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Andy Warhol - Last Sitting, November 22, 1986
"…Of course, no one knew it was to be Andy's last portrait, although Wilfredo told me Andy kept talking about not coming out of the hospital. But apparently he was really insistent that he was not coming back from the hospital. And sure enough, he died from a mistake the hospital made. It's true artists are very intuitive about these kinds of things, especially I think their own deaths."
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This week I had 2 jobs that were basically the same. One had a good outcome the other not so good.
Customer 1 had 2 cast iron radiators in 2 separate rms. that he wanted taken out and replaced with baseboard heat. I explained to him that it wasn't always a good thing to mix and match when he had c.i radiators in the rest of the house. I switched them out and installed 2 8' slant fin in each rm. and to my surprise they worked just fine.
Customer #2 owned a laundry and wanted to shorten a length of baseboard by about 6ft. This was also a monoflo system which had radiators in the back and baseboard in the front of the laundry. After shortening the baseboard, putting the boiler back on line bleeding the system, the baseboard would not stay hot, it worked fine before I shortned it. It would bleed hot but eventually go back to cold. Now the radiators are fine, but the baseboard cold. The main 11/4" line is piping hot yet the water seems to flow right by the mono flow t's for the baseboard, I got all the air out of the lines but still cold.
I thought about maybe taking out the monoflo t supply and returns to the baseboard and 90 right up into the baseboard(essentially making it part of the main) and continuing on. Whadda think?
Any help would be welcome.
you could do that but I am not sure it would make the situation anybetter. I would still look at air in the system there has to be a reason that T stopped working. maybe a chunk of something is stuck there


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FORT WORTH, Texas (June 27, 2009) – Just as the setting sun was calming the blazing daytime heat, eleven of the world's best freestyle motocross riders turned it right back up at Red Bull X-Fighters Texas. Nate Adams defeated defending event winner and 2008 series champion, Mat Rebeaud before a capacity crowd of more than 22,000 fans in the Historic Fort Worth Stockyards. Speaking of historic, Australian rider Cam Sinclair nailed the first-ever double backflip in a competition run, sending the fans into a frenzy. Thomas Pages of France suffered a hip injury in an unsuccessful attempt at the first front flip in a competition run."Red Bull X-Fighters is the very top of FMX," said Adams. "There is nothing like winning against such world-class athletes, and in front of my fellow Americans. I'm really happy I am healthy and riding well. It was all-around a great weekend for me.""There has never been a double backflip in competition before," said Sinclair, who suffered bruised ankles from the hard landings. "I don't really care about the fact I was eliminated in the semis – I'm just happy I'm more or less healthy."Japan's Eigo Sato now leads the overall standing of the international series with 215 points, closely followed by Rebeaud (210 points) and Robbie Maddison (145 points).The scene was authentic Texas, replete with Rodeo Queens, bull riding and even the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, who many say contributed to the heat. Supercross legend and current TORC off-road truck driver Ricky Johnson got the evening started by tearing into the purpose-built venue with a special passenger – Fort Worth Mayor Michael Moncrief, who welcomed the fans to the second-straight Red Bull X-Fighters held in his town, followed by members of the Red Bull Air Force, who made a high-speed drop-in onto the course.The course was a genuine challenge for the riders, presenting them with more than 15 different jump combinations, thanks to the 850 truckloads of dirt that were sculpted in the three weeks leading up to the event.Red Bull X-Fighters Texas Results:
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Buwahahah ! Prisco's Power Rankings
I know, I know... Power Rankings from the morons in the media are for entertainment purposes only, and nothing illustrates that better than Jacksonville almost losing to the 49ers, and still ranking above us. :)
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anyway his comments about the Pats are quite ok ''here they come''...
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Still better than FootBall Outsider's rankings (ya, I am going to beat this drum one more time) which has us 13th; although we did climb from last week when we were sitting 18th, right behind the then 5-8 Eagles.
As far a jumbs go, we moved up to 13. Biggest Jumper of the week, Baltimore from 24 to 14 for beating up on the lowly Packers Monday night. In reading their system, Baltimore at 5-9 is ranked 4 spots above where the 8-5 Pats were last week. And just one spot below the Pats now. The beating we put on Tampa dropped them at 9-5 down to 19 on the list, behind not only the aforementioned 5-9 Ravens; but also the 4-10 Raiders at 16. Absolutely worthless this ranking is, I tell ya. I know, the system attempts to incorporate various statistics, be somewhat objective etc, but when this is the result, time to go back to the drawing board. I guess it just proves the old adage, figures never lie……………………. |
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Warm up with Carrot Soup with Crab, White Beans and Chard, Chicken Tortilla, and more
Soup spells comfort ― in my dictionary, anyway ― and that's exactly what many people yearn for after the overindulgent holiday season.
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Ah... The producers did a 'Great Satire' when they had Courtney come riding in to her proposal in a Black Evening Dress & BLACK CAPE. This one should have been entitled... "CAPE FEAR." The producers are the only ones who get the last laugh, with their Editing, Scripts, & laughing all the WAY TO THE BANK. Looked like Dracula & The Black Orchid. Maybe Ben & Courtney can now do "B" Rated Horror Movies for Universal Studios...!
Oh P.S. What else could we "expect" when Ben is already controlled by a Mother & Sister and still isn't over his deceased father who he thinks sits at the Right hand of God. ( Oh my Dad? )
These "3" women will kill each other before before & can't you see Courtney picking 'Grapes' in the Vineyard??
Interestingly enuf, after the "Skinny Dipping" Episode..it was over for the other women. What I loved was that she wore "All BLACK" for the proposol. I think it would be nice to have NEW Bachelor /'ettes on who weren't BURNED on the previous season,(less need to get back at "Suitors!") and after Mtn. Top Experiences of being proposed to on the Matterhorn, How do you "KEEP THOSE HIGHS GOING?" You don't. It's not about REALITY.. these people become "Conquest Junkies." Those kind of highs can't last FOREVER. Next...
I watched the fist few episodes waiting for Ben to catch on to the fact he was being played and watch her leave humiliated. When I read a spoiler saying he picked her, I quit watching. I watched last night hoping he would dump her on national TV. Didn't happen. Disappointed. She & Bently deserve each other.
Ben looked soooo out of it on the "After the Rose" special....I lost all respect for this weirdo....to pick such a freak like Courtney, there is definitely something wrong with him....to me he has no self-esteem...this so-called relationship should last all of a minute....i won't watch this crap ever again.....the capes on the women were soooo stupid.....and why does the weirdo Courtney walk like a freak? Maybe because she is one....UGH....ALL I CAN SAY IS GOOD LUCK TO THE MORONS...THEY DESERVE EACH OTHER.....>>>>>>>>


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The 'FarmVille' Ruse: How Zynga's Creation Ruins Gaming and Steals Your Time
But you probably know all that already. What we're going to examine is why Zynga and FarmVille got that large, why they will continue to grow, and how they have changed the face of gaming.
We've blasted FarmVille in our past posts, but we'll let you in on a shameful secret: none of us had actually ever played the game, and as journalists, we felt that it was unfair to cast judgment so blindly. So we decided to spend two weeks trying to figure out how the game worked and what makes it so attractive. And we've come to the conclusion that, like your day job, it's difficult to simply walk away from your farm for good -- and that is a terrible thing.
Farming the Easy Way
Seasoned Internet farmers may want to skip past this bit, but here's some backstory for those of you oblivious to the downward spiral that is FarmVille.Game setup is designed to be quick and easy. Despite occasional hiccups with the interface (as the game is technically still in beta, even with its massive user base and revenue), you simply follow the prompts to start farming. You pick the look and sex of your 'Precious Moments'-esque hayseed, and then are presented with your buying options in the Marketplace. (Your writer feels compelled to note that there are few options open to redheads for verisimilitude, unless you were born "maroon.") The goal of the game is actually unclear; but, like in real life, the sole motivator is more money and more growth, since you can't ever "win" FarmVille, or, for that matter, "lose." The game donates both coins and Farm Cash (more on those later) to get you going. Simply buy some seeds for the crop you wish, and, after tilling the soil, sow your virtual oats.
After the amount of time specified in the Marketplace for a given crop, you can return to harvest, and gain back some of the coins you've spent. Planting seeds and tilling your soil will also earn you experience points, which will allow you to unlock new aspects of the game (more varieties of seeds, animals and other goodies) as you progress.
One of the key features of FarmVille, though, is how it encroaches on real life; if your crops mature and you don't return to the game in time to harvest, they will wilt. Thus, huge communities of FarmVille players have concocted strategy guides to let you know which crops have the best returns, which ones you should grow overnight, and which ones you can plant over and over throughout the day. There are even "news" sites featuring articles like "Artichokes: The Choice for a Long Weekend Getaway," since -- as far as we got in the game, at least -- you can't ever get longer than a four-day respite from your farm.
Most video games that remember your progress don't change while you're gone. With the exception of other social games like MMOs -- which update as other users play -- the video game world pauses when you're not playing. But FarmVille chugs along and essentially demands that you return on a regular schedule.
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So, you get sucked into playing, just as we did, but there's a slight boredom threshold that must be crossed before the game becomes rewarding. As you continue to click/click/click and till/plant/harvest, your available coins and Farm Cash increase along with experience points.You collect FarmVille coins when you harvest plants or animal products, but you only get Farm Cash when you reach a higher experience level. Both can be purchased with real money directly through the game. It is more than tempting to throw away $5 on Farm Cash, especially since you get so little of it through the game alone, and since some of the more covet-worthy items can only be purchased with Farm Cash.
There it is: Zynga's dirty technique for making its $500 million. It ropes players into the game with the promise that absolutely anyone can play. It will even float you coins the first time you run out, not unlike the casino that gives a high-roller luxury accommodations in anticipation of making back the house's stake. It dangles the prospect of a bigger, prettier, better farm; as the game loads, you're faced with idyllic images of well-off farms, not unlike the glossy ads for high-end residences. But it's nearly impossible to get some of those goods without ponying up a buck or two here and there. When Zynga's got a user base of 61 million digital farmers, it's easy enough to make ends meet, to say the least.
But paid-for coins and cash could be considered the long con compared to some of the more unscrupulous methods of revenue generation to which FarmVille and its sister games have been connected. Mark Pincus, Zynga's founder, has admitted, "I did every horrible thing in the book... just to get revenues right away. I mean, we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this zwinky toolbar which was like -- I don't know -- I downloaded it once and couldn't get rid of it. We did anything possible just to just get revenues so that we could grow... " That included selling ad space to sleazy marketers that hooked users with disguised "online IQ tests" and the promise of free trial offers. Zynga and Facebook were hit with a class-action lawsuit back in November, which accused the game developer of pulling in nearly a third of its cash from the "special offers" advertised through its games.
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When we said that your farmer-avatar reminded us of a 'Precious Moments' figurine, the comparison was more than just aesthetic; FarmVille goes beyond simple time-suck and into the realm of collectible culture. Once you've figured out how to maintain your farm, you realize that you've got to spend your hard-earned money somehow. It's not like your digital spawn will need it for college tuition, so FarmVille conveniently lets you know which items you need in order to complete a collection. Whether buttons, precious stones or just every variety of arbor, the game encourages exhaustive consumption for its own sake. When you acquire a new item, you are advised to let your friends know through your Facebook Wall, which only encourages one-upmanship. But the Marketplace is successful because it reflects our own real-life market; goods are given sometimes exorbitant prices simply because they are luxury items, which gives them a higher perceived value. (Why, for example, does the Belted Cow fetch an asking price of a million coins?) As you start to collect, you also begin to display your collection. Like the Beanie Babies of yore, each new item collected is eventually supplanted by a whole new crop of "limited edition" items, such as the current New England collection of Delicate Cottages to go along with whatever the hell else has been thrown out there.By releasing a never-ending stream of collections, FarmVille solidifies its existence in perpetuity. It's revolutionary in gaming, because few, if any, other games have been so consistently updated by their developers -- although other social games and MMOs have quickly followed suit. When you can't run out of things to purchase, and where there's no such thing as a recession, you just keep on buying.
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To further motivate this collecting desire, FarmVille users are routinely asked to make neighbors of their Facebook friends -- and some aspects of the game, like the construction of nurseries and apiaries, are nearly impossible to unlock without compatriots' help. In our experiment, we set up two different FarmVille accounts, through two different Facebook accounts, just to see how users could connect with one another. It quickly became an unspoken competition between our fake farms; when one of us bought a barn, the other was compelled to buy one, too.You could argue that FarmVille doesn't explicitly encourage this never-ending envy, but each new "achievement" (which is cheapened by the fact that there are hundreds and hundreds of "achievements" possible in the game) activates a prompt asking if you would like to share the news with your friends. It takes just as long to say "yes" as it does "no," and only the most selfless farmer would choose not to boast of his or her latest conquest in successfully purchasing 100 bales of hay.
But the prompts are a recent change. Many updates used to be automatic, but, as the New York Times notes, "six million Facebook users, who grew tired of constant updates about their friends' games, joined a group called 'I don't care about your farm, or your fish, or your park, or your mafia!!!'." Possibly as a result, Facebook began to restrict the updates, and -- unless you had any doubt about the power of those simple, annoying messages -- the FarmVille digital army dropped 26-percent from its peak of 83 million users.
FarmVille Is Work Masquerading as a Game
Back in January, A.J. Patrick Liszkiewicz, a media critic and adjunct professor at SUNY Buffalo, gave a talk, in which he quoted theorist Roger Caillois on the value of gaming, and related said theory to FarmVille. "While Caillois tells us that games offer a break from responsibility and routine," he asserted, "FarmVille is defined by responsibility and routine." In speaking of objects like the Harvester and Seeder, Liszkiewicz noted, "As you advance through FarmVille, you begin earning rewards that allow you to play FarmVille less. Harvesting machines let you click four squares at once, and barns and coops let you manage groups of animals simultaneously, saving you hundreds of tedious mouse-clicks. In other words, the more you play FarmVille the less you have to play FarmVille."Ian Bogost, whose anti-FarmVille metagame Cow Clicker we recently mentioned, writes that social games "are games that you don't have to play." We disagree, as must Liszkiewicz, even if we see eye-to-eye on the role that social games play today. You must play FarmVille; if you don't, your crops will die. You are reminded that your crops are ready for harvest, and you read your FarmVille neighbors' Wall posts, announcing their successes in one aspect of the game or the other. You are sent gifts by neighbors, and obliged to send gifts back. (To that end, Liszkiewicz said, "As the French sociologist Marcel Mauss tells us, gifts are never free: they bind the giver and receiver in a loop of reciprocity. It is rude to refuse a gift, and ruder still to not return the kindness.") FarmVille, like Facebook, does not let its users go easily. Unlike the classic SimCity, FarmVille does not allow its users to destroy their creations without still more work. With SimCity, you could blast your withering megalopolis with a firestorm or an alien invasion; FarmVille is set up so that you can only delete plots and sell off your assets, without ever really hitting bottom.
We found ourselves returning to our farm more and more each day. We were roped into the competition that drives the game -- to acquire more money and points than our neighbors, and to have a better-looking and more profitable homestead. And, for only two weeks spent playing, we feel like we didn't do such a bad job. Still, we realized that, as we logged on late at night or on the weekends ("Just for a minute!" we'd tell our foot-tapping significant others), Zynga had snared us in its web, too -- and we didn't like that one bit. So we did what people do when they've lost their minds and shirked the capitalist system: we sold off every single asset and put the money in hay bales -- and that's where it will stay. We're not about to say that we didn't have fun playing FarmVille, but we will say that it was a relief to finally let go.


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I have been fermenting vegetables in a beautiful, old crock with success. The problem is, having only one vessel, I can only ferment one vegetable at a time. Canning jars are an option, but both the crock and the canning jars are less than ideal in terms of letting air in, as gases escape. I considered purchasing a Pickle-Pro Fermenting Lid, but in the meantime I stumbled upon this post at GNOWFGLINS. Yay! I Mike could make my own a few for me.
I purchased 4 – 1/2″ Fermenter Lid Grommets and 4 Airlocks at a wine shop. The grommets were $.80 each and the airlocks were $1.29 each. The grommet creates a seal between the airlock and the fermenting jar lid. The airlock allows CO2 to escape during fermentation, and prevents air from going back into the jar. Mike used a gasket hole punch, rather than a drill as in the post we read, and punched a 1/2″ hole in 4 wide mouth canning jar lids. He had no trouble inserting the grommets (as in the post), and then pushed the airlocks down through the grommet. Voila! For $8.86 (I paid $.50 tax), I had 4 fermenting lids.
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I'm thinking that I learned this once in a tutorial but is this possible? I know you can use the SAVE FOR WEB and make a link but can you also do something else to just make the text IN the graphic so that it's selectable or still becomes visible to search engines or searches? I made a graphic in Illustrator but really want the text to be selectable on the site still....
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See online help about Slices (which are really just Adobe-glorified HTML table cells).
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Depending on VERSION, you can use Save For Web & Devices, using the HTML and Images option in the Save Optimized As dialog. The text will be ordinary HTML text contained in a table cell.
In CS6, the HTML and Images option has been removed, so you have to preview the page from the Save For Web dialog and then capture the HTML from the previewed page.
ALWAYS state what version you are using.
But frankly, I'd use another program. For example, if you want a far more elegant way to use a drawing program to turn your page layouts into web pages/sites in an entirely WYSIWYG environment, download a demo of Xara Designer Pro and find out how simple it can be.
I'm totally not looking for a WYSIWYG environment...
You totally are. You want to "made a graphic in Illustrator but really want the text to be selectable on the site still...." In other words, you want to set text as part of an overall design in Illustrator (a WYSIWYG drawing program), export the page as HTML, and have the text objects treated as ordinary HTML text in the resulting HTML export. That is working in a WYSIWYG environment.
And there's nothing wrong with that. But again, Xara Designer Pro is far more capable than Illustrator in this regard (and others), and costs much less, to boot. You can literally build your layout pretty much any way you want, and export it as web page(s) that will look almost identical, with the text surviving the trip as live text (and with all the stylized formatting retained)--all with much less bother.
OK. If you are a DW user, then create the background portion of your image, place it in a proper div for that image (that itself is controlled by CSS). Then create the text that is styled and positioned by CSS.
Anything other than that is not going to have selectable text.
Take care, Mike
Not quite sure what you actually mean. In all this discussion the most critical point is missing: What kind of selectebale text and what do you want to do with it? Your "needs to be visible in search engines" doesn't really make sense to begin with. that's what the ALT, TITLE, DESC and LONGDESC attributes you can apply to an IMG tag are for, no matter what format that image actually is. If it needs to be HTML text, then do it in DW and place it inside its own DIV on top of your image or whatever. If it needs to be an SVG with dynamic text, then edit the SVG code accordingly to include your JavaScript.


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For a step-by-step guide to making many accessibility changes to your computer, visit AbilityNet's My Computer My Way website. The BBC's My Web My Way website is also very useful.
The text and icons on computer screens are by default small, so that lots of them can be shown on the screen at any one time. It is possible to make them bigger in two ways.
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And that was before the video for "Thriller" itself. Although the videos for "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" increased Jackson's star power, the 14-minute clip for "Thriller" became a pop culture sensation.
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Although Jackson had become a fixture on MTV, the network found itself in serious competition from several other networks for the rights to show "Thriller," widely considered the most ambitious music video ever made. MTV ended up paying more than $1 million for the exclusive rights to air it, the first time it paid a label for a clip. "We owned the Movie Channel at the time and it bought movies exclusively," Garland says. "We used that as the template."
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It's often not a good idea for a mortal to come face to face with a god (the sight can strike people blind in other Greek myths, and sometimes kill them completely) so Athena's primary reason for disguising herself is to protect Telemachus.
Perhaps, though, we might view Athena's disguise metaphorically. If you were to say your dad gave you some good advice, and that advice came from God - it might be a bit like God coming to you in the shape of your dad. So it might be a reflection of Homer's pagan belief: that if Telemachus received good advice from Mentes, it was really the goddess acting through a mortal.
Posted by robertwilliam on November 10, 2012 at 12:32 AM (Answer #1)
If mortals see gods in their true forms, something bad usually happens. They are usually blinded or burst into flames (like Semele does in the story of Dionysus's birth).
It is also important to remember that the gods of the Greek pantheon, the wise Athena included, are depicted as having very human motivations and emotions. That, combined with their divine powers, creates very interesting situations. Simply, Athena disguises herself so often (in the Odyssey, it is first as Mentes, an old family friend of Odysseus's) because she can.
She can come as ANY person or animal or even object, but she chooses Mentes because he represents loyalty and trust. It seems like it would be easier to convince Telemachus to do something as an old family friend, than it would be to visit in another shape and try to convince him that she is a goddess.
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First he didn't, then he did, now we're just going to have to sit and wait to see what he decides and where it will take place. I am, of course, talking about Anderson Silva and a potential rematch with new UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman.
After losing his title to Weidman on July 6 in the main event of UFC 162, Silva stood in the center of the Octagon and told Joe Rogan, "No, Chris is the champion. All the people need to respect Chris. Chris is the best. That's it. I finished my work. I don't want to fight for the belt anymore. I changed my life, now. I worked hard for a long time. I had the belt for a long time, I'm tired. I relax now."
Hours after making those statements, Ariel Halwani of MMAFighting.com reported that sources close to Silva had let them know that the former champion had changed his tune. According to those sources, Silva was interested in once again fighting for the title he successfully defended a UFC record ten consecutive times.
One person that is also very interested in the rematch is UFC president Dana White. White, according to Kevin lole of Yahoo! Sports, is currently in Los Angeles trying to make the rematch happen.
If White and Silva can come to an agreement, Weidman seemed more than willing to take the rematch. Weidman told Rogan in his post-fight interview, "All respect to Anderson Silva. I would love to do a rematch if that's what he would want to do. He's an idol of mine. I looked up to that guy for a long time."
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23Oct Canon EF Lens to Sony NEX Adapter IRIS Control and Image Stabilization
This thing took about 13 days to ship to California, but it's finally here and i'm pretty impressed. This adapter allows you to mount Canon EF lenses to the Sony NEX camera and control all of the aperture settings natively. I haven't tried it yet, but it should communicate with the lens and store EXIF information into your photos as well. As you can see from the video it works pretty flawlessly, responds very quick, and build quality is very nice. To enable IS when taking photos, you would hold the shutter half way down – or that's what I had to do to get it going. During Video Mode, the Image Stabilization is on as soon as you start recording.
I didn't have much time to test everything as i'm getting ready to fly out for PhotoPlus, but I did try to 'wig out' the adapter. When removing the lens while the camera was still powered on, the aperture controls didn't come back. The adapter does not like hot lens swaps. Simply powering the camera down doesn't always help, but removing the entire adapter from the camera body and then starting over always works. There is another Metabones adapter out there that can adapt EF lenses to NEX cameras, but it's about twice the price. I have not had the chance to test this on an FS100 or Sony FS700, but i'm hopeful it should work seamlessly. If you're shooting on the Sony NEX system, you might want to give this guy a try. You can find this Canon EF Lens to Sony NEX adapter via eBay (Click Here).
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October 24th, 2012 at 7:28 am
Is there a way to update the firmware on the adapter? Maybe that would fix the issue of not recognizing the f2.8 on the 100mm.
October 24th, 2012 at 8:15 am
We're gonna need one of these for full frame E mount like the vg900. I assume this can only handle APS-c.
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October 24th, 2012 at 9:37 am
Have you noticed any of the strange flare or ghosting that the Metabones Version I adapter had? The problem was due to the rectangular portion of the adapter that has since been changed to a circular one in version II. I noticed that the RJ adapter is also rectangular, hence the question.
October 24th, 2012 at 9:53 am
getting mine next week, hopefully test it out on my FS700.
October 24th, 2012 at 10:36 am
A little off topic, sorry; i'm looking for a m42 to Canon EOS tilt adapter to use medium format lenses with tilt function on a Canon 60D. Does anyone know the field of view/crop factor when using Medium format lenses on a 1.6x crop sensor camera? Is it still 1.6x or other?
October 24th, 2012 at 10:47 am
I'm getting mine in the follow weeks. Is there any (vignetting, dark corners) with some lens? Thanks for the post and for the review.
October 24th, 2012 at 2:16 pm
HI, thanks for the review
whant about with tokina 11-16, crop sensor lenses?
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October 24th, 2012 at 8:19 pm
I wonder if the aperture issue with the 100mm is related to the design of the lens itself? I have a Nikon 60mm macro that will only open to like f/3.2 when focused 1:1. What happens when you rack to infinity?
November 1st, 2012 at 5:16 am
Does it work below f/3.5 on other lenses with a 2.8 aperture?
February 3rd, 2013 at 11:17 am
Feb 2013. Now it's been thoroughly tested, is this still the best Sony-Canon converter you'd recommend?
My girlfriend is about to buy the Sony nex5 but I'm a Canon owner with a bag of lenses.
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Genre/Form: | Science fiction, American Fantasy fiction, American Alternative histories (Fiction), American Alternative histories (Fiction) Miscellaneous fiction Fiction |
Named Person: | John F Kennedy; John F Kennedy; John F Kennedy |
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Description: | ix, 849 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
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On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history. Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students, a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night fifty years ago when Harry Dunning's father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk. Not much later, Jake's friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane, and insanely possible, mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake's new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life, a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.
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Sep 16, 2013 at 4:47am
Sounds like you need to learn about the triggering properties of pack, but more importantly, the [trigger] or [t] object, which helps tremendously in ordering events. Your timing problems are *not* a function of one event taking longer than the other, it's because of your ordering, I can almost guarantee it. Post the relevant part of your patch, if in doubt; remember to use Copy Compressed to post it here. Andreas |
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Sep 18, 2013 at 3:42pm
As Wetterburg said, Trigger is probably one of the most important objects in the Max environment. Try getting a global metro to trigger from the start of the live transport and choose timings which are similar to 4n or 16n instead of milliseconds. That way the triggering process will always be in sync with your live set regardless of bpm changes. |
Sep 18, 2013 at 4:25pm
Also check out [zl reg] for storing data that can be banged out later. Coupled with [trigger]… no can defend. |
Sep 20, 2013 at 7:25am
Processing time per se is less often the problem, more often the problem is a solid understanding of the order messages are handled. Max looks like it's processing lots of messages in parallel. The fact is that messages are handled serially, one after another. (It used to be easier to explain this when computers only had one processor, but even on modern multi-processors, the main Max thread that's handling message passing is running on a single processor; it's other things, like audio processing and Jitter matrix manipulation that can get farmed out across multiple processors). The order Max processes messages is well defined and thoroughly documented. The right-to-left thing often seems counter-intuitive to novices, but it's actually a brilliant way to simulate (conceptual) parallel processing on a (real) serial machine. And it does what even novices expect most of the time. But when it doesn't do what you expect, two choices: either come seriously to terms with right-to-left order, or use a lot of [trigger] to make order explicit. The third choice is to do both, which is the best thing in the long term. |
Sep 23, 2013 at 7:44am
I think with the LOM, the right to left format can go slightly out the window. I have found that live.path and uzis don't play the nicest. If one is trying to construct a list comprised of a number label and the id of a live parameter, the uzi may outpace live.path under the right circumstances. as Peter mentioned, even though Max may appear to be doing things simultaneously to the untrained eye, in reality, it is doing things sequentially. This can have adverse effects with events that manifest themselves a midst a process, and this is the reason one must place a deferlow object after live.observer if said event is to trigger other live.something events. with this same concept in mind, one may need a deferlow in other places. I'm certain in 99% of cases, a timing issue is simply a misunderstanding in Max syntax, but in case this is the one in 100 cases where the syntax is completely correct, trigger objects were used to maintain order, and zl regs, int/floats, or message boxes were used to store values temporarily to allow a subsequent event to trigger the data, then it's valid to explore other options. |
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Corey Hall 5pts All of these clips occur from not thinking the seriousness of the job through. Been waiting for a construction related compilation from break for awhile hahaha
Snotnose User 5pts WOW That Garbage man is a DOUCHE BAG!! Look at all the mail that just flew out and he threw it all away?! what if those was Bills, Checks... i would have sued the PISS out of him!
Mack King 5pts Holy FUCK... that woman almost got killed by the tree dropping on her.. thats fucked up...
Traci-Schuyler-McMahan-866 5pts That smell, Bob, is our shit. Focker flushed the toilet in the den so the septic tank overflowed.
Thomas-Soltwisch-769 User 5pts Union employees at their best...most if them will file job related injuries for their own stupidity!!!!!
indiefab User 5pts Every time the director of OSHA has to justify his funding, he shows this video and when it finishes he asks "Any questions?".


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Gear: Red Bull Cola
Red Bull Cola
Red BullCategory: | Everything Else |
Subcategory: | Beverages |
Price: | $1.49 |
Average Rating: | (2 Votes) |
Description: | Red Bull began marketing and selling Red Bull Cola in Las Vegas in April 2008. It is being marketed as a 100% Natural Cola Drink that contains natural flavors from plant extracts: galangal, vanilla, mustard seed, lime, kola nut, cacao, licorice, cinnamon, lemon, ginger, coca leaf, orange, corn mint, pine, cardamom, mace, clove, caffeine from coffee beans and natural lemon juice concentrate. |
Member Reviews
- Anonymous, Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:58:19 UTC.
- 1st review
I tried Red Bull Cola in Las Vegas in May 2008. It is not bad, but if you are expecting it to taste like Coca Cola or Pepsi, you will be disappointed. It has half the amount of caffeine as regular Red Bull and contains no taurine. I have also heard that they are now selling it in Atlanta as well as Las Vegas, but I have not personally seen it there yet.
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- lauradrizzt, Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:16:42 UTC.
I didn't like the flavor, it tastes a bit flat and overly sugary. I didn't get much of a energy rush out of it and the cost is a bit more than I want on a soda drink.
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