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Do you like to eat processed foods, and gorge on them a lot to stay away from cooking? It is important for you to know that processed foods are bad for your health and it is best that you avoid consuming them. Although all food items we eat are mechanically processed in certain ways, chemical processing, which is the primary feature of processed food items, is hazardous for your health.
Here are the major reasons why you should not eat processed food items.
- Processed food contains high amounts of sugar and fructose corn syrup: It is a known fact that excessive consumption of sugar in any form is not good for your health. Processed food products are loaded with sugar in huge amounts and also contain high fructose corn syrup, which is equally harmful in excess. Sugar basically has empty calories, which contain no important nutrients. Sugar also has dreadful effects on your body metabolism and may lead to high triglycerides, increased cholesterol levels, insulin resistance, and excess accumulation of fat in your abdominal cavity and liver.
- Processed food is hyper rewarding in nature and over consumption gets likely: Processed food items, because of their high content of sweet and fat, become a sort of addiction for many people. The reward centers of your brain acknowledge them, and as a result, you develop a constant craving for such food stuff.
- Processed food contains harmful artificial ingredients: It is likely for you to not understand the names of ingredients, which processed foods are made of. This is because of the reason that maximum of these ingredients are not actually natural, but are artificial chemicals which get added for several purposes such as preservation, maintaining aroma and much more. These chemicals are associated with several harmful effects on your health. The common ingredients of highly processed foods include the following:
- Chemical preservatives for preventing processed food from rotting
- Chemical colourants, which induce attractive and unique colours to processed foods
- Chemical flavors for giving specific flavours
- Texturants for proving a particular, specific texture to processed foods
The hyper rewarding nature of processed food can lead to severe consequences in many people. It is possible for you to become addicted to processed foods, and lose total control over your consumption rate. This problem of addiction to processed fast foods is a major problem in today's world. It is an important reason for obesity, which is a prominent health concern today all over the world.
Urinary incontinence is a common problem that afflicts many adults around the world. Stress related urinary incontinence is a fairly common problem that afflicts many as well. This form of incontinence is usually caused by physical activity, which exerts pressure on the bladder and may cause the leakage of small amounts of urine.
Triggers and Symptoms for stress urinary incontinence:
In terms of urinary problems, stress is used to describe physical problems in particular and not mental stress. So the triggers or risk factors of it could be any of the following:
- Exercise
- Jumping
- Sneezing
- Coughing
- Exercises
- Sexual activity
This form of urinary incontinence is very common in women who are older or have already been through menopause. It may also be common for women who have recently given birth or are pregnant. The urethra or the bladder may become prone to external stress and then involuntarily leak out some urine.
The causes can be quite varied from patient to patient but are primarily attributed to the weakening of the pelvic muscles, bladder or the sphincter. If any of these muscles open involuntarily due to physical stress, it leads to urine leaking out. Some of the causes which may lead to this are:
- Pregnancy and childbirth: Pregnancy or childbirth related problems may cause damage to the urethra or sphincter during childbirth; leading to stress urinary incontinence.
- Surgery of the prostate: Another common problem, especially with men, is with surgical interventions to correct prostate problems.
- Menopause: Many older women often complain about stress incontinence after menopause due to the weakening of the muscles.
- Pelvic surgery: Any surgery to the pelvic area or illnesses which may cause the muscles to become relaxed or act involuntarily due to external stress, may cause incontinence.
- Weakening of the pelvic muscles: Certain illnesses may cause the pelvic muscles to become weak and thus cause the sphincter as well as the bladder to react involuntarily. UTIs or urinary tract infections have also been known to cause incontinence due to the same reason.
- Obesity: Obesity has been known to put stress on many of the bodily systems and it may affect the bladder and the urinary sphincters as well.
Does premature ejaculation happens due to frequent masturbate for long time. Twice thrice a daily for a long time. Is there any impact of steroid in premature ejaculation.
I have polycystic ovaries and I'll be getting married in June. Is there anything I should be worried about in terms of pregnancy and getting pregnant.
Severe pain during intercourse causes difficulty in a relationship in both partners. Sometimes a sustained occurrence of pain might be an indication of some serious medical dysfunction. As such, consult a doctor as soon as the pain arises. Contrary to popular beliefs, sexual pain can occur in both male and female.
In female, the reasons behind the painful sexual intercourse might be:
- Vaginismus, a condition when the vaginal muscles tighten up mainly due to anxiety or fear and cause significant pain with a tearing sensation.
- The pain can arise due to vaginal infection due to yeast or any form of sexually transmitted disease or pelvic inflammatory diseases.
- A severe injury in the vagina during childbirth or any other accident and psychological stress can also cause severe pain during sex.
- Sometimes, uterine or menopause problems (formation of fibroids in the uterus) can also cause pain.
- Cyst formation in the ovary or endometriosis (when the inner tissue lining of the uterus tends to grow outside) can also cause severe pain during intercourse.
Among men:
- Some men can experience pain during intercourse because of allergy to the fluids of the vagina or the chemical content of certain contraceptives.
- You can experience pain because of undiagnosed sexually transmitted diseases like herpes or gonorrhea
- The pain might also occur due to urinary tract infections or side effects from certain medications.
- Severe pain just a few moments before ejaculation can be a result of inflammation of the prostate glands and should be immediately diagnosed as it might be a signal of prostate cancer.
For treating pain during sex in female, you should opt for the following procedures
- If the pain is caused due to vaginal dryness after menopause, you should consider the application of prescribed lubricants or jellies to reduce the pain.
- If the pain occurs due to severe anxiety or stress, sex therapy can help you improve physical intimacy.
- If there are other symptoms like severe bleeding or irregular periods in addition to the pain, a visit to the physician is recommended.
Quite similarly in men
- If the pain occurs due to severe anxiety or stress, sex therapy can help you improve physical intimacy.
- If the pain results from side effects of certain medications, you should try changing your prescribed medication after doctor's suggestion.
- In extreme cases, the doctors might suggest hormone replacement surgery. If you wish to discuss about any specific problem, you can consult a sexologist.x
My father had epilepsy stroke 2 years back so he is consuming eptoin from 2 years now he is not going for regular consultancy but is consuming eptoin as a regular medicine till death is it right that for epilepsy patient eptoin is compulsory till his her death?
As the New Year begins, the one fruit which is available in abundance are grapes. The black/purple and the green variety, seeded and seedless, are all over the place. Given the weather slowly changing from winter, they seem like the best thing to beat the summer heat. And yes, they are. Not just for overall health, they are also great for the skin and hair. Read on to know more.
Benefits of grapes for skin:
- When the sunscreen lotion does not help much and sunburn happens, the one of the best home remedies is to apply mashed grapes for about 30 minutes. The grapes are rich in antioxidants (proanthocyanidins and resveratrol). They reduce the damage caused by ultraviolet radiation and also reduces cell damage caused by excessive skin exposure.
- Rubbing the grape pulp on the face for about 20 minutes can help reverse and control antiaging better than any chemical treatment. It reduces the effect of free radicals which lead to fine wrinkles and dark spots.
- Grapes are also rich in vitamins C and E which helps in making the skin supple and improves skin tone and reduces scars.
Benefits for hair:
- If hair loss scares you, apply a paste of seeded grapes. The linoleic acid and grape seed oil can add strength and prevent hair fall.
- Grapes can also be mixed with fenugreek and chickpeas for use on hair to improve life and lustre of the hair and add volume.
- The vitamin E and antioxidants also help improve scalp blood circulation, fight dandruff, reduce itchiness, and improved hair health.
Benefits on overall health:
- Relieves headache: The various antioxidants in the grapes help in relieving the headache almost instantaneously. Eat them up or drink if you have a headache, even migraines.
- Improves digestion: They improve digestion and reduce digestive problems, thereby curing indigestion. They also are shown to help in controlling colon cancer.
- Good in diabetes: Diabetic patients need not be worried about the sweet grapes. The pterostilbene in them helps lower sugar levels, and in the long run, it can also prevent the onset of diabetes.
- Cholesterol control: The polyphenols help in controlling heart disease by reducing plaque formation.
- Eye health: The reduced oxidation process and controlled inflammatory process helps in improving eye health, especially in the retina, which is full of proteins.
- Potassium in Plenty: 100 g of grapes contains about 200 mg of potassium, which is a treasure. It improves blood pressure (by countering sodium), and also controls cholesterol and reduces salt intake.
- Brain health: The antioxidants like revasterol help in improving blood flow and helps in controlling Alzheimer's and improving memory. If you wish to discuss about any specific problem, you can consult a dietitian-nutritionist.
Allergic Rhinitis:
- Allergic rhinitis is commonly known as hay fever.
- Common symptoms include sneezing, stuffy nose, watery eyes, and a sore, scratchy throat.
- Possible triggers include grass, pollen, dust mites, cockroaches, cigarette smoke, and perfume.
An allergen is a normally harmless substance that causes an allergic reaction.
Allergic rhinitis, or hay fever, is an allergic response to specific allergens. Pollen is the most common allergen.
1) recurrent sneezing
2) running nose
3) blocked nose
4) itching in nose
5) recurrent coughing
6) pricky or sore throat
7) itching in eyes
8) watery eyes
9) under eye circles
10) frequent headaches
11) fatigue
When your body comes into contact with an allergen, it releases histamine, which is a natural chemical that defends your body from the allergen.
This chemical causes allergic rhinitis and its symptoms, including a runny nose, sneezing, and itchy eyes.
In addition to pollen, other common causes include:
1) grass
2) dust
3) animal dander, cat
4) saliva
5) mold
I have problem of ear. My ear flows continuous water since 25 year. I treated many ent doctor but not get any proper solution. Which treatment is best for this problem. Firstly I stop my ear flowing. Then I decide middle ear surgery. Pleas give me proper solution and suggest proper treatment. First I stop my ear water flow.
My father is very ill he was senseless then Dr. Said he has required pacemaker but after installing pacemaker problem have not solved then Dr. Said his sodium potassium has fallen and his creatinine is high 2.8 to 3.2 and multiple blood clotting in his brain that's why he will be senseless again in that case I do not know what should I do please help me.
My mother is suffering from pulmonary embolism and she is having multiple clots f 2.5 cm each in size and she also has hepatitis B.Doctors gave her heparin for 6 days and she is under medication now. Is there any treatment that can be given for this as permanent cure? Doctors did not subscribe any medicine for hepatitis b.how that can be controlled.
Dear Dr. My sperm is very light its not h white n not a thick. I dnt masturbate. I dnt drink/smoke. I eat non. Veg only 2 days in a month my sperm comes out at any time anywhere if I sleep. Stand,sit or do any work. What to do sir/mam? please tell. Any tab, test,home remedies.
Dear doctor, I want to ask about the sex stamina. Is there any medicine for increasing sex stamina effectively. Thanx.
I have sinus problem from 6 months. What medicine I have to take. To which doctor I have to consult either I have to go with homeopathy or general physician.
Hi, 19 year old girl has taken I pill (after) intercourse on 22nd around 18: 00 hours and had sex again on 24th at morning 5 o clock. Does she need to take any I-pill or other emergency contraceptive medicine, or will the earlier one will work since last intercourse took place within 36 hours of the I pill taken. Please suggest.
Mujhe teen mahine pahle ek din subah balgam me khoon aaya tha aur gla chil gya tha khane pine me koi pareshani nahi hoti muh kholne par kan ko joint me dard mahsus hota tha maine Alchemist me Dr. Ko dikhaya unse hi dawai bhi le raha hu kan ke joint pain to thik ho gaya ek hafte bad par mujhe ab bhi ye lagta hai ki jaise gale me kuch atka huaa hai khasne ke bad bulgam aata hai ek dam gala saf ho jata hai 15 minut me fir aise hi hota hai or ajib se gandh aati hai jaise ki chasni ya ots ki khushubu din me kai bar aisa hota hai kabhi rat ko bhi jyada time par ye hota hai jaise dudh me jyda chini dalne par jo khusbu aati ha us trah ki or pet bhi badh gya hai pahle ke mukable aur resha bana rahta hai.
Are you aware of the function of appetite hormones in your body? Appetite hormones or hunger hormones are the hormones which are responsible for making you feel hungry, and also account for a decreased appetite, which is common for all of us at times.
Leptin and Ghrelin are the two primary appetite hormones, which are produced in your body.
About Ghrelin
Ghrelin is your body's appetite increasing hormone, which gets released in the stomach. It is responsible for signaling hunger to your brain. It is said that the ghrelin levels in your body play an important role in how quickly you feel hungry after having a meal. Usually, the ghrelin levels increase before you eat. This signifies that you are hungry. They go down for almost three hours after your meal. It is believed that ghrelin plays a more important role in the regulation of your body weight, which is a much more complex procedure.
About Leptin
Among the two appetite hormones, leptin accounts for being the appetite suppressing hormone. It is considered to play a more important role than ghrelin in maintaining the energy balance of your body. It is also believed that leptin is responsible for the regulation of ghrelin. Leptin helps in signaling the brain that your body has enough energy in the form of body fat. It is considered that the more fat you have, the more amount of leptin is present in your blood. However, the level varies based on factors such as when you took your last meal, and your sleeping patterns.
How to control your hunger hormones?
There are certain ways by which you can control your appetite hormones. It can be done primarily by avoiding food items that contain high fat. When you eat, messages are transmitted to several parts of your body, indicating that you have had enough. While consuming fatty food, this system does not send messages as effectively. Consuming fat makes you consume more calories, which in turn lets you store fat and gain fat.
It has been proven that either a diet which is rich in good carbohydrates or a diet which is high in protein, suppresses your ghrelin production more effectively than a high fat diet. It is important for you to get proper sleep for controlling your appetite hormones. Studies prove that sleep deprivation is associated with an increase in your ghrelin levels, appetite, and hunger, compared to people who get 10 hours sleep on a regular basis. If you wish to discuss about any specific problem, you can consult a dietitian-nutritionist.


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Dianne Feinstein says he is a traitor so he must be an American hero!
Dianne Feinstein says he is a traitor so he must be an American hero!
I am still wondering how Edward Snowden obtained the highly classified documents. I have not found anything on the net that reports exactly what clearances he had. He worked for the NSA contractor only 3 months as a "Technical Analyst" (don't know what that job entails).
"To become competent in governing others, we must first learn to govern ourselves"
Waite Phillips
I'm pretty sure many people consider Dianne Feinstein a traitor based on her attacks on the First and Second Amendments of the United States Constitution.
CNN said he was interviewed by a Chinese news paper. He stated we have been hacking China for years. If this is a paper doll than we need to burn it.
As for hero status. He is a traitor. Regardless if the left wing nut case from California says it or not. To give secret information to any news paper is wrong. To talk to the enemy about our past or current classified ops is worthy of hanging.
My opinion

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7/29/2009 11:17am, #1
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Why we need more "no skill" fighters in MMA
Below, my interpretation of the general consensus of most who frequent the pages of Bullshido:
The advent and development of mixed martial arts has solidified a set of techniques and training methods to yield the most effective fighters. They threw out Karate and Kung Fu and brought in ring styles such as kickboxing for striking, and made grapplers take up striking and vice versa. The fact this happened (after a process of simply pitting fighter against fighter in full contact bouts and seeing what styles would consistently perform or underperform (I wasn't present at the time, but this is my understanding)), appears for the most part to translate into what style of hand to hand combat is the best for anybody to defend themselves in a street self defence situation. In essence, just about all of what is used effectively by MMA athletes could be used for street self defence. So logically, if you want to learn the best self defence, take up MMA (arguably with some exposure to RBSDs as well for situations such as multiple attackers and weapons).
I do not disagree with the above, BUT:
This can lead to practitoners of the traditional martial arts rejecting everything they have trained in where there is no sharing of technique or training method with MMA or closely related ring based styles, and as is often the case, there is little overlap. However this is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater, as the primary aim of most practitioners of the traditional martial arts is to be effective at street self defence against an untrained attacker rather than a professional fighter. I'm not sure if an argument can be made for Aikido or Taekwon Do, but somebody well trained in a decent martial art such as Wing Chun is quite well placed to give a street attacker with negligeable martial arts, combat sports or street fighting experience a trip to hospital (even though this same practitioner may not have the same level of success against an MMA fighter, even on the street).
This leads to a dilemma that makes using MMA to gauge the effectivenss of a fighting system a little trickier than first anticipated. A technique can only work against someone of lower skill (ALL else being equal) and the element of surprise (ie, not expecting a fight to start) not being a factor to contend with. Any practitioner of a striking based style who spars will experience the frustration at some point or another that "using footwork to move to the blindside and pummel them with strikes there" just can't be pulled off so well, as our sparring partner trains the same style and is expecting this tactic. All he does is rotate his body to again face you and the advantage you were trying so hard to get is now lost, the end result being a waste of energy (and hopefully some learning). So does this mean the technique of using the blindside doesn't work? No, it means it won't work on someone who understands and regularly trains the technique (or just has really fast hands). All the sparring proved was one practitioners skill over another at anticipating and counter-attacking.
Another thread talks about the basic escape from mount being used rarely in MMA yet still is taught in BJJ class. In a situation where there's a solid mount and ground and pound from a professional fighter, this escape may indeed be not always practicable. However, the same concept is at work - it is about the relative skill of the fighters. A poorly executed mount with ineffective ground and pound by an inexperienced opponent would not stop a top fighter from using an escape, as taught in BJJ 101.
So regardless of whether MMA is effective or not as a self defence system, MMA in the octagon does not, for the most part, gauge how effective the martial arts are against a "no skill" fighter. Which brings me to the title of this post. We've already been through the "style vs style" years of the UFC which lead to MMA today. What there needs to be is essentially "style vs no style", and the closest thing I can think of is any bout including David "Tank" Abbott, or "Kimbo" Slice (this is not to say that Abbott and Slice aren't effective fighters).
To get some much needed objectivity on the matter, bring back Kung fu and Karate, but not to pit them against BJJ or MMA (been there done that). Pit Kung Fu versus a "no skill" fighter (skill here referring to "martial arts" skill specifically), then pit MMA versus a "no skill" fighter. Even non fighters who will just go in there to have a go, and willing to take punishment. If MMA defeats the "no skill" fighters more often than do the TMA, this will be a final vindication of the proponents of MMA over the TMA for not only octagon supremacy but supremacy in street self defence. If TMA fighters experience some measure of success against these "no skill" fighters, this will undoubtedly come as a surprise to many, but will provide die hard practitioners of the TMA some hope that their years of dedication and effort were not completely in vain.
7/29/2009 11:30am, #2
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I think that you have misinterpreted the consensus view of Bullshido members. I'd say the consensus is that it is realistic training, and the lessons learned from that training, that make a fighter effective. What the evidence has shown is not that there are just five or so martial arts that are useful in MMA, but that a broad range of martial arts can be effective under that ruleset if they are trained properly.
The martial arts that are generally held in disdain on this forum are those that tend to not spar at all, or that only spar within the style, or whose practitioners tend to look down on crosstraining. It is not a coincidence that the martial arts generally considered "core" for MMA -- BJJ, MT, boxing, and wrestling -- are martial arts that have always had resistant sparring and competition as core aspects of their training.
What we know now is that almost any martial art can work in combat sports if it is trained correctly.
As for the rest of your post, I suspect that sparring with people from other styles, and sparring with beginners in your style, solves the problem you describe. I don't think that having highly trained fighters beat up untrained schleps is going to prove anything.
Also, I don't consider Tank Abbot or Kimbo Slice to be untrained.
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You're probably going to get flamed for the above, but I understand your point. To a degree. Still, I think there is an important point you're missing: Much of the advantage combat sports and competitive martial arts have over other systems flows from the assumption that your opponent is a force to be respected. Thai boxers do not make assumptions about avoiding every strike, but rather train to take it if they have to, and come back firing. Judoka do not assume that their opponent is easily unbalanced, or incapable of throwing them, but work on being able to unbalance and counter even seasoned players.
It does not pay to assume you're opponent is a chump.
I would not expect the average Iowan dude to be a grappling n00b. I would not expect the average dude from Belfast to be a chump with his hands.
Crappy martial arts may work on accountants, but good ones will work better, and won't fail when the guy is revealed to be a state champ in Freestyle wrestling who likes bean counting.
Get it?
P.S. Get the early UFC's and take a look at who could, and who could not handle Tank Abbott.
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If a tactic or technique works against a skilled, resisting opponent, then a non-skilled opponent will be royally fucked by it. Why settle for a technique that only works against someone unskilled? It's like going into a battle with a sword instead of a rifle.
As for multiple opponents and weapons, here's how to deal with that:
1. Eat a lot of liquorice and cashews. And I mean a lot.
2. Don't wear underwear.
3. Wear those male stripper pants with the velcro that can be torn off easily.
4. When someone attacks, tear the pants off and immediately start running. The mixture of fear, liquorice and cashews will make you diarrhoea massively. Your attackers will slip on the diarrhoea and be disgusted, thereby stopping their chase.
5. You can then go home happy in the knowledge that your dignity is still intact.
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Untrained fighters come into the gym all the time. And you get to spar them all the time. This is the time when I work on my new ideas and practice hard to setup techniques. Once I perfect them on the noobs, I get better at using them on guys with more developed skill."a martial art that has no rules is nothing but violence" - Kenji Tomiki
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I get it, but I don't agree. Overall I see MMA as a good gauge for a martial art but there are little things that aren't accurate for some self-defense situations. Like how mma fights take place in a cage or ring where escaping isn't an option and it doesn't take into account "dirty fighting".
Personally I think it's dangerous to train in an art with the expectation that your opponent is a flail-punching moron. There's a saying that goes something like "Train expecting the worse, fight expecting the best". This way if you do encounter someone with skill you'll be ready but you find someone with no skill you don't end up getting arrested for beating the crap out of them.
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As War Wheel brought up - there are a LOT of people with at least some training in boxing, wrestling, judo, etc. In the US Midwest, there's a scarily good chance that the guy you're getting into a scuffle with knows how to blast a power double so hard that your skull will fracture. In Hawaii Judo is crazy popular. Boxing is very popular in large cities.
You can't rely on your attacker being untrained. If he's bothering to attack you without a club or knife or gun, there might be a reason he feels he doesn't need one.
Better safe than sorry. Train a real martial art: one with live, competitive sparring.
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Just to throw this into the mix -- I have heard anecdotes to the effect that a completely unskilled fighter who spazzes out in an altercation and starts flailing about with random slaps and kicks can be surprisingly dangerous.
Kind of like a '50s sitcom where the guy's wife wins at poker after asking "is three ladies good?"
Anyway the "opponent panics and starts windmilling around whacking people in the head and shins" scenario seems plausible.
7/29/2009 1:57pm, #10--
Your argument assumes that no MMA practitioner is skilled enough to employ groin strikes, eye gouges, etc. Ask Cro Cop and Yuki Nakai if MMA fighters don't know how to fight dirty.
If anything, MMA guys would know how to employ such techniques more effectively than non-sparring martial artists. How hard is it to adjust your knee to come up not in the sternum, but in the gonads? How hard would it be for a guy in full mount to, instead of dropping hammer fists, try and gouge out his opponent's eyes?
Are you also assuming that an MMA practitioner doesn't know how to flee because they train in a cage?
Good god. If this were a courtroom, I'd object "asked and answered a billion times" to your argument.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fox TV says it's delaying the premiere of freshman sitcom "Enlisted" until January.
The network said Thursday the move reflects confidence in the series and a desire to take advantage of promotional opportunities during the network's winter sports telecasts. Wooing male viewers appears to be the network's motivation for the switch.
"Enlisted," about three brothers stationed at a Florida military base, will debut Jan. 10 instead of in November, Fox said. It stars Geoff Stults, Chris Lowell and Parker Young as the siblings and Keith David as their commanding sergeant.
The sitcom will be paired in January with Fox's returning "Raising Hope." Before then, the network will run two back-to-back episodes of "Raising Hope" in the 9-10 p.m. Eastern slot on Fridays starting Nov. 8.
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Family: Bufonidae, Toads view all from this family
Description Brown and speckled, their color can range from black to purplish gray, sometimes with green patches.
Dimensions 5.1-8cm. (2-3 1/4")
Endangered Status The Houston Toad is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as endangered in Texas. Its survival is threatened by urbanization, which has destroyed its habitat, and by hybridization with other species where the habitat has been partially modified. In addition to being squeezed out of their habitat, many Houston Toads are killed by automobiles. The remaining populations in Bastrop and Burleson Counties came under protection by federal order in 1969, but the Houston Toad has not been seen in Burleson County since 1983.
Warning Toads have enlarged glands (called the paratoid glands) on the side of the neck, one behind each eye. These glands secrete a viscous white poison that gets smeared in the mouth of any would-be predator, inflaming the mouth and throat and causing nausea, irregular heart beat, and, in extreme cases, death. Toads pose a danger to pets, which may pounce on and bite them. Humans should take care to wash their hands after handling a toad, and to avoid touching the mouth or eyes until having done so.
Voice Musical trill, high pitched.
Breeding February-June. Breeds 2 times a year when there is enough rainfall. Eggs hatch within 7 days. Takes 5-100 days to develop from tadpole to toad.
Habitat Coastal prairies, pine forests near pools.
Range Texas.
Discussion Estimated only 3-4000 left in the world. Burrows for protection.


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Welcome back: Chris Meyer
Welcome back: Mike Boufford
Was there a recent thread where a stir was made about real names versus "handles"? I came on RTF to see what's up this morning and had two name change requests in my PM box.
Anyhow,..I like it!
Welcome back. Chris
Hi Chris, Mike posted a thread asking how to get it changed so we suggested he pm you.
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dewey wrote:Is this the product you guys are talking about?
http://www.cabelas.com/product/Shooting ... t104567580
Looks like the reviews are great and $38 for a box of 10 isn't too bad.
Charlie let us know how it patterns when it finally warms up.
icdedturkes wrote:Its the tightest lead patterning load ever sold.. It also seems to be working with a wide range of guns and choke designs..
Treerooster wrote:Have you seen any 15 to 25 yard pattern pics?
kygobbler wrote:Charlie, whenever you get to pattern them would you post some pics
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text: I just got back from Disneyland, CA where I found plenty of Star Tour figures. Here's the good news. If you go to Guest Services, you can obtain a "shoppers pass" that will allow you a one hour entrance to the park for FREE to do any shopping, or rides, that you like. You've got 60 minutes to return to the guest services window, or they will charge you a day's fee. This was plenty of time for me to navigate the crowds and successfully find my figures. Good luck out there!!!


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Gangster's Paradise
Despite media hoopla, cross-border crime -- illegal drugs sales, evasion of taxes, intellectual property theft, and money laundering -- is hardly a new phenomenon. For much of history, moreover, the United States was as much perpetrator as victim. Recognizing this awkward truth should help cool down overheated debates about today's transnational problems and how to respond to them.
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This seems to have worked for people having the Error (20) - although I can't necessarily stand behind it because I've never had that experience. Good luck!
You can know if they are saved by looking at the green numbers at the top of Cydia. Or you can save your SHSH files to you hard drive using Tinyumbrella.
Good write up Anthony. I'm sure a lot of people will benefit from this. Also have a question for anybody. Is there a step by step guide for using iFaith or New version of redsnow to "stitch" or create signed firmwares. I don't use redsnow because it updates baseband and haven't taken a real good look at iFaith.
@Chris3k2 Here is a tutorial for using iFaith on windows. http://jaxov.com/2011/07/download-if...ed-shsh-blobs/
I don't know if that helps. If it doesn't just google something like "iFaith tutorial for Mac" "or windows". There are also plenty of tutorials out there for using RedSnow as well.
Added note is MMi does not allow custom software to be linked in order to save any further legal trouble.


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Python Annoyances
Forewarning: It's been years since I last used Python, so I'm very much a "Python n00b" right now. I'm well aware that some of these complaints might entirely just me being an idiot. I would appreciate any comments pointing out said idiocy so I can stop being needlessly annoyed.
Having decided to write Source MUD in Python, I've come up with a list of things I find pretty annoying about the language. In no particular order:
Horrendous Documentation
The Python online manual is just atrocious. The modules are not very well documented, there are far too few examples, and functions don't actually declare their intended parameters or behavior all too often. Trying to find the proper function to get a job done is hard, and trying to figure out how a particular function is used is even harder. Classes in the standard library are a nightmare to figure out.
I particularly love the parts of the documentation that include verbiage such as "I can't be bothered right now to describe…"
Files as Modules
The Python module system makes organizing code hard. Let's say I have a dozen or so classes that are all grouped together. I have two choices: I either put them all into one file (e.g. module), or each class goes into a sub-module which somewhat bloats all the code that uses those classes (since I have to type out app.module.submodule.Class instad of app.module.Class).
Contrast this to Java, which forces one class per file. In that setup, the directories are the module names, and the individual files just mirror the class names. So I can split up a large set of classes into a single module without having unnecessary sub-modules.
I don't particularly care for Java's setup, either, but I find it infinitely better than Python's. I'd personally prefer something like C++'s, where I the programmer get to explicitly declare modules/namespaces and can freely organize my code however I like.
This one is really getting on my nerves. The few "too clever" tricks I've tried to work around it sadly don't work. I'm pretty much ready to give up and just start putting all my code into singular huge multi-thousand line files so I don't have to use stupidly.long.module.names.for.everything.
Classes Are Weak
Python classes act a lot more like JavaScript's prototypes, except that they're not as flexible. I can't, for example, declare a set of class member variables and default values in the class definition (including documentation). No, instead I have to make a constructor and set all the class members explicitly from that.
The really annoying part about that is that I can't make my classes actually mean anything. Since you can just set any member on any class, or freely add or remove methods on any class, and the language can't do a damn thing to check for simple mistakes (assigning to a misspelled class member name), my code feels really fragile.
If a variable is set in a class, that actually defines a class variable, not a member. This works out fine for numbers, booleans, and strings, but not so well for hashes, arrays, objects.
The Python gurus recommend unit testing to make sure code is solid. That's great. If I wanted to write dozens of lines of boilerplate code in order to make sure stuff worked, I'd have stuck with C++. I want to write less code and be confident in the belief that that code is correct and error free.
I might be better off with Boo for this particular complaint. I may just end up switching.
I think to be honest what bothers me most is that the Python way of doing this is not self documenting. I can't just look at a class and see, at the top, a list of all class members and their default values. I have to look at the __init__ method, which is a bit less clear cut. It moves all the member definitions to the same indentation level as regular method bodies, which makes them stand out less. It also means that member definitions have to have all the extra boilerplate, like the self. in front of the member name. it mixes the member definitions up with any actual initialization logic that __init__ requires. It's just messy, and makes a class harder to read and understand.
Declarator Inconsistency
The Python declarator feature is pretty cool. Unfortunately, it's pointlessly inconsistent. If you want a declarator that has no parameters, you define a simple function. If you want a declarator that takes parameters, however, you must define a function that returns another function. The side effect of this inconsistency is that you end up with two different syntaxes for actually using declarators in the case that you want to call one without any parameters.
# declarator that takes no parameters def dec1(func): return func # declarator that CAN take parameters, but doesn't require them def dec2(param=None): def actual(func): return func # correct @dec1 def func(): pass # correct @dec2() def func(): pass # correct @dec2(param='Test') def func(): pass # incorrect @dec1() def func(): pass # incorrect @dec2 def func(): pass
There's no good reason for that. Both types of declarator should just work the same way.
Variables Aren't Declared
I'm not all that interested in static typing of variables (although there are plenty of cases where it's damn handy). What I am interested in is the need to declare that a variable exists before it can be used.
Python already kicks up an error when you try to access a variable that hasn't been defined yet (at runtime, unfortunately), but it will happily let you accidentally create a new variable instead of assigned to the one you intended.
It's a really minor complaint, and one that I'm sure a lot of people will disagree about, but I'd really prefer it if I had to declare every variable with a simple "var name = foo" syntax. Likewise, a "const name = foo" would be equally nice.
Unstructured Docstrings
The same goes with Python's docstrings. Since they don't require any kind of special format, they are all too often just worthless bits of text. About as worthless as most code comments (which I'm just as guilty of). I mean, you have to appreciate the silliness of things like:
def getResults(): """ Gets the results. """ return ... # test if foo is valid if foo: ...
Really glad that code is documented! It helps so much in understanding what is going on.
So, I'm sitting here staring at my (quite useless) docstrings, and wondering what I should do with them. Unlike Java, which just uses special comments to document stuff, there isn't even a standard package for generating good documentation. There's pydoc, but I can't for the life of me figure out what the use of that thing is. I think that's what the official Python documentation is generated with, and you already know my thoughts on that crap.
I don't need anything particularly fancy. The bare bones javadoc syntax would be all I really need. Just a way to add a useful description of a function or class, and a way to list out what each parameter is for and what the return value should represent. And a tool to take that and turn it into something pretty to slap up on a website or in README for new developers on the project.
I have a few other complaints, but as those all are being tackled already for Python 3000, I'm not going to bring them up here. No sense complaining about things that are already being fixed,.


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ANS Navigator for Android (SAF) is a voice guided turn-by-turn navigation application that makes it possible to find your way quickly, easily and safely all throughout Southern Africa (countries included: Botswana, Burundi, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda).
User-friendly yet reliable; it's based on the same tried-and-trusted iGO Primo Engine as used in millions of GPS navigation devices all around the world.
Up-to-date maps, effective destination entry due to the Intelligent Quick Search function, high quality route calculation, and easy to follow guidance are all characteristics of the offering of ANS Navigator app.
Millions of POI-s (Points of Interest) and lots of 3D landmarks help the destination selection. Signs and warnings increase safety on the road by directing the driver's attention to dangerous situations. Lane information and signpost features further facilitate guidance and driving decisions in complex road junctions. Live traffic information, available for South Africa, provides real-time, relevant information about current traffic, while the off-road feature makes navigation in deserted or unpaved areas also possible in ten countries.
This fully-featured application is the best choice for navigation in the exotic Southern Africa!
(Internet connection is not needed for navigation as the maps reside on the device, so there are no hidden costs and surprises due to roaming fees.
On the other hand, please note that live traffic information, which is also available in this application, requires internet connection. However, if online traffic is turned off, no data costs can apply).
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A good Article from the Backpacker Magazine Website. You can read the article here.
As you know, keeping dry is one of the most important things you can do to ensure a good time and a safe camp out, especially in the winter.
Here is part of the Article regarding your tent.
Want A Waterproof Tent?
Of course you do! A tent that's not waterproof does you about as much good as a car without an engine. Look for these features when shopping for storm-ready shelter:
>>A roomy vestibule. Fully covered vestibules act as mudrooms when things get sloshy. They are an invaluable place to store wet gear and packs, so your inner sanctum stays dry and clean.
>>Full coverage rainfly. Forget about tents with cute little awnings sticking out above doors and windows. The wind will blow sheets of rain right into your lap. Look for a rainfly that extends all the way to the ground and all the way around.
>>Factory taped fly seams. When the factory applies the seam tape (rather than you, post-purchase) it's more durable, more foolproof, and saves you a big headache. A no-brainer.
>>Plenty of guy out points, stakes and cord. It's key to be able to keep your rainfly taut so water doesn't wick into the tent.
>>Bathtub or seamless floor. The floor fabric of tents is made of a sturdier, coated fabric. In bathtub style floors, this fabric wraps a few inches up from the ground creating an impenetrable barrier. At the very least, a tent floor should be one, seamless piece of fabric.
Enjoy the article.
Happy Scouting!


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By Ben Levisohn
It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Tesla Motors (TSLA).
Yes, it's true. Shares of Tesla have unleashed their inner superman. Today they're up 1.6% at $199.67 at 1:46 p.m., what would be a new closing high. Tesla's shares also hit a new all-time high of $202.20 earlier in the day.
The rally comes despite further progress on an Ohio-state law that would essentially prohibit the sales of Teslas in the state, a move pressed by Ohio dealers, as well as the collapse of many of the market's highest-flying stocks. While shares of Twitter (TWTR) have dropped 15% and Amazon.com (AMZN) has fallen 9.3%, and Tesla has gained 33%.
And to think, back in November, Tesla had been left for dead.


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Recent News
Posted on: 16 October, 2012
Experience an "Unforgettable" performance by film and stage actor Jeff Obafemi Carr as he performs his one-man show "Route 66: Finding Nat King Cole" at East Central University's Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 2. Tickets are $18 and may be purchased online at tickets.ecok.edu or at the box office the night of the show.
Posted on: 16 October, 2012
Transfer students to East Central University can enroll for the upcoming spring 2013 semester on Wednesday, Nov. 7. Students can check in at 12:30 p.m. as a brief orientation to ECU will take place. The students will also listen to guest speakers, be able to get their student identifications, meet with advisors from their department, enroll and take campus tours.
Posted on: 13 October, 2012
East Central University cheerleader Alicia Shakelford (center) is recognized during homecoming festivities with the James and Glenna Cranford $2,000 Scholarship Award. The award, which is given annually at homecoming to a member of the ECU cheerleading squad, was established by James Cranford in memory of his wife Glenna, a former ECU cheerleader. James passed away this past summer and the award was renamed in honor of both James and Glenna. Presenting the award was James and Glenna's son, Mike Cranford (second from right).
Posted on: 13 October, 2012Robert Langland, second from right, receives the 2012 Milam Award from East Central University President John R. Hargrave during halftime of the Tigers' homecoming football game against Northwestern Oklahoma State at Norris Field on Oct. 6. The Milam Award is given out each year during homecoming to a former ECU football player who has distinguished himself in his chosen career. Langland is currently the vice-president for financial services and the chief accounting officer for the St. John Health System in Tulsa.
Posted on: 13 October, 2012
Chickasaw Tales Production Opens at East Central University
FORMER OKLAHOMA ATTORNEY GENERAL EDMONDSON TO SPEAK AT LOU WATKINS LECTURESHIP AT EAST CENTRAL UNIVERSITYPosted on: 13 October, 2012
Former Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson will be the speaker for the Lou Watkins Endowed Lectureship on Tuesday, Oct. 30, at 6:30 p.m. inside the Stanley P. Wagner Ballroom at East Central University.
The event, free to the public, is billed 'An Evening with Drew Edmondson' as he delivers short prepared remarks before moving into a more conversational format with political science and legal studies students. He will also take questions from the audience.
Posted on: 13 October, 2012
Concert Pianist Rira Lim will be performing on Monday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ataloa Theatre of East Central University's Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.
The concert, which is free to the public, will feature the talents of Lim, a native of South Korea. Lim has played internationally through Asia, Western and Eastern Europe and North America.
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE WATCH PARTY, DISCUSSION SCHEDULED FOR ESTEP ROOM OF THE EAST CENTRAL UNIVERSITY COLE CENTER ON OCT. 22Posted on: 13 October, 2012
The East Central University Department of Political Science and Legal Studies will be hosting a non-partisan Presidential Debate watch party on Oct. 22 in the Estep Multimedia Room of the Bill S. Cole University Center on the ECU campus.
The debate will last from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. with a discussion on foreign policy to follow. The debate and discussion is free and open to the public.


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So, boingboing is having problems paying their "bandwidth bill", and are asking for suggestions on how to raise some cash. In addition to all the usual suspects (sponsorship, tip jars, advertising) there are more than a few suggestions that some sort of P2P technology should be developed to help distribute this content. (Or that they ought to use an existing one.) I like boingboing, but I hate P2P. Hence the following rant.
P2P does not solve server networking costs. Let's ignore UI issues, reliability, security, etc. At the end of the day, N bytes have to be transferred from one computer's uplink to another computer's downlink. (There are certainly advantages to how far across the Internet you have to travel, but nobody I know is charging based on that.) Somebody, somewhere, is paying to send traffic onto the network.
But, you might say, my uplink is idle most of the time. True; most users produce just a small amount of upstream traffic under 'normal' workloads. But there's no free lunch here--- if your upstream provider has any brains at all, they've already taken that into account in engineering their network. Widespread change in user behavior leads to changed costs for the ISP, unless the P2P application is extraordinarily good at reducing wide-area traffic. The ISP has two choices when their costs go up: they can charge more, or they can limit service. Most ISPs appear to be taking the latter route, although some try to push P2P users into a higher-priced plan.
In the long run, wide-area P2P applications will be either squelched by traffic shaping or subsidized by increased connectivity costs. A P2P-friendly ISP almost certainly sends more traffic onto the wide-area Internet than a P2P-limiting ISP, and thus incurs a higher cost structure. The "bandwidth" costs are spread across the P2P-using population at large rather than levied on the operators of a particular service. It's not obvious to me that this is an economic good (or a social good) compared with paying for the services you want the normal way--- subscriptions, ads, or donations.
This is not to belittle the very real problem BoingBoing is facing; maintaining web content or services in the face of increasing popularity is hard for anybody, even those explicitly trying to make money from it.
I ordered some more Delcom USB I/O chips. I'm assembling my own USB-based PIC programmer based on the Delcom part for control and a National Semiconductor LM2585S-ADJ to generate the programming voltage. (The PIC12F675 just uses this as a level indicator, and the PIC16F877s can be programmed at normal voltages, so this device is somewhat overkill.) Unfortunately I picked up the wrong type of ZIF socket on my last trip to Silicon Valley (it can't take 0.3" parts) so I need to find a replacement.
In the long run, it might be worth adding a microcontroller so that the USB communication is less overhead. My current design bit-bangs the programming protocol--- somewhat slow at 3 USB commands per bit!


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Library exhibition catalog wins award
Posted October 20, 2005; 05:39 p.m.
The catalog for Princeton University Library's exhibition "Of Maps and Men: In Pursuit of a Northwest Passage" has won the 2005 Arline Custer Award of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference.
The exhibition was coordinated by John Delaney, curator of the historic maps unit of the library's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
For 400 years, beginning in the early 1500s, the Northwest Passage challenged the best efforts of explorers to find a shorter route to the Orient. Delaney's 36-page color catalog features full-page copies of 16 maps tracing that history.
Also included are illustrations drawn from the explorers' journals, photographs from a 2003 transit aboard a Russian icebreaker and a large fold-out map from 1907 that illustrates the routes taken by many of the expeditions. An introductory essay by D. Graham Burnett, assistant professor of history, describes some of the unique difficulties confronting Arctic explorers. Marion Carty of Princeton's Department of Printing and Mailing designed the layout.
The exhibition ran from April through September 2004 in Firestone Library's Milberg Gallery. An online version of the exhibition is available on the Library's Web site.
The award honors Arline Custer, former editor of the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, and recognizes the best books, articles and exhibition catalogs published in the Mid-Atlantic states.
Copies of the catalog are available for $10 from the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at (609) 258-3184.


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Day off! Hallelujah! I hop out of bed this morning, (well, ok, crawl out moaning and groaning while I pry my eyes open) and realize I do not have to get "dressed" for work today. My old, soft jeans lay tossed across a chair where I ditched them last night. I sit on the edge of the chair and drag the jeans up over my legs. A sock pops out of one side. Aha! Gotcha! When I first get up I don't have my glasses on. So its a good thing when socks, combs, quarters or whatever that fall out of my jeans land right in front of my face. With the jeans only half way up my legs, and the sock just about 5 inches out of my longest stretch, (not very flexible at the best of times, especially right out of bed), I say, "Indy, fetch". He does and hands it to me. After putting on the sock, I realize that its mate had not popped out of the other side. Standing up to fasten my jeans, I start turning in circles to look for the renegade hosiery. (Still no glasses on.) After about four fruitless turns, I start grabbing piled up clothes off of the chair and slinging them out behind me, thinking the sock may have gotten intermingled with the other stuff. Cussin' and fussin' I feel a nudge right on my buttocks. I squeal, leap in the air and spin around. Indy has found the other sock and is trying to get my attention. He delivers it to me then lies down in front of me with his head cocked waiting to see what else I might do to entertain him. "Good dog, but I'm going to put my glasses on right now so you don't have to bring my toothbrush to me." So I reach over to the nightstand and slap around some. Hmmm..... no glasses. This is really strange, I never, ever put my glasses anywhere else. I guess I knocked them off when I put my book down last night. I get down painfully on my knees and start to grope under the bed, when again that rude nudge into my personal space. I flop down on my butt and turn my head. Indy now has my glasses in his mouth holding them out towards me very patiently. When I take them from him I am mesmerized. There is not a scratch, bent arm, heck they are not even wet!
That does it, I am not entering the old folks home without Indy. Did I ever mention I love this dog?
The point of this whole story, is that I believe labs come with almost as much natural desire to serve as they do to retrieve. What think you?


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Heavy rain causes flash flooding, road closures in western Wis.
Boscobel receives nearly 8 inches of rain
LA CROSSE, Wis. - Heavy rain has led to flash flooding in parts of southwestern Wisconsin, and northern Grant County was hit especially hard.
Boscobel received nearly 8 inches of rain.
The Wisconsin Emergency Operations Center said local officials in Boscobel reported that more than half the community's streets were flooded early Saturday, but most of the water has receded.
Damage assessments are under way to determine how many homes sustained flood damage. The Red Cross and Salvation Army are providing assistance.
Boscobel is a community of about 3,200 people on the Wisconsin River.
Residents there woke up Saturday morning to find their streets, homes, and backyards flooded after heavy storms hit Grant County this weekend.20680112
Boscobel native Nancy Wagner said her own backyard resembled a lake.
"We just look like we have waterfront property, that's all," she said. "We never dreamed when we'd get up this morning, that's what we'd find."
Following nearly eight inches of rainfall that hit the area hard Friday night, 600 homes are swimming in water from their backyards to their basements. It's a scene unlike anything this small town has seen before.
In some neighborhoods, residents reported standing water at heights of nearly three feet, a virtual swampland that spanned several blocks.
What used to be backyards were rivers that forced firemen to evacuate two dozen houses by boat.
"I'm 71 years old, and I've never seen water to this extent," said Boscobel mayor Steve Wetter. "You know they talk about the 100-year flood, and then they talk about the 500-year flood. I'm not sure what one this was, but it was one of them."
"This is something that hasn't happened in Boscobel to this extent in my recollection," said Grant County Emergency Services Director Steve Braun.
He added eight fire departments from surrounding areas joined the Boscobel Fire Department in helping the community clear water and debris from city streets.
"There are a lot of homes that have water and or sewage in the basement, and are looking at how they're gonna get their homes cleaned up," said Braun.
The National Weather Service said additional storms were expected Saturday that could result in more flash flooding in southwestern Wisconsin.
Elsewhere, a lightning strike was also blamed for a gas line break small fire at a Milwaukee home early Saturday.
Local And Regional News
- Madison police work to create better quality of life on top of State Street
- 'Out of the darkness' walk for suicide prevention
- Woman may face charges after being thrown from vehicle during crash
- Officials ID fatal Grant County crash victim
- Police: Electronics taken from Boscobel home Friday
- Armed robberies in Monona, Madison may be connected, Monona PD says


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Pretty Lights, Wale and Big Gigantic kick-off Binghamton University's Homecoming events
BINGHAMTON, NY – Performing artists Pretty Lights, Wale and Big Gigantic are set to kick-off Binghamton University's Homecoming celebrations at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, in the Events Center.
Pretty Lights, also known as Derek Vincent Smith, is an electronic music artist fresh off a sold-out 2010 North American tour, including two performances at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. Extending his success into 2011, Pretty Lights has already headlined at music festivals such as Bonnaroo, Camp Bisco, the Governor's Ball and Austin City Limits.
Wale, the self-proclaimed "Ambassador of Rap for the Capital," is a rapper who hails from Washington, D.C. After rising to prominence with his 2006 song, "Dig Dug (Shake It)," Wale released his debut album, "Attention Deficit," in 2008, peaking at #2 on Billboard's Top Rap Albums, with such hits as "Chillin'," which featured Lady Gaga. His second album, "Ambition." is to be released in November.
Big Gigantic is an electronic duo composed of saxophonist/producer Dominic Lalli and drummer Jeremy Salken. By combining vibrant jazz melodies and pulsating dance beats, Big Gigantic has made a profound impact on the jamtronica landscape since their conception in 2008.
This concert is sponsored by the Student Association Programming Board.
Tickets go on sale Thursday, Sept. 1 for the general public at a cost of $35 per ticket. They can be purchased at www.sapb.binghamtonsa.org or by visiting or calling the Binghamton University Events Center Box Office at (607) 777-6004.


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4.3: Introduction to T&E of System-of-Systems and Interoperability
Lesson Objectives
- Describe a system-of-systems
- Explain the differences between a system and a system-of-systems
- Describe network-centric
- Describe interoperability
- system
- A collection of interacting or interdependent components organized to form an integrated whole and accomplish a specific function or set of functions. Their parts must be related. They must be designed to work as a coherent entity, otherwise they would be two or more distinct systems. Generally, a system will produce a single function or result. Your MP3 player is a system in that it consists of various components that are combined with the purpose of working together to perform a specific function.1
- system-of-systems (SoS)
- A set or arrangement that results when independent and useful systems are integrated into a larger system that delivers unique capabilities. A system-of-systems can result in unexpected interactions and unintended consequences. Test and evaluation (T&E) of a system-of-systems must not only assess performance to desired capability objectives, but must also characterize the additional capabilities or limitations due to unexpected interactions. Systems-of-systems is a new and evolving area for development, acquisition, and T&E.2
Check Your Understanding
In previous lessons, you gained insight into how live, virtual, and constructive (LVC) simulations can be applied to test and evaluation (T&E). More specifically, you learned how a distributed LVC environment can be built by connecting various geographically distinct capabilities needed for testing. The interaction of these capabilities, or systems, must now be understood before we can examine the direct applications of using distributed LVC simulation in T&E.
This lesson will address the concepts of the interaction needed of systems to form a system-of-systems in a network-centric environment, and then introduce the very important concept of interoperability. Interoperability between systems is a fundamental requirement for what makes a system-of-systems actually work, so it is a natural focus for testing a system-of-systems.
Lesson Content
What Is a System-of-Systems?
A system can be defined as a functionally, physically, or behaviorally related group of regularly interacting or interdependent elements that form a unified whole. Test and Evaluation (T&E) is used to assess a system for its ability to achieve a desired effect or to perform a set of tasks under specified standards and conditions. T&E on a system can be either technical T&E or user T&E.
When independent systems are integrated into a larger system, it is known as a system-of-systems, or SoS. A SoS delivers unique capabilities and interactions that are not found in individual systems. Both individual systems and SoS conform to the accepted definition of a system, in that each consists of parts, relationships, and a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts; however, although a SoS is a system, not all systems are SoS.3 For instance, a Nintendo Wii is a system (Figure below). The individual parts of a Nintendo Wii include the console, wireless controller, a separate display screen, and the Wii remote, which can be used as a handheld pointing device and detects movement in three dimensions. But all these parts are components that are integrated into a larger system. Complex, yes, but these components cannot stand alone. Each component needs the rest of the components to be able to function properly.
Your Nintendo Wii is a system. It is a collection of interacting components organized to form an integrated whole and accomplish a specific function. (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
An airport is a system-of-systems. Shown above is the Dulles International Airport in Virginia, near Washington, D.C. The individual systems include aircraft like the Boeing 777 discussed earlier, radio systems, multiple radar systems, baggage handling systems, food service, public address systems, and even individual ground transportation vehicles. Each of these systems performs an independent and specialized function. When these individual systems are integrated into a larger system-of-systems, they become interdependent and perform unique interactions that provide a distinctive capability. (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
SoS is a rapidly changing area for product development and T&E. The SoS concept should include the system in the broadest sense, from performance of specific components to the network-centric interaction of an entire SoS. The exchange of data in a SoS can result in unexpected interactions and unintended consequences. T&E of a SoS will have unique requirements due to the complexity of the communication and data exchange within the individual systems. T&E of SoS must not only assess the desired performance capability of individual systems, but must also assess the additional capabilities or limitations due to these unexpected interactions. Early testing, both technical and user testing, is especially important in a SoS to help to mitigate the risk of "late-cycle churn" (defined in the lesson "What Is Test and Evaluation?"). Testing in a distributed LVC environment can more easily, and with fewer resources, replicate the intended SoS and its operating environment. LVC simulations, Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL), or a Systems Integration Laboratory (SIL) provide a unique capability to conduct testing of SoS and is a practical and efficient way to build a test environment for complex SoS. In fact, using distributed LVC simulations may be the only practical way to discover the unexpected interactions and untended consequences common to a SoS.
What Is Network-Centric?
Network-centric, or "net-centric," refers to participating as a part of a continuously evolving, complex community of people, devices, information, and services interconnected by a communications network to achieve optimization of resources and better synchronization of events and their consequences. Many experts believe the terms "information-centric" or "knowledge-centric" would capture the concepts more aptly because the objective is to find and exploit information. The network itself is only one of several enabling factors along with sensors, data processing and storage, expert analysis systems and intelligent agents, and information distribution. The shift away from point-to-point system interfaces to network-centric interfaces brings significant implications for the T&E community.4
The net-centric environment is a framework for full human and technical connectivity. It allows product users to share the information they need, when they need it, and in a form they can understand and act on with confidence.5 It should also protect information from those who should not have it. Net-centric systems for T&E enable users to handle information only once, post data before processing it, access data when it is needed, collaborate to make sense of data, and diversify network paths to provide reliable and secure network capabilities. This allows for improved resource management and provides better information on events and conditions needed by the developer and test planners.
The challenge to the T&E community is to represent the integrated architecture in the intended operating environment for the product, systems, and system-of-systems — that is, in a net-centric environment. It is imperative that the T&E community develop net-centric test planning that reflects the intended operational environment and interfaces within which the intended products and capabilities must be tested. This would include characteristics of individual systems and network characteristics and factors such as network loading, bandwidth, throughput, packet loss, latency, and jitter.6 While these terms of network performance are beyond the scope of this lesson, the student should understand that each of these characteristics form only a part of a very complicated process that will need to be addressed when conducting T&E in a network-centric environment.
The continental U.S. power transmission grid is a good example of a net-centric system-of-systems. It consists of about 300,000 km of lines operated by approximately 500 companies. Transmission networks are complex, with redundant pathways and a wide-area synchronous grid, or "interconnection." This allows transmission of power throughout the area, connecting a large number of electricity generators and consumers and potentially enabling more efficient electricity markets and redundant generation. Electricity generation and consumption must be balanced across the entire grid because energy is consumed almost immediately after it is produced. Remember that the exchange of data in a system-of-systems can result in unexpected interactions and unintended consequences. Likewise, a large failure in one part of the power grid — unless quickly compensated for — can cause current to re-route itself to flow from the remaining generators to consumers over transmission lines of insufficient capacity, causing further failures. One downside of a net-centric system-of-systems, such as a widely connected power grid, is the potential of cascading failure and widespread power outage if the grid is not managed properly. The challenge for T&E planners is developing the capability to test products in this type of distributed net-centric environment.7
What Is Interoperability?
Interoperability is defined as the ability of systems or components to provide data, information, and services to, and accept the same from, other systems or components and then to use the data, information, and services to enable them to operate effectively together. Interoperability is absolutely required of systems and SoS operating in a net-centric environment. It is this interoperability that enables systems that have been connected to act as a system-of-systems.
Assessing interoperability performance in a net-centric environment for system-of-systems is a key element of using distributed LVC simulations for T&E.
The complexity and expense of today's net-centric systems clearly demonstrate the need to test early and often throughout the development and fielding process of a product. Early testing of a system's capability to operate in its intended environment will allow designers and system engineers to identify and correct fundamental issues with performance and interoperability before they become operational specifications. As the transition to net-centric SoS is accelerated, the requirement to successfully demonstrate systems interoperability will increase. Thus, the need to use distributed testing with LVC simulations becomes the only feasible method to efficiently confirm system maturity, effectiveness, and performance.
Lesson Summary
- A system-of-systems can be defined as the configuration or arrangement that results when independent and specific systems are integrated into a larger system, thus delivering unique capabilities and interactions.
- Network-centric, or "net-centric," refers to participating as a part of a continuously evolving, complex community of people, devices, information, and services interconnected by a communications network.
- Interoperability is the ability of systems or components to provide and accept data, information, and services that enable them to operate effectively together.
Review Questions
1. Describe the differences between a system and a system-of-systems.
2. List the two significant features of a system-of-systems.
3. How does a network-centric capability affect distributed T&E?
4. Why is interoperability between systems important?
Further Reading/Supplemental Links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMDROyNXrvo Go to this link to view how a car company used distributed capabilities to design a new car. Note the globalization where design team is one place and engineering team is another place.
Points to Consider
For this lesson, points to consider are provided as an aid to the instructor to stimulate critical thinking among the students. These questions have no right or wrong answers, but may help further the student's understanding of the material. Suggested responses are provided to help the instructor guide the discussion.
- We now have all the "parts" necessary to understand T&E using distributed live, virtual, and constructive simulations.
- What practical applications do you see? (Suggested response: When properly understood and planned for, distributed LVC methodologies will apply to the T&E of most products and systems that must interact or exchange data with other products or systems. The most dramatic applications will be in large system-of-systems testing, due in part to the difficulty and expense in developing live-only testing scenarios.
- What benefits do you envision? (Suggested response: When live systems do not need to be co-located to complete a test event, there will be immediate cost and time savings to the T&E program, simply because of the expensive and time-consuming nature of collecting these systems in one place. That in turn will have multiple affects in how realistic that testing can be, how early the product or system can be tested, and eventually reduce the cost of making corrections to the design and development of the product. That will ultimately result in a better, quicker, and cheaper product to the customer.
- What are some potential drawbacks? (Suggested response: Distributed LVC testing will not be cost-free. There will be a lot of "up front" costs, and it can be difficult to provide the network and environment needed. Distributed testing will not be appropriate for every T&E situation. Also, it is a relatively new concept, and in some cases it can appear to be "too hard" to do. These drawbacks will be discussed in the next lesson, but it should be stressed that, for many if not most cases, distributed LVC testing will save the developer time and money.
- How does network-centric affect T&E planners? (Suggested response: Net-centric systems-of-systems will present T&E planners a very complicated problem in designing accurate environments for test events that will replicate the "real world" in which the product or products will operate. They will have to anticipate and account for unexpected and unintended interactions of the various systems. This is important, as the developer will need to know what deficiencies belong to his product(s) and what problems are due to other system(s) or even the environment.
1 DoD 5000.59-M "DoD Modeling and Simulation Glossary"
2 Defense Acquisition Guidebook, July 29, 2010, Chapter 9, Test and Evaluation
3 Director, Systems and Software Engineering, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Technology), Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics), Aug 2008, http://www.acq.osd.mil/se/docs/SE-Guide-for-SoS.pdf
4 Webster's Dictionary (online), http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/Net-Centric
5 Net-Centric Environment Joint Functional Concept, Version 1.0, Apr 2005, http://www.carlisle.army.mil/dime/getDoc.cfm?fileID=30
6 Encyclopedia of Networking and Telecommunications, McGraw Hill, Thomas Sheldon, 2001
7 Wikipedia article entitled "Electrical Grid," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_grid
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|Warmwater flyfishing Bass, pike and even muskies in your backyard
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|Last night on Fly Fish TV on OLN Scott Morris had a diver bluegill fly pattern. Also he had some awesome bass plugs.
I've seen pickerel attack fish that were on the line (or attack just after the fish came unhooked), and I've had bass and pike come up and look the fish over while I was bringing it in, but I never caught one that way.
There's a place where I fish in the springtime where I see BIG bass chasing bluegills in the outflow from a culvert. I haven't tried to tie a bluegill fly yet, but I know bluegills are near the top of the menu for bass. I've caught lots of bass (even small ones) that had bluegill tails hanging out of their gullets.
Anyone got a good bluegill pattern?
This is intresting !
Well I just got in from doing some flyfishing and had a very scary thing happen. I was catching bluegill with a frog pattern popper. I was retrieving a small bluegill when I seen this monster hog of a largemouth bass engulf my bluegill:eyecrazy: I said this aint going to work In fear of snapping my rod. I remembered I had 5X for a tippet and figured he would snap it. I quickly felt the weight of the bass and then nothing. Well he got the bluegill off without snapping my tippet
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A little later in a different spot a small bluegill came up to snatch my popper when all of a sudden the little fish lunged out of the water past the popper and skated the surface for about 3 feet , like his tail was on fire At the same time I noticed a large swirling whirl pool just behind the little guy like something was chasing it.
Are we heading into the fall feeding pattern of fish we have had rain and much cooler weather settle in. Seems like the fishing has picked up a bit, at least for warm water. I am now starting to think of the trout that have been dorment for weeks.
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SPOKANE, Wash. - The EA-6B Prowler, which has had a long history of service with the US Navy, has served as the primary electronics warfare aircraft for the Navy since its introduction in 1970.
The Prowler was developed by Northrop Grumman off the A-6 Intruder platform in the late 1960s as a replacement for the Navy's EA-3B Skywarrior and the Marine Corps' EF-10B Skynight. Its primary mission is to provide "protection for strike aircraft, ground troops and ships by jamming enemy radar, electronic data links and communications," according to the Navy.
It accomplishes this mission using the ALQ-99 jamming pod and the AGM-88 HARM (High-Speed Anti-Radiation) Missile, a tactical air-to-surface missile used to home in on surface-to-air radar systems.
The aircraft, which is in service with both the Navy and Marine Corps, carries a four-person crew consisting of a pilot and three electronics countermeasures officers.
Following the retirement of the Skywarrior in 1991 and the Air Force's EF-111 Raven in 1998, the Prowler was the only electronics warfare aircraft in the military arsenal until the introduction of the Boeing EA-18G Growler, which entered service in 2008.
The aircraft involved in Monday's mishap was assigned to Electronic Attack Squadron 129 (VAQ-129), known as the Vikings. VAQ-129 is the Navy's fleet replacement squadron charged with training all Navy and Marine Corps aviators assigned to fly Prowlers and Growlers.
The squadron is permanently based at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.
Since its introduction into the fleet in 1971, the Prowler has served in combat in Vietnam, Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. While no Prowlers have ever been lost in combat operations over its 42 years in service, numerous aircraft have been lost in peacetime accidents.
A memorial was dedicated at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in 1998 to 44 aircrew lost in EA-6B Prowler accidents. The last two mishaps involving loss of life in Prowlers happened that same year.
In February 1998 a Marine Prowler clipped the cable of a gondola in Cavalese, Italy, killing 20 civilians when the gondola crash 80 meters to the ground. Despite damage to the aircraft the aircrew were able to return to Aviano Air Base in Italy.
In November 1998 a Navy Prowler collided with an S-3 Viking during night landing qualifications aboard the USS Enterprise off the coast of Virginia. All four crewmen aboard the Prowler died in that mishap.
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While single chainring, otherwise know as one-by, drivetrain setups get more popular every year, there's still many of us that prefer the wider gear range that a triple-chainring setup provides. And although SRAM's XX1 group set is complicit in the one-by's growing popularity, SRAM still provides us 3x10 loyalists with options. With SRAM's X9 3x10 S1 Direct Mount Front Derailleur, you're able to run a triple chainring with an S1-type, low direct-mount front derailleur. The X9 front derailleur utilizes SRAM's direct 1:1 actuation ratio in order to ensure precise shifting. Essentially, this means that the derailleur cage moves the same distance as the amount of cable that's being pulled during a shift. So, what's the benefit' Well, this ratio provides you with powerful, crisp, and precise shifts without expending much energy. And since precision is the name of the game when it comes to shifting, the X9's steel cage minimizes flex. In turn, this ensures that your shifts are crisp, not lagging. The SRAM X9 3x10 S1 Low Direct Mount Front Derailleur is intended for use with triple chainring cranksets, and it requires the use of an S1 low direct derailleur mount. Please note that this front derailleur is only compatible with SRAM 1:1 shifters. - $52.95


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Exposed brick walls are something everyone loves to have in their lives. Just think about how warm and cozy they make you feel, the stories they tell, and how naturally beautiful they are in their raw form. They really do have the best personality and I've got proof.
I would love to cook up some old world italian cuisine in this industrial kitchen and tell stories about our travels through Tuscany.
The guests can stay in this room curated with pieces from travels around the world.
The brick reveals layers of history as it's exposed from beneath the plaster. The modern elements create a perfect juxtaposition.
Industrial dining at it's finest. It feels like a restaurant in the middle of your home! I love the contemporary chandelier design above the table.
Who wouldn't want to study in this library for hours and hours?! Oh the places you would go and things you would learn!
Working late hours in this office wouldn't seem like that big of a deal I don't suppose.
Moving into the garage couldn't be better!
Painted brick and cozy eclectic furniture truly make this room a conversation piece, with a modern pendant light above.
When you want your brick to be more you...just paint it pink!
Or seafoam green!
At this current time my fascination is with white brick walls! And... I've found a product that would allow every single one of us to have a brick wall! There is a new product on the market called Panel Piedra that comes in approx. 3' x 4' panels that can easily be installed over any wall. My white brick wall would need to be surrounded by natural woods, steel, bright colors, bold patterns, and soft organic shapes. It would look a little something like this...
1. Piquito 11" High Black Mini Pendant Light 2. Arteriors Home Linden Tripod Wood Floor Lamp 3. Laguna Sahara Club Chair 4. Knibb Design Dining Table 5. Helen Frankenthaler "Pranzo Italiano" 6. Panel Piedra Brick 7. Vintage Rug 8. Raw Wood Turntable
Images: Concept Blanc, The Archivist, Apartment Therapy, Desire to Inspire, Yellowtrace, Concrete and Dust, CS Interiors, Apartment Therapy, Design Sponge, Decor8,
So many goods are transported via container daily and these containers have shelf life just like everything else. After about 10 uses they can no longer be used and they end up piling up at ports all over. The use of shipping containers for construction is a brilliant idea. Although it is not the newest idea out there, innovative uses are popping up everyday and are taking the world by storm. Whether it be an entire shipping container mall with pop up retails shops, a restaurant opening up in Times Square, or hotel rooms inside a large warehouse. The simple construction allows these retail stores to pop up on almost any vacant urban lot for any amount of time. They are also continuing to be integrated into interiors of modern industrial spaces to reduce the construction costs, bring efficiency, and affordability to innovative green buildings.
Boxpark Shoreditch, said to be the world's first pop-up mall is constructed entirely out of recycled containers. 61 containers are combined to create a multi-level structure with spaces for both shopping and relaxing. This idea is wonderful for small businesses that cannot afford long leases and want to take an innovative approach into the market. Look for many more of these structures to be making an appearance in your neighborhood in the very near future!
25hours Hotel Hafencity in Hamburg, designed by Stephen Williams Associates, has used a shipping container in the lobby to enclose the conference center just off the main lobby. As you enter you feel like you're about to go on an adventure in a shipping warehouse beside the harbor in Hamburg. Everything from the plywood box desk, the industrial luggage trolleys, and industrial lighting make this destination a true adventure.
Snack Box, designed by Aedifica, takes the food truck off its wheels and stations it in one the most iconic spots in the world. It is an entirely self-sufficient structure and after a long day in Times Square it can easily be closed up and moved on. The visual identity and branding allow the structure to have a bold presence in this saturated environment. This is a true innovation for container architecture and usage in an urban setting.
When this travel and art obsessed San Francisco couple bought the 3,200 square foot former Chinese laundry and tooth powder factory they knew that had to do something incredible with it. How do we create volumes and rooms in this space without breaking it up into individual spaces and blocking the natural light that shines through the unit? Shipping Containers....of course!
The original idea for the guest room in the middle of the space was a railroad car, but the shipping container quickly became the answer! Copper piping, industrial sconces, and teak accents evoke the utilitarian feel of the cargo. Everything about this space is perfect to me!
Even Starbucks has tapped into the container market. The Reclamation Drive-Thru container coffee shop is part of Starbucks new branding strategy to encourage green building, reduce operating costs, and continue to stay innovative in their approach to environmental design in retail. I like the direction that they are going.
Images: Boxpark, 25hour Hotels, Design-Hotels, Arthitectural, Dwell, Business Insider
Concrete is the trendy product for home building if you want that modern urban-style aesthetic. It's a very raw material that provides clean lines and an open canvas for any home decor and furniture you decide to pair it with. Would you be surprised to learn that this living room wall (above) is not concrete but a wall covering? This image below is another style in the same Tom Haga Concrete Collection.
If you do have the option of selecting the architectural materials for your home or condo during the building stages, this super modern bathroom is a great design idea. The typographical screening concept paired with the concrete is also a really cool idea.
These tiles from Daniel Ogassian are a great option whether you're designing from scratch or just re-designing a single room. They can help you add concrete in a big way or just a little corner.
This ottoman gives the appearance of concrete without the heaviness. It's constructed out of clay with a slate finish made to look like concrete... perfect near a side chair in an urban-style loft.
Slate Finish Round Clay Ottoman
This floor lamp has a super fun and modern style, but also has a chic detail... the base is finished with a concrete paint to give it the effect without the extra weight.
Rico Espinet Brushed Nickel Floor Lamp
So, whether you're building your home from scratch and you have input on the architectural materials.... or you just want to add a little detail, there's lots of fun ways to incorporate concrete into your urban-style decor.
Images: Tom Haga, Daniel Ogassian, Apartment Therapy
My love for acrylic in interior design started with a stay at the Hudson Hotel in New York a few years ago and it has stayed with me ever since. I think acrylic is the perfect contrast against natural materials. It adds life and light without being too heavy or dominating. It's a perfect element of the unexpected whether it be clear or colored. It mixes perfectly with modern interiors and contrasts beautifully with traditional. Here are some amazing interiors to prove it!
The clear acrylic chairs work well with the natural elements of this kitchen and breakfast room. By being visually unobtrusive they make the space feel larger and the modern lighting make a statement.
The fireplace is the main focus of this space and the acrylic chairs do a great job of complimenting that. I love how the fireplace can be seen through the chair at the end of the table. Mixing transparent orange chairs and clear chairs is also a nice touch in this modern organic space.
This table let's the chrome lighting make the statement and let's the floors shine through. It really brings light into this rich setting.
The sleek and smoky outdoor dining chairs are perfect in this slightly rustic setting that opens up to the exterior.
This black acrylic chair can stand all on it's own. It is the perfect accent in any space.
Images: Hudson Hotel, DecorPad, Arkimom, Design Indulgences
Lighting is one of the most important stages in any design project. Different designers approach it in their own way, but it should be considered toward the beginning of the project. If you are making selections for your own home, first try to think about how much light you will need. After evaluating your lighting needs, then you are able to decide how many fixtures you will want, the scale and what style you prefer. You want the lights to be effective, look good, but you also want them to coordinate with the rest of your decor.
Left: George Kovacs Copper Bronze Ceiling Light
Right: Holtkoetter Old Bronze White Halogen Ceiling Light Fixture
When it comes to loft living, which is quickly gaining in popularity, lighting is very important. Lofts are typically designed with a modern aesthetic, which means minimal furniture and the less furnishings you have, the more important each item becomes. Typically lofts have lots of big windows and natural light, but the functionality of light fixtures are still important. The gorgeous loft pictured above demonstrates a warehouse-style approach to their lighting solutions. The fixtures are installed in a grid pattern, however the fixtures themselves are modern flush pendants rather than track lighting. The scale of a fixture is also very important. Considering the large wood beams and open space in this loft, the fixtures could not be too small.
This white and gray loft features light fixtures that contribute to the clean decor without distracting from it. This lighting design also demonstrates a fun alternative to ceiling fixtures such as chandeliers and pendants.
Left: Holtkoetter Bernie Turbo Chrome LED Swing Arm Wall Lamp
Right: Holtkoetter Bernie Turbo Nickel LED Swing Arm Wall Lamp
The task-style wall lights are a very cool way to light the dining area since the ceiling is so high, which is often the case in lofts.
Left: Nova Arcing Linen Shade Floor Lamp, Right: Kichler Cantilever Brushed Nickel Finish Floor Lamp
The floor lamp has a long reaching arm to cover all of the seating area as an alternative to hanging a ceiling fixture. From a design perspective, it's perfectly acceptable to hang chandeliers or pendants from high ceilings, but there are other cool options as seen here.
This wide open space doesn't include a lot of lighting, but the fixtures that were selected provide a little color contrast to the rest of the space while pairing perfectly with the dining table. Forget having an issue with high ceilings at an angle, it's no problem here. This lighting design is perfect in both function and style.
Left: Bangle Collection Pendant Chandelier, Right: Jamie Young St Charles Amber Glass Pendant Chandelier
Whether you're designing a new space or just changing out the lighting in your home, be sure to make it a priority. Don't forget to consider function and scale first and then move on to style. Even though we all know selecting the prettiest fixture is always the most fun part!
Images: Smilay Properties, Trendland, Desire to Inspire, Eurostyle Lighting
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