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Monday, April 13, 2009
Still Crazy After All This Sinus
Never in my life have I had such a bad sinus infection. In fact, never in my life have I ever had a sinus infection, until now. Every time I move my head up or down, or even from side to side, it is agony. My jaw bone wants an out-of-body evacuation. I am in hell.
Not wanting to disturb our domestic tranquility or demote the general welfare, I limped through Easter like a one-legged rabbit. This bad mother had neither the energy nor inclination to hide a single egg. Chipper husband, however, enthusiastically speed-cooked a turkey at 450 f, mashed potatoes, and whipped up a broccoli casserole faster than a June Cleaver on amphetamines.
And don't get me wrong. I was truly grateful for his efforts. But the dirty pots and the left-over biscuit thrust willy-nilly into the fridge were, umm, less well-received by this barely-breathing mom.
But fear not, fellow mistresses of the economy. You are not forgotten. I am still slogging away at my Geithner post as my head explodes and my blogger account "forgets" the source links I've been diligently plugging into the main post.
Needless to say, this fubar situation has slowed me down quite a bit but still I plod on. Because you need to know the facts and you also need to know the criticisms do not just come from me. The Geithner plan is worse than you could have ever imagined and the window for us to express our outrage is winnowing. Hopefully I'll have the post up tomorrow or Wednesday.
How's that for a titillating cliffhanger, sure to lead to an anticlimactic finish?
In the meantime, and I hate leftover meatloaf even more than the next person, here is my encyclopoediaclical (word? sp?) subprime primer post from December, for you to peruse at your leisure while I am busy tweaking Timmy.
At least I can honestly say with a straight, however painful, face that a basic understanding of the real estate crash, and the subprime shenanigans that led up to it, will give you a decent foundation from which to evaluate the Geithner plan.
Alrighty then. I'm off to CVS to get that Neti pot I so ridiculed, lo those many months ago. Confucius say . . . . karma is a bitch.
Please, no cards or flowers. Casseroles only, fed-exed, in dry ice.
17 comments:
- Kristina P. said...
I love the picture with Reese Witherspoon and the neti pot. So calming.
And that meatloaf scares me. - April 13, 2009 at 11:40 PM
- The Dental Maven said...
Sounds like Chipper Husband did a great job!
You sure about that sinus teapot thingy?
Oh, and casserole is on it's way. - April 14, 2009 at 6:07 AM
- honeypiehorse said...
I admire you staying off the hard stuff, it's bad for the community and makes the germs stronger. Looking forward to your unpleasant truths post.
- April 14, 2009 at 6:38 AM
- Michele Renee said...
Have you stopped by the Minute Clinic while at CVS? I once got a great antibiotic for a sinus infection. Forget the name--begins with Bac. I can feel your head/sinus pain!!!!
- April 14, 2009 at 7:18 AM
- The Mother said...
Consider this your "Get Well Soon" card. And I'm going to devour your sub-prime post. I THINK I understand it. I think I do. I think I do...
- April 14, 2009 at 8:36 AM
- alicesworld said...
Oh netti pots are the WORST! And the most annoying thing about them is that they work.
- April 14, 2009 at 11:35 AM
- Vered - MomGrind said...
Husbands do have a way of creating even more work for us when they "help." I'm not sure how they manage that, but they do.
Feel better soon! - April 14, 2009 at 11:52 AM
- Becky said...
I am so sorry you're sick, and I adore you, but I am not watching that Neti pot video.
xoxox - April 14, 2009 at 5:13 PM
- Skunkfeathers said...
Y'know...I think I had that sinus infection, three months ago.
It was hell for a week. A week and a half. And it morphed into an upper respiratory infection that hung on...and on...and on...for two months.
I was annoyed. I was annoying.
Hang in there and best thoughts from a screwball Skunk for a speedy recovery, despite that meatloaf.
I'd send you a casserole, but what of my cooking survives the inferno of my culinary barbarianism, is a banned substance on the Homeland Security's WMD list, as well as EPA Super Fund and OSHA HAZMAT listings. My bad. REAL BAD. I wasn't nicknamed Chef Boy-R-Deestructive as a kid fer nuthin' ;) - April 14, 2009 at 8:51 PM
- A Lawyer Mom's Musings said...
Weekday update: I do believe I've turned the corner. No z-pak or neti is needed, although FYI, the New York Times just gave the neti a big green light.
But I would like to know why it is that men just stick random uncovered foods into the refrigerator? It's so primitive. And when they do cover stuff up, why do they pick the most ginormous bowl they can find to warehouse a tiny carrot or a small tomato wedge?
From first-hand experience, I know they're good at packing car trunks. But packing the fridge, with any efficiency or some semblance of being sanitary? Umm, no. - April 14, 2009 at 10:35 PM
- LadyFi said...
Poor you! Sinus infections are terrible - and hurt!
Hope you're inhaling liquid chocolate in that Neti pot instrument of torture! - April 15, 2009 at 3:29 AM
- the Mayor said...
You poor thing, it's a wonder between your sinus infection and cramming for your upcoming post we are all salivating to read, your head didn't just pop right off.
Get well soon, before your husband develops a much more severe illness as husbands tend to do. - April 15, 2009 at 8:03 AM
- kimmirich said...
Lol!!! Ohh, I can relate to sinus. Ugh. Feel better, sweetie.
Ps. neti-pot = good medicine. - April 15, 2009 at 8:32 AM
- Meximom said...
Hi girl! Looks like our visit in Dallas was not going to work with all this lovely illness between us! I hope you are on the mend and look forward to your new post!
- April 15, 2009 at 10:21 AM
- Debbie said...
I really think a sinus infection is some of the worst pain ever. Even your teeth hurt. I am so sorry for you.
- April 15, 2009 at 7:38 PM
That little blue pot works . . .so do antibiotics, though. I hope you feel better soon!
- April 16, 2009 at 2:46 AM
- Wendy said...
I've heard those pots are awesome but couldn't do it myself what with my fear of drowning and all.
- April 18, 2009 at 7:31 AM


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in Breton National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana
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Published May 4, 2010
Part of an ongoing series on the environmental impacts of the Gulf oil spill.
Other than a few orange tubes encircling a sandbar southwest of Louisiana's Chandeleur Islands, there's no sign anything's amiss.
Dozens of chattering shorebirds—punctuated by the odd pelican—are relaxing on this shallow strip of land in Breton National Wildlife Refuge, known as one of the most important bird breeding grounds in the world. (See pictures of places that could be America's next national parks.)
After heavy rains, experts from a handful of conservation groups traveled by boat Monday to see if oil from the ongoing Gulf of Mexico spill had yet reached the birds at this remote spot. (See a map of Louisiana's barrier islands.)
So far, nothing.
But a heavy band of oil has been spotted at the refuge's back door—"and time is either a friend or an enemy," Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation, said over the avian cacophony.
Even if oil never washes up in the refuge, the region's birds may be silenced if the crude lingers deep in the Gulf of Mexico, experts say.
That's because 5,000 barrels of oil (210,000 gallons, or 794,937 liters) a day are thought to be bleeding from a damaged wellhead at the nearby site of the Deepwater Horizon rig disaster. All that oil is poisoning the less photogenic creatures—plankton, sand crabs, and fish larvae, among others—at the base of the region's food web, Schweiger noted.
If the oil spill can't be contained, the Gulf of Mexico could have another "dead zone in the making," according to Sylvia Earle, a marine biologist and National Geographic explorer-in-residence. (National Geographic News is owned by the National Geographic Society.)
Often caused by algal blooms, dead zones are swaths of ocean devoid of life, save for hardy bacteria. (Related: "Gulf of Mexico 'Dead Zone' Is Size of New Jersey.")
Oil Spill Making Toxic "Chocolate Mousse"
Oil bubbling up from the Gulf of Mexico wellhead, which sits more than 5,000 feet (about 1,500 meters) below the water's surface, is coming from even deeper inside the Earth.
That means the oil is heavier and thicker than the crude spilled in past, tanker-based disasters, noted Ron Kendall, chair of the Department of Environmental Toxicology at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
When there's turbulent weather—as the Gulf of Mexico has experienced over the past few days—the dense oil mixes with water to form an emulsion, a sort of gooey, chocolate mousse-like substance, Kendall said.
This concoction presents a greater dilemma than the "physical problems of just sticking to a feather," he said. The emulsion is toxic to birds, baby sea turtles, fish embryos, crabs, and shrimp larvae, not to mention sea grasses and marshlands.
What's more, the catastrophe is hitting the Gulf at its most sensitive time of the year—when sea turtles and commercially important species of fish and shrimp are spawning, he noted. (See pictures of how the Gulf oil spill is affecting wildlife.)
"Impacts to the birds will be the thing that is most visible to the public, but it is not just their deaths that we should be concerned about," said John "Wes" Tunnell, associate director of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi.
Infauna, or small organisms such as clams and tubeworms that live in ocean sediments, are vital food sources for shorebirds and other coastal animals.
After the 1979 Ixtoc oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the area's infauna were reduced by up to 90 percent, Tunnell said—a potential reason many bird species left the area in the wake of the nine-month-long spill.
However, there may be a bright side: Organisms at the bottom of the food chain reproduce more rapidly than bigger animals, Tunnell pointed out by email. After the Ixtoc spill, infauna returned to pre-spill levels within about a year.
Gulf of Mexico's Deadly Experiment
Some scientists also worry about one of the joint federal-industry response team's methods for controlling the oil: dumping chemical dispersants into the Gulf of Mexico.
These chemicals merely break up the oil into smaller droplets, making it less likely to spread—but more likely to drift down and choke life on the seafloor.
"We're wiping out critical elements of the base of the food chain of the Gulf," Texas Tech's Kendall said. "This is an ecotoxological experiment underway in one of the world's most productive and fragile ecosystems."
As oil droplets spread through the water column, the crude can be fatal to plankton, the tiny, open-ocean creatures that many larger animals depend on, according to marine biologist Earle.
Rescue workers can clean and treat oiled birds and other relatively large animals that come ashore. But "how do you deal with deoiling plankton?" Earle said.
In addition to feeding marine species, plankton suck up carbon dioxide, a vital job in a warming world and one that climate engineers are trying to emulate, Earle noted. (See pictures of seven emergency climate fixes.)
"What we do to the ocean, we're doing to our life-support system—we're doing it to ourselves," Earle said.
Oil Always Wins
Standing in the warm, calf-deep water of the bird refuge, the National Wildlife Federation's Schweiger pointed out that the marshes of the Gulf Coast replenish the entire ecosystem, for instance by protecting shorelines from eroding.
If exposed to oil, these Louisiana wetlands—which human development has already diminished by 40 percent—may wither away, leaving just the open ocean.
And that means the noisy shorebirds nesting just a few hundred feet behind him would have to find another place to go.
"When oil collides with wildlife," Schweiger said, "oil always wins."
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Comment posted Now see for yourself: For Argyll challenges anyone to say SPR plans for Argyll Array at Tiree are acceptable by Robert Wakeham.
'..if most of that output is produced overnight..' is there any evidence that most of a windfarm's energy is produced 'overnight'? (other, of course, than when there are more hours of darkness in winter months, when it could be argued that in northern Norway in mid winter all the energy is produced overnight)
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- Is there not still the hope that hydrogen generation would be the most likely 'battery' – if it can be made to work in practice.
- This makes it sound as if plonking monopiles (or whatever) all over this stretch of seabed is almost guaranteed to cause widespread damage to a valuable ecosystem, so has this been picked up in the environmental impact study (or am I being naive?)
- It would seem that the practicalities of installing and operating the Sound of Islay turbines are being refined with the experience gained with the test turbine of the same type that's operating in Orkney waters – and that's been featured on BBC news in the last few days. So how closely the environmental impact of the multiple Sound of Islay turbines will mirror that of the Orkney machine remains to be seen, as there must surely be limits as to how closely the effects in one location will be replicated elsewhere.
- Malcolm, 'I would think now that discussions have taken place as to where it is coming ashore the estimate is now very much higher' is rather an opaque statement, but do you mean that the proposed length of the undersea section of the Tiree array power connection has been substantially increased? Has the length been defined, and are you now able to suggest a cost by direct comparison with the length and cost of the Shetland connection?
- Malcolm: It's just that you're sometimes very careless with your 'facts' – the undersea section of the Shetland HVDC interconnector will be 320km long, and the total cost (including shore links and converter stations) is estimated at just over £300 million. Your suggestion that the undersea stretch of the Tiree Array cable will be half that length is surely quite misleading, as is the suggestion that the cost estimate for the Shetland link is £650 million – as far as I can see it was originally costed by National Grid at around £500 million, but this has been revised downwards. My point is that if you want to make sensible comments you should be more careful with your facts.
Recent comments by Robert Wakeham
- Radically new council group changes all the dynamics: party politics dead in Argyll
Maybe that one was a multi-tasking oozlum bird. - Argyll and Bute Council: Where are we now?
Why do you assume that 'anyone' was voting for a political party, rather than for their best local representative? Isn't that a major factor in the current mess? - Big welcome at Campbeltown for new Ardrossan ferry
I wonder if there's scope for WCM to extend any bus routes that could be deemed to 'connect' to the ferry terminal – the current (traditional) Campbeltown bus terminal seems to be conveniently located for the buses but less so for many of the passengers, let alone anyone using the new Ardrossan / Arran ferry link.. - Radically new council group changes all the dynamics: party politics dead in Argyll
Surely party politics are national politics, dealing with national issues, and as such can often get in the way of resolving the local authority issues that councillors are elected to deal with. - Radically new council group changes all the dynamics: party politics dead in Argyll
Thinking of ornithological similes, the behaviour of the Argyll & Bute body politic brings to mind the story of the fabled Oozlum Bird – the one that flew in ever decreasing circles…..
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I recently ran into this article titled 'Where Have the Good Men Gone?' which is basically a critique on how the "men" of today are living an extended adolescence. While women are taking over businesses, establishing careers, and pretty much just wiping the floor with their male counterparts.
And the funny thing is, this is what inspired me to write about singles resorts. I know you're wondering how can an article saying that the "good man" is slowly fading into obsolescence give me the urge to write about singles resorts? Which is probably the last place you'll ever hope to find a "good man."
But I think this is exactly the reason why I'm writing about singles resorts. If you've read the article, don't you get the feeling that the modern woman has been portrayed as an all-business, cut-throat, ice cold thing that rhymes with witch? That they are beyond going to places like singles resorts to have their dose of fun with the not-so-good men?
So this list of singles resorts is for the ladies who can find the not-so-good man and turn him, by love or through other means, into one heck of a good man. Yes, girl you can flirt and save a dying breed at the same time.
I don't think I even have to explain what goes on in here. This could be, in a nutshell, what all singles resorts are all about, the pursuit of fun and pleasure. As per their website, nudity is not optional, it is encouraged. Needless to say, the resort is only open to men and women 18 years old and above. Have fun and be safe, I say.
Just based on its tagline, (Travel Single, Never Alone!) you already know you're going to have fun aboard this cruise. What's good about Singles Cruise is that their cruises are defined by age groups, so you're sure not to end up with grandma and grandpa on their retirement vacation. However, cruises are kind of tricky, since you're going to be spending maybe a whole week with the same people aboard the ship. It's either you'll be bored out of your wits (if you don't find any of the other cruise passengers interesting or to your liking) or spend all your time avoiding that guy you met last night at the Congo line instead of enjoying the trip. So sail carefully.
Sometimes you've got to heat things up in the snow. Whistler Black Comb, located in Western Canada which is being dubbed as the "young, fun city for single adults" is just one of the singles resorts that highlight skiing and other winter sports. It's consistently included in the Top 10 Best Ski Resorts in North America, so expect nothing but the best. Also, being on a snowy peak is a very different atmosphere as compared to a beach setting. Of course, in this temperature and high-altitude you have every excuse to invite someone to join you for a dip at the Jacuzzi.


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I found myself chuckling and nodding in agreement as I saw these videos because it mirrors so many situations I have experienced. As I watched, I tried to focus on a reaction instead of trying to over-analyze. Cross cultural partnering initiatives are fast becoming the de-facto mode of operation for global mission and church initiatives. The situation described here dramatically depicts the complexities of facilitating and participating in multicultural partnerships. I think it merits more reflection and extended conversation.
With the increasing participation of the Global Church in Mission, partnership facilitators must be trained and experienced in cross-cultural issues. In the North African scenario, there was an inherent complexity in having participants from 8 different countries, different native languages, denominational/doctrinal and age backgrounds. Although the facilitator assumed--consistently with his culture--that people would have read the agenda in advance, that was not the case. It was also assumed that since no issues were raised by email, that it meant the proposed agenda was accepted by all. Their minds were quickly changed as objections were immediately raised. I believe that the facilitator's experience and cross-cultural skills helped him to react wisely and to seek a solution that was spiritual in nature.
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New guy here. I want to sign up for points this weekend.in Sportsman class is it to late to sign up?. Im a NHRA member is there still a fee to sign.Been there 2 times this season. ( I have the blue 71Caprice) Where do I go to sign up. I use to race there back in the 70s-80s., Will be great racing there. Thanks Dave Borror
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Cool, I like that Caprice. There used to be a silver with a black top Impala that would show up at Super Chevy that was cool too.
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I'm sure you can still join the points and to go to Indy you have to be in the top so many cars in your class to go. Not sure how many, they can take I think a 30 total of racers.
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According to the season guide they are taking 32. Also a few weeks back when Wayne Wonders signed up he was told that was the last week to sign up for points. So it may be to late. Hopefully Not.
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I wonder how I can find out for sure?I'm use to running divisional races,and this is the 1st year I am doing bracket racing points,Im signed up at NTR, and am sitting ok in points there,But I would have signed up with PM if at the first of the year if I knew then what I know know, I just feel Pace Maker runs a better program,and would rather represent Pace Maker if I can rank enough in points to go to Indy.Even though its twice the tow distance for me.
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We take a total of 32 cars to the Bracket Finals in Indy which are made up of cars from all three ET classes. We determine the number from each class based on weekly car counts. Right now it would probably be 14 from each super pro and pro and 4 from sportsman.
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[Plugin] Scale2Face.rbHi all,
I have a collection of groups and components, they are in different dimensions and different shapes, and I want them to become taller or shorter in the way of scaling by z, so that all the grp/compo will have a certain height defined by the target face I gave. Actually I hope the target face is not only a flat face, but also some slope or curve face or a face collection, I think this script may have some relationship with the drop.rb, but I am not sure if it's easy to write.I wish someone can help me on this! Many thanks for taking care no matter it's solved or not! Please, register (free) to access all the attachments on the forums.
Last edited by su30 on Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:07 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: [REQ] Scale2FaceCheck out FredoScale. In particular, the "scale to target" and "stretch to target" modes.
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[Plugin] Scale2Face v1.3Here's a Ruby that'll do it [please change the original post's title to [Plugin]...]
. scale2face.rb Usage: Select face(s) & group/component-instance(s) located below face(s). Unacceptable selections produce error dialogs. Pick 'Scale2Face' off the Plugins Menu or type scale2face in the Ruby Console. The selected items will be scaled upwards [in the Z] until their CLs meet the face or faces. Any intermediate faces etc are ignored; the scaling passes through them. It has a one step un-do. To Do: Alternative orientations to just the UP in Z. E.G. down and in XY Version: 1.0 20090717 First Release. 1.1 20090721 Tweaked to avoid height glitches. 1.2 20090811 Multi-face support added. Error msgs disabled. 1.3 20090819 Now works within groups/component edits. Please, register (free) to access all the attachments on the forums.
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Re: [Plugin] Scale2Facewow TIG nice one, and good idea, that couldve saved me some time a couple projects ago
Re: [Plugin] Scale2FaceVery cool indeed!!! Just wondering TIG; will this script work when you want to extend a wall top to a sloping roof for instance?
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TIG, I have to say you are great! It's not the first time that my request answered by you quickly, your describe for the script is what exactly what I am searching for, and even more that I didn't image. I changed the title of this thread and tested the script, but some unexpected results comes, the items were not scaled correctly, I think there must be some difference happens between our system condition, do you remember the 'lines2component.rb' last time you write? I found nearly the same thing happened this time. su30
Re: [Plugin] Scale2Face.rbsu30
What's the nature of the problem you are having ? I quickly churned out this first version... It might be buggy. Are you components originally drawn so that their eventual Z is the model Z etc ? Please try it using a simple box component (say 500x500x1000mm high and see if that [or several copies] scales up to a selected face ? Because the component instance is stretched up in the Z it must be consistent in its XY cross-section, otherwise it will distort... If you want to keep the base detail unchanged and simply want the top faces of the instances' to stretch up [with the base detail remaining unchanged] then the script would need to make each instance 'unique' and then change its definition - finding its top face and then using '.move!' on it to relocate it up at the face-intersect Z to suit... Please feedback - I don't like flaky scripts out there with my name on... TIG
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I used the script and followed the steps, but this happened every time, this is the feed back, please check the picture bellow: Please, register (free) to access all the attachments on the forums. su30
Re: [Plugin] Scale2Face.rbsu30
I'm getting the exact same problems ! I didn't before - I am investigating... TIG
Re: [Plugin] Scale2Face.rb v1.1Version 1.1 is here...
viewtopic.php?p=173374#p173374 Fixed the glitch [I think]... Code was all messed up somehow !!! TIG
Re: [Plugin] Scale2Face.rbTIG
Here is a simple feedback of the script, scale items to a single slope. It works pretty fine with the boxes in group and component, but a little problem with 'Bryce', a face camera component. picture followed... Please, register (free) to access all the attachments on the forums. su30
Re: [Plugin] Scale2Face.rbThis is another test for v1.1
groups, components, single slope components are in different x,y,z position, and in different x,y,z scale, it proves good with these items. now the plugin works when only 1 face was selected, I don't know if it is possible to do it on multi faces or curve face, maybe you have already worked on it, TIG. Sorry that I can't reply on time because the time difference... Please, register (free) to access all the attachments on the forums. su30
Re: [Plugin] Scale2Face.rbI have considered multiple faces and have a draft almost ready...
I don't know why 'Bryce' fails - I suspect it's because the face was originally draw flat on the Z plane and then tilts up to 'face-me' ? I'll look at it... In passing: I've also got an early draft for a 'Stretch2Face' Ruby that takes works with groups and faces; the topmost vertices of any vertical faces in the group get moved up to snap onto the face(s) selected - that way you could easily stretch the top of a wall face up to the underside of a sloping or even curved roof ? Thanks for the feedback, any other ideas or problems please let me know... TIG
Re: [Plugin] Scale2Face.rbyes I am looking forward for the multi_face version
this script will be very efficiency while editing a big amount of components, and I think it is promising. thank you TIG for the excellent work! Please, register (free) to access all the attachments on the forums. su30
Re: [Plugin] Scale2Face.rbTIG, I am wondering if you have some process script I can have a try?
still watching this ^_^ su30
Re: [Plugin] Scale2Face.rbHi All
Didier's [Project_faces_vector.rb] will put selected face on inclined plane. Just draw a reference line vector in the direction wanted for projection path. dtr Please, register (free) to access all the attachments on the forums.
Re: [Plugin] Scale2Face.rbGreat Plugin btw,
Just wondered if there are any developments of a version that takes into account a sloped surface instead of a flat plane? Many thanks
Re: [Plugin] Scale2Face.rb
Ditto. I think this would be neat!!! purpose/expression/purpose/....
Re: [Plugin] Scale2Face.rb v1.2At long last version v1.2 is now available.
Link: viewtopic.php?p=173374#p173374 It Scales any Selected Component-instances/Groups up in Z to Selected Faces above them. It works for curved Surfaces, but remember that it Scales to all Selected Faces... so if you select a horizontal cylinder its whole curved Face gets Selected (which is actually Face facets) and therefore it Scales to the lower [nearer] Faces and then the upper Faces - if you want to Scale to just the lower [nearer] Faces you must first switch on Hidden Geometry and them Select just the lower Face facets required and it then Scales things just to those... Feedback please Last edited by TIG on Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: [Plugin] Scale2Face.rbTIG,
Tried and tested. Works absolutely perfect! Many thanks this will be a great help.
Re: [Plugin] Scale2Face.rbTig it doesn't work within groups
And maybe clicking 3 points instead of face would be better solution? Thank you (I mean it!)
Re: [Plugin] Scale2Face.rb v1.3
It does work inside groups etc now ! See here for v1.3 viewtopic.php?p=173374#p173374 Easy fix ray[1].last gives face if in group/component edit mode... TIG
Re: [Plugin] Scale2Face.rbdon't know how i missed this one
Thankyou! "There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see."
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Re: [Plugin] Scale2Face.rb
it would be awsome if the scaled face matched the shape/angle of the scaled to face. any plans? Please, register (free) to access all the attachments on the forums. "There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see."
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The future bride is the daughter of Danny and Debbie Durham of Chickamauga and the granddaughter of Clyde and Wanda Cox of East Ridge and Maxine Durham of Chickamauga and the late John Daniel Durham.
Parents of the bridegroom are Jeff and Angela Acuff of Chattanooga. His grandparents are Hunley and Barbara Acuff of Rossville, Elsa Bell of Flintstone and the late James Edward Bell. He is the sister of Ashlyn Acuff of Chattanooga.
Durham is a graduate of Gordon Lee High School and earned an associate's degree in nursing from Dalton State College. She is pursuing a bachelor's degree in nursing at the University of West Georgia and works as a registered nurse at Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga. She is a member of Oakwood Baptist Church in Chickamauga.
Acuff is a graduate of Chattanooga Christian School and is pursuing a bachelor's degree in business at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He works as a supply clerk at Chattem, Inc. in Chattanooga and is a member of Lookout Valley Baptist Church in Chattanooga.


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Jordan Robson Cramer played in a smattering of bands as a teenager in Victoria, BC, Canada before graduating from high school and shipping out to Montreal. Once in la belle province, Robson Cramer continued making music; he is in Sunset Rubdown and also performs with Miracle Fortress when Graham Van Pelt plays live.Magic Weapon started as Robson Cramer with Mathieu Malouf in 2005; a self-titled ep haphazardly recorded in a filthy artist loft was released in October 2006. The latest incarnation features JRC on keys/ vocals with Matt Shane (also of Think About Life) on drums and Rory Seydel (of Shapes and Sizes) on guitar. Their latest ep, 'Residue Hymns', was recorded at Breakglass Studios in Montreal (Besnard Lakes, Sunset Rubdown, Islands) with Dave Smith and was mixed by Graham Van Pelt at Friendship Cove. A month long tour with Sunset Rubdown saw them touring throughout North America.


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AMERICANA: The Mavericks, "In Time," Valory Music, 3 1/2 Stars
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