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In this exercise, we're going go ahead and correct for the color cast of the image, which in my opinion is too pink. We're going to do that by applying some Curve modifications on a Channel by Channel basis. Now, we're not going to go as nuts as we went with the Composite Curve here, because that ends up just getting thoroughly confusing in my opinion; at least I get confused by it. So we're going to apply a fairly simple curve modification, as you'll see. Anyway, if you're working along with me, I still have open-- this is not a catch-up document. It's just the original High-contrast elephant.jpg image.
What you would do, if you just want to catch up right now, because I want to show you this other thing, I want to show you how to work with presets, and what you would do is you go ahead create a new Curves adjustment layer; you know how to do that. You just go here to the Adjustments palette, and you go ahead and click on this guy right there to add a new Curves adjustment layer. Why don't I do it with you, so that we're doing it together, what the heck? So I'll go ahead and throw that one away. Here is my original elephant. I'll go here, add Curves. Actually, you know want I'm going do, I'm going to Alt+Click or Option+Click on that icon right there, and I'll call it elephant correction or something like that, and then click OK.
Then notice I have got my flat curve once again. I don't want to sit there and add all those points; we had like eight points in that curve just a moment ago, I'm going to go up to the palette menu and I'm going to choose Load Curves Preset; I invite you to do the same. Then you would burrow your way into the 13_levels_Curves folder, that's inside of your exercise files folder, presumably on your desktop or some place, and then get this guy, Reduce contrast.acv. This will be your points that will load into the graph as soon as you click on the Load button. There they are, just like that.
Notice this Reduce contrast item now appears as a preset up here at the top of the Adjustments palette, and you can see that you've got all these other presets you can choose from. Photoshop CS4 shifts with a ton of color correction presets you should know, for all kinds of different commands. Some of them are fairly useful. I'm not sure that you're going to be applying any of them on a regular basis. What's more useful in my opinion is just to know that you have them there and that you can use them for your own purposes. You can create your own presets that you can use over and over again, like Reduce contrast right there. You can switch between, you could say, hey, there is Increase Contrast, wow, does that not work for this elephant? There is Color Negative, ha, ha, ha, not really what we're looking for, but, hey, it looks about as good as the original did.
Then we can come back to Reduce contrast and go oh, that's better. So how do we compensate for the color cast? Well, I'll tell you, here is what we're going to do. I want you to switch to the Red Channel; and I'm going to do it from the keyboard, because I'm really struggling by the way to come to terms with these new keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop CS4 for switching between channels, it's just, I got to get this down. I'm really having problems. I'm so used to the old 1, 2, 3 for Red, Green, Blue and now it's 3, 4, 5, which doesn't make any darn sense. But anyway, it's Alt+3 for Red; that's Option+3 on the Mac, there it is.
I'm going to click right there in the center to set a point at 128, 128, and then I'm going to press Shift+Down Arrow three times to reduce that Output Level to 98. So we're mapping what was formerly 128 to 98. That means we're really taking the red out of this elephant and there goes the pink. So that's taking the pink out of the elephant. That's good. Now, we want to maybe add a little bit of color to the grass. I'm going to add a little bit of blue and a little bit of green. So let's go ahead and press Alt+4 or Option+4 on the Mac to get green. By all means, if any of you come up with a way of remembering these darn things that I can convey to other people, that would awesome. I haven't come up with anything, but I haven't really tried, I have to say.
Anyway, click in the middle. I did it, you did it too, if you want to. Press Shift+Up Arrow to raise the Output Level to 138. So we're going from 128 to 138. Then Alt+5 or Option+5 on the Mac to go the Blue Channel. Click in the center again. Gosh, I'm good at clicking in the center, and then press Shift+Up Arrow twice to change the Output Level to 148, and we have ourselves a beautiful pachyderm here, to give you a sense of the difference. Actually, the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to press Alt+2 or Option+2 on the Mac to return to the RGB composite, and I just want you to see, isn't that awesome seeing all of those Curves on top of each other there? So you should see the black composite curve, which is pretty complicated, and then this simpler red, green, and blue Curves. Then that gray thing in the middle is just showing you the mean, the original diagonal line. You can just see where everything ultimately came from.
Incidentally, if you don't like seeing that great diagonal line in the middle there or you don't like seeing anything; you actually have a lot of control over what you see inside of this palette, you can go up to the Adjustments palette menu right there, and you can choose this command, Curve Display Options. Then you can, for example, turn off Baseline, that will turn off that gray line right in the middle. Did you see it go away? You can change the number of intersecting grid lines there by clicking on that little guy, if you want to, or you can click on this to set it back to the way it was. You can turn off the Histogram, if you like. I wouldn't do that. I'd keep the Histogram on. Channel Overlays is something you can turn off too. See all the stuff. Intersection Line by the way, I'll go ahead and show you what that is.
I'll click OK. Intersection Line is this line that you get when you're moving a point around, like that. See those lines, the vertical and horizontal lines that are going off to the sides there. All right. Let's undo that modification though. I don't want that. One other thing; this is completely out of context, but you can change the number of grid lines just by Alt- Clicking inside the graph, that's an Option+Click in the Mac. Isn't that weird? So you can just do that one on the fly if you want to. That is old school Photoshop I have to tell you. Anyway, I want to show you one more thing. Let's go ahead and load the preset from disk that goes ahead and creates the color cast compensation. It's the exact same correction that I have already applied here, but I want to show you the different between the two.
So let's go up to the palette menu, choose Load Curves Preset. I'm going to grab this guy right here, Pachyderm protection, and click Load, and this is this Channel by Channel modification that I have applied. Just so you can see the difference between them. This is without the Channel by Channel modification. See how pink she is. Now, you can see, yeah, she is pretty darn pink. She is pretty in pink, but she is pretty darn pink. She shouldn't be that pink, and she should be like this instead. That looks more elephantine to me. Just so you can see how far we've come with this image in general, this is the before version of the image, which has a startling level of contrast, and sort of has a certain effects quality to it that you might actually like for some sort of image, but this color compensation that I have applied there, this adjustment layer, if I turn it back on, that's a more naturalistic elephant, I think. A better effect all the way around, thanks to the power of Curves here in Photoshop.
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Andrew Sullivan was nearly as amused/satisfied by "Michael Ware's contempt for the corny CNN set-up" in the following recent "Great Debate" segment from CNN's Campbell Brown show — which pitted Ware, a CNN international correspondent who reported for years from Iraq, against Marc Thiessen, a former Bush speech writer — as by what Sullivan called Ware's "explanation of reality to the little Bushie."
And it is (largely) for Ware's initial eye-rolling over the segment's set-up (could Ware really be so surprised, still, by his employer's use of "bells and whistles" or shouting, split-screen "debates") that I am also posting the footage. (The "Great Debate" wound down with Campbell Brown declaring it "a great debate" and Ware interrupting with, "I'd hardly call it great, Campbell.")
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New York's Mike Magee is the team's longest serving player at just 24 years old. After being tipped as a future U.S. national team star in his teens, he had also disappeared off the radar these past two years thanks to a series of injuries, writes Chris Celletti. Now he's returned to the starting lineup and some semblance of form with three recent goals, including two gamewinners.
"With the health problems came some mental issues and a lack of confidence," Magee told Celletti. But playing in attack with a player of Juan Pablo Angel's experience has helped him to find his game again. "We complement each other really well. There's not too many guys who are looking to score 100 per cent of the time, but Juan Pablo does. I have the same mentality."
The duo's combined seven goals during NY's August home stretch helped the team maintain its push for a playoff spot. Since then it has faltered on the road (one point out of a possible nine), but beaten Salt Lake at home. With three of its final five games at the Meadowlands, Magee acknowledges "we need to win our home games. As for me, I just need to continue to be fit and find my playing time. I have to keep working on my finishing and stay sharp. Now that I'm scoring, I can't stop."


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" 'rhoCentralFoam' is a transient/time accurate solver.
Then using higher Courant numbers (which is say under stability criterion) will help
in time marching to a steady state solution (SSS) which would be faster than the SSS reached using time accurate solution."
(or) If it is not, any other alternate way to modify the code to reach the SSS faster!
I want anyone's suggestion/comment on this issue. :)
sorry, I posted in a wrong place.
although thread is somewhat old,but
did you reach your answer for steady state solution with rhoCentralFoam?
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Do you understand how and why Jesus Christ is "equal with God the Father" (see Philippians 2:6)? Do you know why all of God's laws "hang down from" the two great commandments? What exactly did Christ mean when He said "render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's"? Why did Christ not criticize David for having eaten the shewbread? Which of God's laws will still exist in the Family of God, and which of God's laws, if any, will pass away? How would you define "the mind of Christ"? What are the main differences between the natural human mind and the mind of Christ? Do you know? Why did Jesus Christ say to the Canaanite woman "it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs", a clearly offensive comment?
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As 'Blue is the Warmest Color' gets an NC-17, 10 notable films to have received the rating
From 'Shame' to 'Showgirls,' why the MPAA's highest rating is no badge of dishonor
8. "Showgirls" (Paul Verhoeven, 1995)
"Nudity and erotic sexuality throughout," screams the faintly tautological MPAA warning for Verhoeven's equally reviled and adored tack-fest, as if anyone might approach something titled "Showgirls" expecting high Victorian collars and courtly romance. I must confess that, having seen the film before it acquired (or I became aware of) its camp classic status, I never thought it particularly terrible, much less particularly shocking: rather, it's a slimy but grandly entertaining update of the fluffiest strain of Hollywood backstage melodrama, albeit with heavier breathing. That was enough to make it the highest-grossing NC-17 release to date: well played, all.
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From Egg in a hole, Toad in a Hole and Eggy in a Basket to Hobo Eggs, it seems that everyone calls this breakfast treat by a different name. But from now on I will call it Egg in a Nest thanks to a comment left on my Flickr photo! An egg tucked into a piece of bread and fried? Prior to 2006, I had never heard of such a thing. The first time I saw it was not in a kitchen but inside a movie theater. Actually, it was in a kitchen in the movie. V for Vendetta to be exact. Of course I didn't realize that it was something that people actually ate in the real world. It looked very odd and I couldn't figure out how the egg got into the bread! Of course I feel pretty silly now because it's so simple to make! Thanks to my friend Nicki for the tutorial!
The first time I made this, I used homemade bread and I was able to cut some nice thick slices of bread. The thicker the bread, the smaller the hole needs to be. You can cut the hole with a knife, a small glass, a biscuit cutter, or anything else that you find handy. Or you can just tear a hole out of the center with your hands. It's up to you, it's your breakfast! This time around, I used a biscuit cutter to make a fairly large hole because the bread wasn't very thick. It worked perfectly. I buttered one side of the bread, placed the dry side down in a buttered cast iron skillet, cracked an egg into the hole, sprinkled with a little salt and a lot of freshly ground black pepper and let it sizzle away for a few minutes. From here you can do one of two things. When the egg starts to set, you can carefully flip the bread over and cook it to your liking. Or, you can pop the whole pan under the broiler for a minute or two. This time I chose the latter and it worked rather well. I think I'll stick with the broiler method from now on!
It's nice to start the day off with a smile so whether you're cooking for the kids or just tired of another boring breakfast alone, fry up some Eggs in a Nest and have fun!
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My family called the Love Nests.2:20 pm Nov 15th, 2009
I love the egg in a nest it is fun to make, i can't wait to make these in christmas morning for me and my family 🙂9:37 pm Dec 17th, 2009
I've had this before and my friend called it camp-style eggs. it was delicious!!5:19 pm Jan 2nd, 2010
Grew up in the early '60's calling them one-eyed Egyptians. They were also featured in that Cher and Olympia Dukakis (sp) movie, Moonstruck. All I know is I LOVE them.9:17 pm Feb 11th, 2010
Our family call them One Eyed Egyptian sandwich, (Australia)
and we called them that for 60 years,
A tip, butter both sides of bread (use toast thickness bread), I cut the hole with egg cup or shot glass,Put bread in pan and cook both sides untill light brown, Then add a small nob of butter in hole then egg,( lower heat ) lift egg/bread, add another small nob of butter in pan and turn egg/bread so the yolk lines up with butter nob.5:37 am Feb 25th, 2010
I like to eat 'em with tomato sauce and Chlli sauce (the thick chinese kind)
Another whose dear old Dad made these for us as children. We LOVED them and I still make them from time to time. Egg In the Hole to us. We used whichever cookie cutter we fancied that day for the hole and fried up the cut out as well. What is different from others that I've read is that we would fry bacon first, keep it warm in the oven, fry one side of the bread and cutouts in the bacon grease, flip them, break the egg into the hole and cook until the eggs were how everyone liked them. Hardly a low fat dish but they are so YUM. I still make them from time to time, always remembering my Daddy as I'm cooking.10:52 am May 26th, 2010
These are known as "Egyptian Eyes" in my family. I agree that the separately fried circle is a tremendous treat. Also, I am older and have hand tremors. Making eggs this way ensures that I don't break my yolks while turning it over.4:18 pm Jun 7th, 2010
We always called these Snake Eyes 😀 Had this just yesterday.7:16 pm Jul 12th, 2010
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My mom called them "Chicken on a Raft". I like cooking them in butter fortified with a little EVOO or canola oil. You can cook 'em quicker without burning the butter as easily. I've loved them since I was a kid fifty something years ago. I put some ketchup on the side… (Adds another food group, right?)1:44 pm Feb 10th, 2011
We call them Angels eyes..used to make them often when my children were small. Toad in the hole is sausages cooked in Yorkshire pudding batter to a Brit.7:33 pm Apr 27th, 2011
One eyed sailor is what ive always called them.9:50 pm Sep 12th, 2011
Can you bake these instead of fry them? I dont fry.4:04 pm Mar 16th, 2014
Hi Juliette,5:18 am Mar 17th, 2014
They don't really bake well. To bake eggs you need a moist base really like a ratatouille for example.
if you're making this for yourself, fold the bread in half gently and just bite a hole in the middle of the folded edge!2:44 pm Oct 31st, 2014
This is so funny. I just made these for my boyfriend, and he had never heard of them! They were known as One Eyed Swedes in our family, and we had them after midnight services every Christmas Eve with broiled grapefruit. A true act of love is giving up the little, delicious fried circle to someone else at the table.8:29 am Nov 9th, 2014
My mom and I call them egg on an island. We usually make the hole just big enough for the yoke fit in then the egg white soaks into the bread. Egg and toast all in one! What more can you want?8:51 am Feb 12th, 2015
How to put the egg at the center of bread ? Best food for breakfast.11:45 pm Feb 15th, 2015
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This novel is a dense, rich celebration of an English family, first in the present time, then in the past--the late 60s and early 70s.
In the first half, four siblings: Harriet, Alice, Roland, and Jane meet at the old family homestead near the sea for a family reunion. The house is being sold, and it will be their last time together at their childhood home.
Accompanying them, are children (Jane's), a new South American wife (Roland's--his third), a young friend, and son of a former lover (Alice's), and all alone, (Harriet).
In the siblings' idiosyncratic fashion, Harriet arrives first; she leaves the house locked and goes wandering in the forest. Alice arrives with Kasim, and then realizes, what she has done, brought an eighteen-year old to a place with nothing going on. Roland calls and says there will be delay, and that he and Pilar will arrive on Sunday.
Alice runs through the house, throwing open windows, picking and placing beautiful bouquets in each of the adults' room, while Jane, the mom, practically begins cooking the evening meal as her two children, Ivy and Arthur explore.
Privately, Jane and Harriet discuss whether Kazim is more than a friend to wild, actress Alice. Kazim reads on the porch terribly bored. But on Sunday when Roland, Pilar and Molly, Roland's sixteen year old daughter, arrive. Kazim immediately perks up at Molly's appearance.Read more »
Something is happening to the dogs of Littlefield, Mass. Is someone poisoning them or does the blame fall on something more supernatural? A cast of delightful, small-town characters suffers through this travesty as circumstance and personality pit one against each other.
It begins with the posting of warnings: pet-owners should not let their dogs roam free in the park. The signs start off politely, then denigrate into meaner advice: "Leash your beast or else." Then a white bull-mastiff is found poisoned in the park woods. Soon the aldermen schedule a meeting to discuss two diametrically-opposed proposals: ban all dogs from the park, or create a leash-free area for the dogs to play and have freedom.
Littlefield, long on the top ten list of best small communities to live in America, appears to be coming apart in myriad ways. Most of the teens and adults have therapists. The veneer of social niceness quickly disappears.
What do jogging, hate sex, cross fit gyms, and reality TV have to do with Jane Austen? Don't be so 19th century. So what if Austen is rolling over in her grave. Sittenfeld has made a delightful pastiche of Pride and Prejudice, much more to my fiction-reading tastes than Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
In this reimagined version of the classic, it's 2013 and the Bennet family has relocated to a spider-infected old Tudor in an upscale neighborhood of Cincinnati. Country club lunches, anyone?
The five unmarried daughters still ground the story although all of them have turned very 21st century. Even Mrs. Bennet has been modernized, she's now a shopaholic busybody. However, she still remains in determined pursuit of worthy husbands (rich, upper class) for her daughters.
Jane and Liz have flown the nest for New York City where gentle Jane teaches yoga, and Liz, writes for the entertainment mag, Mascara. She also sleeps with her married boyfriend. At thirty-nine, Jane has given up on finding a man, and has begun in vitro fertilization treatments in the hopes of having a child. Alas, no wedding bells in the offing for both Jane and Liz.
If you ever worried as a child about bringing other children home from school and their possible reaction to your home and family life, this book will resonate with you. If you ever reconnected with a close relative after a long absence, ditto.
Lucy Barton had a pretty horrific childhood: dirt-poor for many years the family lived in an actual garage without running water. And not only was there little money, food, or clothes, but her parents provided little emotional sustenance.
Strout takes you deep into the mind and heart of her protagonist, a young mother in her twenties, recently hospitalized after an operation. Lucy is happily married with two young children whom she feels she has abandoned because of her illness. She also is a new writer, proud of her work, but still not at ease calling herself an author.
The present time of the book occurs in a New York City hospital where Lucy is amazed to see her mother, who's come all the way from Iowa to take care of her daughter. But this is so out of character for her, that Lucy can scarcely believe she has arrived. Neither parent has ever visited Lucy before and neither attended her wedding. At his one meeting with their future son-in-law, Lucy's father flipped out because her fiancée was German.Read more »
Tolstoy's quote from Anna Karenina applies to this book: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
The Nest is about three generations of Plumbs: Francie, the matriarch, the middle generation that consists of Leo, Bea, Jack, and Melody, plus two of their spouses, and Melody's two girls, the twins, Nora and Louise.
At novel's opening we find Leo, the eldest, who long ago made a bundle on a trendy magazine, and has just been released from rehab, wandering through Central Park trying to score some drugs.
The twins, who are playing hooky from their senior year SAT prep class, watch as their uncle falls to the ground. They decide not to rescue him because he will most likely tell their mom, Melody, where he saw them, thus getting them into trouble.
At that very moment, Leo was supposed to be attending a family lunch. It's about the nest, which is the money their Dad set aside for them in trust that comes due at Melody's 40th birthday. The elder Mr. Plumb wanted his kids to inherit something but not a grand inheritance, nothing that would create havoc in their lives or make them too dependent on his money.
You might recall Elizabeth Alexander—she read the poem at President Obama's first inauguration. This memoir by the prize-winning poet covers a much more private, interior space. It tells the story of her love, marriage and family, and especially the jagged rent in her life caused by her husband's death.
The first chapter queries where the actual story begins. Is it the beautiful April morning in Hamden, Connecticut when Ficre Ghebreyesus returns to his younger son Simon's trundle bed, saying, "This is the most comfortable bed I have ever slept in."? Is it when Ficre ran out of the house to buy three dozen lottery tickets on a hunch, wanting the win the lottery for Elizabeth? Or is it way back in '61 when two women on opposite sides of the earth become pregnant, one carrying a first-born girl, another carrying a later-born son?
The couple met in a New Haven coffee shop; Ficre came over and introduced himself. He was a chef who had escaped from war-torn Eritrea, Africa at age sixteen. He became a refugee in Sudan, Germany, Italy and finally, the States. Torn from his family for many years, he ended up in New Haven and in the 90s began painting.
He later said he would never marry a woman who did not honor and love her parents. Luckily, Elizabeth more than fit that bill.
Before this century, farming was a way of life for many Americans. In the 1920s, 20% of our workforce labored on farms. Now it is less than 2%. This novel, the first of a trilogy, covers the lives of an extended agricultural family, the Langdons, from the 1920s to the 1950s.
In 1920 Walter Langdon, a young 25-year-old walks the land of his new farm. His father thought he didn't need to start on his own yet, but Walter disagreed. He had a wife after all--the beautiful and practical, Rosanna--and now a six-month-old son, the treasured Frank. As the first grandchild in the family, he receives tons of love and praise.
The novel covers a cycle of births, deaths, marriages, and children coming of age for two generations. The pace is slow, the characterization, deep, and you feel that you are really experiencing life as it was lived on an Iowa farm.
Although she has written three novels, this is Karen Bender's first collection of stories. Wow can the woman write.
Two of her short stories have won Pushcart Prizes and several others have been included in Best American collections, both for short stories and for mystery stories.
The pieces are irreverent, funny and sad at the same time, and rich with the absurdities and bizarreness of modern American life. For instance, "The Sea Turtle Hospital" vividly describes a lockdown at a grade school. Bender's writing is non-judgmental but rich in detail.
The narrator in this story gets the job of locking the door and pulling down the shades (what protection would thin shades provide?), while the other teacher hustles the children into a closet. They proceed to eventually rolling the children up in a stinky rug after shots ring out. All the while anxious parents text the narrator.
One of the weirdest stories is "The Cat" where a mother adopts a kitten. Bender is a whizz at getting children down--both their conversations and behavior.
But the story is really about the mother in this story, six years out from breastfeeding, but the kitten's mews cause a let-down reflex and her milk to return. This leads to consultations with a breast surgeon who has a pet iguana. "Cold," the mother says. You'll have to read it to find out what happens.
Bender seems drawn to non-politically correct topics. In "A Chick from My Dream Life" she describes two teenage sisters whose parents offer them little attention. Their father is very depressed but the girls don't know why he spends all day on the living room couch not wanting them near.
The younger sister, Betsey, has an arm that ends in a point like "the tailed end of whipped cream." As the older sister, Sally, takes it upon herself to hide it in tube tops or paint it in vivid colors. When their dad starts ignoring them, they wander to the beach where Betsey sneaks away to kiss boys, telling them that her name was Sally.
"Theft" describes an older woman's vacation on a cruise ship to Alaska after a life of crime. She meets a young woman, Darlene, who has a broken heart. The two women bond. Ginger tries to toughen Darlene up, tells her what to say to get her boyfriend back, while revealing some of her own backstory and how her parents and sister abandoned her. That's what spurned her to become a first-class swindler.
Many of the stories etch out feelings of loneliness or loss, but with a quirky, off-kilter humor that makes everything bearable. Her narrators are smart, observant, and fallible--very much like us. Bender's writing recalls that of the wonderful short story writer Flannery O'Connor. Try Flannery's Complete Stories.
Irish writer Paul Lynch begins his second novel with a vivid barn burning scene--one of the most powerful novel openers I've read in a long time. It starts out calm, some farmhands working quietly in a field, the farm owner's wife, Eskra, baking, until the scent of smoke and a dark cloud rising suggest that something is very wrong.
The farmer, Barnabas Kane, races to the barn with a loyal worker, and Barnabas presses inside and nudges Matthew Peoples inside also. They try to rescue the fifty seven cattle that are banging their stalls in a frenzy of fear. A friend rescues the farmer, but the other man never gets out, nor do most of the cattle.
The book shows the aftermath of that fire. For months, the house stinks of smoke: the towels, the sheets, even the wallpaper. In one scene, Barnabas rips down curtains, slashes the wallpaper, even tears his clothes off after recognizing their smoky smell. Eskra comes home and believes he has lost his mind.
This quiet introspective read is not for everyone. In it, British novelist Rachel Cusk, examines relationships and self-identity in a series of ten conversations that make up the book. The action occurs in the span of one week while a narrator travels to Greece for a week long writing seminar that she is teaching.
Caveat: this is one of the most unusual novels I have ever read. The author's voice is sure, steady, and at times mesmerizing. It's not an action novel in any sense, but rich with everyday life in a way that recalls Virginia Woolf's works. Philosophical with wry humor and a deep sense of what makes people tick.
The first dialogue begins on the plane with her seatmate, a wealthy Greek, who is twice, make that thrice divorced. As happens so often in life, the two passengers share many secrets about their lives. We learn that the Greek has a disabled brother and disabled child. His ex, the mother of his son, wanted to institutionalize the boy, but the
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RANGOON — As Burma marks 65 years of diplomatic relations with Thailand, the Thai embassy in Rangoon hosted and event designed to exhibit the close ties between the neighbors.
The exhibition, called "Textiles of the Two Lands," was held to celebrate the birthday of Thailand's Queen Sirikit, who turned 80 this year. The embassy said the choice of traditional textiles for the event was symbolic of the weaving of strong bonds between the Southeast Asian allies. The traditional fabrics industries of the region is also a keen interest of the queen, who dedicates her time to vocational training and conservation of the practices and preservation of the arts and crafts of the region.
Experts and textile collectors from the two countries discussed the use of traditional arts in modern fashion design and global business opportunities the industry has to offer. Some of the designers showing off their work included Ajarn Paothong Thongchuar, from Thailand, and Burma designer Mogok Pouk Pouk, while actress Daw Grace Shwe Zin Htaik also attended alongside guest star Pancake Kemmanit, the Thai supermodel.
At a dinner the next day, Burma's budding celebrities rubbed shoulders with their Thai counterparts, Burmese government ministers and visiting experts where the cost of a plate went to Burma's Red Cross Society.
Shameful Relationship, No visa exemption for their citizens, not even for the transit visa.
after u watched that gala night dinner what u suffer?i suffered siam showed their soft power and i was really disappointed why our sides accept that kind of exhibition.why our side did not think side affects
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Like a lot of people, I have mixed feelings about the whole Murphy/Falchuk oeuvre. Loved "Glee" for a while before losing interest, thought "Nip/Tuck" became too silly, can't stand "The New Normal." But I've got to say, one thing these guys pulled off that will always impress me is the game-changing idea of rebooting "American Horror Story" (second season premiere Wed. Oct. 17 at 10 p.m.) at the end of its first season. It's a move that could only happen on cable (or maybe the Internet, if you want to include Web series), but there are plenty of shows I wish had made the same decision. If this is ultimately the only lasting impact (and I hope it's lasting) the show has on the television landscape, I'll gladly call it an epic win. Whether or not the reboot is a success on its own terms, of course, remains to be seen.


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Britney Spears checks into a rehabilitation clinic after a weekend of partying, cross-country traveling – and shaving her head
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They split last year, but NFL star Tom Brady – who's now dating model Gisele Bündchen – and actress Bridget Moynahan are having a baby
Lawyers, lovers and family members convene in court to squabble over Anna Nicole Smith's remains
Hundreds of JetBlue passengers were stranded up to 11 hours on the tarmac. What went wrong, and do passengers need a Bill of Rights?
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With both parents serving in Iraq, 20-year-old Audrey Delgadillo cares for her four sisters at home
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Since gracing her first red carpet over two decades ago, Drew Barrymore has blossomed into one of Hollywood's biggest style stars
American Idol: Time to vote! Here's your guide to this year's Top 24
The Bachelorette couple Trista and Ryan Sutter announce that they have a little one on the way
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NORRISTOWN Norristown Police Chief Willie Richet finally will be able to relax and wear something other than his uniform. And he has mixed feelings about that.
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Good Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directs our rapt attention to yesterday's installment of Paul Lukas's UniWatch, which provides a rare glimpse into the inaugural 1960 season of Lamar Hunt's Dallas Texans. Long story short: Bob Halford, the Texans' PR man, loaned a longtime UniWatch-er named Billy Quinton his Mayo Brothers-bound collection of debut-season programs, which Quinton promptly scanned and sent to Lukas, who writes:
The net result is an interesting glimpse at how the various teams approached one small but visible detail of their businesses -- program cover design -- during the AFL's first season. It would be fair to say that some of them splurged while others did the bare minimum. ... [An] amazing trove of material."
It's not just a history of the team, but also a loving look-see at the artists responsible for the frame-worthy art -- including University of Texas immortal John Churchill Chase and Dallas Morning News political cartoonist Bill McClanahan. This book would make a fine addition to a certain museum, should it ever get announced.
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WEST POINT, N.Y. - President John F. Kennedy is getting his old look back on new collectors' coins.
The slain president's profile debuted on the half dollar 50 years ago, and the image was subtly tweaked and sharpened in the 1990s. Now the U.S. Mint is producing collectors' coins that restore the original 1964 design, which incorporated suggestions from a grieving Jacqueline Kennedy.
Gold coins being stamped at the mint's West Point plant this week portray JFK's famously tousled head of hair a bit fluffier, his part is less severe and his cheeks less chiseled than on the half dollar discontinued in 2001. The throwback design being featured on the coins this year is truer to both the president's appearance and his widow's wishes, mint officials say.
"This really does look a lot more like him," said West Point plant manager Ellen McCullom.
Kennedy replaced Benjamin Franklin on the half dollar in early 1964, months after the president was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963.
Jacqueline Kennedy liked what she saw on the coin by chief sculptor Gilroy Roberts, but suggested making the hair part less pronounced and adding more accents.
In the 1990s, improved technology allowed for tweaks in the design to show more detail, sort of the engraver's version of a high-definition broadcast.
The gold proof coins being made at West Point with three-quarter ounces of 24-karat gold will begin going on sale Aug. 5 at the World's Fair of Money in Rosemont, Ill. That coin will be dated 1964-2014 and its price will be around $1,300, depending on the market price of gold.
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The opening round of the 16th annual Players Amateur at Berkeley Hall came to a conclusion Thursday afternoon, with a three participants sharing a tie for first place.
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Doc Rivers gave a quick answer when asked about DeAndre Jordan coming back to the Los Angeles Clippers.
The Los Angeles Clippers made a last-ditch push Wednesday to keep DeAndre Jordan after the free agent center had second thoughts about his agreement to join the Dallas Mavericks, people with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press.
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The news that Denver Broncos star pass rusher Von Miller is facing a potential four-game suspension for violating the NFL drug policy hit Ravens outside linebacker Elvis Dumervil particularly hard. Over the past two seasons in Denver before the fax debacle that propelled Dumervill off the Broncos' roster and into a $35 million contract in Baltimore, Miller and Dumervil formed one of the most disruptive pass-rushing tandems in the league.
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I am interested in the molecular mechanisms of ion channel function and modulation. In particular, my lab is focused on the study of bacterial ion channels because bacteria are a convenient system where electrophysiological, biochemical and genetic studies can be performed. We use the patch clamp and planar lipid bilayer techniques to measure the electrical activity of single channel proteins in real time. The computer analysis of the data gives us information on the size and selectivity of the ion channel, kinetic properties, dependence on transmembrane voltage or on other physical or chemical parameters, and mechanisms of modulation. These techniques are widely used in the investigation of eukaryotic channels, in particular those of neurons.
We are in the process of characterizing the molecular properties of various Escherichia coli and Vibrio cholerae channels. Most of our effort is devoted to the study of porins, abundant channels of the outer membrane. These proteins play an essential role in the flux of nutrients, ions, signaling molecules and antibiotics inside the cell, and their study is of great interest not only in the broad scope of fundamental research on ion channels and bacterial physiology, but also with respect to potential medical applications and antibiotic resistance. Our goal is to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the spontaneous oscillations of the channels between open and closed states, and modulation of these ion channels by voltage, pH and other relevant metabolites. They are one of the few ion channels whose structure is known at atomic resolution. This gives us the excellent opportunity to investigate the relationships between structure and function by performing electrophysiological and biochemical experiments on both spontaneously occurring and genetically engineered mutant channels.
Current projects include the characterization of the major diffusion porins of Vibrio cholerae OmpU and OmpT, and their mutants. Studies by Dr. Karl Klose have shown that the artificial expression of OmpT in V. cholerae cells inside the host, instead of the normal expression of OmpU, leads to attenuation of virulence and defects in colonization. OmpU and OmpT are fairly similar at the sequence level, but have profound functional differences. Our aim is to understand the molecular basis of these differences through structure-function relationship analysis and studies on modulation. In particular we are focusing our efforts on the modulation of channel activity by acidic pH and by bile acids. Altogether, this work will lead to a better understanding of the role of porins in virulence and adaptation to the host environment. Similar projects are also undertaken on the porins of E. coli; in particular we are studying the effect of loop mutations in the general diffusion porin OmpF on the channel response to acidic pH.
Recently, we have also developed new projects to characterize the outer membrane components of bacterial secretion machineries. These components are believed to form regulated pores to allow the transit of secreted proteins to the cell surface. Bacteria export a vast array of proteins, such as toxins, enzymes, adhesins, and cell surface appendages, many of which play important roles in the virulence of pathogenic species. The molecular mechanisms by which the outer membrane pores recognize and transport their cognate substrates are poorly understood. We are currently investigating the electrophysiological properties of some of these protein-transporting channels in a variety of micro-organisms. In particular, we have two ongoing collaborations with Dr. David Thanassi (Stony Brook) on the PapC usher of uropathogenic E. coli, and with Dr. Hye-Jeong Yeo (UH) on the TpsB of the two-partner secretion system of H. influenzae.
Duret, G. and Delcour, A.H., Size and dynamics of the Vibrio cholerae porins OmpU and OmpT probed by polymer exclusion, Biophys. J. 98:1820-1829 (2010).
Pagel, M. and Delcour, A. H. Effects of conjugated and unconjugated bile acids on the activity of the Vibrio cholerae porin OmpT, Molec. Membr. Biology 28:69-78 (2011).
Mapingire, O.S., Henderson, N.S., Duret, G., Thanassi, D.G. and Delcour, A.H., Modulating Effects of the Plug, Helix and N- and C-terminal Domains on Channel Properties of the PapC Usher, J. Biol. Chem. 284:36324-36333 (2009)
Wager, B, Baslé, A and Delcour, A. H. Disulfide bond tethering of extracellular loops does not affect the closure of OmpF porin at acidic pH, Proteins 78:2886-2894 (2010).
Delcour, A. H., Outer Membrane Permeability and Antibiotic Resistance, Bioph. Biochim. Acta - Proteins and Proteomics 1794:808-816 (2009)
Duret, G., Szmanski, M.., Choi, K.-J., Yeo, H.-J., and Delcour, A. H., The TpsB Translocator HMW1B of Hemophilus influenzae Forms a Large-Conductance Channel, J. Biol. Chem. 283:15771-15778 (2008)
Duret, G., Simonet, V. and Delcour, A. H., Modulation of Vibrio cholerae Porin Function by Acidic pH, Channels 1:70-79 (2007)
Pagel, M., Simonet, V., Li, J., Lallemand, M., Lauman, B., and Delcour, A. H., Phenotypic Characterization of Pore Mutants of the Vibrio cholerae Porin OmpU, J. Bacteriol. 189:8593-8600 (2007).
Duret, G. and Delcour, A. H., Deoxycholic Acid Blocks Vibrio cholerae OmpT but not OmpU Porin, J. Biol. Chem., 281:19899-19905 (2006)
Baslé, A., Qutub, R., Mehrazin, M., Wibbenmeyer, J. A. and Delcour, A. H., Deletions of Single Extracellular Loops Affect pH-Sensitivity, but not Voltage-Dependence, of the E. coli Porin OmpF, Prot. Engineering Design and Selection, 17:665-672 (2004).
Baslé, A., Iyer, R. and Delcour, A. H., Subconductance States in OmpF Porin Gating, Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1664:100-107 (2004)
Simonet, V. C., Baslé, A., Klose, K. E. and Delcour, A. H., The Vibrio cholerae Porins OmpU and OmpT Have Distinct Channel Properties, J. Biol. Chem. 278: 17539-17545 (2003).
Delcour, A. H., Solute Uptake through General Porins. Front. Biosci. 8, d1055-1071 (2003).
Samartzidou, H, Mehrazin, M., Xu, Z., Benedik, M. J. and Delcour, A. H., Cadaverine Inhibition of Porin Plays a Role in Cell Survival at Acidic pH, J. Bacteriol. 185: 13-19 (2003).
Bredin J, Simonet V, Iyer R, Delcour AH, Pagès JM. (2003). Colicins, spermine and cephalosporins: a competitive interaction with the OmpF eyelet. Biochemical Journal, 376(Pt 1):245-52.
Wibbenmeyer, J.A., Provenzano, D., Landry, C., Klose, K. and Delcour, A. H., Vibrio porins OmpT and OmpU Are Differentially Affected by Bile, Infect. Immun. 70:121-126 (2002).
Delcour, A. H., Structure and Function of Pore-Forming beta-Barrels from Bacteria, J. Mol. Micro. Biotechnol. 4:1-10 (2002)
Wibbenmeyer JA, Provenzano D, Landry CF, Klose KE, Delcour AH. (2002). Vibrio cholerae OmpU and OmpT porins are differentially affected by bile. Infection And Immunity, 70(1):121-6.
Liu, N., Samartzidou, H., Lee, K.-W., Briggs, J. and Delcour, A. H., Effects of Pore Mutations and Permeant Ion Concentration on the Spontaneous Gating Activity of OmpC Porin, Protein Engineering 13:491-500 (2000).
Iyer, R., Wu, Z., Woster, P. M. and Delcour, A. H., Molecular Basis for the Polyamine - OmpF Porin Interactions: Inhibitor and Mutant Studies, J. Mol. Biol. 297:933-945 (2000).
Samartzidou, H. and Delcour, A. H., Excretion of Endogenous Cadaverine Leads to a Decrease in Porin-Mediated Outer Membrane Permeability, J. Bacteriol. 181: 791-798 (1999).
Samartzidou, H. and Delcour, A. H., E. coli PhoE Porin Has an Opposite Voltage Dependence from the Homologous OmpF. EMBO J. , 17:93-100 (1998).
Delcour, A. H., Function and Modulation of Porins: Insights from Electrophysiology FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 151:115-123 (1997).
Iyer, R. and Delcour, A. H., Complex Inhibition of OmpF and OmpC Bacterial Porins by Polyamines. J. Biol. Chem. 272:18595-18601 (1997).
delaVega, A.L. and Delcour, A. H., Cadaverine Induces Closing of E. coli Porins.EMBO Journal 14:6058-6065 (1995).