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The Care and Feeding Of a Wild Yeast
By FLORENCE FABRICANT
Published: January 14, 1998
MY first fling with sourdough bread, some 20 years ago, was moderately successful. I managed the bit of magic that gets it all going: capturing the wild yeast from the air, rather than using the tamed -- that is, commercial -- yeast that comes in a package, and nourishing it with flour to make a starter vigorous enough to cause dough to rise. The bread was fair enough, but it was a lot of work. After a while the starter got pretty nasty and I discarded it.
At that time, home sourdough baking was a fringe activity. There weren't many books that offered help. James Beard gave sourdough short shrift in his book on bread, complaining that it was unpredictable, difficult to perfect at home and overrated. And like most cookbook authors, even many of those writing bread books today, he got the starter going with packaged yeast.
But good bread made from wild yeast is like no other. It is the big, complex, crusty ''miche,'' as those like the five-pound sourdough loaves of Lionel Poilane and Jean-Luc Poujauran in Paris are called. They are made with only flour, water and salt, yet last for a week without spoiling. It is the kind of bread with which Eli Zabar established his reputation, on which David Bouley is staking his at Bouley Bakery and for which Nancy Silverton's La Brea Bakery in Los Angeles has already set a standard.
The idea that I could actually bake such crusty, craggy, richly complex breads at home, without the help of packaged yeasts or machines that pop out blocks of bread with as much effort as brewing a pot of coffee, never occurred to me until I read ''Nancy Silverton's Breads From La Brea Bakery'' (Villard Books, 1996; $30). This kind of bread has become the Holy Grail of fanatic home bakers, who gently nurture natural sourdough starters for weeks and months, seeking to capture the flavor and texture of old-fashioned rustic loaves.
Dozens of Web sites hold debates about how to make the best natural starter and carry on endlessly about the Silverton book. On the Web, this volume has risen to cult status (a good place to start is www.nyx .net/dgreennw/sourdoughfaqs.html).
The most basic recipe in the Silverton book, which makes only two loaves of bread, requires at least 17 days, primarily to culture the starter. Then another bread book, ''Amy's Bread'' by Amy Scherber and Toy Kim Dupree (William Morrow, 1996; $23), was published, with a shorter method for getting the sourdough going.
I was tempted to try both. But months slipped by. Then, Fleischmann's yeast entered the picture with a packaged sourdough starter. And other bread books were in the works. Time to tackle the project -- to compare the books and to see whether the stuff in the packet was any good.
Armed with Ms. Silverton's meticulous step-by-step, I began to defy the limitations of a home kitchen, one that lacked steam-injected ovens or the ideal temperatures for bread baking, and to try to produce bakery quality naturally risen bread.
For Ms. Silverton's starter I needed a crock, organic black grapes (which help start the fermentation), unbleached bread flour and water. Thanks to the popularity of bread machines, bread flour, which is higher in protein and has more gluten than all-purpose flour, is now sold in most supermarkets. Ms. Scherber's starter required organic rye flour, which is quick to ferment, and spring water. Both methods called for a thermometer and a scale.
ONCE the starters were mixed and left at room temperature, they began to bubble and ferment, as the yeasts and the bacteria normally in the air start to feast on the slurry of flour and water. It amounts to controlled spoilage (controlled through conditions like proper temperature and the quality of flour and water that attract the desired microbes).
I checked on those containers in my pantry about as frequently as I would peek in on my sleeping children when they were infants. And like infants, in relatively short order, both starters, but especially Ms. Silverton's, began to take over my life. Twins! Ms. Silverton warned it might happen. What began as a lark and a bit of a challenge now had its obsessive, dark side.
What was that pinkish film floating on my five-day old starter? ''Mold may appear,'' the Silverton recipe said. I scraped it off, refreshed the starter as instructed and hoped this living thing would not suffer any permanent injury. After 10 days, I put the starter on its regular feeding schedule: three times a day, adding carefully weighed flour and water.
The Scherber starter was fed only once a day. With each feeding, the amount of starter is doubled, so unless you are nurturing starter for your entire ZIP code, you dump out all but two cups of it each morning.
As the starter is fed, the bacteria eat the flour and multiply. Their community, the culture, becomes more vigorous. At the same time, the constant feeding is combating an undesirable result of bacterial growth. Left to its own devices at room temperature, the culture would become more and more acidic, and I would be back where I was 20 years ago with a nasty bit of business. But now, while the culture expands, it is mellowed by the infusion of new flour. After a new starter has had a chance to develop, it can be stored in the refrigerator for a week or longer. It will go dormant and must to be taken out and fed again to be reactivated before using.


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At 21, Mangum was diagnosed with a curvature of the back known as scoliosis. At 28 he said he "suffered an injury related to scoliosis that has left me with nerve damage and numbness in my lower back and legs. I live each day with pain and weakness in my lower back and legs."
After practicing or playing a game, he will pop out of his chair and help those who don't have his type of mobility. For most able-bodied observers, it can be a somewhat jarring paradigm shift to witness as preconceived wheelchair perceptions are challenged.
Once everyone arrives, all the everyday chairs and sport chairs are stowed, Tetris-style, in the shell-covered bed of Mangum's truck. There's one long, rectangular-shaped space in the shell where a window used to be, but nobody's worried about the chairs flying out.
With everybody packed up, they're ready to exchange the warming Utah desert for the unfavorable Fahrenheit readings of Las Vegas, Death Valley and the Mojave Desert at the hottest parts of the day.
The Wheelin' Jazz roll into St. George, Utah, to grab the camping trailer that they'll hitch to the back of Mangum's truck. The plan is to stay at a campground in landlocked Pomona, Calif., some 32 miles east of downtown L.A. where the games will be played. They have a game on Saturday at 9 a.m. and possibly the 8 a.m. early game on Sunday.
Mangum said the distance "won't be a problem."
If you've never been to LA, it'll be a problem.
It's not necessarily the distance that's the issue, it's all those cars they manage to pack onto those roads that tends to be the problem.
Someone mentions that there's another campground in Malibu, Calif., that's about the same distance from downtown where at least you'd have the beach to relax at while you watch the sunset melt into the water after pushing on pavement all day. Mangum says the plans have already been made.
Finally, after 11 hours, the freeway signs are starting to announce Pomona for the next six exits. Mangum's truck makes its way off of I-10 and covers the short distance to the campground and their camping spot.
"It went by pretty quick," Mangum says. "We had a couple little problems with the truck. It kept wanting to overheat going up the hills. So that kept me occupied, trying to keep the temperature down, make sure everything was OK. We got to a certain point and we didn't have any problems with it anymore."
Now, let's not confuse this with a Boy Scout camping trip where there are tents to pitch and firewood to collect for that night's campfire. Mangum backs up and unhitches the camping trailer, slipping it into its spot among the multiple rows of RVs and trailers.
"It was kind of a fun ride. Yackin', telling jokes and having fun," Mangum continues. "It was long, but I enjoy it. I like to take road trips. It's fun for me, get to know the teammates a little better, have some laughs. It's good for me."
While the local time is an hour earlier, 9 p.m. PST, there's no wormhole that lets you skip that hour of travel. Eleven hours is 11 hours, no matter the time zone of the final destination.
"It was like I was flying to Europe, but only ended up in California," Griffin says. "We traveled (11) hours in that truck. It felt like I was in (coach seating) in the back of the plane just cramped with everyone else. I'm ready to be in my wheelchair right now. I didn't think I'd ever say that. I'm ready to be back in my wheelchair."
As all the guys pile out, they are more than ready to run around and stretch out their extremities, which brings up an interesting question:
Do you still feel the need to stretch your legs after a long drive?
Griffin and Lathem both smile and sort of chuckle when I ask that question. They are paralyzed form the waist down and have lost the everyday use of their legs.
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Summer Report: Well, we're about a month into summer which means we're two months officially away from autumn. I hope you're enjoying the warm weather and perhaps getting outside for some hiking, camping, fishing and boating. Meanwhile, there's a lot going and in some ways there's not. Sorting through some backed up emails I found a few turkey photos that I failed to post earlier, including a few nice ones. My apologies for that.
As you'll see from the news items below there's a lot of UMP activity, new fish stocking info and a drought warning. What's not happening is legislation so we're not sure if we'll get a vote later this summer on bills like lowing the legal big game hunting age to 12, a new crossbow bill and others. We'll just have to wait and see.
I've spent some time recently in the Adirondacks where, of course, I talk with deer hunters. Some are reporting deer sighting, including fawns, while others haven't seen much. There's plenty of food in the woods for deer but what there is not is water. So, where there's water there's deer. What many are reporting is bear activity. If there's a year to consider going after a bear when the Adirondack season opens on Sept. 17, this might be the year.
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Land of the Livid Dead
before i put myself through the painful process of completing all speed trophies can someone please clear up for me if you have to do land of the livid dead for a speed trophy towards the achievment or if it is just all other levels? i havent seen the option to but just want to be sure because if you do then ill stay happy with 920G for this game haha
Land of the livid dead has no speedrun. All you have to do is make it to the end. So no pressure :)
I'm stuck on the caterpillar section. I swing through the two blue "helping hands," hit the caterpillar, then slam into the thorns. I can't seem to figure out how to jump over the last set of thorns (before a portion with normal ground). I've watched several videos, but I can't tell how the players are successfully jumping them.
I can't believe how long the caterpillar section is. I wish it had a checkpoint. Watching videos, I think I can finish the level if I can just make it through this section. Thanks for any suggestions.
Edit: I figured out what I was doing wrong. I was using a short jump (tap A) when I needed a long jump (hold A). I guess on the normal levels, I never thought much about the difference since you can usually get away with hovering instead of long jump. I guess knowing the difference will help me with speed runs.
Finally got through the caterpillar (or maybe it's a centipede) and ironically did the saw blades the first time. Flipping coffins only took a few tries. Now I almost have the next room down. I'll get it eventually.
I'm glad the rest of the game is not like this. No Super Meat Boy for me! Cheers to those who can handle it.
Edit 2: Finished it. I have a lot of respect to those who can breeze through. I'm never touching that level again.
The Land of the Livid Dead wasn't too bad compared to some of the speed runs and the last Skull Tooth. The game in general had me cussing my unborn child's name at times for sure!
Are they checkpoint after each door or if you die you start back at the start?
I just beat it tonight. Just a friendly reminder that once you start the game you got to complete it since if you leave the level you got to start at the beginning. The boss was pretty simple, getting there is tough part.
so glad I finished this game, and I won't be repeating this or any of the skull teeth levels ever again.
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Summer in the Oregon Mountains
I have been blogging all winter/spring about what to do in the Oregon Mountains…well it's summer and there is still plenty of fun to be had in the beautiful white-capped Oregon Mountains (and surrounding areas)!
Oregon astounds me sometimes.
It is a place that always seems to keep me smiling. Every time I visit a new area, I think: I have been in Oregon for 10 years, and this is the first time I have been here? What have I been doing all of this time?
There are hidden gems in every valley, on every mountain top and in every small town you have never traveled through. (This photo to the left was taken at one of the beautiful sections from the Alpine Trail outside of Oakridge, OR.) Get out a map of Oregon, highlight every route and every community you have visited or traveled through. See all of the roads and places that aren't highlighted? Plan a trip there. One at a time, as I am sure your wish list is too comprehensive to do all at once (I know mine is)! Visit TravelOregon's website and get a glimpse of what you have been missing, then pack the car and take a road trip.
You will be amazed at what you find out there.
This was the case in visiting the Oakridge area in the summer. My friend, Dave and I have skied/snowboarded Willamette Pass several times and both have had phenomenal conditions and experiences…but the Oakridge area in the summer? We were pleasantly surprised to find a thriving mountain bike community there.
Dave, my great companion on this road trip summed it up nicely on the drive back to Portland: "Oakridge embraces the mountain biking culture, like how the French and Oregonians embrace cheese and wine."
We contacted Randy with a company called Oregon Adventures. Randy started his business in the early 1990's as a dream, now there is a focus on tours, shuttle services and events. The shuttle service is growing at a very nice pace, and Randy says that "Oakridge/Westfir will become as well known as Moab [UT], Downieville [CA] and other hot mountain biking spots within three to five years."
Many of Randy's clients are passionate mountain bike riders that travel the west looking for the "hot spots" of mountain biking. Randy told us a story on the way up: he was shuttling a couple from Redding, CA up to the Alpine Trail, and they mentioned hearing about Oakridge during a shuttle trip in Downieville, CA. They were told if they are to ride anywhere, it needs to be Moab, Downieville or Oakridge, Oregon…so the couple made the trip and will surely be back, as the riding is phenomenal, the surrounding area has endless opportunties for recreation, the pricing is great and the people are fantastic (this is Oregon we're talking about).
We booked the shuttle service for a Saturday morning ride up the moutain to the top of Alpine Trail.
We arrived at the meeting spot, a quaint little coffee shop in the middle of Oakridge. There were 5 other cars there, equipped with bikes on the roof and attached to the bumper. The large Oregon Adventures van pulled up into the parking lot was soon loading bikes on top of the spacious passenger van.
We were soon in our cars, following the van to the bottom of the Alpine Trail. We were to drop our vehicles at the bottom of the trail (near the longest covered bridge in Oregon – photo), and load up into the van for our trip up the mountain. The ride up to the top of the Alpine Trail was about 25-30 minutes, in which two locals proceeded to give us some background and details about the upcoming ride.
At the top, we unloaded and everyone was gone in a flash…most were returning for the second, third or even 26th time. This was our first and we enjoyed it. We like to play a quick game of Hacky-Sack before we start our ride. It seems to loosen up the legs, gets the heart pumping and also creates some chemistry and great communication/teamwork between my friends and I.
Needless to say, the Alpine Trail was amazing. From top to bottom, we used a full 3 hours of our time. We stopped plenty along the way, as some parts of the trail push you out of the woods and onto singletrack that offer phenomenal views of the valleys, rolling hills, and mountain tops.
I believe it is about a 3,000 foot vertical drop on the Alpine Trail, but it isn't a quick drop, it is a fun, winding trail that offers everything a singletrack mountain bike trail could offer – great terrain, winding banks, white-knuckle descents, technical switchbacks and ridiculous views. I actually ran out of space on my camera, as the amount of video and pictures I could have taken, I would have needed several gigs of memory to hold.
After the final descent, we were dropped along a beautiful flowing river, and some well-deserved accomplishment celebration was in store. We went back and forth on the longest covered bridge in Oregon on our bikes, explored just a bit of the old mill that used to be at the bottom of this beautiful hill and headed back to town.
After the ride we went to explore the Warm Springs that is right outside of Oakridge. This place was gorgeous! And nobody was there, so it could be a hidden gem. If you are lucky or adventurous enough to find this place, please leave it as you found it (or better). Thanks.
The following day we headed to Willamette Pass Ski Area to ride the Eagle Peak Gondola to the top and mountain bike down. There are some serious downhill bikers at the area, and some gnarly trails to ride. There are a couple of easy ways down, but make sure your brakes are well-equipped, as you will be dropping 1800 vertical feet, with views of Lake Odell and Diamond Peak as you descend.
A lot of the downhill riders were equipped with mountain bikes that had shocks and suspension that resembled motorcycles/dirt bikes. There are some very technical trails with man-made features (obstacles) and sharp drops from tree roots and other natural terrain. My friend was riding a hard tail (a bike without rear suspension/shock), and he managed the trails very well. I had a soft tail (bike with rear suspension/shock) and was still feeling very uneasy about some of the stuff we were doing. We did find the EZR trail and had a great time exploring that trail, it suited our skills perfectly.
After mountain biking, we headed down to the café and got some great lunch. Then we put the bikes away and played 18 holes of Disc Golf. If you are unfamiliar with Disc Golf, you can learn more here.
If you like playing Frisbee and/or golf, it is something you should look into. There are Disc Golf Courses (DGC) all over Oregon. The beauty is, once you have a disc or Frisbee, its FREE! Several Oregon Ski Areas offer disc golf courses, including Mt. Bachelor, Mt. Hood Ski Bowl and Willamette Pass. The rules are very similar to regular golf, except you're throwing a Frisbee / Disc into a Basket / Disc Catcher (photo). It is a lot of fun, and will give you a reason to get out in the beautiful Oregon outdoors and explore some areas you might not have ever hiked around.
The following weekend Dave, Katy, Leianna and I set out on another adventure in/around Central Oregon. We combined a fishing, hiking, mountain biking, camping, concert trip near Mt. Bachelor/Bend. We rode our mountain bikes on some awesome singletrack: Whoops Trail, in the Phil's Tail complex; and the Deschutes River Trail to a swimming spot on the Deschutes River.
If you enjoy mountain biking, you MUST check out the Whoops Trail and the network of Phil's Trails near Bend, OR. There are some Oregon Classics and will have you planning a trip there annually.
This is just 3 or 4 days in the Oregon Mountains…wish I had more time to explore and tell you all about it. Unfortunately, after 10 years in Oregon, I am moving back to my hometown this summer – Houston, TX. I know it will be a drastic change, but sometimes we all have to do some things that we did not plan on doing. The key is to try and enjoy everything you do, no matter where you are, or what kind of situation you are in.
Thank you to everyone that has read my Ski Oregon Blog. There should be a new individual telling his or her stories very soon. I just have one last video to leave you with…it's me mis-timing a snow-patch ride in the beautiful Oregon Mountains; thanks.
Below are links to the Oregon Ski Areas and some fun activities they offer throughout the summer months:
Cooper Spur
Weddings and retreats
Hiking and camping
Mt. Ashland
Weddings, events, catering
Mt. Bachelor
Summer sightseeing, sunset dinners, disc golf, hiking
Mt. Hood Meadows
Mt. Hood Skibowl
Adventure Park, disc golf, mountain biking, hiking and much more
Ski Anthony Lakes
Weddings, reunions, retreats, parties and hiking
Skiing and snowboarding, summer music series
Willamette Pass
Summer sightseeing, Gondola rides, disc golf, mtn biking, and hiking
Happy trails and safe travels to you all!!
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Rangers Win Pennant, but 'A-Rod Doomed Them' Myth Lives On
No sooner did the World Series end than Alex Rodriguez became the answer to the question "Why did it take the Rangers so long to win the pennant?" On Monday, Tyler Kepner of the New York Times speculated about the possibility of the Yankees obtaining Cliff Lee:
"Lee could enjoy the Yankees, too, with Sabathia, his former teammate, and A.J. Burnett, his fellow Arkansan. He would also be teammates with Alex Rodriguez, who signed a $252 million contract a decade ago that all but ruined the Rangers' previous owner, Tom Hicks."
A lot of things ruined former Texas owner Tim Hicks -- most notably, his total lack of understanding as to how to put together a major league pitching staff -- but the cost of acquiring Alex Rodriguez was not one of them.
Though it has practically been chiseled in stone that A-Rod's contract doomed the Rangers, there has never been a shred of evidence to support that.
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For instance, here's a story headlined "How Can the Rangers Afford So Much?" which appeared shortly after the Yankees and Rangers made their deal for A-Rod:
"The Texas Rangers can afford to pay Alex Rodriguez as much as $252 million over 10 years thanks to Fox Sports Net, which paid generously for local television rights to the Rangers and Dallas Stars rather than lose them to a sports cable network that the teams' owner, Tom Hicks, had wanted to start.
"In deals made between October 1999 and March, Fox Sports Net bought the Rangers' and Stars' local cable rights for $250 million over 10 years and the teams' local broadcast rights for $250 million over 15 years."
This story, written by Richard Sandomir, ran in the December 12, 2000, edition of the New York Times. Doesn't the New York Times refer to the New York Times when checking facts -- like everyone else is supposed to?
Sandomir's story doesn't say how much of the $500 million went to the Rangers and how much to the Dallas Stars hockey team, but I think we can safely assume that a much bigger piece of the pie went to the Rangers. Which means that Hicks, despite his later protestations to the contrary, had plenty of cash to invest in pitching.
Actually, Hicks had a great deal of cash to invest in pitching, more than just the money from the TV deal. As Michael K. Ozanian and Kurt Badenhausen wrote in the April 16, 2001 Forbes magazine, "Besides allowing Hicks to bid for A-Rod and other [sic] star players, the TV deals fueled a 16% increase in the value of the Rangers this year to $342 million, placing them sixth overall, up from eighth last year. And Hicks is already using A-Rod to beef up revenues. Individual Rangers games tickets now cost 10% more than they did last year. Compared with a year ago, at least 200,000 more tickets have already been sold for this season. Dallas-based Radio Shack has inked an endorsement deal with A-Rod, as well as a sponsorship pact with the Rangers. Team revenue could hit $150 million this season, 19% higher than in 2000."
But why, despite all of the proof to the contrary, do we suspect that the myth that "A-Rod Sunk the Rangers" will continue to live on?
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Tianhe District
Tianhe in Guangzhou
|• Total
|96.33 km2 (37.19 sq mi)
|Population (2014[1])
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|• Density
|16,000/km2 (40,000/sq mi)
|Time zone
|China Standard (UTC+8)
|Postal code
|Area code(s)
|Tianhe District
|Simplified Chinese
|Traditional Chinese
|Canton Romanization
|tin6 ho4 kêu1
|Hanyu Pinyin
|Tīanhé Qū
|Alternative Chinese name
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Tianhe District is one of the ten districts in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China. In Chinese, the name Tianhe means a river in the sky or simply "sky river" a Chinese name for the Milky Way. It is bordered by Yuexiu District on the west, Baiyun District on the north and Huangpu District on the east. Haizhu District is on its south, though they are separated by the Zhujiang River.
Tianhe became a district in the 1980s as the city expanded its size. Back then, it was east of another district called Dongshan (which was merged into Yuexiu in 2005) and it was more suburban like if not rural like. Even though a majority of colleges and universities in the city were located in the district, the rest of the district was mostly composed of rice fields.[citation needed]
According to the book: Heritage of Tian he ( Chinese simplified: < 天河区文物志>), there were people settled in Long dong village ( Chinese simplified: 龙洞村), Long dong village is very closed to the Botanical garden.
Within District of Tianhe, Eastern Han Dynasty( A.D 25—A.D. 220 ) tombs were discovered. During Northern Song Dynasty ( A.D 960-A.D. 1127) and Southern Song Dynasty ( A.D. 1127—A.D. 1279), Tian he region was called Da shui xu ( literally mean town of large river ) Tianhe District was originally a part of Panyu County until 14 October 1949 it was consolidated into Guangzhou as part it suburban districts consist of Shahe District and Shipai District. In October 1951 both district merge into Baiyun District, Guangzhou by June 1956 Baiyun District further consolidated with Huangpu District and Xinjiao District to form Jiao District. However, with into four years in April 1960 Jiao District was dissolved and the area consist of modern Tianhe became Huangpu District until May 1962 Huangpu District was consolidated with Fangcun District and Jiangcun District to reestablished Jiao District which last for about twenty three years. In 24 May 1985 parts of Jiao District was split to established Tianhe District and Fangcun District within two years Jiao District was renamed as Baiyun District.
In September 1987 Tonghe Town was transfer to Baiyun District, in April 1992 Yanjicun was transter to Dongshan District within two years by August 1994 Kemulang, Yushatan, and Fenghuang Farms along with Shadongcun and Erduicun was placed under Tianhe's jurisdiction. In September 2000, former Xintang, Mubei, Lingtang, and Yushu Farms were also placed under Tianhe and the farms gradually became sub-districts.
Administrative divisions[edit]
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|Changxing Subdistrict
|Zhǎngxìng Jiēdào
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|Chebei Subdistrict
|Chēbēi Jiēdào
|cé1 béi1 gai1 dou6
|Fenghuang Subdistrict
|Fènghuáng Jiēdào
|fung6 wong4 gai1 dou6
|Huangcun Subdistrict
|Huángcūn Jiēdào
|wong4 qun1 gai1 dou6
|Liede Subdistrict
|Lièdé Jiēdào
|lib6 deg1 gai1 dou6
|Linhe Subdistrict
|Línhé Jiēdào
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|Longdong Subdistrict
|Lóngdòng Jiēdào
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|Qianjin Subdistrict
|Qiánjìn Jiēdào
|qin4 zên3 gai1 dou6
|Shadong Subdistrict
|Shādōng Jiēdào
|sa1 dung1 gai1 dou6
|Shahe Subdistrict
|Shāhé Jiēdào
|sa1 ho4 gai1 dou6
|Shipai Subdistrict
|Shípái Jiēdào
|ség6 pai4 gai1 dou6
|Tangxia Subdistrict
|Tángxià Jiēdào
|tong4 ha6 gai1 dou6
|Tianhenan Subdistrict
|Tiānhénán Jiēdào
|tin6 ho4 gai1 dou6
|Tianyuan Subdistrict
|Tiānyuán Jiēdào
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|Wushan Subdistrict
|Wǔshān Jiēdào
|ng5 san1 gai1 dou6
|Xiancun Subdistrict
|Xiǎncūn Jiēdào
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|Xinghua Subdistrict
|Xìnghuá Jiēdào
|hing1 wah4 gai1 dou6
|Xīntang Subdistrict
|Xīntáng Jiēdào
|sen1 tong4 gai1 dou6
|Yuancun Subdistrict
|Yuáncūn Jiēdào
|yun4 qun1 gai1 dou6
|Yuangang Subdistrict
|Yuángǎng Jiēdào
|yun4 gong1 gai1 dou6
|Zhuji Subdistrict
|Zhūjí Jiēdào
|ju1 ged1 gai1 dou6
The first big project built in the district during the 1980s was the Tianhe Sports Center when the city was selected to host the Sixth National Games in 1986. The complex includes a stadium of 65,000 seats, a gymnasium and an indoor swimming pool. Its construction had a lasting impact on the development of the district. Soon other projects followed and rice fields gave away to residential complexes called "xiaoqu" (meaning "little districts"). The construction of xiaoqu began in the mid and late eighties and most of them had residential buildings of no more than 10 stories. Each floor was kept to no more than four units due to the lack of elevators since they would increase the construction cost. Also, due to the sheer number of residential buildings — some xiaoqu had more than 20 residential buildings — a lot of land was needed and thus converted.
The building of Guangzhou East Railway Station in 1990 further contributed to the growth of the district. The old Guangzhou Railway Station is 10 km to the west and was the terminus for trains to and from Beijing and Hong Kong. To relieve the traffic, the East Railroad Station was built and is now the terminus for trains to and from Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
As the district developed, the size of xiaoqu became smaller since land became more valuable and expensive. Most of the new xiaoqu now only consist of four to six residential buildings but each can contain 30 floors or more since the growth of district attracted big developers where the cost of construction (such as elevators) was no longer an issue. Also, taller residential buildings gave rise to taller office buildings.
South of the Sports Center and north of the Zhujiang River is Zhujiang New Town, an area desolate a decade ago but which is now one of the fastest-developing areas of Guangzhou. Many of Guangzhou's newest and most iconic buildings are found in this part of the district.
Several venues used for the 2010 Asian Games are located in Tianhe District.
- Guangzhou Science City[3]
- Kung Fu restaurants has its headquarters in the district[4]
- Jinyi Cinemas has its headquarters in the district[5]
- Chow Sang Sang's Mainland division, Chow Sang Sang (China) Company Limited[6]
- Google has a Guangzhou office in Teemtower (天河城大厦), Teemmall, in Teemplaza, Tianhe District.[7]
- All Nippon Airways operates its Guangzhou Office in the district. Since May 3, 2011 it has been located in Tower A of Victory Plaza. On May 2, 2011 and prior, it was located in the 2605 CITIC Plaza.[8]
- Renren.com has its Guangzhou office in the China Shine Plaza (S: 耀中广场, T: 耀中廣場, P: Yàozhōng Guǎngchǎng) in Tianhe.[9]
- When 56.com was an independent company, it was headquartered in Huajingyuan (S: 华景园, T: 華景園, P: Huájǐngyuán) in the Tianhe Software Park (S: 天河软件园, T: 天河軟件園, P: Tiānhé Ruǎnjiànyuán), Tianhe District.[10]
Diplomatic missions[edit]
The U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou is in Zhujiang New Town, Tianhe District.[11]
Many of the city's colleges and universities are located in the district. They include:
- Guangzhou Sports College
- Guangzhou Military Sports Academy
- Jinan University
- Guangdong Industrial University
- South China Agricultural University
- South China University of Technology
- South China Normal University
International schools in the district include:
- École Française Internationale de Canton in Favorview[12]
- Japanese School of Guangzhou[13]
- Huamei-Bond International College[14]
- Guangzhou Nanfang International School[15]
Besides the Guangzhou East Railway Station (referred to by locals as simply "East Station"), Tianhe is also the terminus for several Guangzhou Metro lines, and one line goes through it:
Tianhe is currently service by five metro lines operated by Guangzhou Metro:
- Line 1 - Tiyu Xilu ( 3 North & South), Tianhe Sports Center, Guangzhou East Station ( 3 )
- Line 3 (North Line) - Yantang ( 6 ), Guangzhou East Station ( 1 ), Linhexi ( Zhujiang APM ), Tiyu Xilu ( 1 3 South)
- Line 3 (South Line) - Tianhe Coach Terminal ( 6 ), Wushan, South China Normal University, Gangding, Shipaiqiao, Tiyu Xilu ( 1 3 North), Zhujiang New Town ( 5 )
- Line 4 - Huangcun, Chebei, Chebeinan ( 5 )
- Line 5 - Zhujiang New Town ( 3 ), Liede, Tancun, Yuancun, Keyun Lu, Chebeinan ( 4 ), Dongpu, Sanxi
- Line 6 - Shaheding, Shahe (u/c), Tianpingjia, Yantang ( 3 ), Tianhe Coach Terminal ( 3 ), Changban
- Zhujiang APM - Linhexi ( 3 ), Tianhe Sports Center South, Tianhenan, Huangpu Dadao, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Huacheng Dadao, Guangzhou Opera House, Haixinsha
Notable buildings[edit]
- CITIC Plaza, is a complex completed in 1997 between Tianhe Sports Center and Guangzhou East Railroad Station, that has an 80-story, 391 m (1,291 ft) skyscraper of the same name. It was briefly the tallest building in China and now it ranks as the eighth tallest building in China, 11th in Asia, and 16th worldwide.
- Pearl River Tower, a skyscraper under construction at the junction of Jinsui Road/Zhujiang Avenue West. It is due for completion Autumn 2009 and will be occupied by the China National Tobacco Corporation.[16]
- Guangzhou International Finance Center, is a tall skyscraper 435m high. It was built between 2005 and 2010.
- The famous shopping mall, TeeMall, a very big shopping centre, the Chinese from Guangzhou even call it the biggest shopping mall in Asia (although the biggest mall in Asia is actually the Golden Resources Mall in Beijing).
- Shipai Village is a large urban village located in Tianhe District.
- ^ "2014年广州市人口规模及分布情况" (in Chinese). Retrieved 13 February 2014.
- ^ shi, Guo wu yuan ren kou pu cha ban gong; council, Guo jia tong ji ju ren kou he jiu ye tong ji si bian = Tabulation on the 2010 population census of the people's republic of China by township / compiled by Population census office under the state; population, Department of; statistics, employment statistics national bureau of (2012). Zhongguo 2010 nian ren kou pu cha fen xiang, zhen, jie dao zi liao (Di 1 ban. ed.). Beijing Shi: Zhongguo tong ji chu ban she. ISBN 978-7-5037-6660-2.
- ^ http://www.lifeofguangzhou.com/node_10/node_38/node_62/node_67/2006/02/17/1140166303196.shtml
- ^ "Company Overview of Kungfu Catering Management Co., Ltd." Businessweek. Retrieved on August 17, 2014. "16Floor, Gaosheng Building No.109 Tiyu West Road Tianhe District Guangzhou, 637399 China"
- ^ Home page. Jinyi Cinemas. Retrieved on January 3, 2015. "广州金逸影视传媒股份有限公司 地址:广州市天河区珠江新城华成路8号礼顿阳光大厦4楼 邮编:510623"
- ^ "CHOW SANG SANG: Shining Return after 62 Years" (Archive). City of Guangzhou. Retrieved on May 9, 2014.
- ^ "Google locations." Google. Retrieved on May 25, 2016. "Google Guangzhou L30, Unit 3007, Teemtower, Teemmall, 208 Tianhe Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, 510620"
- ^ "ANA City offices Asia." All Nippon Airways. Retrieved on 13 August 2011. "Guangzhou Office [Until May 2nd, 2011] 2605 CITIC PLAZA 233 Tianhe North Road, Tianhe Ward, Guangzhou [From May 3rd, 2011] Room 1403, Tower A, Victory Plaza, No.103, TiyuXi Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, 510620"
- ^ "Contact Us." Renren Corporate. Retrieved on November 19, 2012. "Room A4001, China Shine Plaza, Linhexi Rd, Tianhe District, Guangzhou" - Chinese: "广州市林和西路9号耀中广场A塔40层4001-4003"
- ^ "联系方法." 56.com. March 23, 2006. Retrieved on November 18, 2012. "公司地址:广州市天河区中山大道89号天河软件园华景园区B栋6楼南01房"
- ^ "Security Message about Recent Protests at Emei Mountain ( July 8, 2014)" (Archive). U.S. Consulate in Chengdu. Retrieved on May 17, 2015. "43 Hua Jiu Road, Zhujian New Town Tianhe District Guangzhou 510623"
- ^ "Présentation." École Française Internationale de Canton. Retrieved on January 17, 2015. "Adresse : Favor View, Wushan, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, 510641, China" - Map
- ^ "Japanese School of Guangzhou." City Weekend. Retrieved on January 12, 2015. "No.10, Fengxin Road, Tianhe District 广东省广州市天河区风信路10号"
- ^ "Home." Huamei-Bond International College. Retrieved on September 28, 2015. "地址:广州市天河区华美路23号"
- ^ "Contact Us." Guangzhou Nanfang International School. Retrieved on September 28, 2015. "ADD: No.1 South Industrial Park, Yinglong Rd, Longdong, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 地址:广州市天河区龙洞迎龙路龙山工业园南一号 PC:510520" - Card for taxi drivers stating name and address in Chinese
- ^ "The winds of change", World Architecture News
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tianhe District.
- Official Site (simplified Chinese)
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Discouraged by big-bank practices and bureaucratic procedures, many Main Street firms have "gone local" with their lenders. Community banks are often more willing than their larger counterparts to conduct business on a handshake because they understand the needs of their neighboring establishments and, in many cases, have underwriters in-house to approve loans.
In exchange, however, those lenders expect more from their borrowers. "It's like that old saying, dig a well before you are thirsty," says Brian Carlson, president of Excel National Bank, a standalone lender in Beverly Hills. "It can take some time before [a banker] says, 'I know this guy and I'm confident he'll do what he says he'll do.' Having that relationship is valuable because if you need $300,000 by the end of the week to take advantage of an opportunity, the bank will jump to get it done."
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Great to see the legends on this legendary day. 10+ games on ESPN this year... wahoo! Go Cougs!
- 6:22 p.m. July 12, 2011
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It appears Jimmer U. is Quarterback U. again.
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I'm excited about this fall. I'm a BYU fan and I'm looking forward to the new direction and I asm also excited to watch Utah in PAC 12. I think both programs made great moves. And if BYU can beat Utah and then be successful in PAC it will help BYU. Both programs are great and hope both have great years.
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"...Realistic about Independence..."
BYU fans have denigrated the opposition to the point where BYU has only four legitimate teams left on their schedule. PAC 12 (Over-rated), WAC (Are you kidding me?), Idaho State (Heaps will pass for 500 yds. and RB's will rush for 300 yds./ a statistical dream come true). Mississippi, Texas, UCF and TCU are the only legitimate teams on the Cougars schedule. Any school, with only four legitimate teams, on their schedule, should be excited.
Congratulations to Tom Holmoe on building a very easy schedule.
8 guaranteed wins as well as a fifty-fifty split, on legitimate games, gives the Cougars an easy shot, at another 10 win season.
Go Cougars!
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Utah will always be a legitimate team despite their success the rest of the season. Rivalry games always bring out the best in your opponent.
- 7:41 a.m. July 13, 2011
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I am excited to see BYU play this year. They should have a good team and should
bring some attention to the state and their religion too.
My biggest worry is that many cougar fans and some players still put on their "Look at me, I'm a big boy now" show and annoy all of college football, not just the MWC. Hope they can class it up a little. Please let your talent speak for itself, no need to tell someone your great ... unless of course you aren't.
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I hope all you attention starved byu fans are getting the recognition you have been craving since the Utes Pac-12 week kickoff a couple of weeks ago.
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No need to worry yourself about BYU fans, it is only utah "fans" like yourself that think about them that way. It is obvious that most of the rest of the country has respect for them. I would concern myself more with how pac10 fans are going to perceive the lowclass utah "fan"base as they are exposed to them, and their boorish behavior, on a regular basis. Cougar fans will get along just fine.
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With as much time as you spend posting on BYU articles it is obvious we get plenty of attention from you. LOL!
A for the rest of the country? Well at least 10 football games and 1/2 of the BYU basketball games on ESPN these coming seasons will ensure plenty of attention for BYU and its fans. It is, how should I put it, more than anyone else in the country is getting? Yea, that's it, more than anyone else. That has a nice sound to it. :)
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Don't you worry cougie fans..........every team that you play will be the most popular team in the country that week. The way it always has been. The only people that like Cougar fans are Cougar fans.
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mgr63, even if no one else likes us, we know we can always count on you to be here for us. You will never let us down. (Or leave us alone.)
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150th Anniversary: 1851-2001; The News Today: One Hard Slap
Published: November 14, 2001
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Nuance is the first casualty of these news spectaculars. The intrinsically undramatic tenor of much information won't cut it and must immediately be hyped, much as canned laughter is used to sweeten a sitcom. In entertainment, no news is bad news -- because no news means dullsville, and poor ratings. So if nothing's happening, why not fictionalize and concoct a scenario, or at least add theatrical padding to fill out the few available facts? At least the illusion of breaking news can be spun. Thus did the unchanging reports of the accidental deaths of celebrities like the Princess of Wales and John F. Kennedy Jr. become epics that titillated for days, with a cast of hundreds, many of them willing to perform on television free in exchange for the prospect, however feeble, of instant stardom.
Though modern tabloid journalism dates at least to William Randolph Hearst, it wasn't omnipresent during the paleo age of infotainment -- it wasn't beamed into most American homes as it is now. Our 24/7 mediathons are a genuinely new form, often at odds with the whole idea of news.
Old-time tabloids hungered to break stories. In the new news, the amount of reporting in any story can be in inverse proportion to the time it eats up. The same facts are just reshuffled over and over, albeit louder and louder.
Actors Taking Reporters' Cues
Those doing the regurgitating often aren't reporters but ''news personalities'' -- actors reading from teleprompters. In the new news, every story can be outfitted with the same by-the-yard punditry and rumormongering -- and repeated at the same decibel level. Through Sept. 10, a school shooting, a celebrity drug bust and a shark attack were all equal earthquakes on the infotainment Richter scale, to the point where news that matters and that which merely titillates blurred together into trance-inducing white noise. It's no wonder, perhaps, that after Sept. 11 some consumers felt a renewed need for newspapers and any other sources that are still not part of a Hollywood entertainment factory, that still try to distinguish among the day's events rather than spew them indiscriminately into our lap, and that had never eviscerated their bureaus overseas.
Now the sloppier news sources of the information age, especially on cable, are playing catch-up, trying to forsake the trashiest habits of the 90's and do 24/7 journalism that competes in comprehensiveness and sophistication with the best of print and broadcast. But the early, promising results started giving way to recidivist tendencies, especially as the post-Sept. 11 rise in television news ratings fell off and anthrax terrorism became just the thing to bring back mindless speculation and fearmongering by ''experts'' in the absence of solid facts. Some mediathon habits die hard, even in war.
The truth is that most predictions about the future of our fast-moving media mix are worthless. Only yesterday, the Web was supposed to wipe out print, and only the day before that, television was supposed to wipe out radio. What is arguably the most pervasive new information tool since television -- e-mail -- seemed to come out of nowhere, but it changed the immutable communication habits of our civilization almost overnight. It's the paradox of the early 21st century that we have access to more information than ever before but are often uncertain about how to navigate it all or gauge its relative importance. Our best hope is that the return of real news may at the very least lead to a long-awaited correction in the excesses, speculations and priorities of the information age.
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Beat all ingredients together in a 2-quart bowl. cover the bowl with a towel and place it somewhere warm. (Use a towel, not plastic wrap, to allow airborne yeast to enter - it will contribute to the unique character and flavor of your starter). The mixture will begin to bubble within a few minutes. Initially, it will double in bulk, but as it begins to ferment, it will settle down. Let the mixture sit in a warm place, stirring the liquid back into the batter (as it will separate) once a day for 2 - 5 days. When the bubbling diminishes and it has a sour, yeasty aroma, it is ready to use. Stir the mixture and measure out the amount you need. It will be the consistency of pancake batter. To keep your starter going: Store the finished starter in a sealed jar in the refrigerator. Each time you remove some starter to bake, replenish it with equal amounts of flour and water. (If you use 1/2 cup of starter, stir in 1/2 cup each of flour and water.) Then let the starter sit in a warm place for 12 hours and let the yeast bubble and grow again before returning it to the refrigerator. A starter can be kept indefinitely -- just stir and feed it every week or two. Stirring, removing, and replenishing your starter serves to feed the remaining batter. Recipe by: "Breadman" Bread Machine Recipe Booklet Posted to EAT-L Digest by Don & Donna
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Re: [NC][CM7] Seeing books?roustabout Feb 7, 2012 6:36 PM (in response to JinSC)
When you're booted in cm7, and you plug your NC into your computer, how many disks do you see (that you can actually write to and read from?)
I would drop a file into each of those, at the top of it, and call it "cmdisk 1" "cmdisk2" etc. just so you know which partitions are visible to your computer, then copy files to a place you know you can see from your computer and copy them off, so you're sure you have them to put back into the stock OS.
I would be really interested in knowing the outcome of that experiment, and also whether, when you boot back into stock OS, either of those files are still visible to the Nook OS and to your computer.
My memory is that CM7 treats the internal storage as its "sd card" when you're booting from the card, but I don't know which partition it calls the "sd card" -- the partition that your computer can see (/media) or one of the others.
It sounds as if CM7 saved at least one and maybe both of these either to its own or to your Nook's /data partition by default.
The behavior is very interesting to me just now because there's an odd thing happening with how CM7 on the NT is seeing storage. Folks have been trying to reformat partitions on the SD card and wiping their boot partitions instead.
This past weekend, I spent a little time looking at the NC and NT files that control /media and /sdcard, and emerged confused about what level of control over that is possible. (vold.conf and vold.fstab; I wasn't busy bricking an NT, but I was trying to get an NT to behave a bit unusually.)
Re: [NC][CM7] Seeing books?bobstro Feb 7, 2012 8:03 PM (in response to JinSC)
JinSC wrote:
For the most part I run stock OS. Not long ago I need to get a library book without sideloading, so I switched over to my CM7 side and using Overdrive, downloaded a book. I thought it would save to the uSD, but when I connect to my PC, I don't see it. Did it save it on my NC in the hidden portion?
When you initially download a book using Overdrive, the only thing present on SD is an .acsm file in the /sdcard/overdrive folder. If you click on that in a file explorer, it will offer to open it in a suitable reader (e.g. Aldiko). You must have Aldiko registered as an Adobe device, but once you do that, you can import the file, and the actual DRM-encumbered epub will be downloaded.
Re: [NC][CM7] Seeing books?JinSC Feb 8, 2012 9:00 AM (in response to bobstro)
My experience differs. I open the Overdrive app, go to the Menu, select search for books, select my public library, do the search, select my book, then hit the download button, and the book downloads, apparently to a partition I can't see. Then I open the Overdrive app again, and the book is there as one of my choices, I open and read.


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Both of these are billed as "Video Classics Phase II," but I'm sorry to say there wasn't much effort made to find material for Good to the Last Drop that in any way could be described as "classic." As you are supposed to understand from the titles of these, the main activity engaged in is fellatio... but that's not strictly correct. Most of the scenes on each tape do involve woman-on-woman oral action, but there's lots more besides. There's plenty of good old-fashioned sex, and a fair amount of girl/girl action.
Of the two, Triple Header is certainly the best. Of particular interest is Hyapatia Lee's seduction of her screen husband and a bed salesman from Secret Dreams. Of almost as much interest is a scene between Amber Hunt, Carol Tong and a guy... but for some reason, the scene stops after some brief girl/girl action. Very disappointing. But you won't want to miss Ron Jeremy and Lili Marlene, nor the scene with Ginger Lynn, even though she doesn't engage in any action.
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Concept for the character selection menu, 1 vs. 1 (some small character images are place holder). This game doesn't become a beat 'em up.
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Really nice. Did you do all the Art on this?
The tilt on the "VS" text is just a little too strong in my opinion because of the normal left-to-right bias in reading such things.
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Kudos on the weapon names.
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Kudos on the weapon names.
Wish we had this type of art for my indie group.
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That looks awesome, I think if it were ever a fully fledged game I would have to buy it just for the art lol
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You're welcome! (I don't know what answer to 'thank you' ) Keep it up, I hope to see that game of yours on store someday! :]
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i loved the chars,will be great if in the secret chars can we see the bunnyman
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Dude it does look sweet!!! I have such a urge to play it hopefully Xbox will pick up on your talents!
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Your talent always giving me inspiration!
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maybe my eyes aren't so good but the stats where it says: 1 of 4 and whatnot my eyes first see "at" with the font, and 2 of 6 bothers me, is it better than 1 of 3?! really like the piece so I started at it awhile and thats all I could come up with other and ooooh and ahhh and really really cool!
Wow man, I just looked at this and thought: This looks better then any actual game selection screen I have ever seen (and a play a lot) But now you say it's really gonna be a game for PSN, how sweet is that!
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That's a very neat idea, that. You should check out the preview demo of my game.
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Patje, the jeep trip was at Har Karkoum, the site thought by some to be Har Sinai..it is a little west and south of the Ramon Crater. Martin
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Zack Morrison's Paranatural weaves a tale of ghosts and the people who bust them. It centers on a team that acts a lot like exterminators, trapping pesky spirits in special tools. In a way, it resembles property created in the 1980s that also centers on a plucky team with a catchy theme song that once vanquished a puffy, marshmallow-like foe.
I am talking, of course, about Dragon Ball. I don't think it's an accident. This is, after all, a webcomic where there's a dojo in which old men throw around fireballs and where one kid has supernatural powers that cause spiky hair. The characters also look pretty similar to Akira Toriyama's style — cartoony, somewhat-squarish and exaggerated during the big action sequences.
Paranatural also strikes the same tone. There's a lot of world-building going in this comic; it's filled with secret societies and weird rules about the different spectral beings. It can be a little confusing, but it's also firmly tongue-in-cheek. Just like how serious moments in Dragon Ball are frequently undermined by the presence of cartoony animal people, Paranatural frequently gets cheeky … like banishing a troublesome ghost into a toilet plunger.
Paranatural centers on Max, a grumpy, bat-wielding kid who begrudgingly moves into the town of Mayview with his weird family. Pretty quickly, though, he discovers he has a terrible gift: the ability to do sweet flips. Also, he can see ghosts. Once that gift is on, it can't stop. He sees ghosts everywhere: hanging out in the streets, sitting on people's heads, hovering outside windows. It sets him on edge.
Also setting him on edge: The non-ghost world is no less surreal. Everyone at his new school seems to want a piece of him. Immediately, he antagonizes the school's bully, Johnny … who has a very zen approach to physical threats. The Journalism Club, headed by the nutty Suzy, is desperate for members and tries in vain to recruit him. But the most mysterious is a group known as the Activity Club, a group of kids that vanquishes dangerous spirits. They are: Isabel, a grim, competent fighter who has power over paper; Ed, Isabel's capable sycophant who wields ink; and Isaac, an outsider who undermines the team's authority and can generate lightning clouds. Paper and ink may seem a little lame at first, but Isabel and Ed transform their weapons into myriad objects that would make Green Lantern jealous (a ridable origami horse, for example). They're led by Mr. Spender, a teacher with sunglasses who has the flair for the dramatic.
Max himself discovers that he can use magnetism like a junior-grade Magneto. It's all too overwhelming, though, and he tries to distance himself from all this Activity Club nuttiness. Eventually, however, Max is more or less forced into the Activity Club when a malevolent creature attacks his family's business. And from there, a whole new world opens up for Max — one with mysterious shortcuts, possessed weapons and snakelike trains.
It's a webcomic that's fun, action-packed and visually inventive. There are a lot of enjoyable character moments, too. Grumpy as he is, it often feels like Max and the similarly surly Isaac are the only sane people in a world gone loony. The side characters are so crazy that it's always a joy to see Max bounce off them in bewilderment. Johnny, the bully, is especially a delight, and he delivers some of the comic's best one-liners: "On a scale of no to yes … yes." "I just seen some freaky sights, yo!" He's terrible as a physical threat, but aces as comedy relief.
I actually see Paranatural's primary stylistic antecedent as FLCL more than anything else. It's particularly apparent in the beginning black & white pages, but I will agree that his figures pick up the kind of roundness that Toriyama imbues in his designs fairly quickly.
As far as I appreciate your analysing of this comic and its conventions of storytelling, it's a bit surprising to see how can you read so far into the comic (Chapter 4) yet quite missing out on significant details while making this review. It is explicitly stated that Isaac IS a member of the Club. The "undermining the team's authority" thing is from Mr Spender's narrative, yet Isaac is (explicitly shown to be) having more feelings of DISAPPOINTMENT with Spender because Spender is REALLY inept in his job teaching Isaac about the spirit world…Chapter 3 Page 5. It's a two-way perspective.
"undermine" has more connotations of being vengeful and wanting to hurt out of spite. Isaac doesn't have such intentions probably, he just wants Spender to give him the same attention and amount probably life-saving knowledge just as Isabel and Ed had. Just wanted to point that out.


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So I am going to go over here to the East Elevation, and you can see that we have some starting levels that are already here in the project. So we are going to begin with these and make some modifications and then add to them. So the first thing I would like to do is just kind of talk about the level itself, and I am going to just click on this Roof Level here at the top to show you this. When I click on it, and select it, you'll see a series of icons appear attached to that level. On both ends you are going to see a small, little lock icon. You are going to see this small, little 3D indicator.
You are going to see this small, little open circle, and again, if I pause over any one of these, a little tooltip does appear, giving you some indication of what these controls will do. On this end, I have Parameters that I can edit, like the height of the level, the name of the level. There is a little squiggly control hidden away between those two parameters, and the tooltip there says, Add elbow. That's how this level here has the little jog in it, and actually it's still not terribly legible with the 5 feet, so I can actually further adjust it, like so.
But the way that that was done was I just clicked on the little squiggly, and that gave them the little elbow there; they being whoever built this template that we started with. If you want to remove an elbow, you just drag it back to horizontal, and it kind of snaps back and removes the little elbow grips that were previously there, here and here. If you want to rename a level, you just click on the text and you type in something else.
When you do that, Revit will offer to also rename for you any Floor Plan views that correspond to this level. So if I answer yes here and scroll over here in my Project browser, you'll notice that what used to be called Roof is now called Low Roof to match the name of the Level. You're not required to do that, but it's something that Revit offers to do for you. We can change the height of the level by just simply clicking on the text here, and if I type in a number, it will actually move it. I am going to keep it at 12' 8" actually, so I am going to do undo that with Ctrl+Z. What I want to do is actually add in two new levels here, for the starting point of my office building project.
So I am going to go to the Level tool, which is on the Home tab. So if you look on your Home tab and you look all the way over to the right, you should find the Level tool. You'll notice also from the tooltip that LL is the shortcut for Level, so you can type LL, if you prefer, to execute that command. Now, notice how when I move my cursor nearby the endpoints of the other levels, Rivet kind of offers to snap them to it. You get that little dashed line there. When I click, it will sort of snap right to it, and the same thing will happen at the other end, right here, like so.
That's a pretty good idea to do on both ends, because when you do that, these little lock icons appear, like we had before, and now they're all constrained to one another. And the reason that that's important is if you grab the little open circle that I pointed out a few minutes ago, and you drag it, it will actually drag all of the locked levels together in unison. So that keeps everything much neater and cleaner, and usually a pretty good idea. Now, if for whatever reason, you don't want this level to move with the others, you can unlock it and drag it, and it will drag independently. But as I said, most of the time, folks like to keep them nice and lined up.
I am going to adjust the height of my Level 2 to 10', and then I am going to pan down. I'm holding in my wheel and dragging to do that. Pan down slightly, and I'll add another level up above. I am going to adjust the height to 20 feet, and I am going to click on the name and call this High Roof, and I might want to spell that correctly.
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Still warm, but less humid
After Monday's cold front, drier air will slowly filter out the oppressive humidity through Tuesday.
Today will be a gem by July standards. Expect clouds to fully clear from north to south with bountiful blue skies being offered up for most of the day. Highs will again approach 90° but rather than haze and humidity, drier warmth is anticipated.
Tonight will be a rarity in South Louisiana this time of year-nighttime temperatures dipping into the upper 60s beneath clear skies and a light northerly wind.


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SDCC: "Batman: The Killing Joke" Cast & Crew Debuts Film at Comic-Con International
If you're a comics fan who came of age in the '90s watching the terribly animated X-Men cartoon as part of the Fox Kids Saturday morning lineup, you'll likely appreciate this video, which recreates the show's opening using action figures and stop-motion animation. According to Kyle Roberts' YouTube page, he used more than 4,000 pictures, and "spent two months rotoscoping and animating all of the special effects." Add to that the work done by Nathan Poppe on the doodle-style background, and the theme song recreated by Colin Nance and Zach Zellar.
And on top of all of that, there's a mildly amusing framing sequence. Still, though, the stop-motion credits sequence is the star of the show.
(via Forbidden Planet International)
Awwww… the X-Men cartoon wasn't that badly animated. When it came out, there was a whole decade of horrible animated Hasbro properties and barely mobile Hanna-Barbera cartoons (like the rebooted Jetsons. With Orby). I remember seeing X-Men and going, "Wow, the characters don't wildly change height from frame to frame? Pretty impressive!"
The replicated music, by the way, appears to lack a crucial element. The guitar is squealing, going, dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUUNNNNN!!!! And then… well, let's say it's missing an element crucial to to the glory of the X-Men theme song. The gong. Kinda disappointed.
"Terribly animated X-Men cartoon"? Not sure which cartoon you were watching. I just got done watching season three and it is still awesome sauce. Season 5 did have a dip in animation. PS Animated X-Men Wolverine is still the best Wolverine.
Huh, they added a Mystique vs. Nightcrawler battle where it would have been Jubilee running up to a chain link fence. …. Yep.
Dear Robot6
you have terrible taste, the X-Men cartoon still holds up! (its all on Netflix instant play)
and that theme song is the greatest cartoon theme from the 90s
Why is Fred Durst in this video? Brotastic…
Oh come on, are you telling me there's no Avalanche action figure?
I wonder why everybody is so quick to pick up their own little flaws instead of admiring what's been done here.
I think this if far better action figure stop motion. And hilarious to boot! http://www.youtube.com/user/TheShellShowLive
@ Kevin: There actually is an Avalanche figure. http://www.oafe.net/yo/xm_aval.php It is, however, quite rare, expensive to get and doesn't look a thing like the classic version.
Man, I wish I could get five X-Men on the bridge of the Blackbird…
SO GOOD! Were the Jubilee and Jean figures custom made??
The Cyclops one looked different as well.
Great job, kudos to those involved. I have fond memories of that cartoon…
I realize I'm a real geek here, but that VHS box was for "Pryde of the X-Men," not the 90s series.
I like doing stop-motion stuff now and then. Probably one thing I consider one of my best is having a Transformers: Armada Unicron play the piano, and then bowing after the performance.
This is already light years better than the terrible cartoon. Thumbs up.
To everyone saying the show holds up… watch any of the old Batman: Animated Series or Justice League and then immediately after watch X-Men. It didn't even "hold up" to the shows of its own era!
I want that VHS/TV hybrid.
Great video, no doubt. I'm sure it took a ton of work to make sure the posing reflected the original art. This seems to be happening more and more. There were the folks who did something similar with the 60's Jonny Quest opening, remember?
As far as critiquing titles of yester-decade, it happens. I look back at the Spider-Mans and X-Mens of the 90s and sure enough, relative to the hyper-polished and committee-driven scripts that pop out of networks nowadays, they're clunky and stiff; but you have to contextualize the piece, because great action/adventure properties, cartoon or comic, always propel an industry and its artists forward.
@zik: see, I thought that was a false equivalency. In the large scheme of the things, nothing holds up to Batman: The Animated Series. It was in a class of its own, no doubt. (Justice League came out several years later.) Shoot. You could use that argument today. What's better animated: Bob's Burgers or Batman: The Animated Series? Batman, of course. But that doesn't mean Bob's Burgers is dragging its feet.
However, the best of the rest? X-Men wasn't that bad. Let's not forget that the same era included such stellar entries as ExoSquad, Biker Mice From Mars, James Bond Jr., King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, and the Carmen Sandiego cartoon. In the days before Cartoon Network existed (and even after when all they did was just air classic 'toons), having not one, but two superhero shows that were decently animated was a godsend.
Brilliant, well done to all involved, I enjoyed picking out the different figures and the Sentinels looked great. And also, the cartoon animation was well good for the time!
X-Men had fair animation, it's just with that much detail there are bound to be hiccups now and then. Sacrificing animation quality for picture quality.