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Compliments of our friends at GORP, the GORP gear pro Keith Morton gives us a great tip how to keep your heavy stuff in the top section of your pack.
Murphy's Law of the Inconvenient Migration of Stuff means that dense items (especially water bottles, hydration systems, large cameras, and fuel) tend to gravitate to the bottom of your pack, especially when the pack is not full and tightly packed. Those are precisely the items that often need to be handy and whose weight should be up high and close to your back between your shoulder blades for easy carrying.
Here's a simple solution:
Suspend a stuff bag to form a pocket inside the pack at an appropriate height. Attach it with safety pins to the strong internal seam that encircles the top of most packs. That way the pins do not pass through to the outside skin of the pack, and it's usually easy to push the pins through just the binding tape on the seam.
If you use a waterproof stuff sack, such as Outdoor Research Hydroseal bags (various sizes and prices, http://www.orgear.com/), you have extra protection against a leaking bottle or hydration system wetting the pack contents. Just don't put the camera in with the water bottle!
Article and photo courtesy of GORP.


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This buddy of mine in California sent me an FAO exclusive Fambaa without telling me. What a cool thing to find outside your door with the mail! I don't have any room to display him, though because I just got my B-wing and a limited amount of apartment space. Should I open him up or wait? That Gungan look spretty cool, too.
(And why does EVERYTHING in the SW galaxy have multiple, repetitive letters in its name??)

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| Is it just a tension headache? Your sinuses? A migraine? Here's our handy guide on how to tell.
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|The scoop: This is by far the most common type of headache, affecting as many 90 percent of people at some point in their life. It's caused by tightness in the muscles of the scalp and the back of the neck.
Symptoms: Dull pressure or tightness in a band around the head, especially the forehead. Usually no other symptoms.
Pain: Mild to moderate
Triggers: Stress or fatigue
Treatment: OTC pain relievers like ibuprofen and naproxen. Taking some time to de-stress—deep breathing, gentle yoga, napping, or meditation—might also help.
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|The scoop: Often mistaken for a tension or sinus headache, a migraine is a neurological condition caused by an overreactive "switch" in the brain stem.
Symptoms: Throbbing pain; sensitivity to light, sounds, and smells; nausea and vomiting; and other symptoms. Twenty percent of sufferers have aura—symptoms such as visual disturbances that precede the onset of pain.
Pain: Moderate to severe
Triggers: Stress, hormonal changes, weather changes, some foods
Treatment: Stress relief, lifestyle changes, OTC and Rx medications
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|The scoop: It's extremely uncommon; most people who think they have one actually have a migraine. "Almost half of people with migraines have runny or stuffy nose or teary eyes with their headaches," Dr. Tepper explains.
Symptoms: Pain around the nose and eyes; runny nose, often accompanied by fever.
Pain: Mild to severe
Triggers: An acute sinus infection
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Symptoms: Intense, penetrating pain behind one eye that usually starts shortly after you fall asleep. They last an hour or two but come in clusters of one or two headaches a day over several weeks.
Pain: Excruciating
Triggers: Alcohol. Also more common in smokers.
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Introduction | Essay | Paintings | Paper | Preventive | Textiles | AICCM conference papers 2008
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Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique
Made in Mâcon: Investigations into the production of wallpaper
In revolutionary year XIII (September 1804 – September 1805) the French entrepreneur Joseph Dufour produced a concept in wallpaper design that secured the new direction of decorative interiors.1 It was the largest panoramic wallpaper of its time, depicting a fantasy of coloured landscapes featuring the people, events and places encountered during the exploration of the Pacific. The introduction of this papier peint marked the burgeoning of an industry in panoramic wallpapers in France.
Joseph Dufour commissioned the publishing house of Moiroux in Franche Street, Mâcon to issue a prospectus advertising Les Sauvages de Ia Mer Pacifique, tableau pour decoration en papier peint. In this were expressed some of the ideals of the Enlightenment such as human equality, overcoming ignorance through popular education, and scientific progress. These sentiments reflected the belief that progress could be achieved through knowledge of the natural world, which could be manipulated by technology to enhance the human sciences and ultimately produce tolerant and secular societies.
Only five complete examples are known to remain in situ, most privately owned, and there are approximately 30 other fragments. The National Gallery of Australia and the Art Gallery of New South Wales have secured examples of this intriguing and rare wallpaper. National Gallery of Australia conservators have conducted a technical analysis of the materials and skills used to produce Les Sauvages de Ia Mer Pacifique; the relationship between the wallpaper industry and textile manufacturing; the significance of Mâcon as the place of origin of this wallpaper and the value of collecting historical data.
Les Sauvages de Ia Mer Pacifique was designed for Joseph Dufour et Cie by Jean-Gabriel Charvet, a painter and designer who studied at the École de Dessin in Lyon. In 1773 he travelled to Guadeloupe in the Caribbean on business for his uncle, and during the four years of his stay is known to have produced many studies of exotic native flora and fauna as well as landscapes.2 Charvet's inspiration for the wallpaper design came from the exciting new discoveries in the Pacific, particularly those made by Captain Cook, and also from his own fascinating encounter with the people and culture of the Caribbean. By 1785, he had established a drawing school of his own in Annonay, a town in the Ardèche, south of Lyon.3 Annonay was a centre for silk processing and had been a papermaking region since the 16th century.
Joseph Dufour, friend and collaborator of Charvet, trained in the wallpaper industry and worked in Lyon which was a centre for both textile and wallpaper industries.44 In 1797 Dufour branched out and established his own business in Mâcon with his brother Pierre, and by 1801 operated under the name Joseph Dufour et Cie.5 It was here, and in this climate of invention and innovation, that he produced Charvet's design.
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By 1800 Mâcon had a population of 10,000 and a flourishing Burgundy wine industry.6 The town had a direct link with Lyon, approximately 70 kilometres to the south, via the Saône River. Mâcon had largely survived the disturbances of the French Revolution, possibly due to the fact that it had become the headquarters for supporters of the Revolution. Lyon, however, where the counter-revolutionary movement for a time had a stronghold, was severely hit by the pro-revolutionary forces stationed in and around Mâcon.7
The town of Mâcon was a felicitous place for an enterprising businessman to establish his factory. Dufour was 46 years old and already an experienced member of the wallpaper trade when he produced his great panorama. His exposure to both the wallpaper and the parallel textile industries in Lyon would have given him the technical and business acumen necessary to attempt a project of the magnitude of Les Sauvages de Ia Mer Pacifique. In producing wallpaper that required the patronage of a discerning and moneyed market, Dufour would have had to rely on his knowledge of the established trade routes for textiles from Lyon to Paris and America. He then would have been able to capitalise on this to reach the buyers of this extravagant household indulgence. Like a true entrepreneur, he advertised his product by publishing his prospectus before the work had been completed.
The panorama was shown at the Exposition des produits de I'industrie francaise in 1806, in Paris. The Napoleonic regime had encouraged exhibitions of French products, spurred on by the success of English industries. Whether Dufour exhibited the wallpaper as a technical triumph or took the opportunity to promote its sale by anticipating public interest, or both, is not recorded. He did, however, win prizes for later papers he entered in industrial expositions during the early part of the nineteenth century and no doubt attracted new markets because of his success.
Scenic or panoramic wallpapers were referred to as papiers peints-paysages – landscape wallpaper-paintings and tableaux-tentures – paintings as wall-hangings or tapestries. This indecisive terminology led to an ongoing debate as to whether the wallpapers related to the 'major art' of painting or to the 'minor art' of tapestry. But as the complexity of the painterly quality of the surface attests, there was a legitimate reason to push the debate to a positive conclusion. 'As the century progressed scenic wallpaper came to be ranked with the major arts. A classification confirmed by the application to it of the word oeuvre in 1851.'8
Examination of the materials and techniques of Les Sauvages de Ia Mer Pacifique held at the National Gallery of Australia and the Art Gallery of New South Wales has confirmed Dufour produced his wallpaper using conventional practices. The complete panorama consists of 20 individually numbered drops or le's (the number X is still clearly visible in the example held by the Art Gallery of New South Wales). Extending approximately 2.5 metres high and 10.5 metres long, it was the largest work of its type at this time. Either just before or during the time that Dufour was working on Les Sauvages, his arch competitor Jean Zuber produced Vues de Suisse, the first known panoramic wallpaper, at Rixheim, Alsace. It comprised just sixteen drops.
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Dufour created his wallpaper by woodblock printing, stencilling and hand brushing, techniques common to both the textile and wallpaper trades. Indeed there was a tradition of block-cutters and designers working in both trades. The wallpaper producer Jean-Michel Papillon, for instance, employed the block-cutters who worked for Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf on cotton and tapestry designs.9 Another wallpaper master, Jean-Baptiste Réveillon, commissioned designers who worked for Gobelin tapestry factory.10 Charvet was also known to work in the textile and wallpaper trades, producing designs for both.
Our analysis of cross-sections taken at damage sites throughout the wallpaper revealed that a base layer of pale-blue ground covers the paper. This would have been applied by hand, and then evenly brushed to produce a smooth opaque surface for the covering design layers. This finish would also have served to bond the pigment to the paper base. In examining the surface of the work we have concluded that large areas such as cloud masses, grassy banks and the base colours of trees were added with stencils. Broad sweeps of the brush and ridges of pigment at the edge of the design elements may be seen in raking light; both are typical of this method of application.
Engraved woodblocks were used to build up the bulk of the details. This can be detected by the distinctive eggshell texture left by the pressure and release of the block squashing the pigment onto the surface. Each colour required a separate woodblock. In this case, as many as seven blocks were used for the flesh tones of each figure alone and hundreds were used for the complete panorama.11 This modelling technique was already established in the chiaroscuro woodcut and an analogous approach can be seen also in tapestry design. There are many areas of hand brush application, which appear to have been employed to correct printing faults and to join areas that should have been covered by overprinting. These are visible in the foreground and in some figures in the example held at the National Gallery of Australia.
Visual analysis of cross-sections confirmed the complexity of the enterprise. Polarising light microscopy with micro-chemical testing has enabled us to identify the following pigments: a pale blue ground layer of natural chalk and Prussian blue, a pigment often used in house paints, wallpapers and as a direct dye for silk; orange and red colours made from various mixtures including red lead, wet-process vermilion and haematite; the green used is green verditer, a stable copper pigment which replaced verdigris; the blue is made up of Prussian blue, variously mixed with chalk and green verditer; yellow ochre; and the brown tones which include mixtures of ochres, haematite and black.12 Whites are used both alone and in mixtures to give body and covering power. Lead white has been used for highlights on the flesh and costumes.13 The binding medium was also analysed and the results confirmed a traditional animal glue distemper.14
The wallpaper was printed on drops 2.5 metres in length (high) and approximately 540 mm wide – 90 pouces by 20 pouces (1 pouce = 27.07 mm). Each drop is constructed from sheets of handmade paper, which were probably the original standard Grand Raisin size 22 .81 p x 17 p (610 x 459 mm).15
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There are five and a half sheets per drop, which were pasted together along the top edge before printing. After printing the panels were installed with the left edge overlapping the right, the left edge cleanly trimmed. The ridges of the joins can be observed in raking light. As well, anomalies in registration can be seen frequently along the vertical edges of the drops.
The paper support was also investigated, with fibre samples analysed and confirmed to be linen rag. It was somewhat fortuitous that a small damaged section taken from the under edge of an overlapping panel at the National Gallery of Australia was available for more detailed structural examination. This strip of paper had very little of the original pigment layers remaining, making examination with transmitted light possible. Miraculously in three separate areas watermark fragments were detected. These were recorded using s-radiography and revealed a small bunch of grapes and letters ANNO and NNONA. Analysis of these watermarks suggests the paper moulds were all supplied from the same source. While the bunch of grapes is one of the earliest French marks, also used in Germany and Italy, it seems entirely appropriate on a work coming from a major winemaking district. The marks ANNO and NNONA were both identified as countermarks from a mill in the Annonay region, in a lettering style typical of the Montgolfier mills and probably from the very mill that contributed to the discoveries of flight.16 It was here, in 1783, that the Montgolfier brothers first tested their invention of a hot air balloon. Made from the paper produced at one of the Montgolfier mills, Vidalon le Haut, the invention was an astonishing success, no doubt due in part to the strength of the paper itself.
It is through these incomplete but significant scraps of information that we can build up a story of social and technical history; and yet another facet of exploration and discovery evolves. These two histories reflect an ethos that since the Industrial Revolution has shaped historical perception, one which values works of art for cultural, nostalgic, aesthetic, technical as well as for commercial reasons. It is this connection with the past, through these decorative wallpapers, that we can enter the imaginary living room of a bourgeois family in 19th century France and at the same time marvel at the technical capabilities of designers, papermakers, pigment chemists, woodblock cutters, printers and the vision of industrialists.
These wallpapers have managed to survive removal from the 'permanence' of walls to be resold as mobile commodities, resulting in their preservation. With the move from the private space into the public sphere the wallpapers become documents relating to a part of our history. Not only are they a macrocosmic view of the New World from an early 19th century European perspective, but, with scientific analysis, a microcosm of the technologies used to create them. This current investigation, interpretation, reinterpretation and associated documentation reflects the heritage of scientific collection, analysis and classification that educated the new bourgeois audience in the early 19th century.
Our quest to understand the physicality of the wallpapers mirrors the thirst for knowledge that marked the age in which it was produced. As revolutionary France entered the industrial age, the creative skills, intellectual exploration and skilled labour force in the well-positioned town of Mâcon combined to inspire the complete production of this panorama. The collaboration continues.
Susie Bioletti, Ranson Davey and Rose Peel
detail: Les Sauvages de la mer Pacifique [The Voyages of Captain Cook] 1805 Collection of the National Gallery of Australia
1 I'an I (year 1) of the Revolutionary calender started on 22 September 1792. The calender was abolished in 1806 (David Bindman, The Shadow of the Guillotine. Britain and the French Revolution, London: British Museum, 1989, p.227).
2 Joseph Dufour (1757–1827) créateur de papiers peints, Mâcon: Musée Municipal des Ursulines, 1982.
3 KG Saur, Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon. Die Bildenden Kunstler allerZeiten und Volker, Leipzig: KGSaur, 1998, vol.18, p.288.
4 Ėlisabeth Hardouin-Fugier, 'L' Atelier de la Charité à Lyon (1780–1815)', in Odile Nouvel-Kammerer, Papier Peints Panoramiques, Paris: Musée des Arts Décoratifs/Flammarion, 1990, p.322. In the Electoral Roll of 1790 Joseph Dufour is placed in the wallpaper business of Jean-Antoine-Roman Ferrouillat, at LAtelier de la Charité a Lyon.
5Joseph Dufour (1757–1827) créateur de papiers peints, Mâcon: Musee Municipal des ijrsulines, 1982. The 1806 Mâcon census lists Joseph Dufour, wallpaper manufacturer, at rue de la Paroisse, Mâcon. In 1808 he is located in Paris, 10 rue Beauvau, and that same year produces his second panorama, Les portiques d Athènes, in 16 lés.
6 Encyclopaedia Universalis, Paris: Encyclopaedia Universalis, France, S.A.,1985, Thesaurus Index vol.2, p.1814.
7 Ėlisabeth Hardouin-Fugier, 'L'Atelier de la Charité à Lyon (1780–1815)', in Odile Nouvel-Kammerer, (1990), p.322. The effects of the Revolution were directly felt by Dufour in 1794, when his employer Jean-Antoine-Roman Ferrouillat was imprisoned by the pro-Royalist forces in Lyon. Ferrouillat reappeared in 1796, however his business was liquidated in 1797.
8 Odile Nouvel-Kammerer, 'Wide Horizons: French Scenic Papers', in Lesley Hoskins (ed) The Papered Wall: history, pattern, technique, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1994, p.98.
9 Odile Nouvel, Wall-papers of France 1800–1850, New York: Rizzoli, 1981, p.10–11
10 EA Entwisle, French Scenic Wallpapers 1800–1860, Leigh-on- sea, UK: E Lewis, 1972, p.13.
11Joseph Dufour (1757–1827) créateur de papiers peints, Mâcon: Musée Municipal des Ursulines, 1982. It is likely that well over a thousand blocks were used. In 1823 Dufour produced Les payasages de Télemaque clans l'tles de Calypso, a wallpaper of 25 le's, using 2,027 blocks.
12 Prussian blue was discovered in approximately 1704. Barbara H Berrie, 'Prussian Blue' in Elizabeth West Fitzhugh (ed), Artists' Pigments A Handbook of Their History and Characteristics, Volume 3, Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1997, p.195.
13 Pigment identification was undertaken by Ranson Davey and Andrea Wise at the National Gallery of Australia.
14 Distemper, aqueous paints made with glue size, casein or albumen binder. Analysis by HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography) was undertaken at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK.
15The sheets that could be examined were all made on a single face mould.
16Analysis of the ß-radiographs and confirmation of the origins of the paper was undertaken by Peter Bower, Paper History and Analysis, London.


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Originally, it looked as though the purpose of Dancing with the Stars was to give former "stars" a chance to be remembered in the eyes of the public. And while it did just that, it also made "stars" of the professional dancers. Before long people not only knew their names, but wanted to know even more about them. In other words, both the audience and media cared, and when you have strangers caring and intrigued by your life, then you've officially made it to stardom. Honestly, it shouldn't be shocking. You put anyone on TV for longer than five minutes and they're bound to be labeled some sort of star.
So as we anxiously prepare for tonight's premier of Dancing with the Stars, let's take a look at some cold hard facts that prove the dancers may have just "out-starred" the stars.


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By Tiernan Ray
Intel's (INTC) Consumer Electronics Show press conference at Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas is kicking off with the company's head of "perceptual computing," Mooly Eden. He's going to take a "deep dive" into the topic of perception as it relates to computing.
Eden starts with the obligatory seminar on the history or computing, then says it is moving beyond smartphones and tablets to devices you wear on your person. And it will then move to "implantable devices," he says. "Sounds freaky, right?"
"We know everything about you," says Eden, with a maniacal laugh.
The human brain, Eden points out, has 100 billion neurons, versus the 1.7 billion transistors in the latest top of the line "Core" processor chip. With a doubling of transistors every two years, in twelve years' time, there will be more transistors on the chip than there are neurons in the brain.
The chip, he notes, already runs much faster, with a Core chip having a "clock speed" of 3 gigahertz, versus the human brain's 1,000 hertz.
Chip technology is "closing the gap" with the brain, which will lead to the ability for machines to have perception like something out of a sci-fi film.
Eden quips that touch-sensitive interfaces, while "wonderful," are not actually "natural" because in everyday interactions, "we don't go around touching one another. In the U.S., that is politically incorrect!" He predicts more and more, voice commands will take the place of touch.
The hardware and technology under this banner will henceforth be branded under the rubric "Intel RealSense Technology."
One of the first is an ultra-thin 3-D camera, says Eden.
As part of the initiative, Intel is announcing a partnership with 3D Systems (DDD). He invites on stage 3D's CEO, Avi Reichental. But after a bit of banter between Eden and Reichental, nothing is actually disclosed about the nature of the partnership. Eden says more will be disclosed this evening, when Intel CEO Brian Krzanich gives his keynote address here at the conference.
The rest of Eden's presentation consisted of a blitzkrieg of demonstrations of perceptual computing, including manipulating on-screen objects by waving one's hand in front of the computer, speaking natural-language instructions similar to Apple's (AAPL) Siri, and showing a video game where one's body was automagically incorporated into the game itself. A child brought on stage was able to extend her arm and have creatures in the game crawl up her arm, mimicking the real-world physics involved.


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Kyle and her husband moved to Brookfield in 1986. She became active in local politics and started blogging in 2004. Her focus is primarily on local issues but often includes state and national topics, too. Kyle looks at things from the taxpayers' perspective in a creative, yet down to earth way, addressing them from a practical point of view.
$63 billion budget heads to State Assembly...Did you call your Rep? UPDATE
UPDATE: Good news! The Assembly Democrats removed the Joint and Sevedral Liability Law reform from the state budget yesterday. I would wager that decision had something to do with negative constituent phone calls and emails? Don't relax just yet, as Boots and Sabers cautioned, "It's not over yet, though. It could still be stuck back in by the Senate and end up in the final version. Keep vigilant!" (Thanks, Vicki McKenna.)
After hearing about Gov. Doyle's out of control budget for weeks now, it is finally out of the finance committee and heading to the State Assembly tomorrow, Wed., June 10th. It totals a whopping $ 63 billion--$3 billion of that is NEW taxes. (The State Senate will probably take up the budget early next week.) If you have not contacted your representative, please do. (Brookfield's Reps are listed at bottom of post.)
Brookfield's 2 State Representatives, Leah Vukmir and Rich Zipperer are both conservatives and against this budget's 7% increase in spending, among other things--especially during a recession!
They both have been sending out email alerts about the budget. Zipperer has his weekly Boondoggle Alert, that features a wasteful spending measure, and Vukmir just sent out a Budget Update that includes a budget survey. Do take the time to complete the survey; it will familiarize you with the budget issues.
I urge you to contact them. Even if you support their position, they still need to hear from you! An encouraging email is always welcome, especially since they are facing such an overwhelming amount of pork and waste.
From Rep. Zipperer: Make Your Voice Heard (My emphasis)
The Joint Committee on Finance has completed their amendments to the state budget, and it now moves to the full Assembly for consideration. According to news reports, Speaker Sheridan is expecting to bring it up for a floor debate and vote late next week [week of June 8-12]. In these final days, please make sure your friends, family members and colleagues from throughout Wisconsin are calling or emailing their representatives and senators to make their voice heard on the many misguided items within the budget!
If you have not been following the budget process, know that it currently proposes that the QEO be eliminated, W2 welfare reforms be scrapped, domestic partner insurance benefits be given for state workers, joint and several liability reform that could make someone who is only 1% responsible pay the entire settlement (what will that do to ski hill and water park owners?), RTA (trains etc.), phone taxes, pork, oil tax, and on and on. Leah Vukmir has a great list posted that is divided into categories.
They are going into battle for you. The least you can do is send an encouraging word!
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McGraw Wentworth's owner acquires Troy benefits consultant
Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC, parent company of Troy-based McGraw Wentworth, has acquired Great Lakes Employee Benefit Services, also in Troy, for an unspecified amount.
Great Lakes' co-owners Jim Scoggin and Joseph Coan and their staff of 12 will move to McGraw Wentworth's offices during the second quarter.
Founded in 1997, Great Lakes reported annual revenue last year of $3.4 million. The company offers employee benefit consulting services to self-funded and fully insured midsized organizations, but is not a broker.
"Prior to ACA we thought we could continue to offer our services to clients, but it would have been extremely difficult to bring clients the resources they need."
Scoggin said MMA and McGraw Wentworth's resources will provide clients with more help in regulatory compliance, data analytics and actuarial service areas to assess benefit plan costs and best practices.
McGraw Wentworth was founded in 1997 and has grown to 75 employees and $18.4 million in revenue last year.
McGraw Wentworth is part of White Plains, N.Y.-based MMA's Upper Midwest region.
MMA (NYSE:MMC) also acquired Cambridge Property & Casualty of Livonia last December.


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Topic: HAPPY CHANUKAH
To our friends celebrating Chanukah, the Season of Light & Dedication:
May Love & Light fill your House & Heart. May the LIGHTS of CHANUKAH usher in a better World for all Mankind! Brightly yours, Teddy & Lainy:):)
Any suggestion I offer is intended as friendly advice based solely on my own experience. Please consult your doctor for professional guidance.


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So, i'm playing outcast, just playing around. I decided to have some fun and get some cheats and whatnot. I got some info from some sites and i'm trying to do it and there isn't a freakin' thing happening. Here is what i'm told to do/doing:
bring up the game console (shift ~). Type in "helpusobi 1" and then type in any code i want (give armor, give health, etc) and then close the console (shift + ~) and there still isn't anything happening. I tried typing in that obi thing with and without the ""'s, still nothing, i just tried one simple code and nothing. Any help here would be great cause i'm just looking to play around with it. thanks!


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When are people going to stop wasting money on these "security" tweaks? These are only as strong as MobileSubstrate and once MS is disabled (aka "safe mode") your "airtight" security has been breached and rendered useless.
(it's quite easy to send a phone to safe mode, either via SBSettings or SSH or causing a springboard crash "by mistake")
Oh come on I was only giving examples; there are a myriad of ways to disable MS. Even if it happens by mistake, all it takes is one accidental SB crash to breach your phone. All this is good for is to keep non tech savvy people out.
Oh and you don't need root SSH access to execute this command
touch /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.saurik.mobilesubstrate.dat
and then respring, voila SafeMode
I'll definitely give this tweak a try
It's fine for everyday use - please Pod2g get the 4s jailbreak out it's torture seeing all these cool tweaks and I'm stuck on regular ios5 it's boring me already
Oh yeah...................I'm so buying this.....................If only the interface was as perfected as Lockdown Pro was...............that tweak was truly flawless................Even would ask for a pass code when switching via Multifl0w (if session locking was not enabled).
Which no other app locking tweak does................
I have tried all of them and every single one had a flaw where i could access a locked app without the pass code......Even AppLocker.........Usually these flaws lie in opening an app from a link............
For example a website link in an email. If you tap on the link...Safari will open...........But if locked..........it would still open.....One thing every single app locking tweak has over looked........except for Lockdown Pro.............I really wish ipodtouchmaster (the Dev of Lockdown Pro) would update is tweak, or at least let us people that bought his tweak know if there will be an update or not. Makes me very mad.
At least give us some piece of mind damn it!
Why are they showing this on the 4s, a currently unjailbreakable phone?
how in the hell do you reset the password. Apparently I turned the protection without setting a password. Now I can't even changed the settings. There should at least be a default password or something. This sucks
Hello there,
I see some (legit) concerns about Applocker 2's functionality.
Being the developer of Applocker I'm here to address them:
If you're afraid of someone just turning off Applocker from the SBSettings 'More' menu, just lock the SBSettings app and turn 'Post App Launch' on. This way there's no way of gaining access to the SBSettings More menu without your password.
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You should probably refrain from making claims about WHEN an app will be available on a repo in the future... "tonight" has come and gone, here it is the next day, and its STILL not showing up in Cydia!
Ori, have you considered disabling the unlock button? One of the things I loved about Lockdown Pro was that once the last digit of your code was entered, the app unlocked.
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I'm pretty sure they won't make any of the books into movies.
That is NOT to say they will discount the books. There are plenty of gaps during years that haven't been explored, as well as stories set DURING some of the book eras that have not been told (like Fate of the Jedi).
Now I REALLY want to see Jaina, and a strong female Jedi in the movies would be a cool change (Lara Croft, Salt, Katniss Everdeen) but Allanah Solo, still too young, is perfect to develop into that role.
Ben Skywalker is the right age and has the right family name to carry this next trilogy though.
I think Jaina can be in it, but won't necessarily be the focal point, yet be one of the new "Big 3 or so."
Mara dies before Jacen does. Having either of those two in the film is a distraction, especially IF Disney DOES keep the continuity.
When Anakin fell to the Dark Side and became Darth Vader, we didn't know exactly how it happened. But in terms of Jacen's fall to become Darth Caedus, we know about Vergere, his torture as a prisoner of war with the Yuuzhan Vong, his alliance with Luminaya and her agenda against Luke, as well as Jacen's fear for his wife Tenel Ka and his daugher Allanah Solo.
Jacen / Darth Caedus is a moot character now (though he's great in the books).
I like how Jaina is damaged, having to kill her own brother. It lends a lot of depth to her character and also illustrates why she might find appeal in a more martial, ordered society like that offered by the Imperial Remnant under the Knights - and what she eventually co-ops with her romance with Jagged Fel.
I think there could be some people that want this thrown out because they won't want to either go back and read this information in the novels it was presented in, or they don't want to ask questions of those of us who did, and find themselves satisfied with the answers.
But I agree that everyone knows about Mara Jade, because Heir to the Empire was once thought to be Episode 7 and almost everyone read that. Regardless of whether she has been murdered or not by the time Episode 7 takes place, she is Ben Skywalker's mother.
George Lucas said that the new trilogy will focus on Luke training a new apprentice. If the apprentice is his son, then that will be Ben Skywalker. Jaina at 32 ought to be a Jedi Knight by then for certain.
Ben will be in his mid-to-upper teenage years like Anakin in AOTC.
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Hey, Vader was supposed to be, what, 50+/60+ in ROJ (with Obi-Wan even older: 70+?)? That got thrown out the viewport for TPM. Age ain't nothin' but a number. Lucas included some EU details in the PT films (Coruscant, Aayla, Quinlan), so Disney might do so, too; but it's THEIR baby now, so they can raise/spoil/neglect/indoctrinate it as they wish.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
Does anyone know where to find information on how many copies the EU books sell? I have a hard time believing it's the "majority" of the fandom that reads them. I consider myself a huge Star Wars fan and have always disliked the post-ROTJ EU and never had any attachment to any of the characters introduced in those novels.
If the new trilogy accepts the EU as canon - which it absolutely will not, but just for the sake of argument - there is simply too much for the general audience to catch up on, or for the film to recap, to make that a viable option. If there were one or two books to help fill in the gaps, that would be one thing, but even just to get the stories of Jacen, Jaina, and Anakin as adults, we're talking 19 New Jedi Order books, nine Legacy of the Force books, and nine Fate of the Jedi books, which is a hell of a lot. Even if the characters shared the EU names, they'd be portrayed completely differently and have a different backstory.
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Well, if it's not a hardcover, it seldom reaches any top-seller lists. I have read everything since the 1993-ish era (end of Thrawn Trilogy) and have actually bought them (usually waiting for the paperback to purchase), too. JJL, sadly you are probably right, on just how many fans read them.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
I understand you don't like the post ROTJ EU stories, but I'm willing to bet, more people than you realized have read them. And for those that haven't, what matter is it to them if they do use Mara, Jaina and Jacen? These names have no meaning to you just the same as if they were named Ed, Reta, and Sasha. What would it hurt to have Lukes wife be Mara; Han and Leia kids be Jacen and Jaina? It doesn't affect non-EU readers at all, and has a very positive affect on those that follow the EU.
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This may have been said already, but with the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney, it just doesn't seem right that it be referred to as Lucasfilm. So unless I am a couple months late and this has already been proclaimed, I will be referring to it as Lucas(less)film from hence forth.
Or if that is dumb I will quite possible never do it again.
Stir the pot.
I'm sure the Thrawn trilogy sold very well, but I just honestly don't know how the NJO or FOTJ books do by comparison (or really any other EU books). I really don't know, but I'm assuming it's far fewer people than have seen the films. I do know that the Thrawn trilogy is often held up as the pinnacle of the EU, and that even Timothy Zahn's follow-up efforts haven't been quite as well received - keep in mind that the Thrawn books came out 20 years ago and nothing has really reached their widespread popularity since then (from what I've seen, and I could be wrong - that's just how it looks to me).
The reactions I've seen online regarding the EU and its use in the new trilogy run the gamut from "NO EU AT ALL!!!" to "THE EU MUST BE TAKEN AS SACRED GOSPEL!!!" There's simply no pleasing everyone.
Any characters in the films that have names taken from EU simply won't be the same characters that EU fans grown to love. They might have the names, but they won't have the same personalities or backstories, as you've acknowledged. But isn't that what endeared them to EU fans in the first place? I'm not sure why the names are important but nothing else is - many EU fans hated the fact that Death Watch, Nightsisters, and other EU aspects existed in The Clone Wars when they had the same names but were portrayed differently. The show's creators saw it as a fun nod, while some fans saw it as blasphemy - far from a "positive effect."
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I wouldn't have a problem with them using names like Jaina, Jacen, and Mara; but give us a proper onscreen setup up for those characters and don't just assume that people have read the books. If that requires the screenwriters to completely rewrite their backstories, then so be it. Also, with as dumb as filmmakers generally believe audiences to be, I highly doubt that we will see names like "Ben" or "Anakin" re-used for new characters in the ST. In fact, isn't that why Lucas made them kill off Anakin Solo or Ben Skywalker (I can't remember which)?
I'm pretty sure the new movies are going to mine the existing EU for some inspiration, but that's about as far as they will go. As long as we never get a clone-Emperor or a clone-Luuke, then I'm fine with that as well.
I'm sure Heir to the Empire sold really well... 22 years ago; but I think that was mainly because it was introduced into a starving market that hadn't had any new Star Wars media for 6-7 years (outside of tabletop RPGs, which are always going to be an extreme niche market). So, the book naturally reached bestseller status, but I don't think the Thrawn trilogy ever reached worldwide phenomenon status. At least not in the way that more recent non-SW book series' have (for example, the Harry Potter books, the Twilight Saga, etc.).
So, I don't really see why the filmmakers should feel obligated to stay faithful to those books in any way whatsoever.
For the record, I bought Heir to the Empire as soon as it came out in bookstores in 1991, but I never really got around to reading it until 2001. By then I had given the HC to my brother and had to borrow a paperback copy to read. I only got about halfway through the book and I lost interest. There just wasn't really a whole lot going on there for me. I have enjoyed other EU books in the past, namely the two Han Solo trilogies and Shadows of the Empire, but for the most part I don't see anything that I feel the filmmakers "must" adhere to.
As much as I liked the Han Solo novels, I'm resigned to the fact that very little from those books are going to make it into the Han Solo standalone movie. And I'm fine with that, because this way if the movie turns out to be absolute crap, then I can just ignore it. I think the casting of young Han Solo is what will make or break the solo-Solo movie for me. If they pick some typical, teenaged, heartthrob actor who looks pretty on camera, but has absolutely no screen presence, then I probably won't even give the movie a chance.
For the Boba Fett movie, I'm actually hoping that they do a little bit of contradicting of the Prequels and just recast Boba completely. Is there any word at all on if they are approaching Temuera Morrison for the standalone Boba Fett movie?
So, I guess I'm saying that, not only do I want them to toss out the EU, but I wouldn't mind if they expelled the Prequels from the Star Wars continuity as well.
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There are lots of things hidden in this photo. Can you find...
holga camera, swan, 5 oranges, wooden tulip, stuffed parachute w/ giraffe), feather, 5 stuffed christmas trees, horn, 5 eggs (2 plastic, 3 brown), doll parts (1 hand, 2 arms, 1 leg), little pink plastic horse, yellow stuffed giraffe, wooden turtle, purple 'my little pony', 4 chocolate lambs, 1 yellow dog, 2 bird figurines, 3 chocolate bunnies (one is wrapped in gold foil), and 5 BABIES!
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What to Look for in a Hard Drive That You Are Purchasing? When you are going to  ;buy laptop hard drive, it is extremely important to look for one that is going to be fast and large enough to accommodate all of your files and data needs. It
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Year 4 - Week 08 - 360°
A cool (2°C) and overcast morning in the dairy bush today with little wind (SE 4 km/h) - there has been a drastic reduction in leaf cover in the trees - most are now bare,
check out the same week over the past three years:
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2010 - www.gigapan.com/gigapans/63411/
2009 – www.gigapan.com/gigapans/35747
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Last weeks' GigaPan: gigapan.com/gigapans/117263
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La Crosse joins global dance strike
LA CROSSE, Wis. - Women and men across the world danced Thursday to protest violence against women, including right here in La Crosse.
More than a hundred locals participated in a rally and dance strike at City Hall.
It was part of a global action called One Billion Rising. The idea behind it is that one in three women around the world will be raped or beaten -- that's 1 billion women. The goal was to get 1 billion women and men dancing together across the world to show they've had enough.
It's a cause that got the local event's organizer, Dorothy Her, running down the street -- wearing stilettos -- in February.
"I am someone who has gone through domestic violence as well. And so it really touches home for me," said Her.
She's also an advocate at the Hmong Mutual Assistance Association for assault and domestic-violence victims.
"Obviously, domestic violence happens in every community and it also happens in the Hmong community, even though we may not hear about it a lot," said Her. "No one really talks about it. People know, but it's very under the carpet."
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"The theme is 'Strike, dance, rise.' And dancing is a way to express yourself freely," said Her.
"I think it's a really positive way to protest such a negative issue, actually," said UW-L freshman Jade Baumgartner, who came to Thursday's rally. "We're very unaware of it, I feel like, as a society. Or we ignore it. And I feel like that needs to stop."
"I think it's very empowering to see that so many people around the world are taking part in this. And we are too, in La Crosse," said Her.
Xong Xiong, the executive director of the Hmong Mutual Assistance Association, gave a fiery speech right before they started dancing this afternoon. She encouraged the people there to contact their legislators and tell them to stand up for women's rights.
The global initiative was spearheaded by international women's-rights activist Eve Ensler. To learn more about it, go to onebillionrising.org.
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Steve Davis: The Happiness Test
June 30, 2014 | Written by Matt Carter
Steve Davis earned the M.Th. degree in 1982 from what was then Harding University Graduate School of Religion. He served churches as a minister and a youth minister and taught for 20 years at Redland Christian School and Tropical Christian School in Miami, Florida. In September, 2013, Steve was killed in a car wreck which left daughter Katie seriously injured. Recently, Steve's wife Lyne, along with Katie, dropped by HST. Lyne wanted to share her appreciation for the experience they had at HST and her appreciation for how their time here in Memphis prepared them for ministry in ways that neither she nor Steve ever expected.
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After raking in more Orange County Film Festival nominations than it ever had, Marina High School needed no movie magic to win four awards at an OCFF ceremony last week.
MHS's four wins came for Best Music Video, Best Editing, Best Graphics and Best PSA. The tally was bested only by Northwood's five, one of which was shared with University High School, also of Irvine.
Graduated senior Brian Hart thanked a lot of people in the three acceptance speeches he made, recognizing his family, classmates, and teacher and mentor, Don Hume.
"It was pretty exciting to be recognized for all the hard work we put into everything," said Hart, the director of the winning music video, "Shake It Out." The video was also recognized for its editing and graphics.
The other MHS video to win was its public service announcement, "Change Our Future." It was also cited for Mark Estefanos's graphics work.
The awards were presented at a black-tie ceremony at the Grove at Anaheim on Jan. 4 after being screened at the Newport Lido Theater on Thursday. Hart said it was "amazing" to see the movie projected in a theater.
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The DREAM Trust in Nagpur, India has begun a very exciting project, in collaboration with the IDF Life for a Child Programme, aimed at assisting the education of children and youth with diabetes to give them the best possible chance for employment and self-sufficiency. Dr Sharad Pendsey and his team invited applications and proposals from young people with diabetes regarding their needs around education, and were able to build a diverse "Rehabilitation Programme" from the feedback received. The programme consists of:
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- Bicycles for girls to ensure that they can continue to attend school past the 7th grade. At this level, school is usually 10-15km away and parents do not want their daughters walking that far and being out after dark. The bicycles will therefore provide a safe mode of transportation.
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Tonight I started doing actual practice run throughs of my presentation. I setup a video camera for a short while in Kiva's conference room so that I could look at what I recorded and critique myself a bit. It's working out pretty well so far. I have a "reheasal presentation" in front of some Kiva employees this Wednesday evening at 6:30pm in the same conference room. Hopefully I'll be ready to go by then. That way I can make some revisions based on their feedback. The actual ApacheCon presentation is on April 5th at 9am.
I've had to halt my development on the modifications I made to AeroMail because of my involvement with ApacheCon. But a guy contacted me who was interested in having me help with a spin off project called BlueFox. Appearently BlueFox is a more official project to implement the features that I added to AeroMail into a full fledged web-mail solution. The main guy who started it says that he isn't so much of a coder as he is an organizer. Here is the SourceForge page for BlueFox.
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