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28 January 2002
The Lawyer
A Reading of convenience
One of The Lawyer's news-hounds was deeply impressed last week by the selling techniques of one Christopher Avery, managing partner of Reading firm Pitmans. Over lunch at Knightsbridge trattoria San Lorenzo, Avery spied property tycoon John Beckwith a few tables away. Not perturbed by Beckwith's newly elevated status (he was knighted in the New Year's Honours List for his services to youth sport), Avery stopped off for a quick chat on the way out. San Lorenzo John ...
A&O trumpets capture of Norton Rose's acquisition finance team
As Norton Rose's group is left in tatters, The Lawyer asks: what was the real motive behind A&O's recent hiring spree?
Addleshaws represents Met Office on new headquarters
Addleshaw Booth & Co has advised on its first project for the Met Office opposite Ashurst Morris Crisp, which is acting for development consortium Stratus Integrated Services.The £80m project to construct new headquarters for the Met Office, part of the Ministry of Defence (MoD), is now underway and scheduled for completion in the summer of 2003. The scheme is one of the first non-financed ...
Allen & Gledhill beats global Goliaths to lead Asian M&A
Singaporean firm Allen & Gledhill has topped the rankings for Asian M&A, beating off competition from UK, US and Australian firms
Andersen Legal loses govt client after Enron
The Enron debacle has resulted in Andersen Legal's Indian member firm Hariani & Co losing the government of the Indian state of Maharashtra as a client
Bar talk
During Lovells' march up the long greasy pole, its litigators have often talked about its so-called 'international success'.Now, with half the firm's lawyers based outside London, Lovells is embarking on a period of consolidation, restructuring enlarged departments and revisiting its management structures. It is hoped this will enhance the firm's clout and establish it as a truly international firm. The exact nature of any restructuring will be known after ...
BASF picks Cleary for EC fine appeal
German Chemicals giant BASF is to appeal against the European Commission's landmark €296m (£182.7m) fine over the company's involvement in a price-rigging cartel
Beachcrofts wins loss of chance case
Beachcroft Wansbroughs has successfully defended a firm of solicitors against a 'loss of chance' claim, which it believes could herald a shift in the courts' treatment of cases of this sort.Hatswell v Goldbergs was brought about after Goldbergs failed to start clinical negligence proceedings against its client's doctor in time, leading the client to sue his lawyers for the lost chance of compensation.The claim was dismissed from the Court of Appeal after ...
Bird & Bird lands Arthur Andersen tax lawyers
Bird & Bird's office in The Hague has taken on two tax specialists from Arthur Andersen
Bond Pearce beats MoD in landmark immunity case
Soldiers given the right to claim damages; hundreds more claims expected
BPBU creates solicitor panel
The Bar Pro Bono Unit (BPBU) has set up a solicitors' panel for barristers' pro bono clients who do not have a solicitor
Brabner Chaffe Street
The end of Chaffe Street marked a new beginning for Brabners
Brobeck regains Latham partner
Latham & Watkins has lost partner Craig Andrews to Brobeck Phleger & Harrison after just four months
CC partners cash in on new loan facility
CC shakes up global cash management with £150m loan from Barclays and Citibank
John Vickers showed the UK this week that no company can afford to be caught napping on competition law. The Office of Fair Trading's (OFT) response to Napp Pharmaceutical's appeal was unequivocal - the regulator turned down Herbert Smith's client on virtually every point of substance and procedure. The OFT, with its first successful appeal tribunal now under its belt and super-complaints up its sleeve, has sent out a wake-up call to UK businesses.In truth, it may ...
Cooley Godward sued by MP3.com
US firm Cooley Godward has been hit by a malpractice suit demanding more than $175m (£122.5m) in damages
DAC gains £700,000 for superbike hopeful
Davies Arnold Cooper has secured a £700,000 payout for motorcyclist Robert Dunlop as compensation for the injuries from an accident at the Isle of Man TT in 1994.The superbike rider told the High Court that the crash, which was caused by a faulty motorbike wheel, had robbed him of the chance to succeed as world champion.Dunlop originally pitched his claim against his former racing team Medd Racing, the wheel manufacturers and its UK supplier, at £1.4m.Alison ...
Deal of the week - BT/IPVALUE
Pinsent Curtis advises BT on patent protection plan
Deals summary
Ashurst Morris Crisp (Richard Vernon) advised Hemingway Properties on the £15.2m sale of an investment portfolio of five properties to Eagle Star Life Assurance Company. Addleshaw Booth & Co (Dean Copley) advised Eagle Star.Rowe & Maw (James Black) advised the Lattice Group Pension Scheme on the £24m disposal of a large supermarket and petrol station occupied by Sainsbury's ...
Deals summary
Field Fisher Waterhouse (Jon Fife, Teruo Kato) advised the Nippon Synthetic Chemical Industry on its project to establish a $95m (£66.5m) chemical plant in the UK. BP, which will construct the chemicals site, was advised by Linklaters (Kirsty Corkum).Rowe & Maw (Richard Page, Fiona ...
Deals summary
Denton Wilde Sapte (Matthew Harvey, Jeremy Cohen) advised GE Capital on a framework agreement for its European Equipment Finance to become the primary equipment financing provider for Xerox customers in France and Germany. Xerox advised by Lovells.Hengeler Mueller advised Franz Haniel & Cie on its first exchangeable bond issue worth f280m (£173.14m). The bonds are exchangeable into shares in GEHE Aktiengesellschaft. Joint lead managers were Deutsche Bank and Merrill ...
Dechert shows off fine figures
Dechert's London office has recorded a turnover of £45.5m for its first full financial year following its transatlantic merger in July 2000
Dentons signs up Czech member
Denton Wilde Sapte has sewn up its Central European coverage with an alliance in the Czech Republic and a three-way merger of its Austrian allied firm
DLA fills London role with KLegal capture
DLA has taken on the director of KLegal's competition and regulatory policy group Rob Murray
Efficiency drive sees DAC close Newcastle office
Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC) is to close its Newcastle office with effect from 31 January
EU competition breach sparks damages claim
In the first action of its kind, a UK court will hear a case claiming damages for breaches of EC competition law
Fairmays leaves Bahrain
Fairmays is pulling out of its ill-fated Bahrain office at the end of March, following a sharp downturn in work since the events of 11 September
Firm footing
Insurance costs and other considerations are now prompting firms to employ individuals purely to oversee risk and efficiency. John Verry asks: should you appoint a risk manager?
First Bahamian firm launches in London
Lennox Paton is the first Bahamian law firm to open an office in London
Freshfields mourns loss of Harald Voss
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner Harald Voss has died of a stroke, aged 62
Haarmanns lures key privatisation partner from Lovells
Lovells Boesebeck Droste is losing a key partner and privatisation rainmaker to independent German firm Haarmann Hemmelrath & Partner
Hammonds win sparks new law on cost payment
Fresh law has been thrown up in a professional negligence claim against Ham-mond Suddards Edge that is now subject to appeal
Hewitsons' investment unit links with Birketts
Regional law firms Hewitson Becke + Shaw and Birketts have brought their investment units together to create a new company
It's just shirk, shirk, shirk
The hunt is on to find which City firm is home to a woman lawyer quoted on Radio 4 last week.The Today programme featured a survey of working hours in the City, but the macho red-eyed brigade had their cover blown by this woman. She told the programme that most of the sleepless nights were only for show. "Whenever anyone asks how you are, you have to say you're shattered," she said. "You can't ever say you're fine." She also told the nation that everyone actually ...
Job fears as Eversheds shuts down Home2Home
Eversheds is shutting its Manchester-based residential conveyancing unit Home2Home, after deciding to stop residential conveyancing
Kramer set to fight Kenyan corruption
Stephen Kramer QC, head of specialist crime set 1 Hare Court, has been appointed as legal adviser to the Risk Advisory Group in its campaign for the Kenyan government against corruption
Labour speeds growth of Govt legal system by 1,000 per cent
The rate of growth in the Government legal system has increased by almost 1,000 per cent since New Labour's rise to power
Land of the three
Sullivan & Cromwell, Davis Polk and Simpson Thacher may be doing well in Europe, but is this merely due to their link-ups with the investment banks? Caroline Davies reports
Law Society to decide if Bahl inquiry is necessary
The Law Society is holding a special general meeting on 31 January on whether to set up an independent inquiry into the Kamlesh Bahl affair
Liable to catch on
After the initial excitement, enthusiasm for LLPs has dwindled. But after Withers announced it was about to take the leap, Jon Robins asks: who will be next?
Linklaters scores victory for Fulham
Linklaters has successfully steered Fulham Football Club through a judicial review brought by residents unhappy with the club's plans to expand its stadium.Angry residents first raised a legal challenge to the proposals in May 2001, after John Prescott, the then Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, refused to call the football club's planning application ...
Linklaters wins real estate client double
Bradford & Bingley in cost-cutting review as Dresdner picks its long-term adviser
Linlaters opens Portuguese office
Linklaters is to launch an office in Portugal, enabling it to target clients across the whole Iberian Peninsula
Lupton Fawcett lawyers take stand in Donnygate
Solicitors called as witnesses as public figures come under scrutiny for corruption
Manches votes out traditional lockstep
Manches has overhauled its management structure and its equity partner remuneration scheme
McDermott hires Shearman partner
International growth strategy lures corporate ace Klein
Meditation's what you need
Jones Day - what image does that name conjure up? Tulkinghorn would have said hard-edged, thrusting dealmaker types, but now he is not so sure.It seems the smell of patchouli oil wafts around the offices and partners spend their spare moments weaving friendship bracelets for one another. Chairs are out and beanbags are in, with partners taking on clients on the strength of their aura. At least, ...
Merger gives birth to top five Belgian firm
Belgium has a new independent law firm following the merger of Huysmans Trenité Van Doorne and De Bauw & Maeyaert
Minute minder
Predicted to follow in the footsteps of Amazon.com and make a profit, lastminute.com may feel that the only way is up. Naomi Rovnick talks to global legal counsel David Hickson
Mis-Claridge of justice
Tulkinghorn is rather fond of Claridges Hotel, as it is where he did most of his courting of Mrs Tulkinghorn. What he likes most is its timelessness - the place doesn't seem to have changed since the days when Tulkinghorn was a young buck.And it is not just in décor that Claridges has stayed the same, but also in social mores. Two of Tulkinghorn's female scouts were recently treating DLA managing partner Nigel Knowles to an extremely delicious lunch at the new Gordon ...
Nelsons construction dept suffers exodus
A sizeable chunk of Nottingham-based firm Nelsons' construction team has departed for local rival Browne Jacobson
Norton Rose in Greek success
Norton Rose is the latest law firm to be given approval by a Greek bar to register its operations as a branch office
At the risk of appearing alar-mist, the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) impacts on every type of business and a failure to appreciate its import may lead to criminal convictions. The act came into force on 1 March 2000 and replaced the Data Protection Act 1984, the Access to Personal Files Act 1987 and some of the Access to Health Records Act 1990. Its impact has been minimised to date due to complex transitional arrangements, but those transitional arrangements ceased on 24 October ...
Pillsbury cuts first year salaries as technology downturn impacts
San Francisco-based Pillsbury Winthrop has sliced $10,000 (£7,000) off its salary for first year associates
Risk and the public sector
It is unsurprising that risk management is attaining as high a priority in publicly funded undertakings as it is in the private sector
Rowe & Maw poised to vote on Mayer Brown merger
Rowe & Maw awaits results of US vote; London set to gain three board positions
Separated at birth
This week's separated at birth has left members of The Lawyer team quite freaked out. Readers will be familiar with the youthful looks of associate editor extraordinaire Matheu 'Doogie Howser' Swallow, who confounds millions by being able to hold down a responsible job despite the fact that he is clearly only about 14. Still, The Lawyer staff has now rumbled the wunderkid's secret. He has clearly done a deal with the devil, and while his office persona remains eternally ...
Slaughters bolsters Heath Lambert lead adviser role
Slaughter and May is set to advise Heath Lambert if the insurance broker goes ahead with its proposed flotation later this year. The instruction would confirm the firm's position as Heath Lambert's main corporate adviser.The broker was formed through the merger of CE Heath and Lambert Fench-urch in December 1999, with Slaughters acting for Lambert and
Solicitors Pro Bono Group goes for national coverage with Leeds project
The Solicitors Pro Bono Group (SPBG) has set up a pro bono scheme in Leeds as part of a long-term plan to extend its national reach
Speechlys helps PA share its profits
Speechly Bircham has completed an unusual major restructuring transaction for longstanding client PA Consulting Group.PA, a management, systems and technology consulting company, instructed Speechlys corporate partner Tom Shaw to help develop a structure to ensure the fair allocation of gains from its investments in venture activities to its employees.The transaction marked the further ...
Tackling the hard cases
The London Legal League has kicked off its spring season, but this time the great and the good of the legal profession have to face a new contender. Yes, Tulkinghorn has instructed his younger and more nimble assistants to take on the might of the legal profession.Tulkinghorn's protégés took to the field for the first round of matches last week and exceeded all expectations. Four games and four victories, with only one goal conceded, and now sitting pretty in second ...
The IT factor
IT has opened many doors, but contractual problems are rife. Nick Holland reports on the potholes and safety nets
The Leader Column
The tensions brought about by Anglo-German mergers were highlighted once again this week when the high-profile privitisation partner Werner Michael Waldeck announced that he was leaving Lovells Boesebeck Droste and taking his practice to Haarmann Hemmalrath.Top of the list of reasons for his departure is his criticism of the spirit of Lovells since the merger. Apparently, he dislikes the firm's lack of entrepreneurship and is moving to Haarmanns because of its individualistic ...
The Wright stuff
Untempted by the spoils of crime, SFO director Rosalind Wright's only regret is the lack of resources stopping her from catching more criminals
Weil Gotshal gets go-ahead for Singapore fling
Weil Gotshal & Manges has received regulatory clearance from the Singaporean authorities, which clears a path for it to form a joint venture with strategic partner Rajah & Tann
White & Case takes on M&A trio
White & Case Feddersen is expanding its corporate practice as it takes on an M&A team in its Hamburg office
Woodgate lawyer scrutinised by OSS
The Office for the Supervision of Solicitors (OSS) is investigating complaints against Peter McCormick, senior partner of Leeds firm McCormicks and Manchester firm Freeman & Co


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A $500 million package to start refilling Colorado school budgets decimated during the last recession cleared a major hurdle Wednesday in the state Legislature.
The two bills awaiting a final vote in the Colorado House aim to use the state's improving tax collections to backfill K-12 school budgets. The measures raise per-pupil funding, give charter schools more funding and set aside money to help schools pay for full-day kindergarten.
"This begins the process of rebuilding K-12 funding that was struck hard" during the recession, argued Rep. Millie Hamner, D-Frisco and a sponsor of the bills.

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Film: Khadak
Tue, March 30, 2010 • 7:00 PM • GRG 102 Geography building, corner of 24th and Whitis.
UT's Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies is proud to present a film series of rare comedies and dramas from Central Asia. These films are evidence that the most visually unique and charming films being produced today are coming out of a little known part of the world, Central Asia. You won't find most of these films being shown at your local cineplex or on Netflix. Toss your copy of 'Borat' out the window, and come see samples of Central Asian cinema that have been called transcendant, surrealist, and captivating.
Films will be shown on Tuesdays from February 23 – March 30 at 7:00pm in GRG 102 (Geography Building, corner of 24th and Whitis).
Films are in original language with English subtitles.
Tues. Mar. 30
Khadak - Mongolia (2007) 101 mins.
A magical-realist fable that tells the epic story of a young shepherd who wants to fulfill his dream of becoming a shaman. Critics compare the film to the visionary films of Fellini.
"Gorgeous . . . a trippy spectacle." New York Times


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Showcasing some of the most sophisticated motion capture technology seen in a video game, Rockstar and Depth Analysis reveal how one of the hottest games of the year came to life
- LA Noire review: Get the T3 verdict
Reading body language is a key aspect of LA Noire. Was this part of the original plan, or was it born out of what the
tech made possible?
Rob Nelson, art director at Rockstar: "The MotionScan technology was developed in parallel with the game, and they both evolved over time. "[Developer] Team Bondi had been exploring new ways to capture the subtleties of a person's
facial expressions – the 'outside' of a person rather than the skeleton movements of traditional motion-capture data. "The ability to use the non-verbal cues and emotions as guides during interrogations was something entirely new, and added a layer of depth and consequence to interactions."
What was the biggest logistical challenge?
Oliver Bao, head of R&D, Depth Analysis: "MotionScan captures a massive amount of the detail of a performance in the form of data, so the main challenge was figuring out a way to bring that into a video game when the rawcapture data is 1GB per second; 21 seconds of capture would fill up one layer of a Blu-ray disc. "The compression technology we developed allows each character's face to run at about 300k per second and still look very good. This was a huge achievement considering LA Noire contains about 21 hours of face-capture content."
How did you go about pushing the boundaries?
OB: "Our approach was to go outside the box and try to generate 3D data from traditional 2D video. It's not motioncapture – we went the opposite direction by trying to represent the 3D surface, instead of confining facial movements to the bones. We are firmly of the view that an animator cannot animate an actor's face better than or equivalent to the performance that the actor can deliver. It's pretty fundamental."
How does it work?
OB: "An actor typically goes into hair and makeup as in film or TV. Once they're ready to go into the MotionScan rig, we mic them up and load all of the lines for the scenes. We tend to keep the sessions to an hour as it's pretty isolated being in a soundproof room. "The director is in an adjoining room and has a close-up camera view of the actor. We generally start shooting with small sequences that can be used for cutaways when the actor isn't speaking but we want a reaction. These include emotions: happy, angry, sad, proud, humble, etc. We do about 15 of them.
"When a session is finished, we archive the data for backup and then send it to Sydney for processing. The final output is then checked for quality, and Team Bondi's character artists, designers and animators import the data into scenes and locations for review in-game."
Is building the studio set-up a lengthy process?
OB: "It took a month of 16- to 20-hour days to prepare. There are more than 1,000 pieces to the capture rig alone, and it requires a suitably sized soundproof room with quiet air conditioning and a large amount of power for the servers that capture the data. Then there's calibration, functional testing and stress testing to do…"
So where next with this?
OB: "Part of our road map is to do full-body capture so we can get the complete actor, head to toe, in costume while they perform. It's incredibly challenging, but there is a lot of buzz from investors for that kind of tech
You can check out the official LA Noire video below to see how it all turned out
T3 Video: LA Noire: The story so far
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The Elbert County Board of Commissioners now has a balanced budget heading into the upcoming fiscal year.
According to County Administrator Bob Thomas, as it stands right now, the county has a $6,580 surplus on the books for Fiscal Year 2014.
The budget was reviewed in its entirety during a public hearing held just prior to the commission's regular meeting.
A called meeting is scheduled for June 20th at 4:00pm to finalize and adopt the FY 2014 budget.


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I'm having sooo many problems with iOS 5... Need help!
Still can't sync either device (ipad 2 and iphone 4) over wifi, yes settings are turned ON and device is plugged into power. Photo Stream still isn't sending pictures from one device to another, however they go to my computer just fine, mail isn't syncing, iMessages aren't syncing (some message go to one device, some go to another, some don't come at all). None of it makes sense, I know my settings are correct, I know my Apple ID logins are good. I just don't get it and my frustration with it has grown from an annoyance to getting downright ticked off.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
I'd suggest this:
- ensure your're running the latest version of iTunes
- back up you iPad
- restore your iPad to factory fresh iOS5
- restore your backup
- sync over cable
Repeat for your iPhone.
-Create a new apple ID just for iCloud use (you can have one for purchases and one for iCloud stuff without issue)
- Run through the device setup using the new ID on both.
- Try photostream
- Now connect by cable to iTunes and enable wifi sync.
- Detach and try wifi sync.
If it works try switch to your existing Apple ID and retry
I've restored my iPad once already, however I have not tried creating a new iCloud ID. I'll give it a whirl and see what happens. Thanks again for the help.
What OS are you running on your computer ? I know from a rather time consuming mullarkey that you will need to upgrade to Lion for things to be settled.
Also..... If the OS/iTunes version isn't applicable the wifi sync option wouldn't appear at all.
The iTunes settings panes changed when I upgraded to Lion from Leopard and I had to upgrade to iPhoto 11 to make Photostream work between my iPhone and iMac because in one of the panes iPhoto was greyed out and it said I needed an update. Reminders now works because Lion upgraded iCal which has Reminders bolted in.
All my problems went away when I upgraded.
If the OP is on Lion then working out the syncing logic should be a lot easier than work arounds.
I do agree... To a point.... (and I suspect the OP is running Lion)....
The op makes no mention of iPhoto issues.
Wifi sync works with snow leopard and lion. Photostream works without either.
If the OP is running Lion great. But upgrading to Lion should not be necessary.
I have most devices (3 iphones, 1 ipad) wirelessly syncing to my iMac running Lion. I don't use iPhoto at all. Photostream works flawlessly, as does wifi sync.
My daughter has a MacBook running snow leopard and an iPod touch that's syncing wirelessly without issue.
I still suspect the root of the photostream issues lies with the IDs used.
The wifi sync could just be iTunes/iOS5 bugs. While I haven't had sync issues I have had iTunes crash a few times.
There have been so many platform/OS/application changes with iOS5, iCloud, OSX it's not too surprising that issues will arise now it's all 'in the wild'. I would expect iTunes, OSX and iOS updates in the not to distant future. Not to mention a bolstering of the iCloud infrastructure now it's under load.
Ramblings of an over-caffeinated geek...... Done. ;)
Hello mrplow,
Just trying to help because I had a nightmare 4 days of confusion until I upgrade to Lion and THEN upgraded iPhoto and the picture was complete (pardon the pun).
If you don't use iPhoto then how can you view and manage what's in your photo stream? I may be off the beaten track here but those iPhoto11 preferences are pretty specific to what gets uploaded/downloaded in Photostream.
My ramblings are Black Sheep Bitter induced BTW.
I don't manage my photostream. Don't have the need. Just use it as a convenient way to get my iPhone pictures onto my iPad.
Any I want to keep I copy onto my iMac and into Picasa. I'd rather it was a synced process like iPhoto uses but I just can't get on with iPhoto! Much prefer Picasa
Not 'manage' really.
It'll hold 1000 photos, each for a max of 30 days. Then they 'drop-off' on their own.
The only other control you have on iCloud is to reset the stream - i.e. empty it.
Ahh Ok...inertia then. There is an option in iPhoto not to upload new photos to Photostream which may be appropriate from time to time.
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In the universe, there are certain constants. Death, taxes, the speed of light, Marley is dead, 42 is the answer, and I have an intense physical aversion, nay, violent hatred, for spending my summers lollygagging about in pursuit of a three month "chill sesh," to use the young folks term for it. This summer, after two summers of college classes and a visit to Maker Faire Detroit 2012, I applied for a position as a member of the Maker Corps Program at The Henry Ford, supported by the Maker Education Initiative, a project of the Tides Center. The Maker Corps program provides members and supplies to host sites throughout the country to carry out hands-on, make-related programs.
I had no idea what I was getting into.
I was brought in as the STEM guy in Maker Corps at The Henry Ford. All those hours building, competing with, and sharing the joys with FIRST Robotics Teams, the years of obsessively compiling a mental compendium of guitar pedals, synthesizers and audio equipment, and a relatively recent desire to help others wave their geek flag high all came together. In April I started my Maker Corps training under the guidance of Maker Ed's Steve Davee, Lisa Regalla, and The Henry Ford's Education and Learning team who, over the course of 8 weeks shared countless tips and tricks for sharing making with all age groups.
Every week, as part of our training, we were assigned a project based on the contents of a "Possibility Box," which, upon first sight, was little more than a mish-mash of toothbrushes, Play-Doh, markers, a sewing kit, some electronics, and some other stuff. In our first week's training, we were told to make something/anything with a sewing kit, a hot glue gun, and some construction paper. Five hours later, I had sewn two pieces of felt together and was immensely proud of myself, so much so that I took a picture and posted it on the Maker Corps Google+ Community. My project was going to be a couple of armbands that I would wear that weekend at a FIRST competition. It was an overwhelming success! It even led to a fantastic bonding moment with Mary Foulke, my fellow Maker Corps member who could probably knit a sweater in her sleep. The first time we met, she couldn't believe that it could take 45 minutes just to thread a needle, but that's how long it took me! A few weeks later, I was able to combine music and Tetris for a project using the MaKey MaKey (a board that allows you to control a computer with literally anything – bacon, fruit, guitars, pets, unsuspecting bystanders, etc.).
Tetris is, in the pantheon of all-consuming obsessions, not exactly unique. Partaking in its ecstasy-inducing pleasures has always been a solo endeavor. After studying the Maker movement, where so much is based on community and working together, I decided it was time for Giant Team Tetris, wherein it is too much work for one person to play the game, turning it into a group sport. Giant Team Tetris made its debut at the May Tinker. Hack. Invent. Saturday, an event where local makers of all kinds are invited to Henry Ford Museum to tell their stories and show how they make things. And it was fantastic! All manner of people, young and old, enjoyed this new take on a classic game.
Soon after, I started keeping office hours in the education department, researching the best ways to teach innovation in STEM fields, and how The Henry Ford can promote making with its exhibits and programs. Digging through the various programs offered by my fellow Maker Corps host sites, I developed a profound understanding of the differences between historical, science, and children's museums, and found a truly incredible range of programs, thoughts and ideas pertaining to making for all ages.
Although I learned much from my research, there's still nothing like working with the public. The June Tinker. Hack. Invent. Saturday featured the Maker Corps members hosting a make-and-take activity with artbots. Artbots are in many ways the epitome of Maker philosophy boiled down into three rubber bands, an electric toothbrush, 3 inch pool noodle, and four markers. Most of the time, after putting an artbot together, you turn it on and the vibration of the toothbrush causes it to spin around in a circle, drawing a whole bunch of circles that intersect with one another. Sometimes, however, the identical combination of parts results in artbots, chaotically bouncing around and making awful circles that are actually amazing fractals and dotted lines. The expressions of wonder and joy on people's faces made all the planning for this event worth it. Knowing that you created a unique art-making device is a powerful feeling and hopefully it inspired others to realize the power of making.
In early July, the Maker Corps members led activities at The Henry Ford's Aspiring Innovators summer camp. I assisted the campers in making Theremins based on the popular integrated circuit chip, the 555 timer. We went through the whole process of assembling the different electronic components on the breadboard and…none of them worked. I'd like to say that I had planned it all along, to show that a failed project isn't a worthless project, but I didn't. Instead, we all experienced it together. For me, the important thing with any given project is not so much that it works, but that I learn something from it, and I was hopefully able to impart that lesson to the whole group of campers. After we had finished, one of them came up and asked a whole mess of questions about electronics and how to learn more. That single interaction, which lasted for maybe 10 or 15 minutes, is a perfect example of why I love sharing STEM with people. I don't know what that camper is going to do with the rest of his life. The important thing is that I was able to share what I'm passionate about with him and that I may have guided him towards finding his calling in life.
I applied for this job when I saw the posting on the Maker Faire Detroit Facebook page. Were it not for me liking that page in the afterglow of Maker Faire Detroit 2012, none of what I've recapped here would've happened, so I guess you could say that Maker Faire is fairly important to me. And let's be real here, any place with tricked out power wheels racing, replica time machines built by robotics teams that also make cupcake go carts, 3D printers spilling out in every direction, Raspberry Pi's and Arduinos and BeagleBoards (oh my!) is a good place to be. When I signed on as a Maker Corps member, it was mentioned that I might be displaying at Maker Faire Detroit. On the outside I kept cool and collected, but on the inside I was doing the victory dance to end all victory dances. I knew exactly what I wanted to show: my eurorack modular synthesizer. Her name is Eve. I did have some doubts, thinking that people wouldn't necessarily be interested in an instrument that I did not design and build from the component level up. Well, I was wrong. There was a constant stream of people who came by to listen to the synthesizer and hear me explain it. I had to almost run to get away from my display when I had off-moments to check out fellow Makers! I had an absolute riot, met a bunch of fantastic and wonderful people, networked with other makers, earned two "Maker of Merit" ribbons, and definitely earned the 14 hours of deep, comatose sleep I experienced Sunday night.
The summer of 2013 was the summer of tinkering, hacking, inventing, sharing, networking, nearly falling out of my chair in the workroom, and above all, realizing that I, along with makers everywhere, am helping to create a can-do culture, driven by hands-on learning experiences.
Bubba Ayoub was a 2013 Maker Corps intern at The Henry Ford.


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Images above are from the DEBUT 2012 Runway Show. Students were given an opportunity to work with famed designer Karen Kane who challenged the designers to create a Little Black Dress. The winning designs will be featured in an upcoming collection.
Fashion Designer Karen Kane is a graduate of FIDM and a member of the college's Advisory Board. Known for its easy, California-influenced lifestyle, the Karen Kane collection is predominantly manufactured in the USA and has showrooms located in New York, Dallas, and Downtown Los Angeles. To learn more about Karen Kane's rise to success in the fashion industry, go to FIDM Faces. To learn more about FIDM's Fashion Design major, visit the FIDM Fashion Design page and fill out a contact form to request more information.


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Honestly XP wasn't bad, but all of the intrusive functions in win7 will quickly irritate most users.
I have one computer with xp and another with win7, they are for games and netflix. However since I rarely use them every time I boot them they require maintenance and force updates and pointless reboots which makes me want to use them even less. Even though I like my win based games, the entertainment has not been proven to be worth the headache of booting into windows after running with Slackware Linux as my primary OS.
Fortunately netflix finally got streaming to work on chromebooks, so that use for windows is gone. At this time I am waiting to see if the wine developers can get the games to work correctly under wine, once that happens I will have no use for windows at all.


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UPDATED SATURDAY, 12:32 P.M.: NC State's Saturday start time has been delayed to 2:30 p.m. due to weather in the Raleigh area.
No. 19 NC State baseball hosts Miami for a three-game series beginning Friday at 6 p.m. The Pack (15-8, 3-6 ACC) is 13-27 all-time against Miami (14-12, 5-4), with the last meeting a 7-1 Wolfpack victory in the 2013 ACC Tournament.
Andrew Knizner and Brett Austin rank first and third in the ACC in batting average, hitting .382 and .376 respectively. Trea Turner has four home runs in his last five games, currently tied for fourth in the conference, two back of the ACC lead. Carlos Rodon has 50 strikeouts for the year, one shy of the conference lead. The junior is 17 strikeouts shy of tying Terry Harvey (386) for the NC State career record.


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Change paths in your USB loader settings.
Hi, I followed this guide and everything installed nicely from my SD card without errors. I want to be able to only use my FAT32-formatted USB stick and not the SD card for the USB loader, so I copied all the apps from my SD to my USB. This worked fine - the loaders start and can load games, but some functions don't work because I suspect the paths are trying to find my SD card. How can I easily fix the paths to always look in the USB drive?
Change paths in your USB loader settings.
Myself and my friend would like to thank MauiFrog and the WiiHacks Community for this guide. I got a Wii for Christmas and modded it following this guide because I have a 3 yr old who has broken many a DvD already and would like to keep my Wii games safe. Upon modding my Wii, my friends girlfriend saw that it worked and did not brick it so she allowed him to mod their Wii. I now have a few other friends who want me to mod their Wiis for them as well. None of this would have been possible without your excellent guide. I saw many other guides out there but did not trust them as they did not have enough details or tell me how to protect my Wii as well as this guide.
Again, excellent guide and a BIG thank you to Mauifrog and the entire WiiHacks Community.
I have been following this guide for a long time now, and it looks like the thread has died off. Are no more updates going to be pushed for the newer game's or perhaps did I miss a note somewhere along the line that asks me to look somewhere else? Someone please let me know. I recently bought just dance 2014 and it does not run on the softmodded wii with that last update.
Wii is no longer a "living" system. Nintendo has ceased production of it and no more updates are expected.
If I spelled something wrong, I'll just blame it on auto-correct
Ah I see so the game should work I just must have done something wrong then. I just thought it was odd after running the last set it tells me the disk is invalid. I will try re-modding it and see what I get out of it.
Post a syscheck and we can see if your mod is good. If the disk is telling you it is bad, maybe the disk is bad and you should return it for a replacement.
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First off thanks for the great guide and site.
I've soft modded a couple 4.2u's without issue but this 3.1u is giving me fits.
I'm having an issue loading wiimod on my 3.1u system.
When i try to load wiimod from homebrew something quickly comes up then the screen blacks out and that's it.
I've verified and re-verified sums and re-downloaded/re-verified.... I've even ran through the guide from the beginning multiple times. I'm using the 3.1 or less for bannerbomb v1 btw.
After trying wiimod a few times i thought i would try to see if priiloader would load. Well that didn't work either. It didn't lock the system as wiimod did but it gave me "ios58 isnt es_identify patch : error -1017,. aborting mission" and then returned to homebrew menu. I know i installed that in hackmii.
You think I'd be better off trying to upgrade to 4.2 first? If so where to find it?
Also i don't think this matters but it is a hard modded "chipped" system. I modded a 4.2 prior to this one with the same mod chip no problem.
Anyway, any advice is welcome and highly appreciated.
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Just need to make sure you are talking about MMM and not WiiMod. WiiMod will not load with 3.1 system menus, hence the reason why we included MMM and specific instructions accordingly regarding that.
Go back and carefully read the beginning of Chapter 2 again.
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lol Feeling a little daft now.
Even though I've read the guide many times i was somehow skipping the spoiler right under the wad installs heading, even though i knew wiimod would not work with my version. doh....
If it's ok with you I'm going to blame it on these old eyes.
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Deputies say a deer hunter was shot in Turtle River Township Saturday morning, 9 miles northeast of Bemidji.
Beltrami County Sheriff's Office issued a news release, indicating the 911 Dispatch Center received a report of a deer hunter being shot by another hunter in Section 16 of Turtle River Township in rural Bemidji, MN.
A male victim was located and found dead at the scene by Beltrami County Deputies and Bemidji Ambulance personnel.
A male suspect has been identified and released. The two individuals were acquaintances of each other, but were not hunting together. The location of this incident is on public land. Both individuals are Bemidji area residents.
An autopsy is pending with the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office, in Ramsey, MN.
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"People have a type and it's not necessarily about height or race or hair color, but a lot of it is about face shape," Talia Goldstein, the founder of Three Day Rule, told Mashable.
But the option comes with a price: Three Day Rule's premium service costs $5,000 for a six-month package. This user base is typically a small demographic of high-end clients who don't have time to find dates. Premium members are assigned professional matchmakers, who coach the client, meet with them, get to know their preferences and even go on pre-dates with potential mates as to not waste the member's time. (The matches come directly from both Match and Three Day Rule's database or the matchmaker's personal network.)
Now, the matchmakers will ask for pictures of premium member's ex-girlfriends or boyfriends to gauge the face shape its clients like most from those databases and networks.


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How The Mighty Fall
by David on January 8, 2013
7/10 Jim Collins Elevator Pitch – From the man that who wrote the book on how to be a great organization, this is how to screw it up. Or rather, how not to. Favorite Quotes: 1. "When an organization grows (…)
Little Bets
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A small person's paradise. Frances Hodgson Burnett is best remembered for The Secret Garden, but she was also a prolific author of novels and plays for adults. A S Byatt on a writer whose remarkable life was spent recreating her own mythologised childhood
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Gretchen Gerzina Chatto & Windus, 359pp, £20
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Gretchen Gerzina Chatto & Windus, 359pp, £20
by A S Byatt Published
Gretchen Gerzina begins her biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett in 1925 with the commissioning of a fountain in New York's Central Park depicting Mary and Dickon from The Secret Garden. She points out that Burnett is now remembered for that book - and to a lesser extent for her other children's books, including A Little Princess - but that at the time of her death (in 1924) she was famous as the author of large numbers of novels and plays for adults, as well as for children, on tough and daring subjects. The Secret Garden was not particularly singled out for admiration. Gerzina's subtitle is "the unpredictable life of the author of The Secret Garden". The life was indeed both unpredictable and truly amazing, breaking stereotype after stereotype of both British and American 19th-century expectations.
She was born in 1849, in middle-class Manchester, descending from middle-class comfort to "shabby-genteel" on her father's death. In 1865 her mother emigrated with her sons and daughters to rustic Tennessee, where they lived in rural poverty until Frances began to write stories at the age of 17. The extraordinary energy and determination of her work is clear from the very beginning - she wrote tale after tale, serial after serial, graduating from romance to her first great success, That Lass o' Lowrie's, a Lancashire tale with a strong working-class heroine.
In 1873, she married for the first time - Swan Burnett, who became a maker of surgical instruments - and they moved to Washington, DC. She had two sons, Lionel and Vivian. Lionel died at 16, sickening in solitude in Atlantic City while his mother worked and socialised in England, rushing back when it was made clear to her that he was dying. Vivian lived and went to Harvard. It was he who had worn the real velvet Lord Fauntleroy suit, which his mother made herself and then unwisely publicised, and he could never shake off the association. The Burnetts were divorced in 1898, and Frances married - apparently under some coercion - her lover, the doctor-turned-actor Stephen Townesend, who was given to fits of rage and hysteria. She lived in Park Lane in London, mixed with the upper classes, and became a friend of Henry James as well as a lady of the manor, in Maytham Hall overlooking the English Channel. There she made gardens and wrote, and was, according to Gerzina, at her happiest.
She was, Gerzina suggests, perhaps the first truly transatlantic writer, often writing her best English tales in Washington and New York, and her best American stories in her English country house as though the distance created both nostalgia and clear vision. She is a splendid example of how British society was neither as rigidly stratified nor as dominated by stultifying conventions as writers have liked to show it. Energy - in her case, phenomenal energy - and talent made mobility possible. American openness helped, but America had its conventions too and she managed both by submitting to neither. She was always the breadwinner (both her husbands tried to manage the business side of her work, neither very successfully) and she paid for the stress with occasional nervous collapses. But her life is in the large a story of opening possibilities.
What was she like? She seems to have been, and to have needed to see herself, as warm-hearted and generous on the grand scale. Both her marriages seem to have been made more because the men insisted they needed her and because they appealed to her sympathies than because she was attracted to them or loved them - though the early days of her relationship with Townesend are glimpsed only through careful secrecy. Having been the providing eldest sister, she spent her life giving, to children in particular, making parties, collecting gifts for impoverished immigrants from the passengers in first class on transatlantic liners, keeping lovely dolls' houses for visiting children and, after Lionel's death, visiting sick children in hospitals. Like many writers, perhaps particularly like good children's writers, she appears to have been living out the life of her mythicised childhood self, referred to in her autobiography, The One I Knew Best of All, as "the Small Person", growing up in the "Back Garden of Eden", who "does today exactly the kind of thing she would have done in nursery days if life could then have called her up to confront the conditions it now presents". The Small Person is steely and doughty, and she loves things that she didn't have - extravagant dresses, banquets, exotic holidays. And inventing stories.
It is in her relations with her sons that she can be accused of being unthinking or unfeeling. Lionel's letters to her as he becomes sicker are frightening to read - at least partly because he was clearly an imaginative and considerate boy, who needed her and could not say how much (though we must remember that someone had made it possible for him to grow up wise and considerate). Burnett nursed him through the end of his illness, and subsequently spoiled Vivian, and carried on a desperate correspondence with her dead son. She perhaps left her children for such long periods because she did not love their father (and was having a good time across the Atlantic with others). But she also had a genuine furious determination to make their lives infinitely better than the Small Person's had been - to give them civilisation and leisure, and acquaintances and prospects of which her brothers and she could not have dreamed. Middle-class women in those days left their children in the care of others for long periods even if they were not writing books and plays and earning a living. In later life, she found a sickly consolation in the Christian Science theories of Mary Baker Eddy and believed in a paradise garden where she would be reunited with Lionel.
Gerzina believes that the Secret Garden, which was modelled on Burnett's own garden at Maytham Hall, is an image for these beliefs - among the rescued roses, she suggests, the sick boy rising from a wheelchair and walking to his grieving father is Lionel come back. I think the effect is rather the opposite - Colin's illness in The Secret Garden is hysterical and psychological, caused by his mother's death and a lack of love - and it has made him whingeing and nasty. Mary too is unloved and cross and unpleasant, and what readers come back to again and again in this potent tale is the irony and realism with which these not-so-nice children are presented, and the way they save each other. Colin has nothing at all in common with the real Lionel, or with the idealised dead son. The writer is tougher than the woman.
Burnett's children's books have lasted because of an unfakeable quality of precise realism and observation - combined with an equally unfakeable hopefulness about the human condition. Burnett once observed that children like things - that was why she kept her doll's houses full of delicate models of life. That was why she took such care with the details both of Sara Crewe's possessions as a little rich girl (which another Victorian moralist might have sneered at) and with the things that she has, and the food that she has not, in her days as a slave in the attic. Little Lord Fauntleroy, a not-rich American boy suddenly confronted with English aristocratic possessions and customs, retains a grave curiosity about all this as well as a belief that people can be reasonable and kind which, despite the sentiment, are both oddly convincing. There is none of the sentimentality in Dickon, the country boy who understands creatures and plants, that there is in J M Barrie's eternal children.
Where Gerzina's biography is tantalising and to me disappointing is in the absence of any real opportunity to imagine Burnett's oeuvre for adults. Gerzina summarises many plots - melodramas about powerful masculine women, marital comedies, social romances - but she does not quote, and we are left with no real idea of how well Burnett wrote, or why these once-lauded books have vanished completely. This is now a convention in biographical publishing. Even if someone is writing a biography of a genius with words, the editors reduce, or cut, quotation and analysis. In the case of major writers this distorts our perception of what they cared most about. We get sex, but not language. In the case of Burnett, we get a wonderful story full of twists and turns (with the sex veiled, as in those days it had to be). But the work which energised and exhausted her, changed her life and used her time, remains more shadowy than it need be.
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Cibola (Yuma, Ariz.) senior cross country and track star Bernie Montoya was one of the most sought after prospects for the Class of 2013 — and with obvious reason.
Montoya is a state champion in track for the 1,600 and 3,200-meter races and a three-time state champion for cross country. Last April, he won the Adidas Dream Mile in a blazing time of 4:01, beating out a dozen of the nation's top prep boys distance runners.
The Gatorade Arizona Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year is hardly shy about going an extra mile (or 13) to maintain his status as one of the nation's top high school runners. In fact, last summer Montoya routinely awoke at 5:45 a.m. to beat the Arizona heat so he could log 13 miles per training run.
High mileage is only part of Montoya's preparation though. Before races, he says he practices a lot of visualization while listening to music.
And what's running on his pre-race playlist just might surprise you. Check it.
What do you think about as you're listening to music while warming up?
Montoya: You have to see yourself doing big things in big-time races. I think about different scenarios that can happen in a race — can I be in the front, the back or the side? I try to picture myself with perfect form.
Tell us about your playlist. Are you loyal to a particular genre?
I listen to very random stuff — from dubstep to Beethoven.
Your musical preferences are all over the place. How do you discover new jams?
I've been listening to a lot of Pandora. One of the big stations is Today's Hits and Ke$ha.
A Ke$ha fan are we?
I listen to Kesha a little bit. At first I thought her music was a little bit weird, but now I think it's pretty cool. I like "C'Mon", "Die Young" and "Tik Tok".
Any other female artists high on your list?
I love old school Mariah Carey. Growing up, I used to listen to Mariah because my sister and aunt would listen to her. I remember watching her on TV. I really like "I'll Be There", "Without You" and "Always Be My Baby".
When you're not obsessing over Mariah, what other artists get your attention?
I'm a big fan of hip-hop. I also listen to 2 Chainz, Jay-Z and Drake.
Country music — yay or nay?
I've never had a problem with any genre. I'm very open to all kinds of music. Sometimes I listen to country. It depends on my mood, which can change on the day of a race.


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Learning how to use Adobe Photoshop efficiently and effectively is the best way to get the most out of your pixels and create stunning imagery. Master the fundamentals of this program with Julieanne Kost, and discover how to achieve the results you want with Photoshop and its companion programs, Bridge and Camera Raw. This comprehensive course covers nondestructive editing techniques using layers, masking, adjustment layers, blend modes, and Smart Objects. Find out how to perform common editing tasks, including lens correction, cropping and straightening, color and tonal adjustments, noise reduction, shadow and highlight detail recovery, sharpening, and retouching. Julieanne also shows how to achieve more creative effects with filters, layer effects, illustrative type, and the Photomerge command for creating panoramas and composites.
If in your workflow you're starting off in Bridge with your RAW files and you're taking them through camera RAW, you want to make sure you're making all of your global adjustments to the tonality and color there before you actually open them in Photoshop. But often I'll find that I need to make a small adjustment as I'm refining my image in Photoshop which I can quickly take care by using an adjustment layer. As we've seen, these adjustments can affect the entire image or only a small portion. In this example we're going to add a Levels Adjustment layer.
And I'm going to go ahead and apply it to the whole image, in order to explain what it's doing. So from the Adjustment panel I'll click on the second adjustment, this is the levels adjustment layer, and we can see that we have a preview of the histogram of the image. So the histogram is just a visual representation of all of the different pixels in your image. And your darkest pixels would be down here on the left hand side and then it would move toward your shadows and in your midtones. Your highlights and then over here on the right are your whites. I can tell by looking at this histogram that I don't actually have any black values.
There's nothing in this image that is pure black, and I know that, because there aren't any pixels being plotted in this histogram. So in order to make sure that this image expands across the entire dynamic range all the way from black to white. I'll want to move over this slider to the right. Now as I move it over you can see that the darker values in my image are getting darker. If I move it too far then I'm going to force some areas in my image to be a pure black. So I don't want to go that far. So I'll back off a little bit.
But what I don't know is exactly where in my image these dark values are. So what I can do is hold down the Option key on the Mac or the Alt key on Windows. And then as I drag this slider, Photoshop will start giving me a preview of those pixels in my image that are being clipped to pure black. And it actually does this on a channel-by-channel basis. So, we know that our photographs are made up of three different channels. There's a red channel, a green channel, and a blue channel, when we're in RGB.
Well, the way that it's being displayed here in the image area when I have the Option key or the Alt key held down, is that if the values are clipped in the red channel, the color will display in red. And if the channels are clipped in the green channel then they're displayed in green and the same if they're in the blue channel, they'll be displayed in blue. But then we have this yellow and magenta and cyan overlay. So that just means that there are pixels that are being clipped in more than one channel. So for example, if you see yellow up here, that means that the red and the green channel are clipped. If you see magenta, it means the red and blue channel is clipped. And if you see cyan, it means the green and blue. And the reason that I point this out is because it's not until you actually see black.
That you're clipping to pure black, so see in the base of the tree there where everything's black right now? That's telling me that everything there will be pure black. Of course that's an aesthetic choice, right? if I let go of the option or the alt key and we look at this I could aesthetically decide that yes I want the tree black but I don't think I do. So I'm going to hold down the Option key or the Alt key again and I'm going to drag this slider until I don't see any black in my image, because that means that there are no pixels being forced to pure black. There can be some yellow in there, there can be some red in there.
As long as there's no black then I know that I'm not forcing anything to pure black. Because when I do that of course, I'm getting rid of detail in the shadow areas. All right now I can also tell that there's a gap in my histogram between this value and the brightest value. So I'll scoot over the white point here by moving this white triangle to the left. Again if I move it to far you can see that I'm pushing pixels in my image to pure white. So let's back off on that. And again, I could hold down the Option key. In which case we're kind of seeing a reverse mask.
And as I drag over to the left you can see those areas that start getting clipped. And if I go far enough, sure enough, big areas start getting clipped to pure white. I just need to back off on that until I don't see any white pixels being clipped. And this really is important, because when you print an image, the image is made up of a bunch of little dots. And our eyes are highly sensitive to patterns and so our eyes immediately see those dots. If you have a photograph that say is a landscape and you got these big puffy clouds in the sky, if you push those clouds to pure white, if there's no detail in them then the printer isn't going to print a dot in that highlight.
And your eye is so sensitive to patterns that your eye will move directly there. Not only because it's the brightest value in the image, but also because it recognizes that there's no dot pattern. So, although you can make an aesthetic choice and push your shadow areas to pure black, it's really not a great idea to push the highlight areas, of your image, to pure white, unless you're going for some type of special effect, like a really high key image. Alright if I want to preview what I've done, I can click the eye icon that toggles the preview on and off. You can see that with it off, I've got a much flatter looking image. The image isn't extended across the entire dynamic range. When I toggle on the eye icon to see the changes, you can see that we've really extended our histogram across the entire dynamic range. Now it doesn't look like we've made a change to it. But in order to show you what's happening to it I'm going to close the properties panel for a moment and under the Window menu I'm going to select the Histogram panel.
So here is the histogram, it kind of looks very familiar. We were just looking at one that was similar in the levels adjustment layer. And if I toggle on and off the Levels Adjustment Layer. There's before. You can see how the histogram doesn't reach all the way to the highlights nor to the shadows. But afterwards, the histogram has been extended across the entire dynamic range. You'll also notice that there are now gaps in this histogram because if I toggle it off, in the before state there was this nice clean histogram with no gaps, but I had to extend it. I had to stretch out this histogram so that I would have a highlight. And I would have a shadow and when I stretched it out, that's what created those little gaps.
Now Photoshop is trying to warn me that this isn't the most accurate view so if I click on the exclamation mark there, Photoshop will rerender the histogram. But I still have those gaps, and one of the reasons that they're so dominant in this image is because it is only an 8-bit image. You can see over here that I saved this file as a JPEG file in 8-bit, but if I were working in 16-bit image, we wouldn't see nearly those gaps there. So you can see how the levels adjustment layer is going to help us to extend this dynamic range. Now, of course, if you're starting in Bridge with a Raw file and you're moving through Camera Raw as part of your work flow, you definitely want to extend the dynamic range there, because that's a lot more nondestructive than doing it afterwards once you've created this pixel-based file in Photoshop. And then go and make changes to it like we just did with the adjustment layer. But it is nice to know that if you've moved on down your workflow, and maybe you don't have the time to go back to the original image, you can make these adjustments here in Photoshop.
And of course, we made it to the entire image. But we could've made a selection, and then only adjusted that select portion of our image as well.
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Harley Bramble is man of Bree in The Lord of the Rings: War in the North. People in Bree didn't like Harley Bramble and they didn't treat him good. When Harley did meet a Southerner, the southerner used this to stir him up against the other Bree-landers. If Harley would help the Southerners, he would be running things in Bree at the end. When the two were confronted by Eradan, Andriel and Farin, Harley did choose to stay on the good side.[1]
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once or twice I thought I saw you
where shadow stretches long across the rock lawn
but it was just the heat from the sun's rays
a mirage that evaporates into evening dust
once or twice I thought I heard you
drifting silently into a dream
when I looked you were not there
a faceless lesson I finally learned
once or twice I thought I smelled
the ambrosia left from a morsel of love
that left me hungry after the meal digested
thirst not quenched from bitter wine
once or twice I thought I felt
the softness of a lover's hand
soothing my brow but not my mind
the coarseness of burlap against velvet skin
once or twice I thought I tasted
the sweetness of all it could have been
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Kamala Harris California Attorney General On behalf of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party, I congratulate Attorney General-Elect Kamala Harris for her victory. As of today, she leads Republican Steve Cooley by 51,585 votes statewide and she has widened her lead in Los Angeles County significantly by 312,925 votes. Clearly, Los Angeles County voters made […]


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League of Legends in full animation! (Anime – News)
You like League of Legends? You like full featured animated movies? These dudes from China have done it together and made a League of Legends animated series. It's called Lalala Demacia and the official youtube page is here: http://www.youtube.com/user/DuoWanLOL
It's in Mandarin but has English subtitles. It's pretty hilarious. If you're an LoL fan you gotta check it out.
Someone has merged the episodes for viewing convenience, I've embedded season 1 and 2 below, enjoy!
Yes finally!! Naruto Shippuuden is back! (Anime – News)
It looks like episode 296 will be back on the main storyline!
Django Unchained (Movies – Review)
This movie is over 2 and a half hours but it didn't feel that long. Django Unchained is a wild western action ride full of the kind of humour, wit and violence you would expect from a Tarantino movie. Foxx, Waltz, DiCaprio and Samuel L. all put in great and entertaining performances. This movie is highly recommended.
Overall rating: 10/10
Anime Saturday – What to watch now that SAO is over…
I think we were a bit spoiled last anime season with shows like Sword Art Online and BTOOOM! This season's anime doesn't look even half as good so far. Still previewing and hoping to find at least one hiddem gem. For continuing shows, you can still at least keep watching Fairy Tail as they actually have story ongoing and not fillers like *cough* Naruto!
Anime Saturday – Berserk: The Golden Age Arc II – The Battle for Doldrey
First off if you haven't seen the original Berserk anime series Watch IT and secondly watch Arc I if you haven't seen it as well.
Both are excellent and a lot of fun to watch. Arc II picks up where the fun left off and that's a lot of swinging of a big heavy sword slaying people. If you have to see it to believe it.
Overall rating: 10/10
Anime Saturday – Code:Breaker – Review
Superpowers, highschool and lots of superpowered fights, if this is what you like then you will like Code: Breaker. They make a decent attempt at creating a story but I think you'll end up fighting it isn't terribly deep.
It's still not a bad anime to watch as it's entertaining. So far 11 out of 13 episodes have aired.
Overall rating: 7.5/10
Anime Saturday – Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun – Animes to Watch
This comedy romance anime is up to episode 11 out of 13 now. If you are looking for an anime to watch with your special someone and have a few good laughs then Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun will fit into your plans. The characters are all quirky and the plot has enough twists to keep you interested.
Overall rating: 8/10
Anime Saturday – Mayo Chiki – Review
This anime was mostly fun and entertaining but then it got to the end (episode 13) and you are left really hanging nowhere. The story seems very unresolved and there's no signs of a second season.
So if you don't like not having closure then stay away from this one. If you don't care and want to watch a fun anime then sure.
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In Product Photography for E-Commerce, designer Dane Howard shows how to take professional-looking photographs that showcase products and build buyers' trust. Using a practical approach, Dane covers objects from collectible coins to real estate, and the lessons can be applied to just about anything that can be sold online. When it comes time to capture images in the studio, Dane discusses how to select a camera and other equipment on any budget. He shares his favorite tips and tricks for getting the most out of camera angles, backgrounds, and scene lighting. He reviews image editing basics, such as cropping and retouching photographs, and explains how to take a presentation beyond a 360-degree view with the integration of rich media.
The next thing we're going to talk about is retouching. Now we've talked about cropping and adjustment of the image, but retouching is a different beast and here's why. Retouching is different because if you think about what you're going to isolate inside of the image itself, think about how you might crop it, and whatever is inside of that crop, if you don't like what you see, you're going to have to do some retouching. Now this is something that you can do that you can't do just in Auto Correction. That means you're going to have to paint on top of an image or isolate some part of the image to actually reduce, blow out or paint over it.
Now you can see here, I am just going to isolate the area that I want here. I go up to Image>Crop. Once I have a good crop, this is important because I don't want to mess with anything that's going to be outside of my crop. Well, the second thing I need to do here is I need to start to isolate this area. Well, there are a couple of different ways to do that in Photoshop. Here is the quickest ways that I've learned. Now if you've got a good exposure, a quick way to isolate the background, there is a bunch of them. Now this isn't going to be in print or anything where I need really hard line, so I am just going to go into the selection mechanism, instead of anything where I'd have to draw around these specific shoes themselves or create a very detailed mask.
The first thing I'm going to try is this thing called Color Range. Now Color Range menus are sometimes the best bet, because you can go in and you can start to select things. Now if I select different ranges you can see that items in the center here are actually chosen inside the shoes. I'm not after any selection after the shoes. If I start to bring up the Fuzziness, I can start to see some things in the shoes. That's not going to work for me. If I go ahead and select this, and start doing adjustments, I'm going to get some things selected that are inside the shoes. I don't want that.
Well, to undo what I just did, I can hold down Ctrl+D to deselect that selection. The other thing I'm going to might think about is the Quick Selection tool. What's nice about the Quick Selection tool is it has quite a bit of settings. This is used to be the Magic Wand. Well, the Quick Selection is really helpful. You can see that there's different types here. You can see that the settings and basically, what's going on here is I can select, and then select more or less. Well, let's go ahead and start to go into this. I'm going to start selecting around this area here, and as I'm holding down, I'm starting to get a really nice selection. Oops! It grabbed some of the yellow.
Oh, no fear, I'm going to hold down the Alt key on a PC and I'm going to start painting out this yellow here. Go ahead and do that until you have a nice selection and this should work really, really lovely for you. If you want to get really, really close, I'm going to hold down the Ctrl and the Spacebar and zoom in. You can start to really finesse this just the way that you want it, down to the very detail here. So, if I go right around here, you can see what I'm doing.
I am going to hold down Ctrl+Minus, I'm going to zoom out. Now the next thing I do is I actually go into the Feather menu. So you can see here that I have a little bit that I don't want, and a little bit that I don't want here. So I'm going to just fine-tune this a little bit, and I can go up to Select>Modify>Feather. I always feather it based on the resolution from 1 to 5 pixels, based on it. I can go ahead and select that. That gives me a nice, soft edge.
The next I'm going to do is hold down Ctrl+L. What is that? That's the Levels. I'm going to go ahead and drag this one, this is my first indicator. This tells me where I am at. I'm going to start moving this piece up a little bit more. Now, the nice thing about isolating this is I am using the Adjustments in an isolated way. So, I know that nothing is going to touch those specific shoes. That's a pretty good start. The next thing I usually do is I select a color. I'm going to select I, which gives me the Eyedropper, and I'm going to select something that's already on the image.
It gives me a color, not just pure white. It gives me something to work with. Then I can go onto my Brush and I can start to paint in something that I know is already there. What I'm doing, essentially, is ironing out these wrinkles, and I am not touching the shadows so much because I like what's going on there. This just gives me a way to iron out the wrinkles on the outsides of what I don't necessarily like. Now, I'm going to hit Ctrl+H, and that hides the marching ants. I like to do that, just to see where I am at.
I'm going to go back in and adjust a few of these things because I think these shadows are nice and it just gives it a nice little bit of presence here as I'm resting it on here. I go through there, I am about done. I like what I see. Now in a few short minutes, you can see that I've quickly touched this up and I haven't adjusted the color or the exposure that's on the shoes themselves. So I haven't color shifted them, and I've kept their color accuracy great. You are now ready to save this out. So that's just a quick tip on very quick color adjustment tools that I've used.
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Andy Murray won his first Grand Slam tournament Monday night on the hard courts in Flushing Meadows. As were most fans, I was happy Murray finally ascended to the top of his sport. I couldnt help wondering, though, if a healthy Rafael Nadal would have stopped him.
Long hampered by a chronic patellar tendon injury, Nadal elected to skip the two grueling weeks on the Arthur Ashe Stadium hard courts and try to rehab his ailing knee.
It led me to ponder a bigger question, though. Do those hard courts shorten the careers of professional players like Nadal?
At only 26, Nadal has won 11 Grand Slam titles and the 2008 Olympic gold medal. But his lingering patellar tendon problems have proven to be a formidable opponent.
After missing the London Olympics, Nadal withdrew from this years U.S. Open. In a statement, he acknowledged having a partial tear of the patella tendon at the distal pole of the patella plus an inflammation of the Hoffas fat pad of his left knee.
Unfortunately for Nadal, there are no easy treatments for his injury. Rest, rehab to strengthen the knee, and occasionally braces or taping make up the main treatment options. Unproven injections can be attempted if pain persists. No reliable surgical options exist.
Nadals withdrawal has renewed speculation that his best years might already be behind him. Many tennis observers have urged the Spaniard to play a more judicious schedule to preserve his health for the Grand Slams.
Would a reduced schedule help him win the U.S. Open again? In an article for the New York Daily News, Filip Bondy argued that Nadal would never win another major title on a hard court, because the surface is too unforgiving for his knees.
I disagree that Nadal couldnt battle through two weeks of matches on the Deco Turf at the U.S. Open. But Bondys argument that the hard courts could be shortening his career and the careers of other pros might have some merit.
Some players acknowledge the toll hard courts take on players. Lindsay Davenport pointed out to Bondy, I think the days of players lasting as long as Jimmy (Connors) did are over, just because theres more tennis on hard courts. Brad Gilbert stated even more bluntly, Put it this way. How many sports do you know that they play on cement?
Little data exists to prove that the court surface by itself leads to more injuries. Too many other variables such as the number of tournaments played, the different numbers of matches played, and different styles of play make definitive conclusions difficult.
Theoretically the argument makes sense. Running all over the court for hours every day for many months of the year causes a tremendous amount of repetitive stress on the knees, ankles and feet. With the tennis season now running almost all year long, these players bodies can break down.
I would never argue that the hard court surfaces necessarily cause injuries. For players with overuse injuries of their lower bodies, they probably dont make the tournaments easier either. I do wonder if we will see players like Nadal play fewer hard court tournaments later in their careers.
On another tennis note, this weekend the World Team Tennis Finals return to Charleston. It is one of my favorite events that I have worked as a physician. This year, some of the best players of the last 20 years John McEnroe, Martina Hingis, and Venus Williams are scheduled to play. If you like exciting tennis, music and fun, this shapes up to be a great weekend at the Family Circle Tennis Center Stadium.
Dr. David Geier is an orthopaedic surgeon and Director of MUSC Sports Medicine. For more information about tennis injuries and other sports medicine topics, go to his blog at drdavidgeier.com.
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The 2011 Frankfurt IAA represents the F10 M5′s general public reveal and BMW has strutted out not just the typical Monte Carlo Blue launch color, but also in Moonstone (Individual color), and Alpine White. It felt like ///M heaven walking into the M area.
There was also a Monte Carlo Blue M5 being used to drive around the BMW track in the exhibit hall, as well as the F10 M5 Safety Car.
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Turbo Chevrolet Camaro Coupe revealed at Chicago Auto Show [video]
Promoting DreamWorks' 'Turbo'
Chevrolet has introduced in Chicago the 2013 Turbo Camaro Coupe to promote DreamWorks' new "Turbo" movie which will be out on July 19.
The promotional vehicle is based on the Camaro ZL1 featuring a custom front splitter and a massive rear wing. It also has the hood of the COPO Camaro while underneath there is a supercharged V8 engine delivering 700+ hp (522+ kW) connected to an automatic transmission.
It rides on huge 24-inch wheels and has dual five-inch rear exhaust outlets. The front suspension features a custom adjustable coilover strut, while at the back it has received custom spring and shock assemblies. The entire body has been covered by a vinyl chrome wrap and has received custom front/rear LED lightning with multicolor halo effect at the front.
2013 "Turbo" Camaro Coupe
This hot ride is based on a character in the new high-velocity 3D comedy from DreamWorks. Turbo is about a snail obsessed with speed, and this Camaro is instrumental in transforming him into a racer. Follow their journey when it hits theaters July 19, 2013.
This Camaro is fully customized with lower rockers and fender flares in a wide body design configuration, a front splitter and rear diffuser, and a GT concept rear wing spoiler. Lighting the way are custom front and rear LED lighting with multicolor halo effect for the front headlamps. The body is painted black with a vinyl chrome wrap, dark tinted to look like black chrome. The front tires are 24-inches by 10-inches with a front wheel and custom offset, the rear are 24-inches by 15-inches.
Powering this super ride is a supercharged 700+ HP V8 engine with automatic transmission. There is a custom created intake assembly for supercharger housing. The rear exhaust outlets are five-inches in diameter, with two per side.
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I'm contemplating killing my other me,
The one who fronts for the five figure manager at Ruby Tuesday for a job,
Struggling to tie loose ends, so my ends don't meet.
Strangers they are, Me and I, I and Me,
And there is a sharp turn ahead,
So I can't see our future.
Contemplating offing that sucka!
An actor, he can accurately depict whatever you want him to,
A puppet for a crowd full of the wealthy and snobby,
And I, the weak minded puppeteer of financial slavery?
Broke brotha representa?
Am real.
Seriously contemplating killing my other me,
I mean getting him good for all the eggshells he left in the batter,
There's no way I'm getting cake!
I mean the ladies would dig I,
Maybe even marry a brotha, but me?
This dude falls back and plays chill for no reason,
While the girls are just teasing, begging me please come see!
He tries to wait, and play it smart, but the game ends before he begins...
I'm contemplating killing my other me,
He has no purpose, no drive, stuck on the side of life's highway with his hazards on,
Dormant, while my friends pass by,
I have no clue where I'm going,
But I sit in the passenger seat while this fool puts nowhere in the GPS,
Stressed because I am me and he seems confident in us...
I trust the untrustworthy with my most valued possession,
So death should come to me...
And it will when i sense the urge to kill,
But for now...
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Raising Livestock and Crops Simultaneously in Unheated Greenhouses
FW07-031, John Socolofsky, Colorado
This farmer project assessed whether greenhouse crops can be raised and harvested through the winter months on the Colorado front range in hoop structures without added artificial heat, and whether body-heat energy produced by livestock and through composting manure will keep the temperature above freezing.
Want more information? See the related SARE grant(s) FW07-031, Raising Livestock and Crops Simultaneously in Unheated Greenhouses.
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