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Document management brings control to your printing, scanning and file infrastructure. Doing so generates business efficiency and productivity.
Your business is unique. So the approach we take to managing your print and document workflows will be personalised to you.
Document management benefits businesses of all sizes. Here's a few key areas we are currently helping clients with right now:
Valuable information flows across all rungs of your organisation. Keeping it safe is therefore essential. Yet, with technology moving at such a quick pace, breaches in confidentiality are becoming more commonplace.
This causes catastrophic consequences for businesses small and large. That's why information security is now a key objective for all organisations.
Document management software solutions let you safeguard confidential business information. RDT brings security through rigorous policies and role-based access control.
At the printer, control systems ensure confidential content is not left in the tray for all to see. And, should disaster strike such as fire or flooding, cloud-based document management systems keep valuable data securely backed-up.
Staff work from the office. They work from home. They work on the go. This means specific data needs to be securely available anywhere, anytime. Document management systems make this possible.
Ensure business uptime. Respond to business needs in real-time. Assigned users can access files and documents when they want. It doesn't matter what device they are using.
RDT helps organisations streamline the storage and access of files and data. This makes it easy to locate, retrieve and share for future use. Marking up data with tags, categories, subcategories, metadata and search systems means staff will have their hands on it in a matter of seconds.
Document management ensures you can get the most out of your employees. Their time, after all, can be better spent than hunting down hard to find information.
Print is part of your document workflow. It cuts across key processes and people. Managed print services with RDT enables business to:
There are a number of managed print providers on the market. Likewise, there are a number of document management providers.
Traditionally, businesses like yours have had to engage different providers to manage both their print and document systems.
At RDT, we believe the two go hand in hand. That's why we'll manage both your print and document systems.
In managing your print, we'll assess your entire document workflow. So, in addition to managing your devices, we'll also look at how your infrastructure can enhance and support your entire document workflow.
In cutting the flow of paper, it's likely that many of your tasks can be digitised. Let's streamline your print environment. Let's cut costs, reduce waste and make you more productive. And, in doing so, let's bring improvements to your digital workflow, integrating both your on and offline system through the right software.
Yes, you can. Traditional technology makes managing your print and document infrastructure across one or multiple sites tricky. Organisations therefore often invest in multiple local print servers. They do this to avoid heavy network traffic.
The end result is a distribution fleet which is difficult to manage and support. Press print and your entire file is sent to a print server. It then moves the destination printer. This creates extra administration. And, should a server become unavailable, printing hits the buffers.
Print server management with RDT delivers the resource and cost rationalisation you've been looking for. How? Because you'll only have one server. With a range of solutions from Ciratto, Equitrac, eCopy and Xangati, our in-house team will adapt them to consolidate your server and printer environment across one or more geographical locations. This brings predictability and control to your fleet.
Yes. Your business can scan documents directly to secure folders. The hardware solutions we have enable the digitisation of paper-intensive tasks.
Simply scan from your multifunction device into a secure folder. This information will then be available in the cloud.
Let's assess your environment. Let's identify which processes can be digitised. Then selected members of your team can access, view, edit and share with colleagues anywhere, anytime.
Yes. Remote workers can send documents directly to specified folders. They can do so from anywhere in the world.
RDT brings agility to business. This means your staff can work on the go. It means key information can be shared anywhere, anytime. And you can do this securely.
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NBA 2K9 led the league in sales and critical acclaim last season while battling against inferior opponents, and has in general been leaps and bounds ahead of the competition for years now. In other words, it's tough being the king. But with the competition finally showing signs of life, NBA 2K10 is now looking to show that it has the goods to hold onto the crown.
On the Court
While playing the game, I immediately noticed a slower game pace. While I didn't have a real problem with the game speed in NBA 2K9, 2K10 does seem much more realistic at this slowed-down speed. The players also feel like they have weight and are taking proper steps instead of sliding up and down the court, which might be a byproduct of the slower speed.
In addition to the tweaked game speed, a ton of animations have also been added to the game. Special attention has been paid to blocks, under the basket moves, stripping the ball and almost anything else you can imagine. You can also roll the ball into play when you inbound it. This is useful during a tight game where every second counts. Kick balls will also be called when warranted. They don't happen often, but they're definitely in the game.
Some of the other new animations in the game are triggered during specific situations. If you find yourself in one of these unique situations, you may have a chance to catch an alley-oop off the backboard and dunk it home, or the chance to make a two-handed block. But the game isn't turning into some sort of street-ball game as both these particular events are relatively rare and should only happen during reasonable circumstances, at least according to the developers.
Many of the slower jump shots have been significantly sped up as well. This means a pass to Ray Allen in transition will result in a much quicker shot that is more like what you would expect Ray to pull off in real life.
On top of all the animations that have been added and removed this year, the passing game has also been tweaked to make cross-court passes a less viable option. There are also fewer dunks in traffic, which should make (almost) everyone happy.
At a base level, the turbo system has been reworked -- there is now a turbo meter that depletes as you use it. Since there is now a turbo meter, you can only use the speed boost for a certain amount of time before the meter runs out. But the truly interesting wrinkle is that you can continue to use turbo after the meter has run out. The downside is that fatigue will build up rapidly, which will leave you with an exhausted player. Players who abuse turbo will have to reach towards the end of the bench for fresh legs, leaving their team at a disadvantage.
The ratings system is also brand new this year. The range of attributes now goes from 25-99, so there is a much broader range for players to be rated within. Also, the game uses the statistics from 82games.com to make judgments about the various player tendencies. These tendencies involve the how, when and where players get into certain positions. This means that while Al Jefferson and Elton Brand may have similar ratings, the new system is promising to differentiate them, which would allow many players who play the same position and have similar attributes to still be unique on the court.
Beyond all those on-court elements, perhaps the best touch this year is the fact that there are now in-game saves.
The biggest addition to NBA 2K presentation in years is the introduction of NBA Today. The NBA season lasts from late October to the end of June. While NBA 2K10 will be eight months old in June 2010 when the NBA Finals are taking place, NBA Today will still be keeping the game fresh.
On any given day when an NBA game is being played, you can pop in NBA 2K10 and play those matchups. But what's so great about that? Well, as you play these games, you'll see stat overlays from the real NBA season. The commentary will talk about upcoming real-life matchups, league leaders, standings and everything else related to the real NBA season. The stats will be updated daily throughout the season and playoffs, and you don't need to be an Xbox Live Gold member to reap the rewards.
There are also signature introductions for just about every NBA team in the game. There are also unique player introductions. That means LeBron tosses up the powder, KG yells on the scoreboard and Shaq does his bowling routine -- these all will happen during the pregame introductions as Kevin Harlan and Clark Kellogg talk about the looming matchup. The nice part is that these introductions happen naturally; they are not cut scenes that you will be fed up with every time you pick certain teams.
Real assistant coaches have also been added. And I would know since I personally witnessed Patrick Ewing sitting reluctantly on the Orlando Magic bench as he waited for someone to offer him a head-coaching job.
Association Mode
The franchise mode in NBA 2K10 is deeper than ever. 2K has included 10-day contracts, restricted free agency, the ability to control all 30 teams and NBDL integration. An optional practice mode is also available if you want to give your players a spin. And as far as under the hood things go, player progression is now based solely on playing time and performance.
To give the Association an extended life, 2K Share is also lending its hand this year. You can upload and download draft classes that can be used in your franchise. These are all fan-created, so you can have the 2010 college kids, a retro 1991 draft class or one with your entire high school graduating class. It's all up to you, and you can use a draft class for every single offseason you come across.
On the gameplay side, any franchise game can be played against an online opponent to give each game a different feel. The Association mode was a strong point in previous NBA 2K games, and this year it looks even better.
My Player
This is where your NBA career begins. If you buy the NBA 2K10: Draft Combine for $4.99 (available now for Xbox 360 and September 3 for the PS3), you have a head start cultivating your player for the pros. Once he has competed in the combine, you can upload him to the 2K server, and then when NBA 2K10 releases, you can download your player and put him right in the game. If not, you go straight to My Player mode and do not collect $200.
Both versions of the game boast more creation options than any previous NBA 2K game. The developers have added tons of sneakers from every major brand, more hair options (like Drew Gooden's patch) and you can also morph the player's face to your liking. During the creation process you also select a specific play style for your pro (for example, defensive-minded center) and signature animations, though, you individually select each of those. What that means is just because you have Rasheed Wallace's jump shot that does not mean you have his dribble or free-throw style. You can individually choose each of those, and you unlock more options as you progress and improve your ratings.
As you go about making your player better, the 2K Insider will be there to help you out if need be. So if you're a 3-point shooting small forward, it would be silly to focus on your blocking or offensive rebounding rating -- the 2K Insider knows that and he'll tell you as much.
Beyond the scrimmages, games and drills that will occur if you choose to pick up the Draft Combine, your career will actually commence at training camp in NBA 2K10. If you were drafted, you will head to that team's training camp. Otherwise, you will need to be invited by another team, assuming you get an invite at all. Each team carries 20 players in training camp, and it's your job to make it onto the final 15-man squad. Even if you make the team, you can be optioned to the NBDL to get your game up. As the season rolls along, you may be called up to the main squad to fill out the roster for an injured teammate.
If you're not signed to a team, then you will be playing with the NBDL. You can be offered two consecutive 10-day contracts during this time -- the third offer snags you a league-minimum contract for the remainder of the season. However, that's not really a big deal because unlike in the real NBA, every offseason you become a free agent; though, you might have the option to sign with your former squad if the general manager wants you back. This design choice was made to keep the user focused on the game and not bogged down with fake currency and the desire to sign a max deal.
As your player grows and develops into a veteran, his skills will not diminish. The developers felt that it would undermine the work you put into your player if your skills decreased as your career came to a close.
There were a ton of problems that were associated with the online modes in NBA 2K9. Thankfully, the developers have focused on this portion of the experience -- they have rewritten a bunch of online code in an effort to try and make sure the online portion of the game works smoothly from day one.
On top of the online issues, like I mentioned before, you can play any franchise game online. There are also no formal ranked lobbies -- there are unranked lobbies -- but you won't need to access any additional menus to play online games. Instead, you can invite your friends or play a stranger by accessing the quick-game menu right after turning the game on.
The Team-Up mode teams are still random during ranked games, though, you should have an easier time connecting with friends. You can also bring your My Player into the fold and he can join five on five street games where everyone else is a created player.
I also have to mention one little refinement that should make some people happy. After you finish a game, you can go through the replays of pretty much every play in the game -- this is no different than previous versions of the game. The nice touch is that now, instead of saving a replay and then editing it before uploading it online, you can now upload the replay right to the 2K site. It's a nice touch simply because it removes some of the busywork involved in the previous uploading process.
Closing Comments
Last year one of my main complaints about NBA 2K9 was the fact that it was missing a unique mode -- especially because Team Up mode was a mess from day one. It's still early, but it looks like the developers have at least added that big-time new mode for 2K10.
*Full disclosure: 2K paid for my one-night hotel stay and airfare during this trip. While it did not influence what I wrote here, I always think it is important to be upfront with the visitors of this site whenever possible.*

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How does Reevio work? This is the clever bit. The Reevio team have developed something called modular templates… What now? A modular template. It's basically a template that you pick, that's got all these individual scenes in that you can pick and choose from to create crash-hot Lower Thirds that's unique to your marketing situation. Yeah, they also have Facebook cover videos. I'll be honest, before Reevio came along, I didn't even know Facebook cover videos were a thing… but WOW! Ha! Ok, but can something that does everything, really be that good? That's a fair question, but the way these modular templates work is impressive, and when you add in over 6000 high quality digital assets that you get with Reevio, I think it's probably harder to make a bad video, than a good one.
What kind of videos can I make? It'd be quicker to tell you what kind of Lower Thirds it can't make, but I can't think of any. Seriously? Yeah, from marketing point of view it does the lot… Whiteboard, explainer, logos, motion titles, dynamic text, sales videos, promos, it's even got something called a FUSION TEMPLATE that lets you combine your Reevio videos with other video you might want to re-use…That's a lot!
Finding a Review of Reevio
Back when video software first came out, there was Atari, and it came with games like Pac Man, Galaga, Millipede, and more. These games weren't very expensive, and many households, despite their income, bought them for their kids. Nowadays, there are numerous types of video softwares like Reevio but none quite so excellent for several game systems. These modern game systems are a lot more expensive, making it difficult for every household to purchase them for their children. There is even a game system, the Nintendo Wii, which makes playing games feel like you're actually on screen playing. If you are playing a bowling game on the brand-new Nintendo Wii, you actually roll a real bowling ball, and at the same time, you see yourself on the screen, actually playing. It's a real technological advance! And it's very fun and exciting for children as well as adults. There are many different games for these various game consoles, such as football, basketball, baseball, and a real favorite for many people, Nascar. In the Nascar game, you can setup your own car, by choosing different tracks, just like you're actually on a real race track. You can adjust the track bar on the car and change tires, and then it's like you're actually racing for the Nextel Cup, in real life. The graphics on these games are unreal, and it's just like watching a game or TV. You choose the team that you want, and play someone else. Also, you can customize your game, and that is fun, too, especially when you're beating your opponent. There are also tournaments on these video games, especially the football and basketball ones. They will have up to a hundred people or more involved in these tournaments, and whoever wins first, second and third place wins prize money. There is also a show on ESPN that has actual tournaments, with the first prize being $100, 000. That certainly is a lot of money just to play a game on television. But there are so many people who practice frequently, just to be able to be part of such a tournament. They must figure out different defenses for their players, and the same for the offense. So, as you can say, video game playing is a billion dollar industry. And it's obvious that they're not just for kids, because what kid is going to be on ESPN? Not many, because most parents wouldn't allow it.
What Is Reevio Video Software
Have you ever wanted to be able to make and edit your own videos using Reevio? How about taking existing video clips and adjoin them together to create a single video? All of this seems like it would be great but are you having trouble finding software that fits these needs that are free? Well I'd like to introduce to you Reevio Video Creator - Video Editor 2018.
Reevio Video Creator - Video Editor 2018 takes your dreams of making your own videos on the internet and turns them into a reality, for free! This software not only lets you create your own video files from scratch; it also allows you to be able to edit, split, and cut video files. So when you are browsing through the internet and you read all this nonsense about free video creators and editors not being good quality, think again. This software will provide you with all the tools that the other costly programs have, so why pay if you can get it for free?
After you have successfully installed the software you will be prompted for automatic updates. This is quite impressive because you are not only getting this program for free but you are also getting updates in the future for absolutely free. This program is especially for you if you are not very tech savvy because the interface is very basic.
Overall, I would grade this software a 4 out of 5 stars. I have rated it this because I think the software is wonderful but it would have gained 5 out of 5 if you could insert audio clips in.
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The St. Francis Guild women's auxiliary of Mount St. Mary's Hospital will host a "Battle of the Banks and Credit Unions: Celebrity Bartender Night" at Honey's (6560 Niagara Falls Blvd., Niagara Falls) on Wednesday, Aug. 13. The evening will feature employees from various banking institutions and credit unions throughout Niagara County serving as celebrity bartenders from 5-9 p.m.
There is a $15 admission, which includes a light buffet. All proceeds from the event will benefit the surgery department renovation program at Mount S. Mary's Hospital.
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Just last week, President Obama said that to create jobs today and lay the foundation for economic growth and U.S. competitiveness in the future, "We need … a smart system of infrastructure equal to the needs of the 21st century."
When most people think of infrastructure, they think of visible projects like highways, bridges or high-speed rail.
But just as vital is our invisible infrastructure – the electromagnetic spectrum that travels unseen through the air and enables all of our wireless communications networks, cellular voice and data services, as well as radio, broadcast TV, and satellite.
Wireless innovation fuels economic growth and job creation. Sales of smartphone "apps" – an industry that didn't exist a few years ago -- topped $4 billion in 2009; our new apps economy has created many jobs and can create more. Our invisible infrastructure also supports breakthrough tools to improve education through mobile online learning and e-books, enhance health care through potentially life-saving remote diagnostics, and promote energy efficiency by supporting the smart grid.
But we are at an inflection point.
The explosive growth in mobile communications is outpacing our ability to keep up. Spectrum is finite. If we don't act to update our spectrum policies for the 21st century, we're going to run into a wall – a spectrum crunch – that will stifle American innovation and economic growth and cost us the opportunity to lead the world in mobile communications.
Today, many of the nation's leading experts on wireless technologies gathered at the FCC for a spectrum summit to identify ways we can solve the spectrum crunch and unleash our invisible infrastructure to spark our economy and create a powerful engine for job creation.
I kicked off the discussion with some remarks that highlighted some of the strategies we are pursuing at the FCC to make more spectrum available and put it to its best use.
I hope you will check out my speech, and I encourage you to watch other videos from the summit, which feature national leaders like Aneesh Chopra, our nation's Chief Technology Officer, and Jason Furman, Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, as well as my fellow Commissioners Robert McDowell and Meredith Baker.
The future is being built on our invisible infrastructure. Today's summit identifies important ways we can work together to update our spectrum policies for the 21st century and make sure that infrastructure truly serves our country's needs.
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Please remind wireless phone providers that some of us prefer to use our phones as phones! We neither want to use wireless handsets as interweb browsers nor are we pleased by mandatory fees for unwanted/unused services. And it is not "convenient" to be charged for something unwanted/unused.
Verizon is guilty of "feature" infliction.
I have self control. I use verizon wireless. Shortly non-smart-phones will not be a purchase option as the quality of the remaining handsets is questionable at best. Should I purchase a non-google HTC smart-phone verizon would inflict a mandatory interweb "feature" that I do not want and would not use.
Should one have [foolishly] subscribed to an interweb package on a phone and should one exceed "acceptable" use of an "unlimited" plan verizon would block one's access to the feature without cancelling the subscriber account.
Great! Verizon already has the infrastructure in place to NOT-charge me. Please 'force' verizon [and all wireless phone providers] to offer smart-phone use with interweb "feature" PRE-disabled and with zero charges.
The non-driod HTC smart-phone will continue to funciton as a phone. And one may still run apps locally without the need for internet access.
Verizon is guilt of "feature" infliction.
I have self control. I use verizon wireless. Shortly non-smart-phones will not be a purchase option as the quality of the remaining handsets is questionable at best. Should I purchase a non-google HTC smart-phone versizon would inflict a mandatory interweb "feature that I do not want.
Should one have [foolishly] subscribed to an interweb package on a phone and should one exceed "acceptable" use of an "unlimited" plan verizon can block one's access to the feature without cancelling the subscriber account.
Great! Verizon already has the infrastructure in place to NOT-charge me. Please 'force' verizon [and all wireless phone providers] to offer smart-phone use with interweb "feature" PRE-disabled and with zero charges.
The non-driod HTC smart-phone will continue to funciton as a phone, and should the owner choose run applications locally without the need for internet access.
How about making new laws and restrictions for Fox and Comcast. FCC has given them free reign so that they might oppress WE THE PEOPLE.
Thank you Chairman Genachowski for having the forsight to think ahead to be able to efficiently plan for the future. As a consumer I won't pretend to understand everything in your report with regard to the spectrum needed, cell sites, and all. But I did want to comment, as an advocate for Deaf and Hard of Hearing consumers regarding this statement: "While modeling precise consumer effects is outside the scope of this paper, it is very likely that these unnecessary costs will affect consumer prices if new spectrum is not made available." I feel its imperative that Deaf consumer needs, especially video usage directly to 9-1-1 be factored in, so that our access in the wireless world is not an after thought. This impacts the need to support major improvements in the PSAPs so that they can handle all types of users, including Deaf and Hard of Hearing Americans be it text, video, captioned telephone services,etc. I'm just worried that the model is basing its projection on voice only wireless users to determine the strength of cell sites needed, and etc. and hope that you can include us in the concept of the design from the start.
Thank you for all you are doing.
Mr. Chairman,
With all due respect, we've heard enough speeches and rhetoric. There are many ways and sources for much needed spectrum for broadband. Its time for swift and decisive action. This is clearly the area the FCC is tasked to govern.
Broadcast television at this point accounts for such a small percentage of viewers, yet such a large and attractive piece of spectrum, that its clearly in the public's interest, to reclaim it and put it back to use for the greater good. The few people still relying on terrestrial broadcast TV could be transitioned to equivalent local station cable service either through USF, or cable industry mandates to provide basic local service to their service area's, or a myriad of other ways, including even making terrestrial broadcasting equivalent to internet broadcasting, so these people could receive their TV through the internet connection they can now get.
Archaic technology always reaches a point when it simply no longer makes sense, either financially or no one uses it or other, that you just have to throw it in the dumpster and move forward. Broadcast TV (and I'd say nearly radio too) have passed this point, and are now a hindrance to innovation in America and in fact its economic recovery as well. Other, more aggressive and forward moving nations are going to fly right by us technologically if we don't stop letting lobbyist's run this country! The US certainly isn't known for its hard work ethic anymore, so if we lose our edge technologically (which has arguably already been lost), our obese nation is going to have a real tough time transitioning back to a manual labor workforce, losing wealth and power all along the way.
The FCC laid out a clear vision for net-neutrality. Its time to make it happen. Its time to free up airwaves. Its time to quit just talking about these things, and take some real action. Before lobbyists make it impossible. You have the vision, you're in charge. This is what the American people voted for, and its why the Democratic party is now suffering, because its been all talk, no substantiative action.
Join the discussion to help improve the FCC. Your suggestions, ideas and comments will be part of a public discussion that furthers FCC reform.


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The Centre is a multi-disciplinary unit which houses clinical trial physicians and nurses together with trial managers and volunteer administrators.
The Centre has strong links to clinical trial units in developing countries.
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Haida Collection
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Haida masks
Masks were worn by members of secret societies who danced on ceremonial occasions.
Haida carving
The Haida sculptor decorated utilitarian objects as carefully and elaborately as ceremonial equipment.
Ceremonial regalia
House raisings, marriages, funerals, and the cutting of apertures for labrets earrings and nose ornaments offered the Haida opportunities for ceremonial celebrations.
A number of commonly used Haida implements are displayed here.
Musical instruments
Whistles were used in ceremonies. The sound of the whistles was believed to represent the voices of supernatural beings.
The Haida made spoons out of the horn of the mountain sheep (white) and mountain goat (black).
When a high-ranking Haida died, the body remained in the house from four to six days during mourning ceremonies.
Slate carving
In the early 1800s, the Haida began to carve pipes and pipestems from argillite, a soft black slate found in one place in the Queen Charlotte Islands.
Hunting and fishing
Haida hunting was concentrated on sea mammals which provided both food and pelts.
Haida baskets were wove of split spruce root of of cedar bark.


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Apple has gone off the deep end with its skeuomorphic designs. Worse yet, the debate has become polarized. The polar opposite of excessive skeuomorphism is the so-called "flat design," seen in Windows 8. A "flat" design is not only devoid of anything that mimics a physical object or material, but it also is devoid of texture, depth, and even color. If we go flat, we're basically back to the 128K Mac of 1984.
According to the rumor mill, this year's Apple OSs will dial down the excessive skeuomorphism, On last week's Talk Show, I heard the delightful term "deforestallization" to refer to this effort. Since Scott Forstall has become Apple's gardener, he's been blamed for this particular excess. Let's hope that this reform doesn't result in jumping back to the other pole.
There is a middle ground. That's true because Apple's brand of skeuomorphism has gotten so extreme. Skeuomorphism in moderate doses is a good thing. And Apple has already used skeuomorphic designs well.
What's wrong with Apple's Skeuomorphism?
Apple has lost all sense of purpose. It's become skeuomorphic for skeuomorphic's sake.
Let's think about this. Its original purpose was to help users who were new to computers learn the interface. It did this by leveraging users' (presumed) familiarity with real world objects by suggesting that objects in the computer's interface were analogs to physical objects that they already knew. In that way, they'd become more comfortable with the computer.
The primordial skeuomorphic interface was the "desktop metaphor" of the legendary Xerox Star. Here is a screen shot (a photo!) of the Xerox Star.
Even though it used only simple line art, the desktop metaphor successfully leveraged the target audience's familiarity with their own office environment.
Legend has it that it took Steve only a few minutes with the Xerox Star to decide what his company needed to be working on for the next few decades. Such is the power of the desktop metaphor.
Where did Apple go wrong?
For starters, Apple has become fixated on copying old objects for the sake of old. Pure old — so old that the object may predate the audience!
That amazing "Podcasts" app has become the poster boy for what's gone wrong. Most point to the (now departed) reel-to-reel tape deck, but I didn't think that was the worst of it. To me, a better indicator of skeuomorphism-gone-bad is that remarkable interface for finding and subscribing to new podcasts. This is an important function since the podcast universe is so large and specialized.
Unbelievably, it was based on analog radio tuners! Arbitrary categories of podcasts are referred to as "stations" and the user must "discover" the stations by dialing up or down along the horizontal axis. It implements sequential access when the underlying phenomena is random access. WTF!
Just take a look at this.
The analog radio "dial" is on top and the user can discover the "stations" by moving the indicator from left to right. As you do so, the new stations (a.k.a., subcategories) are revealed.
In this shot, the user is "tuned" to the Shopping station (!!!) but the stations that belong to its right (!!!!!) are not yet revealed (Think about it, Apple: How do podcasts occupy a physical position along a continuum? How can a podcast be to the left or right of another podcast?) As the user "tunes in" the higher frequency stations (!!!!), their names will be revealed.
Who designed this? A better question is why. It looks like an interface that was designed by a company who doesn't understand the internet or computers at all. But it's Apple! What happened?
This is a perfect example of how Apple has gone off the deep end. Instead of leveraging the familiar, this interface only reminds Apple's real customers how difficult and awkward analog radios really were. Amazingly, an iOS device owner must learn the disadvantages of analog radio tuners in order to use this interface to browse the iTunes catalog of podcasts!
What Went Wrong?
At least two things. An implicit message in this interface is that, somehow, "older is better". How does an ancient interface like this make the metaphor more compelling?
The analog radio interface is so old that it predates the target audience! An understandable reaction to anyone in the under-60 subgroup is "WTF."
The second thing is that Apple has become obsessed with photorealistic simulations and animations. Regrettably, this has become an end in itself. Skeumorphism has become an opportunity for Apple to show off its animation virtuosity. Perhaps we were supposed to be so impressed by that beautifully animated reel-to-reel tape deck that we'd forget about the simple fact that it had nothing to do with the podcast universe.
The sad fact is that photorealistic animations don't accomplish the underlying objective if the object being simulated is unfamiliar to the intended audience.
Please take another look at the desktop of the Xerox Star. Its hardly realistic — and neither was the desktop of the Lisa or the original Mac.
But it didn't matter.
Because it was based on objects and processes that the intended audience was intimately familiar with, the metaphor worked splendidly. When the underlying purpose and objective of skeuomorphic design is realized, simple cartoon-like drawings were "good enough."
What can be Done?
Actually, the current Mac OS X interface uses a schizophrenic combination of counterproductive skeuomorphic design and flat monochromatic interfaces. Jony Ive, you have work to do!
Monochromatic Mania
At the same time the excesses of skeuomorphism have become the Cupertino fashion, other parts of the Mac OS X design have been toned way down. Here's a couple of examples.
- The functionality of scroll bars has been reduced.
- Color has been removed from Window icons!
The arrows at the top and bottom of scroll bars are gone, the bar is narrower, and the usability of what used to be the scrollbar has been reduced.
Here's the Leopard scrollbar. You can see at a glance where you are in the document and you can scroll to click either arrow click on the scroll bar, or drag the thumb.
Lion doesn't like scroll bars. There's even an option in System Preferences to hide the scroll bar entirely! If this option is selected, the interface has no widget to indicate whether part of the document is hidden and must be scrolled to bring other sections into view.
It's as though Apple has an internal Clorox Brigade that bleached all the color from Mac OS X icons! (This couldn't have been part of that "Back to the Mac" movement since iOS devices are retina resolution and highly colorful. A bleached Mac OS X window actually reminds me of a monochrome Kindle, not an iPad.) Let's look at a few examples of bleached icons:
Finder and Pathfinder
Prior to the Clorox fashion statement, the Finder's toolbar used color liberally but not gratuitously. The icons were drawn in high resolution and color was used to make them easier to distinguish. They were skeuomorphic!
The design and the choice of color were chosen so that they suggested real world objects, wherever equivalent.
The geek's version of Finder, Pathfinder 5, used a richer set of icons and they were drawn in the same style as Finder. Here's Pathfinder 5's toolbar.
Something happened with Lion. That's when the Clorox Brigade swung into action. The icons were drawn less realistically and the color has been bleached out. Here's the current version of Finder Toolbar.
In Lion, icons became less distinctive. When the color information was present, you could use both the color and shape information to recognize and process an icon. Without the use of color as a visual cue, you need to stop for a split second and process the icon's shape.
Regrettably, Pathfinder followed Apple's lead and tossed Clorox on their own toolbar! Pathfinder offers far more functionality than the Apple Finder, but the icons are as bland as Mountain Lion's. Here's Pathfinder 6's toolbar.
In bleaching out the color and adopting simpler and less realistic shapes, Apple threw away an advantage of skeuomorphism. The Leopard icons are easier to recognize because the color choices matched the colors of the physical objects. The Delete button is red, the hammer in the customize button has the colors of wood and steel, and so forth.
Notice that Lion doesn't even use the full black-to-white gamut. Compare, for example, the Back and Forward buttons in Leopard versus Lion. In Leopard, an active icon is black and an inactive icon is a dim gray. The Clorox Brigade used so much bleach that it takes extra time to determine whether an icon is active or inactive. Even a solid black is no longer used.
Lion's exclusive use of a bland gray makes them about as difficult to recognize as possible.
Before the Bleach Brigade struck, colorful icons were used to great effect in third-party software as well. For example, the near-extinct Camino browser sported its skeuomorphic icons in the toolbar in both the main window and the Downloads window.
It seems that the Camino interface has not been updated (a.k.a. bleached) for Lion, so its toolbars reflect the pre-Clorox design sense. Here's its main toolbar.
Here's the toolbar of its Downloads window.
I especially like the little whisk broom with its straw brush, drawn in all its skeuomorphic glory. That's another benefit: Skeumorphism gives the computer a certain playfulness that is lacking in the dull gray of Mountain Lion's Finder.
Even in the simple Downloads window, all the icons were colorful high-resolution designs. There is no way the color gets in the way, distracts the user, or suggests an outdated or obscure object. We had skeuomorphism without the controversy.
We've come Full Circle
Ironically, the bleached out look of Mountain Lion is actually similar to the simple monochrome icons of...the Xerox Star and the Lisa!! That was 30 years ago. Is this progress?
In its time, the Xerox Star needed the horsepower of a high end workstation just to draw its simple monochrome desktop. If it were possible, it could have been improved if it could have drawn its screen in high resolution color. It had an excuse.
In 2013, high resolution and 24-bit color can be used constructively to help create a more convincing illusion of physical objects and processes. And we have far more interface objects to deal with now. Somehow, Apple needs to adopt a skeumorphism only when it is not an excuse for distracting, indulgent, and pointless animations. As recently as Snow Leopard, they were there.


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FOXBORO, Mass. — Michael Jenkins doesn't have many wide receivers who have been in the Patriots' system in the past to lean on. But he still seems to be picking up the offense pretty quickly.
Jenkins and Danny Amendola have been working with Tom Brady the most since the beginning of OTAs. It might be unfair to call them the starters at this point, but they are getting the most reps. Some of that may be Jenkins' veteran experience. He's been in the league since 2004, when he was the Falcons' first-round pick. He moved on to the Vikings in 2011 and has been good for just around 500 yards, 40 catches and three or four touchdowns every year.
Jenkins doesn't seem to be overwhelmed by the Patriots' playbook, which has plagued many receivers in the past.
"No, if you put the work in, it comes easy to you," Jenkins said when asked if the playbook is as difficult as everyone says it is. "So it's just really taking the time to do extra and whatever you need to do to be right on the field."
Jenkins' work appears to be paying off so far. Injuries seem to be plaguing the wideouts early in the offseason, as we haven't seen much lately from Aaron Dobson and Donald Jones, and Mark Harrison and Josh Boyce have been bothered by injuries since before OTAs. But Jenkins is still playing over many guys, and those added reps can only help him build a relationship with Brady.
"It's huge," Jenkins said of chemistry. "You have got to be on the same page. We do a lot in the system, and guys have to work hard, know what they're doing out there. So we can try to be as perfect as possible."
With Wes Welker, Brandon Lloyd and Deion Branch all gone, that just leaves Julian Edelman (who hasn't been on the practice field yet with a foot injury) and Kamar Aiken as the only wideouts who have experience in the offense. Since there are so few wideouts to lean on, Jenkins has to pick the brains of Brady, Aaron Hernandez and Rob Gronkowski.
"That's when you're around Tom," Jenkins said. "You're around some of the other guys like Aaron and Gronk and the guys that have kind of been here. Even Kamar, who was here last year. Just trying to pick everybody's brains and do your job studying. Always trying to find a way to get better."
Jenkins has to find a balance between looking out for himself to try to make the team, trying to be a good teammate and trying to be a leader to the young players. Those players that Jenkins is mentoring are the same ones who could beat him out for a roster spot in the wide-open wide receiver race.
"It's real competitive," Jenkins said. "Everybody wants to get out there and make plays. We encourage each other, but at the same time, we're all competing. So we're just going out, working hard. Everybody's helping each other and just trying to get better.
"You're trying to help. Obviously you're trying to do your job, but I've had older guys help me when I was a young guy. And now I'm more of the mature one. I won't say older. Just trying to help each other out."
There are very few locks for a roster spot among the wide receivers. Amendola and Dobson are almost guaranteed to make the team, as is special teamer Matthew Slater. After that it gets cloudy, and the team may only carry five players at the position, depending on how many running backs and tight ends are kept.
It appears that Jenkins has a step up on his competition, and taking in the playbook may be the most important aspect of the competition.
"You just try to do your job and be there where you're supposed to be," Jenkins said. "Because [Brady]'s going to get it there.
"I don't have everything down right now. It's our job to know what we're doing out there. I'm trying to pick it up as fast as I can and be able to help out the team as much as I can."
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News Movies | Written by Kris Heys 11/01/2012
Movie News: Do These New WARM BODIES Images Leave You Cold?
Here's our first proper look at WARM BODIES, a new entry into the 'zomromcom' (© Edgar Wright & Simon Pegg) genre following on from the recent, similarly themed DEAD HEADS (reviewed here).
The movie stars the increasingly in-demand Nicholas Holt (X-MEN: FIRST CLASS) as a sentient zombie pursuing his lost love Julie (Teresa Palmer of I AM NUMBER FOUR and SORCERER'S APPRENTICE fame).
While Summit no doubt have the TWILIGHT crowd firmly locked in their sites, we're hoping director Jonathan Levine has something a little more interesting up his sleeve. Having seen his underrated horror debut ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE we know he's more than capable of delivering the required edginess to make this strange concept work. These newly released pics leave us a tad cautious of the tone however, hope they've embraced the goofiness over the angst. What do you guys think?
With any luck a trailer will arrive soon so we can be assured of the tone, but in the meantime here's the official synopsis to tell us more...
'Zombies love people, especially their brains. But R (Nicholas Hoult) is different. He's alive inside, unlike the hundreds of other grunting, drooling undead — all victims of a recent plague that drove the remaining survivors into a heavily guarded city. Now the Zombies roam about an airport terminal, searching for human prey and living in fear of the vicious Boneys, the next undead incarnation.
One day, R and his best friend M lumber toward the city in search of food. There, R first sets his eyes on JULIE (Teresa Palmer), a beautiful human. Determined to save her—first from the other Zombies and then from the Boneys—R hides her in his home, a cluttered 747 aircraft. Julie is terrified, and R's grunted assurances of "Not…eat" do little to calm her. But when R begins to act more human than Zombie, coming to her defense, refusing to eat human flesh, and even speaking in full sentences, Julie realizes that R is special.
After a few close calls with the Boneys, and with her father mounting an armed search for her, Julie realizes she can't hide forever. So she sneaks back home, leaving R broken-hearted. Desperate to see her, R decides to comb his hair, stand a little straighter, and impersonate a human long enough to get past the city guards. If only he can prove to the humans that Zombies can change, maybe R and Julie's love might stand a chance. But with the rampaging Boneys heading toward the city and Julie's father intent on killing R and his Zombie friends, the stage is set for an all-out battle between the living and the undead.
A genre-bending tale of love and transformation, WARM BODIES is a story about a boy who loves a girl…for more than just her body.'
WARM BODIES opens in UK cinemas on August 24th.
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I never cease to be AMAZED at the reality that so many things in our society are
so socially acceptable that one NEVER stops to think that something was wrong
until someone brings it up. I the mother that is ever ''watchful'' regarding
proper non biased behavior never realized that the ''kissing-chase game'' my
daughter used to come home and tell me about when in kintergarten has many
negative psychological ramifications. She use to come home and tell me that''
such and such boy chased such and such girl and gave her a kiss''..She used to
say "BUT NOT ME, mommy they won't catch me!!!!!!
Apparently the girls used to have to run at recess time trying not to get kissed
!!!!!! I am very sorry it never ocurred to me that this was wrong...
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In Catholic theology, the bishops are the successors of the apostles. On Good Friday, reading the account of Jesus' trial and death, we Catholics were reminded that on the night before Jesus' death, his apostles all fled from him. If the bishops had utilized those passages to begin their own contrition--indeed, if they had acted with even a semblance of humility over the years--they could today seek cover behind the surely truthful observation "We are all sinners." But they did not, and they cannot.
There is a reason the Church hierarchy fears honest discussion: It fears it will expose a crisis of belief. There is a pervasive sense within the Church that no one really believes its teachings on sexuality anymore--not the laity, not even the clergy. In a strict hierarchy, no one wants to say the emperor has no clothes. When discussion is not permitted, and honest questions avoided, the Church must assert its teachings on the basis of "authority" alone; and if those teachings do not cohere with the people's lived experience, a regime of hypocrisy and indifference arises that does more to undermine "authority" than any honest discussion possibly could.
The Church's lack of credibility on questions of sexual ethics is especially disheartening because the Church has a lot to say to a culture in which sexuality is dehumanized, commodified, and generally seen as less than the beautiful thing the Catholic Church's best theology insists it is. It is more than a little ironic that a culture awash in images of underage sexuality--the same culture that gave Oscars to American Beauty and where Britney Spears albums go multi-platinum--is now struck with horror at the revelation of priestly molestation. The irony, however, is grim. When the Church is most needed to remind our culture that sexuality can and should be humanizing, a giving of self in freedom and love, a participation in God's ongoing creative work, the Church instead finds itself in court.
Few would argue that the Church's moral teachings, standing on their own, are persuasive in today's culture. But they were never meant to stand on their own. What is distinctive about Catholicism is not the manner in which its members copulate, but how we pray and to whom. This core sense of wonder at the admittedly large claims of the Catholic faith--that God himself came down from Heaven, was born of a virgin, walked upon the Earth, died, and rose from the dead--and the wonder they must necessarily inspire to those who hold them, are what the Church must reclaim if its credibility is to be restored. Unless a bishop or theologian can trace his views on moral issues to the empty tomb of Easter morning, there is nothing distinctively Christian or Catholic about them.


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So much will follow Trump's reckless, catastrophic decision to recognise occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Israel the beginning of preparations to relocate the embassy.
The first of many questions is "why now"?
There are no current Israeli pressures on Trump to push for such a decision. Western media quoted various Israeli politicians saying they were surprised that Trump was even more persistent on the issue than Netanyahu's government!
Some would say Trump is haunted by his electoral promises, and that he is under the spell of Zionist lobbies and extremist Christian groups who see in his recognition a delusional prophecy come realised. A belief also shared by Trump!
On the other hand, there is a political explanation for Trump's decision.
The truth is that Trump really has a plan for peace, of some sort, between the Palestinians and the Israelis in mind, and he had already informed some of his allies of its main highlights.
In order to secure Arab and Palestinian approval, he pre-emptively proposed it as a fait accompli reality, to rule out Jerusalem from the final negotiations.
This way, Abu Deis becomes the candidate capital for the promised Palestinian state, as underlined by the New York Times a few days ago.
Some politicians would rather wait for Trump's lives speech, after midnight, to get their answers; what will Trump say exactly? Will he recognise Jerusalem, in its entirety, as the capital of Israel? Or is he talking about West Jerusalem, leaving the Eastern part of the occupied city to the Palestinians?
Is the relocation tied to a peace accord with the Palestinians? In other words, has Trump made the relocation on the condition that Israel abides by the peace process?
What is Trump giving the Palestinians and the Arabs in return for this ransom gift he gave the occupation?
Meanwhile, unprecedented pessimism is rising among Arab diplomats on Washington's role in the Palestinian-Israeli struggle.
America's allies in the region are more outraged than his elsewhere. So what is giving his friends in the Middle East to maintain US alliances?
On the other hand, what will Arab states do in response to Trump's catastrophic decision, in regards to his promised solution? Will the Palestinian leadership give into the newly imposed US reality, the Deal of the Century, as Trump describes it?
In general, it is difficult for any Arab or Palestinian leader to agree to these terms.
By going moving forward with this decision, the US is totally giving up on its intermediary role between Palestinians and Arabs and the Israelis.
During the former rounds of negotiations, the Arab party showed considerable flexibility in regards to the refugees' return and exchange of lands.
However, in regards to Jerusalem, given its symbolic, national and religious weight, no concessions were afforded by any Palestinian or Arab leader to the Israelis in East Jerusalem or the religious sites there, naturally!
Evidently, Trump's floundering administration did not sink this through.
Honestly, what is expected to come from this?
The possibilities of calamity in the Arab region, Palestine, and Jerusalem in particular, are endless.
The US administration seems to have not prepared answers for the Arabs and the Palestinians.
It seems that the White House is acting on the President's impulse, lacking the least possible sense of responsibility and scientific leadership!
This article is an edited translation of the Arabic version, published by AlGhad.


text: My friend just got a new iPod and gave me his old 10gb one (very generous guy) but just the unit itself. Its the older style (version 1.3 it says) with the menu, play/pause, forward, and back buttons surrounding the center dial thing and not above it. The only port I see besides the headphone jack is the firewire port, so Ill obviously need to pickup a firewire card and cable. Does the brand matter, or will anything work? And what software do I need to sync it? He said something about windows iTunes causing 10gb older models to stop functioning, is he right or can I just use windows iTunes? And do I need a charger? I see apple sells an A/C adaptor on their site, but will it power itself through the firewire? And is there an online manual or something? I have very little idea of how to work it since he lives pretty far away and I never saw him with it. Thanks for any help.


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As the largest theme park based on the culture of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) in China, Song Dynasty Town is situate d south -west of West Lake Scenic Area with Five Cloud (Wuyun) Mountain to the north and Qiantang River to the south.
Combining the culture of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and the natural scenery of West Lake as one, the Song Dynasty Town fully displays the prosperous scene of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) by employing a combination of realistic and romantic techniques and absorbing them. It's composed of the Culture Performance Area, the High-Tech Experience Area, the Liangshan Brothers' Recreation Area, the Children's Recreational Area, Marketplace (Shijing) Street, the Fairy Mountains and Buddhist Grottoes Area, the Song River, Rostrum Square and Southern Song Imperial Stone Slate Street.
It consists of Qian Gu Qing Grand Theater (accommodating 4,700 seats), Song City Grand Theater and Culture Street, where various kinds of theatrical performances are available each day.
In history, Hangzhou was the Buddhist center in the south-east coast area of China. During the Southern Song Dynasty, temples were numerous and Buddhism was very popular. In the Fairy Hill and Buddha Cave Area, the highlights include Buddha cave exploration, a Shakya Muni statue, a reclined Buddha, the Mammon Temple, the Matchmaker Temple (Matchmaker is a god in charge of marriage in Chinese myths and legends) and Avalokitesvara Hall.
The theater highlights the large-scale singing and dancing performance ofThousand-Year Love in the Song Dynasty Town, which employs advanced high-techs to display the glory of the Song Dynasty (960-1279), and it attracts thousands of visitors each day.
With a 26-meter (85 feet) tall mountain as its background, Culture Street is where large-scale celebratory activities, such as the Torch Festival and the Water-Splashing Festival, are held. As the fire on the mountain is lit during festivals, the locals bow to it to pray for happiness and peace.
This area highlights recreational programs, such as the Live Riverside Scene of Pure Brightness, Frightening Spooky House, the Phantom of the Jungle, the Song Residence and Cricket Fighting.
The recreational programs in this area include: Free Falling Body, Big Pendulum, Chairoplane and Big Frog Jumping.
It's a favorite place for children, where the highlighted recreational programs are the Merry-Go-Round, Pirate Ship, Treasure Hunt on a Sandy Beach, Adventure Isle and Brave Fire Brigade.
Shijing Street is lined with stores, pavilions, terraces and towers, where many performances, such as throwing an embroidered ball to choose a husband, and puppet shows are available.
Hangzhou was once the Buddhist center in the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), during which a number of Buddhist temples were built successively. In the area are the Exploring Buddhist Cave, the statue of Sakyamuni, the Temple of the God of Wealth, the Memorial Hall of the Match-Maker and the Kwan Yin Pavilion.
The one-kilometer (0.6-mile) long Song River is suitable for boating, along which the archaistic hostels, pavilions, pagodas, bars and tea houses are lined, and it's more beautiful during the night.
As the most magnificent square in the Song Dynasty Town, Rostrum Square is a wonderful place for visitors to experience the lifestyle of the Song Dynasty (960-1279), where you can dress in the typical Song clothes and even an emperor's robe.
The 120-meter (394-feet) long stone slate street stretches from the Song Dynasty City gate to Shijing Street, and it served as the imperial street just for emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty(1127-1279).


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Spinning Grass and Turning it into Jewelry
– Who would have thought that 200 years ago, the German tale of Rumpelstiltskin would come true – in the form of indigenous people living in the remote village of Jalapao, Brazil? Ok, they don't spin straw into gold. But they do spin the gold grass that only grows in their region into jewelry. And it's helping their community become self-sufficient.
They call the jewelry Braziliant or Golden Grass. It's made of a grass called Capim Dourado – a native plant that only grows on the Cerrado or plains in Jalapao. The practice dates back to artisans descended from African slaves, who learned the craft from local indigenous communities, and in turn passed the techniques on to the next generations. They've been weaving the gold grass for over 400 years and only five years ago began making it into jewelry for people across the world.
Jalapao has a population of less than 250 people. Crafted by the women in the village, the jewelry is made from the gold-color grass leafless flower stalk called Syngonanthus nitens. It's harvested once a year, all by hand, and only during the flowering season, in order to protect and sustain future crops.
After harvest, the stalks are dried in the shade, and then sewn tightly together with strips of young leaves from palm trees. The entire process uses no chemicals or dyes, and the grass is never sprayed with insecticides. What looks like gold is in fact simply grass.
"My mom told me about the jewelry. I was living in the US, but had worked as an intern with a microenterprise organization called Sabrae in Brazil. On my next trip back to my hometown of Matogrosso, Brazil, I travelled the five hours by truck to see the work the artisans did with my own eyes. I was amazed. The children, even teenage boys working on the jewelry in order to help their families, particularly impressed me. I decided to take some of their jewelry back to the US with me, and try to help them sell it," says Rosely Pacheco, a student currently working toward her MBA in "Green" Environmental Studies.
Prior to the jewelry, the grass was used to make more practical utensils like baskets. But five years ago, in conjunction with the Brazilian government, the Sabrae folks offered the Jalapao artisans micro-loans for jewelry making tools, education in design, and the skills to sell their jewelry—implementing a support system for the artisans to sustain themselves long term.
The village had been primarily surviving on farming and construction—all jobs held by the men. Leaving the women at home, with no income or way of helping to contribute. The jewelry can be worked on at home allowing the women financial independence and the ability to care for children.
The women have taken to selling their wares at markets throughout the region and through online sites. To support the jewelry makers, the Brazilian government doesn't charge the artisan's taxes on their earnings nor does it charge them postage fees for their exports—all in an effort to support them and reduce their reliance on government assistance.
"The people living in this region were making less than $250 a month farming. Selling this jewelry is an opportunity for them to have more economic independence and rely less on the government," Pacheco said. "I help them because they're my people."


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F. Puniello reported on meeting of the Health and Safety Committee and revision of emergency manual.
N. Borisovets asked if building plans are immediately available to emergency personnel during crisis.
J. Cassel circulated USC draft memo to M. Gaunt asking that safety within RUL system be made a priority. She will make suggested changes and send to M. Gaunt this week.
J. Gardner suggested that "lockdown" situation duties of RUL staff be added to the manual; Council agreed with this suggestion.
Guests Kayo Denda, Choong Hoong Liew, and Sam McDonald reported on the activities of the Web Services Group and the Who's Who Design Group. K. Denda and C. Liew stressed the plans for a dynamic web design allowing each selector to update his or her own listings without the need to submit information through the webmaster. N. Borisovets cautioned against expecting librarians to routinely perform these updates due to time pressures.
S. McDonald announced plans for optimization or replacement of the server to accommodate expanded databases.
Council reviewed a draft handout listing five USC goals for 2008-2009. F. Puniello questioned the need for goal #4 (creation of a marketing plan), since RUL already has a Marketing Committee. Council agreed to remove this item from the draft and appointed K. Au as liaison to the Marketing Committee.
Several members raised questions about the wording of goal #1 ("developing a user research agenda to identify, support and facilitate our users' changing information needs"), since it was unclear who would carry out this function and what it would entail. J. Cassel will rework this sentence.
F. Puniello questioned the "oversight" function in goal # 2 ("The USC will act as the oversight group for the development and review of all public service policies and guidelines"). S. Beck felt the oversight function should be removed in order to allow the Council to concentrate on broader policy development. Council agreed to remove goal #2 since it is already covered in the bylaws.
Members agreed that goal #3 (development of a system-wide instructional philosophy) is a priority and will discuss its implementation. Summary of discussion of USC Goals: Council retained goals 1, 3 and 5 (eliminating 2 and 4).
Council studied the Group's charge and added S. Beck and W. Ren to DIG. J. Cassel will ask Laura Mullen to chair.
J. Cassel and others reported on Gale and Sage reference packages and presented an overview of the databases purchased. J. Cassel raised the question of a taskforce to determine how these resources are made available. Consensus was that each reference title should be available via IRIS. It was suggested that issues related to electronic reference databases/packages be included in DIG's charge and that a representative from Cataloging should be included on the working group.
Before adjourning, M. Kesselman reported on the 9/24/08 meeting of the Planning and Coordinating Committee.


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- kjmonsivais
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Lighting/Texturing Question?
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, however I'm working on the current competetion and wanted to use the "Eleven" rig and I've gotten him to light relatively well using the Arnold renderer, however I can not get his eyes to light properly while inside his head. If I move the eyes outside of the skull, they light, however while inside the skull it appears as matte black. I've tried reattaching textures, putting lights closer to the eyes, and creating an entirely new texture to it. If anyone has any insight, please let me know. Thanks!
(they also work if i pull them a little out)


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This edited volume critically engages with contemporary scholarship on museums and their engagement with the communities they purport to serve and represent. Foregrounding new curatorial strategies, it addresses a significant gap in the available literature, exploring some of the complex issues arising from recent approaches to collaboration between museums and their communities.
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A friend and i saw the Motorola Xoom featuring android 3, packing a good tegra2 with a fresh os release .. it was so far beyond the ipad 1 it wasn't even funny. My friend, a fairly big Apple opponent was all sigh since there was no comparison possible at all. The bestest android was still laggy around the edges, felt like a geeky tech demo with no soul or system wide vision. While the ipad released endorphin through your brain with the right amount of excellency in graphic stack / framework combination, aiming the nicest touch/visual response I've seen. Browsing between documents, rotation of the layout .. everything felt in place. Thinking of the other lower quality tablets and the not available dual core ipad 2 left a weird smile on my face.
p.s : Even thought it's still a large amount of money, I can't stop thinking about replacing the acer netbook I got my mother with an iPad, I'd bet 100$ she'd be happier, less anxious, more productive 'computing' user than ever
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Motorola Xoom is not the "bestest" Android in terms of *UI* speed: the Samsung Galaxy S-II or the Nexus S, or that new LG phone are (according to various benchmarks online). So while in the iOS world you need a tablet to get the best performance out of the OS (since in a tablet Apple can simply pack "more" of the same kind of hardware found on iPhone/iPod), the same is not necessarily true in the Android world. Different Android phones/tablets use so many different chipsets and UIs (and some of these chips are better in 3D rather than in 2D, or the other way around), that not all Android devices perform equally. So don't generalize please.
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IMHO UI speed is a useless measure. I own an iPad2 and I'm really glad that there are so many iPad apps (i. e. Apps that are written for a tablet form factor, not just scaled up iPhone apps). This makes all the difference when it come to "speed" that really matters (= usability). So I couldn't care less that there are "faster" phones (there are also faster desktops - who cares when talking about tables).
True... The problem i have with android tablets/phones is every week a NEWER BETTER one comes out so i keep delaying my purchase lol. Right now im waiting for the galaxy s2 best phone ever hands down (even the apple fan boys over at engadget had to admit it!)To replace my phone and am eying the galaxy tab 10.1 as my first tablet. And for those who are worried about regular vs tablet apps there are plenty of apps designed specifically for the tablet but in any case icecream sandwich will fix everything
I'll second that. When I upgraded from the Motorola Cliq to the HTC MyTouch 4G, it was like stepping through a portal into a new dimension.
Okay, maybe not quite that shocking, but it was virtually night and day. Now I understand why people like Android so much! I found that I hated the OS because of the sluggish, buggy, piece of shit hardware it was running on before. Now that I have a device that has virtually no lag, a capacitive screen that actually registers taps and swipes consistently, and a battery that lasts more than four hours with light use, I really like Android. I've played with an iPhone 4 and while it was very nice, I actually prefer the MyTouch, to my own surprise.
In fact I'd say the only thing about the Cliq I miss is the excellent hardware keyboard, and while Swype isn't the best alternative I also now have Bluetooth HID support, so I can add a chatpad if I want.
So yes, in the Android world the user experience is almost completely tied to the quality of the hardware, with the OS version a distant second factor. Do your research folks, and you'll end up with a satisfying device.
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Whilst the screen discolouration is definitely not good, SSD failure isn't that unusual.
I know ssds are supposed to be more reliable than hard drives but (anecdotally) ssds seem to fail quite easily these days.
Apple has to buy from the same companies that supply to Windows consumers (many so cheap that they'd crap their pants than use a pay toilet.) If it wasn't for the cheaper-is-better mentality throughout the PC world, you'd have chip fabs and display manufacturers creating more reliable products for Apple to use.
I've been an engineer for over 30 years. When I got into the field, a decent personal computer cost about as much as an economy car. Now a bunch of know-nothing consumers have driven down quality with their refusal to buy any computer that costs more than a mediocre bicycle.
Those parts of Apple products that are designed by Apple and exclusive to Apple are usually of the highest quality. Just look at a Mac Pro case. Pop the latch on the back and open side cover. The manufacturing precision and tolerances are enough to get anyone with mechanical engineering/manufacturing expertise to get weak in the knees.


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Today, mark the 3 years anniversary of Houla Massacre!
11-year-old Ali Alsayed witnessed and survived the Houla Massacre on May 25, 2012. He watched the army enter his house, arrest his brother and uncle, and kill his mother and siblings. The security forces thought he was dead as he lay among his dead family members. After they left, he fled his house and ran barefoot to his uncle's house. The next day he discovered while watching Addounia TV (Syrian government channel) that his uncle and brother were killed. His uncle was forced to declare on television that armed gangs killed his children, not the security forces. Ali tells his heartbreaking story, and begs his listeners and the international community for help.