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Do you remember the first Nexus tablet? OK, it wasn't a Nexus by name - instead it was christened the 'Xoom' - but it was Nexus by nature, designed with Google's input and the flagship product for a new Android release, in this case Android 3.0 - Honeycomb.
To say that the Xoom (and Honeycomb) were not the successes that Google hoped for would be putting it mildly. While the Xoom hardware was solid it wasn't groundbreaking, it was expensive and Honeycomb proved it self to be a poorly performing 'rush job' that also suffered horribly from a lack of tablet apps - not least from Google themselves.
That was January 2011... fast forward to June 2012 and Google are taking another crack at the tablet market.
The mess that was Honeycomb has been mopped up with the release first of Ice Cream Sandwich and now Jelly Bean, the tablet market has changed in shape thanks to the Kindle Fire and, in a nutshell, Google have realised they want a piece of that pie.
Forget about the iPad for a minute (although Google dearly want to succeed in that space too) and focus on the Fire. A runaway sales success for Amazon, the Kindle showed that great specs and a sea of tablet ready apps aren't necessarily what's needed to be a hit in the market. Amazon achieved millions of sales with a keen price point and an ecosystem which provided a wealth of digital content for consumption on the device.
With the Play store, in the US particularly, Google's media offerings are approaching that of Amazon... and here we have the Nexus 7, that low cost consumption device.
So is the Nexus 7 just a Kindle Fire wannabe or is it an accomplished tablet on other levels? Read on to find out.
Review Device
As the retail devices are yet to ship, this review is based on the Google I/O model Nexus 7, which is an 8GB model. It has a white back and black rim but is otherwise identical hardware to retail units. The review is based on the 4.1.1 Jelly Bean software.
Edit: As I was finishing up the review I managed to get my hands on a retail device too.
In The Box
Super-minimalist! In the box you get the tablet, a small warranty leaflet, a mains to USB adaptor for your region and a USB cable. That's it!
Hardware - overview
It's no secret that the Nexus 7 started it's life as the Asus MeMO ME370T. Shown at various tradeshows originally as a Qualcomm CPU equipped device, it mysteriously disappeared off the radar as rumours of a forthcoming 7" Nexus tablet began to circulate. Little surprise then when the Nexus 7 broke cover as a repurposed version of the Asus tablet. That said, the hardware did change along the way to meet Google's requirements and the Qualcomm chipset made way for a Nvidia Tegra 3 offering, part of Nvidia's 'Kai' project, their assault on the lower priced end of the market (specifically aimed at hitting a $199 selling point).
A quick overview of the specifications...
- 7" 1280x800 HD display (216 ppi)
- Back-lit IPS display
- Scratch-resistant Corning glass
- 1.2MP front-facing camera
- 198.5 x 120 x 10.45mm
- 340g
- WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
- Bluetooth
- 8/16 GB internal storage
- Micro USB
- 4325 mAh (Up to 8 hours of active use)
- Android 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean)
- Quad-core Tegra 3 processor
- Microphone
- NFC (Android Beam)
- Accelerometer
- Magnetometer
- Gyroscope
Pretty stellar specs for a $199 device. Highlights for me are the 1280x800 IPS display, Quad-core Tegra 3 processor and of course Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean. The spec sheet comprehensively trumps the Kindle Fire, particularly with the inclusion of Bluetooth and GPS.
It should be noted that the tablet is WiFi only (no 3G option is planned) and, as is now typical of Nexus devices, there is no microSD expansion. You CAN effectively add removable storage via USB host, but more on that later.
The only real unfortunate omission from the specifications in my opinion is a vibration motor for keyboard feedback... something that was also true of the Xoom.
Hardware - around the device
Let's go on a tour of the device starting with the front.
The front of the device is a sheet of black with no capacitive buttons (just on screen buttons on this Nexus device), the only distinguishable features being that 7" screen and the forward facing camera / light sensor which sit above the screen, centrally positioned when holding the device in a portrait orientation. This device is designed to be used in a portrait fashion, like a book. There is a fairly large bezel around the screen which, while adding to the size of the device, quickly becomes a useful feature for holding it!
The back of the device has a kind of 'faux-leather' feel to it's plastic, perforated with small indentations, apparently designed to mimic 'Steve McQueen's driving gloves' so says The Verge. Branding on the back of the device takes the form of a large nexus logo near the top and an Asus logo near the bottom, both 'carved' into the device black. The microphone hole is at the top of the device and the speaker is at the bottom. The unit ships with the serial number, FCC certifications, CE certifications and the like printed on an easily removable sticker, which is a nice touch (these are also available in the 'About' menu in the latest update). The device curves around at the edges giving it a nicer profile than the Kindle Fire 'slab'.
The bottom of the device has the microUSB port (which is 'upside down') and the 3.5mm port.
The left hand side of the device is home to the secondary microphone used for noise cancelling purposes and 4 pins for a forthcoming accessory connecting via pogo pins.
The right hand side of the device has the power button and volume rocker.
The edge of the device has a metallic strip on retail devices and is black on the Google I/O tablet.
So how does it feel? Great. It doesn't feel like a budget tablet at all. It's extremely solidly built with very well chosen materials and fit and finish that is second to none. It also feels like it will be very durable, important given the role it's likely to play in people's lives as a very multi-purpose tablet.
The Nexus 7 of course runs Google's new Jelly Bean software in pure, unmolested fashion. As we know, tablet and phone experiences have been unified since Ice Cream Sandwich... so which version does the Nexus 7 use? Actually, it runs something of a hybrid... the resolution is 'tvdpi' which means you get a phone style UI at first look (e.g. a pulldown notification bar and the 3 soft buttons at the base of the screen) but applications generally display in a more tablet style mode. To learn more of the intricacies, you should have a read of Dianne Hackborn's post on Google Plus -
From an application perspective, the stock Google experience is pretty simple.
Included apps are...
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Chrome
- Clock
- Currents
- Ears (music recognition widget)
- Earth
- Email (with Exchange support)
- Gallery
- Gmail
- Google+
- Google Now
- Maps
- People (Contacts)
- Play Books
- Play Magazines
- Play Movies
- Play Music
- Play Store
- Talk
- Voice Search
- Wallet
- YouTube
As previously mentioned the setup is of course 'stock Google', so there's not a ton of apps installed and little of what you'd call 'bloat'. You'll notice in the list above there are a number of apps which are specific to the US market - Ears, Magazines and Wallet for example. In Jelly Bean, these applications are disabled on startup (via the conventional package manager 'disable' method) so you don't see them if you can't use them. Nice for general users, annoying for us power users.
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Your first port of call on the Nexus 7 - the launcher - presents 5 homescreens with icons on a 6 x 6 grid (with a persistent search bar at the top) and 7 places in the dock area. When the device is rotated to landscape... the launcher doesn't rotate! A very strange decision in my opinion... something that is easily rectified with a patched or third party launcher, but an omission from the stock build. Opening the launcher presents the normal 'paged' application view also including widgets as first seen in Ice Cream Sandwich.
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So, let's talk about those preinstalled apps. The eagle eyed amongst you will notice that this is the first Android device to ship with Chrome as the default browser. In fact, Chrome is the only browser installed on the tablet! This is good (Chrome is excellent) but also has a downside - no Flash support. Even though Flash is not official supported on Jelly Bean it works, but not in Chrome, another browser is required. The Chrome implementation on the Nexus 7 gives a tabbed UI that is very similar to the desktop implementation and easier to use than the UI we see on phones.
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Also new to the standard build is Currents, Google's application for viewing 'beautiful magazine-like editions for high speed and offline reading'. As you'd expect, it looks rather glorious on the Nexus 7.
As always, if you use Google as the hub for your digital life you're set. Calendar sync, Chrome sync, Gmail sync and People (contacts) sync continue to work exceptionally well and with the advent of Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean, the apps look good too. 'Corporate' (Exchange) connectivity is included and the non-Gmail e-mail client will connect to just about any service you throw at it.
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A departure from Android devices of old is that Facebook and Twitter are no longer preinstalled. Can you guess why that is? It's to push Google+ of course, which is pre-loaded and, admittedly, looks gorgeous on the Nexus 7. Google+ is one of the apps that, together with YouTube, received a facelift just as the Nexus 7 was announced.
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As previously mentioned, 'Play' content is central to the Nexus 7. You'll find Play Store of course as your download hub with Play Books, Play Magazines (in US), Play Movies (& TV in US) and Play Music. If you're in the UK you'll miss out on Magazines, movie purchase (only rental is available), TV episodes and Music streaming / purchase and if you're elsewhere in the world you might find you get very little Play content at all.
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Although the Gallery application is installed on the device, the Camera component is hidden, meaning you can't just snap images / videos with the front facing camera out of the box. A very strange decision by Google, I think this is a useful feature (and with that in mind I uploaded a Camera Launcher for Nexus 7 to the Play Store!)
Google Earth runs very slickly on the device and, again depending on territory, the Google Maps offline download feature comes into it's own on the Nexus 7. The inclusion of GPS is a clear bonus over it's competitor - the Kindle Fire - and with an application like CoPilot installed, the Nexus 7 makes an awesome Sat Nav device.
In Use
When you take your device out of the box and start it up with the power button on the top right (which, like the volume rockers, has a reassuring click), you're met with the same 'simplified' Nexus logo seen on the Google Nexus Jelly Bean update. Boot time is impressively fast before you are launched into the setup wizard.
Upon configuring your WiFi connection (it should be noted that if you don't have WiFi available, you can't even get past the setup wizard!) you are prompted for your Google account in the usual way and after a few short steps you are ready to go. If this is your first Nexus 7 tablet (and you are the first owner of the tablet) you will receive your £15 / $25 free Play Store credit at the end of the setup wizard. This credit can be spent on anything in the Play Store (except hardware) and appears as an additional payment method when completing a transaction. Note that purchases using the credit must be paid for in full using the credit. That means that when you have 19p left, you can't spend that on a game by topping up the remaining cost using another payment method.
The standard homescreen loads with widgets presenting your Play Store content front and centre - there's no doubting that Google are pushing the content story with this tablet. If you've used a Honeycomb or Ice Cream Sandwich tablet what you see may surprise you - as mentioned previously you don't get the tablet experience, rather a user interface that is more like a phone. Notification bar at the top, 3 buttons at the bottom (with a soft menu button appearing as required for legacy applications).
Being a Jelly Bean device, pulling down the notification bar reveals the enhanced notifications and sweeping the home button up launches Google Now. Strangely, when the notification bar is pulled down, it doesn't fill the full width of the screen, and it doesn't drag all the way to the bottom. I kind of understand the width, but the fact it kind of 'hangs' half way down the screen sometimes makes it a bit hard to 'grab' when you want to close it.
At the launch of Jelly Bean, much was made of 'Project Butter', Google's effort to ramp up the smoothness of the Android user interface. Have they succeeded? Oh yes! Admittedly the Nexus 7 does have a considerable amount of power driving it but the UI is noticeably smoother than Ice Cream Sandwich and, of course, it makes Honeycomb look rather embarassing. Envy iOS no more, this thing is SMOOTH!
So the device is smooth, but such fluidity would be worthless if the screen itself wasn't up to scratch... but thankfully it is. The 1280x800 panel eclipses the more common 1024x600 used in this size of tablet to provide pin sharp images and the IPS panel has excellent brightness. When I first started using the Nexus 7 I thought the colours were a bit washed out, but I realised that I had simply been using too many OLED devices with their super-saturated colours... the Nexus 7 actually has good colour representation. Out of the box the auto backlight on the Nexus 7 is somewhat aggressive, so this could do with some tweaking (I've installed Lux to manage the auto brightness myself).
Although as previously mentioned the device doesn't support rotation in the launcher itself, it does everywhere else across the device. Unlike on Jelly Bean phones however, the button bar is always at the bottom of the screen and doesn't move to the right in landscape orientation. This is somewhat wasteful when it comes to valuable vertical real estate and it seems something of a strange choice.
Text input on the device works very well thanks to the ever improving stock Android keyboard. The keyboard layout is slightly different in tablet mode to the phone layout, adding some additional punctuation keys on the right hand side. I have to say, i'm not a huge fan of this layout as it effectively 'shifts' the main keys to the left, making the keyboard feel offset. It is an excellent keyboard though (i'm even using it on my device over and above 3rd party alternatives), the only downside being the lack of haptic feedback as dictated by that missing vibration motor.
The new keyboard also brings improved speech to text, including the ability to use it when not connected to a network, which is particularly useful on tablets. The accuracy is indeed much improved, albeit still not perfect...
I've owned a Kindle Keyboard, a Kindle Fire and a host of tablets and I am a big proponent of e-ink technology, BUT... if you are reading books on a tablet... the Nexus 7 is probably as good as it's going to get. As well as the flexibility of having multiple libraries (Kindle app, Play Books etc.), the device feels pretty light in the hand, is well shaped and isn't uncomfortable to hold for reading. The brightness ramps up to a high level for reading in direct sunlight and while it'll never be as well suited for reading as e-ink, the device versatility might just be a worthy tradeoff.
So, the reading experience is decent, what about video? Wow. I've played some movies from internal memory and, using the Stickmount and Vplayer applications, from a USB stick (requires a rooted device). Videos look fantastic on the device (i'd have loved a kickstand mind) and while the inbuilt speaker isn't super loud, it's not bad (as you'd expect of course, there's negligible bass!). 3.5mm headphone port wise, the only headphones I have kicking around right now are my Ultimate Ears Triple-Fis, which can make anything sound very loud but, they also make it easy to identify poor audio output. I'm no audiophile so YMMV, but i'm happy with the sound output from the Nexus 7.
Music is the same story. I'm a Google Music with streaming user, having jumped through the various hoops to get it working here in the UK, and with my headphones plugged in, the Nexus 7 is a good music player. Just remember that 8GB / 16GB won't last long when you start downloading your tunes!
With a quad core CPU and 1GB RAM you'd expect the Nexus 7 to be a good gaming device and it is. I've been playing some of my old favourites - Sonic 4 Episode II THD, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit and a couple of Zynga titles to name but a few - and they run great (although the Zynga apps look monstrously huge until you get used to it!). The CPU in the Nexus 7 is clocked at 1.15GHz per core in general use, slightly higher when running on a single core. With 12 graphics cores at it's disposal, the Nexus 7 really should excel in graphics intensive tasks and it does.
Search / Google Now
Search has been given a facelift for Jelly Bean and now works much better as well as looking prettier. Voice search results are much richer and more accurate. I've never really had much luck with voice search, but on Jelly Bean it seems to be able to understand me! :) Once again - and I know it's the same old story - if you set your Voice Search locale to 'US' you get richer results.
Google Now is another new feature of Jelly Bean that is present on the Nexus 7. Again, the experience you'll have with Google Now is very much dependent on where you live, but Google Now is about presenting relevant information to you at an appropriate time in the form of 'cards'.
In Google's own words 'It tells you today's weather before you start your day, how much traffic to expect before you leave for work, when the next train will arrive as you're standing on the platform, or your favorite team's score while they're playing. And the best part? All of this happens automatically. Cards appear throughout the day at the moment you need them.'
This sounds a little far fetched but actually, it seems to work. I imagine the number of cards available will grow with time but i'm already getting relevant weather information, information on how long it'll take me to get home taking into account traffic conditions when i'm out and about and bus information when I stand near a bus stop. That's pretty neat. Not only that, I searched for directions on how to get somewhere and when I headed out, that journey appeared in a Google Now card. Next appointments also appear in Google Now.
You can learn more about Google Now at http://www.google.com/landing/now/
The Nexus 7 includes NFC, which has a couple of uses. The first is Android Beam - the ability to transfer content between NFC enabled Android devices, the other is for Google Wallet. Yup, Google Wallet is pre-installed and works fine on the Nexus 7, even if you do look a little strange using it in a store. Google Wallet is of course officially US only at the moment.
Battery Life
There are two aspects of battery life that are important to me in a tablet. The first is how long it'll go for - i've gone days and days of general use without charging and watched 3 films on it without it running down, but also how it fares in standby. I set my tablets to turn off WiFi when screen is off and not plugged in and, i'm pleased to report, the power drain is negligible. There's nothing more annoying than picking up a tablet to find it flat, thankfully those situations should be reduced with the Nexus 7.
Rooting and hacking, the Nexus factor
When you buy a Nexus device you buy the reassurance that not only are you likely to be among the first to get future Android version upgrades directly from Google, but you can unlock the bootloader and hack around to your hearts content. The Nexus 7 is no different! It's easily unlocked via fastboot, easily rooted via our Superboot and easily flashed back to it's shipping state if everything goes wrong via factory images made available by Google.
For many people this is a considerable plus point when considering the Nexus 7 purchase!
Pricing and availability
The Nexus 7 is available from both Google directly and a raft of retailers (generally speaking including anyone who usually sells Asus devices), priced at $199 / £159 for the 8GB model and $249 / £199 for the 16GB model. The device includes $25/£15 of Play Store credit and $10 of Google Wallet credit.
To start with let's leave price and potential limitations of content due to location out of the equation. Is the Nexus 7 a good tablet in it's own right? In my opinion, it is! It's a great size, it's well built, it has an excellent version of Android that finally stands in it's own right as a cohesive (and attractive) user experience and it has a near perfect set of specifications which excels in many areas. It is, quite simply, a joy to use.
It's fair to say that the content story doesn't really work so well if you are outside the US, but, actually, that doesn't matter so much. This is Android. If you can't get books from Google? Install the Kindle app. If you can get's music streamed from Google? Install one of the other multitude of services from the Play Store. Google are providing a great tools for consuming content from wherever it may come and as Google finally rolls out these services to where you live, it'll only get better.
So the price. Wow. At the price point, it's the bargain of the century. :) Forget those fire sale HP Touchpads, forget those discount Playbooks, the Nexus 7 - especially at $199 / £159 for the 8GB model (which, let's be honest, will suit most mass market users) with $25 / £15 Play Store credit thrown in is incredible. You're not buying and end of life, dying machine either... you're buying the latest and greatest, one of only 2 devices in the world featuring an official Jelly Bean release.
I predict the Nexus 7 is going to fly off the shelves - a fantastic product at an amazing price that's going to have a big retail presence too.
Android Tablets may finally have turned that corner.
Pros and cons
- Great specs
- Jelly Bean is excellent
- Amazing price
- Free Play Store credit
- Nice build quality
- Excellent screen
- Light enough and comfortable to hold
[*]Inferior content experience outside the US
[*]A 7" tablet isn't for everyone, some people will prefer 10" for their use case
[*]E-ink is still king for reading
[*]The white one isn't on general sale ;)
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If we use the same approach for naming styles of inkjet (a trademarked term...) prints as is used for paintings, ...[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=115283\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
I'm curious just who is supposed to own the 'trademark' for 'inkjet'? If it is ' a trademarked term', then a lot of manufacturers are using it without attribution.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=115323\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Last year my wife & I attended a local art festival; one of the booths was occupied by a photographer selling average quality inkjet prints on canvas. We overheard her tell a potential customer "my art is 'zhee-clay'; it's a French process..." We fought to to suppress derisive laughter at such pretentious nonsense. [a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=60105\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
If there is a new artform emerging, it's not digital photography, but PhotoShop that is the artform. I see too many digital photographers making images which, on their own, are decidedly NOT art. But these same mundane images can become part of a greater whole through the use of PhotoShop. That's my 2 cents, for what it's worth.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=117680\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Never did any darkroom work, eh?[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=117805\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
As an OT comment, allow me to laugh at the idea that everything French is "pretentious". Who knows the intend of the artist when she referred to her process as being French.Although I agree that it is "non sense" since the work "giglee", although of French extraction, was in fact selected by Americans to describe the early digital prints.Cheers,Bernardp.s.: I am not French.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=117803\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
All your images need help, do they?[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=117881\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
But from it I can guess that you don't have much experience with making a photograph. Notice that I didn't say "taking" a photograph.Snapping the shutter is just step one in making a photograph. It's the writing of the symphony. Next comes the processing of the shot, the performance.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=117911\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
I also don't buy the notion that fixing horizons, exposure, and depth of field in the computer is somehow "making" a photgraph (and therefore more creative), while fixing those same problems before tripping the shutter is "taking" a photograph.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=118177\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
So back to the original question - do photographers have a new art form via Photoshop?No. Just an easier, more convenient way to do what they've been doing all along.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=117911\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
FWIW, from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gicl%C3%A9e):"The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray"[1]. It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne,[2] a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.The earliest prints to be called "Giclée" were created in the late 1980s on the Iris Graphics models 3024 and 3047 continuous inkjet printers (the company was later taken over by Scitex, now owned by HP). Iris printers were originally developed to produce prepress proofs from digital files for jobs where color matching was critical such as product packaging and magazine publication. Their output was used to check what the colors would look like before mass production began. Much experimentation took place to try to adapt the Iris printer to the production of color-faithful, aesthetically pleasing reproductions of artwork. Early Iris prints were relatively fugitive and tended to show color degradation after only a few years. The use of newer inksets and printing substrates has extended the longevity and light fastness of Iris prints."


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Taylor Swift Wins Favorite Country Album + Favorite Pop-Rock Female Artist at 2013 American Music Awards
Congrats to Taylor Swift! The starlet, wearing a short, glittery gold dress, looked like a trophy -- and she took home two of her own!
Swift earned the Favorite Country Album award for 'Red,' as well as Favorite Pop-Rock Female Artist. In the latter speech, she acknowledged her crossover success.
"Amazing!" she gushed. "I want to thank country radio and also pop radio and also hot AC and AC radio, because the fact that all those genres played songs from my album lets me not worry about genre on my album. And to the fans ... to the covers on YouTube, when you make it your own. I love you, don't ever change!"


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Hi guys,
I raced to SoSZ, wanting to read what everyone thinks about these WikiLeak Embassy cables. Am I really the first post on it? Anyway, assuming that I am, here goes!
Like with the Afghanistan and Iraq leaks, so far, I've learned nothing new, and from the responses of the involved countries, neither has anyone else. The only thing possibly gained is a way to cite this information to peers, and possibly also the ability to say "I called it!" on issues, only now there are the actual cables to show what everyone knew all along. A lot of it is, in fact, stuff that I've been trying to just find information on casually, just to know what's going on in the world of international relations. That is, I'm surprised it's secret!
What I have learned, though, is that what I want to be - usually I say "an international environmental policymaker working to implement transfer of technology in environmental treaties" - means "diplomat." I read these cables, and I get excited. I love this whole world of hand-shaking, information sharing - it's like the embassies are a place where countries can have calm relations with each other without the media making conclusions at every second of the way. While The News talks about how the US is (or should be) scared of China Taking Over The World, and The US Shall Be Overtaken, we're seeing the US and Chinese diplomats discussing their common economic goals, hand-in-hand, coordinating international policy to fit China's increasing importance.
I also find it funny that the US media is choosing to focus on things like how the Minister Mentor of Singapore called Kim-Jong Il a "flabby old chap." As if that will actually have ANY bearing on diplomacy. Same with the US giving directives to acquire personal information about UN and other foreign diplomats. I'm shocked that people are shocked about that: I assume, perhaps incorrectly, that if a person is to become a diplomat, they are 100% aware that yes, every country on the planet is going to try to find every single detail about them, from credit reports to medication prescribed to birth records to their pets' names, and that no, they are not at ALL bothered by that, because, as diplomats, they have nothing to hide. In fact, it's helpful that all of the countries will find out that you are not, in fact, a spy.
Also, I'd argue that even the latest-dated cables to be released so far - from early 2010 - are too outdated to actually represent current international affairs. Things change so quickly as governments, businesses, and people adapt to circumstances that the way these cables are being published are giving a sort of misconception that the information detailed is somehow relevant.
So . . . what do people think? Will there actually be any repercussions? Anyone else amused by the gossip-like focus of the US media? How is it being covered in other places? Anyone actually learn anything they didn't already kind-of-know anyway?


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Playing with Color: The Interplay between Fabric and Thread
By now you're probably familiar with how our Embroidery Collections can be used with Kaleidoscope Kreator 3. Each Embroidery Collection consists of designs that match a corresponding Template Pack for KK3, so that means you can embellish your printed kaleidoscope designs by embroidering over them "in the hoop": continue reading…
Using Kaleidoscope Kreator to Create Designs for Electronic Cutting Machines
I recently posted this ornament on Facebook and the response was overwhelming. I was learning how to use the Brother ScanNCut and decided to test cutting an intricate design that I'd made in Kaleidoscope Kreator. It was deceptively simple, but there seems to be some confusion as to how I created the design. Read on to learn how to create your own intricate designs! continue reading…
Feather Zone wins a blue ribbon at MQX!
You might remember my post a few months ago about the quilt that Teri Lucas and I collaborated on: Feather Zone. Well guess what? We won a first place in the Small Wallhanging category at the MQX East show! I learned of our blue ribbon yesterday, but I've been so busy it hasn't sunk in yet. To say I'm excited would be an understatement – especially since it's the first time either of us has won a blue ribbon!
I am (unfortunately) not at the show, but Teri is (and she is teaching!) so she was able to get a picture with Feather Zone and our blue ribbon.
National Quilt Day: Special Offer from The Quilt Show
Big news! In honor of International Quilt Day (March 17, 2012), The Quilt Show, the web TV show hosted by Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims, will "open" all of its shows from the first nine series–that is, from show 100 through show 913–for the entire weekend of March 16 –18. This means that—for three special days—everyone will have the chance to view these 117 shows, featuring some of the quilting world's leading artists, for FREE.
As you may already know, Jeanie appeared as one of the featured artists on TQS in show 507. If you didn't have the opportunity to see this show first time around, now you'll have the chance to see it—and so many other terrific shows—at no cost in this unprecedented three-day offer.
We hope that you'll share this information with all of your quilting friends. It's a fantastic opportunity
to enjoy three days of learning and fun without leaving your home…all for free.
Enjoy the shows, and thanks for helping to spread the word!
Printing kaleidoscopes for standard photo sizes
We've had a cluster of questions lately about printing kaleidoscopes for standard sizes of photo paper and/or frames, e.g. 4″ x 6″, 5″ x 7″, etc. So I thought I would do a blog post explaining the issue and how to address it.
As you've probably noticed, all of the kaleidoscopes that are made in Kaleidoscope Kreator default to a square shape, i.e. the width and height are the same. However in Kaleidoscope Kreator 3, we added the ability to specify a different width and height in the Print Kaleidoscope and Print Multiple preview dialogs. See the little check box that says "Maintain Proportions"? If you uncheck that, then you can specify a different width and height.
Incorporating kaleidoscopes into a slice quilt
This past summer I was invited to join four other women in a "slice quilt" challenge. For those of you unfamiliar with it, a slice quilt is where a photo is "sliced" into a number of pieces (based on how many people are participating) and each person takes a slice to turn into a quilt. The pieces are then re-assembled into a full quilt once everyone has completed their slice.
Our group decided to do things a little differently in that we didn't want to have to decide who would get the quilt in the end. So, we decided that each of us would make the entire quilt and we would trade pieces so that everyone would end up with a quilt that was composed of pieces from all five of us. We also decided to first work only on the quilt top and hold off on quilting until we traded pieces. Then we would each re-assemble and quilt as desired.
The first part of the process was to choose a photo to work with. We ultimately decided to work with the following photo that I took of Double Arch in Arches National Park. (It is actually composed of four photos which I merged together, so it seemed appropriate to use it for a slice quilt.)
Troubleshooting printing problems
I've been a member of The Quilt Show (TQS) with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims since it began. One of the advantages of membership is an awesome Block of the Month quilt every year. This year's quilt is designed by Sarah Vedeler. If you click on the link, you can probably see the possibilities for kaleidoscopes in this quilt, so I've been keeping up with the discussions on the TQS site as people start working on the quilt.
A few people have been having trouble getting their templates to line up after they've printed them out, so I'm working with Sarah to figure out what might be going wrong. I thought I'd do a blog post about them since (1) I can attach files and (2) Kaleidoscope Kreator fans might find these tips useful in general. continue reading…
Customer Creation: Claudette Pomroy's Stuffed Kaleidoscope Ornaments
One of our customers, Claudette Pomroy, sent us photos of some ornaments that she's made with Kaleidoscope Kreator and I just had to share them with you!
Here's what Claudette had to say about them:
Just wanted to show you the Holiday ornaments I made using your product. I turned the pictures into black and white, then tinted them blue in Photoshop Elements, and then used Kaleidoscope Kreator to make these "snowflake" shapes on printable fabric, pinwheel style. I used a light box to see where the image edges were through the fabric and traced the outline onto the back of the fabric. Then I used a snowflake fabric backing and sewed around the edges, right side to right side, leaving an opening for stuffing. After I stuffed the mini pillows I tufted them with a silver snowflake button, added hangers and small charms stating the year. My sister-in-law loved these as her gift a few years ago – these are her daughters. I like that from a distance they just look like snowflakes and that you don't realize they are pictures until you see them up close.
When I asked for more details, Claudette was kind enough to send instructions so that you too can make these!
The Feather Zone
This quilt is a collaboration between me (Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero) and Teri Lucas. I designed the quilt at the same time I was designing the template shapes for our Feathers Template Mini-Pack. It was a bit of a challenge to put together the first time around – so much so that I scrapped that attempt and started over.
Almost the entire quilt is printed on 8.5″ x 11″ sheets of inkjet fabric with an Epson 2200. Only the thin red border is not printed. The dark purple border actually started as a lighter purple commercial fabric, but I needed it darker, so printed over it. Problem solved.
Snowflakes Quilt
I made this quilt a few months ago as a class sample, but now that the holidays are here I thought I would enter it in SewCalGal's 2011 Christmas Quilt Show.
If you have any Christmas or Winter themed quilts – especially if they are made with Kaleidoscope Kreator – you can enter too! Deadline is this Friday though (that's 2 days away).


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The story behind this: As part of the graduation hoopla over at the Savannah College of Art and Design, someone got the bright idea to hand out hundreds of paper parasols, and have a contest to decorate them among the walking graduates. Well, this was a poorly thought out plan, since the umbrellas are not only made of the flimsiest paper, but are also glued and shellacked, making any media very hard to apply. And of course the umbrella can't be folded up after painting, or collaging, or whatever.
By happenstance, earlier that day, I was browsing a used bookstore, and came upon an Aubrey Beardsley illustrated copy of Oscar Wilde's Salome. Awesome, art Deco stuff. Well, not until earlier today did I connect "parasol" to "surreal art deco turn-of-the-century masquerade ball" which, when you think of it, is obvious. Not only would it fit well on an umbrella, I'm sure my acrylic ink will do the job of sticking to it. This is the final design, and I think I've got the competition well licked.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Groucho Munx
I painted this Munny for a show and ended up selling it to the owner of the Savannah Mall. Hot Dog! That's a real cigarette he's holding. On the bottom is the cake that they made for the event, based on, I'm guessing Gary Baseman. Only the head was edible, but it was really good.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
So a guy walks into a bar...
So, a rabbi, a blonde, a duck, and a lawyer all walk into a bar, and the bartender says, "What is this, some kind of joke?"
Love Shark Baby, Yeah
The main players in my shark animation. We have a black-tip reef shark, a white tip reef shark, a nurse shark, a parrotfish, and a red grouper.
What happens is the parrotfish eat the algae, the groupers eat the parrotfish, and the sharks eat the groupers. If sharks are over-fished, the groupers will devour all of the parrotfish and algae will choke the reef. And as anyone who has a swimming pool knows, algae blooms are disgusting.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Reef Madness
These are for an animation I'm doing for a client, on the effects of sharks on coral reef systems. That's a healthy reef on top, and a toxic reef on the bottom, along with some of the critters that live there. I'll post more on this project as it comes along.
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Opening this weekend is writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil: Retribution. In the series' fifth installment, we find Milla Jovovich waking up in the heart of the Umbrella Corporation's most clandestine operations facility. She continues to hunt those responsible for the deadly T-virus outbreak with the help of both newfound allies and familiar friends. The film also stars Michelle Rodriguez, Sienna Guillory, Kevin Durand, Shawn Roberts, Colin Salmon, Johann Urb, Boris Kodjoe, and Li Bingbing. For more on RE5, here's the trailer, 25 things to know about the movie from my set visit, some new images, and our Comic-Con panel recap.
The other day I spoke to writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson. We talked about the action scenes, jump scares, who decides on the title, whether they ever thought about calling it Resident Evil: All Stars, deleted scenes, and more. In addition, Anderson revealed he's working on a longer alternate cut for the Blu-ray and we also talked about Resident Evil 6. Hit the jump to watch.
Paul W.S. Anderson:
- I tell him it's the best Resident Evil yet
- Who decides on the one word name for each film
- Did they ever think about calling it Resident Evil: All Stars
- Talks about how he wrote the script hoping the cast would return
- Are there a lot of deleted scenes
- We talk about the jump scares
- Reveals he's working on an alternate cut of the film for the Blu-ray and it'll be longer
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i bought used kites to start with... same as i learned on. bought 'last years kite' before the year was even over, which was getting dumped for next years latest and greatest before next year was even here. (??) great way to build quiver and decide what is what.
now, i've sold those used kites to buy next years latest and greatest.
gk sonics for me. til next year maybe... depends on what mood i'm in.
same with all my toys... i keep trading up. it's nice to get something new and learn something new.
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I've had limited luck researching Irish records. It's not that I don't think I'm trying hard enough, I just think the 'luck of the Irish' is simply not with me on this endeavor. When I think strategically about Irish research, there are several apparent disadvantages, namely non-existent census records, late vital records registration, and limited early marriage records for a majority of the population.
The census records I need have been destroyed, and with government registration of births, marriages and deaths in Ireland beginning on January 1, 1864, my options are limited for finding my famine-era ancestors.
But I've been conducting some research on www.rootsireland.ie, and I've found some very helpful and promising leads. This site has a lot of records for people searching for documents from Northern Ireland, and it has a great selection of items from across the country. The obvious holes in this site revolve around the absence of records from a few densely-populated areas such as Wexford, Kerry(South), Cork counties, as well as the City of Dublin.
As with sites such as findmypast.co.uk, scotlandspeople.gov.uk, and findmypast.ie, searching for records is free, but viewing individual documents will cost you about $7 American.
So on this note, the comment/question of the day is: What Irish records do you need and why?
Leave your interesting and creative responses in the comment box.
See you at the Library!


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A wonderful videotalk by Sir Ken Robinson. By why is he talking about dance and not about mathematics? (With thanks to Thomas Riepe.)
Posted by: Alexandre Borovik | September 18, 2010
Do schools kill creativity?
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10 Poems.
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Title: 10 Poems.
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Publication Date: 1967
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The Jolie-Pitt Holiday
It is so nice to see a smile on the faces of the Jolie-Pitt family!!
The family took to the slopes last weekend at Mammoth Mountain ski resort.
The boys tried all the sports, from tubing to snowboarding, while the girls
watched from the sidelines. Any baby bump was bundled up in black and was kept
out of harm's way; Angelina didn't do any snow sports during the two-day
While 32-year-old Angie and an expressive Zahara, 3, sat in the snow and cheered
on the older boys, Brad went tubing with a fast-growing, exuberant Pax, 4, who
Brad told "that's OK — way to go" when the newest Jolie-Pitt fell down. Papa
Pitt also assisted Maddox, 6, during his snowboarding lesson where he kept
telling Mad that he was doing a good job. The 44-year-old dad also slid down a
bunny hill with youngest daughter, 21-month-old Shiloh. Precious.
I can't believe that they finally took Shiloh out....ABOUT TIME!
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The 47th annual Ada Town and Gown Banquet will be held in the McIntosh Center ballroom on the campus of Ohio Northern University on Monday, Nov. 5, at 6:30 p.m.
The Town and Gown Association was established in 1957 by a group of townspeople and ONU personnel to develop and maintain a strong positive relationship between the village of Ada and Ohio Northern. As with each year, the honor of Distinguished Citizen of the Year will be given to an Ada resident nominated by fellow citizens.
Tickets are available for $12 per person at the following locations: the Office of the Controller at Ohio Northern, The Inn at Ohio Northern University, U.S. Bank, Liberty National Bank, Ada Area Chamber of Commerce, Ada Education Association, Junior Civic League, Kiwanis Club, Lions Club, Ada Ministerial Association, Rotary Club, Twice Ten, Ohio Northern University Women's Group, the village of Ada, and the Ada Community Improvement Corporation.
In addition to naming the Distinguished Citizen of the Year at the banquet, new owners of business/industries in Ada, as well as new employees with the Ada School System, ONU and the village of Ada will be introduced. New faculty and staff of Ohio Northern University will receive complimentary tickets from the Town and Gown committee.


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Market Views: Multi-Asset
Multi-Asset Insights: Are bonds still an effective hedge against growth-sensitive assets?
Market Views: Multi-Asset
Multi-Asset Insights: Are bonds still an effective hedge against growth-sensitive assets?
A combination of low bond yields, the risk of a Federal Reserve (Fed) policy mistake and the market environment over the summer has raised concerns over whether bonds still have the "hedging power" for growth portfolios.
Throughout this piece, we use a growth proxy defined as 67% MSCI World Local, 33% GBP 3M Libor to represent a growth portfolio.
Measuring hedging power
The classic method for understanding hedging power is correlation. If the correlation between two assets (A1 and A2) is negative then we would expect a portfolio holding A1 to be able to hedge by allocating to A2.
However, as the correlation between the two assets becomes less negative, the benefits from hedging the A1 portfolio with A2 fall.
Furthermore, in previous research, we had identified the need to look beyond correlation and to include volatility to look at magnitude as well as direction.
Therefore, expanding our research to downside beta, we observe that the negative downside beta observed between US Treasuries and our growth proxy has been reducing over recent years.
This poses a real challenge for investors, as it potentially makes portfolios more susceptible to growth shocks.
To test if diversification has indeed been worsening, we calculated realised efficient frontiers for a range of equity bond portfolios (bonds ranging from zero to 40% allocation) over one year rolling periods back to 1992.
The stronger the hedging power, the higher the risk/return benefits of including bonds as shown by a positive slope on the efficient frontier.
Looking at this measure, shown in Figure 1, we see that the diversification benefit of bonds has indeed been diminishing in recent years, but the level remains around the long-term average.
This measure helps us to understand if bonds' hedging power has deteriorated, but it should not be considered a forecast for reduced hedging power going forward.
Dynamics across the curve
Having established that bonds may now be less capable of hedging growth risk, we now look to see whether the effectiveness of bond hedging is dependent on curve positioning.
Looking at the downside beta of yields across the curve, we observe that the traditional bond hedging instruments, 10 year maturities, are less effective than 5 years – that is that they have a higher negative downside beta.
For portfolios that cannot take leverage, the 30 year bond's higher duration has the best hedging capabilities.
A portfolio that can take leverage would seek leveraged exposure to the very short end of the curve which has the highest negative downside beta to growth assets and has actually been improving (moving more negative) in recent years.
Dynamics across the distribution
Even though their hedging power has reduced, bonds are still helping to protect balanced portfolios during equity sell-offs.
While as equities sell off, bonds perform well, when bonds underperform, equities also perform poorly – a noticeable feature since the taper tantrum.
One way to rationalise this is that bonds are still hedging growth risk, but bonds and equities are also loading on additional risks (possibly related to liquidity tightening or inflation) and these risks are becoming an important contributor to equity/bond correlation.
As the correlation conditional on bond sell-off is most pronounced at the long end of the curve, as explained above, it may be that this risk is related to inflation rather than liquidity.
This suggests an additional way to hedge equities could be Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) breakevens.
This should be investigated further, particularly given their rather attractive current valuations.
Having undertaken further research on this topic, one of our key conclusions is that relative liquidity, here defined as central bank liquidity over private sector liquidity, has been a more effective tool in supporting inflation expectations.
Therefore, an effective hedge against growth-sensitive assets could be expressed through FX as a risk premium rather than interest rates.
Consistent with our initial thoughts, we find the hedging power of bonds has been reducing, despite a reasonable negative downside correlation with equities still existing.
However, it is clear that risks other than growth appear to be affecting equity and bond correlation dynamics.
Since these effects are most visible at the longer end of the curve, we suggest that inflation expectations are key drivers of correlation dynamics.
Excluding recessionary periods, given that US CPI is at its lowest for over 50 years, there are many ways in which higher inflation in the future could affect bonds' ability to act as a growth hedge.
Therefore, at this stage, we suggest that portfolios with the ability to take leverage could hedge growth risk by positioning at the short end of the curve and leveraging up to increase duration.
However, portfolios that cannot take leverage may wish to diversify their hedging implementation by considering TIPS breakevens and/or safe haven currencies


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As if it's not nerve-racking enough managing turf that appears on national television on a weekly basis each fall, Andre Bruce has to function as a fast-change artist each weekend, switching from soccer to football in a 14-hour period.
"It's quite a challenge," says the 28-year veteran sports field manager of the Kansas City Chiefs Arrowhead stadium. "Television notices everything."
The Kansas City Wizards professional soccer team plays on the Chiefs field from April through October, overlapping with professional football for at least two months. Generally, the Wizards play Saturday night and the Chiefs play Sunday afternoon during September and October.
"Everything depends on the weather forecast," says Bruce, who has managed the sports turf complex for 15 years, after serving as assistant manager for the previous 13 years. "If we have decent weather, we just paint over the soccer lines with green paint — not too heavy or it will stand out — after the soccer game on Saturday night. Then we paint the football lines in white before the football game on Sunday."
But if rain is in the forecast, all bets are off. "If they predict rain, we paint the football field early in the week and paint the soccer field on top," he adds. "That way, we are prepared for the worst-case scenario, where it basically rains all weekend. In any case, you can't play football without the lines."
To add to Bruce's stress, the stadium also hosts several college football games each fall, as well as miscellaneous concerts. Depending on the season, the football field is 419 bermuda-grass or perennial ryegrass. "We're in the transition zone here in Missouri, so we can go with either cool-season or warm-season grasses," adds Bruce, who took turfgrass management classes after the stadium switched to natural grass from artificial turf in 1994.
Bruce also maintains two football practice fields, the soccer practice field and three acres of common areas for a total of eight acres of natural grass. In addition, he manages an indoor, synthetic turf facility on the complex and a four-field training camp in Wisconsin.
"My program starts in February, when we prepare the stadium field for soccer," explains Bruce. He aerifies with a John Deere Air Core 2000, making holes about ½-inch deep. Then he applies almost 1,000 pounds of pre-germinated ryegrass, using spreaders to force it into the aerification holes. After irrigating and fertilizing, Bruce covers the field with a winter blanket until early March.
"We seed again with 500 to 600 pounds of dry seed for a total of 1,500 pounds of ryegrass seed," he adds. "Except for mowing, we leave the blanket on until soccer games start in April. Then we fertilize every 10 to 14 days, and water and mow regularly until June, when we have a mini camp for football right during soccer season."
Directly after mini camp, Bruce hires a company to cut out the entire field of overseeded bermuda-grass and laser grade the field. Another subcontractor resods with bermudagrass.
"The field is only sodded with bermudagrass from June until September, when we overseed again with perennial ryegrass," he explains. "At that time, we put down another 3,000 to 4,000 pounds of ryegrass because of all the use our field gets during the fall. Between soccer, Chiefs football and college football, it really takes a beating!"
By early November, Bruce strips out the bermudagrass and puts in a new field of thick-cut bermuda sod overseeded with ryegrass. "We worked with Seed Research of Oregon to develop our own ryegrass blends," he notes. "We can lay the thick-cut sod and play on it the very next day, if necessary. When the bermudagrass comes out of dormancy the next spring, we are ready to go."
If the Chiefs make the playoffs, Bruce strips the field again and puts in a new one just for the post-season games. So the same field could be revamped three different times within a year.
The practice fields don't get quite the amount of attention the stadium field receives, but the center portions of both Chiefs practice fields are overseeded each fall. "The centers get a lot of wear-and-tear with practices three days a week," says Bruce. "The coach doesn't want the centers bare so we overseed them with ryegrass."
The next spring, it's hit or miss whether the bermuda-grass will come back. If it does, Bruce sprays the field centers with Revolver herbicide to take out the ryegrass and allow the bermudagrass to thrive. Last year, he used Revolver at the rate of 0.6 ounces per 1,000 square feet.
"It worked great," he notes. "All the ryegrass died within a week. We like Revolver because it gets rid of the competition and helps us transition to our bermudagrass. It definitely saved us some money that year!"
Though Bruce does not overseed the bermudagrass soccer practice field, he uses Revolver on it, too. The field has a problem with Poa annua, and he applies the herbicide in early to mid-April to take it out. "Revolver works well to control the cool-season Poa annua without harming the warm-season bermudagrass," adds Bruce. "We will definitely continue using it on all three practice fields."
Bruce stops everything during early May to travel to River Falls, Wis., on the Wisconsin-Minnesota border 35 miles east of Minneapolis, to ready the summer training camp for the team. He stays several weeks to aerify, fertilize, seed and water the four ryegrass fields. Before he returns to Kansas City on Memorial Day weekend, he hires two college students to maintain the fields during June and July.
"I go back up about a week before the team arrives in late July to add the markings and make sure everything is in good shape," he explains. "The team practices until late August and I remain with them the entire time."
Bruce doesn't mind the hard work. "I consider it job security," he jokes. But he does admit it takes a strong constitution to regularly change the stadium turf, while managing practice fields and training camps, as well as battling the unknowns of the weather combined with the pressure of nationally televised games.
"If we would only make it to the play-offs this season, it would make it even more worthwhile," he laments.
Becky Talbot is a freelance writer who resides in Ambler, Pa.
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Updated 4/1/2010 - Two more publicity stills: Young Boba Fett in a Lineup and Young Boba Fett in front of Clonetrooper Helmet.
Updated 3/31/2010 - Two new publicity stills are up: Young Boba Fett (alone) and Young Boba Fett with Aurra Sing.
Just announced today, featured in a retrospective article on Boba Fett in USA Today, we see the first publicity still of Young Boba Fett and get the dates for the debut episodes, the last two of the current season.
Dave Filoni, now the supervising director of The Clone Wars, still remembers getting his. "It came to my house in a little white box," he says. "I knew this had to be the coolest guy in the Star Wars universe -- and he hadn't even done anything yet!"
When the movie finally revealed Fett as a villain -- merciless, but still mysterious -- the character stood out even among Yoda, the tiny, ancient, alien Jedi; gambler-turned-politician Lando Calrissian; and the film's big revelation -- Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father.
"It speaks to individuality," Filoni says. "The storm troopers look cool, but they're all the same. Boba Fett looked like he'd been through a lot, like he must have a lot of stories. He had that Clint Eastwood vibe to him."
Filoni kept that in mind when bringing Fett into The Clone Wars. The character begins on the show April 23 and continues in the season finale April 30.
"What makes Boba Fett interesting is the mystery," Filoni says. "So I'm very careful about how much we reveal. When you watch the movies later, even if you've seen all the Clone Wars episodes, the mystique is still there. It's not like I'll turn on all the lights in the room."
An interview with us and Daniel Logan, who played Young Boba Fett in "Attack of the Clones" and does the voice for the character in The Clone Wars cartoon, will be coming later this week.


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L&L founder Eddie Flores gives $1 million scholarship to Shidler College of Business
The gift is the largest endowed scholarship established at the College and the first gift received since the University of Hawaiʻi Centennial Public KickofUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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HONOLULU — The University of Hawaiʻi Foundation is proud to announce the establishment of the $1 million Eddie Flores, Jr. and Elaine Flores Endowed Scholarship Fund. The $500,000 gift from L&L Drive-Inn and L&L Hawaiian Barbecue restaurants founder and CEO Eddie Flores, Jr. was matched through Jay Shidler's matching gift fund to total $1 million. To date, it is the largest endowed scholarship established at the Shidler College of Business since its inception in 1949."We are deeply grateful for Eddie's leadership and enthusiastic vote of confidence in our College," said V. Vance Roley, Dean of the Shidler College of Business. "His generosity will have far-reaching impact on the quality of students and success of our programs as we move forward building a top ranked business College."Newly appointed UH Mānoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw said, "Eddie and Elaine Flores have shown a strong commitment to higher education with this generous scholarship endowment. Future UH Mānoa business students will have a life-changing opportunity to learn from the best scholars and practitioners in business. We are truly grateful for their continued support of our University and students."Donna Vuchinich, president of the University of Hawaiʻi Foundation, said: "Thanks to Eddie and Elaine Flores for giving one of the most enduring gifts —"the gift of knowledge" to future generations in Hawaii. This generous gift will inspire others to take advantage of Jay Shidler's matching gift fund, and join the UH Centennial Campaign."Eddie Flores has been long associated with the College, having earned his bachelor's degree in business administration in 1970. Flores has turned Hawaii's traditional "plate lunch" into a national phenomenon, opening over 140 restaurants nationwide. He opened his first restaurant in 1976 as a gift for his mother.Today, L&L Drive-Inn is the largest restaurant chain in Hawaiʻi."The Shidler College of Business taught me all I need to know to be successful and competitive in business in Hawaiʻi and in the Mainland," said Flores. " I am proud to be a graduate of the University of Hawaiʻi."Flores came to Hawaiʻi as an immigrant and has distinguished himself as a successful entrepreneur and a community activist. Along with his BBA degree from the University of Hawaiʻi Shidler College of Business, Flores received a Master of Liberal Studies from the University of Oklahoma in 1987.Flores is active in the local community, establishing the Filipino Fiesta and Parade, and serving as its chair and major fundraiser for 10 years. He was also instrumental in raising $14.2 million for the Filipino Community Center.Today, Flores serves on the East-West Center Board of Governors, Hawaii Goodwill Industries Board of Directors, Chaminade University Board of Regents, and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce among others. He has also authored two books, Listing & Selling Business Opportunities and How to List & Sell Business Opportunities.Flores received numerous awards for his accomplishments including the PBN Business Leadership Hawaii Award, Entrepreneur of the Year Awards from both Small Business Administration and Ernst andYoung LLP, UH Distinguished Alumni Award, Association of Realtors Educator of the Year, JA Hall of Fame, SMEI Salesperson of the Year Award and received the Shidler College of Business Hall of Honor Award in 2005.About the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Established in 1949 as the College of Business Administration, the College was named in 2006 after alumnus Jay H. Shidler, founder and managing partner of The Shidler Group. The Shidler College of Business is renowned for its expertise in international management education and is consistently rankedamong the nation's top 25 graduate schools for international business by U.S.News & World Report. Long recognized for its Asia-Pacific focus, the College is a professional school, offering a wide variety of degree, certificate and executive programs. The College places a strong emphasis on the development of management skills, entrepreneurship and the management of business information technology. The UH Shidler College of Business is the only graduate program in the State of Hawaiʻi accredited by AACSB International. For more information, visit www.shidler.hawaii.edu.
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DiM wrote:looks much better now.
just one more thing. you moved the ... erm .. ph...poles around and now they don't touch the bottom of the map. instead they just seem to float in mid air.
i think you should not extend them towards the bottom of the map but instead do what you did with the title sign. make the poles stick in the map itself.
put some dirt and some grass at the foot of the poles and they'll look great.
Yes, that's why i pulled them up from the bottom, I'm working on that now. Thanks dim for your feedback.


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