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Well that changes a lot of things! Folks, get over to downlinens and get your 950 hyperdry! The price for a pound is pretty reasonable IMHO. If you really don't need a full pound, then no...
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First time to Germany? Germany is a pretty central, easy place to get to other places in Europe from. You would only be a few hours drive to Austria and Switzerland for example (google maps says...
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Bugger, that is a bit small for me. I'd have to order a new hipbelt. Oh well, best of luck John!
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I met a guy who will put a sight glass, thermometer, ball valve and false bottom on my keg (which already has top cut) for $165. He buys all the parts. Is this a fair price?
Is he going to do welds? If they are sanitary it's worth it. Maybe so if not. I know weldless bulkheads cost at least $20-30, a stainless valve may be like $15, a thermometer cost maybe $30 and i haven't priced a sight glass.
Assuming all stainless:
3 bulkheads - $60-$90
Thermometer- $30
Valve - $15
Nipple, hose fitting - $7
sight glass ~ $30?
false bottom ~ $30
Just an approximation off the top of my head, it's probably in the ball park.
Take me drunk, I'm home!
therm-sight combo from brew hardware (weldless though) is 43 bucks. ball valve is 7 bucks. the SS false bottoms run 50 bucks and up depending on dip-tube options and such. so roughly 100+ for the parts which means 65- for the labor.
i'm not sure how much welding generally costs, but that seems like it is a fair price to me. i wold make sure you know for certain what parts he's buying (so you don't get crap), and that he knows how to do good welds.
Throw in a sixer and ask him to come down on the price a bit. It may work or it may not but it's worth a try!
and like others said make sure he know how to make the proper welds.
This is his post:http://chicago.craigslist.org/wcl/for/2256415999.html

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[Champion Concept] Ryuujin, the Half-Dragon
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[Champion Concept] Ryuujin, the Half-Dragon
Ryuujin represents a group of mysterious nomads that dwells in Mount Targon. Few is known about them, some of the few witnesses assures they have a strengh impossible for ordinary humans to bear, while few others tell about their magic skills. The most interesting information that could be related to them was an entry in a diary found near an explorer's body:
"Day 23:
I think that today will be my last day. Funny how things ends. I wished to have said my wife how I loved her before leaving. I have almost no water left. The food was taken by some bandits long ago. And the worse part is that my lag is useless after that snake bite. It's all black and I have fever. I know what awaits for me...
Today I saw something unique. I will try to keep my eyes open and write this, so I hope my name is remembered if someone ever find this diary (and hopefully deliver my belongings to my family).
After being mugged by the bandits, I followed them. I hoped to get my food and weapon back during night when they would be sleeping. Some time during the afternoon, they found a lone warrior, carrying a light armor made of dragon scales (by their size, can't think of any other creature) and some claws, possible made with dragon fangs also. They decided to surround him and steal his belongings.
I decided to find a safer location and hid myself. When I could peek again, this lone warrior was surrounded by four bandits with weapons out. He started laughing and one of the bandits got real angry and attacked him. All I could see was his hearth being taken from his chest. The others, without thinking, attacked him. The warrior breathed fire on part of them and jumped on a rock above their heads.
What happened next almost made me wet my pants (silly I can still make jokes, eh...). He crossed his arms upon his face, as if in a guard position, and stayed quiet for a while, as if concentrating. Then, he unleashed a power scream and contracted his body, at the same time a glowing glove formed arround him. His scream became a scary roar and the globe just exploded, revealing a new form. He was covered with scales, had a pair of wings and his eyes were glowing with magical power.
The bandits went into despair. Four of them tried to run, but the creature just jumped on them with such force that I fell the ground shake, killing three of them instantly. The fourth was without any reaction, possible stunned by the impact, and the creature attacked his chest, transpiercing it with easy. From sudden, the creature oppened his hand and unleashed a magical ray that was aimed at the rest of the bandits, killing them all.
The creature then looked directly to my eyes. I was hidden, and I am good with that! He probally noticed the bandits before they surround him then. The creature kept looking at me, as if reading my intentions. Noticing I wasn't dangerous, he smiled to me and left. That smile came too late, I already wet my pants. I found my food, but it was burned.
I think he was one of those nomad people that can be heard in some tales.
If anyone find this diary, please, tell my wife I love and and that I was sorry for saying she was bad at cooking. I missed her food a lot. So much I tryed to get a snake to dinner, but it bit me, sealing my destiny. I am in peace tought. I had a good life."
Ryuujin was planned to be a half-dragon character (based in Ryu, of Breath of Fire RPG serie from SNES and Playstation, more specifically, the BoF IV version).
His normal form is that of a light armored and strong warrior with high mobility. He can morph into a hybrid form, that boosts his magical powers and gives some surviability.
He was intended to be build as a hybrid champion, with skills that require prediction and good positioning.
His leap is his main "mobility" skill, allowing him to go in and out situations. It's a skillshot that makes him jump to the area, punching the ground when he falls. The foes on the small center of the area (not much bigger than the space used by a champion, if bigger) get stunned very few seconds (being more useful as a disrupt) and part of the full damage is dealt to the surroundings. When transformed, the radius of both the center and the area are increased, and the punch creates a crater mark on ground. The wings allows for a longer distance and a fast "travel".
His mercyless strike is a high damage single target skill at melee range. It's armor penetration effect helps dealing damage against high armored targets and the impact on organism causes the target to be stunned for very few seconds. That stun, however can severely cripple an already and severely injuried target. It would ressemble me of Riot's animation on patch previews.
The Dragon Blood makes him stronger (dragons are known to have huge strengh) and allows him to breath fire. As his muscles are stronger than normal, he deals more physycal damage and runs faster.
Finally, his ultimate Dragon Apotheosis, transforms him into a powerful Hybrid form. It's closer lineage to dragons allows him to awake the magic on his blood and boost his other skills. The dragon scales gives him some extra surviability.
His passive represents the boiling blood of dragons (that some RPGs have), dealing damage to a very close area based in the damage received (the bigger the wound, more blood spit).
I see him as a light armored warrior, possibly using small shoulderpads, shin protectorm bracers with the claws attached to it, and some kind of protection on torso and pelvis. I would say a breastplace opened in the back (where wings apears). He have pointed years and a very nice looking phenotype. His strengh comes from dragon blood, so I don't see him as a "giant gorilla" like Tryndamere.
Attachment 505525Passive: Inner Flame
Description: Ryuujin's blood burns those those close to him when he is damaged. He deals part of the the damage taken as magical damage in a very close area arround him.
Hybrid Form Effects: increases passive damage based in Dragon Apotheosis level.
Attachment 505521Q: Death from the Skyes
Description: Ryuukin jumps and finishes the fall on kness and punching the ground with huge strengh, dealing physical damage and a fast stun in the center and part of it's damage in the surroundings.
Normal Form Effecs:
-Active: physycal damage at melee range that penetrates armor based on skill level and inflicts a fast stun (based in the traveled distance) to target due to the shock in it's body.
Hybrid Form Effects:
-Active: the magical energies flowing is his body increases the blow strengh. The skill deals extra magical damage in the area he punched (center), creating a shockwave that stuns enemies in the surroundings. The wings allows him a doubled jump distance and a faster travel. Due to the stronger blow, both center and total area radius are increased. Both the center (longer) and area (shorter) stuns durations are based in the traveled distance, taking in count the extra distance allowed by the wings.
Attachment 505528W: Mercyless Strike
Description: Ryuujin deals a single and powerful strike aiming his victim's hearth, capable of making a hole in his enemy armor. While in Hybrid Form, Ryuujin concentrates his magical energy to his hands and hits with such strengh that he can transpierce his target, allowing him to unlease a magical blast in the target's behind his victim.
Normal Form Effecs:
-Active: physycal damage at melee range that penetrates armor based on skill level and inflicts a fast stun to target due to the shock in it's body. If the target ends up 30% less HP, the stun duration is increased.
Hybrid Form Effects:
-Passive: extra magical damage to target.
-Active: extra magical damage to target, and if the target 30% or less HP, the hit transpierce it, increasing the stun duration and allowing Ryuujin to unleash a magical blast on the enemies behind his victim (lined with him and the victim).
Attachment 505523E: Dragon Blood
Description: The dragon blood on his veins gives him extra strengh, making you hit harder, run faster and it's magical energies allows him to breaths fire.
Normal Form Effects:
-Passive: speed bonus and damage boost.
-Active: breaths a cone of fire in front of you that deals initial magic damage and ignites your targets, dealing damage over time.
Hybrid Form Effects:
-Passive: speed bonus and damage boost are increased based on Dragon Apotheosis level.
-Active: Increases cone area and reduces healing to targets based on Dragon Apotheosis level.
Attachment 505526R: Dragon Apotheosis
Description: Ryuujin concentrates, generating a sphere of magical energy arround him. After few seconds he unleashs the chaos on his blood sending a powerful scream that becomes a dragon roar, while his body becomes a hybrid between human and dragon. The sphere dissipates just after the transformation, revealing his new form. The Hibryd still keeps his armor. His skin is now covered with scales and he have a pair of wings. His claws merged with his new form, and his hands now became sharp claws.
Technical information: Activating this skills is a channeling action. If interrupted, he can't use it again for a portion of it's original cooldown. Once activated, his scales grants physical damage reduction and the the magic unleashed boosts his other abilities and protects him against magic sources of damage and effects. The transformation consumes mana per second like Swain's but it's cooldown longer.
Effects (varies based on Dragon Apotheosis level):
-Magic damage reduction;
-Physical damage reduction;
-Tenacity bonus;
-Boost to other skills.
Copyrights: Everyone who liked this concept can use it or the ideas presented here freely and without asking. It was something made for fun and without gain purposes.
Check out the list of all champions I planned. You oppinion metters and is very welcome!
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Planting blueberry bushes in the middle of winter
Hello all,
I got some blueberry bushes this month and i have been keeping them by a window, but they do not seem very happy there. Can i plant them in the middle of winter, or will that more than likely kill them?
I am in Northern Georgia Zone 7/8
Hi Dirtaddshp,
Yes, as all the others said before me, it is okay to plant it now. We are going to have some very spring like weather this week and the ground is workable. I just bought an Elberta Peach tree from the Home Depot and the only reason I bought it at this time of the year was because it was on sale and too good to pass up. It was just $5.00 bucks and in great shape. (Never mind the fact that I already have 2 other Elberta Peach trees! LOL) These trees produce wonderfully for me and I have no problems with them. I said all that to say that I will be planting that tree this Saturday and transferring another fruit tree in my small orchard. You should not have a problem at all planting your blueberry bush. Happy planting!
Our blueberry shrubs are all dormant now, and completely free of leaves. I live in Madison, Wisconsin, and we have had several hard frosts with more cold weather expected in a day or two. But your shrubs are leafed out, I expect, as you are in Georgia. I think they will do better in the ground and perk up when you transplant them. To reduce stress, the shrub should be watered well before transplant, and the transplant should be done in overcast weather, if possible. If you have to transplant in sunny weather, then do it late in the day, when the sun is low. The idea is to keep sunlight off the leaves. When the leaves are in direct sun, they demand both water and nutrient from the roots. However, the roots are disturbed during transplant, and they do not work at 100%, so the plant is stressed, and the leaves will show this with brown edges and possibly a totally brown and dead leaf if the stress is severe. This is not an issue when the shrub is dormant, and that is why trees and shrubs are usually transplanted when they are dormant.


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Maritime safety is the health of seafarers.
Health assessment is an essential part of health risk management. The crew complements are shrinking in size and medical fitness of the crew members becomes of critical importance under normal navigational conditions, but especially in emergency situations.
Today the safety of the sea has become more stressed. Medical fitness examinations are turning from disease eliminating to working ability.
When deciding the fitness of a seafarer, the examining doctor should consider and evaluate the following:
a. the critical time needed for treatment / access to appropriate land-based care;
b. the extent of the threat and danger caused by the medical problem to the patient and to the safety of the vessel;
c. the current risk of occurrence of the medical problem; According to recent international studies, the content of pre-sea- and periodic medical fitness examinations of seafarers vary greatly from one country to another. This means that a seafarer can be medically examined and proved fit for work on board ship under the flag of one country, but he/she is not, however, fit for the same work under the flag of any other nation. This discrepancy is very common today when workers in the world in general and sailors especially are moving from one country to another.
The centralized method is the only system which can ensure that all the seafarers have identical fitness criteria independent on the examining doctor.
When the basis is clear the international guidelines can more easily be adopted in various countries.
Since starting in 1996, the PEME programme has proven to be the leading loss prevention initiative. It has also led to consistency in a high examination standard to protect a shipowner from claims arising from medical defects that should have been detected during the examination.
2.1 Brief History of PEME program
A study of claims in October 2003 showed that 1 out of 4 seafarer illness/injury claims were related to pre-existing illness conditions (figure 1).
* A review of Member's seafarer profiles showed the majority of non-US based seafarers come from Ukraine and Philippines
* March-April 2004: 4 clinics approved in Odessa and 6 clinics approved in Manila
* At that time the program was voluntary and Members responded very positively
* March 2005: additional clinic was added in Mariupol
* May 2005: Conservative estimate for cost savings for first year of program: USD $2.25 million
* November 2005: Club BoD approved mandatory application of program for Ukraine and the Philippines that became effective on 20 February 2006
* May 2006: Conservative estimate for cost savings for second year of program: USD $2 million (total savings USD $4.25 million)
* May 2006: PEME programme expanded to Latvia, Poland, Romania and Russia
* February 2007: Mandatory application of program for all 6 countries
* April 2007: Conservative estimate for cost savings for third year of program: USD $2.5 million (total savings USD $6.75 million)
* January 2008: PEME program expanded to include port cities where ships transit including Athens, Antwerp, Hong Kong, Rotterdam, Santo Domingo, Singapore and US gulf, west and east coast locations
* September 2008: New medical questionnaire added to Club PEME form and clinics added in India and Indonesia
* February 2009: Mandatory application of PEME to include India and Indonesia
* June 2009: 8 countries with required PEMEs (India, Indonesia, Latvia, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia and Ukraine). A total of 53 clinics in 15 countries authorized by the Club
The main pre-employment medical examination of seafarers objectives are represented by:
* Screen out medical conditions during pre-employment exam;
* Reduce the value and volume of illness and repatriation claims;
* Continue delivering a proven value added service; Enhanced health screening and direct accountability by clinics for performance provide a credible system for minimizing the risks of employing seafarers with pre-existing illnesses. The programme provides the seafarers with the confidence that they are fit for the duration of their contracts.
2.2 The Skuld PEME--The examination and test criteria
In order to control the quality of the Pre-entry Medical Examination (PEME), Skuld has started a PEME programme to help members' select healthy crew. The Skuld PEME is an enhanced medical examination established by Skuld in cooperation with Nigel Griffi the from Marine Medical in Singapore. This enhanced medical examination goes far beyond a normal PEME carried out in ordinary clinics.
The examination and test criteria are selected based on the risks we see in our claims statistics. Risks differ from one nationality to another due to local diet, local customs or way of life in general. The tests will be tailored accordingly. For the Philippines, we have found that the following list covers the main risks.
* Identity of seafarer
* A medical declaration
* Physical examination
* Genital examination
* Dental examination
* Psychological evaluation
* Visual testing and colour blindness
* Audiometry
* Chest x-ray and lung function
* Electrocardiogram
* Faecal examination
* Complete blood test (CBC/FBC and ESR)
* Hepatitis test
* Yellow fever vaccination
* Virology TPPA--Syphilis test
* Biochemical examination of the blood
* Cardiac risk factor calculation
* Diabetes mellitus
* HIV testing
* Malaria smear
* Drug testing
* Urinalysis
* Ultrasound examination of the kidneys and bladder
* Body morphology
You will find many of these tests in a normal PEME. The main differences are in the test methods and criteria, and how the test results are collated to form a better picture of the seafarer's health. One example is the cardiac risk factor calculation that uses different information and test results to calculate the risk of any cardiac disease. This method of using test results gives us a better understanding and certainty of the seafarer's health.
Members are provided with a tested clinic capable of performing high quality examinations. Skuld audits the clinics and controls that examinations are not falsifi ed and that there is little or no opportunity to influence the results. The seafarer undergoes a thorough examination to reveal any health risk and, if necessary, is given advice on how to take care of his/her health. Skuld covers 50% of the cost. Hence, the member covers the initial outlay and receives a 50% refund from Skuld upon renewal.
All members employing seafarers from the Philippines are welcome to participate in the programme.
When clinics in other countries are added, participation will be extended accordingly. Members who decide to join the programme have to establish a medical policy in accordance with Skuld's PEME policy/requirements and have all crew members examined in one of the approved clinics.
2.3 Fit for duty
The Department of Health in the Philippines and the POEA contract decides if a seafarer is fit for duty. If a seafarer has an A, B or C result from a normal PEME, he/she is normally fit for duty. It is important that a seafarer who does not pass a Skuld PEME is not called 'not fit for duty'. The seafarer is, however, not fitin accordance with the company's medical policy, i.e. a policy reflecting the test criteria set by the Skuld PEME. This is important in order to avoid problems with Philippine authorities.
2.4 Club policy for violations of PEME program?
Double Deductible: "apply a deductible twice that which would otherwise have applied to a claim arising from the illness of a crew member falling within the ambit of this clause, notwithstanding that such claim would have arisen regardless of the Member's failure to comply with any of the obligations set out..."
Denial of claim: "deny any claims for the death, illness or injury of a crew member falling within the ambit of this clause, or any expense incurred in respect thereof, in whole or in part, arising from a medical condition which could have been discovered if the Member had complied with the obligations....Whether or not such medical condition could have been discovered if the Member had complied with the said obligations shall be a matter for the sole and exclusive determination of the Managers."
The importance of properly conducted pre-employment medical examinations is illustrated by these cases, but, however, identifying seafarers with pre-existing illnesses does not keep them from seeking employment with shipowners who have lower medical standards. It is an unfortunate and ironic consequence that the more clubs and owners which subscribe to such programs, and screen out seafarers with pre-existing illnesses, the higher the possibilities of having these medically unfit mariners join vessels operated by companies which are not involved in a PEME scheme. The bottom line could be claims associated with pre-existing illnesses for that owner which could have been prevented through a quality PEME scheme.
EU Council Directive 1999/63/EC. 1999 ILO/WHO. 1997. Guidelines for conducting pre-sea and periodic medical fitness examinations for seafarers. Geneva: ILO/WHO
Medical Examination (Seafarers) Convention (ILO 73)
Saarni, H. 2003. Medical examinations of seafarers, who is fit for work at sea? Proceedings of 7th International Symposium on Maritime Health
Saarni, H., Soini, S. and Pentti, J. 1996. Workload and ship safety. Proceedings of Safety at Sea International Conference
STCW '95 Convention
STCW Code
The Merchant Shipping (Medical Examinations) Regulations. 2002. United Kingdom
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Fig. 1. Ratios of pre-existing illnesses as they relate to frequency and cost claims Non-existing condition 76% Note: table made from pie chart.
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soaker bath tub with shower?
Can you combine a soaker tub with a shower? We now have a tub/shower combo in our middle bathroom that we will be remodeling soon and I would like a soaker tub. Thanks for any input!
Sure. There are plenty of deep tubs with an integral tile flange. If you mean can you do a drop in or undermount with a shower, the answer is NO. You have to do an alcove installation to keep the water overspray from the shower going back into the tub. That's what the tile flange is for. It's like the roof flashing.
i was contemplating this exact same thing for our remodel. in the end, we're going to forego the soaker tub and just do a luxury shower. but i'm gonna include some pics here that i found in my research. fyi, check out houzz if you haven't already. that's where i've found most of my ideas and these photos.
when i spoke to my contractor about it, he told me the problems with these is that soaker tubs require a large step up to get into it, and i'd agree looking at these photos. in this case, it may not be so practical.
If you really want a soaker tub and it needs to also have a shower, then get the tile flange installed, hire an experienced, quality tile contractor, and get what you want.
Worst case scenario, you need to wipe down the edge of the tub after your showers. So I wouldn't do it in a kid's bathroom, or if you don't have time to wipe it down once in a while, or for some reason your bathroom is especially humid... sure, worry. But essentially you need to do what you want. It's your house.
My existing tub has a very funky shower/tile/top of tub situation going on. It's 25+ years old, and it's fine.


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I am from Canada. Would I need an electrical adaptor or convertor at Coconut Bay resort?thanks
It indicates in the FAQ sheet for CB that one is required, similiar, I believe to one you would use in the United Kingdom
From the FAQs on the home page of Coconut Bay:
The voltage of all electrical outlets at the resort is 220/50hz, so guests will need a converter. A british 3-pin plug (which are available for sale at any electronics store pre-travel) will suffice."
Coming from North America, you will need both an adapter to fit the plug and converter to step down the voltage. You can find them at luggage or travel accessory stores as an all-in-one or with the 2 separate pieces.
Good luck.
The electrical appliance you wish to bring to St Lucia must be labeled as 120-240 Volts and 50-60 hertz. If not, it will fry whether you have an adapter or not.
The only other solution is a transformer. These are heavy and expensive.
I do not purchase a personal appliance unless it is labeled 120-240 V and 50-60 hz
It costs nothing and can be used anywhere in the world.
Yup - very good point deepglory. Lots of more recent electronic devices are ranged voltages - cell phones and computers, etc. But not all - hair dryers and the like usually aren't. That is why bringing both the adaptor (for the plug itself) and a converter (for the voltage) is necessary. C-Bay has a few, but only a very few, you could end up having to buy one, and they are scarce around here!
Good luck OP.
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Alternatives to Recessed Lighting?
Our space is 19 x 13.. we will have an island and a table for eating. One large window near the sink.
Ideas? Pictures?
Recessed would work well for us, but in our remodel we can't afford the cost of re-drywaling the ceiling, and texturing as there is no over head access. So we are also looking for alternatives as we have only an 8ft ceiling height.
We saw some interesting looking rope track lights at IKEA, but they have those 40w halogen spot lights and we don't know if 10 of them is enough to provide enough light on those days when it's dark at 5pm.
So I'm looking for suggestions too. My kitchen is smaller at 10.5' x 10.
nut bunch-- we used a lot of ikea lighting in our two previous homes (townhouse and then a single family home). the track lighting looked nice, but every single light failed (meaning it would not work even if we changed the bulb). It was very, very annoying.
I am not a fan of recessed lights either. I am considering the one I have linked below and another surface mount LED light sold by a local retailer.
Good luck!
Here is a link that might be useful: How about something like this?
Danielle - I'm so sorry about your IKEA lighting and that does make me think again! It woud be very annoying to have to replace the whole fixture when a bulb burned out.
djandkpl - Yes it's the wiring that is the problem and the ceiling joists that runs perpendicular to our kitchen flow. So to connect all the wires, you'd have to drill through or go around them. Not recommend without taking out a huge swatch of ceiling around the light switch exposing all the joists. Then they'd run the wires down each area, connect them to the switch and go. Leaving me to pay a sheetrock person to fix the huge ceiling cut out. Maybe someday when I can save up. It will be the last thing needed.
There's a lighting store close by so I think I'll check them out for some close to the ceiling lighting.
I did recessed lights in my kitchen, but I don't really need them. I have 11 recessed lights, undercabinet lights, 3 pendents over island, one double short fixture over sink, 2 sconces...I think that's it. (my kitchen is 15 or so x 25)
If you do undercabinet lights, a light or sconce over the sink and some pendents (number and size dependent on size of island) over the island, plus something near or over the table I think you'd be fine as long as there are no dark corners or other odd spaces.
I don't have a fixture over my table because there was no way to center it without it looking stupid from other rooms. There are 2 sconces there (on either side of the entrance to the great room), but they don't provide enough light to eat by (unless you want dim lighting). So, we do use the 2 recessed lights over the table, but the other recessed lights are only used if I turn off the pendent lights. If I used all the lights in my kitchen you could do brain surgery in there.
I don't personally like the look of recessed lights...have you thought of just doing a more traditional lighting scheme? here's what i did:
Installed a new "regular" ceiling light in the main kitchen area that has 3 100 watt bulbs (I'm using daylight bulbs there). 2 mini pendants over our peninsula. 1 smallish chandelier over our dining table (the wall is gone between rooms). I also have undercab light on one long counter (flourescent) and a light over the sink. This gives me PLENTY of lighting, and I think it's more homey than recessed.
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I am not sure I remember EXACTLY how he did it, but I had recessed lights done in a textured ceiling that must run both parallel and perpendicular to the joists, and there was no damage to the ceiling at all. Since I have an "L" shaped kitchen, with lights along both runs, they can't both be parallel to the joists. It was not a big deal to the young electrician who did it. He was a friend of my nephew, but a licensed electrician, and works for a large company that does numerous kitchen remodels among other things, so he had done more than a dozen kitchens before mine.
I am not sure what the problem is with yours unless it could be an electrician that doesn't normally do renovations or retrofitting of fixtures. I am pretty sure I have photos somewhere of the wiring going in when the backslash area was removed and the wiring run through for the UC lighting as well. If you are interested in pursuing it, I will look them up for you to see if we can see exactly how he ran the wires up to the ceiling. I really wasn't a big deal at all.
RE: Posted by danielle00 (My Page) on Tue, Dec 9, 08 at 17:52....the track lighting looked nice, but every single light failed (meaning it would not work even if we changed the bulb).
I have a followup question.... We bought a 5 piece track lighting set 6+ years ago when we built our home. Thus far, we have never replaced a single bulb. Then this morning, I came down and the lights wouldn't go on. What's the likelihood that all the bulbs burned out on the same day? If we drove the 1 hr to Ikea and bought new bulbs - would you think that I would be back up and running ..... or .... Is it far more likely that the fixture is pooched. Suggestions appreciated, please and thank you.
We used a 'layered' approach to lighting. Surface fixtures provide general illumination into cabinets all the way to the top. This layer provides about half of the needed lighting and are intended to be left on all day long. Recessed cans were cut into the existing ceiling (lath and plaster) using a RotoZip and carbide tile bit with circle adapter. The circles for retrofit fixtures have to be as exact as possible. This layer of lighting is located to illuminate the counter and provide the majority of work light. There are mini-pendants at the peninsula on a dimmer for both supplementary work light and ambient light when desired. Additional miniature downlights on a dimmer are over the sink to play a similar role. With all of this we don't need undercabinet lights.
All of this required careful planning to make an ordered layout that fit into the joist spaces. We were installing a beam so we had access to one end of the ceiling joists and used that for routing wires between the joist spaces. However, I have used fixture holes to drill through adjacent joists and wire things up that way. That will only work if you are lucky and have a relatively dense layout, however.


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I can understand why people on here are rooting for the Red Sox. The Cards are a Reds rival and there is a pretty hostile relationship which has developed.
But for those of us who were around (and focusing) in 1975, the Reds/Red Sox World Series was a fairly bitter event. Lots of inflammatory quotes as I recall. There was no love lost.
And now all the media focus on Game 6 of that Series, doesn't sit well with me. How about Game 7?
I usually root NL in the Series, this time I'm not watching too much and have no dog in the hunt.
My main hope is that it ends soon so I can find out the Reds' coaching staff and player transactions.
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Give me seven games, we have all winter to worry about what the Reds will do with their coaches.
More baseball please.
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This series has been terrible. I just want to end so we can move on with the offseason.
His head was probably spinning from his good job in the previous game. This kid is a rookie in the World Series! Grab him by his shoulders, shake him, look him in the eyes and TELL him his role!
Those are Papi's numbers in the series so far. I doubt he sees another pitch unless he's up with bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth.
"Reality tells us there are no guarantees. Except that some day Jon Lester will be on that list of 100-game winners." - Peter Gammons
I still do not understand why Saltala...or salty.....threw that ball to 3B when the runner was basically already sliding in to the bag. Still a bad play and that obstruction thing? What are you going to do. Cannot read true intent unless the guy is blatant about obstructing someone...so you have that rule in there to avoid that.
How about Oquendo for Bench Coach? Anyone throw that out yet for the reds?
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Plus: long journeys are not the target market for electric cars. The vast majority of potential customers in Europe will manage fine with current batteries for their daily commute.
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Plus: long journeys are not the target market for electric cars. The vast majority of potential customers in Europe will manage fine with current batteries for their daily commute.
indeed. Taking into account the massive amounts of different handsets that Samsung offer, I would expect them to be doing at least a little bit better, than their (closest?) competitor, who has 1 'current' handset on the market.
Please be logically consistent. "Indeed" indicates agreement with the previous comments: firstly, that Apple something to fear (lower growth and lower margins) and that the 37 million sales include a lot of 4's and 4S'. If so, you cannot stand by what you said.
None of this means that things are about to start looking bleak for Apple. It still creams most of the profits out of all sales because it provides a compelling offer of hardware and software and, with the I-pod has demonstrated it came remain competitive even in a cut-throat market. It may just be coming down to earth and really ought to do something about new models.
Apple has slower growth and declining margins to fear which is why it mentioned them in its last quarterly report. Take all Samsung's Galaxy phones into consideration and the trend definitely favours Samsung.
The HTC One seems to please reviewers with its design and IPS screen. As Alun Taylor noted, Samsung have styled the S4 to look like an updated S3, and while they won't win awards for the design of either, this is pretty much what Apple does. The S3 has been the leading non-I-Phone for the last few months and is well-recognised. The "updates" in the S4 have been well publicised and I think that a great many punters prefer the sheer intensity of the colours on OLED screens. Many have argues that the I-Phone 5 didn't offer a lot to really encourage upgrade sales and total sales since launch give some credence to that argument: sales are still very strong but not perhaps as strong as they might have been.
When Ferrari bring out a stunning new model, Lamborghini don't go bankrupt.
Ahem, Lamborghini did go bankrupt back in the 1970s. Now it's part of Volkswagen which has deep enough pockets to steer through any troubles and, more importantly, access to modern technology to stay competitive. This would make it similar to the phone division within Samsung and suggest further parallels about the market such as the advantages of having access to inhouse technology.
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That's a formula for disaster if you want to reap the benefits of a web company…
There is nothing special about web companies. You actually mean companies with a distinctive brand which have to be handled carefully, a good example might be how IBM handled the purchase and integration of Lotus which it kept as a separate division for over ten years and only recently dropped the brand. Oracle's design to fold Sun in quickly was equally as successful in disposing of loss-making sectors and improving the profitability of the rest and providing a coherent product line for customers.
For all its blurb Microsoft has hardly kept its mitts off Skype which is why the client's are increasingly welded to other Microsoft services and increasingly unwieldy as a result. Do we have any figures from Microsoft as to how well Skype is doing? Is it still operating at a loss?
What does seem to be different for web companies is the size of goodwill and potential write-offs. If Facebook can pay $1 bn for Instagram, why shouldn't Tumblr be worth the same notional figure? The justification is usually about the eyeballs for advertising but this is as much about shutting down the competition as anything else. This is less about market share than outright domination: IBM got out of the PC business when it realised the margins were terminally thin; Akamai bought Cotendo to shut them down. And if things don't work out, well the charges can be offset against any tax meaning that other taxpayers will actually take the hit.
Given that current monetary policy is making any of these purchases extremely cheap, we can expect more of them and that is probably one of the aims of QE and its ilk: raising valuations supposedly makes us all feel wealthier and we thus go out and spend more.
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Here in Germany, MaxDome is the platform of choice, sadly crippled by no intelligent way of checking for whether the films have an English soundtrack: my German is fine but I hate the way they dub films here. Oh, and they send newsletters without usable text/plain parts which mean I never find out what's new…
Opera Mobile, ie. the full version, has never been very popular on mobile devices. This is in contrast to Opera Mini which according to Akamai has been losing market share over the last few weeks. It's wrong to lump the two together and StatCounter appears to be doing, but if that is the case then the move to "Blink" is probably the way to go. Phones have got powerful enough to be able to render websites where there used to benefit from server-side processing for Mini. This is now a handicap because of the inability to handle Javascript locally. Opera Mobile on the other hand retains the ability to use the Turbo proxy to reduce the volume of data transferred whilst being able to execute any scripts.
Be interesting to see how this plays out. At the moment I can't test the new build with my Galaxy 8.9 because it is "not compatible". I assume this is a form factor issue.
I just love the idea that somehow turning nickel into copper releases power slowly enough to plug in a kettle to make a pot of tea. Maybe the "patented waveform" somehow puts the the nuclei to sleep using "sleepons"? Why isn't building a Massive Hadron Lullaby?
Not to discount the possibility of strange things happening at the quantum level but the strong nuclear force is called strong for a reason and even some kind of "nuclear transistor" where quarks would tunnel from nucleus to another would still release a fuck of a lot energy. So, paint me sceptical. But I do like the idea of a "nuclear transistor" - just imagine being able to use something along those lines to control the gain of future fusion reactions!
is making homoeopathy look good.
And there's billions to be made from that as well. What, as an investor, is not to like? ;-)
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Can I speak to a computer, please?
The scripts of many call centres are better suited to mechanical rather than human processing so this does make sense. The cost is probably currently prohibitive at the moment but, if Watson works as well as current systems, should come down quite quickly. This could well lead to a better experience for customers and the remaining workers - the ones who get to answer questions the system can't . Time to work out what jobs the others can do. Next stop legal advice?
Both the original book and the film are still in copyright so the product will need to be licensed to be able to use the name "Soylent". Presumably that's why he's raising the money although I don't think it'll be enough to cover it.
That would be churlish of me. Besides, it's only "opinion" and those are protected by the constitution. Or, this at least the position of the ratings agencies, who were canonised in a similar fashion by the SEC allowing any financial product to be sold that "had a rating". And we know how well that worked: no one wilfully abused the freedom in speech in declaring things like colateralised debt obligations including sub-prime mortgages as being of the highest creditworthiness, did they now?
that the SEC recently authorised companies to publish relevant information via Twitter and co. You could say accident waiting to happen.
You might want to give Bitmessage a look.
Nokia's "innovation" in the 1990s was as much about fashion as anything else along with the Communicator came replaceable cases and image SMS. Indeed Mr O infamously trounced Nokia for being late to the colour screen and cameraphone party.
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The level of Corporation Tax is only part of the problem; there are more than enough loopholes in the British tax system.
For $2000 he could have just bought direct…
This is a custom build with lots of unnecessary duplication for a particular requirement.
I imagine any systems builder would be able to provide a rack-based system using a similar configuration for a fraction of the cost. Of course, they'd want to increase chip & core density to make it commercial. But being able to build systems at this price makes it a lot easier to try things out.
With the British government offering to guarantee higher risk property loans up to £130 billion (no wonder the national debt keeps going up) plus some shared equity scams you should be able to get the money if you can reasonably convincingly show that you are a first time shoebox-buyer, which probably all you can get for 50k in London. Do it properly and you don't even have to think about ever paying it back and.
Get a couple of percent of a public company and you are close to a seat on the board. Plenty of scope to short MS stock with a view to getting the necessary stock cheaply.
The 13" sounds great to me assuming it can pump higher resolution via HDMI/DisplayPort. Notebook ergonomics are bad enough but unbearable on small screens. Roll on Android notebooks.
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Surely nobody must? I use HBCI for my online stuff. Kills h4xx0rs. Dead.
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Private companies are desperate to get their hands on government bonds which finance exactly this kind of project. In fact, pension and sovereign wealth funds are becoming increasingly interested in financing infrastructure projects directly because: firstly, the timescales suit them; and, secondly, the risk-adjusted yields are likely to better than those from government bonds.
The two (HS2 and network improvements) are not mutually exclusive and should both be going ahead and could at least be partially financed by cutting back the subsidies to the train operators.
BTW. for comparison Cologne to Frankfurt cost € 6 bn for 180 km (Wikipedia). It's not without its problems but was transformational for travel. As part of its response to the 2008 financial crisis the German government made lots of cash available for railway improvements. This was both politically expedient - a few years disinvestment had started to cause problems with more and more failures in rolling stock - and economically savvy as doing up stations, track and signals tends to use lots of local workers and keeps them trained. Time lost to delays has decreased noticeably since. There are numbers attached to that sort of thing but they should be taken with a pinch of salt from the bucket you need to read Worstall's diatribes.
No, it's worse. He's "a retired to South Kent (the sunshine) after making pots of money Torygraph reader" who always knows best and doesn't think the government should spend money on anything but his pension and pet projects: Northerners don't need good rail connections, poor people don't need schools or hospitals, etc.
Britain's rail infrastructure has suffered from decades of under investment. Bringing it into line with other countries who have been investing in their rail networks was always going to be tremendously expensive but anyone who has travelled on the successful (yes, there are failures) high-speed rail connections such as Cologne-Frankfurt or Madrid-Barcelona will testify, they are running at near capacity and replacing journeys that would either be taken by road, adding to already heavily congested roads, or not at all. Furthermore, as Berkshire Hathaway's investment has shown: new track for passenger trains means more capacity for profitable freight and fewer (or at least a lower rate of increase in their numbers) of those ruinously heavy lorries on the road.
I see no spelling mistakes… I must have been reading it wrong: the "minis" must refer to Austin Rover' car, certainly a milestone in the development of computing. And, who could deny the importance of John Newman's "Feel The Love" to generations of programmers?
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What will be the the other consequences of the event? What mutations will people suffer? What new languages will people be speaking? Fortunately, it seems that a documentary film detailing some of the consequences fell back through time to 1980.
Congratulations on the number of spelling mistakes.
I know Firefox 3.2.28 is safe because I ran a contest on an IT forum earlier this year,
Wow, I like your style!
Alternatively you could check the release notes for subsequent versions and write some test cases.
Can we have a King Canute icon?
Pretty much all the browsers often need security fixes but Firefox 21 is a feature release. Chrome gets silent updates an IE gets patched because someone made it essential for core parts of the OS without putting it in a sandbox.
I can understand people wanting to avoid feature releases which is why there are the LTS builds which only get security updates. 17.0.6 is current.
3.2.x might be faster depending on available memory but how do you know if it's safe? It's not supported by anyone.
If and when a 64-bit Afom falls into my lap...
Why do you need 64-bit for a webserver or a router? Oh, and how much does the thing cost?
As you note the performance isn't stellar - room in the market for both AMD and nVidia. You really need to draw up some application configurations and load tests for when ARM hardware becomes available to test. The Raspberry Pi comparison is irrelevant as it most certainly isn't supposed to be a server, personal media server is a misnomer in that context.
TPM has been touting some very datacentre-friendly, high-density ARM-based designs which will presumably do CPU-bound virtualisation at less than R-Pi power per virtual server. Can't remember whether they have GPUs for parallel grunt, if not there will soon be Teslas for the job. You can imagine Google licking its lips at being able to use them for transcoding for Youtube.
I guess it's fashionable for people to bash Android using the "fragmentation" straw man. I just don't think it bears up to closer inspection. I don't know anyone who complains about either their version of Android or about the pre-installed apps. The move from Android 2 to 4 on phones seems to following the 2-year contracts that a great many people have but there isn't much difference in practical terms because the API hasn't changed that much in the last couple of years. Sure, some apps don't look as good at some resolutions or on some devices as they do on others but this is largely limited to phone apps running on tablets and I suspect that will start to change as sales of Android tablets continue to rise and developers look to exploit the growing market.
Studies such as that quoted by Yankee are not worth very much. There seem to be a lot of predictions about the decline of Android in the US but some data does not seem to support that. Now that Akamai is publishing worldwide figures the trends are pretty obvious:Android is over driving over 40 % of browsing on mobile networks; Windows Phone is stuck at 0.6 % far behind Blackberry and even DoCoMo's own hardware. Banging on about the "slickness" of the Windows phone device is getting to sound more and more about banging on about Betamax being better than VHS: it might well be better but not enough to matter.
The UX versus UI debate reminds me of other interesting discussions by the author of how Nokia got lost spending too much time with focus groups and UX experiments. If it was wrong for Nokia then why is it right Microsoft now? Of course UX is important but I fail to see the huge wins for Windows 8 when you, apparently, still cannot have different volume settings for the ring tone and the speaker. Those who want walled gardens are free buy a Kindle Fire, the rest of us seem to manage fine.
Wholesale rates were set low to encourage new entrants, but also had the effect of pushing new telcos toward just reselling BT stuff instead of building their own networks out.
Wholesale prices in Britain are not, AFAIK, significantly different to those in other countries. Specifically France has benefited from cheap rates and rigorous unbundling: France Telecom still owns the vast majority of the infrastructure, is required to invest in its upgrading and provide full access to competitors.
In Germany private utility companies were early investors in capacity which meant a lot more backhaul capacity was available along with access to the home. But it is also true that cable capacity was initially (ill-advisedly using coax and not fibre) built out by the government before privatisation. Deutsche Telekom struck some kind of deal for higher wholesale pricing on the fibre network it is now building out.
So, if other countries with similar wholesale pricing can still encourage investment, why isn't it happening in Britain? If BT thinks it is being paid too little for wholesale connections then it hasn't made its case properly.
Pretty much spot on but I have to take issue with.
cash flow -> Fat pay rises to executives (doing the same job) + dividends to share holders (mainly pension funds, like every other major company in the UK)
Pension funds are interested in long term returns, hence the current trend towards getting them to fund long term infrastructure projects. Short-term returns such as higher dividends don't suit that. If the pension funds really are in control then you would expect more investment to encourage future returns.
The only problem the EU has is with the work not being put out to competitive tender as all government contracts in the EU have to. It's not a market if there is no competition.
Britain, despite being a pioneer in privatising telecommunications, has consistently failed to create a competitive market. There are parallels with the power generation market which has also failed to attract investment. Customers, including businesses, are the ones who lose out over time by paying more for poorer services (than their European competitors).
It doesn't have to be like that. My cable provider wrote last week to tell me that they have recently upgraded the local loop to fibre. No subsidy involved although I think they will have used the holes dug by the council for the new underground (paid for by the state so put out to tender) to install the cable. Apparently speeds of up to 150 Mb/s are possible. Which is nice, though I'm more than happy with my puny 50 Mb/s.
Mr Orlowski will pleased to see the other one in use!
Probably the desire to have more of the work such as encryption done in hardware and you might want to put restrictions on the OS - stop someone hacking into the system simply be putting in a different SD-card.
I suspect that existing femto cells are very like this already. ARM's ubiquity already puts a lid on chip prices but other things like SDKs could be quite another matter. This might encourage chipmakers to make sure their chips can also work in the environment.
Not really. You can't make generalisations across the entire world like that. WP could be a surpise hit in the low-price sector.
You hope. After previously noting that the new phone competes head-to-head with the Lumia 520. AFAIK the Ashas are still outselling the Lumias by quite a margin and with phones like this, presumably with Facebook doing an Amazon and financing the data, are not likely to change that very much.
Meanwhile the cheap Android phones will continue to benefit from platform (hardware and software) improvements and continue to flood the market. Support for apps and services like Mpesa in key markets could be far more important than OS, battery life and Facebook.
Interesting post. I'd like to hear more about how Metro is supposed to work with keyboard and mouse.
Going from phone (yes, we know Andrew and the other couple of users like it) to tablets is still going to mean straddling the ARM/x86 divide that Microsoft have yet to demonstrate that they've mastered.
One should never say never but Apple and Android now have established ecosystems of users, manufacturers and software developers in the mobile space and, by the looks of it, better toolchains for cross-architecture development.
There is still a huge market for really lightweight Windows Pro tablets as notebook replacements: give us the chance to avoid Metro and we'll snap up 1 kg devices in droves. That market will go to the first manufacturers who realise that the x86 notebook is a dying breed.
The Intel-based Motorola has similar power/performance figures to ARM-based phones. It has better single-threaded performance, worse graphics and worse task switching but would feel as good to a user: on a phone screen and radio use are also big power draws.
Intel still has three problems: it is still playing catch up in the lower power game so while Silvermont has been announced, the S4 already has big.Little on the shelves; ARM manufacturers are catching up in process technology which is driven by volumes; Intel still wants to charge a lot more for chips than competition-constrained ARM vendors. It will obviously offer sweeteners such as marketing subsidies to any manufacturers to effectively lower the price per chip. But, as the continuing dearth of volume Atom-based phones would seem to indicate, it has yet to achieve volume.
I think that beefing up the architecture may be a gamble now that the phone market seems lost. This could easily hit revenues if computer and server manufacturers reckon they can do the same work with Atoms that they have been thinking about doing with ARMs because it will cannibalise sales of even beefier but much higher margin chips. There may also be reasonably large market in Windows Pro tablets, now that RT is effectively dead and the Start button is coming back, as drop in replacements for notebooks which are now standard business issue.
I'm not a pundit but I think we can expect the next earnings call to factor in lower margins, in a similar way that the lower margin sales of the I-Pad Mini have hit Apple's business.
Atom has always had a hefty margin to maintain Intels bottom line
I don't think that's true. I think Atom has considerably lower margins than the "Core" chips and the "Xeons" which is one of the reasons why increased sales depressed profits last quarter. Atom's have been kept castrated to stop them eating the higher margin business. If the new chips are getting the same features as the more expensive ones then we can hope for significantly cheaper ($50 - $100) Atom-based notebooks but the chips will still be too expensive for phones.
@jake Did you know that continuously trying the same thing, and always getting the same result whilst expecting a different result, is a sign of insanity?
He obviously doesn't as he continues to post the same crap over and over again. Where's the straitjacket icon when you need it?
Yeah I've come to feel MS were right and we were all wrong on the Ribbon front... cue downvotes...
Two years in and I still don't really understand it. Up until then I'd managed GUIs from various DOS shells through all Windows reincarnations, Mac OS, KDE, Gnome and countless phones. I guess it's just me.
If you think that KDE is Linux then maybe you should give Eadon a call.
"Spaces" have been around for a while on Mac OS. I used to use them a lot on BeOS over ten years ago but with the size of modern desktops find that I don't need them. Mac OS also has a lot of truly object-oriented desktop features that it inherited from NextStep but these are often buried in things like the service menu.
There are probably two reasons for being x86: firstly, it's an easier target to compile for than ARM so Google can just ship the binaries. Manufacturers would otherwise have to maintain their own build processes for their particular ARM flavour. Secondly, all the chassis and components for netbooks can be reused.
That logic will, of course, be turned on its head if anyone seriously starts to produce Android-based gear. But that needs Google to adapt Android to keyboard and mouse inputs first. The arguments against ARM would still apply but would have to be weighed up against binary compatibility with existing apps.
I agree with you that there isn't much of a market for chromebooks outside the hacker crowd looking for cheap but usable hardware. Though I'm sure they'd be just as happy with ARM if the device drivers are there.


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2wenty is an American mixed-media artist and photographer from Los Angeles. He is known for using light as the central theme in his work. 2wenty comes from a background in lighting television and film which gives him an intimate understanding of how light works. The sources of light he utilizes for his light paintings are handmade, as well as creating the LED paintings by hand.
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2wenty first emerged in 2011, when his Facebook Social Cigarettes posters started appearing in technology blogs all over the internet and on the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco.[1] The posters featured a pack of cigarettes with the Facebook logo and a tag that read, "Social Cigarettes."[2] He created over one hundred of the posters, comparing Facebook consumption with that of "cancer sticks."[3] 2wenty also created three-dimensional versions of the posters, complete with a surgeon general warning, "Facebook may cause loss of time, poor work ethic, obesity, social disorder and possible interference of destiny. Use at your own risk."
2wenty has had collaborations with fellow aritst, Gregory Siff and is developing projects with This Means Mar in Fall 2014. He has had shows in Los Angeles,[4] San Francisco and Washington D.C.[5] 2wenty's work has been featured in Forbes,[6][7] Beverly Hills Lifestyle Magazine, LA Canvas, Leveled Magazine,[8] Melrose and Fairfax,[9] Gawker and as background themes for the, "My Yahoo", main page on Yahoo.com.
2wenty expands his oeuvre into light painting photography. Through long exposures, the camera captures not only the subject, but also the source of light the artist moves across his "canvas". Within these detailed images," There is a depth and other worldliness that records both place and passage of time", says 2wenty.[10][11]
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- Sketch for Japan,Project 1 Gallery, San Francisco, March 21st, 2011
- Above the Radar, Crewest Gallery, Los Angeles, April 2nd, 2011
- Rise Japan, Arc gallery, San Francisco, April 7th, 2011
- Street Heart, The Fold, Los Angeles, April 22nd, 2011
- "What Graffiti is to New York - Street Art is to Los Angeles", Maximillian at Sunset Marque, Hollywood, May 28th, 2011
- Friendly Fire, Le Spec Gallery, Los Angeles, July 9th, 2011
- 80/20, LA Canvas Headquarters, Los Angeles, October 20th, 2011
- Above the Radar II, The Fridge, Washington DC, November 5th, 2011
- G by Gregory Siff (collaboration), LA Founderie, Los Angeles, November 11th, 2011
- New Urban Voices, Maximillian at Sunset Marque, Hollywood, March 31st, 2012
- Venice Art Walk & Auctions, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, April 27th, 2012
- Act Social, Active Ride Shop, Santa Monica, May 11th, 2012
- Denim Canvas, The Standard Hollywood, Los Angeles, June 15th, 2012
- Matter of Time by Gregory Siff (collaboration), Gallery Brown, West Hollywood, October 20th, 2012
- The Art of Elysium and Christie's, Pieces of Heaven, (featured in the live auction by Chrisite's), Los Angeles, February 20th, 2013
- Red Bull Canvas Cooler, Factory West, Hollywood, March 28th, 2013
- Donuts with Dawn Kasper, For Your Art in Conjunction with LACMA, Hollywood, April 20th, 2013
- Canvas Streets, Destroy, Rebuild, Repeat Gallery, Santa Monica, April 27th, 2013
- Between Paint and Light, 2wenty X Gregory Siff, Loakal Gallery, Oakland, May 3rd, 2013
- American All Stars, Gallery Brown, West Hollywood, May 18th, 2013
- Venice Art Walk and Auctions Surf and Skate, Robert Berman Gallery @ Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, August 29th, 2013
- Urban Influences in Contemporary Art, Ian Ross Gallery, San Francisco, September 27th, 2013
- ^ Aritst Interview With 2wenty, Streetartsf.com, 2011
- ^ 'Social Cigarettes', LAist.com 2011
- ^ Street Artist Astonished By Poster Response, MediaBistro.com
- ^ 2wenty: Street Art Gallery, The Site Unscene
- ^ 20 Questions, According To G
- ^ Facebook Street Art, Forbes.com
- ^ A Street Artists Unfiltered Take On Facebook, Forbes.com
- ^ Light Drawing Photography by 2wenty, Leveled Mag
- ^ Hooked Up, MelroseandFairfax.com
- ^ Between Paint and Light, Oakland Art Murmur
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What is this species of bamboo?
msmorningsong(SW FL 10A)November 2, 2013
Can someone please tell me what species this bamboo is?
PS: Can it take full sun, or is this shaded by larger trees around it? It looks pretty tall. I would be planting it in very
strong, all day sun.
This post was edited by MsMorningSong on Sat, Nov 2, 13 at 6:47
Moso in Sagano bamboo forest. Some nice photos in the link below.
Here is a link that might be useful: Sagano Bamboo Forest


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12/03/11 – Good ConversationDecember 3rd, 2011 | by christopher
He's a simple bear.
I think this background comes from a vague memory of the old watermill in Bernardston on River Street just off of Church Street.
12/02/11 – Spring ArrivesDecember 2nd, 2011 | by christopher
it's always good to make sure of these things.
12/01/11 – Bicycle TripDecember 1st, 2011 | by christopher
It reminds me of a time, in high-school, when I was removing a fluorescent light from a light in order that it not get knocked out from the party which was going on. I dropped the bulb. Sigh.
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I don't think this assessment is too far-fetched in many cases. :)
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I only own a bicycle.
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When I wrote this, i had not yet seen the actual Danish Tank Cozy, but was soon told of its awesomeness.
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Justice has loopholes when the people in power want, doesn't it.
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I remember as a child, making self-serving jokes like this only to bring on adult anger.
Which is why I'm convinced that adults have no sense of humor.
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When I thought of the name "Staff of Iniquity," it so made me laugh that I almost felt that i didn't have to write anything but "staff of iniquity" over and over.
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