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Cummings and Carroll, P.C., a 5 person CPA firm in Great Neck, NY has been a client of Stemp since 1986 when Morris Stemp first installed a Novell Network server along with a client accounting and general ledger system. After over 25 years, Stemp continues to manage the firm's Windows server and network infrastructure including remote access for the accounting professionals and internal software such as QuickBooks and Lacerte Tax Preparation systems.
The most critical function performed by Cummings and Carroll is to file tax returns on behalf of its corporate and personal tax clients. Corporate tax returns are due on March 15. Part of an accounting firm's annual work ritual is to spend increasing amounts of time in the office starting around February 1 until all tax returns or extensions are filed. The weekends before March 15 and April 15 are an all hands on deck weekend with all staff and per diem tax specialists working 20 hour days.
Sunday morning, at 8:32am on March 13, 2010, just two days before the corporate tax filing deadline of March 15, Stemp technicians received an alert on their cell phones from our proactive monitoring systems that the single server at Cummings was "unreachable". As a former practicing CPA, our CEO, Morris Stemp, immediately recognized the significant impact a server outage on this specific Sunday would have on the many staff expected to arrive within hours to complete their tax return preparations and filings. Morris immediately contacted Aleem Quadri, our CTO, to determine the cause of this unexpected event and dispatch the incoming Sunday help desk team to resolve. Stemp maintains 2 full-time team members who work on Sunday on our help desk to perform remote preventive maintenance on client servers, taking advantage of the only day most of our clients are closed to patch and reboot servers.
Around 9:30am, the CPA firm's staff started to arrive at the office and was greeted by a smoky smell emanating from the copier/filing room where the server is located and multiple error messages on their computers effectively saying "we can't communicate to the server". While it is usually quiet at Stemp's offices on a Sunday, this Sunday our weekend team was waiting for the call from our client to remotely guide them to restart the servers so they could begin their very busy day of tax preparation. After a few minutes of diagnosis and description of the smoky smell, it became clear that this server was, as they say, "dead".
A conference call was quickly convened between Aleem, Morris, and the Sunday team to review our options to get the CPA firm back to work. Our team considered two options. Cummings and Carroll uses a Stemp Total Server Protection (TSP) appliance which is a disaster recovery and backup server with the ability to be converted into a live server within about a half hour. The backups to these units are verified monthly by Stemp staff so we felt confident that this option would perform effectively.
The second option we considered was to transfer the hard disks from the existing physical server box into a new box. Stemp had recently upgraded another client's server which was identical to the dead server and maintained the old server in our stock room specifically for use in emergency situations like this.
By 10:30am, our Sunday tech was on his way to the CPA firm with the spare loaner server. The plan was to first attempt to transfer the working hard disks from the dead server to the spare server. This would allow the CPA firm to immediately start working and continue to operate through the end of tax season on April 15 when the personal tax returns are due. By that time, Stemp would have time to order a totally new server and then could schedule a date to install the new server and migrate all systems.
If this did not work, Plan B was to engage the server virtualization feature of our TSP unit and have the backup appliance take the role of the primary server. This would have allowed the CPA firm to start filing taxes but would have performed more slowly and would have required a more complex plan of recovery, called failback, when we installed a new server as a permanent solution. With the goal of sticking it out just one more month to complete the personal returns, we opted for Plan A of using the spare server.
Customer Impact:
Plan A was fully implemented and tax preparation activities were back live in full swing by early afternoon.
Key Factors Contributing to Success
- Stemp Systems implements multiple monitoring and alerting technologies to receive immediate alerts of all major server events which could cause client downtime.
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- While Stemp technical staff is available 24×7, we maintain extended live technical support hours from 7:00am till 11:00pm daily and all day Sunday from 9:00am to 5:00pm.
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In America there are no such taboos: Hitler is out in the open, a staple of Hollywood and novels, a magnet for collectors of military memorabilia, and yet an almost mundane presence. There's a longstanding, thriving market in everything Nazi. Collections run the gamut: legitimate auction houses, back tables at flea markets, private stashes in climate-controlled, high-security additions to fancy suburban houses, and, of course, eBay, which, on one recent day, offered 1125 Hitler-related items, from postage stamps to autographs to cuff links. Billy Price's privately published book on Hitler's art sells for $99 and comes with a promise that it is "completely non-political and only concerns itself with the art of Adolf Hitler''.
What does it mean now, half a century later, to own a Hitler, to hang it in a place of honour in your front hall, to want it so badly that you fight the government for decades for the right to call it your own?
In a corner house on a quiet street in Bowie, Charles Snyder Junior, a retired Air Force major (Korea, Vietnam), and his business partner, Chase Haddock, man the mice on a bank of computers that are always on, always scouring eBay for bids and buys. Snyder, dressed in shorts and madras plaid shirt, is surrounded by a bewildering forest of clutter: floor-to-ceiling tchotchkes; precarious piles of books and maps; plastic tubs and cruddy old suitcases, all packed with photos, magazine covers, original war documents; shelves stuffed three-deep with military uniforms, swords, guns, decorations from the French Revolution to Korea; entire newspaper photo archives; and, tucked away in crevices known only to the proprietor, 16 works of art by Hitler. It's all for sale, all priced to move. At the moment, Snyder has 1600 items up for auction on eBay.
Hitler once said he painted more than 1000 pieces while living in Vienna from 1909 to 1914. A US government report once put Hitler's total output at closer to 3000 works. No good accounting of the pieces has been made. Collectors around the world consider any group of 20 or more Hitlers to be a fair-size collection. Snyder has bought and sold more than 100 pieces, at prices mostly in the $5000 to $10,000 range.
The Hitler business, like the rest of Snyder's Treasure Trove, as it's known to its customers, was once a very public, social sort of road show, a regular annual circuit around the country. EBay put an end to all that. No reason to leave the house anymore. "We get almost a million hits a month,'' announces Snyder, a muscular, correct man with close-cropped white hair and a moustache. "It's saved our lives.''
Snyder has been a collector since 1962. "It's a disease and you can't stop,'' he says. At 70, he is, like many collectors, old enough to remember the war. It was indeed World War II stuff that first got him hooked on the collectibles -� uniforms, weapons, Eva Braun's tea service, Nazi autographs, swastika cuff links, Hitler's silver, Hitler's desk ornaments, and then, finally, Hitler's art. At one point a few years ago, Snyder owned 40 Hitlers. He's down to 11 watercolours, a bunch of postcards and one large oil, a dark portrait of a cathedral under a mottled brown sky. It is signed "Adolf Hitler'' and dated 1936.
"He was kind of busy then,'' Snyder says.
About seven years ago, a retired US Army lieutenant who was involved in the looting of Hitler's Bavarian hideaway sold Snyder his collection of Hitleriana. It was a motherlode from the fatherland. D.C. Watts and others in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment had entered Berchtesgaden with the first occupation troops in May 1945. The initial looting had already ended, but Watts soon learned of a network of tunnels leading to Hitler's country house, the Berghof. There he found the grail -� the storage rooms where Hitler's belongings were protected from Allied bombing.
American soldiers carried out their war booty by the trunkful. Watts snared hundreds of pieces of silverware, thousands of documents and more than 30 original Hitler paintings. "We won, so it's ours,'' is Snyder's explanation.
Snyder doesn't especially like Hitler's painting. In his catalogue of his collection, he writes of the Hitler works, "People and animals are out of proportion, poorly articulated, and vastly out of scale with the backgrounds. Figures are rendered with wanton disregard for anatomy or accurate animation.'' All of which has nothing to do with Snyder's regard for the value of his Hitlers. They're merchandise. Most of his customers see it the same way: One of Snyder's friends liked one Hitler so much, he scanned it into his computer to use as a screen saver. But other customers don't care what the painting looks like as long as it's a Hitler, and still others just don't talk about why they want what they want. And Snyder never asks. In fact, he won't identify most of his customers.
Five years after the works were taken from Hitler's bunker, Colonel H.E. Potter, chief of the US Army European Command's Historical Division, ordered the artwork confiscated and sent to Washington along with thousands of other works by Germans depicting the Nazi war effort. The US government confiscated the whole mess and has spent half a century arguing with itself and outsiders about whether the art is dangerous and what to do with it.
As late as 1966, according to files at the Army Centre of Military History, the military was telling collectors that it wanted to add to its collection of Hitler material. But in the 1970s, West Germany asked for the return of thousands of artworks still held by Washington. The Defence Department set up a committee of bureaucrats and art experts to determine whether the art should be given back.
Congress eventually complied with most of the committee's recommendations. The army kept about 200 Nazi-tainted works, a representative sample of about 250 pieces of the rest of the collection, and the four Hitlers; the remaining 8000 or so works were delivered to the Germans.
Billy Price is a Houston World War II buff, who realised at some point that Hitler, Churchill and Eisenhower were all painters and thought there might be something to learn from this fact. He delved into their art and ended up one of the world's foremost collectors of Hitler artwork. At one point in the 1970s, he owned 28 Hitler paintings and five sketches.
In 1982, the children of Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's photographer, sold Price an interest in the four watercolours Hitler had given to their father as presents. Price volunteered to take on the task of getting the pictures back from the US Army.
Washington conceded all along that the pictures had belonged to Hoffmann, but said that treaties signed at war's end prohibited their return. But Price was undeterred, and in the early years, he seemed to hold the high ground in the dispute. "This is a simple dispute over the right to some personal property,'' US District Judge Lynn Hughes said in an early opinion in Price's favour.
In the years in which the legal battle has moved from Texas to Washington and back and forth among at least four courts, Price has bowed to various other pressures. As his collection became well known, he was routinely denounced as a neo-Nazi. Galleries and museums refused his offers to display his Hitlers, although Price has always maintained that his interest in things Hitler is purely a collector's passion, no politics involved. But collectors' passions go a long way: Price once travelled to Egypt just to be able to set foot on Goering's yacht, owned by a collector there.
In 1990, court records indicate, someone who didn't like the idea that Price's office held all those Hitler works put a bullet through the front of his place of business. Disheartened and scared, Price sold all 24 of his Hitlers, which had been valued at about $4 million. Price has since remained silent about his collection and lawsuit. As is his policy, he did not respond to requests for an interview for this article. But the lawsuit continues, and Campagna says Price will not back away. He wants the watercolours or compensation for them, about $1.5 million - far less than the $7.9 million the Texas judge granted him in 1989, before an appeals court reversed that ruling.
Hitler had his own solution for his artwork. In his will, he wrote that his paintings were intended "exclusively for the establishment of an art gallery in my native town of Linz''.
Those who collect Hitler's art eventually come to look at the dictator through the prism of his paintings. Charles Snyder and Billy Price and other collectors end up asking how an artist can be evil, how someone who� creates beauty can be considered a person of pure malice? If there is an answer in Hitler's watercolours, no collector has found it.
�-- Washington Post Magazine
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Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories
by Patricia Highsmith
456pp, Bloomsbury, £20
Patricia Highsmith loiters in the shadow of her own protagonist. Writers similarly blessed and afflicted tend to resent the monster they have created, kill it off, or lucratively resurrect it. Highsmith's fabulously disturbing anti-hero Tom Ripley enjoyed his fifth outing in 1991, not long before the author's death, but nothing ever really equalled 1955's The Talented Mr Ripley.
Highsmith seems to inhabit a quintessentially 50s world of smoking, quipping women, where the wipe-clean surfaces cover up something nasty, and life is spent drinking in hotel bars or sliding towards murder: think Edgar Allan Poe meets pulp fiction, banged out on a noisy typewriter.
The past few years have seen a buzz of interest in Highsmith's work, with the 1999 film of The Talented Mr Ripley, Andrew Wilson's recent biography and The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith, published to acclaim in the US in 2001. The Uncollected Stories looks at first sight like a barrel scrape - every author has short stories in the drawer that are almost invariably best left there - but in fact Highsmith, a freelance writer from a young age, wrote hundreds of stories, many of which were too disquieting, too radical for her era; some of which were published in college magazines, and the majority of which were simply preserved, waiting to be found by her archivists. The stories here cover a period from 1938, when Highsmith was only 17, to 1982, by which time she had long been resident in a Europe that was far more receptive to her work than her native America.
The bulk of the Highsmith oeuvre is not pleasant. Her essential cynicism, misanthropy, her attraction to erotic perversion, mania and violence is dressed in deliberately banal detail: she creates a powerful sense of menace as she delicately exposes the teeming horrors of the human psyche beneath the humdrum. Graham Greene called her "a poet of apprehension", and she claimed that disturbing ideas came to her "as frequently as rats have orgasms".
What's fascinating about this collection is that a lighter, sparkling surface is at play, a glorious hunger for life, usually subverted or darkened, but one that breaks through and reveals a different side to the author. Conversely, even the work of her late teens and early 20s can be twisted with melancholy and heavily macabre. Preoccupations later to flower in Strangers on a Train, Carol or the Ripley novels are fascinatingly present here, but the consistent joy lies in the quality of her prose. Above all, Highsmith is a damn fine writer.
"The Mightiest Mornings", written in her early 20s, is the story of Aaron, who has left life as a cab driver in "the cramped fury" of New York City and alighted randomly in a pretty New England mountain town where he roams around in a haze of delight, drinking in the sounds, tastes and scents of a slower life. This "ecstasy of contentment" is almost hypnotically evoked, yet with a restraint highly unusual in a writer of that age. Eventually rapture is tinged with paranoia and then despair as the newcomer is suspected of paedophilia. The conclusion, as so often, is that only fools take the pleasures of life at face value.
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President Barack Obama was eloquent Tuesday in describing why the situation at the Guantanamo Bay prison is "unsustainable." He was justified in blaming Congress for frustrating his effort to close the facility. But he was disingenuous in failing to acknowledge that his own actions or inaction have substantially contributed to an impasse that has prompted more than half of Guantanamo's inmates to undertake a hunger strike.
One hundred and sixty-six terrorism suspects remain at Guantanamo, of whom 86 have been cleared for transfer to their home nations. After overseeing more than 70 repatriations or other prisoner transfers during the first years of his administration, Obama suspended those to Yemen after the attempted Christmas Day bombing of an airliner in 2010; in 2011 and 2012 he signed defense bills imposing all-but-unmeetable conditions on any other transfers.
This year, Congress granted the Defense Department waiver authority that could have allowed transfers to resume, but the administration has not followed through. Instead, the State Department reassigned the senior ambassador who had been seeking to arrange repatriations.
Moreover, the Pentagon has failed to set up a promised new system for reviewing the cases of prisoners that Obama ordered established more than a year ago, which means that Guantanamo inmates are receiving less review of their cases than they did during the Bush administration. It's little wonder that many have grown desperate enough to try starving themselves to death.
At his press conference, Obama promised to "go back at" the Guantanamo issue and said he would seek help from Congress. For the prison to close, lawmakers would have to lift a ban on transferring prisoners to the United States. But it was good that Obama also pledged to "examine every option that we have administratively" because there are steps he could take without Congress.
The first would be to arrange for the transfer of some of the 27 non-Yemeni prisoners who have been cleared for transfer; there are also three Uighurs who have been cleared but who cannot be returned to China. One Saudi citizen, Shaker Amr, is a former British resident whose return Britain has requested; there are also Algerians and Moroccans. While there are legitimate concerns that detainees could return to terrorist activity, in many cases the risk is reasonable. Obama should also insist on implementation of his plan for periodic review boards for inmates not yet cleared for transfer.
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Reported $2B sale of Clippers to Ballmer could delay Sterling vote
Steve Ballmer's reported winning bid to buy the Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion could postpone a vote scheduled for Tuesday to rid the NBA of Donald Sterling by terminating the team's ownership, a league source told CBSSports.com Thursday.
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SAN ANTONIO -- Steve Ballmer's reported winning bid to buy the Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion could postpone a vote scheduled for Tuesday to rid the NBA of Donald Sterling by terminating the team's ownership, a league source told CBSSports.com Thursday.
Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft who has chased NBA ownership for years, has reached an agreement with representatives of Sterling's wife, Shelly, to buy the team for nearly four times the highest price ever paid for an NBA franchise, the Los Angeles Times reported. CBS News reported that Shelly Sterling has signed a "binding agreement" to sell the team.
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After Sterling initially authorized his wife to sell the franchise, Sterling's attorney, Max Blecher, said this week that the billionaire has "disavowed" that agreement and will "fight to the bloody end." Sterling responded in writing Tuesday to the NBA's charge against him that his ownership should be terminated over racially insensitive remarks and other conduct that violated the league's Constitution and By-Laws and other agreements.
In another bizarre twist, ESPN reported Thursday night that experts in conjunction with the Sterling family trust have found Donald Sterling to be mentally incapacitated, making Shelly Sterling the sole trustee with authority to sell the team.
Officially, the NBA has been steadfast that it is moving forward with a hearing Tuesday in New York at which Sterling's fellow owners could terminate all ownership interests in the team by a three-fourths vote. But if a signed purchase agreement could be presented to the league prior to the meeting, the vote could be rendered immaterial to the league's goal of removing Sterling from the NBA.
Any agreement to sell an NBA franchise must be reviewed by the owners' advisory/finance committee, chaired by Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor, and any prospective controlling owner would have to be vetted and interviewed by the committee. If the committee recommended to the full Board of Governors to proceed with the sale, it would have to be approved by a three-fourths vote.
Donald Sterling's lawyer spoke with multiple outlets Thursday and said he has not signed off on any sale and that he does not want to sell. Keep in mind, if NBA lawyers have serious doubts about whether Donald Sterling's lack of cooperation would scuttle the sale to Ballmer, the league would have to proceed with the vote and sell the team itself -- at the risk of legal action.
In any case, Ballmer is well known to the NBA owners who'd be voting on the sale, having tried unsuccessfully to buy the Sacramento Kings and move them to Seattle. League sources say any agreement to sell the Clippers to Ballmer would be on the condition that he would not move the team. The Clippers long-term lease with the Staples Center would be a serious impediment to such a move in and of itself.
Report: Wizards, Wall agree to extension
It appears Wall will be staying in Washington for a long time
LeBron devastated by Kyrie trade request
Apparently James wasn't aware that Kyrie was considering a change of scenery
Knicks won't trade Kristaps for Kyrie?
The Knicks reportedly have interest in the Cavs star, but do not want to give up their uni...
Evaluating possible Irving destinations
The Knicks, Spurs, Timberwolves and Heat are reportedly his preferred teams
Report: Koby Altman to be new Cavs GM
Altman has been serving as the Cavs' assistant general manager under David Griffin
Twitter reacts to Kyrie trade demand
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Any way you spin it, selectors in the gun
RIGHTEOUS indignation was heavy in the air yesterday with Australia's selection panel sharply criticised following Australia's Ashes-losing defeat in the Fifth Test at The Oval.
Shane Warne pronounced himself ''staggered'' by the decision to leave spinner Nathan Hauritz out of Australia's side while former international coach Tom Moody said selectors had got the decision ''horribly wrong''.
The chairman of the national selection panel, Andrew Hilditch, was in a mood befitting a wake: gutted and in disbelief when he faced the music in Adelaide yesterday and conceded what was apparent to anyone watching the match after a handful of overs - selectors had misread the pitch.
While Hilditch and fellow selectors Jamie Cox, David Boon and Merv Hughes won the backing of Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland yesterday, one change is likely to be made sooner rather than later with at least one of them to be appointed on a full-time basis.
Privately, some first-class players are known to be confused about the multiple roles played by selectors.
Hilditch is a full-time Adelaide lawyer, Cox is high performance manager for the South Australian Cricket Association, Boon is operations manager with the Tasmanian Cricket Association, and Hughes has a lucrative sideline hosting spectator tours around the cricketing world.
Warne, writing in The Times, said captain Ricky Ponting must have quickly regretted the decision to overlook Hauritz.
''I do not know who had the final say on selection, whether it was the selectors themselves, or Ricky, or what degree of input came from Tim Nielsen, the coach,'' he wrote. ''We all make mistakes and somebody, somewhere, will have to take the blame for this one.''
Surprisingly, Warne later put up his hand as someone prepared to make decisions and take blame, indicating on radio 2MMM that he'd like to be selector.
"I've got a lot on my plate at the moment and, at this stage, I'd have to say no, as much as I think down the track I'd like to do it. But at this stage, it's a no only because of the time not because I wouldn't like to do it," Warne said.
Moody, now coach of Western Australia, was even blunter. ''To not pick a genuine spinner in that situation is inexcusable. If anything, you would be looking to play two. But Australia chose not to and paid the price dearly,'' he said. ''It was quite clear to me [Stuart] Clark was the one that had to miss out, even though he bowled particularly well at Headingley.
''At the end of the day, you've got to pick horses for courses, and that Test wicket is a place where you always have to employ a spinner.''
The selection panel has charge of picking the team even though only one member - Cox for the final three Tests - was officially travelling with the side. Input is taken from Ponting and coach Tim Nielsen.
Sutherland said selectors were in no way ''accountable for us losing the Ashes'', and supported cricket's version of the separation of powers, as established by an independent selection panel.
''It was only six or seven months ago that we had a fantastic series in South Africa and beat the No.1 team in the world with a pretty similar line-up, and the selectors were hailed for their selections and the perceived risks they took in backing young talent,'' Sutherland said.
On this tour, Hilditch was selector on duty for the first two Tests, and will return for the limited-overs series while Hughes has been in England throughout in his hosting role.
Hilditch promised a review rather than an inquisition.
''Every time we lose we have a review. This won't be anything different,'' he said. ''The side will be doing a review of their own performances, coaching staff will be doing the same, selectors will be doing the same and we'll all sit back and see what we could've done better.
''There's no point looking at people and saying they were at fault. The players, most individuals, had very good series.''
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Here are today's Apple rumors and AAPL stock items.
Apple Spends Big on Rising Legal Fees: Apple's patent wars with its many competitors in the mobile device market aren't fought for free. Filing lawsuits against Motorola (NYSE:MMI), Samsung (PINK:SSNLF), and the rest in countries around the world is an expensive process. According to Newsweek's Dan Lyons, at least one person close to the situation said that Apple spent $100 million on its first claims against HTC (PINK:HTCXF) alone. What's more, of the 84 claims of infringement on 10 patents held by Apple, the International Trade Commission found that HTC was infringing on only one patent held by Apple. With more than $76 billion in cash lying around, the Cupertino, Calif., company certainly can cover these costs. But there have got to be better ways to combat Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android phones in the market than by throwing money at lawsuits.
Dutch Court Says Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Doesn't Infringe on Apple Patents: Speaking of Apple's flailing litigation, its claims against Samsung's recently redesigned tablet have been struck down in another court. A Tuesday report at FOSS Patents (via Apple Insider) said Apple's claim against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the Netherlands was invalid because Apple's patent was too narrowly defined to be infringed on by the Samsung iPad competitor. The Dutch court's decision sets a worrisome precedent for Apple, which next week faces a German court decision over similar infringement claims.
Light Field Cameras for Future iPhones?: Lytro makes Light Field Cameras. Named by Popular Science as the 2011 Innovation of the Year, Light Field Cameras capture "the entire light field" when a picture is taken, allowing the photographer to more easily manipulate the image (change focus, color, etc.). According to Adam Lashinsky's new book, Inside Apple, on the inner workings of Apple (via a report at 9 to 5 Mac), the late Steve Jobs was definitely interested in adding Lytro's innovative cameras to the iPhone. A passage in Inside Apple said Lytro CEO Ren Ng met with Jobs and was asked to send the executive an email outlining three ways Lytro could work with Apple.
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FIVE wins were bagged by seven York City Rowing Club crews at the North of England Head in Chester.
The time trial for boats of all categories is raced over a 5,000 metre course on the River Dee, with York sending junior and masters crews to the event.
The times of the three junior boys coxless quadruple sculls were all within 24 seconds of each other.
The J18 crew finished 21 seconds ahead of the J17 crew, which was sweet revenge as the J17 crew had beaten them by two seconds at the recent Yorkshire Head on the River Ouse in York.
Though placing very high in the overall results, neither crew won their event.
It was the J16 crew of A Bruce, T Marshall, S Devlin and W King, finishing only one second behind the York J17 crew, who took Head honours in the J16 quad sculls.
The City J15 boys crew of A Press, A Howe, H Wannop, C Proctor, coxed by E Whittaker, won the J15 coxed quad event.
Three York City junior girls crews were entered and successes were recorded by the women's J17 quad and J18 quads.
The WJ17 crew of S Downing, S Heldt, O Howe, B O'Keefe beat the City WJ184x crew of J Downing, E Roberts, A Beardmore, N Doyle by a margin of 18 seconds.
The York Masters eight of D Powell, M Homa, P Rigby, D Turley, H Dawick, M Walsh, M Porte, I Hazel, coxed by Robyn Inglis, beat strong competition to win their MasD.8+ event, finishing nearly half a minute ahead of a Tees crew.


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Salman Ali is one of the most talented and deserving contestant of sa re ga ma pa lil champs 2011 on ZEE TV. Salman Ali belongs to Punhana in Haryana. According to all Judges (Adnan Sami, Javed Ali, Kailash kher), Salman Ali is a kid with a golden voice. According to Kailash Kher, Salman Ali should win the sa re ga ma pa lil champs 2011.
Salman Ali in his journey towards the final of sa re ga ma pa lil champs 2011 has given may memorable performances. When Anu Malik was called as the special guest on the show, he gave Salman Ali to sing Tumse milke dil ka hai jo haal from Mai Hoon Na. And Anu Malik was so impressed with Salman Ali that he said Salman Ali is the most ready singer of the show. Salman Ali has won Hero of the week many times in the show sa re ga ma pa lil champs 2011.
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However, Todd Kelly Jr. is not your average sophomore, and he's finding that out quickly.
The 6-foot, 180-pounder popped up on the radar of many recruiting services by landing a football scholarship offer from Auburn on Sunday. Tennessee, the school at which his father Todd Kelly Sr. starred, followed suit by pulling the trigger on Monday.
Things cranked up a notch for Kelly Jr. on Tuesday as Clemson sent word through Dan Brooks that The Webb School Spartan has an offer to be a Tiger.
Before Cupid's arrows quit soaring on Valentine's Day, two more Southeastern Conference schools came calling as defensive coordinator Bob Shoop and wide receivers coach Angelo Mirando passed along offers from Vanderbilt and Mississippi State, respectively.
"It is starting to get a little overwhelming," Kelly told InsideTennessee.com. "I didn't really expect this to happen. I'm gaining followers on Twitter and everything like that. It's really getting crazy. I'm starting to get fan messages and stuff like that. For right now, every college is equal inside my mind it's so early. I'm just focusing on school and trying to make good grades. It will at least be a year before I have a leader or a favorite. But, for right now, every college is equal."
Long story short, the recruiting game is not on Todd Kelly Jr.'s mind at the moment in terms of eliminating or leaning toward anyone. He maintains he's concentrating on being a student, improving at the three sports he plays — basketball, football and track — and being respectful to the colleges interested in having him on their campus as a student-athlete.
"I'm just trying to enjoy the high school life. I'm not really trying to jump into all this stuff so quickly," said Kelly, who won't sign a National Letter of Intent until Feb. 5, 2014.
Finding someone his age to sympathize with the hoopla of the moment is no simple task, but Kelly has become friends with Demarre Kitt, who is a sophomore from Tyrone, Ga., that has offers from Auburn, Georgia and Mississippi.
"I'm just going to try to help him out as much as I can, and I guess he's going to try to help me as well. But, we are both really great players and for myself, I'm trying to be the top safety in the country. That's not easy. So, I'm going to keep working and hopefully things will pay off."
Kelly and his basketball teammates take on Franklin Road Academy in the East/Middle Region tournament on Friday night. Later this weekend he will visit Alabama. The following weeks he will check out Auburn and Tennessee.


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quote:Originally posted by MinorityViewt.p. do you know if the placebo group actually got a placebo, or if they got the same vaccine with the hpv?
quote:Originally posted by MinorityViewcause if the adjuvant causes the majority of the reactions, then the placebo ain't really a placebo.
quote:Originally posted by MinorityViewany study of possible serotype replacement? seems unlikely that the bugs will just quietly allow themselves to be bumped if there is a nice habitat to be filled, especially as there are dozens of other hpv varieties floating around
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quote:[i]Originally posted by thomas p[/i][br]Re: serotype replacement - thanks for explaining - since the vaccines are new, then probably not. However, it's not as though there's a cancer-shaped hole in women waiting to be filled. it's not certain that this will happen, and if it does then it'll clearly be possible to develop vaccines against the new types.
quote:[i]Originally posted by thomas p[/i][br]whatif - I hadn't seen the post you linked to - anyway, gardasil is not cervarix.However, I've now read the article that you have cherry-picked lines from. The FUTURE trials have mostly sexually active women, and as you'll know, having read the article, it shows better efficacy for virgins - "In these [non-sexualy active] subgroups, efficacy of nearly 100% against all grades of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and adenocarcinoma in situ related to vaccine HPV types was reported in both trials."Regarding the serotype replacement, there's no evidence that the serotypes that filled the niche had the same oncogenicity as 16 & 18 - however they may be, we just don't know yet. If they are, then further serotypes will have vaccines developed against them and the vaccination right now will have been partly useless; however if they don't prove to be as cancerous, then not giving the vaccine would lead to lots of women getting cancer unnecessarily.Nobody knows exactly what the future will be, but the best guess of people far more intelligent than you is that it's best to go for it.There is indeed need for further studies, and the 2 FUTURE trials are continuing and there will certainly be even more because GSK is gonna sponsor a trial of cervarix vs gardasil. I'm sure that there will be other trials in the future and also we will be keeping a close eye on these products. The good thing, from an epidemiological perspective, is that vaccines are given by healthcare professionals so we have an excellent estimate of actual exposure so we will easily be able to estimate the incidence of an adverse events even in the general population.


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Psalm 51 Outline
– David pleaded God to have mercy on him and forgive him (Psalm 51:1-2)
– David knew he is a sinner since birth (Psalm 51:3-6)
– David pleaded God to cleanse away his sins and don't punish him (Psalm 51:7-9)
– David prayed that God will create a pure heart and renew a steadfast spirit in him (Psalm 51:10-12)
– David begged God to forgive him for killing Uriah (Psalm 51:13-17)
– David prayed for God to make Jerusalem prosperous (Psalm 51:18-19)
Psalm 51 Summary
In Psalm 51:1-2, Psalm 51 is composed by David after the prophet Nathan came and rebuke him about his affair with Bathsheba and how he murdered her husband, Uriah, in order to marry her when he knew she was pregnant (2 Samuel 11). David pleaded God to have mercy on him and wash away all his transgressions.
In Psalm 51:3-6, David is convicted about committing adultery with Bathsheba and killing her husband Uriah. Now he repent and ask God to forgive him. David knew he was not a perfect man and he sin ever since from the time of birth, when his mother conceived him.
In Psalm 51:7-9, David pleaded God to cleanse away his sins with hyssop so that he will be whiter than snow. David prayed that God won't punish him for his sins so that he can rejoice again. After
In Psalm 51:10-12, David prayed that God will create a pure heart and renew a steadfast spirit in him so that he can really be holy for him and firm in his faith again. David was afraid that the Holy Spirit had left him after he commit adultery with Bathsheba so now he pleaded God to restore him.
In Psalm 51:13-17, David begged God to forgive him for killing Uriah by sending a message to Joab to put him on the front battle line so that he was killed by the Ammonite armies. He knew that God does not want burnt offerings from him but a penitent heart.
In Psalm 51:18-19, David prayed for God to make Jerusalem, also known as Zion, prosperous and build up its walls so that everyone will offer thanksgivings to him.
Psalm 51 Bible Study
1. Have a penitent heart
David was convicted after the prophet Nathan came to confront him about him committing adultery with Bathsheba. No one is perfect and everyone make mistake. When you sin, you must admit your fault and ask God to forgive you. Some Christians are not humble to admit their faults. In 1 John 1:8, if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. In 1 John 2:8, he that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. In James 3:2, for in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. In 1 John 1:9, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.


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About the Book
A cute dog longs to be something other than what he really is until he realizes the value in being himself.
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- Category Children
Large Square, 12×12 in, 30×30 cm
54 Pages
- Publish Date Jan 06, 2010
- Tags Self Acceptance, Inspiration, Dogs, Animals, Whimsical, Children
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Abraham R. Chuzzlewit
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Born just one year ago, I am quite the renaissance creature... writing, running, and drawing. I can't sing, but I love music. I am eternally a child.
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lilaandshep I read this book to my first grade class and they were enthralled. It lended itself to such a rich discussion about being different and being accepted. Bravo, Abraham....truly a must have in all children's libraries!
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Hands On Cedros art gallery in Solana Beach recently hosted the opening of its 'Local Treasures' exhibit, featuring the work of instructors and students in the arts program at Palomar College. More than 100 people attended the event, which continues to draw viewers and sell the work.
The opening was held as part of the monthly 'Third Thursday on Cedros' event; however, the crowd at Hands On Cedros exceeded the usual monthly flow. Attendees included all of the artists, including Sasha Reibstein, head instructor in ceramics at Palomar College, who coordinated the artists side of the exhibit.
Top: Hands On Cedros owners Patty Goldfarb, left, and David Goldfarb, right, are shown with Reibstein, center.
Bottom: Reception attendees mingle among the artwork of Palomar College students and instructors.
The 'Local Treasures' exhibit will continue through Oct. 31. The next Third Thursday on Cedros event will be held Oct. 18, with exhibiting artists in attendance.
Hands On Cedros is at 346 B S. Cedros Ave. in the Cedros Design District. For information, call Patty Goldfarb at (858) 847-9827.


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She made a present to her first femme de chambre of five large farms, upon which the whole Court subsisted.
The femme de chambre would have had her cheek at the keyhole, to catch what he might say.
"Dame, chez elles—to their house," said the femme de chambre, who appeared to think that Bernard asked too many questions.
And then came the femme de chambre with a letter addressed to me.
I suppose it reflects upon the femme de chambre when the mistress is not up to the mark.
She fled and he allowed her to descend the stairway, followed by her femme de chambre.
They wear old brown cloaks—so the femme de chambre told me—that you wouldn't use for a horse blanket.
The femme de chambre now reëntered and said, "Madame is impatient at this delay; every moment seems an hour."
I had no man-servant in town: my femme de chambre was the only human being I had left in the house.
The curtain concealed him and he lurked three minutes after he had motioned to the femme de chambre to retire on tiptoe.


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This cozy neighborhood eatery brings farm-to-table fare to sophisticated Mid-Wilshire palates. The two-floored bistro-meets-bungalow evokes a modern yet intimate vibe, which aptly complements the rustic menu. The Larchmont punctuates each dish with a medley of bold flavors, which can be particularly enjoyed in the yellowtail Jack crudo with fennel, ginger and chilis or polenta gratin with wild mushroom ragout. The place is open for lunch during the week and dinner everyday—weekend brunch soon to come.
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This 30-year-old bistro-cum-clubhouse features a miniature basement cabaret devoted to readings and music, along with a genial dining room that opens wide to the sidewalk in summer. The colorful, if dated, menu is consistent with the place's bohemian roots. The eclectic fare ranges from glorified bar food like a light, gooey flatbread pizza, to more ambitious mains, like al dente lobster ravioli surrounded by snow peas or plump satisfying veal sausage on a mashed potato heap.
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text: Heavyweight Champion Chuck ""The Iceman"" Liddell puts his title on the line against top contender Renato ""Babalu"" Sobral. Plus, a rematch of one of the most exciting fights in UFC history - Forrest Griffin versus Stephan Bonnar. On UFC DVD 62, fighters featured on the undercard include Nick Diaz, Josh Neer, Cheick Kongo, Hermes Franca, and Wilson Gouveia. A total of 9 bouts. Buy the UFC Liddell vs. Sobral DVD, and see a title fight plus a rematch of one of the best-ever UFC fights. Event Bouts: Chuck Liddell Vs. Renato Sobral Forrest Griffin Vs. Stephan Bonnar Josh Neer Vs. Nick Diaz Cheick Kongo Vs. Christian Wellisch Hermes Franca Vs. Jamie Varner Wes Combs Vs. Wilson Gouveia Cory Walmsley Vs. David Heath Rob MacDonald Vs. Eric Schafer Yushin Okami Vs. Alan Belcher


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Up for auction is an original WWII Luftwaffe Laco B-Uhr. This chronograph is huge at 55mm. The band is long as it was meant to be worn over thick flight clothing such as a sheepskin jacket or flight suit. It could also be worn on the upper thigh when wearing summer weight clothing. This time piece is in excellent condition and keeps time exceptionally well. All serial numbers are matching and t's no evidence of modification or other tampering. A B-Uhr is a must for any advanced collector of WWII Luftwaffe gear and this specimen would be hard to upgrade. Payment by postal money order or personal check. When paying with a personal check, the item will ship after the check clears.


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My site behaves unusually in IE8.
Every time I load a page it refreshes from top to bottom like the browser is loading the background image for the main content area very slowly.
I don't think it is a caching problem. This does not happen in FF or Chrome.
Hi, I just loaded my page in IE8 and I did not see any slowness. It loaded just like Opera did Some others appear to be having the same issue as you though I can't offer a difinitive fix since I don't really see it
I don't think it is my browser since I have other WP templates on the same hosting account that load fine in IE8.
It is ok in FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari (WinXP).
I am new to coding my own sites and wonder if I have made some error. I built on Blueprint CSS and the site code is very simple.
There is no change when I remove the blueprint css code.
Comment out the entire CSS file except for the background image CSS and see if it fixes it.
If it does fix it, slowly add CSS back until you find the cause. I have to run but I hope it helps
Try fixing this problem by troubleshooting it with Add-ons disabled - blogsdotmsdndotcom/ie/archive/2006/07/25/678113dotaspx (Replace the "dot" with a period ".")
You can also reset IE 8's settings by going to Tools > Internet Options, then the 'Advanced' tab, and then clicking the 'Reset...' button. That may work.
These instructions might solve your issue as well:
If you're not in Windows 7: How to troubleshoot Internet Explorer issues in Windows Vista and in Windows XP - supportdotmicrosoftdotcom/kb/936215
How to optimize Internet Explorer - supportdotmicrosoftdotcom/kb/936213
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Quicklet on Robert Greene's The 48 Laws of Power
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Whether you seek to gain, observe, or protect yourself from domination by the forces of power in the world, Robert Greene's comprehensive tome on this intriguing subject is in many ways a groundbreaking work of literature. The 48 Laws of Power synthesizes the thoughts of a host of history's most influential thinkers including Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz and others. Not only is it rich in the history of power politics and warfare spanning three millennia, the book has real-life relevance to those contending with the affect on our lives in modern times. Greene's 48 laws demonstrate how qualities such as prudence, cunning, stealth and subtlety, and a complete lack of mercy or compassion for one's enemies come into play with humanity's power dynamic.
It's apparent that those who feel powerless in today's globalized economy driven by the politics of big-money capitalism are a target audience of this book. The preface begins: "The feeling of having no power over people and events is generally unbearable to us—when we feel helpless we feel miserable." Very much like the social and political pressures contained within an old royal court, a duplicitous game of non-overt power moves is the key to success in the current power paradigm.
If you aren't sure of a course of action to take, then don't try it. Doubt and hesitancy will hamper your ability to operate. It's always better to begin a course of action boldly. "Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid" (The 48 Laws of Power).
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After almost two years out of the limelight as he struggled with injury, the 1997 French Open champion came storming back last year.
The 26-year-old won four tournaments, including the Masters series event at Cincinatti, and chalked up victories over Lleyton Hewitt, Andre Agassi and Marat Safin.
Of all the Spaniards, Moya is the most comfortable on hardcourts and indoors, and has proved himself capable of succeeding on the biggest stage.
He will be hopeful of going one better than 1997 when he lost in the final to Pete Sampras, and looks one of the few players capable of consistently troubling the top three.
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Hello again,
Sorry for posting so many messages one after the other, but I figured it's better to have a different thread for different questions.
Anyone's tried the Soniq QPD500B?
Any good?
Can't seem to find anything about dezonning it either? Anyone's got an idea on that too?
P.S.: After finding out that I had put in the wrong name for the player I found threads that ask the same questions as I do here. But they both don't really have an answer. So I thought I could ask again.


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Shower products are kind of the same for beauty products with me, I tend to stick to (or go back to) the same ones for quite a while if I love them. I'm also quite OCD about my routine, everything is always done in the same order haha.
The Aussie Mega shampoo was one I read about a few months ago, and even though it does contain sulfates, I liked that it would cause no build up. Plus Aussie products always smell amazing. The raspberry & macadamia conditioner from Superdrug is one I've went back to (although back in the day it was more the shampoo I used). It smells sooo good! Seriously...like red kola. You do need to use quite a bit of product each time but it still lasts ages and only costs between £1-£2. The Naked Rescue conditioner is another one I love to use, it's definitely richer than the Superdrug one and again...smells yummy.
I always seem to end up loving Soap & Glory face products the most for when I wash my face in the shower. I did also really enjoy their Peaches & Clean one but I've returned to this bottle of minty freshness.
I usually use just the Simple shower cream unless I'm obsessing over any Lush shower gels which I'm sure will happen again soon. Then I either like to use Soap & Glory's Flake Away or the Breakfast Scrub. I don't know why I forgot to photograph that one actually as it's what I use the most - mmm it smells like maple syrup! My favourite shave gel is this cheap and cheerful fruity one from Boots.
After my shower I am for sure obsessed with this pistachio sundae body butter from Nip + Fab, oh my god the scent is incredible. I've went through so many little pots of the stuff. My current moisturiser is the For Daily Youth one from Soap & Glory (shocker, I know).
What's currently in your shower routine?
Claire x


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I used the tutorial from the www.worth1000.com
This is a tutorial that will show you how to transform this leopard:
Read through the tutorial to understand the steps.
Then apply the same steps to transform another animal into a cyber version.
Creating the diplacement map
Many people feel in the dark when it comes to displacement maps. This is my take on them: Think of it like taking a piece of cloth and wrapping it around and object. The cloth being the texture/pattern (carbon fiber) and the object being the map (the leopard). We are going to take a carbon fiber pattern and wrap it around the leopard. You need to experiment with your settings in this section
Open the leopard file.
Then create a New document with exactly the same dimentions and resolution.
Go back to the leopard picture and select (mask out) the leopard (don't worry about the whiskers). Be sure to subtract the eyes and nose from the selection…
Now copy the selection and paste it in the blank document you created earlier.
(1) Desaturate the leopard and save as: desaturated leopard.psd (we need the layer here for when we create the displacement map later). We now have the start of our displacement map. Now imagine a white leopard statue. It will have no spots or fur, just the contours of a leopard (light and dark shades). This is what we need. So in order to do this we need to get rid on the fur and spots…
(2)Click Select/Color range. Click on a spot to select the black in the picture and set the fuzziness to 100, click ok (the black in the picture is now selected). Now select a 50% gray from your swatches palette and using the "paint bucket tool" set at 255 tolerance, fill the spots.
3) Now deselect. Now click Filter/Blur/Gaussian blur and set it to about 7 pixels (experiment with this setting). You now have a rough idea of the contours of the leopard. I then upped the contrast by +30 to increase the definition of the contours.
(4) Using the "smudge tool" set at 75% strength blend your contours… Try imagining where light and shadows will fall. See the bulge of the jaw line, eye socket, leg muscles; try and accentuate these areas. Your leopard now looks like a smeared painting... COOL! But it needs to be smooth.
(5) So again we go to your Gaussian blur and set it high till the image looks smooth (mine was 17 pixels). And there you have it. We now have our Displacement map… Now save as: leopard displacement map.psd.
Creating the carbon fiber texture using the displacement map
I found a tutorial on the web that explains the whole process of creating a carbon filter: http://www.freepsd.com
Step 1.
Make a new document 4 x 4 px. Select the colors and fill as shown below.
Step 2.
Now that is done we can define the pattern. Go to Edit > Define pattern. Name as you wish then hit ok.
Step 3.
Now you have made the pattern you can now select the area you wish to make carbon fiber and then go Edit > Fill > Pattern and select yours, hit ok again and VIOLA! You have carbon fiber.
Here is a basic example of the pattern in effect.
Step 1.
Make a new document 4 x 4 px. Select the colors and fill as shown below.
Step 2.
Now that is done we can define the pattern. Go to Edit > Define pattern. Name as you wish then hit ok.
Step 3.
Now you have made the pattern you can now select the area you wish to make carbon fiber and then go Edit > Fill > Pattern and select yours, hit ok again and VIOLA! You have carbon fiber.
Here is a basic example of the pattern in effect.
Step 1.
Make a new document 4 x 4 px. Select the colors and fill as shown below.
Step 2.
Now that is done we can define the pattern. Go to Edit > Define pattern. Name as you wish then hit ok.
Step 3.
Now you have made the pattern you can now select the area you wish to make carbon fiber and then go Edit > Fill > Pattern and select yours, hit ok again and VIOLA! You have carbon fiber.
Here is a basic example of the pattern in effect.
Once you have your texture, create a new document the same size as your displacement map (the .PSD picture we created earlier).
(1) Now using the "paint bucket tool" set on pattern (choose the carbon fiber pattern/texture), fill the whole picture to create a carbon fiber "wall".
(2) Now click Filter/Distort/Displace. I used the default settings here, but experiment with them so you can see what they do. It will ask you to choose a displacement map. This will be the leopard displacement map.psd file we created earlier. Your carbon fiber texture should have distorted slightly and reveal your leopard contours (its very subtle). Save this as: carbon fiber skin.psd
3) Open desaturated leopard.psd . Once opened click Select/Load selection and hit Ok. You now have the mask of the leopard. Copy this and paste it onto the: carbon fiber skin.psd picture. It should be in place when you paste it.
(4) Now click Select/Load selection and hit Ok. This masks the outline of the leopard. Now delete the desaturated leopard layer to leave you with your carbon fiber texture and the masking of your leopard.
(5) Now copy the selection (Ctrl C). You now need to open "leopard displacement map.psd" and paste the carbon fiber texture over it. It should fit right when you paste it. Set the carbon fiber layer to multiply. It should now look like a carbon fiber shell… That step is very rewarding! Play around with Levels|Brightness & Contrast|Curves etc. till it looks right. Now click Select/Load Selection, and hit Ok. Merge your layers and copy the selection
(6) Now open your original picture of the leopard and paste the carbon fiber exoskeleton over it, and there you have it! That was a lot of work to get the picture to this point!!!
At least the worst is over with... :)
The eye and nose
The rest of this tutorial is basically about copy & paste and making things "look right". We start with the eye…
We need to make any leftover part of the leopard look synthetic i.e. plastic, metal or rubber. I chose to make the eye and nose look like glossy plastic, well black plastic to be exact ; )
(1) To do this, mask an area around the eye (don't worry about being precise). Then select the background from the layers palette and click Image/Adjustments/Desaturate. Now it needs to look deeper and shinier so click Image/Adjustments/Levels. Move the "slider arrow" on the left towards the right hand side to almost half way and click Ok.
2) Click Select/Deselect and repeat the process for the nose. Things might become a bit "jagged when you do this step, so if u like you can use the "smudge tool" to smooth things out…
(3) Now of the optics. I found a nice picture of a camera lens which worked perfect for the leopard's eye. Mask out the lens and then copy and paste it to the leopard picture (make sure when you past it that it is the topmost layer in the layer palette). Now you need to scale it down and make it fit over the original eye. Select the lens layer and click on one of the edge squares that appear. Now right click the layer and select distort. Distort it until it looks right and then hit your Enter/Return button. Make sure it is positioned in the right place and then you can move the layer below the carbon fiber layer. One nit pick: I masked out the bottom left reflection on the lens and made it darker because I just didn't look right, a personal preference.
4) To make the red LED effect in the eye I select the brush tool with a soft-edge nib and the color red and make a dot in the center of the eye, simple yet very effective!
Lastly I double click the carbon fiber layer ( in the layers palette) to bring up its blending properties and select Bevel & Emboss. Play around with these setting till the lighting on the exoskeleton looks right. I prefer to deselect the "use global light" option because it will mess around all your layers blending settings. Now for the whiskers (lol)….
Cyborgenic whiskers?
These were very easy to make as they were all just one whisker that was duplicated and resized to different lengths.
1) Create a new layer. Now on a unused part of the picture make a long thin rectangular selection. From your swatches palette select a very light grey and a dark grey, so you have two different colors (the foreground and background colours in your tools pallette) selected. Now first select the "gradient tool" and then "reflected gradient" (in the Option bar) and use it to create the pipe effect that you see in the picture below. I recommend holding down the SHIFT button when you do this to make sure it is 90 degrees… Once you have your gradient, select black from your swatches and, using the brush tool, draw the curves that will make the whisker look retractable.
(2) The Whisker is a layer, so as before right click it and play around with the distort, perspective and warp options (Edit > Transform > Distort, Warp) until it looks like a curved whisker. Hit ENTER/RETURN key when you are happy with it.
(3) Now duplicate the whisker until you have the amount that you need. Now resize each one and place it where you want it. That takes care of the whiskers on the left. Now merge all the whisker layers from the layer palette and duplicate them so you can use them for the right set of whiskers. You will need to scale these to a -100 width and a 100 hight in order for them to be facing the other way around. Now arrange them below the carbon fiber layer so it looks like they are behind it.
4) Now select the carbon fiber layer. Select your brush tool with a hard edge nib and create the holes at the beginning ends of the whiskers (because it is on the carbon fiber layer it will crate its own bevel and emboss, neat!).
And that's it, whiskers are done ;) Let's move onto the legs now…
Robotic leg
Robotic legs: Source pictures
The trick with the legs was to fool the eye. They are just a mass of parts pasted on top of each other… I did try to consider the movement of the legs and find parts that matched the motion. All it is, is parts like springs, shocks, bars, braided hosing, wires and disks. When you clutter these parts together the eye accepts what it sees because it is so much to take in. Most people won't know exactly how a robotic leg works because it is so complex, so when you look at it you think its very complex looking, and so it must be legit..
(1) So the legs are just machine parts that have been selected and pasted into position. I made the pasting symmetrical though. See below.
Remember that you need to play around with the lighting of each part. As they come from different source pictures, they have different lighting.
(2) The side of the leopard is relatively dark and so u need to play around with the Levels| Brightness & Contrast| Curves etc of each part. Don't forget that this picture has a forest background and therefore the parts should reflect this. Adding a bit of green to them makes them look as though they belong in the setting. It might be just a smidge of green that you ad, but it can really make the difference… Image/Adjustments/Color balance or Hue and saturation.
(3) Once this is done you need to merge the legs parts into one layer. Once done duplicate it and arrange the duplicate below the carbon fiber layer so that it looks like it is behind it in the picture. Then decrease the Brightness & Contrast. Add a slight Gaussian blur to make it look a bit out of focus…Now the legs are done.
Let's move onto the Armor...
The Armor and wiring.
For the armor over his head and spine I used part of a visor from a Knights helmet.
(1) I masked it out and pasted it over his head. It was to be the largest piece. I then duplicated it a couple of times and resized the duplicates to give it that "vertebrae" look.
(2) Once this was done I went into the blending properties of the first piece of armor I pasted ( the original piece) and selected a drop shadow. Once I was happy with the shadow settings I right clicked on the layer (in the palette) and selected "copy layer style". I then selected all the "armor" layers, right clicked them and "pasted layer style".
(3) Once done I merged the armor layers and duplicated the merged layer. I then distorted and warped that layer so that it fitted over his forehead. Once this was done I merged these layers and created one more drop shadow that fell on the carbon fiber.
The one part of many animals that I like is their jaw.
(4) To accentuate the leopard jaw I used a circular metal part which also connects the armor to his body, via the jaw. You need to apply an outer Bevel & Emboss to this layer to make it look countersunk.
(5) Then duplicate this layer so that it can be pasted at the ends of the armor that runs over his spine.
(6) Once this is done you need to duplicate these layers so that a wire can run between them.
Now for the wires.
Create a new layer. Select the brush tool with a hard nib the width of the wire we need to draw. Draw the first wire freehand. Now double click the layer you just created (in the layers palette) and select: Bevel & Emboss and Drop shadow. Your wire should now look 3D and drop a shadow. Tweak these options until you are happy with them. Now select your brush again.
(7) Draw your other wires. COOL! As you draw the wire it appears 3D and drops a shadow, real time! Draw all the red and blue wires…
Next up is the shut lines and screws.
Shut lines and screws
We started with a tricky section and we are going to end with one… All robots have to be taken apart, right? If they are to be repaired and all. The lines in-between the different panels are called shut lines. To create them we need to use the path tool. If you have never used the path tool before then you are going to have to read up about them because they are difficult to explain.
Create a new layer. Now you need to draw the shut line paths.
(1) Draw each path individually. Then select your brush and select a very thin nib size. Next select black from the swatches palette.
(2) In the paths palette right click the path you created (which consists of all the individual paths you created, the shut lines) and click stroke path. Next make sure it is set on "brush" before hitting Ok. Once done your paths will be thin solid black lines.
(3) Now go back to your layers palette and double click the layer you last created. Select Bevel & Emboss and open its properties. You now need to select the "pillow emboss" option under the style option. You might also have to change the direction of the lighting. You should now have the shut lines you are looking for. Click Ok to close the properties box. Don't forget to move the whisker layer above your shut line path layer so that it does not get overlapped by the shut lines...
(4) Lastly the screws. Mask the head of a screw then copy and paste it into the leopard picture. Duplicate it do that you have the desired number of screws, then move them into place.
(5) The last step is a small trick I left till last. In order to give the whiskers on the left some focal depth, you need to do the following: Select the left whiskers layer, and then mask a circle around the ends of it. Now feather that mask by about 25 pixels. Click Filters/Blur/Gaussian blur and set it to about 7 pixels. Hit Ok. The whiskers now look like they go out of focus making them look even more real. This is where I save the copy I have and flatten the image. I then save it under a new name. Now I go around looking for anything I need to fix up: soften edges, smudge away imperfection, darken/lighten parts etc.
So there you have it! One cyborgenic leopard.
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"I think the tradition (Tennessee co-head coaches Ralph and Karen Weekly) has built here speaks for itself," Oklahoma State Coach Rich Wieligman said. "They've been to the World Series recently. They come out and play ball. Sometimes when you get into these situations you get caught up in who you're playing and the tradition of a program like Tennessee.
"But you still have to catch and throw and get those timely hits and that's what it comes down to. You put two good pitchers in the circle and then you play defense and hit. It's going to be a tough test."
Liberty (30-29) will now face Georgia Tech (44-11) at 4:30 p.m. Saturday in an elimination game. The winner of that matchup will take on the loser of the Tennessee-Oklahoma State game in another elimination contest.
The two teams that survive Saturday will square off at 2 p.m. Sunday with a second game at 4:30 p.m., if necessary, in the double-elimination format. The winner advances to a Super Regional next weekend and the chance to play for one of eight berths in the College World Series.
The attention of Tennessee (48-10) now turns to Oklahoma State (38-17), which showed a propensity for scrappiness and whose pitcher, Kat Espinosa, was able to keep the power of Georgia Tech well in check.
Georgia Tech, which was second in the country with 99 homers this season, was limited to four hits, all singles, and the one run was scored on an error.
"I feel like we were in the zone – a lot more than we have been," Espinosa said. "Obviously, I thought we wanted it more. I just focus on one pitch at a time and try to hit my spots."
Georgia Tech arrived in Knoxville as the ACC regular season champion but had sustained two key injuries – senior centerfielder Christy Jones, who had started every game of her career, broke her hand this week in practice and was available only to pinch run and junior rightfielder Jessica Sinclair tore her ACL before the ACC tourney – she suffered the same knee injury near the end of her sophomore season – and is out for the postseason.
"We have a couple people out of position (due to injuries)," Georgia Tech Coach Sharon Perkins said. "We made the decision to give us our best opportunity offensively, so we put Caitlin (Jordan) out there. She's done a great job.
"The goal for her was to make the routine plays, and they just put it in between us. You can't cover all the territory."
Jordan was two of three from the plate and a pinch runner, Kelly Delashmit, scored Georgia Tech's lone run in the second inning after Jordan sent a line drive into left-center. Alysha Rudnik put down a sacrifice bunt but Oklahoma State third baseman Mariah Gearhart tried to get the lead runner and sailed the throw over the bag and to the outfield wall.
That allowed the speedy Delashmit to score from first and Rudnik to reach third, but a groundout to short and lineout to third limited Georgia Tech to one run.
Oklahoma State answered in the third inning after Gearhart reached on a bunt, stole second and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt. Alysia Hamilton singled to rightfield to bring home Gearhart.
The game remained knotted at one into the seventh inning with Georgia Tech freshman pitcher Lindsey Anderson getting out of a sixth inning jam and leaving two runners stranded. Georgia Tech got two outs in the seventh inning with Kelsey Anchors at second in the scoring position but couldn't get the last out.
Julie Ward dropped a ball behind second and in front of the rightfielder to bring home Anchors with the winning run. Jordan, the replacement rightfielder for the injured Sinclair, hesitated for a split second as she charged the ball and fielded it on the bounce – and it would have taken a web-gem play to make the catch. Anchors was running on contact with two out and there was no play at home.
Ward battled in a nine-pitch at-bat, including five foul shots and a third ball on a 10-second rule called on Anderson, to take the count to 3-2, before dropping the ball to rightfield.
"I took it pitch-by-pitch," Ward said. "I had two strikes going for the longest time. I knew they'd try to tease me out but also jam me in, so I just had to stay focused to poke one just like I did, so it worked out well."
The freshman Anderson will take more than the loss in her first NCAA postseason appearance in the circle.
"I think (this game) taught me that I can definitely hang with the big teams and hang in regionals," Anderson said. "Even if I get caught in tough jams, I still have stuff I can come back with and fight for my team.
"So it definitely helps my confidence a little bit. But overall it makes me want to fight so I don't get in those jams in the future."
The full quotes from Oklahoma State and Georgia Tech can be read online here.
The second game of the evening started as another low-scoring affair as Tennessee held a 1-0 lead over Liberty through four innings. Tennessee didn't score until the third inning after two quick outs – the usual time for the Lady Vols to plate runs. Entering Friday's game Tennessee had 143 two-out RBIs and would add eight more to the tally by the end of the evening.
Kat Dotson singled and stole second and then Kelly Grieve singled up the middle to bring home Dotson.
"I think we have a lot of confidence in every person out there and every person on the bench," Dotson said of the team's success with two outs. "We just never give up, and that's what we've done all season and what we'll do for the rest of the year.
"It's really showing now in the postseason."
Ivy Renfroe was in control in the circle and a 1-0 run likely would have held up, as the sophomore didn't allow a hit – it was Renfroe's third career no-hitter and first in postseason – and the Lady Vols came to bat at the bottom of the fifth inning with the score still 1-0.
That was the perfect start for the Flames of Liberty.
"The defense was awesome," Flames pitcher Katrina Johnson said. "(Ashley Bensinger) had awesome plays, just everyone in the infield. They were just doing great."
Johnson did her part by mixing up speeds and keeping the ball out of the power alleys of the sluggers.
"I was trying to hit my corners, just trying to make the ball spin," Johnson said. "I was trusting my pitching coach, too."
The sixth inning was precisely what Liberty didn't want.
"I had some bad pitches, and I got a little nervous and rattled," Johnson said. "I just have to do better. It was an awesome opportunity to get to play against (Tennessee), because we got rained out in the fall. It was a great opportunity."
The inning ended up lasting so long that Renfroe went to the bullpen to stay loose for the bottom of the sixth inning and then wasn't needed when Shipman sent a 2-1 pitch over the outfield wall to bring the game to a run-rule halt.
"I think it caught everyone off guard," Renfroe said of the explosive inning. "I was in the bullpen and when she hit the grand slam I thought, 'That's it.' I was glad I didn't have to go back out there."
The inning started out with two outs as Melissa Davin and then pinch hitter Whitney Hammond grounded out. Raven Chavanne singled to third base – her speed kept Liberty off balance all game – and moved to second on a throwing error.
"We talk about people who are 'Tennessee fast,' and we really see it when we come here," Liberty Coach Paul Wetmore said. "They run the bases well. They have tremendous speed. They put the ball in play."
Dotson singled to right to bring home Chavanne and then Kelly Grieve singled and the speedy Dotson moved to third.
Grieve stole second and Shelby Burchell was walked – the slugger won the SEC tourney with a monster shot over the centerfield wall last weekend, and she rarely saw a pitch above her knees against Liberty.
Lauren Gibson then singled through the right side of the infield, bringing home Dotson and Grieve with Burchell moving to second.
That brought Liberty pitcher Tiffani Smith to the circle, but the Lady Vols kept swinging with success. Jessica Spigner walked to load the bases and then Shipman stepped to the plate. The fourth pitch she saw left Lee Stadium and a sellout crowd of 1,649, which had been enthusiastic all inning, really let loose.
"I was just trying to get a couple more runs in and keep our team going so the grand slam was kind of a bonus," Shipman said.
A capacity crowd also is expected for Saturday's game and several fans watched Friday's Tennessee game by peeking through the netting in foul territory in rightfield.
The Lady Vols' next challenge is Oklahoma State, the No. 2 seed in the Knoxville Regional.
"They beat Georgia 1-0 – we know Georgia," Co-Head Coach Ralph Weekly said. "They are a team that has beaten a lot of quality opponents. I've known their coach for a number of years and he is a solid coach.
"It's going to be a battle all the way. Our slogan of 'keep throwing punches' is going to come to fruition (Saturday). But the fact of the matter is that both of us want to advance, so I think it's going to be a great game."
The full quotes from Tennessee and Oklahoma State can be read online here.
Liberty post-game press conference with pitcher Katrina Johnson and Coach Paul Wetmore
Tennessee post-game press conference with Coach Ralph Weekly, pitcher Ivy Renfroe, shortstop Madison Shipman and rightfielder Kat Dotson