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GATORS? Now we're talking scary critters!Did someone say "Where are my gators?"
...i kill spiders with reckless abandon, they don't bother me but snakes? Yeah...where are my gaitors?
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Any time. Noticed you hail from Ridgecresst. Gotta love a Friday or Saturday night at Tommy T's!!!
That's cool, I didn't know that they came in different colors. I just thought they were all green. I keep learning new stuff all the time. Thanks for sharing that.
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Posted 27 July 2010 - 06:57 PM
I have one of those too...don't ask me why. The snake shot should arrive any day...will take it to the range for a quick pattern test.
I have a two shot .38 special derringer that I used my own handload snake shot in. Works great for snakes and the pistol weighs very little and conceals nicely in a pocket.Darren
Posted 27 July 2010 - 07:07 PM
Posted 28 July 2010 - 06:09 AM
You're gonna pattern snake shot??
The snake shot should arrive any day...will take it to the range for a quick pattern test.
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Posted 01 August 2010 - 10:11 PM
What's the best choke for that
You're gonna pattern snake shot??
Posted 02 August 2010 - 08:41 AM
They shot great out of my 38 and the best part is that they are lead free.
I did on my own handloads. Nice softball sized group at 10 yards out of my 2 shot derringer. Works great! Bullseye also tested it out of his .38 snubby and it worked well in his as well. I believe I published my load for that some time ago in the reloading forum if anyone is interested.Darren
Posted 24 November 2010 - 04:31 PM
I have just the thing for you. Hot Shot Spider Killer.Kills on Contact.I use it extensively on Black Widows. Very Subtle....You spray them, they go nuts trying to figure out what and where,and then they die.You don't even have to get a direct hit. No Odor/Non-Staining.Kills other stuff to as a side benefit. During the Summer I go out around 9pm with a can and a flashlight.If you catch the shadow without getting the light directly on them, they don't run.Works for me........
Nothing like walking through a dense tangle of woods in the early dawn on the way to a favorite duck hunting pond and getting a face full of Orb spider web compete with spider. I night hunt for black widows too Ed. I still get that creepy feeling every time I flick their web and she come charging out to catch whatever tripped her web. I remember crawling under a truck once that had been setting in a field. We had dragged it out to pull the transmission. I brushed all of the webs away and slid under the truck on a creeper when widows just started jumping down to get away. I guess that freaked me out and before you know it I got bit on the back of my upper arm. I was sicker than a dog and thought I was going to die. How a spider could cause that reaction I don't know. Those creep monsters have given me the heebee jeebees ever since. My skin is crawling just thinking about them. I'll probably have nightmares about them tonight. I hope my wife doesn't get upset if I swat her thinking she's a black widow. Iwonder if they sell spider shot!
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Let $Q$ be a finite quiver, let $M$ denote the arrow ideal and let $kQ$ denote the path algebra. Endow $kQ$ with the $M$-adic topology. Now let $\mathcal{A}$ be the set of all formal series ${\sum_{\gamma} a_{\gamma} \gamma , a_{\gamma} \in K\}$ where $\gamma$ is a path. Then $kQ$ is naturally a $k$-algebra (same operations we use for a group ring). Define $t$ as follows:
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I have a composite output cable for my Gamecube, but it would be nice if it supported a higher quality output, such as S-Video or Component. Does the Gamecube have output support for these outputs?
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Project Six Pack - All For One And One For AllWritten by on April 1, 2002 Caltracs Monoleafs And A High-Altitude Converter For Project Six-Pack
Editor's Note: Project Six Pack was one of the most famous cars of the '70s, covered in-depth during the early part of that decade in the now-defunct Super Stock & Drag Illustrated magazine on the Stock Eliminator trail. Now 30 years in the making, we are happy to bring you this update as the car returns to bracket competition in the Colorado Rockies. Former readers of HPM have followed some of the other changes made to the car in the last few years.
Most magazine project cars, despite good intentions, tend to be rather short-lived. The '69 M-code Road Runner seen here is the exception. This project first appeared in Super Stock and Drag Illustrated Magazine in the February '70 issue for a lace-painting feature, and officially became Project Six Pack in April 1972. Back in the early to mid-'70s, owner and SS&DI field editor Ted Struse, along with partners Mike Smith and Terry Welsh, campaigned the car in Stock Eliminator, setting six NHRA national records in the process. Now restored and sporting a 15:1 McCandless Performance low-deck 451-inch stroker and some nine-second time slips, the car would be perfect for nostalgia racing. Trouble is, there is absolutely nothing in the Denver area but brackets.
In his mid-'50s and forced to contend with Parkinson's disease, Ted had to rule out traveling to other parts of the country to compete in nostalgia meets, and he even considered putting the car back into street trim. Because of the car's racing heritage and the fact it runs so well in its current configuration, all agreed it would be a shame to take it apart and start over without further exploring its potential.
In that light, a phone call was made to transmission guru Frank Lupo, owner of Dynamic Converters in Delaware, to ascertain if the converter stall speed could be optimized to better-utilize the higher rpm power band of the Indy-McCandless 451 Wedge. While the car had the power, it didn't seem to come off the line like it should.
This is a prime example of why high-altitude racing is a challenge. The converter Frank originally built was rated at 6,000 rpm, and at sea level, that's pretty much what you'd get. But at Bandimere's often 8,000-foot plus effective elevation, a 4,800-rpm flash speed is about the limit for this unit. Nonetheless, the car left the line cleanly, with no trace of bog or stumble, and at an uncorrected 10.76 e.t. (which equates to a 9.98 at sea level), lack of power was certainly not the problem. We've seen legal NHRA stockers at Bandimere that run over a second slower yet can pull the wheels off the ground. Some of this may be due to the shifting of weight allowed by NHRA rules, something that has not been done to this car, but the bottom line is that the car was just not in the power band off the line.
As luck would have it, East Coast Max Wedge campaigner Joe Aluise, the first NHRA Stock Eliminator record-holder in the nines, made a visit to Denver to do some high-altitude running a while back, and collected quite a bit of data while he was here. Since we knew the Aluise crew also used Dynamic converters, we asked if they would be willing to help us out with some concrete figures on how converter performance varied from sea level to Bandimere. They knew of Project Six Pack and were more than happy to help.
The new unit that resulted from this meeting of the minds has a nominal stall-speed rating of 6,700 rpm. The general rule of thumb is that stall speed should be approximately 1,500 rpm less than your shift point. Running at sea level, this would be too much for our combination, which is shifted at 7,200-7,500 rpm. But at Bandimere's elevation, Joe Aluise's data showed that we could expect to lose approximately 1,000 to 1,200 rpm in stall speed. While that seems like a lot, our initial testing showed an even higher 1,400 to 1,500 actual rpm loss! In other words, our 6700-rpm converter became a "5,200" at our mile-high elevation.
Nevertheless, the approximately 500 net rpm increase definitely made the car come alive off the line. Of course, none of this newfound power does any good unless the car hooks. Up to this point, even the nine-year-old Firestones seemed to do the job with no slippage whatsoever. But with the engine now up in the power band, it was a whole different ballpark, and this precipitated some new problems. On a high horsepower car, when super stock springs get tired, the car tries to tuck the right rear tire under and roll over it. This is a direct result of the rotational energy produced by the torque of the engine. In our case, this resulted in a very subtle "skating" effect and further aggravated a tendency of the car to pull to the right.
Thanks to fellow Mopar racer Mike Molgard, we hooked up with John Calvert, whose new CalTracs suspension system would solve this problem. If you follow Super Stock racing at all, you've probably heard of Mr. Calvert-he's the West Coast racer with the original four-speed Cobra Jet Mustang who wins World Championships with 9-inch wide stocker tires! Running in Super Stock against a legion of four-links and 14x32 monster meats, John knew he had his work cut out for him. His motives were quite simple-he wanted to race his car, but since original-paint four-speed Cobra Jets are scarce and increasingly valuable, he wasn't willing to cut it up.
John carefully studied his suspension needs and determined that a refined traction bar, similar in construction to the traditional slapper bars but using a more sophisticated approach, would do the trick. The resulting system worked so well that other racers asked to purchase similar bars for their cars, and the rest is history.
Taking things a step further, John has recently released a unique monoleaf rear spring setup specially engineered to work with and optimize the effect of the CalTracs bars. One obvious benefit is that the monoleaf springs are much lighter than the factory Super Stock spring bundle. Depending on the application, as much as 40 pounds of unsprung weight can be eliminated.
The CalTracs springs and bars cured all our handling ills and brought consistency back to the launch. Plainly evident was the absence of the almost-excessive lift the rear suspension had exhibited prior to the CalTracs. After all, the whole idea is to move the car forward as quickly as possible, not waste time separating the leaves and going up. The new converter/suspension combination also pulls the wheels off the ground consistently.
The last run we made was a "pretty as a picture" 10.77 at 126 mph, which factors out to a sea level 9.99 at 136 mph. Significantly, this was run in the summer heat, while our earlier 10.76/9.98 was run on a cool October evening. We feel confident that a little more thrashing next season will yield several more tenths from the existing setup, but it's wintertime in the Rockies, and we'll have to wait for the spring thaw to prove it. In the meantime, we're trying to figure out how to tell Frank Lupo that we need another 600 rpm.
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Moveable-link suspension systems, like four-links and ladder bars, may offer the ultimate in adjustability, but there are certain drawbacks. One is expense. Another is that they are not allowed in some classes, such as NHRA Stock Eliminator. The legal CalTracs system accomplishes the goals of adjustability and adds what John Calvert refers to as "correction of the pushing point vector," but at a much lower cost. Basically, a car with a traction system that uses the "original" vector as illustrated will rise so dramatically on launch that it will unload the tires, causing wheel spin. The car then comes down, gets a good bite on the track again, rises excessively, and spins the tires again. Obviously, this is hard on elapsed times as well as parts.We installed the new converter, but left the old suspension still in place, and home video showed clearly what was happening. While the quality of the photo from the tape is marginal, you can see that the torque of the engine is overpowering the springs, and trying to tuck the right rear slick under as it rolls the body to the right. On the run, the car pulled to the right quite severely. Although there didn't appear to be overt tire spin, the car was reacting as if the track were slippery.John Calvert's CalTracs bars are refined traction bars, similar in construction to the traditional slapper bars, but with a more sophisticated approach. He has recently released a unique monoleaf rear spring setup specially engineered to work with the CalTracs bars. The new springs offer a substantial weight savings over the conventional spring pack.CalTracs, like four-link and ladder bar systems, flatten out the pushing vector and smooth out the motion of the rear suspension. They were originally devoloped for NHRA stock eliminator, which dictates that no portion of the add-on traction device can be forward of the front spring eye. In order to keep the geometry proper, John Calvert devised a pivoting setup that meets the letter of the rules while still holding true to the optimized push point.Frank Lupo, of Dynamic Converters, has been involved with Project Six Pack since he was a kid. His latest revision of the torque converter added an extra 400 to 500 rpm to the "flash." (This is the maximum rpm that the converter reaches when hammered to the floor at about 10 miles per hour in high gear). At high altitude, it's not uncommon for a converter to lose 1,000 to 1,500 rpm from its sea-level performance. We may add more rpm next season, but even this change made a big difference off the line.Our suspension guru, NHRA national record holder Gary Gokey, has years of drag racing under his belt. Sometimes you get too close to your own situation, and a fresh perspective makes it a lot easier to understand what's going on. A keen observer, Gary doesn't miss a trick.Shopping for tires, we'd heard good things about the Mickey Thompson tire line, so we checked out the sizes available using the net. We don't know why they do this, but tire manufacturers offer a nominal size and then build them to a different size. For example, our old Firestones, listed as "11.5x29.5x15" actually measured 12x30x15-inches. M/T P/N 3064, with an 11.1-inch actual tread width and 29.9-inch diameter, was the closest we could find. When we went to order them, the factory recommended that we consider the 3062W because it had a thicker sidewall better suited to our heavier car, but we didn't notice that 3062Ws were a shorter tire, 29.6-inch overall diameter, as opposed to the 3064's 29.9-inch O.D.These Rancho RS9000 five-position adjustable shocks are built for the ultra-tough world of off-road racing, with features such as protective boots, oversize shafts, easy on-car adjustment, and overall sturdy construction. We used two different versions: PN RS9116, with a compressed length of 14.79 inches and extended length of 24.40 inches for use with the Super Stock springs, and number RS9113, with a compressed length of 12.82 inches and extended length of 20.65 inches for use with the new CalTracs monoleaf springs. The monoleaf springs are so much thinner than the Super Stock factory springs that the 9116 has no compression left at static ride height. The shorter 9113 fills the bill nicely.Original owner Ted Struse (second from R) claims the money he paid for his '69 Runner was the "deal of a lifetime." And when you consider that this car, which Ted bought new for the paltry sum of $2,995 against a list of $3,508.90, has been winning races and setting records for over 30 years, you'd have to agree! Also pictured are Lou Carbone, Project Six Pack driver/mechanic (second from L), and Sparky "Tower of Power" Schaefer (R), official electrician and unofficial team bouncer. Jim Zazenski photo.
The purists may ask, "If this is Project Six Pack, why is there a Dominator on the Indy 451-inch stroker?" Simply put, it works so well, it's hard to justify taking it off. But since the project's original mission was to disprove the magazine writers who said the Six Pack would never be competitive in NHRA class racing, it's a given that a 6 bbl setup eventually will be reinstalled. In the meantime, kudos to Ken Lazzeri, Herb McCandless, and Russ Flagle of Indy Cylinder Head for creating a real winner.


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Man, that '20 mysterious games' article is awesome! Thanks for compiling this list!
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• The Flow Channel, p. 52A
June-July 2004 issue:
• Implementing Real-World Control Systems, p. 18
• Doing Mushrooms, Miyamoto-Style, p. 24
• Postmortem: EA Sports Fight Night 2004, p. 28
• Serious Fun, p. 47
August 2004 issue:
• Postmortem: The Cinematic Effect of Zombie Studios' Shadow Ops: Red Mercury, p. 34
• Pitch – Not Design, p. 48
September 2004 issue:
• Manhunt to Mortal Kombat – The use and future use of violence in games, p. 12
• Postmortem: The Swinging System of Treyarch's Spider-Man 2 game, p. 26
• Brainstorming, p. 47
October 2004 issue:
• Postmortem: The Mobile Multiplayer of Blue Ridge's Momentum, p. 25
• Recursive Fleas, p. 35
November 2004 issue:
• Postmortem: Two Timing: Timegate Studios' Kohan II and Axis & Allies, p. 34
• Paradigm Shifts, p. 47
December 2004 issue:
• Ethics of Game Design, p. 14
• Postmortem: The Singular Design of Katamari Damacy, p. 34
• A Matter of Life and Death, p. 48
January 2005 issue:
• Postmortem: Avoiding Sequelitis in The Sims 2, p. 38
• What Trumps Fun, p. 54
February 2005 issue:
• Increasing the Bottom Line: Winning the Women's Market Share, p. 16
• Postmortem: Up You Arsenal: On and Offline in Ratchet & Clank, p. 28
• Question Your Assumptions, p. 55
March 2005 issue:
• Buena Vista's Good View, p. 31
• Postmortem: What's Inside the Room? The Horrors of Silent Hill 4 Investigated, p. 34
• In the Beginning, p. 64
April 2005 issue:
• Everything You Need to MMO, p. 18
• Postmortem: Jedi Mind Trick: Choice and Consequence in KOTOR II, p. 30
• Sleeping Dogs do it, p. 46
May 2005 issue:
• Intelligent Solutions for Ambiguous Player Controls, p. 19
• Postmortem: Indie Power! Riding the FBI with Alien Hominid, p. 28
• The Wright Stuff, p. 48
June-July 2005 issue:
• Playing Smart with IP, p. 17
• Postmortem: A Collective Backbone: Foundation 9' Development Dream, p. 24
• Familiar, Yet Different, p. 40
August 2005 issue:
• Postmortem: Head Games: Double Fine's Psychonautic Break, p. 30
• The Right to Bare Arms, p. 46
September 2005 issue:
• State of the Industry: Mobile Games, p. 11
• Mobilizing Content: Porting Games for Mobile Devices, p. 23
• Postmortem: Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII, p. 28
• Don't Cell Out, p. 40
October 2005 issue:
• Postmortem: The Graphical Styling of Resident Evil 4, p. 26
• Negative Feedback, p. 41
November 2005 issue:
• What Games Have to Teach Us, p. 9
• Scaling the Cabal: Valve's Design Process for Creating Half-Life 2, p. 20
• Stealth Education, p. 40
December 2005 issue:
• Postmortem: Designing Pac-Man, p. 26
• Rules of Interest, p. 39
January 2006 issue:
• Postmortem: Chomping at the Bit: Wideload Games' Studio Experiment Bites Back with Stubbs, p. 24
• Schafer on Creativity, p. 41
February 2006 issue:
• State of the Industry: Casual Games, p. 9
• Postmortem: The Buzz on Hamonix's Guitar Hero, p. 24
• When the Hunter Becomes the Hunted, p. 38
March 2006 issue:
• Postmortem: Gun: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, p. 34
• The Judo Rule, p. 62
April 2006 issue:
• Urban Development, p. 19
• Postmortem: Ubisoft's Peter Jackson's King Kong, p. 28
• Interview: The Wright Stuff, p. 38
• Emergent Complexity, p. 54
May 2006 issue:
• The Art of Self-Promotion, p. 13
• Postmortem: Konami's Metal Gear: Playing the 3D Card, p. 28
• Interview: Cliff Bleszinski: At War with Complacency, p. 39
• 112 Down, 288 to go: The State of The 400 Project, p. 53
June-July 2006 issue:
• Postmortem: Indigo Prophecy – The Nightmare of the Original Concept, p. 24
• Better Living through Games, p. 38
August 2006 issue:
• The Power of Pacing – Designing Games for Lasting Impact, p. 13
• Postmortem: Reestablishing an Icon: The Peaks and Pitfalls of Tomb Raider: Legend, p. 24
• Interview: Masaya Matsuura, p. 31
• Fair Play, p. 40
September 2006 issue:
• Interview: Alexey Pajitnov, Master of Shapes, p. 10
• State of the Industry: PC Games, p. 19
• Postmortem: Gamevil's NOM, p. 25
• 51 Ways to Die: An Interview with Goichi Suda, p. 31
• Invisible Monsters: Tales from the Uncanny Valley, p. 45
October 2006 issue:
• Ranking and Matchmaking: Grouping Online Players for Competitive Gaming, p. 25
• Postmortem: Iron Lore's Titan Quest, p. 36
• Interview: Michiru Yamane, p. 43
• Publisher Compatriots: What game designers need from their sugar mommas, p. 47
November 2006 issue:
• Getting Lucky: The 'Magic: The Gathering' Creator's Stance on Chance, p. 11
• Postmortem: Creeping Death: Designing the DeathWalk System in Prey, p. 31
• Changing Brains, p. 42
December 2006 issue:
• Postmortem: Detonating Introversion's DEFCON, p. 26
• Designer Genes, p. 35
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Part 2 (January 2007 – August 2008)
January 2007 issue:
• Postmortem: Not Your Typical Grind: Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam for Wii, p.30
• Do, Don't Show, p.42
February 2007 issue:
• Scrum Rising: Agile Development Could Save your Studio, p.21
• Postmortem: Resistance: Fall of Man, p.28
• All for Games: An Interview With Warren Spector, p.39
• Believing the Impossible, p.51
March 2007 issue:
• State of the Industry: Digital Distribution, p.11
• Postmortem: Sam & Max: A Journey Through Episodic Gaming, p.26
• Interview: Gamelab's Peter Lee, p.35
• Interview: Ralph Baer, p.38
• Casual Starters, p.52
April 2007 issue:
• Postmortem: Advent of Advergaming: Blitz Games' Burger King Games, p.20
• Software Toys, p.35
May 2007 issue:
• Moving On Up: Advancing your Career in the Game Industry, p.7
• Going Freelance,p.15
• Postmortem: Konami's Elebits, p.28
June-July 2007 issue:
• For Better or Worse: A Quality of Life Update, p.7
• Postmortem: Big Huge Games' Catan for Xbox Live Arcade, p.20
• Reflexes and Reflection, p.29
August 2007 issue:
• Postmortem: Final Fantasy XII, p.23
• Hybrid Vigor, p.43
September 2007 issue:
• Saving the Day: Save Systems in Games, p.7
• The Subversion Game: An Interview with Harvey Smith, p.33
• Postmortem: Infinite Interactive's Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, p.43
• Status Symbols: Why human psychology should influence game designers, p.50
October 2007 issue:
• Postmortem: Realtime Worlds' Crackdown, p.26
• Hal and Mycroft: A Tale of Two Computers, p.41
November 2007 issue:
• Scaling Small, p.7
• Postmortem: 2K Games' Bioshock, p.20
• Fishy Rules, p.38
December 2007 issue:
• Purchasing Power: Item-based payment models in Korean games, p.9
• Textual Healing: What Graphical MMOs Can Learn From Their Text-Based Ancestors, p.16
• Postmortem: 5th Cell's Drawn to Life, p.23
• Interview: Akira Yamaoka, p.31
• When Tales Wag the Dog, p.41
January 2008 issue:
• Thinking with Portals: Creating Valve's New IP, p.7
• Postmortem: Midway Games' Stranglehold, p.32
• Orange Box, Gold Star, p.51
February 2008 issue:
• Difficulty is Difficult: Designing for Hard Modes in Games, p.6
• Postmortem: Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, p.32
• Creating Halo 3's Legendary Mode, p.42
• Multiple Variations on a Single Theme, p.63
March 2008 issue:
• Postmortem: Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4, p.24
• Coming of Age, p.48
April 2008 issue:
• Ode to Short Dialog: Reconsidering the Sound Bite, p.17
• Postmortem: Naughty Dog's Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, p.24
• The Player's Handbook: Picking your role in The Game Industry™, p.40
• Seven Deadly Strategy Sins, p.44
• A Call for Standardized Job Titles, p.56
May 2008 issue:
• Engines of Creation, p.7
• The Game Developer Market, p.17
• Idea Synthesis, p.25
• Interview: Mike Zak, p.30
• Postmortem: Harmonix's Rock Band, p.36
June-July 2008 issue:
• Land of the Free: The Rise of the Tiny MMO, p.7
• Intelligent Brawling: Analyzing the Genre to Build a Better Beat 'Em Up, p.15
• Postmortem: Square Enix's Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King, p.34
• Interview: Masafumi Takada, p.42
• 2D vs 3D: Choosing the Right Camera System for your Game, p.55
August 2008 issue:
• Game Brains: A Survey of AI Middleware, p.7
• Interview: Hirokazu Tasuhara, p.18
• Postmortem: Penny Arcade Adventures, p.28
• Humor Me, p.48
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Very interesting articles! I must find time to read these *sneaks onto the internet at school*
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I can barely keep up with reading all of Gamasutra's features ! Thanks for sharing the links!
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I want to print handouts of a Beamer presentation. I am using psnup to a create a copy with multiple slides per pages. I notice that there is a lot of empty space on the top of each slide and the actual printed material takes a small proportion of the space allocated to each slide. Is there a way I can fix this?
I use the following preamble, making use of the package handoutWithNotes:
It produces rather nicely formatted output four slides to a page, either in landscape format or in portrait format, with space for notes --something my students like.
Look to the blog of Guido Diepen for more info and an example.
I second the use of
Here's a minimal working example:
which produces:
(In my actual documents, I have that page layout saved in a style file which gets loaded between loading
I found the solution in the user guide, section 4.6.2. One has to use the pgfpages package.
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I have recently bought myself a simple android tablet to find out how I can utilize it in being more productive. Here are some of the things I used it for, and I'm very interested in feedback and similar or different experiences, as I plan to buy a 'real' tablet soon:
In general I see a tablet as an information consumer device, creating information on it is not (at the moment) a use case that I see
I use the tablet to: - Browse the internet, reading blogs, this site, news sites etc - Read emails, almost only to read the content and delete or archive read emails. Responding is done on my regular computer, however it is sometimes difficult as I forget to resond - Handle my GTD Lists with Remember The Milk - View webcasts and videos
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Cutting Costs
In these lean times, it's important to consider where you can save money. One way is to cut down on printing, photocopying, and distribution costs. At NAU all faculty have access to a Blackboard Vista course shell, and using the shell to manage documents can cut costs. In the podcast episode Cost Savings (iTunes link), which is part of the podcast series T4: Tuesday Tips on Teaching with Technology, John Doherty and Wally Nolan share tips on how to use Bb Vista effectively to manage your course documents and enhance your instructional objectives.
Tying in the Technology
One way to cut printing costs is to give your students an online syllabus and course handouts. In the podcast episode How Do I Import a Syllabus and Course Handouts into My Blackboard Vista Course? (iTunes link), Sharon Gorman demonstrates how you can add a syllabus and handouts to a folder that you create on the homepage of your Blackboard Vista course shell. For more in-depth information about organizing your course into folders and in other ways, download Organizing Content in Blackboard Vista Training Manual (.pdf).
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Recent and archived news articles by Michael Brick of The New York Times.
Closing a Fear Gap So Children Can Achieve
Montserrat Garibay, a teacher, is hoping to shrink the stark achievement gap in schools disproportionately populated by the children of immigrants by addressing fears of deportation.
December 2, 2013, Monday
A Washington Football Fan Breaks With Tradition
Nostalgia has a limit, and asking children to knowingly embrace an ethnic slur crosses that line.
October 20, 2013, Sunday
When 'Grading' Is Degrading
So far, education "reform" has given us little but re-segregation and the same dismal scores in math and science.
November 23, 2012, Friday
What Happens When a 911 Emergency Call Goes Silent?
Open-line calls in which no one speaks are perplexing to 911 dispatchers, as in a recent case in Texas in which the fatal shooting of a family was unfolding.
February 14, 2012, Tuesday
Memories of Ruby's, the Place to Take Coney Island In
Remembering Ruby's, and one particular summer.
November 3, 2010, Wednesday
New Bush Exhibit Opens Rift at S.M.U.
The choice of controversial mementos has reinvigorated opposition to the center at Southern Methodist University.
October 22, 2010, Friday
Opening of Exhibit on Bush Reopens a Campus Rift
DALLAS -- For the first two years, George W. Bush managed his return to private work in Texas as a quiet transition. While anonymous donors put his photograph on highway billboards that say ''Miss Me Yet?'' Mr. Bush all but shuttered his ranch...
October 22, 2010, Friday
Unexpected Turns for Suit Over 'Don't Ask' Rule
When the Log Cabin Republicans' lawsuit, which had languished since 2004, emerged from legal limbo, the group was struggling to survive.
October 14, 2010, Thursday
After Two Killings, An Apology That Didn't Take
Ronell Wilson was begging for mercy. ''I am not good with words,'' he said. ''I wish I could explain myself more better, but I am not truly - I am truly sorry for the pain I have caused.''
July 3, 2010, Saturday
Remembering a Crime That Shook a City
Ronell Wilson's trial, and the moment he said he was sorry for killing two undercover police detectives, remained a haunting piece of unfinished business.
July 2, 2010, Friday
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How to prove that every closed surjective map is open? (Exercise from book Borisovich "General topology")
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How to prove that every closed surjective map is open? (Exercise from book Borisovich "General topology")
Thank you very much!
I will show a counterexample showing that the assertion is false. Let us consider the following function $h:[0,1]\rightarrow [0,1],$
h(x) = \begin{array}{ccc} \frac{3}{2}x & \text{if} & x\in \lbrack 0,\frac{1}{3}] \\ \frac{1}{2} & \text{if} & x\in \lbrack \frac{1}{3},\frac{2}{3}] \\ \frac{3}{2}x-\frac{1}{2} & \text{if} & x\in \lbrack \frac{2}{3},1]. \end{array}
Here we consider $[0,1]$ to be a topological space with the topology generated by the metric $d\left( x,y\right) =|x-y|$. Now the function is clearly continuous and surjective. It is also closed which follows from compactness. On the other hand the interval $\left( \frac{1}{3},\frac{2}{3}% \right) $ is an open set in $[0,1]$, and $h[\left( \frac{1}{3},\frac{2}{3}% \right) ]=\left\{ \frac{1}{2}\right\} $ which is not open in $[0,1]$.
Let $f:X\to Y$ be closed and surjective, and assume we have given a $U\subseteq X$ open subset. Use complement, and prove that $f(U)$ is open.
Update: It is indeed not that trivial, moreover, not even true (see comments below). The problem is that, though $f(U)\cup f(X\setminus U)=Y$ by surjectivity, these 2 sets may intersect, so we cannot simply conclude $f(X\setminus U)=Y\setminus f(U)$.


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One of the unexpected trends we've seen over the past few years is the decrease or slowdown in household formation. Part of that certainly is attributable to the recession but there is also a component that college kids have been moving home to live with their parents in increasing numbers. John Burns of John Burns Real Estate Consulting believes that we are soon going to see a lot of those kids start to leave home which will dramatically drive the need for apartments or rentals in general.
Given the ongoing foreclosure crisis in America as well as tightening loan standards, the rental option is likely to see increased demand over the next several years.


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Anglo American donates US$ 1 million for GAVI immunisation programmes
22 December 2011
Q and A with Helen Evans on GAVI challenges and opportunities
In this special Q and A, GAVI's Deputy CEO Helen Evans discusses the challenges and opportunities facing the Alliance after last June's successful replenishment process.
21 December 2011
Malawian mothers: three tales of suffering and hope
Three women explain how they lost babies to pneumonia because they live too far from health centres. Pneumococcal vaccine, now part of Malawi's immunisation programme, could have prevented their children's premature deaths.
29 November 2011
International Vaccine Institute and GAVI to step up cooperation
Seth Berkley and Dr. Christian Loucq meet in Seoul, South Korea.
17 November 2011
Bangladeshi schoolgirl stars in GAVI film on immunisation success story
11-year-old Saleha Akhter becomes film narrator for a day to explain unprecedented vaccination rate
15 November 2011
HPV vaccine key to Every Woman Every Child, says UN Secretary General
Human papillomavirus vaccine will spare millions of women from threat of cervical cancer.
26 September 2011
Vaccine protects refugee children entering Kenya from killer pneumonia
Following its introduction in Kenya, the pneumococcal vaccine is now protecting refugees from Somalia in Dadaab refugee camp.
21 September 2011
Private sector engagement crucial for improving women's and children's health
Positive role of public-private partnerships helping to save 16 million lives through Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health.
19 September 2011
UN Foundation launches A Shot at Life
The United Nations Foundation has launched 'Shot@Life', a campaign aiming to expand access to lifesaving vaccines for children in developing countries.
03 August 2011
Seth Berkley starts work as new GAVI CEO
Former IAVI leader starts work as GAVI's third Chief Executive Officer, ready to lead the Alliance's ambitious five-year plans to introduce new vaccines against pneumococcal and rotavirus diseases, Meningitis A, HPV, rubella and Japanese encephalitis.
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This morning, I witnessed Spring clutching her most radiant bouquet as I walked with her in the company of a new day. I watched the rising sun stretch its rays over the awakening horizon as I hiked up the back of a shady, cool ridge. The soft light crept its way across the city beneath me and slowly made its way up to warm my skin.


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Ok, I'm a newbie in FreeBsd and for your info I only know MS windows before this. I wonder why FreeBsd love to use man in various places, for example:
FreeBsd Man Pages - This interface will allow you to browse through 10,500+ Unix related topics
Even in that page description, it says:
This interface will allow you to browse through 10,500+ Unix related topics. Each man page is translated by using manServer. You can also view these man pages in a unix shell by using the man program. Many of these utilities are available online for our customers to use. Those using the Solaris platform can find online man pages at docs.sun.com.
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Is Uncharted 4 the last game in the series? Nolan North thinks soWritten by: / / 7 Comments
Uncharted 4 was announced in November last year, but Sony made fans wait almost seven full months before giving us a look at what the talented team at Naughty Dog has been working on.
The first trailer for what we now know as Uncharted 4: A Thief's End has since been confirmed to showcase in-game visuals, and directors Bruce Straley and Neil Druckmann have discussed how their previous work – The Last of Us and Uncharted 2 – has influenced their approach to the development Uncharted 4 in an insightful video interview.
Despite all of the work going into this latest Uncharted game, could this be the last game in the series?
Prolific voice actor Nolan North (who of course provides performance capture for Uncharted hero Nathan Drake) believes that Uncharted 4 could very well be the last game in the series, and while he must be excited to reprise his role as Drake he says he's a fan of "going out on top."
Speaking to IGN regarding Uncharted 4 and his role in the game, North said:
"It's bittersweet but at a certain point you want to go out on top. If this is the last one indeed, and I believe it's the last one – nothing's confirmed, but I believe it's the last one Naughty Dog wants to do, in which case I hope somebody else doesn't pick up the mantle because they've done it so well for so long – but yeah, it's one of those things where you just have to cross that bridge when you get to it.
"I like the idea of going out on top so we better do a hell of a job with this one… and it's already looking pretty good."
If the man behind Nathan Drake feels its time to retire the character – and the franchise – it's perhaps a good indication of the life he feels is left in the series.
Uncharted 4's title, 'A Thief's End,' combined with the latest trailer, both point to an ominous story that could see one of the main characters (and even Drake himself) meet his end.
Would you play more Uncharted after the fourth entry in 2015?
Source: IGN
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Directions to Posavina Hotel BrckoAddress: Square Mladih 4, Brcko, Bosnia And Herzegovina
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You can reach Brcko either from Sarajevo or from Belgrade. From Sarajevo just follow the signs for Zenica and Doboj and when you get to Doboj follow the signs for Brcko. From Belgrade follow the signs for Zagreb. When you enter in Croatia, after approximately 30 km take the exit for Brcko, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Hotel is located at Trg Mladih 4 in the centre of Brcko.


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A look at the T-Mobile Test Drive iPhone package [Hands-on]
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As we reported a few days ago, T-Mobile has introduced Test Drive, which allows both current T-Mobile customers and those in other carriers (or who have no cell provider at all) to borrow an iPhone 5s from the company for 7 days. That includes unlimited talk, text, and data with the only current T-Mobile device that supports all the wireless band's used by the company. It's an effort to show, not just tell, the US population that it's greatly improved its wireless network and tuned it for massive data use.
After the T-Mobile Uncarrier 5.0 event we were able to get our hands on one of the iPhone 5s Test Drive units, and we've included some images here. Inside the box is what we assume is a refurbished black iPhone 5s, along with a sealed Lightning cable, Earpods, and AC adapter. It's definitely not the Apple unboxing experience, but that isn't the point. As far as storage capacity, our iPhone 5s is a 32GB model, so there is room to try downloading apps, videos, and images.
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Today in the Gear Live Deals Shop we're offering a 33% discount on the Doxie One portable scanner. Computer scanners can be large and cumbersome, so when we saw that the Doxie One portable scanner was on sale, we had to make that our Deal of the Day. What's so cool about the Doxie One? All you need is an SD card (and it even comes with one) to start scanning--no need to connect it to a computer or wireless network and hope it works. Just scan away, then take the SD card and plug it into your Mac or PC. It'll even OCR your documents to make them searchable PDFs if you'd like!
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Uncarrier 6.0: T-Mobile now gives all customers free, unlimited streaming music
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At yesterday's T-Mobile Uncarrier 5.0 event, the company surprised everyone by also announced Uncarrier 6.0: absolutely free unlimited streaming music. Dubbed "Music Freedom," T-Mobile CEO John Legere revealed that any T-Mobile customer can stream music from Pandora, iHeartRadio, iTunes Radio, Spotify, Slacker, Rhapsody, Milk, and Beatport without having to worry about data caps. To make it clear, Legere stated "Every single note of music will come free, not against your bucket. Even when you exhaust your data bucket, you can still stream unlimited music at high speed." The services mentioned account for 85% of music streamed on T-Mobile, but the company isn't stopping there. For example, services like Rdio and Google Play All Access Music will be part of an online voting area that T-Mobile is providing to allow customers to choose which other music services they'd like to see added. The goal is to add a few new services each month.
If you already have an unlimited T-Mobile account, you aren't left in the cold. The company also announced a partnership with Rhapsody unRadio, an app that is available to anyone on any carrier, and T-Mobile unlimited customers get free access, while limited T-Mobile customers get a 20% off discount and pay $4 per month. If you aren't on T-Mobile, you pay $5 for unRadio.
Uncarrier 5.0 was the T-Mobile Test Drive, which sees the company giving anyone in the US an iPhone 5s for free for a week to try out the T-Mobile network.
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Uncarrier 5.0: T-Mobile will lend you an iPhone 5s for 7 days to Test Drive its network
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During last nights T-Mobile Uncarrier 5.0 event here in Seattle, the company announced its Uncarrier 5.0 T-Mobile Test Drive, the next phase in its battle to separate itself from the typical pack of mobile wireless carriers. The Test Drive starts on June 23rd, and will see T-Mobile lending anyone in the US an iPhone 5s at no cost for a full seven days. What's the point? Well, T-Mobile CEO John Legere says that the company has been rapidly building its network coverage, and wants to prove it to anyone who wants to give it a try by providing the "latest and greatest" iPhone and unlimited voice, text, and data for the duration of the Test Drive.
The other item that the Test Drive aims to accomplish is increasing awareness that T-Mobile offers the iPhone as an option on its network. Apparently, since it took them so long to get the iPhone originally, the mind share just isn't there. This could change that. Apparently, Apple is on board with the strategy, as its the one that is providing the iPhone 5s units to T-Mobile for the Test Drive program, free of charge as part of a "growing partnership" between the two. Of course, it would stand to reason that Apple would want consumers to be aware that its devices are available on the nation's fastest growing network.
After your Test Drive, if you want to join T-Mobile, you won't be able to keep the same iPhone that you used during the trial, as that device will be wiped and returned to the pool of Test Drive devices. If you decide to keep it, T-Mobile will charge you $700 for the iPhone, and if you significantly damage it, the price will be $100 to repair it.
What do you think? Will you give the T-Mobile Test Drive a chance?
At the event, T-Mobile also announced unlimited, free music streaming on its network.
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The Gear Live Deals Shop is offering a 30% discount on the Karma 4G Mobile Hotspot, and that's good enough to make that our Deal of the Day. You get 100MB of free mobile data each month, and can pay $14 per GB after using up the alottment. Even better, share your mobile hotspot with others, and you'll earn 100MB of data every time. The unit stays powered for 8-10 hours on a single charge, and delivers speeds up to 12Mbps. You get it for just $69, saving $30 in the process.
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Live from the T-Mobile Uncarrier 5.0 event! [Update: Uncarrier 6.0 as well!]
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We are coming to you live from Seattle's Paramount Theater, where T-Mobile is set to deliver its Uncarrier 5.0 keynote address. Outspoken CEO (or un-CEO) John Legere is about to take the stage to unveil the next big move from the bold wireless carrier. The lights are going down, so join us for the live coverage after the break!
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Fire Phone unlimited free photo storage only applies to smartphone images, doesn't include videos
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You know how Amazon's Fire Phone includes the perk of unlimited photo storage in your Amazon Cloud Drive account? Well, it turns out there are a couple of caveats. Here's how it works:
- The free storage is applied to the account that the Fire Phone is registered under
- The phone will upload your pictures and videos, but only the pictures get unlimited free space. Videos uploaded will use your Amazon Cloud Drive storage allotment.
- Photos uploaded are in their original, full-resolution format
- The unlimited free storage only applies to photos taken and uploaded with the Fire Phone. If you sync over photos to the phone that weren't taken with it, those will count against your allotment. Similarly, if you upload photos taken with the Fire Phone from another device, they'll also count against your storage space.
- If you give away or sell your Fire Phone, all of your photos will remain in your Amazon Cloud Drive. If you then get a new Fire Phone in the future, the unlimited photo storage benefit will return to your account.
Some have been comparing Amazon's offering to what Apple will be including in iOS 8, and later, OS X Yosemite, where it will also allow you to store all of your photos and videos in iCloud. The difference is that Apple will allow you to automatically upload your entire photo library, regardless of where the images were taken, but there will be a fee if you go over 5GB. There's no unlimited option for images, and certainly not for video.
You can pre-order the Amazon Fire Phone now.
Amazon Fire Phone owners get unlimited, free photo storage
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Cell Phones, Handhelds, Hot Deals, Storage
Amazon just announced its new Fire Phone, and one of the big value-adds is that owners will get unlimited photo storage on Amazon Cloud Drive. This comes just two weeks after Apple announced the new iCloud Photo Library option during its WWDC 2014 keynote, which allows you to store all of the photos and videos that you have, with the difference being that Apple only gives you the first 5GB of storage for free, and then you have to pay for additional tiers, which starts at $0.99 per month for 20GB. Amazon is providing unlimited photo storage (although they didn't specifically say that videos were included) right off the bat, a key differentiator. This means you can snap away without fear of using up all your local storage space, and it's one less backup you need to worry about as well.
The Amazon Fire Phone will sell for $199.99 on-contract, and is exclusive to AT&T. You can pre-order today, and it'll be released on July 25th. For a limited time, buyers will also receive a free year of Amazon Prime with purchase!
Amazon Fire Phone will cost $199.99 with two-year contract, AT&T exclusive launches July 25
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Amazon unveiled the new Fire Phone this morning in Seattle, and we've since discovered that the new smartphone will sell for $199 with two-year contract as an AT&T exclusive for the 32GB model. If you'd rather get the 64GB version, that'll run you $299 on contract for the device that tracks you with its array of front-facing cameras. No word on how long the AT&T exclusive will last, but hopefully folks on Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint will be able to get in on the action soon enough.
The Fire Phone will be released on July 25th, and pre-orders start today. For a limited time, buyers will also get 12 months of Amazon Prime with purchase, which itself is a $99 value.
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Amazon announces the Fire Phone, available July 25th
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Amazon has announced its first smartphone, and it's called the Fire Phone. Jeff Bezos is still on stage giving us a rundown of the long-awaited device, but here's what we know about it so far:
- The Fire Phone sports a 4.7-inch display
- It's powered by a quad-core 2.2GHz processor, 2GB RAM, and an Adreno 330 graphics chip
- It sports a 13-megapixel rear camera with optical image stabilization and an f/2.0 five element lens
- The Fire Phone uses a multi-camera array that powers its 3D user interface
- Dual stereo speakers which are aligned for landscape mode for watching media
- It ships with flat-cabled, tangle-free magnetic earbuds
- Owners of the Fire Phone get unlimited cloud storage of all the photos they take with the device in Amazon Cloud Drive (huge!)
- The Amazon Firefly feature allows you to use the phone to recognize over 100 million items, plus any text around you. You can then interact with it immediately, in a matter of seconds.
- Obviously, all Amazon services will be built in--Prime Video, Prime Music, Kindle, WhisperSync, and even the MayDay button for customer service
- The 32GB Fire Phone will cost $199 with two-year contract, and is exclusive to AT&T. You can get the 64GB version for $299.
- You can pre-order the Fire Phone now--it ships on July 25th and includes one-year of Amazon Prime
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Te Papa's curator of terrestrial vertebrates Dr Colin Miskelly is researching the life and work of the Canterbury naturalist Edgar Stead (1881-1949). This includes re-taking Stead's photos from the same photo-point, taking other images to illustrate his diaries, and describing how the ecology and wildlife of each of 10 islands has changed since Stead's visits.
Edgar Stead, Robert Wilson and Percy Elworthy visited Ruapuke Island in eastern Foveaux Strait for a day at each end of their stay on nearby Green Island, in Nov-Dec 1941. They didn't have time to explore much of this privately-owned 1600 ha island, with most time spent in the south-east between Old Ruapuke and Henrietta Bay. They did, however, visit the main podocarp / rata / kamahi forest patch in the hope of finding saddlebacks. I was privileged to be hosted on Ruapuke Island for 4 days at the very end of 2012, and also to visit Green Island.
It is unclear what predators were on Ruapuke Island in 1941. Mice and weka were definitely present, and feral cats likely. Stead and his companions found a large colony of white-faced storm petrels in sand dunes along the east coast. This small seabird is highly vulnerable to rat predation, and the presence of a colony then indicates that rats were absent or recent arrivals. Rats are reported to be present now, and we found no sign of the storm petrels
Forest birds were similar in 1941 and 2012, with bellbirds and tui widespread, and tomtits and red-crowned parakeets in the main forest. The brown creepers that Stead recorded appeared to have died out, but we recorded New Zealand pigeon / kereru, a species overlooked or absent in 1941.
The weka on Ruapuke Island are presumed to be Stewart Island stock. They are unusual for Stewart Island weka in having retained both the blackish and red-brown colour morphs. Although we saw more of the brown birds, several mixed pairs were seen, and both birds were black in one pair. The only other weka populations that have the black (or blackish) morph are in Fiordland. We also found both morphs present on nearby Green Island, but with fewer dark birds present.
A surprising find in 2012 was that fernbirds were common on Ruapuke Island. Stead did not record fernbirds in 1941, yet they are now present in areas that he visited. It is possible that they have sinced colonised from Bird Island 3 km away, where Stead found them during a brief visit at the end of his trip.
Both Ruapuke and Green Islands remain important breeding sites for the rare yellow-eyed penguin. The inaccessibility of the islands to anyone other than landowners is undoubtedly of ongoing benefit to this shy species.
Other blogs in this series:
Taranga / Hen Island – 1933 and 2010 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 1)
Nukuwaiata / Inner Chetwode Island – 1936 and 2011 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 2)
Kundy Island – 1929 and 2011 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 3)
Whenua Hou / Codfish Island – 1934 and 2011 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 4)
Rerewhakaupoko / Solomon Island – 1931 and 2012 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 5)
Taukihepa / Big South Cape Island – 1931 and 2012 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 6)
Pukeokaoka / Jacky Lee Island – 1932 and 2012 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 7)
Green Island – 1941 and 2012 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 8)
Western Chain, Snares Islands – 1929 and 2012 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 10)
Snares Islands –1947 and 2013 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 11)
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Individual departments or programs may receive funding from sources external to the University for support of graduate students requiring no service in return. From such grants, graduate students may be appointed to fellowships or traineeships consisting of stipends and full tuition scholarships with academic approval. Trainees will be required to participate in training experience as demanded by the grantor. Such awards are made for one year, but ordinarily are renewable.
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Each Game Engine is different and solves different problems in different ways, so the engine design does vary greatly from engine to engine (even though a lot of principles are shared from engine to engine).
Cocos2D is a great product on it's own, but it doesn't expose engine functionality to a scripting Language like Lua, JavaScript etc.
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The employees of the City of Carmi held their annual Christmas luncheon Friday afternoon at Carmi American Legion Post 224 and city electrician Jeff Vaupel was honored as the city's Employee of the Year for 2012.
Mayor David Port made the presentation to Vaupel, describing him as having saved the city countless dollars with his "yeoman's duty" and attention to detail. The mayor said Vaupel was hired because of his job knowledge and his addition has been a positive one for the city not just because of his knowledge and ability to save the city money but also his overall attitude of being kind and helpful.
Those receiving pins for the longevity with the city were: Curt Hale, five years; Jason Carter and Doug Smith, 10 years; Jack Baker and Jonathan Lucas, 15 years; Jim Renshaw, 25 years; and David Woodruff, 35 years.
The employees were treated to fried chicken or a smothered steak meal prepared by the Legion kitchen staff and a drawing for a number of door prizes closed out the event.
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