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This is just a FMI ("for my information"), out of curiosity, question:
Will TrueOS always stick to the CURRENT branch of FreeBSD or will it "settle" for RELEASE when FreeBSD 12 goes RELEASE, as well?
I couldn't find any info on that here or the TrueOS website, that's why I'm creating a new thread - although I might have read something about it but forgot what and where...
I'm wondering if "the Moore Bros." initially chose CURRENT because they wanted "bleeding edge" as a principle or because v12 had something they wanted that v11 just didn't.
as an end user, I believe they intend on following CURRENT.
Latest hardware support, and to help test things for FreeBSD, and move FreeBSD in a direction
Yes to both. There were things in v12 that they wanted weren't in v11, and the only way to get the newest stuff is to stick with v12. As for when v12 is released... v13 will have all the new supercool stuff we'll want to have, so we'll probably keep tracking with Current then as well.
We're waiting on Rod to create and support the FreeBSD-FUTURE branch so we can follow that.
Just so there's no confusion... I just made that up. We plan on following FreeBSD-Current for the forseeable future.
i have FUTURE ready, but the real world isn't
You want (the) FUTURE?
You can't handle (the) FUTURE!
Does this mean that we'll never see a fully stable TrueOS RELEASE version and that TrueOS is some kind of experiment OS? This unlike PC-BSD were we knew was stable when there was a RELEASE update.
The reason I'm asking is that when I read on this community I notice that for every CURRENT update there seems always to be some problems with things that stop working and so.
If that's the case, thus it means that if we want a stable BSD desktop OS and not something for developers only, we have to stay with PC-BSD 10.3 or look for something else like Linux or so.
The reason I started to use PC-BSD was because I wanted a OS that was rock solid and not some, I don't know how to put it, maybe "picked up parts" like Linux where the kernel comes from one place and then some mishmash from a lot of different developers and distributions.
But if TrueOS won't be rock solid, but some kind of bleeding edge test OS to see if the latest and coming versions of FreeBSD works, then sadly I guess my only choice is to leave it and look for something else. However, if that's the case I will surely miss the nice and very stable ZFS filesystem that AFAIK PC-BSD/TrueOS are the only graphical easy to use desktop OS's that uses.
I don't mean to be disrespectful to you developers and I don't know if I misunderstood it all, if so, please correct me.
This is a more complex issue than that question makes it appear. So bear with me while I try to explain. The issue at the end of the day is what you consider 'stable'. Does that mean 'no changes' or does that mean 'does not crash'. While many people instinctively consider those to be the same thing, they are actually quite different. Most people usually fall somewhere on the spectrum between those two options... without knowing where you define it, I'll do my best to answer.
Right now things are unstable. This will not always be the case, but it has been right now. Usually the knee jerk reaction is to blame a rolling release model, as to why things are unstable, but that's not accurate. A rolling release model can actually be incredibly stable, my ArchLinux (rolling release)box has been orders of magnitude more stable than my Fedora (versioned stable) box. The issue we are having with TrueOS right now is that we have some many major moving pieces at the moment. The new Intel graphics stack is currently evolving, and we are pushing that as soon as it's out so we can help find the bugs so that it will be stable. The change to OpenRC has also been a massive shift in things and we are finding all the bugs in that as well. Normally we will not have two major pieces of the OS both undergoing massive development at the same time. We decided to run with them right now because us dealing with the fallout now will help the code become stable faster, which will lead to TrueOS become more stable sooner. Since there are so many issues, no branch is truly 'stable' so we're pushing the changes out and down the branches as soon as we get them to try to help stabilize things as soon as possible.I used to run the PC-BSD Current Edge branch before and never had issues... once we get all the major problems ironed out, the stability will be similar. We will only be pulling in new smaller things as they happen, and we can test those with in the TrueOS unstable branch.
Again, we need to get over the initial hump of all these massive changes and then things will smooth out.
The current instability wont always remain. However I'm unable to tell you at this point in time how long it might take till we iron out all the issues. With limited manpower and resources... we can't estimate an approx date.
I certainly didn't take any disrespect from what you wrote. You were straight forward and honest about your thoughts and asked questions to find out if what you were thinking was correct or not. That's perfectly fine in my book.
Very good points made here. Stability sometimes depends on a specific hardware configuration and a users workload. The OpenRC migration is a good example of that; the team has done a good job of converting the daemons they know about or are most likely to be used, but they can't know what packages/ports are being used by everyone.
Some of the recent posts to FreeBSD svn-src-head looks like a lot of churn and "problems" but if you read them closely, they can be extreme corner cases or affect only a single architecture (like ARM). Sometimes there are periods of instability as things change on head, but the TrueOS folks aren't blindly following FreeBSD-12-CURRENT.
The more folks that use TrueOS and report bugs with enough information, the quicker things will stabilize. The Intel graphics is a good example of that; yes it's not fun when your screen locks up or the system panics, but that's the beauty of the boot environments (rolling back to one that works).
TrueOS being based on CURRENT has actually been a disaster for me in comparison to PC-BSD, but I'm likely in the minority. FreeBSD 11 would actually work fine for me to the point that I'm tempted to switch to it, but getting FreeBSD working as a desktop instead of a server is not the sort of thing that I really want to have to deal with. Without something like PC-BSD or TrueOS, using FreeBSD for the desktop starts looking a lot like the pain that is Gentoo...
But the FreeBSD kernel doesn't support any sort of modern sound card (e.g. as far as I can tell, it supports zero PCI-E sound cards, and it doesn't support most USB sound cards, so if your sound card isn't built into your motherboard, you're screwed), and my motherboard doesn't have a sound card built in, so I need oss in order to get sound working properly, and unfortunately, oss doesn't have anyone maintaining it in ports at the moment, so it doesn't build with CURRENT right now, whereas it does build with 11. At the current rate, I'm probably going to have to figure out how to fix that myself, but figuring out what broke it and fixing it will be a time-consuming process, and I haven't had time to sort that out.
The other big problem for me is that the FreeBSD devs have been mucking around with the stack unwinding code. They switched to using libunwind, and when they did that, it broke D programs (they now get a bus error whenever an exception is thrown), and since I'm a D developer, that's a big problem. I did spend enough digging into the bus errors t to figure out the that the problem was libunwind, and initially, I could rebuild the base system with a setting to turn off libunwind and revert to the old stuff. But then they got rid of that setting and disabled libunwind, which should have fixed the D programs, since it then is theoretically using the old stack unwinding code, but they didn't simply revert it, and whatever they did, it results in the same bus errors that libunwind had any time that a D program throws an exception. So, now, I don't even have a workaround.
I don't know whether the problem is a FreeBSD bug or one in the D compiler or runtime, but it means that I have to do all of my programming on my linux laptop instead of my main desktop. And I'm likely going to need to find time to figure out why on earth throwing an exception results in a bus error, and I don't know if I even know enough to figure out what's going wrong. I probably need to figure out what mailing list the folks are on that deal with this stuff so that I can at least bring up the issue with them. But regardless, it's another thing that I have to spend time trying to figure out in order to get my system working properly, because TrueOS is on CURRENT instead of 11.
And maybe that problem will exist in 12 if I don't figure out how to fix it or at least figure out who to talk to about such things, and my dealing with this pain now just means that it can be fixed for 12 instead of me hitting it when 12 comes out - but it could also be that it would be fixed by the time 12 comes out anyway, and I wouldn't have had to go through any of this if we had PC-BSD 11.
So, I can't say that I'm at all happy with where TrueOS sits right now and the fact that we have it instead of PC-BSD 11, but the problems that I'm hitting are likely not problems that all that many folks are going to run into - especially the D-related problem. So, TrueOS is likely to be fine for many folks. And if those problems were resolved, then I'd probably be fine with TrueOS, but where I'm sitting now, I keep debating whether I should go through the pain of dealing with FreeBSD proper for a desktop or just switch over to Linux, but their ZFS support sucks in comparison to FreeBSD. So, rock meet hard place...
Having been one of "those folks" who've rolled their own FreeBSD desktop and even used pf to set it up as a firewall for a home network, I understand where you're coming from on the "pain" aspect.But, I think a lot of that pain came from doing source upgrades instead of binary upgrades. If 11 gets you want you need from a working hardware POV, why not simply do binary packages for all the rest? That's what you're getting with TrueOS and Linux for the most part. The downside to that (my opinion) is you're stuck with the options configured when the package was built, which may not be what you want.
USB audio device support: I'm going to mildly disagree with you on that. My sample of 1 Logitech headphones with an attached mic has always been recognized and supported in at least V10 and CURRENT of FreeBSD. plug it in, cat /dev/sndstat to see the dev info, sysctl -w hw.snd.default_unit=XXX and it worked just fine. It's always been about buying hw that is recognized, and lots of the USB stuff is often fixed by simply adding in the correct IDs to the right kernel files for at least basic support.
I have nothing to add on D (I don't use it).
As for ZFS support: I personally would not use Linux to do ZFS support. I would build up or buy something that already supports ZFS (ixSystems), migrate existing data sets and make them available on the network. Then all you need to do is remote mount them on your workstation.
But, I'm not trying to convince you to keep fighting against something that doesn't work for you. The history of computers is littered with "have to break some things in order to make progress"
ja myślę że mogliby połączyć siły z linuksem i pracować razem a nie osobno
[translation by moderator]I think that they could join forces with Linux and work together rather than separately[/translate]
For your "D" programming/development, have you considered just creating a FreeBSD 11.0-Release jail on your system where you can do all your D compiles/tests?That will let you have a functional/regularly updated desktop system (TrueOS), but your development sandbox will be a stable "-Release" environment. You could probably even install the "compat10x" package on your base/TrueOS system, and use a "10-Release" jail instead of "11-Release" so you can then run your compiled D apps on the base system too.
Considering that I want a system built with X and cups and all of that fun stuff, I would be stuck configuring and rebuilding far too large a percentage of the packages for it to be even vaguely pleasant to use vanilla FreeBSD. That's most of why PC-BSD and TrueOS exist in the first place.
I'm not going to replace my computer just because FreeBSD has problems with my sound card, and I'm not interested in shelling out for a new computer right now anyway (much as I probably will talk to IX next time rather than building my system from scratch as I've done historically). Also, next time I replace my system, I will probably get a server motherboard so that I can have a better CPU and more SATA connectors (since I really want my primary hard drives in my computer, not in a NAS, and I'm at pretty much the limit of what you can have with a desktop motherboard right now), and AFAIK, having a server motherboard means that I would need an external sound card, which puts me in the same boat that I'm in now anyway. Plus, I'd much prefer to have a high quality sound card, and there can be a definite quality difference between what they integrate into a motherboard and what you get with an external card. I want something that's going to work well with my surround sound system. And as much as it sucks that FreeBSD doesn't have the support I need built in, usually oss manages to solve the problem for me. It just doesn't work right now thanks to changes in CURRENT.
I'll have to look into that. It would likely partially solve the problem - particularly for running unit tests (since those throw exceptions on failure and thus definitely don't work right now), but for some programs, having to run them in a jail like that would likely be problematic. It would be nice though to not have to do all my development on my laptop.
Regardless of the workaround though, my main point was that having TrueOS be based on CURRENT has made life harder for me rather than improving it and that from what I can see, PC-BSD 11 would have worked just fine for me. So, at least in my case, it's been a real stability problem for TrueOS to be based on CURRENT. That being said, if the FreeBSD guys actually got better sound card drivers (which would fix one of my problems), those drivers would likely be in TrueOS fairly quickly, whereas there would have been a much larger delay for PC-BSD 11. So, depending on your hardware and what you're trying to do, having TrueOS based on CURRENT could be a real boon. So, from where I sit, I wish that we had both PC-BSD 11 and TrueOS so that you could pick the one that worked best for your situation, and the fact that there is no "spin" or "distribution" of FreeBSD 11 geared towards desktops is frustrating. But there are only so many developers to go around.
BTW, does anyone have any idea which mailing list (or other means of communication) would be appropriate if I wanted to discuss problems with the stack unwinding code in the base with the developers likely to actually be involved in that stuff?
The available FreeBSD mailing lists can be found HERE.For something related to the libunwind changes which are only in -Current, I would guess the "freebsd-current" list is probably a good bet. Another possibility is the "freebsd-ports" list (and/or the D compiler port maintainer) for resolving issues with the ports you are having trouble with.
We have said this a few times in various places, but the current TrueOS team just does not have the manpower for maintaining an "11-Release" branch of the project in addition to the -current work. If somebody wants to step up and be responsible for this work (although realistically it will probably take a few people), we are more than happy to help you get started and provide assistance for things like automated builds, distribution under the TrueOS name, etc...


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Unlike the PS4's DualShock 4, the original Xbox One controller only worked with headsets specially designed for its proprietary inputs; standard 3.5 mm headsets needed a £20 ($25) adapter, which won't be necessary with the new controller. Microsoft says the new controller also features improved audio quality and a higher maximum volume, as well as "fine-tuned bumpers for more consistent performance anywhere along the full surface of the bumper."
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Alongside the new console hardware, Microsoft also announced a USB adapter that will let Xbox One controllers work wirelessly on Windows 10 PCs with full support for in-game chat and audio pass-through. The adapter will cost $25 on its own or come packaged with a controller for $80 starting this fall (UK pricing TBC).
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According to my bone size my ideal weight is 190... I'll always be a Clyde in mind. I love the advantage on descents... I have a few spots where I can hit 40, and I've cracked 50 twice...at those speeds I find myself listening quite intently to the buzz of the rubber against the road...
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What I have noticed ever since I went clipless a few months back is I am pulling the pedals over the top of the stroke when climbing, especially when I get out of the saddle. I've taken the dragging the foot visualization to round out the stroke to heart, unweighting the upside leg took a bit of mental tricks but as soon as I thought of it "diagonally," meaning treating it as a counter to the kick opposite the down-stroke, it has begun to fall into place.
It's a pretty cool feeling "dragging," the bike like that. I'm still working on the cardio though. I can't wait for it to flatten out when spinning up ascents. I think the art lies in not spinning as fast as you can as much as it really comes down to finding an rpm you can sustain which entails backing off a bit.
Congrats! But still post here, your still close enough and once a clyde always a clyde!
I hadn't checked my weight in a week. I was 222.8 last friday. 220.4 today! :) Down 8lbs since Feb 3rd, I'm happy with the slow loss! Especially 2lbs in a week that, quite honestly, I have not tried all that hard!
Keep up the good work, I hope by fall I can post the same thing! :)
Way to go!
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The Pots and Pans of Photography
Save Money, Eat Good, Photograph Women Beautifully
While there are many types of photographic equipment, such as light modifiers, stands, and even gels used in creating beautiful photographs of people, the camera lens itself is the physical funnel that leads down to the camera's image capture device. As the image barrels down to the sensor, it's like a chef squeezing a pastry bag to put the icing on the cake. While many people use butter knives to frost their cakes, great chef's utilize great cooking utensils for the final presentation. A photographer's cameras and lenses are like the chef's pots and pans used to cook a fine meal—the ingredients are combined with these tools before they are presented for consumption.
Often the proper tools are what distinguish a cook from a connoisseur chef. Pots and pans are the tools for any cook, but great chefs know the difference between a copper-bottom pan and a cast iron skillet. They know that ultimately it's about using the right tool for the right job, as a chef will not boil an egg in a sauté pan nor would a chef broil shrimp in a crock pot. The same is said about a professional photographer, as they'd rarely consider a point-and-shoot camera for creating a masterful photograph. Sure, there are a few photographers that will take short cuts, but that's because they know the rules, fundamentals and concepts of photography and have mastered them.
With that said, let's look at what can separate a great photographer of women from the average guy with a camera, or as it's known on the Internet, the GWC. A great photographer realizes, aside from great lighting, ultimately it's great glass that will make the difference. Glass, or a camera lens, specific to the desired result, and when photographing a woman, a photographer must understand that the subject is the main ingredient of the final image, the backgrounds and foregrounds are secondary. These "grounds" should only accentuate the subject and help tell her story, just like side dishes accentuate a main course.
The Lenses
Because the subject is the main focus, traditionally, great photographers use medium-telephoto to telephoto lenses when capturing their subject's beauty, usually in the range of 85mm to 200mm, in relation to 35mm format photography. These types of lenses provide several key aspects that ensure their subject separates from the grounds. In addition, due to the lack of depth of field from these stronger magnification lenses, the grounds are optically thrown out of focus, provided the photographer focuses his lens on the subject's eyes. This helps keep the viewer of the final image focused on the subject too.
These longer lenses also compress the background, and create an illusion that the subject is closer to the background, though normally the subject is placed at a comfortable distance away from the background. These lenses also magnify the background and this is real important during sunsets so the sun appears larger in the background and not marbled-sized or small, as created by much wider-angled lenses.
Longer lenses also help the photographer by naturally providing tight composition where the subject tends to fill the frame more with her body, thus reducing any distractions created by the grounds. These lenses also provide for a greater comfort distance between the photographer and the subject for proper composition and framing, thus the photographer is not right on top of the subject breathing down her neck. This natural space created between the photographer and the subject is important, especially when shooting fine-art nudes or women in sexy outfits and poses. Most people value their private space and photographers will find their subjects are more comfortable in this type of shooting space.
Another element that helps in the photography of women, especially in digital photography today, is the natural layer of make-up, or smoothing of the skin, created by adjusting the aperture of a long lens to around F/4 or F/5.6. These lower apertures create an optical Gaussian Blur of the skin when a photographer focuses dead on the eyes of their subject, as the depth of field will fall fast and in today's tack-sharp lenses and super sharp image capturing sensors, this is important. Unlike film that had a natural softness due to it's cellulose construction and natural curvature, digital sensors are flat and capture the minutest detail—that's one reason celebrities hate digital high-definition (HD) television, as they don't want everyone to see their pimples and pores that's often hidden with film and low-resolution television.
Avoiding the Sweet Spot
There is one other factor on why photographing women, especially more mature women, is best done at the lower apertures of a lens—to avoid the sweet spot of the lens, or it's optimum aperture. All lenses, and this varies with manufacturer, make and model, have an optimum aperture, which is their sharpest point in the optics. Many inexperienced photographers believe that their lenses are sharpest at their highest F/stop number, or the minimum aperture of the lens, this is false. There is only more depth of field at F/16, F/22 and higher F/stop values.
Most lenses have an optimum aperture usually between F8 and F11. Some are lower, some higher, but for the most part, this sweet spot falls in the middle aperture ranges of most lenses. When a photographer avoids the optimum aperture of a longer lens and uses a lower aperture value, provided the camera is focused tack sharp on the subject's eyes, the final image will have an optical smoothness for most of the subject's face. In this method, the eyes are the sharpest part of the image and since the cheeks are closer to the lens than the eyes, the cheeks and outer facial structures subtly and optically become out of focus, thus smoothing out the skin.
Obviously there are occasions where I prefer higher F/stops or smaller aperture openings, usually these are more when on location outdoors and even more specifically when I'm overpowering the sun with flash. If I use a higher aperture value outside these parameters, it's normally when working with younger models or female subjects with a smooth, youthful complexion.
The Importance of Great Glass
Now while avoiding the sweet spot and using medium-telephoto to telephoto lens are a must in photographing women, most photographers wind up with pictures and not photographs because they opt for lower-grade glass, or lenses in the 85mm to 200mm range that have a maximum aperture (lower F/stop) of F/4 or even F/5.6. These lenses provide for less light intensity to strike the image capture sensor, but ultimately, it causes for a darker viewfinder. These dark situations, like sunsets, make it more difficult for the camera to focus the lens, often causing a delay during the shoot and the photographer to miss a great shot.
Lenses, like great studio flash units, should last a photographer for many, many years and should never be skimped upon. I highly recommend, if you can't afford a lens that has a maximum aperture value of at least F/2.8, that you wait and save your money for it, or an even faster lens. Purchasing a slower lens with a maximum aperture of F/4 or higher, is another factor that separates a great photographer of women from the GWC, or guy with a camera. Obviously there are some lenses, usually of much longer focal lengths and greater magnification, such as a 600mm lens, that the maximum aperture is no wider than F/4 or F/5.6, but this is due to the physics of the optics, not necessarily the quality of the glass. However, in the 85mm to 200mm range, especially with the 70-200mm zoom lens, there is no excuse, for a photographer of women not to have a lens with a maxim aperture of F/2.8 or better.
I've taught almost 500 workshops and seminars over the years where photographers arrive with the top-of-the-line camera bodies, but with cheap lenses and the best analogy I have for that, it's like cooking a marbleized, aged, prime beef filet mignon in a portable toaster oven. Now that brings me to the photographer's camera body—similar to the culinary chef's cook-top, it's a valuable piece of equipment that we need to create our masterpiece.
The Camera Body
While there are many makes and models of camera bodies in today's digital world where technology changes every Monday when the Board of Directors meet, my best recommendation for a camera body is to purchase one that gives you a full-frame capture device and not a magnification multiplier for your lens. Remember, it's about the glass and if you take the time and save the money to purchase a top lens, why would you attach it to a camera body that doesn't give you the intended effects of the lens' optics? There are plenty of camera bodies that are not necessarily at the very top-of-the-manufacturer's-line, but provide for true lens magnification and optics at a reasonable price. A great example is Canon's 5D Mark II camera, it's not their top pro camera, the 1DS Mark whatever is, but the Canon 5D Mark II is the top selling camera out there today, not to mention, it's used at Playboy to photograph Playmates and was even used for it's video capabilities for this year's season finales of two popular television shows, House and 24.
I'll give you an example, for many, many years, Playboy magazine would use 8 x10-inch film cameras for their gatefold (centerfold) shot, but at the time of writing this post, they were using the Canon 5D Mark II, even though they have the much higher-end Canon camera bodies in their arsenal. It's all about using the right tool for the right job, and in the publication world for printing only so many pixels of resolution are needed, sometimes making the top pro cameras overkill. And as more and more publications fold, you'll find the demand for Internet images are higher and the resolution, due to browser and computer display limitations, even lower.
If I even attempted to write a book about specific camera makes and models and which ones I recommend are best, by the time my book appeared on a bookshelf and you purchased it, the camera bodies mentioned would be obsolete as they change quicker than their predecessor film cameras, so I'm going to give you a few things to consider before you make your camera purchase.
First, as mentioned earlier, go with the best camera that suits all your needs—without exceeding your needs, but please consider a full-frame sensor camera as a minimum. With today's technology, don't let the image capture, or sensor chip type influence your decision. Digital technology is not a revolution, it's an evolution. Camera sensors are so good today that most photographers who use their ultra-high-speed capabilities don't even worry about digital noise, like they did with the grain of film.
I will say this, gather all the information you can about any specific make and model you think you might purchase, dig through the marketing hype, and if you can rent the camera first, do so. Purchase only what you need, not what everyone else wants, as by the time you're ready to move up a level in photography, your old camera body will be worn and probably no longer manufactured—save it as a back-up body.
And if you're price conscious, camera bodies drop in price shortly after introduction into the photographic markets—and by then, all the bugs have been worked out and the camera software, or firmware, is usually updated, so don't rush to get the latest and the greatest if you don't need it instantly. Take your time, make educated purchasing decisions, don't purchase on impulse. Wait for the camera holiday sales and most important, visit photography forums and see what people who are using the camera are posting about it, though be careful in what you read, not everything on the Internet is true.
Another point to remember, camera manufactures tend to make major announcements, including camera body changes and the introduction of new models, every year during the annual photography industry and retail show, PMA, the Photo Marketing Association main event. This event is held sometime between February and March, so look for those announcements. Every other year, around September, is the world show for the photo industry, called Photokina, held in Germany in even numbered years. This is also a great time to look for new products and announcements from the top camera manufacturers. Usually after these announcements, the current models on the store shelves begin dropping their prices in anticipation for the new products. Shop wisely and you'll save hundreds of dollars that you can apply to better quality lenses.
In Summary
A photographer's toolbox consists of many items, from studio lights to production computers and like a chef's arsenal of pots and pans used to bring all the ingredients together for a delicious meal, the proper camera body and lens are a funnel for a photographer to create the perfect photograph.
When it comes to lenses, purchase those with fast glass, or low maximum apertures especially those in the 70-200mm range, often used to photograph women. Your lenses should be at least F/2.8 or better which not only guarantees much better optics than slower lenses, but provides for a bright viewfinder and the "three C's" of photographing women—comfort distance between you and your subject, compression of the background and nice tight composition.
Finally, when it comes to camera bodies, opt for the full-frame sensor types so you get everything your lens offers. Don't fall for marketing hype. Plan your photographic equipment purchases after the major, annual and biennial photo industry trade shows—then take the money you saved and have an amazing connoisseur meal from a great chef!
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IRVINE, CA / ACCESSWIRE / October 2, 2015 / Cabinet Grow, Inc. (OTCQB: CBNT), a developer and marketer of cabinet-based horticultural systems with an emphasis in the cannabis industry, today announced the Company will donate five percent of all online cabinet sales for the month of October to Susan G. Komen(R) in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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Tessa Stokes in a milk carton dress designed by Heather O'Connor. Right: Sarah Jeffery in a dress made from bin bags, by Karen Jeffery.
PERHAPS it's the ultimate in domestic goddess haute couture -- a maxi dress made from black refuse sacks.
The boredom of household chores can be glamourised by wearing a hooded, bell-sleeved jacket, handcrafted by knitting shredded black sacks on enormous needles.
The dress, designed by Karen Jeffery, a secondary pupil at Kilkenny College, is one of 65 inventive gowns to make it to the finals of Junk Kouture, which takes place at Dublin's Burlington Hotel on Sunday.
The grand final will be hosted by Noel Cunningham from TV3's 'Ireland AM'.
Pupils throughout the country were invited to enter the Junk Kouture challenge to create fashion from junk.
Behind the fashion exercise lies a campaign to educate children about recycling.
Fashion designers Sinead Doyle and Deborah Veale, and Patricia McCrossan of Golden Egg Productions in Galway will judge the finalists.
The winning school will receive €5,000, while the teenage designer will bag €500.
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Machboos Al Samak
Recipe by Laila Abdullatif, Dubai from Sustainable fish recipes published by the Choose wisely campaign
Approximately 6 –8 servings
4 cups water
1 kg rice
1 kg Shaari Eshkeli (pink ear emperor) fish cut into fillets or pieces
3 medium onions, chopped
5 cloves of garlic, chopped
a handful of fresh coriander, chopped
a few curry leaves
100gm of cooked black-eye beans
2 tbsp of tomato paste
1 kg of chopped fresh tomato
3 pieces dry lemon
2 tsp of mixed spices (cumin, coriander, turmeric)
1 tsp red chili powder
salt to taste
oil for frying.
Clean the fish thoroughly and fry in oil on frying pan until partially cooked. Sauté the onion, garlic and curry leaves until brown. Add the fresh tomato and continue to cook for about 5 minutes. Add the tomato paste, mixed spices, dry lemon, coriander leaves and beans. Cook for 5 minutes. Add fish, rice and 4 cups of water. Simmer until rice is cooked.
Recipe by Laila Abdullatif, Dubai from Sustainable fish recipes published by the Choose wisely campaign
Approximately 6 –8 servings
1 kg Faskar fish fillets (two-bar seabream)
1 kg fresh tomatoes, chopped
3 medium onions, chopped
5 cloves garlic, chopped
handful of chopped fresh coriander
handful of curry leaves
handful of fenugreek leaves
2 pieces of dry lemon
1 tsp tomato paste
2 tsp mixed spices (coriander, turmeric, cumin and chili powder)
salt to taste
oil for frying
Fry fish in oil until partially cooked. Sauté garlic, onion and curry leaves until brown. Add fresh tomatoes and cook for 5 minutes. Add the mixed spices and dry lemon. Add chopped coriander and fenugreek. Cook for 5 minutes. Add fish and 4 cups of water and continue to cook on low heat. Serve with rice
Hot-smoked Green Tea Souli Wraps
Recipe by Micki Johnson, Dubai from the Sustainable fish recipes published by the Choose wisely campaign
Approximately 6 servings
4 large Souli fillets (approx 1.5-2 kg of Souli – small-tooth Emperor)
4 green-tea bags
½ cup of white rice
½ cup demarara sugar
vegetable oil
salt and pepper
6 white flour tortilla shells or wraps
½ mayonnaise or yoghurt
10 cherry tomatoes, quartered
10 black olives, pitted and chopped
2 spring onions, sliced
½ cup feta cheese, crumbled
Juice of 1 lime, a handful of mint, roughly chopped, salt and pepper to taste
Line a pot with aluminium foil. Open teabags and pour green tea into bottom of foil-lined pot. Add rice and brown sugar to bottom of pot. Place strainer or steamer basket into pot. Lightly coat the Souli fillets with oil, season with salt and pepper, and place into strainer. Tightly cover the post with lid and put over a high heat under extractor fan or outside. Leave pot over high heat until smoke starts to escape from under the lid. Don't open the lid. Turn off the heat and leave fillets to smoke for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, open lid, remove fillets, which should be cooked and have a brown smoke coating. Flake the fish, add mayonnaise or yoghurt, tomatoes, olives, onions, cheese, lime juice, mint and salt and pepper. Fold into wraps or tortillas.
Falafel Sandwich with Tahini Sauce
Recipe from Suzanne Husseini's When Suzanne Cooks published by Motivate.
Makes approx 60 falafels
1 cup peeled, split fava beans, soaked overnight in 3 cups cold water
1 cup chickpeas, soaked overnight in 3 cups cold water
1 cup fresh coriander
½ cup fresh parsley
1 medium onion, finely chopped
1 spring onion
6 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 small potato, boiled
1 tbsp ground coriander
1 tbsp ground cumin
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp allspice
1 red chili, finely chopped
1 tsp pepper
1 tsp salt
1 ½ baking soda
½ cup sesame seeds
peanut oil for deep-frying
sliced tomatoes to garnish
parsley and mint to garnish
Drain the chickpeas and fava beans. Place in a food processor and pulse until coarsely ground. Add the rest of the ingredients, except the baking soda, until fully combined. Don't over process.
Just before frying add the baking soda to lighten the falafels. Heat the oil to 190?C. Shape the falafel patties and dip one side in sesame seeds. Slowly slide it into the oil. Remove with slotted spoon and drain on absorbent paper. Serve hot with tahini sauce, tomatoes, parsley and mint, wrapped in pitta bread.
Tahini and Parsley Sauce
2 cloves garlic, crushed
juice of 2 lemons
½ cup tahini
½ cup yoghurt
½ cup chopped parsley
sea salt
Mix the garlic, lemon juice, tahini, yoghurt and parsley until smooth and creamy. Season with salt. Serve with falafel.
Recipe from Suzanne Husseini's When Suzanne Cooks published by Motivate
12 or more servings
Lamb Shawarma
1 fresh leg of lamb, de-boned and butterflied, trimmed of excess fat
1 tsp each of cinnamon, paprika, cardamom, cumin, cayenne pepper, ground coriander, allspice, ground cloves, nutmeg
½ tsp mastic ground with 1 tsp of salt
Juice and zest of 1 orange
Juice and zest of 1 lemon
1 cup chopped fresh coriander
¼ cup olive oil
salt and pepper
plenty of pitta bread
tahini sauce
1 cup fresh mint and parsley
2 tomatoes, sliced
12 gherkins (optional)
Mix all of the dry and wet ingredients to make a marinade in a large glass bowl. Place the butterflied leg of lamb in the marinade and rub it all over. Cover with plastic wrap and leave in the fridge overnight.
Next day, take out the meat and allow to come to room temperature. Grill on barbecue for approximately 45 minutes, turning halfway.
When cooked to your desire, remove, cover and leave to stand for 15 minutes before slicing thinly. To assemble the shawarma, fill a warm pitta bread with thin slices of meat, add a few leaves of fresh mint and parsley, the gherkins and tomato slices and drizzle with tahini sauce.
Chicken Shawarma
6 chicken breasts
6 cloves garlic, mashed
juice of 2 lemons
Zest of 1 lemon
¼ cup olive oil
3 bay leaves, broken into pieces
2 tsp cardamom
½ tsp of cumin and cloves
1/tsp mastic ground with ½ tsp salt
Combine all the ingredients, except the chicken, in a large bowl. Place the chicken breasts in the bowl and rub all over with the marinade. Cover and leave in the fridge overnight.
10 cloves garlic
1 tsp sea salt
juice of 1 lemon
½ cup olive oil
2 tbsp water
To make the toum, place all the ingredients escept the oil and the water into a small food processor and purée. While the motor is running, pour in the olive oil in a steady stream. The sauce will come together and look like creamy mayonnaise. Lastly add the water. Store in the fridge. Next day, barbecue the chicken on medium heat until well done. Remove and cover with foil to allow to rest for 5 minutes. Cut into thin slices.
To assemble, spread some toum on warm pitta bread. Fill with chicken slices, mint, parsley, tomato and pickles.
The shawarmas are good on their own or served with potato wedges, hummus, moutabel and a selection of pickles.
1 cup dried chickpeas soaked overnight in cold water or 2 tins
of chickpeas
1/3 cup of chickpea liquid
4 tbsp of tahini
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
4 tbsp low-fat yoghurt or 2 tbsp of olive oil
4 tbsp lemon juice
olive oil
paprika or cayenne
If you are using the soaked chickpeas, change the water and cook for approximately one hour until tender. Remove as many skins as possible and save some of the liquid in which the chickpeas were cooked.
Drain the tinned chickpeas if using these and save some of the liquid.
Place all the ingredients, except the chickpea liquid into a food processor and blend to the required texture. Garnish with olive oil, cayenne or paprika and a few reserved chickpeas.
Serve with warm pitta bread and or sliced raw vegetables
4 aubergines
4 tbsp tahini
½ cup of yoghurt
juice of 1 lemon
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
olive oil, pine nuts and pomegranate seeds
Pierce the aubergines with a fork and place in a very hot oven, turning frequently until the skin is char-grilled. You can also do this over a flame. Allow to cool and drain. Slice in half, remove flesh and mash. Add tahini, yoghurt and garlic, salt and mix well. Gradually add lemon juice. Garnish with the pomegranate seed, pine nuts and olive oil.
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Well isn't this a kick in the pants.
I decided that I'd try Mama Kat's writing prompt this week, and loved the Instagram option: "Open Instagram (if you have an account) and scroll down to the 4th photo shared by a friend. Share the photo, link to the person who posted it, and let it inspire a blog post."
Then I opened Instagram and saw the fourth photo. The photo itself isn't kick in the pants; it's a lovely shot of a Mary statue in a garden, taken by Leslie Sholly. Certainly a familiar sight to me as a Catholic. The kick in the pants is the timing.
I often joke that I am a "bad Catholic." I've lived up to that moniker of late because our attendance at church has been less than consistent. We've had such disappointing experiences at our home parish time after time that I started looking for another place to attend Mass with the kids. I know that's not a very 'Catholic' thing to do; I have a feeling we're just supposed to 'suck it up' and go because, well, just because. Kinda like not knowing much about Catholic history or catechism; people ask me why we believe whatever it is we're talking about, and my response is 'we just do. We're Catholic.' But I digress.
For a year we attended the church across town. Then summer came, and schedules got even crazier, and I started feeling increasingly more and more guilty that we were no longer weekly attendees. It doesn't help that as the kids have gotten older, their protests over going to church have increased. They fight, they mope, they pout and they slam doors when I announce it's time to go. I know that I'm the mom and I can make them go, but sometimes I didn't.
This past month I received a survey from my home parish; they are trying to raise money to build a new church across town, and they were asking for feedback. I gave mine, and it wasn't complimentary. After I dropped the envelope in the mail, I thought that perhaps I should give them another chance; maybe, I rationalized, things had improved during the time we'd been going elsewhere.
So last Saturday we returned there for Mass. Lucky me, the gospel was Mark 10:2-16; the passages that denounce divorce. Last year at this time I left that church in tears after hearing through the homily what a horrible person I am for being divorced (no, the pastor didn't literally say 'divorced people are horrible'. But that's how I felt after listening to his homily). That homily was one of the main reasons my stomach would churn when I'd walk into that church, even when the homily or readings had nothing to do with divorce.
Because the same pastor stood at the front of the church this time, I knew what the homily would sound like. I took a deep breath and secretly prayed that both kids would ask to go to the bathroom. They didn't.
So we all sat and listened to him say that divorce is the result of selfishness, hardened hearts and egocentricity. I met my son's gaze when the pastor said divorce was 'giving up' and being cowardly. I squeezed my daughter's hand when he said that Moses should have never 'given up and given in' to the repeated requests for a divorce doctrine.
I found myself angry, fighting the voices in my head that chimed 'who is he to talk about marriage and divorce? This man who took a vow of celibacy and does not know the dynamics of marriage except for from the outside looking in?' I found myself angry that he spat at the concept of same sex unions by saying that they have nothing to do with love but everything to do with entitlement and selfishness. I was angry that he seemed to be doing what I thought Jesus didn't; he was judging, damning and ostracizing instead of welcoming everyone. Even sinners.
My kiddos moved closer to me and nuzzled in. I hoped–prayed, even–that they'd already tuned him out and were thinking instead of what was for dinner, or what they'd play on the Wii later or, really, anything other than what he was saying.
Because to listen to what he was saying is to hear that if we are not perfect, if we don't squeeze ourselves into the confines of what others think is "right," we are not "good enough". What if one of my children comes to me one day and says 'I'm gay'? What if one of them marries then divorces? What if they decide to never go to church once they no longer live under my roof? What if….? Those questions are hard enough for me to think about, and I'm well past the age of reason. What must go through their young minds?
After the homily, of course, comes the collection. And the song during the collection. I almost laughed out loud as we sang 'gather the people, enter the feast, all are invited, the greatest and least….'.
I looked for the asterisk that would lead me to the disclaimer 'but only if you're not divorced. Or different. Or fill-in-the-blank-here'. All of that must have been too tough to fit into the melody.
I'm not sharing any of this to get into a political debate or an argument. I'm only sharing because, to me, faith is faith. While I may not agree with much of the doctrine of the Catholic Church, I still believe in my Catholic faith. Some think we can't separate the two. I do.
And I find hope in Leslie's photo. Because no matter how much I struggle with the words during that homily, and no matter how ostracized I feel by the church I was raised in, I find comfort in Mary's quiet strength. And I find comfort in the Rosary. In fact, October is the month of the Rosary, and I've been finishing each day by praying the Rosary. Just me, Mary and my beads. No judgment there.


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November 4, 2008
When environmentalists oppose regulations that yield environmental benefits, something is afoot. So it is with the gathering furor over a possible Bush Administration upgrade of U.S. clean-air regulations. Senate Democrats have voiced their concerns to the Environmental Protection Agency, but this rule was first proposed in 2005, and the Administration may -- or may not -- get around to issuing a final verdict before Bush leaves office, says the Wall Street Journal.
The proposal in question would usefully reform a permitting test called New Source Review (NSR), which requires power plants to install state-of-the-art pollution controls when they expand their generation capacity, thus increasing smog- or soot-forming emissions.
The real question is what qualifies as an emission increase, asks the Journal:
- As plants operate, they deteriorate, meaning they produce less power and also less emissions.
- Routine maintenance restores both to their original capacity, but not further.
- Under the current NSR regime, the EPA often compares premaintenance and postmaintenance emissions and calls the latter a "new source" of pollution.
- The new rule would move the baseline to hourly emissions from cumulative emissions, giving utilities some leeway before they are required to run the NSR gauntlet.
However, opponents claim that efficiency projects mean that the plant in question will be run harder and therefore increase overall emissions. But electricity is produced to meet demand, which grows with the economy but is relatively stable. In other words, the new plan will redistribute generation to those plants that are most eco-friendly.
In any case, overall emissions can't increase because emissions for the entire United States are capped under the Clean Air Act. Therefore, the Bush Administration ought to move ahead: its NSR reform will improve the safety and reliability of the country's power supply, and it will force an open debate, says the Journal.
Source: Editorial, "New Source Rescue: Trying to kill coal plants on the sly," Wall Street Journal, November 3, 2008.
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Yu-Chien Tseng (Chinese: 曾宇謙; pinyin: Tseng Yeǔ-Chien) (born August 24th, 1994) is a Taiwanese violinist. In 2012 he was fifth laureate in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition, where he also won both the Musiq'3 and the Klara-Canvas prizes awarded by the public. In 2015 he won the second prize in the International Tchaikovsky Competition, the highest prize in the violin competition since there was no first prize that year. Tseng has recorded for Fuga Libera and the Chimei Museum.
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Yu-Chien Tseng was born in New Taipei, Taiwan. In pre-school, Tseng's parents worried that he was tone deaf. His father enrolled him in percussion classes after hearing tests showed Tseng's hearing to be normal. He started to study the violin at the age of 5. By the age of 6, he had already performed with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra. In his native Taiwan, he studied with Po-Shan Lin, Ying-Liang Shen, I-Ching Li and C. Nanette Chen. Since 2008 he has studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, under professors Ida Kavafian and Aaron Rosand. In 2009 he won the 10th Pablo Sarasate International Competition in Pamplona (Spain). In 2011 he won the Isang Yun Competition in Tongyeong (South Korea) and also was awarded a special prize at the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition (as best of those in Round II who did not make the finals). In 2012 he took fifth place in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. He has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Belgium, and the symphony orchestras of Singapore, Taipei, and Navarra among others. He has given solo concerts in cities in the US, Europe and Asia.
- 2006: Third Prize in Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists Junior division
- 2009: First Prize and Prize to Best Interpreter of Works by Sarasate in 10th Pablo Sarasate International Competition in Pamplona (Spain)
- 2010: Associazione Amici di Paganini Prize and Prize in memory of Dr. Enrico Costa in the 53rd Paganini Competition
- 2011: Jury Discretionary Award in The XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition
- 2011: First Prize and Isang Yun Special Prize in Isang Yun Competition in Tongyeong (South Korea)
- 2012: Fifth Prize in Queen Elisabeth Competition
- 2015: First Prize in Singapore International Violin Competition
- 2015: Second Prize in the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition (no first prize awarded)
His debut disc featuring music by French composers was released by Fuga Libera.
- Franck, Ravel, Debussy - French Violin Sonatas (Fuga Libera: FUG597)
- Sarasate Violin Pieces (Chimei Museum: S000887011011088)
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Heart of Palms is a clear-eyed memoir of Peace Corps service in the rural Panamanian village of Tranquilla through the eyes of a young American woman trained as a community forester.
In the storied 50-year history of the US Peace Corps, Heart of Palms is the first Peace Corps memoir set in Panama, the slender isthmus that connects two continents and two oceans. In her memoir Meredith Cornett transports listeners to the remote village of Tranquilla, where dugout canoes are the mainstay of daily transportation, life and nature are permeated by witchcraft, and a restful night's sleep may be disturbed by a raiding phalanx of army ants.
Cornett is sent to help counter the rapid deforestation that is destroying the ecosystem and livelihoods of the Panama Canal watershed region. Combating deforestation leads Cornett into an equally fierce battle against her own feelings of fear and isolation. Her journey to Panama becomes a parallel journey into herself. In this way Heart of Palms is much more than a record of her Peace Corps service; it is also a moving environmental coming-of-age story and nuanced meditation on one village's relationship to nature. When she returns home two years later, Cornett brings with her both skills and experience and a remarkable, newfound sense of confidence and mission.
The book is published by The University of Alabama Press.
"A deftly-written and informative memoir...very highly recommended." (Midwest Book Review)
"Courageous and unapologetic, Heart of Palms achieves its promise of hope in illuminating a simple but paradoxical truth: beautiful places are worth saving from people, but nothing can truly be saved without people." (M. Sanjayan, lead scientist for The Nature Conservancy and science and environmental contributor for CBS News)
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Diaspora Jewish teens' radical dissociation from Israel is not about the settlements or the occupation. They're ashamed to be associated with Zionism.
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Well Loved, this home is Like New! Conveniently located in Stone Creek Village this 3 Bedroom Colonial is move-in ready with much to offer. Gleaming Hardwoods greet you as you enter the Foyer. To the right, the perfect space for a Formal Living Room or Office, with built-in shelving that stays. The eat-in kitchen features an oversized island, large pantry, and lots of cabinet space with a slider out to the deck. Enjoy the cathedral great room with Gas Fireplace, Hardwood Flooring and upgraded windows overlooking the back yard. Adjacent to the Kitchen is the 1st Floor Laundry Room, upgraded with Cabinetry and Countertop. Up the Hardwood stairs the Master Bedroom Suite has a Full Bath, and Walk in Closet. Two Additional Bedrooms w/Hardwood, and Guest Bathroom. The daylight Lower Level is a Walk Out just waiting to be finished, as Sellers Drylocked the walls and Floors. This home has C/A, Two Car Garage, Shed, and Public Water.
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Sunday, 17 May 2015
A card to give to my future daughter-in -law, I plan to give her a gift 3-4 weeks before the wedding. It will be a quiet low key day with only a few close friends.
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Beautiful card, lovely image and super pastel colours, thanks for sharing at MTTC.ReplyDelete
Pat xx
Gorgeous design, I LOVE that shoe, fabulous!ReplyDelete
hugs Jacee
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I just love that shoe, and it's a beautiful card too.ReplyDelete
Thanks for joining us at CD Sunday once again.
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Hi Meg,ReplyDelete
oh this is gorgeous.
A wonderful designed creation.
Lots of crafty love. Jenny L.
what a beautiful and stunning card thanks for sharing with FTT Rachel dtReplyDelete
Stunning card Meg, love the image and your design ans embellishments are so beautiful, hugs Kate xReplyDelete
I love this card! The colors are beautiful and you colored the shoe perfectly! Thank you for sharing your beautiful creation with TTCRD this week. Please come again tomorrow and join us again for our new "Anything goes" Challenge. I would love to have visitors on my Blog at ialwayslovetomakecards.blogspot.comReplyDelete
A beautiful car Meg, a gorgeous image and elegant design.ReplyDelete
I love this. It is so delicate. I am sure your future daughter in law will treasure it.....I know I would. Beautiful. Thank you for joining us again at CD Sunday. Wynn DTReplyDelete
What a lovely elegant card Meg. I am sure the 'bride' will love it.ReplyDelete
Thank you for joining in with us.
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How beautiful Meg, I'd be so impressed to receive this card,ReplyDelete
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This is so very pretty - love that shoe!! Thanks so much for joining us this week at the Pile it On Challenge, Elizabeth (DT)ReplyDelete
That is such a soft and pretty card and what a lovely idea.ReplyDelete
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Such an elegant shoe and a beautiful card. The 'bride' will treasure it.ReplyDelete
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Beautiful card Meg - love it. xReplyDelete
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A fantastic feminine design which goes so well with this shoe image. Lovely flower border detail and design!ReplyDelete
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Whenever I go to an exotic new land such as Belize or Costa Rica, or even just a different city such as San Diego, I like to spend some time with their local television programming. I like to see what kinds of channels they have , what their "Channel 2 1/2 Action News Breaking News" graphics look like and whether or not the weatherman has an uncomfortable-looking mustache.
And sometimes you get lucky and will see young women with their tits out for no reason. I'm serious! It happens! You'll be flipping channels in the Best Western Costa Rica and -boom!- TITS! "Are you fuckin' serious? Tits?!" I love that! Surprise tits are the best! To hell with the weatherman's mustache, I'm going to watch some local tits!
That never happens in San Diego though.
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Cropped from a business card from a local business in Athens, TN - Better Built Transmissions Inc
Please help me figure out what this font is.
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van Bronkhorst, Mark/MascotMVB (with lc size reduction)
ArtistofDesign AZ-Cut Script
Or: CastCraft Software/OPTISport-Script
Good finds Dick. The original
Good finds Dick.
The original font designer is unknown. Various digital fonts based on it were produced over the years under names such as Spoleto [Novel], OPTISport Script, and Aktuelle [Brendel]. After an earlier comparison of these fonts I concluded that the OPTISport Script is probably an original digitization.
The business card probably used one of these versions, unless it used a predigital source.
The [unauthorized] archive of fonts from the defunct OPTI company states that the pre-digital original is _Athletic Script_. This is the name the embroidery companies now use for this script, but I can find nothing on Athletic Script as a regular font.
Mark Bronkhorst's Mascot MVB [2012] is probably the best quality digital version.
Mike Yanega's Script Font ID Guide has a character set of Spoleto http://bowfinprintworks.com/Script07Pg14.html
Here is a working link to AZ-Cut-Script https://creativemarket.com/Artistofdesign/1310-AZ-Cut-Script
As for the name of the font used in the card, might as well call it Athletic Script.


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SARASOTA — Let's start with the sensual pleasures of Living on Love, which turns a lavish New York penthouse into a battleground between an aging opera star and her equally egotistical husband, a famous conductor.
The curtain at Asolo Repertory Theatre opens to a winding staircase lined with paintings, a chandelier and candelabras, piano and fireplace, and blood-red walls bathed in a rosy light. The set drew immediate applause from the audience on opening night.
This regional premiere opens with "Maestro" Vito De Angelis (Karl Hamilton) meeting with a ghostwriter, young Robert Samson (Josh James). Maestro sleeps till mid-afternoon, wears silk pajamas all day and sips wine like water.
It is only fitting we have to wait for the diva to arrive. Rebecca Caine plays Raquel De Angelis, a leading lady whose star is starting to fade. She makes the most of every entrance, wearing a different designer outfit each time and carrying a little white dog.
In an act of jealousy that defines their marriage, Raquel hires her own biographer, Iris Peabody (Ally Farzetta). But Robert has really been more fascinated with Raquel all along.
"She's a remarkable woman," he confides to Iris. "She can talk about herself all day."
The ghostwriters switch subjects, heightening the tension between Raquel and Vito. In the meantime, the diva uses any excuse to sing from her favorite operas. Caine, an internationally renowned Canadian soprano, sings snippets of La Boheme and Tosca, among others, and that's worth the price of admission even if the rest of the play was a joke (which it is not).
The characters pair off and contrast neatly (almost too neatly). The maestro winces at the name of Leonard Bernstein, the diva at any mention of Maria Callas. To her earnest biographer (now Robert), she confesses that her audiences have dwindled, the venues from London and Milan to Buffalo and Fort Myers.
At the same time, a romance flourishes between the ghostwriters, as one surely knew it would. Yet look deeper: The young and unfulfilled writers are happier than luminaries in the art world who have been justly rewarded, even overcompensated, for their greatness.
Written by two-time Tony winner Joe DiPietro, the show opened on Broadway in 2015 but closed after mixed reviews and failing to secure any Tony nominations competing against star-driven shows, including Helen Mirren (The Audience) and Larry David (Fish in the Dark). Critics gave respectable marks to Renee Fleming in her Broadway debut, but some complained that the real-life diva of the moment was too good-natured as Raquel to be effective. Others called the play shallow or trifling.
Caine suffered no such difficulty in the Asolo production, hitting just the right notes as a diva hilariously crippled by self-adulation and past glories. Caine can do so much with an eyebrow, with pursed lips or the turn of her head. Hamilton is a lovable Lothario, fighting gamely in a battle of egos he knows he will lose.
Matthew McGee and Roland Rusinek add a delightful touch as servants in matching pink dinner jackets. McGee is at his usual comic best, and Rusinek shows off the pipes that helped him land roles in the New York City opera and dozens more in regional theater.
Eventually, Caine rewards the audience for waiting with a complete song, a rendition of Irving Berlin's Always. Another romantic resolution you saw coming (and one you didn't) tie up the show with a bow. For those looking for burning depth or characters six layers deep, this show is not for you. But if you enjoy good acting, gentle, self-satirizing wit and the best voice you will hear in musical theater for a while, see Living on Love before the end of its run.
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