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Shaghayegh Claudia Lynx was born in Tehran, Iran to a Persian father and Mother. Her mother died at the age of 24 (a few minutes after giving birth to Claudia). The family of four (including her Father, older brother, and their nanny who was like a mother to the kids) moved out of Iran to Europe when Lynx was only three months old, and have never returned since. Claudia was destined to be in front of the camera, and the family knew she was in love with acting at a very young age, and she began her life as an actress and model in Europe at the young age of three, appearing in various TV shows, commercials, and various ads in Europe and Canada. and now Internationally. Claudia came to prominence in 2000 as the first Persian born Actress/ Model who brought the western culture into the Persian entertainment market. Her smash hit singles "Oh Daddy" and "Chareh Chieh" (2000) and a couple more songs were recorded at the age of sixteen and was done intentionally for a demo sample when her former management released it a few years later without the consent of Claudia Lynx herself.
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Ok, so season 3 jumped almost 7 months into the future, showing Lori pregnant, everyone with ALOT more fussy hair and Carl alot more grow up.
Also in season 2 finale you could see people wearing heavy and warm clothes, this occurs in Season 3 aswell.
So, I thought, since the shooting of Season 4 starts 6th may 2013, it will be early summer and pretty damn hot in Georgia, do any of you think they will time-skip?
If they do...
Will they kill off some characters while they are living there through the winter
What WILL happen?
Will TG(The Governor) go far away meanwhile, and plot his revenge?
Will Rick go back to the road and get TG's vehicles?
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Kodal Minerals Plc / Index: AIM / Epic: KOD / Sector: Mining
19 October 2016
Kodal Minerals Plc ('Kodal Minerals' or 'the Company')
Update on Kodal Project
Kodal Minerals, the mineral exploration and development company, announces that it has requested a temporary withdrawal from the planning process for its non-core phosphate and titanomagnetite project in Southern Norway (the "Kodal Project"). This is in line with the Company's strategy to prioritise development of its recently acquired high grade lithium projects in Mali and its wider gold portfolio in West Africa.
The Kodal Project was fully impaired by the Company in its financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2015 in response to the dramatic fall in the price of iron ore. The Company was seeking to continue to progress the planning process but was not undertaking any further exploration or development work on the Kodal Project.
The Company has now determined to withdraw from the planning process so as to avoid expending further management time or incurring additional costs. The Company has written to the relevant municipalities requesting a temporary withdrawal from the planning process on the basis that the Kodal Project is not currently economically viable and that this is unlikely to change in the short term. The licences remain valid until July 2023 and the Company may seek to restart the process if the economics of the project improve in the future.
Bernard Aylward, CEO of Kodal Minerals, said: "The excitement around, and potential value of, our recently acquired lithium assets in Mali, combined with the continued low level of the iron ore price, has prompted this pragmatic decision from the Board. We are now directing the majority of the Company's capital and management time towards West Africa and the areas of the business which we believe hold the most near term value for shareholders and we look forward to providing news from this core portfolio of assets in due course."
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text: Maybe getting rid of the S3(s). Have any of you current S3 owners driven a S5 before? - any thoughts on performance and handling in comparison to the S3? Got an appointment with my local Audi dealer next friday to discuss this as an option on change but I can't help thinking about the new M3 or a Porsche Cayman? (See, no Audi blinkers here ) Wondering if the S5 would be a disapointment in comparision considering the relatively minor price difference. This would be my first proper 'grown up' big car, before this i've only ever owned 3 door hatchbacks (Civic, Golf GTI's and 2 S3's) but i've run out of performance in that type of car really without modifying it to the hilt...not really sure about getting a fairly large car considering i'm 25, single with no dependents


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I wanted to take a moment, now that the end of semester gradefest has died down, to highlight upcoming grant deadlines and events that will take place at Notre Dame this spring.
1) Grants! Research Travel Grants (for travel to the ND archives) and the Hibernian Research Award (for research on an Irish or Irish-American subject) are due December 31. Additionally, you can gear up for the next round of Theodore M. Hesburgh Research Travel Grants, which support research projects in any academic discipline that draw on the Hesburgh papers. These are so great for any projects involving government, international relations, etc, during the mid 20th century. They are due April 1.
3) Retirements! From the point of view of history of religion, we have two very significant retirements this year at Notre Dame: Thomas Kselman and Mark Noll. I interviewed Professor Kselman for this blog last fall, and a symposium in his honor will be held at Notre Dame on March 9.
Mark Noll's students have organized a multi-day conference for March 30-April 1. There is much more information available here, and while I would under other circumstances say more in this space, we will be devoting our March 21 post to a conference preview. Please do explore the site and register for the conference, and if you are not able to travel for it, be assured that we will cover it here.
4) Conferences!
The Seminar in American Religion will meet on April 1 to discuss John T. McGreevy's new book, American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global (Princeton, 2016). Commentators for this seminar are Thomas Bender of New York University and Laurie Maffly-Kipp of Washington University in St. Louis. Most readers of this blog are familiar with the Seminar, but just in case: it meets twice annually and is open to the public. Commentators address the book before discussion is opened to the audience, which generally consists of scholars from across the Midwest. More information is available by writing to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Finally, Cushwa's spring semester will conclude with an international conference titled "Too Small a World: Catholic Sisters as Global Missionaries," which will meet from April 6-8 at Notre Dame. The conference program and registration information are available here.
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Our fall newsletter is available here. As usual, it contains not only a variety of event recaps, conference announcements, interviews, and upcoming deadlines, but also a roundup of recent book and article publications in American religious history and in international Catholic history. The spring newsletter has a submission deadline of January 15, and will become available in March.


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everyone tells me I look really innocent, guys and girls, and its bugging the crap out of me :/ I wanna look more edgy but no matter what, I always get 'omg I can't believe you did that, you look so innocent!'
i drink and smoke lol not to get reactions out of people though haha
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HP's NEW CEO FAILS TO IMPRESS WALL STREET
Apotheker stresses more focus on software and IT services
SAN FRANCISCO — Shares of Hewlett-Packard Co. slipped 3% Friday morning as Wall Street reacted with a mix of puzzlement and dismay to the naming of Leo Apotheker as the tech giant's new chief.But some analysts portrayed the decision to hire the former SAP boss as a potentially smart move, as H-P seeks to expand its reach in the increasingly competitive and consolidating market for corporate information technology.
Apotheker offered more clarity on the thinking behind the choice as he affirmed in a call with analysts H-P's global strength as a hardware company, while noting the need for the tech giant to focus on two key areas: software and high-end corporate IT services. "H-P is grounded in the hardware business," he said. "There are few companies if any on the planet that could even come close to H-P's capability when it comes to hardware. I bring to the table an asset that H-P is less grounded in. That's software and to a certain extent, high-added value services."Apotheker portrayed software as a key link to making H-P more competitive, saying: "I believe H-P should be more valuable than the sum of its parts. And we believe that software is sort of the glue to make that happen.""Software is how we can make sure that various parts of our technology actually fit well together," he continued. "It's not only software. Also higher-value-added services are increasingly an important component in the strategy as well."
His first comments on a webcast as H-P's new leader didn't appear to ease investor worries. Shares of the company lost another $1.28 in early trades to $40.80, after falling sharply in after-hours trading on Thursday after the CEO announcement.Wells Fargo analyst Jason Maynard called the choice "a surprising and very non-consensus move.""He isn't familiar to most hardware investors and those that do, might have a mixed view given his departure from SAP," Maynard added in a note. "During Apotheker's tenure as CEO, SAP had a very strong run but waned at the end as the company was challenged to bring organically developed products to market in a very difficult IT spending climate."
Still, he cited as positive the fact that Apotheker is an "external candidate with a different perspective, and deep enterprise experience."He also noted that "it seems that H-P is admitting they need some work with their enterprise business."
Gartner analyst Martin Reynolds echoed this view, saying in a phone interview that, in the corporate arena, H-P's businesses are mainly focused on products that "appeal below the CIO," or the chief information officer."The challenge for H-P is to get above that," Reynolds added.H-P is considered a powerhouse player when it comes to business IT equipment, from personal computers and servers, to printers, many of which are viewed as commodities.
But unlike such players as IBM Corp and Oracle Corp., the company is still not much of a player in the high-margin IT software and services arena."They need to be appealing to the CIO and above, not the CIO and below." Reynolds said.That's where software and IT services are key, he added. "CIOs have a much harder time with software than they do with hardware. Software shapes the way businesses run. This is isn't just about software. It's about going to the next level."


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I was curious for those of you out there using a solid state drive for gaming.. In your not-so-much-spare-time *cough*... how much of a difference do you notice?
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Jun 25, 2010 at 10:26 UTC
To expensive. With all the crap that I have, I will need 1TB. So SSD is out of my price range. I got 6 drives in a raid.
I can only imagine that they will rock! very fast for gaming.
Jun 25, 2010 at 10:34 UTC
I've not been a PC gamer for awhile, I think return to castle wolfenstein was the last one I spent much time in. However, I would expect having huge amounts of real RAM would be of much more benefit.
Does your hard drive get a ton of hits while you're playing? If play ever stutters, is your hard drive thrashing at that time? I would expect those to be the biggest indicators that your Hard Drive's slowing performance.
Jun 25, 2010 at 11:12 UTC
i switched to the super talent ultra drive ME, setup in raid, its night and day compared to the valociraptor's much faster, they were designed for notebooks so Id imagine that there are faster units out there from WD and OCZ.
Read/Write Speed260MBps / 195MBps
Jun 28, 2010 at 8:31 UTC
I haven't made the switch yet but a coworker has. He's loving it. Loads everything ultra fast. Also Alt-Tabbing out to check guides while in game is ridiculously fast.
Jun 28, 2010 at 9:01 UTC
10 drives there ~30GB for under $100, all will give you a more than noticeable boost in OS boot time and any situation which causes swapping. You get better performance from more expensive drives, but that's always the way.
30GB is more than enough for your OS, browser, apps, and a game or two. If you play more than that, get a bigger SSD. 60GB for $130 - $30 rebate on same page.
I'm getting one next. It's my birthday present to myself.
Jun 28, 2010 at 9:44 UTC
its worth noting that if you can afford it, set it up in a raid, its extremely fast. I couldn't believe the difference at first and thought perhaps I was being visited by the green fairy again.
Jun 28, 2010 at 10:06 UTC
I just setup a computer for a friend who had a deep budget on a gaming computer. Went with SSD's and load of RAM...Although I am not sure which one made the difference!!!
Jun 28, 2010 at 10:10 UTC
Using 4 small (60GB) SSD on a RAID 0... unbelievable. It's almost like stuff will open before you release the click. ;) Very fast. I pulled the memory from 4GB down to 1GB... still fast. SSD is the way to go and putting 4 on a RAID 0 stripe is mind-blowing.
Jun 28, 2010 at 12:18 UTC
you can pick up an IBM laptop , err crap cant remember the model but there S&D for $190 they contain 128gb SSD's :-) I placed an order for 3 of them from tech- reclamation inc, in California. essential getting a laptop and ssd for 200 bux. I duno if there any good but I will know in a few days when they arrive if they left the SSD in or replaced it with a sata
Jun 30, 2010 at 9:48 UTC
I use SSD on my gaming machine, but honestely only for the OS, not to host the games.
The games are in a regular 7200 rpm drive. There is really not use to install the games in a SSD drive, since the only improvement you would find is on loading times. Still for games the money is better spent on a video card and decent CPU.
As for using a SSD drive to boot windows, it does make a difference, but I don't use the SSD to install any programs or games (I only have a 30 GB drive)
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Why do I get headaches all the time? I get them literally all of the time. I wake up with them and go to bed with them, but then I can go a day or two with not having one, which is a relief. I can not think of a trigger like being tired or bright lights, but they just appear and cripple my head. I have been given amitriptyline to take the night of a headache but it does not really work and neither does paracetomol. How can I treat them?READ MORE
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There are many, many causes for headaches and possible triggers for Migraines. Without knowing your diagnosis, it's difficult to know what type of information to give you. Amitriptyline is usually prescribed to take daily to prevent Migraines and headaches, so it doesn't give me much of a clue that you're to taken it "the night of a headache."
If these are Migraines, you can find information on possible triggers in Common Migraine Triggers.
Something to watch is how frequently you use paracetamol. If you use it more than two or three days a week, it can make matters worse by causing other headaches called medication overuse headaches. You can find information on this in Medication Overuse Headache - When the Remedy Backfires.
This would be a good question to follow up on with your doctor too. He or she should be able to help you determine the cause or triggers of your headaches or Migraines. Once you've determined that, maybe you'll find that some of them are avoidable.
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I went to the minor injuries unit at the Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield this evening. I tore a muscle and did some self care on it. After a week it felt like it was getting worse not better. I was walking with great difficulty using a walking stick and some big bruises started appearing. I was worried that this was a sign of a problem. I was seen in 5 minutes by a really competent nurse who checked to see it wasnt anything more serious, told me what exercise might help, gave me some crutches because I'd been finding it hard to use the walking stick, gave me some pain killers and referred me for physio. I felt reassured that things were not really getting worse. The information that it would take a long time to heal stopped me worrying about the fact that a week had gone by without any sign of improvement. It was a great service.


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10-05-2008 #1Starlight Guest
Spoil the First Level of The Conduit on Nintendo Wii for Yourself
IGN has posted footage of the entire opening level of The Conduit, a generous fifteen minutes of action in which hero Mr. Ford takes down enemy marines, shoots up bipedal "Drudge" warriors, and charges down corridors.
Then some more corridors. And then even more corridors. Seriously: there's a lot of corridors in this. A lot of conduits, even.
Videos courtesy of IGN can be viewed below.. Enjoy!
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10-05-2008 #2Tidusnake666 Guest
Haha, it looks like Red Steel meets... meets... um... uh... Red Steel!
Anyways, great videos, can't wait for the game!
10-08-2008 #3p00chie Guest
looks strange for me and hopefully the game will feature a lot of gameplay. looks nice what they can get out of the wii. the textures don't look very good to me. it's wii like. maybe the devolopers should stick with party games or jump&run or maybe adventures but i cannot see that a fps will work on the wii. anytime...
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Fertility is Ageist campaign media release 2014Download the PDF (120 KB)
Media release – embargoed for release until 7am, Monday, March 17
Misconceptions can mean missed conception
Focus groups run by the Fertility Coalition as part of the Your Fertility project have revealed
misconceptions in the community that could affect couples' aspirations to have a family, or the number of children they want. Asked ʻHow old is too old to have a baby?', some responses were:
• ʻI don't think you can be too old. I think it's up to the individual and how they feel.'
• ʻI think it's health more than age.'
• ʻIt depends on the person.'
The focus group comments reflect findings of a national Fertility Coalition survey that revealed 80% of Australians did not know women's fertility starts to decline in the early 30s. A third of women and more than half the men surveyed thought women's fertility started to decline at 40, that age didn't affect fertility or they didn't know when fertility starts to decline. ʻThe misconception that you can have a healthy child at any age may have emerged from comforting messages that don't take into account biological reality and the latest research,' Fertility Coalition spokesperson Louise Johnson said.
Today the Fertility Coalition released two new videos at www.yourfertility.org.au with reproductive biologists talking about the effect of age on fertility for men and women. The video ʻWomen, age and fertility' features researcher Dr Melanie McDowall, from Fertility Coalition partner the Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide. Laureate Professor John Aitken from the University of Newcastle presents the ʻMen, age and fertility' video. The videos are part of a national public education project, Your Fertility, which aims to inform all Australians about the key factors that affect their ability to conceive and have healthy children. This month the Your Fertility project is focusing on the impact age has on fertility with a ʻFertility is ageist' social marketing campaign. Ms Johnson said the belief that good health will ʻtrump' a woman's age does not factor in the reality that a woman is born with all the eggs she will have in her lifetime and these age with her. While good health will help with conception and having a healthy baby, age is the single biggest factor affecting a woman's fertility.
A woman's fertility starts to decline in her early 30s, with the decline speeding up after 35. At 40, a
woman has a 5% chance of conceiving in any given month. Maternal and paternal age can both be
risk factors for miscarriage and stillbirth.
Success stories for older celebrities have contributed to the misconception that IVF will help
couples to have a baby at any age. The reality is that for every initiated IVF cycle in 2011, only
6.6% Australian women aged 40-44 who were using their own eggs had a baby. For women over
45 the success rate was 1.2%. Recent research has also highlighted the risks of older men fathering children. A University of Queensland study of the health records of 2.9 million people showed that children of older fathers were at increased risk of schizophrenia and other mental health disorders, autism spectrum disorders and mental retardation. A man's fertility starts to decline at 40. 'We're aware that age is something you can't control, and not everybody wants children or is in a position to have a child,' Ms Johnson said. 'But we want people to know the facts so they can make informed choices. If your relationship is ready, have the conversation about having a family sooner rather than later.'
The Fertility Coalition is the Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority, Jean Hailes for
Women's Health, Andrology Australia and the Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide.
Your Fertility is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health. For further information
visit www.yourfertility.org.au.


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I love fibers, weaving and lace. Here is my first attempt at creating an original tangle, or doodle pattern. You can use this to create your own Doodle drawings or Zentangle(r)-inspired drawings. Feel free to share.
I love fibers, weaving and lace. Here is my first attempt at creating an original tangle, or doodle pattern. You can use this to create your own Doodle drawings or Zentangle(r)-inspired drawings. Feel free to share.
This beautiful ring is the perfect answer to setting a faceted point-back rectangular or square stone. It is highly recommended using a transparent stone so that the intricate work can be seen through. [button href="http://www.jewelrylessons.com/tutorial/swirly-base-ring" size="large" textcolor="#ffffff"]Learn how to make this ring![/button]
This tutorial was classified as Advanced because it takes quite a bit of fiddling to get the cradle just right for the faceted stone!
Amethyst faceted stone, Rose goldfilled wire
Copyright 2014 Eni Oken
This is yet another one of my heart paintings, this one exploring ribbons. The original image was inked on paper, then scanned and painted digitally using Procreate software. Normally I like to create deep 3D shading using pencil and a blending stump, but with this app I am able to reproduce the effect identically (it even has a little blending tool).
Here is the original line-art:
Copyright 2014 Eni Oken
This sweet pink daisy pendant is a design that I have enjoyed making for many years. I am finally coming around to making a tutorial on it. It's a fun design that is always well received when gifted! The center coin stone rose quartz, surrounded by sterling silver and pink topaz faceted rondelles.
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Copyright 2014 Eni Oken
This Carved Heart was created in inked line art and shaded using pencil+blending techniques. [clear]
I liked the results so much I made a tutorial on how to shade the various elements, one step at a time.
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The tutorial has 19 pages and 41 Illustrations, showing step by step how to shade a doodle heart drawing. Includes the line art for you to try it yourself!
This is not a video tutorial. You must be familiar with some basic drawing skills such as ink line drawing, and also how to use a pencil and blending stump.
Copyright 2014 Eni Oken
I've been experimenting with digital painting, and these are my latest results. I wanted to create an example of a heart design with several terminals.
To produce the picture "Worm Heart" (don't you like the little pun?), I first started with an ink drawing over paper. I avoided adding any shading using pencil this time, since I wanted to see how it would work using the app.
After the sketch was ready, I simply photographed it using my Ipad. The image was then brought into a fun app I'm trying out called Procreate, which is very similar to Adobe Photoshop. I experimented with various painting apps on the ipad, and my two favorites so far are Procreate and Sketch Club. They are both pretty similar, but I find the interface of Procreate to be cleaner and faster.
I'm using an Adonit Ipad pen, which is a pressure sensitive pen on the Ipad, and that makes it easier to paint. It's not quite as responsive as a tablet connected to the computer, but the convenience of painting on the Ipad is worth it.
In Procreate, I created several layers and painted the shading first. By shading in grey scale, it really allows you to see what you want to enhance. The shading is what makes the image look three-dimensional, but this is not a 3D-program, it's all painting effect.
Finally, after that, I added another few layers and painted the colors. The colored layer looks a little messy when seen by itself, because some of the coloring simulates bounce light on the picture.
Here are also two work in progress screens captured from Procreate:
I hope you like it! You can see larger pictures here: Worm Heart.
This a digital painting, experimenting with an Ipad app called Procreate. Similar to Photoshop, very fun to use, for the ipad, you can see two work-in-progress screen captures here too. The image was originally drawn in ink over paper, then scanned into the ipad and colorized.
Ink drawing over paper; digital painting.
Copyright 2014 Eni Oken
This a digital painting, experimenting with an Ipad app called Procreate. Similar to Photoshop, very fun to use, for the ipad, you can see two work-in-progress screen captures here too. The image was originally drawn in ink over paper, then scanned into the ipad and colorized.
Ink drawing over paper; digital painting.
Copyright 2014 Eni Oken
When drawing a whimsical drawing or doodle, there are a few things you can do to make the entire design look a little bit more 3-dimensional: 1) Add drop shadow Drop shadow is the easiest way to create dimensionality of an item right away. Essentially, it simulates the shadow that is cast down from the object.
2) Object Shading This is the second easiest way to give dimensionality to a surface. Thinking of the entire object, shade or color the EDGES darker as to give a rounded effect.
3) Highlight shaded object To increase the shininess of a surface, add a white highlight (if you are coloring with pencil, then you can use a dab of acrylic paint or even leave some highlight spots uncolored.
4) Overlapping objects Whenever possible, try to overlap objects so that they appear in front of others, covering the ones in the back only partially. If you add the drop shadow on the objects that are in front, these two effects will greatly enhance the dimensional feeling of the picture.
5) Warm colors advance, cool colors recceed If you plan to color your doodle drawing, then use mostly warm colors (red, orange, pink, yellow) on the objects you want to stand out; use mostly cool colors (green, blue, purple) on objects which you want to stay in the background or behind others.
View the original image here.
I create this drawing of a whimsical heart back in January 2013 and asked my Mom to add it as a decal on to her ceramics. We worked on this joint project for a few months now, she made several plates by hand, with the idea of giving them as presents to our loved ones on this Mother's day of 2014. Mind you, the interesting part is that my mother lives in Brazil, so I emailed her the scanned image and she had it printed in special ceramics decal down there. Turned out awesome!!!!
Image Copyright 2013 Eni Oken
Ceramics by Sueli Epstein
According to some, black agate is supposed to bring prosperity, success and luck, and also has strong healing powers. I made this sweet pendant as a birthday present for someone who I wish all these wonderful things. I think the back is also interesting, right? Black agate, gold-filled wire.
The cabochon in the center was attached with a Net Bezel. Want to learn how to make it? Visit this page
Copyright 2014 Eni Oken
This is an experimental digital painting: I sketched the heart out very simply, and painted over with an Ipad app called Procreate. This is a regular painting program similar to Photoshop, it is not 3D. I wanted to see if I could simulate gold just using 2-dimensional brushes, and I'm happy with the results. [clear]
"Heart on a wall" - Digital Painting
Copyright 2014 Eni Oken
This pretty pendant was made as a gift to someone very special. The center stone is larimar, surrounded by two kinds of gemstone grade topaz and turquoise, all set in sterling silver.
©Copyright 2014 Eni Oken
My father in law loves to collect rocks. He brings them from his trips and tumbles them into a shiny polish, painstakingly changing the water and grit for many weeks. When they finally come out of the tumbler, they feel just marvelous, so smooth and shiny. I love that he spends so much time working on them, and to me they are more precious than gemstones, they are priceless. However, one of the problems with these tumbled pebbles is that other than profound sentimental value, they have little other "perceived" monetary value. So I thought of a design for these pebble (which consequently became the "Broken Triangle" tutorial) which can greatly enhance a simple stone by converting it into a geometric shape, surrounded by tons of precious materials.
In marketing, the "Customer Perceived Value" is usually defined as the value the Customer feels an item has, and their evaluation of all the benefits they think an item or service might offer, in comparison to actual cost or in comparison with other alternatives.
In the industry of jewelry-making this is an important concept since Jewelry, by it's very definition, is almost always associated with a valuable and precious item. Most jewelry is passed down as heirloom or carefully collected, or even bought for the value of the materials.
Perceived Value depends largely on the type of customer you are selling to. If your audience is young and hip, their notion of what is valuable might include designs from the latest designers, while an older audience who might be interested in classics with more valuable materials.
Not only age affects the perceived value: a prospect buyer who has knowledge of jewelry making techniques will perceive a complex labor-intensive hand woven piece as being much more valuable and precious than a commercially produced piece.
Your choice of materials will always have a huge influence on how valuable a piece is perceived. If two designs have similar kind of workmanship and design, then the material will play the ultimate defining role in increasing perceived value. For example, precious gemstones will always appear to have higher perceived value than glass beads or even crystal, even if the latter offers higher quality cut and cost more to acquire. Metal wire will always be valued higher than organic materials such as cord or leather. Silver wire will appear more valuable than copper or craft wire.
Even if the actual price of the lesser materials is actually HIGHER than the one perceived as more valuable, there is a certain "hierarchy" of perceived value when it comes to materials. "Perceived Value" is not about the ACTUAL cost of an item, it is just that, the PERCEIVED notion, which can vary depending on the person.
If you understand your particular audience well, and you know what is valuable to them, then you will find the right way to increase the perceived value of your pieces.
1) Increase the metal! As a general rule, pieces which have more metal will, most of the time, appear to be more precious than those which do not. Anything that you can do to increase the amount of metal around a piece will help. This includes findings, caps, frames and bezels around beads and stones.
2) Add some precious items to the mix If you are working with a focal item which does not have apparent perceived value such as these tumbled pebbles, then add some precious gemstones to the mix. Carefully added, precious materials will ENHANCE a lesser material, and bring the entire piece up to a higher perceived value.
3) Add more repetitive elements or beads A large number of small beads or other repetitive elements in a piece can increase the perceived value of an item. This has nothing to do with the amount of work put in, it is simply the fact that humans can count: when we see many elements or beads together -- more than can be counted easily -- we tend to bunch these groups together as "Oh, more than I can count, it's a large quantity", and naturally increase the perceived value.
4) Increase the apparent work done over Use extensive weaving, coiling, granulation or netting on a piece which lacks perceived value. These details will work in similar way as #3. When we see an enormous amount of repetition in the labor, our minds can admire the labor that was put into the piece.
All these ideas were incorporated into the design of the Broken triangle pendant design. A simple tumbled stone was first set in a netted bezel (suggestion #4), with some precious stones to fill in the fractured portion (suggestion #2), with a border of numerous tiny metallic beads (suggestion 3), this way increasing the amount of metal added (suggestion #1).
Here's a link to the Broken Triangle tutorial. Until May 2014 is available only for JL's Premium Members, but should be available to the general public shortly afterwards.
This is another example of a simple tumbled pebble greatly enhanced by the same type of work. In this example, extensive wire-wrapping was added on top of the pebble -- the the point where it almost hides the stone too much. Lots of metal, some precious stones and tons of tiny detail.
To see more pictures of this pendant, click here.
This whimsical heart is heavily influenced by doodle patterns. In recent years, a wonderful new movement led by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas has re-vitalized doodle art through their meditative drawing method named Zentangle(R). As a huge fanatic of ornamental patterns and line art, it is a joy to see a new appreciation for this type of drawing. The line art was created in ink pen over paper, then scanned in and painted using a digital painting app.
Notice how the original was sketched reversed. In the end, I thought it looked better with the heart on the left side. What do you think?
Note: Zentagle(R) Method is a trademark of the name and the teaching method, NOT the style of drawing or the patterns, which cannot be copyrighted.
"Heart" - 2014 - Ink over paper and Digital painting
Copyright 2014 Eni Oken
These pictures were created as part of my Designing Fantasy Workshop, developed before year 2000.
The process of designing fantasy can start with a real life object, and work on the images of the conventionalized idea.
Take, for example, the following example of an armoire:
If you look at the properties of this object, it can be described as follows:
To create a fantasy version, first the conventional design was sketched. Next, interesting ornamentation was applied (stripes, borders, decorative top, etc).
The shape of the armoire was also heavily distorted.
Here you can see also some color studies, always aiming to create a fantastical, out of the norm version.
Although heavily distorted and whimsical, the object still retains the basic properties of an armoire.
©Copyright 1998 Eni Oken
This sweet little metal clay ring was made for a friend as a gift. Right after she opened the package I realized I had not taken a photograph of it. So I shot it right there with my phone. Not bad for phone photos, right! ©Copyright Eni Oken
A beginner comes to me and asks: if I want to create jewelry, what should I learn first, jewelry technique or jewelry design?
First of all, let me congratulate you for asking this particular question. The great majority of people interested in making jewelry are NOT going to ask it: the most common route is to just find how-to video or tutorial on the web, get some tools at the nearby craft store and start making jewelry. There is nothing wrong with this approach, in fact, it shows great hands-on initiative.
However, if you dream of DESIGNING your own jewelry, then you might want to consider taking a slightly different and yet more planned out route. So I'm offering a map road for you here:
Before deciding on any type of design or technique, think about WHAT YOU WANT TO DO with the jewelry you create. Do you want to actually make each unique piece yourself and sell your pieces (hopefully for a lot of money)? Then you might want to follow the route of a 'jewelry artist', someone who usually creates one-of-a-kind complex pieces. Or do you want to only design and farm out the construction of pieces, selling multiple designs in stores and boutiques? This is the route a jewelry designer takes, someone who has the potential of developing more ideas because they don't spend time constructing the pieces.
Both jewelry artist and jewelry designer can earn a fair amount of prestige, but they produce radically different products and cater to different audiences. A jewelry designer will typically produce more designs, sell them in mass to boutiques and therefore might produce simpler pieces, more suitable for a large audience. A jewelry artist tends to produce one of a kind pieces, or limited edition reproductions, therefore prices are higher for each piece, catering for an older audience with more discretionary money to spend. And finally, if you want to make jewelry just as a hobbyist and not for sale, then you have the choice of mass producing or creating one of a kind, depending on your whim.
Did you notice that I highlighted the words select a few? This doesn't mean choose any old technique and jump right in. Surf the web and see find examples of jewelry pieces that you absolutely love. Once you find a few designs that speak to you, try to find out what technique the artist used to create them.
Remember that most jewelry artists and designers are familiar with wide array of techniques. For example, a One-of-a-Kind jewelry artist might work with silversmithing, beading, wire wrapping and lampworking (glass beads). A designer on the other hand, might want to be familiar with stone setting, fine jewelry silversmithing, or lost wax and mold-making, which are typical techniques used in mass production.
Once you've decided if you want to be a jewelry artist, a designer or hobbyist, AND you've found out more or less what kind of techniques you need to learn, spend some time thinking about the actual designs, and sketch ideas.
If you have formal background training, that will really come in handy. The idea is to come up with some drawings of your own, that is, designs that you want to develop. Make sure to keep a steady flow of ideas in a creativity journal, so that you can exercise those design muscles, and to have a wide variety of options to choose from. If you have no artistic background or are just plain running out of ideas, then you might want to try my creativity series Think & Design Jewelry, which will for sure help you to fill up those journals with tons of ideas. Try to fill up your journals with ideas and sketches which correspond to the techniques you selected in Step 2.
Now you know what you want to be, you know more or less the techniques you want to learn, and you have a few sketches of what you want to construct. Time to learn your technique! NOW you can surf the web and look for the right tutorials or live classes which will help you to reach your goals. Aside from browsing for live videos in Youtube, you might also want to check out the numerous PDF tutorials available online. JewelryLessons.com is the site I founded and includes many of my own tutorials and of over 200 talented teachers.
Did you notice one thing? That neither technique or design came first. To really be able to design your own line of jewelry, you must think of TECHNIQUE AND DESIGN TOGETHER.
If you have comments or questions about this topic, I welcome your input here! Or if you prefer to ask me questions via email, then just send me a message through Eazy Communities Helpdesk. Good luck with your career path!
Further reading: Think & Design Jewelry series by Eni Oken: a series of hands-on creativity tutorials for jewelry makers. This is about learning solid concepts about jewelry design, through fun, practical exercises.
JewelryLessons.com: an online community and marketplace of online tutorials distributed in PDF ebook format.
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Watch: Final Fockin' Trailer for Universal's 'Little Fockers' Sequel
by Alex Billington
November 10, 2010
Source: Yahoo
Universal has released a final theatrical trailer on Yahoo for the ensemble comedy Little Fockers, directed by Paul Weitz, due out this holiday season. I really hate this franchise so I'm trying to prevent too much of my own opinion from leaking into this, but sometimes I can't help it. Little Fockers stars most of the original cast as well as some money-hungry newcomers, including: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Jessica Alba and Laura Dern. I watched the entire trailer and didn't find any of it funny at all, which is why I don't care about this in the least. But if this is your kind of comedy, then enjoy!
Watch the final theatrical trailer for Paul Weitz's Little Fockers:
You can also watch this Little Fockers trailer in High Definition on Yahoo
Little Fockers is directed by Oscar nominated (for co-writing About a Boy) American filmmaker Paul Weitz, of American Pie, Down to Earth, About a Boy, In Good Company, American Dreamz and Cirque du Freak previously. The screenplay was written by John Hamburg (Meet the Parents, Zoolander, Along Came Polly, Meet the Fockers, I Love You Man) & Larry Stuckey (Me, My Friend and I) and is the latest sequel following Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers from 2000 and 2004, respectively. Universal is distributing the film, which is a DreamWorks SKG production. Little Fockers will arrive in theaters on December 22nd this fall.
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Jaymes Young - Dark Star
Posted about 4 years ago
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Alt-R&B buzzmaker Jaymes Young, who will surely draw comparisons to Booth-favorite JMSN, has released his debut project, Dark Star.
Included on the free 13-track set are previously-featured selections "Moondust" and the project's title track, which both capture Young's unique brand of melancholy pop.
If Dark Star has you excited to see the Seattle native perform live, you're in luck. Beginning in late September, and running through the end of October, the artist/producer will be touring the US and UK in support of headlining act London Grammar.
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If oil is "black gold," is uranium the "new gold"? It's a question worth asking, even as gold prices are soaring. Gold is the traditional precious-metal hedge against governmental mismanagement of paper currency. That's because every ounce of gold ever mined remains in existence. It never corrodes or decomposes, and can never be created from other materials. That makes gold the
perfect alternative to paper money that is created and backed only by government promises. But you can't use gold to keep you warm in the coldest winter, or keep you cool in the hottest summer. It won't keep the engines of industry running, and it won't provide the electricity to keep your computer humming. For that, we need energy -- an ever-increasing amount of energy, as populations multiply and citizens of China (and India and Vietnam, and more than half of the globe) demand the basics of modern life. It's all that demand, plus the potential scarcity of fossil fuels, that the world must now consider. No one knows when we will "run out" of oil, or what modern techniques might be invented to squeeze it out of shale or drill more deeply into the earth's core. But since much of the known oil reserves are concentrated in politically and militarily unstable parts of the world, it seems wise to consider Plan B: nuclear energy. Forget for the moment the politics of nuclear energy and the emotional fears of disaster, and consider the reality of energy demands. One man has been on the forefront of writing about this issue for the past several years. James Dines has labeled himself "the original uranium bug." It's a takeoff on his reputation as "the original goldbug," for which he was known in the 1960s, when gold was trading at $32 an ounce.


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Hamamat Montia is all about dancing today as she invites fans to dance with her in a snippet from her James Town fish market video shoot.
The free-spirited model shared a nice African proverb on music and dance, but something about her bright appearance caught our attention; her 'fashion experiment' of converting skirt into a dress.
Dazzling in her bright orange outfit, she said in her Instagram post, "when the music changes, so does the dance … so make sure you go along with the beat Kings and Queens,"
Well, Hamamat did not just change her dance to the tune, but her fashion as well. And since fashion is about versatility, that is permitted, but did it work for Miss Montia? You be the judge.
Watch video below:
Happy Wednesday #KingsandQueens : Dance with me , it is a beautiful day. I am at #Jamestown Accra's fish market for a shoot but I felt the need to share this African Proverb with you. "When the music changes , So does the dance". Go with the beat this year . Go on snapchat 👉🏿 iamhamamat to watch what is happening live. Bag @iamkaakaa Music @runtown #hamamatafrica
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Updated 5-7-17
It has been a crazy past two months for me: I crashed my car, moved; helped my parents move and got a new job. Needless to say - with all that and 2 kids (plus doing major OT at work) it has been hard to get much done these past two months. Here are where things stand at present though.
We decided to standard machine gray on the base with black and red hammer paint for the table items. Final colors will look something like this:
The pics below shows most of the painted components (base, guards and front/rear plates against the wall) and everything else waiting patiently in its respective box to be assembled:
Machining all the machined items really won't be too bad. My dad will tackle the bulk of the machine work bit by bit throughout the next few weeks. We will be held back on the spindle plates for a month or two I suspect, but we will get there.
The biggest problems we face right now are getting our motors to work properly with Mach3. I posted some questions related to a problem we were seeing with these in the forums; but I'll repost the issue here in case someone comes across this first.
First - here is the general setup we will have for our motors (I only have 2 out presently; we were running these as dual x-axis motors; with one on a slave axis):
We are running all of this with Mach 3, installed in windows (set up on a mac desktop - yes; a little weird i know). You may notice that this is not using serial connector; it is USB linked. The breakout board/motion controller here was a cheapee china board (like 75 bucks). We are having a problem though.
While we have the motors turning; and they are turning the correct number of programmed turns, the feedrate does not match what we see. It neither matches the actual observable rate we witness on the motors, or the FRO listed on Mach 3 as the motors are turning. We have looked all over in Mach 3 but can't find anything that seems to be set wrong which might affect this. Since neither of us do this for a living, it is difficult for us to determine where we've gone wrong here.
Ill post a video of me running mach 3 so you can see what I'm seeing. Any ideas on why our feed rate doesnt match up? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Updated 3-9-17
So, things are moving along steadily. We have ordered most of our control related items. I'd say we have maybe 8/10 of everything material and component wise. We did decide to go with an air cooled VFD spindle instead of the water cooled one I went for originally, and 1207 oz in motors as opposed to the 700 ones (same size mounting though) so I'll need to to do a little redesign on my spindle details this weekend.
Dad and I should be able to start cutting some of the machined pieces this weekend as well (though much has been laser cut already).
This process has been a lot of fun. I'm excited to start putting the table together within a week or two here.
Updated 2-21-17
Stage 1 design is complete. Here is the router:
It's been almost a month since my last update. It takes a while to flesh out details on things like this.
My father and I are hoping to start building within a couple months here.
I think we will be at the high side of our budget for this build (close to $7k - and that's only because we are able to do a lot of the machining ourselves), but we are happy with the design.
We have our ball screw assemblies already. We just received our hiwin rail assemblies the other day (they looked great). My ext. alum. stuff is being quoted right now and most of the other make details on here will be water jetted (i have these out for quote).
The base will be a big mamma jamma to do; but we have access to fab equipment and a boring mill - so we will be doing this ourselves as well.
There is no way I could do this thing within budget if i did not have a bunch of family and friends who machine things for a living. I'm very thankful for that!
Updated 1-29-17
So my dad received the ball screw assemblies on Friday. Everything was good for the Ys but we had issues getting the ballnuts to go on X and Z ball screws. Froze up on both. I am not sure what the 'anti-backlash' mechanism is in these screws, but might have something to do with that? I will read up on it.
CAD-wise here is where I'm at:
I changed all motors to NEMA 34 640 oz-in. I added cable-carriers (I might remove these for Y and Z though....not sure yet).
My Z-clearance from gantry to table is about 8". Still kind of high, but I'm considering lowering it some more. I don't know....this seems like it will be solid, but hard to know without building.
I tried to make my spindle as rigid as possible to compensate for the 8" travel/gantry-height clearance:
I use 5/8" x 8" x 12" alum tooling plate for the spindle plate; with 1/2" x 1-1/2" bolt-in gussets along the front and back to strengthen it up. I also added an extra spindle bracket to try to distribute some of the load higher up (closer to my bearing blocks). I would move the blocks down; but that would pretty much get rid of my 8" gantry clearance (since my rails would need to move down as well).
Dust-shoe for vacuum shown here was made my Dez on Grabcad (GrabCAD - CAD library). I liked their design because it was low profile. I will probably just try to alter this a bit for my spindle and print these pieces out instead of ordering one. But not a major issue right now; just have it stirring in my mind for later.
Now time for....
1. (to anyone) Is my Z-height still too much? Should I shorten a couple inches yet? This seems like it will be strong enough; but I know it would still be better to get my spindle loading back over the hiwin bearing blocks a bit more. I think the gusseting and double bracket will help a lot though; seems like enough anyway; but I'm open to constructive criticism.
2. Capacity of my 640 oz-in Z motor. Ok...so I'm not an ME. I'm a middle aged husband/dad with limited amounts of time and a schedule jam packed with everything from work to poopy diapers to this (in my free moments). I would love to go to school; but for me it isn't an option, so I'll do my best to learn as I go. That said I want to know my motor for lifting and lowering the weight hanging on my Z carriage (which is about 30lbs) is going to be plenty beefy enough; so the way I think about motor strength may be primitive; but it goes like this:
- Pi x Dia = circumference
- circumference of a 1" circle is about 6.28".
- linear travel for a 5mm pitch ballscrew is 5mm; or about .197".
- For every 6.28" of radial travel, I get .197" of linear travel. That's about a 30:1 ratio.
- 640 oz-in is about 40 in-lbs.
-I'm pretty sure someone smart like Archimedes or whoever pointed out the relationship between force and distance
-If I don't consider any other forces here (like friction), then theoretically 40 in-lbs pushing radially for a distance of 6.28" to move something linearly a distance of .197" means I have to make about 30 rotations; so I should be able to dead lift something 30x40lbs = 1200lbs of weight (again - excluding all other forces like friction).
Am I thinking about this right? Is my motor going to be that buff?
3. Limit switches. So I am starting to think about these. Anyone have recommendations for what to use? Toggle or inductive?
4. Hard stops. Do I need them? I know I can set travel limit in my software; plus limit switches; so do I need hardstops? Seems like it would be good to have them in case a limit switch failed.
5. Anti-backlash ball screws. I need to machine the one for my Z axis down some. This means I will have to take the nut off the screw and it put it back on later. Has anyone else had issues re-assembling a 16mm, 5mm pitch anti backlash ball nut to the screw?
Thanks and Best Regards to all
Updated 1-24-17
Thanks to all those on my discussions page for the good advice (as well as some friends, family and coworkers). Design is proceeding along well. My ballscrews would've arrived from FedEx today except no one was home to sign for them; so they should be here tomorrow (first set of parts). I will have to alter my z ballscrew (shorten it) unless they let me return-exchange it. So....hopefully that's an option X-)
So; since my initial post, I have dropped my Z travel to 8". I was originally shooting for more height to give me clearance for a rotary actuator; but I thought of a workaround which will still let me mount the off the edge and still cut round workpieces at 8" dia. or less.
I have also moved up to NEMA 34 640 oz-in motors across the board.
More details to come later; but for now here are some updated pictures -
Original Post 1-21-17
So I have decided to build a cnc router.
Some background first: I am a machine designer from MI (Solidworks nerd). My father is a machine shop foreman. Both of us have a goodly amount of mechanical knowledge. The electronics side; so-so. It will be a learning experience there.
We know roughly what we want to build and have started our concept phase. We have a zillion questions though – certainly on the controls side of things; I will wait before I get into questioning; but we want to work out something mechanically beefy first and need some advice from veteran cnc router builders. That said – let me lay down some of my model pics and start going through my design scope. Any advice from veterans here will be much appreciated (I list a few of my questions and concerns further down:
So this is it. It probably looks pricey (and it probably will be reasonably pricey once all done). We have budgeted about $5k-$7k to put into this. So we want it to be super sweet.
The goal is to make something extra rigid for fine quality relief carving hard wood, for profile cutting stuff, for cutting of some ¼" ish size aluminum from time to time and - if I can – for cutting thin steel on rare occasion (but the last one isn't really on my agenda – so its not necessary).
We wanted something with 2' front-back (y) travel, 4' l-r (x) travel and 1' (if possible) z travel. I realize the gantry goes the length way here and not the width as is typically seen in most cnc routers this size. It was our purpose to try it this way. We wanted something that was both small enough to disassemble and transport and yet capable of carving something as large and long as a door (which – in this case could be perhaps be carved in portions using a pinned subplate fixture mounted to the table; though I realize you'd need to get your travels straight so things blended smoothly when you shifted such a subplate fixture).
The height on this machine is also pretty tall. I am ok shortening the z travel some, but if I can keep it rigid enough I want the full 1' travel height for the possible addition of a table mounted rotary axis later on. There is currently 12.13" clearance from the table top to the bottom of the gantry right now. The bottom of the collet is at 1" from the table top in full down travel; so (theoretically) I could use the entirety of space between the table and the gantry for carving whatever I wanted (up to 1' thick. Chances are I will never need that much unless I did mount a rotary axis (and eventually that's the idea).
Gantry width shown here is about 60" (1540mm). I have a piece of minitec extrusion (90mm by 180mm profile) with 8 m8 bolts in each end (plus brackets on the backside as you'll see in other pics). Depth of the table front to back (the pic above would be considered an operator front view) is 1000mm (39.4").
Total weight of everything as shown was like 400lbs I think when I last checked. I think the ext alum table by itself is about 120lbs; maybe 180lbs with motors and bearings and everything (not including gantry brackets and above).
Table is a box frame of 45mmx90mm alum extrusions with an added extrusion across the center for stability. On the top of the box frame ive lined 5 pieces of minitec 19mm x 270 extrusions with t-slots (on top side only) for toe-clamping whatever down. Beneath there are two other cross pieces of 45x90 for 'feet' if you will; to rest on and lag to a table I suppose. I don't show it here but the front and rear ends will have 1/4 " steel plate across bolting into the alum profiles to make the whole construction nice and rigid.
Right now Ive got nema 23s (420in-oz) everywhere (for 2 y-axes, 1 x axis and 1 z axis). I have (unfortunately) jumped in and ordered my ball screw assemblies already here (only thing I have ordered so far though): 16mm rolled anti-backlash ball screws with the ball nut and end blocks as shown here (10 pitch screw) - 2 screw assemblies for y travel; 1 for x and 1 for z (for example - 2 of these for the y travel - http://www.automation4less.com/store/proddetail.asp?prod=RM1610-0850-0700-FS ).
My gantry support brackets look like this:
These will be steel weldments (1/2" thick stk.). Ill cut a pocket & holes for my gantry beam, finish a pocket for my ballnut housing (holes not shown yet to mount this) and side cut the linear block mounting face, then put the bracket on a horizontal machine and pop holes in to mount to linear blocks (or maybe just drill em by hand; I can prob get close enough). The wing off the back side will be for an extra gusseting bracket to help stabilize the gantry beam…cuz its loooong. So these brackets are pretty good size and should be strong:
Height is pretty tall right now; and gives me some concern about the rigidity of the z-axis at far travel back/forward, but I have some ideas that I think will tighten that up a lot.
As for limit switches or dust protection or cable carriers - and some of the other things I don't yet show; these are still to come but will be added.
So that's it.
Now for concerns/questions:
1. Is the quality of my spindle cut going to suffer because of vibration in the long gantry beam?
This LOOKS strong to me what with the steel brackets and large alum profile size and all; but I had a friend mention vibration from the cutter throughout the beam as a potential issue. I added the additional back-wing bracket to help prevent some of that (if it's truly an issue), but is it enough? Will it really be an issue or no?
2. Racking on my y-travel? So because the spread on the gantry brackets is so large, im wondering about racking…I have 2 motors driving ball screws on each side of the Y. I mean; plenty of 4' wide gantry machines have been made for 8' long machines, so I THINK this will be good; but then ive never built one of these so I just don't know. Any ideas? (the pic above with dims gives an idea on the spread of my linear blocks)
3. Ballscrews. Well the lame thing about ordering something before you've finished your design is you're kind of stuck with it. However, if I've undersized these screws, Im not opposed to setting my 16mm ball screws aside and going up to 20s. I just want to know these are going to work well. 2 of them will be moving about 230lbs of weight back and forth and that makes me wonder how accurate they will stay over time.
4. Motors; 2 nema 23s 420in-oz to move the 230lbs back and forth. Is this enough? Or will I be stressing these things? I can go up to Nema 34s (and I kind of want to); but IF I do I just want to know that the 16mm ball screws won't be undersized for Nema 34 motors.
5. My Z travel – so is this "12" of travel" plan just shooting for too much? Will my design suffer in some way as a result? I know it's tall. It seems rather tall compared to the LxWxH Ratios ive seen on other 4' wide cncs. I know there a reason they try to keep the gantry down lower - more rigidity (center of mass moves closer to your bearing support blocks) but this seems beefy enough to me...it seems that way anyway; but if it's going to cost me big money to learn the hard way, i'd rather not. So on height? Think I might be ok here? Be brutally honest! : ]
6. Controls – Open loop or closed loop on the motors? What do I need to drive 2 Y motors, 1 X motor, 1 Z motor; 1 2.2kw water cooled Spindle with VFD, and the possible future addition of a rotary axis? Any help in this area is welcome. I'm just reading a lot right now to try to understand all this; but it'd be seriously helpful for someone with a good understanding of cnc controls to say "hey I think this would work great for your application).
Thanks in advance for any help or constructive criticism!
Kind Regards!
Warnke CNC Router
Build in 'Cartesian Style CNC' published by JP Warnke, May 7, 2017.
A blend of modular aluminum and steel bracketry built to yield fine cuts in hardwood and aluminum. An open table with a shiftable pin-fixture concept will allow the operator to shift longer than Y-travel work-pieces, such as doors, along the Y-axis of the table. This machine has a 44" (X) by 24" (Y) by 8" (Z) travel with water cooled VFD spindle motor, t-slot ext work table, cable carriers, side guards n dual y drives. Total weight (w/base-stand) is about 600lbs.
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Former French foreign minister Laurent Fabius has informed French President Francois Hollande that he will resign his post as head of the UN climate forum, a news report said Monday.
Fabius, 69, said he would resign the position in a letter to Hollande, the French news agency AFP reported.
The move comes after Fabius stepped down as French foreign minister and after Hollande said he intended to appoint Fabius to head of the Constitutional Council, which supervises elections and interprets the country's constitution.
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I KNOW NOTHING. complete 9mm reloading how to.
I really know nothing about reloading/loading AMMO. I want to know how much $$$ it would cost to get everything ill need. Also how difficult is to learn.
Last thing. After buying the equipment, how much do the ammo components- Shells, primers, powder, etc cost. It would have to be cheaper to make. A 1000 rounds 9mm luger cost about $175. For that kinda $, how many could I make?
Typically 9mm isn't worth reloading. You won't see much in savings. If you buy Lee products you can probably get all the equipment you need for under $500. Start with a reloading manual and read it cover to cover.
Your FIRST purchase should be a copy of The ABCs of Reloading. Check Amazon, you can get a used copy fairly cheap.
Shop around for USED equipment. Dies rarely wear out. Minimum, with careful shopping, around $100 or so. You CAN spend a LOT more. Check Ebay AND Amazon. But get and read the book first. A single stage press is cheaper than a turret press, which is cheaper than a progressive press- but the single stage takes longer.
Costs will depend on cost of components. Brass can usually be scrounged. Bullets will be the most expensive items, followed by primers and powder. You can reload for about half of the retail price you mentioned. I cast my own bullets for .38 Wadcutter, and figure a loaded cartridge is about $.035 (that 3 and a half cents)
Unless you are reloading for a REALLY pricey caliber (I have a rifle in .348 Winchester- SOB!) do not focus on monetary savings- they can be there, but when your time is taken into account, it is small. But rolling you own is satisfying, and you get some very good ammo.
Thank you both. I will stick with 1000 rd. boxes for now. However I will put that book as a priority to read! Later
The Lee Breech Lock Challenger kit will set ya back $172.00. It comes with a very good instruction manual. The dies will be another $40.00. That should take care of all the equipment you'd need for awhile. Assuming you're starting with your fired cases, then it's just powder, primers and bullets. I calculate that you could reload 9MM for just under $6 a box. So you'd save $2.75 per box. At that rate it would take 80 boxes to recovery your initial investment. To answer one of your questions, for $175 you could reload almost 1500 rounds. Hope all this gives ya some food for thought.
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He who says 9mm is worth reloading.
1000 precision delta 147gr fmj $94
1000 wolf or Tula primers $20-$25
1/2 lb Titegroup $10-$12
And if you're buying brass, $20-30.
Every dollar saved is worth it.
I have been reloading 9mm for a few years now. You can definately save money. I do pour my own lead. That saves a lot more than buying bullets. ou can get into casting pretty cheap.
Keep an eye out for used equip.I got a really nice old Pacific press at a flea mkt a year or so ago.It was 25$....and wouldn't take 5 times that,for it.Its a perfect match/compliment for our Pacific 366 shotshell loader.
Used reloading equip is one VERY good reason to stop by all the old gunshops you see,in your travels.And you sort of have to look for it.......or ask if they have any older/used equip in back,collecting dust.
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J. Edgar and Louis S. Monroe Library, Loyola University New Orleans
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|The Walker Percy and Charles Suhor correspondence is comprised of four letters and one journal article, dating from 1971-1975.
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Scope and Contents of the CollectionThe Walker Percy and Charles Suhor collection is comprised of four letters and one journal article, dating from 1971-1975. These letters include Percy's response to Suhor's critique of "Love in the Ruins," as well as a discussion on linguistics.
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Charles Suhor was born in New Orleans in 1935. An educator, literary critic, musician, and amateur linguist, Suhor wrote a review of Walker Percy's work, "Love in the Ruins," which Carolyn Davis sent a copy of to Percy in 1971. Percy responded, after which Suhor initiated a correspondence with Percy in 1975.
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The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming! Literally. And that means it's time for us to take some profits off the table.
You'll recall, in June 2013, I told you to hold your nose, flex your contrarian muscles and buy beaten-down European banks. Specifically, the iShares MSCI Europe Financials ETF (NASDAQ:EUFN). The bargains were just too darn irresistible.
At the time, European banks were trading hands at a price-to-book (P/B) ratio of just 0.78. That was a staggering 58% discount to the long-term average, based on the STOXX Europe 600 Banks Index.
If you followed my original advice, congratulations! Buying low paid off, since you're now sitting on a respectable unrealized gain of 20%. Today, however, I recommend that you realize it. It's not because I think European banks are suddenly overpriced, or even fairly valued. On the contrary, they still trade at about a 40% discount to the long-term average P/B ratio.
Instead, I'm recommending that you cash in your winnings because of, well… the Russians. No joke. Here's a rundown on the specific reasons why…
Don't Be Blinded By the Bargains
Everyone is salivating over the "mouth-watering" valuations in Russia, as the analysts at Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS) put it. While they're trying to figure out when to pounce on the bargains, however, we need to be concerned about the impact of a prolonged conflict.
Because that's exactly what could be in store. And when it comes to European banks, the impact could be significant. As you can see in the chart, European banks are heavily exposed to Russia. Much more so than U.S. banks. All told, we're talking about $156-billion worth of assets tied to Russia.
Italy's UniCredit appears to be the most at risk, with almost $25 billion in assets in its Russian subsidiary. Granted, the Russian exposure is spread out over large asset bases at these banks, thereby mitigating the risk. Plus, the iShares MSCI Europe Financials ETF invests in 102 different companies - with no single position representing more than 10% of the portfolio. So our risks are mitigated even more. Nevertheless, we can't ignore them. They're real and material.
In fact, a sensitivity analysis by Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) suggests that earnings at European banks could drop by as much as 13%, in some cases. Since stock prices ultimately follow earnings, that doesn't bode well for the short-term performance of the fund.
More Downside Risks Than Upside Potential
It's never what we can see and quantify that undermines our investments. It's what we can't fully anticipate or calculate that does so. Or, as The Economist's Intelligence Unit says, "The exact impacts on [European] banks are difficult to judge in advance."
Indeed. Not only would ongoing sanctions against Russia restrict European banks' operations in the country, they could hamper economic growth in the European Union as a whole. Exports to Russia account for 0.6% of European GDP growth, which is a big amount when the European Union is struggling to grow at all.
Moreover, Europe relies heavily on Russia for oil and gas. For example, 40% of Germany's gas and 50% of Austria's gas comes from Russia. Any disruption in supplies promises to drive up prices, thereby pressuring the entire European economy. We can't overlook the impact of rapid currency devaluation in Russia and Ukraine, either. It would reduce the value of banks' assets, as well as increase the risk of defaults.
Add it all up, and the current risks outweigh the potential rewards. The best thing to do, then, is to take our money and run. So don't delay. Take your profits in the iShares MSCI Europe Financials ETF before they turn into losses.
Rest assured, I'll be in touch before long with a compelling new opportunity to reinvest the proceeds.
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Saturday, 3 August 2013
What's In A Name?
Some, it seems, have name choices set in stone from childhood. (Just as well I didn't stick with mine - the world probably has more than enough Laurens after its '80s/'90s popularity, and Cassandra is a bit too much for my taste now!*) Whilst other parents are still debating their chosen names, or at least the order to put them in, at the eleventh hour on their way to the registry office.
Which brings us on to middle names. To have or not to have, that is the question. And if to have, then how many? Not to mention surnames, especially if the parents are unmarried, or like me a feminist who has kept their own name. All in all, a complete minefield!
Add to that all the personal associations you build up over the years (for example, I hate the names Justin and Amelia because of particularly horrible children at high school), and then for me, top it off with a decade of teaching and all the name associations and likes/dislikes that brings, and naming your children becomes a complete headache.
Having had two girls so far, we still have our original boy name waiting in the wings, but choosing the right combination of names for girl three is proving tricky. Particularly as we decided from the start to give all our children three middle names!
So, I'm being nosy, how did you decide on your children's names? For what it's worth, here's our rationale so far:
Number one daughter is called Lara Alice Mary Ann. Lara was a long-term choice of mine, long before the reality of having a baby, and is named after the wonderful heroine of Doctor Zhivago. (The very beautiful Julie Christie if your DZ knowledge only goes as far as the wonderful but inaccurate David Lean/Omar Sharif film!) Alice is after my very dear late great aunt who is fondly remembered; Mary after both of my grandmothers (one's first name, the other's middle name); and Ann is both my mum's and bizarrely my aunt's middle name.
And number two daughter is Sophia Agnes Katya Anastasia. Sophia (pronounced So-FY-a not So-fee-a) came about because Steve liked Sophie and I liked Sophia in the conventional pronunciation, but we thought both too common**. Then we remembered the old English pronunciation as 'So-fy-a' and loved it, so that is what she became. Agnes is after Steve's granny and a name I loved anyway, and Katya and Anastasia are two of my favourite Russian girl's names, but wouldn't be good as first names. Katya because no British person can pronounce it properly, and Anastasia because it is shortened to 'Nastya' in Russian, which I loathe. So giving them to Sophia as middle names seemed like a good plan!
Oh and as for the surname thing, I have mine, Steve has his, and the children have both. Now we just have to get number three's names sorted...
Go on, indulge me, what are your children's names, and why?
* If those are your name choices, please ignore me. They are both lovely, and I am certainly no Katie Hopkins!!!
** 'Common' as in frequently used, not lower class, I hasten to add!!
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My son is Rory. I'd never even considered it as a name for potential babies that I may have, but I fell pregnant and just 'knew' that the baby was a little boy called Rory right from being about 7 weeks pregnant. Luckily, my husband liked it too.ReplyDelete
It was important to me that his name wasn't commonly used, but also that it was still quite traditional - a difficult balance. Irritatingly, 2 or 3 weeks after he was born, the character of Rory was introduced to Doctor Who. I was fuming! It's now much more common than it was before then. I'm still cross to this day!
One thing that amuses me about the names people choose for their children these days is when they think they're being terribly original by choosing names that would have been unusual when we were kids, but actually their choices are in the top 50 baby names because everyone's thinking the same way. These days, it would be far more original to name your child John or Simon or Paul than Alfie or whatever.Replies
Oh I like the name Rory. Some people have misheard my cat's name (Yuri) as Rory, and I adored an Enid Blyton character who was called Rory as a child!Delete
Totally agree with you on all the 'original' names, not to mention the 'quirky' spellings - grr...
Thanks for commenting! Lx
I loved reading this! I can't have children but always wanted to call a daughter Sophia & funnily enough the way you pronounce your Sophia too! I do have a dog & named him Hudson just because I liked the name & it wasn't a common dogs name in the UK. My brother's girlfriend has given us the namess she's planning to call their daughter & I hate the once's she has chosen (my brother doesn't have a say in it apparently)! However my mum really wanted us to continue the second name Dawn (or third, fourth name) but she won't have it which has upset her & the family & just says well it's not my fault Shelley can't have kids & I'm not calling any kid of mine that. She is rather young & immature (way too immature to be having a baby) & doesn't feel she needs to respect anyone's feeling by saying nicely that it isn't really a name she would consider. So it just shows how choosing a babie's name can cause so many problems & also with surnames as she says when they get married she isn't taking my brother's surname & neither is the baby! I do think my parents would be fine with it if she would of just worded it nicely!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Shelley! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Good to have another Sophia-liker on board, a lot of people have never heard of that pronunciation and think we are saying 'Sapphire' or even 'So Fire' :-/Delete
Gosh your future SIL sounds fun!! Steve's parents were worried when they found out I didn't want to change my name, but he explained he was quite happy with it and then they were fine (I think!) Like you say, it's how you say things to people/explain your reasons that makes a difference.
For me, the taking your husband's name thing is quite an offensive tradition, harking back to men owning their wives and children. (They could even sell us as late as 180 years ago!!) The name changing tradition is also peculiar to only a few countries. For example, the Spanish automatically have both mother and father's names and no-one changes their name. I was determined from a very early age that I would keep my name!
Good luck with the SIL!!! (Love 'Hudson' by the way.)
We had 3 names for our first, but when he arrived he was definitely a Dylan. I had chosen it as I didn't think it was too common but since having him, I see Dylans everywhere! With Archie we had nothing until I was in labour when I suddenly knew I was having a baby Archie. It took us a few days to get used to the name before we decided it was the right one as we had never even considered it before but it suits him perfectly nowReplyDeleteReplies
Ooh, that's weird. I have heard other people say that, it's as if the baby comes with name attached. Some think their souls choose who to go to, so maybe that is how they already have a suited name. I can't imagine our girls being called anything else now either, funny isn't it?Delete
I didn't think Dylan was that common either, not heard of many round here yet. Always makes me think of too cool for school Bob! Lx
I tend to agree that when the baby is born you will know if the name you have chosen is suitableReplyDelete
As soon as I found out I was expecting with all 3 boys we had names chosen more or less right away & stuck with them. The names were not chosen for any other reason than we liked them, my eldest is Connor (15 nearly 16) Jak (spelt how you say it, aged 10) & Harrison (4 months) all 3 boys have middle names but these are family surnames ie grandparents. I couldn't imagine them being called anything else.ReplyDelete
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We know plenty of you are feeling down and out today as Mitt Romney prepares to be crowned the Republican presidential nominee. If this is true, perhaps it's time for you to join this crop of unstoppable optimists attempting to spread this very important political message: Chin up, people.
The National Optimists Party released this compelling video of Eve Darling (how fitting!), leader of these die-hard happy people who believe that, despite all the yucky things that come with politics today -- backroom deals and backroom sex scandals -- there's still so much to be chipper about when talking about American politics.
Watching this video kinda made us feel like we were kids again -- sitting around the living room fire getting a lecture from our great-grandma, minus the racist remarks. So watch Darling's fireside chat and learn how you, too, can become a political Pollyanna.
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