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Credible governance does not imply statistical sleight of hand. Being in office doesn't necessarily mean that one is in power; it is also an issue of perception. The UPA can boast of its achievements by trotting out numbers, painting a rosy picture of the state of the nation. The recent series of government-sponsored advertisements are impressive in colour, content and design. Even some administrative and legislative measures announced by the UPA reflect a resolve to govern and deliver. But nothing seems to be working on the ground. All meaningful measures are falling on deaf ears as if the government is merely blowing its own trumpet. The rupee is sliding faster than oil seepage. GDP growth has hit rock bottom and the Sensex, the darling of the market-friendly UPA government, has lost its patrons. Its fall has broken over a dozen records. Despite a liberal FDI policy, more and more dollars are flying out of the country and less and less domestic and foreign investors are willing to invest in new projects. The government's ability to push through crucial legislative measures has been immensely crippled by its untrustworthy allies who are asking for more and more for less and less support. None, including the Prime Minister, is confident about political support from allies to push business in Parliament. For the past six months, even the hyperactive, articulate minister for parliamentary affairs, Kamal Nath, has failed to ensure the passage of crucial bills in the last two sessions. Short of pleading on bended knees, government leaders are seen pitifully begging for support from even individual MPs to run Parliament. Of late, whispers are heard in the corridors of power on the possibility of holding early Lok Sabha polls which are due in April 2014. The Election Commission has placed orders for over two lakh additional EVMs for elections to the state Assemblies and the Lok Sabha.
The government's logic is simply political—a government and a big council of ministers meet every week and takes decisions that fail to deliver dividends. It is in power by default, not by right. This perception is hurting performance. Every section of society, from farmers to fund-raisers, feels that this government doesn't command authority and credibility. It is in office only because none of its allies are willing to go for early polls, but successfully keep extracting crumbs from a tottering administration. It survives by pandering to both reasonable and unreasonable demands of genuine and fake allies. Nitish Kumar has got more from the UPA in grants than he would have otherwise, if the government was firmly in the saddle.
As the popularity of the once most respected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh plummets, some of the saner Congress leaders are wondering whether the party should go for early elections—both for the Lok Sabha and the five state Assemblies—to restore the government's authority. They feel that it is better to take a risky plunge rather than lose badly. The younger elements are resigned to sitting in the Opposition hoping they can return to power after a brief spell of chaos. Even some prominent economists have started building a case for early elections so that the economic decision-making process is back on the rails. Their case is simple. The UPA has lost the will to govern, with the PM being concerned more about the fate of the Indo-Pak dialogue than the state of the party. A new mandate would restore purpose to the policy-making apparatus. A new government, irrespective of composition, would be better placed to take decisive actions, whether on reviving the sagging economy or facing hostilities across the borders. Senior government officials have stopped processing files and proposals because they feel no decision taken by the outgoing government would be implemented. They prefer to wait for an incoming government with a clear mandate and not follow orders from an outgoing one that has lost both authority and purpose.
There are strong economic and political reasons for a mid-term poll. Ever since the Lok Sabha polls were delinked from state Assembly elections in 1980, India has been going through the torture of the ballot almost every year, leaving the government paralysed for one-third of the time. For example, notifications for the five state elections in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram will be issued next month. It means that neither these states nor the Central government can take policy decisions until the elections are over by end of November. Once the new state governments are sworn in, the bell for the Lok Sabha elections would start pealing; no Central government decision can be made until May 2014. Practically, there would be no effective government in the country from September to next May. It is to prevent such policy paralysis that the idea to hold both the Lok Sabha and the Assembly elections together has been mooted by a few political leaders and economists. Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, the late Vice-President, had suggested to all parties to dissolve their state Assemblies before the 2004 Lok Sabha elections so that the country could elect their MPs and MLAs at the same time and save over Rs10, 000 crore spent on conducting elections. His idea, aimed at ensuring the continuity of good governance without the fear of facing an election every year, was rejected by most parties, including his own. For India's caste- and community-ridden political parties, good governance makes bad politics. For them, frequent elections bring both money and muscle power into the public arena.
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Ever look at a knitting pattern and just feel too overwhelmed to even attempt it? When I first started knitting , I fell in love with a knitted coat pattern. But when I looked at the pattern, my eyes crossed. It seemed impossible to complete.
As my knitting skills improved, so did my outlook on coat patterns. After all, they're really just a longer version of a cardigan, right? If you can tackle a sweater, you can tackle a coat.
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1. It's just like knitting a longer version of a sweater.
When I look at coat patterns, I feel overwhelmed. "There's no way I will ever finish that," I say. But knitting a coat is just like knitting a cardigan, except that it's a little longer. If you've successfully completed a sweater, you can successfully complete a coat, too!
Take a look at the Audrey Coat above. (Beautiful!) Cover up the bottom of the coat with your hands and it might even look like a cardigan you've knitted before. Plus, this particular pattern is knit with two strands of yarn held together throughout, so you'll complete it much faster than you think.
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Imagine how you feel when you snuggle up to your favorite knitted blanket. Now multiply that feeling by ten. Wearing a knitted coat is like having a big warm, blanket around you all the time!
Does it get any cozier than the Hepburn Cardigan Coat pictured above? I want to live in this coat. That chunk yarn paired with the pineapple stitch make me want to curl up with some tea and bliss out.
3. Choosing buttons is fun.
It's the little things that make knitting projects fun. I love picking out embellishments, including buttons. You can totally alter the style of your coat depending on what kind of buttons you choose. Plus, it's just another excuse to make a trip to your local yarn or craft store.
Need help customizing those buttonbands? Get the button low-down with Anne Hanson's class Button Bands & Buttonholes . You'll learn professional techniques for the neatest buttonholes, plus how your button choice can affect the entire look of your garment. Definitely useful for choosing buttons for you knitted coat!
4. You'll wear it often.
I don't don my handmade sweaters as often as I should. But handmade coats can be worn daily, just like your usual coat. You'll get a lot of wear out of it, making all those hours you spent knitting worthwhile.
5. You can customize it.
I'm super picky about outerwear. When I browse coats in a store, I'm constantly finding just one or two little things that make me dislike the coat. Maybe it has a weird embellishment on it, or maybe it is just a little too long for me. When you're knitting a coat, you can customize it however you like. Lengthen the hem, shorten the sleeves, add a hood -- there are dozens of different options for making it your own even when you're using a pattern that another designer created.
If you like a nice fitted coat, you might want to take a look at Feminine Fit: Bust-Shaping Techniques with Joan McGowan-Michael. Not all busts are created equal, as you know, and Joan can help you figure out what shaping you need to make the bust of your coat fit perfectly to your body.
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I'm flipping out over the textured lace diamonds in the Stella Coat pictured above. Coats are a great way to show off beautiful stitches because you have so much room to work with. Take advantage of those textured stitches and show them off.
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For 25 years, Phil Spencer has staffed his small photo shop in the heart of town, developing pictures, taking passport photos and dispensing advice.
When he walks out the door at Flash Photo at the end of the day on Friday, however, he won't be coming back.
It's been a tough go the last couple of years, he said. The recession has had an impact. He hasn't taken a paycheck in quite some time.
But what made him decide it was time to shutter his shop for good was Sony's announcement last month that it would no longer make the paper or ribbon he uses in his two digital kiosks.
An upgrade to new machines would cost between $10,000 and $15,000, he said.
"That's a big investment for a company that's already paying to keep its doors open," he said.
It'll be a big change, Spencer acknowledged last week. "I've been behind this black counter for 25 years."
At the same time, he added, he's looking forward to a break from running a business that has sometimes kept him awake at night and that hasn't turned a profit in three years. He also feels confident he'll find a new direction.
"I have a wonderful wife and daughter and a lot of good friends," he said. "I'll make it. Something will come up."
Spencer started working at the shop when he was 22 years old, then bought it two years later. Since then, he's transitioned the shop with the times, moving out of traditional film developing when digital hit the scene and adding a few services to keep customers coming in the door.
These days, he provides quality digital photo services, he says. His shop is also a UPS pick-up and drop-off site and the only place on Vashon where one can get a passport photo. And as a life-long Islander, he's the go-to guy on any number of Vashon issues.
"I'm a wealth of information for this community," he said, smiling amiably. "I'm a fixture here."
He has many loyal customers, some of whom have been coming to the shop since he started training there in 1985, and he knows they'll miss him.
"It'll bother me to lock that door for good," he said.
But even with a loyal customer base, he doesn't have the foot traffic to make his business profitable, he said. Quality digital printing is a service some can't afford as they struggle to pay the mortgage or rent each month, he said.
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What's that? There's a Canucks gane today? God, it's been so long, I almost forgot they were playing this season.
I kid, I kid…
The Colorado Avalance visit GM Place and look to avenge a huge blow out loss in Denver almost a week. That lopsided victory was the Canucks' last game, meaning they will be either well-rested or well-rusty.
The Vancouver Canucks are coming off a long layoff and a huge victory to end a five-game road trip. The Avalanche have sputtered lately, after a blistering start. The Avs have lost 4 ouf their last 5, and 6 of their last 9. Specifically, the Avs defence has gone completely stale, as they have allowed 24 goals on their last 5 games.
There is still some speculation that Daniel Sedin may play tonight after missing 17 games with a broken foot. It is unlikely, as he is a probable starter on Sunday.
There is also speculation that Matt Pettinger has been placed on waivers, to clear way for an injured player to make his way back on to the roster. Pettinger has been a serviceable replacement for the Canucks in the last two weeks, so it would be a shame to lose him. While Pettinger has played on 6 games, he has made more of an impact than Kyle Wellwood, both on the scoresheet and on the ice overall.
Tonight's game is the first of a five-game home stand. The Canucks will be looking to establish control early… and basically duplicate their effort and game plan from their last game, when they shellacked the Avs in Denver.
As the Canucks begin the second quarter of their season, they look to get more output for a number of underperforming forwards and defencemen.
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While small business looms large in the U.S. economy—employing about half of all private-sector employees, according to the Small Business Administration—Securian Financial Group marketing director Kerry Geurkink believes small business owners (SBOs) lack sophistication in retirement planning.
"Ask a small business owner how she's going to fund her retirement and she'll say, 'Sell the business.' If only it were that simple!" Geurkink said in a news release.
The Securian microsite mainly includes links to various report summaries, but the summaries are easy to read, containing simple bullet points and graphics that tend to get right to the point. For example, the main report examines the challenges SBOs face; measures their interest in using financial advisors; and helps distinguish between SBOs who are more or less likely to use advisors.
Those likely to seek an advisor (27% of SBOs) tend to be younger, sole decision-makers and female. Their top concerns include personal retirement planning and taking care of their family's financial needs ("this may be because more of them still have children at home," the report says).
Those less likely to seek an advisor (64% of SBOs) tend to be older and more established, with many products and services in place; to the extent this group is seeking advice, it is usually focused on a change in business circumstances, such as retirement or sale, and this group is comparatively more interested in exit strategy questions than the younger cadre who are likely to seek an advisor's help.
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Is there a word that can be used to describe the feeling that I, along with the hundreds of people in my immediate vicinity, felt last night when Timmy, Landon, Jozi, and Clint teamed up to score a goal that could very well go down as one of the most important goals in US Soccer history? I would like to say "speechless" but that wouldn't be quite accurate, we screamed until the vessels in our heads felt as though they would burst. We may not have said anything that would be considered a coherent "word" but there was a joyous, defiant, victorious sound coming from everyone I could see. I might try to use the word "awe" but although this was an extraordinary moment, I never once thought it to be impossible. Every fiber of my being was confident that we would make it out of the 1st round but I swear to all things greater than I am, I didn't think it was going to be such a crazy road to the second round!
A word like "redemption" comes to mind. We have had 2 of our 6 goals taken away- both of those were game breakers and both of them have been proven to be taken away without proper justification. Try as I might, I can't come up with the words that would do the feeling justice. Spectacular, marvelous, tremendous, wondrous- they are all, I suppose, close to the combination of emotions that coursed through me at that moment and the following few hours. I was utterly exhausted when the high of all that energy came down. I woke up this morning feeling calm.
We started the day like we have for most of the days we've been here with a quiet breakfast discussing the plans and time lines for the day. We broke off into different groups and ran some errands or lazed around the house writing. A few hours before kick-off we met back at the house and began getting ready. Some of us put the face-paint on and got our gear together. I have found that agreeing to take pictures with more than 1 scarf, needing to carry extra paint for touch-ups ( feel a littlegirly just saying that), my camera, house key, money, I.D., and an extra coat because of how cold it gets here at night, I feel like the little kid from the movie "A Christmas Story". I am carrying around way to much stuff to these games, but as promised I have a couple pics with the Fire scarf and the Byki scarf.
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Alex Proyas' Knowing is all about the multigenerational relationships. Nic Cage's character deals with his son and grandson, but he also works with the daughter and granddaughter of the girl who created those numbers. Spoilers!
IGN interviewed Proyas, and also featured a new plot synopsis for the film:
In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler. But it is Caleb's father, professor John Koestler (Cage), who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years.
As John further unravels the document's chilling secrets, he realizes the document foretells three additional events-the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve John and his son. When John's attempts to alert the authorities fall on deaf ears, he takes it upon himself to try to prevent more destruction from taking place.
With the reluctant help of Diana Wayland (Rose Byrne) and Abby Wayland, the daughter and granddaughter of the now-deceased author of the prophecies, John's increasingly desperate efforts take him on a heart-pounding race against time until he finds himself facing the ultimate disaster-and the ultimate sacrifice.
I knew Rose Byrne was in this film as the daughter of the prophecies' author, but I didn't realize she had a daughter as well.
And apparently Nic Cage's character starts the movie believing the world is random, and then has a spiritual transformation when he realizes everything is pre-ordained. The "core relationship" of the film involves Cage and his son, but Cage also has a troubled relationship wth his own father, says director Alex Proyas.
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Victoria Stops Progress
Don't laugh. I never updated DAZ 3D from version 2.3. Fact is, I downloaded it the same time I download Bryce 5.5 years ago. Of the two, I found Byrce more intriguing, and pretty much ignored DAZ 3D. I have downloaded version 4.6, but still haven't gotten around to installing it, and that alone may be the answer to this problem, but, you tell me.
I searched the forum, and could not find a topic where the problem that happened was discussed. Could be simply because it was discussed years ago, and scrolled away.
After years of fiddling with Bryce, I finally decided it might be nice to import a person into a scene. Well, as some of you know, the only "person" that came with DAZ 3D v2.3 was Victoria v4. Also, she only has her volleyball outfit, and a casual outfit.
I decided to use Bryce to make a picture gallery. I don't mean like an online gallery, but a hall with pictures on the wall. While figuring out what pictures to use, I settled on my photos from my 2010 trip to Yellowstone. I spent 3 days there STRICTLY to take pictures. Took hundreds of them, and dozens are worthy of showing off. So, I decided my hall must be huge, so the picture clarity remains somewhat intact. My final intent is a video where the camera travels down one side of the hall exploring each picture along the way, then back up the other side. So I'm not really worried about the haze issue. Of course, I could take it out, too.
Rather than put up four walls and a roof, I made the building out of a single hollowed out box with a long hollowed out cylinder for the top and ceiling. By big and long, I mean 3450 Bryce units ... so long that, in default settings, one end of the hall when viewed from the other is almost too hazy to see. It's also 164 Bryce units wide. Then I added arches each consisting of two cylinders and a 1/2 torus. I placed these 150 Bryce units apart ... 23 in all. Of course I needed light, so I put up one for every other archway.
That was good, so I started putting up the artwork. After I had one piece on the short wall at each end of the hall, I decided a human in the picture would add a good sense of the scale I intended. (Remember; I'm not trying to just build it big, but big enough that the photographs don't suffer too much degradation from being shrunk down.) I brought up DAZ 3D and had no problem at all putting Victoria into a pensive pose in her casual outfit. I exported her from DAZ 3D, and then imported her into the Bryce scene. That all worked, so I rendered it, saved it, and went to bed.
It sat a few days, then, today I started working on it, to put up more pictures on the walls, starting with the place Victoria was staring at pensively. When I went to save, while it was saving objects, it failed with a "Generic error". After multiple attempts, I finally removed Victoria, and was able to save again. I guess I'll finish the scene, then throw Victoria back in as the last step.
Is that typical, or a one time error?
@CTippetts - interesting project. Since you're at Bryce 5.5, keep Studio 2.3 installed. I have Studio 2.3 for Bryce 5.5, Studio 3 for Bryce 6.0, 6.1 and 6.3; and Studio 4.6 for Bryce 7.0 and 7.1. As long as you don't install stuff where it wants to be but where you want it to be, the different versions won't bite each other.
That error you report - hard to know what's the reason.
Keep in mind that Bryce is a 32-bit application and as such limited to 2 GB - and it keeps everything in memory. At least 5.5 doesn't compress when saving, claiming yet more memory. If your computer sports at least 4 GB of RAM, I suggest to make your Bryce large address aware. Bryce can then address up to 3.2 to 3.5 GB. Victoria is rather memory intensive and if you put your photographs as wallpapers on 2D faces, that will occupy a lot of memory soon. Watching the memory usage with the Windows Task Manager is some help to see how memory is filled up.
In any case, keep saving your work often and always with a new name (e.g. Myfile1, Myfile2, etc). What you do in Bryce is remembered up to 16 steps so you can undo. Unfortunately, this undo buffer cannot be emptied except by saving your work, quitting Bryce, restarting Bryce and loading your scene. There are some strategies to reduce what's in the undo buffer like saving your scene, add a cube, then Revert to saved; or as Rashad once suggested, add 16 cubes, then delete each one. Easiest and most reliable is quitting Bryce and start it anew.
Horo said:@CTippetts - interesting project. Since you're at Bryce 5.5, keep Studio 2.3 installed. I have Studio 2.3 for Bryce 5.5, Studio 3 for Bryce 6.0, 6.1 and 6.3; and Studio 4.6 for Bryce 7.0 and 7.1. As long as you don't install stuff where it wants to be but where you want it to be, the different versions won't bite each other.
That error you report - hard to know what's the reason.
@Horo - Thank you for your quick response. Today I was going to install DAZ 3D 4.6. Thank you so much for warning me to stop. I'll be getting a new computer someday. Until then, I'm just going to push my memory/system limits until I do get something to blow over the edge. It's a 1Gig, Pentium 4.
However, thanks to your response, I realize that the project I described is very likely to do that. I didn't know Bryce keeps everything in memory. What I described means, in the end, having about 50 high resolution images, and at 20 to 75 Meg each, I guess I'm going to need closer to 2.5 Gig just to fit the images, let alone the hallway and Victoria. So, I'm going to quit wasting my time on it ... that is; as I envisioned it. I'm going to scale it down, and use images that I don't care if they are degraded by shrinking, such as photos that have been turned into paintings. I'll save the Yellowstone project for the future.
As it was, with 12 radial lights, I had to turn of shadows and such, (that I'm going to have to turn back on for the final video), just to get it to render in less than 10 minutes while I build it. I knew for the final video I would be facing over a 2 week render time, during which I would have to avoid my computer. Probably would have been stir crazy by the time it finished. I have a hard enough time letting a 1 hour render finish. The longest I ever did was a video of mountains eroding to become a logo. It took 5 days to render. I had another computer to use just for Internet and games while that one went, and I don't have that luxury today. So I was also considering removing the radial lights, and adding some framework to turn the domed roof into a glass.
I also appreciate your warning about letting DAZ products install in the locations they want to use, rather than force it to go where I want it to. However, I've learned that's true with many art programs. Learned that way back in the days of Corel Draw with all of its libraries.
As for the "Generic Error", well, that's the only error I've ever seen out of Bryce. To me, having been a programmer, that does not speak of a poorly written program, but just the opposite. They covered all their bases for the program itself, so I never see errors they have a descriptive name or reference number for, and they did not get arrogant with system problems they could not control, by having the error message say, "This is your fault, not ours."
It's also good to know that Victoria, herself, was not the cause of the error. Thank you for that.
Love your galleries. Love your references and links. Thank you for helping to keep us all together.
@CTippetts - you're more than welcome - and thanks for your kind words. Yes, 1 GB memory is a bit tight for the opsys, Victoria and photographs.
Last night I decided to try to render this thing as it was at the failure point. I never got to putting the marble all over the walls, pillars, and floor. That's a fast rendering wood texture on the pillars I only put in to distinguish them from the Bryce grey walls. Since I was going to let it render overnight, I decided to turn on AAA superfine with soft shadows. At 2 PM this afternoon it still had hours to go, so I stopped it here.
You can at least see what a 3450 Bryce Unit hallway would look like. That's Victoria about halfway down on the right. The picture on the end wall is of the Petrified Tree at Yellowstone, but you can't tell from this far away with all the haze.
Rendering this also revealed I didn't have my pillars all the way on the ground ... did not realize that until this render. I had only viewed it from the center of the hallway near Victoria. Or, it could be that all of the pillars are the same "Y" up, but, due to how long this is, only the ones closer to X=0, Z=0 are touching the ground, while these at the end of the hall are off the ground due to the curvature of the earth. [insert goofy grin here]
That's 12 radials bouncing light all over the massive amounts of polygons involved. Don't try this at home, kids.
Oh, hey! Since that's a petrified tree image at the end, could this qualify for the Tree Challenge? [insert insane grin here]
Anyway, now it's time to scale it down to a reasonable size ... later. Thanks again, Horo!
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Welcome CTippetts. :)
A few things:
Firstly, never EVER use Superfine rendering settings. They are the least friendly in terms of render time.
Bryce uses 2 different render engines, one for Regular and Super and a completely different one for Premium. If you are using soft shadow effects, you will find that the Premium render setting will do it much quicker. Horo may be able to explain the ins and outs of that.
Secondly, I'm not sure why you're getting hung up on the size in Bryce Units of your model.
The size you render the finished picture at is what really matters in terms of quality. Without tiling your finished render, it isn't going to be any bigger than 4000px anyway and as you're thinking of making an animation, you aren't really going to be tiling the finished render. It would help your model building and your render times and Bryce memory issues if you could estimate roughly how many pixels in the finished render your photos will be and then reduce the size of the originals to that size (keeping your unedited originals of course), then import the re-sized pictures into Bryce. This will reduce the size of the files that Bryce has to process and make your job a lot easier and still get the best looking results. Lots of people make this mistake when using people and insisting on using the 2400 resolution skin maps for a figure that's only going to be 200px big in the finished render.
Thirdly: You can edit the haze in the sky lab. If you go to the Sky & Fog tab and then click on the little cloud icon then choose the Atmosphere tab you will see settings for Haze. By altering the density and thickness setting you can have thick haze a long way away or thin haze right up close or any combination inbetween.
Hope this helps. :)
@CTippetts - impressive hall. TheSavage64 gave you excellent advice. With soft shadows, do go premium. Plop render a part of the shadow transition with a low rpp setting, start at 9 or 16 and look at the noise you get. Then increase rpp by a step if not satisfied until you're happy. Usually, 36 or 64 rpp is enough. Each higher step doubles the render time.
You can render soft shadows in regular but it usually takes longer than going premium and set the rpp. Superfine is really only for those that want punish themselves. If you go animation and have the camera moving, you can get away with a lower rpp setting.
Again, don't waste time by rendering out a scene before you think you've got everything right. Use Plop render and just render the critical parts. For an overall impression, switch off all premium effects like soft shadows or set rpp to 4 or 9. You'll detect flaws like hoovering columns also in low quality.
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I know I shouldn't pick on typos, given my record for making them, but I have to admit I would mind some of these
I would like some of them columns to give a hand with the housework. :coolsmile:You'll detect flaws like hoovering columns also in low quality.
Hehe, ok then, columns that do not touch the ground firmly.
You guy's!!!! Thanks for the belly laughs.
@TheSavage64 - Yes ... I think that's the point of all of this, including the reason to send my render here. I went WAY too big. It's one thing to go big for a static image, but, what a mistake for doing a video.
I knew about the haze and such. I think I even mentioned it. I kept it there for this particular render, because it does help show the scale of this, when you consider these are all Bryce default settings.
When I look at my folder with my Bryce models and such, I don't just peruse the file names, because, over time, even if I was quite descriptive in my file names, I forget what the heck the thing was about. So instead I look over the thumbnails for the the rendered images, (for which I keep the same names as the BR5 file). I wanted to make sure, days down the road, I recognized this one as a failure. I only went for the Premium because I knew I was going to let it go overnight.
Yes, I had already edited my radials for soft shadows. The first time I rendered this, (in regular render mode), those ribs I wrapped around the spheres that surround each radial light, (with no soft shadows), were casting a very distracting criss-cross pattern all over the walls and floor. (I think the spheres were about 80% transparent, with100% specularity, ambiance of about 45, and refraction about 160, to make sure most of the light got out of the sphere, yet the sphere would glow.) Then in a subsequent render, but before this one, I forgot that I turned off "cast shadows" completely. So, the only shadows the AAA had available to soften in this render, were from ambient reflected light. Just plain stupidity, I guess. Real waste of time and processing. [insert image of head hanging in shame here] At least I have my failure reminder.
Tucking your advice for resizing the originals in my pocket right now.
@chohole - Do you cringe every time I type "Byrce" instead of "Bryce"? No matter how much I proof read what I write before posting, EVERY TIME I read what I finally posted, I find errors. The Anasazi Indians had sand artists, that would draw elaborate sand drawings on the floor of the Kiva before certain ceremonies. They always made them as perfect as possible, except for adding one deliberate flaw, so the Gods would not think them vain.
@Horo - Yes, the Plop render is probably why I didn't notice my columns sucked, (or Bisselled, Kerbied, Dysunned ... whatever). I forgot to include their base as one of those critical points you described.
ALL YOU GUY'S - It's great to get so much advice from artists I truly admire and respect. TheSavage64, you need to get your gallery built and linked to here. I've seen your stuff, and it's wonderful work. Horo and Chohole, I spend hours in your galleries. I have never made it through it all, and that alone is marvelous of you. The work you three produce is inspiring to me to no end. That, perhaps, is another reason why I never made it through your galleries. I see something, get inspired, and run off to my reality canceling world of Bryce. By the way, Horo, that Dorsum is jaw dropping. A real piece of history, and I really admire how you know how to use it, and documented it so well.
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My gallery is set up already... I don't update it much but there's still quite a lot in it. :cheese:
TheSavage64 said:My gallery is set up already... I don't update it much but there's still quite a lot in it. :cheese:
Why, yes you do. Thank you VERY much.
Um, I don't know if it's my system or what, but I do have a problem viewing the default DAZ user galleries. It works, but I have about a two minute wait between clicks, during which time the screen is greyed out and the little arch thingy spins around. I guess that's why I spend More time at external galleries. YOURS, however, I will take that time. I do with Rashad as well.


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Qt 3.3.5 Released and "A Qt Blog"
Trolltech has released Qt 3.3.5, a new maintenance release to the Qt 3.3 series which incorporates over 200 bug fixes as well as support for new platforms. In related news, a new website "A Qt Blog" has been started whose goal is to summarize happenings in the Qt and KDE worlds.
Thanks Trolltech
Nice to have steady updates of Qt3! Looking forward to meeting it in debian :-)
By ac at Mon, 2005/09/12 - 5:00am
Symbol visibility support
Does anybody know if this version includes the patch for gcc symbol visibility?
By ac at Mon, 2005/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Symbol visibility support
It doesn't, but the old patch works just fine on 3.3.5. If you're compiling with gcc 4.x though, bear in mind that Qt now "officially supports" this compiler, which breaks the binary buildkey versus 3.3.4 (previously it would have been called "g++-g++ 4.0.1 <-V spiel>", now it's called "g++-4".
As a result I had to rebuild kdelibs (3.5-alpha1) to get things to play nice.
By Alistair John S... at Tue, 2005/09/13 - 5:00am
error: cannot stat libqt-mt.la
I downloaded and compiled qt-3.3.5 but it is showing error with "gmake install", the error is "Cannot stat /tmp/qt/lib/libqt-mt.la", the kdebase 3.5svn package needs libqt-mt.la to compile, i compiled qt with -shared, so what's wrong? do i need to compile qt with "-static"? thanks.
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Re: error: cannot stat libqt-mt.la
I don't think '-shared' is needed. I think '-thread' is needed for multi-threading (mt)
By Johan Veenstra at Tue, 2005/09/13 - 5:00am
is this ok for libqt-mt.la?
configure -system-zlib -qt-gif -system-libjpeg -system-libpng -plugin-imgfmt-mng -thread -no-exceptions -release -dlopen-opengl -plugin-sql-mysql -plugin-sql-sqlite -I/usr/include/mysql --prefix=/usr/lib/qt -shared -static
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PS font names
It says:
They fixed the bug (I hope).
IAC, don't try my patch for 3.3.3 on it.
I haven't tested it yet, but I hope that it works.
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In the very last scene of last night's eighth season finale of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, viewers finally got to meet the titular "Mother" as she purchases her train ticket to Farhampton, where she will eventually meet Ted. Broadway star Cristin Milioti ("Once") plays "The Mother."
Shot on March 27 at the Twentieth Century Fox lot in Los Angeles, Milioti's casting and filming of her scene was kept in strict secrecy in order to preserve the surprise for the audience.
"It was a pretty big umbrella to fill, casting the title role in a series that's been on the air for eight years," says Carter Bays, Executive Producer and Co-Creator of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER. "And yet Cristin Milioti is, against all odds, exactly what we were looking for. She made us laugh on "30 Rock," she made us swoon in "Once," and her ukulele skills are no joke. We're thrilled to welcome her to the HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER family, and look forward to getting to know her – and the character she plays – much better in the coming final season. And to all the fans, on behalf of all of us writers, cast and crew: Thank you for sticking with us on this wild journey. Our ninth season will tell the epic story of the longest wedding weekend ever. We hope you like it. Next stop, Farhampton…"
Cristin Milioti just concluded her star turn as "Girl" in the Broadway smash hit musical "Once," for which she received a Grammy Award as well as a Tony Award nomination for Lead Actress. Milioti will soon be seen playing opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the upcoming Martin Scorsese feature film, "The Wolf of Wall Street," due out later this year. Her previous television credits include "30 Rock," "The Sopranos," "The Good Wife" and "Nurse Jackie."
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER returns this fall to CBS for its ninth and final season. HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER is produced by Twentieth Century Fox Television. Carter Bays, Craig Thomas, Pamela Fryman, Chris Harris, Stephen Lloyd, Chuck Tatham and Kourtney Kang are Executive Producers.


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February 25, 2014
Edgewood, NY – CPI Aerostructures, Inc. ("CPI Aero®") (NYSE American: CVU) today announced that it will issue its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2013 on Thursday, March 6, 2014 prior to the opening of the stock market.
CPI Aero's senior management team will host a conference call at 10:00 am ET that day to discuss these results as well as recent corporate developments. After opening remarks, there will be a question and answer period. Interested parties may participate in the call by dialing (201) 493-6739. Please call in 10 minutes before the conference call is scheduled to begin and ask for the CPI Aero call. Questions may be asked during the live call, or alternatively, you may e-mail questions in advance to firstname.lastname@example.com.
The conference call will also be broadcast live over the Internet. To listen to the live call, please go to www.cpiaero.com, click on the Investor Relations section, then to the Event Calendar where the conference call is posted. Please go to the website 15 minutes early to download and install any necessary audio software. If you are unable to listen live, the conference call will be archived and can be accessed for approximately 90 days. We suggest listeners use Microsoft Explorer as their browser.
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CPI Aero is a U.S. manufacturer of structural assemblies for fixed wing aircraft, helicopters and airborne Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance pod systems in both the commercial aerospace and national security markets. Within the global aerostructure supply chain, CPI Aero is either a Tier 1 supplier to aircraft OEMs or a Tier 2 subcontractor to major Tier 1 manufacturers. CPI also is a prime contractor to the U.S. Department of Defense, primarily the Air Force. In conjunction with its assembly operations, CPI Aero provides engineering, program management, supply chain management, and MRO services. Among the key national security programs that CPI Aero supplies are the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye surveillance aircraft, the UH-60 BLACK HAWK® helicopter, the MH-53/CH-53 variant helicopters, the F-16 fighter aircraft, the MH-60S mine countermeasure helicopter, the AH-1Z ZULU attack helicopter, the DB-110 reconnaissance pod and the ALMDS mine detecting pod. In the commercial aviation market CPI Aero manufactures products for the Gulfstream G650 ultra-large cabin business jet, the HondaJet advanced light jet, the Embraer Phenom 300 business jet, the new Cessna Citation X+, and the S-92® helicopter. CPI Aero is included in the Russell Microcap® Index.
The above statements include forward looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, which are described from time to time in CPI Aero's SEC reports, including CPI Aero's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012 and Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2013, June 30, 2013 and September 30, 2013.
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Wave I
Wave I encompasses all data collection between 1994 and 1995. On this page are descriptions of the In-School Samples, In-School Questionnaire, In-Home Samples, In-Home Interview, School Administrator Questionnaires, and Parent Questionnaire.
In-School Sampling Frame
The clustered sampling design of Add Health is school-based for two reasons:
- This is the best way to screen for respondents of interest.
- With the school as a center, it is relatively easy to access the majority of respondents' peers, whose influences are fundamental to the study's hypotheses.
The primary sampling frame for Add Health is a database collected by Quality Education Data, Inc. Systematic sampling methods and implicit stratification ensure that the 80 high schools selected are representative of US schools with respect to region of country, urbanicity, size, type, and ethnicity. Eligible high schools included an 11th grade and enrolled more than 30 students. More than 70 percent of the originally sampled high schools participated. Each school that declined to participate was replaced by a school within the stratum.
Participating high schools helped to identify feeder schools—that is, schools that included a 7th grade and sent at least five graduates to that high school. From among the feeder schools, one was selected with probability proportional to the number of students it contributed to the high school. If the feeder school declined to participate, a replacement was selected. The recruitment effort resulted in a pair of schools in each of 80 communities (Some high schools spanned grades 7 through 12; for those, a separate feeder school was not recruited.) There are 132 schools in the core study.
In-School Questionnaire
The In-School Questionnaire, a self-administered instrument formatted for optical scanning, was administered to more than 90,000 students in grades 7 through 12 in a 45- to 60-minute class period between September 1994 and April 1995. There was no "make-up" day for absent students. Parents were informed in advance of the date of the questionnaire and could direct that their children not participate.
The questionnaire included topics such as these:
- social and demographic characteristics of respondents (of interest both as data and as selection criteria for in-home special samples)
- education and occupation of parents
- household structure
- risk behaviors
- expectations for the future
- self-esteem
- health status
- friendships
- school-year extracurricular activities
Each participating school provided a student roster. Project staff assigned an identification number to each name and provided copies of the rosters to students for identifying their friends as they filled out the questionnaire. Rosters were collected at the end of the class period and destroyed.
In-Home Samples: Wave I
Main (core) sample
All students who completed the In-School Questionnaire plus those who did not complete a questionnaire but were listed on a school roster were eligible for selection into the core in-home sample. This is a nationally representative sample of adolescents in grades 7 through 12 in the US in the 1994–95 school year. Students in each school were stratified by grade and sex. About 17 students were randomly chosen from each stratum so that a total of approximately 200 adolescents were selected from each of the 80 pairs of schools. A total core sample of 12,105 adolescents was interviewed.
Special oversamples
Ethnic: Based on self-reported data from the In-School Questionnaire, four supplementary ethnic-group samples were drawn. Following are the numbers of completed cases in these samples:
- 1,038 blacks from well-educated families (with a parent with a college degree)
- 334 Chinese
- 450 Cuban
- 437 Puerto Rican
In addition, the main sample contains more than 1,500 Mexican-Americans and significant numbers of Nicaraguans, Japanese, South Koreans, Filipinos, and Vietnamese.
Saturation: To enable analysis of social networks, all enrolled students in 16 schools were selected for in-home interviews. These were two large schools (with a total combined enrollment exceeding 3,100) and 14 small schools (with enrollments of fewer than 300). One of the large schools is predominantly white and is located in a mid-sized town. The other is ethnically heterogeneous and is located in a major metropolitan area. The 14 small schools, some public and some private, are located in both rural and urban areas.
Disabled: A sample of 589 students self-reported on the In-School Questionnaire that they had physical disabilities involving the use of their limbs.
Adolescents were considered to be limb disabled if they indicated on the In-School Questionnaire (1) that they had difficulty using their hands, arms, legs, or feet because of a physical condition and (2) that they had used a mechanical device (e.g., wheelchair, cane, brace, or artificial limb) for the past 12 months or more. However, when the sampled adolescents were interviewed at home, many of them did not have limb disabilities. Therefore, it is questionable that those initially identified were actually disabled.
Genetic: The genetic sample consists of pairs of siblings living in the same households. Identical twins, fraternal twins, and half siblings were sampled with certainty. In addition, non-related pairs, such as step-siblings, foster children, and adopted (non-related) siblings, were part of the genetic sample. The majority of full-sibling pairs entered into the sample by chance (disproportionately drawn from the 16 saturation-school samples). The genetic sample will make possible analyses that differentiate between parental social influence and parental genetic influence, and analyses that assess the extent to which environmental influences on behavior are shared among siblings.
In-Home Interview: Wave I
In-home interviews were conducted between April and December 1995. All respondents received the same interview, which was one to two hours long depending on the respondent's age and experiences. The majority of interviews were conducted in respondents' homes. To protect confidentiality, no paper questionnaires were used. Instead, all data were recorded on laptop computers. For less sensitive topics, the interviewer read the questions aloud and entered the respondent's answers. For more sensitive topics, the respondent listened through earphones to pre-recorded questions and entered the answers directly. In addition to maintaining data security, this minimized the potential for interviewer or parental influence.
The following topics were covered by the In-Home Interview:
- health status
- health-facility utilization
- nutrition
- peer networks
- decision-making processes
- family composition and dynamics
- educational aspirations and expectations
- employment experience
- the ordering of events in the formation of romantic partnerships
- sexual partnerships
- substance use
- criminal activities
Care was taken to screen respondents on age and experience so that only appropriate questions were asked. Additional questions concerning the co-occurrence of risk behaviors were asked of respondents who indicated multiple behaviors, for example, fighting while using drugs or drinking while carrying a weapon.
Vocabulary Data
At the beginning of the interview, respondents were given the Add Health Picture Vocabulary Test (AHPVT), a computerized, abridged version of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test—Revised. In this test, the interviewer reads a word aloud and the respondent selects the illustration that best fits its meaning. Each word has four simple, black-and-white illustrations arranged in a multiple-choice format. For example, the word "furry" has illustrations of a parrot, dolphin, frog, and cat from which to choose. There are 87 items on the AHPVT, and raw scores have been standardized by age.
Spatial Data
Interviewers used hand-held Global Positioning System (GPS) devices to collect latitude and longitude readings for each household lacking a geocodable street address (approximately 25 percent of Wave I households). This enabled complete geocoding for almost all (98 percent of) Wave I addresses. The location information was transformed into a geographic distribution of adolescent respondents around a central point in the community. Additionally, the geocodes provide necessary links to the contextual information.
School Administrator Questionnaires
Administrators from participating schools completed self-administered questionnaires dealing with school policies and procedures, teacher characteristics, health-service provision or referral, and student body characteristics.
Parent Questionnaire
A parent, preferably the resident mother, of each adolescent respondent interviewed in Wave I was asked to complete an interviewer-assisted, op-scanned questionnaire covering topics such as these:
- inheritable health conditions
- marriages and marriage-like relationships
- neighborhood characteristics
- involvement in volunteer, civic, and school activities
- health-affecting behaviors
- education and employment
- household income and economic assistance
- parent-adolescent communication and interaction
- parent's familiarity with the adolescent's friends and friends' parents


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Procion MX fiber reactive dyes are especially made for low temperature immersion techniques and will dye all cellulose fibers (including cotton, linen, rayon, ramie, hemp, jute, wood, paper, and basketry materials) to full rich shades of color. Silk will dye to medium shades.
30 g (approx 1 oz) of dye will colour 500 g (approx. 1 lb) of dry fiber a medium shade with the addition of salt and soda ash. Colors range from delicate pastels to vibrant and rich shades. Procion MX powdered dyes are easily mixed to achieve any colour desired.
Techniques: low temperature immersion, wax resist/batik, discharge dying,direct application or batch dyeing, tie-dye, yarn dyeing, garment dyeing, microwave dyeing.
To dye with Procion MX you will also need: Soda Ash as a fixitive. Regular table salt is used as a leveler. If you are batch dying you will also need Urea.
Sodium Alginate is an excellent thickener for Procion MX dyes. Synthrapol soap is a must have for these dyes as it prevents back staining (colour bleed) during final washing. Synthrapol is also a very good scouring agent.
Colour swatches are approximations. Always test a sample of fabric. See our Procion MX Info Sheet for full instructions.