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wikiHow to Use an Unlocked Cell Phone
Four Methods:General SettingsText Message SettingsInternet SettingsVoice Mail SettingsCommunity Q&A
When you obtain an unlocked cell phone, you can use the cell phone on any Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network, as long as you have a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card from the GSM carrier you plan on using with the phone. In some cases, depending on the GSM carrier or the model of your cell phone, you may have to alter menu settings in your phone to use certain features; such as text messaging, Internet, and voice mail. An unlocked cell phone can also be very useful when you travel to international locations, especially since you can buy an international SIM card and pay lower voice and messaging rates as opposed to the international roaming rates provided by your local GSM carrier.
General Settings
1Obtain the manual for your cell phone. You may need to consult with your manual when you modify settings in your cell phone to make it compatible with your current GSM carrier.
- If a hard-copy manual was not included with your cell phone, you can obtain a copy of your manual from the cell phone manufacturer's website or at the website of the cell phone's original GSM carrier. For example, if you obtained an unlocked cell phone that originated from T-Mobile, but you plan on using the phone with ATT, visit T-Mobile's website to locate a copy of the cell phone's manual.
2Place your SIM card into the phone. An unlocked cell phone will allow you to use a SIM card from any GSM carrier in the phone.
- Refer to your manual to determine how the SIM card is inserted into the cell phone. In most cell phones, the SIM card slot will be located in the back compartment near the battery.
3Power on your cell phone. After your cell phone is powered on, your SIM card will connect to your carrier's nearest GSM tower and you will have the ability to make and receive phone calls.
Text Message Settings
1Determine your carrier's text message service center number. If you plan on sending and receiving text messages on your unlocked cell phone, you will need to program your carrier's text message service center number into your messaging settings.
- Contact your GSM carrier directly or perform an Internet search to locate the correct text message service center number for your carrier.
- If ATT is your carrier, the text message service center number is +1-312-314-9810.
- If T-Mobile is your carrier, the text message service center number will be +1-206-313-0004.
2Modify the text message service center number within your unlocked cell phone.
- Refer to your manual to determine where the text message service center number can be modified from within your cell phone. In most cases, you can navigate to your messaging folder and select "Settings" or "Message Settings," then choose the "Text Messaging" settings folder to locate your messaging service center number.
3Test your text messaging feature. This will allow you to determine if you efficiently modified your text message settings and used the correct text messaging service center number.
- Send a text message to your own phone number from your unlocked cell phone. If you successfully receive the message, your text message settings are correct; however, if your message failed to send and you received an error message, you will need to contact your GSM carrier.
- Contact your GSM carrier and explain that you cannot send or receive text messages. Your carrier may be able to send you an over-the-air (OTA) update with the correct text messaging settings or walk you through steps to correct the error.
Internet Settings
1Determine the appropriate Access Point Name (APN) for your Internet service. To use your carrier's Internet service, you will be required to enter the correct APN information into your cell phone.
- Contact your GSM carrier directly or visit your carrier's website to determine the correct APN information to enter into your unlocked cell phone. The APN information may vary greatly depending on your Internet package or cell phone model.
2Enter your carrier's APN information into your unlocked cell phone.
- Refer to your cell phone's manual to determine where you can modify the APN information. In most cases, you can go to the "Settings" or "Browser Settings" sub-menus within your Internet folder to modify the APN information.
3Test your Internet connectivity.
- Launch your browser or Internet from its icon or location on your cell phone to determine if it connects successfully.
- If your Internet does not connect successfully, try accessing more than one website to ensure that the connectivity issues are related to your cell phone, and not with one particular website.
- Contact your GSM carrier directly if your Internet does not work with the APNs you entered. You may be advised to modify your APN settings or they may send you an OTA update with the correct Internet or APN settings.
Voice Mail Settings
1Obtain the voice mail messaging center number for your GSM carrier. You will need to program the voice mail number into your phone if you want to access voice mail from your unlocked cell phone.
- Contact your GSM carrier directly to determine the number for the voice mail system. If your carrier is T-Mobile, the voice mail number will be +1-805-637-7243.
2Program the voice mail number into your cell phone. This will prevent you from having to enter the number manually each time you want to listen to your voice mail messages.
- Refer to your manual to determine how you can add phone numbers to your contact list or program your voice mail number into your speed dial.
3Test your voice mail from the unlocked cell phone.
- Dial your voice mail number to verify you can access your voice mailbox. Depending on your voice mailbox settings, you may need to enter a password to access your voice mail.
Community Q&A
Can I transfer my sim card to my unlocked phone?wikiHow ContributorYes. It should be easy to do.
How will I know what my phone number will be?wikiHow ContributorYou can click on Contacts, and the phone's number should display at the top of the screen.
How to unlock a locked Samsung Vodaphone?
How do you delete a text message without reading it?
How do I get a phone number for my unlocked phone so people can call me on it?
Sources and Citations
- http://www.pcworld.com/article/135768/joys_of_unlocked_cell_phones.html
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10277723-94.html
- http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB38686#fbid=OM51cohImuM
- http://developer.att.com/developer/forward.jsp?passedItemId=1700008
- http://wiki.howardforums.com/index.php/T-Mobile_APNs
- http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-2174
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Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
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Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Hebrew: משה חיים לוצאטו, also Moses Chaim, Moses Hayyim, also Luzzato) (1707 in Padua – 16 May 1746 in Acre (26 Iyar 5506)), also known by the Hebrew acronym RaMCHaL (or RaMHaL, רמח"ל), was a prominent Italian Jewish rabbi, kabbalist, and philosopher.
Born in Padua, he received classical Jewish and Italian education, showing a predilection for literature at a very early age. He may have attended the University of Padua and certainly associated with a group of students there, known to dabble in mysticism and alchemy. With his vast knowledge in religious lore, the arts, and science, he quickly became the dominant figure in that group. His writings demonstrate mastery of the Tanakh, the Talmud, and the rabbinical commentaries and codes of Jewish law.
The turning point in Luzzatto's life came at the age of twenty, when he received direct instruction from an angel (known as a maggid). While stories of such encounters with celestial entities were not unknown in kabbalistic circles, it was unheard of for someone of such a young age. His peers were enthralled by his written accounts of these "Divine lessons", but the leading Italian rabbinical authorities were highly suspicious and threatened to excommunicate him. Just one hundred years earlier another young mystic, Shabbatai Zvi (1626–1676), had rocked the Jewish world by claiming to be the Messiah. Although, at one point, Zvi had convinced many European and Middle Eastern rabbis of his claim, the episode ended with him recanting and converting to Islam. The global Jewish community was still reeling from that, and the similarities between Luzzatto's writings and Zvi's were perceived as being particularly dangerous and heretical.
These writings, only some of which have survived, are often misunderstood to describe a belief that the Ramchal and his followers were key figures in a messianic drama that was about to take place. In this contentious interpretation, he identified one of his followers as the Messiah, son of David, and assumed for himself the role of Moses, claiming that he was that biblical figure's reincarnation.
After threats of excommunication and many arguments, Luzzatto finally came to an understanding with many of the Rabbanim (prominent rabbis), including his decision not to write the maggid's lessons or teach mysticism. In 1735, Luzzatto left Italy for Amsterdam, believing that in the more liberal environment there, he would be able to pursue his mystical interests. Passing through Germany, he appealed to the local rabbinical authorities to protect him from the threats of the Italian rabbis. They refused and forced him to sign a document stating that all the teachings of the maggid were false.
Most of his writings were burned, though some did survive. From the Zoharic writings, the 70 Tikkunim Hadashim re-appeared in 1958 against all odds, in the main library of Oxford. "Arrangements" of thoughts, these Tikkunim expose 70 different essential uses of the last verse of the Humash (the five books of Moses).
Supposedly taught word-by-word in Aramaic by Luzzatto's "Maggid," they parallel the Tikunei haZohar ("Rectifications of the Zohar") of Rabbi Simeon bar Yochai, the Rashbi, which expose the 70 fundamental understandings of the first verse of the `Houmash (Books of Moses).
When Luzzatto finally reached Amsterdam, he was able to pursue his studies of the Kabbalah relatively unhindered. Earning a living as a diamond cutter, he continued writing but refused to teach. It was in this period that he wrote his magnum opus the Mesillat Yesharim (1740), essentially an ethical treatise but with certain mystical underpinnings. The book presents a step-by-step process by which every person can overcome the inclination to sin and might eventually experience a divine inspiration similar to prophecy. Another prominent work, Derekh Hashem (The Way of God) is a philosophical text about God's purpose in Creation, justice, and ethics. The same concepts are discussed in a shorter book called Maamar HaIkarim (the English translation of this book is now available on the Web with the title "Essay on Fundamentals"). Da'at Tevunot ("The Knowing Heart") also found its existence in the Dutch city as the missing link between rationality and Kabbalah, a dialogue between the intellect and the soul. On the other hand, Derech Tevunot ("The Way of Understanding") introduces the logic which structures Talmudic debates as a means to understanding the world.
One major rabbinic contemporary who praised Luzzatto's writing was Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna, the Vilna Gaon (1720–1797), who was considered to be the most authoritative Torah sage of the modern era as well as a great kabbalist himself. He was reputed to have said after reading the Mesillat Yesharim, that were Luzzatto still alive, he would have walked from Vilna to learn at Luzzatto's feet;[1][2] He stated that having read the work, the first ten chapters contained not a superfluous word. Among some Jewish intellectuals of that time this was considered to be one of the highest praises that one sage could grant another.[3]
Luzzatto also wrote poetry and drama. Although most of it is seemingly secular, some scholars claim to have identified mystical undertones in this body of work as well. His writing is strongly influenced by the Jewish poets of Spain and by contemporary Italian authors.[4]
The cantor of the Sephardic synagogue in Amsterdam, Abraham Caceres, worked with Luzzatto to set several of his poems to music.[5][6]
Frustrated by his inability to teach kabbalah, Luzzatto left Amsterdam for the Holy Land in 1743, settling in Acre. Three years later, he and his family died in a plague.
- Burial site
Though it is accepted by scholars that his tomb is in Kafr Yasif, where some assume to have identified it, his burial place is traditionally said to be near the Talmudic sage Rabbi Akiva in Tiberias, northern Israel. Probably also because Kafr Yasif is now an Arab town while Tiberias is Jewish, the Tiberias tomb is the destination of almost all of the pilgrims seeking his final resting place.
- Synagogue in Acre
Luzzato's original synagogue in Akko was razed by the city's Bedouin ruler Zahir al-Umar in 1758, who built a mosque on top of it. In its place, the Jews of Akko received a small building north of the mosque which still functions as a synagogue and bears the name of the Ramchal.[7]
- Religious writings
A century after his death, Luzzatto was rediscovered by the Mussar Movement, which adopted his ethical works. It was the great Torah ethicist, Rabbi Yisrael Salanter (1810–1883) who placed the Messilat Yesharim at the heart of the Mussar (ethics) curriculum of the major yeshivot of Eastern Europe.
- Secular literary legacy
The Hebrew writers of the Haskalah, the Jewish expression of the Enlightenment, greatly admired Luzatto's secular writings and deemed him the founder of modern Hebrew literature. His cousin, the poet Ephraim Luzzatto (1729–1792), also exerted genuine influence on the first stirrings of modern Hebrew poetry.
These are some of the other books that RaMChaL wrote:[8]
- Ma'aseh Shimshon ("The Story of Samson")
- Lashon Limudim ("A Tongue for Teaching")
- Migdal Oz ("A Tower of Strength")
- Zohar Kohelet ("The Zohar to the Book of Ecclesiastes")
- Shivim Tikkunim ("Seventy Tikkunim") which parallels the seventy Tikkunei Zohar
- Zohar Tinyanah ("A Second Zohar") no longer exists
- Klallot Haillan or Klalut Hailan ("The Principle Elements of The Tree [of Life]") a synopsis of the ARI's basic work of Kabbalah
- Ma'amar Hashem ("A Discourse on God")
- Ma'amar HaMerkava ("A Discourse on The Chariot")
- Ma'amer Shem Mem-Bet ("A Discourse on the 42 letter Name [of God]")
- Ma'amar HaDin ("A Discourse on [Divine] Judgment")
- Ma'amar HaChochma or Maamar Ha'hokhma ("A Discourse on Wisdom") focuses on Rosh Hashanna, Yom Kippur, and Passover from a Kabbalistic perspective
- Ma'amar HaGeulah ("A Discourse on The Redemption" or "The Great Redemption")
- Ma'amar HaNevuah ("A Discourse on Prophecy")
- Mishkanei Elyon or Mishkane 'Elyon ("Exalted Towers") a Kabbalistic understanding of the Holy Temple with a depiction of the third Temple's dimensions
- Ain Yisrael ("The Well of Israel")
- Ain Yaakov ("The Well of Jacob")
- Milchamot Hashem ("The Wars of God") which defends Kabbalah against its detractors
- Kinnaot Hashem Tzivakot or Kinat H' Tsevaot ("Ardent [Defenses] for The L-rd of Hosts") offers details about the redemption and the Messiah.
- Adir Bamarom ("[God is] Mighty on High") a commentary on the Iddrah Rabbah ("The Great Threshing Room") section of the Zohar
- Iggrot Pitchei Chochma v'Da'at or Klale Pit'he 'Hokhma Veda'at ("Letters [to Serve] as an Opening to Wisdom and Knowledge") spells out and explains certain erudite principles of the Jewish faith according to the Kabbalah
- Sefer Daniel ("The Book of Daniel"), an esoteric commentary to this Biblical work
- Tiktu Tephilot ("515 Prayers") focuses on prayers for the revelation of God's sovereignty
- Kitzur Kavvanot ("Abbreviated Intentions") allows the reader an overview of the ARI's recorded prayer-intentions
- Ma'amar HaVechuach ("A Discourse [that serves as] The Argument ") pits a Kabbalist against a rationalist as each tries to defend his way of thinking
- Klach Pitchei Chochma or Kala'h Pitkhe 'Hokhma ("138 Openings to Wisdom") one of Ramchal's most important works in that it lays out his thinking about the symbolic nature of the Ari's writings and Ramchal's own explanations of those symbols
- Areichat Klallot HaEilan ("A Dictionary of The Principle Elements to The Tree [of Life]")
- Klallim ("Principle Elements") a series of short and pithy presentations of the main principles of the Kabbalistic system said outright
- Da'at Tevunot or Da'ath Tevunoth ("The Knowing Heart" or "Knowing the Reasons"), a work that explains the duality of positive and negative that exists on all levels of reality, that this is the basis of God's "showing his face/hiding his face" to and from humanity, and the dual existence of good and evil
- Peirush al Midrash Rabbah ("A Commentary on Midrash Rabbah") that isn't Kabbalistic so much as symbolic
- Derech Hashem or Derekh Hashem ("The Way of God") one of his best known works: a succinct laying-out of the fundamentals of the Jewish faith touching upon mankind's obligations in this world and its relations to God
- Ma'amar al HaAggadot ("A Discourse on Aggadah") which is an explanation that Aggadic literature is not literal but metaphoric
- Ma'amar HaIkkurim or Maamar Ha'ikarim ("A Discourse on the Fundamentals") a short and succinct laying-out of the fundamentals of the Jewish religion like "The Way of God" that touches upon certain other themes
- Derech Chochma or Sepher Derekh 'Hokhma ("The Way of Wisdom"), which serves as a dialogue between a young person and a sage with the latter setting out a lifetime course of Torah study culminating in the study of Kabbalah
- Vichuach HaChocham V'HaChassid ("The Argument between the Sage and the Pious Man") which is actually a first draft of Messilat Yesharim that only resurfaced recently
- Messilat Yesharim or Mesilat Yesharim ("The Path of the Just"), his most famous work that enables its readers to grow in piety step by step, was written when he was 33 (in 1740)
- Sefer HaDikduk ("The Book of Grammar")
- Sefer HaHigayon ("The Book of Logic") lays out the correct way to think and analyze
- Ma'amar al HaDrasha ("A Discourse on Homilies") encourages the study of Kabbalah and Mussar
- Sefer Hamalitza ("The Book of Style") offers the art of accurate writing and expression
- Derech Tevunot ("The Way of Understanding") explains the Talmudic way of thinking.
- LaYesharim Tehilla ("Praise be to the Upright") is a dramatic work.
See also[edit]
- ^ Rietti, Rabbi Jonathan, "Deepening one's relationship with God" lecture series, audio format
- ^ Luzzatto, Moshe Hayyim (1997), The Way of God (Hebrew: Derech Hashem) (Sixth, corrected edition, 1998), Jerusalem, Feldheim Publishers, p 15, ISBN 978-0-87306-344-9
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- ^ Alfred Sendrey The music of the Jews in the Diaspora (up to 1800) 1971 "... Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, who lived in Amsterdam from 1736 to 1743, wrote the poems and Abraham Caceres the music."
- ^ Journal of synagogue music: 5 - 3 Cantors Assembly of America - 1974 "In the texts of poems composed for this occasion by the Amsterdam rabbis Isaac Aboab da Fonseca [...] later set to music by Abraham Caceres, also appears in this important musical manuscript, on fol. l5b-l6a..."
- ^ http://www.akko.org.il/english/Sites/PrayerSites.asp
- ^ "Ramchal". Torah.org. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
External links[edit]
Wikiquote has quotations related to: Moshe Chaim Luzzatto |
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- The official Ramchal site texts - Videos
- Ramchal books
- About Luzzatto
- Biography of Luzzatto
- Current classes on RAMCHAL on the Internet
- His teachings
- Beit Ramhal, continuing his legacy
- The Kabbalah of the Ari za"l according to the Ram`hal
- Excerpt of Derech Etz Chaim by the Ramchal
- The purpose of life - based on the RAMCHAL
- MP3s of a class that is reading Derech HaShem ("The Way of God")
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Of Montreal has been through all the same stuff as other bands. The band came together as a band only to find that its creative leader grows into his own and decides that the band is his band. The band teetered on the brink as said leader probes the depths of his (in)sanity and tries to see if he can come out sane and whole. The Past Is a Grotesque Animal depicts all of this, plus horses, shaving cream, and an international romance.
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The relationships within the band are part of the story as the members who central to Of Montreal at the start fall away and fall away until, at the end, it's really down to Barnes and his brother David, the man responsible for much of the visual spectacle. You get the feeling that for everything being said—and there is much mutual respect and praise offered and some minor barbs—there's a whole lot that isn't. Naturally not every music documentary has to wind its way down to being nothing more than an excuse for trash talk but maybe a little more frankness would not have hurt.
In the end, Kevin Barnes seems the saddest of all who have passed through the ranks. He tells the camera that in the end he cares more about the art than the relationships. But given the context of the events of the film, these words come across more like the words of a man so afraid of being hurt that he cloaks himself in loneliness, rather than someone who would dismiss those closest to him just because of his artistic vision. You could sneer and jeer at him, but instead you just kind of feel sad that all that great music has come with a price so high.
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what a country we live in! it is the only country i know that both republicans and democrats cry fowl cry fowl when they fall short of the amount of votes needed to pass their mearsures. why the hell don't we just STFU and let our govt work. if you don't like the new gun measures that have FAILED then go back and enforce the gun laws that are on the books! if you're ACTUALLY looking for new measures to make us safer you don't you adding new health laws and enforcing old ones, that is where the real problem is. or is your next measure to outlaw cooking pots?
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Here's a novel thought, and one that if it even occurs to the anti-gunners, will never see the light of day....
Perhaps. just perhaps, those Senators didn't vote for the gun control bills because despite their high and noble sounding titles, the actual laws proposed were absolute crap. For once, in recent history, it seems that our lawmakers not only listened to the majority of us (despite all kinds of bogus "polls"), and looked beyond what the bills were called, to what was actually in them. And what was in them not only would not have have had any effect on the recent shootings, but would have infringed on our rights, making criminals of citizens doing nothing more than what we have always done, and what it is our right to do.
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Their reaction is simply to use the event as a stage from which to exact penance from those who failed in the first place to prevent these events. In other words, . . . gun control has become a cash cow for them, . . . and they are going to run with it. No, . . . no one will ever admit or confess to that end, . . . but in the end, . . . money talks, . . . ________ walks. May God bless, Dwight
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She was shot in the head, almost died. Her friends died as did supporters. She was traumatized, she has also been turned into a puppet by her "friends" and from what I have seen, a husband who is more then willing to throw his hat into the same ring. I would no more rely on this women's judgment then I would allow her to sit as an impartial witness in a shooting trial. I don't doubt she had a hand in the writing of that article and her ability to think logically is at least, on this subject, seriously impaired by her emotions regarding the same. No one should be putting any thought into what Gabby Giffords has to say about guns. And I too am very sorry about what happened to her and the others just 70 miles from my home. Quote:
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Sandy Hook was a bonanza for them, because it gave them plenty of sock puppets to bolster that allegation.
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He went off on some tirade about how I wanted to go speeding through school zones running over kindergartners and he would ever support a bill like that. If he had said that he didn't support it for economical, ecological or even safety reasons on the interstate that my question referred to I would have voted for him. But his illogical response lost this vote. |
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WebMD has an article on her injury, which includes this: Quote:
The legal system may not recognize this as a murder, but I think that this was murder. The current Gabrielle Giffords has little interest in anything political other than gun control. Whether the anti-gun crusade is her own (a result of the executive function damage she sustained), or whether she is so mentally compromised that the gun control statement she read to Congress was fed to her by her husband or handlers, who can say.
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Not to go off topic, but after the shooting, I recall the pundits babbling about her remarkable recovery. From school, I said to my wife that she will have serious decrements. I'm fairly sure that her stuff is being composed. Probably read to her and she approves. Terrible thing to happen to anyone.
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Those on the gun control side keep saying how powerful the NRA is.
They keep saying that politicians are scared of the NRA. Has anyone ever mentioned to them in public that maybe, just maybe, they actually voted their conscience?
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The funny thing is, back in January we were hearing that the gun-control lobby was stomping the NRA. The NRA didn't have the juice to withstand this one, they said. Then the gun-control lobby lost. Suddenly, the NRA is an unstoppable juggernaut again in their eyes. What they fail to realize is that when they're badmouthing the NRA, they're badmouthing an organization to which a very diverse bunch of America belongs.
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you may be right.
Giffords views are shared by a good friend of mine. He thinks that we are limiting progress. I believe the B of Rights is timeless. He believes laws should be made by commitee. I believe more laws creates more problems.
This was a good read. I enjoy trying to understand the other side but how is it that we cannot simply believe that the Bill of Rights trumps emotional tidalwaves. Why must we be unenlightened or unsympathetic? I am still waiting for a voice who can deliver our message and a vehicle that carries it to the masses.
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Jack Riccardi should be hired by the NRA as a PR replacement for LaPierre - Radio talk show host on KTSA in San Antonio:
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"And I don't buy the argument that her cognitive functions are unimpaired, not as a rebuttal to "Who really wrote it?". My grandmother was left in a condition much like Ms. Gifford's by a stroke. My grandmother's cognitive functions were sufficiently functional that she understood what we said to her. For her to try to express any sort of meaningful idea in words, either spoken or written, was quite another story. In fact, it never happened. She lived ten more years after the stroke, ten years that had to have been incredibly frustrating to her because my grandmother was a highly intelligent and well-educated woman who loved discussing history and philosophy. To see her sitting in her living room, unable to form ideas into words in any medium, was heart-breaking.
I don't believe for a single nanosecond that Gabby Giffords wrote that. I think her husband wrote it and she signed it." Sorry about your grandmother. But have you ever seen Stephen Hawking? The human brain is a mysterious thing. Injuries affect it different. You can't compare your grandmother to Giffords, way too simplistic. You don't even know that their brain injuries occurred in the same area. I have seen people completely lose the ability to speak from a stroke, but totally retain their cognitive abilities. |
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A bullet traversing one hemisphere of the brain, from front to back, is going to pass through, and damage, a bunch of different areas.
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Hi, is there any way to search the site using the md5 hash for images from here?
I'm asking because a bunch of images I saved from here got corrupted and all I have is the filenames to use to try and get them back. I tried changing the image url, but all I get is the redirect.png even if it's a completely correct url the image came from (I think I know why, just can't find an easy way around it).
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Google it, srsly it works decently well. copy paste the Md5 into Google. :3.
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Google it, srsly it works decently well. copy paste the Md5 into Google. :3.I have been doing that of course, but it doesn't always work or lead back here. And the ones that Google does find are usually on some foreign or dead site I have to work around to get to the image. It hasn't been pleasant trying to get those images back (and I have a ton to go through). Thanks for trying to help though.
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Raul, please link to your profile at least, thanks.
Adam, might I suggest you read the search documentation prominently linked on every page:
I apologise for it perhaps not being so much of a "quick" guide any more, but the 7th item down explains you can search md5:dc73fa6f48d6496ced1f934c56e31f25 to pinpoint the post with the desired MD5.
There are a lot of other options there which may help with your task.
Also consider maintaining your favourites on the Channel as well if that appeals, as they aren't going anywhere and the site is very extensively backed up and highly redundant.
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Adam, might I suggest you read the search documentation prominently linked on every page:
http://chan.sankakucomplex.com/wiki/show?title=help%3A_quick_guideWow, I feel so ashamed.
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If there are a lot of duplicate pic how do I mark them for delection and want are the rules
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If there are a lot of duplicate pic how do I mark them for delection and want are the rules=====
ALL duplicates are being attended to... and will be deleted soon.
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there many duplicate in sakaku channel which do I tag as duplicate the first post or pic size?
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Vulgar PMs are not necessary.
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Greetings ~
In lieu of the start of this argumentative conversation that has no merits in anything related to the thread, a screen has been taken, and the issue will be looked into (not that it hasn't) with the results being sent to higher for further inquiry.
Also, these posts shall be deleted...
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Leo, you can tag images with parent/child relationships, find similar makes it easy to do this. The parent should be the "best" or original version of an image.
We generally maintain similar versions of the same images as children, and only delete images which are clearly lower resolution, quality, etc.
datazbytes, the API is on hiatus as it and various other mechanical methods of access caused a lot of issues whilst being unusably complex for the overwhelming majority of users. If you do notice any timeouts, let us know as most of them should be resolved.
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I'm getting a lot of "redirect.png" for about 10% of pages, e.g. here:
http://chan.sankakucomplex.com/post/show/1888915I'm using Opera, JS is enabled, referrer info is enabled, all cookies are enabled, blocking is disabled.
waiting for some minutes and trying again does not help.
(It usually helps when I get "too many request".)What's going on?
It there anything I can to about it?
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What can I do about it?Edit: In addition, I got "page is not available" or so when trying to post this. A 2nd attempt succeeded. Overload much, perhaps?
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Why was the penis thread closed?A thread closed without any reason stated are not allowed to be discuss.
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According to whom?To what I see and what happens so far =O. At least the Mods are all keeping quiet when asked.
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I'm not going to bother explaining the flaw in this reasoning.
I would recommend moving any discussion of moderation to another thread, though.
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This week, our Low-Wage Villain of the Week is Rob Walton, chairman of Walmart. Rob Walton's story is not what we think of as an inspirational, all-American success story. Choosing a rich father has unquestionably worked well for Rob. The Walton family sits on a net worth of more than $144 billion (more than the bottom of nearly 42% of Americans combined—yes, Rob, his siblings and mother are worth the same amount as 130 MILLION Americans), and Rob himself has a net worth of $35 billion.
So Rob has become the 14th richest person on the planet, despite the fact that the furthest he has gone from working for his dad's company was working for a law firm that…did legal work for Walmart.
But, you might wonder, is he doing good work as chairman? His wealth increased by $305 million last year. But before you say he earned it, no…he really, really didn't. While the overall Standard & Poor's 500 index has gained 15% in the past year, Walmart shares fell 2.2%. In the first quarter of 2014, stocks were down 3% and customer traffic declined 1.4%. Second quarter projections don't show these trends changing. Advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. gave Walmart an 8 (on a 10-point scale, with 10 being the highest level of risk) and said that shareholders should vote against the company's executive compensation plan, Chairman Walton and director Michael Duke. And the company is dealing with numerous legal problems, including a $21 million settlement for wage theft, which isn't its first such settlement in recent years, and is being sued for illegally firing workers for union organizing.
So the company isn't exactly being run well, but Chairman Walton is very well compensated. Does Rob share that wealth? No, the employees in the company are some of the lowest paid of any large employer in the country. Walmart brags that its U.S. workforce averages pay of $12.78 an hour, but that number leaves out more than half of the company's workforce, such as part-time and temporary workers, and includes some managerial staff. The company admits that 500,000 of its workers earn less than $10 an hour. Numerous job websites report the average pay for Walmart employees to be less than $10, ranging from $8.63 (Glassdoor) to $9.64 (PayScale).
In any event, the wages are low enough that many of the company's workers receive government benefits designed to help the poor. It is estimated that Walmart employees received $6.2 billion in public assistance last year.
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I love Pollan. :)
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That's a great one! We've lived for the past five years in a dry area where most people don't have lawns, so now they look so unnatural and weird to me. Most people either have:
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As we've been breathlessly reporting all day, some local TV stations have waged a relentless battle today to see who could get the most on-air personnel on a screen at one time. Channel 7 threw down the opening gauntlet with an "8-box" (i.e., 8 reporters in little boxes at once), Channel 25 briefly got in the action with a 9-box, but then Channel 7 knocked them out with an 11-box - before Channel 5 topped them with a 12-box. Channel 7 caught up, but now it really looks like WCVB is determined to end this thing once and for all: Around 5 p.m., Channel 5 Executive Producer Scott Isaacs posted this screen capture of a screen-dominating 16-box display.
At some point, TV stations will have to just grab random people off the street to fill their screens
No, we probably won't break any snowfall amounts, but could we break the record for the most number of TV reporters crammed onto a single screen?
John Zaremba captured this "8-box" on WHDH this morning. Who can top that? And will any of our local stations approach the 24-box an Atlanta station managed in 2014? Good luck, we're all counting on you.
UPDATE: Channel 7 ramps it up to 11, but channel 5 goes "in your face!" and cranks it up to 12. Channel 7 then responds! See down in the comments.
WBZ's Bill Shields was standing at Plymouth Rock around 12:30 p.m., after he had been forced to put on goggles because of the high winds. He began shuffling to show us something. "Jesus!" he exclaimed, as the wind almost knocked him over.
Meanwhile, down in Sandwich, WBZ's Beth Germano and NBC Boston's Susan Tran both struggled not to be swept out into the angry sea. Tran brought a large yellow scarf with her to hold aloft to prove that it was, in fact, windy. Dan Hausle, also on a beach in Sandwich, picked up some flotsam, or possibly jetsam.
WCVB's David Bienick was standing by at the Charlton rest stop on the turnpike, where he scooped out some snow with his hand before running after some guy getting in his car to ask him, in so many words, what kind of idiot he was. WCVB later showed us a viewer photo of a ruler stuck in the snow, followed by another viewer photo of a patio table covered by snow.
Susan Tran, who has been known to wave a knife and wield a pickax on air, is jumping from WHDH to evil archenemy NBC Boston, the Boston Business Journal reports.
The Herald reports WHDH is saying enough with this NBC nonsense and will start airing 87 hours of news a week in January - when it loses its NBC affiliation.
News-weary Channel 7 viewers will get a break between 8 and 9 p.m., when the station will air "Family Feud."
The two settled their differences a few hours ago, so now local DirecTV customers can watch the rest of NBC's Olympic coverage.
WBZ reports Sunbeam Television, which owns WHDH, has sued Comcast over the company's's plans to strip it of its NBC affiliation and start up its own NBC station in the Bostonish area, using a transmitter actually located in New Hampshire - Sunbeam says that's an anti-trust violation and deceptive. Read more.
New England One reports WHDH is joining WCVB in adding a 7 p.m. newscast, so you can catch up on all the news you missed at 4:30 , 5, 5:30 and 6.
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Steve Safran analyzes the NBC decision to smack WHDH upside the head and create its own station in Boston, using an antenna in Manchester, NH (a city that has so little going for it it has to keep pretending it's near Boston):
What we have in NBC Boston now is a cable and web-first product, a true 21st century operation that is no longer concerned primarily with what the antenna-only crowd is doing. It's not longer about the WXXX or KXXX branding. It's the network and the city. Smart. The changeover won't happen until 2017, and Ansin is vowing to sue. But this kind of structuring will happen more as networks start to operate more like cable channels.
UPDATE: Say hello to Channel 60, soon with Harry Connick Jr.'s new daytime show. And Pete Bouchard.
News One reports NBC could announce its Channel 7 killer, NBC Boston, today and that Channel 7 owner Ed Ansin will be in town to meet with his local staff and possibly announce a lawsuit to block NBC. NBC wants to own a channel in Boston; Ansin, who runs WHDH as an NBC affiliate, doesn't want to sell.
Channels 7 and 25 began exclusive reporting from a MassDOT salt pile in Weston yesterday evening, more than 30 hours before the anticipated arrival of what Channel 25 tells us "won't be a winter wallop."
Exhausted evening reporters who reassured us the state had plenty of salt were replaced this morning by fresh reporters, who reassured us the salt pile had not disappeared overnight and was ready to be put to use in the first winter storm of the season. Read more.
New England One reports Pete Bouchard quit as chief meteorologist at WHDH yesterday.
He's already changed his Twitter handle (if not yet the Channel 7 background in it).
New England One reports that WHDH's Janet Wu has left the station, leaving WCVB's Janet Wu our only on-air Janet Wu. Channel 7's Wu will continue teaching at Emerson, but has started doing some reporting for a New York station.
And right in the middle of an interview, too.
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UPDATE: Judge bars one specific WHDH photographer from courthouse and jury.
WCVB reports the judge in the Aaron Hernandez case is considering banning Channel 7 from the courthouse after jurors reported one of its vans followed them yesterday and somebody inside took a picture of their license plate.
Channel 7 reporter Byron Barnett, doing his live reports from some street in Somerville, finished up one report, then helped push a New Yorker having trouble getting his car down the street.
Apparently he wasn't the first, however. Jim Lokay at WCVB tweeted:
Please. I did that 2 wks ago on Boylston. And 400 others did it before me. Now, if BB could melt this stuff...
Speaking of Channel 5, Danielle Vollmar spent the morning driving around Peabody shoveling out hydrants.
Our favorite weapons-grade reporter was at it again yesterday, waving a large knife around on camera to introduce a report on a Haverhill convenience store held up by a man waving a large knife around.
In the past, the plucky reporter has used a pickaxe to hack through a wall and a hatchet to chop a sandwich in half.
Every storm now, Steve Cooper tries to up the ante of just what stunt he'll pull to show us that he is, in fact, braving the elements. Standing on the top of a giant heap of snow? That's so last storm. Angela captured him today standing atop a snow mound, in a backhoe.
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The application deadline for the Louisiana Girls Leadership Academy at Nicholls State University has been extended to March 16.
A university spokesman said the program is open to academically high-achieving girls entering grades 9 through 11 in the 2012-13 school year.
Sponsored by the Nicholls-based Louisiana Center for Women and Government, the academy is set for June 10-13.
Participants will have the opportunity to interact with women professionals on developing skills in communication and relationship building, managing peer pressure and conflict, political competence and public policy.
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The iOS 4 SDK provides a number of mechanisms for implementing audio playback from within an iPhone application. The easiest technique from the perspective of the application developer is to use the AVAudioPlayer class which is part of the AV Foundation Framework.
The goal of this chapter is to provide an overview of audio playback using the AVAudioPlayer class. Once the basics have been covered, a tutorial is worked through step by step. The topic of recording audio from within an iPhone application is covered in the next chapter entitled Recording Audio on an iOS 4 iPhone with AVAudioRecorder.
Support Audio Formats
The AV Foundation framework supports the playback of a variety of different audio formats and codecs including both software and hardware based decoding. Codecs and formats currently supported are as follows:
- AAC (MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding)
- ALAC (Apple Lossless)
- AMR (Adaptive Multi-rate)
- HE-AAC (MPEG-4 High Efficiency AAC)
- iLBC (internet Low Bit Rate Codec)
- Linear PCM (uncompressed, linear pulse code modulation)
- MP3 (MPEG-1 audio layer 3)
- µ-law and a-law
If an audio file is to be included as part of the resource bundle for an application it may be converted to a supported audio format prior to inclusion in the application project using the Mac OS X afconvert command-line tool. For details on how to use this tool, run the following command in a Terminal window:
afconvert –h
Receiving Playback Notifications
An application receives notifications from an AVAudioPlayer instance by declaring itself as the object's delegate and implementing some or all the following AVAudioPlayerDelegate protocol methods:
- audioPlayerDidFinishPlaying: – Called when the audio playback finishes. An argument passed through to the method indicates whether the playback completed successfully or failed due to an error.
- audioPlayerDecodeErrorDidOccur: - Called when a decoding error is encountered by the AVAudioPlayer object during audio playback. An error object containing information about the nature of the problem is passed through to this method as an argument.
- audioPlayerBeginInterruption: – Called when audio playback has been interrupted by a system event such as an incoming phone call. Playback is automatically paused and the current audio session deactivated.
- audioPlayerEndInterruption: - Called after an interruption ends. The current audio session is automatically activated and playback may be resumed by calling the play method of the corresponding AVAudioPlayer instance.
Controlling and Monitoring Playback
<google>IOSBOX</google> Once an AVAudioPlayer instance has been created the playback of audio may be controlled and monitored programmatically via the methods and properties of the instance. For example, the self explanatory play, pause and stop methods may be used to control playback. Similarly, the volume property may be used to adjust the volume level of the audio playback whilst the playing property may be accessed to identify whether or not the AVAudioPlayer object is currently playing audio.
In addition, playback may be delayed to begin at a later time using the playAtTime instance method which takes as an argument the number of seconds (as an NSTimeInterval value) to delay before beginning playback.
The length of the current audio playback may be obtained via the duration property whilst the time current point in the playback is stored in the currentTime property.
Playback may also be programmed to loop back and repeatedly play a specified number of times using the numberofLoops property.
Creating the iPhone Audio Example Application
The remainder of this chapter will work through the creation of a simple iPhone iOS application that plays an audio file. The user interface of the application will consist of play and stop buttons to control playback and a slider to adjust the playback volume level.
Being by launching Xcode and creating a new iPhone iOS view-based application named audio.
Adding the AVFoundation Framework
Since the iOS 4 AVAudioPlayer class is part of the AV Foundation framework it will be necessary to add the framework to the project. This can be achieved by selecting the product target entry from the project navigator panel (the top item named audio) and clicking on the Build Phases tab in the main panel. In the Link Binary with Libraries section click on the '+' button, select the AVFoundation.framework entry from the resulting panel and click on the Add button.
Adding an Audio File to the Project Resources
In order to experience audio playback it will be necessary to add an audio file to the project resources. For this purpose, any supported audio format file will be suitable. Having identified a suitable audio file, drag and drop it into the Supporting Files category of the project navigator panel of the main Xcode window. For the purposes of this tutorial we will be using an MP3 file named Kalimba.mp3.
Creating Actions and Outlets
The application is going to need action methods for the play and stop buttons in addition to the volume control. Since we will need to be able to read the current value of the volume slider control it will also be necessary to declare a corresponding outlet. We also need to declare a reference to an AVAudioPlayer audioPlayer object and specify that the view controller class implements the AVAudioPlayerDelegate protocol. Select the audioViewController.h file and modify it to import the <AVFoundation/AVFoundation.h> file and declare these references and actions:
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h> #import <AVFoundation/AVFoundation.h> @interface audioViewController : UIViewController <AVAudioPlayerDelegate> { AVAudioPlayer *audioPlayer; UISlider *volumeControl; } @property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UISlider *volumeControl; -(IBAction) playAudio; -(IBAction) stopAudio; -(IBAction) adjustVolume; @end
Implementing the Action Methods
The next step in our iPhone audio player tutorial is to implement the action methods for the two buttons and the slider. Select the audioViewController.m file and add these methods as outlined in the following code fragment (note also the addition of the synthesize directive for the silderControl):
#import "audioViewController.h" @implementation audioViewController @synthesize volumeControl; -(void)playAudio { [audioPlayer play]; } -(void)stopAudio { [audioPlayer stop]; } -(void)adjustVolume { if (audioPlayer != nil) { audioPlayer.volume = volumeControl.value; } }
Creating Initializing the AVAudioPlayer Object
Now that we have an audio file to play and appropriate action methods written the next step is to create an AVAudioPlayer instance and initialize it with a reference to the audio file. Since we only need to initialize the object once when the application launches a good place to write this code is in the viewDidLoad method of the audioViewController.m file. Remove the comment markers (/* and */) from around this method and modify it as follows:
- (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"Kalimba" ofType:@"mp3"]]; NSError *error; audioPlayer = [[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:url error:&error]; if (error) { NSLog(@"Error in audioPlayer: %@", [error localizedDescription]); } else { audioPlayer.delegate = self; [audioPlayer prepareToPlay]; } }
In the above code we create an NSURL reference using the filename and type of the audio file added to the project resources. Keep in mind that this will need to be modified to reflect the audio file used in your own project. Next, an AVAudioPlayer instance is created using the URL of the audio file. Assuming no errors were detected, the current class is designated as the delegate for the audio player object. Finally a call is made to the audioPlayer object's prepareToPlay method. This performs initial buffering tasks so that there is no buffering delay when the play button is subsequently selected by the user.
Implementing the AVAudioPlayerDelegate Protocol Methods
As previously discussed, by declaring our view controller as the delegate for our AVAudioPlayer instance our application will be able to receive notifications relating to the playback. Templates of these methods are as follows and may be placed in the audioViewController.m file as follows:
-(void)audioPlayerDidFinishPlaying: (AVAudioPlayer *)player successfully:(BOOL)flag { } -(void)audioPlayerDecodeErrorDidOccur: (AVAudioPlayer *)player error:(NSError *)error { } -(void)audioPlayerBeginInterruption:(AVAudioPlayer *)player { } -(void)audioPlayerEndInterruption:(AVAudioPlayer *)player { }
For the purposes of this tutorial it is not necessary to implement any code for these methods and they are provided solely for completeness.
Designing the User Interface
Select the audioViewController.xib file and display the Object library (View -> Utilities -> Object Library) and drag and drop components from the Library onto the View window and modify properties so that the interface appears as illustrated in the following figure:
Ctrl-click on the File's Owner object, drag the blue line to the slider control in the View window and select the sliderControl outlet from the resulting menu to connect the control to the outlet.
Select the Play button in the View window and display the connections inspector (View -> Utilities -> Connections Inspector). Click on the small circle to the right of the Touch Up Inside event and drag the line to the File's Owner object. Release the pointer and select the playAudio action from the resulting menu. Repeat these steps to connect the Touch Up Inside event of the Stop button to the stopAudio action and the Value Changed event of the slider control to the adjustVolume method.
Releasing Memory
The last step before trying out the application is to release any memory allocated during the application lifecycle:
- (void)viewDidUnload { // Release any retained subviews of the main view. // e.g. self.myOutlet = nil; audioPlayer = nil; volumeControl = nil; } - (void)dealloc { [audioPlayer release]; [volumeControl release]; [super dealloc]; }
Building and Running the Application
Once all the requisite changes have been made and saved, test the application in the iOS simulator by clicking on the Run button located in the Xcode toolbar. Once the application appears, click on the Play button to begin playback. Adjust the volume using the slider and stop playback using the Stop button.
Now that the basics of audio playback have been covered the next chapter will look at Recording Audio on an iOS 4 iPhone with AVAudioRecorder.
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Jayaraman, Narayanaswamy and Singh, Madan Kumar and Rao, Shankar DS and Prasad, SK (2007) Studies of the mesomorphic behavior of bivalent carbohydrate amphiphiles. In: Journal of Materials Chemistry, 17 (21). pp. 2228-2232.
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A homologous series of bivalent glycolipids constituted of 1,3-bis-O-($\beta$-D-glucopyranosyl)-2- O-alkyl glycerol, bearing two sugar head groups and one alkyl chain on a glycerol backbone, was synthesized. The mesomorphic behaviour was investigated with the aid of polarizing optical microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry and X-ray diffraction methods. The homologous members exhibit a smectic A phase, consistently with a partial bilayer structure. From experimental d-spacing and computationally derived length of the molecules, it is suggested that a partial interdigitation of the molecules is present in the bilayer structure.
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It will come as a relief to readers that Prince Charles's bottom, the very one due to sit – one day – on the nation's throne, has its own special cushion. According to the The Mail on Sunday, when the Prince arrived at Kensington Palace by helicopter (natch) last week, one of his bodyguards followed him out carrying "his favourite embroidered silk cushion", which was then passed to his chauffeur.
The existence of the cushion, apparently to help to ease the 64-year-old's sore back, has caused some mirth, but you don't have to be a royal watcher to know that the Prince has form for this. It has long been reported that the tasks of Charles's valets include picking his clothes up off the floor and drawing his baths.
A 2006 book by Jeremy Paxman claimed that the Prince had seven eggs – from runny to hard – prepared for him each morning, from which he chose his favourites (this was later denied). This came after lurid details from a book by media-hungry former royal employee Paul Burrell, which revealed that Michael Fawcett, a close aide of the Prince of Wales, once had to hold a urine-specimen bottle, while his master filled it.
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Just a note: some of my photos from my first blue block didn't work out, so a few photos are from another, purple cup. Don't let it throw you off -- its just different fabric, but the same process.
Fabric you'll need:
- One coloured square 4 - 6"
- Two white or background coloured squares 2 - 3"
- Two coloured strips 1" wide and about 8" long
- One white strip 1 - 2" wide (depending on the size of handle you want) and about 8" long
- extra white fabric to be cut later
Please sew everything with a 1/4 inch seam.
First, lay one white square over the corner of your teacup on the angle of your choice, and sew. Trim the corner off.
Press the white back over the coloured fabric.
Trim to a square.
Now, do the same thing on the other corner of the square.
Now, set aside the "body" of your teacup and start on the handle.
Sew a white strip across the top of your teacup body.
Sew the long white strip to one of the long coloured strips.
Press open.
Cut into 3 pieces.
Lay the strips perpendicular (on an angle) to one another, so that the coloured strip is facing down on the top strip, and to the outside on the bottom strip. If you want to add a little bit of an angle, feel free to do so. Lay the top fabric on top of the bottom fabric right sides together, and sew.
It should look like this:
Press open.
Now, line up the first part of the handle with the teacup, so you can eyeball where to put the bottom piece of the handle. (Note: this is a tiny teacup, about 3". The handle will be easier on a bigger teacup).
Line up your third strip section so that it makes a handle that fits on your teacup body. Remember that an extra 1/4" of white will be added to the space you see now, so adjust your piece accordingly.
Put the two pieces right side together, and sew. Check that your handle is a good length, then trim off the excess fabric.
Press your handle open.
Line up the body piece of the block with the handle piece. Adjust until you are happy with the way the length of the handle and its placement on the body of the teacup. Place right sides together and sew.
Press your handle open: You now have a teacup!
Square your teacup up by using a rotary cutter and a ruler to straighten the edges.
Sew the second long coloured strip to the bottom of the teacup, right sides together. Press open. Now your teacup has a saucer.
Make your teacup block into the quilted item of your choice. Enjoy!
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