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I just got the MX51 front and rear combo and they totally rip through the forest trails and especially in the desert. Better than trials tires for sure.
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Geomax MX51 helps deliver enhanced grip, added tread longevity and a wider range of terrain applications, reaching farther into hard-pack conditions.
- Profile design provides more tread volume (greater land / sea ratio) in the shoulders for excellent cornering grip and a more open center-tread area for straight-line grip.
- Recessed biting edges in shoulder tread blocks yield enhanced traction for greater grip in corners and ruts throughout a wide range of terrain conditions.
- Tie-bar design connects and reinforces the tread blocks for greater tread stiffness, yielding improved intermediate-to-hard terrain performance.
- Recessed design in the area between tread blocks gives the tire improved compliance for enhanced ride comfort.
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I run the MX51 on all but the sandiest tracks in Michigan. The knobs eventually start chunking off on very hard pack surfaces, but not unreasonably so. These are my favorite tires.
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Dunlops geomax MX 51s are the best tires on the market.
These were suggested to me by two of the more advanced riders in our riding group. I have been happy with them so far, I have only put about 10 hours (woods riding) on them but they haven't lost any lugs and grip is confidence inspiring. Roots, rocks and ruts normally cause longevity issues with tires but again, so far so good.
Great tire!
Performs excellently in all conditions.
MX-51 tires are the only tires that I will put on my 250F. The grip on the track is awesome.
We have ran other tires in the past tried the mx 51s looking for better performance and found it .We will never run any other kind my son wouldn't let me even if i wanted to.Great for hard and intermediate not the best for sandy conditions.
worked on a 1995 honda xr100r. smaller tire goes on much easier than a bigger back tire. soapy water and two paddles. took me about 30 minutes total time. it is a little bigger/taller tire than the original, non metric, size tire, but not too big. looks good.
Good tire. Stable under braking. I haven't had it in a wide range of conditions so I can't comment on it's ability to handle changing dirt conditions.
Only have a few rides on it, but still looks new. Pretty easy to install also.
The 51 seemed to work well on the 85. I'm not too stoked on it on my CRF250R, but it's a bigger bike and tire.
Have had great luck with these tires in the past.
Put this on my kx450f. Huge improvement in my cornering. Gave me the confidence to lay into it.
Dunlop still is the best and only tire I run, I have tried the others and won't ever do that again. Dunlop is the only tire for me.
This is a a-plus tire tread is awesome and so is grip got it for my yz85 2003
I switched to this tire after many reviews and input from other riders. GLAD I DID! This tire is great for every kind of terrian! You won't go wrong with this one!
As stated before this tire is no good in anything loamy or sandy. It is wide, so it floats, wanders and slides all over the place. I think it's a great hard pack tire on clay or tacky but if you ride anything intermediate I would lean towards the MX31. If you live in Florida definitely get the MX31.
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SIKESTON - Dessa Rhea Fowler, 84, died Feb. 11, 2002, at her home.
Born Aug. 26, 1917, in Carbon Hill, Ala., daughter of the late James and Minnie Stovall Kitchen, she was a member of the First Assembly of God Church and co-founder of the Women's Aglow ministry in Sikeston. She had taught school in a one-room schoolhouse in Cross County, Ark., for many years and later worked for the International Shoe Company before retiring in 1968.
On Sept. 1, 1937, in Cherry Valley, Ark., she married Buford Fowler who survives of the home.
Other survivors include: one son, Bobby L. Fowler of Sikeston; two daughters, Catherine Wilson of Tavares, Fla., and Mary F. Alsup of St. Charles; and six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
One brother and four sisters preceded her in death.
Visitation is scheduled from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston.
Services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Thursday at the First Assembly of God Church with the Rev. Allen Basham, pastor, officiating.
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If I thought it would bring a victory very week I'd be a huge advocate of never taking them off but those things were horrendous. I thought a house might land on Big Ben and I'd only see his legs sticking out with those socks.
I like the jersey's. Especially in person. I have no idea why they are catching so much crap lol.
If the Steelers lose to the Redskins last Sunday, those unis would appear much worse than they did. Since they played so well, I really liked them. ;) I think at least the socks should be retained full time lol
Yep they are ugly but everyone is talking about them. I had people who have never talked to me about football before come up and tell me wow your team uniforms were ugly. so yeah they were ugly but everyone is talking about Steelers.
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A Quote by David Berman on images, mind, perspective, and visual
It would be wrong of me to suppose that just because I can form private mental images, that everyone can. As Francis Galton and William James long ago showed, a small proportion of adults--and some of these extremely intelligent--are unable to form such visual images. Berkeley's point is that it would be equally arrogant for these non-thinkers or non-image formers to claim that everyone is like them in the relevant respect. The temptation to pontificate in that way reveals a narrowness and unwillingness to see the world from another perspective.
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May 27, 2011 6:59 pm
Thousands of members of final-salary pension schemes are being left to make complex decisions about whether to accept cash incentives to give up valuable benefits, without access to full advice.
This "advice black hole" emerged earlier in the week after the government raised concerns about the incentives used by employers to shift members out of costly final-salary, or defined-
benefit (DB), schemes.
DB schemes are often referred to as "gold standard" because of inbuilt benefits such as inflation-linked annual increases and death benefits for dependants. But, with most DB schemes now in deficit, employers are looking for ways to reduce the costs of meeting these future promises.
The Pensions Regulator updated its guidance on transfer exercises last year after seeing examples of pressure tactics used by employers, and set the expectation that independent financial advice should be offered to members in these exercises.
But a regulatory quirk means that some members offered newer types of incentive are locked out of a suitability assessment by a registered financial adviser. The quirk occurs with Pension Increase Exchanges, or Pies, where an employer offers a cash lump sum or an immediate increase in pension in return for the member giving up any future statutory increases in income, such as rises to keep pace with inflation.
These types of exchanges are different from the better-known Enhanced Transfer Value (ETV) exercises, as they allow members to stay in the final salary scheme, albeit as a reduced risk to the employer.
The government warned this week that Pies could reduce purchasing power by 20-25 per cent after 20 years.
The regulator says that members offered a Pie should seek independent financial advice. But it conceded that Pie exercises fall out of the remit of what independent financial advisers (IFAs) can advise on. "The advice provided by IFAs on Pies is not regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA)," said the regulator. "This is a difficult area of incentive exercises, that presents more risk to employers and members making and receiving Pie offers." The Pensions Regulator said it was "up to employers to ensure that members 'fully understood' the decision that they were being asked to make".
"Financial advisers 'may help' in this regard, as may other professionals," says the regulator, adding that "their independence from the employer is a relevant safeguard in these exercises". The situation with Pies is different to that involving ETVs, where members have access to full advice, fact finds, risk profiling and recommendations from an adviser on whether a transfer is in their best interest. The FSA says that if an IFA was giving advice, in an area that it does not regulate , "then we have no powers to act".
One IFA firm that has been hired by employers to assist members in Pie exercises, says it will not offer its full services. "We have decided to make it very clear that the service that we provide to members is guidance only," says Tim Whiting, head of enhanced transfers with Alexander Forbes, the IFA group. "We will not give them a yes or no decision, but simply help them to understand the issues and implications in their own circumstance. Anything more may be misleading." The risks to members of acting on an unadvised basis are understood to have been brought to the attention of the pensions minister.
Meanwhile, those who are involved in Pie exercises should be aware that they will have no comeback if they are given advice. "I would hope that if an adviser was approached for advice, they would make it very clear that any pointer they give is not regulated," says Tony Attubato, head of dispute resolution with The Pensions Advisory Service.
"For the vast majority of people, giving up their pension is not their best long- term option and they should ignore the cash carrot."
The Pensions Regulator offers some guidance on transfers:
● Transfers are not in most members' interests, and they should therefore approach any exercise cautiously and actively. Some may benefit from transferring but these cases are likely to be in a minority and, very possibly, a small minority.
● Cash incentives distort decision making.
● Fully independent financial advice should be made accessible to all members and promoted in the strongest possible terms.
● No pressure should be placed on members to accept the offer.
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Simon Daughters accepted a transfer incentive offered to him last year to give up his £350,000 final salary pension.
Daughters was given the option of taking the £70,000 incentive as a cash lump sum, on which he would have to pay tax, or having the total paid straight into his pension as an "enhanced transfer value".
Daughters said he was attracted to the offer for several reasons.
"I also had a lingering worry about the company defaulting on my income late into retirement, as the scheme was in deficit. I have a large fund and not all of it would be covered by the Pension Protection Fund."
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Review: Alice (1988)
Greg Foster compares Czech surrealist animator Jan Švankmajer's Neco z Aleky to its Disney counterpart, Alice in Wonderland.
The first memories I have are ones of growing up in Thatcher's Britain in the 80s. I wasn't aware of the importance of politics, how Maggie was throttling us or that, when old enough, we could choose the businessman (or woman) to manage the country like a once-great now-ailing high street chain slipping down the pecking order. All I knew was that this was life and it had to be lived. The then-government would tell us that we had to learn to make our own way at the expense of others and we weren't there to be mollycoddled as the post war-time signals coming from our special-relationship cousins over the Atlantic would suggest.
Even before the war America's syrupy 'think of the children' ideals, by way of Disney and other youth-focussed broadcasters, helped us move on and break from the child-labour ways of our industrial revolution foundations. More child laws were coming into effect and it felt like we were protecting an endangered species. We pumped money into their salvation by way of television advertising but instead of giving a few quid to 'save the whale' we were giving hundreds to branded manufacturers to ensure our precious babes stay ahead of the crowd and look good while doing it.
While we spent the rest of the 20th century wearing plastic American smiles hanging loosely off our once socialist European faces, other parts of the continent were not so quick to join our brown-nosing. Czechoslovakia would become part of the Communist Eastern Bloc and, as with the rest of the Bloc states, it would quickly lag behind the West socially and economically thus breeding a politically repressive climate.
It's in our youth that we are most receptive to learning intricacies about our society and it's our understanding of the world around us which gradually adds ill-fitting building blocks to our personalities, forging us into the people we become like a cruel blacksmith cheating his client with crooked wares. It does seem to be an odd kink in the human condition that creativity is unlocked in people from a repressive upbringing, whether it be something darkly sinister or a hulking political machine steamrollering childhood dreams into flat puddles of bloodied bones and faded rainbows.
Czechoslovakia spawned artists such as the writer Franz Kafka and the animator Jan Švankmajer and it was the latter who would highlight the cultural differences between the decadent West and the oppressed Eastern Bloc, when he compared the great American storyteller Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland with his own interpretation of the Lewis Carroll novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Neco z Alenky (Alice).
Švankmajer had been making short stop-motion animation films since the early sixties and, after realising their popularity, made the step up to feature length and in the process furthered his career as a filmmaker. The first of these was Alice. It was his answer to what he perceived as a long list of poorly interpreted film versions of the same material. He didn't see this story as a fairy tale but more a "realised dream".
While Alice is played by a real girl (Kristyna Kohoutova) the rest of the characters in the film are fantastical animated creations made up of bones, meat, metal, crying wigs and, in a casting masterstroke, the white rabbit is an actual rabbit fresh from a trip to the taxidermist. In a brutal twist the rabbit haemorrhages sawdust from a rip in his body only to repair the damage with a safety pin and then lick the recently excreted innards from the face of his infamous timepiece in the vain hope of stunting his dwindling punctuality.
In fact, all the creatures that Alice meets on her dream journey are similarly beset by grotesque mannerisms or simple failures in their general creation, like the sock-puppet caterpillar who has to sew his own eyes shut in order to sleep or the march hare who frequently needs the key in his back fully wound so he can spread butter over the mad hatter's clocks. Alice herself even falls foul of this when she eats the biscuits. Instead of just becoming a smaller version of herself, as in the aforementioned versions, she turns into a creepy porcelain doll.
Violence and death are ongoing themes throughout too. There's lots of pain inflicted between Alice and the White Rabbit, which raises the question of what she actually wants to do with our furry friend once she's caught up with him. The barbarism is dished out in equal measure without regard for consequence, like when she pushes him out of a window into a pane of glass and traps his hand in a door tearing a hole in it through his glove. Among his many ripostes he paddles her and cuts her hand with a saw. There's a moment just over halfway through the film where Alice sees the lifeless body of a friendly rat whom she had met earlier with his head now caught in a vicious trap. Walt Disney this most certainly is not.
The production design is uncompromising in its darkness, the sets are cold and hard, the sound is foreboding and the constant jagged close-ups of Alice's lips mouthing "said the White Rabbit" add an air of jarring unease. While the film looks and sounds macabre a beautiful undercurrent of emotional depth flows beneath the surface which makes Alice the most interesting artistic adaptation of Carroll's novel, packing a satisfying punch that leaves you laying sprawled and dazed on the abstract canvas hidden in the recesses of the mind after such a profound attack on the senses.
This film conveys what it was sometimes like to be a child in the Eastern Bloc, how their dreams were infested by bones and decay rather than sweetened with hugs and teddy bears like their democratic peers further west. Švankmajer leaves us with a thoroughly challenging, unsettling but fully rounded and perfectly realised piece of fantasy cinema which is worlds away from the saccharine sweet Disney effort. Alice is a stunning, evocative display of filmmaking and, even though the source isn't his own, the Czech animator immerses himself in it sufficiently enough to create a masterpiece that most definitely is.


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> If the system is connected to the network using dhcp it gets the IP,
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Fed Consumer Advocate to Retire
The Federal Reserve official in charge of its division of consumer and community affairs will retire from her position April 1.
The official, Sandra Braunstein, spent 10 year as the division's director and 27 years at the central bank's Washington-based board, the Fed said Thursday in a statement.
The division has drawn criticism for not reining in mortgage industry practices before the financial crisis. Fed officials say in retrospect that they underestimated the potential of the housing boom to give way to a severe financial crisis and deep recession. The damage to many Americans—such as those who lost their homes to foreclosure or who owed more on their mortgages than their homes were worth after the bust—fueled support for the establishment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a separate federal agency created to police financial firms and products on behalf of customers.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke praised Ms. Braunstein's work. "Sandy's vision, energy, and dedication served the Board well during a particularly challenging period in its history," said Bernanke, who is set to retire from his post at the end of this month. "She has demonstrated strong leadership in the development and implementation of policies and practices to promote community development, safeguard consumers, and ensure that financial institutions comply with federal consumer protection laws."
In addition, the Fed said, "in 2008, [she] used its authority under the Truth in Lending Act and Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act to establish sweeping new regulatory protections for consumers in the residential mortgage market."
By September of 2008, the problem of souring of mortgage debt had escalated into a full-blown crisis in which financial markets seized up, Lehman Brothers collapsed and the federal government acted to rescue several other foundering financial firms.


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OS Provisioning Changes in 12.2
By Owen Allen-Oracle on Mar 20, 2014
With the release of Ops Center 12.2, I'm going to do a series of posts about the new and enhanced features. I'll start with OS Provisioning, because it's had some big changes.
In older versions, Ops Center used an OS Provisioning profile to specify all of the OS parameters, including the OS image to be used, the installation requirements, and the OS and network configuration information.
In version 12.2, however, we've changed this in order to make the process more manageable and flexible. For the new process, we've broken the old OS Provisioning profiles into two new profiles:
- OS Provisioning (OSP) profile - This specifies the OS image, and the provisioning and install requirements.
- OS Configuration (OSC) profile -This specifies the operating system and network configuration.
The advantage here is that it makes it much easier to reuse profiles. If you want to create systems from the same OS image but with different network configurations, you don't need to repeat or copy the OS Provisioning info, you can just reuse the same profile.
When you upgrade to version 12.2, your existing OSP profiles will be automatically split into an OSP and an OSC profile, and any plans that used the old profile will be updated accordingly. You can see more information about the new profiles in the OS Provisioning chapter of the Feature Reference Guide; this section talks about the naming conventions that are used for this update. The Deploy How To section of the library also has how-tos explaining how to provision Oracle Solaris 10, Oracle Solaris 11, and Oracle VM Server for SPARC using the new process.


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Google is using its vast database of web shopping data to construct the 'Google Price Index' – a daily measure of inflation that could one day provide an alternative to official statistics.
The work by Google's chief economist, Hal Varian, highlights how economic data can be gathered far more rapidly using online sources. The official Consumer Price Index data are collected by hand from shops, and only published monthly with a time lag of several weeks.
At the National Association of Business Economists conference in Denver, Colorado, Mr Varian said that the GPI was a work in progress and Google had not yet decided whether to publish it.
While the Federal Reserve is unlikely to panic just yet, Mr Varian said that the GPI shows a "very clear deflationary trend" for web-traded goods in the US since Christmas. Although the data are not seasonally adjusted, Mr Varian said that prices rose during the same period a year ago. The 'core' CPI in the US, which excludes food and energy, rose 0.9 per cent on a year ago in August.
"It's a quite different picture if you go to the UK where you see a slight inflationary trend," Mr Varian said. He attributed the rise in the UK GPI to the weakness of sterling.
Mr Varian emphasised that the GPI is not a direct replacement for the CPI because the mix of goods that are sold on the web is different to the mix in the wider economy. Housing accounts for about 40 per cent of the US CPI, for example, but only 18 per cent of the GPI.
The GPI shows a "pretty good correlation" with the CPI for goods such as cameras and watches that are often sold on the web, but less so for others, such as car parts, that are infrequently traded online.
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Good evening Michael and Alek. Thanks for the great comments. Alek, I have been looking for more HDR from you. Thanks again, Sharon
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Good evening Dogkas. Thanks for the nice comment regarding my photos. I am off to you gallery to view your work. Best to you. Sharon
I'm Getting VERY tired of HDR processed pictures!
I am sorry to hear your comment. I love to do them and I do not feel as though I over-do them. If you don't like it, that is fine and your opinion. I am new to photography and trying all sorts of techniques and filters. I guess it is everyone's right to do as they please. I happen to admire everyone's work on Panoramio and have learned a great deal from all. Best to you. Sharon
Ah yes! Let me suggest that since you have chosen to publish your pictures, that you are open to criticism by anyone, not just professionals.
You do show some talent, and appear to have an (uneducated) eye for composition, which is the most critical element in any visual art. If I may suggest; if you really are interested in learning photography, you study the great photographers and artists. Then you do not ask for accolades from amateurs and other non-knowledgeable people, who invariably give you "oooohs" and "aaaahs", and "Oh, that's nice", and other worthless comments. this is the kind of thing you get from EVERY on-line gallery. Ask for detailed comments from someone who has proven he really knows what he is talking about. That way you will learn, otherwise you probably won't.
Criticisms are the same as rejection slips all of us have received for submitting work for publishing. We frequently have shuddered a bit when we got them, but we learned from every one of them. My ex-wife, a brilliant poet (with two PhD degrees), has a scrap-book full of rejection slips she received for a volume of poetry she wrote. It was finally published, and received powerfully good reviews from three university presses. I still have my first rejection slip framed and on my wall. I see it every day, and it reminds me that I can always do better work. There is no room in this world for mediocrity in the guise of art.
I think you have potential, and if I can help, let me know.
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Hi Ed. I was not sorry that you criticized my photograph. I love to get tips and ideas. I was sorry that you said that you were "tired of HDRs". I think everything I can try just teaches me a little more. I have read a whole lot of books and took a class on DSLR cameras from our junior college near by but it was a total bust. I don't feel that I can study with a pro just yet because I don't even know what I do with all the different buttons. I was just a point and shoot kind of girl until I learned of Panoramio and I have bought books on exposure, and everything else. I love when someone says, "If you do so and so, you will get this result etc."
Anyway, sorry that you took my ""sorry comment" as being unwilling to except criticism. I never uploaded anything until I felt comfortable letting someone look at my piece of the world. Also, I am blind in one eye and the other isn't very good either. Some times I think something looks good only to find out later it wasn't as sharp or whatever after someone tells me. Best to you. Sharon
Sharon, know how often raided the bank. really a very evocative picture. LIKE. Regards Cesar.
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Favorite Voices
- A little different from my favorite voice actors, this is a list of my favorite-sounding voices (speaking), regardless of acting ability.
- Sean Connery
- Kevin Conroy
- Cary Grant
- Dan Castallaneta (as Homer Simpson)
- James Earl Jones
- Christopher Walken
- Patrick Warburton
- David Hayter
- Peter Lorre
- Ubiquitous Trailer Guy
- Humphrey Bogart
- Hal Smith
- John Wayne
- Walter Brennan
- Gabriel Byrne
- John Huston
Does anybody know the actual name of Ubiquitous Trailer Guy? He's featured most predominantly in the 'Comedian' trailer.
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I luuuved this idea... (but broke my list down 1:1:15:5:5)
All-Time Champeen: Patrick Warburton
One Great Character Performance: Hugo Weaving
Andre Braugher
Steve Buscemi
Joan Cusack
Minnie Driver
Giancarlo Espesito
Laurence Fishburne
John Gielgud
John Houseman
James Earl Jones
Eartha Kitt
Kevin Kline
Michelle Pfeiffer
Alan Rickman
Meryl Streep
Jennifer Tilly
no middle ground:
John Cleese
Gene Kelly
Adam Sandler
Christopher Walken
Robin Williams
Michael Caine
Danny DeVito
Fran Drescher
Bruno Kirby
Jerry Lewis
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Ack! How'd I forget Patrick Warburton???? I love him too, and The Venture Bros. is one of my favorite shows right now!!!
I think Steve Buscemi's face and performances are so memorable that I can't seperate his voice from his face for evaluation :-)
Jennifer Tilly's definitely got an interesting voice.
Oh, James Earl Jones....
Oooh! Giancarlo Espesito reminded me of one of my favorites: Gabriel Byrne! (they both starred in The Usual Suspects)
I'll just guess you loved The Emperor's New Groove, then, eh?
Sorry, what do you mean by the 'no middle ground' list?
Right with you on Drescher and Jerry Lewis... *cringe*
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Think of the job that Steve Buscemi did as Randall Boggs in Monsters, Inc. Then think of the odd off-beat accents and inflections that he uses in all of his line readings. He's like a fine jazz musician improvising over a rhythm section.
I had an ex (well, have an ex) who would repeat one of Yzma's lines from The Emperor's New Groove : "Pull the lever... Wrong leverrr!" A great Eartha Kitt line delivered perfectly with a Bulgarian tinge... I think I'll always miss it.
no middle ground: their voice is either perfectly suited for the role they are playing and a pleasure to experience (listen to) OR they have the most miscast voice, which grates incessantly in the remainder of their roles. Think of Robin Williams: he was perfect for The Genie and The Genie was perfect for him in Aladdin but Mrs. Doubtfire is beyond unlistenable... you want to throttle him in both genders.
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ah, I see.
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Can Kathleen Turner find a place on either of your lists?
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I can't hear her voice in my head...
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Jessica Rabbit.
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Lots of great voices on your list. A few extras from my favorites:
I love Henry Fonda's "regular Joe" tone, so I would add him.
And how about Peter Krause from Six feet Under? Sweet and sexy.
For women, I'd say Jeanne Moreau, Simone Signoret and Judy Dench. They all have that "scotch and cigarettes" thing going.
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Kathleen Turner, also:
Stacy Lovell (creator of Malibu Stacy) The Simpsons
Liz Strickland (Buck's wife) King of the Hill
Charles Bing (Chandler's dad) Friends
Big fan, not big enough. Besides which she always sounds like herself and I already have two Jenny-one-notes.
Peter Krause: I do enjoy what he does with his voice but I haven't heard enough. I also give Aaron Sorkin much of the credit for what he's done.
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Oh it hurts to see Ms. Turner referenced as simply the voice of a cartoon, but I understand you're needing to do so to make the point. Another sultry-voiced vixen of an even earlier period is Lauren Bacall. How soon we forget.
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Jim was just trying to remind me of her voice, knowing I would probably best remember Jessica Rabbit of all the characters she had voices, I imagine.
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One of my sisters came into town to spend time with me on my birthday one weekend in March. It was SO nice to spend time doing things together - we usually just chat on the phone in the evenings as we are going about our separate lives.
So while she was in town, we decided to hit up The Mad Platter to paint some pottery. But we found out that they are also now offering DIY glass fusing! We were hooked from the moment we were informed about the process. :)
Believe it or not... it is super easy and very safe. We were provided a simple array of tools. Then we had to pick a base glass size, shape, and color. Both of us picked clear 7-inch squares.
Then... you get busy cutting glass and coming up with a design. When you have something you like, you glue the pieces down with simple Elmer's, believe it or not!
Then, you select any 3D shaping that you want your final piece to have. They can curve up the edges gently or make the final piece have a more structured look.
Then, you leave your piece behind to be put through the kiln a few times. Soon enough your final masterpieces are ready for you to take home!
We LOVED this process... so fun!
{ the tools and basic supplies }
{ my sis working away on coming up with a design }
{ our final pieces, mine to the left, my sister's to the right }
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We really had a blast... and this was a fun alternative to pottery painting. It was MUCH faster, which was good for us because we showed up with little more than an hour before they were supposed to close that night! I recommend it to craftistas in Columbia. If you have any questions, the gals at The Mad Platter are always patient and willing to answer any questions or address any concerns you might have. :)


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Figure 1: The X-ray absorption spectroscopy experimental hutch at NSLS beamline X23A2.
Figures 2(left) and 3(right): Two examples of the XAS data analysis software package written by Bruce Ravel and in wide use at synchrotrons throughout North America and the world. In the center is the Hephaestus program, a periodic table interface to tables of X-ray absorption cross-sections. On the right is the Athena program, used to process and analyze XAS spectra.
Synchrotron-based X-ray absorption spectroscopy is used in conjunction with novel theory and analysis methods to develop, understand, and optimize materials for microelectronics, catalysis, energy science, and other fields. Materials that can be investigated cover all forms of condensed matter from monolayer films to the bulk, from crystalline to highly disordered. These studies offer the opportunity to develop and utilize world-class X-ray instrumentation and detectors.
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balti 1
sustantivo (plural baltis)
(In Pakistani cooking) a spicy dish cooked in a small two-handled pan known as a karahi: [as modifier]: balti restaurants
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- It certainly wasn't anything to do with the succulent chicken, the clean-tasting balti sauce or the cooked to perfection tomatoes and peppers.
- Heat a little oil in a wok or balti pan over a high heat.
- Places he's likely to be spotted include various pubs in the Broad Street and Brindley Place area and perhaps later in the evening he may be found eating in a city centre pizza restaurant or balti house.
1980s: of uncertain origin: perhaps from Balti.
Palabras que riman con baltifaulty, salty
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Saltos de línea: balti
Balti 2
1A native or inhabitant of Baltistan.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- The Dard and Baltis inhabit Gurez, Tilel and Draas.
- The Gilgatis and Baltis do not count themselves as Kashmiris, and they will prefer that their area should become a province of Pakistan at the earliest.
- Many Baltis converted to Islam and adopted his school of thought.
2 [mass noun] The Tibetan language of the Baltis, with around 400,000 speakers.
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- Nine languages are Dogri, Kashmiri, Ladaakhi, Pothwari, Balti, Gojri, Dardi, Punjabi and Urdu.
- I speak Balti and have gotten to know the Balti women, especially the elders.
- Around a quarter of million people living in these valleys speak Balti, an archaic Tibetan accent.
Relating to the Baltis or their language.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- His thick Israeli accent sounded loud in the Swiss Cottage air - pungent and appealing and strange, like Balti spices in the Pennines.
- For a month, I had heard nothing but Urdu (the local language), Balti music, and eaten Pakistani food.
- K2's difficulties begin with its remoteness, reflected by the fact that the Balti hill people don't even have a name for the mountain.
The name in Ladakhi dialect.
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Saltos de línea: Balti
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Just wondering:
Do HLSL shaders count as "content" (in which case they must be written during the compo) or "part of a graphics library" (in which case they can be written before the compo)?
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I would say it is something that counts as library. To be sure add a link to your HLSL-script.
I'll do that as soon as I've written it. 😀 Probably within the next 3-4 hours, actually.
edit: lol, here you go. mostly borrowed from Mike Schuld with a bit of hackery-pokery. this comment thing doesn't seem to like indents but I'm too tired to care right now.
float4x4 World;
float4x4 View;
float4x4 Projection;
sampler TextureSampler;
float3 EyePosition;
float4 DiffuseColor;
float4 AmbientColor;
float4 SpecularColor;
float SpecularPower;
float3 LightPosition;
float4 LightDiffuseColor;
float4 LightAmbientColor;
float4 LightSpecularColor;
struct VS_INPUT
float4 Position : POSITION0;
float2 Texcoord : TEXCOORD0;
float3 Normal : NORMAL0;
struct VS_OUTPUT
float4 Position : POSITION0;
float2 Texcoord : TEXCOORD0;
float3 Normal : TEXCOORD1;
float3 ViewDirection : TEXCOORD2;
float3 LightDirection : TEXCOORD3;
VS_OUTPUT Transform(VS_INPUT Input)
float4x4 WorldViewProject = mul(mul(World, View), Projection);
float3 ObjectPosition = mul(Input.Position, World);
VS_OUTPUT Output;
Output.Position = mul(Input.Position, WorldViewProject);
Output.Normal = mul(Input.Normal, World);
Output.ViewDirection = EyePosition - ObjectPosition;
Output.Texcoord = Input.Texcoord;
Output.LightDirection = LightPosition - ObjectPosition;
return Output;
struct PS_INPUT
float2 Texcoord : TEXCOORD0;
float3 Normal : TEXCOORD1;
float3 ViewDirection : TEXCOORD2;
float3 LightDirection : TEXCOORD3;
float4 BasicShader(PS_INPUT Input) : COLOR0
float3 Normal = normalize(Input.Normal);
float3 ViewDirection = normalize(Input.ViewDirection);
float3 LightDirection = normalize(Input.LightDirection);
float EdgeComponent = dot(Normal, ViewDirection);
float OutlineComponent = saturate(max(EdgeComponent,0));
float4 TotalAmbient = saturate(AmbientColor * LightAmbientColor * ((EdgeComponent/4.0)+0.75));
float NDotL = dot(Normal, LightDirection);
float4 DiffuseAverage = DiffuseColor * LightDiffuseColor;
float4 TotalDiffuse = saturate(DiffuseAverage * NDotL);
float3 Reflection = normalize(2.0f * NDotL * Normal - LightDirection);
float RDotV = max(0.0f, dot(Reflection, ViewDirection));
float4 TotalSpecular = saturate(LightSpecularColor * pow(RDotV, SpecularPower));
float4 FinalColor = saturate(TotalAmbient + TotalDiffuse);
return saturate(FinalColor * ((FinalColor * 0.1)+(tex2D(TextureSampler, Input.Texcoord)*0.9)) + TotalSpecular);
technique BasicShader
pass P0
VertexShader = compile vs_2_0 Transform();
PixelShader = compile ps_2_0 BasicShader();
AlphaBlendEnable = false;
AlphaTestEnable = false;
ZEnable = true;
ZWriteEnable = true;
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Aussie, a Balmain bug can conjure up the thought of a seafood dinner or a
old model racing yacht. We're going to talk about the latter.
It's around 50 years since these little boats were last seen racing in Sydney's harbour foreshores. They were prevalent particularly around where I sail now in the western end of the harbour. This part of the harbour has been the cradle for sailing/boat building since the first fleet came to Sydney in 1788. This is an area that is dotted with Islands, for in the space of I mile there is 4 islands, namely Goat, Cockatoo (the largest) Spectacle and Snapper (the smallest). All these island had slipways on them, small and large, except Snapper. Snapper is about 30 yards at its widest part. It was a boys sail training school from the early days. All along the foreshore in this region were small shipwright establishments with their own little slips. So this was a hive of industry around 1900 to 1950. For Sydney in those days was a working port. Today all the ships are in Botany Bay, about 10 miles south of Sydney heads.
|It was in this environment that the 'Balmain Bugs' first grew to prominence. The boat I suppose came about largely by the shipwrights having "down Time" in the work on their slips or time to fill in with something. Shipwrights made the little racing machines almost exclusively in that era. It was said one could buy one for about 20 pounds all found and that includes everything. These boats were never painted, because the shipwrights wanted to show their skills off in the planking, or use them as a sample of their yard's workmanship. This goes to explain why so many of these boats are in good condition even today.
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|Generally these
"extreme" racing machines, for that is exactly what they were, had a colour
patch on their sail. These colour patches were like the owner's flags but
were painted on the main sail, a boat was not considered to be complete till
it had a name and its colour patch on.
The boats ranged in fixed sizes from 6", 8", 10," 12,"18", 2ft, 32"s. The measurement for the hulls were taken from the bow to the transom only. The basic rule was the length of the hull. These were no other measurements taken for one could have any sail area one could keep aloft. One of the 'canny' scratch boats used a shortened keel on his boat to cut corners (or go closer to the shoreline) when sailing the course. Racing these models one can get an idea what a boat can carry in most range of winds.
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|The Open water
skiffs were divided up in to two classes that raced around my area, they
were the 12" and the championship 2' ers.
Gambling was rife in those days, in fact some gamblers would say that the models were there for them, it got that blatant. Of course all this gambling attracted the Cops, who were trying to catch them "at it", which went in some ways to increase the stakes for those that took part in the gambling. Quite a few in the community frowned on gambling, for there was a lot of young kids that followed this sport and in the later years a special club was set up (the Drummoyne 12"Sailng club) to teach the kids sailing in a "gambling free zone" to use the modern jargon.
The Lure of the Australian Balmain Bug
These Balmain Bugs were built either by carving the hull or doing "bread and butter" or planking. Carving the hull was the only method of building for the smaller boats 6", 8", 10", The "bread and butter' method is still used, if one wants a special plank effect. This method entailed building 1" thick planks (the bread) on top of each other with glue (the butter) in between the planks, till it was built up to the required hull depth, for a 2fter, about 8" or 8 planks. By using this method a lot of the wood on the inside the hull could be cut out before the hull was put together. Different colour planks could be used alternately to give the hull a striking colour effect in the wood. See photo of the famous boat "the Imp".
Planking of hulls came to the fore around 1927s. George McGoogan, a prominent shipwright of the area, started planking these little boats to race for himself in middle 1940s and he has been making them even to this day, May 2002. George prides himself on all his boats as having double copper nails in fixing the planks on to the frames, an old shipwright's trick; in fact George reckons this is sort of his trademark. He has built-up a large stock of these copper nails up, till this day, they are impossible to buy now.
|These boats generally look the same in overall shape but they have differences in beam, depth of hull, fullness in the forward sections, etc to suit the builder's individual tastes. The smaller classes 6", 8", 10" were more suited as pond boats for the hulls needed a certain power to get through the chop of open water. It was found that the smaller classes were more acceptable to carving out of the hull and not to many were planked. I have seen some of these little models made down to 2" long for mantle models, which are quite unique.
|The Booms for these racing model were tapered through out. No jib boom was used. A long bow sprit was used and called a Bumpkin. This bumpkin was about 4' long on a 2fter it was made to a taper and went from the front of the boat forward. This spar, (if I can use that term here) on the extremities of this spar a wire came from the end (called a Bobstay), back to the bottom of the bow and was adjustable to give tension to the bumpkin and curved downwards to touch the water when the jib sail was in, tensioned, use. No backstays were used for there wasn't room to fit any, rather, two side stays angled back to take the place of side / back stays. Generally speaking, there were usually only two side stays on these boats (one on each side) and a forestay.
|The building frame was made in a sturdy frame (not unlike a picture frame) so the building frame could be moved around and held in a vise at any angle. This was necessary because of the complexity of building the hull.
The sails were exceptionally big, about double bed size. The sails were always made out of Japarah cloth, a heavy fabric by today's standard, not unlike old umbrella material.
The Lure of the Balmain Bug
|The main boom was canted up so it would not drag through the water when heeling and was about 4 ft long. It should be mentioned here that the secret in sailing these boats to windward was using the elastic on the jib sheet or the elastic attached to the jib clew and the forehorse. Now this elastic had to be the right weight or elasticity for the weight of wind. Knowing the right elastic for the day was the "secret" of sailing these model skiffs properly.
|The main and jib sheets were adjusted by means of large wooden bowsers about 1" long. They were that big so one could grasp them with wet, cold hands. In fact all the adjustment points were large for this reason. On tall masts the spinnaker had to be put on a halyard and pulled to the top of the mast, again using an oversized bowser. All hooks on the sails and rigging were oversized as well.
|In the early days the spinnakers tended to be flat or had what they called a Ringtail spinnaker. This was like a spinnaker but had a horizontal boom at the top. It was necessary to have the Bumpkin arcing forward to put tension on the forestay because of the lack of a backstay. To keep the tension on the jib. There was also a method of increasing the tension on the bumpkin of tying some cord between the bumpkin and the bobstay and pulling it tight, thereby arcing the bumpkin further and increasing forestay tension. In the sailing mode to windward you will know things are set right when the fore sail and bowsprit are just slicing through the top of the water. The mast position was fixed, a mast deck fitting was used and it incorporated a tube that went to the bottom (inside) the hull and the mast in most cases went right down too.
|On deck was a little fitting that looked like a nut with a bolt screwed into it. This was the drain hole for the hull. The Rudder hung off the back of the transom. The top of the rudder had a long arm going forward to a serrated curved plate, that held the rudder in a fixed position. This was in no-way to steer the boat around the course. This rudder was used to put weight on to drive the sails. The keel that slid along the keelson plate in actual fact 'balanced' the boat to the course of sailing. This sailing concept is not unlike the Kon-Tiki raft that pushed the boards down to sail the Pacific Islands.
The keel was held onto the keelson plate with two pairs of keel attachment fittings. Now an explanation should be made here of these fitting and of this boat in general. We have all be brought up to believe that anything on the underwater profile should be as smooth and fined down as much as possible and this is in NORMAL circumstances right! This is not right in the case of Balmain Bugs, where one has almost unlimited sail power, to push the brute along. So, the fittings on the keel can be "chunky" and nobody cares, least of all the boat. Fitting slender keel fittings will lead to disaster in a big way.
|I should mention here that building Balmain Bugs is not easy. Yes, they look like a cute little boat but can be a fair bitch to build unless you're going to 'bread and butter' them or carve them, You've been warned. With these boats are almost impossible to do the usual plank and frame method.
In some models the rudder is cut away so that the keel can be slid further back for running down wind. The keel must be able to be slide back and forward with some EASE. Don't worry about it sliding off because it won't happen, because there will be a little pin up the front and the rudder down the back, stopping it from coming right off. The weight of the keel will hold it in its place as it is sailing. I wonder who will first come up with an idea of "R/C ing" a sliding keel?? (All Marbleheads should have one, for it cuts down wetted surface area by not needing a rudder.) The colour patch on the mainsail will be about 6"to 8" diameter. Put one on, for it makes it authentic... and don't forget the boat name, like "Boomerang" or "Kookaburra", a good Aussie name. You get the drift.
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The Lure of the Balmain Bug: Part Four
Up to the time that the book "Sydney's Model racing Skiffs"
came out (Feb.2002), there were no material available on the very
interesting subject of Balmain Bugs or open water racing skiffs as some
people call them.
I have noticed for sometime now, some weird rigging ideas have been creeping in these types of boats. While there were differences in the individual boats they were all basically the same in rigging.
Problems have crept in at the re-vamping of these boats and the thoughts that if it was right in model yachting, it was right with these little boats. This is not correct at all, For this boat in actual fact is not a model but an extreme racing machine in their own right.
It would be remiss of me not to mention what is happening in this little type of boat so that the type will remain sound. You want your boat to look "in period" don't you? The worst thing that can happen is to take it for valuation and the man says " Mate, who rigged this Bug? It's all wrong!"
So as a service to all Bug owners out there, here are a few pointers on what a bug should look like in the general sense and I will show you photos to demonstrate the points.
On our first point, you notice the rigging! There should be 2 wire (copper or brass or steel or heavy cord) side stays attached to an eye fitting (not in line with the mast) back from inline from the mast about 1 to 2"ers. There must be two stay each side, for 18"ers and up. One stay each side for less than 18 inchers. The main sheet line comes from the end of the main boom, straight down to the back horse, that straddles the rudder arm. It must be adjusted be a large Bowser about an 1" long, quite often made from toothbrush handles, something you can grab with wet, cold hands.
The gooseneck is NOT to be of the type that one finds on a model yacht! The main boom is attached to the mast by bending flat brass around the mast and screwing the ends on the boom. This mast type band is very loose, looser the better.
Near the jib horse there are some more large eyes. These are not used like in the photos below, but should take the elastic for beating to windward. The back eyes are for the spinnaker sheets to attach to the hull. The photo below shows the elastic eyes fittings as (somehow) a bumpkin stays?? And the bumpkin has to be fined down for it to bend, readily. See Ron Abraham's "big" 2-fter "Ace of Spades," above.
Bowsprits, in general, were fined or tapered down, so they could arc down towards the water. If your bug has got half a telegraph pole for a bowsprit, then it is clearly wrong. Totally round Bumpkins are wrong too. See phots below of its size in relation to the mast and booms on 'Rockot', a really good 12"er. Clearly people get into a whole lot of trouble trying to reconstruct old rigging for some reason. I read some advice once, I think it was from Russell Potts, who said that before you start restoring something, you make a sketch of it first.
The Lure of the Balmain Bug: Part Five
|Keels? Probably the main thing you should know about keels are that they are not made out of thin brass. They were generally made of 1/8th" steel plate, so they did not bend very well. Bending is not good.
|The keel claws that the plate attaches to the keelson plate are NOT brass plate either. If yours are made from brass plate, then your in trouble, Big trouble, for in the not too far future, your keel is going to part from your hull. Sounds traumatic and it is. Keels made of these thin claws, end up dropping off the boat while being carried around and probably landing on your foot.
|What I need to do, is impress on you about the need to have claws that are very robust. Here was a boat that had unlimited power available to push the darn boat along . One could hang two half house bricks underneath as well as the keel from this model and still get a good performance out of it. So the claws are to be 1/8th" minimum thickness.
|The aft end of the keel fin, where it is slid back on the keelson plate. The fin shape at the top back of the fin is not to collide with the bottom of the rudder. The back of the fin is cut at an angle to just miss the rudder, when it is all the way back. These boats are supposed to have a range of keels.
|The leads range from torpedoes to flatten balls shapes. Paint was used on keel plates to protect them from rust, except the fins that were made out of stainless steel, a quite a few were made out of that.
|The front face of the keel did not come any further forward than the mast. If yours does, then a stop will have to be put on it.
The Balmain Bug: Part 6
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|Let me be up front and say, the sails on these little sailing Machines should be made out of Dacron sailcloth. Don't go playing around with Egypt cotton Sails, they get wet, they rot, they stink, they have uneven shrinkage between sewed cotton and material. Go for the normal sail cloth but not drawing paper, heavy duty Ripstop (spinnaker cloth) might work. These sails should be basically cut flat, for you want them to go in different weights of wind. While there are other suits, you should have a main working suit, the one your generally going to have on the boat, most of the time. On the main, seam the side next to the mast and the side next to the mainboom, for you will need to attach the sail to both these spars. Traditional method is the lacing type, I think you could go to the sail mast rings and put them also on the main boom, this might be easier than the lacings.
See on the plan the way the main sheet is positioned. This gives the boat a type of vang arrangement.
For those who want to model a pond boat, just delete the Roach on the mainsail, also delete battens, so the main is a triangular shape. While you are learning to sail one of these boats, just stick to the sail plan and not use the spinnaker. The spinnaker adds a whole lot of different sailing problems.
I do not know where you're going to sail these boats but would advise you to think about it before you try it in open water.
Keep the gooseneck and the mainboom as close as possible to the deck, use the elastic on the jib sheet, it definitely makes things easier.
There are still some copies of "Sydney's Model Racing Skiffs" the book left. My new book "Model Racing Skiffs of Australia", will be out soon. It will cover the 18"ers, the 32"ers and some more BALMAIN BUGS, more colour patches, as well as plans. If you want to race these little machines, I suggest you read my books on this subject.
Happy Sailing


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