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Getting pregnant after miscarriage
I had a miscarriage about 4 weeks ago. I am still waiting for my period to come so I can start trying again. Are there any cautions to trying again right away? Anything I should do differently to encourage a healthy pregnancy?
Posted: 08/22/2007 by mamawade623
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I miscarried on Jan 1st. I had to have a D and C since I was loosing so much blood. I am battling my emotions big time. We wanted th is baby so bad, and I feel really ripped off. I know God is good, I just am really struggling with wrapping my mind around this loss. I also really want to ttc Again, but I Avery fearful of the outcome. Praying for wisdom.posted 01/17/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
I miscarried at 7wks and had a d&c april 2011, i had my 1st menstral cycle may 17th 2011, didnt have a cycle in june 2011, i thought it was due to my PCOS, i found out in aug 2011 that i was 6wks pregnant, so i got pregnant 6 wks after my d&c, I am now 29wks and 1 day, so far our baby girl is healthy and very active. Your body knows when its ready to get pregnant again, not the doctors.posted 01/20/2012 by elliott1290
Just wanted to chime in. I miscarried exactly 4 weeks ago today -- and I just received a strong, healthy BFP! Good luck to you!posted 02/18/2012 by christina140
I am very pleased to find this thread. My husband and I have been trying for 8 years to get pregnant with no luck, had a cycle of IVF last year with no luck and in April this year found we concieved naturally and as you can imagine so excited. Unfortunatly we had a misscarriage this week at 12 weeks with no D&C required. We are so devastated but after reading all these messages feel so much more at ease and can't wait to start trying again when we feel the time is right. Thank you so much for all the honest and personal stories that have been shared, they have all been so helpful, We trust that God will give us a child when the time is right.posted 06/07/2012 by sabak1
i miscarried 2 months ago. It took almost 5 wks for my period to return. As long as you didnt need a D&C or were told otherwise you can start trying again when you get your cycle again. I was told that you are not any more likely to miscarry with your 2nd pregnancy than you are your first. Its fifty fifty...im still trying and hoping for good news...hope this helps good luckposted 05/16/2011 by JennC34
Friday, March 1st I found out that my baby's heart was no longer beating. I lost the baby at 10 weeks 3 days. I thought I was 12 weeks 6 days. This was my first pregnancy. Today I had the D and C. I have never even more devastated in my life! I am in a constant internal battle with myself and at some moments I think I'm going to fall into a depression. I am so blessed to have a loving a suppotive family around me but it's THIS site that gives me hope. Each one of your stories hold a special place in my heart and I can't begin to tell you how helpful each and every one of your stories have uplifted me. Thank you so much for sharing and I pray for success for you all.posted 03/05/2013 by a BabyCenter Member
My husband and I experienced a miscarriage on May 10th, we were abot 5 1/2 weeks along- it turned out that the embryo had implanted and stopped developing after that. I started bleeding on May 10th and stopped on the 17th, I then got my next period on June 10 and stopped bleeding on the 17th also. We then started using ovulation testing kits- once we got the smiley face we start trying as much as we could-(we were also trying at least once a day after my period ended)-we found out today july 9th that we are pregnant again. I am so anxious and nervous and scared and happy- It is hard to sort through these emotions, but we are excited and hopefully this one turns out better- The dr did want us to wait 3-6 months before trying again but my levels were at 0 before i was done bleeding after the mc and mentally we wanted to try again so we felt ready-keep your heads up and God is good.posted 07/09/2012 by esherwood87
well i posted one down about my d&c with the twins and not getting a period four months later. well today i decided to test bcuz i have been feeling nauseated and today i got a big fat positive. can we say total shock. because i am definately not tryng to be preggo right now. guess ill have to pray and hope that things go well.posted 10/06/2010 by smith46
MelChris1 - Hi, my m/c was sort of similar to yours. After my m/c was complete & my hcg was at <5, I thought I was good to go. But after that dr's visit, I started bleeding pretty heavily. It lasted 2 weeks!! I called the dr's office the 1st week coz I was freaked out & the nurse told me that my hormones dropped so fast that they "kick-started" my period. So I had my 1st cycle immediately following the m/c. Basically, now I have to wait for my next period to come in (although we haven't been trying to prevent pregnancy either), but if you get pregnant during this time, you'll have a hard time dating the pregnancy (not a huge deal to me), but I just wanted to share with you my situation. Hope this helps!posted 10/25/2010 by Primeaux09
I found out i was expecting 3.30.11, a complete surprise to be honest, the hubby and i were busy planning our june wedding and after becoming engaged earlier that month we decided we would ditch the protection and just leave it in Gods hands. We had no idea we would get pregnant the first month. We did a JP wedding on 4.7.11 and not even 6 days later i started bleeding, on what would have been 6 weeks. They measured my HCG and it was at 594, and they said if i keep bleeding or it got worse to come back, i ended up going back the next night and my HCG dropped to 194. We were upset but ready to try again. Ive already stopped bleeding, i bled for about 4-5 days, and we are already trying again. Dont get me wrong i was upset about the miscarriage, but the Dr didnt see any reason to wait. They said to wait one cycle which is ideal, but we couldnt contain ourself. We are leaving it up to Gods how fast we get pregnant. But praying its soon!posted 04/18/2011 by mcgrathgirl09
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Critical Essay by Bert Cardullo
SOURCE: Bert Cardullo, "The Servant," in The Hudson Review, Vol. XLVII, No. 4, Winter, 1995, pp. 616-22.
In the following essay Cardullo compares the movie version of The Remains of the Day with the novel.
Milan Kundera once made a helpful distinction between two sorts of novels set in the past. There is, on the one hand, "the novel that is the illustration of a historical situation … popularizations that translate non-novelistic knowledge into the language of the novel," and on the other hand the novel that examines "the historical dimension of human existence." In the first case, cardboard cutouts are wheeled out to represent "the bourgeoisie" or "the last throes of imperialism"—in other words, important social tendencies in the historical scheme of things rather than individualized or self-determined human beings. Here, the background effectively replaces the foreground. In the second case, history is only one part of a multifaceted portrayal of characters whose lives are inevitably and decisively, but not reductively, shaped by larger public events. In this sort of novel, that is, social institutions are presented in the form of complex human relationships; complex human relationships are not reduced to mere social symbols or signposts. Here, the background and the foreground bleed into each other at the same time that each retains its separate identity.
What Kundera says about the novel is transferable to its visual equivalent or rendition, the cinema, and all the more so in the case of a movie that has been adapted from fiction, like The Remains of the Day. This film, set in the past and dealing with issues of war, politics, class, and sexuality, has inspired diametrically opposed interpretations following Kundera's scheme. On the one hand, there are those who believe that The Remains of the Day states its political themes rather bumptiously, at the expense of character. On the other hand, there are those who consider James Ivory's latest film to be a poignant-pregnant portrait of the English class system up to World War II, of English hierarchies, rigidities, and blindnesses and their human perpetrators as well as victims; a portrait that has far more time to spend on the intimate portrayal of character from which metaphor can be inferred because it need only suggest the history of Hitler's rise and fall, with which its audience is intimately familiar. I propose to sort out these conflicting views, which are to some extent my own, in what follows.
I have not been a big fan of James Ivory's work in the past. It has suffered from a combination of Anglophilia, over-design, and under-emotion. Such films as Howards End (1992), Heat and Dust (1983), and The Europeans (1979) are in the grand British-museum tradition of Alexander Korda, except that Korda's museum for the display of the aristocracy looks now like nothing more than its mausoleum. But that hasn't stopped Ivory, along with his regular producer, Ismail Merchant, and his usual screenwriter, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, from adding to the list of the dead and embalmed. These movies have nothing to do with contemporary British life; they don't use the past as a combined distancing-telescoping mechanism on the present; and they don't even have much to say about the past as past. The Remains of the Day marks a break from this tradition for Ivory and company, partly because of the very nature of its subject: the life of an emotionally and sexually repressed butler as it dovetails with that of his employer, a well-meaning but wrong-headed aristo-twit who, in the mid-1930s, secretly works to appease Hitler, avoid war, and preserve England's rigid social hierarchy.
The novel was written by Kazuo Ishiguro, who was born Japanese but bred English; it was supposed to have been adapted to the screen by Harold Pinter, but James Ivory discarded his script in favor of Jhabvala's. This is unfortunate because Pinter has proved himself adept at adapting novels with first-person narrators (e.g., The Go-Between [1970], The Proust Screenplay [1977], The Heat of the Day [1989]), something that is made difficult by the natural omniscience of the camera eye. The solution is obviously not to use a first-person camera throughout, to show only what the narrator can see and never the narrator himself, nor to employ large chunks of first-person voiceover narration; what the camera eye must do as much as possible is see as the narrator in the book does, see as if it were using the narrator's eyes. This is a neat trick, a kind of imaginative leap, and it can be made only by a screenwriter who is genuinely creative in her own right yet spiritually faithful to her source. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, alas, is not such a scenarist, though she isn't without a certain skill.
The story begins in 1958, shortly after Lord Darlington's death and the sale of his palatial manor, Darlington Hall, to a solitary, rich American. Stevens, the butler, is staying on to work for the new owner, Mr. Lewis, but with a staff reduced from twenty-eight at the climax of the British Empire to four during its present decline. Stevens is thinking of adding to that staff one Miss Kenton, the former (superbly efficient) housekeeper of Darlington Hall, who has recently sent him a letter (parts of which she reads in voiceover, and to which Stevens responds with his own letter read in voiceover) implying that she would like to return to her old position. So, having been given a week's vacation by his new employer, together with the use of the American's car, he sets out from Oxfordshire on a journey to the West Country to meet Miss Kenton. She's been Mrs. Benn for the past twenty years, during which time Stevens has not seen her, and by now has a grown daughter, but her marriage is in trouble. Miss Kenton seems to be searching for something, then, to be reaching out, and so does Stevens. As he rides through the countryside to his appointment with her, he flashes back to their relationship—or nonrelationship—in the past, as well as to his role as master servant in a house once brimful of statesmen and ambassadors.
It was Stevens' role as servant, as server of Lord Darlington rather than fulfiller of himself, that got in the way of any personal relationship he might have had with Miss Kenton. A love seemed to evolve between these two household workers who never so much as call each other by their first names, but it remained unacknowledged and unexpressed—at least on Stevens' part. There is no real acknowledgement of its existence by Miss Kenton either, but there is some expression of feeling, which unexpectedly gets underscored in the film. Indeed, even Stevens' feeling gets expressed in the movie version, which recasts Ishiguro's exquisitely balanced tale more as doomed romance than as political allegory. This is a direction Pinter, with his latter-day political engagement, may have reversed, and a direction the normally reticent Ivory has apparently chosen to take in the condescending belief that the lower orders of society are more given to venting their emotions. For example, during one of their nightly meetings to discuss the management of the house, Miss Kenton responds to Stevens' question "Are you with me?" with the excuse that she is very tired. She is tired, of course—tired of meeting with him under these circumstances, solely to discuss work—but this meaning of "tired" remains subtextual in the novel. In the film, Miss Kenton directly express the sentiment that she wants to be with Stevens, not merely to talk with him about the discharge of their servants' duties.
The next day, her day off, she has a date in a pub with Tom Benn, a former butler who wants to marry her and open his own seaside boarding house at Clevedon. There is no such scene in the book; it fractures the first-person perspective of Stevens; and it's almost immediately followed by another insertion, Miss Kenton's desperate revelation to him of her impending engagement, to which he reacts by hastily leaving the room. Later, after she becomes formally engaged, Stevens impatiently offers her his "warmest congratulations," for "there are matters of global significance taking place upstairs and [he] must return to [his] post." Then, in the process of fetching drinks for Lord Darlington's guests, he drops a fine bottle of port—one more "emotional" event that does not occur in Ishiguro's novel—peremptorily replaces it with another, and proceeds to deliver it. But he must pass Miss Kenton's room in order to do so, and here again the film tellingly diverges from its source. This is what the author understatedly writes:
As I approached Miss Kenton's door, I saw from the light seeping around its edges that she was still within. And … that moment as I paused in the dimness of the corridor, the tray in my hands, an ever-growing conviction [mounted] within me that just a few yards away, on the other side of that door. Miss Kenton was at that moment crying. As I recall, there was no real evidence to account for this conviction—I had certainly not heard any sounds of crying—and yet I remember being quite certain that were I to knock and enter, I would discover her in tears.
In Ivory's film, as you might guess, the door does get opened and Stevens discovers Miss Kenton in tears, only to advise her that some household article wants dusting! Further, after the butler departs, the camera remains on Miss Kenton, regarding her heartbroken face in a way that Stevens could never bring himself to do.
The camera does this once more near the end of The Remains of the Day. Stevens and Miss Kenton have had their meeting and character-history has proved to be human destiny: the aging butler will return to his butlering without ever having brought up the subject of their dormant love, and the now matronly housekeeper will go back to her marriage and the promise of a grandchild from her expectant daughter. As he puts Miss Kenton on a bus in the novel, Stevens notices that she is crying and comforts her with some pleasantries—nothing more. As he puts her on that same bus in the film, Miss Kenton is not yet in tears. For heightened effect, we see her crying through the window of the departing bus as Stevens does; then, after he leaves the frame, we get another shot of her face receding in tears. From whose point of view? The omniscient camera-as-narrator, or Ivory-cum-Jhabvala as nouveau italicizers of emotion. This team even manages to inject heat into the novel's politics, or to put its heart where Ishiguro's head has prevailed. For instance, in the novel Lord Darlington, after "doing a great deal of thinking," tells Stevens to dismiss two Jewish housemaids, which he summarily does despite the strenuous objections of Miss Kenton. We never learn from Ishiguro what becomes of them, because in the book the girls are English Jews and therefore would not have been in danger of deportation. But in the movie the two maids are German-Jewish; Darlington decides they must be let go as he reads Mein Kampf(!); and, without work, the two young women are soon sent back to Germany, whence they are dispatched to concentration camps.
Ivory and Jhabvala readily seize on other opportunities to show the audience that their political heart is in the right place. Before departing for the West Country, Stevens is sent by them on business to the local general store, where he denies ever having known Lord Darlington, whom the clerk has decried as a Nazi sympathizer. No such scene occurs in the novel, and its effect is to change Stevens from an obtusely loyal, blindly trustful servant to a shifty timeserver masquerading as a man of conscience. En route to Clevedon, Stevens has a similar encounter—embellished by the filmmakers—with a doctor at an inn, where customers mistake the butler for a gentleman on account of his proper diction and dignified bearing. The high-born doctor senses Stevens' working-class origins and gets him to admit, in the film, that he is "in service" at a great house in Oxfordshire. Inevitably, their cinematic conversation comes around to Lord Darlington of Oxfordshire, whom the doctor pillories for his virtual collaboration with the Nazis, and with whom Stevens once again disavows any acquaintance. Then he relents and tells the truth: he was proud to have served Lord Darlington but his job was just that, to serve, not to agree or disagree with his employer's political views. He goes on to say that, in attempting to accommodate Hitler, Darlington made a mistake for which he later sincerely repented; whereas he, Stevens, once made a mistake too—but one that he can correct rather than lament. The teasing implication, of course, is that his mistake was a matter of the heart rather than politics: to have repressed his love for Miss Kenton, which he will shortly express to her in Clevedon.
Stevens' words here are a complete reversal of what he says in the novel, two days after Miss Kenton's departure by bus, to a man sitting next to him on a pier in Weymouth:
Lord Darlington wasn't bad man. He wasn't a bad man at all. And at least he had the privilege of being able to say at the end of his life that he made his own mistakes. His lordship was a courageous man. He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at least. As for myself, I cannot even claim that. You see, I trusted. I trusted in his lordship's wisdom. All those years I served him, I trusted I was doing something worthwhile. I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really—one has to ask oneself—what dignity is there in that?
Stevens appears less politically correct in this speech, since he calls Darlington courageous if misguided; but he also appears more emotionally honest because he speaks of his mistakes as irremediable in addition to undignifying, as inherent in his character as the narrative has established it. And they are mistakes, not one mistake, the use of the plural serving to conflate Stevens' relationship to Lord Darlington with his relationship to Miss Kenton. For the two relationships, and the butler's mistakes in them, are indeed related, as is Stevens' first-person perspective to the novel's thematic intent.
Ironically, Stevens gets to speak for himself in Ishiguro's tale, whereas in the past he had always allowed Lord Darlington to speak for him or at least to speak in his place. But in speaking for himself, he only reveals the tragicomic extent of his political capitulation and emotional barrenness, his substitution of a life of peripheral protocol for one of direct involvement. Being a butler, for Stevens, has been an act of selfless fealty toward a lord, not a mere profession or business—moreover, toward a lord engaged in great undertakings designed to secure England's future. He has allowed nothing to come between him and his duty to Darlington, not even the love of Miss Kenton, so satisfactory has his relationship with his master been. And Lord Darlington, for his part, has allowed nothing to come between him and his duty to his country, not even the love of a wife, so satisfactory has his life of (behind-the-scenes) public service been. As a member of the household staff at Darlington Hall, Miss Kenton serves Stevens even as he serves his lord and his lord serves the state. The problem with this hierarchy of faithful service, however, is that it permits no room for second-guessing, and second-guessing is what the action of both master and butler so desperately require. When Miss Kenton tries to question the actions of her "betters"—particularly in the dismissal of the Jewish maids—she is rebuffed. No one questions the fact that the happy "partnership" of Stevens and Lord Darlington seems to rule out the need for female companionship, though I hasten to add that there is nothing overtly or even covertly sexual about their relationship.
Ishiguro means, I think, to make Stevens' blindness—both to Darlington's political naïveté and Miss Kenton's emotional warmth—stand as a metaphor for England's blindness to its own national character and destiny. Just as Stevens trusted in Lord Darlington, Darlington trusted in his, and his country's ability to broker a lasting peace with the Germans where no one else had been able to. That is, he and his associates—who recall the members of the notorious if somewhat mythologized "Cliveden set"—placed their trust in the cachet of British empire and aristocracy, as did Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain after them. They were mistaken to do so because, as Hitler clearly saw, the empire and its royalty were headed for extinction. Stevens thought he was serving the empire by denying himself, but all that he really did was deny himself, deny the love that could have given his life some dimension. He unquestioningly accepted the class system and his insulated place in it, and his reward, like that of many of his countrymen high and low, was a life of lovelessness if not brutality, of coldness if not desolation, of constriction if not misery. Stevens' singular detachment or self-enclosure is well conveyed by the novel's first-person perspective, which naturally permits no other points of view to interject themselves and which furthermore allows Stevens to create his character, as well as its social significance, by indirection, without resort to psychologizing on the one hand or historicizing on the other. One of the problems with Ivory's film, as I've indicated, is that the omniscient camera does intervene and perhaps had no choice but to intervene. In doing so, however, it sacrifices Stevens' integral tunnel vision without providing any compensatory light.
The title of Ishiguro's novel refers both to the remains of Stevens' own day—to the quiet evenings following his daily yeoman's service as well as to the lonely retirement that awaits him—and to the twilight of British imperialism. That twilight tends to get moved back to its heyday or sunshine in Ivory's film, partly because of Tony Pierce-Roberts' cinematography, which appears celebratory instead of elegiac, lush rather than weathered; partly because of the movie's ending, which instead of finding Stevens sitting alone on a seaside bench in the evening (as the novel does), shows him back at Darlington Hall the next morning going about his duties, which happen to include—oh, cliché of cinematic clichés!—releasing a trapped pigeon into the verdant beauty of the surrounding countryside; and partly because of the documentary-like sequences showing, even glorying in, how a great manor is run, from the butler's ironing of the morning paper page by page to the scullery maid's cleaning of the cutlery, from the elaborate preparation of meals to the equally elaborate accommodation of numerous important guests. The camera remains somewhat removed through all of this, yet one can't help thinking that the preoccupied Stevens would never take the time to scan the place and process of his work in such loving detail. Nor, as I've already pointed out, would he regard Miss Kenton in the way the camera does: lingeringly and lovingly. In the novel, she's a figure of imagination, created by words, a player in Stevens' internal dramas whose face we never see. In the film, Miss Kenton takes on a life of her own—especially as acted by the estimable, I dare say enchanting, Emma Thompson. And that life with its drama detracts a bit from Stevens' own. Anthony Hopkins doesn't play the butler, he inhabits him as he knew he must if he were going to capture the inner life of a man who very nearly has no outer life, and whose appeal to any woman has to come from deep inside his self-imposed carapace. Hopkins creates a similar character in a film released almost at the same time as The Remains of the Day: Richard Attenborough's Shadowlands, the love story of C. S. Lewis and the American poet (as well as film critic) Joy Davidman. But there he is burdened by a script and direction far more sentimental than what Ivory and Jhabvala give him.
I obviously have my problems with their Remains of the Day, but I'll take it rather than no film version at all. And not least because of the generally fine supporting cast, among whose members two stand out: Hugh Grant, as Lord Darlington's presciently critical, refreshingly playful godson, and Peter Vaughan, as Stevens' aged underbutler of a father whose death inspires little filial emotion in his son. Even here, however, a mistake was made in (1) conflating the parts of the postwar American millionaire who buys Darlington Hall and an American Congressman who attends a prewar Darlington conference to speak against the appeasement of the Nazis; and (2) casting the eager but wooden Christopher Reeve in the "collapsed" role. The man whose denunciation of Hitler at the Hall fell on deaf ears would most likely not revisit such a painful and frustrating memory in his retirement, nor would he then dimly declare—in Jhabvala's screenplay—that he couldn't recall what he said that evening in Oxfordshire more than twenty years ago. This puts his character on an intellectual level with Lord Darlington himself, and even Christopher Reeve is not that stupid. Neither, finally, is the film of which he is a part.
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F800GS Traxxion Fork Suspension Mods
I recently had Traxxion Dynamics install the AK-20 compression / rebound adjustable cartridges into my F800GS forks. The base spring rate and damping is much better than stock. However, I do not feel the range of adjustability is near sufficient. To be fare, The folks at Traxxion said to send them back for evaluation, and I will. There is just no perceived performance difference from one end of the adjustment range to the other. So, those who have had Traxxion AK-20's installed, can you comment on the range of adjustability. I'm trying to figure out if mine have an issue, or is the design limited and just doesn't meet my expectations. Thanks for your comments/feedback.
Ann Arbor, MI
You're probably one of the first to get them, so I doubt anyone has any experience.
If it matters, external low speed damping adjustments aren't linear, and their effectiveness (and range of effectiveness) is coupled to the oil weight. Typically you'll find a small range (sometimes as small as half a turn or so) where you really see any difference in damping characteristics, even though the adjustment may be 3 turns or more. It has to do with the way the typical adjuster works...the geometry and physics and stuff. And again, oil weight. I assume you put in what they recommended? And possibly even sent with the kit?
Also remember that external adjustments are almost ALWAYS low speed--the compression adjustment, for instance, won't make much of a difference at all if you're banging around off road. Its more for stuff like settling into corners and fork dive under braking.
Have you tried them set ALL the way in and ALL the way out? If you do a back to back and just bounce on the front end, you really should notice some difference. If you do notice a difference, then you can hone in on where in the adjustment range you actually see some change, and from there you can set off for actual tuning.
Thank you for the insight. I'm used to the range of adjustability of the high speed compression clickers found on most dirt bikes. There is a real difference in feel.....the range is just not there with the low speed only adjustment. Traxxion actually installed kit and set oil level and specified oil wt based upon weight, etc...
The brake diving is so much better, as is the general feedback and the harshness as been smoothed out.
Indy Unlimited (Dan) has them for a while now. He'll check in I'm sure. He's a good guy and knows what he is talking about.
Yeah I ran into the same issue with mine. I got adjustment but it is too high in the spectrum for off road use IMO. The standard oil weight is 7.5W used by Traxxion. Before I send them the forks back to rework the cartrige valves and open up the overall flow I am going to try a 2.5W or 0W fork oil to see if I can get the dampening range moved into the off road spectrum. This cartridge is the best design available on the market and is more tunable then Ohlins or Bitubo. But unfortunately road or street bike settings are way off what we need for off roading. The guys at Traxxion are road suspension specialists. I will be working wth them all summer trying to get close to perfection for this set up. In the meanwhile I would recommend we collaborate any changes with oil weight etc and how it changes the performance. I plan to ride down to their shop and get some direct hands on training on changing the valves and buying any special tools needed.
Even the Racetech product I reviewed is going to be challenging on getting the valve stack right for off road riding. Docking Pilot's buddy is the Racetech guinea pig so we will see his reviews for them soon. The point is once you got these cartridges right they dont go out of adjustment like the gas style cartridges. Be patient and we will all get the front ends working very well.
The Race Tech patient goes out Monday btw.
Did they explain that one fork you can adjust compression and the other you adjust rebound.
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I got my fork back on Thrus. They are installed asof about an hour ago. I'm riden' tomorrow! first ride in months(snow, hand surgery). I'll let you know. And yes one tube for compression, on tube for rebound, wtf.
Thanks for the feedback all. Yes, one side is compression and the other rebound.
If I bounce the front end up and down and take the adjustment knobs from full open to full close, you can feel a difference. But when actually riding, the performance range is not very pronounced.
I think the part that is missing is the high speed circuit. I would like to be able to soften it up for the sharp inputs like when riding washboard roads and then stiffen it back up for larger whoops and aggressive off road riding. Looks like that is not to be for now. I would welcome the chance to work with others on the ADV Forum and Traxxion to get this AK-20 system dialed in with a adjustment range that matches the range of usage of this bike and ADV riders. I will be talking with Traxxion guys next week and I am planning an ride Easter weekend in Nashville area. I will be senting forks back after that for an adjustment if they agreed there is any room in making them better.
If I understand the folks at Traxxion stated that the cartridges are set up for low speed rather than high speed like a dirt bike. So you are saying the cartridges may be able to be "tuned" more towards the high speed end of the response spectrum like a dirt bike? That would be cool
It's a bit more fundamental than that. Suspension isn't high OR low speed, there are just different ways suspension reacts when it's traveling at different speeds, and in fact completely different parts of the fork that contol the motion at low and high speeds.
They can tune the damping characteristics to whatever they/you choose. It just sounds like that they didn't get it right for you the first time around. Based on the fact that their bread and butter is sportbike suspension with half the travel of a GS, it's not all that suprising.
Any updates on how the AK-20 is working for you folks?
Funny you should ask. I just sent forks back to traxxion for another adjustment. They were very receptive to making adjustments to satisfy my concerns. I have two issues. One - the increased spring rate and damping fixed front end dive while braking, but came at the expense of harshness over washboard type roads. Two - range of compression adjustability is limited. With the work they have done with Docking Pilot and my concerns, Dan feels he can fix both by reducing spring rate and changing taper on compression needle. Additionally, they have added a preload adjustment in the range of 14 mm that should provide additional adjustment. I'll report back as soon as I re-install and ride on a variety of surfaces.
Here is the latest set up that works great with the Traxxion Dynamics AK-20 Kit:
Preload spacer length 225 mm
Oil level 110 mm using 5 wt fork oil
Springs 0.60 kg/mm x 310 mm long
Range of adjusters is 4.5 turns
Cartridge valves set at C 3 R 3
Machine stock fork caps: Compression adjustment on one fork cap, Rebound adjustment on the other fork cap
Or get the new caps with compression and rebound on each fork and air bleeders.
Spec all that when sending your forks in to Dan Anderson at Traxxion Dynamcs.
Also Dan has been working on new fork caps to replace the modified stockers with full rebound and compression adjustments on each cap. I just spoke with him today and they made a boat load of fork caps and they are out for anodizing and will be available in 3 weeks.
Docking Pilot should post in soon with ride results he has had on this set up for the last 2 months now.
The front forks are now world class.:clap
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Dec 18, 2006, Vol. 12, No. 14 • By ROBERT KAGAN and WILLIAM KRISTOL
Of the many disappointments of the Iraq Study Group's report, none is greater than the failure (or was it unwillingness?) to offer any remotely plausible suggestions for bringing security and stability to significant parts of Iraq. The Baker group instead chose to entertain the fantasy that political reconciliation in Iraq can take place in the absence of basic security for the average Iraqi. But basic security for Iraqis is the prerequisite for any successful political reconciliation, because if the United States cannot provide protection to Iraqis, they have little choice but to turn to those who can, namely their own sectarian militias. People talk about what a power broker Moktada al-Sadr has become. But American policy made Sadr what he is today. First we failed to take him out of the game early on, when he posed less of a menace. Then our failure to protect the Shia from insurgent and terrorist attacks by al Qaeda and the Sunni insurgency all but guaranteed that many would turn to Sadr's army for such protection.
THE WEEKLY STANDARD has been calling for a substantial increase in American forces in Iraq since the summer of 2003. More troops could have helped dramatically then, as almost everyone, including Gates in his Senate testimony, now agrees. Almost everyone now agrees more troops could have made a big difference in 2004 and 2005, too. And a rapid and substantial increase in American forces in Iraq remains key to solving our predicament today.
But isn't it too late? And are there troops to send?
No, it's not too late. And yes, the troops exist. We have addressed both these questions in recent weeks. Our colleague, Frederick W. Kagan, has written extensively in these pages and elsewhere on why 50,000 additional troops are needed in Iraq, what exactly they would do, and where they would come from. But you don't have to take our word for it.
General Jack Keane, the former Army vice chief of staff, who has traveled to Iraq frequently to meet commanders, has become an outspoken advocate for a substantial increase in American forces, especially in Baghdad. He has expressed disdain for those both inside and outside the Pentagon who claim that it is impossible to restore order there: "The notion that we can't provide protection for people in one of the capital cities of this world is just rubbish."
Keane is not alone. A few months ago, Army Maj. General Paul Eaton, who until his retirement had been in charge of building up the Iraqi Security Forces, told Senate Democrats what they didn't want to hear: that American force levels in Iraq were not nearly high enough, and that "we are, conservatively, 60,000 soldiers short." And the Wall Street Journal recently reported that "most military officers . . . seem to believe that a pullback of U.S. forces would only trigger more violence and make political compromise in the country impossible. These officers argue that 20,000 U.S. troops are needed to bring order to Baghdad. Another 10,000 U.S. soldiers would also be needed" as advisers to the Iraqi army. As the Journal reports, the officers "bristle at the idea that it is too hard or impossible."
Then there is retired general Anthony C. Zinni, staunch opponent of the Iraq war, close friend of Colin Powell, and former head of the Central Command under Bill Clinton. General Zinni rejects the entire logic of both the Baker report and current administration strategy. As he recently told the New York Times, "There is a premise that the Iraqis are not doing enough now, that there is a capability that they have not employed or used. I am not so sure they are capable of stopping sectarian violence." Instead of taking troops out of Iraq, Zinni, according to the Times, believes that "it would make more sense to consider deploying additional American forces over the next six months to 'regain momentum' as part of a broader effort to stabilize Iraq that would create more jobs, foster political reconciliation and develop more effective Iraqi security forces."
Beyond these generals and other military officers, an increasing number of political leaders support an increase in force levels in Iraq. First and foremost has been Sen. John McCain, who has long called for an increase in troops to Iraq and continues to believe it is the only workable answer. He is joined by Senate Armed Services Committee members Joseph Lieberman, John Cornyn, and Lindsey Graham. A new addition to this camp is the incoming House Intelligence Committee chairman, Rep. Sylvestre Reyes. The man who will have about as big a role as anyone in reviewing the course of Iraq policy over the next two years has recently called for an increase in American forces in Iraq of 20,000 to 30,000 troops "for the specific purpose of making sure [Iraqi] militias are dismantled."


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First post for me: some sketches, tattoo flash and other stuff (some nudity)
Hey! I'm new here.. Been lookin around alot and this seems like an awesome art forum.. Seen alot of stuff here that I really love..
This is a picture I'm working on.. Mostly to practice at painting digitally.. I'm kinda stuck, dont really know were to go with it from here so some critique and comments would be great.. Dont really know what to do with the background, never been good at backgrounds
So any tips to make her look more alive, about shading/light and ideas for a backgrund would be great.
Selfportrait GTA San Andreas style:
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hey nice tattoos i was just thinking about incorperating some into a sculpt project..
About a background for the GI chick- have you thought of giving her a story? or making sense of what she's doing? That could help in deciding a background if you haven't done that yet. like.. ok she's basically naked, got some heavy weaponry, and a purse with some frags and a vibe in it.. If -possible- come up with a scenario why anyone would be goin out like that. Maybe she's in a ruined city fighting some major aliens..that are allergic to orgasms?
well basically what im getting at is that if you give her some story, it'll help you out to set her someplace, and after that it'll get you a better idea of what kinda lighting to give her.
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2015: Made a successful return from injury to compete in the 400 and relays... Indoor - ran a sub-47.50 in the 400 all season... won the quarter mile at the Orange and Purple Classic (47.47) and Virginia Tech Invite (47.46)... ran a top indoor time of 46.89 at the Tyson Invitational, finishing 12th... finished 16th at the SEC Indoor Championships... was part of a 4x400 relay team that won three races and had a top time of 3:09.26... Outdoors - Continued to have success in the quarter-mile events, with wins at the Shamrock Invite (47.14) and Bill Carson Invite (46.94)... ran a season-best time of 46.40 at the Florida Relays... ran the starting leg of the 4x4 relay at the SEC Championship; the team finished third with the fourth-best time in school history (3:03.13)... is a member of the team's top 4x100, 4x200 and 4x400 relay groups... qualified for regionals in the 400... earned a trip to nationals as a member of the 4x1 and 4x4 relay teams.
2014: Redshirted the indoor and outdoor seasons.
2013: 2013 NCAA East Preliminary qualifier in the 4x400m...Indoors, a 400m runner...won the Auburn Invitational with a time of 47.26 and went on to finish in 13th at the prestigious Armory Collegiate Invitational...clocked in with the sixth-best time in school history in the prelims at the SEC Indoor Championships with a 46.81...in the stacked 400m finals at SEC Indoors, crossed at 47.36 to finish in seventh and to score for the Gamecocks...also an integral relay member, posting the top 4x400m relay time at the Alex Wilson Invite at 3:10.79...Outdoors, returned to 400m action at Florida Relays, running a season-best 47.42...took fifth at Spec Town Relays and finished 15th at the SEC Outdoor Champion...ran the second leg of the 4x400m team at Penn Relays (3:08.37 - 3rd)
2012: NCAA Outdoor participant in the 4x100m relay...earned Second Team All-America honors in the 4x100m...NCAA East Preliminary qualifier in the 400m and 4x400m relay...Indoors, competed in the 400m, won the Virginia Tech invitational...ran a season-best time of 47.86 at SEC Indoor Championships...ran lead off at SEC Indoor Championships on the 4x400m relay, the team placed 8th and ran a season-best time of 3:06.78..outdoors, competed in the 400m...won the Shamrock Invitational and Weems Baskin Invite...finished 7th at the SEC Outdoor Championships, running his top mark of 45.93 in the preliminaries...Finished 18th at the NCAA East Preliminaries...ran the third leg on the 4x100m relay team that won at Bob Pollack, placed 4th at SEC Championships and ran a season best 39.60 at NCAA Outdoors...anchored the 4x200m relay team in their fastest time of the year, 1:22.76...ran leadoff on the 4x400m team that placed 6th at SEC Outdoor Championships with a time of 3:08.31...competed at the US Olympic Trials in the 400m
2011: Outdoor NCAA participant ... Second Team All-America selection in the 4x100m relay and 4x400m relay ... NCAA East Preliminary qualifier in the 400m, 4x100-meter relay and 4x400-meter relay ... SEC bronze medalist in the 4x100m relay ... Indoors, competed in the 400m ... won the Hokie Invitational ... ran a season best 47.52 to place 12th at the SEC Indoor Championships ... ran the leadoff leg of the 4x400m relay team that placed seventh at the SEC Indoor Championships at 3:10.85 ... Outdoors, competed in the 400m ... had a top time of 46.60 at the War Eagle Invitational ... placed eighth in the prelims at the SEC Outdoor Championships at 46.95 ... finished 19th at the NCAA East Preliminary with a time of 47.15 ... ran third leg for SEC bronze medal 4x100m relay team that crossed the line at 39.49 ... relay placed fourth at the NCAA East Preliminary and 11th overall at the NCAA Outdoor Championships at 39.50 ... Ran opening leg of 4x400-meter relay team that placed sixth at the SEC Outdoor Championships at 3:09.67 ... Ran first leg of team that advanced to outdoor final with a time of 3:05.85 ... Relay placed 14th at the NCAA Outdoor Championships with a time of 3:07.91.
HIGH SCHOOL: Somerset County Athlete of the Year ... New Jersey Meet of Champions winner in the 400m ... New Jersey State Champion in the 400m and section champion in the 100m, 200m and 400m.
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NANCY PELOSI IS the woman in the Democratic Party whom Republicans love to hate. As we observed two years ago when we suggested she step down as her party's leader in the House, she has aroused a visceral dislike in her critics that goes beyond the fact that her job has been to push an agenda that affronts conservatives.
Pelosi, who in 2010 was coming off a disastrous midterm election that cost Democrats the majority in the House, decided to stay on. Earlier this week, The Washington Post reported that Pelosi, House Democratic leader for 10 years, was considering giving up the role now that her caucus has suffered its second disappointing election in a row.
On Wednesday, she announced that she would remain as leader. That is a mistake.
Two years on, nothing much has changed except Pelosi's age. She is now 72. Despite the caricatures of her, she is what she always was – a dedicated, smart and attractive politician who made history as the first female speaker. Her biggest problem is simply coming from San Francisco, which conservatives use against her as a stereotype suggesting wacky liberal excess. Unfair or not, voters in America's heartland aren't going to rejoice over her decision.
But it would be best for the Democratic Party if a clean break were made from the past.
To do that would require someone younger to replace her; the potential successors are in their 70s – Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer, 73, of Maryland and Rep. James E. Clyburn, 72, of South Carolina. In the Senate, Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid will soon be 73, and he should be thinking of handing over the reins, too.
The Democrats have had success in appealing to young people at the polls, which is even more reason for believing that its leadership can't afford to be geriatric for much longer.
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Some years fade over time. Some events slip from memory, replaced by fresh thrills and new dramas.
But 1978 and the Triple Crown duel between Affirmed and Alydar grow brighter and more unforgettable every year.
It was tremendous theater at the time. Alydar, a stalker, came from the back of the pack to challenge Affirmed before losing the Kentucky Derby by a length and a half. In the Preakness Stakes three weeks later, Affirmed held off a hard-charging Alydar by less than half a length. And finally in the Belmont Stakes, running neck and neck for the final seven furlongs and taking turns at the lead, they went to the wire, where Affirmed won by a nose.
I'm no horse racing fan, but I was captivated in 1978. Everyone was. I remember maybe a dozen men at the liquor store down the block from where I lived huddled together watching the Preakness on a small black-and-white TV behind the counter and yelling as Alydar came strong down the stretch. I remember my mother, who had never been to the track in her life, deciding to host a Belmont party at our house, complete with big hats and tall drinks. I remember Walter Cronkite telling me all about the horses and their riders on the evening news. When you watched these horses run you were taking part in a phenomenon, you were tapped into a movement.
Affirmed and Alydar gave us an intoxicating dose of pure, unrelenting competition. Over the course of three races, in less than 10 total minutes, each of them was challenged and each of them dug down for untapped reserves of strength and determination. It didn't matter that they were horses and not athletes; for six weeks in the early summer of 1978 they were the essence of sport. They were answers to the fundamental questions: How far can you reach? How fast can you go? How much pressure can you stand? How much heart can you muster?
There were other great moments in 1978. Leon Spinks, toothless grin and all, took down Muhammad Ali in a shocker. An upstart Duke team (that's right kids, in the old days Duke was the underdog) challenged mighty Kentucky for the NCAA basketball championship. An unlikely Seattle SuperSonics team fell in seven close games to the Washington Bullets in the NBA Finals. The Oakland Raiders' Kenny Stabler holy-rolled a ball to Pete Banaszak, who scooped it to Dave Casper for the winning touchdown in a wild late-season game against the San Diego Chargers. And little man Bucky Dent hit a ball over the Green Monster in a one-game playoff against the Red Sox to put the Yankees on the road to a World Series title.
But none of these events rose to the level of Affirmed versus Alydar. They were fluky and fun, charming but not significant. Affirmed versus Alydar was epic; two competitors at the height of their form going head-to-head. Even as it unfolded it felt as though it belonged to another time, as though it were part of some legendary chronology that included foes like Russell and Chamberlain and Ali and Frazier, and would come to include those like Borg and McEnroe and Brady and Manning. It stood out against the backdrop of the rest of the year in sports and took on added significance because it felt so singular, splendid and rare in 1978.
|Affirmed and Alydar certainly weren't separated by much.
And beyond the world of horse racing their races have, with each passing year, become a touchstone of the whole idea of real rivalry and true drama. When we say we wish someone would challenge Tiger Woods, we are saying we long for what it was like when Alydar gave Affirmed everything he had. When we hoped all season long last year that the Patriots would be locked in a tight battle, having to prove they were not only gifted but gritty, we were remembering what it was like when those two horses were center stage.
There have been captivating boxing matches since 1978 (Leonard-Hearns, Hearns-Hagler, Bowe-Holyfield, Vazquez-Marquez, etc.). There have been outstanding and dramatic World Series played since 1978 (1986, 1991, 2001 and 2002, for example). There have been great Super Bowls (XIII, XXIII, XXV, XXXIV, XXXVI, XLII). There have been legendary NBA Finals matchups (1980, 1984, 1985, 1993, 1998). There has been Tiger where once there were Jack and Tom. There have been Andre, Pete, Roger and now Rafa, where once there were Connors, Borg and McEnroe. Sport renews itself. Time passes. One year, no matter how exciting, is more or less as memorable as another.
But in horse racing, it's worth remembering, time has stopped. Then, now and still, there is only Affirmed versus Alydar.
And that means whatever sport you love, if you're a fan, on some level, there is only 1978.


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Healthcare professionals define diaper rash as a type of contact dermatitis. Diapers create the perfect environment for the development of rashes. The diaper against the baby's skin forms dark, moist conditions with a regular supply of urine and feces, well known harbingers of disease.
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2 tablespoons
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1 1/2 tablespoons
chopped fresh mint leaves
1 tablespoon
chopped fresh mint leaves
I thought it was good, and other people did too! I found it needed about a tablespoon of vinegar and some salt.
Refreshing! I added salt and pepper, and maybe next time I'll add some garlic, but this was very good as is over a mixed greens salad with sliced apple, red onion, tomatoes and a little feta cheese.
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Love it! went well in my kale, shaved carrot, cucumber, green onion, and cashew salad. thank you for sharing!
It was good! It was refreshing, better than putting mayo in with a salad like we Russians usually do, and more tasty than just oil and lemon! I made a salad with cherry tomatoes and chilled sautéed mushrooms with oregano! So it went perfectly with my new summer salad!
Loved it. I added crushed garlic and salt to it. Did not strain the dressing. Liked the mint leave texture of the dressing. Used the dressing over apples, cucumber, broccoli and little chopped red onion. It tasted very nice with sweetness of apple countering tangy taste of lemon. - Lata
I LOVE this one! I use it as a base some times & add other things too. A must try!
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170 reviews
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Package Quality: 4.1
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Package Quality: 4.1
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INGREDIENTSDimethicone Crosspolymer, Dimethicone, Isododecane, Cyclopentasiloxane, Polysilicone-11, Trisiloxane, Silica, Methicone, BHT
on 5/14/2015 2:50:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Other
I give it 5 lippies because I haven't found anything that performs better, and the price doesn't break the bank. It doesn't give me hours and hours of oil control, but then nothing has yet. It doesn't stop foundation from sitting in my pores completely, but it does it better than anything else has.
I don't quite understand what some people are saying when they say it feels heavy or greasy. I use a pea-sized amount over my whole face. It slides around like the silicone-based primer that it is, and turns into something like a powder-feel almost instantly. Under my MUFE HD, it buys me a couple more hours before I have to blot. Would repurchase.
on 1/1/2015 3:51:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
This is one of the few Mac products I have repurchased many times, and have been using for several years.
I have normal/combination skin, and even my t-zone gets oily by midday sometimes while wearing this product, so I don't think it would be an absolute fix for gals looking for oil control.
I use a pea sized amount of this product mixed in with my MUFE HD foundation. I didn't like how heavy it felt under my foundation, but I absolutely love how this mixes with foundation! When you use the product mixed in with your foundation, it has the twin advantages of both decreasing the amount of foundation you have to apply daily, and it leaves your face feeling silky and smooth (plus it fills in pores).
A tube of this stuff lasts for months. It's a staple in my beauty bag. I wouldn't dream of using another primer. Other ones I have tried made me break out.
on 2/3/2014 4:26:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I bought this intending to use it under foundation and powder for every day as I have oily skin. I found, however, that it tends to feel very heavy when I wear it underneath liquid foundation or even powder for every day. I gave up on it for a while until I began to wear eyeshadow on a daily basis. This is a great eyeshadow primer. If I don't use primer, the eyeshadow creases very noticeably by midday but with this as a base, my eyeshadow stays fresh and pigmented until the evening. IT goes on very smoothly and makes my skin feel really soft. I just think it's too heavy for every day use on my entire face as I am prone to acne break outs.
on 10/31/2013 5:25:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Medium, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Curly, Medium
Eyes: Brown
Even though it's ment especially for oilier skin types, I think it suits perfectly for all skin types. It creates a super smooth, kinda powdery like (covering up most of those nasty pores!) surface on the skin, with a semi matte finish. And I think it's a all skin types - product?
'Cause it doesn't keep your skin oil free all day long, especially if you're prone to it. It won't make you greasy looking either, skin is more like dewy and glowy at the end of the day. It keeps your makeup put in all types of weather. It creates the perfect surface for applying your makeup. I think it's worth a try even if your skin is on the dryer side. And it'll last forever, 'cause a teeny tiny amount is enough. I think this would be better 'the basic skin primer of mac's' than the prep + prime skin. Just try it!
on 10/4/2013 12:30:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
So pleased this stuff exists.
Brilliant mattifier for my normal/combination skin. It will prevent any makeup melting off the face throughout the day. If I use a generous amount, everything on my face just stays put. No need to touch up with powder sometimes!
And no breakouts so far.
Definitely a makeup staple for me. Worth every penny.
on 5/25/2013 2:35:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
I really like this product. It's not an end all be all to oily skin, but it does help control the oil in my t-zone. After applying MAC oil control moisturizer, I apply a pea sized amount to fingers and dot it along my t-zone and then rub it in. If I have any residue left on my finger I rub that over the rest of my face, but I try to concentrate on my oily areas.
The matte gel formula feels very lightweight on the skin and it creates a super smooth surface to apply your foundation. I have combination skin and sometimes I can be oily on my t-zone but still have a little dry flakiness on my nose area. The matte gel helps to keep the flakiness from showing, especially if I am using a powder foundation like Studio Fix powder plus foundation. It doesn't make my skin oil free.... but at the end of the day my skin a less oily.
One tube really lasts a long time. Also, I try to avoid applying this to my eyes. I don't treat this product as a primer really, only as oil control.
on 4/24/2013 12:32:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Very Oily, Fair-Medium, Neutral
Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Blue
I had high hopes for this product as the SA explained to me that it is designed for oily skin. I am not a huge fan of how it goes on your skin - almost like nothing - but then feels very greasy once it's applied. This primer caused my eye makeup to crease and did not control my oil as I expected. My foundation was blotchy, and smearing all over my face within a few hours. I will not repurchase and I am very disappointed! Maybe this would be good for someone who needs some moisturizing under their foundation?
I'm going back to my Laura Mercier Oil Free Primer because it controls my oil perfectly under every foundation I have tried.
on 4/3/2013 6:17:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Blond, Curly, Medium
Eyes: Green
- Mattifies instantly
- Creates a silky smooth surface
- Does a pretty good job to prevent concealer creasing
- Didn't break me out
- Hygienic tube
- Good amount of product
- Doesn't really control oil for long
- Price
I have repurchased it many times but now I'd like to try something else.
on 3/16/2013 3:32:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Blue
I bough MAC Matte for $20 at Macys . This primer/corrector adds a sheer matte texture. I use this all over my face (forehead, cheeks, nose, chin, eyelids) before applying foundation. Since using this my makeup has stayed on twice as longer and does not crease my eye makeup. This primer creates a great surface for applying and achieving a great look!
on 3/16/2013 12:59:00 AM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Combination, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I bought Mac Matte for $20, looking for a good primer that would keep me matte throughout the day, as I tend to get a little shiny down my t-zone. It has the consistency of a gel, but glides on your skin as if you're not putting anything on. Once blended, it feels so incredibly smooth and even, and it fills in pores and fine lines. It creates a beautiful, even canvas to put makeup on top off. The BIGGEST downside to this is the first week-or-so of using it. I don't have sensitive skin by any means, and I have no allergies to silicone, but this broke me out worse than I have EVER broken out before. I say this without any exaggeration, I have pretty clear skin, but this messed my face up. After the first day, I had huge, swollen, painful red bumps all over my face, but they weren't white heads or normal pimples. I believe the heaviness and the silicone irritated my skin, and on top of that, the product was blocking my pores. The first week was hell for my skin. However, if you can deal with caking on the makeup to cover the blemishes, after the first week, give or take a few days, this product really works well. My skin got used to it pretty quickly, my bumps cleared, and I was able to use this everyday without irritation or breakouts. Foundation and other products blend FLAWLESSLY over this, and you'll look smooth and almost airbrushed all day. Matte - that's a different story. If this was called "MAC Smooth Airbrushed Cream", the name would work, but this only keeps me matte for about 2-3 hours. I don't get AS oily as I would without it, but still, if a product is going to be named "Matte", it should keep me completely matte all day. This also extends your makeup wear. My foundation doesn't cake or disappear throughout the day. It clings to makeup, but I feel this does rub off pretty easily. Over MAC Matte, makeup is more likely to transfer if it isn't set with a good powder. Overall, I like this primer, and I will continue to buy it, since my skin is now used to it.
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For those who are familiar with the cruise industry, the Celebrity Cruises brand of ships from Royal Caribbean Cruise Line is known for its luxury at sea. Celebrity also tends to attract an older demographic than Royal Caribbean and other cruise lines like Carnival, Norwegian and Disney. So it's interesting to see that on its newest ship, the Celebrity Reflection, new video game technology has changed the way passengers interact.
Over one quarter of American gamers are over the age of 50, according to the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). While the Nintendo Wii has become a mainstay across most cruise lines, including Celebrity, the company has developed brand new video game tables for passengers of all ages at its Game On lounge.
"Instead of the old run-of-the-mill card game rooms that we've had on older ships, guests now have a new multi-sensory touch screen experience with our Game On tables," said Paul Baya, cruise director on the Celebrity Reflection. "These tables have been designed so that we can add new games over time."
Right now, the tables come programmed with eight games that would appeal to an older demographic, as well as families. The games include titles like Bumpers (a modern version of marbles), Checkers, Word Power (a variation of Boggle), Think Faster (a Concentration-like match game) and Moving Puzzle (a video puzzle game).
What's cool about these tables is the multiplayer capabilities. Up to four players can compete on one tablet in games like Snag 'Em, which is a variation of the Bejeweled genre of casual games. But up to six tables can be connected wirelessly to allow 24 or more people to take part in games like Team Draw. This game is basically Pictionary (or Win, Lose or Draw) without the markers and drawing board. Instead, you draw on the touch screen with your fingers (there are even different colors to choose from) until someone types in the correct answer.
According to Ivonne Paris, manager of product development for Celebrity Cruises, the goal in designing these exclusive gaming tables was to create a state-of-the-art, interactive, digital environment where guests can play on their own or socialize with friends. Paris added that the games were chosen to provide a balance of nostalgic games in a modern digital platform.
I was able to play all of these games and it was interesting to see how this new technology created a different dynamic for Pictionary. I've played the traditional game on a Carnival cruise and for those who want to be "green," it eliminates all that waste of paper and markers. It also eliminates the shouting dynamic of a team guessing. Playing the video game version keeps the room as quiet as a library, which I'm sure the people playing real card games on their own non-video game tablets appreciated.
It's obvious that gaming has infiltrated all age groups and that casual games are now ubiquitous across mobile devices, Smart TVs, consoles and even cruise ships. Interactivity has opened up new ways for passengers to become a part of what traditionally were very passive activities.
Baya, who also serves as the entertainment director on the Reflection, said a new audience response system allows guests to partake in instant polls through wireless devices in everything from karaoke competitions to the Who Wants to be a Millionaire comedy game show.
"As guests walk into the lounge they're given a handheld unit and as the trivia questions go up on the screen, they can vote in real-time," said Baya. "It even tracks who's the leader in the room. It really involves the guests in a unique way, as opposed to just your old comedy game show. It's really using the technology into the comedy game shows themselves."
Another testament to the adoption of gaming and tech to a wide range of consumers can be seen in how Celebrity embraces the Apple iPad. Guests can pick up a free iPad at the front desk and use it throughout the cruise to unlock info and video content on the $1 million art collection that is on display throughout the massive ship.
"I've seen technology change the cruise experience a lot over my 18 years out at sea," said Baya. "Even our restaurant, Qsine, uses an iPad as a menu. Guests can see the food and wine and watch videos before using the device to order their meal."
If passengers don't have a new iPad or iPad Mini, they can buy one at sea (tax free). The Apple iLounge offers a room filled with 22 Macs for staying connected with email and social media. It also serves as an Apple store that sells everything from iPods to MacBook Airs.
"We do tend to cater to an older demographic and many of them want to know about Apple products," said Irene Bowers, iLounge manager on the Celebrity Reflection. "Many of them get the iPad or iPhone for the first time aboard board the ship and they have a lot of questions that we offer assistance with. We also offer classes for all Apple products during the cruise so they can make the most of this technology."
The cruise industry is constantly trying to keep up with the Joneses with each new ship and technology -- and gaming -- is a key driver across just about every line. Celebrity shows that gaming is part of our lives, regardless of age, even when we're on vacation.
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Celebrity Reflection introduces new video game technology at sea
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Binaural Reverberation Using Two Parallel Feedback Delay Networks
Binaural reverberators often use a tapped delay line to model early reflections, to which a delayed late reverberation tail is added. This paper introduces a reverberator structure where the early reflections are modeled using a feedback delay network (FDN) and the late reverberation is modeled by a second FDN in parallel. The impulse responses of both FDNs are highly overlapping, simulating the presence of diffuse reverberation from the beginning of the impulse response. A particular feature of this reverberator is the reproduction of first and second order reflections using only head related transfer functions (HRTFs) for the directions of the first order reflections, allowing to reduce the computational complexity.
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