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Taste-Test All Items on Your Food Truck's Menu
Taste-test all your menu items before making a final decision to serve them from your food truck. Modify or discard any food that doesn't meet your quality standards. This testing is an important technique to control the quality of the food you may ultimately serve to the public.
Hosting a taste-testing party is one way you can get feedback from friends, family, staff, and even local foodies. Offer samples of menu items to the party participants and record their responses and body language when sampling.
Getting these reactions can be an invaluable source of feedback before you open your food truck, before you try a new recipe of an existing menu item, or before you start offering a new menu item.
When preparing to taste-test a menu item, review the recipe, noting ingredients and preparation procedures. Set up criteria for these tests based on the following:
Now answer the following questions about each item:
How does the item look?
How does the item taste?
Is the item at the proper temperature?
Is the texture of the item correct (moist, firm, crunchy, and so on)?
Is the item acceptable to serve?
If you determine that a menu item isn't acceptable to serve, decide whether you can modify it to meet quality standards or whether you should simply discard it. Determine how you can change the recipe or preparation procedures to result in a product that makes the cut.
Practice the following food safety and sanitation measures when conducting taste tests:
Take a small sample from the pan with the serving spoon.
Place the sample on a separate plate.
Return the serving spoon to the pan. (Don't use the utensil you serve with as a tasting utensil.)
Don't taste the food sample over the pan.


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The July 2006 issue of Environment & Climate News features a two-article debate on ethanol. Dennis Avery, director of the Center for Global Food Issues, warns "the enthusiasm for ethanol ... has serious agricultural consequences we must address before pursuing this alternative." Heartland Science Director Jay Lehr, by contrast, contends "we are far too resourceful" to allow the stumbling blocks described by Avery to get in the way of increased ethanol utilization.
On page 1:
- Pennsylvania toughens its laws against eco-terrorists;
- water districts and state governments are working together to combat invasive aquatic weeds;
- states are split on whether they should impose mercury standards more strict than those imposed by the federal government; and
- African nations are launching a full-scale attack against malaria, using DDT.
Also in this issue: air quality, chemicals, corporate farming, Kyoto and carbon trading, nuclear power, climate change, sustainability, tobacco and public health, and biotechnology.
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Classroom Issues
- Academic Integrity
- Admissions
- Blackboard
- Book Orders and The Lehman Bookstore
- Campus Security and Personal Safety
- Career Services Center
- Class Rosters
- Counseling Center
- CUNY Proficiency Exam (CPE)
- Disruptive Classroom Behavior
- Duplicating and Copyrights
- Final Examinations
- Grading System and Related Policies
- Grade Changes
- Graduate Bulletin
- Instructional Support Service Program/Tutoring
- Lehman Online
- Services for Students with Special Needs
- Student Course Evaluations
- Student Handbook [PDF]
- Student Health Center
- Student Records and Confidentiality
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is an important issue. Therefore, it is vital that you understand all policies regarding academic integrity [PDF]. You can find details on academic integrity in our 2009-2011 Undergraduate Bulletin, which is available on Lehman College's website, and the Faculty Report Form For Suspected and/or Adjudicated Incidents of Academic Dishonesty. If you have any questions regarding this issue, contact the Office of Academic Standards and Evaluations at 718-960-8104.
It is recommended that both faculty and students read the CUNY Graduate Center document Avoiding and Detecting Plagiarism[PDF] for specific examples of various kinds of plagiarism.
The platform used by CUNY for online teaching is Blackboard. Blackboard also can be used to facilitate communication with students in your classrooms or to post syllabi and assignments. You are strongly encouraged to become familiar with the Blackboard system, which is available through the CUNY Portal or through http://blackboard-doorway.cuny.edu
Book Orders and The Lehman Bookstore
Book orders for course texts are placed through the Lehman bookstore. Orders should be placed at least four weeks before the start of your course. For further information on how to place book orders, call the bookstore at 718-295-0800.
Campus Security and Personal Safety
If you witness behavior that threatens an individual or campus property, don't hesitate to contact Public Safety immediately at the Department's emergency number, 718-960-7777.
Career Services Center
The Career Services Center (CSC) at Lehman College assists students by integrating career development, job opportunities, internships, and technology into their academic experiences. For further information on their services, visit the CSC offices in Shuster Hall, Room 254, or the Career Lab in Shuster Hall, Room 229.
Class Rosters
Class rosters are distributed by the Office of the Registrar. Rosters may change during the first weeks of class and are finalized approximately the last week of September for the fall semester or in February for the spring semester.
You can obtain from your department updated rosters prior to the final, which is distributed by the Registrar's Office.
Counseling Center
The Counseling Center assists students with emotional, developmental, and psychological concerns that may be affecting their personal and academic growth. The Center serves the Lehman College community by providing individual and group counseling, crisis intervention, educational outreach, and supportive consultation to faculty, staff, and the administration. For further information about the Counseling Center's services, please visit the Center in the Old Gym Building, Room 114.
Disruptive Class Behavior
If students are engaged in any inappropriate, but non-threatening behavior, report it to the Office of Student Affairs, located in Shuster Hall, Room 206, or at 718-960-8241.
Duplicating and Copyrights
In order for copyrighted materials to be reproduced for classroom use, without infringement of the copyright, the materials must meet the tests for fair use, brevity, spontaneity, and cumulative effect. Copied materials should not substitute for the purchase of books or reprints, and a given set of materials should not be repeatedly used by the same instructor from semester to semester.
Copyright laws apply to microcomputer software.
Final Examinations
A written final classroom examination is required in every course and must be held at the time scheduled by the Registrar's Office. A graduating senior may be exempted from a final examination if the policy of the department or program is to exempt graduating seniors from final examinations. A student who misses a final examination in only one course required for graduation is entitled to a special exam, provided that the student has a passing Grade Point Average in the course.
A student who misses a final examination for valid reasons may, after consultation with the instructor, be given a makeup final exam. The instructor must report the student's final grade in the course to the Office of the Registrar no later than the last day of classes of the following semester.
Grading System and Related Policies
Please review Lehman's policies on grading undergraduate students in our 2009-2011 Undergraduate Bulletin, which is available on Lehman College's website. If you have any questions regarding completion of the final grade-sheet, please consult with your Department Chair.
See also: Grade Appeals - Grading System I - Grading System II.
Grade Changes
The college form for grade changes originates with the instructor, and must be reviewed and signed by the Chair before being forwarded to the Office of Academic Standards and Evaluation. The Chair ensures that the information provided is both complete and accurate.
The following samples are intended to provide guidelines for completing grade changes and A-1 forms in accordance with academic policies established by the Lehman College Senate, CUNY, and the New York State Department of Education. They are by no means inclusive, nor do they establish formal wording patterns. They do, however, suggest what constitutes appropriate and/or legal reasons for various types of recommendations. All grade changes require a reason. Even if the "clerical" box is checked, a note specifying the clerical error must be entered.
Change of one letter grade to another
Appropriate reasons:
- Miscalculated average
- Read wrong line in grade book
Inappropriate Reasons:
- Submitted missing work - indicates original grade should have been INC
- Submitted additional work - College policy does not allow additional work
- Did extra-credit assignment - College policy does not allow additional work
- Reevaluated work - explanation of error needed
- Made up exam - indicates original grade should have been INC
Change from an Incomplete to a grade
The grade of Incomplete is awarded only when the course requirement has not been completed for good and sufficient reasons and when there is a reasonable expectation that the student can successfully complete the requirements of the course.
Appropriate Reasons:
- Took make-up final
- Submitted missing paper
- Submitted missing lab project
- Handed in final project
- Clerical with an explanation of how the incomplete was given in error
Inappropriate Reasons:
- Clerical (no reason) - indicates original grade was an error - explanation needed
- Retook final - College policy does not allow additional work
- Submitted extra work - same as above
- Revised paper - same as above
Change of an Official Withdrawal (WU) to an F, to an Incomplete, or to a letter grade
The grade of WU is assigned by the Office of the Registrar as a result of a comment on the instructor's grade sheet. Normally the comment will indicate either that the student never attended or a specific last date of attendance. The comment "absent from final" will result in a WU. The comment "attended sporadically" may also result in the assignment of a WU. The grade is assigned by the Registrar because it is not intended to render an academic judgment. It carries the same academic penalty as an F, but does not reflect failing work. Rather it reflects a lack of attendance and communication.
Appropriate Reasons:
- (Clerical) Misread grade book. Student attended all semester and earned a grade of ***.
- Student was absent from the final and has now contacted me. An INC is in order. (This is only appropriate if the comment on the grade sheet is absent from a final, passing term average of ***.)
Inappropriate Reasons:
- For a WU to an F or NC, clerical cannot be a reason, particularly if the comment on the grade sheet indicated a last day of attendance.
- For a WU to a grade, any comment suggesting work submitted. If there is a reason why the WU should have been an INC, then a separate form must be submitted indicating a reason for the change. (Submission of attendance records may be required.)
Change of any grade to an Incomplete
Appropriate Reasons:
- Student did not take a final, and a grade was given based on term average. Student has acceptable reason for missing the final.
- Student did not hand in the final paper or lab project and has provided documentation of an appropriate reason. Grade calculated based on missing paper.
Inappropriate Reasons:
- Student will resubmit the paper
- Student will take make up exam
- Student will do extra work
Instructional Support Service Program/Tutoring
It is important to identify students who may be in academic difficulty as early as possible. Students who may have a problem with literacy or assignments may be referred to the Instructional Support Service Program/Tutoring, located in the Old Gym Building.
Lehman Online
Lehman Online is a program that supports faculty interested in online teaching and provides instruction, connectivity, and equipment when needed.
Services for Students with Special Needs
You may receive notice from the Office of Special Student Services if a student with a disability is registered for one of your courses. If you have any questions about what constitutes reasonable accommodations, contact the Office of Special Student Services at 718-960-8441 or 718-960-8931 (TTY).
Student Course Evaluations
At the end of each course, students are given the opportunity to evaluate the course using a scan-sheet questionnaire. Course evaluations are an important part of decisions regarding tenure and the Certificate of Continuous Employment (CCE). It is important to see that these are conducted. Evaluation forms and scan-sheets are available in your Department at the end of each semester.
Ultimately, it is the Chair's responsibility to share the results of the evaluation with faculty prior to having them filed in the faculty personnel file. All student evaluations are to be included in the candidate's tenure and promotion files.
Student Health Center
The Student Health Center, located in the T-3 building, provides office visits, physical examinations, women's health visits, men's health visits, immunizations, vaccinations, in-house lab testing, prescription medications, and over-the-counter medications for students, among other services.
Student Records and Confidentiality
If a person requests information about a student's performance, attendance, or any other personal information, refer him/her to the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs in Shuster Hall, Room 206, or at 718-960-8241.No faculty member should discuss personal student information with anyone other than the student.


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The 7 Most Soul-Crushing Series Finales in TV History
#3. David the Gnome Hits Mandatory Death Age
If you grew up watching Nickelodeon around the early 90s, you probably have some vague memories of a cartoon from overseas centered around gnomes in colorful, pointy hats mingling with forest creatures.
"No! Not The Littl' Bits! They were pixies! Come on!"
For nearly eight years, The World of David the Gnome ran (and reran and reran) on Nickelodeon's then-new "Nick Jr." lineup. David, his wife, Lisa, and his best friend, Swift the fox, spent their days in the forest helping animals and other gnomes in need and avoiding the trouble-making trolls.
They were creepy douchebags.
In most episodes, there was a lesson for the youngsters about different types of animals or about treating the environment with respect. And, on the last episode, the young children got to learn that every living thing dies!
Wait, What?
Apparently, gnomes can only live to be 400 years-old, and David and his wife were both 399 throughout the series. So, when they hit the big 4-0-0, it was time for them to trek all the way to the Mountains of Beyond with their fellow quad-centenarian, Casper, to die.
"Oh shit!"
Faithful as usual, Swift comes with them, but once they reach the mountains, he is not allowed to climb up with them. They bid him a tearful farewell and Swift watches as they all die and turn into trees.
Swift, now alone, and horribly sad, walks back down the mountain. But just to make sure the proceedings don't end entirely on a down note, Swift immediately meets a female fox and it's made eminently clear Swift will be consoling himself by tapping that.
#2. Little House on the Prairie Goes Out with a Bang
Nothing can bring back memories of hanging out at your grandma's house more than stealing Nana's estrogen supplements and selling them to your friends (claiming the "E" stands for "Ecstasy") and Little House on the Prairie. The show centered on the Ingalls family and other residents of the small Minnesota town of Walnut Grove in the 1870s and 80s.
Every episode was absolutely bursting with wholesome messages about faith, community, family and love (in other words porn for Grandmas). The show aired for nine years and was pretty successful throughout most of its original run and remains popular in syndication.
When the show finally ended in 1984, the writers decided to make an unforgettable ending, by obliterating the entire town in a series of massive explosions.
Wait, What?
The show ended with an hour-long special in which Nathan Lassiter, a scheming railroad tycoon, comes to town and, through a legal loophole, buys all the land in Walnut Grove out from under the residents, ordering their immediate evacuation. When they protest, Mr. Lassiter brings in a unit from the Union Army to force them out.
This causes one of the residents to get so upset she smashes out the windows to her house. This fit of violence inspires everybody else to follow her example and blow up the entire town. Because if there's one thing small-town folk are known for, it's their demolitions expertise.
Everyone gathers to take turns detonating their own buildings and saying, "Fuck you, Mr. Lassiter!" (metaphorically, of course).
In the end, only one little house remains. Did you guess it? Yup, the one on the prairie, and now that it's been abandoned; it's taken over by the rabbits they raised in the barn.
"The world's most adorable squatters."
#1. St. Elsewhere Kills a Kitten
Before was there was Grey's Anatomy or House, or any of the dozen medical shows currently on the air, St. Elsewhere was the medical drama. "St. Elsewhere" was a derogatory name given to St. Eligius Hospital, a rundown teaching hospital in Boston where the show took place.
Part of what made the show unique was frequent appearances by characters from other shows like Cheers, Mary Tyler Moore, and Chicago Hope as well as Elsewhere's characters showing up on other shows, even a decade after it's cancellation.
But part of what made St. Elsewhere so memorable was the last episode. The camera pans out from the hospital, showing snow beginning to fall. Then the scene switches to an autistic child playing with a toy in an apartment. One of doctors arrives wearing a construction worker's outfit, and talks to his father about how he wishes he knew what was going on in his son Tommy's head, "... he sits there all day long, in his own world, staring at that toy. What's he thinking about?"
That toy is actually a snow globe with a tiny St. Eligius inside, implying that the entire show (and all the shows referenced within) exist only in the imagination of child.
Wait, that's not very soul-crushing...Oh, and they also killed a kitten.
Wait, What?
Beginning in 1968, Mimsie the cat was the logo for MTM Enterprises. In the standard version, he looks up and gives an adorable mew. Throughout the years, different shows had made their own variations of the original.
Hill Street Blues deputized him:
Remington Steel gave him a Sherlock hat and pipe:
Bay City Blues animated him and had him catch a ball:
But, in 1988, when St. Elsewhere ended, they decided to take the cat down with them. As the final credits roll, Mimsie wasn't in his usual surgical mask and cap. Instead, an unconscious Mimsie is seen hooked up to a beeping heart monitor. And, at the very end of credits, he flat-lines, dying onscreen.
Now there's a lasting image for you. Also, are we the only ones who spent the entire 80s thinking that symbol up there was an ash tray?
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Brain Metastases in Lung Cancer: The Results of Radiosurgery in 238 Consecutive Patients
Diana Stripp, MD
University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
Last Modified: November 7, 2001
Presenter: B.E. Amendola
Presenter's Affiliation: Radiosurgery Department, Miami Neuroscience Center, Coral Gables, FL
Type of Session: Scientific
Materials and
Author's Conclusions
Clinical/Scientific Implications
Aggressive treatment for brain metastases from lung cancer may be considered in selected patients. The treatment of multiple brain metastasis with stereotactic radiosurgery has not been shown to improve outcome in prospective randomized trials. Radiosurgical treatment of solitary brain metastasis remains under investigation and the results of a recent RTOG trial should shed light on this subject.
Oncolink's ASTRO Coverage made possible by an unrestricted Educational Grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb Oncology and Pharmacia Oncology.


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6 Ways Companies Are Secretly Screwing Job Applicants
#3. Their Background Check May Turn Up Crimes You Didn't Commit
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Submitting candidates to a background check is a routine part of many employers' hiring practices. In fact, according to one survey, "About 93 percent of employers conduct criminal background checks on some applicants, while 73 percent of employers conduct checks on all applicants." And it makes perfect sense, if you look at it from the employers' perspective -- one in four people in the U.S. has a criminal record, and if the guy applying for your open teaching position was once busted for running a sweatshop thinly disguised as a day care, that's something you kind of need to know about.
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"Sorry, Maddy, bathroom breaks are only for children who don't cry about 'needing' their insulin."
So what's the problem? Well, a study conducted in 2011 by the National Consumer Law Center revealed that the results of said background checks are often strewn with errors. You see, your potential employers aren't conducting that background check themselves -- and you never know who the hell might be providing that service to them. As the NCLC points out, "There are no licensing requirements for criminal background agencies. Anyone with a computer and access to records can start a business; the total number of companies is unknown."
These unregulated background screening companies are businesses, and as Merriam-Webster once said, the entire purpose of a business is to make money. And if that means cutting corners that occasionally result in some random innocent guy getting pinned with a brutal rape charge, then by God that's what a business does. We weren't even being facetious there, by the way -- that's exactly what happened to Samuel Jackson (no, not that one) when he was turned down for a job after a background check claimed that he had been convicted of rape back in 1987. When he was 4 years old.
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Shit, he's practically a grown-ass man.
Why? They got him confused with another guy with a similar name. Whoops! Our bad!
#2. They're Checking Your Facebook Profile for Party Pics and Spelling Errors
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In case you needed another reason to worry that those photos you posted on Facebook from your last drunken house party (half-nude, duck lips -- you know the ones) would one day come back to haunt you, here you go: A recent survey showed that 92 percent of employers are checking out your social networking profiles during the recruitment process. And if you think you're getting around this by not providing links to your profiles, think again, because 73 percent of potential employers will track them down anyway.
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Facebook: Making stalking easier every day.
What are they looking for, exactly? Well, the obvious stuff: drug use, sexual posts, drunken activity, My Little Pony cosplay. But you might be surprised to find out that the biggest sin of all is apparently spelling and grammar errors -- more employers were turned off by the public butchering of the English language than by references to alcohol. If the world needed another reason to abolish textspeak (it didn't), there you go.
But you can just fix this whole mess by not having social networking profiles in the first place, right? Nope -- if nothing comes up for you, that just makes employers think you've got something to hide.
But, but ... that's what privacy settings are for, right? Well, privacy settings don't do you much good when employers don't have any qualms about requiring applicants to provide their Facebook usernames and passwords. Luckily for your swear-ridden, booze-addled (but locked down) timeline, state governments have started stepping in with laws to prevent such practices.
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"Guys, come on. Do we really need to pass a law? Can't you just stop being pricks on your own?"
Of course, this is all just a bunch of statistics mumbo jumbo -- stuff like this doesn't really happen in the real world. Tell that to the female psychiatrist who missed out on a position because she had a tendency to go topless at parties (hey, who doesn't?), or maybe the financial analyst who got blacklisted by a bigtime financial firm in Seattle thanks to his habit of posting drunken photos on Facebook (again, is that not what Facebook is specifically designed for?).
#1. Not Already Having a Job Prevents You from Getting a Job
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It sounds completely counterintuitive, what with so many qualified people currently out of work thanks to the utter collapse of the economy a few years ago, but for many employers, being unemployed is a gigantic red flag. That means once you've been unemployed for a certain period of time, you get stuck in a Kafkaesque trap where you can't get a job because you don't have a job.
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"Sorry, Mr. Yossarian, but we welcome you to apply again after some other dumbass takes a chance on you."
For skilled, perfectly able people -- like the 330,000 long-term unemployed in Illinois alone -- the longer they go without being able to find work, the less attractive they become to potential employers. As John Challenger, CEO of an outplacement firm in Chicago, put it:
"Hiring companies now wonder about whether or not their skills have become less current, about whether inertia has set in, how driven are you to get back to work. They worry that maybe other companies have seen something that they might be missing when they didn't hire you. Employers have some of these kinds of concerns about your candidacy that someone new into the market doesn't have to contend with."
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"No other company would have him; what if he has herpes?"
To be fair, it's always been this way -- ever heard the old adage "It's easier to find a job when you have a job"? The difference being that there are now many, many more people looking for work because for years we had an economy where there were millions more unemployed people than there were vacant positions. Yet employers ranging from small businesses to fast food chains still show this bias against the jobless, to the point where New Jersey recently passed a law against prohibiting unemployed people from applying for a job, with other states and Congress considering similar ideas. Until such laws become commonplace, though, it looks like your average unemployed person has a laundry list of stereotypes to overcome in order to convince potential employers that they're not filthy bums.
So there you have it, kids: If you are currently hopelessly unemployed and desperately need a job, all you've got to do is get a fucking job. It's as easy as that.
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Salzburg Airport
W A Mozart Innsbrucker Bundesstrasse 95, Salzburg, Austria
Telefon: (0662) 85800
Website: www.salzburg-airport.com
The airport is located 4km (2.5 miles) to the west of Salzburg city centre and 2km (1.2 miles) east of the German border.
How to get there
The airport has its own motorway connection on the junction of the A1 and A10 to the west of the city centre. Coming from the west, travellers should take the Salzburg West A1 exit and then take the airport exit shortly thereafter. Arriving from the south, it is best to follow the A10, turn onto the A1 and then choose the airport exit. From the north, head south west on the A1 and take the airport exit. From the city centre, head west on the B1 (Innsbrucker Bundesstrasse) until reaching the airport.
Information about parking possibilities at the Salzburg Airport
Access by public transport
Salzburger Stadtwerke (tel: (0662) 440 6262) operates bus 2, which runs at regular intervals (every 10 minutes) between Salzburg main railway station and Salzburg Airport. Sundays and public holidays it runs every 30 minutes (journey time - 20-25 minutes).
A taxi stand can be found both directly in front of Salzburg's main railway station and the airport terminal. Operators include Salzburger Funktaxivereinigung (tel: (0662) 8111), Taxi 2220 Salzburg (tel: (0662) 2220), Taxi-Salzburg Info (tel: (0650) 556 4912) and Taxi Hager (tel: (0664) 356 5623).
Information desk
The information desk (tel: (0662) 8580 7911) is located in the arrival hall and is open from 0500 to the last incoming flight.
Further travel information
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Which one of these is the best PDF-API for PHP?
We started with Q&A. Technical documentation is next, and we need your help.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
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personally i'd rather go with tcpdf which is an ehnanced and mantained version of fpdf.
From the mpdf site: "mPDF is a PHP class which generates PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML. It is based on FPDF and HTML2FPDF, with a number of enhancements."
mpdf is superior to FPDF for language handling and UTF-8 support. For CJK support it not only supports font embedding, but font subsetting (so your CJK PDFs are not oversized). TCPDF and FPDF have nothing on the UTF-8 and Font support of mpdf. It even comes with some open source fonts as of version 5.0.
This is just a quick review of how fPDF stands up against tcPDF in the area of performance at each libraries most basic functions.
17.0366 seconds to process 2000 PDF files using fPDF || 79.5982 seconds to process 2000 PDF files using tcPDF
FILE SIZE CHECK (in bytes)
788 fPDF || 1,860 tcPDF
The code used was as identical as possible and renders just a clean PDF file with no text. This is also using the latest version of each library as of June 22, 2011.
I found mpdf better than tcpdf in terms of html rendering. It can parse css styles much better and create pdf that look very similar to the original html.
mpdf even supports css things like border-radius and gradient etc.
I am surprised to see why mpdf is so less talked about when it comes to html to pdf.
Check out the examples here http://www.mpdf1.com/mpdf/index.php?page=Examples
I found it useful for designing invoices, receipts and simple prints etc. However the website itself says that pdfs generated from mpdf tend to be larger in size.
Try TCPDF. I find it the best so far.
For detailed tutorial on using the two most popular pdf generation classes: TCPDF and FPDF.. please follow this link: PHP: Easily create PDF on the fly with TCPDF and FPDF
Hope it helps.
Personally I prefer to use dompdf for simple PDF pages as it is very quick. you simply feed it an HTML source and it will generate the required page.
however for more complex designs i prefer the more classic pdflib which is available as a pecl for PHP. it has greater control over designs and allows you do do more complex designs like pixel-perfect forms.
The Zend Framework's Zend_Pdf is really good. It's on par with pdflib in terms of control of output and complexity and is more portable because its a pure php solution. That said, its slower and uses more memory than pdflib. Pecl modules are always more efficient than a php solution.
DOMPdf is the easiest way to make a pdf quickly. Like Mike said, feed it html and it outputs a pdf. Under the hood, it has the option to use either r&ospdf or pdflib as the rendering engine.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/html2ps/, is the best if you need the css and 3c compatibily.
if you can install software on your server, i suggest you to use http://wkhtmltopdf.org/.
There is also a drupal module using wkhtmltopdf :)
PHP take many resources to convert html in pdf, imho, php is not the right language to do that (if you expect a large numbers of coversion or large files to convert)
I personally generate XSL:FO from PHP and use Apache FOP to convert it to PDF. Not a PHP-native solution, not very efficient either, but it works well even if you need to generate PDF with very complex layouts.


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I am a user of your product year in and out, I have to say that I find that every year your game gets less and less realistic, when I am promised it should become more. I think most people would agree that we want a game where if you build up a good team you expect to beat so called lesser teams, not every time, but the majority. I was recently Aberdeen and played 3 home game against Falkirk, St Mirren and Kilmarnock, 3 tough fixtures, I was in my second year and had a formidable squad, the stats where as follows:
Aberdeen 1 18 7 0
Falkirk 1 2 1 1
Aberdeen 2 15 9 1
St Mirren 2 3 2 2
Aberdeen 3 23 11 1
Kilmarnock 3 4 4 3
I have compared every player in each team and I can swear that all my players where better, my tactics cant be to bad as I was sitting 2nd in the league prior to these games, if you can show me stats of this happening to a real team I will except it, but please when you say realistic this is the area you have to sort out, apart from that the game is good, but your scaring people away with this stupidity, as you will see when you read reviews of the game.
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1968 Chevy Nova Project Car - Smooth MoveWritten by Johnny Hunkins on April 1, 2012 Tools and techniques for properly restoring a tattered body panel to its pristine original shape.
One of the most costly aspects of building your dream hot rod is going to be the body and paint portion. Each year, thousands of guys jump head first into sheetmetal work because they don't want to be held hostage by the high price of body restoration. For a lot of guys, bodywork marks the final adventure in the DIY frontier, and with a company like Eastwood, regular guys can afford to get more involved both to save money and to have fun.
Older cars like our 1968 Chevy Nova project car have a nasty habit of picking up dozens or even hundreds of dents in their lifetime. These can range from improperly repaired collisions, to simple shopping cart dings. If your aim is to restore your ride to like-new condition (or better), you'll have to address these dents well before body filler, primer, or paint gets near those flanks. In the past few issues, we've shown you how to replace a doorskin that was beyond repair, we've illustrated the proper technique for making small patch panels to fix rust areas, and we've even taken on the monumental task of replacing an entire quarter-panel. All those are useful skills, but perhaps the most common (and easy) sheemetal job you'll run into is repairing the common small dent.
While you may be tempted to just mud over those many door dings, lay on the filler primer thick, and blast everything flat with a D/A sander, bitter disappointment will overwhelm you as you put the final buff on the clearcoat. Your pride and joy will have enough waves on its surface to make you seasick. To avoid this, it's imperative that you make the right moves at the right time during the restoration process.
During the course of our Nova's restoration at Outlaw Motorsports in Riverside, California, we've documented those moves for you with the help of Outlaw's proprietor, Ron Aschtgen. This month, we'll explore the use of a stud welder and slide hammer kit from Eastwood, as well as a seven-piece hammer and dolly set, also from Eastwood. Tools like these are absolutely essential for a proper resto, and together are used for the lion's share of metalworking tasks in any ground-up body and paint project.
So how'd it all turn out? After seeing the Nova's body undergo a transformation over the last several months, the curiosity has got to be killing you. As this is written, we are putting the final touches on our Eastwood paintjob, and let us tell you this: All the hard work of leveling the body has resulted in a perfectly flat, wave-free finish. This proves that using the right tools and techniques does pay off, and at a fraction of the cost of having a body shop hold your car hostage!
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Check out the Eastwood Uni-Spotter Deluxe 9000 kit in action at Outlaw Motorsports! We shot and edited a very cool video showing the Eastwood stud welder, slide hammer, and grinder being used on Project Nova. Just go to www.PopularHotRodding.com and click on the "More Videos" section!
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Ron Aschtgen really loves his work! Here, Aschtgen has attached the slide hammer tip to the stud by rotating the collar until it grips the stud shaft. Once it's tight, lightly tap the slide until the metal is pulled out in the affected area. You don't want to go overboard here—doing so will cause the sheetmetal to "volcano." In the days before spot welders, it was common to drill a hole for the slide hammer to fit inside. This caused lots of jagged peaks that are much harder to level.Removing dents is most easily accomplished with a spot welder and slide hammer set, like Eastwood's Unispotter Deluxe 9000 Stud Welder kit (PN 12374, $549.99). The kit comes with the 110V stud welder, a slide hammer, two boxes of copper-coated studs (2.2mm and 2.6mm), body side molding rivets, and a T-handle puller for hammer and dolly work.With the depression area cleaned of all debris, the spot welder was called into service. Just place one of the copper-coated steel studs in the tip of the Uni-Spotter. Unlike other spot welders, the 9000 Deluxe will hold the stud in place even when the Uni-Spotter is in a vertical position. It also plugs into any 110V outlet.Any kind of serious bodywork will also require a competent hammer and dolly set, like this seven-piece kit from Eastwood (PN 11979, $119.99). This pro quality collection contains a shrinking/skinning hammer, cross chisel curved hammer, pick, toe block, heel block, general purpose block, and light dinging spoon.Position the head of the stud inside the dent where you want to attach it. Hold it there with light pressure. Warning: Just pull the trigger for one second—no more. Any longer and you risk melting right through the sheetmetal.Now you can begin to evaluate and refine the surface flatness and work it with a different set of tools. Here, another stud has been welded to a low area and the T-puller has been attached to it (included with the Eastwood Uni-Spotter kit). This allows you to work any surrounding high areas with a hammer (the skinning hammer is used here). Locally high areas can then be worked lower without pushing the center area low.
After cutting the stud and grinding it flat again, a curved hammer was used with a general-purpose dolly on the inside of the trunk to work the entire area level.As seen from the inside of the trunk, the general-purpose dolly was used with a combination of "hammer on" and "hammer off" techniques to arrive at a near perfect level. Note that at this point, very little force is actually being used with the hammer.One last pass with the grinder (36-grit disc) ensures that the affected and surrounding area is completely level.Once several dents in a given area have been corrected—in our case the left quarter-panel—a small coat of polyester glaze can be skimmed on top of the repaired dents. Once the hardener is added, you will need to work quickly.Fast-forward about four months, after the sheetmetal has been straightened, body filler skim coated, sanded, panels gapped, sealer and primer laid on, sanded again, jambs painted, color coat sprayed, sanded again, clearcoat sprayed, then wet sanded. We're showing here the final stages of the cut and polish. All the hard work removing and leveling dents is finally paying off. We'll have the complete body and paint story along with our finished results in the May '12 issue!This shows a nearby area that was also repaired with the Uni-Spotter and subsequently glazed. This is after it has been leveled with a flexible sanding board using successively milder grits (40, 80, then 220). If everything is perfectly leveled, only the thinnest skim coat will remain to fill in low areas (high areas will have been leveled with the hammer, and then by sanding).


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STEUBENVILLE - From where Lewis Piergallini sits, the change in the local economy over the past year is obvious.
Piergallini, chief deputy auditor in Jefferson County, said as of Oct. 24, year-to-date property sales totalled $152 million. If the current pace continues, he said that number could hit an all-time high of $180 million by the end of 2012.
To put that in perspective, he said property sales for all of 2011 totalled just $60 million.
"Some are skeptical that the energy boom is not coming," Piergallini said. "I think it's already here."
Piergallini said it's not just the dollar values that are up, but also the number of transfers coming through.
"A lot of things have sold this year," he said. "The other day, there was a trailer court that we had down for $800,000 and it sold for $2.5 million, that's the kind of thing that's happening. We've had houses that have been on the market for three or four years for $400,000 or $500,000 that have finally sold. Land values are going through the roof."
Over the past six years, property sales were "up and down, up and down," he said. "Then all of a sudden, boom!"
Piggyback tax receipts have hit record highs as well.
"It's been up every month compared to last year," said Vickie Winski, chief deputy auditor. "It fluctuates, but it's always more than compared to last year."
So far this year, she said Jefferson County has collected a total of $9,150,841 from its 1.5 percent piggyback tax, up more than $900,000 from a year ago.
Anthony Bodo, assistant urban projects director for the City of Steubenville, said permits are up there as well.
"The new Texas Roadhouse, there's a new hotel that's going to be built, the college has plans," he said. "It's just a lot busier, put it that way. It's been pretty busy around here."
"Subtle increases, that's the best way to describe it," Progress Alliance Executive Director Ed Looman said. "There've been subtle increases - in employment numbers, in sales tax collections, in (property sales), and several municipalities that have wage taxes have seen increases. There is something going on of a positive nature, and I think as we continue to move forward, we're going to have more and more statistical information that shows the impact it's having. The impact is going to continue to (grow)."
Looman said he's met with "probably five development firms in the last four months."
"They realize there's something going on in this area and they're trying to figure out what they can do to get here and (be part) of it," he said. "They're calling, wanting to know what it is we need - if it's residential, if it's industrial or if it's commercial. They're asking all kinds of questions, because they've got clients in all three sectors interested in establishing something here or buying property and trying to market it."
Looman said he's had three calls in the last month alone "from real estate firms inquiring about large chunks of property for comercial operations, they have clients who are interested."


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Just because we love you, we combined two of everyone's favorite things... LOLing and Johnny Manziel.
First things first: Johnny as Scooby.
Now let's reminisce on that epic moment when Johnny and team beat Alabama. Nick Sabin and the Bama team, nothing for our boy Johnny can't handle.
Boys, don't be ashamed. We think it's safe to say, everyone's heart skips a beat when they see Johnny Football running down that field.
Speaking of man crushes...
Now what about this classic tribute video? Awesome.
Let's take a second to look at our personal favorites.
Keep calm y'all, we aren't done yet.
This fan has taken it to a whole new level, and we respect it completely.
And as we all know, every great man has to have a sensitive side.
Who can forget that moment when Johnny revealed to the world he's an animal lover? Yes, he saved a kitten. Nothing says cute like saving a helpless creature.
Finally, she's Johnny's adorable, number 1 fan!
We leave you with this very important message.
Now you help us! Send us your favorite Johnny moments on Twitter or Facebook and we will add them to list!


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Chazal tells us (Midrash Rabbah Bereishis 64:4 and 95:3; Yoma 28b, based on. Gen. 26:5; Kiddushin 82a) that the Patriarchs observed the mitzvahs before they were given. But Avraham did not circumcize himself or his male household members until specifically commanded. Why did he wait?
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The Lubavitcher Rebbe (Likutei Sichot Volume 5, page 146) gives a very practical reason why Avraham waited to have a bris. Rashi explains that G-d's commandment to Noach after the flood, forbidding spilling a mans blood (Genesis 9:6) applies to spilling ones own blood as well. As such, Avraham was legally unable to circumcise himself until G-d explicitly commanded him to do so.
The בית הלוי explains (I forgot where) that you cannot have a one-sided contract. Therefore, even though Avraham kept all the מצוות before they were commanded, the מצוה of ברית מילה was untenable before Avraham was commanded, as the whole point is a ברית between 'ה and Avraham, and it wouldn't really be a contract without 'ה commanding Avraham.
The Riva (commentary on the Torah to the end of Pashas Lech Lecha) explains that Bris Milah is a mitzvah that can only be performed once a lifetime. Since the Gemora (Kiddushin 31a) concludes that it is preferable to keep something out of obligation rather than voluntarily, Abraham waited till he was commanded to fulfill the mitzvah in the best way possible.
To add to the question, according to Midrash Tanchuma (cited by Rashi on Vayera), Avraham was initially quite reluctant to perform brit milah and was persuaded to do so only after consulting Mamre.
This demonstrates that his lack of performing brit milah until now was no delay tactic. (This could be a question to the Riva's classic answer.)
Chazal do say, on occasion, that Avraham Avinu et al fulfilled all the mitzvot of the Torah, even unto Rabbinic decrees. There are many obvious exceptions, such as Avraham marrying two sisters, Avraham descending to Egypt, Yaakov marrying two sisters, the shevatim marrying their own twin sisters or else Canaanite women, and so on.
This might lead us to understand the midrashim in a more homiletic vein, or in a figurative vein.
However, many Rishonim took these midrashim absolutely literally, and that was the spark to creating brand new midrashim, which I don't believe reflected Chazal's intent, but still was a way of generating new Rabbinic output. And so I can understand the question of what classic answers were, from Rishonim and Acharonim, as to how to solve this problem. Though I think that some of the "problems" people come up with push the envelope, and that many of the resulting answers are more that ridiculous.
Looking at the Rashba, who propounds this idea of them keeping the Torah, he has a very sensible answer which would cover most exceptions. I translated it in this post. An excerpt:
Obviously, where Hashem was eventually going to use this brit to establish a covenant, it was not the time for Avraham to have fulfilled beforehand. And Avraham would have intuited that.
I do like the Bet Halevi's answer, which seems to touch upon this idea.
The Maharsha (Yevamos 100b) explains that the statement that Avraham kept the entire Torah refers only to the time after he had the bris. (This is why he was permitted to marry Hagar although she was a first generation Egyptian - because it was before his bris).
The Lubavitcher Rebbe explains (Likkutey Sichos vol. 3 Parshas Lech Lecha - see here for an English rendition of the Sicha):
Although the Avos observed the entire Torah even before it was given, they were not able to permeate the physical world with the holiness of the mitzos they had performed. For example, the Zohar writes that the sticks Yaakov set before Lavan's sheep were his way of fulfilling the mitzvah of Tefillin - yet after he was done, those sticks remained ordinary physical pieces of wood. It was only after the Giving of the Torah that we have the ability to draw down holiness into physical objects.
However, since our observance of mitzvos is made possible through the actions of our forefathers, it was necessary that at least one mitzva performed by the Avos would resemble the mitzvos performed after the giving of the Torah in it's entirety, including the capacticty to infuse this world with holiness. The one mitzvah by which our Patriarchs drew down holiness into material existence was that of circumcision. This mitzvah would establish a connection between all the mitzvos the Patriarchs observed — even those with an effect only on the spiritual plane — and the mitzvos observed after the giving of the Torah. Through this connection, all of our Patriarchs' mitzvos empower us to draw holiness into the material world.
We can thus understand why Avraham waited to perform the mitzvah of circumcision until he was commanded to do so by G‑d instead of observing it on his own initiative. Since this mitzvah resembles the mitzvos observed after the giving of the Torah, it was necessary for its observance to have been commanded by G‑d, and thus to be endowed with a measure of Divine influence.
This question is asked by the Toras Hamincha (a student of the Rashba) in his drashos (Lech L'cha drasha 8). Another student of the Rashba R. Yehoshua ibn Shu'aib writes that many have asked this question (parshas vayeira and drasha to Parshas Tzav / Shabbs Hagadol). He writes that some answered that Avraham refrained from doing so because the merit for a mitzva is greater if one is commanded in it and he knew that God would command him in the future so he held off until he was commanded. He quotes others who explain that without a divine command he wouldn't have circumcised himself, for by doing so was tampering with the form that God had granted him which would be an insult to God.
Naturally, these midrashim about keeping the mitzvot were not meant figuratively. And we cannot say the classic answer (Kiddushin 31a) that Gadol hametzuvah ve'oseh mimi she'eino metzuvah ve'oseh" -- "The one who is commanded and fulfills is greater than the one who fulfills without a command", such that Avraham deliberately waited. Nor will we say like any of these answers.
Avraham Avinu didn't wait. Since he knew it would be an eventual commandment, he gave himself a brit milah immediately, at the tender age of three years old, when he first recognized his Creator (see Nedarim 32). However, since Hashem now issued him this command, what he actually performed on himself and all his male household was hatafas dam bris, just as Yisro did when he circumcised himself (see Maharsha on Sanhedrin 94).


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Modules, vector spaces, algebras, fields, rings, groups...
How do these basic algebraic objects relate to each other via tensor products?
Is there a way to go from one object to its generalization via a tensor product construction?
I think this is an interesting question...but I can't find many resources on the subject.
For e.g. I've seen people use the phrase 'tensoring up'.
Your answer should describe how tensor products are used to relate algebraic objects? (I'm basically looking for tricks of the trade that every mathematician should know about this)


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24, Lost, and Six Feet Under: Post-traumatic television in the post-9/11 era.
Date: May 2008
Creator: Anderson, Tonya
Description: This study sought to determine if and how television texts produced since September 11, 2001, reflect and address cultural concerns by analyzing patterns in their theme and narrative style. Three American television serials were examined as case studies. Each text addressed a common cluster of contemporary issues such as trauma, death, and loss.
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"According to Their Wills and Pleasures": The Sexual Stereotyping of Mormon Men in American Film and Television
Date: May 2009
Creator: Sutton, Travis
Description: This thesis examines the representation of Mormon men in American film and television, with particular regard for sexual identity and the cultural association of Mormonism with sexuality. The history of Mormonism's unique marital practices and doctrinal approaches to gender and sexuality have developed three common stereotypes for Mormon male characters: the purposeful heterosexual, the monstrous polygamist, and the self-destructive homosexual. Depending upon the sexual stereotype in the narrative, the Mormon Church can function as a proponent for nineteenth-century views of sexuality, a symbol for society's repressed sexuality, or a metaphor for the oppressive effects of performing gender and sexuality according to ideological constraints. These ideas are presented in Mormon films such as Saturday's Warrior (1989) as well as mainstream films such as A Mormon Maid (1917) and Advise and Consent (1962).
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Baseball in the Digital Age: The Role of Online and Mobile Content in Major League Baseball's Media Product Portfolio
Date: December 2010
Creator: Hutton, Brian P.
Description: This case study evaluated Major League Baseball's (MLB) media product portfolio to identify how broadcast revenues have evolved over the past decade. This research looked back across baseball's long, dysfunctional history with broadcasters in order to recognize the significance of its ambitious use of online content. While MLB had failed to fully utilize the potential of broadcasting, the league's aggressive online strategy through its Advanced Media (MLBAM) division made it the industry leader in broadcasting live streaming sports video. MLBAM expanded its online streaming video to mobile phones and iPad, further expanding the distribution of its content. This research compared MLBAM revenue to traditional broadcast revenue while analyzing the online division's role in promoting the MLB brand. This case study concluded that while MLBAM had made a number of groundbreaking developments, the league could still improve its use of embedded, shared video clips, archived footage and international marketing in order to further extend the brand equity of the MLB, its thirty individual brands and its media product portfolio.
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Beach Drive: Public Rights and Private Property: A Documentary Film
Date: August 2006
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Description: The Texas Open Beaches Act states that the public beach extends from the water up to the line of vegetation. Once a privately-owned property is submerged, it transfers into state ownership. Because of severe erosion and the shifting nature of vegetation, the Village of Surfside has lost several rows of houses and streets and, currently, over thirty houses are located on the public beach obstructing public access in violation of the Texas Open Beaches Act. The extreme erosion in this small village on the Texas Gulf Coast puts homeowners, property owners, legislators, and beachgoers in difficult positions and many are at odds with one another. The documentary film is structured around rental property owner Russell Clinton, environmentalists Ellis Pickett and Jeff Hooton, and former State Senator A.R. "Babe" Schwartz.
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Behind the Scenes of The Steve Taylor Story: A Documentary
Date: May 2009
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Description: Behind the Scenes of The Steve Taylor Story: A Documentary is the written companion to a 39-minute documentary film entitled, The Steve Taylor Story. The film explores the controversial career of Christian musician Steve Taylor. It also chronicles the ideology of the Christian subculture in America through the hegemony of the dominant Christian culture and Steve's actions in opposition to it.
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Big Hair and Big Egos: Texan Stereotypes in American Entertainment Media as Formed Through Television Viewing.
Date: August 2006
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Born in Beirut
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Description: The film starts with another ordinary day, two elderly men playing Backgammon, cars passing by, children playing in the street; scenes anyone anywhere in the world can relate to. Seemingly without warning, as the sun set on that ordinary day, the audience is taken on a perilous journey through war-torn Beirut. Born in Beirut is a thoughtful and poetic examination of war through the eyes of a child who lived through endless conflict in war-torn Beirut. The film examines the futility of war and the price paid in innocent lives.
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Branded Content: Understanding the Mechanisms of Strategic Messaging in Entertainment Television Formats
Date: May 2012
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Description: Branded content as an advertising tactic is a growing phenomenon that is not widely researched and is generally ambiguous in nature. This study uses qualitative methods to explain how branded content is defined, how it functions, and how it can influence a brand. Case studies of IKEA and Chevrolet were compared alongside four interviews with branded content professionals. the data collected suggests that branded content in structure and substance is varied, however it comprises engagement, the brand, and financial transaction. the data collected also suggested that brands take a variety of stances when controlling content to support their brand, and that branded content generally supports the intangible aspects of a brand, as opposed to product features.
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Bus Ride to Liberation: a Historical Video Documentary of the Acres Homes Transit Company in Houston, Texas
Date: May 1994
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Description: The Acres Homes Transit Company in Houston, Texas is Texas' first African American owned and operated bus company. Some say it is the first in the South. The company was developed during the height of the civil rights period. It serves as an establishment of economic empowerment during the oppressive civil rights era. The video is a historical visual documentation of the bus company from its beginning to its end. An accompanying written profile describes the research process, the pre-production, production and post-production stages, as well as future proposals for the documentary.
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Central American Media: A Comparative Study of Media Industries in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica.
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Custom camera settings allow me to select, for example, a red filter (as I only work in B&W this is an advantage), is there any advantage to using this digital in-camera filter over a real red lens filter when it comes to final B&W image quality?
In general not really. The are potentially some benefits e.g. a blue filter might prevent you from blowing the red channel and getting flare or other problems with excessive light (e.g. sensor bloom) if for some reason you have far more red light.
But generally using a coloured filter will just prevent you from changing your mind later compared to using the in-camera filter (and shooting raw) which to me is a massive disadvantage.
To my best knowledge, using strong color filters (like 25A, 38A, 99) on digital cameras have only downsides:
Considering there is no way to avoid Bayer interpolation and all the possibilities that open when doing the BW conversion in post, I'd suggest not to use these filters on digital cameras. So shoot RAW and add the effects you want afterwards.
Here are some examples. Both images were shot RAW, developed using Monochrome Picture Style in DPP with exactly the same settings, shot with red filter had its brightness adjusted and software red filter was applied to shot without physical red filter.
Software red filter:
Physical red filter:
Histograms before monochrome conversion:
And here are some 100% details (physical filter on the left, software on the right):
I'm a bit confused about the sharpening-like effects of the physical red filter version and have triple cheked my settings, sharpening was 0 for both. Lower image is meant to illustrate the differences in local contrast.
Some more details and situations where some color correction filters are usable is provided in this answer: http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/586/are-colour-filters-worth-using-with-digital-cameras/619#619
I prefer to shoot color in raw, then do the conversion in post. There are quite a few good b+w conversion tools out there that can do a better job than the in camera filters.
Also, at least with Canon, when you shoot raw the in camera filters can be applied using the software provided with camera (Digital Photo Professional).


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I've installed PostSharp on my machine, added PostSharp.dll to my dependencies folder and built my aspect attribute, which is works correctly. Now I am going to check-in my changes.
What would happen on build machine or my colleague's computers, when they would get the latest code but wouldn't have installed PostSharp.
Will the attributes just ignored? Or some errors during build or run-time would happen?


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ZIFZAL, Gene Ronald, 73, of Smithfield, OH, joined his heavenly Father on Monday, Dec. 17, 2012, following a brief illness.
Gene was born in Piney Fork, OH, on Jan. 7, 1939, the son of the late Frank and Rose Zifzal.
Gene graduated from Smithfield High School in 1956 and received his bachelor's degree in education from Ohio University and his master's degree in education from the University of Dayton. He was a retired teacher in the Buckeye Local School District.
Gene loved the outdoors and looked forward to the family's frequent trips to the beach and their annual camping trips. Gardening was also a special interest, and he enjoyed sharing the fruits of his labor with his family and friends.
Gene was a member of Mount Pleasant Evangelical Friends Church where he taught Sunday School and sang in the choir, and for many years he helped with the Piney Fork area community Bible school.
Gene leaves his wife of 52 years, Rita (Martin) Zifzal; sons David (Kim) Zifzal of Cumberland, OH, and Dwayne (Melissa) Zifzal of Bloomingdale, OH; daughter Regina (Larry) Morris of Milford Center, OH; brothers Russell Zifzal of Smithfield and Raymond (Leona) of North Royalton, OH; sisters Rose Mary Spontaneo and Sandy (Joe) Homol, both of Piney Fork; grandchildren, Zach (Erica) Zifzal, Amber Zifzal, Eli Morris, Korah Morris, Levi Morris, Ethan Zifzal, Lindsey Zifzal, and Caleb Zifzal; and numerous beloved nieces and nephews.
Friends may call at the J.E. Foster Funeral Home in Smithfield from 4-8 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, December 20, at Mount Pleasant Evangelical Friends Church with Pastor Scott Rose officiating. Burial will follow in Northern Cemetery in Smithfield, OH.
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I'm writing up a paper and I'm not sure how to cite a few things. It concerns a conjecture made by Quillen. Some work has been done showing it's true in some cases, false in others. These results I found in a book that had a chapter about the conjecture; of course, the book gave all the references. In the background of my paper, I want to briefly sum up these results. My question is, should I cite the articles, the book, or both? I wasn't sure what the etiquette/rules are in this situation.
When in doubt, cite. Cite the paper, cite the book, and explain what is it where. You've already done the hard part, so let the reader benefit from your work. It does you no harm, and is helpful for your readers.
I feel compelled to repeat and stress my answer: Cite generously and often.
Some have expressed the principle of citing only references that they have read themselves. This seems attractive as some kind of ethical principle, but I believe it is misguided. It would make sense only if most people in the math community assume this when they see references in a paper. But, as far as I can tell, there is no such common view. References, like everything else in the paper, are there to communicate knowledge, as completely as possible, either by stating the knowledge direcctly or by citing references. When you cite a reference, you are telling the audience that you know about it and not that you have read it.
To me, what is far more important than such a principle is serving the good of the subject and community. Citing generously not only papers you have read yourself but papers you know about that are related to your own paper has the following positive benefits:
Let me also give a concrete example: Nash's original paper on isometric embedding is extremely difficult to understand, and, as far as I can tell, almost no one has ever read it. Luckily, people such as Moser and Sergeraert figured out much simpler proofs of the $C^\infty$ theorem, and that's what most of us read and learn. More recently, Gunther found a way to reproduce the full strength of Nash's original theorem using an extremely simple argument. So I have never read Nash's original proof. I think, however, it would be absurd for me not to cite Nash's original paper just because I haven't read it.
A citation should make reader's job easier! A textbook with the best exposition, or a survey with all the relevant references (if it exists) is a preferred choice, especially where the original sources are obscure, hard to locate, and/or read. So I would write, "by a theorem of Perelman (see e.g. [Morgan-Tian, Theorem 1.2.3])".
Speaking about promotion, by the time the stuff that made it into textbooks, this is (usually) no longer an issue, and in many cases the person responsible for the original result may have achieved a god-like status. Then it is common to even omit the author's name, let alone give a reference to the original source, e.g. people say "by the s-cobordism theorem".
The one sided answers neglect the complexity of the issue. First of all most of the papers in the science are nowdays difficult to judge, survey and check for an average reader, not to mention the users like science agencies and general public. The production is huge, there is lots of repetition and formalism differences make it difficult to bring knowledge and fruitfulness to the public and we need to fight this not by messy inclusion of everything but by making honest and informative choices to the reader. So, the main criterion is to write primarily for the reader and the author should have the stand weather the article she cites are likely to be useful to reader or not at all; if one does not take reader as the main criterion but some agenda of pushing the agenda for agencies, why would then the reader respect author's agenda of misleading the reader which reference is good and readable just to fulfill the political agenda ? In mathematics, the pointers from the text to the bibliography, together with the basic standard knowledge in the field should make obvious path how to achieve the results in the paper. This is already a difficult goal and making references only by history and not lead by self-analysis of the paper and its predecessors will make it too difficult to reconstruct the preliminaries used. Of course, one needs to account for balance in making clear what the original resources are either by making clear pointers to other surveys and also citing directly relevant and used work with some emphasis on the "primary" sources, where the latter term is not fully well defined, as each idea has some predecessors.
I disagree with much of the answer and comments of Deane Young, who is on one hand saying cite generously much, cite when in doubt etc. as if we live in an ideal world where the size of bibliography is allowed to be as large as you want, (Example: One of my papers was delayed for 2 years because it was 19 pages and the limit in the journal was 17. Roughly, two pages where bibliography.) and on the other hand saying that we live in a bad world where people depend on our citations, so cite even if you did not read/check and where we need to adapt to "funding agencies". Well, if we all adapt to present treand in funding agencies we agree with a wrong attitude that the citation is proportional to research credit what is not true: often the most cited are often surveys and books, popular digests, and also some original papers which are often only famous but nobody reads, or can read (so many times they are more readable than the public thinks, by inertion). It is better to push the agencies to take this into account and fund according to the full description of the discoveries of the author and description of their impact by listing consequences and new directions opened, and not of numerical quasi-impact. Conforming to numerical quasi-impact as a main principle may exactly push down honest people who cite only papers they trust, they check, they believe the authors and so on, we may also cite references which are written in bad way and not recommendable to the reader. To extend this remark to extreme which appears in practice, I know many people who cite famous people just to show that their own work is relevant for the trends pushed by those. This is the worst kind of citation.
There is also a pressure from referees and editors to include the references of their choice. In such cases one has to follow common sense, and decide if the request is reasonable, even with expense of possibly changing the journal. We should not regret the referees' and editor's time if they abuse their position to make people cite papers of their friends and their own; however we should appreciate it in good cases when their knowledge is channeled to point to the sources we did not use or appreciate and to learn what is the better or more original reference in many cases.


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Juan,Looks like you're coming to terms with the Sigma and producing some fine shots. I noticed some banding in your B&Ws; did you try correcting this in SPP? I'm contemplating one of the Merrills for B&W landscapes, but this banding issue could be a deal-breaker; and I thought this problem had been resolved. Thanks.
From what I gather, this is a well-known issue; thus the reason Sigma added a specific "banding" tool in SPP to address the problem. Just wondering if you had used that specific tool, and if so, to what degree of success. I'm probably going to give the Merrill a try; but as I love to shoot skies, banding is not something I can live with.
i've been thinking about this camera. That banding is worrisome especially as I would use this for prints as a final product. What do people think of using this camera for a simple b&w camera for stitching say 2x and 4x stitches. Skies are oftentimes problematic in stitching landscapes in general because of lens vigneting etc. But specifically what about the DP2 its lens and stitching images with sky. Thanks
Maybe I'm a blind old fool, or maybe I don't know what to look for, but I really don't see banding in these images on my MacBook Air screen. I do however see banding and other artifacts in skies all the time on 500PX and elsewhere when folks push too many sliders too far.
Look for horizontal straight dark lines going through the open sky areas. Helps if you expand the image larger.
Converted to B&W in 5.5.Cheers,Bernard
... the whites especially don't look clean...
I like the shot, Bernard, but I don't think that the file has converted well to b/white. The problem (in my eyes) is that the image looks 'milky' and the whites especially don't look clean. It's something I noticed with my D200 quite often, but haven't with the D700, perhaps because I've made fewer with that camera. I believe that converted colour transparencies make for better black/whites than do digital files.Rob C
Could you take a screen shot and use arrows to point it out to us, please? I do not see it either.
Hope this helps - and that Juan doesn't mind. From the top left corner of the Camino Yunquera image.


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I'm curious if there is any difference in nuance between these two sentences:
- 彼は少なくとも週に一度車を洗う。
- 彼は週に少なくとも一度車を洗う。
I'm aware that grammatically speaking both are 100% right, but this question is not targeted at this issue.
Your sentence 1 is ambiguous with respect to the scope of
The first meaning is the same one as your setence 2, but the second meaning cannot be expressed by sentence 2.
In general, the position of an adverb often gives different possibility for its scope.
I don't detect any difference in meaning, but splitting frequency expressions (週に一度, 年に3回, etc) as you did in the second sentence sounds disjointed. As far as general adverbs go, technically you can put them just about anywhere, but most often you'll find them right in front of the verb they modify.


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CADIZ - It was a case of good news, bad news Friday night for Harrison Central.
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Now, the bad news: starting linebacker Casey Runevitch and tailback Travis Stenson spent the majority of the game on crutches after sustaining lower body injuries in the first half.
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A WIN — Harrison Central's Travis Stenson gains yardage during the Huskies' 27-7 win over Union Local. -- Courtesy Action Images
"Those injuries make this win bittersweet," Harrison Central head coach Justin Kropka explained. "We're progressing so far as a team. We've taken a step every week, and to lose a kid like Casey who has given this program everything he has for three years is huge.
"He is one of the reasons why we have played so well early," Kropka added. "Travis, losing him kind of takes away our home-run hitter there, but what are you going to do?"
Stenson got the scoring started on Harrison Central's opening drive of the game. He capped a 6-play, 62-yard march with a 38-yard jaunt around left end. He took the handoff up the middle, but found no room and bounced it outside where it was clear sailing. Geoff Pecar's PAT made it 7-0 with 9:09 on the clock.
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Union Local 7 0 0 0 - 7
Harrison Central 7 7 7 6 - 27
HC: Stenson 38 run (Pecar kick)
UL: Dunfee 11 run (Dunfee kick)
HC: Maykowski 21 run (Pecar kick)
HC: Olmstead 15 pass from Miser (Pecar kick)
HC: Rutter 22 pass from Miser (kick failed)
RUSHING: Union Local 44-116-td (Dunfee 21-88-td, Blake 9-39, Leishman 3-12, Brown 1-5, Mann 1-3, Ware 1-1, team 3-(-4), Smolenak 5-(-28). Harrison Central 31-156-2tds (Maykowski 14-89-td, Stenson 4-44-td, Williams 4-22, team 1-2, Johnson 5-2, Miser 3-(-1).
PASSING: Union Local 3-12-31-0-0 (all by Smolenak). Harrison Central 11-20-192-2-1x (all by Miser)
RECEIVING: Union Local 3-31 (Goodson 2-19, Ware 1-12). Harrison Central 11-192-2tds (Rutter 3-84-td, Olmstead 3-48-td, Williams 2-31, Rocchi 2-20, Ball 1-9)
FIRST DOWNS: Union Local 8. Harrison Central 15
PENALTIES: Union Local 6-40. Harrison Central 7-58
FUMBLES: Union Local 6-0. Harrison Central 2-1
Union Local's Eric Dunfee recovered a Huskies' fumble at the Jets' 41. He then capped an 11-play, 58-yard drive with a 11-yard burst up the middle. His PAT deadlocked the game with 2:33 on the first-quarter clock.
However, that would be the extent of the Jets' offense as they could only muster 147 total yards.
"We had a freshman quarterback in there and I thought he played fairly well for a freshman," first-year Union Local head coach Bruce Stiles said of Shane Smolenak. "We found out Monday that (starting quarterback) Travis (James) suffered a concussion last week. I thought Shane battled.
"They (Harrison) brought a lot of pressure, especially from the outside," Stiles admitted. "I thought we did a good job of running the ball inside, but we had a hard time getting anything on the outside."
Harrison Central took the lead for good when Nate Maykowski, who stepped in for Stenson in the backfield, sprinted around his left end from 21 yards out. Pecar's extra-point made it 14-7 with 6:09 left in the first half.
Keying the 4-play, 56-yard march were a 24-yard hookup between quarterback David Miser and wideout Nate Olmstead and a 19-yard carry by Nico Williams.
Miser, who went 11-for-20 for 192 yards and two touchdowns, completed the scoring with a 15-yard TD strike to Olmstead late in the third quarter and a 22-yard scoring toss to Dalton Rutter in the fourth quarter. Rutter made a nice adjustment to the ball just inside the front right corner of the end zone.
Olmstead's grab was setup by a 49-yard connection from Miser to Rutter down the near sidelines.
"He can throw it, but the red zone mistakes are killing us," Kropka said of an ill-fated pass that was picked off by Union Local's Jake Leishman at the Jets' 4. "Other than that one pick, he played a really good game."
Stiles suffered his first head coaching loss after three straight wins to start his career.
"I would have liked the fairy tale to continue, but we've been talking about hard work to our kids all year, so we'll see how we bounce back. How can we handle adversity? This will let us see what kind of team we are," Stiles said.
Dunfee, who had 12 carries for 76 yards and the aforementioned touchdown, finished with 88 stripes on 21 totes. Smolenak was just 3-for-12 for 31 yards as he was harassed for most of the second half.
Rutter landed three passes for 84 yards.
Union Local remains on the road next Friday in a Buckeye 8 matchup in Richmond against Edison. Harrison Central travels to Martins Ferry.


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It seems like you just make the seventh note flat, but are there any restrictions to that? Can any scale become a Dominant Seventh Scale by slight modification or does it differ on a case-by-case basis?
The Dominant 7th scale is one of the many named scales used in a jazz context.
It should be like the major scale, but with a flat 7th. From Jamey Aebersold's Scale Syllabus, it has the following pattern of whole and half steps: W W H W W H W (in C: C D E F G A Bb C). This is also commonly known as the mixolydian scale.
Many scales do have a flat 7th, but if it is not based on the major scale with the above pattern, it would have a different name.
Lastly, it is accepted to refer to a flat 7th itself, that is, the scale degree or note, as a dominant 7th.
The dominant seventh is only a chord and not a scale. For discussion on the different scale types, visit this wikipedia page.
To build a dominant seventh chord, take any major triad and add the flat seven on the top. In terms of intervals above the root, this is: major third, perfect fifth, minor seventh.
When considering scales rather than chords as in the ABRSM syllabus where dominant 7th scales are required, the dominant 7th scale consists of the major triad with minor 7th note but starting on the dominant note of the scale i.e. the dominant 7th of C is G,B,D,F or in other words, the arpeggio on the mixolydian scale of C. I found this out today while researching for grade 8.


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16 Sep 2012 4:39 AM #1
Barcalys Bike Hire demo web app
Hi All,
A quick and dirty demo for a Barclays bike hire / boris bikes web app, using sencha touch 188.8.131.52.
Really designed for usage in London (if you live outside London will have to simulate location in London, with the iphone / android simulators for geolocation).
- Displays list of docking stations, upon tapping item shows location on map and clicking on marker shows infowindow with number of available bikes, docking stations etc etc.
- Gets location of user and displays nearby docking stations (again if outside London, please simulate as above).
- A map showing all the docking station locations in London.
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16 Sep 2012 6:27 AM #2
Cool app
Nice, works well :-)
I'm implementing something similar soon with a list that when tapped activates a drop pin but I'm trying to do it in a split view for iPad.
Only thing I noticed is the drop pin appears it seems before the map is fully rendered. Do you think it will be possible to have the drop pin appear after the map render somehow?
Thanks for posting
16 Sep 2012 7:06 AM #3
Hi digeridoopoo,
Thanks for the reply. Not big fan of google maps api, but the most popular one out there.
Yes I've noticed that the maker is being added before the map is fully rendered. I guess the marker image is loaded first, while the rest of the map tiles are loaded.
Well initially, could try a few things: -
- Wait for the map to fully render (use a setTimeout and then display the marker with 0.5 - 1.5 second delay for example)?
- Implement callback functions for events from the google maps api (centre_changed, idle, projection_changed) or sencha touch map component (i.e. maprender, initiated, painted etc), where u then add the marker?
16 Sep 2012 10:36 PM #4
Ah yeah painted was what I was thinking of....will try something similar in my app I think.
Thanks again for posting
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@digeridoopoo, no probs. I've just been lazy and used a setTimeout with 1 second delay to display the marker and infowindow.
quick updates :-
- changed layout, removed the map showing all the locations of docking stations. (Displaying 567 markers on a google map was not the best choice, especially on mobiles!)
- Added actionsheet and disclosures items on lists, so you can add location to favorites (localstorage).
- Basic formatting updated and nice confirmation boxes etc.


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I have a matrix that is given by $A e^{i q} + A^* e^{-i q}$ with $A$ a nilpotent $n\times n$ matrix. The eigenvalues I get turn out always to be independent on q but I cannot prove it. I want to know how can I prove this (or if this alone is not sufficient for the eigenvalues to be independent on q)
The OP has added a lot of conditions to his original statement, so my answer is significantly revised. The OP's statement is still not true. This answer uses ideas from Denis's answer so, if you like this, vote us both up.
Let $A=(B/2)-i(C/2)$, with $B$ and $C$ hermitian. Set $z=x+iy$. We will be interested in the polynomial $$F(x,y) := \det(\mathrm{Id}+zA+\overline{z}A^*) = \det(\mathrm{Id} + x B + y C).$$
By a result of Helton and Vinnikov, given a degree $n$ polynomial $F(x,y)$, there are Hermitian matrices $B$ and $C$ such that $F=\det(\mathrm{Id} + x B + y C)$ if and only if $F(0,0)=1$ and every line through the origin meets $F=0$ at $n$ (real) points. (Vinnikov's paper analyzes the case that $F=\det(xB+yC+D)$, with $D$ positive definite. But, if $D$ is positive definite then we can write $D=SS^*$ and then $\det(S^{-1} B (S^*)^{-1} x + S^{-1} C (S^*)^{-1} C+\mathrm{Id})$ is a scalar multiple of $\det(xB+yC+D)$. So it is easy to relate Vinnikov's formulation to ours.)
I will give polynomials $F$ and thus implicitly give matrices $A$. Making this correspondence explicit is a difficult computational task, so I won't do it. Of course, I need to check that
(Condition 1) Every line through $(0,0)$ meets it at $n$ (real) points, and $F(0,0)=1$.
Now, the OP has imposed the following conditions:
(Condition 2) The matrix $A$ is nilpotent. This is equivalent to $\det(\mathrm{Id}+zA) = 1$. So we want $F \equiv 1 \mod (x-iy)$. Since $F$ is a polynomial with real coefficients, I might as well rewrite this as $F \equiv 1 \mod x^2+y^2$.
(Condition 3) $\det (e^{i \theta} A + e^{-i \theta} A^*)$ is of the form $a + b \cos (n/2) \theta + c \cos n \theta$. Switching to our $x$, $y$ coordinates, when $z=e^{i \theta}$ we have $x=\cos \theta$ and $y = \sin \theta$. So this condition says that $F(\cos \theta, \sin \theta) = a + b \cos (n/2) \theta + c \cos n \theta$. In my example, we will have $F(\cos \theta, \sin \theta) =1$.
The OP asks whether this implies that the eigenvalues of $e^{i \theta} A + e^{-i \theta} A^*$ are independent of $\theta$. These eigenvalues are real numbers, since they are eigenvalues of a Hermitian matrix. We see that $s$ is an eigenvalue if and only if $\det (\mathrm{Id} - s^{-1}(e^{i \theta} A + e^{-i \theta} A^*))=0$ or, in other words, if $F(s^{-1} \cos \theta, s^{-1} \sin \theta)=0$. So these eigenvalues are the reciprocals of the points where a line through the origin meets $F=0$. In short, the question is whether conditions 1, 2 and 3 force $F=0$ to be a union of concentric circles.
And the answer is no. Consider the polynomial $$1-10(x^2+y^2)(x^2+y^2-1)(x^2+2y^2-3)$$
As you can see in the plot below, this is $3$ ovals nested around the origin, so every line through $(0,0)$ meets it $6$ times. The other conditions are obvious. (Note that, although the inner ovals look like circles, they are not; this polynomial is irreducible. In any case, the outer polynomial is clearly not a circle.)
Even with the assumption that $e^{iq}A+e^{-iq}B$ is Hermitian, that is $B=A^* $, the claim is not true. The characteristic polynomial $P(X,z)$ of $zA+\bar zA^*$, written in terms of the real and imaginary parts $z=Y+iZ$ is a Hyperbolic polynomial. Actually, every hyperbolic polynomial can be written that way, according to a conjecture of P. Lax, proved by Helton and Vinnikov. For instance, $$X^2-Y^2-Z^2=\det\begin{pmatrix} X-Y & Z \\\\ Z & X+Y \end{pmatrix}$$ corresponds to the matrix $$A=\begin{pmatrix} 1 & i \\\\ i & -1 \end{pmatrix}.$$ This matrix turns out to be nilpotent, as you require. Perhaps this is the case that you investigated, because here the eigenvalues of $zA+\bar zA^* $ are $\pm|z|$, thus constant $\equiv\pm1$ when $z=e^{iq}$. However, the following is a counter-example: $$A=\begin{pmatrix} 0 & 1 & 1 \\\\ 0 & 0 & 1 \\\\ 0 & 0 & 0 \end{pmatrix}.$$ When $z$ runs over the unit circle, the eigenvalues of $zA+\bar zA^* $ form a cardioid, plus its bitangent.
Edit. The parity of $n$ does not matter. As said by David, there are plenty of hyperbolic polynomials. Take $n=4$ and $P_0(X,z)=(X^2-|z|^2)(X^2-2|z|^2)$. It is strictly hyperbolic (distinct roots for every nonzero $z$). Then every polynomial $P(X,Y,Z)$ close enough to $P_0$ is hyperbolic. According to Lax--Helton--Vinnikov, $P$ is the characteristic polynomial of some $zA+\bar zA^* $. Actually, you can start from the nilpotent matrix $A_0$ attached to $P_0$ and perturb it keeping it nilpotent.. Still you get plenty of $P$, most of them non-constant over the unit circle.
Let $$A=\pmatrix{0&0&0\cr 1&0&0\cr 1&1&0}.$$ The eigenvalues of $A+A^T$ (q=0) are 2,-1,-1. The eigenvalues of $-A-A^T$ (q=$\pi$) are -2,1,1.
I finally found out the property that resulted in the fact that eigenvalues in my case are independent of $q$. In my case, I found that $Tr((A e^{i q} + A^* e^{-i q})^m)$ is independent on $q$ for any $m$. In which case, it is not difficult to prove that the eigenvalues should be independent on $q$ having $\sum_i \lambda_i^m \frac{\partial \lambda_i }{\partial q}= 0 $ for all $m$ we can form a linear combination of these equations such that $\sum_i P(\lambda_i) \frac{\partial \lambda_i }{\partial q}= 0 $ where P is some polynomial that we can choose such that $P(\lambda_i) = \frac{\partial \lambda_i }{\partial q}$ given any $q$ and this way we can see that $\frac{\partial \lambda_i }{\partial q}$ vanishes. However, I am still interested to see how such a constraint can be implemented in David's solution (what does it correspond to regarding F).