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Internet Archive Ingest – Through the collaborative efforts of California Digital Library (CDL) and the University of Michigan, University of California volumes digitized by the Internet Archive began flowing into HathiTrust in April. This achievement is significant because of the amount of additional public domain volumes UC will make available and preserve in HathiTrust (approximately 200,000), and because of the new channel it opens for partner ingest. HathiTrust has offered deposit of Google-digitized materials at no cost to partners since its inception in 2008. This ingest service is now extended to partner institutions' Internet Archive-digitized volumes. The collaboration has also significantly advanced HathiTrust's progress towards repository-wide standards for digital object packages and guidelines for deposit. The first Internet Archive-digitized volume to enter HathiTrust was entitled "The Dawn of All", appropriately marking this major step in HathiTrust's ability to preserve the wide variety of non-Google digitized content produced by library partners. More than 90,000 of UC's Internet Archived digitized volumes are in HathiTrust as of the time of newsletter release.
Partner Local Digitization – A group of staff members at the University of Michigan are developing a formalized process for receiving, analyzing, and preparing locally-digitized content from partner institutions for deposit. Leveraging experience gained with Internet Archive ingest, the group will be working over the next several weeks to publish content guidelines that will aid partners in assessing the readiness of their content for deposit. The guidelines will also provide consistent benchmarks for UM staff to use in performing the transformations and normalizations that may be necessary to assemble coherent and consistent archival packages.
Bibliographic Management System – The University of California is engaged in the process of designing a new bibliographic management system for HathiTrust. HathiTrust team members at CDL and the University of Michigan engaged in multiple teleconferences throughout April to define the scope of services and functions provided in the current management system at UM (Ex Libris' Aleph product), and by the systems that it supports such as HathiTrust's temporary catalog and Bibliographic API. Development of the new system will diversify the management of support systems in HathiTrust. It also presents a valuable opportunity to revisit current practices and assumptions and reengineer existing processes to be more efficient. Team members have worked through a number of architectural issues in the design and May discussions will focus on strategies for transition to the new system. Development of the system has not yet begun and there is no timeline currently for implementation.
Website Changes – Staff from UM and UC took part in a usability excercise in April geared towards improving the navigability of the HathiTrust.org "About" website. Improvements are ongoing, and UM staff have implemented the first in a series of changes to occur. Top navigation has changed and sub-navigation is now provided in the left side of the interface. Search functionality has also been added. New content and additional architectural changes will be made in the coming weeks as documentation assembled for HathiTrust's audit with CRL for compliance with TRAC draws is made available, and additional usability tests are conducted.
Working Groups
Discovery Interface – OCLC loaded more than 1 million HathiTrust records into WorldCat in April, bringing the total number of records to close to 2.3 million by the end of the month. These constitute over 60% of the total HathiTrust records that are currently available. Loading of these records will continue throughout May. In mid-May, OCLC will release version 1 of the HathiTrust catalog internally to the Discovery Interface Working Group. Staff at the University of Michigan are preparing to make necessary changes to HathiTrust websites to accommodate the new catalog. OCLC provided a first glimpse of the new catalog to the working group in a recent WebEx session.
In parallel to finalizing the version 1 catalog, the HathiTrust team is turning its attention to the full-text search application. The Discovery Interface Working Group will assume responsibility for further developing HathiTrust's full-text search service, and is in the process of finalizing a formal charge and roadmap for this project.
Collaborative Development Environment – Michigan staff, in consultation with working group members, have completed an initial design of the development environment. The design includes specific plans and conventions for version control, file layout and naming, virtualization provisions for developers, and multiple test and beta instances. UM staff are now planning the details of migrating current development into the new scheme as well as configuring and building out the server resources for the environment.
Penn State – HathiTrust recently received updated bibliographic records from Penn State University for several hundred PSU-contributed volumes. The volumes, which are all in the public domain, had received an incorrect bibliographic rights determination in HathiTrust because of problems with metadata, including missing a flag indicating that volumes were government documents. With the corrected records, all of these volumes are now freely accessible. HathiTrust will be monitoring rights determinations for volumes from institutions depositing public domain-only materials. If metadata corrections are required to make volumes available, HathiTrust will notify the institutions appropriately.
UC Delivery of Bibliographic Records – UC recently modified the way it makes bibliographic records available to HathiTrust for volumes that are being are scanned on an ongoing basis. Records will now be pulled from UC by HathiTrust, rather than pushed by UC, which will simplify the flow of ingest for these materials.
Development Updates
Shibboleth – Based on input from partners, staff at UM have further refined the final list of attributes needed to provide Shibboleth services. These attributes, and other information about Shibboleth in HathiTrust are available at http://www.hathitrust.org/shibboleth. UM staff also registered HathiTrust a service provider with the InCommon Federation. Two early adopter institutions successfully tested access to HathiTrust development systems via Shibboleth, and HathiTrust is planning to release the service publicly in mid-May.
Large-scale Search – University of Michigan staff developed a pair of index tools for reporting specific statistics about a Solr index in April. These tools help to identify frequently occurring terms, which can be used to improve performance. The tools have been committed to the Solr code base and will be part of future Solr releases.
Work by UM team members continues on installing new servers at the Indiana site. New electrical and networking capacity has been installed, and firewalling is being reconfigured to support new remote administration and installation capabilities. Once complete, the new servers will be configured and brought online, anticipated for late May.
Collection Builder – Staff at UM have developed functionality that allows a user to add multiple items at once to a Collection from the full-text search results. Cosmetic changes to the user interface are required to complete this effort.
PageTurner – Developers from UM and CDL have been collaborating to integrate new image serving capabilities at UM with the GnuBook reader. A prototype application combining these services has been developed and next steps will involve merging the prototype with the current PageTurner application. Code developed by CDL to produce thumbnail views of volumes in GnuBook has been incorporated into the mainline code, maintained by the Internet Archive.
Outages – The beta* large-scale search service was unavailable from 10:00am - 12:40pm EDT on Friday, April 9 to troubleshoot a hardware problem on an index server.
*Beta services are typically non-redundant and/or volatile, and while we strive to minimize down time and report any that occurs, we do not attempt to adhere to non-peak outage windows for maintenance.
Partner News
UC-eLinks (SFX) – HathiTrust books free of copyright restrictions, contributed by both UC and other HathiTrust partners, are now available via a link in UC's UC-eLinks (SFX) menu window. CDL has developed a target for SFX that exposes HathiTrust public domain books utilizing the HathiTrust Bibliographic API. CDL plans to review statistics for the new target and work with HathiTrust staff to measure the load placed on HathiTrust APIs by UC usage. There are plans to share the target with HathiTrust partners, and in the future potentially contribute it back to ExLibris. UC Davis has also created a test implementation of this functionality within Aleph.
New Growth
Number of volumes added:
|Indiana University
|Penn State University
|University of California
|University of Michigan
|University of Minnesota
|University of Wisconsin
Public Domain
Total (~17%)
|Princeton Forum on Preservation
|April 9
|Bilkent University, Ankara Turkey
|April 20
|CDL Resource Liasons and Users Council Webinars
|April 20 and 30
|Lucid Imagination Webinar
|April 29
|Association of Research Libraries
|April 30
- Please see http://www.hathitrust.org/papers for links to all HathiTrust presentations, papers, and reports.
May Forecast
- Deploy redundant hosting of large-scale search service at Indiana site
- Release Shibboleth authentication and full-PDF public domain download for HathiTrust partner institutions


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You are welcome to the Faculty of Engineering (FoEng), Kyambogo University (KyU) webpage. Thank you for the interest and time you have spared to visit us.
The FoEng was formed in 2001 from the former Schools of Civil and Building, Mechanical and Production, Electrical and Electronic Engineering of former Uganda Polytechnic Kyambogo (UPK) and the former Department of Technological Studies of former Institute of Teacher Education Kyambogo (ITEK) when the Government of the Republic of Uganda kick-started Kyambogo University by merging UPK, ITEK and former Uganda National Institute of Special Education (UNISE). The new change was qualitative as the faculty began to train students at degree level in addition to training at Technician level.
The FoEng has a long and rich history as shown below:
- 1921 - Started as Kampala Technical College (KTC). Vocational subjects were added to the Technical subjects in 1922.
- 1928 - KTC transformed into Kampala Technical School (KTS) on the slopes of Makerere hill.
- 1942 - The Engineering School was formed at the current Makerere University play ground. It was later transferred to Nakawa.
- 1954 - The Engineering School was transferred to Kyambogo as Kampala Technical Institute (KTI).
- 1964 - KTI was upgraded to the Uganda Technical College (UTC) Kyambogo.
- 1984 - UTC became part of the Faculty of Technology, Makerere University.
- 1986 - It was retracted from Faculty of Technology, Makerere University and upgraded to UPK.
- 2001 - FoEng was formed as already mentioned above.
The Mission of the Faculty is To Impart, promote and advance Science and Technology for development, and transformation of Society.
The Vision of the Faculty is To be a Centre of Academic and Professional Excellence in Engineering.
The Motto of the Faculty is Knowledge and Practical Skills for Service.
The FoEng is comprised of four (4) Departments, namely:
- Department of Civil and Building Engineering (DCBE).
- Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering (DMPE).
- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DEEE).
- Department of Lands and Architectural Studies (DLAS).
The FoEng office is located in the former UPK Administration Block, next to the Board Room on ground floor.


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1. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9Polda1 Sep 1, 2008 10:39 PM (in response to AtinWadehra)Yes please, bring MDI back in any form.
2. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9steve_foxall Sep 2, 2008 3:40 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)Ditto: unlikely to move from v8 unless implemented.
3. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9(Jim_Platania) Sep 8, 2008 7:54 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)What on earth were you thinking??? Please enable single-window mode!!!
4. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9(Pat_Ryan) Sep 11, 2008 8:37 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)Please bring back MDI. Multiple windows is unacceptable. I just deleted V9 and won't recommend it for our firmwide installation until this feature is added.
5. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9(Glenn_Catlin) Sep 11, 2008 5:16 PM (in response to AtinWadehra)We have 140 Acrobat Pro licenses here, and if you think the loss of MDI is bad on a single monitor system, I can tell you that it's far worse in a dual-screen environment. For our dual-monitor folks, they can hardly do their job anymore. Acrobat 9 without MDI in a dual-monitor environment does not behave in a way that makes sense.
6. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9Bill@VT Sep 11, 2008 7:41 PM (in response to AtinWadehra)I do not know if the /n command line parameter still works in AA9, but it might be worth a try to get around the issue you are all having. I do not do enough for it to be an issue for me. If it works, you can simply add it to the AA9 start up icon. Then open the new file in the new AA9 window. It may be worth a try since it seems to be a big problem for many of you. The work flow may be a bit different, but it might help you.
7. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9(Matt99) Sep 12, 2008 9:12 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)We will probably no migrate from Acrobat 8 unless this feature becomes available. This feature was essential for some in-house programs to work correctly, and it's also a management preference for viewing PDF documents.
We too use dual monitors for all employees, and not having this option makes things difficult.
8. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9Bill@VT Sep 12, 2008 4:30 PM (in response to AtinWadehra)Apparently you did not try what I suggested. I do not know if it works in AA9, but I suspect that it does. It used to be that there were no dual screen uses of Acrobat, but there was the option with the /n on the command line. I just tried it in AA8 and it is still there. I suspect it is there in AA9 also, you just have to make a little effort to take care of it. Bill
9. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9Allta Media Sep 17, 2008 8:10 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)Here is some background on why MDI support was dropped in A9:
10. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9AtinWadehra Sep 18, 2008 11:07 PM (in response to AtinWadehra)I tried this option in AA9 but its not working. Believe its something to do with Preferences->Documents->Open each Document in its own window setting thats there in AA7 and 8 but not in AA9
11. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9(John_Stroy) Sep 20, 2008 4:59 PM (in response to AtinWadehra)The technical reason is compelling; however, they are not "technical limitations." MDI needs to stay; it makes things significantly easier for me as well.
12. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9(CarlB) Oct 2, 2008 4:30 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)I, too, miss MDI.
The points raised in the "MDI vs. SDI in Acrobat" document seem to indicate Reader 9 is for the benefit of Adobe and MicroSoft. Which is rather odd, since I thought it was the user who used it. And as a software designer and developer I've always believed that the point was to make the users life easier not give developers and testers an easy ride.
Someone at Adobe deserves a rocket and should get their priorities sorted.
13. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9(derdas) Oct 5, 2008 5:18 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)I really miss MDI, since it is more convenient to switch pdf documents windows using "Ctrl+Tab".
14. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9(Burton_Gamble) Oct 21, 2008 11:03 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)All the other new Adobe CS4 products in the Design Premium Package I have use a Firefox (or IE7 if you are still in the stone age) tabbed MDI viewing style. Why doesn't Acrobat 9?
Bring back single window mode NOW!
(or make it use tabbed document viewing like CS4/Firefox/IE)
15. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9(Tim_Bohn) Dec 8, 2008 10:07 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)In the US Courts system, MDI is a must. We open multiple PDFs at a time and to have all those instances of Adobe open is unrealistic. It slows our productivity down and cost the government money. Please bring back MDI support in an update to AA9.
16. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9(Dustin_J) Dec 10, 2008 2:06 PM (in response to AtinWadehra)This was done to save money on testing??!? We have 1000+ licenses and are now severely inconveinenced because Adobe decided to save a couple bucks?
Restore this feature in the next AAP9 update. It's ridiculous, new versions are supposed to add new helpful features. Not take away useful ones.
17. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9(Philip_Freeman) Dec 31, 2008 6:22 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)b Please bring back MDI!
I agree with the above postings that this is a waste of time and I can't believe the time it took to find this posting to explain why Acrobat is moving backwards!
18. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9(Daniel_Friesen) Jan 26, 2009 2:13 PM (in response to AtinWadehra)Absolutely, MDI must be restored. A lot of my use of pdf consists of flipping back and forth between documents, and SDI has just added a huge amount of time and frustration to my day. Two thumbs down for Adobe, for choosing to ignore the customer.
19. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9(Robert_Scholten) Feb 3, 2009 6:11 PM (in response to AtinWadehra)I don't care about MDI and SDI. I just don't want my desktop littered with all the documents I open. I don't care how, just make them all disappear bar the (active) one I'm reading. Please.
20. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9(Rob_Cavicchio) Mar 5, 2009 8:00 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)Over the past few years, browsers have implemented tabbed browsing in order to allow you to view several Web pages in a single window. I love this, because it reduces clutter on my taskbar. It provides for the Web browser the same logical hierarchy of tasks that has been around for other applications since the early days of Windows--first choose the application, then choose the document. If you think about it, this is a lot like organizing files within folders.
At the same time, with the dissolution of the MDI interface, some applications are now moving in the opposite direction, which makes absolutely no sense to me. Are they actually seeking to increase clutter? Going back to the file/folder analogy, this is like getting rid of folders and forcing me to store all my files in a single folder. It's ludicrous.
Adobe, please, bring back MDI. This is not just a "nice-to-have". It is a critical feature for those of us who do any significant amount of work with PDF files.
21. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9steve_foxall Mar 5, 2009 8:51 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)Just bought NitroPDF for one of our office members where we only needed pdf conversion functionality, digital signing of submitted forms, and stamping (all of which it accomplishes without fuss).
Haven't explored which of the 'bells & whistles' Acrobat functions it can't manage yet, but it has a nice implementation of tabbed browsing, and cost £45 instead of £400. Watch out Adobe.
22. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9wallanbrook Apr 24, 2009 7:56 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)
This is the worst thing to happen to acrobat, in my opinion.
The clutter that it creates on my computer and the fact that i cant even see the document title when I have a bunch of them open (because the task bar is too full) is unacceptable.
I never would have changed from Acrobat 8 if I had known, and now I cant switch back (company license).
The latest thing i can find about addressing it is here:
which was in november 2008....
why hasnt any thing else been done about it? I just spent 45 minutes being sent to different departments over the phone, only to be told to submit a feature request.
Please do this if you havent already:
23. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9woody2009 Jun 24, 2009 9:24 AM (in response to wallanbrook)
24. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9jerryzak Jul 18, 2009 7:28 PM (in response to AtinWadehra)
Please count my vote as well - LET US HAVE A CHOICE - allow for both.
An Acrobat user since ver 4.
I use ver 9 for for new functionality, but I still keep ver 7 on one machine as assembly of multi-page, multi-source documents is more efficient for me when done within a single application window.
25. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9Roberta23345 Sep 14, 2009 11:00 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)
I just finally changed AR 8 to 9.1. And now I feel rather frustrated, finding myself in this thread after 20 minutes of search for the most obvious Adobe setting - to being able to read and keep open multiple documents, while avoiding screen mess!
Right now the message from Adobe to me is - bury any pdf as deep as you can and open or read pdf only when it really is important and you can't live without it anymore.
But I see now, that this thread is over 1 year old and indeed, it's difficult to believe, that Adobe Reader single window option still isn't available in version 9.1? If it still isn't in 9.1, what you folk have done, switched to some other competitive pdf reader?
Robert A.
26. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9digitalsteel Oct 5, 2009 6:35 PM (in response to AtinWadehra)
Absolutely!!! please re-enable MDI in Acrobat 9 -- I read the article explaining the reasons for doing this ( http://blogs.adobe.com/acrobat/2008/09/mdi_vs_sdi_in_acrobat.html ) but I am sure Adobe can manage to overcome -- who cares about compatibility with the Mac anyway ???? I work with both Mac and PC and do most of the Acrobat work in the PC.
Please please PLEASE re-consider and bring back MDI in the next update!!!! it is essential for imposing documents with Qi and also for applying batch commands over many files.
27. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9grafixdeziner Dec 21, 2009 9:40 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)
Why on earth would you take this feature out. Nothing more annoying than a million PDF windows
opening up all over your screens. Especially for me as I use multiple screens they pop up everywhere!
28. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9ayanzen Jul 5, 2010 11:28 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)
You guys are SO GOD DAMN STUPID for eliminating that MDI feature.
29. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9OppfinnarKnullare Aug 21, 2010 10:36 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)
"In Acrobat 9, we dropped support for MDI."
Not a good idea!
Now, please let us have it back.
You have to realize that you break peoples work flow with this ill-thought-through change.
"Feature Parity with Macintosh was desired" -- Not a valid argument from a windows-user point-of-view
"Making SDI default, but still providing MDI in version 8 was done to start the deprecation of MDI." -- That trick didn't work, re-enabling MDI was the first setting I changed in Acrobat 8 (and actually Acrobat 8 broke so many other things, I quickly reverted to Acrobat 7).
"Microsoft advised that to work as good as possible on Vista, applications should avoid MDI." -- Microsoft is not the user, we are! Besides, many W7 users reset their desktop to classical.
"This increases the cost of testing the product and the cost of fixing bugs." -- So it's easier on Adobe, but bad for us... is that an argument at all?
"in a world where larger screen resolutions, multiple monitors and the need to see multiple documents at one time has increased, SDI mode offered higher benefits." -- As someone else already mentioned, on a multi-monitor system SDI is flawed.
So... now that you consider reverting to MDI, please also introduce tabs, that's the only thing MDI applications typically lack, though things are improving.
EDIT: People been asking for this since 2008! Come on, already...
30. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9EdGioja Nov 5, 2010 10:44 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)
We automate some Acrobat processes using the jsobj and adi. All of a sudden I have 50 open acrobat windows (It won't open more than 50...though it's trying really hard)?!?!? PLEASE bring back the single window optoin!!!!
31. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9Dave Merchant Nov 7, 2010 2:51 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)
For clarification, the user interface in Acrobat X retains the Acrobat 9 SDI structure. Many of the arguments outlined in the original Acrobat Blog post still stand.
As the new Tools Pane and Quick Tools bars are fixed within the application window, explicit support for multiple-monitor desktops (for example in terms of undocking tools and moving them to a second screen as might be done in Creative Suite apps) is not relevant - SDI windows can of course be positioned wherever a user wishes, and the new UI helps to maximize the screen real estate available to the document pages.
It's important to bear in mind that many of the Tools Pane panels contain processes rather than actions - for example the process of replying to comments or sharing a file using SendNow. In an MDI world, managing the state of these "half-finished" processes when the user tabs to a different document is a lot more complex than it seems. MDI software tends to get round that by putting all their interactive workflows into modal dialog boxes, so until you've completed the task you're locked out of the main window, hence can't change the document under focus. Acrobat and Reader of course use dialogs for some multi-step and system processes, but retaining SDI means every document can have an independent set of panes, panels and dialogs, for example one document in Forms Editing mode and another in comment review mode, so a user can read what changes her peers have requested and implement them in a side-by-side desktop layout. It's this concentration on multi-instance SDI that led Microsoft to bring in the window "snap" feature in Windows 7.
32. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9OppfinnarKnullare Nov 14, 2010 2:14 AM (in response to Dave Merchant)
"the user interface in Acrobat X retains the Acrobat 9 SDI structure"
which is why I will not upgrade to Acrobate X, thank you.
Consider this:
I had to put together a single document from 35 single page pdfs, that were all supposed to be in the same page format, but had to be checked, of course. I opened the first of these pdfs, checked it and it was fine. Now I wanted to add the other 34 pages from the 34 pdfs, so I opened them one by one, checked the page format, and then clicked to see the page icon so I could drag this over to the first document and have the page inserted there.
Here SDI came in my way. Everytime I opened one of the new pdfs, the window opened on top of the window with the document that I wanted to drag the page to. So, first I had to move the window, only then did I have room to grab the page icon and drag it to the first document.
So, the workflow was this:
1. Open new pdf
2. Check page format,if ok
3. Drag window away from the base document window
4. Click to see the page icon
5. Drag the page icon over to the base document.
In an MDI setting, I would simply have tiled the windows with the base document on one side and the newly opened doc on the other and dragged stuff over.
I am seriously looking for something other than Acrobat to fulfill my needs.I still have not found one that has all the features I need, but I keep looking...
33. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9Dave Merchant Nov 15, 2010 1:56 AM (in response to OppfinnarKnullare)
In that workflow I wouldn't advise opening each single-page file in Acrobat before combining them - you can look at the PDFs and their metadata information using Adobe Bridge etc. or use the preview panel in Windows Explorer, select the ones you want, and use Combine Supported Files from the context menu.
34. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9cb82 Nov 19, 2010 8:08 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)
Adobe, Please bring back MDI. It's ridiculous not to...who is the customer, the individual user or Microsoft? It's frustrating to have several windows open. With the technology available today, there has to be a way to make this work. If there's somethign in the work's, we'd like to see it sooner than later...No more excuses...let's see some results. Talk is cheap...
35. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9kristtoffer Nov 21, 2010 1:26 AM (in response to cb82)
I think it is a financial issue for Adobe!
They don't want to pay some pennies for an eventual support or bugs that may raise with MDI !
If this is crippling for Adobe in its royal size, how do the developers of the free soft?
36. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9OppfinnarKnullare Nov 22, 2010 12:32 AM (in response to Dave Merchant)
Thanks Dave.
Well of course I can use other apps for this.
Maybe I'll start using Foxit instead, thanks for the hint...
Bottom line is, MDI is flawed and it breaks the work-flows of many, *many* people,just look into this thread.
PS I have no idea what Adobe Bridge is, doesn't seem to have been installer with my Acrobat 9 Pro Extended. Furthermore, the win explorer preview panel shows no useful info. I need to check each document that it has the correct page size, fonts, layout etc. "Combined Supported Files" from what context menu? Is that a Mac thing? I'm on W7x64pro... From my view-point, all your suggestions failed, and MDI would have solved the problem quite nicely.
Now, on to another Acrobat stupidity... "You must restart the system before using Acrobat. Click Restart Now to restart automatically". Stop this madness!
37. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9Dave Merchant Nov 22, 2010 1:09 AM (in response to OppfinnarKnullare)
PS I have no idea what Adobe Bridge is, doesn't seem to have been installer with my Acrobat 9 Pro Extended.
Adobe Bridge is the file browser and management utility installed with Creative Suite. It's not part of the Acrobat installation, but as many Acrobat users have purchased it as part of a CS bundle, they will have Bridge installed by default.
"Combined Supported Files" from what context menu? Is that a Mac thing? I'm on W7x64pro...
Select a bunch of files (not just PDFs - anything that Acrobat can read) in Windows Explorer and right-click.
38. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9OppfinnarKnullare Nov 23, 2010 6:20 AM (in response to Dave Merchant)
"Select a bunch of files (not just PDFs - anything that Acrobat can read) in Windows Explorer and right-click."
Nope, nothing like "Combine Supported Files" there.
There's nothing at all related to Acrobat in my Explorer right-click context menu.
But this is all beside the point.
The point is that MDI is flawed, broken, ill-behaved, not working correctly, breaking well-established workflows, etc...
And all those Acrobat window icons clog the task bar...
39. Re: Enable Single Window Mode in Acrobat 9DragJo Dec 18, 2010 3:20 AM (in response to AtinWadehra)
After finding out AcrobatX will not support a proper tab browsing interface my question is why isn't there a "container app" shipped with adobe/acrobat that keeps track of all documents? At the moment I'am using Acrobat together with Firefox... but it's a pain to drop 20 and more documents at once into FF just to have nice tabs and not a messy taskbar... and even worse: Many functions are not available through the browser plugin so the user is still forced to open certain PDFs in Acrobat again. Why is usability neglected concerning such an important point? If my other apps were oriented like this DjvuReader, FF, Matlab, notepad I would waste half my time during a normal working day with switching while not knowing which window keeps which content...
It would be nice to have such a container!


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Joanne E. Gates, Project Director
"I am conscious that in talking and writing to my nearest and most trusted friends I sometimes suppress and I sometimes embroider." - 1895
"I find I have not written in this book since the 24th. I will gather up the dropped stitches as well as I may." - Diary, 2 September 1914
- Chronology
- Robins in Alaska
- Major novels
- The Open Question (1898)
- Come and Find Me (1907-8)
- The Mills of the Gods (published 1908)
- My Little Sister (1913)
- Non-Fiction
- Way Stations (1913). A collection of speeches and articles dealing with women's suffrage.
- Shorter works
- "Across America with 'Junius Brutus Booth'" (1890)
- "Miss de Maupassant" (1895)
- "On Seeing Madame Bernhardt's Hamlet"
- "The Derrington Ghost"
- "Monica's Village"
- "Miss Cal"
- Alan's Wife - The anonymous 1893 play now attibrited to Elizabeth Robins and Florence Bell
- "Under His Roof: A Story of Militant Suffrage"
- "The Tortoise-shell Cat"
- "The Threlkeld Ear"
- "Bolt Seventeen"
- Links and References to other work
- SEARCH ROBINS at JSU (Hits contain not only info at www.jsu.edu/depart/english/robins, but all hits at www.jsu.edu.)
- Information on Elizabeth Robins, 1862-1952: Actress, Novelist, Feminist, published by the University of Alabama Press, 1994 (Tuscaloosa and London), by Joanne E. Gates
- Elizabeth Robins in the Women's Literature Classroom
Suggested writing response assignments, for use with My Little Sister, The Mills of the Gods, Votes for Women, by Dr. Gates.
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- Votes for Women, the promptbook edition published in the Routledge anthology, Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s: An International Anthology (edited by Katherine E. Kelly), 1996.
- Votes for Women at Indiana University's Victorian Women Writers Project: an Electronic Collection
- The Magnetic North Project Gutenberg's e-text of ER's 1904 novel. This links to the html edition. Text edition also available, through a search at http://www.gutenberg.net. Produced by Suzanne Shell, Anita Paque, Shawn Wheeler, David Schaal, Anuradha Valsa Raj and PG Distributed Proofreaders. Release Date: November 10, 2003 [EBook #10038]
- On-Line Guide to The Papers of Elizabeth Robins 1803-1963 (A Guide to the Collection in Fales Library, New York University)
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Reviewed by Zaritzialee C. (age 7) and Itzel H. (age 7)
Itzel liked the book because it is funny when the little bear thinks the moon is a fish. The book made her feel happy when the baby bear was able to catch the fish. Her favorite part is when the baby bear climbed the tree and looked at the river because the picture is so colorful and has lots of big trees.
Zaritzialee thought the story was funny because the baby bear can climb higher than the mommy bear. The book made her feel smarter because she learned about bears. When the baby bear climbed the tree, she thought about climbing trees, too. Her favorite part is when the baby bear thought he saw a big fish but it was something else.
Other people should read this book because you can learn about bears and it can make you happy. A big person, like 7-9 years old, would like this book. Moms and dads can read it or a big sister, too. People who like bears will like this book. We learn what bears do. They can climb trees and eat fish. It helps you read because the baby bear tries and tries again to do things. We learn to try and try again and not stop.


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Acceptability Judgments
James Myers
Acceptability judgments are reports of a speaker's or signer's subjective sense of the well-formedness, nativeness, or naturalness of (novel) linguistic forms. Their value comes in providing data about the nature of the human capacity to generalize beyond linguistic forms previously encountered in language comprehension. For this reason, acceptability judgments are often also called grammaticality judgments (particularly in syntax), although unlike the theory-dependent notion of grammaticality, acceptability is accessible to consciousness. While acceptability judgments have been used to test grammatical claims since ancient times, they became particularly prominent with the birth of generative syntax. Today they are also widely used in other linguistic schools (e.g., cognitive linguistics) and other linguistic domains (pragmatics, semantics, morphology, and phonology), and have been applied in a typologically diverse range of languages. As psychological responses to linguistic stimuli, acceptability judgments are experimental data. Their value thus depends on the validity of the experimental procedures, which, in their traditional version (where theoreticians elicit judgments from themselves or a few colleagues), have been criticized as overly informal and biased. Traditional responses to such criticisms have been supplemented in recent years by laboratory experiments that use formal psycholinguistic methods to collect and quantify judgments from nonlinguists under controlled conditions. Such formal experiments have played an increasingly influential role in theoretical linguistics, being used to justify subtle judgment claims or new grammatical models that incorporate gradience or lexical influences. They have also been used to probe the cognitive processes giving rise to the sense of acceptability itself, the central finding being that acceptability reflects processing ease. Exploring what this finding means will require not only further empirical work on the acceptability judgment process, but also theoretical work on the nature of grammar.
Anaphora in Dravidian
K. A. Jayaseelan
The Dravidian languages have a long-distance reflexive anaphor taa
The Dravidian languages also have reciprocal and distributive anaphors. These have bipartite structures. An example of a Malayalam reciprocal anaphor is oral … ma
A noteworthy fact about the pronominal system of Dravidian is that the third person pronouns come in proximal-distal pairs, the proximal pronoun being used to refer to something nearby and the distal pronoun being used elsewhere.
Argument Realization and Case in Japanese
Hideki Kishimoto
Japanese is a language where the grammatical status of arguments and adjuncts is marked exclusively by postnominal case markers, and various argument realization patterns can be assessed by their case marking. Since Japanese is categorized as a language of the nominative-accusative type typologically, the unmarked case-marking frame obtained for transitive predicates of the non-stative (or eventive) type is 'nominative-accusative'. Nevertheless, transitive predicates falling into the stative class often have other case-marking alignments, such as 'nominative-nominative' and 'dative-nominative'. Consequently, Japanese provides much more varying argument realization patterns than those expected from its typological character as a nominative-accusative language.
In point of fact, argument marking can actually be much more elastic and variable, the variations being motivated by several linguistic factors. Arguments often have the option of receiving either syntactic or semantic case, with no difference in the logical or cognitive meaning (as in plural agent and source agent alternations) or depending on the meanings their predicate carry (as in locative alternation). The type of case marking that is not normally available in main clauses can sometimes be obtained in embedded contexts (i.e., in exceptional case marking and small-clause constructions). In complex predicates, including causative and indirect passive predicates, arguments are case-marked differently from their base clauses by virtue of suffixation, and their case patterns follow the mono-clausal case array, despite the fact that they have multi-clausal structures.
Various case marking options are also made available for arguments by grammatical operations. Some processes instantiate a change on the grammatical relations and case marking of arguments with no affixation or embedding. Japanese has the grammatical process of subjectivization, creating extra (non-thematic) major subjects, many of which are identified as instances of 'possessor raising' (or argument ascension). There is another type of grammatical process, which reduces the number of arguments by virtue of incorporating a noun into the predicate, as found in the light verb constructions with suru 'do' and the complex adjective constructions formed on the negative adjective nai 'non-existent.'
Argument Realization in Syntax
Malka Rappaport Hovav
Words are sensitive to syntactic context. Argument realization is the study of the relation between argument-taking words, the syntactic contexts they appear in and the interpretive properties that constrain the relation between them.
Autosegmental Phonology
William R. Leben
Autosegments were introduced by John Goldsmith in his 1976 M.I.T. dissertation to represent tone and other suprasegmental phenomena. Goldsmith's intuition, embodied in the term he created, was that autosegments constituted an independent, conceptually equal tier of phonological representation, with both tiers realized simultaneously like the separate voices in a musical score.
The analysis of suprasegmentals came late to generative phonology, even though it had been tackled in American structuralism with the long components of Harris's 1944 article, "Simultaneous components in phonology" and despite being a particular focus of Firthian prosodic analysis. The standard version of generative phonology of the era (Chomsky and Halle's The Sound Pattern of English) made no special provision for phenomena that had been labeled suprasegmental or prosodic by earlier traditions.
An early sign that tones required a separate tier of representation was the phenomenon of tonal stability. In many tone languages, when vowels are lost historically or synchronically, their tones remain. The behavior of contour tones in many languages also falls into place when the contours are broken down into sequences of level tones on an independent level or representation. The autosegmental framework captured this naturally, since a sequence of elements on one tier can be connected to a single element on another. But the single most compelling aspect of the early autosegmental model was a natural account of tone spreading, a very common process that was only awkwardly captured by rules of whatever sort. Goldsmith's autosegmental solution was the Well-Formedness Condition, requiring, among other things, that every tone on the tonal tier be associated with some segment on the segmental tier, and vice versa. Tones thus spread more or less automatically to segments lacking them. The Well-Formedness Condition, at the very core of the autosegmental framework, was a rare constraint, posited nearly two decades before Optimality Theory.
One-to-many associations and spreading onto adjacent elements are characteristic of tone but not confined to it. Similar behaviors are widespread in long-distance phenomena, including intonation, vowel harmony, and nasal prosodies, as well as more locally with partial or full assimilation across adjacent segments.
The early autosegmental notion of tiers of representation that were distinct but conceptually equal soon gave way to a model with one basic tier connected to tiers for particular kinds of articulation, including tone and intonation, nasality, vowel features, and others. This has led to hierarchical representations of phonological features in current models of feature geometry, replacing the unordered distinctive feature matrices of early generative phonology. Autosegmental representations and processes also provide a means of representing non-concatenative morphology, notably the complex interweaving of roots and patterns in Semitic languages.
Later work modified many of the key properties of the autosegmental model. Optimality Theory has led to a radical rethinking of autosegmental mapping, delinking, and spreading as they were formulated under the earlier derivational paradigm.
Franz Rainer
Blocking can be defined as the non-occurrence of some linguistic form, whose existence could be expected on general grounds, due to the existence of a rival form. *Oxes, for example, is blocked by oxen, *stealer by thief. Although blocking is closely associated with morphology, in reality the competing "forms" can not only be morphemes or words, but can also be syntactic units. In German, for example, the compound Rotwein 'red wine' blocks the phrasal unit *roter Wein (in the relevant sense), just as the phrasal unit rote Rübe 'beetroot; lit. red beet' blocks the compound *Rotrübe. In these examples, one crucial factor determining blocking is synonymy; speakers apparently have a deep-rooted presumption against synonyms. Whether homonymy can also lead to a similar avoidance strategy, is still controversial. But even if homonymy blocking exists, it certainly is much less systematic than synonymy blocking.
In all the examples mentioned above, it is a word stored in the mental lexicon that blocks a rival formation. However, besides such cases of lexical blocking, one can observe blocking among productive patterns. Dutch has three suffixes for deriving agent nouns from verbal bases, -er, -der, and -aar. Of these three suffixes, the first one is the default choice, while -der and -aar are chosen in very specific phonological environments: as Geert Booij describes in The Morphology of Dutch (2002), "the suffix -aar occurs after stems ending in a coronal sonorant consonant preceded by schwa, and -der occurs after stems ending in /r/" (p. 122). Contrary to lexical blocking, the effect of this kind of pattern blocking does not depend on words stored in the mental lexicon and their token frequency but on abstract features (in the case at hand, phonological features).
Blocking was first recognized by the Indian grammarian Pāṇini in the 5th or 4th century
Andrej L. Malchukov
Morphological case is conventionally defined as a system of marking of a dependent nominal for the type of relationship they bear to their heads. While most linguists would agree with this definition, in practice it is often a matter of controversy whether a certain marker X counts as case in language L, or how many case values language L features. First, the distinction between morphological cases and case particles/adpositions is fuzzy in a cross-linguistic perspective. Second, the distinctions between cases can be obscured by patterns of case syncretism, leading to different analyses of the underlying system. On the functional side, it is important to distinguish between syntactic (structural), semantic, and "pragmatic" cases, yet these distinctions are not clear-cut either, as syntactic cases historically arise from the two latter sources. Moreover, case paradigms of individual languages usually show a conflation between syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic cases (see the phenomenon of "focal ergativity," where ergative case is used when the A argument is in focus). The composition of case paradigms can be shown to follow a certain typological pattern, which is captured by case hierarchy, as proposed by Greenberg and Blake, among others. Case hierarchy constrains the way how case systems evolve (or are reduced) across languages and derives from relative markedness and, ultimately, from frequencies of individual cases. The (one-dimensional) case hierarchy is, however, incapable of capturing all recurrent polysemies of individual case markers; rather, such polysemies can be represented through a more complex two-dimensional hierarchy (semantic map), which can also be given a diachronic interpretation.
Children's Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge
Rosalind Thornton
Children's acquisition of language is an amazing feat. Children master the syntax, the sentence structure of their language, through exposure and interaction with caregivers and others but, notably, with no formal tuition. How children come to be in command of the syntax of their language has been a topic of vigorous debate since Chomsky argued against Skinner's claim that language is 'verbal behavior.' Chomsky argued that knowledge of language cannot be learned through experience alone but is guided by a genetic component. This language component, known as 'Universal Grammar,' is composed of abstract linguistic knowledge and a computational system that is special to language. The computational mechanisms of Universal Grammar give even young children the capacity to form hierarchical syntactic representations for the sentences they hear and produce. The abstract knowledge of language guides children's hypotheses as they interact with the language input in their environment, ensuring they progress toward the adult grammar. An alternative school of thought denies the existence of a dedicated language component, arguing that knowledge of syntax is learned entirely through interactions with speakers of the language. Such 'usage-based' linguistic theories assume that language learning employs the same learning mechanisms that are used by other cognitive systems. Usage-based accounts of language development view children's earliest productions as rote-learned phrases that lack internal structure. Knowledge of linguistic structure emerges gradually and in a piecemeal fashion, with frequency playing a large role in the order of emergence for different syntactic structures.
Clinical Linguistics
Louise Cummings
Clinical linguistics is the branch of linguistics that applies linguistic concepts and theories to the study of language disorders. As the name suggests, clinical linguistics is a dual-facing discipline. Although the conceptual roots of this field are in linguistics, its domain of application is the vast array of clinical disorders that may compromise the use and understanding of language. Both dimensions of clinical linguistics can be addressed through an examination of specific linguistic deficits in individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders, craniofacial anomalies, adult-onset neurological impairments, psychiatric disorders, and neurodegenerative disorders. Clinical linguists are interested in the full range of linguistic deficits in these conditions, including phonetic deficits of children with cleft lip and palate, morphosyntactic errors in children with specific language impairment, and pragmatic language impairments in adults with schizophrenia.
Like many applied disciplines in linguistics, clinical linguistics sits at the intersection of a number of areas. The relationship of clinical linguistics to the study of communication disorders and to speech-language pathology (speech and language therapy in the United Kingdom) are two particularly important points of intersection. Speech-language pathology is the area of clinical practice that assesses and treats children and adults with communication disorders. All language disorders restrict an individual's ability to communicate freely with others in a range of contexts and settings. So language disorders are first and foremost communication disorders. To understand language disorders, it is useful to think of them in terms of points of breakdown on a communication cycle that tracks the progress of a linguistic utterance from its conception in the mind of a speaker to its comprehension by a hearer. This cycle permits the introduction of a number of important distinctions in language pathology, such as the distinction between a receptive and an expressive language disorder, and between a developmental and an acquired language disorder. The cycle is also a useful model with which to conceptualize a range of communication disorders other than language disorders. These other disorders, which include hearing, voice, and fluency disorders, are also relevant to clinical linguistics.
Clinical linguistics draws on the conceptual resources of the full range of linguistic disciplines to describe and explain language disorders. These disciplines include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse. Each of these linguistic disciplines contributes concepts and theories that can shed light on the nature of language disorder. A wide range of tools and approaches are used by clinical linguists and speech-language pathologists to assess, diagnose, and treat language disorders. They include the use of standardized and norm-referenced tests, communication checklists and profiles (some administered by clinicians, others by parents, teachers, and caregivers), and qualitative methods such as conversation analysis and discourse analysis. Finally, clinical linguists can contribute to debates about the nosology of language disorders. In order to do so, however, they must have an understanding of the place of language disorders in internationally recognized classification systems such as the 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) of the American Psychiatric Association.
The Compositional Semantics of Modification
Sebastian Bücking
Modification is a combinatorial semantic operation between a modifier and a modifiee. Take, for example, vegetarian soup: the attributive adjective vegetarian modifies the nominal modifiee soup and thus constrains the range of potential referents of the complex expression to soups that are vegetarian. Similarly, in Ben is preparing a soup in the camper, the adverbial in the camper modifies the preparation by locating it. Notably, modifiers can have fairly drastic effects; in fake stove, the attribute fake induces that the complex expression singles out objects that seem to be stoves, but are not. Intuitively, modifiers contribute additional information that is not explicitly called for by the target the modifier relates to. Speaking in terms of logic, this roughly says that modification is an endotypical operation; that is, it does not change the arity, or logical type, of the modified target constituent. Speaking in terms of syntax, this predicts that modifiers are typically adjuncts and thus do not change the syntactic distribution of their respective target; therefore, modifiers can be easily iterated (see, for instance, spicy vegetarian soup or Ben prepared a soup in the camper yesterday). This initial characterization sets modification apart from other combinatorial operations such as argument satisfaction and quantification: combining a soup with prepare satisfies an argument slot of the verbal head and thus reduces its arity (see, for instance, *prepare a soup a quiche). Quantification as, for example, in the combination of the quantifier every with the noun soup, maps a nominal property onto a quantifying expression with a different distribution (see, for instance, *a every soup). Their comparatively loose connection to their hosts renders modifiers a flexible, though certainly not random, means within combinatorial meaning constitution. The foundational question is how to work their being endotypical into a full-fledged compositional analysis. On the one hand, modifiers can be considered endotypical functors by virtue of their lexical endowment; for instance, vegetarian would be born a higher-ordered function from predicates to predicates. On the other hand, modification can be considered a rule-based operation; for instance, vegetarian would denote a simple predicate from entities to truth-values that receives its modifying endotypical function only by virtue of a separate modification rule. In order to assess this and related controversies empirically, research on modification pays particular attention to interface questions such as the following: how do structural conditions and the modifying function conspire in establishing complex interpretations? What roles do ontological information and fine-grained conceptual knowledge play in the course of concept combination?


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The most quietly terrifying presence in film today belongs to a gray-haired, 64-year-old French actor with a Danish name. If you are familiar with Niels Arestrup's work, you don't need any convincing. If you're not, "You Will Be My Son" is all the persuading you'll need.
Best known for his two films with Jacques Audiard, "A Prophet" and "The Beat That My Heart Skipped" — both of which won him Cesars for supporting actor — Arestrup has also appeared in Steven Spielberg's "War Horse" and, more recently, Belgian director Joachim Lafosse's grueling "Our Children."
"You Will Be My Son" was directed, co-written and co-produced by Gilles Legrand and is squarely in the classic French film tradition. A strongly acted, character-driven melodrama, concerned with the dynamics of family in general and father-son issues in particular, it presents situations so emotionally supercharged that the whole story could have come straight out of Balzac.
Perfectionist Paul de Marseul, the kind of guy who puts a final polish on his shoes with Hennessy cognac, is at the center of things. He runs a prestigious Bordeaux vineyard (the film was shot at Chateau Clos Fourtet in Saint-Emilion) that has been in his family for 11 generations. As played by Arestrup, an actor of implacable force and commanding presence, he is someone not to be trifled with.
Filmmaker Legrand has shrewdly chosen to introduce Paul at his most charming, as he's flirting with a female journalist in order to get good press for his wines. (So that's how it works.) Even when he smiles and fascinates, however, an air of palpable danger and menace surrounds him.
This dark side comes out fully when Paul deals with his adult son Martin (Lorant Deutsch), who works with him in the winery in an administrative and sales capacity. A domestic tyrant who has nothing but biting contempt for his heir, Paul never misses a chance to mock and belittle his son and his university education.
"You don't learn to make wine in college," he insists, and when Martin negotiates a fine deal with an exporter, his father accuses him of trying to shirk his responsibilities. What Paul stands for, he says, is "perfection not approximation," and his bottom line is that "this is a vineyard, not a charity."
Not surprisingly, a lifetime of being treated like a servant has made the clearly competent Martin into a nervous, uncertain adult. He may be married with an attractive wife (Anne Marivin), but being dismissed as an inept child is his daily lot.
A pair of interlocking complications soon arise to bring this heady mixture to a rolling boil. First is the illness of Francois Amelot (the veteran Patrick Chesnais), Paul's longtime estate manager and one of the few people he trusts absolutely.
With Francois diagnosed with cancer and too weak to work, Paul has no one to oversee the upcoming harvest. Martin begs for the chance but then, out of nowhere, a further complication emerges.
That would be the return home of Francois' son Philippe (Nicolas Bridet), an accomplished winemaker in his own right and, so we are told, the top man at Francis Ford Coppola's Napa Valley establishment. Handsome, charismatic, with a gift for wine, Philippe is the kind of son Paul always wishes he had, down to a shared weakness for expensive shoes. His presence on the estate complicates things for everyone in ways both foreseen and unexpected.
Though Arestrup dominates the film with his authoritative acting in the same way his character dominates those around him, the film's melodramatic plotting demands realistic performances all around in order to be convincing, and that's exactly what it gets.
It's a measure of the belief writer-director Legrand has in his material that he not only reveals some of his plot in his title, he does the same with his opening scene. It's an assurance that the film more than delivers on.
'You Will Be My Son'
Running time: 1 hour, 42 minutes
Playing: At Landmark, West Los Angeles


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Shelly FreyThere is a time and a place for excessive force, when a police officer is justified in drawing a weapon and killing an individual who is a clear threat. Shelly Frey was not one of them. The mother of two was fatally shot in the parking lot of a Houston Walmart on Thursday by an off-duty deputy who worked the security detail as a side gig. Suspecting Frey of shoplifting, he confronted her and her two accomplices, Tiasa Andrews and Yolanda Craig, and chased the trio into the parking lot. Things got ugly and Frey is now dead.
Louis Campbell is a 26-year veteran of the force. Houston is not anybody's Mayberry, so I'm sure he's seen the worst that violence and debauchery has to offer. Nearly three decades of service has given him more than enough time to hone his judgment and intuition, which is probably why he sniffed the three women out in the first place. But shooting into Frey's car -- where two small children were riding in the backseat -- and hitting her in the neck was over the top. Walmart merchandise is hardly worth a life.
If he indeed felt threatened when he was standing in between the car door and the driver's seat, as he says he did, reacting at that point would've been one thing. But I question how he could've felt unsafe when she peeled out and was driving away. Even then, I agree with Frey's mother: putting a bullet in a tire to disable the car seems like a more appropriate action than flexing his shoot-to-kill training like she was a hardened criminal.
Her poor parents, disillusioned as parents often are, are devastated. Her father, Shelton Frey, told the local news, "Shelly was the perfect mom, perfect friend, perfect daughter." Clearly, she wasn't perfect. But she was a person, she was obviously loved, and she deserved the chance to live and rectify her mistakes rather than be killed in the process of making them. Campbell took that away, and her family -- and her two kids, including a two-year-old baby with sickle cell anemia -- are grieving the death of young woman who was only 27. She was doing wrong, but it wasn't worth her life.
When I was 15, I went through a phase when I was a shoplift-aholic. I started with makeup and progressed to stuffed animals, clothes, and CDs. It was an adrenaline rush -- albeit a crappy one -- and to top it all off, I was good at it. I never worked my five-finger discounting at Walmart, but I eventually got caught, got it together, and grew up to be a productive member of society. Thank God nobody saw fit to snuff me out in the process. I don't doubt Frey could've made the same kind of turnaround.
Guess we'll never know and I guess, in the grand tradition of snap judgments and trigger-happy justice, this killing will be justified and forgotten like the thousands that came before and will undoubtedly be the subject of news stories in the future. It's sad, and it's sad how vehemently she's being badmouthed in the wake of what this is -- a tragedy. She's not perfect, but clearly most of the rest of us are.
Do you think the officer did the right thing?
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He-Man.Org's official "Cosplayer of the Month" for April 2013 is the talented Björn Korthof as Prince Adam. Björn based the look of his amazing sword and costume on the modern style showcased in the 2002 Masters of the Universe toyline and cartoon series.
"...Creating this costume was indeed a dream come true for me - albeit 10 years late. I grew up with Masters of the Universe in my childhood, then moved on to MASK, and later Star Wars. Thankfully, I came back to my MOTU roots in my late teens. Ever since then I have spent my time doing fan-stuff. Drawing fan-art, making customs and even organizing Grayskull Conventions in Germany. I suppose it was only a matter of time before I came to cosplay. After successfully completing Prince Adam (well, not really completing... I am constantly improving things on this costume) I also did a Ninjor cosplay, and I am still working on a cosplay with a little more armor to it. As time permits, I have begun building life-size props that one day I will use as backdrops for an awesome cosplay shoot. Until then, I am happy to be featured in the Wizard of Stone Mountain fan-film trilogy. If you haven't seen it yet - you should definitely check it out. Until then, good journey!"


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Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan does it the right way
Re: ŌĆ£Bo Ryan knows coaching and lessons of life as Wisconsin boss,ŌĆØ March 28 Mark Kiszla column.
In the midst of the craze that is March Madness, it was entirely refreshing to read Mark KiszlaŌĆÖs column about Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan. I donŌĆÖt live in Wisconsin and did not attend UW, but I have long been an admirer of Ryan and his Badgers teams, for many of the same qualities Kiszla points out in his well-written column.
At a time of year when most of the college basketball talk centers around which self-absorbed superstar will bolt for the NBA next and which coach is breaking what contract to go where for how much money, I really appreciated reading a piece about a successful coach who still does it the right way. Thank you for bringing recognition to the ŌĆ£old schoolŌĆØ values and fundamentals that are too often ignored in todayŌĆÖs world of sports.
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Every year brings different challenges to the nation's farmers, and 2004 is no different. Among the challenges this year are production costs that are drastically different from those in 2003.
Delton Gerloff, an economist with the University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service, says farmers in the 2004 planting season are facing fuel and fertilizer prices that are certain to go up.
"The fuel prices have increased 23 percent over 2003 prices," Gerloff says. Compared to last year, the economist says the fuel costs will add between $1 and $1.50 per acre to the expense of growing corn, depending on the tillage system. The increased fuel prices will add between $1 and $2 per acre to soybean expenses, and about $1.50 per acre for wheat production expenses. Gerloff expects cotton fuel expenses to increase between $3 to $4 per acre.
Fuel prices, however, don't tell the whole story. "Nitrogen fertilizer prices generally increase along with fuel prices. Higher nitrogen fertilizer prices would impact corn and cotton more than soybeans because soybeans generally don't require nitrogen fertilization," Gerloff says.
Depending on the nitrogen source, nitrogen fertilizer prices have risen between 35 and 45 percent compared to 2003. Gerloff says this increase could add as much as $12 to $16 per acre to the expense of growing corn in 2004, and could increase cotton expenses as much as $10 to $12 per acre over last year. "Other fertilizer prices have also risen over the past year, with phosphate and potash prices rising close to 27 percent and 13 percent respectively," he says.
Higher output prices are helping to reduce the impact of the higher input prices. "Based on early season price expectations in 2003 and April 1, 2004, harvest cash contract prices, corn and soybean net returns are projected to increase over $70 per acre compared to 2003," Gerloff says. "Wheat net returns would be expected to increase close to $20 per acre compared to income expectations last year," he says.
While cotton prices rose sharply last fall, Gerloff says current income expectations for cotton have not changed significantly from last year.
The bottom line is price, however. "While the fuel and fertilizer price increases are certain because the farmers are currently buying them to produce this year's crops, it remains to be seen if grain prices will remain at current levels until this fall's harvest," Gerloff says.
The economist cautions producers to consider locking in higher harvest time grain prices to offset the increased input expenses.


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PenBay Veterinary Associates Encourages Maine Pet Owners to Brush Up on Oral Health
January 10, 2013
Oral disease is the most frequently diagnosed health problem for pets. Although daily tooth brushing is advised for dogs and cats, the reality is that only two percent of dog owners follow through. In addition, 65 percent of dogs with stage one periodontal disease often go untreated because veterinary health care teams do not recommend needed treatment options like dental exams and professional dental cleaning. This can lead to systemic health problems which can cause serious damage to other areas of the pet's body.
PenBay Veterinary Associates is pleased to take an active role in the 2013 Pet Dental Health Campaign. To help pet owners in Midcoast, Maine, PenBay Veterinary Associates is offering a special on dental cleanings in from January 15 to March 31, 2013 to encourage their clients to schedule regular dental appointments for their pets and establish an at-home dental care routine.
"The mouth is the door to the rest of the body," said Dr. Bjorn Lee. "At home care combined with annual dental cleanings by a veterinarian can add years to your pets life. This is the fith year we have participated in the Pet Dental Health Campaign. I am particularly excited this year since we can now offer digital dental X-rays. 50% of the tooth is below the gumline, and X-ray allows us to see the whole picture."
PenBay Veterinary Associates also encourages their clients to understand that while February is the month designated to pet dental health awareness, ensuring proper dental care requires a yearlong commitment. Pet owners who take an active role in their pet's dental health can help prevent periodontal disease and help ensure a healthy life for their canine and feline companions. To learn more about PenBay Vets Dental Special visit http://www.penbayvets.com/news/dental-special-february-national-pet-dental-health-month
PenBay Veterinary Associates is an accredited member of the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA). Since 2005, we have regularly undergone evaluations by AAHA to ensure that we comply with the association's high quality standards of care. These standards cover nearly every aspect of our hospital, including surgery, pharmacy, laboratory, exam facilities, pet health records, cleanliness, emergency services, dental and nursing care, diagnostic imaging, and anesthesiology. Approximately 15 percent of animal hospitals in North America are accredited by AAHA.


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I really like this class at FZD. It still amazes me how many fun ideas students come up with.
The purpose of these assignments is to tell story through visuals. These days, a large percent of films and games take place in near-real-world settings. Thus, it's important for students to really understand logical thinking. It's not very difficult to speed-paint random spiky alien worlds and destroyed cities, but it's much more challenging to design a kid's room from the 1990s. So at FZD, we start with basic design projects to introduce students to analytical problem solving. For example, designing a teenager's room. Can the visuals convey what this teenager's hobbies are? Is this person a clean or messy individual? Do they play video games or watch movies? etc. All these elements require students to start with proper planning, rather than randomly putting stuff on paper.
This type of work is not "sexy" to look at, but the underlining values it builds for the students will carry them into more advanced entertainment design projects in term 3.
For more, please visit FZDSCHOOL.COM
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FZD Term 3 Entertainment Design 2017
It's been a while since I shared some work from our awesome students.
Here are some examples from their final Term 3 entertainment project. Great work everyone!
To see more, please visit FZDSCHOOL.COM
Here are some examples from their final Term 3 entertainment project. Great work everyone!
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Name: Eddie
Gender: male
Age: 19
Location: Sacramento
I have a pretty big dick, almost 9 inches and if I try I can bend myself till the tip is just touching my lips and then I can shoot right in my mouth. But I want to get more of my cock in my mouth because I think it's hot. Are there any exercises I can do to help me do this? Thanks.
You go, dude! Autofellatio, or self-sucking is every man's dream. Of course, if all of us men folk could blow ourselves, there would be no good reason for us to ever leave our house.
What we have here, sex fans, is a guy who can orally masturbate himself. According to the Kinsey Reports less than 1% of males can lick or suck their own cock. Obviously, suckin' is more difficult than lickin', because the guy's gotta fold himself over a whole lot more to get more of his unit in his mouth. But it is doable for the lucky few.
Did you know that there is archaeological evidence for self-administered blowjobs in Egyptian hieroglyphs? That's right, sex fans! According to researcher David Lorton, "Many ancient texts refer to autofellatio within the religious mythology of Egypt. The sun god Ra is said to have created the god Shu and goddess Tefnut by sucking himself off, then spitting out his spunk into the ground." Yeah baby, give me that old time religion!
Successful self-sucking depends on two things, Eddie — having a big enough dick and being limber as all get-out so you can pretty much bend in half. Every guy can do something about his flexibility, but none of us can grow our dick longer. That's why this behavior remains fantasy material for the vast majority of us wee willies.
If you want to suck your own cock it's a good idea to begin by expanding your range of motion; ya know, working on becoming more limber. Concentrate on stretching exercises that will help improve the flexibility in your legs, glutes, lower back, upper back and neck. If you're not doin Yoga, pup, now's a good time to start.
Begin by stretching out your legs. Your quads and hamstrings need to be nice and limber. While lying flat on the floor, with your legs fully extended. Lift each leg in succession. Take hold of your calf or thigh and pull your bent leg toward your chest. Hold this for 15 seconds, breathe deeply and release. Repeat five more times. Once you're able to do one leg at a time, work on doing both legs at once. Be careful not to over stretch, you don't want to pull a muscle.
Next stretch your back and neck. While lying flat on the floor, clasp your fingers together place them behind your head and slowly roll yourself up while your hold your chin to your chest. This will be exactly like doing a crunch, only completely different. Hold these stretches for 15 seconds apiece, breathe deeply and release. Repeat five more times.
Once you've mastered these stretches to the point you can pert-near fold yourself in half, you should be getting close to being able to lick your own dick…if it's long enough, that is.
While lying flat on the floor place, roll yourself up, legs to your head and place your knees, one at a time, on either side of your head so you're looking at your crotch and your pud is pointed towards your lips. Don't forget to breathe through these stretches.
Now grab your ass and pull your dick closer to your mouth. If it's meant to be, this is how it will happen. If it's not meant to be, it won't.
But don't despair, if ya can't pull this off. All those stretching exercises you've been doing will make you a much better lover with a partner. Because you will be much more limber for all the sexual gymnastics, don't cha know.
Name: Gil
Gender: male
Age: 25
Location: Ohio
I'm bi and I have both female and male lovers. Right now, I'm in more of a same sex phase. I'm dating two different guys that I like a lot. Both are really nice and fun and the sex is pretty good. But neither one of these guys — one is 23 and the other is 25, knows how to kiss worth a damn. And I can't get worked up without kissing. The 23 year old claims to be mostly straight and says kissing is too queer for him. The other guy is all like all open mouth teeth. Yuck! Is it just me, or is kissing a lost art for gay men?
You are so right on, Gil! Kissing is a lost art, but not just for gay men. Women often tell me that their straight male partners don't know squat about kissing either. Is it just too intimate a thing for manly men nowadays or what?
And yeah, it is queer for one guy to kiss another guy. It's supposed to be, for Pet's sake! What, does the 23 year old think he'll maintain his "straightness" if he sucks and fucks another dude, but doesn't kiss him? WTF!
In my book, kissing is essential to satisfying sex. If ya can't kiss, I'd be willing to bet you can't fuck either. Oh, that's not to say that you won't be able to bump parts, any monkey can do that. But real good fucking involves passion and how's there supposed to be passion without kissing? That's what I'd like to know.
Kissing is often the first sexual experience we have. Whether it's a light kiss from a friend, or deep sensuous French kiss with a potential lover. We can express so much with kissing — love, passion, friendship, commitment — and we can do so while fully clothed.
Kissing someone on the mouth is bliss. But taking those kisses to other places on your partner's body is a mighty fine idea too. I used to think kissing came naturally to us all, but now I'm convinced that's now so. It could be we all have an innate ability that just needs to be nurtured before it blossoms. Whatever the case may be, there are some things the kissing challenged ought know.
Always make sure that your breath is fresh. There's nothing worse than kissing someone with bad breath! This is particularly important for those of you who still smoke.
Kissing not only involves your mouth, it also has to involve body contact, hugging and touching.
- If you're all open mouth, teeth and drool, you're not kissing.
- If you rush to jam your tongue into your partner's mouth and down his or her throat, you're not kissing.
- If you're biting instead of nibbling, you're not kissing.
- If you're trying to cover his or her entire mouth with yours like some kind of freaky suction cup, you're not kissing.
- If you're kissing with your eyes wide open, you're not kissing.
- If your tongue is poking and prodding in your partner's mouth like it is searching for lost food, you're not kissing.
- IF someone is kissing you and you're not kissing back, you're not kissing.
- If you're body is stiff, like a frozen slab of beef, you're not kissing.
- If your hands are stationary without a thing to do, you're not kissing.
- If you think kissing is something ya gotta do just to get laid, you're not kissing.
If you're pressed for technique, or you're simply clueless about where to begin, start by giving your partner a quick peck on the cheek or lips. Then move back a little, look him or her in the eye, then move in again for another kiss with a bit more passion this time. Slowly build up the passion and excitement with a series of these kinds of seductive kisses till you're all over one another like a bad cold.
Or try light kissing all over your partner's face and neck pausing every now and again for a deep sigh and a longing look in his/her eyes. Whatever you do, don't suck or slobber. Save that for when you're eating her out or sucking his cock.
If you think you need practice kissing, and unless you've been told that you are a great kisser, you do need practice. And you're too timid to invite a partner to join you for the exercise, here's what I propose you do. Make a fist; turn it sideways so that you have the opening between your thumb and forefinger in front of you. Kiss that. Stand in front of a mirror and watch yourself. If you look like they do in the movies, you may be on the right track.
When you think you're getting the hang of it, move on to the real thing. Don't be shy we all have to start somewhere. You might invite your partner to give you some feed back on how you're doing. Remember, practice makes perfect.
Name: Wilson
Gender: male
Age: 58
Location: Lancing MI
I'm a successful entrepreneur, in decent health (I could stand to lose a few pounds.) I have just about everything a man could want in life, but I'm miserable. I have no energy and I feel like I'm sleepwalking through my life. I have no sex drive at all; my wife thinks I'm having an affair…I wish. Even Viagra doesn't do the trick anymore. Is this just old age, or what?
Old age, at 58? I beg your pardon! Hell, you're not even technically a senior yet! Regardless what we call it, you sound like you're in the throws of andropause — male menopause — ya know, the change of life!
Never heard of such a thing? You're not alone. It's only been recently that the medical industry has begun to pay attention to the impact changing hormonal levels has on the male mind and body. Most often andropause is misdiagnosed as depression and treated with an antidepressant. WRONG!
Every man will experience a decrease testosterone, the "male" hormone, as he ages. This decline is gradual, often spanning ten to fifteen years on average. While the gradual decrease of testosterone does not display the profound effects that menopause does, the end results are similar.
There's no doubt a man's sexual response changes with advancing age and the decrease of testosterone. Sexual urges diminish, erections are harder to come by, they're not as rigid, there's less jizz shot with less oomph. And our refractory period (or interval) between erections is more pronounced too.
While most all of us have heard of a mid-life crisis, and it's tragic consequences — red convertible sports cars, comb-overs, and the trophy wife or lover — fewer have heard of andropause. A mid-life crisis is essentially a psycho-social adjustment to aging — bored at work, bored at home, bored with the wife or partner — that sort of thing.
Although andropause may coincide with a mid-life crisis, is not the same thing. Andropause is a distinct physiological phenomenon that is akin to female menopause.
Like I said, the production of testosterone diminishes gradually after age 40. I suppose you know that testosterone is the hormone that stimulates sexual development in the male infant, bone and muscle growth in adolescent males, and is responsible for our sexual drive, right? But did you know that by the age of 55 the amount of testosterone secreted into our bloodstream is significantly lower than it was at 45. And by age 80, most male hormone levels have decreased to pre-puberty levels.
- Men, are you over 50, feeling weak, lethargic, depressed and irritable? Do you have mood swings, hot flashes, suffer from insomnia and decreased libido, like our buddy Wilson, here? Then you too may be andropausal. You need to get some lead back in your pencil!
All kidding aside, all us andropausal men might want to consider Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT). Ask your physician about this. Just know that some medical professionals resist testosterone therapy, because they mistakenly link Testosterone Replacement Therapy with prostate cancer. Even though recent evidence shows prostatic disease is estrogen-dependent rather than testosterone-dependent. However, before starting a testosterone regiment, insist on a complete physical, including blood work and a rectal examine. Mmmm, rectal exams!
Here's an interesting tidbit; total testosterone, which is generally the only thing that is ever measured in men complaining of andropausal symptoms, is only low in relation to the standard laboratory "normal range" in 13% of cases. However, more detailed blood analysis shows that bio-available Testosterone, which is the important measure, is decreased in 74% of cases.
Testosterone is available in many forms — oral, injectable, trans-dermal and by way of implants. The oral form is not recommended because of the high risk of liver damage. But injections, patches, pellets, creams and gels might be just the answer.
I encourage you to be informed about TRT before you approach your doctor, because the best medicine is practiced collaboratively — by you and your doctor.
I just found a swell resource online: The Andropause Society. Check it out!
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Friday, 23 August 2013
Peter Capaldi Writes to the Fans in Doctor Who Magazine
In the latest issue of DWM, there are loads of previews of the new Doctor, Peter Capaldi. Among them, there's a letter from him to all the fans. You can read the letter below (click to enlarge):
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Wow, he just seems like such a nice man, I was happy enough when he was announced as the next Doctor, but I'm just getting more and more excited to see him take over. Can't wait til we see a costume!
- 23 August 2013 at 03:15
He is a really nice person and it is really great that he took the time to do that
- 24 August 2013 at 01:20
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A rally was held outside the headquarters of Double GG Construction on Heyward Street, where advocacy group Make the Road New York used the case to highlight the need for stronger enforcement of state wage and hour laws.
"In spite of some of the strongest laws in the country, wage theft continues to be rampant in the state of New York," said Deborah Axt, co-executive director of Make the Road New York. "Our state government has a responsibility to ensure effective compliance with wage and hour laws and should increase its investment in the New York State Department of Labor in order to ensure that this is the case."
A Department of Labor investigation found that Double GG workers were owed more than $500,000 in overtime pay. However, four years after the original complaint was made, none of the employees have been paid.
"I worked around 12 hours a day, six days a week and was not paid overtime," said Rafael Navor, a former employee of Double GG construction. "As workers with families to support, it's very difficult to have to wait so long for the wages they stole from us in the first place."
In 2011, following the Labor Department's investigation, Double GG cut back on hours and even fired several of the employees who participated in the investigation. The company has appealed the department's findings.
Make the Road New York recently released a report entitled "End Wage theft: The Case for Real Employment of New York State's Wage and Hour Laws."
This document states that in 2010 the National Employment Law Project found nearly $1 billion was stolen from low-wage workers every year in New York City alone.
"Strong laws on the books are only meaningful to the extent they are enforced on the ground," said Magdalena Barbosa, supervising attorney at Make the Road New York. "New York State must dedicate the resources necessary to ensure effective and effective enforcement on the state's workplace protection laws."