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STOCKTON - Members of three local law enforcement agencies will be honored as Officers of the Year at the Italian Athletic Club's 45th annual Law Enforcement Night awards banquet.
STOCKTON - Members of three local law enforcement agencies will be honored as Officers of the Year at the Italian Athletic Club's 45th annual Law Enforcement Night awards banquet.
The California Highway Patrol, the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office and the Stockton Police Department each have three nominees for Officer of the Year. A panel of judges from the Italian Athletic Club will select one winner from each agency.
The banquet will be held Tuesday at the Italian Athletic Club, 3541 Cherryland Ave., in Stockton. The event begins with no-host cocktails at 6 p.m. followed by a prime rib and ravioli dinner at 7. Cost is $20 per person. For more information, contact John Peluso at (209) 478-0189 or Ralph Fratta at (209) 478-1923.
The nominees are:
Timothy Fautt: Fautt, a Stockton native, graduated from the CHP Academy in 1999 and served the Hayward and Modesto communities before transferring to Stockton in 2006. Fautt averages more than 100 DUI arrests per year and also excels at locating stolen vehicles. In January 2013, Fautt responded to a report of a vehicle collision in Escalon, determined the vehicle had been left there under suspicious circumstances and followed a trail of matted grass into a ravine, where he found the body of a female homicide victim.
James Smith: Smith graduated from the CHP Academy in June 2007 and worked in San Jose before being transferred to Stockton in 2011. He has served as a public information officer since October 2012. Smith made more than 100 DUI arrests in 2012 and has received the Mothers Against Drunk Driving award every year since 2007. In addition to preparing news releases and conducting media interviews, Smith also has instructed driving safety courses, attended many community events and coordinated Every 15 Minutes presentations.
Skyler Tesch: Tesch graduated from the CHP Academy in 2008 and spent three years working in San Jose before transferring to the Stockton office, not far from where he grew up in Valley Springs. He made 63 DUI arrests and recovered 36 stolen vehicles in 2013. On Aug. 15, Tesch responded to a major traffic collision on Interstate 5 south of Walnut Grove, where a drunken driving suspect collided with two big rigs and a third vehicle, killing three people. Tesch's investigation resulted in the driver being charged with three counts of second-degree murder.
Ryan Biedermann: Biedermann is a 15-year veteran of the Sheriff's Office currently assigned to the Patrol Division. He has received multiple Letters of Commendation and Excellence of Performance as an investigator, gang expert and canine handler. He was credited with conducting a number of excellent investigations in 2013, including one that led to the arrests of two burglary suspects and another that led to the recovery of more than $20,000 in tools and other items stolen from an AT&T service yard.
Khamkhoune Kannalikham: Kannalikham is currently assigned to the countywide gang task force and serves as a SWAT team sniper. On July 10, Kannalikham was pursuing two home-invasion robbery suspects at August Knodt School in Weston Ranch when he was ambushed by one suspect who was lying in wait with an AK-47-style assault rifle. Despite being heavily outgunned, Kannalikham returned fire, striking the suspect multiple times, and later administered life-saving first aid to the same suspect.
Michael Reynolds: Reynolds is a seven-year veteran of the Sheriff's Office who is assigned to patrol and the Community Car Program. In 2013, he conducted 256 criminal investigations and made 58 arrests for robberies, weapons possession, drug possession, assaults with deadly weapons and other crimes. In January, he was credited with rescuing a man whose roommate shot him at close range with a shotgun. Reynolds extracted the victim and administered immediate medical aid, saving his life.
Antoinette Laffranchini: Since joining the Stockton Police Department as a patrol officer in 2011, Laffranchini has proved a proactive officer who made more than 130 arrests in 2013, including more than 30 for auto theft. In March, she helped apprehend a documented gang member who shot someone at a west Stockton apartment complex and then opened fire on Laffranchini and her partner when they responded to the scene. After several hours, the suspect surrendered without further incident.
Telly Strika: A five-year veteran of the Police Department, Strika worked as a patrol officer until June 2012, when he was selected to be part of the newly formed Community Response Team. He made 85 felony arrests in 2013, mostly for weapons and drug crimes. In January, Strika and other officers apprehended bank robbery suspects who were hiding in an attic at a home on Riverbrook Drive. In February, he investigated a report of an armed man at a local restaurant and located a handgun with a 22-round magazine.
David Wells: Wells began his career with the Police Department in 2003 and was also a finalist for Officer of the Year in 2008. In addition to patrol, he has served as a member of the Violent Crime Suppression Task Force and the Special Weapons and Tactics Unit. He currently serves as a canine handler and field training officer. In December, he apprehended a shooting suspect who fought with him and tried to flee on foot. The suspect, a parolee, was apprehended and found in possession of a loaded pistol.
Contact reporter Jason Anderson at (209) 546-8279 or email@example.com. Follow him at recordnet.com/crimeblog or on Twitter @Stockton911.


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PIERCE, JOSHUA: Hovhaness, Ives, Cage, Moser, Konicek, Bonotto, Wyschnegradsky
A great record. Those of you who spotted Wyschnegradsky's name will already know why. This is another numinous release from the microtonal festival and every track on it is a gem. Mostly for pianos tuned in quartertones, though some have other instruments in more exotic tunings alongside, these pieces are a priceless entry into a glorious realm of listening. And as a bonus, the Wyschnegradsky (for Bassoon and piano) is played as if it were rock music; the Konicek too is severely leaned into. Prodigious. And inspiring. Must have. L
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Allgaier To Start 26th in Ford 300 Nationwide Series Race
November 15, 2008
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (November 15, 2008) – Justin Allgaier, driver of the Penske Racing No. 12 Penske Truck Rental Dodge Charger in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, captured a 26th-place starting position for the running of the Ford 300 on Saturday, November 15, 2008.
Allgaier, the 2008 ARCA RE/MAX Series Champion, will be making his fourth Nationwide Series start for Penske Racing in the No. 12 Dodge this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway. This is Allgaier's second attempt at the 1.5-mile track just north of the Florida Keys.
"We were listening to some of the other team transmissions during qualifying," said Allgaier. "They all were loose but by the time we went out for our run the track had gotten tight. We may have adjusted for it a little too much. Not really the starting position we would have liked to have in the Penske Truck Rental Dodge today but I think we'll be able to free it up in the race and hopefully bring home a solid finish."
Broadcast coverage of the Ford 300 is slated to begin at 4:30 p.m. ET, Saturday, November 15, 2008. Live televised coverage on ESPN2 begins at 4:00pm ET. MRN Radio coverage begins at 4:15 p.m. ET.
Driver: Justin Allgaier
Position: 26th
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Pole: Joey Logano
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With the financial support from the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, the Federation's "Sports Education on Olympism Programme for the Community" (SEOP) was organized successfully last year and had received positive acclaims from schools and community organizations. The programme would continue from now until March 2015. This programme would provide substantial and interesting information for schools and community organizations, offers a diversify community programme to allow their members to understand the importance of sports, at the same time to encourage the public to learn about Olympism and the development of Hong Kong Sport.
Schools and organizations are cordially invited to participate in the SEOP which is free of charge, while the duration of the talk normally lasts not more than 2 hours. The number of participants is preferred to be 100 persons and 50 persons or above for schools and community organizations respectively. Schools and organizations are requested to provide the venue and basic computer equipment. Local serving or retired athlete would be arranged by the Federation to be the speaker and share their sporting experience with the participants.
Details of the talks at Appendix I, the enrolment form at Appendix II and Athlete List at Appendix III can be downloaded from the links below. For enquiries, please feel free to contact Mr. Calvin TAM at 2504 8517.
While the 2nd Youth Olympic Games would be hosted at Nanjing, China in August 2014, the 17th Asian Games would be held at Incheon, Korea in September 2014, athletes from different sports disciplines would be representing Hong Kong, China in these two multi-sports Games. This would be a good opportunity for the public to learn about the latest sports development in Hong Kong!
Issued by: Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China
Date: 25 April 2014
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- Each year after the season is over, I go to the store, buy a big fat steak, grill it while drinking PBR tallboys, and then work my way through it. By the time I'm done savoring each morsel, I've come to grips with the end of Packer football for another year. If I feel like haven't completely reconciled my feelings and let go, I do the same thing the following evening….I've had four steaks this week, and it seems like a fifth is on the menu for tonight (hence, the meat drunkeness). Man, this is getting expensive.
- I will not be in Minneapolis this weekend which is fantastic because the smell emanating from the Metrodome would probably kill me. Jerry Jones, Tony Romo, Brent, and Jared Allen are all in the same place at the same time? The EPA should declare a preemptive toxic spill now and just hope they can stop the overflow from polluting the Mississippi more than it all ready is.
- Two of Greg Jennings receptions on Sunday were absolutely insane…and I don't think either involved a push-off.
- I've been told to quit complaining about the refs more than once this week, and you know what? I'm not going to do it. Do I really, truly believe they were the reason we lost the game? Of course not, but they didn't help, and if I want to bitch about it, I can. There's only one reason for it: it's CATHARTIC. Plain and simple. Some people blame Mike McCarthy, some blame Mason Crosby, some blame Robert (he even blames himself), some blame Jarrett Bush, but in the end it all achieves the same purpose: it helps you feel better about losing the game and the season being over.
- The refs stunk…HA! Maybe I don't need another porterhouse tonight.
- It's a long offseason but 88+12+85+21+52+25+77=Optimism
- I don't know if you pray, meditate, worship wood nymphs, or believe in nussing, and I don't care; but keep the people of Haiti in your thoughts, and give something if you can spare it. It's the right thing to do.
- I'll step off my soapbox now…
- My one goal in 2010 has nothing to do with the Packers, work, or my personal life. Prior to the kickoff of the 2010 season, I plan to find out why Fox uses the robot. I know people who have never watched football in their lives who have walked into a room, looked at the TV, and said, "What's that robot doing, and what does it have to do with this football-thing you're watching?" Then it makes ME look stupid trying to explain it, when the whole problem actually is: THE ROBOT IS STUPID! And just an fyi: that robot is making you stupid, and I think you have the right to at least know why it exists before you end up like this.
- Bring on the draft…what's the date today? {sigh}
Friday, January 15, 2010
Views from the Hillside.
Here you go Ranter fans, my season-ending Views from the Hillside. You may not want, but...you've got it. When you're as meat drunk on red meat as I am, your mind can't think longer than bullet points.
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- Pashaww!!January 15, 2010 at 2:36 PM
Nice link (push-off). I'm not sure the refs would have flaged Fitz if he had nelt on Woodson's chest and gouged his eyes. Subltelty my ass!ReplyDelete
Man, that does feel better. Any Vikings fans who tell you to stop complaining can suck it. Make sure to refer to your crotch with both hands when telling them so. I love that the article goes on to site Chris Carter as the Budda of Cheating; L. Fitz's guide and teacher. How fitting.
As big of a nerd and robot lover I am ... the fox robot must be destroyed. Glaaavin!ReplyDelete
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Let $G$ be a topological group. One general approach to show that $G$ is connected is the following:
For every subgroup $H\leq G$ (not necessarily closed) we have a projection map: $$ \pi: G\rightarrow G/H $$ We may give to the set of left cosets of $H$ in $G$ the quotient topology. In that case $\pi$ is an open map. Now it is easy to see that if $H$ and $G/H$ are connected then $G$ is connected. Using this idea one may show that many of the classical groups are connected. For example, one may show that $U(n)$ is connected using induction and the usual fibration: $$ U(n-1)\rightarrow U(n)\rightarrow S^{2n-1} $$
Here is my question:
Q: Is there another general approach to show that a topological group $G$ is connected which avoids this kind of "devissage"?
(P.S. Of course one may try to prove directly that the space is path connected but in general this is too difficult)
(P.S.S. In the case of a real Lie group, using Cartan's theorem, one sees that the connectedness of $G$ is equivalent to the connectedness of a maximal compact subgroup of $G$, but I guess that this is a very special situation which does not generalize well to topological groups.)


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William J. Bernstein is the editor of the quarterly asset-allocation journal Efficient Frontier, founder of the popular website EfficientFrontier.com, and a principal in Efficient Frontier Advisors. He is often quoted in national publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Money, and Forbes.
He is also the author of The Four Pillars of Investing, The Intelligent Asset Allocator, The Birth of Plentyand A Splendid Exchange. Bill graciously agreed to be my guest for the inaugural edition of what will be a regular feature for my AdvisorOne blog, in which I will endeavor to ask and receive answers from interesting people to Five Good Questions.
In your excellent book, The Birth of Plenty, you outline four primary elements as the building blocks of human progress – property rights, scientific rationalism, capital markets, and transportation/communication. Are any of these at risk in America today and, if so, how?
It's an interesting question, and one I've not been asked before.
It's quite obvious that as a nation we've become fat, dumb, and lazy: a very high percentage of our science graduates, for example, are foreign born, and an additional large slice is first generation Americans.
We overconsume and undersave, particularly on educational, social, and transport/communications infrastructure; it's a scandal, for example, that the water system of our largest city is more than a century old. Every time I go through a European train station or an Asian airport I'm embarrassed for our country.
The good news is that none of those things, except possibly the last, reflect on the crucial four factors: our institutional infrastructure, which is the world's best, bar none. It's not just that we have open and free capital markets, universities, and an independent judiciary that protects individual liberties and property rights, it's also that we do a superb job of intellectually and financially nurturing our best and brightest.
If you don't believe that, then ask yourself what would have happened to Bill Gates if he had dropped out of the Sorbonne or Tokyo University. Or ask yourself, if our educational system has been falling apart for the past half century, why we're still pulling down the lion's share of science Nobels.
So I'm still optimistic; even if we're getting lazier by the generation, we'll still attract the global cream of the crop here.
You have argued, here for example, that extreme income and wealth inequality hinder economic growth and are bad for our economy. In brief, how do you suggest we try to correct that problem?
Well, I'm going to show my political stripes here. When people read Birth of Plenty, they assume I'm a libertarian, because of the book's emphasis on property rights. But at the end of the day, "property rights" is nothing more and nothing less than the respect that folks with less than you do have for your property, and if there's too much spread between the rich and poor, that erodes that respect and property rights enforcement costs skyrocket.
There is no question that economic inequality is killing us; we have the highest rates of obesity, homicide, violent crime, and incarceration in the developed world, things that all covary strongly with inequality.
If there's one myth that's more corrosive than any, it's the notion of "job-killing taxes." By that logic, Somalia should be the world's richest nation, and Sweden and Switzerland the poorest; Massachusetts ought to be our poorest state, and Mississippi the richest.
It's a brutal fact that in highly productive societies, a lot of income needs to be redistributed. The objective evidence on the subject suggests that marginal tax rates have to be very high — in the range of 70%-80% — before the income effect becomes overwhelmed by the incentive effect; I find it hard to believe that Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Mark Zuckerberg are going to work any less hard if their income tax rate jumps to 45%.
(Parenthetically, I might also add that before the Reagan era, the period of highest U.S. economic growth, we had top marginal rates in excess of 90%. And yes, when states raise income tax rates, jobs leave for low-tax states. But that's only because we give the states far too much autonomy on that score. Take away the ability of states and municipalities to tax, and that problem disappears.)
I'd better stop talking before folks start picketing at my doorstep!
What essential services can and does a good financial advisor provide?
The three most important things are, in order, discipline, discipline, and discipline: the ability to maintain a strategy no matter what CNBC and USA Today are blathering about. After that, the humility to know that you cannot predict market movements and the historical awareness to know that economic forecasts are usually contrary indicators.
In economists' terms, one of the foundational aspects of a person's utility function is the intertemporal marginal rate of substitution, one's willingness to forego current consumption in order to consume more in the future. Do you have any practical ideas for accomplishing that, particularly as it relates to retirement planning?
I'll forego the 50-cent words and simply say that wealth is not a dollar amount, but rather a ratio measured in years: in other words, how many years' living expenses you've saved. The person with a million dollars who needs to spend only $50,000 annually is twice as rich as the person who needs $100,000.
If you think that your happiness is tied up in the things you own, then you are both sadly misinformed about human neuropsychology and doomed to be unhappy. Bottom line: keep your expenses down, save like hell, don't stop until you're pushing up the daisies, and look for "utility" in the things that really matter: connections with other people, competence in a vocation or avocation, and most importantly, acquiring autonomy over your time and effort, i.e., becoming your own boss.
If you can't reach those three goals by the time you're in late middle age, you're toast.
A related question — if a commitment device is something that "takes choice off the table," what commitment devices might advisors use to help their clients plan better and save more?
I'm not sure I know how to answer that one. I'm too old to be nagging people to spend less and save more; it's a lot simpler and easier to not work with folks who don't know how to live within their means.


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This is another guest post by my guildmate Jaymz. He wrote about how to evaluate feral kitties a little while ago, and now he's taking a look at Bears. Rawr. My full guide on evaluating raiders (especially healers) with WoL can be found here.
Here are the things you should be looking for when evaluating Bear tanks.
Debuffs Applied
First things to look at is the player Details Page, under the Buffs Cast tab.
You need to know which buffs/debuffs the Bear is responsible for bringing. I'll write this as if the Bear must bring all their own debuffs but I'll do my best to describe those which can be brought by others to possibly maximize your raid.
Also be aware if the Bear is the main tank or the off-tank. If only one tank is needed for a phase of a fight, is it the Bear tanking or did the Bear become a Kitty for some extra DPS? If the Bear becomes a Cat, that will obviously cause some changes to happen in buff and debuff uptimes. I will write this as if the Bear is the main tank.
Faerie Fire
This should be cast early and stacked to three and should have close to 100% uptime (on boss/main target). It can be applied to multiple targets when necessary. It is on the spell hit table and Bears are not going to get spell hit cap for this one ability so some down time is okay, but not a lot. Some Bears will spec to apply all three stacks with one button, some won't, it really depends on the other players in the raid. For example if there were a Feral Kitty in the raid, it would be beneficial for the Kitty to be the one to apply FF. This way the Bear could spec into another talent and use those GCDs for other (more damaging, higher threat) moves.
This should have close to 100% uptime, it is a Bear's 1# ability in terms of threat, damage, and overall utility. The only reason not to have high uptime is if another person like a Sub Rogue or Arms Warrior is also applying the debuff repeatedly. Feral Kitties shouldn't interfere with this, since they should simply drop mangle from their rotation if there is a Bear in the raid.
This also should have high uptime, it is stacked to 3 and then spent on Pulverize (more on that later), its ticks allow Berserk to proc (also more on that later). This is a Bears filler ability.
While this is an AoE bleed it hits hard enough that it should be used in single target rotation as well. It has a 6 second cooldown and the bleed lasts for 6 seconds so you might expect this to have extremely high uptime. However, there are other higher priority moves and procs that will cause uptime to be much lower. In my experience, somewhere between 40-60% uptime is a good number to look/shoot for. The higher the better, provided all other debuffs are maintained. Also if your Bear goes Cat, Thrash is Bear only, so that will drastically reduce Thrash uptime.
Demoralizing Roar
This should have high uptime but if you have a co-tank they too will bring this debuff in some form (Demo Shout, Vindication, Scarlet Fever). It can be applied from Warlock's Curse of Weakness and some hunter pets also. Know your raid, Paladin tanks for example apply this without extra button presses, if your co-tank is a Paladin there is little need to use this if you are on the same target, but if you aren't on the same target or if you are solo tanking, this falls on the Bear to keep it applied.
Infected Wounds
If specced into this, it will automatically apply and should have uptime equal to that spent attacking the target. This buff is brought by many other specs as well and is an excellent place to drop talent points if one of those other specs are in your raid. Frost and Blood DKs, Prot Paladins, and Prot Warriors all bring this debuff, as can DPS Shaman and some hunter pets. Again know your raid and work together to maximize your debuffs and minimize overlap.
Bear taunt, only matters if there is a mechanic that should be tank swapped for or you have DPS dying by pulling aggro.
If the Bear goes Cat at any point during the fight you might also see a new Mangle here along with other Kitty debuffs, refer to the Kitty evaluation guide for that information and cross-reference with the time your Bear was in Cat form under the Buffs section on this tab. That said, the most important one is Mangle and the two (Bear+Cat) combined should have as close as possible to 100% uptime, while keeping in mind the specifics listed above regarding Mangle.
Any other debuffs (Temporal Displacement, Exhaustion, Fiery Claws -2 T12-, etc.) are not controlled by the Bear.
Buffs Cast
Things like Leader of the Pack, Bear Form, Cat Form, Furor and Master Shapeshifter will usually only show up on World of Logs, if the Druid is changing forms during the encounter and can mostly be ignored, unless the druid is shifting more than they should be.
Savage Defense
While the Bear will not have control over how much uptime this has during the fight, there are things they can do with gear to make this buff stronger. Think of Savage Defense as you would Block for a plate wearing tank. The higher the amount of procs the better. Getting 2 T13 is a huge benefit to the uptime/chance to proc of this buff (provided Pulverize uptime is maintained).
You want extremely high uptime on this, and with 2 T13 you really want extremely high uptime on this, as it roughly doubles the chance to proc SD. However if the Bear spends any time in Cat Form the uptime will drop since it is a Bear-only ability so adjust for that when evaluating.
You should see two of these listed for Bears, one is a player activated damage/threat increasing CD (3min CD, 15sec duration). The other is a proc generated by Lacerate's ticks. The activated CD should be used early and whenever off of cooldown, or during times when the boss is taking extra damage (Zon'ozz, Hagara, Heroism/Bloodlust/Timewarp). The proc from Lacerate's ticks should be immediately spent on Mangle. You would need to use Expression Editor to verify the latter.
One minute cooldown, 10 second duration. Most Bears will use this just before the pull or just before they taunt on tank swaps. If properly specced, (1/3 into King of the Jungle) it too can/should be used during phases when the boss takes extra damage or else used when off cooldown. If the Bear is in a raid group that allows for them to spec fully 3/3 into King of the Jungle they can do even more damage during this buff.
King of the Jungle
You should see this buff as many times as you see the Enrage buff above.
One minute cooldown, 12 second duration. Barkskin reduces damage taken by 20% – a huge survivability tool for Bears, and should be used often. Sometimes it should be saved for when the boss is doing a larger amount of damage, but regardless should be used as much as possible while keeping in mind mechanics of the encounter.
Survival Instincts
Three minute cooldown, 12 second duration. This reduces damage taken by 50% – another very strong survivability tool for Bears, should be saved for those times when the boss is going to really blast the tank, or if/when the healer(s) need a breather.
Frenzied Regeneration
Three minute cooldown, 20 second duration. Increases max health by 30% and if the Bear is below 30% health will bring them up to that. This can also be used (unglyphed) to turn rage into health via a HoT, each point of rage gives .3% of max health. Under normal circumstances most Bears will Glyph this ability so that healing done to them is increased by 30% rather than Rage being converted into Health. Think of this as a last resort button. This ability is the center of the Druid 4T13 bonus and can be used amazingly to help out your raid (both glyphed and unglyphed depending on the situation). Be sure to check with your Bear and discuss if you want that cooldown glyphed or unglyphed and when to use it to its best effect.
You should not see this buff in your Bear's buff list. This is not a talent a Bear should take, unless they have built some kind of hybrid build so that they use one spec for both bear and kitty – but that is not what is being discussed here.
Primal Madness
See Stampede above.
Other buffs you might see here are trinkets, shapeshifting buffs, or weapon procs and are usually not in control of the Bear. If the Bear has on-use trinkets they should treat them like Barkskin and Survival Instincts. Even on-use Agility trinkets are good for Bears as survival cooldowns since Agility provides Dodge. They can also be used like Enrage and Berserk for extra Damage. It really all depends on the trinkets your Bear is using. A good tank will always have an assortment of trinkets at their disposal, knowing which to use for a specific encounter can sometimes make the difference.
The Buffs Gained tab is much like the Buffs Cast tab only with more stuff the Bear doesn't have control over. This IS a good place to look at the debuffs they received during a fight – stacking tank debuffs for example, that need to be taunted off, or need to be allowed to drop off.
The Damage by Actor tab will help you to know if your Bear was on the correct target for the correct amount of time, as well as let you know if they might have been tanking something they shouldn't.
Healing by Spell is where you can partially see how effective the procs of Savage Defense are. This will become even more important with that 4T13 to see if you want Frenzied Regeneration glyphed or unglyphed.
Damage by Spell – You can see uptimes for abilities here just like you can on the Buffs Cast tab. You can also check the damage abilities being used. Mangle, Maul, Melee, and Lacerate should always be near the top. Fury swipes is not something you can control and will fluctuate wildly, it's great to have but don't look too much into it from an evaluation standpoint. You can also see dodges, parries, and misses on the far right (you'll probably have to scroll). Then at the bottom you can see the damage taken and its source. Did Bear die? Check the Death log to see how, then here. Check the amount of Dodges, as well as absorbs (especially those from Savage Defense).
And there you have it, the "quickie" way to evaluate your Bear tank.
One last bit of advice concerning Savage Defense, use your expression editor (spell="Savage Defense") and check how often it's being applied, overwritten, etc. The one downside to Savage Defense is that it can overwrite itself, and it can overwrite with a smaller proc (thanks to Vengeance changes). Look to see if it is fading with anything remaining. Many Bears look at the uptime and the absorbs and are either discouraged or encouraged by that number, that is not the proper way to judge SD. It must be looked at in-depth to fully see and understand its benefits. Is SD being used up (fades with 0 remaining), is it being overwritten, or is it fading with full power still left on it? All of these things factor into a Bears evaluation.


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Probably you see it around the web but to make it official on the blog heres my piece for the Garamaniacal show at FOE gallery. Its a 8" dunny as base. to me was a great opportunity to blend together two genres that usually fans dont see as one. designer toys and Kaiju toys, to me both things art toys.
Most of the designers toys fans arent aware about the kaiju Scene, so it was a nice chance to introduce them to it and to one of the most loved characters in kaiju world, GARAMON.
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This year's Open Source Bridge is located in downtown Portland, at The Eliot Center: 1226 SW Salmon St, Portland, OR 97205 (Google map view).
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Tracking down David Darling is not an easy task. Dr Darling, the Otago Daily Times Business Leader of the Year, has been travelling extensively this year as the Pacific Edge Biotech company continues to roll out its diagnostic cancer test, Cxbladder.
The Dunedin-based company has broken through globally, recruiting staff in the United States, rolling out its product in the US, launching in Australia and is on track to launch in Spain and Portugal.
During the next 12 to 18 months, Pacific Edge would continue with the transformation from a research operation to a world-leading cancer molecular diagnostics company providing high-performance cancer detection tools.
Darling acknowledged the path to success had not been easy for Pacific Edge but that the persistence he learned in a "previous life" has paid off.
Darling was involved in tree genetics in Rotorua, which involved developing trees particularly suitable for the pulp and paper industry. Some of those trials took 14 years for the trees to show the signs the researchers were looking for, he said.
In the early days Pacific Edge was making continual losses as it poured money into market and product research, he said.
But those years of struggle had allowed the company to build a base from which it could launch subsidiaries around the world.
"Into the new year, we will have more announcements. I am delighted by the people we have recruited in the United States."
In the US, executive, technical and laboratory teams had been recruited and Pacific Edge was ready to go to market.
Franchising the operation from out of Dunedin meant it could be done at a relatively low cost.
"We are burning up a bit of money flying people in and out of the US but our core operations are at a lower cost than in the US," he said.
When he had originally told people how much money Pacific Edge was spending on developing Cxbladder, there was a sense of disbelief.
"They asked how far had we got. They didn't believe how much less we spend than them," he said.
"We compared it to being offered a new Jaguar for $10,000 - you would think it was stolen or broken."
That was a salient lesson. But now, people were more understanding of the New Zealand attitudes of keeping costs low but working hard to get the results.
Once the prototype was established, it took a long time to get it commercialised, he said.
Pacific Edge wanted to build its own capability and become its own commercial entity. When the product was taken to Healthscope, in Australia, Darling wanted it "plugged" into Healthscope's laboratory.
"We told them our people will come in and train you. It's like Starbucks or McDonald's. It's this cup for this type of coffee or this beef patty with this bun. The process has to be exact."
The health professionals needed their own clinical experiences and Pacific Edge needed to establish Cxbladder as its own brand.
"This should be known as the CX family of products and Pacific Edge should be marketed internationally. Every brand should produce a good customer experience."
With franchise operations, those skills had to be taught across the organisation, he said.
Keeping it "small and tight" in New Zealand gave Pacific Edge the ability to change any part of the product at the same time around the world.
"We can say that on July 26 the colour of the coffee is going to change from brown to green and everybody will change on that date. It's a different business model."
Cxbladder is on its schedule to launch in March next year in the US, the largest market for medical applications.
Pacific Edge decided to target five cancers, building data and making the tools to better understand each cancer.
There was a "glimmer of hope" as the company moved from one cancer to another and that kept staff motivated as they searched for more data.
Darling became convinced that Cxbladder could be used by general practitioners to combat bladder cancer.
If a patient had blood in their urine, the GP could only use cystology or refer them on to a specialist urologist.
With the test, there was 99.7 per cent certainty that if the result was negative, then the patient was negative for cancer, he said.
For women, Cxbladder provided a breakthrough. It was rare for blood in the urine of women to mean cancer was in the bladder. Often, women were sent home without tests because of the rarity.
However, the use of Cxbladder could either completely rule out cancer or indicate there was a problem, Darling said.
Asked about his reaction to the progress that had been made since the results ramped up, Dr Darling said when the results were tangible, "it was a thing of beauty".
"The first time we got paid for it ... it took time to sink in that it was here. We knew we had a product that was making a difference to people and we felt good about that."
Cloning trees was technically challenging and rewarding but it was not the same as making a difference to people and that was what the Cxbladder tests could do, he said.
One of Darling's favourite stories about the company's loyal shareholders was about an elderly woman in the North Island who bought into Pacific Edge, not to make money from the shares but to provide money for the research. Her husband had died of bladder cancer.
Later, when the company was going to shareholders with a share offer, she phoned Dr Darling to say she was in hospital with some broken limbs and could not sign any documents. She asked would he hold her allocation of shares for her as she wanted to participate.
When the shares started rising, she phoned Dr Darling to congratulate him. "She didn't come in to make money from the shares but now she was seeing the work we were doing come to fruition and her shares rising in price. That sums up our loyal shareholders. You have to believe in what you do."
Other more commercially-focused shareholders had latterly come in but the band of loyal early shareholders and directors remained.
None of the board had taken on the job to make large amounts of money, he said. They had provided him with loyal support as the company went through its teething problems.
Pacific Edge was now trying to find a US director but was being careful that the person appointed would blend in with its mix of directors. "People have to fit the style that we have and be in tune with the team. That doesn't mean they are sycophants. If the going gets tough, then the board has to make some tough decisions."


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Wordsmith and bombast aficionado Don King made an appearance in Corpus Christi yesterday to promote a bout this weekend in Texas' City by the Sea, and delivered a rambling lecture that the Corpus Christi Caller-Times says drew gasps from the audience.
Those gasps mostly came from this line:
We even brought in a Mexican-American to give him a chance to get out and be at the front of the forefront. No more wetbacks running up and down picking the fruits and things. Now, we're rolling, you know what I mean.
(King later tried to clarify, stating that "We all wetbacks, baby.")
Other subjects touched upon in King's characteristic rant include Texas history (drawing heavily, if inaccurately, on the Mexican-American War), philosophy, theology, and a bit of anatomy and physiology. Throughout, King (dressed in a bedazzled and Mount Rushmore-airbrushed jean jacket) waved Texas, American, and Mexican flags clutched in his fist alongside an ever-present cigar.
It's hard to tell if Don King is losing it, because it seems he's always been this way. But King's always seen himself as somewhat of a civil rights voice, so it's surprising he'd use that term in perhaps the least-appropriate situation.
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Artist Ralph Hotere always preferred to let his art speak for itself.
"There are few things I can say about my work that are better than saying nothing," he once said.
With his death yesterday, art commentators and New Zealanders from all walks of life have had something to say about the man and his work.
'He was our greatest living contemporary artist. I don't think there's much doubt about that," Dunedin arts curator Peter Entwisle said yesterday.
"Frances Hodgkins was the first New Zealand artist to really break through international boundaries and Colin McCahon came a generation later. Ralph was the next in line."
"Ralph Hotere. A truly great artist one of our greatest and, like Colin McCahon, a bridge across two powerful rivers haere ra," Auckland art historian Hamish Keith said.
"And it should be said of Ralph Hotere that he was a great warrior artist and he fought with his art for great causes. When a great person dies we are left with the changes they made to our world - time to reflect on that."
Art blogger Cheryl Bernstein described Hotere as : "A great artist, a friend to poets, a painter of requiems".
Hotere was born Hone Papita Raukura Hotere in 1931, in Mitimiti, just north of Hokianga Harbour.
One of 15 siblings, he attended St Peter's Maori College (Hato Petera College) and Auckland Teachers College before moving to Dunedin in 1952 to study art at the former King Edward Technical College.
During that time, he also qualified as a Tiger Moth pilot at the Taieri Aerodrome Training School in Mosgiel.
He later worked as a schools art adviser for the Education Department in the Bay of Islands before winning a New Zealand Art Societies Fellowship in 1961 to study at the Central School of Art in London.
His time in England coincided with the pop art movement and greatly influenced his later work.
He returned to New Zealand in 1965 to focus on his art and settled in Port Chalmers, holding his first solo exhibition, the self-titled Ralph Hotere, at the Dunedin Public Library the same year.
Two breakthrough solo exhibitions followed in Sangro Paintings and Human Rights (1965) and Black Paintings (1968), before he was awarded the University of Otago Frances Hodgkins Fellowship in 1969.
Many of Hotere's works referenced things the dark side of life and his political beliefs.
His Sangro series was a memorial to his brother, Private Jack Hotere, who was killed in action by the Sangro River in Italy on December 21, 1943.
The Polaris series was a response to the nuclear Polaris missile in 1984, while his Aramoana series attacked plans to build an aluminium smelter at Aramoana.
Black Union Jack protested the 1981 Springbok tour and Black Rainbow condemned France over the 1985 Rainbow Warrior bombing.
Another of the artist's legacies, The Hotere Garden Oputae, was built on Observation Point at Port Chalmers in 2005 after Hotere's studio had been controversially removed for Port Otago development. The garden includes his 1991 Black Phoenix II sculpture.
Hotere also collaborated on works with other artists and poets, such as Hone Tuwhare and Bill Manhire
In 1984, he represented New Zealand at Fifth Biennale of Sydney with Colin McCahon and was was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Otago in 1994.
In 2003, he was one of the 10 inaugural recipients of an Icon Award from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand.
In 2006, he was awarded Te Taumata Award by Te Waka Toi recognising outstanding leadership and service to Maori arts.
He received New Zealand's highest honour - the membership of the Order of New Zealand, which is limited to 20 living members - in the 2012 New Year Honours.
Governor-General Lieutenant General Sir Jerry Mateparae said the award was a reflection of the artist's "service, merit, endeavour, perseverance, commitment, excellence and, above all, mana".
Hotere celebrated his 80th birthday in 2011, with exhibitions throughout the country. He also completed an artwork for his Christchurch printer, Marion Maguire, as a sign of support for the quake-hit city.


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Reading the (online) paper this morning, I saw that two Collingwood AFL players have been cleared of sexual assault charges by police. I don't know very much about that case and don't really want to say anything specific about it. More, it made me think about whether I could recall a single case where a football player had ever actually been convicted.
I can think of lots of cases where yet another football player has raped or sexually assaulted a woman. This seems to happen quite a lot. But I can't think of a single time I've heard of a player being convicted of the charges laid against them. It seems I am more likely to read about police dropping charges, police not pursuing charges and the DPP not pursuing a hearing. What the hell is going on? Are players being convicted on the quiet or is there really a pattern of no convictions recorded against any footballers on rape or sexual assault charges? If I can think of five different instances of a footballer player raping or sexual assaulting someone last year I can only imagine how many other instances of this occurred. So why aren't any of the perpetrators ever having to take responsibility for their actions? A few weeks suspended from the club and then a loud welcome back into the bro-hood does not = taking responsibility. How many women don't come forward with what happened to them because they know nothing will be done? How many do come forward and are ignored, or are paid for their silence? Is it really true that we don't hold AFL footballers accountable for their actions and their violence towards women?
I recognise that statistics for prosecution against non-AFL perpetrators aren't exactly high. But for there to have not been a single successful prosecution of an AFL player for sexual assault ever – or at least in recent history – makes it seem like there is something more than your standard victim-blaming hetero-patriarchy happening here. I know that there are groups and organisations and individuals working with football players to try and teach them that, you know, sexually assaulting people is wrong. I know that the AFL and clubs are – publicly at least – trying to change the culture within football to eradicate this kind of behaviour. I would really like to believe that there is something changing. That these players are getting it into their thick skulls that rape and sexual assault are not okay, that treating women like your property is not okay, that consent is a really great thing. But I also wonder how well that message can sink in when at the same time all these (generally speaking) able bodied, heterosexual, white men are worshipped as heroes and given status, prestige and a lot of money. When they are repeatedly told that what they do for a few months a year is really important and should be taken really seriously at the exclusion of all else. When, every week, hundreds of thousands of people all over the country agree. The sense of entitlement these guys would be walking around with, the exaggerated sense of entitlement they display, is astounding but in the end, not really so surprising.
I'm not advocating for these dudes to all go to prison. I don't think sending people to prison is going to solve rape or is going to actually stop any person – footballer or not – from raping another. I also don't think that the people with the power to imprison others even have the fucking right to do so in these cases, considering their culpability in protecting rape culture. Cops, judges and AFL officials have repeatedly shown scant respect for the law or for the people who have been assaulted – far too impressed by the glory of the football player, far too invested in protecting these symbols of white patriarchal heterosexuality. The amount of effort that goes into protecting these players from being adults and taking responsibility for their actions is staggering:
Former detective Sen-Det Scott Gladman claims that a 2004 rape charge against Saints star Stephen Milne collapsed amid a campaign of threats and intimidation from inside Victoria Police and by powerful club backers.
The woman, known only as Kate, claims that in 1999 police waited two days before visiting the crime scene, failed to get the suspect's DNA, and records of his interview with police disappeared. Kate has told ABC1's 7:30 Report program while she has now reached a confidential settlement, she was originally offered $20,000 to keep quiet. Victoria Police declined to be interviewed because it says it cannot comment on any payments because of strict confidentiality clauses. The allegations come two months after former Carlton president John Elliott said the club had paid hush money to women who claimed they had been assaulted or raped by its players.
In 2007 Brodie Holland was fined $2,500 for his role in a fight with a young woman over a taxi cab. After Hollands fiancee was involved in a scuffle with the woman, Holland approached calling the woman a "stupid slut" before trying to tackle her, placing her in a headlock after which she bit him on the stomach, before striking her in the head with his fist. His court appearance was pushed back on two occasions so not to clash with his football commitments; once he faced court no conviction was recorded and no punishment handed out from his club, Collingwood.
The uncensored contract, obtained by AAP on Tuesday, states that Victoria Police could not comment on its own investigations into any AFL player, coach, board member or even staff without consulting the league. The football body was also given permission to "investigate matters of illegal betting" and other serious crimes from drug trafficking and domestic violence to sexual assaults. The police-AFL "relationship" was struck so both could investigate "any criminal activity that would be prejudicial to the interests of the AFL", the contract says.
I think these men as individuals need to be taking responsibility for their actions, yes. This needs to not just be going to court and trying to avoid a sentence. It needs to not just be letting some gender studies lecturers from your local university come down and ignoring them while they explain to you why what you're doing isn't okay. It needs to be footballers finding ways within themselves and within the macho, football-centric social groups they are a part of to break down these ideas and attitudes that cause so much harm. Not waiting for other people to solve it for them but actually recognising what's going on and doing something to change it. It needs to be AFL footaballers taking responsibility as a whole.
But it's not just them. The clubs and the league and the coaches and everyone directly involved with AFL needs to be taking and continuing to take responsibility for what they encourage. I think that the legal system either needs to stop pretending to believe in the equal rule of law or actually apply it. And I think everyone who loves a team or loves the sport and spends several months a year telling a bunch of men with a ball that they are fucking awesome, that they are fucking heroes, that they are winners and champions and great, that what they are doing is important, that what they do is taken very seriously; I think those people need to think about what kind of culture it is they are actually supporting and what they can do to challenge it.


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We're kind of gaga over the upcoming Corvette C7. To say we're excited about the latest development in America's greatest sports car would be an understatement.
That's why we were excited when we saw this banner at the LA Auto Show. It looks like you can start driving it today... if you have a Playstation 3 and Gran Turismo.
If you are near a PS3 and have GT5, we recommend you get on there and try to download the car now. Can you get it? If you can, drop your driving impressions in Kinja below.
UPDATE: Sounds like the Playstation Store hasn't updated with the C7 yet. We'll give it some time.
UPDATE 2: Download seems to be working now. Get out on the track!


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--Thanks to eight runs scored in the top of the third, Berry upended No. 30 Birmingham-Southern at home on Senior Day, 12-6, to close out the regular season.
The Panthers fall to 27-13 overall and 16-5 in the Southern Athletic Association, while the Vikings move to 17-22 overall and 13-8 in the SAA.
BSC stands at second in the league standings with Millsaps' 3-1 win against Rhodes today, and will enter the SAA Championship next weekend as the second seed. The Panthers will host part of the first round, a four-team double-elimination tournament beginning next Friday, April 27. BSC will play seventh-seeded Centre in the first game. Times for all games will be set this week.
The winners of the two brackets will then meet the following weekend at the higher remaining seed in a best-of-three series for the championship.
Today was Senior Day for BSC, as Stephen Denton, Brandon Perry, Ethan Wilkinson, and Blake Yance were honored in pregame festivities.
BSC got on the board in the bottom of the third inning of today's game with RBI doubles from junior Jeremy Hatley and sophomore David Bourbonnais. Bourbonnais then scored on a Berry error to put the Panthers up 3-0.
BSC added another run in the bottom of the second on an RBI single by junior Evan Grovenstein.
After a BSC pitching change, the Vikings exploded for eight runs in the top of the third. They led off with two straight singles and recorded five RBI as well as two runs scored on BSC errors and one scored on a wild pitch. The Vikings added two more in the top of the fourth on a two-run double to go up 10-4.
The Panthers scored twice in the bottom of the fourth on a Hatley sac-fly and a run scored on a balk, but Berry responded in kind, scoring twice in the top of the fifth to stretch the lead back out to 12-6.
The remainder of the game turned into a pitcher's duel, with the teams combining for six hits after the top of the fifth and neither team scoring again.
The Panthers recorded 11 hits, led by Bourbonnais (3-4) and Grovenstein (3-5). The Vikings collected 15 hits.
Wilkinson started on the mound for BSC and went two innings, giving up two hits with one strikeout. Sophomore Blake Stevens (3-2) threw the next 1.1 innings and took the loss after allowing seven hits and eight earned runs. Junior Miles Nordgren threw the next 2.2 innings and gave up four hits and two earned runs and one strikeout, and Yance came in for the final three innings and gave up two hits with one strikeout.


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I have been dealing with TRC for less than a year, but in that short time I have been continually impressed in regards to their extremely professional and prompt service. Their sales and service staff are top notch and always ensure complete customer satisfaction.
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As a boom truck operator for Downey Home Hardware for the past 14 years, I have been very satisfied with the prompt service I have always received from TRC. No matter what the issue was, your company had no problem getting us back in service as quickly as possible no matter where or when. I always found your staff very courteous and knowledgeable on the remote control cranes we have. Now that I am responsible for the maintenance on our fleet of four boom trucks, I have no issues at all with contracting your company with any problem that may occur.
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TRC Hydraulics has been the #1 go-to source for all hydraulic repairs, upgrades and new installations for The Canadian Salt Company Pugwash mine pretty much since they started the business. We have a very demanding environment with a wide variety of equipment. They have provided service for the majority of the hydraulic pumps, motors, cylinders and controls in use in the surface and mining operations. TRC has also provided fabrication and installation of custom-built hydraulics and repair services for other mechanical components. They have always been able to provide us with timely and quality repairs, rework and redesign and I recommend them to anyone needing to maintain and repair their equipment.
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I would like to take the opportunity to say thanks for working long days and hours. The work that I have received on behalf of NB Power has been excellent, on time and very well done. Over the years, your company has managed to get me out of a pinch numerous times. The people working for TRC are more than qualified and are very friendly to deal with each and every time I am at your shops. I also would like to take the opportunity to thank you for helping us out with long hours on the last two ice storms in 2013 and 2014. During one storm, we had over 80,000 customers without power for over a week during Christmas holidays and your company was a great help restoring power to our customers. Your experience with bucket trucks and cranes is excellent. A special thanks to Terry Coyle, Jason Levesque and Danny Bernard for the last 25 years that I have had the opportunity to work with you. You should all be very proud of the great work done by TRC. Thanks for everything.
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TRC has always been there for us. They have successfully supported and serviced our needs over the years and have always done so in a professional manner with quick response.
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The project team and I are very pleased with the level of service provided by your company (TRC) to date. You were able to complete the assigned scope on both shaft loading pockets on budget and schedule by manning the work with dedicated highly skilled people. Your ability to recognize potential problems and quickly resolve them by either pulling in extra resources, materials or equipment was much appreciated. I was always impressed with the positive way your team responded to our request and in many cases we gave you very short notice. Thanks again for a job well done.
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Here at United Access, we consider ourselves a resource center for people with disabilities. More than that, each of our locations commits to giving back to their local communities through volunteer time, event sponsorships or donations. This type of local interaction helps us maintain relationships with organizations that share our forward-thinking and open-minded approach to providing accessible solutions.
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For many events, reduced rates apply for representatives from LGA member organisations. Members must sign in before placing online bookings to get the reduced rate.
Community and or voluntary sector rate
Conferences may have a limited number of places available for representatives from small community and voluntary organisations at a reduced rate. Please contact the conference administrator for further details.
Overseas delegates
Delegates from outside the UK who wish to attend a Local Government Association (LGA) conference must submit their applications, and funds must be cleared, to reach the LGA no later than:
- six weeks before a residential conference
- four weeks before a one-day conference.
Bookings from overseas delegates will be subject to the cancellation policy specified on the booking form.


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Less is More: The Minimal Print
February 8–May 5, 2013
The intentionally inexpressive geometries of Minimalist works of art may at first appear as meaningless arrangements of colored squares, rectangles, and lines devoid of content – essentially an art of nothing. However, this influential post-war American movement fundamentally re-imagined the viewer-object relationship by placing greater emphasis on individual perception and experience.
Emerging in the early 1960s in reaction to its predecessor Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism is best described by artist Frank Stella's famous statement, "What you see is what you see." Whereas Abstract Expressionists created uninhibited works full of feeling and metaphor, Minimalists purged their art of emotion and allusion, distilling abstraction to its purest form: what is visible to the naked eye. Their works resist interpretation and use limited means to produce the most immediate experience for viewers.
Many Minimalist artists sought to relinquish evidence of the artist's hand by using industrial means and materials, often working with manufacturers. Minimalists found that printmaking's similarly technical, complex, and collaborative processes perfectly suited their inexpressive aesthetic. With the proliferation of professional printmaking studios in the late 1950s, Minimalists, like their Pop contemporaries, could exploit and enhance the unprecedented technical capabilities newly available to them. Consequently, Minimalists made rigorously simple, depersonalized images that present prints for what they are: impressions of ink on paper.
Minimalist artists were able to exploit new printing techniques to accentuate physical properties unique to prints. These artists embraced and emphasized the negative space of the paper, the qualities of printed ink, as well as the distinct edges and surfaces of both the paper and printed forms. The whole print—both paper and image—becomes a tangible object in the viewer's space to be experienced without the burden of interpretation.
Less is More: The Minimal Print displays prints from SCMA's permanent collection by artists such as Josef Albers, Sol LeWitt, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Ryman, Richard Tuttle, and others.
Image credit: Josef Albers. American born Germany, 1888–1976. Homage to the Square – MMA-2, 1970. Silkscreen printed in four colors on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper. Gift of Priscilla Paine Van der Poel, class of 1928. Photography by Petegorsky/Gipe.


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Ryan149309 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 83 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
Inyosi is a new logistics project initiated and subsequently manged by Crickmay (http://www.crickmay.net).
The project exploits the efficiency gained from using the same set of trucks to haul both timber products and aluminum products. Previously each industry used its own trucks to haul their own product with the trucks being empty for 50% of the time i.e. on the return empty leg.
Inyosi is the Zulu word for honey bee. The choice of name is aimed at emphasizing the benefits of 'cross pollination' realizing significant 'fruit' when the two industrie's work together.
The Inyosi logo MUST be recognizable as a Crickmay project, hence the choice of colours (bee colours + Crickmay colours)
The truck colour scheme will vary so don't give any weight to colours in the pictures attached.
Most importantly the logo will also be manufactured to be stuck on the doors of the trucks hauling the two products so needs to look good and be recognizable at speed.
Somewhere on the logo that will be used on the truck doors (can be small as this will only be read when truck is stationary) should be the contact details of Crickmay i.e. http://www.crickmay.net and tel: 033 343 1007
target audience is middle aged, typically male and either farmers or truckers.
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US and British warplanes attacked Iraqi military sites in northern and southern Iraq Monday after aircraft enforcing no fly zones came under Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery fire, the US military said.
The strikes in southern Iraq were carried out by US F/A-18, US F-16 aircraft and British GR-1 Tornadoes, which attacked a military radar site and anti-aircraft artillery sites with precision guided munitions, the US Central Command in Tampa, Florida said.
"The strikes came in response to anti-aircraft artillery fire against coalition aircraft yesterday," the command said.
All aircraft returned safely to base, the command said.
US fighter jets based in Incirlik, Turkey, meanwhile, bombed "elements of the Iraqi integrated air defense system" in northern Iraq after Iraqi forces fired artillery from sites near Bashiqah, the US European Command, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, said.
Some 40 British and US planes are based at Incirlik to patrol the northern no-fly zone imposed on Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War to protect the region's Kurdish population.
A similar exclusion zone was also set up over southern Iraq to protect the Shiite Muslim population there and is patrolled by US and British aircraft based in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Iraq does not recognize the zones, which are not authorized by any specific UN resolution, and has regularly fired on aircraft patrolling them since joint US-British air raids on Baghdad in December 1998.
The United States says the planes only target military objectives in self-defense but the Iraqis say civilians and civilian installations are frequently hit -- WASHINGTON (AFP)
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Lewis Hamilton returned to form at the Hungarian Grand Prix, claiming his and McLaren's first victory of the season ahead of Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari in a return to the pecking order of previous years.
The 2009 championship contenders didn't fare so well. Mark Webber finished third but his Red Bull team-mate was forced into retirement due to suspension damage sustained in the first corner. Meanwhile, the Brawns struggled to gain tyre temperature around the tight Hungaroring with Jenson Button finishing sixth and Rubens Barrichello out of the points in 10th.
As expected the KERS-equipped McLaren Mercedes proved rapid off the line at the start of the 70-lap marathon, as Hamilton briefly secured second position before running wide at the first turn. This allowed Webber to regain the position but on lap four Hamilton pressured Webber into a defensive line into the first turn and took the position at the next corner with an aggressive pass around the outside.
At this point pole-sitter Fernando Alonso was three seconds up the road on his light fuel load. The double world champion pitted as expected on lap 13 but the team did not fit the front right wheel correctly and the Spaniard was soon three-wheeling his way back to the pits and a few laps later into retirement.
Out front, Hamilton quickly pulled an advantage from Webber who opted to take the harder prime tyre for this second stint. This cost the German Grand Prix winner pace but that would prove academic as a slow pit stop had already allowed Raikkonen through into second position.
Raikkonen kept the pressure on Hamilton with the gap steady at six or seven seconds until the second round of stops and then controlled his pace to the chequered flag to record his best result of the season and to make a little history as he and Hamilton celebrated a KERS one-two.
Nico Rosberg finished in fourth position to extend his points run with the Williams team while Heikki Kovalainen secured his third points finish of the season with fifth position in the second McLaren Mercedes.
Toyota used long first stints to really push Timo Glock and Jarno Trulli up the order after a poor run in qualifying. Glock finished sixth in his TF109 as he chased Kovalainen across the line while Trulli took the final point in eighth position.
Button started seventh in his championship-leading Brawn Mercedes and finished one place higher, as Alonso's early exit helped him up one position. It was not a good race weekend for the team as the team continued to mention tyres as the reason for their recent decline in performance. Perhaps it is the problem, but Button's championship advantage was trimmed to 18.5 points from Webber ahead of the summer break.
Kazuki Nakajima battled hard but was just out of the points once again in his Williams as he chased Trulli for the final point in the closing laps. Barrichello was unable to make up much ground after his qualifying problems in the second Brawn as he finished tenth.


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Tipsy is available as a stand-alone plugin or as part of the DisplayBuddy series. See a demo here or try it out in WordPress live!
- 1 Description
- 2 Groups
- 3 Feature Overview
- 4 Displaying on your site
- 5 Shortcode
- 6 Template Tag
- 7 Group Settings
- 8 Customize Tipsy
- 9 Additional Resources
The Tipsy plugin adds the ability to create tooltips for placement in posts or pages. Tooltips are displayed when hovering or clicking on specified content. This allows you to provide additional information to visitors.
The first step in adding Tipsy tooltips to your site is to create a group in the Tipsy settings. Tipsy allows you to create multiple groups with unique settings, styles, and even default tip content.
Feature Overview
6 different tooltip layouts to choose from.
Tipsy uses oembed for embedding media within the tooltip. See a list of what media oembed supports here
Displaying on your site
To add a Tooltip you will need to first be editing a page or post. Highlight the text/content that you would like to be hovered or clicked to display the tooltip. Then click the Tipsy icon in the WYSIWYG editor. Select the Tipsy group you would like to use and provide the test/content you would like to display within the Tipsy tip. This can be test or other HTML elements, even video.
Display your Tipsy in style by using the shortcode
[tipsy content="tip content goes here" use_oembed='false' group="0"]content that the tip applies to[/tipsy]. We recommend doing this in the HTML Mode editor.
Shortcode Parameters
content · Content that goes inside of the tooltip. group · group number for the tooltip group that you want to display. use_oembed . true or false - Whether to embed videos or not (uses oEmbed)
Display Videos inside Tipsy Shortcode
Use the following format to show YouTube videos inside the Tipsy tooltip in the HTML Mode editor. Change the video link to any YouTube link you wish:
[tipsy content="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDHNequGw4k" use_oembed='true' group="0"]content that the tip applies to[/tipsy]
Display Images inside Tipsy Shortcode
Use the following format to show images inside the Tipsy tooltip in the HTML Mode editor. Change the image link to any image link online:
[tipsy content='' group="0" ]content that the tip applies to[/tipsy]
SAMPLE Shortcode Text File
If you are having trouble copy pasting the above code OR not getting it to work, here is a sample TEXT file that you can copy paste from. Simply copy paste the contents into your Page or Post editor, in HTML Mode, test that it works, and then change the links accordingly.
Special Characters
If you want to show special characters in your Tipsy, like " @ & % $ and others, simply replace them with their HTML counterpart
Template Tag
You can manually call Tipsy if you know the Group ID.
<?php /* * pb_tipsy() * Insert a Tipsy tooltip * * * The defaults for the parameter $args are: * content - Default is an empty string - The content to show in the tooltip * group - Default is 0 - The Group ID (you can get this from the Tipsy settings) * filler - Default is an empty string - The text that people hover/click on to view the tooltip * use_oembed - Default is false - Whether you intend to use oembed to embed a video * * * @param array $args Elements that make up a voting group to insert. * @return Tip HTML on success */ ?>
 <?php echo pb_tipsy( array( 'content' => 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfBsRc0R3Ps&hd=1', 'filler' => 'Admin Dashboard', 'group' => 1, 'use_oembed' => true ) ); ?>
To see a live example of this template tag in use, please download our Tipsy Page Template (should be able to drop into any theme to test it): File:Tipsy.php.zip
Group Settings
Here is a list of all of the Tipsy settings and a description of what each setting controls.
Group Title - This setting will allow you to change the title of the group at any time.
Tip activation - Method upon which the tooltip is activated. Can be set on hover, focus, or click.
Tip Position - Default orientation tooltip should show up as. You can set it to: "top", "bottom", "left" or "right".
Auto hide - When set to true the tooltip will only fadeout when you hover over the actual tooltip and then hover off of it.
Max width - CSS max-width property for the Tipsy element.
Edge offset - Distances the Tipsy popup from the element with tooltip applied to it by the number of pixels specified.
Display delay - Number of milliseconds to delay before showing the Tipsy popup after you mouseover an element with tooltip applied to it.
Fade in speed - Speed at which the Tipsy popup will fade into view.
Fade out speed - Speed at which the Tipsy popup will fade out of view.
Tip Content - Default content that goes inside the tooltip itself.
Customize Tipsy
Extra Customizations Policies
Check out the official policy and details on any Extra Customizations
Edit and/or Create More Layouts
Tipsy comes with six current layouts that you can choose from to style your Tipsy tooltips. You can edit any existing layout OR create a new one to suit your needs.
Make a BackupBuddy backup of everything before you proceed, or at least download the existing styles to your computer as a backup. You can also always download the latest Tipsy from your Member's Area, unzip it on your computer and upload only the wp-content/plugins/tipsy/layouts in case you want to restore the default layouts (in case you accidentally mess up something that you want to undo).
- Remember: if you edit any existing default layout that comes with Tipsy, all your changes will be lost when you upgrade Tipsy to any newer version.
Edit Existing Layout
- To edit any existing layout display:
- Go to wp-content/plugins/tipsy/layouts folder
- Go into the layout you want to edit. Each layout is ordered in the manner it is shown in your Tipsy Group Settings area, from left to right.
- Edit the style.css file in that folder to your liking.
- Save. Your Tipsy will now be shown according to your styling changes in the style.css file.
Note that you will have to edit any existing layout again after upgrades, as upgrading to any new Tipsy version would override the default templates with never versions. It is recommended that you instead create a new layout, as explained below.
Create New Layout
- To create a new Tipsy layout, you can do one of the following 2:
- 1 : Create a new folder in the wp-content/plugins/tipsy/layouts folder
- Put a style.css file in that folder and any image with the name screenshot.png
- Put any form of styling you wish in that style.css file. You can check the existing layout folders to copy paste the styling classes from.
- 2 : Duplicate any existing folder in the wp-content/plugins/tipsy/layouts folder and work on that css file.
- Go to the wp-content/plugins/tipsy/layouts folder
- If you are using a control panel like cPanel, duplicate any folder and give it any different name you wish.
- If you are using an FTP program, download any layout folder to your computer, rename it, and then upload it back up.
- Edit the style.css file in that newly duplicated/renamed/uploaded folder to suit your needs.
- Go to the wp-content/plugins/tipsy/layouts folder
- 1 : Create a new folder in the wp-content/plugins/tipsy/layouts folder
After you edit any existing layout OR create a new Tipsy layout, simply go into any Tipsy Group Settings and choose the appropriate Layout image for the styling you just worked on in the new folder.
- Remember:
- 1 : Each image shown in Tipsy Group Settings page corresponds to the folder order list in the wp-content/plugins/tipsy/layouts folder. So if you click on the 4th image on your Tipsy Group Settings page, you are basically choosing the 4th folder, listed alphabetically, in the wp-content/plugins/tipsy/layouts folder.
- 2 : If you edit any existing default Tipsy layout instead of creating a new Tipsy layout, all your changes will be lost when you upgrade to a newer version. Upgrading results in all the default files, including the default templates, to be overwritten also. You will have to redo the changes again if you choose this route. Better option would be to create a new layout as explained above.
Change color of the arrow in Default layout
To change the color of the arrow in the Default layout, you want to style the
#tiptip_holder.tip_right #tiptip_arrow_inner property.
To do this, edit the style.css file in the wp-content/plugins/tipsy/layouts/default folder (OR any folder you have your layout in) and modify (or have) the following:
#tiptip_holder.tip_right #tiptip_arrow_inner { margin-top: -6px; margin-left: -5px; border-right-color: rgb(255,0,0); border-right-color: rgba(255,0,0,0.92); }
Change the
250,0,0 to your prefer color's RGB code. In the above example,
250,0,0 is RED.
Change position of the Tipsy box
To change the position of the tipsy box, you can either change the "Edge offset" value in Tipsy group settings, or modify the
#tiptip_holder property in the style.css file of your folder of the layout you have currently chosen in Tipsy wp-content/plugins/tipsy/layouts/YOUR-CHOSEN-LAYOUT-NAME
Edit the style.css file and the entire section below to anything you like:
#tiptip_holder { display: none; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 100px; z-index: 99999; }
Top and left values change the location of the entire Tipsy tooltip. In the above example,
left: 100px; basically moves the entire Tipsy 100 pixels to the right.


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Mathematica's interactive graphics capabilities let you determine the coordinates of a single point. You can also get arbitrary sequences of points and paths and analyze and manipulate the coordinate lists like any other data in Mathematica. Learn more in this "How to" screencast.
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