Acrobat Reader DC, the free download (formally known as Adobe Reader) is available for the desktop, iPhone, and iPad.
Important announcement on Installing Acrobat DC
Be aware that the installation of Acrobat Pro DC will automatically remove Acrobat XI. Be especially concerned if you have some plug-ins installed in A-XI. The updater for DC will replace your XI with DC; when the installation is done, everything Adobe XI will be gone.
In the first couple of days after release, this was done with no warning, comment, or anything. After a day or so, a warning did come up letting you know this could happen, but if you had any internal plug-ins within A-XI, they were gone. Preference settings, gone. Pre-flight settings, gone. Not even in the trashcan recoverable, just gone. Whether the manufacturers of those plug-ins have upgraded to Acrobat Pro DC or not is unknown by yours truly.
The good news is that if you are on a Mac there are two ways around this; either rename the folder for Acrobat Pro XI or Zip it (compress it) before installing Acrobat Pro DC. Then, after installation, uncompress Acrobat Pro XI and you should be good to go. Some people have simply placed the Acrobat XI folder in the Trash before installing, then after installing DC, returned the folder back to the Applications Folder. Keep in mind though that Adobe does not support dual Acrobat instillations (they never have). While this is not possible on the PC regardless, I’ve not had issues in the past having multiple versions of Acrobat on my system but any support from Adobe is in doubt if you do have multiple versions on your computer.
If you installed Acrobat DC as a trial and decided not to continue with it and wish to go back to Acrobat XI, see these instructions from Adobe. If you’ve already lost your Acrobat XI and wish to have both Acrobat XI and Acrobat DC, you can download Acrobat XI from here. Remember, though, that even if this works (and it does seem to work fine so far on my Mac), Adobe neither supports nor recommends that you have two different releases of Acrobat on your system.
What’s very disappointing about this is that when the Creative Cloud was first introduced, Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe Systems, said that users would always have access to older versions of the software to run earlier plug-ins or features that were not carried forward. Well, this sort of broke that promise.
Looking at Acrobat Pro DC
When you first open a PDF with Acrobat Pro DC, as shown below, you can see the new UI (User Interface). There are Panels on both sides. The traditional Left Hand Panel shows bookmarks, tabs, attachments, and Layers. If you open a document with bookmarks, this Panel will open automatically. If your document doesn’t have any pre-made bookmarks, the Left Hand Panel will be closed. On the right-hand side, there is the new Tool Panel. This panel will be open every time you open any document; there is no way to not have this Panel open when you open a document. I found this dynamic not only annoying but occasionally invasive in my work. Part of the annoyance is that this Panel doesn’t respect the document. If your last open document was wide enough to see the whole document (with the RHP closed), when you open the next document, the RHP will take up space causing the document to be partially obscure by the RHP. This can be seen in the image below with the left-right scrollbar shifted off to the left.
A deal breaker? Of course not. Annoying? You bet, and I found this bordering well into the very annoying. While the new Tool Panel is very handy, if you do not need it all the time, there’s no reason to have it open all the time. Thus, you can either keep your PDF window open wide enough for there to be room to see the whole document or get ready to be closing that Panel over and over and over and over (and over).
Another thing will notice in the image below is a dark HUD (Heads Up Display) floating on the bottom providing the options for zooming in or out, closing the Page thumbnails, scrolling pages, viewing full page, and going into “Read Mode” that closes all tools and controls (except the HUD). If you bring your mouse onto the page, the HUD shows up in a flicker. When you remove your mouse from the page, the HUD goes away after about four seconds. So the process is: you come to the bottom of the page, move your mouse onto the page to make the HUD appear, click the page-down, move your mouse off the page, start to read at the top of the page and then, as a distraction, the HUD flicks away. While I know that many can focus to such a degree that objects moving in their peripheral vision do not distract them, I, unfortunately, am not one of these people, and I found this as one more annoying item. The good news is that there is a simple mechanism to get rid of it.
You can get rid of the HUD entirely by clicking on the last icon on the right. That places all of the components of the HUD in the Tool Bar at the top of the window. Repeat after me: “HUD be gone!”
If you look at the top of the window (in the image above), in the center, you can see the page number you are on (in this case 77 (82 of 458) and to the right are three icons. You can manually add any specific tool you want to this region using the Customize Quick Tools window which can be accessed by right-clicking on the Tool Bar. From this window (seen below) you can place any of the gobs and gobs of tools into that space to the right of the page number.
Sadly, there’s not that much space in this custom tool region. The lack of space is compounded even more if you move the HUD up to the top (as mentioned earlier).
In the top of the image below, I have those three icons displayed plus the HUD plus everything else there, and this takes about 1,350 pixels across the screen (in the image below, it’s about 634 pixels wide as it’s been reduced considerably for display here). the 2nd image below shows what happens if you decrease the width of the document; all of the items that do not fit are “stored” within an ellipse and display as a dropdown menu.
The Right Hand Panel and The Tools (or Operation Category)
A closer examination of the Tools Right Hand Panel (RHP), shows a new grouping and/or names of what we’ve been working with for some time. The catch here is that you do not really find Tools, per se, but rather Operational Categories in this Panel. If you can’t find the kind of tool your looking for, you can type in the task you want to perform and the location of those operations will be displayed. So, in the image below on the right side you can see that if you want to perform OCR on an image of text, that can be done from “Enhanced Scans” (or from a personal placement of the OCR tool in my Tool Bar). In addition, if you want to rotate an image, you can do that from either the “Organize Pages” collection of tools or from “Enhanced Scans.”
I should also point out the “Secret Handshake” button for opening or closing either the Right or Left Hand Panel—a small triangle button placed halfway down the Window (circled in red). If you want to open or close the Panel, you click the same button. Look for it, although admittedly, it’s easy to overlook.
As stated, when you have a Tool Set open, if you click on the “X” in the right hand corner of the window, you go back to the document you were working on to get back to that document. If you click on the “Document” tab, you are also returned to your document.
The Home Window and the Document Cloud
If you want to go back to a previously opened document at any time, simply click on the “Home” tab in the upper left corner. The Home tab lets you see any of the PDFs you’ve previously opened (you can set the number of past PDFs in the preferences, the default is 100).
Working in (and with) the Home view has a few nuances. If you now double-click on any of the previously opened PDFs, that document will open in a new window. (If you Option-double-click, it will close the previous widow.) It is this collection of Recent Documents that the Reader on your iPhone or iPad uses to access your Document Cloud Documents. [If you look at the image below, all of the files that have a little cloud icon after the name are already uploaded to the DC.] Opening a file on your desktop A-DC provides the capability to open that same document on your iPhone, iPad (Android devices, as well), or a different desktop so long as you have signed into your Adobe account on your machine(s) and devices. If you do not sign in, nothing is shared (at least on the device or machine on which you did not sign in).
One of the curious issues (and potential problems with this) is that if you open a document that is placed somewhere on your computer or (say) in a DropBox folder on your computer, and later at a different computer you click on the file from Recent Document list, Acrobat will open that document from the Acrobat Cloud, not from your DropBox. This means that if you make changes in the one in the Cloud, it will be different from the one in your DropBox. Thus, if you plan on making changes to any document, you need to do it to the same document you plan on accessing from the same location over time.
Now, one easy way to circumvent the problem is to use your “Creative Cloud” folder. Again, assuming you’ve signed into your computer with your Adobe account and you place your document into your CC folder, if you open that file in Acrobat and make changes, the changed version will show up in both your Recent list as well as back to your CC folder. If you look at the image below on the left-hand side, you can see four options for “Storage”: My Computer, Document Cloud, Creative Cloud, and “Add Account.” When you click on “Add Account,” the only current option is Microsoft SharePoint, but below that on the bottom it says, “More account types coming soon…” There is no information about what that means. Far be it from me to speculate, but I’d like to think (hope) that options such as DropBox and other similar file-sharing websites will be added.
The unstated (at least by Adobe) issue about the Document Cloud is that this feature is probably not going to fly for anyone dealing with private documents. There is a way around that, and that’s to use password protected documents. Adobe uses 256-bit AIS password protection, and unless your password is “password” or you email the password to people whom you want to open your document, you are probably in good shape. Nonetheless, the best option for those who cannot have their documents leaked is to turn the Document Cloud off.
If you click on the Tools tab, you get what you see (sort of) in the image below. What you have here are 27 different Operation Categories (actually 26, but I’ll get back to that in a moment). There doesn’t appear to be any logic or order in their placement, and all the icons are large, almost cartoonish. I’m assuming the size was selected to make the tools easier to access for touch screens, and that might be well and good, but there’s no mechanism to resize these as one can do with the size of thumbnails in other windows in Acrobat. Unless you have a very, very large screen, you cannot see all of the icons without scrolling. While the size of the icons cannot be changed, they do re-wrap as you change the size of the window. Ironically, the size of the same icons in the RHP is considerably smaller, but since I do not have a touch screen computer, I do not know if it’s any greater a challenge to select those. I speculate not.
On any of the Tools in the Tools tab, you can click on the Open button below the icon to open that tool (clicking on the tool does the same thing), add the Shortcut to the RHP, or “Learn More” which takes you to Adobe’s web site for more information on that tool.
Right-clicking on the Tools in the RHP provide significantly greater options: You can Open the Tool (or simply click on the icon), Remove the Tool from the RHP, move the Tool up or down (in its placement in the RHP), or Learn More. The fact that you can organize the tools in the RHP provides significantly more capability than you can do with the Tools in the Tool tab.
Regrettably, if an icon has already been placed in the RHP, there are no visual differences to those icons in the Tools window (if an icon is in the RHP, the icon in the Tools panel is neither ghosted nor gray to let you know that that tools is already in the RHP). Because of the complete lack of apparent logic in this region and all of the other annoyances within it, I really do not like going into it if I can avoid it at all.
On the other hand, there is one extra “Tool” option that relieves a number of the problems inherent in Acrobat Pro DC’s dropping access to individual tools (in lieu of these Operation Categories), and that is the Create Custom Tool tool.
As shown below, this feature is very similar to the Customize Quick Tool tool seen earlier in this review, but these tools are only available when selected as a set. What the Customize Quick Tool provides is the ability to make custom sets of whatever tools you want/need. If you want the ability to access the Editing of text in a form, along with the ability to add form fields in the same Tool set, here’s your opportunity.
You have complete freedom here to have the icons/tools appear on top, the side, or both. Nonetheless, it’s good that you can create and delete tool sets because you might find the process a bit confusing. For example, when you first click on a tool to move it over to the Custom Set, the tool appears under an “Untitled” heading. Clicking on “Untitled” to provide a name does nothing, but if you click on the Pencil tool, a window pops up asking for you to give this a Section Name (and this window is called “Add or Edit Label” which adds to the confusion). So you give it a name, add some more tools, move some of them up to the top, add a new section, choose not to add them to the top and start to close this window, now you are asked to provide another name. Well, this last one is for the name of the tool set.
When you open the tool set (created above) you can see what was created (below). As you can see, one advantage of using these custom tool sets is that there is more room for these tools in this Toolbar while there is a limited amount of room in the Quick Tool region. The ability to edit these tool at any time adds to their value.
Disappointingly, the tool sets cannot be synced as one can now sync application preferences in other Creative Cloud applications. Nonetheless, you can right-click on the newly created Tool Set in the Right Hand Panel and select Export and save the tool set wherever you wish on your computer. The catch here is how do you import this into any other computer? If you check the Acrobat Pro DC reference PDF, it says you can do that, but it doesn’t say how. So, here’s an AppleTell exclusive: you can import any self-created tool set by clicking on the dropdown menu for the Create Custom Tool in the Tools window and select “Import.” This capability is very important because if a company wants a set of tools for their employees to use (especially in a prescribed order), this can be distributed to the employees (and updated as need be). Notice that one can also download Custom Tools made by others that are shared online.
Scanning Paper documents to Searchable PDFs
One feature that’s been in Acrobat for some time is the ability to scan a document and have Acrobat OCR (Optical Character Recognition) turn the page to turn it into a searchable document. [One of my irks is when someone scans a document and then saves the JPG into a PDF without the conversion to scanable text. What they have is a picture of text—what OCR does is to turn the picture of text into text.]
The good news is that Acrobat’s OCR capabilities are better than ever. In my testing, I was very impressed at how well Acrobat’s OCR engine was able to deal with the nuances of text and come out with almost flawless text.
However, for some reason, Adobe chose to tie one of Acrobat’s hands behind its back and let the quality of the scan degrade in performance.
First off, depending on the kind of scanner you have and how old it is (or rather, the age of the software for that scanner), when you access the scanner from Acrobat, you very probably will be using Apple’s “Image Capture” software.
While I do appreciate Apple for taking the time out of their lives to make something as a backup scanning software application, I do fault them for making a dreadful scanning software application. My review here is of Acrobat, so I won’t go into why I think Image Capture is not good, but Acrobat took something bad and made it worse.
One thing many people overlook is that when scanning anything, any adjustments that need to be made to improve the image should be done at the time of the scan in the scanning software, This is no different than taking as good a photo as possible with your camera so that you only have to do minimal adjustments and enhancements in Photoshop (if necessary). The reason for this is that the scanning software can provide the best scan if you make adjustments to the scan before the final scan (such as what should be white or black and any color/shade in between).
To best test/demonstrate this, I scanned some newspaper. Newspaper has an inherent problem where the reverse side of the page always bleeds through the scan, causing the page to appear gray and have shaded areas where there should be none. To demonstrate this, I’ve taken a newspaper page and scanned the page, then opened this scanned page into Photoshop, as seen below.
On the top is the original scan and I have the Levels Adjustment overlaying the page. The problem with the image is that I want the gray on the page to be considered to be full white. I can do that by dragging the small marker on the right side a bit to the left as seen in the lower image.
The problem with doing this “after the fact” in Photoshop is that Photoshop now has to guess how to do the transitions between the various shades on the page. If I were to do the same adjustment in the scanning software, the scan will look for the transitions that Photoshop had to guess at, and the final quality of the scan goes up considerably.
If you scan directly from Image Capture (not scanning through Acrobat), you can resize the window as needed to get a good view of the page you are scanning. Without seeing the page you’re scanning, any enhancements you make are less than guesswork, and you are just flying blind.
The mistake that Acrobat makes is that the size of the window that displays the scan is very small and cannot be resized to be larger. As such, it’s essentially impossible to correct the image using Image Capture’s (already dreadful) image correcting capabilities. If you can’t see details, you cannot see what you are doing. [Note: There is a bug in the current version where if you do try to correct the image mid-scan, the scan will fail at the end of the process. Repairing this bug is on their “after-release to fix bugs.”]
The curious thing about all this is that if you scan and process the image through the OCR process and end up with a poor quality scan, the quality of the OCR is a tad bit better than if you scan the images and save them as TIF images, bring those TIF images into Photoshop and enhance the image, and then bring the better looking TIF images into Acrobat to OCR. The difference is minimal, but it is there. (The process I used to quantify the quality of the scan this was to copy the text from the OCRed PDF and paste this text into an empty Word document. At that point, I simply counted misspellings by looking for underlined words (that were not personal names, etc.). Having done tests like this for past releases of Acrobat, I can say the results are the best yet. Now, if they would only let us have a larger sized pre-scan to do the image correction to get not only good quality text but also a good looking document.
Let me add that one of the other big achievements in all this is that now you can edit the text in a scanned document, and it works. On the top image below, you can see some scanned text from a local newspaper. This was OCRed, and I clicked on the Edit Text tool and did some editing. Admittedly, the final text was pushed out a bit on its width, but this is amazing (and shows why password-protecting your PDFs is a good idea).
And note that this kind of editing can be done in the Acrobat Reader on your iPhone or iPad.
On the flip-side of all this is a new Camera to PDF feature within Acrobat Reader. Quick suggestion: Do not get rid of Genius Scan+ yet.
With Genius Scan+ I was able to take a photo of some text in the newspaper, and in the image (before it was processed), I was able to set the boundaries of the text I wanted and convert that into a PDF (albeit with no OCR processing or searchability). This is what I captured.
When I tried to do the same thing with Acrobat Reader DC, I got this:
Using Acrobat Reader DC, I was able to rotate it to the proper orientation, but that’s about it.
Lastly, for this review, I’d like to mention the new Save window, shown below. For many people, this will be a great relief. In addition to showing the last 100 PDF documents you had opened, Acrobat DC shows you the last four folders you’ve accessed. This is in addition to your Document Cloud folder and Creative Cloud folder. If you want this to go to some other location, that’s fine, you simply click on the “Choose a Different Folder…” button and you can specify the location as needed. Once you are at the folder you want, then the standard Save window appears, providing you the option to name or rename the file and you are good to go.
There was a very bad gotcha upon the release of this update, and while Adobe did respond fairly quickly with a warning, much damage had already been done. Not only was there a replacement of your previous application without warning, but people lost plug-ins, settings, and pre-flight instructions. We had been told by the CEO of Adobe that we’d always have access to previous releases, but this broke that promise.
Nonetheless, as mentioned earlier, this is a review of Acrobat Pro DC, not its roll out, and this is one of the best releases of Acrobat to date. On the other hand, there were some dreadful user interface decisions made. To have no control of the Right Hand Panel would be enough to drive me crazy, to exacerbate this with the Panel obstructing my view of the document adds insult to injury.
While not mentioned in the heart of this review, the organizing of pages, extraction of pages, addition of pages, rotation of pages is now dead-simple. If dragging thumbnails across the computer window is too hard for you, you’re in trouble. Now, you can do electronic signatures from any of your devices. In addition, if you send out documents for signing, you can track them as they are “out there.”
I appreciate the new Tool dynamic and how the specific tools for a process you wish to perform on a document are presented across the top. The drawback to this is to learn how to find the specific tool(s) you need and want. At the same time, the Tool tab in Acrobat’s window is dreadful; the icons are spectacularly, cartoonishly too large, there is absolutely no order to them, there’s no way to reorder them, and you can’t even resize them. You are better off to add every tool to the Right Hand Panel because at least there you can re-organize them (up and down) so they are at least grouped in some logical order (any order you choose will be your organized logic), which is far more than you can do in the Tools tab.
Admittedly, this is a long review, and I thank you for staying with me. Believe it or not, I’ve left out much that I would also have liked to point out. But I think the subjects I’ve covered were done in sufficient depth to allow you to see where I like Acrobat Pro DC and where it fails for me. Overall, the type of failures and the degree of failures do not outweigh the significant gains this software update provides. And, admittedly, my likes and dislikes of this software go up and down depending on what I’m doing at that moment. Nonetheless, this is the first release of a major UI change on top of a slew of new and improved features. I can only think (and hope) that Adobe will adjust accordingly and address the issues I’ve mentioned (and the many I haven’t).
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Thanks for the review Gary. This was very detailed and helpful.
Thanks Gary. This is very informative and helps with my mind of minds that takes most apps in directions not normally meant to travel.
The order you have your tools in the right hand side panel is the order your Tools page will be. Thats how to reorder them. What you place at the top will be first on the Tools page.
Its growing on me. I dont like that you can't change the UI colour like you can in other Adobe Apps. And its annoying when you close the window via command W and the Home window is still there, however if you click on the Top left red Dot it closes all pages.
I credit the author for persevering and writing an even-handed review. As soon as I installed DC, I searched for the way to tone down the UI color from near-white like the pages. On a large LCD screen, it was literally blinding. Like Simon below, I didn’t find it, and Adobe confirms there isn’t one. From the photos online, this feature was removed from the beta. Instant deal-breaker.
Hate the new interface – and the lack of warning in the update from XI to DC was grossly disrespectful of customers. A huge step backward in quality and sophistication of customer care. Makes you really wonder about their values, culture, and leadership – as in ‘what’s going on in Adobe?’ After investing my own time to fix this update – I’m at least now back on XI. Geez.
Updated to DC. Couldn’t see a thing with the annoying interface. Went back to 11. I am asking myself if we arrived in the age of Downgrade. From Windows 8 to 7 so that we can have a useful start menu that we can arrange as we see fit. From KitKat to Jelly bean (if possible) so that we can use our sdcard as we see fit. From Reader DC to 11. From always upgrading to staying with the old tech for fear we will lose something. Is this a new trend in the technology buss?
Command W! The Home window is still there! WHY?!?!? WHY?!?!? WHY?!?!? It’s not stupid. It’s terror!!!
My issue with the forced “upgrade” was that the new DC reader fails to even open at all, 75% of the time, created several sets of issues with other things like SnapScan which used the previous Adobe just fine, and more. It fails to run, but shows up as running in Windows Task Manager; so far, my only routine fix is a reboot, sometimes effective but unexplainable. If I can do so, I will reset to never update without my consent, but don’t believe this will solve anything, merely postpone the new problems created when I do update. The Idiocracy future is at hand. What people fail to think about is that the computer, which should have given us new power, is instead rapidly ‘devolving’ into the Infotainmeplex Unit that sucks our time and attention to either trivial nonsense, or endless troubleshooting to fix problems created by the providers of the industry.


zenia te były największą ewakuacją śmigłowcową w historii. Oprócz ucieczki uchodźców, zakończenia wojny i ustanowienia rządów komunistycznych, upadek Sajgonu przyczynił się do znacznego spadku populacji miasta.
Wydarzeniom tym nadano różne nazwy, silnie uzależnione od perspektywy politycznej komentujących. Rząd wietnamski oficjalnie nazywa je „Dniem wyzwolenia Południa i zjednoczenia narodowego” () lub „Dniem Wyzwolenia” (Ngày Giải Phóng), podczas gdy termin „Upadek Sajgonu” jest powszechnie używany w zachodnich, szczególnie amerykańskich publikacjach. Przez wielu Wietnamczyków z diaspory, którzy wyemigrowali w obawie przed rządami komunistycznymi, zostały ukute nazwy „Dzień, w którym straciliśmy kraj” (Ngày mất nước), „Czarny kwiecień” (Tháng Tư Đen), „Narodowy Dzień Wstydu” (Ngày Quốc Nhục), a także „Narodowy Dzień Oburzenia” (Ngày Quốc Hận).
Szybkość, z jaką załamały się pozycje wojsk Wietnamu Południowego w 1975 roku, była zaskakująca dla większości obserwatorów amerykańskich i południowowietnamskich, a prawdopodobnie także dla Wietnamczyków z Północny i ich sojuszników. Na przykład notatka przygotowana przez Centralną Agencję Wywiadowczą (CIA) i wywiad armii amerykańskiej opublikowana 5 marca wykazywała, że Wietnam Południowy może się bronić przynajmniej do 1976 roku. Te przewidywania okazały się poważnym błędem. W momencie, gdy notatka ta została opublikowana, gen. Dũng przygotowywał się do wielkiej ofensywy w Regionie Płaskowyżu Centralnego, która rozpoczęła się 10 marca i doprowadziła do zdobycia Buôn Ma Thuột. Armia Republiki Wietnamu rozpoczęła chaotyczny i kosztowny odwrót, licząc na przegrupowanie swoich sił i utrzymanie się w południowej części Wietnamu Południowego, na południe od 13. równoleżnika.
Wspierana przez artylerię i siły pancerne, Ludowa Armia Wietnamu kontynuowała marsz w kierunku Sajgonu, zdobywając pod koniec marca główne miasta północnego Wietnamu Południowego – Huế (25 marca) i Đà Nẵng (28 marca). Nieuporządkowany odwrót wojsk południowowietnamskich i exodus uchodźców – tylko w Đà Nẵng było ich ponad 300 tys. – zniweczyły perspektywy na reorganizację południowowietnamskiej obrony. Po utracie Đà Nẵng zostały już one określone jako bliskie zera przez oficerów CIA w Wietnamie, którzy wierzyli, że nic poza atakami B-52 na Hanoi nie może powstrzymać natarcia Wietnamczyków z północy.
8 kwietnia północnowietnamskie Biuro Polityczne, które w marcu zalecało Dũngowi ostrożność, zażądało od niego „nieustannego wigoru w ataku aż do serca Sajgonu”. 14 kwietnia zmieniono nazwę kampanii wiosennej na „kampania Hồ Chí Minha”, po przywódcy rewolucji wietnamskiej Hồ Chí Minhie, w nadziei na jej zakończenie przed rocznicą jego urodzin 19 maja. W międzyczasie Wietnamowi Południowemu nie udało się uzyskać żadnego znaczącego wzrostu pomocy wojskowej ze strony Stanów Zjednoczonych, co zniweczyło nadzieje prezydenta Nguyễna Văn Thiệu na ponowne wsparcie Ameryki. 9 kwietnia siły komunistyczne dotarły do Xuân Lộc, ostatniej linii obrony przed Sajgonem, gdzie południowowietnamska 18 Dywizja po raz ostatni stawiła opór i utrzymywała miasto w zaciętych walkach przez 11 dni. Armia Republiki Wietnamu ostatecznie wycofała się z Xuân Lộc 20 kwietnia, zadając ciężkie straty nieprzyjacielowi, a 21 kwietnia prezydent Thiệu podał się do dymisji, płacząc w przemówieniu telewizyjnym, w którym potępił Stany Zjednoczone za to, że nie przybyły z pomocą Południu.
Linia frontu znajdowała się wówczas zaledwie 42 km od centrum Sajgonu. Zwycięstwo w walkach o Xuân Lộc, które odciągnęły wiele wojsk południowowietnamskich z rejonu delty Mekongu, otworzyło Ludowej Armii Wietnamu drogę do okrążenia Sajgonu, co komuniści wkrótce zrobili, przemieszczając 100 tys. żołnierzy na pozycje wokół miasta do 27 kwietnia. Ponieważ Armia Republiki Wietnamu miała już niewielu ludzi pod bronią, los miasta został przesądzony. Dowódca południowowietnamskiego III Korpusu, gen. Toàn, podjął jeszcze próbę zorganizowania pięciu punktów oporu w celu obrony miasta. Ich linie były tak połączone, że tworzyły łuk obejmujący cały obszar na zachód, północ i wschód od stolicy. Front Cu Chi na północnym zachodzie był broniony przez 25 Dywizję; za front Binh Duong na północy odpowiadała 5 Dywizja; front Biên Hòa, na północnym wschodzie był broniony przez 18 Dywizję; front Vung Tau i 15 Route na południowym wschodzie były utrzymywane przez 1 Brygadę Powietrznodesantową i jeden batalion 3 Dywizji; a front Long An, za który odpowiadało Dowództwo Stołecznego Okręgu Wojskowego, broniły elementy zreorganizowanej 22 Dywizji. Siły obronne Wietnamu Południowego wokół Sajgonu liczyły około 60 tys. żołnierzy.
Gwałtowne postępy Ludowej Armii Wietnamu w marcu i na początku kwietnia doprowadziły do wzrostu obaw w Sajgonie, że miasto, które przez całą wojnę było dość spokojne i którego mieszkańcy doświadczyli stosunkowo niewielu trudności, wkrótce zostanie bezpośrednio zaatakowane. Wielu obawiało się, że gdy komuniści opanują stolicę, w odwecie zrobią mu krwawą łaźnię. W 1968 roku siły Ludowej Armii Wietnamu i Wietkongu okupowały Huế przez prawie miesiąc. Po wyparciu komunistów siły amerykańskie i południowowietnamskie znalazły masowe groby. Badania wykazały, że komuniści poszukiwali w szczególności ofic


Chief Nelson Bakfur, the Paramount ruler of Mwaghavul People in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau, has condemned the recent killing of the village head of Kadunu, Alhaji Mohammed Bayero, by gunmen in the area.
Bakfur, who made the condemnangu, called for more security to traditional rulers and their subjects.
NAN reports that Bayero was killed at his residence by gunmen on Sept. 15.
“We, the entire citizens of Mangu condemn this new trend of killings in our domain in its totality.
“We are in great shock as this is a peaceful local government. We are seeing a new thing that has frightened us as a people, ” he said.
The traditional ruler called on Federal and State Governments to beef up security for all traditional rulers and citizens of the state.
Similarly, Chief Charles Mato-Dakat, the Sum Pyem of Pyem Chiefdom, condemned the killing, describing it as “alien” to the area and “very shocking”.
Mato-Dakat urged security personnel to act swiftly in arresting the culprits and forestalling a re-occurrence of the dastardly act.
“We didn’t know the victim as a trouble maker but as a very dedicated, committed and peace loving leader, who loved his people dearly.
“In fact, his (Bayero’s) last contribution to our security council meeting of Sept. 4 was a call to Government to beef up security in the Pyem Chiefdom.
“Just 11 days after that beautiful contribution, such misfortune befell him.This is unacceptable to us as a people and we call on the authorities to trail and track down the killers and let them face the wrath of the law, ” the traditional ruler pleaded.
He said that the people of Kadunu and the entire Pyem Chiefdom would greatly miss Bayero’s wealth of wisdomGindiri and Mangu Local Government Area.
He expressed appreciation to the Commander of Operation Save Haven (OPSH) a.k.a. Special Task Force (STF), the state and local governments for thei and the Pyem Chiefdom.
He thanked the Chairman of Mangu Local Government for footing the bills for the burial of the deceased and medical treatment of the man that was short in the leg by the fleeing assassins.


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IT remains largely a male-dominated realm and there's evidence that some high-tech firms are pushing highly educated female workers to the brink of burn-out
As to the early factors that contributed to her ability to excel academically, Ceasar credits the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) program of 30 years ago which had an "early identification program" that went into high schools to encourage students with the top grades to go into engineering. It was a successful program, she says, that attracted a significant number of African-American students, in addition to all manner of young adults, to enter engineering through work-study programs and stipends. That IIT program has unfortunately not been kept vibrant, but there are efforts to revive it, and the country as a whole would probably benefit from similar efforts, she says.n."Tyelisha Shields, a young African-American woman who hails from Concord, N.C., can testify to the power of mentoring that helped her pursue her goal of a master'Carnegie- Shields, who has a B.S. in computer science, has received a scholarship to study at the graduate level at CMU, thanks to funding provided by the Executive Women's Forum (EWF) scholarship program.Grateful to Dena Haritos Tsamitis, director of the CMU program, and Joyce Brocaglia, who heads EWF, Shields says she's determined to make it, despite being brought up in a single-parent home, noting graduate work is important to be competitive in today's job market.But Shields also notes the irony that she is the only American in her current study program, with most of her classmates from India and elsewhere."The majority of my classmates are foreigners," she says. "And my Southern accent is hard for them to understand, and their accents are hard for me to understand." That has the impact of isolating people.When the 1950's musical "My Fair Lady" had the fictional British Professor Henry Higgins singing "Why Can't a Woman be More Like a Man?" there was nobody on stage to sing back an answer. But Haritos Tsamitis observes that young men and women don't necessarily find the same things appealing.When male students want to take a break, she notes, "they tend to do paintballing or touch football or go drinking at the local pub or smoke cigars," activities that female students seldom chose.To give female engineering students alternatives that allow them to "just be themselves," says Haritos Tsamitis, there are separate activities for them, "like chocolate tasting or watching a chick flick."The male students are invited to attend special events hosted by the women's group, though some male students may complain about why there's a separate group for women at all and not one for men. It's a debate she knows will probably always be there, but Haritos Tsamitis says this women-only group "creates an opportunity for women to connect and create professional development through mentoring."Some women in the IT field say mentoring is something they say they benefit from well into their careers.Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) is a 30-year-old Chantilly, Va., organization dedicated to women's participation in that industry, pay equity and women's advancement. It fosters leadership training in which small numbers of professional women join retreats in their vicinity for management-style confabs with their female peers."It was a godsend," says Egan, noting her company Comcast has backed the effort. The WICT estimates that 15 percent of all technology jobs in the cable telecommunications industry are held by women — which includes designing or deploying software and hardware — based on information provided by the industry."Having more women gives a balance of perspective, it's a diverse set of experiences," says Vicki Hamilton, senior vice president for enterprise performance at Turner Broadcasting System's operations and strategy group, who leads a team of 10 that takes responsibility for high-tech projects across Turner to align with business goals.Women are major purchasers of high-tech software and services, and having them there contributing to their development just makes sense, say many women professionals.One analyst who has watched the world of high-tech and executive management for a long time say women professionals do tend to bring a certain "sensibility," especially in communications skills often defined as '"female traits" that men should be more inclined to emulate, not disparage.Men too often try to lead through directives,t consultancy Foote Partners."Look, I've said to male executives, taking them aside when I was sure none of their employees were listening, and told them that the military-style command and control isn't working, you need patience, listening is an intuitive approach to effect change," Foote says. "I've said, seriously, if there's a lot of 'female' in you, that's a good thing, not a bad thing."Slideshow: A closer look at nine women in IT
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I arrived back in Boston Monday morning, Kemps ice cream bucket filled with my grandmother's Christmas ornaments in hand. It's the first time I've been home in the fall since 2003, and boy howdy...do I ever miss raking leaves and the colors of my yard. Sure, Illinois and Massachusetts have beautiful colors during the autumn --- but they don't have the colors of the trees in my backyard or for that matter, a dog that loves you unconditionally no matter what.
But at the same time, I wish there was more I could do. And then, of course, those helpful people remind me that "oh but difficult times are how you GROW and figure out who you really ARE." And it kind of makes me want to shoot them in the face.
But they mean well, and the rational side of me accepts their thoughts and knows that they're right. Still want to shoot them in the face, though. Or at least give them a taste of this growth they know is such a good thing. I know I'm all of, well, not old, but I feel like I don't need problems to tell me who I am.
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In 2016, legislation to restrict child-appealing marketing (M2K) of “unhealthy” foods and beverages (“foods”) (i.e., foods that exceed roughly 5–10% of the Daily Value (DV) for total sugars, sodium, or saturated fats) was proposed s with on-pack M2K and excessive free sugars contents (≥ 10% calories from free sugars) and the potential for a 5% total sugars DV threshold to restrict M2K on these products.
C = 15,259, after exclusions). Oddsess free sugars contents and presence of M2K, stratified by major food category. The proportion of products with excessive free sugars levels, or with M2K, that would be restricted from M2K if a 5% DV threshold for total sugars was implemented was also determined.
77.8% of foods with M2K had excess free sugars levels compared with 38.4% without M2K. M2K was more likely to be present on foods with excess free sugars levels in 8 of 14 food categories that contained products with M2K. A 5% DV threshold for total sugars would restrict M2K on 83% of foods with excess free sugars levels and on 75% of current foods that had M2K.
Findings demonstrate that foods with M2K are less healthy, particularly in regard to free sugars levels. This highlights the importance of ensuring policies aimed at supporting healthy dietary habits among children carefully consider free sugars levels.
En 2016, des mesures législatives ont été proposées au Canada pour limiter le marketing destiné aux enfants (MDE) d’aliments et de boissons (« aliments ») jugés « malsains » (c.-à-d. les aliments qui dépassent de 5 à 10 % la valeur quotidienne (VQ) totale pour les sucres, le sodium ou les graisses saturées). L’objectif de la présente étude était d’examiner la relation entre les aliments comportant de la publicité destinée aux enfants sur l’emballage et les aliments ayant une teneur excessive en sucres libres (≥ 10 % des calories provenant de sucres libres) et d’envisager l’imposition d’un seuil de 5 % de la VQ totale pour les sucres afin de limiter le MDE de tels produits.
Analyse transversale des données de 2013 de la base de données du programme FLIP (Food Label Information Program) de l’Université de Toronto (n = 15,259 après exclusions). Des rapports de cotes ont servi à déterminer les associations entre la teneur excessive en sucres libres et la présence de MDE et de stratifier ces associations par grande catégorie alimentaire. Nous avons également déterminé la proportion de produits ayant des niveaux excessifs de sucres libres, ou comportant du MDE, qui ne pourraient plus être commercialisés auprès des enfants si un seuil de 5 % de la VQ totale pour les sucres était imposé.
77,8 % des aliments comportant du MDE avaient des niveaux de sucres libres excessifs, contre 38,4 % des aliments sans MDE. Le MDE était plus susceptible d’être présent pour les aliments ayant des niveaux de sucres libres excessifs dans 8 des 14 catégories alimentaires contenant des produits commercialisés auprès des enfants. Un seuil de 5 % de la VQ totale pour les sucres limiterait le MDE pour 83 % det pour 75 % des aliments actuellement commercialisés auprès des enfants.
Nos résultats montrent que les aliments commercialisés auprès des enfants sont moins sains, surtout en ce qui a trait à leurs niveaux de sucres libres. Il est donc important que les politiques qui visent à favoriser de saines habitudes alimentaires chez les enfants examinent attentivement les niveaux de sucres libres.
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not to be the one that Lysias and Thrasymachus choose.
PHAEDRUS Then how should one proceed?
SOCRATES I suppose it's no surprise, my good fellow, that [e1] Pericles turned out to be the most complete of all with respect to rhetoric.
PHAEDRUS Why do you say that?
SOCRATES All sciences of importance require the addition of [270a] babbling and lofty talk about nature; for the relevant high-mindedness and effectiveness in all directions seem to come from some such source as that. This is something that Pericles acquired in addition to his natural ability; for I think because he fell in with Anaxagoras, who was just such a person, so becoming filled with lofty talk, and arriving at the nature of [a5] mind and the absence of mind,, he was able to draw from there and apply to the science of speaking what was applicable to it.
PHAEDRUS What do you mean by that?
[b1] SOCRATES
PHAEDRUS How is that?
SOCRATES [b5] ntom.
[b10] PHAEDRUS Probably it is like that, Socrates.
[c1] SOCRATES Do you think, then, that it's possible to understand the nature of soul satisfactorily without understanding the nature of the whole?
PHAEDRUS If one is to place any reliance on Hippocrates the Asclepiad, one can't understand about the body either [c5] without proceeding in this way.
SOCRATES And he's right, my friend; but besides Hippocrates we should examine the argument to see if it agrees with him.
PHAEDRUS I accept that.
SOCRATES Well then, on the subject of nature, see what [c10] Hippocrates and the true argument say about it. Shouldn't one [d1] reflect about the nature of anything like this: First, is the thing about which we shall want to be experts ourselves and be capable of making others expert about something that is simple or complex? Next, if it is simple, we should consider, shouldn't [d5] we, what natural capacity it has for acting, and on what, or what capacity it has for being acted upon, and by what; and if it has more forms than one, we should count these, and see in the case of each, as in the case where it had only one, with which of them it is its nature to do what, or with which to have what done to it by what?
PHAEDRUS Probably, Socrates.
SOCRATES At any rate, proceeding without doing these things would seem to be just like a blind man's progress. But on no [e1] account must we represent the man who pursues anything scientifically as like someone blind, or deaf; it's clear that if anyone teaches anyone speech-making in a scientific way, he will reveal precisely the essential nature of that thing to which his pupil will apply his speeches; and that, I think, will be soul. [e5]
SOCRATES Then all his effort is concentrated on that; for it is [271a] in that that he tries to produce conviction. True?
PHAEDRUS Yes.
SOCRATES In that case, it is clear that both Thrasymachus and anyone else who seriously teaches a science of rhetoric will first [a5] write with complete accuracy and enable us to see whether soul is something that is one and uniform in nature or complex like the form of the body; for this is what we say is to reveal the nature of something.
PHAEDRUS Yes, absolutely.
SOCRATES And in the second place, he will show with which [a10] of its forms it is its nature to do what, or to have what done to it by what.
SOCRATES And then, thirdly, having classified the kinds of [b1] speeches and of soul, and the ways in which these are affected, he will go through all the causes, fitting each to each and explaining what sort of soul's being subjected to what sorts of speeches necessarily results in one being convinced and another not, giving the cause in each case. [b5]
PHAEDRUS It would certainly seem to be best like that.
SOCRATES Indeed, my friend, if a model speech or a real one is ever spoken or written in any way other than this, it will never be given or written scientifically – not on any other [c1] subject, and not on this one. But those who now write speech manuals, the people you have listened to, are cunning, and keep the secret to themselves, although they know perfectly well about soul; so until they both speak and write in the following way, let's not believe their claim that they write scientifically.
PHAEDRUS What way is this? [c5]
SOCRATES To give the actual words would not be easy; but I'm willing to say how one should write if it's to be as scientific as it is possible to be.
PHAEDRUS Say it then.
[c10] SOCRATES ' [d1] tf [d5]'[e1] [272a]g [a5] a[b1]' 'Well then, Phaedrus and Socrates,' perhaps our writer will say, 'do you agree, or should we accept it if the science of speaking is stated in some other way?'
[b5] PHAEDRUS It's impossible, I think, Socrates, to accept any other description; yet it seems no light undertaking.
SOCRATES You're right. It's just for this reason that we must turn all our arguments upside down in order to see whether some easier and shorter route to the science doesn't show up some- [c1] where, so that a person doesn't waste his time going off on a long and rough road when he could take a short and smooth one. But if you have any help to give from what you have heard from Lysias or anyone else, try to remember it and tell me.
PHAEDRUS If it depended on trying, I would; but as things are, [c5] I'm just not in a position to help.


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The report related activities will rise to about $53.1 billion in 2020, representing 37.5 per cent of the GDP and supporting over 754,000 Dubai-based jobs.
Oxford Economics defined GVA as the contribution that an institution, company or an industry makes to GDP. The report also noted the aviation industry had a knock –on effect on Dubai’s economy.Meanwhile, fMeanwhile, the industry’s contribution to Dubai’s economy in 2013 amounted to $26.7 billion, representing almost 27 per cent of the GDP. It also supported a total of 416,500 jobs and accounted for 21 per cent of the emirate’s total employment, the report said.
Oxford Economics also revised its estimate ofinternational Airport. It said that the airport is forecast to receive 126.5 million passengers by 2020, almost 30 per cent more than its assessment in 2010.
Dubai also announced an investment of $32 billion to expand the emirate’s Al Maktoum International Airport to handle over 200 million people annually by the next decade.


TE Derrick Griffin: 'Options are still open'
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Texas A&M commit Derrick Griffin, the top 2013 TE prospect, said he's still looking at other schools. Sam Khan Jr./ESPN.com
Lining up at receiver for the Rangers, Griffin works hard to stay focused and stay involved for his team, which operates in a run-heavy offense and was playing its third-string quarterback Thursday because of injuries to the first two sustained early in the season.
But when his time comes, Griffin is ready to deliver.
"I know when it's time for me to get the ball, I know what I have to do," he said. "So I don't really [worry] about the passing plays, because when it's that time, I know what to do."
On the recruiting trail, it appears things will be plenty busy as time goes on. The 6-foot-6, 228-pound Griffin, who is committed to Texas A&M, said he is continuing to keep his options open while keeping his commitment to the Aggies.
He'll be one of several notable recruits at Kyle Field on Saturday when the No. 18 Aggies host No. 6 LSU. While he is still committed to the Aggies, the Tigers are one of the teams that he's listening to.
"My options are still open," Griffin said. "I'm still looking at different schools like LSU, Alabama, Oregon. So far, those are the [other] schools I've been looking at."
"Just keep coming hard," he said. "Just keep coming hard."
He'll visit Aggieland on Saturday and said that LSU and Alabama are other places he could take a visit later this season or after the season. Griffin said he is looking forward to Saturday's game and that he likes what he has seen from the Aggies so far.
"They've started off good so far," he said. "They're doing real good right now. I like what they're doing. Coach [Kevin] Sumlin, he keeps throwing the ball. So I'm liking that."


Elon Musk is having his 'finest moment' on Twitter — thanks to dogs
When one Twitter user suggested the Tesla CEO introduce a “dog mode” that would keep pets safe inside a vehicle, Musk tweeted back a simple, “Yes.”Boring Co. event in Los Angeles, California, on May 17, 2
Want to se Facebook message or call up Apple's CEO Tim Cook? Good luck. But reaching Tesla head Elon Musk quickly has proven to be as simple as sending him a tweet with an intriguing idea.
Tesla debuted an adorable video on Thursday for a new feature called “Dog Mode,” which creates a cooler environment for pets who need to be left in a car for a short period of time. And it all seemed to start on Twitter. In October, a user tweeted Musk to ask if he could create the feature, to which Musk replied, “Yes.”
Musk’s freewheeling approach to Twitter has proven to be a double-edged sword. Last year it led to the billionaire being slapped with fraud charges, fines, and a lawsuit. But he’s also hatched some of his most popular ideas on the platform.
“” said Dorsey.
But on Thursday, Musk finally came as close as he could to uniting the Twitter masses.
The response to “dog mode” was called Musk’s “finest moment” according to early feedback from Twitter users. The feature uses a Tesla’s display, located to the right of the steering wheel, to show the temperature and a note for passersby that says, “My owner will be back soon.” If the Tesla’s battery reaches less than a 20 percent charge, “dog mode” will send the owner a notification via phone.
This is your finest moment @elonmusk — dogs are going to get to leave the house 10x as much! So much more joy in the world. pic.twitter.com/0ysPeZkplt
— 🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄 (@Jason) February 14, 2019
The new feature was praised as “amazing” and “the most important thing ever” on Twitter. As one user put it: “Now I just need a Tesla. And a dog.”
It’s not the first time Musk has done business on Twitter.
When the southern part of Australia was dealing with blackouts, Musk tweeted that he could fix the problem within 100 days or would offer the government a refund. In 2017, he made good on that promise,as back-up support to the power grid.
But the freewheeling, no-filter way Musk tweets has also got him in trouble. When a young Thai soccer team was trapped in a cave last July, Musk tweeted photos and video of a “kid-sized” submarine his team developed that he hoped could help with the rescue. When the effort was criticized by a British expert cave diver, Musk hit back and called him a “pedo guy” on Twitter. That unsubstantiated claim led to a lawsuit, which Musk’s attorneys filed to dismiss in December on First Amendment grounds.
A hearing is scheduled for April 1, a notorious day in Twitter history for the billionaire. Last year, on April Fools Day, Musk tweeted that Tesla was going bankrupt. Not everyone knew he was joking.


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Wednesday marks the 30 year anniversary of the Airbus A320’s first flight, where it departed from Toulouse, France on a successful 3 hour and 23-minute test flight on a misty day over Europe.
The program was launched in March 1984, where the launch customer airline Air Inter (later acquired by Air France in 1990) placed a firm order for 25 A320s with an option for 25 more at a later date.
Although surviving the initial impact, three out of the 136 people onboard died while attempting to evacuate the aircraft. Today, a total of 31 A320 hull losses have been recorded.
A look at the double bogie landing gear on an Air India A320 (Photo: Steven Byles from Taipei, Taiwan (Air India A320-231 VT-ESCn terms of size, the aircraft has a wingspan of 36m (118 feet) and a sweepback of 25 degrees. The fuselage has a width of 3.95m (12.96 feet), of which the cabin is 3.7m (12.14 feet) wide, and a length of 37.5m (123 feet).
Normal law means pilot manual inputs are directly transmitted to computers which un-alter the command and relay the input to the control surface actuator if operating within the flight envelope. An input of pitch to a certain attitude will see the aircraft hold the selected attitude should the pilot relax the control column, due to an auto-trim feature.
The second law available is Alternate Law, which operates should multiple system failures occur. The fundamental difference is the aircraft can be stalled. There is no bank angle protection and the yaw damper is lost. Repeating the previous scenario in this law, where the aircraft reaches its speed limit, the aircraft will begin to increase pitch to attempt to stop the acceleration, should the pilot apply full nose-down side stick input, the aircraft will obey at this time, and an overspeed situation can occur.
Nowadays anything related to the A320 is all about the neo (new engine option). A320neo aircraft are equipped with new engines, either CFM LEAP-1A or PW1100G, offering a fuel burn between 16%-20% less than the current engine options.
The A320in the sky, after Boeing’s 737. 30 years later, the airplane continues to modernize and shape single-aisle aircraft design.
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yet been created. But I had the gut feeling that radio was on the threshold of a great awakening, that marvelous things were about to happen and that I had come to a medium at the right moment."
Paley threw himself into his new job, "trying to cash in on the radio boom." He had to raise money quickly or his rickety network would surely collapse. His first move was to combine United Independent and Columbia into one corporation. Major White, who had done more than anyone else to keep Columbia alive in its first year, was demoted to managing director and his responsibilities were greatly reduced. Coats was shunted aside, and although Judson remained for a time as the chief talent scout, this would be Bill Paley's network; he would be its battlefront commander. From the start, CBS was a "one-man show, of which Paley was ship and captain and crew," said Bernays.
Paley was able to make his mark quickly—as Sarnoff had—because the broadcasting business was still new, with no established elders controlling it. "As in the case of all the great doers of the earth, [Paley] is shot with luck," said a New York business writer. "At the age of twenty-seven he tumbled unexpectedly into the one business that lacked an older generation." Paley's only competition was Sarnoff and NBC. That was formidable enough, but catching up with and overtaking NBC became William Paley's commanding obsession.
"Compared with NBC, [CBS] was not much of a network," Paley observed later. It had only sixteen wobbly station affiliates; Sarnoff had more than fifty. And Sarnoff had behind him the enormous resources of the Radio Corporation of America. RCA used NBC's programs to incite demand for the radio sets it manufactured. If Sarnoff's network fell into trouble, RCA would bail it out. Bill PaInitially, Sarnoff refused to recognize CBS as a serious rival. "Not long after I came to New York, I asked somebody to arrange a meeting for me with Merlin H. Aylesworth, then president of NBC, so that we could know each other and talk about the future of radio," Paley observed in his autobiography. "My friend came back two days later, ashamed, and reported he could not arrange the meeting." After finally meeting Paley for the first time, thirty-six-year-old David Sarnoff began calling him "kid" behind his back. The task Paley had taken on would soon overwhelm him, he said. Differences in class and culture fueled Sarnoff's enmity. He, an immigrant messenger boy, had built NBC; Paley, a child of privilege, had inherited CBS. Although not a religious man, Sarnoff would also come to resent Paley's late night antics and preference for dating, and later marrying, Protestant women.
But the reigning emperor of network radio underestimated the pretender to the throne. Boyishly charming Bill Paley was as ferocious a corporate warrior as David Sarnoff. He had cut his teeth in the tobacco trade, one of the most ruthlessly competitive enterprises on earth, an industry dominated by mavericks who took possessive pride in the concerns they had built. Sarnoff was in for the fight of his life.
From the time he took over CBS, Paley operated almost in defiance of the way Sarnoff ran NBC. Unlike Sarnoff, he didn't charge his affiliated stations for unsponsored programs sent to them in the daytime hours. In return, however, stations were required to broadcast CBS's evening shows, which had sponsors. This gave Paley control over the affiliates' prime-time schedules, an inducement for advertisers, whose messages were sent out over the air at peak listening hours, whenradio set. With Paley and Major White working the phones up to ten hours a day, dozens of stations joined the chain, and advertisers signed on, slowly at first and then by the dozens. CBS grew furiously, tripling its number of stations by the end of 1929, its first full year of operations. By then it had forty-nine stations in forty-two cities, from New York to Seattle. That first year under Paley, the network lost nearly $400,000; it would never again have a losing year.
But Sarnoff had more stations and a fuller slate of sponsored programs, among them Amos 'n' Andy, far and away the most popular show on American radio. This African American situation comedy, voiced and written by two white vaudeville performers, Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden, originated on Chicago's WMAQ station in 1926, and featured the fictional characters Amos Jones and Andy Brown, proprietors of the Fresh Air Taxi Company.II Sarnoff had purchased it, along with Roxy and His Gang, to widen his listening audience. At the peak of the show's popularity on NBC's Red network, it drew 60 percent of radio listeners, and there were Amos 'n' Andy candy bars, toys, comics, and records. A frustrated William Paley didn't even bother to put a sponsored show up against it. He didn't yet have the kind of talent to challenge Amos 'n' Andy.
"Quite early in the game, I . . . came to believe that the crux of this business was programming—i.e., what went on the air," Paley described his strategy for overtaking NBC. "It seemed logical to me that those who put on the most appealing shows won the widest audiences, which in turn attracted the most advertisers and led to the greatest revenues, profits, and success." To accomplish this, CBS "had an urgent need for more and larger studios from which we could originate better shows for our own local station and for the network."
In 1928, CBS's production studios were in a penthouse in Steinway Hall, on Fifty-seventh Street and Sixth Avenue. One year later, Paley moved them to a new office building on Madison Avenue and Fifty-second Street. The location excited him. It put CBS at the epicenter of the New York advertising world, and advertising, he was convinced, was the future of American radio. But to attract more advertising CBS would need more attractive programming. Arthur Judson's broadcasting schedules were heavily weighted toward classical music and music appreciation. They "lacked variety," Paley recalled after he fired Judson, "and . . . were a drag on our future expansion."III
While eager to hold on to the more prestigious of Judson's high-toned programs, Paley was more interested in popular entertainment; he wanted to reach people that read the tabloids and listened to Roxy and His Gang and Amos 'n' Andy on NBC. To help him accomplish this, he brought in Edward Bernays. A small man with a big ego, Bernays was the founder of the new. Among his clients were powerhouses like Procter & Gamble, the U.S. War Department, and Chrysler Motors; and his 1923 book, Crystallizing Public Opinion, was already a classic in the field. Paley had read it and was excited about retaining the services of the most respected figure in public relations. "I thought, my God, to be important enough to have a public relations man. Somebody who could tell you what to do and what not to do."
Bernays had Paley take out ads in top advertising journals and conduct surveys of his listening audience to find out what people wanted from a radio network. Radio excited Bernays's imagination. "It made a bigger impression on me than the first motion pictures. . . . Sound came out of a box . . . without wires . . . it seemed miraculous." But when Paley hired Bernays, radio was "still unproven as to its effectiveness as a social, educational, political or economic force," and, initially, Bernays had misgivings about his new client, "a soft-sell salesman, a rarity in those days of go-getter salesmen."
He need not have worried. In no time, Bill Paley became "the idol of the stockholders" and a prime player in the Midtown social scene, selling radio as he drank and caroused with Manhattan notables. Six feet tall, with piercing brown eyes and a winning smile, he radiated confidence and avidly sought stunning actresses and wealthy socialites, preferably WASPs. Blind with excitement, part of the


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This was written some time ago, and I'd still like to pursue it but haven't tried to find a group that could handle this.
The idea is to form a clique of alts which level exclusively and slowly together.
Don't log in outside of those times except to play the AH or work on professions.
If someone can't make it, the group levels to the next nearest 5 levels (level 5, 10, 15, etc) and then waits for the others to catch up. The only possible exception might be the tank.
However, the random dungeon feature really REALLY breaks when there are level differences, so we may need to restrict this to a certain level goal per session. Stragglers just need to catch up.
Run instances as early and as frequently as possible, especially to complete instance quests. Don't be scared of Gnomeregan anymore.. we run it and just plow through it repeatedly!
Running quests is simply too boring and easy because of the global nerf; tiny aggro radiuses, wimpy mobs, nearly no elite packs, few patrols.
This idea works well/best with just five players, but it could also be done with more. It works well with a group who hand-pick their roles right from the beginning or with various overlapping offspecs. A group of five paladins would be awesome.
This may also work quite well for casual/part-time players. While this might work to help handhold a new player, I'd really rather not do that. The atmosphere with five experienced players together is electric.
Why not run an instance with nobody specced as a tank?
Or nobody specced as a healer?
Begin all pulls as double-pulls, the tank pulls one and randomly during that fight a dps will pull another.
If you have a paladin tank, have them "go dead" - drop threat randomly by bubbling and becoming immune to damage so the mobs refocus.
Now imagine two 5-player teams doing this and then forming into a raiding group..


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The 20 year old finally made his debut for the club in the Carling Cup tie with Bradford City earlier this season,quickly in the thick of the action and his pinpoint cross for Ross McCormack helped Leeds get back into the game.


a one-term president and committed to making him a failure — was very much a reflection of the deep, underlying sense of how somebody who looked like him didn’t belong in the White House. People who might resist admitting that? It’s nonetheless, I think, the case.
K.C.: This whole question of truth, expertise and what is real — magical thinking. Here’s where Trump is a dangerous candidate, because he doesn’t play by the rules of civilized discourse. He doesn’t play by the rules of verifiable assertions. The question is: What is the role of truth in an election campaign?
K.C.: Oh, I think it is still there. I think there’s no question. For example, there are scandals associated with her from which she has been exonerated. The exonerations don’t stick, only the accusations, because they fulfill a psychological need. This, I think, is an issue, so if WikiLeaks comes up with some other scandal — an October surprise — it will be much more difficult for her.
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I first came across the expression “let wildlife manage wildlife” in a book by the American wildlife artist and writer David M. Carroll.
The form of words and the sentiment so appealed to me that I quoted the passage in my book about beavers, Nature’s Architect, and added the following observation: “Let wildlife manage wildlife. It remains the unshakeable foundation stone on which my core philosophy has been constructed. In Scotland more than most places, we have demonstrated that in the matter of wildlife management the track record of our species is one of far-reaching and spectacular incompetence.
Twice in the last month, Scotland has reverted to type, succumbing to the apparently irresistible temptation to meddle, to manipulate, to “manage” wildlife. Both instances concern eagles.
Firstly, Scottish Natural Heritage has issued a licence to Forest Enterprise Scotland to fell two trees near a sheep farm in Argyll where there have been complaints about predation on lambs by sea eagles. Both trees have accommodated sea eagle nests, and the decision to fell them is part of a trial on certain farms in Argyll and on Skye in which “non-lethal management approaches” will be used to discourage sea eagles and to protect sheep. Other tactics will include scaring the eagles with lights and noise.
Think about this for a moment. SNH – wholly funded by the Scottish Government, and whose primary purpose is (in its own words) “to ” – has approved the felling of two sea eagle nest trees…TO PROTECT SHEEP.
The sea eagle has the highest level of legal protection in UK law under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. It is also on the red list, the highest conservation priority for native birds. There are fewer than 120 breeding pairs in Scotland, and its deliberate extinction – achieved by landowners and land managers – was only 100 years ago.
Just because they are much more visible in some parts of the country than at any time in living memory does not alter the fact that their grasp on survival is still a very frail one, and not least because that Victorian hangover still afflicts keepering practice in too many parts of the country: it shoots and poisons before it thinks.
Yet here we are, compromising our most stringent laws, cutting down nest trees and devising scare tactics, as part of conservation policy, because a small number of sea eagles kill a small number of lambs. Why is it that every time farming or estate policy comes into conflict with nature, we insist on compromising nature, instead of insisting on more sympathetic land use?
Sheep farming is mostly environmentally disastrous, and mostly it is propped up by subsidy. There are far better, far more environmentally considerate ways of managing land than farming sheep. Why does the Argyll and Skye trial not promote those? Why not try to change the behaviour of land managers instead of trying to change the behaviour of wild birds?
The second instance of manipulating eagles is a very different kind of intervention. The South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project involves taking chicks from Highland eyries, hand-rearing them in captivity until they are fledged, and releasing them in the south of Scotland to try to boost the population there.
This makes no kind of conservation sense to me, at all. Historically, and up to the present day, golden eagle populationsstruggled. Today, it is arguably less suitable than it has ever been, thanks to the proliferation of windfarms, blanket forestry, sheep, and those immoveable, twin barriers in the way of expansion: the heavily populated central belt to the north and the sheer volume of people who use the mountains and hills of the north of England.
On the other hand, the Highlands and Islands of Scotland are a golden eagle stronghold, where the species prospers despite illegal persecution. It is questionable conservation thinking, to say the least, that has the potential to weaken such a stronghold in order to fuel the high-risk endeavour in the south of Scotland.
Why do we think we know so much better than nature? Let wildlife manage wildlife. Watch nature and listen to what it is trying to tell us. And may your portion of the sky be graced by eagle wings.


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So glad the Fort Collins rally wasn’t a snowy disaster. We had 18″ of heavy wet snow here in Conifer a week ago, and the storm was heading north. Your photos don’t show that much snow and with the blue sky look very nice indeed.
I’m sure you’ll find your solution to be effective and a pleasant change.
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