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beautiful gallery! Amazing! It looks like a dream!
Fantastic gallery!
I love how you capture the emotion of an environment in your scenery artwork.
You've got an awesome gallery, keep up the good work ^^
I'm tempted to ask you how you manage to create such beautiful sceneries, but I already know that the answer is: talent.
Hey. What do you see as the definition for talent? Something you are born with or something that makes you learn things more quickly?(Within a specific area). Lets say I have a talent for painting. Now when I started I was as bad as anyone else. Though I've seen myself evolve more quickly than others with the same amount of training, if not more. So is this because of a "talent" that I possess or might it be because of something else? I've been cramping this thought for a while and your comement just brougt it back up. Nice too get it out. Now if this only was a very nice way of giving me a compliment, I'm just going to thank you and start crawling around in all the sweetnes that was in it. Thanks.
It was a semi-idle comment, meant to be a compliment with a small tang of envy, I must admit. But now that you bring the subject to closer attention... I can't help giving an extra thought myself.
Talent is by definition innate, but that comes from a very old assumption that some is born artists and others aren't. To use an already abused word, it's a matter of genius. However I flatly disagree with this assumption. That would imply that it is a sort of gene not everyone is born with, like, say, blue eyes. But it's not ereditary, that is for sure. I don't know how it is for you, but I'm the only artist in my family. So it can't be a gene. But our genes define everything that is innate in us. All the rest is life experience.
I think it is a combination of the creativity, which is innate in the entire human species, and being raised to cultivate it and love it. I was hearing an extremely insightful conference on TED on how our school system, which in its principles is global, educates us out of creativity through the fear of failure that it instill in everyone of us. And not being afraid of failing is an important element of cultivating creativity. [link] This is the link to the talk.
So you and me were lucky enough to maintain our creativity where other children didn't. Every child loves to draw. But then how many keep drawing for their entire lives?
But that's only part of the explanation. It does not explain why some draw better than others.
There enter all the possible variables of life. Why am I not as good as, say, Terry Dodson at drawing comics? Well for example, I never studied art. I studied languages. Then Six months ago I was unemployed. And decided to use that love for drawing and turn it into a job. With a disadvantage: lack of any formal training in it.
Now I have a capacity at improving what takes my interest through not being afraid of failing, seeing what's wrong in something I do and learning not to repeat the same mistake next time I draw again.
There is a coexistence of several factors.
Why are you better than the other people witht he same amount of training, then? Perhaps you can see your errors better than them and correct them. Maybe even your eyesight plays a role.
Back to the question.
What is talent then? In my opinion it is a series of factors that are banalized through that word. So I shouldn't be using it myself. I think that there's very little innate. Sure, genes play their part in making us smart or with good eyesight. But then creativity is the key and that we all have. And it's true, I think we're educated out of it, I agree with that TED speech. But I was lucky not to. Some other people had my same luck. Then I, like you, cultivated my way of expressing my creativity, in my own peculiar, personal fashion. The series of choice I made led me to where I am now, and therefore it's this entire process that should be considered 'talent'. But it's easier to banalize it and think that it's a gift with which some are born and some aren't.
Sorry, long speech, I hope I didn't bore you...
And you're welcome. I love your art.
No problem it was nice seeing you taking interest. And we think quite alike. Not really any set oppinions from my part. I don't know if I'm to outrule the possibility of a born talent or not. But I think experience plays the biggest part.
Now if you take for example Mozart. Now he had talent, that's the only way I can explain his ability. So, was his ability innate or an mutation. Sure his father was an musician so in some way it could've been innate but in general I think Mozart was an mutation. And maybe we all are mutations in some way but not as extreme as people such as Mozart.
Yes, perhaps the disposition towards creativity is part of our genetic legacy, and in some it's more accentuated than in others. Or it comes with unbalances, like with many autistic people, or the 'idiot savants', which lack the capacity of interacting and comprehending other people, but have tremendous competence when it comes to a limited field.
You do have a somptuous gallery, your style is fabulous and such a great attention to details
Nice work Gabriel! Your environments have a really great atmosphere. Keep it up!


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Turkey Trot 6 - Old Keys
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Have you considered adding old keys to your Holiday tablescapes? The aesthetic pleasures of these rustic and nostalgic treasures upstage our modern house keys by far. Old keys are currently making a decorating statement and can easily be found at flea markets and antique stores.
Use aged keys in just about any vignette. Assemble them on old trays, in glass jars, beneath a cloche, hung from nails in pleasing arrangements, or as tie backs for curtains. Even mixed media artists include old and faux antique keys as design elements.
Combine these with Holiday feasts by using 1 to 3 antique keys as napkin rings. Simply loop them together with new or vintage ribbon. An imaginative ice breaker could involve having each guest share a story about what their keys once unlocked.
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Turkey Trot 4 - Wreaths
A wreath, for any season, equals instant gratification. Whether you purchase a wreath or make it yourself, any living space will be instantly transformed with the simple addition of a wreath. For more inspiration, visit Giorgina Devereaux at Decor Medley.
Nov 3, 2009
Turkey Trot 3 - Katie Brown & Qponix
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Katie Brown has found a new place to nest at Katie Brown | Keeping it Simple with Meijer. Previously, I've enjoyed Katie via her television ventures and books. Now, in her unique style, this site is chock-full of Holiday goodness.
I discovered Katie through Qponix on Twitter, which introduced me to Meijer MealBox. Both of these sites are interactive recipe and grocery list troves. I entered the word "honey" and came up with a recipe for Honey-Tahini Dressing that has me eager to try.
Nov 2, 2009
Turkey Trot 2 - Food as a Centerpiece
Counting toward Thanksgiving, I will be posting bits and pieces of inspiration every day. Here again is Matthew Mead with his enormous capacity to tweak everyday items! His website is an affordable online magazine with virtual pages to turn, luscious photography, templates to download, and food to "sigh" for!
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I subscribe to Matthew Mead's website and to his inspiration. One aspect of his creative spirit is to use what we already have on hand. Rethinking what is right under our noses is a wonderful pursuit of pleasure and fulfillment! To see a thing transformed by a burst of unexpected, random energy is sheer delight!
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History was made on Monday night at Citi Field, as R.A. Dickey became the first major leaguer in 24 years to throw back-to-back one-hitters, in the Mets' 5-0 win over the Orioles.
Dickey struck out a career-high 13 batters. The Orioles' only hit was a clean single by former Yankee Wilson Betemit in the fifth inning.
Ike Davis' sixth-inning grand slam was all the offense the Mets needed. New York snapped its three-game losing streak and improved to 36-32 on the season -- four games behind the first-place Washington Nationals (six in the loss column).
Tuesday's news reports:
• Read game recaps in the Daily News, Post, Times, Newsday, Journal, Star-Ledger and Record.
• Dickey, a former journeyman, is the most dominant pitcher in baseball right now -- 11-1, with a 2.00 ERA, and he hasn't given up an earned run in 42 2/3 innings. Orioles skipper Buck Showalter actually played a key role in Dickey's development as a knuckleballer, and Dickey thanked Showalter after Monday night's outing.
Showalter was always high on Dickey, even when he was struggling, writes John Harper in the Daily News. The two have remained in touch over the years, writes Mark Hale in the Post.
Despite his amazing success, Dickey still does not consider himself the Mets' stopper, writes Kevin Kernan in the Post.
• The last pitcher to throw consecutive one-hitters? Dave Stieb of the Blue Jays, back in 1988. ESPN.com's David Schoenfield writes that Dickey is on one of the greatest rolls of all time.
If you're looking for more on Dickey and his incredible numbers right now, check out this post from ESPN Stats & Information.
• Don't look now, but Davis has his batting average up near the Mendoza line -- .196 -- after his first career grand slam on Monday night. And he received the first curtain call of his career afterward. Read more in the Daily News and Post.
• Johan Santana will be on the mound for the Mets on Tuesday night. It will be his third start since his historic no-hitter, but he has struggled in his last two outings, and has made an adjustment with the help of pitching coach Dan Warthen, writes Mark Hale in the Post.
Read more on Santana in Newsday and the Star-Ledger.
• The Mets still do not know the severity of Jason Bay's latest injury, but he "may be out quite a while" according to general manager Sandy Alderson. Read more on Bay in the Post, Newsday and Record.
TRIVIA: Who were the Game 2 starters when the Mets faced the Orioles in the 1969 World Series?
Monday's answer: In Game 1 of the '69 World Series, Tom Seaver and Mike Cuellar were the starting pitchers. Cuellar got the win, going the full nine innings, giving up just one run on six hits, with eight strikeouts. Seaver took the loss, giving up four runs on six hits in five innings pitched.


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Have any of you been to Purls the Yarn Studio? If so what do you think?
I have not been to the Purls The Yarn Studio yet (despite living 1 minute away from it yet. It is tucked into a small plaza. I do plan on going there this weekend because they are having a pre-inventory sale. I have seen a lot of people post about Debbie Bliss yarn, which this studio carries - so I'm excited to actually feel the yarn - I like to know what I'm buying so if I like it then I know I can order it on-line.
I discovered the The Village Knit Wit which is right off I-235 and I really like it. The store has only been open for a few months. They have a whole wall of Addi Turbo needles! The staff are really helpful and friendly and they have a wide range of yarn.
Creative corner in Valley Junction is also really nice. They offer a lot of free help and have lots of yarn to choose from.
Hope this helps!- Sara
i have been to Creative Corner which was nice but was smaller than i expected it to be i guess. I had seen such great reviews I just expected the place to be gi-normous to overflowing with yarn!
Well anyway here is what i was thinking last night. There seem to be a lot of Iowa knitters around this place and I was wondering if there shouldn't be an Iowa get together. I wouldn't mind driving for it at all and Des Moines seems to be a pretty central location for where I THINK most people live and for me to not have to drive ALLLL the way over to the east border of Iowa.
So what do ya'll think?
(oh and the reason I asked about Purls is that i was wondering if it has a bigger sit n knit kind of area than the pink house does.)
anybody interested?
I'll check out Purls this weekend and report back about the sitting area. I know the Village Knit Wit does have a great sitting area and a spot in the back that has several sets of tables and chairs. There is a coffee shop next to the Purls stuido - and one next to the Village Knit Wit (now that I think about it) so those spaces could be used too and you'd still be close enough to the LYS for stash enhancement.
woo hoo! you can tell whoever it is that tells you that you buy too much yarn that you HAVE to go to Purls this weekend cuz you are doing recon for a possible sit n' knit! :rofling:
Ooh oooh I would totally go to a sit and knit in Des Moines!!! I will watch this space for further information
I would certainly try! I live way in SE Iowa, but my folks live near Knoxville, not too far from DM, so I could leave the kids with them while I go up.
But March is probably about the last shot I would have for a while, we also have a landscape/garden business, and it's pretty tricky to get away during growing/planting season!
I haven't been down to DM in ages.. I shoudl go down there as around here pretty much all the yarn stores suck Except a couple ..
I'll have to keep an eye on this thread
I did slink off to the LYS Purls the Yarn Studio this weekend. Surprisingly enough I only bough 1 pair of needles. I wanted to buy yarn for a baby afghan, but I couldn't justify $75 in yarn for a baby blanket!
The store does have several nice seating areas and a table with chairs (where they teach classes). They have some beautiful yarn, needles and it has a nice ambiance to it.


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The latest Monthly Update from Age of Conan's Craig Morrison releases the news that development of the game will be continued by a centralized team in North Carolina. Some members of the AoC team will be moving on but Morrison assures players that AoC isn't going anywhere.
Obviously the recent news about studio re-structuring brings with it a whole host of questions about the future for Age of Conan. The good news is that the game won't be going anywhere and that development will be continued by a central team for all our titles based at our North Carolina studio.
Of course, this also means that some members of our current team will be moving on to new challenges while others will continue as part of the new central team which will continue forming quality updates for us. Our Raleigh studio already has most of our customer service, billing, quality assurance and community teams, so bringing the developers closer to them will be beneficial for a live game. The new shared pool of people is a very experienced, passionate and skilled team that I highly respect, with a continued passion for working on all three games.
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Re: How to make a contour lines on a Plot3D surface?
On 9/28/2010 6:07 AM, Szymon Roziewski wrote:
> Hi there,
> I wonder whether it is possible to make a contour lines on a Plot3D
> surface.
> What I mean it would be like a contour line in geographic map or an isobar
> but not in 2D but on 3d object with appropriate values to each of isobars
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See MeshFunctions (under Options) in the Plot3D documentation.
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The White House said Obama conferred on Syria Thursday evening with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a strong supporter of airstrikes against the nation on its southern border. Syria also came up on Friday as Obama met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, whose government has warned vigorously against the use of force.
Before his scheduled return to Washington late Friday, Obama also planned to meet with Russian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists, calling attention to another area of disagreement with Moscow.
A fleeting interaction between Obama and Putin became the high-drama moment of the summit, underscoring the labored state of relations between the two leaders. The eyes of the world watching, the Russian and the American were all smiles Thursday as they made small talk in front of news cameras for a few seconds as Obama arrived at the summit.


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AKRON, Ohio – The University of Akron women's tennis team rounds out the regular season with a trip to Mid-American Conference opponents Toledo and Eastern Michigan on Friday and Saturday, respectively. First serve for both events is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET.
The Zips (16-8, 4-2 Mid-American Conference) have won back-to-back matches, and are 6-3 in away contests this season. UA also boasts the nation's No. 56-ranked doubles pair in Prang Pantusart and Angelina Jogasuria, who are 16-0 during the dual-match season (6-0 MAC) and 17-1 overall this year.
Akron comes off a 6-1 win at Buffalo last Saturday, its only match last week. Against the Bulls, the Zips took the doubles point with a victory on the No. 1 and 3 courts, then won in straight sets at No. 1-3, 5 and 6 singles to clinch the decision. That victory followed a 5-2 defeat of Western Michigan on April 6.
UA has defeated Eastern Michigan (8-12, 3-3 MAC) in each of the last four seasons and Toledo (8-11, 2-4 MAC) during each of the last three.
The MAC tournament runs April 26-28 and will be held at Ball State's Cardinal Creek Tennis Center in Muncie, Ind. The Zips are the two-time defending league tournament champion.
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I have a 2007 Odyssey EXL without RES. I've got a line on a res system (OEM Headunit, OEM DVD Player, and OEM Screen) but I need a bit of information on how to install it. Are there installation instructions from Honda anywhere?
I can probably figure out the wiring and getting the head unit in but I'm wondering a couple things:
1) Where can I find the trim piece and mounting bracket for the DVD player? I understand that it goes in the storage bin below the headpiece.
2) I don't have mounting bracket for the overhead screen or a template on where to cut the headliner. The EXL has a sunroof...any idea where I cut and how much? I can probably fabricate a mounting bracket if I knew what it looked like and where it attaches....If anyone has any pictures of the overhead install, I'd appreciate it.


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Funeral services were held Monday for Booth Wallentine, a longtime advocate for farmers and ranchers, who led the Utah Farm Bureau for 30 years.
Wallentine died in Salt Lake City on Oct. 24. He was 74.
"Few individuals in our state have contributed more to the preservation and promotion of agriculture and the rural way of life than has Booth Wallentine," former U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett said in a statement.
His career with the farm bureau began when he joined its field staff in 1962. In 1965, he worked for the Iowa Farm Bureau, serving as a radio, TV and information services director and returned to Utah in 1973 as chief executive officer for the Utah Farm Bureau Federation, until he retired in 2003.
Under his leadership, the Utah Farm Bureau pushed state and national agriculture policies that focused on improving the social and economic outlook for farming and ranching families and the rural communities they support.
He also served as vice chairman of the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, and received its Distinguished Service Award. In addition, he was the president of the Utah Council on Economic Education, advisory member of the Utah Board of Vocational Education, chairman of the Agribusiness Development Council and was co-founder of the Utah Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom and Utah FFA Foundation.
He was born in Paris, Idaho, on Nov. 22, 1937, and raised on a cattle farm.
Wallentine graduated in 1960 from Utah State University, where he earned a degree in agriculture economics. He later served as a member and chairman of the USU Board of Trustees. He received the university's Distinguished Service Award and was an inductee into the Utah Agriculture Experiment Station's Agriculture Hall of Fame.
His more than 40 years of service to USU were highlighted when he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Agriculture in 2004.
Booth also received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's leadership citation for work on water quality, and was honored for his leadership skills by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Utah Cattlemen and Utah Woolgrowers Association.
He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Raeda McCammon Booth, three children, nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren.


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Here's my weekly column, which will also run in Monday's Health and Science section of the Philadelphia Inquirer
Image is from Penn and reportedly shows a color enhanced tissue section from a healthy mouse. The mouse cells are green and bacterial cells are purple.
Next time your digestive system malfunctions in some embarrassing way, you can always blame man's best friend – not the dog, but the bacterial cells that live in your intestines. Not everyone has a dog but we all have enormous communities of bacteria that help us digest food. They don't always do a perfect job, but without them we'd have trouble surviving.
In fact, our bodies have about ten times as many bacterial cells as human cells, said David Artis, a microbiologist at the University of Pennsylvania. "Some people have even joked that if one considers the meaning of life," he said, "it could boil down to us being vessels to carry around bacteria."
Artis has been studying our relationship to our resident microbes, the vast majority of which live in our intestines. Recently, he's focused on how they know to be so friendly and refrain from spreading around the body and making us sick.
He's found these so-called commensal bacteria aren't friendly by nature. If that enormous load of intestinal bacterial cells got out into other parts of the body, "they could kill us," he said. Luckily, our immune systems have evolved the ability to police these bugs, keeping them from spreading beyond the intestines, he said. It's a constant process of negotiation between our cells and theirs. When that symbiotic harmony breaks down, good bacteria can escape and make us sick.
All animals carry around symbiotic bacteria, said Rob Knight, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Bacteria are good at living with other organisms, and our relationship with them probably predated the origin of the animal kingdom some 600 million years ago.
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New Female Scientist Toy Paves The Way For LEGO Equality
Toy giant's newest venture aims to teach children from the get-go about gender equality.
Over the years, LEGO has been under a fair deal of scrutiny when it comes to sexism. What with its release of a construction worker figure waving and saying 'hey babe' and then there was the pink LEGO for girls fiasco.
Yet now the legendary toy company is trying to rectify the situation by releasing a female scientist mini-figure, equipped with glasses, a lab coat, and Erlenmeyer flasks. 'Professor C. Bodin' is LEGO's first attempt at placing female characters in science roles, aimed at showing children (and any other LEGO fans) that women and men are equal and can hold the same positions in a professional environment.
The new Minifig comes as part of LEGO's Minifigures Series 11 collection where it's fair to say, males dominate. Ms. Bodin is just the first of many female icons to emerge from the collection. Others include a palaeontologist and astronomer.
The three new characters come with a motto that reads, "explore the world and beyond" and are the first in LEGO history to blur the lines between what boy and girl LEGO users should and shouldn't be playing with.


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i own thi, same thing, its soooo awsome.
I agree man. There is no way in hell that I would have ever paid over 20 dollars for a mouse pad...
Untill I used this. I dont know if I could knowingly buy a lesser mouse pad now. Call me crazy, and I know that anything would work fine for a mouse pad, but this is the new way to fly for me.
There really cool untill someone knocks it off the table at a LAN party and chips it. Then at the next LAN gets cracked in two in transit.
Yeah, its a nice mouse pad. But Glass + ofeish LAN bitches = D000000M!!!
Yeah that's true as well... you'd have to baby it.
I have a question for owners,
I am in a dorm room with 2 other dudes who are usually sleeping while i'm up playing games. In FPS games u often have to pick up the mouse and put it back down to turn around quickly. This would happen less because the pad is so big and if you have a high dpi laser mouse, but my questions is this: does the glass make noise? When I think of sitting at a glass table to eat lunch or something I am always aware of how loud everything sounds against glass. It makes it better that this surface is against the desk, but how much noise does this surface make when gliding a mouse across it and when quckly picking up the mouse and tapping it back down on the surface?
ps. I have a copperhead mouse that has stock teflon feet, should i still use the included pads?
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There isnt much noise at all. I also attacehed the Teflon pads that were included but you really dont need to if you dont want to. I am worried about the glass too but it really isn't a huge concern of mine.
When you pick up the mouse and set it back down, there is obviously going to be more noise than a fabric pad but on par with a desk. I know forever I just used my desk as a mouse pad. I wouldn't worry about it much at all.
Thanks for the reply.
I still want to get this mouse surface. My last concern was something that has been repeated across almost all reviews of this mouse. Even tho the reviews have been positive, they all mention a subtle mouse 'glide' even when the mouse is still. That means the cursor of the mouse keeps moving (slightly) even after you've stopped moving the mouse. Best case is that this is caused by the ultra slick surface and light pull of the mouse cord. So even when the mouse looks still it's maybe moving a little due to the cord, which is possible not to detect visually thanks to new mice uber high dpi resolution. Worse case is that this problem is due to the way a laser mouse works with the actual surface of the icemat. The problems i hear of glide all seem to be very erratic. Accounts of people editing things in photoshop and the mouse slowly glides over but if the mouse is shaken and sit still, it will stop. What is the real nature of this glide phanomenon. Is it noticeable and is there a 'fix'
This, for me, is caused by the weight of the mouse cord itself. The cord is thinner than most mouse cords and not extremely rigid but does weigh enough to pull the mouse. The teflon pads don't help this any at all either. It really doesn't bother me at all.
That, in my opinion, is the cause of the "pull." Sorry I can't help you out more but thats the only thing that I have observed to have cause this. The insane dpi doesnt help either but regardless, it doesn't bother me. You will love this mouse pad.
Another way to make any mouse pad better for online FPS, sincei do play them all the time, would be to turn your Sensitivity Way up so you don't have to move your mouse every far to turn. It does take alot of time to get used to that tho.
Oh and if there sleeping and they wake up, Tell em there dreaming lol.
if anything id find my keyboard makes more noise then my mouse does.
I am interested in the icemat, but the white edition. I also have the Razer Copperhead. I have head that this mouse pad does not work well with the mouse. Please could somebody tell me if these rumors are true. Also are there any major drawbacks to the icemat? (scratches etc...)
THe only drawback I have encountered is the size of it. Other than that, no. The teflon feet on the Copperhead gliade across the IceMat. You will not be dissapointed...assuming you have the room on your desk.
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The science of gestures
Why it's good for kids and teachers to talk with their hands
© 2008-2013 Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., all rights reserved
Most people talk with their hands. In fact, gestures seem to arise unconsciously when we speak. Kids who are blind from birth use gestures when they talk, even when speaking to other sightless people (Iverson and Goldin-Meadow 1998).
And yet some people are anti-gesture. Why?
Ape studies suggest that our ancestors used their hands to communicate long before the evolution of speech (deWaal and Pollick 2006).
Do people therefore think that gesturing is "too primitive?"
I don't know. But as a diehard gesturer, I find the attitude annoying.
Cognitive psychologists like Susan Goldin-Meadow investigate the role that gesture plays in memory, learning, problem solving, and communication. Check out these discoveries made by Goldin-Meadow and her colleagues.
So I looked into the cognitive science of gesture.
And--guess what--researchers have found that kids who use their hands when they talk learn better than kids who don't.
They've even demonstrated that the mere observation of a teacher using meaningful gestures helps kids learn. Hah!
Gestures "free up" working memory
Working memory is a bit like the RAM of a computer. It's the ability to remember information over a very brief interval (a few seconds), and it's what permits us to keep our mind on a task.
Our ability to learn is constrained by the limits of working memory (Brunken et al 2002). Working memory is also linked with intelligence. So anything that reduces the "cognitive load" on your working memory may help you think and learn more efficiently.
Surprisingly, gestures might do that for us.
In one experiment, Susan Goldin-Meadow and her colleagues gave both kids and adults a memory-straining task. Subjects were asked to remember a list of items while they explained how they had solved a math problem (Goldin-Meadow et al 2001).
In both age groups, people remembered more items from the list if they gestured during their math explanations.
The researchers concluded that expressing concepts with speech and gesture uses less working memory than expressing the same concepts with speech alone.
In other words, using your hands to talk is a strategy that minimizes cognitive load, freeing up memory for other tasks.
Gestures help kids recall the details of past events
Here's another fascinating experiment: Researchers Elizabeth Stevanoni and Karen Salmon presented 6- and 7-year olds with an interesting experience (visiting a "pirate") and then asked kids to recall the event 2 weeks later.
Some kids were instructed to use gestures when they recounted the event. Other kids were prevented from gesturing.
Guess who recalled the most information?
The kids who used gestures recalled more details about the event. (Stevanoni and Salmon 2005).
Gestures help kids retain what they've learned in school
Cognitive scientist Susan Cook and her colleagues performed an experiment on gestures used during a mathematics lesson (Cook et al 2006).
American kids in the third and fourth grades were given math problems of this type:
4 + 3 = ___ + 6
The idea was to find the number that would make both sides of the equation equal.
None of the kids were able to solve these problems on their own.
Then an instructor helped them. Instruction took one of three forms:
• In the SPEECH condition, the instructor told the kids "I want to make one side equal the other side" and she asked the kids to repeat the phrase themselves.
• In the GESTURE condition, the instructor moved her left hand under the left side of the equation, then moved her right hand under the right side of the equation. The instructor asked the kids to repeat these hand movements themselves.
• In the GESTURE + SPEECH condition, the instructor combined both elements. Kids were asked to repeat the instructor's words and actions.
After each child was trained in just one of these methods, he was given a new problem. The instructor told him to solve the problem using the method he'd practiced.
Kids in all three groups—SPEECH, GESTURE, and GESTURE + SPEECH—improved their performance.
But something interesting emerged when the kids were re-tested four weeks later:
Kids who had improved using gestures—either alone or paired with speech—were more likely to maintain their improvement four weeks later.
In other words, kids who had learned with gestures did a better job remembering the correct strategy.
Skeptics might wonder: Did the non-gesturing kids do worse because the experiment made them self-conscious about their natural attempts to gesture? Maybe gesturing doesn't put you at an advantage. Maybe it's the unnatural suppression of gesture that puts you at a disadvantage.
It's a reasonable objection. But there is other evidence supporting the idea that gestures are actively helpful. Studies show that kids who spontaneously gesture more (i.e., without being prompted by an instructor) are also more likely to retain what they've learned (Alibali and Goldin-Meadow 1993; Cook and Goldin-Meadow 2006).
Gestures help students solve mental rotation tasks
Maybe the most intuitive benefit of gesturing is mental visualization.
When people are encouraged to use their hands, they seem better able to solve problems that require them to imagine rotating an object in space.
For instance, in a study of 5-year-olds, the kids with the best mental rotation skills were also the kids who spontaneously used their hands during problem-solving (Ehrlich et al 2006).
And experimental evidence suggests that gesturing isn't just linked with better performance. It enables better performance.
Researchers Mingyuan Chu and Sotaro Kita gave 132 students a set of visual rotation tasks to solve--the sorts of problems that ask you to rotate an object in your "mind's eye."
In a randomized experiment, one-third of the students were instructed to use their hands as they attempted the problems.
Another third were prevented from using their hands.
The rest of the students weren't given any special instructions.
When tested under these conditions, the students instructed to gesture performed the best (Chu and Kita 2011).
And the experience of gesturing seems to have had a lasting effect. When the students were all tested again, researchers tried a new tactic. They didn't permit anyone to use his hands.
The results? The students who'd been assigned to the gesturing condition in the prior test continued to outperform everyone else. Maybe, say Chu and Kita, these former gesturers were now gesturing in their minds.
Merely watching gestures can help kids learn
The experiments we've discussed so far asked kids to make gestures. What about observing gestures? Do children learn more from adults who talk with their hands? In a carefully controlled experiment, Susan Cook and her colleagues performed a new variant of the mathematics experiment above, this time asking kids to merely watch the adult instructor (Cook et al 2013).
In immediate post-testing, kids who received instruction with gestures and speech outperformed kids who received only verbal instruction. And the achievement gap widened when kids were tested 24 hours later, suggesting that watching gestures helped kids encode the lesson in long-term memory. Interestingly, kids in the GESTURE + SPEECH group also showed evidence of transfer -- of being able to apply their emerging knowledge in new contexts. To read the details, see my blog post here.
And what about learning words?
Do gestures help kids learn new words? There is evidence supporting this idea.
For instance, experimental studies suggest that babies develop larger vocabularies when their parents supplement their speech with gestures (Acredolo and Goodwyn 1988; Goodwyn et al 2000).
Does this mean that gesturing causes bigger verbal vocabularies?
Not necessarily. In fact, it's possible that having a rich symbolic vocabulary reduces a child's motivation to learn new words. Compared with American kids, Italian kids use more symbolic gestures and have somewhat smaller spoken vocabularies (Iverson et al in press).
But given the evidence that gesturing aids learning and memory, I'm inclined to think that gestures might indeed help babies learn new words.
For instance, if gestures reduce cognitive load, it seems plausible that learning a new word in conjunction with an accompanying gesture might be easier than learning a new word without gestures.
Gestures might aid learning in other ways, too.
As noted by Jana Iverson and Susan Goldin-Meadow, babies who gesture a lot might get more timely information from their parents. For instance, a baby who points at dog may prompt her father to say "Yes, that's a dog." As a result, she hears the word "dog" when she is attentive and interested—a good time to learn (Iverson and Goldin-Meadow 2005).
And other research has shown how gestures can help kids infer the meanings of verbs.
In an English-language study, Whitney Goodrich and Carla Kam invented four words--sib, blip, gern, and flim, and then created a series of puppet shows.
Each puppet show illustrated a different action. For example, one show featured a stick toy pulling a puppet along a winding path. Another featured the puppet getting spun around on a turntable.
The researchers presented these puppet shows to young children, and asked questions like this one:
"Sam (the puppet) really likes to blip. Can you tell me which toy lets Sam go blipping?"
Of course, kids had never heard of "blipping" before, but they could guess. And their guesses depended on what sorts of gestures the experiments used.
For example, kids were more likely to choose the stick toy if the experimenter had posed her question while tracing her index finger along an imaginary, winding path.
More information about gestures As note above, there is some evidence that babies learn more words when their parents communicate with gestures. You can read more about this phenomenon--and the possible benefits of teaching babies gestures--by clicking this link.
References: The science of gestures
Alabali MW and Goldin-Meadow S.1993. Gesture speech mismatch and mechanisms of learning: What the hands reveal about a child's state of mind. Cognitive Psychology 25(4): 468-523.
Alibali MW, Kita S, and Young AJ. 2000. Gesture and the process of speech production: We think, therefore we gesture. Language and cognitive processes 15(6): 593-613.
Acredolo, LP and Goodwyn SW. 1988. Symbolic gesturing in normal infants. Child Development 59: 450-466.
Bruncken R Steinbacher S, Plass JL, and Leutner D. 2002. Assessment of cognitive load in multimedia learning using dual-task methodology. Experimental Psychology 49(2): 109-119.
Chu M and Kita S. 2011.The Nature of Gestures' Beneficial Role in Spatial Problem Solving. Journal of experimental psychology: General 140(1): 102-116.
Cook SW, Duffy RG and Fenn KM. 2013. Consolidation and Transfer of Learning After Observing Hand Gesture. Child Development. In press.
Cook SW and Goldin-Meadow S. 2006. The role of gesture in learning: Do children use their hands to change their minds? Journal of Cognition and Development 7(2): 211-232.
Cook SW, Mitchell Z, and Goldin-Meadow S. 2008. Gesture makes learning last. Cognition 106:1047 - 1058.
deWaal FBM and Pollick AS. 2006. Ape gestures and language evolution. PNAS 104(19): 8184-8189.
Ehrlich SB, Levine S, and Goldin-Meadow SA. 2006. The importance of gesture in children's spatial reasoning. Developmental Psychology42: 1259 - 1268.
Goldin-Meadow S, Nusbaum H, Kelly SD and Wagner S. 2001. Explaining math: gesturing lightens the load. Psychological Science 12(6):516-522.
Goodrich W and Hudson-Kam CL. 2008. Co-speech gesture as input in verb learning. Developmental Science. Published online 13 August 2008. 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00735.
Goodwyn, S.W., Acredolo, L.P., & Brown, C. 2000. Impact of symbolic gesturing on early language development. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior., 24, 81-103.
Iverson, J.M., Capirci, O., Volterra, V., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (in press). Learning to talk in a gesture-rich world: Early communication of Italian vs. American children. First Language.
Iverson JM and Goldin-Meadow S. 1998. Why people gesture when they speak. Nature 396(6708): 228.
Iverson JM and Goldin-Meadow S. 2005. Gesture paves the way for language development. Psychological Science 16(5): 367-371.
Rowe ML, Ozcaliskan S, and Goldin-Meadow S. 2008. Learning words by hand: Gesture's role in predicting vocabulary development. First Language 28: 182 - 199.
Stevanoni E and Salmon K. 2005. Giving memory a hand: Instructing children to gesture enhances their event recall. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 29: 217–233.
Straube B, Green A, Weis S, Chatterjee A, and Kircher T. 2009. emory effects of speech and gesture binding: cortical and hippocampal activation in relation to subsequent memory performance. J Cogn Neurosci. 21(4):821-36.
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My mother lives on the other side of the world, so she's not readily accessible to dispense motherly advice on a daily basis. Luckily I've spent many years with her and the little voice in my head that has her accent is always present. So are all my childhood memories.
Every morning, as I brush my daughters' hair, I think of the endless mornings when she braided mine in tight, neat braids. When I'm tempted to reply "because I said so" I hear her saying the same to me. And when I make the kids dance in the grocery store aisles with me, I remember doing the same with her as a child.
She might not be able to dispense quick advice when I need it, but almost everything I know today is something I learned by watching my mother parent my sisters and me over the years.
We asked our Facebook fans to share the best parenting advice their mothers had shared over the years. The answers were both predictable and surprising. Here are a few comments that made us smile.
"Never stop believing in yourself ♥" – Julie Shearer Golladay
"Unless you're in a burning building or under nuclear attack, never awaken a sleeping baby." – Molly Gordy
Tell them you love them EVERYDAY!!! – Carrie Chambers
"It's just a phase." It's my mantra. – Megin Carew Hatch
Never doubt your instincts. A mother always knows…. And ……Save your money; you're going to need it! – Theresa Zagarino
If the baby is breathing and so are you- all is well. – Rebecca Anderson-Furlong
"Kids don't pop out with manuals. You do the very best job you can, but you'll make mistakes. You're human. You'll have to forgive yourself for that. And you'll still be a great mom." – Tiffany Kammerer Wysocki
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You have only days until the end of the quarter – which, for many companies, is also the end of the financial year. Instead of developing strategy, or working on long-term plans – let alone buying gifts or dressing the Christmas tree – you're locked in a windowless office. Your sole objective: to hit your targets for 2012.
Under the circumstances, you may agree with this industrialist: "We've chosen some new high priests and called them accountants. They too have a holy day – the 31st of December – on which we're supposed to confess . . . But if you're really working on great ideas, you can't supply these on schedule and expose yourself to view. The December ceremony isn't really a law of the gods, it's just something we've invented. All right, let's conform, but don't let's do it in a way that will spoil our plans. And some day people will realize that every balance sheet is wrong because it doesn't contain anything but figures. The real strengths and weaknesses of an enterprise lie in the plans."
The repercussions of the tyranny of the quarter-end are well known, from irritating but innocuous travel bans and spending freezes to earnings manipulation and management myopia. The colourful array of year-end tricks – window-dressing, book-squaring, channel-stuffing, trade-loading and the alluring concept of "smoothing" – can have real consequences. Surges of orders booked prematurely cause whiplash along the supply chain, turning what should be a business process, with seasonal variations, into a volatile stop-start journey.
In one of the most notorious instances, Sunbeam salespeople, under pressure from their terrifying boss "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap, strained to meet 1997 targets by flogging home appliances – including an improbable quantity of that well-known winter bestseller, the gas-fired barbecue grill – for delivery in the new year. Next-quarter sales were predictably dismal. Investigations, lawsuits and a ban on Mr. Dunlap serving as officer or director of a public company ensued.
One suggested remedy is to switch off – or step off – the earnings treadmill. John Kay, my fellow Financial Times columnist, recommended ending mandatory quarterly reporting in his recent review of equity markets and long-term decision-making for the United Kingdom government. "High-quality, succinct narrative reporting" should also be encouraged, he added.
Another solution is for companies to scrap ill-fitting incentives. Stock option promises fuelled aggressive end-quarter behaviour at Sunbeam, and, since then, have contributed to systemic weaknesses that led to the financial crisis. Sensible companies warn off channel-stuffers. "I don't want to sound like Genghis Khan," the chief executive of one multinational told me recently, "but it's no bad thing to have a few public hangings. If people have pushed a trade, or loaded the distributors, you've got to fire them."
Yet the compulsion to meet short-term targets still pollutes accounts: chief financial officers told researchers from Duke and Emory universities recently they thought a fifth of U.S. companies misrepresented results, by an average of 10 per cent of reported earnings per share.
In search of more radical remedies, one governance expert asks: "Why not move to three-year reporting?" But ignoring the calendar's demands would be an unkeepable new year resolution. As Elizabeth Corley, chief executive of fund manager Allianz Global Investors, told me recently: "Quarterly and annual cycles are incredibly valuable disciplines – provided they don't become dictators of how to behave."
To avoid an end-of-quarter switchback ride, managers must instead have systems in place to monitor and regulate the behaviour of sales, inventories and, yes, human beings through the accounting cycle; they must be ready to brave short-term investor criticism; and they must have enough good sense not to try to smooth the unsmoothable.
As for giving more weight to corporate narratives, be careful what you wish for. According to John Byrne's book Chainsaw, "few executives could rival Dunlap as a master at telling a story." Bear in mind, too, that the wise-sounding long-termist quoted earlier was Ivar Kreuger, "the Match King." He built his empire in defiance of pressure for regular accounts but also cajoled and bribed auditors, who were unable to spot a huge fraud until it was too late. In 1932, it all ended with his exposure, suicide and disgrace. Some deadlines simply can't be put off.Report Typo/Error


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Monday, 8 June 2015
Two Years On...
I really don't know or care how many will read this, but... it's been a little bit, hasn't it?
By this point, it should be clear that I'm not coming back. Different priorities and such. But I feel I should at least give you some sort of 'so, this is what I'm doing now' type deal. So, here's the headlines:
Thursday, 7 March 2013
It Should Be Pretty Obvious What This Post Is About
I knew it had to happen eventually. I've burned out. The world is advancing and I can't keep up. Therefore, I think I'm going to retire from blogging for a while. I can't really say much more than that.
I think I properly realised this when the new Daemons book came out. I just don't have the time or motivation I used to for little plastic men. Haven't even thought about lifting a brush for a month now. Even though I do properly like the new plastic Heralds.
Maybe I'll recover at some point, maybe not. Either way, thanks to the four of you still sticking with me. I'll still be keeping the channel going, so maybe I'll get some actual 40k content up at some point. Heck, if I'm feeling especially generous I'll let you hear my real self's stand-up routines. But that's not too likely.
I'll be taking my leave now. I may be some time.
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Bryss' Improvised Points Theory: Botheration
|Tesla goes with everything. I mean everything.
As you are doubtless unaware, I sometimes spend stupid amounts of time trying to answer an unanswerable question regarding points. By this point, I've pretty much given up doing so for infantry. But the vehicle one worked OK. Unfortunately, GW has decided it doesn't like me, so threw in an extra new variable. Hull Points. And a new type, Flyer. Question is, does this mean I've completely lost Bryss' Improvised Points Theory? Let's find out.
Thursday, 7 February 2013
An Idea or Several
Greetings ladies, gentlemen and Fuzz, this is your glorious anatidine leader, Master Ufllbcan M. Bryss, PhD, DPhil LLB BDSM YMCA (Hons). Otherwise known as aspiring law student and stand-up comedian *********. That's all one word.
Now, this may amount to nothing, this is purely recon work, but I wish to raise an idea with you all. A few months ago, I found the forum game known as Zoofights, a bloody awesome concept in which genetically surgeoneered animals (usually a hybrid abomination with weapons and big muscly arms) fight each other to the death, with the victor being calculated by putting audience votes into some kind of equation or other and doing hard stuff and finding out who won. The battle is then consequently written up.
Oh, and did I mention the competitors are then modified EVEN MORE after each round so that the finalists barely resemble their original incarnation? Now, I looked at this and wondered "Why on earth wouldn't this work in 40k? Jump.
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Bryss' Musings: Ye Gads...
As you are doubtless aware, the new Dark Angels book is out. You may also remember I highly considered switching to the new book when it came out. With news of cheaper Librarians and more flexible Tactical Squads, among other things in game sense this seems like a Good Move. My Marine collection is extensive enough that I don't really need new models, either. However, this would now involve buying a £30 Codex. And that's really £10 more than I want to spend. Even considering it would be one of the least expensive reference documents I have bought in a while. Jump.
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With that, version 1.0.5 of RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet OS is now available for download, which brings forth a resounding set of new features and much more. Specifically, it's bundles in the new Facebook app that was made available not too long ago, but it goes further by offering things like the ability to upload videos, message deletion, and Facebook search enhancements. Secondly, we now find support for in-app payments that brings along some dynamic new possibilities with the tablet.
Furthermore, there are a handful of other enhancements included with the update – like the option to charge the PlayBook when it's completely powered off, modifying the brightness setting when you click on the battery indicator, and a pop-up windows that gives you instant access to restart, turn off, or place the tablet into sleep mode.
Considering it's over 300MB in size, you might want to make sure you have a reliable Wi-Fi connection to download it. All in all, it's indeed nice, but we're digging the quick actions that RIM is taking when it comes to releasing software updates with the PlayBook.
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Genesis 2 - KJV
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and Ps. 33:6all the host of them.
2 Ex. 20:11;Heb. 4:4And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God Is. 58:13blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God [a]created and made.
Adam and Eve
4 ch. 1:1These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
5 And every ch. 1:12plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not Job 38:26-28caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man ch. 3:23to till the ground.
6 But [b]there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7 And the Lord God formed man [c]of the ch. 3:19,23;Ps. 103:14dust of the ground, and Job 33:4breathed into his ch. 7:22nostrils the breath of life; and 1 Cor. 15:45man became a living soul.
8 And the Lord God planted Is. 51:3a garden ch. 3:24eastward in ch. 4:16Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow Ezek. 31:8every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; ch. 3:22;Rev. 2:7the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth ch. 25:18the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12 And the gold of that land is good: Num. 11:7there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of [d]Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the third river is Dan. 10:4Hiddekel: that is it which goeth [e]toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
15 And the Lord God took [f]the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden [g]thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, ch. 3:1,3,11,17thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof ch. 3:3,19;Rom. 6:23[h]thou shalt surely die.
18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; 1 Cor. 11:9;1 Tim. 2:13I will make him a help [i]meet for him.
19 ch. 1:20,24And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and Ps. 8:6brought them unto [j]Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
20 And Adam [k]gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a help meet for him.
21 And the Lord God caused a 1 Sam. 26:12deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, [l]made he a woman, and Heb. 13:4brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now ch. 29:14;Eph. 5:30bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called [m]Woman, because she was 1 Cor. 11:8taken out of [n]Man.
24 Mat. 19:5;Eph. 5:31Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25 ch. 3:7,10And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not Is. 47:3ashamed.
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Ken Clarke, the minister without portfolio, has backed away from comments suggesting that the Conservatives may not uphold a promise to give tax breaks to married couples.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Clarke suggested that married couples should not "count on" receiving the break before the next general election in 2015.
Clarke claimed he did not remember anyone in the government promising tax breaks within that timeframe. "We never committed ourselves to married couples' tax by the end of the parliament," the minister without portfolio told the Telegraph.
"I'm married, I'm not counting on it. I don't remember anyone promising that kind of thing."
His comments appears to be at odds with the Tory manifesto promise of a transferable tax allowance that could be worth £150 a year to married couples where one spouse stays at home.
A Conservative spokeswoman said on Saturday that Clarke accepted that the change will happen, and had not intended to make a statement of policy.
She said: "It was a comment, not a statement of policy. Any tax changes are a matter for the chancellor. He accepts the changes will happen."
The tax measure was opposed by Liberal Democrats but was not ruled out in the coalition agreement, which stated merely that MPs from Nick Clegg's party would be free to abstain when measures were brought forward in parliament.
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Allante lounge RULES
The Allante Lounge - Almost anything goes forum.
This forum is brought to you by the Allante crowd.
Five simple rules -
These rules worked nicely in other Allante forums until the "suits" marched in.
One may suggest that no suits come here wearing the suits. Please make our jobs easier, we really prefer to not moderate. If everyone abides by these, then no MODERATING will be needed.
1. No porn or porn like activity. Showing a pic of anyone in a swimsuit reaching under the swim suit is a violation of porn like and so are the infamous camel toe pictures.
2. No vulgarity, no name-calling, no racial slurs to anyone and no sexual innuendos to the girls (or ladies if such a term is preferred).
3. No illegal activity as defined per any State of the Union or the Feds.
We dont care so much about the UN, France, or other global test" law countries.
4. Dont violate the general rules of the site. Take a couple of hours to read them.
5. There are no ranks here. ANY MODERATOR that comes by and posts here in the Allante Lounge, is rank-less, just like any other member, and must abide by the same rules. That includes this writer.
Forum Description ...
- There are no requirements of owning an Allante. IF you know what one looks like you pass.
Know that Allante owners can be wild cats. A vast majority of die-hard Allante owners are also into scooters and/or Vettes and/or various muscle cars and/or hot rod modifications.
Maybe that helps in understanding the mind set of the crowd that we expect here.
- If you like to cruise into this forum and dont have a thick skin, grow one .. really fast !
. . . . . . . Remember the wild cats ?
- Complaints that dont fit the 5 rules will be IGNORED; in fact, expect to be scolded for wasting our time.
We dont have things like personal attacks here - PLEASE READ this line again.
* if you dish it out, you better take it;
* if you play, then by all means, play;
* if you post in this lounge, you are playing;
* Crisscrossing the various Allante web-sites with opinions, is OK by us.
* We, the Allante Crowd, share opinions across the internet.
* We jump around between this "S" site, the "A" site and the no "S" site.
* Trolls and spammers .. dont, please don't!
- If you like to behave frisky and a bit wild, this may well be for you. If not, then walk very softly or dont
even watch. You have the power to turn the channel, use it.
We buried this lounge in the deep back side of Allante land for a good reason.
We like to be far removed from "touchy-feely, political correctness" traffic.
- Dont come over to take a peek and then go out crying about things you dont like.
Remember the You have the power to turn the channel and get away from the "wild cats" ? ? ?
Wild cats do scratch !
- If you like to express criticism of anyone, including a MODERATOR that comes posting
into this forum, go for it - ranks are left outside and are of no value here. Do it within
the 5 rules & you will be just fine - visiting MODERATORS must have double thick skins.
- Criticism of ADMs, dont even think about it.
- Criticism of other MODERATORS that do not visit & post here, dont.
. . . . Remember the site's General Rules?
- We dont need to issue prior warnings of violations of the 5 rules, we may vaporize violations at will.
- Who are the resident MODERATORS ? You are it.
Please dont make us moderate.
- oh, one last thing/warning? Unlike other lounges in the site, you can also discuss/argue about non-technical Allantes stuff here but be advised that if you belittle our beloved Allantes cars, expect to get scratched.
- finally, one last last last thing? If you think we dont behave grown up enough, your thinking is already too old to be here. REMEMBER the [B]You have the power to turn the channel ? The "A" site over yonder does welcome grumpy old men.
- last but not least, come and take a look at the rules here once in a while. I sort of like to "improve" them a bit as we go along.
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Leave it locked in the trunk of your car if it's an issue. Don't leave it unsecured out of your care, custody, and control. That's a big no no. Don't just try to hide it.
Locked up or on your person.
This is a discussion on need help CCW'ing in an incredibly lucky situation for me within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Mk, so my friend Mallory invited me to her house on Tuesday to hang out and go swimming with her. How would I go about ...
Mk, so my friend Mallory invited me to her house on Tuesday to hang out and go swimming with her. How would I go about carrying my firearm, I plan on wearing my swim trunks under a pair of belted shorts and a T-shirt. my concern is how to hide my gun while laying out and during general frolicking, I am thinking IWB and when i change just fold my shorts over the handle
"The value you put on the lost will be determined by the sacrifice you are willing to make to seek them until they are found."
Leave it locked in the trunk of your car if it's an issue. Don't leave it unsecured out of your care, custody, and control. That's a big no no. Don't just try to hide it.
Locked up or on your person.
go inside and change into your swim trunks, then leave the gun inside the house hidden with your other clothes.
I wouldn't want to be near the pool with my gun on. What if she decides to push you in the pool while your packing? Not going to be fun!
You can educate ignorance, you can't fix stupid
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Bring a gym bag with your trunks, towel etc. in it and go in to the bathroom change. Place your weapon in the bag then. If you own some kind of lockable gun box you could even lock the weapon up in the bag!
ALWAYS carry! - NEVER tell!
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judgement to keep himself out of situations that would require a display of his
superior skills."
I asked a somewhat similar question earlier in the year, I was about to go on a whitewater rafting trip and I needed some way to keep the gun on my person...
I actually never brought it on the trip because:
#1 - the equipment never arrived on time
#2 - the safety equipment was so bulky that I probably would not have had any way to attach a sort of bag to me
#3 - (hindsight) - I nearly drowned on the river and I'm pretty sure those life vests are not military-rated - they weren't expecting a carrier in the first place...
maybe you could make like a lady and get a leg holster + J-frame/PPS and hide it underneath your swim trunks... LOLOLOLOL
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I think ill go with thumpers idea, i have a small locking gun box that i can keep in my day pack, ill just bring that with my trunks, and then when i change slip it into the lockbox
how sad is it that that thought never crossed my mind
"The value you put on the lost will be determined by the sacrifice you are willing to make to seek them until they are found."
Agreed with the small lock box and as retsupt said do NOT let it out of your sight. Have fun! (and no, being pushed into a pool while carrying is NOT fun... Been there done that got the nasty looks from people I didnt know because the shirt was soaked, clung to the holster and gun... TALK ABOUT PRINTING, made interesting dinner converstation later though)
Hesitation kills faster than a bullet.
If your head is up your *$$ you are unaware of danger. You are in the perfect position to kiss it goodbye.
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My CCP instructor was telling us about placing a small pocket pistol in a ziploc bag and keeping it in a cargo pocket. Generally I don't worry that much about it. But I don't swim much either.
I prefer to live dangerously free than safely caged!
"Our houses are protected by the good Lord and a gun. And you might meet 'em both if you show up here not welcome son." Josh Thompson "Way Out Here"
dmaxx, no it is not in a "bad" neighborhood, but i have seen some of the people that live there and i know her neighbor is a paranoid schizophrenic, that being said, i have a license to carry, not a license to carry when i think i need it. (hope that didnt sound rude, it was not my intention i just could not think of a better way to get my point across) if i am going somewhere i think i might need my gun, my brain has either shut off, or they have something i can only get there, such as when the zombies attack and i crave a twinkie. and retsupt, that goes without saying, but thank you for the reminder, people do forget to watch their bags and thats how guns get stolen
"The value you put on the lost will be determined by the sacrifice you are willing to make to seek them until they are found."
Living in arizona we deal with this issue all the time.. My community pool is not in the greatest area and a lot of not so nice people decide to come in.
I recommend my approach. Go to amazon.com and buy a food saver vacuum sealer, place gun and spare magazine in the bag, and vacuum pack it.. try and cut the bag as small as possible before hand. This way as the bag seals it nicely follows the outline of your gun. (place the mag bellow the barrel and up on the trigger guard).
Now all you need i a cheap knife to carry incase you need to open it, you are good to swim with the gun still on your person IWB, just dont do any jumping or anything physical, cuse it will drop like a rock if it comes out..
But seriously if its at a house dont worry leave it in the car. Use the weapon that is the most devastating of them all, your head.
ChuckAZ, that's a wonderful idea. I may have to use that one. To add to it, since it's soon that he's going, walmart carries these as well, but are on the expensive end if you intend to use it just this one time. Someone above said a ziplock bag, but I'd worry about that somehow opening up. If you don't have a Food Saver, call a couple friends, or older ladies that won't mind if you borrow it for a few minutes--they can also show you how to use it, cause it took me a couple tries for me to really get mine working appropriately (beef stew is not a good thing to try in it for the first time).
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