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A really like the design of the personal site of pro skier Colby James West. The paper and tape feel really works here, the background making an immediate impact. I absolutely love the social media icons!Posted in Web Design → Sport
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I love this site for an oyster bar, the imaginative layout really appeals to me. I like the care put into the design and powerful use of typography. All of the functionality that you could want is there, but arranged in a unique and engaging way.Posted in Web Design → Food
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A superbly simple site for a professional photographer. The clean layout is intuitive and draws in the visitor to the site. I particularly like the use of typography and the focal image slider.Posted in Web Design → Photography
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A good example of a clean and stylish design portfolio. I like the use of multiple galleries and the way the colour fades in to capture your imagination. The use of illustrations and colour is excellent throughout.Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
An intriguing site for the world's no. 1 elasticated table game. The use of simple illustrations is great and adds character to the site. I really like the typeface used and the simple left hand navigation. The game certainly looks fascinating!Posted in Web Design → Sport
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A fascinating and uniquely engaging site for an online marketing agency. I love the concept of a giant slideshow, the use of imagery is powerful. I love the use of colour and step by step introduction to their company.Posted in Web Design → Misc
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Well, isn't this a cozy little deal for everyone's favorite cat food salesmen, Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles? They've moved on from volunteering their services to make life harder for old people to making a few bucks off of it with a new organization.
NEW YORK -- Politico chief White House correspondent Mike Allen wrote an article Thursday on The Campaign to Fix the Debt, a new initiative launched that day by Erskine Bowles and former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.). Allen concluded his news story with a quote instructing readers that they could "learn more at www.FixTheDebt.org" and promoted the piece in his must-read morning Playbook under the heading, "COMING ATTRACTIONS."Politico told Huffington Post, via a spokeswoman, that Allen has no decision making in sponsorship of the Playbook, which runs $15,000 a week. In Allen's original article, he "provided anonymity to a 'Fix the Debt official' in order to state the group's mission and describe how 'our national debt is getting in the way of America investing in and excelling at so many of the things that make us great.'" That exact wording was then used in the advertising copy in Playbook.
By Monday, The Campaign to Fix the Debt was sponsoring Playbook, with the email version of the morning newsletter describing Playbook as being "presented" by the new initiative.
That's how it works in Washington. And, unfortunately, that's how policy is driven. A hacksters' self-reinforcing loop that far too many policy-makers read and believe is real.

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Description: This is a handbook of diseases that includes medical and psychiatric disorders. Each disorder includes a description, signs and symptoms, and care of the patient. The contributors and consultants of the handbook are from various universities, hospitals, and medical centers.
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Iranians' great progress awes 2 former Letran coaches
NEMIE Villegas and Larry Albano are names that may not ring a bell to the modern-day Filipino basketball fan. But both know their basketball.
Villegas and Albano were coaches of the Letran squads that posted a historic title romp in senior and high school basketball, respectively, in the 1979 NCAA season.
Both were very animated spectators during Iran's rout of Jordan in the quarterfinal-round action of the 27th Fiba Asia Championship: They just couldn't believe how good Iran is nowadays.
"In the late 1970s, before I won the NCAA (title), (national teams of) Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia came to Letran and they couldn't beat us," said Villegas, who had the likes of Ramon San Juan, Bong Aninon, Itoy Esguerra and Ed Baldomero as players back then.
"That's true, because I remember back in the day when the Kuwaiti and Qatari youth squads couldn't beat my Letran high school team," said Albano, who is now based in the United States. Musong R. Castillo
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I see newegg had at least a few ,but for $1200 that is pretty ridiculous.You know it basically a papper launch.And you have to be pretty well off to drop $1200 on a Card when two GTX 680's can be had for a $1000 which is still crazy.What I want to see is a GTX-670 and hope it is like the GTX-470 was to a GTX-480.Plus I would like to see them be agressive and sell them for $349.I know I am dreaming they can't even keep the GTX-680's in stock and if you do find one they have uped the price to $649.They are saying the GTX-670 is supposed to hit the shelves on May 10th.There is a lot of places saying it .I will believe that when I see it actually in stock at $399 and not $500.I might get a couple of those if there performance is great or just wait untill the end of the year since I have three GTX-470 I run at 775mhz/1775mhz at 1.037 and the fans set at 75% so it is torlerable as for as the sound.and just hits 72c with 3DMark11
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Creating virtual product shots reduces the need for photography. But those shots need to be accurately shaded, lighted, and rendered to seem realistic. 3ds Max can help. It's a powerful application for design visualization. In this course, you'll learn to shade, light, and render a product shot in 3ds Max. Aaron F. Ross leads you through the entire production workflow, starting with a prebuilt CAD model. Once the model is imported and the scene is organized for 3ds Max, Aaron shows how to create Arch & Design materials, construct several different lighting setups, render in mental ray, and color correct in Adobe After Effects. Explore the power of 3ds Max to present your product renderings in their best light.
Want to learn how to create the same effect with Maya? Check out Creating Product Shots in Maya.
So that we can hide, freeze, or assign materials to many objects at once, we'll want to create display layers. Let's open up the Manage Layers dialog box. And what we'll see in here is that the CAD file came with a single layer that has no name. We open that up, we'll see all the objects. Let's create some new layers and move these objects into those layers. If I click on the name of an object here in the layer dialogue, it doesn't actually select it in the viewport. To do that, we additionally have to press this Select Highlighted Objects and Layers button.
And now it's actually selected as we see here. We can now click on the Create New Layer Containing Selected Objects button. A new layer is created, down here. It's Layer001. And you'll see Glass is in there. So let's click on the name of that layer and rename it. Now we could go through the process of creating a whole bunch of layers using this Select button, but it's just tedious, and it's really not necessary because it's easier to select things in Scene Explorer. Go to the Tools menu. And go back to that saved Scene Explorer from before.
Because if we just click here, that actually selects the object in the viewport. We hit F3, we can see that. So if I click here and click back, that selects it. Then I can go over here and create a new layer. And then we'll call this one, back. We've got all the hands and markers. We want to go ahead and put all of those onto a layer. And so we can just drag across here and select all of these, or we can hold down the Shift key. Got all those selected now. And we'll create a new layer.
Contain those objects, and we'll call this one hands and markers. All right, and what remains here is just the body of the watch. We've got the outer ring, the knob, the inner ring, and the watch body itself, and those we can just go ahead and Shift-select here. Select them, and then create a new layer. We'll call that one watch body. Now we're left with this one here. We can just go ahead and delete that. Alright, and in the default layer, we still have our point helper. That's fine. We can leave that in there. And you'll notice this little check box here.
That indicates the active layer. So when you create a layer, it's made active automatically. Which means that any new objects you create will be placed into that layer. What we want to do here is actually make the default layer active, so any new objects we make, including cameras and lights, we put into the default layer. Alright, so now we have control over our scene. We can hide things as you can see here. We can hide all the hands and markers. We can freeze them, and when they're frozen, if we look at this in the shaded view with F3, when they're frozen by default they'll be displayed in gray.
We can change that behavior if we want. What you want to do is right-click on the layer and go to Layer Properties and turn off Show Frozen in Gray. And that way when you freeze it, it won't be grayed out and you'll still be able to see its material. So, I want to do that actually for all these layers. Turn off Show Frozen in Gray. That's just a preference of mine. Layer Properties > Shown Frozen in Gray off on all layers. And that way I can actually freeze all this geometry and now, I can't select it. It's untouchable. So, I can't break anything. Okay, so we've created our display layers
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