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Christian SchmollingerThe Standard & Poor's GSCI gauge of 24 commodities rises 0.2 percent to 645.61 at 5:01 p.m. Singapore time. The UBS Bloomberg CMCI index of 26 raw materials gains 0.2 percent to 1,535.493.
West Texas Intermediate oil traded near the lowest level in two days after U.S. crude stockpiles rose almost five times more than forecast. The Brent pipeline system remained shut a fifth day.
WTI for April delivery was at $90.35 a barrel, down 8 cents, in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange at 3:13 p.m. Singapore time. The volume of all futures traded was 36 percent below the 100-day average. The contract slid 39 cents yesterday to $90.43, the lowest close since March 4.
Brent for April settlement on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange was at $110.83 a barrel, down 23 cents. It dropped 55 cents yesterday to $111.06. The volume was 4.6 percent higher than the 100-day average. The European benchmark
Copper climbed after a report showed faster-than-forecast U.S. job growth and the Federal Reserve said the economy is growing, boosting demand prospects for industrial metals. Aluminum and nickel also gained.
Copper for delivery in three months rose as much as 0.6 percent to $7,738 a metric ton on the London Metal Exchange and
Gold swung between gains and losses as investors weighed mixed U.S. economic data against the potential for more stimulus measures from central banks around the world. Silver fell for the first time in three days.
Spot gold traded at $1,584.12 an ounce at 3:26 p.m. in Singapore from $1,583.90 yesterday. The metal slipped as much as 0.3 percent earlier. Bullion fluctuated as the euro rose against the greenback, while the Dollar Index held near a six-month high.
Gold for April delivery advanced as much as 0.6 percent to $1,584.90 an ounce on the Comex in New York and traded at $1,583.50 after closing unchanged yesterday. The most-active price has dropped 5.5 percent this year.
Cash silver declined as much as 0.6 percent to $28.89 an ounce, and was at $28.015. Spot platinum climbed 0.4 percent to
Corn rebounded from a one-week low on speculation that the U.S. government may lower its estimates of global supply and as port bottlenecks delayed deliveries from Brazil, set to be the world's largest shipper this year.
The contract for May delivery rose 0.4 percent to $6.91 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade after losing 2.9 percent yesterday to settle at the lowest level since Feb. 25. Futures traded at a premium to wheat for a fourth straight day. Wheat, which added 0.4 percent to $6.865 a bushel, had an average premium to corn of $1.40 in the past decade. Futures plunged to $6.80 a bushel yesterday, the lowest level since June 22.
Soybeans for delivery in May slipped 0.2 to $14.6375 a bushel in Chicago on a trading volume that was 49 percent below the 100-day average for that time of day.
Rubber climbed to a one-week high as a better-than-estimated jump in U.S. jobs boosted the dollar against Japan's currency, raising the appeal of contracts in yen.
The contract for delivery in August increased 0.8 percent to 291.5 yen a kilogram ($3,104 a metric ton) on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange, the highest settlement since Feb. 28. Futures pared this year's loss to 3.6 percent.
Palm oil gains as much as 1 percent to 2,422 ringgit a ton, erasing earlier losses. May-delivery contract was at 2,419 ringgit/ton on the Malaysia Derivatives Exchange at 3:53 p.m. in


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Hugo Schlarman
Hugo E. Schlarman, 82, Osgood, passed away of natural causes Jan. 19, 2014, at State of the Heart Hospice Care Center in Greenville.
He was born April 23, 1931, in St. Wendelin, to John and Mary Bergman Schlarman. On Sept. 17, 1955, he married Elizabeth "Liz" Rose Wenning at St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Osgood, and she preceded him in death March 24, 2003. On Sept. 23, 2006, at St. Louis Church in North Star, he married Elizabeth "Betty" George Keiser, who survives.
Also surviving are two children, Tina (Bobby) Askew Jr., Germantown, and Ron Schlarman, Kettering; two granddaughters, Brianna and Sierra Askew; eight stepchildren, Steven (Angela) Keiser, North Star, Susan (John) Subler, Troy, Jeffrey (Karen) Keiser, Troy, Janice (Michael) Mescher, Quincy, Mich., Kevin (Ginger) Keiser, Troy, Timothy (Jenny) Keiser, Versailles, Nicholas (Holly) Keiser, Versailles, and Donna (Tony) Kueterman, Versailles; 24 stepgrandchildren; and 19 stepgreat-grandchildren; siblings, Lois Wenning, Osgood, Imelda Stucke, Osgood, Ohmer (Clara) Brandewie, Osgood, Velma Magoteaux, Osgood, and Lucille Kettering, Eaton; and brothers and sisters-in-law, Leo (Marge) Wenning, Yorkshire, and Theresa Alexander, Russia.
He was preceded in death by three children, Thomas, Jerry and Anna Marie Schlarman; three siblings, Eileen Schlarman, Herb (June) Schlarman and Rosella (Wilfred) Tanner; and brothers and sisters-in-law, Roman Stucke, Cletus Wenning, Bill Kettering, Josephine Bruns, Rita Bollheimer and Henry Wenning.
He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and had been stationed in Europe from 1953 until 1955. He was the owner and operator of Hugo's Barber Shop in Osgood for nearly 28 years and had been employed at Airstream in Jackson Center until he retired in 1996. He was a member St. Nicholas Catholic Church, the Minster Fraternal Order of Eagles Lodge 1391 and had been a past commander of the Osgood American Legion Post 588. He enjoyed playing cards, traveling and visiting with grandchildren.
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The LIDA Project takes on barriers of class and language in O'Neill's The Hairy Ape
Lorenzo Sariñana plays "Yank" in LIDA's production of Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape.
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The LIDA Project was named for a Soviet device that was supposedly capable of manipulating human brain-waves through the use of low-frequency radio, and for nearly two decades, this innovative theater company has offered productions that often incorporate technology in unusual ways. It latest effort is a modernized version of Eugene O'Neill's expressionist play The Hairy Ape, re-imagined as a one-man show; it opens tonight.
See also: - Lida Project's R.U.R./lol uses robots to examine what it means to be human - Everything adds up as the LIDA Project embarks on its 18th season - A Critic's View on LIDA
Digitally-projected characters populate LIDA's The Hairy Ape.
The LIDA Project
LIDA has recently offered updates of several expressionist works of the 1920s, including Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine and Karel Čapek's R.U.R. "With this piece, we really stuck to the script in a lot of senses," says Hart DeRose, who acts as narrator for The Hairy Ape. "However, we translated all of Yank's - the main character's - role into Spanish. Every other character speaks English, furthering the isolation that the character feels. It's really a treatment on the rest of the world's inability to connect with his character. The story is of a man on an ocean liner in the 1920s; he's a stoker on the liner, and he's really proud of his job and his work. Then this woman whose father is the owner of a steel company decides that she's going to come down and see what the workers do. She comes down, and she screams because she's so afraid of him. It's very deep classism."
Lorenzo Sariñana plays Yank. According to DeRose, he will appear alone on the stage surrounded by mannequins; the play's other characters will be digitally projected onto them. Although previous LIDA productions have included subtitles projected on the walls for foreign-language sections of the dialogue, Yank's speech will not be translated. "It is particularly relevant, I think, in terms of the language barrier that we choose to continue to propagate in our culture, and what that leads to," DeRose says. "It's still very much wrapped up in wealth and lack of wealth.This is going to be an experiment in Does the acting transcend the language? Are we able to get the message across that we want to? Even with that barrier, do you connect to Yank?"
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Where The Streets Flow With Beer
Scott e-mails to report on a blow for freedom struck on behalf of Green Bay Packer fans:
The village of Ashwaubenon has corrected an ongoing injustice. Beginning on August 12th, 2005, drinking on the streets in the Lambeau Entertainment District will be permitted. Ashwaubenon is located near Lambeau Field and for years Packers fans were outcasts in this tiny community.
"They're always hassling us" slurred one green and gold clad victim who had trouble recalling his name. "They let people drink Cokes there, but they won't let us knock back a couple of the state beverages. They're always on our case."
Fortunately, we live in a country where justice prevails.
We learn more from a story in Wednesday's Green Bay Press-Gazette
ASHWAUBENON--The Village Board on Tuesday loosened its rules on open intoxicants near Lambeau Field--but that doesn't mean you should pop open a cold one for Thursday's preseason Packers game.
The board unanimously agreed to allow people to drink on sidewalks and in public parking lots in a designated Lambeau Field Entertainment District on Packers home game days and for other special events.
But beware--the new ordinance isn't official until it's published Friday. That means things won't change till the Packers' Aug. 26 home game.
And it still will be illegal to drink on the streets or while driving.
While on the subject, JB Doubtless points us to a paper by Radley Balko titled The Back Door to Prohibition: The New War on Social Drinking:
Taken together, the well-organized efforts of activists, law enforcement, and policymakers portend an approaching "back-door prohibition"--an effort to curb what some of them call the "environment of alcoholism"--instead of holding individual drinkers responsible for their actions. Policymakers should be wary of attempts to restrict choice when it comes to alcohol. Such policies place the external costs attributable to a small number of alcohol abusers on the large percentage of people who consume alcohol responsibly. Those efforts didn't work when enacted as a wide-scale, federal prohibition, and they are also ineffective and counterproductive when implemented incrementally.


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People finally make a thread about J.C xD Anyway, for some reason, J.C loves to spam many of their pigeon-fold voice actors, Particularly, Kugyu as tsundere loli xD
2010-12-27, 14:14 | Link #22 |
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*checks list* Well from what I've seen of JC staff aside from Bakuman, I've generally liked or at least enjoyed every series I've seen from them so far, and I really liked Railgun, Toradora, and Shana so they have my approval I suppose...
As long as they give me that and a Railgun II, I'll be happy with them .
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I'm amused at how few references there are to one of my favorite works from J.C. Staff, Nodame Cantabile. While what we might term the "story" animations are fairly pedestrian, the performance animations are stunning. They must have invested a substantial amount of effort to create such convincing portrayals of the instrumental performances, particularly the piano segments. I suspect they had to use motion-capture technology with human musicians to make the animations so realistic.
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There's two studios that have a place in my heart over my course of anime fandom. One is Madhouse, and the other is J. C. Staff. Unlike some studios which strive to choose one or two genres and do them well such as Sunrise with its mecha and KyoAni with its moe comedies, both Madhouse and J. C. Staff have pretty much covered and experimented with a vast amount of genres. Of course, not all of them were hits, but there were definitely some great ones.
For example, when I think of J. C. Staff, instead of their medicore titles, I think of Honey and Clover and Nodame Cantabile. Both of these, particularly the first, are brilliant slice of life animes that go beyond targeting the "otaku" audience. I'll go as far as say that they are better than anything in the slice of life department KyoAni has produced with the possible exception of Clannad After Story, but that's my opinion. Also, to people who are saying that J C haven't done any big or outstanding titles, you are forgetting that this is the studio that is responsible for: Azumanga Daoih Shakugan no Shana Zero no Tsukaima Hayate no Gotoku To Aru Majutsu no Index/To Aru Kakagu no Railgun Toradora (A lot of people I know thought this was made by KyoAni...) Of course, your mileage may vary (including myself) to what you thought was good, but the fact is that all of the above are popular, many of them franchises. Recently though, J C Staff has sort of hit the gutter in that they are falling into the moe/fanservice/ecchi hole that a lot of other studios are falling into, but it's not something they can't get out of. What J. C. Staff needs is another big hit such as the highly anticipated 3rd season of Shakugan no Shana to get back on track. If the quality of the third season ends up being something similar to what eps 3 and 4 of the SnS S OVAs were, it will be a big hit.
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Like others,when I hear "JC Staff" I think "solid".
One thing that I like about them is that I can look at some artwork across all kind of genres (from toradora! to azumanga daioh to shigofumi to maid sama to yumekui merry etc) and think it looks like JC staff artwork,so to me that gives them an "identity". I also cannot associate any director or writer with them,a lot of studios seem to have "in house" directors and writers,or at least,some they'll colaborate with a lot.All kinds of different people seem to have directed a series for JC staff.Maybe that's one of the reasons they're so diverse. Quote:
From what I understand they took the characters from the light novel,and that's it,they completely changed the story from a light hearted one to a much darker one. It might not be the most "experimental" of shows out there,but it still delt with subjects like child abuse,child porn,school violence,how japanese society views NEETS and other things as well. Didn't enjoy the main storyline that much but loved the episodic episodes,especialy the first couple ones.
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Thought if SnS III is coming out, thing would pretty much return to the same JC. Quote:
J.C seems to be able to adapt almost any kind of story, (thought I know they won't adapt ecchi/eroge, it would ruin their studio clean image) Quote:
But for Nodame Cantabile, it is one of their best work they ever made. Just like you said, it managed to touch even beyond the otaku audience (which explain another reason on why the show deserve a Korean Drama, if Korean did it, at least my family would watch the show >.>) Quote:
The first season is from JP Synergy and the movie is from Manglobe. Anyway, those are actually few of the best J.C shows (need to include Bakuman later) as most people usually remember them for. P.S: Toradora = loli tsundere Kugyu. loli tsundere Kugyu = J.C (unless you include the recent Hyakka Ryouran and Nagi ojou-sama, who the first season adaption is JP) Quote:
Cause the only moe show they made this season would be Milky Holmes, and the entire art is moe. As far as I watch, Bakuman and Zakuro are exceptionally good shows that doesn't heavily rely on moe. AS for Index, well, its Index. What am I supposed to say, reduce the moe-ness and got ravaged by Index/Railgun fan?
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I don't know if it's true, but to me both Atsushi Abe and Yuka Iguchi got their big break as the lead characters in Toaru. I've been seeing them more often since then... Atsushi Abe in particular have been appearing often in their recent projects. Quote:
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Index well... Sure you have some moe, what show doesn't? But it's definitely not the main focus and Index is better known for other stuffs. EDIT: Quote:
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Definatly,Zakuro is to me an exemple of people not looking past art styles when calling something moe or not. I'm sure if you turned all the girls of the show into lolies (or used an art style similar to k-on) and used the exact same script you'd have people say it's a moe show
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It's the pretty boys and their 'nice guy' personalities And even if I throw that all aside, the series is more lovey-dovey material than anything.
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Ok,promise,I'll stop now,I just couldn't resist.
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Had watch it a few months ago, Quite entertaining xD Anyway, there are lots of J.C shows that can be made into real-life drama I just wished that the Korean would be kindly to adapt them as some people dislike anime but loves Korean Drama. If they do adapt it, at least, my family are able to watch the shows without me forcing them. Quote:
And yeah, second season is better in many terms, The first season is full of filler -.-" Quote:
They actually emphasis more on drama instead of the moe/fanservice. Even if it has that element, it pretty much because of the show itself and not much of the studio intervention. Just like Chaos said, the shows ended with not much people talking bout it because it doesn't have much things to say, unlike other shows who emphasis on more memorable but unnecessary things. Quote:
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As for J.C. works being adapted into K-dramas, I think it will depend. I don't think shows like Shana, Index or Hayate will make good adaptations due to the supernatural and "over-the-top" elements, but ones like Honey and Clover and Toradora could definitely work (with tweaking to cater to the typical K-drama audience i.e. young adult females/housewives) though I doubt the former as there is already a J-drama on it. Not sure on the chances though... Korea and Japan like to prioritize adapting source material made in their own countries.
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And speaking of seiyus, imagine Rie Kugimiya, Aki toyosaki, Ayana Taketatsu and Aya Hirano in one anime? It'd be like the Pulp Fiction of seiyus!
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You might think I'm crazy, but I used to look forward to the State of the Union address, including the ridiculous theater of it all. I've actually attended a few of them. They were great. The best was watching Bill Clinton from the House gallery, where you could see everything. Clinton oozed charisma. The air in the gallery smelled a little of whiskey and cigarettes, two things I'm familiar with but gave up quite some time ago (gin doesn't count, right?). After the speech, reporters and pundits go down to Statuary Hall to talk to lawmakers about tax policy. It was always a cool experience.
But something was different last week, watching the latest State of the Union address. And I think I know what it was. The night before, I had caught up with a childhood friend whom I hadn't talked to in decades – like a lot of childhood friends, we went off to college and drifted apart. Our dads had served on the same PT boat in the South Pacific (PT 121), my dad as commander and his dad as executive officer. Both our fathers were heroes in every definition of the word. In our phone call the other night, my friend and I reminisced about the effect of World War II on our dads – not a positive one – and the effect on their children, which wasn't very positive either. There aren't many people I can share that experience with.
So when President Obama in his State of the Union address singled out a wounded warrior who had served 10 tours for his country, I didn't react the way most people probably did. I was incensed that a wounded warrior was used as a prop. You may think that's an overreaction, which is why I'm giving you the back story. Obama certainly isn't the first commander in chief to do something like that. Nor is he the first to introduce lame tax policy in the address in an attempt to make the country think he's doing stuff. Clinton was classic at that.
We've gone from a citizenry that was rallied by calls to "ask not what your country can do for you" to one that waits with bated breath for the answer to "hey, what's in it for me?". We aren't the greatest generation; we are the "me" generation. And that's only one reason why one of the biggest tax policy ideas in Obama's speech, the "myRA," is such a joke. (Don't even get me going on his suggestion to expand the leaking sieve that is the earned income tax credit.) The president stumbled more than once just trying to say myRA.
In my opinion, this thing is a faux 401(k) plan. It's not designed to help the poor save for retirement; it's designed to make people feel good. And it's guaranteed by the government -- which, by the way, is about $17 trillion in debt. That's not an investment, and the potential returns will show it. And please don't tell me it's a good start – that's the only positive thing I've read about it, and it's a lame excuse.
The only thing new about the myRA is that it's being done by executive fiat, which makes it lamer still. That leads me to a question: Shouldn't we have the Treasury Department working on reforming our tax code instead of running around placing fig leaves over tough truths, such as the fact that many of us don't save enough for retirement? A suggested starting point: Treasury should study why the myriad provisions already in the tax code that are designed to provide incentives to save for retirement aren't working.
We're a nation now that mostly thinks, "Why save? The government will give us anything we need." That's because our politicians aren't leaders – they're in it for themselves. If you know a lawmaker who would volunteer for PT boat duty, single him or her out at the next State of the Union address, and I promise I'll give the first cheer. But until then, I won't hold my breath.


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In turkish seo=amo but i'm using as seo on my all pages content and titles.
I dont know exactly but predominantly my backlinks from english sites. These backlinks giving to me naturaly and some of backlinks from blog commenting. But i have turkish backlinks too.
Some foriegn words are more using than Turkish words.
I've looked in the Google Keyword Suggestion Tool, and, from what I see, it appears that "seo" over "amo" is the overwhelming preference in Turkey... even with preferences set to Turkish and location set to Turkey.
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Metal Gear Solid, Madden Football, Lord of the Rings, The Sims, Christianity, Mario, Sonic, Grand Theft Auto, and the videogame industry as a whole are just a few of the things that are parodied in The Simpsons Game, where players assume the roles of all four members of the cartoon family that has been invading televisions since 1989. Fans were understandably concerned when they heard that the yellow-skinned, four-fingered quartet would be making their way not only into a full-length feature film but also into an EA-made videogame in the same year. While the movie didn't turn many heads with its humor, we're happy to report that the game certainly will, thanks to a sense of humor that can only be described as equal to Simpsons episodes of old. Heed the call, fans: this game has humor to spare.
The game brings the cartoon household knowingly into their own videogame when Bart stumbles upon a game manual that has seemingly dropped from the heavens. What's inside the manual? Why it's the guide on how to use the family's all-important powers against their captors, of course! Along the way they'll be pitted against villains from the show, EA higher ups (yes, you read that right), and their creator - in more ways than one. While the plot of the game is functional, the real star of The Simpsons Game is the hilarity that ensues.
Several of everyone's favorite Simpsons episodes are represented quite effectively. You'll see such favorites as The Land of Chocolate, Super Happy Fun Fun Homer, Lisa trying to stop lumberjacks from cutting down trees, and several others. The only thing really missing is a bona fide Treehouse of Horror tribute, though there are elements from the series of Halloween specials throughout the play experience. It would have been fine and dandy if the game simply reconstructed classic episodes and spit them out at gamers to play through but The Simpsons Game goes a step further and actually parodies tons of Hollywood and videogame properties as well.
Not only does it bring its own episodes back to life, poke fun at tons of EA properties, and make fun of videogames by mentioning the Xbox 720 and PS4, but there are also some awesome cameos in the game. The series creator Matt Groening plays a hilarious role as himself, Will Wright is perfectly portrayed and exhibits signs of humor for the very first time, and then there's God Himself who makes an appearance and manages to drop an F-Bomb along the way. Yes indeed, the humor element is easily the game's strongest point. Luckily the gameplay isn't half-bad either.
As you'd expect, The Simpsons Game can largely be summarized by calling it a platformer. You'll get to play as all four characters, though typically only two will be available in a level, and those two characters are predetermined by the game. It's obvious why they designed the levels to only incorporate two characters as many of the obstacles can only be passed by certain characters, though we would have preferred to have the Simpson family as a whole at our disposal.
Even though the act of playing through the levels doesn't add anything new to the platformer genre, The Simpsons Game actually takes a new approach to tried and true gameplay by poking fun at itself through the use of attainable video game cliches. It points out the fact that all videogames have crates, bosses with overly obvious weak points, and other things of that nature. There are 31 throughout the game and they're all equally funny.
In between jumping from platform to platform you will of course be pitted against enemies, the bulk of which you'll recognize from the series. Sideshow Bob, Jeff "Comic Book Guy" Albertson, and Mr. Burns are just a few of the characters to make the jump into the game. The Simpsons family has two basic attacks. There's a standard melee punch and there's a power-based attack which is governed by your power meter. Objects in the environment spit out power items, as do fallen foes, so you won't spend much of your time budgeting your power usage.


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Hello, is it possible to change the values of the array elements using the enhanced for loop. In the following I am trying to add 2 to each element in the array. When Println(i) it writes the original array. ;
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Per Sun/Oracle, you cannot modify the elements of the array/collection from within the enhanced for loop: The For-Each Loop
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text: With the difficulty experience this year with the approach of stripers on the monomoy flats, tuning away after spoted, ..yes... you have heard it here... I can not give the details on the web, but I have invented invisible waders... this is no joke.... I have a prototype which I will field test in the spring and get Penguin to give them a try. The first proto-type will be fit over ordinary waders and it will not do anything for upper body shadow though. The wader boots will also have the material or I will have lobster imaged, like bunny slippers, covered feet.... so it will just look like two lobsters on the sand. They will not be "totally" invisible but I have placed the material in water and it disappears. More later.


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Scott County deputy sheriffs, corrections officers and reserve deputies will be wearing a new badge this year that commemorates the 175 years since Frazer Wilson was appointed as the first sheriff of Scott County.
The badges will display the officer's name, rank and radio ID number in addition to commemorating the 175th anniversary of the sheriff's office.
The badges were purchased by the individual officers and will be kept by them as a memento of the anniversary.


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CalibrationAider helps you realize the full potential of your computer display device. Use CalibrationAider to create a consistant, reproduceable viewing environment with an optimal viewing angle, screen resolution, and maximized range of colors. CalibrationAider displays built-in test-patterns and allows you to import your own images. CalibrationAider includes a complete user guide and tutorial that describes how to use test-patterns to calibrate your LCD or CRT monitor and introduces concepts important to digital image processing and color management in general.
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Art & Literature II Art Lesson Plans
Art and Literature is a natural combination. Art lessons flow directly from the illustrated pages of the picture books and right onto the art tables. For this 23-page Art Booklet, I have chosen three beautifully illustrated books and created kid-friendly, classroom-tested art lessons for you to use. Each lesson has a supply list, photo-tutorials, gallery of actual student's work plus my popular How-to-Draw handouts. Plus, as an added bonus, I've included two extra how-to-draw handouts for two of most popular art lessons based on the books Giraffe's Can't Dance and A Color of his Own.
This booklet is perfect for Kinder through to Grade 3. I've included templates for the "Birds" art lesson so that very young children can participate with mom or dad.
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There can't be many people who have ever seen a digital camera who won't recognize Nikon's distinctive split body design. It's become a bit of a design classic. Nikon has taken this popular and successful design and improved it. The new surround makes the entire structure stiffer, provides protection for the lens and flash when turned into the vertical position and produces additional real estate along the top, bottom and left side of the camera.
One of the first thing that strikes you about the Coolpix 2500 is just how small it is. This camera is only a little bigger than Sony's DSC-P5/P9 and the Coolpix 2500 is thinner. Clearly there have been some compromises to achieve this, the 2500 has no viewfinder and no video output. The viewfinder probably won't be missed but I would have liked to have seen video out.
Another striking design decision has clearly been in the aesthetic appearance of the camera, it has stylishly designed curves and indentations which not only look good but make the camera 'feel nice' in your hand. The striking light blue and silver body hints strongly at the target audience, to me the design is a great success. Kudos Nikon.
Side by side
For anyone who's ever seen or handled a Coolpix 990 or 995 the image below should give you a good idea of just how small the 2500 really is. This is a camera which you can drop in a coat pocket or bag without a second thought, there are no bulky protrusions or buttons. How stylish does that camera on the right really look?
In your hand
Despite its lack of a distinguishable front grip holding the Coolpix 2500 is surprisingly easy and comfortable. The smooth rounded corners and logically designed rear mean the camera sits in the palm of your hand with your finger just over the shutter release. Extra stability can be achieved by supporting the left side of the camera. Camera balance is good, with batteries and a card the camera is almost perfectly 50/50 weight balanced.
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The Coolpix 2500's rear LCD is of the newer bright 1.5" 110,000 pixel variety. It's recessed into the body slightly and (at long last!) has an anti-reflective coating. The camera setup menu allows you to control LCD brightness by a total of five levels (+/- 2). If I had any concern it would be that the screen itself does not have a thicker protective window over it (unlike say Sony's DSC-P5 which has a protective window and anti-reflective coating). That aside the 2500's LCD monitor is bright, sharp and clear. |
The 2500 features a 3x optical zoom (37 - 111 mm equiv.) F2.7 - F4.8 internal zooming, internal focusing Nikkor lens. When you consider its diminutive proportions (quite a bit smaller than the 950 / 990 / 995) and internal mounting it's impressive that Nikon has managed to squeeze all that into such a small space. The maximum aperture of this lens is comparable to other ultra compact 2 megapixel digital cameras (such as Canon's Digital IXUS 300, Sony DSC-P5) which use extending lenses. |
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Named an Inc. Magazine Top 5 Business book of 2012
"You'd think that after destroying the world's economy with dodgy trades and double-dealing, at least somebody (other than the taxpayer) who was responsible might get thrown in jail. But you'd think wrong because Wall Street essentially "owns" both political parties, thereby making accountability impossible."
Inc. Magazine
Washington Man
"He transformed himself from public servant to rich lobbyist. When the financial crisis hit, he remembered who he was."
George Packer, New Yorker
"The great mystery story in American politics these days is why, over the course of two presidential administrations (one from each party), there's been no serious federal criminal investigation of Wall Street during a period of what appears to be epic corruption. People on the outside have speculated and come up with dozens of possible reasons, some plausible, some tending toward the conspiratorial but there have been very few who've come at the issue from the inside. We get one of those rare inside accounts in The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins . [T]hose interested in understanding the mindset of the people who should be leading the anti-corruption charge ought to read this book. It's the weird lack of concern that shines through On the outside we can only deduce the mindset from actions and non-actions, but Connaughton's actually seen it, and with the book you get to see it too. It's scary and definitely worth a read."
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone.com
"You want the real skinny on HFT and the SEC? Read The Payoff. This guy [Jeff Connaughton] worked with Sen Kaufman, our champ!"
Jim Cramer, via Twitter
"If you feel like justice was thwarted during the financial crisis, if you feel like the market's been rigged for the insiders and there's no check on it, you've got an ally in Jeff Connaughton .[The Payoff is] an insider's guide to what's gone wrong in Washington, by somebody who made millions as a professional insider."
Paul Vigna, Wall Street Journal
"Anyone interested in how Washington works will find The Payoff impossible to put down."
Paul Barrett, Business Week
"Connaughton shares new details from the Brown-Kaufman crusade, which will be gripping to anyone interested in taming overgrown banks. But the book's most important contribution, I think, is to tell the story of corporate influence over financial policymaking dating back several decades. You can pretty much feel the acid gushing into your stomach as you read it . I can't recommend the book enough."
Noam Scheiber, TNR.com
"If you want to know how this all happened, how it got so bad and has not become better, author Jeff Connaughton explains it in his new book, "The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins." On top of everything else, the American middle class is being systematically robbed by the corruption of Washington, namely by Wall Street. This corrupt nexus of money and power is why the economy collapsed, why it isn't getting better, and why the middle class is fighting for its life."
Richard Parker, McClatchy Newspapers
"Weak U.S. legal oversight puts burden on compliance pros to protect their firms, author says."
Reuters, 9/4/12
"A must read if you're interested in the corrupting influence of lobbyists, the revolving door between Wall Street and those that govern and regulate the financial services industry, and how huge, and ultimately untraceable, amounts of money grease the wheels of government at every step."
Francine McKenna, Forbes.com
"Mr. Connaughton is a fascinating witness and raconteur because he has been through the revolving door several times: in between work in the Senate and the Clinton White House, he spent 12 years in one of Washington's top lobbying firms. This author has really lived in and understood the Wall Street-Washington corridor. The book is partly about his education and ultimate disappointment, most of all with the Obama administration but definitely with both parties."
Simon Johnson, NYT.com Economix blog
"This is the most honest book I've read about Washington in years it really tells it like it is."
Andrew Cockburn, Co-Producer, American Casino
"Kaufman's chief of staff at the time, Jeff Connaughton, was even more scathing toward the Obama Administration. Attorney General Eric Holder, he noted, 'said in his swearing-in that he would make it a priority. We thought we were making sure that they were doing the right thing, and they said all the right things in hearings, and nothing happened. I feel gamed by it."
George Packer, The New Yorker
"It is in fact one of the best books on how corporate criminals manipulate the system to get away with their crimes."
Editor, Corporate Crime Reporter
"Jeff is one of the smartest guys on the Hill and is particularly strong on issues surrounding Wall Street and the regulatory system . . . he takes apart the oft-stated mantra that what Wall Street firms did during and after the crisis was maybe unethical, but not illegal."
Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com, December 20, 2011
"For a compelling account of how the financial lobby works, both in general and in this instance, look for a forthcoming book by Jeff Connaughton."
Simon Johnson, co-author of WHITE HOUSE BURNING,
the New York Times "Economix," May 10, 2012
"[T]here is a new powerful voice who knows how big banks really work and who is willing to tell the truth in great and convincing detail. Jeff Connaughton - a former senior political adviser who has worked both for and against powerful Wall Street interests over the years -- has just published a page-turning memoir that is also a damning critique of how Wall Street operates, the political capture of Washington, and our collective failure to reform finance in the past four years. The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins, is the perfect antidote to disinformation put about by global megabanks and their friends."
-- Simon Johnson, "One Man Against the Wall Street Lobby," Huffington Post, 8/25/12
"It is in fact one of the best books on how corporate criminals manipulate the system to get away with their crimes."
-- Editor, "Payoff in the Pit of Plutocracy," Corporate Crime Reporter, 8/23/12.


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Ah, the sweet tooth. Sometimes we get a serious hankering to mix up light and airy fresh desserts just because, or when we're gearing up for a dinner party. We created this recipe to illuminate some of our favorite springtime flavors: lemon curd and blueberries with a hint of sweet-meets-tart with a crunchy crust. It's a simple dessert to create but looks entirely adorable and is just as tasty as it looks!
Some days just call for a delectable little treat like this, a good book and a closed laptop.
6 pre-made graham cracker tart shells || 12 oz. lemon curd {store bought or homemade} || 8 oz. fresh whipped cream || 1 cup blueberries || 3 Tbs. sugar
Fill empty graham cracker shells until they're overflowing with lemon curd, about 2 oz. in each, give or take.
Whip the cream with an electric mixer and 1 Tbs. sugar {more or less if you like}. Place whipping cream into a piping bag and use a small star tip {or whatever you prefer} and pipe whipping cream onto the center of the tart.
Place the blueberries and 2 Tbs. sugar in a saucepan and cook on medium-low heat for about 5 minutes, stirring gently until they're softened. Strain in a colander to remove excess juices. Let cool and strain again. Place the blueberries around the tart in a ring and tadah! You've got a tasty little dessert that's flavorful and quite easy to make. Cute, too!
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Did the judges just see the same dance I did?!?
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Did the judges just see the same dance I did?!?
That's just way more of Nancy Grace's legs than I cared to see.
On other costume notes, what was with the bodice on Ricki's dress and what is on CA's arm? It looks like she shoved her wrist through a pigeon.
It's really too bad Rob drew "Man Eater." That song has Nancy written all over it.
Hated her comment about how she had a full-time job. What the heck does she think Tristan has? Has she noticed that in addition to dragging her butt around the dance floor for seven hours a day, he also has to practice pro numbers?
For some reason, I think the show wants to keep her around, hence why they revealed she was in the bottom 2 last week. I don't know what she brings, or what they think is the draw. Sometimes I think the producers see things their way and figure people will just go along with it or think the way they do. I don't know why Len is so fond of her. Every since week 2 when she did her quickstep in hold. It's that time in the season where the judges play nice with everyone. I guess it's one more reason to justify why the judges need a shake up.
No, it's just the judges. They're trying to keep everyone closer together. Why, I don't know, unless they don't want to take responsibility for anyone going home. Realistically, Nancy ought to be going home. That wasn't a good tango, and we know perfectly well, after her jive last week, that the possibility that she manages a jive in twenty minutes is slim to none.
I think it's more that the show knows her rabid fanbase is always going to be there for her because of the way she whores herself for votes on her own show, so they have the judges overscore her to have the results pretend to make sense when she doesn't go home each week.
What irritates me about the judges is when they score people lower/higher than they deserve, overpraise/criticize a couple, then turn around and are baffled when a seemingly better dancer gets voted off the following night over a clunker...despite them attacking the better dancer and spreading sunshine to the hoofer. I guess it's a ratings tactic to keep people talking, watching, and outraged over bad dancers sticking around. Never seen the appeal with having people with zero dancing ability.
Oh, that was so beautiful!
If THAT doesn't get a 30, the judges ARE deliberately and openly screwing JR and Karina, and EVERYBODY will know it, 'cause THEY put it OUT there!!


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Cute card! I remember seeing old postcards that people had drawn arrows on, indicating their house or their neighborhood.


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The perfect gift for your female partner over 50 cannot be found in jewelry or clothing stores. You have likely bought her enough sweaters and jewels to last 50 lifetimes -- and much of the stuff has never come out of safes and drawers. What aging women want most money cannot buy. What we want most is to be left the hell alone -- and to be loved.
Whether you're married or single, straight or gay, by nature men are competitive. With this in mind, it's always a good idea to know what women want because after all, they make great allies, and we can truly benefit from another point of view. In my survey of more than 20 women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s, I was surprised to find that the focus was greater on manners, grooming and tailoring, than fashion and trends.


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Acheron Lisp User Manual
Acheron is a compiler that translates Common Lisp source code to JavaScript source code.
The so compiled code can than be executed natively in any modern webbrowser. Because
the Common Lisp language is quiet large, the compiler supports only a subset of the
Common Lisp standard 1.
This subset is called Acheron Lisp. Additionally to the supported subset of Common Lisp
language elements, Acheron Lisp also supports native JavaScript functions that can be defined by the user.
This type of functions serve as the bridges between Lisp and JavaScript.
Please have a look at the chapters that describe the most important features of the
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Note for Joyce
Today is Joyce's day to post a blog, but due to a power outage she can not presently do so. So many are facing weather events right now and Joyce and her family as well as others who are having such difficulties are in our thoughts and in our prayers.
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- Jeanette Levellie said...
I am praying...
- December 10, 2009 at 12:41 PM
- Carrie Turansky said...
Hope the weather calms down and the power is back on soon! I will pray for you all. Stay warm!
Carrie - December 10, 2009 at 1:40 PM
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What a winter! It was 17 degrees in Tennessee this morning!
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I will pray for you all. Stay warm!
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South Africa: Woman Tied up, Set On Fire And Killed Over Satanic Ritual
As Halloween draws close, news reports of satanic rituals are making global headlines and in what police suspect was a religious satanic procession, an 18-year-old girl was burned alive in South Africa's Johannesburg park last weekend.
Kirsty Theologo, 18, and her 16-year-old friend named only as Bronwyn, were attacked at a remote beauty spot in the Linmeyer suburb of Johannesburg.
Police say Kirsty has died as the poor teen was set ablaze in a satanic ritual. The death of Kirsty occurred on Friday while at a hospital, after suffering 75 per cent burns to her upper body, while Bronwyn was under medical supervision at a private clinic.
Kirsty, Bronwyn and at least six others reportedly gathered at a swimming pool in a suburban area behind some rocks. During the incident, the two girls were doused in petrol by the other group members after being tied up. Later, someone threw a match at the helpless girls; to set them on fire.
According to brief but shocking details of the tragic incident, at least four young men were charged for their involvement in Kirsty's death and now they face murder charges. Initially, the youngsters faced attempted murder charges but after Kirsty's death one week after she was set ablaze; the charges against them will be changed, said spokeswoman Lorraine Van Emerik.
The force spokeswoman added: "Since the incident, we have been informed by members of the community that the attack could have been linked to some sort of satanic ritual. It is too soon to be able to confirm or rule this out but it remains an active line of enquiry. We are investigating these claims to establish what substance they have.
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- 1 Before you read
- 2 About CMYK color model
- 3 About ICC color profiles
- 4 About CMYK color and Gimp
- 5 Getting the software
- 6 Separating a RGB image
- 7 Working on a separated image
- 8 Soft-proofing with Display Filters
- 9 Soft-proofing with Separate's proof function
- 10 Soft-proofing with Separate+'s proof function
- 11 What RGB profile to use for images?
- 12 Resources
Before you read
Before you install the Separate or Separate+ plug-in for Gimp, you need to know if you really need it.
There has been much debate about the merits of using Gimp. Most of the heated discussions revolve around the fact that Gimp does not support CMYK mode. However, you have to understand that the topic is more important to DTP professionals than other users (photographers, web artists, home users).
CMYK color model (or CMYK mode) is used mostly by DTP professionals that need to output images intended for commercial printing. For an average home user or even professional photographers, support for separating images using CMYK color is not necessary.
Even when you see Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black cartridges in your ink-jet or color laser printer, it doesn't mean that you need to feed it a CMYK file. In fact, most of them actually accept only RGB images.
What you will need
You will need Gimp (of course), either Separate or Separate+ plugins, and ICC profiles. All of this can be installed from AUR.
About CMYK color model
If you are not interested in the theory, you may skip straight to the heading on CMYK color support in The GIMP.
First off, the proper name for CMYK mode, as it is commonly known, is CMYK color model. It is called a color model, because it represents a standard way of describing colors.
The color model is also called a subtractive color model, as opposed to additive (that is RGB) color model. Words additive and subtractive suggest that light, which is essential for perception of color, is either added or subtracted before it reaches the eye. The choice of primary colors is based on belief that the combination of Red, Green, and Blue (for RGB) or Cyan, Magenta, Yellow (for CMYK) produce the greatest range visible colors.
Subtraction of light occurs when an ink absorbs part of the light that falls on it. The rest is reflected and reaches our eyes. Different inks absorb different parts of the light's spectrum, and the combination of C-M-Y inks yields the greatest range of different colors.
Ideally, subtraction of all light, that is when Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow are mixed together at their full density, we should get black (i.e., no light reflected, fully absorbed by ink). However, this is usually not true in the real world because the inks are semi-transparent and the white paper below reflects some of the light. The use of additional Black ink in printing (K in CMYK stands for Key, or blacK) is due to this fact. It adds the necessary density to the image and makes black a black.
When printing an image on a commercial press, it needs to be printed one primary (or Black) at a time. Therefore the original (usually a digital RGB image, or a printed photograph) needs to be separated into Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black components.
The lack of support for this kind of separation made Gimp unattractive to DTP professionals.
About ICC color profiles
Since reproduction of both RGB and CMYK colors are specific to the device (or inks) used to produce images, a concept of color-spaces was invented. Color-spaces formulate the relationship of physical color and the color model that we use to describe them. Those relationships (functions) can be packaged as a file in the form of ICC profiles.
The ICC profiles are used to describe the way colors are reproduced in a system, be it a monitor, a scanner, or a printing press. When separating images for press, we use the source profile (the color-space of the image to be separated) and the target profile (the color-space of the printing press the image is intended for).
About CMYK color and Gimp
Gimp still lacks full CMYK color model support. The ability to separate and then edit an image in CMYK mode is still a long way down the list of features to be added (if on the list at all). However, there is a plug-in called Separate that offers a partial solution to the problem.
Separate plugin has following abilities:
- separate a RGB image
- color management (using ICC profiles and lcms)
- soft-proofing colors
- attach ICC profiles to separated image files
Separate+ plug-in has the same features as Separate, but it also has:
- ability to convert from one RGB profile to another
- duotone support
Gimp itself offers a smaller set of CMYK-related functions:
- display of CMYK values when using color picker
- soft-proofing colors via Display Filters (not recommended)
- soft-proofing colors via color management settings
Getting the software
Separate plug-in for Gimp
Installing using AUR
Get the gimp-plugin-separate package from AUR and install it using makepkg.
Installing Separate manually
Once you have obtained the source tarball, you can unpack it using the usual tar command:
tar xvf separate-VERSION.tar.gz
where VERSION would be the version of Separate plug-in (0.1 at the time of this writing).
Copy a file called separate (located inside the extracted separate directory) into Gimp's plug-in directory:
cp separate/separate /usr/lib/gimp/GIMPVERSION/plug-ins/
where GIMPVERSION would be the major version number of Gimp (2.0 at the time of this writing).
When you start Gimp the Separate will be recognized and reachable through Image > Separate menu.
Separate+ plug-in
Installing using AUR
Grab the gimp-plugin-separate+ package and install it using makepkg.
Installing manually
To install manually, get the zip file from Sourceforge.jp download page, unpack it and issue the following commands:
make sudo make install
If you don't have sudo on your system, you can build like this:
make su # Enter root password make install
When you start Gimp the Separate+ will be reachable through Image > Separate menu.
Install ICC profiles
If you are using the Separate plug-in package from AUR, you already have the profiles installed. However, if you built Separate yourself, or you are using Separate+, you will need to install ICC profiles.
Installing from AUR
To install ICC profiles from AUR, you need to get eci-icc and/or adobe-icc packages (and optionally srgb-icc package) and install them with makepkg.
Install manually
Before you download and install profiles manually, you need to know that the standard location for ICC profiles is /usr/share/color/icc. You have to create this directory and copy any profiles there. Another standard location is ~/.color/icc.
You can obtain ICC profiles from Adobe and ECI.
Extract the downloaded zip file(s) and copy the contents of CMYK and RGB directories into one of the directories we have mentioned above.
Separating a RGB image
Open an image in Gimp. From the Image menu, open the Separate sub-menu and pick Separate (to Colour).
Choose a source (RGB) and destination (target, CMYK) profile and click OK.
This will open another window with the CMYK color version. You can see that there are 5 layers total.
Pick Save... (or Export... in Separate+) from the Separate sub-menu and save the file in TIFF format with an attached (embedded) ICC profile.
You can only separate flattened images, so it is recommended that you save a new copy of the image before you create the CMYK TIFF.
Working on a separated image
If you want to work on a separated image you need to be intimately familiar with the way CMYK images work. If you look at Gimp's Layers window after separating an image, you will witness the ingenious way in which the separation is done. However, editing the image is not as simple as with commercial software like Adobe's Photoshop.
Basically, you need to work with grayscale values of each primary color (plus Black). All the tools are available, but you only get apply them layer by layer and in grayscale.
Soft-proofing with Display Filters
Given the circumstances, the best way to create a solid CMYK image would be to work in RGB mode, but enable soft-proofing. Soft-proofing is the method of adjusting the on-screen display of colors to match the final print. In the newer versions of The GIMP, soft-proofing is made possible via Display Filters.
Go to the View menu and pick Display Filters... option. From the list of available filters, pick Color Proof (at the bottom in The GIMP version 2.2.13). Click on the right arrow button between the two lists and the Color Proof filter will be placed into the list of active filters. Click on it (the one in the active filters list) and you will get a few options below.
Although this seems very convenient, experience has proven that this is not a reliable method of soft-proofing. Instead of soft-proofing using the display filter, you are advised to properly configure Gimp's color management system and enable the Print simulation mode.
The color proof (rendering) intent can be one of the following:
- perceptual
- relative colorimetric
- saturation
- absolute colorimetric
Perceptual and relative colorimetric are most common.
Perceptual compresses or expands the full color range of source color-space into the full color range of target color-space.
Relative colorimetric intent adjusts the white (white point) of source space and then adjusts the rest of the source colors accordingly. Source colors outside the target space are mapped to closest reproducible colors. In some software, this is also called proof intent.
Saturation intent keeps the saturation of the source colors even if the colors get distorted in the target space. This intent is still considered experimental and you may get unexpected (if not undesirable) results.
Absolute colorimetric leaves overlap of source and target space intact and maps source colors outside the target space are mapped to closest reproducible colors.
For color proofing, we usually use the profile of the device that image is to be printed on. For testing purposes, you may use any of the Adobe profiles mentioned aobve.
Soft-proofing with Separate's proof function
Separate itself offers a way of soft-proofing color. This method of soft-proofing is not dynamic: it does not update as you edit the image, but acts more like a one-time preview. However, it is far more accurate than The GIMP's soft-proofing using Color Proof display filter. Basically, the proof function converts the image to RGB space using absolute colorimetric intent. It is supposed to offer a side-by-side match to the printed copy.
To soft-proof with Separate's proof function, you first separate an image and then pick Proof from Separate sub-menu. Source profile is your minitor's RGB profile (you can use lprof to profile your monitor and create an ICC profile). The destination profile is the ICC profile of a your image will be output to.
Click OK and you will be presented with an RGB image of how the printed image would look like.
Soft-proofing with Separate+'s proof function
Separate+ acts the same way as Separate.
What RGB profile to use for images?
Although Adobe RGB is a common profile, sRGB profiles (especially the new v4 version also available in the AUR) is also used often.
Here are some links that you may find interesting:
- About CMYK color model (Wikipedia)
- About color in general (Wikipedia)
- International Color Consortium (ICC home page)
- A completely different view on image processing (Accurate Image Manipulation)
- About color management (Wikipedia)
- Introduction to ICC color profile format (ICC home page)
- Gimp Color Management for DTP (Foxbunny's Journal)
- Color Management: Color Space Conversion (Cambridge in Color)


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Unlike relatively straightforward consumer purchases, the business-to-business buying cycle is often drawn out and complex. And from the seller's side, the process is costly and labor-intensive.
Even with inroads made via resource-rich Websites, B2B selling isn't getting any simpler. Organizational purchasing decisions involved an average of 3.5 more people in 2005 than were engaged in the same process in 2001. Further, analysts estimate closing a B2B sale takes 20 percent longer than just a few years ago.
And yet, a study last year by the Industrial Performance Group indicated sales teams spend most of their time (62 percent) on "non-revenue-generating" activities and just 38 percent of their time selling. Why? Well, one major reason is the oft-written-about disconnect between sales and marketing that exists in many companies.
Marketing is busy creating materials and programs to create leads for sales, but all too often those materials and tactics aren't focused on producing qualified leads—that is, qualified according to the sales staff. According to a national survey of 2,700 B2B sales executives:
• Up to 57 percent of marketing collateral is never used.
• As much as 80 percent of leads are ignored by sales as a matter of course.
• Sales regard 80 percent of marketing expenditures for lead generation and sales collateral as irrelevant.
In addition, the metrics for judging marketing lead generation are often based on quantity, not quality.
In a challenging economy, this kind of poor internal alignment could be all it takes to get a marketing program, agency contract, or entire marketing department shut down "for economic reasons." To survive corporate belt tightening, marketing needs to cooperate with sales to accurately align goals, strategies, tactics, and metrics.
Connecting Sales and Communications
In a perfect world, both sales and marketing are committed to closing sales—they just get there differently. Salespeople do so through one-on-one communications, while marketers use mass communications tactics. That's exactly the reason they are supposed to be working together. But it happens less than you think.
The efforts of one division are often discounted by the other. "Sales has no respect for what marketing accomplishes," writes Bill Babcock in "Truce! Ending the War Between Sales and Marketing." "They take leads grudgingly and when the leads turn into real opportunities they claim those opportunities were already on their radar."
That being said, both sales and marketing need to agree on their respective roles to achieve the ying/yang balance needed for an efficient process. Good marketing helps generate inquiries, build awareness and credibility, build relationships, and get the company on the short list, while a good sales team closes deals.
"Brand can create awareness, expectations, and even intention-but it doesn't close the sale," writes consultant Ron Shevlin in his book "Everything They've Told You About Marketing Is Wrong." "Something (or things) else does that. Which means you can't calculate the ROI of brand.
"With carefully designed and executed tests, perhaps you could measure the contribution to sales that branding investments make, but few (if any) firms seem willing to take that route."
The "something else" Shevlin refers to is your sales team, and what sales does best is close deals. According to sales consultant John Neeson, the national average for closing sales is just under 27 percent. Average, of course, means some companies are closing more than 50 percent while others are closing almost none.
The way to move your company into the 50 percent group is by implementing a sales-centric marketing methodology, one that can help B2B companies increase sales by 15 percent or more.
Assuming you've got a well-trained sales force, closing more deals is strictly a matter of improving lead quality and volume. Reaching prospects at every step with the right message, in the right medium, will nurture them through the pre-buying stages until they are ready to make a purchase. At this point, they become qualified leads that are easier to close.
The best way to achieve those improvements is through a collaborative effort. But go into the process with realistic expectations. Changing a cornerstone business process is painful and, typically, slow growth. Everyone involved needs to clearly understand what's in it for them.
So Happy Together
A marketing communications agency can be the unbiased third party to bring sales and marketing together into a healthy, mutually beneficial relationship. As objective consultants, an agency can help sales and marketing look beyond their respective agendas.
The agency first conducts separate in-depth interviews with all of the client's internal stakeholders. The information is then vetted, eliminating anything that's non-essential to the goal of increased sales. Strategic counseling helps clarify how the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, and will help each group exceed its goals.
But even with a management mandate and agency input, collaboration between internal entities is often a challenge to execute. Agencies help marketers adhere to the following guidelines:
Start speaking the same language. It may sound silly to some, but in many organizations the language of marketing and sales are like Spanish and Portuguese. They sound vaguely the same and have some commonalities, but they're actually nothing alike.
Your agency consultant will make sure you identify and clearly state your unique selling proposition. They will also help you define and differentiate "qualified lead" and "sales-ready lead" based on agreed criteria, using BANT (budget, authority, need, and timeframe) as a starting point for identifying leads.
Set the bar. Goal setting requires three separate but interconnected sets of goals—sales, marketing, and corporate—that all need to be mutually agreed upon. Using metrics that matter to the CEO and CFO will ensure the goals are backed by the people in the C-suite.
Establishing goals, however, must be based on an analysis of prior performance. You need to know where you are to figure out where you need to go. If you don't have any data on which to do analysis, then collecting data needs to be one of the goals.
Some goals will be financial, others will be performance based. For example, marketing should have a target not just for new leads generated, but for converting a percentage of those leads to sales-ready status, which is a far more valuable metric.
What percentage of sales-ready leads should marketing be accountable for delivering? That varies by industry, but the B2B average is approximately 30 percent. The remainder typically comes from repeat business and a small number of anonymous (non-defined) sources.
Getting through this step can be particularly difficult for companies that employ "creative" consumer agencies for their marketing communications. Many large agencies want to be judged by their creativity, not their sales success. They're focused on winning awards and generating water cooler buzz.
Make sure your agency is committed to your success rather than their own. A good way to do this is to let them know their performance will be judged by your sales results.
Say all the right things. For business buyers, the purchasing decision is a process, and price isn't always the most important factor. Your agency consultant will help sales and marketing work together on primary and secondary research to determine which messages are most appropriate for each stage of customer engagement, as well as the best delivery method(s). Means and messages for early-stage education, for example, are vastly different from late-cycle nurturing.
One reason for the abysmal ratings for collateral cited earlier is the ongoing notion one size fits all. Companies want to create a single brochure or individual ad to reach all their targets. Certainly budgets are key drivers here; all the more reason to create an integrated campaign that employs Web-based tools and tactics.
Although the glossy printed brochure has its place in sales, it's just no longer the only tool in the arsenal. Integrating personalized Web-based messaging is cost effective and flexible. It also offers more detailed consumer habit data than traditional tools.
Segmenting public relations messages is also essential. With expanding resources at their disposal, journalists seek information that speaks specifically to their audiences. Broadcast press releases have simply lost their effectiveness. An agency that is attuned to your media marketplace and best practices will know how to effectively navigate the sea change that's going on in news reporting and information distribution.
Fill the cracks. Good leads are too hard to come by to allow them to slip through the cracks, yet B2B companies typically lose or ignore 75 percent of the leads they generate. A closed-loop lead lifecycle is the only way to keep leads out of the cracks. The two danger areas are the handoff between marketing and sales, and the lead that isn't closed by sales.
The handoff is dangerous because for many companies it isn't so much a handoff as it is a blind heave over the cubicle wall (figuratively speaking). Your marcom agency will help you establish a process for handoffs, as well as documentation to support them. A lead incoming to sales should have its own history: How, when, and where did initial contact take place? What offers has the prospect responded to? What is their Web interaction, clickthrough pattern, and return rate?
Once received, sales must document where it went, the action taken, and results. Any lead not contacted or not closed should be cycled back to marketing for further nurturing.
Judge and be Judged. Maybe the most overlooked aspect of any program is analysis and modification. Establish a schedule for separate and joint reviews and valuation against metrics at the beginning of your process, right when you set your goals. Doing so commits everyone to taking part. And don't forget to include interim reviews for fine-tuning.
All Together Now
While B2B companies tend to follow well-defined buying cycles, numerous decision-makers are involved and the process is complex. When a B2B company targets prospective customers with a sales-centric marketing approach, it gains a better understanding of those customers—their attitudes, fears, preferences, and expectations. A company can expect an increase in sales productivity when it makes its marketing and sales departments equally responsible for the bottom line.
Rich Carango is vice president of creative services for Schubert Communications, a Philadelphia-based advertising and PR agency.


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