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Shopping for Water Filters
Guide To: Filtration pitchers, taps, under-sink tanks, and countertop filters
Marketplace Link: Water Devices
Water quality varies depending on where you live, so it makes sense that the type of filter you'd use would vary according to your personal needs. This guide offers some brief tips (and links) for information on choosing a water filter, as well as specifics on where to buy one.
Before you buy a water filter, determine what you want the filter to do. (To find more info about your region's drinking water from the EPA, click here). If you're trying to improve the taste of your water, then a pitcher or tap-mounted filter will probably get the job done. If you're worried about sediment or rust in the water, you might want to look into a reverse osmosis system that's integrated with your plumbing. For more detailed information, Treehugger has a great guide to determining which water filter is right for you.
Target (Various Locations/Online): Big box stores like Target, Wal-Mart, and Home Depot stock mainstream water filters at reasonable prices. The Brita On Tap system is a popular model. Target also carries systems by Pur, ZeroWater, and Greenway.
Green Depot (Various Locations/Online): This store carries a range of water filtration devices that cost anywhere from $25 to the high-end Aquavos Ovopur for $650. They carry countertop models, as well as dual cartridge systems that can be mounted under the sink.
Gracious Home (New York/Online): This independently owned retailer stocks a lot of what you'll find at Bed, Bath & Beyond or the Container Store, but they hone in on the quality stuff and round out their inventory with harder-to-find items and imports. They have a good selection of water filters from Elemaris, Zerowater, and Maxtra.
Design Within Reach (Various Locations/Online): DWR's Japanese water pitcher uses stones and charcoal (prepared for potable water use) to naturally filter water and add minerals. The filters last up to six months, but the thing we really like about the design is its simple, minimal aesthetic.
Snyder Diamond (Santa Monica/Online): If you live in the LA area, this independent, family-run store is good resource for kitchen and bath fixtures. They sell GE's reverse osmosis systems, which can be integrated into your plumbing and faucets.
Lehman's Non-Electric Catalog (Online): This store was founded in the 1950s to serve Amish communities and, even today, they continue to carry products for off-the-grid filtration. They have a good selection of reverse osmosis, gravity, and siphon filters designed to remove parasites and bacteria from well water.
Bed, Bath, & Beyond (Various Locations/Online): They have a pretty good water filtration section, where they sell pitchers and tap mounts from Brita, HoMedics, PUR, and Cuisinart. (For Unplggd's profile of the HoMedics filter, click here.)
Amazon.com (Online): Since Amazon has so many warehouses and doesn't carry the same overhead as a brick-and-mortar chain store, they're able to stock a pretty huge selection of water filters. When we've checked water filter prices against other retailers, we haven't seen too much of a difference, but they're still a good source to check if you're looking for a specific brand or model (like the Zuvo shown above) that's hard to find elsewhere.
Gaiam (Online): This catalog retailer focuses on "wellness" solutions, and they have a few different countertop and under-the-sink filtration systems.
Sur La Table (Various Locations/Online): The prices are a little bit higher than you'd find elsewhere, but whenever we've visited the store in-person (they have locations in 26 states), the staff has been really well-informed and helpful. They have a few different pitcher and countertop models from Cuisinart, Capresso, and Mavea.
• WaterFilterComparisons.net
• Good Questions: What's the Best Water Filter Solution?
• Treehugger's Guide to Buying a Water Filtration System
• Treehugger's 5 Best In-Home Water Filters


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The Airtug is an airport tug featured in Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto V.
The Airtug, a low-power tug available only within the tarmacs of Francis International Airport (FIA), appears to be a replacement for the Baggage Handler featured in the GTA III Era, as well as the similarly designed Tug. As usual, the Airtug, being property of the FIA, features FlyUS livery.
Like the Baggage Handler, the Airtug's performance is ranked as one of the poorest in the game. Its weaker engine means that its speed is considerably slow, but makes up for with good acceleration and moderately good cornering due to its low speed and light weight. The Airtug's compact size may also be used to the advantage of the player as it can squeeze through tight spaces, such as gaps between rocks and staircases. The Airtug may also seat up to two occupants.
The Airtug's open design, however, makes any of its occupants highly vulnerable to gunfire, and is generally unstable for multiplayer gameplay as a result, especially during Deathmatches or Free Mode. Unlike the Baggage Handler in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, it can no longer be used to tow the luggage carts or towbars in the airport.
Despite the fact that it is a mediocre vehicle, it is one of the more difficult vehicles to acquire - straying into the airport's runway area will earn the player a four star wanted level.
GTA V (Rear quarter view).
- The three default radio stations in the Airtug are Integrity 2.0, WKTT Radio and PLR.
- Driving an Airtug around the Francis International Airport will cause Airtugs to spawn in the parking lot outside and very rarely spawn in traffic.
- In perfect condition this car can be sold in the S&M Auto Sales for $1500
- Police Chatter suggests that the AirTug is manufactured by HVY, as it will be be identified as a "White HVY AirTug"
- This is the only four-wheeled vehicle that is capable of entering buildings.

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March 2010 / Issue 8
Australia: Large Deposit and Wholesale Funding Guarantees Will End
On March 31, the Australian government will end its deposit guarantee plan for amounts on deposit of more than AU$1 million (US$0.9 million) and for wholesale funding raised by Australian financial institutions. The government will continue to guarantee deposits of less than AU$1 million in credit unions, banks and building societies.
The credit union and mutual building society body, Abacus - Australian Mutuals, was highly critical of the fee structure, which charged Australia's dominant big-four banks only 70 basis points for the guarantee, while credit unions and other smaller banking institutions that rated BBB or were unrated were charged 150 basis points. Only one Abacus member, a large building society, raised guaranteed wholesale funding under the government plan. Australian banks and other lenders have so far paid approximately AU$1.1 billion for the use of the guarantee and will pay about AU$5.5 billion over its full life.
The government will continue to guarantee deposits of up to AU$1 million in Australian banks, credit unions and building societies for no fee. This guarantee is provided under the Financial Claims Scheme, and the AU$1 million cap will be reviewed in October 2011.
Abacus believes the AU$1 million threshold should be maintained indefinitely, while Australia's banking market remains in its current highly concentrated state. An Australian Parliamentary Committee report on bank mergers reported in September 2009 that the Australian banking market is, by some criteria, the most concentrated it has been for a century.
Source: Abacus - Australian Mutuals, www.abacus.org.au
Canada: Federal CU Legislation Will Proceed
On March 10, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced his government's intention to proceed with federal credit union legislation — a historic step for the Canadian credit union system. The main purpose of a federal credit union charter is to accommodate the growth and expansion of the Canadian credit union system beyond provincial borders. Credit unions that so choose can pursue business strategies that are not constrained by provincial incorporation under the new regulation.
Credit Union Central of Canada (CUCC) supports the availability of a federal option and welcomed the announcement as a step toward enabling credit unions to choose a new method to address growth opportunities and enhance member service.
Further information can be found in CUCC's Policy and Advocacy Report
Source: Credit Union Central, www.cucentral.com
European Union: Commission Seeks a Pan-European Solution for Deposit Insurance
In autumn 2008, the European Union's (EU) financial crisis was considerably aggravated when it became clear that customer deposits in banks in other countries were insufficiently covered by deposit insurance. The consequence was a loss of confidence and a run on deposits that caused many banks further stress, pushing some toward the brink of insolvency.
In order to avoid similar future situations, the European Union is looking to modify its approach to deposit insurance. The new European Commissioner for Internal Market, Michel Barnier, has already assured the European Parliament that he will draft a legislative proposal aimed at raising deposit insurance standards in the direction of a pan-European system. Two options are being considered: 1) connecting existing national systems in a European network of deposit insurance providers; and 2) establishing a single pan-European deposit guarantee model that will apply to all EU countries.
The second option in particular has caused controversy. While proposal details are not yet clear, some stakeholders, including credit unions, fear negative consequences for national deposit guarantee systems if a pan-European model is established. Under such a system, it's likely cross-border systemic banking organizations would be required to pay into a European arrangement and would consequently withdraw from national-level systems. Consequently, national-level participation fees for purely local institutions, such as credit unions, would considerably increase. The European Network of Credit Unions is now raising awareness among Commission members and the European Parliament on the potential negative financial impact a pan-European model would have on credit unions.
Source: European Network of Credit Unions, www.creditunionnetwork.eu
Great Britain: CUs Hopeful Despite Delays
On March 8, Parliament introduced a legislative reform order to the Credit Union Act in Great Britain that will amend outdated legislation to allow credit unions significant growth opportunities. However, the reform order must be considered by the Parliamentary committee within 60 days of its introduction. Due to an imminent dissolution of the Parliament before the spring general election, approval of legislative reforms will have to be taken up after Parliament resumes.
The legislative reforms will allow credit unions to serve more people, pay interest as opposed to only dividends, and offer expanded services. It will also help strengthen credit unions through improved liquidity, capital and reporting requirements.
Source: ABCUL, www.abcul.coop
Ireland: Regulatory Structure Reform Raises Concerns
The Irish government has announced its intention to establish a single, fully integrated regulatory body called the Central Bank of Ireland Commission. However, the country's credit unions are concerned that the redesign of regulations could have an adverse effect on credit unions and are advocating for an independent credit union regulator.
The Irish League of Credit Unions (ILCU) has opposed the planned reforms before the Minister for Finance and key government figures. Credit unions are concerned that during the regulatory redesign new structures put in place to address the banks' excesses could have an adverse effect on credit unions.
In addition, the Minister for Finance recently announced plans for a strategic review of credit unions to be conducted by the Registrar for Credit Unions. On February 2, ILCU representatives appeared before the Joint Oireachtas (National Parliament) Committee on Economic Regulatory Affairs (the ERA Committee) to state the position that credit unions should be regulated in a structure outside the Central Bank Commission and through the establishment of an independent credit union regulator.
An Oireachtas press release confirmed that the impact on credit unions of the proposed overhaul of the Irish financial services sector's regulatory regime will form a key part of the ERA Committee work program over the next six months.
On another topic, the 2009 Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Bill, through which the Third EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive is being transposed into Irish law, is currently passing through the Houses of the Oireachtas. Guidance has been developed for the financial services sector by a working group comprised of members of the financially regulated representative bodies, including an ILCU representative. A sector guidance note for credit unions is being developed.
Northern Ireland: Regulatory Reform
The Northern Ireland (NI) Assembly and Her Majesty's (HM) Treasury in the U.K. have issued two reports regarding regulation of credit unions in Northern Ireland. Both of these reports recommend that NI credit unions should be brought within the scope of the 2000 Financial Services and Markets Act, while leaving the legislative and registration functions within the NI Assembly and Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI).
An ILCU delegation met with representatives of the U.K.'s Financial Services Authority on January 6, 2010 to discuss its position on the recommendations made by DETI and HM Treasury regarding Northern Ireland credit unions.
Source: ILCU, www.creditunion.ie
Kenya: Stakeholders Discuss New Regulation
In the wake of the Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCO) Societies Act passed in December 2008, Kenya's government has finalized and published draft regulations for its SACCOs, or credit unions, for discussion by a technical committee appointed by the Minister of Co-operative Development.
The SACCOs were able to submit written comments on the new regulations by March 1. SACCO leaders have also been invited to a stakeholders' meeting on March 15 to discuss the draft regulation before it is submitted to the attorney general. The new SACCO regulations are expected to be implemented during the next three months.
The newly formed SACCO Societies Regulatory Authority (SASRA) is in the process of hiring staff.
Source: KUSCCO, www.kuscco.com
New Zealand: CUs Face New Credit Rating Requirements
Beginning March 1, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand is requiring all non-bank deposit taking institutions (NBDT) -- including credit unions -- with liabilities of more than NZ$20 million (US$14 mil) to obtain a credit rating. Small credit unions with total liabilities of less than NZ$20 million will be exempt from this requirement. Under this requirement, seven of New Zealand's 31 credit unions are required to have a credit rating. Advertising requirements have also been put in place for both rated and non-rated entities.
Some NBDTs had already reviewed their offer documents and amended their registered prospectus, investment statement and advertising in anticipation of the new requirements. All registered prospectus and investment statements must contain the NBDT's credit rating as well as information that enables investors to understand the meaning and context of the credit rating. (Click here for more information.) The new requirements are aimed at helping depositors understand the risks associated with where they deposit and/or invest their money.
New Zealand's credit unions expect additional legislative reforms in 2010, which started with four documents released by regulatory bodies. Two documents that specifically address the NBDT sector include draft regulations for new capital requirements and a consultation paper on proposed liquidity regulations. There continues to be industry consultation on anti-money laundering reforms ahead of last year's passage of regulations under the Anti-Money Laundering Act. Unfortunately, legislative reforms that would enable credit unions to raise permanent capital from its membership and external sources have been delayed on the parliamentary timetable together with other reforms for mutual institutions.
Source: NZACU, www.nzacu.org.nz
United States: CUs Request Increased Business Lending Cap
Regulatory restructuring in the United States, as well as regulatory relief for U.S. credit unions with respect to business lending and capital requirements, appear to be inching closer to the finish line.
The Credit Union National Association (CUNA) and other credit union stakeholders are asking the U.S. Congress to pass legislation which would increase federally-insured credit unions' member-business lending cap from 12.25% to 25% of assets. This change could lead to at least $10 billion in new credit union lending to small businesses without using any taxpayer money, and could potentially create as many as 100,000 new jobs.
In addition, credit unions are seeking authority for all federally-insured credit unions to count subordinated debt as regulatory capital, as allowed under the Basel II protocol. Currently, only corporate credit unions and low-income credit unions may count subordinated debt as regulatory capital in the U.S. These measures appear to be gaining support in Congress, but it is unclear when, or if, these initiatives will be adopted into law.
In December 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an omnibus financial regulatory overhaul bill called The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 (H.R. 4173). The U.S. Senate, however, is expected to release its own omnibus financial regulatory overhaul bill in early March, which brings the future of H.R. 4173 into doubt. Based on a similar draft bill released by the Senate last year, it is likely that the Senate omnibus bill will propose fewer changes to the financial regulatory system than H.R. 4173 does.
The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) is continuing to receive comment letters from the public regarding the agency's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to restructure the U.S. corporate credit union system (corporate credit unions are institutions which serve the investment and liquidity needs of so-called natural person credit unions; NCUA placed the two largest U.S. corporate credit unions, U.S. Central and WesCorp, under government conservatorship in March 2009). The proposed regulation would require corporate credit unions to become Basel I compliant, restrict their investment powers, and require stringent asset and liability duration matches. CUNA is generally supportive of the proposed rule but plans to submit a comment letter suggesting modifications that would enhance corporate credit unions' ability to provide services to the natural person credit unions which are their members.
Source: CUNA, www.cuna.coop
World News: Basel Committee Proposes Measures to Strengthen Global Capital
A consultative document titled Strengthening the Resilience of the Banking Sector issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision proposes to improve the quality of capital by redefining tier 1 and tier 2 capital and eliminating tier 3 capital. The Basel II framework for the first time specifically mentions the unique capital structure of financial cooperatives. WOCCU is currently preparing a comment letter asking for a proportionate regime for credit unions. Comments are due April 16.
The reform package covers the following key areas:
Raising the quality, consistency and transparency of the capital base
The committee's goal is to ensure that banks move to a higher capital standard that promotes long- term stability and sustainable growth, creating a banking system that will be in better position to absorb losses. In terms of the quality of capital, the Basel Committee proposes that tier 1 capital be defined as common shares and retained earnings. Innovative hybrid capital instruments will be phased out and tier 3 capital instruments eliminated. The committee further proposes to enhance capital base transparency by requiring institutions to disclose the capital elements in specific reported accounts. The committee proposes strengthening the capital requirements for counterparty credit-risk exposures arising from derivatives, repurchase agreements and securities financing activities.
Reducing procyclicality and promoting countercyclical buffers
The committee has proposed capital buffers resulting in a countercyclical capital framework that will help stabilize the banking system and dampen rather than amplify economic and financial shocks. The committee is also promoting more forward-looking provisioning based on expected losses, which captures actual losses more transparently and is less procyclical than the current "incurred loss" provisioning model.
Supplementing the risk-based capital requirement with a leverage ratio
This will help contain the build-up of excessive leverage in the banking system and introduce additional safeguards against model risk and measurement error.
Next steps
The Basel Committee will be conducting impact assessments of these proposed rules throughout 2010, with a goal finalizing them by year end and phasing in implementation by the end of 2012.
World News: Basel Committee Consults On Strengthened Liquidity Framework
The Basel Committee has developed a proposal on international framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring by supervisory authorities. Although the framework's scope is intended for internationally active banks, it could be applied more broadly to a variety of institutions, including financial cooperatives. WOCCU is working with its members to respond to this proposal by April 16.
The proposed framework is a follow-up to the Principles for Sound Liquidity Risk Management and Supervision, published by the committee in September, and seeks to further strengthen financial institutions' liquidity cushion.
World News: Basel Committee Consults on Microfinance and Core Principles for Supervision
In February, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision along with the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor issued a consultative document titled Microfinance Activities and the Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision. The paper includes outcomes of a Basel Committee survey which assessed whether and to what extent the Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision should be adjusted for institutions involved in microfinance activities. Financial cooperatives are referenced throughout the document. It represents the Basel Committee's first formal recognition of microfinance and its thinking on how the Core Principles of Effective Banking Supervision need to be scaled, adopted or enhanced to deal with financial cooperatives and microfinance activities.
WOCCU is meeting with the Basel Committee staff on this proposal and will provide formal comments by the May 7 deadline.
World News: New Basel Committee Capital and Liquidity Proposal Webinar Scheduled
Don't miss this chance to learn about the latest Basel Committee capital and liquidity proposals and what they mean for credit unions. On Wednesday, April 7, 2010, WOCCU will host a free webinar for members and regulators. Karl Cordewener, the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision's deputy secretary general, will discuss the proposal and where international standards are heading. For more details and to sign up, visit: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/120781770


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Our stripe contest continues! Reader Okor sends this, writing, "Believe me, this picture was NOT easy to get, what with my dog being super-fast and all."
No stuffed dogs were hurt while taking this picture. What's going on? We're giving away a copy of Xbox 360 game Race Pro.
Racing stripes make race cars go faster. Face it, they do. Just look at Race Pro's box art. Here's the contest: Put racing stripes on something - anything*!
Racing stripes on a phone? It goes faster. Racing stripes on a cat? It goes faster. Racing stripes on a mop? That's right, it goes faster.
Entries must be 807 pixels wide and in JPEG format. There needs to be a Kotaku sign in the photo as well. Please send entries to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom.
Winner gets a copy of Race Pro. Losers get INTERNET FAME. Continues ends this Sunday.
*Note: You actually have to put stripes on something - Photoshop doesn't count!


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Feud Breaks Out in Michigan Over Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants
Wyoming, Michigan – A civil war of sorts is underway in Michigan over how to handle undocumented immigrants who are receiving a two-year reprieve from deportation under an Obama administration program.
At issue is whether these immigrants, brought illegally to the United States as minors, should be allowed to obtain driver's licenses, which under Michigan law require lawful U.S. presence.
Michigan's Secretary of State, Ruth Johnson, recently ordered that beneficiaries of the Obama administration's so-called deferred action program not be allowed to obtain licenses.
That makes Michigan the third state, besides Arizona and Nebraska, to bar deferred action recipients from getting licenses.
But some political leaders in the state are saying Johnson's order should be rescinded, and are asking Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican who has moderate views on immigration, to step in.
Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano, who authored a letter sent to Snyder last week, was quoted in the Detroit Free Press as saying: "I think what she's done is illegal. It also sends the wrong message" to immigrants.
Snyder said that unlike other, more densely populated states, Michigan does not have a sweeping public transportation system, and that having a car is a necessity. Roughly 23,000 immigrants in Michigan could be eligible for the program, said the Detroit Free Press. Nationally, more than 1 million are believed to be eligible to apply.
Ficano's letter to the governor was sent on behalf of other political officials and immigrant advocacy groups.
The president's initiative, which was launched in August, allows undocumented immigrants brought as minors and who are younger than 31 to apply for the deportation reprieve, as long as they meet other criteria, such as not having a criminal record. The program, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, allows those who are approved for it to obtain limited benefits such as a work permit and driver's licenses.
Robert Alvarez, an attorney, was quoted in the Detroit Free Press as saying that Michigan should not treat undocumented immigrants like Arizona does – Arizona has taken one of the most hard-line approaches to immigrants who not in the country lawfully.
"There's some sort of anti-immigrant animus from the secretary of state," he said, according to the newspaper.
The standoff between the Obama administration's program and some Republican state officials' vows to limit benefits to DACA immigrants comes as Republicans are rethinking their hard-line positions on undocumented immigrants -- positions that were viewed by many Hispanics as anti-Latino and which many political experts say contributed to GOP presidential challenger Mitt Romney's defeat in the election.
Many Republican leaders, including several who campaigned for Romney, say the take-no-prisoners rhetoric by the candidate and many others in the party further alienated Latinos, who already leaned toward Democrats. Since the elections on Nov. 6, the GOP has engaged in discussions about softening their tone on immigration and supporting less hard-line approaches to the issue.
Johnson's staff has said that DACA recipients are getting a reprieve from deportation, but not legal status, and that is why they don't qualify for licenses.
"Michigan law requires legal presence, that someone be here legally," said Johnson spokeswoman Gisgie Gendreau, according to the newspaper. "The federal government has said that DACA does not grant legal status, so we can't issue a driver's license or state ID to DACA participants."
"We rely on the feds to determine whether someone is here legally or not," she added. "We're just following their direction."
A spokeswoman for the governor said that Synder supports Johnson's decision.
"Both U.S. Customs and Immigration Services and Homeland Security have made it clear that 'deferred action' is not legal status," said Synder spokeswoman Sara Wurfel, according to the Detroit Free Press.
DACA recipients in Michigan and other states say they are anxious to contribute to a country that they consider their true home, because it is where they grew up and came of age. They say they are happy they can work and pay taxes, but that not being able to drive would make it virtually impossible for many of them to hold a job.
"I'm not happy at all about this," the newspaper quoted 17-year-old DACA recipient Javier Contreras as saying. "I had my hopes up with the deferred action. ... I'm glad I can go to college and work legally, but what's the point if we can't drive?"
In the summer, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman, both Republicans, announced they would deny driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants who qualified for DACA.
"They shouldn't be here if they're not here legally," Heineman told reporters. "That's the whole problem, and I've talked to you guys about this many, many times. When you don't secure the border, have a speedier technological way to legal immigration, and you won't address the issue that we've got 15 million illegal immigrants in the country right now, we end up with these situations."
Meanwhile, the Arizona Republic reports that state motor vehicle records it obtained shows that Brewer's executive order barring DACA immigrants from obtaining driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards runs counter to a common practice in the state of granting licenses to other classifications of people who have work permits but are not legal permanent residents.
"Over the past eight years, Arizona issued licenses and ID cards nearly 40,000 times to non-citizens who had federal employment-authorization documents," the newspaper said. "Since Brewer's Aug. 15 order, the state has issued more than 1,000 driver's licenses or ID cards to non-citizens with work permits while denying licenses to those with work permits issued through Obama's program."


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Comments on Introducing the CSS3 Multi-Column Module
53 Reader CommentsBack to the Article
Oh, my! Don't use multicolumn layout on screen! Pleeeease!
I like how it looks in print preview in Opera 8.5
Peter-Paul Koch has done a test suite for the new column CSS commands:
Can the tests in the A List Apart examples be made to resize dynamically? It would be great if they did (when the browser window size is changed by any amount). Otherwise we might as well stick break tags in each column to get the same effect. :-)
Sorry, I meant divide the columns by hand using separate divs, not break tags. Too busy with InDesign which has column flow built-in.
Let the up and down scrolling commence!
I have to say the concept here is very sound, particularly in formatting for print styles, however I feel that some testing will need to be put in to produce sound web implementation. I must admit, after reading Egor Kloos' comment the prospect of up and down scrolling does not sound particularly appetising…
Columnar layout is going to work much better with pages designed to scroll left to right rather than up and down.
Up and down scrolling is just going to be tedious with columnar layout. But if pages show a series of columns no taller than the viewport, but the page scrolls left to right - this may turn out to be a very nice way of making sites that are easier to read and closer to physical media.
Will require some development on the browser, HID front to make it workable though.
If this does not quicken your appetite for future css features nothing will…
... dictates that one should not specify the number of columns, but instead the number of words per line. Given that the motivation is to maximise readability by setting the number of words per line to a reasoable number and the fact that the viewport size is variable, it seesm to me that the best solution would involve specifying the number of words per line and make the layout engine determine how many columns are needed. Further, perhaps there should be a preference to say whether horizontal scrolling should be used instead of up-and-down scrolling (i.e. the engine lays out the text so that the preferred method of scrolling is required if necessary).
Thanks for posting up this article, I can see this being useful not in implementing print styles as such but just doing the normal web tasks like having a list of related links to the right hand side. Yes that could be done with floats, but I'm thinking more along the lines of getting table based developers to cross over, where the mindset isn't float left float right clear both, and that can only be a good thing.
I see CSS3 columns as mainly useful within print stylesheets. On paper, there's a benefit to fitting as many readable lines on as few sheets as possible. On screen, it doesn't matter so much, as the scrollable browser is unlimited.
As noted above, the text-at-viewport-height sideways scrolling approach where it wraps into as many columns as needed is the only real layout I can see succeeding onscreen. Mozilla's implementation does support this, where you set the "height" of an element and the "column-count" is adjusted automatically, but sadly it's not part of the W3 specs (IIRC, from PPK's tests).
bq. Let the up and down scrolling commence!
Quite. Let's have no more of that, thank you very much. It's bad enough when someone is lazy and uploads a multi-column PDF for screen reading, but anyone *deliberately* *choose* such a layout deserves a good smack!
Yes, I can see the benefits for multi-column layouts for short passages or lists, as in the other article this month, and in print stylesheets - but _please_ don't encourage people to use multi-column "just because they can". The example pages you've given in this article not only require vertical scrolling, but horizontal scrolling as well on my PC - a bad, bad, bad idea.
I found this article quite interesting. I agree with "C R's comment":http://www.alistapart.com/comments/css3multicolumn?page=1#8 that if we intend to have 8 to 12 words on a line, then the 'best' way of saying how wide a column should be is by choosing the number of words desired. Of course, technically this would be very difficult: how wide is a word? How wide are 8 words? Should each column be the same size? I think this would prove difficult to standardize. Certainly when reading a newspaper you don't want to see every column with a different width, based on the average number of words per line in that column! So I agree in principle, but in practice I think this would prove too unwieldy for those defining the standards, those writing the browsers and those designing websites to use succesfully.
I decided to download the Firefox 1.5 beta in order to see how Gecko would display "Kevin's example pages":http://www.csscripting.com/css-multi-column/ . However after turning off JavaScript in Firefox the pages do not display columns at all but render as one big block of text. I tried the "Mozilla test page":http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2005/03/gecko_18_for_we.html cited in the article to see if that would render with columns and it did.
Is this a mistake on my part, or is this a known "feature" of the script?
I'm really glad to see a great artical addressing the problems of line length, scrolling, and space utilization; thanks for the excellent work, Cedric.
In case anyone is interested, I have another "take on these same problems":http://www.sumulshah.com/projects/codex/ .
By the way, I noticed that when ordered lists get split across columns, the numbering gets reset to (1) in the second column in Safari (this is something I had to deal with in my approach too).
Thanks for posting this interesting article and keep bringing more CSS3 goodies. Personally I didn't know Firefox 1.5 beta supported CSS3 features already…
Gonna start playing with it.
The CSS3 module does allow you to specify a column width and leave column count as "auto". In this case, the number of columns used will be determined by dividing the total element size by the column width. CSS doesn't have a "number of words" unit, but "em" should be sufficient to provide a consistent width even with page scaling.
If you're trying to use Firefox 1.5 to play with column layouts, remember to use "-moz-" before all attributes. The policy over at Mozilla is to prepend attribute names with "-moz-" if they're not yet a recommendation.
I found it very useful to use this technique even on screen maybe it is not familiar yet but I think it will be great the only concern is to make sure that the columns height are not more than the browser height to avoid scrolling up & down more than one time.
Thanks for the neato preview in any case.
Real support for columns of content is one of the sexiest new things I can think of, but here's a couple of thoughts -
What about orphans (sentence fragments left over from paragraphs in previous columns) and hyphenated words? There should be properties for that as well… allow or disallow, tolerance levels, that sort of thing.
Also - what if you don't want the content to flow from one column to the next? And if anyone says, "That's what tables / extra divs are for," they get shot - both of those are substitutes for an actual solution.
Honestly, I know it's a cliche when someone comments in a manner of "I've been thinking of this myself…". But, I have, because I am working on a new newspaper style portal design, and I want to transfer as much of the newspaper elements I can without affecting usability and design logic. I intended to use at least 2 columns of text in eac article display because I hate scrolling a long way down, in a single column layout, when the layout is fixed width. I don't actually mind the scrolling, but the fact that I have to go back up again to reach navigation. (position: fixed; and such things are rare in this kind of sites)
I originally intended to create some sort of a php function to divide my text to columns, but then the images would be a problem and so on. Thank You Cédric Savarese, for You have saved me a lot of time with this.
Now, as for the up-down, left-right scrolling, I see a possible solution in seperating the content, not just into columns, but also verticaly. This way, we would have colums that have, at most, height around 70-80% of the viewport. This way, the scrolling would go only "downwards". And you would not have to scroll often. Ofcourse, the problem of implementation still remains, but, it doesn't seem imposible. Does it?
Judgments on usefulness aside, I find it humorous that so many Web publishers are longing for a way to easily display content flowing across multiple columns, while at the same time that newspaper publishers are dreaming of pushing content on electronic paper in single, scrolling columns.
Should there be a column height limit as well, to prevent any up and down scrolling?
Good work, Cédric. Thanks for bringing attention to the CSS3 multi-column implementations in today's browsers!
I would have enjoyed reading a summary of your script's columnizing logic. From looking at the DOM of a test case it's apparent that you're dividing the text block into a series of divs, one per column. When a paragraph is split across columns, you're inserting an empty span at the bottom of the first column to force that last line to justify. I'll read your script to see what other rules you're implementing.
One point in your line-breaking logic to repair: in your "Test Case 2":http://www.csscripting.com/css-multi-column/example2.php the last line of column 1 is broken before the comma:
*Construction of the RMS* <*i*>*Titanic*</*i*>
, *funded by the American*...
—perhaps the comma isn't considered part of the preceding word because of the intervening HTML close-tag.
Seeing how unsightly justified text looks in narrow columns brings to mind the various tools & rules that typographers use to eliminate rivers of whitespace when setting justified text, such as breaking hyphenated words across lines and implementing discretionary hyphens, things you might consider including in the scope of your columnizing script if it's to be useful professionally. I look forward to seeing future renditions!
Columns can be very usefull. Many pages of quality would be better with text in columns.
But it will be a problem, if a column is higher than the viewport.
Anyway, the article is rather good.
Line 83 (*function loadCssCache*) of the file above:
if(typeof xmlhttp.status == 'undefined' ||
xmlhttp.status == 200 ||
xmlhttp.status == 304
makes it impossible to use it offline via the file: protocol with gecko based browsers (tested with Firefox 1.0.7) as the returned xmlhttp.status is 0;
if(typeof xmlhttp.status == 'undefined' ||
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xmlhttp.status == 200 ||
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 or  is not allowed: it renders well in the preview, obviously it doesn't on submit… don't know what to do - I uploaded my msg "here":http://msg.byteshift.de/css3-multi-columns-by-js/
Note to the editors: the post above rendered differently too in preview. You may want to make my first post readable and delete the rest.
The technique here is good and I thought the article was quite interesting. It's experimental, but I can see it being very useful for print CSS specifically.
I would only suggest we think very hard before using it on screen.
I always thought columnar layout was appealing purely because it was difficult to achieve in a 'proper' way. Making it simple removes the appeal of using entirely for me. I certainly dislike it from a user's perspective.
After fidling for a couple of weeks with the idea of a columnar layout with a CMS like Textpattern, you come around and make something that works wonderfully. My only question is… Why couldn't you do it earlier!
Seriously though, thanks. I thought my head was going to explode.
Hey Cedric,
Nice work and thanks for the examples. I have one questions since I'm already using Dean Edwards latest IE7 scripts to enhance the native css support in IE. Would you be able to recommend an approach to providing your css3 enhancements as an additional module that could be loaded along with his css3 module? It looks like you base your functionality in part on his cssquery which IE7 also does. Seems like it should be possible to separate out the css3 enhancements so cssquery is common and this would be an extension to the IE7 project. That would be really handy. Any ideas would be appreciated. Again nice work.
I noticed that the script does the DOM wizardry by creating extra DIVs given random six letter combinations (like "ufsvmb"). I suppose making them a bit more meaningful would be helpful (besides, what about the unlikely event of a collision, eh?)
Personally, I think that columns will open up the way to more paged forms of web presentation: splitting content up into several pages (something that personally irks me). The thing about doing that is that it makes things a bit easier when you want to bookmark, but I prefer my scrolling to your page turning any day.
i find the multi column idea very good. i would really appreciate it if someone could post some templates or example easy to integrate. Perhaps i can include them on my "css":http://www.mycelly.com site ...
Thanks for the article Cédric, I'm finding it very useful in a current project. But I've run into a problem where your script seems to clash with at least one other script I'm using. I have a script in place that allows me to unobtrusively send external links to new windows. This script stops working with the multi-column script in place. If I rearrange the order, placing the external.js script last, the multi-column script stops working. I'm not script-informed (graphic designer with almost no coding abilities, sorry) so if there's a way around the problem I'd be happy to here about it. (Otherwise I'll have to skip one of the scripts, with a sigh and a tear, possibly.)
I want to try out a horizontal blog using this… I think it would probably be a nice break from normal vertical pages.
Hey, just wrote an article about how Flash designers and CSS Purists are similar here:
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The message title says it all!
I am a cross-over from print design (magazines & junk-mail) - so hearing about this just gave me shivers! Imagine!!!!! A page that reads like a magazine—REALLY!
One thing that does concern me is the scrolling. I have made sites that keep the scrolling to a minimum, and am going to be experimenting with CSS to see if I can do the same.
Oh… THANK YOU for the Suckerfish Dropdown! Doing Velocity templates with drop menus was a real challenge until I found your tutorial! Now I have more time to experiment rather than debug!
Aloha nui!
I would really, *really* like both a column-height property, and not least a column-max-height property, last one making it possible to set the max-height of the columns (surprise!). If the content then overflows the columns, there should be created 'more columns' _vertically_.
That would actually be _useful_ for something, quite contrary to what you achieve in Firefox 1.5 (RC1), when setting the height property on the 'column-element', giving you more columns horizontally (which is an understandable behaviour though, as it's height, not column-height).
I just thought it was ironic how the following line was placed into the article, yet the line after it had 14 words:
Between 8 and 12 words seems to be the
On, a more serious note, great insight, but will we really be able to use CSS3 for some time?
I think this is a great way to make large amounts of text more readable (subject to the columns not being longer than the length of the viewport, of course). I'm definitely considering using it on a new website I'm just starting work on.
One quirk I've noticed though is that the text in the first column has some whitespace above it, whereas the others do not which throws off the alignment of the text lines. This is readily visible in Test Case 5.
Any way of sorting this out?
My first column ends in the middle of bullet number 4 and is continued in the second column; it is renumbered as bullet 3. And again, the second column ends in the middle of bullet number 6, yet is reassigned bullet number 3 in the third column.
Quite unexpected, indeed.
I publish my blog through blogger. I added the articall class to my linked css stylesheet. I then added the script below the link to my stylesheet. Then added a
 div around my post. Still no worky. www.ksauce.com Let me know if you know why. firstname.lastname@example.com
I remember wishing that CSS could do something just like this. I think if the major browsers will impelement this in a reliable fashion, then it will increase the rate at which designers drop their nested tables in favor of semantic markup.
With the article script and indeed with the CSS3, what is really required is the abilty to set any element as no_break_within.
Using the javascript supplied you can fool the javascript with
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text

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to keep the text together. Unfortunately the side effect is that the last column tends to be the longest (at a guess the split point is set to the beginning of one of the elements).
What is really required is if classname="nobreak" or somesuch the split point becomes the end of the element.
Another niggle which is required to be truly successful is orphan and widow controls although I fully realise the complexity this could cause.
Thanks again for a useful article.
First, 8 to 12 words per line is NOT the "ideal" or even magical number. It actually depends on a few variables - the entire length of the column, the point size of the type, etc. There is a technical and mathematical way of determining proper word count on a line…but I digress.
My point here is that this feature is potentially very valuable. It must be used in moderation though. Usability concerns arrise as well. One major difference between print and web, is that a web browser scrolls. BUT I have hopes for this and hope it will become more of a standard in the future. Even if a bunch of junk comes from it, it merely helps sort out good design from bad… though I should be careful with a wish like that, people start to forget good design :( Anyway, nice article and let's keep our fingers crossed.
I have an unordered list I needed to dynamically break into 2 columns. This solution works almost beautifully. While it does split the unordered list into two columns it breaks the href tag on the first entry of the 2nd column leaving that particular item unlinked.
Fixed the issue. Line 26 contains the variable "splitableTags" - I removed 'A' from the list of HTML tags and all functions as it should now.
In the example test case 6 on this site you can see that the list item which goes to the top of the next column, does not work as a hyperlink.
I am trying to use the script to do a very similar thing, and it does not work on my site either.
I hope you can fix this, since I would like to use the script very much.
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Mr. Bruce Taylor (Chair), Mr. Rad Lovett, Ms. Joan Newton,
Mr. Lanny Russell, Mr. John Delaney, Mr. Hugh Greene
Mr. Matthew Brockelman, Mr. Oscar Munoz
Chair Taylor recognized a quorum and called the meeting to order.
Chair Taylor asked for a MOTION for approval of the June 21 minutes. The MOTION was offered by Trustee Newton and seconded by Trustee Greene. The minutes were approved as presented.
Chair Taylor offered the opportunity for open comments. There were no open comments from the public.
Vice President Serwatka presented the proposed amendments to the 2011-2012 tuition and fees regulation for approval. This included an overall 15% tuition increase. Chair Taylor asked for a MOTION to approve the amendment as presented. The MOTION was offered by Trustee Russell and a second was made by Trustee Newton. The MOTION passed unanimously.
Vice President Shuman presented the audits of the four Direct Support Organizations at the University. The audits were completed by Dixon, Hughes, Goodman, LLC. All of the DSO Audits were clean and Vice President Shuman noted the following highlights, noting that more could be found in the Management & Discussion Analysis section of each audit:
This item was presented for review only. No additional action was required.
Chair Taylor asked Mr. Berry to present the Office of Internal Auditing Annual Report. Mr. Berry explained that the department has a professional staff of three and a budget of $313,000. Services are divided largely into three groups – traditional audit (73%), consultations (5%) and investigations (1%). Management effectively resolved 94% of all six outstanding audit issues. Seven consulting engagements were completed. Four fraud allegations were investigated.
Chair Taylor asked Robert Berry to present the Office of Internal Auditing Audit Plan. Mr. Berry shared the 2011-2012 plan which includes six planned engagements; application security, financial aid, Osprey 1Card, grade integrity, fuel usage and server discovery & security.
Chair Taylor asked for a MOTION to approve the audit plan as presented. Trustee Russell made a MOTION to approve the plan as presented. Trustee Greene seconded the MOTION and the MOTION was approved.
Chair Taylor invited Robert Berry to provide a status update for this year's audit activities. Mr. Berry noted that the Osprey1Card audit should be completed before the next BOT meeting but several of the audits have been delayed. He explained that in regards to the Osprey 1Card audit, risk was assessed by reviewing the following factors: initial set-up, distribution, 3rd party management and payment card industry standards. Trustee Lovett invited Mr. Berry to share the complete process in selecting a particular area to audit at a future BOT meeting.
Chair Taylor asked Robert Berry to conduct the annual review of the Audit Charter for the Office of Internal Auditing. He noted that the charter adheres to the state guidelines and requires re-ratification each year. The committee was asked to review the charter for the next meeting.
Chair Taylor asked Robert Berry to conduct the annual review of the Audit Charter for the BOT Finance & Audit Committee. This charter requires re-ratification each year. The committee was asked to review the charter for the next meeting.
Florida Statutes authorize the University's Board of Trustees to charge off or settle uncollectable accounts each year. Chair Taylor asked Vice President Shuman to update the Board on the accounts receivable charge-offs for June 30, 2011. Vice President Shuman provided a comparison of the write-offs for the past 2 years.
The information provided required no additional action.
Chair Taylor invited Vice President Shuman to present the quarterly budget report, which includes E&G funds as well as auxiliary funds. She noted that the operating budget is comprised of 50% state monies, 10% lottery monies and 40% tuition fees. She reported that the University currently has $4.2M of recurring reserves. At this point, no budgetary issues are anticipated during the end of the fiscal year.
Chair Taylor asked Vice President Shuman to present the treasurer's report. As of June 30, the net cash balance was $111.3M. Investments for the year totaled $113.1M with a 2.4% total return.
Chair Taylor adjourned the meeting at 2:02 p.m.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 145 diseños de 47 diseñadores freelance.
Digioffice+Cafe (or DigiOffice & Cafe) - flexible on formatting
Digioffice+cafe is a Houston startup entrepreneur hub. A two floor building near downtown Houston is being converted into a cafe/bar on the first floor and a coworking office on the second floor with conference room with electronic whiteboards, receptionist, and many desks for freelancers/entrepreneurs and anyone who needs a nice place to collaborate, create and work.
Digioffice+cafe will serve as a creative workspace where you can always feel focused and inspired. It will provide everything necessary to act as daily office, or an escape from the mundane office enviorment - whether it's a library of reference material, wifi, complimentary coffee and tea, or scanners, fax machines and videoteleconferencing.
The building includes three separate outdoor workspace and cafe spaces as well - including a rooftop patio which will most often be rented out for corporate gatherings.
The primary focus will be on entrepreneurs who don't want to work from home or need to have meetings with clients in a nice enviorment and a central location, employees who need focus, or students who want to study.
The downstairs cafe will be open to the public and push creativity through art, music, and fine drinks and food.
We are near the convention center, so will often get professionals needing workspace for a day or two as well.
We expect our target audience to be very involved in social media.
I'm giving creative freedom here. I expect something text based, with a strong focus in typography. I believe they should be light, modern colors. We will use many light woods in the facility, as well as have an feng shui inspiration.
Here's some links to different coworking articles:
The building has exposed brick as well...so something to keep in mind when building out the logo.
The logo should be able to be used well in print, as well as on a sign on the building.
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Ghana Census, 1984 (FamilySearch Historical Records)
|This article describes a collection of historical records available at FamilySearch.org.
Access the records: Ghana, Census 1982-1984 .
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Collection Time Period
The census collection of Ghana covers the year 1984.
Record Description
The census was recorded in census registers, which include a title page summary and the enumeration pages with detailed information for each address taken. The text of the census is written in English.
Record Content
The key genealogical facts found in this census records are:
- Detailed address of house
- Name of town
- Full names of usual members present at the house on census night
- Gender, age, birthplace, nationality, education, and occupation of each person listed
- Relationship to head of household
- Names of visitors present on census night, their gender, the relationship to the head of household, and their usual residence
- Names of usual members absent on census night, their gender, age, relationship to head of household, address on census night, and for how long absent
How to Use the Records
If unable to find information in civil or church registers, the census is the next good source to find vital and other interesting information. This census has a treasure of information which could allow a researcher to continue research in other vital sources.
Record History
The 1984 Ghana census was conducted with 140 local councils as administrative units. The enumeration registers have the imprinted year of 1982; however the census was conducted in March of 1984. The statistics for the census in 1984 recorded a population figure of 12.3 million inhabitants. The greatest concentration of population in 1984 was to the South of the Kwahu Plateau.
Why the Record Was Created
The census allows the government to gather statistical information on the growth of the population and many other social factors.
Record Reliability
The census is reliable as the person who provided the information. Therefore, it is recommended to use this information as a way to continue research in other vital records such as civil and church records.
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By Nancy Hastings
HILLSDALE � It didn�t take long for artist Gudi Gilbert to come up with a logo design for the newly formed CASA, Inc. in Hillsdale�� it just took love.
Gilbert serves on the board for the organization formed for area children who have been abused, neglected or abandoned and are entering the foster-care system each year.
�When they asked me to come up with the logo, I knew there was a nationwide symbol used, but they (the board) wanted something personal for Hillsdale County,� Gilbert said.
Gilbert specializes in a form of paper cutting called scherenschnitt. She learned the art form at the age of 14 while growing up in Germany. The unique art form uses black and white paper to create silhouettes, which can be either flat or three-dimensional.
Locally, Gilbert has used her talents to illustrate a friend�s book, she�s created placemats for an area restaurant and her artwork decorates numerous businesses and homes in the area.
After spending several days thinking about the logo idea, Gilbert sat down with a pair of cutting scissors and went to work, getting �right to the heart of the matter.�
�I was thinking love and how those children need love,� Gilbert said. �Love portrays a heart, so I thought about them trying to touch the heart.�
The logo shows a large heart with children playing inside and outside the shape, while trying to reach for the heart strings.
One child has a doll in her hand and a dog also appears in the drawing.
�These are things that go with kids,� she explained. �These are kids that never really had love, so they try to touch it by reaching for the hearts.�
Gilbert said the CASA organization is run by volunteers who speak up for these children and make sure they get the help they need through the court system. These Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteers work with the children to ease their journey through the court system, she said.
The CASA program is housed at the Hillsdale County Intermediate School District�s Bacon Street location, which has provided a room and desk for the organization.
Heather Tritchka currently serves as executive director and her position will eventually become a paid one, with others working solely on a volunteer basis.
By working with the children in foster care, CASA volunteers provide support, guidance and personalized expertise to assist each child in finding a safe and permanent place to call home.
Tritchka said the logo will appear on business cards and pamphlets and is a good representation of what the program stands for.
�Every child�s heart needs to be touched by love,� Tritchka said. �We want to do more than just meet the child�s needs, we want to touch their heart with love.�
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The San Luis Obispo Mini Maker Faire will celebrate doing and making again for its second annual event at Mission Plaza! This year, Cal Poly Science Cafe will feature Pete Hawkes, an interaction designer and artist based in Los Angeles. Pete will be on stage at intervals throughout the day leading us in a Binary Dance.
We'll do some fun dance moves to toggle a symbolic bit value in a simple binary sequence: 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16. The dance is awkward, but a blast, and will show how computers store complex data with simple 1's and 0's.
Here's an example of his recent work, which Pete introduces this way:
I had the opportunity recently to do some work on a new interactive album from a Philip Glass / Beck collaboration called _REWORK. Good friend David Wicks was hired by Snibbe Studio (of Bjork iOS app fame) to create the app.
I created a series of visualizations in Processing that were used as jumping-off points for several of the tracks on the album. I lucked out and got to spend most of my time on Beck's 21-minute track NYC—easily my favorite track on the album. The tests above use keystrokes to choreograph connections between independent particle subsystems. Final iterations in the app were rebuilt by David in Cinder to leverage events and information from MIDI, SVG, and XML.
More about Pete, from petehawkes.com:
Pete Hawkes holds an MFA in Design Media Arts from UCLA and a BFA in Graphic Design from Brigham Young University. He has designed interactive experiences for Nokia, Ogilvy Interactive, KFC, Liz Claiborne, Boeing, and the Sci-Fi Channel. Pete's work has been presented at the AGIdeas Design Conference in Melbourne, Verge: the OgilvyOne Global Digital Summit, and FILE in Sao Paulo. He currently teaches part-time at UCLA Extension and works at Oblong Industries in Los Angeles.


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With a cool back cutout, exposed metal zipper and hot tribal print, this bebe day dress is a flirty way to punch up your dress collection. Bodice offers boning to maintain structure. Lined. Team it with a white pump for an added pop. Center back to hem: 21"/53 cm.
- 100% polyester
- Machine wash
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- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a US size S
Aztec Tiered Print Dress is rated out of 5 by 6.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Yulechka86 from Wrong size This dress is too large for me. It is so fabulous, but wrong size... I'll offer it to my sister-in-law or will return it.
Date published: 2012-12-28
Rated 5 out of 5 by irpop from great dress! This dress has an amazing fit. I am 5'7' and 130lb and bought size S.
Date published: 2012-10-17
Rated 5 out of 5 by lovebebe_3 from Cabo Love this dress! Will b wearing it to a wedding in Cabo San Lucas n i think it'll b perfect. The fabric is very light weight n hangs well. Im 5'1 100lbs 32C n XXS fits perfectly! The boning on the bust area supports u very well :) will wear w/ blk wedges. Love love love!!! Go get it! U wont regret :)
Date published: 2012-07-10
Rated 4 out of 5 by lisanne from "Super cute, but runs big" "I bought this in the Aztec print. It's really super cute. However, I'm going to have to take it to alterations and have it taken in through the back because it's not fitted to my body at all. It's very loose in fact. I am a tiny person and did buy the XXS. For reference, my measurements are 32-23-33, 90 lbs, 32B cup. I thought about sending it back, but it's really a cute dress and I have nothing in my closet like it."
Date published: 2012-06-21
Rated 5 out of 5 by terri_2 from Day to night So happy with Bebe..Have an up coming wedding with sandals in Jamaica and this dress is perfect.Quality clothes bought three other dresses too and 2 pairs of shoes and four shirts so excited..And the manger and staff at Bebe in Providence r the best they have been so helpful..Im not done ill be buying more..
Date published: 2012-05-04
Rated 4 out of 5 by lola_9 from Sizing! "I tried this on but actually wanted it in the solid orange color (was not available in the store). I am 5'4 and 100 lbs. - very thin person as well. I tried the XS, and the elastic in the back was way too big. I wish I could have tried an XXS, but it might not have fit either.This runs large in the back area, but if you can get it to fit, it's ADORABLE!!!"
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Whitecaps FC Girls Elite won their second game at the NCAA Final Four Showcase tournament by dominating Sting Blue of Texas 8-0.
The momentum the team built in their first match, in which they defeated FC Dallas 3-0 Thursday, carried over into the team's second game.
"After they built up their play, they just kept it rolling into this match," said Whitecaps FC Girls Elite head coach Jesse Symons. "We were really excited to play from minute one onwards. They created a lot of changes and overwhelmed the Sting team and made it difficult for them to really stop us."
It was Sessen Stevens who stole the show for the 'Caps, scoring three goals along with adding an assist.
While Stevens had a career game, the whole squad played a sharp team game, playing with terrific chemistry, said Symons.
In Thursday's match, the 'Caps came out hesitant and played a more individual game. Since scoring their first goal of the tournament, the nerves settled and the girls started playing for each other as a team.
This trend continued in a big way against Sting Blue. By playing as a team, the players have been able to showcase each other's talent, said Symons.
"At the beginning we were kind of shaky but then we calmed it down, we kept the ball a lot and we were doing really good combinations," said Rachel Jones, who had two assists. "The forwards are also making really good runs and supporting each other."
The scoring opened in the 21st minute when Chelsea Harkins took a pass from Margaret Hadley and made no mistake on the shot.
"It was really exciting, I was pretty happy with the goal. It was a team effort so that's good," said Harkins. "It's been great, I feel confident on the field, I think I've done some good things to impact the game."
She would add another goal in the 71st minute after volleying a corner kick from Jones.
Harkins would have a 3-point night, also adding an assist on one of Stevens' goals.
Other Whitecaps making the scoreboard included Alessia Azermadh with one goal, a goal and assist from Margaret Hadley, and a goal from Monika Levarsky.
With the success NCAA teams have had in finding talent from the Whitecaps' program in the past, schools now know to look out for teams coming out of the program.
"Players that have come through our program have played very well in University and are top players in college teams as well," said Symons.
LSU and Oregon State have both already given scholarships to grade 12 members of the Girls Elite team and will no doubt continue to keep an eye on the girls this weekend.
The team will play their final game of the showcase tomorrow. It's expected to be their toughest outing as they face the Texas State champions, the Dallas Texans.
The girls will also get the chance to watch the semi-final games of the college portion of the event that will feature Stanford -vs- North Carolina and Penn State -vs- Florida State.
Coach Symons says watching the games will be an invaluable experience for his players.
"It will really show them the best of the best in college soccer. There are perennial teams that every year they are having success. I think the players will definitely enjoy the games and will hopefully get really motivated for our next game.


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Pavlovsk (Russian: Пáвловск) is 30 km from Saint Petersburg (Russia), just to the south of Tsarskoye Selo. It is home to Pavlovsk Palace, one of the most splendid residences of the Russian imperial family. It is part of the World Heritage Site Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments.
The Pavlovsk palace is probably the best preserved of Russian imperial residences outside the capital. The neoclassical interior of the palace was faithfully restored after a fire in 1803. The damage sustained by the palace during the German occupation in 1941–1943, though considerable, was not as devastating as Peterhof and Tsarskoye Selo.


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As the clock winds down on 2012, Phoenix Racing, based in nearby Spartanburg, S.C., is looking ahead to the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup season, and it's going be a season full of changes.
As the clock winds down on 2012, Phoenix Racing, based in nearby Spartanburg, S.C., is looking ahead to the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup season, and it's going be a season full of changes.
"One of the biggest changes is the change in the Chevy body styles," Hendersonville's Steve Barkdoll, general manager of Phoenix Racing, said. "Sprint Cup is going to the Chevy SS and Nationwide to the Chevy Camaro. For a small team like us, that creates a lot more work, and our guys in the shop are doing an incredible job. They've been working non-stop to get ready for the season, and we've already got a couple of new cars in the shop that look really sharp."
Just like last year, Phoenix Racing will be using multiple drivers.
"For Daytona, we'll be going with Regan Smith, who also drives for Dale Jr.'s Nationwide team. Since Regan is committed to the Nationwide Series, he won't be able to run a full Cup schedule with us. We'll be looking to other drivers throughout the year, including A.J. Allmendinger again."
Last year, 2004 Cup champion Kurt Busch was Phoenix Racing's main driver, competing in 29 races in Sprint Cup and four in Nationwide, earning the team a win at the Nationwide race in July at Richmond.
Allmendinger competed in the final four Cup races, and two other drivers also took the wheel for owner James Finch last year: Smith for two and David Reutimann for one.
The team was able to run a full schedule (36 races) last season, but it's still searching for enough sponsors to do the same this year. So far, the team has enough sponsors to compete in 18 races in 2013, Finch said on Friday in an interview with News Channel 7 in Panama City Beach, Fla.
"We are going to start off the season like we plan on running a full Cup schedule. That's what we're hoping to do. We're also planning as of right now to run at least six or seven Nationwide races," Barkdoll said. "We're hoping to have some success early, and I think we will because these new body styles are going to level the playing field. With that success, I believe we'll see more sponsorship opportunities."
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Press: Teen Murdered in Oxford
Oxford EAGLE
Monday, December 12, 2011
Teen Murdered in Oxford
By Kelly Shackleton
Staff Writer
Police are investigating the murder of Katie Masters, age 17, who was found murdered in a convenience store bathroom near the new Oxford Skate Park.
Masters, 17, was discovered dead Sunday evening after Oxford resident Rosalie Hansen appealed to the station attendant to open the restroom door, which had been marked as out of order.
Hansen and Kangaroo Express worker Jimmy John Carnes discovered the body of young Katie Masters in a pool of blood surrounded by lit candles. It is unknown how long the body may have lain dead in the bathroom before being discovered.
According to the Yoknapatawpha County Sheriff's Department, Masters is believed to have been skating at the nearby Skate Park when she went to the store to purchase a snack of Funyuns. No suspects have been identified and no arrests had been made to date. Detectives are canvassing the skate park and have asked any skaters from the park that day to come forward.
In an interview with Oxford's Action 12 news, Corrie Townsend, the victim's best friend, described Katie as "full of life with an infectious smile that would light up any room" and said she was sure her friend left physical evidence on her killer.
"Katie's a fighter and a very tough person, so whoever did this to her definitely has marks on their body," said Townsend.


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Based on strong consumer demand, the Wildcat division of Forest River Inc., recently announced the introduction of a new fifth-wheel bunkhouse floorplan. According to a press release, the 303BHX is the shortest and lightest bunkhouse floorplan in the Wildcat fifth-wheel lineup, specifically designed to be paired with the fast-growing half-ton truck market.
The new Wildcat 303BHX features a distinctive island kitchen with solid-surface breakfast bar, built-in trashcan storage and hardwood bar stools. The bedroom offers single-level flush floors with over 6-foot 4-inch ceiling heights, private bathroom with skylight and a bedroom wardrobe slide room including a window for cross ventilation. With an available outside kitchen and party couch (giant dinette/sofa sleeper), custom options further extend this floorplan's versatility.
"Forest River's Wildcat brand has a long history of creating successful, best-selling bunk house floorplans. The new Wildcat 303BHX follows that tradition by offering a shorter length, lighter weight, price-point sensitive fifth-wheel bunkhouse without sacrificing features and livability," said Chris Barth, Wildcat division sales manager. "Our dealers have had great success with Wildcat's shorter and lighter offerings. This combination, along with competitive pricing, delivers fantastic opportunities for our customers."
In addition to lighter weights and competitive pricing, the 2014 Wildcat has standardized a number of features not being offered by their competition. "After months of development, we've achieved smaller sizes without any loss of content or appeal. Further, we created a half-ton towable fifth-wheel that will match or beat our competitor's price," Barth added. "With a standard feature set unmatched in our market segment, Wildcat remains our customer's best value for their investment."
Many brand name amenities are Wildcat standards instead of options, such as a 40-inch Toshiba HD TV, Corian solid-surface countertops, a Jensen 975 DVD audio/video system with digital iPod dock connector and HMDI connectivity, residential name-brand flooring (Congoleum linoleum and Shaw carpeting with R2X stain guard), the MOR/ryde CRE 3000 equalizer suspension and Dexter axles with E-Z Lube hubs. Custom 16-inch aluminum rims with 10-ply load range 'E' radial tires, 5-inch arched aluminum roof rafters, R+HEATSHIELD radiant barrier insulation, 2-inch thick AlumaCat vacuum-bonded sidewall construction, and fully-laminated floors on both levels with a Climatech heated underbelly further round out Wildcat's standard build.
Wildcat, a division of Forest River, Inc., was introduced in 2000 and has been a top 10 retailing fifth-wheel brand for the last 12 consecutive years according to Statistical Surveys Inc. of Grand Rapids, Mich. Based in Elkhart, Ind., Forest River offers a complete line of motorized and towable recreational vehicles, utility trailers, buses, boats and commercial vehicles.
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OMAK Okanogan edged Kettle Falls to claim the wrestling championship at the North Okanogan Holiday Invitational on Saturday.
"It was a real team win with everyone's effort contributing to the final team score," Okanogan coach Andy Knutson said after the Bulldogs went 23-13 in matches.
Okanogan, which was told at the meet it had won by two points, captured 17 matches by pin.
Jalen Moses (132 pounds), Corbin Ranck (160) and Dreton Acord (285) returned with bracket championships for the Bulldogs. Acord's pin at 285 sealed the victory.
Moses won all three of his matches by pin, including a fall in the finals over Brewster's Omar Castro, who won over the holiday at 138 pounds in Okanogan.
Raf Varelas of Brewster (145) received the Outstanding Wrestler plaque.
Devin Walton (113) of Tonasket also won a bracket title.
Wrestlers competed in round-robin matches at 106, 120, 126, 195 and 220 due to too few for a bracket.
Round-robin champs included Anthony Payton (106) of Okanogan, Joe Peterson (120) of Wilbur-Creston-Keller, Trevor Peterson (126) of Tonasket, Lukas Mieirs (195) of Oroville and Adrian Urias (220) of Brewster.
"I'm really pleased with the teams that came," Oroville wrestling coach Chuck Ricevuto said of the seven competitors.
The tournament used to be in Republic before coming to Oroville more than 25 years ago, the coach said.
Someone at the state tournament referred to the tournament as NOHI and the abbreviated name has stuck since, Ricevuto said.
"Because we had to give up our normal December date we could only manage roughly half the teams we normally attract," Ricevuto said, noting Western Washington teams often trekked to the NOHI. "The Banks Lake Brawl at ACH and the Warden tournament drew some of our former entrants.
"Hopefully, we can get back to a December date next season to rebuild a proper NOHI."
"This was the smallest NOHI since I've been here," Oroville athletic director Tam Hutchinson said. "We usually have 13 teams."
Oroville's Taylor Robinson (182) fell for the second time this year to Nick Anderson of Kettle Falls.
"Anderson represents Taylor's only two losses of the season," Ricevuto said.
"All in all we wrestled well, but have plenty of room for improvement," the coach said. "We are getting back some injured kids and wrestlers dropping a weight class according to descent plans should help us fill a few more weight classes."
Davenport and Tonasket send wrestlers to Oroville for a mixer at 5 p.m. Friday. Oroville and Republic head to the Springdale tournament Saturday.
Okanogan, Tonasket and Brewster go to the Cascade tournament in Leavenworth on Saturday.
Team scores without bracket points: 1, Okanogan 160. 2, Kettle Falls 158. 3, Tonasket JV 89. 4, Brewster 74. 5, Republic 60. 6, Oroville 58.5. 7, Wilbur-Creston-Keller 56.
Team scores with bracket points: 1, Okanogan 183. 2, Kettle Falls 171. 3, Tonasket JV 100. 4, Brewster 97. 5, Oroville 86.5. 6-7, Wilbur-Creston-Keller and Republic, 76.
106 – 1, Anthony Payton, Okan. 2, Jovanni Barrios, Brew. 3, John Marquis, Oro.
113 – 1-2, Devin Walton, Ton., m.d. Jonas Durig, K.F., 13-0. 3-4, Elvis Montiel, Brew., p. Tim Rasco, Rep.
120 – 1, Joe Peterson, WCK. 2, Jordan Smith, Oro. 3, Tony Klepec, Okan.
126 – 1, Trevor Peterson, Ton. 2, Riley Prescott, Okan. 3, Myron Super, Okan.
132 – 1-2, Jalen Moses, Okan., p. Omar Castro, Brew. 3-4, Zion Butler, Ton., p. Jared Owens, K.F.
138 – 1-2, Casey Hamilton, K.F., p. Randy Hamilton, Okan. 3-4, Austin Rimestad, Ton., p. Diego Santana, Orov.
145 – 1-2, Raf Varelas, Brew., p. Kyle Hyde, K.F. 3-4, Wyatt Pershing, Ton., inj. def. Austin Eastridge, Okan.
152 – 1-2, Taylor Flesher, K.F., p. Adrian Carillo, Okan. 3-4, Caio Baumstein, Ton., p. Drew Johnson, WCK.
160 – 1-2, Corbin Ranck, Okan., d. Wyatt Moss, K.F., 10-5. 3-4, Chance Wheaton, Rep., p. Arnulfo Mercado, Okan.
170 – 1-2, Austin Anderson, K.F., p. Ed Ocampo, Orov. 3-4, Austin Warren, Okan., p. Charles Arrigoni, Orov.
182 – 1-2, Nick Anderson, K.F., d. Taylor Robinson, Orov., 7-2. 3-4, Cole Sailor, Rep., p. Chris Varelas, Brew.
195 – 1, Lukas Mieirs, Orov. 2, Joe Mintzer, Okan. 3, Nathan Cochran, K.F.
220 – 1, Adrian Urias, Brew. 2, Nils Dielmar, K.F. 3, Devin Randel, WCK.
285 – 1-2, Dreton Acord, Okan., p. Kolten Fanning, Rep. 3-4, Takota Epperson, WCK, p. Robbie Shol, K.F.
CHENEY – Omak's Cody Harvill pinned three opponents and took first place at 182 pounds at the Cheney Blackhawk Invitational on Saturday.
"Cody wrestled very well all day," Omak coach Dewy Ives said of Harvill, whose pins all came in the first period.
Harvill pinned Freeman's Markus Goldbach in 23 seconds in the championship match.
"He is having a great season posting a season record of 9 wins and 0 losses."
Caleb Riggle (160) and Danny Gomez (132) each finished third with 3-1 records.
Gomez pinned Reardan's Colton Kuykendall (2:04) for third.
Riggle took a 9-6 decision over Drake Ferguson of West Valley for third.
Jaden Peterson placed sixth at 220 pounds at 3-2.
Gerald Sam and Tyson Sundust each went 2-2 .
"Omak has not competed on the mat since before Christmas," said Ives, whose team finished ninth with 88 points.
The Pioneers return home for Tonasket on Wednesday, go to Okanogan on Thursday and to the Cascade Invitational on Saturday.
WARDEN – The Tonasket High School wrestling team finished second at the Warden tournament Saturday.
"We were missing a couple of guys due to sickness, so the fact that we were able to still finish in second was due to all of our wrestlers winning at least one match," Tonasket coach Dave Mitchell said.
Collin Aitcheson (120) and John Rawley (220) each were champions.
Frank Holfelz (182) was second.
Vance Frazier (106), Dyllan Walton (126) and Chad Edwards (285) were each third.
Rade Pilkinton (113) was fourth.
Zach Lofthus (145), Caleb Lofthus (152) and Dallas Tyus (60) were fifth.
Tim Frazier (138) was sixth.
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Follow the red dot on your HUD. That dot represents the van, and you have to ram is, damage it, and in any other way hinder it in order to damage it. When the van takes enough damage, it will stop, the driver will relent, and he will offer to pay what he owes. But getting to that point can be tough, and if the van strays too far from your location or if you take too long, you'll fail the mission automatically and will have to try again. Your best bet is to get behind the van and try to shove it in one direction or another. This should cause the van to spin wildly, damaging it as it strikes into cars and other obstacles.
When the driver finally relents after your frantic chase all around the borough, he'll stop, talk to you from his van promising to pay, and then you're off. Since he's promising to pay in the future and didn't actually give you anything, you don't have to go back to visit Vlad, since there's nothing to give him. Instead, the mission will come to a successful conclusion following a victorious, albeit brief, phone conversation with Vlad.
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