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Finding the perfect university can be an exciting ordeal. Walking through the halls and seeing current students in a lecture can be slightly nerve racking but also exhilarating. If you are looking for a place to stay during your Savannah College of Art and Design Tour, look no further than the Presidents' Quarters Inn. This historic boutique hotel in Savannah, GA, provides all the amenities associated with a bed and breakfast and will make your trip less stressful!
The Savannah College of Art and Design offers over more then 40 majors and 60 minors in degree programs and specializations than any other art and design university. The Presidents' Quarters Inn, located in the heart of the city, is right next door to most of the Savannah College of Art and Design buildings. You will also be within walking distance of all the interesting and historical sites of Savannah.
The Inn provides the best bed and breakfast accommodations to ensure you enjoy your stay at the Presidents' Quarters Inn. With 16 excellent rooms from which to choose at The Presidents' Quarters Inn, you are sure to find the perfect one in which to relax after your Savannah College of Art and Design tour. Every room is named after a former President of the United States. From Monroe to Lincoln and Jefferson to Eisenhower, you can stay in the accommodation named after your favorite president.
It's quite easy to rise from bed at the Inn and prepare for your tour. As the smell of brewing coffee and freshly baked muffins looms in the hallways, you won't be able to resist getting out of bed. Enjoy a true southern breakfast every morning during your stay. Buttery pastries, savory breakfast breads, homemade granola, croissant French toast, eggs benedict and homemade quiche fill you tummy before you hit the cobblestone streets of Savannah.
Another great perk of staying at the Inn is that you won't have to deal with downtown parking on the day of your tour. Enjoy your scrumptious breakfast, grab your bag and stroll right over to the Admission Welcome Center located at 342 Bull Street. The lovely 10-minute walk is a great way to prepare for the tour.
The Savannah College of Art and Design Tours are offered daily at 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., Monday through Saturday. As a prospective student the tour gives you an opportunity to view classrooms and administrative buildings, galleries, residence halls and dining facilities and to see where current students live, learn and prepare for professional careers. Branch out and see how the students live not only in the school setting but also in the city setting! Make it a long weekend and see the beautiful southern city of Savannah! After talking with the admission representatives, completing application forms and learning about all the scholarship opportunities, become one of the students and discover Savannah!
Consider staying with us at the Presidents' Quarters Inn as you plan to attend your Savannah College of Art and Design tour. We have an exclusive location that is only steps away from the SCAD buildings and all the attractions the city has to offer. Our classically decorated guest rooms are perfect for relaxing in after the excited day! Please don't hesitate to contact us. We are here to help you plan and book the perfect trip to one of the South's most historic cities!
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Would You Color Your Brows?
When most girls get bored with their hair, they cut it, or dye it, or maybe get a new ear piercing. But Hannah Bronfman? The DJ found an entirely new way to shake up her look: coloring in her brows—with blue! She'd been thinking about it all summer, she says, "and when Dior did the gold eyebrows I took it as a sign."
Bronfman mixed the colors in her Make Up For Ever Palette ($99). "I wanted to complement the color of my dress, so I went for a lighter blue versus a darker one," she says. "I painted on the color with an eyebrow brush—the real key is remembering that the color is on there!"
Turns out Bronfman's aunt, ByTerry founder Terry de Gunzberg, told her to ditch her lipsticks—this season is all about the eyes. So we want to know, would you give colorful eyebrows a shot?


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Tropical birds, Tiki gods and colorful flowers come to life in a swinging 10-minute South Seas musical celebration.
Sing along with a lively menagerie of exotic birds, flowers and Tikis in this jubilant Disney classic. A feast for your eyes and ears, this theater-in-the-round attraction invites all to experience the exotic beauty and magic of the Pacific Islands.
Enter an Enchanted Garden
Breeze into a tropical island paradise of totem poles and tropical flora, and make your way beneath a thatched roof. Perched atop a Tiki god statue, 2 talking toucans—Clyde and Claude—are happy to make your acquaintance and entertain you before the start of the main show.
Inside the Tiki, Tiki, Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room
Stroll into what looks to be a ceremonial house located in the heart of Polynesia and take a seat around a floral knoll. Nearby, hanging warrior shields, ancient statues and woven bamboo fixtures echo a mysterious story of ancient traditions.
As the lights dim, 4 colorful macaws quickly spring to life and begin to sing a series of jubilant island songs. Before long, the chorus of crooning birds is joined by an enchanting cast of over 225 choreographed Audio-Animatronics performers, including bobbing parrots, giggling cockatoos, crooning orchids, drumming Tiki statues and chanting wooden masks.
Sing along and clap to their rousing original songs, which seamlessly mix traditional South Seas rhythms with classic Disney wit—and enjoy the magic of Audio-Animatronics technology, created especially for this classic attraction.
Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room—which debuted in 1963 at Disneyland Park—is the first Audio-Animatronics show. Walt Disney's fascination with translating his love of animation into the real world led to the groundbreaking new technology, which enabled the synchronization of movement, audio and visual effects of a multitude of animated figures at one time.
This technology helped pave the way for other classic attractions, including "it's a small world," "Pirates of the Caribbean," and "The Haunted Mansion."
Today in the Tiki Room
The current show pays tribute to the original Disneyland presentation, maintaining the intent of Walt Disney and his pioneering team of Imagineers. It's also been enhanced with modern technology: a state-of-the-art show-control system, re-mastered audio, and a new, more versatile and energy-efficient lighting system.


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A gentlemen's umbrella with an unbreakable frame made of tempered spring steel, with a handle of polished Congo-chestnut. The canopy is made of material that is used for the finest ties. The elegant yet timeless colours has been woven in contrasting colours for the inner and outer side of the canopy. We also include a black cloth carrying bag to protect the entire umbrella, including canopy and handle.
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The Next Generation of Shopping Technology
From interactive vending machines to touch-screen espresso stations, retailers are teaming up with Intel to find ways to engage consumers in new, hopefully memorable, ways. Intel Retail Solutions Division director Michelle Tinsley joins digits. Photo: Intel.
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ALM so this is this a pile of work they were doing with Pepsi there's five different locations right now in the United States ... and it's also from at a cost of ownership for the brand like Pepsi ... very economical to deploy and manage to keep running for many years to come now what one of the of things that we've gone with wooden saying is that that ... moment on another showrooming where I'm people go ... go out with the story made look around so I want that to me look on the smartphone ... don't look for a better price ... how are you trying to calm a coma about ... what we're doing is really truly creeps up was within the store when you can do the same ability to look up information ... BBC and Twitter feeds when people are saying about the product ... look and recommendations from friends may be check your social network ... can basically get the richness of the experience from being on line or at home ... now bring that into the store in addition given the salespeople to be equally armed with some of that information ... so that they can actually close the sale DVB deal right there maybe do some price matching effects are star policy ... where really didn't read of comparison and you wanna wait three days five days a week to get that item or do you wanna go home with it today now what one other thing is that Graham by some ... big ... big stores like said Macy's that sold a lot of other brands within the store he wanted Christoph he couldn't recruit apartments on the opposite of a no ... no no point in it is is a problem that you've actually I'm this is most of the question did match the seasons of the death of things lined Macy's to the men have their own brands of Columbus ... well I think it ... was the retailers are being treated in coming up with new ways what we've seen isn't offering babies specialty skews or products are matching was a pairing was ... a no Toysrus was one that unlike us around the holidays pre could only get to see the Batman toys at toys are us you can get in on line ... um so will see that you know with that with the bigger teams to have more ... on cloud and potential suppliers to be able to make those kinds of combinations ... on the other thing is also just read a Sell corollary matching product or or or companion products to go with it ... do you assume we will put some footage of Costas coffee from town which is which is coming on on from from the UK and also um that big of brand name here what he'd done about it is good coffee and I absolutely so they can tell us where many in the twenty five hundred of their ... express each of the stress stations that are located and say airports ... aam lounges the places of work ... and we wanted to upgrade the platforms of engaging all five senses of the consumer then try new in the beautifully designed ... and cabinetry hand and look and feel machine we hear the sounds of the struggling on you smell your coffee is is being groundout to make a cup of coffee ... this grace basically and great cup of coffee ... aam vented from the express platform and allows them to reach out and be in a footprint or they don't have to open entire store ... and manage twenty four by seven with employees to get an espresso and we are now ... hoping that the prisoners are absolutely unit housing one processing axle example of an intelligent system in the workings in that it's connected ... its manage its even secured with Intel McAfee security software ... aam and so were really consumption house yesterday so what I love that ... well you don't anybody hacking in and changing prices are putting up content that doesn't belong there ... or is making it on my goodness but so thank you very much on the show and leaping from the regional retail solutions division ... to prevent Islamic and maybe you have been on the on digits


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She loves long walks by the sea...
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Kicked off the summer season with a yearly tradition - attending the Malasimbo Music & Arts Festival. It's an event that I always look forward to every year to provide that much needed respite from the overwhelming strain caused by the city life.
This year, the weather up at Mt. Malasimbo was colder than usual, which made me regret my festival outfit choices -- i.e. wearing sleeveless tops. But this pair of extremely billowy pants deserved some attention, and a simple camisole was the best option to complement it (in my opinion). It's also perfect for taking long walks along the beach whilst barefoot, won't you agree? :)
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Life changes every day
This the remix
Niggas ain't the same since I last grew up
Wanna ask for myself, don't wanna work
You don't wanna help, certain extent
Niggas take advantage and won't pay no rent
Wanna use you til you can't use yourself
Take everything you have, even what you built
What ever happened to the real niggas that love they self?
Can't love yourself when you hate that bitch
You gotta slow down, it's some dangerous shit
Most niggas look the same and they act the same
Watch too many movies, wanna re-create
Wanna be the biggest nigga in the city
Well look, it gets way bigger than the city
Police know that a nigga a murking niggas
So if a nigga die, they just blame a nigga
That's a real bad position to be in
But see friend? With the love we can't amend niggas
Live by the code, that's all they done in the hood
The savages, I ain't big enough
That shit ain't cool, I had enough
Other death and the problem was sex
But is the human nature a stress?
Cause I've been in the cities that count them checks
The poor people over there, the middle is mixed
And the rich people rest, you won't see em
Only on the freeway, or when they cleanin they B
Ya gotta slow down, and take your time
Why niggas so jealous when you're good like him
Stop thinkin bout money, you trippin again
Saying what you don't have and what you need
Keepin my grateful turkey just to get a piece
It's 3rd world poverty in the USC
But it's different, let's say to Africa
In America you could be 3rd world poor
But you're still in the land of the free
Forgotten about, forgot like me
Mr. Glassface, I'm the working man
It's the working man remix
This is for the people that love
Put your hands up
It's Lil B, Glassface, let's go!
Shouts out to everybody
I lay you all the working
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Cubify, a 3D printer maker, starting take pre-orders and I got to thinking about cyclists printing their own bike parts. No, I don't mean critical parts like a drivetrain, brakes or shifters. Though complete bikes have been printed, I mean bottle cages, cases for your phone, or just accessories like a license plate.
Doll parts or bike parts
What do you think? Cyclists have always been industrious and mechanical with shims, fixes and workarounds. Lemond's example is a good one. He shimmed his aero bar with a coke can – you could print an ABS plastic shim for your bars. Ever notice how bells never come with the right mount for your 31.8 bar? You could print the mount yourself.
Most famous shim in bike racing
On Thingverse, I found a bike fender part and on Shapeways a pedal.
Fender part broke, make your own
Need a new pedal?
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- 3D printed guitars
- A dishwasher fix
- Thousands of printable spare parts.
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Hello, I'm Famous Starring John Hodgman
Before he was on The Daily Show, before he was the PC in the Mac commercials, John Hodgman wondered, just like you, about the very special world of famous people. Now he explains why being one of America's bestknown minor celebrities is even better than you imagined
Now that I am on television, my life is very different than last time we spoke. For example, I now visit Los Angeles quite frequently. Until recently, my only experience with Los Angeles had been a visit to Universal Studios as a child. This had to have been before 1985, because I remember they still had the "Battle of Galactica" ride in operation. As I'm sure you remember, this was the portion of the Universal Studios tour when the motorized tour tram left the back lot of the studio and somehow ended up in a space station. Once inside the station, robots would shoot lasers at you. Then two men wearing space helmets would bound out and pretend to kill the robots.
I want to be clear Our rescuers were living men, not animatronic creations. "Actors," I suppose you call them. And they would rescue humans several times a day, day after day, but always IN TOTAL SILENCE, because all of their dialogue was played over loudspeakers. It had been recorded long ago, presumably by better actors. I suppose this made the actors very sad, but it made me very happy at the time, and still does.
They closed that ride not long after my visit because the TV show it was based on was canceled, and also weird live spacemime shows went out of fashion at the amusement parks. I may have been the last to see it, and after the ride was over, I sat down on a bench to ponder and absorb this historic moment.
That is when I was approached by a grown man pretending to be Charlie Chaplin.
Now, I guess it is some people's dream to meet Charlie Chaplin, or just someone dressed as him. But even as a 10yearold, I found Chaplin's work to be pretty maudlin and cheap. He was no Buster Keaton, in any case. And as "Chaplin" approached, I considered saying so to his face.
But there was a problem. At this time in my life, I had very long hair. It was an affectation, and an awful one at that. But it was a better affectation, I would argue, than the affectation of dressing up as Charlie Chaplin, even if you are doing it for money.
But this wasn't the problem. The problem was that because I was a small child without a beard or moustache, people routinely thought I was a girl. And this would lead to occasional embarrassing situations. Double takes as I entered the men's room, for example, or being referred to as "Joan," or being expected to kiss Charlie Chaplin on his white powdered cheek. All of these things happened, all of the time.
And so the moment came, after some predictable caneandbowlerhat shenanigans, that Charlie Chaplin sat next to me and indicated that he was ready for me to kiss him. For obvious reasons, his expectations were unspoken, just as mine were quite clear I did not wish to kiss the fake Charlie Chaplin. But let's just say that they didn't call him the Little Tramp for nothing. He waited me out. It was clear that I was powerless. It was clear what was going to happen, and I let it happen.
So that was my introduction to Los Angeles a traumatic, homosexual, silentcomedy date rape.
At the time, I had no idea why someone would expect a complete stranger to want to kiss him on the cheek just for showing up and sitting down. But now I understand. Because now I am on television.
I was thinking about this recently as I sat in the Admirals Club waiting to fly to L.A. An Admirals Club, if you don't know, is a secret pleasure dome in the middle of the airport where the admirals hang out and sing sea chanteys, and it is also where the famous minor television personalities may go to evade the public eye. There are showers there. That's right showers IN THE AIRPORT, and special sandwiches called "paninis," and all of it is free, and all of it is for me.
Because that is what my life is like now glamorous. This is not to say there wasn't glamour in being a FORMER PROFESSIONAL LITERARY AGENT or in being a PROFESSIONAL WRITER. These things are much more glamorous than being a ditchdigger, for example. But on the other hand, they are not that much more glamorous than being a gravedigger.
Think about it. Who would you rather talk to in the Admirals Club A gravedigger or a writer It's a trick question, of course Neither one of them is allowed anywhere near the Admirals Club. And neither has the glamour of being on television.
There is an original definition of the word glamour that I did not know about until I read fantasy novels. It is a kind of magical spell. To "wear a glamour" is to surround yourself with a kind of aura that causes people to see you in a different way. It's a disguise. And being on television is like wearing a disguise that only other people can see.
Sometimes I am asked How is it that you became a famous minor television personality My answer is always the same I went on television. Specifically, I had written a book, and I had been asked to be a guest on a popular television program to promote that book. This went well, and they asked me to come back on the show as a regular. And I did. And next I was asked to audition for a series of ads for a computer company. And I got that job, too.
It's your pretty typical, mundane, overnight Hollywood success story. The only thing that makes it unusual is that it actually happened more or less OVERNIGHT, and largely by accident. And as a result, I am older and fatter and more walleyed and tweedy than most people embarking on a television career.
I am not being modest. When you are on television, you don't just see the pose you've perfected for the mirror. You see yourself from all angles, clearly and cruelly, as if you were in the body of another person.
Here are some of the words Internet blogs have used to describe me
That last one came from a Web site that includes a regular feature mapping celebrity sightings in New York City. In this case, the anonymous tipster reported, accurately, that I was taking the B train south from my observatory on the Upper West Side, where I then lived.
Here's what happened from my point of view. I was riding the train. I had been wearing my brown jeans and brown coat—an outfit a neighbor of mine had said made me look like a UPS man. I was just deciding never to speak to that neighbor again when a woman got on the train. She gave me a quick double take, as if I were a girl in the men's bathroom. Then a man came on the train and did the same thing.
Now, which one was it Which one of my fellow travelers was the anonymous tipster I will never know. Neither of them seemed drunk or insane, and yet one of them must have been the one who told the Internet that I was a "cutie." Whoever it was, they went on to note that I also looked like a UPS man. So here is a fashion tip from the stars NO BROWN JEANS.
After that, these unexpected brushes with fame—in which, unexpectedly, I was the famous person—started happening with some frequency
Big Y Plaza, Greenfield, Massachusetts
The young guy at the counter asks me to autograph an old receipt. "What are you doing here" he asks, in a voice that contains a host of further questions, such as "What are you doing in MASSACHUSETTS In GREENFIELD At RADIOSHACK"
(ANSWER I was buying speaker wire.)
I am waiting for my daughter, Hodgmina, to complete her many purchases. A man is there with his own daughter. We say hello, as parents do.
Then he gives me a conspiratorial look and says, "You ARE John Hodgman."
"Yes," I say. Then I pause. I ask him why he put it just that way. Why did he say, "You ARE John Hodgman"
The man then explains that he had seen me and my family in Riverside Park the previous weekend, having a picnic.
"That is true," I say.
He then explains that he and his wife had an argument about it. They fought over whether I really WAS John Hodgman. And that when he saw me just now, he realized that it really had been me that day in the park, having lunch with my family, completely unaware that I was being watched and scrutinized the entire time by strangers.
"Yes," I say. "That was me."
He smiles now, realizing he has won the argument with his wife. "So," he says. "You must live in this neighborhood."
I admit that is true.
"Where, exactly" he says.
And then I tell Hodgmina it is time to go. She will have to buy all her toys and clothes another time.
New York City
I go to a party to celebrate the new season of Battlestar Galactica—not the old version that had the ride at Universal Studios but the new one, in which the robots are erotic (finally). I am here because I had written about the show for a national magazine back when I was merely a professional writer. Before I had ever been on television.
Now at the party I am enjoying catching up with one of the show's creators, whom I met when I was writing the article, and I am trying to oer him my congratulations on the success of the show. But he isn't listening. He wants to know how it happened. How I have gone from writing about TV to actually appearing on TV.
I explain it to him as I explained it to you. And then I confess a certain shame. That I have leapt past thousands, millions of trained actors and journeyman performers to get a job that I have not earned. I did not pay any dues. I did not even need to work, for example, many long and silent days in the "Battle of Galactica" ride.
At that very moment, a waiter passing a tray of cocktails with luminous sci ice cubes in them comes by and says he hopes I am feeling better. And it takes me a moment to realize that he is referring to a television advertisement in which I pretend to have a sneezing t.
I laugh and tell him thank you.
Then, like a sneezing fit, it does not stop. One person after another comes up to me, talking about the ads, wanting to say hello. Soon an Academy Award–winning actress is shaking my hand and congratulating me for a job well done on the television.
It is very fun, but it is also confusing—for me, and for everybody. Suddenly, no one knows why I am there anymore. I don't fit in. What role am I supposed to be playing at this party Am I a journalist A fan Or am I now a minor, Elist TV personality, there to lend the party a little Elist buzz This kind of hierarchical uncertainty is unwanted at any party, never mind a television party, and I worry that I am somehow ruining the night for my space friends. The first moment I can, I sneak away and go home alone in the rain.
General storewide freakout. I am asked to pose with people for cellphone pictures. The store greeter cannot believe it is me. She jumps up and down. They don't know why I am there.
(ANSWER iPod docking cable.)
Someone on staff starts to play videos of me on a giant screen. Suddenly, I am like a mascot walking around a theme park. I'm Charlie Chaplin at Universal Studios, and everyone is rushing to kiss me.
When you are a young person, all of this feels inevitable. It feels inevitable that you will be on television. Or an astronaut. Or the president. It is hardwired into every gland, this ambition to be known and renowned.
Then, of course, you grow older, pudgier, stouter, portly. You have children, or get a job, or are drawn by fate to one life or another. Only the deranged don't notice that the possibilities for their life are narrowing. And only the happy look around and say, That is fine. I accept that I will never be a famous minor television personality. At least I have written this wonderful book of fake trivia. I am happy.
Then, just when you've discarded the last shred of a shred of a shred of the fantasy of, say, being an astronaut, it is unsettling to have someone knock on your door one day and say Time to go into outer space. You don't get used to it. You put on the spacesuit and you learn to eat dehydrated food and you learn to poop while floating upside down, but you never feel like you're really supposed to be up there, orbiting the earth.
Honestly, now that I think about it, you don't even have to go into space at all to get this feeling. You can get the same feeling just by being asked to PRETEND to go into outer space by, for example, doing a cameo appearance on Battlestar Galactica. Which is exactly what happened to me.
These days, when I come to L.A., it is not traumatic. It's a lovely city, and especially so if you are on television. Recently, I was there, and I stayed in a very fancy hotel. The woman at the door greeted me by name before I even checked in. When I had drinks in the lobby, a short man and a tall woman called me over to their table.
"We just want to say thank you," they said. "You are great on television."
And I stayed in a room where, I have been told, a famous person died. It was all very perfect and glamorous. In fact, I'm nervous about saying anything more about it, for fear that I would upset the hotel.
Naturally, I saw a number of other celebrities there. I don't want to tell you their names. We in the fame game don't reveal such secrets.
Okay. I will tell you.
First, I rode in an elevator with Jerry Stiller. He had just been out, lying by the pool. He was in a robe, and the elevator was very hot and small, and the whole experience combined to make it feel as though I were WEARING Jerry Stiller.
The next sighting came as I was checking out of my room. My room had a private entrance to the street. I had pulled up my car and was putting my suitcases in the trunk.
The door to the next room opened. A man came out. I nodded to him—just a couple of fellow guests at the hotel. Neighbors, really. It was Justin Timberlake. "Good morning," I said.
He was startled. I don't mind telling you that Justin Timberlake was intensely disturbed by this. He literally recoiled and made a sort of grunt. And as Justin Timberlake grunted at me, I realized, in a way I never could have understood before, what I had done to this poor millionaire superstar. I made him feel trapped and cornered, and I felt terrible about it. And even as I followed him down the street, screaming his name, trying to take a picture of his vagina, I still felt terrible about it.
I don't know if I'll get to stay at that hotel again. Television came along and cast this glamour on me. It would be naive to imagine that the spell could not break just as quickly. That's a Hollywood story, right To be discovered out of nowhere, and then to be forgotten. That's showbiz. As a matter of fact, sometimes now, if I'm feeling tired or a little sad, I'll go put on my UPSman outfit and hit the subway. I'll hope that maybe someone will recognize me. It's very embarrassing, isn't it
But most of the time, it doesn't happen. No matter how crowded it is, no one says anything. They are reading, talking, thinking about where the train is taking them next. They don't say anything to me at all. And that's when I sit back, and look at them all, and think to myself Don't any of you have a television What THE FUCK is wrong with you people I'M SITTING RIGHT HERE!
When I travel now to Los Angeles for television work, I am lucky enough to be flown FIRST CLASS. For those of you who have not flown rst class, here are some of its astonishing features. See if you can guess which one is not true
They encourage you to drink free champagne the second you get on board.
They offer you a seat in a gigantic armchair that is so smooth and gray it feels like it was upholstered with the skin of one hundred wise grandfathers.
They give you warm nuts the moment you sit down.
Before dinner, they wheel around a salad cart and prepare a salad to your precise specifications.
Later, they bring the same cart around and allow you to make your own sundae.
They give you miniature people in a cage whom you can force to dance.
Have you figured it out No, not the bit about the grandfathers. That was just a SIMILE. The correct answer is that they do not give you miniature people in a cage, because they have not perfected the shrink ray yet. But the rest is absolutely true.
Now, I do not want to make a joke about airplane food, because that is a comedy cliché. But I am curious, and I want to ask a legitimate question. If you are at home, and you think to yourself, "I would like some mid nuts now," does it occur to you to go to the microwave and warm them up until they are almost impossible to touch Is this something that everyone does all the time Or am I simply in error thinking that it is strange and unnecessary and exotic
But I do have to ask WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THE SALAD CART Is this really the best way for American Airlines to be spending its time and money Doesn't this distract from the shrinkray project
That, at least, is the question I posed on the comment card. And let me tell you, the typist they provided to take my commentcard dictation was really very talented and later massaged me with beer.
When you are on television and you are in Los Angeles for work, you are like a kind of breathing prop. A car takes you from the airport to your hotel to the studio. You are moved from place to place, told what to wear and where to stand, then you are told to go back to your dressing room and await further orders. If you are like me and you find even the smallest decisions endlessly complex in their possible ramifications (and also if you hate to move), it is wonderful.
Now, before you ask, the dressing rooms are not very exciting. I don't ask for expensive champagne or bowls of green M&M's or hundreds of little monkeys the size of your thumb like some stars you've heard about.
One time I was offered a trailer, and I said, "Sure." They hired a jet black Greyhound bus with tinted windows. Inside, all the seats had been taken out, and black carpeting had been put down. There was a black leather banquette and no other furniture. The airconditioning was very powerful and very loud, and it spread around the lingering smell of bus bathroom and rock musicians having sex.
"This is too much," I explained to the two guys in velvet jumpsuits who came with the bus. "I'm happy just to have a couch to sit on and a door to close for a moment. A scented candle. Maybe just a few ferrets, just to take the edge off. But really This is too fancy."
So I went back to my modest, spare dressing room, and I ordered the bus to be destroyed.
But you can't let the dressing room seduce you. I learned this on a recent television job in which I met two child actors.
One was cast to be the younger me. The other was cast to be the younger version of my costar.
I won't tell you the name of the one cast as the younger version of my costar. But I will say it was one of those names that sounded like an actual name, but it was not a real name. Like JAYCE or BRANDONEON.
He was a professional. We had worked together once before, and he remembered my name and shook my hand and looked me straight in the eye. He asked how I had been. It was unnerving—the queasying feeling of a child possessing the faculties of the adult. I felt as the Austrian court might have felt when they saw the young Mozart play piano blindfolded and ran from the room screaming.
Then there was the second child, the child who was to play me. I did not find this child to be unnerving because he was professional (he was, grasping my hand firmly and staring straight into my eyes with the beaming, warm headlight eyes of a usedcar salesman).
I found him unnerving because he looked exactly like me. Not me as a child but as an older man. He was wearing a suit, which had something to do with it, but he also had an older man's gait and paunch. He had the "Hey there!" demeanor of a happy old retired fella. He even had an older man's name. Like Herm or Benny or Izzy.
It is bizarre to stare into the face of someone else's vision of who you were as a child. This is not something that will ever happen unless you are on television or in a movie. It is stranger still when it's accurate. Obviously, the casting folks weren't totally accurate in their picture Where was the long hair Or for that matter, the black fedora and briefcase and my ever present falcon, Isidor But they got one thing right At the age of 9, I was already an old, crotchety man, a Buster Keaton fan, and a crank.
I finished shaking Izzy's hand. Then I went to act for them. It was explained to me that my costar and I would do our scene first, while the two of them watched, Brandoneon and Izzy.
"Why" I asked.
So that they can observe my body language and imitate it, it was explained to me. Which is to say They are ACTUAL actors. And so I said of course.
I trust you can appreciate the twisted, dreamlike quality of what followed, as I stood onstage to do something I had never trained to do for the amusement of my little doppelgänger, who had probably hundreds more hours of experience than me. I kept looking into Izzy's eyes. He was studying me, becoming me. And certainly, he was judging me.
I couldn't remember my lines. I couldn't do anything right.
Was not my younger self looking in disgust at my present self and thinking "amateur"
Finally, after many, many bad takes, we were through.
I could not bring myself to do the gracious thing and watch their performance. I instead went back to my dressing room, fed the ferrets, lit a scented candle, and napped until the whole thing was over with.
When I got back to the set, everyone couldn't stop talking about how great Brandoneon and Izzy had been. They had done it all in two takes. It was unbelievable. And at the end, Izzy, out of nowhere, broke into song. He serenaded the crew with his rendition of "You Make Me Feel So Young."
And this is what I missed when I was hiding out in my dressing room covering my eyes and smelling a scented candle a 9yearold dressed as a 40yearold singing about his need to feel young again. I will never see anything like that again. Is this what it means to live as a celebrity, hidden in my cocoon of candles and privilege and ferrets To miss out on life itself
The one downside of fame is that no one will ever be really honest with you. There have been lots of times when I will be doing an "acting job" and I know I messed up. Maybe I forgot a line or missed a cue. Maybe I showed up drunk. Or maybe I refused to show up at all because they didn't get me into first class on the way out or someone made eye contact with me.
Even then they still say "You did great. Nice job. You're brilliant. You were right to refuse to come to the set and to hit me with your cane. I'm sorry I looked at you."
THAT'S NOT WHAT I WANT TO HEAR. I know when I've messed up, and like any artist, I need and want honest feedback. But it will never come.
It took me a while to understand why this is so, but now I get it. I'm just a small cog in a much larger machine. It's not just me on the set. There's the director, the producers, the camera operators, and the gaffers; there are the grips and the best boys and the worst boys and the yellowblooded dwarves; there are the soundies and the boomies and the proppies and the crafties, not to mention the tallboys, the catapultmen and the sunwranglers, the keymasters, the gatekeepers, and the turkey and the pitch. All these people are doing their jobs, the whole shoot consuming thousands of dollars per hour. They simply can't afford to worry that much about my performance or risk sending me into a funk. They'd prefer to "yes" me along to the next take. Because if all those people are doing their jobs right (and they always do, except for the yellowblooded dwarves, who are fuckups), I'm going to end up looking good onscreen no matter what.
So I've learned to accept the empty praise with grace and humility and just move on to the next shot. You learn to develop your own inner compass. So that even when someone tells you, "You know, that wasn't really your best work," you know, instinctively, they're just telling you what you want to hear. It probably was your best work. YOUR BEST WORK EVER.
John Hodgman_ is the author of the bestseller The Areas of My Expertise. A contributor to The Daily Show, he lives in Brooklyn. Excerpted from More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman, out this month from Dutton. _


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About ∼Cloud Nine∼
∼Cloud Nine∼ Musical Instruments is the work of Michael C. Allen, who has been a full time musical instrument maker since 1977.
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- Michael C. Allen has been making wooden stringed musical instruments including hammered dulcimers full time since 1977. He has also taught guitar making, and invented his own version of Marimbula. His workshop is known as ~Cloud Nine~ Musical Instruments.Since 2004, Michael has been one of only three hammered dulcimer makers selected to create an instrument as a prize in the National Hammered Dulcimer Championship held in Winfield, Kansas each September.2007 marked the 30th Anniversay of ∼Cloud Nine∼ Musical Instruments!
This web site will serve to inform you about the musical instruments made at ∼Cloud Nine∼, and will also provide you with some background concerning the makers, the music, and related information. ∼Cloud Nine∼ is best known for hammered dulcimers, but other wooden and stringed musical instruments are handmade here in the shop.
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text: CDD> Transportation> For the Public> Pedestrian Committee Pedestrian Committee The Cambridge Pedestrian Committee works to create a more comfortable, safe, and pleasant environment for walking in Cambridge. The committee includes both community members appointed by the City Manager and City staff. It advises on the design of roadway projects and helps develop policies and design guidelines related to pedestrians, including policies related to traffic signals, sidewalk standards, and enforcement of traffic laws. It also identifies intersections and other locations where it is difficult to walk, makes suggestions about proposed development projects as they affect people on foot, and undertakes other activities based on members' interests and concerns, including activities and programs to promote walking. Take a look at our new interactive Story Map of our 2015 walking tour - North Point: A Hidden Gem. Committee Membership View the current membership of the Pedestrian Committee on the Open Meeting Portal Meeting Dates, Agendas and Meeting Minutes The committee usually meets on the fourth Thursday of the month, from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M., usually at 344 Broadway, except in November and December, when it meets on the third Thursday. The public is welcome to attend, but it is a good idea to check ahead of time, as occasionally, especially in summer, the meeting consists of a walk. Pedestrian Committee meetings are listed in the citywide Calendar of Events. Date Agenda Minutes January 25, 2018 Agenda Minutes February 22, 2018 Agenda Minutes March 22, 2018 Agenda Minutes April 26, 2018 Agenda Minutes May 24, 2018 Agenda Walk, no minutes June 28, 2018 Agenda Minutes July 26, 2018 Agenda Walk, no minutes August 23, 2018 Agenda Walk, no minutes September 27, 2018 Agenda Minutes October 25, 2018 Agenda Minutes November 15, 2018 Agenda Minutes December 12, 2018 Agenda January 24, 2019 Agenda February 28, 2019 March 28, 2019 April 25, 2019 May 23, 2019 June 27, 2019 July 25, 2019 August 22, 2019 September 26, 2019 October 24, 2019 November 21, 2019 Agendas and minutes from meeting prior to the current year can be found here. Cambridge Pedestrian Reports This e-report is intended to provide important information about upcoming meetings and events as well as items of general interest to walking and/or Cambridge. If you would like to be on a mailing list to receive these e-reports please send your name, snail mail address and email to: firstname.lastname@example.com. Cambridge Pedestrian Report - February 18, 2016 For More Information For more information, contact Cara Seiderman at 617/349-4629, or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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October 2011 In Box - Letters to the EditorPosted in Features on October 1, 2011
Van Hack Attacks
I just got my August issue and read the Reader Rant letter in which Mr. Savage attacked your "Hack This!" story [May '11]. I couldn't believe what I was reading. That was one of the best articles I have read in years! When I think back on the most memorable episodes in my life, they almost always involve an element of danger and uniqueness, much like your story. After reading his opinion, I was waiting for the inevitable apology and validation of his position, that you were misguided. You did neither. Congratulations. This is exactly the type of vision I can align with. To quote Benjamin Franklin, "Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither." To Mr. Savage: I suggest selling whatever four-wheel-drive you might own, and get an Accord.
Scott Firth
Via email
I just got the Aug. '11 issue in the mail. After reading the Reader Rant I felt compelled to write in for the first time. I'm sorry not everyone appreciates good fun for what it is. Safety is important, and I have had my share of trips to the ER/scars for the times I neglected to wear the proper safety equipment. Those were my mistakes, not the result of a picture I saw in a magazine. I don't think your magazine was trying to endorse any manner of working, safe or not. You were simply showing how much fun can be had with a Sawzall and a few friends and an old beater in a field. Keep up the good work. I thought "Hack This!" was great.
It inspired me to do a hack of my own. I stumbled on a '96 Subaru Outback headed for the scrap yard. I started hacking with a Sawzall and removed all the doors, liftgate, roof, glass, and all interior except the front seats. I plan to build a rollcage and make this car into a dune buggy. My buddy helped me cut the roof off and we took a drive down some trails after the hack. It was surprisingly fast and loads of fun. I promise to send pictures when it is all done. In the meantime, how do I get some 4-Wheel & Off-Road stickers? They would look good on the completed Subuggy.
Russ Meeker
Via email
Ha! Hook, line, and sinker! Gene Savage fell for it. I could have laid down bets as to whether or not 4WOR was going to get an angry response to the "Van Hack!" article about the Ford van with the freaky, duel differential, twin I-beam, abomination setup. I would be willing to bet that whole article was a dare from the very beginning between Fred Williams and Rick Péwé. I loved it and thought it was amusing.
Gene, three things, my friend: First, I think you need to spend more time in Hemmings Motor News while on the toilet, and second, if that piece of "automotive history" was worth a darn, we would have seen it released on more vehicles from the factory. Lastly, get a better pair of glasses. Anybody can see clearly that there are at least lap belts being worn by the driver and riders in every pic. That they aren't wearing the "proper" safety equipment while working with metal is their choice. It's their eyes and hands at risk, so stop being the safety police.
Charles Rich
Via email
We are all still laughing over the controversy we created with this story. These letters are pretty indicative of our readers' sentiments. Polling results show pretty much 10 to 1 in favor of hacking the van, so we may do it again. Safer, for sure, I'm sure!
Tire Pressure Comments
Jay Siller asked about tire pressure in the In Box [July '11]. The correct answer is use the load Inflation tables. Simply Google "load Inflation tables." Let's go through my calculations of my '99 Chevy Suburban 2500 4x4 with stock LT245/75R16 tires (30.5 inches tall) at 55 psi front and 80 psi rear. This corresponds to 2,335 pounds front and 3,042 rear. The new tires are LT315/70R17, 34.4 inches tall. Using straight line interpolation, I get 31.3 psi front and 47 psi rear. The 31 psi is interpolated below the lowest value given in the table at 35 psi. I called Goodyear and they suggested I never go below their lowest pressure rating of 35 psi. Remember, this pressure is for full Rated load.
Chris Wrigley
La Crescenta, CA
Whatever works for you is the rule. We don't always have load inflation tables on our rides, much less any of the other parameters noted. Keep a good square contact pattern across the face of the tire for most uses, and adjust that for speed and weight. Be safe!
Diesel Spark Plug?
Rick, I want to thank you. I was sitting on my couch, extremely bummed out. I had literally just found out my grandpa had less than six months to live due to cancer, so I decided to pick up your magazine. But what cheered me up wasn't the articles (they are great articles though) but was actually an ad that is in your July and August issues (possibly more) by E3 Spark Plugs. If you look closely at the Dodge you can see the emblems "Ram," "2500 Heavy Duty," and the "C" of "Cummins Diesel." Maybe you will also see the humor in this. Thanks for the great magazine.
Kyle Graves
Auburn, CA
Wow! No, we didn't see that. You have a sharp eye and great sense of humor. Our best to your grandpa as well. He passed along some good genes.
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- Briscoe Library (San Antonio): visitors must sign in and present valid ID at the Circulation Desk for a guest computer access code. Guest computers are located only on the 3rd floor and access is restricted to one hour per day.
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What software is available on library computers?
- At Briscoe: All computers have Microsoft Office and internet access. A limited number of computers at Pod D have flatbed scanners with either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements available. Adobe Professional is available at two of the scanner computers. SPSS and SAS are also installed at Pod E for use by UT Health Science Center affiliates. In the visitor computer area, one flatbed scanner is available with Photoshop Elements.
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UT Health SA faculty, staff, and students will use their UTHSCSA Domain Password. These credentials are the same ones currently used to log in to other campus systems, including the My UT Health portal, the HSCAir wireless network, the Knowledge Center training system, and student sites.
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The Outfield wrote:Uncle Si wrote:To be fair, the club has amazing pitching talent like 4 months away from the big league squad. Atleast three maybe four very good pitchers. They traded from a position of strength to add offense, something every Ms fan has been begging for since the ill adviosed Bedard trade.
That's true... I just hope they don't trade them all away for more garbage.
Nah, these kids are really good. Looking at filling in the bullpen with pryor, capps and wilhemson for the year and id say atleast two are rotation guys next year.
On Zunino.. yes he may be excellent. But Smoak and Montero were supposed to be as well. Man I hope those twp (and ackely) start hitting


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HelpYou've got questions, we've got answers.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is ROUNDUS?
ROUNDUS is a team of people in Lincoln, Nebraska committed to building a virtual tour of the whole world and empowering others to help. ROUNDUS is the idea that all information should eventually be accessible from your personal computer, for free. ROUNDUS is determined to produce the highest quality images and the most immersive experiences possible.
Starting with Midwestern cities, we plan to provide the free ROUNDUS service to every community in the Unites States within the next five years. We have already started on parts of Europe and we intend to go global during that same 5 year period.
Why can't I see the panoramas?
How do I use ROUNDUS?
People use ROUNDUS to explore the world around them. You can search out specific places to see what they have to offer, then compare them to related places, read what people have to say about them, link to their websites, and then share with friends. We let users contribute in a variety of ways. You can tag listings, leave comments, upload you own panoramas, upload photo collages to be viewed virtually, tag things within the panoramas, set connections to other panoramas, and collect lists of your favorite spaces.
If you think of something you would like to do with the panoramas that we do not currently offer, help us out and let us know at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Who owns the content?
Any content uploaded by users are owned entirely by the user that uploaded the content, assuming they have the right to upload said content. Otherwise, everything else on Roundus.com is owned entirely by ROUNDUS, LLC, a private company in Lincoln, Nebraska. For inquiries into our intellectual property and the use thereof please contact us at email@example.com.
I found myself in an image and want to be removed!
ROUNDUS shoots panoramas in many public and private places so inevitably we will include some unwilling participants in some of our panoramas. Through the wonders of post-production we can now simply remove you from the image instead of having to take down the image itself. Please record the name of the panorama and send it and your removal request to email@example.com and you will be removed from the public content within one week.
Point-and-Shoot Panorama
You can use any kind of camera to make a panorama, but we're going to focus on how to make one using a basic digital point-and-shoot camera. Not using a point-and-shoot? These tips apply to just about any combination of equipment.
To capture a panorama with a point-and-shoot you will take a series of overlapping images (we call these frames or component images) that will be combined using stitching software to create a single panoramic image. We've broken down the process into a few steps:
- 1. Preparing your camera
- 2. Shoot
- 3. Stitch
- 4. Edit and upload
1. Preparing your camera
The first step is to check your camera settings. You can shoot using the automatic settings, but checking the exposure and white balance will help you get the best images and will make assembling your panorama much easier. The location of these setting varies by camera, so if you aren't sure if your camera allows you to do this, check the camera manual or visit the manufacturers website for more info.
The first setting to check is camera exposure.
If your camera allows you to lock the exposure, you will want to do this before capturing the series of images that will eventually come together to make your panorama. Locking the exposure will ensure consistent exposure in each of the component images and will make them easier to combine later.
The next setting to check is the white balance.
Locking the white balance will keep the color temperature consistent in each frame of your panorama and will make them easier to combine later. Most digital cameras give you a few white balance presets designed to match a range of shooting conditions. Select the preset that is appropriate for your situation.
2. Shooting the panorama
The most important part of shooting a panorama is your point of rotation. Make sure to rotate around the camera and not your body! The goal is to shoot each image in the rotation from the same position in space. Like this:
- Shooting with your camera held vertically will maximize the amount of height/information in each image, but you will have to capture more component images to complete a 360º panorama.
- Make sure that you have plenty of overlap between your images, somewhere around 25-30%. It's easier to eliminate excess data later than to create missing parts.
- Use your body or another technique to make the camera as steady as possible, although viewing can sometimes be problematic with this method. If you are having trouble keeping your body still, it helps to hold your breath while depressing the shutter button.
- If you are having trouble here is a technique that might help: tie a washer to the end of a string attached to your camera. This will guide your rotation of the camera with the least amount of distortion. Correct rotation around the camera will help decrease parallax. To read more about Parallax follow this link. http://wiki.panotools.org/No-parallax_point.
3. Stitch
Stitching is the process of combining a your photos into a single final panoramic image. This requires separate software, however there are a number of free, trial, and inexpensive programs available:
Note: If you are using Photoshop CS2 or higher, you can stitch your images using the Photomerge feature found under File -> Automate -> Photomerge.
4. Edit & upload
When you have finished stitching your panorama, you may want to use a photo editing application, such as Photoshop, to touch it up and color correct your image.
If you do not have Photoshop, here are some free and inexpensive alternatives:
To upload:
Just save the file as a JPG, find it in the browse bar, and click "upload."
Stitching a Panorama
There are many options for stitching software available on the web today. Some applications are cheap, lightweight, and simple, while others are more expensive, complex, and give users much more control in each stage of stitching and rendering panoramas. We recommend users try a few stitching applications before considering making a software purchase. Some users are comfortable shelling out $350 for a copy of Stitcher Unlimited, while other users are satisfied using more affordable applications like AutoPano Pro or Calico. Below is a short list of stitching applications we've used, sorted by price, that should give users a place to start their research:
- PTGui ($103 for basic version, $194 for pro version)
- Autopano ($145)
- Calico (free)
- Autostitch (Free demo version for download, windows only)
- Auto Desk Stitcher unlimited ($350, the stitching program that we use)
- 3DVista ($199, windows only)
Regardless of the stitching application, one must always keep in mind a few basic rules for shooting panoramas. Always make sure your tripod head is level, check your camera settings, and if you're shooting without a panoramic head make sure to allow a 30% overlap between images to ensure a successful stitch.
At ROUNDUS we use Stitcher Unlimited to stitch most of our panoramas. Our panoramas are shot with a Canon 5D with a 15mm fisheye lens and a 360 Precision Absolute panoramic head. The 15mm fisheye lens allows us to capture a complete 360º panorama in just 7 shots:
(If you are shooting with a non-fisheye lens you will probably need to take more images to capture a complete panorama.)
These are the seven images we will use to show each step of the stitching process.
First, launch the Stitcher Unlimited application. Next, drag the seven component images into the Stitcher workspace. Stitcher will load the images and incorrectly assume we are using a Rectilinear lens type with a focal length of 15mm. A dialogue box will open asking if we want to keep the settings Stitcher selected automatically. Click "No" and the Properties window will appear. We need to set the Camera Lens Type to Fisheye Full Frame in the Properties window, as shown below:
After setting the lens type, click Autostitch in the menu in the top left of the workspace.
The Autostitch will take a moment or two, depending on the speed of your computer. After the stitch is complete you may rotate the view by holding the Option key and clicking and dragging with the mouse. If Stitcher couldn't place one of the images in the panorama, you can manually pull it from your dock onto the workspace and finesse it into place. Once it is properly positioned, right click on the image and select the Stitch Shots.
If the Stitch Shots command doesn't work, place the image again and right click and choose Force Stitch. Keep in mind that the Force Stitch method can cause parallax, and if it does, you will need to use the stencil tool to remove it in the next step.
Pay close attention to the seams of each image in the panorama, as this is where you will most likely find parallax if there is any in your panorama. As we stated above, to remove this parallax you will need to use the Stencil tool within Stitcher. Play around with the tool until you feel comfortable using it. It can be tricky at first, but a little bit of practice will go a long way to making your panorama look nice and crispy.
Stitcher also has an Equalize Images option, which blends together the light and dark areas of the combined images. I find that in certain circumstances this option is useful and in others it does more harm than good. If you decide to equalize your panorama this is a good time to do so.
After stenciling and equalizing, save your Stitcher file. After saving you are ready to render the final panoramic image. You can use the left hand navigation bar or the keystroke Command R to get to the Render Properties dialog box.
From the Render Properties dialogue you can choose from many different render options and modes, and choose the size of your final image. We recommend rendering out with the following settings:
- Type: Spherical Image, TIFF
- Blending: Smart
- Sharpening: Normal
- Interpolation: Lanczos 5
- Width: maximum
- Height: maximum
(For best results, we recommend rendering panoramas at maximum resolution in TIFF format, retouching and color-correcting at full-resolution, then scaling down to 5000px by 2500px and compressing the image before uploading to the site.)
After entering the desired settings, click Render to initiate the final render process. The render process can take up to thirty minutes (or longer, for gigantic panoramas) and changes depending on the size of the component images, the final output size, the interpolation method, and the system specifications of your computer. When the render is complete your panorama will be located in the save destination assigned to it in the Render Properties dialogue. Happy pano-makings!
Three Pano Setups
Our advanced set-up consists of the following components:
Full-frame DSLR:
Full-frame refers to a camera that's image sensor is the same size as a 35mm film frame. This allows us to use a Fisheye lens (15mm) with the same angle of view.
Fisheye lens (15mm):
The wide angle of the fisheye lens allows us to shoot a the minimum amount of images while still capturing all of the information needed to create a spherical panorama.
360 Precision Absolut head:
Machined to the specifics of your DSLR. 360 Precision claims that "no other panoramic head on the market today features such an accurate mounting solution.
Leveling tripod:
To ensure that the horizon in your panorama is level and not distorted.
Remote shutter release:
To avoid blurring caused by movement when the shutter button is depressed.
Our intermediate setup consists of the following components:
Digital SLR (not full frame):
Non full-frame DSLR cameras have an image sensor smaller than a 35mm film frame. This causes the edges of the captured image to be cropped, and distortion similar to zooming in on the center section of the imaging area.
Wide-angle zoom lens 17-40mm:
Flat lenses will require more images to create a full spherical panorama. They may also cause parallax where there is not enough overlap and/or lens distortion.
Standard panoramic tripod head:
Panoramic heads similar to this one require the photographer to adjust according to their camera and lens.
Non-leveling tripod:
With a non-leveling tripod there may be some distortion in your horizon.
Our novice setup consists of the following components:
Digital SLR (not fullframe):
Non full-frame DSLR cameras have an image sensor smaller than a 35mm film frame. This causes the edges of the captured image to be cropped, and distortion similar to zooming in on the center section of the imaging area.
Kit Lens:
Flat lenses will require more images to create a full spherical panorama. They may also cause parallax where there is not enough overlap and/or lens distortion.
Non-leveling tripod:
With a non-leveling tripod there may be some distortion in your horizon.
Preparing Panos for Upload
There are two different ways to up load your panos onto Roundus. The first is in equirectangular or cylindrical format. The maximum pixel size that you are able to upload in this format is 5000px wide by 2500px tall. You can render your pano to our maximum size limit or render it in full resolution and reduce it in photo editing software later. Rendering your panos in full resolution is a good idea if you are planning on using your panos for other projects that might need a higher resolution. Whatever pixel size you decide to upload make sure that your spherical panos are a 2:1 ratio, and that the file size on spherical and cylindrical does not exceed 8MB in .jpg format.
The second way to upload is in cube face format. Some stitching software allows you to render your panos out in cube faces, but we find it easier to tone one large image rather than toning 6 separate images. We render our panos in spherical format and after we are finished editing them we cube them in a program called cubic converter. Your cube face dimensions should not exceed 2000px by 2000px. You must have six cube face images, with the correct suffixes (_f.jpg, _b.jpg, _r.jpg, _l.jpg, _u.jpg, _d.jpg) on each cube face. Your file size for each cube face should not exceed 4MB in .jpg format.
If you find that reducing the pixel size isn't trimming down the file size enough you can reduce the quality of your pano in your photo editing software, but remember that reducing the quality will affect how your end product looks so be careful. We also recommend uploading in cube face format; it greatly reduces the load time for viewers.
Types of Panoramic Projections
There are two commonly used ways of saving a full spherical stitched panorama to flat image files (in most cases and for everything on ROUNDUS, a jpeg).
Spherical Equirectangular Panoramas
Spherical equirectangular panoramas are produced by saving the entire 360 degree view to a single image file with the image's width being equal to twice the height and usually with the horizon of the panorama running horizontally through the center. The simplest and most recognizable example of this is an equirectangular projection map of the earth.
As you can see, the lines of longitude are mapped linearly (i.e. the distance between the 10 degree and 20 degree line is the same as the distance between the 70 degree and 80 degree line) to vertical lines and the lines of latitude are mapped linearly to horizontal lines with the zenith (top point or north pole) mapped to the entire top line and the nadir (bottom point or south pole) mapped to the entire bottom line. A sphere has 360 degrees of longitude and 180 degrees of latitude, so the resulting image has a 2:1 ratio of width to height.
Because lines of latitude shorten as they move away from the equator, lines of latitude must be stretched to fit on the flat image. This results in objects far from the equator seeming wider in the flat spherical image than when they are viewed on a 3-dimensional sphere or in the pano viewer. For example, in the above image, Greenland appears to be roughly the same width as Africa when it is actually about a sixth as wide.
When a spherical equirectangular image is put into the pano viewer, the easiest way to visualize what happens is to imagine wrapping the flat image horizontally to join the left and right ends and then pinching the top and bottom together to form a sphere.
Cube Faces
The other method of saving panoramas to flat image files is to use cube faces. This method projects the image onto the faces of a cube. You can think of this as building a cube around the outside of your sphere and then drawing lines from the center of the sphere out and mapping the intersection of the line and the sphere to the intersection of the line and the cube. This gives you 6 equally-sized, square images. Here is our previous example in cube faces:
The standard naming of these files (from top to bottom, left to right) is up, left, front, right, back, and down, with file names--as used by ROUNDUS and many other pano applications--being _u.jpg, _l.jpg, _f.jpg, _r.jpg, _b.jpg, and _d.jpg.
The orientation of the left, front, right, and back faces are what you would expect (with up being up) but the up and down cube faces are a bit trickier. The up cube face should be oriented so that its bottom edge matches up with the top edge of the front face and the down cube face should be oriented so that its top edge matches up with the bottom edge of the front face. This is easy to see with the up face in our example, both the bottom edge of the up face and the top edge of the front face cut through Europe and can be seamlessly glued together.
Most stitching software that outputs cube faces will usually name and orient these files properly but if you are using a new program, you should check to make sure that the files are what you expect.
When cube faces are loaded into the pano viewer, the pano viewer constructs the cube which you can then rotate around you. Cube faces are the native format that our viewer supports, so even though it can handle equirectangular images, cube faces load much faster and look much smoother. So if you are capable of uploading either types of files to ROUNDUS, we recommend uploading cube faces.
Our pano viewer also supports non-spherical panoramas such as full-cylindrical and partial-cylindrical panos.
Full-cylindrical images are similar to spherical equirectangular images but do not extend all the way to the zenith and nadir and thus have widths greater than twice the height. For example, here is our spherical equirectangular pano again but with the top and bottom shaded out, leaving a full-cylindrical panorama.
Partial-cylindrical panoramas are like full-cylindrical panoramas but they do not wrap all the way around horizontally, it is best to manually pad these to ensure that they are handled properly by the viewer.


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About The 70 Project : John M. Bennett, poet and head of Luna Bisonte Prods, turned 70 in October 2012. John likes skulls and October is the month for All Saints' Day/Day of the Dead/Halloween. John performed his poetry with other sound artists & we displayed this mailart on his birthday in a gallery. 70 PROJECT mailart is all documented here. THANKS to all the artists listed in labels at the right for contributing mailart to/for John's 70th birthday bash!
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Celadon Group Inc. (CGI) Jumps 5.95% on February 15Equities Staff Follow |
Celadon Group Inc. (CGI) was among the biggest gainers on the Russell 2000 for Monday February 15 as the stock popped 5.95% to $9.44, representing a gain of $0.53 per share. Some 315,265 shares traded hands on 2,156 trades, compared with an average daily volume of 335,750 shares out of a total float of 27.87 million. The stock opened at $9.00 and traded with an intraday range of $9.47 to $8.93.
After today's gains, Celadon Group Inc. reached a market cap of $263.14 million. Celadon Group Inc. has had a trading range between $29.15 and $6.19 over the last year, and it had a 50-day SMA of $9.22 and a 200-day SMA of $16.86.
The stock has a P/E Ratio of 6.
Celadon Group Inc, through its subsidiaries, provides truckload transportation services between United States, Canada and Mexico. It offers services such as long-haul, regional, dedicated, less-than-truckload, intermodal and logistics services.
Celadon Group Inc. is based out of Indianapolis, IN and has some 6,415 employees. Its CEO is Paul A. Will.
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I have to admit that were it not for the Conan O'Brien Show, I would not have realized until now that this was the final week of the Oprah Winfrey Show. Today National Review Online ran a symposium about her. My response would have been simply: "Good Riddance." Alas other writers offered more detailed thoughts about her. It was an interesting mix of reviews, some of them positive and others more critical. While I appreciate some of the good that Oprah has done in promoting literacy, I am squarely in the camp of people who think Oprah's net influence on the culture has been abysmal.
Several of her critics in this symposium discussed her left-wing politics. The most succinct summary was Ben Shapiro's towards the end of the symposium. While she did indeed shill endlessly for the Chosen One in 2008, her politics never really bothered me. The popular culture is littered with leftist clown acts. Instead, her baleful influence on the culture runs much deeper.
Danielle Bean has one of the more insightful commentaries. She discusses Oprah's "spiritual" rather than religious side.
When we weren't looking, Oprah transformed her image into something close to a spiritual icon. Her book recommendations included not only chick-lit fiction titles, but New Age spiritual resources. Her show's tagline became "Live Your Best Life Now," a directive that included a spirituality based on the works of New Age notables Marriane Williamson, Betty Eadie, and Sophy Burnham, among others.
In every human heart there is a void — a longing for emotional happiness, personal fulfillment, and spiritual wholeness. Our empty, aching hearts are made for communion with our Creator. Jesus Christ, who alone is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, can make us whole.
Oprah is a funny, smart, charismatic, and real American woman who has found commercial success by tapping into a human need for "soul food." When popular culture feeds us New Age mumbo-jumbo, feel-good speak, and words of affirmation, we might be temporarily satiated, but in the end we come away empty again.
Oprah fills our hearts and minds with fleeting feelings. Only Christ can feed our souls.
Oprah is just the most notable representation of our culture's affinity for new-age spirituality. We see it everywhere. Generic mumbo jumbo about getting in touch with our inner feelings has replaced the meatier aspects of religious formation. Sadly this mentality is not just limited to popular culture. It's infected many of our parishes – just look at some of the offerings of our faith formation committees and the bland nonsense which they pass of as religious instruction. Oprah has fed this beast better than anyone, and that is much more harmful than any of the good she may have accomplished.
Lisa Schiffren gets to the heart of why I've always found Oprah so odious.
Enter Oprah. Her personal confessions, tears, and overflowing emotions (delivered articulately enough to suggest preparation), changed the style of casual discourse — and, ultimately, political speech too.
Of course, the feminization of American culture had been underway for a century, episodically, before she showed up. Historian Ann Douglas had ascribed it (partly) to an alliance between victimized women and preachers, attempting to sissify a rugged pioneer culture (e.g. Prohibition or the peace movement).
On her show, Oprah got to be the hurt woman and the preacher. She talked about depression, weight, and sexual abuse, in a manner familiar to women from the intense, intimate confidences of deep female friendship. Those agonies and confessions won the love and allegiance of millions of American women, who were a little lost at whatever point in their lives they were home, watching. It worked because, in the same show, she'd go from victim to healer, offering a female version of the deeply American boot-strapper archetype.
The triumph of her style has helped de-stigmatize real victimization — which is a clear good. Alas, it has made life that much harder for conservatives and others who prefer the rational to the emotional, who don't think that understanding necessarily equals forgiveness, and who think that there are constraints to material reality, even if there aren't with love and forgiveness.
There are positive elements of the feminization of the American culture, as Lisa points, but the overall effect of the Oprah-ization of America has been completely destructive. Weepy sentimentality has become prevalent. Yeah, it's good to deal with your emotions, but there is much more to life than perpetual group therapy.
Mollie Ziegler Hemmingway offers the most succinct summary:
If you support the widespread practice of pseudo-confessional but ultimately self-justifying defensiveness, the unleashing of hayseed morons such as Dr. Phil and trust-fund prevaricators such as James Frey, the spreading the New Age teachings of "The Secret" and normalization of a generic spirituality that views all religions as equally truthful, and encouraging grab-bag materialism over time-honored virtue, there is no question that Oprah Winfrey has had a net positive on American culture.
Amen sister.
Some will defend Oprah by saying she is a marked improvement over Jerry Springer and that brand of trash daytime television. But a clear majority of people looked upon shows of its ilk for the trash that it was and is. Oprah's version of the daytime format is more nefarious because so many people actually buy into it. In other words, almost all of America recognized that Jerry Springer was a clown. Not so many recognize the same in Oprah.


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On September 30, 1996, David Dein controversially introduced a shy and unknown Frenchman as the new manager of Arsenal Football Club.
Plucked from the relative obscurity of Nagoya Grampus Eight in the Japanese J-League, Arsene Wenger was the first manager from outside the British isles to take charge of a Premier League club.
The Gunners' then club captain Tony Adams, reportedly remarked: "What does this Frenchman know about football? He wears glasses and looks more like a schoolteacher. He's not going to be as good as George [Graham]. Does he even speak English properly?"
He was branded a nobody by the media, 'Arsene who?' exclaimed The Evening Standard.
Three League titles, four FA cups and 14 consecutive top four finishes later, the 62-year-old, who has come to define the North London club, has found himself facing the same levels of disrespect.
The former Monaco boss has faced the most testing season of his 15 year stewardship of the Emirates outfit. Early results, including their worse loss for 115 years against Manchester United, saw his capabilities as Arsenal manager called into question for the first time.
And Wednesday's 4-0 humiliation in the San Siro once again brought into alarming focus the frailties of the current Gunners side.
Many observers set the game as a barometer for Arsenal's progress since 2008, when the sides last clashed at the San Siro. The results were unhappy reading for Wenger.
The lack of bite and panache amongst the Arsenal ranks was in startling contrast to the dogged and determined performance provided by the class of four years before. And the Frenchman's claims that his team was better now than four years ago were proved, in hindsight, to be misguided.
Without a trophy in six seasons, Arsenal fans until now have been incessant in their loyal support of the Frenchman. However, this season has brought a change of atmosphere around the club. And, following Wednesday's result, GMF conducted a survey of over 2400 Arsenal fans, and found an alarming 63% of supporters decided they no longer had confidence in Wenger's ability to lead their club.
This is a very sad reflection on today's game. In his worst season in English football, Wenger has; seen his side outlast Manchester United in all the cup competitions, steered his team into pole position in the battle for the final Champions League spot, whilst continuing to keep Arsenal profit margin the right side of the red.
It is is this prudence with the clubs finances that has provided supporters with the biggest proverbial stick to hit the Frenchman with. However, with Uefa's financial fair play rules beginning to take effect, the Gunner's are nicely placed to reap the benefits.
So far Wenger's model has been at the mercy of modern football which has produced the financial might of teams such as Manchester City and diminishing loyalty amongst players. He has nurtured and then lost some of Europe's most exciting talent.
But with accounts from this season onwards being used towards Uefa's new licensing system, the Premier League has begun to noticeably slow down it's exuberant ways, with transfer expenditure in this transfer window 70% down last years record level.
While clubs around them reassess their models and begin to rein in their spending, Wenger's side have able to continue in consistent fashion. And as the spending power diminishes, the vultures that have surrounded the North London club's burgeoning youth development will begin to abate.
However, to justify Arsenal belligerent approach since the move to the Emirates, it is fundamental they secure Champions League football for next season. Without it the money saved through frugality and caution in the transfer market will be wiped out by the loss of revenue generated by involvement in Europe's stellar competition. Players will be given footballing reasons to jump ship and Wenger's legacy will be consigned to history.
Arsenal have hit a crossroads in their history. To stick by and continue to show faith in the long term project put in place by Wenger or to throw away years of patience just as the plan comes into fruition. The only answer is to stick with the professor, and reassess at the end of the season when targets have been hit or missed.


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The yacón plant grows in the Andes mountains of South America and has a long history of medicinal use—for diabetes and digestive disorders—among indigenous people living in these areas. Yacón syrup is rich in prebiotics, a type of fiber that fuels the formation of healthy bacteria of the human gastrointestinal tract. Yacón is a good source of polyphenols as well, which are nutrients found in a variety of plant foods and beverages, such as red wine, green tea, and berries. Polyphenol-rich diets are associated with reduced risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer.
The major type of prebiotics found in yacón are FOS (fructooligosaccharides) also found in many common plant foods, such as leeks, onions, and asparagus. FOS are not readily digested and so reach the colon largely intact. Once in the colon, FOS are fermented to short-chain fatty acids, which support healthful gut bacteria growth and inhibit the growth of harmful, disease-causing bacteria.
FOS provide just 2 calories per gram, instead of the usual 4 for most carbohydrates. This means that as a sweetener, yacón syrup provides about 20 calories per tablespoon, compared with 48 calories for a tablespoon of sugar, and 64 for honey. FOS are soluble fiber, and can increase stool bulk and potentially minimize constipation.
Studies in mice and rats support the notion that FOS from yacón root may improve insulin sensitivity and levels of cholesterol and other blood fats in animals with diabetes, but much more research is needed to better understand if these results are applicable to humans.
Of the three human studies currently available, two examined safety and short-term effects on how quickly food moves through the gastrointestinal tract (colon transit time). One small, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in 55 obese women does suggest that FOS from yacón syrup may improve the odds of losing pounds. According to this study, 140 mg of FOS from yacón syrup per kg of body weight per day (that's 60 mg per pound) improved fasting insulin levels, body weight, and waist circumference. On average, the yacón syrup group lost 33 pounds in three months, while the control group gained about three and a half pounds in the same period.
For reference, 60 mg of FOS per pound translates to around 11 grams of FOS for a person weighing 180 pounds, or a little more than one-third of an ounce of FOS from yacón syrup per day.
The early word on yacón syrup is certainly interesting, though much more research is needed to better understand how this sweetener works and who might best benefit from using it. Keep the following in mind before deciding if yacón syrup is right for you:
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Story Source: Suzanne Dixon, MPH, MS, RD, an author, speaker, and internationally recognized expert in chronic disease prevention, epidemiology, and nutrition, has taught medical, nursing, public health, and alternative medicine coursework. She has delivered over 150 invited lectures to health professionals and consumers and is the creator of a nutrition website acclaimed by theNew York Times and Time magazine. Suzanne received her training in epidemiology and nutrition at the University of Michigan, School of Public Health at Ann Arbor. The above story is reprinted from materials provided by Aisle7. All rights reserved.
References: Dig Liver Dis 2002;34:S111-20; Clin Nutr 2009;28:182-7; J Diabetes Metab Disord 2013;12:28
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Illegal Parking App Refuses to Stop Doing Business in San Francisco
Silicon Valley's "sharing economy" startups are known for skirting the law, but now they're blatantly violating it. Days after San Francisco's City Attorney asked Apple to ban three "predatory" parking apps from the App Store, MonkeyParking is refusing to shut down, claiming auction off public parking is "free speech."
MonkeyParking was described by City Attorney Dennis Herrera as a "predatory private market for public parking spaces." However, MonkeyParking CEO Paolo Dobrowolny denies Herrera's claim that the app "[allows] users 'to buy and sell' parking spaces."
The Rome-based company insists they're not selling parking spaces, they're just selling access to information:
The shared economy trades on information, not on goods or services or other commodities. We are very surprised that the City of San Francisco, which prides itself of being a liberal and tolerating city, does not see that their cease and desist letter is an open violation of free speech, contrary to the First Amendment of the US Constitution ("I have the right to tell people if I am about to leave a parking spot and they have the right to pay me for such information").
Framing the sharing economy as information services is a cute defense. Airbnb isn't a distributed hotelier, it's selling access to a database of spare bedrooms. But it isn't going to save the company. According to The San Francisco Chronicle, the City Attorney's office isn't so convinced by MonkeyParking's reasoning.
Herrera spokesman Matt Dorsey described that justification as "wildly inventive verbal gymnastics."
"Let's be honest. It's like a prostitute saying she's not selling sex — she's only selling information about her willingness to have sex with you," Dorsey said. "It's semantic hair splitting — and it's absurd."
MonkeyParking stated they are currently "consulting with legal counsel." Herrera's office maintains that users of the app will face $300 fines and MonkeyParking could face "civil penalties of $2,500 per transaction" if they do not shut down by July 11th.