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Can't Uninstall
Forum: Laptops
Topic: Can't Uninstall
started by: kylerwoods
Posted by kylerwoods on Nov. 07 2007,03:45I am trying to uninstall DSL from my laptop, but when I put in a Windows installation disc, nothing happens. Please help me
Posted by curaga on Nov. 07 2007,11:56Go in to the bios, and set it to boot from cd
Posted by Zucca on Nov. 07 2007,14:20Yup. You cannot install Windows from DSL.
Unless you use qemu etc...
Posted by kylerwoods on Nov. 08 2007,20:30Ya, i set it to boot from CD, but it still just loads DSL.
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 08 2007,21:29This is a not a DSL problem...
- make sure you set to boot from cd first - before hdd's etc.
- it could be that your cd media or reader is defective
- if you can't still get it to work, you could contact your system manufacturer, etc.
Posted by kylerwoods on Nov. 08 2007,22:00Well, the windows worked fne on it before, but now it won't install. I can also open the CD once in linux, but it cannot open the .exe files, of course. Is there maybe a way i can just completely uninstall it without installing windows over it?
Posted by mikshaw on Nov. 08 2007,23:54As ^thehatsrule^ said, this isn't a DSL issue. Either your BIOS isn't set to boot from CD first, or your CD is defective or not bootable, or there is something wrong with your CD drive. DSL can't prevent you from booting a bootable CD if you tell your system you want it that way.
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 09 2007,01:08If you want just want to remove DSL, you can just delete all the data.
But I just remembered something - if you have older equipment you may have to use a bootfloppy (or a compatible cd i.e. for DSL it would be syslinux).
Posted by kylerwoods on Nov. 09 2007,06:25Ya, i've made sure that the CD drive is first ahead of the HD, and I know the CD drive is functional because i've used it many times to listen to music, etc. How would I go about deleting everything from it?
Posted by skaos on Nov. 09 2007,10:32Boot from the DSL CD and run this command:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
This will completely wipe your disk (assuming /dev/hda is your disk).
Posted by kylerwoods on Nov. 14 2007,01:26i did what skaos said, but it said permission denied, help me
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 14 2007,01:34Prepend the command with sudo, or open a root shell.
Make sure you know what you're doing though.


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Very nice - but lacking in two essentials: no articulating screen and no facility to mount a wide angle conversion lens.
An articulated screen would make the camera so much more useful, especially for close-ups, street photography and video, where taking the pictures from waist or lower level makes such a difference.
A high quality add-on WA lens would make the camera an ideal tool for landscapes taken during longer walks in difficult terrain, where the weight of a larger camera and lenses would be tedious.
Quoted from the review:
"As is the case with all compact cameras, you'd be able to get technically better results from the TS5 if Raw mode was available, but that's not a feature you'll find in the rugged/waterproof class, for understandable reasons".
What are these "understandable reasons" to omit RAW from such cameras? I have the previous model and I want it to take RAW so I can use it for wet/sandy beach landscapes without suffering the tedious jpeg smudging of detail.
And what is the point of having 16MP if any detail captured by this pixel-dense sensor is smeared away by the jpeg processor yet cannot be got-at via RAW?
SirLataxe, also not requiring the spurious wifi and GPS stuff. (What next - a built-in printer to make postage stamp-size prints)?
The poll is flawed as I have concerns around the first three of the bullet points but can only select one of them.
The rule of thirds is easily applied, if required, in a camera viewfinder. This is not so for the golden mean and diagonal arrangements as described in this article.
Unless there is a long-winded studio photographic session, how are such rules to be applied in practice? Surely these latter compositional rules are only practical in graphic design and similar non-photographic image compositions, where the author may take his time rather than having to capture a moment.
The article also fails to mention any number of other simple yet effective rules for photographic composition, such as the use of various lead-in lines, stoppers at the photo periphery, symmetry for reflected scenes and other human-pleasing ways to keep the eye interested and involved with the elements of a photo.
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This year, I am set on not letting it happen again. I've decided to take a different approach this year. Beans in the back up against a trellis, tomatoes in the front, and lots of potted veggies, like lettuce and bell peppers. Also in pots will be my herbs - but I always grow some hearty herbs in a pot...I suppose you can't really mess up herbs (Hopefully I didn't just jinx that).
I have already started my garden in the little newspaper pots like I did last year, in hopes of planting them into the garden in a few weeks. By the way, Punxsutawney Phil needs to look for a new job - spring did NOT come early this year. The weather has been wacky lately. We just had 4+ inches of snow last week - but hopefully it'll soon be warm enough to plant my seedlings.
So on to making my garden better: the trellis. It is pretty simple to make, but I had to bring in some muscle to help me near the end (hubby to the rescue) to finish it.
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First, I sawed the wood to a little over 5 feet so it wasn't taller than my fence. I used two of the leftover pieces for the top and the middle. I used my drill to make holes and then screwed all the pieces together. I used some nails for extra reinforcement near the top. Here is what the frame looked liked:
After the frame was made, it was time for the cage wire. At first, I thought my heavy duty staple gun would be able to connect the wire to the wood - WRONG ! The cage wire was so thick that the staples kept popping out. Maybe the staple gun would have worked with a thinner wire (or a seriously heavy duty staple gun). So I had to run over to Ace and grab some staples that I could hammer in. Thankfully Ace is less than a mile away because there was one time when one of us (hint: not me) went there more than a handful of times in one day while doing another home improvement project. For this project, I just needed one visit :).
I used the wire cutter to cut the cage to fit across the cage - not up and down because the frame was just a bit too wide. This is where the muscle came in. Kerry had to finish cutting the wire because it was just too hard to cut. You would think cutting wire wouldn't be hard, but after getting an arm workout cutting just a few wires, I couldn't finish it. Once the hubby was done cutting, we hammered in the big staples over the wire. We hammered the staples in about every 2-3 inches, sometimes closer to make sure the wire stayed on the wood. Even some of those kept popping out too! It was like playing a game of whack-a-mole - we would hammer in one and a staple would pop out at the other end.
Once we were finished, I just set it in my garden and leaned it up against the fence. I used some floral wire to attach it to the fence so that it won't fall forward.
Now I just need my beans to sprout and some warm weather to plant outside ! We'll see how well this trellis holds up through the summer.
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I've lived with anxiety for most of my life, though I didn't know that until I was an adult. However, thanks to years of experience and lots of therapy, I figured out how to live my life without too much difficulty; until I got pregnant. Between the hormones and all the worries that come along with bringing a new person into the world, I basically had to start all over when it came to figuring out how to deal with my anxiety. Motherhood can make a woman's anxiety worse, but there are definitely ways to cope.
It's important to note that parenthood can make everyone feel anxious or worried at times, but there is a difference between experiencing normal worry and having an anxiety disorder. For instance, it's common for new moms to be worried about their new baby's breathing. It's not normal to forfeit sleep so you can stare at your newborn all night to make sure their chest continues to rise and fall, like I sometimes would. It's normal to be concerned about the baby being around sick people. It's not normal to avoid leaving the house for days on end because you're worried someone might cough near him on the train.
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If you're finding that the following aspects of motherhood are becoming too much for you to handle on your own, know that you are totally not alone. Talk to someone about it and figure out what you need to feel better. You deserve to live your best life.
Maternity Hormones Are No Joke
For moms who become mothers biologically, the fluctuating hormones that come with pregnancy, childbirth, and lactation can really run you ragged. Maternity hormones can be hellish, causing mood swings and lots of other internal turmoil, while the brain changes associated with pregnancy can make you hyper-aware of everything around you and your baby, which can be extra hard for a person with anxiety, whose brain is already extra alert and vigilant.
How to cope: Be gentle with yourself, and do whatever you can to get as much rest as possible. Making a person is hard work, and your body needs even more rest and nourishment than normal, in order to keep up with the physical and emotional demands of that and for your mind to be able to deal with all of the changes you're experiencing. (Also? Society as a whole needs to step up and demand better public policies for working families, so mothers can have the time and resources we need to take care of ourselves during this vulnerable time.)
Moms Can Become Isolated And Go Long Periods Of Time Without Necessary Support
Most Americans live on our own without the constant company and help of extended family and close-knit neighbors. For mothers, that translates to being alone a lot while caring for our kids, especially when they're really young. That means we'll be doing more for and with our kids than parents in other parts of the world (and in other time periods), which makes motherhood more tiring and less fun than our bodies and minds are set up to handle. Another thing that's bad for everyone, but worse for moms with anxiety. Doing more with less creates more stress, and causes us to feel inadequate and worry that we're letting our families down. Hello, downward spiral of feeling anxious, then becoming less capable, then worrying more as a result.
How to cope: Build your mom squad. Especially if you don't have close family nearby (or are estranged from toxic family members), make an effort to keep in touch with your friends, and get to know at least a few nearby neighbors. Go to events for families in your community, for the regular company, and for the opportunities to make friends. Even if they don't all become people who can babysit for you or anything like that, having a bit of time every day to see friendly faces and make conversation makes a huge difference.
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Parenting is a high-stakes endeavor, especially for moms, who are often disproportionately responsible for caring for kids and are targeted by the rest of society with all sorts of demands to do all of our jobs (as parents, as partners, as friends, as workers) perfectly, without nearly enough help. The pressure to do any of these things to those high standards would be enough to make us anxious on its own (hence why many of us begin motherhood with an anxiety diagnosis), but combining them is a lot.
How to cope: Let go of the idea that perfection is attainable or even desirable. Figure out which parenting decisions really are high-stakes, versus which ones are just a bunch of hype. A lot of the things people say you have to do as a mom are totally optional, and just add needless items to your to-do list (and thus, needless worry and feelings of inadequacy when that list never gets done). Prioritizing is key. Decide what you actually care about, spend your time on that, and let the rest go.
We're Raising Kids In A Terrifying World
The world we live in can be a really scary place. In addition to the ordinary physical, social, environmental, and economic threats we face, we're also far more aware of all the possible dangers that could exist, even if they're actually very rare. News reports constantly warn of everything from kidnappings, to deadly epidemics, to war and terrorism, and so on. Vivid, negative information tends to stick in our brains, which makes them feel more likely to happen to us, even if our actual risk of falling prey to any of these threats is minimal. It's bad enough to brave such a scary world on our own, but thinking of having to protect our defenseless children from these threats can make motherhood feel like a minefield.
How to cope: First, it's critical to recognize that not all of the dangers looming large in our brains are realistic threats to us. Ignoring and/or reality-checking sensationalized media reports and fear-mongering media personalities is both an important self-care practice and a fantastic way to model critical awareness for our kids.
Additionally, getting a more realistic sense of what kinds of risks our children face so we can focus on reasonable precautions to protect from those, is better for their safety and our mental health. Keeping up with doctor's appointments and vaccinations, protecting against common household hazards for kids, limiting how much we drive whenever possible, and helping kids learn how to care and advocate for themselves is the best thing we can do.
Finally, we should stop fearing and teaching our children to fear strangers. It makes the world feel needlessly scary and hostile, and limits our sources of support as we navigate the world together. Strangers are least likely to abduct or abuse our kids, especially if we exercise common sense about supervision and teach our kids never to go off with people they don't know. Furthermore, by prioritizing teaching kids about body safety and consent, we can help protect them from childhood sexual abuse from both known and unknown attackers, as well as help them avoid being victims or perpetrators of sexual assault as they get older.
Motherhood Makes It Harder To Engage In Self-Care
Self-care is critical to anyone's health and well-being, but it's especially important for those of us struggling with conditions like anxiety. Having kids simultaneously introduces a new source of anxiety into our lives, while caring for them changes our routines, upending whatever self-care practices we may have in place and making it harder to find the time and energy we need to take care of ourselves.
How to cope: Ask for help. Find other people to help you (and your partner, if they're in the picture) with your little one(s) so you can take time for yourself. Also, stick to a routine as much as possible, so you can start to identify the moments in your day when you can do the things you need to feel your best, whether that's exercising, getting a nap, taking a long shower, or vegging out with a book, hobby, or whatever else makes you happy. Moms are not a superheroes, and we can't care for others if we don't care for ourselves, so make this a priority.


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I have to silence myself. I'm too easily angered, saddened, disappointed, shocked, etc. I have to pause, close my eyes, and take a deep breath. Does it really matter? What difference does my negativity make? Does it make anything better? If not, what am I supposed to do? Am I not valid in my feelings? Of course I am. Again, however, what good does it do to speak or act in accordance with such feelings? Sure, there are proper ways of expressing those feelings so that I do not bottle them up to build up and overflow later on, but what do I do immediately when I can't yet find that appropriate way of expressing?
Sh. Silence. Breathe. It's really not worth it. Think to yourself, calmly. Empathize. Try to understand. Write privately. Let it go. Forgive.
When I'm angry and I hold it in and sit on it and let it build and play over and over in my mind – what good is it doing not only for myself but anyone around me? None.
Maybe that person who pissed me off was just having a bad day. Maybe I unknowingly did something which just happened to set them over the edge. Maybe they've been bottling things up just like me. Maybe they just don't know how to deal with that feeling.
Maybe I just shouldn't even care.
Maybe it shouldn't even bother me in the first place.
But I'm not there yet. Until then, I need to practice catching myself in those moments, recognize my feelings and accept them without expressing them inappropriately, take a deep breath and remember that I have no control over anything around me. I am, however, responsible for that over which I do have some degree of control: myself.


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Phoenix Design Week (actually a three-week event) will begin in October, and local designers are finalizing personal projects and joining efforts to raise awareness about local design and the importance of creative collaboration.
In the works, says PHXDW founder Mark Dudlik, is a pop-up Phoenix Design Museum, which will host a permanent collection and temporary exhibitions of local and national design.
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In my Rails to Trails recap I very briefly mentioned that I was selected to be on the 2017 Coeur team. From the moment I got that welcome e-mail I knew my world was changed. I had been given an opportunity to live up to my best, encourage other women to do the same, and just be a darn good person.
Since my welcome I've noticed a huge swing in how I think about challenges and obstacles. I genuinely want to be the best version of me possible. So when I was let go from what I considered my dream job on Monday I actually felt relief. That evening I laughed at myself, who am I? Why am I not sobbing into a plate of pancakes right now?
In that position, which I LOVED, I never felt like I could be me. If I had a slight difference of opinion or preference it was perceived as negativity. I don't believe that an entire office all has to like bratwurst. Is that an unwritten rule somewhere? I don't like bratwurst, but it doesn't mean that I'm not a compatible person. I can eat a turkey sandwich while my office mates eat bratwurst. We'll all be fed and happy. Isn't that how it should work?
In hindsight, what I truly believe to be the deal breaker in my employment there was that I signed up for Ironman Wisconsin 2017. I often felt like my triathlon hobby wasn't supported there, at a Fitness company (insert LOL here). If you're not familiar with the strengths of a triathlete, let me tell you that they are the best at time management skills, they are driven, self-motivated, and get things done.
So here it is, my chance to truly show heart and courage with a giant life challenge. I'm confident. Hear me roar! I can't wait to meet my future employer who embraces diversity and the drive of a triathlete.


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Father's Day Golf
Today was simultaneously my Dad's birthday and Father's Day, so of course we had to celebrate. And what better way than with some golf.
Dad, my brother Chris and I hit the links in Ft. Worth at 6:45 am, while it was still reasonably not hot. I put on a spectaular display of lack-of-golf-skills, probably from my near total lack of time spent on the driving range over the past few years. Chris played well and Dad played better than a 77 year old guy should play (which was, not suprisingly, good enough to beat me).
Meanwhile Mom took the kids berry picking at the Ft. Worth Botanical Gardens (I didn't ask if this was legal or not..) and they scored a few dozen pounds of grapes, blackberries, raspberries and a couple car stereos. A big lunch was next, followed by the ritual sleeping on the couch while watching golf. A fine Father's Day.


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As the plane descended at night over farm fields, Ghazweh Aljabooli reached for her 6-year-old daughter Hala. The girl was sobbing, just as she had at every takeoff and landing over the past 30 hours, "My ears hurt!" She wailed it on the flight from Amman to Paris, the flight from Paris to Houston, and now on this final leg into Des Moines. Ghazweh's older children craned to see out windows that revealed only blackness–nothing of their future.
When the passengers filed off the jetway, Ghazweh herded her five children into the concourse and looked around, unsure of what to do next. Her husband clutched a sealed white plastic bag with the insignia of the International Organization for Migration. He had been told to keep the bag visible during their trip: something of a secret code of airports, it signaled at every stop that they were refugees who needed an escort to the next flight. But now there was no next flight, or any sign of help. Ghazweh worried about what happened next–would someone be waiting?
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DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa.– Police are searching for a man that stole eggs and money multiple times from a building in Wayne Township.
The first theft occurred on July 19. The unknown man entered the building and took six dozen eggs, which are valued at $8.00. He pretended to pay for the eggs by taking imaginary money from his wallet and putting his hand in the can.
The second theft came on August 23, when the same man returned and took nine dozen eggs that are valued at $8.00. This time, he also removed a five dollar bill from the can.
The thief is described as approximately 25-35 years old with black hair and a black beard. He has a tribal tattoo on his left arm and drives a black Volkswagen Jetta that has a sun roof and camouflage seat covers on the front seats.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Pennsylvania State Police at Lykens at 717-362-8700.


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"I thought of objects being like biological cells and/or individual computers on a network, only able to communicate with messages" --Alan Kay, creator of Smalltalk, on the meaning of "object oriented programming"
Celluloid provides a simple and natural way to build fault-tolerant concurrent programs in Ruby. With Celluloid, you can build systems out of concurrent objects just as easily as you build sequential programs out of regular objects. Recommended for any developer, including novices, Celluloid should help ease your worries about building multithreaded Ruby programs.
Much of the difficulty with building concurrent programs in Ruby arises because the object-oriented mechanisms for structuring code, such as classes and inheritance, are separate from the concurrency mechanisms, such as threads and locks. Celluloid combines these into a single structure, an active object running within a thread, called an "actor", or in Celluloid vernacular, a "cell".
By combining concurrency with object oriented programming, Celluloid frees you up from worry about where to use threads and locks. Celluloid combines them together into a single concurrent object oriented programming model, encapsulating state in concurrent objects and thus avoiding many of the problems associated with multithreaded programming. Celluloid provides many features which make concurrent programming simple, easy, and fun:
Automatic "deadlock-free" synchronization: Celluloid uses a concurrent object model which combines method dispatch and thread synchronization. Each actor is a concurrent object running in its own thread, and every method invocation is wrapped in a fiber that can be suspended whenever it calls out to other actors, and resumed when the response is available. This means methods which are waiting for responses from other actors, external messages, or other system events (including I/O with Celluloid::IO) can be suspended and will never block other methods that are ready to run. This won't prevent bugs in Celluloid, bugs in other thread-safe libraries you use, and even certain "dangerous" features of Celluloid from causing your program to deadlock, but in general, programs built with Celluloid will be naturally immune to deadlocks.
Fault-tolerance: Celluloid has taken to heart many of Erlang's ideas about fault-tolerance in order to enable self-healing applications. The central idea: have you tried turning it off and on again? Celluloid takes care of rebooting subcomponents of your application when they crash, whether it's a single actor, or large (potentially multi-tiered) groups of actors that are all interdependent. This means rather than worrying about rescuing every last exception, you can just sit back, relax, and let parts of your program crash, knowing Celluloid will automatically reboot them in a clean state. Celluloid provides its own implementation of the core fault-tolerance concepts in Erlang including linking, supervisors, and supervision groups.
Futures: Ever wanted to call a method "in the background" and retrieve the value it returns later? Celluloid futures do just that. It's like calling ahead to a restaurant to place an order, so they can work on preparing your food while you're on your way to pick it up. When you ask for a method's return value, it's returned immediately if the method has already completed, or otherwise the current method is suspended until the value becomes available.
You can also build distributed systems with Celluloid using its sister project DCell. Evented IO similar to EventMachine (with a synchronous API instead of callback/deferrable soup) is available through the Celluloid::IO library.
Like Celluloid? Join the mailing list/Google Group or visit us on IRC at #celluloid on freenode
Is it any good?
Is It "Production Ready™"?
Yes, many users are now running Celluloid in production.
Please see the Celluloid Wiki for more detailed documentation and usage notes.
The following API documentation is also available:
Related Projects
Celluloid is the parent project of a related ecosystem of other projects. If you like Celluloid we definitely recommend you check them out:
- Reel: An "evented" web server based on
- DCell: The Celluloid actor protocol distributed over 0MQ
- ECell: Mesh strategies for
Celluloidactors distributed over 0MQ
- Celluloid::IO: "Evented" IO support for
- Celluloid::ZMQ: "Evented" 0MQ support for
- Celluloid::DNS: An "evented" DNS server based on
- Celluloid::SMTP: An "evented" SMTP server based on
- Lattice: A concurrent realtime web framework based on
- nio4r: "New IO for Ruby": high performance IO selectors
- Timers: A generic Ruby timer library for event-based systems
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'celluloid'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install celluloid
Inside of your Ruby program, require Celluloid with newest API:
require 'celluloid/current'
Or to support the old API, use:
require 'celluloid/backported'
Cloning via GitHub
Right now
Celluloid has a submodule. To install the framework via GitHub, you need to clone the submodules as well.
Clone from scratch:
$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/celluloid/celluloid
If you already cloned
Celluloid without submodules:
Run the following command in the directory containing
git submodule update --init --recursive
Supported Platforms
Celluloid works on Ruby 2.0+, JRuby 1.7+, and Rubinius 2.0.
JRuby or Rubinius are the preferred platforms as they support true thread-level parallelism when executing Ruby code, whereas MRI/YARV is constrained by a global interpreter lock (GIL) and can only execute one thread at a time.
Celluloid requires Ruby 1.9 mode or higher on all interpreters.
Additional Reading
- Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming in Python with ATOM: a similar system to Celluloid written in Python
Contributing to Celluloid
- Fork this repository on github
- Make your changes and send us a pull request
- If we like them we'll merge them
- If we've accepted a patch, feel free to ask for commit access
Copyright (c) 2011-2016 Tony Arcieri, Donovan Keme.
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for further details.


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Cassano Joins Call for Passage of 'Time's Up' Package of Sexual Harassment Laws
State Senator Steve Cassano (D-Manchester) and other members of the Senate Democratic Caucus today declared that "time's up" on the problem of sexual harassment and sexual assault, as caucus members announced a legislative package that includes the largest overhaul in modern history of Connecticut's sexual harassment and sexual assault laws.
"Sexual harassment has become a national issue when it goes from the White House all the way down to the smallest family business. It's an issue that has been swept under the rug for decades—all three of my daughters have come to me in the past with stories of sexual harassment of varying degrees," Sen. Cassano said. "My hope is this bill will help create a work environment and a civic environment free of sexual harassment."
The legislation, known as the "Time's Up Act," reforms Connecticut's sexual harassment and sexual assault laws and processes to create stronger protections for victims and to increase penalties for offenders by:
- reforming the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO) complaint process
- strengthening and expands Connecticut's mandated reporter laws
- eliminating statutes of limitation for all felony sexual assault crimes
- increasing financial penalties for offenders
- providing for injunctive relief and punitive damages
- eliminating secret settlements
- strengthening CHRO
- setting a universal process for investigations of harassment complaints against school administrators, and
- requiring increased training and education in Connecticut workplaces.
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Posts Tagged 'Africa'
Mugabe Cancels Visit to Ecuador Following Wiesenthal Center Protest
Buenos Aires, September 28, 2010
Zimbabwe's dictator, Robert Mugabe cancelled a scheduled trip to Ecuador, where he was to receive a Doctorate Honoris Causa in Civil Law from Bishop Walter Crespo Guarderas, self-declared head of "the Anglican Province of Ecuador". Mugabe's host has been linked with former Bishop of Harare, Dr. Nolbert Kunonga's "Anglican Province of Zimbabwe", and was charged, in 2001, with allegedly supplying arms to the FARC terrorist movement of Colombia.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center had expressed indignation at the planned visit to Quito, due to take place following the UN General Assembly in New York.
In a letter to Ecuador's Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patiño, Dr. Shimon Samuels (Wiesenthal Center Director for International Relations) and Sergio Widder (Director for Latin America) had noted that "Mugabe's dictatorship has, for over three decades, set a record in human rights violations… his troops' massacre of over 20,000 Matabele, in 1983-84, has been denounced as genocide and documented by the African Union", adding, "Mr. Minister, lead the way in declaring this tyrant persona non grata throughout the Americas".
"Investigate Mugabe's host, Reverend Walter Crespo, for reported links with Zimbabwe's oppressive system and publicly condemn this honorary doctorate award initiative", had urged Samuels.
"Mugabe's presence in Ecuador would offend human rights victims and whitewash such abuses in Latin America", had added Widder.
Following its protest, the Center received an official letter from Ecuador's Foreign Ministry stating that Mugabe had cancelled his "private visit" to that country.
"We construe from this diplomatic response that the tyrant is not welcome in Ecuador and hope that this sets a precedent throughout Latin America", concluded Samuels and Widder
For further information contact Shimon Samuels at +336 09770158, or Sergio Widder at +54911 4425-1306, join the Center on Facebook, www.facebook.com/simonwiesenthalcenter, or follow @simonwiesenthal for news updates sent direct to your Twitter page or mobile device.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations with over 400.000 members. It is an NGO at international agencies including the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, the Council of Europe, the OAS and the Latin American Parliament
Mugabe Cancels Visit to Ecuador Following Wiesenthal Center Protest | Simon Wiesenthal Center
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Why Africa won't be the next Bric
August 27, 2010 5:26pm
Prompted by this week's application from South Africa for Bric "membership", the man who coined the acronym – Jim O'Neill of Goldman Sachs – asks in today's FT whether Africa as a whole could become the next Bric.
On several measures he says the continent has a reasonably strong case, but he notes that its biggest economies would still need to raise their games on many fronts – and he misses some more profound weaknesses in the Africa-as-a-Bric idea.
O'Neill created the Bric acronym in 2001 as a neat way of grouping together four countries that shared the potential for generating rapid growth, attracting foreign investment, and reshaping the global economy.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, managing director at the World Bank, latched onto the idea of Africa joining the group in a speech earlier this year in which she sold it as a "trillion dollar economy".
It's high time Africa saw and presented itself as the fifth Bric, an attractive destination for investment, not just aid. This is realistic and within reach. As Nelson Mandela said, "It always seems impossible until it's done".
But before you can decide where to squeeze an "a" into the acronym, old Africa hands will jump in to say that it's nonsense to compare it to a single country: not only is Africa a continent, it's arguably the most diverse on the planet in terms of economics, politics, culture and the environment.
What's more, 20 African countries have populations of less than 5m people. O'Neill is alive to that and focuses his discussion on the biggest African economies.
If you … look at the potential of the 11 largest African economies for the next 40 years (by studying their likely demographics, the resulting changes in their working population and their productivity) their combined GDP by 2050 would reach more than $13,000bn, making them bigger than either Brazil or Russia, although not China or India.
But even those 11 are highly diverse – including two of the biggest, Egypt and Nigeria. And due to Africa's lamentable roads and railways, as well as its internal border restrictions, many of them function as isolated economic islands.
Afro-optimists would say regional trading blocs are changing that, but the reality is that only about 10 to 12 per cent of African trade takes place with other African countries, according to a study from the UN Economic Commission for Africa and others.
For those reasons, it doesn't make a lot of sense to suppose that Africa's biggest economies will follow the same development trajectories over the next few years, let alone the next few decades.
Yet it's worth remembering that the Bric grouping initially attracted flak for not having any coherence either, but its runaway popularity with western businesses and investors has given the four countries more in common than they had before.
Funnily enough, one thing they share is a growing hunger for mineral resources from Africa (notably Nigeria, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sudan).
But it's doubtful whether any country other than South Africa has the right mix of factors to make it an attractive destination for serious western investment, across a broader range of sectors, which could rival that going to the Brics.
Earlier this year Shanta Devarajan, the World Bank's chief economist for Africa, responded with a dose of scepticism to Okonjo-Iweala's call:
The distinguishing feature of the Brics is that they are both middle-income and large. So it's not clear how any individual African country can aspire to being a Bric. Countries such as Malaysia or Chile may be more appropriate models for most African countries.
To achieve their "2050 potential", O'Neill says African countries need more macroeconomic stability, less external debt, a stronger rule of law, better education, (even) more mobile telephones, and a purge of corruption.
But it's worth paying more attention to the parallel trends of population growth (seen as a good thing by many investors in India and Brazil) and job creation (a difficult task that most African governments are failing to manage).
Each of the Bric countries have their own pockets of poverty, and in some parts of Africa poverty is actually falling. But too many countries are producing more people than they can employ. And not only does that limit their potential as new consumer markets. It has ugly consequences in terms of crime, conflict and social unrest that can strangle economic growth.
Related reading:
Building Brics, FT
Is Russia the best Bric after all? beyondbrics
Why Africa won't be the next Bric | beyondbrics | FT.com
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DRC: Independent Audit Of First Quantum Mining Firm To Be Launched
The Democratic Republic of Congo plans to audit the operations of First Quantum Minerals Ltd. in the country to examine "suspected wide-scale misconduct," Bloomberg reported Aug. 31, citing Mines Minister Martin Kabwelulu. A body engaged in financial auditing will carry out the investigation, which will look into allegations that First Quantum illegally exported copper ore without fully declaring it.
Rogers Says World Needs Higher Interest Rates, Commodities Set to Advance – Bloomberg
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Sub-Saharan Africa economy: Strategic rise
July 13th 2010
Rising global competition for commodities is giving a new strategic importance to resource-rich Sub-Saharan Africa. China and other emerging industrialised countries are vying with the subcontinent's former colonial powers to acquire long-term stakes in mines, oilfields and other commodity assets. With unprecedented volumes of investment on offer, the stakes are high not only for resource companies seeking to expand in Africa but also for the region itself. The challenge for African governments will be to manage their commodities better to avoid a repeat of the boom-and-bust years of the 1970s-90s.
Natural resources are hardly a new story for Sub-Saharan Africa. For decades the region has depended on exports of commoditiesóoil, hard minerals and cash cropsóto fund economic growth, though often with disappointing results. The collapse in commodity prices in the late 1970s and the mismanagement of revenue inflows resulted in weak growth and rising poverty, cementing the belief that Africa's dependence on commodities retarded its economic development. However, soaring emerging-market demand for commodities in recent years, coupled with the increasing scarcity of hydrocarbons and hard minerals, has changed the picture. Sub-Saharan Africa has become a prime target for adventurous foreign investorsówith Chinese companies playing a particularly prominent roleówith the result that the subcontinent once again has the opportunity to benefit from its natural wealth.
Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the most commodity-rich regions of the planet. The subcontinent contains the majority of known reserves of many key minerals, including 90% of the world's platinum-group metals, 90% of the world's chromium, two-thirds of the world's manganese, and 60% of its diamonds. It contains 60% of the world's phosphates, 50% of the world's vanadium, and 40-50% of the world's gold. Sub-Saharan Africa also boasts one-third of the planet's uranium reserves, one-third of its bauxite, and 10% of all oil reserves (the bulk of which are concentrated in the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa).
Most of these resources are underexploited. Uneven development has resulted in a handful of countries dominating commodity exports. The most important by far, both in terms of the diversity of its commodity base and the volume of its exports, is South Africa. The subcontinent's other commodity giant is the Democratic Republic of Congo, which sits on over half of the world's cobalt reserves and 25% of its diamonds, as well as having large quantities of rare metals such as coltan (used in mobile phones). Nigeria and Angola dominate oil production. However, other countries are starting to develop their commodity resources, and several are set to become major producers in the near future. They include Guinea and Angola (iron ore), Ghana (hydrocarbons), and Guinea-Bissau (bauxite and phosphates).
Sub-Saharan Africa also boasts a large agricultural sector. Much of this focused on the production of cash crops for export to the West during the colonial period and in the first years after independence. Since the late 1970s Africa has lost global importance as an exporter of many cash crops. The main exceptions have been coffee, cocoa and tea, for which CÙte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Uganda and Kenya remain key global producers, and more specialised crops like cashew nuts (Guinea-Bissau) and vanilla (Madagascar). However, increased competition from Asian and Latin American producers, coupled with a decline in Africa's terms of trade, has eroded profitability. Africa also continues to export large quantities of timber, particularly to China, but poor forestry management is threatening the sector's sustainability.
A scramble for access
Major emerging markets are playing a key role in the development of the region's commodities sector. Since the early 2000s China has invested heavily in African commodities, reflecting the two-pronged strategy of China's state-owned oil and mining companies: first, acquiring access to reserves through long-term contracts; and second, purchasing stakes in local ventures whenever possible. According to the Chinese government, by end-2008 total Chinese investment in Sub-Saharan Africa amounted to US$26bn, including stakes in oil and gas concessions in Sudan and the Gulf of Guinea, copper mines in Zambia, iron concessions in Gabon, and ferrochrome and platinum mines in South Africa.
China is not the only player around. Chinese interest is increasingly being matched by investment from Indian or Indian-linked firms, notably the steel manufacturing giants Tata Steel and ArcelorMittal, which are acquiring stakes in large coal concessions in Mozambique. Brazil is also stepping up its investment. Given the expertise of Brazilian companies in construction, engineering and the oil sector, it is likely that these firms will provide stiff competition for contracts in the next phase of Africa's infrastructure expansion.
Competition looks set to be particularly intense in the Gulf of Guinea, which continues to grow in strategic importance thanks to the steady increase in its proven oil reserves (a result of better deep-water drilling technology). The region is already the focus of military co-operation programmes between African governments and the US, EU and China. Tensions between these powers could increase as each seeks to establish a foothold in the region. Such a situation could prove advantageous to countries in the Gulf of Guinea if they are able to play off competing powers against each other. However, past experience indicates that such competition and strategic alliances can be used to prop up unsavoury regimes. This also poses potential difficulties for foreign investors. China is learning the hard way that its resource grabs can expose it to reputational risks over human-rights and environmental abuses.
Reaping the benefits?
There are plenty of other challenges. The region exports a lot of its commodities in unprocessed form, thus missing the chance to add value to them. For example, Guinea-Bissau exports its entire cashew crop (over 90% of the country's exports) to India for processing. The creation of low-tech processing operations could capture more of the value of the crop, as well as creating significant numbers of jobs. However, efforts to develop processing industries in Africa have proved disappointing owing to the constraints of the business environment, poor management and competition from processors in India and China.
Broader challenges include managing capital inflows better and maximising the economic benefits of foreign investments. Progress is occurring, with improved local-content provisions in mining contracts, the imposition of tighter environmental standards and greater transparency over commodity revenues. However, greater efforts are needed. African governments must ensure that infrastructure development does not just support the exploitation and export of minerals but also facilitates trade and the movement of people and goods. Local workforces must be trained in new skills and not just used for manual labour. A large proportion of oil and mineral revenues need to be held outside the countries in question in order to prevent currency appreciation that could render other industries uncompetitive.
If African governments can realise these aims, there is a good chance that the subcontinent's natural-resource endowment could provide major benefits to the population. Otherwise, the next wave of commodity development will merely entrench poor governance and corruption and further stifle economic development.
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It's not just the third world where they like unmarked envelopes….
Sleaze Factor
Is there an epidemic of corruption in the world's democracies?
Sleaze Factor – By Joshua E. Keating | Foreign Policy
more on the events surrounding Entebbe
One moment that got the 'general' on the edge
By Patrick Mathangani
On the morning of July 2, 1976, the then Ugandan president Idi Amin gathered his aides in one room at a private villa where he was staying.
He had travelled to Mauritius where an Organisation of African Unity — now African Union — meeting was going on, but planned to get back home soon to attend to a festering hostage crisis.
Palestinian and German terrorists had hijacked an Air France flight and directed it to Entebbe Airport, just a stonethrow from State House. With nearly 100 Jews on board, Israelis were bothering Amin over the issue.
It was not unlike Ugandan strongman to call such unplanned briefings. However, that morning, as the sun rose above the Indian Ocean, not even its radiance could wash away the forlorn, scared look on his face. As usual, everyone in his entourage attended the impromptu briefing – bodyguards, journalists, and Cabinet ministers. "Young men," he said, "There's going to be bad news for us."
"What's the bad news?" a Cabinet minister asked. "The Israeli's are planning something against us," said Amin.
Recalling the conversation, Haji Manishur Abiriga says Amin had earlier received a call from an Israeli army general enquiring when he was planning to return to Uganda. The Standard On Saturday established the man on the phone from Israel was Baruch Bar Lev, a former head of Israel's mission that trained Ugandan soldiers in the early 1970s. But Amin had earlier expelled the Israelis and made friends with Libya and the Russians, who were supplying him with weapons.
Now retired, Abiriga was then a journalist working with the Presidential Press Unit, and had travelled with Amin in the presidential jet.
On this morning, the president said he was bothered by the nagging calls. He asked one group of the Ugandan delegation, which had arrived in a Boeing 707, to pack and return home. The group using the presidential jet would travel the following day.
The day before, the Israelis had made an offer to negotiate with the terrorists, but this was only to buy time as they prepared a rescue plan. Amin was a central figure in the plan as he served as the link between the hijackers and Israel.
Unknown to the Ugandans, the Israelis had already established that although Amin was pleading innocence, he was on the side of terrorists. It would appear Amin sensed the Israeli's were up to no good as he called his men to prepare for any eventuality.
The following day, it was time to leave. Amin had completed his main duty here, which was to hand over the chairmanship of the now defunct OAU. But before they could take off in the afternoon, the president called one more briefing. "He told us the Israelis were planning to hold us hostage, and that they had sent planes which were circling the Indian Ocean," recalls Abiriga. But Amin had more scary news.
The president told his frightened audience: "We have explosives on board. If they come, we'll blow ourselves up."
As the presidential jet soared above the clouds, tense passengers clutched their seats. Everyone was cared. Amin, the burly military man the world referred as the "Butcher of Uganda," was scared too. They kept peeping out the tiny windows to lookout for the doomsday Israeli planes.
The planes did not come.
That day, the presidential jet did not follow the usual route.
It zig-zagged in the skies for hours on end as Amin sought to shrug off any Israelis following him.
The plane eventually landed safely a few minutes to 11pm. Amin headed straight to the airport's VIP lounge. Unlike other days, he did not hold a press briefing but promised to do so before he left for State House. Unknown to them, the Israeli planes landed at Entebbe at 11pm.
However, Major General Doron Almog of Israel's Defense Forces disputes there were any plans to kidnap Amin, and probably have him tried for terrorism.
Almog said the only mission of the raid on Entebbe was to rescue the hostages.
"It's not true. It's not relevant," he said in a telephone interview.
"The most important issue was to bring back the Jews."
However, the fact that the Israelis landed just minutes after Amin had left the airport convinces those who were with him he had just escaped a plot to kidnap him.
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Capital gains on the sale of shares for the fourth quarter were EUR 151 million equalling non-recurring charges for the quarter (October-December 1999: net capital gains EUR 390 million).
Non-recurring charges include EUR 128 million write-down due to harmonizing the depreciation method of Miramichi mill with the one of UPM-Kymmene. The maximum depreciation period for Miramichi paper and pulp machinery was changed from 35 years to 20 years used at UPM-Kymmene.
Other non-recurring items relate to charges on reorganisation of divisions and sales organisations in North America and in Finland.
UPM-Kymmene net capital gains for the January-September period were EUR 307 (208) million.
UPM-Kymmene Corporation
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Sharing posts daily have now become a cliche for many of us. We stick to these social sites all day long, sharing our joyous moments and feeling happy seeing people responding to it. One such great social media platform is Instagram, a huge hub for sharing photos and videos. It works as the remedy for spare time where we just keep scrolling through countless photos and videos and couldn't stop admiring them. We wish we could add background music to Instagram videos!
Sometimes, we also feel like making such videos and uploading it and see how well they merge amongst Instagram users. The biggest problem which arises in such process is with superimposing an audio. A good video often comprises of a matching theme of sound. Even if you find one, there you are stuck again figuring out how to add it to the video. Well, here is the remedy to put music on videos.
How to Add Music to Instagram Videos from iPhone and Android
The process of adding audio into the video involves a third party app. It is just an app which only performs the task of creating Instagram video with music. This comes in handy for people who upload videos daily and rejoice as the audience reacts to it. There are no other functions included in it to keep the app simple. It is handy to operate from your phone. Otherwise, there are lot more apps to give your audio-visual media a professional. Let's get started…
Step #1: Download the app "Quik" by GoPro on your Android or iOS Phone.
Follow the on-screen steps to start using app.
Step #2: Once the app is installed, tap on "+" to start with the procedure.
Step #3: From the displayed gallery, choose the at least media content you want to add music to.
Step #4: Then enter an intro title. Enter any title or skip this step.
Step #5: On the next page, you will see the chosen video. Below the video, there will be cards of various colors, each consisting of different music. An audio clip will already remain equipped with the video. You can choose any one you like among the cards.
Step #6: Scroll through the cards and tap on the music you would like to add.
Step #7: If you are not happy with the provided clips, tap on the "Tone" icon from the bottom panel and select the option "More Music".
Step #8: On the next page, there will be two sections, "FEATURED" and "MY MUSIC". Select the second section if you want to choose your own track. Otherwise stay on the default page and go through what they offer to put in sync with your video.
Step #8: After selection of the music, it is time to appoint the starting and ending point of the audio. Tap on the "MUSIC START" button to start playing it.
Step #9: Use the slider to appoint the starting and ending point.
Step #10: Tap on the green bar at the bottom to save it.
The process is now complete. It is a useful app for those who upload on a regular basis their videos on Instagram. The function that the app recognizes your video and suggests audio clip is impressive. This is all that the app has to offer which is sufficient for adding music to Instagram videos. If you want to fancy your video in a more professional way, it is better to get the work done from your PC. Have fun with this app and viewers won't stop double tapping on your posts.
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Electropolishing Stainless Steel
Stainless Restoration Ltd offer an Electropolishing service to the stainless steel fabrication/manufacturing industry at its newly refurbished fully automated Electropolishing plant at Hyde Manchester.
The Electropolishing work we undertake cuts across all market sector types from small casting and component manufacturers to fabrications for the food industry to more sophisticated items such as vessels for the pharmaceutical sector. A procedure is available for the electropolishing work however it is based upon our own in-house specification.
Electropolishing Process
By applying a direct current of electricity to the item to be Electropolished whilst immersed in an electrolyte solution, metal is subsequently removed, leaving a smoothed surface that optimises the corrosion resistance of the steel in any given environment.
The surface topography changes from a jagged mountainous terrain to a lower profile such as that of a rolling hillside terrain, to continue the analogy.
Electropolishing uses low voltages of between 6 and 18 volts, but with high currents up into the 1000's of amps depending on the surface area of the work piece(s). Electrolytes used are usually mixtures of phosphoric and sulphuric acids.
The process encourages preferential dissolution of the "peaks" or high spots on the surface of the work piece. The electrons flow from the peaks (anode +) and other areas towards the (cathodes -) in doing so they remove metal stock from the surface at an atomic level.
Contamination and debris left from mechanical surface treatments is also removed by Electropolishing.
The result of this process being that the surface becomes brightly polished and much smoother without affecting the quality of the material so treated.
Advantages of Electropolishing Stainless Steel
- Bright and aesthetically pleasing
- Chemically passive
- Surface roughness reduced, smoother surface and less micro cracks
- Corrosion resistance improved due to the enrichment of a chromium oxide layer
- Reduced bacterial growth, easier cleaning due to less build-up of product on the surface of the material
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Trim the fine asparagus. Chop the garlic cloves. Remove rind from the Raven's Oak goat's cheese. Chop the basil leaves.
- 1 Heat the oven to 190°C/170°C fan/gas 5.
- 2 Set aside 12 asparagus spears. Cut the rest into 3cm lengths and put in a 900g loaf tin, with the garlic.
- 3 Season, then drizzle over 1 tbsp of the oil.
- 4 Roast for 10-15 minutes, until just tender, then tip into a bowl.
- 5 Meanwhile, put the bread mix in a bowl and stir in 350ml lukewarm water.
- 6 Mix to a soft dough, then turn out onto a clean work surface and knead for 10 minutes.
- 7 Leave to rest for 5 minutes, then cut in half.
- 8 Stretch and shape one of the dough halves to fit the tin.
- 9 Scatter over the asparagus mix, pushing it into the dough, and arrange two-thirds of the cheese on top.
- 10 Scatter over the basil.
- 11 Stretch the other dough half and place over the top, pressing down gently.
- 12 Press the reserved asparagus down onto the dough with the remaining cheese.
- 13 Cover with a piece of oiled clingfilm and leave in a warm place for 35-45 minutes, until doubled in size.
- 14 Heat the oven to 220°C/200°C fan/gas 7.
- 15 Brush the loaf with the remaining oil and bake for 25 minutes, until golden.
- 16 Remove from the tin and cool on a wire rack. Serve in slices.
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Show stopper, tasty,
- Average per serving
- Calories 231.0kCal
- Fat11.4g
- Saturated6.1g
- Salt0.79g
- Carbohydrates21.5
- Sugar0.8g
- Protein10.1g
- Fibre1.3g


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So, what is Beasts Battle 2?
This is a turn-based strategy game in an attractive 2D world, consisting of two game modes: a world map that the protagonist explores and the battlegrounds in which he fights along with his army.
During the journey through the game world, the player will get acquainted with the plot of the game, thanks to interesting and amusing dialogues, will be able to perform side quests and strengthen his army with new creatures or improve existing ones. As the game progresses, the hero can strengthen himself and his army by pumping a tree of skills and finding artifacts.
Battles on the battlefields go through the classic turn-based hex system, which appeared since the time of the King's Bounty. The player has access to various kinds of creatures with special abilities and abilities, as well as a book of spells.
The game features different difficulty modes. Easy mode will allow you to get acquainted with the game's story, not deepening into combat tactics, when as complex the player will require a certain tactical skill on the battlefields.
Team consists of me. 😀 and people who help me with the project and freelancers. A month ago the team was replenished with one more member who is working on the promotion of the project and writes texts and press releases.
Heroes of Might and Magic and King's Bounty series for sure. I am a big fan! And I wanted to create something of my own with story, battles and wonderful world.
I read various sources about the development and release of games on the Internet. On the Corona I found for myself a lot of interesting things, I was able to learn about the process of developing some games, get acquainted with them.
I was inspired by some of your articles. Stories of people's work and success makes me motivated to move forward.
I have a conversation with you now before the release of my game, ha-ha. Perhaps without charges of energy that I get every time I go to the Corona, this would not have happened.
As I said before – stories of developers on Corona make feel that you are not alone. And you can make it.
Make a team. Be persistent. Be prepared for unforeseen expenses.
I already do it. Some of my friends-developers after visiting Corona ask me to translate some incomprehensible moments to them 🙂 Corona is a resource where every novice developer can find something useful for himself, which in the future will help him with the development.
This is an incomparable feeling – not just to bring your child to the release, but also to see that the result may be interesting to other people.
I put a little bit of my soul into this game. I try to make it as pleasant and interesting for the player as possible. So I appeal to the professional artists and musicians to create awesome content and experience for my players.
I used to develop mobile applications to order, but then I decided to try myself in creating a big project – the first part of Beasts Battle. The game was well met but I wanted more. That's how Greenolor studio appears. Now, team consists of me. 😀 And PR manager. And people who help me with the project and freelancers.
About a year. Sometimes I had to pause to earn extra money at my main job.
No, I made it by my own earnings.
Management. Seek out freelancers, hire them, negotiate with them about work, check execution, check for non-fulfillment, look for new ones. Sometimes it was exhausting.
At start – my own wishes mostly I think. And after – the wishes and advice of testers and other people.
In Beasts Battle 2 its own unique world, created by a professional screenwriter, musician and artists. I try to make sure that the player can immerse himself in the world of the game at the time of walkthrough and get bright emotions.
Surround myself with my cats, my wife and of course my code.
I feel a little bit oldschool because I take money only for the main game. No donate for ingame bonuses, no loot-boxes. Just the game. And additional media content for it – music and concept art.
I do not want to make any plans, but for me, of course, two important indicators are important – positive feedback about the game and the number of purchases.
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The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is a revisionist comic book story by Don Rosa about Scrooge McDuck. Originally, the story had twelve chapters totalling 212 pages. Since then, there have been additional chapters, and the original stories have also been slightly expanded and tweaked in later releases. The story follows the main events of Scrooge's life between 1877 and 1947, including almost all references found in Carl Barks stories about Scrooge's life until 1947 but leaving some room for Rosa and other creators to add more details later. The comic also provides information on the backgrounds and origins of many characters related to Scrooge.
Most of the chapters were released in the United States in issues of Uncle Scrooge, and in many Disney publications in Europe. Don Rosa received the Will Eisner Award for this work in 1995. The trade paperback collection was also a top votegetter for the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Favorite Reprint Graphic Novel/Album for 1997.
Chapter list
Note: Chapters Zero, and all "in-between" chapters with halves in the numbers were not included in the softcover collection in North America. These chapters were later reprinted in a separate book published by Gemstone, titled The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion.
|Chapter Title
|Story code
|First publication in United States
|Of Ducks, Dimes and Destinies
|Uncle Scrooge #297
|Magica De Spell travels back in time to 1877 to steal Scrooge's Number One Dime before he earns it.
|The Last of the Clan McDuck
|Uncle Scrooge #285
|The story take place between 1877-1880. As a child, Scrooge comes in conflict with The Whiskervilles, earns his Number One Dime and heads for the United States on a cattle boat.
|The Master of the Mississippi
|Uncle Scrooge #286
|The story take place between 1880-1882. Scrooge works for his Uncle Angus "Pothole" McDuck and has his first encounter with Blackheart Beagle and his sons, the Beagle Boys.
|The Buckaroo of the Badlands
|Uncle Scrooge #287
|The story take place between 1882-1883. Scrooge becomes a cowboy and winds up having to recover a prize bull for his boss Murdo MacKenzie and meets future President Theodore Roosevelt while doing so. Scrooge suggests that Roosevelt take up politics.
|The Cowboy Captain of the Cutty Sark
|Uncle Scrooge #318
|The story take place in 1883. Scrooge imports some cattle to Indonesia but encounters a thief and meets his old friend Ratchet Gearloose from his Riverboat days.
|Raider of the Copper Hill
|Uncle Scrooge #288
|The story take place between 1883-1885. Scrooge takes some prospecting lessons from Howard Rockerduck and almost takes over The Anaconda Copper Mine of Butte, Montana from Marcus Daly.
|The New Laird of Castle McDuck
|Uncle Scrooge #289
|The story take place in 1885. Scrooge returns to Scotland to save Castle McDuck from being bought by The Whiskervilles.
|The Terror of the Transvaal
|Uncle Scrooge #290
|The story take place between 1886-1889. Scrooge goes to the South African Republic where he first encounters Flintheart Glomgold.
|The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff
|Uncle Scrooge #306
|The story take place in 1890. Scrooge returns to the United States and joins with Phineas Taylor Barnum, Angus McDuck, Geronimo, Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley in a mission of recovering money stolen from the Dalton Gang.
|Dreamtime Duck of the Never-Never
|Uncle Scrooge #291
|The story take place between 1893-1896. Scrooge goes to Australia and learns about the Dreamtime.
|King of the Klondike
|Uncle Scrooge #292
|The story take place between 1896-1897. Scrooge finally goes to The Yukon, participating in the Klondike Gold Rush, and strikes some gold, but not before being kidnapped by crooked profiteer Soapy Slick.
|The Prisoner of White Agony Creek
|The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion
|The story take place in 1897. Scrooge takes Goldie O'Gilt to his property and makes her dig for gold. This was shown in the uncensored Barks-classic "Back to the Klondike".
|Hearts of the Yukon
|Walt Disney Giant #1
|The story take place in 1898. Scrooge is falsely accused of tracking mud in Dawson. He plans to clear his name by any means and thinks that Glittering Goldie O'Gilt is the one that framed him.
|The Billionaire of Dismal Downs
|Uncle Scrooge #293
|The story take place between 1898-1902. After becoming a billionaire, Scrooge goes back to Scotland only to realize that he doesn't really belong there anymore.
|The Invader of Fort Duckburg
|Uncle Scrooge #294
|The story take place in 1902. Scrooge and his sisters move to Duckburg, Calisota, USA and meet The Duck family and the founding three members of The Junior Woodchucks. Scrooge has his first run in with The Beagle Boys since his riverboat days and is reacquainted to President Theodore Roosevelt.
|The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut
|Uncle Scrooge #332
|The story take place in 1906. Scrooge and his sisters Matilda McDuck and Hortense McDuck are prospecting for gold in Panama. Their search inadvertently interferes with the construction of the Panama Canal and President Roosevelt is on a mission to resolve this problem.
|The Empire-Builder from Calisota
|Uncle Scrooge #295
|The story take place between 1909-1930. Scrooge goes around the world making all kinds of business deals, notably including forcing the Voodoo tribe of sorcerer Foola Zoola off their land and burning their village out of lust for money. In revenge, the sorcerer curses him to be constantly haunted by Bombie the Zombie. He realizes the mistake that he has done and feels bad, returns to Duckburg and first meets his ten-year-old nephew Donald Duck, along with his twin sister Della Thelma Duck. On the same day, he loses contact with his family and becomes the richest duck in the world.
|The Richest Duck in the World
|Uncle Scrooge #296
|The story take place in 1947 on Christmas Day, between the last two pages of Scrooge's debut story, "Christmas on Bear Mountain". After 17 years of having lost contact with his family, Scrooge invites Donald and Huey, Dewey, and Louie to Christmas Dinner. He introduces them to his old Money Bin, and the new generation of Beagle Boys also introduce themselves.
Scrooge McDuck (unofficial) timeline according to the series
- 1867: Scrooge was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to Fergus McDuck and Downy O'Drake. He would have two younger sisters, namely Matilda McDuck and Hortense McDuck.
- 1877: Scrooge becomes a shoe polisher, but his first customer fools him and pays him with an American dime. He keeps the dime he cannot spend as his symbol of success.
- 1880: Scrooge emigrates to the United States. He first meets his uncle, Mississippi riverboater Angus "Pothole" McDuck, and the Beagle Boys, a family of outlaws that remain his enemies for the rest of his life.
- 1882: His uncle retires and leaves his riverboat, named Dilly Dollar, to Scrooge. The Beagle Boys destroy the riverboat in an act of revenge. Scrooge decides to try his luck in the American West and later in the year gets hired as a cowboy by cattle baron Murdo MacKenzie (an actual historical figure, one of the many that Scrooge met).
- 1883: Scrooge becomes a miner searching for silver and copper.
- 1885: Scrooge's father calls his son back to Scotland on an important family matter. Just a week before he leaves he meets and befriends the millionaire Howard Rockerduck, who had become rich in the California gold rush of 1849. He also meets Howard's seven-year-old spoiled son John Rockerduck, who will grow up to become one of Scrooge's main rivals.
- 1886–1889: Scrooge searches for gold in South Africa. During his first year there he saves the life of a duck about his age named Flintheart Glomgold, though Scrooge learns his name more than half a century later. A little later they become bitter enemies, and remain as such for the rest of their lives. Glomgold later became the second richest duck in the world.
- 1889–1893: Scrooge returns to the United States to search for gold. He meets many famous historical figures but his search fails.
- 1893–1896: Scrooge goes to Australia to search for gold but his search again fails.
- 1896–1899: Scrooge searches for gold in the Klondike. During his years there he meets the saloon owner, singer and occasional thief "Glittering" Goldie O'Gilt. He carries a love/hate relationship with her for the rest of his life. His search for gold succeeds.
- 1897: Scrooge's mother Downy O'Drake dies in Dismal Downs.
- 1899–1902: Scrooge becomes a millionaire and buys a bank. He starts building a small financial empire; by 1902 he has become a billionaire.
- 1902: Scrooge returns to Scotland to get his sisters Matilda McDuck and Hortense McDuck to come to America with him. Also in 1902, Scrooge's father Fergus McDuck dies, aged 67, in Dismal Downs. Scrooge, Matilda and Hortense are the last of the McDuck clan. Scrooge settles in the small village of Duckburg, Calisota, USA, which he chose as his home base.
- 1909–1930: While his sisters remain in Duckburg and run his empire, Scrooge travels the world expanding his empire in every continent.
- 1930: Scrooge becomes the richest duck in the world, but a fight with his family leaves him with no contact with them for the next seventeen years. Note that during this year he met his ten-year-old nephew Donald Fauntleroy Duck and his nephew's twin sister Della for the first time.
- 1942: Scrooge feels depressed and tired and decides to retire.
- 1947-today: Scrooge meets his nephew Donald Duck again and his grandnephews, Della's children, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. He decides to become active again and soon a circle of activities whirl around him as he attracts the attention of relatives, old and new enemies and friends.
In 2014, Finnish composer Tuomas Holopainen released a concept album based on the comic, titled Music Inspired by The Life and Times of Scrooge. Don Rosa illustrated the cover artwork for the album.
The showrunners of the 2017 reboot of DuckTales were greatly inspired by The Life and Times of Scrooge in terms of tone and Scrooge's characterization and made it required reading for all writers on the show.
- The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Gemstone Publishing, ISBN 0-911903-96-8 (only includes parts #1-12).
- The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion, Gemstone Publishing, ISBN 1-888472-40-5 (has parts #0, 3B, 6B, 8B, 8C, 10B, "Dreams of a Lifetime" and part of "Last Sled to Dawson").
Rosa, D. (2007). Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. Gladstone Pub.
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