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Is this Possible? 1 basement room with higher ceilings?
We have not consulted with an architect yet, but I keep trying to figure out how to make this happen. My plan is to have a 1 1/2 story with full basement. I would plan on my girls being in upstairs rooms and my almost 7 (so 9 or 10 when build complete) boy in basement room. I understand that most people wouldn't like having kids on different levels pike this, but it would be the best for my son who needs more private space more than most other kiddos. However all the rooms I have loved on Houzz/Pinteredt for him have had taller ceilings with a loft of sort built in. I already plan on using 9 or 10 ft ceilings for our walkout basement. Is there a way to have just one basement room have higher ceilings though?
I have tried to think about if I had a main floor room that could be stepped up, but not really thinking of anything great there. I have thought about if his room was "sunken" to achieve this higher ceiling, but not sure how great a few extra stairs down would be? I have also thought about if just the loft part had a higher ceiling? I am sure there could be a small section of the main floor that could be raised for this.
I know an architect would be the best one to consult for this, but we still are in the process of getting ready to list our house this coming spring....doesn't mean I can't dream now!
Also, I would probably want his bedroom on one of the back walls, so that it could have or be very close to a door. (not concerned about some of the same city safety issues others may be with this setup :). Maybe I could have his loft bump out from the main part of the house to get this height? Seems like that would be very expensive though?
Excited to heat anybody's thoughts on my crazy idea :)
Our basement ceilings were designed for 9' as we knew we were finishing the rooms down there...basement sq ft is the cheapest to add to the house as you are already building it.
We ran the ductwork in the conditioned space for energy efficiency, and rather than know where all the ductwork was, our architect cleverly created tray ceilings instead. It gives the feeling of height and space so the lower level is not a basement at all. So perhaps doing a tray ceiling may be a way to give you more height without having to raise the entire basement.
Also, to keep basement rooms from feeling like basement, windows and light are essential...besides being code as worthy points out.
Worthy. By window/door, I really meant that the room will have a full above ground wall on me side, rather than just a code minimum caement window.
Lol I don't think 10 ft ceiling will cramp his style, but I guess I don't really know how tall the rooms with the built in loft areas really are? Maybe they are only 10 ft at that height anyway? My son will be over 6 ft tall but probably not over 7 ft :)
It can just be hard knowing what all you can get in a space...
And while 10 ft ceilings would be nice...9 ft may be much more practical...especially if we do end up going ICF for the basement walls!
Any ceiling height is possible -there are no limits. Just as with above ground house floors there can be split levels sections open to above or what ever. The fact that it is technically called a basement is irrelevant. The only real considerations are cost and accessibility.
In DS's buddy's house, the basement under the addition is a couple steps down from the old part. It's their "active play" area, room for bouncing balls and swords LOL! The steps down are actually kind of nice, declaring it a separate space, and when you walk in you feel the room open up, yet the "sunken" feel is cozy.
Perhaps you could do a combination, sunken room with a raised ceiling?
Bpathome...Thanks! This is about the best solution I have thought of ... If I did it, I could have that side of the basement a step down and have an exercise room with basketball hoop, etc in there. I can't imagine that an extra 3 ft high on about 12-15 feet width *depth of the house would be THAT costly...LOL.
Bpathome...Thanks! This is about the best solution I have thought of ... If I did it, I could have that side of the basement a step down and have an exercise room with basketball hoop, etc in there. I can't imagine that an extra 3 ft high on about 12-15 feet width *depth of the house would be THAT costly...LOL.


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So... I recently stumbled across a super sweet craigslist deal. I found a guy parting with 3 legit (according to the seller) sanke kegs for 50 bucks! I couldn't believe it. I wasn't fully ready to make the plunge to a full on AG rig yet, but I couldn't pass up the deal... Here is my dilemma. http://www.homebrewtalk.com/images/smilies/drunk.gif
I own a Hobart Handler 140 and I am just learning the fine art of welding. I currently have a 75/25 tank and standard steel wire (.30). I have been reading a little bit about welding on stainless. I have read that for smaller jobs a 75/25 shielding gas setup isn't ideal, but it will work. Will my welder even handle the job? How do I "back gas" with this type of welder?
My question is... should I attempt to weld my fittings myself or go with the weld-less? How big of a difference am I really looking at? I need some opinions.
Also has anyone had any issues with using and standard 7/8" hole saw versus a step bit for the holes? I am trying to keep the cost down as much as possible; and step bits are pricey!
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get a step bit from harbor freight. not too expensive. I've read that a hole saw will distort your hole in the round shape of the keg into more of an oval.
i had one weld on my keg done by a welding grad student. he had done SS before, but we didnt do it just right and it works, but looks kinda crappy. i would do a bunch of test welds first to make it near perfect, or go weldless. i'm going weldless from now on just for ease of install.
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i used a carbide .875 hole-saw... high feed rate (pressure) and cutting fluid. to weld, you need 100% argon, and a spool of ER304L or ER316L wire. like aluminum, it won't be as pretty as tig. if you get the wire and gas, practice on the lid cutout if you have it. the weldless bulkhead is only ~$40 to get all stainless except the locknut.
btw. nice machine. it appears to have aluminum windings. looks like the next gen peacemaker gun too.
To back gas just buy you a Y with sht-offs used for Oxy tank. Same threads. Run some cheap clear tubing to a small piece of refrige copper on the end. Use foil tape to make a pouch and tape around the copper. Thead a plug into coupling a few threads and go for it. Never had trouble using a hole saw.
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I've asked this question at work and the answer they gave me was that TIG welder will make a MUCH nicer weld than a MIG welder. Especially on something that is thin like a keg.
My 2 cents.
No doubt TIG is best, but if all one has is MIG, it will work. The advantage of TIG is being able to put the heat where you want it.
want wire? i have two spools of .030 and ~.025 ish wire. don't need it now that i have a tig.
edit: looking at the specks for you machine .030 would be best. not enough feed to run .023
Wow... ask and ye' shall receive. Thanks for all the tips. I have learned, in the short time I have been welding, that the ugliest weld can be made beautiful with an angle grinder and some patience. I end up re-shaping all my welds anyway. I just don't want to blow a hole in my beautiful keg or get it all done and have a weak weld or a leak. I would love to buy a TIG welder... but lets be real. Its just not in the cards at this point. So... I am going to try a few welds out on the cut out with the MIG and see what happens. It will give me a chance to play around with the back gas concept too.
Has anyone posted anything video-wise regarding MIG welding stainless? Maybe I'll try a tutorial if all goes well.
Good call on the harbor frieght thing. I didn't even think about them. I just checked lowes the other day and saw a $40 pricetag. I will definately check it out.
lincoln.... heck yeah I would like some wire. PM me.
also depending on scrap availability in your area a few of the on line metal stores have selector/sample packs of different sheet for a few $. i live in the south sf bay, there is lots of junk yards and metal suppliers so it has never been a problem to get practice material.
mig is mostly like a glue gun, the trick is to do test pieces to dial your settings in before you do one for real. get the same thickens and position for your test pieces.
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A female singer who was rejected as Ukraine's entry in the Eurovision song contest has been selected to compete on Russia's behalf, the BBC said. Ukrainian singer Anastasia Prikhodko, 21, will represent Russia in the May competition in Moscow where she will sing her song Mama, which has both Russian and Ukrainian lyrics.
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The Black Mamo (Drepanis funerea), was discovered in 1893 in the Pelekuna Valley, on the island of Molokai, where it was once found in the high forests of the peaks. There is fossil evidence of this species on the island of Maui. It was shot down many times for collections because of what the bird looked like. Being eight inches long from tail tip to the end of is bill, it was a large bird, but was not as large as the former species of Mamo, the Hawaiian Mamo. It was shadowy black with...
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The open Dutch landscape with dikes and canals. Indeed very open, so with cycling here, take the wind into account !
Best rent a bike in the centre of Amsterdam, and take the ferry across the IJ behind Central Station. You'll first have to cycle through some urban parts before entering rural areas. By the way, the name " Waterland " dates from medieval times, so it's not invented for tourists !
Official tourist information : www.vvv-waterland.nl
Over the millennia the natural landscape here was formed not only by rivers and the sea, like in most parts of Holland, but also by Ice Age glaciers and wind. Resulting in the objective fact that nowhere else in the Netherlands will you find such a variation in scenery within this short distance.
Along the rivers the classic Dutch pastures with cows, lakes and wetlands. Merging into higher sandy grounds covered with woods and heather plains.
And all over, an overwhelming amount of historical points of interest. Relics from prehistoric man, through Middle Ages to modern times.
See the google map in "Where".
To visit this region you can cycle out of Amsterdam, but this adds considerable urban mileage to your trip. See How to get there, section "cycling all the way".
More practical is to take a train to get out of the city, and rent a bicycle in one of the nearby towns.
The first bike rental in south-eastern direction is at the station in Weesp, a good 15 minutes from Amsterdam Central.
Next one, if you continue in direction Hilversum, is at station Naarden-Bussum, not far from fortified Naarden and the woods & heather plains of the Gooi region.
Next rental at Hilversum (central), train travel time 20 - 35 minutes from Amsterdam, depending on whether you take a local train or intercity.
All rentals in the Netherlands ask for an ID, and a caution, generally 50 EUR per (standard) bike.
Whereas in Amsterdam various sizes and children bikes are available, smaller rentals like in Weesp have only adult bicycles. Suitable for persons with a body length of about 160 cm (5.2 ft) and up, they claim. But to be on the safe side, I'd say 165 cm and up. Also depending a bit on length of legs, and cycling confidence.
Another difference between Amsterdam and the smaller rentals is that while in Amsterdam you generally can use a credit card for that 50 EUR caution per bike, the smaller ones often accept cash only. Also the number of rental bikes is limited, so it's wise to call and check, see list of (station bike rentals).
With a guided bike trip, this is of course arranged for you.
Bike helmets are NOT supplied here. Naturally, always saver to wear a helmet, but it's not mandatory, and not usual in Holland. Except for racers and small children.
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Im happy that you guys a riot gave us new players a chance to buy some of the kool old school skins...I just have one request... I would love to own that Kitty Kat Katarina skin... Still thanks for the shot at the others though...I also know people are going to be like wtf kat just got a new skin for snowdown... I am aware of this, but as a kat player i have only wanted the Kitty Kat Skin please please please give us a chance to buy that one riot...
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Why riot why no kitty katarina!!!!
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Talk of success may be misleading, as US makes significant gains
On my return from Moscow I found that the US consensus in regard to the outcome of the United States-Russia summit (except for some mild criticism from the Republican right wing and Democratic human rights activists) was of a mutually beneficial accord. But the actual results of the recent summit games are now beginning to emerge from the fog of polite rhetoric and the aura of "success".
The US developed a clever plan to frame the summit as a cooperative success and distract observers by placing the discussions about the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start) in the spotlight. With most attention focused on the "success" of the unsubstantial agreement to reduce several hundred redundant missiles and warheads, the US was free to achieve strategic goals.
On the "hard power" military front, the US gave up nothing and achieved three strategic concessions on behalf of the Russians: cooperation in the consolidation of US military presence in Russia's southern military zone in Afghanistan and Pakistan; agreement on 4,500 US military flights across Russia to supply the Afghanistan-Pakistan operations; and Russia-Nato military cooperation.
Under Obama, the US military presence on Russia's Central Asian flank is proceeding at a ferocious pace. The appointment of Richard Holbrooke, the former US ambassador to Nato who orchestrated Nato's attack on Yugoslavia, as envoy to the region is indicative of Obama's intentions. No area is more strategically important than the "Af-Pak" [Afghanistan-Pakistan] project, which positions US troops within the zone fronting on Iran, China, and Russia's Central Asia.
The importance of the over-flights should be lost on no one. Russian military analysts who dismiss it because there are "no strategic targets in the area" miss the point. With the announcement by US defence secretary Robert Gates on December 1, 2008, that he will elevate "irregular warfare" to the level of "conventional warfare", the US administration declared a dramatic upgrade in its infiltration, destabilisation and proxy-war capacity. For the new American irregular warfare approach, it is the ability to map small terrain, analyse civilian traffic patterns and read local radar systems that will be key to the next round of US operations across Russia's southern flank, from the Crimea to Kyrgyzstan.
America's growing activity and its reaching out to new "moderate" (ie, collaborationist) Taliban, nationalist and other movements will inevitably be linked to a broader pattern of anti-Russian activity by local nationalist and Islamic movements, and for this the intelligence gained from over-flights will be invaluable. That Russia reserves the right to inspect any plane is irrelevant – any important "contraband" going into Af-Pak can easily be flown in from Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan or via southern routes.
In spite of the myth that Obama represents a positive new environment, he has kept all the aggressive initiatives launched by Donald Rumsfeld and Gates, including Nato expansion, the Nato military exercises in Georgia, the agreement to place Patriot missiles in Poland and military enhancement in the Baltic states. He refused to forego the ballistic missile defence and radar systems in Poland and the Czech Republic.
"Soft power" support for civil society structures should not be confused with "weak power". In fact it was through the soft power (the so-called colour revolutions, in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan) that brought significant countries formerly allied with Russia into alignment with Nato. The resulting regional instability has not been beneficial to either American or Russian long-term interests. The future of these hard- and soft-power projects is unclear, but they will certainly colour the US-Russian relations for years to come.
- Alfred Ross is an attorney and president of the New York-based Institute for Democracy Studies.


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October 25th, 2010 #61
Every time i need a quick kick in the ass i check out Feng Zhu's free tutorials on his youtube channel, very good stuff in there.
Hide this ad by registering as a memberNovember 3rd, 2010 #62
I feel so shitty today.... All my stuff sucks lol. No one comments in my sketchbook.... I hope I feel better tomorow
November 24th, 2010 #63
Do people (OHI, in particular) find sometimes that it's only fun when they're doing what they consider 'good' works? All I can say is to throw that thought out of the mental window. I believe it was mentioned on another thread that it doesn't matter if you have a few 'crap' ones, or what you might consider a handful.
Because, if you put your all into a session, then you should have nothing to worry about. At all.
It helps to clear your mind and direct your thinking- if it's clouded with the 'this is shit, I fail' cobweb, then you need Raz to go into your mind and clear them all out with a duster. </psychonautsreference>. That's all they are- cobwebs, dusty old 'thought processes' that block and dirty your thought track. It doesn't get you anywhere.
I kid, you can de-cobweb yourself. Like the OP said, it's all a matter of will. I.e you 'will' do it, or you won't. If there are 'crap' bits everywhere you look in your drawings, it's just a matter of really thinking about and identifying WHAT you think is 'crap'. Then think about how you can tackle it (research, post for crits)- and the next time you try, you might find you not only get better, but feel better enough to play and have fun as well.
*taken from another thread*
If you have a short attention span, work on it by doing little things at a time. Don't expect yourself to be able to sit and work for several hours (let alone days) solid, just cut it up into bits. Say- if you want to do a painting, learn how to speedpaint, and work on two or three, one after another, while your mind is still fresh. Then you can learn to be more disciplined in your work ethic, as you can be sure that you can work well in short bursts.
Attention spans can grow, but interest for art is entirely that- down to interest. If your interest is waning so much that you can't bear to sit and draw anything at all, your best bet is to give up. If you really, really want to do art deep down, and you're not sure, then sit and write down all the things that you like about doing it. Really think about it.
Then it's just a case of tackling the issues that come with it. Think about it as nurturing a child.
Most of all- ask yourself if you have fun with it, or if you want to have fun with it. Then find out how!
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November 24th, 2010 #64
Yes, Feng Zhu has this positive effect on people. For several weeks I just can't wait for Monday to come to see his new video. Better than every show on tv.
January 18th, 2011 #65
I must confess to having a major self-discipline issue when it comes to drawing, especially when I have to draw something that I don't find particularly interesting for the sake of training. I know on a cognitive level that I will have to draw mundane, boring subject matter (e.g. still lifes of everyday objects) if I want to get better, but it's not as fun as drawing, say, dinosaurs.
Everything is better with dinosaurs.
January 26th, 2011 #66
wow this is awesome ... enough reading material, followed by self reflection is what I needed to get them gears running again.
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January 28th, 2011 #67
wow, great thread.
What I read in "Algenpfleger's Rant" really rings true for me. I remember reading smth quite similar to that, stating, that the internal change you have to go thru is at least as important as the external changes.
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November 6th, 2012 #72
I see here people saying that making bad drawings isn't that bad. But what makes me scared to make something bad, is that teachers say that only a bit of my work is good, and the rest is crap. So I am not allowed to make crap. I should make continue great work, which I just can't. (who can? only great artists, which I'm not).
Maybe having no sketchbook anymore, and only using loose papers will help, so I can throw away all the bad things (but not too much, or they will say I don't work)
November 7th, 2012 #73
@xNatje, your teachers should not be making you scared. That's not helpful. Do they at least explain why your work is crap? Great artists became great progressively, through learning, which you also can do.
November 12th, 2012 #74
They explain it very vague (or at least, I don't understand it always). It's mostly not about proportions or composition, but about the content. And that is a difficult part of me. All I want is to create beautiful work.
November 23rd, 2012 #75
@xNatje , no work is "crap". Even work that doesn't live up to expectations is GOOD work... it is practice, and mistakes are healthy. You learn from them, and you practice more and more until you work through it, then you make more mistakes. Never pretend they didn't happen and squirrel them away, or worse, throw them out. To me there is little more satisfying than finding an old sketchbook and comparing it to recent works, to see how much you've grown.
The last thing you want is to be too afraid to draw because you are scared you will create "crap"!! Just let it all out... let the mistakes happen!! Because if you just freeze up every time you think something isn't going to come out perfect, you will stagnate! Trust me, no matter how good you are, you will always see mistakes in your work. There would be a whole lot less awesome artwork in the world if every artist didn't produce just because they saw something in their work they weren't happy with.
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November 26th, 2012 #76
That was exactly the problem. I didn't see any growth. now the last weeks I see growth, because I went back to my roots. It's there I found myself back. Nothing is worse then hearing (and seeing it yourself) that your newer work is worse then your older. Now I finally feel that my work gets a bit better again. I'm a bit more proud again, though there are still things that could get better ofcourse.
How comes we don't see mistakes in great artist's work? I wonder if they feel/felt the same way.
January 16th, 2013 #77
Inspirational post from Tracy J Butler: http://lackadaisycats.tumblr.com/pos...-to-make#notes
March 14th, 2013 #78
someone sent me this link a couple of days ago and i thought i'd share it here as i feel it echoes what has said numerous amount of time on this forum.
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January 30th, 2014 #80
I really love this forum because it helps out a lot of artists in a nice way (constructive criticism, etc.). Thank you for posting this.
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So, I can't help but have these self-destructive feelings while I draw. Usually, it's some kind of sick feeling in my stomach, mostly caused by fear of making something that looks bad, or ugly. I know consciously that even making bad artwork is still a step towards progression, but mere knowledge doesn't stop those feelings from bubbling inside me and compulse me to not draw when I'm not feeling very positive about it.
Don't get me wrong; every day, I spare at the very least 15 minutes for drawing. But as someone who'd prefer to be able to consistently spare two hours at minimum, it's rather worrying.
It's just too bad that people can't just shut off their feelings like they could flip a switch. Would be nice to be able to only be self-critical AFTER a drawing has been made :/
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September 18th, 2014 #83
This is so awesome, I will read an item every time I feel like quitting, thank you very much!
2 Weeks Ago #84
Do people actually have fun drawing? I can't remember the last time I did.
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I have to work. I can't live unless I do. I have to go back and I just don't want to. I'm getting more depressed every day thinking of going back there next week.
JYG, I understand your need to hang on to your job. I don't know where you live, but I heard on the news last night that the unemployment rate in this state is at 16%, the highest in almost 20 years.
I have read some of your posts on other threads, so am somewhat aware of some of the problems you have been having. Hang in as long as you can since it's a matter of putting food on your table, just keep looking elsewhere. Something may turn up when and where you least expect it.
Try to think of the ones who are making your life miserable as being the ones with the problem. When you have to look at them, let your eyes see them as standing there naked and maybe that will help lighten your load and bring a smile to your face. Wouldn't that make them wonder?....
If at all possible, try to see a doctor about your depression. If you have no medical insurance, most areas have low cost clinics, or even free, depending on your income. Be honest with them (nurses, doctors) about your work problems and the stress it is causing you. That in itself could be a form of networking - one of them might know of someone who is looking for a good employee.
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Search marketing presents similar challenges, SEMPO report finds.
Agencies and in-house marketers claim measuring return on investment is their primary challenge in the social media marketing space, according to research by Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization (SEMPO). Despite its perceived accountability, the report also found similar issues in gauging the success of search marketing efforts.
"The State of Search Engine Marketing Report," compiled by Econsultancy, surveyed 1,472 in-house marketers and agency executives during January and February this year, and concluded measuring ROI and "making a business case for investment" were the two biggest hurdles respondents faced when managing social media campaigns.
Of those surveyed, 63 percent of the in-house marketers identified ROI measurement as one of their "greatest challenges," compared with 58 percent of agency respondents. Both groups also reported difficulties in making a business case for investment and gaining access to budgets for social media campaigns. Agencies and marketers identified brand awareness, customer engagement, and site traffic metrics as their most important metrics for gauging the success of such efforts, but the report did not detail how that data was tracked.
Facebook and Twitter were cited as the primary social media sites that respondents use to promote their businesses or clients. Interestingly, 73 percent of companies reported using Twitter to promote their brand in the 2010 survey, but the service did not register in the top 10 social networks listed in the 2009 report, demonstrating Twitter's massive growth in the past 12 months. In that period, Facebook appears to have dropped off slightly, with 83 percent claiming to make use of it in 2009 and 74 percent doing so this year.
In addition, the report found similar issues in the paid search space, with 43 percent of respondents highlighting ROI measurement as a primary challenge, compared with 40 percent of agency representatives. Results were similar for search engine optimization (SEO), with 42 percent of companies and 40 percent of agencies making the same claim, respectively.
In the paid search space, respondents also reported a clear improvement in ROI from Microsoft's Bing engine - more so than market leader Google - suggesting the company's investment in the product may have improved its offering. Among agency respondents, 88 percent said their ROI from Bing has stayed the same or improved over the past year, compared with 80 percent for Google and 68 percent for Yahoo. In-house marketers had similar experiences, with 83 percent reporting similar or improved results through Bing, compared with 78 percent through Google and 73 percent via Yahoo.
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Simple Object Query Interface for JSON Array
#SOQ Simple Object Query Interface for JSON Array
It's not going to be anther JSON Database. SOQ is made to find pure JSON Objects in a more elegant and unobstructive way. It may be extended to act as middle layer between client and server DB.
##Query Language We accept a simple string a query conditions. And at least you shuold tell the query object which type of objects you want to find.
var query = Query.build({
type: "vehicle",
conditions: "name = 'Ford'"
In fact, the query interface have learned a bunch of condition types:
- =
- >=
- >
- <=
- <
- !=
And these condition operators are straightfoward.
It also should be noted that the value of a condition can be:
- Numbers: 1,2,3,0.5,1.4…
- Strings: "Hello", "Nice",…
- Reserved Words: true, false, null, undefined
What's more you can pass mutiple conditions:
conditions: "name = 'Ford' and age > 3 or price < 1000"
Maybe you are wondering the priority of condtions. Yes, we don't support group conditions with parenthesises currently, which I have added into my TODO list. Anyway, I simply treat the former condition as the one with higher priority for now.
##Store In most of time, you don't deal with Query class directly. A Store Class is provided as gateway to access your data;
A simple use case:
var store = new Store();
"name": "Ford",
"type": "vehicle"
"name": "BMW",
"type": "vehicle"
"name": "Bike",
"type": "other"
And then, we find what we want in this store:
var r = store.find({
type: "vehicle",
conditions: "name BEGINS_WITH 'B'"
//result is always in form of an array
//r[0].name == "BMW"
Also a getting-all-of-we-have method:
var all = store.all("vehicle");
//all.length === 2
Feel free to modify the objects you find in the store. But in the future, updating a record will be taken seriously with a specialized update method.
Removing a record:
store.remove(r[0]);//BMW is gone from our store!
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Originally published on Tue August 14, 2012 6:10 pm
Last Friday, when Tammy Smith was promoted to Army brigadier general, her wife, Tracey Hepner, was the one who pinned her star on her uniform.
With that, Smith became the first openly gay general in the country. When Smith joined the military 26 years ago, the moment would have been unthinkable. But she explains the historic moment by focusing on its simplicity.
In an interview with Talk of Nation guest host Lynn Neary, she said the moment has been spun as her coming out. But she says that when the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" came down on Sept. 20, she didn't run out to tell everyone she was gay.
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Unit 1 was a Whirlpool. Units 2,3 and 4 were GE. I really don't want to spend 1,000 plus for a Santa Fe because it will only get light use. Has anyone had a better experience with these beasts that they would be willing to make a recommendation?
Thank you.
Frigidaire FAD704DUD. Prices vary widely. Some online sellers have better prices than others.
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- Overall Length:4.625"
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Canis Canem Edit: Discovering Gaming Greatness
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For a start, Canis Canem Edit takes place in a much smaller game world than San Andreas. The state of San Andreas is vast, comprising three major cities, several smaller towns, and all manner of terrain including open fields, mountains and deserts. By contrast, the town of Bullworth is probably around half the size of any one of San Andreas' main cities. Rather than producing a sprawling map with a lot of empty spaces, the developers created a small map packed with detail, encouraging and rewarding exploration without alienating the player with open areas of nothingness. This really pays off for Canis Canem Edit, because you never feel removed from the experience; there's always something to engage with, or somewhere to explore. The game world feels tight and focused, which is a major factor in successfully drawing the player in. Part of the problem with San Andreas for me was that it didn't have this focus, because it was always more interested in constantly bombarding the player with the bigger picture, and thus didn't offer the same level of immersion that can be found in Canis Canem Edit.
Further contributing to this feeling of a tight, focused product is the high standard of writing present in the game. Bullworth Academy may be a stereotypical high school, but it's a stereotypical high school with a difference. Sure, you have your standard cliques; the nerds, the jocks, the preppies, the bullies, etc. But each of these cliques is a memorable entity in its own right - can anybody who's played Canis Canem Edit honestly say interacting with the nerds wasn't hilarious? Then there are the adults, who in my opinion just make this game. Who could ever forget the outrageous and disgusting Cook? Or teachers like Galloway and Hattrick? Yes, it's all ripped straight from stereotypes, but it's saved by Rockstar's tendency to satire. The dialogue is sharp and funny at all times, and the characters and cliques are well-realised too. Perhaps most importantly, the game features an interesting protagonist in the form of Jimmy Hopkins, and an equally interesting antagonist in Gary Smith. I'm not saying San Andreas isn't well written. I still think it is. But, once again, it tries to cover too much scope. The Los Santos portion of the game is wonderfully executed, so it's a real shame that the story and characters stop being interesting once you leave. Furthermore, Carl Johnson isn't really an interesting character, especially when compared with Jimmy, or even Vice City's Tommy Vercetti.
It's not just in these areas that Canis Canem Edit trumps San Andreas for me, either. The gameplay shows a number of marked improvements and refinements to the established formula that ultimately just make it a lot more fun to play. Being set in the school environment makes for some really interesting gameplay changes, most of which is reflected in the game's combat system. The hand-to-hand combat is way more fleshed out than the system seen in any of the GTA games on PS2, with a large number of melee combos at Jimmy's disposal. Even the weapons, like the Slingshot and the Spud Cannon, are a lot of fun to use and feel well-balanced in terms of the power-to-ammo ratio. The missions are a hell of a lot of fun, too. Before your time with the game is over, you'll have stolen knickers from the girls' dorm for a pervy Gym teacher, taken incriminating photos of the most popular girl in school, and even tagged Town Hall. Not to mention all the clique related, taking-over-the-school stuff, complete with some really awesome action sequences made even better by the satisfying combat. As with everything else in San Andreas beyond the opening chapter, very few of the missions you undertake seem to have any real focus. Why is stealing a military fighter plane important in terms of freeing your brother from prison? By contrast, everything you do in Canis Canem Edit seems relevant in terms of your interests; that is to say, trying to take control of the various cliques and rule the school while keeping the staff sweet along the way. Maybe it's also because San Andreas is so long - easily a thirty- to forty-hour experience, compared with Canis Canem Edit's fifteen-hour-long main story.
More than anything, though, it's the little touches that give Canis Canem Edit the edge. Throughout this blog, I've been comparing San Andreas' combination of grand scope and lack to focus to Canis Canem Edit's smaller game world and greater attention to detail, and this is what it all boils down to. Canis Canem Edit is filled with little things that make you stop playing and silently congratulate the developers for crafting something so lovingly. Watching the students of Bullworth Academy go about their daily business, attending classes, stopping in the corridors for a quick chat, bullying and being bullied, makes you realise just how much effort Rockstar put into bringing this world to life. What makes it even better is that you're able to do all this too, and so much more besides. The school scenario opens up so many possibilities to do things that will make you giggle uncontrollably for prolonged periods of time. There's just something about throwing marbles under the feet of an old lady, or pulling the school fire alarm for kicks, or throwing a stolen textbook back at its owner that just never gets old. In a ten minute period of game time the other day, I witnessed a same-sex couple holding hands as they walked down the street, saw an old lady riding a moped complete with crash helmet, and heard a nerd say something like, "I'm a really good kisser, I've practised for years on my arm." Bullworth is a world you will get lost in, whether you want to or not, and it's these little touches that make that possible.
If you're a fan of the Grand Theft Auto franchise, you may be thinking that a lot of these points could also be used to describe Rockstar's latest foray into open-world action gaming, Grand Theft Auto IV. It too is a game that sacrifices a wide scope and jack-of-all-trades attitude in favour of a much tighter, more focused gaming experience tied to a well-crafted, character-driven story. It too attempts to refine the gameplay experience and craft a living, breathing world bursting with interesting little details. All these things seem to have been carried over from lessons learned by Rockstar in the creation and execution of Jimmy Hopkins' story. In this respect, Canis Canem Edit can be seen as a stepping stone towards GTAIV, and much more of a spiritual predecessor than San Andreas ever was. By looking at Canis Canem Edit in this way, it becomes even easier to appreciate its importance and also its brilliance.
So there's my two cents on Canis Canem Edit, and why I'm willing to fight its corner when it comes to naming the best of the best on PS2. Thanks for reading, guys. See you around.
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I didn't want my students to listen passively to 20 minutes of Mahler, so I assigned each of them instruments, and I would conduct them, signaling when it was time for each instrument to drop out. We played the music loudly, and to my surprise the students started playing, in pantomime, their instruments with genuine earnestness. When all the instruments had finished playing and the music had stopped, we all shared a stunned silence. Mahler had indeed made the only sound worthy of what humans would suffer in the modern world.
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WASHINGTON,DC (Catholic Online) - "What's Wrong with the Modern World" was the name of the course, and over 25 students from Mercer University Atlanta signed up to read Romano Guardini, George Steiner, Paul Johnson, Wilfred Owen, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce on the unraveling of Western culture that began with World War I.
But we did not merely read. We studied the paintings of Kandinsky, Klimt, Duchamp, and Picasso; read aloud from the plays of Becket, Buchner, and Brecht; traced the revolution in architecture from Gropius through Bauhaus to Frank Lloyd Wright; charted the influence of Darwin, Marx, and Freud; and shuddered through documentaries of the Holocaust, Stalin's purges, and his deliberate starvation of 3,000,000 Ukranians.
We had begun with the poems of Yeats, but it wasn't long before his famous line, "the center does not hold," began to sound like an understatement. The senseless warfare between the trenches at Somme; the materialistic reduction of the human person to Eros seeking Death; the death of freedom under the banner of human brotherhood; the sudden titillation with atheism - all combined to let loose years of human "relocation," humiliation, and slaughter that the so-called civilized world refused to see, until it was too late.
As the culture critic described in his still haunting essay "To Civilize Our Gentlemen," German officers read Goethe and listened to Bach at night while gassing and dismembering thousands of Jews each day. Steiner raised the central question of the class, "How can we say that a liberal arts education makes us better, when the most highly educated - at the German gymnasium - men and women in 1930's Europe, would willingly participate in the creation of hell on earth?"
Such a question cannot be answered, of course, but it's imperative that we keep asking it. Why? As a reminder of the weakness and malleability of human nature. After all, we are not even a century away from the darkest decade in human history, 1935-45. The only answer, the only appropriate answer, seemed to be a kind of silence.
But as we approached the end of the course, we realized that the silence we had reached was a loss of speech, not a total loss of sound. I had recently listened to the conductor Leonard Bernstein's Norton Lectures at Harvard where he had used the finale to Mahler's 9th Symphony to illustrate not only a final protest against the loss of tonality in music but also the grief of a civilization on the brink of falling apart. The 9th was the last symphony Mahler completed, and the fourth movement, an adagio, begins as an elegy to the past but ends in a deathly whisper into the silence. One by one the instruments of a large orchestra stop playing until there is only a string quartet, which plays towards a hardly audible end.
I didn't want my students to listen passively to 20 minutes of Mahler, so I assigned each of them instruments, and I would conduct them, signaling when it was time for each instrument to drop out. We played the music loudly, and to my surprise the students started playing, in pantomime, their instruments with genuine earnestness. When all the instruments had finished playing and the music had stopped, we all shared a stunned silence. Mahler had indeed made the only sound worthy of what humans would suffer in the modern world.
As I turned around to open the door, I saw the hall was filled with other students and teachers who had watched our concert through the window. "I don't believe you got them to do that," one of my colleagues said. "If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't believe it." Though I appreciated the compliment, I myself was not surprised at what we had shared. This was a group of students who I invited on a journey, and none of them lagged behind.
� Deal W. Hudson, Ph.D
Deal W. Hudson is president of the Morley Institute of Church and Culture, Senior Editor and Movie Critic at Catholic Online, and former publisher and editor of Crisis Magazine.This column and subsequent contributions are an excerpt from a forthcoming book. Dr. Hudson's new radio show, Church and Culture, is heard on the Ave Maria Radio Network.
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Are you sick and tired of having to wait for 20 programs to load while starting up your computer?
Click Start.
Click Run.
Type in "msconfig" (without the quotes) and click OK.
Click the "Startup" tab (should be the second from the right)
You will see a list of programs with checkmarks by them (and some unchecked).
ONLY uncheck the programs you recognize and want to stop from starting up when you boot your computer. Some of the items are system files you don't want to mess with.
Click OK.
Follow the instructions, and reboot your computer.
And you're done.


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|Hospital Quality
|Appointments & Offices
Key things you need to know aboutDr. Dash:
Dr. Dash's Experience
Research training, expertise and qualifications
Dr. Dash's Specialties
- Nephrology
- View 1 specialty and 2 board certifications
Procedures Dr. Dash Performs
- Hemodialysis
- Peritoneal Dialysis
Conditions Dr. Dash Treats
- Acute Kidney Failure
- Calcium Metabolism Disorders
- See all 26 conditions
More About Dr. Dash's Background
Hospital Quality
The right hospital is as important as the right doctor
- Saint Elizabeth's Medical Center
- 736 Cambridge Street
- Brighton, MA 02135
9 Facts About Hospital Quality
Patients' risk of dying during a hospital stay for heart bypass surgery could be 85.2% lower, on average, at a hospital rated 5 stars compared to a hospital rated 1 star for that procedure. Choosing the right hospital is critical to your health. View Slideshow
Appointments & Offices
Check insurance plans, locations and make an appointment
Accepting new patients?
- Yes
- SMG Women's Health Taunton
- SMG Women's Health Taunton
- 170 Governors Ave
- Medford, MA 02155
- Dialysis Clinic, Inc.
- Dialysis Clinic, Inc.,
- 56 Winthrop St Ste B
- Concord, MA 01742
7 Tips to Prepare for Your Appointment
The key to a successful appointment is communication. To get the most out of your visit, prepare ahead of time so you can lead the conversation with your doctor. These 7 tips will get you ready
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