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|4-Stroke, 3 Cylinder, DOHC
|Bore and stroke
|72.0 x 66.5.0 mm
|Compression ratio
|Fuel system
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|Overall width
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|Overall height
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|2, 345 mm
|Ground clearance
|260 mm
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|Fuel capacity
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|Cargo Bed L x W x H 3-Pass. Mode
|1085 x 1363 x 279 mm ( 42.7 x 53.7 x 11 in.)
|Cargo Bed L x W x H 6-Pass. Mode
|560 x 1363 x 279 mm (22 x 53.7 x 11 in.)
|Dual range (high/low) CVT with reverse
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|Primary reduction ratio
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|Final reduction ratio
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|Gear Ratio: Forward (High)
|1.803 (34/33 x 35/20)
|Gear Ratio: Forward (Low)
|3.580 (45/22 x 35/20)
|Gear Ratio: Reverse
|2.779 (21/17 x 35/20)
|Ladder Type, Tubular Steel
|Wheel travel: front
|222 mm
|Tire: front
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|Wheel travel: rear
|220 mm
|Tire: rear
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|Caster (rake)
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|Minimum Turning Radius‡
|4.8 m
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|907 kg (2,000 lbs)
|Seating Capacity‡
|3 or 6
|Vehicle Load Capacity‡
|728 kg
|Cargo Bed Load Capacity 3-Person Mode‡
|453 kg
|Cargo Bed Load Capacity 6-Person Mode‡
|158 kg
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o.o Interesting. I see that this has more uses than just making fantasy maps. The only problem I see with this is that the line seperating the line from the sea somehow clashes with the softer lines used for the mountains and such. It's too hard or sharp, although I'm not sure whether you'd see that if you just glanced at it. >.> A solution may come in drawing said line with a H2 pencil, too, so that it has the same sharpness as the mountains and trees. Unless Photoshop has a tool which allows you to blur it somehow.
Also the sea is overlapping a tree wtflol. XD
Pity I don't actually own a version of photoshop and some time to experiment with this or skills for that matter. And I still have a couple of things to finish before I can do that - darn you evil artists for filling my head with ideas! >:V
lol, you don't miss anything. This highlights a problem that I have found with using brushes is that they are transparent and when overlapped they get messy.Also the sea is overlapping a tree wtflol. XD
Well I may post up a tutorial to create a standardised method of mass creation of characters by creating tons of brush components (hair, eyes, arms, clothes, weapons etc). Take for example computer games like the Sims where you make your character and give them different clothing etc. The same can be done with brushes - but they can have a sketchy feel to it. I'd like to see what your take is on it though.
Do it. Do it noooowww.
Great tutorial, as always.
For those of you who don't have Potatoeshop, I believe GIMP or even Picasa have similar editing abilities. There's more here: http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/pix...eephotoedw.htm
Okay, this is harder than I first imagined. I'm sorry Shards, but I deviated a little from your 'teachings' and I'm ending up doing something completely different from what I originally planned. (Using brushes was proving to be a bit of an irritant.)
Also, I found it easier to trace the outline using the pen tool. The polygon selection tool doesn't allow any room for mistakes, which can get quite frustrating at times.


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BOSTON -- The Boston Red Sox today added six players to the Major League roster. Catcher Daniel Butler, outfielder Alex Hassan, and right-handed pitchers Alex Wilson and Steven Wright were selected from Triple-A Pawtucket, and catcher Christian Vazquez and right-handed pitcher Allen Webster were selected from Double-A Portland. To make room on the 40-man roster, infielder Ivan De Jesus, third baseman Danny Valencia and right-handed pitchers David Carpenter, Sandy Rosario and Zach Stewart were designated for assignment. The announcement was made by Executive Vice President/General Manager Ben Cherington.
Butler, 26, split 2012 between Portland and Pawtucket, hitting .247 (79-for-320) with 19 doubles, two triples, nine home runs, 37 RBI, 37 runs and 40 walks in 95 games. Between the two stops, he threw out 38 of 114 attempted base stealers (33.3%). He played a career-high 22 games at the Triple-A level after a promotion on August 3, and also appeared in six postseason games for the PawSox, going 6-for-19 (.316) with a homer. In 330 games over parts of four seasons in the Red Sox system, the right-handed batter has hit .259 (288-for-1,114) with 77 doubles, six triples, 29 home runs and 166 RBI. He was named to minor league All-Star teams in 2010 (Single-A South Atlantic League) and 2011 (High-A Carolina League), his first two full professional campaigns after signing with Boston as a non-drafted free agent in July 2009. Currently, Butler is playing for Toros del Este of the Dominican Winter League.
A native of Milton, MA, Hassan spent the 2012 season with Pawtucket and played in 94 games, appearing in left field, right field and at designated hitter. He topped all PawSox with at least 125 plate appearances with a .377 on-base percentage and finished second on the team with 55 walks, the 12th-highest total in the International League. Following the season, he was ranked by Baseball America as having the best strike-zone judgment in the circuit. A right-handed batter, he hit at a .256 clip (80-for-312) with 13 doubles, seven home runs, 46 RBI and 39 runs this past season. Selected by the Red Sox in the 20th round of the 2009 First-Year Player Draft out of Duke, Hassan has hit at a .284 clip (351-for-1,236) with 83 doubles, six triples, 30 home runs, 177 RBI, 180 runs and 198 walks in 361 career minor league games in the Boston system.
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Webster was acquired by Boston in a nine-player deal with the Dodgers on August 25. Between Los Angeles' Double-A Chattanooga affiliate and Portland in 2012, he posted a 6-9 record with a 3.86 ERA (56 ER/130.2 IP) and 129 strikeouts compared to 61 walks allowed in 29 appearances, including 24 starts. The 22-year-old right-hander was tied for fourth in the Southern League in strikeouts (117) and ranked seventh in the circuit in ERA (3.55) at the time of the trade. He surrendered just two home runs all season and beginning May 15 ranked fifth among Double-A qualifiers with a 2.60 ERA (28 ER/97.0 IP) and eighth with a .227 opponent average (81-for-357). Overall in 2012, he gave up three earned runs or less in all but four starts and held opponents to one earned run or less in a start 10 times. Following the season, he was named the No. 4 prospect (No. 2 pitcher) in the Red Sox system by Baseball America. Selected in the 18th round of the 2008 First-Year Player Draft, Webster is 34-25 with one save and a 3.43 ERA (188 ER/494.0 IP), 468 strikeouts, 469 hits allowed and 206 walks over five minor league seasons between the Boston and Los Angeles organizations.
Wilson, 26, spent the entire 2012 season with Triple-A Pawtucket. He appeared in 40 games (3 starts) for the PawSox, posting a 5-3 record with one save and a 3.72 ERA (30 ER/72.2 IP) and 78 strikeouts, including a 3.36 ERA (22 ER/59.0 IP) out of the bullpen in his first career relief experience. The right-hander, who led the PawSox in outings and relief innings, struck out five and did not allow a run in 4.2 innings over four playoff games. In 2011, Wilson combined to go 10-4 with a 3.11 ERA (46 ER/133.0 IP) and 123 strikeouts in 25 starts between Portland and Pawtucket to be named the organization's Minor League Pitcher of the Year. Selected by the Red Sox in the second round of the 2009 First-Year Player Draft, he is 21-14 with one save, a 3.76 ERA (157 ER/375.2 IP) and 340 strikeouts in 105 minor league games (68 starts) over four seasons.
Wright began the 2012 season with the Cleveland Indians' Double-A affiliate in Akron before being acquired by the Red Sox on July 31. The 28-year-old knuckleballer appeared in one game for Double-A Portland, allowing one run in 6.0 innings for the win before being promoted to Triple-A Pawtucket on August 8. Between the three teams, he went 10-7 with a 2.54 ERA (40 ER/141.2 IP) and 119 strikeouts in 25 starts. Wright finished the season first among Eastern League leaders in opponent average (.208) and ranked second in ERA (2.44). He was 0-1 in four starts with Pawtucket, posting a 3.15 ERA (7ER/20.0 IP) with 5 walks and 16 strikeouts. The right-hander also made one playoff start for the PawSox, allowing two runs and striking out six in 7.0 frames for the win. A second-round selection by Cleveland in the 2006 First-Year Player Draft, Wright is 39-34 with seven saves, a 3.91 ERA (304 ER/699.2 IP) and 575 strikeouts in 191 career minor league appearances, including 108 starts, over six seasons since 2007. He is currently playing for Leones Del Escogido in the Dominican Winter League.
Carpenter, 27, was acquired from the Blue Jays on October 21. He is 1-5 with one save, a 5.70 ERA (38 ER/60.0 IP), 60 strikeouts and 29 walks allowed over 67 career Major League outings, all in relief, with the Astros (2011-12) and Blue Jays (2012). Last year, he combined to post an 8.07 ERA (29 ER/32.1 IP) in 33 Big League games between the two clubs. He also went 1-1 with four saves and a 3.08 ERA (9 ER/26.1 IP) in 23 minor league games between Houston and Toronto's Triple-A affiliates in 2012.
De Jesus, acquired from the Dodgers in the nine-player trade on August 25, played in 31 Major League games between Los Angeles and Boston in 2012. The 25-year-old went 9-for-41 (.220) between the two stops with four RBI and five runs. De Jesus also combined to hit .304 (76-for-250) with 13 doubles, three triples, three home runs, 33 RBI and 37 runs scored in 67 Triple-A games between the two organizations this past season. A second-round pick by Los Angeles in the 2005 First-Year Player Draft, he has hit .205 (15-for-73) with three doubles, five RBI and seven runs over 48 career Major League games.
Rosario was claimed by Boston off waivers from the Miami Marlins on October 17. The 27-year-old has appeared in 10 career Big League outings over the last three campaigns, all for the Marlins. In 25 relief appearances for Miami's Triple-A New Orleans club last season, he posted a 1.04 ERA (3 ER/26.0 IP) with 16 saves. Signed as an international free agent in 2004, Rosario is 30-18 with 47 saves, a 3.15 ERA (137 ER/391.0 IP) and 403 strikeouts over 181 career minor league outings, including 35 starts, in the Marlins system.
The 25-year-old Stewart went 0-2, allowing 14 runs in 5.2 innings, in two starts with the Red Sox this season after being acquired from the White Sox on June 24. In 11 regular-season starts for the PawSox in 2012, he went 3-5 with a 3.94 ERA (26 ER/59.1 IP) and 42 strikeouts compared to 14 walks. Selected by the Reds in the third round of the 2008 First-Year Player Draft, Stewart began the season with 18 games (1 start) for the White Sox and has pitched in 32 career Major League games (14 starts) for the Blue Jays (2011), White Sox (2011-12) and Red Sox (2012), posting a 3-10 record with a 6.82 ERA (78 ER/103.0 IP) and 64 strikeouts.
Valencia, 28, played in 10 games over two stints with Boston in 2012, going 4-for-28 (.143) with a home run and four RBI. Acquired by the Red Sox from the Twins on August 5, he hit .306 (15-for-49) with three doubles, a home run and eight RBI in 13 regular-season games for Pawtucket and knocked two homers and drove in six runs during the playoffs. Selected by Minnesota in the 19th round of the 2006 First-Year Player Draft, the right-handed hitter owns a .257 average (261-for-1,017) with 52 doubles, four triples, 25 home runs, 133 RBI, 107 runs and 63 walks in 283 career Major League games with the Twins (2010-12) and Red Sox (2012).
PITCHERS (23): Alfredo Aceves, Scott Atchison, Andrew Bailey, Daniel Bard, Pedro Beato, Craig Breslow, Drake Britton, Clay Buchholz, Chris Carpenter, Rubby De La Rosa, Felix Doubront, Rich Hill, John Lackey, Jon Lester, Mark Melancon, Andrew Miller, Franklin Morales, Clayton Mortensen, Stolmy Pimentel, Junichi Tazawa, Allen Webster, Alex Wilson, Steven Wright.
CATCHERS (5): Dan Butler, Ryan Lavarnway, David Ross, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Christian Vazquez.
INFIELDERS (7): Pedro Ciriaco, Mauro Gomez, Jose Iglesias, Will Middlebrooks, David Ortiz, Dustin Pedroia, Jerry Sands.
OUTFIELDERS (5): Jacoby Ellsbury, Alex Hassan, Ryan Kalish, Daniel Nava, Ryan Sweeney.


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After picking and pressing the individual parcels were tank fermented at warm temperatures. At the end of fermentation the wines were aged on the yeast lees for four months prior to blending and bottling. Pale straw in colour. Passion fruits and ripe melon bouquet with some underlying herbal notes and hints of mineral/flint. The brightness of pure fruits flavors shine through on the palate. Lees aging of the individual parcels provides weight and interest, as well as balance to this wine.
Region: Marlborough
Variety: Sauvignon Blanc 100 %
Taste: Dry
Temperature: 8-12 °C
Food Combination: White meat fish, oysters and scallops, chicken and grilled pork with herb. Typical green taste of Sauvignon Blanc goes well with green vegetable like salad, but especially with green asparagus. Try this wine over Japanese pot cuisine ( O-nabe ) in winter. Citrus flavour matches well with Ponzu-sauce, also make lovely combination with spicy Korean Nabe cuisine.


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Ruskin was born into the commercial classes of the prosperous and powerful Britain of the years immediately following the Napoleonic Wars. His father, John James Ruskin, was a Scots wine merchant who had moved to London and made a fortune in the sherry trade. John Ruskin, an only child, was largely educated at home, where he was given a taste for art by his father's collecting of contemporary watercolours and a minute and comprehensive knowledge of the Bible by his piously Protestant mother.
This combination of the religious intensity of the Evangelical Revival and the artistic excitement of English Romantic painting laid the foundations of Ruskin's later views. In his formative years, painters such as J.M.W. Turner, John Constable, and John Sell Cotman were at the peak of their careers. At the same time religious writers and preachers such as Charles Simeon, John Keble, Thomas Arnold, and John Henry Newman were establishing the spiritual and ethical preoccupations that would characterize the reign of Queen Victoria. Ruskin's family background in the world of business was significant, too: it not only provided the means for his extensive travels to see paintings, buildings, and landscapes in Britain and continental Europe but also gave him an understanding of the newly rich, middle-class audience for which his books would be written.
Ruskin discovered the work of Turner through the illustrations to an edition of Samuel Rogers's poem Italy given him by a business partner of his father in 1833. By the mid-1830s he was publishing short pieces in both prose and verse in magazines, and in 1836 he was provoked into drafting a reply (unpublished) to an attack on Turner's painting by the art critic of Blackwood's Magazine. After five years at the University of Oxford, during which he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry but was prevented by ill health from sitting for an honours degree, Ruskin returned, in 1842, to his abandoned project of defending and explaining the late work of Turner.
Art criticism
In 1843 Ruskin published the first volume of Modern Painters, a book that would eventually consist of five volumes and occupy him for the next 17 years. His first purpose was to insist on the "truth" of the depiction of Nature in Turner's landscape paintings. Neoclassical critics had attacked the later work of Turner, with its proto-Impressionist concern for effects of light and atmosphere, for mimetic inaccuracy, and for a failure to represent the "general truth" that had been an essential criterion of painting in the age of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Drawing on his serious amateur interests in geology, botany, and meteorology, Ruskin made it his business to demonstrate in detail that Turner's work was everywhere based on a profound knowledge of the local and particular truths of natural form. One after another, Turner's "truth of tone," "truth of colour," "truth of space," "truth of skies," "truth of earth," "truth of water," and "truth of vegetation" were minutely considered, in a laborious project that would not be completed until the appearance of the fifth and final volume of Modern Painters in 1860.
This shift of concern from general to particular conceptions of truth was a key feature of Romantic thought, and Ruskin's first major achievement was thus to bring the assumptions of Romanticism to the practice of art criticism. By 1843 avant-garde painters had been working in this new spirit for several decades, but criticism and public understanding had lagged behind. More decisively than any previous writer, Ruskin brought 19th-century English painting and 19th-century English art criticism into sympathetic alignment. As he did so, he alerted readers to the fact that they had, in Turner, one of the greatest painters in the history of Western art alive and working among them in contemporary London, and, in the broader school of English landscape painting, a major modern art movement.
Ruskin did this in a prose style peculiarly well adapted to the discussion of the visual arts in an era when there was limited reproductive illustration and no easy access to well-stocked public art galleries. In these circumstances the critic was obliged to create in words an effective sensory and emotional substitute for visual experience. Working in the tradition of the Romantic poetic prose of Charles Lamb and Thomas De Quincey, though more immediately influenced by the descriptive writing of Sir Walter Scott, the rhetoric of the Bible, and the blank verse of William Wordsworth, Ruskin vividly evoked the effect on the human eye and sensibility both of Turner's paintings and of the actual landscapes that Turner and other artists had sought to represent.
In the process Ruskin introduced the newly wealthy commercial and professional classes of the English-speaking world to the possibility of enjoying and collecting art. Since most of them had been shaped by an austerely puritanical religious tradition, Ruskin knew that they would be suspicious of claims for painting that stressed its sensual or hedonic qualities. Instead, he defined painting as "a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing." What that language expressed, in Romantic landscape painting, was a Wordsworthian sense of a divine presence in Nature: a morally instructive natural theology in which God spoke through physical "types." Conscious of the spiritual significance of the natural world, young painters should "go to Nature in all singleness of heart…having no other thoughts but how best to penetrate her meaning, and remember her instruction; rejecting nothing, selecting nothing, and scorning nothing."
Three years later, in the second volume of Modern Painters (1846), Ruskin would specifically distinguish this strenuously ethical or Theoretic conception of art from the Aesthetic, undidactic, or art-for-art's-sake definition that would be its great rival in the second half of the 19th century. Despite his friendships with individual Aesthetes, Ruskin would remain the dominant spokesman for a morally and socially committed conception of art throughout his lifetime.
Art, architecture, and society
After the publication of the first volume of Modern Painters in 1843, Ruskin became aware of another avant-garde artistic movement: the critical rediscovery of the painting of the Gothic Middle Ages. He wrote about these Idealist painters (especially Giotto, Fra Angelico, and Benozzo Gozzoli) at the end of the second volume of Modern Painters, and he belatedly added an account of them to the third edition of the first volume in 1846. These medieval religious artists could provide, he believed, in a way in which the Dutch, French, and Italian painters of the 17th and 18th centuries could not, an inspiring model for the art of the "modern" age.
This medievalist enthusiasm was one reason that Ruskin was so ready to lend his support to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), a group of young English artists formed in 1848 to reject the Neoclassical assumptions of contemporary art schools. Ruskin published an enthusiastic pamphlet about the PRB (in which he misleadingly identified them as the natural heirs of Turner) in 1851, wrote letters to the Times in 1851 and 1854 to defend them from their critics, and recommended their work in his Edinburgh Lectures of 1853 (published 1854).
But medievalism was even more important in the field of architecture, where the Gothic Revival was as direct an expression of the new Romantic spirit as the landscape painting of Turner or Constable. Ruskin had been involved in a major Gothic Revival building project in 1844, when George Gilbert Scott redesigned Ruskin's parents' parish church, St. Giles's Camberwell. In 1848, newly married to Euphemia (Effie) Gray, Ruskin went on a honeymoon tour of the Gothic churches of northern France and began to write his first major book on buildings, The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849). Conceived in the disturbing context of the European revolutions of 1848, the book lays down seven moral principles (or "Lamps") to guide architectural practice, one of which, "The Lamp of Memory," articulates the scrupulous respect for the original fabric of old buildings that would inspire William Morris and, through him, the conservation movement of the 20th century. In November Ruskin went abroad again, this time to Venice to research a more substantial book on architecture.
The Stones of Venice was published in three volumes, one in 1851 and two more in 1853. In part it is a laboriously researched history of Venetian architecture, based on long months of direct study of the original buildings, then in a condition of serious neglect and decay. But it is also a book of moral and social polemic with the imaginative structure of a Miltonic or Wordsworthian sublime epic. Ruskin's narrative charts the fall of Venice from its medieval Eden, through the impiety and arrogance (as Ruskin saw it) of the Renaissance, to its modern condition of political impotence and social frivolity. As such, the book is a distinguished late example of the political medievalism found in the work of William Cobbett, Robert Southey, Thomas Carlyle, and the Young England movement of the 1840s. Ruskin differs from these predecessors both in the poetic power of his prose and in his distinctive—and widely influential—insistence that art and architecture are, necessarily, the direct expression of the social conditions in which they were produced. Here, as elsewhere, the Aesthetic movement, with its view of art as a rebellious alternative to the social norm and its enthusiasm for Renaissance texts and artifacts, stands in direct contrast to Ruskin's Theoretic views.
The Stones of Venice was influential in other ways as well. Its celebration of Italian Gothic encouraged the use of foreign models in English Gothic Revival architecture. By 1874 Ruskin would regret the extent to which architects had "dignified our banks and drapers' shops with Venetian tracery." But, for good or ill, his writing played a key part in establishing the view that the architectural style of Venice, the great maritime trading nation of the medieval world, was particularly appropriate for buildings in modern Britain. The other enduring influence derived, more subtly, from a single chapter in the second volume, "The Nature of Gothic." There Ruskin identified "imperfection" as an essential feature of Gothic art, contrasting it with the mechanical regularity of Neoclassical buildings and modern mass production. Gothic architecture, he believed, allowed a significant degree of creative freedom and artistic fulfillment to the individual workman. We could not, and should not, take pleasure in an object that had not itself been made with pleasure. In this proposition lay the roots both of Ruskin's own quarrel with industrial capitalism and of the Arts and Crafts movement of the later 19th century.
Cultural criticism
Turner died in 1851. Ruskin's marriage was dissolved, on grounds of nonconsummation, in 1854, leaving the former Effie Gray free to marry the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. Ruskin withdrew somewhat from society. He traveled extensively in Europe and, from 1856 to 1858, took on a considerable body of administrative work as the chief artistic executor of Turner's estate. He contributed both financially and physically to the construction of a major Gothic Revival building: Benjamin Woodward's Oxford University Museum. In 1856 he published the third and fourth volumes of Modern Painters, with their penetrating inquiry into the reasons for the predominance of landscape painting in 19th-century art and their invention of the important critical term "pathetic fallacy." His annual Academy Notes (a series of pamphlets issued by an English publisher from 1855 to 1859) sustained his reputation as a persuasive commentator on contemporary painting. But by 1858 Ruskin was beginning to move on from the specialist criticism of art and architecture to a wider concern with the cultural condition of his age. His growing friendship with the historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle contributed to this process. Like Carlyle, Ruskin began to adopt the "prophetic" stance, familiar from the Bible, of a voice crying from the wilderness and seeking to call a lapsed people back into the paths of righteousness.
This marginal role as a disenchanted outsider both legitimized and, to an extent, required a ferocity and oddness that would be conspicuous features of Ruskin's later career. In 1858 Ruskin lectured on "The Work of Iron in Nature, Art and Policy" (published in The Two Paths, 1859), a text in which both the radical-conservative temper and the symbolic method of his later cultural criticism are clearly established. Beginning as an art critic, Ruskin contrasts the exquisite sculptured iron grilles of medieval Verona with the mass-produced metal security railings with which modern citizens protect their houses. The artistic contrast is, of course, also a social contrast, and Ruskin goes rapidly beyond this to a symbolic assertion of the "iron" values involved in his definition of the just society. By wearing the fetters of a benignly neofeudalist social order, men and women, Ruskin believed, might lead lives of greater aesthetic fulfillment, in an environment less degraded by industrial pollution.
These values are persistently restated in Ruskin's writings of the 1860s, sometimes in surprising ways. Unto This Last and Munera Pulveris (1862 and 1872 as books, though published in magazines in 1860 and 1862–63) are attacks on the classical economics of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill. Neither book makes any significant technical contribution to the study of economics (though Ruskin thought otherwise); both memorably express Ruskin's moral outrage at the extent to which the materialist and utilitarian ethical assumptions implicit in this new technique for understanding human behaviour had come to be accepted as normative. Sesame and Lilies (1865) would become notorious in the late 20th century as a stock example of Victorian male chauvinism. In fact, Ruskin was using the conventional construction of the feminine, as pacific, altruistic, and uncompetitive, to articulate yet another symbolic assertion of his anticapitalist social model. The Crown of Wild Olive (1866, enlarged in 1873) collects some of the best specimens of Ruskin's Carlylean manner, notably the lecture "Traffic" of 1864, which memorably draws its audience's attention to the hypocrisy manifested by their choice of Gothic architecture for their churches but Neoclassical designs for their homes.
John Ruskin, 1870. [Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images]The dogmatic Protestantism of Ruskin's childhood had been partially abandoned in 1858, after an "unconversion" experience in Turin. Ten years later, in a moving lecture on "The Mystery of Life and Its Arts," Ruskin reflected on his returning sense of the spiritual and transcendent. In The Queen of the Air (1869) he attempted to express his old concept of a divine power in Nature in new terms calculated for an age in which assent to the Christian faith was no longer automatic or universal. Through an account of the Greek myth of Athena, Ruskin sought to suggest an enduring human need for—and implicit recognition of—the supernatural authority on which the moral stresses of his artistic, political, and cultural views depend.
His father's death in 1864 had left Ruskin a wealthy man. He used his wealth, in part, to promote idealistic social causes, notably the Guild of St. George, a pastoral community first planned in 1871 and formally constituted seven years later. From 1866 to 1875 he was unhappily in love with a woman 30 years his junior, Rose La Touche, whose physical and mental deterioration caused him acute distress. During these years he began, himself, to show signs of serious psychological illness. In 1871 he bought Brantwood, a house in the English Lake District (now a museum of his work) and lived there for the rest of his life.
John Ruskin, tinted lithograph published in London, c. 1880. [Credit: Photos.com/Jupiterimages]Ruskin's appointment as Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford in 1870 was a welcome encouragement at a troubled stage of his career, and in the following year he launched Fors Clavigera, a one-man monthly magazine in which, from 1871 to 1878 and 1880 to 1884 he developed his idiosyncratic cultural theories. Like his successive series of Oxford lectures (1870–79 and 1883–84), Fors is an unpredictable mixture of striking insights, powerful rhetoric, self-indulgence, bigotry, and occasional incoherence. As a by-product of the Fors project, however, Ruskin wrote his last major work: his autobiography, Praeterita (1885–89). Unfinished, shamelessly partial (it omits, for example, all mention of his marriage), and chronologically untrustworthy, it provides a subtle and memorable history of the growth of Ruskin's distinctive sensibility.
In November 1878 the painter James McNeill Whistler's action for libel against Ruskin—brought after Ruskin's attack on the impressionist manner of a Whistler Nocturne—came to trial. The trial made the conflict between Ruskin's moral view of art and Whistler's Aestheticism a matter of wide public interest. Whistler, awarded only a farthing's damages and no costs, was driven into bankruptcy. Ruskin suffered no financial ill effects, but his reputation as an art critic was seriously harmed. After this date there was a growing tendency to see him as an enemy of modern art: blinkered, eccentric, and out-of-date.
Modernist artists and critics rejected Ruskin. His stress on the moral, social, and spiritual purposes of art and his Naturalist theory of visual representation were unpopular in the era of Impressionism, Cubism, and Dada. Gothic Revival buildings became deeply unfashionable; the architecture critic Geoffrey Scott, in 1914, would dismiss Ruskin's architectural theory as "The Ethical Fallacy."
Amboise, watercolour over pencil on paper by John Ruskin, 19th century. … [Credit: In a private collection]Since then, Ruskin has gradually been rediscovered. His formative importance as a thinker about ecology, about the conservation of buildings and environments, about Romantic painting, about art education, and about the human cost of the mechanization of work became steadily more obvious. The outstanding quality of his own drawings and watercolours (modestly treated in his lifetime as working notes or amateur sketches) was increasingly acknowledged, as was his role as a stimulus to the flowering of British painting, architecture, and decorative art in the second half of the 19th century.
Above all, Ruskin was rediscovered as a great writer of English prose. Frequently self-contradictory, hectoringly moralistic, and insufficiently informed, Ruskin was nonetheless gifted with exceptional powers of perception and expression. These are the gifts that the poet Matthew Arnold acknowledged when he spoke of "the genius, the feeling, the temperament" of the descriptive writing in the fourth volume of Modern Painters. This unusual capacity to see things and to say what he saw makes Ruskin's work not just an important episode in the history of taste but also an enduring and distinctive part of English literature.


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An Air France pilot has refused to deport a gay man seeking asylum from the UK to the Cameroon, where gay men are routinely and randomly arrested and subjected to legal ordeals that continue for years. This is at least the fourth time in the past year that an Air France pilot has refused to return a gay asylum seeker to the West African nation—a result of a novel lobbying strategy by European activists.
Twenty-six-year-old Ediage Valerie Ekwedde arrived in Britain last November after escaping from Cameroon where he was harassed because of his sexuality. Ekwedde applied for asylum. The application was rejected because the UK Border Agency claimed that there was "no credible evidence" he was gay.
Valerie made the mistake of drinking too much at his birthday party in a bar in Yaounde, which resulted in a public embrace between him and his partner. They were attacked by an angry crowd and taken to the police station. Because they were both still bleeding from their injuries after two days, they were told they could be taken to the hospital if they had some money. They gave the officer all they had and were fortunately able to make their escape.
Valerie has been living in Coventry, attending a men's group and frequenting a gay club, but the Home Office does not believe he is a gay man, in spite of having seen a copy of an arrest warrant that was issued for him. In it he is indicted for the crime of homosexuality under section 347 of the Penal Code. This arrest warrant has since been verified by a police officer in Cameroon. His UK partner has now written to the Home Office to confirm they have been in a relationship and other letters from supporters are being submitted.
Ekwedde was supposed to depart from London Heathrow two week ago on May 8 but the Air France pilot refused, reports the BBC.
He was to be flown to Paris to catch a connecting flight. Air France said its 07:10 BST flight from Heathrow to Paris Charles de Gaulle was delayed on Saturday morning due to "operational difficulties". Campaigners said he managed to get a message to the Air France pilot saying that he would "make a fuss" because his life was in danger. According to the campaigners, the pilot is said to have decided not to fly with him out of consideration to the other passengers.
UK and European gay rights activists have successfully lobbied Air France and its pilots to refuse to deport gay asylum seekers. Air France pilots refused to deport gay asylum seekers to Cameroon at least three times during the summer of 2010.
Cameroon boasts one of Africa's more repressive anti-LGBT regimes. Recent months have seen an increase in arrests and prosecutions under section 347a of its penal code, which criminalizes same-sex sexual acts. The government is preparing to toughen its already harsh penalties against homosexuality by equating them with pedophilia.
Gay men in Cameroon are routinely and randomly arrested and subjected to legal ordeals that continue for years. Since late July, a 19-year-old and a 20-year-old have been in police custody. Reports suggest the youths were arrested because they appeared "feminine". The two men received the maximum prison sentence of five years in November.
Cameroon Urged to Release 2 Gay Youths
CAMEROON: 3 Gay Youths Sentenced to Five Years
CAMEROON: Alice Nkom Warns of Rise in Arrests
CAMEROON: 2 Teens, 2 Men Face Trial
2 Gay Youth Arrested for "Looking Feminine"
2 Gay Youth Face Trial for Homosexuality
Air France Refuses to Deport Gay Asylum Seeker
CAMEROON: 3 More Arrests for Homosexuality
Cameroon: Pro-LGBT Attorney Threatened w/ Arrest
Cameroon Sentences Journalist to 6 Months
Cameroon Sentences Three for Homosexuality
Gay Man Imprisoned for Two Years Without Trial
"Homosexuelle en Afrique"
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Stress more harmful to women's hearts, study finds
(CBS News) Heart disease is the country's No. 1 killer of men and women, taking almost 600,000 lives each year. A new study that looked at stress as a risk factor for heart problems found mental stress can be much harder on a woman's heart compared to a man's.
Heart attacks in women: greater death risk, fewer feel chest pain
Women feel more pain than men, study finds
Women lag behind men in life expectancy gains: Study
For the research that was presented this Tuesday at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology's annual meeting in San Diego, Penn State College of Medicine researchers recruited 17 healthy adults, about half of which were female, looking for the effects stress had on the heart's blood flow. Typically when heart rate and blood pressure increase, blood flow to the heart increases so it can pump harder.
The researchers measured heart rate and blood pressure, and used a Doppler ultrasound test to measure blood flow through the heart's blood vessels. They took these measurements at rest, but also took measurements after putting participants through "mental arithmetic" where they were given a random number and asked to sequentially subtract seven. To "stress the sexes," the researchers badgered participants throughout those tests, telling them they were wrong when they weren't or urging them to answer faster.
The study showed that all participants showed an increase in heart rate and blood pressure during the math tasks, but while men increased their coronary blood flow under stress, women showed no change. According to the researchers, pumping less blood through the heart during a stressful situation might cause more strain on women's hearts. Study author Dr. Chester Ray, professor of medicine, and cellular and molecular physiology at Penn State called the findings a surprise since earlier research has showed men reduce blood flow during physical stress from exercising.
"Stress reduction is important for anyone, regardless of gender," he said in a written statement, "but this study shines a light on how stress differently affects the hearts of women, potentially putting them at greater risk of a coronary event."
The findings may partially explain why women are more likely to suffer from "broken heart syndrome," Dr. William O'Neill, executive dean of research at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, told WebMD. A study last November found women are up to nine times more likely to experience the "syndrome" that increases risk for heart failure or heart attack-like symptoms in the weeks following a traumatic event.
"Women come into the hospital and look like they have had a massive heart attack, but there is no blockage," O'Neill said. "The message to women is, if they feel discomfort if under extreme stress, they should let their doctor know."
The American Heart Association has more on heart disease in women.


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Can your bikini line forecast your fertility?
You spy The hair down there starting to grow in asquare
What it might mean If your pubic hair is growingon your thighs and up your belly, forming a more square "rug" shape thana triangular one, you may have polycystic ovary syndrome. Caused byexcess male sex hormones, PCOS can spur body-hair growth and disruptovulation. "Some women with PCOS don't realize something's wrong untilthey have trouble conceiving," says Katherine Johnston, M.D., instructorof medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
Your next step PCOSraises insulin levels and could eventually lead to diabetes and heartdisease, so see your doctor to have your hormone levels tested. "I mightput patients on a diabetes drug," Dr. Johnston says. "It helps lowerinsulin, in turn balancing sex hormones and restoring regular ovulationand fertility."
You spy Nails that turn white when you press on them
What it mightmean All nails blanch a bit when you apply pressure, but if yours staywhite for up to a minute, you may be anemic and low on iron. "Manywomen, especially those with heavy periods, can become anemic withouteven knowing it," Dr. Johnston says.
Your next step Have your blood'sferritin levels tested. You may need to eat more iron-rich foods such assalmon and spinach, but don't take an iron supplement without your doc'ssay-so.
You spy Desert-dry lips
What it might mean It's either time to chugsome water or take a closer look at your vitamin A intake. "I had ayoung woman who didn't know that she was getting 20,000 internationalunits of vitamin A every day—that's four times the recommendeddaily value and approaching the toxic dose of 25,000 IU—from twodifferent supplements," says Carolyn Jacob, M.D., a dermatologist inChicago. In healthy amounts, vitamin A is essential to skin-cellturnover, but too-high levels can sap moisture and, if you're pregnant,cause birth defects. "It completely dried out my patient's lips andskin," Dr. Jacob explains.
Your next step If you take supplements, checkthe labels to make certain you're not taking in more than 5,000 IUdaily; be sure to account for the vitamin A you get from natural sourcessuch as eggs and fortified milk, too. Soon after you stop overdosing,your pucker should plump up again. And regardless, down plenty ofwater—especially if you work out. Remember, if you feel thirsty,you're already dehydrated.
You spy Swollen fingers
What it might mean Salty snacks and PMS areobvious bloat culprits, but if you shun the shaker, your period isn'tdue for weeks and still your rings are tight, a sluggish thyroid may beto blame. This condition, called hypothyroidism, occurs when the glandunderproduces the thyroid hormones needed to regulate metabolism, heartrate and more, says Rebecca Bahn, M.D., professor of medicine at theMayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota.
__Your next step__Don't write off puffiness as inevitable, Dr. Bahn warns. "Untreatedhypothyroidism can lead to heart disease, and if you're even slightlyhypo and get pregnant, it could affect the baby's brain development." Ablood test can reveal if your thyroid isn't producing enough hormones;if so, your M.D. may prescribe synthetic hormone pills, likely for therest of your life. Once you find the right dose, your metabolism (andfingers) should return to normal.
You spy White patches in your mouth corners
__What it might mean__You've developed a yeast infection. (Nope, it doesn't occur only inyour nether regions.) Anything that causes the corners of your mouth tocrack—such as a B vitamin deficiency, which can damage yourmouth's mucous membranes, or even drooling during sleep—creates awarm, moist environment where yeast thrives, according to Amy Derick,M.D., a dermatologist in Barrington, Illinois.
Your next step See yourdermatologist or general practitioner, who can prescribe a topicalantiyeast medication. In addition, make sure you're getting enough Bvitamins in your diet; you find them in whole grains and lean proteins.If the infection keeps coming back, try avoiding white breads andsweets. "Yeast feeds on refined flour and sugar, so cut back on them,"says Tara Gidus, R.D., a spokeswoman in Orlando, Florida, for theAmerican Dietetic Association.
You spy Yellow eyelid bumps
What it might mean Your cholesterol ishigh. When in excess, this fat can collect on your upper lids, formingtiny deposits. And because fat is yellow, so are the spots—youwon't miss them, whatever your skin tone, Dr. Johnston says.
Your nextstep Have a blood test. If your cholesterol is high—your totalcount is above 239, your LDL ("bad") cholesterol surpasses 159 or yourtriglycerides are 200 or higher—eating more produce and wholegrains, exercising 30 minutes a day and taking meds can help bring itdown. Those lumps may shrink with your cholesterol count; adermatologist can remove them by scalpel or laser.
You spy Discolored fingernails with slightly blue nail beds
What itmight mean Yellow nails with blue beds can point to diabetes, whichimpairs blood flow to fingers. "Any woman can have high blood sugar andnot notice she has other diabetes symptoms," Dr. Johnston says.
Yournext step Get pricked to find out if your fasting blood sugar is 126 orabove (considered diabetic). Losing weight can often drop numbers backinto a healthy range, minus the meds, Gidus says. She suggests followinga low-sugar, lowfat diet that contains at least 25 grams of fiberdaily. And get at least 150 minutes of brisk exercise a week, Dr.Johnston adds.
You spy Blushed cheeks when you're not flustered
__What it might mean__Frequent facial flushing that resembles a sunburn is a first sign ofrosacea, a common skin disorder that might be due to an allergy to skinmites, Dr. Derick says.
Your next step Your derm may prescribe ananti-inflammatory or antibiotic cream; avoid triggers like caffeine andthe sun.
You spy Bluish digits
What it might mean If it's chilly out or youare tense, blueberry-hued fingers and toes may signal Raynaud's disease,a conditionin which blood vessels in extremities narrow in response tocold or physical stress.This reaction limits blood flow to thoseareas, causing skin to turn blue and feel cold.
Your next step Yourphysician can diagnose Raynaud's based on your symptoms alone. If it isRaynaud's, the best solution is to stay warm, Dr. Johnston says. Duringsummer months, that might mean keeping your air conditioner on low,donning mittens before digging around in the freezer for those chickencutlets and using insulated glasses for chilled drinks. Also, take stepsto keep your circulation healthy: Avoid cigarettes and caffeine, both ofwhich narrow blood vessels; stay away from vasoconstricting meds such asdecongestants; and hit the gym regularly.
You spy Dark under-eye circles
What it might mean Unless you partiedinto the wee hours last night, those under-eye circles could suggestyour allergies are acting up. Allergens can inflame the sinuses andcompress nearby blood vessels, causing blood to pool beneath the eyes."We call the resulting darkness allergic shiners," Dr. Derick says.
Yournext step Pop an antihistamine. Circles still there? Ask your dermabout an anti-inflammatory cream such as Elidel
More must-checks
If your breast skin looks thick, pitted, red, bruisedor swollen, or if it itches or feels warm, you could have inflammatorybreast cancer, a lump-free, fast-spreading version. See your physicianimmediately.
Scope out your mouth and tongue for white or red spots.Problems like canker sores and pizza burns go away, but if a spot staysfor two weeks, it could be oral cancer. Visit your dentist ASAP for abiopsy.
Skin cancer can crop up in some surprising places: One, it mayappear as a black, vertical streak on a fingernail, or two, as a frecklewhere the sun don't shine. Inspect your body thoroughly—use a handmirror if necessary. If you see anything odd, call your doc today.
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A blog to compile what I have learned (and what I am learning) about Mandriva (and GNU/Linux in general) since 2009, when I migrated. Current distros I'm using: OpenMandriva Lx 3.1 /3.0 Mageia 6, PCLinuxOS 2017.03, Fedora Workstation 27 (KDE spin), PicarOS, Pisi Linux 1, Elive beta, and AntiX 13.
lunes, 13 de diciembre de 2010
Some experiences editing video in Linux
I had undertaken the process successfully in Windows before using programs like Virtual Dub but, because of the metrics of my system (not to blame XP solely for eating up the memory), the encoding of the video took a long time.
Anyway, my first problem was the ripping of the DVD video because I had never done that before. I stumbled because K3B would refuse to read the DVD. I learned that it was because it was locked, so I downloaded the repository to unlock it and then K3B read it. The ripping took like an hour. However, I could not paste the desired subtitles (I don't know how to do it), so I had to use a .srt file downloaded from the Web.
Here, I had to face the question of what video editor to resort to for pasting the subtitles and clipping. I decided to use Avidemux because I found it similar to Virtual Dub. To my surprise, Avidemux read the subtitles and created the segments in a matter of minutes without any hassle.
One advantage of Avidemux over Virtual Dub is that the filter for adding subtitles is included in the program. I remember I had to activate it the latter software following a process that a beginner could not guess: I could do it because I got the instructions from a tutorial.
Avidemux, on the other hand, has a pretty intuitive interface. Even when I had never used the program before, the process of loading the video, inserting the filter, and clipping the video was very clear even without any previous training. Of course, I understand that using other software in Windows for producing video has a positive impact on my learning curve, but it's also good to edit videos using an OS that actually helps you in the process. In the end, the computer I used was the same, the results were the same, but the time to achieve the objective was significantly shorter under Linux than it was in Windows.
The presentation of these clips and the talk will be on Wednesday 15. We will use my Mandriva netbook for this activity, so I'll report on how the computer performed then.
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While I find AVIdemux useful, I've never thought it to be intuitive! You can use k9copy (GUI) or XVidEnc (CLI) to rip DVDs into avi files with subtitles, just a heads up for the future.ResponderEliminar
Yes, it might just be that I did not find it difficult to jump from Virtual Dub to AVIdemux because I had already learned the basics.
Thanks for the information; I'll try them!
Avidemux is indeed easier to use than Virtual Dub. Even with the tutorial, I had problems when I got started with it.ResponderEliminar


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43,000. That's how many people in Placer County aren't secure about where they'll get food, according to the study. That's one in every eight people in the area.
A task force of local organizations put together by the Placer Community Foundation analyzed hunger and food access in the county. It found that applications for CALFresh - or food stamps - have increased approximately 200 percent in Placer County since 2008 -- but nearly 60 percent of eligible families are not participating.
According to the report, people are now relying regularly on food banks as a primary source of groceries, and areas in central Roseville, Lincoln and Auburn are so-called "food deserts." That's the term for areas in which people don't have access to a large grocery store close to home.
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A young man died while trying to save his first love's life as a train came barreling down on them while they were on their way to a school dance.
The girl is now in a hospital fighting to hold onto the life her boyfriend gave everything to save.
The family of 16-year-old Mickayla Friend said she and her boyfriend were planning to attend a Sadie Hawkins Day dance at their high school in Marysville, Calif., when they walked toward a store on the tracks.
A train approached traveling in the same direction as the two teenagers and they were unable to move out of the way in time, TV station KCRA reports.
At the last moment Mickayla's boyfriend — whose name has not been released by authorities but has been identified on Facebook as Mateus Moore — pushed her out of the way. He was killed at the scene. His girlfriend is in critical condition at a local hospital.
"It's her first boyfriend and her first love," Alithya Friend, Mickayla's sister, told the station. "And she just got it taken away from her in an instant."
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Authorities told the station the conductor blew the horn and activated the emergency brakes, but the train did not stop in time.
"You can't imagine getting the worst call in your life, knowing that you just dropped your sister off to go to a dance that was supposed to be a special, amazing night for her and her boyfriend of a year," Alithya Friend told the station. "And then you get a call that says he's deceased and she's in critical condition."
The accident occurred near a crowded park and many onlookers rushed over to try and save the two teenagers.
"The engineer was on the horn. … Then finally, they both looked back at the same time," witness Sean Stark told the station. "They would have both been underneath that train if he didn't push her out of the way at the last second."
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Seven years of recaps, previews, comprehensive score listings, analysis articles, It Ain't At All Like Being There™ live text boutcasts, Power Rankings, OUTRAGE!, string-and-tin-can video streams, then with score and clock overlays, then with multi-camera switching. Seven years of incredible people — hundreds of them — pulling together to do incredible things with incredibly inadequate resources, all out of a shared love for this sport and its community.
Seven years is enough. As of today, Derby News Network is retired.
It has been a terrifically rewarding experience, building a site and a community and a family. It has also taken a terrible toll on the principals who built it and held it together: in stress, in emotional and physical health, in personal finances, in our availability to our families and friends. We're not here to linger on these costs, but we've decided, together, that we will no longer bear them.
Here's what happens now:
- The DNN website will remain up for the near future, but will no longer be updated.
- All written content on DNN is already shared under the CC-BY license, which means anyone can reuse it for any purpose, so long as it is credited. Attribution must take the form of "By [author name] for Derby News Network". Scrape away.
- Please remember that photographs on the site *may not* be used for any purpose, because the photographers licensed them to DNN only for use on DNN. We cannot stress enough how important it is that you respect the rights of these creators.
- We've cancelled out all recurring contributions in Paypal, so ongoing donors will not be debited any further.
- We're giving the full contents of the Derbymatic bout database to the great people at Flat Track Stats, in case there's any of it that they don't already have.
- Derbylife will live on independently under Em Dash's continued stewardship.
We'd really like to list every single person and entity who has contributed words, voices, photos, scores, logistics help, sponsorship support, personal funds, reputations, and love to create DNN — but that list would run to over a thousand names, and couldn't possibly be complete.
You know who you are. We love you like family.
We invite you to join us in memoriam on the DNN facebook page with your memories and photos.
In the final tally, let the recap note that we played our hearts out and left it all on the track.
Gnosis, Justice, Mercy, Hurt, Dash, and Lex


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Top Items:
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Exclusive: Pictures of Psystar's corporate home; Clone maker's store is open — As this Psystar saga turns-the alleged Mac clone maker is either an overwhelmed legitimate business, a scam or something in between-it's helpful to have some feet on the street.
Discussion: Gizmodo, Hardware 2.0 and p2pnet
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo: Latest in Psystar Saga: Mac Clones Supposedly Shipping Right …
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0: Why Psystar will sink without a trace over the next few weeks
Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Psystar store is back up, orders on the way — Psystar finally managed to get its Internet store back up and running Saturday, and promised that all Mac clones ordered to date will soon be on the way. — if you haven't been following the saga of Psystar, check out our coverage this week.
Discussion: Macenstein
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Meet The Mac-Clone Mystery Man
Meet The Mac-Clone Mystery Man
Discussion: The Boy Genius Report
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Encyclopedia Britannica Now Free For Bloggers — Encyclopedia Britannica often is used in case studies as a definitive example of how new technology can disrupt a business. Everything was great for the nearly 250 year old privately held company until the Internet came around and a Category Five hurricaned on their parade.
Discussion: Mashable!, AccMan Pro, PR 2.0, TECH.BLORGE.com and TeleRead
Paul Glazowski / Mashable!: Encyclopedia Britannica 'Soft-Launches' WebShare Widget System
Dennis Howlett / AccMan Pro: Encyclopaedia Britannica online goes sort of free
Brian Solis / PR 2.0: Encyclopedia Britannica Socializes Content
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Who Did Six Apart Acquire? — San Francisco-based blogging startup Six Apart has made a significant acquisition, we heard today from someone with knowledge of the deal. "Significant" in the sense of a possible strategic shift for the company, if not in terms of deal size. It will be announced in the next few days.
Discussion: CNET News.com
Zoë Slocum / CNET News.com: Speculation mounts over Six Apart acquisition
Dion Almaer / Ajaxian:
Yahoo! BrowserPlus: The rumour is true — Awhile back I heard a rumour that Yahoo! had a "Gears-like" project that was cancelled. I thought this was a shame, as having Yahoo! pushing the browser would be a great thing, and I wished that we could all join forces and push together.
Discussion: Mashable!, Profy.Com and TechCrunch
Paul Glazowski / Mashable!: Yahoo Offers Limited Peek Into BrowserPlus Project
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira / Profy.Com: Yahoo Still Determined to Compete: BrowserPlus Reappears
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch: Yahoo Offers Limited Release Of BrowserPlus
Will Apple open a store in Second Life? — On April 17, 2008, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's patent application titled Enhancing Online Shopping Atmosphere . Apple's patent generally relates to improving the experiences that online-shoppers may have at an online Apple Store, sometime in the future.
Discussion: GigaOM, The Boy Genius Report and Virtual Worlds News
Wagner James Au / GigaOM: Apple Wants To Change Online Retail Experience ... Apparently
Joshua Karp / The Boy Genius Report: Apple looking to re-invent online shopping?
YouTube :: Blog:
Beta Launch for YouTube Feature Updates — We just launched beta versions of three new feature updates to improve overall management of your messages, contacts and videos. These tests are already being served to a small percentage of randomly selected users, but anyone can choose to opt in and test them out.
Discussion: Search Engine Journal and Mashable!
Arnold Zafra / Search Engine Journal: YouTube Rolls Out Some New Features
Sean P. Aune / Mashable!: Updates Made To Several YouTube Components
Andrew / NotebookReview.com:
Asus Sets Eee PC 900 U.S. Launch for May 12th — Asus informed us this evening that the Eee PC 900 will hit the store shelves in the U.S. on May 12th. The Linux and Windows XP loaded version of this 8.9" version of the Eee PC will both cost $549. — The Eee PC 900 has already been released …
Arnold Zafra / Gadgetell: Asus to ship the Eee PC 900 to US stores on May 12
Paul Miller / Engadget: Asus Eee PC 900 hits the US on May 12th
Brandon Hill / DailyTech: ASUS Eee PC 900 Coming May 12 With $549 Price Tag
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: Asus Eee PC 900 ships May 12th
Dan Ackerman / Crave: The gadget blog:
Asus Eee PC 900 launching 5/12 in the U.S. at $549
Asus Eee PC 900 launching 5/12 in the U.S. at $549
Discussion: CrunchGear, Gizmodo, Electronista and The Boy Genius Report
Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear: Eee PC 900 gets priced and dated
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo: Asus Eee PC 900 Hits U.S. May 12 for $549
Joshua Karp / The Boy Genius Report: 9″ Asus Eee PC gets launch date, price
G. Pascal Zachary / New York Times:
How Scientific Gains Abroad Pay Off in the U.S. — AT a time of economic belt-tightening, might cheap science from low-wage countries help keep American innovators humming? — Americans have long profited from low-cost manufactured goods, especially from Asia. The cost of those material "inputs" is now rising.
Discussion: IFTF's Future Now
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang / IFTF's Future Now: Post-scientific society
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
ISPs' Error Page Ads Let Hackers Hijack Entire Web, Researcher Discloses — Seeking to make money from mistyped website names, some of the United States' largest ISPs are instead creating gaping security holes in the web's largest websites, including eBay, PayPal, Google and Yahoo.
Discussion: Ryan Naraine's Security Watch and Security Fix
Ryan Naraine / Ryan Naraine's Security Watch: Major ISPs Injecting Ads, Vulnerabilities Into Entire Web
Brian Krebs / Security Fix: When Monetizing ISP Traffic Goes Horribly Wrong
Ryan McIntire / The Greener Grass:
Papyrus — With the growing popularity and widespread use of communication tools like texting, Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, today's students are more connected than ever. However, few educational solutions take advantage of these tools. Some schools use software like Blackboard, but the interfaces are clunky and outdated.
Discussion: Gadgetell, Engadget and GottaBeMobile
David Gonzales / Gadgetell: Student-oriented Papyrus could be e-book reader 2.0
Donald Melanson / Engadget: Papyrus e-book concept takes aim at students
Sierra Modro / GottaBeMobile: Papyrus Concept: Textbook of the Future?
Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:
Paypal denies Safari-blocking reports — News in brief: There's been multiple reports claiming PayPal plans to block Safari users from using its service on account of the browser's lack of built-in anti-phishing features. — The Safari block has been mooted as part of a package of moves …
Discussion: Ryan Naraine's Security Watch and Macsimum News
Dennis Sellers / Macsimum News: PayPal to block Safari—or maybe not
PayPal to block users with old browsers to stem phishing attacks
PayPal to block users with old browsers to stem phishing attacks
Discussion: Ars Technica, Mashable! and Business Technology
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica: PayPal to fight phishers by blocking old browsers
Sean P. Aune / Mashable!: PayPal Not Stopping Safari Users, Just Way-Old Software
Managers Among 4,650 Losing AT&T Jobs — AT&T said Friday that it would eliminate the jobs of about 4,650 workers, trimming the managerial ranks in its fading home phone business after more than $100 billion in acquisitions. — The decision covers about 1.5 percent of the work force …
Discussion: WebGuild and VoIP Watch
Joseph Hunkins / WebGuild: ATT Laying Off 4650
Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch: AT&T Rank And File To Be Trimmed, Shuffled


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Well, the board is either fixed, or it's going to run terribly. Cross your fingers and hope for the best. I'm at my technical limit right now.
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Here are some headlines making their way through the news stations on this 1st of November.
Stocks fall hard on Greece surprise. / In giving life, women face deadly risks.
How a reformed skin head got a makeover. / Sales rise at Detroit's big 3.
Obama, Exec too close for comfort? / Major surge in prescription drug deaths.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Behind another great outing from sophomore Mike Guinane (Glenview, Ill.), the No. 3 Georgia College baseball team (8-2) took Sunday's contest from Pfeiffer University (5-7) 5-2. The victory helped the Bobcats take a three-game set from the Falcons.
Guinane (3-0) threw seven innings, striking out four and allowing just two runs on eight hits.
GC put up runs in each of the first two innings, as shortstop Tanner Funk (Kearney, Mo.) dropped a single to left to score leftfielder Josh Young (Lake Huvasu City, Ariz.) who doubled. Designated hitter Cody Maas (Alpharetta, Ga.) blasted his first home run of the season in the second for a quick 2-0 lead.
Pfeiffer charged back with a pair of runs in the third on RBI hits from Preston Lyon and Eric Shoemaker.
The Bobcats won the game in the fifth, as Ikaika Anderson (Austell, Ga.) led off with a single to center, eventually scoring on an error. GC added two more in the sixth, when first baseman Benton Yaun (Marietta, Ga.) led off with a double and scored on another Falcon miscue. Pinch runner Jim Moreland (Suwanee, Ga.) then capped the scoring, coming across on a bases-loaded hit batsman.
Anderson, Young and Yaun each finished with two hits and a run apiece.
Senior Tanner Moore (Thomasville, Ga.) got the final six outs for his third save this season. The loss went to Pfeiffer starter Eric Shuford (1-1), going 5 2/3 innings, allowing four earned runs. Lyon was potent at the plate, going 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run.
The Bobcats will play again Tuesday, Feb. 23, traveling to Valdosta State University (3-7). The Blazers most recently split with Nova Southeastern University in a doubleheader.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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We told you yesterday about Shaq Thompson, the UW football recruit who is giving baseball a go in the Red Sox system. His career stats, since being drafted by Boston in the 18th round, are incredible: Not a single hit, and all but one of his outs have been strikeouts. (To be totally fair, he has
seven eight walks.)
The Gulf Coast League Red Sox beat their Oriole counterparts this afternoon, pummelling them to the tune of a 16-1 score. Shaq Thompson went 0-for-5, with five strikeouts.
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New for Autumn!
Our original, which hasn't changed since 1965.
Served on a Classic-sized ring of our new wholemeal, white and spelt dough; the hole in the middle filled with a fresh, dressed salad.
All of our Piccolo set menus are available with gluten-free Dough Balls, and a gluten-free pizza base.


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Blackboard Announces New MOOC Platform - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Las Vegas — Blackboard, a company that makes software that many colleges use to run their classroom and online courses, announced on Wednesday that it was expanding its support for MOOCs, though it is relatively late to the much-talked-about trend of massive open online courses.
"We watched really carefully, and we thought about doing something" sooner, said Ray Henderson, president of Blackboard's teaching and learning division, in an interview this week. "This is one of those times when we said this is a watch and develop, not jump on it."
The company announced at its annual conference here that it would create a new MOOC platform that colleges could use free if they were existing Blackboard customers. The company has already hosted a couple of dozen MOOCs on a service called CourseSites, but the new platform will be enhanced with features to help colleges run courses for large numbers of students—and it will let colleges make some connections between their on-campus courses and their free open courses, if they choose to.
CourseSites will remain in operation, but in the future it will be reserved for its original purpose—not to offer MOOCs, but to let professors experiment with Blackboard's software for their traditional courses.
Many colleges looking to experiment with MOOCs have signed up for Coursera or edX, two popular platforms that are growing fast. And one of Blackboard's competitors in the course-management software business, Instructure, already offers a MOOC platform for its customers, called Canvas Network.
Colleges "want this," said Mr. Henderson, referring to support for free online courses. "If they don't get it from us, they could get it from someone else, which initiates a new relationship that is potentially a risk to us."
Blackboard also announced that 15 additional institutions, including Temple University's business school and Syracuse University, plan to offer MOOCs using Blackboard's software starting this fall. Darin Kapanjie, managing director for online and digital learning at the Temple business school, said it had decided to use Blackboard for MOOCs because the school already uses the company's software for its online courses. "Why not put students in the same environment they're going to be in if they enroll?" he said.
Katie Blot, Blackboard's president of global education services, said that she and other officials at the company had been hearing three main reasons from colleges to try MOOCs: to open access to education, to experiment with new teaching methods, and, as a form of marketing, to give nonstudents a taste of what the institution is like.
Mr. Kapanjie said marketing was the main reason his institution was trying a MOOC. "It's marketing and brand awareness," he said. "Our biggest issue is nobody knows about us," he added, noting that the business school has offered online courses for several years.
The service will be free to existing Blackboard customers, though there might be a fee if colleges want to customize or upgrade features on their MOOC offerings. Company officials said they expected that, in the future, colleges that offer MOOCs with the service might expand their purchase of other software and services from Blackboard.
"MOOCs," said Mr. Henderson, "are a first step to really building out online programs."