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When designing a strategy game (or one in a similar genre), how do you avoid having your players focus almost entirely on micromanagement? What should be done and what avoided in gameplay mechanics?
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The idea is that you give the player's troops the same AI capabilities as the enemy, and then provide him with a goal setting system and a state toggle system.
The player can set goals/objectives attached to enemy units or map locations, such as:
These "objectives" can be more sophisticated, and can be revealed to the player progressively during the game so that she isn't overwhelmed by new options.
Then, allow the player to switch the state of the units:
The unit AI then decides how to act. For example, reserve units might decide to spontaneously reinforce a failing defense objective, or patrol areas that the player marked as "To Guard", without the player having given any orders.
You could also set up a threshold system for units (for example, defensive units could have a low "repair damage" threshold, meaning that they return for repairs when they lightly damaged, whereas attack units would have a high threshold, exiting from a fight only when in a critical state.) Giving the player the option to customise states based on these threshold would give great re-playability and strategic depth. The player could then create new unit states to suite her gameplay.
This would eliminate the following complaints:
Since those would be customisable thresholds and preferences.
A good analogy to what I am proposing is that in conventional RTSs, the player gives order to units on a battlefield, whereas in this system, she sets the doctrine of combat and the objectives, leaving the immediate tactics to subordinates (AI, in this example). In essence, she is teaching the AI her command style so that she doesn't have to make immediate tactical decisions.
Don't allow it. Give the player a specific role, and that's it. The guy who gives the orders to attack a group of enemies to the north isn't sitting there at the fight telling each guy who to shoot, he's back at base giving more orders to other soldiers.
For a more realistic/immersive experience, and to discourage/prevent micromanagement, allow the player (to choose(?)) a well-defined role, and don't allow actions that aren't part of that role.
I agree with thedaian but would like to expand upon his point. Most micromanagment is done to make up for the AI being inefficient. When I micro its usually because either: my troops won't kill weak units before targeting stronger ones, they won't target high dps units before lower dps units, they won't concentrate fire to take out individual units (kind of goes back to the kill low hp units before high hp), or they block other units from entering the fight.
The last point is my biggest gripe and the source of most of my micromanagment in Starcraft. Darn buggies will make an impenetrable ring around the enemy units that doesn't allow my shorter ranged and slower units though. As a result I'm having to move buggies 10 feet forward to let my infantry though.
There's simply no point in micromanaging if the AI is efficiently utilizing the available units.
My answer is similar to those that suggest picking a clear role for the player. What they're really saying is to simplify I think.
The reason micromanagement happens is because there are very many choices to make during play, and in general they only really matter in aggregate, if at all. "Strategy" as a game genre doesn't mean "an almighty pile of things to fiddle with," it means "making decisions with consequences that don't arrive for awhile."
I'll give two very classic examples. Chess and Go are known for very deep strategy but both in both cases it results from very simple rules and very simple mechanical decisions. The state of a chess game can be summarized into, what, thirty-two pairs of very small integers? And your turn is to change the value of one of those pairs!
And yet, Chess and Go are both very well-loved by real military strategists, and have been for a very long period of time. Surely that's saying something important to us armchair generals with our gee-whiz digital chessboards.
Another big problem with strategy gamers is that they have no understanding of how large groups of fighting units actually work together. I've heard an aphorism, that "armchair generals talk tactics, real generals talk logistics."
Think it over. Say I can position a particular starfighter in a space 4X game. Starfighters work in squadrons, and breaking them up to has dramatic logistical and organizational consequences. So why does the game let me move around an individual starfighter? That'd be like the President of the United States calling your math teacher to give her suggestions about the day's lesson. I'm the grand admiral of a mighty space fleet, so my units to move about the board should be task forces and battle groups.
There are ways to let players work on organizational choices though. For instance, paper war games use "operational turns" which only come around once every several "tactical turns." I can't recommend paper wargames enough for understanding good strategy game design. James F. Dunnigan has written extensively on this kind of thing; his Complete Wargames Handbook is very insightful, provided you're willing to see past the datedness of some of the discussions.
If you want players to just focus on managing resources, economy, etc. you can do what Startopia did. Which is, the player recruits or produces units and then builds structures for them which they'll inhabit automatically. As for combat, player can set up points of interest for the troops to gather at or attack (if it's an enemy unit or building) and assign values to these points so the AI can decide which unit goes where.
If you're making a "hardcore" RTS like Starcraft, then it comes down to "either you learn to manage your economy or you'll get overrun", it's a matter of balancing the difficulty level, you won't stop 20 Hydralisks with 5 Marines no matter how good you are, etc. In multiplayer it's survival of the fittest, either you macro or you lose, so i wouldn't worry about that part.
Consider dividing the player's focus such that micromanagement is only available at a level of extreme focus. In Starcraft or like games, the interface is the same whether you're building buildings or directing units. However, if there were a context shift between resource management, camp development, large-scale strategic unit deployment, and small-scale tactical unit management, then staying too focused on any one of those areas could be detrimental to the others.
In short, make it so that when a player is engaging in micromanagement techniques, or when those actions are afforded by the UI, other (vital) information isn't visible. This would give your player the opportunity to squeeze the most out of their combat units when they wanted to, but would make such micromanagement untenable over a long period of time.
Instead of click-speed limiting how many orders a player can send, make it an in-game resource. Click too fast and you run our of orders and have to wait to accumulate new ones. Order single units and you can only afford to move a few per minute, but make big group moves and you can keep your entire army moving. There would still be a benefit to micro-manage, but it would be much more expensive in terms of leaving all other units without orders for a long time.
The in-game limit could be some abstract command-point counter (as used in several board wargames) or you could make it more part of the game world, eg by having messengers running/riding/flying to deliver orders. When all messengers are busy the player simply has to wait for one of them to return before being able to send a new order. Depending on theme it could be more or less difficult to make the limit fit in nicely.
The common suggestion seems to be to not allow the player to directly control the units at all. However, if you want the player to still have some control over the units, you can take some people's advice of making the AI good enough that micromanagement isn't necessary, or you can try my initial idea, which is to make units that just don't have a lot of micro potential. Some examples of this in StarCraft 2 would be the siege tank, and of course, the colossus.
Make Unit-Orders have a cost per order - regardless of unit size.
Let's say you give the player 10 "tokens" of something per turn - then giving orders to an individual unit costs one token, and giving orders to an entire squad also costs one token. If they have 10 squads, they can give every squad a group-order - or they can give 3-4 single units precise orders, at the cost of some squads getting zero orders.
In other words: let the player balance the decision on when to micro-manage, and when to not. If the AI is good enough for most squads, most of them time, then the player will use that - until a situation calls for finer-grained control than the group AI, then they can give individual units specific orders, at a cost.
This basically turns player Focus, into another resource to be managed.
Use squads, as in Dawn of War or Company of Heroes. Micromanagement will still be required, but the fact that you only need to micromanage 5-10 entities will give the player more time to develop their macro.
Don't make a game in such a way that you need to tell your players to not play it a certain way. The controls you give them are there for them to use, and they will assume they are supposed to be using it. Decide what you mean by 'micro', and ensure that players do not control their game units on that level.
You could give short, but noticeable, and random, time-delays for each order given to a unit before it reacts. You could also add a longer transition time for units to switch from one order to another, making them vulnerable to enemy attacks while they prepare to follow a new order. That would also be a bit more realistic than units reacting in an instant to every click
Give them too many units. If you have a hundred units in a battle, not even a skilled RTS player can micromanage all of them. And secondly, make macromanagement more important. For example, in Warcraft 3 micromanagement was very important because macro was weak- low food cap and that upkeep malarky. This is what you want to avoid doing if you want to keep a focus away from micro.
Making the player's army reasonably self-sufficient will help with this. If the army already does what you want, you don't need to micromanage it. For example, special abilities might be 'auto-casted' by default, preventing the player from spending too much time worrying about triggering each ability usage, and more worried about making sure they have the right mix of units to achieve the goal. Strong AI will also be extremely helpful here.
On the engine level, it would help to have units be able to move AND attack at the same time. This means players have much more trouble playing using micro-heavy harassment and animation-cancelling styles well seen in games like Warcraft III (and by extension, DotA) and Star Craft/Star Craft II.
Make the units disposable. If a player doesn't feel the need to keep his/her units alive than they'll likely not waste time managing them as much when they could be doing other things.
Make them cheap in resources. The cheaper units are the less likely a person will spend time trying to keep them alive if they know they can just reproduce them easily. Similarly, make them quick to build. The faster units are being produced the more time a person has to spend actually producing them as opposed to giving them orders. Especially if they're cheap units, this turns the overall strategy of trying to keep units alive to out producing your opponent.
I also agree with automatizing your units as best as possible. Applying general orders of what to do. For example, if an enemy unit comes into range, should they attack? Hold position, should they use any special abilities they have, etc. This, of course, can get pretty tricky, so it could even just be a simple, hold, defend something, or attack. The only issue with this is how far back does it go aggroing units.
Another problem that arises and causes people to micro is path finding. Design your boards to be more linear and open. You can still have elevation but try to avoid cliffs and things that would prevent units from moving in a straight line whenever they're told. A lot of them time in RTS games when units are given a command to move somewhere that is blocked or up a hill they get confused. Path finding has gotten much better recently but it's still an issue in almost every RTS game I've played. This way people can give orders are know that their units are going directly to where you told them.
I'd also suggest making it easy to give general orders without having to turn your attention towards the units. A rallying system would be a sufficient place to start but it'd need to be expanded upon. Perhaps incorporating the passive commands into it so units that spawn automatically are given an order, such as defend or hold position when they get to where they were told to go.
One last thing I'd suggest is making it easy to give general orders without turning your attention away from whatever it is you're doing in the game. Make it possible to give orders to all the units on the board at once, make it easy to select all the units of a given type on the board very easily, etc. Maybe even tie this in to the structure that's building the units. Instead of giving all the orders by selecting the units, select the buildings that make them to give orders to all the units of that type.


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A boy in cheder who has no internet at home, no tv, etc, is not exposed to human reproduction in the way that others are. It's therefore up to the parents to explain to him how children are born. Should this be an automatic process, where the child learns something in gemara and asks? Has anyone ever heard of any guidance on the matter given by Gedolim/Rabbonim?
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When teaching Kodesh at Yeshivas Toras Emes (High School) in Johannesburg almost 30 years ago, the Menahel HaRav Gedalia Sternstein שליט"א told me that the Rov - Rabbi Salzer זצ"ל - told him that it's best if the students learn about these things from the Gemora - BiKedusha uVeTaharo.
As relevant topics came up, we were to explain them is as much detail as needed.
I recall having to explain to a class of Bar Mitzva aged students about Nidda and counting 7 clean days and then going to the Mikva. As a newbie teacher I had no idea how to proceed. I warned them that I was only going to explain this once and that they had better pay attention. The boys paid attention, asked some relevant questions, and didn't seem bothered by the subject.
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Let me explain : at the pictures shown how Russia gets up from his knees. Children go to sporting facilities , are preparing for the Olympic games... and there bars ,and jumping into the water . But actually, that we are moving away from the losses after the second world war ,in which we would suffer defeat ,if we were not helped by our "friends" from the West ^^. We can say that they won the war ... Thank you very much !!! But all jokes in truth, it is the Soviet development for the destruction of the enemy both mentally and morally , and even Russia does not exist , it's all a fairy tale for children, the USSR was ,and still is ,and what is happening in Ukraine , it is a preparation for the ninth of may ( feast of such ). OMON already left for me and directly taken away for interrogation to the KGB ...
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the boy that has the black shorts on the rigth is cute
Se nota que estan alegre.
It shows that they are cheerful.
Looks like fun.
so fun
Никога повече война!
Никогда болше войны!
Nie wieder Krig!
Never again war!
good one :)
I like how all the people in the picture have motion.
they have their own moment. Nice shot
It's a strange picture but at the same time is beatiful. It's simple, well taken and show us the great Russia with his Black Sea but at the same time shoes that Russia became a simple country, as others. What is today, problably it's not tomorrown anymote. I say this, with all respect to the Great Nation that Russia is.
Great Mathias Depardon... :)
it reminds me pix by Cartier-Bresson...
Great pic
La finesse des rêves.
Dans le
calme de la
nuit la couleur
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Weird pic
No stairs no problems ! :)
Nice picture. Is this a current picture, or an old picture? Just curious.
Nice story click
It looks like a Deineka painting.
Not bad :)
Прекрасная пора. Лето, море, юность.
Nice picture, showing that the older spaces can be used, and bring happiness forever...................................
@Isabel Correia "the great Russia with his Black Sea"? There are about 5 countries around Black Sea, don't think they would be happy to hear that Black Sea would be Russia's... Maybe you meant something else, english-wise.. Also, your comment shows a little too much respect "to the Great Nation", let's not exaggerate.
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that thought was crossing my mind also... but i imagine that it has been taken recently, i'm not sure what exactly it is about the photo that gives it a feel of "a past or bygone period"...is it the hues of the image or is it perhaps that we almost never see our children in our enviornment just having a simple playful moment and entertaining themselves with an imaginative use of whatever they see or find around them and each other and not some "real" toy or computer ?
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I see that our current-day Bibles only refer to God as LORD. Can you explain to me what the different names of God are and what they mean?
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Genesis 1:1 (ESV)
1 In the beginning, God [Elohim] created the heavens and the earth.
Pslam 19:1 (ESV)
1 The heavens declare the glory of God, [Elohim] and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
The name "Elohim" means "God" and is a reference to God's power and might.
Malachi 1:6 (ESV)
… And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts [Adonai] to you, O priests…
Adonai means "Lord" and refers to the Lordship of God.
Genesis 2:4 (ESV)
4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created,in the day that the LORD God [Jehovah-Yahweh] made the earth and the heavens.
Translated as I am, I am who am, or I am who I am, and indicates God's personal, eternal, non-contingent nature. It is given to Moses by God when prompted for His name.
Exodus 31:13
13"You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, 'Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the LORD, [Jehovah-Maccaddeshem] sanctify you.'"
Means "The Lord thy sanctifier"
Psalm 23:1 (ESV)
1The LORD [Jehovah-Rohi] is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Ezekiel 48:35 (ESV)
35The circumference of the city shall be 18,000 cubits. And the name of the city from that time on shall be, The LORD Is There. [Jehovah-Shammah]"
Means "The Lord who is present"
Exodus 15:26 (ESV)
"…I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, your healer. [Jehovah-Rapha]"
Means "The Lord our healer"
Jeremiah 23:6 (ESV)
6In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: 'The LORD is our righteousness.'
Means "The Lord our righteousness"
Genesis 22:14 (ESV)
14So Abraham called the name of that place, "The LORD will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided."
Means "The Lord will provide"
Exodus 17:15 (ESV)
15And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The LORD Is My Banner,
Means the "The Lord is my banner"
Judges 6:24 (ESV)
24Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD [Jehovah-Shalom] and called it, The LORD Is Peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.
Means "The Lord is peace"
Isaiah 6:1-3 (ESV)
3And one called to another and said:
Means the "Lord of hosts"
Jeremiah 51:6 (ESV)
6 …Be not cut off in her punishment, for this is the time of the LORD's [Jehovah-Gmolah] vengeance, the repayment he is rendering her.
Means "The God of Recompense"
Genesis 14:17-20 (ESV)
19And he blessed him and said,
Isaiah 14:14 (ESV)
14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.'
Means "The most high God"
Genesis 16:13 (ESV)
13 So she called the name of the LORD [El-Roi] who spoke to her, "You are a God of seeing," for she said, "Truly here I have seen him who looks after me."
Means "The strong one who sees"
Genesis 17:1 (ESV)
1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty [El Shaddai]; walk before me, and be blameless,
Psalm 91:1
1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High [El-Shaddai] will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
Means "The God of the mountains" or "God Almighty"
Isaiah 40:31 (ESV)
31but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength;
Means "The everlasting God"
I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but here are some other names of God:
You may want to start by understanding where the usage of LORD came. LORD is Jehovah, which is Yahweh (YHWH), the ineffable name of the God of Israel. (This is why Jewish people sometimes write G-d.)
Start with the Wikipedia article on Jehova. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah
Under the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah#Introduction_into_English section, it says "The Authorized King James Bible also, which used Jehovah in a few places, most frequently gave 'the LORD' as the equivalent of the Tetragammaton."
(The Tetragammaton is YHWH.)
PS: My favorite name is 'the LORD of heavens armies' or 'the LORD of hosts'. (The God of Israel is also nice as it is very specific.)
If you are looking for the proper noun name of God, then there is only one name. Some of the said above are titles, except for one name JEHOVAH. When Moises ask God what is his name God said in Exodus 3:15, Then God said once more to Moses: "This is what you are to say to the sons of Israel, Jehovah the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name to time indefinite, and this is the memorial of me to generation after generation - Exodus 3:15 (New World Translation) So God has only one personal name, like you, you have only one personal name.
Below are some verses which are proof that God's proper noun name is Jehovah:
That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth. Psalm 83:18 (King James Version)
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. Isaiah 12:2 (King James Version)
Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: Isaiah 26:4 (King James Version)
For more information read The Divine Name that Will Endure Forever.
The name of god is rendered in English Jehovah. We do not know that that is exactly how it is pronounced. Your name in your language is familiar to you, but yet when you hear your name in another language it will sometimes sound very alien.
I don't expect a foreign person to be able to pronounce my name correctly. In fact most do not. I am very pleased when someone remembers my name and uses it. It shows me that they cared enough or where interested enough in me to remember my name.
Here is another example. The bible tells us that god wants us to know both his name and the qualities attached to it. Say then that we know the president, but we don't know his name. Knowing the job of the president doesn't help us to understand the man behind the position. We don't know him as a person, only that he is our leader and generally what he is supposed to do.
As for gods name, in the exodus when Moses asked god what he should call him god answered "I shall prove to be what I shall prove to be." (Exodus 3:14). In other words that means he will become whatever I need to become.
The jews stopped using gods name because of superstitious reasons. God commanded them not to take up his name in a worthless way. Today most bible translations have taken that same aspect of substituting Jehovah's name for Lord and god. Like the president those are just titles and don't allow us to truly identify the traits of god with him.
Another article to consider The Divine Name.
the question was "what are the different names of god in the bible and what do they mean?" However, IN TH BIBLE there is only ONE name for god! best identified from the tetragrammaton "YHWH" Yahweh which means "hayah asher hayah" translated "I AM THAT I AM" in Exodus 3:14. To which many bible scholars and teachers admit. This name speaks to the awesomeness of the creator's power to be self existent. Nowhere in the bible refers to the NAMES of God only NAME (singular). It has been a very common error for persons to use the creator's "TITLES" for names. Man-given titles such as god, lord, Lord God are common in the bible and the man-given name Jehovah. As someone previously posted, there is no J in the Hebrew alphabet. The name was first given in Hebrew. The letter J was not a part of the english alphabet until around the middle to late 1800s. So what was the creator's name before that time?...could not have been Jehovah.
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I used too much maltodextrin in a chocolate stout, and it feels almost like drinking syrup. Is there any good way to mitigate the thickness it imparts without watering down the flavor of the beer (too much)?
If it's physically thick, I think the only method would be to add water. At the far extreme, you could make another batch that's a bit watery and mix them.. How much did you add / how much did you mean to add?
If the beer is in a keg or fermenter, you could try adding some purified amylase. You might be able to find it at an online homebrew shop. Amylases are a class of enzymes responsible for breaking down starches in the mash. Residual maltodextrin should be able to be digested the same way. Primarily by Beta-amylase I think.
On option may be the use of Beano if you can't get purified amylase extract.
The only trouble with adding these things is that they tend to be tough to control as far as the end point goes. Often you end up drying out the beer too much.
Another option would be to pitch Brett or some Pediococcus. These yeasts can utilize dextrins as fuel sources better that normal Saccharomyces. So if you don't mind having something slightly soured and funky that might work well too. Depending on the amount of maltodextrin left that will dictate the amount of Brett or Pedio character you end up with. Done right it could be pretty nice.
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21 Nov 2012 5:23 AM #1
Custom picker field with menu
I'm trying to create my own field type which extends Ext.form.field.Picker.
In the createPicker() method I create a menu that will be used as the picker.
The menu has 2 levels (submenu). I'm having problems with the menu items in the second level - I can't add event handlers on them. No matter what I try the menu always closes when I interact with the submenu, and no events are fired. There are no such problems with the main menu (first level), I guess there is some event that needs to be stopped but I can't seem to find it...
P.S the submenu is a panel component, not a regular menu item - but it doesn't work neither with regular items.
Any ideas what can this be?
Thanks in advance for your help!
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Sure: http://jsfiddle.net/amitayh/Y4cUg/1/
As you can see, the handler for the first item is called, but not for the submenu item...
26 Nov 2012 11:48 PM #4
I ended up using the regular trigger field, which displays the menu on trigger click.
I guess this is a bug...


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I've seen that photoshop is usually a requirement for videogame art jobs. I was wondering the types of photoshop skills that developers look for.
Also, I was wondering what edition of photoshop i should get, recommendations for a decent tablet, and last but not least some good books for learning photoshop for the artist. I'm a complete virgin when it comes to this, so keep that in mind.
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Visit concept art forums on the web, look around at digital painting sites, 2d game art sites, look into subjects like texturing and mapping on game mod sites. Since you're not familiar with it, I'd say just hang out and have fun -- get some photos of your friends and give them fish heads, draw cartoons, create some crazy stuff. Don't buy an expensive tablet yet and don't make yourself read every line of Adobe help center advice. It'll be more fun if you don't at first. Do all that after you've gotten a good feel for it.
As the above poster said, it really depends on the job you're applying for. When in doubt, ask HR or anyone you can get in contact with, but here are some general guidelines:
Concept Art
A lot of concept art is still done the traditional way, but you'll need to know how to scan it in and optimize it by use of Levels and Brightness/Contrast, possibly Color Balance when applicable. Many studios will expect you to know how to use a tablet, so you should look into buying a Wacom if this is your preferred path. And honestly, if you like creating digital art a Wacom will be the single best investment you'll make in terms of art supplies. Also know how to use and create custom brushes, keyboard shortcuts used in sketching and painting, basic techniques for layers, digital sketching, and digital coloring.
Texture Art
Some studios have their texture artists do everything from scratch, but most recognize the time this takes and encourage image manipulation. Learn where to find stock photos and how to judge their quality. Learn and love the clone stamp and healing brush as they are the single most invaluable tools in your arsenal. Learn how to use offset to make seamless textures. Learn how to use (and not overuse!) dodge and burn. Learn all of the image adjustment and optimization tools including levels, brightness/contrast, color balance, etc. Learn all the shortcuts. All of them. Have extensive knowledge of layers and layer masks. If you're going to be painting textures by hand learn how to use and make custom brushes because they will save you time and make your work higher quality.
Technical Art
Technical art is an odd sort of discipline because it mostly means you're going to be working more on implementation and speaking in programmer code than doing art, but in some places a technical artist makes special effects. If this is what you're after, master layers, layer masks, layer styles, and layer effects. I've noticed most special effects made in PS are made using layer effects rather than filters, but it's probably a good idea to see what filters do what and learn how to overcome the 'amateur' flag they raise. Install filters and plugins from the web such as Eye Candy. Learn and love custom brushes. Learn and love image adjustment tools. Become familiar with all of the shortcuts. Don't be afraid to go bold.
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Carrie Jamison has the success part of "having it all" down pat but "love/marriage/family" seem just out of reach. Still, she enjoys the admiration of everyone at KUTE radio . . . well, almost everyone. Serious, straightlaced newscaster Kyle Harris disapproves of Carrie, which leads to tension, confrontation . . . and then, inexplicably, to one extraordinary night
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While a candidate for mayor of Waterbury in 2011, Neil M. O'Leary criticized then-Mayor Michael J. Jarjura for the latter's steadfast support for Joseph "Capt. Blight" Davino. Mr. Davino, once the leader of the city's anti-blight efforts, faced a felony larceny charge after being caught forcing his blight crew to do work for his private business on the city's clock 80 times.
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glasshouse wrote on Jan 25, 2013 4:44 PM:
" Lucky for the mayor that he wasn't mayor when he worked for the city. he would have had to fire himself at least a dozen times for time fraud including abuse of overtime amongst a lot of other unethical behavior. Hypocracy only goes so far!! "
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" How can you praise or compare when O'leary is protecting his brother. He is done no better then anyone else.
Also background checks have been around way before 2005 just not as enforced since so much nepotism was and still is rampant. "
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Prades also oversees the Horizon Hydrogen Energy (H2E) program, a 200 million Euro research and development program, working to build sustainable and competitive hydrogen-energy solutions in France, throughout 2009 to 2016. The program, lead by Air Liquide, involves 19 other French companies, and is funded by Oseo, the French agency for innovation.
Before joining Air Liquide, Prades was at Thomson Group, where he had extensive operations experience in Europe and Asia through a variety of positions, ending as the General Manager of Operations for Thailand.
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My hard drive died in my macbook and it no longer will start up. It will not mount in an external enclosure but disk utility is still reading that the hard drive is there, and I tried to repair disk and I am getting this error: (Disk Utility can't repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.) So my question is how do I backup my files if the hard drive won't mount? The only way that I have been able to see the hard drive is through disk utility. I just want to be clear that I am using mac os x snow leapard.
I would try to remove the hard disk and mount it in another PC.
Than you can then try to use software for data recovery from a hard disk with the Journal File System.
Some examples:
You could try following this hint from Macworld. It makes use of the Terminal (0$) to execute the UNIX command
1. Determine UNIX id. of dead drive
If you decide to use this method you would first have to determine what the UNIX identifier of the attached disk is. Open up Terminal (Applications --> Utilities) and type the following:
This will give you a list of all connected drives and their partitions and it should look like shown here.
Probably your boot drive is under
Now if you can not find the name of the dead drive in that list,
2. Define destination
This method copies the whole disk byte-by-byte. If it encounters an error it will skip it and write zeros to the destination (read the hint for full details). So, the destination should have enough hard drive space to accomodate the whole hard drive you're recovering. So if you've got a 320GB hard drive, you'll need 320GB of destination space. If you have 320GB to spare on your bootdrive proceed to step 3. Otherwise get another external drive with at least 320GB of space and then proceed to step 3.
3. Copy
The command given in the hint is:
You should replace
If you choose an external disk you should write
To summarise, your Terminal command would look as follows if you choose your boot drive as destination:
Or if you choose an external disk:
Good luck
I would try to recover from possible bad sectors using the non destructive $89 Spinrite software utility from GRC.
That requires opening the MacBook, unplug the harddrive, move the drive to a PC and attach it to a SATA connector on the PC motherboard.
Then start the PC using a Spinrite created bootable CD-ROM/floppy/USB stick.
When Spinrite its default level 4 (data recovery) fails, start at level 1, then run the next round on level 2, 3 and finally run spinrite at level 4.
Hard Disk Recovery or Hard Drive Recovery must be done by professional only.There are a variety of issues that can arise that can cause or lead to the malfunction of your hard drive. These problems are such that they can manifest themselves over a period of time or can happen suddenly, rendering your hard drive completely inaccessible.
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I have learned so much during the time I have written letters and read the opinions of so many.
It was a different experience for me to scan over the beliefs and disbeliefs. I've read about the people who have strong convictions to the country and their faith and those who have set one or both aside.
I have learned that you don't hang a flag upside down, except in distress unless it is a malfunction of the cord and pulley.
There are so many writers who love life and those who are minus a reaction to the unborn and compassion for the elderly.
At times I stood back and listened to so many lame excuses while fighting for our freedoms of life and religious liberty.
Many lessons of standing tall for what was important to America were equaled by those who found so much wrong with it.
I have heeded the great teachings of the wise by dismissing certain news broadcasts and abstaining from my daily cinnamon roll and coffee at my favorite fast food eatery.
It breaks my heart to know if I am an American of faith, my words can be deemed "invalid and irrelevant."
I have studied many letters this year and learned that there can be "poor losers" but also arrogant winners.
There can be many who remove our crosses, but never our faith and those who complain about our worship but can't stop our love of God.
I must admit that I had to question a family scholar as to why one's legs would have a "fuzzy feeling" after reading a letter.
There were five minutes of silence, then the explanation ... oh my.
Although most of my serious worries have been calmed, I've had many sleepless nights pondering over a letter that hinted of the Darwin/Wallace theory of evolution, by mentioning a "protruded cranial ridge."
Since I have to be absolutely sure of my heritage, I must ask, is there really a bigfoot? Is he a true patriot? Does he roam the forests of northern Jefferson County and, if found, do I call him daddy?
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In the Biblical account, Eve is the first to eat the forbidden fruit. Yet still the blame gets put on Adam and later on in the Bible it states that sin entered the world through one man.
Why is Adam considered the original sinner?
In the Biblical account, Eve is the first to eat the forbidden fruit. Yet still the blame gets put on Adam and later on in the Bible it states that sin entered the world through one man.
Why is Adam considered the original sinner?
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Genesis 3:6 (NIV) reveals that Adam was with Eve when she took the fruit.
Adam had the opportunity and authority to stop Eve from eating the fruit. While maybe not the best reason, I believe Adam could be considered the original sinner, because he did not act within his power to stop the sin from occuring.
This is something to remember when you are watching someone you have authority over entering into sin.
I still believe Eve sinned, though. 1 Corinthians 8 indicates that even when another causes you to sin, you still own your own sin.
From a technical perspective, Adam did sin first since his sin was allowing Eve's sin.
Also, for more on causing others to sin:
Adam was charged with a responsibility1 and he had an obligation to fulfill (which included protecting his wife). Yet he did nothing. The account of the fall in the garden includes the detail that he was at Eve's side2 the whole time and failed to fulfill that responsibility. He broke a covenant3.
Did Eve sin? Sure. Was Adam ultimately responsible? Yes.
I Timothy 2:13-15 clarifies that Eve was deceived (the serpent deceived her into thinking she could draw closer to God by gaining knowledge, etc), but Adam knew full well what he was doing was wrong.
See also II Corinthians 11 (on the deception of Eve)...
The fact that Eve was deceived does not make her guiltless. After all, God had explicitly instructed both Adam and Eve not to partake of the forbidden fruit. However, I think this (that Adam with full knowledge, without being deceived, partook of the fruit) is in harmony with Paul's line of thought in Romans 5:12, as he compared Adam with Christ, the antidote for sin.
Eve was made from Adam and all humanity made from Adam and Eve. This means all came from Adam. This bilogical fact seems to support and illustrate the spiritual counsel of God's will that Adam should be a federal head representing humanity. That Adam could obatin death, or eternal life based on the covenant of works, established by the two trees in the garden made his sin of all importance. In the same way Jesus is the new Adam and a new, second final representative federal head of all the new creation giving the meaning of the term 'the Son of man'. Furthermore, as God already knew about his plan for the second Adam when making the first, Adam properly prefigured Christ's authority over the church by his authority over Eve. Eve prefigured the churches life taken out from his side, loved and dear to him and submissive to his rule.
As Adam was brought under a covenant of works his actions alone were to achieve life or death for all humanity, as all humanity was subjoined under that covenant in him. As it turned out his actions brought death and Eve's only brought her own being treated as somewhat irrelevant in the New Testament.


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I am completely lost with encoding issues, I have no idea what's going on, what the problem is exactly and how to fix it.
Basically I'm just trying to read an HTML file from a Zip file, parse it then output pieces to XML. Now something funky is happening with the text I get out of the parser.
When parsing the HTML, instead of a space I get
á only if I write to the screen. If I keep it in a variable and write to a file it looks fine in the file. However even though it looks right in the XML something is wrong with it, my PHP parser can't parse that XML nor does IE seem to like it.
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A woman was extricated from a vehicle following a collision Friday morning in north Leavenworth, a police spokesman said.
The woman was taken to the hospital for minor injuries. The accident was reported at 7:25 a.m. Friday at Sixth and Pawnee streets.
A 30-year-old Fort Leavenworth man was driving east on Pawnee Street in a 2003 Chevrolet pickup when he allegedly ran a stop sign, according to Maj. Dan Nicodemus, deputy chief of the Leavenworth Police Department.
The truck collided with a southbound 2002 Toyota Camry Solara, which was driven by a 19-year-old Fort Leavenworth woman.
"She had some cuts from broken glass on her arm," Nicodemus said.
She was extricated from the vehicle by members of the Leavenworth Fire Department and transported to Saint Luke's Cushing Hospital by Leavenworth County EMS.
The driver of the pickup was cited by police for allegedly failing to stop at a stop sign and having no proof of insurance.
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Walsh leaders benched
Principal, vice principal removed amid charges of bullying
The action comes as an indirect result of state Department of Education audits of strengths and weaknesses at both Walsh and Crosby High School.
Crosby and Walsh are among the state's lowest performing schools, and, along with a handful of other struggling schools statewide, are close to entering a new state reform effort. Audits by state educational consultants are part of that process.
Findings released late Friday were harshly critical of Walsh's school leadership, especially in the area of staff relations.
"Interviews with staff indicate an atmosphere of fear and intimidation," reads the audit report. "...Staff reports that school leadership has threatened them with retribution if they do not support its decisions."
Ouellette said she was made aware of the findings in conversations with state staff March 15. Troubled by reports of intimidation, Ouellette had her staff interview Walsh educators this week. These interviews matched accounts given to state auditors, Ouellette said.
Ouellette placed Principal Erik Brown and Vice Principal Marie Zillo on paid leave Friday. She stressed that this is not punishment, and that there is no finding of guilt. She called it a maneuver to protect both staff and the accused during an investigation.
Ouellette and Paul Guidone, chief operating officer and chief of staff of city schools, were unable to say how long the investigation will take. They have hired attorney Frederick Dorsey as investigator. Dorsey led the investigation into allegations of test tampering at Hopeville Elementary School in 2011.
Ouellette has brought in retired administrators from Bridgeport and New Haven — Carolyn Dickens and DeNorris Crosby — to jointly run Walsh while Dorsey conducts his investigation.
"I need to make sure the work environment is healthy and safe for staff and students," Ouellette said in an interview Friday. "If it was any other school, I would do the same thing."
Attempts to reach Brown, Zillo and School Administrators of Waterbury union head Roxanne Augelli Friday were unsuccessful.
Friday's actions stoked a response from some of the city's African-American leaders. Brown is the city's only African-American building principal, and he has built a reputation for working with families in the neighborhood around Walsh. In recent months, some African-American leaders have repeatedly accused the school administration of maneuvering to dump Brown.
Walsh School Governance Board head Athena Wagner on Friday accused school leaders of trying to get Brown out of the way so they could misappropriate money coming through the state reform initiative.
"The diehard supporters of Principal Brown will do whatever it takes to ensure Principal Brown remains at Walsh," Wagner said. "We feel he's the only person in place at Walsh School to ensure that the money goes to the needs of our black, brown and poor babies at Walsh School. They have been denied long enough."
The Rev. Leroy O. Perry of Mount Olive A.M.E. Zion Church, another Brown supporter, had a milder response to the investigation Friday. He said he understands the schools have to react to the accusations, and he expects Brown will be exonerated.
"I think our community does have a lot of confidence in Mr. Brown," Perry said. "He has nothing on his record to show he's not capable of being the principal."
Walsh, located in a blighted inner-city neighborhood, has nearly 500 students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. Hispanics make up 58.3 percent of the student body, African Americans are 33.6 percent and whites are 5.5 percent.
Ninety-seven percent qualify for free or reduced price lunch. Walsh has the lowest Connecticut Mastery Test scores in the city.
In 2011, Brown was placed on paid leave for a few days after reports that he spanked a child.
He was reinstated with a letter of reprimand placed in his file, which was to be removed if he went one year without a similar lapse in judgment.
Teachers have filed at least five official complaints against Brown — four with the Board of Education and one with the state Board of Labor Relations — concerning his handling of discipline.
Teachers complained that Brown would often let misbehaving students off without punishment, violating the schools' discipline policies and undermining discipline in their classrooms. That complaint reappeared in the new state audit.
"Staff believes that disciplinary issues are mishandled by the administration and that they receive little support for managing serious behavioral issues," the report reads. "They indicate that there have been incidents where students sent to the office for serious behavioral incidents were rewarded with lunch with the principal or a lollipop."
In 2009, Brown argued that discipline couldn't be applied in a cookie-cutter approach. Some Walsh students lack supervision at home, he said. Others face abuse, poverty or neglect. For some, a suspension would only lead to further lashing out, he said.
Reading a statement, Waterbury Teachers Association President Kevin Egan said, "Certainly, based on teacher reports, there is a serious question as to Mr. Brown's leadership style."
Ouellette said Friday that she wasn't aware of previous indications of intimidation at Walsh.
Complaints of intimidation at Walsh have not appeared in union grievances in recent years. The state audit report attributes that to the climate of fear.
"The union reported that there have not been any grievances filed because of this atmosphere," the audit reads.
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Former Walsh Teacher wrote on Mar 23, 2013 7:22 AM:
Big Sir wrote on Mar 23, 2013 8:35 AM:
Keep these two leaders away from our teachers and kids forever....
And to all the "community Leaders and to Jimmie Griffin" try to get past the race thing and thank you God that your kids now have a shot at learnig..... "
conservative1 wrote on Mar 23, 2013 8:43 AM:
Now he is out.
I have no knowledge of his job performance as I am not a local black leader. I do know I would never have hired him or would have FIRED him for his lack of Christian faith compassion. Not allowing Christians (or any other faith) to celebrate is a little too radical for anyone I want influencing our children. "
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theother wrote on Mar 23, 2013 9:26 AM:
Sigh wrote on Mar 23, 2013 9:31 AM:
Big Sir wrote on Mar 23, 2013 10:46 AM:
Athena wrote on Mar 23, 2013 12:47 PM:
There's so many loopholes & contradictions in this story it's not even funny.
The attempted public professional assassination didn't work and this clear attempt at a public character assassination won't work either:
The fairness of this process is getting real contaminated by a certain few individuals, but it won't go unchallenged! "
Amom wrote on Mar 23, 2013 1:37 PM:
parent of a student wrote on Mar 23, 2013 2:45 PM:
EndWorkplaceBullyingNow wrote on Mar 23, 2013 3:26 PM:
This has been a critical issue since Dr. Snead's tenure... not just here but at other Waterbury schools too! In a time when our district's focus is on creating positive school climates and professional learning communities, it is sad that in some schools, teachers and students are subjected to environments that are anything but positive or professional.
The leadership downtown MUST take a stand to support teachers, staff, and students to say that this era of bullying within the workplace must end! It is very disheartening to be in a district where our superintendent, BOE, and mayor don't do anything (or enough) to end this ongoing issue that is occurring at some of our schools.
"Bullying Happens Everywhere - The presence of bullying reflects the nature of humans as they interact at work. It is no disgrace that it occurs in your organization. It would be rare if it did not. What matters most is what owners, executives, and boards do when it is brought to their attention. They can choose to either sustain or stop it." ~Dr. Namie (an authority on workplace bullying)
It shouldn't matter who you know OR to whom you are related.
NO ONE has the right to subject teachers and staff to ongoing instances of intimidation. Teachers and staff should not be subjected to workplace bullying - "a systematic campaign of interpersonal destruction that jeopardizes your health, your career, the job you once loved." (workplacebullying.org)
If we lead by example, what kind of example are we giving our students?
Adult Bullying in Schools - "Student bullying is well-recognized and no longer accepted as a rite of passage. Already schools across the country are demanding policies that address bullying among students. Yet policymakers fail to recognize that the context for student bullying and violence in the school environment is created and sustained by the adults. Bullying is bad anywhere, but bullying in the presence of students is triply harmful. It makes involuntary witnesses of children, it models bullying for them, and it undermines teachers' moral authority to stop student violence." (WorkplaceBullyingInSchools.com)
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." ~Martin Luther King Jr. "
Tired wrote on Mar 23, 2013 5:39 PM:
ratsmik wrote on Mar 23, 2013 7:04 PM:
Time to clean up Waterbury from these hard headed parasites. "
you got it right... wrote on Mar 23, 2013 8:40 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Mar 23, 2013 9:09 PM:
You are the problem. you and your child. Your child disturbs the class and holds all the other students back, all so you can have him in a normal class when he isnt normal. He needs to be in a special class in a special school.
No child left behind= EVERY CHILD LEFT BEHIND. "
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M wrote on Mar 23, 2013 10:07 PM:
To Conservative1: you sure do spew a great deal of anger and opinion when it comes to education. As many posters have said over the years - go to a school and check things out. Find out what is currently happening. There is no such thing as "special ed, classrooms" Inclusion has been in place well over 10 years. The only separate classrooms are the BDLC (behavior disability learning centers) which only have a few kids in each grade level at a handful of schools in the district. I think there are also 2 "essential skills" classrooms for students with severe physical and intellectual disabilities. Special schools do not exist! Parents don't have many choices. I'm not saying this way always works best for everyone involved, it's just the way it is right now. For many students,inclusion works beautifully. I don't think this parent deserved to be so harshly judged without knowing the whole story. By the way, No Child Left Behind was not about students with learning disabilities. "
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there is no way in the world i would ever allow my child to go to those terrible institutions. "
wtbywtchdog wrote on Mar 23, 2013 10:47 PM:
Your statements are as true as they can get. The problem would be replacing half the city employees since at least that many have connections "
Tax Payer wrote on Mar 24, 2013 8:53 AM:
Knowitall wrote on Mar 24, 2013 9:35 AM:
There are great schools in Waterbury and those great schools have great administrators. My Brown has never been a great administrator. For that matter he has never even been an adaquate adminstrator. This has been brought to the attention of the BOE many,many times but they always turned a deaf ear, as they always do.The BOE would not touch him because he was Dr.Snead's baby.
Until the BOE starts caring about kids and starts asking and listening to those who are actually working in the schools, I assure you NOTHING is going to change. "
Jimmie griffin wrote on Mar 24, 2013 11:00 AM:
Curious wrote on Mar 24, 2013 11:26 AM:
conservative1 wrote on Mar 24, 2013 12:57 PM:
This is the best letter I've ever read by you. Finally a black leader who wants to lead, rather than sit back and blame whitey for their community's failings. For a long time this city has bent over backwards to accommodate minorities. They've been given the new schools, the grants, the free rides in the private schools with very few successes. I think it is because NO ONE appreciates the value of anything they receive for free. Those that struggle appreciate what they've earned. There are thousands of examples in the projects across the city. Minorities need to stop blaming the white man and hold their families and neighbors accountable for their children's lives. Only then will things change. Mr Griffin, your letter is a beginning. I hope you and others run with it. "
jimmie griffin wrote on Mar 24, 2013 2:43 PM:
It is what it is wrote on Mar 24, 2013 4:18 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Mar 25, 2013 11:06 PM:
We have coddled minorities far too long. We ruined the last 3 generations of them. They are dependent on the government. Will we coddle a 4th generation? They are no better off than when they relied on their owners back in slave days. "
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Curious wrote on Mar 26, 2013 1:18 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Mar 26, 2013 4:02 PM:
Lets look at the Reed School in 5 years. It will also be all tagged and run down. We both know why. Because the people that live there and go there didn't pay for or earn anything.
They don't pay taxes, they get free rent, cell phones, healthcare, groceries. Why would they take care of anything? My answers, you won't like, but they are the truth.
SMITH are you a property owner? Do you pay city taxes? If yes then your children DESERVE an education. If not, I'm not so sure I owe you anything.
When I was a kid we had riots in this city. Blacks demanded to be bussed to WHITE schools to be taught by WHITE teachers. Fast forward 40 years and they now want to go to neighborhood schools with BLACK teachers because whites don't know how to teach blacks. Again we humor the black and build them new schools to ruin. Give them black teachers. Now you want to go back to the "white" school. ugh "
Curious wrote on Mar 26, 2013 9:39 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Mar 26, 2013 11:22 PM:
I would sell blood and work 4 jobs if I had to, to keep my kids out of our public schools.
If I remember correctly, It was Mayor OLeary who sent the crews up to clean up the school yard. If it was a jungle before that, blame Snead, the BOE, and Jarjura. I rarely drive in that area of town since I retired. (spend 20+ years giving free rides to the hospital in that neighborhood).
I know 1 thing about Mr Brown. He is anti Christian. Were I Ms Oulette or Mayor OLeary, I would ORDER him to allow the kids to celebrate Christian, Jewish, Muslim or any other religious holidays. If he argued, I'd fire him. That is my only bone with Mr Brown. I have no idea how well he does his job otherwise. As I said before, Jesus Christ himself is the only one that could pull this school system out of the abyss.
Where are the clergy asking for this man to be fired for his anti religious bah humbug leadership?
My kids went to Catholic and then private schools, and yes I volunteered at schools, all the parents do. That's why our schools aren't failing and our kids do well. We're INVOLVED and INVESTED. "
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A few articles (such as "Misconceptions about Medieval Medicine: Humors, Leeches, Charms, and Prayers") state that Hippocrates observed that blood, when removed from the body, would separate into four layers, and that this stratification partially inspired his humoral theory. What passages from antiquity describe this observation? Is it mentioned anywhere in the Hippocratic corpus? If so, where?
What is the earliest passage that describes Hippocrates' observation that blood stratifies into four layers?
This thesis appeared in the "The Humans nature" book. Ancients thought it was the work of Hippocrates, but sooner it was the work of his son-in-law Polibius.
It is got from STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA (REALE - ANTISERI), the first volume.
Oh, wiki says this, too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Nature_of_Man (On the Nature of Man is a work in the Hippocratic Corpus.)
What about observations, it is not strange to me, that very few articles mention observations conducted by Hyppocrates. In the Antic world the knowledge had to be pure, not tainted by the low reality. It had to go from inside. Remember Aristoteles, that thought that flies have 4 legs and never tried to recount. So, even if Hippocrates did measured something (he could, for medicine couldn't be without practice), he would never write about it somewhere. IMHO, the articles mentioned fall into the vice of anachronism. They give post-Bacon philosophy to the scientists of the pre-Bacon times.
Even if there will be found some later work that would mention such observations of Hippocrates, it would be mostly probable, that some later scientist simply covered so his own observations by the authority of Hippocrates - very usual practice in the Middle Ages.


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I am having trouble building mpif77/mpif90 with gfortran on Mac OS 10.5. Or maybe just running. The configure, make all, and make install seemed to go just fine, finding my gfortran and apparently using it, but the scripts mpif77 and mpif90 give the error that my openmpi was not built with fortran bindings. Mpicc and mpicxx don't give this error. Ompi_info says the f77 and f90 bindings were built.
I know that OS X 10.5 comes with openmpi mpicc and mpicxx installed, but not fortran bindings, and I was careful to put the openmpi I built first in the path.
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16 Aug 2012 5:40 AM #1
Unanswered: Sencha Touch 2 + External URL
is there some easy way to load external websites like google.com into a tabpanel?
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Wait for the Next beta of Touch 2.1.
Beta 2 includes an option for native opening of a URL (in a new browser)
However, the native packager does not support it yet. The bug-report about it not working confirms that it will be working in the next beta.
From 2.1B3 you should be able to use Ext.device.Device.openURL()
http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?236532Sven Tore Iversen
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any news ?
On Android I have a blank page, on iOS, I cant go back to my app
Should I use this ? http://docs.sencha.com/touch/2-1/#!/...method-openURL
but how in this ?
items: [ { docked: 'top', xtype: 'titlebar', title: 'mail me' }, { docked:'top', xtype: 'container', html: ['

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Please Is there any news on this ? On do I manage url in a packed application ?
Noone's answering, neither here : http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...app-etc./page2
1 Dec 2012 12:14 AM #8
In Native iOS it's already working when using Touch 2.1 and Cmd 3, however for Android/other the only solution is still PhoneGapSven Tore Iversen
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Thanks! :-)
May you have an example with open url in iOS?
Will my app be slow down with phone gap in Android ?
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release date for android version of Ext.device.Device.openUrl using sencha cmd
Can you please come up with a release date for when the Ext.device.Device.openUrl will work for android devices (using sencha cmd)? I have read all the posts on sencha forum/stack overflow and really none of them are working for android apk's...
Quite the job getting sencha.cmd working at all. Would be a waste throwing it all away if I have to migrate to phonegap.inge johnsen


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Smith outdueled Baylor's Nick Florence, who had a standout game of his own with 581 yards and five TDs.
Baylor's Terrance Williams set a Big 12 record with 314 yards receiving. The old mark was set minutes earlier by West Virginia's Stedman Bailey, who had 303 yards and five TDs.
Williams' 8-yard scoring catch brought Baylor (3-1) within 70-63 with 3:08 left.
But Dustin Garrison ran for 17 yards on third down and the Mountaineers (4-0) ran out the clock.
It marked the most points scored in a game involving a team ranked in The Associated Press poll. The previous record of 124 was set in No. 12 Oklahoma's 82-42 win over Colorado in 1980.


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Do you use any cloud backup services?
It seems there are a lot of cloud services giving away free storage. It is usually 25-50GB and really isn't nearly enough for any decent backup. I am looking to mainly backup my personal documents and pictures. Everyone has heard of Carbonite and Dropbox, but are there better services out there to use? I am looking for about 500GB of storage space.
What service do you use? How long have you used it? How much space do you have?
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My mom used to tell me I shouldn't go around with my head in the clouds and I am still following that advice. I have a feeling this "cloud storage" thing is going to be my old-fogey breaking point. I just don't trust it.
Xbox and PS3. That's it.
I use the cloud for stuff that I want to access from multiple devices. Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive, iTunes, Google Music, Amazon Cloud Drive, etc. All are free and I am certainly not worried about all of them disappearing.
@morriea: All of the same except for iTunes, and only eBooks and music. I carry a 1Tb portable drive with me at all times, which contains all of my music, eBooks, pictures, docs and email. Do a full back-up once a week. Gives me some peace of mind.
@oscaroni: I like the cut of your jib
There's a difference between Dropbox and a true online back-up. Dropbox, Google Drive, etc are more just drive space in the cloud, i.e. hosted by some company accessible via the internet. They're great to put files up and pull down when you need to work on them, especially if you tend to work in multiple places and with teams.
External HDDs are great but aren't foolproof because they get corrupted, damaged, stolen, etc. I do a local back-up and a cloud back-up. Local back-ups are great for the immediate restore but doesn't protect your from all the mentioned and burglary, fires, etc.
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For a cloud back-up, I use Crashplan. Carbonite, Crashplan, and many others differ from Dropbox, Drive, Live, etc in that instead of having to keep your docs in the cloud, you can keep your docs on your computer and there's an app always running that will synchronize the copies on your local machine to what's in the back-up. And they all offer a number of options for a restore - either download of some files or them sending you DVD of your files.
White Cloud is great for backup jobs. http://www.mywhitecloud.com/Tissue
I am using dropbox for portable stuff, and Google cloud drive.
I have used Spideroak for auto-backup. If you go that way, you need to read all the FAQs and understand all they tell you about extracting data when the primary source is lost, deleting data, versioning, etc. Spideroak is designed to be HIPA compliant and resilient to govt standards. It will do the job, but is not completely simple to setup.
Not using it now as that machine is down and I haven't set it up on my laptop.
Before you go with a service, think it thru. And maybe talk to someone in a corporation IT dept if you are unfamiliar with the issues. How many old versions do you want to be able to retrieve of critical files? Photos? Personal videos? Less personal items like ripped CDs, mp3s, ripped Dvds?
Are you willing to lose you non-personal media and re-create it later if you really care?
If I backed up all my media it would be lots of terabytes, not worth it to me. The personal items are far smaller.
Also there are issues like security, speed, bandwidth use, load on the local system, and whether to install the service on multiple machines. I never persued it far enough to get a solution I was satisfied with - my fault.
I do suggest you try before you buy, in case you hate something about a particular vendor.
In my opinion, buying a 1TB+ external hard drive is much cheaper than a cloud subscription.
But here's the problem, hard drives tend to fail over time in around ten years or so of usage/non-usage. Due to motor problems or the magnetism on the discs disrupts your data. Really, things could happen like from above poster.
At least with cloud services, your data is put into a redundant number of hard drives (called RAID) so if one drive fails, the other could be backed up. Thats usually the selling point.
So it's really you call if you want to use cloud services, which is IMO depends what you use it for.
I tend to just keep a USB drive looking key with me, they also have a credit card version of it. (Disclaimber: These are random links and I have not bought from these links. Links were for sample purposes only.)
As for cloud usage, if you have wifi or a data plan then this would be perfect to get to files anywhere you go.
I use Backblaze. I used Carbonite for a few years and then switched to Backblaze when I needed to backup an external drive. I don't know if this is still true or not, but in the past you couldn't backup an external drive using Carbonite.
I also like that Backblaze gives you the option to order an external harddrvie with you data on it if you ever need to restore. It's costly ($189), but you only pay when/if you actually need it. You can also restore by having the software download the files, but that would take forever.
Backblaze is about $10 per year cheaper than Carbonite.
In Windows Explorer, Carbonite put little green dots on files that were already backed up and orange dots on those pending backup. It was reassuring to see exactly which files were backed up. Backblaze does not do this, but you can see a list of which files are backed up somewhere in the software itself.
@coondogg97: Just ran across this offer for 50 GB of free storage:
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As an IT professional working with non-profits in health, I'd recommend SpiderOak. It encrypts your data before sending it to be backed up and stays encrypted. Only you have the password to decrypt the data. It also has an algorithm to keep multiple versions of your files, while using about the same amount of space required to store the current version. You can sync files and folders between machines with SpiderOak setup, and it can recognize which version of the file is the newest. You don't notice it once it's setup. I know @f00l mentioned that it was more complicated to setup, but it is straight-forward if you are willing to read the options in the GUI; though I am biased.
Pricing is: $10 per month per 100 GB, or $100 per year per 100 GB.
Dropbox is not secure, and has a history of not being transparent with their security issues. We've tried iDrive which had a high failure rate, and would rarely alert us. Cloud storage pricing is all about the same, so I'd recommend SpiderOak.
I use the following services since they're free):
50GB at Box.com (from a promotion as listed above)
2GB at Dropbox,
5GB Google drive
5GB Amazon cloud drive
7GB Skydrive
But I have a local mirrored backup of all my files ;-) so as to no put all my eggs in a single basket


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The San Francisco Lit Crawl consists of dozens of literary events that occur on the same night in the Mission district. It's like a pub crawl, but instead, has hundreds of people who are part of LitQuake going from reading to reading.
An event will occur at Noisebridge during phase 2 of the Crawl, which is between 7.15 and 8.15 pm on October 19.
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Safety First!
Warmer weather and lengthening hours of daylight beckon, and kids are answering the call. You can help keep them safe by reviewing some of the simple safety rules below.
Wooded Areas
- Brief your children on what to do if they get lost in the woods after dark. Let them know that their best survival bet, if lost, is to stay in one place and wait to be found.
- Equip your children with a small penlight attached to a key chain or clipped to the inside of a jacket or coat. Tell them it's not a toy and should only be used for emergencies.
- Attach a small whistle to the zipper of a coat. A whistle is an ideal signaling device, if a child is lost or hurt.
Dark and Dusk
Rising temperatures and increasing hours of daylight bring with them a corresponding increase in traffic accidents involving kids and cars. The periods of greatest risk are the hours just before and after sunset. During periods of twilight, visibility is limited and a driver's depth perception is reduced by low light levels.
- All evening play clothes (especially jackets, coats, and wind breakers) should have reflective cloth strips. So should bikes, helmets, and backpacks.
- Evening strolls should include a flashlight especially if all or most of the walking is alongside roads and streets without sidewalks.
- Bike riding should be specifically prohibited, unless the bike has been equipped with reflectors, head lamps, and other night-riding safety features.
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- Stop all play when a vehicle is spotted; move to the side of the road and resume play only after the vehicle has passed.
- Use inexpensive traffic cones marked "Play Area Ahead" to advise drivers that kids may be in the road ahead. Cones should be placed on the center line, so as not to block traffic a few hundred feet away from the play area. Remove cones when kids are finished playing or bike riding.
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- Banks of rivers and streams are very unstable and prone to collapse during periods of high water. Stay away.
- Do not trust spring ice on ponds and lakes. Warm days and cold nights result in weak and mushy ice. Stay off the ice.
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Let your leftovers determine what you'll make this week
Meal Planning Around Leftovers
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One thing you can do to save money is use up the food in your fridge and not let it go to waste. People waste a lot of food, especially in the United States, and wasting food also wastes money. By cleaning out your fridge each week before you go shopping and planning your meals around what needs to be used, you can eliminate food waste as well as not waste the money you have already spent on the food. To understand what I am talking about, I will share an example of the process I go through each week.
- I cleaned my fridge this morning before I went shopping. There were several things I found that needed to be used, including ricotta cheese, leftover chicken and rice casserole, cabbage, two granny smith apples, one lemon, sour cream, a little bit of whipping cream, a piece of cooked chicken, a few yams, some collard greens, sliced cheddar cheese, and a pound of grass fed beef.
- To use up the ricotta cheese, I plan to buy manicotti or lasagna noodles and make one of the two. If money is tight one week, I may choose to make a lasagna casserole with pasta I already have in the house.
- I have a white chicken chili recipe that uses both sour cream and also some whipping cream, so I will put that on our menu for the week. My family loves this chili, and it is very easy to make. I can also use part of the cooked chicken in the fridge for the chili.
- The leftover chicken and rice casserole will be used for dinner one night or for lunch one day.
- I will use the rest of the cooked chicken to make chicken enchiladas or chicken quesadillas. I can use some of the sliced cheese I need to use up in either of these recipes, too. I can also finish off the rest of the sour cream that I don't use in the chicken chili.
- The yams will be eaten with dinner for the next two days or sent with my husband in his lunch.
- To use the collard greens, I will make a recipe that calls for spinach and just substitute the collard greens instead of the spinach. Spinach pies sound like a good idea, so I will buy feta cheese and use the collard greens and onions I already have and put them in a homemade dough. I will also make some Arabic meat pies with the grass fed beef in the fridge and use the same dough I use for the spinach pies.
- The granny smith apples could be used in an apple crisp, but I am going to use the apples to make a homemade apple oatmeal coffee cake that we really like.
- The lemon will be used to make some hummus, and I can make some homemade pita bread to go with it for lunch one day.
- The sliced cheese will be used for grilled cheese sandwiches as well as the enchiladas or quesadillas mentioned above.
- The cabbage needs to be used, so I will make a stir fry this week.
This is the process I go through in planning my menus around the leftover food in the fridge. This way, I don't waste the food I already bought. This is financially wise as well as eco-friendly. I also look in our freezer and see if there are things that need to be used or things I want to rotate or use up. We are going to get two bountiful baskets this Saturday, so I will have lots of produce. I will use the extra frozen veggies and fruits that I have in the freezer until Saturday when we get the baskets, so I don't have to buy any fresh produce until then. If I see that I can't use up something before it will spoil, I will freeze it and use it later.
For this week, our menu includes:
White chicken chili
Grilled cheese
Chicken enchiladas or quesadillas
Arabic meat pies and spinach pies
Manicotti or lasagna
Chicken and rice casserole leftovers
Soft tacos with the leftover homemade tortillas used in the enchiladas
Stir fry
If Americans really waste 20-25 percent of the food they buy, imagine how much money you could save by not wasting the food you have. By following this process of cleaning out your fridge each week, figuring out what food needs to be used up and planning menus around those foods, you can feel the satisfaction of using what you have wisely.
Marianne Giullian is a stay-at-home mom who enjoys finding ways to save money so they can live on one income. She likes to cook, read, and write. For more ideas, visit her website at Spendwise.org.
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The Carmi Lions Club will be celebrating Candy Day Saturday, Oct. 6. Members of the club will be located at the intersection of Main and Oak Streets in Carmi to sell the products for fundraiser. The money collected will be used to help fight blindness and to purchase eyeglasses for the visually impaired.
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