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What does "art" means to you? Maybe when you think about this word, the first…
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Dr. Carmen Roman makes things easy to understand and shares her perspective as well. Easy to listen to and very informative. A great resource as well!
It is seldom when you find a mental health provider able to describe and understand human's emotions of bicultural people. Dr. Roman is a well versed mental health provider able to do it in both languages (English & Spanish). She engages audiences with her daily interesting topics and teaches the importance of being present in ones life. I enjoy her broadcasts because it relates to my daily living activities.
I love the fact that this podcast is bilingual and that Dr. Roman travels and always shared about her experiences in an educational format. I recommend watching the Facebook videos that accompany the topics. Thank you, Carmen!
Dr. Carmen Roman has provided an engaging and informative podcast on various topics. It's also great that she's able to provide it in two languages. If you want to learn more about people or yourself, check out her podcast!
I have heard from more than one source about how useful Dr. Carmen's interviews are and think it is wonderful that she is getting the word out about psychology and making this info available to a wider audience.
Carmen is so knowledgeable and I'm grateful that she's able to share this podcast in English and Spanish. This is a great benefit to all of us!
Great advice and the topics needed for today's problems. Highly recommended! Thank you Dra Roman for all you do!
Awesome concept! I know that she's going to help a lot of parents and couples with this podcast. Thank you Carmen!
I've known Carmen for a long time as a close family friend. She had helped me many times by offering a listening ear and king advice. She's a great friend who really cares about her clients. I have no doubt that this podcast is going to help many men and women who want to be happier. Subscribe to her show. You won't be disappointed!
Dr Carmen Roman does such a wonderful job talking about sensitive topics! Many people are afraid to talk about their near death experiences because they feel that they will not be believed. This podcast normalizes the subject and opens the door for more exploration and conversations.
Dra. Carmen produces a bilingual; podcast with the best topics.
This is the most helpful podcast I have ever heard. Thanks for the content!!!!!
I have learned so much from these episodes about family relationships and being mindful!
Me gusta y disfruto mucho escuchar a la Dra. Carmen. Sus temas siempre tan prácticos y asertivos!
Me encanta escuchar a la Dra. Carmen
Carmen has lots of great advice on how to make sure we remain mentally healthy. This is often overlooked in our society, and so this is a much needed topic and she hosts in such an approachable manner!
Dr. Roman offers quite a lot of valuable information and is very engaging! Looking forward to more episodes!
La Doctora Carmen Roman !!! Muy buenos todos sus temas, fácil de entender y de gran beneficio a mi en lo personal de gran beneficio.
Wow! La Dra Carmen Roman es muy profesional. Llevo muchos años conociéndola. Siempre está haciendo temas muy interesantes que nos ayudan para la familia. Se las recomiendo muchísimo! Ella nos da herramientas de llevar la vida diaria para estar mejor emocionalmente.
Los Podcast de la Dra.Carmen Román nos benefician en muchos aspectos de la vida. En este tema del Uso de Tecnología, ella nos explica con claridad y con simples ejemplos como evitar caer en el abuso del uso de nuestros aparatos electrónicos. La comunidad bilingüe English/ Spanish está muy orgullosa y se siente feliz de estos Podcast (regalos) que aún seguimos recibiendo de ella. Que gran ayuda a la comunidad!
Conozco a la Dra. Carmen Román por muchos años y es 100% recomendable escucharla, mucha información de gran valor, para llevar tu vida de la mejor manera y emocionalmente saludable
I just listened to the episode for recent graduates. It's very moving that she spoke directly to them about their experience.
As a mental health profesional I must say this is one of the best podcast I've ever listened to!
I love the fact that these topics are delivered with expertise and loveliness by Carmen. I really like that she cuts right to the core and helps me change my perspective on things that can sometimes leave me clueless. Keep making more please!
This podcast has been my companion in my morning commute. It's short, fun and pertinent. The questions Dr. Roman asks prompt insightful comments that have changed how I address daily situation at work.
I love Dr. Roman's warm and insightful approach! This show is full of pearls of wisdom and every single show I learn something new about others and myself.
Love the concept of this bilingual podcast and am really enjoying the topics so far! Looking forward to more from Dr.Roman!
I am always looking forward for a new podcast of Dra. Carmen Roman. Great topics. Full of knowledge and easy to understand. Thank you.
While I can only really follow the English episodes - and a little bit of the Spanish - I get a lot out of them. Dr. Roman clearly cares about each topic and wants to share her knowledge and experience. I like how the episodes can be both entertaining and educational, especially the one about cooking together. I also like the interviews and look forward to more soon! I've recommended this podcast to a number of friends already.


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Belt: Nicole Farhi
Bag: Markus Lupher
Wedges: New Look
Onto the makeup I used:
- Bobbi Brown Extra Repair Foundation (natural)
- Bobbi Brown creamy concealer (natural)
- Dior Matte Bronzer (02)
- Dior Amber Diamond
- Nars Eyeshadow Primer
- Sleek Ultra Mattes 'Darks' palette
- Blink & Go Mascara
- Inika Eye Pencil (Sapphire)
- L'oreal 'Cappuccino' Lip Liner
- Illamasqua 'Explode' Lip Gloss
I used the 'Sapphire' pencil by Inika to line my eyes from this months Glossy Box, it's such a pretty colour but not very long lasting. I'm a bit disappointed with this months box actually.
Hope you have a fabulous weekend!!
Disclaimer: The heated rollers, Sleek Palette and Glossybox were sent for consideration for review, I wasn't paid for this post bla bla bla.

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Samsung Galaxy S3 hands on review: build
The pleasantly rounded Galaxy S3 instantly feels better in our hands than the Galaxy S II ever did – where Samsung's insanely popular S II admittedly seemed a bit flimsy and cheap, the slim (8.6mm) S3 is one hell of a premium bit of kit. It's light at 133g but still feels expensive and sturdy.
Samsung Galaxy S3 hands on review: display
Let's make this clear, the S3 has a very nice screen but that's to be expected from Samsung these days – it's a HD Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 720x1280. We also loved the almost edge-to-edge design, with slimmer bezels than the Galaxy S II's surrounding the sharp 306ppi screen.
Samsung Galaxy S3 hands on review: performance
With a quad core processor under the hood, we'd expect super-fast smarts from the Galaxy S3. And menus are certainly slick and responsive – then again they're always likely to be on a phone that isn't clogged up with apps, pics and videos. Even in our short time with the Galaxy S3, though, we found lots to discover and an intuitive, fluid interface.
Voice control with S Voice is almost instantaneous – despite the crowded, noisy environment it picked up on our request to take a picture and brought up the camera app in a flash. Speaking of which…
Samsung Galaxy S3 hands on review: camera
We didn't have time to properly test out the Galaxy S3's imaging smarts in our brief encounter but we've got high hopes for the 8MP sensor round the back and 1.9MP snapper up front. The rear cam shoots 1080p video and for stills, it seemed especially fast when booting up – not surprising when Samsung claim it can reload quickly enough to take three shots a second.
Samsung Galaxy S3 hands on review: verdict
Wow, we don't do a hands on like that everyday – there are tons of features like the face detection and pop up play video smarts that we want to delve into in more detail – but on first impressions, this quad core beast still somehow manages to feel sleek and premium in the hand with tons of extras to push you away from the HTC One X and into Sammy's hands.
Based on hardware and features alone, the Samsung Galaxy S3 is the best phone in the world right now. Whether it can hold its own against the app smarts of Apple's iPhone 4S is another matter entirely, but we can't wait to pit it Galaxy S3 against the best Apple, HTC and Sony have to offer.
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You can Try Clojure without installing it on your machine; this site gives you a Clojure prompt ('REPL') in your browser, and a brief tutorial
You can also try ClojureScript at Himera. Next steps:
Learn Clojure
- For a detailed introduction to Clojure, Mark Volkmann's Tutorial
- Clojure Documentation Site (CDS) is a community-driven Clojure docs and tutorials site
- To practice, 4Clojure: Fill-in-the-blank exercises from beginning to advanced. Click on one of the 'title' links to do a problem
Run Clojure
- If you want an easily installable editor and REPL, try Clooj
- Install Leiningen and read the tutorial.
You'll need Lein to build programs and run them at the command line, and also to use Clojure libraries.
- If you need a more powerful development environment (with a learning curve to match), try Emacs, the choice of many experienced Clojurians.
- If you want a standard IDE, there are plugins for Eclipse ( named CounterClockWise ) and IntelliJ ( named LaClojure ), among others.
- debugging with JSwat
- If you want a hosting platform, CloudBees has a quick start for build and deployment of Clojure applications.
Use Clojure
- Build websites with Noir; also check out Noir's collection of web programming tutorials
- Check out ClojureScript One to get started using ClojureScript client-side; you may also want to look at Enfocus and fetch
- You can create desktop software with Seesaw
- Statistics and graphing: Incanter
- Music synthesis: Overtone
- Logic programming with core.logic (tutorials here and here )
- API documentation organized by functionality
- List of the libraries available (also see Clojuresphere)
Other Options
- For a complete listing of Clojure tools, look here
- Getting Started is community-maintained. If you are a member, feel free to update or add (tested, correct) instructions to any of these pages. If you are not a member feel free to send suggestions (or edits in HTML or markdown) to Chris Redinger (Email chris at thinkrelevance.com).
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A few years ago, I received a speeding ticket on the Interstate 4 off ramp for Disney's Animal Kingdom. Although I was going above the freakishly low posted limit, it all seemed unnecessary as there were no other cars in the vicinity except for the trooper's. So I went to driver's school, paid my fine and eventually had to arm-wrestle with government agencies to prove all that. Since then, I've noticed that there's never, ever a member of law enforcement at that spot. Not that I'm bitter or that I shake my fist a la Karen Walker every time I drive by. Nope, not at all.
I'm not a speeder now. Honest. And I share all this because I felt this experience was keeping me out of the target audience for the Exotic Driving Experience, now opens to the public at the Walt Disney World Speedway, the track that's located adjacent to the Magic Kingdom's Ticket & Transportation Center.
But sitting behind the wheel of a Lamborghini Gallardo there, I had to smile.
The Exotics Course is in addition to the longstanding Richard Petty Driving Experience at the track. Instead of stock cars as seen in the NASCAR circuit, drivers are behind the wheels of "supercars," a term I think goes better with "Disney" than "exotics," which brings to mind either the Enchanted Tiki Room or stripper poles.
Supercar options include the Porsche 997 S, Audi R8, Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4, Lamborghini Superleggera and Ferrari 458 Italia. They all retail between $100,000 and $300,000.
Here are notes I made during last week's media day:
+ The cars' speedometers are covered so you don't really know how fast you're going while on the course. I mentally pooh-poohed this practice, but once driving I realized I would have stared at the speedometer the whole time. They want you to appreciate the way it feels more than the mph.
+ The course uses the speedway's backstretch and turn two, then makes a right into a "street course" with a hairpin curve plus a series of "esses" and switchbacks. Guests make six laps around this course, and you're advised to go cautiously the first couple of times around to get accustomed to the course.
+ Shifting is done through paddles near the steering wheel. And yes, I felt stupid one time when I turned on the windshield wipers instead of upshifting.
+ The cars are authentic, as if driven off the lot with one exception: Your ride-along instructor has the power to cut horsepower. If you follow the rules, this tool is only used when leaving and returning to pit row.
+ Two advantages that supercars have over stock cars: Air conditioning and doors that open.
+ I'm sure I could have gone faster. I was a bit (unrealistically) paranoid about the sheriff coming after me and (more realistically) worried about crashing. Without the speedometer – or other cars or landmarks to judge by – I found it hard to estimate my speed. The course's design through the curves slows you down, so I would encourage guests to gun it after clearing those obstacles.
+ I don't like to tell people how to spend their money. Everyone's checking balance must be their guide. But there is a bit of sticker shock with the Exotic Driving Experience. The price varies depending on the car requested, but it can cost nearly $400 for the drive. That does not include the still photos or video — trust me, the video is cool, you're going to want it — which adds up to around $100.
To me, this needs to be your dream, to drive a supercar. Or it's a gift for a special occasion for a race enthusiast. Or you really want to brag to friends about driving a Ferrari.
Whatever your reason, it's certainly cheaper than buying your own supercar — and more exciting than the Tomorrowland Speedway.
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When one looks around at the freight train of games with 2s and 3s (or even X-2s) attached to them in 2003, it seems this year could easily be dubbed "The Year of the Sequel." This leads one to believe the titles of 2003 are more of the same -- same concept, more levels, extra widgets, colored goatees, etc. This is true to a certain extent. But there are two things these short-sided, surface-skimmers are missing: 1) If it's a sequel, than the first one was good enough to warrant making a make second; and 2) this is perhaps the best year of sequels in the history of videogames.
So, with SSX 3, the third in EA's snowcross series, the company's Canadian development team took the notion of sequels very seriously. SSX Tricky was at various times in its development SSX 1.5, SSX DVD, and more, but it eventually became a fully-fledged game all its own. So, it was little confusing.
There should be no confusion this year. EA's let's-wipe-the-slate-clean perspective is apparent in every powdery hill, in each of the mountain's three enormous peaks, in the characters' silky smooth animations, and in the gargantuan level of new tricks, entirely new levels, and superb graphic effects that have been carefully crafted to ensure that in 2003, the self-effacing titled SSX 3 would speak volumes. And boy, does it. The newly formed blister on my right thumb, that lovely sense of bewilderment at having spent too many nights awake late playing it, and my oh-so-patient wife are witnesses to them all.
SSX 3 is the kind of game you both know and one that, well, you really don't. If you've had the pleasure of playing the first two, then you know SSX was the original EA BIG title, a snowcross game bolstered with finely tuned tricks and displaying a bewildering arcade of wild, over-the-top level designs, essentially taking the snowboard mantle from the loveable 1080 Degrees Snowboarding as the snowboard champ. It's an arcade snowboarding game, offering an equal blend of trick and racing courses, and now, since everything is connected and open, there's great freedom to indulge in even more.
Head-to-Head Comparison! Don't know which version of SSX 3 to buy? We tell you in this point-by-point breakdown, which details the differences between the three consoles versions with side-by-side screenshots. But since when are still screens enough? How about a lengthy, high-res video comparison? Must see!
You'll notice that the open design idea so well presented in Grand Theft Auto III has filtered into SSX 3. From Amped (the first snowboarding game to offer this) to Jak II to next year's Spider-Man, they're all opening up. In SSX 3, it's not just cool to seamlessly explore the mountain because of the simple fact that you can, but it leads to greater possibilities. It permits you to whimsically, emotionally, or logically decide what to do and when to do it.
As opposed to creating yet another game with a loosely attached series of hills, new wacky characters and humanly impossible tricks, EA wanted unity. SSX 3 takes an entire geographic region (albeit a fictional one) and delivers a figurative and literal mountain. To give you a meaningful perspective of this surface area, there are three peaks, each with roughly five to 10 proper "courses," but every inch of the mountain can be slashed and shredded. All of the surfaces in between the courses are rideable; they're designed - replete with trees and park benches to rail, little jumps to search out -- as such. It's not something that smacks you in the face, like "Hey, check out my shiny new lipstick," it's more subtle. You absorb it, and, as you progress, the enormousness of the game makes its impression.
For example, players can race from the top to the bottom of the mountain in a single, pure and enfettered run. Granted, it takes about 30 gametime minutes to do so, but you CAN do it. The amazing thing is that if you're good (and maniacal) enough, you can actually create a single combo that lasts from the top to the bottom of the mountain (as executed by one crazy EA Canada tester). At which point you'll either explode or collapse. Either way, we're not telling.
If the singular mountain concept expands SSX 3, one new set of tricks unites it. Board presses, the snowboard equivalent to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater's manuals, combine tricks for huge combo tallies. Easily enacted by moving the right analog button forward or backward, players can link trick after trick in any course and, if they are so inclined, they can link a giant combo for one entire run, or like I said earlier, for the entire mountain.
In a fanciful ode to Star Trek's communicators, EA gives players a magical PDA to transport them from any spot on the mountain to any other locale. You can transport to the top of any opened peak, the beginning of any run, to a lodge, check messages from other racers, and more. It makes getting from point A to point B very convenient, very quick. But instant transport to the top of Peak 3 doesn't happen right away of course, EA isn't stupid. It makes you work for those peaks, those new clothes, songs, attributes and hundreds of other collectibles.


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Baron d'Holbach, Paul-Henri Thiry (1723 – 1789) was a French author, philosopher and encyclopedist. He was born Paul Heinrich Dietrich in Edesheim, Germany. He is most famous as being one of the first self-described atheists in Europe.
- We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition.
- It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
- Samuel Wilkinson, trans., The System of Nature (Project Gutenberg e-text), vol. 1, chap. IX
- Date and place of publication unknown. Original publication in French, 1770, as La Système de la nature, under the name of Jean Baptiste de Mirabaud.
- If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.
- Samuel Wilkinson, trans., The System of Nature (Project Gutenberg e-text), vol. 2, chap. I
- Date and place of publication unknown. Original publication in French, 1770, as La Système de la nature, under the name of Jean Baptiste de Mirabaud.
- When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths, or to reject absurdities, and palpable contradictions.
- Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas (London: W. Stewart & Co., ca. 1900) (Project Gutenberg e-text), preface
- Translator unknown. Original publication in French at Amsterdam, 1772, as Le bon sens ("Common Sense"), and often attributed to John Meslier.
- Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.
- ibid., preface
- All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
- ibid., chap. 30
- Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of Religion, that we shall discover Truth, Reason, and Morality. Religion diverts us from the causes of evils, and from the remedies which nature prescribes; far from curing, it only aggravates, multiplies, and perpetuates them.
- ibid., chap. 206
- Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make their revolutions or describe new orbits, and man, an infinitely minute part of a globe which itself is only an imperceptible point in the immense whole, believes that the universe is made for himself.
- La Système de la nature; quoted by Norman Hampson, The Enlightenment p. 220 (paperback edition)
- Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
- La Système de la nature; quoted in The Law of Reason, published by J. Thompson, p. 40.
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- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature — after the recipe for making eels from flour — is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried to prove the impossibility. If God did not exist, he would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
- Voltaire, in his Letter to Prince Frederick William of Prussia (28 November 1770)
- It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.
- Voltaire, Philosophic Dictionary


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by Jeanette Senecal
Well-managed polling places and well-trained poll workers are vital on Election Day and in the early voting process in many states. In 2006, despite millions of dollars spent on improving election administration, polling places continued to struggle with problems, and voters suffered the consequences. What can we do to help improve poll worker recruitment and training?
by William H. Woodwell, Jr.
Early voting and the use of "vote centers" are just two innovations that elections officials around the country are experimenting with in their efforts to make the voting process more efficient and more convenient—to put the "service" back into "Voters Services." This article presents the thoughts of elections officials in various locales across the country. Included are the early voting experiences of Clark County, NV, and Travis County, TX, and the "vote center" innovations in Larimer County, CO, and Boone County, MO.
by Thomas E. Mann
Redistricting, a deeply political process, has long been a prominent and much-criticized feature of American politics. Incumbents actively seek to minimize the risk to themselves via bipartisan gerrymanders or to gain additional seats for their party through partisan gerrymanders. Recent developments, including the sharp decline in competitive seats in the House and in most state legislatures and the growing ideological polarization between the two major parties, have given new urgency to this issue and precipitated the most serious effort to reform redistricting processes in many years.
The League's March 2005 forum highlighted a number of urgent priorities for policymakers, election officials and others. The League has refined the priorities into four key steps to bring our election system back to health: professionalization of the system; a new focus on service for the "customer," the voter; 21st century research and development; and new federal resources and commitment.
by Shirley Tabata Ponomareff
Long lines and long waits were the big news for Election 2004. A number of factors are being examined as likely causes for the long lines. Whatever the causes, the long waits posed an unacceptable barrier to citizen participation. Voter mobilization and voter protection made huge contributions, and voter participation was high. Nevertheless, voters encountered serious problems with voter registration systems, provisional ballots, voting machines and inadequate polling place procedures. This story includes sidebars on the youth vote, election protection efforts, pre-election HAVA implementation survey and Election Day surveys.
by Kelly Ceballos
Well in advance of November 2, the League of Women Voters has launched a nationwide voter education effort, 5 Things You Need to Know on Election Day, to familiarize voters with new election procedures and empower them to take action to personally ensure their vote is counted. To this end, the League has produced a quarter million 5 Things voter cards that are being distributed across the country. This year many voters will find some things different at their polling place, and these changes will make some of them feel like first-time voters. The League's 5 Things gives long-time and first-time voters the information they need to look out for themselves and their votes on Election Day.
by Kelly Ceballos
As part of its continuing effort to assist state and local election officials in their implementation concerns related to the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), the League of Women Voters has produced a second report, Helping America Vote: Safeguarding the Vote. This new report urges election officials to safeguard our votes in 2004 by providing a more secure foundation for two key components of election administration: voting systems and voter registration systems. As Election Day nears, there are real steps that our nation's election officials can take to protect our votes in November.
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I. One who drives or moves something: "pecoris actor," Ov. H. 1, 95: "habenae," a slinger, Stat. Ach. 2, 419.—
II. In gen., he who does any thing, a doer or performer (cf. ago, II.).
A. In gen. of every kind of action: "ut illum efficeret oratorem verborum actoremque rerum," Cic. de Or. 3, 15, 57 (a translation of the Homer. πρηκτῆρα ἔργων, Il. 9, 443): "Cato dux, auctor, actor rerum illarum fuit," id. Sest. 28 fin.; so Caes. B. C. 1, 26; Nep. Att. 3, 2 al.—
B. In judicial lang., one who brings an action, a plaintiff: "accusatorem pro omni actore et petitore appello," Cic. Part. 32; "esp. of lawyers: Moloni Rhodio et actori summo causarum et magistro," id. Brut. 89 fin.; so Hor. A. P. 369 al.—Also, one who conducts a suit, an advocate, Cic. Caec. 1.—Hence,
C. At a later period, an agent or attorney; in gen., an administrator or manager or steward, overseer of property or an estate.—So in Tac.: actor publicus, he who administers the public property, Ann. 2, 30; 3, 67: actor summarum, a keeper of accounts or cashier, Suet. Dom. 11, and so often in the Dig.: sub actoribus, overseers (of a household), Vulg. Gal. 4, 2.—
D. In rhetor. lang., one who delivers any oral discourse; and esp. one who delivers an oration, an orator: "inventor, compositor, actor," Cic. Or. 19.—
2. A player, an actor: "actores secundarum et tertiarum partium," Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15; so id. de Or. 1, 26; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16 (cf. ago, II., and actio, II. C.).


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When you add pictures, shapes, or other objects to your Office documents, they automatically stack in individual layers as you add them. You can move individual shapes or other objects or groups of objects in a stack. For example, you can move objects up or down within a stack one layer at a time, or you can move them to the top or bottom of a stack in one move. You can overlap objects when you draw to create different effects.
For information on aligning objects, see Align or arrange a picture, shape, text box, or WordArt.
For information about grouping objects, see Group or ungroup shapes, pictures, or other objects.
Move a picture, shape, text box, or WordArt
Click the border of the WordArt, text box, or shape that you want to move.
To move multiple text boxes or shapes, press and hold Ctrl while you click the borders.
When the cursor changes to the four headed arrow, drag it to the new location.
To move in small increments, press and hold Ctrl while pressing an arrow key. And to move the object horizontally or vertically only, press and hold Shift while you drag it.
Note: The incremental, or nudge, distance is a 1 pixel increment. What 1 screen pixel represents relative to the document area depends on the zoom percentage. When your document is zoomed in to 400%, 1 screen pixel is a relatively small nudge distance on the document. When your document is zoomed out to 25%, 1 screen pixel is a relatively large nudge distance on the document.
Depending on how far you're moving the WordArt, shape, or text box, it might be easier to cut and paste it. Right-click the object, and then click Cut (or, press Ctrl+X). Press Ctrl+V to paste it. You can also cut and paste it into a different document, or between programs, such as from a PowerPoint slide to an Excel worksheet.
Move a text box, WordArt, or shape forward or backward in a stack
Click the WordArt, shape, or text box that you want to move up or down in the stack.
On the Drawing Tools Format tab, click either Bring Forward or Send Backward.
You'll have the choice of moving the object up one layer (Bring Forward) or to the top of the stack (Bring to Front). Send Backward has similar options: down one layer (Send Backward) or to the bottom of the pile (Send to Back).
In Office 2016 and Office 2013, if you have a lot of WordArt, shapes, text boxes, or other objects, it may be easier to use up and down arrows in the Selection Pane to move objects. The Selection Pane is not available in Project or in Office 2010.
See also
Use Word Layout Options to move pictures in Word 2016 and Word 2013
Click the shape, text box, or WordArt that you want to move up or down in the stack. Try to click a part of the object that is not obscured by another object in the stack. If you can't select the object that you want, you may need to move other objects that are currently above it in the stack first.
Click the Format tab.
In the Arrange group, do one of the following:
To bring an object one step closer to the front, click the arrow next to Bring to Front, and then click Bring Forward.
To bring an object to the front, click the arrow next to Bring to Front, and then click Bring to Front.
To send an object one step toward the back, click the arrow next to Send to Back, and then click Send Backward.
To send an object to the back, click the arrow next to Send to Back, and then click Send to Back.
Tip: In Word, you also have the option of moving the object in front of or behind your text. After you click the arrow next to Bring to Front, click Bring in Front of Text. Conversely, to move the object behind your text, click the arrow next to Send to Back, and then click Send Behind Text.


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