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Why We Love This Hotel
- Historic Victorian hotel first opened in 1852
- Family-friendly: Suites sleep as many as eight guests
- One of only two hotels on the island with a pool
- Waterfront hotel has two restaurants and bike rentals
The Island House Hotel has welcomed families to Lake Huron's Mackinac Island since 1852. The Victorian hotel overlooks the harbor and is located within the car-free Mackinac State Historic Park. The hotel is less than a 10-minute walk from the ferry dock, Fort Mackinac and Fort Holmes.
Individually styled rooms and suites have minifridges, coffeemakers, seating areas and free Wi-Fi. Families can upgrade to two-bedroom suites that accommodate as many as eight people with additional bathrooms, kitchenettes, private balconies and whirlpool tubs.
The 1852 Grill Room serves breakfast each morning with the option to eat in the dining room or on the open-air terrace with water views. The lounge reopens at 5 p.m. for dinner and drinks accompanied by piano music. For a casual lunch or dinner, guests can grab a table inside the Ice House Bar & Grill or dine alfresco.
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Police said Tuesday they suspect foul play in the disappearance of a 20-year-old Indiana University student from Westchester County but have little information about what happened to her.
Dozens of volunteers headed back out to look for signs of Lauren Spierer in the area where she was last seen at about 4:30 a.m. Friday, walking alone toward her apartment in downtown Bloomington. Spierer's parents said they continue to organize search parties three times a day.
"We're not going to give up," Robert Spierer told reporters at a news conference, as his wife, Charlene, wiped tears from her eyes.
Spierer said his daughter is full of life and always on the go. She volunteered with Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans and spoke to her mother almost every day.
"She's a loving girl," he said.
The Spierers are asking anyone who saw their daughter Thursday night or after to contact police.
"Every little piece of information that we get is important," Robert Spierer said.
Bloomington police Lt. Bill Parker said Spierer went to a friend's apartment after being at a nearby sports bar, then left for her own apartment about 4:30 a.m. Her friend watched her walk to the street corner near his apartment, Parker said.
"She's never been seen since," Parker said.
Investigators have Spierer's purse and some keys, which were found along the route to her friend's apartment. But Parker said they aren't sure whether Spierer left them on her way to or from her friend's home. She left her cell phone and shoes in the bar.
Posters featuring Spierer's picture are plastered around Indiana University's stately campus and on lamp posts and in shop windows in the college town's downtown area.
Robert Spierer said he and his wife — who traveled from their home in Greenburgh, N.Y., to Bloomington for the search — have been overwhelmed by the number of people who have volunteered to help. Lauren Spierer's sister, Rebecca Spierer, thanked volunteers Tuesday as they drank water and slathered on sunscreen before heading out in the mid-morning heat to distribute fliers and search for clues.
Among those helping the family are the parents of IU student Jill Behrman, who was 19 when she went missing during a bike ride near Bloomington in 2000. Hunters found her skeletal remains three years later in a remote field about 15 miles from the city.
Eric Behrman, Jill's father, said he would encourage Spierer's family to remain positive and hopeful.
"It brings back the memories," Behrman told The Associated Press Tuesday. "We couldn't help thinking what initially we went through."
Anyone with information about Spierer's disappearance is asked to call the Bloomington Police Department at (812) 339-4477.
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Very pretty and unusual colors, very cool!!ReplyDelete
So pretty and like the way you used so many different things. EdnaReplyDelete
So gorgeous Kianel! Love the flower you made and how you used the diecut for a mask! :)ReplyDelete
Your always so creative, love how you use the dies.ReplyDelete
Very pretty and just lover the Mexican Tile used as a inked background!! Gorgeous!ReplyDelete
This is just beautiful! Love the masking you did, too! :^)ReplyDelete
adorable card!! I love how you used the die as a mask!!!ReplyDelete
Lovely card, Kianel. Great use of the new dies! And I love the soft colors!ReplyDelete
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So delicate and pretty, and I love the soft peachy colour with brown and green :)
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Vancouver, WA May 3, 2017 – Hubb today announced its integration with MatrixMaxx ™ by Matrix Group International, Inc. MatrixMaxx ™ is an association management system that provides nonprofits and associations with a comprehensive suite of modules to help manage membership, meetings, e-commerce activities, mailing lists and more. Hubb automates the business process for collecting, managing and marketing the abstracts, speakers, staffers and sponsors for conferences and meetings. With Hubb, associations significantly reduce the administrative time for planning conferences, allowing event managers to organize and market their event content more efficiently and drive attendance growth.
"Hubb's integration with MatrixMaxx enables associations to leverage their investment in their AMS, build their conference programs more easily and deliver engaging experiences for their conference attendees, speakers and sponsors," said Allie Magyar, Hubb CEO.
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Matrix Group International, Inc. is an award-winning digital agency in the Washington DC area specializing in web design, development, association management, integration, mobile, e-marketing, and digital strategy services for associations, professional societies and nonprofits. Using state of the art web technologies, Matrix Group helps clients promote their organizations, streamline their business processes, improve staff productivity, expand market reach, and position them for success. MatrixMaxx™ is a product of Matrix Group and is used by trade associations and professional societies to increase revenue, reduce staff time, and gather business intelligence about member engagement and motivations. To learn more about Matrix Group, please visit www.MatrixGroup.net.
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We mentioned yesterday how you have to pay attention to Jun 28, since Greece is going to be holding an austerity vote on that day, while the country goes on a gigantic strike. Should be wild.Well, one week later there's another big event, in Germany.
Morgan Stanley explains:
The time for the troika to decide on the next tranche of the Greek rescue package is approaching. However, complicating matters is the German Constitutional Court's formal hearing on July 5, which will judge if the first Greek package of May 2010 was in line with the German and European Constitution. The German government must prove that its actions did not violate the 'non-bailout' clause. It will have to argue that sovereign financial transfers will act only as 'bridge funding,' implicitly suggesting the private sector will take a bigger burden if it comes to restructuring peripheral debt. EUR debt investors will not like that, in our view. Although Morgan Stanley's base case is that the Court will not rule the previous bailout as unconstitutional, the uncertainty surrounding the situation poses a key risk ahead.
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And the hits just keep on coming!
Vatican launches $110 'click to pray' wearable rosary
Didn't he play soccer in the 70s-80s?
Agreed, fun to see you post again!
If the law of God is written on our hearts, aren't we capable of policing ourselves?
What is indicative of a so called leader ,pastor, clergy, deacon, etc. if they are preoccupied with me smoking...
Maybe you should ask him "if I were to quit smoking, then what must I do to earn Christ's grace?"
Then read him this:
After that you can exercise your liberty and call him an idiot if you...
Interesting spread sheet Bob.
Didn't Bell's theorem postulate that all reality is non local?
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That article needs something, now let me see, yeah, that will do.
Hey Trav, Brandan and I have wondered how you've been and what you're up to, I'm glad to see you here!
I would just like to chime in here and add this:
What exactly does Paul mean in verse 3 and for that matter verse 4, if he's not talking about EJ?
Great to see they're back!
I wonder if they would add my name to the list?
This guy and others like him who cling to logic like this (I mean the lack thereof) still blow my mind.
I would like to knock on their collective skulls and ask "is there anybody home?", but of...
Blind leaders leading the blind.
These morons will settle for lie after lie.
They are incapable of confronting a lie because the truth eludes them.
Not being from Tennessee, I'm so pleased I found this story, otherwise I might not know when Jesus is coming back. Y'all be sure to leave your calendars open.
My wife was reading through Deuteronomy this morning and brought this to my attention, she said it made her think of the "James" thing. I am going to add the word {James and other words} in braces...
I agree Milt, in fact I believe that "the church" is in totality anti-christ. There is no way to have gospel fellowship with those who adhere to the acceptance/belief in "the church".
However, I...
Great post Bob!
I ran across this word and definition this morning and thought some of you might enjoy it.
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noun, plural -mus·es for 2.
adherence to or...
I have read what you wrote and that's not the point, I said:
You go on with:Nick can do whatever he pleases, though I know he would agree with me. Btw your last sentence sounds a little pretentious,...
Abraham, we have discussed James on this forum ad nauseam.
We are happy to discuss this topic again if something new is brought up. (I mean this sincerely)
Please read this: ...
Eisenhorn, I encourage you to continue posting. However, if you are going to post do so in order to start dialog, or if you have a question or are interested in what others think of a topic fine, but...


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When you read a sentence that makes a "click" in your brain and you know that it is the Truth; not a notion that someone constructed to describe reality so well that it fits perfectly, but instead, simply extended his hand and picked it out of thin air, because it has been there for a while, in plain sight, and it simply waited for someone to look at it from the right direction to uncover and share with everybody else.
Austerity is not eight years of spending cuts, as in the UK, or even the social catastrophe inflicted on Greece. It means driving the wages, social wages and living standards in the west down for decades until they meet those of the middle class in China and India on the way up.
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The Academia Barilla in Parma is the first international center dedicated to the development and promotion of Italian gastronomic culture. So the folks there know a thing or two about Italian food and how it should be prepared and eaten. The center recently published 10 Italian cooking commandments according to Academia Barilla. Here they are:
- You shall not sip a cappuccino during a meal.
- Risotto and pasta are not side dishes.
- You shall not add oil to water (when cooking pasta).
- Ketchup on pasta; please don't!
- Spaghetti Bolognese, no way it is tagliatelle!
- Chicken pasta – not in Italy.
- "Caesar" salad is almost unknown in Italy.
- The red and white checkered tablecloth is only a stereotype.
- Fettuccine Alfredo is only popular overseas.
- You shall respect tradition and what the Italian mama says!
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What can I hold in an ISA?
An ISA is a tax-efficient wrapper in which you can hold cash, investments or peer-to-peer lending products. This is what you need to know to help you choose the right ISA or combination of ISAs for you.
Building up your own investment portfolio in a stocks and shares Individual Savings Account (ISA) can be an exciting prospect. This essential guide will get you started.
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In the current 2019-20 tax year, you can put up to £20,000 into tax-efficient ISAs. You can split your allowance between a cash, investment, innovative finance and a lifetime ISA1 if you want to and all gains will be free from income tax, tax on dividends and capital gains tax. However, with a lifetime ISA, you can only pay in up to £4,000.
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There's also no tax to pay on any interest you earn from cash, funds, gilts or bonds within an ISA. Outside an ISA, the personal savings allowance (PSA) introduced in April 2016, enables basic-rate taxpayers to earn up to £1,000 interest in savings income a year tax-free, or £500 for higher-rate taxpayers. Additional rate taxpayers aren't entitled to this allowance.
Bear in mind that tax rules can and do alter over time, and the value of any favourable tax treatment to you will depend on your individual circumstances, which can also change.
When approaching your investments, and anticipating returns, you'll stand a better chance of success if you know at the outset what your goals are.
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The type of investments you choose will depend not only on how long you have before you will need your money but also the level of risk you are prepared to accept. If, for example, you are saving up for school fees which you will need in the next few years, you'll probably be looking for less risky investments such as bond funds.
Find out more about our Investment (Stocks and Shares) ISA
Bonds are essentially IOUs issued by governments and companies looking to raise capital. When you invest in a bond, you are lending the issuer your money for a set amount of time. During this period you are paid a fixed rate of interest and when the bond matures, you should get your capital back in full.
Bonds issued by the UK government are known as gilts, and after cash, are widely seen as one of the safest investments available.
If you are happy to introduce a bit more risk to increase the chance of making potentially higher gains, you might want to consider moving towards corporate bonds – where investors lend to companies in return for a (usually higher) fixed rate of interest. The increased risk is the danger of the company not paying the income each year or returning the loan on redemption. If the company cannot meet its loan obligations to bondholders then investors lose their money. And, remember, corporate bonds, unlike bank deposits, are not covered by the UK's Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS). However by investing in a professionally run bond fund, your money will be spread across a basket of investments, which will help you to diversify the risk you take on.
If you have a strong appetite for risk and financial losses wouldn't cause you real hardship because you have other resources to fall back on, you might be prepared to look at the more risky investment opportunities, such as shares. However, don't venture into high risk investing without doing plenty research to ensure you really understand where your money is going.
Many first time investors like to stay close to home and invest in UK firms. Companies listed on the UK's main index, the FTSE 100 are usually viewed as good starting point. Often referred to as 'blue-chips', these corporations tend to be far less likely to suffer large swings in volatility, at least in comparison to say smaller fledgling firms looking to expand rapidly. While the latter type of stock will potentially deliver higher returns, they also come with far more risk.
While firms listed in the UK, the US and Western Europe are referred to as developed market shares, if you want to take on more risk, with the aim of generating higher returns, you could look at investing in emerging market shares. These include firms based in developing countries, otherwise known as emerging markets, such as for example China, Russia, India and Brazil.
These young economies can offer impressive prospects for growth in the short-term as they go through their market boom periods. But, of course, the risk of losing your investment is much higher as a lot could go wrong. Investors have to remember that with all emerging markets, the economic backdrop is always volatile. Also, when you invest overseas in currencies other than sterling, changes in those currencies' values will affect the value of your investment, as well. If sterling rises against the local currency, your investment would start to lose money.
Think carefully about the range of investments you are considering before actually buying. Have you struck the right balance between fund sectors? What about investment types? Is there a good mix of equities, bonds, and cash?
The ideal mix should spread enough risk between investment types to reduce the chance of you losing some, or all, of your initial investment.
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Some investors choose to invest their money gradually, rather than making big lump sum investments. Slowly drip-feeding money in can mean that any movement in share price has less effect on the value of your investment.
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Funds provide a good way for smaller investors to gain easy access to a wide range of stocks and shares. Pooled investments such as unit trusts, Open-Ended Investment Companies (OEICs) or closed ended investment trusts are all options you might consider. A fund manager is responsible for choosing which shares to hold, and will usually focus on a particular sector or geographical area. As your money is invested in a wide variety of different shares, the risks are lower than if you invest in just a few.
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Fees apply to all investment Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs). Bear in mind that providers charge differently to one another, so make sure you understand exactly how much you are paying before you invest.
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For the first time in a long time,I got to spend a full day with my little sister.
A bit of shopping,lunch at Pizza Hut,then the cinema,where we watched 'The Riot Club'...
I don't really know how to give my thoughts on the movie,it was watchable but I was definately glad I had a voucher,so only paid half price for my ticket...and there was only 6 people in the theatre..so I guess that sums it up.
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StackShot is an automated macro focusing rail that makes it quick and easy to capture stacks of any depth. The StackShot is very precise and can be used for any focusing application ranging from macro with a few inches of depth down to high magnification microscopy with depth of field measured in microns.
The StackShot rail comes with its own controller box that permits stand-alone operation using buttons and a small alphanumeric display.
However, many people prefer to plug the StackShot into a USB port on their computer, then control it directly from Zerene Stacker using a graphical user interface on their computer.
This feature is available for 30 days free trial starting from first use of the feature. After the trial is completed, you'll need a Professional or Prosumer Edition license to continue using it. Personal and Student Edition licenses can be upgraded to Prosumer or Professional for the difference in purchase price. Just email firstname.lastname@example.com for details.
For practical purposes, you can think of the StackShot interface as being divided into two major features:
If your computer is connected to the Internet, then in most cases drivers will be installed automatically for you when you first plug in the StackShot. If they are not, then the information in this section will be helpful.
Zerene Stacker uses industry-standard device drivers for the USB chip that is utilized by the StackShot controller.
For Windows computers (Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP) that are connected to the Internet, the required drivers usually will be automatically located and installed by the operating system when the controller is first plugged in. For computers that are not connected to the Internet or cannot find the proper drivers online for themselves, drivers for the Stackshot controller can be downloaded from http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX.htm. At the current time, the setup executable for Windows (both 32-bit and 64-bit systems) is http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/CDM/CDM v2.12.24 WHQL Certified.zip. Simply download this file, burn it to CD or thumbdrive, transfer it to the offline machine, and run the executable there.
For Macintosh and Linux computers, drivers are included in Mac OS X and Linux and will be configured by Zerene Stacker if necessary. You do need to run Zerene Stacker from an account with administrative privileges (one that is allowed to update Mac OS X), and you'll be asked to provide the password for the account that you're using. For most users, your regular account will work fine, and the password to provide is just the one that you normally use to login to your computer. Once the password is provided, Zerene Stacker manages all the details internally.
Once a StackShot has been connected to your computer and the appropriate device drivers have been loaded, Zerene Stacker's interface can be activated by selecting Tools > Stackshot from the Zerene Stacker menu system.
Clicking this entry will cause a new window to appear:
The rail position can be adjusted with any of the controls indicated by the red arrows. Sliding the small solid triangle left-right provides very coarse positioning, turning the large outer dial provides finer control at 2 mm per turn, and turning the small inner dial provides finest control at 0.2 mm per turn. (To turn a dial, position your cursor over the black dot, then press-and-drag in a circular manner.) A value can be typed into the text field, and the rail will move to that position when you hit Enter on the keyboard or click away from that field.
"Zero" button relabels the current position of the rail to be "0.00000".
"Back" and "Fwd" buttons act like the corresponding physical buttons on the Stackshot controller box. They cause the rail to move incrementally, with acceleration, using the maximum speed and ramp time settings from the Configuration panel.
"Back Step" and "Fwd Step" buttons move the carriage by the amount specified in the Step Size field.
"Set Start" and "Set End" buttons specify the start and end of stack as being the current rail position. Values can also be entered by typing into the corresponding fields.
"Go to Start" and "Go to End" move the rail to the specified positions that have been set. They are used to confirm that the desired endpoints have been specified.
"Step Size" is usually entered manually by typing. (Be sure to press Enter on the keyboard when finished.) Or if you have defined standard settings on the Step Sizes tab, then you can click to select there.
# Steps will update automatically as the Start, End, or Step Size fields are set.
"Shutter" button is used to confirm that the camera, flash, and image acquisition software have been set properly.
"Shoot Stack" button begins the shoot/move/shoot/move… sequence. Once this button has been pressed, it will change to a red "Stop Shooting" button that can be used to abort the sequence.
"Pause" button is used to temporarily interrupt the sequence when shooting a stack. It will change to "Resume" when pressed, and pressing "Resume" will let the sequence proceed from the point that it was interrupted. (Note: you should avoid repositioning the rail when the sequence is Paused. If you do, then proper position may not be restored when the sequence resumes.)
"Panic Stop" is used to immediately stop the sequence and stop the rail, even if it is in the middle of moving. This button should be reserved for situation where equipment may be damaged if the movement is allowed to complete.
A typical setup sequence goes like this:
The Panic Stop button will immediately stop rail movement and shooting. Panic stop is also triggered by pushing any physical button on the StackShot controller box while the rail is moving. If the computer loses control of the rail, say because of some problem in the USB interface, then pushing a physical button on the StackShot controller box should still stop the rail.
A small set of hotkeys is currently provided. Currently there is an "asdf" set for Back ("a"), Fwd ("s"), Set Start ("d"), and Set End ("f"). The "left-arrow" and "right-arrow" keys may also work for Back and Fwd, but these may require that one of the buttons is clicked first in order to direct keyboard input properly. Currently the assignment of hotkeys is fixed, but these will be adjustable in subsequent versions.
At the Configuration tab are controls that you will generally set once and then leave unchanged for many stacks.
Within the Configuration tab, settings are broken into two major sections, Stack Settings and Device Settings.
Stack Settings are values that relate primarily to timing. At each focus step, the sequence of operations is this:
This entire sequence repeats the number of times indicated by "# Steps" (number of steps) on the Common Controls tab.
Device Settings are values that relate to mechanical movement of the rail.
"Maximum Rail Speed" and "Ramp time" control how fast the rail moves and how quickly it speeds up and slows down. These should be adjusted to your needs so as to make the Fwd and Back buttons behave comfortably. Typical values are 2 mm per second and 8 seconds ramp time as shown here.
"Millimeters per rotation of stepper motor", "Microsteps per rotation", and "Backlash distance" describe the hardware. Shown here are values that correspond to a standard StackShot rail: 16 microsteps per each of 200 full steps per rotation, driving a 16-turns-per-inch screw. The backlash distance will vary from rail to rail and must be determined by experiment. Whatever values you need can be typed into these fields. For example, if a 0.9° stepper motor were used to drive a microscope focus block at 100 microns per rotation, then the proper settings would be 0.100 millimeters per rotation, 6400 microsteps per rotation, and backlash distance 0. In general, backlash distance should be adjusted so that when you rock the nominal rail position back and forth by a small amount using the focus knobs, the physical rail position changes by a similar amount. This setting will facilitate moving the rail to determine start/end positions of the stack. Two procedures for calibrating backlash are given HERE.
"Prerun distance" allows you to specify a distance that the rail should "back off" before moving to the start position to begin shooting a stack. It will also back off before positioning in response to the "Go to Start" and "Go to End" buttons. The purpose of prerun is to guarantee that all types of mechanical slack have been removed before the designated position is reached. The main type of slack is backlash along the rail axis, but usually there is also a small amount of rotational backlash that can be important at higher magnifications. Be careful when using prerun at short working distances, to avoid running your lens into the subject. When moving to Start, the prerun position will be on the side away from End. To be safe, you should set Start to be farther away from your subject, and End to be closer. That way prerun will first move the lens farther away from the subject, then advance it toward the subject to reach the target position.
"High precision threshold" indicates a step size at which Zerene Stacker should switch the rail from normal to "high precision" mode. The difference is that in normal mode the rail position is accurate to roughly 0.005 mm uncertainty, while in high precision mode the accuracy is increased to roughly 0.001 mm uncertainty. Obviously high precision mode is better for fine work, such as through a high power microscope objective where the nominal step size may be only 0.010 mm or less. However, high precision mode has the drawbacks that 1) it causes the stepper motor to produce a nearly continuous high-pitched whining sound that can be annoying to people around it, and 2) the motor drive currents are larger so the motor will become warm. Often a good strategy is to set the high precision threshold to something like 0.020 mm so that large steps are done in normal mode and the rail stays cool and quiet except when it is actually moving, while small steps are done in high precision mode where the increased accuracy is required.
"Log all communications" causes every communication event between Zerene Stacker and the StackShot to be written into Zerene Stacker's console log. This is useful as a debugging tool.
"External trigger command" is an optional command that is sent to the computer's operating system at the same time that a shutter command is sent to the StackShot controller. This can be used in conjunction with third-party software to drive cameras that are not compatible with the StackShot's shutter control hardware. For example, on one Macintosh system we set up to drive a Hasselblad medium format back via FlexColor software, by defining an AppleScript program as follows:
tell application "FlexColor" activate tell application "System Events" keystroke "n" using {command down} end tell end tell
and setting "External trigger command"
/usr/bin/osascript /Applications/FlexColor/FlexcolorCapture.scpt
Zerene Stacker can also be made to simulate keystrokes and mouse actions by itself, even on Windows systems. This is useful for driving third party applications that are not prepared to be launched or controlled by command line actions. This "robot" capability is described separately, HERE.
"Rail position at left/right of indicator bar" is used to adjust the Common Controls panel for rails or other focusing devices of different sizes. It can also be used to swap the left and right sides, for example to support setups in which "Forward" means "to the left".
Torque and similar parameters are still specified using buttons on the StackShot controller, at this time.
The "Step Sizes" tab of the controller panel allows predefined step sizes to be recorded in a table for convenient re-use at a later time. This function is provided mainly for the use of system integrators, who can provide settings that are known to work well with the optics that they provide. But it's also useful for anybody who uses a number of standard setups on a regular basis.
Here is what the table looks like once it has been set up to contain typical settings for a Canon MP-E 65 lens:
At this point, clicking on the row for "5X f/4.0", with an Adjustment Factor of 0.700, then clicking on "Use Selected Step Size", will immediately plug in the value 0.050 * 0.700 = 0.035 back on the Common Controls panel.
To set up or modify the table, you start by putting a checkmark in the "Show all controls" checkbox. That causes additional controls to appear:
In these additional controls, "Up", "Down", "Delete", and "Add" are used to rearrange rows, while "Save…" and "Load…" are used to write the table to a text file and read it back again.
The name and location of the last file loaded is kept as part of the Zerene Stacker configuration, so that file will be automatically loaded when Zerene Stacker is launched again. (Note that you must manually "Load…" after "Save…", when you first create the file.)
The format of the text file is one line per row, columns separated by a tab character.
As shown in a spreadsheet program, here is the file that represents the above table:
Note that the description field can be entered either as plain text or as HTML-formatted text. Here we have used HTML formatting codes to make "MP-E 65" print in bold and red. This sort of formatting is useful to organize the table when many setups are provided.
Rail Noise
If the StackShot controller is working in "high precision" mode, then it will emit a faint high-pitched whining sound whose loudness and pitch depends on rail position. This sound is normal and is not harmful. It is caused by a special high-precision mode of operation that is used by the Zerene Stacker interface to provide reliable movement even down to 1 or 2 microsteps per focus step (roughly 1 micron, using the StackShot rail). In the Zerene Stacker interface, selection of high precision mode depends on step size and a user-settable threshold in the Configuration panel. If the step size is less than the high precision threshold, then the rail will be driven in high precision mode, otherwise it will be left in normal mode.
To disable high precision mode altogether, simply set the threshold to zero.
Firmware Bug
There is a small bug in the StackShot controller firmware as of version 1.0.05 Dev / Oct 27 2010 / 17:46:05. Sometimes if the rail direction is reversed while the rail is still moving, the controller will drop into a mode where it moves the rail very slowly for some seconds, then resumes normal operation. This seems to have no ill effect except for briefly disturbing the human operator. The current version of the Zerene Stacker controller includes a workaround for this bug so it should no longer appear to the user. However, we are continuing to document it for a while in case it reappears. (Please let us know if you see it!)
Especially at high magnification, backlash can be an issue even after careful tuning. Not only is it difficult to determine the proper value to remove exactly all slack from the screw — not too much, not too little — but also there is likely to be lateral movement due to slight twisting of the rail carriage when it changes direction. A simple solution to these issues is to use the coarse dial to manually move the rail some distance "before" the nominal Start position, both before setting Start and End, and when actually shooting the stack. That way all forms of backlash will be taken up before any reference positions are established or moved to, so the amount of backlash really won't matter at all.
To start this operation, use Stack > Stack New Images (PMax). When a project is open, and this operation is selected, then Zerene Stacker monitors some specified directory for the appearance of new images (.jpg, .jpeg, .tif, and .tiff files). As new images appear in that directory, they are automatically added to the project and stacked using the PMax method. This is particularly useful in combination with Options > Preferences > Preprocessing > Image Pre-sizing to a % value that allows computation to keep up with image acquisition. When the pre-sizing value is properly tuned, a good preview quality output image roughly 1500 x 1000 pixels can accumulate at the same rate that images are acquired, so that a final output is available only a few seconds after the last frame is shot. (For example, a value of 30% allowed our own laptop computer to keep up with Canon T1i image acquisition at 4752×3168 pixels and 5 seconds per frame.)
The directory to be watched is specified at Options > Preferences > Preprocessing > "Watch directory". The directory must exist at the time Stack New Images is invoked.
The following step-by-step "recipes" for operation are provided to give some ideas for how to use the StackShot interface in practice. The precise steps will vary with other cameras and support software. Quite likely you can figure out better recipes even for the configurations that we show here!
Here is what the screen looks like, most of the way through the process. In this image, the left side of the screen is occupied by Zerene Stacker using an over/under layout. The right side of the screen shows EOS Utility Remote Live View at top, the Zerene Stacker StackShot Controller at bottom, and behind that, an EOS Utility QuickPreview showing one of the captured images resized to full screen.
You may have to look close to see it at this scale, but notice that the front of the coins is fuzzy in the ZS window at top (the most recently processed input frame), while it is quite sharp in the ZS window at bottom (current output window). The difference is much more obvious in the Live View window because it is showing a view with the lens aperture wide open, while the other windows show images as shot, stopped down to f/11 in this case.
(Remaining operations as for Canon recipe, above.)
Sometimes things don't work right, so that you cannot shoot a stack.
A particularly common problem is that everything seems to be fine, the rail moves and everything, but the camera won't take pictures during a stack even though it will take pictures when you press the button in some camera control program like Canon EOS Utility. This puzzling situation (and many others) can be debugged as follows.
First, a bit of background may help…
Very important: Zerene Stacker never attempts to talks to the camera directly. When Zerene Stacker wants to take a picture, it sends a command to the StackShot controller to do that. The StackShot controller then closes an electrical switch on the shutter cable. The closing of that electrical switch causes the camera to take a picture. In response to the picture being taken, the camera and EOS Utility have a conversation between themselves to transfer the image to the computer.
When things are acting normally, there are three separate communication channels: USB from Zerene Stacker to StackShot controller box, shutter cable from StackShot controller box to camera, and USB from camera to EOS Utility. (If you are using the "Stack New Images" function in Zerene Stacker, then there is a fourth communication channel of sorts, in which Zerene Stacker periodically checks a folder in the computer's file system to see if there are new images to process. But that is seldom an issue when people see problems.)
Each of these communication channels should be completely independent of the others, except to the extent that activity on one may alter timing of events on another.
Each of the USB connections is bidirectional. The shutter cable and associated electronics are unidirectional. A signal goes from controller box to camera, but no information goes the other way. The StackShot controller cannot tell whether the camera did or did not take a picture.
…end background info…
So, the fact that your camera control program is working OK means that the USB connection between camera and computer is OK. But that path is not used by Zerene Stacker. The problem lies someplace on the other path, or in some interaction between the two paths.
If the camera won't take pictures as part of the stack, then the first thing to check is always step 9 in the Canon recipe above, or step 2 of the Nikon recipe, or some similar setting if you're using another brand of camera. Each of these steps has to do with camera or software settings that are required in order for the shutter cable to tell the camera to take pictures.
If that does not resolve the problem, then check all the cabling again. The problem could be something as simple as a dislodged shutter cable.
If that does not resolve the problem either, then it's probably best to start at the beginning and work your way forward, testing at each step. Here is a long and detailed description of a comprehensive test process using Canon EOS Utility. Make the obvious substitutions if you're using some other camera control program.
We've mentioned a couple of places about resetting the StackShot controller to factory settings. Here is how to do that, instructions copied from the Troubleshooting section of the StackShot manual:
With StackShot powered off, hold down the DOWN button, and apply power. Once the splash screen shows up, release the DOWN button. This will load the factory defaults. It will NOT erase your saved settings.
As always, feel free to email firstname.lastname@example.com if you need assistance.


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Having a baby and becoming parents is about the most beautiful and rewarding thing in the world. With it also comes a lot of work, effort and responsibility. Being a parent will also, very often, stretch your personal limit. But it also offers a lot of room for personal growth.
Once you have welcomed your baby into the world you will adjust to a new life almost overnight as you find yourself caring for a newborn around the clock. One thing that will keep you very busy and on your toes is changing diapers. Regardless of whether you use disposables or cloth diapers, changes must be often to avoid diaper rash from ammonia reacting with baby's skin.
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Hi, I'm Jessica!
I live in Columbus, Ohio with my husband and my small dog. We are your pretty normal 30ish couple. We enjoy going out occasionally, staying in from time to time and most of all food. This shared interest almost became part of our past when we both found out we have food intolerances. I can't eat gluten and my husband can't have dairy. We immediately began to panic when we realized that we may have to retire our self-proclaimed foodie status. Then I remembered something…
I can cook!
I know that seems like a no-brainer, but it took a moment for me to realize! You see, I had always loved to cook and would have spurts of making crazy meals at home. Usually, these were recreations of meals at restaurants, but sometimes I would branch out and create my own recipes. The is what later came in handy as I first began to navigate the world of dairy-free, gluten-free living. I realized that when I slowed down and really looked at the big picture it wasn't that big of a deal. There are lots of foods that fit this description without much alteration at all. So I started using all of my technique and creating dishes for us.
We ate this way for several years and then one day we both decided to give this plant-based thing a try. I don't know that much more thought went into it than that. I've always been the kind of person that when you present me enough reasons to do something and I can't think of any why not, then I do it! So there's a snapshot of how my cooking journey got to where it is today!
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The 2.0-litre four-cylinder Ingenium diesel engine is designed to deliver impressive torque and power outputs, combined with excellent refinement, reduced CO 2 emissions and lower fuel consumption.
The Discovery Sport's EU6 compliant Ingenium engine will be available with two power outputs - 150PS and 180PS - delivering fuel economy of up to 57.7mpg (4.9l/100km) and CO 2emissions from 129g/km. The powerful 180PS engine has a top speed of 117 mph (188 km/h) and can accelerate from 0 - 100km/h in just 8.9 seconds*. The arrival of these cutting-edge engines, which will replace the current diesel engine in EU6 markets, ensures Discovery Sport is one of the most efficient premium compact SUVs in the world.
Murray Dietsch, Director of Land Rover Programmes, said: "Land Rover's new family of Ingenium engines is truly class leading. By introducing it to the Discovery Sport, we can now offer enhanced fuel economy and reduced CO 2 emissions, while improving overall performance. The Ingenium engine confirms Discovery Sport's position as the most versatile and capable compact premium SUV in the world."
The new aluminum TD4 engine features lightweight construction, with stiff cylinder blocks and decoupled injectors, which ensures low levels of vibration and noise intrusion, further enhancing the driver experience.
A series of advanced technologies reduce internal friction, improve refinement and enhance overall performance. In addition, Selective Catalytic Reduction and a new low-pressure exhaust gas recirculation system significantly reduce both CO 2 and NOx emissions.
The Ingenium-powered Discovery Sport will also be designated an 'E-Capability' vehicle, with a blue 'Sport' badge highlighting the most efficient variant. E-Capability will apply to five-seat models fitted with either the 150PS or 180PS Ingenium engine, with 18-inch wheels and low rolling resistance tyres. Additionally, the final drive gearing and engine calibrations have been optimised to provide the lowest possible CO 2 for the vehicle.
The Discovery Sport is equipped with a range of class-leading safety features, such as a first-in-segment Pedestrian Airbag, Autonomous Emergency Braking and a suite of driver assistance features; all of which has led to the Discovery Sport being awarded with a Five Star Euro NCAP rating. The vehicle also features a Head-Up Display, as well as an 8-inch touchscreen 'InControl Touch' infotainment system.
Extended service intervals on the new Ingenium engine, from 16,000 to 21,000 miles, lowers running costs over the vehicle's lifetime. Offering customers a wide choice, the Discovery Sport is also available with a four-cylinder turbocharged petrol engine.
Land Rover's advanced new Ingenium engines are manufactured in the UK at the company's new state-of-the-art £500m Engine Manufacturing Centre in the West Midlands, which is set to produce 450,000 Ingenium engines each year.
Since its reveal in September 2014, Land Rover has amassed 15,000 orders for the new Discovery Sport, with 10,000 orders taken before the vehicle was available to test drive. Currently, Discovery Sport is available in 175 markets.
Together, the Discovery Sport and Land Rover's Ingenium engine have contributed more than £4bn to the UK economy and created 1,650 jobs.
Initially the Ingenium engine will be available to order in Europe and South Korea from May 2015. An even more efficient front-wheel drive Ingenium equipped Discovery Sport will be added to the range later in 2015.
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[…] year I wrote about 5 Naughty and Nice Ways to Love Your Data. This year I'm going to focus on ways you can romance your data for a stronger, more […]
5 Naughty and Nice Ways to Love Your Data
It's Valentine's Day evening in North America. I'm guessing that means that you and a loved one are waiting for a table at your favourite ChiBeeFridayGardenTM. Hopefully you're not sitting in a crowded bar drinking sugary sweet margaritas that never came anywhere near a lime or real tequila. But if you are, that also means you're probably munching on some free chips and salsa. Bueno.
As you know, I'm a data advocate…a data evangelist, even. That means I want you to take care of your sweet snookums of data that you've entered into a commitment to love, honour and obey until the end of time. Or at least until that next recruiter call comes.
So while
working flying across Canada in my cubicle in the sky, I came up with these 5 tips for ensuring that your data feels loved, safe and warm.
1. Try some constraints. I'm tired of seeing systems with no foreign key (FK) constraints or indexes on the data. Vendors are especially straight-laced with their "we do all that enforcement in the application" answers as to why they don't want to constrain their data. That's a subject of a future post. However, too many database designs lack even the most basic data quality rules. There's a whole lot of things we data professionals know about what makes for good (or good enough data). Enforcing those rules as close as possible to the data is the best way to protect to that data. To make it feel loved because it's safe.
2. Be free. Don't worry about backups. What? No backups? No, that's not what I said. Don't worry about backups; worry about restores. You can have a perfect backup strategy in place and still not be able to restore because you've never tested that critical part of the process. Sure, to restore there has to be a backup first, but too many people set that up and don't realize that there's another process out there deleting the backups, or destroying the tapes, or worse. While you are at it, make sure you are monitoring the backups to see if they are actually working. Regular (and hopefully automated) restore testing will quickly point out failures in the backup and the restore strategy.
3. Put your data on a pedestal. I support systems with data that is more than a hundred years old. Over those decades, that data has been passed around between databases, systems, spreadsheets…well, you know how that works. Every professional who put their hands on that data had an opportunity to nurture it or to turn it into the broken, barely
human data crying in a relation's arms. There are certain data practices that make data less usable, less accurate and less strong. That weakness in the data translates in a general weakness in the entire system. That then translates into business weaknesses. Data last much longer than code. If you are optimizing database designs for the code, you may be harming it in a way that it can never love you back. Love it even on fast and agile projects. Just enough design doesn't mean no design; it means just enough to love it right.
4. Get familiar your data. Almost to the point of stalking it. You need to not only understand the structure of a database, but also what data is in it. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone reverse engineer table and column names, then use only that information to analyze what data is contained in the database. Big mistake. Want to be surprised? Go look at a bunch of columns called Notes or Description or Address Line 4 and see what you find. I'd bet you a bag of naughty candy hearts that you're going to find a brand new set of data that few people knew was held in that database. You might even find credit card data, tax identifiers or insulting customer comments buried there. I've seen all of that. Data profiling is something you need to do for the life of a data structure. Misuse of data structures happens more often than you think.
5. Cozy up with your team members. If you are data modeling or designing databases and you aren't physically next to the people working with those designs, you're missing out on a hundred opportunities a day to answer their questions, overhear their debates about the difference between Department and Division and generally not providing support for the project you delivered to them. What? Those people work thousands of miles away? You need to build a long distance relationships via Skype or GoToMeeting with these people. You might even need to answer their questions in the middle of the night. Just like in real life relationships. The key is to send a message of availability and wiliness to help. I'm pretty sure I'd better stop this analogy here, but you know what I mean. You say your boss pulls you off a project as soon as version one of the data model is done and puts you on another one right away? Well, there's a name for that type of a boss. I'll stop here, too.
Your data really isn't your data. It belongs to your business users and some of it to customers. When you don't love your data enough, it knows. And others will know, too. So spend some time tomorrow ensuring that your data is loved, safe and warm. It will do the same for you and your team.
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Maura was a Seltari female who lived in the late 24th century, she worked as a covert agent for the Romulan Empire.
In the year 2370, she traveled to Deep Space 9 in hopes of purchasing a locale on the Promenade. When she realized no space was available she turned to Quark in hopes of purchasing Quark's. She tried using her charms to bring the Ferengi to sell, but when Quark made it clear that he was not interested, she turned to death threats. It was later discovered that this was part of a larger design by the Romulans to instigate war between the Klingon Empire and the Cardassian Union.
Maura was a skilled hand-to-hand combatant. Skills she used to defend Quark when two Cardassians tried to extort latinum from him. Maura was romantically involved with the captain of the Arvas, Delgar.
She was later exposed by Major Kira Nerys as a Romulan agent. While she was in holding, she managed to escape using a device hidden on herself.
After escaping she headed straight to Quark's. Once on the Promenade she shot a Starfleet officer. Once in the bar she took the barkeep as a hostage and fled to the nearest docking bay. She was eventually tracked down by Kira who rendered her unconscious. According to Kira she was to be sentenced to about 50 years at the Tantalus Penal Colony. (DS9 - Hearts and Minds comics: "Prelude", "For the Glory of the Empire", "On the Edge of Armageddon", "Into the Abyss", "Masters of War")


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Uncivil Elegies: The Mystery of Civic Square
One of the better known but least often seen Toronto novels is Scott Symons' Civic Square, published as a limited facsimile edition by McClelland & Stewart in 1969. An online description of the book describes Civic Square as follows:
Written in the form of letters addressed to "Dear Reader," Civic Square is symphonic in its range of tone and style. Largely satiric, it is the story of a man who finds himself in a cultural upheaval as the stifling society of Toronto in 1966 begins to crumble around him - begins to crumble, in part, because he himself is kicking against the walls that constrain. Caught between a huge admiration for the older values of Rosedale and the dynamic new energy of Yorkville, with its musicians, poets and writers of the counter-culture movement, the narrator finds himself trying to reconstruct his world in every aspect. First published as a limited edition in 1969, Civic Square is a lost Canadian classic that has never before been widely available.
According to a 1997 Eye Weekly article, the original title for Civic Square was "The Smugly F*cklings", until Jack McClelland's intervention prior to publication. At the time, Symons himself was a controversial figure in Toronto and Montreal, coming out of the closet before doing so was de rigeur, holding forth dangerously on politics, and reportedly taking flight with a variety of lovers. Symons himself describes Civic Square as "obscene, pornographic, scandalous, irreverent, malicious, malignant and magnificent" (frontispiece pages). A documentary about Symons, called God's Fool was produced in 1997 or 1998. A 2001 reprint of Civic Square was planned (the cover image shown above) but does not appear ever to have become available.
The novel is mentioned occasionally in reviews and articles, usually in passing, and while many people seem to have heard of it, few appear to have read it. Perhaps this is understandable: the book, known as "the book in the box", was published as a facsimile edition of the original manuscript, and, at well over 800 typewritten pages, is nearly four inches thick. Symons himself -- an artist and curator as well as a writer (more widely known for his 1971 book Heritage: A Romantic Look at Early Canadian Furniture) -- is described as "one of Toronto's more notorious novelists" in Greg Gatenby's Toronto: A Literary Guide (1999: 47) and as an "alleged talent-free genius" in the above-mentioned Eye Weekly article.
It is undoubtedly true that thirty-five year old literary scandals lose some of their intensity in light of the many ways Toronto has loosened up in the meantime, but it seems surprising that Civic Square should have faded to a literary footnote.
Through some lucky sleuthing, I was able to locate a copy of Civic Square for the Imagining Toronto Library. The book arrived nearly as it must have when first published, girded in a blue presentation box, wrapped in white ribbon and emblazoned with a wax seal, with the title stamped in silver ink on the cover. My copy is signed by the author in red pen and is identified as "number 206 of a signed limited facsimile edition of the original manuscript."
Despite numerous differences in style and approach, Civic Square is strongly reminiscent of Dennis Lee's Governor General's Award-winning Civil Elegies and Other Poems as well as some of bpNichol's Toronto poetry. This is hardly surprising: in the years after Toronto's new City Hall was dedicated, an unquiet dissent flowed through Toronto's literary community as it did elsewhere, amid the displacement of old values and the uncertain projection of new ones. Toronto's new City Hall became a bellwether for doubts and desires about the ways the culture was changing. As Lee writes,
But it held, when the monumental space of the square
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