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It is well recognised that search engines are not only used for search.
A Different Perspective on Search…
When we think of the experiences that search engines are designed to support, criteria such as speed and efficiency instantly come to mind. However, one of our main interests is in how web use is intertwined with daily life, and understanding the activities in which search engines play a role. Within this larger, human-centred context, we find that the richness of web use, and the activities in which search features, point to many other human values to design for in addition to fast, relevant search. These include systems that support:
- Spending rather than saving time on the Web
- Enjoying the journey as much as the destination
- The pleasure of discovering something new versus finding the "right answer"
- Subtly pushing things of interest rather than requiring users to pull information from the Web
These aspects of search then suggest we can develop new kinds of search experience or tools that complement more goal-oriented search behaviour.
Five Modes of Web Use
Most tools for searching the web are built around the idea of purposeful or task-driven web use, where people seek out the answers to questions they have, or gather information for a particular information need. Our fieldwork suggests that while this is obviously an important aspect of web use, there are four other modes in which people engage with the web. In summary, these are:
- Purposeful Use. When users wish to accomplish a task quickly and efficiently. They may fire up a laptop or turn on their mobile phone in order to do so.
- Opportunistic Use. Using the web as a form of past time. Rather than going online to accomplish some task, users look for things to do 'while they are there', calling to mind curiosities and interests.
- Orienting. When users browse a routine set of sites to 'warm up' for the day or settle in at work, for example. This tends to involve looking through roughly the same sites in the same order at the same times during the day.
- Respite. When users look to a core set of sites, such as the news, webmail or social networks, for a short period of time (maybe only seconds), as a way of breaking from other activities.
- Lean-Back Internet. Using the Web as a conduit to stream media, such as radio, video or games.
You can read about these five modes in detail in a WWW 2012 paper.
The Web as a Personal Archive
In recent years the web has evolved substantially, transforming from a place where we primarily find information to a place where we also leave, share and keep it. This presents a fresh set of challenges for the management of personal information, which include how to underpin greater awareness and more control over digital belongings and other personally meaningful content that is hosted online. In a recent study, we asked participants to give us a tour of their online content, to search for 'themselves' online, and to respond to a series of design envisionments. Our analysis leads us to present a framework of five different types of online content, each of which has separate implications for personal information management. These are:
- High Value Collections. Examples include archives of content that users are proud of enough to want to share, or that they simply want to back up, e.g. via sites like Flickr.
- Collections that are Curated Online. Examples include collections that are hosted online and largely comprise other-generated content, e.g. Pinterest boards.
- Collections that Emerge through Use. Examples include folders of webmail that evolve over time, and the social graphs that emerge via social network services.
- Content for Consumption in the Moment. Examples include user generated content posted to social network sites, often viewed as fleeting but potentially valuable long-term.
- Dynamic Content: Profiles and Personal Pages. Examples include social network profiles, where changes are destructive (edits cannot be undone) and commonplace.
A paper detailing the study and implications for each type of content will be published at WWW 2013. Email email@example.com for a pre-print.
Domesticating Search
One of the strengths of the web is its ubiquity. The proliferation of mobile devices and cloud-based data means that the web can increasingly be accessed anywhere and at any time. But different locations have different qualities, and it is worth considering how the web might be designed to fit a specific place. Designing web-connected technologies for home life, for example, raises a number of questions regarding the material landscape of the home, the relationships between household members, and the links between home and other spheres, such as work. As part of a design exploration of how to design web-connected artefacts specifically for the home, we have developed a number of concepts in collaboration with the Aalto University's School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
Manhattan: Tangible Location-Based Search
Tokens: Embodying Web Content
You can read more about these in an upcoming CHI paper. Email firstname.lastname@example.com for a pre-print.
New Ways of Interacting with the Web
We have been working on a number of prototypes to explore how search engine technologies can underpin experiences other than a quick question-and-answer approach to interacting with web content. relating to designing search from a different perspective, often looking at how search can be used for opportunistic use, serendipity, self-expression and creativity. Three of these prototypes are:
Growing Slow Searches
An organic kind of search that presents results that grow over time, drawing attention to the things about which you are most passionate.
Search Journey Stepping Stones
A way of picturing and encapsulating search journeys so you can get pleasure from the voyage, as well as the destination.
Collectable Search Results
A way of packaging search results so that you can keep them and they can be given to others.
Other Related Projects
This project explores how we might develop new digital tools to facilitate designers in an early ideation stage of the design process. In order to do so we created a technology probe called SketchStorm, a prototype application that supports some common ideation practices including sketching, image search and image collection.
Project Greenwich
Project Greenwich is a website that allows people to create timelines of any subject they want to present chronologically. Using the site they could show the lifespan of an individual, how a historical event evolved, or how a place changed, for example. With Greenwich we are interested in researching how people think about time, how they go about the process of telling a story through time, and what it means to reflect on chronological content to think about the past.
Children's Book Visualisations
Anyone with an interest in books, be they authors, readers, publishers, agents, critics, academics, etc may find such tools useful, but we have designed our visualizations with fans and academic readers in mind. These readers form theories about the books that stand alongside the author's own understanding and we hope that the abstract visualizations provided may help such an endeavour.
Meerkat and Tuba
Over the years, as digital technologies have become more and more embedded into our everyday lives, people are beginning to accumulate vast amounts of personal digital content through their interactions with digital capturing technologies, social networking sites, their continuous endeavors with the web and simple things, new content such as music, photos, videos, Tweets, and Facebook posts, is being generated and collected. With this, these collections often become more unwieldy. With the design of the serendipitous display prototypes, Meerkat and Tuba, it was our intention to engage people in novel ways with their digital content by further exploring the devices' material qualities and interaction mechanisms.
Live Performance
Drawing on Web imagery to support live performance.
- SPIBs
SPIBS enables people to serendipitously browse their digital photo collection by moving SPIBs with different search properties into a circular target area. The closer the SPIB is moved towards the centre, the higher the importance of the property it contains to the search result. As the SPIBs are dragged into the circular area, the instantaneous 'search' results are displayed in the centre of the screen.
- Jung-Joo Lee, Siân Lindley, Salu Ylirisku, Giulio Jacucci, Tim Regan, and Marcus Nurminen, Domestic appropriations of tokens to the web, in Proceedings of the 2014 ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems , ACM, June 2014.
- Catherine C. Marshall and Siân Lindley, Searching for Myself: Motivations and Strategies for Self-Search, in Proceedings of CHI 2014, ACM, May 2014.
- Siân Lindley, Xiang Cao, John Helmes, Richard Morris, and Sam Meek, Towards a tool for design ideation: Insights from use of SketchStorm, in Proceedings of the 27th BCS conference on Human Computer Interaction, British Computer Society, September 2013.
- Siân Lindley, Catherine C. Marshall, Richard Banks, Abigail Sellen, and Tim Regan, Rethinking the web as a personal archive, in Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2013), International World Wide Web Conference, May 2013.
- Salu Ylirisku, Siân Lindley, Giulio Jacucci, Richard Banks, Craig Stewart, Abigail Sellen, Richard Harper, and Tim Regan, Designing web-connected physical artefacts for the 'aesthetic' of the home, in Proceedings of the 2013 SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems (CHI 2013), ACM, April 2013.
- Elizabeth Thiry, Siân Lindley, Richard Banks, and Tim Regan, Authoring personal histories: Exploring the timeline as a framework for meaning making, in Proceedings of the 2013 SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems (CHI 2013), ACM, April 2013.
- Siân Lindley, Sam Meek, Abigail Sellen, and Richard Harper, "It's simply integral to what I do": Enquiries into how the web is weaved into everyday life, in Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on World Wide Web , International World Wide Web Conference, April 2012.
- Paul Andre, Abigail Sellen, mc Schraefel, and Ken Wood, Making Public Media Personal: Nostalgia and Reminiscence in the Office, in Proceedings of the 25th BCS Conference on HCI, ACM, 2011.
- Boon Chew, Jennifer Rode, and Abigail Sellen, Understanding the everyday use of images on the web., in Proceedings of NordiCHI 2010, ACM, October 2010.


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Natural Turquoise Cabochons by Durango Silver Company
John Hartman, founder of Durango Silver Company, began his life in Turquoise by mining with Cutler Edgar and Dowell Ward of Nevada USA. By the late 1960's John had got the Turquoise bug from his room mate Steve, a Native American from the Taos Pueblo. Steve taught John a lot about Turquoise and went on to introduce him to many knowledgeable people in the trade. John mined with Cutler at the Stormy Mountain Mine and with Cutler and Dowell at the #8 Turquoise Mine. John was taught early on by Cutler and Dowell that high-grade natural Turquoise Cabochons were the only type to cut if you wanted to have a good market for his product.
Hand Cut Natural Turquoise Cabochons
It was not long after John began accumulating Turquoise that he learned how to cut Turquoise into cabochons. Both John and wife Estell began cutting Turquoise together and would cut about 300 cabochons per week. It was not long and they began making Turquoise Jewelry and the business grew exponentially immediately as high quality natural Turquoise cabochons were expensive to buy so most Jewelry manufacturers used medium grade Turquoise Stones in their Jewelry. Hand Cut Natural Turquoise Cabochons was the key to John and Estell's success in the Turquoise business.
Natural Turquoise Cabochons
Today, more than forty years later, the entire Hartman family; John, Estell, Dillon, Nattarika and Crystal are all deeply involved in the Turquoise Business and cutting more Turquoise Cabochons then ever. John and son Dillon cut natural Turquoise cabochons on a daily basis and sell them on DurangoSilver.com – you can see examples at http://www.durangosilver.com/turquoise_cabochons_35_ctg.htm.
You can also see some good examples of Natural Turquoise Cabochons at; http://www.pinterest.com/durangosilver/natural-turquoise-cabochons/ as well as http://www.durangosilver.com/natural-turquoise-cabochons.html
We hope you will think of Durango Silver Company the next time you are searching for Natural Turquoise Cabochons.

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The stock HKS shift knob is often changed out for a custom HKS shift knob so that drivers can inlay their own design taste. Artsy, graphic, simple, classy, and classic type HKS shift knobs are all available, with flashier ones gaining preeminence in recent years. For a personal touch that you just can't miss when you HKS shift out of park, it's hard to avoid the draw of aftermarket HKS shift knobs in appealing to drivers who want improved interior design.


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Hexagon, possible?
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Posted 24 April 2013 - 09:54 PM
Hope this helps.
Posted 25 April 2013 - 05:14 PM
The only fringy glimpses that have come visually from responsible observers appears to show that its demanding of large aperture with no slam dunk about it. I'd have doubts with a ten inch but Im an optimist too.
Hope this helps.
I haven't actually heard anybody say they saw it. Perhaps I hang out with the wrong crowd.
It's going to be clear and steady tonight (knock on wood) and I'm going to see what I can do with my 7-incher.
Posted 25 April 2013 - 11:02 PM
"…….. and I fear I spent an inordinate, futile, amount of time chasing that NPC hexagon (smooth oval to me) i.e. beyond my detection!" (415mm D-K x270 & x365).
Its possible one of the hexagon's flat faces was central at the time: I would reckon that a 'corner' would look like a south-edge projection/bulge when well onto the disk. So not deterred - yet!
The thread is here:
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Posted 26 April 2013 - 08:51 AM
Used the 415mm D-K since 1978, and have had very many fine views, but have never seriously considered attempting it all this time! Of course when the NPC is well presented the planet is always pretty low from here – as its getting now.
If you don't look you don't see!
Posted 27 April 2013 - 08:40 AM
What's daunting is when a known threshold feature still doesn't budge no matter how hard I try!
Posted 09 May 2013 - 01:52 PM
Powers used were 200-300x in a C11HD and banding on the disk, Cassini and the C ring were visible, Cassini being visible about 1/2 the way around. I also saw what looked like ring shadow on the disk but am not absolutely sure whether it was a band instead. Also thought I saw the shadow of the disk on the rings but I suspect this may be an illusion as it's still too close to opposition.
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Posted 10 May 2013 - 06:24 AM
Tanveer don't rule out low elevation observing in summer. Some of the best Saturns Ive ever seen were 30 degrees elevation in balmy hot muggy summer night air. Cool (wet out) your local observing g latch with a hose and it can make a big difference.
Posted 10 May 2013 - 02:45 PM
Tanveer don't rule out low elevation observing in summer. Some of the best Saturns Ive ever seen were 30 degrees elevation in balmy hot muggy summer night air. Cool (wet out) your local observing g latch with a hose and it can make a big difference.
Last night we had very good seeing so I dragged out* Tiny to the end of the backyard so it had an expanse of dripping wet grass around it (I'm in the PNW and grass is always drippin wet at night) and Saturn was amazing. Multiple banding on the surface, Cassini visible most of the way around, the C ring, shadow of the rings, and a clearly visible blue-gray polar cap. I think I went up to 400x and there was some blue/red fringing from atmospheric dispersion so the best views were had at about 300x.
I tried both binoviewers and single eyepieces and it's amazing how good the Mark V + AP 2x barlow is. There was practically no difference between using this combination with 17mm plossls and a 7.5mm Ultrascopic directly though I could see the polar cap a hair clearer without the BV.
(*) literally! it's on a ScopeBuggy
Posted 10 May 2013 - 02:46 PM
No, it's a ring shadow, you are right. Shadow of the planet on the rings is also visible already.
Thanks for confirming. I could see it clearer last night but was still not sure if it was an optical illusion or not.
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You've hot a pair of Mark Vs????? Very nice!
Yes, they're expensive but well worth the price. I had a pair of very good Sieberts but the Mark V is on a different level.
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Of course I was aware of the hexagon thing etc., so I tried to convince myself what I was seeing was just a an ellipse. I remained unconvinced.
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Local elementary school teacher and Illinois' Reading Educator of the Year Maria Walther will speak at North Central College Jan. 25.
Local elementary school teacher, education expert and literacy consultant Maria Walther will speak at North Central College on Wednesday, Jan. 25. Her talk will take place at 5:30 p.m. in room 20 at the College's Goldspohn Hall, 31 N. Loomis St., Naperville. The event is free and open to the public.
"Maria Walther is an extremely reliable and interesting speaker and often provides a variety of resources," says Alyssa Mahoney, a North Central junior majoring in elementary education. "We cannot get enough of what she has to say!"


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Bluefire7777 posted on Mar 26, 2012 at 07:08PM
Welcome! Welcome! Its time again after 25 years for the newest series of the Hunger Games. This year is extra special in which we have past rebel uprising families children to become glorious tribute in this years games! Here are this years tributes! And may the odds ever be in your favor!
District 1
Male: Edgar Castro- He is very stuck up on the outside and sweet on the inside blonde hair and nice bluish brown eyes. he has a secret that he dares to tell
Female: Kathryn Rose and she is from district 1 she frantically changes her hair color and is very stealthy her eyes are grey
District 2
Female: Caprine Diamond- tall platinum blond girl with dark violet like eyes 17 years old
District 3
Female: Jennifer. Evil twisted minnded little girl dark hair and black eyes has no sympathy for anyone she is 12
District 4
Male: Percy Homair- a handsome tall 17 year old boy with windblown/ slightly curly brown hair and blue eyes. District 4
Female: Trista-15, wide blue eyes and black hair, relatively small, but has lots of upper body strength from spearing fish, nick name "trout"
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Male: Castor Sterlingfeld- small black hairred boy with tan skinned and bron eyes quiet and soft spoken 12 years old
Female: Ivy Sterlingfeld- medium sized girl with curly black hair and tanned skin with deep grey eyes 16 years old
District 6
Female: Alora- Pretty 16 year old pale wavy blonde haired girl with pale skin and pale blue eyes
District 7
Male: Wesley Jonhson- Tall, muscular boy with shorter black hair and brown eyes, not the brightest
Female: Alexandria ( Ali)King - a pretty 15 year old girl with dirty blonde hair and blue eyes
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Male James Conlion- A handsome 16 year old boy with black hair and green eyes
Female: Mayleen Wintergreen- shy 15 year old with straight ashy blond hair and icy green eyes
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Female: June Morris- A pretty 16 year old girl with light golden hair with blue grey eyes
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Male: Nick Porter. He is short with black hair and blue eyes and is very stealthy a little bit too stealthy oh and they are both 14
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Video: Three Days Of Healthcare Hearings Wrap With Tough Questions
Video: Three Days Of Healthcare Hearings Wrap With Tough Questions
U.S. SUPREME COURT (WUSA) - It's been a rough three days here for Obamacare.
In the final day of hearings on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed to take very seriously the argument that if the individual mandate is unconstitutional, the Court must overturn the whole law.
The deeply divided court is also considering the argument by more than half the states that forcing them to pay for Medicaid violates the fundamental principals of federalism.
How bad have the three days of hearings been for the Obama Administration and health care reform? CNN Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said it's been a "train wreck." "The individual mandate looks doomed to me. And the whole law is in some trouble."
And the lead lawyer for health care's opponents seemed in a jovial mood. "So you feel pretty good about it?" I asked Paul Clement. "I feel pretty good it's over and I don't have to wake up tomorrow and do it again."
Not that completely avoided tough questions. Even conservative Justice Antonin Scalia asked him if the whole law had to fall if some small part of it fell. "You're telling us that the whole statute would fall because the cornhusker kickback is bad? That can't be right."
But of course the debate is NOT about a cornhusker break for Nebraska residents designed to win the vote of their skeptical Senator.
It's about the requirement that nearly every American prove she has health insurance -- or face a penalty. And on that Scalia took a very different position. "My approach would say, if you take the heart out of the statute," said Justice Scalia, "the statute's gone."
Swing vote Anthony Kennedy suggested picking and choosing between sections of the law would dump billions of dollars in additional risk on the insurance companies. "That it seems to me can be argued at least to be a more extreme exercise of judicial power than striking the whole."
Even the Chief Justice -- who some observers thought could be swayed -- suggested to the Obama Administrations lawyer that he was reluctant to wade into the financial mess of leaving parts of health reform standing if the Court overturns the individual mandate.
Edwin Kneedler/Deputy Solicitor 41:28 "We don't think it's in the court's place to look and budgetary implications," said Obama Administration lawyer Edwin Kneedler, before Chief Justice John Roberts cut him off. "Isn't that the point? Then why should we just assume that it's not severable?" Not severable means the whole law has to be tossed out.
Swing vote Anthony Kennedy suggested picking and choosing between sections of the law would dump billions of dollars in additional risk on the insurance companies. "That it seems to me can be argued at least to be a more extreme exercise of judicial power than striking the whole."
The court's liberals went the other way, suggesting it would be far more intrusive for the court to throw out the whole law than leave in place parts that have nothing to do with the individual mandate. "Why in a democracy structured like ours, where each branch does different things," said Justice Sonia Sotomayor, "why we should we involve the court in making the legislative judgement?"
CNN's Toobin did soften his line that the Administration's argument was a "train wreck." And Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said you can read too much in to the justices' questions.
But health care supporters will have to convince one member of the court's conservative majority that the individual mandate is constitutional. And it's not clear they have.
Written and Reported by Bruce Leshan
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Friends & Neighbors Help With Harvest Bee
(Kingsley) -- When a friend or neighbor is in need, others naturally come to help. That was the situation this past Sunday when friends and neighbors of Brett McNaughton held a harvest bee and helped him with his fall harvest. McNaughton, who is just 49, and farms north of Kingsley suffered a stroke during the summer. Since that time, he has been in the hospital undergoing rehabilitation. Greg Roepke of Kingsley coordinated the harvest bee. More than 30 people helped with the corn harvest. Roepke says they were able to harvest 300 acres of corn in six hours.
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Roepke says the McNaughton family was very appreciative and overwhelmed by the number of volunteers that helped with the corn harvest.
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Two weeks prior to the corn harvest, about 30 other farmers equipped with six combines, six semi truck and trailers, and three grain carts helped harvest the soybeans. Roepke says it is nice when friends and neighbors are able to offer assistance to another friend in need.
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Export a Live Animal (includes semen, embryos...) or Animal Product - International health certificates for the export of animals from the United States are completed by an accredited veterinarian who certifies herd and animal health status, conducts tests, and records test results for the individual animals being exported. Complete and signed international health certificates for the export of animals from the United States must be endorsed by a Veterinary Services area office in order to be valid.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Veterinary Services (VS) has created the International Animal Product Export Regulations (IREGS) to provide exporters with our best understanding of importing countries requirements for certain animal-origin products.
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Live Animal - Export requirements frequently change, obtain the current export requirements from the Veterinary Services service center in your area before each shipment.
Animal Products - Zoosanitary (animal health) product certificates endorsed by APHIS are sometimes required by the importing country for exported products. The exporter should obtain any required certificates prior to shipping any product.
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Biologics - View the process for obtaining an export permit for biologics.
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ATLANTA, Georgia, February 11. LASSITER senior Jimmy Yoder set one individual and aided in a relay state record at the Georgia 6A Swimming and Diving Championships Feb. 8-9. The meet was held on the campus of Georgia Tech University in Atlanta.
Yoder's 48.16 erased Taylor Dale's mark from last year in the 100 yard fly (48.55). Yoder anchored the Lassiter 400 free relay of senior teammates Daniel Bridgers and Zach Bunner, along with junior Zach Marshall, to set a state record 3:06.12. Northview set the prior mark last year with their 3:06.26. The quartet also triumphed in the 200 free relay (1:24.87).
Yoder also claimed the 200 free individual event, posting a 1:37.49. Bunner also was a multi-event champion, posting times of 1:50.51 in the 200 IM and 49.40 in the 100 back over Chattahoochee junior Jay Litherland (49.48). Also claiming two first-place awards was Mill Creek senior Chris Powell, via his 20.66 in the 50 free and 45.06 in the 100 free.
Nick LaMontagne, a senior at Brookwood, outtouched Parkview senior Geoffrey Carter in the 100 breast, 56.84-56.88. Alpharetta senior Cody Reul was tops in the 500 free (4:26.93).
Chattahoochee put together a team of junior Jay Litherland and Mick Litherland, plus senior Alan Rabstejnek and sophomore Jacob Rubin, to claim victory in the 200 medley relay (1:34.35).
Parkview–despite having no individual or relay champions–emerged ahead of the team standings over Chattahoochee, 234-226. Lassiter finished third (211), with North Gwinnett fourth (169). Alpharetta's 148.5 points put them in fourth, 2-1/2 points ahead of Collins Hill (146).
Lambert's 292 put them in first place in the girls competition, ahead of Peachtree Ridge (222), Lassiter (197), Johns Creek (185) and Brookwood (170). Kennesaw Mountain was just three points back of fifth (167).
Junior Megan Bestor, sophomore Ashley Mallon, senior Ellie Sills and freshman Katherine Aikins took first in the 200 medley relay for Lassiter (1:46.32); freshman Emma Fish and junior Aubrey Jones joined Bestor and Aikins for a triumph in the 200 free relay (1:37.02). Kennesaw Mountain grabbed the 400 free relay (3:29.98) with the foursome of seniors Savannah Long and Melissa Postoll, plus junior Maggie Layde and sophomore Rebecca Postoll.
Rebecca Postoll climbed twice to the top of the podium stand with her wins in the 200 free (1:47.65) and 500 free (4:48.49). Milton junior Katie Grover equaled Postoll's feat with her first-place swims of 53.55 in the 100 fly and 55.21 in the 100 back.
Four juniors claimed victory in their respective events. Archer's Alexis Smith finished the 50 free race in 23.14, and Kaitlin Kitchens of Johns Creek's 51.49 gave her first in the 100 free. Carrington BeVier from Peachtree Ridge posted a 1:04.29 in the 100 breast, and Walton's Kira De Bruyn's 2:04.22 was tops in the 200 IM.


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Police investigate death of infant
Published: Friday, May 3, 2013 at 4:56 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 12:09 a.m.
Ocala police are investigating the death of a 1 ½-month-old baby on Thursday.
An autopsy was conducted Friday on Shadrick L. Mitchell and authorities said the investigation into his death is on-going.
The child's father, also named Shadrick L. Mitchell, 22, told police he arrived home from work and changed his son's diaper and played with him for a little bit before the boy's mother fed the baby and left for work. Mitchell said he watched television, then fell asleep. He said the baby was already asleep in a different place, according to reports.
Mitchell told police he prepared a bottle for the infant and went to his mother's residence nearby to ask if she could watch the baby while he ran an errand. He said he returned home and picked up the child and noticed he was unresponsive. He said he went to his mother's home for help and then called 911, noted the reports.
Medical personnel took the child to Munroe Regional Medical Center, where he died.
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Last night, I put the new controller on to the CGE just to try it out, and here are my impressions.
First, the good. I like the button profiles. The scrolling buttons have angles on them to make it easy to rock back and forth, and the direction buttons have small ridges on the outside edge fo the keys which is also helpful for making sure you have your fingers on the keys.
The text on the screen is smaller, and at firs I did not care for this change, but there is a "Bold" setting in the keypad utilities that greatly improves the readability. There is also an 8 step brightness controll and the keypad is now like my Alienware computer... It has two "Zones" so that the brighness for the keys and the display can be controlled individually.
Now for the bad.... And there is plenty of bad to be sure.
First, Celestron could have made the cable longer. This has long been a complaint of many people that I know. The stiff coil-wound cable will barely reach around the mount when using a C14, and the tighness of it causes it to drag and snag on the power jack and other cord connections. IT also attaches to the PC board inside of the handset, so rather than have a design where we could use aftermarket cables in place of the factory cable, we have to use extensions.
Next, Celestron did away with the Catalog sortcuts on the keyboard for NGC, Messier, Star (not useful anyway) and Caldwell objects. Now you are forced to go to the "Deep Sky" button and scroll through menu items to get to the different catalogs.
News Flash.. For many observers, the NGC and Messier catalogs constitute 80% to 90% of their targets. This used to be a big differentiator between the Celestron and Meade produces, but now Celestron has taken a step back.
Next and maybe more important. The numbers and text on the keypads are Tiny! On the old keypads, even though I wear glasses for reading, the numbers werer BIG, and BOLD. It was easy to see them even without glasses. The new numbers by comparison are almost impossible to see and you have to rely simply on their position! Miserable as compared to the old keypad.
My guess is that this was a handset that was designed by someone that is not an active observer, and perhaps not given to some "Beta" testers to see how it worked in the field.
The new handset steps back in terms of catalog access and plunges off a cliff in terms of readability of the buttons.
What were they thinking? Why don't they have amateurs test these things to see how they work in the field?
The readability of the buttons is particularly bothersome. It is the worst readability of any handset I have ever used.
Perhaps people will think I am being to harsh over what many might consider "Minor" issues.
I was one of the most vocal people regarding the tool setup of the CGE. When I reviewed the CGE many years ago, I blasted Celestron for requiring so many little tools for setup, and especially the requirement for one size Hex wrench for the mount assembly vs another size for the adjustment. And perhaps because of reviews like mine, Celestron stepped up and provided tool-less setup in newer mounts.
And maybe if more of us present our negative views in more public forums, they will listen to our combined voices, though maybe I will be speaking on this alone.
I dislike new handset, and at the worse case, maybe Celestron will re-introduce the old handset and keep it available for a few years so people that need replacements and want to be able to read the buttons will have an alternative to the new hard to read, more button pushing handsets.
Sorry for the rant, but as you can tell, I truely belive that the new Handset is a step back. It offers a couple of new features, but fails to address the cord length issue, deletes the short-cut buttons to the most used catalogs, and makes it mandatory to wear your glasses to read the buttons even if you didn't need them for the old handset.
This handset is a big miss and Celestron needs to address the key-pad readability issues.
Maybe they will give us the option to re-program some of the keys one day to act as shortcut keys, but to me, the smaller font on the keypad is something that need attention immediatly. They need to quickly re-screen the printing so that they can address what should have been a glaring fault to recognize as compared to the old handset, which is far more legible in the dark.
Attached is a picture.. Can you tell the new controller from the old one based on my review??


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After a cloudy start this morning, the sky should clear by the afternoon and remain sunny through the weekend with comfortable temperatures, according to the National Weather Service.
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Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 50. North wind 5 to 10 mph.
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News from the world of maths: Zero is the number of yearning... review of Strange Attractors: Poems of love and mathematics
February 17, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Zero is the number of yearning... review of Strange Attractors: Poems of love and mathematics
Zero is a number
— from "Five Poems about Zero" by Eryk Salvaggio
It's not often I get misty-eyed reading a book about mathematics, but that was just what happened when I read this, and several other poems, in the poetry collection Strange Attractors: Poems of love and mathematics.
The idea of a love poem is not new, love has inspired poets for millennia. But the combination of maths and love poetry might seem an odd mix. Despite loving maths myself, I was a little skeptical when I picked up this book, and thought it would be a tongue-in-cheek selection of witty but humorous poems about love using mathematical language and imagery. There are some funny poems giving a mathematical take on love, (I particularly liked "Valentine" by Michael Stueben), but what pleasantly surprised me was the large number of poems that seem to be really exploring human emotions.
I had no idea there would be so many poems suitable for such a collection, or that it would span so many centuries and include so many diverse contributors. The excerpt from King Solomon's "Song of songs" (which is thought to have been written about 765 BC) and Bhaskaracharya's "Lilavati" (a twelfth century Indian mathematician), the "Square Poem in Honor of Elizabeth I" (written by Henry Lok in 1597), as well as contemporary poets from nearly every continent, give the collection significant cultural depth (helpful appendices give brief biographies of both the contributors, and the mathematicians mentioned). It's a nice thought that mathematics, as well as love, is a ubiquitous experience for all of humanity.
The book is divided into three sections: romantic love, love of family and life, and love of mathematics. In the first two sections it is surprising just how powerful mathematics can be as a metaphor for our emotions and experiences. Some poems very effectively use mathematical imagery, such as the image of tangential curves ("kissing curves") in Ann Calandro's poem "Where the Kissing Never Stops":
They strive to make each other
The shape of her soul is a square.
The collection features some of the most famous love poems, such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning's measuring of love in her sonnet: "How do I love thee, let me count the ways...". One of the most interesting poems using counting is "Who Counts, Counts" by Stephanie Strickland, where the shifting status of relationships, and the bond of motherhood, was conveyed very simply by counting and recounting the people in a relationship.
Some of the poems have a mathematical structure, one is even written in the form of a proof. In some poems mathematical concepts are used as metaphors, such as Robin Chapman's sad use of the non-associativity (f(x+y) not equally f(x) + f(y)) to describe a child's experience of divorce in "Nonlinear Function".
The final section, where poets (many mathematicians) write about their love of maths, also has many examples of strong expression, and strangely enough, many of these poems seem almost less mathematical than in the previous sections. It is nice to see the passion for the subject that so many mathematicians share expressed in this unusual and open-hearted way. I think one of the strengths of such a book is that not only can it show people who are looking for poems to express love, the beauty of the language of maths, but it also might help explain some of the deep emotions mathematicians feel for their subject. I also like the duality of combining maths and poetry: that as well as taking maths to poetry lovers, it will also expose mathematicians to poetry, and perhaps as the best artistic-scientific collaborations do, allow insight on both sides.
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February 16, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Post-Valentine's mathematical love
We're not sure if they've got Internet access on cloud 9, but for all the loved-up Valentines out there, as well as for those who are wondering what has gone wrong, here are some mathematical musings on love...
And to make sure that your special someone doesn't forget you, how about a mathematical serenade...
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February 10, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
The agony and ecstasy of risk statistics
Last week the chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs caused outrage by claiming that ecstasy was no more dangerous than horse riding. But what does "dangerous" really mean, and how is our perception of risk influenced by morality? David Spiegelhalter, Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge, investigates in his guest column in the Times.
David Spiegelhalter runs the Understanding Uncertainty website, which explores matters of risks and uncertainty, and also has his very own column in Plus.
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February 5, 2009
Thursday, February 05, 2009
The mathematics behind the Complicite production
Mathematics takes to the stage with A disappearing number, a work by Complicite, inspired by the mathematical collaboration of Hardy and Ramanujan. Plus spoke to Victoria Gould and Marcus du Sautoy about the mathematical and creative process of developing this show.
This podcast accompanies the career podcast with Victoria and the article A disappearing number from issue 49 of Plus.
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I know it's early but their GA is horrible, and they aren't lighting it up either. I didn't think there would be this big a drop off, and it is still early, but I can see some big trades to unload coming from Motown. I'm not going to speculate, but should be interesting to see if they put their heads in the sand like Calgary, or accept the fact they are old and have many valuable assets to trade. Franzen anyone?


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Out of all the female characters in TWD game, you have to pick which three you'd have sex with, kill, and marry.
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[*]I'd bang Carley
[*]Kill Molly
[*]Marry Lilly
If you're a girl or gay, you can do this in reverse with the guys. Of if you're bi you can do two lists? Lol, I dunno. I just got this from Step Brothers and found it hilarious. So I posted the idea here.


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Sony's VP of Network Operations Americas Eric Lempel has announced that beginning today PSN users can access millions of music tracks on PlayStation Network with Music Unlimited.
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By Jan Schultz
The Imperial Republican
Many of the younger firefighters on the Imperial Volunteer Fire Department hadn't seen a fire as big as the one Jan. 6 that burned hundreds of acres west of Imperial.
The fire, reported about 12:30 p.m., also had the attention of most in Imperial that day as the heavy cloud of smoke filled the western skies for several hours.
High winds peaking at 44 mph made it difficult to get under control, said First Asst. Chief Dan Robinson.
"We were behind the 8-ball from the get go," Robinson said.
"It was way too big for our trucks."
He estimated it wasn't under control until about 3:30 p.m., and eventually burned 600 acres.
Seven other area fire departments, including Grant and Venango, joined Imperial on the mutual aid effort, bringing 31 fire units to the scene. The departments of Holyoke, Amherst, Wauneta, Lamar and Benkelman also joined in the effort.
Robinson said they called in Lamar right away before leaving the fire barn, then summoned the others after 10 to 15 minutes on the scene.
The fire started on ground owned by Dorothy Weiss about three-fourths of a mile north of Highway 6 on 327 Road.
IVFD officers indicate it appears the point of the fire's origin was near a pivot system, where there had been some pivot work being done.
The strong northwest winds moved the fire quickly, making it difficult to get a handle on as it burned through corn stalks, wheat stubble and pasture ground.
Robinson said they had hoped to stop it from jumping across the highway south, but they also had to watch the back end of it.
Flames, at times, were estimated to be up to 10 feet high in some spots.
The city of Imperial was never threatened, Robinson and fellow officers Chief Bryan Dannatt and First Lt. Brad Wheeler said.
Through the dispatcher, IVFD officers were in contact with the National Weather Service in North Platte, whose forecasters told them the wind wasn't expected to shift toward town.
The IVFD, with help from the other departments, did take precautions, however.
Fire trucks were stationed near Bernard and Margaret Marvin's windbreak north of their farmstead, at Vincent Marvin's place and near Greg and Tina Hayes' place.
On the advice of the firefighters, Margaret Marvin did leave their farmstead for a time as her husband was out trying to move a pivot from the fire's path.
The Marvins said the fire burned within 200 feet of their windbreak, and burned up an entire quarter of grass and wheat stubble, and charred parts of three other quarters, totaling about 250 acres.
In addition to the seven other fire departments, the fire officers said they had a lot of help from law enforcement, including city police, sheriff's department and the State Patrol. County emergency management also assisted.
Sections of Highway 6 west of Imperial and near the Colorado line were closed temporarily during the height of the fire.
A number of area farmers brought equipment to the scene, and several local businesses assisted by bringing water and equipment, as well.
Firefighters from Imperial were on the scene for five hours.
First Lt. Wheeler, who has been on the department more than 20 years, said Tuesday's was the biggest fire he's fought.
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Clutch -- San Francisco, CA -- November 9th, 2007
Yesterday was a highly anticipated day for me not only because it was my 18th birthday but also because it was the day I would finally see CLUTCH, one of my favorite bands who had eluded me twice on previous tours. Unfortunately (make that extremely unfortunately) they were one of the opening bands on this jaunt for pseudo-prog rock artist COHEED AND CAMBRIA. Though originally I thought this was billed as a co-headlining tour, it turned out to be nothing of the sort, as CLUTCH got 45 minutes to play without use of the whole stage. Nevertheless I was pumped to see one of the greatest American rock bands ever, and I don't mean that to sound heavy-handed at all because it's just flat out true.
I took my little brother to this show because like me he's also a big CLUTCH fan and I thought for a change it'd be cool to go just me and him. We got to the Warfield Theater a little earlier than we had planned to, especially since we lucked out and found parking almost immediately which is a rarity in downtown San Francisco. Once inside my worst expectations were confirmed; this was gonna be probably the worst crowd I've ever experienced. Emo's, emo's, emo's, nerds, and more emo's. The way people look necessarily doesn't matter much to me, but when they act in according fashion then it pisses me off, because nobody likes a bunch of clueless 13 year old acne-laden bitches talking about how "omg we're gonna be sooo fucked up for Coheed yeah oh my god what is a Clutch lololol". Ugly stupid little kids who think they're totally rad just crawling everywhere. But this and the like was unfortunately to be expected, so after quickly perusing the merch stand (very meek, pretty disappointed that I didn't walk out of there with any awesome CLUTCH shit) my bro and I went down to the floor just in time for the start of the first band THE FALL OF TROY.
I wanted to like these guys. They have some awesome parts to their music. And I bet if I had closed my eyes for the duration of their set I might've actually somewhat enjoyed myself. But I'll be damned if their singer/guitarist isn't the biggest douchebag I've ever seen on stage in my life. Totally ruined it for me. Have your balls even dropped you girl-jeans-wearing egotistical fag? This dude acts like he's God's gift to the music world. I love it when artists show emotion and get into the show on stage, hell watching Janick flail around is awesome because its his character in counterpart to the rest of the boys, but you know what? I don't give a fuck and a half how good you can play with one hand, or if you can spit 5 feet in the air and catch it in your mouth (then hurl it into the crowd) without missing a note, or if you can play standing on the monitors or on the bass drum or with your guitar wherever the fuck you wanna put it. Yeah you're talented, stop wanking off and play, and while you're at it stop acting like such a pompous bitch. This rockstar bullshit and major ego-driven attitude pisses me off like no other. Ever watch Tony Iommi? Adrian Smith? These are the real rockstars shithead, maybe you could learn a thing or two from them. His banter between songs sealed the deal, and this band just totally lost my support. They were one of those kinda on the edge bands for me, where the live show can make 'em or break 'em in terms of my support/interest, and whereas a band like LIGHT THIS CITY proved their case to me a couple months back, FALL OF TROY lost it for me last night. It wasn't so much the music that was the issue, cuz wasn't terrible save for some of the screamo breakdown parts with those annoying chords played on the high strings, but they just totally have the wrong way of going about things on stage. Their set, plus the crowd, plus the dickhead 'steroid security' (they just totally beat the shit out of one guy who tried to climb on stage and then dragged him outside past right next to where my bro and I were standing, they were complete assholes and the guy they were beating wasn't even being aggressive at all) all combined to put me into a pretty hostile mood for CLUTCH.
As I made my way up to the front dead center for CLUTCH I had to of course mow through a slew of emos, who were not very pleased with my intrusion on their precious spot. There was a group of about 5 of them once I got up really close to the rail who tried hard to push me out, but being the weak losers they were it obviously didn't work, and I'm not a big guy despite being tall so it was all pretty humorous to me. I asked if they came for COHEED or CLUTCH and of course they all laughed when I told 'em I paid to see CLUTCH and was leaving after their set. They were still reluctant to give up their spot even as they continued to talk shit about CLUTCH. My favorites were the two kids sporting the typical emo haircuts with those big loop earrings and of course fingernails painted black, I made sure to give em hell during CLUTCH's set. All this just made me feel so thankful for the tiny metal shows where everybody is awesome and these kinda people aren't there, I definitely take it for granted sometimes. Finally though the time for a real fucking band to come on had arrived, as the lights went down and the boys walked out on stage and proceeded to take care of business.
CLUTCH have had the bad fortune of being stuck opening for a lot of bands they don't match well with in the past (MAIDEN, MARILYN MANSON, DEFTONES, now COHEED) but despite this they continue to win people over time and again with their performances, which has helped them persevere as a touring band all these years. The only time these guys are off the road is to lay down a new record, which becomes immediately evident when they play. You couldn't ask for a tighter band, nor a looser one, because CLUTCH can jam out with the best of 'em. I didn't recognize the song they opened with (later found out it was apparently "Hoodoo Operator", it sounded good though) but when they started into one of my personal favorites "The Mob Goes Wild" I totally lost it and did my part in starting the pit action down front Such a kickass tune, and they followed it up with more of the same excellency all night. I was just in heaven the whole set long. I wasn't aware that Neil also played guitar, he does a damn good job of it too, aside from nailing his vocals the whole time. People have been complaining about the harmonica player but I think it sounded cool when he was in the mix. What more can be said of Jean Paul Gaster behind the kit, the man is brilliant, totally inspirational performance from him. When you walk away from a show feeling inspired to play yourself it's a great feeling, and CLUTCH certainly elicited that feeling from me. As for the crowd reaction the nerds were mostly just annoyed by me going apeshit the entire time, but there were a couple jock types behind me who were into as well, and some hella fine chick who was with 'em too which was tight. As the show went on I got the picture that this wouldn't be like other setlists on this tour where they would play almost exclusively songs off From Beale Street To Oblivion, so I figured after they stomped through "The Elephant Riders" that it was getting closed to the end and that we'd get maybe one more off Beale before they closed with the obligatory "Electric Worry/One Eye Dollar" combo. I was hoping against hope that it would be "White's Ferry", and after a brief pause my prayers were answered. Possibly my #1 CLUTCH song, "White's Ferry" was just amazing live, the highlight of the night that made all the other shit irrelevant. They did a sweet ass jam off the outro part that was utterly blissful, and they also got to jam out in the extended "Cypress Grove." Setlist:
1.) Profits Of Doom
2.) The Mob Goes Wild
3.) The Devil & Me
4.) Hoodoo Operator
5.) Red Horse Rainbow
6.) The Elephant Riders
7.) White's Ferry (extended)
8.) Cypress Grove (extended)
9.) Electric Worry
10.) One-Eye Dollar
45 minutes is not anywhere near enough for a band like CLUTCH, but it was nevertheless completely satisfying and I still came away feeling like I got what I bargained for. In typical CLUTCH fashion the setlist had some major surprises especially compared to other ones they had been playing on the tour, namely the inclusion of "Hoodoo", "Rainbow", and "Elephants" and the lack of "You Can't Stop Progress" and "Power Player." CLUTCH have no poor tunes in their entire catalog to the extent that I am familiar with, so I could go on for pages about what else I would've liked to see but I was more than thrilled with their song selection, especially because I had no idea what was gonna come next (except of course for the closer). CLUTCH reminded me what I love about music, and if possible made me an even bigger fan than I was before the show. Can't wait to see them in a proper setting, as I'm sure this gig will pale in comparison.
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I took the time to read your thread, which is why I'm telling you right now that Clutch are nowhere near "one of the greatest American rock bands ever". They are beat in.
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Hi everyone. I've researched a few tutorials for those who hasn't seen them yet. There are still some more but I'll post the rest later on. Let me know if some of the links doesn't work. Oh and don't forget to check the links at the end of my post--they are awesome.
(each number is a different tutorial)
How to Ice a cake
- 1. Crumbcoat (series) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCEV5bCJBEU
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cuIVgDqSW8&feature=channel
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIXHFqpJK84
4. Square - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIXHFqpJK84
5. Ganache - http://sugaredblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-orleans-doberge-cake.html
How to stack a cake:
- 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvaCSW78ybc&feature=related
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qu9ZtV51RM&feature=related
How to cover a round cake in fondant:
- 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vecmy4nKT-A
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsrgS9eB1bE&feature=fvw
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We26gwKS_tw
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnTjyRwPsN4
How to cover a square/rectangle cake in fondant:
- 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyRy2QX2wKo
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbU5O1YRjBI
How to make a bow
- 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07ss0Pq3OdU&feature=related
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vcVtBfgG8Y
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOTdwsbgDV8&feature=related
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpNShpcXE3I
5. http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-652568-tutorial.html
How to make gumpaste flowers:
- Carnations 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zq0vKjAsjc&feature=channel
Carnations 2 - http://sugarteachers.blogspot.com/2009/06/carnation-tutorial.html
Roses 1 (series)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqiNRkSQLf8&feature=related
Roses 2 (check flickr comments)- http://www.flickr.com/photos/franjmc/2927935625/
Sweet Peas - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA2raWAxuVY&feature=channel
Orchids 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mofv-j0EZsA&feature=channel
Orchids 2 (series) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZsiIbQY4NQ&feature=channel
Small flowers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKy95AmumJo&feature=channel
Calla Lillies (series) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUIjP1zRhH4
Cally Lillies- http://sugarteachers.blogspot.com/2009/04/calla-lilly-tutorial.html
Cherry blossoms - http://sugarteachers.blogspot.com/2009/06/cherry-blossom-tutorial.html
Duff Roses - http://www.youtube.com/user/nivia91#play/uploads/15/Rc_A2CgKKM8
Gerbera - http://www.make-fabulous-cakes.com/gum-paste-gerbera-flower.html
Peony (series) - http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-651611-tutorial.html
Dogwood - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGx8u5YPiJ8&feature=channel
Fuschia - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGu9Wm7Ic5g&feature=channel
Hydrangea - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeLpLROfPFY&feature=channel
- vertical stripes - http://www.flickr.com/photos/30279130@N02/sets/72157607165399596/
zebra stripes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJoGKtopx3o&feature=player_embedded
Brush Embroidery:
- 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqbDTaauGO0&feature=channel
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6r8MYHYz00
- 1. (series) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqOELkrr-BM&feature=channel
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RXyBljHNKk
Topsy turvy tutorial:
- 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHY_F53ClJ8
2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/deliciously_decadent/sets/72157616259103302/
3. http://cakecentral.com/articles/6/how-to-make-a-topsy-turvy-whimsical-cake#more-6
4. (wedge) http://sugaredblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/graduation-wedge-cake.html
How to make shoes:
- Heels 1 - http://sugarteachers.blogspot.com/search/label/Chocolate%20high%20heel%20shoes
Heels 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eIZO9fe09w&feature=related
Baby shoes 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vkvESoe7FU&feature=channel
Baby shoes 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxtelcNXMPU&feature=related
Baby shoes 3 (series) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY-jKqyKynU&feature=related
Shoe box - http://sugarteachers.blogspot.com/search/label/Shoebox
How to make a homemade cake board: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrLg55cDkAE&feature=related
Cover a board in fondant: http://www.flickr.com/photos/extra-icing/sets/72157594575839118
Gelatin bows and flowers: http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-630413-gelatin.html
FBCT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV2DZDuv9XA
How to use a pearl border: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_3__KwnXQ0&feature=related
Ribbon Insertion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqjLAO3fRDs&feature=channel
Stacked luggage cake: http://sugarteachers.blogspot.com/2009/09/vintage-stacked-luggage-cake-tutorial.html
Gumpaste teacup: http://sugarteachers.blogspot.com/search/label/teacup%20tutorial
Gumpaste swans: http://sugarteachers.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-to-make-wired-gumpaste-swan.html
Pillow Cakes: http://sugarteachers.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-make-pillow-cushion-cake-by-toni.html
How to use funky letter tappits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfuxL2PqoVA&feature=fvw
YOUTUBERS (specializes in tutorials)
Edna - http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=tonedna1&view=videos
SeriousCakes - http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=SeriousCakes&view=videos
Donnalane - http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=donnalane626&view=videos
Aine2 - http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=aine2&view=videos
Thefoodcourt - (check the cake section) http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=thefoodcourt#grid/uploads
OTHER LINKS WITH TONS OF TUTORIALS (Really really neat tutorials--believe me):
1. http://www.rolledfondant.com/how.htm
2. http://www.ices.org/newsletter/articles.html
3. http://sugarteachers.blogspot.com
4. http://www.globalsugarart.com/instruction.sheets.php
5. http://www.cakejournal.com/tutorials
6. http://www.creativecelebrationcakes.co.uk/page27.htm
Since Christmas is coming, I'll also post a gingerbread house website. There are tons of tips and inspirations. Here it is: http://www.iwanttobuildagingerbreadhouse.com/
Edited to add more links
Oh and here is how to cover a board in fondant: http://www.flickr.com/photos/extra-icing/sets/72157594575839118
Check out Youtube because there are tons I haven't included.
Oh man, we've GOT to make this thread a sticky!! Thanks soooo much for all that great info!!
THankyou very much for going to the trouble of listing all these sites. I am currently going through each one!
WOW thanks so much for compiling all these tutorials Rylan! You're awesome!
That's awesome!! Thanks Rylan .
OMG you are the best! Thanks for doing that!
rylan, you are not just exceptionally talented but exceptionally generous as well! thanks so much!
this is awesome! thank you!
Thank you sooo much
Bless your heart . . . thank you so much for doing this
I'll just chime in here if Rylan doesn't mind -- if y'all want cool recipes to go with these cool techniques Rylan has so kindly given us, just click on the link in my signature which goes to a thread with all the google docs of all the threads that have them here on CC.
And back to our regularly scheduled program...
WOW thanks so much!! that will help alot of ppl out!
WOW! ! ! ! WOW! ! ! ! Thank you sooooo much.
Thank you so much!!!
Thank you so much for taking the time to gather and post these links Rylan! It is much appreciated
Thanks Loads!!!!!!
Thanks Rylan!
Yay!!! Thank you so much!!!
Thank you so much! What a wonderful, generous gift to everyone!
This is terrific! YOU are terrific for taking the time to compile this list and for sharing. THANKS!
As a newbie...I can't say thank you enough. Your generousity and willingness to share is GREATLY appreciated .
Thanx so much Rylan! I always end up searching and searching, knowing I had seen it somewhere... now i just have to look one place!
Thank you for doing such a wonderful thing for everyone. Bless You.
You truly care for others... thank you for this outpouring of information... there will be a reward for you for the kindness you have shown when it matters .
Hi everyone. I've researched a few tutorials for those who hasn't seen them yet. There are still some more but I'll post the rest later on. Let me know if some of the links doesn't work. Oh and don't forget to check the links at the end of my post--they are awesome.
I had to nominate U for a member spotlight This was Sooo AWESOME of U to take the time to do. U ROCK!!! and your pics are FAB too!!!
What a great service you've done for all of us. Many thanks!!!
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Students ask many of the following questions about the processes and rules of CSULB. Successful students know the answers to these frequently asked questions. Please read them carefully. Knowing these answers can help you avoid pitfalls during your first semesters on campus. For further information, see this section of the Catalog or contact the University Center for Undergraduate Advising (formerly the Academic Advising Center) at (562) 985-4837.
1. Why is it critical that I check e-mail from CSULB? It is important to check your e-mail regularly since this is the primary means by which you will receive important information from the university (e.g., deadlines for adding and dropping classes, your registration appointment date).
2. How do I tell the university about a change in my e-mail address or mailing address? You can use MyCSULB to change your e-mail address, indicate the e-mail address that you prefer to use, or change your mailing address. Click on "Personal Profile" to view your current information and to make changes.
3. Why should I check my official class schedule at the beginning of each semester and again after two or three weeks? It is important to make sure that you are officially enrolled in every class you are attending, and not enrolled in any class you are not attending. Remember that an instructor can give you permission to add a class, but only you can officially enroll yourself in a class (or drop yourself from a class).
4. Why is it important that I personally drop classes that I have registered for but am no longer attending? Instructors do not have the responsibility to drop students. Students must drop classes they no longer want or never attended (using MyCSULB) up to and during the first two (2) weeks of the semester.
Beginning the third week, students must use the official withdrawal form to change their schedule. (See the section on Withdrawals for the rules that apply to withdrawal after the third week of classes.)
Official withdrawal is indicated on the transcript with the symbol "W." This designation does not affect grade point average (GPA). As of Fall 2009, undergraduates may withdraw from a career-maximum of 18 units per Executive Order 1037. Students who fail to withdraw officially within the established deadline receive a "WU" symbol (unauthorized withdrawal).
In the calculation of the GPA, a "WU" is counted as an "F" grade.
5. Can freshmen/sophomore students take upper-division (300-499) classes? University policy prohibits students with under 30 units from taking upper-division courses without permission of the instructor.
6. What can I do if I get a "D" or "F" or "WU" in a course? The University has a policy which allows undergraduates to repeat a course in which they earned a "D", "F," or "WU". If the second grade is a "C" or better, the second grade will be used to calculate your GPA. Both grades remain on the transcript, but the first one is "forgiven" from the GPA calculation. This can only be done once per course at CSULB. If you don't earn a "C" or better on the second try, all grades will be counted. For further details, refer to the "Repetition of Courses for Satisfactory Grade" in this section of the Catalog.