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KDE Applications 18.08 Open-Source Software Suite Released, Here's What's NewSubmitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 16th of August 2018 08:59:08 PM Filed under
Being in development for the past several months, KDE Applications 18.08 goes stable today and will hit the software repositories of various popular GNU/Linux distributions during the next few days. This is a major release and brings numerous new features and improvements across multiple apps, including Dolphin, Konsole, Gwenview, KMail, Akonadi, Cantor, Spectacle, and others.
"We continuously work on improving the software included in our KDE Application series, and we hope you will find all the new enhancements and bug fixes useful," reads today's announcement. "More than 120 bugs have been resolved in applications including the Kontact Suite, Ark, Cantor, Dolphin, Gwenview, Kate, Konsole, Okular, Spectacle, Umbrello and more!"
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KDE: Akademy 2018, GSoC and KateSubmitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 15th of August 2018 02:59:06 PM Filed under
Akademy 2018 – Vienna
The last Akademy I attended was in 2015, in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. I skived off Berlin 2016, when I was burned out working as a consultant at Quby, and again Almería 2017, when I was struggling with the Krita Foundation's tax problems. But this year, we could afford to go, and Akademy is in Vienna this year… And I've always wanted to see some works in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum — Cellini's Salt Cellar, Rogier van der Weyden's Crucifixion, Cranach's Saxon Princesses... Things I'd only ever seen in books.
Akademy 2018 Tuesday BoF Wrapup
Tuesday continued the Akademy BoFs, group sessions and hacking. There is a wrapup session at the end of the day so that what happened in the different rooms can be shared with everyone including those not present.
Sketchnotes at Akademy 2018
During the conference part of this year's Akademy, I tried myself for the first time at live sketchnoting of all the sessions I attended. I didn't do it only for a handful of them mainly because I was chairing and you can't really sketchnote at the same time.
GSoC 2018 - Third month status
In this version of dialog I got rid of the icon label. The dialog has three sections displaying information about signature validation status, signer, and document revision.
Porting KTextEditor to KSyntaxHighlighting => Done :=)
During Akademy there was finally enough time to finalize the porting of KTextEditor to KSyntaxHighlighting.
Thanks to the help of Dominik and Volker, the needed extensions to the KSyntaxHighlighting framework were done in no time ;=)
Thanks for that!
The branch for the integration was merged to master yesterday, unit tests look OK and I am using that state now for my normal coding work. Beside minor glitches that should now be corrected, no issues came up until now.
Downloading Kate Highlighting Files
Starting with the KDE Frameworks 5.50 release we decided to remove the capability in Kate/KTextEditor to download / update syntax highlighting files from the Kate homepage.
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Akademy Report and Final GSoC ReportsSubmitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 14th of August 2018 04:16:23 PM Filed under
Akademy 2018 Monday BoF Wrapup
Monday was the first day of Akademy BoFs, group sessions and hacking. There is a wrapup session at the end of the day so that what happened in the different rooms can be shared with everyone including those not present.
GSoC'18 - Final Report
Some of the tasks I had originally planned took a lot more time than expected. My last task was to add stats to games that track and store your overall game statistics. I've already began working on this and will get it merged after thoroughly getting it reviewed by my mentors.
I had a wonderful time contributing to GNOME since I started this February. The amazing community and even more amazing mentors helped me learn new things and guided me all along the way which I would like to thank them for. I will surely keep contributing to GNOME.
Google Summer of Code 2018 Final Report: Automatic Builds with Clang using Open Build Service
Debian package builds with Clang were performed from time to time through massive rebuilds of the Debian archive on AWS. The results of these builds are published on clang.debian.net. This summer project aimed to automate Debian archive clang rebuilds by substituting the current clang builds in clang.debian.net with Open Build System (OBS) builds.
Our final product consists of a repository with salt states to deploy an OBS instance which triggers Clang builds of Debian Unstable packages as soon as they get uploaded by their maintainers.
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KDE and GNOME GSoC: Falkon, WikiToLearn, Nautilus and PitiviSubmitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 14th of August 2018 08:36:57 AM Filed under
The Joy of GSoC
Wooo... this is the last day of coding phase of GSoC. I am writing this blog to share my experience and work done in the coding phase. I want to specially thank my mentor David Rosca for his help, suggestions and reviews. This was my first exposure to the KDE community and I am proud that it was great. I really enjoyed the whole program from proposal submission - intermediate evals - then now this final evaluation. Also, I had learned a lot working on my project. Frankly speaking, I didn't knew about i18n and l10n much but with the help of my mentor now I have a quite good understanding of how these works and are implemented. I can truly say this was one of my best summer vacations.
What's next for WikiToLearn?
Google Summer of Code is finishing and many things have been done on WikiToLearn since previous post. A little recap is needed.
Talking with mentors has been crucial because they told me to focus on finishing CRUD interaction with API backend instead of working on "history mode" viewer.
GSoC 2018 Final Evaluation
As GSoC is coming to an end, I am required to put my work altogether in order for it to be easily available and hopefully help fellow/potential contributors work on their own projects.
At its prestige, through this project we will have tests both for most critical and used operations of Nautilus, and for the search engines we use. Further on, I'll provide links for all of my merge requests and dwell a bit on their ins and outs while posting links to my commits:
GTK+ 4 and Nautilus </GSoC>
Another summer here at GNOME HQ comes to an end. While certainly eventful, it unfortunately did not result in a production-ready Nautilus port to GTK+ 4 (unless you don't intend to use the location entry or any other entry, but more on that later).
Pitivi Video Editor Gains UI Polish, Video Preview Resizing
The latest Google Summer of Code 2018 is allowing some excellent work to be done on some excellent open source projects.
Among them Pitivi, the non-linear video editor built using GTK and Gstreamer and offering up a basic video editing feature set.
Over the past few months, Harish Fulara, a Computer Science student, has worked on improving the application's greeter dialog and on adding support dynamic resizing of the video preview box.
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KDE and GNOME: CMake, CPU Usage and Student Work on PitiviSubmitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 13th of August 2018 08:44:02 AM Filed under
Qt1 CMake port and more Akademy crazyness
So, my plans was always finish the full KDE1 port, and now on Akademy i have some time to get back to this pet project. Starting on Qt1 porting entirely to CMake because the experience on Qt2 was so good that i decided going back to that and do some of the same love on Qt1.
KDE 1 for that new port next. For now, i'm working on github, so https://github.com/heliocastro/qt1
KDE Plasma 5.14's Lock Screen Will No Longer Eat Your CPU Resources On Old Hardware
With KDE Plasma 5 right now it turns out that if you have relied upon CPU-based software rendering, when hitting Plasma's lock-screen it would actually go CPU-wild -- as far as maxing out the CPU to 100% utilization, thereby consuming a lot of power and generating excess heat. That will be fixed for KDE Plasma 5.14.0.
Since May has been a bug report about the KScreenLocker greeter process going to 100% CPU usage and needing to wait 5~10 seconds after entering the user password before the screen would actually unlock. Several others also reported similar issues of this lock-screen managing to consume a lot of the CPU resources, including on ARM boards and older hardware.
[GSoC'18] Pitivi's UI Polishing – Final Report
As part of Google Summer of Code 2018, I worked on the project Pitivi: UI Polishing. This is my final report to showcase the work that I have done during the program.
Pitivi's User Interface Is Getting Better Thanks To GSoC, Plus Other GNOME Improvements
If you have been less than satisfied with the user-interface of the Pitivi non-linear open-source video editor for Linux, you may want to try out their next release.
Student developer Harish Fulara spent his summer working on polishing the open-source video editor's interface as part of Google Summer of Code 2018.
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Akademy 2018 Day 1Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 13th of August 2018 04:07:38 AM Filed under
Akademy 2018 got off to a wet start with rains accompanying all attendees pouring into Vienna for KDE's largest annual community conference. Although the Pre-Registration event was held on Day Zero (Friday the 10th) and it was a fun-filled affair, Akademy kicked off in earnest on Saturday, with talks, panels and demonstrations. Read on to find out about Day 1 of Akademy and all that transpired:
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GSoC: KDE and GNOME Final ReportsSubmitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 11th of August 2018 05:34:05 PM Filed under
GSoC 2018: Final week
Coming to the last week, the activity Note_names is finally developed and being tested on different platforms.
Principle: This activity aims to teach sight reading the musical notes and their position on the staff by presenting several notes one-by-one with animation from the right of the staff sliding to the right of the clef image. The user will get the combination of all the notes he has learned previously and the current targetted notes from the dataset. Only the reference notes are colored as red and the user is made to learn the notes around it using it as a leverage. One has to correct enough notes to get a 100% and advance to next stage.
Five-or-More Modernisation: It's a Wrap
As probably most of you already know, or recently found out, at the beginning of this week the GSoC coding period officially ended, and it is time for us, GSoC students, to submit our final evaluations and the results we achieved thus far. This blog post, as you can probably tell from the title, will be a summary of all of the work I put into modernising Five or More throughout the summer months.
My main task was rewriting Five or More in Vala since this simple and fun game did not find its way to the list of those included in the Games Modernisation Initiative. This fun, strategy game consists of aligning, as often as possible, five or more objects of the same shape and color, to make them disappear and score points.
The end of GSoC
After three months of hard work and a lot of coding the Google Summer of Code is over. I learned a lot and had a lot fun. GSoC was an amazing experience and I encourage everybody to participate in future editions. At this point I've been a contributor to GNOME for nearly a year, and I plan on sticking around for a long time. I really hope that other GSoC students also found it so enjoyable, and keep contributing to GNOME or other Free Software Projects.
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KDE Frameworks 5.49.0 Released for KDE Plasma 5.13 with over 200 ImprovementsSubmitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 11th of August 2018 04:59:49 PM Filed under
KDE Frameworks consists of more than 70 add-on libraries for the open-source and cross-platform Qt application framework that offers a wide range of commonly needed functionality, as well as many core components and apps that are required for the KDE Plasma desktop environment to function correctly.
For the past several years, new KDE Frameworks versions are published every month in the second Saturday of the month, and KDE Frameworks 5.49.0 is the release the KDE Project prepared for the month of August 2018, bringing various improvements and addressing numerous bugs.
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Budgie Desktop, KDE and GNOMESubmitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 11th of August 2018 04:17:34 AM Filed under
Summertime Solus | The Roundup #7
For those that missed our announcements of last week's Hackfest, you can watch it via the video embedded below. Most of this roundup will cover the work that has been done since the last roundup (in the specific sections in this blog) as well as the Hackfest, so if you don't want to sit through the 10 hours of content, feel free to just keep reading.
Solus Linux & Its Budgie Desktop Seeing Summer 2018 Improvements
The Solus Project has shared some of the work they've been engaged in this summer with their Linux distribution as well as their GTK3-based Budgie Desktop Environment.
Community Data Analytics Are Going to Akademy
If you are interested in community data analytics, you will have several opportunities to discuss them during Akademy.
Firstly, there will be my talk titled Bringing Community Data Analysis Back to KDE (why the hell did I use "Analysis" there... I only used "Analytics" everywhere so far, odd). It will happen on Saturday at 15:30 in room IE7. The slot is a bit small for the topic, but I'll try my best to create interest. Indeed you can catch me around talks to chat about it, and...
Secondly, there will be a BoF "Discussing Community Data Analytics" on Monday at 10:30 in room 127. We hope to see people coming up with interesting questions to explore or willing to lend a hand in those explorations. See you there!
The birth of a new runtime
Runtimes are a core part of the flatpak design. They are a way to make bundling feasible, while still fully isolating from the host system. Application authors can bundle the libraries specific to the application, but don't have to care about the lowlevel dependencies that are uninteresting (yet important) for the application.
Many people think of runtimes primarily as a way to avoid duplication (and thus bloat). However, they play two other important roles. First of all they allow an independent stream of updates for core libraries, so even dead apps get fixes. And secondly, they allow the work of the bundling to be shared between all application authors.
This runtime has the same name, and its content is very similar, but it is really a complete re-implementation. It is based on a new build system called BuildStream, which is much nicer and a great fit for flatpak. So, no more Yocto, no more buildbake, no multi-layer builds!
Additionally, it has an entire group of people working on it, including support from Codethink. Its already using gitlab, with automatic builds, CI, etc, etc. There is also a new release model (year.month) with a well-defined support time. Also, all the packages are much newer!
Gnome is also looking at using this as the basics for its releases, its CI system and eventually the Gnome runtime.
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KDE: Astronomy on KDE, MQTT/GSoC, Konversation TipSubmitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 9th of August 2018 09:57:40 PM Filed under
Astronomy on KDE
I recently switched to KDE and Plasma as my main desktop environment, so I thought I'd start digging into some of the scientific software available on KDE. First up is KStars, the desktop astronomy program.
LabPlot's MQTT in the finish line
Hello everyone. GSoC is coming to its end, so I think that I should give a report about what's been done since the last post, and also make a brief evaluation, summary of the project itself.
As I've written in my last post, the main focus was on improving the quality of the code, cleaning, optimizing and properly documenting it. And also making it more comestible for other developers.
The next step was searching for bugs and then fixing them. In order to do this properly, I implemented a unit test for the main MQTT related features. This proved to be useful since it helped discover several hidden bugs and errors which were all corrected. The main features, that tests were developed for, are: checking if a topic contains another one, checking if two topics are "common topics" (meaning they only differ at only one level, and are the same size), managing messages, subscribing&unsubscribing.
PSA: Use SASL in konversation
You probably have seen that Freenode has been getting lots of spam lately.
To protect against that some channels have activated a flag that only allows authenticated users to enter the channel.
If you're using the regular "nickserv" authentication way as I was doing, the authentication happens in parallel to entering the channels and you'll probably be rejected from joining some.
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter the bottom and sides of a 9-inch square baking dish. Combine the almond paste, whole eggs, egg yolks, melted butter and 1/4 cup sugar in a food processor. Pulse until combined with a few small lumps of almond paste. Add 1 tablespoon orange blossom water, the baking powder, salt and vanilla; pulse to combine. Add the phyllo pieces and pulse until finely chopped. Spread the mixture evenly in the prepared pan. Bake until golden brown and firm on top, 25 to 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, make the syrup: Heat the orange juice, honey, lemon juice, the remaining 3/4 cup sugar and the remaining 1 tablespoon orange blossom water in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring, until dissolved, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and cover to keep warm.
Remove the baking dish from the oven and immediately pour half of the syrup over the cake; let soak in, 15 minutes. Add the pistachios to the remaining syrup and pour over the cake, spreading the pistachios with a rubber spatula. Transfer to a rack and let cool completely in the pan, about 3 hours, tipping the pan occasionally to distribute the syrup. Cut diagonally into small diamonds.
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Heather Locklear's recent hospital scare brought to light all of the other times the former "Melrose Place" star has battled with prescription drugs and depression and suspiciously bad driving skills. But from the looks of it, the 50-year-old actress won't check into rehab any time soon, much to her family's chagrin. A source tells People magazine that Locklear is "under doctor's care" but not in rehab, and has "decided for now to seek recovery without an in-patient program."
Earlier, US Weekly reported that Locklear had isolated friends and family through her drinking, quoting a source that said "Heather has been out of control for many years" and "she doesn't get out of bed most days... Jack kept her on the straight and narrow, but he couldn't keep Heather sober."
Locklear has visited rehab at least twice before: once, in 2008 at an Arizona clinic, where she sough treatment for anxiety and depression; and again in 2011, shortly after her split from longtime boyfriend Jack Wagner. On January 12, Locklear was hospitalized after suffering serious stomach pain from ingesting wine and prescription drugs. She was placed in the intensive care unit and released the next day.


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Katharine Weymouth
Katharine Bouchage Weymouth[1] (born 1966) is the former publisher of The Washington Post[2] and chief executive officer of Washington Post Media. She resigned effective October 1, 2014, one year after Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos took over ownership of the newspaper company.
|Katharine Weymouth
Katharine Weymouth photographed by Christopher Michel in 2014
|1966 (age 51–52)
|Richard Alan Scully (1998–?; divorced
|Katharine Graham (grandmother)
Early life and educationEdit
Weymouth grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City[3] and attended The Brearley School, Harvard College/Radcliffe College, Oxford University, and Stanford Law School.[4]
While an associate at Williams & Connolly, a prominent law firm in Washington, D.C.,[4] Weymouth went to work as an assistant counsel of the Post in 1996.[3] She later became the head of advertising.[4] Weymouth was named publisher of the Post and chief executive officer of Washington Post Media on 7 February 2008, succeeding Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr.[2]
Among her first actions as publisher was hiring Marcus Brauchli as executive editor and placing him in charge of both newspaper and the website (the previous editor had not been in charge of the website). The hire from outside the organization "surprised the newsroom. ... Brauchli ... had accepted a large payout and resigned from his previous job, running The Wall Street Journal under its new owner, Rupert Murdoch", as a 2012 Times account put it. The 2012 account outlined signs and reports that more recently her relationship with Brauchli may have "cooled" and noted that Raju Narisetti, whom Brauchli had brought with him from the Journal as a close partner "in the digital reinvention of the newsroom", had left the Post in January. However, the Times also said that "[b]y one important measure, The Post's efforts are paying off. Recently, it has averaged 19.6 million unique visitors a month, according to comScore, making it the second-most-visited American newspaper Web site, behind that of The New York Times."[3]
Private dinner salon initiativeEdit
On July 3, 2009, The Politico website uncovered the story that Weymouth had planned a series of exclusive dinner parties or "salons" at her private residence, to which she had invited prominent lobbyists, trade group members, politicians and business people.[5] The cost of attendance to the parties was up to $250,000 per individual, with the events being closed to the press and the public. Politico's revelation sparked controversy in Washington, as it gave the impression the parties' sole purpose was to allow a select group of Washington insiders and business people to purchase face time with Post reporters.[6]
Almost immediately, Weymouth cancelled the salons and blamed the entire incident on the marketing department at The Post.[7] The backlash also prompted David G. Bradley, publisher of The Atlantic, to admit that he hosts similar off-the-record discussions at his home and office at the Watergate,[citation needed] and in 2012, looking back on the incident, the Times said that "magazines host similar conferences all the time".[3] However, it is unheard of to charge as much as $250,000 per person (if anything at all) for such an event.[citation needed]
On September 2, 2014, it was announced that she would resign as publisher the following month, with the position to be assumed by Politico's founding CEO Fred Ryan.[8]
After the PostEdit
In 2015, DC tech startup FiscalNote announced that Weymouth would serve as an advisor to the company.[9]
A granddaughter and namesake of long-time Washington Post chairwoman and publisher Katharine Graham (d. 2001), Weymouth is a daughter of political columnist and publishing heiress Lally Weymouth and the architect Yann R. Weymouth. Her mother's family owned the newspaper from 1933, when it was purchased by her great-grandfather Eugene Meyer,[10] until it was sold to Jeff Bezos in 2013.[11] Weymouth is the fifth member of her family to have held the publisher position.[3]
On her father's side Weymouth is a niece of Tina Weymouth, a former member of the band Talking Heads.[4] Her paternal grandfather is Admiral Ralph Weymouth. One of her ancestors is the Breton writer Anatole Le Braz.[12]
Weymouth married lawyer Richard Alan Scully on 25 July 1998.[1] The couple had three children, Madeleine, Beckett, and Bridget, and later divorced.[4]
- Jaffe, Harry. "Katharine the Second", Washingtonian, August 1, 2008.
- Profile of Katharine Weymouth, Condé Nast Portfolio, August 2008.
- ^ a b "WEDDINGS; Ms. Weymouth And Mr. Scully". New York Times. 1998-07-26. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
- ^ a b Pérez-Peña, Richard (2008-02-08). "Washington Post Names Publisher". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
- ^ a b c d e Peters, Jeremy W. (2012-02-11). "A Newspaper, and a Legacy, Reordered". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
- ^ a b c d e Samuelson, Ruth, Mary Clare Fleury, Leslie Milk, Larry Van Dyne, Drew Bratcher and Alicia C. Shepard (2007-10-01). "Powers That Will Be". Washingtonian. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
- ^ The Politico: "Washington Post Cancels Lobbyist Event Amid Uproar"
- ^ "Pay-for-Chat Plan Falls Flat at Washington Post", The New York Times, July 3, 2009.
- ^ "WaPo Salons Sell Access to Lobbyists", The Atlantic July 2, 2009.
- ^ "Publisher of The Washington Post Will Resign", The New York Times, September 2, 2014.
- ^ FiscalNote. "Former Washington Post publisher Weymouth joins FiscalNote advisory board". FiscalNote. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
- ^ "The Washington Post: Timeline". Washington Post. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
- ^ Fahri, Paul (October 1, 2013). "The Washington Post Closes Sale to Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos", The Washington Post, ISSN 0190-8286; retrieved October 1, 2013.
- ^ "Héritage. D'Anatole Le Braz aux Talking Heads". Le Telegramme (in French). August 31, 2012.


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Thankyou so much Lindsay for letting me paint a portrait of you. You are one of the kindest woman I have ever come across and I just cant thank you enough for that.
My thoughts while painting this portrait :-
I have been watching Lindsay for quite some time now and one thing that draws me towards her youtube channel the most, other than her mind boggling creative mind, is her immense energy and such a delightfully happy face. So when I decided to paint her portrait, this is exactly that I wanted to capture.
I knew from the beginning that I did not want to paint a regular portrait, with just a face. That is not really my style. With my bright colors, contradictory to the regular skin tones, which is usually my style, I wanted to bring in some more elements to bring out her happy and such a pure soul out. So to represent that happiness and energy, came the flowers and the bird forms that you can see on her beautiful face.
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In this Phase you just have to hold your opponetns in distance with your [Q] and your [E].
Also you can very good farm with your [E] and its dont cost very much for that reason I'm leveling it up first. For good farm and if an opponent comes to near hit [E] one time hit your opponent and throw your Shard but be carefull with your Shard DO NOT Skill it in Level 2 to 6 beacuse it costs too much Mana and you dont have much of it!
After getting your Ult you can go for a little nice Gang i think Kennen and Malphite are a very good Team. Beacuse if your opponents group up run with your Ult in them hit [E] hit [W] and when your running into them Kennen have to run into them or your Lainmate. Beacuse your opponents have you as their target they dont will attack only you and your Lainmate can do his Dmg without getting some Damage!
Mid Game:
Dont forget to FARM! also for Tanks farm is very important beacuse they need their Equip to Absorb massive Dmg! Also Try to never go out of the main Pushed Lain to protect your allied. Every time an Allied is attacked from another player throw a Shard on him run to him and hit [E] and [W] and only Autoattack him. If other Players are coming to help him run into the biggest Crowd with your Ult and hit [E] and [W] if an opponent trys to run away just throw your Shard he will be come back :D
Tower Killing:
Every time you have time to hit an Tower sereval times hit your [W] beacuse it increase your Atk-Dmg the Tower will go down in some seconds with some allied Champs.
In every Teamfight your main role is to Tank the enemys. Ever you see that they group up or they just going to attack one Teammate just run intothem with your Ult and hit [E] to make some AoE (Area of Effect) Dmg and slow their Atk-Speed and hit [W] to make nice Dmg with your Autoattacks in AoE.
When an opponent trys to run away just throw your Shard!
Every time hite the Dps-Champs with low health or with only little HP.
If you get Stunned hit your Cleans and just go on Spamming [E] and as ofen as possible [W]!
I get first a Rejuvenation Bead just for some nice HP reg. it is very usefull beacuse if you got some Dmg just wait for your shield and your life will regenerate very fast!
I also get Faerie Charm for nice Mana reg. Beacuse your Spellst cost very much Mana especially [Q] and it is just usefull to have every time full Mana.
The Health-Potion i get only for emergencys.
When you just Farmed a bit go back to buy Long Sword and Boots of Speed.
And when you have enough Gold go back to finish your Tiamant and your Boots. (It is very important to buy the right boots in a Hard Caster and CC Enemy Team buy Mercury'S Threads and against Carrys like Master Yi or Ashe buy Ninja Tabi!)
The Tiamant is just for Farming and havin some little HP and MP reg. You can sell it if you have enough money to fill up your Item build. But i advice you to let it as long as possible in your Build beacuse it also increase your AoE-Dmg and incerase your Normal-Dmg!
Now i normaly going to build an Guardian Angel beacuse it gives some Magic res. and some Armor and this nice litllte evect. I swear when i have Guardian your opponets will have respect of you and in an gang they will focus you down beacuse they want to kill you with your Guardian :D so i think its an perfect Tank Item!
After that finsh you Item Build with some HP and many resistans.
I know Malphites Passive but i think to Stack Wamorgs on him is the badest Idea who you can have! Your Opponents buy one Madrets Bloodrazer and your death in some seconds!
buy some HP only to look like a Tank and give your opponents some Respect and then Stack res. Aganst an Caster Team build more Magic res. and against and team with more Carry buy Armor.
If the other team is very balanced first buy some Armor beacuse Casters need more Farm to make massive Dmg. and they are better in End Game. But also Buy Magic Res. it is also very Important! in Mid or Early Game!
At First This Was My Malphite Guide Thanks For All Wathers And Comments!
I'm Very Sorry For My Bad English But I Hope You Understood Everything And Got Some Knowledge About Malphite.
Gl & Hf in your Games see you "On The Filds Of Justice!" :D


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1998 Fiat Bravo HGT 2.0 20v
Fast beating car
A tube was cut off which caused the motor gasket to break. I tried to fix it, but after two days something had gone wrong with the engine, and it needed replacement. Dealer's fault. That's the only problem that made me sell the car.
General Comments:
This was the best car I ever had. I now own a new Grand Cherokee.
The Bravo I had was well performing. It beat all other HGTs. It also beat the new 155 20v Bravo2.
I think this car is the best in its class. I beat the Golf3 VR6, but it was very close. I beat the Saxo VTS very easily. I beat a Xsara VTS, BMW 325, Punto HGT, all Golf GTIs, and the most difficult race was with the Clio RS phase 2 that took off in first and second gear like a bomb, but the Bravo managed to reach it by the end of fourth gear.
I only raced on highways, but never on urban roads, because the Bravo sucks and costs thousands just to change the timing belt.
I wanted to race the best car in the class; the Honda Type R, but I never met one before I sold my Bravo. I miss my Bravo.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
Review Date: 21st March, 2007
2nd Apr 2007, 16:50
I had my Bravo HGT since February 2000.
Like first comments posted this car is not the one to use as in town racer given it has a very long legged 3th gear.
Driving very winded alpine roads you need to ease down abit entering curves because the HGT is heavy in front balance, this because of the very large engine, it makes it more under steering versa lighter Bravo models.
This is the very best car I ever have had, I drive it on Norwegian alpine roads as much as highways and autobahn.
The only place the Bravo HGT misfit is in town traffic, still it is fast enough in town to keep the pace between the light crossing intersections ;-).
The best thing is the HGT Bravo rear wagon (suspension and springs)
If you ever have any routine to make you stay calm when setting a car into "edge" of grip, the Bravo rear wagon is a very nice balanced setup.
Or better said PERFECT! :-O.
And this is maybe the reason why it feels so under steering when driving it "below" it's real limits.
I use default rims 15" 55/195 rubber
Green sports air-filter
Super-sprint exhaust all parts with street legal Cat replacer.
And I cannot sell it away because I like it so much.
There is 1 major drawback with it tho;
The belt needs replacement after only 36000 Km or maximum 3 years, and it includes a full engine out job.
Else, it's steady as mountains!
14th Apr 2007, 06:25
Hi, I'm getting on of these Bravo HGTs. I've always loved that engine sound and style of the car, but a lot of them have high miles on them. Does anyone know how strong the engine is? And does anybody know which is the best? The 155 HGT or the 147 HGT?
Thanks lads.


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In an interview following its mind-blowing earnings call on Oct. 20, Tim Armstrong, Google's VP-advertising sales and operations, said that while no tests of TV ad brokering are under way, there is interest in the medium.
"The walls between offline and online budgets are starting to come down quickly," he said. "TV would certainly be helpful to advertisers [and] agencies."
"Print is the test we are doing right now," Mr. Armstrong added. "We are always considering ways to extend ad programming."
Search agency executives and analysts said a TV play makes sense for Google. "I wouldn't put anything out of the question," said Andrew Wetzler, president of search agency MoreVisibility.
"Any medium they can disrupt and intermediate, I think they will," said Joshua Stylman, co-founder of another search agency, Reprise Media. "Will Google get [to TV]? One hundred percent yes."
An online trade publication called ContractorUK.com already claims that Google placed a classified ad for a production manager to handle something called Google TV. That is thought to be an extension of Google Video, a service that enables Web surfers to use keywords to search the content of TV programs.
Google has already ventured offline by testing ads in magazines on behalf of its advertisers, and through a beta rollout of a classified ad service. In the print test, Google purchased ad space and resold it in smaller chunks to its clients.
The search giant has the money to expand. With third-quarter earnings beating even its own expectations, Google posted revenue of $1.58 billion-a 96% leap from 2004 third quarter and 14% over the second quarter. "Their spending on research and development grew by 58% between Q2 and Q3 of this year [to $151.7 million]," said David Hallerman, senior analyst, eMarketer. "That impressed me because that's looking ahead to the future."
Executives during the earnings call emphasized that many of Google's current tactics are geared toward the long term. They attributed revenue growth partly to the success of advertisers doing search branding online.
Big push
Mr. Armstrong said 25% of Google's top-tier advertisers have used Google's product Site Targeting, a service through which advertisers choose the sites or network of sites on which they wish to advertise, and place text or graphical ads there. Brands pay for these ads on a cost-per-thousand basis instead of Google's typical cost-per-click.
"Google has made a big push to reach brand advertisers," Mr. Stylman said. "They have a fiduciary duty to reach out to the GMs and Procter & Gambles of the world for their shareholders."
Mr. Stylman and others said that Google's corporate identity is much more than that of the world's biggest search engine. "Google wants to be the source of all the information that's in the world and be one easy source for people to look for it," said Jeremy Cornfeldt, VP-search and affiliate marketing, Carat Fusion. Whatever it takes to serve that goal, Google will presumably consider it.
The company listed $7.6 billion in cash and marketable securities in the third quarter. With that kind of pocket change, it could go on an acquisition spree to open new revenue streams. "Why not buy a company in another medium?" Mr. Hallerman speculated. "With $7.6 billion, they could afford a small cable station."
Imagine if Google had its own TV channel, said Mr. Cornfeldt. "You could search through Google's video library and watch a film on your TV. ... That would change the ad landscape."


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Court rules France's Benzema can play at Euro 2016 despite sex-tape probe
Latest update : 2016-03-11
French striker Karim Benzema, under investigation for his alleged role in a sex-tape blackmail scandal, will be available for selection for his country's Euro 2016 squad after a court Friday lifted legal restrictions against him.
Real Madrid player Benzema was placed under formal investigation in November over allegations he acted as a go-between in an attempt to extort money from fellow France international Mathieu Valbuena by threatening to release a sex tape featuring the player.
As part of the restrictions placed on Benzema while the investigation was carried out, the 28-year-old was forbidden from coming into contact with Valbuena, meaning they would not be able to play in the France team together and effectively ruling Benzema out of selection for the Euro 2016 tournament being held in France.
But an appeals court in Versailles, near Paris, on Friday "upheld the decision of the investigating magistrate that allows Karim Benzema to come into contact with Mathieu Valbuena", lawyer Olivier Combe said.
Indefinite suspension
Valbuena has said the sex images at the centre of the blackmail attempt were on a mobile telephone that was stolen.
Benzema is alleged to have approached Valbuena at a national training camp on October 5 to encourage him to speak to the blackmailers, one of whom was a close childhood friend.
Valbuena has said that Benzema "indirectly" urged him to pay.
Benzema, though, has said he is "not guilty" of the allegations and "never, ever discussed money" with Valbuena.
Three men have been detained after demanding cash to have the tape destroyed.
While Friday's court ruling makes Benzema technically available for selection for coach Didier Deschamps's Euro 2016 squad, he is still the subject of an indefinite suspension from the national team imposed by the French Football Federation in December.
"Karim Benzema will not be selected until the situation changes, until there is something new in the case," federation president Noel Le Graet said at the time.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP)
Date created : 2016-03-11


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We invite the community — all ages! – to join our joyous celebration. We will read the end and the beginning of the Torah, dance in the street with the Torah scrolls to a Klezmer band, and mark the consecration of the newest students in our school. The service takes place at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 15 in the sanctuary of Temple Sinai, 50 Sewall Avenue, Brookline, MA.
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Nine individuals, representing several higher education professional organizations, made up the Writing Group which served as the Executive Committee for Healthy Campus 2020. Without the help and many long hours put forth by this Writing Group, Healthy Campus 2020 would not have been possible.
The Writing Group would love to hear your thoughts and feedback regarding Healthy Campus 2020. Please email the coalition at firstname.lastname@example.com. Please allow 3-5 business days for a response.
The Healthy Campus 2020 Writing Group is comprised of members of the ACHA Healthy Campus Coalition* and members of collaborating organizations:
Michelle M. Burcin, PhD, MPH, MCHES
Program Director/Core Faculty, School of Health Sciences
Walden University
Representing ACHA
Allison Smith, MPA
Manger of Public Health Initiatives and Assessment
New York University
Representing ACHA
George Brown, PhD
Assistant to the VP of Student Affairs for Strategic Health/Crisis Planning
Executive Director of University Recreation
The University of Alabama
Representing ACHA and NIRSA
Cynthia Burwell, EdD, MCHES, RKT
Chair, Department of Health, Physical Education and Exercise Science
Norfolk State University
Representing ACHA
Jim Grizzell, MBA, MA, MCHES, ACSM-HFS
Staff Emeritus
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Representing ACHA and NASPA
Jacqueline Hamilton, EdD, RCRSP
Director, Recreational Sports
Texas A& M University-Corpus Christi
Representing NIRSA
Ann Quinn-Zobeck, PhD
Director of Education and Training
Representing The BACCHUS Network
Eric Stein, MS
Senior Associate Director of Athletics for Physical Education, Recreation and Wellness
Stanford University
Representing NIRSA
Sara Stahlman, MA
Marketing and Communication Coordinator, Campus Health Services
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Katherine Vatalaro Hill, MPH, CHES
Assistant Director, Wellness Resource Center
Virginia Commonwealth University
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Governor to Lead Trade Mission to Brazil, El Salvador
Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, First Lady Catherine O'Malley and a delegation of Maryland business leaders, educators and government officials will travel to Brazil and El Salvador for a nine-day trade mission in December.
According to a statement released from the governor's office, the trip will strengthen economic and cultural ties between Maryland and South and Central America as Governor O'Malley and the delegation meet with top officials, and potential business and investment partners.
"As Maryland's economy grows we must continue to forge new connections, partnerships and investments abroad. The diverse, expanding economies of Brazil and El Salvador are ideal trade and investment partners for our State," Governor O'Malley said. "We are going on this trip to promote job creation and economic growth, both by helping Maryland companies that do business or seek to do business abroad, and by encouraging foreign companies to invest more in Maryland."
The world's 7th largest economy, Brazil is home to one of Maryland's 11 foreign trade offices. In 2012, Brazil was Maryland's 11th-largest export market, with exports to the country more than doubling from $143 million in 2009 to $308 million in 2012. In addition, the Port of Baltimore imports more cargo tonnage from Brazil than any other country in the world. Brazil is the Port's fourth-largest market for exports. In 2012, the Port of Baltimore handled 1.5 million tons of imported goods from Brazil and exported 1.4 million tons to Brazil.
The delegation will include more than 30 Maryland companies, including Lockheed Martin, Premier Rides, Respira Medical, Cambridge International and Earth Networks; Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker; and representatives of University of Maryland, College Park, Morgan State University and Johns Hopkins University. In addition, Secretary of Business and Economic Development Dominick E. Murray, Secretary of State John P. McDonough, Secretary of the Environment Robert M. Summers and Maryland Port Administration officials will also be part of the delegation.
"As an established technology provider with deep roots in Maryland, we are honored to accompany Governor O'Malley on his trade mission to Brazil," says Earth Networks President and CEO Bob Marshall. "Last year, weather claimed nearly 10,000 lives around the world. Earth Networks is taking the pulse of the planet by providing critical weather data and climate adaptation approaches that help countries increase resilience to severe weather. In Brazil, we are delivering real-time weather data and warnings and look forward to expanding our public/private partnerships with major government agencies and commercial entities."
"I am proud to join Governor O'Malley and the Maryland delegation on this trade mission to Brazil," said Dion D. Banks, Director of Government Affairs for Cambridge International in Cambridge. "I'm looking forward to exploring opportunities for our manufacturing plant in São Paulo and expanding our presence in Brazil. Business ventures like this will position Cambridge International for global growth and new business development."
During the mission, Governor O'Malley and the delegation will promote Maryland as an ideal place to invest and do business. The mission will begin Dec. 1 in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city. There, Governor O'Malley will meet with U.S. diplomats and executives with companies that do business in Maryland and Brazil. The Governor will also address a number of regional business organizations including the Federation of Industries of Sao Paolo and the Federation of Industries of Rio de Janeiro, which each represent more than 30,000 industrial companies. Later, in Rio de Janeiro, Governor O'Malley will meet Governor Sergio Cabral, as well as with members of Brazil's biotechnology industry.
The trade mission will conclude with two days in El Salvador, Dec. 8 and 9. There, Governor O'Malley and members of the delegation will meet with top Salvadoran elected officials, business groups and cabinet ministers that oversee the country's ports. Maryland's trade with El Salvador, a country of 6.1 million people, totaled $60 million in 2012.
Maryland's Office of International Investment and Trade works to stimulate foreign direct investment in the State, offers export assistance for small and mid-sized Maryland companies and coordinates international trade and investment missions and trade show opportunities for Maryland companies. For more information on resources available to business that want to market their products or services globally, visit www.choosemaryland.org


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Civil society representatives from more than 70 countries wrapped up a United Nations forum today with an urgent call to action to improve the health of millions of men, women and children worldwide and step up efforts to achieve the globally agreed anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Civil society representatives from more than 70 countries wrapped up a United Nations forum today with an urgent call to action to improve the health of millions of men, women and children worldwide and step up efforts to achieve the globally agreed anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
In a wide-ranging declaration adopted at the end of the three-day meeting in Melbourne, Australia, participants stressed that achieving the MDGs, which world leaders have pledged to do by 2015, "is a moral imperative."
Improving global health, especially in connection with the MDGs, was the theme of the 63rd annual UN Department of Public Information (DPI)/Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Conference, which drew some 1,600 participants representing at least 350 groups.
The wide-ranging declaration also stated that the Goals, all of which affect the health of populations, despite some progress, "are significantly off-track for the poorest and least politically powerful people."
Significant remaining challenges included: 1 billion people without access to food; 2.6 billion who lack access to improved sanitation; eight out of 10 without access to safe drinking water who live in rural areas; nearly 9 million children who die before the age of five; and at least 340,000 women who die each year of pregnancy-related causes.
Kiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, said that while frustration had been expressed at the conference over the lack of enough improvement in some regions towards attaining the MDGs, the most urgent task was to help quicken the pace of progress.
"This is not the time to question the validity of the MDGs themselves, but rather a time to roll up our sleeves and do what is necessary to attain them, and beyond that, to look at the question of ensuring that they are sustainable after 2015," he stated at the closing ceremony.
The NGOs appealed in the declaration for all governments, agencies, corporations and individuals to deliver on their human rights obligations to more than a billion people living in poverty, by committing the finances and political will necessary to achieve the Goals.
Towards improving global health, the text compelled all governments and health actors to respect the rights of communities while also maximizing the effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability of their work by leveraging community knowledge and support. It also highlighted the central role that individuals, families and communities must play in fostering global health.
Mr. Akasaka said he hoped participants, as the "torch-bearers of this conference," will take what they have learned back to their organizations and communities, and help raise awareness about what is at stake.
"Your advocacy plays a major role in holding governments accountable for honouring their pledges and commitments and upholding their responsibilities to protect and save their children and people… You are all good friends to the United Nations. You are our greatest allies and partners."
He added that the declaration should be channelled to governments and into the inter-governmental process to impact the MDG Summit, to be held at UN Headquarters in New York from 20 to 22 September.
Next year's DPI-NGO conference, on the theme "Sustainable Societies, Responsive Citizens," is slated to be held in Bonn, Germany.


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East End Arms
"A pub with lovely rooms and a thriving public bar for locals run by the bass guitarist of Dire Straits."
Review by Fiona Duncan, published 15th March 2009.
Welcome to my patch. Technically we are in Hampshire, but we like to think of ourselves as a world apart down here, cut off by the sea and the New Forest, with only one route in and out.
It's a playground. Beyond our gardens stretch the heath and woodlands of the forest, now a national park. Here we walk and ride, and on three miles of the beautiful Beaulieu River, we sail. Pigs, ponies, cute donkeys and great swaying cows stand rooted to the spot in the middle of main roads while visitors get out of their cars to take photographs while we locals lean on our horns in irritation. In the distance, we can see the beckoning downs of the Isle of Wight, just a short ferry ride away.
The East End Arms stands in a pretty backwater half way between Beaulieu and Lymington, close to The Solent shore, and it has just become – if you feel like exploring my patch – a first-rate, and affordable, place to base yourself. Along with Whitley Ridge and the soon to be reopened Master Builder's (the Montagu Arms, despite its newly acquired Michelin star, is too old hat) it makes one of three easily recommendable choices in the vicinity.
John Illsley is the owner. As the pub's website proudly proclaims, to the strains of his music, he was the bass guitarist of Dire Straits and his arrival among us, along with lead singer Mark Knopfler, brought a welcome dash of street cred to our rarefied corner.
When he bought the East End Arms in the mid-Nineties, Illsley received a letter from the regulars: "Hands off our public bar". "They wouldn't even let me repair the hole in the ceiling and when we repainted, it had to be exactly the same colour. Fine by me," says Illsley.
If only all new owners of old pubs were as receptive. Most would have turned the whole ground floor into an open-plan restaurant, but Ilsley kept his word and kept the public bar intact. If you want posh food, turn left; if you want a plain, bare-floored room with real ales and a chatty barmaid: turn right. Result: this simple country pub has retained its integrity and sense of identity.
The bar staff are key, for they serve two very different clientele simultaneously at two counters. Sarah-Jane, the manageress, is a mere 22 but she fills the role with aplomb. She also manages the five divine bedrooms upstairs, newly created by Illsley's wife, Stephanie. So divine, in fact (crisply sheeted, king-size beds, OKA furniture, charming Mulberry fabrics, walls decorated with John's paintings), that by comparison, the pine-heavy restaurant downstairs suddenly seems dowdy and needs a facelift to match. Not the public bar though. Never touch that.
Last but not least, the cooking of Moray Cameron is incredibly good, especially for a humble place like this: accomplished, tasty, colourful and cleverly presented. Come to my patch and see for yourselves.
Lymington Road, East End (01590 626223; www.eastendarms.co.uk) Doubles £95 to £115 per night, including breakfast. Not suitable for guests with disabilities.
The Hotel Guru verdict
Pretty, lively and comfortable: show a woman's touch
A few extras (newspapers, radios, more toiletries, local info) could be added
Integrity intact. leave the bar, but decorate the restaurant to match the rooms and it will be perfect
|Food and drink
A cut above: accomplished, colourful, carefully presented
|Value for money
Both food and rooms are worth every penny


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A: Although a native NIC team on a Windows Server 2012 physical host supports 32 network adapters, only two network adapters in a team are supported within a virtual machine (VM).
This isn't a hard limit but rather a supportability limit. This is documented in "Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming (LBFO) Deployment and Management" in section 3.8.2, at the Microsoft website.
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Finding the Intersection of Supply and Demand
Published: November 23, 2003
t is 5:22 p.m., and here at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street the rush hour dance is well under way: commuters are weaving toward the subway, lines have formed at the bus stops, hands are in the air for any available cab and a gridlock of cars and buses is on the streets, belching exhaust and raising tempers.
It is a scene about as archetypal as the hot dog vendor in Central Park. But there is something else going on. This Midtown corner is a laboratory. And the experiment under way may reshape the taxicab industry, which has long exasperated and befuddled New Yorkers and tourists alike.
The Taxi and Limousine Commission is measuring air quality and traffic flow at this intersection and four others in Manhattan to decide how many more cabs should be set loose on city streets. Also under review by city regulators is how much the people who hail a cab each day in New York — more than half a million of them — should have to pay to indulge in this modest luxury. The implications are significant, cutting across the political fortunes of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, the livelihood of 40,000 cabdrivers, and, of course, the frustration level of New Yorkers as they engage in the fight during busy hours to find an available cab.
"Downtown there are no cabs," Janet Block said as she waited one recent evening at the Pennsylvania Station taxi stand near the end of a line of nearly 80 people. "On the Upper East Side, there are no cabs. Midtown, there are no cabs. No matter where you are, there are no cabs."
If New York City issues 900 new cab medallions, as it is considering, it would be the biggest increase in new cabs since 1937, when the city imposed a taxi cap. And if fares go up, it could further increase the availability of cabs, by enticing more drivers to enter the business.
"Nine hundred more cars in the city of New York might not sound like a lot," said Jonathan Orcutt, associate director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, which studies transit in the metropolitan area. "But a cab in the city has a greater impact on traffic than any other vehicle, as its job is to stay in motion and their focus is in Manhattan, below 110th Street." The average cab in the city is driven about 64,000 miles a year.
The political equation for Mr. Bloomberg is a complicated one. His administration has prided itself on its campaigns to ease Midtown traffic, including a crackdown on double-parked trucks and a weekday prohibition against turns on certain crosstown streets. Allow too many new cabs, and some gains he has made could be lost. Mr. Bloomberg is already fighting an image that he is immune to the economic pressures on average New Yorkers, having supported increases in city sales, real estate and property taxes. But if the Taxi and Limousine Commission, whose chairman is appointed by the mayor, rejects or indefinitely delays action on the pending fare increase petitions, an alliance of cabdrivers has already made it clear that there will be a strike.
"If we do strike, it will be successful," said Bhairavi Desai, coordinator of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, which startled city officials in May 1998 when it organized a one-day strike against new disciplinary rules, a demonstration that left city streets largely bereft of cabs.
Members of the Taxi and Limousine Commission say they want to make their decisions on medallion and fare increases soon, with a vote on higher fares perhaps as early as January. While the addition of most, if not all, of the 900 medallions is likely, Allan J. Fromberg, the deputy commissioner of the Taxi and Limousine Commission, said a fare increase was far from certain. "We need to study it very carefully," Mr. Fromberg said. "The onus is on the industry to document that it needs it."
Three of the nine board members said in interviews that they supported a raise and believed that one would be approved.
"There is going to be a fare increase. That is almost 99 percent sure," said Stanley E. Michaels, a former city councilman who was appointed to the taxi commission recently.
The impetus for the new medallion sale had more to do with a need to balance the city budget than a desire to ease the search for available cabs, city officials acknowledge. Since the city first imposed the cap on the number of cabs in 1937, the value of the painted metal shields mounted on the hoods of cabs has grown from $10 to about $225,000 today. That means that selling 900 new medallions could earn the city an estimated $190 million, a third of which the city is already counting on to help balance this year's budget. The city hopes to sell the first 300 medallions before the end of June.
Adding to yellow cab fleet has long been a tricky political issue. Mayors John V. Lindsay, Edward I. Koch and David N. Dinkins tried during their terms. Doing so now requires the approval of the State Legislature and the City Council.
Mayors also face opposition by taxi owners, who for decades prevented the city from holding an auction, keeping the limit fixed at 11,787, based on an argument that more medallions could dilute their investment and mean more competition for their drivers. During the Koch years, the powerful Bronx Democratic leader Stanley M. Friedman represented the industry and managed to block Mr. Koch's repeated efforts to increase the medallions sold.
Mr. Koch also faced another roadblock. A late-1980's study of traffic and pollution related to his plan to allow 1,800 more cabs found that the city could, at most, add only 400, raising the total to 12,187; any more would have violated clean air rules.
"It was incredibly startling," Mr. Koch said in a recent interview, still frustrated that he could not get a single additional cab onto the streets during his three terms. "People did have difficulty getting cabs. I never understood it."
It was not until the mid-1990's, during the tenure of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, that the city first adjusted the medallion cap, adding the 400 cabs that the traffic study had cleared.
This year Mr. Bloomberg was able to win approval for the 900 new medallions in Albany and from the City Council partly because the industry, which has been pressing for a fare increase, decided not to oppose the sale. The only remaining hurdles are the Taxi and Limousine Commission and the environmental study, which should be complete within a month.
The study, conducted by Urbitran Associates, a New York City engineering firm, is examining how issuing 300, 600 or 900 additional medallions would affect carbon monoxide at five intersections: Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street; Broadway, Columbus Avenue and 65th Street; Third Avenue and 57th Street; Broadway and 34th Street; and Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street. All are notoriously congested spots where cabs are often hard to get, even though cabs make up about half the traffic.
State air monitoring data from an East 34th Street testing station shows that New York City's air has greatly improved since the mid-1980's and that carbon monoxide is consistently far below federal limits. The Bloomberg administration plan would require 9 percent of any new cabs to rely on compressed natural gas or to be hybrid electric-gas vehicles, reducing their emissions impact.
The crucial question the traffic study will answer is whether the new cabs would significantly increase carbon monoxide. A significant increase is defined as consuming half the available cushion between the federal limit and the current air quality.
At the same intersections, the consulting firm is counting overall movement of cars, how often they turn, how long they sit in traffic and how long it takes to move across nearby eight-block sections of the city.
What the study will not answer is the ever-urgent question of just how long, on a rainy day, or at rush hour, a traveler will have to wait for a cab at those high-demand locations. Cab availability, it turns out, has to do with a lot more than simply how many medallions the city allows.
The economy, for one, is a significant force. Most city residents may not realize it, but the recession has made it easier to get a cab in New York now than in 1999.
Cab use goes down in New York City almost in direct correlation to declines in employment at restaurants and bars, declines the city has experienced recently, said Bruce Schaller, a former Taxi and Limousine Commission policy director who runs a cab research and consulting firm. Meanwhile, city data shows that drivers, struggling to make a living, have been putting in more hours. A combined result is that city cabs cruised for 303 million miles in 2002 in search of fares, up from 288 million in 1999, suggesting that it was about 5 percent easier to get a cab last year. This trend may already be reversing as the economy begins to revive.
A fare increase typically means that more people opt to take public transit or to walk, at least initially, making it easier for others to hail cabs. More cabs might also mean fewer sedans would be illegally picking up people trying to hail cabs. That variable also complicates any study of the environmental impact of the medallion increase.
During a recent rush hour at the Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street intersection, would-be taxi riders did not have their hands up for more than a few minutes before a sedan pulled up and offered a ride.
"I'd rather pay a little extra and get going," one man said as he gave up on getting a cab and stepped into a limousine for a $10 ride to Penn Station.
Raising the fare could also affect the availability of cabs — as well as the environmental impact — because more drivers could be drawn into the business, allowing fleet owners to put more cabs on the road for double shifts.
As it stands, a cab ride in New York City is a relative bargain. New York City's average fare of $6.85 (assuming a 2.8-mile trip and about five minutes spent sitting in traffic) is the lowest among the nation's 14 cities with sizable cab fleets, according to a survey by Mr. Schaller. A similar trip would cost $9.19 in Los Angeles and $7.77 in Chicago.
Full-time cabdrivers, on average, take in about $1,375 for working six 12-hour shifts a week, according to Mr. Schaller's analysis of city taxi meter data. After the typical costs for leasing the cab and gasoline are deducted, it works out to about $720 in take-home pay before taxes, according to Mr. Schaller. Ms. Desai, of the Taxi Workers Alliance, said she believed that the average take-home wage, before taxes, was more like $565 a week.
Each driver, of course, has his own story. Mohammed Ahmed, who lives with his wife and two young children in Woodside, Queens, said he took in about $1,200 in fares and tips during his six-day week. Subtract $565 in lease payments for his cab and $150 in gasoline, and that leaves about $500.
"Policemen, firefighters, teachers — their salaries have gone up," said Mr. Ahmed, 38, who said he had more than $10,000 in credit card debt. "It is hard to survive with what I make."
But giving Mr. Ahmed and other cabdrivers an increase is not an easy call for Mr. Bloomberg. In February 2002, he all but endorsed a taxi fare increase, saying during a news conference that "somehow or other, if you don't make it economically attractive for people to drive taxis, the public's not going to have taxis." He also said, "You probably will see some kind of a rate increase."
Since then, however, Mr. Bloomberg has been more circumspect.
"The T.L.C. will follow its charter-mandated process as it considers applications for a fare increase," said Jordan Barowitz, a spokesman for Mr. Bloomberg. "A medallion sale will make it easier for New Yorkers to find a cab and encourage people not to drive their own cars. 2.2 million vehicles travel New York's streets each day; the addition of 900 cabs isn't even a drop in the bucket."
Mr. Koch said that Mr. Bloomberg should put aside any concerns about his political fate and back the fare increase.
"What did you pay seven years ago for a bottle of milk and a pound of steak?" he said, referring to the last time there was a fare increase. "The mayor should do the right thing and people will support it. And the right thing is to issue the additional medallions and allow a fare increase to go through."
The most intense part of the debate might end up being which version of the fare increase should be approved, as the fleet owners and the alliance of drivers have strikingly different requests pending before the city. The Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade, which represents fleet owners, wants a 23 percent fare increase, which would produce an average fare of $8.45 and increase the flat rate for a ride from John F. Kennedy International Airport into Manhattan to $49 from $35.
The taxi workers alliance, meanwhile, is pushing for a nearly 50 percent increase, raising the average fare for a 2.8-mile trip to $10.14, not including tip.
The dispute extends beyond the basic fare. Fleet owners want to increase the cap on how much they can charge drivers to lease cabs, while the drivers want a reduction in that cap.
In Midtown, where the battle for cabs is waged every evening, the prospects of a fare increase were greeted with something of a collective shrug. New Yorkers have already seen increases in the subway and bus fare this year, and taxi fare increases often follow close behind.
"I am willing to pay more for the convenience of knowing that there will be a cab when I need one," Amy Innerfield, who lives on the Upper East Side, said while waiting at a Midtown curb for a cab last week. "At least I can get where I want to go."


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Elmhurst took steps Monday night to prod Oak Brook into cooperating with a state plan to dredge Salt Creek to help prevent flooding of hundreds of Elmhurst homes.
The Elmhurst City Council unanimously approved a resolution stating that the city favors ``completing the channel improvements in Oak Brook and Elmhurst on Salt Creek . . . as soon as possible.``


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Whilst withdrawing from large amounts of alcohol, the eyes can sometimes see white threads floating about which flow in a seemingly "musical pattern".
After drinking large quanity's of alcohol and returning to sobriety, the eyes can play tricks on you.. causing white lines which move rythmically. These are called "Harmonic Visions".
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Although Marineland has been a controversial tourist location for the past couple of years, we wanted to visit to form our own opinion. Our kids had a great time so I want to share some positive points with you on how you can enjoy a day at Marineland with your family.
Arctic Cove
We began our day with a Beluga Whale encounter at Arctic Cove, which I must say was the coolest part of my day by far. For $8/person you get to meet with a whale trainer and a beluga whale. Our whale buddy was named Andre. During our time with the trainer, we were able to ask questions and learn all about the habits and life of a beluga whale. Each of us got turns touching and feeding this awesome mammal some fish. I will be the first to admit that the shear size and firmness of Andre was a wee bit intimidating for me but the kids had a no fear attitude. According to my 6 year old, the beluga whale feels like a hard-boiled egg.
Did you know?
Adult Beluga whales have 3 stomachs and eat about 60lbs of fish per day
Young beluga whales are grey in colour and as they age they turn white
Waldorf Stadium Show
Be sure to catch the King Waldorf Stadium Show which is presented at regular intervals throughout the day. Check the schedule upon entry to see what times the show is that day. Watch the sea lions, beluga whales and dolphins jump, spin and play in this show the kids are sure to enjoy. One lucky little observer will be chosen from the audience to help out and get a special treat.
Marineland has rides for all ages. When the kids were younger, they could spend most of the day riding the kiddie rides and have a blast. In the kid area, your young ones will be entertained by the mini lady bug coaster, orca screamer drop zone, mini ferris wheel and more.
Now that our kids are 6 & 8 and have a love for the bigger rides, we actually had a chance to venture over and try some of the larger rides. It was a little disappointing though that 3 of the rides were closed for maintenance but those that we open we great. Since the park was not too busy on the day we went, lines were short and therefore we were able to ride many times. I think hands down, our family's favorite ride was the Dragon Mountain Roller Coaster. We honestly rode this about 10 times! My 6 year old, being the brave soul she is, when on the Sky Screamer and gave it a rating of super fun! The other big rides in the area we also fun but for sure the coaster and drop zone were our family's favourite.
Buy your lunch or pack a picnic
Food at Marineland is reasonably priced in my opinion but your are welcome to bring your own food into the park and eat at one of the picnic areas or even lay out a blanket on any of the many grassy areas.
Pricing for Marineland
Single Day Pass for ages 13 – 59 – $42.95 + HST
Single Day Pass for ages 5 – 12 – $35.95 + HST
Single Day Pass for ages 60+ – $35.95 + HST
Enjoyed your day at the park? You can upgrade to a season pass for only $5 before you leave for the day
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Here are happy new parents Usher and wife Tameka Foster getting all kissie-faced at the Grammy's. Looks like she's casting a spell on poor little Usher. SMH.
Tameka's stepping her game up though, not looking as mannish in these shots. Motherhood must be treating her well.
Yeah, they're on the front row too…
aww, they look cute. Tameka is looking very feminine and beautiful! I hope no one hates on her!
she almost looks pretty, maybe its the whole square chin thing I wonder what the baby looks like
Tameka got that smooth kelly rowland skin, shes lucky I hate her now
looking good, cute couple
Tameka is a nut case. Why USHER!? Chilli was just fine. And Tameka is ugly. I think Usher has a mommy complex but whatever I heard Diddy broke him in anyway.
he looks mesmerized even with those michael jackson aviator glasses on
Damn with all that money and fame i would've at least married someone younger, cuter and with light skin and long real hair.
have mercy on that baby nose………. 😡
I am happy for them both, But I am mad at usher for wearing sunglasses indoors.
Such an ignorant comment to say that you would get a light skin girl with long hair..would that make a better wife? You sound so foolish and uneducated. She's not barbie doll pretty but she's not ugly either; she just looks like a regular black woman. Did anyone stop to think that he might just really love her for who she is and not just for the way she looks. Did anyone stop to think a marriage based on something real is going to last a lot longer than a marriage based on the way someone looks?
At least Tameka is keeping her legs crossed for once. She's nothing more than an old industry rat and an opportunistic ho.
Damn…A.Keys just blew it out!!! great performance
Grammys are always so boring why? No seriously Tamika looks pretty but I just don't think older woman younger guy works very well long term
I'm highly educated, thank you very much. And i stand by my earlier statement. What's the use of having all that money and fame and not enjoy the perks and comfort of giving in to your more base superfiscial urges and whims. My God! Don't you realize every morning when he wakes up, he has to look at that sup-par looking creature and ask himself "I DRANKED WHAT?"
Usher got dem roots put on him. Usher could have had any woman in the world but he chose to take another man's family. I believe in Karma! There is no way that this will be a fairy tale ending.
But do you stop to think about all the fringe benefits that come with being a superstar performer or athlete or whatever and you get that black barbie looking woman to marry you solely because she is beautiful on the outside. but then being with her you start to realize her true character and the looks only last for so long until you realize that pretty as she is you just can't stay with her because she does nothing to stimulate you as a person. So then you get divorced because when you really wake up and realize something it's, My God this woman and I have nothing in common, she does nothing for me and that's when you ask yourself "I DRANKED WHAT?"
Well said, Spicy! You are being so right on this one!! Capt. Krunch, please take a lesson in here.
I can't hate on her. Every woman wanted him and she had that platinum p to get him. So all I can say is get it girl.
Tameka still looks like a DUDE!!! Love really is blind.
They look happy.
When is Usher coming out with a new CD?
I heard singles on Youtube, that people are claiming is from his new album.
None of them are worth a 3-4 year hiatus.
@ Capt. Krunch
You suffer from self hatred. Why is it that closer to white still epitomizes beauty to blacks. Dark and lovely is equally as beautiful as light and bright. Good for Usher that he is beyond the slave mentality tht shackles many black people. BTW- you cant convince me that you are well educated with your ignorant jim crow comments. get a clue loser
One more thing…
Well said Spicy
@Capt. Krunch
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and comes in different shapes, sizes, shades, etc. elevate your mind
i will never understand why so many people dislike her. what did she do???? lol


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Can Jay-Z Make 'Fela!' a Broadway Hit?
According to Michael Riedel's homies, Jay-Z might help promote 'Fela!'
Maybe! According to Michael Riedel's "vast network of sources in the hip hop world," Jay-Z and Beyoncé are huge fans of Fela!, Bill T. Jones's Fela Kuti musical currently mulling a move to Broadway, and could "get behind it in a very big way." Riedel's homies say Hova probably wouldn't actually invest in the show but would help promote it by talking it up in interviews. We've had our doubts about Fela! connecting with Broadway audiences, but the Jigga Man's endorsement certainly can't hurt, particularly given the show's vast superiority to Budweiser Select.


text: The idea for Rough Fusion emerged, like so many ideas do, when someone was browsing through some pictures on the Internet. That someone was Pawel and those pictures were of simple concrete bowls. As someone who's always been drawn to clean lines and organic shapes, the minimalist look of concrete was a natural fit for Pawel. Whether they're housing your toothbrush or swaddling your favorite succulent, we reckon his products will be a natural fit in your home, too.


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This post is a bit of a follow up to my previous post on Basic Validation in Nintex Forms.
I wanted to cover the scenario where you've applied some custom styling to your text boxes and are finding that the required field validation around the input is no longer taking affect.
As an example, let's assume you've gone ahead and removed the out of the box styling we see on a text box and applied your own:
Now if we take a look at the form Settings, we've setup our custom style as follows:
And so when we preview, we'll see something like:
So far so good, however, when we test the validation, you'll now notice that the red border around the input is gone:
In order to add this back, we'll need to modify our ValidateTitle function so that we automatically apply a border when the validation fails. Here's what this looks like:
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function ValidateTitle(source, arguments) { arguments.IsValid = true; if (arguments.Value == "") { NWF$(".nf-custom-input").css("border","1px solid red"); arguments.IsValid = false; } }
Republish the form, and you should see something like:
As a final touch, you could add the red asterisk to the form, so that we end up with this as a final result:
Really powerful! Any questions, let me know.


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From Claremore, Oklahoma, USA:
I am trying to help a friend who has degenerative foot disease related to his diabetes, and I need to understand what exactly is involved here and what treatment, if any, is possible. What can you tell me about foot diseases associated with diabetes?
When foot disease associated with bone deterioration begins to develop, you usually have a patient with long-standing diabetes. Multiple issues come in to play.
First, there is likely to be diabetic neuropathy in which the nerves do not work well, and the patients do not have good sensation, even to tissue damaging injuries. With further use, the bone continues to deteriorate, even though the patient does not feel it. In addition, the healing process is compromised by poor local blood flow. This would also compromise antibiotic delivery to an infected site.
Finally, good blood sugar control is required for the body's immune system to work well. By the time bone disease is present, patients may require more dramatic treatments to improve their situation. It may not be possible to completely heal the bones back to normal. First, the patient should have the foot unloaded. This means staying off the foot for weeks to months.This is very hard to do, but is very often necessary. Second, special shoes and orthotic devices are needed to distribute weight more evenly and avoid areas of pressure over areas where skin is breaking down. Finally, the nerve function usually does not recover once it is gone. This means patients have to be more conscious of conditions, activities, shoes that can cause problems. Infection needs to be avoided by obtaining good blood sugar control and aggressive treatment of minor skin abrasions. This means looking at the feet every day for the rest of the patient's life.
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Weddings tend to be surrounded by all sorts of rules of etiquette and myths. However attentive you want to be about these things, keep in mind the fact that there are still a lot of myths you can definitely ignore when it comes to the Big Day. What are the most common wedding etiquette "rules" you can leave aside? Read on and find out more:
- The white dress. Alright, this myth may have made its point back when brides had to be pure and when society would harshly condemn them for not being that. However, in this day and age, it is perfectly acceptable to wear a wedding gown in whatever color you like – from fuchsia to black and from bright green to cherry red, there's absolutely no limit at all.
- The bridesmaids and groomsmen. There are so many outdated "rules" when it comes to the wedding party! First and foremost, there's the one that says that you have to actually have a wedding party and that it absolutely has to include six bridesmaids and six groomsmen. If you don't want to put anyone through the trouble of paying for expensive suits, dresses and accessories simply don't do it. Furthermore, there's nobody who can stop you from having "bridesmen" or "groomsladies" either. Last, but definitely not least, it is more than acceptable for the maid of honor to give a speech too.
- The alcohol. After all the wedding planning buzz and after all the stress and nervousness, both of you deserve a drink or two. So yes, you are allowed to have alcohol. It's not necessarily fine to get really drunk, but as long as you're having fun (which, of course, is the entire point of the wedding reception), you are free to do whatever makes you feel great about this big moment in your life.
If you are still searching for the perfect vendors for your New England wedding, don't forget to stop by Wedding Day Exposition as well. With the wedding vendors we have gathered in our exposition, your wedding has a very good chance of being absolutely unforgettable from all points of view!
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The Culinary Union is suing the Western Hotel and its operators, claiming the Western violated the collective bargaining agreement when it laid off union workers and transferred their work to a nonunion department.
The Culinary Union lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, seeks arbitration and claims the union spent two years trying to work out a resolution with the Western's operators, PlayLV Gaming Operations.
"For two years, Counsel for Local 226 has tried repeatedly by letter and by phone to request that the Employer cooperate in selecting an arbitrator," the lawsuit states. "Employer repeatedly refused to select an arbitrator claiming the grievance had been settled.
The Culinary Union claims no such settlement had been reached in the matter, which stems from the closure of change booths at the Western. Union employees classified as change booth cashiers were laid off, while their work was transferred to the nonunion positions at the main cage, the lawsuit states.
PlayLV could not be reached for comment.
Contact reporter Valerie Miller at firstname.lastname@example.com or 702-387-5286.