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The Burke-Gaffney Observatory at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia will take your astronomical observation requests via Twitter. [more inside]
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor
After almost two weeks of speculation, it has been announced in Nature: At a distance of 1.295 parsecs, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri is the Sun's closest stellar neighbor and one of the best-studied low-mass stars. Here we report observations that reveal the presence of a small planet with a minimum mass of about 1.3 Earth masses orbiting Proxima with a period of approximately 11.2 days at a semi-major-axis distance of around 0.05 astronomical units. Its equilibrium temperature is within the range where water could be liquid on its surface. (paywalled article w/ abstract) [more inside]
My God, it's full of stars.
Come, gentle night, come, loving, blackbrow'd night.
Humans to attempt insertion of Jupiter
Mission Juno Tonight, Earth species Homo sapiens sapiens, with ongoing support from photosynthesizing relatives in the Plant kingdom, will attempt the delicate task of inserting a large machine into polar orbit around the highly radioactive gas giant Jupiter. After using a slingshot maneuver around Earth and Jupiter's tremendous gravitational pull to become "one of the fastest human-made objects ever built," it is hoped Juno will collect data for 20 months, shedding light on the composition of the planet and what it can tell us about the origin of the Sol system 4.6 billion years ago. [more inside]
Are humans unique and alone in the vast universe?
A New Empirical Constraint on the Prevalence of Technological Species in the Universe
Recent advances is exoplanet studies provide strong constraints on all astrophysical terms in the Drake Equation...We find that as long as the probability that a habitable zone planet develops a technological species is larger than ~ 10-24, then humanity is not the only time technological intelligence has evolved.(Paper published in Astrobiology [paywalled]; preprint available on arXiv) [more inside]
Tonight I've watched / The moon and then / the Pleiades / go down...
"[T]he fixed stars... are the visible Armies of God"
Christopher M. Graney on the problem of what to do in 1629 if you're a Copernican and the data suggests that most stars are larger than the span of Earth's orbit. [more inside]
Mayan constellations map to Mayan cities, helping find a new one
"During his research, Gadoury examined 22 Mayan constellations and discovered that if he projected those constellations onto a map, the shapes corresponded perfectly with the locations of 117 Mayan cities. Incredibly, the 15-year-old was the first person to establish this important correlation, reported the Journal de Montreal over the weekend. Then Gadoury took it one step further. He examined a twenty-third constellation which contained three stars, yet only two corresponded to known cities." [more inside]
"...one of the scariest things they saw as children."
Children of the Stones (previously) is the revolutionary 1977 British children's television drama telling the story of an astrophysicist and his son who arrive in the village of Milbury to study the giant Neolithic stones which surround it, and the community which is held in a strange captivity by the psychic forces generated by the stones. For BBC Radio, writer and comedian Stewart Lee explores the ground breaking television series and examines its special place in the memories of those children who watched it on its initial transmission in a state of excitement and terror. [more inside]
Earth May Be a 1-in-700-Quintillion Kind of Place
A new study suggests that there are around 700 quintillion planets in the universe, but only one like Earth. It's a revelation that's both beautiful and terrifying at the same time.
Gravitational Waves Exist
Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them. The New York Times also has a writeup.
Oliver Morton on The Wonder of Quasars
In the far reaches of the sky there are sun-bright discs as wide as solar systems, their hearts run through by spears of radiation that outshine galaxies. The energies that feed these quasars beggar all metaphor, and their quantification seems all but meaningless. What does it serve to know that they are converting matter to energy at a rate that equates to the complete annihilation of a planet the size of the Earth ten times a second? Or that all the fires of the sun, from its birth to its death, would be a few weeks' worth of work to one of them? No human sense can be made from so inhuman a scale. Boggle, and move on. [via 3quarksdaily] [more inside]
Babylonian (Pre)Calculus!
Signs of Modern Astronomy Seen in Ancient Babylon - "Scientists have found a small clay tablet with markings indicating that a sort of precalculus technique was used to track Jupiter's motion in the night sky." [more inside]
Come on, let's go for flight over the dwarf planet Ceres!
Many Very Educated Men Just Screwed Up Nature. Possibly?
New evidence of a Ninth Planet. Astronomer Michael E Brown is more famous as "The man who killed Pluto" thinks their might be nine planets after all. [more inside]
This Professor Fell In Love With His Grad Student, Then Fired Her For It
Christian Ott, a young astrophysics professor at the California Institute of Technology, fell in love with one of his graduate students and then fired her because of his feelings, according to a recent university investigation. Twenty-one months of intimate online chats, obtained by BuzzFeed News, confirm that he confessed his actions to another female graduate student. [more inside]
What have we lost now that we can no longer read the sky?
For most of human history . . . [i]t was unthinkable to ignore the stars. They were critical signposts, as prominent and useful as local hills, paths or wells. The gathering-up of stars into constellations imbued with mythological meaning allowed people to remember the sky; knowledge that might save their lives one night and guide them home. Lore of the sky bound communities together. On otherwise trackless seas and deserts, the familiar stars would also serve as a valued friend. That friendship is now broken.
Light pollution will not be a factor.
Live in North America? Do you have binoculars or, at the very least, eyes? Well then, you might be able to see Venus during the day today. That is, until the jerk Moon gets in front of it. [more inside]
Space is smol. Really smol. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely…
Nebulae run through a tilt-shift filter come out looking tiny and adorable and precious.
None of them wanna pay taxes again. Ever.
It's an asteroid! It's a comet! No, wait...
On November 13, 2015, astronomers will get the chance to observe an object that will hit earth at 6:20 UTC, around 65 kilometres from the southern tip of Sri Lanka. This little guy is rare - even though there are many pieces of space junk in orbit around the earth, none of the artificial objects in distant orbit are known to have made the return trip to Earth. [more inside]
Post-punk Pulsar
The consequences of sexual harassment at Berkeley
Dr. Geoffrey Marcy, a prominent exoplanet researcher employed as a professor at UC Berkeley, has been found to have repeatedly violated sexual harassment policy. The full report has not been made public, but according to a report by Buzzfeed, the result is that he is to be given "clear expectations concerning his future interactions with students" or risk further punishment. Dr. Marcy has put an apology letter on his web page. Dr. Michael Eisen, a biology professor at UC Berkeley, has posted an article about the contradictions between the Berkley sexual harassment training and institutional consequences. Dr. Janet Stemwedel writes in Forbes about the differences between institutional and community responses in this case.
The Earth-Twin Planet That Nobody Talks About
If we found it orbiting another star, this world would surely be hailed as the most Earthlike exoplanet known: the best place yet to search for alien life. No doubt you sense there is a catch, and indeed there is. It is not orbiting another star; it is the planet closest to home right here in our own solar system. The world I'm talking about is Venus: The Earth-Twin Planet That Nobody Talks About
A vast ocean underlies the ice on Enceladus
Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn's Moon Enceladus. "A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data from NASA's Cassini mission." The discovery of a global ocean beneath its icy rind makes Enceladus an even better potential extraterrestrial incubator than previously thought. [more inside]
Look! Up in the sky!
Supermoon Lunar Eclipse! Coming to most of the world September 27th or 28th, 2015. There are many other cool visualizations, like this telescopic view or a view from the moon. Provided by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission of NASA.
The cold plains of infinity
Take a pixel tour of the universe with French cartoonist Boulet (previously on metafilter). Soundtrack: Le grand pan • Roxanne • Message in a Bottle. Bonus: Pixel quantum physics.
Next time NASA lands on Mars, they want your name on the lander.
Your name could be on Mars in the next several months. You've already paid for it, so you might as well go. In March 2016, NASA is launching its Insight lander, which will be the first Mars mission to probe beneath the surface of the Red Planet and explore its interior in-depth. (In-depth, get it? Nevermind) They're offering to micro-etch the name of any Earthling who wishes on the lander. Here's where to sign up. [more inside]
Birth Pictures Of A Galaxy
The Cosmic Web Imager at Palomar Observatory has been studying a system 10 billion light years away illuminated by two quasars. Now, a Caltech team has published pictures of the giant swirling disk of a protogalaxy being fed cool - 30,000 degree - gas by a filament of the cosmic web. This is the first time we have ever seen a galaxy being built, and it reveals unique new evidence about the early Universe and the still poorly-understood life and evolution of the galactic population. Abstract of letter in Nature (full paper paywalled).
In conventional camera terms, it's a 75mm lens at f/8.7
A story in the Atlantic about "Ralph", the camera taking the tan-and-sepia-toned high-resolution photos of Pluto.
Because different materials shrink at different rates, "We actually built the mirrors and the chassis out of aluminum so that as they shrink, they would shrink together, to maintain the same focal length."
Because different materials shrink at different rates, "We actually built the mirrors and the chassis out of aluminum so that as they shrink, they would shrink together, to maintain the same focal length."
There's a moon in the sky, it's called Neptune
Constellations throughout the ages ☆ Sun replaced with other stars ☆ Moon replaced with other bodies
The Most Beautiful Things
Thick clouds of dust and gas prevent our eyes from seeing much of our Milky Way galaxy. But infrared light travels through that dust easily. Using infrared light, the Spitzer Space Telescope has been taking high-resolution images of our galactic center since 2003. Combining over 400,000 of those images in multiple wavelengths of light reveals a new view of our galaxy. Floating along the Milky Way (in 4k60p if your computer can handle it).
The latest best image of Pluto and Charon
Raw images of Pluto document our progress to the dwarf planet! We are about 15 days away from the close encounter with Pluto. Raw images are being uploaded here, every day. Other information and goodies can be found here.
The Philae Comet lander is awake after 7 months of hibernation
ESA's comet lander is awake! ESA's Philae comet lander touched down but lost contact shortly after landing about 7 months ago. The comet it landed on has traveled closer to the sun, allowing the lander to charge it's battery enough to contact Earth. Huzzah!
You can't get your ass to Mars
Every sensate being we've encountered in the universe so far—from dogs and humans and mice to turtles and spiders and seahorses—has evolved to suit the cosmic accident that is Earth. The notion that we could take these forms, most beautiful and most wonderful, and hurl them into space, and that this would, to use Petranek's formulation, constitute "our best hope," is either fantastically far-fetched or deeply depressing.
As Impey points out, for six decades we've had the capacity to blow ourselves to smithereens. One of these days, we may well do ourselves in; certainly we're already killing off a whole lot of other species. But the problem with thinking of Mars as a fallback planet (besides the lack of oxygen and air pressure and food and liquid water) is that it overlooks the obvious. Wherever we go, we'll take ourselves with us. Project Exodus: Elizabeth Kolbert on Mars, Earth, exploration versus science and astronautical reach exceeding grasp. [previouslyish]
As Impey points out, for six decades we've had the capacity to blow ourselves to smithereens. One of these days, we may well do ourselves in; certainly we're already killing off a whole lot of other species. But the problem with thinking of Mars as a fallback planet (besides the lack of oxygen and air pressure and food and liquid water) is that it overlooks the obvious. Wherever we go, we'll take ourselves with us. Project Exodus: Elizabeth Kolbert on Mars, Earth, exploration versus science and astronautical reach exceeding grasp. [previouslyish]
Are we the only living thing in the entire universe?
ancient star raises prospects of intelligent life
can life survive for billions of years longer than the expected timeline on Earth? as scientists continue to discover older and older solar systems & galaxies, it's likely that before long we'll find an ancient planet in a habitable zone. knowing if life is possible on this exoplanet would have immense implications for habitability and the development of ancient life according to researcher Tiago Campante's paper "An Ancient Extrasolar System with Five Sub-Earth-Size Planets". this animation starts by showing us Kepler's field-of-view in the direction of the constellations Cygnus and Lyra, and then we're taken to the vicinity of the Kepler-444 planetary system, located some 117 light years away.
I was stumped. So of course, I asked Facebook.
An Einstein supernova in the sky
Astronomers using the Hubble space telescope have discovered four images of the same supernova arranged in an Einstein Cross. They've released pictures and a video to explain what we're looking at. [more inside]
Close shave.
Astronomers have discovered that a red dwarf and a brown dwarf (a binary system known as Scholz's star) passed through our Solar System's Oort Cloud a mere 70,000 years ago.
Paper Engineering: Over 700 years of Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn
The history of paper engineering in books, or the making of "pop-up books" didn't start as a way to entertain children, but in the search for more tools to educate adults, including some proto-computers from as early as the 13th century. Let Ellen G. K. Rubin, known also as The Popup Lady, regale and inform you at length, in either the form of a 50 minute presentation for the Smithsonian Libraries, or read through her website, where she has a timeline of movable books and see the glossary for definitions of the different movements as starting points. Or you can browse the Smithsonian's digital exhibition (the physical exhibition ended a few years ago). And of course, there's plenty more online. [more inside]
A ring around the sun
"The details that we see in the light curve are incredible. The eclipse lasted for several weeks, but you see rapid changes on time scales of tens of minutes as a result of fine structures in the rings," says Kenworthy. "The star is much too far away to observe the rings directly, but we could make a detailed model based on the rapid brightness variations in the star light passing through the ring system. If we could replace Saturn's rings with the rings around J1407b, they would be easily visible at night and be many times larger than the full moon."The first extrasolar ring system found turns out to be some 200 times larger than that of Saturn, easily eclipsing its parent star for days.
Asteroid 2004 BL86
Asteroid 2004 BL86 will safely pass about three times the distance to the moon on January 26. It will not be bright enough to view with an unaided eye; however, astronomy sites including Earthsky and Universe Today have instructions for amateur astronomers with suitable equipment. [more inside]
It almost kind of looks like what the Earth looks like when you're a bazillion miles away, from the planet moon. (SLYT, QVC)
Flowers of the sky
Flowers of the Sky - Depictions spanning almost a whole millennium – in chronological order – of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars.
Lucy, in the sky, with 1x 10^12 diamonds
How we came to know the first dwarf planet
So if you had been reading about all this 200 years ago, there would have been at least two important differences from now. One is that your Internet connection would have been considerably slower. The other is that you might have learned in school or elsewhere that Ceres was a planet.As the Dawn probe is only months away from reaching Ceres, chief engineer and mission director Marc Rayman provides a brief history of the discovery and study of Ceres. Bonus: The maths behind the discovery of Ceres


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In 1992, a movie titled White Men Can't Jump was released. It quickly became a classic.
The movie was the story of two basketball hustlers, who did most of their work at pickup games at playgrounds.
It was during these pickup games that we witnessed some of the nastiest, craziest, most offensive exchanges of words. These exchanges of words effected the play and mindset of the victim.
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Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer told BoxingScene.com that he wasn't surprised when his offer of $3 million dollars, for a super bantamweight unification between Abner Mares (25-0, 13KOs) and Nonito Donaire (31-1, 20KOs), was rejected by Top Rank.
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Don't let GBP blind you!
Schaefer is full of sh*t! He recently said Golden Boy don't negotiate through the media! Schaefer only means to all this is to try to make Arum look bad. Bob has been in this game way to long to fall for this petty ****. Why don't Schaefer work on putting Canelo in with the top fighters in his own weight class & stop chasing the smaller Mayweather!
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I couldn't even imagine the headaches old Bob causes.
He wouldn't even make a fight with Margarito/Mayweather and Mayweather/Oscar back to back in 2005/2006.
That's downright pitiful stuff. "There isn't enough money" is a quote from him on that.
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Arum has said on numerous occasions that he doesn't have any interest in working with Golden boy. He is preventing good fights for being made. This why there were five Pacquioa and Marquez fights and while we are having another Rios and Alvardo fight. I'm not saying Goldenboy are saints but Arum once said "I was lying yesterday but I'm telling the truth today"
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While this public bickering is just making things worse, it is offering the fans some clarity (or confirmation as to what we already thought).
Schaefer basically exposed Arum's lie that the fight can't be made cos Mares is tied up with Showtime.
The fight can't be made cos Arum won't promote with GBP. He vowed not to after Oscar insinuated Pac was on roids, and he hasn't since then. That was 3 years ago.
F-ck all this nonsense about being tied into contracts or business models that Arum/DeBouef keep talking about, they just refuse to make fights with GBP.
The problem is, the balance of power from 140-147 has shifted to GBP. How long are Bradley and Rios going to be happy missing out on all these great fights cos of one old man's vendetta?
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GBP is just as bad as TR.. they are both scums
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Top Rank had bigger problems ahead.. Their stable is getting dry as fuk and Rios and Alvarado will have to keep fighting each other cause they have no opponents
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Gallagher, 33, is an actor and currently working on a solo album of original material. Hilty, 32, continues to tour the country with her concerts. She also stars on NBC's Sean Saves The World.
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A formal garden such as the Litchfield, Connecticut, one in this gallery has a symmetrical architectural design that is easy to see. A traditional knot of sheared boxwood is surrounded by beds of ornamental herbs punctuated with more boxwood topiary and lilac standards.
But the key to a successful landscape design isn't the greenery that catches your eye. It's the unchanging structural framework that organizes and supports those flowers and shrubs—what are known as the "bones" of a garden. Some of these may be natural—large trees, stone outcroppings, or a pond, for instance. But it's the constructed, architectural elements—such as walls, fences, patios, pools, pathways, and arbors—that really add definition to an outdoor space and make it useful for everyday activities.
In creating a landscape plan, first consider what you want and need. Do you want an outdoor eating area, a place for grilling, spaces for kids to play, a pool and a patio, or a secluded spot for reading? Privacy or an open view? A straight driveway or one that's rerouted? A small kitchen garden next to the back door or a cutting garden out near the potting shed?
Once you've got your wish list, make a plan. This is the first step in marrying what you want with what you have. If you've got a survey map, start with that. (If you don't have one, you may need to commission one for large building projects, such as a property-line fence.) Or use graph paper to draw an outline of your house and lot to scale. Overlay it with tracing paper and add items on your wish list. Sketching out your ideal plan will help refine your vision, whether you're designing on your own or working with a professional.
Paved areas move you from place to place, determine circulation patterns, and define frequently used living areas. Fences and hedges function as walls, defining boundaries and sectioning off "rooms" for various functions. Pergolas and the canopies of large trees can create ceilings that make these rooms feel distinct and intimate. Sheds and other outbuildings provide storage the way closets do. All these architectural elements organize a space, telling us where to go, what to look at, and how to use it.
Here, beyond the plant room's trellise, a small flagstone terrace nestled against the house is the garden's first "room"; small alpine plants ease the transition from the paving to the lawn below.
Most designers agree that you should start by laying out paved surfaces, like terraces and paths. "Look carefully at the areas that lead out of the house and into the garden, and at the transitions between outdoor rooms," says David Pfeiffer, a landscape architect in Vashon, Washington. Be practical. Take into account the existing traffic patterns around your house; walkways must be convenient if they are going to work.
When it comes to choosing materials, taking your cue from those used on the house is a good starting point. Here, brick paths echo the flooring of the home's sun-filled plant room, which opens onto the garden.
Establish boundaries: Fences and walls create a feeling of security and enclosure, whether they're marking off property lines or staking out the perimeter of a small garden.
At left, a white fence with square pickets sits on a low stone wall and outlines the section of garden adjacent to the house. Small flagstones set on end mark the dividing line between the perennial beds and the lawn.
The scale and proportion of any constructed element—whether pool, patio, or pergola—should be in keeping with the house, and its setting.
These elegant urn finials and curved gates suit the home's Georgian-meets-Colonial Revival heritage.
Keep in mind that a good landscape design should be balanced. Balance low horizontal lines with vertical structures like arbors, which can help tie the garden to the house and support climbing vines.
This arbor has a plank seat and lattice backing to create a wisteria-covered garden bench.
Arched arbors not only offset the garden's horizontal lines; they also mark entrances. This one supports climbing roses.
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Birdhouses direct attention to various areas of the garden—and shelter visitors on the wing.
Note problem areas, too, such as a wet spot that could be turned into an asset as a pond. This lily pond has been edged in flagstones.
Keep in mind that a good landscape design should be balanced. That balance doesn't have to be symmetrical, as it is in formal gardens, but both sides should have equal areas of interest. Both this plant-filled urn and the lilly pond are set amid rolling lawn and positioned so they are in the line of sight when the garden is viewed from one end to the other.
Doubtful a nonprofessional can tackle a grand garden scheme? The proof is in artist Glenn Hillman's garden. When Glenn moved into the Georgian-meets-Colonial Revival house, he kept the "bones" he inherited: a flagstone terrace (which he cut back), a lawn surrounded by mature perennial beds, and a fish pond. But where a swimming pool stood he imagined a traditional 18th-century herb garden, which would lead through a double row of pear trees to a drying shed. He drew up a rough working plan to scale. Contractors filled in the pool, put up fencing, and did paving work. But the planting and maintenance are all Glenn's.
The plant palette is dominated by greens and yellows, interspersed with soft pinks and lavenders. These colors are repeated to lead the eye forward in the same way the central axis through the garden does. The herb garden mixes gold, gray-green, chartreuse, and silvery-blue-leaved varieties that retain their interest, whether blooming or not.
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If you have access to the exercise files, go ahead and open up the hide_edges file found in chapter 3. Now there is another important feature that comes in the play when working inside of Illustrator. And basically that is when you click on an object you start to see all the anchor points and the paths get highlighted as well. This just makes it easy for me as a user to identify, which paths are selected. Now in this case we have group over here selected. There's a lot of anchor points here. In fact some times the visibility of those anchors get in the way of me being able to interface with my design. It's hard for me maybe to visualize what this design may look like. For example let's go ahead dive into that actual logo of GROUNDSWELL. Maybe we want to explore using different color. Maybe instead of using black we want to try different color.
So what will I first do is I'll isolate the logo. Do you remember how we use isolation mode? I would simply take my black arrow and double-click on the logo. And now basically if I click on this, I'm able to isolate this. I'll double-click one more time. Now everything is grade out. I can't select anything. I just have the groundswell logo here. Let's say right now I wan to choose a different color. So I can go over here to the little fly out menu and choose a color for this maybe yellow for example or green. But those little blue anchor points they really get in the way of how we can see that design. So I'm going to go back to black for a second here. This is setting inside of Illustrator on to the view menu called hide edges. If I go over here, I see over here this is setting here hide edges. Command+A or Ctrl+A is the keyboard shortcut for this.
Basically when we want to choose that option when I click an object, it becomes selected, but it I don't see those anchors points that are there. In fact if I turn off the bounding boxes as well. So I'm going to go the View menu and say Hide the bounding box. So now this object is selected even though I have no visual feedback to know that it's selected. What I mentioned before that this is a pitfall that many designers some times fall into. They click on something and they think there is something wrong with the Illustrator. I'm trying to select this and it's not becoming selected. It is selected. I know that by the way, because I see over here that I do have a group selected right now, which is the logo type for Groundswell, and I do see where I'm inside of Isolation mode. In fact if I click and drag, it moves around. I have the ability to change its color just as I was doing it before, but those anchor points now don't get in the way. They don't visually hinder work that I'm trying to get done.
So I'm going to go back to Black for a second here. It's important to know that the keyboard shortcut for this is Command+H or Ctrl+H. Again if I go the View menu I can choose now to Show Edges and now when I click on I can see that that's there. What's interesting about this command about hiding edges is that it's a toggle. I mean once I turn it off, the Hide Edges command is off until I turn it back on again. This unlike program like Photoshop for example where there is the ability of hide edges. In other words if you make a selection in Photoshop, you know you have what they call the marching ants that borders that identifies with you where that selection border is. Well, when you press Command+H or you choose hide edges instead of Photoshop then you don't see those little marching ants.
They don't, they don't get in the way if you are working inside of Photoshop. But then as soon as you go ahead and you make a new selection, that's setting is turn back on again. However in Illustrator it's a toggle like I said before. Once I turn it off, it stays off until I turn it back on again. So some times a designer will go ahead and turn it off, because I want to focus on something and then they will forget the turn the setting back on again. And that way maybe ten minutes later when they go get a phone call, they work away from their desk when they come back, they click on something they realize hey, nothing is working. It's not getting selected. Again, it's just the matter of the first in the check. Whenever that happens in Illustrator, make sure to hide Edges command that is not turned on.
So I want you to think about. I'll hit the Escape key to exit out of the Isolation mode for that typeface. And again as you are working you may want to decide to turn that Hide Edges command on or off as needed.
- Making efficient use of the Illustrator interface
- Creating text on a path
- Using the Magic Wand and Lasso selection tools
- Working with a pressure-sensitive tablet
- Applying 3D extrusions and resolves
- Converting images to vectors with Live Trace
- Exporting files for use in Photoshop, Flash, and other applications


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WASHINGTON -- Insurers want to change the nation's health-care law to provide financial assistance for people buying bare-bones coverage. That would entice the healthy and the young, the industry claims, and would hold down premiums.
So-called catastrophic plans are currently not eligible for the law's subsidies, and only 2 percent of the 8 million consumers who signed up this year picked one. Subsidies bring down the cost of monthly premiums.
The proposed change is part of a package of recommendations that America's Health Insurance Plans, the main industry trade group, released Wednesday. Others address how to smooth transitions for consumers who switch insurance companies, as well as making it easier for patients to find out which hospitals and doctors are in particular plans and whether their medications are covered.
"What is crucial for public policy leaders is to balance access and affordability," said Karen Ignagni, head of the trade group. "Unless people feel that coverage is affordable, they won't participate in the system."
Adults ages 18-34, a coveted demographic, are underrepresented among those enrolled for subsidized private insurance this year. Insurers are considering increases of 10 percent or more for 2015.