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2X RDP Client for Mac Yosemite OS X connected to 2X Remote Application Server delivers applications and virtual desktops. Mac users can now work seamlessly on published Windows applications such as Microsoft Office, and on virtual desktops. 2X RAS works perfectly for RDS and VDI with the major hypervisors, such as Hyper-V, VMware or Citrix Xen.
On October 20, 2014, Apple released the latest version of Mac OS Yosemite OS X. The market reacted very well to the news: within four days from the release, 21% of the total installed Mac base had already upgraded to Yosemite OS X. Due to this strong positive feedback from users, we have decided to release an updated version of 2X RDP Client for Mac Yosemite OS X. 2X RDP Client has been rated between 4 and 5 for its performance and consistent reliability on iTunes and several other marketplaces. In order to guarantee an excellent user experience we have further improved the Client. Customers can enjoy the rich graphics of Yosemite OS X directly on the Client when accessing applications and virtual desktops. Giorgio Bonuccelli Marketing Director, 2X Software
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This is long, but well worth sitting through to catch up with the ideas and concepts that have driven the success of blogging as a medium over the last decade. Don't worry about the software stuff at the beginning – it rapidly moves beyond that.
Month: July 2010
How He Took It To The World
This is quite, quite lovely:
Good News/Bad News from KPMG
The Bad:
KPMG has found that 81% of UK "would go elsewhere for content if a previously free site we use frequently began charging". Only 19% would be willing to pay in the UK, while globally (the same research looked at consumer behaviour in a range of countries) 43% of consumers are willing to pay for digital content.
Retrofitting a paywall? Probably not gonna work.
The Good:
They are also more willing to have data collected if it would result in lower content costs. "48 percent of UK consumers would be willing to accept profile tracking, up from 35 percent in the 2008 survey." Publishers and marketers need to take care though as 90% of consumers also expressed concern about their privacy and security online.
Interesting possibilities there, especially in niches, if explored with care…
The quotes above are both from Kevin Anderson's rather deeper analysis, which is well worth reading.
The Curse of the Collator
A Few Slightly Geeky Journo Links
Time for some links:
- One of the most consistent themes I hear when talking to journalists around the country is frustration with the web publishing CMS they have to deal with (especially if they've ever used any blog platform). In that light, this post about the BBC's new web CMS makes for fascinating reading, both through what they're doing and through the fact they blogged about it publically. I suspect that a culture that allows such blogging is laikely to produce a better piece of kit…
- Another trend I see amongst some journalists is an almost obsessive pride in not understanding technology. Kevin makes an interesting case for a more data-centric view of journalism that should give pause to such folks.
- Martin's look at how well (or more often, not) digital coverage of the World Cup has survived down the years is thought-provoking. There's a surprising amount of value in them there archives…
- And Nature's using OpenSocial. I'm very interested in this, and you're probably not, but it's my blog so "nyah".
What's in a name?
Peter Demain of Dirty Garnet on the name of this blog:
I personally despise the name as it brings back memories of humdrum minutes in my youth spent watching some flat-capped florid faced farmer train a sheepdog to be a sheepdog in a boringly verdant setting.
A Different Future for Newspapers
So, yesterday we learned that newspaper editors are now so irrelevant that iconic editors are becoming mayors.
About that iPad mag subscriptions panic
I saw a lot of buzz overnight about Apple not allowing magazine subscriptions on the iPad, and OMG how is the iPad going to save us now? Steve, you have betrayed us!
Except, well, that's simply not true. You can buy subscriptions to publications on the iPad – I have ones to The Times, The Spectator and a photography magazine. There are various routes for selling those subscriptions, and one that's specifically disallowed. Here's John Gruber to explain:
Here's the difference, I think. With Amazon and the Wall Street Journal, users set up and create their accounts on the web, not within the iOS apps. The WSJ app requires a subscription that doesn't go through iTunes, but you create, pay for, and manage that subscription on the web. Judging from Kafka's description of the Sports Illustrated situation, it sounds like Time tried to add its own direct billing subscription system within the Sports Illustrated app itself.
Gruber makes the very valid point that all this OMG! PANIC! would go away if Apple would just clarify its rules, though…
The Future of Newspapers (via Spider-Man)
When I was growing up, my understanding of who and what journalists actually were was largely defined by the staff of the Daily Bugle, employer of Peter Parker, better known as the Amazing Spider-Man. In particular, they were defined by this chap, the infamous J. Jonah Jameson:
In the Spidey-verse, I think one of our best ideas was making Jonah mayor. The possibilities of that remain endless, and with newspapers dying, it was a terrific way to give him a powerful presence.
It's the off-hand way that a creator from another branch of the publishing business dismisses the future of our industry that stands out to me – they think that newspapers are now so unimportant that the character doesn't carry the same weight as an editor as he once did…
Shooting Video on a DSLR
I spent a chunk of the weekend editing 30 minutes of holiday video footage down to a nice, tight 10 minutes that went down a storm with the family. And that reminded me of several experiments I've wanted to conduct with video for a while, and a few extra ones that crossed my mind while chatting with Documentally when he came to speak at RBI.

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Jacksonville, FLA. - The weekend weather started with a warm up on Saturday, into the upper 80's, with isolated storms during the afternoon. Sunday- cloudy skies and cooler temperatures prevailed.
Saturday morning started in the upper 60's and lower 70's, with patches of fog to the West of I-95. Visibilities were reduced to 4-7 miles for an hour or so, before warming temperatures caused the fog to dissipate.
Warming temperatures led to the mid 80's by the lunch hour, and partly cloudy skies with slight increases during the afternoon hours. Expect 30% coverage of afternoon showers, especially between 3:00 and 6:00pm. Winds develop out of the Southwest between 5 and 10mph.
Nautical condition Saturday led to a moderate risk for rip currents along the beaches, SW winds at 10mph, and 2-4' seas out to 20 miles.
Saturday's showers end around 7pm, but the clouds stick around overnight, leading to mild overnight temperatures.
Cloudy skies define Sunday's weather, limiting heating to the upper 70's for an afternoon high. Winds will be out of the Northeast at 10mph, and chances for rain are 20%.
The Jags game will be played under mostly cloudy skies, with temperatures in the mid to upper 70's, and an isolated chance for a short lived shower.
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HAIFA, Palestine (Nov. 4)
A group of British battleships anchored here during the recent Arab disorders steamed out of the harbor today. The military evacuation of the Holy Land will continue Saturday, when the first contingent of recent reinforcements, comprising 2,900 reservists, departs on the liner Laurentic. Exclusive of the naval forces and the Royal Air Force, there are 22 battalions, totalling about 25,000 effective, in Palestine, as against the normal garrison of about 2,000.


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Fair game is a critique of hunting. The title is ironic. For hunters, the sense of challenge, the rules, costume and accoutrement are all used to justify hunting is a 'sport', yet the pursuits of hunting hardly constitute 'fair game' or 'good sportsmanship' since the animal is oblivious to any such organisation, rules or structure and certainly has no desire to participate in a 'game' that culminates in its own death.
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During the week of September 10, 2012, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live grew week to week in both Total Viewers (+11%) and Adults 18-49 (+2%), drawing its biggest audience in 4 weeks – since the week of 8/13/12. JKL was also up by 6% in viewers over the year-ago week, standing as the only late-night broadcast talk show to grow its overall audience year to year.
- · ABC's JKL (M-F 12am) outdrew NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (M-F 12:35am) by 5% in Total Viewers, drawing a larger audience than the NBC program on 3 of 5 days of the week: Tuesday (+2%), Wednesday (+25%) and Friday (+19%). In fact, on Friday, a repeat telecast of JKL outdelivered an original Fallon in both Total Viewers (+19%) and Adults 18-49 (+2%).
- · ABC's JKL outperformed CBS' The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (M-F 12:35am) in both Total Viewers (+41%) and Adults 18-49 (+32%) for the 27th week in a row. In fact, JKL has drawn a larger overall audience than Ferguson in 51 of the 52 weeks this season. In addition, the ABC late-night program beat Ferguson on all 5 days of the week in both viewers and young adults for the 4th time in the last 5 weeks.
- · Season to date (52 weeks), JKL is building its overall audience over the comparable weeks last year by 3% in Total Viewers, growing the most year to year of any late-night broadcast talk show.


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Um we don't use bull penis in either pulao or biryani. Sure you want to try it?
'You will look very silly said Mr Salteena with a dry laugh.
Well so will you said Ethel in a snappy tone and she ran out of the room with a very superier run throwing out her legs behind and her arms swinging in rithum.
Well said the owner of the house she has a most idiotick run.'
-My beliefs summarized in words much more eloquent than I could come up with
How the Universe came from nothing
Me too. Mutton briyani pretty much > any food in the world.
Pulav/Pulao has its charm, but let's not get carried away. Biryani is the king of all rice dishes (beef biryani ftw). Anyone who says otherwise is a dirty communist!
Wow Navy Chief resigns taking moral responsibilty for a submarine accident.
Lol. It is misguided tripe like this which convinces me that some people should not be allowed to hold an opinion at all.
I've never had beef biryani in India as far as I can remember (though I might have, not sure, I've had it elsewhere). Mutton biryani is my favorite.
G.I. Joe is clearly the Ken Ham of this debate. Just accept it, and move on.
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Posted May 11, 2015
Raleigh, N.C. — Although the remnants of the first named tropical system of 2015 are moving out the state, warm, humid air and an approaching cold front will keep central and eastern North Carolina unsettled through Tuesday afternoon, WRAL meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner said.
What's left of Ana will push across the North Carolina-Virginia border by late morning Monday, allowing sunshine to return to parts of the Triangle by early afternoon.
"We're seeing some blue skies back to the west, and we'll continue to see that trend through lunchtime," Gardner said. "Expect some sunshine this afternoon, but don't be surprised to see a pop-up thunderstorm, either."
Rain showers or thunderstorms won't be widespread Monday afternoon, but the moisture-packed atmosphere will make them possible. High temperatures Monday will climb into the mid-80s, above normal for mid-May.
The above-normal trend will continue on Tuesday, when afternoon highs could reach 90 degrees for the first time since September.
Tuesday afternoon, a powerful cold front that has generated several rounds of severe weather – snow in parts of Colorado and tornadoes in several Plain states – will push through the central part of North Carolina. Gardner said the system will weaken considerably before reaching the Triangle, leaving the area with only a slight chance of severe weather.
"This is a strong system, but it won't be as much of a threat when it arrives in our area," she said. "Storms that form Tuesday afternoon could have strong, gusty winds, but we won't have much risk of tornadoes or hail."
After the front pushes through, the Triangle will dry out and cool off for the second half of the work week. Overnight lows will return to the upper 50s and low 60s, and daytime highs will be in the upper 70s to near 80 degrees Wednesday through Friday.
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Yes. There are a couple of ways to approach it. One just use a round cutter. You cut the circle and then use the cutter to make another cut and you have the little pointy football shape. Or you could get a cutter to cut out the concave diamon shape from the center. A linzer cookie set would have somthing like that or you could bend a small square cutter to achieve that.
Thank you! Im hoping I can find a cutter that will make this design so I can keep them all uniform. Its like an optical illusion. You cant tell if its a circle/diamond cut out or if its little flower type things joined together!
yes linzer and here's one a little bigger in this set--it's a common set carried prolly by lots of cake deco places
if you cut the diamondy shape out of the circle
and it's three and a half circles tall--up the side of the cake
optical illusion for sure!!!
There is a lace cutter set that has at least 3 of those little concave square cutters in it. It's $70.00 though. I would find a mini square cutter and just bend in the sides.
There is a lace cutter set that has at least 3 of those little concave square cutters in it. It's $70.00 though. I would find a mini square cutter and just bend in the sides.
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geez you could easily make them to scale for a fraction of that with the make your own cookie cutter kit too
Here is a cutter to do that with. I'm in Canada but they ship to the USA from a US Warehouse.
Good Luck
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geez you could easily make them to scale for a fraction of that with the make your own cookie cutter kit too
Well it does have many other elaborate cutters as well http://www.globalsugarart.com/product.php?id=21266&name=Brandenburg%20Lace%20Cutter%20Set&gdftrk=gdfV25706_a_7c2149_a_7c8856_a_7c21266&gclid=CLGanpzX1rQCFdKd4AodTXwAMw. It would be worth it if you needed all of the shapes, but for this... a soda can would work. Just some tin snips and some tape to cover the top edge so you don't cut yourself. But the linzer sets are cheap enough too and you get the added benefit of all of the other super cute mini cutters. :)
The Geraldine cutter would make for a lot of little pieces to place. That would be better used as a side marker I think.
oh i'm all for buying that set of cutters!!!
Thank you so much for all of your replies. Now I need to figure out which route Im giong to take. It definitely looks like the Geraldine cutter, but did the person who made that cake actually place all of those individual pieces?! Yikes! That would have taken FOREVER.
No... it looks like they cut out the shape from a circle.
they were exceedingly accurate
but it really doesn't take that much time
roll out a sheet of fondant
cut out a ton of circles
cut out the diamond shape
place the circles in a plastic container with a lid
take out a few, moisten the back
yeah you're right i'd go crazy doing this
my wrists don't work exactly like they used to either
but it's so pretty!!
there's more than a little at stake with the proportion of everything too
make sure you fit however many full circles into the row
(placed from bottom to top of cake would be one row)
then one half circle on top of that to get that is it a flower is it a circle effect
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Amsterdam-based footwear label Filling Pieces presents a mountain cut trainer in all-white python. Built on a vulcanized rubber Margom cup sole, the sneaker's upper is constructed from soft cow leather and 100% authentic white python snakeskin. The brand used tan interior lining to accentuate contrast between the exterior and interior of the shoe. Handmade in Portugal, the white python mountain cut trainers will be available exclusively through End, KITH and Filling Pieces' London store beginning April 12.
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An integration fault in the Bombardier CRJ1000's fly-by-wire rudder control system has forced the company to install a software revision in the flying prototype, caused delays to ground testing and contributed to the postponement of first flight until probably early next month. "When you put brand new hardware together like this there's always a few surprises here and there," CRJ program director Jean-Guy Blondin told AIN yesterday. "We've had one of those and that is being attended to."
The first software iteration for the Liebherr-supplied fly-by-wire rudder system, installed late in July, "showed us a little glitch. We had to find the reason for that, test it on the ground again and produce the code that goes with the fix," said Blondin. Bombardier also continues to work on what he described as "last little things," such as engine and APU runs. Other minor items that required attention included an APU door that didn't open wide enough and flaps that needed re-rigging. Yesterday, crews were preparing the airplane for a week of taxi tests, Blondin told AIN. He said that if the CRJ1000 prototype flies by the end of the summer, Bombardier would still meet its fourth quarter 2009 delivery guarantees.


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Wendy Kopp
May 27, 2007
Wendy Kopp, Mount Holyoke is pleased to honor you for your activism on behalf of public education in the United States.
Your efforts to build Teach for America began in college with nothing but passion and an idea. You believed then, as you do now, that all children deserve an excellent education, regardless of where they are born. To this end, in your undergraduate thesis you proposed a service corps for teachers. Undaunted by your professor's skepticism, you sensed that many of your peers would in fact be drawn to an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to society. Fresh out of college, you were fueled only by your hope and your vision; you were to observe later that your greatest personal asset was your naiveté. Nonetheless, you raised enough funds to get your project off the ground and send 500 men and women to teach in low-income communities in your first year. Over the last decade and a half, Teach for America has grown in scope and scale, now serving 25 urban and rural regions with 4,400 corps members reaching some 375,000 students.
While the numbers are impressive, they belie the challenges you have surmounted along the way. Your seed funding ran out, and Teach for America drew pointed criticism from some in the education community. Still you pressed on, securing new revenue sources, scaling back administration, and advocating passionately for the merits of your organization. You proved yourself a bold entrepreneur and a savvy leader. While much work remains to be done to address the pernicious inequalities that plague our nation's schools, we commend you for dedicating your life's work to making a difference where it is most needed.
Wendy Kopp, you inspire us to engage with our communities, think big, and, in the words of Mary Lyon, "accomplish great things." It is a privilege to bestow upon you the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa.
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Stanford White
On June 25, 1906, architect Stanford White is shot and killed by the jealous husband of his lover. White was the son of the essayist, critic, and Shakespearean scholar Richard Grant White. He was one of the most popular and prolific architects in the country.
Theodore Kaczynski aka The Unabomber
On June 24, 1993, Yale University computer science professor David Gelernter is seriously injured while opening his mail when a padded envelope explodes in his hands. The attack just came two days after a University of California geneticist was injured by a similar bomb and was the latest in a string of bombings since 1978 that authorities believed to be related.
Whitey Bulger
On June 22, 2011, mobster James "Whitey" Bulger is arrested in Santa Monica, California. The 81-year-old Bulger, one of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" fugitives, was arrested with his longtime companion, 60-year-old Catherine Greig, who fled Massachusetts with the gangster in late 1994, shortly before he was to be indicted on federal charges. At the time of his 2011 arrest, there was a $2 million reward for information leading to Bulger's capture, the largest amount ever offered by the agency for a domestic fugitive.
FBI Poster seeking information about missing civil rights actiivists
On June 21, 1964, civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney are killed by a Ku Klux Klan lynch mob near Meridian, Mississippi. The three young men were working to register black voters in Mississippi, thus inspiring the anger of the local Klan. The deaths of Schwerner and Goodman, white Northerners and members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), caused a national outrage.
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
On June 20, 1947, mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel is murdered at the home of his mistress Virginia Hill in Beverly Hills, California. Siegel had been talking to his associate Allen Smiley when three bullets were fired through a side window, killing him instantly.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. They had both been convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets. Both had also refused to admit any wrongdoing and proclaimed their innocence right up to the time of their deaths in the electric chair. The Rosenberg's were the first U.S. citizens to be convicted and executed for espionage during peacetime and their case remains controversial to this day.
Alan Berg
On June 18, 1984, talk radio personality Alan Berg, the self-described "man you love to hate," is gunned down and killed in the driveway of his home in Denver, Colorado. The 50-year-old radio host, whose show on the station KOA gained a strong following in the early 1980s, stirred up controversy with his outspoken personality, abrasive approach and liberal views. He had already been the target of a steady stream of death threats.
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March 15, 2010: Former New Hampshire Registered Nurse is Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Tampering with Syringes at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center
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CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: On March 8, 2010, Trinidad Smith, was sentenced to 30 months in prison by United States District Court Judge Joseph N. LaPlante following her plea of guilty to Tampering with a Consumer Product and Obtaining a Controlled Substance by Fraud on December 3, 2009. At the conclusion of her prison sentence, Smith will be supervised by the U.S. Probation Department for two years.
Smith was a registered nurse licensed in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. From September 2007 through April 2008, she worked for the Southern New Hampshire Medical Center in Nashua, NH. In her capacity as a RN, Smith accessed a secure area containing prefilled syringes of Demerol and Dilaudid, Schedule II controlled drugs. On numerous occasions, she removed these pain medications for her own personal use, replaced the drugs with saline, and returned the tampered syringes and vials to the secure area for subsequent dispensing to the hospital's patients.
An examination of the syringes revealed that the syringes had been diluted by as much as 92% and that the sterility of two of the syringes had been compromised. None of the hospital's patients were injured as a result of Smith's criminal conduct.
The case was investigated by the Office of Criminal Investigations of the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General. It was prosecuted by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Shannon Singleton from the FDA's Office of Chief Counsel, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Irish.


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Even though I've been blogging for three years, I recently joined Pinch of Yum's program Food Blogger Pro that helps food bloggers learn some important lessons about blogging. Lindsay is a talented food photographer, and I learned a lot from her in Food Blogger Pro and from her ebook Tasty Food Photography. In a lesson on lighting she mentioned that she uses a Lowel Ego Light for capturing good indoor photos, especially during Winter in Minnesota. Lack of sun is not a problem for me in Arizona, but indoor lighting is a challenge.
Starting at $117 per lamp on Amazon, Lowel Ego Light units can be expensive. Could I find a DIY lesson and make a unit myself, I wondered? I Googled it and came up with a few sources, but the ones I drew from most were from BSinThekitchen, and Mowaca. There also were other inspirational posts from SemiSweetDesigns and TheAdventureBite. BS's design was nice and compact, but I thought the screen might not hold the shape well so I went with Mowaca's layout. His shop experience shows in his plans and design.
What I did differently was to keep the height at 13 inches so I could fit the boxes into a certain cupboard in my garage. The other reason for keeping it at that height was that I would only have to buy one roll of cross stitch cloth. I also covered the top entirely for more support, added the foil on the inner side panel, and reinforced the inside corners with cardboard strips. I made two boxes, too. Total cost for 2 was $30.65. (SemiSweetDesigns said two light boxes worked even better, and so did SteamyKitchen.)
The final dimensions of the box are 13 and 3/8 H x 20 W x 13 D. The measurement of the depth includes the cable which sticks out the back about 2-1/2 to 3 inches. The depth without the cable on Mowaca's box was 6-1/2. Without the cable, mine turned out to be 10-1/2 inches deep because the instructions were unclear, and I saw that to have 9 inches in then center then there would be 10-1/2 inches on each side. I went with that.
If you are interested in making the boxes read all the steps carefully before starting, especially steps 2-3, and the alternative steps 2-3. In the alternative steps 2-3 I give instructions if you want the box depth to be 7-1/2 inches. I think 7-1/2 is better than 6-1/2 or 10-1/2 inch sides. Whatever you decide I'm sure you'll have fun making them.
Things I had to buy. The prices below include tax.
$ 3.31 3 Foam cardboard (bought at the dollar store)
$10.83 (2) Ikea Hemma electrical cords ($5.00 ea. at Ikea)
$2.69 (2) Y connectors (Lowe's)
$5.19 (1) pack 18-count cross stitch fabric (Charles Craft Silver Standard Line)
8.63 (1) 4 pack CFL Daylight Lightbulbs by Ecosmart; 23 watts equivalent to 100 watts, 1600 lumens. (I found this at Lowes. This is product and price were not shown on the website. And here's a tip–don't be confused with the double lasting bulb. It cost twice as much.)
$30.65 Total Cost
Things I had on hand:
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Razor knife
- Clear tape
- Masking tape
- Tin foil (*Not shown in the photo. This step is optional, but Mowaca added it later, so I thought it would be easier to put it on from the start.)
- Mini Glue Gun
- A bag of glue sticks for the mini glue gun
- Yard stick (a tape measure came in handy because it locks to stay open)
1. Lay the foam cardboard on the counter so the wide side is horizontal to you. Cut 7 inches off the top and save the top piece for later.
2. With the primary piece of board placed in front of you, measure 10-1/2 inches in on each side and mark verticals lines with a pencil, and then score. Don't cut all the way through. Once the lines are scored you can open up the flaps. Set this aside.
3. Get the second piece of foam board and cut off 2 pieces, each 10-1/2 inches cut from the side. The 10-1/2 pieces will be will form the base and the top. The photo shows only one cut piece.
[Alternate steps 2 and 3 for a depth of 7-1/2 inches (Do it this way for less depth. Be aware that the photos shown are for a 10-1/2 inch depth).
At Step 2 – With the primary piece of board placed in front of you, measure 7-1/2 inches and mark a vertical line with a pencil, and then score. From that line, measure 9 inches, and score another vertical line. From the second vertical line measure 7-1/2 inches, mark a vertical line and cut through it. The end piece should be 6 inches wide, which you can save for the inside corners. At this point you can open up the flaps. Set the panel aside.
At Step – 3 Get the second piece of foam board and cut off 2 pieces, each 7-1/2 inches cut from the side. The 7-1/2 pieces will form the base and the top. (The photo above at step 3 shows only one cut piece.)]
4. Get the 3-section piece and fold it open on the base board, and then open it up the wings to a 45° angle, placing the front flap edges into the front corners of the board. The back should measure 5-1/2 inches on each side, and 1-1/4 inch from the back edge. (Note the photo is deceptive because the panel will be 1-1/4 inch away from the edge. See photo in step 5).
5. Use the pencil to mark the line on the outside of the sections on all sides. Use the ruler to measure out from the panel 1-1/4 inch on all sides. These short flaps will hold the main piece in place. Score with the razor knife along the pencil lines, and then remove and discard the pieces that are unattached.
6. Get the 3-section panel and find the middle of the center panel. Measure down 6-1/2 inches, and over 4-1/2 inches from the scored line. Make an x with the pencil to mark the center spot.
7. Place the light ring so the dot is in the middle of the narrow end, and then draw around the inside of the ring. (The light ring is the piece that you can screw off of the light cord). Cut out a hole following the tracing lines with the razor knife.
8. Get 3 pieces of foil 15 inches long each. Spread them out over the 3-section panel, on the side that opens in toward you. Tape them together with scotch tape, and then tape the overhang down on the other side of the board with scotch tape or masking tape. Leave a space when taping at the scored lines.
9. Cut through the foil where the hole is to open it up.
10. Set the panel into the base and glue the base flaps up.
11. Set the panel upside down and set it into the corners as you did in step 4 (wings are already open). Pencil mark the top cover base, and then score and cut as you did with the base in step 5.
12. Glue the flaps to the back panel. (See picture step 10)
13. Take the cap off the Hemma light cord and screw the cord side through the back panel hole. Screw on the cap from the front, the wide side of the cap toward the wall. Next, screw in the y socket and the light bulbs. 14. Cut pieces 1-1/4 inch by whatever the length is for the inner sides and corners of the box. Score the pieces down the middle, open them up and glue them to the inner sides and corners to add extra support to the box. I forgot to take a picture of this step but you might get the idea if you peer into the bottom inside of the box in the following picture.
15. Get out the white cross stitch cloth. You want two pieces of cloth measuring 14-3/4 by 23 inches. From the width of the fabric, measure 14-3/4 to the center of the cloth. Use the ruler to make a straight pencil line down the length of the fabric, and then cut. Next cut 13 inches off the side end of each piece (or you could start by cutting 13 inches from the end of the entire piece, and then cut through the middle of the length).
16. Fold the fabric ¾ inch, press down on it so it will hold the fold, and then use the glue gun to tack it down to the box. Repeat on the bottom side.
17. Glue down the sides.
18. Use masking tape on all sides to keep the fabric down.
19. Repeat the entire process for the second box.
20. Congratulate yourself on a job well done!
Photo A – The photo here was taken with an overhead kitchen light without the lightboxes. It's slightly at an angle otherwise there would have been a shadow from the camera in the picture. I had to crop it out.
Photo B – The picture below was take with the indoor lights off, and it sat between the two lightboxes. The photo was taken from directly above, and there was no shadow from the camera. If you want more light you can push the boxes closer together.
In conclusion. I think that taking your pictures during the day with natural lighting is the best way to go, but having a DIY Lowel Ego Light unit is a good back-up. It took me about 3-1/2 hours to make each box, but I was also taking pictures and writing. The DIY project was an entertaining way to spend the week-end, and I'll have fun improving my photography skills with the light boxes, too. If you're interested in improving your photography skills, check out Lindsay's ebook Tasty Food Photography. It's 50% off for Thanksgiving week-end. The sale will run from 12:01 AM on Thursday 11/28 until 11:59 PM on Monday 12/2. Use this coupon code to get the discount: TFP50
What are you waiting for? This is a good week-end to make the DIY Lowel Ego Light unit. And by the way, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
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So, there were a bunch of clips on Thingiverse, but they either weren't parametric to easily customize for my shelving or I didn't like them for aesthetic reasons. So I decided it was time to finally learn SCAD, and whipped this up just barely in time to get a stocking up for Christmas.
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I tried to emphasize strength with minimal clip size and plastic use while maintaining easy printability (no overhangs, no holes in z...). Suggestions welcome, I'm no mechanical engineer!
The STL I uploaded is for a shelf unit that had 25.6mm shelves. In the likely event that your shelves are different, download the .scad file and edit the variables in the file.
Printing should be easy - I just used my default configuration and it turned out fine.
Calipers are highly recommended to get an accurate measurement of your shelf/table - if it's not just right, it won't work well. This is a clear case to me where 3D printing can work well to make a custom-fit one-off that is better than mass production of one-size-fits-all!
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What they said: Bill HaasOctober 10, 2010
PGA TOUR staff
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ADAM WALLACE: Nice playing out there, Bill. Obviously your solid play continued into this week, and your first runner-up finish on TOUR. If you could, please, just talk to us about your round today, and obviously that was a big eagle putt you made on the par-5 and just talk us through it.
BILL HAAS: Yeah. Very pleased. You know, with five holes left to go, I think I was maybe five back, and there was probably eight guys in front of me. And fortunately for me a few guys made some mistakes coming in, and I was able to limp in there pretty good on 16 and 17. It wasn't pretty, but made some pars.
And the eagle was huge, three-putted 14. I was in the middle of the fairway there, disappointing second shot, and then two terrible putts there, but to come back with eagle was nice. And obviously gave myself a chance, and thankfully other people fell back. But in theory I had a putt on the last hole to maybe tie it. I don't know if Heath made that putt for par or not. But knowing if I got to 14, I had a good shot.
Q. ShotLink says you had 218 into 15.
BILL HAAS: That sounds about right.
Q. What did you hit there??
BILL HAAS: Hit a 3-iron. It was into the wind, and I was only -- the front number, which I was concerned with, I thought -- I mean it's a narrow window, but at that stage of the game after three-putting, I was thinking about trying to hit it a foot, which so in theory maybe that bogey helped, because if I'd have made par there, I might have played safe and gone long and three-putted -- you know, there's no telling what would have happened. So I just hit a really nice solid 3-iron and the wind kind of held it up and it landed softly. That was one of my better shots.
Q. Did you have a sense of what was going on out there on the leaderboard all day? There was a lot of movement out there the last hour, hour and a half.
BILL HAAS: Yeah. A little bit. Pretty much I played solid through 12 holes. I missed a really short one at 11 and then made a great birdie at 12 and I was 3-under and I looked up and there was 10 guys in front of me. And I was like, well, I'm glad I played good. At least I played nice, but no chance today.
I knew it was tough coming in. I knew 16, 17, 18 aren't easy holes, and I was like, you know, I'll just see what happens. And I was surprised that -- you know, I'm surprised that I finished second, I guess, but very pleased. To play the last six holes 1-under par, and you know, tricky conditions and, you know, nerves out there, I was happy.
Q. Did you look up and realize all of a sudden where you were on the leaderboard on any of those last three??
BILL HAAS: Yeah. On 16 I knew I was -- I think I knew I was one back. I had gotten to 13, and I saw that there was three out at that time at 14, and I just thought to myself if we get to 14 here, 18 you have a chance to get to 15, which I thought was going to be the number. And hit a perfect drive there and had a perfect sand wedge distance, and I just pulled it. And it was just a bad shot. I tried not to miss it right, and it was just a bad iron shot. And that hurt because 17 and 18 are not easy holes. And to hit a perfect drive on 16 and have a hundred yards in, that was my chance to maybe do something.
Q. Bill, what are you feeling right now? The last two weeks, sometimes the second one is the toughest victory to get and maybe validates the first one. But first of all, how many more are you going to play, and do you feel like you're a threat to win every week?
BILL HAAS: I don't know if I feel like I'm a threat to win every week. I play to win every week. I think everybody out here tees it up on the first tee thinking they can win. I mean if you don't, you probably shouldn't be playing.
But I'm a little tired, but it's a pretty nice high I'm on. I'm tired right now, but I guarantee tomorrow I'm going to wake up feeling pretty good.
So I'm not going to play the next couple. I have a few weeks off. I'm committed to play in Malaysia and hopefully get into HSBC in China next week, so that pretty much takes me out of the rest of the Fall Series.
I could play Disney the last week of the year, but I'd be flying straight back from China, and I think this second-place finish pretty much secures me Top 30. That was my goal. I got it. I think I'm done with this TOUR.
Q. This gets you into Augusta.
BILL HAAS: Right. So that's -- I mean second place, it's fun. I'm not going to say it's no fun. Second place is fun out here. That's a successful week, but to qualify me for the Masters and Open, especially after last week, it kind of got misquoted saying I was in, even though I really wasn't, and to now kind of do it is pretty rewarding.
Q. David Duval once termed it this way, the first couple of years when he had a lot of runner-up finishes and hadn't won, he said, you know, there are times where you lose first, but there are other times where you win second. Since Heath was playing so well and he didn't really -- do you feel like you won second in that context? Do you feel like you accomplished something by moving up the way you did?
BILL HAAS: Absolutely. I mean, and Heath won it, like you're saying. He birdied 16 was the hole that I said was a good birdie hole today, and made -- I don't know what he did on the last hole. Do you all know if he parred on the last hole?
Q. Bogeyed.
BILL HAAS: He missed it? But to finish the way he finished, he earned it. He was tied with all of us. I think we were all tied.
No. He was one ahead. But he was tied with people at 14, and a few people backed up, and he made birdie, so he won it. I didn't necessarily lose it, I guess.
So yeah, I take away positives from playing the last four 1-under par.
Q. You can't play defense in this game; right??
BILL HAAS: Sure you can. Pars are good.
Q. No, I mean you can't go block the other guy away.
BILL HAAS: Yeah. You're exactly right.
Q. He's going to do what he's going to do.
BILL HAAS: Right. And you're not even really pulling against him. Obviously maybe I want him to maybe make 6 on the last hole so we can go to the playoffs. But he didn't, so very pleased with my week.
Q. Did you see how he birdied 16??
BILL HAAS: Hunh-uh.
Q. The 60-footer from behind the green that rattled the pin. But anyway.
BILL HAAS: Perfect. That won him the tournament, and that's the putt that he'll always remember. Last week for me I made a 30-footer on 17 down the hill, and in theory that one kind of won me that tournament. You need that kind of stuff to happen. It was Heath's week, and that's awesome playing.
Q. This puts you at 18 on the Money List??
BILL HAAS: That's what somebody was saying.
Q. That's good.
BILL HAAS: I'll take 18 every year on TOUR. Obviously we all set our sights high to Ryder Cup, No. 1 in the world and all that, but if you consistently finish Top 30 on the Money List out here, you're doing something really good, so I'm extremely pleased with my year.
ADAM WALLACE: All right. Thanks, Bill, for coming in.
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hello would you like to chat on this?
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hello any tests done like CT scan of the sinuses?
thats right
since your symptoms are still persistent I would advise a CT scan of the sinuses
thats right, thats the protocol, this test is necessary
but since your symptoms are not subsiding, i would advise a CT of the sinuses
inner sinuses are not visible by scope and a CT scan is important for this
your symptoms are the symptoms of chronic sinusitis
and i would consider this the main diagnosis
well, we would usually expect sore pain but its not a must
in milder cases there may not be this pain but only the symptoms that you are actually getting
so approach your ENT again and ask for a CT of the sinuses
a CT of the brain would also help to rule out any brain issues
meanwhile I can advise some general steps which will help with your symptoms
try these on for now but do go to the ENT at the earliest
Fluids: drink plenty of water.
Humidifier: use a humidifier in your room since drying of the sinuses can cause this.
Warm compresses: warm compresses on the sinus areas will give relief.
Vit. C supplement: 1000 mg Vit. C supplements daily (available OTC).
N- Acetyl Cysteine: this is a supplement available at natural food stores which helps drainage.
try out these steps
they will help you
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any further questions?
thats right, CT of the sinuses is most important
meanwhile try out the steps I mentioned above which will help
I wouldnt worry at all about this right now
since you are having a sinus infection, and your symptoms are all typical of sinusitis, there is no reason at all to think of a brain tumor
that would not be one of the things to consider at this stage - right now sinusitis is the thing to look for
It would not cause ear cracking
brain tumor would cause intense headache, not pressure, and there would usually be associated symptoms like vomiting, convulsions, etc
so as you see, your symptoms are not at all typical of brain tumor
even then I do not see brain tumor- it looks like part of sinusitis
but since you are worried, you can ask your doctor for a CT brain
thats good, that further goes against brain tumor since some types of brain tumors can often cause the veins to swell
you may go for a second opinion to another ENT
or ask your primary for a CT of the sinuses
Hope this shows you the way forward - wish you good health and a quick recovery.
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as i said, this is most likely sinusitis and a CT of the sinuses is needed here
meanwhile take the steps I mentioned.
we are covering the same ground again
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USF's Seabrook hoping for another shot at MLS
Less than a month after being selected in the MLS SuperDraft by the Colorado Rapids, former USF standout Jordan Seabrook is back in Tampa and exploring his options for starting his professional career.
"They just had so many players," said Seabrook, one of four fourth-round picks by Colorado. "What they were willing to offer was a development position, but that probably wasn't my best option."
Seabrook said he hopes to land in a preseason camp with the United Soccer Leagues, which are less established than MLS but would give him more of an opportunity for playing time with the hopes of returning to an MLS roster for next year's preseason. The USL will add the Tampa Bay Rowdies as an expansion team in 2010.
While Seabrook is out, another former USF standout, passed over in last month's draft, remains hopeful of sticking around a little longer. Yohance Marshall is in camp with the Los Angeles Galaxy, but still faces long odds as one of 35 players competing for 24 spots on the Galaxy's in-season roster.
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TV Asahi's "Before/After" (Sun., 6:57 p.m.) is single-handedly responsible for the "reform boom." The show has inspired thousands of families to remodel their homes into something more livable and aesthetically pleasing.
Last year, the program went overseas for the first time and brought a Japanese designer to Paris to remodel an old apartment. This week's two-hour special visits Germany and California. In the city of Kassel, a family needs its huge, overgrown garden tamed with the help of a Japanese landscape artist. In Los Angeles, a couple is renovating their home with a local architect, but they want their children to be familiar with Japanese culture and ask a Japanese designer to work with the architect.
Everyone knows about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and many also know about the firebombing of Tokyo, but more than 120 Japanese towns and cities were attacked by American aircraft during World War II. The two-hour documentary, "Watashi no Machi mo Senjo Datta" ("My Town Was Also a Battlefield"; TBS, Mon., 9 p.m.) airs footage never before seen of some of these attacks.
What makes the footage doubly dramatic is that it was shot from the point-of-view of the aircraft. American fighter planes had "gun cameras" attached to their wings that would record when the pilot hit the trigger of his machine gun or dropped a bomb. Some of the planes swoop low, and the viewer can see roofs of houses and bombs hitting train stations and other structures. Much of the footage is in color. The Japanese authorities did not even know some of these places had been hit until they saw these films after the war.
CM of the week: Taisho Pharmaceutical
Actor Jun Oguri, the "food hunter," is working at his desk when he is approached by some female colleagues, who invite him to a yakiniku (barbecue beef) party for a new employee. Oguri looks at the invitation flyer and rubs his stomach. "Today, again?" he mutters, wondering if all that meat won't be too much for him.
Suddenly, a huge steer appears over him in a threatening manner. He pulls out a packet of Taisho's stomach medicine, which is taken before a heavy meal so as not to cause heartburn afterwards. The steer is consumed in a huge fireball. In a previous CM, Oguri similarly vanquished a giant crab.


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When academic bureaucrats and civic busybodies try to regulate, ban, or even criminalize "hate speech," they often rely on a core proposition — that racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual epithets are different and uniquely powerful in a way that takes them outside of normal First Amendment analysis and normal freedom of expression principles, justifying extraordinary action. This theory — what I'll call the "magic words" approach — was the rationale for the wave of campus speech codes that reached high tide in the 90s, and that (as FIRE documents) still persist. Conservatives traditionally scorned this theory, arguing that words are just words, that they only have such force as people choose to give them, and that more speech, rather than the hand of government or other institutions, ought to address such invective. Conservatives, in other words, took an identifiably conservative stance — that the marketplace of ideas is a free market, that hate speech cannot be seen as a market flaw, and that the market should police itself.
Yet some conservatives have now embraced "magic words" theory and made it their own.
No, conservatives have not conceded that being called "nigger" or "faggot" is uniquely powerful and harmful in a way that takes the matter beyond the scope of the self-regulation of the marketplace of ideas. Instead, in a fit of unselfconscious self-satire, they are complaining that being called "racist" or "bigoted" is uniquely hurtful, market-distorting, and speech-suppressing, thus taking the matter beyond the normal rules of the marketplace of ideas to a dark and scary place where more speech cannot protect them.
The most recent occasion for this phenomenon is the sad strange case of Chip Saltsman, former Tennessee GOP chair, Huckabee campaign manager, and RNC Chair aspirant. Saltsman wants very badly to be RNC Chair in 2009, possibly as a form of penance for some crime I shudder to imagine. He diminished his chances somewhat by sending out a burned CD for Christmas — not of his fave holiday tunes, but of Republican red meat satire like "Barack the Magic Negro":
The song, performed by an Al Sharpton impersonator, was written by satirist and Saltsman friend Paul Shanklin to the tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon." It played off a Los Angeles Times opinion piece by freelance writer David Ehrenstein, who characterized Obama as an archetypal cinematic "Magic Negro" — a black man who assuages white guilt, like the character played by Sidney Poitier in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
The CD also contained other satirical songs enjoyed by the sort of people who could imagine themselves as RNC Chairs and who think Mark Russel is too subtle. Saltsman finds himself in a holiday tempest, with people on the left and the right rising to denounce the song — and by extension him — as offensive, as his opponents jockey for advantage. Now, this is an uncommonly silly dispute on many levels. The "Magic Negro" song itself is a play on a column written by a leftist, David Ehrenstein, who wrote a column in the L.A. Times suggesting that Obama resembles classic cinematic figures of unthreatening black benevolence. Ehrenstein mouths, without soundly refuting, the implication that Obama is not "authentically black," which is the only thing that makes the column potentially obnoxious. Conservatives like Rush Limbaugh seized upon the column with delight and forged satirical songs featuring the term "Magic Nego," thus acting rather like folks who cheerfully use the word "nigger" in regular conversation because Chris Rock says it and therefore it must be acceptable. And now people are complaining about the song stripped of all that context that makes its provenance more complex than if Saltsman had simply decided, out of the blue, to start referring to Obama as "that Magic Negro."
The tumult has produced much defensiveness from the right. But one, spotted at Sadly, No, caught my eye in particular, because it embodied the conservative embrace of "magic words" theory. Rick Moran of RightWingNuthouse busts out with this:
That is, unless you're a liberal seeking to make political hay and stifle free expression. You can criticize "Barack the Magic Negro" as unfunny or not in good taste. But when you use the inflammatory word "racism" to describe it, you go beyond critiquing the work and enter the world of pure politics. This liberals do on a regular basis and they get away with the sliming of political speech and speakers they disagree with because the press refuses to call them out on it.
In fact, the left has lowered the bar on what constitutes "racism" by redefining the term to suit their own political needs. And by refusing to acknowledge any set definition of the word, the left deliberately undermines free speech by cutting off debate with liberals firmly ensconced in a superior moral position while the person being unfairly smeared as a racist is unable to defend themselves. If one tries to stand up and fight the charge, they give automatic legitimacy to the left's argument. And if they remain silent in the face of such slimeball tactics, the smear works and sticks to the accused like glue. [emphasis added]
Here are all the tropes behind "magic words" theory as used both by leftists and rightist: that such words go outside normal discourse, that they cut off debate (thus "breaking" the marketplace of ideas), and that they leave people flat-footed and incapable of defense. Of course, its all nonsense. Moran's complaint is utterly un-conservative — it's practically Marxist. It sounds like what you would expect from Noam Chomsky or a member of a French trade union; it's a straight-up complaint that the marketplace of ideas cannot be trusted and does not work. Yet the mere fact that people like Rick Moran keep writing and talking incessantly establishes beyond cavil that calling them racist idiots does not shut down the marketplace of ideas or render them incapable of self-defense. If being widely derided as a bigoted dick is actually unfairly debilitating, how in God's name are Rick Santorum and Al Sharpton and Mike "Don't Call Me a Weiner" Savage still bleating?
Now, you'd be right to point out that the conservative embrace of magic words theory has not yet reached the point where conservatives have sought to ban the words "racist" or "bigot." But conservatives are using magic words theory as an explicit component of public policymaking. Consider megachuch pastor, popular author, Syria apologist, and inauguration speaker Rick Warren, who explicitly argued that the danger of being called a bigot made it necessary to pass California's Proposition 8:
Because first the court overrode the will of the people, but second there were all kinds of threats that if that did not pass then any pastor could be considered doing hate speech if he shared his views that he didn't think homosexuality was the most natural way for relationships, and that would be hate speech. We should have freedom of speech, ok? And you should be able to have freedom of speech to make your position and I should be able to have freedom of speech to make my position, and can't we do this in a civil way.
What they desire is approval and validation from those who disagree with them, and they are willing to force it by law if necessary. Any disapproval is quickly labeled "hate speech. Imagine if we held that standard in every other disagreement Americans have? There would be no free speech. That's why, on the traditional marriage side, many saw Prop 8 as a free speech issue: Don't force me to validate a lifestyle I disagree with.
Warren is using the threat of being accused of bigotry as a justification for public policy — with the implied ridiculous fearmongering warning that any minute his speech might be criminalized. Once again, it's not clear why pastors can't simply use their pulpit to respond to such speech.
The conservatives are just as wrong as the liberals on this. The correct response to objectionable speech is more speech. The pathetic mewling from the likes of Moran simply demonstrates how adequate and effective response speech can be. When Rick Moran and Rick Warren get called bigots, the market is working — it is telling them that most people don't want to buy what they are selling.
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Rated 5 / 5 stars
Just wrote a 5 page essay to this song, I'll let you know the grade, but it was so helpful. The main melody reminds me of Kung Fu Panda 2. Fantastic work though. Very well done.
Thanks for the review! :)
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Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
This is genuinely beautiful! The only part i didn't enjoy was when it ended! please edit it and make it a bit longer. Maybes a life time?
Haha thanks man, I wish I could :P
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i like it to
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Listening to this brings about visualizations of one hell of an opening credits sequence. The depth and emotion is absolutely captivating.
Keep up the amazing work Echo!
Thank you for the review and the score!
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Rated 5 / 5 stars
Damn, son.
I don't know what to say. No, this piece isn't exactly to my taste. Guitars and the light drums aren't my thing, I like big orchestral pieces. But that's not really the point, because it's kinda like a soundtrack to a videogame or a good movie (I value videogames higher as storytelling mediums) wherein you don't really listen to it alone and you ought not to analyze it. You listen to it, preferably as an augmentation to another experience.
I drone on. The fact of the matter is, this piece is beautiful. I can't begin to praise your ensemble and the melodies they perform. But the fact that this is not a live-played piece gives even greater praise to the quality and depth of sound with which you forged it.
I keep a list of Newgrounds artists whose work I want to thoroughly explore. That usually takes my noticing their name several times, and probably with a few of their pieces downloaded. This is the first I have ever heard of you. And you didn't just make the list, you jumped to the top. Maybe I'm not an important critic, but damned if it isn't the highest praise I can give. You've earned it.
Wow thank you for the awesome review. It's fantastic to know your work is being liked and appreciated by others, since that's really what I write it for.
Thank you for the feedback, much appreciated :)
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This whole fast moving freight train of an economic stimulus plan should be resisted for many reasons. Certainly many of which have been elucidated by the members of this very informative blog.
However, we should not merely cave to the Democrats for another important reason. As the opposition, with a reduced minority, we should see to it that the committees of jurisdiction get a chance to score the package, and we should draw attention to its earmarks et. al.. While I can see a political advantage for the Arlen Specter's and Olympia Snowe's of the world to play ball with Obama on many issues, no Republican gains by fast-tracking this legislation.
The Democrats, with the help of the partisan media, are trying to have their cake and eat it too. The president in his address on Tuesday stated that this would be a long process. Republicans should repeat his words to the Democrats in the Senate. They say this will take a long time, what we need is to make it take a little longer. Without seeming obstructionist, we can demand an open ended process that will allow minority amendments and oversight. We will again regain the monniker of the party of responsible government. While supporting the aim of recovery, our senators can argue that when the President and congress wish to triple the deficit, we should take our time to see the money is actually needed.
Republicans who are worried about looking obstrucitonist only need to stiffen their spine, look in the camera, and repeat that they are lookig out for the intrest of the taxpayer. If we stand with John Q. Taxpayer as a watchdog, we will then be in good shape. I think a stimulus package will pass. I do not think we need to have it pass just the way the Democrats want it to. I think there will be Democrats falling off the reservation to uphold filibusters and supporting minority offered amendments. Reid and company need to know that we will not let them logroll us.
Further, this majority is of such a size that if it takes too long, as per wont of the Senate, Reid will only look more and more feckless as the days move on. He will then be in more trouble in Nevada in 2010. I hope a GOP Senator reads this, but I guess that would mean they would care what the base thinks!


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Carl Ruggles was uncompromising, as disdainful of the "mainstream" as it was of him. He scraped together a living from playing the violin, engraving, teaching, conducting, and private patronage. He left a catalogue so small as to make Webern seem prodigal, a catalogue of pieces endlessly fussed over and brought as near to perfection as he knew how. He conducted some and was an able painter. Henry Cowell summed him up: "irascible, lovable, honest, sturdy, original, slow-thinking, deeply emotional, self-assured, and intelligent." His music, rarely performed until the last years of his life, was admired by colleagues like Ives and Varèse. More often it met with incomprehension and hostility. Michael Tilson Thomas is the composer's greatest champion, and he is chief among the artists in the recording, just re-released on the Other Minds label, of all of Ruggles's published works.
Ruggles began Sun-treader in 1926 for a concert to be presented in New York that fall. It was 1931 by the time he completed the score. The title comes from Robert Browning's "Pauline": "Sun-treader, Light and Life be thine forever"—the words are a paean to Shelley. Ruggles had no interest in Shelley. What got to him was the giant-steps imagery that Browning's grand word evokes, and we hear his response to that in the vivid opening gesture of striding brass over pounding kettledrums. Sun-treader is a work of potent and dramatic contrasts, sections of uncompromising steadiness setting off long-range accelerations, roaring rhetoric being spelled by pages of serene lyricism.
—Michael Steinberg
The colleagues with whom Morton Feldman was most aesthetically aligned were the painters of the New York School, a group of artists of the 1950s and '60s whose work ranged from potent Abstract Expressionism to gentler Color Field painting. Feldman's closest colleague among these artists was Philip Guston, but he counted others as friends, too: Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Rauschenberg, and Mark Rothko. The impression of momentary gestures inhabiting a flat plane became a Feldman hallmark. One might imagine him defining his temporal workspace much as a painter would stretch a canvas onto a frame and then paint within the defined area. Feldman fills that time frame with sounds, delicately for the most part, as if he were dabbing tones onto his canvas with a brush of the finest bristles.
From 1971 to 1979, Feldman produced eight large-scale orchestral works that he called his "still-life titles." One of these was Piano and Orchestra. Calling a piece Piano and Orchestra reduces our expectation that it will be a "concerto for piano and orchestra," a work of multiple movements in different tempos and a display of digital dexterity from the soloist. The two sound-producing units in this work—the piano and the orchestra—maintain distinct characteristics. The piano strikes a contemplative pose. The orchestra usually keeps very quiet, and Feldman uses its forces selectively. These two elements find a point of mediation in the orchestral piano part, which at times is a voice in the symphonic texture, and at other spots is more aligned to the solo piano.
At the beginning, the solo piano intones what passes for a melody: 12 soundings of the identical note D-flat, and then a three-note chord that drifts away. Even with such minimal material, the listener senses the beginning of a narrative. But timbre, rather than melody or harmony, is the principle structural device in Piano and Orchestra. The most pervasive drama is the gradual but constant shift of color as one instrument (or combination of instruments) cedes to another.
Of Feldman's series of "Instrument and Orchestra" still lifes, Piano and Orchestra may be the most chaste. Listening to this piece is an exercise in observing and recognizing similarities and differences among moments of sound. We hear notes sustained by a single instrument, by a small assemblage of similar instruments, and by instruments of essentially different character. We encounter notes or chords touched on and silenced quickly, and we hear others held out to a particular length or allowed to decay as they are sustained after other participants have fallen silent. No sound endures for long, and nothing is predictable.
—James M. Keller
Charles Ives's maverick path was already clear during his Yale years, from 1894 to 1898. There he studied organ with Dudley Buck and composition with Horatio Parker, who hoped classical training would rein in what they viewed as errant musical proclivities. After graduation, Ives took a position with an insurance firm. His business success, combined with health concerns, led him to pursue composition in private. He was not pleased that most of his works went unperformed, but at least his finances enabled him to go on composing. Because Ives did not work under deadline, he tended to revise incessantly.
Even by the standards of Ivesian gestation, the "Concord" Sonata crept forward over an unusually extended span. Ives's most concentrated work apparently occurred in the period from 1916 to 1919. He published it in 1920, but his changes grew so extensive that he brought out a greatly modified edition in 1947.
Henry Brant had been staking his bona fides in the musical avant-garde since the 1930s, but he became most famous for his spatial compositions, which he began to write in the 1950s. This idea grew from Ives's The Unanswered Question. As he got to know the "Concord" Sonata, Brant sensed "that here, potentially, was a tremendous orchestral piece. It seemed to me that the complete sonata, in a symphonic orchestration, might well become the 'Great American Symphony' that we had been seeking for years. Why not undertake the task myself? What better way to honor Ives and express my gratitude to him?"
The sonata's four movements relate to a group of writers centered in Concord, Massachusetts, just outside Boston, in the mid-19th century. They bonded beneath the flag of transcendentalism, a world-view that exalted non-conformity and proclaimed that individuals might achieve breakthrough understandings via communion with nature.
Ives wrote a rambling preface to the sonata, published in 1920 as Essays Before a Sonata, in which he clarified his intention: "The whole is an attempt to present (one person's) impression of the spirit of transcendentalism that is associated in the minds of many with Concord, Mass., of over a half century ago. This is undertaken in impressionistic pictures of Emerson and Thoreau, a sketch of the Alcotts, and a scherzo supposed to reflect a lighter quality which is often found in the fantastic side of Hawthorne."
"Emerson" is a muscular movement, with passages of gentle contrast. It is often thorny and dissonant (as is much of the "Concord" Sonata), its themes so strongly etched that the ear seizes them easily. Ives wrote original themes, but sometimes developed them from pre-existing tunes. He quotes at least 11 works in the sonata, from Beethoven and Wagner to hymns and popular songs. In "Emerson," we cannot escape the "da-da-da-daaaa" of Beethoven's Fifth, which appears in each of Ives's four movements. Ives thought of those four notes as an "oracle" bearing "one of Beethoven's greatest messages," something akin to Emerson's thinking. Ives heard that message as "the soul of humanity knocking at the door of the divine mysteries, radiant in the faith that it will be opened—and the human become the divine!" "Emerson" unrolls rhapsodically, yet remains cohesive. It is not cast in any kind of sonata form—Ives said the composition was "called a sonata for want of a more exact name"—and its energy leads to a quiet conclusion.
Most of us got to know Nathaniel Hawthorne through The Scarlet Letter, but he also published numerous short stories. Ives stated that he tried "to suggest some of his wilder, fantastical adventures into the half-childlike, half-fairylike phantasmal realms." This movement related to Hawthorne's story "The Celestial Railroad," a dream journey obviously dependent on John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. Visions collide: scurrying "phantasmal" music, a peaceful hymn ("Martyn"), a riotous march (Ives's own Country Band March), and "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean."
After these dense movements, our ears relax to the comparatively gentle strains of "The Alcotts." Today we remember Louisa May Alcott as author of Little Women, but her family enjoyed all-around intellectual respect, beginning with her father Amos Bronson Alcott, a transcendentalist educator, abolitionist, and vegan. Hearth and home infuse this movement. Picture the family singing hymns and parlor songs.
The serenity moves outside for Ives's finale, a tribute to Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond. Debussy seems to haunt this movement, although the principal quotation comes from Stephen Foster's song "Massa's in de Cold Cold Ground." Passion swells at the movement's center, but elsewhere the music is emotionally distant. At the end, the sounds of the flute hover in the ether.
—James M. Keller


text: IMO - Gary messed up BIG TIME by lying about being a professional football player. I think that he could have used it to his advantage and stayed in the game...especially since he is getting along so well in the tribe and his tribe doesn't have near the physical stature of the other. But now, if both him and Danni make it to the merge, he is going to have to work really hard to keep his booty in the game because both tribes are going to have a hard time trusting him.


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By meeting its co-primary endpoint of PFS, AVAglio is the first positive Phase III study in newly diagnosed glioblastoma since 2005.About Glioblastoma Glioma (cancer of the glial cells) is the most common type of malignant primary brain tumor (a tumor that originates in the brain), accounting for approximately one-third of all cases diagnosed. Glioblastoma (or glioblastoma multiforme) is the most common and the most aggressive type of glioma, affecting approximately 10,000 people per year in the United States. Glioblastoma tumors have among the highest levels of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) of any solid tumor. About Avastin Avastin is a prescription-only medicine that is a solution for intravenous infusion. It is a biologic antibody designed to specifically bind to a protein called VEGF that plays an important role throughout the lifecycle of the tumor to develop and maintain blood vessels, a process known as angiogenesis. Avastin is designed to interfere with the tumor blood supply by directly binding to the VEGF protein to prevent interactions with receptors on blood vessel cells. The tumor blood supply is thought to be critical to a tumor's ability to grow and spread in the body (metastasize). For more information about angiogenesis, visit http://www.gene.com. BOXED WARNINGS and Additional Important Safety Information People receiving Avastin may experience side effects. In clinical trials, some people treated with Avastin experienced serious and sometimes fatal side effects, including: Gastrointestinal (GI) perforation: Treatment with Avastin can result in the development of a serious side effect called GI perforation, which is the development of a hole in the stomach, small intestine or large intestine. In clinical trials, this event occurred in more people who received Avastin than in the comparison group (2.4 percent to 0.3 percent). In some cases, GI perforation resulted in fatality. Avastin therapy should be permanently stopped if GI perforation occurs. Surgery and wound healing problems: Treatment with Avastin can lead to slow or incomplete wound healing (for example, when a surgical incision has trouble healing or staying closed). In some cases, this event resulted in fatality. Surgery and wound healing problems occurred more often in people who received Avastin than in the comparison group. In a controlled clinical trial, in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer who had surgery during the course of treatment, the incidence of wound healing complications, including serious and fatal complications, was 15 percent for patients who received Avastin and four percent for patients who did not receive Avastin. Avastin therapy should not be started for at least 28 days after surgery and until the surgical wound is fully healed. The length of time between stopping Avastin and having voluntary surgery without the risk of wound healing problems following surgery has not been determined. Treatment with Avastin should be stopped at least 28 days before voluntary surgery and in people with wound healing problems following surgery that require medical treatment. Treatment with Avastin should be stopped in patients with slow or incomplete wound healing.
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Learn to talk to your baby
Caring for a baby can be frustrating. They need something, so they cry and it's up to the adult to figure out what the baby needs. While it seems like it should be easy to figure out, it's not.
At some point during the process of feeding, changing, playing, rocking and whatever else one can think of the thought will come to mind, "I just wish this baby could just tell me what they want."
According to Dakota County Technical College professor Dawn Braa, starting at about 6 months babies can learn how to communicate their needs through sign language. And while it may seem a little hokey to some, Braa swears it works.
"I've used it as a child care provider, an educator and a parent," Braa said.
This summer Braa will teach a course on how to teach infants and young children sign language. The class is intended for parents, child care providers, early education teachers and anyone else who deals with small children. The course will teach students how to use American Sign Language with young children who haven't yet developed their verbal skills.
"It's empowering babies with the ability to communicate," said Braa.
The ideal age to begin using sign language with babies is about 6 months, but Braa said older children can benefit, too.
Delaney Dunphy took the course last summer and said it has been useful in communicating with her baby. Dunphy is in the child development program at DCTC.
"It's really fun. My daughter signs and can tell me when she's hungry, wants to play and when she's all done," Dunphy said.Shauna Thilmany is working towards an associates degree in Early Childhood education. She took the class as part of her education and to teach her two young children. She said using sign language made it easier connect with her children."It made me realize that there is a solution to some of the frustrations that young children and toddlers go through when learning to speak their needs and wants," Thilmany said.
While Dunphy hasn't gotten to use the skill professionally yet she said will this summer while she completes her internship.
Teaching babies and toddlers sign language has benefits beyond making things easier for the adult and the child. Braa said research has shown kids who learn sign language have higher IQs and less aggression and have an easier time learning foreign languages later on.
Adults can find additional benefits as well. Jeremy Thilmany took the class with his wife to learn to communicate with his two young boys. But he also has found it useful at work."I use it with several co-workers," Thilmany said.
Braa said students in her class will learn more than 200 signs. She teaches signs on all sorts of topics including foods, animals, night time routine and basic needs. Additionally, Braa will include games, songs and nursery rhymes to do with the babies.
A 6-month-old baby won't use all 200 signs, Braa said, so she teaches when it is appropriate to incorporate new signs into a child's vocabulary.
"It's fast paced and hands on, no pun intended," Braa said.
While it can all be a little overwhelming at first, Dunphy said she quickly caught on and that learning to sign wasn't as hard as she had initially thought it would be.
"It was easier than I thought and has been useful," said Dunphy.
Braa has taught the course at DCTC the last few summers. For the first time this summer she will offer a six-week online course. While it is easier to understand the concepts in the classroom, Braa has worked hard to develop an online course that will rival the classroom instruction. To help students, Braa said the online course will include videos of her giving descriptions and showing demonstrations of the signs.
The classroom students will meet twice a week for three weeks starting June 15. Those taking the online class will get six weeks of instruction starting June 8. Braa said the class is popular and usually fills up.
For more information on the baby sign language course at DCTC call 651-423-8315 or visit Braa's blog at blogs.dctc.edu/dawnbraa.