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Did you cap your substrate with sand or some small gravel at least? As long as you do that and dont dig around all the time it shouldnt be floating around your tank. Another possiblity is that you have diatoms, a type of algae. In that case you just need to get things in balance. Otocinclus love diatoms and would be small enough for a tank size. A baby bristlenose or rubberlip pleco would also do the trick.
Capped mts is one of the best budget friendly substrates you can have, and you can always buy some root tabs to replenish or assist it and supplement with column dosing to increase its longevity.
If you still decide to swap substrates and use something inert that will not leech ammonia, you can use your old filter and squeeze out your sponge in the tank or leave a little of your previous substrate behind to help with colonizing the new substrate. Ive done this many times when swapping gravel or starting a new tank. If you have plants that will help a lot and just go light on the fish food for a few days. You can even get away with not feeding them for a 3-4 days to let the bio filter catch up.
If you use aquasoil or the like you will have to wait to add fish. As for removing the mts, which I dont recommend, just tank the big part off the siphon and use just the hose by sucking on it to start it, the suction is greater and should rip it right out without any mess.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post116875156188562527..comments2015-07-28T20:51:03.448-06:00Comments on Kalyn's Kitchen®: How to Make Pot Roast in a Crockpot and Recipe for Balsamic and Onion Pot RoastKalyn Dennyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-87046786102668901162015-07-16T05:41:09.502-06:002015-07-16T05:41:09.502-06:00So glad you enjoyed it!So glad you enjoyed it!Kalyn Dennyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-44634792454839850642015-07-15T22:55:44.087-06:002015-07-15T22:55:44.087-06:00This was soooo good. Cooking down the juices from...This was soooo good. Cooking down the juices from the crockpot was the finishing touch. firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-64260397767616728112014-08-04T10:21:43.190-06:002014-08-04T10:21:43.190-06:00After years of trying "new" pot roast re...After years of trying "new" pot roast recipes, none could ever beat my tried-n-true original. But, this turned out perfectly and the flavor was out of this world! I only wish I had made more gravy at the end, it was so incredibly good. Thank you, Kalyn!!! I am so glad I stumbled across your blog.Kathy Kelleyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-90187866474945445062014-01-08T19:00:34.179-07:002014-01-08T19:00:34.179-07:00Sharon, so glad you're enjoying the recipes!Sharon, so glad you're enjoying the recipes!Kalyn Dennyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-11361781251028750642014-01-08T18:53:02.460-07:002014-01-08T18:53:02.460-07:00Wow. My husband and I are just finishing our SBDp...Wow. My husband and I are just finishing our SBDphase 1, and we couldn't have done it without all your fabulous recipes, Kalyn! This pot roast is just utterly fantastic - probably the best thing I've eaten in months, let alone just on South Beach!! I've made a document containing all the recipes I used for phase 1, and about 3/4 of them are Kalyn's Kitchen! I made the pot roast exactly as you wrote (you've never steered me wrong!) but served with some broccoli and toasted spaghetti squash - I felt like I was eating a wonderful roast, not at all "diet food". Sharon Toddhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-75374700072353686462013-10-30T19:00:05.153-06:002013-10-30T19:00:05.153-06:00So glad to hear you liked it!So glad to hear you liked it!Kalyn Dennyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-2575944461710578892013-10-30T18:56:46.910-06:002013-10-30T18:56:46.910-06:00Kalyn, thank you so much for the recipe! I was lo...Kalyn, thank you so much for the recipe! I was looking for a good low carb crockpot recipe, and came across this. A HUGE hit in my household tonight! Definitely going on the "will make again for sure" list.mhedstromhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-61189437035953961592013-08-22T09:43:22.363-06:002013-08-22T09:43:22.363-06:00Sarah, so glad you liked it, and thanks for the pi...Sarah, so glad you liked it, and thanks for the pin!Kalyn Dennyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-39251078723918211982013-08-22T09:29:00.705-06:002013-08-22T09:29:00.705-06:00Oh my STARS, I made this last night, and it's ...Oh my STARS, I made this last night, and it's gooooooooooooooooooood. So delicious. I did add the carrots (about half a bag of baby carrots). I didn't have plain tomato sauce, so I substituted some Classico Cabernet Marinara, and I used Grill Mates Steak rub. I wondered if those flavors would go together, and they DID. Thank you so much! This recipe has been shared AND "Pinned."Sarah Fordhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-38318480061244392382013-03-03T18:20:41.150-07:002013-03-03T18:20:41.150-07:00Helen, so glad you enjoyed it!Helen, so glad you enjoyed it!Kalyn Dennyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-12475044992053517952013-03-03T17:40:36.664-07:002013-03-03T17:40:36.664-07:00Hi Kalyn, Made this for dinner tonight in my crock...Hi Kalyn,
Made this for dinner tonight in my crockpot. It was soooo good!! A new favorite. Another wonderful recipe.Helenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-6616983475376670782013-02-15T10:09:16.630-07:002013-02-15T10:09:16.630-07:00Katherine, thanks for that nice comment!Katherine, thanks for that nice comment!Kalyn Dennyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-44480830918270708152013-02-15T10:00:04.579-07:002013-02-15T10:00:04.579-07:00Made this last night as I was looking for somethin...Made this last night as I was looking for something different than the usual onion mix/carrot/potatoes pot roast. WOW! Delish. Mine came out a just a touch dry, but I take 100% of the blame for that. I got stuck at work so instead of the recommended 6-8 hours mine was a little more than 9. But OH MY GOSH those onions! Perfect!! I could just have had a crock pot full of those. Amazing! This will definitely be going on the monthly dinner rotation! Oh, and if anyone reading this has NOT made Kalyn's stuffed peppers, stop what you are doing and go make them immediately. Still one of my all time favorite recipes. Thanks Kayln!Katherine Footehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-17815059164153968972012-12-09T08:38:55.504-07:002012-12-09T08:38:55.504-07:00Colleen, I think that should work out fine. Hope ...Colleen, I think that should work out fine. Hope you enjoy it!Kalyn Dennyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-19278280823792027952012-12-09T04:44:36.616-07:002012-12-09T04:44:36.616-07:00I was looking for a crock pot roast beef recipe on...I was looking for a crock pot roast beef recipe on Pinterest and stopped at your picture! I've read the ingredients and all these great comments and can't wait to try it. I plan to use a 6+ lb roast as I'm feeding 4 strapping men and 2 women. Should I just double all the ingredients and figure less is more when in doubt?Colleen Tolmanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-48126829149205607772012-11-10T14:39:36.143-07:002012-11-10T14:39:36.143-07:00Genna, of course you *can* cook it on high for les...Genna, of course you *can* cook it on high for less time, but the meat will be more tender when it's cooked for a longer time on low. Probably still good though.Kalyn Dennyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-43096548831564206022012-11-10T14:31:35.585-07:002012-11-10T14:31:35.585-07:00Hi, I can't wait to try this recipe! Can I als...Hi, I can't wait to try this recipe! Can I also cook it on high for lesser time?Genna Kheinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-83169841543107510062012-10-25T20:40:04.565-06:002012-10-25T20:40:04.565-06:00This was our dinner tonight. Yummy! Thanks!This was our dinner tonight. Yummy! Thanks!TheFiveDayshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-48858683389769289552012-09-13T09:05:58.515-06:002012-09-13T09:05:58.515-06:00I just use plain yellow onions, but I think sweet ...I just use plain yellow onions, but I think sweet onions would be fine.Kalyn Dennyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-40964139222353158842012-09-12T23:48:20.803-06:002012-09-12T23:48:20.803-06:00This looks absolutely amazing! I've only used ...This looks absolutely amazing! I've only used my crock pot a couple of times for fondue & pulled pork recipes, and have been looking for other tasty recipes to try. My mom made balsamic onions in the oven one Thanksgiving and they were incredible, so I can't wait to try this!

What kind of onions do you suggest for this recipe? I love Walla Walla, or sweet Vidalia onions, but I'm wondering if they would be too sweet?

Thanks!Karla Frittshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-60833840025111957712012-08-14T16:53:43.052-06:002012-08-14T16:53:43.052-06:00So glad people are still enjoying this!So glad people are still enjoying this!Kalyn Dennyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-81698367922132276112012-08-14T16:03:45.598-06:002012-08-14T16:03:45.598-06:00Just finished my plate full. Holy s*it. best tasti...Just finished my plate full. Holy s*it. best tasting roast I've had!! Roast if my bf's favorite so I have been trying to perfect a recipe for 3 years, but I think I can stop now ;) thanks! Jesshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-83853230262679057952012-08-02T12:38:52.673-06:002012-08-02T12:38:52.673-06:00Got this in the crockpot as I type...the onions sm...Got this in the crockpot as I type...the onions smell wonderful! I can't wait till it's done! We're having baked potatoes with it so the onions and sauce will be a great topping for them!Lisa (Blogghetti)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-37727811629598855432012-06-14T11:56:56.220-06:002012-06-14T11:56:56.220-06:00I think either way would work, since you want the ...I think either way would work, since you want the meat to be complete thawed before you make the recipe. If you're short on time in the morning though, I'd brown before freezing.Kalynhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-56795205011710208552012-06-14T10:11:01.041-06:002012-06-14T10:11:01.041-06:00This recipe sounds delicious! I got the link for t...This recipe sounds delicious! I got the link for this recipe off of "The Test Kitchen of Melissa Fallis." She has an entry about freezer crockpot meals. In her entry, she buys ingredients for 5 meals, freezes 4, and makes this one. But I was wanting to freeze this one too. Should I brown the roast before I freeze it? Or remove it from the freezer, brown and thaw, and then put it in the crockpot? I am not sure what to do! Thank you in advance for your advice!Unknownhttp://email@example.com

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With the weight of global tragedies and local politics on my mind, everything I see or think about takes on a new hue and meaning. In my Ecology of the Tropics course, a discussion of ecological succession becomes a timely and sensitive one with my students from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. The text's description of fires, volcanoes, and hurricanes as " ecosystem change agents" strikes a hollow chord of euphemism. My once abstract statement that "destruction of one habitat and the death of resident individuals creates opportunities for others" suddenly is loaded with unintended significance. The application of the biological lesson to recent events is not lost on the class.
Yet as I look out onto the classroom I see that these students, like most of our students, are eager change agents themselves. They are as resilient as the ecosystems we are discussing--ready to play a role in regeneration--like the seeds lying dormant in the soil of a newly burned forest, the roots and shoots left behind after volcanic lahars and pyroclastic flows, or the fruits in adjacent habitats tempting animal dispersers.
In ecological systems, as in socio-political ones, change is the only constant. The falling of a forest giant is as inevitable as it is necessary for the life of the seedling, striving for a taste of sun. Small consolation, perhaps, for individuals impacted by small and large events, but a natural truth nonetheless. In the deep of winter, when cold rain mixes with tragedy, signs that life continues on are always welcome. And strength gained from the knowledge that we and our world are resilient can sooth us.
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Possible Readings: Toni Morrison, Beloved; Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory; Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower, Héctor Tobar, The Tattooed Soldier; Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper; Ana Castillo, Peel My Love Like an Onion; Monica Sone, Nisei Daughter; Sherman Alexie, selected short stories.
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Latina/o bodies are ubiquitous in contemporary U.S. public discourse, where their spectacular visibility is often touted as evidence of a "post-race" society. Closer analysis of these images, however, reveals how a range of national anxieties have come to coalesce around Latina/o bodies, from fears about the U.S. economy and cultural identity that attach to laboring (often undocumented) Latina/o immigrant bodies to concerns about the destabilization of race, gender, and sexual norms adhering to Latina/o entertainers and sports figures. This course will explore how the hypervisibility of Latina/o bodies has led not only to the targeting of those bodies for discursive and physical violence but also to the proliferation of resistant texts and images created by Latinas/os. Drawing from a wide range of genres (novels, memoirs, short stories, plays, poems, and film), this course is designed to help graduate students develop expertise in U.S. Latina/o cultural studies (emphasizing both established and emerging Latina/o writers and filmmakers), as well as familiarity with theories of embodiment currently emerging from feminist, queer, and disability studies.
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Richard Rodriguez, Days of Obligation (1993, memoir)
Justin Torres, We the Animals (2012, novel)
Gun Hill Road (film, 2011)
Manuel Muñoz, What You See in the Dark (2012, novel)
Héctor Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries (2012, novel)
Machete and/or Machete Kills (films, 2010 and 2013)
Pedro Pietri, "Puerto Rican Obituary" (1973) and selected poems
Junot Díaz, selected short stories from Drown (1996) and This Is How You Lose Her (2012)
Cherríe Moraga, Heroes and Saints (1994, play)
Luis Valdez, The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa (1963, play)
Sandra Cisneros, selected poems from Loose Woman (1995)
Achy Obejas, We came all the way from Cuba so you could dress like this? (short stories, 1994)
Peloteros (film, 2012)
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Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow, eds., Sex and Disability (2012)
Michael Hames-García and Ernesto Martínez, eds., Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader (2011)
Judith Jack Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place (2005)
Mel Y Chen, Animacies (2012)
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In the Fan district near the corner of North Davis and Main, a woman walking late that night felt a pinch on her arm and realized she'd been hit with a dart.
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During a recent conversation with Adrienne Hall, General Manager of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing operation, she told an interesting anecdote about the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that was intended – successfully, I might add – to demonstrate the effectiveness of the company's Trustworthy Computing capabilities, and in addition show the power of the cloud as a deliverer of salvation.
It is, however, a source of salvation that seems to run smack into one area of legislation and regulation that could yet be one of the cloud's major stumbling blocks – governance issues over where data is stored and processed.
This in turn prompted an idea that could combine one of the older tools of conducting international business and the full capabilities of cloud technologies.
First, however, a little recap on the story. Microsoft's Japanese datacentre is located a goodly distance from the epicentre of the earthquake, and beyond the range of the devastating tsunami that followed. It survived the initial earthquake, but soon started to suffer with the aftershocks.
The decision was taken to temporarily move the contents of the datacentre to a west coast USA location, a task with Hall's team achieved both quickly and cleanly. So as an example of disaster recovery/prevention and business continuity capabilities, it is certainly one of the best.
Yet by moving not only its own services but customer services as well to the US west coast it obviously had the potential to put some businesses at legal risk. Any business with a legal or compliance requirement to have data stored – and possibly processed as well – in a specified geographic location could find themselves in a double bind. They either demand that their service is not moved to a safer location – and risk having the business buried – literally – or they do allow the movement, and risk finding themselves in court.
Yet there ought to be a way of achieving the ability to move the physical location of data, especially in the face of a natural disaster such as occurred in Japan, while maintaining the integrity of the storage and processes associated with that data as though it had not moved.
Why not, then, something equivalent to the Bonded Warehouses commonly used by any business importing products that are subject to taxation? With these, those products can be here physically while not being here at all, legally.
With the cloud it should be not be beyond the wit of man to create a solution where a partitioned, isolated and highly secure corner of country X' can be inserted into a datacentre located in country Y'. In that way, a business headquartered in country X' could establish a new branch office in country Y' and have the local data stored, managed and processed in that local country, despite facing the rigours of compliance and governance legislation which says otherwise.
Given the fact that the vast majority of datacentres run commoditised hardware and system software, regardless of where they are in the world, all that would be needed is the specific security and applications environments to be installed to have a virtual anywhere' located anywhere else'. Add in, as part of the package, sufficient process policy management, monitoring tools and operational auditing and it should be possible to create an environment with enough belt-and-braces security and management controls to satisfy most lawyers.
The icing on the cake could be that the regulatory authorities of country X' could then validate the virtual environment and, once approved, it could be installed anywhere – or at least in a subset of specified and approved geographic locations or even service providers.
Let's face it, just because the data is stored on-premise in the building specified by law, it doesn't necessarily mean it is secure, or safe from the temptations of da management' to take the opportunity to refine' some of the data. So the virtual bonded country approach might well be a more visibly secure alternative.
It would also be a really good service for many of the service providers to offer. Indeed, it would seem to be ready-made for the biggest, globally' based providers – or at least those with serious global pretensions.
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By Jesus from USA on 2011-08-30 20:54:56Things I liked:This rifle came to me beautifully packaged by Pyramid Air. I ordered it in walnut, perfect grade stock!, all metal finishing is 100% extreme quality, trigger came from factory at about 12 ounces, very crisp 2nd stage pull. I zeroed in at 60 yards, and all pellets followed each other! I measured it at a 1/4". It likes a variety of pellets!! Over all just a fantastic air rifle!!
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"Kilmeny, a ancient parish in Islay island, Argyll shire, whose church stands 4 miles SSW of Port Askaig. It is now incorporated quoad civilia with Killarrow parish, but was constituted quoad sacra as a separate parish, first by ecclesiastical authority in 1826, next by civil authority in 1849. It is in the presbytery of Islay and Jura and synod of Argyll; the stipend is £171. Pop. (1871 924, (1881) 881."
Extract from Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4)Killarrow and Kilmeny, par., in NE. of Islay isl., Argyllshire, 65,929 ac., pop. 2756; contains Bowmore.
Extract from Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)
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Your Lightroom 4 Wish List Comments
by Scott Kelby | 77 comments
Hi Gang: I wanted to do a follow-up to last Friday's post about "What I'd Love to See in Lightroom 4″ because you guys came up with so many other great feature requests, ideas and enhancements to what's already there, I wanted to share some of the ones that really resonated with me.
There is one that would be high on my list, and I totally forgot about it, until I read Bryan's comment: "Why no Vibrance in the Adjustment Tool?" I second that. You can leave Saturation, but add a Vibrance slider.
Also, I sent my post to Adobe's Lightroom Product Manager Tom Hogarty, and then Tom and I talked on the phone about all this on Friday (I was just happy we were still talking). ;-)
Anyway, while I can't go into specifics about what what Tom and I discussed, I can tell you two things: (1) Adobe is listening. Big time. At a level that was unthinkable just a few years ago. The Lightroom team is full of photographers (Tom included), and they use the program themselves, and they want the same things we want, and they're fully committed to giving us the tools we need. And (2) I was very, very, very happy at what I heard from Tom. That's all I'm saying.
One more thing: There were a number of features that people are asking for that are already in Lightroom, which is a good thing (and some folks kicked in with their own comments pointing them in the right direction, which is something I love about the people who frequent this blog. They want to help each other out, which is really what it's all about).
Now, on to highlights from your comments (By the way—-Adobe is reading all your comments. These are just my favorites):
"Relative presets. I dont want a preset that setss my exposure to 2.0. I want a preset that adds 2.0 to the current value. Most presets are useless unless the original exposure is spot on. If presets could create relative values instead of absolutes, it would be so much easier to browse through lots of different effects until you get the look you want."
"A healing brush with Content Aware would be #1 on my list."
Trevor King
"Watermark positioning is my other gripe. V. 3.0 limits where watermarks can be positioned through the 0-10% vertical movement limitation. Please allow 25% changes in positioning so that I get my watermarks in my preferred position halfway between centre and the bottom of the image."
"The ability to export as a file that you can burn straight to DVD would save me hours of work when doing slideshows for clients. Being limited to a compressed file format for the web is only half way there."
"Its not a matter of loyalty (for us photographers), its a matter of productivity and competitive advantage. Come on, Adobe blow us away and SOON, please."
Eric Cote
"You forgot the most important: a real healing brush instead of the spot healing we have at the moment."
"Make it easier to create folders and subfolders in the library. How about a right-click, new folder? I know, thats so 1992."
Levi Sim
"Clone Stamp. thats all I want. I would never have to leave LR if it had the clone stamp tool."
"Identity Plates should snap to guides and grids. Photo boxes will snap to guides, but not to grids."
"I miss the ability to use more than one song in Slideshow, especially when I have more than three minutes worth of images to watch. Why was that ability changed?"
"Make the Ad-hoc slideshow [Impromptu] performance what it should be, in e.g. picasa I can just hit slideshow and it instantly starts showing. In LR 3, I first have to wait minutes while preparing That isnt ad-hoc slideshow to me "
Bill Gommel
"How about the ability to search multiple catalogs. My catalog is getting huge because I want to be able to search for a certain class images. It would be nice to have a wedding catalog, a portrait catalog, an every day catalog, but if I want to search for all images with keyword Chicago it would search all three catalogs."
Robbie R.
"Id love to see White Balance adjustment added to the adjustment brush tool. It would be great for fixing those shots where we have mixed light sources."
Piet Van den Eynde
"The ability to fade a preset in Lightroom: just apply a preset, and have preset strenght slider to add to the effect or diminish it. Also allow one or two levels of extra hierarchy to store presets in Right now, theres only one folder level People with lots of presets have to scroll through endless lists "
John Swarce
"Make the updating of watermarks easier. If I create a watermark and I make any later change to it (say moving it from one side of the picture to the other side because it looks better), I have to save it as a new watermark. I could see if I changed the text or style, but just the positioning? I suppose I could create seperate watermarks as Left Bottom, Right Bottom, Top Right, Vertical Orientation, etc. but this would get messy really quickly."
"How about a larger navigator window so we can better see presets being applied. Paul adds:
Even better yet, how about an option to preview presets in the original image. The tiny navigator window just doesnt cut it."
Michael Tissington
"Stacks need improving there needs to be a way of selecting the entire stack without expanding it first (and it does not need to expand, just because I have it selected)."
Ian Butterworth
"It would be nice if they could take the backup even further and backup all the settings, colour profiles, develop settings, plugins in use, etc. as they are scattered in different directories. In fact I wish Photoshop would do this too. Backup anything I have configured easily so if I did a fresh install I could restore the backup and have everything how it was."
Waldek Chadzynski
"Please dont forget about [the] request from Matt Kloskowski about being able to move vignette all around a picture." [thanks Waldek----I forgot about that one---Matt's spot on!].
Matt Timmons
"Please put a patch tool in Lightroom that does the same thing that the Spot Removal tool does, but lets us draw our own selection around an area instead of having to use multiple adjacent circles clone/heal an area (i.e a patch tool just like PS, but allows you to change the opacity/location/size like the spot healing tool- maybe add feathering to it too). Often I have to go into Photoshop just for that one thing and I end up with a copied .psd file that cant be edited in LR. (2) In the Metadata Module, include something that tells you which mode on the camera the picture was taken in (manual, Av, etc.) like in Bridge."
"Id like to see RGB curves in Lightroom 4 both for accurate color correction and color toning in images, or at least the red-cyan slider."
Dick Kenny
"Please add a vote for making Camera Calibration accessible in Library. To many the choices offered by this function are fundamental when deciding what to keep and what to reject. By the time one gets to Develop, its too late and switching between both modules before you need to is a bore."
Chris Newham
"[Add a] Gradient eraser brush."
William Haun
"Export folders & collections with hierarchy intact. There is a LR/TreeExport plugin available for folders but Id kill to be able to select a Collection Set and have its contents exported as a folder structure."
"I would like to have the possebillity to use the lens correction Profiles from CS5 and/or to include new created ones."
"We would need one think on top of that for video: a way to change the video date after importing! Right now, say you have edited a video, then the date of the modification is used instead of the date of shooting."
Peter [These are so well thought out, I have to imagine this is Peter Krogh, but I could be wrong].
"(1) There is no way to create custom metadata fields without developing a plug-in, and even then, the custom fields only live in the catalog. (2) Add a shortcut to the straighten tool already, (3) Add an offline mode where I can edit image settings/metadata and then batch-apply them when my images are online again (that would be with the export metadata to XMP option active). You know, not the metadata changed icons in the library grid. Unlock the develop settings that would be previewed based on the low-res image anyway. (4) Add a use last button to the keywords field of the new import dialog box."
"Also Pano stitching would be very nice to have in Lr itself."
Zack Jones
"Custom File Naming on Import Allow us to use all meta data for filenaming. For example {YYYYMMDD}_{Camera_Name}_{####} would yield 20100813_7D_0001 for my 7D and 20100813_T2i_0001 for my T2i."
My thanks to everybody who took the time to comment on Friday. Even if you didn't wind up as one of my favorites listed here, more importantly your idea may have wound up as one of Adobe's favorites. :)


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Nice place, clean showers (a bit small unfortunately), nice pub downstairs. Metro station is really close and it's well connected to the city centre. The only negative point was that for me the wifi did unfortunately not work - this was an account problem rather than the hostels fault because other guests I talked to had no troubles.


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tart apples - peeled, cored and chopped
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2 tablespoons
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1/8 teaspoon
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Instead of the top crust I made a crumb topping. Voted best pie overall by family and friends. Nice spicy taste!
That's a LOT of sugar even for tart apples -- I added another 2c of apples and ditched half the sugar for a deep dish pie. Turned out well.
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This was only an ok recipe. I thought the two cups of sugar was too much and I added it dubiously...and I was right. I didn't use especially tart apples, but even had I done that, this would have been too sweet. Next time, if I make this again (because I loved the mix of spices...the flavor was excellent there)I will cut the sugar back to no more than 1 1/4 cups. I thought the addition of coriander was interesting; it added a hint of a lemony note to the flavor. But there again, it was nearly overpowered by the sweetness. If you wanted to keep the sugar the same, this would probably be the kind of pie that is good cut with a slice of fresh cheddar cheese.
LOVED the spicing, but WOW is this thing too sweet! I cut the sugar back to 1 1/4 c and it was STILL too sweet. Unless you are using REALLY tart apples the sugar needs to be not more than 1 cup total in my opinion. We found it almost too sweet to eat.
Great taste, but way too sweet. I'll make it again, but cut the sugars down.
This is a great recipe; however, I cut the sugar and brown sugar in half.
Outstanding pie! Make it and watch it disappear. I've used Marie Callendar's frozen deep dish pie crust and had great results.
One caveat: make sure to put the pie on a foil covered pan when you bake it - the juice has a tendency to seep out and carmelise.
this is really good. it was my first and i didnt quite get it right, but hey it was my first! i will make it again! but i may add more apples next ime!! just for fun! everything was perfect! i will make sure i make my own crust next time too, my store baught one kinda came apart.. so i m trying the famous one on here! *Laughing* can wait til thanksgiving to show off my new found talent!
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It's all coming together at the new stadium site.
Schuff Steel installed the first beams for the team and office building, and none other than newly-minted head coach Mark Watson, Quakes President Dave Kaval and GM John Doyle signed the first cross beam.
Momentous day at the stadium site. John Doyle Mark Watson & @QuakesPrez sign the first steel crossbeam. #neversaydie pic.twitter.com/olsRzRXv9P
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After 21 years, Steven Beitashour returned to Iran for his second visit. And this time, it was to play for the Iranian National Team.
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Join us as we celebrate an MLS original. Our longtime captain, Ramiro Corrales, will play his final match of his 18-year professional career on Saturday.
From now until then, we want to honor Ramiro's impressive run - two MLS Cups, one Supporters' Shield, 306 matches, the list goes on - but we need your help.
Tell us your favorite Ramiro memory, photo or just why you're thankful for the only MLS '96er left. Use the hashtag #ThankYouRamiro, and tweet your responses.
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Since the last one was such a success, Wondo and Wells Fargo have decided to team up for another Wondo Bobblehead Party.
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For Clarence Goodson, Chris Wondolowski, Marvin Chavez and Victor Bernardez, tonight marks the finale of Hex Qualifying play for the 2014 World Cup.
There's a little bit more pressure on our Honduran representatives, though. They need to at least draw the winless Jamaican squad tonight - at Jamaica - to stamp their passage to Brazil for 2014.
Klinsmann's squad doesn't have a whole lot to worry about. The U.S. Men's National Team has already claimed their spot - and taken first place in their group - no matter the result at Panama tonight. That doesn't mean that Wondo and Goodson won't have anything to play for. The Quakes duo will be all in to prove to Klinsmann that they should be on the roster for this Brazil bound squad.
Both matches are set to kick off at 6:30 p.m. PT. Jamaica vs. Honduras will be shown on beIN Sport en Espanol and beIN Play; USA at Panama can be seen on beIN Sport.
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It may not be a Quakes match day, but Wondo, Goodson, Bernardez and Chavez are suiting up for three points tonight.
As of yesterday, Wondo and Goodson were called in to the U.S. squad for the final pair of World Cup Qualifiers. Although Klinsmann's squad has already booked their ticket to Brazil for 2014, the Red, White and Blue look to secure their group's first place seed in the final two matches of World Cup Qualifying group play. The U.S. face a desperate-for-points Jamaican squad at Sporting Park in Kansas City tonight (3:30 p.m. PT, ESPN).
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If every time that you turn on your wii it gets a black screen, it´s bricked
Hi, I had 4.1e and installed the HomeBrew channel, but I downgraded to 3.3e so I could install WAD's. I wanted to upgrade it again so i deleted all my HBC stuff, the only thing i left was the saves off backup games.
So i put your shape in the wii and clicked update, when the blue bar got to the top it froze and when i turned it off and on again I just get a black screen and nothing happens.
Is my wii bricked?
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What do you mean with shape?
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If every time that you turn on your wii it gets a black screen, it´s bricked
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Hi it was an update on the your shape disc(fitness game)
I dont think bootmii is an as boot 2 and no NAND backup I don't even know what it is.
Can you help me? it is bricked
You should have checked THIS forum before you softmodded. I wish I could help, but I lack the expertise of the likes of mauifrog.
Sounds like you have a stubbed ios for a system menu. Do you have priiloader installed? (Hold reset to check, keep in mind this won't help you if I'm right about the stubbed ios). Also power on again and see if your dvd light flashes once, or twice quickly. That will tell us if you have boot2
I didn't install preloader and when i turn it on it flashes then about one second later it flashes twice real quick. Is there any way to fix the ios? Like maybe save mii i heard it will unbrick your wii
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CHEYENNE - A fishing trip for walleye on Aug. 12 to Keyhole Reservoir gave Pinehaven angler Harley Speed an unexpected surprise when the largest freshwater drum recorded in Wyoming took his jig and crawler and took off.
Speed, who fishes Keyhole often, usually for walleye and northern pike, knew he had a very large fish on his line. After a 10-15 minute battle which involved following the fish in the boat, Speed suspected he had something special when he had the fish in hand. He had caught numerous drum in the past, mostly in the 2-3 pound range, and as with the recent record gizzard shad, he accessed the Game and Fish website via smart phone to see how close the big drum was to the state record.
A tackle box scale put the fish at nearly 18 pounds, and the phone showed the current record at 11 pounds 12 ounces and that it was caught out of Glendo Reservoir in 1993. A short time later an official scale at Pinehaven Foods confirmed the new state record with a weight of 17 pounds 4 ounces. Speed's fish was 33 inches long and had a girth of 23 inches.
Since 1986, when Wyoming's first record for freshwater drum was established, the record has been broken eight times with most of the records coming from Keyhole Reservoir. Other waters that have produced record drum include Glendo and Grayrocks reservoirs.
Freshwater drum, sometimes called sheepshead, can grow very large as is evidenced by the current 54-pound world record fish caught in a Tennessee Lake in 1972.
To qualify for a new fish record, anglers need to get the fish weighed on a certified scale and have it verified by the Game and Fish Department. A listing of state record fish is on the Game and Fish website wgfd.wyo.gov.
(Contact: Al Langston (307) 777-4540)
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Everything you want to know about Visual Studio ALM and Farming
Brian Harry is a Microsoft Technical Fellow working as the Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation Server. Learn more about Brian.
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Last week I wrote about accessing TFS using OData and how this makes writing device apps against TFS easier. Friday, we published the OData support on our online service – Team Foundation Service at: https://tfsodata.visualstudio.com. If you go to that url, you'll find some basic instructions on using it, including links to a video, a sample Windows 8 store app (which I'm trying to get the team to publish in the store), etc. You can also read more about it in Brian Keller's blog post.
Because all projects on Team Foundation Service are currently private, you can only get access to the OData feeds for accounts to which you have access.
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THE PLAYOFFS Cheverus second, Deering fourth at Class A boys' swim meet McAuley places third among Class B girls
By Michael Hoffer
The curtain fell on the swimming and diving season last week and the city of Portland was well represented at the state meets.
In Class A boys' competition, Cheverus had 228 points to place second behind Bangor (315). Deering (189) finished third. Portland had 27 points and tied Bonny Eagle and Messalonskee for 19th place.
In the A girls' meet, won by Cape Elizabeth with 306 points, Deering (114.5) was eighth and Cheverus (54) finished 15th. Portland did not score.
McAuley's quest for a second straight Class B championship fell short. The Lions did wind up third with 239 points, but couldn't catch Falmouth (319) or Greely (295). One Waynflete swimmer managed 2 points for the Flyers, leaving them in a tie for 26th.
Top finishers
Deering had a pair of event winners at the Class A boys' meet.
E.J. Googins took the 50 free in 22.24 seconds and Brian McRae repeated as the top diver with a score of 330.45.
Googins was also third in the 100 free (50.57). Djordje Mandic came in eighth in the 100 free (52.72) and was 11th in the 50 free (24.30). Zach Sawyer finished 10th in the 100 backstroke (1:04.12) and 15th in the 500 free (5:40.09). Jacob Powers finished 10th in the 500 free (5:29.97) and 15th in the IM (2:20.81). Dominic Montello was 10th in the 50 free (23.96). Noah Major placed 14th in the 100 fly (1:02.04). Max Hudson was 15th in the 50 free (24.50). Corey Delmonte finished 15th in the 100 breaststroke (1:12.81).
The Rams were runner-up to Bangor in the 200 free relay (1:35.75), placed third in the 400 free relay (3:32.96) and came in ninth in the medley relay (1:52.92).
"The boys performed well," said Deering coach Alan Carp. "E.J. was a standout, breaking the school record in the 50 free. Our relays were also fantastic. Next year, we should be just as strong."
For Cheverus, Joe Moreshead and Cal Rohde each had two second place finishes. Moreshead was runner-up to record-setting James Wells of Morse in the fly (54.85) and was second in the IM (1:59.58). Rohde placed second in the 200 free (1:48.06) and was runner-up in the 500 free (4:58.17).
Cameron Lindsley added points with a fourth-place finish in the 50 free (23.20) and a sixth-place showing in the 100 free (51.27). Mark Dumond came in fourth in the breaststroke (1:06.56) and 12th in the fly (1:01.33). Chris Gervais was seventh in the fly (58.91) and 12th in the backstroke (1:04.45). Drew Fernandez finished 12th in the breaststroke (1:11.84).
The Stags were runner-up in the 400 relay (3:23.45), third in the medley relay (1:43.84) and seventh in the 200 free relay (1:40.36).
"We won the sportsmanship as well as finishing runner-up," said Cheverus coach Kevin Haley. "They worked very hard this year and it showed at the state meet. We lose Gervais and Moreshead, but hopefully we have a lot of new talent coming in. We'll be strong again."
For Portland, David Bliss was ninth in the breaststroke (1:10.40) and 13th in the IM (2:17.79). The Bulldogs 400 free relay team finished 12th (3:50.62), while the 200 free relay team came in 15th (1:45.64).
The top local girls' performer was Deering's Kristen Grandonico, who tied for third in the 50 free (26.00) and placed sixth in the breaststroke (1:12.37).
Jamie LeRoy placed sixth in the 200 free (2:11.46) and eighth in the 100 free (1:01.94). Meghan Hutcherson finished 10th in the 500 free (5:52.93) and 14th in the backstroke (1:10.91).
The Rams were seventh in the 400 free relay (4:09.94), eighth in the 200 free relay (1:54.00) and 14th in the medley relay (2:14.25).
"Our girls improved more than 10 places this year," Carp said. "This is the first time I've seen every single qualifier swim a best time at a state meet."
Cheverus was 11th in both the medley (2:09.64) and the 400 free (4:15.76) relays. Individually, Eda Pellumbi finished eighth in the 200 free (2:12.65) and 11th in the 500 free (5:54.10). Katherine Moreshead was 11th in the breaststroke (1:17.16) and 12th in the IM (2:33.15).
"We had five girls qualify this year," Haley said. "The girls also won the sportsmanship award. We're losing five seniors, but we have new, strong talent coming in and we should be very competitive next year. I'm very proud and honored to coach these girls' and boys' teams. We focus on fun and sportsmanship. They accomplished all goals this season."
No roar, but Desrosiers wins two more
A year ago, Falmouth was disqualified in a late relay and McAuley swooped in to win an unexpected championship. This winter, the Lions were in the mix again, but this time the Yachtsmen took care of business, while Greely also proved to be too much to handle.
McAuley was paced by standout Kristen Desrosiers, who won both the 200 (1:57.72) and 500 (5:20.45) free races.
Katelyn Desrosiers was second in the 500 free (5:37.72) and fourth in the breaststroke (1:13.23). Gaby Cloutier finished fourth in the 50 free (25.51) and fifth in the breaststroke (1:13.62). Lib Rand was seventh in the fly (1:07.90) and 14th in the 200 free (2:17.31). Abby Parker was ninth in the 100 free (1:00.72) and 10th in the 50 free (27.16). Aoife Ryle placed 10th in the 500 free (6:02.82) and 16th in the 200 free (2:18.12). Laura Duran came in 12th in the fly (1:10.81).
The Lions were runner-up to Falmouth in the 400 free relay (3:50.84), third in the medley relay (2:01.68) and fifth in the 200 free relay (1:49.80).
Waynflete's points came from Lindsey McLeod, who was 15th in the 200 free (2:17.95).
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Thoughts on Opera Unite
Jun 17, 2009
Commentary by Stephen Downes
I've been doing a lot of background reading today, mostly catch-up. I read a report from opera analyst Lawrence Eng detailing more about Unite. To better understand, I worked my way through Opera's Widget documentation and built a demo app for myself. I also read through the W3C's Widgets Landscape document, a good and pretty accessible overview of major initiatives. I also looked at the W3C widget requirement. Some related work: the Webkit open sourc eproject. Also the ongoing HTML 5 specification, which will include client side data storage. Total: 115
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Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals is the introductory installment of Deke McClelland's four-part series on making photorealistic compositions in Photoshop. The course shows how to make selections, refine the selections with masks, and then combine them in new ways, using layer effects, blend modes, and other techniques to create a single seamless piece of artwork. Deke introduces the Channels panel and the alpha channel, the key to masking and transparency in Photoshop; reviews the selection tools, including the Color Range tool , Quick Mask mode, and the Refine Edge command; and shows how to blend masked images so they interact naturally.
Alright, now that we've seen just about everything there is to know about layer masks and Vector masks and the Masks panel, let's take a look at some more advanced compositing options. I'll be showing you how to mask an entire group of layers, I'll show you how to create a knockout layer that bores through the layers below it, and finally I'll toss in a clipping mask, and along the way I'll show you how to mask glass. So we're going to take these two images here, both of which once again held from the Fotolia Image Library, and we'll merge them together to create this final composition, and believe it or not it's actually not all that tough, although as you can see over here in the Layers panel it does require three variations on that glasses layer.
We're going to perform some basic masking upfront. I'll switch back to the starter file which is called Sunset celebration.psd, found inside the 09_layer_masks folder. And ideally, we would find a single blend mode that would keep the highlights, keep the shadows, keep the colors in-between and somehow merge everything with the background. So what I'm describing here is a contrast mode. I'll go ahead and click on Normal up here in the upper-left corner of the Layers panel. Whenever you're thinking of experimenting with the contrast mode you're going to start with Overlay and that just goes to show you that contrast modes are not what we're looking for.
Because we have that white background, we're brightening up the area inside the rectangular photograph, and we're not really doing that greater job of darkening the shadows and we're exaggerating the contrast across the board and so forth. So you're not going to find a single mode that's going to do the trick for you. The closest we might come is to choose Multiply, because at least that gets rid of that white background, keeps the shadow details, burns in some of the colors inside of the champagne as well. But we're totally missing the highlights. So this isn't exactly what we want but it's a start.
At this point, go ahead and press Ctrl+ Alt+J or Command+Option+J on the Mac to copy the layer and bring up the New layer dialog box, and let's go ahead and call this layer multiply because we have set it to the Multiply Blend mode. Then drop down to the original glasses layer. Let's turn the multiply layer off for a moment and press Shift+Alt+N or Shift+Option+N on the Mac, this assumes, by the way, that one of the selection tools is active and that will switch us back to Normal mode. All right, what we need to do is mask away that background and believe it or not the best way to get rid of the background is not the Color Range command because the Color Range command will select whites throughout this layer and that's not what I want.
I just want to select the white background which is a job ideally suited, again, believe it or not to the Magic Wand tool. So I'm going to go ahead and grab the Magic Wand, the Quick Selection tool is not going to do it for us by way, grab the Magic Wand tool, and I want to set the Tolerance to 12, so we snag all of the whites in that background and turn the Anti-alias check box off. So here's the deal where the Magic Wand tool is concerned, the biggest problem is the Anti-aliasing is generally no good, and it gets in the way, and ends up creating some ratty edges, you're better off trying to create the softness or the smoothness using the Refine Edge command which we'll follow up with in just a moment.
Make sure Contiguous is turned on, by the way, and then click in the background like so in order to select everything outside the glasses and then Shift+Click inside the glasses in order to select the interior region as well, drop down to the Add layer Mask icon and go ahead and click on it. And in this case I goofed up, because I masked away the glasses and kept the background, that's exactly the opposite of what want I want. Now what I can do at this point is just press Ctrl+I or Command+I on the Mac to invert that mask. The other way to work though I'll go ahead and press Ctrl+Alt+Z a couple of times, Command+Option+Z on the Mac is to Alt+Click on that Add layer Mask icon, and that will go ahead and mask away the selected portions of the image.
All right, notice that we have these vertical lines surrounding the glasses, we don't want that obviously. So I'm going to zoom out a click, then I'll Alt+Click or Option+Click in the layer Mask icon there inside the Layers panel, and I'll press the M key to switch back to the Rectangular Marquee tool, select this region well inside of the black boundaries here in the left and right-hand sides. You want to leave a margin at the top as well but you want to select tight to the bottom of the image. Then go up to the Select menu and choose the Inverse command or press Ctrl+Shift+I, Command+Shift+I on the Mac, and in my case the foreground color is black, so I'll press Alt+Backspace or Option+Delete to fill the selected region with black like so, and then I'll press Ctrl+D or Command+D on the Mac.
Now if you go ahead and zoom on in you'll see that we have some additional problems here. Notice I have this little snivel outside the glass. I've got a little bit of a crack on the inside of the glass as well. Also notice if you zoom in tight here that these are jagged edges, because I turned off the Anti-alias check box, we have no smoothing whatsoever. So what that means is we need to continue to work jagged in order to get this mask the way we want it. And the best way to paint in jagged brush strokes is to go over to the Brush tool, click and hold in order to bring up the flyout menu and switch to the Pencil tool which always draws jagged lines.
Now increase the size of your cursor by pressing the right bracket key a few times, paint black over that area outside the glass that needs to be painted away. Press the X key to switch the foreground color to White and then go ahead and paint that crack out of the picture, paint that little guy out of the way as well if you want, press the X key in order to switch to Black and click on that little aberrant pixel. And I think that's about all there is, otherwise I think we're in pretty good shape. Now obviously we've got jagged edges, everything is really super lumpy and that's why we need to enhance this mask using the Refine Mask command in the next exercise.
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Liberty upends Campbell's Senior Day, 79-59
Davon Marshall led five players in double digits with 15 points and Liberty defeated Campbell 79-59 Saturday at Gore Arena.
Antwan Burrus added 14, John Caleb Sanders 13, Andrew Smith 12 - plus a game-high nine rebounds - and Tomasz Gielo 11 for the Flames (10-19, 4-10 Big South), who ended a seven-game losing streak and spoiled Campbell's Senior Day.
Reco McCarter led Campbell (12-17, 6-8) with 14 points and eight rebounds. Luke Moyer added 12 and Leek Leek 10 for the Camels, who lost their third in a row.
Liberty used a pair of 13-5 runs in the first half and led 42-29 at the break. he Flames shot 50 percent from the floor in the opening half, compared to 33 percent for the Camels.
Burrus opened the second period with a baseline dunk to give the Flames a 15-point edge. However, Quinton Ray and McCarter hit back-to-back threes and Leonard scored on a put-back to trim the gap to 44-37 with 17:49 left.
The Liberty advantage stood at eight, 55-47, after Leek made the second of two free throws with 8:16 remaining before a 9-0 Flames flurry again pushed the advantage to double figures.
"Again, even though it wasn't from the start, we dug ourselves a hole and it was just too hard to climb out," said Campbell head coach Kevin McGeehan. "We had it down to seven by driving and making some plays and the game easily could have gone the other way at that point. But when you're so far down, you have to almost play perfect."
Campbell battled the tallest frontcourt in the league to a draw on the boards, 34-34, but the Flames' height advantage limited the Camels' effectiveness close to the basket. Liberty finished with a 38-20 edge on points in the paint and Campbell shot 36 percent from the field.
Liberty finished the game shooting 47.5 percent from the floor and made 16-of-19 (.842) from the line while committing eight turnovers.
Saturday's game marked the final home playing appearance for four Camel seniors - Marvelle Harris, who did not play due to a foot injury, Antonio Kalpic, Leek and Antwon Oliver.
The Camels hit the road for games at Radford, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, and High Point, at 7 p.m. Friday and to be televised on ESPNU, before heading to the VisitMyrtleBeach.com Big South Championship, March 5-9 at Conway, S.C.