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effects question
By liquid_h on Oct 10, 2004 05:12 PM
hi all
Im looking for the best way to fade away abjects in my scene that are far away. Simulating the haze in an atmosphere to give a realistic look of contrast in a scene in respect to distance from the camera, I tried using fog but the result were not good enough, so how do u more experienced 3D artisits do it?
Thanx for taking the time to read my question.
By fusion of elements on Oct 12, 2004 09:11 AM
Hi again,
As you said you have tried using fog, I guess that you are making a landscape scene?
Although you have asked a question about fading, there is more involved with landscape scenes (if that is what you are making?).
First of all, if you are wanting to fade out in the distance, you need to be looking at 'Depth of Field'. If you use the Max help pages, you will probably return with three different possibilites: Depth of Field in the environment and effects panel, depth of field for mental ray cameras and depth of field for normal cameras. Using DOF with cameras requires multiple passes for each frame and it takes alot of passes to make it look any good. Using it as an after effect is much quicker, but doesnt provide great results. You may also need to play about with the environment ranges of your camera if you are trying to use fog.
I have recently made a rough start at an environment scene have used the following:
1. Volumetric light for the sun (for haze)
2. Squashed Atmospheric Sphere helpers in mountain troughs (for the fog)
3. A gradient ramp for the background colour (to help fade)
4. Exposure controls to lift the contrast
5. Snow materials with colours defined by a Shadow / Light falloff map
6. Catmull-Rom antialiasing filter (for sharpness of mountains)
I need to use:
1. Depth of Field
2. Realistic Textures & mapping
Hope some of this helps?
By liquid_h on Oct 12, 2004 10:49 PM
Thanks again mate u seem to have all the answers, Im actually making a cityscape and i needed to know how to make an effective fade away to simulate low visibility of distant buildings, the depth of field trick u told me about is proving very useful but the environment ranges along with fog thing u told me about is more along the lines, im still experimenting with it im not quite there yet its difficult to control density and where abouts it starts to fade and im also trying to get good results without sacrificing the visibility of the sky.
If u have any more tips regarding this id be even more grateful
Thanks again


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If I am put on the waiting list and I am never enrolled in the workshop, will I receive a refund?
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When will I receive confirmation that I am enrolled?
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Will I receive a receipt confirming the amount of tuition paid for the course?
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My school registered me with a Purchase Order. Why does my enrollment acknowledgement state that tuition funds are due?
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How do I transfer to a different course?
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The drum is beating for a new job in 2013. It's up to you to make it happen, and it's not as hard as you may think. Simple steps make all the difference, especially when it comes to successful interviews.
Avoid these killer interview mistakes and you'll be that much closer to a new job.
1. Don't prepare what to wear. This is a bigger mistake than you may realize. When you reach into your closet to select your interview attire and find something has chewed its way through the sleeve, or you forgot the huge ketchup stain on your lucky tie, you could be in trouble if you don't have a plan B. How you look is important, and you need to present a professional appearance. Even if you aren't interviewing to be a fashion diva, consider preparing what to wear a priority.
2. Ignore your Ps and Qs. You never know who is walking in right behind you on your way to the interview. It won't make a very good impression if you let the door slam on your interviewer. Everything you do or say at the interview – or on the way to the interview – can be part of the evaluation. Some companies ask the receptionist for an opinion about candidates. If you sat around rolling your eyes or acting annoyed while you waited, you're not likely to land the job.
3. Help yourself to a chair before someone offers it to you. It's just common courtesy to wait to be offered a seat.
4. Answer your cell phone. It doesn't matter how important you are: turn off your cell phone and put it away when you're interviewing. If you forget and instinctively answer it when it rings or buzzes, you may be saying goodbye to a new opportunity.
5. You don't know why you want the job. Okay, we all know you want a job, but why this particular position? If you don't know why this job is a good fit, you're wasting everyone's time with the interview. You should know what the job involves, why your skills are a good fit and why you are a better candidate than the last person interviewed.
6. Your answers ramble on. Do not torture your interviewer by drawing out your answers. Answer the question and be done – do not elaborate or expand on your answers more than necessary. How long should answers be? Just long enough to address the question and make sure the interviewer has a chance to picture you doing the job.
7. You're making lame jokes. Don't joke. Even if you think your jokes are funny, keep them out of the interview room. You are equally likely to offend as you are to amuse an interviewer, so don't take a chance.
8. You're badmouthing your previous employer. It doesn't matter if you worked for Atilla the Hun, your interviewer does not need to know how terribly your old employer treated you. Keep it to yourself, and do not be tempted to share stories – no matter what the interviewer asks you.
9. You're offering up lots of information. Yes, there is such a thing is "TMI" in an interview. This phenomenon happens when the job seeker gets nervous and starts sharing information that isn't really relevant or, worse, is detrimental.
10. You can't 'tell me about yourself.' If you don't have an answer to this obvious question, things probably aren't going to go very smoothly. Be prepared to introduce yourself without delving into inconsequential biographical details. Never start, "I was born in…" If you do, you can be sure your interviewer has already checked out. Instead, focus on how the position is a good fit based on your past experiences and accomplishments and spare the interviewer the details about where you grew up!
11. You don't have your story straight. No one is suggesting you lie in an interview, but many job seekers have stories they'd rather not tell. For example, if they were fired, or if they had a major personality clash with their former boss. If you have this type of history in your background, the best solution is to decide how to address it before you get to the interview, so if it comes up, there's nothing to be surprised about. Your goal? Get in and get out – not literally, but figuratively: quickly address the question and then stop talking.
12. You have nothing to ask. Seriously – if you want the job, you should have several well-considered inquiries for your interviewer that cannot be answered with a quick Google search about the company. You'll be surprised by how few candidates make a point to research organizations before they interview, so any pointed questions referencing your research should help impress your interviewer.
13. You don't follow up. Statistically, few people actually send thank you notes after interviews. You have a chance to make a positive impression when you follow up with targeted, error-free notes thanking your interviewer for his or her time. Include several key reminders of why you are the best candidate for the job.
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Celebrity chef Paula Deen is reeling from the backlash to her admission that she routinely calls black people "niggers." In a video released by her camp today, Deen says: "I want to apologize to everybody for the wrong that I've done." Looking somewhat befuddled, she continues: "I want to learn and grow from this. Inappropriate, hurtful language is totally, totally unacceptable. I've made plenty of mistakes along the way, but I beg you, my children, my team, my fans, my partners, I beg for your forgiveness. Please forgive me for the mistakes that I've made."
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Last night singer Fantasia got all philosophical with the New Year approaching. She took to her Instagram page and denounced weed smoking and diverse Biblical sins such as gay marriage. The response from 'Tasia's followers were swift — and the message was quickly deleted.
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Yesterday I wrote a piece on how the Grizzlies different style of play from the Thunder was playing into the refs hands as many of these "Points of Emphasis" favor perimeter offense over defense.
Today I want to focus on one of these points that could play a part in tonight's game: illegal screens.
Illegal screens are the 2nd point of emphasis, which suggests that this is one of the most important things the league's office wants the referees to focus on. An aspect of illegal screens the referees are being asked to pay attention to is setting screens with a wide base, having your feet planted outside of your shoulder width.
I point this issue out in particular due to an excellent article written by the Thunder beat writer. In it he uses examples of how setting "better" picks would free up Durant for easier shot attempts. While what he is suggesting is true, both examples he uses actually involved the Thunder player setting an illegal pick. Neither time was the illegal pick called however.
Take a look at this screen set by Nick Collison:
As you can clearly see, Collison's feet are well outside of his shoulders. Not only has that but Collison then leaned into the defender to further push him outside of his line. This is illegal according to the rules and the type of play that referees are being asked to watch for more closely.
Here is another example of the type of screens the writer believes the Thunder need:
In the article's second example of how the Thunder need to set picks Kendrick Perkins actually sets up rather well but fails to hold his position and basically muscled Allen away from Durant. This too is illegal and should be called.
You may ask how I know this is illegal. After all, I am not a self-proclaimed expert on NBA rules much less an actual referee. It's a fair point however I know this because the league has a video out explaining what is and isn't a legal screen.
This video was released this season so it is current interpretations. They clearly point out that both of these situations are illegal and needs to be called as offensive fouls.
Which brings us to tonight's game. The fans need to make sure the referees are making these calls against the Thunder as they try to find ways to free up Durant from Allen's pressure defense. If the Grizzlies get the calls then they will have a far easier time both defending Durant and imposing their will in the paint as the Thunder's big men collect fouls.
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things around. What we do know for sure is that they're planning to keep the business headquartered in Munich, at least
according to an internal memo that was sent around earlier today to employees of Siemens mobile division.
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Statistically, the odds of a rare complication that a midwife can't handle/get you to the hospital in time is VERY low.... compared to the statistical likelihood that some hospital policy or a doctor's need to intervene/"manage labor" will cause complications for you and baby. If our hospitals had healthier approach to labor, our c-section rate wouldn't be ridiculously high and our maternal and fetal mortality rates wouldn't be so high. It is more statistically dangerous for a mother to have her baby at a US hospital than a hospital in 43 other civilized nations, putting us on the same level as Belarus. (http://www.seattlepi.com/national/article/U-S-ranks-41st-in-maternal-mortality-1252472.php) The problem isn't a lack of health care or a lack of technology- it is that our hospitals and OBs are trained to intervene and ignore the risks that come with those interventions. Worse yet, they don't inform the moms of those risks. How many moms do you know that have had pitocin administered during labor? And how many of them were told that it would make them 5 times more likely to have a c-section? How many of them were told that a link between pitocin and autism is currently being researched? Probably not many.
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It seems clear that American civil-military relations have been healthiest when there is a high level of trust between civilian and military leaders, i.e. when there is mutual respect and understanding between them that leads to the exchange of candid views and perspectives between the two parties as part of the decision-making process.
On the one hand, the military must have a voice in strategy making, while realizing that politics permeates the conduct of war and that civilians have the final say, not only concerning the goals of the war but also how it is conducted. On the other, civilians must understand that to implement effective policy and strategy requires the proper military instrument and therefore must insist that soldiers present their views frankly and forcefully throughout the strategy-making and implementation process. This is the key to healthy civil-military relations.
No general in recent times has represented the military side in the civil-military dialogue better than General James Mattis, the current commander of U.S. Central Command. Nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate in the summer of 2010, Gen. Mattis has presided over the most volatile region in the world. During his time as commander, none of the symptoms of unhealthy civil-military relations such as those that characterized the tenure of Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense, have manifested themselves. There have been no leaks to the press over policy disagreements and no reports of "slow rolling" or "foot dragging" in Gen. Mattis's implementation of the president's policy.
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Aircraft from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) initially crossed the border briefly while targeting suspected insurgents who were firing on a coalition base from a position inside Afghanistan, the statement said.
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It's my entry to the Cheltenham Illustration awards in the Emerging Talent category.
The subject this year was Tree Time Tales.
Little Fox is remembering his mother, wrapped in her scarf. The soil feeds the tree that has been there for so long. It has been watching generations of foxes come by and has all the memories engraved in his bark like a totem pole. The circle of life continues.
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Now here's an odd reaction, done in an odd way. Organic chemists will all be familiar with the azide/acetylene cycloaddition to form triazoles. In its copper-catalyzed variant, it's become a sensation, and is used as a convenient linker to do all kinds of interesting things. The reverse reaction, taking a triazole back to the starting materials, just isn't feasible. If you heat up one of the triazoles enough to get it to do anything, which takes some pretty serious heat, it just gives you a handful of decomposition products.
But what if you grabbed each side of the ring and just pulled on it? A paper in Science does just that, though having polymeric chains attached. If you subject that to ultrasound, the cavitation bubbles that form are violent enough to pull and jerk the molecular chains around - and when they try that on a triazole-linked molecule, they can see reversion to the acetylene and the azide. This only happens with long-chain polymers - the effect increases with polymer molecular weight, and small-molecule analogs aren't cleaved at all. It also appears that the effect works best when the triazole is near the midpoint of the polymer, not out towards one end. These are just what you would expect for this sort of "mechanosynthesis", and strong evidence for the proposed effect.
This could lead to some rather unusual reactions being discovered. Some sort of cleavable tether that stands up under sonication might allow you to put on "mechanosynthetic handles" that you could then take off again, as if they were protecting groups. Silyl ethers, maybe? Which functional groups can take the stress, and which will pull apart to give something new?
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1. John Spevacek on September 21, 2011 12:38 PM writes...
YES! Finally your in my area (polymers), but NO! I don't have access to the article!
If the effect works best with the triazole in the middle and not the end, then it looks like you are working with dilute polymers (i.e., there is no overlap between the random globule of one polymer coil with the next). If it is that dilute, I wonder about the economic efficiency - that is a lot of water to have to rid oneself of at the end.
2. imatter on September 21, 2011 2:21 PM writes...
Imagine windows that shatter in a controlled manner using sonic waves, etc. The army would fund that. Send checks my way.
3. milkshake on September 21, 2011 3:32 PM writes...
I have my doubts about this - according to Fokin and Sharpless the triazole formation is hugely exothermic, to the tune of 50-65 kcal/mol. If you sono-cavitate and put that much energy into the system, what else also breaks?
4. Algirdas on September 21, 2011 3:34 PM writes...
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"Imagine windows that shatter in a controlled manner using sonic waves, etc. The army would fund that."
Well, I know what you saying, but ... people have been shattering windows using sonic waves since invention of the gunpowder. Note that it was usually done in a very controlled manner: "Windows will stay intact around here until I apply this here torch to the fuse on yon powder keg." The twentieth century saw many refinements to this technique, such as, e.g., HE munitions.
5. Derek Lowe on September 21, 2011 5:46 PM writes...
Milkshake - the thermodynamics of this process make for an interesting question. The authors of the paper say that the mechanical stress destabilizes the ground state, which I can well believe, but unless the process leads through a different transition state, you do still have those 50 kcal/mol to make up. And on grounds of microscopic reversibility, you'd have to assume that the transition state is the same - but does that apply when one reaction is thermal and the other one is mechanical? Maybe there's one bond that goes before the others, though some sort of radical intermediate. Odd stuff to think about, for sure. . .
6. Doug on September 21, 2011 7:34 PM writes...
Todd Martinez has done modeling of these systems which seem to indicate that the reactant, product, and transition state geometries are all altered by mechanical force. (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja8095834)
7. barry on September 21, 2011 7:45 PM writes...
we've known for years that one can initiate a radical chain reaction by mechanically grinding a cross-linked polymer in the reaction flask. What's new is designing the weak link. It's not hard to think of some Diels-Alders that are only slightly exothermic in the cyclcoaddtion direction that are great candidates for ripping asunder mechanically.
8. milkshake on September 21, 2011 7:52 PM writes...
According to Fokin uncatalyzed Huisgen reaction of terminal acetylenes with alkyl azides has about +25 kcal/mol activation bareer. (He blames mismatched HOMO and LUMO energy levels for high activation bareer of the uncatalyzed reaction but I don't care). Even if you invoke some weird recoil - biradical mechanism with much lower bareer you are still more than 50kcal/mol in the hole. I think the mechanism must be different, not just a simple reversal. (By the way, the name click was supposed to signify a highly exothermic cycloaddition reaction that snaps into place and stays put)
9. NHR_GUY on September 21, 2011 8:43 PM writes...
Only glanced at the paper, but I will go back and check, but if the energy (forward reaction) to make the bonds is different then the energy to break the bonds(reverse reaction), then you have two different mechanisms at work here. Pretty cool stuff though. Interesting thought here:
if the reaction is due to polymers on either end of the triazole, could you do the same thing for bio-polymers? Would be cool to see if you could do it w/o denaturing the proteins. Could be a cool catch and release method.
10. Ludite on September 22, 2011 7:27 AM writes...
Is it just me or has "Science" lowered the bar for accepting chemistry papers, although maybe I am just missing the signifigance of this and the recent Hartwig publication?
11. Am I Lloyd peptide on September 22, 2011 2:52 PM writes...
milkshake: He blames mismatched HOMO and LUMO energy levels for high activation bareer of the uncatalyzed reaction but I don't care
Apparently the molecule does.
12. Hap on September 22, 2011 4:39 PM writes...
Aren't you throwing a ton of energy into the system by sonicating it? If the bubbles formed on sonication are reaching plasma temperatures, then there's an awful lot of energy to play with. Since 1) you're not really talking preparative scale here and 2) the molar mass of the polymers is so large that 50 kcal buys a lot of broken polymer, I don't think that the energetics is that much of a hindrance, or am I missing something?
I'm assuming that "energies to break/make bonds" is referring to kinetic barriers and not thermodynamics (which shouldn't change however the reaction goes)?
13. Doug on September 23, 2011 8:20 AM writes...
Hap: Yes you are throwing a ton of energy into the system by sonicating, and the interior of the bubbles can get quite warm. However, the polymer/mechanophore likely doesn't enter the bubble. In general, the sonication is kept cool and controls are run with low molecular weight polymer or polymer + small molecule to make sure it's not just a thermal effect. The theory is that as the bubbles collapse, the fluid flow toward the collapsing bubble pulls the polymer chains along. Longer chains provide larger lengths to pull against and cleavage rates generally go up.
14. Hap on September 23, 2011 9:18 AM writes...
Mostly duh - sorry (if the polymers entered the bubbles, they'd be tar rather than discrete products). The only caveat is while a lot of the energy from sonication is going out as heat, some of it is not (I assumed that the heat was the product of motions of the bubbles) - if there's enough energy in the motion to be converted to temperatures that high in the bubbles, there's plenty lying around to harness for the chemistry observed.
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Georg Simmel (1858â1918) was a major contributor to social science thought whose work offers important insights on the social construction of space. Born in Berlin, he studied history and philosophy at the University of Berlin, but also studied with some of the preeminent professors in psychology, anthropology, and sociology. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1881, Simmel decided to remain at the university as an unpaid lecturer, living on student fees and a substantial inheritance. During his 15 years, his courses in sociology, philosophy, history, ethics, and cultural criticism were popular with students and were respected in academic circles. His own university, however, refused to promote him to an academic post. His status as an outsider may have contributed to his wide range of interests and innovative thought. He published more than 200 articles and over a dozen books in several social science fields. As a generalist, Simmel did not inspire a particular school of thought or methodology. Many social scientists, however, looked to Simmel as a source of insight for their work. His writings on the sociology of space are a case study of Simmel's contributions to social science concepts.
Much of Simmel's writing on space appears in two articles, first published in 1903, "The Sociology of Space" and "On the Spatial Projections of Social Forms." He revised and expanded these for a single chapter in his major 1908 book, Soziologie, adding three essays on "The Social Boundary," "The Sociology of the Senses," and "The Stranger" (c.f., Simmel 1997 for recent translations).
The chapter centers around spatial themes including (a) the socially relevant aspects of space, (b) the effect of spatial conditions upon social interaction, and (c) upon forms of social, physical, and psychological distance. As typical of his writing, however, Simmel did not present an organized theory of space. Rather, his interweaving of concepts, historically oriented examples and context, and occasional tangential discussions, provide heuristic tools for a sociological approach to space.
Simmel's approach to spatial analysis, especially In "The Sociology of Space" was, in part, a continuation of his uncompleted project to express the preconditions of human sociation by formal categories of time, mass, and number, which he called "social geometry." What the philosopher Kant had approached in the abstract, Simmel would attempt to catalog as the spatial reality of social life. He focuses on five basic properties of space:
In the 1903 article, and later 1908 chapter section, "On the Spatial Projection of Social Forms," Simmel focuses upon how social interaction produces various spatial effects and forms. He discusses four domains of spatial formation. First, social organization requires organization of space, especially at the level of political and economic institutions. For example, individuals can be treated differently by their national location. Second, authority and domination take on various spatial dimensions, such as territorial control. Third, there are spatial dimensions to social solidarity. A group's communal bonds may be stronger if they have a "home" or physical center; however, he notes that the Jewish people, post-Diaspora (and pre-Isreal), find social unity without a central location. Similarly, modern society is developing toward greater abstractness, without a center. A money economy is an example, in which objects can be thought of abstractly as pure expression of value. Also, communication technologies allow concrete spatial settings to be less important in many transactions, with today's Internet society a case in point.
Overall, Simmel's thoughts on the relation of space to the social world did not, at first, leave a legacy. This was in part because he offered mainly a collection of ideas and insights, rather than a theory or method that others might adopt. Simmel, however, clearly showed his readers the relevance of space to sociological thinking and analysis, which has only recently been rediscovered.
Simmel, Georg, David Frisby, and Mike Featherstone. Simmel on Culture: Selected Writings. London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1997.
Simmel, Georg. Soziologie: Untersuchungen Uber Die Formen Der Vergesellschaftung. Berlin: Duncket and Humbolt, 1958.
Simmel, Georg. The Philosophy of Money. Translated by T. Bottomore and D. Frisby. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 1990.
Simmel, Georg, and Kurt H. Wolff. The Sociology of Georg Simmel. Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1950.
Allen, John. "On Georg Simmel: Proximity, Distance and Movement."
In Thinking Space, edited by Mike Crang and N. J. Thrift, 54â70. London; New York: Routledge, 2000.
Lechner, Frank J. "Simmel on Social Space." Theory, Culture, and Society 8, no. 3 (1991): 195â201.
Frisby, David. Simmel and Since: Essays on Georg Simmel's Social Theory. New York, NY: Routledge, 1992.
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Tricks of the trade, rules of the land, words to the wise, pointers… whatever you call them, here are my top tips for spiralized cooking. This list will constantly grow, so click the icon on the right hand navigation to check back for more tips and information.
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Buy a Separate Brush to Clean the Spiralizer
If you can't seem to get all of a vegetable out of the pointy blades or the plastic teeth, don't despair. Purchase a rounded brush to use solely for cleaning your spiralizer. Scrape the blades and teeth with the rounded brush, while using soap and running water. This prevents cutting your hands or putting away a dirty spiralizer.
I use this OXO brush. You can fill it with soap!
Cut the Noodles After Spiralizing
If you could continuously spiralize a vegetable, it would yield one extremely long noodle. However, the blades jamming and the uneven shapes of the vegetable prevent this – it slices while spiralizing. Even so, you'll still get extremely long noodles, and that's a little tough to serve and portion.
Just take a scissor when you're done spiralizing the vegetable and cut the noodles before cooking or dressing them. You can go inch by inch or just grab a bunch of noodles and roughly snip. Either way, you'll get regular-sized noodles that are easier to divide onto plates and eat.
Avoid a Runny Pasta Sauce
Click here for my full guide on avoiding a runny pasta sauce.
Keep in mind though, that you're cooking vegetables, so your sauce is going to get somewhat watery. The longer the noodles sit in the sauce, the more water will seep out.
Another tip: try cooking the noodles ahead of time in a separate skillet. Take the noodles out with a slotted spoon, pat dry, and set aside for when you're ready to add them to the sauce.
Don't Always Cook the Noodles
To truly enjoy the benefits of spiralized cooking, don't always opt to cook the noodles. One of the best things about spiralizing is that it's quick and easy. You now know that you can get a bowl of vegetable noodles in 30 seconds. Why add a few more minutes to cook them? Skip that step and just dress the noodles with the sauce or dressing right away!
Raw noodles are crunchy, so simply pour a warmed sauce on top and the noodles will slightly heat and soften. It's definitely a different texture, but can be more refreshing. Creamy avocado sauces also pair well with raw noodles and won't result in any watery sauces.
How to Avoid Half Moons and What To Do With Them
You've probably noticed by now that the spiralizer slices the vegetable into half moons, while making the noodles. This happens mostly when the vegetable moves off center. To avoid this, reposition the vegetable so that the cylindrical blade keeps centered. You can also flip the vegetable around and center the other end on the blade.
If you have a heaping pile of half moons, don't throw them out. Keep them and make a pasta salad – their little shapes goes well with salad dressing.
Always Pat Dry Cucumber Noodles
Cucumbers are made up of over 95% water. That's a lot of water! When you spiralize a cucumber, always remember to pat dry with paper towels. Lay the noodles down on two layers of paper towel, cover with two more layers, and gently lean in and absorb the moisture. You might want to do this twice!
Choose Medium to Large Vegetables To Avoid Half Moons and Yield More Noodles
Spiralizing small vegetables will not only make smaller noodles, it will yield less of them. This applies for every blade. It will be hard to use Blade B with a small zucchini, it will yield mostly half moons.
Aim to use medium to large vegetables, as pictured above. The cucumber to the right of the tooth brush should be the smallest you ever spiralize and the perfect size. The zucchini to the left of the tooth brush is an example of a great vegetable to spiralize – however, it will yield longer, flatter noodles that aren't as spiral-y.
Check back soon for more tips to make your spiralizing experience the best!
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The garage isn't just for cars anymore. It's also the perfect place for storing gear and creating workspaces for your favorite hobbies and activities.
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1. Get Green - Set up a recycling area in your garage. Designate areas for categories like cans, glass, paper and plastic. A bin to collect other items that need to be disposed of at local hazardous waste days will also come in handy. Go a step further and get a composter so you'll be ready for gardening season. It'll be easy to be green with a set-up like this!
2. Garden like the Pros - When it comes to prepping for a lovely summer garden, it can be tough to accomplish this outside if the weather is bad – whether it's intensely rainy or hot. Create a garden prep area so you can pot plants and start seeds on time. With some simple cabinetry and a countertop, you'll have a space to store soil, pots, seeds, and tools along with a great workspace.
3. A Locker Room for Your Star Athletes - Many homes don't have a full mudroom, and if you have kids who are involved in sports it can be difficult to make sure they have their gear, let alone get them across town in time. By creating a mudroom unit in the garage with a "locker" for each child, you can make sure they have all their gear as they pile into the minivan! Even better, they can keep those muddy soccer cleats from entering your home. Consider a design with drawers, shelves, and hanging hooks to store all of their gear.
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OWS 6.3.1 If in the Opinion of the Chief Referee or Referees, any swimmer, or swimmer's approved representative, or escort safety craft, takes advantage by committing any violation of the rules or by making intentional contact with any swimmer, the following proceeding shall apply:
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A red flag and a card bearing the swimmer's number shall be raised by the Referee (OWS 3.6) to indicate and to inform the swimmer that he is for the second time in violation of the Rules. The swimmer shall be disqualified. He must leave the water immediately and be placed in an escort craft, and take no further part in the race.
OWS 6.3.2 If in the opinion of a Referee, an action of a swimmer or an escort safety craft, or a swimmer's approved representative is deemed to be 'unsporting' the referee shall disqualify the swimmer concerned immediately.
OWS 6.4 Escort safety craft shall manoeuver so as not to obstruct or place themselves directly ahead of any swimmer and not take unfair advantage by pacing or slip streaming.
OWS 6.5 Escort safety craft shall attempt to maintain a constant position so as to station the swimmer at, or forward of, the mid point of the escort safety craft.
OWS 6.6 Standing on the bottom during a race shall not disqualify a swimmer but they may not walk or jump.
OWS 6.7 With the exception of 6.6 above swimmers shall not receive support from any fixed or floating object and shall not intentionally touch or be touched by their escort safety craft or crew therein.
OWS 6.7.1 Rendering assistance by an official medical officer to a swimmer in apparent distress should always supersede official rules of disqualification through "intentional contact" with a swimmer (OWS3.1).
OWS 6.8 Each escort safety craft shall contain: a Race Judge, a person of the swimmer's choice, and the minimum crew required to operate the escort safety craft.
OWS 6.9 No swimmer shall be permitted to use or wear any device which may be an aid to their speed, endurance or buoyancy. Goggles, a maximum of two (2) caps, nose clip and earplugs may be used.
OWS 6.10 Swimmers shall be allowed to use grease or other such substances providing these are not, in the opinion of the Referee, excessive.
OWS 6.11 The pacing of a swimmer by another person entering the water is not permitted.
OWS 6.12 Coaching and the giving of instructions by the approved swimmer's representative on the feeding platform or in the escort safety craft is permitted. No whistle shall be allowed. Feeding poles are not to exceed 5m in length when extended. No objects, rope or wire may hang off the end of feeding poles except national flags. National flags are allowed to be attached to the feeding pole but may not exceed the size of 30cm x 20 cm.
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