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Sacred Organic White Passion: This recipe is a lemon flavored white chocolate! It is truly a decadent dessert chocolate! It is very creamy and sensuous! This is a sweet & creamy chocolate.
2 oz. bar in the shape of a heart. Hand poured & hand wrapped. All Sacred Chocolate is prayed over by Sacred Steve, the Sacred Chocolate Oompa Loompas and others!
INGREDIENTS: "Cacao Butter, *Maple Sugar, "Coconut, *Cashew, ~Lemon Essential Oil, *Vanilla Bean, ~Himalayan Pink Crystal Salt. [100% Organic, *Organic, ~Wildcrafted ]
1) All Cacao is kept at or below 114 degrees Fahrenheit from start to finish.
2) All ingredients are STONE GROUND.
3) 68% Cacao Content.
4) Certified Organic through CCOF. Organic Ingredients by WEIGHT: 100%
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6) Certified Kosher through Earth Kosher.
7) Certified Halal through IFANCA.
8) PASS4KIDS approved.
9) All cacao is purchased at or above fair trade standards.
10) Dairy/Gluten/Soy FREE.
11) ALLERGY Information: Made using stones that also grind NUTS, but stones are ALWAYS cleaned between batches.
12) 2 oz. bar in the shape of a heart.
13) MELT POINT OF SUN SWEET: Approximately 87 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
Shelf Life: If properly stored, Sacred Chocolate has a minimum 1 year shelf life.
Proper Storage Conditions Mimic that of a Wine Cellar:
a) 50 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit.
b) 0 to 50% humidity.
c) Dark. (Note: Always keep away from direct sunlight. Even if wrapped and the air temperature is cool, the suns rays will melt Sacred Chocolate.)
d) Odor Free. (Note: Chocolate and Cacao absorb all odor.)
NOTE: In general, a refrigerator is not an ideal environment in which to store fine chocolate due to the constant and drastic swings in humidity, excessive odors, and temperatures below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. However, if you are forced to store Sacred Chocolate in a refrigerator, here is the proper procedure: Place chocolate in a zip lock bag and suck all the air out of the bag while zipping it closed. Place this in another zip lock bag, and repeat the procedure. Then, do it one more time so there are a total of three zip lock bags with air sucked out of them between the chocolate and the atmosphere. Place in refrigerator. When it is time to eat the refrigerated chocolate, allow the chocolate to completely warm up to room temperature BEFORE opening up any of the zip lock bags, otherwise condensation will form on the chocolate and adversely affect the quality and texture of the chocolate!
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SANTA CRUZ -- A British television crew visited the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office on Thursday for an upcoming documentary about convicted murderer John Linley Frazier.
The footage is expected to air on "Born to Kill?" on British television and on "Twisted" on the Investigation Discovery channel in the United States.
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He hung himself in prison in 2009.
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Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson rushed for 212 yards against the Green Bay Packers less than a month ago in Lambeau Field. If he gets another 208 in Sunday's Week 17 rematch at Minnesota, he will be the NFL's all-time single-season rushing leader.
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Peterson also just rushed for 212 yards in a Week 15 win at St. Louis. This past week, however, he was limited to 86 yards on 25 carries in the Vikings' win at Houston. He came out of Week 16 with a sore abdomen, as he was often gang-tackled for minimal gains.
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bazzaman wrote:gingercatni wrote:I was just trying to keep it as authentic as possible
"Authentic" can have several connotations... e.g. "genuine", "real", "unfaked", "reliable". So is it a question of this being a genuine statue of Amithaba?... or is it the "reality" of Amitabha the question?
If the later, then this might be of interest:
The first known epigraphic evidence for Amitabha is the bottom part of a 2nd century statue which has been found in Govindo-Nagar, and is now at the Mathura Museum. The statue is dated to "the 28th year of the reign of Huvishka", that is, sometime in the later half of the 2nd century during the period of the Kushan Empire, and dedicated to "Amitabha Buddha" by a family of merchants.
The first known sutra mentioning Amitabha is the translation into Chinese of the Pratyutpanna Sutra by the Kushan monk Lokaksema around 180 CE. This work is said to be at the origin of Pure Land practice in China.
The appearance of such literature and sculptural remains at the end of the 2nd century suggests that the doctrine of Amitabha probably developed during the 1st and 2nd century CE.
Some scholars have pointed out the strong Central Asian connection surrounding the Buddha Amitabha, and a possible influence by the Iranian cult of Mithra. The Buddha Amitabha (literally meaning "Infinite radiance") with his Western paradisiacal "Pure Land" "seems to be understood as the Iranian god of light, equated with the sun" (Foltz, "Religions of the Silk Road"). The very notion of paradise is a Persian invention (Old Persian: "Para Daisa"), which may have been relayed by the Indo-Greeks or through the incursions of the Indo-Parthians in India.
source: http://www.buddhism-guide.com/buddhism/amitabha.htm
Just scholarly speculation of course, but maybe interesting. "Mithraism" was a close contender with Christianity at one time. If the emporer Julian had prevailed, we would have been bathed in the "Blood of the Bull" instead of the "Blood of the Lamb".
PeterB wrote:What a Buddha Rupa symbolises is what is important gingercatni.
Bonsai Doug wrote:That statue is a wonderful Buddha - lots of character in the pose, weathering, patina, etc.
I believe anyone would be happy to display it on their altar.
adeh wrote:It's a really beautiful Buddha image, but how can you be sure its Amitabha? If it's the mudra, I've seen Tibetan paintings and japanese statues of Shayamuni with the right hand in the same mudra (the vitarkamudra...the exposition of the doctrine mudra).
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OGALLALA - The media hype and an extensive advertising campaign filled the Crystal Palace Saloon with onlookers Monday morning for the auction of Front Street, a major tourist draw at Ogallala. Yet, no bids were cast and the business was a no sale.
But, it is disappointing, Schow said.
Front Street, which opened in 1963, has been a mainstay in Ogallalas tourism since inception.
One of the five original partners in the business, Darlan Doc Rezac and his wife, Jeannie, took over the business operations seven years ago.
Now, the couple is looking to retire.
Unfortunately, when you get to 80, you have to make decisions that you wouldnt consider making when you were 50, Doc Rezac told the audience of 60-plus people that filled the Crystal Palace Saloon. We just want to keep everything going on.
After more than 15 minutes of terms and conditions, Schow began the auction.
Ladies and gentlemen, you tell me. All right, here we go. Somebody bid $750,000, Schow said.
The amount quickly lowered to $500,000, and shortly after, dipped to $250,000.
I hate to get any cheaper than that, Schow said.
Schow said the tax-assessed value of the property is $470,000 and that assessment is just for the real estate and none of the contents. After lowering the opening bid to $200,000 and no cheaper, the auction ended before it started.
If there is no interest in the facility, I can live with that. Obviously, disappointed there was no interest, but hopefully, there will be another day, Schow said.
The nearly 17,000-square-foot Front Street complex includes a restaurant, bar, a museum, and an upstairs room with a bar and dance floor. On the east end of the structure, which features a plank walkway from end to end, are two retail spaces, both of which are rented.
Front Street draws close to 48,000 visitors a year and its Crystal Palace Revue, a summer stage show that features local youth in song and dance, as well as a nightly shoot out in the parking lot, draws many of those visitors.
Schow said the historic significance of Front Street and the promotion of the cowboy heritage is far reaching, touching not only Ogallala and Keith County but also the entire western third of Nebraska.
No matter where you go, people ask about and know about Front Street, he said.
Schow said he knew there would be a great challenge in finding a buyer for the property because those interested in Front Street would have to be prepared for such an undertaking.
We just didnt find anyone in todays environment to come in and spend whatever the selling price might be and work as hard as it takes to run a facility like this, he said.
Prior to the sale, Rezac said the business probably was an integral part of Ogallala being recognized as an All-American City in 1965.
Rezac said their goal at that time, was to make Front Street the No. 1 restaurant.
We feel we accomplished that, he said.
Rezac said Front Street is an important part of Ogallala, and they wanted to share that with someone who wanted to carry it on.
We hope somebody would enjoy carrying on the tradition, he said.
Jeanne Rezac said although she was disappointed the business didnt sell Monday, the plan is to have a total business auction, from the building to all associated items inside and on the property, in the spring.
But, in the meantime, were just going to continue running the business. Weve got Christmas parties booked up, she said.
Though the business has been for sale for years, this is the first time the business has been offered for sale through auction.
Schow said he would continue to list the property for sale with Schow Realty.
Mary Pierce is the News Editor at the Keith County News. Reprinted with permission.
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SAINT PAUL, Minn. — Land O'Lakes has named Autumn Veazey as its director of government relations and Daryn McBeth as its director of state affairs and industry relations.
Veazey is a professional staff and counsel for U.S. Senator and ranking member Thad Cochran of Miss. and was previously professional staff and counsel for U.S. Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, former ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. She was a litigation attorney representing insurance companies in both insurance defense and workers compensation areas; associate counsel and director of legislative affairs for the United Fresh Produce Association, a trade association, which represents 1,300 member companies; and was manager of federal affairs at Troutman Sanders Strategies, a full-service government relations and issues management firm.
Veazey will be based in Washington, D.C., and will replace government relations director Steve Kirkava, who is retiring. Veazey will be responsible for leading Land O'Lakes' company-wide government relations strategy and identifying issues that affect the cooperatives' members and its businesses.
McBeth has spent the last 10 years at Minnesota Agri-Growth Council, where he was most recently president. He was previously a lobby and outreach consultant and worked with Gordley Associates in Washington, D.C. and was an adviser to U.S. Congressman Earl Pomeroy on all matters in front of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee and worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture where he was special counsel for tax issues for farm programs.
Based in Minn., McBeth will be responsible for developing the Land O'Lakes strategy for state-level government relations.
Land O'Lakes is a national, farmer-owned food and agricultural cooperative with annual sales of more than $14 billion. It does business in all 50 states and more than 60 countries. It is a leading marketer of a full line of dairy-based consumer, foodservice and food ingredient products across the United States; serves its international customers with a variety of food and animal feed ingredients; and provides farmers and ranchers with an extensive line of agricultural supplies (feed, seed and crop protection products and services) under the operations of WinField and Purina Animal Nutrition. Land O'Lakes also provides agricultural assistance and technical training in more than 25 developing nations.


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2 T white balsamic vinegar, for marinating beans
6-8 oz. baby spinach leaves
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My regular readers will know that 2 weeks ago I released a video of a Lego Space Shuttle that we got into actual space. Quite frankly I was surprised at how much attention it got both on-line and in mainstream media (TV, newspaper, magazine & radio). It has had over 1 million views on Youtube alone. It really got me thinking about what tends to win attention in today's connected economy, and although I don't really know the answer, it feels more like simply joys and personal interest work better on line than commercial intentions or hard nosed value equations.
And while I'd much rather one of my businesses get this amount of coverage – it has lead to a lot of interesting business opportunities and offers. The attention generated has become its own asset. It has become a proof point in the people behind it and so it creates intrigue from others who want to simply do cool stuff.
So the question for startup entreprenuers is this:
What cool side projects can we do to generate attention around, so that our bigger ideas can attract the resources they need?


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New York -- Rouse Properties announced that three of its Bay Area shopping mall locations – NewPark Mall in Newark, Calif., Southland Mall in Hayward, Calif. And West Valley Mall in Tracy, Calif. – are launching a one-month pilot program to offer common area small business retailers a convenient and cost-effective point-of-sale solution.
According to Andrew Silberfein, president and CEO of Rouse Properties, "Working with Square is a prime example of our continuous efforts to align ourselves with innovative companies that offer value-added services to help enhance the shopping experience at our malls for both consumers and retailers."
The technology that Square offers is a free credit card reader for the iPhone, iPad and Android devices, allowing anyone to accept credit cards. Participating retailers plug the credit card reader into their mobile device and swipe to process a transaction.
Square first introduced its free credit card reader in 2010. Rouse Properties said it plans to roll out the Square service to its entire portfolio of 31 malls later this year.


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There has been rampant speculation about the severity of Eric Gordon's knee and the timetable for his return to the New Orleans Hornets. In recent days, he has provided answers to both.
After insisting his summer setback was not a ploy to get out of New Orleans, Gordon on Friday said he expects to return from injury in four to six weeks, according to Yahoo!Sports.com. That would put his target to join the Hornets on the court at early to mid-December.
Until then, Gordon will continue to rehab and strengthen his knee. A doctor in Chicago assured Gordon he will not need further surgery, Yahoo!Sports.com reports.
The oft-injured Gordon's most recent setback was met with skepticism, most of which came from in-house. When his photo was shown on the scoreboard before the Hornets' 99-95 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday, the crowd responded to his image with boos. Comments from Hornets coach Monty Williams suggesting Gordon was not exactly unfit to play soon followed. Without saying it explicitly, Williams inferred Gordon had been approved to play by doctors and continued to sit out.
"He probably does feel pain; that would be the only reason why a guy can't play," Williams said. "For me to try to read an MRI … I'll find out more as we go forward. I try to not get into all that because that would just make me upset…
"I've checked with Doc," Williams said, "but for him to explain to me what's going on with his body and then have Eric feel a certain way doesn't matter. You know what I'm saying? If Doc says one thing and the guy is feeling another, then you have to . . . what am I supposed to say?
"I'm sure it's got to be medical. A guy just can't not play. It's got to be medical. At this point of the year, everybody is excited to play. I'm sure it's medical."
Gordon, who was a key piece in the trade that sent Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Clippers, had arthroscopic knee surgery and played in only nine games last season. In those performances, he showed flashes of the immense talent New Orleans expected to receive for the duration of the year.
He averaged 22.3 points and 4.4 assists in 37.7 minutes with the Clippers in 2010-11, numbers that carried over on the rare occasion he was healthy enough to play in New Orleans. Gordon put up 20.6 points and 3.4 assists in 34.4 minutes in the nine games in which he played.
Boos from fans and doubts from his coach are rooted in his inability to stay on the court, but many of the reservations surrounding Gordon come as a direct effect of his own doing. The offseason brought a bidding duel between the Hornets and Phoenix Suns for Gordon's services, a duel during which Gordon expressed his displeasure with the idea of the Hornets matching the Suns' four-year, $58 million offer.
Of course, New Orleans matched the offer sheet and the backpedaling began. Upon his return, Gordon made amends by saying all the right things. He professed his love for the city of New Orleans and stated that he was committed to the franchise and helping nurture its young players like Anthony Davis and Austin Rivers. Still, it's unlikely things will be right betwen Gordon and his critics until he can get on the court and stay there.


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Arsenal Back in Its Sticky Patch Again
Premier League's Perennial Stumbler Has a Lot to do Against Highflying Bayern Munich
During a fractious news conference on Monday afternoon, Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger was quite clear about one thing: There may only be three days between Saturday's shocking loss to second-tier Blackburn in the FA Cup and Tuesday night's Champions League Round of 16 clash with Bayern Munich, but one had absolutely nothing to do with the other.
Wenger was so insistent on that point that when a reporter began a question by referencing the 1-0 defeat, he immediately interrupted. "This is a prematch conference for the Champions League," he said. "If you want to talk about Saturday, that press conference has been made after the game."
But recent seasons have taught Arsenal that those setbacks can be contagious this time of year, spreading from one competition into the next. Now eliminated from the FA Cup and scrambling for fourth place in the Premier League, the club is at a point where the season could collapse in a matter of days ahead of Bayern Munich's visit on Tuesday night. Sound familiar?
Last year, Arsenal was trounced by AC Milan in the Champions League and knocked out of the FA Cup by Sunderland in the space of four days. Only a statement 5-2 victory over Tottenham the following week kept its top-four bid on track in the Premier League.
The season before, Arsenal was firmly in the title hunt, just four points off the top, when the season went to pieces in March. In the space of six games, it lost the League Cup final, was eliminated from the Champions League and FA Cup, then squandered a chance to close the gap on Manchester United in the Premier League.
And in the 2009-10 campaign, Arsenal was locked in a three-way battle for the Premier League title and had a real chance of advancing past Barcelona in the Champions League before the jinx struck. In 12 days, it racked up three successive defeats to drop out of Europe and let its league aspirations slip away.
The previous seasons tell much the same story, sometimes over the course of a few days, sometimes over the course of three weeks. Perhaps part of this is down to scheduling—key games come in quick succession once February rolls around. But this has been the pattern of Arsenal's eight barren seasons: Stick around the major competitions long enough to have a shot, then let them all come crashing down at once.
Still, Wenger was defiant on Saturday when it looked like the 2013 swoon might be right on schedule.
"The season is not over," he told one reporter. "For you, maybe. Not for me."
He has had 72 hours to convince his squad of the same thing. Though Jack Wilshere's head-shaking trudge down the tunnel suggested otherwise, Wenger didn't believe he would have a hard a time picking up the team for the Bayern game. "It's not difficult at all," he said. "It's our job."
Arsenal's exit from the FA Cup has forced the club to double down on the Champions League. Since it currently sits in fifth place in the Premier League, outside the automatic qualification spots, actually winning the competition may be its only way back in next season—exactly as Chelsea did last year.
"Of course it's disappointing," Wenger added Saturday, after his side had been eliminated from a cup competition by lower-league opposition for the second time this season. "You think we are happy with that?"
And the last opponent any club would choose to face while needing a confidence boost is Bayern Munich. The German club is running away with its domestic league, pounding opponents into submission along the way.
Bayern is undefeated in 18 games across all competitions since October. It has won its last five games by a combined score of 13-0, including a 4-0 home rout of Schalke, another team that happens to be in the Champions League second round.
As a result, Bayern is 15 points clear at the top of the Bundesliga with a dozen games left to play.
Complicating matters is the rising criticism of Wenger from Arsenal's fans. Even as the club prepares to announce another year's worth of robust financials—laying the groundwork for the leaner times that Financial Fair Play will bring about in two years—frustration with the manager inside the Emirates Stadium feels at a record high.
The main point of contention has been the lack of big-money signings to bolster a thin squad. Arsenal added only a fullback, Nacho Monreal, in the January transfer window because of a sudden rash of defensive injuries. And, of course, there is the very real possibility that Arsenal will miss out on the Champions League for the first time since Wenger took over in 1996.
If Arsenal doesn't make the cut, the fans fear, is the club really any different from, say, Everton? A respected Premier League side, but not one that can really be in the conversation for silverware.
Liverpool also serves as a cautionary tale. Just eight years ago—the same season, in fact, that Arsenal last picked up a trophy—the Reds were celebrating their Champions League success in Istanbul. Today, they have an up-and-coming manager, rather than a member of the European elite, and are looking at a seventh-place finish.
Bayern's manager Jupp Heynckes, at least, sympathizes with Wenger. He sees an English landscape where the real difference between a top club and an also-ran is a billionaire owner who is willing to chase the world's most expensive players—even if it does hopelessly inflate the market.
"You've got to take into consideration that Arsenal are actually competing with teams like Chelsea, Manchester United and Manchester City," Heynckes said in German through an interpreter. "They've been selling their best players, whereas these other teams get in absolutely top world stars. So if you have to compete with that, I don't think it's fair to blame Arsène Wenger."
Wenger, however, has been reluctant to blame anyone. He hasn't complained about Arsenal's perceived lack of spending power—unlike Queens Park Rangers manager Harry Redknapp, who named two goalkeepers on his substitutes bench last month as a message to the club's board—and he never singles out players for criticism.
He insists that he has a squad that is capable of beating anyone, even Bayern.
"I trust our quality. I trust our spirit. And I trust our mental strength," Wenger said Monday. "So, see you tomorrow."


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This lovely Tuesday night, please let me tell you the story of 'Beautiful Queen Mayadevi'.
19th century Nepalese statue of Māyā, Musée Guimet, Paris
Queen Mayadevi : The Buddha's Mother
[From Wikipedia]
Māyā married King Śuddhodana, the ruler of the Śākya clan of Kapilvastu. She was the daughter of King Śuddhodhana's uncle and therefore his cousin; her father was king of Devadaha.
Queen Māyā's white elephant dream, and the conception of the Buddha. Gandhara, 2-3rd century CE.
Māyā and King Suddhodhana did not have children for twenty years into their marriage. According to legend, One full moon night, sleeping in the palace, the queen had a vivid dream. She felt herself being carried away by four devas (spirits) to Lake Anotatta in the Himalayas. After bathing her in the lake, the devas clothed her in heavenly cloths, anointed her with perfumes, and bedecked her with divine flowers. Soon after a white elephant, holding a white lotus flower in its trunk, appeared and went round her three times, entering her womb through her right side. Finally the elephant disappeared and the queen awoke, knowing she had been delivered an important message, as the elephant is a symbol of greatness in India.
According to Buddhist tradition, the Buddha-to-be was residing as a bodhisattva in the Tusita heaven, and decided to be reborn on Earth for the last time. Māyā gave birth to Siddharta c. 563 BCE. The pregnancy lasted ten lunar months. Following custom, the Queen returned to her own home for the birth. On the way, she stepped down from her palanquin to have a walk under the Sal tree (Shorea robusta), often confused with the Ashoka tree (Saraca asoca), in the beautiful flower garden of Lumbini Park, Lumbini Zone, Nepal. Mayadevi was delighted by the park and gave birth standing while holding onto a Sal branch. Legend has it that Prince Siddhārtha emerged from her right side. Some accounts say she gave him his first bath in the Puskarini pond in Lumbini Zone. But legend has it that devas caused it to rain to wash the newborn babe. He was later named Siddhārtha, "He who has accomplished his goals" or "The accomplished goal".
Scholarly generally agree that most Buddhist literature holds that Maya died seven days after the birth of Buddha, and was then reborn in the Tavatimsa Heaven( fitting the pattern of the mothers of the other Buddhas who usually also die seven days after the birth of their sons), where the Buddha later preached the Abhidharma to her. Her sister Prajāpatī (Pāli: Pajāpatī or Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī) became the child's foster mother.
After Siddhartha had attained Enlightenment and become the Buddha, he visited his mother in heaven for three months to pay respects and to teach the Dharma.
Note: Māyā means "illusion" or "enchantment" in Sanskrit and Pāli. Māyā is also called Mahāmāyā ("Great Māyā") and Māyādevī ("Queen", literally deva (goddess) Māyā). In Tibetan she is called Gyutrulma.
Love Buddha's dhamma,


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Before embarking on their Big East Conference schedule in the 2002-03 basketball season, the Pitt Panthers faced a non-league schedule ranked 227th in the nation. They challenged themselves against St. Francis (Pa.), Arkansas-Pine Bluff and Southeast Louisiana. After all that heavy lifting, they went out and won the Big East regular season championship.
In 2003-04, they faced the 234th-ranked schedule, with games against Chicago State, New Hampshire and, again, St. Francis. And the Panthers won the league again.
After Pitt lost its opening Big East game Monday afternoon against Cincinnati, 70-61, the Panthers' abysmal pre-conference schedule this time around was cited by some analysts as an issue in their performance. There was a presumption that they weren't properly prepared for the competition of the Big East.
A case can be made that in this particular instance, that was true. Over the long run, though, history has consistently shown that a rigorous non-league schedule is not a prerequisite for either conference or NCAA Tournament achievement.
Florida's 2007 team won the SEC regular season by three games, swept to the conference tournament title and defended its NCAA Tournament crown after playing the No. 159 non-league schedule. North Carolina won the ACC by two games and overwhelmed the opposition in the 2009 NCAA championship after playing the No. 93 non-league schedule.
Pitt's only BCS conference opponent before the Cincinnati game was Michigan, a game the Panthers lost by 5 on a neutral court. They became a victim of the pure tournament format in the NIT Season Tip-off and wound up playing Delaware in the consolation game because the Blue Hens upset Virginia in the early rounds.
The Panthers lost an expected home game in the Big East/SEC Challenge; the game had been promised to them but was withdrawn, which left them scrambling for an opponent to fill that date.
"We're going to have to get to work and get back to work and figure it out," Pitt coach Jamie Dixon said. "I think it's a number of things, the rebounding, the defense, the missed free throws. They made theirs …
"Just kind of all add it up and they come away with the win. It's on us. We didn't get it done. I didn't get it done. We are going to get to work to learn from it and get better for it and become a better team. But, we've got a lot of work to do, as I've been saying all the way through and again, we've known that for awhile."


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Traditional and new recipes from the Caribbean, Mexico, Spain, and South America with nutrition information and resources to help manage diabetes. more
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The Surgeon General estimates that by 2020, half of all Americans over age 50 will have weak bones unless changes are made to diet and lifestyle. This website provides facts and recipes for anyone suffering from osteoporosis. more
How to Dispose of Unwanted Medicines
How we choose to use and dispose of pharmaceuticals and personal care products impacts water quality—the water that we drink, bathe in, and use for recreation. more
Meat Safety for the Consumer
Foodborne illness is a serious issue. 1 in 6 Americans are hospitalized each year from foodborne disease. This website provides food safety education, and is also available en Español. more
This site focuses on the role that diet plays in the treatment of adults with diabetes.
Recipes from Extension's Dining with Diabetes or Living Well with Diabetes programs.
Almost every day we make decisions about using and disposing of unwanted medicines and personal care products. What we decide impacts the amount of chemicals that will end up in our rivers, lakes and drinking water. How to Dispose of Unwanted Medicine and Personal Care Products -- that addresses where and how to dispose of these products.
Illinois Nutrition Education Programs (INEP) staff provide practical tips to help low-income individuals and families prepare safe and healthy meals while staying active every day!
A collection of Hispanic recipes recommended for people with diabetes
With changes in recent laws regarding health insurance, making decisions regarding what is right for you or your family can be complex. University of Illinois Extension is here to help residents of Illinois better understand just how the changes under the Affordable Care Act (also referred to as ACA or Obamacare) affects them.
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Renowned for its distinctive sound, beloved for its keen ability to capture the hearts and
imaginations of audiences, and admired for an unrivaled legacy of "firsts" in music making,
The Philadelphia Orchestra is one of the preeminent orchestras in the world.
The Philadelphia Orchestra has cultivated an extraordinary history of artistic leaders in
its 112 seasons, including music directors Fritz Scheel, Carl Pohlig, Leopold Stokowski,
Eugene Ormandy, Riccardo Muti, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Christoph Eschenbach, and Charles
Dutoit (who served as chief conductor from 2008 to 2012). With the 2012-2013 season,
Yannick Nézet-Séguin becomes the eighth music director of The Philadelphia Orchestra. Named
music director designate in 2010, Mr. Nézet-Séguin brings a vision that extends beyond
symphonic music into the vivid world of opera and choral music.
Philadelphia is home, and the orchestra nurtures an important relationship not only with
patrons who support the main season at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, but also
those who enjoy the orchestra's other area performances at the Mann Center, Penn's Landing,
and other venues. The Philadelphia Orchestra Association also continues to own the Academy
of Music-a National Historic Landmark.
Through concerts, tours, residencies, presentations, and recordings, the orchestra is a
global ambassador for Philadelphia and for the United States. Having been the first
American orchestra to perform in China, in 1973 at the request of President Nixon, today
The Philadelphia Orchestra boasts a new partnership with the National Centre for the
Performing Arts in Beijing. The orchestra annually performs at Carnegie Hall and the
Kennedy Center, while also enjoying a three-week residency in Saratoga Springs, NY, and a
strong partnership with the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival.
The ensemble maintains an important Philadelphia tradition of presenting educational
programs for students of all ages. Today, the orchestra executes myriad education and
community partnership programs that serve nearly 50,000 annually, including its
Neighborhood Concert Series, Sound All Around and Family Concerts, and eZseatU.
In February 2013, the orchestra announced a recording project with Deutsche Grammophon, in
which Yannick and the ensemble will record Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. Visit
philorch.org for more information.
Sir Simon Rattle made his Philadelphia Orchestra debut in 1993, conducting Mahler's
Symphony No. 9, and has been a familiar presence on the podium with the Philadelphians ever
since. He has been chief conductor and artistic director of the Berliner Philharmoniker
since 2002. From 1980 to 1998, he was principal conductor and artistic adviser, then music
director, of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, recording and touring extensively
with the ensemble. Recent season highlights have included projects with the Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of
Enlightenment, Metropolitan Opera, Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and the Royal Opera,
Covent Garden.
An exclusive EMI artist for many years, Mr. Rattle has made more than 70 recordings for the
label, which have received numerous international awards. Recent releases with the Berliner
Philharmoniker include Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and Bizet's
Carmen. Other recordings include Brahms's Requiem, which won a Grammy Award in
2008 for Best Choral Performance; Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, which won the
2009 Grammy for Best Choral Performance; Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique; Mahler's
Second and Ninth symphonies; and Bruckner's Symphony No. 9.
Withthe Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, he has recorded the complete Beethoven symphonies
and piano concertos with Alfred Brendel.
Born in Liverpool, Mr. Rattle studied at the Royal Academy of Music. He was knighted in
1994 by the Queen of England and has received many other distinctions in recognition of his
artistic activities. Since taking up his appointment with the Berliner Philharmoniker, he
has broken new ground with the educational program Zukunft@Bphil. He and the Philharmoniker
were appointed international UNICEF Ambassadors, the first time the honor has been
conferred on an artistic ensemble. In 2013, Mr. Rattle and the Philharmoniker begin a
residency at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival, performing Mozart's The Magic Flute
and a series of concerts. Highlights of upcoming seasons include opera performances in
Vienna, Berlin, and London, and at the Salzburg Festival; extensive touring with the
Berliner Philharmoniker; and projects with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and The Philadelphia Orchestra.
Soprano Barbara Hannigan makes her Philadelphia Orchestra debut with these performances. A
frequent guest of the Berliner Philharmoniker, she has also appeared with most of the other
leading orchestras worldwide, with such conductors as Sir Simon Rattle, Pierre Boulez,
Reinbert de Leeuw, Vladimir Jurowski, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Kurt Masur, Alan Gilbert, and
Jukka-Pekka Saraste. Ms. Hannigan made her own conducting debut in 2010 at the Théâtre du
Châtelet in Paris, leading Stravinsky's Renard. Much sought after in contemporary music, Ms. Hannigan has given more than 75 world
premieres. Her operatic repertory has recently expanded to the roles of Agnes in George
Benjamin's Written on Skin, created for the Aix-en-Provence Festival in July 2012
and recently performed to much acclaim at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; and Berg's
Lulu at La Monnaie in Brussels. She has sung the title role in Stravinsky's Le
rossignol, Gepopo/Venus in Ligeti's Le grand macabre, and Armida in Handel's
Rinaldo, and she will make role debuts as Donna Anna in Mozart's Don
Giovanni, Mélisande in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, and Marie in
Zimmermann's Die Soldaten in the coming seasons. Ligeti's Mysteries of
the Macabre, a tour de force for soprano and orchestra, has become a signature work,
which she has sung-and sometimes also conducted-at the Salzburg Festival, Lincoln Center,
Disney Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Théâtre du Châtelet, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, and
Vienna's Konzerthaus.
Ms. Hannigan's talent for programming has also been widely recognized, most recently in
London as co-curator of the Southbank Centre's innovative festival The Rest Is
Noise, based on Alex Ross's seminal book of the same name. Last season saw her
undertake an acclaimed European tour with Boulez's Pli selon pli conducted by the
composer. Born and brought up in Canada, Ms. Hannigan received her bachelor's and master's
degrees from the University of Toronto, studying with Mary Morrison. She continued her
studies at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Meinard Kraak and privately with Neil
From murder and mystery to ultimate "thankful feelings after the
storm," tonight's program offers a wide range of moods that span
darkness to light.
Anton Webern and Alban Berg, together with their teacher Arnold
Schoenberg, formed the so-called Second Viennese School, and
emerged in the early-20th century as central figures in musical
modernism. Webern's lush Passacaglia, Op. 1, generously displays
the Romantic origins of these composers. Berg's opera
Wozzeck, a brilliant transformation of Georg Büchner's
searing play, made the composer's international fame upon its
Berlin premiere in 1925. We hear three excerpts from the opera that
Berg had presented a year earlier-a sort of preview of coming
The opposite happened in the case of Hungarian composer György
Ligeti's thrilling opera Le grande macabre, which
premiered in 1978. A decade later, arrangements under the
title Mysteries of the Macabre were made out of
the dazzling music sung by Chief of the Secret Political Police, a
coloratura soprano role performed tonight by Barbara
The "Pastoral" is Beethoven's most explicitly programmatic
symphony. He detailed his extramusical ideas in sketches and gave
each of the five movements a title, tracing a walk through the
country, strolling by a stream, hearing birds sing, encountering
peasants dancing, and being caught in a furious downpour with
thunder and lightning before the concluding "Shepherds' hymn-Happy
and thankful feelings after the storm." Beethoven's ultimate aim,
he said, was "more an expression of feeling than painting."
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"This is a way to honor and recognize our veterans, a commemoration of their creativity; during this month, we remember Independence Day and our freedoms, we are holding our second annual juried exhibit for military veterans who are artists to recognize their contributions, appreciate their talent. It's a celebration of their creativity," says Jill Schmuckley, Art Center Ukiah board member.
The multi media show will be displayed at the Corner Gallery for the month of July and includes photography; oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings; mixed media; Native American bead art; and woodworking.
Roger Purdy calls himself a peacetime warrior as he served in the Air Force from 1978 to 1982, a time of no war. He remembers his mother purchasing felt pens and coloring books and loving how the colors interacted creating something larger than life. Initially considered recreational he did not consider art a serious occupation until he entered college where he received his art degree at Chico State.
Studying traditional mediums was not what grabbed his interest; it was computer graphics and the manipulation of pixels that really turned him on to what he could create. He titled his medium Pixelism, inspired by pointillism and the school of Impressionism, the 19th-century art movement originating in Paris.
Spending 30 years developing his techniques, master pixelist Purdy is now an award-winning artist. His unique work is electronically created using color to give the viewer an impression of the composition.
"To me colors are what draw you to the picture and the details keep you there. This is the first time I have displayed this piece," he says, pointing to his compelling piece of a mountain-fed stream ambling through a magical forest of overgrown native brambles, bushes and trees washed in vibrant lavenders, greens, reds and oranges.
"The colors are intended to capture the eye from across the room and upon closer inspection the viewer is rewarded by the detail. If the artist has done his job, the viewer is able to bring her own meaning to it."
Elder artist Don Pagano who served in the Marines from 1940 to 1945 during World War II remembers being stationed in Hawaii on Johnson Island, 500 miles from Pearl Harbor, where on December 7, 1941, his location was bombed concurrently.
He recounts, "Our duty was to fire on ships that went by our little island, really just a sand dune, with 35 personnel to guard it. We had two 10-inch cannons, one on each end of the island, with 100 rounds of ammunition. We only fired 10 rounds at each engagement so they wouldn't know how limited we were. Afterward I was transferred to Pearl Harbor and shipped to Guadalcanal where we were bombed every day. From there we went to Tarawa, one of the biggest disasters in the South Pacific.
During the landing the tide was going out instead of coming in and the barges were stranded on the coral.
"The Japanese riddled them with bullets and the bodies were floating by our ship," Pagano said. "We pulled out further into the Pacific and landed on Japanese-occupied Enewetak."
While serving he drew with colored pencils. He had to keep his work hidden as it was against the rules but he was able to send some of his non-specific work to his mother.
Woodworker Michael Laybourn enlisted (it was enlist or be drafted) in 1956, a year after Elvis, and was shipped to Germany where he served until 1961. His service was cut short by a serious motorcycle accident requiring many surgeries and more than two years of hospitalization.
He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Arizona State, but faced with the reality of making a living, put his passion for sculpture on the back burner.
"It's been a long time since I have created sculpture," he says, standing next to his free form piece, Gumbo Blues, "and I love it. This piece is made with manzanita, madrone and oak with a lot of blues in it. It's really too abstract to describe. I put pieces together and keep going around and around it until it feels good on the outside; at some point that seems enough. It needs to have good color, humor and a good look. This is the first sculpture I have done in 15 years. I am working on more now."
Jan Ledbetter entered paintings by her father, Richard Soderquist, and his twin brother, Robert Soderquist, both of whom served in the Army from 1947 to 1948. "I grew up surrounded by my father's art and wanted to put the paintings somewhere where other people could appreciate them as I have done over the years. Now 84 he loves to travel and continues to paint barns in Lake and Mendocino Counties. A lot of the barns are no longer standing, but he remembers the location of each of them."
"Our featured painting on the wall created by new artist and Willits resident Robert Permenter, serving in the Army from 1989 to 1992, is titled Schizophrenia, an apt description regarding the inconsistent treatment of our vets," explains Schmuckley. "This is very fitting because our reason for doing this show is to point out that we need to honor our veterans; we need to consider the challenges of being a vet and how, as a society, they have been treated over the last 30 years.
"I encourage people to come and not only look but to also purchase what they like; most of it is for sale."


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victory my ***. apple lost. get over it.
From a legal standpoint they lost. But, the punishment is the same type of punishment Bank of America and large financial institutions have been dealt in the wake of the financial crisis. The punishments do nothing to deter further reckless and illegal behavior. It's simply viewed as a cost of doing business.
Waste of the courts time only 8 mill of the 68 mill they wanted it's a victory for apple indeed.
Doesn't matter if it's "chump change" to Apple....that kind of money should never be considered that....it's still 8 million dollars that went out the window. Think of all the things 8 million dollars could get you nowadays. If any billionaire saw 8 million dollars of his money disappear I guarantee he would be upset. Doesn't matter how rich you are....that's still alot of money to lose that you didn't originally plan to.
I'm pretty sure if someone went and sued Apple for Even 1 million dollars Apple would do everything to fight it. They're essentially the richest penny-pushing company I've ever seen.
Who cares. They tried to pull some **** - it backfired, so they ended up buying the patents. Business transaction is what it turned out to be. Instead of getting it for free, they bought it. For 8 million instead of 84 million - so,yeah, they really didn't lose anything - they made out. They're not billionaires for being stupid - they knew the consequences and were prepared,and got what they wanted. End of story.
Apple has always been painted out to be a highly innovative company. And while that may be true in a sense, the mere fact that they are consistently violating or being accused of violating so many patents deeply troubles me. And if this is how UN-steep the penalty will get for patent infringements, then it looks like Apple has got plenty of cash lying around for many more patent infringements in their future "innovative" devices.
Apple probably just laughed and asked "Thats it"!
What I wanna know is where is the article about Apple losing the $600 million lawsuit by Nokia back in June in which Apple used Nokia's patents and technology to revolutionize Apple's own phones back in 2007? And they're paying the ENTIRE sum to Nokia....not a portion like in this case....plus they have to pay Nokia royalties on future iPhone quarterly sales.
And while $600 million may only be 1% of Apple's total cash on hand, I'm pretty sure it still stings and they're not sitting around laughing about that kind of cheddar going right out the window.
Ooohh shot, this make iDevice more expensive in the future....


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Sutton & Epsom's director of rugby, Rowland Cheall, and his coaching team will feel more than a little hard done by that Sutton & Epsom did not secure even a losing bonus point in Saturday's match against Cobham, being defeated 24-11.
On paper, Cobham secured a convincing win by scoring four tries to one, however in reality matters were much different with possibly two of the visitor's tries that might not have been allowed on another day.
The match went ahead at Rugby Lane thanks to the efforts of a small army of volunteers who had spent the morning clearing water off the pitch.
Cobham came into the game on the back of an impressive run of only one defeat in their last eight matches, including victories over Wimbledon, Chobham and Chichester away from home.
The visitors displayed their understandable confidence in the opening minutes of the match when a sweeping move across the pitch resulted in full back Johnny Whebe scoring in the left hand corner.
Messy: Guy Stuckey-Clarke tackles in the mud
The conversion was blown off course by the wind but Cobham had made their attacking intentions clear.
The injury hoodoo that has followed Sutton all season struck again before the game.
Hooker, Ed Spackman, was injured in the warm up and was replaced by Paul Webster, and, to make matters worse, Warren Steyn suffered concussion early in the first half and had to be replaced.
Joe Ridgley was moved to outside centre and Steve Burton slotted into the second row.
The loss of Spackman meant that the Sutton line-out was under pressure all afternoon and prevented the pack from establishing their usually effective driving maul.
Sam Hurley opened Sutton's account with a penalty after eight minutes, however he then fell foul of the referee for illegally holding on to the ball on the ground and was sent to the touchline for 10 minutes.
With Hurley off the field, Cobham launched a rolling maul from a line-out and with the Sutton defence in some disarray the inevitable pushover try followed.
On the move: Mike Blakeburn tries to get away from a Cobham tackle
The conversion was missed again but Cobham now had a handy 3-10 lead.
Sutton started to get their game moving through their pack although a number of prolonged attacks were withheld by Cobham.
The visitors seemed happy to sit on their lead but with five minutes of the half remaining the ball was knocked forward by Cobham near the Sutton line.
Players from both teams stopped awaiting the whistle, but James Whebe continued playing and placed the ball over the try line.
The referee signalled the try to the astonishment of the Sutton team and most of the crowd.
Following the conversion, Sam Hurley added a 40m penalty on the stroke of half time to reduce the deficit to nine points at 6-15.
Jeff Parsons' half time team talk had the desired effect, as Sutton and their mobile pack had the better of the early exchanges in the second half, but it was winger Andy Nichols who unlocked the Cobham defence.
From a tap penalty, the ball was spun wide and Nichols executed a perfectly weighted kick ahead and he beat the covering defence to touch down.
The conversion attempt was diverted off course by the wind but with just four points between the teams the final outcome was impossible to predict.
Offload: Warren Steyn is about to bring Mike Blakeburn into the action
Sutton now enjoyed their best phase of the game, with willing ball carriers throughout the pack, as they searched desperately for another way through the Cobham defence.
Raynn Bruce, James Caddy and Mike Blakeburn were always prominent while Shawn Renwick and Jonjo Wadwa combined excellently at number eight and scrum half respectively.
With time running out, Sutton launched another attack, however Wadwa's kick ahead was hacked back down field by a Cobham defender with the Sutton defence caught flat footed.
Cobham managed to recycle the ball from a ruck and as the ball bounced loose in the Sutton in goal area, the Cobham fly half, Farrelly, and Hurley appeared to touch the ball simultaneously.
The referee awarded a try to Cobham and, to rub salt into the wounds, Farrelly kicked the conversion off the post thereby leaving Sutton with nothing for their considerable efforts all afternoon.
This had been a stoical all round team performance by Sutton against one of the league's in form sides and more performances like that between now and the end of the season will reinforce a very respectable mid table position.
This weekend, Sutton & Epsom entertain Haywards Heath, who have yet to register a win this season, in a rearranged fixture at Rugby Lane, kick off is at 2.30pm.
Shirty: Joe Ridgely
Together: Raynn Bruce and Paul Webster
Here: Chris Hitchcock passes to Shawn Renwick
Attracting attention: Steve Warnham
Getting away: George London
Carrier: Tariq Al Khaldi
In his wake: Shawn Renwick makes a break for it
Brotherly love: James Caddy and Chris Hitchcock
Hoorah: Sam Hurley and Andy Nicholls celebrate Sutton's only try of the game
Weaver: Jonjo Wadwa


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Description Hi,
It's been years I haven't been active here, and I suddenly decided I would try to make a contribution of some kind.
What you see here is a comparison of the same mesh textured a bit differently.
The mesh is completely flat, and any feeling of volume is only given by the good old parallax mapping and normal mapping (a shader fairly easy to write, cheap, and giving good results as long as you don't get in the cases that screw it completely).
It is lit by a single light; the blue and orange tones are given by some simple environment mapping. Remember the usual equation albedo * (ambient + diffuse) ? Usually ambient is a constant is lighting tutorials, but getting inspired by the spherical harmonics papers, I tested the generation of a simple square texture describing the color of the ambient light: longitude along x, and latitude along y.
In the shader it becomes :
vec4 getAmbient()
float invPi = 1. / 3.14159265358979;
vec3 wNormal = (vec4(nNormal, 0.) * cameraMatrix).xyz;
vec2 uv = vec2(0.5 * invPi * atan(wNormal.x, wNormal.z), invPi * atan(length(wNormal.xz), wNormal.y));
return vec4(vec3(texture2D(aMap, uv)), 1.);
* nNormal is the normal; * cameraMatrix will allow us to get wNormal, the normal in world coordinates (otherwise the ambient light will seem to be attached to the camera); * aMap is the texture the ambient map is bound onto.
Now the part being compared in the image is the fake ambient occlusion. Notice how edges look lighter and inner corners look darker on the right? Even the round parts look a bit darker than the flat ones. The effect is very faint, and you probably wouldn't notice, but when you compare the images, there is a difference. The left one looks flatter, and somehow less interesting.
This is done very easily, during the normal map creation: the normal map is created thanks to a heightmap, and so is a fake AO map. Fake, because it doesn't rely onto any math, just out of intuition. The idea is to consider that a higher element will to some extend prevent surrounding lower elements from being lit. So a fake shadow is generated from the heightmap with a convolution filter like this for example: 0 -1 0 -1 4 -1 0 -1 0
Also, the farther the elements, the softer the effect. Therefore this is done repeatedly, each time with a more blurry version of the heightmap, and with an increased distance for filter (well this is not a convolution anymore). This would probably work by reducing the size of the texture each time too; I haven't tested.
Anyway this is all about a hack, and about having quickly a fairly interesting result.
That convolution filter is quite close to a Laplace filter. I'm looking at this algorithm more as using edge detection to provide enhanced lighting detail around the edges, especially for specular materials. Interesting stuff.
It's sort of funny when you look at your images. They can either appear bevelled in or bevelled out. The former looks interesting, the later does not
Well after all that filter is a derivative one, and ambient occlusion approximation is all about considering the local curvature of the surface.
Now that you mention the bevel thing, that's true. I never noticed because I always had some visual clue (moving camera and dynamic light), which are not present here.
Also as an additional note, I discovered that the envmap trick doesn't work with mip-mapping (or anisotropic filtering): the discontinuity introduced by the arctan results in some ugly pixelated artifacts. It works fine with simple linear interpolation though.
(edit: typo. Note to self: do not trust spell checker suggestions)
You might try getting the ambient color from a cubemap lookup rather than the arctan stuff. That should mip well, and you will be able to use it on a surface of any orientation as it will encode indirect illumination from all directions.
Could you post a copy of the image in PNG or another lossless format? Unfortunately the site encodes these images in JPEG, which saves server space but introduces a lot of artifacts - not good for fine-detail graphics comparisons like this. :huh: Also, maybe you could post an image of the fake-AO component alone, without any lighting or normal map?
How much of an effect is there from the repetition with blurred heightmap / increased filter radius? Most of the differences I can see in the two images are quite fine. It seems almost an artistic effect, like a painter might use to bring out the edges. Anyway, it's quite pretty.
It looks beveled in if you focus your eyes on the inside then move outwards, but it looks beveled out if you focus your eyes on the outside and slowly move your focus across the edge towards the inside. It seems as if your brain takes the object you looking at first as having a greater depth. Could be because when you look at a room your eyes first focuses on the farthest wall, then it focuses on an object in the room which has a lesser depth.
the cross is definitely pressed inwards, i can tell ive been looking at no parallax maps for bloody ages.
This is very likely. But the reason for using a simple square texture was to avoid the burden of setting up a cubemap.@Reedbeta
Could you post a copy of the image in PNG or another lossless format? Unfortunately the site encodes these images in JPEG, which saves server space but introduces a lot of artifacts - not good for fine-detail graphics comparisons like this. Also, maybe you could post an image of the fake-AO component alone, without any lighting or normal map?
Here you go!http://twitpic.com/3igb5n/full http://twitpic.com/3igorx/full
Without AO on the left, with AO in the middle, and the AO map on the right. I took those capture with more tilting, to show the effect of the parallax. Notice though how it introduces artifacts near the corners. Parallax mapping really don't like discontinuities.
Also, don't pay too much attention to the lightness. This is really done in a quick and dirty way, so the luminosity is a bit overlooked. I adjusted the weights in the light equation afterwards.
Here is another example of AO map, with a different heightmap:http://twitpic.com/34jc5h/full @Reedbeta
I haven't compared too much the effect of different values, but this is sure something to test. As you point out, it reminds the way artists enhance shapes.


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Harper likely out through Thursday, at least
WASHINGTON -- After hinting Monday that Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper could be the designated hitter in the second half of Washington's home-and-home matchup against the Orioles this week, manager Davey Johnson said Tuesday that his 20-year-old slugger likely will miss the entire Interleague matchup with bursitis in his left knee.
"It's still tender, still a little bit swollen," Johnson said of Harper's knee. "The swelling's down a little bit. I was probably being a little optimistic thinking he could DH over in Baltimore. We're probably not looking good for that."
Harper was left out of the lineup again Tuesday after missing Monday's game. He injured his knee when he ran into the right-field wall at Dodger Stadium on May 13 and reinjured the same knee Sunday against the Phillies. He slid head-first into second and third base in the first inning, banging the knee on the ground.
While Harper will be out for a few more games, Johnson said this is not an injury that would land Harper on the disabled list.
"I think it's just when the inflammation gets out of there, the swelling gets out of there, he'll feel 100 percent better," Johnson said.
Bill Ladson is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, All Nats All the Time. He also could be found on Twitter @WashingNats. Tom Schad is an associate reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @Tom_Schad. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Black Ninja!
Black Ninja!
I'm sure I will get a lot of negative feedback for this but I am going to post it anyway. Over the last few months we have been seeing the rise of Zack Ryder, he has gone from never being on TV (apart from the odd jobbing here and there) to being a regular on pretty much Raw and Smackdown, having arena chant "We Want Ryder" and got his first singles championship match on PPV. Now you can't
I have been reading this website for over a year but have never posted, but I was watching an old episode of Raw I had earlier today and felt like I needed to add to the staunch defence of the Attitude Era. I know a lot of people refer to us as Attitude Marks but quite frankly why wouldn't we be? If you grew up in that era of wrestling you understand, every week you were glued to your TV. Everyone


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Mortgage Madness: 30-Yr Rate Surges To 4.46% From 3.93% In A Week
Mortgage rates, which had been edging higher for six of the past seven weeks, took a quantum leap higher last week, with the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate skyrocketing to 4.46% from 3.93% IN ONE WEEK. The 4.46% rate was the average recorded in Freddie Mac's (FMCC) latest weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey released today, and it marks the highest that rate has been since the week of July 28, 2011 and the largest one-week increase in over a quarter century, since the week ended April 17, 1987. A year ago that rate stood at 3.66%.
Granted last week wasn't any ordinary week - it was the week in which the Federal Reserve so spooked financial markets with its plans to cut back on its bond-buying programs that stocks plunged and Treasury yields, which form the basis for mortgage rates, soared. The May bond bear market, which paled in comparison to last week's acute bond sell-off - had pushed mortgage rates incrementally higher for six of the the previous seven weeks from a 2013 low of 3.35% in early May, within a whisker of its 3.31% all-time low seen last November.
The average 15-year fixed-rate mortgage rate also jumped sharply to 3.50% this week from 3.04% a week ago, up from an all-time low 2.56% during the week ended May 2 and from 2.94% a year ago.
A similar 30-year mortgage rate measured by the Mortgage Bankers Association also rose sharply to 4.46% from 4.17% a week ago.
A front-page story in today's Wall Street Journal by Jon Hilsenrath and Victoria McGrane Illustrates how the rapid rise in mortgage rates has been alternately causing potential homebuyers to scramble to close purchase or else to back away from them altogether:
Elisabeth Kramer said the higher rates accelerated the decision with her husband to buy their first home. "We feel like our hand is kind of forced because if interest rates go up, it's less of a home that we can buy," said the Washington, D.C., account executive at a genetic testing firm. "It really escalated our search process, to get out there and see what we can afford."
The couple has seen about 15 homes in the past two weeks—many of them swamped with multiple bids.
Economists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch estimated that a single percentage point increase in borrowing rates from 3.5% to 4.5% increased the monthly payment on a $160,000 mortgage by $80 to $100.


text: Show Hide image Politics 22 November 2012 The human cost of violence in Israel and Gaza Phoebe Greenwood in Gaza reflects on the recent violence. Sign up for our weekly email * You never get used to the sight of a dead child. The men working at the morgue in Shifa hospital, the largest in Gaza, have seen their share. Yet when the four small bodies of the El Dallo children, crushed, blackened and bloody, were rushed in on Sunday evening, carried on a surge of shouting relatives, hospital employees paled. Laying their bodies, wrapped in white cloth, two abreast on rows of metal trays, ready to be stored until their funerals the following morning, a morgue employee was overcome with tears. "What rocket did these kids ever fire?" he asked. On the evening of Tuesday 20 November, as the Gaza Strip held its breath to see if the rumoured ceasefire would take hold – first at 8pm, then midnight, then 2am – the bodies of more children, dead and injured, crashed through the doors of the emergency unit at Shifa hospital. The heaviest bombardment of the war so far ran into the early hours of the morning of 21 November, with no sign of the promised truce. Apache helicopters hovered in the sky near the morgue, the air thick with the stench of burning plastic, as the hospital filled to capacity. More than 30 children have been killed in this latest cross-border war between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip; more than 135 Palestinians have been killed in total (as we went to press). Five Israelis have been killed and dozens injured by a barrage of 1,380 home-made Qassam and long-range missiles, fired from Gaza into Israel. The Israeli military has evidently learned its lessons from Operation Cast Lead in 2008-2009, a war that cost Gaza 1,400 lives and Israel its unconditional backing from western powers. Even the US was unable to balance the volume of innocent blood spilled with the security gains won. Then, after three weeks of military destruction wrought from land, sea and air, Hamas was still in power. Four years later, its militant wing is once again firing rockets into Israel. This time around, the Israel Defence Forces' media unit has fed journalists footage of their F16 pilots aborting bombing missions to prevent civilian casualties. Mark Regev, the prime minister's spokesman, and his military counterpart, Avital Leibovich, have appeared on global news bulletins reporting "surgical strikes" that have successfully targeted Hamas infrastructure, weapons stores and militant leaders. Deserted streets On the streets of Gaza City, the air hums noisily with the whine of Israeli drones and the chug of electricity generators running through the daily 18 hours of power cuts. Few are reassured by Israeli claims of "precision". Most shops on the main streets are closed, their owners at home with their families. After nightfall, the streets are deserted. People are terrified. The only people still operating at full capacity are taxi and ambulance drivers, militants and journalists. Leibovich tells news teams that Israel has taken pains to avoid killing civilians but when Hamas uses children, women and journalists as "human shields", civilian losses are unavoidable. Seven days into the war, most of the Palestinians killed have been women and children. "Journalists are always in danger but we have tried to show everything, all the children killed, all the houses destroyed," said Mohamed Musa al-Akras, 23, from his hospital bed in Shifa hospital's crowded orthopaedics unit. The al-Aqsa TV cameraman was editing footage at 2am on the morning of 19 November when a missile fired from an F16 jet hurtled through the ceiling. The IDF was targeting an antenna above the office of the TV channel al-Quds that it claims was being used by Hamas. Khader al-Zahher, an intern, was hit by the third missile fired. The blast shattered one of his legs, which was later amputated. Another Israeli strike was launched simultaneously on the Shuruq Tower, several blocks away. This was home to Sky News, al-Arabiya news and Russia Today. Plumes of smoke surged from the ground floor. This time, the target was the Islamic Jihad commander Ramez Harb. Three cameramen were injured in the blast, two from al-Jazeera. On 20 November, three more journalists were killed, two as they sped through Gaza's streets to the site of another Israeli strike. Buried bodies When the four El Dallo children were buried, only Jamal, their grandfather, was left to mourn. They were carried for a final visit to their destroyed home, along with ten of their family friends also killed in the strike. Israel is investigating the civilian casualties in this incident but confirms "targeting" a Hamas official at the house. The children had not yet been washed for burial. Their bodies were still bloody, covered in dust and swathed in Palestinian flags. "I expected this would happen," Jamal said as he moved through the crowd to view their bodies. "No family, no house is safe in the Gaza Strip." Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 26 November 2012 issue of the New Statesman, What is Israel thinking? More