million by 1/120 million and you get at least $2 expected winnings for the $1 ticket.
But, but, but... Powerball, Mega Millions, and most others pay out over 20 to 30 years, devaluing the winnings. For the recent Powerball drawing, for example, this reduces the jackpot from $260 million to just under $150 million. Now the expected value of a ticket is $150 million x 1/120 million +.25 (for lower tier prizes) = $1.50, which still exceeds the price of the ticket.
But there's more: Taxes take about 1/3 of winnings, reducing the above return to around $1, or right at the break-even point, and multiple winners force sharing of the pot, common with big jackpots and "lotto fever." In fact, none of the big lotteries like Mega Millions or Powerball has ever produced a fair bet, but some states have.
As for the wealthy playing, concludes Matheson, there have been cases where the expected return was high enough that an investment consortium tried to corner the jackpot by buying every combination. In 1992, an Australian group attempted to corner a $27 million Virginia Lotto jackpot and managed to buy 2.4 million of the 7.1 million possible combinations before time ran out. They didn't win.
Q. How much longer do we men have to wait to achieve longevity equality with women? N. Gingrich
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The Government is raising the speed limit for lorries on rural roads from 40mph to 50mph.
Transport minister Claire Perry said the increase would save the haulage industry £11 million a year, with hauliers and motoring organisations welcoming the announcement.
But the British Cycling organisation said it was "staggering" that limits were being increased when many trucks were "simply not fit for purpose".
File photo dated 21/4/2009 of a 50mph speed limit sign. The AA has welcomed a Government decision to raise the speed limit for lorries on rural roads from 40mph to 50mph. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday July 24, 2014. The Government is also consulting on increasing the speed limit for lorries on dual carriageways from 50mph to 60mph. See PA story TRANSPORT Lorries. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
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The Government has also launched a six-week consultation on plans to increase the speed limits for lorries on dual carriageways from 50mph to 60mph.
Mrs Perry said: "We are doing all we can to get Britain moving and boost growth. This change will do exactly that and save our haulage industry £11 million a year.
"Britain has one of the world's best road safety records and yet speed limits for lorries have been stuck in the 1960s.
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British Cycling's campaigns manager Martin Key said: "It's staggering that the Government has increased the speed limit for these vehicles when many of them are simply not fit for purpose.
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President Trump, who is no longer a "Saturday Night Live" fan, judging from his tweets, reportedly won't be making a return appearance anytime soon.
But his rise shadows the program, from Alec Baldwin's withering Trump imitation to Melissa McCarthy's Sean Spicer-inspired antics to most of "Weekend Update."
Still, it wasn't quite all Trump, all the time for "SNL," which caps its most-watched run in more than two decades this weekend. Here are the some of the best non-political skits from what otherwise proved the Season of Trump:
Elevated Humor
Tom Hanks' turn as Trump fan Doug on "Black Jeopardy!" marked the smartest political sketch of the season. But his haunted elevator ride as the more-annoying-than-frightening David S. Pumpkins gave the show a meme-friendly breakout character.
Deep Thoughts
"SNL" commercial parodies have been a franchise staple since the "New Dad" insurance short aired on the first episode nearly 42 years ago. Consider this season's ad for Fisher-Price's "Wells for Boys" from its Sensitive Boys line the contemplative grandchild of "New Dad."
Echoes of Age
Jokes about old folks and new, expensive gadgets might come off as a cheap shot. But this bit about senior citizens grappling with Amazon's Alexa sports enough affection to wipe away any guilt about laughing at Grandma and Grandpa.
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While this so this digital short starring guest host Lin Manuel Miranda as a Latino immigrant in North Dakota calling home doesn't mention Trump, some will see political overtones. It's also less a knee-slapper than a source of gentle laughs, via the immigrant's wide-eyed reports about enjoying "marshmallow salad" and "Twinkies de Hostess." But "Diego Calls His Mom" is memorable – for its sweet take on a slice of life and its shift in tone from the usual broad "SNL" fare in a season like no other.
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Washington is a town that shuns wannabes and impostors to ensure no one as unsavory as the gate-crashing Salahis makes it into the inner sanctum. So, it's no small irony that a guy who was embraced by the A-list soirees of D.C. ends up toppling the hors d'oeuvres trays.
Indeed, the nation's capital is in full spasm over Mark Leibovich's cutting takedown of the city's cozy culture in his new book, "This Town." The fear: That it will send a chill through the elite after-hours social circuit — where the real business of this town often gets done between reporters and sources. What has rattled many is that Leibovich did a chunk of his reporting at parties and funerals at which he was considered a guest — or, at least, not a working journalist taking detailed notes.
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For better or worse, there have long been some unwritten guidelines in Washington about what's fair game — and what's a cheap shot — in the coverage of social events. And unless you are officially covering a tony party with notebook visibly in hand, or camera visible, you're expected to be, well, circumspect. Leibovich — or "Leibo" as he is called affectionately — is a self-admitted member of "The Club" and a popular New York Times reporter who is being privately assailed for exploiting his access to parties in order to skewer other members of The Club. The betrayal! Not since Truman Capote's "Answered Prayers" knocked New York society on its heels with its thinly fictionalized revelations of real players who had thought the author was their friend has a book so riled a city's upper echelons.
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"[Leibovich] must have made a judgment that it was worth it," says one local businesswoman who has invited the reporter to events, "because I have to believe people will think twice before inviting him again."
Former Reagan White House Social Secretary Gahl Burt contends that there are indeed "unwritten rules of decorum" in the capital, and frets that books like Leibovich's have contributed to "a breakdown in loyalty and privacy." She referenced a recent party at her place where a national political reporter was able to meet a White House aide who was refusing to cooperate on a profile. The off-the-record meeting, Burt said, allowed subject and reporter to connect in a low-pressure setting that ended up helping both.
For his part, Leibovich says that he is "always working as a journalist." And furthermore, he adds, it's a real circus out there.
"If you're going to have a party filled with ostensibly public people, whether they are public because they're elected to something or public because they are working all day to build their brand on Facebook or Twitter or whatever, I mean, I think like the whole notion of what is public and what is private has turned on its head, and that's the era we're living in," he said.
( Also on POLITICO: Who's up, who's down in 'This Town')
Leibovich's defenders agree that there is no such thing as a private event today — and hosts should always be on their toes.
"He's been writing this book for a long time — and most people should have been aware of that," said Sally Quinn, author and longtime chronicler of social Washington. "I knew when I invited him to my Christmas party he was working on it.
"Most journalists know where to draw the line," adds Quinn. "I can't tell you exactly where the line is. But it's like pornography — you know it when you see it."
Leibovich, in fact, wrote positively about the party given by Quinn and husband, former Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee.
Others weren't as lucky.
One of his prime targets in the book is Tammy Haddad, a former television producer who has hosted a lot of parties at which Leibovich was a regular. He portrays her as a social-climber and access-peddler, writing, "… perhaps a bit of a cartoon."
And Leibovich clearly had a front-row seat to observe her. By his own count, he's attended about 10 of Haddad's parties over the years, including one or two of her famous annual garden brunches before the White House Correspondents' Dinner. (He was dropped this year after Haddad got wind of what he was writing.)
Yet, he is merciless in describing her.
In one of the book's more cringe-provoking scenes, Leibovich writes about a book party that Haddad hosted for the son of Susan Sher, Michelle Obama's then-chief of staff.
"At one point, Tammy rushed over to me and the guy I was talking to and announced 'ELIZABETH EDWARDS IS DYING! ELIZABETH EDWARDS IS DYING! I JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH HER DAUGHTER! … Now, c'mon, come meet the novelist.'"
Said a mutual friend of the author and Haddad: "Mark just didn't like the way she operates. I said to him, "Tammy has a role here. … She brings people together."
Haddad declined to comment.
Beyond questions of social manners, there is a genuine concern that Leibovich's reporting and tactics might pull the rug out from under one of the last venues for camaraderie in a polarized city: parties. As Henry Kissinger wrote of Washington in his 1979 book, "The White House Years": "It is at their dinner parties and receptions that relationships are created without which the machinery of government would soon stalemate itself."
"I think the damage here occurs if people avoid social settings that have historically been non-adversarial, where you can just sit around and have a beer and not worry that what you say will be reported," says Mike McCurry, the White House spokesman under Bill Clinton. "A trust is broken and ultimately less information gets in front of the American people."


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An inquiry into whether former Labor MP Craig Thomson misled parliament has been suspended because of legal proceedings against him.
Labor MP Nicola Roxon on Thursday told parliament the privileges committee was putting a halt to its investigation, saying the charges against Thomson raised sub-judice issues.
The now independent federal MP is charged with 154 counts of fraud, allegedly committed while he was national secretary of the Health Services Union.
Thomson was referred to the committee by manager of opposition business Christopher Pyne after the Central Coast MP's teary address to parliament in May last year.
Ms Roxon, chair of the privileges committee, said its inquiry would be suspended until the charges against Thomson were resolved.
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Teen gets lesson about steroid use
The message showed up on my desk one day while I was seeing a patient. Its choppy shorthand read: "Admits to injecting testosterone. Now decreased libido. Call back to discuss."
The caller was a 15-year-old lacrosse player who hadn't been part of my practice long. Like many boys in his age group, he rarely came to the office.
When I responded to his message later that afternoon, the young man carried his end of the conversation with the typical terseness of a teenager. "Where did you get the steroids?" I asked. "On the Internet." "How long did you use them?" "A few months." "And what are you experiencing now?" He told me his nipples were sore and swollen. "I've been more tired and moody as well."
My patient was experiencing classic side effects of steroid use. About 6 percent of teenagers admit to using performance-enhancing drugs, according to a recent survey, though it's easy to assume that that number is low. How many teens would admit to using such drugs, even anonymously to a researcher? And yet here was one teen, forced by the drug's side effect, having to make an embarrassing confession to me and his family. (Details of this case have been altered to protect patient privacy.)
Despite my patient's fear, I was confident that a young, healthy teenager who briefly used steroids would bounce back, though it might take some time - and patience - for his symptoms to dissipate. When I explained this to my patient, he told me that he wanted his testosterone level tested, to make sure there wasn't something more seriously wrong. I got the sense that he thought there was some way I could magically undo the harm he had caused himself. I paused and considered his request, which came across more like an order.
Taking anabolic steroids - which some people use to grow muscle mass and improve athletic performance - as this kid had been doing, causes a suppression of his natural testosterone. Even when the user stops, it takes a while for the testes to regain function after the slumber induced by juicing. No need to send him to the lab, I concluded, and I explained why. "Okay," he said, finally, curtly.
The next day, I got another message, this time from his father, marked "urgent." I called back within the hour.
"He needs a testosterone level!" the father insisted. As I listened and pondered my response, I grappled with a nagging question: If this kid had decided to put his body at risk, despite all he surely knew about the dangers of getting juiced, did I owe him a largely unnecessary test? Such a test, which can range in price from $50 to a few hundred dollars, would merely confirm that he had taken steroids, but it would not change how I treated him. I'd be ordering it just to make him feel better psychologically. I also secretly wondered whether giving the teen and his dad what they wanted was "rewarding" his poor decision to juice.
Saying "no" to a patient is a right a doctor has when a test or treatment is unnecessary or likely to cause harm. But what about saying no if you decide the patient doesn't deserve it, because he or she made a bad choice? It's an uncomfortable question but also a realistic one. Insurance, after all, is a pool of money. In the past, that pool was richly filled by employers and the government. These days, it has become shallow. All of us who work in health care know this in our heads. If a test is unnecessary, doing it is a waste of money - and time.
But one-on-one with our patients, doctors rarely utter such thoughts, in some cases simply to avoid confrontation. This often means that doctors order (whether appropriately or not) the latest and greatest in therapies and tests for our patients, even if we think they aren't needed, thus driving up costs.
A much-discussed example of this involves smokers and lung cancer. In recent years, there's been mounting evidence that having smokers undergo annual CT scans can detect early lung cancer, leading to earlier treatment and perhaps saving a smoker's life. Some insurers have even started to cover the test. But some conscientious doctors have questioned it, arguing that using a CT scan to regularly screen smokers poses a potential health risk - and is too costly. Money to perform these tests will have to be taken from other, perhaps more crucial parts of the system. Given that smokers know that each puff brings them that much closer to cancer, do we owe them this money?
We all have hard choices to make about how and for whom our money is spent. Those choices ought to be driven by professional judgment and medical evidence. But - and it makes me queasy to say this - it's unrealistic to believe physicians don't inject their own values and biases in decisions.
This is just what I found myself doing with the kid who had juiced to bulk up. I had passed judgment on my patient. Still, I knew I had to look beyond my own prejudice. I decided to express a little empathy - trying to see this from the point of view of an impulsive young man who saw (and craved) an opportunity to improve his physique, without a clear head about the risks of his choice. I opted to negotiate.
I called his father and told him I'd consult a specialist. "It's a tough way to learn a lesson," I told the boy's father. "I wish he had thought it through more before he decided to take the steroids. As I told him yesterday, it's not going to be helpful to do any tests. His body is telling us that he has low levels of testosterone. My advice is we wait and watch him over the next few weeks to see how he recovers. But let me speak to an endocrinologist about it. I will get back to you." His father agreed.
The next morning, I spoke with a specialist, who agreed with my assessment. But instead of picking up the phone and calling the boy and his father right away, I chose to wait. Part of it was because I wanted to consider how to parry any further demands they might have. But there was something more: I wanted my patient to sweat, just a little; maybe that would help keep him from being this stupid again.
Perhaps it helped, because when I got back to him and his dad, things had moved in a positive direction: Many of the boy's symptoms were beginning to resolve as his testosterone levels returned to normal. To put their concern to rest, I scheduled a follow-up checkup, giving me a chance to examine him and a face-to-face opportunity to emphasize the risk he had taken by taking steroids. Seeing him also reassured me about his emotional state, since depression can be a side effect of steroid withdrawal.
It's easy to see how my thinking in this case can lead us down a slippery slope at best and off a perilous cliff at worst. Maybe you can deny an annual visit to the CT scanner to a decades-long pack-a-day smoker or a blood test to a teenager who juices. But where do we draw the line?
The best we doctors can do, I think, is to be mindful of our own feelings while informing our patients of the risks they take and the limitations of medicine in helping undo the choices they have made.
Rahul K. Parikh is a pediatrician in Walnut Creek, Calif.


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But many questions remain over the economic and trade activities that the negotiations will cover, and over the processes that would introduce an ECFA.
A policy explanation released by the Mainland Affairs Council said that the ECFA would be transparent and thus gain public support. The truth, however, is that most Taiwanese do not understand what the ECFA will contain or is supposed to do, which means any talk of endorsing the government's decision is premature.
The level of public participation in public affairs is an important indicator of sustainable development. If the government is serious about sustainable development, seeking public opinion across different sectors of society should be at the top of its list in promoting an ECFA.
In addition, some private industries like petroleum and plastic have consistently worked with or urged the government to promote an ECFA. This is not a good example of corporate social responsibility and is in conflict with the basic spirit and goals of sustainable development.
Signing an ECFA would lower tariffs and help exports for Taiwanese industries relating to plastics, chemicals, iron, steel and machinery. These vested interests would obviously benefit from an ECFA, but they are industries that emit high amounts of carbon, consume large amounts of energy and produce large amounts of pollution.
If the government is serious about implementing its energy conservation and carbon emission reduction policy, it should develop policies that accelerate the transformation and elimination of the abovementioned industries as soon as possible, while establishing an industrial model that includes low carbon emissions, low energy consumption and the minimizing of pollution.
Although there is some academic support for signing an ECFA, almost all who support it base their theories on traditional ways of thinking about a free economy and trade, saying that further cross-strait trade is the only way to increase Taiwan's economic output.
The free economy model has its good points and we can make use of them, but the promotion of a sustainable development model needs a wider range of ideas and much more discussion. It is inappropriate to allow traditional thinking on a free economy to head this effort.
For example, theories on a green economy and the lifestyle it entails are based on the concept of sustainable development. Such theories emphasize local production and consumption and do not encourage long-distance international trade. This is an example of how thought on sustainable economics is developing in step with what we need most at this time.
I would remind the administration of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) that ignoring or downplaying the unique political relations that exist between Taiwan and China is not the approach of a responsible government. Further, blindly attempting to increase trade is not a way to encourage sustainable development.
The government should focus on ways to improve quality of life. Only on such a foundation can it design models for industrial transformation and cross-strait trade that are beneficial to Taiwan's sustainable development.


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Did Gerell Robinson make the team?
Gerell Robinson was the underdog in this competition for the No. 5 receiver spot on the Broncos' roster. Tavarres King, a fifth-round drafted rookie, was the favorite.
But Robinson, undrafted out of Arizona State last season, had an impressive training camp. And he had an excellent final preseason game Thursday night against the Arizona Cardinals.
Robinson had five catches for 99 yards. King had two catches for 35 yards. It's possible the Broncos could keep both. But not likely. Their top four receivers are Demaryius Thomas, Wes Welker, Eric Decker and Andre Caldwell. Robinson or King would make five. Returner Trindon Holliday would be a sixth.
"Even if I feel like (I've done enough) it doesn't matter what I think," Robinson said. "It ultimately comes down to what the heads at the top of the team think and what God has planned for me. I've been down this road before."
After the game, a 32-24 Arizona win, Broncos coach John Fox was asked about the performance of quarterback Brock Osweiler. He liked it, then veered off into a stream of consciousness.
"Gerell Robinson, the wide receiver, Jeremiah Johnson came off a toe injury ran the ball hard," Fox said. "Off the top of my head those guys come to mind. We'll look at the tape and make some very hard decisions.''
The Broncos will begin cutting their roster from 75 players to 53 on Friday. They will have the job done by 2 p.m. Saturday.
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Assistant choreographer: Yuri Uchiumi, Marilyn Vella-Gatt
Ballet master: Michaela Černá, Jiří Kodym, Marie Hybešová, Radek Vrátil
Musical adaptation: Julian Philips
The evil Queen casts a spell on the little boy Kai by means of a shard from the magic mirror and imprisons him in her world, in which there is no room for love. The famous fairy tale by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen about the invincible power of friendship, which can prevail over evil itself in all its forms, has never ceased to touch the hearts of readers and viewers. The well-known story has been adapted into several film and theatre versions. The work's ballet version was created by the renowned choreographer Michael Corder in 2007 for English National Ballet to Sergey Prokofiev's music. The acclaimed production will now be presented to Czech audiences on our prime stage.
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Before you read this you should learn HTML at http://www.w3schools.com and look up some CSS afterwords.
Tables = Data only
Look through most sites today and tell me what you see. A vast majority use a system with a bunch of div tags and absolutely no tables! This is called a CSS design.
Now, some of you may still be designing websites with tables and may be wondering if it's worth it to keep reading. After all, you still can make a functioning website can't you? The simple answer is no. Table based web design is bulky, hard to understand for beginners, and extremely inflexible to edit. Don't believe me? Try and make a change to your design and tell me how long it takes to implement, because with CSS I can have it done sitewide with one file and save.
Tables in web design should be left only as data holders, not as design frames.
Tables were probably a primary way of web design for most of you. What could be more simple than making a table site in dreamweaver or an imageready slice-up in photoshop? Surprisingly CSS design is extremely easy to learn, much more so than tables. This even carries over to the extent that you need no more than notepad to make a functioning site with CSS.
Now then, some would ask what is CSS and why is it so important. CSS is short for Cascading Style Sheets. The beauty of CSS is that you can have only one html page and keep it the exact same, but it can change drastically in look based on the style sheet. Don't believe it? Check out the marvels of css at http://www.csszengarden.com . Same html, different CSS.
CSS – basics
If you learned html quickly then CSS should be even faster. A basic CSS style would look something like this in html :

In this statement we have set all font to be the color white, and the background color of the page to be black. Now for the syntax of CSS.
.Class #id tag { area:attribute; }
Make sure to remember the semicolon on the end of the attribute, it can cause a lot of problems if you don't.
Let's start with the Class. A class in css is started with a . and can be used multiple times. Normally a class is used to contain areas, explained below.
Next is an ID. and ID is defined by a # and can only be used once. IDs are normally under a class.
The tag is the html attribute you wish to edit, like b, p, img, or a. It can also be nested, such as ul li.
The area is what is being called for change. A quick list to get you started :
background:black;– background color set to black (can use hex or RGB, explained later)
background-image: url("images/image.png");– background image
background-repeat:no-repeat;– stops the background for repeating, use repeat-x or y to get the image to repeat in one direction
font:georgia;– set the font to Georgia.
font-size:12px;– set the font size
color:white;– set the font color
margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;– set all margins to 5px, area outside of the box font or objects are in. (order is up right down left)
padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;– set padding to 5px, padding is how much space is in between the object and the container.
float:right;– float an element to the right of the scree, can also be left. (explained later)
clear:both;– clears floats so elements aren't scattered randomly. (explained later)
width:200px;– set the width of an element.
Now you at least have a basic understanding of CSS. Now there are two ways to put a CSS style on your page, either locally on the page or embedded.

<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
The beauty of embed is that the SAME sheet can be used on ALL pages making it easier to edit fonts and other items globally without the hassle of editing every page. Simple yet extremely effective.
Now then some may still be wondering how CSS can replace tables for design. The float element. Make a new html document and a new css document in dreamweaver (or in notepad just save as all files and put .css on the end of it)
Floats align an element to one side of its parent contained (in most cases the browser) to either the left or the right. A Clear Float is essential to alleviate some of the bugs in IE as well as reset the float for elements that are below the one that is floated.
In the html document put this :
 <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Page title

 random text! Hello world!

 more random text!

 copywrite stuff

save it.
Now in the CSS document put this :
body { font: 100% Georgia; background: #000000; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: center; color: #FFFFFF; } .Main #container { width: 800px; background: #FFFFFF; margin: 0 auto; text-align: left; } .Main #header { background: #000000; background-repeat:no-repeat; padding: 10px 10px 10 px 10px; } .Main #header h1 { margin: 0; padding: 10px 0; } .Main h1 { font-size:24px; font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; } .Main h2 { font-size:20px; font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; } .Main #sidebar1 { float: left; width: 150px; background: #FFFFFF; padding: 15px 20px 0 0; margin: 0 15px 0 0; } .Main #mainContent { margin: 10px 15px 5px 10px; padding: 10px 15px 5px 10px; } .Main #footer { padding: 0 10px 0 20px; color:#FFFFFF; background:#000000; } .Main #footer p { margin: 0; padding: 5px 0; }
save it as style.css
Open the page. You now have a CSS base to do whatever you will with to make a website out of. Play around with a few things and see where it can take you, experimentation is the best way to learn anything.
If you want me to make any more tutorials on web design send me a PM with the title as the subject of the tutorial.
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Communication lessons from election
1. Define yourself or you allow your opponent to define you.
The first, most basic rule of political communications is you must define yourself or your opponent will define you. Mitt Romney lost the communications battle and the presidential race primarily because President Barack Obama's campaign ruthlessly and relentlessly defined him early and the Romney campaign never recovered.
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I believe Romney is a good and gracious man with a good heart. Unfortunately, most of my fellow Americans saw that either too late or not at all. Beginning in May, the Obama campaign unleashed a series of ads, portraying Romney as a rich and ruthless corporate raider, bent on sending American jobs overseas and not caring who got hurt in the process. One commercial went so far as to suggest Romney was responsible for a woman's death from cancer after her husband was laid off and they lost their health insurance.
The Romney campaign needed to rebut the portrayal hard and fast, but it didn't, and it stuck. And unfortunately, a few of Romney's own statements reinforced it. Romney's comment that "I like to fire people" played right into the rich and ruthless narrative. Anyone who has ever had to fire anyone knows it is exceptionally difficult, emotional and frankly, awful, so the suggestion of enjoyment was cold and jarring. The unfortunate headline on a New York Times article supporting a structured reorganization of the auto industry, "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" was apparently composed by a headline writer, not by Romney, but it played right into the heartless narrative.
And candidates still have to appeal to the heartstrings. The Romney campaign finally tried, too late, at the Republican convention, which featured touching testimonials from friends and fellow church members who had experienced Romney's compassion and kindness first-hand. But they weren't in prime-time and by then, the storyline was set.
Given their candidate's wealth and the fact that he came from a big business background still viewed with mistrust after the financial crash of 2008, the Romney campaign needed to craft commercials that would reshape the narrative and describe their candidate on his terms: a caring man of faith, a leader who built companies, a consensus builder who was able to turn around troubled organizations and efforts like the Olympics. And they needed to do so much earlier.


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Sorry if this has been done before, but I though it would be interesting to see what everybody thinks each country's all time test and ODI teams would be.
For an NZ ODI team I would pick;
John Wright
Glenn Turner (not sure if he played ODI's)
Nathan Astle
Martin Crowe
Roger Twose
Chris Cairns
Richard Hadlee
Brendan McCullum
Dipak Patel/Daniel Vettori
Shane Bond
Geoff Allot/Ewen Chatfield(only with better fielding)
The test team is alot harder, though Bert Sutcliffe is an obvious inclusion. John Wright, Glenn Turner and Mark Richardson would be top order musts as well.
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Show times are March 23, 24, 30 and 31 at 7:30 p.m. and April 1 at 2 p.m. in the John W. Swails Center.
"Perhaps one of the best things about Big River is that as powerful and inspiring as it is, it's also just downright funny," says Director Stephanie Garrett. "I think people who come to see the show have a lot to look forward to, and I think they will enjoy the fruits of our hard work as much as we do!" Garrett says.
Twain's timeless classic sweeps us down the mighty Mississippi River as the irrepressible Huck Finn,
played by Thomas Barnette, helps his friend Jim, played by Jimmy Whelchel, a slave escaping to freedom at the mouth of the Ohio River. Their adventures along the way are hilarious, suspenseful and heartwarming.
"Huck is so adamant at the beginning of the play about leaving St. Petersburg, Mississippi," Garrett explains. "He wants to get away from the holier-than-thou tone of the town, and I think deep down he knows that a place that can preach holiness but practice prejudice isn't really as holy as it seems. Of course, he also wants to get away from his debauched father, Pap Finn, played to disgusting perfection by Dr. Scott Ellington, a ministry professor at Emmanuel College."
General admission is $10 for adults, $5 for children ages 5-12, and free for children 4 and younger. For more information, please call (706) 245-7226.


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