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Awesome Typography Artworks by Ilk
Ilk is one of this kind illustrator who came across graffiti during the course of his life. You can see how this activity had a major influence on his typography work since it's almost like a blend between modern and flat style type with some more street and funky style. The results are just ridiculously amazing, just check it! You can see more of this outstanding works at Ilk's Website.
Gore and Visceral Artworks by Nychos
Nychos is one of these all time recognizable artists, even when he's not doing some gore illustration or wall painting, his technique just got so much particular that you will know instantly know who's the author. Bunnies, splatter, gore scenes and black humor are some recurring themes on his highly detailed pieces. You should check more of Nychos work, it's definitely worth it, so just check his Website.
The Incredible Universe of Phlegm
Years ago, when I was starting out with illustration and stuff, most experienced artists told me that I should not worry about find a aesthetic and theme, that would simply come with time. Well, when it comes to street art a lot of artist mostly can get random about themes and change their aesthetic often. So I must say Phlegm really knows how to stick with what he do, creating a impressive universe not only on the wall, but also on his comics. For more information and pictures, please acess his Blog. Phlegm from Andy Skillen on Vimeo.
Interview with Dabs and Myla
Today I'm going to introduce to you guys this adorable australian couple of graffiti writers, please welcome Dabs and Myla. These fellas have been doing some extremely funky and interesting artworks both on the streets and on galleries. So it's really nice to have a the opportunity to understand more about their story and other topics. If you want to know more about this adorable couple, please visit their Website or their Blog. 1) In the name of the Abduzeedo team, I would like to thank you guys for your time and kindness to answer this interview. Let's start by asking you, when you start getting interest by Graffiti and Illustration? DABS: We actually both started at different points, I had been writing graffiti for about 10 years before we met. We met and fell in love at Art School, and started working together. I taught MYLA how to use spray paint when we met, and the basics of style writing. She took it from there and developed her own skill set and style very quickly! We have both always been interested in illustration and painting though! Even before we studied together we had a similar interest in style and technique. 2) Tell us more about your influences and guys who inspired you. MYLA: I think that we gain the majority of our inspiration from each other. We are really lucky to be able to share our lives and our artwork together, and we are constantly influencing each other and bouncing ideas and new theories back and forth. Outside of that though, I think we get a lot of inspiration from our friends and crew members. That's whats great about being in a crew, working with your friends on a large scale and constantly learning from each other. 3) I find your artworks and graffs really amazing, they're so colorful and happy. So, when you developed this aesthetic and how could you describe it. DABS:Our style is something that has slowly developed bit by bit over the past 7 years. I think it comes from our early influences in illustration and old animation, as well as being a reflection of our attitude and day to day steez! We are really happy people! We love our life and enjoy pretty much every second of it...so I think our artwork and characters has a positive vibe on it just based on the people its coming from. 4) Nowadays, do you think that it's possible to make a living doing Graffiti and Street Art? DABS: Of course!!...If your willing to work your ass off for it and have confidence in your own abilities. 5) How's you daily workflow? MYLA: Hectic!!...We always seem to have more to do than we can fit into one day!!..But we love it that way! We love what we do, and love to work hard at it. We spend pretty much 7 days a week from 7am till 11pm working in the studio on our paintings. The only times we really leave is to go outside and paint a wall. We are lucky that we both enjoy the same things and have a similar work ethic which allows us to work like crazy like this!! 6) What's you favorite piece at the moment? MYLA: I think at the moment our favorite piece is a painting that we just made for a show in Miami during Art Basel titled 'You are the light'. It's a bigger scale painting for us, and we are really happy with how it came out. 7) What are your future projects for 2012? DABS:We have a lot of interesting things ahead in 2012. Like most years we will spend the majority of the year working on paintings for shows, but we are planning to take more time to paint more large scale murals this year, and will be traveling a bit too. We also will be curating a show at Thinkspace Gallery in L.A which i think will be pretty epic!! 8) Tell us five lessons you've learned till now on being a successful Graphic Artist. *WORK HARDER AND LONGER THAN YOU THINK YOU COULD EVER POSSIBLY WORK. *ALWAYS KEEP PUSHING YOURSELF AND YOUR STYLE. *MAKE THINGS THE WAY YOU WANT THEM TO LOOK, DONT BE TOO INFLUENCED BY TRENDS OR WHATS GOING ON AROUND YOU. DO IT FOR YOURSELF. *DONT BE A DICK TO PEOPLE!! *THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT...ALWAYS!!! 9) Tell us five site you love. JERSEYJOEART.COM SDMCREW.COM THEWORLDSBESTEVER.COM JUXTAPOZ.COM SOURHARVEST.COM 10) Thanks for your time Dabs and Myla, please leave a final message to everyone how's starting at the creative field. DABS:Its just art...don't kill your self over it!! Enjoy it and have fun!
New Graffiti Work from ABOVE
I'm glad to announce that our friend and graffiti master ABOVE just uploaded his portfolio with some amazing new work. If you are a fan of graffiti work and street art you will love to see these murals and stencils. From art galleries to huge graffiti murals, ABOVE has done it all. Take a look. To visit his website with some fresh updated work go to www.goabove.com ABOVE recently spent some time in Miami and here is what he left behind Here is some more work from around the globe
Introducing The Bronken Fingaz Crew
It's hard to describe the art from the israeli crew, it's a sort of mix of Retro Comic Book, Hardcore/Punk Rock Drawings and Psychedelic Paintings. Anyway, that actually doesn't matter, because they can bring some really stunning results, I just got addicted on their style. If you want to know more about this crew, please access their Website.
Interview with Alexandre Farto (aka. Vhils)
Today we have the pleasure to show you a fresh interview with one of the big names in the urban art scene of the world, his name's Alexandre Farto aka Vhils. Alexandre is recognized by his "destructive" creations and in this interview he speaks about his background, techniques, style and other interesting subjects, check it out. For more information about Alexandre visit his Website. 1) First of all I would like to thank you for doing this interview, it's an honor for us to present more about you to our readers. I would like to start asking you about when your interest for art, graffiti and urban art began. I believe that my interest about the expressionist world began with everything I saw in the streets of Lisbon, Portugal while I grew up: a contrast among the decay of the political murals painted around the 70's and 80's, after the 1974 Revolution, and the overlap of the capitalist publicity and its colors and shapes, getting around in full speed by the end of the 80's. I started to do some graffiti when I was 10 years old and started to take it more seriously when I was 13. It was the graffiti that got my interest for art and everything surrounding it. It was the graffiti that made me study art in school, and everything I got to know after it in terms of world arts, contemporary or classic, everything began with my interest in graffiti. 2) Which artists do you use for reference? When I started I really admired artists related to Lisbon's hardcore graffiti, some of them became friends, and I also admired artists from around the world that I got to see on magazines, movies, etc. Crews from Lisbon as GVS R1 3D 2S LEG 1003PV were big references, as the EWC from Poland, SDK from France and many others. After a while I discovered the work of Banksy, which inspired me to take a new direction, not in terms of style but in terms of concept and what to explore in urban art. Nowadays I admire the work of many people, including Gordon Matta-Clark, Katherina Grosse, JR, Conor Harrington, Word 2 Mother, NeckFace, Faile, Blu, Gaia, Barry McGee, Os Gêmeos and more. 3) People recognize you for starting a destructive urban art movement, something new and fresh that nobody tried before. How did you develop this style and how would you describe it? The development of this line of work has essentially two bases: one is graffiti in its most destructive side, which I have been connected to for many years; the second is the stencil technique that I discovered while I was looking for new paths that allowed me to express a new way of communication. From the first one I picked up the concept of destruction as creative strength - based on this idea I developed a way of work that uses the removal, decomposition or destruction. The concept is the idea that we are made by a series of influences that shape us throughout historical layers, etc, that come from the environment where we grew up. In a very symbolic way I believe that if we remove some of these layers, showing other ones, we can bring to surface some of the stuff we left behind, forgotten things that are still part of what we are today. Technology is changing things so quickly that we don't have enough time to think about what is changing (new layers), what is affecting us. I try to underline this process in general, my work can be seen as a kind of archeology that tries to understand what is hidden behind things. These ideas found expression when I started to experiment with the stencil technique and understood that I could revert the process to have more impact: instead of creating while adding layers, I explored the idea of creating by removing layers. I experimented with this process using several methods - cutting clusters of posters, corroding silkscreen ink with acid, etc. - and naturally things started to gain a brutal and raw shape. When I passed the idea to walls it was natural to work with this removal concept, this negative field. The process itself can be brutal and violent, but the result in my opinion, is expressive and poetic. The result was visibly interesting and allowed to start to incorporate the wall as one of the physical components to the intervention, unlike what happened to the painting, where the wall was a base. From there, the usage of explosives was another step that evolved after a lot of research and tests. These testing stages are something really nice to do, it's actually a pleasure, and it usually results as a main part of my work. 4) Today there is a big discussion about the legitimacy of urban art and graffiti, what are the limits that an artist must put on his work and what exactly would be the public space. What is your opinion about this issues? As a citizen I understand that this is a complex issue that can't be seen as 'light' or black and white, yes or no - there are a lot of factors involved in this. In a more personal approach, in the other hand, I understand that we shouldn't have limits in art, nor to the space where we apply it. No rules should be applied to art. 5) What do you think about the recent transition of several urban artists into fine arts and galleries? Is urban art still urban art inside a museum? Yes, if the art is honest with its essence and if you take the space "to be what it is" and not be domesticated, which is a natural tendency in closed spaces because art in closed spaces is, essentially, marketable art. The museums may be exceptions to this because they disclose art, but not galleries, which usually are interested in selling art. There is naturally a big difference between things produced freely on the streets and things produced to be showcased in a closed space, but I believe they are not opposites or exclude one another. For those interested in expressing their work both spaces are interesting, we just need to look at the productions inside their context. Street art is in a public space - what is produced for a gallery or museum is essentially a new version of a work, in a new context. What each artist makes with his work is something very particular. 6) How do you describe your daily routine? Actually it's a bit complicated because I never know what will happen... It depends on where I am, and lately I'm always doing something in different places, so things vary a lot. In general I work everyday, in my house, studio or even at the airport - when I'm traveling. I don't have a pre-defined space for work and pleasure, everything happens naturally. My life involves a lot of production, research and a lot of work, which I really like, so I don't separate that. It's pretty normal for me to be involved in several projects at the same time, and it's usually in different countries. I have a base in Lisbon and another in London, it's interesting to always be on the move but sometimes it's hard to manage everything - sometimes I really need to stop everything and take some days off. 7) Which is your favorite piece so far? I'm not sure, I usually like my latest work the most. 8) Tell us five lessons you believe are really important 1- There are no rules 2- There are no small materials 3- Persistence is key 4- In error we find creation 5-Go with the flow 9) Tell us sites that you like to visit woostercollective.com unurth.com notcot.com 10) We would like to thank you again for your time and kindness, have a nice day Alexandre.
Funky Illustrations and Graffiti by Low Bros
I love vector graphics, but I'm also a great fan of the aesthetic side Graffiti. If I could mix something that would be a hybrid between those two kind of medias, it would be something really familiar to the art of Low Bros. I mean, these guys got such a interesting flat and polygonal style with a really good use of colors. They really know how to make some really cool and funky characters, also their canvas and illustration work are pretty neat, so check them out. You can get in touch with more of this awesomeness by accessing via their Flickr.
Galactic Graffiti Typography by Roid
We must admit we're getting into the point where tradicional techniques and digital techniques start to blend. I mean, just take a look at the pieces o Roid, one of the MSK crew writers, he's galactic and geometrical style remind us a lot of retro futuristic digital art. Yet, he's not doing this on computer, but on walls. You can see more pieces from Roid rigth on his Flickr Gallery.
Introducing the Visceral 123 Klan
Weeks ago I got truly amazed when I found out this mates from Montreal. 123 Klan is super creative studio focused on illustration and graffiti. In fact, these buddies have never denied their graffiti background and decided to introduce this aesthetic on their work, the results are just beyond fantastic, check out: You can see more projects form 123 Klan at their Official Website.
Happy and Colorful Street Art by Pez
While I was in Barcelona I had the opportunity to see a lot Pez artworks on the streets of the city. It's quite undeniable that the first reaction you got when you see this little fish on a wall is to automatically smile, it's so cheerful and vibrant. It's really funny to think that it all started with a simple tag from the artist that with time just morphed into this remarkable fish. If you to know more about Pez and his artworks, please access his Website.
Marvelous Mural Art by El Mac and Retna
Seriously, I believe El Mac and Retna are probably the best partnership since Batman and Robin. These two guys can make some really outstanding mural paintings, it's like one completes the work of the other and the result is a powerful combination of colors and striking lines. You should definetely check more about both of them, so here's some links: Retna Website and El Mac Website. Gracias La Vida (2009) Hollywood & Western (2007) The Voice of Reason (2006) The Knight (2009) Young Scribe (2008) Collige, Virgo, Rosas (2010) El Mac & Retna - COLLIGE, VIRGO, ROSAS (2009) from ELMAC on Vimeo. La Reina de Thai Town (2010) El Mac & Retna - Thai Town, L.A. (2010) from ELMAC on Vimeo.Skid Row (Blessed are The Meek) (2010) EL MAC / RETNA / Estevan Oriol - LA Skid Row mural (2010) from ELMAC on Vimeo.Of Our Youth (Chato) (2010) Miracle (Cada Pequeño Milagro) (2011) Let The Arts Roam from I Am Los Angeles on Vimeo.
Rad Train Graffiti
It might be seen as vandalism, but for street art appreciators, trains are potential canvases. When artists come up with good looking art, it just makes cities a little happier. The first 4 images are in Abduzeedo's home town, Porto Alegre. All the others are from several cities around the globe. These are very creative, and I gotta say that for these, usually the most colorful ones are simply the best, but of course, it also depends on the overall style. Well, don't forget to visit each one of these! I hope you enjoy them. Cheers!
A Brief Introduction into Graffiti Typography
As some of you, I always noticed the graffiti on the streets of my town, and I used to do that since I was a kid. I always wanted to understand what those letters meant. Part of not understanding is due to the fact that I didn't know much about graffiti and its culture, but as soon as I got in touch with some graffiti artists I started to understand how they do their work and why. So, my goal with this tutorial is not just to showcase and explain a bit of graffiti typography, but to help to break the prejudice that a lot of people, even in the creative area, got with this kind of artwork. I know that, even If you don't like graffiti at all, you will not look at it on the same way after this post. Before we begin, let me inform that our main goal is to teach new techniques, tips and share our knowledge. We're not sponsoring vandalism or any type of crime, we just want to explain and teach how to do this kind of typography. We deeply trust in our readers, so what you're going to do with this knowledge is really up to you. Do the right thing. Letters styles on Graffiti There's many classifications for the letters you see on the street, although most of they may look the same, they're all produce by different techniques and got levels of difficulty. To simplify things, I decided to put them on three categories: Tag, Throw Up and Wildstyle. Before I can show you some tricks on creating them, I gotta teach more about them. Tag / Pichação Tag is the most basic form of graffiti, is basically the graffiti artist signature. There's even a classification for the one who just do tags: tagger. A tagger is considered, in most of the cases, a inferior graffiti artist who tag he's street name everywhere, but lacks in drawing skills and/or creativity. Most of the street artists start their career as a tagger, then start developing a style from that. Tags can be done in such a enormous range of styles because they can be done with a large range of tools, from spray cans to markers or even clay. Let me show you some classic and stylish tags: Os Gemeos's TagRisk's TagAmarzz's tagIn Brasil we got a really unique type of tag, we call it "Pichação". Pichaçhão or Pixo is quite different of the tags developed in north america and europe, mostly because of the media that it was originaly produced: the paint roller. By the time the first graffitis started to appear, spray cans were very expensive in my country and so it was way better to use latex paint mixed with water, in order to last longer and do more tags. The taggers tried to develop an unique typography, influenced by CD and book covers, helped to create what some call the "Pixo Reto", a squared and thin tag, only seem on Brasil. Here are a couple of "Pixo Reto" examples: Marco GomesPhoto by Fórum Latino Americano de FotografiaMost of the tags / pichação are illegal, except the ones used in legal walls or at exibitions. The interesting thing is to observe the styles of caligraphy that can be developed, Evan Roth even made a study about it, take a look at the video bellow: Graffiti Taxonomy: Paris, 2009 from Evan Roth on Vimeo. Throw Up / Bomb / Scrub Most of you may reconize Throw Up as a bubble letters type, indeed most of the writers who practice this type of letter use round shapes, however there are many variations of it, let's see some. Ricardo NKS's Throw UpOs Gemeos's Throw UpRimeA throw up is called Scrub when the lines inside the letter body are not complete filled, like it was done on a hurry. In fact, most of the throw ups are illegal, that's part explain why they are not so elaborated as a wildstyle piece. Take a look at the one done by Revok: RevokSo, I hope you understood a bit about throw ups, here's a good gallery with you want to see some samples. Wildstyle / Burner In my point of view, the wildstyle pieces are the ones that make Graffiti so memorable, because they are big scale pieces with 2 hours to even a month of work. There's no rules or a pattern when comes to wildstyle, but there's a lot of techniques that are commonly applied when you're learning how to use spray paint. 3D, Shadowning, Glows, Gradients are used by most writers while trying to develop a unique and memorable style. So, let's see some of this pieces: PoseToniolo by Sei LáHolie NSKDilkNychosRimeHere's a good glossary of terms used in the graffiti area, you should read in order to understand some slangs and terms used to describe and categorize pieces. Tips on creating your own graffiti type Well guys, I will try to explain to you how to do a simple process of a wildstyle piece. Of course, is really up to you to define what effects and calligraphy you're going to use, there is so many ways to do it, so this will be just a quick introduction. I know most of you probably never touched on a spray can, so what are we going to do is to try to simulate the dinamics of a street situation, using a spray can in Adobe Photoshop. However, you should try do it on real life, that's the only way to understand and learn such aspects as spray hardness, types of cap, gradients and other tricks. But I hope the following exercise can help you on some way. Sketch Ok, so the first thing we should do is to know exactly what we will write. Most graffiti artists write their own nick/street name, for this sample I'm going to write just "Abduct". The Sketch is basically a simple structure of the future typography, you should from now on use only the brush tool (the shortcut is the letter "B") on this exercise, no eraser or ctrl + z / command + z, you will understand it soon. Set a color for the background, try using white on, somehow it seems to be easier to create on it. Now, define 4 colors to use, think it as spray cans, on the beginning is way better and cheaper to use just a few colors. Always use the same color of the background, because this will be used as a eraser in real life. Let's try to draw the letters using a close tracking, use a 10 px brush, If you have a tablet this will be way easier, but If not you sould try it with mouse, it's not that harder. Use the color you want to use for the letter fill to do the sketch, why? Because in a real situation you would save ink by doing it. You should try some more round or really squared shapes, as I'm doing here. Remember: don't use the eraser, If you fell it's not straight or round enough, do it over the other trace, forget about ctrl + z. Fill Now let's fill the letter with the color we used for the sketch, don't be afraid, you will remember what part is each letter. Let's add a second color fill inside them This may look really horrible by this point, but we're going to fix it on the next step. Add a really thin black stroke, just to identify each letter. Cutting Lines Cutting lines are probably the most used and basic technique on graffiti, why? This is actually the way to reach sharp and squared shapes, also is by doing this, you're going to make layers over in order to fix some mistakes. Let's see a simple example, I created this square with blue and red inside. I want to create two red triangles, so this is actually what I should do: Do you get it? You're actually using the brush as a eraser to make shapes straight and hide mistakes. Although this may take a lot of time to master, you gotta try, because the results are solid. So now you're going to adjust the second fill using cutting lines. Stroke You may be asking yourselves: "Why should we do the strokes after the fill?" Well, pretty simple, because of the dripping. If you start by doing the stroke, chances are you're going to redo it many time because of the fill that may drip or blur over it. To adjust the stroke, do the same procedure here, cutting lines and patience. Glows and Lights Most graffiti artist really enjoy adding some glow and lights to the pieces, it looks really cool indeed. Let me show you just a simple tip: make an "X" with a white color, then use a blurry brush and here it go. This is quite simple, but as you keep evolving you can learn a lot about lightning and shadows. Final Considerations I hope you learned a lot today, not just the types of graffiti, but also learned a bit how to do this kind of typography. There're no rules or guidelines when it comes to graffiti, the most important thing it's to try and push things to another level. That's it folks, I will try to make another posts about the subject, explaining other techniques and stuff, work hard and have fun.
Case Study: Black Fly by Jotapê Pax
Today we're going to do our first graffiti Case study, so for this occasion I had the pleasure to hang out with one of the most notable graffiti artists from Brazil, Jotapê Pax. For more than 10 years Jotapê has being doing graffiti thru the home town from the Abduzeedo team (Porto Alegre), one thing I always noted was his signature drawing, I little black fly. Well, to be more specific let me show you some of the artworks where these fly appears: Spray techniques are really though to master, Jotapê has been doing it for a long time and so he could explain me how to achieve such final effect. Bellow I,m going to explain the steps that he take to create his flies. The process Step 1 (Shape) Jotapê always start his fly by drawing the shape of the eyes, the body, the drip and the wings (sometimes he rather doing the wings later), this step is basically a rough of how will be the final work. Step 2 (Fill) In this step he would paint all the body with a black fill, leaving the eyes circles intact. Step 3 (Color) Using white and orange (or other color), he would paint the eyes and make the reflect on the body, this may look strange and blurry at this point, but later he will adjust it. Step 4 ("Recorte" / Cutting) In Brazil we call this technique "recorte" that means cutting in english, "recorte" is when you adjust the lines and shapes of the work by using the color of the background, giving a better definition and a sharper look to it. Here Jotapê used the black color from the fill to adjust the eyes and make the division on the body. Step 5 (Lights/ Reflects/ Transparencies) Is really common to add lights and reflects after the "recorte", it's like a final touch to the piece. Jotapê normaly add some lights on the eyes and some transparencies on the wings. Ok, enough talking, let's see how the pro do it! On the video bellow you can see all the steps (not exactly on the same order) of how Jotapê do he's remarkable fly. Black Fly by Jotapê Pax from Marcos Torres on Vimeo. Let's see one more time, from a different spot. Let's see another fly he did on the same day on a different type of wall, this one was dedicated to our website :) Black Fly II by Jotapê Pax from Marcos Torres on Vimeo. A huge thanks to Jotapê Pax for giving us the opportunity to see how he do his work closely. If you want tosee more of his work and know more about him, you can acess his Flickr.
Marvelous Graffiti and Illustrations by Aryz
Graffiti is a type of art that suffers even among professionals of the creative area, I mean, some artists dislike it because they tend to think that the artworks are a bit disorganized, too blurry and with few details . Well, I must admit that sometimes they're right, but artists like Aryz just bring graffiti into a really detailed level. And honestly, I still can't quite understand how he achieves these marvelous results on big walls and buildings. If you want to know more about Aryz, please access his Website.
The Irreverent and Funny Street Art by Mr. X
A friend of mine, who is a great fan of Stencil and Graffiti, introduced me to one of the most interesting street artists I've seen lately. Mr. X is a really talented street artist with a remarkable stencil style. The amount of details he delivers on each piece are impressive. If you want to know more about Mr. X , please visit his Website or his Blog. Making Of Whales in Love from Sr. X on Vimeo. The Mind Cleaner, Sr. X from Sr. X on Vimeo. Niñooo // E1000ink + Sr. X from Sr. X on Vimeo. Vallequis from Sr. X on Vimeo. Revolt from Sr. X on Vimeo. Sr.X. from Fiumfoto on Vimeo.


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He hasn't really said anything about it since. He's just acting normal, lol.
Thing is he farts all the time because he has IBS and sometimes they really smell and I don't like it when I have to smell it but I don't mind too much, it's natural and he can't help it because of his IBS.
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Hi, I've read your reviews and have found them to be very helpful. I have one question regarding the con on the Innotek IUC 4100. I have 3 poodles. They range in age from 15 years old for an 11 pound mini and 2 standards that are 2 years old; 42 and 52 pounds. I'm concerned about the color not being able to have different correction levels. I probably will not have a collar for the 15 year old as he has heart condition and only goes about 5 feet from the door before he comes in. The standards are a different story. They are your typical 2 year old poodles, if one does something the other will jump in to participate. My 42 pound male is a rescue dog and as a pup was abused. The owner allowed a 3 year old throw a truck at Shane and when Shane snapped at the child the Dad (I say dad because he's still afraid of males) had to have beaten him. I'm afraid that a strong correction will set him back and undo all the progress I've made. The 52 pound female can be a little skittish with anything new. Sunny's (the girl) favorite thing thing to do is to escape and get around barriers. In addition, I'm not sure that I could do the work around on the collars, I'm not very mechanical. Also, I have a question regarding the wiring for any of the systems. Can heavier duty wire be purchased where the wire can be put on top of the ground with the ground "staples"? Will the twisted wire work with the Innotek 4100? Sharlene North CarolinaHi Sharlene, That is an awful story, I am glad he has been lucky enough to find a new home with you. With two dogs of the same breed and similar size, they are both going to be on the same correction level - so I don't think you will need the independent correction. But, if you intend to get another mini, down the road you may be better off getting something with independent correction now. For you two big poodles, the PetSafe Deluxe would be a good choice. If you are concerned about the correction, start on low - I don't think you will need much more for a standard poodle. It will be very important for you to project confidence. As always, never act fearful or coddle the dog after a correction. Simply carry on with the training. The dog is taking cues from you, their leader. If you feel like your dog is getting overwhelmed, switch off the correction and continue training with just the beep. One thing to watch out for with poodles when you start your second week of training (when we start introducing the correction) is that the collars are properly fitted. Without a proper fit, the collars do not work. So use your fingers to move the hair out of the way and jiggle the collar until you get the probes contacting the skin. You should use the "collar fit" test on the 4100 to check that you have a good fit. It is tricky the first 2-3 times, but once you know what a good fit looks like it will be easy. Wes Riojas General Manager
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Sharlene from North Carolina asks about how to train a dog that is more skittish than usual, due to abuse at the hands of a past owner. The answer is that training is not much different, but as an owner you need to make sure not to compensate and coddle the dog after a correction. This is likely to make them even more fearful. If an owner is concerned about corrections hurting a dog, I often encourage them (where safe) to try the correction on them self. The correction is very unpleasant (that is the point), but there is no lingering pain. It really is not that bad ... and a dog should have no problem dealing with getting a correction as long as we don't make it worse.
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THE number of shore-based employees of Japan's big three shipping companies has decreased by more than 20 per cent in the past 10 years, according to the Japan Maritime Research Institute.
The big three are Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line), Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K-Line).
A research report by the institute said that as of March 1995, the number of employees on the payrolls of 128 Japanese shipping companies (including board members) was about 34,500.
Of this total, those assigned to sea duty accounted for 42 per cent with onshore workers totalling 54 per cent and board members 4 per cent.
The five major shipping firms - including Navix Line and Showa Line - had a total 5,241 workforce on their payrolls in 1994, including 3,088 onshore workers.


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Road schedules for WWE and ROH from August 22 to August 28, 2014.
* House show in Stockton, California tonight, August 22.
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There's an ever-growing divide between spectator and athlete these days. Chances are the "hometown nine" we root for at the ballpark are international jet-setters who won't live here after their contracts expire and can go anywhere they want because they have more money than God. No longer the working-class heroes who had to take retail jobs in the off-season to pay the bills, they're more akin to big-business moguls who vote Republican so the capital-gains tax will remain low. Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? Well, in a manner of speaking, the answer is "to the San Francisco Marathon," which happens Sunday and whose course is laid out in the cool video clips above and below.
What we mean by the DiMaggio remark is that when you watch a marathon, you're not watching modern-day sports celebrities who make $10,000 a day just for showing up to work. You're watching thousands of real people not much different than yourself. Their story could be your story: They've taken on a seemingly insurmountable task and are in the final stages of surmounting it. So of course you're on their side.
To show as much, there are cheering stations at various points along the 26.2-mile course that begins and ends on the Embarcadero and includes the Presidio, the Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Park, the Haight, and the Mission.
Entertainment includes a surf-rock trio (the Gillbillies), several DJs (including two from Slayers Club), a "David Bowie worship band" (the Strangers), a DJ and art-car combo (Dodo Bus), and an accordionist (Diana Strong).
There are also two half-marathons, a 5K, and a kids' run, in addition to a fitness expo and beer garden. You might see one of the elite runners break a course record. You might support someone you know who's running. And you might start to plan what you'll be doing this time next year.
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Once upon a time, not so long ago, Ernie met the 3 little pigs. You know, the ones who went through that whole terrible or deal with the big bad wolf? Well, Ernie and the pigs became such good friends that the pigs invited Ernie to come by and visit them.
Ernie didn't want to be impolite so he invited The Count to come along. When they reach the three little pig's house Ernie knocked on the door.
"That's 1 knock", The Count said as Ernie knocked on the door for the 1st time. "That's 2 knocks", The Count said as Ernie knocked on the door for the 2nd time. Ernie was about to ask The Count to stop counting when suddenly the door opened.
Standing in a row where the 3 little pigs. They were very happy to see Ernie. But before they can say a word The Count spoke up. "That's 1 pig", The Count said. "That's 2 pigs." "Who's this guy", one of the pigs asked. "Oh, he's a friend", Ernie responded. "That's 3 little pigs", The Count continued.
"Well, why is he counting us", another pig asked. "Oh, he loves to count", Ernie replied. "Counting is my life", The Count added. "Well, I hate being counted", the 3rd pig said out loud and the other pig squealed in agreement.
"Well, I don't want to bother you", Ernie said and started to leave. "Oh, don't get us wrong we're glad you came to visit", the 1st pig said. "In fact, this is a great time for you to come because we were just starting our annual family reunion".
"Oh no. You don't mean that all your pig relatives are here", Ernie asked. "Of course", one of the pigs said as he opened the door a little further to reveal a whole room full of little pigs.
"Look Ernie", The Count exclaimed. "I am so happy! Look at all the little pigs!" "Count, please don't. Please count." "That's 1 little pig", The Count began ignoring Ernie's please. "That's 2 little pigs", he continued. In moments The Count lived in the center of the room surrounded by pigs.
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We are excited to have John Peters and Ben Jones and a team from St Mary's Church, Bryanston Square to lead our January School of the Spirit event. John and Ben lead the Third Person Stream on the Ministry of the Holy Spirit at United - our summer event. The day is open to anyone and will provide general teaching and encouragement in the ministry of the Spirit as well as practical seminars in using different gifts of the Spirit. At our last School of the Spirit people were filled with the Spirit, given gifts of the Spirit, healed and set free. One church leader said 'this has completely transformed people's attitude and experience of the Holy Spirit'.
Tickets will be available on the door.
09.30 Doors open (coffee)
10.00 Welcome and Worship
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This, right here, is how you dress down a suit. Just throw on a chambray shirt, skip the tie, and keep it simple. It doesn't hurt that both the suit and the shirt are by Brunello Cucinelli, whose masterful Italian clothing is pretty much (forgive us) tailor made to be worn with this sort of polished nonchalance.
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I had a dream that I married my cousin's cousin.. (we're not related at all) but the thing is, I've never met him in person. Like we've talked plenty of times and we've video chatted but not in real life. I haven't talked to him in a while either. I might be seeing meeting him in a couple of months but I wasn't really thinking about that before I went to bed. Since I woke up I keep thinking about it and now it's just not getting out of my head which is weird. I think it's just a random dream and I'm probably over thinking it, what's your opinions?
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Cookie Dough Cheesecake - Copycat/Olive Garden
READY IN: 2hrs 30mins
Recipe by ColoradoCookin
This is a copycat recipe of the olive garden cheesecake. This is an adaptation of another recipe I found online somewhere lol... I don't remember where now.
Top Review by Army ATCL
Not too bad! I had to about double the butter in the crust to make it all stick and only could fit about 1/2 the recommended cookie dough. When I dropped the cookie dough in I made smaller pieces than what was called for, which seemed to work for me. It ended up pretty tasty : )
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 tablespoons margarine
- 2 3⁄4 cups chocolate cookie crumbs
- 4 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon all-purpose flour
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 (1 lb) package refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough
- 2 ounces chocolate chips
- 1 pint heavy whipping cream, whipped
- chocolate chips
- chopped walnuts
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- Preheat oven to 325.
- Generously grease the bottom and sides of a 10" spring form pan.
- Combine the margarine with the chocolate cookie crumbs.
- Press onto the bottom and sides of the pan.
- Using an electric mixer on high speed, combine cream cheese, sugar, eggs and flour and mix until smooth.
- Add vanilla and sour cream and mix just until blended.
- Pour 1/2 of the batter into prepared crust. Cut cookie dough into golf ball sized chunks and drop into batter.
- Sprinkle in chocolate chips.
- Pour over remaining batter.
- Bake for 60 minutes.
- Turn off the oven and open the door to the broil position.
- Allow cake to remain in the oven 30 more minutes.
- Refrigerate until ready to serve. To serve, remove the sides of the pan and top with fresh whipped cream.
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Exiled Unnamed
by Tamalain
Tags: Coming of Age, Violence, Fantasy, Elves, Magic,
Desc: Fantasy Story: How and Why Eaglesclaw was banished by his family. A back story history in the Tamalain series.
Everquest and all its associated items and names are the sole properties of Sony Online Entertainment.
I am just writing in their universe and mean no harm.
Little Wayne quietly played in the sand as his mother slept under the shade of the small tree outside their home. He being only three tended to do what all children his age do, wander around and explore. He did keep an eye towards his mother though, just to make sure she was still there. He spotted a butterfly in the grass just outside the shade and decided he wanted to see it closer if he could. Taking one more look to make sure she had not moved, he climbed to his feet and toddled out of the shade towards the fluttering shape.
The butterfly had landed on a flower and was mostly still except for the slow opening and closing of its wings as it sipped at the flowers nectar. As he approached, the butterfly was startled and flew quickly up and away from his grasp. He turned and watched it fly away and giggled in childish joy at what he had made it do, even if he didn't get to see it up close.
His mother, Ivy woke up and saw Wayne had wandered off and called him back under the tree. He got up, toddled back to her and got a quick mothers hug for reassurance. She then closed her eyes and nodded off again. Knowing she was there, Wayne again toddled his way back out from the shaded area. He did not see the shadow that passed on the ground next to him.
The Eagle saw the child, this was the child he was to look out for. He came around looking that there would be others of the child's kind nearby to help when he dropped him. He stooped and quickly drove his claws into the upper back and shoulders of the child. Wayne screamed in pain and fear when the eagle grabbed him from above and lifted. The large bird flapped hard and fast to lift the child and angled towards the nearby farm fields.
Several field hands saw the eagle drop, then panicked when it came up carrying a child in is talons. Ivy had woken instantly at the scream and started chasing after her son, screaming at the eagle to put him down and release him. When the bird went towards the field, she cried out for somebody to catch him should the eagle let Wayne go. One of the workers could understand birds a little and heard what the bird yelled.
"This one is marked, his name is chosen. His future ordained and none shall hinder him. Beware of any that would hold him here," It screamed. The eagle then dropped down near the worker that could understand him told him to be careful as the family elders would not be happy with these events.
Ivy caught up to the eagle just as it dropped Wayne on the field hand. He saw that the child needed to be rushed to the temple for care as the claw marks were bleeding heavily. "We need to get him to he healer quickly Miss Ivy, he bleeds much from this."
"Run then, I will follow as well as I can."
The worker took off at a fast run holding the boy to his chest trying to calm him even as he ran. It only took a few minutes to reach the family temple and the cleric of Marr and healer. The cleric saw the man rush in with a blood covered child, "What happened, is this little Wayne?"
"That is right, an eagle grabbed him and tried to carry him off. Near to dropped him right in my arms he did."
The cleric quickly wiped Wayne's back down to take a closer look at the wounds. It was about then that Ivy caught up and entered the temple. "Will he alright Uncle Clay?" she asked between gasps.
"He should be. I don't see any tearing, just clean punctures from the looks of it." He finished cleaning the wounds then started the healing spell. The punctures closed and healed quickly as the magic took hold, but the marks did not fade. He now had two perfect sets of Eagle claw marks on his shoulders and back.
The field hand told them what the eagle had said before he dropped Wayne to him. "The eagle is right, best not make a big deal of this or the family elders will try to make it something worse."
From the door, "Make what worse boy. Ivy, what are you doing here, you should have the boy in the nursery, not out gallivanting around so he gets a cut on his back." He stopped berating them long enough to get a closer look at the marks on Waynes back and then really got angry. "Why haven't you cleared up those marks boy. I just always knew it would not be worth the time to send you off to that fancy temple in that stupid tree. Only fools live above the ground like that."
"Grandfather, I did try to clear his back, but the marks stayed. The eagle marked him so it is not in my power to unmark him."
"An Eagle huh, well I know how to take care of that. The boy alchemist, umm, what was the name, oh yeah, Elder. He will make a potion that will clean this right up. Better go get him myself. What sort of parent calls their kid Elder." He continued to rant and complain all the way to the stables and half the family could hear him.
"I didn't say anything cause it wouldn't have done any good with him. No potion or spell will be able to remove the marks. They are the symbol of his title and future name Ivy. The gods have decided that your boy has an important future."
The field hand said, "He is to be called Eaglesclaw."
Several hours later, Father Granger returned with the alchemist. Elder took one look at the boys back and turned on the old man angrily. "You told me they would be tough scars. You didn't say anything about a child with Eagle Talons. Tunare is about the only being that could remove those marks Granger."
"Just make the potion boy and be quick about it."
"And I'm telling you I can't. It is not within the boundaries of my skills to remove marks from a chosen."
"There has never been a chosen in this family and never will be. We seen to that most carefully. Ivy, this boy has no need to be learning his letters nor numbers. He will be a simple farm hand, never to get a woman with child. His line ends here. No greatness should or will be allowed here. Only causes trouble for everybody."
Ivy was appalled at the doom just spelled out for her son. She agreed publicly, but she would have he last laugh here. Her son would have all that he was to be denied and more.
"Now you worthless maker of useless drinks, be gone and never come here again. You have proved useless to me, so be gone, and I want the gold back."
Rather than argue, Elder tossed the old man a gold and turned to leave. He decided he had to say on thing before he went, "No matter what you may try to do, fate has chosen him, greatness will come whether you want it or not." He nodded to Ivy and walked out head high and smiling.
"Get you home and take the brat with you worthless girl."
Ivy did as she swore to herself to do. Wayne learned his letters and numbers, and it turned out he was a better reader than she was. His ability with numbers was also far superior to hers. He soaked up every book she could sneak in to him. When his skill with animals was noticed he was forbidden to be near them as that was outside his manual labor in the fields. The old man was relentless. Always snooping about to see if she had gone against him. Wayne played the part of village idiot perfectly, yet could converse in perfect Elven, Common and Dwarven at any time.
He discovered he had a real talent for tracking and hunting as well. He had to practice on days when no field work was needed. He proved he was excellent at his duties in the field. He found another ability that proved to be even more useful. He could talk to birds and learn from them. He was able to find trouble spots in the fields as they would tell him about it before it became serious. If it was a bug issue, he let the birds clear it up for him. Other problems would require pulling or even small burns to prevent the spread of fungus and diseased plants.
His skills grew and he discovered things he could do that nobody else in the family could do. He could speed up so fast, he would have an entire field completed in an hour. He felt like he had been at it all day afterwards, but he would get it done.
Another thing he had done that was forbidden was to meet a girl and had fallen in love. Ginny from a neighboring farm had come across him in the woods one day. At first they were both very shy about one another, but that passed in time as they got older and knew one another better. He had explained to her the family curse he was under and could not yet escape. He told her about his history as his mother had told him.
She was to be bred to a total oaf of a boy to produce another mindless oaf for the elders of the family to boss around. She had long known they were insane, but this was going too far. Not even to get married and be forced to bear a child. She got them in the end though. She took the oaf to Kelethin and got him passed out drunk. She then did what she knew was wrong but had to be done to produce a child that would be far more than a village idiot.
A well dressed Elven Ranger approached her at the bar and she accepted his offer of a nights company. He gave her a child, though he never did find out that he had. He also paid her ten platinum coins for her services. She hid them well so to one day pass to her child when the time came for him or her to flee the family.
Ginny was not upset with his birth, in fact she commended Ivy for what she had done. They decided that they would marry one day and to hell with what his family thought.
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The Swiss central bank on Friday reported a loss of 23 billion Swiss francs (22.9 billion dollars) for 2015, due to appreciation of the national currency and a drop in the gold price.
The bank stopped defending a minimum franc exchange rate against the euro in January 2015, leading to a stronger franc. Foreign currency assets held at the Swiss central bank lost value relative to the franc as a result.
While the depreciation of these assets had led to a loss of 50.1 billion francs for the central bank in the first half of last year, the annual loss turned out to be smaller as the euro and dollar strengthened in the second half of the year.
In addition to currency affects, the central bank recorded a loss of 4 billion francs on its gold reserves last year.
After scrapping the minimum exchange rate of 1.20 francs per euro, the currencies were valued equally for a short period at the beginning of 2015. On Friday, the franc traded at 1.087 against the euro.
The central bank made a record profit of 38 billion francs in 2014.


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I am referring to making the default setting for my forms have the label go automagically to the top of each field without having to select the "Top" label align option. In other words...
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This article was published 26/12/2012 (1699 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
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The perfect New Year's
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Of a spurned wombat
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How European Union Plans To Kill Nigerians ~ Sen. Ben Murray-Bruce
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Senator Ben Murray-Bruce has accused the European Union of plottingg to kill Nigerians with its advise to the country on further devaluation of the nation's currency.
|Senator Ben Murray-Bruce
He wrote:
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He added: "How do they want people living on ₦18,000 a month to survive? Even the dogs and cats in Europe exist on more than that!"


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Rocks Untamed!
By: Marcus Myvett 8th Hour Science
Igneous Rock
The igneous rock, or should I say rocks because they are formed everyday. The igneous rock is a new rock formed by magma. It is new to the Earth, since it was just created. The igneous rock can be a crystal, or a rock with crystals embedded into it. All rock starts as an igneous rock. You can identify an igneous rock by it's texture. The two texture's igneous rocks have a glassy texture and and vesicular(has holes in it because of the bubbles the magma or lava has). Igneous rocks are formed every minute. Some So next time you look a rock, you now know how to identify if it's an igneous rock.
Sedimentary Rock
The sedimentary rocks started as different rocks. The sedimentary rock is formed when rocks are pressed up together and cemented because of little air, space and being pressed together, to eventually form one rock. Some modern examples of sedimentary rock's are:
-The Grand Canyon
Now, you know the bare minimum and some more about Sedimentary rocks!
Metamorphic Rocks
A metamorphic rock isn't just called metamorphic for fun, it's for a reason. The metamorphic rock is like the sedimentary rock, except it is more melted and much stronger and tougher. The metamorphic rock is formed when sedimentary rocks start to get buried deep underground, like 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, but 20,000 Leagues Under The Earth. As they sink deeper into the Earth, they heat up with the extra pressure and begin to melt more. That is how the metamorphic rock is formed. Some common examples of metamorphic rocks are:
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Back in November, I attended the IHR Winter Conference about the relationship between academic history and historical fiction. One historian gave a wonderful talk about how novels had given birth to her passion for studying the real life subjects. She ended her speech with the succinct summary: "Besides, the sex is better."
Later, Stella Tillyard thanked this lady for reminding us all why we really read historical fiction. Of course, every candidate laughed.
But was it really a joke? The more I research into my chosen genre, I start to wonder if there's an element of truth in this. Let me tell you about my experiences as a reader. In my teens, when my obsession with the Georgians began, I was more interested in books from the actual era than historical fiction. I went on to expand my period all the way up to the Victorian age, but still refused to read any fiction penned after 1900. I felt reading books really written at the time gave me a much better understanding of the people and the society. As you can image, the raciest thing I'd read was Thomas Hardy, and that's about as subtly sensual as you can get.
I finally broke my chains to read Philippa Gregory's "The Other Boleyn Girl". Now, while my friends may tell you I'm a bit of a prude, I had no problems with this story. The Tudor court and its politics revolved around sex, and after all, the book is about Henry VIII's mistress. My second historical read, Tracey Chevalier's "The Lady and the Unicorn" was even saucier. But again, I understood the symbolism of the unicorn's horn and was quite content that the "bodice ripping" was necessary to the story.
I can't say this of every historical novel. It seems to me that all books and movies now have the obligatory sex scene, whether it's appropriate or not. At the moment I'm reading Gillian Bagwell's "The Darling Strumpet" which, admittedly, is about Nell Gwynn, who worked as a prostitute and went on to be mistress to Charles II. Very rightly, it shows the seedy underside of Stuart England but – dare I say it – I think it shows a bit too much! It's a well written book, even the sex scenes are well written, but there are so MANY of them. I'm getting to the point where I turn the page and think "Oh, goodness, here we go again." I'm getting a bit bored with them. I don't think there's any way Nell hasn't had it. Twice.
So is this an expectation of the genre? There's an excerpt at the back of "The Darling Strumpet" from Bagwell's next one – again, lovely writing – but they've decided to feature the bit with a gypsy boy pleasuring himself underneath a tree. This must be what sells about her books – but is it what sells historical fiction in general?
I've tried to think why I like certain sex scenes in the genre. I guess there's always a curiosity about the different types of under clothing they wore and what they did for contraception back then. Yet when you think about it, the act wouldn't really be as romantic as it's portrayed, would it? The bed could be ridden with lice, the beautiful clothes that drop off our heroines stiff with weeks of sweat. Afterwards, the hero would probably wee in the chamber pot and go to sleep, leaving his lady with the stench of his urine. Nice.
Perhaps it's all about the element of danger. In a modern novel, an assignation with a lover doesn't carry the same risks of disgrace and social banishment. I have to admit, this makes historical sex scenes more exciting for me, but again I wonder, how realistic is it? The threat of an illegitimate child or being cast off from one's family would prevent most (sensible) heroines from taking part in these escapades. I'm convinced there are many more girls who throw caution to the wind in historical romance than there were in real life.
So where should we use the good old-fashioned bodice ripping? Obviously, if you're writing about a real person and they really had an affair, go ahead. With made up characters, sex scenes can be wonderful, but I would suggest you use them sparingly. I can tell, and so can a million other readers, when you've tacked one in there for sake of it. When I look back over the books I've read, some of the erotic passages that stand out in my memory didn't feature the act itself. You can use your skill as a writer to draw out the sensuality of the scene – and often, subtext is so much more thrilling.
In God save the King, I currently have one full-blown bodice ripping chapter. I felt this was necessary to show how sheltered the Princess Royal had been up until her marriage. The scene is revelatory for her and sadly, not very pleasant. But with Princess Sophia, I've been less explicit. It is clear from what I've written that she sleeps with her lover, but I didn't feel the need to describe their love-making. I talk about their love and their feelings for each other, including their desire, and the methods of contraception they relied on. As far as I'm concerned, no more is required.
But am I wrong and hopelessly innocent? Do you now consider my book with disgust and run off in search of fresh, heaving bosoms? Let me know your thoughts.
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I found this commentary concise, perceptive and forceful. I now want to know where I can buy God Save the King. Thank you.


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5 Sprinkle with salt and cayenne pepper, mix well.
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Kay, Sean (2001) NATO's Open Door: Geostrategic Priorities and the Impact of the European Union, Security Dialogue 32(2): 201–215.
Kay, Sean (2000) After Kosovo: NATO's Credibility Dilemma, Security Dialogue 31(1): 71–84.
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In this posting (Part II), I will demonstrate how to use WebService::Solr to create and search a more substantial index, specifically an index of metadata describing the content of the Directory of Open Access Journals. Part I of these series introduced Lucene, Solr, and WebService::Solr with two trivial examples. Part III will describe how to create an SRU interface using WebService::Solr.
Directory of Open Access Journals
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a list of freely available scholarly journals. As of this writing the Directory contains approximately 3,900 titles organized into eighteen broad categories such as Arts and Architecture, Law and Political Science, and General Science. Based on my tertiary examination, a large percentage of the titles are in the area of medicine.
Not only is it great that such a directory exists, but it is even greater that the Directory's metadata — the data describing the titles in the Directory — is available for harvesting via OAI-PMH. While the metadata is rather sparse, it is more than adequate for creating rudimentary MARC records for importing into library catalogs, or better yet, incorporating into some other Web service. (No puns intended.)
In my opinion, the Directory is a especially underutilized. For example, not only are the Directory's journal titles available for download, but so is the metadata of about 25,000 journal articles. Given these two things (metadata describing titles as well as articles) it would be entirely possible to seed a locally maintained index of scholarly journal content and incorporate that into library "holdings". But alas, that is another posting and another story.
Indexing the DOAJ
It is almost trivial to create a search engine against DOAJ content when you know how to implement an OAI-PMH harvester and indexer. First, you need to know the OAI-PMH root URL for the Directory, and it happens to be http://www.doaj.org/oai Second, you need to peruse the OAI-PMH output sent by the Directory and map it to fields you will be indexing. In the case of this demonstration, the fields are id, title, publisher, subject, and URL. Consequently, I updated the schema from the first demonstration to look like this:
<!-- DC-like fields --> <fields> <field name="id" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true" /> <field name="title" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <field name="publisher" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <field name="subject" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <field name="url" type="text" indexed="false" stored="true" /> <field name="text" type="text" indexed="true" stored="false" multiValued="true" /> <field name="facet_subject" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> </fields> <!-- key; for updating purposes --> <uniqueKey>id</uniqueKey> <!-- for non-field searches --> <defaultSearchField>text</defaultSearchField> <!-- AND is more precise --> <solrQueryParser defaultOperator="AND" /> <!-- what gets searched by default --> <copyField source="title" dest="text" /> <copyField source="subject" dest="text" /> <copyField source="publisher" dest="text" />
The astute reader will notice the addition of a field named
facet_subject. This field, denoted as a string and therefore not parsed by the indexer, is destined to be a browsable facet in the search engine. By including this sort of field in the index it is be possible to return results like, "Your search identified 100 items, and 25 of them are associated with the subject Philosophy." A very nice feature. Think of it as the explicit exploitation of controlled vocabulary terms for search results. Facets turn the use of controlled vocabularies inside out. The library community has something to learn here.
Once the schema was updated, I wrote the following script to index the journal title content from the Directory:
# index-doaj.pl - get doaj content and index it
# Eric Lease Morgan <firstname.lastname@example.com>
# January 12, 2009 - version 1.0
# define
use constant OAIURL => 'http://www.doaj.org/oai';
use constant PREFIX => 'oai_dc';
use constant SOLR => 'http://localhost:210/solr';
# require
use Net::OAI::Harvester;
use strict;
use WebService::Solr;
# initialize oai and solr
my $harvester = Net::OAI::Harvester->new( baseURL => OAIURL );
my $solr = WebService::Solr->new( SOLR );
# get all records and loop through them
my $records = $harvester->listAllRecords( metadataPrefix => PREFIX );
my $id = 0;
while ( my $record = $records->next ) {
# increment
last if ( $id > 100 ); # comment this out to get everything
# extract the desired metadata
my $metadata = $record->metadata;
my $identifier = $record->header->identifier;
my $title = $metadata->title ? &strip( $metadata->title ) : '';
my $url = $metadata->identifier ? $metadata->identifier : '';
my $publisher = $metadata->publisher ? &strip( $metadata->publisher ) : '';
my @all_subjects = $metadata->subject ? $metadata->subject : ();
# normalize subjects
my @subjects = ();
foreach ( @all_subjects ) {
s/DoajSubjectTerm: //; # remove DOAJ label
next if ( /LCC: / ); # don't want call numbers
push @subjects, $_;
# echo
print " record: $id\n";
print " identifier: $identifier\n";
print " title: $title\n";
print " publisher: $publisher\n";
foreach ( @subjects ) { print " subject: $_\n" }
print " url: $url\n";
print "\n";
# create solr/lucene document
my $solr_id = WebService::Solr::Field->new( id => $identifier );
my $solr_title = WebService::Solr::Field->new( title => $title );
my $solr_publisher = WebService::Solr::Field->new( publisher => $publisher );
my $solr_url = WebService::Solr::Field->new( url => $url );
# fill up a document
my $doc = WebService::Solr::Document->new;
$doc->add_fields(( $solr_id, $solr_title, $solr_publisher, $solr_url ));
foreach ( @subjects ) {
$doc->add_fields(( WebService::Solr::Field->new( subject => &strip( $_ ))));
$doc->add_fields(( WebService::Solr::Field->new( facet_subject => &strip( $_ ))));
# save; no need for commit because it comes for free
$solr->add( $doc );
# done
sub strip {
# strip non-ascii characters; bogus since the OAI output is suppose to be UTF-8
# see: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=613773
my $s = shift;
$s =~ s/[^[:ascii:]]+//g;
return $s;
The script is very much like the trivial example from Part I. It first defines a few constants. It then initializes both an OAI-PMH harvester as well as a Solr object. It then loops through each record of the harvested content extracting the desired data. The subject data, in particular, is normalized. The data is then inserted into WebService::Solr::Field objects which in turn are inserted into WebService::Solr::Document objects and added to the underlying Lucene index.
Searching the index
Searching the index is less trivial than the example in Part I because of the facets, below:
# search-doaj.pl - query a solr/lucene index of DOAJ content
# Eric Lease Morgan <firstname.lastname@example.com>
# January 12, 2009 - version 1.0
# define
use constant SOLR => 'http://localhost:210/solr';
use constant ROWS => 100;
use constant MIN => 5;
# require
use strict;
use WebService::Solr;
# initalize
my $solr = WebService::Solr->new( SOLR );
# sanity check
my $query = $ARGV[ 0 ];
if ( ! $query ) {
print "Usage: $0 <query>\n";
# search; get no more than ROWS records and subject facets occuring MIN times
my $response = $solr->search( $query, { 'rows' => ROWS,
'facet' => 'true',
'facet.field' => 'facet_subject',
'facet.mincount' => MIN });
# get the number of hits, and start display
my $hit_count = $response->pager->total_entries;
print "Your search ($query) found $hit_count document(s).\n\n";
# extract subject facets, and display
my %subjects = &get_facets( $response->facet_counts->{ facet_fields }->{ facet_subject } );
if ( $hit_count ) {
print " Subject facets: ";
foreach ( sort( keys( %subjects ))) { print "$_ (" . $subjects{ $_ } . "); " }
print "\n\n";
# display each hit
my $index = 0;
foreach my $doc ( $response->docs ) {
# slurp
my $id = $doc->value_for( 'id' );
my $title = $doc->value_for( 'title' );
my $publisher = $doc->value_for( 'publisher' );
my $url = $doc->value_for( 'url' );
my @subjects = $doc->values_for( 'subject' );
# increment
print " record: $index\n";
print " id: $id\n";
print " title: $title\n";
print " publisher: $publisher\n";
foreach ( @subjects ) { print " subject: $_\n" }
print " url: $url\n";
print "\n";
# done
sub get_facets {
# convert array of facet/hit-count pairs into a hash; obtuse
my $array_ref = shift;
my %facet;
my $i = 0;
foreach ( @$array_ref ) {
my $k = $array_ref->[ $i ]; $i++;
my $v = $array_ref->[ $i ]; $i++;
next if ( ! $v );
$facet{ $k } = $v;
return %facet;
The script needs a bit of explaining. Like before, a few constants are defined. A Solr object is initialized, and the existence of a query string is verified. The search method makes use of a few options, specifically, options to return ROW number of search results as well as specific facets occurring MIN number of times. The whole thing is stuffed into a WebService::Solr::Response object, which is, for better or for worse, a JSON data structure. Using the pager method against the response object, the number hits are returned which is assigned to a scalar and displayed.
The trickiest part of the script is the extraction of the facets done by the get_facets subroutine. In WebService::Solr, facets names and their values are returned in an array reference. get_facets converts this array reference into a hash, and is then displayed. Finally, each WebService::Solr::Response object is looped through and echoed. Notice how the the subject field is handled. It contains multiple values which are retrieved through the values_for method which returns an array, not a scalar. Below is sample output for the search "library":
Your search (library) found 84 document(s). Subject facets: Computer Science (7); Library and Information Science (68); Medicine (General) (7); information science (19); information technology (8); librarianship (16); libraries (6); library and information science (14); library science (5); record: 1 id: oai:doaj.org:0029-2540 title: North Carolina Libraries publisher: North Carolina Library Association subject: libraries subject: librarianship subject: media centers subject: academic libraries subject: Library and Information Science url: http://www.nclaonline.org/NCL/ record: 2 id: oai:doaj.org:1311-8803 title: Bibliosphere publisher: NBU Library subject: Bulgarian libraries subject: librarianship subject: Library and Information Science url: http://www.bibliosphere.eu/ record: 3 id: ...
In a hypertext environment, each of the titles in the returned records would be linked with their associated URLs. Each of the subject facets listed at the beginning of the output would be hyperlinked to subsequent searches combining the original query plus the faceted term, such as "library AND subject:'Computer Science'". An even more elaborate search interface would allow the user to page through search results and/or modify the value of MIN to increase or decrease the number of relevant facets displayed.
Making lists searchable
Librarians love lists. We create lists of books. Lists of authors of books. Lists of journals. Lists of journal articles. Recently we have become enamored with lists of Internet resources. We pay other people for lists, and we call these people bibliographic index vendors. OCLC's bread and butter is a list of library holdings. Librarians love lists.
Lists aren't very useful unless they are: 1) short, 2) easily sortable, or 3) searchable. For the most part, the profession has mastered the short, sortable list, but we are challenged when it comes to searching our lists. We insist on using database applications for this, even when we don't know how to design a (relational) database. Our searching mentality is stuck in the age of mediated online search services such as DIALOG and BRS. The profession has not come to grips with the advances in information retrieval. Keyword searching, as opposed to field searching, has its merits. Tools like Lucene, KinoSearch, Zebra, swish-e, and a host of predecessors like Harvest, WAIS, and Veronica all facilitate(d) indexing/searching.
As well as organizing information — the creation of lists — the profession needs to learn how to create its own indexes and make them searchable. While I do not advocate every librarian know how to exploit things like WebService::Solr, I do advocate the use of these technologies to a much greater degree. Without them the library profession will always be a follower in the field of information technology as opposed to a leader.
This posting, Part II of III, illustrated how to index and search content from an OAI-PMH data repository. It also advocated the increased use of indexer/search engines by the library profession. In the next and last part of this series WebService::Solr will be used as a part of an Search/Retrieve via URL (SRU) interface.
Special thanks go to Brian Cassidy and Kirk Beers who wrote WebService::Solr. Additional thanks go to Ed Summers and Thomas Berger who wrote Net::OAI::Harvester. I am simply standing on the shoulders of giants.