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Space Shuttle Challenger Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial Sites | Image Source: Associated Press Dick Scobee Obituary 5/19/1939 - 1/28/1986| Visit Guest Book Dick Scobee (Photo: NASA) Dick Scobee (Photo: NASA) Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee was born in Washington state in 1939. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1957 and, after serving in Vietnam, became an Air Force test pilot. Scobee was selected for NASA's astronaut program in 1978. Having previously piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1984, Scobee was made Commander for the STS-51-L mission. He would oversee a crew of six others, including civilian teacher Christa McAuliffe. On January 28, 1986, people across America, including many schoolchildren, watched in horror as the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just seconds after lift-off. Commander Scobee and his entire crew were killed. Twenty-five years later we remember astronaut Dick Scobee and invite you to share memories and condolences in his Guest Book. Read Full Obituary for Dick Scobee Guest Book Highlights Search Memorials About This Site: Space Shuttle Challenger Memorials
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Regarding vi commands for searching something in Log view full story http://www.unix.com – Hi Folks, Please advise me that I have to search some thing in log , I have reached to that Location through putty and I have opened that log file through putty with VI editor .. Code: cd /var/abc.log tail -f abc.log vi abc.log and I see the logs but please advise me the commands..If I need to search something in logs what Vi commands I need ..lets say in log I need to search a word 'abcd' (HowTos)
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On standards and standards bodies What does it mean to be open. My copy of Oxford defines open as: unconcealed circumstances or condition. Way back in the day when the GNU operating system was getting going, they coined the mantra: Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer. Last month, I talked about transparency and how important it was in software and systems. Just as important are standards, and, more important following those standards. Today, in Computerworld, a different issue has been raised. The value of standards. Way back, last year, there was a ratification of standard by the International Standards Organization (ISO), the same group of people that brought you the stupid label guy (ISO9000), IS-IS routing (does anyone really use it?) and of course, the OSI stack (Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away). The standard that was ratified was the Open XML standard. Now, I am not that much of a geek to be able to accurately reflect the arguments for the Microsoft (ratified) version and the non-Microsoft (not ratified) version that came to pass. I won’t lob too many stones at Redmond (that bastion of standardization), but I will highlight one point. There are some countries who are less than happy with the ISO and, in fact, are so dissatisfied that they are questioning not only the Open XML standard, but the value of any of the ISO standards at a national level. My father used to work for the telephone company, back before Judge Green broke up AT&T. He has since moved on and dabbled in the computer industry and is currently working on smart buildings. One of his constant complaints is the lack of standardization in the computer industry. And this from a man who helped a couple of companies actually make money back when computers were expensive items. In many ways, I have shared in his frustrations. He is management, but technical enough to grasp most of the issues. I am a technician and have had to wrestle with the standardized non-standards in the industry. Even something as simple as a PCI slot is enough to drive you nuts (and if you have been around for a while, we all remember the headaches of EISA, and “where is the disk…”). Standards are important, but for a standard to be accepted, it has to work, and it has to work well. We can all look at the standard wars between Betamax and VHS (or Lightscribe and Labelflash) to see how important, or how mind numbing the different standards can be and how much they can affect the technology that is adopted, and as we have seen, better does not always win. But when countries start questioning the entire standardization process, or worse, as is the case with the fight over Open XML, start accusing the standards body of being unduly influenced by corporate concerns, we then have a real issue that needs to be looked at deeper. Standards bodies cannot afford to be even thought of being driving by a corporate perspective, despite the fact that many standards start out that way. Standards bodies, to be of any value must be independent, and must be willing to consider, up to a reasonable point, objections to the standard. If not, then the whole issue of a standard is moot. Comment viewing options Diflucan online Duena's picture Good afternoon. How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old? I am from Lanka and learning to write in English, tell me right I wrote the following sentence: "Chapter how to get cheap airline tickets pgs." THX :-), Duena. Geek Guide The DevOps Toolbox Tools and Technologies for Scale and Reliability by Linux Journal Editor Bill Childers Get your free copy today Sponsored by IBM 8 Signs You're Beyond Cron Scheduling Crontabs With an Enterprise Scheduler On Demand Moderated by Linux Journal Contributor Mike Diehl Sign up and watch now Sponsored by Skybot
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View Single Post Old 05-05-2012, 02:26 PM   #1892 Darth Avlectus If Sunday you're free... Darth Avlectus's Avatar Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Why don't you come with me... Posts: 4,307 Current Game: Poisoning pigeons in the park. Good idea. With everything else going on, whose going to notice? @toten: that reminds me of this song @ ~2:47 View page YouTube Video Resorting to cannibalism because the world's meat supply is dwindling due to overpopulation. Darth Avlectus is offline   you may: quote & reply,
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Deke's Techniques Illustration by John Hersey 253 Drawing the Pen tool without touching the Pen tool Deke's Techniques with Deke McClelland Video: 253 Drawing the Pen tool without touching the Pen tool Hey gang, this is Deke McCullen, welcome to Deke's techniques. This week I'm going to show you how to draw the pen tool cursor in Adobe Illustrator without ever once touching the Pen tool. So the idea is this, we're going to draw those black and grey lines right there using the Standard Lines Segment tools, not because it's easier, but because it's more precise. And then we'll draw the other shapes obviously with the Ellipse and Rectangle tool. We'll fuse everything together and round off the edges, like so, and then we'll rotate the cursor into it's proper position. Just because it's easier to draw up right and then rotate it. Expand all | Collapse all 1. 26m 37s 1. 419 Adding field blurs to a vector-based illustration NEW 11m 39s 2. 420 Great uses for Color and Gradient Overlay NEW 7m 39s 3. 421 Easter Island NEW 7m 19s 2. 6h 48m 1. 417 Preparing images for your Facebook timeline 9m 42s 2. 416 Extending your profile picture into your Facebook cover photo 12m 2s 3. 377 Two ways to create center guides in Photoshop 4m 28s 4. 378 A new way to create center guides in Photoshop CC 4m 21s 5. 379 Two ways to create center guides in Illustrator 3m 25s 6. 380 Clearing the list of recently used fonts in InDesign 6m 40s 7. 381 Two ways to search fonts in InDesign CC 4m 31s 8. 382 Drawing flowering vectors in Illustrator 18m 15s 9. 383 Stroking the petals to create a lattice effect 16m 45s 10. 384 Creating a flowering origami effect 8m 47s 11. 385 Painting shapes with transitional gradients 15m 54s 12. 386 Correcting the brightness and banding of a printed image 18m 7s 13. 387 Further reducing banding with a gradient layer 11m 43s 14. 388 Smoothing away noise with the Mean stack mode 8m 8s 15. 389 Developing a sweetly romantic tropical island 9m 28s 16. 390 Creating a Caribbean blue sea with Photo Filter 5m 10s 17. 391 Creating letters chiseled into stone 8m 15s 18. 392 Adding a chiseled border 6m 29s 19. 393 Assembling MRI slices into a 3D volume 9m 24s 20. 394 Assigning multiple strokes to gradient type in Illustrator 10m 30s 21. 395 Filling in the gaps between stroked letters 6m 2s 22. 396 Fragmenting a photo through ribbed glass 9m 46s 23. 397 Applying a displacement map with the Glass filter 8m 40s 24. 398 Infusing an image with vivid nightclub colors 6m 59s 25. 399 Adding MDNA-inspired bands of color 9m 38s 26. 400 Patching badly displaced edges 4m 46s 27. 401 Styling type with a pattern of vertical lines 12m 59s 28. 402 Reshaping letterforms to match the intervals of a pattern 11m 34s 29. 403 Swapping one image for another with smart objects 7m 57s 30. 404 Forging a million-dollar stamp in Photoshop 20m 59s 31. 405 Masking graphic frames and natural edges 12m 16s 32. 406 Matching a real-world paper texture 12m 16s 33. 407 Casting multiple drop shadows in Photoshop 6m 55s 34. 408 Developing an awesome angelfish in Camera Raw 9m 32s 35. 409 Tweaking a fish photo to perfection 5m 32s 36. 410 Assigning spot colors to a logo in Photoshop 14m 19s 37. 411 Blending spot colors inside a logo 9m 23s 38. 412 Exporting spot-color separations from Photoshop 8m 3s 39. 413 Exporting spot-color separations from Illustrator 9m 25s 40. 414 The latest and greatest 2015 Facebook image specifications 8m 58s 41. 415 Creating the perfect Facebook cover photo 2015 13m 38s 7m 14s 3. 18h 48m 12m 59s 2. 283 Dynamically transforming fills and strokes 13m 41s 3. 284 Tracing an avatar from a photograph in Photoshop 12m 24s 4. 285 Drawing a vector-based avatar in Illustrator 19m 44s 5. 286 Coloring and shading your avatar 16m 0s 6. 287 Exporting an illustration as a universally supported PNG file 10m 54s 7. 288 Upsampling a layered composition with great results 13m 43s 8. 289 Rebuilding a pattern at a higher resolution 7m 29s 9. 290 Painting happy little trees 13m 46s 10. 291 Shading and lighting the happy forest 15m 15s 11. 292 Enlarging a low-res photograph in Photoshop 12m 20s 12. 293 Enlarging a photo by tracing it in Illustrator 13m 10s 13. 294 Mastering Exposure in Camera Raw 11m 40s 14. 295 Super smooth and unflinchingly sharp 10m 46s 15. 296 Deleting an inadvertent photo bomber 8m 13s 16. 297 Correcting a distorted panorama 17m 23s 17. 298 Rebuilding bad stitching in a panorama 14m 53s 18. 299 Nondestructive dodge and burn 8m 54s 19. 300 Blending a shadow into any background 8m 37s 20. 301 Saving a PNG image with a translucent shadow 8m 45s 21. 302 Cleaning up a smart phone photo 11m 17s 22. 303 Using Photoshop 1.0 5m 45s 23. 304 Creating your own Chinese seal (or chop) 26m 4s 24. 305 Simulating hand lettering with art brushes 20m 8s 25. 306 Adding texture to your hand stamp 3m 34s 26. 307 Creating a black chop on red paper 5m 55s 27. 308 Auto-hiding iconic panels in Photoshop 3m 44s 28. 309 Creating a custom toolbox in Illustrator CC 4m 21s 29. 310 Creating the perfect passport photo 20m 18s 30. 311 Retouching your passport photo 13m 38s 31. 312 Turning a photo into a giant mural 13m 11s 32. 313 Enhancing the reality of your mural 11m 8s 33. 314 Creating a 3D bump map 12m 7s 34. 315 UV overlay and 3D bump paint 14m 4s 35. 316 Using Lens Flare for good (not evil) 10m 48s 36. 317 Using the Perspective Crop tool 9m 29s 37. 318 Reducing real-world camera shake 10m 4s 38. 319 Reducing glare in a photograph 15m 25s 39. 320 Restoring repeating details 13m 43s 40. 321 Integrating a detail captured with a phone 9m 6s 41. 322 Blending two exposures of a single scene 12m 25s 42. 323 Masking mountains away from sky 14m 22s 43. 324 Creating a photographic caricature in Photoshop 10m 7s 44. 325 Exaggerating facial features with Liquify 12m 48s 45. 326 Masking a caricature against a new background 11m 20s 46. 327 Shading and sharpening a caricature 10m 6s 47. 328 Drawing a Möbius strip in Illustrator 12m 21s 48. 329 Shading the Möbius strip with gradients 9m 0s 49. 330 Adding twisting edges to the Möbius strip 8m 9s 50. 331 Creating an impossible Penrose triangle 10m 37s 51. 332 Shading the cubes in your Penrose triangle 8m 15s 52. 333 Selectively converting a photo to black & white 7m 53s 53. 334 Straightening and “uncropping” a photo 16m 17s 54. 335 Restoring a missing photograph detail 11m 26s 55. 336 Drawing a hand (clenched in a fist) 11m 44s 56. 337 Cleaning up a sketch captured with a phone 6m 17s 12m 24s 58. 339 Swapping out colors in existing gradients in Illustrator 4m 37s 59. 340 Select > Focus Area and the pseudo engraving effect 12m 26s 60. 341 Integrating 3D art into a 2D scene in Photoshop 13m 41s 61. 342 Creating a 3D shark in Photoshop 11m 16s 62. 343 Creating a 3D doughnut in Illustrator 15m 23s 63. 344 Creating a golden 3D ring in Illustrator 10m 21s 15m 57s 65. 346 Hand-drawing custom-made letters in Illustrator 19m 33s 66. 347 Drawing letters with curves and holes 15m 56s 67. 348 Enhancing your hand-drawn text in Photoshop 7m 20s 68. 349 Mixing a low-color photo with Camera Raw 11m 2s 69. 350 Mixing a low-color photo with adjustment layers 10m 7s 70. 351 Saving your effect as a color lookup table 5m 31s 71. 352 Extracting a classic painting from its frame 11m 35s 72. 353 Extracting that same painting nondestructively 7m 59s 73. 354 Archiving and enhancing a child’s art 10m 47s 74. 355 Combining a child’s art with a real classic 11m 5s 75. 356 Developing the perfect sunset in Camera Raw 9m 55s 76. 357 Lush landscapes: The real green is yellow 9m 7s 77. 358 Painting away Camera Raw “Clarity halos” 17m 7s 78. 359 Selectively sharpening a stressed photograph 16m 12s 79. 360 Transforming yourself into a Dark Elf 16m 27s 80. 361 Hand-masking the elf against a vivid background 15m 35s 81. 362 Making the Dark Elf that much darker 15m 29s 82. 363 Developing a photograph of The Joker 16m 26s 83. 364 Carving expression lines into The Joker’s face 14m 1s 84. 365 Creating a campaign poster in Illustrator 15m 3s 85. 366 Creating a Prohibition (or Universal No) symbol 7m 13s 86. 367 Using Photoshop CC’s new Flame Generator 10m 4s 87. 368 Creating cool Flame Generator art 9m 35s 88. 369 Setting type on fire with the Flame Generator 8m 13s 89. 370 Blending synthetic flames with type 6m 12s 90. 371 Creating secret-message type in Photoshop 13m 38s 91. 372 Animating a continuously morphing message 10m 59s 92. 373 Creating a piece of Minecraft-inspired art 16m 10s 93. 374 Extruding your Minecraft art into 3D space 8m 39s 94. 375 Adding a big-pixel, Minecraft background 12m 2s 95. 376 Developing the perfect holiday portrait 15m 22s 4. 17h 21m 1. 185 Creating a custom 2013 calendar in Illustrator 11m 44s 2. 186 Adding dates to a calendar using tables 9m 50s 3. 187 Branding your calendar with a field of logos 10m 54s 4. 188 Crafting an Infinity symbol to match a specific font 12m 6s 5. 189 Op art experiment 1a: Inflated checkers 10m 49s 6. 190 Op art experiment 1b: Rounded windows 6m 39s 7. 191 Building a universal ISOTYPE man with strokes 15m 6s 8. 192 Building a universal ISOTYPE woman with strokes 11m 7s 9. 193 Drawing an ISOTYPE couple in love 12m 55s 10. 194 Creating a Warhol-style silkscreen effect 14m 43s 11. 195 Creating a series of Warhol-style variations 10m 43s 12. 196 Adding Warhol-style background variations 8m 20s 13. 197 Creating opaque colored shadows 5m 20s 14. 198 Assembling multiple variations into a single comp 5m 9s 15. 199 Creating a pattern of unique inset circles 9m 55s 16. 200 Changing a static blended color scheme 7m 16s 17. 201 Op art experiment 2a: Undulating pattern 20m 26s 18. 202 Op art experiment 2b: Concentric rings 9m 43s 19. 203 Developing a dramatic castle in Camera Raw 13m 21s 20. 204 Artificially coloring a photo in Camera Raw 9m 38s 21. 205 Creating an antique photo effect in Camera Raw 7m 53s 22. 206 Adding a weathered old-photo frame effect 12m 0s 23. 207 Drawing an Angry Birds-like character 16m 59s 24. 208 Stroking an entire layer in Illustrator 9m 21s 25. 209 Drawing a classic snarling cartoon face 11m 10s 26. 210 Drawing a radiant, cheerful cartoon background 18m 29s 27. 211 Stroking any kind of type in Illustrator 5m 0s 28. 212 Creating synthetic water droplets 9m 29s 29. 213 Simulating liquid reflections with effect 5m 19s 30. 214 Simulating liquid refractions with a dmap 5m 30s 31. 215 Creating an eye-catching splatter effect 9m 8s 32. 216 Defringing purples and greens in Camera Raw 7 10m 4s 33. 217 Making a danger sign more dangerous 15m 9s 34. 218 Using texture and depth to add realism 10m 22s 35. 219 Precisely aligning artwork to the bleed 7m 16s 36. 220 Creating and importing a tracing template 6m 50s 37. 221 Drawing a distinctive 2D video game character 18m 52s 38. 222 Adding features to the face of a 2D character 14m 3s 39. 223 Creating a vivid aura around an entire character 7m 19s 40. 224 Adding variable-width strokes in Illustrator 11m 23s 41. 225 Animating bird wings with Puppet Warp 12m 15s 42. 226 Animating text by onion skinning in Photoshop 8m 0s 43. 227 Creating an animated movie in Photoshop 9m 15s 44. 228 Exporting an animation to QuickTime and GIF 5m 44s 45. 229 Correcting an underwater photograph 10m 30s 7m 17s 8m 33s 48. 232 Creating highly reflective sunglasses 10m 43s 49. 233 Adding drama to an outdoor portrait shot 6m 35s 50. 234 Creating volumetric forms with shape layers 15m 52s 51. 235 Creating a bloodshot eye effect 7m 11s 52. 236 Shading an image with shapes and layer masks 13m 2s 53. 237 Creating fabric textures with pattern layers 7m 27s 54. 238 Colorize any layer with Color Overlay 3m 23s 55. 239 Turning a portrait into a dot drawing 7m 40s 56. 240 Creating a full-color dot drawing 3m 29s 57. 241 Drawing an orthogonal cube with the line tool 7m 9s 58. 242 Creating a cube of differently colored cubes 9m 27s 59. 243 Recreating the Creative Cloud Logo in Illustrator 16m 21s 60. 244 Creating a psychedelic fabric texture 9m 7s 61. 245 Turning psychedelic fabric into rock letters 5m 23s 62. 246 Creating a more finely rendered dot drawing 8m 29s 63. 247 Converting from RGB to CMYK via Multichannel 12m 31s 64. 248 Creating printer-safe CMYK shadows 6m 48s 65. 249 Creating bright, golden motion trails 12m 32s 66. 250 Creating schematic art with grid 12m 41s 67. 251 Drawing precisely aligned arrowhead 12m 8s 68. 252 Adding arrowheads around a closed path 6m 1s 69. 253 Drawing the Pen tool without touching the Pen tool 17m 13s 70. 254 Merging frames for the best possible UAV photo 16m 40s 71. 255 Retouching details in an aerial landscape 12m 13s 72. 256 Editing a video and adding transitions in Photoshop 10m 57s 73. 257 Importing the quadcopter crash sequences 9m 4s 74. 258 Color correcting a video and adding a soundtrack 8m 56s 75. 259 Adding precisely timed titles to your video 11m 43s 76. 260 Hand-painting an image with a Wacom Cintiq 13m 11s 77. 261 Blending the final false-color artwork 8m 41s 78. 262 Creating a honeycomb pattern in Illustrator 12m 50s 79. 263 Building up strokes to create 3D honeycomb 9m 8s 80. 264 Turning yourself into a zombie 14m 0s 81. 265 Enhancing an ambience environment for the undead 9m 26s 82. 266 Creating dripping, gooey ghost letters 16m 43s 83. 267 Turning type into gooey green slime 11m 19s 12m 27s 85. 269 Cleaning up a crummy product shot 11m 3s 86. 270 Scaling and rotating photographic objects 10m 10s 87. 271 Tracing a line drawing with uniform strokes 11m 18s 88. 272 Coloring line art using Live Paint Bucket 18m 22s 89. 273 Creating a pigture using shapes and letters 18m 7s 90. 274 Integrating a cartoon into a photograph 7m 27s 91. 275 Converting a photo into a Lichtenstein drawing 16m 8s 15m 31s 93. 277 Painting an eye using a custom brush 11m 31s 94. 278 Painting and smoothing straight-sided brushstrokes 12m 0s 95. 279 Simulating pressure with path outlines 6m 3s 14m 42s 11m 15s 5. 14h 31m 1. 091 Removing people from a photo 10m 44s 2. 092 Masking people back into a photo 10m 58s 3. 093 Hand-painting a mask 10m 5s 4. 094 Masking a real-life shadow 10m 40s 5. 095 Turning a photo into line art 7m 44s 6. 096 Adding a crosshatch shading pattern 6m 46s 7. 097 Creating type that inverts anything behind it 5m 32s 8. 098 Creating auto-inverting line art 5m 7s 9. 099 Creating movie poster credits 8m 10s 10. 100 Creating a dual-focus hybrid image 6m 24s 11. 101 Adding text to a hybrid composition 7m 24s 12. 102 Drawing with the reshape tool 10m 39s 13. 103 Hand-drawing a really great letter 10m 6s 14. 104 Creating a vanity frame 5m 28s 15. 105 Adding a frame to a photograph 5m 3s 16. 106 Drawing a highly graphic explosion with Illustrator 10m 3s 17. 107 Drawing a Ninja Turtle nose 10m 22s 18. 108 Mapping a dog face onto a duck 8m 20s 19. 109 Putting a tongue on a duck 7m 6s 20. 110 Making synthetic lightning in Photoshop 11m 3s 21. 111 Creating a driving rain effect in Photoshop 4m 57s 22. 112 Designing a railroad track 12m 18s 23. 113 Bending the railroad track around curves 7m 46s 24. 114 Creating a Star Wars hologram effect 9m 23s 25. 115 Creating leafy letters 6m 12s 26. 116 Creating topiary type 6m 22s 27. 117 Creating type in grass 9m 0s 28. 118 Rendering type in smoke 7m 30s 29. 119 Rendering type in brushed metal 9m 58s 30. 120 Adding brushed copper effect 4m 14s 31. 121 Reflecting type in water 10m 57s 32. 122 Reflecting water back into type 11m 14s 33. 123 Joining type to a circle 7m 14s 34. 124 Making flared type on a circle 7m 17s 35. 125 Making a person emerge from water 5m 32s 36. 126 Creating progressive water ripples 10m 17s 37. 127 Creating an upside-down face effect 10m 17s 38. 128 Achieving silky smooth skin with retouching 6m 33s 39. 129 Pearly white teeth 7m 28s 40. 130 Head-shrinking 8m 26s 41. 131 Getting a big head 5m 11s 42. 132 Adding a photographic texture to vector type 4m 28s 43. 133 Adding strokes in back of photo type 5m 9s 44. 134 Adding a border to an image in Illustrator 4m 17s 45. 135 Two ways to crop in Illustrator 7m 29s 46. 136 Inventing a 3D temple with a depth map 10m 0s 47. 137 Drawing a 3D object with Curves 11m 41s 48. 138 Creating a superhero shield in Illustrator 16m 28s 49. 139 Turning Illustrator paths into Photoshop shapes 11m 43s 50. 140 Creating a photorealistic superhero shield 12m 39s 51. 141 Pimping your ride in Photoshop 9m 59s 52. 142 Masking and blackening a car 10m 20s 53. 143 Drawing a multi-part vector mask 12m 46s 54. 144 Masking and painting a shadow 8m 26s 55. 145 Integrating blades of grass into tires 5m 34s 56. 146 Making a (ridiculously) dramatic sky 6m 2s 57. 147 Adding flame stripes to a car 8m 23s 58. 148 Creating interlocking octagons in Illustrator 7m 44s 59. 149 Hand-coloring line art 13m 9s 60. 150 Creating a custom wave pattern 9m 56s 61. 151 Simulating a screen print 8m 30s 62. 152 Drawing a perfect linear spiral in Illustrator 9m 42s 63. 153 Drawing a spiraling nautilus shell 11m 4s 64. 154 Designing a hex pattern in Illustrator CS6 11m 10s 65. 155 Making a hex pattern in Illustrator CS5 and earlier 7m 4s 66. 156 Creating a Facebook cover in Photoshop 9m 25s 67. 157 Matching a profile picture to your cover 6m 37s 68. 158 Cloning yourself in Photoshop 11m 16s 69. 159 Lighting the clone party 8m 29s 70. 160 Hand-carving letters into wood 8m 0s 71. 161 Creating a Spirograph-like pattern 7m 34s 72. 162 Tracing scalloped gear teeth around a circle 4m 55s 73. 163 Applying custom carve and shadow styles to type 8m 50s 74. 164 Turning a pencil sketch into digital ink 12m 55s 75. 165 Adding a graph-paper background 13m 42s 76. 166 Creating a continuous single-line Spirograph 13m 2s 77. 167 Scaling circles into complex patterns 7m 15s 78. 168 Creating a money-like design 8m 43s 79. 169 Attack of the killer pumpkin 14m 49s 80. 170 Simulating a glowing Jack-o-lantern 12m 24s 81. 171 The headless stranger in the mist 12m 25s 82. 172 Creating 3D punched letters 13m 29s 83. 173 Designing a double-wave line pattern 11m 2s 84. 174 Assembling a seamless pattern brush 9m 53s 85. 175 Creating a hand turkey in Photoshop 18m 42s 86. 176 Creating a depth-of-field cast shadow 7m 29s 87. 177 Creating a lustrous round jewel 13m 56s 88. 178 Cutting and brushing light on a gem 8m 30s 89. 179 Creating a shiny button with inset text 11m 5s 90. 180 Creating a jaunty six-sided star 15m 1s 91. 181 Interweaving star shapes and adding gradients 8m 28s 92. 182 Casting shadows between interwoven shapes 9m 12s 93. 183 Creating a Hobbit-like text effect 15m 6s 94. 184 Enhancing a landscape photo in Camera Raw 7 9m 16s 6. 13h 11m 1. 001 Creating ice type 8m 39s 2. 002 Branding type on a texture 7m 6s 3. 003 Creating an image-branding machine 7m 13s 4. 004 Capturing effects with layer comps 7m 35s 5. 005 Rendering type in gold 8m 9s 6. 006 Creating a hammered metal background 5m 48s 7. 007 Creating heavy metal type 8m 13s 8. 008 Creating a molten letter effect 6m 43s 9. 009 Setting type on fire 11m 20s 10. 010 Using an anti-edge mask 7m 20s 11. 011 Blending textures onto a face 9m 28s 12. 012 Rendering a face as a cave painting 7m 34s 13. 013 Creating a reflection in shattered glass 8m 32s 14. 014 Creating a face in a tree 11m 20s 15. 015 Building a synthetic star field 8m 21s 16. 016 Making 3D type with Repoussé 10m 14s 17. 017 Casting 3D shadows and reflections 9m 35s 18. 018 Adjusting 3D light sources 10m 51s 19. 019 Masking highlights and shadows 6m 27s 20. 020 Masking glass 10m 39s 21. 021 High key high contrast 8m 33s 22. 022 Simulating sub-pixel rendering 10m 58s 23. 023 Fixing chromatic aberrations in Photoshop 9m 41s 24. 024 Fixing chromatic aberrations in Camera Raw 8m 51s 25. 025 Correcting red-eye like a pro 11m 56s 26. 026 Turning a photo into an ink drawing 10m 42s 27. 027 Turning a photo into a pencil sketch 8m 43s 28. 028 Creating a seamlessly repeating pattern 10m 56s 29. 029 Repairing seams in a repeating pattern 10m 47s 30. 030 Creating a 3D pie chart 11m 9s 31. 031 Splitting and modifying 3D meshes 11m 52s 32. 032 Using the Ground Plane Shadow Catcher 6m 58s 33. 033 Creating a talk show-style curtain 7m 57s 34. 034 Assembling a flawless panorama 10m 5s 35. 035 Removing people with image stacks 11m 44s 36. 036 Creative stacking with Maximum and Range 11m 44s 37. 037 Creating synthetic wood grain 9m 23s 38. 038 Making slats of uniquely textured wood 10m 52s 39. 039 Kerning within a single character 10m 31s 40. 040 Creating a raised bevel effect 11m 49s 41. 041 Putting wings on a horse 10m 41s 42. 042 Creating a classic heart in Illustrator 7m 15s 43. 043 Glossing up a heart in Photoshop 8m 42s 44. 044 Shooting and assembling a stereoscopic photo 8m 15s 45. 045 Extending 3D beyond the screen plane 6m 13s 46. 046 Adding stereo 3D text and shapes 9m 9s 47. 047 Tilting text and shapes toward the viewer 8m 13s 48. 048 Creating a shooting star in Illustrator 6m 33s 49. 049 Using blends to draw path outlines 8m 8s 50. 050 Inventing custom starbursts 7m 33s 51. 051 Making a fictional creature 12m 5s 52. 052 Transforming a creature into a monster 6m 14s 53. 053 Capturing a monster in motion 11m 45s 54. 054 Changing the color of a car 7m 12s 55. 055 Painting a colorful car black 8m 16s 56. 056 Coloring the stripes on a zebra 10m 47s 57. 057 Drawing trendy swirls in Illustrator 10m 59s 58. 058 Creating variable-width and brushed swirls 10m 46s 59. 059 Drawing trendy ornaments in Illustrator 8m 49s 60. 060 Designing a magically updating pattern 8m 40s 61. 061 Automatically collapsing a selection 7m 43s 62. 062 Adding a magnifying glass into a design 7m 5s 63. 063 Healing one eye onto another 7m 15s 64. 064 Creating a giant command key 9m 15s 65. 065 Drawing common symbols part 1 6m 29s 66. 066 Drawing common symbols part 2 9m 26s 67. 067 Filtering images with Camera Raw 7m 52s 68. 068 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Watch the Online Video Course Deke's Techniques 71h 7m Intermediate Jan 11, 2011 Updated Jun 02, 2015 Viewers: in countries Watching now: Illustrator Photoshop Deke McClelland 253 Drawing the Pen tool without touching the Pen tool In that way we get this exactly vertical line right there, and then finally we'll add the six pointed asterisk because after all, that's what you see when you first start using the Pen tool in Illustrator, now. You might say, it's kind of unlikely that I'm going to be drawing the pen tool on a regular basis Deke. And that's true. But this is a very interesting and useful exercise in creating basic schematic artwork. Here, let me show you exactly how it works. Let's get to work on that Pen tool cursor. And because we're going to be drawing the cursor in phases, we'll assemble it in the pasteboard. As opposed to the art board. So, step number one is to go up to the View menu and choose Show Grid and make sure, by the way, that snap to Grid is turned on. And I'm going to zoom into this area above the top left corner of the art board. And you can work against this dark pasteboard if you like, but if that doesn't serve your needs, then just go ahead and press Ctrl+K or Cmd+K on the Mac. In order to bring up the Preferences dialog box. Switch to User Interface, and change the canvas color. Canvas being the name, at least in this dialog box for the paste board to white, and you'll end up with this effect here. Then go ahead and click OK. Alright, I'm going to go ahead and zoom in just a little bit more, and we're mostly going to be drawing by the numbers. Just because in the course of reverse engineering this project, it turns out to be the best approach. I'll start things off by selecting the Line Segment tool, then I'll click say right about there. In order to bring up the Line Tool Options dialogue box. And I'm going to change the length value to 102 points, and I'm going to change the angle value to 90. And then I'll enter plus 25. When I press the tab key, that changes the angle to 115 degrees, and you may wonder where in the world this 25 thing comes from. 90 degrees is stright up and down. 25 degrees goes ahead and gives the thing a little bit of an angle. Well if I click OK, we end up with this line right there. And it's all based on the appearance of the Pen tool cursor. I just had to basically select the Pen tool and look at it a bunch of times. But I ultimately figured out that this angle of a line was going to work out well. And you'll see that this turns out to be the case in just a moment. Anyway I'm going to switch back to the Black Arrow tool, drag that guy down to about there. I'll select the line segment tool again and click on this end point in order to add another line and this angle length is going to be 52 points, end angles going to be 270 minus 25 degrees. And then I'll press the Tab key. I see that's 245 degrees, fine. Click OK and I end up with this line segment. And finally, I'm going to click on this anchor point, and I'm going to change it's link to 16 points. And the angle will be 270 degrees. I'd like to enter negative 90 degrees to send it straight down, but you can't so 270 degrees is the way to go. Then click OK and we end up with this short segment right there. Now grab your Black Arrow tool, marquee these path outlines and press Ctrl+J, or Cmd+j on the Mac in order to joint them together. And what I like to do after a join is press the a key to switch to the White Arrow tool, click off the path outline. And then just drag the anchor points, the middle anchor points around. To make sure they're single anchor points instead of very close double anchor points. In any case, everything is working out for me. So, I'll press Ctrl+Z a couple of times here in order to undo that change. And then, I'll press the v key to switch to the Black Arrow tool. I'll click on this path outline to select it. Switch to the Reflect tool, which is available in the Rotate tool flyout menu. And I'll Alt-click or Option-click on this top Anchor Point in order to bring up the Reflect tool dialogue box, change the axis to vertical and click Copy in order to create a copy of that path outline. Now switch back to the Black Arrow tool. Shift+click on the other Path outline, so both of them are selected. And press Ctrl+J, or Cmd+J on the Mac to join them together into a single path. Next, we need to change the stroke attributes, starting with the line width. Change that to 10 points, and then click on the word Stroke, and change the cap to round cap. And change the corner to round join, in order to produce this effect here. Now, we need to draw another path, right down here through the center. And this time I'm going to just draw it with a Line tool. But, I need my Smart Guides, so I'll go up to the View menu and choose Smart Guides to turn them on. And then, I'll drag down from this top anchor point until, I snap into alignment with this guy, right there. But, I'm not seeing any snapping info. I'm not seeing the little heads up stuff that you normally see with smart guides, and that's because snap to guides is turned on. I need to turn it off. So, I'll press Ctrl+Z or Cmd+Z on a Mac in order to undo that path, and I'll go up to the view menu and turn off snap to grid. So, the idea is that smart guides and snap to grid often interfere with each other. And now just so I make sure I get everything exactly right, I am going to drag from this left anchor point over to the right one, and that's just going to serve us the kind of guideline. Now I will drag from the top anchor point down until I intersect with that horizontal line. Now, I can press the v key to switch to the Black Arrow tool, click on the horizontal path outline, and delete it by pressing the Backspace or Delete key. Also, to avoid any conflicts up in this region, I'm going to press the A key to switch to the White Arrow tool, click on this top anchor point, and press Shift+Down Arrow to nudge it down 10 pixels. And it'll just make sure that we don't have too many anchor points around this top edge. When we trace the outline. Now, I'm going to switch to the Ellipse tool, which I can get from the Shape tool flyout menu. I'll Alt or Option-click on that bottom anchor point to bring up the Ellipse dialog box. Because I press the Alt or Option key, I'll create the shape from the center outward. I want it to be 16 points wide by 16 points tall. So now I'll click okay. And I end up with this effect here. Thing is, it's too big, because I've got a stroke and no fill. I want to the opposite, so I'll press Shift X, in order to swap the fill and stroke attributes, like so. Next, I'm going to switch to my Rectangle tool. I'm going to click any old place, here inside the paste board. And I just happen to know, I came up with these values through trial and error. Happen to know that the width value wants to be 87 points, and the height value wants to be 24 points. And now click OK. In order to create that rectangle go ahead and switch back to my Black Arrow tool. And I'll go ahead and drag the rectangle by it's center point, up and to the right in my case, so that I see all of these other sections. So that the top edge is now intersecting with the bottom anchor points and the Pen tool cursor. And I'm also intersecting with the center of the ellipse. And, that's exactly where I want to be. Now I'm going to round off this rectangle just a little bit by going up to the Effect menu, choosing Stylize, and choosing Round corners. And I came up with a radius value of five pixels, and then I'll click OK, in order to round things off ever so slightly there. I'm going to zoom in and I need to round off the Pen tool cursor as well, the edges. Because again if I select the Pen tool you can see that not only is its bottom a little bit rounded, but its edges appear to be rounded as well. And they would appear even more so if they were represented as a vector. But while I do want to round off these edges and these down here too, these corners. I don't want to round off the top of the pen. So I need to divide it into a couple of separate shapes by grabbing my Rectangle tool. Just dragging any old place through the pen like so. And go ahead and lift the pens attributes by getting the eye dropper tool and clicking on one of these paths outlines. So we have a stroked path. Then, switch to the Black Arrow tool. Shift click on this path to select it. Go to the Window menu and choose Path Finder to bring up the Path Finder panel. You want to click on this guy right there, outline. And that will go ahead and lose all the attributes, but it's also gone ahead and cut the shapes according to their outlines. Now you can hide the Path Finder Panel. Press the I key to switch back to the eyedropper, and click on that path to lift the attributes once again. Notice we've got a group on the far left side of the Control panel. We need to break it apart by going to the Object menu and choosing the Ungroup command. Now that I have a bunch of path outlines, as verified by the word path on the far left side of the Control Panel, I can click on this path to lift those attributes. Then, press the V key to switch to the Black Arrow tool. Click off the path outline, select this guy, and Shift-click on this one, this little bit of horizontal path, and press the Delete key. Or the backspace here on a PC to get rid of 'em. Then click on this path, and click on this one, and go up to Effect menu and choose the second Round Corners command. Which will bring up the Dialogue Box so you can press the Down Arrow key to change the radius value to four points. Turn on the Preview checkbox and you can see we have just a little bit of rounding going on, but it does not effect that top point. Now I'll go ahead and click OK in order to expect that change, now what we want to do is take our work so far. Go ahead and select all of it and let's go ahead and make a copy of it because we're going to kind of destroy it here, so go ahead and Shift-drag is what I'm doing. I will press the Alt key in the PC, or the Option key on the Mac, in order to make it duplicate. And we want to convert all this stuff into filled path outlines. And you do that by first going to the Object menu and choosing Expand Appearance. And that goes ahead and draws path outlines that conform to the round corners effect we applied a moment ago. Then go up to the Object menu, choose Path and choose Outline Stroke. And we end up outlining all the strokes as you see here. Then return to the Path Finder Panel and click on the first shape mode Unite, in order to fuse all those shapes together. And now we've got a single path representing the Pen tool, and I am going to zoom in on the top of it, because I wanted you to know how very smooth things are we have just three anchor points. If I head left this path outline right there, tucked all the way to the top. We would have ended up with something like two dozen anchor points. It's ridiculous. So that's why I moved it down a little bit. I'll go ahead and zoom out. And now, I want to take this Pen tool. And you might have thought the entire time here. Well, why are we drawing this thing upright? When the Pen tool cursor is at a jaunty angle? Well, because it's easier to draw it upright, and then rotate it to a jaunty angle. And that jaunty angle. Is 25 degrees. The reason I was adding 25 degrees to 90 degrees and then subtracting it from 270 degrees was because the whole thing is going to get rotated 25 degrees in the end. I'm going to go ahead and switch over to the Rotate tool, and then I'll double click on it and enter an angle value of 25 degrees. And that makes this guy exactly upright, which is the way it wants to be. Now click OK in order to apply that change. Now what we need to do, because the Pen tool cursor involves a little asterisk when you're starting things off, we need to draw that asterisk. We'll be doing so using the Line Segment tool once again. And I'm going to start things off by clicking pretty much in any old place here. And I'm going to change the link value to 64 points, and I'm going to change the angle value to, 270 degrees is just fine. And then click OK. And I end up with this unfilled unstroked line. Which is not what I want. So I'll press the I key to get the Eye Dropper tool, and click on this path outline right there in order to lift its attributes. So the great thing is, I still am preserving all of my work. I can go back and look at this thing and figure out how I put it together in the first place. Because if I had to rely on just this version of the Pen tool, I would never have a hope of remembering how I made it, say two weeks from now. Now I'll go ahead and select the new path outline I just created. And I want to turn it into an asterisk in a couple of steps. I'll go up to the Effect menu. Choose Distrort and Transform. And then choose the Transform command. And I'll change the rotate value to 90 degrees, and then click OK. And that creates a kind of virtual rotation of this path outline. You can see, it still runs straight up and down. And I just found it was easier when trying to create the other little markings that appear next to the Pen Tool cursor, to keep this first guy straight up and down. Now I'll go back up to Effect Menu, choose the second Transform command. I'll get an alert message asking if I really want to add another helping of this effect. I do, so I'll click the Apply New Effect button. And now I'll change the angle value to 60 degrees, turn on the Preview check box and click inside the Copies value and bring it up to two copies. And I end up getting this asterisk right here, which is exactly the way it works. If you press the P key to get the Pen tool, you'll see that it is a six point asterisks. Now, what I need to do is grab this guy here and align him to the Pen tool. So, I drag that top anchor point to this location so, it snaps into alignment and then I press the Enter key, or the Return key on the Mac to bring up the Mauve dialog box. And I ended up changing the horizontal value to 63 points. And the vertical value to 18 points. That just happened to be the alignment that looked good to me. And then I'll go ahead and click the OK button in order to accept that change. And now I'm going to select both of these guys. So I'll drag around both of them with the Black Arrow tool. And create yet another copy by Shift+Alt dragging, or Shift+option dragging on a Mac. And then we want to select this guy, just him. And expand the asterisk by going up to the Object menu, choosing Expand Appearance, and then you need to go to the Object menu and choose Paths, and then choose Outline Stroke. So we're going through the same set of operations we applied to the Pen tool. And then you want to bring up the Pathfinder Panel, and you want to click on Unite in order to achieve this effect here, and that's it. Just to keep them together, I went ahead and Shift, clicked on the Pan Tool cursor so that they're both selected. And I went up to the Object menu. You might think that you'd group' em but the better way to work is to drop down the Compound path, and choose Make. And that way Illustrator will treat these objects as a single path outline. And so they'll always have a uniform set of fill and stroke attributes. Having done that, I'm going to drag the Pen tool into place by creating a copy of it here inside the document. And now, I'm going to go ahead and zoom in so I can better see what I'm doing And I will click on the first color swatch up here in the Control Panel and I'll change it to the bright green, so that we have the proper coloring. With snap to grid turned off by the way, I am going to go ahead and drag this guy over. So that the left edge of this compound half aligns to one, two, three grid marks in. And the bottom edge of the Pen tool cursor right here aligns to this increment, the one just above the word inactive. All right, I'll go ahead and zoom out. And I'll turn on this Pen States layer, which contains all the other states of the Pen tool cursor. And I'll go ahead and drag this bright green square, which represents the selected art, down onto Pen States so that all of the pens are together. And the final thing I recommend you do, by the way, is select all the stages of your artwork, and go ahead and hide 'em just, so that they're not cluttering up your view by creating another layer. Which you can do by Alt+clicking or Option+clicking on the little page icon at the bottom of the Layers panel. And I'm going to change the color of this layer to light red. And I usually call this kind of layer build Because this is where I build my artwork. And then, I'll click OK. And then, you can drag that little green square that represents the selected artwork up to the build layer and turn it off in order to hide it from view. But, of course, all your work is protected so you can come back to it any time you like. And now, I'll press Ctrl+quote in order to hide my grid. I will press the Tab key to hide the panels, and I'll press Ctrl+0 or Cmd+0 on the Mac in order to center my artwork. And that friends is how you create a precise representation of the Pen Tool cursor without ever once using the Pen Tool here inside Illustrator. All right, next week we're back inside Photoshop wherein I'm going to introduce you to the exciting world of aerial photography using a Go Pro attached to an unmanned remote controlled quad copter. Deke's Techniques, each and every week, keep watching. Find answers to the most frequently asked questions about Deke's Techniques . Expand all | Collapse all please wait ... Share a link to this course What are exercise files? Can I take this course without the exercise files? Become a member Download sample files See plans and pricing Please wait... please wait ... Upgrade to get access to exercise files. Exercise files video How to use exercise files. 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Add Explanation Add Meaning When I See An Elephant Fly lyrics New! Read & write lyrics explanations • Highlight lyrics and explain them to earn Karma points. Disney – When I See An Elephant Fly lyrics I saw a peanut stand Heard a rubber band I saw a needle That winked it's eye But I think I will have Seen everything When I see An elephant fly I saw a front porch swing Heard a diamond ring I saw a polka-dot railroad tie But I think I will have seen everything When I see an elephant fly I seen a clothes horse He r'ar up and buck And they tell me that a man Made a vegetable truck I didn't see that I only heard But just to be sociable I'll take your word I heard a fireside chat I saw a baseball bat And I just laughed Till I thought I'd die But I'd be done see'n About everything When I see an elephant fly Lyrics taken from http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/d/disney/when_i_see_an_elephant_fly.html • Email • Correct Submitted byrafaelmoliv • s Its exaggerated, good natured sarcasm in the belief in an act considered impossible. Rather than being mean and disrespectful, everyone has a good time making up a lyric and adding it to the song. Instead of focusing on what they think is quite impossible they pretend to have seen other equally impossible things an everyone has a fabulous fun time full of laughter and good will. Meanwhile as an undercurrent to their unbelief lies the possibility that it may just be possible after all for an elephant to fly. In fact it may be possible for virtually anything to happen if we only believe strong enough for that thing to happen. And that my friend is awesome, indeed. "I saw a barn dance. I heard a dogs pants, ect. Add your reply Write about your feelings and thoughts Min 50 words Not bad
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Previous: Your second game  || Next: More games   Loci      Google-Opoly Keep in mind that a surfer has two choices at any given page --- follow a link or go to a different web page. Our rules of Google-opoly will now reflect these options. When we jump to a web page in our network, we'll assume that every web page in the network is an equally likely destination. Brin and Page called this jumping teleportation. Let's play again on the network of web pages from Figure 1. We will now use two dice with different coloring as we will need to distinguish between them. While the game is automated in the applet that follows, the rules of the game are now: OBJECT Own the web page that is the first to collect $1,000 from the surfer. SET-UP Each node in the graph represents a web page. Players (from 1 to 6) each choose a web page to own. 1. The surfer begins at web page 1. 2. Each player will move the surfer in turn as determined by the roll of the dice as detailed below. 3. If the surfer is at a dangling node, then teleport by following these steps: • Roll both dice. • The number that appears on the die with black dots is the next web page for the surfer to visit, which may be the same web page. Go to step 4. 4. To get to this step, the surfer is not on a dangling node. Roll both dice. This will determine if the surfer follows a link on the current web page or teleports and also the next web page to visit. • If the die with red dots is a 1 through 5, then • the surfer follows a link on the current web page; • the die with black dots indicates where to visit next according to the corresponding rule in Table 1. • If the die with red dots is a 6, then the surfer will teleport. In this case, the number that appears on the die with black dots is the next web page to visit. 5. Whenever the surfer lands on a web page, the page's owner receives $1. A bar chart will keep track of the total amount of money collected by each web page. 6. If no web page has collected $1,000 go to step 2. 7. The game ends when a web page collects $1,000. If someone owns such a web page, that person wins the game. Figure 4. The first Google-opoly game board with the option to teleport. You can play this game with the applet in Figure 4. Play roll by roll for a bit by clicking the "Roll" button. Now, let's do some fast rolling of the dice to randomly surf with these rules by clicking the "Roll continuously" button. In the histogram to the right of the game board, you should see that web page 1 and 4 are in a bit of a neck and neck race for the most revenue. With only $1,000 being the revenue that wins the game, either web page 1 or 4 might win. Even if web page 4 wins a particular round, if you allow the number of rolls to increase, the bar chart should settle down and indicate that web page 1 would receive the most revenue over more time. Depending on your sequence of rolls, this can take some time to observe. Note, you can speed things up even further in the applet by clicking the "High Speed" option. You can also turn off teleporting by de-selecting the "Teleport" option in the applet. Experiment and see what you can learn! Your first game Your second game More games Markov's strategy Google's game See Video Previous: Your second game  || Next: More games
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• Head and eye movement to one side • Complete or partial unresponsiveness or difficulty speaking • Explosive screams, including profanities, or laughter When to see a doctor • Status epilepticus. Frontal lobe seizures tend to occur in clusters and may provoke a dangerous condition called status epilepticus — in which seizure activity lasts much longer than usual. Seizures that last longer than five minutes should be treated as a medical emergency. • Injury. The motions that occur during frontal lobe seizures sometimes result in injury to the person experiencing the seizure. • Other brain functions. Depending on the frequency and duration of seizures, frontal lobe epilepsy may affect memory, motor skills and other brain functions. However, more research is needed. • You'll probably first bring your symptoms to the attention of your family doctor, who may refer you to a neurologist. What you can do To prepare for your appointment: • Write down any symptoms you have experienced. Include any that may seem unrelated to the reason you scheduled the appointment. If you have experienced different kinds of seizures, make a particular note of that. Do they affect different sides of the body? Do some affect speech and others not? • Make a list of all medications. Include vitamins and supplements you are taking, including dosages. Write down the reasons any were discontinued, whether because of side effects or lack of effectiveness. • Ask a family member to come with you to the doctor. Sometimes it can be difficult to remember all the information provided during an appointment. Someone who goes with you may remember something you missed or forgot. Also, since memory loss can happen during seizures, many times an observer is able to better describe the seizures than is the person who's had them. • Write down questions. Preparing a list of questions for your doctor will help you make the most of your time together. Some basic questions to ask include: • What is likely causing my symptoms or condition? • Will I likely have more seizures? Will I have different types of seizures? • What kind of tests do I need? Do they require any special preparation? • What treatments are available, and which do you recommend? • Are you prescribing medication? If so, is there a generic alternative? • What types of side effects can I expect from treatment? • Is surgery a possibility? • Will I have any restrictions on my activity? Will I be able to drive? What to expect from your doctor • When did you begin experiencing symptoms? • Did you notice any unusual sensations before the seizures? • How often do the seizures occur? • Can you describe a typical seizure? • How long do the seizures last? • Do the seizures occur in clusters? • What medications have you tried? What doses were used? • Have you tried any medication combination? • Have you noticed any seizure triggers, such as illness or lack of sleep? • Has anyone in your immediate family ever had seizures? Your physical may include a neurological exam, which will assess: • Muscle strength • Sensory skills • Hearing and speech • Vision • Coordination and balance Your doctor may suggest the following tests. Over the past decade, treatment options have increased for frontal lobe seizures. There are newer types of anti-seizure medications as well as a variety of surgical procedures that may help if medications don't work. All anti-seizure drugs seem to work equally well at controlling frontal lobe seizures, but not everyone becomes seizure-free on medication. Your doctor may try different types of anti-seizure drugs or have you take a combination of drugs to control your seizures. Researchers are continuing to look for new and more-effective medications. If your seizures can't be controlled adequately with medications, your doctor may recommend surgery. Surgery involves pinpointing the areas of the brain where seizures occur. Two newer imaging techniques — single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) and subtraction ictal SPECT coregistered to MRI (SISCOM) — are more accurate at identifying the area, but aren't yet widely available. Another imaging technique, known as brain mapping, is commonly used before epilepsy surgery. Brain mapping involves implanting electrodes directly into an area of the brain and using electrical stimulation to determine whether that area has an important function, which would rule out surgery on that area. In addition, functional MRI (fMRI) is used to map the language area of the brain. In general, surgery for seizures that aren't well controlled by medication may be quite successful. Surgery for frontal lobe seizures may be less successful than for other types of seizures, but still may provide benefit. Surgery for epilepsy may involve: • Removing the focal point. If your seizures always begin in one specific spot in your brain, removing that small portion of brain tissue may reduce or eliminate your seizures. • Isolating the focal point. If the portion of the brain that's causing seizures is too vital to remove, surgeons may make a series of cuts to help isolate that section of the brain. This prevents seizures from moving into other parts of the brain. • Stimulating the vagus nerve. Another surgical option is to implant a device — similar to a cardiac pacemaker — to stimulate your vagus nerve. This procedure usually reduces the number of seizures people experience. • Responding to a seizure. A responsive neurostimulator (RNS) is a newer type of implanted device. It is activated only when you begin to have a seizure, and it stops the seizure from occurring. • Herbal medicines • Acupuncture • Psychotherapy • Mind-body techniques • Homeopathy People who have epilepsy may be embarrassed or frustrated by their condition. Frontal lobe seizures may be especially embarrassing because they sometimes feature loud vocalizations or sexual movements. It helps if family members can encourage a positive outlook. Parents can find information, resources and emotional connections from support groups to help their children and themselves. Counseling can be helpful as well. Adults with epilepsy also can find support through in-person and online groups. July 03, 2013
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Drug information provided by: Micromedex It is important that your doctor check your progress after you finish using this medicine. This is to make sure that the infection is cleared up. You should not use this medicine if you have taken disulfiram (Antabuse®) within the last 2 weeks. Disulfiram is used to help people who have a drinking problem. If these 2 medicines are taken close together, serious unwanted effects may occur. Drinking alcoholic beverages while using this medicine may cause stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, headache, or flushing or redness of the face. Alcohol-containing medicines (e.g., elixirs, cough syrups, tonics) may also cause problems. The chance of these problems occurring may continue for at least a day after you stop using metronidazole. You should not drink alcoholic beverages or take other alcohol-containing medicines while you are using this medicine and for at least 3 days after stopping it. Vaginal medicines usually leak out of the vagina during treatment. To keep the medicine from getting on your clothing, wear a mini-pad or sanitary napkin. Do not use tampons (like those used for menstrual periods) since they may soak up the medicine. • Wear cotton panties (or panties or pantyhose with cotton crotches) instead of synthetic (e.g., nylon or rayon) panties. • Wear only freshly washed panties daily. Do not have sexual intercourse while you are using this medicine. Having sexual intercourse may reduce the strength of the medicine. This may keep the medicine from working properly. Also, oils in the cream and vaginal tablets (but not the vaginal gel) may damage latex (rubber) contraceptive devices (e.g., cervical caps, condoms, or diaphragms), causing them to leak, wear out sooner, or not work properly. Many vaginal infections (e.g., trichomoniasis) are spread by having sexual intercourse. You can give the infection to your sexual partner, and the infection could be given back to you. Your partner may also need to be treated for some infections. Until you are sure that the infection is completely cleared up after your treatment with this medicine, your partner should wear a condom during sexual intercourse . If you have any questions about this, check with your doctor.
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Illustration of ERCP procedure Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) uses a dye to highlight the bile ducts on X-ray images. A thin, flexible tube (endoscope) with a camera on the end is passed down your throat and into your small intestine. The dye enters the ducts through a small hollow tube (catheter) passed through the endoscope.
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Cedar Park, TX Member since: December 7, 2011 What sort of development do you specialize in? Web based front ends (more and more jquery) with back ends being in C, php, perl and others. Are you a freelanceer/self-employed or working for a company? Work for GGS What topics are you interested in discussing at future meetups? jquery themes, ui and creating ui plugins. websockets would be nice. HTML 5 features other than the fact that it supports canvas, it seems every article on HTML5 mostly shows canvas type features. High availability on the front end for when bad things happen at the back end. (ie. can we merge multiple web server connections transparently?) I own GGS (http://www.ggsys....­). We play in the metrics monitoring and management space. People in this Meetup are also in: Sign up Meetup members, Log in
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Dragons In His Midst A West Tennessee writer combines fantasy and inspiration. The story's a little hard to describe, so let's hand it to the author to introduce it:  "There are two worlds: a planet, Starlight, populated by dragons; another planet, Major Four, populated by humans. A dragon comes through a portal, kidnaps a bunch of humans, and takes them back to his home planet to enslave them. Over the generations, the humans on Starlight forget where they came from, and they think this is their lot in life: to live as chattel. Then, a couple of humans named Jason and Koren, from Major Four, find the portal and try to rescue the humans. But when they get to the dragon world, the slaves there don't even believe that there is such a thing as a human world, that freedom is possible." That's a thumbnail sketch, but there's more to this story: a dragon prophecy, a black egg ready to hatch, and a dragon prince. Welcome to the worlds of Warrior (Zondervan) — part two in the "Dragons of Starlight" series — and welcome to the world of author Bryan Davis. He's an award-winning young-adult fantasy writer whose "Dragons in Our Midst" series (four books total) has sold more than 300,000 copies. He's written other fantasy series too: "Oracles of Fire" (four books total) and the "Echoes from the Edge" trilogy. He's also planning a couple of "Tales of Starlight" titles (working off and intertwining with the "Starlight" series) for adult readers. And that's not all: He's written biblically based tales, and he's authored inspirational works for an adult audience. What is Bryan Davis doing living in Middleton, Tennessee (population: 680), just south of Bolivar, an hour or so east of Memphis? "I write full-time," Davis said by phone. "My office is in the house. I close the door. And I sit at the keyboard for six to eight hours. When I'm on deadline (and I'm on deadline now for a book), that's sometimes 12 to 14 hours. "Writer's block? I get writer's 'flood'!" he said. I've got the ideas. The question is: Which one do I pick? I never have a blank page and wonder: What am I going to do?" But it's a question Davis did have to ask when he and his wife, Susie, were having trouble teaching their children writing during the home-schooling years. "The children didn't want to get into it. They thought writing was boring," Davis said. "So I would write a bit each week, and on Friday nights, my wife would read what I'd written. I'd then ask the kids what they thought was going to happen next, and they'd write their ideas down. The more we got into it, the more they'd write. They'd launch into their own stories. I was, I guess, too slow getting them involved in the creative process." Getting Davis involved in the creative process took some doing, too. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of a Navy father, who moved the family up and down the East Coast. Math, science, and sports were his interests as a boy, and he didn't take much to reading. So when Davis graduated from the University of Florida, it was with a degree in industrial engineering, which prepared him for a 20-year career in the computer field. But those writing lessons for his children taught him something he didn't expect: Davis' own passion for storytelling. So he wrote and got rejection letters. He went to writing conferences, and he read books about writing. He wrote for magazines. Then, one night he had a dream: a dream about a boy who could breathe fire. According to Davis: "I told my oldest son about the dream, and he said I should write a story about it. 'It'd be better than that stuff you've been writing,' my 13-year-old son said. 'It'd be a fantasy story. Kids my age would love it.'" Eight years and 200 rejection letters later, and there Davis had it: Raising Dragons (from the Chattanooga-based Christian publishing house AMG), the first book in the "Dragons in Our Midst" series. Author and publisher made a good fit. Davis and young-adult readers made a good fit too. "Children are hungry for stories that excite them, but they want mystery too," he said. "Good writers make the mistake of thinking they have to dumb it down for kids. I'm the opposite. Young people like it complex. They want to talk about a story's symbols and what they mean. They want to discuss these things with their friends. Just look at the Harry Potter series. "I've been a teenager. I remember what it's like. I want to respect kids' intelligence." Add to that Davis' respect for his fans. He's got a lot of them, and they turn to him for answers, such as: How does Davis come up with the dragon names? How does he finish a story? Where does he get his ideas (because, in the words of one reader, "My ideas are so lame")? But he wants to inspire kids too — inspire them to do what's right, but, as Davis wanted to emphasize, never in an "in your face, come to Jesus" way. "There's no sex in these books, no profanity," he said. "But there is a strong good-versus-evil element. In my later books, I've gotten more into asking the bigger questions: Who is God? What does He expect of us? "That's where the power of storytelling comes in. Life lessons? Virtues? Let virtue come out in a character in a natural way. Show it in how characters face dilemmas, make sacrifices. Fantasy is the most powerful way to tell a story. It allows for heroics. Just don't be preachy about it. Kids will love it. Think of authors such C.S. Lewis and Tolkien. "I want to say to my readers: Yes, you can be a good person. You were wired for greatness. Rise above the mediocre." Four of Davis' seven children are adults now and out of the house. (One of them attends the University of Memphis.) His wife's sister and her family are just across the state line, in Walnut, Mississippi. And the move to Middleton three years ago has, according to the author, gone "fabulously well." The fact that Tennessee has no state income tax hasn't hurt either. "Children are hungry for stories that excite them, but they want mystery too.  Good writers make the mistake of thinking they have to dumb it down for kids.  I'm the opposite.  Young people like it complex.  They want to talk about a story's symbols and what they mean.  I've been a teenager.  I remember what it's like.  I want to respect kids' intelligence." "I still haven't made as much money in a single year as an author as I did as a computer guy, but I'm far more fulfilled as a person," Davis admitted. "I'm doing something that's making a difference. I've been out of the computer business now for eight years, and not a single one of the hundreds of computer programs I wrote is still in use. What's the use in that? "The e-mails I get as a writer . . . sometimes they're better than the check I get from my publisher. I've heard of families being restored, husbands and wives getting back together, teenagers who wrote that my books have kept them from killing themselves. Can you imagine getting e-mails like that?" That's not all Davis has heard. "Parents say to me, 'There's a lot of dark fantasy out there. I don't know if it's good for my kids to be reading it.' I say to those parents, thank you for being so careful, for caring about what your kids read. There's a lot of bad stuff out there. I want to write fantasy that's beneficial. I want to tell parents, 'Trust me. I'm with you.' Let's give our kids something that encourages them to become what they were created to be." 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Final Fantasy III for iPad Image No score yet - based on 2 Critics User Score No user score yet- Awaiting 2 more ratings Summary: FINAL FANTASY III -- now on iPad!First released in 1990, FINAL FANTASY III was the first title in the FINAL FANTASY series to become a million-seller, establishing once and for all that Square Enix's classic RPG saga was here to stay.The full 3D remake released in 2006 duplicated the original's success, selling over a million copies worldwide.FINAL FANTASY III was a hallmark of innovation for the entire series, from the job system that lets characters change classes at any time to the ability to summon powerful creatures such as Shiva and Bahamut.When darkness falls and the land is robbed of light, four youths are chosen by the crystals to set forth on a journey to save the world.--------------------------------------------Game Features- New and improved 3D visuals and story sequences exclusive to the iPad- Smooth, intuitive touch-panel controls, as seen in Square Enix's iPhone RPGs- Quicker browsing through the monster bestiary and other game records- New visual designs for the Job Mastery Cards- User interface optimized for iPad play----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------?FINAL FANTASY III??iPad?????!?FINAL FANTASY III????1990?,??FINAL FANTASY?????????????????????????,?FF???????????????,?????????????2006?,??????3D??????,????????????????????????????????????“????”,???????????????????“????”,?????????????????????,?????????????????????????,????????????????4?????????????--------------------------------------------????·???3D???iPad?????????,????????????·SQUARE-ENIX???????iPhone?RPG??????????????,??????????????????????·?????????????????????·??????????????·???????????iPad??? Developer: Matrix Software Genre(s): Role-Playing Designer/Producer/Programmer credits provided by GameFAQs.
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critics Critic score distribution: 1. Positive: 5 out of 8 2. Negative: 0 out of 8 1. Sep 27, 2011 A good option for any Sims fan who wants to put a little sparkle in their digital friends' lives. 2. Oct 3, 2011 In conclusion, The Sims Medieval is definitely one for the fans but even those who have never played this franchise before will get a kick out of it. It may not be the same as the PC version but its developers have managed to squash as much of the gameplay and graphics into the iPhone/iPod touch. 3. Oct 11, 2011 A good porting of an already funny experience, despite some framerate issues. 4. Sep 27, 2011 Fans of the Sims will find this shift of play from modern times to medieval an interesting one, and it serves as an easy introduction into some aspects of the RPG genre to boot. 5. Nov 20, 2011 It's what you'd expect from The Sims and not too much more. [Christmas 2011, p.93] 6. Oct 3, 2011 The Sims Medieval is a good Sims game, but it doesn't bring much new to the series. 7. Oct 2, 2011 It's a tiny, handheld version of a game that's already a bit scaled big from its originals. Still, it's one of the first truly different experiences of the Sims in a while and although it's a more directed experience, it offers enough new to keep casual players happy. 8. Oct 21, 2011 The Sims Medieval is far less open-ended than its predecessor. There are no user reviews yet.
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Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 6 Critics Critic score distribution: 1. Positive: 0 out of 6 2. Negative: 5 out of 6 1. 19 One of the worst battle systems I've ever seen ruins any "fun" that could possibly come from the pitiful handful of uninspired mini-games. 2. A first stepping stone to RPGs but this will be too basic for most. [Oct 2007, p.85] 3. Excruciatingly sterile turn-based combat. [Sept 2007, p.116] 4. Look, there just isn’t anything to get excited about here. 5. We applaud the attempt to create a substantial RPG for kids, but sadly the flat characters and limited battle options make this rather patronising. [Sept 2007, p.95] There are no user reviews yet.
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Video instructions Lumia - How to set up your phone Lumia - How to use Troubleshooter Lumia - How to download apps from Store Lumia - Lumia Help+Tips Lumia - How to update to Lumia Denim Lumia - Windows Phone for beginners Lumia - How to save battery life Lumia - How to make your own ringtone Lumia - How to personalize your Start screen Lumia - What is a Microsoft account? Nokia Lumia: Create a start screen for your kids Nokia Lumia: Find your phone Nokia Lumia: Control your Xbox 360 with your phone Nokia Lumia: Charge wirelessly Lumia - Switch from iPhone Lumia - Switch from Android Lumia - How to transfer files to a computer Nokia Lumia: How to manage data usage Nokia Lumia: How to access files on your phone Get in touch
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Thread: Cut off Headers View Single Post Old 07-24-2008, 07:11 AM   #1 barney111 began at the beginning. Posts: 24 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Cybook gen3 iRex iLiad Cut off Headers Normally I convert all files .txt etc to mobi .prc However I decided to try using .txt only I put 4 files into the main memory and the header worked perfect on one, only the others were all cut off halfway through name. I have tried different font sizes still the same. I have much longer headers with.prc files. Any help would be appreciated barney111 is offline   Reply With Quote
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You are playing Jigsaw: Sunset In Winter Flash Game Online Login OR Signup to rate this game • 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 Jigsaw: Sunset In Winter Game Details Play Jigsaw: Sunset In WinterGame Jigsaw: Sunset In Winter Flash Game Category: Jigsaw Games, Total Plays: 115 Tags: house, sunset, pretty, colors, build, construction, jigsaw, puzzle Jigsaw: Sunset In Winter game controls fire = na;jump = na;movement = na; Game Description Pretty evening colors in winter as the sun go down. More Popular Games in Jigsaw Games Category
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David Leadbetter's Greens (DOS) Critic Score 100 point score based on reviews from various critics. User Score 5 point score based on user ratings. Not an American user? MicroProse made a change from military simulations by recreating golf in fine detail. This was the first golf game to operate in true 3D. This means that the player's stance and swing technique can be adjusted, and have a significant effect on the shot outcome. Although the manual's tutorial helps, it's harder to master than rivals such as PGA Tour Golf. There are six courses, an unprecedented number for a computer simulation, and tonnes of playing modes. David Leadbetter's Greens DOS An introduction to the course David Leadbetter's Greens DOS A shot over a bunker David Leadbetter's Greens DOS Get an overhead view of the hole David Leadbetter's Greens DOS Ready to tee off! Alternate Titles • "MicroProse Golf" -- Amiga Title • "David Leadbetter's Greens: The Instructional 3-D Golf Simulation" -- DOS tag-lined title • "David Leadbetter's Golf" -- European PC Title User Reviews There are no reviews for this game. Critic Reviews PC Player (Germany) Dec, 1992 84 out of 100 84 PC Games (Germany) Dec, 1992 82 out of 100 82 PC Joker Oct, 1992 81 out of 100 81 Power Play Dec, 1992 73 out of 100 73 High Score Jun, 1995 1 out of 5 20 There are currently no topics for this game. • ST Format • January 1993 (issue #42) - #21 in '50 finest Atari ST games of all time' list Martin Smith (63069) added David Leadbetter's Greens (DOS) on Apr 22, 2004 Other platforms contributed by Johnny "ThunderPeel2001" Walker (419) and Martin Smith (63069)
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DIY: Herb Labels When I was younger, I would often mix up the herbs in my mother’s potted herb garden. Fortunately, I can now distinguish most herbs apart. A few weeks ago I left town and asked a good friend to house sit for me. I made the assumption that my friend knew the differences between my potted herbs I have in my apartment: oregano, basil, sage, thyme, lavender and rosemary. A few hours after I left my apartment, I received a frantic call from my friend regarding which plants were what. I came home a few days later to find post-it note madness. A sticky label graced every one of my potted herbs, identifying which herb was which. As amused as I was, I thought a more permanent label might be handy for the next time I asked a friend to house sit. 1. Gather painters tape, terracotta planters and chalk to make these easy to maintain herb planter labels. You can purchase chalkboard paint, which converst most any surface to a chalkboard, at most art supply stores.   2. Place painters tape on the planter in a rectangle formation. 3. Apply chalkboard paint in the exposed area. 4. Once the paint is dry, pull the tape off of the pot. 5. Using chalk write the name of the herb on the chalkboard area. How do you keep your herbs straight? Drop me a comment and let’s chat about it!
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Pet Peeve Watch: I. Am. Not. A. Guest. | Thu Dec. 19, 2013 3:53 PM EST Yet another store has been hacked, losing data on millions of credit and debit cards. This time the victim was Target, but it could have been anyone. Once again, corporate America has demonstrated that it couldn't care less about customer security and privacy. But you already knew that. Instead, I'm curious whether I'm alone in hating, hating, hating this particular euphemism from Target's CEO: I. Am. Not. A. Guest. A guest is someone I invite into my home and ply with free food and drink. Because, you know, they're my guest. Target doesn't do that. They sell me stuff. I pay for it. (Probably with cash from now on.) I can complain about poor service. I can return stuff I don't like. I can choose what I want to buy and what I don't. That makes me a customer. Not. A. Guest. So knock it off.
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Skip to main content A Different Kind of Christmas Not Yet Rated| 1 hr. 37 min. Plot Summary A family secret threatens to thwart the mayoral bid of a single mom (Shelley Long) whose father (Bruce Kirby) thinks he's Santa Claus. Cast: Shelley Long , Bruce Kirby , Barry Bostwick , Nathan Lawrence , Michael E. Knight , Nancy McLoughlin , Rebecca Koon , Robert Raiford Director: Tom McLoughlin Genres: Comedy A Different Kind of Christmas (1996) similar movies • Get Santa (2014) • Cinderella (2015) • Farewell Mr. Kringle (2010) • Paddington (2014) • When Marnie Was There (2014) How do you watch stuff? How else do you watch? Select your online providers My Settings You are currently subscribed as: {email} Weekly Newsletter Daily alerts You're not following any movies. These are the movies you’re currently following. Update settings
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Skip to main content Ira & Abby R| 1 hr. 41 min. Plot Summary A rocky road is ahead when Ira (Chris Messina), a neurotic doctoral candidate, meets and marries Abby (Jennifer Westfeldt), a free-spirit, almost on a whim. The pair enjoy marital bliss for awhile, but the relationship hits the skids when Ira learns Abby is twice-divorced. The marriage breaks apart, but the lovers have yet to realize that they may not be able to live without one another. Cast: Chris Messina , Jennifer Westfeldt , Frances Conroy , Fred Willard , Judith Light , Robert Klein , Maddie Corman , Jason Alexander Director: Robert Cary Genres: Romantic comedy Distributor: Magnolia Pictures Ira & Abby (2006) Release Date: September 14th, 2007|1 hr. 41 min. watch now • subscription similar movies • Eagle vs. Shark (2007) • Serious Moonlight (2009) • Wishful Thinking (1996) • The Giant Mechanical Man (2012) • Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) How do you watch stuff? How else do you watch? Select your online providers My Settings You are currently subscribed as: {email} Weekly Newsletter Daily alerts You're not following any movies. These are the movies you’re currently following. Update settings
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Help re FF (34 Posts) I exclusively BF both our two boys, but SIL is now in hospital having her baby as I type. She's not intending to BF but is asking me questions around how often, how much and how FF works. I know nothing so am having a look on here. My thinking is that in the first weeks, you just feed the baby formula as and when it seems hungry? I know it's hard to tell that, but as I just shoved them on the boob if they seemed upset - or should I say, did baby led feeding, ahem - I don't know what to tell her. Can you really over feed a FF baby? You should never thicken up or water it down, should you? Depending on if seems extra hungry or constipated / hot weather. Can you make it and put it in the fridge? How long after a bottle has been made, do you get to use it? You can't re heat formula once it's been used for a feed can you? I know this will be v basic to some people, but really appreciate guidance as I want to be useful and helpful, and don't want to give the wrong support to her. Thank you in advance! x Tbh it makes me very anxious hearing of people not following the guidelines and making up feeds as needed especially in the early weeks. The consequences can be devastating. The powder contains potentially harmful bacteria that needs to hit very hot water to ensure the majority is killed and then disposed of before the bacteria develops again. An older baby with a strengthened immune system may not suffer so badly so I'm not too bothered how things develop, but please do things safely to start with. TheDetective Sat 04-May-13 18:59:00 Starlight the guidelines offer advice about doing it safely - ie. flash cooling and storing at back of fridge for no longer than 24 hours. I am very aware of the concequences, and made an educated decision with what to do when it came to my baby. The bottles must be made completely correctly though, with thoroughly clean and sterilised bottles, freshly boiled tap water, and the most important bit of killing bacteria (which is where most people fall down) powder hitting the water above 70 degrees. Flash cooled and in to back of fridge. Pretty sure I read on a thread here recently that the bacteria in milk thing is nonsense, someone was told so by a paed or a consultant or a baby milk manufacturer. Vague I know, wish I could remember better. Either way, I am sick of the way people talk about mothers who use formula as though we are somehow harming our babies. I havent once heard, in RL or on here, of a baby becoming sick from bottles being prepared in that way. Runningblue Sat 04-May-13 21:18:36 Thedetective is absolutely right. I am afraid unless you want to manage your baby gina ford style on a strict feeding schedule, it is not practical to make a bottle each time your baby goes from coos of delight to pangs of hunger. At that point when you're breastfeeding, you can wap a boob out and solve the request for milk instantly. When ff, you also need a quick, safe method. The nhs website itself tells you the safest method of making bottles in advance. Its the silly people who add powder to cold water, leave prepared milk on the worktop all day, or keep offering the same bottle of milk to their child for longer than an hour, who are negligent. The careful ff mums who have researched the safest method for in advance preparation are doing the best bf alternative for quick response to feeding their hungry baby. Here is information fyi doubters Runningblue Sat 04-May-13 21:26:12 Ps like stowsettler, we make up feeds in the 'in advance' method as found on the nhs website, twice a day so no bottle is kept in the coldest part of the fridge, for longer than 12 hours. We use cartons when out and not in instant access to a fridge. If we do take a bottle of prepared formula out, we do so when it is completely chilled, transported in a bottle cool bag and then put in a friends fridge when we arrive. So no, we're not complete numpties... Formula doesn't harm babies. Making up milk wrongly can have disasterous consequences. People who ignore the safety guidlines are There are ways to 'manage' the inconvenience of making up milk each time, and many are referred to on the thread I posted. But the bacteria is not heresay. The first link that came up google If you really can't do it immediately beforehand in the very early weeks then the safest way of giving formula is to do so with the readymade cartons. The NHS guidelines publish the safest way of making up milk in advance, but do not state that it is the safest way of feeding your baby. I think it is essential that people know this and safety is not dismissed or diminished by people who state that it can be reduced to a matter of opinion. It cannot. thezebrawearspurple Sat 04-May-13 23:08:10 The quickest way to make up formula is to pour a little bit of boiling water into the bottle to kill any bacteria in the formula, then add the rest of the water, it takes seconds and the bottle will be fresh and ready to drink. You don't want to be waiting for the bottle to be cooling while your hungry baby is screaming! You can also store bottles in the fridge for up to 24 hours, it's quickest to heat it up in the microwave, just make sure to shake really well to avoid any hot spots. CornishYarg Sun 05-May-13 09:21:06 That sounds sensible zebra although how do you make sure the volume of water is right? Once the powder is added to the water, the volume of fluid increases e.g. 4 scoops of powder dissolved in 4oz of water will have a volume closer to 5oz rather than 4oz. So if you dissolve 4 scoops of powder, say, in a bit of boiling water then add cooled boiled water to increase the volume to 4oz, the amount of water added will be lower than the required 4oz. Or do you pre-measure the boiling and cooled water in separate containers before pouring in? TheDetective Sun 05-May-13 20:45:17 Starlight You can only get the first formulas in cartons (for formula suitable for newborns). You can't get all the different specialist formulas in ready made cartons, frustratingly. I know my baby, and many others on my PN thread are on different milks, eg: CMP free formula, lactose free formula, anti reflux formula, stay down formula etc. A lot of mums have no choice sometimes. When we go out there isn't anywhere safe to make up feeds, depending on where we are obviously, but generally, there isn't. So I take a cool bag with ice packs in, with a cold bottle in. The staydown formula has to be made with cooled boiled water that is chilled from the fridge. These bottles definitely do need making up in advance! Or at least the water does. You have to add the powder cold goes against all my instincts arghhhh!. It took the water about 2.5 hours from kettle to cold enough for the bloody formula to be added. It isn't black and white, is it? Join the discussion Join the discussion Register now
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@techreport{NBERw13836, title = "Testing for the Economic Impact of the U.S. Constitution: Purchasing Power Parity across the Colonies versus across the States, 1748-1811", author = "Farley Grubb", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "13836", year = "2008", month = "March", doi = {10.3386/w13836}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w13836", abstract = {The U.S. Constitution removed real and monetary trade barriers between the states. By contrast, these states when they were British colonies exercised considerable real and monetary autonomy over their borders. Purchasing power parity is used to measure how much economic integration between the states was gained in the decades after the Constitution's adoption compared with what existed among the same locations during the late colonial period. The U.S. Constitution's net contribution to the economic integration of the nation is found, using this method, to be not as large as is commonly supposed.}, }
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@techreport{NBERw5011, title = "Do Firms Smooth the Seasonal in Production in a Boom? Theory and Evidence", author = "Stephen G. Cecchetti and Anil K Kashyap and David W. Wilcox", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "5011", year = "1995", month = "February", doi = {10.3386/w5011}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w5011", abstract = {Using disaggregated production data we show that the size of seasonal cycles changes significantly over the course of the business cycle. In particular, during periods of high economy-wide activity, some industries smooth seasonal fluctuations while others exaggerate them. We interpret this finding using a simple analytical model that describes the conditions under which seasonal and cyclical fluctuations can be separated. Our model implies that seasonal fluctuations can safely be disentangled from cyclical fluctuations only when the marginal cost of production is linear, and the variation in demand and cost satisfy certain (restrictive) conditions. The model also suggests that inventory movements can be used to isolate the role of demand shifts in generating any interaction between seasonal cycles and business cycles. Thus, the empirical analysis involves studying the variation in seasonally unadjusted patterns of production and inventory accumulation over different phases of the business cycle. Our finding that seasonals shrink during booms and that firms carry more inventories into high sales seasons during a boom leads us to conclude that for several industries, marginal cost slopes up at an increasing rate. Conversely, in a couple of industries we find that seasonal swings in production are exaggerated during booms and that inventories are drawn down prior to high sales seasons, suggesting that marginal costs curves flatten as production increases. Overall, we find considerable evidence that there are non-linear interactions between business cycles and seasonal cycles.}, }
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Canadian Dance Moves (YouTube link) If this video is any guide at all, Canadian dance by re-enacting their everyday lives. The song is "Canadian, Please," by Julia Bentley and Andrew Gunadie. -via Nag on the Lake, who says This is how we shake it in the Great White North. Newest 1 Newest 1 Comment Commenting is closed. Email This Post to a Friend "Canadian Dance Moves" Separate multiple emails with a comma. Limit 5. Success! Your email has been sent! close window
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On this day: October 31 OTD October 31 - Battle of Britain 39 / 56 National Archives and Records Administration 1940: The Battle of Britain during World War II ends, with the United Kingdom preventing a possible German invasion. The battle, which began in July 1940, was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. Upload Photos / Videos
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The Specials The Specials, also known as The Special AKA, are an English 2 Tone and ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry. Their music combines a "danceable ska and rocksteady beat with punk's energy and attitude", and had a "more focused and informed political and social stance" than other ska groups. The band wore mod-style "1960s period rude boy outfits (pork pie hats, tonic and mohair suits, and loafers)." In 1980, the song "Too Much Too Young", the lead track on their The Special AKA Live! EP, reached number one in the UK. In 1981, the unemployment-themed single "Ghost Town" also hit number one in the UK Singles Chart. After seven consecutive UK Top 10 singles between 1979 and 1981, several members of the group abruptly left to form the Fun Boy Three. Continuing on as "The Special AKA" (a name they used frequently on earlier Specials releases), a substantially revised Specials line-up issued new material through 1984, including the top 10 UK hit single "(Free) Nelson Mandela". Afterwards, founder and songwriter Jerry Dammers dissolved the band and pursued political activism. The group reformed in 1993, and have continued to perform and record with varying line-ups (but without Dammers). Powered by Wikipedia Read More The Specials Tickets Latest Tickets - Booking Now Know Your NME NME Store & Framed Prints Inside NME.COM
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Search the Collection John Locke (1632-1704), Philosopher Sitter in 36 portraits A philosopher of wide influence and a friend of the 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, Locke was associated with the opposition to both Charles II and James II, and was forced to flee to Holland in 1684. On the accession to the throne of William and Mary, he returned to England and was made Commissioner of Appeals. Noted for his essays on religion and education, in 1690 Locke published An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding and Treatises on Government. He was also an active member of the Royal Society, which broadly promoted scientific exploration, and a friend of Newton and Boyle.
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Information about the accessibility of facilities, programs, and services in each park can be found on the park's website by selecting "Plan Your Visit" in the site navigation. If you experience any difficulty accessing the information on our web site, please email us. We will try to assist you as best we can. This may include providing the information to you in an alternate format. Some of the publications on are in PDF (Portable Document Format). To view them you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader or another PDF reader installed on your computer. Reader can be downloaded at no cost from Adobe's website. Anyone using a TTY can reach a federal agency to conduct business by going through the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 800-877-8339. More Information
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Barbara Mathes 41 East 57th Street Through Dec. 4 During his lifetime, Edgar Degas exhibited just one sculpture, the famous little ballerina with the real tutu. In his last years, however, unable to paint because of failing eyesight, Degas devoted himself intensively to sculpture, and after his death some 150 wax statuettes were discovered in his studio. Seventy-four were subsequently cast in bronze, and nine of these small, rough yet extraordinarily subtle works -- all female figures except for two horses -- are on view here along with a selection of black-and-white drawings. In a darkened part of the gallery a curious setup reveals much about the nature of the sculptures. One piece, a 12-inch nude woman who leans over with one hand on a bent knee, stands on a revolving pedestal, her shadow cast by a projected light onto a white screen. Studying the turning silhouette on the screen, you see how true to life it is in every contour, how alive the figure seems. And yet the real thing, with its generalized, unsmoothed surface, looks raw and abstract. This setup reconstructs a presentation that Degas himself once offered to his friend Walter Sickert, the English painter. It suggests that Degas was trying to push the envelope of sculpture, not just to freeze motion but, like a kind of sculptural alchemist, to breathe real-life movement into a static object. Walking around these magically animated figures, each caught in a sometimes oddly awkward act of dancing, bathing or, in the case of the horses, galloping or rearing, you have to admit he came close. KEN JOHNSON
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Re: Extract data to LDIF File --On Wednesday, June 18, 2003 3:03 PM +0200 [email protected] wrote: I want extract all entries of my LDAP database and store them in a LDIF file, How can I do this ? what is the syntax ? "man slapcat"
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I swear nothing has made me happier than motherhood, but God forgive me, I find parenting after work between 5 and 9 P.M. a Sisyphean hell—picking Play-Doh out of the carpet; putting Polly Pocket clothes in one bin, shoes in another; coaxing my daughter into the tub; apologizing for the soap in her eyes and snagging knots in her hair; making dinner and lunch for the next day; folding laundry; strongly suggesting table manners; cleaning up dinner and more toys; and finally reading stories about lizards and princesses and talking cars. What can I say? It's a lot easier with a little buzz going. Dr. Kosanke has me do a cost-benefit analysis about my alcohol consumption. I rate how drinking affects my relationships, job, health, and finances. I discover that, for me, the benefits of alcohol consumption slightly outweigh the costs. Wine worked. If it hadn't, as Dr. Kosanke pointed out, I would not have kept using it. The list showed me wine makes me a calmer, if hazier parent; and it's not very expensive since I like only cheap Chardonnay. On the downside, my sleep is totally disrupted, and my husband is worried because I've begun drinking every day. (Also, I am really bloated.) "So, um, do you think the fact that it sort of works means I should keep drinking?" I ask. "I think that you need to find other ways to get the benefits you get from alcohol," says Dr. Kosanke. The Center for Motivation and Change is a freesia-scented, tastefully decorated place on New York's Fifth Avenue and 30th Street. It is staffed by bizarrely good-looking psychologists who offer a spa-like menu of services, such as a "mindfulness immersion day" (yoga, breathing, and meditation exercises), a two-week "readiness for change" evaluation (to see if you really want to give up your habit), and a "tracking program" (a way to assess how using drugs or alcohol is affecting your life). Inside its East-West/postmodern chicness, though, one of the center's philosophies is the extremely basic 33-year-old community reinforcement approach (CRA). Taught by psychologist Robert J. Meyers, PhD, research associate professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico, CRA works on the principle that the most effective way to get people to reduce their substance abuse is to make sobriety more rewarding than addiction. "Some people drink because their personal relationships are terrible," says Dr. Meyers, who is the coauthor of Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening. "Others drink because their work is meaningless. Some are depressed. Some are anxious. Some are just bored. A few are burdened with a genetic predisposition for alcoholism. Many drink for an amalgam of all those reasons. But if you ask a person what they want out of life and help them start to achieve it, they're more likely to reduce their drinking than if you just tell them to stop drinking." CRA has been lauded by the Journal of Studies on Alcohol as among the most cost-effective alcohol treatment programs and has been shown, in studies funded by the National Institutes of Health, more effective than traditional interventions. For instance, in one 2001 University of New Mexico study, alcoholics were randomly assigned to a CRA program or a 12-step treatment program. Over a six-month follow-up period, the CRA participants averaged 3 percent of drinking days, and those in traditional treatment averaged 19 percent of drinking days. In an earlier in-patient study, the CRA participants averaged only 5 percent of days unemployed, but the hospital's Alcohol Anonymous participants averaged 62 percent.
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Pre-show meeting 2 of 8 Former President Bush has agreed to only two television interviews—a primetime conversation with NBC's Matt Lauer and an hour with Oprah. The difference between the interviews is that Jenna has gotten former President George H.W. Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush to sit down with their son for the very first time. "The fact that you have them all together is really fantastic," Oprah says. During the pre-show meeting, the conversation turns to President Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina. "The most hurtful thing about Katrina was him being framed as a racist," executive producer Sheri says. "Said it was the worst day of his presidency." During a live telethon for Katrina victims, rap artist Kanye West said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people." Oprah says she didn't come to that conclusion. "But I thought, 'Gee, he could have done more, they didn't react soon enough,'" Oprah says. "People who are disenfranchised have more trouble getting things done than people who are not. That's just a fact. I don't know if you call that racist." Still, Oprah says she will keep an open mind. "I'm going to read the book and approach George Bush not with my opinions about what he had done or had not done in office," she says. "I approached it with an open mind."
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You Can Count on This! Suze Orman Suze Orman Host, The Suze Orman Show on CNBC; author, Suze Orman's 2009 Action Plan "You cannot afford to trust someone other than yourself to handle your finances without any oversight on your part. Just look at all the people who trusted Bernie Madoff. They didn't ask questions. If an investment sounds too good to be true, trust me, it is."
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Permalink for comment 315959 RE: I don't know by evangs on Wed 28th May 2008 16:44 UTC in reply to "I don't know" Member since: I don't know if I'm normal but I'm fairly anal about how spotless my monitor is. Maybe it's a form of OCD. Maybe I'm just weird. But the thought of having finger smudges all over my screen is something I cannot even bear thinking about. I do not see the point of touch screen interfaces that accomplish the same tasks where a mouse or a keyboard will be sufficient. Reply Parent Score: 3
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Permalink for comment 555429 RE: not true! by JAlexoid on Thu 14th Mar 2013 11:20 UTC in reply to "not true!" Member since: Since my T430s is well into the over $2000 category, that "high end +$1000 market is 100% Macbook" statement is pulled out of your a**. Reply Parent Score: 4
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Compartir esta entrada learning difficulties Saltos de línea: learn|ing dif|fi¦cul¦ties Definición de learning difficulties en inglés: plural sustantivo Difficulties in acquiring knowledge and skills to the normal level expected of those of the same age, especially because of mental disability or cognitive disorder. Oraciones de ejemplo • Many people with learning difficulties interviewed felt that professionals did not listen to them. • The following tutorials explain options helpful for individuals with learning difficulties and impairments. • Under the general heading of learning difficulties we have decided to use four separate classifications. The phrase learning difficulties became prominent in the 1980s. It is broad in scope, covering general conditions such as Down’s syndrome as well as more specific cognitive or neurological conditions such as dyslexia and attention deficit disorder. In emphasizing the difficulty experienced rather than any perceived ‘deficiency’, it is considered less discriminatory and more positive than other terms such as mentally handicapped, and is now the standard accepted term in Britain in official contexts. Learning disability is the standard accepted term in North America. Compartir esta entrada ¿Qué te llama la atención de esta palabra o frase? Obtenga más de Oxford Dictionaries Suscribirse para eliminar anuncios y acceder a los recursos premium
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There Does Seem to Be Something in our National Psychology… that requires an enemy.  It’s not that there are not real enemies too.  It’s just that we seem  to always be auditioning new ones should the old ones go away.  Happily, with Islam, we seem to have struck on an enemy we can be at war with till the end of time.  Of course, we also seem to be declaring war on the Church too.  What we fail to realize is that , although the Church will be here to the end of time, the United States of America will not be–and that the best way to hasten our destruction is make war on God. Stephen Colbert Cuts up with Fr. James Martin Prayer Requests/Praise Reports The "Heads I Win, Tails You Lose" Strategy of Conservative Dissent The 20th Century was about atomic power • Randall Jennings Enemy formation is certainly how any group acquires solidity. Some would argue its how “culture,” as we know it, was born. And then, there is this pesky issue of anyone suggesting that the victim of our scapegoating may be innocent, and what tectonic ripples that might cause… http://www.gil-bailie.com/2012/11/from-archives-poetry-of-truth-part-170.html • http://davidgriffey.blogspot.com/ Dave G. Though you can’t help but wonder just who are these real enemies. After all, if you line up all the various criticisms of America and its dealings over the years, there just aren’t any that aren’t criticized by someone. The article linked to mentions the Kaiser, the Kremlin, and now these pesky Muslims. We’ve seen others argue we had no business getting involved in Nazi Germany’s affairs. And any good American knows there are those who suggest Japan was simply an innocent victim of evil racist American imperialism. So when you start adding the criticisms up, you can’t help but wonder just who these real enemies are, since just about every enemy in the past has someone saying it was all bogus, and an invention America’s warped collective mind. • Thinking When a people lose faith in Old Scratch and his minions of Power and Principality, well… As a Great and Famous writer once penned, “Supernature abhors a vacuum.” • tz Sharia law, Canon law, they want to impose it, what’s the difference? (note I did not say Natural Law) Burkas, Contaception, both are the war on women. They hate our freedoms! especially the right to choose! They’re terrorists! Except that for 2000 years starting with Peter’s triple denial, the church has always been corrupt (the number of miters has always been exceeded by the number of crooks) , I would have expected at least ONE bishop here in the USA (instead of say, China) to write something about torture, habeas corpus, assassination drones, indefinite detention, the Magna Charta (a bishop, Stephen Langton was responsible for!), warrantless wiretaps, national security letters, infiltrating Mosques with informants, etc. Of course Cardinal George said his successor would die under “indefinite detention”, and his successor would be killed by an “assassination drone” (note: I just updated the terms to 2012). Is it resignation to the fate, or some kind of cheering on the Tribulation and Armageddon? The Church used to be at the forefront of human rights – we invented due process and many things in the Constitution (recently discarded). Now the Bishop of LA is calling for passage of the DREAM act, not for the repeal of any of the far more serious things.
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Take my money and give me some of these Darrell Dow shares a picture of the Irvington Bible Baptist Church and the obligatory Breaking Bad reference for this story of a pastor who faces charges as part of an Indiana “spice” ring manufacturing and selling illegal synthetic drugs. Read that story, then look again at that picture of the church — the bright blue door and trim. We should have known. • “The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but maintains the widow’s boundaries” (Proverbs 15:25). Beaver County (Pa.) Common Pleas Judge Gus Kwidis does the opposite. He tears down the widow’s boundaries and maintains the house of the proud – over a $6.30 interest charge on the widow’s property taxes. “‘Cursed by anyone who deprives the alien, the orphan, and the widow of justice.’ All of the people shall say, ‘Amen!’” (Deuteronomy 27:19). xkcd explains freedom of speech: Or, for those who prefer poetry, some brilliant verse from lighthill at Making Light. • So the tea party candidate running a Republican primary challenge against House Speaker John Boehner is also an adjunct professor at fundamentalist Cedarville University in Ohio. Or, rather, he was an adjunct at Cedarville – J.D. Winteregg lost his job at the school due to his attack ad on Boehner that spoofs those Cialis commercials and features lots of single entendres about “electile dysfunction” and the fact that Boehner’s name is similar to the word “boner.” Such naughty “humor” led Cedarville administrators to take time out from their busy schedule of purging female faculty and censoring student publications and end their association with Winteregg. Some may question whether Winteregg’s being too extreme even for Cedarville makes him unfit for public office. I’d say the fact that he was ever associated with Cedarville in the first place does that. Anyway, since this story involves the intersection of politics and crude dick jokes, let’s turn to the authority on that – Rebecca Schoenkopf of Wonkette, for the final word: Who will be the first brave free-speech hero to argue for Mr. Winterbottom’s right to be crude and gross and still teach at a Christian college? Oh, none of you, that is only when people are loud and proud racist or loud and proud anti-gay, and then their getting fired from their jobs in the private sector is the same as getting FEMA camped, because Barack Obama is the real racist? Benghazi. Sarah Posner on Sarah Palin and her statement endorsing water torture as “baptism”: Most of Palin’s public expressions of religion are performative rather than sacramental, and her invocations of them to political audiences strike a tone of irreverence rather than piety. … Palin sees herself as a warrior for God, engaged in spiritual warfare to save America from evil and to keep America Christian. But in joking that torture was like a baptism, Palin revealed her view of evangelization as an act of force, not love, and her view of salvation as something one imposes on irredeemable enemies, who further prove their lesser worth by protesting and resisting it. Get it? It just shows how the Muslims can’t even see how something “so cool” is actually good for them. Brian McLaren on the liberation that comes from being banished by the tribe: I grew up in a world where one’s credibility is always on trial. Gatekeepers (official and unofficial) look for differences to condemn, and they quickly and decisively banish those who differ. All that happened to me quite a while ago. … Once I had been banished, I realized that there is a big world “out here” where people are less interested in banishment and more interested … in doing justice, loving kindness, and walking humbly with God. This is the main thing the gatekeepers don’t want anyone to know: Their only weapon — banishment — involves “punishing” dissenters by condemning them to join an amazing party. Everything is better “out here.” The sooner you can get yourself banished, the happier you will be. It's Heresy Sunday -- don't fall for the trap Sunday WTF?
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Happy Birthday, Carl Henry From a nice post on the man: “Carl F. H. Henry was born on January 22, 1913. He has only been dead for a few years now (since late 2003), and it’s still a little hard to believe he’s gone. Henry stamped his identity onto some of the central institutions of the evangelical establishment: Christianity Today, the National Association of Evangelicals, Fuller Seminary, the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy. Generationally, he belongs to what Tom Brokaw calls “the greatest generation,” that age cohort that excelled in building up institutions and shared cultural forms. Henry certainly did his share of that.” Carl Henry had his quirks and flaws, but he was fundamentally an important, incisive, and faithful theologian who strengthened the church and accomplished much for the kingdom. Though he is unjustly pooh-poohed in some circles, he deserves to be emulated by a rising generation of scholars.  His love for God and church, his desire to engage the lost (and the lost mind, especially), and his tireless work for the Lord are a model to us all.  He did not content himself with mediocrity, but attempted to master his field and make a very significant and thoroughly evangelical (and Reformed) contribution to it.   We don’t need less Henry (and Henrys), we need more.
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Word of the Day: went The Word of the Day: went. But what about the original verb, wend? That appears to be a descendant of the original “strong” verb, to wind = to twist, to turn (cf. Latin vitis, vine; English withy). What if you want a word for making yourself turn here and there, while you are walking along? In the Germanic tongues, you might take the past tense of the original verb, and append a causative -jan suffix to it. The past tense of windan, to turn, was wand (modern English wound). The -j- of the suffix, pronounced like a hard y, high in the mouth, raised the preceding vowel by anticipation, and then dropped out after it had done its work. So we end up with the new verb wendan, to stroll about, to go. And what if you want a verb to describe your wending here and there and everywhere? Add our frequentative suffix: wander. Grammar Lesson of the Day: Deponent Verbs Word of the Day: new Word of the Day: methinks Word of the Day: castle
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PhotoImpact 11 • editor rating: excellent • Comments • December 20, 2005 • Pros Excellent image editor. Great Web graphics output. RAW support. Flexible interface. Good photo-sharing features. Bonus applications and royalty-free photos. • Cons Image organizing split between two applications. Unsatisfactory keyword-tagging capabilities. • Bottom Line PhotoImpact 11 adds a few enhancements to the package's powerful image editor. If you're creating graphics for the Web, PhotoImpact 11 is a very good choice, but its photo-organizing tools are disappointing. By Galen Fott The new version of PhotoImpact, Ulead's image editing and management package, adds a few new features to the already abundant tools and programs offered in previous versions. In addition to one editing and two management programs, you get Ulead's Cool 360 panorama software, GIF Animator 5, filters from Alien Skin Software, and thousands of royalty-free photos. Unfortunately, PhotoImpact 11 fails to improve on the previous version's unsatisfactory image-organizing tools. For many, the package's most welcome new feature will be support for RAW file formats. PhotoImpact 11 lets you adjust characteristics of your RAW photos, such as white balance and color temperature, before opening the image into 8- or 16-bit color mode. Support for 16-bit color is another new feature, and the program keeps a decent number of commands active while working with 16-bit images.Correct Chromatic Aberration PhotoImpact is an excellent image editor and excels at creating graphics for the Web. Its extraordinarily flexible interface has been enhanced with five different workspace presets, tailored to different levels of experience or to the task at hand. Two other new features tie into PhotoImpact's High Dynamic Range technology, which is designed to let you select and combine the exposures from different shots of the same subject. The standalone SmartCurves command automatically compensates for exposure based on the make of the camera. The compensation is usually too strong, so it's best to apply SmartCurves inside the High Dynamic Range dialog box instead, where you can tweak the settings to taste. In the unlikely scenario that you have taken several different shots of the same object using a tripod, but moving objects (such as people or cars) kept getting into the frame, the SmartRemove command can remove the unwanted objects and combine the shots into one clean image. There's also a new Correct Chromatic Aberration command that effectively eliminates the purple fringing often seen in images containing highly contrasting edges.Color Enhancement Unfortunately, PhotoImpact 11 still fails to deliver in the area of photo management, despite some good photo-sharing features. Image organizing and sharing tasks are split uneasily between two different applications: PhotoImpact Album 11 and Photo Explorer 8.6. Neither one offers a satisfactory way to apply keyword tags to images to facilitate searching through your collection. If you're looking for a good image editor that excels at creating Web graphics, PhotoImpact 11 is a good choice. But as an overall package, it still falls short. More digital imaging software: •   Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC •   Phase One Capture One Pro 8 •   DxO Optics Pro 10 •   Camera360 (for Windows Phone) •   BrilliantVision OneShot (for Windows Phone) •  more blog comments powered by Disqus the lg g4 is here! Want a chance to win one?
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Flashy colors and custom paint jobs, once the sole domain of high-end gaming desktops, have been steadily creeping into notebook design for years. The Alienware Area-51 m15x takes this trend and puts a more futuristic and elegant spin on things, with its clean look and color-shifting LEDs. The notebook's smart appearance is accompanied by the best mobile performance and hardware money can buy. Even better, it's all squeezed into a relatively light (for a high-octane gaming laptop) 7.8-pound chassis, making it a delightful system for even the most demanding fraggers on the go. For all this, it easily earns our Editors' Choice. Read the full review: Alienware Area-51 m15x
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Nefflix Logo As a film and TV buff I watch a lot of content, but I also miss a lot. Even with conveniences like DVR and Hulu, it's hard to keep up with everything on my radar. Netflix is the perfect service for the TV fan who is late to the party on shows that have become cornerstones of social media chatter and ubiquitous recaps. It got me hooked on Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, and many others and it's one of the few services that has made me start to believe I could eventually cut the cord on cable. However, we're not there yet. That said, Netflix just hit a milestone: it now has more subscribers than HBO. That's as good a time as any to think about Netflix's future and how it may eventually rival HBO not just in numbers, but in quality and breadth of offerings. Here are five ideas for Netflix's innovation team. 1. Bring On the Bonus Features While DVD extras have a fairly niche audience, I'm definitely part of it. I've wondered for a while why audio commentaries, deleted scenes, bloopers, and behind-the-scenes clips haven't made their way to Netflix or other streaming services. Well, the wait is over. Last week Vudu announced it will bring special features to a handful of select Sony titles, including sci-fi cult favorite District 9 and this summer's hit This is The End. Later that week, Netflix announced it will begin experimenting with special features on its original content. While both announcements are good news, they're definitely baby steps. At some point, Netflix wants to be out of the DVD business but before that can happen, it needs to better replicate the DVD experience and bring bonus content to a decent percentage of its offerings. 2. Keeping Ponying Up for Walter White The dramatic increase in viewership for Breaking Bad's home stretch was due in large part to the meth saga being available to watch on Netflix. Even as Netflix keeps developing its own content, it must continue to pay for premium content on other cable networks such as AMC and FX. In fact, I'd like it to start making inroads to get that content even sooner, ideally the day after a show airs. If I can get last night's Parks and Recreation on Hulu Plus, I should at some point be able to get the latest episode of Mad Men on Monday morning. Of course Netflix will have to pay up, but it would be a giant coup for the cord-cutting movement. 3. Netflix LIVE Netflix began its DVD subscription service in 1999, but it wasn't until 2012 that it began producing its own original content. For the company's next evolutionary step, I hope it adds live programming. HBO regularly airs comedy specials and the occasional concert, and it would be a big win if Netflix could do the same. Not only would it add a welcome new dimension to its content model, it would also be an opportunity to lure in comics and musical acts with revenue sharing deals that are much more beneficial to the artists. 4. Second-Screen Experiences As Netflix builds its original content offerings, engaging viewers with second-screen experiences will grow increasingly important in its ongoing strategy. Second-screen experiences from the likes of AMC and HBO have been a mixed bag so far, but Netflix has an opportunity to learn from those networks and design something that conforms to its content philosophy of releasing an entire season at once. I'm not entirely sure what that experience looks like, but my general problem with many second-screen offerings is an overemphasis on social media conversation that's often devoid of insight. While I'd welcome a better-curated stream of fan-generated commentary, I'd much prefer a deeply contextual experience—something along the lines of an IMDB trivia section on steroids. 5. Unify the Software and Hardware Experience Up until now, Netflix has stayed away from making its own hardware, opting instead to rely on third parties such as Roku and Xbox. While that strategy may continue, it behooves Netflix to start thinking about owning the entire user experience and eventually build its own set-top box. I'd rather the company do that than try to make deals with providers to get its software on their on cable boxes, something even Netflix said could take a long time to integrate. A Netflix set-top box could also open doors for a premium Netflix model. You could get the basic experience for the $7.99 per month you're paying now, or you could go all in with a Netflix set-top box built to handle enhanced features such as bonus content for original shows, eventual live programming, voice-activated search, and more. I always saw Netflix as the disruptive service that might spearhead the cord-cutting movement and capsize the bundled cable culture and this is its chance. What do you think? What does Netflix need to do in order to be the next HBO?
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Facebook Home (for Android) Facebook Home (for Android) The new chat heads feature in Facebook Home (for Android) pushes instant messages from Facebook directly in front of you no matter which app you're using. Here, you can see a chat head showing four unread messages. 3 / 4 the lg g4 is here! Want a chance to win one?
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Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks There's more than one way to do things Re: This is a new poll? by bl0rf (Pilgrim) on Oct 26, 2003 at 21:43 UTC ( #302268=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help?? in reply to This is a new poll? While it is an interesting fact that the pole is asking whether it is new - thus demonstrating self awareness - I must answer that yes, it is a new poll. The vast response to this pole indicates that it is inevitably new because no one would have voted had it been old. Given the popular resentment for old things I would have expected this poll to have been stoned and/or declared a "Security threat of the Fatherland" My site make sure you take a peek at my new japh, in my profile Comment on Re: This is a new poll? Log In? What's my password? Create A New User Node Status? node history Node Type: note [id://302268] and the web crawler heard nothing... How do I use this? | Other CB clients Other Users? Others imbibing at the Monastery: (9) As of 2015-06-02 22:29 GMT Find Nodes? Voting Booth? What kind of chocolate gives you the most pleasure? Results (115 votes), past polls
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Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks There's more than one way to do things Re: [Perl 6] $ and @ - what is it coming to? by Starky (Chaplain) on Mar 28, 2008 at 11:45 UTC ( #676950=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help?? in reply to [Perl 6] $ and @ - what is it coming to? 'Scuse me for being off-topic, but I've been working on my Chinese geography. I know 上海 (Shanghai), the largest (population-wise) city in China and the industrial heart of the mainland. Where is 上黑 (Shanghei)? Googling just resulted in a bunch of misspellings of Shanghai. Writing from a comfortable room in 昆明 (Kunming) Comment on Re: [Perl 6] $ and @ - what is it coming to? Re^2: [Perl 6] $ and @ - what is it coming to? by Anonymous Monk on Mar 28, 2008 at 11:51 UTC Chinese geography by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Mar 29, 2008 at 08:35 UTC Just a typo, sorry! That's what I get for trying to type Chinese without my wife's help. Sorry I missed you in 昆明. I was there for an extended stay. back home in Texas Log In? What's my password? Create A New User Node Status? node history Node Type: note [id://676950] and the web crawler heard nothing... How do I use this? | Other CB clients Other Users? Others browsing the Monastery: (7) As of 2015-06-02 22:37 GMT Find Nodes? Voting Booth? What kind of chocolate gives you the most pleasure? Results (115 votes), past polls
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Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks Perl: the Markov chain saw Comment on Thanks! That is a much clearer explanation (to me, anyway). shmem already dismissed my method-call counter example. I suspect your de-ref'ing a CODE ref counter example would be similarly dismissed. I still think that they both weaken the argument, though. I was thinking I could channel shmem's point of view and prop up his argument. But when I tried to, I failed. I tend to think that seeing @{...} tells me that I'm getting an array to operate on. Whether I'm in a scalar or list context impacts what value(s) that array provides. But that falls apart for @{...}[...] and @{...}{...}, as neither of them give me an array to operate on. They all three give me a list (of scalar values)... but only if used in a list context. So there is some commonality there, but it is hard to even articulate a single technical thing that is true of all three cases (unless you ignore context or decide to be sloppy in other ways). You can certainly argue that ${...} always meant that you got a scalar (if you ignore using that scalar to invoke code), and the ${...}->@* now violates that old pattern. But I just don't see a big problem with making the rather weak rule of "I have a guarantee for 1 of 3 (or maybe 2 or 4) sigils (if I ignore at least two whole types of dereferencing), and a similar thing that falls apart unless I'm sloppy for one more of the sigils" have yet another class of exceptions. To me, the -> operator is what takes the scalar. There are lots of things -> can do with the scalar. The fact that the only two available data deref'ing things that can come after -> also returned scalars is not what I consider a huge precedent that should be preserved for all future data deref'ing things that can come after ->. - tye         In reply to Re^13: use feature 'postderef'; # Postfix Dereference Syntax is coming in 5.20 (thanks) by tye and:  <code> code here </code> • Please read these before you post! —         For:     Use: & &amp; < &lt; > &gt; [ &#91; ] &#93; • Log In? What's my password? Create A New User and the web crawler heard nothing... How do I use this? | Other CB clients Other Users? Others browsing the Monastery: (7) As of 2015-06-02 22:37 GMT Find Nodes? Voting Booth? What kind of chocolate gives you the most pleasure? Results (115 votes), past polls
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Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks Don't ask to ask, just ask Comment on Well, I'll preface this by saying I work for a company that sells stuff to do things like this on a grand scale. If you want to contact me privately regarding that after you see this suggestion, you may =] However, since your need seems to be small and since free is cheap, have you seen Big Brother? It does what you're asking and a whole bunch more and it's free. It's not fully functional as a full application or enterprise monitor, but it will solve your problem for sure. good luck. We speak the way we breathe. --Fugazi In reply to (jptxs) Re: Process Monitoring Script by jptxs in thread Process Monitoring Script by tradez and:  <code> code here </code> • Please read these before you post! —         For:     Use: & &amp; < &lt; > &gt; [ &#91; ] &#93; • Log In? What's my password? Create A New User and the web crawler heard nothing... How do I use this? | Other CB clients Other Users? Others meditating upon the Monastery: (5) As of 2015-06-02 22:41 GMT Find Nodes? Voting Booth? What kind of chocolate gives you the most pleasure? Results (115 votes), past polls
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Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks Perl-Sensitive Sunglasses Comment on I frequently use DBI in my scripts. Some are quick and dirty scripts, others have the potential to be around for years. As a matter of habit, I create my database connection early in the script and pass it as an argument to any subroutine that needs it rather than leaving it as a global. This is more a result of my preference to see a list of variables (from the parent) that will be used in the sub than anything else. Which brings me to my question: Is this simply a matter of style, or are there substantive differences between using a global versus a locally scoped variable. For those of you who also use DBI heavily, how do you maintain your db handle? I try to stay away from globals because I find they make code hard for me to read ("where did THAT come from, and what the heck is it?!"). Are there reasons I shouldn't be passing a $dbh around that I never intend to modify? In reply to DBI, $dbh, and subroutines by jrsimmon and:  <code> code here </code> • Please read these before you post! —         For:     Use: & &amp; < &lt; > &gt; [ &#91; ] &#93; • Log In? What's my password? Create A New User and the web crawler heard nothing... How do I use this? | Other CB clients Other Users? Others imbibing at the Monastery: (5) As of 2015-06-02 22:33 GMT Find Nodes? Voting Booth? What kind of chocolate gives you the most pleasure? Results (115 votes), past polls
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Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks XP is just a number Re: Favourite One-liners? by tlm (Prior) on Jun 29, 2005 at 13:07 UTC ( #471005=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help?? in reply to Favourite One-liners? I forgot this one-liner, probably because I use it so much it has become almost instinctive: % perl -cw All it does is check for compiler errors and warnings, without running the program. Why not just run the program? If doesn't compile, I suppose there is not much difference. Otherwise, it's a matter of "defensive programming." The check above takes one second to perform, and it can alert me to bugs that I may want to know of before ever running the program. Besides, there are times (e.g. when the coding is not yet complete) when all I want is to confirm that my code passes this first test of soundness, but not yet run the code. With a reasonably civilized editor, one can bind this capability to some convenient keyboard shortcut, so one can do the check periodically as one codes, which helps narrow down the location of errors. the lowliest monk Comment on Re: Favourite One-liners? Download Code Log In? What's my password? Create A New User Node Status? node history Node Type: note [id://471005] and the web crawler heard nothing... How do I use this? | Other CB clients Other Users? Others about the Monastery: (9) As of 2015-06-02 22:27 GMT Find Nodes? Voting Booth? What kind of chocolate gives you the most pleasure? Results (115 votes), past polls
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Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks The stupid question is the question not asked Metrics tracking Perl 6 development by raiph (Hermit) on Sep 09, 2012 at 16:26 UTC ( #992603=perlmeditation: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help?? I write #perl6 summaries. An AM recently said "This is nice. Also can you give a percentage progress of how much of rakudo matches the spec as it exists today.". I don't think we can (reasonably easily) do exactly as the AM requested. I am also concerned about encouraging the impression Perl 6 is not feature complete (for some users and use cases it is now sufficiently complete). However, I would like to publish a metric that helps the AM and interested parties track Perl 6 development. I would appreciate constructive feedback to my response and thoughts below. TL;DR As a metric to help track Perl 6 development, I favor test pass rates such as spectest passes over time or "64 modules passing 100% of their tests when compiled using the 2012.08 Rakudo compiler". Do you like these? Any metric will almost certainly have to be based on data that's already being collected. I could see trying one or more of the following: • Tracking completion of very high level features of compiler implementations. What do you think of Feature completion pie charts? This is drawn from the same data used for the compiler comparison matrix. We could update the pie chart weekly. This data currently tracks 143 very high level compiler "features", ones that have been mostly implemented in five years or so (Rakudo) or 2 years or so (Niecza) for an average implementation rate in the order of 20 - 40 per year. Some issues: • 143 entries is a small list. The rate of change is slow. Many weeks it wouldn't change. It will be non-trivial to expand this list in a way that significantly increases its utility for tracking Perl 6 development (as against comparison among compilers). • Some important "features" are not included in this compiler feature list. Consider the (awesome!) debugger that was just added to the latest Rakudo Star bundle. The compiler features list didn't include a debugger. (As it happens, the spec didn't say much either -- "needs further specification", and the Rakudo roadmap didn't even mention it.) I suspect the fact this feature list doesn't include the debugger reflects weakness for tracking what the AM cares about. • There are non-essential items in the compiler features list. For example, junctions, hypers, and races are spec'd to optionally autothread (automatically provide transparent concurrency). Rakudo implements junctions and hypers but does not autothread. Do we count Rakudo as having the junction and hyper features? If we do, folk are likely to complain that this is misleading because it doesn't yet do autothreading. Do we include the optional autothreading in the "features not yet implemented" count? If we do, folk are likely to complain that Rakudo isn't ready because it's not "feature complete". • Tracking test passing percentages. Consider the Perl 6 test suite and the related perl6 pass rates. This data generally changes at least a little from week to week. I think this is about the best data we have that can quickly convey progress but publishing it has tended to elicit criticism ("Test count is a silly metric."). In the past flussence has generated charts of spectest passes over time. He gave up on it recently, perhaps due to it closing in on 100%, or maybe due to the negative responses we've gotten from publishing such data, but I imagine it would be fairly simple to restart this. There are module smoketesting results. We could list how many modules in the Perl 6 ecosystem are passing 100% of their tests (64 as of 2012-09-05 tested against the August Rakudo compiler.) A couple days ago mst uploaded Perl 6 to cpan. That's going to bring in a lot of interesting platform test data. Maybe we track that? • Tracking compiler roadmap edits. The Rakudo roadmap currently contains 60 items. The roadmap is probably even less suitable as the subject of a weekly update than either of the previous two items. But I thought it worthy of mention here because it is a very important project driver. A few weeks ago (on August 20th) I wrote How things are going compared to rakudo roadmap using jan 1 2012 as baseline. Since I wrote the above gist there have been two roadmap changes. Removing (marking as done) the one star (very easy) task "sigilless variables" and removing the five star (very difficult) task "design, implement and switch to QAST". (While we're here, let's summarize the remaining roadmap tasks. There is just one task marked as top priority: "basic Perl 5 interop (use, eval, etc.)". Interestingly it is not marked as being difficult. Then come 38 medium priority tasks (only two marked difficult); 17 low priority tasks (only one marked difficult); and one task of unspecified priority and difficulty ("Correct type smiley support (:U, :D, :T, etc.)").) Do you particularly like or dislike any of the above? Any other ideas? Edited to correct statements of roadmap task difficulty. Comment on Metrics tracking Perl 6 development Re: Metrics tracking Perl 6 development by moritz (Cardinal) on Sep 09, 2012 at 20:02 UTC The only metric that matters is "can you do with it what you want to do?". Readiness cannot be meaningfully projected onto a simple number, it's always a question of how your needs and the compiler and ecosystem fulfill those needs. For example most people say that Perl 5 is production ready, but it's still pretty much useless for number crunching/high performance computing -- so it's not ready for this particular use case. So, what readiness number would you give Perl 5, even if it's not ready for every possible use case? Tracking implemented features is useful, because people want to know if they can use a particular feature. But doing that as a percentage of a pretty much arbitrary goal isn't very useful, because the current usefulness isn't really a function of future plans. The same holds true for the tests: if we add or remove tests without changing the compiler, the readiness metric changes. In the end the best thing to do is probably to build cool stuff with Perl 6 (or improve the compiler) and talk about it, instead of trying to come up with complicated (and yet still not very good) ways to measure progress. Something is seriously wrong with you if you say Perl 5 is not ready for production use. By your definition a rocket is not production ready to launch into space because it cannot run on roads. This argument is absurd, and you diverting from the topic. Even if you by any means of semantic play deduce Perl 5 is not ready for production use. Can you please answer the inevitable question Is Perl 6 at least as much production ready as much as Perl 5 is? That question captures what people mean when they ask for production readiness of Perl 6. And there are no complicated measurements for productions readiness, some how only Perl 6 is having all these complications, every other piece of compiler in this world slaps '1.0.0' at a point of time with sufficiently acceptable conditions of quality, feature completeness, libraries and documentation and ships it. If you are not there yet, then you are not there yet. Making the definition the goal ambiguous doesn't mean you achieved your goal. For what use cases? You see, Perl 6 isn't meant as a successor for Perl 5 (at least not anymore; that was the original intention for Perl 6, but we've diverted from that path long ago), so it's not clear to me that Perl 6 has to excell in exactly the same spots as Perl 5. So I don't think we need to have a complete superset in productivity to declare it production ready. Citation needed. Maybe it captures your idea, but people I talk to all have different ideas of production readiness. I frankly admit that on most areas, existing Perl 6 compilers cannot compete with Perl 5 on most "production readiness" metrics. So, if that's the answer you want to hear, please have it and be happy. But there are a lot of folks who don't need the same level of stability and speed, and who are willing to give up a bit of both in exchange for a much more expressive and consistent language. And for those folks we need a more detailed answer than "yes" or "no". It's for those folks that we blog about our progress, fix bugs, add features and make monthly releases -- not for the anonymous crowd waiting for a release labeled 1.0 Thanks Moritz. That was a helpful response. I've concluded that if any of the existing metrics I discussed get mentioned on #perl6 they'll probably appear in a #perl6 summary like anything else, but I won't special case any of them. I've also concluded there's a need for something new. More on that if/when I have something to show. Log In? What's my password? Create A New User Node Status? node history Node Type: perlmeditation [id://992603] Approved by kcott Front-paged by kcott and the web crawler heard nothing... How do I use this? | Other CB clients Other Users? Others imbibing at the Monastery: (9) As of 2015-06-02 22:29 GMT Find Nodes? Voting Booth? What kind of chocolate gives you the most pleasure? Results (115 votes), past polls
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Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks Just another Perl shrine Comment on > tell us why you bother to respond to something over a year later. Thanks for asking. I had meant to make a longer and more substantive response after reading the books, when the details were fresh in my mind. By then the discussion was already rather stale, and I had other things to do. But I thought there might be some value in pointing out, even a year later, that the books alluded to did not make the point that the OP claimed that they did. It might also be worth remembering the next time Tanktalus appears to back up some strange-sounding assertion with a reputable source: he might be telling the truth, or, he might be waving around some book he hasn't read, using it as a club to bludgeon other people's arguments, without having any idea what it actually says, as he did in this thread. Normally when we have discussions we assume good faith and intellectual honesty, and that didn't happen here. I suppose this is now off-topic, so I will abandon the thread. In reply to Re^5: A Level Playing Field by Dominus in thread A Level Playing Field by Petruchio and:  <code> code here </code> • Please read these before you post! —         For:     Use: & &amp; < &lt; > &gt; [ &#91; ] &#93; • Log In? What's my password? Create A New User and the web crawler heard nothing... How do I use this? | Other CB clients Other Users? Others surveying the Monastery: (9) As of 2015-06-02 22:49 GMT Find Nodes? Voting Booth? What kind of chocolate gives you the most pleasure? Results (116 votes), past polls
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Skip Nav New York Fashion Week and London Fashion Week for Autumn Winter 2008 New York Versus London (So Far and Mostly) So it seems our British friends have taken A/W 08 in an entirely different direction. That is, the fur and sparkle of New York's A/W 08, not to mention the deep plums and vibrant greens are virtually non-existent. London Fashion Week, thus far has been a little more Terminator, a little less Kindergarden Cop. Just take a peek at our photo galleries from Topshop Unique, Jacob Kimmie, Krystof Strozyna, and Modernist Autumn, it's virtually another fashion world. All of these collections dominated by black and white, most with eruptions of red in the most brazen display (it's not worked in slowly, it's thrust into the collection and promptly removed). Sure, you could call upon Paul Smith from the Londoners, and Camilla Staerk from the New Yorkers to argue that there is crossover. To which we'd say: "Despite some dandy-embellishments, Paul Smith is no different than Ralph Lauren, and Camilla Staerk is a newcomer. Those are bad examples.". So we win. And boy, do we love the fight. Latest Fashion, Shopping & Style POPSUGAR Latina Is Here. Discover Now >>
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Considering API Parity John Musser Jun. 18 2006, 04:46PM EDT Marc Hedlund over at O'Reilly Radar points out an interesting discussion at FlickrCentral. The gist of the initial question revolved around whether a competing photo service should be given an API key so they can directly use Flickr's API to move a customer's data directly out of Flickr and into theirs. After some back-and-forth and internal debate, Flickr's Stewart Butterfield said "we definitely should approve requests from direct competitors as long as they do the same. That means (a) that they need to have a full and complete API and (b) be willing to give us access." Marc calls it API parity and notes that the basic questions revolve not so much around APIs but freedom and ownership of data. More on the discussion from Dave Winer, Marc Canter (with comments from Stewart), and Nick Carr. John Musser
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Quality Magazine Address the Root Cause March 8, 2011 We have all been faced with challenges and our initial reaction is to solve the issue as soon as possible, but that may not be the best solution. We should be aware that quick-fix solutions might give a result that being worse than the problems they were intended to solve. There is nothing to be gained from a cure that is worse than the disease. There's certainly nothing to be gained from a solution that merely masks or delays the problem without addressing the underlying cause. When there's a problem in your life, make sure to uncover the root cause to get to the actual core of that problem. Facing challenges requires effort. The effort may be only necessary for a relatively short time. However, running from a challenge requires ever-increasing effort that has no end. The faster you start working to isolate the core source of a problem, the faster the problem will be permanently solve and fade from existence. The earlier you deal with the root cause of the problem, the more effective your efforts will be. Certainly isolating and eliminating the root cause of a problem does take more effort than taking quick steps to fix the symptoms. However, working on symptoms only mean you’ll have to work on them again as they will always resurface. You’ll always have to find time to do it all over again. The good news is that once you have solved the root cause of the problem, it is gone forever. From this point forward, look for the root cause of every problem. There are techniques, such as using the five-Whys, which will help identify the root cause. Use whatever technique that works for you but make the effort to root out each problem at its core. This effort will bring about lasting rewards.
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I-65 southbound status? by overtheanvil in Louisville [–]Learned-Hand 2 points3 points  (0 children) I don't like the sound of that "class 3". MMW: there will eventually be a best voice acting category at the academy awards. by hayterade in MarkMyWords [–]Learned-Hand 7 points8 points  (0 children) Fitting that I read the last part in Jerry Seinfeld's voice, seeing how that's what he did in Bee Movie. Seriously, they're identical! by TapThatSAS in memes You mean those guys from that Prince movie? That shit was so gay, fuckin 80's style. When Gumby has secret information but he won't talk by Endileath in shittyreactiongifs [–]Learned-Hand 213 points214 points  (0 children) I'm guessing there's a steep learning curve at this job. So Lake Victoria did something interesting with a river. by KingGoogley in civ [–]Learned-Hand 0 points1 point  (0 children) Haha, kinda. His name sounds like a superhero judge in a comic. Also, he never made it to the scotus, which is a shame. Wut. by jagershotzz in WTF I was gonna say rock the shaved head, but your way works too. "Sometimes I fear that you, all of this is a dream. That you, my dear, never existed at all. Merely a thought in my overactive head. A wish I hoped come true." -Unknown by gobhiemer in quotes [–]Learned-Hand 4 points5 points  (0 children) Reminds me of a comment I read here, but can't find now. The guy described how he was going through life happy, with a wife and kids, when he hit his head one day. Later, he was staring at a lamp and the light kept getting brighter and filling up his field of vision until he woke up in a hospital. Apparently he had been in a coma and was never married. He said he couldn't remember his early life, but could still picture his wife and kids from his coma life and was talking about how much he missed them. It could've been from a fiction writing sub, I forgot where exactly I read it. so i didn't score the deads 50th tickets…. by _Ryman_ in stringcheeseincident [–]Learned-Hand 1 point2 points  (0 children) Neither did I, but that means I get to go to All Good. Also not even mad, Chicago is going to be a shit show. CMV: The vast majority of people lack sufficient understanding of Economics and Finance to hold an opinion on either topic as it applies to the real world. by OddlySpecificReferen in changemyview [–]Learned-Hand 9 points10 points  (0 children) The fallacy here is that people ever recognized their ignorance on a subject and kept quiet. I would argue that Internet has made it much better. Sure there are poor examples, but the amount of information is revolutionary. Take the conflict in Ukraine for example. I think the stream of real time information has drastically changed the discourse. Of course there are a ton of armchair experts shouting off their uniformed opinions, but like I said, that's nothing new. What is new, is that governments (at least the US, I couldn't speak for any place else) haven't been able to push their narrative to the front as easily. I've even heard the argument that the buildup to the Iraq war would have been very different if the Internet was what it is today. I don't know if I believe that, but it's something to think about. [–]Learned-Hand 19 points20 points  (0 children) Can anyone point to a time when this hasn't been the case? It seems like people have been talking out of their ass for all of humanity. I wouldn't classify it as a problem, more like an inevitable feature of our society. I think if anything, we are trending towards more informed discussions. It might not feel that way because you're surrounded by the shit, but imagine having an economic discussion in the 1950's or the level of discourse surrounding slavery. Practice makes perfect by dragon994 in InterestingGifs [–]Learned-Hand 11 points12 points  (0 children) Out of the frying pan and into the fryer. Living In Chinatown NYC, Intersecting Lives [1024 X 639] by SUPERPICS in Houseporn [–]Learned-Hand 8 points9 points  (0 children) I mean this to be purely constructive, but the image doesn't convey your message very well. Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks like a pretty typical scene in NYC to me. I think the lack of personal effects, even people in general, is why I'm seeing a disconnect between the image and the message. Does that makes any sense? Anyway, I think it's a good pic nonetheless and you should definitely keep shooting! CMV: Ignorance of the law IS an excuse. In fact, it's probably the best excuse. by jck73 in changemyview [–]Learned-Hand 47 points48 points  (0 children) No one believes the assassin didn't know murder is illegal. Everyone believes the farmer didn't know his seasonal puddle is a body of water. Unfortunately, if you want to draw a line, it's gotta be somewhere in between. What exactly is meth? by Mercurydriver in NoStupidQuestions [–]Learned-Hand 12 points13 points  (0 children) I can't really explain the chemical composition in a simple way, but I can provide some general background/history. If you understand chemistry, the wiki for amphetamine and methamphetamine should be a good starting off point. So for starters, amphetamines have been around for 100 years and were/still are being administered under medical supervision. An amphetamine, fen-phen, was sold in the US until recently, and it's still available as Desoxyn. If the ingredients are readily available, it's a relatively simple process to make. The reason illegal producers use huge supplies of weird products, is because the raw ingredients are tightly regulated. Furthermore, the reason the production is considered so dangerous is because it's a bunch of amateurs that show no regard for safety. As for addiction. It gives the user a very energetic, euphoric high. It's commonly mixed with MDMA these days (whether the buyer knows it or not ((Seriously, if you buy Molly and it's powder, you just got Meth)) because they have similar highs. But unlike MDMA, it will ravage your body. Not to say MDMA is safe, but amphetamines are really bad. And it is extremely addictive. Unfortunately, meth can actually make someones life better before it makes it much much worse. You feel energized and ready to tackle the world. It can be taken many different ways, so people usually start with oral, nasal, and smoking. This is why it was so popular medically, because it really does produce results. But almost inevitably, the person begins needing the drug to function. And the toll it takes on the body becomes a serious problem. Once the user has started injecting the drug, they are probably at the point of a full blown addiction. Their energy isn't directed toward anything productive. They will stay up for days at a time, then sleep for days. What really is tragic, is when these people try to raise a kid like this. Washington D.C. on stuffed animal by Helpidentify11 in whatsthisbug I was just adding another example, not trying to correct you.
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So if the courts rule in favor of Oracle, what happens to GNU Classpath? by pnpbios in programming [–]Narrator 2 points3 points  (0 children) So if Oracle won Google would have to base android on the OpenJDK Apis that were released by Sun under the GPL? What is the coolest thing you have seen in a vendor stand on a developer event? by chalequito in java [–]Narrator 1 point2 points  (0 children) Company branded mini drone. These go for $20 on amazon so you make it some sort of prize. TechPowerUp | AMD to Skip 20 nm, Jump Straight to 14 nm with "Arctic Islands" GPU Family by zmeul in hardware [–]Narrator 0 points1 point  (0 children) But Mr Kurzweill and his reversible cold super computer promised me that I was going to have a suitcase size computer with a billion times the power of the human brain! Its happening right now, here in Chile by Enraknews in pics [–]Narrator 0 points1 point  (0 children) All the ash is going to blow east over the Andes and land on Patagonia. The last time the nearby Hudson volcano erupted in south Chile the whole sheep herding industry in that part of Argentina basically went out of business because all the forage got covered by ash. Luckily, Patagonia is mostly unpopulated. I've never been anywhere so empty. No planes in the sky, only a few small towns, little vegetation, vast open skies and very windy all the time. Why do many software engineers not like Java? by mac in java [–]Narrator 46 points47 points  (0 children) If there was one overarching design goal in Java it was to build a language that supported large maintainable systems that could live forever. I've worked on Java code bases that are 15 years old and many 100s of thousands of lines long. The systems are maintainable because of static typing, garbage collection and the inability for "clever" programmers to create a mess like they can in C++ or perl for example. In dynamically typed languages, if you have a lot of programmers, you have to have very good code coverage so that when someone changes an interface in a big system then everything that uses that system will have its tests break. Those tests then have to get fixed by adopting the new interface. In a statically typed language the compiler tells you you broke something. It's like built in automated tests. One of the reasons twitter switched to Scala is that they had a lot of code in their system that was just checking the types of arguments passed in. You get that as a built-in feature with static typing. Another benefit of Java is that since compilers can do static analysis, the IDEs are much smarter. "Find code that calls this function" actually works. Automated refactoring actually works. "Howard the Duck": the first (and worst?) Marvel movie, winner of 4 Golden Raspberries by facade515 in badMovies [–]Narrator 0 points1 point  (0 children) Saw this one recently. If i saw it when it came out I would have hated it. However, this movie was a decent experience solely for the 80s nostalgia value. The wagoneer with fake wood. The 80s hair and music. All the very dated stuff, etc. My sister is thinking about opening a restaurant and doesn't have much experience. Anybody know of any good books she can read or of any way she could get an idea of what she is getting into? by ADD_YOU_KNOW_ME in smallbusiness [–]Narrator 1 point2 points  (0 children) The people I know who are in the restaurant business do it because they REALLY like cooking. They do it in their spare time for fun. They wouldn't know what to do with their lives if they weren't cooking. Their whole life and identity is centered around it. They work way too much and make way too little, but it doesn't seem to bother them. They get their friends and family to invest in their restaurant. Their friends and family know it's a lousy investment, but they do it anyway so they can give their relative a job. Most restaurant owners never make big bucks. If they do really well they can make a decent middle class income. If she wants to start a restaurant that makes money and is a scalable business model then she should open a franchise. That will also teach her a ton about how to operate efficiently. What regrettable trend did you participate in? by DashingDisaster in AskReddit [–]Narrator 2 points3 points  (0 children) Baseball card collecting. None of that stuff from the 80s is worth anything now. Good Code Basic Training - KISS, DRY, YAGNI by exceptionnotfound in programming [–]Narrator 6 points7 points  (0 children) I agree with KISS and DRY, but YAGNI really depends on how much experience one has desigining systems and how long the system is going to be around for. I have seem dinky little experiments getting so successful that they get kludged into many different parts of a system over several years without getting a proper refactor to support their larger role. A little more work upfront would have made that feature much more maintainable and cleanly extensible. Maybe if it's a startup and the company is either going to get bought in a year or fail, but at a company with a longer time horizon it's better to design systems with the future in mind. Obviously, one can over do it, but there is a proper balance that can be struck. This is mainly an issue in relational data modeling. The simplest design that could possibly work is going to need a data migration if the feature built on top of it starts getting used in a lot of different ways and it needs to be extended. A cleaner, more normalized data model, though not the simplest thing that could possibly work, will only add a small amount of complexity and won't have to be redone. The U.S. Has Too Much Oil and Nowhere to Put It--Overflowing storage tanks could lead to another drop in prices by arjun10 in Economics [–]Narrator -6 points-5 points  (0 children) They could just stop pumping it out of the ground... but then the banks and shareholders would be angry that they weren't generating enough cashflow. Capitalism is like that. What is your workplace culture like? by skez in cscareerquestions [–]Narrator 2 points3 points  (0 children) Usually a polo shirt, but nobody really cares. I come in at 10:30am to miss traffic. Stay till 6:30pm. Most people who don't have to fight bad traffic come in earlier. No profanity, I work with ladies around. We're a very non-bro shop. Too many tempting snacks in the break room. Lunch on Fridays. Lots of beer in the fridge. Bitcoin revolution could be the next internet, says Bank of England - Telegraph by Egilnix in Bitcoin [–]Narrator 0 points1 point  (0 children) Central bank bitcoin could work if there are unlimited coins available to mine and only private banks authorized by the central bank are allowed to mine and the blockchain is only writable by money center banks and the treasury and all the citizens have transactions that take place on side chains that have to be signed by a kyc compliant bank to be transferred to other financial institutions and then to their side chains. This would prevent direct person to person exchanges of value which is very important for preventing crime. It would also ensure the central bank and private banks monopoly on money creation, which is a pre-requisite for any new money system. If you're reading this over at a money center bank, pm me and I'll design all this for you for a mid six figure salary, plus bonus. China to credit Ukraine for $3.6 bln to reduce dependence on Russian gas by nicepunk in worldnews [–]Narrator 2 points3 points  (0 children) Massive state-directed investment sounds like investing savings to create capital which is actually a decent use of savings since it lowers the cost of production generally. For example, more roads and better high speed rail lowers transport costs and benefits industry and consumers. In the west we simply gamble it all on trashier and trashier bond portfolios (e.g subprime MBS) backed by dodgy financial derivatives. [–]Narrator 2 points3 points  (0 children) The taxpayer is not left holding the bag in China. The People's Bank of China prints money electronically and buys the bad loans and resells them at a discount. Bankers who are corrupt get punished severely and life goes on. The only reason this doesn't result in massive moral hazard is that the Chinese banks are closely supervised and directed by the government and the party has a pretty good record of disciplining corrupt officials. [–]Narrator 8 points9 points  (0 children) And yet they have successful capitalism with state owned banks... The success of partially privatized central planning in the form of Chinese state owned banks has caused extreme cognitive dissonance and outright denial among western economists. The U.S. Dollar isn't backed by gold, it is backed by "America's perpetuation of global conflict." - Max Keiser, Feb 19 2015 by scotty321 in Bitcoin [–]Narrator 2 points3 points  (0 children) It backed by the fact that if one decides to start a little 100% self sufficient village somewhere in the United States and trade among community members the IRS will insist that the community pay taxes on barter income and the state gov will insist you pay property tax. These are all payable in U.S Dollars Only. No bitcoin, no euros, no gold and silver. If one doesn't pay, government officials will use force to confine community members and take all their stuff and that's why you need to have these little green pieces of paper, or their electronic equivalent that the federal reserve gives out in exchange for the government going into debt. North Korea has 100,000 labourers working abroad in a ‘state-sponsored slavery’ scheme by leo_trotzky in worldnews [–]Narrator 18 points19 points  (0 children) North Korea is the most clear-cut example that propaganda works extremely well. The whole country is based on propaganda. It's not just an after thought, it's at the very core of the structure of their system. It holds the whole thing together. It's a reminder that people should reexamine why they believe what they believe and how easy it is to be manipulated by propaganda. How do you make programmers work 60-80 hours per week? by wssbck in programming [–]Narrator 9 points10 points  (0 children) I would work 60-80 hours a week if I was given > 5% founder equity in the company, I believed in the product and my business partners were extremely competent at sales/marketing/product design. Other than that, forget it. Probably wouldn't code very well though for longer than about 10 hours a day so I'd have to come in on weekends. Kellogg posts $379m loss as consumers cut back on cereal by Feenominal in business [–]Narrator 0 points1 point  (0 children) I think that it got really really easy to run a big chain of restaurants with all the cheap point of sale and supply chain systems out there. Mcdonalds was obviously never the best food but they had the best systems. Now thats not the advantage it was. In-N-Out and Five guys and all the other regional chains ate McDonald's lunch so to speak because the tech for building a national chain suddenly was commoditized and any reasonably competent organization could do it. Software eats the world, again. Snowblowing is NP-complete by chrisarchitect in compsci [–]Narrator 1 point2 points  (0 children) So what's the best "good enough" way to solve this? Should we just try simulated annealing to find a "good enough" minima in the problem space since the problem is otherwise intractable? AI technology 'will take your job' - BBC News by Erumpent in Automate [–]Narrator 0 points1 point  (0 children) The capitalist solution to this problem is to democratize access to future strong AI the way the pc democratized access to computing.
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Rhapsody App for Rhapsody International, Inc. Barbara Bonney Born in 1946, Barbara Bonney is an American soprano who studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum and is known for her portrayal of Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. Bonney has appeared on over 90 recordings and is widely recognized as one of the premier lyric sopranos of her generation. Rhapsody app on your desktop or mobile device. Listen to the songs you love. Anytime, anywhere.
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Rhapsody App for Rhapsody International, Inc. The Dio Years (Bonus Tracks) The Dio Years by Black Sabbath Released: Apr 2007 Label: Rhino/Warner Bros. Only Black Sabbath could replace the best metal singer of all time with the most important metal singer of all time. Sure, maybe Ronnie James Dio could never hit the notes Rob Halford or Bruce Dickinson could, but the guy invented the "devil's horns" hand signal. Plus he was literally like three feet tall, a real elf. This collection starts with "Neon Knights," of course. For some reason, "Sign of the Southern Cross" is not included. Luckily, the brand new "Shadow of the Wind" is. For the uninitiated, Tony Iommi saved some of his most irrefutable riffs for Dio. Mike McGuirk Rhapsody app on your desktop or mobile device. Listen to the songs you love. Anytime, anywhere.
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Rhapsody App for Rhapsody International, Inc. Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Gatemouth was a Texas legend who played as many kinds of music as he did instruments. A true master of the blues guitar, adept with violin, harmonica, bass, and drums, as well as a fine, rough singer, Brown had never been content to be pigeonholed into any one style. Calypso, jazz, country and blues are all mixed into his folky, funky, roots-driven sound, which benefits from the breadth of his instrumental prowess. His originally stinging, trebly tone on the guitar (which was to influence the great bluesmen Albert Collins and Johnny Copeland) developed into a smoother, jazzier sound over the years and couldn't really be compared to anyone else. Brown was just as happy fiddling a hoedown, writing a blues number with biting lyrics, or playing a Big Band jazz chart. Fans kept him on the road and in the studio until illness started slowing him down in 2002. At age 81, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown survived Hurricane Katrina, only to pass away a week later from a combination of lung cancer and heart disease. You can hear the influence of his guitar in the music of everyone from Stevie Ray Vaughan to Brian Setzer. Rhapsody app on your desktop or mobile device. Listen to the songs you love. Anytime, anywhere.
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Rhapsody App for Rhapsody International, Inc. The Coryells Fusion legend Larry Coryell teams up with his sons Murali and Julian to perform jazzy acoustic guitar music inspired by a variety of world music. Murali and Julian hold their own quite well, working their way through fast-picked harmonies reminiscent of the classic guitar trio of Al Dimeola, Paco de Lucia and John McLaughlin. Rhapsody app on your desktop or mobile device. Listen to the songs you love. Anytime, anywhere.
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Rhapsody App for Rhapsody International, Inc. Yoko Ono Few figures in pop music are as divisive as Japanese-American artist, musician and political activist Yoko Ono, whose legacy is inexorably tied to her assassinated third husband, John Lennon, and the demise of Lennon's legendary band, the Beatles. The daughter of prominent Japanese bankers, Ono entered the New York art scene in the early '60s with a collective of neo-Dadaists called Fluxus. After a pair of unsuccessful marriages, Ono met Lennon at one of her art shows in London in 1966. They collaborated on experimental recordings in 1968 and were married in 1969. After the Beatles broke up in 1970, the couple released Yoko Ono/The Plastic Ono Band and John Lennon/The Plastic Ono Band, records that merged Lennon's pop songs with Ono's piercing, avant-garde noise rock. Ono released numerous records through the '70s and '80s, though had a long period of dormancy following Lennon's death in 1980. She has remained politically engaged throughout her career and currently oversees an award for artists from regions of conflict. She currently lives in New York City. Her child with John Lennon, Sean Lennon, is also a musician. Rhapsody app on your desktop or mobile device. Listen to the songs you love. Anytime, anywhere.
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Using a Plunge Router in a Router Table? posted on March 8, 2007 by Rockler Are a plunge router and a router table a good match? This Woodworker's Journal eZine reader heard that the combination can be "difficult and dangerous". Below, Ellis Walentine, Michael Dresdner and Lee Grindinger offer opinions to the contrary. Q: I've heard it's both difficult and dangerous to mount a plunge router in a router table & but that's exactly what I want to do. Could I get some expert advice? I'm not doing woodworking for a living & just as a hobby and for home repairs. A. Ellis Wallentine: "You may encounter some minor difficulties, depending on the router model you are using, but I don't know of any particular dangers inherent in using a plunge router in a router table; I've done it for years, with various brands of routers. The main difficulty is the awkwardness of adjusting the height of the bit above the table. If your baseplate insert isn't screwed down, you won't be able to simply unlock the plunge lock and manually plunge the bit to the desired height because the plunge springs will push the baseplate right out of the table. You can do it by turning the router's depth adjustment knob, but the process is annoyingly slow and you have to release the plunge lock on the router before you can turn the knob. Further, not all plunge routers have such knobs, although aftermarket add-ons are available for most routers. "Some people argue that a plunge router isn't a good choice for a router table because it has too much play in the mechanisms for the most accurate work. I disagree. Modern plunge routers are very sturdily built, and you won't notice any degrade in performance. The best reason to use a plunge router in a table is because you can only afford one router and a big plunge router is it. If you can afford two routers, I suggest using a fixed-base router in your router table and reserving the plunge router for those jobs where the plunge feature is actually useful, as in dadoing and mortising operations or when using patterns and template bushings. "If you don't plan to do any extremely heavy-duty routing, such as panel raising with one of those 3" diameter horizontal cutters, a good compromise for you might be to get one of the combination kits, such as those made by DeWalt and Porter-Cable, that include one medium-duty router motor and two bases -- a fixed base and a plunge base. You can keep the fixed base installed in your router table all the time, so it's always a quick operation to convert from handheld to table use." A. Michael Dresdner: " I don't feel it is either difficult or dangerous, and almost everyone I know has at least one of their routers mounted in a table (myself included). In fact, several companies (including Porter-Cable and Bosch) sell kits with one router and two bases -- a fixed base to mount permanently in the table, and a plunge base for handheld work. There are also many pre-drilled mounting table plates to attach the router, which makes the whole job downright simple. You'll find some at While you are there, look at the accessories that allow you to adjust the height of the router without removing it from the table. "If the router will stay mounted in the table, and not be removed for plunge work, consider removing the springs from the plunge mechanism. They are there to counteract gravity when the router is right-side-up, but will work against you when it is upside-down, as it will be in the table." A. Lee Grindinger: "Go ahead and mount it in your table. Make sure your depths are well locked when you set the thing up. Not everyone can afford a dedicated router for a table, so it's common to use the same router for both handheld operations and table work. As always, just be very cautious as you use it." From the Woodworker's Journal eZine archives As mentioned above, a router that comes with a plunge and a fixed base, like the Porter Cable 895PK package or this Bosch Router is a good choice, especially if you're not in the market for a "dedicated" router / router table combo. The fixed base of either attaches easily to the predrilled plates available for Rockler Standard Router Table packages. That way, you can just leave the fixed base in the table permanently and slip the motor out, and into your plunge base, when you need to do handheld work. Using a plunge router in a router table is a fairly common practice, and if you already own one, you'll be glad to know that predrilled router table plates are available for a variety of models and manufacturers. And there's a large plate option too, for huskier routers like the Porter Cable 7539. posted on March 8, 2007 by Rockler previous post next post 9 thoughts on “Using a Plunge Router in a Router Table?” • Rick Freiwald I'm hoping that I'm not doing something dangerous, but a friend told me to remove the springs from my Ryobi plunge router when mounting it on the table. It seems to work fine, the adjustments are easy to make, and there's no visible chatter marks on completed pieces. <br /><br /> Is it okay to remove the springs without some kind of hidden danger?<br /><br />Thanks!<br /><br />Rick • Blog Editor Thanks for the question. We're hesitant to "officially" recommend modifying a power tool; the router manufacturer is the most reliable source of information on hidden dangers involved in modifying a tool.<br /><br />That said, we're pretty sure that the sole purpose of the springs is to lift the router motor when you are using it as a handheld tool. The springs are, of course, counter productive when the router is upside-down in a table. You'll notice that Michael Dresdner recommends removing the springs (above). As long as the depth lockdown still functions reliably, removing the springs shouldn't cause a safety issue. Again, if you suspect that there might be a problem, most manufacturers have a tech support department and are happy to answer safety questions. • Trent Kelly I have been using a DeWalt DW621 plunge router mounted on a table for over four years. Depth adjustment and locking on the power switch can be a little tricky upside down until you get used to it. I've had no problems with this configuration which uses the 1/4 pre-drilled aluminum plate available here at Rockler. When I adjust the depth, I just position my fence over the top of my plate. The fence keeps the plate from pushing up even though it isn't screwed down. If I don't want to move the fence, I just clamp a piece of wood to the edges of my table so that it holds the plate down. • Cliff Yuill I am using a Porter Cable 690 series router with a plunge base mounted in a Bosch router table. For ease of adjustment I am considering an above-table adjusting tool, "Router Razer" sold my MLCS Woodworking. Has anyone had experience with this add-on and do I need to remove the springs in my router base. • Blog Editor Thanks for the question. The <a href="" rel="nofollow">Router Raizer</a> requires a few minor modifications to your router, but from we've heard, they're worth the effort. Router Raizer installation instructions for a variety of routers are available in pdf form on the <a href="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Router Technologies</a> website. They cover the procedure in detail. • I use a Triton 3 1/4 hp plunge router in my table and it works great. The operator manual even says to remove the plunge spring if you use it in a table. • Tom LOL, I used a PC plunge router in my PC router table for a while, and I hated it! Forget about dangerous, it's annoying and inconvenient. Never again. • Linda Master I used a very small homemade jack stand (found in the trash). It has a long bolt, a nut which raises and lowers it, and put it below the table. I built my table with a table insert. The plunge router screwed to the insert and locked down with carriage bolts and wing nuts. Release the lock knob on the router and and turn the nut on the jack stand to raise and lower the bit! Works great! Nothing dangerous, no vibration either. • John Mcconnell "The main difficulty is the awkwardness of adjusting the height of the bit above the table" I agree with this part. I always have this trouble when using my router Dewalt DWP611PK. Leave a comment What People are Saying: - Daniel F. What People are Saying: - Daniel F. Feedback X
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Geography Education 987.2K views | +471 today Scooped by Seth Dixon onto Geography Education! Grocery Store Wars This is horribly cheesy and from an incredibly biased perspective, but it does embody how many see the organic movement (and is quite entertaining for old Star Wars buffs like me).  No comment yet. Geography Education Curated by Seth Dixon
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Silk find Michael has a Nature Side At six when Silk’s shift was over, she went to Michael’s office. After knocking, he told her to enter. Silk went in to find him filling out papers at his desk. She was feeling playful so put her foot up on the edge of his desk, giving him a clear view up her shirt. When he didn’t respond, she put her foot down and got up and came around the desk. There she sat on the edge, finally he looked at her. Michael had noticed her in the chair with her foot up. He had seen her panties but was ignoring her till he was done. When she came up and sat next to him he looked up at her. He could tell she wanted something and he had a pretty good idea what it was. Her flirty nature gave her away. “Since you insist in not letting me finish this I guess you want punished,” He told her. Silk pouted at this, “No Master.” Michael liked the pout. Some times he let it get to him, some times not. He turned back and finished the paperwork. He didn’t have much left. After a few more minutes, he was done. Putting the papers together, he placed them in a manila folder and sat them in the out box on his desk. Next he looked at his watch. It was ten minutes past six. Turned back to her, Michael stood up and pulled her in front of him on the desk. Leaning down he kissed her. Silk wrapped her arms around his neck as he did this. Michael leaned her back part way. His hand found her thigh so he ran his hand up under her skirt. First he felt her leg then he twisted his hand around to touch her pussy. Silk gave a whimper. As Michael kissed her, Silk ran her hands up his back. When he dipped his head to her neck she dug her nails into his shoulders. It was so intense. When his hand ran up her thigh and found her wet center, she couldn’t contain a whimper. Michael soon broke the kiss. “Since you are so naughty little one, get on your knees,” He told her as he opened his pants and sat down. Silk jumped off the desk thinking she knew what was up. Silk was only too happy to give him a blow job. Michael wanted a blow job, but not like she thought. He had an appointment at six thirty. The newspaper wanted to interview him. He decided that Silk was going to suck him under the desk while he did the interview. “Get under my desk,” He told her. She obeyed but gave him a puzzled look. “This guy from the newspaper is coming to interview me and you are going to suck me while he does.” Silk looked back and saw that she couldn’t be seen under the desk. This made her happy, so she backed under the desk. Michael pulled up close and she crawled up over his lap and finished the job of opening his pants. She took out his cock and gave it a kiss, a French kiss. Michael moaned in response. Silk started sucking him and soon she heard a knock at the door. Michael looked down at her, “Go easy. I have to do this interview.” Silk smiled sweetly up at him. Silk started as she heard the guy introduce himself as Kenny. She felt Michael shift and knew he was shaking hands. She then heard the guy sit down. After a little small talk, he began the interview. “So Michael as the new Student Program Director what are your plans for the up coming school year,” Kenny asked. “Well you’ve already heard our new DJ Silk. She started the song request program,” Michael began, “We are also going to be doing more on location spots.” “Tell me about these on location spots,” Kenny asked. Silk chose that moment to increase her suction which caused Michael to suck in a sharp breath. Covering he spoke, “Well we’ll send our DJ’s out to games and events at the college. There they will do a show which we will broadcast semi live. We delay it by five minutes so we can bleep out anything people might say that would get us into trouble with the FCC.” Michael glanced down at his lap as Kenny was writing this down. Silk gave him an innocent look. He gave her a look. Silk went back to sucking him with a smile. Kenny kept up with the questions for about twenty more minutes. Silk tried a few times to get to Michael but he ignored her. Finally it was over and Kenny bid Michael good-bye and left. Michael sat there watching Silk suck him for a few more moments. “You’re a bad girl slave,” He told her. Silk ignored him and kept up till her told her to stop. He then backed away and told her to stand up. Silk did as he said. Once she was standing, He stood also. Grabbing her by her hair, he pulled her to him for a kiss. Silk melted into him. Michael kissed her while his hands roamed her ass. Squeezing and needing her checks roughly, he also rubbed her against his hard cock. Silk’s hands found his neck and she was pulling up to bring him into direct contact with her center. Michael pushed her back, “Not so fast little one,” he told her with a smile. Silk pouted again but Michael ignored her this time. He turned and grabbed his jacket, putting it on her turned to her, “Ready to go?” Silk turned back to the chair and grabbed her jacket and bag. “Do you need your bag tonight?” He asked. Silk turned to look at him, “No not really.” “Good then leave it here in my office,” He told her reaching out for it. She handed it to him and he put it in his desk. Next he walked around the desk and led her out of the office. Silk now wondered what he was up to. She didn’t have to wonder long when he led her to the parking lot. Instead of his truck, he led her to a motorcycle. She had seen it in his garage. Michael fished his keys out of his pocket as he climbed on, “Hop on,” was all he told her. Silk climbed on behind Michael. After she did, he fished inside his jacket and handed her some glasses. She put them on. Michael also fished out a pair of glasses for himself. He also put them on, and then started up the bike. When he felt Silk grab on to his middle, he turned the bike and drove off. Silk gripped him tightly. He wondered if she was scared. As they pulled out on to the road, he asked her, “You scared?” “Just a little till I get used to you and this bike, I’m always like this with someone new.” She told him. As they drove he noticed that she was right. Her grip lessened till she was just holding him. He could also feel her body relax against his back. Soon it felt like she was cuddling him more then holding on. He was glad she was okay, he liked riding and loved riding with his slaves. Soon they drove to some deserted lake. Michael parked along the edge and killed the engine. Silk just held on to him till Michael told her to get off. Once she was off, he slid back and told her to get back on facing him. Silk did as he ordered. Once seated she look at him. Michael leaned down and kissed her. Once again his hands found her ass and he pulled her close. Silk slipped her hand inside his jacket and gripped his shoulders. They necked and kissed till Silk was panting. Michael felt the change in her respond. He was happy she was responding. The last slave he took up here was too freaked out by the thought of getting caught to relax. Silk didn’t even ask if they could get caught she just responded. Michael knew she was ready so he pushed her back a bit and undid his pants. Silk glanced down to see what he was doing then back up at him. Her eyes were full of lust. Once his cock was free he pulled her up onto his lap as he lifted her skirt up her thighs. Silk naturally lifted her legs over his. Michael reached his hand behind her and pulled her thong to the side. Lifting her higher he entered her, and then dropped her fully onto his lap. Silk threw her head back and moaned. When Michael started opening his jeans, Silk knew what he wanted and she was only to happy to give in. As he pulled her onto his lap she briefly thought about her thong, but then he pulled it out of the way and entered her anyway. Silk couldn’t think as he let go and impaled her deeply. Michael rocked them back and forth till Silk begged for release. Not yet he told her. He wanted her to come big. He kept up the rocking for a while longer until he knew she really wanted it. Then he leaned her over the tank, shift his weight he stood partly up. Silk felt like she was falling then felt the tank of the bike at her back. She glanced up at him. “Grab the handle bars,” He told her with a growl. Silk grabbed the handle bars as he began hard, fast thrusts. Silk couldn’t hold back much longer. Michael felt her need so he growled, “Cum now.” Silk obeyed with abandon. It rocked her world. As she came back down she saw him smiling at her. Michael gave her one more orgasm then ordered her to flip over. Silk thought this strange but obeyed. Once face down across the tank, Michael pulled her to him and entered her once again. He noticed she grabbed the handle bars without his telling her too. In this position, Michael was able to really ram it into her. Silk begged to cum again in moments but he told her not till he did. She gave a whimper but did as he ordered. Michael pounded her for about ten minutes till he felt his own release boil up in him. “Now,” he ordered and felt her explode with him. Once it was over, he pulled out of her and leaned down to her ear. Sweeping her braid to the side, he kissed her neck. “Did you enjoy that little one?” He asked. “Yes Master,” she replied with a breathless voice. Michael lifted up off her and got off the bike. Getting into one of the bags, he handed her a small towel and helped her up. He took a second towel and wiped himself off. Silk cleaned her self off also after she stood up. She the tried to adjust her thong back into place, but she hated the wet feeling on her panties so she finally just took them off. Michael smiled at her and held out his hand. Silk handed them to him and giggled when he put them in his jacket pocket. “What?” He asked. “Starting a collection or do adding to it,” She laughed. “Adding to it, I only collect the ones I soil,” He told her. Michael then decided it was time to go as he saw the patrol off in the distance. He got on the bike and Silk followed suit. Starting the bike he felt her grab on. He pulled out and left the lake, heading home. On the way home they grabbed a bite to eat. Michael figured it was too late to make anything so fast food would work tonight. It’s not like he ate it a lot. 2009-10-11 17:33:48 Im not in that lifestyle but im curious about it. great stories. Anonymous readerReport 2008-08-01 22:25:07 These stories are great, to show the emotional tie between Dom and Sub. I wish you would take the time to label them in chronological order. When can we expect to see more? the story is interesting! will we see any more of baron? or a side story of their exploits? 2008-06-17 15:30:44 it seems like silk and michael dont have the same connection in the last 2 stories that they do in the other ones..almost like these were written before..still really good stories though love your work 2008-03-16 13:47:25 2008-02-14 17:57:14 That was very nicely written. I loved it, please keep up the good work. You are not logged in. Characters count:
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Sandis decides to make a copy for her own personal stash... Plot constructed by Chedder Cheese, revised by StealthBeast. Story body constructed by Stealthbeast, revised by Chedder Cheese. Sandis let out a long, vocalized yawn as she finished typing the last of her nightly notes. She stretched her arms out, her smooth green, snake scales gently reflecting the many computer monitors that surrounded her. She'd been working with Dr. Cooler on this procedure for months, and she wanted me make sure everything was set. They'd made a breakthrough in bio-engineering, they've found a way to control organic body modification with maximum efficacy and minimum negative side effects. As much as Sandis valued this work from a scientific standpoint, she'd always fantasized about a few body modifications of her own, and secretly, she planned out what such modifications would look like on her. Sandis let out a sad disappointed sigh as she glanced over the monitors, showing a 3D projection of what she'd look like with her modifications. She also glanced over the demonstrative footage for their procedures. It featured a wide array of volunteers receiving body modifications ranging from muscular enhancement, to genital alteration. The process involves inseminating them with a nano-bot solution that stimulates rapid impregnation of stem-cell cock-snakes that have an amazing innate ability to regenerate their hosts. With this, their power can also be harnessed to modify the body... In Sandis' case, she'd always fantasized about having a retractable cock, something that could be hidden so that she could mate normally, but that she could eject and use as she wishes. Additionally, despite Sandis' great flexibility, she'd never quite been flexible enough to pleasure herself orally, something else she factored into the hypothetical plans of hers. Sandis stood up quickly... a bit too quickly, and felt a bit lightheaded. She'd had a history of hypotention, so she'd been used to it by now. Sandis let out a long groan in sexual frustration. She'd been very pent up these past few nights working with Dr. Cooler. How could she not? Dr. Cooler was an ice-blue dragoness with a gorgeous body... Secretly, Sandis yearned to experience that body first-hand, but alas, it was not to be. Dr. Cooler had a long history of boyfriends; there's no way it would work. As Sandis went off for a coffee break before finishing the last of her writings, she pondered over how she would sexually relieve herself that night. Normal porn simply wasn't doing it for her. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught glimpse of the hard-drive that stored all the video footage of the volunteers. She couldn't get off to it here... but maybe she could make a personal copy to take home with her. Sure, it's against company policy but... who would know? With her cup of hot coffee in hand, she uses her free hand to carefully detach the delicate hard-drive from its' computer before walking it across the lab. Little did she know she was being watched. "Sandis?" Dr. Cooler stepped into the room, startling the snake, "Eeep!" Sandis' hand jerked, and she spilled her cup of coffee all over her chest, the pain causing her to drop the hard-drive, which shattered dramatically like an unlucky mirror. The pain from the coffee triggered Sandis into hypotension, and caused her to pass out momentarily. As Sandis slowly regained her consciousness, she noticed that the lights were dim, but from the darkness, came a voice, "Ah, you're awake." with that, bright light flooded the room, and Dr. Cooler stepped forward with a remote in hand. A panicked Sandis stood on her feet and began, "What's going on here?!" now fully conscious, she came to the realization that she was completely nude, and so the blushing snake covered herself with her arms. Dr. Cooler spoke, "You just destroyed our presentation footage. What were you doing with it?" Too bashful to confess her true intentions, Sandis lowered her head before saying, "Nothing..." With this, Dr. Cooler raised the hand holding the remote, "Wrong answer." before hitting a button. Suddenly, Sandis felt an incredulously powerful vibration pulverize her G-spot from within, and she let out a sharp cry, and was brought to her knees. This continued for a few seconds before halting. Sandis realized that Dr. Cooler must have installed an F-KEDA, the "Female Kinetic-Energy Debilitating Apparatus" to her. Dr. Cooler continued, "Sandis, I'm not messing around here, we're talking about my life's work. Who were you feeding this data to? What else have you been feeding to the competition." Sandis couldn't believe her ears. Dr. Cooler honestly thought she was leaking information to their competitors? It wasn't true! "Doctor, I'd never do that! I just... wanted a personal copy." The doctor shot a skeptical glance, "For what?" Sandis blushed a deep red now and refused to answer, but when the doctor raised the remote again she said, "WAIT!" Sandis, still on her knees, raised her hands up, "I've just been really... sexually pent up lately and I needed some help. I didn't mean to break it! We still have all the data, we just lost the video feed." To this, the Doctor's arm dropped to her side in unison with her jaw. A blank stare glazed over her face for a moment in deep thought before she said, "I'm sorry Sandis, you've always been loyal to this establishment, I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions..." A relieved Sandis put her hands down and let out a sigh of relief. "But we were seriously counting on that video presentation to win us the grant money... We NEED a video demonstration of these cock-snakes. So I'm afraid I'm going to have to insist you get in the chair." The Doctor pressed a different button on the remote, and a procedural chair, the same one used on the volunteers, came up from the floor. Sandis shot the doctor a pleading glance of horror. She's seen what goes on in that chair, and she wanted no part of it, but when the doctor noticed the hesitation, she threateningly raised the remote again, and Sandis placed herself in the chair. The chair was more like a sofa-stool, padded and backless. Steel latches shot out of the chair around Sandis' legs before spreading them apart. The embarrassed snake covered herself with her hands, as Dr. Cooler set up a camera. Tears began to well up in Sandis' eyes before she cried out, "Doctor! Please don't make me do this!" The Doctor approached Sandis from the front with a catheter and said, "I'm sorry Sandis... I don't WANT to do this but... there's simply no other choice." The doctor caringly cradled the side of Sandis' face before gently swaying Sandis' hands away from her crotch and inserting the catheter. The snake winced as it entered her urethra. The Doctor shot an apologetic glance to Sandis before saying, "As you know, this procedure closes off your urethra AND acts as a diuretic at the same time. The catheter is to allow your bladder to release its contents freely." Sandis was too caught up in her own discomfort to pay proper attention to this patronizing information. With the catheter in place, Sandis covered herself again. "Sandis" the doctor began, "We must begin the insemination process now. Please keep your hands out of the way or I'll have no choice but to bind them too." Sandis shyly turned her head away from the camera as she lifted her hands away from her body. The doctor pulled out a large syringe of the inseminating fluid and gentle inserted the tip of it into her womanhood. Slowly, the doctor plunged the fluid into the snake, and Sandis shuddered as the cold fluid filled out her innards. She let out a gasp as the doctor extracted the syringe and threw it aside. The doctor stood back out of the cameras view and sat down in a chair to observe. Sandis shook in fear as she anticipated what happened next. She had only seen this too many times on the volunteers. She felt her stomach swell up, and a burning heat built up in her groin. The Doctor stepped into the peripheral view of the camera and began to narrate, "The insemination process was successful; hyper-molecular activity seems to be running at a healthy rate. Note the rise of the subject's stomach. She's currently containing the stem-cell cock-snakes. Being a snake-type herself, this should theoretically make the procedure go even faster." Tears rolled openly down Sandis' face as she felt the inevitable process begin. Her stomach continued to expand to its limit and the pressure in her womb grew almost unbearable when suddenly, a thick, silky, cock-like appendage burst out of her vent. Though horrified, Sandis let out a relieved yelp as the pressure was slightly alleviated, but this was short lived, for the pressure built back up even stronger. The Doctor approached Sandis and removed the cock-snake, which measured about the length of Sandis' body, and placed it into a clean storage bin. Suddenly, Sandis let out a cry as this time two cock-snakes burst out of her. The snakes were so thick that she felt they were going to tear her apart, and yet, she knew the worst had yet to come. She felt so dirty with the slimy snakes hanging out of her, she struggled to cover her groin in embarrassment. After the doctor retrieved these two cock-snakes, the familiar pressure built up again, and suddenly Sandis let out a shriek of pain and writhed against her bonds as this time, three cock snakes emerged, stretching her vent beyond its comfortable limits. The doctor retrieved these snakes, and went again to narrate to the camera, "As you may notice, we've reached the normal limits of the subject's vaginal walls. Now the snakes will begin to tear her apart, but as you will observe, the snakes' regenerative nature will keep our subject alive and conscious through this whole ordeal." Sandis was astonished that merely three snakes could cause so much pain, knowing well that she'll be birthing five at a time by the end of the procedure. She cried out to Dr. Cooler, "Cooler! Please! I can't do this!" The doctor approached Sandis and in a mother-like fashion, wrapped her arms around her and whispered in her ear, "What's done is done, there's no other way to get around this than to birth the snakes. You're going to be okay." A few moments later, with an audible gush, four cock-snakes forced their way out of Sandis, splitting her vent wide open. Sandis clenched onto the doctor and let out a muffled bellow of pain out into her lab coat that sent chills down Dr. Cooler's spine. Blood gushed out of Sandis' depths which was immediately coagulated and her wounds instantly healed themselves. The pain was so unimaginable, Sandis wasn't sure how she hadn't passed out. Sandis was now shaking violently and sobbing uncontrollably in her agony. The Doctor retrieved the snakes once more and spoke to the camera, "This will be the final wave, five snakes, leading to a total of fifteen snakes, over three times the amount ordinarily produced by our competitors, yet using half the resources..." the Doctor continued to pitch her product to the Camera, when Sandis, ungracefully shivering and shuddering in her turmoil felt the pressure build up again. In utter denial she clenched her eyes closed and let out a long desperate whine. "Please no, please no, please no!" she whined, when all at once, five especially girthy cock-snakes exploded from her depths and she let out a blood-curdling scream. Her lower body nearly cleaving in two from the sheer force of the ordeal, completely wrecking her vent wide open. As the Doctor extracted the last of the snakes, her vent almost supernaturally healed itself over to its original state and the Doctor said, "As you can see, these regenerative effects are parallel of a legitimate class 3 Stem-cell cock-snake. This is a groundbreaking moment for all of the scientific community to behold. Thank you." With this, the Doctor turned off the Camera, and pressed a button on the remote which released the metal clamps binding Sandis to the chair and ejected the catheter from her. Sandis fell forward on her knees and rolled into a ball before vocalizing her sobs dramatically, shrieking like a dying animal, she lay on the cold ground, drowning in her mental and physical trauma. "Sandis, you're okay, it's over now" said the Doctor softly, but Sandis was inconsolably writhing and crying in her turmoil. The Doctor's eyes welled up in tears, seeing the assistant she'd care so much about go through this. The Doctor approached Sandis, who feebly tried to crawl away but had no energy to cover much distance. Dr. Cooler ducked down to Sandis and scooped her up, cradling her in her arms, "Shhhh it's okay. No more. It's over" the Doctor planted a long loving kiss on Sandis' lips before gingerly carrying her to a stretcher. Sandis was confused by this very affectionate display but put up no fight, and soon began to calm her exhausted body down enough to drift into sleep. A half-hour later, Sandis, still nude, and still shaken up, is awoken from the chamber by the doctor checking her vital signs, and begins gently crying. Sensing her turmoil, the Doctor approached Sandis, placed her hand on Sandis' cheek, glared lovingly into her eyes for a few moments before saying, "That procedure can leave a lot of stiff muscles and joints, let me give you a massage" With no mental strength to argue otherwise, Sandis rolled over on her stomach, and the Doctor worked her back and arms, working her way to her legs and inner thighs. Sandis murred softly as the Doctor's hands ran over her body. Despite what the doctor had done to her, she'd yearned for a long time to feel this Dragoness' touch, so this just felt wonderful. Sandis flipped back over onto her back and relaxed her muscles. Dr. Cooler sensing Sandis' relaxed state, took the opportunity to manually remove the F-KEDA. She inserted one of her fingers into Sandis' vent and dug around for the device. Sandis was surprised by this sensation, and found herself instinctively grinding against the Doctor's hand. Noticing this, the Doctor stopped the extraction and removed her hand and locked eyes with the snake for a few moments. Sandis, gathering the awkwardness of what she'd just done, went to turn her head away from the doctor, but the doctor grasped the side of her cheek and turned her to face forward before saying in a hushed tone, "Sandis...We've been working on this project for ages. I know what you did was just out of sexual frustration." The doctor lowered her head to Sandis' pelvis and continued, "I see the way that you look at me... If you'd like, I'd be more than willing to help you alleviate some of this pent up energy of yours." Sandis' jaw dropped, and her embarrassment made way for eagerness, and she nodded her head, her tail wagging excitedly. With no further warning, Cooler dove her face tongue-first against Sandis' vulva. Thought embarrassed, Sandis let out a gasp of pleasure, hardly believing that this was happening. The dragoness' tongue expertly darted around and into her vent, and Sandis let out soft moans of relief. Still, the images of her being sheared apart split Sandis' mind, and she couldn't relax enough to orgasm. The dragoness continued enthusiastically to pleasure Sandis in an attempt to make her cum, but it soon grew blatantly apparent that her post-traumatic stress simply wasn't going to let her. "Oh God!" Sandis cried out, her whole body shuddering, "I need to cum so badly..." the dragoness picked up the pace as rapidly as she could, but eventually, withdrew her exhausted tongue from Sandis' body and panted for a bit, thinking, when suddenly an idea came to her mind... "I wanted to save this as a surprise but..." the dragoness stood up and approached one of the computers. "Sandis... You've always been loyal to this lab... I see what you've been secretly been trying to plan." The Doctor entered a series of commands into the keyboard before a simulation of Sandis' body came up, showing Sandis with the modifications she's planned for herself. "Sandis, with the breakthroughs we've made in this lab, I think we can make this happen." Sandis' eyes lit up, was this really happening? She would finally have this? "Doctor! I've wanted this more than anything else in the world!" The doctor walked out of the room for a moment, and came back with one of the cock snakes. Sandis was familiar with the birthing procedure, but not so much the transformation one. The doctor pulled a small stun-gun looking device out of her lab coat, plugged it into the computer, and uploaded something to it before holding the device up to the cock snake. The cock snake twitched as an arc of electricity jumped between it and the device, and suddenly, it gave a loyal, determined posture. The Doctor placed the snake between Sandis' thighs, and knowing just what to do, the snake entered her vent. Sandis trembled in fear, not sure what to expect, when she suddenly felt a surge of warmth run through her body, particularly through her groin and spine. She felt the snake becoming a part of her, and changing shape, and she felt an aggressive tingling running down her spine. Suddenly, all the sensations ceased, and the warmth went away. Was it really that simple? The doctor smiled at Sandis and said, "Flex your spine forward for me." Not exactly sure why, she leaned forward, to realize that there was absolutely no resistance. She effortlessly brought her head all the way to her groin. Shocked by this, she stood straight up again and let out of giggle, blushing. The Doctor beamed another smile at the snake and said, "We need to test out your new plumbing." Sandis tilted her head "M-my plumbing?" Without warning, the dragoness dropped her lab-coat, revealing her beautiful, nude form, and straddled Sandis' lap, "Are you comfortable with this?" In Sandis' embarrassed enthusiasm, she gently nodded, but soon, winced. A slight bulge appeared in Sandis' stomach, and the doctor then remembered that the F-KEDA was probably painfully stopping her cock from coming out. Sandis gently arched her back as the Dr. expertly inserted her fingers into Sandis and retrieved the F-KEDA, and with it came a ten inch cock, followed by two balls. The sight surprised the Doctor... In fact, she found this a bit exciting. A few moments passed before she realized she'd been staring for quite a few seconds and she snapped out of it, locking eyes with Sandis and saying, "Well... it seems to be working. Though we need to make sure it can ejaculate normally..." Dr. Cooler freed Sandis' arms to allow her to masturbate, but Sandis just sat there, too bashful to experiment, and too shocked to know where to begin. "Come on Sandis, you have the opportunity most men would kill for: Fellatio exactly the way you'd like." Sandis giggled at this remark, but was still too shy to bring herself to do it. In response to this, Dr. Cooler knelt down and began running her hands up and down Sandis' length. "Sandis, in all seriousness, it's important that we ensure that you can ejaculate normally. I'm going to continue this stimulation to bring you to orgasm, okay?" Sandis cupped her hands over her mouth as the pleasant sensations overwhelmed her. She struggled not to vocalize her feelings. The Doctor expertly weaved her hands across the cock, all the way from the tip, reaching in and under her vaginal folds, running the stimulation all the way from the base, to the head, and back. "Looks like you're having trouble reaching orgasm. I'm going to begin assisting the stimulation with a prostate massage, okay?" The Snake gently nodded her head, and with this, the doctor slipped a finger into her rectum, and pressed firmly in a rolling motion over her new prostate. The sensations were new and spectacular, and the snake, unable to contain herself any longer, let out a long ecstatic cry as her orgasm hit her full throttle, her hips bucked wildly into the sensations, and every bone in her body shook as she completely and utterly lost all control. Each intruding thrust of the doctor's expert fingers against her novice prostate forced a thick creamy rope to erupt in a blitzkrieging torrent from her virgin pythonic cock. The doctor's pace began to slow down once the orgasm passed, leaving the panting snake to bask in the afterglow. "What a relief..." she thought to herself. Once finished, the doctor placed her index finger against the tip of Sandis' cock and gently pushed it back into her vent. Sandis shuddered to this sensation, and soon, the cock was fully retracted into her body. The Doctor leaned forward onto Sandis and locked into a kiss before saying, "Let's get cleaned up and get out of here..." Later that week, Sandis and Dr. Cooler were at the science demo, admiring the many great strides of progress their competitors have made. Still, they clearly paled in comparison to their breakthrough. Sandis nervously anticipated seeing herself being projected for all the science community to see. Despite having worked hard on these scientific pursuits, she didn't want to be the one to demonstrate them. It was almost their turn to show their video when Sandis approached Dr. Cooler and pleaded, "Please don't show them this! This is embarrassing!" Cooler smirked, ignoring her concerns and started the projector. Sandis looked to the front of the auditorium in horror, when, to her great surprise and relief, she saw that it was the old footage! Sandis was shocked by this sight, "Doctor Cooler! How did you..." Doctor Cooler smiled and said, "You're not the only one who tried to burn a few personal copies." Sandis continued watching the movie of the procedures being performed on the volunteers, and grew more aroused when suddenly, she accidentally ejected her cock from its' depths. In unison, the entire auditorium turned their head to the sight. Sandis turned beet red and tried to hide her face. In response to this, Doctor Cooler grabbed Sandis' hand and pulled her to the podium exclaiming, "Come see our latest prototype!" Sandis' cock stood proudly out of its' depth, and the many scientists gathered around to get a closer look of her. The flashes of the cameras nearly blinded the snake, and yet, as bashful as Sandis felt at that exact moment, she couldn't deny that a part of her felt very proud. anonymous readerReport 2013-10-25 02:48:28 QMcXRt Thank you for your blog. Much obliged. anonymous readerReport 2013-09-12 20:25:48 T6LFGA Awesome article post.Thanks Again. Cool. anonymous readerReport 2013-01-14 19:04:50 Blitzkrieg was a german doctrine where the blitzkrieging part masses all mobile forces at attacks one point anonymous readerReport 2013-01-14 19:04:08 anonymous readerReport 2012-05-28 13:37:33 blitzkrieg means "lightning war" in german... It was a maneuver performed by JU-87 Stukas and other fighter bombers. Either way, wrong use of words. You are not logged in. Characters count:
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Home » Support » 3D Printing » shapeways silver casting question Search Search   shapeways silver casting question [message #31325] Fri, 22 July 2011 05:52 UTC Go to previous message avatar Tigermoth is currently offline Tigermoth Messages: 41 Registered: July 2011 Go to my shop Hi all, just a quick question about size differences in the process of Shapeways silver service. I am aware in regular casting processes, shrinkage from the wax model to the final cast piece can occur. Has anyone experienced shrinkage from thier 3d model to the final silver shapeways object? Say if I wanted to make a ring with a specific inside diameter, should I be compensating for shrinkage in my 3d model? if so what is the rate (if known)? Thanks in advance. Read Message Read Message Previous Topic:Optimizing batches of small parts in WSF Next Topic:Printing accuracy in SWF Goto Forum: Click anywhere outside this window to continue.
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Your SlideShare is downloading. × How the big seo companies use article marketing to dominate How the big seo companies use article marketing to dominate Upcoming SlideShare Loading in...5 Thanks for flagging this SlideShare! Oops! An error has occurred. Text the download link to your phone Standard text messaging rates apply How the big seo companies use article marketing to dominate Published on • Be the first to comment • Be the first to like this No Downloads Total Views On Slideshare From Embeds Number of Embeds Embeds 0 No embeds Report content Flagged as inappropriate Flag as inappropriate Flag as inappropriate Select your reason for flagging this presentation as inappropriate. No notes for slide • 1. How The Big SEO Companies Use Article Marketing To Dominate The Rankings InGoogleThose who are successful usually develop systems that help them create processesthat can be duplicated and thus they can duplicate success. This link buildingsystem is no different. 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Carlton can challenge top-four sides in two years, says coach Mick Malthouse Mick Malthouse on Footy Classified on Monday night. Mick Malthouse on Footy Classified on Monday night. Photo: Courtesy Channel Nine Mick Malthouse will join the legendary John Kennedy snr as the fourth-oldest man to coach an AFL team when Carlton tackles the Western Bulldogs on Sunday. Declaring he has never been fitter or stronger, the under-siege Malthouse on Sunday will be 60 years and 246 days - the same age as Kennedy when he coached his last match, for North Melbourne in 1989. Only Melbourne’s Frank ''Checker'' Hughes (71 years, 148 days in 1965), Collingwood’s Jock McHale (66 years, 266 days in 1949) and Kevin Sheedy (65 years, 252 days) last year with Greater Western Sydney, have been older. Mick Malthouse insists he is in excellent health and capable of rebuilding the Blues’ playing list. Mick Malthouse insists he is in excellent health and capable of rebuilding the Blues’ playing list. Photo: Pat Scala Malthouse this year has already passed Essendon’s Jack Worrall (60 years, 40 days). When Malthouse left Collingwood in 2011, Magpies chief executive Gary Pert and president Eddie McGuire had concerns about the impact the stress of coaching was having on Malthouse. Appearing on Footy Classified on Monday night, he said: "My manager has never, ever, ever said anything about my health because he knows how healthy I am. I can’t answer for what Gary Pert or anybody else at Collingwood said. ''If you want to ask me the truth, I will tell you the truth. I have never been fitter, I have never been stronger, I have regular check-ups. I would never put myself or family in a position where it would detract from me going forward.'' The broadcast cameras often focus on an animated, even frustrated or angry, Malthouse in the coach's box, but he maintains he is at his best when he is passionate. On the field, Malthouse believes the Blues can rejoin the league’s elite in two years. He elaborated on his recent monthly presentation to the Carlton board, detailing what the team needs before it can again challenge the top-four sides - an elite bracket of players. He says his club trails ''badly''. ''I presented to the board - no, someone from the board said: ''How many A-graders have you got?' And I said: 'It takes about eight, at least eight, to win a premiership','' he said. "I said: 'If you want to take into consideration people who are either standing up or not playing, then we have several that are very good footballers. I don’t know whether they are A grade. They could lift in between B and A grade.' ''Therefore, it was considered then - where do they come from, where do you get A grade from?'' The Blues hope last year’s top draftees, Patrick Cripps, Cameron Giles and Nick Holman can become elite, along with fellow youngsters Troy Menzel and Nick Graham. ''As I said, the top-four sides, I think we trail them badly. I am contracted until the end of next year,''’ Malthouse said. ''Things can get turned around very quickly. Collingwood went from 16th [in 1999] to a grand final [three] years later. ''I think if we have another year like we did last year, recruiting wise, and the boys stand up, and I am talking about injuries and that sort of stuff, then we will have a very good football side. We will have that side that can challenge those top four.'' On the flipside, the likes of veterans Kade Simpson, Andrew Carrazzo, Jarrad Waite and Chris Judd - the latter three all battling either injury, a lack of match fitness or poor form - may have all retired by then, creating more gaps on the playing list. The Blues are hopeful Judd will play for the first time this season on Sunday, provided his surgically-repaired Achilles tendon negotiates training. ''That’s why we went out and got [Andrejs] Everitt and got [Dale] Thomas and we have got [Sam] Docherty - three young men who I believe can have an impact at this football club. [Lachie] Henderson, [Sam] Rowe are playing, [Matthew] Watson we are playing, so football clubs they migrate very quickly to the top and fall off and come back up again,'' Malthouse said. ''Carlton, I remember how old they [the side] were a few years ago. When [Craig] Bradley went, and Stephen [Silvagni] retired, and this sort of stuff, they became one of the youngest clubs. It changes very, very quickly, and if you have got the patience, and you know you have the right method and you have some good people around you, football clubs can actually redeem themselves very quickly.'' In the meantime, though, in a message to club members, Malthouse indicated his immediate task was rebuilding the confidence of a playing group winless after four rounds and lacking in vocal leadership on the field, something Andrew Walker detailed after Saturday’s shock loss to Melbourne. As a member of that leadership group, Malthouse, though, has made it clear it is up to the likes of Walker to do something about it. "That frailty of confidence is something that I don’t think anyone on earth can work out where it comes from and where it goes to. We’ve got to find it and we’ve got to find it quickly,'' Malthouse said. That’s an understatement, for Malthouse has gone winless in the opening four rounds of a season for the first time in his distinguished career, while the Blues have not found themselves in this predicament since 1989 - when coach Robert Walls was axed. Related Coverage AFL 2015 Round 1 Thu, 02 AprTimes shown AEDT CAR 78 vs RIC 105 Report Stats Sat, 04 AprTimes shown AEDT MEL 115 vs GCF 89 Stats SYD 72 vs ESS 60 Stats BRI 74 vs COL 86 Stats WBU 97 vs WCE 87 Stats Sun, 05 AprTimes shown AEST STK 78 vs GWS 87 Stats ADE 140 vs NTH 63 Stats FRE 75 vs PTA 68 Stats Mon, 06 AprTimes shown AEST HAW 123 vs GEE 61 Stats View All Fixtures Round 2 Fri, 10 AprTimes shown AEST WCE 131 vs CAR 62 Stats Sat, 11 AprTimes shown AEST RIC 66 vs WBU 85 Report Stats GWS 101 vs MEL 56 Stats COL 63 vs ADE 90 Report Stats GCF 76 vs STK 104 Stats PTA 44 vs SYD 92 Stats Sun, 12 AprTimes shown AEST GEE 60 vs FRE 104 Stats ESS 78 vs HAW 76 Stats NTH 133 vs BRI 51 Stats View All Fixtures Round 3 Fri, 17 AprTimes shown AEST COL 140 vs STK 66 Stats Sat, 18 AprTimes shown AEST CAR 84 vs ESS 105 Stats ADE 80 vs MEL 55 Stats SYD 111 vs GWS 90 Report Stats NTH 105 vs PTA 113 Stats BRI 58 vs RIC 137 Stats Sun, 19 AprTimes shown AEST HAW 127 vs WBU 57 Stats GEE 105 vs GCF 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FRE 68 Report Stats Sun, 31 MayTimes shown AEST BRI 86 vs STK 108 Report Stats COL 112 vs NTH 95 Report Stats WCE 120 vs GEE 64 Report Stats View All Fixtures Round 10 Fri, 05 JunTimes shown AEST FRE vs RIC 20:10Domain Stadium Sat, 06 JunTimes shown AEST CAR vs ADE 13:40MCG GCF vs SYD 16:35MS ESS vs GEE 19:20ES PTA vs WBU 19:40Adelaide Oval Sun, 07 JunTimes shown AEST GWS vs BRI 13:10Spotless Stadium NTH vs WCE 15:20BA STK vs HAW 16:40ES Mon, 08 JunTimes shown AEST MEL vs COL 15:20MCG View All Fixtures Round 11 Fri, 12 JunTimes shown AEST PTA vs GEE 19:50Adelaide Oval Sat, 13 JunTimes shown AEST GCF vs FRE 13:40MS WCE vs ESS 16:35Domain Stadium NTH vs SYD 19:20ES Sun, 14 JunTimes shown AEST COL vs GWS 13:10MCG STK vs MEL 16:40ES View All Fixtures Round 12 Thu, 18 JunTimes shown AEST ADE vs HAW 19:50Adelaide Oval Fri, 19 JunTimes shown AEST RIC vs WCE 19:50MCG Sat, 20 JunTimes shown AEST CAR vs PTA 13:40MCG GWS vs NTH 16:35Spotless Stadium WBU vs BRI 19:20ES Sun, 21 JunTimes shown AEST GEE vs MEL 15:20SS View All Fixtures Round 13 Thu, 25 JunTimes shown AEST FRE vs COL 20:10Domain Stadium Fri, 26 JunTimes shown AEST SYD vs RIC 19:50SCG Sat, 27 JunTimes shown AEST HAW vs ESS 13:40MCG BRI vs ADE 16:35G STK vs WBU 19:20ES Sun, 28 JunTimes shown AEST CAR vs GCF 15:20ES View All Fixtures Round 14 Thu, 02 JulTimes shown AEST SYD vs PTA 19:20SCG Fri, 03 JulTimes shown AEST COL vs HAW 19:50MCG Sat, 04 JulTimes shown AEST RIC vs GWS 13:40MCG GCF vs NTH 16:35MS WBU vs CAR 19:20ES MEL vs WCE 19:40TIO Sun, 05 JulTimes shown AEST ESS vs STK 13:10ES ADE vs GEE 15:20Adelaide Oval FRE vs BRI 16:40Domain Stadium View All Fixtures Round 15 Thu, 09 JulTimes shown AEST PTA vs COL 19:50Adelaide Oval Fri, 10 JulTimes shown AEST RIC vs CAR 19:50MCG Sat, 11 JulTimes shown AEST ESS vs MEL 13:40MCG WBU vs GCF 16:35CAZ NTH vs GEE 19:20ES WCE vs ADE 19:40Domain Stadium Sun, 12 JulTimes shown AEST GWS vs STK 13:10Spotless Stadium HAW vs FRE 15:20AS BRI vs SYD 16:40G View All Fixtures Round 16 Fri, 17 JulTimes shown AEST NTH vs ESS 19:50ES Sat, 18 JulTimes shown AEST GEE vs WBU 13:45SS GCF vs GWS 14:10MS COL vs WCE 16:35ES SYD vs HAW 19:20ANZ FRE vs CAR 19:40Domain Stadium Sun, 19 JulTimes shown AEST MEL vs BRI 13:10MCG PTA vs ADE 15:20Adelaide Oval STK vs RIC 16:40ES View All Fixtures Round 17 Fri, 24 JulTimes shown AEST CAR vs HAW 19:50ES Sat, 25 JulTimes shown AEST GWS vs GEE 13:45SO ADE vs GCF 14:10Adelaide Oval RIC vs FRE 16:35MCG ESS vs PTA 19:20ES BRI vs NTH 19:20G Sun, 26 JulTimes shown AEST WBU vs COL 13:10ES MEL vs STK 15:20MCG WCE vs SYD 16:40Domain Stadium View All Fixtures Round 18 Fri, 31 JulTimes shown AEST HAW vs RIC 19:50MCG Sat, 01 AugTimes shown AEST GEE vs BRI 13:45SS COL vs MEL 14:10MCG SYD vs ADE 16:35SCG CAR vs NTH 19:20ES GCF vs WCE 19:20MS Sun, 02 AugTimes shown AEST PTA vs STK 13:10Adelaide Oval ESS vs WBU 15:20ES FRE vs GWS 16:40Domain Stadium View All Fixtures Round 19 Fri, 07 AugTimes shown AEST ADE vs RIC 19:50Adelaide Oval Sat, 08 AugTimes 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Brain Cells for Socializing Does an obscure nerve cell help explain what gorillas, elephants, whales—and people—have in common? John Allman (with colleague Atiya Hakeem at Caltech examining elephant brain specimens) is searching for one of the biological keys to human behavior. (Aaron Huey) Smithsonian Magazine | Subscribe (Continued from page 1) Allman thinks that the neurons expedite communication from the ACC and FI to the rest of the brain. The cells are unusually large, and in the nervous system, size often correlates with speed. "They're big neurons, which I think do a very fast read of something and then relay that information elsewhere quickly," he says. He speculates that as our primate ancestors evolved bigger and bigger brains, they needed high-speed connections to send messages across greater distances. "Large brain size necessarily carries with it a slowing down of communication within the brain," he adds. "So one way of dealing with that is to have a few specialized populations of cells that are pretty fast." Given that the neurons live in the brain's social hot spots, Allman theorizes that the von Economo cell system allows a rapid, intuitive read on emotionally charged, volatile situations. The neurons "would enable one to quickly adjust to changing social contexts," he speculates. In the ancient past, this neural wiring might have conferred a survival edge to our ancestors by enabling them to make accurate, split-second judgments, especially about whom they could trust or not. Allman, Hof and their colleagues have looked for von Economo neurons in more than 100 animal species, from sloths to platypuses. Only a few of them, other than primates and elephants, are known to have the cells: humpback whales, sperm whales, fin whales, orcas and bottle-nosed dolphins. The cells presumably evolved in now extinct species that gave rise to those marine mammals some 35 million years ago. As I watched him section the elephant brain at Caltech, Allman, with colleagues Atiya Hakeem and Virginie Goubert, finally reached the FI of Simba's left hemisphere. Three days later, microscope examination of the brain slices revealed it to be dotted with the distinctive spindle-shaped cells. That confirmed their previous sighting of similar neurons in the FI of Simba's right hemisphere. The elephant cells are larger than human and primate ones, about the size of whale neurons, but the size and shape are unmistakably von Economo neurons. From counting the von Economo cells in 16 slides—an eye-glazing chore—Hakeem and Allman estimate that there are roughly 10,000 of them in the postage-stamp-size FI on the right side of the elephant brain, or about 0.8 percent of the FI's 1.3 million neurons. Von Economo neurons are more plentiful in the human FI, averaging about 193,000 cells and accounting for about 1.25 percent of all neurons there. In absolute numbers, the human brain has roughly half a million von Economo neurons, far more than the brains of elephants, whales or great apes. Allman and his colleagues have found none in the elephant's closest kin: the anteater, armadillo and rock hyrax. The cells' absence in these species supports Allman's theory that the neurons are a feature of big brains. Allman speculates that such cells readily evolve from a small set of neurons in the insular cortex that are found in all mammals and regulate appetite. He thinks that while von Economo cells likely evolved to speed information around a big brain, they got co-opted by the demands of social interactions. If he's right, smart, social animals such as whales and elephants might have the same specialized wiring for empathy and social intelligence as human beings. Whales and elephants, like people and great apes, have large brains and a prolonged juvenile stage during which they learn from their elders. They recognize one another and develop lifelong cooperative relationships. Killer whales hunt in groups and protect injured pod mates. Elephant society is anchored by matriarchs that guide their herds to watering holes they know from previous visits. (And there may be some truth to the belief that elephants never forget: when Allman, Hof and Hakeem made the first high-resolution 3-D image of an elephant brain, in 2005, they found an enormous hippocampus, the brain region where memories are formed.) The sensitive beasts identify each other by their rumblings and trumpet calls, come to each other's aid and seem to mourn their dead. Allman likes to show a clip from a documentary about a group of African elephants that adopted an orphaned calf. When the baby elephant falls into a water hole, the matriarch quickly marches in, followed by the others. Together she and a second female use their tusks, trunks and legs to free the calf from the muck. Another animal paws at the steep bank with its foot, building a ramp the youngster uses to climb to safety. "It's really remarkable," says Allman of how the elephants rapidly sized up the crisis and worked together to save the baby. "It's a very high sort of functioning that very few animals are able to do. And," he adds with a chuckle, "humans can do it only on good days." The rescue, he says, "captures the essence of really complex, coordinated social behavior." The idea of the neurons' centrality to social intelligence is gaining ground. Yerkes primatologist Frans de Waal says Allman's "extremely exciting" research dovetails with some of his own investigations of pachyderm intelligence. Two years ago, de Waal and two collaborators reported that a Bronx Zoo elephant named Happy could recognize herself in a mirror. Some scientists theorize that the ability to recognize one's own reflection indicates a capacity for self-awareness and even empathy, useful skills in a highly social species. De Waal points out that only animals that have von Economo neurons can do so. Yet de Waal also cautions that "until someone establishes the exact function of those cells, it remains a story, basically." Comment on this Story comments powered by Disqus
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Zenith R49W36 49-inch HDTV Monitor Photos by Tony Cordoza A newcomer to HDTV has to face so many new abbreviations and technical terms that he could end up feeling like a freshman at MIT. Competing for your hard-earned buck are technologies like LCD, DLP, plasma, LCoS, and CRT - all of which can be found in sets that feature 1080i, 720p, and 480p scanning, ATSC tuners, and DVI with HDCP. Adding to the confusion are numerous new brand names and hordes of uninformed salespeople. After all that, Zenith's R49W36 is a relief. This rear-projection HDTV monitor, with its familiar brand name, time-tested CRT (cathode-ray tube) display system, and friendly operation, will appeal to anyone seeking simplicity in the complex HDTV landscape. At 49 inches (diagonal), its cinematic 16:9 screen is big, but not so big that it will crowd you out of your own living room. Best of all, you get a big picture for only $1,699. When I first saw this TV in Sound & Vision's new A/V testing room, it looked like a silver wall with a screen on top. Unlike some other under-50-inch projection sets, it doesn't demand placement on a tabletop or expensive TV stand but qualifies as a piece of furniture in its own right, complete with convenient rolling casters. The only elements interrupting the silver wall below the screen are perforations for the speakers, a big Z logo below a bulbous power button, and a mysterious black window flanked by eight small buttons to access menus and other functions. zenith hdtv remoteUsing Zenith's sizable remote control forced even my longish fingers to stretch for certain buttons, but its overall layout was easy to grasp. The keypad itself is backlit, but since only half of the buttons are labeled, the rest appeared as unmarked green shapes in the dark. Preprogrammed codes let the remote operate other brands of VCRs, cable and satellite boxes, and DVD players. Pressing Menu calls up the TV's excellent setup options, which include defeatable scan-velocity-modulation (SVM) processing, four picture presets, and options for sound and other video settings. Although purists may miss a manual convergence option, the automatic convergence did a better-than-average job of aligning the set's red, green, and blue CRTs. The feature that I missed was being able to associate different picture settings with each input. Instead, a global custom picture preset applies to all inputs. Share | | Enter your Sound & Vision username. Enter the password that accompanies your username.
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• Jonathan Comey: Another split decision goes to Brady • Bill Belichick doesn't say much one way or the other on most topics of general interest, but on this one, he made it pretty clear. "There's nobody I'd rather have than Tom Brady," he said. • email print Asked about the place that Peyton Manning and Tom Brady occupy in NFL history, he spent a few nondescript words on the subject of their shared greatness and then offered the good stuff. After watching the Patriots' surgical 31-21 win over Denver Sunday, there's little point in arguing that Belichick's 100 percent right. It's not that Brady is a better QB than Manning — he's not. They both played nearly flawless games on Sunday; Manning's supporting cast held him back, Brady's helped put him forward. Over their amazing careers, which as football fans we should feel a sense of privilege in witnessing, they have produced a set of moments that have to be considered a dead heat. But you never really believed that Brady was going to lose his "head-to-head" matchup with Manning Sunday, and he didn't. When these two quarterbacks go against each other, there's no reason to believe the greatness isn't on equal footing ... and yet, Belichick's words ring truest: "There's nobody I'd rather have than Tom Brady." And if you realize, that no matter what the numbers say, that there's no one you'd rather have than Brady, that if he played the great Manning 100 times, Brady would win 65 or 70, then how great does that make him? The greatest of all time? The greatest of our lifetime? It certainly makes you appreciate having been there to see it, although it doesn't make it much easier to explain. Asked to give his best shot at explaining what makes Brady special, Wes Welker paused and let out a chuckle, as if to say "Impossible." Lineman Donald Thomas said "It sometimes can be surreal, you know, to be able to say you played with such a great quarterback in your own career. But he's a really nice guy, down to earth. It's a pleasure playing for him. You just want to keep him upright." Jerod Mayo smiled, and said "What's there to say? One of the greatest to play the game." Of course, Manning certainly falls in the same category, which is why watching this otherwise methodical football game felt as much like a privilege as a job. It was fun to spend an entire game watching them, on the sidelines, in the huddle, directing their offenses — maybe the secrets are all in the little things, the different ways both quarterbacks get where they need to go. Manning is a little lumpy where Brady is smooth; the strain of the game shows on him, in the circles under his eyes, the tightening of his shoulders, the exasperation he shows. His throws are full of clutches, millisecond delays, as if he's seeing 100 scenarios at once. His interactions with teammates seem professional, not personal — famously, his Colt teammates didn't learn about Manning's twin infants (born during a season) until after the fact. When Manning gets together with his receiver after a touchdown pass, he seems to speak in reassuring tones: "There you go, that's how you do it, nice job." When Brady does, it's with a head butt and a profane howl of intense congratulation: "YEEEEEAAAAAA!!!!" When Manning throws an interception, it's a surprise. When Brady does, it's a shock. Brady just seems natural in all ways. The way he throws the ball, the way he interacts with teammates, the way he interacts with society as a whole. Sure, you'd be happy to have Peyton Manning, or Aaron Rodgers, or Joe Montana, or Brett Favre, but would any of them bring what Brady brings, or any better? The thing that makes Brady special is the same thing that makes him hard to sum up. He's married to a supermodel, but he's also an everyman. He's the football grunt that works and listens and "does his job," but the guy who might be doing his job as well as anyone ever has. Manning's class has never been questioned, nor his play. I remember his grace after many of the Colts' losses in Foxboro — some season ending, and nothing had changed Sunday. He was still facing the music long after both locker rooms had emptied out, measured, reasonable tones, sounding every bit like the head coach and quarterback all in one in his sharp blue suit, supportive of his teammates, saying all the right things. Brady, of course, does the same. But while there's a sense of the robot to Manning, Brady still seems to have a lot of kid in him — and maybe that's why he's still so good, so likeable, so impressive after all these years. After the game was over and he'd changed into his normal post-preppy interview attire, Brady checked his hair, offered a few quick half-hugs to teammates and clubhouse guys, snapped a towel or two, and walked to the podium. As it turned out, Vince Wilfork was still up there, so Brady sat in the front row, wrapping his long, quarterback frame into the folding chair stiffly, looking up at Wilfork from barely two feet away. You could see the wheels turning in Brady's mind as sat there, awkwardly, wondering what to do. Wink at his buddy, bringing Wilfork's millon-watt smile to the surface? Make a quick joke, to get a laugh from the room? Put on a look of interest to show that he was listening, taking this part of the process seriously, worried about what everyone might think? In the end, he cast his eyes down and tuned into some private thought that we'll never be privy to, and waited his turn, patiently. It was the right move. As always. Reader Reaction
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October 21, 2012 in City Doug Clark: Amy Biviano vs. Matt Shea, the race that keeps on giving By The Spokesman-Review The tipster called me midday Friday with two eye-popping political developments, namely that 4th District state legislative candidate Amy Biviano appeared topless in a 1995 Playboy magazine spread. Five words immediately came to mind. “Well, it’s about damned time!” (Contractions don’t count.) See, I’ve been around politics a long time. And the mantra of every politician is that they have “absolutely nothing to hide.” Which always turns out to be an utter falsehood when candidate so-and-so is found to be heavy into cross-dressing or addicted to toilet stall sex in airport men’s rooms. And those are just Republicans. So this is the first time in my recollection that a candidate really does have NOTHING TO HIDE! I confirmed this by staring several minutes at the photograph of Biviano, which appeared in Playboy’s “Women of the Ivy League.” The future Spokane Valley Democrat was a junior at prestigious Yale University when Playboy came calling. In the photo, Amy Nabors (her maiden name) sports scarlet scanty panties and a greenish cardigan that is in serious need of closure. Those must be the college endowments we always hear about. Anyway, those of you who are considering a career in politics can see the censored version of the photograph that I saw by going on the right-wing Western Center for Journalism website. And by censored I mean that Amy’s nipular areas have been obscured by the same black bars that are often used to cloak the identities of drug lords and Mafia informants. Anyone wanting the real deal, say, for a term paper or personal gratification, can purchase the original October ’95 Playboy on eBay for a $5.99 “Buy It Now” price. This is money well spent judging from the magazine’s cover, which features an interview with “Snoop Doggy Dog” and a hot naked babe (not Biviano) who is holding a red blanket that is festooned with the banners of Yale and other Ivy League institutions. Yale, of course, is the same center for higher learning that was attended by both presidents Bush as well as Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Although to my knowledge, no magazine ever offered to pay them under $500 for posing in the buff, either separately or in a threesome, praise the Lord. But getting back to Biviano … The now-married mother of two sons is embroiled in a testy battle with incumbent Matt Shea, the Road Rage Republican. Who knew such a humble, nondescript contest would be a column gold mine? Thank the bizarre and worrisome antics of Shea. He made this race the train wreck to watch long before the Biviano hooters were thrust under our noses. Last year, for example, the conservative legislator was cited after he pulled a loaded handgun out of his glove box during a fracas with another driver. If that wasn’t creepy enough, Shea posed for a smirking snapshot while standing in Biviano’s home driveway. Shea then aired the photograph on the Internet, supposedly as a joke that nobody got. The only positive thing you can say is that the boob kept his shirt on during the photo shoot. What impact will this Playboy bombshell have on the Biviano/Shea race? Plenty if Biviano would only take my advice. During a long phone chat Friday night, I told Biviano she should have her Playboy photograph added to all of her campaign signage. Do that and she will totally win the Valley mullet vote, which, as we all know, is considerable. Biviano, however, rejected my plan. She’s obviously worried about potential liability from car wrecks caused by gawking drivers. Posing topless for Playboy, she explained, was an opportunity for personal growth. I wouldn’t touch that line with a forklift. I’m betting the hubbub will blow over once all the news dies down and Bill Clinton stops calling to see if Biviano will autograph his Hefner bathrobe. During our conversation, Biviano’s hubby, Andrew, took the phone away from his wife to make the following statement: “I’m the luckiest guy,” he told me. “How many guys do you know who married an Ivy League-educated Playboy model who also happens to be the most wonderful person in the world?” And that, my friends, may be the smoothest line ever uttered by a husband. Doug Clark can be reached at (509) 459-5432 or [email protected]. There are 38 comments on this story. Click here to view comments >> Get stories like this in a free daily email
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Page Not Found! (aka 404 Error) The page you requested was not found! There could be a few reasons for this: • The page was moved to a new location • The page has been removed from our servers • The URL may have been typed incorrectly Some things that may help you get back on track:
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Hello all, The Atlantic Surfing Federation and Village surf shop will be holding their annual Herndon/lebel memorial surf contest June 1st and 2nd in Garden City Beach SC This year we will be using computer scoring. Heats will fill up fast so get your entries in now. You may enter via message on the facebook page at www.facebook.com/atlanticsurfingfederationsc or by simply calling Phil @ 843-455-2705 visit www.atlanticsurfing.org for division ages.
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csDoctrineActAsGeolocatablePlugin - 1.0.0 A plugin that adds auto-population of latitude and longitude fields and useful geolocating functions to model You are currently browsing the website for symfony 1 Visit the Symfony2 website « Back to the Plugins Home Forgot your password? Create an account advanced search Information Readme Releases Changelog Contribute Show source This plugin is for Doctrine only. It provides API integration with Google Maps to allow for the automatic fetching of latitude and longitude for a given model. This is configurable for any field/fields on your model. You should retrieve your own API key from google and add it to your project's app.yml as follows: key: **MYGOOGLEKEY** How It Works Add the behavior to your model: actAs: [Geolocatable] By default, Geolocatable will look for a "postal" field to use when integrating with the Google API. To change this, you simply need to add the fields you wish the plugin to use instead: fields: [city, state] In your project you may want the plugin to use a field that is not named the same as the geolocator fields. For instance, If your field customer_state needs to map to state. You can accomplish this by modifying your behavior options: city: city state: customer_state The Geolocatable plugin comes with many useful methods which calculate the distances between objects automatically. Here are some of the methods: Object Methods: • refreshGeocodes($force = false) refreshes the geocodes for the object via the Google Maps API. the $force option will refresh the geocodes even if the item's codes are already set. • getGeocoder() returns the geocoder model populated with the object's values. Useful for debugging • findAdjacent($distance = null, $distance_unit = null) finds all adjacent models of the same type, ordered by distance. The $disatnce parameter limits the results within a certain distance, and $distance_unit can be either miles or kilometers. Default is miles. Table Methods • refreshAllGeocodes($force = false) runs refreshGeocodes on every item in the table and passes the $force variable • findByGeocode($latitude, $longitude, $distance, $distance_unit = null) finds all records within a given distance from a given geocode. $distance_unit can be either miles or kilometers. Distance is a selected attribute. • geolocate($options, $distance, $distance_unit = null) mixed $options represents either an associative array of column names and values to search on ('city' => 'Nashville') or if there is only one column to search on, takes this value and searches on it (for instance, if POSTAL is being searched, you can pass a zip code directly) • getDistanceQuery($latitude, $longitude, $distance = null, $distance_unit=null) query used for findByGeocode. • addDistanceQuery($query, $latitude, $longitude, $distance=null, $rootAlias=null, $distance_unit=null ) adds distance query to a preexisting query. field "distance" on each object represents the distance away from the passed latitude and longitude. If $distance is not null, results are limited to that distance from the given geocodes. Please contact [email protected] for any comments or questions
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Light Rail MetroLink is the St. Louis metropolitan region's light rail system and is operated by Metro as part of a fully integrated regional transportation system. MetroLink has 37 stations and stretches 46 miles. Passenger pickup for Metrolink: Terminal 1: Exit Door 1, upper level east of the American Airlines Credit Union Metrolink Station Terminal 1 Terminal 2: South of Terminal, accessible through the parking garage on all levels. Metrolink Station Terminal 2 Metrolink timetables and information: Metrolink one-ride ticket: $2.25
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Using Model-Based Testing for Testing Application Models in the Context of Domain-Specific Modelling Date Added: Oct 2009 Format: PDF With the advancement in Domain-Specific Modelling (DSM), the productivity and quality in software development has also enhanced. Inspite of these gains, there is still a need to test these modeled applications prior to release. For testing these models traditional testing approaches can also be applied. Though with DSM, testing generated applications, maintaining a comprehensive test suite for all developed applications becomes a tedious task.This paper attempts to test the feasibility of utilizing Model-Based Testing (MBT) to generate a test suite for application models. Although, earlier MBT models were developed from software specification parallel to implementation, the paper here attempts to apply the MBT to generate a test suite directly from domain-specific application models. This approach is seen as a viable choice for automatically generating comprehensive test cases from models describing externally visible behavior of a System Under Testing (SUT). To check the feasibility, the paper develops a domain-specific modeling language and a code generator for a coffee machine laboratorial case. Then MBT is applied to this model to generate a test suite for the application models. The conclusion arrived at through the results point out that there are no technical obstacles but the results still don't prove the feasibility of using this testing approach in large-scale models and languages.
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There's a sea of thousands of dead or defunct satellites floating around the Earth. Most people would just see this stuff as mere space junk, but not DARPA: it's now looking to recycle these junked satellites into new space systems. This new programme is called Phoenix, and it will cull the graveyard of broken, old satellites currently in geosynchronous orbit (GEO for short) 22,000 miles above the earth. Although all of these satellites out of fuel or power, they still have working parts such as functional antennas. So DARPA’s plan is to launch an orbiting space robot, called the “Tender/Servicer” spacecraft to do automated repairs. But first the tender needs to collect “satlets,” a new class of nano-satellites that would hitch rides on other satellite launches. Once the Tender has collected these satlets into its tool belt, it would travel to the GEO graveyard in search of antennas. The tender would then attach the satlets to the antenna and cut it loose from the rest of the dead satellite. Finally, the tender would taxi the new satlet-antenna to its new orbit forming a new space array from junk parts. If it works out as planed, the programme could reduce the amount of useless space debris whilst saving thousands of dollars spent on launching new satellites. The process might seem simple on paper but, "Satellites in GEO are not designed to be disassembled or repaired, so it’s not a matter of simply removing some nuts and bolts," said David Barnhart, DARPA programme manager, in a press release. "This requires new remote imaging and robotics technology and special tools to grip, cut, and modify complex systems, since existing joints are usually molded or welded." The process is also extremely complex, as a robotic operator needs to work three robotic arms: Two to hold the sides of an object and the third to cut it apart. Meanwhile, both the satellite and tender are in zero-gravity, where any force results in momentum, so the operator will have to be careful to not accidentally fling a satellite out into space.
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ActiveState this week added open source packages for financial and scientific computing to its ActivePython distribution of the Python programming language. The move is being made as a result of growing demand for Python in heavy data-centric scientific computing and financial modeling applications, the company said. The packages are being offered partially in response to proposed rules about asset-backed securities from the US Securities and Exchange Commission. "Python's extensibility and interoperability with other programming languages and numerical libraries makes it an increasingly popular choice in both the financial and scientific computing communities," said Diane Mueller, director of enterprise product management at ActiveState, in a statement released by the company. "ActiveState offers the most robust Python distribution and service levels agreements for companies demanding efficiencies and high performance required in today's increasingly complex computing environments." The three packages include: • NumPy, providing a library for financial and scientific computing with Python and featuring an N-dimensional array object, advanced array slicing methods, array reshaping methods and other capabilities • SciPy, a suite for scientific tools for Python that is dependent on the NumPy library • matplotlib, a Python numerical plotting library offering 2D numerical plotting functionality Developers, traders, quantitative analysts, scientists, and engineers can use the packages to build data-intensive mathematical computing applications for financial modeling and scientific analysis of complex data, ActivePython said. The three packages are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X in the business, enterprise, and OEM editions of ActivePython 2.6 and 2.7.
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1. Home» 2. Finance» 3. Personal Finance Our 10 biggest banking bugbears Complaining bank customers High charges for going overdrawn topped a list of Britons' biggest banking bugbears compiled by MSN Money. Overdraft charges received 397 votes - 20pc of the total. Picture: Howard McWilliam Image 1 of 11 Complaining bank customers call centre worker Cheque Follow Telegraph pics on Twitter Follow TelegraphPics on Twitter Receive updates every time we produce a new picture gallery More from the web
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Inherit the Wind Opened Oct 2, 2000 Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Inherit the Wind is the groundbreaking courtroom drama based on the 1925 Scope Monkey Trial. When a young school teacher is arrested in a small southern community for teaching Darwin's Origin of the Species, the town becomes the focus of the entire nation. Based on the famous confrontation of Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, Evolution and Creationism go head to head in one of the most momentous court battles in history. Visit the Inherit the Wind website:
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Asymmetrical Information - Megan McArdle 10.22.123:07 PM ET Ask the Blogger: Why Isn't My IRA Doing Anything? I rolled over my old 401(k) to an IRA, but now it just sits there. Why? Dear Blogger:   I had a small amount of money in an old 401K from a job that only lasted 10 months. About six months after the job ended, it was automatically converted into a Rollover IRA, so at some point in the last year I went ahead and moved that Rollover IRA into the same portfolio where my current 401K is, just to have everything in one place. Weird thing is though, the Rollover IRA doesn't seem to be doing anything at all. It hasn't changed value in the last year. Did I do something wrong here? I'd actually like to contribute a few thousand dollars to an IRA this year, but it's possible I don't understand how IRAs work and if they can't actually make me any money, what's the point?   IRA Going Nowhere Slow   Dear IGNS:   There are three possibilities here.  The first is that you have somehow stumbled onto a stock fund which has not changed in value at all over the last year.  Given that the S&P 500 is up about 11% since January 2012, this doesn't seem all that likely.   The second is that there is a glitch in the mutual fund software, and you just aren't getting the updates.  This has happened to me, and can usually be resolved with a call to your IRA company.   The third possibility, and I think the most likely, is that when you were converted to a rollover IRA, or when you transferred the funds to the new place, the firm put all the money in a money market mutual fund or similar cash account.  The interest rates on these things make scrooge look generous, so you won't have seen any noticeable appreciation.   This is very easy to fix.  Login to your account and check to see what fund the money is in. If it is, as I suspect, in a money market, then you should be able to rransfer it into a stock fund right online.  I recommend you allocate 30% to a broad international stock fund, and 70% in a broad US index fund, such as an S&P500 fund.  You will never outperform the market--but you will never underperform it, either, which is what most actively managed mutual funds do.   If you have trouble with the software--and lots of people do!--then just call the mutual fund company.  They should be able to handle a transfer for you, or walk you through the steps of doing it yourself.
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The Daily Reporter - Coldwater, MI • Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum talk ‘Jump Street,’ mutual admiration • email print • There was a mutual admiration society meeting going on in New York last week, and both members of the exclusive two-man group showed up. Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill sat down in a small hotel room, where the plan was to chat about their new film, “22 Jump Street,” the follow-up to their 2012 mega-hit “21 Jump Street.” In that film they played youngish-looking undercover cops who infiltrate a high school drug ring. This time around, they've graduated to going undercover in college. Oddly, and enjoyably, they ended up talking more about each other than the film. You'd never worked together before. Did you realize right from the start that there was some on-screen chemistry happening? Tatum: Jonah called me up for the first movie. Hill: The casting process was like a phone call and me saying, “Will you please do this movie?” and then him going, “Sure, yeah.” That was the process. Tatum: I said, “ ‘21 Jump Street?' You mean that show from the '80s?' And he said, “Yeah, I know, it's a terrible idea.” But I said, “OK, I'm in.” After that, Jonah came over and we hung out, and he's very much like the kids I grew up with and that are still my friends. I think we were fast friends from the start. Jonah, what prompted you to call Channing in the first place? Hill: Well, I wanted the other person in the movie to be someone who could actually be in an action movie. The whole thing, when we first started, was like “Bad Boys” meets a John Hughes movie. At that time I had never been in anything even close to an action film, so we needed someone you could see in the movie and you would say, “Right, it's an action movie and a comedy together.” There's a lot of stunt work in the film, a lot of which adds to the humor. Did you do many of your own stunts? Hill: I thought right away that it would be funny if I did the worst version of every stunt, ever. But Chan actually had to learn how to do every single thing that we wrote in the movie. I literally had never been around a helicopter till this movie, and suddenly we were in Puerto Rico and we were holding guns and there were helicopters flying above us. It felt like it was a joke, like we really were in “Bad Boys.” So, Channing, you were doing some stunts? Tatum: We were really holding on to the helicopter, but they wouldn't let us drop from it. Generally everything in the movie is pretty much us, except for things that you could get hurt doing. Page 2 of 2 - Hill: In the scene where an 18-wheeler was going down the highway at 60 miles an hour, that's actually Chan. That's not me hanging over the side of it – I had a stuntman – but it is Chan, and that's pretty exciting. You worked again with Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who directed “21 Jump Street” and “The LEGO Movie.” Do you have the same senses of humor as them? Hill: My sense of humor within this film is really based on character: who these people are, why they do the things they do, psychologically. Channing pointed out that in the films Phil and Chris have done, every joke in them has three different layers to it. There's that level that I bring to stuff, which is base, human behavior. Then they do what the smartest, most meta comedian would find funny. And then what a 4-year-old would find funny. They do it with all three layers in the same bit. Like the Benny Hill joke in this one, where there's a big sign that says the Benjamin Hill School of Cinema Studies. I don't know how many people are gonna pick up on that one. But that's why their movies are so interesting. What have you two learned from each other so far in these films? Tatum: I enjoy watching Jonah because he physically finds the truth in just about anything, whether it's a comedic scene or a dramatic scene, and he'll just sort of go right at it. I don't look at him as a comedic actor or a dramatic actor, just a really great actor. Hill: Thank you, buddy. As far as Chan's acting abilities, before “21 Jump Street,” I'd only seen him in “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.” Obviously he's not funny in it, because it's a heavy movie, and he jumps right off the screen in that film. There's no falseness. I don't care how flashy an actor is. I can see if they believe in what they're saying and doing, and I think Chan is brilliant in it.
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Teen books Banned books week - quiz This week it's banned books week, where we celebrate the freedom to read without censorship, so we thought we'd test your knowledge of some of the most-banned children's books, past and present. Do you know why they were put on the naughty step? Captain Underpants books are top of the American Library Association's complaints list Are underpants just too funny? Do you know why Captain Underpants has been banned, and which of your favourite characters have joined him? 1. 1. Which famous children's book was banned in America because talking animals were seen to be ungodly? 2. 2. Why have the Harry Potter books been banned? 3. 3. Which of these is a reason why Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants series was banned? 4. 4. Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach was once banned in several areas of America. What are the names of James's two aunts? 5. 5. Which highly popular teen fantasy series has been banned in many places for religious reasons and for being sexually explicit? 6. 6. Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, banned for its discussion of controversial themes such as rape and racism? 7. 7. Which famous diary writer was once almost banned by a school in Alabama for being too depressing? 8. 8. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell was banned for depicting a same-sex relationship between two... 9. 9. Who wrote Bridge to Terabithia, banned in Pensylvannia because of “profanity, disrespect for adults, and an elaborate fantasy world that might lead to confusion.” 10. 10. Which is the most banned book of the last decade, according to the United States of America's Library Association banned books list? Today's best video
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Three unusual but great-tasting blends to try Angosto White, Valencia, Spain 2009 (£8.49, or £6.79 as part of a case of 12, Oddbins, The first wine from this week's selection uses an odd blend of grape varieties – you wouldn't expect muscat, verdejo, sauvignon blanc and chardonnay, each of which have distinct personalities, to come together so well. But they do here, with each contributing something to the end result – florality, exotic fruits, orange zest and pin-sharp freshness. Fié Gris, Domaine de l'Aujardière, Vin de Pays du Val de Loire, France 2009 (£14.95, or £13.95 as part of a case of 12, Lea & Sandeman, Not a blend, but quite rare all the same, this brilliant (in both senses) white from the Loire uses the fié gris variety, known elsewhere as sauvignon gris. In the hands of winemaker Eric Chevalier, it's produced something really elegant and distinctive, a dry, herb-and-mineral inflected, citrussy accompaniment to simple fish or seafood dishes. Piccini Supertuscan IGT, Italy 2008 (£8.99, Tesco) "Supertuscan" was the name given to the trailblazing wines of Chianti in the 1970s, which mixed "international" grape varieties such as cabernet sauvignon with the local sangiovese. Here is a fine modern example: predominantly sangiovese, with a little cabernet and merlot, it's slick, well-built and smooth but with plenty of grip and life at a very good price.
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If you have to celebrate National Princess Week, don't buy the goods Disney princesses are a $4bn industry – but parents, hold onto your wallets and read your kids a book on Elizabeth I instead Princess Minie Mouse National Princess Week is nothing more than a shopping opportunity. Photograph: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images National Princess Week is just about upon us. Parents, hold on to your wallets. No, National Princess Week is not a celebration of the former Kate Middleton, with London tourist shops holding giveaway sales on leftover wedding memorabilia, in order to clear it out in time for the birth of the royal baby this summer. Nor is National Princess Week a celebration of that upcoming baby who, as we all know, is widely rumored to be a princess and not a prince. Instead, National Princess Week, which begins on 21 April, is brought to you by Disney in conjunction with Target. "Celebrating Princesses Everywhere" reads Target's current webpage devoted to all things female royalty. "Welcome Princess Merida to the Disney Princess Royal Court." And what happens when you click on the star of the Pixar movie Brave's link? You can get a Princess Merida doll for $14.09 (how do they settle on these prices?) and a DVD of Brave, whose price has been reduced from $19.99 to $14.99, not to mention a host of pyjamas, t-shirts and other stuff. National Princess Week is a shopping opportunity. It's easy to decry this sort of thing, to bitch and moan about how Disney and Target are taking us for chumps. There is certainly something to say for this view. Since Disney executives realized in early 2000 that princess stuff could be marketed as, well, princess stuff, the selling of Ariel, Pocahontas, Cinderella and the rest of the gang went into overdrive. As Peggy Orenstein reported in Cinderella Ate My Daughter, today Disney's more than 26,000 princess products are now a $4bn dollar annual business. "This event is about hocking glitzy, sexist merchandise through Target – pure and simple," said Susan Gregory Thomas, the author of Buy, Buy Baby: How Consumer Culture Manipulates Parents and Harms Young Minds. So how to handle National Princess Week? Last year, the Washington Post suggested taking Princess Week as an opportunity to remind our daughters that real princesses do charity work. It's certainly a decent idea, but I'm not sure how winning. No one is following Kate Middleton because she promotes worthy causes. If those were the standards, Princess Anne would be star. Instead, we care about Duchess Kate because she's pretty, she's young, she dresses well and, let's not kid ourselves, she got the guy. That we know such things don't always end well doesn't seem to stop the fantasy. Besides, Princess Anne – no one is building a wardrobe based on her style choices. Just trust me on this one. So, instead, let's look to Disney for a clue for how to truly celebrate Princess Week. In recent years, sensitive to criticism that the Princess culture promotes the myth that women are not full agents in their own lives, Disney began to emphasize the resourcefulness and energy of their princesses. Girls are strong and they can do it all. Let's take Disney's stance at face value. "If Disney's National Princess Week were to focus on those attributes of those strong young women – fairytale or real, like Elizabeth I – who were stripped of royal and familial protections but through their ingenuity, faith, and collaborative skills, came out triumphant, that would be something worth celebrating. There are many girls for whom that message could be life-saving," Thomas told me. And why stick with princesses? There is Wonder Woman and all the superheroines she spawned, as the wonderful PBS documentary Wonder Women!, which debuted this week, pointed out. Among the issues explored by film director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan is why we want to see women, even in our feminist age and no matter how strong they are, as princesses? That is, women who are not fully in control of their own destinies. That is, of course, when they are allowed to have a story at all. As Geoff Boucher pointed out in Entertainment Weekly, "Superman and Batman will have 16 movies between them by the end of this summer and Wonder Woman can't lasso a movie deal." So there you have it. If you need to celebrate National Princess Week, don't go for the merchandise. Instead, let women have their journey. I suggest reading a children's biography of Elizabeth I or Catherine the Great, or another princess who survived adversity and gained full control over her own life. Or watch Wonder Women! You won't regret it.
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Britain Withdraws from 2018 FEI WEG Bid Process The British Equestrian Federation (BEF) has confirmed to the Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI) that it is withdrawing from the bid process for the FEI World Equestrian Games 2018 and will not now be putting in a formal bid. To continue reading this article, become a member of Sign In Free Newsletters Sign up for the latest in: From our partners
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Probiotics and Yeast Cultures My personal experience has been very positive in using probiotics and yeast in the equine diet. My question is about the best formulation of the products. Does using only yeast culture with no bacteria diminish the effects? Which bacteria are beneficial, and which are just "cosmetics" that aren't necessary? What is the minimum number of these organisms that must be present in order to be To continue reading this article, become a member of Sign In Free Newsletters Sign up for the latest in: From our partners
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Airway Remodeling in Heaves Airway remodeling occurs in horses with long-term, unresolved inflammation caused by recurrent airway obstruction (RAO), the disease commonly known as heaves. Is it possible to reverse this negative effect in horses? Free Newsletters Sign up for the latest in: From our partners
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Wait, what? 1. Welcome to the Internet: Gamewise Caught Straight Up Ripping Content From Giant Bomb Plagiarism is something that's become a mainstay on the Internet. Why do your own work when you can just lift it from somewhere else? Nobody's going to find out. That is, until they do. Gamewise, called "the IMDb of video games" by Huffington Post, has been getting slammed over at the Giant Bomb forums. Why? Turns out that a rather suspicious number of Gamewise articles, images, and other tidbits appear to have been lifted straight from Giant Bomb. Oops. Read More © 2015 The Mary Sue   |   About UsAdvertiseNewsletterJobsContributorsComment PolicyPrivacyUser AgreementDisclaimerContact RSS Dan Abrams, Founder 1. Mediaite 2. The Mary Sue 3. Styleite 4. The Braiser 5. SportsGrid 6. Gossip Cop
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why can't mens freestyle do what the women have done forever? Just have what ever weight classes we, or FILA want in the non olympic years. The women all ways have more classes in the worlds than they are allowed in the Olympics. They even have a World Championship tourney in Olympic years. Fila allows this? but not for the men?