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Brígida Baltar starts with small, poetic acts that take place around her home and studio, such as gathering raindrops that seep through cracks in her roof and dust from the clay bricks in her walls. Baltar then translates these experiences and materials into eclectic, often quiet or delicate sculpture, photography, video, and drawing. "I wanted […] to criticize the contemporary world of productivity surplus, which allows little room for daydreaming, for contemplation, etc.," she says. Baltar is deeply influenced by the practices of the Brazilian Neo-Concrete artists Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica.
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RxHope is a patient assistance program that helps physicians and others who prescribe medication to apply for, obtain and track requests for no cost medications for their patients when they are unable to afford them and do not have access to prescription insurance or other government-funded programs. According to the site, "RxHope is the only patient assistance Internet initiative financially supported by PhRMA (Pharmaceutical and Research Manufacturers of America) and participating pharmaceutical companies." Here is the link to RxHope .RxHope
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"brings together America's pharmaceutical companies, doctors, other health care providers, patient advocacy organizations and community groups to help qualifying patients who lack prescription coverage get the medicines they need through the public or private program that's right for them. Many will get them free or nearly free. Its mission is to increase awareness of patient assistance programs and boost enrollment of those who are eligible. Through this site, the Partnership for Prescription Assistance offers a single point of access to more than 475 public and private patient assistance programs, including more than 180 programs offered by pharmaceutical companies.... The Partnership for Prescription Assistance will help you find the program that's right for you, free of charge. Remember, you will never be asked for money by a PPA Call Center representative, or on this Web site." Here is
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Normally when a user opens a webpage, the entire page's contents are downloaded and rendered in a single go. While this allows the browser to cache the web page, there's no guarantee that the user will actually view all of the downloaded content.
For example, If an entire photo gallery is downloaded but the user leaves after only viewing the first image, then the result is wasted memory and bandwidth.
Instead of bulk loading all of the content when the page is accessed, content can be loaded when the user accesses a part of the page that requires it. With lazy loading, pages are created with placeholder content which is only replaced with actual content when the user needs it.
When someone adds a resource to a web page (image, video, etc.), the resource references a small placeholder. As a user browses the web page, the actual resource is cached by the browser and replaces the placeholder when the resource becomes visible on the user's screen. For instance, if the user loads a webpage and immediately leaves it, then nothing beyond the top portion of the web page is loaded.
A common pitfall of lazy loading is its impact on a website's ranking in search engines.
Because resources default to placeholder content, a search engine crawling through the website is likely to misinterpret or ignore the contents of the resource. Lazy loading an entire component of a webpage such as a blog post could result in a search engine bypassing that component, resulting in fewer search engine results due to the content not being indexed.
One trick to overcoming these pitfalls is to provide links to lazy loaded content. This essentially creates a webpage out of the content accessible to search engine crawlers. When a search engine indexes the website, it follows these links and indexes the content it finds. This method essentially structures a lazy loaded website as a traditional website, while still allowing users to load content dynamically.
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Google takes a different approach for its image search results. As the user scrolls down the page, placeholder images are replaced with thumbnails. After a certain number of images are displayed, a button allows the user to load additional images. By providing this button, Google combines infinite scrolling and lazy loading to create a dynamic hybrid approach.
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This article describes how to set up the Moodle server on an Arch Linux system.
What is Moodle?
From Wikipedia:
- "Moodle (abbreviation for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) is a free source e-learning software platform, also known as a Course Management System, Learning Management System, or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). As of December 2011 it had a user base of 72,177 registered and verified sites, serving 57,112,669 users in 5.8 million courses."
This entry describes the installation, not the usage - a whole wiki in itself. For more help visit http://www.moodle.org.
Install the LAMP Stack
Follow the instructions to install LAMP here.
From the "Advanced Options" section of the LAMP article, install the
gd module. This involves installing
php-gd and modifying
For some reason when I install PHP into Apache it requires two restarts before test.php is interpreted as PHP code not text. I have noticed this before.
Download and install Moodle
Download the most current version of Moodle from http://download.moodle.org/ - this installation was done with 2.3.1+, and there may be minor changes to the install routine in later versions.
Unzip it into
# tar xzvf moodle-latest-23.tgz -C /srv/http
Make it read/writeable by Apache:
# chown -R http:http /srv/http/moodle
Some changes need to be made to the default setup so Moodle will work.
File access
/srv to
open_basedir = /srv/http/:/home/:/tmp/:/usr/share/pear/:/srv/
This allows PHP to access the
/srv/moodledata directory (thanks to forum user "Ravenman") for this fix.
Create the MoodleData Directory
This needs to be readable and writeable by Apache:
# mkdir /srv/moodledata # chown http:http /srv/moodledata
Enabling bits of PHP
php-intl package:
# pacman -S php-intl
Uncomment the following lines in
/etc/php/php.ini (remove the semicolon from the start of the line):
extension=curl.so extension=gd.so extension=gettext.so extension=iconv.so extension=intl.so extension=mysqli.so extension=openssl.so extension=soap.so extension=xmlrpc.so extension=zip.so
Restart Apache
You now need to restart Apache to make these changes current. Note that if you get any errors while installing Moodle, and make subsequent changes, you will need to restart Apache after each set of changes.
# rc.d restart httpd
Go to
http://localhost/moodle/install.php - this starts the Moodle installer. There then follows a sequence of configuration screens, most of which should be left at the defaults.
- Select the language
- You should pass the first page of tests (PHP Settings). If not check you installed libGD, the most likely problem.
- Leave the default locations as they are. An error here is likely to be a data directory problem - check the directory exists, that it has the right ownership and that open_basedir in /etc/php/php.ini is set correctly.
- On the MySQL Screen, enter the user (root) and that user's password in the screen. If you get an error here, go to the test.php created when you set up the LAMP stack and check mysql is working, and also check the passwords.
- On the Environment screen, you should pass all the tests - if not the errors give you a clue what is missing - an uninstalled program or a failure to uncomment one of the lines in /etc/php/php.ini
- If you are English, you do not need to download language packs.
- If the config.php has failed - probably because of lack of write access to the moodle subdirectory - the most likely reason is the ownership of the /srv/http/moodle structure which should be http:http - this was set earlier but you might have skipped that bit.
- The remainder of the install should be automatic. It takes 2 or 3 minutes on my computer to set up all the SQL Databases and so on.
- The final page allows you to set up the administrator user for Moodle. You need to enter a password, name and set the country as a bare minimum. Don't forget the password !
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Historians share facts on local economy in DerryBy HUNTER McGEE
Union Leader Correspondent
September 27. 2013 9:42PM
DERRY — Two speakers took listeners on a retrospective journey Thursday from a time when the local economy was tied to agriculture to the transformative impact of Interstate-93 on the region.
Held at the Robert Frost Farm, "Business, Industry and the Local Economy" was the first of a three-part series by the Greater Derry-Londonderry Chamber of Commerce.
Historian Richard Holmes of the Derry Historical Society presented some farm implements from the period to the audience. He also explained the creative ways some people used a device known as a "bee box" to turn honey into cash.
The small box was several inches long with a glass window. It would hold several bees that were captured earlier and were marked with colored chalk, Holmes said.
"You would shake them up," Holmes said, drawing some laughs from the audience as he added, "you now have very angry bees."
A bee was released with the hope that it would fly straight back on a beeline to the swarm. Because bees were marked with chalk, they could easily be identified from the other bees, he said.
But it didn't always work out that way as it sometimes became difficult to follow a bee, and the trail would be lost.
"Now, if you ran out of bees you'd mark where you were, go out and get some more bees, shake them up and let them out, and that's how you would get your honey," Holmes said.
It could take a day or even up to three days to find a swarm. But when it was found, a single swarm could yield up to 100 pounds of honey and as much as $12 cash, which represented a fair amount of money for the period.
Peter Griffin of the Windham Heritage Commission discussed how the area was dramatically affected in the mid-1800s by the development of a transportation network. The rail line was key to the state's tremendous growth and at one point, there were 20 points of access to rail between New Hampshire, the neighboring states and Canada. Today, there is only one point of access in the eastern part of the state.
Trolleys came along and also helped the area expand. The shortest trolley ran just 7.25 miles from Derry to Chester, existing from 1896 to 1928. The Manchester to Derry trolley, also servicing Londonderry, ran from 1907 to 1926.
"The trolleys in particular, and with rail, made anywhere accessible," Griffin said.
Dense downtown areas developed in Derry and Salem and, to a lesser degree, in parts of Londonderry. These areas had churches, fraternal houses, retail stores, movie theaters and pubs that were accessible by public transportation, Griffin said.
"So in other words, you could go shopping on a Saturday afternoon, go carousing on a Saturday night and go to church for redemption on Sunday morning," Griffin said, drawing some laughter from the audience.
Griffin explained how the opening of Interstate 93 in 1963 had a profound effect on the way of life in the area by providing greater accessibility to Boston. Because of the dramatic expansion, Southern New Hampshire is officially recognized by the federal government as being part of the Greater Boston Transportation District.


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When treacherous conditions become sporty
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It is a good thing I keep my phone on vibrate.
On the first occasion on Sunday, I was at the installation services for Father Andrew Messina at St. Timothy's Church. That's not the time and place you want your phone ringing. The second came barely an hour later, at Marley's on the Beach. The place was jumping. An estimated 350 people had just participated in the first-ever Iggy's Doughboy Dash to raise funds to fight a rare childhood disease. People were yelling over a rendition of Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville" and carrying on a conversation was next to impossible. I never would have heard a phone.
Both calls were from Carol. In the first, she reported that I didn't need to pick up rye bread, as she had been at the market; and the second to say that, "The wind was up."
It's amazing how seemingly trivial bits of information can alter our courses of action.
One less stop put me 10 minutes ahead at Oakland Beach. That was a good thing as the Doughboy Dash was already in progress. Traffic was being diverted from Suburban Parkway and the serious runners were well out ahead. At Marley's, I found the first of those runners gulping down bite-sized doughboys before repeating the circuit at sprint speed. Behind them was a larger contingent of less intent participants who were content to saunter into Marley's and escape the wind and chill.
The wind was the subject of the second call, and it didn't surprise me to learn that my son, Ted, and his windsurfing friends could be found at Conimicut Point. The wind was better there than down the bay. Reports were that the bay was as still as a millpond at Newport. Here, it was blowing a steady 25 miles per hour; just what Ted loves, although 30 and 35 are even better.
The Point always has a gathering and this Sunday was no exception. A dozen or so sat in their cars or trucks, presumably to watch the rest of us who were crazy enough to walk through swirling sand. I found Ted in the lee of the northwest end of the Point, rigging his sail in the company of two furry companions, Chloe and Zoë. The dogs took a mild interest. I immediately recognized their master, Tom Wilson, who was wisely dressed for the blustery conditions with a hat and heavy jacket.
Tom had just called 911, concerned for three or four people who had walked far out on the sand bar. The tide was coming in and white caps were breaking. Those conditions can be treacherous and he wanted to ensure no one would get hurt.
We headed over to the point. We could see a group retreating from the rising tide. There was no cause for alarm; only gulls inhabited the far reaches of the sandbar that would quickly be submerged.
It looked rough and I couldn't help but think that Ted should reconsider. But I've seen him delight in far more extreme winds, like Hurricane Bob. He was a good deal younger then. By comparison, Sunday's wind was a breeze.
A policeman showed up and Tom went over to explain that everything was all right. I wondered if the cop would advise Ted and his friend not to risk it but he viewed the scene, waved and drove off.
Tom and I encountered more "dog people," including a woman named Doris with her pug pulling its green leash behind it as it made a beeline for Chloe and Zoë, and Virginia Barham and her dog Sadie. I felt out of place without Ollie, but then Ollie could use some manners before being introduced to Point regulars.
Wearing his dry suit, his hood pulled firmly over his head and wearing sunglasses, Ted carried his rig to the water's edge, walked in and then, with a gust, shot off. His friend Dave soon did the same. They zoomed back and forth, spray flying when they hit the white caps. Ted headed south, crossing the bar where, less than an hour earlier, a group of adventure seeking walkers had been dangerously close to going too far.
Now conditions were sporting fun.
I headed back to the car, wind-whipped and ready to head home.
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June 17. 2013 9:39PM
Children hurt when tire swings falls in Manchester playground
By MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
— The director of Manchester parks said he is going to remove the popular tire swing from the Livingston Park playground, after a metal shaft supporting the swing collapsed early Sunday evening and struck several children.
Parks Director Peter Capano said the swing will be removed entirely and an evaluation is underway involving parks officials, the city's insurer, the manufacturer and the installer.
"We're disturbed that this event happened," he said.
Police said they were called to the park about 5:30 p.m. Sunday for an accident at the playground, but no report was available Monday.
The playground equipment is one of the more popular attractions at Livingston. A device suspends a tire horizontally about 4 feet from the ground. The device allows the tire to swing and rotate, while several children at a time can sit on the tire.
Three children were on the swing Sunday when a horizontal metal shaft that supports the tire collapsed and struck the children, two witnesses said. They asked to not be identified.
A boy of about 10 years old had an obvious bump on his head and an eye that was swollen shut, the couple said. He was taken away by ambulance.
Capano said city officials have spoken to the boy's uncle, and the boy appears to be okay and has not suffered any permanent damage.
On Monday morning, the shaft rested at the bottom of the metal arches that hold it up, and caution tape was around the entire piece of equipment. Capano said it will be removed in its entirety.


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Biomass tour showcases three different biomass systems
Weaving through the six enormous anaerobic digester tanks at Anheuser-Busch's complex in St. Louis, Ed Randazzo proudly pointed out the lack of foul smells. Randazzo is an operator at the Anheuser-Busch Bio-Energy Recovery System (BERS), just down the street from the company's brewery and bottle factory, and the first of three different tour locations coinciding with Biomass Power & Thermal and Biorefining Magazine's International Biomass Conference & Expo being held from May 2-5.
The digester consumes effluent from the beer-making process, among other wastes. Tour participants got to view the biomass used in the anaerobic digestion process through a microscope, almost making it possible to catch a glimpse of the tiny microbes that live on the granular biomass and carry out the process. The system takes in about 3 million gallons of wastewater per day and reduces the facilities' organic waste by about 80 percent. Material screened out of the wastewater is sold to a family horse radish farm in southern Illinois. The digesters produce about 900,000 square feet of biogas per day, used to generate process heat for the company's plant.
Randazzo explained that the microbes reproduce and grow quickly, making it necessary to get rid of some of the digester biomass after its depth in the tanks reaches around 30 feet. Twenty-five is ideal, he added.
Randazzo also took tour guests past the evaporation coolers, designed to keep temperatures in the process below 103 degrees Fahrenheit. The microbes can survive lower temperatures and the coldest conditions they've worked under is about 85 degrees F.
At the end of the Anheuser-Busch visit, BBI International, publisher of Biomass Power & Thermal, surprised its tour guests with a few cases of beer reserved for the end of the day.
The next stop was the IESI MO Champ Landfill and while BBI didn't provide complementary bags of trash, the 254-acre site proved to be an exciting location. Because of constant truck traffic, tour guests saw the landfill through the bus windows. A landfill gas recovery operation at the site provides renewable electricity for two asphalt plants, a commercial greenhouse, a concrete facility and a local high school. Plans for expansion of the landfill gas utilization system are slated for operation in August 2012 and will be carried out by electric company Ameren Missouri. The expansion will increase electricity production to about 15 megawatts (MW) and to about 60 MW in 2025, the landfill's tour guide said
The site also serves as a limestone mine and one of its two landfills sits at the bottom of a 250-foot deep mining trench. The bus crossed a one-way bridge before driving partway into the enormous hole for tour attendees to view a landfill only partially full. A large portion of the black ground liner remained exposed with massive trucks pushing around the garbage piles.
On the way off the site, the tour bus was required to take the same precautions as all other exiting traffic to minimize the amount of sediments and mud removed from the location. It entails driving through a strong sprinkler-type mechanism that essentially creates a white wall of recycled water.
Last, the group stopped at Innovative Energy Inc. to see its 2 MW model of its gasifier in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton. The system can gasify any carbon-based fuel, including wood, municipal solid waste, ag residue, energy crops, plastics, tires, shingles and paper. During the tour, though, the company was experimenting with some switchgrass pellets. CEO Glenn Foy explained that many biomass projects fall through because of feedstock issues. "We thought fuel flexibility was critical," he said.
The site also has its own briquetting process and Foy displayed a jar full of biochar that he compared to tiny BBs. The gasifier itself is quite small, at about 4 feet in diameter and 15 feet tall. A yellow rope separated the tour guests from the gasifier's processes, but several company employees spoke to the crowd about the system using diagrams and flow charts to illustrate its functions. Because it is a distributed energy system it doesn't require transmission lines like wind, coal and hydropower to get the power from where it's produced to where it will be used, they said.
Innovative Energy was founded in 2001 and has 27 worldwide patents, said Jim Neumeier, vice president of business development. The privately funded company completed its research and development phase at the end of 2009 and since 2010 has been marketing its technology, concentrating on five sectors: municipalities, military, international, commercial and industrial facilities that have waste streams.
Driving back to the city, tour guests discussed the compelling aspects of all the projects and wondered about the proprietary elements of Innovative Energy's system and what might set it apart from other gasifiers. The company is also an exhibitor at the International Biomass Conference & Expo. For information on the event, click here.


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- Actors of movie :Chris Pine (Kirk), Zachary Quinto (Spock), Leonard Nimoy (Old Spock), Eric Bana (Nero), Bruce Greenwood (Christopher Pike), Karl Urban (Leonard 'Bones' McCoy), Zoe Saldana (Nyota Uhura), Simon Pegg (Scotty), John Cho (Hikaru Sulu), Anton Yelchin (Pavel Chekov), Ben Cross (Sarek), Winona Ryder (Amanda Grayson), Chris Hemsworth (George Kirk), Jennifer Morrison (Winona Kirk), Rachel Nichols (Galia), Faran Tahir (Captain Robau), Clifton Collins, Jr. (Ayel), Greg Ellis (Chief Engineer Olsen), Scottie Thompson (Nero's Wife), Paul McGillion (Barracks Officer), Lucia Rijker (Romulan Communications Officer), Jimmy Bennett (Young James T. Kirk), Greg Grunberg (Stepdad (voice)), Lisa Vidal (Barracks Officer), Jacob Kogan (Young Spock), Tyler Perry (Admiral Richard Barnett), Amanda Foreman (Hannity), Diora Baird (The Wrong Orion), Sufe Bradshaw (Cadet Alien), Tony Elias (Officer Pitts (as Antonio Elias)), Sean Gerace (Tactical Officer), Randy Pausch (Kelvin Crew Member), Tim Griffin (Kelvin Engineer), Freda Foh Shen (Kelvin Helmsman), Kasia Kowalczyk (Kelvin Alien (as Katarzyna Kowalczyk)), Jason Brooks (Romulan Helmsman), Sonita Henry (Kelvin Doctor), Kelvin Yu (Medical Technician), Marta Martin (Medical Technician), Tavarus Conley (Kelvin Crew Member), Jeff Castle (Kelvin Crew Member), Billy Brown (Med Evac Pilot), Spencer Daniels (Johnny), Jeremy Fitzgerald (Iowa Cop), Zoe Chernov (Vulcan Student), Max Chernov (Vulcan Student), Lorenzo James Henrie (Vulcan Bully (as James Henrie)), Colby Paul (Vulcan Bully), Cody Klop (Vulcan Bully), Akiva Goldsman (Vulcan Council Member), Anna Katarina (Vulcan Council Member), Douglas Tait (Long Face Bar Alien), Tony Guma (Lew the Bartender), Gerald W. Abrams (Barfly), James McGrath (Barfly (as James McGrath Jr.)), Jason Matthew Smith (Burly Cadet), Marcus Young (Burly Cadet), Bob Clendenin (Shipyard Worker (as Robert Clendenin)), Darlene Tejeiro (Flight Officer (as Darlena Tejeiro)), Reggie Lee (Test Administrator), Jeffrey Byron (Test Administrator), Jonathan Dixon (Simulator Tactical Officer), Ben Binswagner (Admiral James Komack), Margot Farley (College Council Stenographer), Alex Nevil (Shuttle Officer), Kimberly Arland (Kimberly Arland), Jeff Chase (Cadet Alien), Charles Haugk (Enterprise Crew Member (as Charlie Haugk)), Nana Hill (Enterprise Crew Member), Michael Saglimbeni (Enterprise Crew Member), John Blackman (Enterprise Crew Member), Jack Millard (Enterprise Crew Member), Shaela Luter (Enterprise Crew Member), Sabrina Morris (Enterprise Crew Member), Michelle Parylak (Enterprise Crew Member), Oz Perkins (Enterprise Communiations Officer), Michael Berry Jr. (Romulan Tactical Officer), Matthew Beisner (Romulan Crew Member), Neville Page (Romulan Crew Member), Jesper Inglis (Romulan Crew Member), Marlene Forte (Transport Chief), Leonard O. Turner (Vulcan Elder), Mark Bramhall (Vulcan Elder), Ronald F. Hoiseck (Vulcan Elder), Irene Roseen (Vulcan Elder), Jeff O'Haco (Vulcan Elder), Deep Roy (Keenser), Majel Barrett (Starfleet Computer (voice) (as Majel Barrett Roddenberry)), Rico E. Anderson (Council Member - Captain Kelley Bogel (uncredited)), Richard Arnold (Romulan Science Tech (uncredited)), Tad Atkinson (Amphibian Prisoner (uncredited)), Leslie Augustine (Doctor (uncredited)), Johnny Baca (Starfleet Cadet (uncredited)), Sala Baker (Drill Tower Romulan (uncredited)), Leo Baligaya (Starfleet Cadet (uncredited)), Corey Becker (Starfleet Cadet (uncredited)), Jessica Boss (Bridgeport Cadet (uncredited)), Neil S. 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Lee (Starfleet Commander (uncredited)), Anne Leighton (Enterprise Crew Member (uncredited)), Steve Luna (Lieutenant Star Fleet Command (uncredited)), Aaron Lynch (Flight Operational Air Safety Conductor (uncredited)), Justin Malachi (Starfleet Cadet (uncredited)), Nav Mann (Romulan Crew Member Placing Bomb (uncredited)), Paul Marshall (Bar Patron (uncredited)), Owen Martin (Alien Cadet / Enterprise Crew (uncredited)), Taylor McCluskey (Kelvin Alien (uncredited)), Matthew McGregor (Starfleet Cadet (uncredited)), Caitlin McKenna-Wilkinson (Kelvin Computer (uncredited)), Patrizia Milano (Councilwoman (uncredited)), Kevin Moser (Enterprise Crewman (uncredited)), Jonathan W.D. 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Storm (Klingon Agitator (uncredited)), Paul Townsend (Starfleet Security Officer (uncredited)), Scott Trimble (Klingon Prison Guard (uncredited)), Errik Tustenuggee (Federation Captain Cartwright (uncredited)), Ravi Valleti (Cadet at Trial (uncredited)), Jason Vaughn (Starfleet Cadet (uncredited)), A.J. Verel (Enterprise Crewman (uncredited)), Brian Waller (Vulcan Council Member (uncredited)), Steve Wharton (Star Fleet Cadet (uncredited)), Wil Wheaton (Romulan (voice) (uncredited)), Brianna Womick (Starfleet Cadet (uncredited)), Lynnanne Zager (Enterprise Computer (voice) (uncredited)), Pavel Lychnikoff (Romulan Officer)
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Lomo'Instant Camera and Lenses (Oxford Edition)
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We're paying homage to the ''city of dreaming spires'' with the Lomo'Instant Oxford. Featuring three different shooting modes and tons of creative features including unlimited multiple exposures, Color Gel Flash Filters and a built-in wide-angle lens, this little instant camera is one smart cookie.
3 Shooting Modes To Cover Every Kind Of Instant
The Lomo'Instant has an auto flash shooting mode so you can easily shoot fantastic instant photos with flash in the touch of a button. You can also switch to the two manual shooting modes to open up all kinds of experimental shooting possibilities.
- Flash-On Auto Mode: Using this mode, a sensor on the flash detects the brightness, and the light meter automatically gives off the right amount of flash. The default aperture value is f/16 and the exposure compensation dial can be adjusted. It's perfect to use anywhere when you're on the go.
- Flash-On Manual Mode: This mode is great for shooting indoors. The flash is on and you can switch between N for normal daytime shots and B shutter for long exposures.
- Flash-Off Manual Mode: This mode is great for long exposures at night. The flash is switched off and you can switch between N for normal daytime shots and B shutter for long exposures at night.
An Ultra-Advanced Lens System
The camera has a built-in wide-angle lens and is compatible with multiple lens attachments that can be screwed onto the Lomo'Instant for tons of creative and experimental photography options.
- Wide-Angle Lens (built-in): This 27mm equivalent wide-angle captures more than your eyes can see and allows you to shoot up-close-and-personal shots with its 0.4m closest focusing distance.
- Fisheye Lens Attachment: The Fisheye lens attachment lets you take 170° snapshots. Get hooked, lined and shamelessly sinkered for wonderful circular instants with the 170° Fisheye Lens Attachment.
- Portrait Lens Attachment: This versatile 35mm equivalent lens attachment is suitable for shooting both indoors and out. It's great for portraits as well as street photography and landscape shots.
- Close-up Lens: This lens allows a 10-15cm closest focusing distance for striking close-ups.
Sh-o-o-o-o-t L-o-o-o-o-o-ng Exposures
The Lomo'Instant's B setting lets you create light-streaked photos by holding the shutter open for as long as you like. Try it out for night-time or light painting photoshoots.
Shoot Unlimited Multiple Exposures
The Lomo'Instant is the only modern Instant camera which allows you to shoot unlimited multiple exposure instants. This means you can combine numerous shots in one frame for show-stopping effects!
Color Gels
Choose from blue, red, purple and yellow! By adding the filters over your flash, you can play around with cool and warm tones, and give an artistic flair to your instants!
Shoot Brighter Shots
With its maximum aperture of f/8, the Lomo'Instant lets you shoot brighter shots.
The Perfect Instant Photo Format
The camera creates credit card-sized snapshots using high quality and widely available Fuji Instax Mini film, renowned for its bright colors and clear images.
The Lomo'Instant Camera has a tiny mirror to the left of the lens. Combined with the wide-angle lens, the Lomo'Instant mirror lets you take picture-perfect selfies.
Package Includes
- Lomo'Instant Camera Oxford Edition
- Lens Cap
- Lomo'Instant Fisheye Lens Attachment& Lens Cap
- Lomo'Instant Portrait Lens Attachment& Lens Cap
- Lomo'Instant Close-Up Lens Attachment & Lens Cap
- 4 Colored Gel Filters
- Shooting Technique Cards
- Instruction Manual
Please note: Fuji Instax Mini Film and four AAA batteries are not included. You can find the Fuji Instax Mini Film in our online shop.
Technical Specifications
- Film Format: Fujifilm Instax Mini Film
- Exposure Area: 42mm x 64mm
- Shutter Speed: 1/125s / Bulb
- Exposure Compensation: +2/-2 Exposure Values
- Ejection Mechanism: Motorized
- Multiple Exposures: Yes
- Built-in Flash Guide Number: 9(m)
- Automatic Flash Output: Yes
- Battery Supply: 6V (4x AAA batteries)
- Tripod mount: Yes
- Cable Release Mount: Yes
- Aperture: f/8, f/11, f/16, f/22, f/32
Press Quotes
"The people at Lomography do as much as anyone to keep analog photography alive — so we couldn't think of anyone better to make an all-new instant system."—Uncrate
"The Lomo'Instant looks like no other instant camera. It comes in multiple colors and styles and features multiple modes including color filters, fisheye shots, and infinite long and multiple exposures."—Techcrunch
"What sets this apart from other instant cameras is its extensive feature set, which includes add-on lenses, a variety of filters, several shooting modes, and much more."—Hypebeast
"The retro camera fanatics at Lomography are diving into the world of instant photography with a colorful new shooter packed with all the charm and nostalgia of the 35mm Lomos you've known for years."—Gizmodo
"Where Lomography's instant camera stands out is in the customization options, both for the camera and the images it shoots."—PetaPixel
"You get a wide-angle lens in the box for the ultimate selfies"—Endgadget
"The Lomo Instant camera is also equipped with infinitely long exposures which are perfect for low light or night-time shooting to add to creativity to your photography."—Geeky Gadgets
"Among the neater features of the Lomo'Instant is the ability to take unlimited multiple exposures, meaning you can capture countless shots and mesh them into the one print for unique composite photographs."—Gizmag
Additional Information
|4 x AAA
|Default f/16 (Or manual control f/8, f/11, f/22, f/32 in exposure compensation)
|1/125 (N), Bulb (B)
|48mm (27mm equivalent)
|Built-in Flash
|Zone Focusing
|0.4m - 0.9m, 1m - Infinity
|Direct optical viewfinder


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Knox County 4-H/FFA Fair Board Meetings (Session 1 of 11)
Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
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The Knox County 4-H/FFA Fair Board is comprised of two voting representatives from each of the 4-H community clubs and FFA chapter in the county. The board meets the second Tuesday of every month (with the exception of November and December in the Knox County University of Missouri Extension center's conference room.
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The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but U.S. officials later grew alarmed as evidence grew that Qatar was turning some of the weapons over to Islamic militants, according to U.S. officials and foreign diplomats.
No evidence has emerged linking the weapons provided by the Qataris during the uprising against Moammar Gadhafi to the attack that killed four Americans at the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in September.
But in the months before, the Obama administration clearly was worried about the consequences of its hidden hand in helping arm Libyan militants, concerns that have not previously been reported. The weapons and money from Qatar strengthened militant groups in Libya, allowing them to become a destabilizing force since the fall of the Gadhafi government.
The experience in Libya has taken on new urgency as the administration considers whether to play a direct role in arming rebels in Syria, where weapons are flowing in from other countries.
The Obama administration did not initially raise objections when Qatar began shipping arms to opposition groups in Syria, even if it did not offer encouragement, according to current and former administration officials. But they said the United States has growing concerns that, just as in Libya, the Qataris are equipping some of the wrong militants.
The United States, which had only small numbers of CIA officers on the ground in Libya during the tumult of the rebellion, provided little oversight of the arms shipments. Within weeks of endorsing Qatar�s plan to send weapons there in spring 2011, the White House began receiving reports that they were going to Islamic militant groups.
They were �more anti-democratic, more hard-line, closer to an extreme version of Islam� than the main rebel alliance in Libya, said a former Defense Department official.
The Qatari assistance to fighters viewed as hostile by the United States demonstrates the Obama administration�s continuing struggles in dealing with the Arab Spring uprisings, as it tries to support popular protest movements while avoiding U.S. military entanglements. Relying on surrogates allows the United States to keep its fingerprints off operations, but also means they may play out in ways that conflict with U.S. interests.
During the frantic early months of the Libyan rebellion, various players motivated by politics or profit � including a U.S. arms dealer who proposed weapons transfers in an email exchange with a U.S. emissary later killed in Benghazi � sought to aid those trying to oust Gadhafi.
But after the White House decided to encourage Qatar � and on a smaller scale, the United Arab Emirates � to ship arms to the Libyans, President Barack Obama complained in April 2011 to the emir of Qatar that his country was not coordinating its actions in Libya with the United States, the U.S. officials said.
�The president made the point to the emir that we needed transparency about what Qatar was doing in Libya,� said a former senior administration official who had been briefed on the matter.
The administration has never determined where all of the weapons, paid for by Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, went inside Libya, officials said. Qatar is believed to have shipped by air and sea small arms, including machine guns, automatic rifles, and ammunition, for which it has demanded reimbursement from Libya�s new government.


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PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — Residents wept and stood in salute as they remembered 19 firefighters Monday on the anniversary of their deaths, marked by a moment of silence and the chiming of 19 bells that echoed through a historic courthouse square in this Arizona community.
Hundreds fell silent as the bells rang, and they held hands over their hearts. Others hugged loved ones and bowed their heads as children stood in the crowd with the number "19" painted on their faces.
"One year ago today, our small community was forever changed. The unimaginable suddenly had to be imagined," Prescott Fire Department Battalion Chief Don Devendorf said, standing near a line of portraits of the fallen firefighters. "Yes, they died. They died honorably. They died as part of an honorable profession."
The tragedy marked the largest loss of life for U.S. firefighters since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and the worst for a wildland fire crew in eight decades. The men, who made up the Granite Mountain Hotshots based in Prescott, died trying to protect the nearby town of Yarnell from an out-of-control brush fire that trapped them during erratic weather.
Devendorf recalled taking a recent vacation to Indiana, more than 1,700 miles away, and telling people there that he worked for the Prescott Fire Department. He said he got the same the reaction then that he almost always receives — instant recognition of the city known for the firefighters' actions a year ago.
The ceremony was one of several remembrances throughout Prescott, located about 100 miles north of Phoenix. As the nation's only municipal-run Hotshot crew, the firefighters had a visible presence in the community — whether it was clearing brush during fire season, shoveling snow or fighting fires. The city shut down early Monday to remember them.
Meanwhile, the men's families gathered for a private service at the Prescott cemetery where many of Hotshots are buried. Ten of the firefighters were laid to rest there, but each of the 19 has a plot with a bronze grave marker that will be etched with images taken from family photos. Surrounding the plots is a wall where mourners can sit and room for family to be buried alongside the firefighters.
About 600 people gathered at the cemetery, mostly to reflect on the character of the Hotshots and how they affected people's lives in Prescott. The service included honor guards from across Arizona, bagpipers and tributes from fire officials.
Businesses around Prescott also displayed banners in honor of the firefighters, and visitors and residents wore T-shirts bearing their unit's logo and "19" to mark the number of deaths.
Dozens of people gathered early Monday to hike a butte that was a favorite training spot of the firefighters. Others attended an exhibit at a Prescott hotel that showcases the men and their time on the fire lines.
Prescott resident Corie White made the morning hike and attended the courthouse ceremony, recalling that moment a year ago when she got a call from a friend that the firefighters had died.
"We've never been the same emotionally. You can't go a day without tears," she said. "You don't have to know these guys personally. They are part of our community."
Devendorf thanked residents for supporting the Prescott Fire Department a year ago when members were wracked with grief.
"Under normal circumstances, you call us when you need help," he said. But "you were the emergency responders for us. You propped us up. You gave us strength."
Joe Woyjeck, who lost his son Kevin in the fire, said another son planned to travel to Prescott to thank people in person for supporting the Hotshots. But the rest of his family wanted to keep things low-key at home in California.
Woyjeck and his wife were in Prescott recently and sat on a rock at the site where the Hotshots died. He said his family has gotten through the tragedy by focusing on something Kevin taught them when he was a boy: that people choose to be unhappy.
"I choose to be happy with this, and I think we're going to celebrate life that day with what we do," he said of the anniversary.


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Archive for the 'Twitter 10K' Category
Twitter 10k – Halfway there.
It took me 16 days to reach 5,000 followers, which means that I'm not going to make 10k in 21 days.
I plan on continuing my trek towards 10,000 twitter followers, but I think I've gained as much as I can from this experiment and don't really see the point of continuing. In fact there are so many polluters of my tweet stream that I just can't take it any longer and need to begin unfollowing. (You're first, @cellband)
I can confirm the methods I've been using do increase your followers, but, it doesn't seem to be an effective way to promote yourself. Followers alone aren't enough to boost your revenue and while I was clicking away, trying to reach my limit of 1,000 daily follows, I didn't have much time to read along or interact with many people.
Early on in the process I did mention quantity vs. quality and I still think that's the key with twitter. Groups like TeamFollowBack and others create lots and lots of followers for each other, but in most respects the tweets from this group have very little value to a small business owner. Lots and lots of tweets about following so-and-so and plenty of use of their hash tags, but I found I was more likely to have a real conversation and real impact with someone who followed just a few hundred people.
Yesterday I was fed up with the MLMs, SEOs, and other so-called social media gurus and tweeted that I was going to find some Knitting folks to hang around with. I immediately had a response and was able to start a series of conversations – more than I'd had on any single day since starting the experiment. Because even with the lists I started and other tools that might be available, it's just too hard for me to have meaningful relationships on twitter with thousands of people.
I probably could effectively keep up with 15000 people on twitter if all I did was marketing, but as a small business owner I wear many hats and it's just too easy to devote too much time to twitter. It's clear to me now why big companies have made room in their marketing budgets for a Social Media specialist, because you could do this full time. In fact it might be extremely cost effective to hire someone just to manage new follows, Tweet and interact full time.
As far as hard data, along with this chart, I've been keeping track of the time I spend hunting for followers. The red square on 2/19 is a note about resetting the timer. You might remember from my Day 1 update that I was having trouble with my time tracker skills.
All in all, 4313 followers came in as the result of 22 hours 40 minutes of work over a 14 day period. That averages out to:
190 new followers per hour
308 new followers per day
1 hour 36 minutes of work per day
Though you can see from the numbers that there wasn't an average day. In fact March 8 is 10 followers lower than the day before. I started the morning of March 7 with the count, and flushed those who weren't following me back, but as soon as I tried to follow, Twitter told me I was already at my limit of followers for the day. As a result, I show negative growth on the 8th.
There are also days when the follow cap was much lower than others. The difference being as many as 600 follows. On days where I spread the process out, I was able to get to my cap of 1000. On days where I was busy and trying to get it done quickly I wasn't able to follow as many people.
I think that's the reason why I was surprised that I was only spending about an hour and a half per day working on the 10k. Because the timer only counts when I'm on desktop 3 where I keep my 10k applications, and not when I'm doing other things. This time is real and actual working time you're seeing, but what that number doesn't show is that the process was tedious and took all day to complete. Take it from me, a gal who knits blankets by hand, that this has been the most tedious thing I've done in a while.
I'd still like to test who's most likely to follow me based on the number of followers they have and the ratio of followers to following and such, but I'm running out of time for the experiment. I had hoped to be finished by now, but I took a week off so I could be with my husband at his Grand Father's funeral and now I need to devote the next week or so to filing taxes and other business goodies. Though I suppose that's the way small business works. Doing what you can, when you can and above all else knowing that each day you might have a new priority.
Twitter 10k – Day 9
With the first week of the Twitter 10k completed, I think I did well – if all you want is numbers.
I was able to bring in 2151new followers in the first week. My biggest daily gain was 740 followers and I averaged about 307 per day. Pretty good considering I didn't follow anyone over that first weekend so I could see what flushing would do to my gains.
I'll admit there are still some frustrations, but all-in-all, I seem to be on track to making the 10k in 21 days.
If you look closely, the dates in the graph jump from February 23 to March 1 because I was in Michigan cleaning my Grand Father-in-law's house and there is no internet connection there. Also, I work from home and am usually at my computer, so I don't have a data plan or fancy apps for my phone – heck, my cell phone barely makes calls, so I didn't tweet much or follow while I was there.
At first I was going to get the daily numbers to see if there were any ups or downs to record, but decided to go to my original plan and simply record numbers on the day's I'm actually working at getting 10k.
My next observation is that you don't need someone with more than 10,000 followers to find a good list to mine. 2,000 is good enough for most cases. My reason for this is because I'm seeing there are a lot of people on Twitter in the same quantity vs. quality race that I'm in. I'd eventually like to use my lists for interactions and I haven't seen the value of #TeamFollowBack just yet. There is a lot of following going on, but I haven't watched these Tweeps long enough to form an opinion on their marketing value. So while they may be helpful in my goal for 10k, I'm not jumping on their bandwagon just yet. If there's something I'm missing, please don't hesitate to leave a comment below.
The opposite end of the Follow-back spectrum are those that don't follow back at all. I'll be moving to Michigan this summer and spent March 1 following people who used the #Michigan hash and followed a prominent newspaper. Since these folks are interested in Michigan news and/or using the pound sign to create searchable terms, I thought they'd be good folks to follow and perhaps follow me back as I attempt to bring my Small Business expertise to a state that could use an economic boost.
I was wrong and for the 78 followers who did come on board, I flushed 919 people on March 2 who didn't follow back. OUCH!
Now maybe this is just a Michigan thing, or maybe it's because my tweets were dull, but when @SocialMichigan doesn't follow back, I'm thinking it's not all me. Though from SocialMichigan's following/followers ratio of 51/488 it seems they're missing the social aspect of Twitter and simply trying to broadcast.
I was also very disappointed that the local Chambers and Downtown Development Agencies (DDA) didn't follow back either. These are precisely the people I could help as I set up my Small Business consulting firm and want to learn more from, but I won't actively search and follow Michiganders in the remainder of this experiment. Maybe after I reach 10k and begin to pare down the list, but for now, they just end up in my flush list the next morning.
While I'll admit to turning off my followers notifications right now, in the past I looked at every new follower. If you want to use Social Media Marketing for your business, looking at new followers should be priority number 1. Twitter, Linked-in, and facebook are all about the ability to interact and network with people you wouldn't always have a chance to meet and talk with. If you don't have time to peek at profiles, you shouldn't bother with Social Media. Work on other areas of your business instead.
If you have any questions or comments about my Twitter 10k, feel free to leave me a note, below. Otherwise a tweet, Thumbs up or sharing on your favorite service would be greatly appreciated. ~Karlie
Twitter 10k – Day 5
I now have 5 days of data and observations recorded and I am starting to see some interesting trends. How about we get to the numbers first and then my observations of how my experiences so far might impact a small business?
The Data
The first change you'll see is that I've added a column for Reciprocate. I can only manipulate numbers in the following column, and the data might give me a little insight into what other people are doing and how it effects my ability to reach 10k followers. I'll be looking to see if the reciprocate number grows organically or if it might be people I've flushed before they had a chance to follow-back. I may not know which is which, but I'll keep it in there just in case a pattern forms.
In my last post I also wondered how flushing might effect my numbers and since the 19th and 20th were a weekend I was able to leave everything as it was to see what might happen. It would seem that some people came on board and I'm now wondering if just the act of sending a following message might be enough to trigger a follow-back from some. If so, it shouldn't matter when I follow and flush as long as that notification ends up in their in-box.
On the topic of organic growth, I didn't see much happen with the numbers as of Monday morning so I think organic growth is going to be limited to finding relevant followers and not just the crop of Social Media Marketers I have so far.
The weekend also meant that I didn't prowl the lists adding followers. I did update my spreadsheet with the morning numbers and spent 30 minutes on Sunday watching the tweets come in faster than I could read them.
The reduction you see on the 20th (reflecting the previous 24 hours) and then again this morning are because I unfollowed people when the post was in a language I couldn't read. That may not stop them from continuing to follow me, but I can't justify keeping them around if there's no possibility that I'll respond to something they've said.
The Observations
As long as we're talking about unfollowing, I had to resist the urge to unfollow tweeps posting annoying or repetitive posts. To keep from unfollowing I made a pact with myself and vowed to unfollow many of these offenders as soon as my experiment was over. In the mean time I'm going to create my first lists so that the people I do enjoy reading along with won't get lost in the shuffle.
In some ways, the vast number of annoying people made me really sad, but then I suddenly knew why there were so many fail-whales in my life. Seeing the same post more than 6 times in less than 3 minutes is probably the reason Twitter is always going over capacity. The reason might also have something to do with the giant circle of SMM that's been created. If someone has thousands of followers who are also following thousands of tweeps, posting the same pitch and URL over and over again might be the only way to ensure that the tweet will be seen.
To test this hypothesis – About an hour ago (writing time, not real time) I included a URL in a tweet. Since Naturesoundsfor.me keeps track of how often a custom sound composition was listened to in the past 10 days, and I hadn't been there recently, I had a quick and dirty way check for a response.
Now that I have 4 times as many followers, surely there would be someone willing to check out my link?
Nope – "In last 10 days this sound composition has been listened to by 1 listeners." That's me, the one lonely listener.
Social media, in a pure marketing sense, was suppose to be about pulling people in by becoming attractive and someone enjoyable to hang around with. That's in contrast to traditional media which pushes out messages that are largely ignored by… well… everyone. So far I'm not really seeing pull marketing by anyone claiming to be SMM experts.
Bad Habits of Push Messengers on Social Media- AKA don't do this – EVER!
Bad Habit # 1 – On day 1, I mentioned Direct Messages, but what I didn't mention was the style of most of them. Usually they had the same crappy pitch and URL combination I mentioned above, which was, and always will be, ignored. Though they must work to some very limited extent, but I think I have a hypothesis that I'll share in a moment or two.
To boil it down – If you can't write a decent headline, why should I click your link? If nothing else, please try to sound sincere.
Bad Habit #2 – I did have a few DMs that looked a little less like they might be auto generated, or at least were a less crappy auto generated DM. In fact some even asked me a question, to which I attempted to reply.
Attempted being the key word here. Some of these folks weren't following me so I couldn't send them a DM in return – bad, bad, bad. Why would you miss an opportunity to engage with someone especially if you're the one who started the conversation? Isn't engagement the whole point of Social Media?
In the future, I'm only going to respond to DMs with @user mentions and will only use DMs for private information like my mobile number.
Bad Habit #3 – Just because you saw the same technique more than once, doesn't mean that you should jump on the band wagon. I know this flies in the face of my "Rule of Two," but there's a difference between spotting a trend and knowing if it's a good trend to get in on.
I see that there is some sort of Information Cascade effect where people justify bad habits because lots of other people are doing the exact same thing.
Twitter might have become less about lots of people having conversations, like chit-chatting with the mom behind me in line at the grocery store , and more like being on a street where everyone is wearing a sandwich board like the guy in this article's mast head.
While talking with my husband about my observations so far, he said it sounded like I was describing the FFA pages of the past.
In case you never had the pleasure of Free For All pages, the idea was that lots of links boosted your hits, and lots of hits meant lots of sales and lots of sales was the way to get rich quick. I suppose it did happen once in a while, but not because you posted a link. The site owner always asked for an email address in exchange for posting a link and those emails were then used for SPAM email marketing campaigns.
People listed with FFA because a long time ago, in internet years anyway, the search engines didn't automatically crawl your site and placement was dependent on regular submissions. It was a necessity of the time, and luckily for us, the Engines have evolved past the stage of irrelevant links.
So when Todd reminded me about FFA and I was able to recall it's rise, and fall, I began to think about how the process has been recycled into Tweets. Frankly it has me a little worried about the longevity of Twitter – will it get so fouled up that everyone abandons it like they did with MySpace?
I am optimistic that I'll be able to eventually find a list that works well for pull marketing on Twitter, but for now, I think I'm going to have to deal with the barrage of bad marketing messages.
If you have any questions or comments about my Twitter 10k, feel free to leave me a note, below. Otherwise a tweet, Thumbs up or share on another service would be greatly appreciated. ~Karlie
Twitter 10K – Day 1
Yesterday I gave the Twitter 10k my full attention – well sort of. I spent 90 minutes on the phone with Matt at Think Michigan Now and an afternoon trip to the gym didn't give me a full day to work with, but I think that's probably a good thing for this experiment. After all, all of us divide our time between working in our business and working on our businesses and just like you, I can't back out of a pre-scheduled appointments or stop replying to emails just to get Twitter followers.
In all, I spent about 3.5 hours yesterday working out my process and getting a handle on the technique. As I mentioned in the first post, I'm trying Joe Mackey's suggested method but I know I'm already tweaking it some. For instance, I'm not so hung up on first finding Tweeps with over 10k followers as my base for searches. I can't possibly max out my followers on any given day, so I'm trying to find interesting people – like those who reply to me or have uniquely named lists. Even lists where I've been added as a member because I must have something in common with the other listees.
I've also begun to question quantity vs. quality. Quality does take longer to find, but is 10k some magical number that includes a critical mass of quality? I don't know yet. Maybe this answer will be more apparent as I get further along. Especially if I begin to notice any blips with web traffic or other metrics.
A few observations so far
The follower's are coming in at a good pace. I've decided to start each morning by recording some basic information so it might be easier to spot trends down the road. Obviously, there isn't a big data set as of yet, but jumping almost 250 followers for 3.5 hours work isn't a bad first day. On the other hand, you could consider Tweepie's Flush as 400 wasted clicks. 218 people I didn't need to add, and 218 people I now have to get rid of, but by getting rid of the spares I think it gives me better numbers. A better ratio of follows/following and it might come into play if I ever have a day where I can max out my follows. So for now, the daily flush stays.
I'm really glad I didn't have my cell phone linked to Twitter. The amount of Direct messages coming in via Text would have cost me a fortune.
It's probably a good idea to opt out of Twitter's New Follower notice while actively working the 10k. I don't have a limit on number of emails so server space isn't an issue, but let's think about this for a minute. The goal is to get 10k people following you. That means 10k emails in your box. My first attempt to wrangle emails was to create a folder and filter to clear all the Follows and Direct message notices out of my inbox. This monring, however, there were a couple hundred that came in and I could see my system struggling to filter my normally heavy volume with the extra 300 emails.
3 weeks isn't a practical time frame – real time is. If anyone is going to learn from this experiment, I need more than "max out your followers every day and in three weeks you'll have 10K." So I've added a little bit of geekery to the experiment to help out on that front.
The beauty of a Linux Operating system (which I use exclusively) is that it comes with all sorts of cool software and KTimeTracker was already on my system. I also have the option of working on various virtual desktops. By putting all of the applications I'm using for the experiment on their own desktop and things like blogs, facebook and others elsewhere KTimeTracker can count just the time I spend hunting for followers and none of the time I spend elsewhere. The only special thing I need to do to pause the time tracking is just switch to another desktop – like check my email before I go to lunch.
Now as much as I had hoped for perfectly accurate time tracking with this method, it's painfully obvious to me that I haven't used the software enough not to screw things up. This morning, thinking I might want a to take a screen shot and not give away my client list, I deleted the numbers had racked up on this project. Apparently checking the box next to the task isn't the way you select something for deletion, but having the task highlighted is. There's also no Undo.
The good news is that I saw the time just before I dumped the data and will be able to tack on an extra 4 hours, 16 minutes to our tally.
The next thing I'm curious about is the morning flush. After I got back from the gym yesterday I did a little more following. In fact I was still following people at 4:30 pm and wondering if anyone would still be adding me after normal business hours. What if I didn't give them enough time to follow me back? Or better yet, what if I give them a little extra time and then don't have to re-click them out of my list? My compromise was that I would only flush the tweeps I followed in the first part of the day and give the rest of the list time to marinate over the weekend. I still have that whole business hours thing working against me, but I bet my clicking finger could use the break so don't see this as a problem.
My final observation for this post – Try to finish mining a Tweepie generated list before you take a break. The system seems to time out after a while probably because of the rapid pace at which data comes in from Twitter. Just before my call with Matt, I made note of what page of the list I was on. When I came back, page 45 wasn't page 45. In fact I didn't start getting into new tweeps until page 57. So I sort of resented the fact that I had to search out my end point anyway and I'm still not sure what the method to the madness is. If I come up with any theories, I'll be sure to share them with you.
As a reminder, my little men are off from school next week and I'll need to make a quick trip to Michigan for meetings, so if I don't update you on the process next week, never fear, I will get one out the door for you as soon as possible.
If you have any questions or comments about my Twitter 10k, feel free to leave me a note, below. Otherwise a tweet, Thumbs up or other share using he buttons below would be greatly appreciated. ~Karlie
10,000 Twitter Followers in 21 Days.
This morning when the alarm when off, I knew I was in for an uphill battle because I wasn't ready to be awake. I'm a morning person and do some of my very best work before lunch. When my morning is off to a rough start, there's a high probability that the day won't improve with age. So rather than beat myself up about having a crappy day or purposely deciding to slack-off, I gave myself a tiny little goal of finding an article I read a while ago about successfully monitoring hundreds (or was it thousands) of people on Twitter. That way I could look back and tell myself, "You didn't waste the whole day."
The good news is that I've accomplished more today than I had expected. No, I didn't find the article, but while I was looking, I came across a YouTube video suggesting there was a no-fail way of getting 10,000 Twitter followers in 3 weeks.
Now I'm not usually the type to trade my email address for a free anything, but since I was wasting my day anyhow, watching a screen cast with the possibility of learning something was better than saying it took me all day to re-read an article.
I even did one better by trying out the techniques for a little while and decided that maybe this would be a good test for my own brand of Mythbusting. Could I really get to 10k Twitter followers in 21 days?
A couple of caveats about my experiment-
- The image above was my attempt to set a base line so we could all see just how much growth I could squeeze out of the techniques, but, unfortunately, I didn't think about getting the baseline until after I had already started following a few people and a few of those people started following me back. In my defense, the numbers in either column are probably not off by more than 20.
- My kids are off from school all next week (Presidents day/Winter break) so I am already anticipating that my work schedule will be severely hampered.
So each day that I actively work the techniques, I'll start off by recording the date, Followers, Following, Listed and Flushed so that there are solid numbers to go by.
Now if you're wondering about "Flushed," the process is about getting rid of anyone who's not following you back so that you can keep following people. I'm still a bit confused about how your follower/following ratio effects your ability to follow more people, but I'll stick to the guidelines for now and if I find more information about the process down the line I'll add it to a future update.
As long as we're on the subject of updates, I plan on posting an update after every few days of active number hunting. Active is the key word here. I plan on running the experiment for 21 days, but with issues like those outlined in #2, above, those 21 days might not be consecutive, so don't be alarmed if your calendar tells you it's been more days than what I report.
My question for you is, what else might you want me to be tracking in this experiment?


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Tech had a road victory within its grasp Thursday night, leading almost the entire contest at Austin Peay, but the host Govs tied things in the final minutes and went on to hand the Golden Eagles a 77-72 overtime loss in the Dunn Center.
It was Tech's second consecutive overtime game, following a 109-102 double-overtime loss at Tennessee State Monday night. It was Tech's fifth overtime game this season.
Tech's record slipped to 7-10 in the Ohio Valley Conference and 13-15 overall, including 1-4 in overtime games. Austin Peay, 16-12 overall, moved into a tie for third place in the league with a 10-6 conference record.
Kevin Murphy paced Tech in scoring with 21 points along with seven rebounds. Elijah Muhammad added 15 points, eight rebounds and five assists and Frank Davis scored 15. Alfred Jones had eight points and eight rebounds for the Golden Eagles, who had a 42-39 edge on the glass.
Wes Channels scored 24 points to lead APSU and Anthony Campbell added 23 points and seven rebounds. Duran Roberson scored 10 points, and John Fraley finished with seven points and 11 rebounds.
Campbell hit a 3-pointer with 24 seconds to go in regulation to knot the score at 67 and Tech missed a potential game-winner on the final shot with just three seconds remaining in regulation.
After each team scored a basket in the overtime, the Govs jumped on top 71-69 on a tip-in by Campbell. With under two minutes to play, the Golden Eagles missed a shot and APSU got a bucket by Roberson for a 73-69 lead.
Murphy made one free throw to get the difference down to 73-70, before Channels hit two charity tosses with 22 seconds left for a 75-70 lead.
Murphy scored a basket with six seconds left to make it a three-point game, but the Golden Eagles couldn't get a turnover and the Govs added two more free throws for the final margin.
Austin Peay led 2-0 in the opening minute, but the Golden Eagles took control for the rest of the first half, leading by as many as 13 points before heading into the break with a 37-29 lead.
The Golden Eagles continued to lead throughout the second half. Austin Peay finally was able to catch Tech, tying the game at 50-50 with 10:19 to play, and again at 59-59 with 5:18 remaining.
But the home team never led until Roberson hit a jumper from the corner to give the Govs a 64-63 lead with 2:06 remaining, their first since the 2-0 advantage on the game's opening basket.
Murphy answered with a 16-foot jumper and Jones added a putback with 55 seconds left for a 67-64 Tech lead. The Golden Eagles missed a golden opportunity after a missed APSU 3-pointer, when Muhammad was fouled. However, he missed the front of a one-and-one and Campbell hit a 3-pointer with 24.2 seconds remaining to tie things, his fifth trifecta of the game.
The Golden Eagles step outside the OVC on Saturday night with a Bracket Buster game at Appalachian State in Boone, N.C. Tipoff is at 6 p.m. CST.
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**** UPDATE FEB 2016: TFA edge connector clamp cards available ****
**** UPDATE JUNE 2016: TFA clamp covers and bottom plates available ****
Hi all, let's start with some of my art work:
Not so long ago, not even a year, my obsession with lightsabers started with Obi-Wan's lightsaber from ANH. Since then I was hooked. Because I'm into CAD modeling as a design engineer, I wanted to build the most accurate 3D model of the OB1. I posted some computer renderings of the result on this forum back then, like the ones above. I was pleased with the result and when I had the chance I ordered the weathered OB1 replica from Roman's Empire which was truly amazing!
I quickly learned more about the other saber hilts from the original trilogy (Graflex!) and started to collect parts for my own builds. As a product developer I wanted to use my skills and add something to the replica prop building community and instead of buying the parts I needed, I developed my own. (I'm also very stubborn!). I made very accurate CAD models of all the parts, by measuring real parts and by reverse engineering from pictures of original props, and then used various fabrication techniques for the production.
The parts I made so far:
- T-track profile; for the Graflex & MPP saber grips and E-11 stormtrooper blaster
- D-ring with clip; from Luke's ANH saber
- Exactra Bubble strip; used in many sabers
- Kobold clip (from the droid caller) used on Luke's ESB with a D-ring
- Belt Clip from Luke in ANH, ESB and ROTJ (maybe also good for other costumes)
- PCB Edge connector; clamped in the Graflex of Luke's ESB
I met RPF-member Sym-Cha and he helped me enormously with so many details and he kept on bringing ideas for more parts I still have many to add to the list later!
I will try to give some background info on how each part came along:
The references for the dimensions of the cross-section are archive pictures of the Vader MPP and Luke ESB and by using 3D CAD software for perspective matching and measuring. So I didn't take measurements from other replicas but based it purely on my own research.
Here is an screen grab of the perspective matching in 3D:
I invested in the tooling cost and in the production (extrusion); first in rubber (elastomer) but later in the screen accurate hard plastic (PVC). I now have plenty of profile for the rest of my life!!
The result is a beautiful and in my opinion a very screen accurate T-profile. I can cut it to any length. Here is a comparison pic (made by Sym-Cha):
D-ring with clip (or strap)
Very little is known about the shape of the D-ring and clip. They are therefore discussed intensely in other posts (here and here). Here you see a screen-grab in 3D to determine the correct size and shape in perspective as an overlay on the famous toe pic:
It took me MANY weeks to search for the correct D-ring, which I finally found in a small local shop. It is a 1 (25mm) ring, with an inner diameter of 0.9 (23mm), outer diam. 1 1/8 (28.5mm). The shape is very round (more than half a circle shape).
I then made a production run on the stainless steel clips based on Sym-Chas template, which proved accurate and which is considered to be pretty cool looking by many RPF members. You can attach the D-ring to the back of a Graflex with a vintage English rivet. Mine looks like this:
Exactra bubble-strip
The bubble-strip was based on real calculator bubble-strips from the Exactra 19 and 20. I first made a CNC machined version in PMMA which was extremely close to the original:
The top one is the original Exactra 20 bubble-strip and the lower one is my CNC version.
It was uncut and could easily replace an original (dont worry for fraud: I only made one and in case I will ever sell some, I will mark them as a replica). It is a bit pricey though to make in large quantities. Instead I did a run in casted resin. This one was based on the Exactra 19 and already pre-cut to fit a Graflex clamp. The result is very nice and accurate:
The bottom one is the resin casted version.
Maybe, later, I could perhaps start a production run in polycarbonate on a real injection molding tool. This is how the real strips were made, but the investment is high and the return on it is risky. I might have to sell hundreds to make it worthwhile. Let me know what you people think!
Kobold clip
UPDATE (dec-11): The Kobold Clip replicas are now ready and look stunning!
They are CNC machined from brass and have a nickel plated finish.
Belt clip
The metal belt clip (to carry your lightsaber around on conventions or in your house) was based on these pictures:
I thought it would be cool to produce a whole bunch of them (they were produced together with the D-ring clips). You can attach it to your Jedi belt with 2 rivets. In case you wonder: the belt should be 1 7/8 (=47mm) wide. This is my belt clip in stainless steel:
PCB Edge connector
The part clamped in Luke ESB lightsaber is a piece of a vintage computers edge connector. They say it's from an old HP multibus boards, like this one (I found this on the internet, it said Hybricon WW2):
I based my replica on this picture from the archive where the exact shape and size can be seen:
The 13 connector strips are rectangular shaped with a narrow bit on the right side. The PCB material is not commonly used anymore, but I have a good friend who managed to find the correct color and he produced the correct connectors for me. Here is the result:
Thats it! Thanks for your attention. Please let me know if I made any mistakes or if you think I can improve the parts. Let me know what you think and have a look on my website.


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U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin was in Nashville with U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper Tuesday to drum up support for Internet sales tax collection and an immigration overhaul.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin was in Nashville with U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper Tuesday to drum up support for Internet sales tax collection and an immigration overhaul.
Durbin is an Illinois Democrat who is sponsoring the Marketplace Fairness Act with Tennessee U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander and others. He said Internet businesses have an unfair advantage over brick and mortar shops. He said consumers are using local stores as showrooms to pick a product that they then go buy on the Internet.
Cooper emphasized that this is not a tax increase.
"I hope people look at the substance of the bill. This is not a new law. People already are supposed to be paying this tax," Cooper said.
Consumers are legally obligated to pay sales tax on Internet purchases in states that have the tax, but most do not. The bill would require Internet retailers to collect the tax and send it back to the state where a shopper lives.
Durbin said the money would provide "needed revenue for state and local governments."
Durbin also is one of a bipartisan group of eight senators who crafted a bill to overhaul the U.S. immigration system. Among other things, the bill would strengthen border security, allow tens of thousands of new high- and low-skilled workers into the country, require all employers to check their workers' legal status and provide an eventual path to citizenship for some 11 million people now in the country without permission.
"It really tries to address the immigration problem in an honest and comprehensive way," Durbin said.
On Tuesday he and Cooper were cautiously optimistic about the bill's prospects.
"The national Republican Party knows they are locked out of the White House unless they change their position on immigration," Durbin said.
Cooper said strong support in the Senate would send a signal to the House that "we finally have a chance to break the gridlock."


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