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ETF Spotlight: Emerging Market BondsTom Lydon • Nov. 28, 2011
USD Emerging Market Bond ETF: An ETF to LoveJim Van Meerten • Aug. 24, 2010
EMBI Peru Slides FurtherIncaInvest • Dec. 5, 2008
EMB Brings Choice for Emerging Market Debt ETFsIndexUniverse • Dec. 25, 2007
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Wednesday, Feb 124:50 PM
- "The default rate is non-existent," he says, agreeing that fundamentals in high-yield look good. "Instead of a default cycle, we've had a refinance cycle." The issue, however, is valuation. At the end of 2013, the 30-year Treasury yielded about 4%, while BB corporates "unbelievably" yielded just 4.5% - a "remarkably low incremental yield."
- His feelings about overvaluation extend to the investment grade corporate market (LQD) as well.
- Most curious to Gundlach is how universally the long bond is hated at 4%, while junk yielding 4.5% gets so much love.
- Besides Treasurys, Gundlach sees value in emerging market bonds. The risk is in the currency, but this can be eliminated by buying dollar-denominated paper.
- High yield ETFs: HYG, JNK, HYLD, HYS, SJNK, PHB, BSJF, SJB, BSJE, HYHG, BSJG, BSJI, ANGL, BSJH, HYLS, XOVR, THHY, UJB, QLTC, SHYG, BSJK, HYZD, BSJJ, HYND
- Investment grade ETFs: LQD, VCSH, VCIT, CORP, VCLT, CSJ, CIU, CFT, SCPB, LWC, CLY, ITR, QLTA, IGHG, PFIG, SLQD, IGS, CBND, IGU, QLTB
- EM bond ETFs: EMB, PCY, ELD, EMLC, EMCB, VWOB, EMCD, ILB, HYEM, EMHY, LEMB, ITIP, EMAG, EBND, GTIP, PFEM, EMSH, SEMF, IEMF, LEMF
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Tuesday, Jan 712:12 PM
- The EGShares TCW EM Short Term Investment Grade Bond ETF (SEMF), Intermediate Term Investment Grade Bond ETF (IEMF), and Long Term Investment Grade Bond ETF (LEMF) will begin trading on January 8th; offering exposure to both sovereign and corporate bonds.
- Each new fund will charge 0.65%, which is above the average expense ratio for this sector, but few funds currently offer specific duration exposure to emerging market bonds.
- Other emerging market bond ETFs: EMB, PCY, ELD, EMLC, EMCB, VWOB, ILB, EMCD, LEMB, ITIP, EBND, EMAG, GTIP, PFEM, EMSH
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Thursday, Nov 212013, 9:12 AM
- Emerging market bond ETF investors worried about duration risk will have their first short-duration fund to choose from starting today with the launch of ProShares' Short-Term USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (EMSH). The fund has an expense ratio of 0.5%.
- The underlying index only selects paper with a fixed rate and maturity of 0-5 years, with a weighted average yield-to-maturity of three years or less. Sovereign, and corporate - both investment and speculative grade - will be included.
- As comparison, the iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (EMB) has a 7-year effective duration.
- Corporate EM bond ETFs: EMCB, EMCD, HYEM, EMHY
- Government EM bond ETFs: EMB, PCY, ELD, EMLC, ILB, LEMB, ITIP, EBND, GTIP, PFEM
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Wednesday, Nov 132013, 11:33 AM
- Market Vectors files paperwork for the Emerging Markets Aggregate Bond ETF EMAG, with an after-fee-waiver annual expense ratio of 0.49%.
- The fund will hold both sovereign and corporate, and both investment grade and high-yield paper from a large number of emerging market countries. At the end of Q3, the tracked index held about 1,800 bonds from a total of 694 issuers.
- Market Vectors' Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond ETF (EMLC) has just over $1B in AUM.
- Related ETFs: EMB, PCY, ELD, EMLC, ILB, LEMB, ITIP, EBND, GTIP, PFEM, EMCB, EMCD, HYEM, EMHY
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Friday, Oct 42013, 1:47 PM
- Market Vectors announced earlier this week that it's popular fund for Latin American bond exposure will undergo a number of changes, including a new name, ticker, and index.
- BONO will be rebranded later this year as the Market Vectors Emerging Markets Aggregate Bond ETF and trade under the ticker EMAG to reflect the new investment objective; to seek and track the price and performance of the Market Vectors EM Aggregate Bond Index.
- Ed Lopez, Marketing Director with Market Vectors in the recent press release, "we are seeking to introduce an efficient means for investors to gain access to a broad exposure of emerging markets bonds in a single ETF."
- Effected ETFs: ILF, GML, FLN, EMB, PCY
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Saturday, Sep 282013, 1:30 PM
- "Sovereign emerging-market yields today are consistent with their averages between 2003 and 2007, but U.S. Treasury rates are only about half as high," writes Shuli Ren, in a bullish piece on emerging-market debt.
- The premise is simple: 17 consecutive weeks of EM bond fund outflows has "flooded out irrational exuberance that had piled up over the winter and spring" and brought the market back down to earth, even as institutional demand has remained strong, suggesting retail investors have overreacted to taper talk.
- With the Fed still striking a highly accommodative tone, emerging-market debt could rally as investors discover the relatively attractive valuations.
- ETFs - EMB, LEMB, PCY, EMLC, ELD, PFEM, EBND, VWOB; Asia: ALD; Latin America: BONO
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Thursday, Aug 152013, 11:12 AM
- Anything paying income is again being particularly hard hit by the rise in Treasury yields (the 10-year now at a 2-year high of 2.8%).
- Selections in mREITs (REM -2.1%), (MORT -1.9%) include RAIT Financial Trust (RAS -4.1%) - whose IRT had an ill-timed IPO yesterday and Ellington Residential (EARN -4.8%) - the market not caring about reasonable Q2 performance, a hefty discount to book, and the launch of a repurchase program. Other mREITs: CYS Investments (CYS -3.6%), Apollo (AMTG -3%), Newcastle (NCT -5%), Invesco (IVR -2.7%), Arlington Asset (AI -1.2%). A leveraged ETF play: MORL.
- Hanging in there relatively well are the BDCs: Fifth Street (FSC -1.3%), Triangle (TCAP -1%), MCG (MCGC -1.2%), Hercules (HTGC -1.2%), Ares (ARCC -0.3%).
- BDC ETFs: BDCS, BDCL, BIZD.
- In emerging markets fixed income, a trader takes note of EDD, a closed-end fund now trading at more than a 15% discount to NAV.
- Emerging market bond ETFs: EMB, LEMB, PCY, EMLC, ELD, PFEM, EBND, VWOB.
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Friday, Jul 192013, 1:11 PMNearly $18B flowed into U.S. equity funds (VTI) in the past week, the biggest gusher of money since June 2008, according to EPFR. About $6,5B of that amount went into the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY). The same week saw more than $1B pulled out of investment grade (LQD) debt and Treasury funds, but $4B put to work in high yield (more on high yield's bounce). Emerging market debt funds (EMB) continue to suffer, seeing another $1.3B pulled. |Friday, Jul 192013, 1:11 PM| 6 Comments
Monday, Jul 152013, 3:21 PMHigh-grade corporate bonds (LQD) have a fan in JPMorgan, which looks for further tightening in spreads given increasing demand from pension and insurance buyers as they turn away from high yield (HYG, JNK) and emerging-market debt (EMB). Another plus: Investment-grade corporate paper tends to have lower duration than, say, long-term Treasurys (TLT), of which the team is also bearish. JPMorgan's a big bank, and someone else there has a different opinion of corporates. |Monday, Jul 152013, 3:21 PM| 1 Comment
Thursday, Jul 112013, 3:47 PMGoldman Sachs has been a buyer of emerging market bonds (EMB) amid the worst rout since 2008, says Michael Swell, co-head of global bond portfolios. Two "sweet spots" are the short-dated paper of Brazil pricing in big interest rate hikes, and long-dated paper of Mexico yielding north of 7% with inflation below 5% and falling. At the same time, Swell is cutting exposure to U.S. Treasurys and expects the 10-year to migrate towards 3.75-4% once the Fed exits. |Thursday, Jul 112013, 3:47 PM| Comment!
Tuesday, Jul 22013, 8:01 AMThe death of emerging market debt (EMB) may have been greatly exaggerated as Nigeria is set to issue $1B in 5 and 10-year paper. "Nigeria, where every maturity is a perpetual," quips Mark Dow. |Tuesday, Jul 22013, 8:01 AM| Comment!
Friday, Jun 282013, 12:19 PM"The China growth story is starting to unravel," says Deutsche Bank and this - not the Fed - is behind market skittishness. The PBOC's seeming desire to engineer a squeeze in the banking system is compounding the pressure. While a full-blown financial crisis may be unlikely, there remains a strong chance of a yuan (CNY, CYB) devaluation, says the team. Continuing strength in the greenback should suck even more liquidity out of emerging markets (EEM, VWO, DEM, EMB). |Friday, Jun 282013, 12:19 PM| 1 Comment
Thursday, Jun 272013, 12:07 PM"I was wrong about Treasurys (TLT, TBT)," Jeff Gundlach tells the WSJ of his recent expectation the 10-year yield would never hit 2.5%. However, he tells CNBC, "July will not be a repeat of May and June ... the liquidation cycle appears to have run its course with emerging market bonds (EMB), junk bonds (HYG, JNK), munis (MUB), and MBS (MBB) now recovering sharply." Gundlach has scheduled a special conference call for this afternoon. |Thursday, Jun 272013, 12:07 PM| 5 Comments
Saturday, Jun 222013, 9:30 AMIt's "total capitulation" in fixed income (AGG, BND), says BAML's Michael Hartnett. The "blood bath" includes the largest-ever three-week rush of bond-fund redemptions, $2.6B leaving (2nd largest outflow ever) the Emerging Markets Bond ETF (EMB), and mortgage-backed securities (MBB), municipal bonds (MUB), and TIPS (TIP) funds each now showing net outflows for 2013. |Saturday, Jun 222013, 9:30 AM| 47 Comments
Friday, Jun 212013, 10:58 AMWas it only April when investors stampeded to get a piece of Rwanda's $400M 10-year note sale, priced to yield just 6.87%? Two months later it's a different story. Romania yesterday rejected all bids at a 7-year sale, joining failed auctions from South Korea, Russia, Colombia, and even China in the last 2 weeks. EMB is off nearly 12% since the Rwanda bell-ringer. |Friday, Jun 212013, 10:58 AM| 3 Comments
Saturday, Jun 152013, 11:36 PMUBS thinks it may be 1994 all over again. Some similarities: The Fed's actions to reflate the economy post-2008 resemble the easy money policies that were put in place post-S&L crisis; current "lackluster" economic growth mirrors "mini-cycles"of '90-'93; 290 bps plunge in Treasury yields from '07-'12 reminiscent of 400 bps decline from '90-'94; downtrend in CPI over the past five years resembles drop from early '90s to '94. UBS' advice: Avoid "popular convergence trades" such as EM credit (EMB, EMLC), EU periphery sovereign debt (ITLT, ITLY), U.S. MBS (MBB,VMBS), and high yield (HYG, JNK). |Saturday, Jun 152013, 11:36 PM| 2 Comments
SA Editor Michael Hopkins:
$EMB $PCY Eric Parnell: For signs of deeper trouble, keep an eye on emerging market bonds http://seekingalpha.com/a/17qaj - View all 0 replies
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Have No Fear If Taper Is Here. Dec 15 2013 $SPY $CEW $EMB $FXI $JJC $RSX $TLT http://bit.ly/1c5PEH1 Mr.Michael A. Gayed - View all 2 replies
x oil -field:: E$GOLD Funds See Unprecedented 31% Slump With World Losing Faith. $ABX e$GLD http://bloom.bg/JwcfRq Bloomberg
Peter Tchir:
$HYG $JNK $LQD $TLT $EMB get your weekly fixed income (with an ETF focus) update at http://bit.ly/1evGIMF tapering to tightening - View all 0 replies
Ian Farbrother:
Interesting to see the rebound in dollar-denominated EM bonds today - $PCY, $EMB. Local-currency bonds - esp. $EMLC - not doing so well ... - View all 0 replies
Michael A. Gayed:
This is how scary credit spreads looked last week in JNK EMB IEF: http://bit.ly/KwS1Bf - View all 6 replies
Default to Reality:: Thanks for the charts Michael. With the German auction today the flight to safe haven looks like it is excellerating.......


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Cadets take part in the Leaders Training Course when they enter ARMY ROTC with 2-2.5 years of college remaining. LTC is a 28 day course held during the summer at Fort Knox, KY. This course is designed to allow cadets to make up the ROTC basic course which occurs during your first two years of college. This is a great option for anyone that would need 2 years of college after completing LTC. Scholarships are offered to cadets after completion of LTC based on an Order of Merit List. Scholarships are given to cadets with outstanding physical fitness, GPA, and leadership capabilities. In addition LTC currently offers at $5,000 bonus for cadets that complete LTC and contract with UNF Army ROTC. LTC Cadets must complete all contracting requirements and maintain a minimum of a 2.5 College GPA.
All Army ROTC cadets who enter the advanced course must attend LDAC between their junior and senior year. LDAC is a four week summer course that trains and evaluates Army ROTC Cadets on their leadership potential. The course is currently held at Fort Lewis, Washington which offers cadets a unique location to train. During LDAC cadets will work with cadets from around the world in a full spectrum training exercise to include aviation and other tactical military vehicles.
Airborne Training often referred to as "jump school" is a three week course held at Fort Benning, GA where soldiers are trained to quickly and safely exit a military aircraft at 1,250ft and safely land on the ground. Airborne is divided into three phases: Ground week, Tower Week, and Jump Week. Slots for airborne are obtained on a very competitive basis and are decided based on performance in UNF Army ROTC. Cadets hoping to attend Airborne need to pass an Airborne Physical and the Army Physical Fitness test.
Air Assault training is a 12 day physically demanding course that is designed to prepare soldiers too effectively operate in Air Assault Operations. Soldiers will become proficient in Sling Load Operations, Army Aircraft Knowledge, and rappelling out of a UH-60. Air Assault is currently offered at Fort Campbell, KY; Fort Benning, GA and West Point, New York.
CTLT is a summer internship offered to Cadets during their MSIII and MSIV summer. During CTLT cadets will attached to an active duty unit for three weeks and act in some type of leadership role. During CTLT cadets travel to Korea, Hawaii, Germany and other countries around the world for this unique training experience.
The following links will direct you to the webpages to our transient schools and the goarmy.com site.
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http://www.rotc.usaac.army.mil - ARMY ROTC Cadet Command
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2012-07-20 - The Finnish genre legends WINTERSUN just posted the third studio trailer for their upcoming epic melodic metal milestone "Time".
Check it out here: http://youtu.be/H-71I1dn9i0
The first parts can be seen here:
Part I http://youtu.be/OoAUK5KOwRs
Part II http://youtu.be/rnUxQrw0ToM
The new album "Time" will be released October 12, 2012 via Nuclear Blast.
The tracklisting looks like this:
1. When Time Fades Away
2. Sons of Winter and Stars
I Rain of Stars
II Surrounded by Darkness
III Journey Inside a Dream
IV Sons of Winter and Stars
3. Land of Snow and Sorrow
4. Darkness and Frost
5. Time
Don't miss WINTERSUN live on Heidenfest Tour 2012:
with KORPIKLAANI, VARG, TROLLFEST, KRAMPUS + guests
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20.10. DE Stuttgart - LKA Longhorn
21.10. NL Tilburg - 013
22.10. CH Pratteln - Z7
23.10. CH Fribourg - Fri-Son
24.10. IT Bologna - Estragon
25.10. AT Wien - Gasometer
26.10. DE Leipzig - Hellraiser
27.10. CZ Prague - KD Vltavska
28.10. PL Krakow - Studio
29.10. DE Hamburg - Markthalle
30.10. DE Berlin - Postbahnhof
31.10. DE Munich - Backstage
01.11. DE Saarbrücken - Garage
02.11. DE Geiselwind - Music Hall
03.11. DE Giessen - Hessenhallen
04.11. BE Antwerp - Trix
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Accommodation. We were very happy with our cabin. It felt small at first, and the decor was something out of the 1980s, but it was always clean and our steward worked hard to make sure we were as comfortable as possible. I think the cabin stewards were amongst the friendliest crew we interacted with and there were several near our cabin who were always ready with a smile or to chat.
Having a balcony was wonderful and I don't know if I'd want to travel without one. It was probably the most entertaining part of our life on board. We went on it first thing in the morning to check out the weather and where we were, and it provided endless entertainment in port as we watched the dock, the city, people boarding or disembarking, the tugs as we left port and the pilot leaving the ship. And that didn't include sitting on it with a glass of wine as we left port or before we left for dinner.
Food. I eat out regularly and I found the food predictable. It was mainly Western 'traditional' type food, despite the lunch time buffets like Mexican and Japanese, and the flavours seemed to be toned down to appeal to a wider audience.
Having said that it was always fresh and possible to get everything from a soup and salad for lunch through to a four course meal for dinner, and that was just the food court. What disappointed me was the amount of food wasted, and I later heard something like 42 tonnes of food is pulverised and discharged from the ship each cruise.
The ship. I loved the look and feel of the Dawn Princess. She was big enough that we didn't feel confined and on sea days I never felt as though we were sharing the ship with 2,000 other people. The only time we noticed how many people were on board was the day we arrived when everybody was getting settled, and after that not really.
Activities. I'm not sure all the shows are good enough for Broadway but Princess worked hard to make sure we were entertained day and night and I was happy with what we saw. The activities are varied enough not to feel as though you're seeing the same things over and over again, and we participated in things we wouldn't do on shore like playing shuffleboard, dominoes and bowls.
Tipping. I wasn't in favour of tipping before I left home although I understood about $10 per day each was included in our fare. I was disappointed when I heard about the low wages paid to some crew and we left generous tips for the crew we'd interacted with and we thought deserved to be tipped.
The passengers. On the whole the passengers were lovely and we met some wonderful people. But my second disappointment was the way some passengers treated the crew. I saw several examples of people 'telling' or 'ordering' crew to get something for them, or rudely telling crew that they didn't like the way something had been done. One example in the food court was a steward run off her feet looking after 15 tables being told to clear the table and lay it for a woman who'd just arrived. No acknowledgement and no please or thank you from the passenger --I'm not sure I'd like to work under those conditions especially when I saw most crew work hard for long hours.
Hidden costs. I knew before we travelled that there are lots of ways the ship makes additional money: the casino, alcohol and coffee, photos at $25 each, bingo, shore excursions and more. My husband and I are good at watching our pennies but it needs to be watched carefully or I'm sure the bill could easily have been in the thousands.
Would we do it again--we had a fabulous time and on a personal level I'd willingly do it again. But I found a moral dimension to cruising that wasn't reconciled by the tipping included in the cruise cost or by tipping on top that doesn't sit comfortably with me.


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VEGFR2 (KDR/Flk1) Signaling Mediates Axon Growth in Response to Semaphorin 3E in the Developing Brain
VEGFR2 (KDR/Flk1) Signaling Mediates Axon Growth in Response to Semaphorin 3E in the Developing Brain
Neuron, Volume 66, Issue 2,
Pages 205-219,
Publication Date 29 April 2010
Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.04.006
Anaïs Bellon
Jonathan Luchino
Katharina Haigh
Geneviève Rougon
Jody Haigh
Sophie Chauvet
Fanny Mann
Developmental Biology Institute of Marseille Luminy, CNRS UMR 6216, University of Mediterranee, Case 907, Parc Scientifique de Luminy, 13288 Marseille cedex 09, France
Vascular Cell Biology Unit, Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, VIB, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Corresponding author
These authors contributed equally to this work
► VEGFR2 is expressed on developing axonal tracts in the mouse brain ► VEGFR2 is important for establishment of neuronal projections ► VEGFR2/PlexinD1/Neuropilin1 form a trimeric receptor complex for Semaphorin3E ► VEGFR2 transduces the growth-promoting and attractive activity of Semaphorin3E
Common factors are thought to control vascular and neuronal patterning. Here we report an in vivo requirement for the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor type 2 (VEGFR2) in axon tract formation in the mouse brain. We show that VEGFR2 is expressed by neurons of the subiculum and mediates axonal elongation in response to the semaphorin (Sema) family molecule, Sema3E. We further show that VEGFR2 associates with the PlexinD1/Neuropilin-1 (Nrp1) receptor complex for Sema3E and becomes tyrosine-phosphorylated upon Sema3E stimulation. In subicular neurons, Sema3E triggers VEGFR2-dependent activation of the phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI3K)/Akt pathway that is required for the increase in axonal growth. These results implicate VEGFR2 in axonal wiring through a mechanism dependent on Sema3E and independent of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) ligands. This mechanism provides an explanation as to how a semaphorin can activate an axon growth promoting response in developing neurons.


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If you don't mind me asking are you doing an interpretation of their map or a relatively accurate replica?
If you would like to add some depth to your rocks so they don't look so much like flat slabs of stone you can use the Dodge/Burn tool. Just burn around the edges and a little toward the center of rock, then use the Dodge to lighten the center and blend things in so they look right.
Here is an example of what I'm talking about. It requires a bit of painting but it's just a rock so it's not like it has to be perfect. In the example, I used your image and just burned/dodged around the rock. Things are darker towards the edges and lighter towards the middle. Maybe I shouldn't have used such a round rock but I think you get the idea. It seems almost like the shadow is too circular to me but that's for another conversation.
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If you don't mind me asking are you doing an interpretation of their map or a relatively accurate replica?
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@Jaxilon: I was wondering how to give some depth to the rocks so I'll try it out and see what happens even though I'm almost sure that it would look better that way.
@geamon: To answer your question I'm doing "a relatively accurate replica".I decided to add rubble to the northern and west sides of the map because in the encounter's flavor text it said that those sides "are impassable due to high piles of unstable rubble".
For some reason wizards decided not to map those those sides (possibly because they didn't have the right Dungeon Tiles)so instead of having to explain to the player's what's surrounding them I decided to show it to them.
I redid the rocks using Jaxilon's method for depth. A big improvement.Thanks again.
Also after a lot of playing around and thinking I was able to find a way to make the fences. I'm happy enough with them even though they are a bit small.My excuse is that I'm looking lokking at the map in a top-down view.
Now comes the pit in the center.
P.S. I have a feeling that the fence looks like ice cream cones or small trees put in a row.lol.
Edit 1:I just noticed that the grid is barely noticable with that color.In the next post I'll have that fixed.
Last edited by Avengeil; 09-04-2010 at 07:46 AM.
I did some work on the map.
The layout for the pit area is done and so are the fences that surround it,the stairs are also done too, I think I redid them three times until they finally came to this form and I've played with the brightness so that I can show that the pit is in on lower elevation than the rest.I have to flesh out a few details in the pit and them I'm going to proceed to the next map.
I'm calling this map finished.I'm quite happy with it and I guess it was my learning project with gimp.
Even though I say it's finished I might someday go back to it so feel free to post C&C.
Thanks to everyone for their useful tips.
Next up is encounter 1-2 The Hall of Ancestors
Also I'm wondering should I post all three maps together in the finished maps forum or should I post them one by one?
BIG tip, Always do bump maps and dodge/burn on a new layer set to 50% grey(or more than one layer if needed). This will keep your underlying objects from being directly modified and make it MUCH easier if you wish to add/change shadows in the future. For me, I always pick a light direction and use dodge on the direction the light is coming from and burn on the opposite side. I also think it would be a lot more consistent if all the objects have an outer glow, with the height of the object being being the basis for your size of the glow(ie, an football sized rock would have a smaller outer glow and a file cabinet would have a larger one. However, be careful with this so that you don't get the glow "to" big. Likewise, with your burn (again, on a 50% grey layer) it's nice to provide shadows away from the light source. Lot's a ways to deal with this, some more time consuming than others.
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jfrazierjr thanks for the comment which I think is going to be a big help but after reading it a few(read: quite enough) times I still haven't understood some parts of it. About the layer with the 50% grey I see that it would be soooo functional but is that layer supposed to be above the object that I want to dodge/burn or below it? And also, how will I not allow the rest of the grey layer to be seen?
Now about my map, I see now that I should have done many things different and that makes me happy because it means I'm improving. Actually I got carried away trying to show the different elevation levels on this map and stopped thinking completely about how the shadows should look.I'll have to pay more attention next time and I imagine that somebody could find in my map many different light sources.
About all the objects having outer glow I think that that would not look nice and I believe that if I were remaking the map I would have tried out applying bevels to the "elevated" rocks and pillars(although when I was doing them I had no idea what bevel was, I first heard about in a post of a dungeon wip that I was reading by accident).
And finally coming to a conclusion and trying to end my writing spree I am wondering about the difficult terrain triangles, if I should include them in the final version or not.Any ideas?
What you do for the 50% grey is create a new layer (I like to call it Shadows or something like that). Place this over the one you are working on. Fill it with hex color 808080 (I think that's the right one) and set this layer to OVERLAY mode. Now, if you use the burn tool on it the image will darken and vice versa if you dodge. It is the best way to do it - I just gave you the quick and dirty method.
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Ummm yea... DUH!! I kind of forgot the most important part! Thanks for the assist Jax. And yes, it IS the bet way to go since it means you never break your original objects. If you mess up, just paint the messed up area with 50% grey and it's fixed. As much as possible, try to avoid doing things that actually alter an underlying object. This also helps in cases where you want "just a little more" where you can duplicate the overlay layer and adjust the opacity downward if it's "too" much.
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Unlike many global law players, this old-school London firm has its very roots in the Asia-Pacific region. Founding partner William Harwood set up the firm in 1875 after having returned from practice in China.
And nearly 140 years on it is in China where the firm is making its most recent waves. In May 2013, the practice flung open the doors on a Beijing office, which is headed by commercial lawyer James Zhang, who is locally qualified and has done prior stints at US giant Baker & McKenzie and pre-merger Londoners Herbert Smith.
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Slide, founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, makes widgets that help people express themselves. The company took a big risk in 2006 when they gave users the ability to auto-insert slide shows into their MySpace pages and blasting bulletins out to all their friends. They did this by asking users to hand over their MySpace credentials, and doing all the hard work for them. This is a clear violation of MySpace's terms of service, though, and most people expected Slide to receive a cease and desist letter and/or get access turned off. But that never happened, and Slide's big bet has paid off. Slide has since evolved to offer a number of widgets. Users create and personalize widgets on Slide.com and can then use them on social networks, blogs and desktops.
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For the past several months, we've been having a lot of fun writing a series of small, self-contained web apps – branston, enigmamachine, octopus, and adhd, among others. One of the things I've been most enjoying is how easy we've got it. Ruby gives us so many libraries that taking an idea for a simple, focused app and turning it into working software is ridiculously easy – thin, eventmachine, sinatra, padrino, rails give us loads of support for whatever weird thing we want to do. It's a great environment to work in.
When we're building these kinds of applications, which are often meant as low-ceremony apps targeted at a very specific purpose, or as service utilities, a lot of the time we don't want to go through the hassle associated with a "normal" web app. Passenger and Capistrano make deployment really easy, but nothing can beat
gem install fooapp
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fooapp start
Essentially, all we want to do is daemonize a process with an integrated HTTP server – using Apache and Passenger as a daemonization container here would be big-time overkill.
Likewise, there are already a lot of great options for asynchronous processing in Ruby. There are lots of ways to spin off a new worker thread if your webapp needs to do something that's going to take a while – backgroundrb, dj, bj, starling, workling, daemons – and in general they work pretty well. One thing about them, though, is that they attempt to couple the resulting service implementation very tightly into your Ruby webapp. There might be occasions when you don't want that, or when you want to run a whole bank of service machines, or when you want to make your services accept input from things other than your Rails app, or…well, maybe you just want to expose a service via HTTP rather than via Drb, because it's a more generic way to do things.
So, let's say you'd like to fire up a persistent RESTful web service. It shouldn't be part of any other app, and you want it to be able to accept HTTP POST requests for service control. Maybe you need a skinny daemon – a daemonized Ruby process running inside a thin webserver.
The basic idea here is to use the thin webserver as a container for whatever app or service you want to run inside it. The whole thing can then be packaged as a rubygem, and you end up with an easily installable service which can be used by any programmer who can send an HTTP request – not just Rubyists.
Let's install jeweler and generate an example gem:
gem install jeweler
jeweler skinny_daemon_example
Note: I am keenly aware of all the current controversies surrounding gems, gemspecs, etc. The point of this post is to demonstrate the creation of a skinny daemon, not to take a position in the Gem Wars.
This gives us a skeletal gem structure to play with:
- lib/ - skinny_daemon_example.rb - test/ - helper.rb - test_skinny_daemon_example.rb LICENSE Rakefile README.rdoc
In the gem root folder, add a "bin" folder with a file called "skinny_daemon_example", then paste this code into the new file:
# bin/skinny_daemon_example
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Skinny daemon command line interface script.
# Run skinny_daemon_example -h to get more usage.
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../lib/skinny_daemon_example'
require 'thin'
rackup_file = "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../lib/skinny_daemon_example/config.ru"
argv = ARGV
argv << ["-R", rackup_file] unless ARGV.include?("-R")
argv << ["-p", "2003"] unless ARGV.include?("-p")
argv << ["-e", "production"] unless ARGV.include?("-e")
This is the startup script for our gem - and when you install the gem, it'll be installed on your system's PATH so you can run it to start our new app on the command line.
This thing is going to run as a rack application, so let's add a rackup file. Create a new folder in your gem's "lib" folder, and call it, once again, "skinny_daemon_example". Your file structure should now look like this:
The rackup file should contain this code:
# lib/skinny_daemon_example/config.ru:
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../skinny_daemon_example'
SkinnyDaemonExample.run! :port => 2003
Lastly, you can set up the basis of a RESTful web service. I find that the easiest way to do this is by using Sinatra, which gives us all the HTTP goodness we might need. It also provides the ability for us to build in any handy status or configuration screens we might want.
# lib/skinny_daemon_example.rb
require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra/base'
class SkinnyDaemonExample < Sinatra::Base
# This can display a nice status message.
get "/" do
"Your skinny daemon is up and running."
# This POST allows your other apps to control the service.
post "/do-something/:great" do
# something great could happen here
Let's build and install our gem. Add a gem.summary and gem.description in the Rakefile, and commit all the files to your git repo so that jeweler picks them up. Then go for it with the installation:
rake version:write
rake build
sudo rake install
That builds your gem. Once it's installed, you'll have a new command installed on your system. You should be able to type:
skinny_daemon_example start
and get a web service fired up and running on http://localhost:2003/.
If you wanted to run it as its own standalone process, rather than in a terminal you had to keep open, you could daemonize it like this:
skinny_daemon_example start -d
To stop it, you can issue:
skinny_daemon_example stop
from the same directory you started it in.
It might not seem like much, but think about what you've got now, in only a few lines of code:
- A RESTful web service which can take POST requests
- A daemon process which you can start and stop using its own command
- A miniature web site which you can use to display status messages or do configuration
- A packaged application which can be easily installed by anyone who's got Ruby
Because thin is based on eventmachine, you've also got all the event-driven programming power of eventmachine at your fingertips, opening up the possibilities of easy multi-threaded programming, highly concurrent applications using the reactor pattern, and things like timers and queueing systems. This is what we've done for enigmamachine - it's basically a skinny daemon which applies long-running ffmpeg commands to video files as a web service. Enigmamachine is a more detailed and advanced example of a skinny daemon, it might be worth checking out the sources and README if you're interested in learning more. At the very least, you'll get a feel for bundling sqlite so you've got a datastore, and starting an eventmachine thread pool to go multi-threaded.
If you'd like to see just the skinny_daemon_example code, take a look at the github repo.


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LMAO! Teela and Mer-Man rock!
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MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. -- The Hare Krishnas will host their first Festival of Colors from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 15 at the Palace of Gold.
Every two hours during the all-day party, there will be a unified "color throwing," where brightly colored organic chalk is thrown into the air in a tradition dating back thousands of years in India.
According to a news release, the festival, traditionally held in spring, celebrates the theme of Unity in Diversity, and is an opportunity for people to experience joy and to throw their worries to the wind.
The Festival of Colors is neither religious nor secular; it is a gathering of people united in the desire to celebrate life. There will be live music and a gourmet vegetarian meal. The festival package includes the meal, five color bags and a festival T-shirt.
New Vrindaban, home of the Palace of Gold, is located at 3759 McCreary's Ridge Road, Moundsville.
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PHILIPPI, W.Va. -- The historical Adaland Mansion, near Philippi, will celebrate Heritage Day from 11 a.m. from 5 p.m. Sept. 22 with bluegrass music, performances by the Mountain State Cloggers and tours of the house and barn.
Other activities scheduled include weaving and spinning and carding at the barn, sale of Barbour County Community Garden Market produce and sample tasting.


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B&B Cafe Hongu is a relaxing guest house and cafe located in front of Kumano Hongu Taisha-Shrine. Our guesthouse is a great place to stay after a day of trekking and exploring the World Hertiage of Kumano Kodo along the Kii Mountain Range. The cafe provides a perfect view of the famous Hongu Shrine in Wakayama.
The accommodation includes twin bed-rooms, cafe on the ground floor, personal breakfast time service and internet service.
- NameB&B Cafe Hongu
- LocationWakayama
- Type of AccommodationPension
- Room TypeWestern Only
- General Room InformationNot Applicable
- English Speaking Staff? Yes
- Other Languages SpokenJapanese
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- Room Rates ※Single person charge for twin room use is 7,000yen. ※Peak Season Rate : 6500yen~ 'Christmas/New year holiday/Golden week(beginning of may) Check-in/out : check-in:15:00 check-out:10:00
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- PrefectureWakayama
- City / Area田辺市 Tanabe 本宮町 Hongu
- Nearest Train StationJR紀伊田辺 JR Kiitanabe, JR新宮 JR Shingu
- Minutes from Station1時間 1hour
- Pick up service available? Not Applicable
- Nearest Expressway / Interchange Hanwa Expressway / Nankitanabe Interchange
- Nearest National RouteRoute168,Route311
- Getting ThereBy Car: Hanwa Exp.way(NankitanabeIC)⇒Route42⇒Route311(70min.from NankitanabeIC) By public transportation: JR Kiitanabe Sta.or Shirahama Sta.⇒Meiko Bus or Ryujin Bus (2hours) JR Shingu Sta.⇒Meiko Bus , Ryujin Bus or Kumano Kotsu Bus(1hour) We are in front of Hongu Taisha bus stop
- Map
- Google Map Link Click here for Google Map
- Travel HighlightsKumano Hongu Taisha Shrine=1min. :Walk Kumano Hayatama Taisha Shrine=45min. :Drive Kumano Nachi Taisha Shrine=60min. :Drive Koyasan=110min. :Drive Yunomine Onsen=5min. :Drive Kawayu Onsen=5min. :Drive Wataze Onsen=5min. :Drive
- ActivitiesHiking Cycling Kayaking Rafting HIking/Tramping Beach Art Museums
- Seasonal HighlightsSpring: Kumano Hongu Taisha Spring Festival April 13th-15th Nanakoshi Festival Summer: Nachi-no-Hi Matsuri Fire Festival Kumano Kodo Kiyohime festival Ogigahama Beach Festival August 12th Fall: Benkei Festival Lion dance of Nonaka
- OnsenYunomine Onsen Kawayu Onsen Wataze Onsen Katsuura Onsen Shirahama Onsen
Facilities & Services
- Meals Provided Yes,We searve meals in 1F Cafe.
- Onsen It takes 3minuites walk to closest Onsen.
- Internet Yes,Wireless Lan
- Laundry Facilities Not Applicable
- Pets Allowed Not Applicable
- Other Facilities Cafe Located on the ground floor
Contact Information
- Address127-2 Hongu Hongu-cho Tanabe-shi Wakayama
- Telephone0735-42-1130
- Fax0735-42-1130
- EmailSend email messages, questions or bookings through the Online Booking Request Form below.
- Web site http://bbcafehongu.blogspot.com
- Contact NameMotoko Nagakawa


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Committee Membership
Five-member Committee: four adjunct faculty elected by the McNichols adjunct faculty and one adjunct faculty member of the MFA selected by the MFA. Adjunct faculty must have taught at least four academic terms over the past five years to be eligible to be elected to this Committee.
5 faculty representatives
William Bowen, Computer and Information Systems, College of Liberal Arts & Education (term expires 3/2014)
Jamie Dylenski, Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Education (term expires 3/2014)
Kathy Stevens, Nursing, College of Health Professions (term expires 3/2014)
Carletta Griffin, College of Business Administration (term expires 3/2015)
TBA (MFA) (term expries 3/2015)
2013-2014 Charge
- Develop a table of contents that would summarize important links and resources for an "electronic" adjunct faculty handbook. In addition, identify gaps or missing material that could/should be created for the handbook to assist adjuncts.
- Meet with the Provost/VPAA and key university personnel to discuss adjunct status and needs.
Initial Organizational Structure and Tasks
- Determine Committee's organizational structure (offiers/leadership, e.g., chairperson, secretary, and/or other positions).
- Draft operational policies and procedures (e.g., frequency of meetings, who calls meetings), notification time of meetings (e.g., ten days), time period for distribution of agenda (e.g., five days), timeline for preparation and approval of meeting minutes.
- Establish procedures for keeping records of approved resolutions, determinations, advice, membership records and other actions.
- Draft general assessment process and goals for first year (to be updated annually).
- Include clear time limits for action on various issues as per paragraph 4 under "Further Details" of Shared Governance Task Force proposal as approved by the university community. See also language under section on MFA indicating "During the pilot period, stringent timelines will be established both for committee and MFA processes and actions."
- Deliberate and act on pending issues identified by the Vice President of Academic Affairs.
- Provide the Shared Governance Task Force with draft operational policies and procedures by December 1.
Ongoing Responsibilities
- Provide ongoing reports to and consultation with the MFA.
- Keep the university community informed of committee activities through providing summary minutes of meetings and reports posted to the shared governance website. The secretary of the committee is responsible for these postings and for informing Campus Connections of new postings.