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To wrap up our mini tour of the CraftBoston show (thanks for hanging in with me!), here's a few more vendors that deserve a mention.
Jen Violette – I briefly met Jen and browsed her booth, Jen is a real sweetie and her work is stunning, even more so in person than in photos. She creates both sculptural and functional pieces for the home out of glass. Jen states, "Combining pieces of my rural Vermont surroundings and my love of gardening, I carefully study the world around me to capture the tiny subtleties and distinct characteristics of the organic forms I portray in glass."
Katherine Koehler – Based in NYC, this exciting and innovative jewelry designer is fresh and hip – with some her bold designs screaming Paris runway. When we arrived at her booth, she was leaving so we didn't get to chat with her for long, but I lingered after she'd gone since her jewelry completely captivated me. I love her new sponges collection crafted of silver and acrylic and the pink feathered indian necklace – dazzling!
Jacqueline Sanchez – Jewelry designer with several collections, the 'forever young' lego-inspired rings caught my eye. View all of her collections online.
Geoff Buddie Felt – Felt designs taken to a whole new level. Interesting felt collections for displaying in your home. What do you think? Not really my style but the blocks look fun…
Holly Anne Mitchell – Recycled newspapers, lottery tickets, coupons and comics – things that usually end up in the trash are transformed into exciting brooches, pins, rings, cufflinks… Completely whimsical and definitely a conversation starter. I enjoyed trying on her unique jewelry, and applaud that she recycles. What could end up as trash becomes precious treasures. These would make great gifts for your writer friends…
This completes our CraftBoston coverage. Hope you enjoyed it! Let me know if you have any suggestions for the next show we visit – this was the first show I've ever attended where I had to take notes and photos, so it was learning experience – but I had a lot of fun! :)
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Malcolm Guite's post today on The Holy Innocents links Herod's massacre of the Bethlehem babies with children killed in Syria and at Sandy Hook school. He writes that Jesus knows and loves every child and says to every Herod,
"whatsoever ye do unto the least of these, ye do it unto me."Malcolm's post includes his sonnet 'Refugee' based on Matthew 2: 13-18 which is well worth reading.
Herod's Solution is Digitalnun's challenge to see the connection between Jesus' birth and the cross, to think about the dignity and worth of every human person and how we love and respect children. She thinks that
"the Benedictine motto, the word Pax or 'Peace' surrounded by a crown of thorns, is a useful image for what Christmas means. Yes, we welcome the Prince of Peace, but we know where his peace-making will lead — to death on the Cross. The Child in the manger will become the Man of Sorrows who redeems us at the expense of his own life. More than that, the Child whose birth we celebrate with feasting and fun will be a sign of contradiction for the whole world, dividing as well as uniting, because when he calls us to follow, we must leave everything else behind. For some, that will mean abandoning family and career in order to follow Jesus as a priest or religious; for others it will mean taking on the demands of discipleship in a world which would rather not know about the 'difficult' aspects of Christianity, especially when they challenge the comfortable opinions by which society lives."
The well-known 'Coventry Carol' is based on the story of the massacre of the infants. It is one of the Christmas Carols I find most moving, being both a lullaby and a lament. Here it is with Christmas scene pictures:


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The Bombay is a sleek muscular cat with great big copper penny eyes and a shiny midnight-black coat that resembles black patent leather. The combination is spectacular and resembles the mini-panther that the late Nikki Horner had in mind when she began developing the breed in 1953. The Bombay is a man-made breed developed from crossing a black American Shorthair with a sable Burmese. These purring bundles of love want to be with you all the time and as close to you as possible, reveling in your company.
Nikki Horner had in mind a cat that resembled the black leopard of India and named the breed she developed from combining black American Shorthairs with Burmese the Bombay after the Indian city. She wanted a cat with the sleek, short tight coat of the Burmese in the darkest black from the American Shorthair lit up with eyes like new copper pennies. Her early efforts were unsuccessful but undeterred she kept trying to create her vision and the combinations she used beginning in 1965 led to success. Horner had been breeding cats since she was 16 and in the 1970s, when her creation was finally accepted for championship competition, she stopped breeding. Other breeders had fallen in love with the stunning breed with the fabulous personality and worked to keep the breed going.
Major influences in the breed's progression and popularity were Herb and Suzanne Zwecker. They also developed new lines with new combinations of the Burmese with the American Shorthair. Shawnee and Road To Fame are found behind many of today's Bombays. TICA accepted the Bombay for championship competition in June 1979.
The Bombay combines the easy-going nature of the American Shorthair with the inquisitive, loving personality of the social Burmese. They love to be in your company and will greet you joyously at the door-and they will greet visitors with the same loving enthusiasm. Expect your Bombay to be as close to you as possible whether it is perched on your soldier as you walk around, rubbing round your ankles purring while you make supper, cuddled into your lap while you watch TV or read a book, or snuggling up against you under the covers in bed like a hot water bottle. The Bombay loves the entire family and is particularly good with children since it is always ready to play. It also gets on well with other family pets given the proper introduction. Their craving for company means they are unhappy if let alone for long periods so consider getting another cat if you will be gone most of the day.
The Bombay comes in one color-black; but the deepest, densest black imaginable and with a high gloss sheen. The large eyes are anywhere from a deep, rich gold to copper - just like new copper pennies. The gleaming coat is tight and short and hugs the muscular body so you can watch the muscles ripple as this mini-panther stalks an imaginary prey in the living room. They are a medium-sized cat with a robust bone structure to support the powerful muscular body and are surprisingly heavy for their size. The head is rounded with no sharp angles and the large eyes are wide-set giving the face a sweet expression. The ears are medium sized, set well apart and sit tilted forward.
The short coat is very tight and sheds very little so it does not need much maintenance. An occasional bath will help keep the coat sharp and list any loose dirt while a quick rubdown with a rubber brush will remove any loose hairs. The palm of your hand as you lovingly stroke your mini-panther imparts a little natural oil that will help the sheen of the coat. For tip-top shine, a quick polish with a chamois is all that is needed.
All pedigreed cats have the potential to develop genetic health problems, just as all people have the potential to inherit a particular disease. Any breeder who claims that her breed or lines has no health or genetic problems is either lying or is not knowledgeable about the breed. Run, don't walk, from any breeder who does not offer a health guarantee on kittens, who tells you that the breed is 100 percent healthy and has no known problems, or who tells you that her kittens are isolated from the main part of the household for health reasons.
The Bombay is generally healthy, but some of the problems that affect the breed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, excessive tearing of the eyes, and the possibility of breathing difficulties because of the cat's short muzzle.
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Dirt-cheap yet delicious cosmos are a real live thing that exists outside of daydreams, thanks to Mo Mong's "Martini Wednesdays," a weekly tradition that involves not only some rockin' $3 cosmopolitans but also some of the best people-watching and pan-Asian food around. The scenery ain't so bad, either; Mo Mong is a sleek art- and bamboo-filled little spot right in the heart of Montrose, and the Wednesday night drink special draws one of the liveliest crowds around, ready to imbibe and indulge in some of the more interesting spring roll variations the city has to offer.
It's hard to imagine that we're less than three years removed from Robert Ellis's stint playing Whiskey Wednesdays at Mango's and then Fitzgerald's. From that small but loyal fan base — and even earlier in previous band Eyes Like Lions — Ellis has seen his star deservedly rise on the shoulders of his 2011 New West Records debut, Photographs. Along with his 2012 move to Wimberley and eventually Nashville, that year also saw Ellis nominated for an Americana Music Award for Best Emerging Artist alongside eventual winners Alabama Shakes. While all the praise being poured on Ellis is enough to make Houston proud, it's a damn shame you can't find Ellis at Fitz on a weekly basis anymore.
This past summer, the Blaffer Art Museum, nestled on the University of Houston campus, paid the hefty sum of $2.3 million for total reconstruction surgery, and the money was incredibly well spent. The facade evolved into a stunning windowed parallelogram, which both sticks out and enhances the lackluster brick buildings of UH. The interior space is now sprawling and bright, an open and airy dedication to the visual arts. Thin tubes of light cover the ceilings, making for a modern yet classy feel. On the second floor, a balcony overlooks the main gallery, which the museum is now dedicating to emerging artists. If you haven't been since the renovation, do yourself a favor and go.
Poets, novelists and essayists get rock-star receptions at Inprint's two popular reading series, the Margarett Root Brown Reading Series for adults and Cool Brains! for young readers. Authors scheduled for 2013-2014 season readings/onstage interviews and signing sessions include James McBride, George Saunders, Anne Carson and Khaled Hosseini. Past authors have ranged from internationally known Salman Rushdie to Daniel Handler, a.k.a. Lemony Snicket. Local writers aren't overlooked, with Houston talent including the city's first poet laureate, Gwendolyn Zepeda, appearing at Inprint readings.
Dedicated in 2006, this ceramic tile mosaic celebrates the rich history of Houston's Fifth Ward by featuring the faces of some truly amazing people who came from the neighborhood — Barbara Jordan, Mickey Leland and George Foreman. In a city known for bulldozing the past to make room for strip malls or townhomes, murals like this one — which reflect upon and teach about the area's cultural heritage — are all the more valuable. It's a remarkable piece of art and a reminder of a remarkable legacy.
Any dancer will tell you that there's a special connection that forms during the run of a performance; the intimacy and trust are necessary for a dance ensemble to be successful. Now put a group of dancers in the Gerald D. Hines Waterwall Park and make them perform in the streaming fountain, and imagine the level of confidence they must have in each other. In "Natural Acts in Artificial Water," renowned choreographer Stephan Koplowitz and his initiative TaskForce created a masterful ensemble production based on the architecture, history, culture and ecology of the park, and the result was one of the most stunning collaborative dance performance pieces this year.


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Anthroposophy ministers to the frail human ego. So many people are unsure of their own worth, unsure that their lives have meaning or purpose. Steiner assures us that indeed each of us is of inestimable worth. Central to all of the cosmos, and bearing internally all the wisdom of the cosmos, each of us possesses a spiritual ego, an "I" that links the individual to divinity.
It's a pretty thought, no doubt. There is, however, little or no evidence to support it. We are all valuable, of course; we are all worthy of full respect. But exaggerating our occult status and powers is self-defeating. Individuals gravitate to pretty, self-affirming, occult fantasies because of their psychological needs — not because our thinking brains affirm the fantasies' truth. People with healthy self-esteem — neither plagued by an unwarranted sense of inferiority nor made monstrous by megalomania — have no need for false, esoteric reassurances.
Here are some of Steiner's central assertions about the "I", and a peek at the main source he drew from.
"[I]n the whole domain of language there is one name which differs in its essence from all other names. It is the name ' I .' Every other name can be given by every man to the thing or being to which it belongs. ' I ,' on the other hand, as the designation of a being, only has meaning when the being gives itself this name. The name ' I ' can never reach a man from without as a designation of himself. It is only to himself that any being can apply this name. ' I ' am an I only to myself; to every other being I am a you, and every other being is a you to me.'
"This is the outer expression of a deeply significant truth. The real being of the I is independent of all external things and for this very reason no external thing or person can call it by its name. Hence those religious faiths which have consciously maintained their connection with the supersensible wisdom speak of the I as the Unutterable Name of God. For this is what they mean to indicate. Nothing external has access to the part of the human soul which is here envisaged. Here is the 'hidden Holy of Holies' of the soul, to which no entry is possible save for a Being with whom the soul is of like kind and essence. 'The God who dwells in man, — He it is who speaks when the soul perceives and knows itself as ' I .' As the sentient soul and intellectual soul live in the outer world, so does a third member of the soul immerse itself in the Divine when the soul comes to a perception of its own essence and nature.
"One may all too easily be misunderstood at this point — as though one were asserting that the human I and God were one and the same. Yet it is not said that the I is God, but only that it is of like kind and essence with the Divine. When we say that a drop of water taken from the ocean is of the same essence or substance as the ocean, are we thereby stating that the drop is the ocean? If we must use a comparison, we may put it thus: as the drop is to the ocean, so is the I to the Divine. Man can find a Divine within himself, because his own and most essential being springs from the Divine." — Rudolf Steiner, OCCULT SCIENCE - AN OUTLINE (Rudolf Steiner Press, 1969), pp. 49-50.
"Man, in the form and figure in which he is now evolving, does not emerge until the fourth of the above planetary embodiments — the Earth proper. The essential feature of man's present form is that he consists of the four members: physical body, life-body, astral body and Ego. This form however could not have emerged at all, had it not been prepared by the preceding facts of evolution. The preparation took place through the gradual evolution, during the earlier planetary embodiment, of beings who had already three of the four members of the present human being, namely physical body, life-body and astral body. These beings, whom we may call in a certain respect the ancestors of man, had as yet no I, but they evolved the other three members and the mutual connections of these three up to the point where they were ripe, subsequently to receive the I. Thus on the preceding embodiment of the planet, man's ancestor had reached a certain degree of maturity in three members. With this he passed into the state of spiritualization, out of which the new planetary condition — that of the Earth — subsequently arose. In this Earth were contained, like seeds, the thus far matured ancestors of man. By undergoing entire spiritualization and re-appearing in a new form, the planet could give the seeds it contained within it, with their physical body, life-body and astral body, not only the opportunity to evolve again up to the height which had been theirs before, but the further possibility, having attained this height, to go beyond it by receiving in addition the I. Earth evolution falls accordingly into two parts. In the first the Earth appears as a re-embodiment of the earlier planetary condition, although by virtue of the spiritualized condition it has meanwhile undergone, this recapitulation represents a higher stage than that of the former embodiment. Within it the Earth contains the seeds of the ancestors of man which have come from the earlier planet. To begin with, the seeds evolve up to the level on which they were before. When they have reached it, the first period is at an end. And now, since its own evolution is at a higher stage, the Earth can bring the seeds also to a higher level; it can make them capable of receiving the I. Thus the second period of Earth evolution is characterized by the unfolding of the I in physical body, life-body and astral body.
"... [T]he real kernel of man's being, namely the I or Ego, is now only at the beginning of its evolution. For how much has the Ego yet accomplished of its task, which is to transform the other members until these become a revelation of itself?" — Ibid., pp. 109-114.
"When the pupil is making his way upwards on the path that leads to higher worlds, he will remark at a certain stage that the interconnection of the activities of his personality is beginning to assume a new form. In the world of the physical senses the I sees to it that the various faculties of the soul co-operate in an orderly manner. In the affairs of everyday life these faculties — we refer here especially to Thinking, Feeling and Willing — always stand in a certain recognized relation to one another. Let us say we are looking at some object. It pleases us, or perhaps we dislike it. That is to say, a feeling associates itself, almost inevitably, with our mental picture, our idea of the object. Very possibly we may also wish we could possess it or we may feel impelled to alter it in this or that particular. That is to say, desire and will unite themselves with the thought and the feeling. That this association comes about is due to the fact that the I unites ideation (thinking,) feeling and willing into a harmonious whole, thus bringing order into the forces of our personality. This healthy harmony would be broken if the I were to show itself powerless in the matter — if desire, for example, were to branch off in another direction than feeling or thinking. If someone thought that a particular course was right, and yet his will were set on following another course — one that did not comment itself to him — his soul would certainly not be in a healthy condition. The same could be said of a person who was bent on having, not what he liked, but rather what he disliked.
"The pupil will, however, find that on the way to the attainment of higher powers of cognition, thinking, feeling and willing do definitely separate one from another, each of them assuming a kind of independent existence. A thought, for instance, will not now of its own accord stir up a particular feeling and evoke a particular volition. The situation will be that while in our thinking we can perceive a thing objectively and truly, yet before we can have any feeling about it or come to any resolve in the matter, we shall need to develop within us a distinct and independent impulse. While engaged in supersensible observation, our thinking, feeling and willing do not continue to simply three powers of the soul raying out, as if were, from the I, as a single center of our personality; they become independent beings. It is as though they were three separate personalities. The implication is that our I or Ego needs to be made all the stronger, for it has no longer merely to ensure that order reigns among three faculties of soul; it has to guide and lead three beings. This partition into three distinct beings must, however, only be allowed to subsist during the time of supersensible observation. Here again we see how important it is to include among the exercises for more advanced training those that give stability and firmness to the faculty of thoughtful judgment, to the feeling life and to the life of will. For if we fail to bring with us into the higher world the necessary stability and firmness of soul, then we shall very soon find how weak the I will prove itself to be — not fit guide for the thinking, feeling and willing! Should such weakness manifest in the I, it will be as though the soul were being pulled in different ways by distinct personalities; its inner integrity will inevitably be destroyed. If, however, development has taken its right course, the change will signify a genuine advance. The Ego does not lose control but remains in command even of the independent beings that now constitute the soul." — Ibid., pp. 278- 280.
Steiner spoke of "[T]he longing human soul in its yearning, tormented emptiness" — Rudolf Steiner, THE SPIRITUAL HIERARCHIES AND THE PHYSICAL WORLD (Anthroposophic Press, 1996), p. 224. He offered his system as an antidote to suffering: "[W]e may point to spiritual science as a bearer of the redemption of human longing ... [S]piritual science now provides what tempestuous but also woeful human beings have sought for a long time." — Ibid., p. 231.
Steiner sought to assuage the emptiness that so many people feel — the sense of inferiority, worthlessness, self-loathing that gnaws at innumerable human hearts. Do our lives have meaning? Does the universe give a damn about me? Why am I here?
In his doctrines, Steiner emphasized the "I" — the sense of self. He celebrated it, and he promised a wonderful ultimate fulfillment. Your lives are not meaningless, Steiner assured his followers. You are central to the entire universe, and one day you will stand at the absolute pinnacle of all creation. You will be God!
What a vision! What a promise! If you can take it seriously, that is.
Of course, there is an alternative, one that we can take perfectly seriously. Instead of plunging into occultism hoping for a grandiose, fantastical payoff bordering on megalomania, we could set our feet on the ground, open our eyes, and gain authentic self-respect in the here-and-now by treating one another well. Morality and rationality could take us a long way, here and now, if we'd care to give them a try.
It's just a thought.
Although Steiner claimed that his occult teachings result from his own clairvoyant investigations of the spirit realm, in fact he drew heavily from other mystics, adapting their teachings to his. The concept of the spiritual ego or "I" reached Anthroposophy directly from Theosophy. Here is a Theosophical explication of the "I" and a brief statement about egoity.
Ego (Latin) The personal pronoun "I"; in philosophy and theosophy, the ego is the center of 'I-am-ship' or egoity in the human being. There are two such centers: the spiritual and impersonal, commonly called the individuality; and the personal, often called the soul or the personality. The former ego is unconditionally immortal, the latter ego is conditionally immortal, but in most cases mortal because of its lack of binding aspirations with its higher Over-self, the individuality.
The ego is that which says "I am I"; it is indirect or reflected consciousness, consciousness recognizing its own mayavi existence as a separate entity. It is not the permanent self or the atma-buddhi-manas considered as an indissoluble triad; for all egos in the human constitution are reflections of the permanent spiritual selfhood. This means that there are innumerable egos of the same kind — "myself" and other similar myselves — also that there are egos of different kinds.
If we consider the hierarchy of the human constitution to grow from the immanent or permanent self, regarding this as the very seed of essential egoity, then a mayavi ego will be formed on each of the planes of matter and therefore on all the planes or layers of the human constitution; the seed of egoity manifesting itself in each successive vehicle and thus producing there an ego, permanent or impermanent according to its distance from the permanent self.
Thus we have: atman, the divine monad, giving birth to the divine ego, which latter evolves forth the monadic envelope or divine soul. Jiva, the spiritual monad, has its child, which is the spiritual ego, and this in turn evolves forth the spiritual soul or individual; and the combination of these two, considered as a unit, generally speaking, is atma-buddhi; bhutatman, the human ego — the higher human soul, including the lower buddhi and higher manas; pranatman, the personal ego — the ordinary human soul or person — including manas, kama, and prana; and finally the beast or animal ego — the vital-astral soul: kama and prana.
Egoity I-am-I-ness, ahamkara; human egoity is dual, but egoity really should mean individuality, not personality. The characteristic or swabhava of individuality is egoity or the essential root of I-am-I-ness, while the characteristic or swabhava of the personality is egoism, the faint shadow of egoity drunken with the sense of its own exclusive importance in the world. Further, both egoity and egoism are sharply distinguished from essential selfhood; paradoxically, the stronger the idea of essential selfhood in the human being, the less is there of egoity, and the least there is of egoism, for even egoity is a reflection, albeit high, of spiritual selfhood, which recognizes its oneness with the All. Thus ego is defined as I-am-I, consciousness recognizing its own mayavi existence as a separate entity, hence often called reflected consciousness. Essential selfhood is the characteristic of atman in the human constitution; egoity arises in the conjunction of atma-buddhi with manas; whereas personality or egoism is the faint reflection of the latter working in and through the lower manas, kama, and prana. — ENCYCLOPEDIC THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARY: Ea-El (Theosophical University Press, 1999).
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Soundcheck: Poor Heart (slow)
SET 1: Sample in a Jar, Poor Heart > Simple > Runaway Jim, Fluffhead, It's Ice, Acoustic Army, Prince Caspian, Good Times Bad Times
SET 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Tweezer -> Kung -> Tweezer , Love You > Hold Your Head Up, The Squirming Coil, Tweezer Reprise > Run Like an Antelope
ENCORE: Come Together[1] > A Day in the Life
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Veterans Memorial Auditorium
Set 1: Llama, Guelah Papyrus, Rift > Gumbo > Maze, If I Could > Scent of a Mule, Stash, Golgi Apparatus
Set 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Mike's Song > Simple -> Midnight Rider -> Catapult[1] -> Simple -> Icculus, Simple -> Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove[2] -> The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Digital Delay Loop Jam > Fluffhead, My Sweet One[3], Big Ball Jam > Jesus Just Left Chicago > Sample in a Jar
[1] Sung over the Midnight Rider jam.
[2] Unfinished.
[3] Acoustic; without microphones.
[4] Without microphones.
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A new community has been created on the IBM developerWorks portal for IBM Workload Deployer; appropriately named the IBM Workload Deployer group.
For those of your that prefer to see the URL it is easy to remember: www.ibm.com/developerworks/groups/ibmworkloaddeployer
|We've begun to seed this location with all sorts of helpful information on IBM Workload Deployer. Check it out and you will find links to a "getting started" section, articles, demos, redbooks, whitepapers, pointers to various blogs where authors write about private clouds or IBM Workload Deployer (yep, this blog is included), links to product documentation and education assistant, upcoming events, and more included in the wiki. We're still populating this location with content and we're looking for input on how to improve things ... so please provide your feedback and check back often to see how it evolves.
|The content provided in the community is open and visible to everyone immediately. However, there is even more value if you create an id (or use your existing developerWorks id) to become a member of the community. Members can participate in the many collaborative elements that the community provides. This includes the ability to open discussions and collaborate on the forum, post blog entries in the IBM Workload Deployer community blog, or even share content that you have created which may be of interest to others.
There is even a specific section in the community focused on the Plugin Developer's Kit that Dustin mentioned in the previous post on extensibility ( see IBM Workload Deployer PDK wiki page ).
So please visit this new IBM Workload Deployer community and send us your feedback so that we can improve and grow this into a valuable resource. Ultimately, we want this to be a place where we can help each other be successful using IBM Workload Deployer. We also want to learn valuable insights from your experiences with IBM Workload Deployer so that we can continue to make improvements and optimizations in the appliance with the goal of improving your private cloud experience, making your business more agile and efficient. As always, please send us your feedback.
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I am looking to upgrade from my Orange San Fran/Blade because it's pretty laggy.
I'm happy to spend up to £200 to get something faster than this but it must have at least an 800px vertical pixels.
Any recommendations?
The Huawei Ascend G300 forum at Modaco appears to have a lot of user complaints about reliability: http://tinyurl.com/ccwwkqb so though the phone is nice on paper, I gave it a wide berth and chose the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S instead: http://tinyurl.com/dxxepg5 which can be upgraded to ICS (via PC/Mac). At around £190 from those ever so knowledgable & morally upstanding folk at Phones4U, it's not a bad deal I thought. Quite happy so far. A lot slicker than my HTC Legend or ZTE Blade.
Pros for the Arc S: proper good camera, ICS, decent enough processor (1.4GHz though only single core), 4.2 inch 854×480 display (brighter than the ZTE Grand X), very fast GPS, comes unlocked and is unbranded. Slim & lightweight.
Cons: the Arc S has limited space to install apps (hence an over reliance on installing them to the SD card), single core CPU (the ZTE Grand X has a Tegra 2), 512MB of RAM (enough but more would be nice), battery life could be better though it's probably par for the course. Just okay call quality. P4U only stock white. You'll need to pay for a top up too, £10 (inc in the £190 price).
The ZTE Grand X costs £250 (plus £10 top up I think) and many people felt cheated that the retail price had gone up by £60 from the original £190. Another phone to consider is the San Francisco II and another, the San Diego though you'll want to do your research on those two as they'll likely have a ton of Orange branding on them. I'd likely have gone for the Grand X if the price hadn't risen - it just felt like P4U were profiteering regardless of the reasons behind the price rise. Also, the phone is really not bad in the Arc S and it's a nice thing to have once again.
Just bought a Huawei Ascend G300 unlocked (not the Vodophone version which has some problems and expensive PAYG).... very impressed. Same day my wife bought a Samsung Ace 2, which cost £75 more. They are very similar in most respects. Excellent value for money in the mid-price smartphone. I'll be using a Giffgaff SIM which is also great value.
Astonishing Hans....
in a "review" of the Ascend G300, which is 311 words long, you manage 35 words pertaining to the Ascend, and that is being generous, as I have allowed everything up to "I gave it a wide berth"......
yeah, I actually checked the word count here http://www.wordcounttool.com/
the rest of your review is about a device which you apparently actually have!!!
Which is almost twice.....that's two times....as expensive as this fantastic budget phone from Huawei.
You link the Modaco Ascend G300 forum in support of your contention regarding the Ascend, citing "user complaints" ???
Which particular complaints are you referring to here, as it is difficult to judge or find many complaint threads..........
what with the Development Threads over there regarding JB ROM [CM 10], ICS [CM9] fully working custom ROM's and leaked Official ICS from Huawei, two overclocked kernel threads, Custom CWM recovery threads, Stock Huawei ROM threads, even GB custom ROM's......
I really think it is inappropriate for you to post a "review" of a device you have not experienced, and to then go on to compare it unfavourably with your own device, and other devices, which are not really in the same budget phone price bracket!!!
For your info, I got my Ascend G300 from Vodafone Ireland on-line, free delivery, for €110 [£87]....SIM unlocked from eBay for £6.....Rooted for free on Modaco, and now have a very smooth CM9 ICS running at 1220MHz, giving a very much enhanced user experience!!!
Well Irishpancake, my 'review' as you put it was really just a quick comment to PoisonJam on my recent phone purchasing as 'he' asked of opinions for a phone at least '800px vertical pixels' and under £200. Since we were both looking at the same price bracket I thought I'd share my experience as I'd also considered the Huawei Ascend G300 and owned the ZTE Blade.
As I said, I didn't go for the G300 as I'd read quite a few negative posts about it in the Modaco forum. This really put me off. That you weren't put off by them is great. I'm pleased you got a good phone and it worked out well for you. Well done. Congratulations. Superb. I didn't want to take the chance and only went by the limited (yes, limited!) research I made since I didn't want to spend an eternity reading every little detail about the current crop of relatively budget smartphones out there right now. My reasoning is that it's not worth it to me, just as spending upwards of £300 on a more premium phone isn't as in a year or so, everything will have moved on in terms of spec and perceived value.
I didn't actually review the G300 by the way. I'm sorry about that (well, not really). I was just posting, as I said, in an effort to share my own experience with another poster, since he/she, had asked and my own experience seemed relevant and no one else had chimed in. Amazed you could be so hostile to what I'd have hoped was a simple courteous reply to a fellow TR user.
So, the G300 is a great phone I suppose. I would have gotten one for sure but was put off by my own reading THEN when I casually looked on another heavily populated forum (that I visit quite often and respect a lot), whereby 'I' happened to read a lot of criticism all on the same page and decided that (since I didn't want to read loads and loads about budget smartphones) that I might as well give it a wide berth and go the (perceivably) easier option THEN, and choose another phone. This was my experience. Don't take it too personally. It was 'my' choice based on my opinion at the time. So you modded your G300 with a custom rom. And you've overclocked it? Hope it works out for you then. Well done you.
ICS B934 for the G300 can be downloaded here:
I totally agree with Hans. I bought this phone. It is a 1Ghz not 1.4Ghz. The battery life is totally unacceptable. Be ready to charge twice a day even with very light use. With a 30% battery it goes to flat (0%) in 2 hrs on standby without any use. Touch screen is very unresponsive compare with a Samsung. You have to press so many times. It is my regret . Don't buy this phone even if it is very cheap. You get what you pay for. Service is also non-existant. Avoid this phone at all cost.
I bought this phone 4 weeks ago and I regret it very much. Very very poor battery life , very insensitive touch screen. Phone was very hot after 5mins of talking and when charging. I sent it for service and they had no parts and told me to wait 3 weeks when I only had the phone for 2 weeks. I am still waiting .Not sure If I ever get my phone back.The service centre is just an agent and said Hua Wei didn't provide them parts. What a joke! By all means avoid this phone.
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I have a Huawei ascend 300G. At £100 from Amazon a bargain. Very few phones in that price range are able to tether. The tethering is very powerful and wouldn't be without it. I watch rugby games on my computer while tethering with very good clear screen. I have installed a 32GB memory card which works very well. Enormous storage capacity for a mobile. I have found that the 32GD memory does sometimes cause a bit of instability which is easily corrected by removing the battery while switched on then booting up again. It has never been that bad that I would consider removing the memory. After playing around with it I do know it's the memory card (it's a cheapie micro SD card). :-D
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Single-family homes, condos, and poolhouses were among the winning projects honored at the Residential Masonry Contractors Association's (RMCA) Celebration of Masonry Excellence.
The second annual event, held in December in Seattle, also saw a changing of the guard with a new president sworn in. Jim Frisch, of Western Masonry, became president, marking the emotional departure of president, Mark VanWell. VanWell, who co-founded the association in 2004 with Jamie Holliday, of Holliday Masonry, and Mike Homchick, of Homchick Stoneworks, left his post to pursue another board opportunity with Associated Builders and Contractors.
Many of the projects exemplified the best in residential masonry. Categories for the Excellence judging included projects as big as multifamily/townhouses and condominiums, single-family residences, with masonry portions both over and under $10,000. Other projects were as small as outdoor living space barbeques, fences, entry monuments, and fireplaces. RMCA designed the categories so that all residential masons could submit and participate, regardless of the size of the firm.
Taking home Honor Awards for Excellence in residential masonry design were:
Pacific NW Masonry & Design's Suncadia Showcase House (over $10,000 category); the Multifamily/Condo category winner (tie) was The Reserve at Town Center (Holliday Masonry) and Aljoya (VanWell Masonry); Single-family (over $10,000) award went to the Elenbloss Residence by Wolfproof Masonry: Single-family Residence (under $10,000) winner was Jim Worden Masonry. Other winners were Hunts Point Fence by Western Masonry; Retaining Wall by Blanchard Masonry; The Observatory by Arne Hall Masonry, and The Poolhouse by Osimanti Masonry.
Project teams honored at the event included the mason contractor, the architect/designer, the owner, the builder, and the material supplier. Mutual Materials, I-XL Masonry Supply, Owens-Corning/Cultured Stone, Montana RockWorks, and Marenakos Stone Center received plaques in recognition of their masonry materials.
RMCA was established in 2004 and holds several events throughout the year. These include a fishing tournament for employees and business associates; a three-year state-certified apprenticeship school; foreman supervisory upgrade classes; summer barbecue for family, friends and business associates; quarterly meetings; annual certification seminar weekend; and the annual Residential Masonry Celebration Evening.
RMCA is open to all mason contractors, large or small, throughout the U.S. RMCA offers its members the support, knowledge and experiences of generations of masons, as well as a 401(k) program, legal advice, lien support, and a multitude of other member benefits.
Barbara Headrick is the executive director of the Residential Masonry Contractors Association. For more information on the association, visitwww.residentialmasonrycontractors.com.


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Scott Feldman Tagged With Loss in White Sox-Astros Match
Chicago grabbed a 3-2 win over Houston on Friday, as Daniel Webb was credited with a win at U.S. Cellular Field.
Chicago won as a -163 favorite, while Over-Under bettors who played UNDER the total of 8 were rewarded at the payout window.
Daniel Webb earned the victory for the White Sox, throwing 2 innings of work, striking out 3, walking 0, and allowing 0 hits and 0 earned runs. That effort was supported by 2 RBIs from Dayan Viciedo in the win.
Houston got a 7-inning outing from Scott Feldman in the loss. He gave up 3 earned runs, 3 walks and 7 hits in his time on the mound, while Matt Dominguez had 1 hits in the loss for the Astros.
Chicago outhit their counterparts 7-3 in the game.
Zach Putnam pitched the final 1 innings for the save. He struck out 2 and allowed 0 hits in his outing.


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Noemie Lenoir's Suicide Attempt
Posted Wednesday May 12, 2010 11:03 AM GMT
She's one of the top models in the industry, but Noemie Lenoir appears to have hit a rough spot in life- she was found unconscious in a wooded area after what is believed to be a suicide attempt.
The 30-year-old Marks & Spencer babe was discovered slumped over in La Celle-Saint-Cloud near Paris, France by a man out walking his dog on Sunday (May 9).
According to an inside source, "After coming to, Noemie was in a state of great distress and clearly very ill. She had clearly attempted to harm herself and had fallen unconscious."
"She was rushed to a nearby hospital and treated for the effects of poisoning. It seems that she may have tried to commit suicide as a cry for help. She's now in a far better condition and recovering."


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The duodenal switch (DS) combines malabsorptive elements to achieve weight loss. The DS procedure includes a partial gastrectomy, which reduces the stomach along the greater curvature, effectively restricting its capacity while maintaining its normal functionality. This means that part of the stomach is permanently removed.
Unlike the unmodified BPD and gastric bypass Roux-en-Y (RNY), which use a gastric "pouch" and bypass the pyloric valve, the DS procedure keeps the pyloric valve intact. This eliminates the possibility of dumping syndrome, marginal ulcers, stoma closures and blockages, all of which can occur after other gastric bypass procedures.
In addition, the duodenal switch procedure keeps a portion of the duodenum in the food stream. The preservation of the pylorus/duodenum pathway means that food is digested normally in the stomach before being excreted by the pylorus into the small intestine. As a result, the duodenal switch procedure enables "more normal absorption" of many nutrients (including protein, iron, and vitamin B12) than is seen with the gastric bypass Roux-en-Y procedure; however, it is more malabsorptive.
The malabsorptive component of duodenal switch surgery rearranges the small intestine to separate the flow of food from the flow of bile and pancreatic juices. This inhibits the absorption of calories and some nutrients. Further down the digestive tract, these divided intestinal paths are rejoined and food and digestive juices then begin to mix. Limited fat absorption occurs in the "common tract," as food continues on toward the large intestine.
Some insurance plans will not cover duodenal switch surgeries, but as experienced duodenal switch surgeons, we will always work hard on your behalf to make the case for necessary coverage when the duodenal switch procedure is medically indicated.
Advantages of duodenal switch surgery include:
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Bird Flu Leads to Cheaper Chicken in the U.S.A bird flu outbreak in the Midwest that's boosted prices for eggs and roasting turkeys has actually resulted in cheaper chicken in the U.S.
Cat Population a Threat to Birds A population explosion among cats is causing trouble for many communities. Shelters and rescue programs are trying to find homes for strays.
Pick-A-Side: Which Is Your Favorite Thing About Spring?
Fewer Birds Migrating South Due To Shift In Jet StreamEagles and other species don't have to fly as far to find food.
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City Council Committee Shelves Sit-Lie Bills
The Honolulu City Council's Zoning and Planning Committee Thursday abruptly shelved three bills that would ban sitting and lying on sidewalks and relieving yourself in Waikiki and elsewhere on Oahu. Zoning Chair Ikaika Anderson said the city needs to provide specific details and timelines for its homeless plan. Council members were frustrated at what they saw as a lack of progress on a plan to deal with the homelessness issue by Mayor Kirk Caldwell's administration. The administration said vouchers to help homeless individuals and families off the sidewalks would be available by August. But, Thursday the city told committee members a contractor wouldn't be selected until October.


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The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO) of Minnesota, US, has chosen violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja as its artistic partner for the 20014–15 season.
Kopatchinskaja, who is from Moldova, joins current artistic partners, conductors Roberto Abbado and Edo de Waart, pianist Christian Zacharias and violinist Thomas Zehetmair.
The SPCO will be the first major American orchestra to present Kopatchinskaja in concert. In a series of dates spanning 20–30 November 2014, Kopatchinskaja will make her SPCO debut joined by her parents, violinist Emilia Kopatchinskaja and Vikor Kopatchinsky on cimbalom, a concert hammered dulcimer. The programme will include traditional Eastern European music along with Ravel's Tzigane, Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances, and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in D minor.
SPCO senior director of artistic planning, violinist Kyu-Young Kim, said: 'Patricia Kopatchinskaja's music making has an intensity and power that just grabs you and doesn't let you go. Her affinity for the core repertoire, combined with her voracious appetite for contemporary music in wildly varied forms makes her a perfect artistic partner for the SPCO.'
Kopatchinskaja is known for her diverse repertoire, which spans from baroque and classical music, often played on gut strings, to new commissions and music of her native country.
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A New Ace Attorney Starring Phoenix's Ancestor is in the Works
The bird-haired Phoenix Wright won't star in the next Ace Attorney game, but we'll get to see his ancestor in the Meiji Era!
An article on Tiny Cartridge points out new scans that show the new Ace Attorney game's protagonist, Naruhodou Ryuunoske. In Japanese, Phoenix Wright is known as Naruhodou Ryuichi, so it stands to reason that this new character would share his last name. Tweets from LiteAgent and Court-Records.net have clued us into the scans and the full Japanese title for the game:
First scan for Dai Gyakuten Saiban (thanks, @mcmmaster!) pic.twitter.com/RZENY4eUNS
— Lite Agent (@lite_agent) April 22, 2014
Full title: Dai Gyakuten Saiban – Naruhodou Ryuunosuke no Bouken (Grand Turnabout Trial – The Adventures of Naruhodou Ryuunosuke)
— Court-Records.net (@CourtRecords_) April 22, 2014
The scan from Famitsu informs readers that the game will take place during Japan's Meiji Era, which was from 1868-1912. We're wondering about the sword that Ryuunosuke is carrying, but we suppose answers will be provided once word of a localized version comes out (hopefully). We'll keep you up to date on this next chapter in the Ace Attorney series as more information is made available. Check out the scans in the meantime and marvel at how bad-ass Ryuunosuke looks without bird hair.


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My Conference: Conductors
Constituency Liaison: Sam Orleans
Wednesday, June 16th
Open Rehearsal for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra School of Composers Concert on Friday afternoon
Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Robert Spano, Conductor
Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano
eighth blackbird
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[Women Conductors may have elected to register for the Orchestra Leadership Academy seminar "Women Conductors: Developing Yourself as a Leader". If so, seminar participants will be able to go over to Woodruff following the seminar to attend the luncheon.]
Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center
Lunch sponsored by Sciolino Artist Management
Robert Spano, music director, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; John Sparrow, vice president of orchestra initiatives and general manager, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Shared with Artistic Administrators, Musicians, and Publishers
Thursday, June 17th
Meeting 3
Digital Rights: Recording and Broadcast Agreements
The constantly changing world of electronic media distribution and consumption is mandating that orchestral music content creators – including conductors, soloists, musicians, agents, composers, and publishers – pursue collaborative, creative, and non-traditional ways to address rights, financial modeling, and product distribution. This session will frame different approaches to bringing the various groups together to set shared electronic media goals and strategies, and streamline processes for implementing the electronic media projects successfully.
Jonathan Brill, executive vice president, manager, artists and conductors, Opus 3 Artists; Joe Kluger, electronic media consultant; Robert Levine, principal viola, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; John Sparrow, vice president of orchestra initiatives and general manager, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Session shared with Artistic Administrators, Musicians, General Managers, Operations, Artist Managers, and Publishers
Meeting 4
Career Development Discussion
Bring your questions and perspectives for an informal conversation with Jesse Rosen, President and CEO, League of American Orchestras, Peter Pastreich, former Executive Director of the San Francisco Symphony and current executive director of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and David Alan Miller, music director, Albany Symphony Orchestra.
David Alan Miller, music director, Albany Symphony Orchestra; Peter Pastreich, executive director, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Jesse Rosen, president and CEO, League of American Orchestras
Friday, June 18th
Meeting 5
Partnerships Among Composers and Orchestras: Programming Strategies for Engaging Composers and New Music
Following on the heels of "The Atlanta School" perspective and organized in conjunction with League Publisher members, this session will further explore the partnerships forged between composers, conductors and orchestras through effective residencies and other initiatives designed by orchestras to engage living composers in their communities. Panelists will explore how orchestras large and small have expanded programming and built excitement among audiences through direct contact with creators. What do orchestras and composers want out of such partnerships and how do the right matches get made? What factors contribute to an effective partnership and what do not?
Joana Carneiro, music director, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra; Ed Harsh, Meet The Composer; Norman Ryan, vice president-composers & repertoire, Schott Music Corp & European American Music Dist LLC; Chad Smith, vice president of artistic planning, Los Angeles Philharmonic; Steven Stucky, composer
Session shared with Artistic Administrators, Musicians, and Publishers
Additional support for this session has been provided by the Music Publishers' Association of the United States
Saturday, June 19th
Mozart Requiem Masterclass with Robert Spano and Norman Mackenzie
Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead, Grand Ballroom
Join Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Music Director Robert Spano and Director of Choruses Norman Mackenzie, along with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus and ensemble of ASO musicians, as they work with the League's American Conducting Fellows Philip Mann and Tito Muñoz and Chorus America's Conducting Fellows Jason W. Harris and Catherine Sailer.
Bussing will be provided, and busses will leave from the Conference hotel (Hyatt Regency) at 9:45am
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BRAGA, Maria do Socorro Sousa. Organizações partidárias e seleção de candidatos no estado de São Paulo. Opin. Publica [online]. 2008, vol.14, n.2, pp.454-485. ISSN 0104-6276. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-62762008000200008.
This paper aims to investigate one of the main roles of political parties in a representative democracy: to organize and to control the production of representation. In order to do that, two internal party processes will be examined: the setting and maintaining of the party's organizational structure and the candidate selection for the Camara dos Deputados in the state of Sao Paulo for the PFL, PP, PMDB, PSDB and PT parties. The analysis is based on the idea that the more control political parties have over these two processes, the more vital are their party organizations in the representative dynamics.
Keywords : candidates selection; political parties; behavior politician; partisan list; internal elections.


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Adjustment Layers
With this tutorial we're going to learn how we can take an image that may be a little under exposed or flat-looking and give it some pizzazz.
The same thing can be done with a tube that is very darkly colored
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Terese Knapp has graciously allowed me to use and share a photograph she took of her personal artwork she completed years ago of her daughter, Tracy. Thank you, Terese!
The camera didn't quite capture the brilliance of the original, but we're going to try and replace some of that with this tutorial.
This tutorial was written by Pam Drake, August 2008
You are not allowed to copy or send through e-mail. However, you may print it up for your own personal use.
This tutorial has been created from my own ideas.
Resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.
Supplies Needed
- PSP--this tutorial was written using PSP X2.
- Adjustments for earlier versions in green
- Image: Tracy_byTereseKnapp
School for PSP & More...
Click on the above thumbnail to get to the full sized image.
Right-click the image and save to your computer.
Please leave the file name intact. Thank you!
A quick (general) word about adjusting photos.
On most images, improve the color, then the contrast and last the saturation. On very light or dark images, improve the contrast, then the color, then the contrast again, if needed, and lastly the saturation.
Then you can correct things such as noise, scratches, etc.
Sometimes you may find it is to your advantage to have two of your image open at the same time with both maximized in your workspace (if space allows) for quick comparisons of minor adjustments.
Unless I'm working with adjustment layers only I always duplicate the background layer to keep an original layer in case of error and also for comparison.
That way, if later something is altered directly on the image (such as red-eye removal, noise, scratches or even further adjustments applied directly to the image or whatever else you may find do to the image) and you find it isn't quite right, you still have the original layer intact.
From within PSP, open Tracy_byTereseKnapp
Duplicate the image by pressing Shift + D and close the original.
Duplicate the background layer. This is the layer we'll make all adjustments on when working directly on the image layer (later in the tutorial).
1. On the Layers palette, right-click on "Copy of Background" and select New Adjustment Layer/Channel Mixer
Click on the "General" tab and set the "Blend Mode" to "Soft Light"
Click on the "Adjustment" tab and set to the following:
Check Monochrome near the bottom of the dialog box, Red: 100, Green: 0, Blue: 33, Constant: 0
Click "OK"
If you click on the visibility toggle for the adjustment layer you can see the difference created with just that step.
The coloring of the image appears to be a little more natural-looking.
2. The coloring looks better. Now let's adjust the contrast a bit.
Right-click on "Copy of Background" and select New Adjustment Layer>Levels
Notice in the adjustment preview all the color is at the center of the scale. Let's stretch that out a bit.
At this point our adjustment layers are working together.
Let's begin by moving the right (white) diamond-shaped slider in until it rests at, or close to, the edge of the graphed image. I stopped at 198.
Leave the left (black) slider at "0" for now and adjust the center (grey) slider to the right. I stopped at 112.
Click "OK"
3. Even with the first two adjustments the skin still looks a little unnatural (too much saturation) so let's add another adjustment layer for that.
Right-click on "Copy of Background" for a third time and select New Adjustment Layer>Hue/Saturation/Lightness
Adjust the saturation slider down to about "-19" and leave the other setttings at "0"
Click "OK"
Wow! Look at the difference made with just those few adjustments.
4. The image is a little grainy so at this point we're going to do something about that.
PSP 8: does not have this effect. Skip down to step 4b.
We're now working directly on the "Copy of Background" so on the layers palette, click on that layer to highlight it.
Adjust/Digital Camera Noise Removal
PSP 9: Adjust/Photo Fix/Digital Camera Noise Removal
Link detail sizes checked, Noise correction: 50, Correction blend: 50, Sharpening: 20
Click "OK"
4b. PSP 8: There is no way that I'm aware of to produce the exact effect of the digital camera noise removal offered in the later PSP versions. However, you can smooth out the grain a bit and get (kind of) close to the above effect.
Adjust>Add/Remove Noise>Texture Preserving Smooth
Amount of correction: 50
Click "OK"
Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp Mask
Radius: 2, Strength: 100, Clipping: 5
Click "OK"
5. On the Layers palette, right-click on any layer and select Merge/Merge All (Flatten)
6. Image/Add Borders
Symmetric checked, Pixels selected, Size in pixels: 5, Color: White
Click "OK"
7. Image/Add Borders
Change the "Size in pixels" to "2", and the "Color" to black
Click "OK"
8. To the right of your standard toolbar, you should have a Script toolbar. It looks like this:
If you don't see it, go to View/Toolbars/Script
The two icons we're concerned about for this tutorial are "Select script" and "Run selected script"
Click on the Select script drop-down arrow and select the "Border with drop shadow"
Click on "Run selected script"
Just keep clicking "OK" and/or "Save" if the dialog boxes come up and watch it do its magic.
9. On the Tools toolbar select the Text tool.
Left-click on your image and add ©Terese Knapp if you used this image, or other copyright information, if needed.
10. File/Export/JPEG Optimizer.
A couple of big pluses when working with adjustment layers is that you can apply adjustments and click the variations off and on to view the changes.
If, when you're done, you've added several layers and end up not needing or liking one or more, simply delete it. No need to go back and undo all your steps to get to that one step.
You also have the ability to work with selections and masks when working the the layers...a huge plus, in my opinion.


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* TSX up 168.02 points, or 1.27 percent, at 13,380.52
* All of the TSX's 10 main groups higher
TORONTO, March 7 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index rose 1 percent on Monday, hitting another fresh 2016 high as mining and energy stocks gained on the back of higher oil and gold prices.
The energy group climbed 1.7 percent, while the materials sector, which includes precious and base metals miners and fertilizer companies, added 3.3 percent.
The most influential gainers on the index included Barrick Gold Corp, up 5.4 percent to C$19.27, Goldcorp Inc advancing 7.3 percent to C$21.65, and Potash Corp adding 2.8 percent to C$25.23.
Suncor Energy Inc rose 2.7 percent to C$34.65, and Enbridge added 1.2 percent to C$49.49.
Brent crude hit a three-month high, extending gains that have lifted crude benchmarks by more than one-third from this year's lows on an improving global outlook and stronger sentiment for a market recovery, while gold hovered just below a 13-month high.
At 10:19 a.m. EST (1519 GMT), the Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index was up 168.02 points, or 1.27 percent, at 13,380.52. Continued...


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A three species model to simulate application of hyperbaric oxygen therapy to chronic wounds
Flegg, Jennifer, McElwain, Sean, Byrne, Helen M., & Turner, Ian W. (2009) A three species model to simulate application of hyperbaric oxygen therapy to chronic wounds. PLoS Computational Biology, 5(7), e1000451.
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Chronic wounds are a significant socioeconomic problem for governments worldwide. Approximately 15% of people who suffer from diabetes will experience a lower-limb ulcer at some stage of their lives, and 24% of these wounds will ultimately result in amputation of the lower limb. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) has been shown to aid the healing of chronic wounds; however, the causal reasons for the improved healing remain unclear and hence current HBOT protocols remain empirical. Here we develop a three-species mathematical model of wound healing that is used to simulate the application of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the treatment of wounds. Based on our modelling, we predict that intermittent HBOT will assist chronic wound healing while normobaric oxygen is ineffective in treating such wounds. Furthermore, treatment should continue until healing is complete, and HBOT will not stimulate healing under all circumstances, leading us to conclude that finding the right protocol for an individual patient is crucial if HBOT is to be effective. We provide constraints that depend on the model parameters for the range of HBOT protocols that will stimulate healing. More specifically, we predict that patients with a poor arterial supply of oxygen, high consumption of oxygen by the wound tissue, chronically hypoxic wounds, and/or a dysfunctional endothelial cell response to oxygen are at risk of nonresponsiveness to HBOT. The work of this paper can, in some way, highlight which patients are most likely to respond well to HBOT (for example, those with a good arterial supply), and thus has the potential to assist in improving both the success rate and hence the costeffectiveness of this therapy.
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Willie Wier is a man who knows how to get a lot of mileage out of two wheels. And by "a lot" I mean he's logged over 60,000 miles on his bike, crisscrossing the world in places like Venezuela and Thailand. When not traveling the globe, he calls Seattle his home, and he gets around The Emerald City solely by bike.
I'd imagine Wier's got some pretty intriguing stories up his sleeve, so start this week off by going to see what he's all about on Thu., Feb. 4, at 7 PM in UM's Urey Lecture Hall when he gives the talk "A Frugal Cyclist's Guide to the Universe." Free. Call 243-5172.
On Fri., Feb. 5, I'd plan on hightailing it down to the Wilma Theatre, 131 S. Higgins Ave., so you can catch the start of the Fly Fishing Film Tour, which begins at 7 PM. The event, the world's largest fly-fishing film tour of its kind, features footage from 25 waterways in nine different countries. Check out our "Spotlight" on the event in this week's calendar for more info, or click to flyfishingfilmtour.com. $16/ $14 advance at the Grizzly Hackle, Missoulian Angler and King Fisher shops.
If the only fishy thing you like to do is ingest fish oil, or slap it on your skin for spiritual purposes, skip the film tour and swim over to UM's University Theatre at 7 PM, Fri., Feb. 5, for the program Our Extraordinary Place, a multimedia showcase presented by Five Valleys Land Trust. Due to space, I'll have to direct you to our "Agenda" section for more of the skinny. Call 549-0755 and visit fvlt.org.
If your derriere starts to feel sore from sitting, avoid the potential for any nasty bedsores on your behind by getting active on Sat., Feb. 6, with members of the always dexterous Rocky Mountaineers during an overnight stay at their cabin in the Bitterroots, as well as a ski/snowshoe trip up to Little Saint Joe Summit. The plan is to meet at 7:30 AM on Saturday at the old Big Lots parking lot. You'll then head up to the cabin, drop off your overnight gear and slosh around in your skis/snowshoes if time allows. Call Shawn Bennett at 493-4892 or e-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com to RSVP. You can also e-mail Chris Dunn at email@example.com, as he might be going up on Fri., Feb. 5.
Or you could get what I'd call a benevolent "shredsore" on Sat., Feb. 6, during The Backwoods Project's Ride Montana Festival, a freestyle ski and snowboarding terrain park competition, which starts at 11 AM at Marshall Mountain, 5250 Marshall Canyon Road. $10 insurance fee to ride/free to attend. The event includes heady music by Miller Creek at 4 PM, followed by more tunes from local DJs, hip-hop MCs and metal bands. The shredding—on skis and snowboards—starts again on Sun., Feb. 7, at 11 AM during an open ski and snowboard contest, with music by Voodoo Horseshoes and others throughout the day. Visit thebackwoodsproject.com.
Younger kids also get to shred, but in a totally mellow way, on Sun., Feb. 7, during the sixth annual Sons of Norway 2010 Barnelopet, a non-competitive cross-country ski event tailored for youngsters that starts with registration at 11:45 AM at the Lubrecht Experimental Forest, 38689 Hwy. 200 E. near Greenough. Free. The skiing kicks off at 1 PM and culminates with prizes and medals for every participant. Call Karen at 721-4947 or Leslie at 273-2815.
Then bug out with the Flathead Audubon Society on Mon., Feb. 8, when entomologist Joe Giersch presents the lecture "Glacier's Underwater Wildlife: Aquatic Insects in Glacier National Park," which starts at 7 PM in the Community Room of The Summit, 205 Sunnyview Lane in Kalispell. Free. Visit flatheadaudubon.org.
Or kick it closer to Missoula by letting your avian appreciation spill out during the Five Valley's Audubon Society sponsored lecture "Montana's Birds, Wildlife and People in a Warming World," which starts at 7:30 PM in Room L14 of UM's Gallagher Business Building. Free. Amy Cilimburg, director of bird conservation for the Montana Audubon, leads the talk, which centers on how that great thing called "climate change" is affecting our birds and wildlife. Visit fvamissoula.org.
On Tue., Feb. 9, let experts rub you down with tips on how to wax your board and sharpen your edges—I'm talking about snowboards and skis here, people—by signing up for the UM Outdoor Program's Ski and Snowboard Maintenance Class, which starts at 6 PM Wed., Feb. 10, at the Outdoor Program HQ, located in UM's Fitness and Rec Center. $5. RSVP by calling 243-5172
Later on Tue., Feb. 9, hop on your tricked out two-wheeler and scoot to Adventure Cycling, 150 E. Pine St., so you can attend the 7 PM February meeting of Missoulians on Bicycles. Free. Expect an agenda overflowing with deets on their upcoming spring rides. Visit missoulabike.org.
Get lusty for adventure on Wed., Feb. 10, with members of the Rocky Mountaineers during their monthly meeting, which starts at 7 PM at Pipestone Mountaineering, 129 W. Front St. Free. Mike Hoyt, a man who just can't resist snapping photos when he hikes, plans to give a multimedia presentation on his 2009 climbs in the Bitterroots.
If photos of the outdoors aren't your bag, you can hoot it up with fellow owl enthusiasts on Wed., Feb. 10, at 7 PM at the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St., during a lecture on flammulated owls. UM grad student Mat Seidensticker brings the knowledge to your dome with a talk on this particular owl's history, as well as its status in our valley. $4 suggested donation. Call 327-0405 and visit montananaturalist.org.
Go on now, get frugal on your own set of wheels and make Willie proud.


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So my windows computer decided to die on me today. I guess I will run boot camp on my mac with windows 7. All of my tune files and everything were on my windows computer obviously.
So when i get HPT installed on my mac, will I just do a read entire on my truck to pull the tune and work from there? Also will my credits and everything transfer over? Thanks guys