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Blue Blogger: The Magic of the Cup
- 25 January 2013 10:23
- Posted by @NieldyMCFC / Words by Simon Curtis
The first of a new weekly feature where we invite the best Blue bloggers and fan site owners to share their thoughts ahead of the weekend's action. This week Simon Curtis (Down The Kippax Steps) focuses on what the FA Cup means to City fans.
For many people, travelling from Leicester to Stoke involves an unexceptional 66 mile meander along the A46, A50 and A500, interrupted by nothing more controversial than the odd flock of starlings and aiborne herds of plastic bags.
For the rest of us gathered here it has involved something a little more strenuous, something that has taken reserves of energy and fortitude that are truly Olympian in their dimensions: a lifetime journey of heart-wrenching moments, years of raw undiffused passion dissolving quietly into unmet dreams, a tragicomic voyage of thousands of emotion-drenched miles via Darlington, Halifax, Ipswich, New Cross, Watford and Coventry.
It is a journey in time not just across the ground. It spans a clean cut era of Neil Young side-partings and Joe Mercer trilbies to a new dawn of bulldozer Ivorian heroes and hursuite scarf-wearing Italian managers.
Far from a one hour shunt westwards through the midlands of England, it is an odyssey that ricochets through the totemic grounds of the land, mud heaps, cabbage patches and darkened cow sheds.
It has taken us to the ice sheets of Shrewsbury and the arctic tundra of Blackburn. It has rewarded long Sunday evening trips to Ipswich and unerring belief in the improbable in North London.
It has spanked us square on the backside in the hotspots of Cardiff and in Newcastle late on a Sunday night with work to go to in the morning. It transcends generations, philosophies, moods and haircuts.
It has brought us to places that we may never visit again and will yet carry us to corners of this fair land we never thought we'd need to see.
It has burned images into our minds that will stay with us to our dying days: Paul Power ploughing through the Goodison mud in 81; Paul Dickov saving our sunken souls at Darlington; Jon Macken completing the most unlikely resurrection at White Hart Lane; Eyal Berkovic volleying in direct from a corner at Portman Road; the baying hordes on the Holte End in extra time v Ipswich in 81; pelting Gordon Strachan with snowballs at Highfield Road; Georgi Kinkladze's box to box sweep v. Leicester; Micah's last minute headed piledriver at Villa Park; Dennis Tueart rocking a packed and hostile Elland Road; Uwe's dinked opener at Old Trafford; Clive Allen's bravura entrance at Port Vale; Yaya's thundering, history-demolishing finishes two short years ago.
But then the unlikely names of Paul Hendrie, Sammy Chapman, Nayim, Peter Bodak, Scott Vernon, Gary Blisset and Nathan Tyson remain encrusted to us like limpets too. We are scarred just as we are blessed.
This diluvial flood of emotions now carries us off to Stoke, a name destined to be forever entwined with the end of that tortuous journey of 35 years of dread and torment.
For this, my friends, is the Football Association Cup and for followers of this great club of ours it means more than mere words can properly express.
May the chosen ones tomorrow play in a way that befits the daring deeds of Young and Lee, Tueart and Barnes, Berkovic and Goater, Kinkladze and Rosler, Power and Mackenzie, Caton and Hutchison, for nothing quite compares to the gathering momentum of a run to the latter stages of the FA Cup. Good luck, Blues, we are as usual right behind you every step of the way.
Read more of Simon's writing on the Down The Kippax Steps blog.


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Pop.woot is back?
Thought it was gone, apparently not!? Any explanation? I mean it was such a hit, I guess I am not surprised...
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I have a feeling it is based on the "stockingstuffers.woot" requests...
It's just another way to make more money in the last weeks before Christmas.
A bit more tempted this time than last. Gotta sort thru options for the Christmas list.
i'm sure woot just lets the criticism of it's very obvious business model evolution roll off its back, but it probably should take the comments to heart.
if you venture too far away from the deal a day strategy you'll eventually appear as little more than a retail site like amazon.com that offers a really lousy selection of products. a strikethrough symbol on MSRP paired with an offered price in larger sized font? yeah, amazon has done it for years. as your "deals" continue to be counterfeited by other retailers, and the price differences between your offerings and those made by others shrink even further, it doesn't take the savviest of business strategists to realize you better do what you can to right the ship more sooner than later. lose the original, dedicated wooter crowd and you've done a great disservice to the likelihood that brand woot won't eventually be folded into amazon gold box deals. perhaps, however, that's what you eventually would like to see happen.
all told.
Regarding the pop.woot offers - If the site were still a deal-a-day site, the popup stores would be a beloved treat for wooters. As it is, they're simply another mega woot+ sale, with loosely grouped items under some contrived "theme" - just like woot+ - and aimed at grabbing the holiday shopping crowd. What's killing me about it though - is how far off the mark this sale still is! Stocking stuffers = small items, usually <$10-20, that are fun/quirky, and fit in a stocking. I guess you could put a $250 mechanical pencil in a stocking, with all of the batteries, and a case of 5-hour energy...
Now, since the site isn't a deal-a-day site... just get a cart system. Make the sales searchable. This halfway think take FOREVER to navigate.
@thumperchick: $10-$20, that are fun/quirky, and fit in a stocking?
Like these beanie headphones: http://pop.woot.com/offers/aerial7-sound-disk-beanie-headphones
Or a 40 pack of toe warmers: http://pop.woot.com/offers/toe-warmers-40-pack-1
Missile Launchers: http://pop.woot.com/offers/thunder-missile-launcher
USB Mini Fridge: http://pop.woot.com/offers/mini-fridge
Earbuds: http://pop.woot.com/offers/jlab-jbuds-j3-earbuds-4
A bracelet watch thingy: http://pop.woot.com/offers/the-sprout-watch-black
A $5 digital camera: http://pop.woot.com/offers/bell-howell-keychain-digital-camera-3
A roll-up drum kit: http://pop.woot.com/offers/roll-up-drum-kit
Many of these retro toys: http://pop.woot.com/plus/retro-toys
Maple bacon salted caramel chocolates: http://pop.woot.com/plus/bissingers-handmade-chocolate
Heck, we even have something for your dog's stocking that matches your criteria: http://pop.woot.com/plus/rise-of-the-planet-of-the-pet
Agree w/@thumperchick who said: "Now, since the site isn't a deal-a-day site... just get a cart system. Make the sales searchable. This halfway think take FOREVER to navigate." (among other things.)
@shawnmiller You have listed 'some' of the stockingstuffer items. And that's nice. Would be a lot better if one could SEARCH for items they would like. A drop down SEARCH function. And a CART to put all the goodies in. You know, like any other store-front site. I don't want to spend endless amounts of time looking through 'aisles and bins'. I would like to find what I'm looking for in an easy, customer friendly manner.
Thanks for some requested stocking-stuffer items, though.
@shawnmiller: Thank you for digging up all of those links. I disagree about whether they all meet the criteria (once you include shipping) - but appreciate the gesture.
I did not intend to hijack the thread into a rant; reading an answer before mine got my gears moving and that's what came out.
I don't think this is what most of us had in mind when we were discussing stockingstuffer.woot.com. $9 for 5 pieces of candy??? $1799 for a massage chair (not sure what kind of stocking it would fit in!)??? There may be some bargains in there somewhere, but there are too many links and to much junk to look through, and not enough <$10 items. You could have offered the exact same things woot-off style, and probably had more excitement, but right now it's just a cluttered mess.
+1 for the cart system.
took me like 5 minutes to buy all the bacon salts for my old man. It's also going to show up in 8 boxes. talk about a hassle...
@cowboydann: Jeeeezzzz! It took me forever to just find the bacon salts. They're not in the pop.up Jingle Binge tab. They're a plus(ish) item on the regular woot tab. Good example of how awkward it is to find anything on this site.
Search function & Cart....SO needed here!

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this is my first question on here, so bear with me.
What I'm aiming to do is just create a basic .zip archive in C#. I have tried using the built-in
GZipStream class of .NET and have managed to accomplish this, but then I have the problem that I cannot name the file "usercode.zip" without the archived file losing it's extension. Due to constraints I cannot make my program create these files as "usercode.trf.zip", which is the only way I've found of leaving the filename's extension intact inside the archive.
I've tried using a number of other zipping libraries and I can't seem to manage getting them working properly or the way I want it to.
I came upon the
SevenZipHelper library that provides some nifty functions to use the LZMA (or 7-zip) library to compress a file.
The code I'm using looks as follows:
//Take the BF file and zip it, using 7ZipHelper
BinaryReader bReader = new BinaryReader(File.Open(pFileName, FileMode.Open));
byte[] InBuf = new byte[Count];
bReader.Read(InBuf, 0, InBuf.Length);
Console.WriteLine("ZIP: read for buffer length:" + InBuf.Length.ToString());
byte[] OutBuf = SevenZip.Compression.LZMA.SevenZipHelper.Compress(InBuf);
FileStream BZipFile = new FileStream(pZipFileName, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write);
BZipFile.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
BZipFile.Write(OutBuf, 0, OutBuf.Length);
This creates a compressed file neatly, using the 7-zip algorithm. Problem is I can't guarantee that the clients using this program will have access to 7-zip, so the file has to be in normal zip algorithm. I've gone through the helper- as well as the 7-zip libraries and it seems it is possible to use this library to compress a file with the normal "ZIP" algorithm. I just cannot seem to figure out how to do this. I've noticed properties settings in a few places, but I cannot find any documentation or googling to tell me where to set this.
I realize there's probably better ways to do this and that I'm just missing something, but I can't sit and struggle with such a supposedly easy task forever. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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When something works, but it is unreliable and intermittently goes wrong, what could it be called?
I'm actually thinking of computer software. In my work we tend to use the word "flakey", but there must be a better one.
When something works, but it is unreliable and intermittently goes wrong, what could it be called?
I'm actually thinking of computer software. In my work we tend to use the word "flakey", but there must be a better one.
You are already using the perfect word for unreliable software. According to The New Hacker's Dictionary
If you want to know what lossage, dodgy, or wonky mean, you'll need to follow the links. Following wonky gives you more synonyms.
Try "unreliable".
Personally I like
Edit: That is according to Dictionary.com
Sporadic is also a good word for this
I like the phrase on the blink, which means that it is not working properly. I like the "blink" part in particular, because it implies some intermittent function.
A related phrase is on the fritz, but I've never been entirely sure whether that's offensive or not.
Edit: I agree with the comments on this answer that these phrases would have the implication that the software had been working, but now does not function properly.
Sofware that is unreliable is sometimes called buggy.
Intermittent faults are the bane of an engineer's life.
We can describe physical components as 'intermittent', but I wouldn't regard software as intermittent.
Software should behave deterministically. If software's behaviour is unpredictable, there may be external factors we're unaware of.
In that case, I would definitely go with unreliable and explain it by phase of the Moon effects, if necessary.
I've always thought occulting would be a good term, but it has not yet gathered enough fans to be recognized. Strictly, it refers to lights (usually in lighthouses) that are lit for longer than they are dark (flashing is the opposite), but it has a connotation of the black magic that we all know is really responsible for the bug.
If it keeps running, but occasionally does weird things, one possible word for that would be glitchy (although it would be a more common phrasing to say it
If instead the sporadic bug(s) causes the program to crash (where "crash" in this case means cease executing in an uncontrolled way), a more proper thing to say that the program itself is
A third possibility is that the bug causes program goes off into an infinite loop. In that case, neither of the above is quite right. There are a myriad of words for this. Probably the best understood would be to say the program
However, you should realize that none of these terms really have precise meanings. The problem is that everyone uses software (and thus needs to use terms like this to describe system behavior), but few people are actual software engineers familiar with the common uses of the jargon.


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Or, is there a way to move it there right now, while I'm still developing it, and simply hide the homepage from the outside world while I can still see it? The only reason I decided to develop it in a subfolder like /beta/ was because I didn't know how to stop other people from seeing the homepage while still allowing myself to see it.
What's the easiest, simplest answer here? Your help is greatly appreciated!


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I have a URL which displays all of the pdf files at a given dir by visiting the following site location :
Does this present any security vulnerabilities?
I have a URL which displays all of the pdf files at a given dir by visiting the following site location :
Does this present any security vulnerabilities?
If there are no files in there beside the ones you want to share than it is ok. But make sure you disable indexing for all other directories on the server.
Indexing is considered to be a security threat.
More in here: http://www.ducea.com/2006/06/26/apache-tips-tricks-disable-directory-indexes/
It depends on what's in there.
Originally the idea behind the web was to provide a catalog of useful information; each file in a public directory contains some piece of information, and an index is automatically generated to make that information accessible. The whole reason why your default file is traditionally called
If the directory contains nothing but publicly-accessible files (such as pictures, PDFs, HTML files, or what-have-you), then the auto-generated index is no less secure than an equivalent manually-generated index.
But if instead you have some sort of web app -- and particularly one written in PHP or ASP or ASP.NET or a similar language where the application files are stored inside the document root mixed in with the media -- then the auto-generated index may provide links to files that you didn't intend to make public. This is even more true if you have "include" files in there as well. And in that case, this automatic index could make it easier to find files that could lead to a vulnerability.
Note that the index itself is not a vulnerability and is not a security risk in itself. Instead, it could assist in locating and exploiting some other security vulnerability on the site. If you have no such vulnerabilities, then the index does not add any risk on its own.
Furthermore, all of the practices that could make a directory index dangerous are, themselves, categorically bad practices, and are not made safe simply by removing the index directive.
This specifically includes placing server-side code files in your document root. To be safe, you should have ONE file (
If you want to allow browsing files in that manner, why not setup a file server? You used the tag web-application, which differs from just providing some PDFs. In that case I would go with what tyler1 stated.
No. This does not present any security vulnerabilities. It is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
Do make sure that every file in that directory is in fact intended to be made publicly available. Don't put any file you want to keep secret under that directory. (But then, ordinarily you should avoid putting such files anywhere under your web root, so I'm probably not telling you anything overly new.)
While there is likely no problem in showing the list of files in that particular location, the main risk you run into is when the code passes the folder name as a parameter, possibly from user input.
At that point, you have to be very careful to filter the folder parameter to only allow approved folders, or a user could specify other folders like /etc or your web app source code and read all sorts of sensitive data like passwords.


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Western Digital Elements 2TB Desktop External Hard Drive for $89.99 + free shipping
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I've owned a 1TB one for 2 years and never had any issues with memory corruption. WD makes the best HDDs.
It would be nice if they listed more specs on the drive itself, however, I've always been a fan of WD drives.
Just installed a new 1TB WD Black internal that I got for same price, so 2TB of space is a good deal.
Same price on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Desktop-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B002QEBMCI
I've been using WD external drives as internal hard drives on my builds for a couple of years now. They work great and for some odd reason they are always cheaper/easier to get a hold of.
Can I format it for use with Apple Mac?
from the sales page
Preformatted for PCs.
Designed for use with Windows-based computers. Can be easily reformatted for use with Macs.
Actually there is a .pdf file at the bottom of the description page that gives quite a bit of info on the drive. I really like the WD Black drives but the Elements are just okay from my experience...still better than a lot of other drives but not WD's top of the line.
Also, it's only a usb 2.0; quite a bit slower than the 3.0's that are now available.
In the description they give a size rating for Apple formats so you may well be able to format it for your Apple OS.
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President Barack Obama plans to visit to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan in the spring, stepping into some of the thorniest foreign-policy challenges facing his second term—Iran's nuclear program, unrest in Syria and long-stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
The trip would be Mr. Obama's first visit to Israel as president. He visited the country briefly in 2008 during his first presidential campaign.
U.S. and Israeli officials said the trip would take place after the formation of a new Israeli government, a process that could take weeks. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after winning a Jan. 22 parliamentary election, this week began formal negotiations with prospective coalition partners.
Mr. Obama spoke to Mr. Netanyahu about the proposed trip during a phone call on Jan. 28, the White House said Tuesday.
U.S. officials said exact dates for the visit have yet to be set. Israeli media reported Mr. Obama would arrive March 20.
The president will also travel to the West Bank and Jordan "to continue his close work with Palestinian Authority officials and Jordanian officials on bilateral and regional issues," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said.
The visit will test the sometimes-strained relationship between Mr. Obama and Mr. Netanyahu over issues including U.S. calls to freeze Jewish settlement building in the West Bank and Mr. Netanyahu's wish for the U.S. to take a harder line against Iran's nuclear program.
Mr. Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel to serve as defense secretary stoked concerns in Israel. Some U.S. lawmakers have questioned Mr. Hagel's level of support for Israel.
On Syria, Mr. Obama and Mr. Netanyahu are more in sync. Both have focused on the threat posed by Bashar al-Assad's stockpiles of chemical weapons, warning that their use inside Syria, or their transfer to Hezbollah in Lebanon, would cross a "red line" that could trigger a military response.
Mr. Obama's decision to skip over Israel during previous trips frustrated Israeli officials and the public, who saw it as an effort to distance the U.S. from Israel for the sake of repairing ties with the Arab world. The rift came to head during last year's U.S. presidential campaign when some U.S. officials were offended by what they saw as efforts by Mr. Netanyahu and his supporters to spotlight the prime minister's warm ties to Mr. Obama's rival, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. "If you look back at the ups and downs of President Obama's popularity among Israelis, an earlier visit would have been better," said Zalman Shoval, a former ambassador to the U.S. from Mr. Netanyahu's Likud Party. "Better late than never."
Dennis Ross, a top Middle East adviser during Mr. Obama's first term, said the trip was a chance to "forge a new beginning" in relations, although he played down prospects for any breakthroughs.
"It's a chance to take an early trip at a time when he doesn't have to meet a set of expectations, doesn't have to be seen as producing some kind of new outcome," Mr. Ross said.
Mr. Obama's public opinion ratings are worse among Palestinians, who were disappointed the president backed down from a bid to force Israel to agree to a settlement freeze early on in his presidency.
A spokesperson for Mr. Abbas said the Palestinian leadership hadn't been informed by U.S. officials of the plan for the visit, even though Mr. Abbas recently spoke with Mr. Obama's new secretary of State, John Kerry.
"We just heard it from the Israeli media," said presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh, who welcomed the visit. "That means that the Americans are going to exert new efforts on the peace negotiations."
U.S. officials said Mr. Obama's priority will be to reassure Israel of his administration's commitment to the country's security and preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb. Such assurances are meant in part to deter Israel from launching a unilateral strike. Likewise, the visit would help coordinate U.S.-Israeli policy on Syria.
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I have a spreadsheet pulling together various readings taken of hours heater has run, electricity units use for that period, and outside temperature.
For the last 3 months, the electricity usage and heater hours have been taken every Monday. For 5 months before that, it was taken randomly between 5 days and a nearly a month in one case.
The external average temperature is taken daily and added to the spreadsheet.
I'd now like to display this data as broken down into 7 day weeks, and summarised by month. Having just about wrapped my head around the differences between Google Charts, Gadgets and Visualization APIs, I know that the display of it can be done.
Where I'm struggling is grouping the daily temperature readings into weekly averages, the old "non-weekly" readings into weeks, and the fact that a Monday isn't always the start of the month and a month isn't always x amount of days.
Thankfully, Google Docs makes the difference between dates as easy as A2-A1. And there's the WEEKDAY(number, type) which returns the day of the week for the given number (date value).
Date #days kWh Reading Day
15/04/2011 1 6 Tue
10/05/2011 25 152 Fri
15/05/2011 5 28 Sun
I know how many days there are between 15/04 and 10/05 (UK dd/mm/yyyy date format!) and I know how much that makes the average to be; what I'd like to end up with is:
Date #days daily av. kWh Reading Day
18/04/2011 1 6 Mon
18/04/2011 7 6.08 Mon
02/05/2011 7 6.08 Mon
09/05/2011 7 6.08 Mon
And this is where I'm failing. I can round to the nearest week, I can average 7 days of temperature to a week, but turning random ranges into neat weeks and week into neat calendar months is melting my brain.
I'm happy to sacrifice a few days data in 04/11 to "normalize" it to a new week. I realise that the "granularity" of the few readings won't be as good as the new weekly readings.
Given that this is a "one-off" correction, if it needs to be done outside Spreadsheets, either externally or tediously manually, then so be it. But I feel there must be a function that can support this.


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I have a homework problem that I am struggling to understand. The problem is Find a formula for the inverse function $f^ {-1}$ of the function $f$. $$f(x)=\log_{2x}3$$
Here is my attempt at solving this problem. $$y=\log_{2x}3$$ $$2x ^y=3$$ $$x^y=3/2$$ $$(x ^y)^{1/y}=\left(\frac{3}{2}\right)^{1/y}$$ $$x=\left(\frac{3}{2}\right)^{1/y}$$
However, the answer in the book is $\frac{3^{1/y}}{2}$. I think I know my mistake but I am not sure why it is wrong. I believe that my mistake was when I divided $2$ from $2x^y$, are you not allowed to do that?


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SALT LAKE CITY — By the third grade, students are expected to be reading to learn, not learning to read.
But with a troubling number of students failing to meet that expectation, the third grade has emerged as ground zero for educational reform and student improvement.
In Utah, third-grade scores are a key component of the state's educational goals, and nationally, states have passed legislation geared toward third-grade proficiency and more and more are looking toward the controversial option of holding back students who underperform.
Last year, the Annie E. Casey Foundation released the results of a multiyear study, in which a cohort of students was tracked to observe the connection between elementary proficiency and high school graduation. The study found that 88 percent of the students who failed to graduate tested below proficiency in reading in the third grade.
Matthew Ladner, senior adviser of policy and research for the Foundation for Excellence in Education, recently shared the results of that study with guests of the Parents for Choice in Education's annual symposium. He said the research is clear that targeting literacy at a young age is key to academic success later on.
"In a very real sense you have a literary window," Ladner said. "If you miss that window of opportunity, it becomes progressively harder to pick it up later."
The concept has not gone unnoticed in Utah, where graduation rates — particularly those of minority students — are among the worst in the nation, according to U.S. Department of Education data.
Gov. Gary Herbert's budget recommendations, released last month, include $10 million for the continuation and improvement of early intervention programs. The state's Prosperity 2020 education goal — which calls for two-thirds of adults holding some form of post-secondary degree or certificate by the year 2020 — also includes a charge that 90 percent of third-grade students score proficiently in math and language arts.
Currently, 43 percent of Utah's adults hold a degree or certificate, 76 percent of seniors graduate from high school and 79 percent of third-graders score proficiently in language arts.
Other initiatives in the state have also targeted childhood proficiency. The United Way of Utah and Utah Valley University recently launched a partnership aimed at improving literacy and numeracy in Utah County, where roughly 30 percent of third-grade students test below grade level.
Legislative action
In the Legislature, Sen. Aaron Osmond, R-South Jordan, plans to present a bill that would establish a statewide high-quality preschool program for at-risk children — based on a successful Granite School District model — and education officials are moving ahead with implementing computer adaptive testing, which will provide more precise data for tracking student performance.
At its November meeting, the Governor's Education Excellence Commission voted unanimously to recommend that state lawmakers pass a resolution in support of the Prosperity 2020 goals. According to the Education Commission of the States, 14 states passed legislation in 2012 aimed at improving third-grade literacy, for a combined total of 32 states — and Washington, D.C. — that have policies in statute to improve proficiency in the third grade.
Ladner said that learning to read is similar to learning to speak a language, in that it is easier to pick up the skills in younger years as opposed to later in life. Most states typically begin tracking student proficiency in the third grade, Ladner said, but he argues they should start sooner.
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Conserving the diversity of life on earth is fundamental to human well being. Once considered a niche issue or special interest, biodiversity conservation is now recognized as critical to achieving equitable and sustainable development. A new Biodiversity Policy describes USAID's commitment and approach to conserving species and ecosystems, and our focus on integrating biodiversity with other sectors for improved conservation and development outcomes.
USAID invests about $250 million each year to conserve biodiversity in more than 50 countries, making us one of the world's largest funders in this sector. Our programs work in partnership with foreign governments, civil society, the private sector, and local communities to comprehensively address both direct threats and the underlying drivers of biodiversity loss. While most effort is focused on biologically significant areas, we also work in cities to strengthen policies, raise public awareness, and tackle challenges like wildlife trafficking.
Every country has important biodiversity, but biodiversity is concentrated in tropical forests, where 70 percent of all plants and animals live. USAID's forest conservation portfolio goes beyond biodiversity programs to include efforts focused on stabilizing soils and water supplies, mitigating climate change, preventing flooding and storm surge, and promoting food security.
Biodiversity and forests sustain lives:
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Conservation is development:
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- Community forest management user groups have helped maintain order during conflict and restore governance systems in other sectors.
Biodiversity loss has accelerated from just a few species going extinct each year to an estimated 1,000 species disappearing annually. The collective actions of seven billion people are degrading the natural resource base and threaten to erode development gains around the world. As biodiverse ecosystems break down, people who cannot find alternative, and often more costly, ways to meet basic needs risk slipping into extreme poverty.
One of the main threats to biodiversity addressed by USAID is unsustainable and illegal overexploitation of natural resources, especially wildlife, timber and fish. Wildlife trafficking has emerged as one of the Agency's highest priorities, with poaching undermining conservation achievements, economic prospects, and security, and the $10-20 billion annual illegal trade in elephant ivory, rhino horn and other wildlife parts financing criminal syndicates and terrorist groups. USAID has tripled its support to address this crisis, with up to $40 million being invested this year in the first line of defense against poachers and traffickers, bolstering community conservation, reducing demand for wildlife products, and developing innovative solutions.
USAID's strategic, long-term partnerships are generating results:
- No rhinos, tigers or elephants were poached in Nepal in 2013, and tiger populations are up 63 percent since 2009. Nearly 20 years of USAID support has helped communities take control of their forests and wildlife, with 40 percent of Nepalis now benefiting from community forest management.
- An 11-partner USAID alliance with seafood restaurants and others helped make the the lucrative Caribbean spiny lobster fishery safer for fisherman and more sustainable for everyone. In 2013, with help from alliance partners, the Miskito Indians of Honduras designed the biggest marine protected area in Central America, with 3.7 million acres of fishery grounds and cays for their exclusive use.
- In Kenya's arid northern rangelands, natural resource management in 26 community conservancies earned about $1.3 million in 2013 while improving livestock productivity and reducing ethnic conflict across six million acres. Wildlife numbers are up, with elephant sightings in one conservancy increasing from 3,000 to 11,000 during a recent five-year period despite a rise in ivory trafficking nationally.
- Having established its first national park, Band-e Amir, in 2009, Afghanistan hired its first female park rangers to serve there in 2013. The four women received the same training as their male colleagues before the busy summer season when more than 4,000 tourists visit each month.
- East of Colombia's El Cocuy National Park, cattle ranchers secured an 11-mile natural corridor for jaguars by installing stables and solar-powered electric fences. The corridor has reduced predation on livestock and retaliatory killing of jaguars, improved cattle ranching systems, and brought electric power to this off-grid zone.
- Ranger-based monitoring covered 95 percent of Rwanda's Nyungwe National Park in 2013, helping park managers prioritize patrol effort and reduce illegal activities by 32 percent over the previous year. With accidental fires from wild honey harvest now markedly reduced, forests are regenerating with help from partners. USAID is now rolling out the next generation system and software supporting ranger-based monitoring, the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART), in countries across the Congo Basin as part of a comprehensive response to wildlife trafficking.
Explore the other pages in this section to learn more about how USAID conservation programs are making an impact on biodiversity and human well-being.
Biodiversity and Development Handbook
Integrating Biodiversity and Climate Change Adaptation in Activity Design (PDF)
Geographic Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation
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What can I do with WorkFlows and lists without using Visual Studio? Can I develope any system that I can develop with SQL server and C#? What are my limitations?
There is much to say about Workflows in the context of SharePoint - it also depends on the version of SharePoint (2007 or 2010)- as many advances have been added to the SPD (e.g introducing Reusable Workflow, Site Workflow and many activities such as DocumentSet related activities, Security related, etc.), but bottom line you CANNOT reach external systems directly from workflows (by design - as workflows are meant to run as background processes)
However, via SharePoint 2010 Designer - you could rely on creating a BCS model (which retrieves data from an SQL database as back-end), create an External List for it and define a workflow to work on it. Have a look at creating one here http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/matthijs/Overview-Creating-Workflows-with-SharePoint-Designer-2010-InfoPath-2010-and-Visio-2010 or here for a reference on activities http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-designer-help/workflow-actions-in-sharepoint-designer-2010-a-quick-reference-guide-HA010376961.aspx
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On Windows I can hit Windows + L to lock my desktop. On Leopard there doesn't seem to be this capability. While I can set the screensaver to come on very quickly, I would like to hit a key combo to lock my computer.
You can create different methods to quickly lock your screen on OS X. There is a comprehensive article here: http://www.macworld.com/article/49080/2006/01/lockscreen.html
One simple way is to:
Open Keychain Access -> preferences -> tick Show Status in Menu Bar
When you click the little Lock icon in your status bar the first entry is Lock Screen. You should be able to bind a hotkey to this in System preferences -> Keyboard shortcuts.
Control-shift-eject will blank the screen. If you wait until.. mmm.. sometime later this year... you may find that it also locks the screen...
Snow Leopard provides a way to perform a Fast User Switching Lock Screen command from the keyboard using:
This is all documented in this Art Of Geek article.
The easiest way, once it is set up, allows you to move the mouse to a corner of the screen, the screen saver activates immediately and requires a password to dismiss the screen saver.
Here is an easy implementation:
At this point all you have to do is click on the little keylock icon and select "Lock Screen", but here is something extra for more fun:
(It doesn't hurt to test it now by pressing the "Play" button)
(Test some more)
Now comes the real "magic"
If you tested and followed this carefully, pressing the shortcut above will load the Service you created in Automator which in turn runs the workflow which moves the mouse to the Keychain menu and locks the screen for you.
Edit security settings to require a password to wake up from screen saver, throw this line into an apple script:
If you have quicksilver you can then setup a trigger to launch the applescript using whatever keystroke you like. Or you can add it as an application specific script ~/library/application support/"application name"/scripts and then use the built in MAC keyboard shortcuts to launch the script via that applications menu items.
Configure screen saver password and press Shift + control + eject
Fast user switching
Option 1: Enable the fast user switching menu in the Users & Groups preference pane, and select Login Window… from the menu.
Option 2:
Option 3: Many launchers and macro utilities also include a command for logging out to the fast user switching screen.
Locking the screen
Option 1: Enable the Keychain menu extra in the preferences of Keychain Access and select Lock Screen from the menu.
Option 2: Check Require password immediately after sleep or screen saver begins in the Security & Privacy preference pane. You can then lock the computer manually by pressing ⌃⇧⏏ to turn off the display or ⌥⌘⏏ to go to sleep.
Below is a tweak on Alejandrormz's Automator steps. This is in OSX Mavericks:
You can log off immediately by typing
Your screensaver should kick in automatically after a while.
Update: The above is the easy Mac way. As usual, anything else Apple doesn't want you to do easily involves lots of pain.
You can almost hear Steve sneering, "Lock Screen with a keyboard is soooo Windows. Use a mouse people."
Jokes aside, Mark Wheadon has an extensive article documenting various methods. It turns out Apple really doesn't want you to use the keyboard to accomplish a Lock Screen...easily. Bad Apple. ;-)


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Easily connect to the internet through your home's wireless broadband network, with the LAN port
Instantly stream a wide variety of online movies, videos, TV shows, and music from Netflix®, YouTube®, Pandora®, Hulu Plus™ and more with the Sony Entertainment Network
Dolby® TrueHD and dts®-HD codecs reproduce high-definition sound with 7.1 channels of discrete audio for uncompromised quality
Share your videos or photos on the big screen or listen to your favorite music. Simply connect your digital camera, USB-enabled MP3 player, or USB storage device
Socialize™ what you watch over Facebook and Twitter
Bring your favorite videos, photos and music to your TV with the easy-access USB input
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I got two of these last year, I think for the same price, from Sony's eBay outlet store. Both refurbished, arrived in a plain box with just the remote and some packing material. Maybe a brief instructional note, don't recall. Both have been working fine and seem to do well as 'net streamers if you don't already have a PC or game console to do so. Those systems do streaming better, it's a little clunky navigating around the BDP-S185 but it does get the job done. For <$40 it's tough to beat, but take note it is only "WiFi ready", it does not have that built in. I had been watching the Sony outlet for them to offer these at this price again, tempted to jump in on one from 1saleaday.com...
I like bluray players bur refurbished players make me nervous since there is a lot that can go wrong. The sony bdp-bx2 that I own had to be retired because it could not deal with new BD discs probably because of improved copy protection. I risked turning it in to a brick by updating the BIOS successfully and it still would not play so don't buy old model players.
@mybestuser1: I agree with you, as I am sort of skeptical about a refurbished unit, but also realize that a refurbished unit might have corrected problems with the original brand new device. Sometimes these refurbish units are recalls made and once fixed are placed back into the market at a lower price. As another poster said, for under $40 it is hard not to get one, especially after offering 1 yr warranty instead of the normal 90 days.


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International Student Life
Maxi Hubner
Double majoring in English and German, Hubner comes to Virginia Wesleyan through a direct exchange program with Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. She hopes to become a teacher in the secondary school system in Germany.
"Virginia Wesleyan is a nice change because 30,000 students go to my home university, so my classes are attended by 30 - 100 students," said Hubner. With an 11:1 student/faculty ratio and close-knit atmosphere at Virginia Wesleyan, Hubner has enjoyed personal attention in her courses.
Having a passion for singing, Hubner immediately became a member of the Wesleyan Singers and the College Chorus. She has also immersed herself in the College's clubs/organizations, volunteering with the Wesleyan Activities Council and serving as president of the International Student Organization.
"I want to experience as much as I can and make great friends," said Hubner, who was recently selected by her peers as a member of the homecoming court. "I am very excited to be at Virginia Wesleyan and to become a part of the campus community."
Edgar "Edward" Limas Perez
Thanks to Virginia Wesleyan's direct exchange program with the Universidad of Madero in Puebla, Mexico, Perez is studying Foreign Languages at Virginia Wesleyan for the fall 2010 semester.
"I thought coming to Virginia Wesleyan would not only help me to improve my English, but to also learn about a different culture while I'm here," said Perez, a sophomore from Veracruz.
While at Virginia Wesleyan, Perez has taken an active role in campus life as a photographer for the Marlin Chronicle student-newspaper and participated in his first student art exhibition during Hispanic Heritage Month. He can also be found tutoring Spanish in the Learning Resource Center.
"Studying abroad is a great experience because I have the opportunity to get to know so many people and do things I am not used to doing while I'm learning," he said.
In his spare time, Perez enjoys playing and watching soccer, playing the piano, creating motion videos and animation, and listening to music.
Zuehaile Martinez Mejia, Mexico
My name is Zuhaile Martinez Mejia, I am 19 years old and I am from Puebla, Mexico. I am studying International Trade in the Madero University (Universidad Madero-UMAD), which is located in Puebla city.
One of my goals when I entered to college was study in another country trough an interchange program. When I sow that my university has agreements with different college about interchanges programs, I took the opportunity of come true my goal. When Virginia Wesleyan College finally accepted me as an interchange student, I was so happy and excited to come here. The decision of come to VWC was a challenge for me, because is another country, different language, far home and this is the first time that I am out of home for a long time. The language is a wall for many people when they want to take a decision of studying in a country with a different language. Although I knew that I didn't have a really good English, I took the challenge.
I choose Virginia Wesleyan because it was one of the colleges of a country that the principal language is English. Also because I wanted to see and learn how the professors and students see their country and the relation that their government has with another countries, specially with Latin America, European Union and Asia (specially China).
Is important for a person who is studying a major which has international issues, to go out of his or her country and learn how is the perspective that a different country, culture and people has about the international issues. For me this is a big experience, I am learning a lot. One of the advantages for me is the fact that I am studying International Trade and Mexico, Canada and the U.S. have a Free Trade Agreement called NAFTA (North America Free Trade Agreement), which is the main motor of the economy and commerce in my country (Mexico). Besides, have the opportunity of learn about different topic related with this is a privilege for me. Besides the classes that I am taking in VWC are really interesting, I have had to work hard and try to do the best.
I am having excellent experiences here. Be far home, friends, in a different college, different teaching methods and different language, all of this has helping me to mature and growth as a person and student. If you have the opportunity of participate in an interchange program do not doubt in taking it, you are going to learn a lot of things and also appreciate your family, friends and in general your country.
Nadine Steffenhagen, Germany
My name is Nadine Steffenhagen and I've been attending Wesleyan since January 07. After enjoying and successfully completing a two-year vocational training as an Accredited Bilingual Commercial Correspondent in English and French, I decided to keep up with the professional international direction and started to study American Studies and Economics at the Humboldt-Universitaet in Berlin, Germany. Since I'd like to work for a foreign exchange agency, which focused on the US and organizes all kinds of foreign exchanges, I had to take advantage of this opportunity of studying abroad and staying in the US for a longer time.
So far, I can say that I really have had a great time at Wesleyan. I've met wonderful people, benefited from the small class sizes and from the conversations to the professors and gain experiences, which challenge me on a personal level every day. These are some reasons why I decided to extend my stay at Wesleyan for the following Fall Semester. I just can recommend a foreign exchange to everyone, since you develop a greater self-confidence, independence, and self-reliance. You also gain a broader view of the world understanding and perspective of international affairs and the most important thing for your future; it makes you more marketable in the world place.
Adrian O'Connell, Ireland
My name is Adrian O'Connell and I am currently taking a year out of my psychology major in Belfast, Northern Ireland to study business in Virginia Wesleyan College. The opportunity to do such a thing was one I couldn't resist. I'm on a fully funded scholarship so this year isn't digging into my college funds too much! I heard about the chance to do such a thing through friends of mine who participated in the program last year and thoroughly enjoyed it.
The main reason I chose to take up on the opportunity was truly for the experience and in the hope that I will learn and develop greatly (in positive ways!). Forgive the cliché expression but it was "an opportunity of a lifetime" and one I had to at least try and get. The chance to fully immerse yourself in a different culture for a year doesn't really come around too often, so I decided to take the chance and here I am.
I'd like to be able to say that I did my research and Virginia Wesleyan College greatly appealed to me (which I'm sure it would have if I did some research!) but I suppose the best way to put it was that Virginia Wesleyan chose me! I submitted what I would like to have in a college and the program I'm on decided that this was the best college for me. The facilities here are really up to scratch, sporting, leisure, music, computer and housing facilities are all real good. There's no part of Virginia Wesleyan that I'm not impressed with (so far!).
The education system in America is obviously different than in Ireland, so to learn in a different sort of way is something I can take a lot from. One of the obvious differences is the staff to student ratio. At my university in Belfast there is about 200 people in my lectures so obviously to have that reduced to fewer than 25 I at least feel more obliged to turn up to lectures! The fewer numbers in the classes also makes you feel like you play more of an intricate part within the class and encourages more participation.
When I was younger I played a lot of sports including Gaelic football an Irish sport and even played for my county. However as I grew older I became more and more fond of music and the world that it opened for me. On top of developing academically I hope to develop any talents I have and maybe even find some hidden talents! Experiences mean a lot to me so basically I'm here to jump head first into anything that comes my way, so let the good times roll!
Max Wuttke, Germany
My Name is Max Wuttke, I am 22 years old and I am German. I was born in Berlin and after I had lived in Northern Germany for almost 10 years, I decided to come back to Berlin and study in this exciting metropolis. My major is American Studies and since my university, the Humboldt University, offers an exchange program with the Virginia Wesleyan College, I applied for a scholarship, received one and that is basically why I am here...
I chose Virginia Wesleyan, because I really liked the philosophy it is based on:
1. A rather small campus
2. A manageable amount of students
3. A unknown student to professor ratio
4. And probably the beach and the sun...;)
All of them contribute to having a close relationship to your fellow students, your professors, the OIP, the staff, the security guards and to be more than a number in the crowd; something that we unfortunately do not have in Germany.
A more profound answer would probably be, that I have been interested in the USA (history, culture, literature, people, etc) ever since and also because as a European, the American influence on our daily lives cannot be negated. The USA was, is and will be important for Europe in various ways, as well as Germany is, was and will be for the USA.
Growing up in a city that has benefitted from the USA in so many different ways: The Berlin Airlift, the construction of the Free University of Berlin, the influence on uniting Germany in 1989, only to name a few, has definitely helped to catch my interest. A basic interest which had a strong influence on why I decided to study American Studies. One of my personal goals has always been to live in the country that I am interested in and to study what really interests me right on the spot.
At a time where many Europeans tend to connect their decline of American foreign politics to their general image of Americans, many reject any contact to the USA in general. Especially Europeans my age and even some of my friends could not understand why someone would study American Studies and would even study in the USA. For me this somehow serves as some kind of extra motivation to prove that they are definitely on the wrong track and that their generalizations are completely wrong too.
So far I have met so many nice people, absolutely caring, very open-minded, interested in my origin, my opinion and not hostile, rejecting or whatsoever and I still got a couple of months left....
Based on my own experiences (a couple of exchanges), I really want to encourage everyone (whether German or American) to work up the courage and study abroad, because this definitely helps yourself not only to get to know a different culture, but also to get to know more about yourself and your origin.


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Bb Learn - Create Lesson Plan
Creating Lesson Plans in Blackboard Learn
In this scenario, you will
- Log in to Blackboard Learn
- Navigate to the correct course
- Configure Blackboard Learn for editing
- Create a Lesson Plan
- Configure Lesson Plan Settings
- Add Curriculum Resources
Although Blackboard Learn offers a number of options to choose from when you structure course content, the steps listed in this scenario address how to organize your content by creating a lesson plan. You are encouraged to explore the other options on your own.
Log in to Blackboard Learn
To log in to Blackboard Learn (if you are not already logged in), follow these steps:
- Go to bblearn.nau.edu.
- Click the Log in to Bb Learn button.
- On the Central Authentication Service (CAS) page, in the UserID field type your NAU login ID, and in the Password field, type your password.
(NOTE: If you have already authenticated through CAS from some other campus website, you might not have to complete this step or the next. Instead, you automatically will be routed to the Blackboard Learn My Institution tab.)
- Click the Login button.
Navigate to the Correct Course
After you have logged in, make sure you are on the My Institution tab, and then from the My Courses block, select a listed course.
Configure Blackboard Learn for Editing
Near the upper right corner of the window, make sure the Edit Mode is button is set to ON. You click the button to toggle between ON and OFF.
Create a Lesson Plan
- In the left navigation menu, click the Content link.
- From the Build Content menu, select Lesson Plan.
- On the Name field, type Lesson 1. That will be the title of your lesson plan.
- In the Description field, type an overview of the lesson for your students or just add a banner image. You can use the visual editor to format your message.
- In the Instructor field, type the name of the instructor.
- Click the checkbox next to Share with students, if you want to share the instructor's name.
- In the Objectives field, type the learning objectives. You can use the visual editor to format your message.
- Click the checkbox next to Share with students, if you want to share the learning objectives.
- In the
Subject Area field, type the subject of the lesson. Again, you have to option to share this field with your students.
Configure the Lesson Plan Settings
- Scroll to 2. Options , and then specify if you want to permit students to view the lesson plan.
- Specify if you to track how many times students view the lesson plan.
- Specify the date and time when you want the lesson plan displayed to the students. To set the day, month, year, and time of day, you can either type the date in MM/DD/YYYY format in the left field and type the time in 00:00 AM format in the right field, or you can use the calendar and time icons as follows:
- Click the calendar icon.
- From the popup calendar, navigate to the date you want and click to select it.
The selected date will be added to the Display After date field.
- Click the clock icon.
- From the time-of-day popup menu, scroll to find the time you want, and click to select it.
The selected time will be added to the Due Date field.
- Repeat Steps A through D, to specify the date and time when you want the lesson plan to stop displaying.
- After you have chosen the settings you want, scroll to 3. Save and Continue, click the Save and Continue button.
- Once you save the lesson, the link to the lesson will be listed on the Content page.
Add Curriculum Resources
- The next step to creating a lesson is to add curriculum resources such as class notes, multimedia, and assessments.
- Make sure the Edit Mode is button is set to ON. You click the button to toggle between ON and OFF.
- Click the action link, and select Edit.
- To add curriculum resources, select the Curriculum Resources tab, and add content from the Build Content, Create Assessment, Add Interactive Tool, or Assign Textbox buttons.
Once you add your lesson curriculum resources, the content links appear below the Curriculum Resources tab.
- When edit mode is off, a student accesses the lesson from the Content page.
- Students view all the items from the lesson Content Information and Curriculum Resources.


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Mother, daughter trapped by aggressive house cat
CHULA VISTA, Calif. - Officers got into a standoff with an enraged cat early Tuesday morning after it allegedly trapped its owners in the bedroom of their Chula Vista, California home.
According to Chula Vista police, a woman and her adult daughter called 911 at about 4 a.m. to report that they had barricaded themselves inside a bedroom in the 4000 block of Neptune Court because their cat would not let them out.
They told emergency dispatchers that when they tried to exit the room, the cat became furious. Officers responded and tried coaxing the cat, named "Cuppy," by softly calling it, until it eventually walked out on its own.
Cuppy has reportedly been the family pet for 14 years. However, he's unpredictable – especially when the neighborhood stray cat stalks their yard. It had never escalated to a 911 call before.
"He's just a ball of fury I guess," neighbor Karen Yarger said.
Chula Vista police said animal control usually takes these calls, but there was a big delay overnight. Officers were in the area, and without high priority calls and were free to help.


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- International Admission
- Be Unique. Be A Billiken.
- English Proficiency Requirements
- Exchange Student Admission
- FAQs From International Applicants
- Freshman International Admission
- International Counselors
- International Scholarship & Financial Aid
- International Student Services
- Secondary Credentials for International Applicants
- Transfer International Admission
What Is A Billiken? What It Means To Be A Billiken
This is a question that we are asked almost daily.
The Billiken, the Saint Louis University mascot for its athletic teams, is unique in its identity with SLU as it is unique to the students of Saint Louis University.
Watch the video to learn from SLU students what it means to Be A Billiken.
Learn more about the history of the Billiken here at Saint Louis University.


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I would like to know which one of these formats requires less memory for the same quality of the picture, and what are the main differences between these formats.
From What is the difference between TIFF, GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, and a BMP file?
BMP - Bitmap. This was probably the first type of digital image format that I can remember. Every picture on a computer seemed those days to be a BMP. In Windows XP the Paint program saves its images automatically in BMP. However, in Windows Vista and later images are now saved to JPEG. BMP is the basis platform for many other file types.
JPG / JPEG - (Joint Photographic Experts Group) Jpeg format is used for color photographs, or any pictures with many blends or gradients. It is not good with sharp edges and tends to blur them a bit unless stored at high quality. This format became popular with the invention of the digital camera. Most, if not all, digital cameras download photos to your computer as a Jpeg file. Obviously the digital camera manufacturers see the value in high quality images that ultimately take up less space.
GIF - (Graphics Interchange Format) Gif format is best used for text, line drawings, screenshots, cartoons, and animations. Gif is limited to a total number of 256 colors or less, so Gif images are relatively small. It is commonly used for fast loading web pages. It also makes a great banner or logo for your web-page. Animated pictures can also be saved in GIF format as a sequence of static images. For example, a flashing banner would be saved as a Gif file.
PNG - (Portable Networks Graphic) This lossless formats is one of the best image formats. It was not always compatible with all web browsers or image software, but nowadays it is the best image format to use for website. I use .png for logos and screenshots. One of its most astonishing abilities is being able to compress images losslessly (without loss of pixels), although the final compressed size varies between image editors.
TIFF - (Tagged Image File Format) This file format has not been updated since 1992 and is now owned by Adobe. It can store an image and data (tags) in the one file. TIFF can be compressed, but it is rather its ability to store image data in a lossless format that makes a TIFF file a useful image archive, because unlike standard JPEG files, a TIFF file using lossless compression (or none) may be edited and re-saved without losing image quality. This file is commonly used for scanning, faxing, word processing, and so on. It is no longer a common file format to use with your digital photos, as jpeg is great quality and takes up less space.
In xkcd style from lbrandy.com:
You should be aware of a few key factors...
First, there are two types of compression: Lossless and Lossy.
There are also different colour depths (palettes): Indexed color and Direct color.
BMP - Lossless / Indexed and Direct
This is an old format. It is Lossless (no image data is lost on save) but there's also little to no compression at all, meaning saving as BMP results in VERY large file sizes. It can have palettes of both Indexed and Direct, but that's a small consolation. The file sizes are so unnecessarily large that nobody ever really uses this format.
Good for: Nothing really. There isn't anything BMP excels at, or isn't done better by other formats.
GIF - Lossless / Indexed only
GIF uses lossless compression, meaning that you can save the image over and over and never lose any data. The file sizes are much smaller than BMP, because good compression is actually used, but it can only store an Indexed palette. This means that for most use cases, there can only be a maximum of 256 different colours in the file. That sounds like quite a small amount, and it is.
GIF images can also be animated and have transparency.
Good for: Logos, line drawings, and other simple images that need to be small. Only really used for websites.
JPEG - Lossy / Direct
JPEGs images were designed to make detailed photographic images as small as possible by removing information that the human eye won't notice. As a result it's a Lossy format, and saving the same file over and over will result in more data being lost over time. It has a palette of thousands of colours and so is great for photographs, but the lossy compression means it's bad for logos and line drawings: Not only will they look fuzzy, but such images will also have a larger file-size compared to GIFs!
Good for: Photographs. Also, gradients.
PNG-8 - Lossless / Indexed
PNG is a newer format, and PNG-8 (the indexed version of PNG) is really a good replacement for GIFs. Sadly, however, it has a few drawbacks: Firstly it cannot support animation like GIF can (well it can, but only Firefox seems to support it, unlike GIF animation which is supported by every browser). Secondly it has some support issues with older browsers like IE6. Thirdly, important software like Photoshop have very poor implementation of the format. (Damn you, Adobe!) PNG-8 can only store 256 colours, like GIFs.
Good for: The main thing that PNG-8 does better than GIFs is having support for Alpha Transparency.
Important Note: Photoshop does not support Alpha Transparency for PNG-8 files. (Damn you, Photoshop!) There are ways to convert Photoshop PNG-24 to PNG-8 files while retaining their transparency, though. One method is PNGQuant, another is to save your files with Fireworks.
PNG-24 - Lossless / Direct
PNG-24 is a great format that combines Lossless encoding with Direct color (thousands of colours, just like JPEG). It's very much like BMP in that regard, except that PNG actually compresses images, so it results in much smaller files. Unfortunately PNG-24 files will still be much bigger than JPEGs, GIFs and PNG-8s, so you still need to consider if you really want to use one.
Even though PNG-24s allow thousands of colours while having compression, they are not intended to replace JPEG images. A photograph saved as a PNG-24 will likely be at least 5 times larger than a equivalent JPEG image, with very little improvement in visible quality. (Of course, this may be a desirable outcome if you're not concerned about filesize, and want to get the best quality image you can.)
Just like PNG-8, PNG-24 supports alpha-transparency, too.
SVG - Lossless / Vector
A filetype that is currently growing in popularity is SVG, which is different than all the above in that it's a vector file format (the above are all raster). This means that it's actually comprised of lines and curves instead of pixels. When you zoom in on a vector image, you still see a curve or a line. When you zoom in on a raster image, you will see pixels.
For example:
This means SVG is perfect for logos and icons you wish to retain sharpness on Retina screens or at different sizes.
Additionally, SVG files are written using XML, and so can be opened and edited in a text editor, that it can be manipulated on the fly, if you wish. For example, you could use JavaScript to change the colour of an SVG icon on a website much like you would some text (ie. no need for a second image).
I hope that helps!
The existing answers include very little technical data, so I'll include that here.
Color Depth
Most computer monitors run at 24-bit color depth. The human eye can distinguish about that many colors. Additional color depth is mostly to be able to retain information from a sensor so that manipulation of a photograph has more data to work with. Trying to represent a photograph in 8-bit color is going to result in graininess.
This basically refers to how large the final file will be. More compression equals a smaller file. However, JPEG attains small file sizes by throwing data away. This is referred to as "lossy" compression, because you can never get the original uncompressed data back. Its compression is also optimized for photographs where high-contrast edges are uncommon. As stated in other answers, it's a bad choice for anything other than photographs.
Alpha refers to transparency, but it implies that there's more than one level of transparency. GIF has the ability to define transparent pixels, but it's either opaque or 100% transparent, and "transparent" gets used as one of the 256 colors. PNG and BMP have the ability to mark each pixel as opaque, transparent, or partially transparent, like a piece of colored glass. Most commonly, there are 256 levels of transparency, though PNG can actually have up to 65,536 levels. JPEG has no support for transparency.
Effectively, of these formats, only GIF has any support for animation. There are specifications for animation with PNG (MNG, APNG) and JPEG (MJPEG), but they are not widely supported. (APNG works in recent versions of Firefox and Opera.) In practice, most animations you see on web pages are implemented in Flash.
BMP uses either raw bits with a small header, or Run-length Encoding. JPEG uses Discrete Cosine Transform. See the block at the bottoms of the Wikipedia articles for other compression/encoding algorithms.
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Manchester City F.C. with P2P4U Net
Originally founded as St. Marks in 1880, then renamed Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887, Manchester City Football Club did not receive its current name until 1894. Based in Manchester, Manchester City F.C. has spent most of its history competing within the top flight of English football. The most successful period for Manchester City came in the 1960s an 1970s when the club won the FA Cup, the League Cup, the European Cup Winners Cup and the League Championship. Although Manchester city was demoted to the third tier of English football in the 1980s it has since been promoted back into the top light, known s the Premier league, where it finished 3rd in 2010-11. In fact, as recently as 2011 Manchester City managed to compete for and win the FA Cup.
In 2003 Manchester City moved into the City of Manchester Stadium, also known as Etihad Stadium, which has a capacity o over 47,000 people. Although the stadium was originally built for the Commonwealth Games in 2002 Manchester City was allowed to take it over in 2003 so that the building did not go to waste. Before Etihad Stadium, Manchester City claimed Maine Road as their primary stomping grounds and P2P4U notes that they played in that stadium from 1923 until they moved to their new stadium in 2003. Although it was not as big as the new City of Manchester Stadium, Maine Road was still a great place for Manchester City fans to watch football.
To fans and opponents alike Manchester City is known by a variety of nicknames, the most popular of which are "City," 'The Citizens," and "The Blues." P2P4U net believes that the latter nickname comes from the club's home colors, which are sky blue and white. The club's away colors are Red and Black and their away kit consists of a red shirt with vertical black stripes and all black shorts. The official club crest, which is based primarily on the arms of the city of Manchester, features a golden eagle behind a sky blue shield with the letters M.C.F.C. written in gold running along a horizontal black stripe. Below the shield is a banner that bears the Latin Phrase Superbia in Proelio, which is the clubs official motto and translated into Pride in battle.
Although Manchester City has struggled with success throughout its history P2P4U recognizes Manchester City as one of the most popular football clubs in England. Year in and year out Manchester City routinely ranks in the top ten of in attendance amongst all English football clubs. Like most English football clubs Manchester City has a variety of different supporter organizations though only two, the Manchester City FC Supporters Club and the Centenary Supporters Association have achieved official recognition. The song commonly sung at Manchester City home matches is "Blue Moon," which is a fan favorite.
Manchester City's biggest rival is recognized by most, including P2P4U, to be neighboring Manchester United which also participates in the Premier league and is easily one of the most popular football clubs in the world. These two clubs typically come together every year to contest the Manchester Derby, the winner of which gets bragging rights throughout the city until the next derby takes place.
Manchester City is currently managed by Roberto Mancini, an Italian that was hired in 2009. Since joining the club Mancini has managed 104 games, 62 of which he won, giving him the best winning percentage of any long term manager in club history with 59.62%. The top goal scorer for Manchester City is Eric Brook who scored 177 goals for the team from 1928 to 1940. Alan Oakes holds the record for most appearances with the club which P2P4U net has calculated to be 680 appearances from 1958 to 1976. During the 1928-29 season Tommy Johnson set the record for most goals scored in a single season with 38.
After coming off of a 2011 campaign that saw the club finish 3rd in the Premier league while winning the FA Cup fans of Manchester City have high hopes for their beloved football club. With expectation higher than ever P2P4U predicts that more fans than ever before will flock to City of Manchester Stadium to watch football.Tags: manchester city, manchester city p2p4u, p2p4u net, p2p4u net manchester city
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