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Farmingdale State - 1, Maritime - 0
Throggs Neck, N.Y. - Freshman midfielder Victor Romero (Bay Shore, N.Y.) scored the game-winning goal for Farmingdale State with 6:41 remaining in a 1-0 victory over Maritime last night in Throggs Neck, N.Y.
In a defensive first half, the Rams (7-8-1, 5-3) held a 5-3 shot advantage over the Privateers (7-10-1, 3-5).
The game remained scoreless until Romero stole the ball from the defenders and recorded the unassisted goal, his fourth score of the season. After Farmingdale State took a 1-0 lead, they held Maritime without a shot to capture the Skyline Conference win.
Junior goalkeeper Angelo Viteritti (East Northport, N.Y.) had four saves for the Rams, while freshman Karl Weber (Northport, N.Y.) tallied six saves in the loss.
Farmingdale State next will travel to Sage on Saturday, October 20th for a conference match at 11:30 a.m. The game will be played at Albany College of Pharmacy Field.


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Windows Phone Boss Terry Myerson on Microsoft's Challenges, Android's Messiness (Video)
Windows Phone head Terry Myerson is happy to talk about the limitations of his rivals.
From Microsoft's way of thinking, the iPhone is too closed, and Android is too open.
Or, as Myerson puts it, Android "is still kind of a mess." So why then is Windows Phone still struggling to expand beyond the single digits in market share?
Myerson did his best to address that, and more, while in the hot seat at D: Dive Into Mobile. He also foreshadowed more aggressive ads that take direct aim at rivals, as well as the need for Microsoft to better compete on price.
As for whether Microsoft needs its own phone, Myerson didn't explicitly rule it out, but suggested that — for now, at least — Redmond is happy with the work being done by Nokia, HTC and others.
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Yermolayevsky lane, which leads from Spiridonovka street to Trekhprudny lane, takes its name from the former Church of St Yermolai. The church was knocked down in the Stalinist destruction of the 1930s, and House №21 now stands where the church once stood. The lane contains examples of architecture from many periods. Probably the most unusual building here is Schechtel's house – the home which the famous architect built for himself. We find the house nearer the Trekhprudny end.
We would like to offer you a very interesting tour in the centre of Moscow – around Patriarshiye Prudy or Patriarch's Ponds. For the last 200 years, there has been only one pond known to the public, although, the name of Tryokhprudny Pereulok (lit. Three-Pond Lane) suggests there used to be more. It is known that in 1683-1684 Patriarch Joachim ordered to dig three ponds for drainage of wetlands and fish farming to the patriarchal table. So, such ponds were fishponds.
The area is named after the seventeenth century Patriarch's Goat Sloboda located on the Goat Marsh. This marsh once was connected by a brook to the Presnya River in the west; by 1739, when the first topographic map was compiled, the brook disappeared and the marsh separated from the Presnya. People considered the swamp as an anomalous zone; apparently this caused a proverb ("Thomas has hastened, but made people laugh - he sticked in Patriarshy").
The pond acquired its present shape and was cleaned up in 1830-31 in the frames of the plan to rebuild Moscow after the Fire of 1812.
At the beginning of the XX century the area around the Ponds was actively built up. Among the buildings appeared at this time, you can see the mansion of Tarasov. In 1924, the Soviet government in the fight against religion renamed the Patriarch's Ponds in Pioneer Ponds. In 1945 in Ermolaevsky Lane a house for senior military commanders of the USSR was built.
Near the Ponds you will find a monument to Ivan Krylov. The fabulist sits surrounded by animated characters of his works: a monkey in front of a mirror, barking pug after the elephant, crow with cheese.
This district is, directly or indirectly, connected with Russian poets: Karamzin, Zhukovsky, Pushkin, Gogol, Baratynsky, Krylov. Not far from the Ponds lived Vladimir Mayakovsky. In Tree-Pond Lane Marina Tsvetaeva was born.
The novel by Mikhail Bulgakov "Master and Margarita" begins at Patriarch's Ponds. During the tour you will see the Museum-Theatre "Bulgakov's House". The district has a number of museums: Yermolova Museum, State Museum of Oriental Art, Anton Chekhov's Museum, Svyatoslav Richter Memorial Apartment, Alexey Tolstoy Memorial Apartment, Maxim Gorky Memorial House, etc.


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Indian Institute of Forest Management- IIFM invites applications for Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) 2014-2018.
IIFM Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) for people who need specialized knowledge, skills, and attitudes for positions requiring conceptual and visioning skills. The Fellow Programme is an important step in that direction. The FPM is approved by AICTE.
The FPM is a doctoral program designed to develop and equip students for career opportunity in management education and research in the following faculty areas of specialisation:
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Former pastor's homicide trial continues in NE Pa.
Arthur Schirmer bowed his head, put his hands over his ears and squeezed his eyes shut Tuesday as a forensic pathologist described how he says the former pastor bludgeoned and killed both of his wives.
Dr. Wayne Ross, who performed an autopsy on Jewel Schirmer in 1999 and then investigated the death of Betty Schirmer nine years later, said the evidence clearly shows that both women were savagely beaten with a crowbar or some other heavy cylindrical object. He said Schirmer staged both crime scenes to make it appear as if they'd died in accidents.
Schirmer, 64, a longtime Methodist pastor, asserts that Jewel Schirmer - his wife of more than 30 years - fell down the basement stairs while vacuuming, and that Betty Schirmer was fatally injured in a 2008 car crash in the Poconos.
Neither explanation holds water, Ross said, telling jurors that each woman suffered strikingly similar head and brain injuries consistent with a beating.
The ex-clergyman seemingly tried to shut out Ross's detailed testimony about his wives' injuries, and largely avoided looking at the photos of both women that Ross used to illustrate his points. He occasionally shook his head.
Prosecutors asked Ross to testify about Jewel Schirmer to illustrate the parallels in how they contend both of Schirmer's wives were killed. Schirmer is charged separately in Jewel Schirmer's death and awaits trial.
Schirmer has pleaded innocent, and his attorney has said prosecutors are relying on "bad science" and church gossip about Schirmer's extramarital affairs to try to win a conviction.
Ross addressed the long delay in bringing charges against Schirmer in Jewel's death nearly 14 years ago.
He said early indications that she might have suffered a heart attack - then fell down the stairs - proved to be wrong, and he pressed police and prosecutors in Lebanon County to open a homicide investigation. But he said his pleas were ignored.
"My anxiety level and angst level is going higher and higher," he said of his feelings at the time. "I'm becoming more and more concerned. I'm trying to motivate them to pursue the case as a homicide."
Ultimately, he classified the manner of Jewel's death as "undetermined."
The failure to pursue an investigation never sat well with Jewel Schirmer's brother, Jonathan Behney.
Testifying after Ross, Behney said he took one look at his sister's battered face, arms and hands and concluded she had been in a fight.
"Somebody gave her a beating," he said he told their father.
Behney said he later found evidence that someone had scrubbed the basement floor and wall of the Schirmer home and, when he confronted Schirmer about it, the pastor told him that paramedics who'd attended to Jewel had cleaned up the blood.
"We don't stay behind to clean up blood," testified Behney, who worked for a time in emergency medical services. "It was a lie."
But a police probe into Jewel Schirmer's death was short-lived. The case remained closed until 2008, when authorities in Monroe County began investigating Betty Schirmer's death as a homicide. Lebanon County authorities followed suit, and charged Schirmer in Jewel's death last fall.
Another prosecution witness, Anne Marie Thorsen-Moe, hinted at a possible motive when she testified Monday that Schirmer told her that Betty had discovered he was having an affair with his secretary, and gave him an ultimatum: End the relationship or they would get divorced, the Pocono Record reported.
"He said he didn't want a divorce because he didn't want to lose half of everything," Thorsen-Moe said.
On Tuesday, prosecutor Michael Mancuso presented additional evidence that Schirmer cheated on his wives.
Retired educator Dawn Baer testified that she had a long-term affair with Schirmer, and had sex with him in a hotel room in August 2008, just a few weeks after his wife died.
"I'm sorry to say, I'm ashamed, that we did have intimate relations," Baer said.
There was no cross-examination.


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Interesting profile image, Icepick.2 Replies
I wasn't kidding when I said the plastic I used were Legos. I've got organized compartments full of vehicle parts, and would swap it out for a new look. my goal was to make them practical enough to look like a car AND put in a minifig.
no more paper, pen and clay to form a mockup of a concept car that won't have any wheels turning on the pavement.
that image is a special CAD drawing of an actual car I've made. I could draw this by hand, put in my signature, and probably sell it at an art auction for a lot of money (or not so much money). alas, I do have a day job.
specific features of this particular car, which is only a two-seater (with no doors) do include:
- two panel grille
- optional blue headlamps
- red rear lights
- L-R signal lights at the front and back.
- license plate only on the rear trunk
- round side mirrors
- blue tinted windows (or optionally dark blue)
- topless option
- exposed engine compartment option
- large diameter tailpipe
as I built this, as with the other cars i've made in the past, my goal was to have a structurally sturdy design (because I hate having those bricks make it fall apart, or it can't take weight - or worse, break a brick). I occassionally try to find more creative ways to assemble the pieces.
I've also somewhat built an F1 with an electric motor worked into it so that it cranks the wheels. it also happens to have front wheels that turn (although there's no steering wheel attached, so it's just for demonstrative purposes).
I'll try to remember to post some pic's of my contraptions, right now I'm busy getting ready for Spring Break.
I'll have to scan an old photo or two.
So this is literally the most epic picture I have ever taken.5 Replies
wow, in this state if the cop was in a bad mood, they all would get invites to talk to the local district justice or just a ticket, i am sure you all knows how that feels
wow, friday finally, got 3 " of fresh snow, SURPRISE ! this is the most we've had all year, in years past we got at least 70"s in a season, & by monday it will be 61 degrees, wow no globial warming....... have a great weekend
Good morning everyone. Mmmmm, coffee.
So far, this Friday is going pretty well. It's my daughters first birthday today. I didn't know I could live this long while getting woke up almost every night for an entire year. I think I've slept though the night 5x in the last year, and its still worth it, by a long shot!


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Foreclosure Deal May Mean More Foreclosures This Year
That big, $25 billion mortgage settlement that we've been hearing about forever is finally done. The deal involves five big banks and grew out of the robo-signing scandal, where bank employees signed off on thousands of foreclosure documents without reading them.
The biggest chunk of the settlement will go toward reducing what underwater borrowers owe on their mortgages. (To be underwater on your mortgage is to owe more than your home is worth).
The settlement will help an estimated 1 million homeowners. But 11 million homeowners are underwater. And while many of those people will continue to pay their mortgage, others are likely to go into foreclosure.
In fact, the foreclosure process slowed significantly last year, as negotiations over the settlement dragged on and banks waited for the details to become clear. Now that there's a settlement in place, the rate of foreclosures is likely to pick up.
Last year, banks repossessed just over 800,000 homes, according to RealtyTrac, a company that tracks this sort of thing. This year, that number is likely to be over 1 million, Daren Blomquist, a VP at RealtyTrac, told me this morning.
Another million homes are likely to be repossessed 2013, he said. In a normal year, by comparison, the figure would be below 500,000.
Repossessions are not only painful for the people who go through them; they tend to have a broader impact on the housing market, because foreclosed homes tend to sell at a discount.
In other words, it could still be years before the housing market gets back to something resembling normal.
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The path of fantasy becoming reality.
First I want to explain something about being someone who tried to destroy existence...
It requires love and passion for the absence of love and passion. Once it dawns on you, as it does everyone who attempts this... you realize that you want to sustain love and passion, that this was the value the whole time. Fanstasy becoming reality solves as life affirming, without harm or torment.
I believe this to be the universal evolution of being(s)
We all find this one. It has to be done with respect and dignity.
We need to evolve, and by evolve, I don't mean "work for a rape crisis center". I mean, change reality so rape doesn't occur again within our scope.
Do you honestly think a species millions of years our senior would have marriage and church?? Not a chance... they have mass media about how to and what to manifest, respecting our individuality.
After about 20 drafts of utopia, and life experience to expose me to a massive collection of "ingredients", I have settled on one that brings me optimism and encouragement - one I'm proud to submit.
We own our being, individuality is innate, we also have the ability to copy and paste.
To actually solve "no harm" to evolve, we need to use the copy and paste function.
An easy way to explain this is to immediately copy and paste billions of iterations of this planet.
Are you worried about harm coming to you, harm in terms of rejection in its multitudinous forms?
Love is ultimately beauty shared, everyone eventually realizes this... love and passion manifesting as fantasy becoming reality is the only path people eventually find, in the same way that I realized in my love and passion to destroy existence... I didn't want to destroy love and passion.
So how do we share beauty in an absolute sense?
We give each person their own world, a copy of this one, and we each copy our bodies and shape our hearts to be attuned or oriented towards appreciating and manifesting their fantasy, without violating our individuality, in our own world, where everyone does the same for us. We keep the same personalities and memories, we just molded the heart uniquely billions of times to experience joy giving people what we want to experience from them.
We could literally live on earth forever, being treated to our distinct fantasy becoming reality with the caveat of no harm. I'm not going to make a copy of myself that you're going to torment physically or psychologically, none of us are.
The point is to use our being to evolve beyond harm.
You can ask questions about the system I just described.
It's there to turn trauma and abuse into fulfillment and joy.


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David Arnold 1950-2013
SCOTTSDALE, AZ — David Louis Arnold, (April 12, 1950- April 09, 2013) originally from Mallard, passed away at home in Scottsdale, AZ.
The son of Jay and Olga Arnold, Dave was the last of four sons. His brother, Jeff, died as an infant. He and his brothers George and Tom graduated from Pocahontas Catholic High School in the 1960s.
Music was an important part of the Arnold household, thanks to their mother Olga. Growing up on the farm, Dave learned the value of hard work at an early age.
Dave and Mary (Crotty) were married in 1971, at Resurrection Parish in Pocahontas. They have three children, Mark Arnold (Jennifer Lowry) of Scottsdale, AZ, Patricia Schaefer (Brian) of Vancouver, BC and Angela Kirstein (Jason), also of Scottsdale, AZ. In addition to Mary and the children, he leaves grandchildren Elizabeth and Abigail Arnold, Mia Kirstein (Molly due in June), Grant and Miles Schaefer; also his brother Tom (Jeanne May) of Florida, sister-in law Nancy Arnold (Scott) of Virginia, many nieces and nephews, sisters-in law, brothers-in-law, mother-in-law Marge Crotty, of Pocahontas and other extended family members.
In addition to his brother Jeff, Dave was preceded in death by his grandparents Shorty and Maudelle Arnold of Plover, his parents, Jay and Olga; brother George; maternal grandparents and extended family members.
Donations may be made in David Arnold's name to U.S. War Veterans Foundation (azptsd.org).


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This time I've got for you a really basic guide, which is useful for beginners and people interested in learning a little bit more deeply the power of Photoshop's Brush Tool. Every single Photoshop user has dealt with the brush tool at least once, but not everyone knows how to explode its full potential.
In this guide, you'll learn how to use the brush presets, create your own brush from scratch and modify its properties, play with blend modes and pressure controls, besides some useful tricks. How much do you know about Photoshop's Brushes?
Below is one of the brushes we'll be creating in this tutorial.
What is it?
The Brush tool is a basic painting tool. It works like a traditional drawing tool by applying the color using strokes. It's located in the standard Tool Bar and its default shortcut is the letter B.
The Brush Tool works by adding a shaped mark on a layer, and if you continue pressing the mouse button or the pen on a tablet, several marks will be added creating a stroke until you release the pressure. The essentials options for the brush tool are: Brush Tip Shape, Blending Mode, Opacity and Flow. You must understand those concepts before moving forward with the advanced settings.
Photoshop includes several built-in presets, that are in fact pre-made brushes ready to use.
Part 1 - Basics
Brush Tip
This is the most basic option for any Photoshop User, the Brush Tip settings allow you to modify the way to add colors on a Photoshop document using the Brush Tool. By clicking on the Brush Preset Picker in the default Options Panel you will see several built-in presets. On many of the presets you can easily adjust two very important values:
- Master Diameter increases or decreases the size of the brush tip. The default shortcuts to increase or decrease are the Left Bracket key and the Right Bracket key respectively. Photoshop CS4 enables a dynamic way of doing it by Ctrl + Option (Mac) + Click or Alt + Right Click (Win) and Drag.
- Hardness increases or decreases the brush tip's border strength, 0% means a really soft border (color fades out) and 100% a precise border. The shortcuts to increase or decrease hardness percentage are the Left Bracket key and the Right Bracket key respectively. In CS4 you can dynamically modify this value by Ctrl + Option + Shift (Mac) + Click or Alt + Shift + Right Click (Win) and Drag.
You can even combine Foreground and Background colors (we will see this feature forward). Most of the time the color that is applied by using the brush tip is the Foreground Color.
Preset Picker Contextual Menu
There are many useful tools at the Brush Preset Picker menu including Create a New Preset, Edit it, and Delete. Then there are some options to display the list of brushes in the Preset Picker panel, below there are several examples of this. Besides, you can easily Manage the Brush list by loading, saving and replacing brushes in the list, or Append one of the existing Brush collections. We will see more about preset creation shortly.
Brush Blending Modes
Each time you paint something using the Brush Tool you can chose a Blending Mode for the stroke. A Blending Mode is a way to mix the colors with the object(s) behind them using several mathematical formulas working over the RGB values of each pixel. Let's try some of them.
Modes: Normal, Dissolve, Behind and Clear
Let's review some of the basic Blending Modes.
- The first on the list is the Normal Mode, which paints the color as is without applying any transformation to the color pixels.
- The Dissolve Mode adds some noise at the edge of the brush stroke.
- Behind Mode paints behind an existing stroke even if they are both on the same layer.
- By using the Clear Mode you can delete a section of an existing stroke.
More Blending Modes
The Following Blending modes are just the same that can be applied to the Layers, below you can see some examples of blending modes, and some applications. They are fairly useful for adding color to objects (Darken, Multiply, Overlay) or add some lights (Lighten, Color Dodge). You have a lot to experiment with here, no matter how many years you have been using Photoshop, you never stop learning about Blending Modes.
The Opacity Value is a percentage of transparency, 100% means a full color stroke, a small percentage means a more transparent painting.
3. Flow
The Flow value is a percentage that sets the rate of color applied. Each time you press the mouse button the amount of color applied is controlled by the Flow percentage, besides it cannot exceed the Opacity percentage unless you click again in the same place.
Brushes Panel
The Brushes Panel is the right place to create, edit, save and load a particular brush behavior or Brush Preset. You can customize several things here like the brush tip shape, scattering, opacity jitter, flow jitter, Background/Foreground jitter, configure controls for each variation and more.
To show the Brushes Panel go to Window > Brushes, or press the F5 key. You need to select the Brush Tool on the Tools Panel to enable the Brush Preset options.
As you can see, as soon as you show the Brushes Panel you can click over the Brush Presets option on the left and then in the main area a list of all the active brushes. Try them before moving forward in this guide, paint some random strokes using different presets and see what happens. Next we'll create a Custom Brush, and apply several variations to it.
Creating a Brush Tip from an Image
One of the most powerful features of Photoshop is the ability to create custom brushes from scratch using any image as a source. This time we'll make a brush using this image of a nice leaf.
Step 1
Open your image in Photoshop, and double-click on the "Background" Layer in the layers palette to make it editable. Then Go to the Channels panel (go to Window > Channel) and duplicate any of them (you can duplicate a channel by dragging the layer over the Create New Channel button at the bottom). I'm choosing the Green this time, then hide the other channels for awhile.
Then, With the "Green copy" channel selected hit Command + I to invert the colors, Then adjust the levels a little bit to make the leaf whiter. Finally, hit Command (Ctrl) + A to select the entire image, hit command (Ctrl) + C to copy the "Green copy" channel to the clipboard and then delete it. Remember to turn on the visibility of the RGB channel before moving forward.
Step 2
Go back to the Layers Panel, select the only layer and go to Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal All. Switch to the Channels panel again and select the Layer Mask channel added at the bottom. There hit Command (Ctrl) + V to paste the clipboard, and that's it. Now go back to the Layers panel to see how it looks.
Step 3
Now add some adjustments to the leaf, go to Window > Adjustments to show the Adjustments panel. First add a Black and White > High Contrast Red Filter, and then a Levels adjustment using the values shown in the image below. Finally, select the three layers, and merge them by pressing Command (Ctrl) + E.
Then using the Transform Controls, resize and rotate the leaf as you wish, the only restriction is that the image cannot exceed the 2500 by 2500 pixels in size. Finally, Command (Ctrl) + Click on the merged Layer miniature to select the leaf contour, and go to Edit > Define Brush Preset, type some name and voilá a brand new brush tip ready to customize.
Step 4
Once you've created the tip shape, you will see it in the Brushes Panel. You can select the brand new brush and paint some spots to see how it actually looks.
Create a Brush Preset
Now we'll review all the possible variations of a brush preset, from the brush tip to color jitters and pressure controls. The first thing that you should do by creating a Brush preset is select a brush tip from the library or, as in this case, start working with a custom brush tip. The Lock icon next to a brush attribute retains the setting even when you change your tip or preset.
Brush Tip Shape
The first thing that you can customize is the brush tip.
- The Diameter value is a pixel measured size of the Brush Tip, cannot be bigger than the tip image.
- The Flip Axis checkboxes flip the tip on its respective axis, X or Y (Horizontally or Vertically) or even both.
- The Angle value rotates the brush by the desired degrees.
- Roundness defines the elliptical roundness of the brush tip where 100% is a perfect circle.
- The Spacing is the percentage of space between images when you draw a stroke on the canvas, using a mouse or a pen tablet. The larger the percentage, the bigger space between color spots.
- Finally, you can edit the Hardness value of the tip. Anyway custom Brushes created from an image cannot modify its Hardness value, but it will work with the default round tip for instance.
Shape Dynamics
Shape dynamics enables several options to handle randomness of Size, Angle, Roundness and Flip Axis values. The larger the percentage, the more random the result. Every Jitter can be controlled using a proper hardware device like a Graphic Tablet.
Many brush behaviors like Jittering and Scattering can be controlled by setting one of the options of the Control drop down. There are five Control options that you can use:
- Off means no control will be applied.
- Fade Control fades the brush stroke from the initial diameter to the minimum value in a custom number of Steps (i.e. 25 steps in the image below).
- Pen Pressure Varies the brush diameter by using the pen pressure values provided by the external device (a graphic tablet). Pen Tilt and Stylus Wheel works the same way but using the hardware's tilt and stylus wheel values.
Scattering (1) determines the amount and placement of brush marks in a stroke. The higher the scattering percentage the more distribution of marks. The Both Axes checkbox enables the scattering in both X and Y axis, deselecting this option means the scattering will be perpendicular to the stroke direction.
The Count slider (2) specifies the number of brush marks, a large number means many marks. Count Jitter (3) adds some Randomness to the amount of marks on a stroke. Remember you can apply the Control options for Scatter and Count Jitter as well as in Shape Dynamics.
Color Dynamics
This option controls how the color of paint changes across a stroke. The way it works is pretty simple, it just adds some random color marks in a range between both Background and Foreground colors.
- The Jitter Percentage defines the randomness between the colors. There you can define a Control for the Jitter, Pen pressure, Fade, Pen Tilt or Stylus Wheel.
- The Hue Jitter controls the difference between the Front Color Hue and the Foreground Color Hue, the larger the percentage the bigger the difference.
- Saturation Jitter defines a percentage by which the Saturation of a stroke varies between Foreground and Background colors, a larger percentage means a lot of variation of the Saturation.
- Brightness Jitter is pretty much the same as the previous, but this works over the Brightness value. A higher percentage means a darker color increases the difference between front and back colors.
- Purity increases or decreases the saturation of the color.
Dual Brush
Let's change the brush tip for this one. In the following example I'm creating a peculiar brush (1) for an easy explanation of the Dual Brush. This one combines two tips to create a mixed mark. The second brush texture is applied within the brush stroke of the primary brush, only the areas where both strokes intersect are painted. You can choose a blending mode to combine the primary tip with the second, and all the common brush tips variation shown before.
Textured brushes use a pattern to make strokes look as if they are painted on a textured surface. To paint with a texture, grab one of the textures from the pop-up panel and set a percentage for the pattern Scale. You can Invert the pattern colors as well. Let's review some variations of the ways to use a texture brush.
If the Texture Each Tip checkbox (1) is selected, then each time you paint a mark a new instance of the texture will be applied (consider a brush stroke as many marks). If this is unchecked the texture will remain flowing through the stroke as a whole.
The Blending Mode option (3) blends the texture with the brush tip color and Depth (4) will increase or decrease the texture's contrast creating a depth sensation.
At last some textures enable the Depth Jitter with a variation between Depth and Minimum Depth percentages using a Control (rarely used, but you can experiment with it).
Other Dynamics
There are two options here. Opacity Jitter adds randomness to each mark's Opacity, and Flow Jitter will vary the Flow of the stroke. You can add a Control for any of them (Pen Pressure, Fade, Pen Tilt or Stylus Wheel).
More Dynamics
There are five more dynamics on the list:
- Noise will add some noise at the borders of the brush mark.
- Wet Edges creates an illusion of watercolor painting, where the borders of the stroke seem darker than the center.
- Airbrush simulates traditional airbrushing, so a long time pressing the click button means a bigger mark. The Airbrush option corresponds to the Airbrush option in the options bar.
- Smoothing, pretty useful wen you're painting in a rush, as it produces smoother curves in brush strokes. Great when you're drawing with a mouse.
- Finally, Protect Texture applies the same pattern and scale to all brush presets that have a texture no matter if they have different settings.
Create a New Preset Brush
Before or after modifying the brush options, you can easily save it by going to the Panel Menu and selecting New Brush Preset or clicking over the New Brush Button at the bottom of the Panel. Type a name for it and that's it!
This Brand new brush will appear now in the Brushes Panel, but if you reset the brushes library (you'll see this next) or if there's a problem with the default Photoshop's Preferences file, your brush will be lost.
Save and Load Brushes Libraries
- In order to keep your very own custom brushes you can save as many brush libraries as you want. Click Save Brushes in the Brushes panel to save the actual set of brushes as an ABR file (you can delete the unnecessary brushes before saving the library by clicking on the Delete icon in the panel).
- To Load a previously saved brush library, click on Load Brushes in the Brushes Panel menu, or double-click on the ABR file itself in your file system. Either way will append the library at the bottom of the brushes list active in Photoshop.
Besides you can click on Reset Brushes to load the default brushes list, or Replace Brushes to override the active list of brushes with a new one.
Even though the Brush Tool is one of the more basics features of any version of Photoshop, there is always room to experiment. Try to discover something new and exciting. I hope this guide will be useful for you!
And now that you know how the Brush Tool works, why not take advantage of some of the fantastic Photoshop brushes available on Envato Elements? From ink to watercolor, and from clouds to fire, you can find brushes to create pretty much any effect you want.
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Before the contest ends every participant should leave a feedback about the platfrom and trading robots builder.
Initial deposit — $1,000.
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Imprisoned hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam is seeking reversal of his conviction on insider trading charges, arguing that the government mislead the court by providing "misrepresentations and material omissions" in seeking permission to wiretap his phones to build its case against him.
Rajaratnam's appeal against his conviction comes a day after a federal judge sentenced his friend and business associate Indian-American Rajat Gupta to two years imprisonment for leaking boardroom secrets to him.
The Sri Lankan is currently serving an 11-year prison term after being convicted last year of running one of the biggest insider trading scams in US history.
A ruling on Rajaratnam's appeal is expected in the next few months.
His lawyer Patricia Millett told a panel of federal appeals court judges here yesterday that the government violated his constitutional right to privacy and federal law on wiretaps by providing incomplete information to authorising judge Gerard Lynch in seeking permission to wiretap his phones.
Rajaratnam's lawyers said the government made a "long pattern of falsities, misleading misrepresentations and material omissions" to Lynch, a district court judge in 2008, when it sought authorisation to wiretap his mobile phone.
Millett said the law requires that federal authorities should first exhaust all other conventional investigative procedures, like interviewing witnesses and reviewing documents, before seeking authorization to secretly record telephone conversations.
The government has to prove that it tried all other options to collect information against a defendant but failed before it is allowed the use of wiretaps.
Millett said the government had failed to disclose to Lynch that the Securities and Exchange Commission was conducting a parallel civil investigation against Rajaratnam for over a year on insider trading.
This lack of disclosure showed a "reckless disregard for the truth" and had misled Lynch in making his decision.
Millett asked the appeals court to suppress the wiretaps that prosecutors had used at Rajaratnam's trial, a move that could mean the government would have to retry Rajaratnam without the dozens of phone calls in which he is heard swapping confidential information about publicly traded companies.
The FBI had recorded more than 2,000 calls between Rajaratnam and 130 business associates, friends and family over nine months.
The government used that evidence to build its case against him and won his conviction after a two-month jury trial in May last year.


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My Sons are Boy Scouts - For Now
By Rob Schwarzwalder
Rob Schwarzwalder is senior vice president of the Family Research Council. This article appeared in Religion Today on February 5, 2013.
For roughly the last 10 years, my twin sons have been in Scouting. Both are now First Class Scouts; one is a member of the "Order of the Arrow," Scouting's national honor society.
They started as Cub Scouts and have grown up with a band of boys and dads they love and respect.
Here's how Scouting's own website describes what it means to be a Cub Scout:
Being a Cub Scout means you are a member of a worldwide youth movement that stands for certain values and beliefs. Cub Scouting is more than something to do. It's all about the boy you are and the person you will become.
"Beliefs." "Values." These words are at the heart of what Scouting, Cub and Boy, always has been, a forum in which boys learn to become men - men of high moral character, men who are resourceful and purposeful, who do what's right when no one is looking, who help the weak voluntarily and lead others humbly.
We have spent countless hours camping, hiking, learning skills of all kinds, and growing together as father and sons along with other men and boys who have become like family.
These things are now in danger of being lost. Every week, Scouts take an oath, "on their honor," to do their duty to God and their country. They promise to be "morally straight" and "reverent."
These terms have objective meaning, grounded in Scouting's historic basis in biblical truth. To this day, every edition of Scouting's premier magazine, Boys Life, contains a Bible story.
Must one be a Christian to be in Scouts? Thousands of Jewish, Muslim and other Scouts rightly would say no. But has Scouting always taught that objective right and wrong exist and are found in God's eternal law? Yes, indisputably.
What would happen if Scouts allow homosexuals to serve as leaders or participate as self-identified "gay" men and boys? Seventy percent of Scout troops in the United States are chartered at faith-based institutions. Many of these are Catholic and Evangelical Protestant churches, Mormon stakes, Jewish synagogues, and Islamic mosques. Consider the kind of message we would be sending our sons if we tell them, "When we take the BSA oath and recite the Scout Law, we mean one thing - but the guys in the troop at the church down the street mean something completely different."
Boys should be allowed to be boys, and teens allowed to be teens, without the compulsory introduction of controversial sexual issues at a young age. Most Scouting families feel this way: Just last July, then-Chief Scout Executive Bob Mazzuca said of a two-year study of Scouting and homosexuality, "The vast majority of the parents of youth we serve value their right to address issues of same-sex orientation within their family, with spiritual advisers, and at the appropriate time and in the right setting." Other than the intense political pressure of a handful of homosexual activist groups, what's changed?
We also have to face the fact that homosexual predation within Scouts has been a significant problem. Is every homosexual a pedophile or predator? Of course not - no one suggests, or should suggest, that. Yet the abuse that has taken place in the Scouts has been initiated by homosexuals. Consider: "A Seattle attorney has published online what he says are the names of 1,932 Boy Scouts of America leaders accused or convicted of sexually abusing children - a small slice of the nearly 20,000 names in the BSA's secret 'perversion files.'"
Check the names on this list: They are male, and their crimes involve molestation and/or assault of boys and young men.
Many of us have homosexual friends, neighbors, and family members. It's my hope that all believers treat them with love and respect. Yet as a Christian, I affirm Scripture's teaching that the only appropriate sexually intimate conduct exists between a man and a woman within marriage. This means I don't want, as role models or life-influencers for my sons, heterosexual adulterers or fornicators - or homosexuals. This is grounded in the teachings of the Word of God, not hatred or bigotry.
I'm not sure if my sons will ever make Eagle Scout, although that's long been a cherished goal. Why? Because I'm not sure we'll stay in Scouts.
That breaks my heart, but better that than compromise the moral law of God, which is fixed in heaven forever.


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ARLINGTON, Texas >> David Ortiz homered and doubled, Shane Victorino drove in four runs with three hits and the Boston Red Sox beat the Texas Rangers 8-3 Saturday night.
A night after they managed only a single by Ortiz off Yu Darvish, the Red Sox broke loose. And there will be no official scoring debates for Ortiz after he hit his seventh home run and lined a double into the right-field corner.
Jon Lester (4-4) gave up three runs and four hits in seven innings, a week after striking out a career-high 15 against Oakland. The lefty struck out eight, matching Detroit's Max Scherzer at 66 for the American League lead.
Ortiz broke up Darvish's no-hit bid Friday night with a clean single with two outs in the ninth inning. There also was his towering flyball in the seventh that dropped untouched but was ruled an error after Darvish had retired the first 20 Red Sox hitters, a scoring decision Ortiz indicated Saturday that he will appeal.
Ortiz pulled the first pitch of the third into the right-field seats. His double came an inning later, when he scored as a part of a four-run outburst for a 6-0 lead.
Martin Perez (4-3) lost his third consecutive start since the end of his 26-inning scoreless streak. The lefty allowed six runs and 14 base runners (nine hits, four walks and a hit batter) in only 3 2-3 innings.
Perez has given up 19 runs over 13 1-3 innings the last three games, and his ERA has tripled in that span — from 1.42 to 4.38.
The Rangers didn't have a runner against Lester until Shin-Soo Choo led off the fourth with a double to deep center beyond the reach of center fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. Choo came home on a sacrifice fly by Prince Fielder before Alex Rios added an RBI triple.
Boston went ahead to stay in the second after loading the bases with two outs. Victorino singled home a run, but Bradley was thrown out at the plate trying to score a second run.
The homer by Ortiz was his 380th with the Red Sox, breaking a tie with Dwight Evans for fourth on the career list. Jim Rice is third at 382. It was his 19th homer at Texas, one short of Jason Giambi for the most by an opponent there.
Victorino and Jonny Gomes each had two-run singles in the fourth.
Texas shortstop Elvis Andrus, who significantly trimmed his beard that had been reminiscent of Abraham Lincoln's, had two hits. He had an RBI double in the fifth for a seven-game hitting streak in which he is batting .423 (11 for 26).
NOTES: Texas pitching coach Mike Maddux was ejected in the eighth inning by first-base umpire Vic Carapazza. That came during the same sequence when manager Ron Washington questioned home plate umpire Bill Miller when Will Middlebrooks was hit by a pitch on his hands. ... Boston RHP John Lackey, a Texas native, is scheduled in Sunday's season series finale to make his 20th career road start against the Rangers. That will break his tie with Seattle's Felix Hernandez for the most by a Texas opponent. ... Lackey's 15 career losses (home and away) and 5.81 ERA against the Rangers are his worst against any AL opponent. ... Texas LHP Robbie Ross (1-3), who starts Sunday, has lost three straight starts and each of his last two games have ended as 12-1 Rangers losses.


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Schools in 11 states win nearly $400M in grants
Schools from 55 districts in 11 states plus the District of Columbia have won nearly $400 million in federal grants to promote school reform.
This year's version of President Barack Obama's Race to the Top competition let districts, rather than states, apply. The goal is to promote local solutions and personalized learning.
The grants range from $10 million to $40 million. Some districts teamed up to submit joint proposals. More than 300 proposals were rejected.
The winners include three charter school organizations.
Miami schools won $30 million for a proposal to put a math center in every middle school. Other districts will focus on training teachers, expanding technology and increasing accountability.
Education Secretary Arne (AR'-nee) Duncan says the winners demonstrated a vision to go beyond a one-size-fits-all model for reform.


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Husker fans support Super Storm Sandy victims
Nebraska beats Penn State
There was more than just tailgating and football going on Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
Fans were providing support for the families who are picking up the pieces after Super Storm Sandy slammed into the East Coast.
If there were any game this season that was perfect for collecting donations for the Red Cross it was this one against Penn State. Many Nittany Lions fans and even players' families have been hit hard by Sandy.
The response from both teams and their fans was overwhelming.
"It hit such a large area that we're going to be there for a long time," said Susan Epps, director of the Cornhusker Red Cross chapter.
Cornhusker fans know when to step up, so Saturday Red Cross buckets surrounded Memorial Stadium providing a message of caring for the families in the East from the Heartland.
"A lot of Penn State fans were saying they were close, or they had relatives affected, so they were also great contributors," Epps said.
"I can't even believe what they're going through," said volunteer Robert Delay. "There's a lot of generous folks out there with heartfelt sympathies for them."
"They're so generous and so kind and so appreciative of the Red Cross, it does my heart proud," Epps said.
Husker fans have more to celebrate than a 32-23 victory on the gridiron; they raised $7,000 to help with relief efforts. To donate, go to RedCross.org or text 90999.


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40th International Conference on Software Engineering, May 27 - 3 June 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden
The keynote presentations and videos are available on keynote page
ICSE2018 in IEEE Software
Margaret Hamilton in IEEE Software
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Goodbye and see you at ICSE 2019 in Montréal!
ICSE, the International Conference on Software Engineering, is the premier software engineering conference, providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, research, experiences, trends and concerns in the field of Software engineering. In 2018 ICSE will celebrate its 40th anniversary, and 50 years of Software engineering – 50 years of tremendously successful promotion of research, education and practices in software engineering.
The ICSE2018 proceedings are available (login: icse18 password conf18 )! And they are huge and it takes some time to download it! If you want to download the proceedings the best is to do before your trip to the conference.
You can do it from the The ICSE2018 proceedings, or via this dropbox link icse2018.zip
The ICS2018 program is also available on the Conference Publishing Services Conference App. Use the standard procedure to install the app on your mobile device, and then download ICSE 2018 (password icse18). You can download the app from Apple's App Store or Google Play.
The Organization Committee members welcome you to ICSE 2018
ICSE 2018 is coming to Gothenburg, Sweden. Science and research are a genuine part of the Scandinavian culture visible through the institution of Nobel Prize awards. In addition, Sweden hosts high technology companies in which software plays an essential part.
Town Gothenburg with its two internationally renown universities, with many ICT and ICT-related companies, with many cultural attractions, impressive modern infrastructure including the Scandinavian largest convention center, and surrounding beautiful nature is welcoming ICSE participants!
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ICSE 2018 will have a special program for industrial participants, and will enable intensive communication between the participants from academia and from industry. For more information see Industry Program.


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"When people ask me what I design, I reply them that I design everything; and you can also do the same by designing your own life." said Marcio Andrade in a recent interview. "With the right set of mind and the right approach, everyone can be successful in business if they are dreaming higher." he added. Marcio has been featured widely on media and is an avid traveler, who loves exploring different parts of the world. Moreover, his exceptional ability to understand everyone around him, especially the people he is dealing with has made him achieve the heights of success in the industry like nobody else.
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All rental cars at the Miami International Airport are located at the MIA Rental Car Center, which is separate from the airport's three terminals. The Rental Car Center is located at 3900 NW 25th St., Miami, FL 33142. This is just north of the Dolphin Expressway on Route 953.
Rental Car Center Transportation
Shuttles run regularly between Miami's airport and the Rental Car Center. The shuttles depart from their station just outside of MIA's central terminal, and they arrive at the RCC just a few minutes later. Of course, they also take passengers returning rental cars from the RCC to the airport via the same root. To find the shuttle, simply follow the signs in the airport.
In addition to the shuttles that go to and from the airport, there are also Metrorail and Metrobus stations that integrate the RCC with Miami's public transportation system.
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Should you need any help or have any questions concerning your rental car, the company's desks are staffed at the Rental Car Center. If you need to change your reservation, would like a different car or are running late, simply give the desk a call or stop by. There is a desk at the RCC, so that we can provide you with an excellent car rental experience.
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In most situations, if you receive a Form 1099-C from a lender after negotiating a debt cancellation with them, you'll have to report the amount on that form to the Internal Revenue Service as taxable income. Certain exceptions do apply.
If your debt has gotten so large you can no longer afford to pay it, negotiating a debt cancellation with your lender might be just what you need in order to get by. Unfortunately, your next challenge might be a huge tax bill. In most situations, if you receive a Form 1099-C from a lender, you'll have to report the amount on that form to the Internal Revenue Service as taxable income. Certain exceptions do apply.
How the IRS classifies cancelled debt
You might consider it unfair that a debt you successfully cancel or negotiate away comes back to haunt you as taxable income. However, the IRS classifies cancelled debt as income because you received a benefit without paying for it.
When you first borrow money, you don't have to pay tax on the money you receive because you are bound by a contract to pay it back. Once that contract no longer exists, the money is yours to do with as you please. Since you essentially received money for free, the cancellation of your obligation to pay it back makes it taxable income.
Form 1099-C
According to the IRS, nearly any debt you owe that is canceled, forgiven or discharged becomes taxable income to you. You'll receive a Form 1099-C, "Cancellation of Debt," from the lender that forgave the debt. Common examples of when you might receive a Form 1099-C include repossession, foreclosure, return of property to a lender, abandonment of property, or the modification of a loan on your principal residence.
Mortgage forgiveness debt relief act
Due to the magnitude of the real estate market collapse that began in 2007, Congress passed the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act in 2007. For calendar years 2007 through 2020, you can exclude up to $2 million in forgiven mortgage debt if you were married and filing jointly—up to $1 million for other filing statuses. This also applies to debt that was discharged in 2021 provided that there was a written agreement entered into in 2020. This exclusion also applies to mortgage debt forgiven through a mortgage restructuring or in connection with a foreclosure.
Bankruptcy and insolvency
Even if you receive a Form 1099-C from a lender, you still may be able to avoid taxation on the forgiveness of a debt. If your debt was discharged in a Title 11 bankruptcy proceeding, such as a Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 case, you're not responsible for taxes on that debt.
If you can demonstrate to the IRS that you were insolvent at the time the debt was cancelled, you can similarly avoid taxes on that debt. Certain other types of debt, including qualified farm indebtedness and qualified real property business indebtedness, can also avoid taxation in the event of cancellation.
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The Iranian military has a growing fleet of mini-submarines that is particularly difficult for the US Navy to detect and track. They are kitted out with torpedoes, highly-trained SEAL-like frogmen, and — most troublesome for the US military — mines that could threaten to shut down the vital Strait of Hormuz shipping lane.
In response, the commander of US forces in the region recently announced that the Navy would be doubling the number of its US minesweepers in the Gulf. The ranks of these minesweepers had remained steady for the past decade, but have risen from four to eight since June.
The ramped-up Iranian production of mini-submarines — as well as the Pentagon's response — threatens to ratchet up military tensions in the region, analysts say.
The additional four Avenger-class minesweepers arrived in Bahrain on June 24. Along with the minesweepers, the Navy also sent additional minesweeping helicopters called "Sea Dragons."
Their mission will be to counter the Iranian mini-submarines, which are "a huge problem for us," says retired Navy Cmdr. Christopher Harmer, who from 2008 to 2009 was the director of future operations for the US Navy Fifth Fleet, stationed in Bahrain.
"They are a threat to us because they can disperse them throughout the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea, and it's extremely difficult for us to track them," he adds. As a result, they can lay "in wait to execute an ambush."
The challenge of mini-subs
The US Navy is more accustomed to tracking large, Soviet-era nuclear-class submarines — something Iran knows well, adds Commander Harmer. "Looking for small subs in shallow water is much more difficult, because the acoustics are so much more difficult — smaller makes less noise."
As a result, he adds, the Iranian military-industrial complex "has prioritized these mini-subs — and have gone into overdrive building them." Mini-submarines are generally considered any submarine vessel under 500 tons and roughly 100 feet long or less.
Five years ago, the Iranian military had "no mini-subs," says Harmer, senior naval analyst at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington. Now they have 19 in service, and are building an average of four per year — a "strategically significant" force, he adds.
While the diesel-electric powered Iranian mini-submarines have limited range, they have torpedo tubes and can quickly lay mines, which is their most troublesome feature, according to US military officials.
Iran also has "significant special operations capability," including "extensively" trained frogmen, says Harmer. However, at a tactical level, the most likely use of Iranian frogmen would be against civilian targets such as oil tankers and other international commercial maritime traffic, he adds.
But if conflict between the US and Iran escalated militarily, Iran could also conceivably use its frogmen to attack a new pipeline that runs from the United Arab Emirates to the Gulf of Oman, a pipeline that bypasses the Straits of Hormuz.
The production of the mini-submarines is clear confirmation that while the average Iranian citizen has suffered greatly under Western sanctions, the Iranian military-industrial complex has not been affected "in any substantial way," Harmer says.
The answer, he says, is to "substantially increase the sanctions — or acknowledge that they're not working."
Prospects for imminent war still small
Indeed, as the negotiations with Iran break down, "I think it's almost inevitable that the military tensions in the Gulf increase," says Michael Singh, former senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council. "I think that it's natural on one hand to see Western policymakers giving more serious thought to the use of military options to bolster our position in the Gulf."
In response, "What you're seeing is the Iranians beefing up their asymmetric naval warfare capabilities, as opposed to trying to take on the US Navy head-to-head."
That said, "I don't think war is imminent," adds Mr. Singh, now managing director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. But it does make sense, he adds "to give credibility to your military threat so that the Iranians consider negotiations more seriously — and any red line you set down."
Though the threat posed by Iranian mini-submarines is "valid," the likelihood that Iran would use the submarines to threaten US interests in the region is "fairly small," Harmer adds. "The Iranians know that if they try to mine the strait, the US Navy can clean it up" in "five or six days."
It is also clear that the US Navy would view any mine-laying as a reason to "take military action to degrade the Iranian military," he adds. "They know that in a straight-up fight, they cannot handle the American military. So they are trying to exercise as much influence and control without ever coming into outright conflict with the West."
America, too, must choose its actions carefully. "You want them to have a real respect for military options, yet at the same time you don't want to take it so far that you spark an inadvertent conflict in the process," Singh says. "That's the fine line you've got to walk."