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replacing a guitar neck
Hey all :)
I have a JS100 which I like but it has has 22 frets, and I really don't like that part. Is it practical to replace the neck with a 24 fret one? What things do I need to be aware of?
Pretty sure you can't just slap a 24 fret neck on. It changes the scale length of the guitar and the intonation will not be right.
It needn't change the scale length, as the first 22 frets could be exactly the same.
If anything, the issue would be the location of the neck pickup rout, and the fretboard(not the neck) would be longer.
Reminds me of this thread.
Yea, I just reread what I wrote.
What I meant was the scale length and number of frets aren't related in a "more frets = longer scale length" way. You can fit 24 frets into a 25" scale just as easily as 22 or 21, only some 24 fret bodies have the neck pickup moved closer to the bridge, so that the last frets don;t overhang the cavity.
I didn't mean to imply that more frets = longer scale length. I was thinking the 24th would be where the 22nd was thus lengthening the fretboard. Does a 24 fret neck always have the 23rd and 24th frets overhanging onto the body? I will be the first to admit I'm no expert when it comes to the actual building of guitars.
No. Set neck and neck-through guitars don't.
Looking at the JS100, it almost look like you could fit a 24 fret neck on it if you were to cut away part of the humbucker ring and chisel out that piece of wood between the neck and pickup. But even then it'd be pretty close, and you'd probably have to cut the neck down or remove the pickup.
It's not a particularly nice or expensive guitar. Just sell it and buy and RG, or trade for one.
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Ever wondered to yourself, "WTF is Modernist cuisine?" Here's our answer. If you're curious to learn more about the history of the movement, the reason that Modernist chefs don't like the term "molecular gastronomy" or the difference between Modernist cuisine and Nouvelle cuisine, there's no better resource than volume 1 of Modernist Cuisine.
Modernist Cuisine introduced the idea of a "constructed cream" – a cream-like sauce that has never passed through a teat [if you're into vivid imagery]. Dairy creams, including milk, are actually emulsions. Milk, for example, is composed of tiny droplets of fat suspended in water and stabilized by a protein called casein. So, if milk and cream are emulsions of fat and water, why not emulsify together any arbitrary fat and water to produce a sauce with the thickness and mouthfeel of cream? Boom: constructed creams are born.
That one insight has incredible repercussions, and the Modernist Cuisine at Home recipe for Home Jus Gras is a great example. In a traditional gravy, you start with very flavorful roasting juices or pan drippings. The problem is that pan drippings are quite thin, so we typically thicken them by adding flour or cornstarch. This approach has "compromise" written all over it: starches are flavor inhibitors. The Modernist Cuisine approach is to combine those roasting juices with flavorful liquid fat instead, and to swap flour and cornstarch for xanthan gum, which can be used in extremely small quantities and doesn't dull the flavor of the finished sauce.
The full recipe – which is amazing! – is in Modernist Cuisine at Home. However, if you're short on time, we've developed an even simpler version using store-bough fat and stock. This Simplified Jus Gras recipe is in the Modernist Cuisine recipe library. I hope that this recipe is also a jumping-off point for you to experiment with your own flavors. Last year, I used this technique with rendered fat from a pre-Christmas goose and some spiced apple cider to produce a grain-free gravy that jived with my wife's dietary restrictions. But, there's no reason you couldn't use bacon grease and whiskey, if you were so-inclined.
For the rest of the MDRN KTCHN series, check out CHOW.com.
I've always been fascinated by puffed foods. Maybe it's because our brains are hardwired to enjoy crunchy snacks… maybe it's because Snap, Crackle and Pop were sending subliminal messages when I was a kid. In this video, I explain the science of puffing and show you a simple one you can make at home: puffed rice crisps.
Before Modernist Cuisine, and certainly before Modernist Cuisine at Home, I thought pressure cookers were antiquated, holdover kitchen appliances, like manual egg beaters or the electric hot dog cooker. But, after my first taste of caramelized carrot soup, I was an instant believer. In this video for MDRN KTCHN, I explain how pressure cookers do their magic, and why you no longer need to be afraid of one exploding in your face.
Just need the basics of sous vide? This video, the second in the MDRN KTCHN series, breaks down the basics. My go-to sous vide machine these days is the PolyScience Sous Vide Professional CREATIVE series, but if you'd prefer to save a little money and don't mind the elbow grease, join the 1,000+ folks who have built their own sous vide machines from my $75 DIY instructions.
I know things have been a little quiet on SeattleFoodGeek.com for a while, but that's only because I've been working so hard to prepare some great tips for the launch of Modernist Cuisine at Home. Here's a video tip from the book that I did for CHOW.com: how to carbonate fruit with a whipping siphon.
If you've never had carbonated fruit, it's a very cool experience. If you have kids, this is a great recipe that they can make with you, and it's a very clever way to get them to devour a siphon full of fruit.
Update: Andris Lagsdin, fan of Modernist Cuisine and steel expert has just launched a Kickstarter for Baking Steel, a low-cost slab of pre-cut steel for baking pizzas and breads in just the way I describe below! I've tested one of his prototype units and it performs like a champ – even with a single Baking Steel (no double-decker) I was able to produce fantastic, wood-fired-oven-like results on my grill! I highly recommend this Kickstarter for anyone looking to make pizza or breads at home.
The guys from Tested.com came to Seattle, so I shared with them one of the projects that's been on my mind lately: making perfect pizzas at home. In a previous post, I discussed my approach to making great pizza dough. But, dough is only one half of the equation. Without a good oven, the best dough in the world still won't produce quality pizza.
Now, let me first say that there are people who devote their entire lives to pizza ovens – to building them, to studying them, and to understanding how they work. I am not one of those people, and, although I still have a blank space in my yard that I one day hope to fill with an actual pizza oven, my goal here was to produce the best pizzas possible using my CharBroil infrared grill as a starting point. But if you want to send me a pizza oven, I'll test the shit out of it.
There are two keys to hacking a grill into an effective pizza oven: getting it really goddamned hot, and holding the heat. Getting a grill hot is not so much of a challenge – add enough charcoal and let it burn for long enough, and you'll have quite an inferno. Add more airflow or additional oxygen, and your fire will burn hotter and faster. But, retaining that high heat when you open the lid or add cold food… well, that requires mass.
Physics Interlude!
Mass, like a pizza stone, or the thick floor of a pizza oven, or in this case, 25-lb steel plates, act like a heat battery, storing up heat energy. I was first turned on to the idea of using steel instead of ceramic brick by Modernist Cuisine, who recommend the technique not only for grills but for household ovens as well. So, why are steel plates better than a pizza stone? A few reasons:
- Steel is much denser than ceramic materials. A typical pizza stone has a a density of 0.0625 lbs. per cubic inch. The steel plates I'm using have a density of 0.329 lbs. per cubic inch – about 5 times as dense. That means that for the same volume of material, I can store much more energy in steel than brick.
- Steel has a much lower specific heat than brick. This means that it takes less energy to heat a steel block than a brick of equal mass. So, the steel will heat up faster in the oven.
- Steel has a much higher thermal conductivity than brick. Thermal conductivity measures how quickly heat moves through a material, or between materials via conduction. This means that the heat can move from the steel plate to the pizza crust faster than it could if I were using a ceramic material.
All of these factors are summed up in one convenient measure, known as thermal diffusivity. And, it turns out that the thermal diffusivity of 304 steel (the grade I'm using) is about ten times greater than the thermal diffusivity of brick. [I don't have precise numbers for the ceramic composition of pizza stones specifically, but it will be similar in magnitude. Some types of steel, like high-carbon steel, have more than 20 times the thermal diffusivity of brick.]
Do ceramic pizza stones produce good-looking, great tasting pizzas? Yes, absolutely. But according to physics, they necessarily do so more slowly than steel. One of my pizza criteria is a crunchy crust that will support its own weight when held from one end. I've found great success in achieving this texture with a steel cooking surface. The other advantage to steel, of course, is that it will last nearly forever. I don't have to worry about dropping and shattering it, I can use it as a griddle and scrape it clean, and if I need to build an impromptu blast shield, I'm all set.
To hack your grill into a worthy pizza oven, here's what you'll need:
- A grill, preferably one that runs on natural gas, or propane, but has a place to load in charcoal
- Two 1/4" 304 stainless steel plates [either purchased in pre-cut size, or custom cut to fit 2/3 of your grill area]
- 4 5-inch stainless steel pipe nipples, or any other 5" length of stainless to act as a stand for the top plate
- BBQ grill fan, or an electric bellows, or a hair dryer and about 18" of metal tubing to fit
- An aluminum pizza peel
To assemble your pizza oven:
- Place one of the stainless plates in a corner of your grill.
- Place two of the stainless steel pipe segments on the two far corners of the plate. Place the other two pipe segments on opposite edges of the plate, about 1/3 of the way back. These pipe segments will hold up the top plate. By pushing them back from the front corners, you allow yourself a little more room to negotiate the pizza with the peel.
- Place the top plate on top of the pipe segments. It should sit firmly – you sure don't want it crashing down on you during cooking.
- Install your BBQ grill fan or bellows on the opposite side of the grill, above the open grilling area not covered by the steel.
- If your grill has a charcoal tray or basin on the open side, fill it with charcoal. If not, place the charcoal in a roasting pan or metal dish on that side of the grill. Ignite the charcoal, turn on all of the burners and close the lid. Allow the grill 45-60 minutes to preheat thoroughly.
- A few minutes before cooking, start your grill fan or bellows. This will boost the internal temperature of the grill and even out hot and cold spots. A cooking temperature between 800°F and 900°F is ideal.
- Just before cooking, turn the burners below your steel plate down to 75% power. This will help prevent the bottom crust from burning before the top crust is fully cooked. However, I've found that the first pizza of the day is usually somewhat sacrificial
- Slide your pizza onto the bottom steel plate and cook, turning once, for 2-3 minutes or until the cheese is melted and the top crust is golden brown. Keep the grill lid closed as much as possible during cooking to maintain the high temperature.
- Enjoy extraordinary pizza made at home!
I hope you enjoy the pleasure of homemade pizza as much as I have. I've probably made 50 or so pizzas this summer, and there is nothing quite as satisfying than pulling a perfect pizza out of the grill and serving it to friends. If you don't (or can't) have a grill, this technique works pretty well in a home oven, too. Place one steel plate on the bottom floor of your oven to act as a heat battery. Set the other on the top rack. Preheat your oven for an hour on its highest temperature setting. You'll need to add a minute or two to the baking time, but the results will be worth it!
The video above is not camera magic – I actually poured a bottle of water into a room-temperature glass and watched it instantly turn into ice. I stumbled upon this phenomenon when I was experimenting with the optimal temperature at which to serve Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. Long ago, I modified the freezer in my basement to maintain precise temperature control using a PID controller. Over the past few weeks, I've been sampling cans of PBR at different temperatures. Incidentally, I have concluded that PBR is best served right around –8.5C. At that temperature, the beer is still liquid, but has a small amount of ice crystal formation (which is just delightful). I just happened to have some small bottles of Arrowhead water in the freezer and I noticed that a few of the bottles remained liquid while others were already frozen solid. I wondered if these bottles might be supercooled: chilled beyond their freezing point but not yet frozen because the ice didn't have a nucleation point from which to form. Turns out, they were.
And I have video proof.
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This turned out to be one of the more dangerous machines I've ever built. The goal was to make a cotton candy machine out of parts I had lying around. The finished product was an aggressive, 1/2 horsepower, 4000°F beast of a machine that lasted long enough to prove itself before dying of awesomeness.
If you want to build a cotton candy machine at home, all you need is:
- A tin can, like a tuna or dog food can
- A drill with a very small drill bit
- A motor (ex, your drill, an old CD player, a blender)
- A heat source, such as a propane torch, a lighter, or the coils from an old toaster
- A bucket to catch the cotton candy, or alternately a sheet of paper to wrap around the assembly
- Sugar
Follow the steps in the video to see just how easy this machine is to build. Oh, and don't forget… safety first. My favorite part of this project was setting up a blast shield in front of the camera before we turned on the machine.
Special thanks to Victor (@sphing) for filming!
Making your own butter is simple and rewarding – nothing tastes quite as good as homemade. Just put heavy cream in your blender or food processor for about 10 minutes, or until the butterfat separates from the buttermilk (mine took a little less than 10 minutes). Once you're there, you've got fresh unsalted butter. But why on earth would you stop now? Jazz it up with thyme, sage, honey, cayenne pepper, or, as the video shows, add some chopped porcini mushrooms and black truffle salt.
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This whole alcoholic energy drink thing is like the story that will not die. Following the Washington State ban, the New York State ban, the other state bans, the call for a national ban, and the FDA declaring Four Loko and other "energy beers" a "public health concern" (kind of like herpes or the McRib), we now have yet still more news about both the under and over-reaching of this hysterical reaction to a few (super) drunk morons abusing a (formerly) legal product.
First, over on the Daily Weekly, we learned about a new way for impressionable youngsters and amateur drinkers to get themselves fucked up without "hey, buddy"-ing their way into a case of MGD. Whipped Lightning is already being dubbed "the new Four Loko" because it is (wait for it...) canned whipped cream with 18 percent alcohol by volume.
"Companies like Whipped Lightning and Cream make several delicious flavors of boozy whipped goodness that have apparently topped the jello shots and baked goods of college kids in Florida," wrote Curtis Cartier on the Daily Weekly "At the center of the controversy is the products' alleged huge alcohol content (18 percent, making one can equal to about three beers). But anyone who puts away an entire can of whipped cream in one sitting--alcoholic or otherwise--likely needs to worry more about indigestion and weight gain than drunkenness."
None of these alcoholic whipped creams are available in Washington State yet (thanks mostly to the miles of Liquor Control Board red tape any alcoholic product needs to cut through before making it to the shelves here), but they're out there, just waiting to corrupt the sorority girls of America with their creamy, boozy deliciousness.
And to think, doing whip-its off those cans of Reddi Wip used to be enough for kids. How times have changed...
More recently, the New York Times has been reporting that the FDA ban on mixing caffeine and beer also looks like it might take down at least one product that no one was talking any smack about: namely Moonshot '69.
Moonshot is a craft beer, made by New Century Brewing (a company owned by Rhonda Kallman, one of the founders of the Boston Beer Company, the company that makes Samuel Adams), and distributed in just a few states. But Moonshot also has some caffeine in it (about as much as a can of Coke), and so got a letter from the FDA saying that she would have to fundamentally change the composition of her beer or face having to pull it from shelves just like the makers of Four Loko have had to do.
As a matter of fact, there are a lot of brewers out there who are getting a little skittish over the whole caffeine-and-alcohol thing right now--enough that the Brewer's Association has decided to petition the government to clarify its rules on mixing barley pop and wakey-juice. According to realbeer.com, the petition "seeks to disallow synthetic and pure caffeine additions to alcohol beverages, but allow incidental caffeine from ingredients that have a long tradition in brewing, such as coffee, chocolate and tea. The petition seeks to clarify that coffee, chocolate, herbs, spices, seeds and fruit are ingredients that should remain available to brewers to make beers for responsible enjoyment by beer drinkers."
So now I guess we'll all have that fight to look forward to as well.


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Skip to comments.GOP Makes 'Top Priority' Of Converting Black Voters
Posted on 12/25/2003 7:13:17 PM PST by Carthago delenda est
It was a historic moment for the Grand Old Party: At the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, black conservatives took center stage, delivered speeches in prime time, raised their voices in a gospel choir and locked hands with the white men who, by an overwhelming majority, run the party.
By the end of the convention, the future national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, and secretary of state, Colin L. Powell, had emerged as black conservative stars, and a concerted effort by Republicans "to invent new black leaders" -- as former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) once put it -- was well underway.
Now, as the 2004 presidential election unfolds, Republicans want to convert that focus on black appointees into black votes. Their goal, they say, is to win 25 percent of the black vote, which the party has not come close to doing in nearly 30 years.
"If we get African American votes, [the Democrats] are in deep trouble," Gingrich said in a recent interview. In presidential elections, roughly nine of every 10 black votes are cast for Democrats.
To win hearts and minds, the GOP is planning a campaign featuring television and radio ads touting President Bush's reaching out to the African American community and elements of the Republican message that appeal to a wide swath of black voters, such as support for school vouchers.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The dry runs so far have been promising. When Republicans run real ads in black districts - not the spineless kind that say "We're not so bad," but the ones that actually ask for votes - polls indicate that the GOP vote goes up by about three percent. That may not sound like much, but there's also an additional effect: lots of Democratic black voters stay home. That's because they haven't been pilloried with "Republicans are Ku Klux Klansmen"-type attacks; every minute that a Democrat is forced to respond to actual issues is one less minute he can spend calling Republicans jackbooted thugs who want to kick in the teeth of poor black children and haul their parents off to jail.
The bottom line is that Democrats win minority votes through fear - it's all they have. Take that away, and they have to respond to actual arguments. All of a sudden, their usual hypocritical malarkey doesn't work anymore. It's time the Pubbies start acting like the majority they are.
Colin Powell isn't conservative.
I'd truly enjoy it if blacks were encouraged and join based on conservative principles. Regardless, I'll believe it when I see it.
Converting? What does that mean, change them to white voters?
Fear, on the one hand, and logic, on the other.
Personally, I think it'd be more accurate to say that black folks, in general (and those that actually vote, in particular) tend to be quite conservative on the social and ethical/religious yardsticks (check poll numbers on gay rights, for instance, or the correlation of church membership to voter registration) but if you're going to talk about anything that involves economics, "affirmative action", "driving while black", or any of the other hot buttons perceived to be "race card" triggers by most Republican conservatives, there's still a pretty big gulf between what's 'inbounds', and what remains 'out of bounds'...
Plus, there are the real estate considerations, with demographics still being mostly "urban", on the one hand, and "suburban/rural", on the other. With all of the territorial conflicts and just plain mutual ignorance that all of that suggests.
Oh! I see, even farther left.. more socialist platform.... even more federal giveaways... CHECK!...
In today's world all this means is that they are going to act even MORE like democrats.
Keyes or Thomas?
Pandering just dilutes our values and credibility. Let the Dems pander. Their pandering is so obvious that I am not certain why anyone who is educated past the 6th grade would vote for them, but nonetheless, it still happens, and because the people with the most credibility in the black community say "vote Democrat," and the majority of blacks follow that advice. But sooner or later, the facts will become obvious to them, as it did to us 20-30 years ago. And it took the white community years before it dumped the Dems in 1994. Whites cannot persuade blacks to vote GOP. You'll just have to wait for they themselves to conclude that the Republicans are the best way to go. Any effort to speed that up will fail. At this point, the best thing a person like you or I can do is to pray for them, and meanwhile keep the GOP as conservative as we can. Seriously, outside of that, you will only delay that desired outcome by your efforts. I hate it too, but sometimes waiting patiently is the best, and non counter-productive thing, that can be done.....
If anyone has any plans, other than the one this post is based on, to reach out to blacks and convince them that the GOP is the best choice, I'm all ears, but the ones I heard over my 20+ years of political study have not born fruit.....
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Charter change: Should city clerk, municipal judge be appointed?
NATCHEZ — When Natchez voters head to the polls in 2016, they might be voting on two fewer positions.
The Natchez Board of Aldermen moved last week to revise the city charter so that the city clerk and the municipal judge would no longer be elected positions but would instead be appointed by the aldermen.
The motion, made by Alderman Dan Dillard, was initially only to consider the city clerk's position, but it was later amended by Alderman Ricky Gray to include the municipal judge as well.
Dillard said after the meeting that he had not gone in with the intention of making the motion that day, but that the idea had been discussed before. After seeing financial statements that were unclear — following months of similar statements — Dillard said he felt prompted to move forward with the motion.
City Clerk Donnie Holloway later issued his own endorsement of the idea, saying he had already decided that he would not run for the office again and that the complexities of the job required someone with significant qualifications.
Natchez is one of the few holdout cities in Mississippi that still has an elected clerk, Holloway said.
"I was recently speaking with a clerk friend of mine who was elected, and he said he was also considering making a similar announcement and recommendation to his city," he said.
Holloway declined to specify which city his friend worked for, saying he did so out of respect for his friend's privacy.
Gray could not be reached last week for comment about why he wanted to include the municipal judge in the change with the city charter. Alderwoman Joyce Arceneaux-Mathis, who seconded Gray's amendment, said she did so in part to get the discussion on the floor.
The amendment was not discussed in the meeting but passed without opposition.
Dillard and Fortenbery said they did not have an opinion about the judge's position at this time but voted for the measure because they wanted the change to the clerk's position to pass. Alderman Tony Fields said he had likewise done more research on appointing the clerk's position than the judge, while Alderwoman Sarah Smith said at this point she likes the idea of being efficient with amendments to the charter.
"Looking at the research, it says that the same trend (of making positions appointed) is taking place for judges, so when you are doing something so complex as amending the city charter, you might as well look at all the issues," Smith said.
"As you are doing the process to look at both positions, you might as well do it that way and hear what the citizens have to say."
Mathis said she feels appointing the judge's position will help smooth some issues the aldermen have had with the court in recent months.
"One of the things that was a concern was the little bit of communication between the two departments, especially as we were developing the environmental court earlier this year," Mathis said. "You can't request something of another elected official — I think the people have been a little leery about the communication between the two departments."
But while Holloway has officially endorsed the idea of making his position an appointed one, Municipal Judge Jim Blough is less enthusiastic about the idea.
In an open letter to the residents of Natchez, the mayor and the board of aldermen, Blough said the aldermen apparently felt amending the city charter was too cumbersome when establishing the city's environmental court earlier this year.
Blough asked if the move to change the charter was instead a response to the judge telling the other officials that some things they wanted to do — including the establishment of the environmental court or adding elected officials' names to the municipal court's general fund checking account — were not legal.
Blough also cited in his letter instances of elected officials claiming to void a traffic ticket or having city employees draft communication saying they had taken care of a ticket as things he had told "elected officials" they could not do.
"Most of the Mississippi municipal judges are appointed by their municipal governing boards, not the mayor," Blough wrote. "Most of these appointed judges will also tell you that (the) power of appointment is their only job security. That makes it difficult for them if a mayor or a board member just calls to ask about their son's possession charge or Aunt Betty's speeding ticket.
"For these and other reasons, the separation of powers is an important element of our local, state and national government. An independent judiciary, elected or appointed, is an important part of that formula. My telling other officials, 'No,' may make others assume that I am being difficult or that I lack their vision for the City of Natchez. I do not see it that way."
Fields said that while some may see an appointed judge or clerk as being less accountable to the people, he doesn't see it that way.
"That puts even more accountability on the mayor and the board of aldermen," he said. "Me as one alderman, that is not something I am going to run away from. I believe that is more accountability on us to do what is right by the taxpayers."
Smith expressed similar sentiments, and said this is why she thinks it is time for the public to examine the issue. Residents have an option to take a change to the city charter to a referendum, she said.
"Ultimately, we have to answer to the voters," Smith said.
After the amendment to the charter is drafted, it will be sent first to the governor's office and then to the attorney general's office for vetting before the city can adopt it.
If 10 percent of voters file a petition asking that the change go to a vote before its effective date, a special election to determine if the change can go into effect will be mandated.
City Attorney Hyde Carby said the process of making the change will likely be years in the making, and that he is examining how other special charter cities have handled the process.
"It is not like I draft it up, we advertise it for 10 days and it is official," he said. "The reason it is such a cumbersome process is that we are changing the structure of our government, and so we need to be deliberate so everybody understands what happens. You shouldn't be able to abruptly change the form of your government, and our local government has been operating this way for some time and — not that this is some seismic shift — it is good that takes more than filling out a form on the Internet, that a lot of eyes have to look at (the change) before it can be done."
Carby said that regardless of if the change is ultimately passed, it can't take effect until after the current term for clerk and judge end in 2016.


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See the wicker? The flannel pillow? The rocker? Vaguely America indie acts want nothing more than to give the appearance that their music is the product of a bunch of friends who live in a commune in the woods, foraging for food during the day, and hunkering down around the fire at night, plucking guitars with fingers that stick with sap and are callused from the day's wood chopping. In reality, the record was probably made between stops at H&M and Urban Outfitters and the occasional visit to Linda's.
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If you appreciate theater it is likely that you also appreciate that the actors have to work hard at every performance. It is a beautiful thing, but it is also a lot of repetitive work and that is exactly the problem with dynamic languages in general.
How so? Every execution (performance) requires that a lot of work is done by the language runtime (showtime) environment. Most of the time this is repetitive work, mindlessly repeated every time you run your code.
Compare this with the stark contrast of cinema (compiled code) – there is no showtime hustle, the movie is already shot, cut, edited and packaged for delivery. No energy is wasted.
You might ask me how significant is this waste I am talking about and the truth is that most of the time it is negligible but like everything in life, the devil is in the details.
Hypothetically, let us say that at each execution a dynamic program wastes a mere 10,000 CPU cycles doing "preventable runtime busy-work". That figure is utterly insignificant if you are looking at the trees only, but as you step back to look at the forest your perspective might change.
Imagine this same piece of code running on a few hundred-thousand computers around the world and being executed a few thousand times a day on each. Now multiply this by each program of each dynamic language in existence and you might conclude that dynamic languages are not very good for our planet because computing demands energy and energy demands natural resources.
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Some might argue that dynamic languages are able to offset their "global footprint" by being more productive. Unfortunately, I beg to differ.
Unless you are simply writing throwaway (or generally short-lived) code, the odds are that whatever you are building will remain in play for years to come. This brings two new variables into the equation, one is maintenance costs and the other is failure costs. I am going to argue that compiled languages do a better job at minimizing those costs in the long run due to the increased reliability they offer.
First, we need to define what "productive" means in a quantifiable way because there is no room for fuzzy subjective opinions in computer science.
I believe that the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of a software solution is the ideal metric of productivity. A language that can deliver a piece of software with a lower lifetime TCO should be considered more productive simply because more was produced for less.
TCO encompasses everything from time-to-market risk, development costs, maintenance costs, failure-rate costs as well as any other overhead incurred.
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"But compiled languages are too hard!"
The place for dynamic languages
With all that being said, I must disclose that I often use dynamic languages in my research when it makes sense, mostly for throwaway code or prototyping. In fact, one of my favorite tools (MATLAB) is centered around a particularly terrible dynamic language. What I am against is using dynamic languages for the development of code intended for production environments. That is all.
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These are not pearls: A photo by Francesco Majo, winner of the Grand Prize of ICPF 2013. - FIPC 2013 - Francesco Majo
Grand Prize goes to Francesco Majo for ingredients as jewellery.
AT the closing ceremony of the International Culinary Photography Festival (Festival international de la photographie culinaire) on Nov 28 in Paris, awards were distributed among the 34 professional photographers in the official competition. The theme of the event this year was "Luxury and Celebration".
Throughout the festival, the competitors' photographs were exhibited in various venues in Paris, including galleries, hotels and restaurants.
The prestigious Grand Prize went to photographer Francesco Majo for his trio of photographs showing simple ingredients transformed into jewellery, drawing attention to "the destruction of the planet's food chain", according to the comments accompanying his work.
For the Young Talent Award, photography students from the Institut des Gobelins paired up with chefs in training at Ferrandi, the culinary arts school, to present joint entries. The winning duo, Esteban Wautier and Clémence Le Rouzic, presented a photograph of a female bust made of edible ingredients.
Dorian Nieto, author of the blog Dorian Cuisine, received the Blogger and Amateur Chef Prize with an entry on the theme of foie gras.
The Public Prize, awarded based on online votes cast by the general public, went to Karyne Gagné for her photographs of children enjoying a cupcake party.
To celebrate the 5th anniversary of the festival, organisers invited five prestigious patrons to award the Patrons Grand Prize. Guy Savoy, Alain Passard, Thierry Marx, Pierre Gagnaire and Frédéric Anton chose to give the award to Patrick Rougereau for his unusual photographs combining the imagery of makeup and gastronomy.
Winners of the 2013 International Culinary Photography Festival:
> Grand Prize of ICPF 2013: Francesco Majo
> Grand Prize for Culinary Heritage Photography: Thomas Dhellemmes
> Grand Prize for Food Photography: Roseline Bigi
> Grand Prize for Food Tourism Photography: Hubert Taillard
> Young Talent Award: Esteban Wautier (Gobelins, School of Visual Communication) and Clémence Le Rouzic (Ferrandi, French School of Culinary Arts)
> Blogger and Amateur Chef Prize: Dorian Nieto
> Public Prize: Karyne Gagné
> Nicolas Feuillatte Champagne/ICPF Prize: Laurent Rodriguez
> Patrons Grand Prize: Patrick Rougereau
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Oxfam's supporters in the music industry including musicians, labels, managers, and media amplify our efforts to right the wrong of poverty and help spread the word to millions of fans.
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For the sake of thoroughness, your header should have:
#if defined(DEBUG) | defined(_DEBUG) #ifndef D3D_DEBUG_INFO #define D3D_DEBUG_INFO #endif
Just FYI, I don't know if the code you posted is correct or not.
As mentioned in unbird's referenced article, debugview may serve your purpose with regard to debug output if you're not using Visual Studio.
This has to do with my question about HRESULT, which is essentially, "How can I make some custom text output that I can reference, while in this plugin?"
If the app has a console window (which it should, if it doesn't), std::cout ( or printf() ) would work. Or launch the app from a cmd window. Otherwise, take a look at OutputDebugString(). The latter outputs c-strings, which requires you to format your output string if you want to output numbers. Again, if you're not launching it from Visual Studio, you'll have to find a debug message monitor like debugview.
I'm a senior college student with no prior graphics programming experience. Is this project too demanding for someone from my position? Further, do you have any general advice for someone in my position?
With regard to graphics programming experience - you're getting some now, huh?!
Too demanding? If you're not working from within Visual Studio, you may have a long row to hoe. But you seem to be willing to give things a try, and you've got gamedev. Go for it! I would suggest, however, that you read the documentation for each function you use, if you're not familiar with it and/or not positive of the input/output requirements. And you can google for example code in a lot of cases. Or, at worst, find out what won't work.
EDIT: an alternative, depending on how much time you have to work on your project - download Visual Studio (you can get a free version, maybe even a full-blown version being a college student). Create a version of your plugin as a standalone, test it thoroughly there and create another version as the plugin. Actually, you may save time overall by doing that. At worst, you appear to be interested in that type of programming so get into Visual Studio.


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A nice read for a young person (perhaps ages 10 - 16). Some of the violent battle scenes may be too graphic for children younger than that. Adult fantasy fans will probably want more character development and deeper plots. I like the world and the tie in to our world. I hope the author fleshes out that idea further.
I agree with Idus's comment - the story jumped around a lot and was hard to understand at times. As the reader I never fully understood the type of world the author was setting the story in. Is it our world or is it a slightly altered world where people have powers? Unfortunately I got frustrated by this lack of grounding and abandoned the book around the 2/3rds point.


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Alright, I understand where you're coming from. Anyways, you could use his resource to replace some of the sprites that don't look good. Good luck on this.
Don't worry, I will be changing more sprites than just Gengar. There were certain Kanto Pokemon that didn't get new sprites in FR/LG depsite being in the Kanto Dex, such as Pikachu, Goldeen, Vaporeon, etc. Those Pokemon will be getting new sprites. I changed Gengar's sprite just for the heck of it. I'm going to also change the sprites of Kanto related Pokemon, like Crobat and Magby.
Anyways, here's the new Route 3 that I finished today:
I know it doesn't look exactly like how it does in HG/SS, but I have to make it look like it was 3 years before but at the same time changing the layout to the HG/SS Kanto.
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BOULDER — Astronaut Scott Carpenter, whose 1962 flight marked only the second time an American had orbited Earth, will be brought back to Boulder to be memorialized in the city where he was born.
Former Sen. John Glenn, who preceded Carpenter by a matter of months on the first U.S. orbital flight, is expected to deliver the eulogy of his former colleague and friend at the Nov. 2 ceremony at St. John's Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St.
Carpenter died at a Denver hospice Oct. 10. He was 88.
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Full name Percy George Herbert Fender
Born August 22, 1892, Balham, London
Died June 15, 1985, Exeter, Devon (aged 92 years 297 days)
Major teams England, Surrey, Sussex
Nickname Mossy
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Bowling style Right-arm medium, Legbreak
Education St Paul's School
Relation Uncle - P Herbert
|Test debut
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Percy Fender was the last survivor of those who had played county cricket regularly before the Great War: more important, he was one of the most colourful figures in the cricket world for many years after it and was widely regarded as the shrewdest county captain of his generation. In a career of 26 years he scored 19,034 runs with an average of 26.66, took 1,894 wickets at 25.05, made 21 hundreds and caught 599 catches. Six times he did the double. But he was not a cricketer who could be judged on figures. Wisden has never been a slave to statistics and, when in 1915 he appeared as one of the Five Cricketers of the Year, it was after a season in which both his bowling and batting averages had been approximately 23 and he had not scored 1,000 runs nor taken 100 wickets. Yet the honour was fully deserved. Surrey had won the Championship and Tom Hayward had said that Fender was the making of their XI. In a crucial match, for instance, against Kent, the reigning champions, at Lord's in August (The Oval was occupied by the military), going in on a pitch made for Blythe, who took nine for 97. with a scoreboard reading 147 for four, he made 48 in twenty minutes, thus securing Surrey a lead of 94: he also took in the match five for 43 and thus played a big part in his side's victory. But besides his batting and bowling, Surrey that year owed much to his superb slip fielding. Their bowling, not strong for a champion county, depended largely on Hitch, who was fast, and Rushby, who was fast-medium, and on the perfect Oval pitches a dropped slip catch could easily mean a lost match. Throughout his career Fender's policy was to hit fiercely, regardless of the state of the pitch, even of the quality of the bowling. He was a tremendous driver and also delighted in the pull, and he cut or slashed ferociously outside the off stump: he once slashed the ball over cover out of The Oval. It was difficult to set a field for him. His century in 35 minutes against Northamptonshire in 1920 remains a record, though it was equalled in farcical circumstances in 1983. His highest score, 185 against Hampshire in 1922, took 130 minutes and against Kent later that season he made 137 in an hour and a half, 52 of them off fourteen consecutive balls. It was not to be expected that one batting on these principles would be as consistent as a more sedate player, but in the very strong Surrey batting sides of those days another solid bat would have been neither here nor there: Fender the hitter was invaluable. His attitude to bowling was the same. His object was to get the batsman out, and the tactics fostered by the modern one-day game would never have suited him. He had at his command a great variety of pace, spin and swing and all were fully employed. Inevitably his length sometimes suffered. Yet it was unwise to assume that because a batsman was out to a full toss it was a lucky wicket almost as likely as not it was bowled for that very purpose. Probably he was least expensive when he concentrated on leg-breaks and googlies. Whatever he was bowling he had a wonderfully sharp eye for a batsman's weak points. There can be no doubt that his best role was as the fourth or fifth bowler in a strong bowling side. Unluckily this was a part he was seldom able to play, and for much of his time in the Surrey team he had to do the work of a stock bowler. As such he did wonders, but to borrow a phrase used by W .G. in a different context, he "never hadn't ought to have been put to it". His most spectacular bowling performance was against Middlesex at Lord's in 1927, when his analysis read 5.3-2-10-7; eleven balls produced six wickets for 1 run.
Born at Balham, he was educated at St George's, Weybridge, and St Paul's, where he was three years in the XI, heading the batting averages in each of them and in the second representing the Public Schools at Lord's. His family was living in Sussex and it was for them that he first appeared in county cricket in 1910, his last year at school, but neither then nor in 1911 did he do much. It was a brilliant 133 not out against Oxford University at Horsham in 1912 that showed his possibilities and won him a prolonged trial. In 1913 he got his 1,000 runs and was picked for the Gentlemen at both Lord's and The Oval, but the next year he switched his allegiance to Surrey, for whom he continued to appear until 1935. In 1919, having served in the Royal Flying Corps during the war, he was kept out of cricket by a broken leg, but in 1920 he did well enough to gain a place in the M.C.C. team to Australia. There he headed the bowling averages for the Tests and twice in the course of them took five wickets in an innings, but the Australians did not think he had enough spin to be formidable on their pitches. In fact he proved only marginally a Test match player and this may have saved the selectors, who were thought never to favour him as a captain of England, an embarrassing problem. In only one series, in South Africa in 1922-23, did he keep his place throughout and South African cricket was then at a low ebb. In thirteen appearances for England between 1920 and 1929 he made 380 runs with an average of 19 and took 29 wickets at 40.86. Meanwhile in 1921 he had succeeded C. T. A. Wilkinson as captain of Surrey, a position which he held until he handed over to D. R. Jardine after 1931, and it was generally recognised that it was his captaincy more than anything else that kept a side so deficient in bowling so high in the table: twice they were second and only in his last three seasons did they fall below fifth.
After his retirement he continued for many years to play in less important cricket and many young players can testify to the encouragement he gave them and how much they were helped by his advice. He was a very kind man and would have been an excellent coach. He also made a considerable contribution to cricket literature, including four books on Test series, 1920-21, 1928-29, 1930 and 1934, which are among the best of their kind. An ABC of Cricket contains a fascinating account of his progress from prep school to county cricket, besides some admirable technical advice. At the same time his outspoken articles in newspapers did not always endear him to the authorities.
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As a passionate supporter I went to bed last unable to sleep and totally disgusted by Portsmouth's pathetic performance against Fulham. If I were a Reading of Birmingham fan I would be asking for a stewards inquiry. I am not very optimistic re the Cup Final on the below par performance of the last 4 defeats. For Gods sake Pompey get your act torgether. Gerry Cupples Belfast N.Ireland.
You're right, we are p i s s poor at the moment and that just does not bode well for Saturday. I've gone from looking forward to the Final to dreading it.All I can say is that Harry has told all the boys to back off, not bother with 50/50 challenges etc etc....... at least that's what I hope he's said.Whatever happens on Saturday I know I'll still be a proud POMPEY supporter and will wear my POMPEY shirt to the pub on Saturday night with my head held high as a supporter of the only Premiership side to reach the 2008 cup final. This maybe the only time this happens in my lifetime and I for one am gonna make the most of it.PLAY UP POMPEY, POMPEY PLAY UP


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The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer has honored a group of researchers at Argonne for working with industry to use supercomputers to conduct engine simulations.
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This technology utilizes radiolysis to charge liquid energy storage media including nanoelectrofuels. Charged liquid can be used in flow batteries for transportation and stationary energy-storage applications.
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