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At The Guardian, author J.G. Ballard remembers the premiere of the movie about his childhood, my favorite Steven Spielberg drama: Empire of the Sun. Surprisingly, it was the film premiere in Hollywood, the fount of most of our planet's fantasies, that brought everything down to earth. A wonderful night for any novelist, and a reminder of the limits of the printed word. Sitting with the sober British contingent, surrounded by everyone from Dolly Parton to Sean Connery, I thought Spielberg's film … [Read more...]
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A=B example
this has probably been asked before.
being new to the list i would be happy with a pointer to previous
in A=B by Wilf and Zeilberger,
on page 61 there is the following program for deriving recursions
(i had to change FactorialSimplify to FullSimplify
because the original version was for mathematica 2.2):
findrecur[f_, ii_, jj_] :=
Module[{yy, zz, ll, tt, uu, r, s, i, j},
yy = Sum[
Sum[a[i, j] *FullSimplify[f[n - j, k - i]/f[n, k]], {i, 0, ii}],
0, jj}];
zz = Collect[Numerator[Together[yy]], k];
ll = CoefficientList[zz, k];
tt = Flatten[Table[a[i, j], {i, 0, ii}, {j, 0, jj}]];
uu = Flatten[Simplify[Solve[ll == 0, tt]]];
For[r = 0, r <= ii, r++,
For[s = 0, s <= jj, s++,
a[r, s] = Replace[a[r, s], uu]]];
Sum[Sum[a[i, j] F[n - j, k - i], {i, 0, ii}], {j, 0, jj}] == 0]
f[n_, k_] := n!/(n - k)!
and executing
but trying to run exactly the same statement a second time
produces a lot of errors and effectively hangs mathematica.
is there a solution?
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So I made a scarlet empress this weekend. When I made the vanilla bavarian, the milk was brought to almost boiling and when I finally tempered the eggyolk/gelatin mix, it was at the temperature specified by Rose (170F). So i was afraid to cook it any longer in case it curdled but I knew it had to be cooked to the consistency of thickened cream. Anyway the bavarian filling seemed flat in taste - almost like a fat free bavarian if you know what I mean. I believe I should have cooked the mix instead of worrying about the curdling part.
I am upset becuase I have done this dessert before with excellent results. This weekend all my desserts seemed to have problems. Did I make the cream too hot for tempering?


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Glendale's Public Hockey Project
May 11, 2012
A monument to the National Hockey League's (NHL) expansion to cities in the Southern and Western United States, the Phoenix Coyotes have failed to captivate Arizonans, a problem that culminated three years ago in the franchise filing for bankruptcy. Among NHL clubs this season, the Coyotes ranked last in attendance, says the Wall Street Journal.
However, the burden that they place upon the suburban community of Glendale, where the team is located, is not limited to supplying a sport of little interest. Instead, because of a burdensome financial agreement with the NHL, the city of Glendale could be stuck paying out the nose for the team for years to come.
- The city is obligated to make debt payments on the arena that average $12.6 million a year.
- Furthermore, the city has been paying a so-called "arena management fee" of nearly $25 million a year to the NHL, which three years ago bought the Coyotes out of bankruptcy.
- Looking forward, the NHL has announced a probable sale of the team to a private owner, but the resulting financial contract would put Glendale on the line for $14.5 million annually until 2033.
The financial burden hits a local government that is already reeling in the down economy.
- The $14.5 million would be combined with the $12.6 million in annual debt service for the stadium to create a yearly burden of $27.1 million.
- Meanwhile, city analysts estimate that the team's presence will bring about an additional $14.2 million in revenue.
- This creates a net loss of $12.9 million annually.
- Aggregating this fact over the life of the contract, Glendale will have paid $271 million -- nearly $1,200 for each of its 226,721 citizens -- to keep the team by 2033.
It remains to be seen, however, if the city council of Glendale will swallow the steep terms of the agreement. The six-person body will vote to sign or reject the offered provisions within the next few weeks.
Source: Brad Parks, "Glendale's Public Hockey Project," Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2012.
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January 22, 2004 -- Hutton Harris doesn't have much free time these days.
The Sulphur Springs senior is doing his best to juggle academics, athletics and numerous other school activities.
Harris is a member of the SSHS basketball and golf teams and has been on the student council for three years. He's also in the Chess Club, Spanish Club and has been vice president of the Crime Stoppers Board for two years.
Right now, the 17-year-old is doing his best to help the Wildcat basketball team stay in the thick of the District 11-4A race.
Harris has been out of basketball for three years, but the desire to come back got the best of him. When he's not on the court or with his SSHS teammates on the golf course, Harris could probably be found behind a camera working for Wildcat TV. He plans to major in broadcast journalism once his high school days are over, but for now, he's focused on helping the Wildcats advance to the playoffs.
Harris might not play as significant a role as some of his teammates, but his importance goes above and beyond points and rebounds. He knows he's behind the eight ball having not played for so long, but Harris said he'll do whatever it takes to help the team succeed.
"I thank Coach (Steve) Glover for letting me be on the team," Harris said. "There's a lot of camaraderie with this group, and my teammates are fun to be around.
"What I might lack in experience, I make up for with attitude, and I try to build people up and not put them down. I try to be the first one on the court to give the guys moral support."
Glover said each player has a significant role on the team and that Harris' value is immeasurable. He said his demeanor on and off the court make him a valuable asset.
"He's such a good kid," Glover said. "He represents Sulphur Springs in a lot of areas and is a quality young man.
"Hutton is a team player, very supportive, will always do what he can to help the team win and is consistent in what he does. He's got such positive traits and is a leader in this school."
Harris' drive and determination most likely come from his parents. His mother, Talisa, is a teacher at Sulphur Springs Middle School, and anyone who has a teacher for a parent knows how inspirational it can be. His father, Jeff, is a minister, a man Harris describes as a goal-oriented person and one who is currently living a dream.
The Harris family came to Sulphur Springs 10 years ago, but Jeff has been commuting to Fort Worth the past eight or nine months, where he literally began his own church. It started with the family itself but has now blossomed into 275-300 members.
Harris' father will head west on Saturday nights, with the family either joining him or coming on their own for church the next morning. The family returns for school and work, while Jeff comes home on Thursday evenings. It's got to be a taxing situation for a family.
"It's tough not being able to hang out with my friends on weekends," Harris said. "It has allowed me to meet new people, so I think it will pay off in the long run and bring my family closer together."
Harris said witnessing what his father does gives him the inspiration to set goals for himself.
"Ministry has got to be one of the hardest things to do," Harris said. "It can't be easy having to deal with people that you might not normally interact with.
"My dad is the person I look up to the most, because he's the one who encourages me to give it my all. He's always at my basketball games and golf tournaments (15-year-old brother, Chandler, is also a member of the SSHS golf team), even if it means a two-hour drive. He's such a committed person in a profession that has a certain reputation that goes along with it."
It makes one wonder if being a minister's son brings a reputation with it as well.
"I don't think there's too much added pressure," Harris said. "It's tough at times, because some people expect you to be perfect, and everything seems to get magnified at times. It has its pluses and minuses."
Golf season is just around the corner, so time becomes even more precious for Harris in the upcoming months. One positive is getting the chance to compete alongside his brother, something Harris said he's never been able to do.
"It keeps me on my toes," Harris said. "I try to be an example for him, but at the same time, I look up to him as well, because he's so intelligent in what he does and is showing a lot of potential. He's going to have a successful life in whatever he chooses to do, and I look up to him a lot."
Harris is currently enjoying the time he's getting to spend with his "extended family." After all, it's the main reason he came back to the game.
"We all come from different backgrounds and religions and have spent a lot of time on the road together this season," Harris said. "It really lets you get to know one another, and these guys are fun to mess around with."
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Thousand Oaks, CA — Corn rows and Kiss magazine covers aside, the kid can play. No. 17 Christian Skuce, junior attackman, enjoyed a huge first day of the 2012 season as the St. Mary's College Gaels beat the Cal Lutheran Kingsman 19-1. His four goals were matched by his four assists for an 8 point afternoon. Skuce is fine tuning his game in preparation for his team's Friday showdown with SLC DII champion Cal State Fullerton.
As a freshman, Skuce posted 33 goals and 16 assists. His tally earned him 2nd Team WCLL Attackman honors as well as a MCLA DII Honorable Mention All-America selection. Last year, he upgraded his stats to 39, 23 and was named the WCLL DII Offensive Player of the Year. He again returned as a MCLA DII Honorable Mention All-American.
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AN ILL grandmother who was taken to hospital after slipping and falling on an ungritted road is to seek compensation from Waltham Forest Council.
Marianne Jones, 55, of Mount Pleasant Road, Walthamstow, who is suffering from severe bronchitis, was walking to the doctor's surgery in Penrhyn Avenue when she slipped on black ice. She was taken to Whipps Cross University Hospital where she was treated for concussion and a cut to the head.
She said: "I had already slipped about three times and decided to cross the road to see whether it was any better on the other side.
"But when I stepped out I felt my feet go from under me and my head hit the road.
"I felt giddy and scared, two men helped me to my feet and a lady called Maria waited with me for an ambulance."
She said she is still feeling the effects of the accident, which happened on December 23.
She added: "The doctor said the symptoms can last a while, I still feel dizzy, I don't want to wash my hair because if I put my head down I feel giddy."
Mrs Jones is angry that many of the roads in the area were not gritted despite the freezing conditions.
She said: "It is very bad, lots of people use the roads near the doctor's surgery."
Mrs Jones said she wants to thank the two men who helped her to her feet following the accident.
Details of Mrs Jones' accident have emerged after the authority was criticised for not adequately gritting the roads.
Cllr Matt Davis, Conservative group leader, said the authority had failed to take "basic, common sense precautions" in not gritting the roads ahead of the cold weather, or ensuring grit bins were filled.
Guardian readers reported seeing cars sliding off roads around Kings Head Hill, Chingford, and an elderly woman was left lying in the snow for 45 minutes with a broken arm.
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Sandra Bullock Scores Emergency Protective Order Against Intruder
Over the weekend she had a wicked scare when a man broke into her house while she was home, and now Sandra Bullock has obtained an emergency protective order.
On Sunday morning (June 8) Joshua Corbett entered Bullock's residence through the back door and the "Proposal" actress called 911 immediately.
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But what exactly is happening right now with in the international space travel community is that the country of Luxemburg is trying to claim the rights of allocating resources like gold, platinum and other materials that just so happen to be floating around within earth's orbital field. Now, no other country has ever even really put serious consideration into 'space mining' but Luxemburg is very serious and starting to take investments from other countries and private investors who want to get in on a pretty risky investment that actually might pay off in gigantic proportions. But how expensive and valuable can these space rocks really be. Well, you probably can't find them in many places on earth and they're from outer space, so probably a butt load of money or two is a good guess as to how much all these items are worth.
Of course this is something that the entire space community will start discussing in further investigations and board meetings in the months ahead, but it is definitely an interesting story to keep an eye on because it could begin to develop into a much bigger business than we probably think it is as of right now. When it comes back to space travelling and space tourism in general we have to consider Virgin Galactic and XCOR Aerospace who have come together to really be the pioneers in a new type of leisure experiment that humans are going to start trying to do very soon if not seldom times already. Now of course this whole concept is getting the entire international space community on their toes, and now everyone including Russia, China and other countries around the world with renown space programs are starting to consider getting more and more of their people up into space and training them like all other astronauts. How cool is it going to be when we think back on astronauts as the first people that ever got to go to space, but now it's like not even that big of a deal because everyone is going to space, or at least a lot more people are getting to go to space because they are super powerful and influential and have a ton of money. That will still be a cool moment too when only the rich and powerful can go to space because it will be the first step towards getting space tourism and travelling into the public sphere, and to me that is only just the beginning of where this can all lead to.
Who knows where humans might end up in the next 300 years? We might honestly all be living all over the galaxy by then and actually be living in a Star Trek or Star Wars society in which we can travel at the speed of light safely across the universe. And let's be honest, everyone wants to be living in that time period, right now we're just fantasizing the cool part of human civilization, but we are at the beginning of real revolution.


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NEW CONCORD -- Following regulation and two overtime frames, the host Muskingum University Lady Fighting Muskies and the visiting Marietta College Lady Pioneers ended in a 1-1 deadlock in McConagha Stadium Tuesday evening in a Ohio Athletic Conference matchup.
After a scoreless first half, Muskingum took the lead at the 61:14 mark with Hailey Dickey scoring her fourth goal of the season off an assist from Noelle Kleppel.
Just over 10 minutes later, the Lady Pioneers (3-8-1, 1-2-1 OAC) knotted the score on a header off a cross by Erin Panczyk off the assist of Melina Feitel at the 71:22 juncture.
Neither team could put up another goal in the remaining minutes of regulation or in the first or second overtime providing the 1-1 tie.
Muskingum (4-8-1, 0-3-1 OAC) had a 11-10 edge in shots on goal, while Marietta had a 6-5 advantage in corner kicks.
Lady Muskie goal keeper Sara Poling played the entire 110 minutes between the pipes and recorded nine saves while giving up the one goal. Marietta goalie, Kaitlyn Pearse also went the distance in goal with 10 saves while allowing the one goal.
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Looking Past the Energy Price Rollercoaster, Core Price Gains are Steady
- The June Producer Price Index increased by 0.1 percent, after falling by 1.0 percent in May.
- The Core PPI for Finished Goods increased by 0.2 percent for the fourth consecutive month.
- The University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Index for July fell to 72.0 as expectations deteriorated.
- Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance fell by 26,000 for the week ending July 7, to hit 350,000.
Weaker energy prices have kept a check on overall producer and consumer price indexes since March, but that check is starting to diminish as oil prices stabilize near $85 per barrel. The producer price index for finished goods increased by just 0.1 percent in June, the first increase since February. March, April and May producer prices were held down by the tumble in crude oil prices. The energy price component of the PPI fell again in June, but not because of oil. The wholesale price for residential electricity fell, most likely due to very low natural gas prices earlier this spring. Wholesale food prices gained 0.5 percent in June, the biggest monthly increase since last November. Very poor growing conditions in the Midwest will significantly reduce yields for corn and soybeans and this is already pushing up food prices. Consumer foods have nearly the same weight in the finished goods PPI as energy, so there is potential for a push to overall prices levels from higher food prices in the months ahead. While some are touting the disinflation pull of energy prices since March as an incentive for the Federal Reserve to launch another round of quantitative easing, core prices (everything except food and energy) are not softening. The core PPI for finished goods gained 0.2 percent in June, as it has in every month since March. Prices gains for light trucks, major household appliances and pet food pushed the core index up. Data for the consumer prices index for June will be released this Tuesday, July 17.
Consumer sentiment, as measured by the University of Michigan index, fell in July to 72.0, after falling in May. The break in the index since May marks the end of an improving streak that began last September. Consumers are relatively sanguine about current conditions, but the expectations component of the index has taken a dive. Initial claims for unemployment insurance fell by an eye-catching 26,000 for the week ending July 7. This was the biggest weekly drop since January. Two special factors distorted the numbers. First is the July 4th holiday and the second is the shorter-than-normal summer shutdowns at many auto assembly plants. It is a relief to see the increasing trend in initial claims through the second quarter finally broken, but the numbers, already muddy, will get muddier toward the end of summer, so interpretation will be tricky (situation normal).
Market Reaction: Equity markets opened with gains. Treasury yields are up at both ends of the yield curve. NYMEX crude oil is up to $87.09/barrel. The dollar is down against the yen and the euro.


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Buffalo Jills tryouts will take place March 5 at the Bills Fieldhouse next to Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park. Those who want to be a part of the team need to be at least 18 years old by March and attend twice-weekly practices Tuesdays and Thursdays. Jills also take part in numerous local events. The Jills appear at all home games.
There is no pay on practice or game days, but personal appearances pay $35 per hour. Jills get one ticket per home game for guests. Expenses-paid travel opportunities are available in some cases to visit military personnel. The Jills run a separate non-performing team for those without dance experience.
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(11/11/2013) Bali's luxurious Bulgari Resort will feature a seasonal six-course seasonal degustation menu fashioned by their executive sous chef Maurizio Bombini in concert with rare wines from Château Belgrave on Tuesday, November 19, 2013.
Presented in Bulgari's Il Ristorante, the distinguished Château Belgrave wine collection will be presented by Antoine Huray, the ambassador of the Haut-Médoc winery.
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One of the oldest wines in the Médoc, Château Belgrave is situated in Saint-Laurent and separated from the bordering Saint-Julien appellation by on a small stream.
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It's officially my favorite time of year! Pumpkin time! And not just because you get to buy one and carve it into a puuuurty jack-o-lantern, but also because you get to eat it!! (Pumpkin, not the jack-o-lantern).
Yup, yup… I love the pumpkin patches, the hay bales everywhere I look, the halloween decorations and the chill in the evening air. There's just nothing like it! I look forward to it all year long, and frankly, would love it if it were like that all year round!
Now I know you summer enthusiasts feel differently. But you won't change my mind on this. Autumn is the Best. Season. E.V.E.R.!!!!
So to celebrate the fact that I get to eat pumpkin again, I'm going to share with you a…….. PUMPKIN RECIPE!!!! Imagine that!
Not surprised? Well phoo. At least try to join in on my happy disposition, okay? Humor me here!
I had heard talk of pumpkin hummus before, so I gave it a whirl here recently. Literally. In my food processor. See what I did there? Ha!
I love to try different types of hummus, but I wasn't sure what to expect from pumpkin hummus. And after trying it, I have to say it's delicious, but I don't really taste a HUGE flavor difference from regular hummus. So I would be inclined to tell you that if you want to sneak some extra veggies into your eating plan, this is a great way to do it! Pumpkin is jam-packed with good-for-you nutrients, and this is a great way to get them without even realizing it!
I mean, hummus is good no matter what, right? So if you can squeeze a few extra nutrients into something you already love, why not do it?!?
- Clean Eating Traditional Hummus
- Clean Eating Taco Hummus
- Clean Eating Sun Dried Tomato and Olive Hummus
- 1 (15 oz.) can or home cooked chickpeas, drained & rinsed if canned
- ½ cup canned or home prepared pumpkin puree
- ¼ cup pure tahini, not tahini sauce
- 1 tbsp. garlic powder or 2 cloves roasted garlic
- 1 tsp. ground cumin
- 1 lemon, juiced
- Salt to taste
- ¼ tsp. cayenne pepper and paprika (optional - if you want it spicy)
- Water as needed
- Place all ingredients in a food processor. Blend until smooth, adding water as needed to get a consistency you like.


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Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.
In a Ziggy cartoon, it shows Ziggy putting up a canvas to paint on. He stands in front of it waiting for an inspiration of something to paint. Finally, a light goes off in his head and the cartoon shows a light bulb with emphases right above his head. The next frame shows him painting his great inspiration. Then the last frame displays his painting, which is a light bulb.
In using our talents and abilities, our inspirations may be plain like Ziggy's, or they may be really innovative. The most important thing about our gifts from God is that we must use them to honor God.


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From: Rick Mulholland <>
Subject: Looking for Anthony MARTIN from Aberdeenshire Scotland
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:03:40 -0700
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Hi all,
This is my first posting on this list. I apologize for the lack of
information to go on.
I am looking for:
Anthony MARTIN born: August 08, 1865 Inverury, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
I have information that Anthony was in the state of New York in 1907. He
was about to marry a woman with German ancestry. (this information was
contained in a letter from his mum to her brother in Illinois).
Anyone out there can assistant me in narrowing down where he was in either
1900 or 1910.
Rick Mulholland
Surrey, BC, Canada
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by Jim Algar
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 19, 2013
Smartphone owners patting themselves on the back for having had the foresight long ago to lock in a service plan featuring unlimited data at what now seems a bargain price may soon find the party's over.
U.S. wireless carriers are moving to cut off the feast of music downloads, movie watching and non-stop Internet browsing at bargain prices. They've fired the opening volley in a war in which their chief target is cheap, unlimited data.
Why? The answer can be summed up in a single word -- bandwidth -- and what it costs mobile carriers to provide enough of it to feed consumers' voracious appetite for data.
The first shot in the attack on cheap data plans was fired last week by T-Mobile.
The company said the legacy plans -- many of them featuring unlimited, uncapped data downloading -- will be terminated and subscribers will be moved to comparable but more expensive current plans, the carrier said, because it was "reducing the number of older plans in our systems."
In simpler language, T-Mobile -- and all wireless carriers -- are losing money as smartphone owners care less and less about calling and texting, turning into gluttons for music and movie downloads.
Global mobile data traffic in 2012 was nearly 12 times greater than traffic for the entire Internet in 2000, network equipment manufacturer Cisco reported.
And in 2012, mobile video traffic -- all those blockbusters being watched on smartphone screens -- exceeded 50 percent of mobile traffic for the first time.
Carriers struggling to provide sufficient bandwidth for all that mobile traffic are finding their network costs going up -- which means their profits are going down.
The bean-counters at the wireless carriers can no doubt spout a figure of the cost to the carrier for every gigabyte of data delivered to customers, which is why customers holding on to older, cheap unlimited plants are seen as a thorn in the companies' sides -- or at least at leak in their profits.
Carriers have taken a number of steps to make those unlimited plans history.
Some customers upgrading to a new, more powerful smartphone -- as most smartphone owners like to do at about 2-year intervals -- are finding their carriers insisting they sign up for a new data plan, removing the option of sticking with an existing plan for the new phone.
Verizon will allow customers to hold onto their older unlimited data plants when they upgrade, but only if they pay the full retail price for a new phone -- at $500 or $600 -- rather than the more normal $99 to $199 subsidized contract price.
Hardly cheap.
Also, the unlimited data plans at many carriers carry a "throttle" cap: When a user exceeds a set gigabyte limit -- usually about 2GB to 3GB -- the download speed for data is slowed to the point where it becomes almost unusable for data-heavy tasks like streaming video or Web browsing.
The writing is on the wall for unlimited, uncapped and unthrottled data plans, even for customers who try to stay under the radar by quietly sticking with their legacy "bargain" plans and forgoing the attraction of upgrading to a newer phone.
T-Mobile has seen to that. Other carriers are almost certain to follow.
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Here are a few stocks to keep on your radar:
- Shares of Sysco (NYSE:SYY) slipped 0.4% in early Tuesday trading, one day after a huge surge sparked by the company beating analysts' fiscal third-quarter earnings and revenue estimates.
- Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:ATVI) were off 2% after the company beat Wall Street's first-quarter expectations late Monday. The video game maker said second-quarter earnings would come in below current estimates but raised its forecast for full-year profit.
- Rackspace (NYSE:RAX) fell 1.1% after the company beat analysts' first-quarter revenue expectations but fell short with regard to profit.
- Nuance Communications (NASDAQ:NUAN) was off 0.7% after the stock rallied big on Monday after a report that the company has a potential partnership in the works with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL).
- Tyson Foods (NYSE:TSN) added 0.1% after the stock sold off on Monday after the company missed Wall Street's quarterly profit forecast.


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1998 Mercedes-Benz SL500 Reviews and Owner Comments
1998 Mercedes-Benz SL500 owners review and rate their 1998 Mercedes-Benz SL500.
Login to Review This Car
1998 Mercedes-Benz SL500 (2 Reviews)
1998 SL500 with 123k miles now. It has 32 valves and dual OHC. A pleasure to drive. From 1999 through about 2008 I think they have one OHC and 24 valves. I love the car but its like a mistress that always wants more. At 99,000 miles one hydraulic roof cylinder (they raise and lower the soft top) went out-1800; at 107,000 the transmission went-4,700 at AAMCO: to be fair, it may have gone out because a Dealer "flushed" the transmission which experienced people say not to do if you haven't done it regularly-it forces contaminants into the system: so 3 weeks later it went (I know now not to let anyone flush the transmission); the ignition lock jammed at 115,000 miles-1800 at a dealer; while the lock was under repair, the "soft top module" went on the fritz preventing the windows from closing completely: the dealer wanted almost 3,000 to replace it; I declined and read up on this by googling it; in a few weeks it went back to normal again, as I suspect the dealer knew it would (the soft top module goes haywire when a battery is disconnected-usually resets in a few weeks, but when it goes bad, its hellishly expensive to replace); engine work: 4,000; new flex discs; suspension repairs; seals that leaked; and on and on. Nothing is cheap to fix on it, and things you've never heard of seem to go bad suddenly--no wearing down, it just goes. I did learn-duh-to avoid the Dealers, since their prices are 3 to 4 times a good repair shop. Example: An ignition coil repair (like a spark plug) is about 400 at a dealer, 300 at another place close to work, but only 189 at the place I go to now, and their work is just as good. The 1994 S500 -a big tank of a car-was more durable than this 1998, and things rarely stopped working on that 1994. Benz has, I believe, downgraded its components and sells to new car buyers and is not interested anymore in anyone who keeps them after 60,000 miles. Can't say that's bad policy, but beware: My advice: buy it new while its covered by a warranty, or be prepared to spend a lot keeping it going.
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Rent a car "Val & Kar"Pazardjik
The town is situated along the two banks of the Maritsa river. It was founded under name of Tatar Pazardzhik in 1845 on the place of a previously existing sattlement. In the St.Bogoroditsa (God Mother) church is preserved the most impressive iconostatasis in Bulgaria witch was made by master artists of the Debar School and contains wood-carves scenes of the New and Old Testament; there are also icons painted by Stanislav Dospevski.
Pazardjik was found during the second half of the ХV century, on the left bank of the river Maritza, near the place of the market of the region. The favourable geographic position of the settlement-an important crossroad in the centre of a productive region-favoured its quick development. While it was a very little settlement at the beginning of the ХVІ century, it became an administrative centre of the region at the end of the century and remained as such until the Liberation.
During ХVІІ century the town continued to grow and strengthened its position. There prospered the trade with iron, leather, rice. It made the first impression to the visiting travellers with its beautiful houses and its clean streets.
In 1718 Gerard Kornelius Drish visited Pazardjik and he wrote "the buildings here according to construction, size and beauty stand higher than those of Nish, Sofia and all other places".
In ХІХ century Pazardjik is already a big and important centre of crafts and trade, with a population of about 25 000 people. In the town, a host of two big fairs, every Tuesday and Wednesday there was a big market. A fact was a functioning post office with a telegraph. In 1837 the church "The Virgin Mary" was built, a monument with national significance, famous for its architecture and woodcarving. In the middle of the century Pazardjik became an important cultural centre. In 1847 a class school was opened, and in 1848 - Girls' School. In 1868 a community centre was founded in the town and in 1870 - women's union "Prosveta".
During the Liberation War 1877-78, the town was fired by the retreating Turkish troops. It is liberated on 2. 01.1878 from the platoon of General Gurko. After the Liberation, the town grew and spread on the right bank of the river Maritza. At the end of the ХІХ century barracks and an agricultural school were built . From the beginning of the ХХ century people started to build factories, stores, houses and thus the industrial quarter of the town was built. From 1959 to 1987 Pazardjik is a centre of the region. With the last administrative division of the country from 1999 Pazardjik is a centre of a region already.


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I am the creator of this project, and I think it is quite unique and awesome. Toys to be passed down from generation to generation that everyone loves.
Enduro - Super high quality toy vehicles with amazing driving mechanics. Fully functioning steering and suspension, controlled by a finger or hand. Crafted with care from 100% sustainable materials and built to last for lifetimes. They just don't make them like this anymore.
-We are currently at day 2 and seem to have lost a lot of momentum, even though we've been chosen as a "project we love" by kickstarter. If you wouldn't mind checking the project out, I would really appreciate it!
Project Link:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/th ... gh-drivers
Campaign Video on YouTube:
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Everquest Next - Preview @ Forbes
Forbes has another preview for Everquest Next talking about expectations and speculation.
I sort of find sad when article like this says that EQNext is taking the genre in a different direction like it was an all new one. The current MMORPG market is composed mostly of lobby-games (queue for content!) and "esports" titles (no so much in content, but the number of self-proclaimed MMO players that are asking about competitive content makes me think that this is how some people perceive them).
MMORPG were about adventuring with others in a world. They were cooperative games at heart. That concept have been lost in the last few years, MMO updates are all about making more instanced dungeons or adding leatherboard and ranking systems now. SOE is trying to bring back adventuring into the genre, it's not moving forward, it's moving backward toward what MMORPGs used to be.
From what I saw from the reveal it's actually moving into the Minecraft area. It wa one of those "Don't mention …" presentations. Landmark even more so but I'm intrigued by server specific persistence, i.e. events might happen on one server which might never on the other. Only problem is if there are server merges, how are they going to reconcile them?
BTW, SOE already has a competitive sort of MMO in PlanetSide 2 so focusing on adventuring with EQNXT is a smart move. No use in one company offering 10 mmo's with the same type of content. In regards to server merges, there have been a few already with PlanetSide 2 so I hope they have a gameplan in regards to the differences between the server worlds (maybe the one with the largest pop gets to go on while the other is destroyed).
I do hope PlanetSide 2 gets worked into a bit less of a Tug of War game and we will finally be able to lock-out factions, as that one is now it's just a shooter with gigantic scale.
I like instances, to me that IS group-based. Where group-based is missing is from the 95% of the rest of the game. MMORPGs have shifted from being 100% group-based or mostly group-based to being 95% solo with entirely optional grouping til endgame and even then many MMORPGs continue to provide solo opportunities.
Solo is for single player games. What makes MMORPGs special is the potential for grouping that can go on for years. Or that's what made is special originally. The genre has shifted to try for broader and more casual appeal, which is a mistake, and it's why game after game have been considered failures and go from subs to F2P. They are not true to the genre and thus can't keep consistent populations like the older MMOs with more true designs did.
The other thing that the older MMORPGs had is challenge, and that is generally entirely lacking in modern MMORPGs. Not just optional challenge, mandatory challenge, content that makes you feel like you accomplish something when you do it. Nonstop solo ez-mode is just something to quickly pass time hoping to get to and endgame with challenges. It's rubbish that people blast thru in days. It's content that takes millions of dollars and years to make that players vaporize.
Even WoW, which people love to bash, had plenty of challenge at release. It was a good transition between the excessively punishing gameplay of old and the powder puff easiness of new. WoW has been refined and gutted to be suitable for play by infants but it wasn't always so excessively pathetic. Their stupefied approach has kept good numbers thru churn but driving away core players is finally catching up with them in their numbers.
I don't see EQNext really changing this. Console/action design, 8 skills in use at any one time (is way too simplistic), zero mention of group content in the reveal. Procedural content, player generated content - neato ideas, but not if they're geared towards soloists. You don't need an massively multiplayer online game for interesting solo content. Public quests aren't group content to me. It's a bunch of soloists zerging in the same space.
What many of us want is a return of more heavy group-based gameplay and some degree of difficulty beyond every brain dead one-armed chimp with no clue being able to solo everything in the game with ease.
I'd like to see one developer grow a pair of balls and make a real MMORPG. A game where you MUST group 95% of the time and can maybe solo 5% of the time. I think there's enough players who want something like this and it can be done without going back to camp and grind to extend leveling times and with modern trappings.
If people who think MMORPGs are all about solo choose not to play then that's a plus since IMO those people should be playing single player games.
Right now it's the reverse, and MMO after MMO either go F2P or start F2P because the game has no chance of retaining players like the classic biggies, because no game that's so easy that you can finish in 1-3 months is worth a sub - they are just semi-glorified single player games with tiny bits of grouping thrown in.
EQN *could* be that game but I'd bet cash that they are going for casual players and mostly solo. They're going F2P immediately which is pure trash. F2P is the worst thing to happen to the MMORPG genre for anybody who gives a crap about quality of gaming experience.
EQN will probably be a good game if they manage to hit even some of their dreams and talking points, but I doubt I'll consider it a good MMORPG, and it's not what a lot of people were hoping for.
Casual players who can't handle any kind of challenge, who prefer to pay to win instead of play to win, and who want to solo online next to other players you don't care about, rejoice! You'll have yet another game to flit around to, have zero loyalty to, and ultimately not care much about. Because the genre doesn't already have enough of this litter now.
EQNext is a sandbox, you might want to compare it to other sandboxes MMOs, like Asheron'Calls and Ultima Online.
Personally, I think SoE would be amazed at the response if they went more oldschool with Eq 3, and brought back some of the fun things of the past….having to travel the lands instead of instant travel, corpse runs, possibly losing all your if certain things occur. I think they'd make a killing with the older folks that might want some challenge back in their game.
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Over a week later I have finally posted some thoughts and my many thanks to all who made this event such a success. If you have a few minutes to spare, you can read it here.
Making the Most of the Post WordCamp Blues
It's over. We know, you're crushed.
If you're one of the few that are lucky enough to attend more WordCamps around the world then it's not quite so bad, but for most of us it's another full year until we get to enjoy something as awesome as WordCamp again.
However, we're here to help! There's so much more WordPress awesomeness in store for you, so there's no need to wait 363 more days.
1. Presentation Slides
Lucy Beer has put together a list of almost all the slides/presentations from WordCamp. A big thanks to Lucy!
2. Session Videos
All the session videos will be up on WordPress.tv in a few weeks so you can re-watch your favorite session or catch the one you missed.
3. Monthly Meetups
A large group of users, designers and developers get together every month and listen to speakers, talk WordPress, and even hack together. Join in for free or keep in touch with the group on the Seattle WordPress Meetup Page.
4. Code Poet
If you're a designer or developer working with WordPress you can check out the newly launched service from Automattic called Code Poet, which aims to help you improve your skills and offer helpful resources such as sample contracts, tips on pricing, and much, much more!
5. Feedback
Last but not least, in preparation for putting on an even more amazing WordCamp in 2013, we'd love your feedback on how this year's event was for you. If you haven't already, please take a minute to give us your feedback.
Thank you for your support and for making the Seattle WordPress community so strong. We look forward to bringing more educational and entertaining events to our community that we love so much!
~ Your WordCamp Organizers
Bob, Grant, Sheila, Bryan, Ben and Andrew
We Want Your Feedback
A huge thank you goes out to all the attendees, sponsors, speakers, volunteers and others who made WordCamp Seattle 2012 happen. We couldn't have done it without you.
In order to make WordCamp the best and most community oriented event as possible, please take a quick second to give us your feedback. We look forward to hearing what you loved about this year's event, and how we can make next year's even better. Cheers!
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Giving Thanks Where Thanks is Due
WordCamp Seattle wouldn't be possible without the people and companies in our community that step up to give their support. Today we give thanks to our Premium sponsors, who offered up their hard earned resources to help make this WordCamp happen. Whether they're using WordPress in their own companies or creating tools for others, these sponsors contribute and make our WP community strong. Take a moment to like and share these sponsors, give them a shoutout, or a big thank you… we couldn't have done this without their support.
Chris, better known as The Molitor, is a web designer and WordPress theme developer. An active author on Theme Forest, Chris is one of the more popular and creative theme developers around. Check out his themes and read more about him. @themolitor
FreshMuse is a small WordPress oriented design and development firm that focuses on creating rich, desktop and mobile experiences leveraging the power and flexibility of WordPress. They're also hiring. Read more about them and check out their available positions. @FreshMuseDesign
CyberChimps develops professional responsive premium WordPress themes and is responsible for some of the most popular themes in the theme repository. CyberChimps believes in supporting customers, designing premium products that just work, and giving back to the WordPress community. Check out their themes and give them a shout! @CyberChimps
Brave New Code creates amazing WordPress plugins. They are esponsible for some of the best premium plugins on the market, including WPtouch and WPtouchPro. Check out their awesome plugins and give them a shout! @BraveNewCode
Cool Blue Web helps people get the most out of the internet. Whether you need a website, application or just more traffic, they can help. From branding and design to databases and development, they have you covered! Check out their services and give them a shout! @CoolBlueWeb
Big Fish Games is a Seattle based interactive game company. With Big Fish Games, you'll discover something new every day. They offer a broad selection of interactive games that you can enjoy on your PC, Mac, mobile phone, or tablet. Check out their games and give them a shout! @BigFishGames
Still want to go to WordCamp? Need a ticket?
If you still want to go to WordCamp and need a ticket, check out the comments on our registration page. Several peeps are selling them!
And if you are closer to the top of the comment list, I have a few I am giving out and going down the list… so keep an eye out on your email inbox. Of course I am sending only to those I can contact… and if I don't hear back soon, I will move on to the next person…
Big Thanks
WordCamp Seattle wouldn't be possible without the people and companies in our community that step up to give their support. Today we highlight our Platinum sponsors who donated hefty sums to make WordCamp possible. From our unique venue at the Seattle Art Museum to t-shirts for every single attendee, our Platinum sponsors help make these things a reality for this year's WordCamp. Please take a moment and give them a shout on twitter, visit their sites, or give them a huge thank you.
"Because you make things with WordPress"
A resource for WordPress professionals from the people behind WordPress, Automattic. Check it out and sign up to get first access. @automattic
A Premium WordPress Theme Shop
Unique WordPress themes for all types of sites including just what you need, but absolutely nothing you don't. Less is always more. @press75
The Events Calendar PRO is a paid ad-on to the open source WordPress plugin The Events Calendar. PRO offers a whole host of event management features including recurring events, custom event attributes, saved venues & organizers, venue pages, advanced event admin & lots more. @ModernTribeInc
Technical collaborative work to improve interoperability between Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies, including WordPress! @OpenAtMicrosoft
UBER to WordCamp Seattle
We know you're all exciting and gearing up for WordCamp this upcoming weekend, but we thought we'd sweeten the deal a little bit. The very awesome @Uber_Sea is offering some free and discount rides for WordCamp attendees to and from WordCamp, so make sure to check out the details below and plan out your day accordingly. Cheers!
Uber is your key to a sleek ride anywhere in Seattle at any time with the tap of an app. From the quick pick up with a lovely driver to the fact that your fare is automatically charged to your card (tip included!), you'll love Seattle's most tech savvy and seamless towncar service. Download the Uber app to your phone and enter the promo code "SEA_WC" to get your first ride FREE! You can also sign up here: http://uber.com/invite/SEA_WC
To sweeten the deal, Uber is offering existing Uberers 50% off your ride to and from SAM! Just enter the promo code "SEA_WC50" before riding!
Need more Uber info?
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The After Party
5pm, Saturday May 19th. You have just completed what may go down in history as the best WordCamp of all time. You have connected with dozens of other WordPressers who are using WordPress in interesting and innovative ways. Why not continue the fun at the official WordCamp after party!?
Join us right after WordCamp for some socializing, food, and a drink (or two) at Kells, just up the block from S.A.M. It will be an informal, cover-your-own-tab sort of get-together, where you can mingle with other WordPressers in a relaxed and social atmosphere. We hope to see you there!
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Another Speaker Gives Us Her Insights on WordPress
Christine Winckler
Why do you love WordPress?
I love WordPress because it keeps things simple. I think in the development world people are moving past the mentality of giving software all the features they can, instead giving themthe right features, and WordPress really embodies that.
I've heard some criticize WordPress for its simplicity, but the overwhelming number of people flocking to WordPress shows it's onto something. Users can work in it without being overwhelmed, and coders don't need to learn some new templating language unique to WordPress.
All those people, in turn, enable us to add the features we want when we need them. The amount of plugins and themes available is pretty incredible. To get there, WordPress needs not only a robust development community, but lots of people out there consuming what they make, and it has that.
What is your favorite plugin?
Right now I'd say it's a plugin called Restricted Site Access. I like to develop online, and I use it to keep the things I'm working on away from the public. Just about every site I work on has it.
I like things that keep it simple, things that just work, without having to think about it. Restricted Site Access is not only reliable, but it's options blend right into the WordPress privacy page, you wouldn't know a plugin put them there if you didn't install it yourself.
I was working on a membership-only site recently. Wanting to give my client a lot of flexibility, I started with a feature-rich membership plugin. However, after finding it just wasn't working right I scaled back — and found Restricted Site Access did the job wonderfully and with much less ado.
What's the most interesting project you have ever done that involved WordPress?
I've done some interesting migrations from other systems into WordPress. These sites had two much content to make it practical for my client to move manually and there wasn't an importer available for them, so I had to work to put a export from them into WordPress's import format. Some features of those systems became huge roadblocks when I had to migrate their sites. It's made me appreciate how straightforward WordPress is; it would be a lot easier to move WordPress content somewhere else.
What is that one thing WordPress doesn't do that you wish it did?
I wish WordPress had an alternate configuration that would make it into a non-blog site at a much deeper level than simply giving it a static front page, or removing posts from the admin menu. It's no longer just a blogging platform, it's used for a lot of different kinds of sites. However, the blog functionality is still in many ways difficult to get away from. I've never had a client that wanted comments on their static pages, for instance, but that's still the default, and there isn't a setting that just turns it off. I want a button I can click that would make it so someone using WordPress for a non-blog site would never even know the blog functionality existed, and then be able click it again later to bring the blog back if they decided they wanted one. I've been gathering code snippets that one by one will bring me closer to this end, and at some point I may bundle them together in a free plugin.


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Have you ever sat down and drawn or painted a feather?
They're pretty decent for subject matter, lots of fun to try to make
a tromp l'oeil feather on your paper. But try to paint a whole bird-full?
I was trying to paint a new Eagle texture one day ::goes off into a long, tangental reminiscence, you can just skip to the chase, below::.... yes, I remember like it was yesterday. I needed a new texture for my eagle for the DAZ calendar contest. I had one, but no permission to use it. And it was low res. So I'm sitting there looking at the thing, and thinking: "How hard could this be? It's just a dark brown with these light golden brown curves delineating the feather edges." So I tried making a tileable pattern of dark brown with lighter lines as the feather edges. Well, you can imagine, it looked like somebody drawing third-grade feather scribbles. Not to mention the whole fool bird was tiled in this godawful pattern. So then I started painting individual feathers and stacking them in a rectangular tile pattern. Which also sucked.
So, painting feather groups was not happening. And then it hit me! I could paint the individual feathers, which I liked and was good at, and then HOSE them suckers on!!! :)
This tutorial is written specifically for PhotoShop 4 ('Shop) and Painter 5 (FDP), which I have. You may have other apps that can accomplish the same things. You need these following tools/options:
Feather Orientation: I paint my feathers with the tip down, and the end of the shaft up. If you prefer to paint them the other way, just remember to re-orient them (or your template) so they go in the right direction.
Painter3D for Poser 4 Note: This is located on your Poser 4 CDs somewhere. It has the FDP Image hose, and the added bonus that you can paint directly on your 3D models. I only use it for clean-up, however, as it is difficult to work with (more difficult than plain FDP!) See my Painter3D for Poser tutorial for more tips and instructions for working with this beast.
Hopefully you have good reference photos of your intended target. Study the various feather shapes and patterns on different parts of the body.
Open the template of the bird you are working on, and
size it up to how big you want the final texture map to be. 1200-1600
pixels is a decent size, even a tad small. This will give you an idea
of how big to make your base feathers.
Add a new empty layer and grab the pencil tool to draw the basic feather shapes and sizes over the template. Make one or two of each (a large feather and a small feather so you can see the range of sizes you want). For the wing covers, I usually do the right side and then mirror the finished wing to the left, so you only need to do feathers shaped to one side. (If they tend to curve inward, instead of lie straight.)
Once you have your feathers specced out, you can arrange them closer together, delete the template background, and crop the image down to only encompass your feathers (with extra space to make rows of them). You won't need the whole huge file to make the feather hoses.
Separate each feather type onto a new layer (or into
a new file, if you prefer). Draw a handfull of variants of differing
sizes and shapes. Seven is a good number. Just use the pencil
with a flat edge, you don't need to get fancy.
Once you have the variants, THEN you can get fancy. A hairy/furry smear tool can draw out some down at the feather bases. You can also smear in some transparency along the feather edge to create little notches. Some feathers have a very, well, 'feathery' edge, you can brush that out with the furry brushes, too. Some have hard edges, so leave the pencil line.
When you're done, you are ready to paint the shadows. Make a new layer under each feather group and use the airbrush and black to lightly shadow beneath the feathers. No, don't use "Paint Behind," we're going to use the feather layer "Preserve Transparency" to paint the feather colours on.
Make the shadows fairly light, feathers usually lie pretty flat to each other. If you are making an exceptionally sleek bird, you may not want to add shadows. But they are very useful in giving the feathers the proper depth and realism. Make the shadow further from the bottom edge of the feather, and very thin or non-existant near the base. Also make sure you darken the shadow inside any notches you have in the feather, this will help make them stand out.
When you're done, save the base feather file(s).
A sample of base neck feathers, breast feathers, and body feathers, with shadows painted under them.
I use grey, because I can't see white feathers against a white background!
Remember to turn on "Preserve Transparency" for the feather
base layer(s). Now select a base colour for the feathers you are working
on and scribble across the image with a large pencil so the feather bases
are filled in. Finesse comes later. :)
Now.... paint the feathers. You're pretty much on your own for this one. Here's some tricks I use. I use the burn tool near the feather base, where it will darken from being under other feathers (in addition to the shadows from feathers hosed above it). I used the dodge tool along the edge for lightly-edged feathers. For barred or spotted feathers, I use the paintbrush tool at 95% opacity. For especially soft feathers, I use a furry brush to feather out the marking. If the feathers show vanes, I use a thin and very strong burn or dodge and draw a quick stroke up the center of the feather shape.
Sparrowhawk body feathers, all coloured.
When the feather batch is all painted, grab the rectangle marquee selector (or lasso, if you prefer), and select each feather (get its shadow in, too, but not any bits of any other feathers/shadows), Copy Merged and Paste to new Layer. (In 'Shop, that's Shift-Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V.) You should end up with one feather (and it's shadow) on each layer. Toss out the original feather and shadow layers, and save the PSD file.
Now open FDP5; make sure the Image Hose/Nozzle window
is open, and the Floater palette. Open the PSD file of your feathers.
In the Floater list, Shift-select each layer, and group them. Under
Nozzles, select "Make Nozzle from Group."
A new window pops open with the feathers all nozzle-ized. It may not look pretty, don't worry about it. Save this new RIF file (use the same name as the PSD file to keep thing straight). Now under Nozzles, select "Load Nozzle," and find the file you just saved. Then, under Nozzle again, choose "Add Nozzle to Library." You can keep the default name, or make a new one, if you like. (FDP5 makes you go roundabout this way, later versions may make it easier to create a hose from a group and shove it in the library. Check your manual.) Close the PSD and RIF files.
You may want to create a new library for your feather hoses. If you have a lot of feathers, you may want to create one for each bird, the FDP5 nozzle drawer started flaking out when it had too many nozzles to be able to list in the drop-down list.
Now comes the fun part! (Finally!) Take a moment to reflect back on all that painting you used to do on bird bodies, because that's all going to be a faded memory from now on. :)
In FDP, open your bird template. Orient the template
so it matches your feather orientation. For example: the Big Wing Eagle
template has the bird lying sideways. My feathers face downward, so
I rotate the template so the body is vertical. The legs on that template
are vertical, so I rotate it back to paint those.
I have the template in a semi-transparent layer above the background I am painting on, so I can still see it as I paint. Be careful not to paint on the wrong layer/floater if you do this.
Select the appropriate feather for the tail area, and
start spraying them on. I used "Medium Random Spray." Spray the
belly and breast feathers on, working upward so they overlap properly.
Make sure you get good coverage, keep spraying until there are no white
spots between the feathers. Use a marquee selection to contain your
spraying, or plan to otherwise protect the non-feather areas of your image,
and overlap the spray well outside the borders of the template. Messiness
Counts! Also make sure the feathers are overlapping well. You
shouldn't see the base of any feathers that are not partly covered by other
feathers above them.
Spray the back feathers on the back, so they overlap the belly feathers where the two types of feathers meet. The back feathers may show a lot of variation in size, so use the Nozzle scaling slider to change the size of the feathers you are spraying on. For the Big Wing Eagle, I spray 100% sized feathers at the tail, then 110% over the hips, and then decrease down to 100, 96, and even down to 86% as I work towards the head. (No reason for using 96/86 instead of 95/85, except that's where the Nozzle scale slider naturally falls. This is not an exact science!)
Starting out the Peregrine body feathers.
Get the neck feathers out and spray them onto the neck area, working upward and overlapping. Shrink the feathers and work towards the head, overlapping into that area. Then get the head feathers and spray those on. These may be too small to work properly with the "Medium Random Spray," so try "Small Random Linear" for the head feathers. This will make them march out in neat rows, but that's okay. Follow the head contours with the feathers, working back to front. You may also want to shrink the head feathers down very small to fill in the head area with more detail. Use the different colours to delineate the head pattern.
You may wish to only paint one side of the head, then
mirror it, to keep the pattern symmetrical. For the rest of the body,
however, the more random the feathers are, the better. Remember, we're
trying to AVOID the "I'm a tiled feather pattern" look. :)
Also don't worry too much about if the feathers will match up at the seams. With all that visual activity going on, the seams are hardly noticeable. You can fix them in Painter3D if you like.
Also paint the legs and wingcovers, using the same techniques. Cover up all white space (and then some) and overlap the feathers bottom to top.
I like to finish up in 'Shop, because I find it easier to work with. If your head and neck feathers are too.... feathery, use the hairy smear tool to brush them out a bit. Feathers on the head are especially fine, even more like fur. Use a light pressure (55% or so) and short strokes that follow the direction of the feathers. Be sure not to mess up any head/neck patterns you have in place.
When that is done, I load up P3D to do the mirroring
of the head feathers. That way, there is no guesswork as to whether
I've got the two sides lined up.
Also check under the wings, to see if any back feathers got on the belly area -- and look on the back to see if any belly feathers are up too high. You can fix this up pretty quickly in P3D if you copy an area of feathers and paste them, and move them into position on the model. You can erase edges of the new Floater/Layer to blend it with the rest of the texture. If you can figure out how to make the P3D clone tool work, you can use that as well. (I'm not Painter proficient, I can't seem to get the clone tool to clone from one area to another. Have to read up in the manual!)
As noted above, the Hose works in P3D, but if you turn your template, you can't see where the feathers are spraying onto the model, until you turn it back. Also, while it is turned, you can't spray directly ON the model. Yes, that works. Keep in mind P3D's propensity to zip lines across your template as you cross seam areas. It will do this with the hose images, too.
Okay, the party's over. For flight feathers, you have to do actual work again. :/ Flight feathers are the tail and wing feathers, and hopefully they are clearly delineated on your texture template.
The first thing you want to do is to create the bump map, especially if you want the feather vanes to stick out, and have their colour maps match their locations! If there is already a bump map (in greyscale, not a bum), you can use that one.
To make the vanes, fill your feathers with black. Now we'll use the Path tool to make smooth, sweeping vanes.
A row of feathers with vanes, and the path used to make them.
First, go to the first feather you want to paint, and
draw the path with two endpoints along it. Adjust the curve so it is
nice and smooth and natural looking. Now you can stroke the path with
several tools and keep them all lined up. First select the paintbrush
tool, and set it's Fade Out rate so it tapers to the end of the stroke.
The number of steps depends on the length of your path and all, so
just guess and try it out until it seems right. The paintbrush should
not draw all the way to the end of the path. You may need to stroke
the path 2 or 3 times with the paintbrush to be sure you get a strong white
at the base, at least. Then switch to the smear tool, with a low percentage
(try the 50-60% range), and Stroke the Path with that a few times, until
a the vane tapers out near the end of the feather in a thin, faint line.
(It may be possible to get the right effect with one carefully calculated
fading out Paintbrush stroke, but I don't have that kind of patience.)
When the first vane is done, move the path ends to the next feather and adjust the curve to match it. Repeat the Stroking sequence. Yes, do this for every feather. But don't worry, you can copy this set over for the wing underside (if there's one on your template) and mirror it for the other wing.
Do the wing flight feathers, and the tail feathers. If you want to make other bumps elsewhere, go ahead, that's not covered in this tutorial. Save the bump map, and then copy it to two new layers over the colour image where your wings are. (Or make a new one if you haven't started painting anything yet.)
I found it best to work it this way: Set one copy of the bump map to "Lighten" mode, and use that on the underside of the wings and tail. Invert the other copy and set it to multiply, and use it over the top sides of the wings and tail. Erase out any sections of the layer that you're not using.
Now to put on the colour of the flight feathers. Make a new empty layer, and grab the pencil tool again. Select a colour that matches the mid-tone of the feathers' main colour. If you're doing white feathers, use a light grey. Draw over the template so the feather areas are covered properly. Turn on "Preserve Transparency."
You can just go in with the paintbrush/airbrush, burn and dodge tools to paint on the feather patterns and colours..... but if you want to be insane like me, you can make the texture with the little featherette barbel striations. Here's how:
Select a colour that is a few shades lighter than your
base colour, and set your airbrush to "Dissolve" mode. I use about
12% opacity with the airbrush, and this works well with this technique.
Spray dots down the vane of the feathers (you should be able to see
them if you have the converted bump map layers turned on), closer to one
side -- I use the outside of the feathers for the light side. Then
change to a colour a few shades darker than your base colour, and spray on
dark dots up and down the feather shafts.
When your feathers are all dotty, use a furry smear tool at about 53% to brush out the dots into light/dark striations along the feather. Start at the vane and brush outward at an angle to it, and do one side of the feather. Overlapping at the vane, brush out the other side. Make sure you don't leave any dots lying around. Also be careful not to brush any transparency/white into your feather from outside it.
Grey feathers in the process of being striated. The feather layer is set to 97% opacity so I can see the template beneath it, to make sure I get the striations out to the edges, but not onto the edges of the neighboring feather.
Okay, one you torment yourself with that (or skip it, if you've
a mind to -- remember you only need to do one side, then paste and mirror
the rest), then you can paint the feather patterns and colour variants on
with the regular airbrush, and the burn and dodge tools.
Turn the feather layer slightly transparent if you need guidelines to keep stripes straight, etc. Other than these tips, you're on your own with your painting skills for these guys. Remember Brightness/Contrast and Hue/Saturation are helpful if you're trying to make washed out undersides of feathers. ;)


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Producing one H-bomb would have diverted enough resources to produce 80 atomic warheads.
In the arena in Charlotte, former president Clinton detonated the H-bomb of the 2012 campaign: the Medicaid issue.
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That much energy, released in a few millimicroseconds, would make the standard H-bomb look like a candle flame on a foggy night.
In the past thirty years of H-bomb jitters, who had not dreamed of explosions?
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vegetation, large trees, and a series of small farm buildings were cleared, and massive holes were dug for the foundations.
She was the 'great mother' who fostered all vegetation and agriculture.
Am kind of eager myself to take a look at some of the vegetation hereabouts.
I love dear wild spots in a garden when vegetation admits of them.
It is a barren rock, and you will hardly see a speck of vegetation on the whole of it.
As a god of vegetation, a king would not eat vegetables any more than a savage usually eats his totem.
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