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Dead Zero (Bob Lee Swagger Series #7)by Stephen Hunter, Buck Schirner (Read by)
And why won't it stay dead?
A marine sniper team on a mission in tribal territories on the Afghan-Pakistan border, Whiskey 2-2 is ambushed by professionals using the latest high-tech shooting gear. Badly wounded, the team's sole survivor, Gunnery Sergeant Ray Cruz, aka "the Cruise Missile," is determined to finish
Who killed Whiskey 2-2?
And why won't it stay dead?
A marine sniper team on a mission in tribal territories on the Afghan-Pakistan border, Whiskey 2-2 is ambushed by professionals using the latest high-tech shooting gear. Badly wounded, the team's sole survivor, Gunnery Sergeant Ray Cruz, aka "the Cruise Missile," is determined to finish his job. He almost succeeds when a mystery blast terminates his enterprise, leaving a thirty-foot crater where a building used to be and where Sergeant Cruz was meant to be hiding.
Months pass. Ray's target, an Afghan warlord named Ibrahim Zarzi, sometimes called "The Beheader," becomes an American asset in the region and beyond, beloved by State, the Administration, and the Agency. He arrives in Washington for consecration as Our Man in Kabul. But so does a mysterious radio transmission, in last year's code. It's from Whiskey 2-2.
Is Ray Cruz back? Has he gone rogue, is he insane, or just insanely angry? Will he succeed, though his antagonists now include the CIA, the FBI, and the same crew of bad boys that nearly killed him in Zabol province? Not to mention Bob Lee Swagger and a beautiful CIA agent named Susan Okada who gives Swagger more than just a patriotic reason to take the case.
Swagger, the legendary hero of seven of Hunter's novels from Point of Impact to last year's bestselling I, Sniper, is recruited by the FBI to stop the Cruise Missile from reaching his target. The problem is that the more Swagger learns about what happened in Zabol, the more he questions the U.S. government's support of Zarzi and the more he identifies with Cruz as hunter instead of prey.
With its hallmark accuracy on modern killing technologies, Dead Zero features an older, more contemplative Swagger, but never lets up on the razor-sharp dialogue, vivid characterizations, extraordinary action scenes, and dazzling prose that define Hunter's landmark series. And with this installment, the stunning revelations both political and privatewill leave listeners begging for more long after the last bullet finds its way home.
Editorial Reviews
"It's probably no accident that the hero of Stephen Hunter's Dead Zero is named Bob Lee Swagger. Few authors, of any genre, write with as much swagger and verve as film-critic-turned-thriller-bestseller Hunter. . . . As expected, Hunter once again writes with a brutal beauty."—Ft. Worth Star Telegram
"Reading a Bob Lee Swagger novel is like visiting your favorite uncle, the one with the mysterious limp, the locked gun safe, and whose wild tales are often truncated by your concerned parents…It's a complicated story with the usual twists and spinouts and double-crosses, but what lifts it above the fray is its smarts and its broad cast of decently drawn characters."—Chicago Sun-Times
"Hunter, 64, is the longtime (and Pulitzer Prize-winning) film critic for The Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post, and the Swaggers—Bob and his father, Earl—are his most memorable creations. . . . As the latest adventure opens, Ray Cruz—a much younger and equally gifted Marine sniper—is tracking Ibrahim Zarzi, a corrupt Afghan politician nicknamed "The Beheader" . . . Armed with his SR-25, Cruz is inventive, charismatic and, in short, everything Bob the Nailer used to be. Dead Zero is at its best when Hunter has Cruz in the novel's crosshairs." . . . I can only hope it's the novel that finally convinces Hunter to flesh out the history of a new sniper and allow Bob the Nailer the retirement he so richly deserves."—The Oregonian
"Despite overwhelming critical acclaim for his seven-book Bob Lee Swagger series, Stephen Hunter and his novels seem to stay under the general readership radar. . . . The books are so well-crafted and expertly written that it's easy to forget they're adventure-thrillers."—Sacramento Bee
"Stephen Hunter's Bob Lee Swagger is getting to be almost as popular as James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux or Lee Child's Jack Reacher series. This 'old coot,' as Swagger calls himself, has a staying power that won't quit. . . . Bob Lee Swagger and his marine hero dad Earl are super soldiers in the world of fiction. . . . In Dead Zero, Swagger uncharacteristically hunts with the pack. And he doesn't like it one bit. There's a marine sniper out there who just won't die. He mirrors Swagger in his talent and intensity. His name is Ray Cruz . . . Dead Zero is packed with Hunter's patented action sequences, great character studies and sinister villains working on their doctorate in Power. Here's hoping we see more of the unstoppable Ray Cruz. He'd make a fitting successor in Hunter's army elite."—Madison County Herald.com
"The only book better than a new Jack Reacher novel is a new Bob Lee Swagger adventure. Dead Zero, with a dynamite plot and riveting characters, is everything any action fan could want as Swagger, now hitting Senior Citizenhood, pits his wits against a man who could be a younger version of himself."—Toronto Globe and Mail
"[A] juicy premise, which Hunter admits adapting from Patrick Alexander's 1977 Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal; transformed to a contemporary setting, it evokes the government-treachery themes of '24' but does so with less cartoony derring-do and a considerably more nuanced exploration of the psychology of the soldier. . . . A top-notch thriller."—Booklist (starred review)
"Stellar . . . Solid characterization complements the tight, fast-moving plot."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"In Hunter's latest, Bob Lee Swagger stalks Bob Lee Swagger. Well, just about. If anyone could be more valorous, more skilled and resourceful, more uncompromisingly upright, and at the same time more downright deadly than Bob Lee Swagger, it would have to be Gunnery Sergeant Ray Cruz. . . . [An] intricate, interchanging game of predator to prey and prey to predator."—Kirkus Reviews
In Hunter's latest (I, Sniper, 2009, etc.), Bob Lee Swagger stalks Bob Lee Swagger. Well, just about,
If anyone could be more valorous, more skilled and resourceful, more uncompromisingly upright, and at the same time more downright deadly than Bob Lee Swagger, it would have to be Gunnery Sergeant Ray Cruz. As it is, the men are mirror images of each other, both U.S. Marine templates—super snipers, hands that have never known a tremor, iron-nerved and killer-eyed. When they meet it almost goes without saying that they will admire and respect each other enormously, but it's a meeting that will happen under desperate circumstances. Cruz has had a task assigned to him that Swagger is charged with interrupting at all costs. Cruz, nicknamed "the Cruz Missile" to suggest his devotion to getting the job done, has been ordered to take out a certain Ibrahim Zarzi, nicknamed "the Beheader," for reasons that have made him hated and feared up and down the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Suddenly, however, Zarzi seems to undergo an epiphany, which transforms him from a malodorous jihadist into a sweet-smelling American asset, a sea change with an obvious effect on Cruz's mission. Except that Cruz, who has suffered and survived much during his pursuit of the Beheader, doesn't buy the varnished version and refuses to back off. Nothing to be done, then, it's decided in the inscrutable, impenetrable corridors of power, but to haul the 64-year-old Swagger out of retirement and set a super sniper to catch a super sniper. And so the intricate, interchanging game of predator to prey and prey to predator is lethally afoot.
A premise that had a chance to be compelling is diffused by a momentum-killing willingness to digress. Hunter has done much better.
Product Details
- 9781441853882
- Publisher:
- Brilliance Audio
- Publication date:
- 08/23/2011
- Series:
- Bob Lee Swagger Series , #7
- Product dimensions:
- 4.86(w) x 6.66(h) x 1.42(d)
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Dead Zero
Consciousness came and went; the pain was constant. It was the day after the ambush. The flesh wound in Cruz's right thigh still oozed blood and the entire right side of his body wore a purple-yellow smear of bruise. It hurt so bad he could hardly negotiate the raw landscape that strobed in and out of focus all around him in the harsh sunlight. But Ray Cruz, a gunnery sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, was one of those rare men with a personality of hard metal—unmalleable, impenetrable, unstoppable. Back at battalion, he was called the Cruise Missile. Once fired, he kept moving until he hit the target. Since 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion was a Special Forces–rated unit, it got all the cool jobs, and he was the go-to guy on patrol security, Agency snatch-and-grabs and various countersniper and IED problems. He ran Sniper Platoon. He was always there, in the shadows on the ridge line or the village roof—sometimes spottered up, sometimes not, with his SR-25, a beast of a .308 semiauto with a yard of optics up top—paying out survival for his people at long range in packages that weighed 175 grains apiece. He never missed, he never counted or cared about the kills.
Yet now, no one would confuse him for what he was. He was dressed in the loose-fitting, easy-flowing tribal garments of the Pashtun, the people of the mountains. He looked like Lawrence of Afghanistan. His brown face was crusty with beard and filth, his lips cracked. He wore sandals and a burnoose, obscuring his visage, and not one item of government-issue clothing. He was also among goats.
There were fourteen of them left. It is fine to love animals until you try to herd goats. The goats weren't into team spirit. They free-ranged, somewhat raggedly, depending on need or whim, and Cruz was able to keep them moving roughly forward by constant screaming and beating with his staff. And when he swatted at them with the staff, the weight went to his damaged leg and a new blade of pain thrust up into his guts. They shat everywhere, without apparent effort or awareness. They attracted flies in clouds. They smelled of shit and blood and dust and piss. They babbled constantly, not so much a classic bah-bah-bah but more of a whiney singsong bleating, like kids on a long bus ride. He hated them. He wanted to kill them with the rifle under his robes, eat them, and go home. But he had a goddamned job to do and he could not make himself quit on that job. It wasn't will or habit, it certainly wasn't out of any notion of the heroic or Semper Fi or memories of Iwo and Chosin and Belleau Wood. It was just that his mind wasn't organized in such a way as to consider alternatives.
The rifle shifted uncomfortably under his swirl of robes. It was a little lighter than the SR-25, a Russian-designed, Chinese-manufactured thing called a Dragunov SVD, with a skeletal wooden stock and a longish barrel, looking a little like an AK-47 stretched in a medieval torture machine. A battlefield pickup from some long-forgotten firefight that its owner came out of second-place winner, its strap bit into his shoulder and its rough surfaces gouged him as it slipped this way or that. It was awkward, a heavy piece of crudely machined parts, mostly metal, with knobs, bolts, buttons, ledges, and all sorts of things sticking out of it. It represented the Russian school of ergonomics that was "Fuck you, end user." A Chinese 4× sight had been clamped on top with a strange range finder—it looked like a cartoon of a ski-jump slope—as part of the reticle information that only someone from an East-bloc culture could dream up. He hated it. Yet he was lucky to have it. And one magazine of ten 7.62 × 54 sniper-grade Chinese cartridges.
It was all he had left. He'd started with a spotter, an ample supply of food and water, and no bullet having blown six ounces of flesh off his leg. The trek the long way around to Qalat would only be three days in. After the shot, maybe a day of escape and evasion. Then his spotter would put in the call, and a Night Stalker would helo them out and they'd be back at FOB Winchester in time for beer and steak. And the Beheader, as Ibrahim Zarzi, warlord of the southeastern Pashtun tribes, opium merchant, prince, spy, charmer, betrayer, Taliban sympathizer, and Al-Qaeda liaison was known, would be sucking poppy from the root end first.
But it didn't happen that way. Reality seldom follows mission-op outlines.
"Why send men, Major?" Ray had asked the battalion intelligence officer, the S-2, in the S-2 bunker, to an audience of the CO, the exec, and the Sniper Platoon lieutenant. "Can't our Agency friends send a missile? Isn't that what they do? Have some zen master pinball kid sitting in a trailer in Vegas flying a joystick take him out with a Hellfire?"
"Ray, I shouldn't tell you this," Colonel Laidlaw said, "but it's your ass on the line, so you have a right to know. The Administration has tightened up on the missile hits. Too much collateral. The UN squawking. This guy's complex is in heavy urban. You go all Hellfire on his ass, yes, you probably send him to his God. But you send two hundred other rug weavers along with him and you've got the New York Times violin section in full blast. These folks don't like that."
"Okay, sir. I can take him. I'm just worried about the E and E from Qalat. I want to get my guy out and also my own ass. Can we have Warthogs standing by to cowboy up the place if it gets tight? We won't have enough firepower to shoot our way out of anything."
"I can get you Apaches ASAP. Our Apaches. I don't want to lay on Air Force Warthogs because I've got to go through too many chains of command and too many people have to sign off on it. It's not all that secure."
The marines liked the Air Force guys because they thought the A-10 gun tubs were so well armored the pilots had the confidence to get down to marine level before they started blowing shit up and killing people. They thought their own pilots lacked the killer instinct—and the armor—for nose-in-the-dirt flying. They hung far off, launched Hellfires, then went home and slept between clean sheets after martinis in the officers' club. Some even had girlfriends, it was rumored.
So: no Hogs, maybe Apaches. That was it and it never occurred to Ray to come up with a turndown. If he didn't do it, somebody else would, and whoever that somebody was, he wouldn't be as good as Ray.
It had to be done. The Beheader—the nickname came because it was rumored he was the mastermind behind a kidnapped journalist who'd suffered that fate when he'd gone off on his own in Qalat to get the Taliban side of the story—was an eternal problem for marines in the southeastern operating area. When IEDs went off as command vehicles passed in resupply convoys, it was because the Beheader's spies had infiltrated and knew how to ID the one Humvee out of twenty-five that carried brass. When patrols were ambushed, and major ops had to be launched to get them out of the trouble they'd gotten into, and the shooters had mysteriously vanished into nothingness, it was suspected they had simply ducked into the off-limits Zarzi compound. When a sniper dinged a CIA operations officer, when a mortar shell or an RPG detonated with far too much accuracy to be a random shot, when an Afghan liaison officer was found with his throat cut, all the signs pointed to the Beheader, who was in all other respects a wonderful man; a charmer; a handsome, well-educated fellow (Oxford, University of Iowa) with impeccable table manners who, when he allowed Americans, including high-ranking marine officers, into his home, boldly violated Islamic taboo by designating a liquor room, where a superb bartender made any drink you could imagine served under a little paper umbrella.
"I want this guy dead'r 'n shit," said the colonel. "I had to fight command and the Agency to get a kill authorized. Ray, I'd love to push the button and watch the computer kids whack him, but it's not going to happen. You've got to walk in, drop him with a rifle shot, and walk out."
"Got it," said Ray.
The shooting site had to be the roof of the Many Pleasures Hotel, across the street from the Beheader's compound. Once a week, the man was predictable. At twilight on Tuesday—it was always Tuesday—he left the compound by armored Humvee and went into the Houri district, where he visited a nice young prostitute named Mindi, with eyes like almonds, hair the color of night, and ways and means beyond the imagination. And why didn't he just move her in? Well, concubine politics. He had three wives and twenty-one kids, and already wives number one and three hated each other; his second concubine was plotting against his first concubine; all the women were lobbying incessantly for a trip to Beverly Hills; and what little domestic tranquility that could be had would be shattered by adding Mindi to the mix. Thus it was felt that not only her sexual skills but the fact that she was deaf and dumb gave the Great Man a peace and serenity unavailable in his own hectic home.
In any event, Tuesday at twilight, he predictably strode from his house to the vehicle, a distance of some ten yards. It was then and only then that he was vulnerable to a shot. Shooting suppressed from a little over 200 yards out, with just enough angle to clear the wall but still access the target, Ray could easily put a Chinese sniper bullet into the Beheader in his five-second window of opportunity. Chaos would ensue, and the militiamen in the bodyguard squad would have no idea where the shot had come from and would certainly begin firing wildly, driving people to cover. Ray and his spotter would fall back from the Many Pleasures Hotel, rappelling off the roof and making their way into the crowded Houri district, just a few blocks away, where they would go to ground. They'd just be two more faceless, bearded Izzies in a city full to bursting with them. The next night, they'd exfiltrate the city, make it to a certain hill about five miles to the south, and wait for the Night Stalker to come pick them up.
"It sounds easy," said S-2. "It won't be."
On the first day, he and Skelton had passed a couple of Taliban patrols on the high track but attracted no interest from those wary fighters, whose gimlet eyes were used to piercing the distance for the sand-and-spinach digital camo of marine war fighters. The Tallys saw goatherders all the time, and if these two were a little more raggedy ass than most they saw, it didn't register. They moved at goat pace, without urgency, without apparent direction, letting the wiry little animals eat, shit, and fuck as their goat brains saw fit, but generally moseying in the direction of the big market at Qalat where their thirty-five treasures could be sold for slaughter.
As part of their security procedure, Whiskey 2-2 avoided villages, slept without campfires, ate rice balls and unleavened sheaves of dry bread, and wiped their hands on their pants and shat without toilet paper.
"It's just like the Sigma Chi house," said Lance Corporal Skelton as they came to the top of a rise and found a tricky path down the other side.
"Except you don't jack off as much," said Ray.
"I don't know about you, Ray, but I don't need to jack off much. I had a real nice time with that blond goat last night. She's a princess."
"Next time, keep it down. May be bad guys in the vicinity."
"She sure does moan, doesn't she? Boy, do I know how to please a gal or what?"
The two men laughed. Lance Corporal Skelton didn't have a Chinese sniper rifle under his robes and vests, but he did have ten pounds of HF-90M Ultralight radio, an M4 with ACOG, ten magazines, and a case containing a Schmidt & Bender 35× spotting scope. All that shit: he moved like an old lady.
They were in high plains country, trending north. The Paki mountains rose ahead, over the unseen border, mantled in snow and sometimes fog, more tribal territory where Americans couldn't go for fear of execution upon apprehension. The land they negotiated was rocky and hardscrabble, clotted with waxy, tough, gray vegetation. Rocks lay everywhere, and each hill revealed a new landscape of secret inclines and defilades, and it was all brown-gray, coated with dust or grit. They were right on the border between the rising plains and the actual foothills, and out here it was desolate. Except of course they knew they were being watched and always assumed some Taliban was gazing their way through the scope of a Dragunov or a nice pair of Russian binoculars. So no American-jock crap as young athletic fellows are wont to do, no air jump shots or long, deep fantasy passes; no scooping up the hot grounder and firing to first. No middle fingers, no mock-comic "Fuck yous," no hyperattention to hygiene, no acknowledgment that such things as germs existed or that Allah was less than supreme. Prayer mats, five times a day on the knees to Mecca; you never knew who was watching.
And, of course, somewhere up above lurked either a satellite or more likely a Predator drone configured for recon and riding the breezes back and forth behind a tiny turbocharged engine, so they were probably on monitors in living color in every intelligence agency in the free world. It was like being on Jay Leno, except for the Afghanistan part. So another sniper discipline was: don't look up. Don't look at the sky, as if to acknowledge that somebody was up there to watch over them.
Meet the Author
Stephen Hunter has written eighteen novels. The retired chief film critic for The Washington Post, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, he has also published two collections of film criticism and a nonfiction work, American Gunfight. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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I found it to be an easy read and it went by quickly. Too quickley, in fact I found mysekf staying up way too late just so I could read a little more. In typical Stephen Hunter fashion his details for the weaponry is excellent which I believe not only ' puts you there' it brings the adventure to life. Simply pur if you enjoyed ISnipe you will right at home with Dead Zero. Enjoy!
In Afghanistan near the Pakistan border, U.S. marine sniper team Whiskey 2-2 is deployed on a covert operation to kill Taliban commander Ibrahim "the Beheader" Zarzi. However, someone betrayed the unit leaving them massacred by professionals in the tribal area. Several months later, Zarzi quits the Taliban. He travels to America where he meets the president and congressional leaders. The State Department believes he is the best choice to bring a corrupt free stable government to the war torn nation. At the same time, apparently Marine Gunnery Sergeant Ray "the Cruise Missile" Cruz, thought dead in the Zarzi massacre especially with the crater remains of the unit as proof, has reported by radio using last years codes. He resolutely will complete his final mission. The FBI deploys retired Marine sniper Bob "the Nailer" Lee Swagger to prevent Cruz from beheading the Beheader while someone in the shadows tracks Bob in order to kill Cruz before he can be debriefed. The latest Swagger thriller (see I, Sniper and Night Thunder) is a fabulous entry with a strong cast especially the lead male trio. Besides non-stop action, the story line contains an insightful look at political strange bedfellows in which yesterday's most wanted for assassination becomes today's most wanted ally or visa versa; think of Reagan-Bush 41 befriend Hussein in the 1980s becoming public enemy number one for Bush 41 and Bush 43. Swagger understands this as his mission is to do whatever including kill a fellow marine to protect an Afghan who probably led the slaughter of Whiskey 2-2. Fast-paced, fans anticipate the collision as The Cruise Missile targets the Beheader with The Nailer targeting the Cruise Missile while someone waits in the shadows to clean up the mess. Harriet Klausner
Swagger comes ouy of the hills and hollers to excite us once again. Each new book just brings me closer to Swagger as if he were the neighbor up the road and just stopped by and asked if I would feed his dog for a few days. Then he is gone for a few months and just reappears. It never ceases to amaze me how many people know of his exploits the world over he was never declared a national hero. I know this is fiction but written as if you really do know the man as a close neighbor. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to ne entertained with a fast moving good read.
Stephen Hunter does it again. More intense action than usual, even! Don't read all the reviews - they tell too much about the plot! Just start the book and you will be hooked.
was the worst stephen hunter book i have ever read. i looked to me like he was trying to set the series up for a new character. bob lee was not bob lee, he had none of the quality's that we grow to love about this character. the idea was sound but the delivery was reckless and unimaginative. it seemed to me like he is tired of writing this character so he just made it bad on purpose. i could expect this kind of novel from a beginner, but not after books like time to hunt and 47th samurai. shame on him and shame on his editors
Another page turner with seemingly promise of more to come. Mr. Hunter writes with well researched prose weaving another great story.
Started reading and didn't put down until finished. Stephen Hunter is factual while still keeping the reader totally absorbed. Top marks again for an excellent read.
I was pretty annoyed with that "Susan Okada is the one" bull hockey. After all Julie has put up with from that old reprobate, there's all this lusting aftter a hideous oriental? Totally unacceptable. Worst of all,, the motive for the entire conspiracy is beyond ludicrous. The relationship with Cruz is forced and unbelievable, and Cruz himself comes acros as no more than a cardboard cutout. Maybe Hunter should fill in with some early adventures from Bob Lee's youth. He's a great character, but other chararacters just don:t fly as well - I entirely skipped the Nikki book because I feel no connecton to her, and the same is true of Cruz. Plainly ancillary character development is not a Hunter strength.
Stephen Hunter has created a "can't wait for the next book" series based upon three characters. Earl Swagger, Bob Lee Swagger and now Ray Cruz. Good story that will keep you interested. The books weren't written in order by the characters, so I recommend that you start reading with the fist of these books with Hot Springs. I didn't and now I'm going back and reading them in order.
This must definitely become a movie!!


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Saute the onions in the oil until clear.
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Place the fish in a greased baking dish.
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Bake at 350° for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
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Total Fat 87 g133.5%
Saturated Fat 14 g70%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 544.4 mg181.5%
Sodium 1580.6 mg65.9%
Total Carbohydrates 52 g17.5%
Dietary Fiber 13.4 g53.8%
Sugars 4.7 g
Protein 180 g359.8%
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Excessive bubbles on surface
I have a 14 gallon freshwater aquarium that's been running with fish in it for seven weeks. I just tested my water and it is reading zero for ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate. My PH is is 7.4. I'm concerned because I'm noticing tons of tiny bubbles lingering at the surface, almost like someone poured a little soap in there. I expect some bubbles with this filter because it's the type where water falls out, but this is much more than what I usually see. I did scrub the glass with an algae pad when I was doing a water change today and I also added a tiny bit of Seachem's Flourish for my plants. I'm not sure if these things would cause the excess bubbles. I do have some crushed coral and a small cup of salt in the tank, but hadn't noticed problems with these before. Most of my fish are swimming actively, with the exception of one of my new platies, who has looked stressed ever since the guy at the fish store put her in a bag for me. I wonder if anyone on here might know what the cause of all these bubbles might be and if whatever it is could potentially harm my fish.
post #2 of 6 Old 09-02-2010, 06:53 AM
scoop out the bubbles from the surface area and add clean water to the tank.some times theres a thin film of protein on the surface of the water and tiny bubbles can get stuck in that film
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post #3 of 6 Old 09-02-2010, 06:54 PM Thread Starter
Okay. Followed your advice and just did another water change. I also noticed a film near the top, so ran a paper towel over it and discovered a reddish substance. I noticed my filter cartridge also has this color. I wonder if some of the products I use in the tank might be creating red algae. Currently, I use Prime to treat tap water, a tiny amount of Flourish, and a small amount of aquarium salt in a cup (I know not necessary). My nitrates are still at zero. Fish look okay and bubbles are slightly less now, but I'm not sure if the issue is solved yet. I'll check it again tonight.
post #4 of 6 Old 09-02-2010, 07:01 PM
very well could be red algae which really isn't an algae at all more like a bacteria. not harmful just more of a nuisance. if its not growing on your substrate or ornaments then you noticed it early. the main cause of this algae growing is excessive light and minimal oxygen. lessen your light on time to just 8 hours a day and increase the oxygen in the aquarium via an air stone. hopefully that helps
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Thanks for the info. I'll reduce the light on time and pick up an air stone. I was already thinking about getting one for the stressed Platy in hopes that it would make her feel better. By the way, Fish1983, I looked at your profile and saw you live in Iowa. I grew up in Eastern Iowa and remember having great luck with my aquarium there. The water was great and I was able to keep a wide variety of fish, including angels, with minimal intervention.
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Thanks for the info. I'll reduce the light on time and pick up an air stone. I was already thinking about getting one for the stressed Platy in hopes that it would make her feel better. By the way, Fish1983, I looked at your profile and saw you live in Iowa. I grew up in Eastern Iowa and remember having great luck with my aquarium there. The water was great and I was able to keep a wide variety of fish, including angels, with minimal intervention.
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Hi guys,
I tried this for some hours today and am now desperate enough to ask...
In a project I need to rotate an image (not animated) around it's center. According to the web there are several Actionscript3-ways, but not a single one worked for me.
Here's my basic code:
var cInner:Image = new Image; cInner.setImage('inner.png'); cInner.setSize(470,470); cInner.setPosition(50,50); cont3Container.addChild(cInner); // cont3Container is used for layout purposes
Try I
cInner.rotationZ = 10;
If any of the parameters rotationX/Y/Z are set, the image disappears magically - altough the AIR debugger still shows cInner's correct position and size.
Try II
cInner.rotation = 10;
It works "somehow", but deforms my image (skew) and moves it to other (x,y) coordinates.
Try III
Using the method I found here (creating a seperate transition matrix). I get the same result as in Try II: a deformed image.
Try IV
A friend of mine told me it would be wise to wrap my image in a new MovieClip and rotate the whole clip ("the 'ol Flash way of doing things"). But I failed creating this special kind of container:
mov = new MovieClip(); mov.width = 470; mov.height = 470; mov.x = 50; mov.y = 50; addChild(mov); // or added to cont3Container - makes no difference /* ... */ mov.addChild(cInner);
It does not show up - AIR debugger tells me, that mov's width is 0 (zero).
I think I need an expert now. Who can help? Ugly workarounds are highly appreciated.
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Odd. Have you tried adding the image to a Sprite and then try rotating the Sprite?
Sprites behave the same way:
var spr:Sprite = new Sprite(); spr.width = 470; spr.height = 470; spr.x = 450; spr.y = 150; spr.addChild(cInner); addChild(spr); trace(spr.width);
I suppose trace should return 470. Insted it returns 0 and I have no clue why...
@biggerCC: the reason for the invalid width read out is because that read out is before the image is actually loaded. it takes time for the Image object to load the image from the file system. the code you have runs "instantly" so it prints it out to you before the load is complete. you have two options, to get a correct read out, you have to either add an event listener and listen for the Event.COMPLETE event on the image and then retreieve and the widths and heights or you can use an embedded image and it'll work for you without needing an event listener because the image is "preloaded" into your application.
as for the rotation, i've never tried but seems really interesting. im gonna have to try it out. good luck!
02-08-2011 07:42 PM - edited 02-08-2011 07:42 PM
Could it be that you have to embed the image similar to rotating labels?
EDIT: JRab beat me to it lol
No, fonts are different in terms of rotation. There is absolutely no reason why an image cannot be rotated once it has been loaded.
02-08-2011 08:30 PM - edited 02-08-2011 08:31 PM
hey biggerCC,
i managed to get a circular object rotated as expected. it takes some doing though. the concept of rotation is a little different because i think AS3 takes the point of origin of a sprite and rotates it there, however we wish it would rotate based on a midpoint.
the solution to that is to use a matrix as you had previously discovered. i found the following website and ran through its code and pumped out my own based on it. so all credit goes to this website:
as for the code, here it is:
package { import flash.display.Bitmap; import flash.display.BitmapData; import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.display.StageAlign; import flash.display.StageScaleMode; import flash.events.MouseEvent; import flash.geom.Matrix; import flash.geom.Point; import flash.geom.Rectangle; import qnx.ui.buttons.LabelButton; import qnx.ui.display.Image; [SWF(height="600", width="1024", frameRate="30", backgroundColor="#BBBBBB")] public class ImageTest extends Sprite { [Embed(source="images/BallNumber.png")] private var myEmbeddedImage:Class; private var myBitmap:Bitmap; private var myImage:Image; private var myBtn:LabelButton; private var rotationObjectData:Object; public function ImageTest() { super(); stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT; stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE; /** * Setup your bitmap image **/ myBitmap = new myEmbeddedImage(); /** * setup your rotation object data * i found its best to keep it all organized * to one object just as the original website had it **/ rotationObjectData = new Object(); /* setup the orignal data to we are working with by grabbing the bitmap data */ rotationObjectData.sourceBitmapData = myBitmap.bitmapData; /* set up the bitmap data that we are going to modify constantly keeping the original intact */ rotationObjectData.displayBitmapData = new BitmapData(myBitmap.width, myBitmap.height, true, 0xFFFFFFFF); /* we copy the original data to the modifiable data */ rotationObjectData.displayBitmapData.copyPixels(ro
tationObjectData.sourceBitmapData, new Rectangle(0,0,myBitmap.width, myBitmap.height), new Point(0,0)); rotationObjectData.rotation = 0; /** * Set up your image object **/ myImage = new Image(); /* set the original image the user sees to the source bitmap data */ myImage.setImage(rotationObjectData.sourceBitmapDa ta); myImage.setPosition(100,100); addChild(myImage); /** * setup your button to rotate with **/ myBtn = new LabelButton(); myBtn.label = "Rotate"; myBtn.setSize(150,52); myBtn.setPosition(700,300); myBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick); addChild(myBtn); } private function onClick(e:MouseEvent):void { /** * this is where it gets hairy **/ /* set the rotation increase from its previous number */ rotationObjectData.rotation += 18; var degrees:int = rotationObjectData.rotation; /* the rotation value is in radians so we need to convert our degrees to radians */ var angle_in_radians:Number = Math.PI * 2 * (degrees / 360); /** * Setup the rotation matrix **/ var rotationMatrix:Matrix = new Matrix(); /* all this transform the rotation matrix so we can have our bitmap data transformed later */ rotationMatrix.translate(-(myBitmap.width / 2),-(myBitmap.height / 2)); rotationMatrix.rotate(angle_in_radians); rotationMatrix.translate((myBitmap.width / 2),(myBitmap.height / 2)); /** * using the rotation matrix, we create our rotated bitmap (finally) **/ var matrixImage:BitmapData = new BitmapData(myBitmap.width, myBitmap.width, true, 0x00000000); /* based on the original image, we create the new rotated image using its bitmap data */ matrixImage.draw(rotationObjectData.sourceBitmapDa ta, rotationMatrix); /* we set our modifiable displayBitmapData property to the new image */ rotationObjectData.displayBitmapData = matrixImage; /** * Set the new image after rotation **/ myImage.setImage(rotationObjectData.displayBitmapD ata); } } }
I've included comments as much as i could to explain it. if you need further explanation, please let me know. i've also attached the image i used for the testing. also you may notice i used an embedded image. it makes things a whole lot easier and its quick (no need to load from the file system). you can changet he embed path to anything you want without changing the rest of the code and the same rotation will apply.
hope that helps. was pretty fun. good luck!
@jffurian: sorry
Problem is likely that you have to offset the child (your image) within the container to get the rotation you want.
var spr:Sprite = new Sprite();
//this will make sure that spr 0,0 coords are the centre of your img
cInner.x = -( cInner.width / 2 );
cInner.y = -( cInner.height / 2 );
// we have to add have the width and height again to make it look like its in the same spot
spr.x = 450 + (cInner.width/2);
spr.y = 150 + (cInner.height/2);
// then!
spr.rotation += 45; // or however much you want
Just happens I encountered this issue today and did a lot of the same research. I was lucky enough to stumble over the Rotator class, which totally solved my problem, is small and simple, and even works nicely with Tweener.
The basic problem seems to be that image rotation works on a "registration point" at the upper left corner of the image. This means it will rotate, but not around its own centre, so it can easily "vanish" as you've seen.
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@peter: does seem pretty simple. i gotta admit i spent a good five minutes playing around with the demo on that page haha. i have such an addictive personality


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multiple cameras via 2 LFG4 PCIe frame grabbers
Hi Ryan
I'm interested in doing something similar, but probably only needing to use 4 video inputs (hence maybe only one card). I'd be very interested in any of your experiences with this setup – did yo u have any success getting the multiple video inputs working at low latency?
Thanks, that's very useful. Have you had any problem with inputs freezing on the LFG card? I've been looking at the Catalyst users' forums, and a few people seem to have had some problems with reliability. I'm not sure if it's a Catalyst thing, a driver thing, or a hardware thing, so I'm interested to know how reliable this card has been with Max/Jitter…
Thanks again
Freezes seemed to happen on multiple cards. I traced this to the apple's PCI bus, and engineers with apple confirmed this. LFG's driver at the time was beta, and i think it still is. I was beta testing, thinking that it was the driver causing random freezes, but i am most certain it lies in the split architecture of the pci bus. LFG is a good product with great support*
Thanks, that's very helpful. Just to clarify, you were only having freezes when using more than one card at the same time – is that correct? So with a single card installed, you didn't experience any freezing?
It's also good to hear that they offer good support – that makes all the difference when trying a new product…
Cant say for sure…dont think i tried just one card.
ryan / tom
did you find the one card config to be reliable?
do the drivers from active silicon support other qt based software ok? like vdmx or final cut?
since you couldn't utilize two cards, maybe you want to sell the other??
In the end, I went for a Blackmagic Intensity Pro, as I only needed the one input, and may want to use it for HD capture in the future. If you're only looking for one input, I'd highly recommend the Intensity: I've had absolutely no issues with it so far, and have been using it in an installation for 6 hours a day for the last week. Latency is down to about 60-70ms too, which is excellent.
well, from the look of it, the intencity pro seems like both a more versatile and up to date product.
couple of questions:
is latency that low both if using hdmi AND analog inputs?
how about interlacing / deinterlacing?
i would have to look for a solution for getting the hdmi signal about 30 meters.
cables / repeaters or balun / cat5. both would be quite expensive.
has anyone here looked at affordable solutions?
thank you!
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Reigning World Champion sets fastest lap ahead of Bautista and Smith
Marc Marquez saved the best until last under the floodlights at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar with the reigning World Champion grabbing the first pole position of the 2014 MotoGP season for the Repsol Honda team ahead of GO&Fun Honda Gresini rider Alvaro Bautista and the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 machine of Bradley Smith.
I'm really happy and this pole position is a special one for me.
Andrea Dovizioso had a very good day on his Ducati GP14 machine and the Italian set a best time of 1m 54.644s and starts ahead of Jorge Lorenzo on the Movistar Yamaha with the two-time MotoGP Champion's best time of 1m 54.661s enough to start ahead of Dani Pedrosa who takes the last space on the second row for the Repsol Honda team with a 1m 54.703s lap. Stefan Bradl starts from 7th for the LCR Honda team 1m 54.871s while Cal Crutchlow put in a great effort to take the final qualifying spot in Q1 to continue to set the 8th best time of 1m 54.888s.
Hiroshi Aoyama set the 15th fastest time of 1m 56.479s on the second of the Drive M7 Aspar machines ahead of Scott Redding and the GO&Fun Honda Gresini team with a best lap of 1m 56.555s. Yonny Hernandez starts from 17th place with the Energy T.I. Pramac Racing man setting a best time of 1m 56.648s ahead of Karel Abraham on the Cardion AB Motoracing machine with a best lap of 1m 56.715s. Hector Barbera starts from 19th on the Avintia Racing machine with a best time of 1m 57.006s ahead of Danilo Petrucci with a best time of 1m 57.513s for the IodaRacing Project team. Australia's Broc Parkes set the 21st fastest time of 1m 57.574s for the Paul Bird Motorsport team ahead of Avintia Racing's Mike Di Meglio with a 1m 57.667s lap and Michael Laverty starting from 23rd on the second Paul Bird Motorsport machine with a best lap time of 1m 58.254s.
Speaking after the race Marquez was very happy but remains focused on tomorrow's task. He said, "I'm really happy and this pole position is a special one for me, because after coming back from injury it gives me a boost in confidence. In any case, we know that tomorrow is the day that counts and it's in the race that points are decided, so we have to be very focused. It is going to be a very tough for me physically, because I don't have much strength in my leg and I have to compensate with my right arm. We are happy with how today went and seem to have found a good setup, with just a few details still to refine in tomorrow's warmup. It will be difficult, because many riders have pace within a tenth of each other, but we shall try to have a good race."
Bautista was thrilled with securing a front row start and speaking afterwards he said, ""For me this second place on the grid feels like a pole position, because in this circuit I've always struggled in the past. During this weekend instead I have always felt comfortable with the bike, closing each practice session in the top positions, which means that we have worked very well in winter testing. Too bad only to have lost the pole position, but in the end Marquez has been capable to overtake us.
Smith was happy with his front row start but thought he do better saying, "I am really pleased with today, the bike felt great and I'm really satisfied with the setup. The performance during the fourth free practice session was very promising and fortunately I was able to translate that performance to the new tire. I was slightly disappointed because with the second tire, Aleix, Marc and I, all waited a bit too long, as nobody wanted to be followed. My tyres got too cold to push again, so I decided to take the bike back to parc fermé instead of taking any more risks, but I felt I still had some margin.
However, you don't get points for qualifying, tomorrow is when it really counts and there are 22 laps to battle in. For sure a good start is the key and I know I'm pretty good at them. I also know that I will be strong on the full fuel load as I worked a lot to improve this during the winter. Having said that, there are a lot of strong riders behind me and it won't be easy, but I'll give it my all. Tonight I will rest up, and prepare myself and if the bike feels like it did today, I am confident of getting a good result," Smith added.


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Skip to comments.The Democrats add insults to...insults. (Freeper-penned newspaper op-ed)
Posted on 10/07/2004 9:43:16 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback
It turns out John Kerry really did have only one strategy for Iraq all along, the same strategy he, his party and his campaign are currently employing on all fronts. Its even so simple it can be explained in two words: Insult everyone.
Insult the coalition of the coerced and the bribed. Theyre just window dressing and barely willing to do anything at all. Pretend theyre fakers, no matter how long theyve been with us, how much theyve spent or how many lives theyve lost.
Insult NATO by ignoring their help in training Iraqi troops, and Germany and Canada by ignoring their help in Afghanistan.
Insult the Prime Minister of Iraq by falsely accusing him of lying to Congress. Dont worry that the guy survived an assassination attempt with an axe that put him in the hospital for over a year and nearly cost him a leg; hes not a real Iraqi patriot, just some Bush puppet.
Insult 25,000,000 Iraqis and every victim of terrorists Saddam trained, funded or harbored by saying Iraqs liberation was a colossal error of judgment and a grand diversion.
Insult China by acting shocked that anyone would think China would have any influence on the regime in North Korea, which is currently on Chinese life-support. Ditto for the other countries that North Korea could reach with their missiles, its not as if their opinion counts.
Insult every potential victim of nuclear terrorism by claiming that giving nuclear material to Iran would have been the only sane way to handle things.
Insult the Israelis by calling their anti-terror wall a barrier to peace. Insult the Palestinians by calling it a legitimate act of self-defense.
Insult the Australians by sending your sister to tell them their Prime Minister caused the 2002 Bali bombing by helping us in the War on Terror.
Dont forget to insult Americans too. Insult every Vietnam veteran by reaffirming your false 1971 charges of daily, systematic war crimes by a military system that had become a babykilling genocide machine. This has the added advantage of insulting every Vietnam era veteran, because they would have been babykillers if theyd been sent Da Nang instead of Fort Dix.
Insult those who got deferments by suggesting theyre cowards. This is best done while your deferment-recipient running mate grins and applauds on the stage behind you.
Insult National Guard veterans by alleging they signed up to avoid real service. This charge is best led by DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe, who proved his mettle in the fierce jungle fighting at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
Insult everyone who has served in military aviation by having McAuliffe imply that what they do is safe and easy.
Insult the troops in Afghanistan by claiming were no longer doing anything of consequence there and that theyre not looking for Osama any more.
Insult every American by drawing moral equivalence between the United States development of bunker buster nukes and the development of nukes by terrorist nutjobs like Kim Jong Il and the Iranian mullahs.
Insult Reagan Democrats and people who filed past the Gippers casket at the rate of 5,000 an hour by calling the Reagan years eight years of moral darkness. OK, thats an old one, but its instructive, isnt it?
Insult anyone who has doubts about you. Your wife can say anyone who doesnt love your health care plan is an idiot in a world full of idiots. Your running mate can say that any American who votes for Bush has lost their mind.
Call me crazy if you want (John Edwards just did) but I keep imagining Triumph the Insult Comic Dog as Kerrys Secretary of State: Hello, is this the President of Poland? Your country is a great allyFor me to poop on! Its even easier to imagine Teresa Heinz-Kerry turning to Tony Blair at a state dinner and asking in that sweet manner of hers, So, were you bribed, or coerced?
I hope Mr. Kerry never gets a chance to hold his Grand Diversion Excursion Summit and ask our allies to make real contributions, but if he does, Ill bet he blames the low attendance on Teresas pumpkin spice cookies.
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Good read.
It seems to me Bush's strategery is to go out of his way to NOT insult anyone. He honors the Clintons. He honors Ted Kennedy. He honors Kerry's service in the military and the Senate. He honors France and Germany and Russia and China and the United Nations.
Result: He is called the "most divisive" president in the history of the Republic.
Feel free to run with that theme. Good luck!
"It seems to me Bush's strategery is to go out of his way to NOT insult anyone. He honors the Clintons. He honors Ted Kennedy. He honors Kerry's service in the military and the Senate. He honors France and Germany and Russia and China and the United Nations.
Result: He is called the "most divisive" president in the history of the Republic.
Feel free to run with that theme. Good luck!"
The Left will take any quarter you give them, but if you expect generosity or chivalry in return, don't hold your breath. They bite the hand that offers the olive branch.
WoW you are great! Amazing.. Bravo... geee whizzz I knew my English teacher told me that diagraming a sentence was good for something.....
Great letter, Mr. Silverback! Thanks.
Thank you all for your compliments, I really appreciate them.
Good column. Direct hit.
Excellent column! I wish we could get it published nationally!
Actually, grammar is the one part of my English courses I was always riding the ragged edge of disaster on. Now, I wasn't the sort who'd say "I are smart" or something like that, I was just never able to get propositions, clauses, etc., etc. Part of it was that I found it pointless. I couldn't see how being able to tell someone they had a dangling participle would really help me out in life, especially if I was already doing pretty well on grammar just going by instinct. And now, I'm a bona fide professional writer-type person.
So don't sell yourself short...You're probably far more eloquent than you think you are.
And it's this crowd that has the unmitigated gall to blame the divisiveness in this country on the Republicans!!!
That was a fun read!
I think this is one of the best letters I have ever read, anywhere about anything.
Please add me to your ping list.
You have nailed the Kerry strategy perfect. Perfectly!!!
This is the best letter I have ever read anywhere about anything.
This freeper has nailed Kerry to THE WALL!
You will not regret reading this letter. It sounds better read out loud and in an angry voice which is how I just read it to Mr. Peach.
Brutally well stated.
This needs to be sent to Rush, Drudge, Hannity, etc.
Thanks Peach.
I love it!
Check out the article.
Thanks for teh ehads' up!
("The Head's Up", figured I'd show what my real typing looks like for once.)
I'll bet you get some fascinating responses every week!
Excellent piece. Please add me to your ping list.
It doesn't get much better than this! Great read!
My thoughts, too.
This is so brutally simple I think even the sheeple will understand it. Positively brilliant piece! Essay of the week material!
Bookmarked as well!
Send it to the L.A. Slimes -- every now and then they print letters from the good side.
Please make sure you send it to the RNC.
I was wondering why no one pointed out that Kerry vowed to "eliminate" the bunker-buster missiles. Just another defense weapon he doesn't like. I'd like to ask him if there is a defense weapon he does like. Also, is it wise to announce to our enemies -- N. Korea, Iran, etc., that we are "eliminating" a weapon that can get to their hardened nuclear facilities?
Thanks, for the great article.
Thanks MUCH for the ping, Mo.
Great Column!
I'm keeping track, and so far I'm an 'idiot'...because I don't like Lurch's health plan, I'm a 'scumbag' because I'm a Terry Kerry detractor, and now I've lost my mind because I'm voting for President Bush.
Considering the source of those words, I am the proudest idiot, scumbag, looney that ever walked on this great earth!!
Still waking up every morning and thanking God I'm a Republican!
I'm tired of this election, the selection being obvious and the process so painstaking. Bush on foreign policy trumps Bush on bipartisan participation in public policy and a new tone hoped for from old voices. He's fighting the right war on terrorism. I just hope it keeps him distracted from the domestic agenda.
This is a great read.
Peach, thanks for the ping!
Nice letter. Add me to this ping list, please.
Hey will they post this in an online edition?
Awesome. Devastatingly awesome.
Thanks very much for you compliments, folks. I appreciate them a lot.
1st Column: Accosted in the WalMart parking lot, received vulgar phone call from some old local nutjob.
2nd Column: New call from old local nutjob.
3rd Column: Nasty barb in the "barbs and blossoms" column in the Ink. The anonymous barb-er decided to really insult me by calling me "pro-life." Two other readers came to my defense, and were quite eloquent when telling my non-fan to shove it.
4th column (on John Kerry's anti-war activities): Threatening phone call, definitely from a Democrat, probably from a union thug. Smacked him around like a girlie man before he hung up.
I'm out to convert, not harass, but when you make the right people mad, it lets you know you're doing things right.
Good work, Mr. S. I think you've nicely summed up the kerry campaign anthem of aggressive negativity.
You folks are added to the ping list.
As the Guiness commercials go: BRILLIANT!
I especially liked the Triumph the Insult Dog line!
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I want to design a logo to use in my new firm - GoingStrong - Consulting, Lda.
This consulting firm is a SME focused on defining strategies, actions plans for improvement, implementing and managing projects for business and government on:
- Information Society and E-Government;
- Procurement and E-Procurement;
The firm has young experienced professionals eager to identify, develop, implement, monitor and evaluate innovative projects for clients looking for improve efficiency and effectiveness, lowering costs trough better processes, innovation and technology.
GoingStrong provides the following services:
- Strategy definition, Program and action Planning;
- Program and Project Management and Implementation;
- Process optimization;
- Shareholders relations, network organization development and training;
- Rationalization and negotiation services;
- Motorization and evaluation.
We are looking for a creative and strong design to our brand: GoingStrong - Consulting, Lda. so we can use it on our documents, presentations, proposals and website.
The global image must be oriented by "responsive design" trends with low colour count, white background, where the font and content are king.
The designer must provide:
A - Logos:
- Favicon, Small (125px), medium (250px), normal (500 px) and big (1000 pix) size logos in bitmap and vector graphics format;
- Positive and negative versions in order to use in white or dark backgrounds;
- With transparent background;
- Centred and align left and right;
- with text and without text.
B - Templates - MS Word and PowerPoint templates with:
- Tittle with large image for great impact;
- Index (tittle & contents);
- Section separator;
- Normal page/slide with layout and contents (text (tittle, subtittle,... , bullets,), tables, charts, graphics, ...)
- End page with contacts.
C - Style / usebook: Colour pallet, fonts, logo, and style description and use.
Please attach to the proposals your portfolio on responsive design.
Best regards,
Pedro Viana
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Pork Chops With Apple And Prunes
|Pork rib chops
|4 , with pocket cut in fat side (3/4-Inch Thick)
|Green apple
|1⁄2 , peeled and thinly sliced
|8 , pitted and chopped
|Grated lemon rind
|To Taste
|To Taste
Fill each pocket in chops with two slices of apple and some chopped prunes mixed with lemon rind.
Close pocket with tooth picks and place chops in a roasting pan.
Preheat oven to hot and cook chops for 10 minutes, turn, cook for a further 10 minutes.
Reduce heat to moderately slow and cook for a further 25-30 minutes or until meat is tender.
Baste chops and turn occasionally during cooking.
Season with salt and pepper after cooking.
To serve, remove toothpicks from chops and place on a serving dish.
Keep chops warm and make gravy from the pan juices if desired.
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 1399 Calories from Fat 687
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 76 g117.1%
Saturated Fat 26.3 g131.7%
Trans Fat 0.8 g
Cholesterol 399 mg133%
Sodium 785.4 mg32.7%
Total Carbohydrates 31 g10.3%
Dietary Fiber 4.9 g19.6%
Sugars 19.3 g
Protein 140 g280.6%
Vitamin A 7.3% Vitamin C 40.6%
Calcium 22.4% Iron 24.3%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet