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Thornback ray, Raja clavata
Blonde ray, Raja brachyuran
We say skate, but we'll never actually give you a skate, years of overfishing have meant they've virtually disappeared. The rays our fishermen give us will either be blonde or thornback rays and while they look very different, they taste equally delicious.
Rays and skates are elasmobranchs, the same family of cartilaginous fish as sharks. We need to be careful with elasmobranchs, as they're slow to mature and give birth to a handful of young each year. They've been on the planet longer than trees (I know right!?), so we owe it them to look after them.
The 'common' skate has now almost disappeared from the channel, but the bureaucrats have learnt from past mistakes and ray fisheries in Europe are pretty well managed these days. Our fishermen rarely target rays- mainly because they don't have enough quota for them. They do often get caught in the nets though and they're a real treat.
They don't have any bones, just a fan like array of cartilage. The flesh is sweet and extremely rich. It needs a piquant accompaniment to balance the dish. The French classically use a caper beurre noisette, the Spanish: sherry.
They're extremely versatile, dredged in flour, you can grill, bake or fry them. Or try and Asian twist and simply steam them and serve with a homemade dipping sauce.
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To date, there have been almost 240 comments. I did a quick "stick tally" and found that an overwhelming majority of respondents were Catholic women who were very hurt by such an arrogant and thoughtless comment. Their customer base immediately began shrinking as folks not only removed themselves from the page, but cited their refusal to purchase from them and their refusal to advertise for them through blogs and personal references.
I immediately wondered if Garlands of Grace realized they had so many Catholic customers. If they didn't before, they most certainly do now!
Seriously, though... this comment was completely unnecessary. A simple "We're not Catholic, but we do espouse Christian beliefs" would have sufficed. Instead, they had to go and take it a step further with "I am burdened for all who stand with the Catholic Church and would plead with you to come out and believe the Word of God."
Excuse me?
I do believe this business just accused me of not believing in the Word of God.
I also believe Garlands of Grace attempted emotionally martyring itself for my benefit.
Let me go ahead and pull the emergency brake on that one.
First of all, as I mentioned in the GoG thread that spawned on FB, not only do Catholics fully believe in the Word of God, we fully believe that Jesus Christ IS the Word of God incarnated.
As such, being the Church that Christ founded and all, we don't need a Protestant denomination martyring itself for our salvation. Thanks for your concern for my immortal soul and all, but as a faithful, fully-vested Catholic, I've got that covered. I don't need your condescending pity for my supposed ignorance to save me from hellfire.
That being said, I've made the decision to stop patronizing this business (which breaks my heart because all my favorite veils are from them!). Until they rectify their stance (which has successfully alienated about 100+ of their previous customers) I simply cannot reconcile supporting a business that views my faith as a burden.
And for the record, I was purchasing from them knowing full well they weren't Catholic. I didn't care one way or the other about their religious beliefs. I still don't. I do, however, care about being belittled and and being condescended to simply because I'm Catholic.
From my experiences in dealing with the women of GoG (they're sisters), they seem to be wonderful, loving and highly talented individuals. They have families, friends, and trials the same as the rest of us. They are dedicated to their mission of spreading love of God through veiling, and that's great. I wish them all the best. However, I cannot - at this time - be a party to what I see as a sad and hurtful attack on some of their best customers simply on the basis of our faith.
I sincerely hope and pray these women come to their senses and retract what was obviously a hurtful and ignorant comment.
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I read two blog responses yesterday that I really loved - posting them here for your benefit!
Liturgical Time (She makes beautiful head coverings as well)
A Woman's Place (Eh, you guys know I'm a huge Cam fan)
Joann Jordan is the founder of Garlands of Grace Ministry, a separate organization that goes by the same name as the sisters who create head coverings.
These are not the same groups, so please don't confuse them. Garlands of Grace Ministry is a cross-faith women's Bible study program.
In this particular entry, I'm specifically referring to the Garlands of Grace company that creates head coverings.

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It has been a few years since I have had the privilege of a quiet Christmas at home with family. Instead, the season of late has entailed long car rides and desperate attempts to find open gas stations and food joints on Christmas Day.
This year, while we did get to be with family (on both sides, I might add!), we did have to travel. It was not all bad and we saw a few different States, but I am looking forward to a traditional and quiet Christmas sometime soon!
Our trip actually started in Tennessee, but we didn't really document it. Chatanooga was as beautiful as ever. The warm Florida sun was a nice change from the cold Winter we left behind. We revisited the Kennedy Space Center, saw some pretty lakes, and enjoyed time with family.
I also saw my very first snake in person - and it was far enough away that I didn't faint, crack my head open and make it easy for it to eat me #irrationalfears
We can definitely talk about this giant mug I got for Christmas. HOW GREAT IS IT?! Funny story, I actually got two! Everyone must really know I love huge mugs :)
New Orleans was not my favourite city, but there were a few interesting things to see; the architecture and Mississippi River to name a few. We even went on a steamboat ride, which was quite the adventure. But pray for New Orleans.
Galveston was terribly foggy the day we went but was still a sight to behold. It turned into a dolphin-sighting chase when some fishermen told my in-laws they had seen some. We ended up driving to a few different spots to see what we could see, but there were none to be found.
And what is a trip to Texas without stopping at the Silos?! I made an extra excursion of 6 hours with my mother-in-law and met up with a friend in Waco. Magnolia was everything I dreamed of - and more; it was totally worth it.
Two weeks on the road made us truly appreciate being home. As much as we enjoy roadtrips, we were glad to be back safely in the end.


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The foot and ankle in-and-out exercise works your side-to-side movement of your feet. Lie down on your back to do the exercise. You may prop yourself up on your forearms to observe your leg or lie flat. Begin with your toes pointing to the ceiling and your legs straight. Rotate your injured foot from left to right as far as you are able without pain. Rotate at the ankle to move the foot, not the knee joint. Go back and forth between 10 and 20 times, unless otherwise directed by a physiotherapist.
Foot and Ankle Up-and-Down
The foot and ankle up-and-down exercise works the ankle in the opposite plane of motion as the foot and ankle side-to-side exercise. This exercise also increases range of motion and strength, just with a different movement.
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This is a side of Matthew Mcconaughey nobody has ever seen. After his jaw dropping appearance as Kenny Wells in Gold it will be hard to forget the sight of this version of the shirtless wunderkind. He lost weight for his Oscar winning performance in Dallas Buyers Club and now he goes in the opposite direction for his latest film.
Gold is an adventure/drama film about a down on his luck businessman that partners with a geologist to search for gold deep in the jungle. Kenny Wells is a shyster that is always looking for the next big deal and trying to live up to the success of his father. He puts his business and making money ahead of everything else in life. His health and appearance are of no concern and he struggles to keep the relationship with his long time girlfriend together. He is all in on finding gold and making money. Going on a gut feeling he risks it all. It's based on the true story of a 1993 mining scandal.
You will need to lower your expectations to truly enjoy this experience. It's an interesting story starring one of our finest actors playing off character in a gold chasing jungle crime story. It's not perfect and there are many disconnected weak portions throughout. The saving grace is Mcconaughey. He owns this character and really commands your attention. You may not like this version of him, but he certainly is believable as Kenny Wells. I watched this screener back in November for awards consideration and enjoyed the film. It was surprising to find out it was actually based on real events. With an overall weak and kind of downer crop of award films this year Gold was a film that was actually fun to watch.
They messed up the connection and relationship between Matthew and his onscreen girlfriend Kay, played by Bryce Dallas Howard. Somehow this relationship never felt right and it was hard to buy into the scenes that begged to be felt about their relationship. The movie is kind of all over the place and struggles to find its center. With that said, it's rare these days to have a movie like this with a major star trying something other than the superhero genre.
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For every apolitical, apathetic citizen in the United States, there is an enraged activist doing jumping jacks trying to get their attention.
Ok, so it's extremely wishful thinking to imply that the ratio is 1:1. Realistically, it's probably more like 100,000:1. But, on the bright side of economic despair, I think the gap is closing more and more each day. As people's economic situations worsen, they begin to ask questions—about themselves, about their situation, and, hopefully, about the larger system at play.
Eventually, most people reach a point where they acknowledge some level of systemic injustice. However, a majority end up either underestimating the scope of the injustice or, more tragically, underestimating their power to change it. Who hasn't thought to themselves, Well, what could I possibly do to change anything? And while it is true that no individual has the power to single-handedly overthrow a system, it is also true that no system can be overthrown without a mass movement made up of individual human beings. This paradox is one that keeps the masses of people trapped in an isolated and isolating illusion of helplessness.
For those of us who have escaped this trap and made the leap to becoming "activists," one of the biggest obstacles is overcoming the frustration that comes along with trying to awaken people out of apathy. In this frustration, we often leap to the other, equally unproductive, end of the spectrum. We can become so single-mindedly focused on the injustices of the world and how we believe they can or must be solved that we become intolerant of or impatient with those still unaware or apathetic to the cause. This in turn alienates the very people we need to reach in order to create a truly unified, peaceful and just world. This counter-productive frustration takes on many forms. As I become more active myself, I am increasingly aware of these impediments to revolutionary change, both within the various organizations and individuals I meet, as well as within myself, as my own activism grows and takes on new forms.
At the organizational level, it begins by accepting the paradox of sociopolitical organization itself: having a plan of action requires a certain amount of ideological confidence, and yet it is this very confidence that can turn into the self-righteous dogma that plagues the evolution of human society. No organization is immune to this. And if an organization is going to succeed, it must acknowledge this. Any organization that does not address this paradox as a core element is dangerous, in my opinion. We must appeal to and encourage people's critical thinking abilities if we want to attract individuals to join and effectively contribute to a global, unified revolutionary movement. An organization that proclaims to have it all figured out will only attract blind followers, not future leaders.
At the level of the individual, we begin by practicing humility and patience. We must acknowledge that, as human beings, our selves and our ideas are imperfect. We must remember to not take ourselves too seriously and remain open to the possibility that our ideas may be mistaken or at least able to be improved upon. We have to listen to others respectfully and respond in earnest pursuit of the truth, not in defense of ourselves or our ideas. This is humility. But insofar as we are confident in our ideas, we must also exercise patience in relating them to others. Supposing that there is some ultimate good or truth that we are all aiming to ascend toward, we must be mindful that not everyone is at the same level of ascension and refrain from judging others based on their current situation. We must have the patience to try to help others ascend without placing expectations on them.
Myself, I have only recently made the jump from Passive Conscientiousness to Active Revolt. It has been a liberating, empowering, and dizzying transition. I'm still figuring out how to best channel my energy, how to pick my battles, how to engage other people in productive discussions, how to not get burnt out and frustrated. It's amazing how quickly I went from relative passivity to immediately wanting (and, on some irrational level, expecting) the whole world to jump into activism with me. It is a lesson in humility and patience that I think I will continue to struggle with for a long time. On the other hand, I have also been devouring information and building the knowledge base that fuels my activism and increases my confidence. This too is a perpetual process of learning.
It seems to me that these two opposing lessons constitute the ultimate balancing act of an activist: finding the equilibrium between confidence and humility that allows us to keep ourselves and our cause moving forward. My goal as an activist, and as a human being in general, is to never give up on this struggle.


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"But make no mistake: grace never softens our thirst for obedience. It actually inspires us to go on the warpath against our unholiness. We look to the cross as believers, and we see there lavish forgiveness, but also our fundamental approach to sin. In the power of the cross, we are to kill sin. We are to realize that it is a deadly serious matter. Jesus did not die to manage our sin. He died to kill it."
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I am 67 years of age and know all about this…I think…I'm not sure. Never mind at my age I'm entitled to forget a few things although I never forget my family..they never allow me to! My employer takes the michael out of me on occasion when I forget the names of lorry drivers, he forgets that I meet roughly sixty drivers a day and they're not all the same ones…I don't think so anyway.
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- Anonymous30 September 2014 at 01:11
No, he's a very rich person who believes that the poor should pay for the recession, because he, and his kind shouldn't. What's more, he's in a position to make sure that happens. Most English people who voted at the last general election knew what the were doing, and voted Tory or Lib Dem. They got what they wanted. That's called democracy.ReplyDelete
You may be underestimating the fury of those who voted LibDem and saw the LibDems prop up a Tory government. Perhaps there is more fury about this in Scotland than in England. I wouldn't give much for Danny Alexander's seat. (Double entendre spotted but corrective action disdained.)ReplyDelete
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[Introduction of Eudist Triduum 2016] In these days, Catholic Church has three commemorations with a Eudis background: The Solemnity of Jesus Christ, High and Eternal Priest, the solemnity of the Heart of Jesus and the special memory of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
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This recipe is great!
I want say something about the "canelons"
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The two members of Congress have worked for the past three years on a "Grand Compromise" bill to settle many of the public lands issues in southeast Utah. The bill, which was expected to be introduced in the House of Representatives several months ago, is an attempt to find room around the table for all of the interested parties and find a compromise agreement.
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Just a quick reminder that the WebDAV Working Group is currently a little bit more than halfway through a Working Group Last Call for Comments on the WebDAV Access Control Protocol, draft-ietf-webdav-acl-06. The comments period ends July 29, 2001, at midnight, US Pacific time. The initial message starting the comments period can be found here: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2001AprJun/0313.html This specification is available in the following formats: Text (normative version): http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-webdav-acl-06.txt http://www.webdav.org/acl/protocol/draft-ietf-webdav-acl-06.txt HTML: http://www.webdav.org/acl/protocol/draft-ietf-webdav-acl-06.htm PDF: http://www.webdav.org/acl/protocol/draft-ietf-webdav-acl-06.pdf Word (with change tracking active): http://www.webdav.org/acl/protocol/draft-ietf-webdav-acl-06.doc Based on the comments I have seen so far, it looks like the -06 specification will be changed only slightly to remedy problems identified in the comments, and then forwarded along to the IESG for approval. As a result, this is looking very much like the final call for comments within the working group, and hence if you are intending to review this document, you should do so by the 29th. - JimReceived on Wednesday, 11 July 2001 21:58:25 UTC
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I became a OMG Tech Ranger after my friend Matt, (who runs the coding workshop at OMG Tech) recommended I 'give it a go'! The first event I help out with was in South Auckland, at ParkJam; there were 4 Tech Rangers (including me!), 6 robots and a endless supply of eager participants! Ever since then – I've been part of the Robots team!
At this point – I'd like to point out I DON'T come from a robotics or electronic background, I'm not an engineer and I don't know any programming languages! BUT, I have worked in the NZ tech industry for the last 9 years and for the last 2 years I've been involved with a number of initiatives encourage kids to get into STEM (especially software engineering and computer science!)
There's a global shortage of skilled IT people in the industry, and as tech becomes bigger (which it inevitable will!) – this will only perpetuate unless we make some radical efforts to improve the situation.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not just doing this so we can fill all the vacancies in the tech industry! As Steve Jobs put it 'Everyone should know how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think!'
For me, tech isn't about being a lone code monkey drinking energy drinks and eating pizza (which the common social stereotype seems to portray!)! It's about problem solving, working together collaborative, following your passion, doing something that will create benefit to the end user and solving real life problems! Through all the OMG Tech workshops we run, we encourage all our students to see tech in the same way!
Not only do we encourage our students to think differently we encourage them to learn differently. The robotics workshop we run is based on tactile and collaborative learning. Most students work in pairs when programming their robot, they learn by trail and error and build up a resilient and agile mindset while doing so. As someone who's dyslexic, and remembers that feeling of anxiety and frustration when learning classic classroom methodologies such as 'chalk and talk' or text book learning. I understand the importance of allowing students to experience their own personal 'eureka' moment! I think this is the BEST way to learn anything!


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Having worked with her hands as a ceramist and believing that form and line are highly expressive art principles, Magda was naturally drawn to sculpture. Her wax, resin and sheepskin sculptures focus on the hybridization between the innocent and the experienced, between the conventional and the macabre.
The historical and archaic content is starkly juxtaposed with the pressing socio economic issues that are prevalent in South Africa today. Each interlinking circle symbolizes an aspect of an often gruesome, violent and perpetually corrupt state of existence. The bloodlines serve to connect and create a collaborative idea. The foreboding red sky expresses a threatening tone and the silhouette of a crow is an omen for the dark outcome if change is not implemented.
The relevance of the nurse is to illustrate old wounds, hurt and anguish that are in the metaphase of healing and redemption. The red face symbolizes an outcry for help. This person is an embodiment of the helplessness of the innocent and their pain. The fly represents decay and the macabre nature of morals and ethics. The bound woman is a graphic reminder of the rape, defilement, plunder and rapid depletion of our country's natural resources and environments. She is bound with the sense of despair and imminent realization of her own mortality. The cross epitomizes all the lives lost due to brutal farm murders. The Kruger coin embodies the concept of greed and gluttony. The rose signifies hope, regrowth and denotes a foreseeably positive future.
Lament of the Madonna
This painting pays tribute to women across the world who have been wronged, be it physical or emotional trauma. The vase with Madonna as the flower, is depicted on top of a grave.
Excerpt from an article posted by News 24: On 12 December 2014 a woman was walking along the N18 near Bloemfontein to pick her sister up from school. A car with 3 men stopped and forced her at knifepoint into a nearby veld. They removed her clothes, tied her to a tree and took turns to repeatedly rape her.
Her early works focused mainly on production, and thus fell into the commercialised aesthetic category. Moving past this, she found her own voice by treating the surface of whatever she was creating as a canvas, on which her thoughts and feelings are projected. Magda is inspired by her heritage, utilising where she comes from to clarify where she's going. She has also come to critically engage with the astounding levels of violence and political scandals that are crippling South Africa. Through the juxtaposition of elements that speak of tranquillity and love with death and corruption, she tries to process the conflicting sense of belonging and rejection of a South African identity.


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In 2013, we endowed a bicycle to Elma, a 16-year-old girl living in the Roma communities outside of Belgrade, Serbia. Elma had just flouted her family's wishes to marry a much older man, and had instead married her boyfriend. To earn money, Elma began renting out her new bicycle; her husband acting as mechanic. Five years later, Elma has grown her small endeavor into a popular bicycle bike share with over two hundred bikes.
In Elma's case, an endowed bike helped launch a business. In many cases, it helps restore self-worth, like for Sreylin, a trafficking survivor who received a bike from us and participated in our dressmaking workshop in Cambodia, in 2013. For still others, like Puja in Kolkata, a bike recipient in 2017, it helps her get to the gym to pursue her dream to be a boxer.
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Hemp flourishes without the the use of pesticides (having few natural enemies) and grows so fast that it literally leaves other plants in the shade. This means herbicides are not required either, making hemp ideal for organic farming. Cotton, on the other hand, uses vast amounts of chemicals both in its growing and processing.
Hemp produces up to three or four times more pulp per acre than timber, and produces higher quality paper. There are no environmentally damaging bleaching processes in hemp paper production and it recycles many more times than wood pulp.
At present we are over-reliant on dwindling fossil fuel reserves and are still busy chopping down forests at an alarming rate. Hemp is a sustainable alternative and also one of he most effective convertors of CO2 to oxygen – cleaning the air, improving the soil and helping to fight global warming.
Apart from living in a healthier environment, using hemp is beneficial to the individual in many ways. Hemp fibres are porous so they allow your skin to breathe, whilst also being softer, stronger and more durable than cotton.
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Christopher H. Browne, former managing director of the mutual fund company Tweedy Browne and legendary value investor, died Sunday from a heart attack, the company announced on its Web site. He was 62.
Mr. Browne stepped down in July from his duties as director, after two years of health complications, to become a senior adviser to the firm.
Mr. Browne graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969 and joined Tweedy Browne, where his father also worked. He became partner in 1974, and would spend his forty-year career at the firm, which in the 1960s helped Warren Buffett take control of a New England textile company known as Berkshire Hathaway.
With a large stake in Hollinger International, he would lead a shareholder campaign against Conrad Black's executive perks that ultimately landed Mr. Black in prison for fraud.
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Managing homework can be a nightmare for parents, particularly if their children have special needs. Homework can be a problem for many reasons including:
- Children's inability to get homework assignments written
- Children's exhaustion at the end of the school day.
- Children's problems with handwriting.
- Children not understanding instructions or taking them
- Children forgetting to bring home the materials they need
for homework.
Talk to your children's doctors about homework expectations
At the outset, discuss your children's homework with their medical providers. They should give you guidance about what to expect from your children based on their diagnoses. Ask them:
- How much time your children should spend on homework?
- How much help should you give them?
- If they recommend any accommodations or adaptations to homework for your children?
You may need to ask for written reports to bring to your children's schools.
Find out if your school has a homework policy
Many schools and school districts have policies about the amount of homework teachers should give their students. The National Education Association and the National Parent Teacher Association both recommend that children spend ten minutes on homework per grade. So children in second grade should spend 20 minutes on homework and children in twelfth grade should spend 120 minutes.
Meet with your children's teachers
At the start of each term or school year meet with your children's teachers to decide:
- The maximum amount of time your children should spend on homework.
- What subject or subjects to prioritize.
- What adaptations to homework can be made – for example, instead of having children write complete sentences, adapt homework so children only have to fill in the blanks?
- If handwriting is an issue, can a parent or friend act as a scribe? Or, can the work be done on a computer?
- If your children have difficulty writing down homework assignments, can they be emailed to you or can your children use dictaphones to record their homework?
Other tips
- Make sure your child has a quiet place where they can do their homework
without distractions.
- If children become upset while doing homework, limit the amount of work they do or stop the homework for that night. Make sure you send a note to school explaining the situation to your child's teacher.
- Ask teachers not to assign "busy work" if your children are struggling to get homework done.
- Contact your children's schools to make sure your children have enough time at the end of the school day to organize their book bags with what they need for homework.
- If there are ten questions on the same learning point, talk to the teacher about having your children do five. For example, if the homework assignment is to find the subject in ten sentences, can your children do five sentences instead?
If homework continues to be a problem, talk with your children's teachers about making additional accommodations.
Managing homework is an ongoing process, and you may need to meet with your children's teachers several times throughout the year.


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It's day two of Future Music Festival Asia and we're still alive. But barely.
We could tell you all about it, but nothing says it better than pictures. We peeked into the corners of A State of Trance to show you what you missed out on the second day of the annual music festival.


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Camping Tripesce
Italy, Tuscany, Vada
- Tel:
- 0586 788 017
- Open:
- 30 March - 16 October.
Ref: IT66290
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Neat and tidy, this family owned and run site has the great advantage of direct beach access through electronically controlled gates with CCTV. The beach is of fine sand and shelves gently – super for children, with watersports and a lifeguard in season. This great beach makes up for the lack of a pool on the site and the fairly small size of the 230 pitches. All have 4A electricity and 60 are serviced with water and drainage. Some shade is provided by trees and by artificial shading. The site is contained within a rectangle and bungalows to rent are discreetly placed near reception.
A pleasant bar with a terrace is alongside the small restaurant (limited but very reasonable menu), and just across the road is a well stocked shop. The play area is modern and pleasant but the slides end on gravel or concrete so children will need supervision. There is a small range of activities and a miniclub. Everything is kept spotlessly clean. The site has many German guests as demonstrated in the German language notices around the site. If you are a beach enthusiast this could be for you, especially the beachside pitches. This is a relaxing site without the razzmatazz of the larger sites along the coast and principally car-free.
Three clean, fresh toilet blocks provide hot and cold showers (water is solar heated and free). British and Turkish style toilets. Facility for disabled visitors. Washing machines. Motorhome services. Bar/restaurant and takeaway. Shop. Excellent beach. Aquarobics and aerobics (high season). Play area (supervision required). Miniclub (high season). WiFi throughout (free). Fishing. Bicycle hire. Dogs are not accepted 23/5-4/9. Charcoal barbecues are not permitted.
- Accommodation to Rent
- American Motor Homes
- Bicycle Hire on Site
- Boat Launch on Site
- Bar Nearby
- Bar on Site
- Childrens Play Area
- Seaside Beach Onsite
- Fishing on Site
- Twin Axle Caravans Accepted
- Facilities for disabled visitors
- Riding Nearby
- Sailing on Site
- Restaurant
- Shop Nearby
- Shop on Site
- Pets allowed
- Takeaway Food
- Wifi (all site)
- Wifi Free
From S1 autostrada (free) between Livorno and Grosetto head south and take Vada exit. Site is well signed along with many others as you approach the town.
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First off Anisotropic shaders are bit tricky, how good they look has a LOT to do with the environment and lighting. You can have the greatest shader in the world but unless those other two factors are also perfect you WON'T SEE IT.
Here is a mix for creating an Anisotropic shader in Maya and Mental Ray. Be advised though depending on your situation, you will have to tweak the settings to make it work perfectly for you.
Here is a mix for creating an Anisotropic shader in Maya and Mental Ray. Be advised though depending on your situation, you will have to tweak the settings to make it work perfectly for you.
1. First open Hypershade: Window>Rendering Editors>Hypershade
2. Now create a new Maya node. The Anisotropic shader is under the surfaces category in the create maya nodes drop down of the hyper shade.
A new anisotropic shader called "anisotrpic1" will appear in the hypershade work area. You can rename it whatever you wish.
3. In your viewport right click and hold down the button on the object you wish to attach the shader to while holding down the button move to menues: assign existing material>anisotropic1
This will apply your material to the object.
4. Now let's create a quick area light to hit up our object with. Menus: Create>Lights>Area Light
Position the area light above pointing at your object.
5. Now we need to turn on shadows for the light. Select the light then in attribute editor go to the Shadows drop down then Raytrace Shadow attribute drop down. Then select the checkbox Use Raytrace Shadows.
Set Shadow Rays to 10.
6. Go to render options menu: Window>Rendering Editors>Render Settings. Make sure that Mental Ray is selected in the "Render Using" drop down at the top of the Render Settings Window.Then go to the Indirect Lighting Tab, Final Gathering drop down and ENABLE the Final Gathering checkbox.
I'm also just going to put a simple wood texture on the floor just to give us more reflections to play with in the scene. Do a render to see what you are getting.
Yeah it's pretty nasty looking, but let's keep going.
7. Go back to your hypershade and select your anisotrpic1 node. In the Attribute Editor under the drop down Specular Shading
DISABLE the Anisotrpic Reflectivity Checkbox. This will let you control the level of reflectivity yourself.
8. Change the Reflectivity value to 0.736
Then under Common Material Atributes change the Diffuse setting to 0.132
Under specular Shading set Speard X to 7.532 and Spread Y to 5.882
Roughness to .7
Fresnel Index to 2.0
Metal will only look good if it has something to reflect. So we are going to add some image based lighting. (IBL)
9. Go to render options menu: Window>Rendering Editors>Render Settings. Then to the Indirect Lighting Tab at the top of this you will see Image Based Lighting. Click the CREATE button next to it. Immediately an IBL node system will be set up in your scene, though it may look like nothing happened. Now click the Right pointing arrow to the right of the Delete button.
In the attribute editor it should open your IBL atributes. next to "Image Name" click the small folder to load and HDR file. These can be downloaded from many free sites online.
Navigate to your HDR file and click open.
The look of your metal will totally be dependant on which HDR file you are using but this is what mine looks like at this point.
Now we have nice anisotropic highlights but perfectly crisp reflections. Let's do something about that.
10. In the hypershade Goto create maya node, then under the 2D textures drop box select "As Projection" Then select the NOISE node in the list of 2D textures. This creates a new projection noise node. In the top of the attribute editor you can rename it anistropic_noise1 Now select the anistropic_noise1 node, and in the attribute editor make the following settings.
Threshold 0.1
Amplitude 0.140
Ratio 1.0
Requency Ratio 1.744
11. Next in hypershade select the place2Dtexture node attached to the noise1 node. In the atribute editor increase the "RepeatUV" fields to these values. U is first V second.
U set to 0.05
V set to 100
The purpose of creating this texture of just lines is to use it to blur our reflections in an anisotropic way. Profound huh?
12. Here is how to attach it. First in the hypershade select the anistropic_noise1 node. The atrtribute editor for it should display in the right side of the screen. Expand the Mental Ray drop down. You will see a Mi Reflection blur attribute.
Now in your hypershade MIDDLE house click and hold down on the projection1 node. Drag it over to the attribute editor and connect it to the Mi Reflection blur attribute.
A very busy looking connection editor will appear. In the left hand "outputs" list select OUTALPHA
Then in the right hand side of the connection editor select miReflectionBlur. and press close. (MAKE SURE TO SELECT REFLECTION Blur AND NOT reFRACTION Blur
Now let's render and see what we are getting.
Alright, the reflections are being blurred by the noise but it looks ghastly. We need to smooth it more.
13. To smooth grain of the reflection go to your select your anisotropic1 node in the hypershade then in the Attribute Editor expand the Mental Ray drop down and set the Reflection Rays setting to 50. This will give it a lot more quality.
Now let's see what we get.
Much better now we have something that is really starting to look like real brushed metal. But it is perphaps a bit to plasticy looking still. The solution to this is to add an irregular "darking map."
14. In your Hypershade under Create Maya Nodes, scroll down to the 3D textures drop down and create a new Cloud node. The cool thing about creating this as a 3D texture is that it will create an object in your scene you can then move around to change the surface properties of your metal till it looks just right.
Now make sure that you anisotrpic shader is selected and you are looking at it's attributes in the Attribute Editor on the right hand side. MIDDLE click and hold down on the Cloud node (not the place3d one) and drag it over to the Color attribute of your Anisotropic material. It should drop right in.
Now here is how it looks as you can see it has a much darker more natural metal feel. Especially at the edges. You can move the green 3D cloud placement node around in your scene to change the effect. Or select your cloud node and change the contrast etc to lessen or increase the effect.
That's it you should have a very good starting place for anisotropic metals with this shader.
Please check "HELPFUL" below if it was, if not COMMENT below and tell me why!