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Comparison and Contrast Essay Examples
One of the most common essays in American High Schools and Colleges is the comparison and contrast essay. With this type of high school or college essay, you are asked to compare and contrast two objects. Sometimes you may have to write about more than two subjects at a time. Reading some comparison and contrast essay examples can help you develop a format that best fits your topic.
When you write an essay that states the similarities and differences between two subjects, you are writing a comparison and contrast essay. There are a few things that help make a good comparison and contrast essay. Use subjects that have enough in common to be compared and contrasted. Your essay helps the reader understand the subjects that are being compared and contrasted. Be sure to have several valid points of comparison. And make sure your information follows a logical order.
Some examples of comparison and contrast topics are:
- Hatred and Love, how are these two things represented in Hamlet?
- Compare the various programs that are used to reduce the amount of pollution in New York and Los Angeles. Which program works the best?
- Compare and Contrast two laundry detergents and tell which one works better.
When you are asked to compare two thoughts or ideas, you can use the following questions to keep yourself on track: What are the ideas? How are they used? Why are they worth defending?
If you are asked to do a comparison of two books, you should carefully evaluate all of the facts of each book. The physical characteristics of the main characters are not as important as their psychological similarities and differences. Be sure to include a comparison of the plot in order to show how the writer researches and investigates any problems or situations.
The comparison and contrast essay is a very specific type of essay. This is why it may be different to write this kind of essay than any other types. There are several methods you can use to organize your information.
- List by list – in this format you will use one body paragraph to describe each subject, and use the last body paragraph to do your comparison.
- Point by point – rather than describing one subject at a time, you will compare one similarity or difference per paragraph.
There is no "single" format that needs to be followed when it comes to writing this kind of essay. It is advised that you read through several comparisons and contrast essay examples to get a good feel for what you will be writing. Good examples of these types of essays will give you something to compare your essay to, and make sure that you have accomplished the task of writing a compelling essay.


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The Migration Policy Institute celebrated its first decade as the authoritative, unimpeachable resource on immigration and immigrant integration analysis and policy design in the United States and internationally.
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'Securing Human Mobility' book release discussion with Susan Ginsburg, Michael German, Luis Rubio, and Donald M. Kerwin.

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Web hosting is a service that allows organisations and individuals to post a website or web page on to the internet. A web host, or web hosting service provider, is a business that provides the technologies and services needed for the website or webpage to be viewed on the internet. Websites are hosted, or stored, on special computers called servers.
When internet users want to view your website, all they need to do is type your website address into their browser. Their computer will then connect to our server and your webpages will be delivered to them through the browser.
Most hosting companies require that you own your domain name in order to host with them. If you do not have a domain name, you can register one with us by going to Domain Registration.
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Movahost provide an interface or control panel, known as cPanel, for managing your hosting account and installing scripts. You will also be able to manage the website's databases as well as other modules and service applications like e-mail.
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The availability of a website is measured by a percentage usually over a 12 month period in which the website is publicly accessible and reachable via the internet. This is different from measuring the uptime of a system. Uptime refers to the system itself being online. Uptime does not take into account being able to reach it as in the event of a network outage.
A hosting provider's Service Level Agreement (SLA) may include a certain amount of scheduled downtime per year in order to perform maintenance on the systems. This scheduled downtime is often excluded from the SLA timeframe, and needs to be subtracted from the Total Time when availability is calculated. Depending on the wording of an SLA, if the availability of a system drops below that in the signed SLA, a hosting provider often will provide a partial refund for time lost.
How downtime is determined changes from provider to provider. Movahost will guarantee at least 99.98% uptime which will allow for 43m of downtime per month, or 8h 45m of downtime per year.


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Fits true to size. Flowy and comfortable!
Shipping is FREE for all orders $50 and over! There is a $5 flat rate shipping for orders under $50.
Our local post office is closed on the weekend, so our shipping center is as well. This means all orders placed late Friday and on the weekends will not ship out until the following week. We only ship during the shipping centers business hours, which are Monday-Friday.
We ship through USPS.
Summary: if you aren't 100% happy with any item, simply return it!
Time Frame: items must be received back to us no later than 21 days from the date you placed your order. Be sure to plan 5-10 days for transit time.
The Catch: Items must be returned in their original condition. They must not be altered in any way, this includes but is not limited to the following: makeup stains from trying on items, perfumes, animal hair/scent, cigarette smoke, obvious wear, etc. Shoe boxes are an important part of the product presentation and must be returned undamaged, along with the shoes. Please do not use the shoe box as the main shipping container. Shipping charges are non-refundable. If the item(s) returned are unable to be resold in their returned condition, you may not receive your full refund and can further decide if you would like the item back via you pay for shipping.
The Exceptions: items in the "Sale" section, anything discounted 30% or more, jewelry, and scarves are final and cannot be returned. Shoes returned using the shoebox as a shipping container are not permitted.
Defective Items: if you believe you received a defective item you must notify us by email within three days of the delivery confirmation date, otherwise it is considered wear and tear. No exceptions.
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Is it Just a Matter of Time?
"It gets frustrating, but I think the way it's going, the way the guys are grinding, you can't fault them for anything."
–Sox skipper Robin Ventura, after last night's doubleheader loss to the Tribe
Yesterday was certainly a day to forget as the Sox dropped Game 1 to the Tribe, 8-6, largely on the imperfect outing of Philip Humber, and lost Game 2, 3-2, despite a solid performance by Eric Stults.
Humber, who now has had three bad outings since his perfecto against the Mariners, coughed up eight runs, nine hits and two walks in 2 1/3 innings. The silver lining, and yes there was one, was the terrific job Jose Quintana did in relief of Humber. Brought to the big club just for the doubleheader, Quintana's major league debut was sterling as he gave up just one hit and two walks in 5 2/3 innings.
In the nightcap, Stults (who also was promoted yesterday) went six innings, allowing only two runs, four hits and four walks. If only he hadn't walked No. 9 hitter Lou Marson with two outs in the fifth that ultimately gave the Tribe a 2-1 lead.
Ventura's frustration noted above seems to be referring to all the close games the Sox are dropping. His refusal to place blame seems to refer to the fact that the club is putting forth the proper effort. Case in point is that in both games yesterday the Sox rallied in the late innings, only to come up short.
Robin's hope is the same as ours. That it's only a matter of time before the Sox begin winning the close ones.


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Artist Bio: Eric Dowdle
Eric Dowdle is a very popular artist for puzzles. So popular, in fact, that he has his own puzzle company: Dowdle Folk Art. We carry Dowdle Folk Art puzzles that feature images of some very recognizable towns in Dowdle's very recognizable hand. Charming and colorful, these renditions are some of the most well-liked puzzles around!
Statue of Liberty. 500 pieces. Finished size: 16" x 20". Dowdle was born into a family of twelve children (ten boys and two girls) in the Western United States. His family focused on old fashioned values that he thinks are reflective in his art—those values of hard work and devotion to God and country.
Jerusalem. 500 pieces. Finished size: 16" x 20".
Galveston, TX. 500 pieces. Finished size: 16" x 20". Eventually the family lived in Boston, Massachusetts where Dowdle said he developed his fascination with folk art. His unique style has been applied to cities all around the country and world from Boise, Idaho New York, New York to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Central Park. 500 pieces. Finished size: 16" x 20". No matter the city, Dowdle applies the same unique style that somehow manages to cncompass an "essence" of what people feel about their home. It's a sort of magical quality that makes everywhere beautiful and homey, no matter how big or small.
Hong Kong. 500 pieces. Finished size: 16" x 20".
Portland, OR. 500 pieces. Finished size: 16" x 20". Dowdle's first gallery was in the Cottonwood mall in Salt Lake City, Utah. Now his work has been featured all over the country in different galleries and historical pageants. Currently Dowdle, his wife, and five children reside in Lindon, Utah. To date, he says his most flattering award is the one he received at the 1997 Latter Day Saints Church Art Competition.
Paris. 500 pieces. Finished size: 16" x 20".Dowdle also loves to illustrate stadiums and fields of some of your favorite sports teams, from Wrigley Field to the Boise State Broncos football stadium. Check out more Dowdle Folk Art puzzles for puzzles of zoos, balloon festivals, more!


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Barna, Guzy & Steffen is a Minneapolis area law firm founded in 1938 by the late Honorable Joseph E. Wargo. The firm was built upon the premise of providing the best legal service for our clients to achieve their goals and guide them through exciting as well as difficult times. Robert Guzy and Bernard Steffen solidified that vision and built a successful full service law firm.
We are proud of our reputation as a respected law firm in Minnesota and we take our roles as members of our community very seriously. We have developed long-standing relationships with our clients through the commitment of our attorneys, paralegals and administrative staff to achieving our mission.
Our law firm remains operational, however for the continued safety of all, the majority of our attorneys and staff will continue working remotely. During this time access to our office will be restricted to authorized personnel. Please contact your attorney via phone or email if you have questions or need immediate assistance.
Click here for more information on Covid-19 and answers to frequently asked questions.
Our Mission
Our mission is to be recognized as the best and most innovative law firm in our market. We will strive to meet or exceed client expectations while maintaining strong ethical standards. We will pursue this vision in a collegial atmosphere which:
- Rewards commitment to the quality, success and profitability of the firm
- Recognizes the value of a meaningful community, professional and civic life
- Assures open and effective management
- Encourages respect for a diverse workforce and the unique contributions made by each employee to the success of the firm
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The Barna, Guzy & Steffen business law team has been providing a wide range of legal services to individuals and small businesses as well as large corporations for more than seventy years. Our clients range in diversity from municipalities and government entities, to small and large educational and financial institutions, to insurance companies and entrepreneurial organizations. Our business law expertise includes:
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Whether you are seeking family law representation or need help with a criminal or personal injury case, we have you covered. For over seventy years we have represented individuals in the following areas:
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Barna, Guzy & Steffen constantly strives to ensure that our clients have access to highly experienced legal professionals and dedicated legal and administrative assistants. Our firm will provide you with the right professionals to effectively and efficiently handle your legal and business needs. Whether you need a specific attorney or a team of professionals, we stand ready to do what it takes to effectively and efficiently meet your needs and work towards the best solution.
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As legal matters become increasingly complex, specialization is essential to providing quality legal service. Many Barna, Guzy & Steffen attorneys are certified by the Minnesota State Bar Association as specialists in their practice areas.
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Trust, dedication and professionalism are essential to the success of any business relationship. We believe these ingredients are the essence of integrity, and we strive to nurture these values within our firm. For more than 80 years, the attorneys at Barna, Guzy & Steffen have been committed to providing comprehensive legal services within the framework of professional excellence.
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There will be no shutdown in West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee
Published: 18th February 2013 05:41 PM | Last Updated: 18th February 2013 08:33 PM | A+A A-
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday declared that her government will not allow forcible enforcement of the two-day shutdown called by central trade unions.
"We want to make it clear there will no shut downs in Bengal. Bengal will not remain shut, from schools and colleges to shops and offices, everything will remain open," she said at a public rally in South 24 Parganas district's Diamond Harbour, some 50 km from Kolkata.
Banerjee also said her government will compensate people if their properties are damaged during the shutdown.
"I humbly request all and sundry not to participate in shutdowns. I assure you that Trinamool Congress is with you, so rest assured I am your protector. If there is any damage to your shops or property, I will compensate you," she said.
"Do not fall trap to any provocation. Do not indulge in the politics of shutdowns. We will not allow shutdowns. If you do not support shutdowns, we will support you," she added.
Banerjee said shutdowns may yield political mileage, but they make the state and the people suffer. She cautioned that any one resorting to violence to enforce the shutdown will be dealt with strictly.
Central trade unions in banking, insurance, public sector undertakings, transporters and unorganised sectors have called for a two-day nationwide strike on Wednesday and Thursday to protest the central government's alleged inaction on price rise, privatisation, outsourcing, violation of labour laws and various other issues.


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Tenants in London are being priced out of their homes because their landlords are hiking up their rent during the Olympics and Paralympics.
Properties are being advertised for rent for as much as £100,000 a week over the Olympic period in some well-heeled parts of west London, while tenants closer to the Games sites are finding their rents increasing up to fourfold.
One tenant living in east London said a clause had been added to his rental contract last year that said there would be "a minimum increase of 4.0x multiple of the current weekly rent during the Olympics and 2.0x multiple of current weekly rent during the Paralympics".
"There was no mention of it [the increase] outside of the clause being added," he said. "I am going to have to move out."
Another tenant, who also did not wish to be named, said that his landlord had just informed him that his rent would go up by almost £200 a month – an increase that has forced him out of London, increasing his travel costs by 15%.
"My flat is in Bermondsey [south east London] and when it came to my renewal of contract last month, our landlord insisted on an increase in rent from £1,100 to £1,290 a month," he said. "As I'm only 24 and only left university two years ago an increase like this is impossible, and has resulted in me having find a new place outside of London increasing my commute by about an hour."
"The only reason I could see for this steep increase was the Olympics and the fact that I'm close to the Jubilee [tube] line, and a few stops from Stratford. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one in this boat as I have seen three or four other tenants in our building moving out in the last three months, most of whom are young professionals."
Lettings agents, Draker, which is based in London's West End, is advertising Olympic lets prominently on Google. A search on its website shows 36 properties to rent during the Games, with rental prices ranging from £1,500 a week for a one-bedroom flat in Chelsea to £100,000 a week for a six-bedroom penthouse apartment in Knightsbridge.
A number of other high profile estate agents have sections dedicated to Olympic properties on their websites. Foxtons is renting out 1,100 properties for the Olympics, with prices ranging from £525 a week to £100,000 a week.
Dozens of other websites have been created especially for property owners wanting to cash in on the Games.
One property owner on Rentduringthegames.com is advertising a two bedroom flat for up to six people in a tower block on "well known Ilford high road", east London, for £1,500 a week during the Olympics and £1,000 a week during the Paralympics. The average rent for all properties in the area at present is £1,195 a month, according to property website Zoopla.
Housing charity Shelter said that it has become increasingly concerned that tenants are being priced out of their homes.
"We're beginning to see worrying signs of the pressure-cooker effect the Games could bring including some indications of landlords looking to evict their current tenants in order to let their homes to Olympic visitors this summer," said Kay Boycott, director of campaigns, policy and communications at Shelter. "It's absolutely vital that anyone who thinks they could have problems seeks advice immediately."
Labour MP Chris Williamson also raised the issue in Parliament at the end of last year after attending a public meeting in Brent, north-west London, where a number of tenants had expressed their concern over their tenancy agreements during the Games.
"One of the concerns raised at that meeting was that longstanding private tenants were being told by their landlords that they will have to move out during the Olympics," said Williamson. "I raised this in Parliament, asking whether an assessment had been made as to the extent of the problem and whether the CLG minister planned to take steps to discourage this practice."
Communities and Local Government minster Andrew Stunell replied saying that the government has received no evidence that this was happening.
WA Ellis, an estate agent in central London that deals with high-end properties said that it was receiving inquiries "in their droves" about lettings over the Olympic period but that 90% of these were coming from landlords, with very limited demand from tenants.
"The major drawback [to increasing rents during the Olympics] is the void period running up to the let and more importantly, following the let," said Lucy Morton, senior partner and head of lettings at W A Ellis. "If long term investors jump on the Olympic bandwagon and launch their properties back on to the market in September, there is a strong risk that there will be a sudden surge in supply of properties available without the demand."
However, other agents are looking to take advantage of the Games. Fulham based estate agency, Haus Properties, said that it will be hosting a series of informative Olympic rental seminars throughout March and April "to educate homeowners about what they need to consider." It said that this was due to an increasing volume of enquiries from homeowners looking to let their properties during the Olympics.
The National Landlords Association said that while it recognised that the Olympics presents an opportune time for many businesses to increase their income, it does not make sound commercial sense for landlords to end a current tenancy to raise the rent for a few weeks during the games.
"Most landlords would recognise it is far more beneficial to have a good, long-term tenant in their property," said David Salusbury, chairman of the NLA. "It is important that homeowners considering letting their properties during the Olympics are aware of their responsibilities to tenants, and the regulations they must comply with."


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The Central Connecticut lacrosse team defeated LIU Brooklyn, 18-6, on Friday afternoon. The Blue Devils (4-4, 2-0 NEC) were led by a five goal performance from sophomore Amanda Toke. The Blue Devils are 2-0 in NEC play for the first time ever.
The Blue Devils scored 12 of their season-high 18 goals in the first half against the Blackbirds (0-10, 0-3 NEC).
Central opened the game on a 3-0 run, with sophomore Claire Healy scoring the first two goals. She was assisted on the first goal by junior Meaghan McCurry and on the second by senior Ashley Perkoski.
Perkoski then picked up her second assist of the day by finding Toke for her first goal of the game. Perkoski would finish the game with four of her seven points coming via assist.
After a goal by LIU, McCurry scored an unassisted goal and freshman Jessica Sudock notched her first career score. Perkoski recorded her third assist of the game on Sudock's goal.
LIU pulled together a small run, scoring three goals, with Central finding the net just once. Toke picked up her only assist of the day passing to McCurry for her second goal.
Ahead 6-4 with 14:33 remaining, the Blue Devils opened a 6-0 run to close the first half. Junior Betsy Vendel score a pair of goals, with Healy assisting on the first and then the second coming unassisted.
From that point, Toke caught fire scoring three of Central's final four scores of the half. Toke scored with an assist from Perkoski, her fourth of the half, and an assist from Vendel. She also posted an unassisted goal.
Sudock notched Central's second to last goal of the period. A free position score with 6:09 left in the half.
The Blue Devils scored the first goal of the second half to increase their lead to 13-4. Perkoski found the net for the first of her three second half goals. She was assisted by Sudock.
After an LIU goal, Toke scored her fifth and final goal of the game.
McCurry passed to junior Mackenzy Ryan for a goal and Healy passed to Perkoski for a score to make it 16-5.
LIU netted its final score of the game at the 10:35 mark, but the Blue Devils were still able to put in another pair of goals.
Sudock passed to Ryan for the first and then Healy fed Perkoski for the final goal of the game making it 18-6.
The Blue Devils held a slight edge in draw controls, 14-12, but Central's defense kept putting the ball back into the hands of the offense.
The Blue Devils caused 11 turnovers led by junior Ali Roche who forced five. Roche also picked up six ground balls in the game.
Senior goalkeeper Erin DeLancey made 10 saves in goal, with eight coming in the second half.
Perkoski finished with a game-high seven points, three goals and four assists. Toke scored a game-high five goals and also had an assist.
The Blue Devils return to action on Sunday when they host Wagner at 2 p.m.


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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Cranberry Bread
I had a pint of gorgeous organic cranberries in the fridge that weren't going to be good much longer. I had planned to make a decadent, rich cranberry upside down cake... but this evening I realized I didn't want something that sweet. So I set about baking a cranberry loaf that was less sweet than usual and featured the tart bite of the garnet colored berries. As opposed to the classic yellow color I generally associate with cranberry bread, I used Turbinado sugar to give it a rich brown tone and fuller flavor. I replaced the milk and butter with rice milk and Earth Balance margarine to make the recipe dairy-free / pareve since GFCF is the diet that my gut likes best and I overdid it on the dairy over my Thanksgiving vacation. This loaf should last me all week, my breakfast plan is to lightly toast a thick slice and slather it with margarine or the casein-free wonder that is ghee (clarified butter). Mmm... Yes. Perfect for a chilly fall morning.
3 cups Gluten-Free Cake Flour Mix
2 eggs
1 1/2 cup fresh or defrosted frozen cranberries, chopped
1/2 cup milk or milk substitute
3/4 cup orange juice
1 cup brown or Turbinado sugar
1/2 cup melted butter or margarine
1 tablespoon lemon or orange zest
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon vanilla
Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease a large loaf pan. Beat eggs and sugar with electric beater or mixer. Add butter or margarine, milk or milk substitute, orange juice, zest and vanilla. Slowly beat in baking soda, baking powder, salt, all spices and flour. Mix until combined. Gently fold in chopped cranberries. Pour into loaf pan and smooth the top of the loaf with a rubber spatula. Bake for 1 hour. Allow to cool slightly in loaf pan before inverting onto cooling rack.
Posted by ByTheBay at 10:00 AM
Labels: breakfast, cake, desserts, gluten free, recipes, thanksgiving recipes, vegetarian
3 comments:
- Allergic Girl® said...
this lookls amazing--id love some right now!
Brilliant! I rushed home after work to make this and it turned out perfectly! I used egg replacer and I didn't have orange juice, so I substituted water, but it still worked. The first gluten free bread I can eat without any dressing - no butter needed.
- ByTheBay said...
Anonymous: I'm so glad to hear it worked out! Terrific.
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She was only 16 when she died. May Belle Cook was born in New Orleans, LA on July 23, 1907. Her mother, May Belle Harris, is my grandmother's oldest sister. So, she is my first cousin once removed. We were always told that she passed away as a result of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. Her story always intrigued me. All we had was the family story and this picture. May Belle is on the far right.
I began to wonder if the story was correct. The flu pandemic lasted from March 1918 to June 1920. May Belle died in Omaha, NE on November 5, 1923. That death year didn't make sense if she indeed died from the flu. So, I obtained her death certificate from the state of Nebraska. On it, the death date was confirmed and the cause of death was listed as diphtheria. Diphtheria was a dreaded disease in the 1920s. There were an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 cases per year in the US, causing 13,000 to 15,000 deaths per year. She had only been sick for a couple of weeks. Maybe she did have the flu, at one time, and her health was compromised because of it. I don't think we will ever really know for sure. May Belle's death certificate also indicated her burial was in Mt. Hope Cemetery in Omaha.
Through the help of a Find A Grave Volunteer, I now have this photo of her tombstone.
It's sad that someone so young was taken so suddenly. I'm glad to be able to have some answers and know where she rests.


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(Pocket-lint) - Available in the usual rainbow of colour options, Fujifilm's latest glossy metal construction pocket compact might just be as close to a convincingly high quality jack-of-all trades digital snapshot as we're likely to see at the consumer end of the market.
In updating last year's F70EXR, the F80EXR has upped maximum stills resolution from 10 megapixels to 12 megapixels. HD movie capability has also been added, whilst it retains a 10x optical zoom, providing usefully broad 27-270mm equivalent focal range in 35mm terms.
Guarding against the blurring effects of camera shake, the lens is supported by dual image stabilisation, in the form of both a CCD shift mechanism and a software based ISO boost. And all this within a body not much wider than a regular issue 3x or 5x zoom model, officially 22.9mm not counting protrusions.
Overall dimensions are 99.3 x 58.9 x 28.4mm while the F80EXR weighs 183g without rechargeable battery or SD/SDHC media card. Given its premium build quality and headline spec, the UK asking price feels very fair value indeed.
And yet the above, whilst impressive in itself, falls short of the full story. As the model name indicates, like its predecessor the F80 features a Super CCD EXR sensor. This chip is a thus far unique-to-Fujifilm innovation that is "switchable", meaning that it can, its manufacturer claims, be utilised in three different ways. Such a possibility is due to the different way Fujifilm has arranged the pixels on its EXR sensor - here, in parallel diagonal rather than vertical or horizontal lines. Furthermore, red and blue filters have been paired up and sandwiched between green filters. The result is claimed to be a doubling of sensitivity over the traditional layout, whilst noise remains minimal, leading Fujifilm, something of a pioneering force for higher sensitivity in low light on compacts, to offer a class leading high ISO 12800 option on the F80EXR. That's the kind of spec found on semi pro DSLRs, let's not forget.
However in practice a boosting of sensitivity is accompanied by a drop in resolution, but while that's one option available here - ISO 12800 only captured at 3 megapixels - it doesn't have to be that way.
By turning the mode dial mounted top right of its backplate to the "EXR" setting, F80EXR users have the choice of shooting at optimum 12-megapixel resolution in HR (High Resolution) mode as well as low light SN (High Sensitivity and Low Light) mode. The third main option governing how the sensor performs is DR (wide Dynamic Range) mode to even out shadow and highlight detail, while in addition the camera can be left on Auto EXR - a smart auto feature if you like - to choose which setting it deems most appropriate for the shooting conditions at the time.
The auto setting does a good job, though in truth we found it tricky to differentiate between results from the HR and DR settings when manually selected, subtle on most occasions if noticeable at all.
Feeling reassuringly solid gripped in the palm, press the on/off button, set into attractively tapering chrome strip on the top plate, and the Fujifilm F80EXR takes just over 2 seconds to ready itself for the first shot. As your forefinger hovers over the shutter release, your thumb comes naturally to rest on the shooting mode dial at the back. Whilst that's convenient for accessing its various settings with a quick flick of your digit, it's also possible in the same way to inadvertently jog the dial to an adjacent setting when your mind is focused elsewhere (on your subject).
As expected, photos and video are framed using the sufficiently large, bright and clear 3-inch, 230k-dot resolution LCD monitor at the rear. This takes up two-thirds of the available real estate in the absence of any optical viewfinder, with mode dial, control pad and four additional function buttons staking their claim to the rest.
One of these is a dedicated face detection button, though pet detection additionally features among the available scene modes, also accessed with a twist of the dial. Unlike the human version, the latter only works with the animal face (or snout?) facing on to the camera. Rather more useful in general terms is AF tracking, picking out a subject and sticking with it no matter where it may scamper in the frame.
Little touches like the above mean that operation here feels fluid, the camera responding instantly to each button press or dial twist. Its rounded edges and slightly slippery double gloss surface do however mean you'll want to use both hands to get a firm, steadying grip when shooting handheld. A screw thread for a tripod is of course provided at the base, here slightly off centre to allow room for a sliding cover for the joint battery and (optional) media card compartment.
This being a Fujifilm compact, the user is further provided with a "F" (for "Photo" button on the back plate, which acts as a shortcut to the most frequently used settings. There's otherwise a menu button resting at the centre of the control pad below. It's in "F" mode that, as well as being able to select ISO speed and image size/quality, users can dip into the camera's selection of film simulation modes, harking back to its manufacturer's "wet" heritage.
The standard/default setting is Provia (normal, naturalistic picture quality), whilst in Program mode Velvia additionally boosts colour saturation to give the greens and blues found in landscapes in particular an added vividness. The third film simulation option is the flatteringly soft Astia, useful for portraits, with more regular issue black and white plus sepia options rounding things off.
It doesn't stop there, however, with Fujifilm also offering an enthusiast-enticing background blurring Pro Focus mode, achieved not with specialist lens of course (the F80EXR's is firmly fixed) but via the combination of three separate exposures to form the one complete image. A separate Pro Low Light mode does much the same - but using four images this time - while a Portrait Enhancer option from among the scene modes does a good job of smoothing skin tones to ape that airbrushed look favoured by American magazines - healthy without looking plastic on this occasion.
With Natural Light and Natural Light with flash options further selectable via their own settings on the shooting mode dial, along with an exclusively manual setting, those who do want to get a bit more hands-on than merely pointing and shooting are well catered for. Indeed this is a camera that continues to reveal fresh riches the more you play with it: not what you'd expect for a price around £200.
In terms of video - here 1280 x 720 pixels rather than the Full HD 1920 x 1080 - and at 24fps not 30fps, though that frame rate is available at 640 x 480 setting, recorded sound is mono. Yet, on a positive, the full extent of the 10x optical zoom is accessible and adjustable mid filming. That said the built-in microphone does pick up a rather obvious mechanical gnat-like buzz as the lens makes its adjustments; often why competitors disable the zoom in their own movie modes.
We liked the vibrant look and feel of the still images the F80EXR delivered meanwhile, if, on close inspection, they seemed slightly softer than expected. Pixel fringing continues to be a problem for Fujifilm, and even a casual inspection revealed quite pronounced purple lines snaking around tree branches framed against bright skies. In general terms though we liked the healthy look and feel of the shots.
Whilst not perfect in every area the Fujifilm F80EXR is a largely successful addition to the ranks of "high zoom" compacts. Whilst that sounds like feint praise, it's not meant to be. Indeed the camera surprised and delighted us in equal measure - and it's very rare that, what is another point and shoot compact, warrants such emoting.
Ultimately the F80EXR is a good product at a good price that should please both beginners and more seasoned snappers wanting a compact that nods back to the days before digital killed off film at the consumer level.


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By KYLE KNIGHT
Courtesy: Wave Magazine
Standing in the courtyard at RR Campus in Kathmandu, Roshan Mahato looks relaxed and proud. This, just 7 years ago was the spot where he was teased and harassed so badly by his peers that he transferred to another college. Today, the president of Nepal's LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex) Student Forum, Mahato is a familiar face on campuses around the country. The change, he says, took time and patience – with others and with himself.
Born in a small village in Chitwan, Mahato recognised from an early age that he felt different from most of his peers. These feelings, he describes, "made me want to leave the small village, and made me willing to do it at any cost."
During high school, he moved to Kathmandu and worked at a hotel cleaning toilets. In 2003, he saw photos of Blue Diamond Society's Gai Jatra LGBTI pride parade on Durbar Marg. "I was afraid, but so curious. I didn't have a vocabulary for how I felt. I thought maybe this was it – that these people felt the same way." Months later, he joined a casual discussion group at BDS. This, he says, is where he started surprising himself.
During that meeting, the BDS staff member asked if anyone wanted to share a personal experience or story. The room sat silent for several minutes, and then Mahato spoke up.
"I talked about feeling different. I talked about being interested in other boys and I explained the frustration of not having the words to describe all of these," he recalls. Unsurprisingly, the group reacted by supporting him. "This felt very strange but very good," Mahato explains, "I'd had this conversation, told this story so many times in private, with other friends who are gay, but the reaction from them was never positive. It always spun off into fear."
After he moved to Kathmandu, Mahato made plenty of gay male friends. They would meet online and chat on anonymous forums, or in discreet tea shops in the city. But their conversations were almost always punctuated by two points; no one can know about this, and marriage to a woman was certainly in the future.
Three months after he came out to the small group at BDS, Mahato surprised himself again. At a public event about LGBTI rights held at Kathmandu's World Trade Centre building, Sunil Babu Pant approached Mahato before a session on the experience of gay men in Nepal. "He asked if I wanted to participate, if I wanted to speak up," says Mahato. "I said yes but was terrified throughout my entire speech. The magic moment occurred when everyone clapped for me."
Pant founded Blue Diamond Society in 2001. The organisation now has CBO affiliates in nearly 40 districts and has made contact with over 400,000 people across the country who identify as sexual and gender minorities, or LGBTI. It's courage like Mahato's, Pant believes, that has made such growth possible.
"In the beginning of BDS, we struggled to retain members," Pant explains. "Whenever new people came to meetings, the others would literally hide in the closets and only come out with their faces covered."
Mahato's public coming out as a BDS volunteer and young gay man gave Pant confidence that the younger generation of LGBTI people would be bold and help the rights movement by living their lives openly. Almost immediately, Mahato felt the effects.
"I got phone calls and text messages for the next three days," he recalls. "All of a sudden, I had dozens of new gay friends. They all wanted to meet me and ask me questions. But mostly, they wanted to know how I told my family." Soon, Mahato was casually counseling gay men in Kathmandu on everything from sexual health to coming out to friends and how to respond when families insist they get married.
Along with this private attention, Mahato slowly became a target for media attention and, with that, the leadership of student organisations at Tribhuvan University, where he was enrolled in sociology program. A newspaper article about "the gay student at TU" outed him to his brother, who is a police officer in the Tarai.
"He reacted really positively," says Mahato. "His first action was to call me and tell me he was proud of me being brave and open, and his second action was to call Sunil and thank him for making Nepali society safer for his brother."
Mahato's other brother, a school teacher in Chitwan, was just as supportive. Nonetheless, he says he continued to get phone calls from his mother asking him why he wasn't married yet.
"It's difficult to explain to her," he says. "She's illiterate, she hasn't travelled much, she's just worried about my life not falling into the pattern she thinks it should."
Mahato fends off such questions by saying he's too busy with school and work, that he'll get married when he finds the right person and that he doesn't need anyone's help. "I will, I think, get married," he says smiling, "because I think same-sex marriage law will come in my lifetime, and I'll find the right guy."
Mahato is now a popular public figure in Nepal's LGBTI rights movement. He's represented the organization at conferences in New Zealand and the United States, and is the founding president of the Student Forum, which now boasts nearly 200 members. But these successes are balanced with the reality of daily life for gay men in Kathmandu.
"Most of my gay male friends are not open about it," he says with a sigh. "It can be confusing for me. Sometimes I'm really frustrated with them when they complain about not enough gays being out but sometimes I'm completely compassionate because I know the pressures they face to get married to women, start families, and live a conventional Nepali lifestyle."
Pant believes it's this kind of courage that will bolster the LGBTI rights movement in the future. "Rallies and protests are important," he says, "but the bravery of individuals like Roshan has enormous impact as well. People should follow his lead."
And people are. "Roshan's leadership among students made it clear that helping LGBTI students feel welcome and safe needed to be a priority for us," says Shailendra Sharma Gaudel, president of Nepal Student Union for RR Campus. Three months ago, Gaudel's student union successfully lobbied the college administration to allow third gender students to use the gender-neutral staff toilet.
"When people say there are not enough openly-gay leaders in Nepal today," explains Mahato, "I'm not sure how to respond."
Patience has to match courage, he believes: "I understand the fear." Now 28 and working on his Master's thesis, Mahato says the phone calls from his mother about marriage arrangements have stopped. His message to others: "It might feel like you're alone or your family is particularly conservative. But that's why we have support groups – formal and informal – around the country. Join us."


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Ordinary Time: September 14th
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
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Old Calendar: Exaltation of the Holy Cross; St. Maternus, bishop (Hist); St. Notburga, virgin (Hist) ; Other Titles: Exaltation of the Holy Cross
This feast was observed in Rome before the end of the seventh century. It commemorates the recovery of the Holy Cross, which had been placed on Mt. Calvary by St. Helena and preserved in Jerusalem, but then had fallen into the hands of Chosroas, King of the Persians. The precious relic was recovered and returned to Jerusalem by Emperor Heralius in 629.The lessons from the Breviary tell us that Emperor Heraclius carried the Cross back to Jerusalem on his shoulders. He was clothed with costly garments and with ornaments of precious stones. But at the entrance to Mt. Calvary a strange incident occurred. Try as hard as he would, he could not go forward. Zacharias, the Bishop of Jerusalem, then said to the astonished monarch: "Consider, O Emperor, that with these triumphal ornaments you are far from resembling Jesus carrying His Cross." The Emperor then put on a penitential garb and continued the journey.Historically today is also the feast of St. Notburga, a peasant who lived in the Tyrol, Austria and St. Maternus, Bishop of Cologne.
Triumph of the Cross
This day is also called the Exaltation of the Cross, Elevation of the Cross, Holy Cross Day, Holy Rood Day, or Roodmas. The liturgy of the Cross is a triumphant liturgy. When Moses lifted up the bronze serpent over the people, it was a foreshadowing of the salvation through Jesus when He was lifted up on the Cross. Our Mother Church sings of the triumph of the Cross, the instrument of our redemption. To follow Christ we must take up His cross, follow Him and become obedient until death, even if it means death on the cross. We identify with Christ on the Cross and become co-redeemers, sharing in His cross.
O cross, you are the glorious sign of victory.
Through your power may we share in the triumph of Christ Jesus.
Symbol: The cross of triumph is usually pictured as a globe with the cross on top, symbolic of the triumph of our Savior over the sin of the world, and world conquest of His Gospel through the means of a grace (cross and orb).The Wednesday, Friday and Saturday following September 14 marks one of the Ember Days of the Church. See Ember Days for more information.Things to Do:
- Study different symbols and types of crosses, history and/or significance. Then have an art project — creating own crosses, using different media, including paper. See variations of crosses for some ideas.
- Learn and pray the prayer to Christ Crucified; pray the Stations of the Cross. Point out particularly the phrase repeated at each station:
We adore You, O Christ, and praise You,
Because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world.
- Study the history of St. Helena and Constantine, especially St. Helena's quest for finding the relics of Jesus.
- Make sure that crucifixes are displayed prominently throughout your home. Point out the crucifix in every room even to the smallest ones. Your child's first word may be "Jesus"!
- Explain the meaning of the Sign of the Cross to your children and be sure that even the little ones are taught how to make it.
- Encourage your children to make reparation for sin; read about sacramentals.
- Teach your children a short ejaculatory prayer such as "Through the sign of the Cross deliver us from our enemies, O our God!".
- Make a dessert in the form of a cross, or decorated with a cross. Although usually made on Good Friday, Hot Cross Buns would be appropriate for this day. Make a cross cake, either using a cross form cake pan, or bake a sheet cake (recipe of choice). Once cool, cut the cake in half, length ways. Then cut one of these sections in half width ways. This makes three sections - one long and two short. Lay the long section onto a serving plate. Set the two small sections next to the long section forming a cross. Frost and decorate as desired.
- Tradition holds that sweet basil grew over the hill where St. Helena found the Holy Cross, so in Greece the faithful are given sprigs of basil by the priest. Cook a basil pesto, tomato basil salad (with the last of the summer tomatoes) or some other type of recipe that includes basil, and explain to the family.
- More Ideas: Women for Faith and Family and Catholic Encyclopedia.
- Folklore has that the weather on the Ember Days of this month (September 15, 17, and 18) will foretell the weather for three successive months. So Wednesday, September 15, will forecast the weather for October; Friday, September 17, for November; and Saturday, September 18, for December.
St. Notburga
St. Zita of Lucca, Italy, is the best-known patron of domestic servants. A less-known contemporary of Zita's was St. Notburga of Austria, who is venerated in the Austrian Tyrol, Bavaria, Istria, Croatia and Slovenia. Many a church in these lands bears her name.
St. Maternus
First known bishop of Cologne, in modern Germany. He was involved in the effort against the Donatist heretics and was asked by Emperor Constantine to hear charges against the Donatists in 313.


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Enterprises are grappling with the skyrocketing amount of data they have to handle as that data proliferates into the terabyte and petabyte stage.
Datasets that large are known as "big data" to IT practitioners.
Relational databases and desktop statistics or visualization packages can't handle big data; instead, massively parallel software running on up to thousands of servers is needed to do the job.
Many businesses turn to open source tools, such as Apache's Hadoop, when working with big data. For example, Twitter sends logging messages to Hadoop and writes the data directly into HDFS, the Hadoop Distributed File System.
Hadoop can support data-intensive applications ranging up to thousands of nodes and multiple petabytes, David Hill, principal at Mesabi Group, told LinuxInsider. It has received wide acceptance.
However, the term "big data" is just a general term for many different types of applications, and Hadoop won't be suitable in every case, Hill warned.
The capture, storage and analysis of big data depends on the nature of the particular application, Hill stated. For example, scale-out network attached storage such as EMC's Isilon or IBM's SONAS (Scale Out Network Attached Storage), might be better for use with unstructured data such as photographs or videos rather than a tool such as Hadoop, he suggested.
Types of Big Data Work
Working with big data can be classified into three basic categories, Mike Minelli, executive vice president at Revolution Analytics, told LinuxInsider.
One is information management, a second is business intelligence, and the third is advanced analytics, Minelli said.
Information management captures and stores the information, BI analyzes data to see what has happened in the past, and advanced analytics is predictive, looking at what the data indicates for the future, Minelli said.
Revolution analytics offers the open source R language and Revolution R Enterprise. These provide advanced analytics for terabyte-class datasets. Revolution Analytics is developing connectors to Hadoop and capabilities for R to run jobs on Google's Map/Reduce framework, Minelli said.
Tools for working with Big Data
Proprietary big data analytic capabilities are available from AsterData; Netezza, now owned by IBM; Datameer, which builds on Apache's Hadoop but is proprietary; and Paraccel, Minelli said.
IBM's Netezza in its InfoSphere products, Oracle's Exadata, and EMC's Greenplum are other proprietary tools for working on big data.
EMC has introduced a free community edition of its Greenplum database. This community edition is software-only, Mesabi Group's Hill remarked.
Greenplum Community Edition doesn't compete with Hadoop; instead, it's "a project whose aims are to incorporate best of breed technologies together to provide the best choice of platform," Luke Lonergan, vice president and chief technology officer of the EMC Data Computing Products Division, told LinuxInsider.
The initial release of Greenplum Community Edition includes three collaborative modules -- Greenplum DB, MADlib, and Alpine Miner, Lonergan said.
"The version of Greenplum DB included is an advanced development version that will provide rapid innovation, MADlib provides a collection of machine learning and data mining algorithms, and Alpine Miner provides a visual data mining environment that runs its algorithms directly inside Greenplum DB," Lonergan elaborated.
Open source tools for big data include Hadoop, Map/Reduce, and Jaspersoft business intelligence tools.
Jaspersoft offers business intelligence tools that provide reporting, analysis and ETL (extract, transform and load) for massively parallel analytic databases including EMC Greenplum and HP Vertica. A version for IBM Netezza is in the works, Andrew Lampitt, director of business intelligence at Jaspersoft, told LinuxInsider.
Jaspersoft also provides native reporting through open source connectors for Hadoop and various types of NoSQL databases including MongoDB, Riak, CouchDB and Infinispan.
Further, Jaspersoft has an open source bridge to the R advanced analytics product from Revolution Analytics.
Open Source vs Proprietary Tools
Open source tools provide insight into the code so developers can find out what's inside when they do integration, Jaspersoft's Lampitt said.
"In almost every instance, open source analytics will be more cost-effective and more flexible than traditional proprietary solutions," Revolution Analytics' Minelli said.
"Data volumes are growing to the point where companies are being forced to scale up their infrastructure, and the proprietary license costs skyrocket along the way. With open source technology, you get the job done quicker and more accurately at a fraction of the price," he added.
Twitter's a case in point, opting for Hadoop because using proprietary tools would have just been too expensive.
Further, open source tools let enterprises create new analytic techniques to better handle unstructured data such as images and photographs, Minelli said.
"Open source analytics tools let you create innovative analytics that you can bake into your enterprise. In today's ultra-competitive global economy, you just can't wait for a traditional vendor to develop a new analytic technique," Minelli added.
As in other spheres of IT, we're likely to see a mix of open source and proprietary technologies being used to work with big data.
"Short-term, open source analytics will become more and more widely used and will grow virally," Minelli opined. "Over the longer term you'll see a mix or a blend of techniques in highly competitive markets. My guess is that both will remain viable and necessary."


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Welcome to this database of nineteenth-century French drawings. From revealing preparatory sketches to exquisite finished watercolors, more than 900 works by artists such as Eugéne Delacroix, Honoré Daumier, Paul Cézanne, and Edgar Degas illuminate the range of French art over the course of a century of innovation.
Drawn from the collections of The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum, the drawings featured here form one of the nation's strongest and richest collections of French art from this period. The database also includes works from the Peabody Institute Art Collection of the Maryland State Archives.
Begin exploring the works from the Search page or start with a Highlights tour to glimpse key works of art. Select and organize images in your own online gallery as a customized reference. And view Albums & Sketchbooks to gain insight into the working processes of three artists and how prominent collectors of the day acquired and displayed their drawings.
You can also see outstanding selections from the three collections in the exhibition The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas on view in Baltimore, Maryland; Birmingham, Alabama; and Tacoma, Washington throughout 2005 and 2006.
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Among acacia trees in Shalateen, an area in the southern stretch of the Red Sea, about 250km south of Marsa Alam, there is a small Bedouin tent made from branches of the local acacia. you can meet with Zeinab, Aisha, and Fatma — Bedouin women from the Ababda tribe — they lead a first women cooperative for train and support women working in handicrafts. "We would just gather together, a group of local women, and chat while each woman made her traditional handicrafts," explained Aisha, while crafting her kaboota(coffee tools container) and fronds basket. "But since we received support from Gabal Elba Park, we started our first women's handicrafts initiative. It's the beginning of a revival in ancient handicraft traditions in the South Red Sea." Zeinab added, "It was really nice to see the hand-crafted pieces made by our mothers and grandmothers in the past inspire us to produce our own new handicrafts for tourists and hope for the whole world. But we face a lot of problems. We need to travel at least 300 km every week to exhibit our crafts for tourists in some of the hotels and resorts of Marsa Alam, but each day we come back with less than 500 LE (($90). As you can imagine, 500 LE is not enough for the more than 150 women who work with us and give us their products to market and sell, we hope we can find a way to market our crafts without this daily torment." She said that some people helped them display their products in a few showrooms in Cairo, but "they pay us very low prices and sell them for much higher. So we have to put up with the tough weekly travel to Marsa Alam to sell to tourists, who appreciate these unique handicrafts and are willing to pay a fair price. All the benefits then come straight to the women".Discover More
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This is your resource for exploring various topics in glass: delve deeper with this collection of articles, multimedia, and virtual books all about glass. Content is frequently added to the area, so check back for new items. If you have a topic you'd like to see covered, send us your suggestion. If you have a specific question, Ask a Glass Question at our Rakow Research Library.
"Annealed glass," "safety glass," "tempered glass"... Confused? Learn the differences through these Glass Breaking Demos.
This technique was invented by Roman glassworkers. It was indispensable in glasshouses of the Middle Ages and flourished in Venice. Also known as dip molding, it remains popular today.
Once murrine canes are cut into thin slices, they can be fused and slumped, flameworked, or blown. Here, murrine canes are used in demonstrations of a Roman period process and a Renaissance Venetian process.
Molten glass can be cast by a method virtually identical to that used for casting metal. Here, molten glass at 2,300 degrees Fahrenheit is ladled into a mold made of sand. The process is relatively easy as hot glassworking processes go... but hot!
Cutting thin sheet glass is almost as easy as it looks in this video clip... but not quite! Curves really are much trickier than straight lines. The process shown would have been completely familiar to medieval window glaziers.
Flameworking (sometimes called "lampworking") is the process of directing a flame onto a piece of glass in order to create form or decoration. Beads were likely among the first glass objects to be made by flameworking.
Chunks of glass are placed in a mold, then heated in a kiln until the glass softens and flows downward to gradually fill the mold. Popular with contemporary artists, this method avoids the need for a giant melting furnace filled with molten glass.
Five different methods of using colored glass are demonstrated; some produce a uniformly colored object, others a splotchy or mottled effect. Glass artists today use whatever method best suits their aesthetic choices.
Roman glassworkers, tirelessly creative and inventive, were fond of folding and manipulating inflated glass in a variety of ways for different purposes. Two of their characteristic structures—both functional and beautiful—are demonstrated.
This is another casting technique that—like glassblowing—only works with glass. Whereas glassblowing was invented about 50 BC, pâte de verre is a process invented in France in the 19th century. It allows subtle gradations of color, possible with no other glassworking process.
Beginning in the 1800s, glassworkers used flameworking to make vessels considerably larger than previously possible. Bigger and more sophisticated torches allowed the increase in scale, while retaining the flameworker's ability to create minute details.
As if glassblowing wasn't fast enough—it takes under three minutes to make a Roman bottle—cracking-off made the process even faster. This technique was well known by AD 20 or so, and cut the manufacturing time of simple tumblers in half.
While glass canes can be used alone, for example as stirring rods, usually they are incorporated in vessels or sculpture. An infinite variety of decoration is possible. Here we see two examples that are intended to be viewed from the side.
Here is virtuoso Venetian-style glassblowing "without a net." One mistake and all is lost! Where "making a goblet from parts" allows mistakes to be isolated and destroyed, this process moves relentlessly forward, allowing no retakes.
Popular among glass artists today, as it was in the golden age of Greece and the Roman Empire, this technique softens and shapes glass in a kiln. Various preparatory steps are shown in the making of a contemporary sculpture.
It could have been so simple... but it wasn't! Until recent times (about 1800), permanent enamels had to be fired on glass vessels by an amazingly laborious process, shown here. Today, the process really is as easy as it looks.
See what really sets glass apart from metal and then begin to understand why humans have invented such odd ways of shaping it while hot: core-forming, fusing, slumping, and—oddest of all—glassblowing.
Discover the history and process of glass blowing with experts at the Corning Museum of Glass.
Arguably the most beautiful medieval glass vessel to survive, this goblet is also original. It is probably the invention of one glassblower who took the secret of its manufacture to his grave. See this extraordinarily elegant process, not rediscovered until the 20th century.
This was the common method of making small glass vessels from around 1500 BC until the discovery of glassblowing. Dung, clay, and glass came together in a seemingly odd process that was indispensable for more than a millennium and a half.
Artists have proven that glass as a medium for sculpture is virtually without limits. Among hot-working processes, flameworking allows the greatest detail and the smallest scale. Surprisingly though, it can also be used to create sculpture large enough to fill rooms.
Encasing glass decorations and small-scale sculpture within a mass of molten colorless glass to make paperweights began in the 1840s. It continues to be practiced by a limited number of specialized glass artists.
A technique unique to glass, air twist requires very high quality material for success. When sparkling lead crystal became common in 18th-century England, the air twist technique spread rapidly.
By about AD 20, Roman workers had discovered that a bubble of molten glass could be lowered into a mold and then further inflated to fill the mold. In this way, the full-size vessel, complete with elaborate decoration, was made almost instantly.
Hot-working processes used to form a glass object—glassblowing for example—must be followed by a very gradual cooling period called annealing. See what happens when an object is not properly annealed and learn why it breaks.
Alternately using different colored glasses, plunged into different shaped dip molds, to build up a variety of layers, a stout cane is drawn. When the cane is cut, the pattern is revealed at the cross-section.
Some of the first glassblowers working in Italy—perhaps as early as 30 BC—made blanks for craftspeople accustomed to decorating hardstone objects. The glassblowing process required two contrasting glasses, usually blue and white.
Essentially the same as lathe cutting, the engraving lathe is generally used for small-scale projects often involving the creation of extremely fine details, such as the eyelashes on a portrait.
Gold decoration has been popular since Egyptian times. Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic workshops also used it frequently. Beginning in the Renaissance, gold decoration became an indispensable part of the Venetian style.
Here is the most sophisticated glassblowing process used to make the simplest of all forms: a cylindrical tumbler. The second most important tool after the invention of the blowpipe, the soffietta is used to make the work easier with better results.


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Together we've successfully created a support network where we can share best practices and challenges using AEM and push each other further in our practice. As a keeper of this space of AEM community, I was very impressed by the commitment and enthusiasm that all of you have shown at the event. There were 43 of us from Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, India and the United States in the room and 5 members joined us on Adobe Connect from the US.
List of Companies
- Altera
- Amway
- Annotate Consulting
- Asia Miles
- BizTECH
- Cathay Pacific Airways
- CapitalLand
- Chelsea FC
- CIMB Group
- DDB Tribal Worldwide Singapore
- Gcell
- Infocomm Development Authority Singapore
- Informatica
- Lionbridge
- Marina Bay Sands
- Mirum
- OCBC Bank
- Pan Pacific Hotels Group
- Singapore Airlines
- Singapore Tourism Board
- SurveyMonkey
- Translations.com
- Tribal Worldwide Singapore
- Valtech Singapore
Session Recordings
- Altera Architectural Structure & Global Site Structure – Challenges and Successes, David Shao, Manager & Web Architect, Altera Corporation
- Pan Pacific Hotels Group (PPHG) Digital Marketing Strategy for Globalization, Angie Ho, Vice President, Online Marketing, PPHG & Alan Lai, Web System Manager, PPHG
- Globalization Best Practices using AEM, Jeff Rueppel, Consulting Engineer & Evangelist, Adobe
- AEM 6.1 Multilingual Features, Mathias Siegel Mathias Siegel, Senior Product Manager for AEM, Adobe
- Special Session on Global SEO, Eli Schwartz, Director of Marketing APAC, SurveyMonkey
Presentation Decks
- Altera Architectural Structure & Global Site Structure
- PPHG Digital Marketing Strategy for Globalization
- Globalization Best Practices using AEM
- 6.1 Multilingual Features
- Global SEO
On behalf of the group, I would like to thank you to all of our speakers, David, Angie, Alan and Eli for their leadership to be in service to the AEM community – so much thought, effort and time went in to the presentation that we have received and we are very grateful for that. Special thanks to David for flying in from California just to champion the first event in APAC, and Eli for generously putting together a special SEO session with such a short notice. Lastly many thanks to Therese Harris at Clay Tablet for funding some of the activities. All of you have embodied the true community spirit!
Until we see each other next time, let's continue the conversations at our Linkedin group.
Seungmin Lee
Sr. Program Manager, Adobe


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Exercise is an important part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Working out boosts mood, promotes weight loss, reduces your risk of disease, and can even help you live longer.
But hitting the gym too often can do serious harm to your body and mind, said Amanda Thebe, a fitness and health trainer at Fit n' Chips.
"When you overtrain, your body will send out some clear signals that you need to pull back," Thebe told Global News. "These can range from excessive muscle soreness that doesn't subside, to fatigue and lethargy on a physical level."
Here are four signs you're exercising too much.
You stop seeing progress
You might think the more you sweat, the better physical results you'll see. But that's not necessarily the case.
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"If you are exercising too hard, you will over-stress your body to the point that you will stop seeing progress," Thebe said. "Your body requires stimulus in order to progress, and when you push too hard, your nervous system starts to adapt to the point that you may see your strength and fitness plateau — or get worse."
Plus, doing the same exercises over and over again can also stall progress. Our bodies learn to adapt to exercises and become efficient, so even if you're spinning every day, you might not see any changes in your weight or performance.
You're getting injured
"When your body is too fatigued, inherently cannot be as careful and diligent with exercises, which may result in injuries," Thebe said.
This exhaustion can be dangerous for people who lift weights or do high-intensity workouts, as proper form is key to preventing injuries.
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You might also be prone to more injuries if you're repeatedly doing the same movements, like running or doing a barre class every single day. Overtraining can cause stress on the body, and when you don't take days off to rest, you're not giving yourself time to properly recover.
This lack of rest can make preexisting injuries worse, or lead to new ones.
You're moody
Overexercising doesn't just have physical repercussions; it has mental and emotional effects, too. According to Thebe, a clear sign that you're pushing yourself too hard is a change in your emotional state.
"Are you grumpy and irritated? That might be a sign of stress indicating that you should take a break," she said.
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You could also lose interest in exercise altogether, or have anxiety about when your next workout will be. " can also be accompanied by emotional feelings such as fear of taking time off to rest," Thebe added.
You feel exhausted all the time
Exercise is known to boost energy levels, but when you hit the gym 24/7, it can have the opposite effect.
"When you do not allow your body to actively recover, you will deplete your energy stores, in the form of glycogen, leaving you exhausted," Thebe said. "This in turn will also raise your cortisol levels and your heart rate, so your body remains in a state of high stress."
Thebe said this process prevents muscles from recovering properly, which in turn ups your chances of burnout. "If you are very sore and still fatigued from working out and it is not subsiding, then it's time to take some active rest," she said.
Why your body needs rest to recover
Our bodies aren't designed to only work in the gym. When we exercise, we create tiny tears in our muscle fibres, and this process is what ultimately builds strength. These muscle tears repair when we rest, which makes recovery essential to changing our bodies.
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Apart from the fact that our bodies need downtime to recover, resting allows us to spend time doing other activities outside the gym. If your workout tendencies have become such that you turn down social outings so you can hit the gym, rest days can help you have more balance in your life.
So how often should you work out?
Thebe recommends doing between three to four strength-based workouts that are metabolically challenging a week. The remaining days of the week should be rest days.
If you're someone who really likes to move, Thebe said you can still be active on your rest days, your exercises just need to be gentler on your body.
"You can use these days to do yoga, walk, or swim so that your body is still moving, but is not being overly stressed," she explained. "These types of activities can help get blood and nutrients to the muscles to aid with recovery."
READ MORE: Standing at a desk isn't any better than sitting all day: experts
But if you're really tired and feel like having a legitimate rest, listen to your body.
"If you are very fatigued and really don't have the energy to do light movement, then it's OK to take enough time off until you feel energized again," Thebe said.
"The body is cleverer than you, it's always sending you signals."
© 2018 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.


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Seems I will be getting some time off near Taipei the weekend after next.
Can someone tell me if it is worth bringing my gear, - and where to go?
From some older posts I see that GuanYin (or KuanYin) are close to the airport, - and very windy just now.
How are the conditions at this time of the year, - will there be others there, - do I need a wetsuit, accomodation nearby etc?


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Remember These?
Mermaid Gloves was one of my first real knitting projects about two years ago. I remember thinking they were pretty intense because I had to *GASP* TRANSFER A STITCH FROM ONE NEEDLE TO ANOTHER EVERY ROUND or something like that. They were buried in my closet and eventually forgotten.
Not sure why I
remembered to pull them out today but I'm glad I did. My hands are now warm and fully mobile (they tense up when they're cold).
After taking a few photos I started thinking about other finished objects. My Boneyard Shawl has been worn all of two times, Beatnik has been worn three times, and my Burberrish Cowl once. Sad, so sad. I need to either 1) move to a colder climate 2) make more SoCal weather appropriate things 3) wear my knits if it means breaking out in heat rash.
Project page: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/HeyIBlink/mermaid-gloves
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I really like these gloves and I know what you mean about not wearing your knitted goods. I have this sweater that is totally bizarre and I have nothing to wear with it so it has been worn a grand total of one times


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If while watching Elementary you feel like certain elements are too familiar, you can thank (or curse) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for creating such an unforgettable character that we have kept remaking him in endless forms since his inception. Sherlock is not a maverick detective, he is the maverick detective, yet his brilliance as a crime solver has become commonplace with so many procedurals made in various forms of dedication to him. Last week I mentioned that what made the BBC's Sherlock stand out was not just the strength of the acting and relationship between its stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, but the stylization of the series itself: the way it uses technology and visual display to not just recreate Sherlock Holmes but to bring something new to the "maverick detective" genre as a whole.
Though Elementary does have a great strong central relationship between Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu (and a blessedly asexual one), the show does little to distinguish itself from other Sherlock-esque copycat series. Still, for now, it's a bit of fun that could seemingly get better and better. Hit the jump for the specifics, plus why it's essential to distinguish between a dash and an ampersand.
For a series like Elementary, the Case of the Week is important as it's the show's raison d'etre (and Sherlock's, too). A weak COTW (like last week) can be forgiven here and there, but while we do want to keep learning about our protagonists along the way, the main thing is the murder. It's what CBS has built its ratings and audiences on, and it's what people like myself intuitively love (like the weird addiction to Top 10 lists, police procedurals are somehow deeply ingrained our subconscious — most of us simply cannot look away when presented with a whodunnit).
So last week, the COTW was little more than a distraction as we got to know Holmes and Joan, but this week it had a life of its own. The twists are too twisty to recount, but they seem to have to be now that we viewers are so much wiser about investigations, and most fans of the genre have been weaned on enough Law & Orders and CSI shows to be able to guess most outcomes. The only way to fool us now is to defy all possible sense, like with the coma-that-wasn't this week. In the end it came together (I suppose …) though the reveal was rushed through quickly before too many questions could really be asked. The point was, the coma was fake and Holmes knew it without being able to prove it. He was right, he always is — and, furthermore, he even incorporated his nemesis-turned-alley Detective Bell to assist in the deception that lead to the uncovering of the killer. Brilliant indeed.
Speaking of nemeses, one interesting piece missing from the Sherlock canon (besides Mycroft, so far unnamed, but believed to be Holmes' father in this adaptation) is of course the presence of Moriarty. So far Sherlock's only foe is his past, the mysterious happenings in London for which he is doing penance, reasons unknown (though potentially tied into his rehab). The return of his violin (his real violin, not the one he burned) seemed an important and difficult moment, and those sorts of clues will clearly be revealed slowly. Elementary should be careful though not to make those reveals too painfully slow, because the reality will never live up to the hype. Further, it creates an artificial narrative mountain that once we've scaled it we look around and say "so? What now?"
There are moments of Joan's life peppered in here and there, too, but the idea of her being so distraught over losing one patient seems thin. Hopefully there's more to that story, too. There's the ex-boyfriend and her parents disapproval to consider but, again, like most Watsons the private life isn't the interesting thing to us, it's Watson's relationship to Holmes and how Holmes dominates it and ruins it with everyone else (in the BBC's Sherlock that's shown through Watson's endless rotation of girlfriends and everyone's suspicions of the nature of his relationship with Sherlock, usually played for laughs at Watson's expense, though with an underlying tenderness).
Johnny Lee Miller continues to be a great, messy, twitchy whirlwind to watch as Sherlock, much more in the Robert Downey, Jr vein than Cumberbatch or Basil Rathbone (so far). He keeps Sherlock's necessary maddening ways while making his brilliance believable (no clairvoyant baseball games this week). Lucy Liu is a little more difficult to read as Joan, but the two have good chemistry that doesn't translate as romantic, and hopefully won't. The joke about Joan being Holmes' "valet" is so good because Watson in all incarnations of the Sherlock story really is a bit of a caretaker to the strange man. The "sober companion" role that Joan plays here is also good in that it's clunky enough to be typically Watson-esque, and additionally gives her some leverage over her strange ward.
Overall, the series continues to be worth watching, and despite a strong lead cast, it still seems to be struggling to define itself. Also, a programming note: CBS will be skipping a week of momentum for its new series before bringing it back October 18th.
Episode Rating: B+
Musings and Miscellanea:
- — As a violinist, it always irritates me to see actors portray playing the violin so utterly badly. I loved that they never showed Holmes playing the violin in the episode, we just heard the music from it.
- — "This side of my face is leathery from all of the slaps. This other side? Like a baby's bottom …" — Holmes
- — Loved Bell referring to Holmes as Harry Potter.
- — "Her coma is quite real" — Holmes. Not exactly …
- — Would Sherlock ever really wear a "good lookin" t-shirt? I'm also curious about the tattoos, still feels out of character to me.
- — Ha ha at Holmes calling group therapy an "addict festival."
- — Sure, that zipper mask is "for a friend" …
- — Hopefully Gregson gets more of a personality too and not just as a yes man for Holmes.


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As part of the Adobe Creative Cloud you will get full access to the Behance Platform ProSite. The ProSite solution will enable you to create your online portfolio, web site etc. There is more information about ProSite here. Also the Behance guys have put together a beginners guide, available here.
To get some inspiration and see what others have done with ProSite, head over to the main site here.


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In this more enlightened age in which we live, one resists the temptation to say all Greeks are alike, but damn if "Attenberg" doesn't bring to mind "Dogtooth," one of the best films of 2010.
"Attenberg," from director Athina Rachel Tsangari, debuted as part of Sundance's Spotlight selections. It was nominated for the Golden Lion at last year's Venice Film Festival, with star Ariane Labed winning best actress. Labed plays Marina, a 23-year-old woman preparing for her father's death from cancer. Oh, and she's never experienced sexual arousal. Her only friend is the "slutty" Bella (Evangelina Randou), with whom she practices kissing.
The film's title is a riff on Attenborough, as in Sir David, whose nature films are an obsession of Marina's. Like her favorite TV star, Marina is an observer of nature. But where Attenborough watches animals in the wild, Marina watches humans--from a distance. Marina engages in animalistic play-acting with both her father, Spyros (Vangelis Mourikis), and Bella, be it jumping up and down like gorillas or hissing at each other like cats.
Like "Dogtooth," "Attenberg" features a female whose emotional and sexual development is hopelessly stunted. And over the course of both films we watch those characters grapple with and ultimately break free from their bubble. But where "Dogtooth" is about the dangers of statism, "Attenberg" is about the dangers of being an observer of life as opposed to a participant.
"Attenberg" is not for everyone—it's very avant garde, and at times just plain weird—but it's a smart and funny look at human nature. If you're into that kind of thing.
"All Your Dead Ones"
Carlos Moreno first came to Sundance in 2008 with his comic gangster tale, "Dog Eat Dog" ("Perro Come Perro"). He returns this year with another darkly comedic tale, "All Your Dead Ones" ("Todos Sus Muertos"), about a farmer who one day discovers a pile of 50 corpses in his cornfield.
It's a great conceit, a very simple and clever way to explore the shortsightedness and venality of people, particularly those in power. Much of the humor owes a debt to Hitchcock's "The Trouble With Harry," but it would be unfair to dismiss "All Your Dead Ones" as derivative.
"The film has a lot of black humor and deals with the position we take in the moment we are confronted with that kind of situation," producer Edgar Ramirez explained to us earlier in the week. "It's not only about what happens in Colombia, it's about all conflicts. You hear every day, 200 people got killed in whatever place, and you get sorry for like 15 minutes and then your listening to the new Britney Spears song and you forget it because it's not your people, it's another person's dead people."
It's a beautifully shot film, with a cool visual wit and Álvaro Rodríguez is great as "Crosseyed," using his incredibly expressive face and silent-film-worthy physicality to the role. But much of the humor is torpedoed by atrociously translated subtitles that often require untangling, leaving the viewer a half-beat behind the action. Even the title is a tortured construction in English—"Todos Sus Muertos" may be perfectly reasonable phrase in Spanish, but no American would ever say, "Hey, come get all your dead ones.
"All Your Dead Ones" is very nearly great. With a nip and a tuck, and something other than Google Translate, it could've reached its potential. Anybody up for doing an American version?


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Stadium officials warn fans to stay off CWS field
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Channeling his best Clint Eastwood, the head of the agency that operates the College World Series stadium issued a warning Wednesday to fans tempted to dash onto the field during play: "Get off my lawn."
Roger Dixon, president of the Metropolitan Entertainment and Convention Authority, said security personnel have made it a priority this year to keep fans from disrupting games at TD Ameritrade Park.
"While we understand this may be viewed as just having fun, we want guests to understand that it is a safety and security issue and fans on the field cannot be tolerated," Dixon said.
The CWS begins Friday and runs through June 25 or 26.
Officials for decades have winced at beach balls floating out of the stands onto the field. But they want to nip what has been an increasing number of fan-on-the-field incidents in recent years.
The breaking point came last year when several young fans hopped the 8-foot outfield fence in the seventh inning of Game 1 of the finals. According to media reports, six people were ticketed, including a 17-year-old girl who patted the backsides of two players while grounds crew members and security personnel chased her.
Omaha city prosecutor David Smalheiser said trespassers face up to six months in jail and a $500 fine.
New signs warning fans to stay off the field have been placed around the ballpark.
Dixon said it was discovered after the fact that plans for last year's CWS finals incident had spread on Twitter. He said his security staff will be monitoring social media this year to determine if similar stunts are planned.
"I just think they're kids who get hopped up," Dixon said. "They're out here tweeting back and forth, talking about it, egging each other on. So we will start watching that now and when we see something like that building up, you'll probably see a bigger presence of security out there."
NCAA vice president of championships and alliances Dennis Poppe said fans who try to draw attention to themselves by running onto the field are spoiling what is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for many players. Poppe said he hopes the warnings dissuade potential pranksters.
"Frankly, you can't stop idiots," he said, "but you can do everything you can to make sure there isn't an interruption to the games."