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Hi all. My name is Steve and I'm from Albuquerque. I've been using AutoCAD 98LT since '98 and TurboCAD has got me stumped on many of the processes I'm used to with AutoCAD.1st question of many to come: Is there a section in 'HELP' that you can write in a question?
I'm using 21.1 64bit version. —SNIP—What is LTE interface?
Don't worry, I'm sure everyone here will try to get you over the hump. You might even learn to like TurboCAD.
How the heck do I get the icons along the edges od the drawing space to light up so I can use them on a new drawing space?
Thankx all for your assistance so far.....it has been helpful.Now I have another question: Along with creating drawings I am also tasked with updating/editing current drawings. In the lower right corner is a identifying tag with the company's name, drawing title, drawing number and various other items. How can I get into this so I can edit the contents. I'm assuming this is a 'block' item (I'm using the word 'block' as I know it from AutoCAD). If it is, how do I explode a 'block' to edit?I have tried using the 'arrow' icon - 'select (space) - with a double right click to open the text editing window, but it is empty.I have tried using the 'A' icon - 'text' - with a right click and then left click on 'Edit text'.......nothing happens. I've read page 32, but it doesn't make any sense to me for doing what I need to do.More assistance would be greatly appreciate...................................I've looked and inquired in the User's Guide but the only 'edit' that shows up is how to edit a polyline.
Are you looking to edit the values of the Block Attribute? This can be done on the "Block Attribute" page in Properties, then use the "Next/Previous" buttons to cycle through the various attributes.
Hello again...............It's was August when I last needed some assistance............and I could use some more......please.We're developing a new product and I have been tasked to do the parts and assembly drawings to be printed on 11"x17" stock. When creating all the drawings I use a scale of 1:1. and do them life size in 'model'. What I am having trouble with is when I switch to 'paper' for printing, all the smaller pieces are so small in the 11x17 format that they are hard to read. I have tried scaling 'x' & 'y' in 'model' to increase the visual size in 'paper'. It does, but it also scales the dimensions the same amount, i.e. scaling up 2x will double the dims - 1" will become 2". I've tried using the 'select' mode to enlarge and this does the same thing.When I use the 'select' mode to enlarge the drawing in 'paper' it changes the printing area. I've tries to use the 'help' again but we still aren't speaking the same language with words like 'scale', 'enlarge', etc.What is the procedure for enlarging a 'model' mode drawing so it fills more of the printable area within the 'paper' mode without altering the dims?Thankx again for any assistance.
...I do not understand what you mean by - "go back in Modelspace and re-size everything to their real-world dimensions" - I thought drawing to 1:1 scale was real world dims....
...I'm working with a previously formatted blank that has logos, borders, rev blocks, etc in the 'paper' space. And, yes I believe it is through a 'viewport' that allows the 'model' drawing to show through.I do not understand what you mean by - "go back in Modelspace and re-size everything to their real-world dimensions" - I thought drawing to 1:1 scale was real world dims....
I have already returned the drawing to it's original size of 1:1 scale in 'model space'.Here is an example of what I am facing. I'm at home now and this was only printed on 8-1/2x11, but it shows the drawing I need to make larger to show the details for the machinists. This was printed in 'paper space'.
IThankx again for the assistance...............Chances are I'm still going to need help from time to time. The self taught learning curve is sometimes really steep.................
P.S. Does everyone else find those verification codes at the bottom of EVERY message as annoying as I do?
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At a Community Education Council 24 (CEC24) meeting last week, residents discussed ways to stop the homeless shelter and instead build a new school.
Maspeth resident Charlie Davruska, along with dozens more, lined up to voice their concern for overcrowding in the schools, neighborhood and public transit system once the families move into the neighborhood.
"I frankly think we have enough homeless shelters," Davruska said. "If we keep building more homeless shelters, we will get more homeless."
Nine-year-old P.S./I.S. 87 Middle Village student Joe Trapani said he was worried about the possible future for his school.
"It's already crowded, so it's hard for us to learn," Trapani said. "If we build a homeless shelter it would just be harder, but if we build another school it will be easier because there would be less kids in my class."
In response to the outcry, CEC24 president Nick Comaianni charged the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) with negligence for overlooking the district's overcrowding issue.
"It's very selfish to put a shelter with kids that you can't house in a school," Comaianni said. "Every school in our district is overcrowded, every school. So, where are you going to put these families? Where are you going to put their kids?"
He speculated that the overlap from transitioning new families to the community would intensify the overpopulation problem at local schools, as new children could potentially leave hundreds more displaced throughout the year.
"I think it's irresponsible for the city to put any kind of homeless shelter in District 24," he said. "Not because the homeless shelter is a bad thing – obviously it's a bad thing that people are down on their luck and they're homeless – but you have to be strategic where you put it."
Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley once fought for a school at the site years ago, and after the recent EAS commissioned by the DHS found no extensive contamination at the former factory site, her focus has been put back on reviving her plans.
With neighboring companies like the Hansel and Gretel deli manufacturer and the Independent Chemical Corporation on their way out, the addition of the now-abandoned warehouse at 78-16 Cooper Ave. would theoretically create a vacant nine-acre lot for her vision to reduce the overcrowding dilemma.
"Many of us share similar feelings about why the Cooper Avenue or Pan Am wouldn't be the most ideal spot to house families, but the main reason we are here today is we are fighting overcrowding in our schools," Crowley said. "Year by year it is getting worse, and if you put 500 families into the school district, you are going to have well over 1,000 kids overburdening a system that is already overburdened."
Crowley added that with available funding to build new schools, the next step is to find an appropriate site.
"This opportunity, especially on Cooper Avenue when you can have a nine-acre parcel of land, I don't know where in Queens you can get that size," she said. "And you know that Cooper Avenue is available because they are trying to get a lease from the DHS that has not gone through yet."
Mary Leas, director of External Affairs at the School Construction Authority (SCA), said plans to build a school on the site were previously abandoned prior to the EAS, citing heavy traffic on Cooper Avenue and nearby chemical plant as factors.
Leas said it would be unlikely that the city would consider the location for a school unless it was substantial and all three properties could be acquired.
"There are a lot of variables that need to fall into place because we have three parcels of property, with two is questionable whether we can proceed," Leas said. "There are a lot of 'ifs' that have to be worked out that are out of our control."
She added that although eminent domain has been used in the past, a proposal that came up in the town hall, the process is arduous and one that might be unlikely in the case of 78-16 Cooper Ave.
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Image courtesy of Xanderalex What do you think mana-pots taste like, anyway? I vote for blue-raspberry kool-aid.
Note: I wrote this piece BEFORE the news announcement about down-ranking spells in WotLK. I anticipate that this will make a tremendous impact on mana-regen, along with the possibility of debuffs like Potion Sickness, and I look forward to finding out how new talents like Serendipity help mitigate this situation. (I'm not specc'd into Serendipity right now on the Beta, mostly because Matt says it doesn't work yet.)
In the 2.4 game mechanics, mana-regen for any class whose relevant stats include spirit is nothing short of phenomenal. Still, some of my colleagues occasionally have trouble making it through particularly intense fights with only self-sufficient regen tools. I'm of the philosophy that in most situations, Holy Priests can and should keep their own mana up just fine. If you are having trouble doing that, here are some troubleshooting tips for improving your own self-sufficiency:
When You're The Problem
- Forgetting your CD (cooldown) rotation. Do you wait to take a Mana Pot until you're nearly out of mana? Do you keep an eye on your Trinket, Shadow Fiend, and Inner Focus cooldowns and use them all to their fullest potential? Be honest with yourself, and if you know you could be getting more out of your built-in tools, either find a mod to monitor them for you, or move them to a more visible portion of your UI.
- Over-extending yourself. If your assignment is to heal parties 3 & 4, but you find yourself topping off the tanks and sneaking heals onto the melee, you're probably just trying to give your best effort to your raid – and that impulse is good. What's NOT good is that you're under-serving the players you're supposed to be protecting – and if they take sudden damage while you're in the middle of casting a heal, even as a best-case scenario they'll have to wait at least a 1.5 second cast or a GCD to get the heal that they're supposed to be getting from you. This means some other healer is probably going to have to pick up YOUR slack. Even if you're carefully monitoring your assignment, healing where you're not supposed to gives an unrealistic experience to the healers that you're "helping." Sure, you know that FoL-spamming isn't enough to keep up the MT, but that loladin that's supposed to keep him alive will never figure it out if you keep sprinkling in ProM, G.heals, and Renews. You're robbing him, and your guild, of that Pally's chance to become a better healer.
- Improper gear optimization. Let's face it, no one cares that your Greater Heal will hit for an average of 6k if you're oom and can't cast it. You don't need 2,000 unbuffed +healing to heal Karazhan. (Or Kael, for that matter, and I have screenshots to prove it.) No matter what level of content you've reached, continuing to stack +heal after being fully capable of healing the incoming damage for your current raid content comes at the expense of other stats. This means objectively evaluating the stats YOU need for gems, enchants, or on relatively equivalent pieces of gear. (For example, T6 offers two healing staves – the Apostle of Argus (Archimonde) or the Staff of Immaculate Recovery (Bloodboil). The Apostle has more +heal, but the IR has balanced Spirit and Mp5. You need to be able to decide which stats will make the greatest impact on your gameplay.)
- Poor consumables. Raiding isn't cheap. If you don't want to spend the money on the best enchants, gems, and consumables you shouldn't be running end-game content. I'm not saying you shouldn't be playing WoW, just that you need to find some other less resource-intensive passion within the game. Know what your options are, and don't try to cheap out. The repair bills and nights of frustration end up being more expensive, anyway. So if the flasks you should be using are pre-BC, and the food you need to eat is rare, and the pots you ought to use don't come from a freebie quest reward…. Suck it up, use the premium consumables, and see what a difference a few little things will make in your mana-return.
- Overhealing. If you don't downrank your spells, you're burning extra mana. There is absolutely no reason to cast a 6k heal on someone taking 1k hits who is only missing 2k health. Overshoot it by the incoming 1k damage, throw a 3k heal on them, and spend the 2-300 mana you just saved on someone else.
When Something Else Is The Problem
- Poor class make up for the fight. Because Priests CAN do any healing job, frequently the burdens of under- or incorrect staffing fall on our shoulders. We're the only class who can always pick up the slack. There's not much you can do about this during a raid, but afterwards, approach your healing leader, raid leader, or GM with solutions – Maybe a healer-friend who would be an excellent addition to the roster, or a positioning strategy that would help lessen the strain.
- Poor group composition. Some fights, until you gear-soak a bit, you really just need a mana battery. If you don't have a Shadow Priest, or a Shaman with a Mana-totem, ask for one. Check around with friends who have done the same fight, and see if they're getting some kind of support that you're not.
- Re-speccing. I'm assuming you're a Priest as you read this. If your guild can't decide whether you should be Improved Spirit or CoH, know that both healing-styles are different enough to affect your mana regen. Auz over at ChickGM is a dyed-in-the-wool IDS priest, and averages 65% of her time in the 5SR. As CoH Spec, I spend upwards of 85% of my time "casting." That is a HUGE difference in non-casting mana regen, and makes Mp5 more valuable to me as a stat than it is to Auz, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE BOTH HOLY PRIESTS. You can't control wishy-washy raid leadership, but keep a couple extra trinkets and consumables to swap around to make sure you're good to go no matter which way they tell you to Spec.
How To Fix It
- Train yourself. Don't do this on a progression run, but learn how to wean yourself off the crutches: Instruct your Druids that they should use their innervates for themselves. Ask for a Mage to be given your spot in the S.priest group. (Added bonus! Your Mage-buddy will love you!) Bring smaller mana pots, and use them as you would the Supers – you stay in the habit of burning your cooldown, but get used to operating with less mana. Swap your trinkets out for less-helpful ones. (Keep them similar, so you keep in the habit of popping them.) Or just swap your trinkets in general – maybe the proc from the Bangle is worth more than the extra 170 Spirit use from the Earring.
- Use mods that keep track of how much time you spend "casting" and learn how to maximize your inherent regen. (My favorite is RegenFu, but it requires FuBar to work.)
- Chain your abilities. When you get a Clearcast proc, use it, and follow up with an Inner Focus – If both are used with 3-second casts, and followed up with a stop-casting macro, you can buy a lot of oo5sr time without abandoning your job.
- Fix your broken gear. I don't mean repairs (but check that, too!) Do the research and spend the money to make sure that your gear is fully optimized. No common gems, no cheap enchants. Make the most of what you have.
- Know your capabilities. Test on your own to know what your current gear can do when pushed to its max. Swap an item or trinket and test again. Research and find out what other Priests are capable of doing.
It's not that you'll never need any outside support to maintain your mana pool. If a lot of healers have died, or you started out short-handed, or you're truly under-geared for your content, you could need some help. Obviously, Vampiric Touch, Mana Tide, and Innervate are in the game for a reason. The idea isn't that you should never need them, just that if you always rely on them, you're cheating yourself and your raid out of the exceptional contributions that you can make, not to mention hogging resources that could go to other players.


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i'm not a big muffin person. they're usually greasy or dry. or not very flavorful. I love these fruit ones you can get at this bakery at South Common Mall in Missisauga though. and Tim Hortens fruit explosion muffins if I actually go there. Now pancakes. I luv them pancakes. I'll so make some for you girls next time I come down.
Well I work at a Grocery store, and they make the juiciest, most FATTENING Muffins you could EVER IMAGINE.. OH GOD..just thinking about one makes my mouth water....
pancakes are good too. God why are we talking about foot that's soo not good?? DX!! GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I want some of it sooo much now x_x; ahahaha no will power here.
When I cook, I almost always think outside of the box unless I just want it done quickly. This weekend, I had surgery - teeth extractions - so my food intake is now kind of out of sync. And since it was extractions, I have to eat soft food, so my out of the box instincts took hold one night.
The nurses had suggested scrambled eggs, or soft noodles, and just eating one or the other sounded plain and unappealing, so genius struck, and I combined them. Added some pure vanilla extract and sour cream in the eggs, and melted parmesian cheese on top, and it was fantastic.
I can't wait until I can chew properly again so I can make that dish and add vegetables.
And if you're blanching, you've obviously never had vanilla extract with scrambled eggs before.
Owait, this is about food that's good for you.
Thinking out of the box when cooking really isn't that hard though. You like broccoli? Add it to your mac and cheese instead of hot dogs. Cauliflower? Hell, put that in there too! Outside of the box doesn't mean cooking things without a box. Add stuff if you like it, or even take things out if you don't.
I don't like kraft noodles, so I could take the noodles out, and theoretically just cook some vegetables with the cheese instead. And that JUST POPPED INTO MY HEAD. That sounds really good actually. Stupid teeth.
It doesn't have to be a big out of the box moment either. Start small. Do you have oatmeal for breakfast? Buy the plain oatmeal instead of those packets. Use just a handful of oats, don't add sugar of any kind, and then just cut up some real apple slices or bananas instead. Stir in some yogurt or applesauce. Those dried cherries or cranberries in the cupboard you bought and then never touched.
Out of the box is easy.
It's when you're stuck cooking just what's in the box that it's hard to eat better.
I avoid cooking from a box. I usually do home cooked meals.
Made potato bacon chowder on sunday. Delicious stuff right there. Might make White chicken chilli later this week.
Honestly it is a lot cheaper to go buy a bunch of ingredients and make yourselves homemade meals. If you have left overs you can freeze them and eat them later. Plus you should have some left over ingredients to make other things.
That's for people who keep crying that they're unimaginitive.
But seriously? Just start with what you like, and build up from there.
If they want to stop crying about how hard it is to do things differently, how about this. The easiest thing you could make from scratch is stew.
Every single stew I've ever made from scratch has been different from the last. It's never ever been the same. You start with the meat as a base. Cook it first before you add the water. If you don't eat meat, then maybe you need to use some buillion cubes to make the broth.
Then you just add whatever the hell you want. Nothing is ever wrong in a stew.
The point is, you don't need a recipe to make good food that's good for you.
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Well, I'd like to share my personal weight loss story:
For all my life I had always been the fat kid. Growing up, as a form of child banter, my brother would always call me Fat Boy. I was never really depressed about my weight because I was happy with my life overall. Being a big boy never really stopped me from doing anything different, and my skills with the ladies stem from my personality and natural charm. But things changed about a year ago. My work started doing the Biggest Loser Challenge and I entered it twice. When I started the damn thing, I weighed about 300 lbs. being 6' tall. Since it's completion, I've lost 80 lbs. over the last year and now I'm even more motivated to work on toning my body. I've been doing plenty of workouts now to tone my body so that when I decide to cosplay, I won't look so absurd. My abs is what I'm currently focused on big time so that I can get washboard abs like Luffy. Haha.
And the secret? I cut out all soda, beer (I'm in my mid-twenties) and anything carbonated. I exercised at least once per day for at least 30 minutes, and other times I'd exercise longer. I never ate a dinner past 8 PM, so that my body would be sure to properly digest the food I had eaten. Also, WATER is key. Drink plenty of it. It increases mental focus and properly cleans out toxins and improves other digestive functions.
I also cut down from regular milk to skim milk since I'm a huge fan of cereal. It took a year, but I look great and feel great. :D It's definitely worth the effort.
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Anonymity is a lost cause on the Internet these days.
Not the BEST comparison, but there's at least a difference.
EDIT: I fail at forums. Ugh.
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I think it's a hoot to tell my co-workers that the secret involved me screaming "I wish I beautiful" while making a fake throw-up gag face.
I think if I work hard enough, I could cosplay as Ace. :P
Yeah man you can totally see the difference, you're looking amazing. Keep it up!!
Did anyone watch The Biggest Loser premiere last night? Seeing how a couple of them had to be hospitalized attempting a one mile run, and one of them never even showing up at the first week was shocking. I watched their ass-kicking work outs and saw their results and realized I can do so much more then I've been doing so I'm ready to step it up @_@
And I've lost 2 more pounds so yay~ 41 more pounds to the ultimate goal, though to get halfway will put me at the normal weight for my height so I'm striving for that. 9 pounds lost so far so yay~
Keep up the good work! :D Just stick with it!
Good Job Arei! I wish I could tell you my progress, but it will have to wait to Oct 1st.
Although I can tell you one thing that was very frustrating. Back in July I had weighed myself and found out that I had lost 30 pounds. I was super excited! I went and tried on some of the smaller size pants that I had kept (in the hopes of fitting back into them.) None of them fit me, all still too small. But I didn't let that bother me. Instead my husband and I went shopping for new pants. I grabbed a pair of jeans that were the same size as the ones I was wearing. The ones I was wearing were actually too big, so I thought that the same size should either be too big or at least fit me. WRONG! The jeans wouldn barely go past my knees. In fact I had to buy a pair of jeans that were two sizes bigger than the pants I were wearing. Actually the jeans I bought were too big, but the next size down was still too small. I cried on the way home, I went from being so estactic to complete misery. lol But I ended up gaining back twenty of those thirty. Which doesn't surprise as I literally lost 19 of the original 30 in a day. And rapid weight loss usually results in rapid weight gain. -sigh-
I really want Oct. 1st to get here so I can weigh myself and see how I am actually doing.
Are you sure your pants haven't shrunk.
I've been wearing 14s usually but I were able to wear some brand new 12s because they haven't shrunk. ALOT of my jeans shrunk bad @_@ Enough to be a size or two smaller then they're supposed to be.
My friend gave me a pair of Lucky jeans that had shrunk like that so I've got to get down to almost an 8 to be able to wear them again @_@ blah and they're supposed to be 12s.
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I felt a whole ton better yesterday, and had a fairly productive day! After I left the lab I went off to the vet to tell that that I will work this Saturday (I figured that a cold front and flu makes going on fieldwork 2 days earlier a bit silly) and then went down the road to say hi to Jo and to get more soup.
I think the whole of Joburg has this flu - they were out of cough mixture, medlemon AND all the nice soups. Joey was awesome though, she saw me, told me that I looked 'really sick' (i.e. terrible) and made me mint green tea. She also insisted that I stay with her for a few hours so I decided to skip having a nasty soup and have dinner with her.
It was fantastic! I haven't much time with her lately, considering that we used to go for coffee at least once a week, often more than that but I've been so busy buried in the lab that I've neglected her slightly. We both pulled out our laptops and discussed our photos (she is also a professional photographer, although I wonder about her style sometimes), showed her pictures of all the people I work with and places I go to regularly. She was very funny in her reactions to some of the people, I guess I talk about the lab and the people here so often that she had a mental picture of them that didn't quite add up.
A few other people came to visit, and before I knew it I had been there for 3 hours and I was exhausted, so I went home. I woke up at 2am unable to breathe, and I realised that as great as the Thai food was, soup would have been a wiser option! At least I got up early! Coughing works so much better than my alarm clock! And now I'm off to calibrate equipment and try and figure out exactly how it all works...
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Should have had more soup...
I felt a whole ton better yesterday, and had a fairly productive day! After I left the lab I went off to the vet to tell that that I will work this Saturday (I figured that a cold front and flu makes going on fieldwork 2 days earlier a bit silly) and then went down the road to say hi to Jo and to get more soup.
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- SuvvyGirl said...
The flu can be nasty. But if you drink more of that mint green tea it will help. I love that stuff, drink it almost every day. It tastes great cold too. I hope you get rid of it completely soon though. :)
- 9:57 pm
- SuvvyGirl said...
Having an allergy to honey would suck. I wonder if anything else outthere in nature has any of the same bacteria fighting stuff in it that you might not be allergic to? Cranberry juice is a wonderful natrual antibiotic, and great for the urinary tract too :P
- 9:59 pm
- Kath Lockett said...
Hi there - I feel your pain, mate. Love Chunks, Sapphire and I have all been struck down with the flu, cough, chest infection, asthma lurgies over here in South Australia as well.
Shame about the honey allergy - my Dad was a beekeeper as his hobby so I had more than my fair share of the stuff. With this current cold/flu thingy though, we've all been drinking green tea. I think it helps just because it keeps us warm, we sip it slowly and it's soothing.....
Oh and I'm enjoying your blog - have you ever thought about taking some pictures of the wonderful creatures that you have at the lab?
- 2:39 am
- Helen said...
Thanks to both of you! It's a particularly nasty flu that's making the rounds, I don't usually get sick, or if I do I don't complain this much!
I'm a big fan of peppermint tea, but I've enver really got into the whole green tea thing, although I guess now is a good opportunity!
Kath: pictures are a problem, I need clearance to photograph most of the animals here if they're involved in research, and when I go away I ahvea lot of great opportunities but my connection in the middle of nowhere isn't fast enough for uploading. I'll see what I can dig up though!
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Police Shootout: Ford Crown Victoria, Chevy Caprice Go Off-Road on Roadkill
No one ever wants to be chased by a fleet of cop cars, but if you found yourself in that position, which vehicle would you least want to have in pursuit? It's an age-old question (one we asked last year in our cop car shootout): Which law enforcement vehicle is best when it comes to chasing down bad guys? To find out, Hot Rod's David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan buy a pair of retired Ford Crown Victoria and Chevy Caprice full-size sedans and do what they do best on this week's Roadkill.
For the purposes of this episode, the Roadkill crew bought two examples of what they call the best used cop cars currently on the market: the 1994-1996 Chevy Caprice 9C1, and 2003-2011 Ford Crown Victoria P71. The Chevy is rated at 260 hp (though Freiburger believes it makes more) from its 350-CID LT1 V-8, while the Crown Vic's 4.6-liter V-8 is rated at 250 hp. To start things off, the team takes the two former squad cars to an enormous parking lot in Arcadia, Calif. for some very unscientific testing. The tests include drag racing, pulling Rockfords, plowing through a pyramid of trash cans, and drifting until someone blows a tire.
They head out to the desert to fulfill Finnegan's lifelong dream of building a dirt track on his parents' undeveloped, middle-of-nowhere property. The two hosts eventually find the 2.4-acre plot of land and drive the cop cars around to carve out the track. Both vehicles end up getting stuck in the process, but eventually the course is ready to host an American full-size sedan throw-down. Watch the full episode below to find out which cop car comes out on top.


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Opus Fund Services Opens New York Office
Chicago, IL, January 25, 2013 – Opus Fund Services, an award winning and leading independent full-service fund administrator, today announced the expansion of its US platform with the opening of its New York office. The Park Avenue location will initially focus on business development and will be headed by the new Director of Sales and Business Development, Jorge Hendrickson.
Jorge previously worked at Concept Capital Markets, LLC in its Prime Services Group as Vice President of sales and business development. Prior to Concept he worked for five years on the buy side, most recently at Trading Cross Connects, specializing in allocating capital and infrastructure services to emerging managers. He was previously at Intrepid Capital Management and Bridgewater Associates.
"Our New York office represents a natural expansion allowing Opus to deliver our award winning Opus ONE offering directly to the local fund community" said Opus President Stephen Giannone. "Jorge has the skillset and experience that will benefit our target client base and we are excited to have him join the Opus team.
Jorge noted "I'm very excited for the opportunity to introduce the Opus cutting edge technology and SSAE16 compliant process to the New York hedge fund community. I have followed the progress of Opus with interest for several years and look forward to building our operations here in New York."


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Editor's note: David Gergen is a senior political analyst for CNN and has been an adviser to four U.S. presidents. He is a professor of public service and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School.
(CNN) -- Voters who flocked to the Republican banner seven weeks ago are probably scratching their heads, wondering, "Who really won in November?" After handing the president and Congressional Democrats the worst drubbing in more than half a century, they can only watch in disbelief as President Barack Obama has reeled off a series of unexpected victories.
A new stimulus bill, repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," and now START -- who would have believed that this shirt-tail session of Congress would have been so triumphant? They call it "lame duck" but it was anything but lame.
What happened? One answer, I would submit, is that the president and his team found a better approach to governing: Instead of relying on the Democratic caucus in each chamber to deliver, they built up coalitions of their own that swayed public opinion in their direction and gave them leverage in Congress.
On the extension of tax breaks -- along with several other tax breaks the president wanted -- the White House cut a deal with Sen. Mitch McConnell and other Republicans. Liberal Democrats naturally cried foul, but the White House-GOP coalition sent a persuasive signal to the public that this was a reasonable compromise. Polls showed the public coming down in favor, and as night follows day, Congress voted the compromise into law. (Contrast how quickly the public turned against the health care reform when it was a Democrats-only bill.)
On "don't ask, don't tell," and on START, the White House had a different, but equally formidable, coalition that helped to turn the tide in the president's direction. The fact that Bob Gates -- one of the most respected defense chiefs in history -- and the chair of the Joint Chiefs, along with the poll of service members, came out in favor of repealing DADT made a huge difference in swaying both public opinion and Congress.
START appeared all but dead until the president assembled a group of Republican heavyweights -- from George H.W. Bush and Kissinger to Baker and Shultz -- whose vocal support for the treaty reversed the momentum.
In each case, there were also Senate stalwarts -- Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins on DADT, John Kerry on START -- who delivered, too.
From my biased perspective, I also thought the president was more effective because he seemingly played these fights more from the background than the foreground. We heard about him each day making phone calls, bringing in votes, but we didn't see him so constantly at the podium. It worked!
The net result is that President Obama has regained his mojo much more quickly than anyone, including his closest advisers, might have imagined. Even Bill Clinton did not bounce back from his mid-term defeat so quickly.
None of this means that the president has erased the meaning of the elections. Voters clearly wanted to put a brake on excess spending and government that seemed to be growing out of control. If the elections were held again today, I would imagine that the results would be much the same.
Less noticed in the hubbub about Obama's victories is how easily McConnell and company derailed the omnibus spending bill -- one that gagged in the throats of the public with its more than 6,700 earmarks. More to the point, the Republicans have now set up a pair of showdowns in the first few weeks of the new year -- one over lifting the debt ceiling that could come as early as February, the other when the new budget resolution expires in March. Either one could bring a shut-down of Washington -- and unlike the Clinton-Gingrich donnybrook of 1995, Republicans could well have the public on their side this time.
So, tough, tough fights lie ahead. But the surprise is that Obama now enters 2011 on a more even playing field -- and he and his team have shown a fresh approach to governing that could continue to serve them well in the new year.
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As happens this time every year, I have hit a lull in my writing. Not that there hasn't been plenty to write about, I just haven't had the energy to sit down in front of the computer screen and pull all my thoughts together and put them into written words. The summer of 2013 has seen our backyard bees doing great, my wife just picked our first real harvest of Haralson apples, and it has been a very bountiful year for us on our urban foraging adventures which yielded us more than a dozen pints of mulberry jam and close to forty pounds of really great apples gleaned from an old neighborhood tree.
One reason for the lack of activity here at Autonomy Acres is that I am now working two jobs, and neither of them are the one that I have spent the last 10 years of my life working at. Back at the end of May I called it quits at the adult beverage factory where I had worked and took the summer off to rediscover what it means to be human. I was burnt out and depressed by the endless daily routine of factory life and knew I had to make some positive changes in the way I live and walk on this Earth.
Having a couple months off to gather my thoughts, and to let my body heal was the right medicine at the right time. When I decided to take my life back, it was one of the most empowering moments I have ever felt, and the energy and self knowledge that I gained from that choice has changed my life. I have realized that all the "Things" that society tells us are important and that matter are meaningless. No longer will I let a "job" define who I am as a person. The accumulation of money and "Toys" is not a measurement of happiness nor are they milestones that should be enshrined in our personal stories. Finally, it was reinforced in my mind that nothing is more important than our relationships with our families, friends, and the Earth.
While I wish I could say that I am now a gentleman of leisure, relaxing in a hammock sipping cold beer and reading Edward Abbey novels, sadly, I am still just a common worker! I find myself back in my old haunts though – line cooking! I worked restaurants for many years and truly enjoyed the kitchen work, but not the hours. But I got lucky and I am now slinging hash and eggs, cooking up real stocks and soups, and working with a terrific crew of Food Service Pirates at a local music college in the early morning, Monday through Friday. It is nice to be appreciated for my talents and skills, and to also work for decent folks who treat me like a human being, and not a machine; a big change from where I previously worked.
I am also pulling a few shifts a week at a "Hip" national grocery store chain. And while I do enjoy this as a part time gig, the pay is horseshit, and the health care benefits I was hoping to get through them just got put through the guillotine because of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, which translated means – the big bosses saw this as an opportunity to make a shitload of money. At least I still get a small discount on groceries!
It is interesting though to see a new side of the food industry that I was previously only a spectator and consumer in. While I have written extensively about the global food supply chain and how it affects farmers and communities, and how it is ultimately not based on sustainable and local means and resources, seeing this first hand has been very educational.
It is easy to use Wal-Mart as the poster child for the just-in-time, warehouse on wheels delivery model, but it is everywhere, whether that be a grocery store or a local brewery. Anyone who has spent time researching food, how it is grown, and then how it is shipped to all parts of the world has seen the figures that say if a natural disaster or collapse of some kind disrupts the supply chain, grocery store shelves would be empty in 3 days. Seeing how a grocery store runs, is managed, and is stocked I completely believe this.
Our food supply chain is balanced ever so gently on a global house of cards that when it does fall, it will fall fast. It could happen because of the loss of honeybees that is now in the news almost everyday, or it could happen from a natural disaster or escalating climate change, or in a worse case scenario could be triggered by a terrorist attack or a war that shuts down the supply chain. Whichever way you slice it, this scenario is all the evidence anyone should need to dig up that lawn and get growin' as much of their own food that they can and begin adding a bit of resilience into their lives!
To echo past essays here at Autonomy Acres and other sources that touch on these issues, this predicament of global climate change, energy descent and food security that we find ourselves in, need to be looked at as an opportunity to move the human race forward into the future. While it may seem like a futile prospect to think we can take on, and ultimately overcome these challenges, the words of Permaculture Pioneer Geoff Lawton come to mind -"All the worlds problem can be solved with a garden"!
It may seem like an idealistic statement, but I truly think that there is a lot of truth and wisdom from such a simple idea as planting a garden. If everyone who has access to a bit of land, whether that be in the city or out in the country began to grow a portion of their own food, we would realize the abundance that this Earth can provide for us. And a garden is more than just growing food. Once you make the leap to becoming a producer and not just a consumer, many other wonderful things follow in the footsteps of a garden.
Compost is one of them. Food scraps, garden waste, animal manures, leaves and other plant debris can all be composted and be used to start healing our soils. When our soils are healthy and filled with organic matter, not only can we grow lots of great food, the soil also becomes a living ecosystem, a sponge for holding water, and most importantly a place that can capture and store carbon.
When we start to tend the Earth as stewards rather than rulers, and begin to see how humans can have a positive impact on our surroundings, beautiful things begin to spring forth. Where once there were manicured lawns that were maintained by a regiment of poisons and pointless labor, now there can be gardens packed full of both annuals and perennials providing food for humans, habitat and forage for wildlife, and many other products that range from fibers, fuel, and pharmaceuticals.
Where once there were boulevards and roadsides, those pieces of land that are cut off from each, now there can be fruit and nut trees, fruiting shrubs, and forage for all the pollinators. These pieces of land can be reclaimed and planted with species that need little to no human maintenance that once again help to feed us, provide us with fuel, store carbon, and heal the soil.
The future is full of possibilities. If we continue down the road we are on now, then there will not be a future for the human race. Turning the ship around is not enough – we have run out of time to do that, we need to jump overboard and start anew. It will not be easy, but for the sake of the generations that follow, and all the other critters and plants that call this planet home it is what we must do.
Starting over will require participation from everyone. It will not happen because a government or a corporation tells us too. It will happen organically, and from the bottom up. When the people demand an end to the destruction of the planet and are ready to start the healing process, governments and corporations will have no choice but to listen, and eventually cease to be.
It is possible, and it is starting. It is happening everywhere that there are gardens being planted, where land is being reclaimed, and where communities are being built. It happens when people band together and stand against the machine of oppression. It happens when people realize that everything we have been taught is an illusion, and that when we change our lives, we have the power to change the world! Peace & Cheer
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Microsoft Surface Pro love
I got GalCiv III to run on my Surface Pro 4 by manually updating the video drivers to the latest ones by Intel. The official drivers from Microsoft are a year old and those drivers claimed to be DirectX 11 capable drivers (they were not) and so the game would crash when trying to do a DirectX 11 specific call.
If you have an embedded Intel video adapter, do yourself a favor and head over to Intel's site and download the drivers. I had to download the ZIP file and then extract it and then manually install the driver as it isn't digitally signed.
The biggest issue I have with my Surface Pro 4 is that it throttles. Badly. It would play GalCiv III like a champ if it weren't running at 860Mhz.
Balancing Thoughts
There is no perfect balance because what is balanced is in the eye of the beholder. That said, we are looking at adding more options (such as disabling espionage) to allow players to customize their game experience further.
Population is going to be tweaked so that 1 point of population = 1 raw production. This will require some balance changes on morale and farms and such but this is the most elegant way to make population be more powerful. Planets will tend to start with 1 population.
Ultimate asteroid field: Don't hate the player, hate the game (please don't hate the game!)
Tourism will eventually be tied to your cultural influence. We are starting to keep track of how many tiles you control and how many are congruent to your capital world.
Minor races are going to be getting friskier in the future (as in, provide opportunities for early game limited wars).
AI won't offer to trade with you if they don't like you (results in weird offers)
AI generated offers are awesome when relations are decent.
Cultural conquest is coming along nicely.
Polish Polish Polish
Right now, much of our work is on polishing the UI, making quality of life fixes and fixing bugs that we get reported. We are also trying to make modding a lot easier so that people can enable subscribe and unsubscribe from mods more easily.
Your Civ's racial abilities will show up on the stats screen
The AI is something we continually update as we get new saved games from players and just play test over and over again. Each time we play, we see something that we think can be improved on.
I'm in the debugger now. So more to come.
This is a very strong reason why I support this company. Continuous support and love from the CEO himself. Some of us may go back and forth over opinions and details but in the end a company where the CEO is actively involved in the game has a vote from my wallet. Keep up the good work.
I'm curious: will the production cost of improvements, repeatable projects, and research be rebalanced or will everything just get slightly easier to build/research (and thus speed up the game)?
Thanks for the continuous work on an already great game!
- overall pacing of the game- relative asteroid to population balance- relative population to Research/Wealth/Manufacturing bonusses balance- amount of population granted by cities (and slave camps)- growth rates (including growth techs and the prolific ability)- ... I'm sure I am still overlooking something
What I am trying to say is, you had an assumption and maybe some gameplay data of what amount of production feels right at about turn 10/30/60/100/... Is there no better way to finetune what we have and what is a known quantity? I think this is a point where balancing is in essence like polishing, in that you need to iterate on an idea in order to get it to a better point and not redesign the entire thing.
Thank you! Looking forward to this. The overpowered asteroids effect just doesn't sit right with me.
No. 'Balanced' is a state of the game where from several different ways of playing the game, no minority is outperforming all the others. Good balance is hard to pinpoint, since the system is complex, but a good indication is dynamic debate i.e. the topic of what is unbalanced changes every few weeks. Durantium cost on xeno factories for example is a blance issue, there is no debate I have seen about it and the cost for additional 2,5% manufaacturing is considered excessive. For some situations you can math some good estimations as to how much you get out of something. For planetary improvements a return of investment calculation can be a start. For the benefit of defenses and jamming, the benefit can be estimated in effective HP added (per point of mass/manufacturing/upkeep/strat ressource) by the component.
I look forward to your balanced game release.
It is easy to arm chair perfect design.
When you say "subscribe and unsubscribe" for mods... this suggests possible Steam support? Or... are you simply referring to how many of the game's files can't be append styled or otherwise can't be modded through a mod folder and we have to add files to the directory (Replacing Merc's Ship designs for example, won't work unless those designs are added to certain zip files in the game's directory.
Also I'm loving the look of that influence screen... and I think we are all looking forward to some polish. Thanks so much for sharing!
Surface pro to expensive. For that price i.would buy a desktop. A tablet.should be around 100 dollars. Maybe you could convert galactic civilizations 2 into tablet. Convert apk files into exe files. Compile the text files. You would also have to write controls for the game. Nice to hear your balancing the game. And make it for the android.
Wondering are you also planning to come out with more specialised techs for the chosen abilities. Can we also have more race types when customising civilizations.
Thank you! Looking forward to this. The overpowered asteroids effect just doesn't sit right with me.
Asteroids were not overpowered, but population was underpowered. I found it quite fun to manage my asteroid mines
Although I think pop to production 1:1 is really something that could be a bit too much. I still think a system where buildings need enough pop to work effectively would suit be more, but that's probably too much to ask ...
I look forward to your balanced game release. It is easy to arm chair perfect design.
I agree with Frogboy that a perfect design is more or less impossible to reach. But I also agree with zuPloed that no game element should render another game element useless.
For me, it is a thing that makes me a fan of Stardock, but I have to draw a line as to what that means. If another game is better, it's better. For now, let my feet do the talking--I'm here.
I think balance is somewhere in the middle, and is like beauty: it is in the eye of the beholder, but there are things & people that are generally accepted as beautiful, even if we can't quite put a finger on what exactly makes them beautiful. I think Reese Witherspoon is drop-dead gorgeous. Someone else just might not be into blondes. But still, she is generally regarded as beautiful.
A while back i was thinking about the late game grind, and i came up with an idea. After a certain number of turns maybe 400 whatever you consider the late game. From a programmers change out databases. Anonolies, mega events, random events, and galactic council suggestions. As far as colonization events go seperating extreme world event from terran world events except anyone who gets any extreme worlds from the start would do the trick. If they start out with a extreme world colonisation then that colonisation should be on the same list as terran. Remember doing this would go a long way to spice up the late game.
I would like to see a fixed jagged knife brought back as an option. The biggest complaint in the beggining was it didnt work. They couldnt manage their empire. They should be able to rebuild buildings that arent wonders. Being able to tear down buildings would help. This would require them to have an empire wide stradegy. To make it a sweeter deal it should build all the player achievements it can. The other players would notice their planets are gone, amd try to retake their planets atacking the best ones first. This would make it imperitive to take back your planets first.
Now the other complaint could be solved. It was a smaller complaint is that some had a problem losing planets if you generated the numbers the same way, but put them on class zero planets instead. You could add population if you wanted. Either by random population, or.migrating citizens from other empires including citizens. This way you dont have to worry about building expense since their are no buildings to start out with. Still sweeten the deal by building all the player achievements. The other players would still try to take the planets. If you do it this way then centrally locating the planets would make sence. In 2 there were 3 id still say have 3. PleASE make this an option. I know they start out with everyones tech, but as far as future research goes. There would need to be randomly generated abilities for future research. The second would have to be close not centrally located. Maybe pick the first class zero to be closest to being centrally located. For the second, and third it would end up being off from center. Then after.the first planet pick pick the closest for the others. Being class zero planets then noone could complain about losing planets.
Have they made trade valuable yet? Last I checked the best way for making money was to costs on production and build treasure hunts. I was waiting to play until trade was worth it or I could play an economic focused game.
Not likely to happen since they have never been big on trade. You are waiting for a feature they never had.
You could still ecenomic focus just not trade focus.
Yea, sad to see they won't make that a part of the game though. I would like to be able to play a game where the economics were the focus or strength of an empire. It's odd that the best way to make an economic focused nation is to focus on production rather than trade.
If Stardock simply made Treasure Hunt missions repeatable, there's your trade. Internal trade. You're exchanging about 1 ship construction for 1.25bc. With almost no micromanagement (if they made it repeatable).
Trade freighters are still worth little more than a diplomacy bonus, though. Markets are still pretty useless, even adjacent to your Central bank. Ports of Call are not that far behind. I mean come on: +1bc tourism, -1bc maintenance? You have to make +100% economic bonuses just to get 1bc out of it?
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I did not like the 1 to 1 ratio. It felt unrealistic. worlds should become more disorganized and harder to focus, with more social baggage, the larger the population gets. That feels realistic to me. The square root depreciation was much too extreme to feel right as well. A population to production exponent of 0.92 felt right. It's not really felt until the world is glutted with people and it doesn't make additional growth pointless.
Just make the population exponent a tech and/or race trait. Then everyone can be happy.
What should we expect here? It would be nice, it there are peaceful ways of integrating minors, not every time I want to play the war way
Each minor should have some unique technology or resource that is accessible only by assimilating them peacefully. And of course, their juicy planet, which represents the prize for the other, conquest option.
I've advocated for a similar kind of mechanic - that when you meet a Minor Civilization that they offer something that, depending on how you're playing the game, you need and so you become A: Their friend because you want what they have and B: Their protector because without them you can't work the way you want to. So you trade with them, have great relations with them because of that ability/technology/ whatever it is they have. And when some other Major Civilization steps in, that's a reason for conflict - with whatever help the Minor Civilization can give.
I appreciate in the end game Minors would tend to get invaded/sacrificed for The Greater Good Of The Majors, but in the early-mid game Minors could still play some part in how things pan out.
I love this. 0.5 is far too harsh and 1 is too generous. Somewhere between 0.75 and 0.9 is probably my ideal. Balance here is definitely in the eye of the beholder. I'll probably mod the game going forward depending on how fast I want to play.
Why not add this as an option slider when you start the game? Just steal the volume slider UI element.
Just let minors have mercenary ships they are willing to trade. And alliance treaties. If you invade the minors, you tick off everybody else, incur a warmonger diplomatic penalty, and you declare war on their allies. Even the Drengin you tick off--they're mercenaries. Drengin love mercenaries.
Please, please work further on faster turn processing and Invasion and space battles!! For me this are the only things left to make this game awesome.
Please don't speed up tech research.
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Happy New Year!
It's Tiffany from the design team here today to share a fun party ensemble for you!
This kid-friendly NEON New Year's Party is sure to be a big hit and it uses my most loved die cutting machine, my Sizzix eclips!
I love that the eClips uses both cartridges and digital files with the eCAL software. This project incorporates both in an approachable way!
Favor Boxes
First up, I'm going to show how fun it is to make these cute little kids' favors boxes using the cartridge, Albums, Bags, & Boxes, along with a digital cutting file from SVGcuts.com, New Year's Eve:
For this project you will need the Sizzix eclips, Sizzix eclips Albums, Bags, and Boxes cartridge, eCAL software, 12x12 or 12x24 cutting mat, eclips Cutting Mat Adhesive, New Year's Eve kit from SVGcuts.com, 12x12 piece of cardstock (1/box), 12x12 black cardstock (sentiment mats), 12x12 grey cardstock (grey cardstock)
When you insert the cartridge and start up the machine, the following screen appears. Ensure that your speed & pressure is set for your material (I always use the default), adjust your mat size for your project, and choose the "boxes" category.
There's a little manual that comes with each cartridge that has TONS of useful information. I always look at the height recommendations so that I can adjust the height of the project. I want to make a 5" tall box, so I need to adjust my project height to 10.24", as shown in the manual.
You can adjust the height using the keyboard.
Here's the cut milk carton box! I cut out 5 boxes and used the 12"x24" cutting mat to make mass production faster!
Measure one of the faces on your milk carton project. For a 5" milk carton, the face should measure 2.5"x3.75". This will help you determine the dimensions for your sentiment.
Open both files: Happy New Year bottom & Happy New Year top under the extras. Select both of the files before resizing. Resize both files together so that the Happy New Year bottom measures 2.5" tall.
Here are the cut pieces! Note how precise the Sizzix eClips cuts the smaller cuts? AWESOME!
Using an adhesive of your choice (I like spray adhesive for little letters), adhere the letters to their mat.
Position on the 3rd face of the milk carton.
Assemble as per the instructions using a strong adhesive.
Now, you can add little favors and activities! I made these little tic-tac-toe mats from fun foam and washi tape. Top your milk carton box with washi tape and a clothespin. This will allow it's recipient to open and close the milk carton easily without damaging it!
Paper Clock Activity
Speaking of activities, I have a fun paper plate clock activity you can make with the kiddos using a small black dessert paper place, the clock from the New Year's Eve kit, a brad, some cardstock, and your extra Thickers (I know you have some).
For this project you will need a black paper plate, thickers or number stickers, 5" square grey cardstock (clock face bottom), 5" square of colored cardstock (clock face top), 1" x 2" black cardstock (clockhands), brad, Sizzix eClips with eCAL.
Just like we did for the Happy New Year sentiment before, make sure to open all the clock parts in a new document and select all the parts before resizing. This ensures that they're proportional to each other. Once cut, the kids can layer the two circles and attach them along with the clockhands with a brad in the center. Start the clock for younger kids be adding thicker letters at 12, 3, 6, and 9.
Hipster Glasses and Moustaches
I also have some fun props for the party!
Open the glasses file from the New Year's Eve Kit on a new document and copy and paste other glasses until you have the desired number.
You can use scrap pieces of cardstock or cut larger pieces to size to save paper. This way you can multiple colors of the glasses as desired in one pass through the eClips!
Here they are all cut and pretty!
Use a cut dowel, skewer, paper straw, or lollipop stick and cover with glitter tape. I used the Recollections Glitter Tape. Now, you can adhere the glasses with a glue dot or hot glue!
Using the same technique, you can also create mini moustaches!
2013 Banner
No party is complete without a banner!
You will need 12"x12" grey cardstock (small triangles), 6" x 9.25" colored cardstock (per penant), 12"x12" Black cardstock (cityscape penant toppers), 6"x6" colored cardstock (per colored cityscape penant topper), Sizzix Moustache Embossing Folder, Sizzix Vagabond Embossing Machine, 2 standard cutting plates, cutting platform, Sizzix eClips with eCAL, washi tape, May Arts metallic string, hole punch.
First, using the shapes menu at the bottom, open the triangle and size the triangle approximately 6" wide. Copy and paste 3 times for a total of 4 triangles. When you select the triangle shape you can rotate them to fit nicely on a single 12"x12" piece of cardstock. Cut.
Now, you can determine the size of the 2013 numbers.
Using the Bebas Font, prepare a new document to cut the 2013 numbers for the banner. Copy and paste 2013 in another part of the document and using the menu at the far right, create a square shadow. This shadow, once cut, will be the black mats for the 2013 numbers. Cut.
Open the cityscape wide (top and bottom) in the New Year's Eve Kit, select both, and resize to 6" wide using the Properties menu to the right. These will be your penant toppers. Cut.
Now, open the triangle shape again. This time, resize the triangles to 6"x9.25". Cut.
Once all the elements are cut, emboss the smaller triangles using the Sizzix Mustache Textured Impressions embossing folder. Now, you can mat and adhere everything.
I hope you enjoyed reading this tutorial! If you'd like to cut the other elements for this party ensemble, just go to SVGcuts.com and look up the New Year's Eve Kit. For my party ensemble, I have included the tuxedo gift box, cityscape party favor box, and the party hats!
cutting files: New Year's Eve Kit from SVGcuts.com
cardstock: Recollections South Beach Cardstock 12"x12"; Bazzill Cardstock 12"x12"- Ash & Black
embellishments: washi tapes; Recollections Glitter Tape; 1/8" wooden dowel; lollipop sticks
ribbon: May Arts Metallic String- silver
adhesive: Elmer's Spray Adhesive; Scotch ATG Adhesive 1/4"; hot glue
Are you ready for more ideas for ways to embellish your party scape with eclips electronic die cutting? Check out our eclips Party Project Gallery for more fun ideas!


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{Friday Flickr Favorites}
Who Wants a Pop?
1. black & white, 2. chuck, 3. orangechevy3_6583, 4. bubble up
Jewelry box makeover at Sisters of the Wild West.
Chest transformation at Goed in Stijl.
Dresser makeover at Goin' With the Flo.
Armchair makeover at Get Your Martha On.
Next up, is an amazing screen porch/deck transformation at Hill Country Homebody.
Finally, check out this garage door makeover. Forever Decorating turned an ordinary garage door into a charming carriage style door with paint. Don't forget to check out these blogs for more photos and details.


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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan sing along with Janna Ryan as the Oakridge Boys perform during a campaign rally at the Marion County Fairgrounds in Marion, Ohio on Sunday.
Ohio's Republican governor said Sunday that private polls show Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney beating President Barack Obama in the all-important battleground state of Ohio just as auto industry politics assume a dominant role in the closing days of the campaign.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) predicted outright that Romney would win Ohio on "Meet the Press" and, with it, the presidential election — a overall contest which Kasich said wouldn't be that close.
"Right now, I believe we're currently ahead. Internals show us currently ahead," he said, referring to the private polling candidates routinely conduct. "Honestly, I believe that Romney is going to carry Ohio."
The governor's show of confidence comes after a week in which Obama and Romney — along with their respective running mates — barnstormed the Buckeye State in hopes of securing the state's 18 electoral votes, which would greatly enhance either candidate's hopes of winning the presidential election.
A Cincinnati Enquirer/Ohio News poll released Sunday and conducted Oct. 18-23 showed the two candidates tied at 49 percent apiece among likely voters in the state. Two other public polls earlier in the week, by CNN/ORC and TIME magazine, showed Obama leading by a small margin.
Romney was set to spend Sunday touring the Buckeye State after canceling a series of stops in Virginia due to the impending Hurricane Sandy; Obama will make a quick trip to Youngstown on Monday before returning to Washington to monitor the hurricane. The president canceled planned stops in northern Virginia and Colorado in the first half of this week.
Both the president and Romney are battling to turn out their supporters to the polls and shake loose the few remaining undecided voters in a handful of swing states. The Romney campaign has claimed that momentum is on their side, a claim which the Obama campaign argues is a bluff.
The Romney campaign circulated on Sunday several newspaper endorsements — the Des Moines Register and the Cincinnati Enquirer among them — to argue that the Republican ticket had made inroads in crucial swing states. The Obama campaign responded in kind by sending reporters endorsement editorials from the Youngstown Vindicator and the Toledo Blade, both of which referenced the 2009 auto industry bailout as a point in Obama's favor.
The auto bailout — which Romney had opposed, memorably, in a New York Times op-ed entitled "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" — has assumed a central role in the closing days of the campaign, especially as the election plays out largely on a Midwestern, industrial and economically-battered playing field.
RELATED: Auto politics haunt Romney in NW Ohio
Kasich argued that the auto bailout hadn't actually boosted Ohio's economy as much as Obama would have the state's voters think.
"We are thrilled that we have a strong auto industry," he argued, "but it doesn't account for the growth of 112,000 jobs in our state."
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In the final push in the 2012 presidential election, candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make their last appeals to voters.
The Romney campaign also aired a new ad in Ohio touting an endorsement from the right-leaning Detroit News and iconic automan Lee Iacocca, while also making a controversial claim about productions of Jeeps in China.
"Obama took GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy and sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China," the ad says in reference to plans by the auto company to build a new production facility in China to sell vehicles in that country.
The ad is accurate but plays to misinformation that spread earlier this week — partly because Romney had previously voiced the claims — suggesting that Chrysler was planning to move production of all Jeeps to China. The automaker has strongly disputed those reports, though they could have an impact in battleground corners of Ohio like Toledo, a major hub for Jeep production in North America.
First Read: Romney's Ohio fortunes tied to softening bailout stance
The governors of two other battleground states — John Hickenlooper (D) of Colorado and Scott Walker (R) of Wisconsin — relied on more traditional fare to make the case for and against their candidates.
"What are those deductions and tax credits he's going to get rid of?" Hickenlooper asked of Romney's tax reform plan, seizing on the former Massachusetts governor's refusal to specify which loopholes and deductions he would eliminate to finance his proposed tax cuts.
And Walker, whose contentious collective bargaining reforms sparked a standoff with his state legislature and a recall election which he won, argued that Romney has a track record of working in a bipartisan manner.
"He's proven that he can do it in a state like Massachusetts," Walker said.
But neither Walker nor Hickenlooper seemed as confident as Kasich, who predicted that the fate of Ohio's electoral votes — and the election — would be known early on election night.
"I'm not sure the election's going to be as close as what everybody is talking about today," he said.


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crusade against (someone or something)
To strongly oppose someone or something and encourage others to do the same. Many people in our small town are crusading against that big construction project because they feel that we don't need more stores so close to our homes.
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crusade against someone or something
to campaign or demonstrate against someone or something. You are always crusading against one cause or another. Ed started crusading against Eric and the latter threatened suit.
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singe (one's) wings
To suffer harm, defeat, or ruin in the pursuit of something risky. An allusion to the mythical figure Icarus, who constructed a set of wings out of feathers and wax that melted when he flew too close to the sun. He used to be one of the most successful financial advisers on Wall Street, but he singed his wings going after high-risk, high-profit investments that ultimately bankrupted him.


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Using death rates to judge hospital performance 'a bad idea'
Mortality rates are a poor measure of the quality of hospital care and should not be a trigger for public inquiries such as the investigation at the Mid Staffordshire hospital, argue experts in a paper published in the British Medical Journal today.
Inpatient mortality rates, used by organizations to issue "report cards" on the quality of individual U.S. hospitals, are a poor gauge of how well hospitals actually perform and should be abandoned in favor of measures that more accurately assess patient harms and the care being provided, argue patient safety experts in a paper out today.
Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Richard Lilford, Ph.D., professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Birmingham in England, write in the British Medical Journal that hospital mortality rates take into account all inpatient deaths, not just the ones that could have been prevented with quality care. Since many patients are often too sick to be saved by the time they are admitted to the hospital, the researchers argue, hospital mortality rates shouldn't be the factor that determines whether hospitals are "good" or "bad."
Only one of every 20 hospital deaths in the United States is believed to be preventable.
Hospital standardized mortality ratios, which Pronovost and Lilford looked at specifically in their paper, identify hospitals where more patients die than would be expected (bad hospitals) and hospitals where there are fewer deaths than expected (good hospitals). The ratio — used by the governments of the United Kingdom and by some nonprofits, state health departments and individual hospitals in the United States — has been criticized by some for not separating preventable from inevitable deaths largely because they fail to appropriately take into account the mix of patients seen at individual hospitals or variations in care within hospitals themselves.
Hospital mortality seems like the most obvious way to judge a hospital's care. It is easily measured, of undisputed importance to everyone and common to all hospital settings. But it does not tell the whole story, Pronovost says.
"This tool is widely used, probably because it's easy. The attitude is: It's good enough," Pronovost says. "But it's not. It's laudable to want to look at preventing deaths. But if you want to look at preventing deaths, why on earth would you look at all deaths, when it's only a small percentage that fall into that category?"
Pronovost isn't arguing against making hospitals responsible for the quality of care they provide, but just the opposite. He wants to use selected measures that are accurate, that are used to examine events that can be prevented and that have been scientifically studied. He isn't against collecting data on mortality; he just thinks they shouldn't be the sole basis for sanction or reward. In the United Kingdom, the government uses these rates punitively. In the United States, the public may wrongly judge hospitals based on rates used on quality "report cards." The U.S. government does not use the rates as part of its regulatory oversight of hospitals.
"The goal is to say, yes, we need to be more accountable for quality of care, but we need to be scientific in how we separate hospitals of better quality from hospitals of worse quality," he says.
Using mortality rates can mislead the public into thinking a hospital offers poor care when it does not, he says, or to comfort those who score well, who may just have a false sense of confidence since the rates are not meaningful. In the United Kingdom, mortality ratios vary by 60 percent among hospitals, making it an "absurd" measure of quality, Pronovost says, when only one in 20 deaths can be prevented.
One yardstick by which hospitals could be better judged, he says, is the rate of bloodstream infections in hospital intensive care units, which cause 31,000 deaths in U.S. hospitals each year. Pronovost's previous research has found that these infections are largely preventable by hospitals that use a five-step checklist with simple steps proven to reduce the infections. Research on the checklist showed that bloodstream infections at Johns Hopkins Hospital and hospitals throughout the state of Michigan have been virtually eliminated when the checklist is followed.
Looking at some mortality rates may make sense, he says. For example, looking at death rates following a heart attack or elective surgery could be a quality measure since there is an expectation that those patients should survive.
He says more research needs to be done into which measures most accurately assess how hospitals prevent needless deaths. These, he says, should be how hospital quality is judged.
"In using mortality rates, hospitals are applauded because we've saved lives because rates are low or scolded for being above where they should be," Pronovost says. "There's no signal there. There's just a lot of noise."
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Despite being brutally violent and populated mostly with racists, misogynists and thieves, the Coen Brothers' "True Grit," starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin, is one of the funniest films of the year.
"True Grit" couldn't be a much more simple story: a 14-year-old girl hires the meanest marshal available, Rooster Cogburn (Bridges), to help her hunt down Tom Chaney, the man who killed her father. Along the way they begrudgingly team up with a Texas Ranger named La Boeuf (Damon) who's hunting the same man.
Hailee Steinfeld is a revelation in her first feature film, taking the lead role of Mattie Ross. Surrounded by actors as old and talented as Bridges, Damon and Brolin, it would be easy enough to duck and cover, but Steinfeld's Mattie is savvy, tough and bold. During one negotiation, she bullies a merchant so mercilessly that he agrees to her terms and forbids his employees to ever speak her name. Don't be fooled by the Best Supporting Actress nomination she got from the Screen Actors Guild—this is her story and she carries unflinchingly.
It's a credit to Bridges' talent that for the second year in a row he plays a besotted lout slumped under a cowboy hat, who very nearly loses a child he has no business caring for, without ever making you think about "Crazy Heart." His Rooster Cogburn is a lawman with an itchy trigger-finger, who "don't take too many prisoners," a fresh creation from a man enjoying an impressive late-career resurgence.
Damon, no doubt still peeved that his work in "The Informant!" was overlooked, brings a similar brand of pride, preening and dopey charm to La Bouef, who's been fruitlessly tracking Chaney for months, but remains nonetheless convinced of his own greatness. When you first see him with that asinine handlebar mustache, you think he's a boob. When you realize he fancies himself something special, you know he's a boob.
Roger Deakins, who has been the cinematographer for all but one of the Coens' films dating back to "Fargo" (1996), serves up yet another beautifully shot film—it's the Old West, after all, if it doesn't look good, you're probably not trying too hard. Curiously, it's during the adventure's final moments that the look of the film goes awry; maybe they were going for a dreamy, narcotic atmosphere, but it looks instead like cheap greenscreen.
Much of the film's humor comes from the oddly formal, almost courtly language in which everyone, even the thugs, speaks. After La Bouef bites off half his tongue, Bridges growls that not even this injury can stop him from "lapping the banks of the English language." All the characters, even the half-wit Chaney, talk in the most flowery manner. It's hilarious.
The Coens have made a career of bending genre films into high art. They play "True Grit" straighter than any of their previous movies, but it still has the imprint of their special flavor of dark, foreboding humor.
Review: "True Grit" Is Violent, Hilarious and Brilliant
Despite being brutally violent and populated mostly with racists, misogynists and thieves, the Coen Brothers' "True Grit," starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin, is one of the funniest films of the year.


text: DescriptionLights are a great way to liven up any living space, but few hold a candle to the what the MoodX is capable of. Shake this portable light three times, and you can set the mood with more than 16 million brilliant colors. Stick this chromatic cube by your nightstand as a moody nightlight or use it to take some creative selfies. Can't decide on a single color? Switch on lava mode and bathe your room in a vibrant array of hues!