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Not every dessert we make is going to be served in our own kitchens. Cookies are packed up and bundled off to bake sales and tucked into school lunches. Cakes and cupcakes are carefully placed in cake carriers to be delivered to parties, potlucks and other celebrations. Delivering a cake in one piece isn't necessarily that difficult – especially if you're a careful driver – ... Read More »
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Vintage Cake and Cupcake Carriers
I typically use cake and cupcake carriers both for transporting and storing baked goods. I've gone through a variety of carriers over the years, and generally opt for lightweight, plastic containers that have an airtight seal because they are the most versatile and the most durable options for baked good storage. But even the well designed ones don't qualify as cute (and some don't even ... Read More »
Nordic Ware Bundt Cake Keeper
I usually recommend cake carriers as great places to store cakes of all kinds because they provide an airtight environment that will help keep your cake fresher and they make it easy to transport a cake. But we don't always share our cakes and often bake them just for keeping around the kitchen, not just for taking out to dinner parties and family gatherings, and ... Read More »
Collapsible Pie Carrier
Cake and cupcake carriers are staples for home bakers. Not only do they make it easy to transport your goodies from place to place without disturbing all of that frosting, but they provide a convenient, airtight environment to store them in and keep them fresh. Cook's Country magazine rated cake carriers recently and decided that the Progressive Collapsible Cupcake and Cake Carrier was their top ... Read More »
Cook's Country rates Cake Carriers
A good cake carrier is something that every home baker should have. The name suggests that they're just for transporting cakes from point A to point B – and they are – but they're also great airtight containers for storing everything from layer cakes to cookies even when keeping the goodies just around your house. A cake carrier should have plenty of room for even ... Read More »
Norpro Cake Lifter, reviewed
When I am making a layer cake, I usually put the bottom layer on the cake plate that I intend to serve it on, then start layering frosting and more cake right from there. It is a hassle to move layer cakes as they tend to be delicate and heavy. Usually this works out very well, especially when I am going to be serving a ... Read More »
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Bakers Sto 'N Go
I really like the Cupcake Courier as a carrier for cupcakes, but cupcakes aren't the only food that needs to be transported in an easy, secure way. The Bakers Sto 'N Go is an ideal carrier for non-cupcake baked goods, especially cookies. It has flat interior shelves to stack cookies on, allowing you to keep your cookies separated so that they don't get crushed or ... Read More »


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Don't let your parents discourage you! Maybe they are having a hard time letting you grow up and realizing they will not to able to "control" you much longer. Making and elephant out of a fly in their attempt to hold on to their "little girl".
I agree with the previous posters, stay calm and explain , if necessary over and over why you will wear your hair like you want to! Parents a can be a bit dense sometimes, I know I am
You will find plenty support on this site, I think there is a thread similar to yours in the curly teens where her dad did not want to give permission for a drivers license unless she straightened her hair for a family photo.
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he did it again! Theclow managed to make me write another tutorial
actually its a good time to write a tutorial on this
firstly make your sig as normal ~ example of how i did my recent one :3 (just ignore the "set" folder for the moment)
next put your text where ever you feel is best...ive decided to put it at the most appropriate place
with that done you will have to right click on the "text layer" and
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now you are good to go for it to be animated
move the sig over to image ready (bottom option from your tool's table) and magnifly the sig twice ~
with that done move to your animation window...firstly you will need to create a base text layer from where you duplicate your text layers from...move over and create a new set folder like so ~
move your text layer into the set folder and then click on the "eye symbol" to hide the layer from view...you will notice that the text disappears from the sig...
duplicate the text layer and make sure that it is visible by clicking on the eye ~ the text will reappear again and this is where you can start to erase some of the text using the eraser tool...
how much you erase depends on you but what i would do is to leave enough for it to be a believeable stroke if it where to be written by hand...like so ~
oh and ive just forgotten...you should have duplicated the blank layer first before you start to erase (in the animation window) ~ ive circled in the above picture
next all that is left to do is to carry on duplicating the base layer...dragging it up to the top of the set layers and erasing again but this time erase less than last time ~ like so ~
also its important to remember to always hide the previous layers by clicking on the eye ~
when you are done just try playing the animation to see if it works...
notice how the eye icon changes in the set folder corresponding with the layers that are being animated ~ also you can change the time delay if the animation is going to fast (dont hesitate :3)
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Steamboat Springs has two thriving, local, natural grocery stores downtown: Healthy Solutions, at 335 Lincoln Ave., and Bamboo Market, at 1110 Yampa St. Healthy Solutions is closing its doors Sunday, and not by choice.
It seems to me that the city of Steamboat Springs sold out Healthy Solutions, a locally owned and operated business of 20 years, by approving a non-local natural grocery store to occupy the same Third Street and Lincoln Avenue location. Apparently, what I consider "shopping local" and what the city encourages as "shopping local" are two different things.
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Just days after the Call of Duty: Ghosts release, publisher Activision has revealed that it will launch a new COD title in 2014.
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"Despite short-term uncertainties, as we look forward to 2014, we have a very strong product pipeline," CEO Bobby Kotick announced during the company's Q3 2013 earnings call last night.
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Russell Hadley: The Route to C++ Code Optimization
The focus of this interview is mapping the (long and complicated)path to executable machine code that the machine natively understands and acts upon, bringing your code to life. How does this work, exactly?
Russell Hadley is a senior developer on the C++ team here at Microsoft and he spends his days (and nights, ocassionally) writing code that takes the front-end compilation linear (flattened) blob and turns it into highly optimized machine code patterns that the processor can execute in a highly efficient manner.
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I was thinking during that video how depressing it was that my job will never be as cool as his. I felt like at the end you just wanted to stick it to me .
Excellent interview as always, it's great to see more of the C++ team.
I thought Charles read my mind here, as I was just thinking that it would be great to have some videos covering optimization.
If there were any more videos on this theme I would be interested to know about what C++ code is difficult to optimize and how we should best write C++ to give the optimizer the most help we can about the semantics of our code, perhaps covering __assume et al?
Thanks for another great In-Deep look into C++
Is the flow through phases always down? I'm thinking flow would be kicked back up because of failed optimizations, re-optimization opportunities, resource overflow, hardware target feedback, etc?
Excluding cache factors, at what point can you know how many actual cycles or microseconds an operation takes? Is predicted performance always accurate? If not, what situations foul up predictions? Are there situations where performance is non-determinable?
Thank you for this great interview, i love watching this stuff. It would be interessting when microsoft starts using the new compiler on real world products like windows, office or the .net framework. Also it would be interessting how much faster the new code will run compared to the old code.
You bring up a good point. Because we generate code with this sequential translation approach there are times when some optimization transformations expose new opportunities. In general we call this the "Phase Ordering Problem". The traditional approach (what we do) is to re-run the transformations that are profitable when there's compiler throughput budget to do it. (of course we can't iterate forever in addition some of the problems won't converge)
For the predicted cycles (and code size) of a particular instruction we typically start getting a rough idea at lower time when we select a machine opcode. This becomes more concrete through register allocation and becomes very concrete in compiler terms at encoding time. The compiler selected instruction has a processor defined cost in terms of machine resources (e.g. execution elements or slots in the out of order buffer) which are fixed but then data dependencies – is the input value available at the right time or schedule - and micro-architectural issues intrude. Finally as you say the cache trumps the other issues. I think it's important to note here that we're getting new machines all the time with different micro-architectures, in fact much more quickly than new compilers, and the compiler needs to try and make a single executable that gives good performance across a spectrum of machines. So some of the instruction performance characteristics are hard to know ahead of time. Of course we work closely with our partners to make sure that future machines provide good performance for Microsoft apps and tools output. Finally, with respect to predictability, if you know the machine, it's micro-arch, the working set, and execution environment (OS and workload) theoretically you can predict exactly the performance (digital computer after all) but in actuality we model a "typical" case, maintain good engineering, and then do lots of benchmarking on real world scenarios to ensure the performance of our output code.
It would be nice if the interviewer was an actual C++ programmer. The interview is at too high a level for me, I've known that the compiler produces .obj's that get linked by the linker for quite awhile now.
Sniffy wrote:It would be nice if the interviewer was an actual C++ programmer. The interview is at too high a level for me, I've known that the compiler produces .obj's that get linked by the linker for quite awhile now.
That's a good point. This is precisely why we created the Expert to Expert series. In this case, we wanted to reach as broad of a programmer audience as possible since C++ is only one programming language that gets compiled (the information here is not just relevant to C++ after all - note the conversation on what the .NET JIT does, etc).
I'm a generalist and we feel this is the best way to have deep, though broadly interesting, technical conversations.
You will see a C++ Expert to Expert interview on C9 in addition to the more broadly-scoped conversations.
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You will see a C++ Expert to Expert interview on C9 in addition to the more broadly-scoped conversations.
Yay! This was an awesome interview btw, and I'd definitely like to see more of these going deep interviews in the near future.
the wole interview is "technically" offensive (we're not all a bunch of goofy/ms certified end users)
they called by "front end developer" the actual programmer (writing 3rd generation source code) ?!?
i believe that interviews like this one are not mean to help microsoft's image in any way (poor backend r&d guy would almost lough at the questions, poor guy...
anyway, you do what you gotta do, and we'll do what we gotta do 2!
dancmarinescu wrote:the wole interview is "technically" offensive (we're not all a bunch of goofy/ms certified end users)
they called by "front end developer" the actual programmer (writing 3rd generation source code) ?!?
i believe that interviews like this one are not mean to help microsoft's image in any way (poor backend r&d guy would almost lough at the questions, poor guy...
anyway, you do what you gotta do, and we'll do what we gotta do 2!
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A price war is looming among Mandatory Provident Fund providers after Haitong International became the first fund house to waive investment management fees.
The company has announced it will waive the charges for the next three years. Employees will still have to pay trustee and administrative fees, but they will be reduced.
As a result, total management fees for Haitong's 10 MPF investment funds will range from 0.37 per cent to 0.58 per cent for the next three years, down from 0.9 per cent to 1.68 per cent. The market average is 1.71 per cent.
"We are part of a very big mainland securities house, but we are a very small MPF provider in Hong Kong," said Haitong managing director Ben Zhang Yibin yesterday.
"We want to expand our MPF market share and hope the aggressive fee cut will bring more public awareness of our brand. This will increase our competitiveness and attract more new employees to our MPF schemes."
Haitong did not reveal its market share, but according to data company Gadbury Group it had a market share of only 0.071 per cent at the end of last year - the lowest of all providers - with about HK$364 million of MPF assets under management.
The Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority (MPFA) has been a frequent critic of the high fees charged by providers and a spokeswoman welcomed Haitong's move. "We definitely would like to see other providers follow Haitong," she said.
The average total MPF management fee in Hong Kong in 2012 - at 1.74 per cent - was higher than the 1.41 per cent in Singapore, according to Ernst & Young.
The government hoped to force providers to cut fees by changing the law so employees could choose to shift their own contributions to preferred providers from November 2012.
But just 3.7 per cent of the 2.4 million employees chose to switch, while total management fees averaged 1.71 per cent last month, only slightly down from 1.74 per cent in October 2012.
Insurance sector legislator Chan Kin-por said: "Haitong is the first provider to go this far, so it is going to raise some eyebrows in the market and some providers may consider following.
"However, I do not expect all MPF providers will rush to cut their fees as they compete not only on fees, but also on service quality and fund performance."
An executive at one MPF provider, who did not want to be named, said Haitong was "spending money to buy market share", which he described as "a risky bet" because it was an expensive exercise.
"Most importantly, Haitong's promotion plan will last only three years," he said. "The employees attracted by the zero investment fee may well depart three years later when the company will charge them again."


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I have a 2003 1.8T AWM wagon. Time to change the charcoal canister out. Anyone have experience with this and can give advice?
I have a 2003 1.8T AWM wagon. Time to change the charcoal canister out. Anyone have experience with this and can give advice?
What's the reason? I checked the hose clamps on my wagon's canister recently, looked easy enough to take out.
I was also wondering if I need to change out the purge valve (by the air box) as well in order to make sure I remedy the "EVAP - small leak detected" code I am getting?
Also will I need to clear the CEL or will that go away on it's own after a few driving cycles?
The canister is $160 bucks from ECS, the valve is $60 (also from ECS). The valve replacement is 5 minutes with a screwdriver, the canister is under the trunk near the spare tire well and is no small project without a lift.
If you haven't habitually overfilled your tank when fueling up, your canister may be fine. I had the same code for over a year, replaced my valve and reset my CEL and not seen again since except once (I reset CEL immediately and did not recur.)
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The canister is above a plastic cover, under your spare tire well, that is held on with three 10mm nuts. Remove those and the cover drops right off. I just picked up one corner of the car with a floor jack, put a jack stand under there for protection, and there is plenty of room to scoot under the rear bumper to get at it.
Changing your canister is unlikely to fix the "Evap - small leak detected" code. This code is tripped during the leak detection cycle when the Leak Detection Pump pressurizes your entire fuel vapor system and looks at how long it takes to lose pressure. It can either indicate a large leak (fast pressure drop) or a small leak (slow pressure drop). So the code means you have a small leak somewhere in your fuel system - it could be the fuel tank, fuel filler pipe, fuel cap, fuel vapor lines, vapor valves or carbon canister. Unless somebody performed a smoke and/or hydrocarbon sniffer test and verified the location of the leak, you cannot know which component is leaking.
Maybe somebody with a vag-com can comment on this, but I would guess that you can force a leak detection cycle with a vag-com. If so, you can disconnect the carbon canister and plug/jump the lines that go to the canister and run the leak detection cycle and see if the leak goes away.
I also wouldn't worry too much about having ruined your canister from over-filling... VW's are very hard to over-fill. If you are not going much above 3 clicks when fueling, you really shouldn't worry. If this is your concern, just remove the canister and tip it over - if any measurable amount of liquid fuel runs out then it is not going to do its job very well (but it also will not cause a leak CEL - maybe insufficient purge flow). You can also shake the canister and see if it rattles or sloshes - if not, it's probably fine.
The canister itself should be easy to leak test if you remove it from the vehicle. Just plug all of the ports or hoses and pressurize it to less than 5 psi wth air (you can probably go to 10 psi, but 5 should get it done). Spray it down with soapy water and look for bubbles. No bubbles = no leaks = not your CEL problem.
You might be able to cut down the on the number of possible leak sites if the VW engineers weren't too smart...
The leak detection pump pressurizes the entire system, then monitors the pressure decay. "If" it only fails based on decaying to a specified pressure before a specified time, you might be able to work out from the LDP and plug various fuel vapor lines to see if the problem persists. For example, if you trace the lines from the LDP and see that it goes to the canister, then the tank/filler assembly, you might be able to plug the lines to the tank/filler (and all points ahead of this), and re-run the leak test. If you still fail for the same large leak code, then either your plugs are not tight enough or the problem lies in part of the system that was still connected. If you don't have the leak code, then you can try adding the fuel tank/filler assembly to the mix, then the vapor lines to the engine, etc. to see when you get the code again.
The biggest potential issue with this is if the VW engineers decided to set error codes if the pressure rises too quickly when the LDP activates, signifying a blockage in the system. If they didn't do this, you should be able to use it to find the general area of the leak.
One other thing to check before you get into all of that is to make sure the cap is not leaking - I know you got a new one, but maybe the surface of the filler screw area is damaged. If you still have your old cap, you should be able to break or cut off the plastic outer portion (where you turn it), leaving the part that seals to the filler pipe intact. Then if you screw it into the pipe you can spray a little soapy water around it and see if you get bubbles during the leak test cycle.
Good luck.
Somehow I forgot you had a "small" leak code and thought it was a "large" leak. Small leaks are much harder to locate than large ones - they can be as small as 0.5 mm in size. The purge solenoid you are looking for is just another name for the purge valve near the air cleaner. It's possible that VW forces the purge valve/solenoid shut during the leak test and if it is partially open it could show as a leak (but that's just a guess). You could test this by removing the purge valve and plugging the hose. If you still get the leak code, the purge valve is not the problem.
The N115 doesn't appear to near the air box, unless I am missing something.
Ok so now I have tested with the old gas cap and newer evap canister and still failing the pressure test for the LDP system. I think I am gonna replace the purge valve since I can get it pretty cheaply to eliminate the last variable (well besides an LDP) before I do a full LDP test by incrementally plugging lines and pressure testing. And if that doesn't work, I suppose it's time to take to someone to smoke test it out.
Well I had a chance to test voltage and resistance on the LDP and they were fine along with all of it's hoses. Pulled a vac on one of them, no problem.
Now I have tested with a brand new fuel cap from the dealer and still have the Very Small Leak Detected and so I have ordered a Purge Valve (N80) and will try the LDP check one more time before having a smoke test done. As a side note, I had performed a block 070 test to check the evap canister itself and it passed. So I am thinking the purge valve is the last thing to verify before smoke testing and replacing lines and/or the bleeder valve off of the fuel fill neck.
...or you could live with the check engine light. A small evap leak is unlikely to affect vehicle function. Twenty (OK, thirty) years ago you would never have known there was a "problem".
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Thanks everyone for the advice and responses. After much troubleshooting it ended being that the purge valve was indeed the culprit. As soon as I replaced it, the code went away and I have now passed emissions! One thing I should note though, that the evap canister (which I replaced) if it went bad, could definitely have caused my purge valve to fail prematurely and so I am glad I fully diagnosed the whole system instead of just changing the purge valve out.
Also a wise guru told me to put a generic fuel filter in line between the evap canister and the purge valve to prevent future clogging of the valve. I think I might take him up on that idea if it doesn't cause any CELs.
Anyway , problem solved. Hope this troubleshooting helps someone else as well.
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Hello dear readers. I want to talk to you about something that I wonder if others out there battle with that I've been battling with A LOT lately. It has to do with blogging and my career as a "pro" blogger and deciding just where I'm at with it all. And I need to share this because it comes from the heart and I've always prided myself on being as completely transparent as possible because I think you deserve it as my friends and readers.
You may not have seen me a lot on my blog this summer. I was sick for months during my first trimester (thankfully that's over!) and had a book to produce, then write. During my quiet pause, I've been blogging weekly but also mix in posts from some wonderful columnists whom I've hired to write on decor8, and they've been doing a beautiful job providing quality content covering everything from trend reports to home tours. And I love them so much because they are the best bunch of women ever. I feel so blessed!
But I miss blogging full-time, daily, tremendously. In fact I feel concerned over my lack of full-time presence here, not because I'm trying to be the queen of some popularity contest because frankly, my blog is still receiving amazing press coverage each month from magazines, newspapers and television networks all over the world. I'm not worried about advertisers or numbers or anything at all related to income. It has to do with JOY. You can ask my husband, I am one of those rare people whom success and money does nothing to contribute to my joy. I was as joyful before blogging as I am today, just in different ways, and I'm happy to report that I had little monetarily in my life ten years ago – I went from zero to financial hero thanks to starting my own business and I'm proud of that but it only makes me proud in the sense that I like doing what makes me, and others, happy. If it ever becomes miserable, or dishonest, or "selling out", I will quit immediately and become a full-time interior designer or shop owner or whatever else – anything to avoid doing something that isn't genuine and meaningful. JOY MATTERS PEOPLE. Really.
I've seen a lot of blogs go pro and those blog authors change. Their blogs are like infomercials and peppered with links and sponsored everything (without bothering to disclose it) and while that works for them, I don't read blogs like that because their voices have changed. I prefer to earn money through books, teaching, consulting and the many other ways that help me to personally monetize my brand without feeling like my advertisers own me. Lots of bloggers are doing very honest and lovely things to monetize their blogs and I'm super proud of them, some have great videos and gorgeous photos and work with sponsors to produce wonderful things but others are completely forgetting the values that made blogging successful in the first place – which is not only going to damage them in the long run but could ultimately damage all of us if we don't fight hard to stay true to our own vision and voice. It's okay to have ads, and sponsors and whatever else you can do to drive your business forward – I do it – and so do the best of the best on the web who write on their blogs. But we have to remember why blogging became so successful in the first place…
Bloggers became popular for ONE reason. Sincere, honest reviews.
Before bloggers were deemed cool and lonnnng before sponsored posts, ads and affiliate links, we just wrote stuff from the heart and sometimes, we even bitched and moaned about things we didn't like which then motivated a lot of large companies to stop playing around with the little guy and to listen more to their consumers. Now that companies see the ENORMOUS income potential by working with bloggers, because frankly our audiences come to us FOR our honest reviews, they've entered our space and often try to change us to become more like them – a bit sly, thinking about our bottom line despite whether or not we feel good about it. And though I love working with companies that respect where I draw the line, and have partnered with some amazing companies on advertorials for magazines, etc. many of my own blogger friends have stepped wayyyy over their line of comfort to a zone that they cannot return from once going over "there". But this blog post isn't really about all of this. It's about ME and where I'm personally at as a blogger. It's about whether I'm blogging for money or blogging for me.
I'm blogging for me. Then for my brand, because blogging has given me a way to grow it out and reach more lovely people. Then for money because I need to earn a certain amount of money to survive – my husband and I both freelance, it's not an easy life. So I wanted to level with everyone and tell you where I'm at.
So here's where I'm at.
I will take a year off from book writing and from accepting a million projects that don't fuel me and traveling a ton for the sake of booking speaking engagements – some of which I feel no personal connection to. I want FOCUS. If I get on a plane, it will be to connect with you or to teach, not to stand before an audience at a trade show where I often feel incredibly uncomfortable. In 2014, I'm not going to write a single book. I've been writing a book-a-year for the past 3 years and I've loved every second of it, and I can't WAIT for you to see my next title set to release next Spring – we're throwing a big party in London in May and hopefully a few more in America – and I'd love to see you. But you won't see anymore books or book launch parties or book tours from me after that for at least another 1-2 years.
I want my focus to go back to where my heart really is which is RIGHT HERE with all of you and in my e-classes and teaching live workshops as time (and my new baby on the way!) permits. I have so much to give to you all, especially as I get older and just see MORE at this age than I did when I started 8 years ago, and I want to do that on decor8 more and through Blogging Your Way… And I have learned through all of the other wonderful jobs that I've taken over the years as a blogger, that blogging is my absolute joy. It's where I can always be spontaneous, where I can be me, and where I have never cared what advertisers or sponsors wanted from me – and this will never change.
So that's where I'm at. I've been quiet around here lately but I'm planning to be here a lot more the moment my book is finished, which will be in October, then I'm back daily to share with you along with my columnists at least until the baby comes, then I may be blogging with baby on my lap as he merrily taps on the keys along with me.
Remember friends and fellow bloggers – finding balance and joy trumps ALL other things.
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Bishop asked to evacuate Benghazi church
'Asking him to go was a precaution'
A Maltese bishop has been asked to evacuate the Benghazi church where he is based as a precaution due to escalating fears of violence in the Libyan city.
Contacted by The Times in Benghazi yesterday, Mgr Sylvester Magro said he was still based in the church because, so far, everything "seemed normal".
"If anything happens, I will take a decision but up to now there's nothing," he said.
Benghazi police asked Mgr Magro to leave the church between February 13 and 17 and seek shelter somewhere else.
Mgr Magro informed his Franciscan provincial Sandro Overend, based in Malta, through an e-mail.
It is not clear why such specific dates were mentioned though they coincide with the second anniversary from the uprising that eventually toppled Muammar Gaddafi.
In the e-mail, Mgr Magro told him he was concerned as the church had been looted by extremists during the 2011 Libyan uprising.
"Abandoning the church would mean the looting and destruction of everything we have. We are worried and a bit afraid knowing that… (governments) have ordered their nationals to quit Benghazi," Mgr Magro wrote in the e-mail.
When contacted, Fr Overend said Mgr Magro was still in the church when he last spoke to him and the situation was calm.
"Asking him to leave was a precaution, at this stage, and we do not want to alarm anyone," Fr Overend said.
Last Thursday, UK, German and Dutch nationals were asked by their governments to evacuate Benghazi following a "specific threat to Westerners".
Foreign Affairs Minister Francis Zammit Dimech said that at this stage Maltese living there – estimated to be about 10 – were being asked to be cautious.
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Power tool invention
I came up with this idea for a power tool while watching a professional framer blaze through some cuts. He would rest the board across his foot so it was angled towards him and finish the cut with a circular saw. I use this method as well, but I am a remodel guy so while I do a little framing, I don't do it 24/7. I would need a speed square to make those cuts, this guy on the other hand had linear guide rails for arms. Scary fast, scary accurate.
This is a tool for the rest of us that don't have linear guide rails for arms,one that you can drop down anywhere on the jobsite and knock out those cuts with speed and accuracy. Check it out and if you like it, I would really appreciate it if you posted a response at the end of the article. hopefully if there is enough positive feedback a tool manufacture will pick it up.
Tell me yer last name ain't Taylor.
As a professional framer, I can tell you that there will never be a market for that in our industry. Cutting a 2x4 in the field is very simple, requires a tool that is inexpensive, and requires no adjustment to change the angle. Your market would have to be the DIY market.
I wish, I would be collecting royatly checks allready:)
It is not designed to only cut 2x4's but has the cross cut capacity to handle a 2x12. It is basicaly just a miter saw that doesn't require any external accessories or set up time and there is definitely a market for miter saws. I should have cut somethng other than a 2x4 in the video, sorry for the confusion.
You guys are pretty amazing with a circular saw and probably don't even use miter saws that much. I am a remodel contractor, so a miter saw is the first tool I bring to the jobsite.
I figured it would cut something larger, but what would be the practical use in our field? If we are cutting rafters, it would require moving it from one end to the other, setting it for different cuts, and unless it goes past 60 degrees, a lot of the seat cuts couldn't be made anyway. I think you have a novel idea there, just not certain it is marketable. I am always slow to discourage someone from a new tool design, as I myself have had a few ideas from time to time.
I hear ya, Framers just don't use miter saws that much.
For the rest of us that don't have your skills with a circular saw, we need them. This would be the General, remodel, finish, decking, fencing, siding and flooring contractors. For them, having a miter saw that doesn't require any external accessories(such as a stand) or set up time would be a great benefit to them.
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I agree with sixeightten that framers would never buy it. When doing finish my chop saw is always set up next to the table saw so why would I want to bend over. I do however see some possible advantages for decking since already bent over most of the time anyway.
I can see where framers might not purchase this saw, However I do think this would benefit finish contractors. For example,
1. baseboard could be scatered around the room and knocked out in place with this saw rather than having to make many trips back and forth to a cut off station.
2. In general, having this extremely portable cut off station at your side would save many trips back and forth to the cut off station since any adjustments could be made at the point of work. for example, if an adjustment needs to made upstairs and the cut off station is downstairs.
3. When triming the outside of a house, where setting up a cut off station can be a pain(not to even metion moving it) This portable cut off staion could easily follow the contractor around the house as he works.
That's a cool invention and I'd probably find a way to use it if I had one. However, as other guys have stated, it would have no place on one of my framing jobs.
As for baseboard, I measure and cut the entire room at a chopsaw table set up in the largest room in the house. It's very rare for an adjustment to be made after the initial cut.
Decking would be a possibility, but after being bent in half most of the day, standing upright to make the cuts is welcome relief.
The other thing is, for guys who have employees, that tool probably wouldn't last long, or stay accurate for long anyway.
These comments aren't meant to discourage you, but more accurately to give you honest insight from a guy who's been in the game for over 25 years.
Good luck with it. Hope to see one in use sometime. I'd say I have another 25 years to go.
"That's a cool invention and I'd probably find a way to use it if I had one. However, as other guys have stated, it would have no place on one of my framing jobs."
Thanks, I think you would find that having what is essentialy a compact portable cut off station with zero set up time that could easily follow you around the jobsite would improve your efficency and reduce many of those time consuming trips back and forth to a stationary cut off station.
"As for baseboard, I measure and cut the entire room at a chopsaw table set up in the largest room in the house. It's very rare for an adjustment to be made after the initial cut."
I don't have your skills, it is hard for me to account for corners that are not square, out of plumb walls, etc... Also for outside corners it is easier for me to mark and cut those in place.
"Decking would be a possibility, but after being bent in half most of the day, standing upright to make the cuts is welcome relief."
I hear ya, but the reason framer's bend over and cut lumber resting off of their foot is because it is just both easier and faster to do than carrying this same piece of lumber back to the cut off station. This is especialy true with decking since these boards are often 2x6 material and long as possible to reduce the amount of joints. While they would have to bend over for a couple of seconds,in the long run it would be easier on their bodies.
"The other thing is, for guys who have employees, that tool probably wouldn't last long, or stay accurate for long anyway."
The saw shown in the video was just a prototype, a tool manufacture would build one that is quite a bit beefier, more like the rendering below. Really it is just a miter saw with an extra pivot and would withstand just as much abuse as any other miter saw.
"These comments aren't meant to discourage you, but more accurately to give you honest insight from a guy who's been in the game for over 25 years.
Good luck with it. Hope to see one in use sometime. I'd say I have another 25 years to go."
I understand completely, you are a fellow professional voicing his concerns and while you did have some issues with the tool, you seemed open to give it a try. Really, what more can I ask for?
Way cool username by the way :-)
Tim, I've seen the framers you're referring to, cutting off their foot.
It's truly a rare occurrence on my job.
Joists are either cut to length off the stack or installed with a center lap and the tails cut off in place.
Wall parts are cut on a large chop table where a stop block can be used for repetitive cuts with no measuring. Everything from odd stud lengths, to wall plates, to small window parts.
I've been criticized for my methods and in no way claim that they are better than anyone elses, just what has worked for me over the years, with skilled and unskilled labor.
I'd love to give your tool a try sometime, but I'm not sure I'd buy it to try it. Just being honest.
I appreciate your honesty, maybe you would find that having a portable version of that large chop saw station would improve your efficiency, but then again maybe not.
Since this is a new concept though, I thought it would be a good idea to list several situations other than production framing where I believe this tool would help us in the field.
1. For remodel or general contractors, this would be a great punch list saw. Where you could easily run it around the house, knocking out those remaining odds and ends and collect that paycheck.
2. On small jobs, where a stationary cut off station would just get in the way or isn't worth the time. This would be the perfect miter saw to throw in the back of the truck.
3. On larger remodel jobs, where as opposed to production framing cut off lengths are anything but standard, this saw would reduce many of those time consuming trips back and forth to the stationary cut off station.
4. For fencing contractors or anyone doing a fence, the horizontal 2x material could be scattered between the posts and knocked out in place with this saw. This also applies when adjusting the fence boards to follow the terrain. Having a portable cut off station that could follow them as they work would be a huge time saver. A cordless version (36V so we can do some real work) would be really nice in this situation.
5. For exterior siding or trim contractors, where setting up a conveniently located stationary cut off station can be difficult and moving it around even more so. This saw could easily follow them around the house.
6. #5 applies even more so to decking contractors, since the length and width of the material they deal with requires a very large and heavy miter saw stand. At 1/10th the size, the capacity of this saw is really only limited by the area around it and could handle a 40 footer if need be.
7. For flooring contractors, this saw could easily follow them up the cut side of the room. where again, a cordless version would really increase their efficiency.
8. For trim contractors, having a independent portable cut off station that could be at their side and move with them as they go from one window or door to the next would benefit these contractors as well.
9. for the DIY user, this would be the perfect miter saw to knock out those small jobs without having to carry around and store a large miter saw stand.
I am sure there are many more situations where having a portable independent cut off station would benefit the user. It has taken alot of blood and sweat to bring this tool to where it is now, hopefully it will get produced and we will find out.
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I've noticed in my own writing that I'm a huge "three" person, but I never gave much thought to why. When you lay it all out like that, it's a lot easier to understand the impact of different writing structures. Thanks for sharing…
Nice article. It's informative and to the point. I like the way you use lists, quotes, and examples. I can use this technique in my own writing to inform, entertain, amuse, and avoid repetitious structure.
Thanks. Writing Tools is a book I'll definitely have to consider. Linda
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@L.C.: Ha! Thank you also.
I added a passage to the 'four' section from my own writing (from my novel).
By the way, thanks for turning me on to "CommentLuv". I hadn't heard of it before, and I've now spent a big chunk of the afternoon piddling with it. [Shhh! Don't tell my boss. 🙂 ]
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Just discovered your blog via Nathan Bransford's blog. Loved the breakdown of the 1,2,3,4. I'm writing my second novel, a sequel to NO STONE UNTURNED, and I will keep these pointers in mind. Thanks.
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@Jeanette: Thank you! And thanks for letting me know this post was mentioned on Nathan Bransford's blog today.
An intriguing scheme, more intriguing because of it's immediate applicability. I shall have to test it using Science, but for now Art is pleased.
I think it could be expanded to characters. Since a list of 1,2,3,4 adjectives is 'tell, not show', rather we can create 1-sided (what? that's impossible! …precisely) characters who display one characteristic, 2-sided ('flat') characters, Triangle characters ('supporting'), Square characters ('basic main'), and it goes up and up to the point where your average reader won't know the name of the geometric shape. That's when it's too much, and it's time to focus.
(CommentLuv, it seems painless. I might as well keep the ole' box checked and see what happens.)
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I think there's something to what you're saying, David, when it comes to describing characters.
In fact, this whole idea of 1, 2, 3, and 4 is about a lot more than just adjectives, although that's how Nathan Bransford wrote it up for his blog (no problem there, he must be a very busy guy!).
Right, I assume he's using the simple sentences with adjectives for example, and you expand it to verbs and snips of description. It's a very malleable scheme, this Complexity Grade, and thus a very portable one.
Watch a stand-up comic and it'll come through just as well.
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The power of three exists in other art forms, too.
There's a common element in baroque (and other) music called the "sequence", where the same passage is repeated in quick succession at different pitches, usually rising or falling by a step each time. (Think of one of those noodly passages in Bach.) Almost all sequences happen in threes.
This is wonderful- simple- to the point. With your permission, may I use this with my high school creative writing class? I would copy the post into a word document and then give your blog credit at the top- (along with the book, which I am going to purchase now!) We have been working on description this week, and this fits in perfectly with our lesson!!
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No problem, Amanda. Yes. Thank you for asking.
I own this book; it is one of my favorite guidebooks. I have found it very helpful in analyzing my own writing style and improving upon it. This was an excellent post regarding one of my favorite chapters in this book.
I to own this book and love the advice and this too is my favorite chapter.
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Robert Moses speaking on slum clearance projects. He speaks often of critics who do not understand the complexities or expense of slum clearance.
"If we are to judge by disclosures of the so-called rattlesnake critics, this conference is either a clinic or a morgue and the speakers are pathologists or coroners muttering over a corpse...."
Few comprehend the thanklessness of our task. The balance of business and industry. The moving of people. It is not to be wondered at that there are charges. More nonfeasance than malfeasance.
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Those of us who have survived, are clothed in the armor of a rhinoceros. Do not assume that what works in a town of 50,000 will work in NYC. You have to snare sponsors first. Reference to the clearing of Lincoln Square area for Lincoln Center. We need less red tape from Washington. We need lower interest rates. We need reliable sponsors for high rental housing. We need more non-profit co-op housing for middle-income housing.
We need low rental subsidized housing for those removed in clearance projects. Need at least 75 million dollars annually for incoming immigrants. A middle income facility for 25,000 people could be done at the end of the tracks in Jamaica, (Queens). The FHA is the best vehicle for housing.
Postwar housing crisis: "Angry veterans and their hysterical families wanted a roof over their heads and didn't care a damn how they got it or what it cost ....to hell with the book of rules." In this period speculators made too much money. Others lost. The government didn't lose a cent. "The emergency work of this world is not done either by critics or or constipated comma chasers." There are isolated cases of bad planning in those days. But overwhelming amount of building was good. "You can't fight a depression with cream puffs."
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