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Hope all of you have a wonderful week.
God Bless!
Lovely thought for today, Debbie.
Wishing you a beautiful week ahead,
Debbie, I hope your weekend was wonderful. I am spending a little time catching up with everyone. Happy Spring! BonnieReplyDelete
I think these are such cute flowers! Hope you have a wonderful week.ReplyDelete
Beautiful, dear Debbie, and I would like to wish you a fantastic week, my good friend. Hugs and love. :)ReplyDelete
Pretty flowers! Wishing you a wonderful week, Debbie!!!ReplyDelete
Beautiful color, Debbie! I wish you a wonderful week, too!!! Any signs of spring yet?
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Flowers are always a welcome sight:)
Hope all is well and that you have a good week also.
Beautiful scripture and flowering plant. Wishing you a wonderful week.ReplyDelete
Have a beautiful week Debbie! Your cyclamen is at its fullest, mine is just starting to bloom ( 2 flowers for now). I'm late for your previous post. I love your boot's drawing.ReplyDelete
Recent news makes hope feel lost, but after the fade, it springs up again.
Blessings to you and yours, Debbie! Love this cyclamen...it's so full and hopeful! A sure sign of Spring. Wishing you joy and peace.ReplyDelete
Amen! Such a precious verse.... Hugs to you, dear Debbie!ReplyDelete
They are such pretty plants and a sure sign that spring is on its way.ReplyDelete
Beautiful verse and I love your cyclamen. Wishing you a wonderful week Debbie!ReplyDelete
Indeed! What a beautiful pink flower!ReplyDelete
Dear Debbie, wishing you a wonderful week too ! xoReplyDelete
What a lovely verse to think upon this day, Debbie.
It is nice to meet you! You visited my blog through my dear daughter Stephanie, and I am just now able to visit you lovely ladies who have prayed for the health of my father, thank you!
I look forward to visiting with you here on your lovely space.
Joy! Debbie
Beautiful scripture! Thank you, Debbie.ReplyDelete
Beautiful flowers I am playing catch up with everyone as I was unable to blog for about 2months. I am looking back at all your brrrr snow filled post. Stay warm my friend.ReplyDelete
I love that verse...I needed to read it today~~~Blessings~~~RoxieReplyDelete
God bless also to you and to your family. Hope you also have a wonderful and blessed week.ReplyDelete
Wonderful thought, Debbie. Hope you have a great week too!ReplyDelete
Lovely cyclamen! I do have a similar plant but not so happy as yours. It lacks humidity I guess. Our house is very dry during winter. I wish you a bright weekend Debbie, HugsReplyDelete
Your cyclamen is gorgeous Debbie! So enjoyed seeing the snowdrop in your last post. I hope spring weather has arrived now?ReplyDelete
Dear Debbie,
Your thoughts echo mine... Beautiful post.
Thank you so much for visiting, and leaving such kind thoughts.


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Hello my crafty friends! My felt inventory has taken quite a large hit (thank you!!) so it is now time to let you know that there is just over one week left in my felt closeout. January 31 will be the last day to purchase felt before it's all gone. To save an additional 20% off already discounted prices, use the code FINAL20 at checkout (this makes felt over 50% off the retail price!).
You are also welcome to purchase patterns with the discount code. If you need 3 or more yards of any color please ask in advance so I can let you know if I have enough. If a color you want is listed as out of stock but you just HAVE to have some, let me know at checkout and I'll see if I can dig up a scrap in my remnants pile as your freebie felt sample. Every order will ship with a bit of extra felt as a thank you gift!
My heartfelt thanks to all of my customers, it has been my pleasure to be a part of all the amazing felty projects that you've shared with me. Although I will no longer be selling felt, I am continuing to design new patterns, and you can find 18 of them in my book coming out in April!
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To get a job you need experience, to get experience you need a job.
This is a conundrum that thousands and thousands of recent college graduates face every year. Post University alum James Tansley is hoping to come up with a solution.
Tansley, who graduated from Post in 2009 with a B.A. in Computer Information Systems, has recently launched a professional network called "Workula" that allows users to share work experience in the form of status updates, project pages, and contributions on works created by others.
The site, which launched last month and has approximately 35 users, provides an alternative to recent grads with limited resumes by allowing them to create a webpage detailing non-traditional accomplishments.
"I feel the way we define work experience right now is the number of years we spend at a certain company, and that really puts college graduates at a disadvantage," said Tansley.
Time spent at a job or internship is accounted for on Workula, but users can also include just about anything that has helped them build their brand or make them more marketable. This includes what they're learning in a certain class or program, work they've done to help other people and even homework assignments and projects they've completed.
While at Post, Tansley completed an internship at Realized Solutions, Inc. and currently holds a full-time position at United Health Group.
"The small community at Post gave me a close mentorship with my professors, and that mentorship, helped me get an internship I was able to turn into a job," he said. "It was great to be able to learn from professors that were in the industry and acquire the real-life knowledge from them."
He quickly realized though, that some of his friends and fellow classmates were not in as fortunate of a position as he was coming out of school.
"I thought it was unfair to see smart students miss that small window of opportunity, and how difficult that made getting a job," he said.
This concern about helping smart graduates become more employable, along with a desire to apply the education he received at Post, were the reasons for pursuing this new venture, said Tansley.
"Post helped get me to where I am today and I'd love to turn this into something that can help current Post students down the line," he said.
Workula is in an early prototype stage as Tansley searches for feedback on ways to make the site a go-to place to search for talent and create visibility for people with useful knowledge and skills, even if they don't yet have extensive work experience. Changes and adaptations will be made as feedback is received and the site begins to add additional users, according to Tansley.
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Okay, just got home from my audition.
Picture me in skin-tight, black jeans, knee-high, high-heeled boots, a funky t-shirt, crazy jewelry and hair in pigtails. And my glasses. They wanted "quirky" so I gave it to them.
Lovely girls in the waiting room. We all looked alike but we each had a different take on the character. Then a gorgeous, blonde actress I know walked in. She looked perfect. Glasses, blue tights, cute dress, hair up. She's also very talented. She's beat me out on parts before. But she's one of those women I'm happy for if she books the job. She's good people. So it's okay to root for her.
The session was getting way behind. My appointment was at 11:30 but I wasn't seen until 12:15. A girl who had just come in from NY and was going in right before me, offered to put money in my meter on her way out. That was lovely. Good Karma points for her!
I went in feeling confident and I did a good job. I got the sense, however, that I'm not going to be called back for this one. I can usually tell by the energy in the room if I'm going to get a call back or not. The worse times are when I don't do my best and it's my fault I'm not getting called back. This was one of the times where I felt very good about the work I did, but I think it's just not meant to be.
I got home just in time to give G a kiss before he went down for his nap. He's home from school today with a low-grade fever. This is a good day. Good audition, lots of support, tons of love from my boys. I'm a lucky girl. A quirky, lucky girl.


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You continually provide detailed insight into our competitors and channels that give us a valuable and unique perspective on our sector.
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With the rise of influencer marketing companies and advertisers' heightened interests to work with YouTubers, MCNs are no longer as relevant of a means of sourcing revenue and advertising deals for YouTubers. Signing with an MCN often comes at a high cost for YouTube channels. Standard deals include the MCN taking a significant cut of all Adsense (YouTube pre-roll and display advertising run across the channel) revenue that can run as high as 50%. Previous to the accession of influencer marketing companies and agencies, YouTubers were left with few options to pursue advertiser sponsorships leaving them beholden to an MCN's promises of providing advertiser deals.
Though a YouTube MCN adds value for the advertiser seeking a broad, less targeted approach (think generic pre-roll branding ad across multiple channels), brands seeking to drive measurable sales metrics and conversions will find best ROI success with influencer marketing companies. As influencer marketing companies cater more to the marketing and advertising needs of major brands, YouTube MCNs may become more involved with the development of programmatic digital content production (i.e. a short-form, streaming web TV series).
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No unfortunately the title isn't a reference to the heros that are Monty Python.
For the last few days, some annoying peeps have started spamming my blog – now it's not so much of a problem as I moderate all my comments before they are posted – as some of my Youth group come on my blog as it's fed to Facebook by rss.
Ok so I got as far as that bit then realised the reason why I had so much spam – I hadn't got the filter plug in thingy that boots all my spam away.
Similarly, the blogs I have been reading have the same problem like Kellypuffs and Tom Coates


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As you know, Katherine of November's Autumn is organising a challenge to read novels from 1880-1930, an era I thought I was woefully ignorant in. Now it comes back to me, I did actually enjoy some novels from that era, but it was years ago and I had forgotten about it. It's just that "classics" from that era, as in stuffy literary fiction didn't appeal to me. But I used to read George Bernard Shaw avidly when I was 16, HG Wells when I was 17 and EF Benson (1930's I think?) around that time.
Then there was Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard and Jules Verne, old favourites of mine. I liked She and The Lost World. The late Victorian era was the age of adventure stories, "literary" realist classics being limited to Thomas Hardy and George Gissing (yes, I know there more, but the only really well-known one today is Hardy.) Realist classics were the staple of the early and mid-Victorians, as a late Victorian reviewer in 1895 lamented. They had lapsed to the age of "photographic" writing, where you describe boring scenes of people drinking tea unhappily. (I forget where to find it, but one of the links on the Brontëblog probably has the e-book.) Still, fear not. This gave us the genre fiction we now know today as fantasy, science fiction and adventure.
Then of course the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, the likes of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Christie was avidly devoured in my early teens, only to give it up in a few years for Grandma's Sayers books, and I went to the bookstore to buy some more. Then I stopped reading those for a few years while feeling down in general about the sort of books there were to read in general (I was doing my A-Levels at the time, and I hadn't started George Eliot or much of Hardy) as I'd read so many interesting classics the rest seemed boring. Even modern fiction was dull. I then went and picked up Terry Pratchett.
If you read TV Tropes, the Agatha Christie novels are the Genteel Interbellum Setting, between the two World Wars. Not quite an Edwardian tea party, but lots of upper-middle class parties and social events and adultery and drinks over a potted palm in colonial India. (Lots of military officers in Agatha Christie). Everyone calls each other "darling" (rolls eyes) and talks about Bohemian stuff. In fact that era lampshaded Bohemian attitudes in general, something that we 21st century readers can smile about today, as we inherited a lot of their Bohemian tendencies, eg pseudo-intellectuals, Marxists and Freudians. Which is probably why they still last today. In 100 years they may not, but let's enjoy it while we can. If you are into this setting the detective novelists are recommended, Aldous Huxley (not Brave new World), and EF Benson. Evelyn Waugh will do as well. Stella Gibbons parodies some of them in Cold Comfort Farm. This era has more exotic settings i.e. titled or important people in colonies or tropical countries doing English stuff like drinking tea.
Surprisingly there was some good science fiction written eg Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. He later wrote Island, which is after the period I mention, but worth a look. Of course geeks will mention HP Lovecraft whom I haven't read yet.
As for serious literary fiction, I really don't know much. Oh, I know there's Virginia Woolf (ever so dull), James Joyce (nonsensical language), etc. but honestly they can't tell a story like the Victorians. In fact Virginia Woolf couldn't stand the Victorians. In a brief phase of pretentious teenage-hood I attempted both authors only to fail miserably in disgust. Then I believe I saw something by an Elizabeth Bowen, among other things. I know I spent a fortune in books I never got to read.
If you want to know real-life Bohemian intellectuals, try Freud, (late 19th century to early 20th century). I laughed at Psychology of Love, Studies in Hysteria, The Interpretation of Dreams, etc. Expect phallic symbols, female genitalia and repressed sexual desires, homosexuality and incest. If you like, have a look at Carl Jung, who seems to think everything has to do with an Egyptian past life.


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Time for On The Lot, our weekly look at the business of entertainment with Rebecca Keegan of the LA Times.
The Oscars are less than a week away. What does it take to produce these awards? What's the inside scoop on this year's ceremony? What are they going for?
The musical numbers are always controversial, and producers are always going back and forth between having these long performances or wrapping them into a shorter medley. What will it be this year?
This is the second year for this team. Why is that such a rarity? Keegan talked to two executives of the Academy, the chief executive and the president. What did they say about why they wanted a repeat performance from this producing team?
They're in the midst of putting together an Academy museum?
The Los Angeles Times has done a lot of reporting on the lack of diversity in the Academy, and not surprisingly it's a lot of white men. Did they comment on that issue at all?
We will concede there are other things happening in Hollywood besides the Oscars. There was a pretty big demonstration in Burbank over the weekend to support tax incentives for production. What happened there?
As we've discussed before on this show, Jerry Brown is not necessarily that sympathetic to Hollywood in the budgets he's been drawing up.
On a sad note, there was a terrible accident at one of those out-of-state shoots. In Savannah, Georgia, a young woman was actually killed on the set of a Greg Allman biopic. What happened?
On The Lot: Academy Awards prep, Hollywood budgets, on-set accident
Time for On The Lot, our weekly look at the business of entertainment with Rebecca Keegan of the LA Times.


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Second-period goals by Abbott, McKegg lift Marlies to 3-1 victory over RochesterNHL.com @NHLdotcom
TORONTO - Spencer Abbott and Greg McKegg scored second-period goals as Toronto erased an early 1-0 deficit to edge the Rochester Americans 3-1 in American Hockey league action Tuesday afternoon.
Kevin Porter scored the lone goal for the Americans (30-25-10).
Rochester had an excellent chance at the equalizer with 2:55 remaining in the third.
Already on a power play, Marlies forward Sam Carrick was assessed a minor penalty for cross checking for his hit on Americans forward Johan Larsson. Rochester had a 52-second five-on-three power play, but failed to get a shot on goal.
Trevor Smith added an empty-netter with eight seconds remaining.
Americans starter Andrey Makarov made 33 saves in the loss, in his first AHL start.
Garret Sparks made 43 saves to improve to 3-0-0 in four appearances during Drew MacIntyre's recall to the Maple Leafs.
The Marlies (39-20-5) have now won five of six and improve to 3-2-1 against Rochester this season with four meetings remaining in the season series.
Porter opened the scoring 57 seconds into the second period, walking around a Marlies defenceman and beating Sparks for his 15th of the season.
Abbott responded for Toronto taking Josh Leivo's wide shot and beating Markarov with a backhand shot for his 17th.
Rochester had a 1:10 two-man advantage just past the midway mark of the second period. Despite getting six shots on goal during the man advantage, the Americans could not beat Sparks.
McKegg gave Toronto its first lead of the afternoon beating Makarov with a floater at 18:37 of the second for his 16th.
Carter Ashton had an excellent chance to give Toronto a two-goal cushion three minutes into the third, but put his backhand shot off the crossbar.
The Americans trail the Marlies by 11 points in the AHL's North Division. Entering Tuesday, Rochester held a three-point lead on Charlotte for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference.
Toronto plays the second half of the home-and-home series with Rochester on Friday.
Notes: Toronto assigned forward Wade MacLeod to Orlando of the ECHL on Tuesday morning. Marlies forward Frazer McLaren was a healthy scratch for the third straight game and fifth time in six games.


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Lil Wayne Makes A Lil Trip To Hospital
The rapper, Lil Wayne, first paid a visit to the hospital in March due to several seizures that resulted in a stay at the ICU. Ever since he was released, he seemed to be doing fine. However, on the night of Tuesday, April 30th, Lil Wayne was admitted to Cedars-Sinai hospital due to another seizure. Are these seizures signifying an end to not just the rapper's career but his life as well? We can only hope his health improves. Until then, Lil Wayne, maybe you should start making a lil more healthy decisions.
Read more at TMZ.
Celtics stay alive against Knicks, 3-2
Down 3-1 in a pivotal Eastern quarterfinals playoff matchup, the Boston Celtics rose to the occasion in their defeat over New York Knicks 92-86. Starting off in a deficit 11-0 in the first quarter, the Celtics outscored the Knicks 45-28 and held a four-point lead at halftime.
Carmelo Anthony, the NBA's league leader in first quarter scoring, came out shooting "lights out" in the first half but when the Knicks needed him the most, he could not deliver. Without Anthony's deliverance, the Knicks went through a 2nd half slump in their ability to score.
As a result of the Knicks inability to score, the Celtics took advantage and capitalized on their opportunities. Without start point guard, Rajon Rondo, this required the Celtics other role players to play more of an active role in the offense. In doing so, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Jason Terry combined for nearly fifty points to put the Celtics over the edge in a close but desperately needed win to keep their chances of winning a NBA championship alive. Jeff Green led all Celtic scorers with 18 points, Brandon Bass with 17 points, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce each with 16 points and Jason Terry pitching in 17 points of the bench.
The Celtics will need another combined team effort to get another win in the series like they did tonight. On Friday, the Celtics will play game 6 of the series in Boston. The Knicks will need the Anthony as well as its other role players to step up to the challenge. If the Celtics can get a win, they would tie the series 3-3.
All in all, no team in NBA history has rallied from a 3-0 deficit to come back to win the series, but Celtics have these plans on their mind.
Brent discusses basketball signing day at Jackson State
More than a month ago, Jackson State University hired its seventh basketball coach, Wayne Brent. Brent, the previous coach of the reigning 5A- state champion Callaway High School Chargers, has many expectations upon him in a quick time frame.
Having been hired a little over a month ago, Brent missed a major portion of the basketball recruitment season. JSU men's basketball team has not been to the NCAA Tournament since 2007; however, Brent has full confidence that he can change the program and take it to the next level.
When asked by the media about signing day, he responded, " You definitely want to think the guys you are bringing in can get you over the hump, and can maybe one day win you a Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) title. My vision for this is a piece here and there. Even if these five guys came in and played right off the bat, and say they started, you still need a sixth or seventh man, role players to take your program to the next level."
The signing list is a Jackson-heavy recruitment class. Signees include Javeres Brent and Donta Robinson from Provine High School, Marcus Love and Albert Goss from Murrah High School and one of his very on TreShawn Bolden from Callaway High School.
Bolden, a 6-foot-8 forward from Callaway, is arguably the best in class and what Brent feels gives the team some size in the post. Brent talked Bolden into staying and playing here after he received other offers to play college basketball from Auburn, Louisiana Tech, and Illinois State.
Thus, Brent's countless vision and his ability to get players to buy into the concept of unselfish basketball will determine the success rate of the team in his first year.
Coachella Lives On
Coachella. It's one of the west's largest music festival. Starting in 1999, Coachella attendees have skyrocketed drastically. The stretch of varied artists plays a huge part in drawing in the crowd with genres ranging from indie folk to electronica funk. This year's giant music festival was weighed down by one issue: the unbearable about of dust. Many Coachella goers, especially the Weekend 2 attendees, complained that the dust problem, caused by the bare grounds from walkers, kept them from watching some acts.
As Coachella becomes more and more popular, many celebrities take part in the festivities associated with the two weekend music party. Stars like Vanessa Hudgens, Hilary Duff, and Paris Hilton all updated their Instagrams daily. The whole main cast of the hit ABC Family television series, Pretty Little Liars, was also in attendance for the event. Even if they didn't hit up the stages, many celebrities joined the various Coachella pre and post parties.
The music festival wave is hitting America hard and, in my opinion, is here to stay for quite some time.
Above is a video from pearljamfan2012's youtube channel. This is Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Coachella performance.
Tully Ice Harvest Festival
The Tully Ice Harvest Festival takes place on Green Lake in Tully, New York once a year. Tully is located an hour from Syracuse, New York. The Ice Harvest Festival provides a way for the people of Tully and surrounding areas to have access to large amounts of ice. Unfortunately, the 2013 Tully Ice Harvest Festival did not take place due to the weather which caused the ice to be too thin to cut. The ice is often used in keeping items cold rather than making things with it. Gordon Howard of Tully, New York provides insight on the harvesting process. The footage and interview was conducted in February of 2009 by Peter Chen.
Ice Harvest
Each year locals in Tulley harvest ice on a frozen lake to recall the tradition. The old tradition was used before there were refrigerators so people could keep items cold. In this video, a description of the harvest and how it is done are portrayed. The people of the town keep the tradition alive each and every year.
Ice Harvesting in Tully, NY
Ice harvesting is an activity that has been practiced in the Northern states of the U.S. since the late 19th century. It has become a tradition for the people of the New York state area/
Gordon Howard explains the process of ice harvesting in Tully, NY and gives us insights on the history of the tradition.
Videography and Reporting by Peter Chen
Editing by Noé Cugny


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People matter – the right to a safe environment – Photo Dave Green
The UK Legislation
The Air Quality in our boroughs is principally within the framework of the 1995 Environment Act.
This act established and set up:
- The Environment Agency
- The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
- The National Park Authorities
It also required the Secretary of State to prepare a national waste strategy and a strategy for UK Air Quality. Essentially this is the legislation local authority's work to in monitoring local air quality. Other than close to airports, where noise is an issue, the vast majority of legislation is concerned with traffic borne air pollutants.
Local authorities are required to monitor and assess air pollution within their borough which they do by diffusion tubes and automated monitoring stations. There are defined standards by which air quality is deemed a risk to the public. In these locations where excess pollutants are above a threshold the authorities must declare the area an Air Quality Management Area (AQMA).
Once an area has been declared an AQMA the local authority must develop an air quality action plan for the area to mitigate the risk and improve the air quality until it returns to safe levels below the thresholds.
DEFRA (Department for Food, Environment & Rural Affairs) governs the process and liaises with individual authorities and reviews air quality action plans.
Other UK legislations are
The Air Quality (England) Regulations 2000 sets national objectives for local authorities in England.
The National Emission Ceilings Regulations 2002 transposes into UK legislation the requirements of the National Emission Ceilings Directive (2001/81/EC) from the European Union.
The Air Quality Standards (Regulations) Act 2010 – this strengthened the 1996 Act introducing further controls driven from the European Union. These transposed into English law the requirements of Directives 2008/50/EC and 2004/107/EC on ambient air quality.
The European Union Legislation
The European Union Law (historically called "European Community Law") is a body of treaties and legislation, such as Regulations and Directives, which have direct or indirect effect on the laws of European Union member states.
The law is passed to member states by directives which develop the law in Britain.
The European Union is driving improved standards on Air Quality as the science emerges that it presents a greater risk than previously anticipated. There has been some resistance by the UK government to strengthening the controls and thresholds. The government has asked for, and been given, more time but the European Union has insisted that these much tighter regulation be in place in all major UK cities by 2020 and London by 2025. The British government has committed to these targets. Even in the event Britain were to leave the EU it is unlikely we would waver from international treaties particularly in the light of the science and medical research.
The Health & Social Care Act 2012
This was a wide ranging review of the structure of the overall health service and in the context of air quality an important part of this act was that promotion of health and wellbeing transferred from the NHS to local authorities. So you may have suddenly seen your local council now starting to promote and advertise lifestyle issues such as obesity and smoking.
Your local council therefore has a statutory duty of care to mitigate risk of adverse air quality both from within this act. This is in addition to the 1995 Environment Act and EU legislation.
In Summary
There is a wealth of protective legislation for the health of you and your family in regard to the dangers of air pollution and in particular traffic borne pollution. The science is overwhelming. Traffic borne air pollution is a major health risk and is known to shorten lifespan. However as development increases traffic increases and the legalisation becomes tighter. As we approach 2020 this is likely to become an increasingly important issue for local communities.


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Hi everyone,
My Moodboard theme for this class is quite broad. What I really want to do is use some of my favorite photos from hiking trips, and other walkabouts, as my source material for a pattern. (Those sweet little finds). I did take the purple tubeflower photo, but the others are pics I WISH I had taken.
I included some of my favorite artists/illustrators to help keep me focused on the direction. I am madly, deeply in love with Ellsworth Kelly's Plant Drawings, and they provide a lot of inspiration for me.
I also included Julia Rothman, Abigail Borg, and some quick digital sketches I made, trying to simplify and abstract as much as possible, trying to keep thinks feeling organic.
Step 2
These are some of my sketches, all based on photos I've taken from different places.
My sketching style tends to be quite messy, which can make it really challenging for me to work with in the computer. I try many different methods to see what looks best, tracing over with stylus, Image Trace, and I often draw right over my photos in Photoshop, to get more familiar with the form and shapes of the motif (it feels like I'm cheating, but I do always try to edit things out as I draw and simplify the shapes).
So far, based on my Moodboard and photos, I have not included a color palette, but I actually have a color palette in mind, that I plan to use with my pattern. Would you advise to always include your color palette with your initial moodboard? I did feel like my moodboard suffered for lack of a cohesive palette?
Thanks so much!!
Vectorized Drawings
Here a just a few of the sketches converted into vectors. Because I don't own an iPad, I have become pretty reliant on Image Trace. I have a (unusual maybe) practice of drawing over my sketches or photos in Photoshop first, b/c I love the brush options and masking, and then bringing it into Illustrator. But, as you can see below, I do get that often bumpy, clumped look with my linework. I have also tried tracing sketches in Illustrator with either the blob brush or pencil tool, and I actually feel the lines are too smooth, and still need lots of adjusting.
Final Stage - Pattern with 3 Colorways
This is what I have come up with so far, and I'm pretty happy with it, but I know that the more I go back to it, the more I want to change and fiddle...sometimes that can create a problem for me. I do like to fill a lot of space, but sometimes it gets too crowded. I am definitely open to any constructive feedback, as one thing I have been missing in my pattern journey so far, is guidance from those who are more experienced than myself.
I have really enjoyed seeing everyones work so far - very inspiring!!


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Sergio Ramos received a cold greeting from the England fans at Wembley Stadium on Saturday as the centre-back received a chorus of boos before Spain's UEFA Nations League match against the Three Lions.
Ramos made few friends in England after his controversial tackle on Mohamed Salah injured the Liverpool star in the Champions League final - forcing the attacker from the contest in the 3-1 Real Madrid victory.
The controversy sparked back to life at the Champions League draw, when, with Ramos and Salah were both in attendance, the Real Madrid man tapped Salah on the shoulder following his UEFA Defender of the Year victory.
Ramos has shown little contrition over the situation, saying his conscience was clear in the lead up to the international contest.
During the pre-match press conference, Ramos maintained he did not mean to injure Salah, and that he was unconcerned over any potential negative reaction in the game.
"I'm not really concerned about that," he said when asked about the possible reaction towards him from a capacity crowd.
"I never wanted to hurt a colleague on the pitch of course, so my conscience is really clear about what I did that night. I'm not going to be affected by that at all.
"I know the English fans will treat players as they deserve and I'm not worried about that in the slightest."
If Ramos did hope to escape the fans' displeasure, he will likely be disappointed as the announcement of his name was met by a loud set of boos.
That derision continued into the game, as Ramos was booed in the early going every time he touched the ball, though it eventually tapered off as the half went on.


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Daiwa Exceler LT 3000
- Brand: Daiwa
The new Exceler is one of my favourite Daiwa reels to date. Not only because of the amazing value, but the quality feel too. They're pretty much a slightly cheaper version of the Fuego - without the Magseal features (which you could argue makes them easier to self-service). They're light too - being part of the new LT range of reels from Daiwa. Light and Tough. They're compact but with monster gears inside compared to a lot of the competition. You won't be disappointed.
This 3000 size is the one to go for if you're on a light bass rod from 7'6" to 9' long. A great little reel similar in size to the traditional 2500 models.
The handle knob on the 3000/4000/5000 is the larger T style rather than the smaller one pictured.
Special price:
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Ben says:
"Absolutely incredible value!"
- Reel Size: LT3000
- Weight: 225g
- Gear Ratio: 5.3
- Stated Line Capacity: 150m - 0.33mm (Rarely means much. Volumetric capacity is more accurate, even if it gives you no detail on loading capacity at present. I'm working on that!)
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Local accountants Cresswells have signed a new deal to sponsor this year's Street Sundae event during Hebden Bridge Arts Festival in July.
The town's chartered accountants are throwing their weight behind one of the North's best street festivals that features some of Europe's top performers showing off their talents in front of thousands of spectators on five sites across the town.
Cresswells opened its doors when penny farthings were the favoured mode of transport outside its Market Street base, and they have seen the town change from being a major textile provider through its decline when the mills closed to the town's more recent renaissance as one of the best places to live in the UK.
The team have just celebrated the 125th anniversary of the firm's creation so they decided they wanted to back one of the region's best arts festivals.
Cresswells Partner John Dakin said: "We have watched the festival expand over the years, and it just felt the right time to become a sponsor this year, so when we looked at the programme the best fit for us was the Street Sundae event which is truly spectacular.
"We are proud of the services we provide to local businesses and the chance to support the Arts Festival, which continues to grow and grow, allows us to put something back into the community we serve, especially as the Street Sundae is a free event open to all."
As well sponsoring Street Sundae the deal includes Cresswells doing the festival's books this year.
Festival Artistic Director Helen Meller said: "Last year was a record year for bookings so it is great for us as a charity that an experienced team like Creswells will be doing our accounts and offering us advice.
"The support we get from local business is very important to the festival so to secure the support of a firm that began life when Queen Victoria was on the throne can only help us attract some top class street performers from across Europe."
The Street Sundae event sponsored by Cresswells Accountants takes place on Sunday, July 5.


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according to the dutch dictionary this word does not exsist. Spoken as one word it means cute/hottie/arousing etc. refering to ones' preference....
lekker = good tasting/nice
ding = object
lekker = good tasting/nice
ding = object
while i was at that concert who did i see ? the lekkerding that works in the bookstore!
by sMorris June 08, 2005
Hallo mijn lekkerding!
by DrgnGrl7000 August 24, 2006
buy the domain for your art site


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|Congratulations to Worapot Pornchaijalurnkit, winner of the 11 Second Club April Competition! There were a lot of great entries this month, but Worapot's entry won over the voters with its beautiful subtleties and great interpretation of the audio clip.
|Chad has been an animator for the last 19 years. He started as a traditional animator for 10 years at Walt Disney Animation Studios, working on films such as Tarzan, The Emperor's New Groove, and Fantasia 2000. Then Chad pursued 3D animation at Sony Pictures Imageworks, animating in films like Stuart Little 2 and Open Season 1 and Open Season 2, then as an animation supervisor for Surf's Up. Chad Stewart is currently a full-time animation freelancer and a full-time mentor at Animation Mentor.
What is the eCritique® Tool?
The eCritique Tool is an innovative key element in the Animation Mentor program. Each week, a professional mentor will provide their students with a newly recorded video critique on their weekly animation assignment.
This provides valuable insight, feedback and suggestions on ways to improve students' weekly assignments and animation skills. In addition to viewing their own critiques, students may also view the critiques of their peers, learning from their mistakes and successes as well.


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Speed of light
The speed of light in vacuum is held to be constant at 299,792,458 m/s (186,282.397 miles per second). Designated by the symbol "c" (for "constant"), it is a fundamental quantity of the universe. According to special relativity it is the universe's speed limit and it is part of the relation between mass and energy:
Some have proposed that the speed of light has decayed since the Creation. While this theory opened the door to scientific solutions to the distant starlight problem, it is not generally accepted by creation scientists.
One-Way Speed of Light
Jason Lisle proposed the Anisotropic Synchrony Convention which provides for the speed of light to be variable depending upon the location of the observer, which will always be on Earth.
Sagnac[1] proved that light travels at different speeds depending on its direction and its proximity to the center of Earth's gravity, lending weight to the Anisotropic convention.
The one-way speed of light has never been measured[2]. Every known measurement of the speed of light includes reflecting it from another surface. This necessarily changes the nature of light, as it can only be the average of the outbound and inbound leg. Additionally, all electronic means to measure the speed of light cannot themselves operate at the speed of light. This introduces error and constraint into the measurement. If we attempt to embed a signal into a light beam to synchronize two clocks at a distance, the time it takes to both create and to interpret the signal introduce another constraint. In fact, any introduction of a measurement mechanism necessarily constrains the measurement because no measurement mechanism can operate at the speed of light.
Einstein understood the primary paradox of the speed of light, as evidenced by the theory of black holes. A black hole's gravity is so strong that light cannot reach escape velocity. However, gravity can only act in this manner between bodies with mass, which necessarily means that photons have mass. Physicists generally do not accept the notion that photons have mass. If they do not, they would be able to escape a black hole, and it would not be black after all. However, if the photon has mass, then it is a particle with mass traveling at the speed of light. For such particles, time stands still. There is no duration between their departure (from an emitting source) and their destination. Essentially departure and arrival are instantaneous. If this is the case with a photon, then there is no such thing as a light-year in space, and the age of the Cosmos cannot be determined using light as a basis. Moreover, the speed of light is a function of distance and duration: speed = distance/time. However, Einstein asserted that time is relative. If this is true then the speed of light is also relative and cannot be constant.
To resolve this paradox, Einstein side-stepped it by stipulating that the speed of light is constant without ever proving it.
That light requires the same time to traverse the path A > M as for the path B > M is in reality neither a supposition nor a hypothesis about the physical nature of light, but a stipulation which I can make of my own freewill in order to arrive at a definition of simultaneity" (Einstein 1961, p. 23) [emphasis is in the original].
Whenever scientists encounter particle behaviors that defy the speed of light, such as the propensity of particles to instantly share behaviors even across vast distances (e.g. Quantum Entanglement) they still hold to the notion that the speed of light is constant, eliciting the strangest explanations, including the idea that all particles in the universe are connected to all other particles through wormholes[3]. Such oddball theories are the simplest evidence that the "constant" speed of light has been accepted as a reality rather than a stipulation for mathematical purposes.
Albert A. Michelson is credited with developing the method for the definitive measurement of the speed of light. In 1902 he published his classic paper on the speed of light, and in 1907 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work. Michelson also proposed the standardization of the international unit of length, the meter, using specified wavelengths of light rather than an artifact. For decades the scientific community used Michelson's standardization method, but finally decided to define the SI unit of length according to the speed of light. Today one meter is defined as exactly 1/299,792,458 of the distance that a beam of light travels in one second.
Many scientists in the past have speculated about possible changes in the values of one or more physical constants and its implications. These speculations were not always greeted with enthusiasm from the scientific community because the implications of any variation in any constant are enormous: it would introduce changes at astronomical levels in the very fiber of the Universe. Yet the idea never totally died out and was never totally suppressed.
Glenn Morton was one of the first persons to put forth a concrete and testable model. He started not from changing fundamental constants, but from another angle. Soon Barry Setterfield came forward with his proposal of variation in the velocity of light. His initial proposal went through several revisions and modifications and creationist publications quoted him widely. Some secular publications also used the information, but the general response was to resist his proposals.
Johnson C. Philip from India put forth the same idea in a broader way in 1982 and did some work with the Physics department of Jiwaji University in India. However, he had to abandon the work in 1984 due to the resistance of some non creationist professors.
The proposal remains promising, and much work can be done. The resistance remains, especially from non creationists. However, the topic might find a revival, now that the secular community has started to consider the idea of changing fundamental constants.
Practical uses
The speed of light has been used to calculate the distance of supernova 1987A from earth with great accuracy, based on observing the time taken for its light to illuminate the Large Magellanic Cloud. It is the standard method for calculating the distance to nearby galaxies.
The part of the SN1987A ring perpendicular to the explosion center (as seen from us) was observed to light up about 8 months after the explosion. The light that took a detour via the ring to us was always a ring radius behind the direct light regardless of the speed of light that prevailed during the trip. The ring radius could be calculated to these 8 months times the speed of light as applied to the year 1987, when the measurement was made. Thus it is not of this observation to deduce if the light has had any different speed before 1987.
The notion of c-decay is currently out of favor even among creationists. Two models for the creation of the universe, i.e. white hole cosmology and cosmological relativity, both assume a constant value of c.
The Anisotropic Synchrony Convention holds for a variable value for c, and likewise provides for c to be relative to the speed of the emitting object. Anisotropism is the actual de-facto convention for Scripture, as God describes things from a human's-eye point-of-view. Even Christ said he would use earthly things to describe heavenly things. The human point-of-view is integrated to the Anisotropic convention, providing for the instantaneous arrival of distant starlight as well as explain local measurement in terms of time dilation.
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagnac_effect
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light
- ↑ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=wormholes-quantum-entanglement-link
- Biography of Albert A. Michelson from the Nobel Committee
- An Alternate View of SN1987A by Selva Harris.
- Speed of light may have changed recently by Eugenie Samuel Reich, NewScientist.com


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Fine Art Books
Based in the UK, FINE ART - BOOKS, is a specialist online seller of art books, artists' books and art ephemera. Focusing on the 20th Century to the present day, FINE ART - BOOKS aims to provide a knowledgeable service for those seeking rare, limited edition, secondhand or scholarly art reference
What we've done
The client wanted a simple effective site to upload his collection of Fine Art books for sale. The site is easy to navigate and very user friendly.


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Hey friends! I have been on a mini nail polish bender recently. I haven't bought loads and loads and loads but I still seem to be receiving nail mail bit by bit, day by day. One of the pretties I have treated myself to recently is "Rocket!" by Indy's Indies. It is the most colourful, vibrant, happy polish, comprising of a multitude of matte particles - bars, squares, hexes, stars - you name it, they're in there! I have been wearing some quite dark polishes lately, so I chose to layer "Rocket!" over a white creme base (OPI "Alpine Snow") for a happy, jolly, playful look. A little bit of fishing was required for the larger pieces, but application was otherwise easy, and the two coats I applied dried nice and quickly.
Let's look, shall we? Pictures all show two coats of Indy's Indies "Rocket!" over OPI "Alpine Snow", with Essie "Good To Go" top coat.
What do you think? Do you like this type of colourful, matte glitter topper? I love them, and this one is particularly fabulous - I have been beside myself with glee ever since I applied it!
I purchased this polish from Indy's Indies' Etsy shop where there are currently lots of lovely polish babies available (UK shipping only).


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Can any body please help on regarding below:
I am trying to remove some records(rows) in records list (from server aggregate) which records match with another records list(from local aggregate).
EX: A = record List from server aggregate.
B=record List from Local aggregate.
I need A-B
Thank You.
Hi Pranab,
You need to create logic for that where you iterate list A and for each iteration iterate list B and check for each B element if it is equal to current A. Store the Ids that you identify to remove and after finishing iterations use ListRemove to remove the elements you want.
Here is a draft of a possible implementation:
Hope this helps.
Ana Reis
You can also do an advanced query instead of an aggregate, to which you pass a string containing the list of id's of elements in group B, and use the NOT IN operator in the WHERe clause. so something like:
select *
from A
where A.id NOT IN stringlist-of-B-Id's


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Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation (LCEF)
Grants starting at $2,001 to USA nonprofit organizations and municipal agencies in the Funding Source's service area for high-need community improvement projects. Funding may be used for projects such as grounds improvements, building upgrades and renovations, technology upgrades, as well as safety improvements.
Lowe's Heroes employee volunteer program is another opportunity for support, which Lowe's can provide to some grant recipients to help supplement the labor of projects. Applicants are encouraged to speak to their local store manager to see if this is a possibility before applying.
GrantWatch ID#: 180939
Grants range from $2,001 to $100,000.
The Foundation provides funding only to 501(c) (3) tax-exempt nonprofit organizations and public agencies in communities where Lowe's operates stores and distribution centers. There is not a required distance a Lowe's store must be within proximity to your organization.
Organizations must be an established 501(c)(3) non-profit organization for two years in order to apply for a grant.
Municipalities may apply for a Community Partners grant.
The Foundation's charitable contributions are not used for:
- Individuals and families or memorial campaigns
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- Arts-based programs
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- Development or production of books, developing curriculum, films, videos or television programs
- Activities of organizations serving primarily their own membership
- Continuing education for teachers and staff
- Institutional overhead and/or indirect cost (i.e. salaries, stipends, benefits and most project labor costs)
Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation requires that all applicants take an eligibility test. Organizations that pass will be considered, but not guaranteed a grant.
The Community Partners 2018 cycle dates are:
- Spring Cycle: March 19, 2018 – May 11, 2018
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The review process takes 90 days from the cycle close date and applicants will receive a status email after a review is completed.
Application is permitted for one grant program once every 12 months.
Before starting your grant application, please review the funding source's website listed below for updates/changes/addendums/conferences/LOIs.
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Epson deservedly is the big dog of the photographic-quality inkjet printer world. Their printers have over the past 10 years revolutionized photographic output. The just-released Stylus Pro 3800 is the latest offering from Epson, the company that virtually invented the genre (or at least made it viable). Indeed it needs to be stated that Epson has done more to advance the state of photographic printing technology than virtually any other company.
With that as preamble, not to mention well-deserved praise, what have they done for us lately? In other words, what's the new Epson 3800 like?
Some History & Specs
The Stylus Pro 3800 is based around Epson's Ultrachrome K3 ink set. These are that company's state-of-the-art pigment inks, offering a wide gamut and excellent light fastness (as do all pigment-based inks). These inks are found on other printers in the Epson line, ranging from 13″ to 44″; the 2400, 4800, 7800, and 9800 models.
There are nine inks in the set. Of these, there are two primary blacks – one for use with glossy papers and the other for use with matte papers. On the 4800, 7800 and 9800 wide format printers these blacks must be swapped when the user changes paper types between glossy and matte. And therein lies a tale.
The predecessor Epson 4000, as well as the 7600 and 9600 models, were designed around a previous ink set which used seven colours rather than the K3 ink sets eight colours. When the K3 inks ( the 3 indicating the addition of an extra black) came out (not that long afterward) Epson had a problem. These printers would have had to be completely reengineered and redesigned to accept a ninth cartridge. The solution which Epson chose was to require that only one of the primary blacks, either Photo (glossy) or Matte be loaded in the machine at any time. This applied to the replacement 4800 (17″), 7800 (24″), and 9800 (44″) models.
As users of these printers can well attest, simply having to swap cartridges when switching paper types isn't in and of itself the issue. The problem is that it requires standing in front of the machine flipping levers for about half an hour while the printer purges the ink lines, and it also entails a loss of about $75 in ink each time this is done; as much as $150 for a round-trip.
This has been the Achilles heal of the "8" series Epson printers, and the cause of considerable user dissatisfaction.
Then, in mid-2006 Epson saw real competition brewing for the first time. Both Canon and HP introduced photographic-quality pigment ink based printers in sizes from 13″ to 60″, and with ink sets incorporating from 8 to 12 colours. Importantly, all of these printers from both Canon and HP didnotrequire swapping black inks when different print media were used.
This brings us to the Epson Stylus Pro 3800, an eight colour printer, using Ultrachrome K3 inks, that has all nine inks resident simultaniously, and which automatically switches black inks based in the user's choice of paper in the printer driver.
Its other most telling features are reduced size, reduced weight, and reduced price. This is the least expensive 17″ printer yet to market, at a MSLP in the U.S. of $1,295. It's larger sibling, the 17″ Epson 4800, is priced at $1,995.
Getting Set Up
When you drop in to your dealer to pick up a 3800, or when the delivery driver drops it at your doorstep, you'll be pleased to note that it weighs just 43 lbs. This means that one person can carry it, compared to the Epson 4800 which is definitely a two person undertaking. It also has quite a bit smaller footprint, so in a home environment it is more likely to garner spousal approval.
The only caveat in terms of its physical dimensions is that lacking a front feed cassette paper the 3800 needs to be loaded from the top. This means that you require a lot of space above the printer, and so it will not function if placed anywhere that there is a shelf immediately above it. Heavy paper can also be front loaded, but it is sucked into the machine and out the back for loading, and therefore sufficient space needs to be reserved at the back of the machine as well. So, while the footprint of the machine itself is small, it actually requires quite a bit of space to live happily.
Setup and configuration is simple and straightforward. There are a dozen or more blue pieces of tape holding things together for transport, and once these are removed you can plug the machine in and load the inks, all nine of them. The cartridges are clearly labled and are keyed, so it's impossible to put the wrong one in the wrong slot. Once these are installed and the printer has taken 10 minutes or so to prime the lines and heads, the USB 2 or Ethernet cable can be attached, and the driver software installed.
The provided setup instructions and manual are up to Epson's usual high quality. Clear, well written, and comprehensive. I installed on a 17″ Macbook Pro without any drama, and am certain that the case would be the same on a Windows machine.
I noted that the 3800, like all Epson printers, does not ship with a dedicated printing plug-in the way that current HP and Canon printers do. These mini-programs really do make life easier, since they combine all of the myriad menu choices into just one or two simple screens. Epson might consider matching the competition in this regard.
Ink Size and Usage
The ink cartridges on the Epson 3800 hold 80 ML each. The printer comes with a full set of ink, not reduced-volume starter cartridges. This compares with the 110ML and 220ML cartridges that the Epson 4800 can take.
These cartridges retail for about $55, so in fact the printer ships with nearly $500 worth of ink. This should be borne in mind by anyone considering the purchase of a 13″ Epson 2400, which retails for $850, some $400 less than the 3800. In other words, the 3800 actually costs $100 less than the 2400 when the value of the provided inks is factored in. And then of course the long term lower cost of inks in the larger cartridges of the 3800 makes for greater economy as well.
But, in comparison with the Epson 4800, ink costs will be higher – nearly twice as expensive as a 4800 using 220ML cartridges. Having said that, fine art paper costs several times this per sheet, so unless one is doing high volume printing this isn't a big issue. And if one is doing high volume printing the 3800 isn't likely to be the printer of choice in any event.
Printing Speed
The 3800 is no speed demon. With all printers set to their highest print quality setting, printing on matte paper, with a 6″ X 9″ image, here are the timings.
Epson 3800Epson 4800Canon 5000HP 91805′ 50″7′ 00″2′ 40″3′ 55″
Though the 3800 bests its larger sibling, it is noticeably slower than either the Canon iPF 5000 or the HP 9180.
Paper Handling
The Epson 3800 has three ways of loading paper: a top loading auto feeder, which can hold up to 20 sheets of photographic paper; a top loading single sheet feeder for heavy fine art paper, and a front loading feed mechanism that can take sheets up to 16X20″ and a thickness of 1.5mm. The two top feeds can take paper up to 17X22″.
Mechanical Construction
I have no way of evaluating the printer's internal mechanical construction. But I did note that the materials used for some of the external bits appear to be very light weight, even flimsy. The front panel, which provides access to the paper catch tray, which extends, has a very lose push-to-release mechanism, and in fact on my sample the spring which activates this popped out the second time the door was opened. I have looked at another sample of the machine and it feels the same way. There is also a lot of flex on the side panels, though these have no bearing on print quality, or even machine longevity. I suppose you can't have really solid construction in a printer as well as light weight at the same time.
I have seen some mention online by early 3800 users that a few have experienced problems with the print heads bumping into paper that has a strong curl. I have not experienced this myself. The explanation likely is that the 3800 does not have a vacuum mechanism for holding paper flat against the platen, the way the 4800 does. This was obviously a design decision based on reducing size, weight and cost. The extent to which this may be an issue remains to be seen.
Print Quality
It is almost impossible to show differences in print quality online in a review. The reproduction medium, be it a screen or magazine page, is a layer that gets between the physical print and any form of meaningful reproduction.
Gamut plots can be shown, but I have found that they are less indicative of real differences than is truly the case. Similarly with screen grabs of gamut warnings. The reason for this is that the gamut limit warning is displayed even if the gamut is clipped by a miniscule amount. A comparison of gamut plots tells us a bit more, but even here, a printer that shows a larger gamut in one part of the spectrum than does another printer may not have this translate into any sort of real world advantage.
In the end, it comes down to eyeballs – more than one set preferably, and ones that are experienced in evaluating print quality.
What I see when looking at Epson 3800 prints, backstopped in this instance by my friend and colleague Mark Segal, who sometimes writes for this site about printers and who has a very keen eye for colour, is as follows….
In comparison to prints made with the Epson 4800 there is little to no visible difference in resolution, either when prints are made at 1400 or 2800 dpi. When gamut limiting comparisons are done with Photoshop's soft proofing what we see is that the 3800 shows slightly more saturated reds and also blues. Yellows are much better on the 3800 as compared with the 4800. At no part of the spectrum is the 4800 better than the 3800. But, as cautioned above, these differences are not so readily visible in real-world prints as they are in gamut plots.
This is a curious finding because the inks set are the same – Epson's Ultrachrome K3. But what's new according to Epson are both improved heads and also screening patterns. Clearly the profiles provided by Epson are also a factor. It may be the Epson is using some new tools to create these. I had no opportunity to compare custom made profiles with those from Epson, but will attempt to do so in a future update.
As for monochrome printing, quality is, as expected, very high.
Just as a matter of curiosity I made some comparison test prints against the 12 ink Canon iPF 5000, using custom profiles which I made with anEye Onespectrophotometer on Innova F Glosspaper. The prints were so close in appearance as to be uncanny. The Canon showed maybe a smidge more shadow detail and a bit of extra separation in the red step wedge, but it was essentially impossible to tell the prints apart. Excellent performance on the Epson 3800's part, because the Canon 5000 has heretofor produced the best image quality that I'veyetseen fromanyprinter.
Black Swapping
As discussed above, the Epson 3800 is an eight colour printer that uses nine inks, the extra ink being an alternate black. But, it appears to only have eight inks worth of heads. When one switches between matte and glossy papers there is a pause of a few minutes during which the current black ink is purged from the lines and heads, and the new ink is loaded. Apparently this doesn't use that much ink (about 1ML), but the pause may be an issue if a lot of media switching is done.
Frankly I find this approach to be less than satisfactory. Yes, the printer does automatically switch inks depending on the paper set in the print driver, but the cost in time and ink (apparently some of the colour inks are flushed as well) is of concern. If you usually print on just glossy or matte papers and only occasionally on the other, then this process isn't a big issue. But if you are frequently changing media types you may find that the ink and time costs are of concern. It really strikes me as curious that when designing what appears to be a brand new printer Epson would choose this klugy approach, especially when neither HP not Canon find it necessary to do so.
The Epson 3800 comes with some 13 profiles for various Epson brand papers. These begin withPro38. The names are needlessly obscure, and Epson US doesn't help by having omitted a Rosetta stone from their manual. Fortunately Epson UK was more accommodating, and the list can be found on Page 173 of their version of the PDF manual, which can be downloaded from their web site. It is reproduced below.
Who is it For?
Whenever a new printer appears photographers try and place it within the taxonomy. In other words – who's it for? Is this a professional printer, or one designed for the amateur market? Certainly by its naming as aStylus Pro, Epson regards it as being in the same league as the 4800. But, is it? And how does it stack up against the competition?
Right now there are only three 17″ photographic pigment printers, and two of them are from Epson; the 4800 and the 3800. The external competition is theCanon iPF5000. As to choosing between the 4800 and the 3800, there are numerous factors to be considered. The first is price. The 4800 is $1,995 while the 3800 is $1,295. The 4800 is able to take larger ink tanks, and therefore for the photographer doing volume printing ink costs will be lower. The 3800 does not have a large capacity paper cassette, but can take moderate quantities of paper on its top feeder. The 3800 can not take a roll paper holder. The 3800 is quite a bit smaller than the 4800, and likely more amenable to placement in a domestic setting.
The comparison with the Canon iPF5000 is an interesting one. Of course the 5000, though also a 17″ printer, is quite a bit larger. This is because it is 12 ink, rather than 8(9) ink, uses larger ink cartridges, has a large paper cassette, and and it also can take a roll paper holder. The current retail price for the iPF 5000 is typically $1,695, making it more than the 3800, but less than the 4800. Of course it uses both black inks simultaneously, with no switchover required, making it far preferable in this regard than the 4800.
So with that as the competitive landscape, it would appear that the Epson 3800 has carved out a unique place for itself. It is the least expensive 17″ printer on the market, and also the smallest physically. Image quality is on a par with anything else currently available. It gives up the use of large ink cartridges, and the possibility of using roll paper, but that's the price one pays for smaller size and lower initial cost.
It would appear that the Epson 3800 will be a big success, appealing to a wide range of advanced amateurs who need to make large prints, but who don't need to do so on a production basis.
I would like to thank Vistek, Canada's largest professional photographic and imaging retailer, for their kind loan of an Epson 3800 for this test.
December, 2006


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Multi-net Pats-Giants game most-watched since '95Saturday night's simulcast New England Patriots-New York Giants game pushed past this year's Patriots-Indianapolis Colts thriller to become the most-watched regular-season NFL game since 1995.
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Goodell demurred on whether the NFL could resolve its dispute with major cable operators.
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