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PORRENTRUY, Switzerland – Bradley Wiggins kept the yellow jersey at the Tour de France. Keeping his cool was another matter.
The three-time Olympic gold medalist, seeking to become Britain's first Tour champion, unleashed a profanity-laced tirade after Sunday's eighth stage.
Thibaut Pinot, at 22 the youngest competitor, gave France its first stage victory this year. Wiggins quashed a late attack by defending champion Cadel Evans of Australia to retain the overall lead.
Wiggins' Team Sky has controlled the Tour in a style reminiscent of Lance Armstrong's former U.S. Postal team. But the Briton lost his composure when asked by a reporter to comment on comparisons between the teams and "cynics who believe that you have to be doped up to win the Tour."
Wiggins, angered by social media chatter, let loose with an expletive-filled outburst.
"I cannot be dealing with people like that," he said. "It justifies their own bone-idleness because they can't ever imagine applying themselves to anything in their lives. And it's easy for them to sit under a pseudonym on Twitter and write that."
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency last month filed charges against Armstrong, accusing the seven-time Tour champion of using performance-enhancing drugs. He denies any wrongdoing.
The International Cycling Union has worked to rid drug cheats from the sport and has drawn some praise from the World Anti-Doping Agency. Alberto Contador is missing from this year's race while he serves a two-year doping ban linked to his 2010 title.
Wiggins is looking to move from Olympic track champion to a rising star of the Tour de France roads. His fourth-place Tour finish in 2009 put to rest many questions about his climbing skill.
Speaking to French television, Wiggins said his ability to get up hard mountain climbs came from training, diet and lifestyle.
"I drink nothing now before, in 2004, I was almost an alcoholic after the Olympics," he said.
Wiggins has come a long way, and the last two days he has showed he can keep up with strong climbers like Evans.
Sunday's ride into the Jura range next to the Swiss Alps offered double drama: a hard last climb that splintered the pack and a tense chase of Pinot to the finish.
Pinot burst from the pack and overtook a breakaway rider on a steep, final climb to win the 97.9-mile stage from Belfort in eastern France to the Swiss town of Porrentruy.
"I will remember this day my entire life," Pinot said as teammates embraced him. "I can't yet get my mind around it."
Evans was second, 26 seconds behind, but didn't gain any time on Wiggins, who was fourth in a small group that included most of the remaining prerace favorites.
"It was good fun coming in at the end there," said Wiggins, who leads Evans by 10 seconds overall. "It was a bit like being in a junior race again. Everyone attacking in ones and twos. It's good. It's what it's all about."
Sunday's trek included yet another crash that caused a high-profile withdrawal. Defending Olympic road race champion Samuel Sanchez of Spain broke his right hand and injured his left shoulder 35 miles into the stage and could miss the London Games.


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The angle/placement/composition look 'right' to me. The stalk creates a rising diagonal (positive, dynamic), it's heading up towards the light.
I would prefer slightly greater depth of field, to bring those upper leaves a bit more into focus, because they balance the angle of the flower. F4 perhaps. The flower is leaning towards you so the stem would still soften behind the leaves.
But dof is very much about personal taste.
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Thank you both for your comments and suggestions.
I have posted a mod having flipped the image Paul, but it looks very awkward to me.
I take your point Moira but apart from a bit of cropping and darkening to the background, the image is largely as taken and I'm stuck with that DOF. Maybe the lesson is to take a few more shots at varying apertures whilst I've got the tripod set up.
I'm not happy about the small fly whose wings appear just above the petals and that must have arrived between my focussing and standing back to fire the remote. I know I can clone them out and on reflection probably should have. It's a pity it didn't show it's face!
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Quote: Maybe the lesson is to take a few more shots at varying apertures whilst I've got the tripod set up.
Always a good idea to do so! Particularly when you have a subject angled like this, the results in terms of depth of field can be difficult to predict.
I'm passionate about shallow dof, for the way that it can isolate a subject and create mystery in the background. But to work effectively I think there needs to be a reasonable proportion of the subject within the same plane or at least a slower transition from sharp to blur. That's where a stem leaning in towards you presents a challenge, and why a smaller aperture would work better for me here. A stem standing up straight gives you easier control.
Regarding your Mod - no it doesn't work for me either. But again this is very subjective. We run a U3A Photography group, at yesterday's meeting I showed several pictures plus flipped versions, and there was very clear and strong disagreement among members as to which direction worked better!
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Mod1 is a 10 X 8, and mod2 is square.
Im with Paul on this, - if the composition doest work as it is, it wont work flipped.
For me unbalanced, though technically attractive. Now that I see that fly, it has to go, and is gone in the mods.
I imagine this was cropped from a larger image? Just because theres some visible noise I would not expect at ISO 250. So its not a problem, - just wondering why its there at all. Sometimes, when you apply sharpening to an image like this, and you include the soft background, it can amplify what little noise is there, - so try selective sharpening if this is the case.
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Thanks for your interest Willie. Two points on noise. Firstly I didn't apply any reduction and secondly I was using a modest crop from a D2Xs which has a practical ISO limit of 400, so 250 is getting close. I personally don't worry too much about noise from a Nikon which is quite grain-like but maybe I'm just getting used to it!
I did however use selective sharpening in L/R on the flower head.
I must be honest I still prefer my original composition but then that is always a very personal thing and will always draw mixed opinions, which is what makes critiques so interesting.
I appreciate your time as ever.
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I didn't say it wanted flipping. That is totally wrong. It needs to be on the left of the frame. The left third.
The end product is that, as long as you like it, that is all that matters and subjective assessment becomes personal. Rules are made to be broken.
However, the rules say that anything facing in a direction should have more room in front than behind. This USUALLY looks better. Here, I still think it needs to be on the left as the balance is wrong as is.
One point here is if you are going to enter competitions. it is often better to conform to established rules then in order to get through the first few rounds of judging. in my judging life, I would reject this purely on those grounds.
However, back to bottom line. You do what you want to do.
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I will obviously bow down to your superior knowledge Paul.
Thanks for your time.
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JEFFREY KAYE: Maria Ofelia Acosta is a 72-year-old grandmother of three, who lives a tranquil, suburban life of retirement in a Los Angels suburb. But as a young child, Acosta says she and her family were victims of a little-known and little-told chapter in American history: The mass deportation of people, many of them U.S. citizens, to Mexico.
Acosta says her family's odyssey began in June 1932. That's when her father, a legal U.S. resident from Mexico, was approached by federal authorities. He was one of many Latino laborers on a public works project in northern California.
MARIA OFELIA ACOSTA: He thought maybe they're going to give us a better job. And then they said, "We decided to send you to Mexico, so line up and come one by one and get your tickets."
JEFFREY KAYE: After a bus trip to Los Angeles, the family was put aboard a train bound for Chihuahua, Mexico, where Acosta, a U.S.-born citizen, lived until she was a teenager.
MARIA OFELIA ACOSTA: It was kind of embarrassing, you know, when they throw you out. I mean, it's nothing to brag about.
JEFFREY KAYE: The expulsions are chronicled in the book "Decade of Betrayal" by California State University professors Raymond Rodriquez and Francisco Balderrama. The authors document how, during the Depression, upwards of a million people — more than half of them U.S. citizens — were sent to Mexico. The goal was to reduce welfare rolls and cut down on competition for jobs. The program, they say, was also driven by racism.
FRANCISCO BALDERRAMA, Historian: The idea that a Mexican is a Mexican, that they are foreign, that they are not part of this country even though they have lived here, they have worked here, they've build lives here. They're still not part of this country. There is no distinction made in terms of legal residence, no distinction made in terms of those that are U.S. citizens, those that are American citizens of Mexican descent. No distinction made.
JEFFREY KAYE: The program largely ended with World War II, when a labor-hungry U.S. needed as many workers as it could find. Acosta eventually returned to the U.S., finding work as a seamstress in L.A. Now, efforts are underway in California to seek justice for the victims of the repatriation program.
SPOKESMAN: This morning, we are going to be examining a tragic part of United States history.
JEFFREY KAYE: California Democratic state Sen. Joseph Dunn has conducted an investigation and held hearings in which people exiled to Mexico told their stories.
EMILIA CASTANEDA: I was frightened. I had never been to Mexico. We left with just one large trunk full of belongings in 1935. No furniture, a few medical utensils, a small ceramic pitcher, because it reminded me of my mother.
JOSEPH DUNN: What our intent is is to have both the federal government and the state of California create commissions to investigate the deportation program beyond what our resources allowed us to do, to really find out exactly who was involved, where the critical decisions were made, why they were made.
JEFFREY KAYE: So-called repatriation trains departed regularly from Los Angeles. The deportations took place with the cooperation of Mexican authorities, who saw resettling Mexicans and Mexican Americans as a national obligation. Train departures were widely publicized in the city's English and Spanish language press.
FRANCISCO BALDERRAMA: The scene was primarily that of women and children crying. Men being very, very pensive about what was to happen to them. The trains were locked because there were cases early in the period in which some of the repatriates at the very end would try to escape.
JEFFREY KAYE: In 1931, at La Placita Plaza in downtown Los Angeles, one roundup turned violent. Federal agents beat up men and women and drove them into vans. But more often, city and county officials used persuasion, not Billy clubs, to encourage people to cross the border, even enlisting social workers in the effort.
FRANCISCO BALDERRAMA: The social workers with their caseload would go to individual families, knock on the door, tell Mr. and Mrs. Gonzalez, "We think that you've been on relief for quite a long time. We think that you would be better off among your own people. We think you would be better off in Mexico."
JEFFREY KAYE: Such arguments resonated with many people who, confronted with America's bleak economic situation, went willingly to Mexico to find a better life. But once they arrived in Mexico, life for many exiles often got worse. That was the case with Acosta's family.
MARIA OFELIA ACOSTA: It was a setback for us, because I could have gone to school. My family could have gone to school — my brothers, my sisters, you know, we could have had a better life here. But throwing us over, we didn't go to school there, we didn't go to school here, so … I don't know, it's kind of … they mess it up.
JEFFREY KAYE: Although expulsions occurred across the country, Los Angeles was the epicenter of the program. Municipal and county authorities, with the assistance of business leaders, established homegrown immigration departments to oversee the deportations.
FRANCISCO BALDERRAMA: Here in L.A. County, they set up a desk called deportation, and that type of thinking then led federal authorities to say, "Hey, let L.A. County operate like a sovereign nation; let L.A. County organize trainloads of individuals and ship them to the border; let them go ahead and deport people, which is a function of the federal government."
JEFFREY KAYE: State Senator Dunn is particularly troubled by what he says are documents showing that local governments such as Los Angeles County might have actually profited from the repatriations.
FRANCISCO BALDERRAMA: For families that owned homes, L.A. County engaged in the following program: Once the family was illegally deported, they would put a lien on that house for the cost of the transportation. Say a whole family was deported to Mexico, that might be $50. Since the family was gone, there was no one there to pay off that lien, they would foreclose the lien, and the county would take possession of that home, turn around and sell it for fair market value and pocket the cash.
JEFFREY KAYE: To correct these injustices, Dunn says California should establish a financial compensation program for deportation victims. Similar reparations were paid to Japanese Americans interned during World War II.
JOSEPH DUNN: I wish we could turn the clock back and give them their lives back. We can't. The only way to make amends is through an exchange of financial … of money. It's gross, but it is the way our system is built.
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May 27th, 2012 #1
A year of nothing, structure and order
So I have at least a year of being unemployed and not in full or part time education. I want to fill this year with non stop drawing, but I'm not sure how, or if I even can, structure my study, and in what order to study things in (perspective and anatomy first, then when does colour theory and digital painting come in etc). Should I have a rigid schedule, something like 9-5, or should I just wake up, work, take breaks for food and work through the night? Is there such thing as overworking, or a point where your brain just doesn't learn anymore for the day?
I'm considering going to figure drawing sessions, I know of one on Fridays and one on Wednesdays, should I go to both or is that excessive? They're so close to each other time-wise as well. Should I schedule and order my study around those sessions? Should I make a detailed term plan of all the books and exercises to go through? I'm a little overwhelmed. Thanks
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This is one of those times where only you know the answer. If you draw all of the time, are you going to get burnt out? It's always easy to start gung-ho in the beginning and, when things (outside of art) start piling up, you lose the routine.
I would recommend that you set yourself a reasonable goal for what you would like to achieve by the end of the year. From there, pick x month intervals for smaller goals. Once you know what you want to achieve and when, then you can figure out how many drawing sessions to do, what type of work to do, etc....
For me, one long-term goal with a lot of short-term goals makes me more productive. Also, the long term goal can't be: "I want to be a better artist". It has to be something concrete like "I want to do portraits and have the drawing look reasonably close to my model" or "I want to paint mountains and have them look realistic", etc...
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May 27th, 2012 #3
I would definitely take advantage of both life drawing sessions. Don't put energy toward working out the machinations of some rigid schedule - just do what you can and work on things you want to work on. If it isn't fun why do it?
What would Caravaggio do?
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May 27th, 2012 #4
Thank you for your suggestions
Yeah I'm afraid of burnout, however a professional artist will be working a lot as well, so either I can handle that workload or I shouldn't bother pursuing this, that's my logic anyway. But of course I don't want to be too optimistic. Maybe some experimentation would help me figure out the quantity of work.
Goals eh, well I'm not quite sure what can be achieved in a year, or how long short term goals will take to complete, everyone has different paces when it comes to learning, no? I don't know my own pace or what is involved in, say learning anatomy. How long does that take? Also, I don't know how my skills are now after over a year of not drawing (I guess that's easy to find out). If there is a goal to this year of drawing, it's simply to improve as much as possible in everything. Is this a bad mindset?
JeffX99 - So I will probably go to both then. So now the plan seems to be:
- Go to life drawing Wednesdays and Fridays
- Some other time in the week, go to the national portrait gallery to draw some busts/sculptures, or the Armoury at the Wallace collection to draw armour/weapons from life
- every day, until tired, work my way through the various exercises and books (but in what order?) I think I'll start with just gesture drawings, a bit of Loomis and some other anatomy books, lines, perspective, shading, drawing from imagination, and then introduce other things (but what, and in what order) I know I won't touch the wacom tablet until I know what I'm doing with a pencil but that's the extent of my plan order wise
I will definitely keep that in mind, drawing shouldn't become a chore, or work-work
May 27th, 2012 #5
Goals are pretty easy: You've got to ask yourself some questions:
1) Why do you want to be an artist?
2) Are you looking to do illustration work for games, books, fine art, etc?
3) Are you wanting to draw because you like drawing and have a free year?
3) Are you still in the phase where you don't know what you like to draw? Do you like still life? Figurative? Abstract? Representative? etc....
The point is, without a clear goal in mind, you could spend a year floundering and bouncing around a lot of different things and never get any where.
As usual, I would recommend painting/drawing from still life or life drawing. You could spend the year getting the basics down (which is always a good idea). This would be a goal: "At the end of the year, I plan to have the basics down to be able to draw a reasonable likeness of whatever I'm interested in".
Like Jeff said, I would also take advantage of both figure drawing sessions (if you like figure drawing). Personally, I prefer landscapes, so I spend most of my time doing plein-air work. A lot of it is based on what type of art you are interested in doing. If you don't know (that's fine), then you spend the year experimenting... but, at least, get down the basics.
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May 27th, 2012 #6
Hmmm...already sounding like a chore to me...and you sound glum about it. There isn't any "order" or right thing and all that. That would be math.
The only real guideline is that drawing from life will teach you what you need to work on...the answers you're looking for really come from engaging in the activity. It's all about the half dozen or so fundamentals...composition, value, accurate drawing/perspective, volume, edges and texture...that's all there is to it.
I'd recommend "Drawing Essentials" by Deborah Rockman as a really good book to give you some structure to follow and some idea on process.
What would Caravaggio do?
Plein Air
Still Life
Sight Measuring
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May 27th, 2012 #7
Doug Hoppes - Ah, ok, well my answer to those questions would be:
1) Because I have a lot of visual stories in my head that I would like to express, and it's fun
2) Illustration for games and movies, and I have a slight interest in animation but I'm not really sure about that right now
3) I like drawing, or more accurately, I like the outcome of drawing more than the process, but the process is fun too, it's a bit like puzzle solving. But that's not the sole reason why I'm drawing for a year, the reason is I want to become a professional level concept artist (not within a year though, this is a long term goal)
What if it takes longer than a year to get the basics down and draw a likeness though? Then I will be discouraged at my level of progress. Unless you're suggesting an 'aiming for the moon and landing in the stars' approach?
Figure drawing will be essential for what I want to draw/paint, as are environments, so I'll focus on those two, along with other things, equally
JeffX99 - Really? I think I'm really looking forward to it actually, I'm itching to start drawing right this minute, but I have work to do until the end of June, at which point I'm free, I can't wait.
That's interesting, it's the impression I get when reading about all the training methods, the Atelier system and whatnot. I get the feeling that if I don't master something first, then I won't understand/mess up the next thing in line, perhaps this is the wrong way of thinking about it then.
I see, so I should draw from life, work on the fundamentals and go from there in terms of what I need to do, great, sounds uncomplicated
Thanks, I'll definitely check that book out
May 27th, 2012 #8
I don't know what you're skill level is... However, If you're looking at doing this professionally, but feel that you aren't quite there yet in terms of the almost ridiculously high standards in the sci-fi/fantasy genre. Consider some other options. There is a large number of illustrators out there who are making it. Most can't even draw better than my 7yr old. What I'm saying is you can get your practice in, yet also try to turn a profit in the process.
May 27th, 2012 #9
Yes, you're right... I never said that the goal at the end of the year was the end goal. It's just something to shoot for. If you make it, great... if not, then that's fine also... but, at least you've defined a path to get to that goal... rather than floundering around.
It's okay to change your goals... everybody does... I do it a lot... but... I know that I love to do landscapes with surrealistic shapes in them. I also know that I love selling my paintings and would rather sell them directly than work for an illustration house, etc... That's my end goal. That gives me boundaries about what to focus on and where to put my energies.
May 27th, 2012 #10
So don't "vapor lock" before you start.
The things to work on "mastering" are those fundamentals I mentioned.
Composition...form in space...value - those are the big three...everything after that is cake...or frosting, depends on how you look at it!
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Plein Air
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Sight Measuring
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May 28th, 2012 #11
You can see I don't really know what I'm doing. The angles and proportions are wrong, I'm making mistakes I'm not even aware of and it doesn't look like the reference. But, I know what to do about this, draw more and work on fundamentals
I don't really think about the professional/money making side of it too much, usually I think of it in terms of "I want my worlds and characters to appear crystal clear and beautifully rendered when I draw and paint, and to do that I need to be at the level of a professional concept artist". If I manage to get to that level and have an audience for my work, probably online, this will satisfy me much more than a not very good illustration job, drawing whatever and with little skill
May 28th, 2012 #12
Hey Lapprenti also living in loNDON I would say that we are almost spoilt for choice in terms of subject matter for life drawing. i think your idea to go to the wallace collection is an ace one, i have been several times and its really great. Planning on heading to the British war museum too. There are so many galleries to chose from such as V&A which is great for classical sculpture and the British Museum.
Not sure where you are in london but there is an interesting life drawing class based in Bethnal Green which i plan on joining in a few week when i am back from my travels. They meet on Mondays and Thursday eves and also offer concession rate session, I think you get 6 sessions for £3O which is pretty good if you ask me.
I was in a simular situation to you in terms of thinking of developing a schedule as it tricky for me as I work full time so wanted to be really strict over my spare time. But I quickly realised its better to make a commitment to draw and draw a bit everuyday, I have noticed over time the amount of time I spen drawing daily has just naturally progresses as i got mre into it again and seen a bit of improvment.
I think its better to craate a loist of things you need ir want to work on and as you work you will notive new things and be able to add those to the list. I think that has helped me craete a structure. i think coming out of full time education one can be so used to the regimented structure and think that the only way to learn, or who you should learn. The more relaxed you are about it all the less scary it will become and you will find a way of working that is natural for you.
I would also second JeffX99 recommendation of "Drawing Essentials" by Deborah Rockman. I noticed he mentioned it a lot to people and brought my self a copy and its ace and not too expensive.
I personally like the pic you posted you clearly know how to draw and things like proportions and accuracy you just need to keep working at and they will improve over time. There is nothing wrong with making mistakes thats why we have erasers, seriously draw as much as you can and just try and learn from each one and work through the things you need to learn and you will be off to a great start.
Also start a sketchbook you will get regular feedback that way. Good luck.
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Try not to let this get you down...you are aware of your mistakes, so go ahead and do another and correct those mistakes This is a good start!
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Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Broadway's silliest, most immature character is starring at a theater named for its ultimate sophisticate.
Paul Reubens's "The Pee-wee Herman Show" at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre is a lavish production (players, puppets and props rampaging amid David Korins's scenery) that runs for 90 proudly idiotic minutes. It features Reubens's frozen face and chirpy voice dispensing antediluvian jokes and cringe-making puns.
Typical scenes concern Pee-wee's love affair with Chairry, the female armchair our boy sits on, embraces and is hugged by; Jambi, the bodiless swami's head that lives in a box; and Pterri the Pterodactyl, who flits about arousing Pee-wee's yearning to fly. The plot, such as it is, hinges on the possible wiring of the Playhouse for Pee-wee's computer, which turns out to be a very bad idea indeed.
Directed by Alex Timbers (of "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson"), the show offers no straight man to Pee-wee's silliness: humans, puppets and animated furniture are equally, irremediably clownish.
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Celery Victor With French Dressing
30 Jan 2010
Celery Victor, as the name suggests, a conqueror of your taste buds, is a delicious salad with anchovy and vegetables seasoned with French dressing, pepper and pimiento. Just try this Celery Victor once and you'll get to know why it conquers the human taste apparatus always ! Don't forget to share your findings about the Celery Victor with me.
|Celery hearts
|2 Small
|1 Medium
|Bouillon/Chicken stock
|2 1⁄2 Cup (40 tbs), dissolved (10 1/2 Ounce Can Diluted With 1 Can Water Or 3 Beef Bouillon Cubes Dissolved In 1.5 Cups Hot Water)
|Seasoned french dressing
|1 Cup (16 tbs), seasoned well
|Watercress/Shredded lettuce
|Coarsely ground black pepper
|To Taste
|Anchovy fillets
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs) (For Garnish)
|Pimento strips
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs) (For Garnish)
|1 (For Extra Garnish)
|Ripe olives
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs) (For Extra Garnish)
Wash celery, trim the root end, and cut off all but the smallest leaves.
Peel and slice onion.
Put whole celery hearts and sliced onion in shallow pan; cover with bouillon.
Cover and cook until tender, about 15 minutes.
Let cool in stock.
Remove hearts, cut in half lengthwise, and place in shallow dish.
Pour over French dressing (a garlic-flavored French dressing made with wine vinegar is especially good), and chill several hours.
To serve, drain off most of dressing and place celery on watercress or shredded lettuce.
Sprinkle with pepper and garnish with anchovy fillets and pimiento strips.
Quartered tomatoes and ripe olives may be used for extra garnish.
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In this course, Macworld senior editor Christopher Breen provides a comprehensive overview of Mac OS X Lion, complete with insider tips for getting the most out of the operating system. The course shows how to configure system preferences, personalize the interface, and master gestures, as well as achieve fluency with applications such as Mail, iCal, and Preview. The course also includes tutorials on browsing the web with Safari, automating complex tasks with Automator, sharing over a network, and performing maintenance operations using the disk utility, along with timesaving techniques for using the Mac efficiently.
Apple includes a tool with Lion called Automator and as its name suggests it's a toolkit for automating tasks on your Mac. So let's take a look. When you first launch Automator you will be offered the opportunity to create one of a variety of workflows. For our purposes we're going to start by choosing Workflow and click on Choose. Workflow is simply a series of actions that can be run within Automator. The interface, you see first of all under Library categories of actions.
So for example here are the actions that you can undertake with Calendar. Contacts, Documents, Files & Folders, Fonts, so on and so forth. The main part of the window is for assembling your workflow and to do that all you have to do is grab an action and you drag it into the workflow and it will add that action to your workflow. So let's create a few workflows. I am going to move the Automator window. First thing I am going to do is create a couple of folders on the desktop. I am going to call this one Original and the second one is going to be called Copy.
Now this is what I am going to do. I am going to create a workflow that will take any items within this original folder and it will copy them to the copy folder. First thing I will do is go to Files & Folders. This is the category. I will Get Specified Finder Items, I will then Get Folder Contents, and then I will choose Copy Finder Items.
So in the first action I will take my Original folder and drag it in to add it. Then I take my Copy folder and I move that to the pop-up menu as the destination. Now I go to my Documents folder. I will take this About Stacks item. I will Option+Drag it to the Original folder. I open that folder and we see here's About Stacks.
I open the Copy folder and there's nothing in it yet. Let's fire off this workflow. Resize it so you can see what's happening. So Original, Copy, Workflow, Run. So what's happened? The file that was in the Original folder has now been copied to the Copy folder. Now let's run through the Workflow to see why that happened.
The first action says, Get Specified Finder Items. So I am defining that the original file is the source for this workflow to take place. It's then getting anything that's inside this folder and it is copying those items to my Copy folder. Pretty simple! Now let's create a folder action. The reason we want to do this is because this workflow as it stands isn't terribly helpful, because you have to have Automator opened, you have to run it, and then you accomplish your workflow.
However, how cool would this be if instead of having to run it through Automator I could simply take a file, drop it on the Original folder, and then it's automatically copied to the Copy folder? And that's what we're going to do now. First thing we'll do is we're going to remove the first action and now I will go to the File menu, choose Duplicate To, and here we see the Workflow sheet again. Now this time, I am going to choose Folder Action rather than Workflow and click on Choose.
I need a Source folder for my action. So I choose Original and drag it up to the top of the window. Now I can save. I will call it Copy items and click Save. Now I right-click or Control+Click on the Original folder and choose Folder Actions Setup. Here's my Copy items workflow. I click Attach and I close the window.
Now let's take a look. Here's Copy. Documents. Let's take this PDF file here and drag it to the Original folder. When I do that, because of the folder action, anything I have dragged to the Original folder is now automatically copied to the Copy folder. Now, of course, this isn't doing me a whole lot of good in that it's on the desktop and I don't really need to copy one file from one folder to another folder that's on the same desktop, but suppose that you have two drives.
You could have the original folder on your startup drive and you could have the other folder on your secondary drive. So this is one way to easily make a backup copy of any file that you drag into the Original folder. Now let's go back to Automator and now let's create a new workflow and this will be an application that you could drag files to. So, New, this time I choose Application and click on Choose.
We'll move to the Photos entry and we select Change Type of Images and drag it to the Workflow area. Because this is going to change the file type, Automator jumps in and says, "You know, this is going to change the file. Do you want to create a copy so that you will have the original as well as this copy?" We'll go ahead and choose Add so that we do have that copy in place, if we needed. We're going to choose Mail, scoot down, and New Mail Message, and finally also within Mail, Add Attachment to Front Message.
In the subject line of the mail message we will say something like "Look at this picture." We will have it sent from the default account and we won't address it at this point. We can put in the message body. Let's explain what's going on. When I drag in the image on top of this application, it's going to covert that image to a TIFF file. It will then take that TIFF file, it will open Mail, and it will add that TIFF file to my mail message as an attachment. The subject heading will automatically be "Look at this picture" and the message body will read, "Isn't this a great picture! Love, Chris." And here's the part about adding the attachment to the front message.
So now we'll save this. Let's put it on the desktop and we'll save it. Go to the desktop and here is our application. Let me open my Documents folder. Let's find a JPEG image, make a copy, and put it here on the desktop. I take my image and I drag it on top of the Automator application I created and here it is. And it happened that fast.
So what's happened on the desktop? Let's take another look. Notice on the desktop is my original image. It's there because that Copy action made a copy and then converted the original. The original has been converted to this TIFF file. It then took that TIFF file, it opened a new mail message, attached that TIFF file, and now here is my subject heading and here is the message body that I added. All I have to do at this point to mail it is to type in the recipient and send it and I am good to go. I won't save that and we will quit.
Workflows, folder actions, and apps are a great way to use on Automator. Here's another and that's called Services. You can create a workflow that you can place in the Services menu and better yet, you can trigger it with a keyboard shortcut. So we are back to Automator. Let's close some of these windows and I will create a new Automator action. This time I am going to choose Service and click on Choose. This time I am going to go to Calendar and choose New To Do Item.
From the first pop-up menu I am going to select no input in any application. From Options I will select Show this action when the workflow runs and you'll see why I am doing this in a second. Now I will save this and we will call it Make To Do and click Save. Go back to the Finder. Now in the Services menu we see a new service called Make To Do. I select it and here's my new to do item.
I am going to add that to my existing calendar. Priority, well, the trash can is pretty stinky. So we will do that. And let's make that Due today. I don't need to set an alarm for it. And I click on Continue. So did I really do that? Well, let's find out. Here's iCal and here is my To Do right here, Take out the trash. So this is cool. Whenever I am in any application, I can now choose Services, and make a to do. We can make it even cooler.
System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcut > Services, go down to the bottom and here is our Make To Do. Click to the right and I am going to add a keyboard command. Let's make that Command+6. Now when I do that, I have to make sure that I reenable that service. I have done that and I will close the window. I go back to the Finder and I press Command+6 and there's my new To Do.
I initiated that just by Command+6. Again, I can enter a Title, Calendar I want to add it to, Priority, so on and so forth. So just using Automator now I have a system-wide method for creating a new to do. One last kind of workflow and this is an iCal alarm workflow. Back to Automator, New, iCal Alarm, Choose.
I am going to recreate that Copy workflow that I had before. So again I go to Files & Folders, Get Specified Finder Items, Get Folder Contents, and Copy Finder Items. Go to the top. This is my source file. My copy file will go to the Copy Finder Items action. Now I click Save and I add the Copy folder to Copy Finder Items.
Now I Command+S to save. I will call this Backup and click Save. When I do this, iCal opens and today, here is the Automator action I just created. So at 4:55 the contents of the Original folder will be copied to the Copy folder. Let's change the time. So let's make that 9 p.m.
So today at 9 p.m. anything that's in the Original folder is going to be copied to the Copy folder. Now let's have it repeat. I want to have this happen every single day. When I do that, you notice that the Backup item appears on every single day. Now imagine the power of this. At the end of the day, I've taken all my work and I throw it into the Original folder. At 9 o'clock, automatically, anything that's in that folder is then copied to the Copy folder. Again, if that Copy folder is on another drive, I have an automatic backup that I've just created with Automator.
I think that is really cool and it's not hard to do. And we'll quit Automator. This is another one of those times when I have to say, "and it does so much more." You've got the idea of how to create an Automator workflow and save it in several varieties of helpful ways. If this interests you, I urge you to spend more time exploring Automator on your own. To learn more, check out www.macosxautomation.com, which is the best site on the web for Automator information.
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Provides customized TV listings and turns iPhone into master remote control
SEATTLE- BuddyTV launches the BuddyTV Guide app and turns the iPhone into a must-have remote for the living room. The BuddyTV Guide app knows what the user wants to watch, changes to the right channel with a tap, and even plays Netflix videos with a tap. The app also highlights whether or not there is a HD version of a show you like and if the episode is a new one or repeat. To further "cut through the crap" users can favorite channels that they watch most and display only those favorite channels first instead of endlessly scrolling through the traditional listings guide.
Andy Liu, CEO of BuddyTV, explains, "To me, the BuddyTV Guide app is a must have app that I use daily now. In fact, the app knows that I like to watch the Seattle Mariners game, and recommends it to me whenever they are on TV. I can then tap on the game right on my iPhone, and before I even open the door to my condo, the game is already on my TV. It has truly changed the way I consume entertainment."
The new BuddyTV Guide app:
- Suggests shows based on viewing history and preferences
- Integrates with Netflix streaming
- Provides the ability to customize the listings grid by favorite channels
- Recommends shows that usually get buried in the grid
- Comment on Facebook and invite friends into TV chat rooms
- Changes the iPhone into a master TV remote control
The BuddyTV Guide app is a free download available at the iTunes App Store. Native Android and Google TV versions are coming soon.
*The BuddyTV Guide remote control is compatible with Google TV Logitech Revue, TiVo Series 3, and any devices controlled by Logitech Revue.
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Since 2005, BuddyTV has offered a fun, friendly and entertaining guide to what's on television-with a side of wit-and a community in which fans can engage and interact with our TV-fanatic staff writers and other viewers. BuddyTV publishes op-eds, slideshows and recaps on shows; lists of the good, bad and ugly of what's on TV; as well as trivia, personality quizzes, fantasy TV and other games.
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Friday May 23, 1997
"Addicted to Love," a romantic comedy creepier than cute, should be titled "Addicted to Revenge." This is one of those movies that is more disturbing than its makers seem to have intended.
Matthew Broderick's Sam is an astronomer with his head so much in the stars that he doesn't realize that his girlfriend Linda (Kelly Preston), his sweetheart from childhood, is bored to tears in their idyllic rural community. Sam says he can't get away from work just now, but when Linda flies off to Manhattan alone and fires off a Dear John letter, he's heartbroken.
Rushing to Manhattan, he discovers Linda in the throes of a hot romance with a French restaurateur, Anton (Tcheky Karyo). Lovesick and stunned, Sam sets up a camera obscura in a derelict building so that he can spy on Linda and Anton in Anton's chic loft just across the way. He studies the stars and tells himself that the romance is sure to be soon over and that he wants to be close at hand to reclaim his true love.
This isn't the healthiest of situations, obviously, but it swiftly deteriorates with the arrival of Maggie (Meg Ryan), a tough-talking photographer and Anton's former lover, who's out to bug Anton's apartment while plotting revenge.
Maggie carries wounded pride to such extremes that she clearly needs therapy.
In no time at all, she's maneuvered the wimpy Sam into helping her destroy Anton and Linda's romance, wreck his business and cause him bodily harm. (How Sam and Maggie are able to take off from work to devote their entire lives to this sick endeavor remains a mystery.) All the while Maggie and Sam, into mutual denial, are not surprisingly falling in love.
It is exceedingly difficult to find what's funny in the calculated, obsessive, relentless destruction of Anton, especially when he proves to be the most likable and mature of all four of these people. Maybe "Addicted to Love" might work as a pitch-dark comedy, but in the way Robert Gordon has written it and Griffin Dunne directed it, it gives us the impression that we're supposed to take drastic, irrational revenge as a larky laff riot.
Not all the considerable star power of the four principals can make this material appealing, but at least the director's father, journalist extraordinaire Dominick Dunne, as a restaurant critic, and Maureen Stapleton, as Maggie's grandmother, are fun.
Addicted to Love, 1997. R, for sexual content. A Warner Bros. presentation of an Outlaw Production in association with Miramax Films. Director Griffin Dunne. Producers Jeffrey Silver and Bobby Newmyer. Executive producers Bob Weinstein & Harvey Weinstein. Screenplay by Robert Gordon. Cinematographer Andrew Dunn. Editor Elizabeth Kling. Costumes Renee Ehrlich Kalfus. Music Rachel Portman. Production designer Robin Standefer. Art director Stephen Alesch. Set decorator Alyssa Winter. Running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes. Meg Ryan as Maggie. Matthew Broderick as Sam. Kelly Preston as Linda. Tcheky Karyo as Anton.Copyright © 2015, Sun Sentinel