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But the accomplishments this group has managed to achieve in a very short time are manifold.
My first son was about to be born, and I was terrified that my manifold inadequacies as a man would sabotage my success as a dad.
manifold the wonders," said Sophocles, "nothing towers more wondrous than man!
Tributes to Barzun, who authored a massive shelf full of books from 1932-2004, will and have been manifold.
First, the Texas governor will have to explain away the manifold gaffes and failures from his last presidential campaign.
Not thus had the French spoken, with the giving of manifold presents.
The advantages are manifold, when compared with mere correspondence.
But the penalties of giving are manifold, and he now felt a novel glow of sheer beneficence.
Since all these manifold things could have occurred, we have every right to believe they did occur.
The uses of ammonia are manifold, and nearly our whole supply of this valuable substance is now derived from gas-liquor.
Old English monigfald (Anglian), manigfeald (West Saxon), "various, varied in appearance, complicated; numerous, abundant," from manig (see many) + -feald (see -fold). A common Germanic compound (cf. Old Frisian manichfald, Middle Dutch menichvout, German mannigfalt, Swedish mångfalt, Gothic managfalþs), perhaps a loan-translation of Latin multiplex (see multiply). Retains the original pronunciation of many. Old English also had a verbal form, manigfealdian "to multiply, abound, increase, extend."
Old English manigfealdlic "in various ways, manifoldly," from the source of manifold (adj.).
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"The Scattered Italians", is an impressively deep and revealing book, filled with the gusto and a love of life which permeates the core issues of discovering one's roots and thus one's true identity. This nonfiction book interlaces historical factors with behavioral characteristics leading to conclusions and answers affecting over 25 million Italian-Americans and potentially many other hyphenated citizens of the world.
The story is presented in the author's delightful and often witty style allowing for a pleasant, informative and entertaining read. The literary visits with some of the giants of history, along with personal anecdotes, mix to provide a fascinating story on a very humane stage for all to see and enjoy.
Our literary voyage, which takes place over two millennia, is aimed at arriving at conclusions that will go far in explaining who we are as scattered Italians, and why we act out life's drama as we do. We will be in the company of some of the titans of history, along with the beloved people of the Gambino and Sparacino families, to whom I belong. We shall experience firsthand how we overcame fate's erratic and perverse inconsistencies, which culminated in an extraordinary cultural and historical upheaval; the forced migration of the Italian people.
During the latter period of the 1800s through to the early 1900s, Italy was set upon by enormous catastrophes that were the result of mankind's folly. The outcome affected an entire nation, as well as the world at large, causing a Diaspora, or a scattering abroad of the Italian people and their descendants. Few were fortunate enough to return to reclaim the resulting lost identity and citizenship. Our story touches all of us, for we all seek, at one time or another, our true persona during life's journey.
We in the West are the recipients of a common civilization, much of it bequeathed to us by Italy. Think of it; many of the laws we live by, much of the music, art, poetry and food we enjoy, myriad scientific achievements, and many of the languages we speak originated from this divine peninsula surrounded by the azure Mediterranean Sea. The Roman Empire, as well as the consequences of the Renaissance, continues to define our common inheritance and influence our daily lives. Consider that a large percentage of the English language, the present lingua franca, originated from Latin, our great mother tongue.* Our people discovered the Americas!
Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolo Machiavelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Fra Angelico, Giuseppe Verdi, Gioacchino Rossini, Antonio Vivaldi, Arturo Toscanini, Galileo Galilei, Alessandro Volta, Gugliermo Marconi, Enrico Fermi, Marco Polo, Cristofero Colombo, and Amerigo Vespucci were but a few of the great Italian personalities of literature, art, science, and discovery. It is my firm belief that without Italy and the Italians, the world would surely have remained dark, cold, unknown, and uncivilized.
I am truly challenged by the task of recounting this tale objectively, as I am Italian, and therefore I confess that I am particularly subject to Italy's many charms.

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5 videogame songs good enough to put on your mp3 player
Great soundtracks can elevate a good game to greatness and the very best games of all time have memorable music that is etched into the memories of gamers forever. Some songs are so good though that they transcend the game themselves and find their way onto our MP3's players and personal play lists. These songs are more than just background soundtracks, they are artistic accomplishments in their own right.
Now musical taste is thoroughly subjective and your top 5 game songs will be completely different from mine. Don't be upset if I miss your favourite. Instead, simply tell us about it in the comments below!
5. Still Alive – Jonathan Coulton
I couldn't leave this one off the list without being lynched. Coulton has a great catalogue of funny songs full of geek references and this is one of the best. Coming at the end of Portal, this song is one of the reasons that people remember the ending of that game to be one of the best of all time. Personally, I listen to Re: Your brains more often, but this still never fails to make me chuckle when I hear it.
4. Space Assholes – Idle Thumbs
Inspired by the mediocre Red Faction, this is another funny, folky number. The accompanying video makes it even funnier, but I can still happily sing along to it on the way to work in the morning. The irony of a supposed hero ruining peoples lives by recklessly smashing buildings is a great juxtaposition with the supposed heroism of the main character. Great music and irony in one!
3. Deadman's Gun – Red Dead Redemption
I'm not going to talk about the end of this game because its one of the best you can experience in video games. I didn't love the game, but I did love the soundtrack and Deadman's Gun comes in at the perfect time. The audio was a high point in Red Dead and most of songs featured are constructed from stems in the game's dynamic soundtrack. This made the gorgeous Deadman's Gun remind you of every moment you played of the game while also being a great song in its own right.
2. Xenon 2 Megablast – Bomb Da Bass
I should warn you, its all going to go a bit early-nineties now. When Xenon 2 featured a song written by a real world DJ, there was the tiniest glimmer of a chance that the games industry could be cool and relevant. It was a long time before Sony would arrive with the PSone and blow us away with the Prodigy in WipEout, so any reference to popular culture in videogames was a big deal. This was still a world of geeks in their bedrooms and playing games was absolutely not cool. I don't know if you could enjoy this without the nostlagia factor, but if you remember this from the first time round then get your glowsticks out and enjoy!
1. Akira Yamaoka – Promise/Theme of Laura
I don't know what to say about this guy. He created the greatest game soundtrack of all time. Even though theres lots to like about Silent Hill, about 90% of what I really love about it is the music. These are two of not just my favourite game songs, but my favourite songs period. Stop reading this and listen to it in context, in the intro for one of the greatest games ever made!
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Hello, this weekend is good for me, because this occasion i am reading this wonderful informative paragraph here at my home.
This is a pretty solid run down of some of my favourite games from the past 25 years – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIPjuJm5m-w (although it is missing a few).
I'm only 26 by the way.
Space Asshole was great, I've never heard it before. Was it made for the game, like the rest on the list? Or just inspired by the game? Because if you also include game inspired songs then this one – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULbZUoPN5BU is my favourite.
I reckon I might have:
Fallout 2 – Louis Armstrong – Kiss to build a dream on
Nine Inch Nails Quake Theme
Final Fantasy VII main theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFTQlMGN5Ag&feature=relatedI'm sure there are other I love but not off the top of my head at the moment!


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March 20th, 2013, 11:57 am by By JEFF COLLINSThe number of homes for sale in Orange County last week fell to their second-lowest level in numbers dating back nearly nine years, Steve Thomas of ReportsOnHousing reported this week.
As of March 14, 3,183 Orange County homes were listed for sale in the Realtor-run Multiple Listing Service, or MLS. The only time in the period that listings were lower was on Jan. 3, when there were 22 fewer homes for sale.
A year earlier, Orange County had 7,000 homes for sale. The average in figures dating back to June 2004 is 10,000 listings.
Although the inventory "sits at an unprecedentedly low level," the local housing market shed 54 homes in the preceding two weeks and 89 in the previous month, Thomas said.
"The inventory is off to such an anemic start because the number of short sales and foreclosures coming on the market thus far this year has plummeted compared to 2012," Thomas said.
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US drone attacks will continue against terrorists of Al Qaeda in Yemen, says intelligence chief
Sources : Agencies,09/01/2014
SANAA: Yemen's national security chief said on Tuesday that US drone strikes against Al-Qaeda targets will continue as the two governments keep up their counter-terrorism cooperation.
"The Yemeni-American cooperation, including the use of friendly aircraft, will continue," Ali Hassan al-Ahmadi told reporters in Sanaa.
"Yemen is one of the countries that joined the international alliance to combat terrorism after the September 11," 2001 attacks on the United States, he said.
Washington has been stepping up its support for Yemen's battle against militants of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP),
which it regards as the most active and deadliest franchise of the global jihadist network.
US drone strikes in Yemen nearly tripled in 2012 compared to 2011, with 53 recorded against 18, according to the Washington-based think tank New America Foundation.
At least 14 Al-Qaeda suspects have been killed in Yemen since December 24, when attacks by the unmanned aircraft on targets in Al-Bayda and the eastern Hadramawt province were stepped up.
AQAP took advantage of the weakness of Yemen's central government during an uprising in 2011 against now ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh, seizing large swathes of territory across the south.
But after a month-long offensive launched in May last year by Yemeni troops, most militants fled to the more lawless desert regions of the east.
According to Ahmadi, "terrorist elements of around 13 nationalities took part in killing Yemenis during the past period and have destroyed Abyan province, especially (its capital) Zinjibar which was completely destroyed."
Around 170,000 people fled Abyan after the militants seized much of the province, he added.
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text: Miyamoto Confirms New Mario, Zelda, Pikmin ProjectsLeigh Alexander7/25/08 7:40pmFiled to: NintendoWiiMarioZeldaPikminMiyamoto167EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkRelax. Nintendo has not forgotten you. Making new titles for the traditional fanbase just takes time, says Shigeru Miyamoto, speaking to the Telegraph recently in an interview. Said Miyamoto: Advertisement"Making these 'traditional' games is what I am best at. Because games of that nature take upwards of two or three years to make, we always have to keep the teams working on those projects going. At any given time, the team could be five to ten people, or it could be 50-plus. People are always switching in and out of those teams."They are all working on more Mario, Zelda and Pikmin projects," he said. "And they all work in close proximity to me, so I can keep a good eye on them." Could it be that all this time, Nintendo has been quietly working on traditional Nintendo titles? That in fact, they've been working all along on their core franchises? Shigeru Miyamoto: The man behind the Nintendo Wii [Telegraph]Reply167 repliesLeave a reply


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If you've got some spare time on your hands, a fun internet rabbit hole to fall down is the YouTube channel of Mario Wienerroither, who creates Musicless Musicvideos. This ingenious web user does … pretty much what the name implies: Removes the music from music videos.
The results are hilarious and sometimes terrifying, as is the case with the latest viral video from the user, David Bowie and Mick Jagger's 1985 cover of Martha and the Vandellas' classic "Dancing in the Street."
The music video is scary enough with music, but without music it's like Bowie and Jagger did some drugs and just acted crazy for 60 seconds — though, come to think of it, that's probably what they did do to make this music video.
Other faves from Mr. Wienerroither include Michael Jackson's "The Way You Make Me Feel" and Jamiroquai's "Virtual Insanity." You should definitely check them out.


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It sounds like you are a MSWindows promoter and are trying to alter Perl's development to suit Windows by taking away all the useful Unix tools ... how is that being cross-platform? Why should Unix/Linux developers give a damn about Window's problems? No, I am NOT a MSWindows promoter! However in many cases I have been forced to use Windows and I am mainly a user of it. I want, as you, Perl to be cross-platform and I do not want to remove any thing! Not all modules need to be portable between the different implementations of Perl. However I want it to be easy to develop a portable module. If you want to write portable code you need to consider the limitations of the Perl implementation in all the intended target systems. The current Perl documentation gives very little support to avoid non portable constructs. But even with good documentation many non portable function will been used by mistake. This is one of the reasons for my sometimes non realistic proposals. When I started to use Strawberry Perl http://strawberryperl.com/ I got the possibility to install modules from CPAN. I was a big improvement for me. The downside was the difficulties to know which module can be used in Windows. The Windows operating system seems to have less good resistance for programming errors. Installing some CPAN modules degenerate the Windows system and it has to be repaired. This is especially a problem running smoke test on Windows. The fact that your system can be harmed by installing Perl modules, can and probably will, give Perl bad reputation. So I believe Unix/Linux developers should give a damn about Window's problems at least when developing portable modules. In reply to Re^2: Threads and signals in Windows
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Spouses can be inadvertent enablers. You might push dinner back several hours each night, keep your children up late to snatch a few remaining minutes or even delay family plans to include the workaholic. But all those things only encourage the addiction. Break the cycle by sticking to a normal schedule–make workaholics think about what they're missing.


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Cape Town's St George's Cathedral, a rallying point for civil rights action during apartheid, was the site of the public launch on Tuesday of a mass campaign aimed at stopping a secrecy bill seen as a major threat to South Africans' hard-won freedom.
An ad-hoc committee of parliament in Cape Town is now considering the Protection of Information Bill. Campaigners have dubbed the proposed legislation the "Secrecy Bill" because it would allow government officials wide discretion to classify information deemed "in the national interest." If it became law in its current form, investigative journalists such as me could be prosecuted and face a prison sentence of up to 25 years for reporting on government information. Opposition to the bill and legitimate concerns about the erosions of South Africans' constitutional rights have energized media and civil society groups in recent weeks, and galvanized a grassroots campaign called the Right2Know.
"We accept the need to replace apartheid-era secrecy legislation.
However, this bill extends the veil of secrecy in a manner reminiscent of that
same apartheid past," the Stop the Secrecy Bill statement says. To emphasize
this point, the campaign is planning a week of civil action to commence on
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Following the peaceful division of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, the Czech Republic has established a fine footballing reputation. Runners-up at EURO '96 and winners of the 2002 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, the country has produced excellent footballers who have played throughout Europe, representing the Czech people with distinction.
The Czech lands belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire when football arrived in the 19th century. The city of Prague embraced the sport and in 1892 its first club, SK Slavia Praha, was founded. Královské Vinohrady, or King's Vineyard, followed a year later, becoming AC Sparta Praha in 1894. Thus a great rivalry was born. The first capital derby came in 1896 and soon football was thriving. Thirteen clubs united in 1901 to form the Czech Football Association (now the Football Association of the Czech Republic – FAČR), which six years later gained FIFA membership.
Prague was one of the cities to rise against the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and 1918 witnessed the creation of the Czechoslovak Republic, a single state of two equal republics. Nothing changed for football, as Sparta – the first domestic champions in 1912 – and Slavia continued to dominate. An international competition for central European teams, the Mitropa Cup, was established in 1927 and Sparta were inaugural victors.
The strength of Czech football was evident. The national side reached the final of the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, succumbing 2-0 to Belgium, but did not participate in the first FIFA World Cup in Uruguay in 1930. However, they excelled at the 1934 tournament in Italy, losing the final 2-1 to the hosts after extra time. The world now recognised the skills of goalkeeper František Plánička, forward Antonín Puč and Oldřich Nejedlý, the World Cup's leading scorer.
After World War Two the communists introduced a new political order. On the pitch, army club FK Dukla Praha took control of the domestic game, with Slavia suffering as a result. Internationally, the Czechoslovaks presented a united front to come third at the 1960 UEFA European Championship. A golden generation headed by 1962 European Footballer of the Year, Josef Masopust, and featuring Svatopluk Pluskal, Ladislav Novák, Viliam Schrojf and Ján Popluhár, fared even better at the 1962 World Cup: only Brazil stopped them, 3-1 in the final in Chile.
In 1976 Czechoslovakia's flowing football was finally rewarded when they beat West Germany 5-3 on penalties to win the UEFA European Championship after a 2-2 draw in Belgrade. Ivo Viktor kept goal, Anton Ondruš and Ján Pivarník shone in defence, and a midfield trio of Jozef Móder, Karol Dobiaš and Antonín Panenka supplied strikers Zdeněk Nehoda and Marián Masný.
Although Czechoslovakia failed to retain their crown in 1980, finishing third, they promptly struck gold at the Moscow Olympics – exactly 16 years after claiming silver in Tokyo. Following the collapse of communism, Czechoslovakia ceased to exist and two independent states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, were born on 1 January 1993. Three years later the Czechs made the final of EURO '96, falling to Germany's golden goal at Wembley. Talents such as Karel Poborský, Vladimír Šmicer, Patrik Berger and Pavel Nedvěd duly moved abroad.
If the new state was a notable absentee from World Cups until 2006, any disappointment was tempered when the country's youngsters won the UEFA European U21 Championship in Switzerland in 2002. Several of that side, including goalkeeper Petr Čech and forward Milan Baroš, became stalwarts of the senior squad, who were semi-finalists at UEFA EURO 2004 and then World Cup debutants in Germany. Two key men subsequently departed the national-team scene: centre-forward Jan Koller, the Czech Republic's 55-goal record scorer, and midfielder Nedvěd, European Footballer of the Year in 2003.
Still, the production line goes on: witness the Czechs' silver medal at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada in 2007 and the country's fifth successive qualification for the UEFA European Championship, with Michal Bílek's team getting to the quarter-finals of the 2012 tournament held in Poland and Ukraine. That on-field prowess has been reflected in organisational terms with the FAČR awarded the staging of both the 2013 UEFA Super Cup, in Prague, and the 2015 UEFA European U21 Championship final round, in Olomouc, Prague and Uherske Hradiste.
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... happy meal, and sat down. Not five mins after we had finished we were approached by two teeneage girls who, can-you-believe-it, wanted to interview us for their English class. Being in okay spirits, we agreed, only to find out there were actually six of them, and they had an entire notebook of questions! We were patient, theu were friendly enough girls, but after the 10th photo each we told them politely that we needed to go. Although I see the point of an assignment ...
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... second thought when the baby went to go play with another baby with it's mother in the trees. This was not a typical Mina scenario. Moments later Iman heard another orang-utan coming from the other side of the pathway. He acted quickly and told us to walk at a fast pace further down the trail. Sure enough, Mina had come along and just missed her chance to cut us off. It was quite remarkable seeing her; her face portrayed frustration at the highest level as she sat on a branch approx. ...
Summary of Vietnam and Cambodia
... infuriating and informative. Both books will leave you questioning everything you know about the foreign affairs of the west and the Vietnam book in particular will leave you mind boggled by American evils. I have a copy of this book on PDF so if you'd like a copy I can send it over*. Anyone who enjoyed the TV show 'West wing' would love it.
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Jungle bells and city blues
... used again to the unconditioned, hot, humid and polluted air. A few notes that I made that night:
-Laying in bed, trying to have a rest, the fleas don't.
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-The towel looks, feels and smells like it is ready to eat someone.
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Adams hopes duo will be ready
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Port Vale boss Micky Adams says Ryan Burge and Ben Williamson will be fit for the first game of the season against Crawley.
Midfielder Burge has played a minimal role in Vale's pre-season preparations due to a knee injury, while forward Williamson has been sidelined by a hamstring problem since the squad returned from their North American tour last week.
Adams expects them both to play in a friendly against Biddulph Town on Tuesday.
He told The Sentinel: "Hopefully Ryan and Ben will be fit to get some time on the pitch on Tuesday.
"It has been frustrating for them to be missing from the last couple of friendlies, but I think everyone will be fit before the start of the season except Gareth Owen (Achilles)."


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Orabs District Champs, Advance To Substate Saturday
Date posted - February 19, 2013
Sheldon will meet Western Christian Saturday at the MOC Floyd Valley Gym in the substate game for a trip to the boys Class 2A Basketball Tournament.
The Orabs claimed the District 2 title Tuesday night with a 67-47 win over Spirit Lake in a final played at Spencer. The Wolfpack secured the District 1 title with a 60-53 win over Sioux Center in a game at LeMars. Tip off will be at 7pm Saturday night at Orange City.
Sheldon opened fast with a 21-9 first quarter lead behind a pair of three pointers from Matt Dykstra who would score 8 in the quarter including a 2-point put back as the quarter expired. Dallas Ennema scored 9 of his game high 32 in the first quarter. at the half Sheldon was in front 36-25 as Ennema pumped in 9 more. At the end of the third quarter the lead was 54-37 with Sheldon going on to win 67-47.
Ennema's 32 point effort included 8 two-point field goal, 3 three-point field goals and a 7-of-7 performance at the line. Dykstra ended up with 14 on the night including 4 three-point buckets. James Gradert hit for 14 as well scoring 5 buckets inside and went 4-of-4 from the line. As a team Sheldon went 11-of-11 on the night.
Spirit Lake had two players in double figures as three-pointers were falling for them as well. Sophomore Alec Henrickson knocked down a 6 three-pointers on the way to 21 on the night. He pumped in 14 points in the second quarter to keep the Indians in the game. Paul Brown knocked down a pair of three's hitting for 10 points on the night.
With the win Sheldon improves to 21-3 on the season while Spirit Lake finishes at 16-8.
In Substate 1 the match up is Sheldon and Western Christian Saturday night with the winner moving on to the State Tournament in Des Moines.
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Oh please…PLEASE…let there not be hatred in that gym Saturday night, but a spirit of healthy sportsmanship between two terrific communities and teams.
…and please please, let everyone who buys a ticket be allowed to have a seat for the game. hey, we can all hope for anything, cant we?
I have to say go strove. They won. Now lets see what they can do.
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My entire life my dad has joked that he can say "Everybody loves Saturday night" in five languages. I don't know how helpful that has been to him, but I do know that no matter where in the world you travel, people love it when you try to speak their language.
It's not simply polite; it shows that that you are aware that you are the stranger in their land and that you've taken the time to learn a few important phrases. It's even more effective if you say the words from memory and not simply try to read from a phrase book or phone app (though at least that's something).
Every time I travel to a non-English-speaking country I try to learn a series of words and phrases: "please," "thank you," "how much is this?", "do you speak English?" and the all-important "where is the bathroom?" When I got married in Romania I made a laminated phrase guide for all my out-of-town guests. It was a hit. The Romanians at my wedding loved it when folks from the United States and England said thank you in their own language.
12 Ways to Feel at Home in a Foreign Place
Believe me when I say just attempting one or two words in someone's native language goes a long way in fostering good will — especially in an age when so many Anglophones just assume the rest of the world speaks English.
Since "thank you" and "please" are probably the most common words travelers make an effort to learn, I've decided to list "how much is this?" and "do you speak English?" in several languages. Audio clips are included where available so you can listen to the pronunciation.
How Much Is This?
Chinese (Mandarin) – Zhe ge duoshao qian?
Dutch – Hoveel kost dit?
French – C'est combien?
German – Wievel kostet das?
Italian – Quanto costa?
Japanese – Ikura desu ka?
Portuguese – Quanto custa?
Romanian – Cat costa?
Russian – Skol'ko eto stoit?
Spanish – Cuanto cuesta?
Swahili – Hii ni bei gani?
Do You Speak English?
Chinese (Mandarin) – Ni shuo Yingwen ma?
Dutch – Spreek ge engels?
French – Parlez vous anglais?
German – Sprechen Sie English?
Italian – Parla inglese?
Japanese – Eigo ga dekimasu ka?
Portuguese – Fala ingles?
Romanian – Vorbitz Engleza?
Russian – Vy gavarite pa angllyski?
Spanish – Habla ingles?
Swahili – Unasema kiingereza?
Know these phrases in other languages? Add them in the comments!
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Ralph Hannah is an Englishman living in Asunción, Paraguay and while he does support Cerro Porteño his wife supports Olimpia so it keeps him balanced (sort of). When not writing this blog he can be found contributing to Goal.com or consulting a UK-based sports management agency on the best new Paraguay players. Ralph has strong connections with the Paraguayan football community and at present is the only person dedicated to promoting their exciting and passionate domestic league in English.
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Serves 12
Prep Time 35 min
Total Time 45 min.
Step 1
Rinse spinach and let drain in a colander. With water still clinging to it, place half the spinach in a Dutch oven over medium heat. Cook, tossing with tongs and adding the remaining spinach by the handful until all is added and wilted, 6 to 8 minutes. Drain in the colander. Let cool slightly, then coarsely chop.
Step 2
Carefully wipe out the pan, then heat 1 tablespoon oil over medium heat. Add onion and garlic and cook, stirring, until the onion is tender and lightly browned, 8 to 10 minutes. Stir in chickpeas, thyme, oregano, cumin, salt and paprika. Using a potato masher, mash some of the chickpeas, then cook, stirring, for 3 minutes. Stir in raisins and broth, scraping up any browned bits. Add the chopped spinach and stir gently to combine. Remove from the heat and let stand 10 minutes. Drizzle with the remaining 2 tablespoons oil just before serving.


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Overview of Memory-Management Functionality in MS-DOS
This article contains an overview of how expanded memory that conforms to the Expanded Memory Specification (EMS) and extended memory that conforms to the Extended Memory Specification (XMS) is created and managed in MS- DOS versions 5.0 and later by the device drivers HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE. How MS-DOS is loaded into the high memory area (HMA) and manages upper memory blocks (UMBs) are also discussed.
NOTE: Before reading this article, you may want to review the sections about memory management, HIMEM.SYS, and EMM386.EXE in your printed MS-DOS documentation. If you are using MS-DOS 6.0, 6.2, 6.21, or 6.22, refer to the online help. For example, type help emm386.exe at the MS-DOS command prompt.
Information in this article is organized as follows:
NOTE: Before reading this article, you may want to review the sections about memory management, HIMEM.SYS, and EMM386.EXE in your printed MS-DOS documentation. If you are using MS-DOS 6.0, 6.2, 6.21, or 6.22, refer to the online help. For example, type help emm386.exe at the MS-DOS command prompt.
Information in this article is organized as follows:
- Old Extended Memory Allocation Methods: Interrupt 15h and VDisk Headers
- HIMEM.SYS Creates XMS Memory
- A20 and the HMA
- DOS=HIGH Asks MS-DOS to Run in the HMA
- EMM386.EXE [RAM | NOEMS] Uses XMS to Create EMS and/or UMBs
- DOS=UMB Asks MS-DOS to Manage UMBs
- DEVICEHIGH=[<drive>:][\<path>\]<filename>
- MEM Reports on Memory MS-DOS Is Managing
- How MS-DOS Uses Extended or Expanded Memory
- Available References
More Information
Old Extended-Memory Allocation Methods: Interrupt 15h & VDisk Headers
In the past, there were two ways for programs to allocate extended memory: top-down (using Interrupt 15) and bottom-up (using VDisk headers).Interrupt 15h is a ROM BIOS service that includes several extensions to the original PC ROM BIOS, including the means to find out how much RAM (conventional plus extended) is on the system. A program uses this service to find out how much extended memory there is, then "hooks" Interrupt 15h and reports to any other programs that there is <n>K less memory available, effectively slicing <n>K of extended memory off the top. By doing this, the program has allocated its own extended memory from the top of the memory pool.
Bottom-up memory allocation works by checking for a header at the start of extended memory stating that <n>K of RAM is in use. If a header is there, the program checks <n>K further for another header. If no header exists, the program puts in its own header. These headers are called VDisk headers because the original IBM DOS RAM drive utility (VDISK.SYS) uses this method.
A drawback to these methods is that after memory has been allocated to a program, deallocating it is usually not possible. The XMS was designed to make allocating and deallocating extended memory easier for all involved.
HIMEM.SYS Creates XMS Memory
HIMEM.SYS implements all of the XMS except the optional UMB portion. HIMEM.SYS versions earlier than 3.0 are XMS 2.0 compliant and recognize up to 16 MB of RAM; versions 3.0 and later (first included with Windows 3.10 and MS-DOS 6.0) are XMS 3.0 compliant and recognize up to 4 GB.On loading, HIMEM.SYS determines the amount of extended memory available. Unless it was loaded with the /INT15= option, HIMEM.SYS sets out to allocate all available extended memory for use as XMS memory (note the actual allocation of all the available extended memory does not occur until a program makes an XMS function call). HIMEM.SYS reserves the HMA with a VDisk header and hooks Interrupt 15h. Programs that want to use extended memory (other than the HMA) without using XMS can do so until a program actually requests XMS.
After a program actually asks for XMS memory, HIMEM.SYS uses its Interrupt 15h hook to notify programs that only the amount of extended memory specified by /INT15=xxxx, minus the HMA (64K), is available for use. Memory available through /INT15=xxxx is physically located above the HMA; XMS- managed RAM is physically located above any /INT15=xxxx RAM.
A20 and the HMA
The HMA is defined as FFFF:0010-FFFF:FFFF on 80286 and higher systems that have physical addressable RAM at these addresses. This area can be addressed in real mode (8086 emulation) on 80286 and higher systems if the 21st address line (A20) is enabled, which produces 64K-16 bytes of additional usable RAM. On an 8086 or an 80x86 with the A20 line disabled, FFFF:0010 "wraps around" and is the same as 0000:0000.Turning this line on and off is accomplished using the keyboard port and is hardware dependent. HIMEM.SYS includes a number of "A20 handlers" for different machines. The XMS allocates and deallocates the HMA as one block, that is, only one program can use it at a time. MS-DOS 5.0 and later can run in the HMA if DOS=HIGH is in the CONFIG.SYS file.
DOS=HIGH Asks MS-DOS to Run in the HMA
If DOS=LOW or no DOS= command is in the CONFIG.SYS file, MS-DOS and its data are initialized and loaded into their final place in low memory before the DEVICE= and DEVICEHIGH= commands are processed.If the DOS=HIGH command is in the CONFIG.SYS file, MS-DOS data (which must remain low for compatibility) is loaded into its final place in conventional memory. After each device driver is initialized, a check is made to determine if an XMS driver has been installed. If so, and if the HMA is available, MS-DOS is moved into the HMA. If not, MS-DOS keeps checking after each DEVICE[HIGH]= command, and then begins processing the INSTALL= commands.
If a DOS=HIGH command exists but MS-DOS hasn't loaded high (if no XMS driver was loaded or the HMA wasn't available), MS-DOS reports "HMA not available/loading DOS low" and loads itself into conventional memory above all the installable device drivers and/or terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) programs loaded with INSTALL=.
The transient portion of COMMAND.COM remains in conventional memory whether MS-DOS is loaded high or low. Most of the COMMAND.COM resident portion, any software code pages, and the disk buffers (usually) also load high if DOS=HIGH is in the CONFIG.SYS file.
EMM386.EXE [RAM | NOEMS] Uses XMS to Create EMS and/or UMBs
EMM386.EXE is a device driver for 80386 and higher systems with XMS memory. EMM386.EXE uses XMS memory to create and manage EMS memory and/or XMS upper memory blocks (UMBs). EMS is available to programs through the EMS 4.0 interface; UMBs are available through the XMS interface. When providing UMBs, EMM386.EXE answers only requests to allocate or deallocate UMBs; all other XMS memory is managed by HIMEM.SYS.On loading, EMM386.EXE shows a report of its activity. Among other things, this report includes:
- Whether EMS memory is being provided, and, if so:
- Amount of EMS available
- Address of EMS page frame segment
- If UMBs are being provided, the following is also shown:
- Amount of UMBs available through the XMS
- Largest UMB available through the XMS
- Address of upper memory starting segment
NOTE: EMM386.EXE versions 4.45 and later do not display this information at startup UNLESS the /VERBOSE switch is used.
DOS=UMB Asks MS-DOS to Manage UMBs
The DOS=UMB command asks MS-DOS to allocate any UMBs available through the XMS to itself. MS-DOS then makes UMBs available through its own memory- management services in Interrupt 21h, including:If DOS=UMB is in the CONFIG.SYS file, EMM386.EXE reports that 0 (zero) UMBs are available from the MS-DOS command prompt, and any program that attempts to use UMBs through the XMS services is unable to find them.
Function Description Version
48h Allocate memory 2.0
49h Free allocated memory 2.0
4Ah Set memory block size 2.0
5800h Get allocation strategy 2.0
5801h Set allocation strategy 2.0
5802h Get upper-memory link status 5.0
5803h Set upper-memory link status 5.0
Users can determine whether MS-DOS has any UMBs available by using the MEM /C command. Programs can use Interrupt 21h, Function 5803h to determine if UMBs exist.
The DEVICEHIGH= command asks that the device driver file be loaded into an MS-DOS UMB if there is one available that is big enough. If there isn't, the driver is loaded into conventional memory and executed; no error is displayed by MS-DOS.LH (LOADHIGH)
The LH (or LOADHIGH) command tells MS-DOS to load the program file into an MS-DOS UMB if there is one available that is big enough. If there is not, the program is loaded into conventional memory and executed; no error is displayed by MS-DOS.DEVICEHIGH AND LOADHIGH WITH /L: AND /S
If you are using MS-DOS version 6.0, 6.2, 6.21, or 6.22, you can use the /L and /S switches to control the memory regions into which a device driver or program is loaded.The /L: switch specifies the memory region(s) a program can be loaded into. If the /L: switch is not specified, MS-DOS loads the program into the largest free UMB and all other UMB regions are available to the program. Use the MEM /F command to view the available memory regions. (Region 0 is conventional memory.)
DEVICEHIGH [[/L:region1[,minsize1][;region2[,minssize2] [/S]]=
The /S switch shrinks the UMB to the minimum size (minsize) while the program is loading. This switch can only be used in conjunction with the /L: switch and affects only UMBs for which a minimum size was specified.
The following is an example:
This command loads PROGRAM.EXE and restricts it to load into memory regions 1 and 2. The program has access to only 12,194 bytes in region 1 and only 34,213 bytes in region 2.
NOTE: Rather than attempting to manually configure the memory regions programs load into, MS-DOS 6.0, 6.2, 6.21, and 6.22 users are encouraged to run the MemMaker memory optimization program. To run MemMaker, type
memmaker at the MS-DOS command prompt.
MEM Reports on Memory MS-DOS Is Managing
If MS-DOS is managing UMBs (DOS=UMB), MEM /C or MEM /D includes the UMA in its report. Any areas not being managed by MS-DOS are labeled "SYSTEM" in this report. For UMB information, type mem /c | more at the MS-DOS command prompt. (Note that if you are using MS-DOS 6.0 or later, you can type mem /c /p to view the memory report one screen at a time.)If MS-DOS is not managing the UMBs, MEM does not report on the UMA. Other UMB managers typically have some means to determine what is loading high. Check the documentation for your UMB manager for details.
MEM also includes information about extended memory (determined using the Interrupt 15/VDisk header interface), the XMS (reported through the XMS 2.0 or 3.0 interface), and the EMS (reported through the EMS 3.2 or 4.0 interface) for your convenience.
How MS-DOS Uses Extended or Expanded Memory
As a whole, MS-DOS does not use extended or expanded memory for general usage or for loading applications.However, some MS-DOS utilities and drivers use extended or expanded memory for data areas. In addition, MS-DOS versions 5.0 and later load most of the MS-DOS kernel, command interpreter, code pages (if used), and disk buffers into the HMA, which is the first 64K of extended memory.
The table below outlines which MS-DOS utilities use extended memory without an extended memory driver, extended memory through an XMS driver, or expanded memory through a Lotus-Intel-Microsoft (LIM) EMS driver.
These utilities load into conventional memory but use nonconventional memory for data areas. Because different versions of many utilities that ship with MS-DOS also ship with Microsoft Windows, the Windows versions are included in this table. Microsoft recommends that you do not mix versions of these drivers that are included with different products.
In MS-DOS versions 4.x, you can place the disk buffers in expanded memory by using the /X switch; however, this is not recommended because of problems that may arise. SMARTDRV can provide much of the same performance enhancements and is preferable to using BUFFERS /X. For more information about BUFFERS /X, query in the Microsoft Knowledge Base on the following words:
Conv. Extended XMS LIM 3.2/4.0 EMS
RAMDRIVE.SYS 3.3 Yes Yes No Yes
RAMDRIVE.SYS 4.x Yes Yes No Yes
RAMDRIVE.SYS Win30 Yes No Yes Yes
RAMDRIVE.SYS 5.x Yes No Yes Yes
RAMDRIVE.SYS Win31 Yes No Yes Yes
RAMDRIVE.SYS 6.0-6.22 Yes No Yes Yes
SMARTDRV.SYS 4.x No Yes No Yes
SMARTDRV.SYS Win30 No No Yes Yes
SMARTDRV.SYS 5.x No No Yes Yes
SMARTDRV.EXE All No No Yes No
HIMEM.SYS (1) All No Yes Provider No
EMM386.SYS(2) 4.x No Yes No Provider
EMM386.SYS(3) Win30 No No Yes Provider
EMM386.EXE(3) All No No Yes(4) Provider
(1) Uses extended memory to provide XMS memory
(2) Uses extended memory to provide EMS memory
(3) Uses XMS memory to emulate EMS memory
(4) MS-DOS 5.0 and later EMM386.EXE can also be configured to
provide UMBs according to the XMS. This causes EMM386.EXE
to be a provider of the UMB portion of the XMS.
buffers and ems and /x
Loading the disk buffers in EMS memory is not supported in MS-DOS versions 5.0 and later. These versions support loading the MS-DOS kernel and, if there is room, the disk buffers into the HMA. MS-DOS accesses the HMA through the XMS protocol.Available References
The official LIM EMS specification, "Lotus/Intel/Microsoft Expanded Memory Specification Version 4.0," is available from Intel by calling (800) 538- 3373.The official XMS specification, "Extended Memory Specification Version 3.0," is available free from Microsoft. To obtain the specification, see the "Instructions for Downloading" section below.
The official MS-DOS program interface documentation, "Microsoft MS-DOS Programmer's Reference," is available from Microsoft Press (by calling [800] 677-7377), or internationally through Penguin Books.
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"In Wallace's mind, Davis fills a role that was missing last season when Campbell played mainly as a Shaq stopper. Campbell played just one minute in the NBA Finals against the Spurs. "We could've used that big body last year," Wallace said. "There were times in the Finals when Tayshaun (Prince) had to guard Tim (Duncan) because myself and (Antonio) McDyess were in foul trouble. Now we have that other big body. It'll definitely be a good rematch."" Well, well, well fellow Pistons fans, strangely enough it seems certain players like Sheed felt the same way we fans did about game 7. For whatever reason LB refused to give EC decent and needed minutes vs sa and it hurt our chances severely. This time around with DD we'll have a big man capable of decent minutes all season long keeping our big men more fresh for the post season.
Talkin Sheed By the way folks you've just got to dig the great quotes this guy delivers. I figured he talked to Dale Davis before the trade but I'm glad he issued the warning "You either roll with us or get rolled on!" LMAO, you gotta luv that!!! Apparently Dale got the message this time around.
Is Sheed predicting a Spurs-Pistons Finals rematch? You gotta love that! Maybe he is going to be on a mission this season. Can you imagine this team with a highly motivated Rasheed for the entire season? It would be like the end of the '04 campaign, when we finished 24-4. Man, if that were the case then I'd definitely have to rethink how I see the East finishing this season, record wise.
Yes, I can imagine it. We would easily be a 60+ win squad. Sheed gets bagged on a lot for "dogging" it. There is no other player on our roster who can significantly improve the squad by raising his game on a given night. He gets criticism when we fail, and not enough kudos when we win.
While I love Sheed's game when he is playing inside, I seriously doubt we will see any changes in him during the next year. I wish he would bang inside like he did in his Portland days.....
I completely agree. There's not a doubt in my mind that if Sheed would just come to play every dang night, and be the dominating player that he's capable of being, we would easily obtain the best record in the league, as well as the title, for at least the next few years. God. A Rasheed Wallace, with a workman like attitude of Big Ben, would easily be the best player in the league. That's right even better then KG. I really believe that. If only the man was motivated.
Sheed Someone stated on the other forum, a while back, that Wallace was/is highly motivated during this offseason and has actually been training. Which is a huge step (if true) to a HUGE season for our man Roscoe, since its always been obvious that he comes into camp out of shape every season.
Sheed is definitely one of my three favorite Pistons and I'm rooting for him big time, but I'm a bit skeptical too. I don't remember seeing what I expected to see from him in the two games following his game 5 boo boo. It seems to me that he would have picked it up in games 6 and 7 rather than waiting until the following season. Maybe I'm wrong and not remembering it correctly. Where is word coming from that he is super motivated to have a great year?
LB is turning into a goat These recent comments by Rasheed and Billups show that LB was a bigger distraction than we imagined. Not only did his off the court shananigans annoy the team, but his decision making and leadership were being questioned as well!!! Also, remember when LB criticized the starters effort and Ben replied like "I don't want to hear that #%!@", and said that they were being played too many minutes. In my opinion this recent flurry of LB retaliation gives a lot of credibility to Delfino. Many have hated on CD because of his "attitude", well, Billups and Rasheed apparently have a similar attitude as well. Hopefully, that attitude will work for us this season!
Delfino's attitude is nothing like C-Note's or Rasheed's. I wish it were. Delfino ripped the coach publicly, causing a small distraction. C-Note waited until Brown left and did it not only to cut down Brown but also to boost Darko. Brown clearly did not handle Darko too well. But he handled Billups just fine and some other starters like Tay and Big Ben.
Interesting First of all, EC was not a good match for the Spurs. EC is too slow to guard any of the Spur big men, but I still would have preferred EC on Duncan rather than Prince. Sheed seems to believe that we can take the Spurs, and I agree. We put a real scare into them, and they're doing everything they can to insure that they can survive our next encounter. We didn't win, so it's hard to say we were the better team, but screw it, I do believe we're the better team.
Maybe we weren't the deeper team, but maybe we were the better team. I don't know. We didn't seem to have an answer for Ginobli at times and Bowen totally shut down Rip. I think we controlled Duncan, but those other dudes (+ Horry) were the main difference to me. I too felt EC should have played more minutes against the Spurs and Heat. I hope the boys have big chips on their shoulders this year because they are going to need it against Indy. Those guys have something to prove and are younger and have Artest back now. I look for them to have the best record in the East this year. Regarding Sheed - it would be great to see him in shape this year!
The EC enigma We went through all that trouble to retain him but never used him. He was dead weight at the end of the bench. Maybe his job was to keep Darko from from exploding. Isn't he the one guy that could foul out on Shaq/Duncan every game?
Darth Tater. It was in a few articles, not too long ago, that Sheed is highly motivated to make up for leaving Horry open in game 5. Although you do make a valid point - Re: Him not making up for it in games 6&7. I suppose we'll just have to wait and see to find out where he is mentally. Less then a month until training camp opens, so at least we won't have to wait to long.
Motivation Absolutely fellow Pistons fans, if Sheed is indeed motivated or has some chip on his shoulder for letting his teammates down in the Finals (as he should along with Tay & Rip) that would be FABULOUS!!!!! Actually the same freep article that helped start this thread actually offered a smidgin of proof this this allegation perhaps being true.... http://www.freep.com/sports/pistons/pistons7e_20050907.htm "Wallace poked his head in throughout the news conference, and Davis glanced his way when a reporter asked him about Wallace's threat last season that "either you roll with us or you get rolled." "I'm glad you brought that up," said Wallace, who spent the afternoon shooting around with Chauncey Billups under the watch of new coach Flip Saunders." I don't know about you all but the quote above from that article is about all the proof I need. I could be wrong but I don't even think Sheed saw the practice facility floor at least until training camp last season (likely around October). Therefore the fact that he's already there shooting around and who knows what else is a pretty good sign in my book!
UncleTy I heard that, Ty. Here it is only Sept. 7th and Sheed's already at the gym with Billups and his new coach? It sure sounds like he's itching to get this started to me. Here's to hoping that he is actually putting some work in and not just there to show support at his new teammate's press conference. You know?
I don't know if anyone else remembers Dr.J stating during the playoffs(can't recall which round) that the Stones looked like they tuned LB out.Well by the looks of the comments from them lately that very well seems to be true. Delfino was a rook and hasn't been through what Sheed or CB have so I think cut him some slack everyone makes mistakes hopefully he learned from it and improves as a player.
We all remember when Larry told the team "I love you guys" in the finals. I wonder what Rasheed meant when he said something like "I felt like cracking up." Did he mean it was just corny or did he mean he thought it was B.S.? Did he ever explain it?


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Beyond Sprawl-Rethinking The Southwest Economy
In this multimedia series, we investigate the region's housing sector and report on what growth could look like in the future.
PHOENIX -- Pigs will probably fly in the Southwest before homebuilders stop constructing new homes here. But the types of homes people will need in the next 20 years might look very different.
After all, we're staying single longer, we're having fewer children, and we're paying more for gas and utilities. Is it time to re-think the all-American suburb? Arizona State University graduate students in design and architecture think so.
The cul-de-sac the team of ASU grad students picked to study has seven houses on it. The houses are new. They're huge. They have sort-of hard-to-make-out front doors, but really big garages, very center stage.
One of the grad students on the project, Whitney Warman and I are here one morning about an hour before we see anyone. When we finally do, Warman is shocked.
"OK, this is interesting," she said.
"I see a person," I said back to her.
"Oh my God, there's someone out," Warman said. "Wow, this is really promising that there are actually people on this cul-de-sac. Cause the first time we were here there were two families and we got yelled at. We were shooed off the street."
That was last spring. Warman's advisor Milagros Zingoni, and her colleague Aaron Golub, had recently applied and were awarded a grant from the Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory at ASU with the city of Avondale to redesign one of its cul-de-sacs for the year 2030. The cul-de-sac they chose to retrofit was built in the mid-2000s, but basically follows the design principles of the 1950s, when American demographics and gas prices and bank loans were actually really different.
An example: Half of all households then had children. But in 2030, only a quarter are expected to have kids. And singles will occupy more than one-third of households. To Warman, the houses on this street – about 2,500 square feet – are way too big for just one or two people.
"I mean 2,500 square feet – you gotta clean that!" she yelled. "That's a lot of cleaning!" Not to mention: "Air conditioning and heating and water and gas prices."
As the cost of these necessities and amenities rise, demographer Arthur C. Nelson at the University of Utah says our wages are not.
"We ended the 2000s at a lower per capita income in real purchasing power terms than we started the 2000s," Nelson said. "And all the studies I see indicate that we won't come back to the 2000 level maybe until 2020, maybe not until 2030, maybe never."
So for economic reasons like this – in addition to environmental and demographic projections – the students found that we'll need to share more living space in the future, and, thus, the cost of maintaining the space.
To do this, Warman says we're going to have to know each other.
This is not how it is right now. Current cul-de-sac resident Sabrina Mitchell tells us she doesn't know anyone on the block, and that she likes it this way – she and her family like to live quietly and keep to themselves.
"I mean it's good to know your neighbor and know that you guys have each others back if anything was to happen," Mitchell said. "But we're pretty much in here. Everyone is pretty much by themselves."
So Warman is asking a lot. She basically wants to take this street where the only reported social interaction is hypothetical and turn it into a place where people live in private units a quarter the size of the current houses, and with more shared public space, close to buses and jobs.
The suburbs may not look this way right now. But Nelson, the Utah demographer, says that as much as one-third of the current American population wants something very similar.
"Twenty-five percent or 33-percent want a smaller lot within walking distance of transit stations or working opportunities or shops," the professor said. "Thirty years ago, it might have been 10-percent. So the fact that a quarter to a third want something different is a real dramatic change."
Even though home builders in Arizona are now building only a mere tenth of what they were building during the recent housing boom, they're not necessarily building smaller, denser units that are closer to transportation and amenities.
So some "Phoenicians" (Residents of Phoenix) aren't waiting. They're drawing up plans for a totally new kind of neighborhood, all on their own.
"Here is Vesta,"said Donna Niemann, one of these Phoenicians. "This is our community."
Niemann is single, her kids are all grown up, and she has no official training as a planner. Yet, here she sits with pages of plans she helped dream up for a new community in Phoenix she wants to help build and then live in.
"We have 14 homes in this quad and this is our quad for adults," Niemann said, pointing to her plans. "Either married or single and they're around a common green area that we could have a barbeque, a shade structure..."
If this sounds familiar, it's because the drawing hits on almost all the same themes as Warman's.
"For me, as an aging baby boomer, I've lost half my stock portfolio. I did everything right, right? It's all worth nothing right now," Niemann said. "And I'm like: 'OK, who is going to rebound for the last 30 years of my life? Do I trust the government? Do I trust financial people?' Heck no!"
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HS, it's just not what you are used to.
We have grand fishing opportunities here.
Iaconelli did another show fishing the East River for striped bass and bluefish.
They ended up 1/2 hour walk from my house.
Hey OP, this looks to be Southern OR coast? Nice Ling you got there!
HS, it's just not what you are used to.
We have grand fishing opportunities here.
Iaconelli did another show fishing the East River for striped bass and bluefish.
They ended up 1/2 hour walk from my house.
you are right Ebb. its not what i am used to. i think its great that even large metros have fishing opportunities for the land lovers (folks with no boats). i really enjoy watching City Limits Fishing. gives me a different perspective on what others have to do in order to sink some line. if you go fishing this year take some pics of the area i would like to see it.
I use to have an albino channel cat in an aquarium.
No pictures cause I trout fish using waters in streams and don't want to ruin anything when I fall. But I went about a month back and caught 7 rainbow trout. One of them was the biggest I have ever caught coming in at 18". May not sound big but for these small Carolina streams, it was a beast! Caught on a single hook mepps spinner.
good stuff... i dont mean to be a dick but i am sort of a fly fishing conservative and with those small streams, wouldnt it be more of a challenge to fly fish for them instead of using crank gear? i tried crank gear on our small streams in our Mtns and i just slayed them. it was to the point of no challenge. thats what got me hooked on FF for trout. i grew up FF for pan fish out of our pond so i was already accustomed to FF'ing
A friend of mine came down to MS for a visit so I figured Id take her out to try and catch some catfish...we each got one a piece and got to call some owls out in the woods. When we cleaned the bigger one we found 4 beef livers in its gut, that bugger was picking us clean all day! All in all we didnt kill em but we had a blast and a tasty fish fry that week. Enjoy!
At 18", 3lbs and some change this one is a PB for my creek. Caught him last night about 10pm fishing a topwater frog on a weedline.
Caught this tonight on a big white Streamer. 16.5"
Prettiest Trout I've caught for a long time.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Gents, just nailed this HOG of a Largemouth yesterday! Biggest one of the year. It swallowed my lure, but luckily I could fit my entire hand in its mouth to perform some surgery. AWESOME stuff!!!
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^^AWESOME largemouth!
I just wandered in here, although it was back in February my lovely girlfriend landed this 8lb German Brown. He was pretty small from the spawn but his silhouette reminded me of fish several pounds heavier.
I've been catching bluegill and channel cats, nothing to write home about. Had a few decent largemouths, no hogs. Me and BIL have been trying to learn how to troll for muskie... so far nothing. BIL had a 4# striped bass last weekend, probably nicest fish in the boat so far.
Ive only been twice this year, both time to my best areas and have caught little. I think the fish are not there. Fishing pressure and three years of flooding have hurt a lot. But there are a lot of little ones so maybe in a few years the river will be good once again.
Took a solo 7 mile canoe trip yesterday and caught a few smallmouths. This is the last pic that my camera will take. It fell and broke. I did catch one about three lbs but it was after I dropped the camera. Caught the fish on half a Texas rigged Senko type worm with spinnerbait material run through them like crawdad tentacles.
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A picture from my first trip in early June. Trying for largemouths . all i caught was a channel cat and a few little bass.
dip you only got out fishing twice so far!?!? I always enjoy reading your posts!!! Hope your feeling ok lately...Tom
Posted this in another thread already, but caught this 4.5# largemouth about a month ago...
Went out of town for a wedding last weekend and had a chance to sneak away and fish for a couple hours. Caught 3 largemouth including this one (which bent up my spinnerbait)...
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I had the opportunity earlier this year to visit the abandoned town of Pripyat near Chernobyl. The town of Pripyat was abandoned 27 years ago, due to a nuclear accident.
I decided to go with a Leica Monochrom Camera with just a 35MM Summicron F2 lens. My vision was to create a story on how Pripyat looks now, 27 years later. The Monochrome style of this camera adds a creative restriction, and from this can make highly creative work. The Monochrome style enables you too think about the world differently, rather than seeing colours, it's more about looking at the world in continuous tones of Black and White. There is also a tendency to think about how the tones work together to create the picture and focus on the end result of having a story/body of work as well as a narrative to hold things together. I am a firm believer that a story needs to have a start, middle and and end, and a common theme through the work. The Chernobyl project was an ideal way to practise this.
In order to put a story in place, i needed to think about the whole experience of the journey. The main feature being theChernobyl nuclear power plant itself and the cover that is currently holding the radiation in situ. The second are the components that held the town together during the night of the accident, then supported by the places that were used when the town was active.
My vision for the story of this trip was to have the same look and feel, size and shape, texture and tone for each image. The Leica Monochrom certainly aided me in achieving this and to create this story that i was after.
For this post i wanted to walk through the processing that i used in Lightroom to enable me to create my vision and the steps that i took to create the style for the whole series.
The Leica Monochrom's images are Black and White straight out of the camera. When in the camera that added a few challenges and a few benefits. Firstly as the Sensor in the Monochrom has no RGB pattern on the CCD sensor, which means there is no colour noise, just great texture even at high ISO. The maximum ISO on this camera also helps in low light (of where there are a lot of places in Pripyat), is 10,000 and can add fantastic texture to the image.
The problem comes to the highlight clipping, the way that Ligthroom 4 was engineered with the enhancements to the new highlight/shadow recovery was to fetch information from all of the colour channels (RGB) and find additional highlight values. The Monochrom does not have any colour information, so if the highlights are clipped they are unrecoverable, therefore a careful approch to exposure is always in the back of the mind when making a picture.
The following picture is straight out of the camera and is already great. But i wanted to give the images a certain look that would compliment the scene and give a style to the story.
This blog will cover the thoughts and creative decisions that that was made in Lightroom to create the final series.
If within the Development module, we turn on the clipping warnings for Shadows and Highlights (in the histogram box) we can see there isn't a lot of over or under exposure within the base image, therefore we have a lot of tones to work with, we just need to extract information from what's there.
We can turn on highlight and shadow clipping by using the key board shortcut key "J". The Shadow and Highlight clipping are active when the white outlines are around the up arrows in the histogram (Red).
The shadow is clipping into Black as show in in Blue in the white box.
The image is a little dark, so we can increase the mid tone of the image by using the Tone Curve. I have grabbed the mid point in the Tone Curve and pushed up until the overall Brightness has increased. notice that the shadow and highlight values have not changed, therefore no clipping has been introduced,
The next element we will work on, is opening up the highlights and shadows, using the Highlight and Shadows sliders. The Highlight and Shadow sliders were introduced in Lightroom 4 and enable the image maker to work on each of these areas independently, in order extract tones within these areas. This was hard to achieve before Lightroom 4.
I would like to the get the Highlights to about 90% if possible, to reveal a little greyness of the sky, this will add a little mood to the picture. The highlight slider (Yellow) is moved to the left to achieve this. You can see that in the highlight area within the histogram, they are not snug to the right of the histogram box, we will fix this later.
Next we move the Shadows slider to the right in order to open up the shadow tones. This is harder to judge what is correct, but as long as you have a calibrated screen and in combination with the histogram you are able to see the difference that open the shadows makes. Also notice, that by doing this, the Black point has moved and the histogram is no longer snug to the left of the histogram box (Red).
By adjusting the White point slider to the right will set the white point, also the moving the Black point to the left will set the blank point. You can see the results in the histogram (Yellow), but will allow us to have a snug fitting histogram, and overall will increase the contrast of the image (or punch).
The image is still a little flat, so we are able to add a little contrast by adding some clarity. This will increase the difference between the light and dark areas. It can look as though we are sharpening the image, but no sharpening is applied.
Just these sliders will make a huge difference to the impact of the image, we can see the difference but showing a side by side view.
The next step is to correct and lens issues, as well as any non straight areas. This can be achieved in the Lens Correction tab. There are two tabs :-
- The basic tab will enable the Lens Correction "Enable Profile Corrections" (see example below),
- By applying the upright technology to this image. Upright was introduced in Lightroom 5 and Camera RAW 8 and has been a real saviour for this type of image. When buildings, horizons, trees etc are in the frame, then upright will look at the contents and work out the straight edges and correct them. There are options :-
- Off – No Upright corrections are applied
- Auto – Lightroom 5 looks at the image and tries to fix both the vertical, horizontal as well dimensional elements.
- Level – Will fix just the horizontal and will rotate the canvas for you.
- Vertical – Will fix the horizontal and verticals.
- Full – If Auto doesn't work and get the results you need, it is likely that the image has a lens distortion or some warping that needs fixing. The Full will apply a full 3D warp to the image.
The reason i am applying upright now, before cropping, is that Upright will remove any crop that has been previously applied to work.
Auto was able to fix this and many others in this shoot.
The next step is to work on the composition, for this i am going to apply a crop factor of 4×3 and apply a modern look to the image.
Once the crop is selected (the first icon under the histogram (looks like a square box with a dotted line outline). The different size bounding boxes are applied to the image and i have turned the lock on in the crop panel (Red). The padlock will lock the aspect ratio, so it won't matter how i resize the crop, it will keep the 4×3 crop factor, then i can make the whole series have the same aspect ration (this also applies to other formats, even custom).
The image is quite strong from a rule of thirds point of view, i.e. there is the house in the top left, the ferris wheel in the top right, then the chairs in the bottom half.
I decided with this image to crop tightly to the outer frame and to keep the top, bottom and right of the window frame (Red), I want to make sure that the chair in the foreground (Green) is not falling out of the frame, the clutter on the right hand side is also important for this scene (Yellow).
The next step is to add a mood to the image, and as i don't have any colour information to work with (due to the Monochrom sensor), i will need to add a split tone and add some colour to accentuate the mood.
I would like to add some richness to the highlights and to do this i am going to add a hint of Yellow, notice that the saturation is very low (Yellow)
In the shadows we will add blue and add some richness, again notice the amount of saturation.
We are also able to modify the blend between highlight and shadow by using the balance slider. Moving the balance to the right side will be more highlight biased, in this case more yellowish, to the right will add more blue. I am going to use +15, so a litle bias towards the highlight tone and add a little more yellow into the mid tones.
The next step is to add sharpness and emphasise important points.
To add texture to the image and grittiness, i'll add a small amount of noise, as well as a dark vignette around the edges. By adding subtle dark edges to the image, the viewers eye will stay in the scene and will be hard to move out. This is an old trip that was used in the dark room, it was called an edge burn.
If we look a bit closer we can see the noise effect
You can see the final image here
You can see how just a few simple steps in Lightroom is able to transform my image into my vision. This will give me a foundation for the whole project
The before and after image can been seen here.
Once the adjustments have been made in Lightroom to this image, i'd like to apply them to the rest of the selection of images that i would like to publish. This automation will not only provide a standard look and feel to my images for this project, but also save me a lot of time, over the 100 or so images that i would like to publish.
To do this, make sure you are in the Development module, then, select the image that has had the adjustments applied, then select the rest of the images. You can do this by using the SHIFT key to select a range, or using the CMD (Mac) or a CTRL (Pc) to select the images that required the adjustments.
Then press the Sync button (Red)
Once you press the button, the following dialog screen is displayed. I have selected all the areas of the Lightroom adjustments and made sure they are ticked. Then press Synchronize. The adjustments will then be applied to the rest of the selected images. You may need to look at each image and make sure that the effect has been applied as other images may have a different exposure.
You can see how easy it is to make your images look amazing by just working with the global adjustments on an image to create a style for the series, then apply this style to the rest of the series by using automation inside Lightroom.
You can see the final Behance project here.
In part II we will look at the more tricker parts of the re-touch in the this Chernobyl series.
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Hannah, your belleh is sure looking fluffy and love the pink toy. It goes well with your furs. Have a great day.
Very pretty Hannah!!!
Belleh! Yoo looking for a rub we can tell.
Oh, gorgeous Hannah, our mom MUST snorgle your belly! :-)And what fun you must be having with your pink mousie!
Awwww beautiful Hannah!! You just have the floofiest belly ever! Awwww! Me and Charlie hope you have a lovely time with your pretty pink toy!! We are also saying a big hello to sweet Lucy!Take carex
Hannah, how cute! SNORGLE SNORGLE SNORGLE that tummeh!!!
I just love that picture of Hanna with her pink mousie :-)
Hannah is just amazingly fluffy!I wanna reach out to her and give her a belly rub!!!!
What glorious floof, Hannah.....you are a beauty!!!!!!!! xxxxxxxx
Hannah, you and your pink mousie look very sweet there!
Ohhhh...so cute and floofy!
Oh Hannah, You look so cute napping with your pink mousie!
Beautiful Hannah, you look like you're having fun with your toy, but we are loving that awesome floofy belly shot :)...Our Mommy would love to smooch those pretty furs!!...xoxo...Calle, Halle, Sukki
SQUEEEE....Oh my cod, you have curly bellah furs.
Hannah you look gorgeous and Momma just wants to snorgle da tum!purrinxoAbby
Hannah! You are a beatiful princess!!!!Love you.Kisses
Oh how sweet! All floof and fur.
Aw, Hannah, you are so cute! We love your floofy furs!
It is really nice to nap with a mousie, Hannah. You look quite content.bonk and bonk for both of you


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The Dash Folio is a multi-layered jacket case that is designed like a folder case. The finish is a leather-like material and comes in two colors (black or brown). Inside is a full frame cover that holds the mini in place. Unlike other folio cases that use a sleeve or elastic bands at the corners to secure the device, this frame holds the device in place, where as other methods cause the device to have a little play. The cover flap has built-in magnets that allow you to take advantage of the sleep/wake features also found in Apple's Smart Covers. This flap also acts as a multi-positional stand as one side of the rubberized frame has a little protrusion which helps keep it in place for hands-free viewing. The cover flap also has an elastic band that secures the folio case closed when you are not using it. This case also give you complete access to all the ports an opening for camera usage.
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Hi, i want to trade my international gunz account with a lvl 38 for a conqueronline account with a high lvl and good items, post here ur msn and ur lvl and items and i will add u to msn to make the trade
Hi, i want to trade my international gunz account with a lvl 38 for a conqueronline account with a high lvl and good items, post here ur msn and ur lvl and items and i will add u to msn to make the trade
i thought this kind of stuff wasnt allowed. even if it is, its stoopid because its the number one way to get scammed.
just start at lvl one like everyone else.
Dunno if its alowed or not but, its not like everyone else starting by lvl 1 cuz theres many ppl that trades accounts and if i want to get a high lvl i cant?lol
yeah but the object of an mmo is to play it yourself.
if you get a free account its not really yours, you didnt work to get there. thats just lame. defeats the point of playing in the first place. god knows theres enough high lvl people acting like complete newbs.
go play supernintendo or something.
Supernintendo?rofl nah i can get much better
I have a lvl 94 archur in nature-lightning and i want to trade for you lvl 38 Gunz kk?
email me if u want to trade at : email@example.com
Lmao idiot hes about too get scammed <_< tragic times
this is stupid the best part about mmo's is starting at level 1 leveling on you're own antill you make friends then level with them having fun along the way antill you are all high levels and can still all have fun together but this is what will happen to you you will get on to you're high level account go out pk get red named lose you're stuff get called a noob and give up
I believe your not allowed to trade accounts on onrpg, i think it's against the rules.
man i dont know what the hell u guys are on but CONGRATS, you just bumped a topics thats over a year old. CONGRATS!
and the retard that bumped this....omg your even stupider than the guy who made this topic.
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