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New DOOM III Screenshots @ www.ve3d.com
For the truly lazy here is the linkage:http://www.tothegame.com/screenshot.asp?screens=10224 Well worth your while. Checkout the detail!!!!!
I seriously hope that the shadows get toned down a bit. So far, every screenshot and movie I've viewed has shown them as untransparent, solid black shadows. Yuck
Now that's looking pretty realistic.
Was the second picture taken without AA on ? Or Are they both without it.
They both look like AA was used, but good lord they look realistic. Look at how life-like the reflections off the guy's goggles in the first shot are.
It must have been run on a 6mb 3dfx Voodoo Graphics card. There couldn't have been more than 4MB of textures in there. Even less with compression.
EVERYTHING was BLACK except for the skins on the monsters and the occasional floor/panel texture.
WooHoo! Doom 3 on Pentium100/12MB voodoo2, here we come!
And we'll have 6mb of available texture memory to spare!
Anyone notice the following:
Relatively low-poly models... Make for some chinky heads/helmets/accessories. This is made more pronounced by the shadows.
LOW RES TEXTURES! Lack of detail textures! Look at the pic with the cave wall! I would have liked to see UT-style s3tc-like superhighrez textures when you get REALLY close to a surface.
Low poly environments. Gone are the curvylicious days of Quake3. Were'e back to octagonal pipes and individually visible planes on curved surfaces! (see the curvy wall in the pic with the scientist.
Everything is a stupid, lame WHITE light. No nice, scary ambient greens/blues.
No pixelshader effects or special maps on surfaces. See newer DeusEx2 screns to see what I mean!
The monitor doesnt 'glow'. It's little touches like this that make games all the more immersive!
Too much influence exerted by the Rolling stones! "I see a red door and I want it painted black. No colors anymore the textures must be BLACK...."
Unreal2 engine LOOKS MORE IMPRSSIVE! I can't believe I just said that!
Ive always hated Unreal engine tech with a passion! But DeusEx2 looks more graphicallyimpressive than Doom3!
That's a good thing. Gameplay on deusEx WILL BE FANTASTIC. Uncle Warren Spector made the damn game. Doom 3 is an unknown.
Knowing ID, it's probably 100% Run-and-gun with the typical stupid, "run towards player" AI.
This was fine in quake1, since THAT GAME COST ME $20 (best 20 bucks i ever spent!) and the main appeal was quakeworld multiplayer.
ARG! Doom3 will suck! The more I see of it, the more I know it will be true!
Now please go to Doom3: Who cares? v1.5
Anyways I continue to be amazed by the mighty Carmack :cool:
It was sad.
My position continues to be that I am not amazed by the game itself, but rather the new era of gaming the engine will make possible.
looks like there is colored lighting on the shot with the zombies, where they have an orange glow on them :rolleyes:
i still think it is foolish to judge the game on from such(i think) early screenshots. or from a low quality cam video. but you're right, the poly counts, and more importantly texture quality in those newest shots are most unimpressive. the shadows could also be softer. i have faith that Carmack will make tweaks at the end though.
Dan, you came to the conclusion that everything looks black viewing a low res pixelated video.
Doom 3s tech is better looking than anything that's ever been seen in games. If you can't see that (watch the bathroom scene in that e3 video again, there is no way someone could think that looks bad), I don't know if you are looking at the same game the rest of the world is.
The animation, lighting quality, and character detail is better than anything ever seen in realtime. I don't why you're so anti Doom 3 (maybe you think the gameplay will suck?), but when the game comes out, there will be nothing better graphically. It's a shame that you're so pessimistic about this engine, which is probably the best thing that has happened to computer graphics since 3d acceleration.
I suspect if the Unreal games were released post DX9 they'd have some fancy graphics effects too.
As to the shadows, yeah I noticed that, but I doubt they've got everything working perfectly this early in the game anyway
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The meat and cheese work perfectly together without being too heavy in this sophisticated pizza recipe
Method1. To make the dough: combine the flour, yeast and salt in a mixing machine with a dough hook. Add the olive oil and enough warm water to make a soft but not too sticky dough. Mix on medium speed for about 10 minutes, or until smooth and elastic. Cover with a damp tea towel and leave to prove until doubled in volume.
2. Preheat your barbecue to 250C/230 C fan/gas 10, with the cover down. Marinate your butterflied lamb with the chopped garlic, rosemary, lemon and cracked pepper. Place directly over the heat and grill for 10 minutes, then turn over and continue to grill for another 10 minutes. When cooked to your satisfaction remove and rest prior to slicing and placing on top of your cooked pizza.
3. Place the pizza stone directly over the heat source. Knock back the dough by kneading it a few times. Divide the dough into five evenly sized balls. Spread out some baking paper and dust with flour. Roll out the bases on the paper until they're about the thickness of a fifty pence coin. Don't worry about the overall shape – I like them to be irregular.
4. Add your topping. Firstly spread or brush the base with garlic oil. Then spread two-three tablespoons of passata on the base. Then scatter with sliced onions, olives and sundried tomatoes. Crumble the pizza with feta and chopped chilli. Add anchovy fillets if you like.
5. Transfer the pizza bases to the pizza stone, leaving them on the baking paper – don't worry about the paper burning. Close the lid of the barbecue, and cook for 5–8 minutes, until the pizza is crisp.
6. Remove the pizza from the BBQ and top the pizza with carved lamb. Scatter with rocket.
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For the topping
- 1 small leg or shoulder of lamb, boned
- 1 tbsp chopped rosemary
- Juice of 1 lemons
- ½ tsp cracked black pepper
- 225 g tomato passata
- 1 red onion, finely sliced
- 1 tsp garlic puree, mixed with 4 tbsp of olive oil
- 225 g pipped olive
- anchovies, optional
- 200 g sun-dried tomatoes
- 250 g buffalo or Persian feta cheese
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3ds Max Design 2011 New Features ReviewOctober 19th, 2010 by chad Posted in industry info, info, news, Uncategorized
This review was originally written for CgArchitect.com.
Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2011
Review by Chad Warner
With the latest version of 3ds Max Design, Autodesk has delivered one of the most feature-rich updates to their product in several releases. Interface refinements, new data import/reference components, material editor improvements, and additional feature sets make this release of 3ds Max Design a product worth looking at.
Interface Improvements
3ds Max Design 2011 continues with the 2010 product line's use of the "Ribbon" palette, with some improvements. The Ribbon can be switched between horizontal and vertical with the right mouse button, and the user can add, delete, and modify all of the panels, tabs, and buttons with customizable controls or tools based on the user's likes, using the "customize ribbon" dialog.
Figure 1: Customize Ribbon Dialog box
Data import/reference
In my opinion, one of the most important addition to this version of Max Design is the ability to file link a Revit generated FBX file, complete with presets based on linking by material, family, or category.
Figure 2: FBX File link Presets
This is a huge step for the inter-operability between what is more and more becoming the standard program for Architects (Revit) and the standard program for Architectural Visualization (3ds Max.) For a very long time, we've been able to file-link dwg files straight from AutoCAD, so when the dwg file is updated, hit a button or two, and the updated file appears in Max, without losing material applications, UVW Maps, or any other modifiers that had been applied. With the new FBX file-link option, Revit models have pretty much the same luxury, other than the additional step of exporting the FBX file from Revit first.
This is a huge improvement over the previous method of exporting from Revit, importing the FBX, dealing with the triangular edges, grouping by material, cleaning out all of the unused parents, etc.
My one complaint with the FBX linking is how long it can take to link large files. Even with a fairly speedy workstation, I can expect to wait 5-10 minutes for some big FBX files to link.
The other major import feature added to 2011 is a Google SketchUp importer. It's a very nice way to import files directly into Max from SketchUp without having to first export into another file type. The usefulness of this importer greatly relies on how the Sketchup file was built to begin with, but I've used it multiple times already with great success. This importer was also available as an extension pack to 2010, but according to Autodesk, some features have been improved and optimized for this new release.
One improvement that Max users have been asking for since 3ds Max v2 was released that is finally incorporated into 2011 is the Save As Previous option. Now you can (with some limitations of course) save a file as a 2010 version for some slight backwards compatibility, in case you need to work with the older version of the software.
Slate Material Editor
One of the most anticipated additions to Max Design 2011 is the all new "slate" material editor. Slate is a node based editor, giving the user the ability to visualize in a very clear manner the way a material is laid out, rather than having to click on map after map over and over again to find your way through a complex material. With Slate, the material is laid out in a flowchart fashion so you can visually see what map goes to what map type all at the same time, making it much easier to find and edit individual maps within the material.
The other good thing about the Slate Editor is that in case you don't like it, or just want a more compact look at what's going on with the materials in your scene, you can always choose to use the standard material editor as an alternative.
Figure 3: Slate Material Editor
Other improvements/Features
Autodesk has included other improvements and features to the software as well:
- A new object painter that incorporates features of some of the 3rd party scripts available, allowing you to "paint" selected objects onto a 3rd object interactively, while randomly changing scale, rotation, and local translation. The one thing that I don't like about the built in object painter is that its "fill" option doesn't really fill the 3rd object with the other selected objects (similar to scatter,) but only fills along a selected edge loop, similar to the way the spacing tool operates.
Figure 4: Object Painter
- New "caddy" spinner. This one I like. Instead of the old method of interactively changing editable poly options (for example, chamfer distance, how many segments, etc) which gave you a dialog box on the screen, the "caddy" is just a few buttons and checkboxes superimposed over the viewport next to the selected editable poly sub-objects. It's a cleaner way to see what you are changing and how it affects the selected sub objects.
Figure 5: "caddy" dialog box
- A new snap icon for moving objects with snaps turned on. With the new version of Max, they have added a small snap handle at the center of the move axis (indicated with a circle) to allow more precision while moving objects with snaps. Instead of randomly trying to grab axes and to move the object at its pivot, you can grab the circle snap indicator and know for certain you're grabbing the right spot.
- The new Quicksilver hardware renderer. According to the documentation, there's a minimum hardware requirement for this to work (which you can verify under the help menu.) Even though my machine was more than capable of handling the hardware renderer, when I tried to use the renderer with a simple scene of 3 boxes and a concrete map, I got the first BSOD I've had for as long as I can remember.
- Viewport Canvas. This has the makings of a very useful tool, as it gives the user the ability to directly paint on a 3d object in a scene, modifying the material and maps in the scene interactively, with some of the same layering and tool options that Photoshop offers. Again, my main issue with this tool was one of performance. I tried a very simple scene with a single box, a single brick texture applied to the box, and my computer still struggled with painting on the box. I think if Autodesk is able to optimize this tool, it will become very useful.
- Improved EXR support. With EXR files being used more and more for their compositing usage and high color range, Max design 2011 updated its EXR plugin the ability to include unlimited layers, g-buffer data, rendered elements, all while better optimizing the plugin for better performance.
- Inclusion of Autodesk's Composite program, an add-on tool for doing compositing, color correction, and post processing work. I haven't used the program very extensively to give it a review, but the fact that it is included with Max design is a pretty good feature in and of itself.
In the latest version of 3ds Max Design, I think Autodesk has delivered a version of the software that's actually worthy of a revision number. A lot of times there's very little difference between one version of the software and the next, with only minor updates and what really only amounts to service packs, in what seems to me a way to make sure that people who are on the subscription program stay happy. With this release, Autodesk has made enough changes and updates to the software to make it worthwhile as a true upgrade.
- FBX file linking from Revit. This one alone will save countless hours in production
- Slate material editor. A much more intuitive and interactive way to create complex materials
- Save as Previous. As I mentioned before, this is one improvement that users have asked about for a very long time.
- Object Painter. While not as robust as some of the other object painting scripts that are available, it's still quite useful.
- Quicksilver renderer crashed computer (not just program), even though according to the specs, my computer is more than capable of using the renderer.
- Viewport Canvas was pretty slow to use also, although according to what I've read on the forums, if you unwrap the UVW first (a crucial step that is skipped in the documentation) it performs much better.
- Object painter. In order for it to be fully useful, Autodesk needs to give this one some more features.


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David A. Griffith, a professor of marketing, recently joined Lehigh's College of Business and Economics as the Chair of the Department of Marketing. We connected with Griffith, a leading authority on marketing strategy devleopment and implementation, and asked him a few questions about global marketing and branding.
What are the big international markets that could possibly give the U.S. economy a boost?
"Every country is looking to the international marketplace to jump start their economies. At the company level, competitive positioning and opportunity are the real keys for identifying ideal markets. It's simply not a one-size-fits all solution. Managers need to assess whether they can provide value within a specific country market and if so, at what short-term and long-term cost. In doing this, managers need to assess their resource base, potential market growth, current and potential levels of competition, as well as how the specific country market figures into their long-term strategic plan. Simply states, what's good for Apple may not be good for General Motors.
"So, where should the U.S. head? There is really no simple solution. While many firm's are strategically advancing their positions in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), many are taking advantages of the economic turbulence in Western Europe, or opportunities in Mexico and South America. Africa has also gained the attention of many firms. Great opportunities exist in all country markets the world, the real question is which firm should work to cease which opportunities."
Is there a foreign company marketing in the U.S. that has done it well, or one that has failed?
"Much as there are many U.S. firms that have achieved great success or failure in international markets, there are many international firms that have succeeded or failed. International firms such as Toyota, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Samsung, Luis Vuitton, SAP, IKEA, Olympus, Sony, Cannon and others have become significant players in the U.S. market.
"We see a lot of foreign companies that are doing very well in the U.S. However, much as the challenges faced by U.S. firms in their international markets, international firms have found the U.S. market to have its own hurdles. Recent economic circumstances in the U.S. have generated a movement toward more strongly incorporating a product's place of manufacturer into a consumer's decision making. In an attempt to leverage this, in early 2011 Chrysler began the 'Imported from Detroit' campaign. This campaign, worked to highlight the hard working American spirit and closely to the brand to the U.S. market (a somewhat interesting move as Italian automaker Fiat became majority owner in 2009).
"Whether you market your product well at home or in foreign markets is less important to your long-term success than your ability to change and adapt in all markets. An examination of the Fortune Global 5100, dominated by U.S. multinational 20 years ago, has become significantly diversified with multinationals from around the world. Firms from Brazil (e.g., Petrobras), Japan (e.g., Hitachi ), Britain (Tesco) and many other countries signals that foreign firms are becoming more effective in serving the needs of the global marketplace. However, this does not mean that a firm will be successful in all markets. For example, although Tesco currently garners approximately 30% of their revenues from outside of the U.K., maintaining a number one or two market share position in 8 of its 12 country markets, it has found the international marketplace continually challenging. While building momentum in markets such as Thailand, China, Tesco reassessed its opportunities in Japan, deciding to withdraw in 2012. Currently, Tesco is assessing whether to remain in the highly competitive U.S. supermarket segment after a revamp of its Fresh & Easy stores have resulted in less than satisfactory sales."
So, what is a global brand? Is Coca Cola a global brand, U.S. brand or a local brand? Would a consumer in the U.S. relate to it the same as a consumer in India?
"Brands have become increasingly curious and confusing. What we have been discovering is that consumers relate in very different ways to brands. While one consumer may view a brand as being global, another may view that same brand as being local (or domestic). We're seeing a great deal of research working to understand how consumers relate to brands. Much of this research has focused on the issue of global vs. local, "glocal" brands and regional brands. "Glocal" brands can be considered global brand that have worked to localize themselves by creating a strong connection to the local markets that they serve. In essence, they have worked toward the "think global, act local" philosophy.
"At the global marketing level, when you get think global, act local, you can get a global brand that most consumers have a relationship with and with minor, local modifications through advertising, recipe or styling can be local. While this approach can create strong bonds within each local marketplace, while maintaining an overall sense of the brand, the local modifications cannot be inconsistent. For example, McDonald's operates in 119 different countries. Although McDonald's mission is to be a favorite place and way to eat aligned across the global by focusing on an exceptional customer service experience, adaptations to local preferences create vast differences in not only menu items (such as the McRice burger in Singapore or beer in Germany) but operational issues as well, such as whether it can use unbleached paper napkins made from recycled materials in all countries. As such, although McDonald's works to give each customer an excellent service experience, their experiences will vary across markets.
"Today, with global communications, consistency of positioning across markets is ever more important. For, with the Internet, global television and increased international travel, consumers can become somewhat confused if brands are positioning differently across markets. While Mercedes-Benz in the U.S. market is clearly positioned as a luxury automaker, it surprises some American's when in Europe to see the Mercedes-Benz three-pointed star emblem on vehicles such as economy cars, trucks and buses."
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A YOUNG pianist will be the star of the next show hosted by an arts society.
Andrew Tyson will play at Abbotsholme School, near Uttoxeter next Wednesday, October 23, at 8pm.
It will be Andrew's first visit to Abbotsholme and he has chosen to play an all Chopin programme.
Andrew took part in the 2012 Leeds International Piano Competition where he won the Terence Judd-Halle Orchestra Prize which is awarded by the Orchestra's musicians.
Andrew's programme for the Abbotsholme evening will include: Chopin - Three Mazurkas -No 1in A minor, No2 in A flat major, No 3 in F sharp major; Barcarolle in F sharp major Op.60; Three Waltzes Op.64 No1 in D flat major 'Minute', No 2 in C sharp minor No.3 in A flat major; Polonaise in A flat major Op.53 (Heroic); Impromptu No 3 in G flat major Op.51; and Sonata No 3 in B minor Op.58.
Tickets for the concert are priced at £16 (£5 for under 25s) and are available by calling the society's box office on 01543 263304.
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Portraiture can be one of the most rewarding skills for a photographer to master, and the right post-processing and enhancement techniques can make all the difference. In Beyond Skin: Going Deeper with Photoshop CS3, Lee Varis uses Photoshop CS3 as a digital darkroom to bring out the best in photos of people, faces, and bodies. He examines tone and contrast, color correction, retouching, and more.
Hi! I'm Lee Varis. Welcome to Beyond Skin: Going Deeper with CS3. I have been a photographer for 30 years and I have been doing digital for just about 20. I'm going to be showing some of the things I've learned in my long career doing digital photography. We are going to be using Photoshop as a digital darkroom to post-process and enhance photographs of people, faces, and bodies. So first we are going to start by examining the Photoshop CS3 interface.
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Friday, April 17, 2009
April tax collections could stall this rally
You may have heard the expression, "Sell in May and go away," when it comes to the stock market. There's a very good reason for that: Taxes. On April 15 each year millions of Americans must send a check to the tax man. That leaves less disposable income in the economy until ongoing government spending replenishes it. (That's the summer rally.)
This year the tax effect might be fairly strong. With households stretched any reduction in disposable income could hurt the economy.
There is a bright side, though. During prior recessions tax payments to the government were relatively low and that old axion of sell in May and walk away, didn't work very well.
My recommendation is that if there is a correction, use that as an opportunity to buy stocks.
3 comments:
- googleheim said...
it might also depend on how many people will be wary to put their max IRA or 401K contribution into their fund or keep it out.
i don't know how many people wait to the last minute ( they have until october for some types of funds )
- April 17, 2009 at 11:17 PM
- mortgageangel88 said...
My husband and I are not contributing this year. And maybe not ever again. It seems probable that we'll be taxed at a higher rate when we retire 20 years from now.
- April 21, 2009 at 6:38 AM
- Mike Norman said...
Yes, this is unfortunately a function of a flawed belief system at the policy level that says the government needs to have revenues to make the invesments we need to remain prosperous. And it is thought that those revenues can only come from private savings, but in actuality, it is the other way around: deficit investing (a.k.a known as deficit spending) raises the savings of the private sector. As long as policy operates under this false paradigm, I do not blame you for not wanting to contribute to your IRA. And isn't that a little microcosm of the self-defeating nature of this belief system? More people like you will put less in 401ks, thus providing less capital to our engines of growth, which is exactly the opposite of what the government is trying to achieve. Yet it fosters this!
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Could You Tube be the death of sport on TV?
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Earlier this year, for the first time, You Tube carried a sports event live around the world. Around 50 million people tuned in/logged on to live coverage of the Indian Premier League (IPL) with You Tube carrying all 60 games live.
Sure, ESPN has carried live games on its website for a while as do owners like MLB if games are not being televised live (although there are a lot of baseball games in a season) but the IPL example was simultaneous broadcast and webcast through a recognised web only 'caster.
Paying good money for the rights to sports coverage is a well trodden path. It is arguably sports coverage alone which drove the speed of penetration for pay-TV channel Sky in the UK. They not only bought exclusive rights to key sports, notably the EPL and key international fixtures, but then hugely extended the number of games they televised, widening the appeal of pay-TV to more sports fans.
It is for this reason that the Federal Government introduced the anti-siphoning list to ensure that key sports events remain 'available free of charge to all Australians'.
Interestingly, I don't know if webcasting live sports in Australia would fall foul of the anti-siphoning laws? I am guessing not as this law was designed to retain free to air access to key sports, which arguably You Tube or any other webcaster could provide. This list is pretty extensive and includes 12 sports categories from the Olympic Games through AFL and NRL games to the FIFA World Cup.
But what of the reach and appeal to the sports fan and equally importantly to the advertiser? With increasing access to broadband technology and 'internet TV' which delivers IP content direct to a TV, I think as consumers we're part way there already. According to UM's Wave4, nearly 80% of Australian web users have already watched video content online, so it feels like a fairly small step to live content.
From an advertising perspective, the web also offers a wide range of potential advantages. Messaging can be targeted better with interaction and dialogue much more readily encouraged. Most interesting of all might be content integration and dynamic 'in game' messaging.
Ultimately how we watch sport will be commercially driven – who pays the most for the rights to broadcast or webcast any given sport based on their predicted returns (although that strategy didn't work so well for Setanta in Europe!).
With that in mind, the IPL sold 10 year TV broadcast rights for US$1.2 billion and the single year 'webcast license' to You Tube for US$10 million – quite a gap to close!
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For the Miao, jewelry serves as both ornamentation and a musical instrument—actually becoming part of the dance with built-in bells, tussles, and charms. Movement and music become one as the jingling jewelry turns the dance into a collaborative and infectious rhythm.
The copious amounts of jewelry symbolize a clan's status and esteem in the Miao ethnic group. The more jingling, the better! Miao dance movements are designed to maximize jingling, which conveys jubilance, and is also believed to ward off evil.
Dancers are covered from head to toe in ornate bracelets, necklaces, and headpieces. Weighed down with so much jewelry, the dancers adjust the dance routine accordingly.
"Free-swinging hands and hips are a common theme, as is lifting the upper legs first in order to move the lower leg. Other common moves incorporate spinning, clapping, crossing the hands and feet, swaying the head and hips, and small jump-kicks," according to the Shen Yun Performing Arts website.
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A solid body of scientific evidence has confirmed that wood smoke is bad for our health – on a lot of measures it's more dangerous than traffic exhaust. Smoke from wood heaters has a lot in common with tobacco smoke. Because wood and tobacco are both organic fuels, when they burn they give off a very similar compounds. Particulate matter, especially those particles known as PM2.5, are the most worrying.
Children and the elderly are most at risk from PM2.5. These particles lodge in the lungs and can trigger or worsen respiratory illnesses like asthma, pneumonia and middle ear infections. Because they can also enter the bloodstream, PM2.5 particles can raise blood pressure and cause inflammation, increasing overall risks of cardiovascular disease. Numerous studies have shown that higher levels of wood smoke and PM2.5 result in higher hospital admissions for respiratory and cardiovascular problems, particularly amongst children and the elderly.
It's important we share the truth about wood smoke. The more aware people are of the dangers, the more likely they are to act. Yes, wood smoke is natural, but so are bush fires and snake bites – and we're careful to avoid those.
Unfortunately, Armidale's air quality is affected by our climate and location. Because of the cold winters, thousands of homes burn wood for heating. And because of the valley that we live in, combined with low winds, wood smoke gets trapped over the town.
The good news is that we can fix the problem – if we all work together. When operated properly, the vast majority of wood heaters will burn without smoking excessively. Laboratory tests by experts have shown that operating a wood stove properly, burning a hot fire with dry wood, can reduce smoke levels by up to 90%.
A lot. With help from NSW EPA, Armidale Dumaresq Council is this winter conducting an innovative educational campaign combined with smoke patrols and an incentives program for people who want to replace their wood heater with an approved alternative form of heating.
We're serious about improving Armidale's air quality and we believe that with hard work and your help we really can make a difference.
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Pastels are great to decorate with. First of all, they are soft and they reflect light which help make the room look bigger and lighter. Second, they have different colors from blue to pink which allows to make an alternative to an all-white design. The pastels look great in any room and can be used to decorate the small homes.
Choose pastel wall paint of the needed color or opt for wallpaper in pastel colors with patterns that will create the needed mood in the room. The decor can be created with several pastel colors that look well together. The neutrals can help balance the pastel color scheme while the brights can make accents across the room that will add depth to the decor.
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"Sexual health after menopause is challenging for most women, but women with chronic diseases have even greater hurdles on the road to satisfying sex. Diabetes is a case in point. Diabetics, even if they are not menopausal, often have atherosclerosis, which damages blood vessels and decreases blood flow to the vagina. The result is diminished lubrication and arousal. Once a diabetic goes through menopause, and estrogen levels plummet, so can sexual satisfaction," says Dr. Lauren Streicher, Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University's Medical School. "An aggressive approach to restoring vaginal health for diabetics is critical to regaining sexual health. In addition to using a lubricant to reduce friction, it is essential to restore moisture with either a long acting moisturizer or a local vaginal estrogen."
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Residents' anger at school traffic chaos
Last updated at 15:00, Friday, 04 June 2010
DAMNING photographs showing the parking chaos outside Prudhoe High School put Northumbria Police and school transport operators under fire on Tuesday.
The photographs were produced by a campaign group opposed to the siting of a world class £2.5 million media centre at the school.
And while the group failed to prevent the scheme being given the go ahead by the county planning committee, the pictures – showing buses parked on double yellow lines and cars on the pavement – outraged councillors.
Coun. Jeff Gobin said: "These pictures are truly frightening – it's absolute chaos, with cars on the pavement and buses on yellow lines.
"People with buggies or wheelchairs simply couldn't get past.
"It's no good putting down yellow lines if the restrictions are not enforced.
"Let's get a few parking fines imposed, and they would soon stop what they are doing.
"The police always seem to have excuses why they can't do something, not how they can."
Coun. Wayne Daley called for the coach operators on the pictures to be forcefully reminded of the terms of their school contracts.
He said: "We should take enforcement action to stop them parking on yellow lines, and ensuring they arrive at the school at the correct times."
The photographs were circulated to committee members by the action group, whose spokesman Andrew Scott told the committee: "School buses and coaches clog Moor Road and Park Lane well in advance of the end of the school day.
"This causes many problems for residents, and more importantly, puts the health and safety and other pedestrians at risk.
"Buses and coaches park on double yellow lines, across the driveways of residents and have even double parked when children are alighting the vehicles.
"This development will bring another 100 children to add to the 1,000 which are already there."
Mr Scott pointed out that the school day began at 6am, when the caretaker opened the gates, and often did not end until 11pm, when people left the school "tooting horns and scorching off down the road."
The objectors said that while the building had been described as an eco-friendly construction, in reality it was anything but.
Beautiful cherry blossom trees had already been felled to prevent birds and bats nesting, and other trees netted for similar reasons.
They argued that more suitable sites were available, notably the former Eastwoods Middle School in Prudhoe, which had been empty and disused for two years.
It offered a better access, and there would be less pressure on space.
However, Coun, Paul Kelly, of Ovington, said the high school was the logical place to put the media centre, as it was a centre of excellence.
He noted that like all schools, Prudhoe's pupil numbers were dropping, so the additional 100 people would help make the school more viable.
The development would also provide an opportunity to reduce nuisance problems in the Moor Road area.
County highways representative Dick Frazer said he was satisfied that the additional traffic could be accommodated at the school without causing any additional disruption.
The centre will be operated by Tynedale Virtual College which is a collaboration of Haydon Bridge, Prudhoe, Hexham and Ponteland high schools, Northumberland College, Dilston College and other work-based training providers.
The college would provide a variety of teaching facilities including an ICT room, art based areas, presentation spaces, TV and radio studios, control rooms and an incubator suite for use as small offices for starter businesses.
It was intended for 14-19 year olds doing a diploma course in creative and media skills.
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A Newington Elementary School second grader found a gun in their bookbag Thursday afternoon just before the end of school, according to school officials.
The child took the gun to the teacher and Summerville Police were called.
The child did not know the gun was in the book bag, according to Pat Raynor, DD2 PIO.
The gun, Raybor said, belonged to the childs parents.
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What do you think of Kyrie? I know about the religious meaning but I don't consider that a bad thing. I first came across this name ages ago when reading a short story about a girl called Exie who's sister was Kyrie. Here: What do you think of my writing? - Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers
I really like Kyrie and I think it makes a nice change to names like Kylie and Kaylie ect.
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Are you pronouncing it like Kyrie Eleison? I like the Catholic connection to it, but I would think that people would automatically assume you are Catholic or at least religious if you use the name. As a name, I think it's very cute (maybe too cute) and definitely usable, but I would definitely pair it with a more mature middle name.~inside this collegeberry's mind ~~(updated 7/30/15)
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August 19th, 2013 05:48 PM #7
Back in church (as a kid) we used to sing this song Kyrie and Christe Eleison and I actually loved the name Kyrie.
We pronounced it Kee-ree-ay... but our priest was Irish (not living in Ireland though).
My 14 year old self would have used the name so why not... It's spunky and cute, not too common but known.
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Adventures in capitalism and other musings about California
So tell me, why is capitalism so important that it should be neither regulated--nor simply overridden when dealing with an important utility like water, electricity or oil?
See this article about the latest financial scam where scammers prey upon gullible religious people (a favorite pastime of such scammers) and this article about a couple who have obviously leveraged their growing economic power to control what should be public water resources in much of central California.
My sense of my Hebraic brethren in the water business, the Resnicks, is that unlike the Ponzi schemers, they are legitimate and good business people who are creative and very savvy. Heck, I'd definitely like them on a personal level, especially with Lynda Resnick being a friend of Daniel Ellsberg (read her Wiki bio on the link!). Also, I could frankly care less about protecting a smaller competitor of theirs who is likely not as efficient as the Resnicks' businesses are. The larger question, and one which unfortunately would get me tagged as a commie, is why the State does not simply and completely take over the operation of water reservoirs and sell directly to the businesses that want to sell bottled water to the public or sell water to farmers to grow their crops. Late in the article there is a brief discussion of a local water board that was essentially controlled by a private interests who the Resnicks ran roughshod over through litigation (Mr. Resnick started life as a power lawyer at one or more elite law firms). One can bet the disgruntled smaller private owners were running roughshod over their workers in a myriad of ways through that association. If we simply had the State own and control the water, regulate the sale of water and ensured the people who haul the water and work the fields are paid a decent wage, we'd actually see more efficiency in the distribution of water.
To put it another way, the Resnicks were simply smarter than the hick business owners who themselves ran the place like a feudal kingdom in such benighted towns like Bakersfield and into central California. The cute analogy here is the Resnicks were like Napoleon blowing apart various royalty in different parts of Europe, who simply never dealt with someone who played the same power game much better than they did.
But the basic public policy question may be stated this way: Why is it so important for the Resnicks to be billionaires to have any efficiency in the water business?
For decades now, corporate media have promoted the idea of California as a place of liberals, Hollywood and the arts, high-tech business and generally modern living. But at best that defines slivers of the coastal region of metropolitan areas. In fact, the land mass of California is much larger than that and the culture and politics is much more diverse (even if Republicans tend to win gubernatorial positions, and little else). The eastern part of the State is more like Nebraska, in terms of fields of wheat, water, fruit and vegetables, and ironically even more feudalistic--which explains the more ugly sort of right wing politics that bubble out of this eastern portion of the State. The reality is there an economic underside of California with deeply exploited workers, wide disparities in wealth and status, and other feudalistic economic patterns that mostly ignorant politicians and more intelligent, but scheming corporate media owners dress up as "Main Street" capitalism.
See "Factories in the Fields," by Carey McWilliams (a book first published in 1939, but amazingly relevant even today), "The Great Thirst: Californians and Water: A History" by Norris Hundley, Jr., "The King of California" (about a powerful businessman who controlled the CA cotton industry) by Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman, and "Strawberry Fields: Politics, Class & Work in California" by Miriam J. Wells, just for starters. A Nader funded book from decades ago, "The Politics of Land," (1973) led by now University of San Diego Law Professor Robert C. Fellmeth, provided an update and overview of the feudalism posing as merchant capitalism in California.
Overall, if California were to have a constitutional convention, a smart, creative and knowledgeable person might connect the dots in terms of wealth and power in the Staete, and translate it into structural reforms that produced more revenue and promoted economic equality that also led to economic growth (putting money in people's hands leads them to spend after all). But of course, that is a pipe dream...and (snickering starts here) Meg Whitman, who knows nothing about this structural history of the State (and could not be bothered with voting as opposed to buying politicians while at EBay) will surely lead us with her plans of capital gains tax cuts, selling off more state owned land for one time payoffs, and of course cutting "waste" in government, as if that last set of cuts buys any more than 5% at best.
Can Jerry Brown save us? Maybe. At least he knows what I am talking about here...particularly in his establishment of the Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) of 1975, which proceeded to get gutted with agribusiness appointees in succeeding Republican administrations in the State, but still improved the lives of agricultural workers from before 1975.
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Sheffield has an interesting history of high rise living which stretches back quite a long way. In this selection I intend to present the remaining tower blocks and apartments which remain from the 20th century. Unfortunately there are only a small number left on the ground today.
I like to call these tower blocks Sheffield's Twin Towers. Because like the famous, destroyed Minoru Yamasaki 110 floor, New York World trade centre towers these much smaller 13 storey residential tower over their host city with an iconic brooding presence.
Apparently, when there were three towers up there, many locals called them "the three sisters". The third one was demolished in 1995 and 1996, it was distinctive in that it had a large blue water tank on top.
Now interestingly, these towers were designed and built in 1959 and it was the first attempt at a post war tower block in the city. Just 14 years after the conclusion of world war II, 5 years after the end of rationing and the country was still in recovery. No local construction company at that time had the confidence to take on the project of building these ( originally three towers ) because they were so enormously high for the region, and thus a company based in London undertook the project. However local companies were keeping a close eye on the site and the main local construction companies were soon to take on similar projects across the city.
By 1998 these blocks were refurbished and clad in the colourful cladding you see here. The balconies were enclosed with windows at this time to provide extra living space. The blocks appear to have had similar treatment as the blocks at upperthorpe, which were wrapped in rockwool provided by Sheffield Insulations, and clad with an external Aluminium rain proof cassette system.
This system of flats, which originally looked identical to the callow mount 1 bedroom flats, had poor insulation properties and were designed in an era of cheap fuel. Hence residents in the 1990s found it hard to keep warm, suffered with expensive fuel bills and problems like damp which often led to health problems. The council had to either demolish or improve blocks like this otherwise housing problems would get worse.
Apart from the general insulation problems, a design fault was apparent in blocks of this style, called "Cold Bridging". Each floor sat on a large cast concrete floor slab which was exposed all the way around the building conducting the heat out of each apartment and into the sky like a heat sink. The concrete slabs had to be insulated on the outside to solve this. To read more about this style of refurbishment follow this link.
The original third tower was located to the west of Queen Anne Court at the end of Raeburn Place. Research shows that it was named 200-294 Raeburn Place. I'm not sure if this indicates that the other towers had similar Raeburn Place titles as their original names which were changed later during the refurbishment in the 1990s or that for some reason they couldn't think of another queen's name at the time of building in 1959. The position of this lost tower is just a square of hardstanding at the blank end of Raeburn Place now.
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I can't remember the original names of the blocks, but they were definitely renamed when refurbished. I lived in the demolished block. I think the original names might have been Morland, Leighton and Raeburn.
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Happy hippy is correct about the names of the three blocks at herdings, and you are correct that the addresses were all Raeburn Place(if my memory serves me well). I can't remember which way round it was but 2 blocks were even- and one block was odd-numbered, or vice versa. the architecture of these flats, before the refurb to "st Elizabeth court" was identical to the one bedroomed flats at Callow. the three blocks were one-bedroomed flats only.


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Talking About Jewish Women and Comics
Last week I went to New York City for a few days. In between eating (Stinky Brooklyn, Shelsky's Smoked Fish, Eataly — oy vey!) and visiting my lovely American family, I managed to get to this great symposium where I'd been invited to talk about Tangles: Talking About Jewish Women and Comics. What a thrill to see Diane Noomin and Miriam Katin in person and hear them talk about their work! Not to mention the Graphic Details exhibit that was the basis for the symposium — original artwork by Noomin, Katin, Trina Robbins, Aline Kominsky Crumb, Corinne Pearlman and more… sigh. Felt like a fan girl — albeit one with grey hair creeping in and smoked fish breath.
These are some drawings I did of the speakers — Noomin, Katin and unnamed academics.
In conversation with Nicola Streeten at Orbital Comics: podcast with pictures
My last event in England was a conversation with Nicola Streeten at Orbital Comics in the West End… The store is awesome, especially the side room full of small press comics and graphic novels where we did our presentation. Thanks to the lovely Camila at Orbital for posting a podcast that includes our slideshow! Watch it below or download the podcast and open it with iTunes or QuickTime to see the accompanying images. Thanks to Paul Gravett, Corinne Pearlman and Camila for making the event happen. And thanks to Donimo, my saviour, for procuring enough cold medication to enable me to hold myself upright and be semi-coherent. (In case you wonder while you're listening to the podcast, I'm not crying, just congested.)
As I've mentioned earlier, Nicola wrote/drew Billy, Me & You, and is also co-creator of Laydeez do Comics. So amazing that I got to meet her and talk to her! And even make fun of her silly version of a Canadian accent. Long live traumatic autobiographical comics by Laydeez!
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Aargh, I am so bad at keeping a regular blog. I mean, not that it has ever been my intention to blog daily or weekly or anything, but this is a bit ridiculous. ALSO, there are things I want to tell you. So here it is, how I spent my summer vacation, part 2 of 3.
After that amazing Graphic Medicine conference in Chicago (that was summer vacation part 1), I came home for a little bit and then went to Toronto, Kingston and Montreal…
In Toronto, Julie Wilson hosted a conversation with me and Andrew Westoll at Ben McNally Books called "You Think You Know Me But You Have No Idea." Andrew and I read from our work and talked about what it's like to publish memoir, how the portrayal of yourself in your book is different from the Real You. The title of the event sounds a bit hostile, but really it didn't turn out that way. Check out reports on the panel from Canadian Bookshelf and The Toronto Quarterly. Highlights of the evening included meeting the incredible Julie Wilson in person for the first time, and my agent Samantha Haywood, too! (Get a sense of Sam's passion for publishing in this great interview on Open Book Toronto.) Andrew Westoll and I have written very different books but we think along the same lines when it comes to shaping narrative from life experience.
In Kingston, the wonderful essayist and lovely friend Susan Olding and I did a version of the same event at the tiny Novel Idea Bookstore, and managed to cram an attentive (and patient) audience into the narrow spaces between immovable bookshelves and we stacked books and small tables creatively to make a perfect stand for the projector. I love doing readings in little bookstores where you have to figure out how to make everything work with the space you have — there is always someone in the crowd with good spatial sense and/or expertise with projectors and the experience of setting everything up together creates a sweet atmosphere for reading and talking and answering questions. Highlights included seeing the wonderful art and writing that Susan's young daughter Maia has been creating, and being in the city where Alias Grace was set. I just read Alias Grace this spring and am somewhat haunted by Grace Marks and her murdering ways.
Last but not least, I took the train to Montreal (broken air conditioning on the train + worst day of heat wave = completely hideous arrival in the most aggressively stylish city in Canada, but oh well). There I did a reading at the Yellow Door Coffeehouse with a small but extremely smart audience who asked great questions and took me out for Ethiopian food. I lived in Montreal in the late 80s and early 90s. Things are different but that electric, crackling energy that I remember is the same (that energy that made me think the people in Vancouver were in a coma or something when I first moved here). My favourite night included walking by a park where Judas Priest videos were playing on a large screen, continuing on through the dancing crowds of the Nuits d'Afrique festival, and then running back to my hotel through a wild thunderstorm.
You can read a bit about my reading on the wonderful blog, She Reads and Reads, and I had a coffee in Old Montreal with Ian McGillis, who wrote a lovely review of Tangles back in December. You can read his interview with me on the Montreal Gazette blog. I also met up with my dad in Montreal!
We went to the D&Q bookstore! And found Tangles on the shelf! I bought Ivan Brunetti's Cartooning and Hilary Chute's Graphic Women and a bunch of mini-comics from the awesome Life and Times of Butch Dykes series. And more! Until I regained a semblance of self-control and frugality.
Oh, were you wondering what my cute dad looks like? Well here he is!
More Tangles love in the Montreal Gazette
Thanks to Ian McGillis for the promo for my Montreal reading this coming Thursday at The Yellow Door Coffeehouse, 3625 Aylmer, on Thursday, July 21 at 6pm. Admission is free….
Ian wrote a great review of Tangles in December, as he notes below. Sometimes it's difficult for me to put as much stock in words like this as I do in rejection letters that say I can't draw, but oh well.
The first work of Canadian graphic literature to be short-listed for a major mainstream prize (the Writer's Trust of Canada Non-fiction Prize), Tangles is exactly what its subtitle says it is. I reviewed it in The Gazette last winter. (Here's a link.) The review was a rave and I stand by every word; if anything the book has grown in my estimation, rooting itself in my memory where many books I've read in the interim are already gone. Its greatest strength is its tacit acknowledgement that subject like Alzheimer's, if it's going to be tackled at all, is best dealt with head-on. Leavitt spares nothing of her mother's suffering, nor of her own complicated response and handling of it, and in so doing does all who have been and will be involved in such struggles a great service. It's not hard to imagine that things could get emotional at a reading from such a book, so bring a few tissues.
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Whirlwind tour coming up! Excited!
- July 19: You Think You Know Me, But You Have No Idea, with Andrew Westoll, Stacey May Fowles and Julie Wilson, Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay Street, Toronto
- July 20: You Think You Know Me, But You Have No Idea (Take Two), with Susan Olding, 6 pm at Novel Idea, 156 Princess Street, Kingston
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