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Two weeks ago, curiosity took me to the Ambassador Hotel, where, in a first floor ballroom, there was a sale of work by "starving artists." Names of artists were nowhere to be found, and specifics of malnutrition were never mentioned. The bottom line: There was cheap art.
"Sofa-sized paintings from $19.95 up" - or something like that - ran the ads for the show. It was a one-day sale by an out-of-town dealership offering "hand-painted work."
A mix of curiosity and distrust about what kind of "hand painting" I'd see took me to the show. I discovered that, yes by golly, there were actual lumps and touches of paint in some of the works, and most if not all the images seemed to have a legitimate claim to having been "hand done."
In reply to my question of who had been handling the brushes, a salesman answered "...mostly European art students." That made sense; many of the images were copies of paintings in museums.
Well, sort of copies. I particularly remember one, a neoclassical style image of I think Napoleon on a horse, with other figures in the scene, all looking as if they'd been scrubbed clean of anything resembling actual historical touch. Perhaps "bubble-gum slick" is an appropriate term for the transformation.
But there were also variations of Van Gogh sunflowers, complete abstractions, and just about every other conceivable style - with a preponderance of images catering to popular tastes for the cute, the pretty, or the sensational.
Empty frames also were there in abundance ... perhaps for people who couldn't make up their minds and wanted to keep their options open.
And people - lots of people. Buying art by the yard to fill blank wall spaces? Taking a first fling at "collecting?"
I certainly don't know, nor did I care to spend time trying to find out. What was clear was that there's a definite appetite for imagery, and people are willing to pay money to satisfy that ... but not much more for these "originals" than for posters or other inexpensive reproductions.
Which made me wonder whether any of those buyers might someday progress to some of the other dimensions of art acquisition: obtaining a work because it has powerful personal appeal ... or because you know the artist and/or enjoy acquiring something created in your own community.
Which perhaps brings "originality" into the picture. But in the case of hotel sale art that borrows heavily from other art for its imagery, does "hand-painted" mean anything other than a description of certain kind of physical action?
And from there it's just a small step in a slightly different direction to see the villain in the game of value as being the process of copying - which would have to include copying things in nature.
I was recently in a doctor's office that had small oil paintings on the walls of the waiting room, the halls and the examination room that were all hand-painted and signed by an artist whose style struck me as "barely adequate representation." They were for sale, with prices (around $500) displayed on cards tucked into the frames.
Acquiring the skill to be able to make realistic representations may be a very ego-satisfying thing, but for those who have just arrived there and wanting to turn that skill to earning income - hey, there's a lot of art-by-the-yard competition!
And there are also a lot of artists creating their own hand-made originals here in town, which brings me around again to that place where they and their work can be found in considerable concentration: Sunset Center.
I hope no one reading this column has a "been there, done that" attitude about Sunset. Things are constantly changing there, including, lately, several artists re-locating their studios. And of course, whether re-located or not, new work is always being produced.
So, when Friday comes around, consider (if your Good Friday observances allow it) giving Sunset Center's "First Friday Art Walk" a shot.
Hunter Ingalls held faculty positions at the University of Texas at Austin and Columbia University, where he earned a Ph.D.
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The world of Shadowglade mirrors our own, modeled after central Europe, a little more specifically France and Germany. Small settlements dot the land every several miles, separated by dense dark woodlands. Farmers eke out a living from the disquiet land and peddle their wares in town, while a handful of craftsmen toil to sell enough product to put a sparse dinner on the table for them and their loved ones.
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While I'm positive Jackie Chan could beat the crap out of Pierce Brosnan, that doesn't make him James Bond. Nevertheless, apparently tired of merely doing martial arts movies, Jackie turns to the world of international espionage in order to provide himself with new, death-defying stunts.
The first silly thing about this film is that the filmmakers and Chan have apparently given up on the idea that anybody in the world thinks that Jackie Chan in a movie is anybody other than Jackie Chan. So -- at least in the version I saw -- Jackie's character was named "Jackie." Now there's a test of an actor's range for you. Jackie plays a Hong Kong policeman in search of a stolen nuclear weapon.
Rather than making a film, Chan might have considered reviving the television series "That's Incredible," given that this is less a movie and more a series of clips recording Jackie's various stunts. First he's in Russia doing some snowboarding, then he's in Australia jumping on buildings, then underwater avoiding sharks.
The whole underwater shark thing becomes numbingly tiresome after about ten minutes of watching Jackie and the bad guys throw slow motion punches. Like many Chan movies, the most interesting thing about this one is watching guys nearly die in the outtakes at the end as Chan laughs at them, no doubt thinking, "Ha, ha. Chinese labor laws only require me to pay you forty cents an hour for that."
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Paul Metcalf
Paul Metcalf (1917–1999) was an American writer. He wrote in verse and prose, but his work generally defies classification. Its small but devoted following includes Robert Creeley, William Gass, Wendell Berry, Guy Davenport, Howard Zinn, and Bruce Olds. His many books include Will West (1956), Genoa (1965), Patagoni (1971), Apalache (1976), The Middle Passage (1976), Zip Odes (1979), and U.S. Dept. of the Interior (1980).
He was the great-grandson of one of his major literary influences, Herman Melville.[1]
Paul Metcalf was born in 1917 in East Milton, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard but left before graduating. In 1942, he married Nancy Blackford of South Carolina and over the next two decades spent long periods in the South. Metcalf traveled widely through North and South America and these travels figure largely in his work. Among his friends and associates were the poet Charles Olson (whom he met when he was thirteen), the artist Josef Albers, poet and publisher Jonathan Williams and the writer Guy Davenport. Later in his career, Metcalf was a visiting professor at the University of California San Diego, SUNY Albany, and the University of Kansas. He died in 1999, near Pittsfield, Massachusetts.[2][3][4]
Material / Preoccupations / Form[edit]
Metcalf's work draws on a wide range of material, including history, anthropology and folklore, travel narratives, geography, Indian lore, geology, and physiology. His work is difficult to classify according to the conventional categories of essay, journal, and fiction; thus his label as an "experimental" writer.[5]
Form and structure are of utmost importance to his art. Characteristic of his method is the assemblage of texts from a variety of sources fused into a new whole, and much of his work melds these several voices with that of his own. His earliest works used common fictional devices (storyline, characterization, dialogue), but early on Metcalf began pushing past such conventions. His novel Genoa (1965), subtitled "A Telling of Wonders," is a portrait of two physically deformed brothers, one a vagabond / murderer, and the other, the narrator of the story, a mediocre doctor. Interleaved with the story are passages from Melville and the journals of Christopher Columbus, dropped into the mind of the narrator, and which serve to mythologize the events of the novel. The writer Guy Davenport described Genoa as being a "built" thing: "an architecture of analogies, similitudes, and Melvillean metaphor."[6]
In later works, Patagoni (1971), for instance, and especially by Apalache (1976), the semblance of story is gone. Apalache in particular is a collage of texts taken from early American journals, exploration narratives, and newspaper articles that reconstruct American history in epic scope and form. Like William Carlos Williams before him, Metcalf freely mixes verse and prose. Waters of Potowmack (1982), a documentary history of the Potomac River, and other works such as U.S. Dept. of the Interior (1980) and I-57 (1988) continue Metcalf's preoccupation with "juxtaposition" and documentary forms. Other Metcalf works include The Island (1982), Golden Delicious (1985) and Huascaran(1997).
In describing his technique, Metcalf uses the word "juxtaposition": the union of seemingly disparate or disjointed elements. These elements, what the poet Donald Byrd refers to as "immense rhymes," are the building blocks of Metcalf's books. Greater than single words, they are often whole passages from other texts. "The difference is simply the size and proportion of the units I use: instead of words, I use whole lives, concepts, episodes, epochs."[7] Metcalf quotes a remark of Edgar Allan Poe's as it applies to his own work, "To originate, is carefully, patiently, and understandingly to combine." He emphasizes the organizing intelligence as opposed to random association and the "cut-ups" that are a hallmark of writers like William Burroughs.[8]
Metcalf's books have been described in terms of architecture (the quote above from Davenport) and also music--"symphonic",[9] "polyphonic," [10] emphasizing the multitude of voices within that blend into one. His work was influenced by, among others, Ezra Pound (especially the Cantos), William Carlos Williams (Paterson, In the American Grain), and Charles Olson (Call Me Ishmael, parts of the Maximus Poems).[11]
Further reading[edit]
In 1996/97, Coffee House Press issued a three-volume collection of Metcalf's works, from 1956 to 1997: Volume One (1956-1976); Volume Two (1976-1986); Volume Three (1987-1997).
In an interview with John O'Brien, published in the Review of Contemporary Fiction (and available online), Metcalf discusses his poetics and his influences. Metcalf was not a theorist in the mold of Pound and Olson, but he did have a strong sense of what writing and art should be, and what he was trying to accomplish through his art.
The blog Isola di Rifiuti, by John Latta, has excellent if scattered commentary about Metcalf.
- ^ Quote by Poet Robert Creeley
- ^ New York Times obituary
- ^ Davenport, Introduction to the Collected Works
- ^ Coffee House Press
- ^ New York Times obituary
- ^ Davenport, Introduction to the Collected Works
- ^ Metcalf interview with John O'Brien, Review of Contemporary Fiction
- ^ Metcalf interview with John O'Brien, Review of Contemporary Fiction
- ^ McCooey, No Wooden Horse
- ^ Davenport, Introduction to the Collected Works
- ^ Byrd, Review of Collected Works
Sources / External links[edit]
- Description of Metcalf's collection of essays, Where Do You Put the Horse?
- Transcript of an interview with Metcalf by John O'Brien of the Review of Contemporary Fiction
- David McCooey. No Wooden Horse review of Metcalf's Collected Works (Coffee House Press)
- New York Times Obituary; Paul Metcalf, 81; Wrote Experimental Tales
- Coffee House Press Editors And Writers On Indie Literary Publishing; Huffington Post
- John O'Brien: The Man Who Would Ban Happy Endings; The New York Observer
- Don Byrd. Review of Metcalf's Collected Works.
- Coffee House Press release of Metcalf's Collected Works, Volume I
- Coffee House Press release of Metcalf's Collected Works, Volume II
- Coffee House Press release of Metcalf's Collected Works, Volume III
- Isola Di Rifuiti. John Latta. (One of many "stray notes" on Metcalf.)
- Guy Davenport. Introduction to the Metcalf's ''Collected Works'', Volume One. Coffee House Press, 1996: Minneapolis
- Paul Metcalf Papers, 1917-1999 at The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature of the New York Public Library.


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Nginx: the High-Performance Web Server and Reverse Proxy
Apache is the most popular Web server and one of the most successful open-source projects of all time. Since April 1996, Apache has served more Web sites than any other Web server. Many of the world's largest Web sites, including YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia and Craigslist, use Apache to serve billions of page views per month. Over the years, Apache has proven itself to be a very stable, secure and configurable Web server. Although Apache is an excellent Web server, what if there were an alternative with the same functionality, a simpler configuration and better performance? That Web server exists, and it's called Nginx.
Nginx, pronounced "Engine X", is a high-performance Web server and reverse proxy. It was created by Igor Sysoev for www.rambler.ru, Russia's second-largest Web site. Rambler has used Nginx since summer 2004, and it's currently serving about 500 million requests per day. Like Apache, Nginx is used by some of the largest Web sites in the US, including WordPress (#26), YouPorn (#27), Hulu and MochiMedia. As of May 2008, Nginx is the fourth-most-popular Web server, and it is currently serving more than two million Web sites. As it is only trailing behind Apache, IIS and GFE, it is effectively the second-most-popular Web server available for Linux.
Like Apache, Nginx has all the features you would expect from a leading Web server:
Static file serving.
SSL/TLS support.
Virtual hosts.
Reverse proxying.
Load balancing.
Access controls.
URL rewriting.
Custom logging.
Server-side includes.
FLV streaming.
It is stable, secure and very easy to configure, as you will see later in the article. However, the main advantages of Nginx over Apache are performance and efficiency.
I ran a simple test against Nginx v0.5.22 and Apache v2.2.8 using ab (Apache's benchmarking tool). During the tests, I monitored the system with vmstat and top. The results indicate that Nginx outperforms Apache when serving static content. Both servers performed best with a concurrency of 100. Apache used four worker processes (threaded mode), 30% CPU and 17MB of memory to serve 6,500 requests per second. Nginx used one worker, 15% CPU and 1MB of memory to serve 11,500 requests per second.
Nginx is able to serve more requests per second with less resources because of its architecture. It consists of a master process, which delegates work to one or more worker processes. Each worker handles multiple requests in an event-driven or asynchronous manner using special functionality from the Linux kernel (epoll/select/poll). This allows Nginx to handle a large number of concurrent requests quickly with very little overhead. Apache can be configured to use either a process per request (pre-fork) or a thread for each request (worker). Although Apache's threaded mode performs much better than its pre-fork mode, it still uses more memory and CPU than Nginx's event-driven architecture.
Nginx is available in most Linux distributions. For this article, I use Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy), which includes Nginx version 0.5.33. If your distro does not have Nginx, or if you want to run a newer version, you always can download the latest stable version (v0.6.31 at the time of this writing) and install from source.
Run the following command as root to install Nginx:
# apt-get install nginx
Now that Nginx is installed, you can use the startup script to start, stop or restart the Web server:
# /etc/init.d/nginx start # /etc/init.d/nginx stop # /etc/init.d/nginx restart
Most configuration changes do not require a restart, in which case you can use the reload command. It is generally a good idea to test the Nginx configuration file for errors before reloading:
# nginx -t # /etc/init.d/nginx reload
Let's go ahead and start the server:
# /etc/init.d/nginx start
Nginx now should be running on your machine. If you open http://127.0.0.1/ in your browser, you should see a page with "Welcome to nginx!".
Now that Nginx is installed, let's take a look at its config file, located at /etc/nginx/nginx.conf. This file contains the server-wide settings for Nginx, and it should look similar to this:
user www-data; worker_processes 1; error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log; pid /var/run/nginx.pid; events { worker_connections 1024; } http { include /etc/nginx/mime.types; default_type application/octet-stream; access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log; sendfile on; keepalive_timeout 65; tcp_nodelay on; gzip on; include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*; }
We are not going to change any of these settings, but let's talk about some of them to help us understand how Nginx works. The worker_processes setting tells Nginx how many child processes to start. If your server has more than one processor or is performing large amounts of disk IO, you might want to try increasing this number to see if you get better performance. The worker_connections setting limits the number of concurrent connections per worker process. To determine the maximum number of concurrent requests, you simply multiply worker_processes by worker_connections.
The error_log and access_log settings indicate the default logging locations. You also can configure these settings on a per-site basis, as you will see later in the article. Like Apache, Nginx is configured to run as the www-data user, but you easily can change this with the user setting. The startup script for Nginx needs to know the process ID for the master process, which is stored in /var/run/nginx.pid, as indicated by the pid setting.
The sendfile setting allows Nginx to use a special Linux system call to send a file over the network in a very efficient manner. The gzip option instructs Nginx to compress each response, which uses more CPU but saves bandwidth and decreases response time. Additionally, Nginx provides another compression module called gzip precompression (available as of version 0.6.24). This module looks for a compressed copy of the file with a .gz extension in the same location and serves it to gzip-enabled clients. This prevents having to compress the file each time it's requested.
The last setting we are concerned with is the include directive for the sites-enabled directory. Inside /etc/nginx, you'll see two other directories, /etc/nginx/sites-available and /etc/nginx/sites-enabled. For each Web site you want to host with Nginx, you should create a config file in /etc/nginx/sites-available, then create a symlink in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled that points to the config file you created. The main Nginx config file includes all the files in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled. This helps organize your configuration files and makes it very easy to enable and disable specific Web sites.
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I wrote a small article for Redhat based OS. Here is the article: NGINX, PHP-CGI, SPAWN-FCI, FTP, VHOSTS, MYSQL | centos-fedora-redhat
This helped me set up a reverse proxy. All I need to figure out now is how to use the caching ability of the nginx proxy.
Thanks to Igor Sysoev for creating this excellent piece of software and thanks to you Will for this excellent piece of article! :-)
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IMO the prettiest part of the country is the southwest. There's always something to see... giant rock formations, canyons, mountains, rivers.. it's just so heavenly.
But I shouldn't really say that, because I have not seen any of the northern part of the US... most of my road trips go from east to southwest.
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I personally love mine like she's my own. She doesn't have too much of a bond with her own mother so I don't think it's belittling to them. She knows I'm not her mother but that I'm still a parent/friend to her. I think that you're always going to prefer your own blood to someone else's but that's just me.
I think it depends on the situation. Like, whether or not you love your stepkid(s) as if they were your own kid(s) the important thing is that the stepkids are not treated worse than biological kids, or that the step parent doesn't go out of their way to spoil their bio kids in front of the step kids, y'know? As long as everyone involved is happy and healthy and not feeling left out, then that's all that matters imo.
I agree with you OP, in most situations. I think most SMs who say they love them like their own, really don't. Now I'm not doubting that some do. But the childless SM who has been married for 6 months whose DH has EOWE, when she says she loves them like her own, I think she is just using a rhetorical phrase and I don't believe it is true.
(not saying that is your particular sitch).
I have been a CSM for 10 years and I would say that I have a very strong bond with my stepkids, but I know the difference. I hope to have a long, successful run as an important family member. I hope they come to see me in the nursing home and put flowers on my grave every year. I hope they tell stories to their children about me. All that stuff. I lose sleep over them, I worry, I hurt when they hurt, again - all that stuff. But still I know the difference between what i feel for them, which is a lot, and what I feel for my biokids.
And similiarly, even though their mother didn't raise them, they have a certain type of love for her that they will never duplicate with me. It's not a function of how good a SM I was (or will be), but a function of biology and the early bond that formed while they were babies, in her care.
but all that said, I do tend to agree that when the phrase is used most of the time, it downplays the significance of the mother/child bond.
Um, no, it doesn't. How in any way does loving another child take away from your biological kids. So when someone adopts a child, they shouldn't love them as their own?
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Fireworks as Clinton Rebuts GOP Charges
Above, video of the exchange between Sen. Ron Johnson and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mounted a table-banging defense of the administration's depiction of the Benghazi attacks in the aftermath of the assault of the U.S. diplomatic post and annex during her Senate testimony Wednesday.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) accused U.N. Amb. Susan Rice of "purposefully misleading the American public" when she said the attack grew out of a protest, an account the administration later dropped as untrue.
"The American people could have known that within days," if Mrs. Clinton had spoken with State Department officials who had been evacuated from the scene, Mr. Johnson said.
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Mrs. Clinton responded quickly and forcefully.
"With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans," Mrs. Clinton said, raising her voice and hammering her fist on the table. "Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans?
"What difference at this point does it make?"
In the exchange, in which she was frequently interrupted by Mr. Johnson, Mrs. Clinton said that she did not want to speak with the evacuees before the Federal Bureau of Investigation and an independent Accountability Review Board conducted their investigatory interviews. State officials wanted to avoid interfering with ongoing investigations, she said.
Mr. Johnson called that response "a good excuse."
"No, it's a fact," Mrs. Clinton responded, adding that the accountability board concluded that it still remains unclear what the militants were up to prior to the attacks.
What is clear, she said, is that the attackers were terrorists. "We have no doubt they were terrorists. They were militants. They attacked us. They killed our people."
On Sept. 15, 2012, Ms. Rice received her briefing materials with the CIA-authored talking points referencing the attack emerging from a protest. That day, the CIA began receiving reports that there had not been a protest.
But it didn't change its assessment until five days later, when it concluded there had not been a protest based on additional information, including video footage. Intelligence officials say that detail, while incorrect, was not a particularly important detail when it comes to determining what transpired at the embassy and who mounted the attack.


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I most certainly believe myself and my children are victims of my ex-husband's NPD...the question is...we're divorced, my kids both struggle emotionally...(oldest has been on anti-depressants for a year, 7 yr. old has terrible rage/anger issues), they're forced to visit him every weekend (reluctantly...it's been 5 years, and they still cry when they have to go to dad's place)....
How do I help my children cope with this monster? It's hard enough for me, an adult! I'm seeking out some support groups in my area, but what can I do for my children who are exposed to this abusive personality disorder?
Slowly, slowly...after 5 years of researching this disorder, I need to start believing that it's not just MY diagnosis of a nasty marriage/divorce...this is real...all the signs/symptoms are there...and my emotional recovery is STILL going on...trouble is...you don't even know you're still in the grips of the abuser...then one day (today!)...you decide...that all your research, reading, analyzing, etc...proves that you're right...your ex is NPD...now what?
My youngest, who's 7...has fear/
around school...(the
gets to be too much...not every day...he can handle school in "small doses")...
This is a problem with the public school...he's missed so much school, we're being threatened with truancy, and my ex believes (since I have the children Mon.-Fri), that it's simply my lack of parenting skills in getting my kids to "obey"...
We've been through family therapy...(brutal to be in therapy with a narcissist), individual therapy for my oldest son (total school refusal...now does on-line school from home), medication to manage my oldest's extreme depression/general anxiety), and now I'm FINALLY facing the fact that the youngest has big issues too...with rage and anger...Pediatrician wants to start youngest on Prozac for a brief time...not sure about that.
I n eed to
that I've been treated for Depression since 2000..(same med...Prozac for me, and Prozac for my son...)...Dad never believed he needed any medication for his anxiety/mood disorder through our 22 years of marriage, and now 5 years since our divorce..(typical narcissistic belief that he's not sick...he feels if he eats right, exercises, etc...he's great! My ongoing feeling is that ..."dad doesn't believe in medication for himself...so EVERYONE else who deals with him needs to be medicated"!!
He's a bully, and likes to intimidate/threaten me with going back to court to get full custody of the children, because I'm so inadequate to parent...(he won't do this, of course, because he doesn't want the children even 50% of the time/nor could he make it happen...the children are really just an "inconvenience" to him...but, he likes to be nasty at any chance he gets with me.
Tomorrow we meet with my youngest son's public school to decide what to do about his school attendance problem...I DON'T want to be at this meeting with my ex, since he completely dominates any discussions, and uses any opportunity to tell people in power how inept I am.
I believe that an alternative schooling situation..(some form of a co-op school situation/some type of charter-school "homeschooling" situation) would be a worthy try...but ex is ADAMANT that this child WILL ATTEND public school...
Meanwhile, pediatrician wants to start meds, I'm still deciding if that's an alternative...( I think my alternative school option would be a LOT less dangerous), but I can't handle my child anymore in the public school system...the system won't allow for him to take 1-2 "mental health" days off per week!
Any suggestions would be helpful...I'm NOT just a complaining ex-spouse describing bad behavior from her ex husband...this behaviour of his is real, and pathological...and I need some way to prove that I'm dealing with a sick man, who continues to victimize myself and my kids....
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replied 4 years ago.
Thank you for your question, I apologize to switch to the Q&A forum as I am having technical difficulties. I definitely sense your strife that you are experiencing from your ex-husband and the way this has affected your children. Have you considered having your youngest son see a therapist? What does the youngest say why he doesn't want to go back to school? What is his fear/anxiety? After your response, I will be able to provide you with suggestions. I will be online for the next few hours.
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Well, my youngest seems to be explaining to me the same "symptoms" that my oldest had when he attended school...(FYI...my oldest resisted school since preschool...and I accompanied him to Kindergarten most every day...volunteering in his classroom, and working with the teacher to help him separate from me...not much success...better in 1st grade-3rd grade. Grade 3...dad up and left the family, and his struggles with school started to get worse..continued through grade 5...Then improved in Grade 6...(new school...Middle School...liked it...then Grade 7...problems again)...
Both boys seem to have a certain tolerance for their stresses/anxiety, and then their "cup overflows"...
Granted, I've been exploring a lot of homeschooling alternatives, and with his older brother now homeschooling/online school, he would like to try it too...I think it would be a good fit...
His dad insists that the youngest is "different" from his older brother, and doesn't need an alternative school...FYI...it was blood, sweat, tears to get ex to FINALLY understand my oldest's school refusal wasn't a "behavior problem"...but an emotional one....unbelievable...he wanted the middle school to send a truant officer to our house to fetch my boy and make him go to school...whatever it took...(of course, I would never allow that...but, being this victim of his NPD, I figured it WAS my fault that my son wasn't going to school..(not enough of a disciplinarian/give my kid too many choices...all ideas fed to me by my ex...and I've been "listening" to his opinions about who I am for the past 25 years!.....so I actually WANTED the truancy officer to come take my kid to school...thankfully, that never happened..
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Brad The Therapist
replied 4 years ago.
Thank you for your response. Have you considered working with a therapist to have your youngest son to return to school? A theory around school refusal that is well documented in literature is for a child to gain control of one's life after feeling "unsafe." What do you think your youngest son is trying to communicate to you by not going to school?
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replied 4 years ago.
Well, a couple of things;
1. I think you're right about the "unsafe" feeling of school...he's told me his weekends are spent with dad..being punished for his misbehavior, etc....then comes back on Monday to school, and faces that situation all week...then the weekend comes again, etc...
He said..."mom, how would you feel"?? I'm stressed at dad's, and you don't love me either! He's very verbal, and articulate...both boys are...now, of course, he's been around his brother all his life with his meltdowns and tantrums, so he's been exposed to a lot of scary behavior from his brother too...so, some "mimicking"(not to sound dismissive of his feelings, etc...)
Also, he likes the idea of homeschooling. He doesn't refuse school every day...just seems to handle it for only several days in a row, then needs a break.
We recently moved him from his other public school that he attended K-1...just moved him to the public school my older son attended K-5...(it's more familiar, he expressed interest in going there, etc...only reason he WASN'T in the same school as his older brother, is that we're in the lottery system here in CA, and didn't get our school choice when we enrolled youngest..
So, a new school in the past month is, of course, very stressful, and a change mid-year would affect any kid, under the BEST of circumstances...of course, he LOVED the month here at home while the red tape took place to transition from one school to another.
I don't know..the longer I've been researching, the more I'm in favor of the learning environment that a homeschooling/alternative/co-op school offers...kids have a more "self-directed" learning, and more "choices"..all seem to work with my kids..we (my oldest and myself...hopefully his father) are attending a Homeschooling Conference this summer to learn about children's different learning styles, etc...hoping it will be helpful...but, I don't know how it will get my ex on board...he has one way of thinking, and very difficult to change.
Brad The Therapist
replied 4 years ago.
Do you feel that your decision of wanting to home school the youngest is based on your negative feelings towards your ex? (I did not mean to sound judgmental about your choice for home school...just wanted to see if it had anything to do with your preference). The only drawback of homeschooling is the social aspect and getting to attend school functions. If you feel that your son has a well-rounded life and will be able to focus on his education because he will have less anxiety, then you may be making the right decision. Have you considered having your youngest see a therapist? The reason why I recommend this is for your son to learn coping skills in managing his anxiety. Although you may be able to ease his anxiety while he is being home schooled, but what would happen when he becomes an adult or goes to college?
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replied 4 years ago.
My push for homeschooling has NOTHING to do with negative feelings with ex...simply, I feel we've given public school a more than fair chance to work with the kids...it's hard to explain the whole homeschooling philosophy to people that haven't explored it...it can all sound very "hippy dippy", etc...I used to feel the same way about homeschoolers...
In fact, there are about as many ways to homeschool as there are homeschoolers out there...and the social isolation issue is one of the biggest concerns people put out there...When, in fact, these homeschooling groups have more activities to have kids interact than we would have time for! The group is FULL of former educators that believe the current educational system is broken, and hard to fix...
Indeed, my son could benefit from how to deal with his anxiety...in NO WAY do I believe taking him out of public school would "cure" him...I just mean that the anxiety of THAT particular aspect of his life could be very reduced...as I said...school is OK 3 days out of 5...2 others he asks..."mom, could I just please take today off?" When I remind him that we MUST go everyday, the rage begins...he hits his brother, shouts terrible t hings at me and his brother...his brother is now crying because he can't handle all the emotional chaos, and we're all in a state...I physically had to drag him to school most of last year...when we got to school..(IF i could get him in the car), I would have to call the parent liason person to come out to the car and get him out...(no counselor there...another reason to switch schools)....
To me, there has to be another way to help my kids cope...new learning environment, therapy, life coping skills...but, my real question is...how can I possibly get my kids through this life of dealing with their dad...I'm not over-exaggerating his condition...all 3 of us are scared of dad...it's fruitless to try to talk to him, reason, etc...I bend over backwards to be kind, take the kids on weekends he gets an opportunity to get extra work, etc....all to try to get him to be more civil...and you know what?? I'm simply feeding into the NS, as usual....
No, no negative "backlash" to ex...I just feel I have a right to make some decisions with these children...especially since I'M the one who makes sure they get to school Tues.-Fri, and the divorce has the visitation split at 65% to me, 35% to dad...(in reality, he has them much less than that)...I'm only stating these facts because in this hellish world of divorce, it's all about the legalities, etc...I feel theh "
" by my ex needs to stop...It's really all about what's best for the kids...or SHOULD be...but, when you're dealing with a narcissist...the kids take a big 2nd to dad's desires..
Brad, this is a man who was having extramarital affairs for 6 Years before he told me...I DIDN'T KNOW A THING...then 1 day, after a month of ex being moodier than usual, he came home in 2007, told me he had been having one night stands with 7 or 8 women since 2000, and that he would get started on the divorce.
Naturally, PTS set in for myself, and oldest boy at the time...it's been a hellish 5 years...we've ALL FELT powerless, etc...and we're reminded almost daily by ex that HE IS THE ONE IN POWER, and makes the decisions...
Oh, God...this is SUCH a thumbnail description...
Brad The Therapist
replied 4 years ago.
I did not mean any judgment about homeschooling...I have clients who are being home schooled and doing well. In terms of dealing with the ex with NPD, I encourage your child to express what they want from their relationship from their father. If they feel that they do not want any contact with him because of his NPD, i urge you to try to get sole custody of your children. Do you feel is emotionally abusive towards your children? If they are scared and fearful, this is something to consider.
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replied 4 years ago.
The boys both express that they would like to be able to talk to their dad and have a say in decisions, etc...not just told what to do always...he micro-manages them, and the stress level is really tough on both of them...
Oh, undoubtedly, this is emotional abuse for my kids...but, how, pray tell, could I possibly document this?? I'm not th ere...I only have the explanations my kids tell me about...(mostly, just my oldest...I don't know about these incidents from my youngest...but, my oldest is very articulate and candid with me..
The oldest says..."What's the point of trying to talk to dad?" It's his way or no way"...and he's right.
How could I possibly take this to court and prove that ex is emotionally abusing the kids?? could you please let me know?? What's so funny, is that he just threatened to take ME to court a few weeks ago to get full custody, as I mentioned earlier..
I was a full time stay home mom before the boys were in school, then for the past 5 years since the divorce, I've only worked part-time (10-15 hrs/week)...during the school hours, so that I could always be here for the kids...my kids come first..and their emotional well-being has been a TREMENDOUS source of stress for me...needless to say. And, with all due respect...the therapists that we've had (first family therapy, then individual therapy for my son with a Psychiatrist) hasn't been TOO helpful...it's very difficult for therapists to "see" the narcissist in front of them, I think...and, the 3 or 4 therapists we've had have all been very young. (sorry if I'm offending you...just that, I feel in a case with my ex's disorder, you really need someone with experience with this personality disorder, and the chaos it inflicts...normal, psychological methods haven't worked...we're all the happiest when dad isn't involved in our lives...but, of course, I want to be fair, I want the kids to have a relationship with their dad, and of course, I'm legally bound to have him in their lives...oh, and that brings up the child support/spousal support issue...this is a MAJOR problem for him...he feels he's "giving all his money to me"..(not to help raise the kids, mind you...it's ME who's taking all his money), so it's a very tumultuous relationship...one I try to really put the boundaries up...but then, (again, no offense), all the shrinks say I need to keep ex in the loop, let him know what's going on, communicate with him, etc...
I keep communication to text/e-mail so that I have documentation, and also so that I don't have to put up with his abusive words. This, in turn, makes him angrier, and then I really start to feel afraid of what he'll do.
At the beginning of this awful 5 years, he was so angry that the children had lots of cavities (he blamed this on their extended breast-feeding...no proof exists of such an allegation, but the way), and threatened that the dentist would report me to CPS if the children's next dental visits weren't "better"...he came to family therapy armed with a huge stack of "evidence" about how my breast-feeding" was harming my youngest..
The girlfriend he left me for was sending annonymous emails to me telling me her son was being "tramatized" after hearing from my oldest that his little brother was still nursing! She wanted to "meet and discuss" how to deal with it, and threatened going to the principal of the school...(neither happened)...actually, could have been the ex too...who knows?
I've got other stories...the only reason I'm telling you is because I have ONE MAJOR hurdle to overcome in dealing with this ex...he seems dangerous to me...not physically...(he never physically hurt me...seems like that would have been "easier" or more concrete to show his abuse.
I have very little money...live on the support/my part-time job, and still get help from my wonderful parents...it was AGONIZING to get the divorce done...(took 3 years...only officially divorced since 2010)...the thought of a court battle just doesn't seem possible, even though I would LOVE to have full custody so that my kids could get out of this abuse...but, he would NEVER agree to giving up any parental rights...even though he doesn't have the money to fight either...so, don't know how either one of us could afford to go to court..
maybe you have a suggestion?
Brad The Therapist
replied 4 years ago.
If you feel that there is emotional abuse going on with the father when he has custody, you can contact Child Protective Services to do an investigation when your children are with your ex. This way, any emotional abuse will be documented. In terms of legal action towards your ex, have you considered finding an attorney through legal aid? They typically offer free legal representation in custody battles as well. If a CPS case is open, testing can be ordered on your ex as well and testing may show his NPD.
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First of all, thanks for taking time with me, Brad. Just got back from some errands.
You know, I wouldn't want CPS to come to my house out of the blue with allegations I'm abusing the kids...you wouldn't be able to "see" the abusive behavior; for all intents and purposes, it looks like he's the upstanding father...these narcissists know how to look good...I don't think CPS dropping by would see anything untoward...as is the modus operandi with narcissists...their damage is much more insidious...kinda always there...you just don't know why you feel so bad when you're around them, and continue to feel bad after you leave them!!
I don't know...maybe if I start to explain my theory on dad's narcissism to my oldest, we can start to strategize. I've always wanted to show their dad in the best light as possible, and didn't want to "poison" or influence their feelings about him negatively...but, perhaps the 13.5 yr. old is old enough now to discuss the ramifications of living with this personality disorder, etc...they have enough distain for him on there own.
I continually encourage my kids to talk to their dad about their grievances; I've learned the hard way that there's very little I can do...I'm the punching bag as it is; relaying their feelings to him just makes him angrier, and gives him more reason to blame me...it's a dilemma I'm not sure what to do about.
So, you've taken quite a lot of time with me. I'll speak to my attorney about the issue, and get some feedback from others as well..I will definitely get the younger one into some kind of therapy so that he can work through his anger and learn more acceptable coping strategies...
Thanks for your time and suggestions.
Brad The Therapist
replied 4 years ago.
I believe seeing you attorney is the best thing to do at this point. If you decide to obtain full custody, please consider having a custody evaluation to be completed to have your ex evaluated. Such an evaluation will show you husband is narcissistic. Another suggestion is not to strategize with your oldest and just continue to encourage him and your other children to express their feelings towards their father. They will eventually decide that they do not want to spend time with their dad if things gets worse.
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Recorded when they were barely out of their teens, brother and sister Sean and Sara Watkins and Chris Thile (with his dad Scott on bass) are multi-instrumental virtuosos: It seems they were handed string instruments upon leaving the womb. All successful independent artists with busy touring schedules, this album is a harmonious collaboration composed of guitar, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki, fiddle, and vocals. Nickel Creek shares with us an interpretation of the bluegrass genre, with colorings of Celtic, modern folk, and even some classical music, plus ethereal sounds.
The group's world-class talent is heard in the first moments of track one, as "Ode To a Butterfly" is a hot, hip, fingerpickin' joyful and danceable time. It is followed by "The Lighthouse's Tale," a creative, nostalgic tune narrated by a very smooth male voice that embraces pop stylings—sliding into tonal precision with a nice falsetto—amidst a folky tune. Each song is unique. "Out Of the Woods," written with a singer–songwriter vibe, has Sara starting each phrase, and then the tight, light male vocal harmonies complete her sentences, making this a sweetly enchanting song about potential love, and how great it could be if only the thoughts weren't so intense: "I rollercoaster for you / Time out of mind / Must be heavenly / It's all enchanted and wild / It's just like my heart said / It was going to be."
"In The House Of Tom Bombadil" brings us back to the fast and furious fingerpicking of the banjo, guitar, and fiddle. It's as if the musicians are on a grand and glorious runaway train into Nowhereville, and there's no place or pace they'd rather be goin'. "Sweet Afton," a nostalgic piece, shares the human connection to a mountain meadow river through a simple melody. "Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes / Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise / My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream / Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream." Nickel Creek is enjoyable for all its bits and pieces and musical gold and grandeur. It paints a human story of joy, common day, and countryside.
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This little Vietnamese food shack is charmingly low-key and distinctly suited to Orange County. The staff is always casual and friendly. The beer list is fun and utterly unpretentious. The kitchen is the size of a broom closet, so the menu is understandably short, just a few sandwiches, noodles and bowls.
With only 20 seats (if that), it doesn't take much for this place to feel thronged. At lunchtime, there is almost always a short wait, but the tables turn pretty quickly. My favorite thing to eat here is the pork belly banh mi, a really good baguette slathered with mayonnaise and stuffed with tender chunks of fatty pork, thinly shaved jalapeños, a handful of cilantro and crunchy carrot and daikon sticks. I like the pork spring rolls, too, with their crisp shallots and extra-chewy rice-paper wrappers. I'm going to pass on the sardine sandwich, though.
The tables are set with little bowls of fresh birdseye chilies. I've never been able to figure out if these are meant merely as decoration or if they're actually intended as a condiment. I always wait until nobody's looking, and then I eat them.
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It's farmer's market season once again, and Bob Pierson is zipping around the edges of Rittenhouse Square this Saturday morning long before any customers arrive, helping farmers hoist their white tents, moving folding tables and heavy coolers, counting heads, and ticking off the minutes till the eight-year-old market reopens, like it's the Kentucky Derby or something.
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text: I guess because this was posted some years ago... great instructions by the way... that virtually everyone who has these food grade poly containers is selling them for at least 15 dollars. By the time you add the hardware you are certainly into 30 total. So it can get pretty expensive pretty quickly... certainly approaching the cost of a new one. I need a second barrel because the first fills up so quickly but really cannot see spending another 50 or 60. Whatever you save on water you spend on an empty plastic bin. Clearly your components on this do it yourselfer are vastly better than the premade stuff.. All their fittings are plastic and, as you pointed out, one good bump and you bust that spigot in seconds. If I could find an empty barrel for free I would be golden.


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A few months ago i was on Twitch.tv and found a user named Under the garden working on their game under the garden. They livestreamed pretty much all day every day. It was the best thing to watch but out of no where they just kind of stopped. I was wondering if anyone knew of any livestreams similar to this.
Livestreaming game development
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This type of thing is not popular, and I don't think it ever will be. Game development is not fast paced, and it sure isn't exciting to watch. Games are pretty entertaining to watch depending on who does them, but game development? I can understand a "behind the scenes" livestream where you just wing it for two hours and show the most exciting things you have been doing, but no one would want to watch you find out why the transparency in your .png assets is crashing your software for an hour straight, and I seriously doubt someone could entertain with their personality for that long.
C dominates the world of linear procedural computing, which won't advance. The future lies in MASSIVE parallelism.
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Yeah, sometimes development is downright tedious and boring, especially if you're not intimately familiar with what the person is working on.
What might be more interesting is seeing video of how someone debugs a specific complex problem. I've realized that some developers don't really have much in terms of debugging skills, since it isn't something that is really taught anywhere, and such videos may help them learn how to attack certain problems.
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I like dev Vlogs. Dev livestreams seem like they would be boring.
The one alternative I could see would be like a live dev vlog, where they already have an idea of what they're doing/talking about or they are doing a kind of video ama while they are doing it.
As a developer, I could see why someone might want to do it; it can be kind of lonesome/boring just working by yourself. I can also see why you might not want to; first impressions can really screw your game.
I don't know anybody else who does similar stuff though.


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This rich fudgy brownie recipe makes a lot, so it's perfect for parties. Guests will think you fussed over the raspberry sauce drizzled over each wedge, but it's easy to make. "Working in a restaurant, I prepare this dessert from special-occasion menus," says Denise Elder of Hanover, Ontario.
- 5 ounces unsweetened chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 2/3 cup butter, cubed
- 3 eggs
- 2-3/4 cups sugar, divided
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
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- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
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- In a microwave-safe bowl, combine unsweetened chocolate and butter. Cover and cook on high for 1 minute; stir. Microwave 1 minute longer; stir until smooth. Cool for 10 minutes.
- In a bowl, beat eggs, 1-3/4 cups sugar and vanilla for 3 minutes. Beat in melted chocolate. Add flour; beat until combined. Stir in chocolate chips. Pour into two greased 9-in. pie plates. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on wire racks.
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SC Expanded adds variety to the standard melee maps. Players can affiliate to a faction (or brood, tribe), unlocking exclusive units, structures and abilities. It uses many units and abilities seen in SC2 campaigns, but many more were created for this mod. Many "useless" units got a new role and are available for players.
Updated here on 07-18-2016
You can learn more about Terran, Zerg, and Protoss gameplay.
Join the official thread to report bugs and post your suggestions. We are constantly trying to improve our gameplay. There is also an SC Expanded group on Battlenet where you can find players.
This extension mod is available in the "Custom Games" section of Battle.net and is published on NA, EU and KR servers. Search for 'expanded' when browsing for extension mods and have fun.
Selecting a Terran faction:
WARNING: This mod requires the Left 2 Die mod as a dependency, which means that if you test it offline you may experience some errors if you don't have the mod in your Starcraft mods folder. Extract all the mods to your mods folder and test them using the map included.
SarahKerrigantheQueenofBlades Oct 29, 2015 at 23:00 UTC - 0 likes
hi soulfilcher your mod iis great i noticed it . im new here so its my first to be download when i input the sc expanded hots it did not work it says this map or mod dependencies is no longer available please i spend the entire yesterday for tis if oly you could help me
ztokdo Jul 16, 2015 at 08:28 UTC - 0 likes
So I noticed this mod. I also noticed there is not really much of any updates for it. I think it has a huge potential to change the way starcraft is run. I even featured the mod as part of my discussion how to change the game. (http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/legacy-of-the-void/488611-community-development-in-3-key-areas) With additional UI information and options. I only have talked to a very small selection of people (neoblade/jakatak) in the modding community so i'm still meeting people.
I would like to continue development of this mod, or design a similar mod based off of it. I would like to talk to you about this. I'm somewhat familiar with some of the ideas of galaxy scripting in working on creating the black tea ai (A variant on the green tea ai), which isn't complete.
If you are willing to consider please feel free to message me. (my teamliquid profile is tokinho, my skype is tokinho2010, (its a brasilian things))
- - - - - - - - - - - - - I do long posts in general with extensive details. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/legacy-of-the-void/489933-the-balance-and-redesign-of-protoss-in-lotv http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/legacy-of-the-void/487069-10-tricks-on-adept-micro http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/legacy-of-the-void/486554-liberator-agmode-hotkey-file-code - - - - - - - - - - - - -
evilcoward Feb 16, 2015 at 15:43 UTC - 0 likes
Thank you for nice and fun to play mod. Registered here just to report some bugs i found:
1. Morph to overseer command does not show its cost.
2. Not sure what lesser adrenal glands upgrade is supposed to do (could find any difference from normal game in this aspect).
3. Kaboomer explode command does not say what damage it will deal. It also splashes air units, not sure if that is intentional.
4. Virophage does not deal any damage. And not sure if it actually detects (there is no yellow word 'Detector').
5. Hunterling leap is very very bugged. It says it recharge time is 0 seconds. It discards colissions permanently after first use (you can then stack them like air units, even better actually). If used manually on close enough friendly targets it starts flying permanently (only visually actually, it still counts as ground unit). If used manually on flying unit there is still weirder effect - it jumps into air and then start just walking there (still counst as ground unit).
6. Minor annoyance with egg cluster - when put in control group with hatcheries (which is natural thing to do) it has higher priority over hatcheries. Also it is not very usefull - spawn larva can not be cast on it, so it's just max 3 slow spawning larvas. And it requires gas.
7. Breeding mound - while mutating its selection circle and hp bar have incorrect vertical position (selection circle is submerged and invisible).
8. Tiamat brood - it worth mentioning in descriprion that it has malignant creep upgrade, that thing is pretty major.
9. Impaler unit - while morphing hydralisk is still visible. And progress bar is not.
10. Feederling - no life bar shown, has energy for unknown purpose, gives boost to energy regen instead of life regen (that actually makes it very nice attachment to caster units).
11. Creep tower - can be created anywhere even without vision.
12. Primals - brood lords are not actually disabled. Some primal units are practically useless as they have almost the same (or exactly the same) stats as normal units and their production method is inferior. Ravasaurs are different story tho. Also there is pack leader Silvan, it can instantly hurl its spawned creepers ridiculous distances across the map as long as there is no obstruction on the way. And actually it's the only way to make use of this ability as just 2 creepers die way too quickly and almost never do any damage (they have to charge up before exploding).
If that will be helpful i can later check terran and protoss for bugs too.Last edited Feb 21, 2015 by evilcoward
RobertCL Jan 24, 2015 at 01:05 UTC - 0 likes
Amazing work! When I play with AI Proross as allies they all have a new look (basicaly a dark one with the chosen color). This look is wonderful. Sadly the human player keeps the standard look no matter the chosen tribe. By look I mean you gave all Protoss units the look of the map Novastar (black as basic color).
I can't get that look. Is it due to the fact I had chosen in Starcraft II to get the bonus/altered Zealot and Pylons look ?
AI Protoss units are suberb and mine are standard, sad, snif... ,-)
I found the solution: put back in the reward section the standard Pylon and zealot (previously I used the alternate options). Then when launching the mod with Hybrid tribe I have the awesome look! Otherwise you keep the standard Starcraft II look for all your units.Last edited Jan 24, 2015 by RobertCL
SykThriller Apr 18, 2014 at 12:23 UTC - 0 likes
Can someone pls send me a link?
SykThriller Apr 18, 2014 at 12:19 UTC - 0 likes
Hey this looks amazing saidly i can't play it cause IDK were to get the mod can someone pls tell :) :P
Gooberryos Mar 09, 2014 at 01:52 UTC - 0 likes
hey soul, your artwork is amazing, love what you do. I have a question though. do you know where i can get terran bunker m3 file, or you know if there is a way where i could find structures and units on my own and do all the work required to import them into, say, 3ds max? thanks
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I apologize for a lack of post lately. I have found myself a bit distracted with all that is going on. Chad and I are trying to complete some unfinished projects around the house. I have had a few small honey do's to be done before our trip. I feel like if they aren't done before we go they will never be done. Maybe this is just part of our nesting.
I have been trying to get somethings in line for when the girls come home. When we bring the girls home Chad and I will only have guardianship of them. This is much different than it was with Nolen. Nolen's adoption was finalized in Russia and when he came home it was under his new name. He also became a US citizen upon entry into the USA. Due to a difference in adoption laws this will not be the case with H & L. We will be their legal guardians and they will come home legally with their Ugandan names. They also will not become US citizens immediately. In order for their adoption to become finalized we must file in a US court. This process should not be too complicated and is mostly the submitting of legal paperwork. The one thing about this process that is stressful to me is time. In order to file on our taxes for our adoption tax credit in April the adoption must be finalized in 2011. We will only have two months after we get home to get through the US court system. A specific prayer request for our family is that we are able to complete the adoption finalization before the end of the year.