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The £14.99 delivery charge is a flat rate which we charge to all order to the UK Mainland. This applies to any number of items and will increase for international orders.
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These Sparco sub-frames are custom made to order and therefore take an estimated 7-14 days for delivery. Some popular frame applications are held in stock
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If you need to know if the seats or products you are can be delivered for a certain date because you are on a tight deadline for a show, a magazine feature, your car is booked into a garage or any other reason then please contact us first before ordering your products online.
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Please check our delivery information page for further details regarding our delivery policies. We are happy to answer any questions you may have regarding stock and custom items.
How do these direct fitment frames work? These have been specifically developed to fit your sport seats into your car using all the original bolting bolts. These should be used to bolt to the underneath of your sport seats using the relevant bolting points and then bolted into your car using the original factory bolt points. This means no modifications to the car are required and helps for a fast and effective fitment.
What is included? These Sparco direct fitment frames come fully assembled and simply need bolting into your car for easy fitment. We recommend using the original bolts from your vehicle to complete fitment.
Can I use original seat belts with these frames? Most Sparco sub frames and direct fitment frames have bolting points to allow you to attach the pretensioners from existing seatbelts to the frames. This is provided so that you can choose if you want to use your original seat belt equipment or harness belts, in some cases modifications may be required so you can use them in this way.
Sparco Seats - Peugeot 106 Direct Fit Sub-frames
Information: Sparco sub frames are made to fit Sparco seats directly into your car quickly and easily. We strongly recommend using these when possible for a solid and secured fitment.
These subframes are for your Peugeot 106 made from August 1991 to 1998.
All the Sparco subframes listed will only fit with seats of the same brand. If the sub-frames are used with seats made by other manufacturers correct fitment can not be guaranteed. These sub-frames will only fit base mountable bucket seats and reclining sport seats. They will not fit side mounted seats without adaption bars or side mounts. Please check this when ordering.
Some sub-frames are made up of just runners and brackets, other sub-frames are a complete replacement frame. This will be noted in the options and prices.
The photo shown in purely for illustration purposes as every sub-frame provided for every car is completely different. Some may be adaption bars which are fitted to the exsisting frame to allow the correct seats to fit or some may be complete frames as shown in the photo. If you require more details about each specific frame then please contact us before ordering.
Pricing: Product pricing is for 1 Sparco subframe (fits 1 seat).
Seating Position: This can be selected from the options tab. If you require both passenger and drivers side frames, please add this item to your shopping cart twice and select the correct applications.
Ordering details: When ordering sub-frames seperate to seats we will need to know what seats you are fitting them to so we can ensure fitment is correct. Please add this information to the comments box on check out.
Sparco Seats: For more information regarding Sparco seats and their range of bucket seats, racing seats and reclining sport seats including delivery times, material and fabric options and manufacturer details please follow this link to our dedicated Sparco seat section.


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Below is the poem entitled haiku six which was written by poet
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Debbie Duncan
i find your name
rolling across my tongue
but you never come true
days of old gone
words dripped on pages
and I read them still
bees are buzzing with bliss
honey drips from tongue
buckets filled with rum
eyes of blue
you are so true
I'm still leaving you
you call my name
i'm going the opposite way
i just don't have time for you today
we were the best of friends
it was the best of times
then love got in the way
I wrote these "all" in 2011,,, I know they're not the 5 - 7 - 5 ,,,, but here I am posting.

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Four Words We're Using Nobody UnderstandsBy
A dozen years ago I was giving a talk on sexual purity to couples in a marriage preparation program. I could tell by their semi-hostile fidgeting I was losing them so though I was a bit afraid of what might come, I stopped and asked them to tell me what was bothering them.
As they peppered me with objections, I gradually realized they did not understand the word "lust." They took it to mean "libido," and therefore when I told them about John Paul II's identifying lust and domination as two false imitations of love, they were getting the message the Church condemns the natural sexual desire of spouses. I was speaking the truth, faithfully imparting the Pope's words – and yet woefully miscommunicating because I assumed everyone shared my vocabulary.
Don't you find that sort of miscommunication happens in our political discourse all the time as well? We all use the same vocabulary words, but we're often talking past each other – and everyone's grown so defensive that we're quick to complain about being misunderstood and slow to listen with ears that hear how the person is using the language so we can meet the objection and have a real discussion.
Here are four other examples. Perhaps in comments you can suggest others.
1. Capitalism. Conservatives bristle when anyone criticizes "capitalism," but I contend that if you listen not to the word they use but to the phenomenon they describe, most people are not criticizing the free market system, but their lack of access to it. They are criticizing the cronyism that reigns today.
We may still call our system "capitalist," but in fact little of the market is free. Our economy is increasingly shaped by un-elected bureaucrats in the federal agencies who collude with friends in Big Business to create rules that privilege large corporations, often to the exclusion of start-ups, family businesses, the middle class and the working poor.
The ideological Left deliberately calls this corruption "capitalism" as a means to undermine people's confidence in free markets. (Then- HHS Secretary Sebelius' famous appearance on The Daily Show was a classic example. Stewart won praise even from Conservatives for a "tough interview," but in fact the appearance was a set-up. Watch as Stewart allows Sebelius to call Obamacare a "market-based" system and to blame its disastrous roll-out on having to work within the limits of "capitalism" rather than on having the nation's health care regulations written by big insurance companies and Planned Parenthood and their cronies in federal agencies. The purpose of that interview was not to subject Sebelius to scrutiny, but to pave the way for a single-payer system.)
Most people you run across are not hardened leftists deliberately mis-appropriating the word "capitalism" for propaganda purposes, however. They're just using the word in the way they've heard it, and if those of us who favor limited government and a substantially free market wish to have a productive conversation about the economy, we need to quit pouncing when we hear "capitalism" criticized, acknowledge the justice of the complaints, propose how to confront the corruption of cronyism, and persuade people that our ideas will better help the poor, the middle class, families and workers.
Cronyism is the fruit not of the free market, but of Progressivism, which replaces government of the people, for the people and by the people with regulation by bureaucrats. Progressives (including those on the Right) gave us our current system. Let them defend it.
2. Entrepreneur. Speaking of workers, when small-government Conservatives say "entrepreneurs," they are thinking of start-ups, small businesses (including family farms) – and the people they employ. Businesses of 50 employees or fewer employ one third of the work force. There's a community dimension to small businesses too, as they often have a more humane and personal relationship with their employees than huge companies are able to. For Conservatives, therefore, "entrepreneur" is almost a romantic term, calling to mind the American dream, the hard work of our immigrant grandparents, or the pluck of the guy with the burrito cart who builds a franchise and is able to send his kids to college.
What most people today hear, however, is "Bosses," especially bosses of huge corporations. People who think of themselves as "workers" – who can't imagine starting a business and who are afraid because their wages buy less and less in this economy—don't understand the term includes them and their needs.
3. American exceptionalism. It doesn't mean Americans are inherently better than citizens of other nations. That kind of jingoism turns the term on its head. Most generations of Americans have recognized that we're made of corruptible clay like all other men. What makes America exceptional is that her unifying principle is not race or ethnicity but that all human persons are created equal – and our collective commitment (at least until recently) to that principle. Our blessing is not in ourselves, but in the genius of our political institutions which have allowed us a degree of liberty not previously seen on earth and a better (though not sufficient) ground for human flourishing than other political systems.
You must have seen the pictures that circulate the internet periodically of women in Afghanistan in the 1950s studying medicine in the university. They're a chilling reminder that there are no backwards peoples, only backwards and wicked systems. "American exceptionalism" reminds us that liberty is not inevitable; it is not the natural tendency towards which history inexhorably progresses. It can be lost and it requires continual re-dedication to its principles to maintain it.
4. Proportionality. Here is another term commonly used to indicate precisely the opposite of its actual meaning. During the fighting in Gaza these past weeks, I've heard a lot of commentators question whether Israel's response to Hamas is "proportionate." They seem to think it means that when Hamas fires rockets into Israel, Israel may only toss a few rockets back in response. I actually heard a reporter suggest Israel's response has been disproportionate because more Palestinians have died than Israelis.
Ugh! "Proportionate response" does not mean you "get" to kill only as many of your enemy as they kill of you. That is precisely the barbaric vengeance mentality the Just War tradition and international law seek to overturn. In that tradition, "proportionate response" prohibits using more force than is necessary to achieve a legitimate and achievable end such as repelling an invader from your border or preventing your enemy from being able to attack you. I offer this not as an endorsement of everything Israel has done in Gaza, but simply to note it would be monstrous for Israel to kill "proportionately" in the sense too many of our reporters seem to mean think.
Can you cite other examples of political terms in common use that cause miscommunication?
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F.R. DuPlantier–May I please use your excellent list?
Another from the secular realm is the use of ORGANIC to mean purer or more healthful. Saw a claim for 'organic water'! "Organic" means carbon-based and chiefly of biological origin.
In a related matter I've seen ads for eggs from "free-range chickens which were raised on an entirely vegetarian diet". Anyone who's ever seen a free-range chicken knows they love to eat insects and other non-vegetarian foods!
Margaret E.–I think that refers to the fact that the chickens are not fed animal by-products.
Excellent points. However, "our blessing is […] in the genius of our political institutions which have allowed us a degree of liberty not previously seen on earth" sounds a little over the top historically and politically speaking. Don't mind me, a humble foreigner speaking from the rest of the earth where no such degree of liberty and political genius has apparently been seen before. But I think this is argument can risk condescendence that makes it a challenge to fraternize across borders. No disrespect. Just constructive criticism. Keep up the good work.
Words they use that we don't get:
Climate change: Unless you do what I say, the temperature will go up or down
Pro-choice: I have the right to kill anyone who annoys me
Social justice: I should be praying, but agitating is more fun
Peace: Surrender
Bailout: Boondoggle
Balance: Imbalance
Diversity: It's all good
It's all good: I have absolutely no standards
You're trying to impose your values on me: I'm trying to impose my values on you
For the children: It's all about me
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In response we now hear politicians talking about better "transparency" when they violate our 4th Amendment rights under the Constitution. The truth is that "transparency" is not good enough!
Apparently Rep. Rush Holt from New Jersey felt the same way when he introduced The Surveillance State Repeal Act (H.R. 2818) which will repeal the USA PATRIOT Act and the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 among other things.
Currently the bill has been referred to commitee. If you agree that our freedom is more important than the illusion of security, you need to contact your representatives and tell them to support this bill using the link below:


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Extending the capabilities of a clinician
Thursday 26 October 2006, 1400-1500
C60 InfoLab21
By Professor Maria Petrou, Imperial College, London
The human vision system has been the inspiration for many computer vision approaches. However, the human vision system has its limitations.
The talk will concentrate on methods used to allow us to see characteristics in the data that are not obvious to the human eye. It will show examples of 3D texture analysis for MRI data and also results of tumour boundary detection using high order statistics.


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The Q-Core SL is a high quality lightly insulated sleeping pad that scores near the top of the pack in our ratings. It's moderately lightweight, reasonably warm, compact, and reasonably comfortable. Our testers found that the pad's "pot hole surface" wasn't as comfortable as Therm-a-Rest's NeoAir series. That's the pad's largest drawback. Even so, it's still a Top Five finisher.
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Pros: Moderately light, compact, and comfortable.
Cons: "Pot hole" surface is not as comfortable as the mostly flat NeoAir series, slippery surface, bumpy side rails, low quality mesh stuff sack.
Best Uses: Backpacking and camping.
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The Q-Core SL weighs 19.5 ounces on our scale. This is 7 ounces more than the Therm-a-Rest NeoAir XLite and 4 ounces more than the deep winter worthy Therm-a-Rest NeoAir XTherm. Thus, the pad is moderately light, but not impressively light.
Packed Size
It packs down to a moderate size, but is still larger than the NeoAir XTherm.
We haven't tested the pad over the long-term, i.e. multiple years. However, based on our experience testing more than 30 pads and dozens of fabrics used in the outdoor industry we suspect that the pad offers average durability. The only concern we have lies with the dimple-like surface design; surface complexity increases the difficulty of repair. That is, a smoother, flatter surface is generally easier to patch. So, that could be potential drawback if the pad were to tear in or along one of the dimples.
Originally we decided not to include the Q-Core series in our sleeping pad reviews because we didn't think they competed at a high level. After a while, however, we read a bunch of other reviews online that raved about the pads' comfort, read Big Agnes' description of the Q-Core as "the most comfortable pads on the planet," and we decided to test them (this and the Insulated Q-Core). But our testers were largely disappointed with their comfort. We expected the pads to be considerably more comfortable than they are. Here are the two primary problems we've found:
(1) One tester described the top as a "pot hole surface." There are big holes all over the pad!! They collect dirt and adventure grime and are not as comfortable to lay your head on directly as flatter surfaces, such as Therm-a-Rest's NeoAir series pads. Several testers went head-to-head with the Q-Core SL, Therm-a-Rest NeoAir XTherm, and [Therm-a-Rest NeoAir All-Season]] on a backcountry ski expedition in Greenland. Their conclusion after a month on the pads: "Though the Big Agnes pad was the thickest, we all agreed that its baffles were a bit uncomfortable. We could always feel them, whereas the surface of the Therm-a-Rest pads was much more smooth and even."
It's also important to note that there are "rails" along the edges that aim to keep your body centered. We really dislike these because they prevent you from fully utilizing all of the surface area. Also, they prevent you from lining two pads up next to each other to create a larger flat surface; spooning with someone else or using a double wide sleeping bag is a pain at best with the Q-Core series. This eliminates the pad from consideration for use on fast and light winter trips where weight is the absolute top concern, i.e. where you share a Feathered Friends Spoonbill sleeping bag with another person-- the rails push you away from the other person to such an extent that the Spoonbill is neither comfortable nor thermally efficient.
(2) The next most significant drawback to the Q-Core SL is its slippery surface. This is a problem we've experienced with other Big Agnes pads, such as their Air Core, and it's detrimental for people that toss and turn a lot because you can easily slip off the pad. This is readily apparent when comparing various pads side-by-side. If you feel motivated you can lay strips of SeamGrip on the flatter parts to the pad to create more friction between you and the pad and between the pad and the ground.
The pad is sufficiently warm for most winter applications. Our testers felt that the XTherm was slightly warmer, but not but too much. BUT, we haven't yet used the pad in very cold conditions, like -20 F.
Stuff Sack
The pad comes with a very low quality mesh stuff sack that's basically worthless. Mesh!? It doesn't protect the pad from dirt or grime and it ripped within the first week of testing. C'mon Big Agnes!
Best Applications
Winter camping and backpacking.
Like all top-tier pads, the Q-Core SL is pricey. If it were more comfortable we would think it a better value.
The Q-Core SL is almost the best lightweight pads we've tested. If it were more comfortable and a bit lighter it might be closer to #1.
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LUNCH 11:30 a.m.. LECTURE 12:00 p.m.
Prior to his role as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Mr. West was Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. He joined Hershey in 2001 as Vice President, Business Planning and Development, and subsequently was promoted to Senior Vice President, Business Planning and Development. In December 2002, he was promoted to the position of Senior Vice President, Chief Customer Officer, and was named Chief Financial Officer in 2005.
Before joining Hershey, Mr. West was Senior Vice President/Chief Financial Officer, Nabisco Biscuit and Snacks Group, with responsibility for leading the financial function of Kraft Foods biscuits, confections and salty snacks businesses, a $6 billion group. During his 14-year career with Nabisco, he held the positions of Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Business Planning, and Director, Investment Analysis, among others. Prior to this, he held positions in finance and accounting with Wearever Proctor-Silex and Unisys.
Mr. West received a bachelors degree, cum laude, in business administration from Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa. He has served on the board of directors of The Hershey Company since 2008; the board of directors of the Grocery Manufacturers Association since 2007; and on the board of directors of the Tasty Baking Company since December 2003, and is chairman of its Strategic Planning Committee. During his presentation, Mr. West will discuss the confectionery industry while sharing some of his strategies for success.
In his lecture, Dr. Hough plans to explore the moral foundations for leadership. He says that in addition to ones personal principles of morality that should support all forms of leadership, there is an urgent need today for leaders to dedicate themselves to addressing the common and public good.
Hough is actually returning to The Claremont Colleges after a long hiatus, as he served on the faculty of Claremont School of Theology and Chair of the Religion Department of Claremont Graduate School. He also acted as dean of the Claremont School of Theology from 1974 to 1987. He arrived in Claremont again after serving as the fifteenth president of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, where he is the William E. Dodge Professor of Social Ethics Emeritus. Prior to his position as president, Dr. Hough worked at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, where he was dean and professor of Ethics.
Dr. Hough is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ. After completing his undergraduate studies at Wake Forest University and Yale Divinity School, he earned a Ph.D. in Ethics from Yale in 1965. He is the author of numerous books, including Christian Identity and Theological Education (1985); Beyond Clericalism: The Congregation as a Focus for Theological Education (1989); Theology and the University: Essays in Honor of John B. Cobb, Jr. (1991); and Black Power and White Protestants: A Christian Response to the New Negro Pluralism (1968), and he is the recipient of accolades such as the Joshua Award from the Jewish Federation Council for outstanding contributions to human relations and the Distinguished Service Award from the Association of Theological Schools of the United States and Canada, among others.
Professor Pei is the Tom and Margot Pritzker 72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow, and the director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies here at Claremont McKenna College. In addition, he is an adjunct senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C, where he has worked since 1999 and served as director of the China Program from 2004 to 2008. His research focuses on democratization in developing countries, economic reform and governance in China, and U.S.-China relations. The author of two books From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union (1994) and Chinas Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy (2006) his work has also been published in magazines and journals such as Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, Modern China, China Quarterly and the Journal of Democracy. His voice is frequently heard on BBC News and National Public Radio as well.
As a doctoral student at Harvards Kennedy School of Government, Professor Pei received the Edward Chase Prize for the Best Dissertation in a field of political science. He also is the recipient of several research grants and fellowships. Prof. Pei also possesses a bachelor degree in English from the Shanghai International Studies University and a Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh.
A remarkable accomplishment .Lichtenstein provides an authoritative account of labors decline, an agenda for its renewal, and an argument for the necessity of its revitalization if American democracy is to thrive in coming years, The result is a brilliant historical introduction . If American labors fortunes do improve, no recent book will have made a greater contribution to its revival. Joseph A. McCartin, Washington Post- Praise for State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (2007).
Called Americas wisest historian of business and labor, Lichenstein pursued his research further with penetrating insights into employment practices. His book, The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Global Capitalism (2009), is a union of scholarship and literature: comprehensive socioeconomic history caught in an engrossing and chilling account.
Nelson Lichtenstein is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy. Current and past conferences include: The American Right and U.S. Labor: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination; The Traveling Box: Containers as the Global Icon of Our Era and Capitalism and Its Culture: Rethinking Mid-20th Century American Thought.
LUNCH 11:30 a.m., LECTURE 12:00 p.m.
Anna Simons is a professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School. She joined the NPS faculty in 1998. Prior to teaching at NPS, she was an assistant and then associate professor of anthropology at UCLA, as well as chair of the Masters in African Area Studies Program. She holds an A.B. from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University. She is the author of Networks of Dissolution: Somalia Undone (1995) and The Company They Keep: Life Inside the U.S. Army Special Forces (1997). She has written extensively about intervention, conflict, and the military from an anthropological perspective for a wide range of publications (The American Interest, The National Interest, Orbis, Third World Quarterly, Parameters, etc.). At NPS she teaches courses in the anthropology of conflict, military advising, low intensity conflict in Africa, and political anthropology.
Reflections on Muslim History and the Modern World
Hillel Fradkin is a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute where he directs its Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World. He is the founder of Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, the leading journal on contemporary Islamism (sometimes known as militant or radical Islam) which he co-edits with Husain Haqqani, Hassan Mnemneh and Eric Brown. He is also general editor of Hudsons monograph series on contemporary Islam and Islamism as well as the centers website www.futureofmuslimworld.com. Fradkin writes on both classical and contemporary Islam as well as Middle Eastern politics, American foreign and security policy and international relations. In addition to work on Islamic history and thought he has also written on the history of the problematic relationship of religion and politics as well as the history of Jewish thought.
Fradkin received his degree in Islamic Studies from the University of Chicago in 1978 for work done under the direction of the late Pakistani theologian Fazlur Rahman and was also a student of Muhsin Mahdi of Harvard University. He received a B.A. in Government from Cornell University.
Financial economics has much to contribute to current policy discussions and from a research perspective these debates suggest interesting issues for financial theory and financial economics more generally. The implications of such themes as (1) utility maximization and market clearing, (2) resource constraints, (3) the costliness of policy uncertainty and benefits to predictability and (4) the forward-looking nature of economic incentives are important for evaluating policy.
Spatt is currently the Pamela R. and Kenneth B. Dunn Professor of Finance and Director of the Center for Financial Markets in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the former Chief Economist and Director, Office of Economic Analysis, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (July 2004-July 2007). His teaching and research interests are: taxation and asset allocation with an emphasis on tax-deferred investing, estate planning and how taxation of capital gains and losses impacts investor realization behavior and asset pricing; economics of securities and financial market regulation; pricing and hedging of fixed income securities with an emphasis on mortgage contracting and valuation; equilibrium models of forward curves for commodities; market microstructure including the effect of information and strategic behavior on market processes, the interaction between the order flow and order book in security markets, and the effect of the pre-opening on pricing.
There will be three 20-minute debates, with each relying on two student debaters and one moderator from the faculty or administration. The student debaters will go head to head while moderators provide insight into the issue and give legitimacy to the discussion. It'll be serious but entertaining debate.
The first debate will cover the expansion of the College to 1400 students. With the addition of Claremont Hall and other building projects in the works, the Board of Trustees is moving ahead with its plans to make the student body bigger, part of a larger effort to raise the visibility of CMC within the national rankings. But is this the best choice for CMC? Will the fundamental nature of the college change with this population increase? What elements of CMC's character wil be lost? Or improved? What's the best way to proceed with the expansion?
The second debate will switch focus to current campus life: Should CMC change its alcohol policy? The role of alcohol in campus culture has been a long time issue for the college, since CMC remains a wet-campus. This policy, however, has come under fire in light of recent alcohol-related incidents, and the Dean of Students office has stated that "things have to change." Do they? If so, how?
And for the final debate we will turn to a question that often goes overlooked, but seems to merit consideration: Is CMC male-dominated? The college abandoned its single sex admissions decades ago, and the name Claremont Men's College only a few years later. But the college continues to be majority male, while women make up 57 percent of college students overall. Does this mean that CMC has a bias towards males? Do women have a different role on campus? Even if they do, does it even matter?
A full roster of debaters and moderators will be announced shortly. Stay tuned to CMCForum.com for updates, previews, and more.
Maxson specializes in the areas of crime and delinquency, especially youth violence, street gangs, juvenile justice system, and policing. She has co-authored Street Gang Patterns and Policies (2006) and Responding to Troubled Youth (1997) and co-edited The Eurogang Paradox: Gangs and Youth Groups in the U.S. and Europe (2000) and The Modern Gang Reader (2005). Over 40 of her articles have been published in academic journals as well. Dr. Maxon has served as Executive Counselor and Vice-President of the American Society of Criminology and was elected President and Vice-President of the Western Society of Criminology, where she is honored as a Fellow, and with the Societys Paul Tappan and Joseph Lohman awards.
Dr. Maxson's appearance is in conjunction with CMC Professor Fred Lynch's Government 109 class on "Juvenile Delinquency and Public Policy."
Teddy Cruz searches for ways to transform discriminatory legislature and lending structures in order to generate a new brand of bottom-up social and economic justice that can bridge the political equator. Need an explanation? Follow this link: http://www.world-architects.com/index.php?seite=ca_project_details_us&system_id=18111&profile_sprache=us.
Estudio Teddy Cruz has received awards for projects on both sides of the border, including various AIA San Diego chapter awards, Progressive Architecture Awards from Architecture Magazine, and the Architectural League of New York Young Architects Forum Award. It was selected as one of the national Emergent Voices in architecture by the Urban League in New York City. Estudio Teddy Cruz has been published in various architectural journals and newspapers, including The New York Times, Global Architecture, Log, Progressive Architecture, Architecture Record, Casas International, Thresholds MIT, The San Diego Union, The Los Angeles Times, Praxis Magazine, and Princeton Architecture Press City Limits. It also exhibits locally, nationally, and internationally.
Teddy Cruz is currently an associate professor in Public Culture and Urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego. He received his (B.A.-1982 : Rafael Landivar University Guatemala City, BArch-1987 : California State Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo, Fellow-1991 : Rome Prize in Architecture, MDesS-1997 : Harvard University GSD), beginning with an experimental summer workshop at SCI-ARC, his LA/LA Latin America/Los Angeles studio, has taught and lectured in various universities in the US, Latin America, and Europe. From 2000-2005, Teddy Cruz was associate professor in the School of Architecture at Woodbury University, San Diego. For his contributions to architecture pedagogy, Teddy received the Robert Taylor Teaching Award from the ACSA. And, he was awarded the 2004-2005 James Stirling Memorial Lecture on the City Prize, sponsored by the CCA in Montreal, the Van Alen Institute in New York, and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Teddy Cruzs visit and talk are sponsored by the CMC History Department, the Luce Grant in the History Department and the Athenaeum.
Dr. Forden, P10, is a research associate with the Program on Science, Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 2000, his research at MIT since 2000 has included analysis of Russian and Chinese space system. He also studies how weapons proliferators acquire the technological knowledge and industrial infrastructure to produce weapons of mass destruction. In 2002-2003, Dr. Forden spent a year on leave from MIT to serve as the first Chief of Multidiscipline Analysis Section for UNMOVIC, the UN agency responsible for verifying and monitoring the dismantlement of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Previous to coming to MIT, he was a strategic weapons analyst in the National Security Division of the Congressional Budget Office, performing research on ballistic missile defense and Russias early warning satellites, among other topics. Dr. Forden has provided commentary on international weapons testing across the world, especially by rogue states. He holds a doctorate in experimental high-energy physics from the University of Indiana and previously worked at a number of international particle accelerator centers.
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Freezer paper stenciling isn't new to me. I've done it several time before. Summer Camp Pillows, Recycle T-shirts, Strawberry Shortcake costume and striped tights. But I cut these out by hand with scissors. When I got my Cricut over a year ago I envisioned my life becoming easier b/c I would use it to cut lettering out on freezer paper. But when I tried it never cut correctly. It always peeled up as it was cutting which messed up the letters. I'd given up trying after changing the pressure, speed and blade depth several times.
A year later.... My Mother-in-law wanted to make some shirts for her and some of her friends (sorority sisters) using gems. I have a shirt with my Sorority (Delta Sigma Theta) with the Greek letters and named spelled out in gems that she liked. I bought some rhinestones along with
Memar Mylar Carrier sheets some time ago that I never got around to trying so of course I was all game. But counting the number of gems that were used on my t-shirt and looking at the cost I realized that it was gonna be pretty pricy so I decided to do freezer paper stenciling instead.
We got the t-shirts from Michaels around Thanksgiving when they were $2.50 ea and some acrylic paint (b/c there was no fabric paint in the color we wanted) I mixed 2 parts paint with 1 part textile medium so it would adhere to the fabric.
I figured I would have to hand cut my letters b/c I still couldn't get my Cricut to cut right. This would not have been so bad for the large greek letters but I would not have attempted to cut the small, thin print greek name spelled out.
I did a Google search on the topic and found a blog post (sorry I don't remember where) that gave tips on cutting freezer paper with the Cricut. I tried it and it worked!!! It was simple as laying the freezer paper shiny side UP! I'd been laying mine shiny side down. Not really sure why it cut better this way but it worked like a charm. I think it stuck better to the mat this way. The blogger mentioned that her settings were 3 (I assumed that was Medium pressure and Medium speed and her blade was set at 4). Oh and b/c you iron the shinny side to your fabric, I had to flip the text. SCAL (Sure Cuts Alot) has a Flip Horizontal button that does just that so it was pretty simple.
With the text reversed, I was ready to cut, peel off my stencil and iron onto my shirts along with the small pieces (center of a, e, P, etc....). I stenciled the paint on (2-3 thin layers, with freezer paper in between the shirt so the paint didin't bleed through to the back), peeled off when dry and heat set the paint with a hot iron (pressing directly on the paint).
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Why Is Internet Outrage So Popular?
On the off chance you're having trouble coming up with something to be outraged about, how about outrage itself?
That's more or less what the always-entertaining writer Teddy Wayne did the other day in The New York Times, casting a critical eye on online outrage — the, loud, all-caps, hypercritical discourse that has come to be a routine feature of the World Wide Web. "Bile" is not new to Internet life, he conceded. But "the last few years have seen it crawl from under the shadowy bridges patrolled by anonymous trolls," he argued, "and emerge into the sunshine of social media, where people proudly trumpet their ethical outrage."
Indeed, Wayne cites a study that made the rounds last year — presumably because it was so outraging? — arguing that "Anger is More Influential Than Joy."
He has a point: Social media really does seem to have upped the outrage quotient in public discourse. Angry denunciation, evidently, is highly "shareable," as digital gurus like to say.
Why is that? Surely there are many reasons, but the most interesting one is also, curiously, the most upbeat: Haterade helps us make friends.
That, at least, is the suggestion of an earlier study with the fabulous title "Interpersonal chemistry through negativity: Bonding by sharing negative attitudes about others."
That research, described here by Aaron Retica, writing for The New York Times Magazine, suggested that "one of the surest routes to friendship is disliking the same things about other people."
Notably, the study included asking subjects whether they thought they would enjoy meeting someone whose likes and dislikes they'd learned about. Turned out shared negativity was a stronger indicator of getting along than mutual enthusiasm.
And if you think about the vitriol in your own social media feeds, doesn't this ring true? Nobody spewing venom about political figures, celebrities, tech companies, or current events is changing anyone else's mind. Thus, we unfriend or ignore those whose outrage we disagree with.
But when others' outrage echoes our own, it's different. Maybe they (we) are properly signalling to the like-minded about our common ground — that is, where we can all come together and hate the same things.
Lately, for instance, I've noticed a lot of Facebook and Twitter contacts endorsing a boycott of Hobby Lobby, in connection with the Supreme Court's decision that such private firms can opt out of covering birth control under the Affordable Care Act if religious objections come into play. More specifically, I've noticed this boycott idea being pushed by people who I am quite sure have never visited a Hobby Lobby in their lives.
(I suppose this falls into the category that writer Tom Vanderbilt suggested on Twitter recently ought to be called the "fauxcott." Useless as a practical tactic, it functions purely as a way to announce outrage — and perhaps find community in discontent.)
And, really, it's not particularly outrageous to concede that what we're against says as much as what we are for: "Fandom involves anti-fandom," as a scholar on both subjects once put it. "Think of the Star Wars fan who hates Trek, since his galaxy isn't big enough for both franchises." Presumably similar logic applies to the MSNBC zealot who can't stop attacking FOX News, and vice versa.


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WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 2010 U.S. officials in Islamabad, Pakistan, have provided updated facts and figures for the support the United States is providing to the flood-stricken country:
-- Four more Marine Corps CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters arrived yesterday, bringing to 15 the total number of U.S. military helicopters in Pakistan.
-- Navy and Marine Corps helicopters at Ghazi Air Base continued relief operations yesterday in Pakistan's Swat Valley, while Air Force C-130 cargo aircraft based in Afghanistan transported international aid from the Pakistani air force's central flood relief cell at Chaklala Air Force Base to Sukkur, Pakistan.
-- U.S. military helicopters supporting relief operations in Pakistan transported 106,468 pounds of relief supplies and rescued 616 people yesterday.
-- Three U.S. military C-130 aircraft transported 60,000 pounds of food and relief supplies from Rawalpindi to Sukkur yesterday in support of airlift requests by the Pakistani government.
-- Through yesterday U.S. military helicopter crews had rescued 4,594 people and transported 558,508 pounds of relief supplies since Aug. 5.
-- U.S. military C-130s transported 194,000 pounds of supplies Aug. 16-18.
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This paper identifies opportunities possible in transportation reauthorization legislation and using existing legislative authority that will save oil and reduce GHG emissions. The strategy focuses on five key elements: vehicles; fuels; vehicle miles traveled (VMT); system efficiency; and construction, maintenance, and other activities of transportation agency operations.
The United States consumes over 10 million barrels of oil per day moving people and goods on roads and rail throughout the country. Surface transportation generates over 23 percent of U.S. anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Transportation is the primary cause of U.S. oil dependence with its attendant risks to U.S. energy security. Contributions from this sector will be necessary in any effort to maintain a sustainable and secure economy in the future. There are many opportunities to save oil and reduce GHG emissions under existing federal law and possibly in the next surface transportation reauthorization legislation in the U.S. Congress, while increasing the mobility of people and goods in the U.S. economy.
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A receiver scanning circuit features a grouping of the stored frequencies, such as by geographical area or program content. Thus only one kind of station from a selected group need by stopped at, if only that kind of group is desired to be received. This greatly increases operator convenience.
1. A tuning circuit for a receiver comprising memory means for storing a plurality of groups of electrical quantities representing tuning frequencies, each of said groups comprising a plurality of electrical quantities representing tuning frequencies; search device means coupled to said memory means for scanning said groups; a group selection circuit means for selecting a group to be scanned, and means coupled to said search device means and to said group selection circuit means for stopping said scanning upon reception of a receive signal of sufficient amplitude; the memory including a group mark section means for storing group identification information and a tuning data section means for storing said electrical quantities representing tuning frequencies, said search device means scanning both said group mark section and said tuning data section, and said stopping means comprising a detector means for providing a reception condition signal upon said received signal having said sufficient amplitude, identification circuit means coupled to the group mark section of the memory and to said group selection circuit means for delivering an identification signal when the group mark section of the memory equals a group mark determined by the group section circuit, and a gate having inputs coupled to said detector and identification circuit means respectively and an output coupled to said search device means.
2. A tuning circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the receiver is a vehicle receiver and the group selection circuit is a programme-type selection circuit.
3. A tuning circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the receiver is a vehicle receiver and the group selection circuit is a geographical region selection circuit which permits a selection from groups of transmitters classified according to geographical situation.
4. A tuning circuit as claimed in claim 3, wherein the group selection circuit means includes a control panel comprising group selection members arranged according to the geographical situations of the groups.
5. A tuning circuit for a receiver comprising memory means which include a plurality of simultaneously scannable groups of the electrical quantities representing tuning data frequencies, said memory means further including a separate output for each of said groups; search device means coupled to said memory means for scanning said tuning data frequencies in said scannable groups; a scanning group selection circuit means coupled to said separate outputs of said memory means for selecting with one switching action at will one of said scannable groups to be scanned without changing the group arrangement of the tuning data frequencies of the memory means; and means coupled to said search device means and to said group selection circuit means for stopping said scanning upon reception of a received signal of sufficient amplitude.
This is a continuation, of application Ser. No. 781,140, filed Mar. 25, 1977, now abandoned, which is a continuation of Ser. No. 619,032, filed Oct. 2, 1975, abandoned.
The invention relates to a receiver which includes a tuning circuit having a transmitter search device by means of which, during a search, a group from a plurality of tuning data stored in a memory can be scanned while the search can be stopped on tuning to a desired transmitter.
Netherlands Patent Application No. 7,212,838 describes a receiver of the above-mentioned type which contains potentiometers which serve as memory elements for tuning data and part of which can if desired be scanned by means of a counter circuit. The potentiometers of the said scanned group serve consecutively to supply a tuning voltage to a tunable section of the receiver until the receiver is tuned to a desired transmitter. The indication that the counter circuit, which in the relevant receiver serves as a search device, has reached the desired transmitter is obtained by means of an indicating lamp which lights up when the corresponding tuning data are supplied to the tunable section.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a receiver having a tuning circuit of greater ease of operation so that particularly vehicle radio receivers equipped with such a tuning circuit demand very little attention for operation.
A receiver of the above-mentioned type according to the invention is characterized in that the memory contains a group classification for transmitter tuning data while the receiver has a group selection circuit by means of which a group, from the group classification of transmitter tuning data to be scanned in a search can be selected, after which the search can be stopped by a reception condition signal produced on reception of a desired transmitter of the selected group.
In particular for vehicle receivers this is a very advantageous step, because such receivers must often be tuned from one transmitter the range of which they leave to another transmitter.
When the group classification of the tuning data in the memory for example is such that transmitters which radiate the same programm belong to the same group, the listener may uninterruptedly continue listening to this programme without operating any tuning member. The receiver then will each time automatically tune to a transmitter which provides sufficiently strong reception. Especially when a vehicle provided with such a receiver is driven in a large town such an arrangement is a great convenience, because under such conditions large field strength variations occur which then need not influence the programme received.
Classification of tuning data in groups of transmitters according to geographical situation, such as for example groups of transmitters classified according to regions of traffic information broadcasts, may be of great convenience when driving in a country having such regions, because the receiver continues to be tuned to a transmitter from a given region, until the listener selects a group comprising transmitters from another region when be knowns that he enters this other region.
The said step can further be of advantage for other receivers if the latter are able to receive groups of transmitters which are classified, for example, according to the nature of the music with they generally radiate.
Embodiments of the invention will now be described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying diagrammatic drawings, in which:
FIGS. 1 and 2 are block-schematic circuit diagrams of two embodiments of a receiver according to the invention.
Referring now to FIG. 1, a signal supplied by an antenna is applied to an input 1 of a tuning section 3 of a receiver. The tuning section 3 can be tuned by means of a tuning voltage applied to an input 5 from an output 7 of a transmitter tuning data section 9 of a memory 11. The transmitter tuning data section 9 of the memory 11 contains potentiometers 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 which each at one of the change-over terminals of a switch 19 supply a tuning voltage which can be selected by a pole of the switch 19 and supplied to the output 7.
The switch 19 can be operated by a transmitter search device 21 if at an input 23 of this device a signal is applied which indicates that no transmitter is being received.
The memory 11 further comprises a group mark section 25 having two switches 27 and 29 which are coupled to the switch 19 and are also controlled by the transmitter search device 21.
Two outputs 31 and 33 coupled to the poles of the switches 29, 27, respectively, supply, for each set of transmitter tuning data selected by the switch 19, an associated group mark to inputs 35, 37, respectively, of an identification circuit 39.
The group mark in this case is a voltage combination 00 in the first and the second positions of the switch arms of the switches 19, 27 and 29, a combination 01 in the third and the fourth positions and a combination 10 in the fifth and sixth positions. The tuning voltages of the potentiometers 13 and 14 belong to a group 00, those of the potentiometers 15 and 16 to a group 01 and those of the potentiometers 17 and 18 to a group 10.
By means of a group selection circuit 41, at outputs 43 and 45 of this circuit a voltage combination is obtainable which can be set by a switch 47 so that a group mark 00, 01 or 10 associated with a selected group is applied to two inputs 49 and 51 of the identification circuit, 39.
The identification circuit 39 at an output 53 produces an identification signal when the group mark selected by means of the switch 47 and applied to the inputs 49, 51 corresponds to the group mark at the inputs 35, 37 associated with the transmitter to which the receiver is tuned by means of the switch 19. This identification signal is applied to an input 55 of a gate circuit 57.
When a transmitter of sufficient field strength is received, a reception condition signal is applied to a further input 59 of the gate circuit 57 from an output 61 of a detection circuit 63 which via an input 65 is coupled to an output 67 of the tuning section 3 of the receiver.
If both the reception condition signal and the identification signal appear at the input 59, 55 of the gate circuit 57, this circuit at an output 69 produces a stop signal which is applied to the input 23 of the transmitter search device 21 and causes it to stop when the receiver is tuned to a transmitter from a group which is selected by the switch 47 and is received with sufficient strength.
When the reception condition signal at the input 59 of the gate circuit 57 collapses, the search device starts another search which can only stop if within the group determined by the switch 47 a transmitter of sufficient field strength is found.
Obviously the transmitter tuning section 9 of the memory 11 may be constructed so that a set of binary. tuning data is supplied to the tuning section 3. The latter then may comprise, for example, a frequency synthesis circuit.
The set of group mark data supplied by the group mark section 25 may if desired be, for example, a frequency or an analogous voltage. In this case the identification circuit 39 must be adapted thereto. The group selection circuit 41 also may if desired by constructed so as to supply another type of group mark.
The switches 19, 27 and 29 in the memory 11 may in digital techniques take the form of shift registers, in which case the transmitter search device 21 may be a clock pulse generator.
In general, a signal which depends upon the field strength of the received transmitter will be used as a reception condition signal. Any circuit commonly used for such a purpose can be used in an appropriate manner.
In the embodiment described the number of groups to be selected is three. Obviously, this number may be chosen at will.
If the transmitter is designed so that the group classification of the tuning data is effected according to the geographic situation of the transmitters in given regions, the switch 47 may preferably comprise a number of control members, for example push-buttons, which correspond to these regions and with respect to their relative locations on a control panel are oriented according to the geographic situation of the regions.
The group selection circuit 41 may if desired have selection possibilities both according to type of programme and to geographical situation.
The group mark section 25 of the memory 11, the group selection circuit 41 and the identification circuit 39 can be greatly simplified if the tuning data of a group are joined to a sequence of positions of the switch 19. The switches 27 and 29 may then be replaced by one switch which, each time at the beginning of scanning of a next group, supplies a signal to the identification circuit 39 which, by means of a counter, can form an identification signal combination which can be compared with the output signal combination of the group selection circuit 41.
An even greater simplification of the circuit is obtainable if in the memory the tuning data are stored in groups which are adapted to be simultaneously scanned, as illustrated by the embodiment shown in FIG. 2.
In FIG. 2, in which corresponding element parts are designated by the same reference numerals as in FIG. 1, in the tuning data section 9 of the memory, the potentiometers 13, 14 and 15 of a first group are connected to a switch 19 and the potentiometers 16, 17 and 18 of a second group are connected to a switch 20. The switches 19 and 20 are both coupled to the search device 21 and during a search simultaneously scan the two groups of tuning data supplied by the potentiometers 13-18. An output 7, connected to the switch 19, and an output 8, connected to the switch 20, are connected to a group selection switch 47 so that a set of tuning data from a desired group can be selected and supplied to the tuning signal input 5.
Obviously the remarks made with respect to the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 apply to an embodiment as shown in FIG. 2 also.
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Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced, the second part of the popular and comprehensive series, updated for CS5, follows internationally renowned Photoshop guru Deke McClelland as he dives into the workings of Photoshop. He explores such digital-age wonders as the Levels and Curves commands, edge-detection filters, advanced compositing techniques, vector-based text, the Liquify filter, and Camera Raw. Deke also teaches tried-and-true methods for sharpening details, smoothing over wrinkles and imperfections, and enhancing colors without harming the original image. Exercise files accompany the course.
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I'm still working inside that image, Big New irises.psd. I've sharpened the irises using the Smart Sharpen Filter, and now we're going to mask them into the eyes. I'm going to start by turning this new irises layer off, and then I'm going to switchover to my Elliptical Marquee tool once again. And I could do that by pressing the M key of course, and I'm going to begin to trace around the eyes inside of the image. Now, I'm using the Spacebar to align the Selection Outline with the eye, and I am entirely interested in just matching pieces of the eye at a time.
Because obviously the eye is not a big circle or a big ellipse or anything like that, it's made of curved arcs however, and we can match those curved arcs using a series of Elliptical Marquee. So I'll go ahead and trace this first one, and I'm going to Spacebar+drag over a little bit, so I'm centering that eye a little better. And then I'm going to press and hold the Shift and Alt keys at the same time. This would be Shift and Option on the Mac, and I'm going to draw an Intersecting Marquee like this and press the Spacebar in order to move it into place, until I get it more or less right.
We don't have to get the exact shape of the eye down, but you should approximate it pretty nicely if you're working along with me. And notice, as soon as I release, that I go ahead and just keep the intersecting area of those two ellipses. Now I'm going to Spacebar+drag down a little bit and I'm going to press the Shift and Alt keys once again, Shift and Option on the Mac, and drag around this area, again, using my Spacebar when necessary for alignment purposes. And I'm going to try to match that lower left edge of the eyelid there, and that looks pretty good.
And then one or two more drags should do me. I'll go ahead and press Shift and Alt or Shift and Option on the Mac, move this over to this location. So you can see I'm trying to be pretty careful about this. That is about right there, and then I'll release and then finally, Shift and Alt, Shift and Option on the Mac, drag, and actually I want this to be quite a bit smaller than this, in order to cut out that fleshy part of the eye. Even though this is well beyond the iris, but I just want to take care and make sure that we've selected the eye properly. Now then, I'm going to go ahead and turn that into a layer mask by turning on the new irises layer.
And then I'll dropdown to the Add layer mask icon, here at the bottom of the Layers panel, and click on it, and there we go. Now I've gone ahead and masked in this iris. You can see I've masked away the other iris, because I haven't drawn an eye around it, and that area is currently black. So we just have this little white area around the left hand eye, her right of course, and I'm seeing that by Alt+clicking or Option+clicking on that layer mask Thumbnail here inside the Layers panel. All right, I'll Alt+click or Option+click once again to come back out.
Now, at this point you might need to do a little bit of refinement, I know, I certainly do. And you can do some of the work if you want to by just selecting a general area, for example, with the Rectangular Marquee tool like this. If I want to increase the size of this mask, which I do, I want to stretch it down a little, because I cut in too much and I'm exposing a white area of that eye there. Then the best approach to take is to transform a copy of this selection. For example, I can go up to the Edit menu and I can choose a Free Transform command.
But then, if I do that and I expose an area in the background, if I make this selection smaller than it is right now, I will expose an area of white, because white is my background color, and that will show parts of the iris potentially. I don't want that to happen. So what we want to do instead is to transform a copy of the selection, and you do that by adding Option or Alt to this keyboard shortcut, so it would be Ctrl+Alt+T on a PC or Command+Option+T on the Mac. So I'm going to Escape out of there, and I'm just going to press that keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+Alt+T, Command+Option+T on the Mac.
It's not going to look any different, it's just going to protect you. And now I'm going to drag this down slightly, like so, in order to stretch that mask. Notice I'm just stretching the mask. See that, that guy is staying in the exact same position there in that reflection. So I'm just moving the mask down. And then if I feel like I need to stretch it up a little bit as well, I can drag this top handle, like so, up ever so slightly, and that's going to do me I think. I'll press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac to accept that modification. Now, let's go ahead and do the other eye as quickly as we can, so that I can show you how we achieve better transitions here, inside of the eyes.
But first, I've got to select this area. So I'm going to grab the Elliptical Marquee tool once again and I'm going to drag around the top portion of the eye like that. And then I'm going to press the Shift and Alt keys. I'm using the Spacebar for alignment, move this edge down about there, looks pretty good to me. Shift+Alt again, Shift+Option on the Mac in order to get this bottom edge of the eye , like so. Actually, I want it to be a little bigger like that. And then I'm going to press Shift and Alt once again. I keep pressing Shift and Alt or Shift and Option on the Mac, and drag along that edge.
And then Shift+Alt once or twice more, this will work I think right about there, and then another Shift+Alt+drag right at that location. You can see that it's just Shift+ Alt+dragging over and over again. Some eyes are easier than this, but thanks to the fact that we've gone ahead and liquefied this eye, we've made a fair amount of work for ourselves in this Shift+Alt+drag department. There is another one, Shift+Option+drag on the Mac of course. And then finally, I need to take the nose out of the equation, and that might have to be a pretty large marquee, like about so.
Oh, I just invoked a little bit of an Auto Scroll there. This looks pretty good, actually, let's make it even bigger. This will look better I think. All right. So that looks pretty darn good right there. I think that's enough Shift+Alt+drags, Shift+Option+drags for now. And the layer mask is still selected, you can see that by the highlighted layer mask thumbnail here inside the layers Palette. So white is my background color. All I need to do is press the Backspace key or the Delete key on the Mac in order to fill that selected area with white. Now, couple of other things that I want to do.
Notice at this point that we might want to stretch this mask down a little bit as well. So I'll press the M key to switch over to the Rectangle Marquee tool right there, and then I'll select this area , like so. I'll press Ctrl+Alt+T, Command+Option+T on the Mac to make sure that I'm scaling a copy, so that I don't expose any areas of white. Drag that down a little bit, nudge it up. Again, I'm just affecting the layer mask, the iris itself is remaining right there in place. Press the Enter key in order to finish off that transformation, the Return key on the Mac.
Then in order to achieve some smoother transitions, notice that we have these tiny little implied corners, here and there inside the mask. I want to shave those off by going up to the Filter menu. So your layer mask should still be selected. Go up to the Filter menu, choose Noise, and choose Median, or if you loaded dekeKeys, you can press Shift+F8. And the Median command goes ahead and rounds off corners by averaging pixels inside of the layer mask. And I'm going to take this Radius value up to two pixels, and then I'm going to click OK in order accept that modification.
Now, you may not be able to see what's happened here when you're looking at the irises, but if I click down here, let's say, the center, that portion of the mask inside the Preview area, this is before, if I click and hold, and this is after. So it has a slight effect, it's just ever so slightly rounding off some of these transitions. You could go farther with this, you could take it up to like four pixels or something along those lines. The only thing you have to watch for if you go that high is that you may start exposing little areas inside the white of the eye.
Actually though, I think this looks pretty, so I'll take it to 4, click OK. And then I also want to soften the edges just a little bit, and I'm going to do that by going to the Filter menu, choosing Blur, and choosing Gaussian Blur; Shift+F7, if you loaded dekeKeys. And that's going to blur those edges. Right now I'm blurring to the tune of 2 pixels. I think that's a little much. I'm going to take it down to 1 pixel. I just want a little bit of softness. Click OK. Now, if you find that you still have tiny little areas like, let's zoom in on this right-hand either, if you find you have little areas that are exposed of the whites of the eyes, you can fill those in by taking advantage of a tool that's available here in the Blur tool slot.
Click and hold and choose the Smudge tool. And then, I'll increases the size of my cursor, and I'm going to take it up let's say to about something like 40 pixels should do me, Hardness of 0% is fine. And then I'm going to click and drag down just a little bit in order to smear that mask down, and I might smear it up too, to the cover up that area. You don't want to do too much smeary, just tiny, tiny little drags. I'll take this down as well, just a little bit more. Let's see how things look over here.
They actually look pretty darn good. Other little tiny blemishes, we're going to fill in with layer Effects. So you don't have to make it exactly right. You just have to get it approximately right, which my mask is, it looks pretty darn good, so I'll go ahead and zoom out. Those are the scary big irises fit inside of her eyes like super big painful contact lenses. In the next exercise, we'll begin to turn these blobs into credible eyeballs.
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There was a lot of gold mining activity around Harden - Murrumburrah extending from the late 1850s well into the 20th century.
In this it had much in common many regional centres across central and south west NSW, most of whom have had a gold mine or two to call their own at some time.
What few other townships can share however is the spotlight that focussed on the region in the opening years of the 1860s.
It was from Murrumburrah that news of a stunning new goldfield just to the north at a paddock called Lambing Flat first surfaced in spring 1860. This was the beginnings of the Burrangong goldfield which soon expanded to include a large tract of the surrounding countryside. In the anti-Chinese riots on the Lambing Flat field across late 1860 - 61 Murrumburrah played a central role as a refuge for the Chinese fleeing from the violence.
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MORRISON, Colo. -- John Force was searching for a sign telling him he'd reached the finish line at 1,000 feet.
The Funny Car driver is so accustomed to running a quarter-mile that he's not used to throwing out the parachutes and slamming on the brakes some 320 feet early.
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Forget 4G - many people in West Kent can't even make a call!
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SUPERFAST mobile internet is coming to Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge but many people in West Kent and East Sussex still struggle to even make phone calls.EE, the company that runs Orange and T-Mobile, announced it would be expanding its 4G service to the towns in June, and the other mobile operators are thought to be planning to unveil their own next-generation networks later this year.
But for those stuck in phone signal blackspots in the countryside, surfing the net on the go is impossible and even sending texts can be hit and miss.
Tony Carter, 58, from Norton's Way in Five Oak Green, said: "The signal here is just extremely poor. It is a great inconvenience – I really need my mobile because I'm a carer for my mother who lives on her own. It's very unreliable."
Louisa Crispin, 48, of Talbot Road, Hawkhurst, had similar problems. She said: "My whole family has bad reception. My son's on Orange and if he leans out his window upstairs he can only just about get texts, but no voice calls.
"I work from home as an artist and jeweller and do exhibitions so I need to be contactable. It's really difficult hearing what people try to say to me and I almost end up shouting, which is very unprofessional."
The roll-out of the next generation of mobile technology in urban areas this year will only highlight how many living in the countryside are being left behind.
Michael Howes, 31, from Holden Road, Southborough, works as a locum pharmacist across the area. He said: "There are certain areas that are terrible.
"In Wadhurst, for example, the signal is always coming and going. I can probably just about do a basic phone call but it's very difficult to use a smartphone for the internet. I think the problem is that the phone companies would rather have the majority covered and don't care as much about the sparsely populated areas.
"Sometimes you have to pinch yourself – 'am I actually in the 21st century?'"
And for some of those languishing in reception blackspots, EE and the other networks have simply got their priorities wrong. Mr Carter said: "Orange sent me a bit of fluff marketing about 4G and my response was 'forget 4G, we can't even get 2G'. We can only get these high speeds if we have actually got signal.
"I think they should not worry about the headline-grabbing 4G and get it working better for the rest of us."
When asked if widening basic coverage should take precedence over 4G, Ms Crispin said: "Yes, that would certainly be my take. We need to be brought up to date. We are spending all this money on railways for people to move around when most work could be done at home.
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The purposes of the Innovations in Teaching Competition are to identify innovative teaching and learning strategies and assessment methods, provide an opportunity to engage faculty in a process of documenting their scholarly approach to teaching and learning, and provide an opportunity for selected faculty to present their work during a special session at the AACP Annual Meeting in July of each year. Each of the three faculty selected to present their innovations are provided a stipend to defray the costs of registration, travel and accommodations to attend the Annual Meeting.
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Marshall CatesSamford University McWhorter School of Pharmacy Innovative Course: Mental Illness and Treatment in the Movies
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Craig CoxTexas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of PharmacyBehind the Numbers of a Preceptor Mini-Series: A Proven Approach to Preceptor Development
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Ohio Democratic operatives confirmed Friday that Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald will announce his candidacy for governor next Wednesday, April 24, in Cleveland. He will also make stops in Columbus and other cities that day.
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SACRAMENTO, CA - A young man in a yellow hardhat with a story about contaminated water ended up stealing $5,000 in cash and jewelry from an unsuspecting couple.
Vanhkeo Chanthalangsy, 68, said the man bluffed his way through the front door late Tuesday morning and convinced her husband, Nouphay, 72,to turn on all the faucets in the house on Grand Ave.
The phony inspector then got Nouphay to join him in the backyard to check for leaks.
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Back in the mists of time, I played timpani. Ever since those dark & distant days, I've used extra long sticks. Even worse (I can hear the technique focussed guys screaming already), I hold them right at the butt end, sometimes, even to the point were the butt is sitting within my palm. Why is this relevant, well, because I get a real whip stroke thing going on, & that stroke speed on backbeats is a stick killer. Add to that, almost constant rimshot backbeats on cast hoops & flat cymbals, the poor buggers don't stand a chance, lol!
I use VF X5A's. Great stick, but they're not that durable. Kenny Howard introduced me to Silver Fox sticks. They even have my ideal stick size, in the form of 16 3/4" long 1A's, so I took a brick to try. Only used them for a couple of practices to date. They seem to dent easily, but, unlike the VF's, they don't splinter. Haven't broken one yet, & that's already an improvement on the VF's. I'd normally break at least one per practice. The SF's hickory are lighter than the VF's, & with hardly any visible grain. Normally the kind of thing I'd avoid, but they do seem to be holding up very well. Quite a few gigs coming up, so I'll be able to come back with better info soon.
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