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Bellingrath Gardens and Home has added Lena Rieckenberg to the staff as Director of Special Events, according to Sally Ericson, Director of Marketing and Public Relations at Bellingrath.
A native of Germany, Rieckenberg previously served as a Public Relations consultant with the German communications agency Klenk & Hoursch, specializing in corporate and brand communications and based in Frankfurt. Her responsibilities included conceptualizing and implementing public relations programs, with a focus on event planning and management for various internationally operating businesses.
Prior to joining Klenk & Hoursch, Rieckenberg worked in the event planning department of Die Zeit, Germany's leading weekly newspaper. Her major roles included planning and marketing events, such as conferences, readings, cook-offs and employee events. She was also involved in developing content for their social networks and internal websites.
Rieckenberg holds a master's degree in Corporate Communications and Public Relations from Leeds University Business School in the United Kingdom and a bachelor's degree in languages from the University of Hamburg, Germany. She is an active member of the Public Relations Council of Alabama and speaks four languages: English, German, French and Italian.
Rieckenberg and her husband, Dr. Fabian Rieckenberg, moved to Mobile in January. He is Head of Controlling Process Technology and Engineering Americas at Evonik Corporation.
Bellingrath Gardens and Home is operated by the Bellingrath Gardens and Home Foundation, a charitable, not-for-profit organization. Bellingrath Gardens and Home is dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of the 65-acre garden and estate home of Walter and Bessie Bellingrath. For more information, visit www.bellingrath.org or call 251.973.2217.
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The Messianic Secret (Mark's gospel)
So I'm starting to study the gospel of Mark. My plan is to teach through it for youth group. One of the most notable features of the gospel of Mark is the so-called "Messianic secret." Jesus frequently tells people not to reveal his true identity. Here are some examples.
And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out, "What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God." But Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!" And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, came out of him (1:23-26).
And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. And he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him (1:34).
And Jesus sternly charged him and sent him away at once, and said to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to them." (1:43-44)
And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, "You are the Son of God." And he strictly ordered them not to make him known (3:11-12).
And he said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables" (4:11)
He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything (4:34).
And he did not permit him but said to him, "Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you." And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled. (5:19-20).
And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement. And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat (5:42-43).
And Jesus charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it (7:36).
Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. And he sent him to his home, saying, "Do not even enter the village." (8:25-26)
And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered him, "You are the Christ." And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him. (8:29-30)
And as they were coming down the mountain, he charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of Man had risen from the dead (9:9).
They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he did not want anyone to know, for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, "The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise." But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him (9:30-32).
Here are some key exceptions. Jesus is more open about his identity after his crucifixion and resurrection.
But he remained silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?" And Jesus said, "I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven." (14:61-62)
And Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him, "You have said so" (15:2)
And he said to them, "Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you." And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had seized them, and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid. (16:5-8).
So what you do make of this? Why does Jesus hide his identity until the crucifixation/resurrection?
Related articles
- Introducing Mark (freshlyground.wordpress.com)
- Mark 1 (mybiblereadingplan.wordpress.com)
- The (Literary) Servant in Isaiah and (the Literary?) Jesus in the Gospels (vridar.wordpress.com)
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Tech Tip: What is Double Knitting?
Double knitting creates two layers of fabric simultaneously, on one set of needles. Two layers provide warmth for cozy bed socks or double protection for cellphone or laptop covers, oven mitts and . . . spectacle cases.
Reversibility is another benefit: this technique looks like two pieces of ordinary knitting joined together, right sides out, wrong sides hidden. If you've ever thought a colorwork scarf needed lining, consider double knitting. For designers, it frees two-color knitting from the constraints of stranding and floats, allowing big motifs, placed far apart and large areas of single color—no wonder many double-knit patterns use two colors!
Is double knitting hard?
Double knitting is a technique often relegated to the back of knitting books, in sections labelled "Miscellaneous" or "Other." Maybe it's just me, but I assumed this meant double knitting was something difficult, to learn later.
I was wrong. Once I started stitching, I realized that the movements of double knitting are easy and familiar—exactly the same as k1, p1 ribbing. If you can knit and you can purl, you can learn to double knit!
How do I get started?
Because double knitting has two layers, twice as many stitches are needed.
While most cast-on methods are fine for double knitting, casts-ons in alternating colors are not only decorative but make it easier for beginners to remember the k1, p1 double-knitting rhythm. The cast-on offered below (also used in the spectacle-case pattern) is very easy, but does result in twisted yarns.
A simpler method for casting on is worked as follows: Cast on half the required number of stitches, then knit into the front and back of all stitches on the first row, doubling the stitch count. The "back" stitches will make little bumps, showing where purl stitches will be needed in subsequent rows.
Double knit flat or in the round?
Double knitting can be knit flat (back and forth) or knit in the round.
Personally, I find that doing it in the round easiest: The procedures for joining to knit in the round, and for working each row, are no different to "ordinary" knitting in the round.
However, for flat (back and forth) double knitting, you must remember to cross the yarns at the end of each row, to enclose the messy-looking insides of double knitting, and to make a firm edge.
How is double knitting worked?
Whether you chose to double knit in the round or to knit back and forth, there are two things to remember when working double-knit stockinette stitch:
1. The basic motion is k1, p1, k1, p1, and so on. Although simple, it is vital to keep up this rhythm, no matter what. But k1, p1 usually makes ribbing—it is the use of two yarns, and how they are managed, that turns k1, p1 into double knitting.
2. Before every knit stitch, bring both yarns to the back of the work; before every purl stitch, bring both yarns to the front.
Keep the yarns together at all times, move both yarns back or forth for every stitch, even though only one yarn is used in actually working the stitch. The knit stitches create the fabric facing you, while the purls are creating the layer of fabric on the back side.
Keep the yarns together at all times, move both yarns back or forth for every stitch, even though only one yarn is used in actually working the stitch. The knit stitches create the fabric facing you, while the purls are creating the layer of fabric on the back side.
How do I read a chart?
With just two things to remember (k1, p1 rhythm; move both yarns together), double knitting seems easy, doesn't it? But add colorwork charts, and it almost feels like trying to rub your tummy and pat your head at the same time.
Colorwork double knitting can have the same motif on both layers, in reversed colors; or different motifs on each layer! The first option is easiest for beginners, because only one chart is needed, providing you remember that:
Each square of the chart represents one knit stitch in the color shown on the chart, and one purl stitch, in the other color (this stitch will not show on the side facing you).
Initially, it can be confusing comparing your knitting to a chart, so here is some practice:
The swatch below represents the first 22 rows or so of the chart. In the swatch, on this side of the fabric, you only see half the stitches. The other half are on the needle, but the fabric they create is the second (or back) layer of the double knitting.
In large expanses of single color, stitches alternate neatly: knits (right-hand side) in the charted color, purls (left-hand side) in the other color.
But when the charted color changes, notice two stitches of the same color sitting together: on the right, a purl from before the color change and on the left, the first knit of the new color.
What should I learn next?
There is more to this approach than fits in a short FAQ. Next, you could practice double-knit increases and decreases (spoiler: rearrange the stitches) and make a hat. How about trying three colors, cables, knitting one sock inside another . . . there's always more to learn!
Long-Tail Two-Color Cast-on for Double Knitting
Long-tail version: Determine which color yarn is used first in the pattern (C1) and proceed as follows:
Step 1: Make a slipknot using both color yarns held together, ensuring the slipknot lands with C1 on the needle first and the other color (C2) on the needle second.
Step 2: Pull 2 strands of C1 yarn from right to left between 2 strands of C2, using long-tail method, cast on 1 st with C1.
Step 3: Pull 2 strands of C2 yarn from right to left between 2 strands of C1; using long-tail method, cast on 1 st with C2.
Repeat Steps 2 and 3 until you have sufficient sts on needle (should be an even number, as stitches will be divided into two equal sections and st color should alternate).
(Originally posted on March 21, 2017; updated on April 30, 2019.)
Writer Ginevra Martin is a knitter and designer in Australia.


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This spring, the Blog Ring of Power interviewed me about my ongoing translation of Amadis of Gaul. Now, as part of its year-in-review of the authors that the BROP members interviewed during 2012, I have a post about the translation and the two short stories I wrote this year based on the medieval Spanish novel. Read it here:http://ulbrichalmazan.blogspot.com/2012/12/brop-year-in-review-sue-burke.html
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We've managed to find some healthy, delicious freezer smoothie recipes that you can make in advance, making mornings a little easier and your belly a little fuller.
Tropical Mango Kale Smoothie
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An easy way to get more vegetables into your diet is to start eating them first thing in the morning. By freezing the kale, mango, banana, and kiwi the night before, all you have to do is add coconut milk and blend to get a nutritious on-the-go breakfast.
Related: I Went from Eating Pizza 24/7 to Downing a Green Smoothie Every Day
Get the recipe: Tropical Mango Kale Smoothie
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Very Berry Smoothie
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There are some mornings when eating a filling, healthy breakfast can be especially tricky. Skip the urge to visit a drive-through or deli on the way to work by mixing up the Very Berry Smoothie pack by Live Simply. Just follow three simple steps: Add apple juice. Add the frozen smoothie pack. Blend. The blogger even suggests freezing yogurt in ice cube trays—one less step.
Related: Keto Smoothie Recipes that Won't Kick You Out of Ketosis
Get the recipe: Very Berry Smoothie
Photo: Live Simply
Green Power Mojito Smoothie
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Sadly, mojitos are not considered an acceptable breakfast drink. Unless you count this smoothie pack, which tastes less like a green smoothie and more like a tropical vacation. Freeze the ingredients into pre-portioned plastic bags and you'll be enjoying this dairy-free breakfast in just a few minutes.
Get the recipe: Green Power Mojito Smoothie
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Superfood Berry Smoothie
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This superfood smoothie is just the thing to wake you up and send you out the door with some extra pep in your step. Thanks to a creative use of ice trays, you can freeze just about all the ingredients for this smoothie during meal prep, giving you more time for precious beauty rest.
Related: Bone Broth Smoothie Bowls Are Combining Two Buzzy Health Food Trends Into One Dish
Get the recipe: Superfood Berry Smoothie
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Wake Me Up Coffee Banana Smoothie
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Need a bit of a jolt to get you out of bed in the morning? Consider swapping out your usual cup of coffee for this smoothie—it uses only three ingredients and they can be frozen ahead of time. Waking up in the morning has never been easier.
Get the recipe: Wake Me Up Coffee Banana Smoothie
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Frozen Green Smoothie
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The great thing about this green smoothie is that it is customizable. Choose your favorite frozen or fresh fruits and add leafy greens. Label the bags and stack them in the freezer for easy grab-and-blend mornings with a new smoothie flavor every day.
Related: Kayla Itsines' Green Smoothie Bowl Recipe Is the Definition of a Power-Breakfast
Get the recipe: Frozen Green Smoothie
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Papaya Banana Smoothie
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The tropical papaya is an underrated fruit—it can aid in digestion and is rich in anti-aging vitamins A and C. This frozen smoothie is essentially a facial and a detox blended together into one deliciously breakfast drink.
Get the recipe: Papaya Banana Smoothie
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Banana Berry Smoothie
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This breakfast treat is perfect for those looking to blend up their smoothie as quickly as possible on a busy morning. Every single ingredient can be frozen in advance, and there are plenty of tart berries and fruits to kick you out of your sleepy haze.
Related: This Delicious Blueberry Pomegranate Smoothie Has a Secret Ingredient
Get the recipe: Banana Berry Smoothie
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Lunch Box Smoothies
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There are some mornings when you're running a little behind schedule, and then there are those mornings when, from the moment your eyes open, you're running so late that there's almost zero chance you'll arrive anywhere on time. This smoothie is for those days. This time, you do the blending first, freeze in to-go cups, and by the time lunch rolls around, you'll have a tasty smoothie ready to drink. No morning prep required!
Get the recipe: Lunch Box Smoothies
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Detox Glowing Skin Smoothie
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You'll never have to worry about choosing beauty rest over breakfast prep again thanks to this frozen smoothie. Filled with greens, berries, and pomegranates, this detoxifying beauty smoothie will refresh your skin just as well as it keeps hunger at bay.
Related: This Green CBD Smoothie Recipe Will Make Your Morning Oh So Chill
Get the recipe: Detox Glowing Skin Smoothie
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Frozen Banana Smoothie
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It doesn't get much simpler than this 3-ingredient smoothie recipe. Banana and papaya are frozen then added to orange juice when it comes time to blend. The result is a healthy drink that tastes like you're on vacation.
Get the recipe: Frozen Banana Smoothie
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Well It looks like Fon updated the login portal once again and to my surprise (note the sarcasm) it still sucks. Yea it looks totally different, but Fon still retains the original "personalization" options or lack of options for the matter of the fact. The portal is very simple (in other words boring). Fon now shows a few disclaimers as well.
"Disclaimer: FON is not responsible for any content that a Fonero may have personalized on his/her individual FON Spot. If you detect any messages or website at the FON Spot that you believe to be inappropriate for our Community, please notify us at email@example.com
"FON shall guarantee that the authentication services it provides shall be available 80% of the time during any 24 hour period. If the process of authentication is interrupted, FON shall refund the Alien for the non usage of the daily FON Pass."
Photos of the Fonspot portal as it has changed over the years.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Updated Fonspot Login Portal Still Stinks
Posted by My FON Blog at 10:51 PM
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I agree with ya, bud. This isn't "better customization". The only difference is that the very small number of elements which Fonero can "customize" are hidden by default, instead of populated by default media.ReplyDelete
One advantage is that the login page may no longer be a half megabyte, and should download easier, with less missing elements.
However, Fon really isn't committed to providing us with customization options. By making them so pitiful, Foneros may choose not to customize. Fon then claims that we don't really want to customize our hotspots, and strips more options away.
Visit Fon's English Blog and voice your views. Be sure to visit it and see if your comments got "spam filtered".
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Dizwire on August 19, 2014. Tags: fantasyland
More than any other land, Fantasyland pulls you into the world of narrative storytelling. Literally entering the book in Winnie the Pooh and Peterpan. Walking amongst royalty from Cinderella, Frozen and Little Mermaid. Revisiting the very first animated disney feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It's like meandering throughout the history of human imagination.
Click here to visit the Magic Kingdom Fantasyland Gallery


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I know this isn't the case yet to families of the missing, sometimes to share posters and increase awareness, this is one of few ways to keep the plight of missing and exploited children at the forefront. May 25th is an opportunity to recognize, remember, educate, and be proactive across the nation. While I am posting a day late, per the calendar, it is never to late to remember our missing. Just like we shouldn't wait until Memorial Day or Veterans' Day to remember our fallen soldiers and those this serving. The last statistic I read, 2,000 children go missing EVERY DAY!
This is a high and alarming statistic, one most don't realize. Only 3% of these are non-family and stranger abductions. My sister, Heidi M Allen, is of this 3% and she remains missing more than 21 years later. Heidi is only one of thousands who remain missing, one reason Missing Children's Day is so Important. Education is key to increase awareness. You will see a new missing child on the news daily and more common today, we are seeing children who put into practice the lessons and strategies taught to them by their parents, educators, and NCMEC during school visits to get away from abductors. Children have avoided dangerous situations because someone took time to talk to them.
Click on the photo below for a direct link to NetSmartz, a resource from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. This is a wealth of information for law enforcement, educators, parents, communities, and more. Once on the site, click on the category you are most interested in and you can download and print resources to share with your colleagues, children, and students. You can watch videos. Your children can watch videos. If you are an admin or educator, did you know the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children offer FREE workshops to educate and inspire children? This is one way you can protect and be PROACTIVE to educate your students on the risks of abduction, exploitation, and Internet safety. Why not take advantage of this valuable resource?
A woman asked why we continue to share Heidi's poster, since she is presumed dead. The answer is simple, when a loved one is missing, to share a poster helps to keep hope alive and active. Below the video is a link to search the missing from your state. Will you share one poster of a missing child from your state today? Thank you in advance.


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To write The New York Nobody Knows, Helmreich walked 6,048 miles, covering almost every block in the city's five boroughs: Queens, Manhattan, Staten Island, Brooklyn and the Bronx. It took him four years, walking an average of 1,512 miles a year. He wore out nine pairs of shoes.
As a passionate pedestrian, I can attest to the virtues of walking cities. Heck, I've nearly killed myself doing it in the heat of Bangkok, and I've worn out good boots on trips to Paris and Hong Kong.
(Thanks to MyAppleMenu for the link)
UPDATE: The book is here on Amazon, and looks well worth a read. The cover alone is gorgeous.


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Publicado en enero 5th, 2014 | por Mr Hobby
Fiz: The Brewery Management Game
Fiz: Brewery Management Game
Publicado por: Bit by Bit Studios
Género: Games
Versión y peso: 1.2 / 101.99M
Has gestionado granjas, restaurantes y ciudades… ¡Prepárate para gestionar una cervecería!
If you've ever dreamed of owning a brewery, this is your chance!
From humble garage beginnings, grow your brewery into a world-renowned symbol of excellence by crafting the best beer in the land. Research marketplaces and festivals to learn what your public wants, then brew it using realistic ingredients! Manage your profits to hire new employees, upgrade equipment, and discover new recipes.
Running a world-class brewery isn't all pints and parties, though. Along the way you'll experience a story fraught with rivalry, mystery, and desperately thirsty people. Will your beer have what it takes to make a difference in their lives?
◆ No waiting or in-app purchases. Play for minutes or hours at a time.
◆ 20+ Hours of gameplay in a single playthrough.
◆ 60+ Recipes to discover.
◆ 20+ Employees to hire.
◆ 60+ Randomly selected Events and Competitions.
◆ 25+ Marketplaces to research and master.
◆ «New Game +» mode and randomized content for multiple playthroughs.
All for less than the price of a pint! Water you waiting for? Excitement is brewing! Don't wait any lager, hop in!
Fiz: Brewery Management Game
Publicado por: Bit by Bit Studios
Género: Games
Versión y peso: 1.2 / 101.99M


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The Inc. 5000 ranks the country's top 5000 fastest-growing private companies. Yeager is proud to have made the list three years in a row, an accomplishment achieved by only 1 in 4 Inc. 5000 companies.
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Branding, Services
Promotional Giveaways
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Marketer of the Year (Silver): Mark Yeager, President
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Executive of the Year: Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations (Bronze): Renee Yeager, Co-founder and Managing Partner
Marketing Campaign of the Year - Software (Gold)
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I love RPGs, but I'm basically horrible at playing them. A former colleague asked on Facebook the other day what percentage of role-playing games people finish. I'd say under 10% for me. It's not a matter of difficulty, mind you. So often start them, then just stop around 6, 9, or 20 hours, never to return again.
There's myriad excuses why; things just happen when you're gaming. But as a result, I've only beaten 2 of the 10 numbered Final Fantasy games I played (including 13, which is probably the most-hated). I've completed 1 Disgaea, 1 Breath of Fire, 1 Fire Emblem, 1 Suikoden, and zero Persona games. I was playing and digging PS2's Persona 3: FES when my launch-unit Playstation 3 shit the bed, around the 9-hour mark.
But now, I'm playing Persona 4 Golden on my Vita. And I'm loving it. I'm loving it so much, I decided to write about how great it is despite the fact that either people already know or don't care about it.
Persona 4, like the others in the series, follows a group of high-school students in modern-day Japan. This setting has always appealed to me, and stood out in a genre so stuck on the medieval. Your characters rely on their Personas to do much of the fighting – demons they come to fuse with in one way or another. Not terribly dissimilar to Pokemon though predating it. And more recently, Persona installment stories entail going to a special netherworld – in P4's case, by entering the TV with the help of a hollow bear named Teddy.
I'm going to say that Persona 4's gameplay loop may be one of the most satisfying, not just in RPGs but gaming as a whole. As a high-school student, you'll take tests or answer questions mid-lecture. You'll participate in clubs (in my case, basketball and acting), study, and can pick up a part-time job. Many activities raise non-combat stats like Courage and Expression. Then there's hanging around with friends, family, or that weird fox that shows up on the temple roof. Get a scooter and open up new parts of town, or learn to fish, or tend to your urban garden with your cute little cousin.
In Persona 4, time is finite. Morning turns to afternoon turns to evening. Monday beats Tuesday, etc. Sometimes the path is rigid: You're taking finals or going on a class camping trip. But even on the most free of days, you'll have to choose wisely as almost every choice has a time cost to go with their rewards. And some options only open up every once in a while depending on things like day of the week or the weather.
The more traditional RPG aspect takes place in creative, multi-level dungeons based on things like castles and bath houses. Each floor is a procedurally-generated maze with monsters and chests as you hunt for the stairway up. Monsters are usually roaming the halls, meaning you can try to run past or catch them by surprise.
Combat hasn't changed much. Each ally has their own Persona that specializes in an elemental magic, while the player-character can stockpile a slew of Personas (and gain access to new ones through fusions). Personas level-up and have a variety of status-affecting spells to use both on friend and foe. Fighting is all about exploiting your enemy's weakness to gain additional free shots. Take out the baddies quick enough, and you'll get to choose some bonuses like new Personas or additional experience points. The humans themselves aren't helpless; their weapons can drastically drain a life bar, and it never gets old monkey-piling on a weakened enemy.
It's worth noting the bosses are no joke. To beat an optional one early on, I spent about 12 hours grinding levels and watching my entire party get wiped out by one stroke of his Rampage attack. Fortunately, you can restart on the same floor of the dungeon, and items let you leave to save or visit the Velvet room to fuse Personas or buy new skills for the ones you have before resuming from the floor you left off.
I love Persona's art style. Because you're not actually roaming around the non-dungeon areas or manually controlling the camera in them, the game's artists were able to craft them to look as vibrant as possible. I just keep wanting to take screen-captures with my Vita. Persona 4 really captures the essence of everyday places like classrooms, restaurants, and grassy meadows.
The music is maybe even better than the visuals. Shoji Meguro has long been a master game-music composer, and I have several of his CDs thanks to Atlus often including them with their games (Catherine, Persona 1 Vita, SMT: Nocturne, etc.). I'll have to find this game's CD as well. I've only listened to the English voiceover, but it's expertly done to the point that I see no need to switch. Having hilarious writing helps, of course. The songs are usually sung in English; as I read in an interview with Meguro-san, that's because to non-native English speakers, English singing kind of just sounds like another instrument. As someone who was listening to J-pop long before I could speak Japanese, I can relate to that.
If I had to mention some negatives, I'd go with item management. First off, SP (skill points, usually MP in other RPGs) will go down rapidly – especially for your main character, who usually moves first. They must be restored with items, and those items are not hard to find. I haven't found a simple store to just stock up on them, so I have to get them from dungeon chests. Just about everything you acquire – consumables, skill cards, sellable garbage, harvested vegetables – goes on one endless list. So when you're searching for that item that boosts the groups attack-dodging ability, you may be hunting a while. And item descriptions aren't always helpful. Why does the "help" for Rakukaja's spell card mere tell me it bestows Rakukaja? I can't remember what all those skills do!
Now 40 hours in, I doubt I'm even halfway through Persona 4 Golden yet. But as I've passed every traditional RPG stopping point, and the Vita is so intuitive as a portable system, I've no doubt that I'lll see my way to the end. And by that time, I may love the game even more!


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Arsenal are leading the race for Kai Havertz with Liverpool also interested.
The Bayer Leverkusen starlet, 18, has scored seven goals in 51 appearances for the Bundesliga outfit.
Southampton are also tracking his progress, report the Sun , though the Gunners remain in pole position.
Havertz is known to admire Mesut Ozil, which could factor into his decision to choose the Emirates as his next destination if a fee can be agreed.
Scouts watched the youngster in Germany under-19s' 5-2 defeat to Norway, with a bid set to be tabled this summer.
Calum Chambers insists Premier League remains important for Arsenal despite Europa League priority
Calum Chambers insists Arsenal won't take their eye off the ball in the league, writes Mirror Football's Adrian Kajumba.
The Gunners have little to play for in the Premier League after falling well off the top four pace, 13 points behind fierce rivals Tottenham.
Their priority has now become winning the Europa League with that competition offering Arsene Wenger's men their only realistic route back into the Champions League.
After seeing off Stoke on Sunday to stay sixth Arsenal face CSKA Moscow in a quarter-final first leg tie on Thursday and defender Chambers said: "We want to finish as high as we can in the league so we are going to keep fighting until the end of the season with that.
"We want to win every game so at the moment we are going to prepare for every game and try to get the results we need from each game.
"You could let your mind drift to the Europa League.
"But we are a professional side and do want to finish as high as we can in the league so these league games are still important for us.
"We got the job done today so now we can put that to one side and focus on Thursday."
Max Allegri puts Arsenal and Chelsea on alert by claiming he will manage abroad when he leaves Juventus
Max Allegri has put Arsenal and Chelsea on alert after claiming he will manage abroad when he quits Juventus, writes Mirror Football's Aaron Flanagan.
The Italian is looking good to win his fourth Serie A title in charge of the Old Lady, with his side sitting four points clear of Napoli.
Allegri, 50, has been constantly mooted as a potential successor to either Arsene Wenger or Antonio Conte.
Wenger could walk away from Arsenal at the end of the season, with club chiefs already considering alternative options following a disastrous campaign.
Chelsea look set to miss out on the top four, which would inevitably mark the end of Conte's time at Stamford Bridge.
And Allegri could be the man to fill their shoes.
"Certainly I will go abroad," he told the Telegraph . "In Italy, finished."


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Festo has developed in cooperation with Shell Global Solutions (SGSI) an electric servo actuator for anti-surge control valves (ASCV). The device is also equipped with a unique 'mechanical fail safe' (patent pending) mechanism. The actuator has clear advantages compared to the traditional pneumatic solutions, e.g. it enables a more precise control and requires less maintenance during the life cycle of plants due to a less complex design.
ASCVs are used to protect against compressor surge, which can cause catastrophic damage to turbine compressors. An effective ASCV must operate rapidly and precisely – two aspects that represent a major challenge for the current generation of ASCVs, which are usually actuated pneumatically. With the clear target to develop the next generation of ASCV, the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for automated valves, Willem van Rijs (initiator and leader of the Servo Actuator Project between Shell Global Solutions International BV (SGSI) and Festo) undertook research to identify innovative new technologies capable to meet the demanding requirements of the application.
The idea came up to apply technologies from the fields of robotics and mechatronics. Although essentially promising, the development in these technologies to date had not matured into generally available components for immediate application in the heavy process industry, in particular oil & gas. With this in mind, SGSI motivated Festo as a partner to start an intensive cooperation in development. The result is the achieved breakthrough at present. This effort resulted in an innovative actuator using an electric servo motor, which is a totally new technology for these kind of applications with clear advantages compared to the traditionally used pneumatic solutions.
Modular construction
This game changer has a modular construction and is built from a minimum number of components. One big advantage is the much faster action cycle compared to conventional systems. A major contribution to the short cycle time is the elimination of the dead band. The electric servo actuator moves much sooner and faster compared to pneumatic actuators and based on that, the compressor surge prevention measure is executed in a shorter time period. This results in an improved utilization of equipment by operating points nearer to the limits, less compressor drops and a reduced risk for compressor damages.
Besides the higher precision in control the electric actuator has also a lower weight compared to pneumatic solutions.
Additionally, this new technology is considerably less demanding with regards to installation as well as maintenance and offers extensive possibilities for diagnostics. This reduces costs and is an important aspect that contributes to enhanced plant safety and availability, in particular in the heavy process industry.
Moreover, the associated diagnostic data forms a basis for predictive maintenance. When applied in combination with Asset Management Systems (Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), a Festo field of development), smart diagnostics will lead to improved control of the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). This is the first step into digitalization of ASCVs. Performance data of ASCVs can be compared globally, resulting in benchmarks of compressor installations and the ability to improve plant yields.
Joint effort
Festo is also closely collaborating with CCC (Compressor Controls Corporation) to further develop and integrate the controller and actuator for optimum surge protection and process efficiency. CCC is the market leader in Turbomachinery Controls and related optimization services for the upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas and petrochemical industries. The integration of the Festo Servo-Actuator with CCC control systems increases the operating area while maintaining stable and effective surge protection.
This new Festo product is available to every OEM or user in combination with any brand of ASCV, and/or (in future) with other applications, such as Emergency Shut Down On/Off valves.
About Festo:
Festo AG is a global player and an independent family-owned company with headquarters in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany. The company supplies pneumatic and electrical automation technology to 300,000 customers of factory and process automation in over 40 industries. The products and services are available in 176 countries. With about 20,100 employees in over 250 branch offices in 61 countries worldwide, Festo achieved a turnover of around €3.1 billion in 2017. Each year around 8 % of this turnover is invested in research and development.
In this learning company, 1.5 % of turnover is invested in basic and further training. Yet training services are not only provided for Festo's own staff – Festo Didactic SE also supplies basic and further training programmes in the field of automation technology for customers, students and trainees.
Christopher Haug
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The team designated by the Holy Father to create a new service for the Catholic Charismatic Renewal worldwide until it's concretization had a meeting on March 6 with the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life and together they have completed the final text of the Statutes of this new service.
These documents are now available and can be found here.
The new service will start on June 9, 2019, Solemnity of Pentecost.
Charis Announcement
Papal Letter to the Presidents of ICCRS and CF - 12.06.2015
Papal Message to CF - 30.10.2015
Letter of the Presidents of ICCRS and CF to His Holiness Pope Francis - 09.11.2015
Papal Letter to Cardinal Rylko - 27.04.2016
Letter of Cardinal Rylko to His Holiness Pope Francis - 03.05.2016
Act of Constitution of Charis - 29.05.2017
Charis Statutes - 06.03.2018
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George Karabatis
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George Karabatis is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Information Systems. He has been at UMBC for over 10 years and he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in semantic data integration, data management, data communications and networking, database applications, and mobile applications.
He is one of the founding members of DINAMIC, a research group of IS faculty and students who pursue research on intrusion detection, application of semantics and context for the discovery of cyber-attacks, analytics for Cybersecurity, systems and information integration, privacy preservation, data mining, software vulnerabilities, and several other aspects of intelligent information discovery in various application domains. Currently, his personal research focuses on applying semantic and contextual methods to improve intrusion detection systems by discovering cyber-attacks, including 0-day attacks.
Before joining UMBC, he was a Research Scientist at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bell Communications Research – Bellcore) working on database research for the telecom industry. For his contributions he received the Telcordia Award, and Bellcore CEO Award. He combines his industrial experience in both the classroom and in the academic research, focusing on practical, yet, exciting research projects. Currently he serves as the Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellow for the College of Engineering and Information Technology.
His research work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. He has been funded by NSF, USGS, MD Board of Elections, Northrop-Grumman and IGSR. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Houston.
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- Cyber-attack detection using contextual semantics
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- Discovery of 0-day attacks, through semantics and anomaly detection
This research project takes a contextual misuse approach combined with an anomaly detection technique to detect unknown (0-day) cyber-attacks. The contextual misuse detection utilizes attack context profiles, and the anomaly detection technique identifies new types of attacks using algorithms such as the One Class Nearest Neighbor (1-NN).
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The Colusa pump delivers highly efficient hydraulic performance. It has been designed to be silent, long-lasting and reliable.
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Been busy making all most as many paintings as tattoos in these days before christmas. Still getting some really great opportunities to make fun tattoos! Here are some recent works.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Saturday, December 3, 2011
If you can find this movie I would recommend it. Gave me a whole new appreciation for Kubrick and his films. I always wondered why he veered so far away from the source material in The Shining and this documentary offers one theory as to why. Man its a doozy!
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Some new paintings!
Got the idea to take photos after each session a little late for this one. But in the future I will be posting in progress photos as new projects begin to take shape. I have been really motivated to paint lately, most likely due to it being the winter and all. This one is of Tomomori. I plan on exploring this story more in the future. One of my favorites. This painting is 16x20 and is for sale. $400 obo ;)
here are some pics in various stages. I love to see unfinished artwork as much as finished sometimes.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Jason Goldberg
Jason is one of the first tattooers I met that wasnt a biker or on meth. He was also the first person to tell me to drop out of school and start tattooing. This might be the best advice I ever got. Not that I would reccomend doing that today but in 95 it was a pretty good idea. Thanks Jay! Check out his website here> JAG13
Friday, November 11, 2011
More tattoos! More tattoos! Gotta go get some more tattoos!
Matthew has really great taste in tattoos. Different than my normal style I think but definitely a direction I need to incorporate into my tattooing more often.
I did this black light painting for the 11-11-11 show at the Black Vulture Gallery in Philadelphia. Hosted by Dave Fox and featuring a guitar solo contest! Man, I wish I could be there!
Updates coming soon!
In may Silver City Tattoo turned 13! We celebrated on friday the 13th with all of our friends at the shop. Good times! This is me tattooing the man responsible for the entertainment. Tony Reed of the Mos Generator and Stone Axe. If you have been tattooed by me most likely you heard them. If not please check out anything Tony is involved in. You will not be disapointed! Here is a place to start Tony Reed
(HERE) helping out while we were partyng next door. If you live anywhere near Philly definitely check them out. Drew also started my backpiece the next day. Ouch!
Friday, April 1, 2011
busy day
Today was a pretty good day at work. 3 fun projects and some serious progress on each. I started the day with a Chinese lion, on to a great white shark and finished the day by beginning John's new whale tattoo. Good times,
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Even as lacrosse has grown, it has continued to remain a small community, if nothing more than as a mindset. This was never more prevalent than while in Seattle. We were able to be a part in the Seatown Classic at the Starfire Sports Complex between Denver and Maryland. We set up a booth and were allowed to put on impromptu clinics and games with everyone who came by on a smaller field located right next to the main one where the game would be played.
Lacrosse enthusiasts young and old would be walking by our booth checking out the sites and immediately do a double take when they would notice Mike Powell doing stick tricks and hanging out in front of the giant Grow The Game Tour banner. You couldn't help but smile when each player would be immediately overcome with shyness as they nudged their buddy, who also stood there a little starstruck. After a little coaxing from each other or one of the GTG Tour staff members, the players would hustle over and begin to absorb every word Mike spoke. This was the theme throughout the entire day.
We were able to also walk around the complex and check out some of the other events going on – there was a coaches clinic, practices with the Denver and Maryland players, and then of course, the Grow The Game Tour! This was a wonderful day for lacrosse in Seattle and was capped off by a very competitive and fun game between both teams in front of a sold out crowd.
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An arts organization with 50 years of history has a new name and a renewed vision thanks to the efforts of local college students.
An arts organization with 50 years of history has a new name and a renewed vision thanks to the efforts of local college students.
The former Oneida Area Arts Council is now Oneida Performing Arts, a change that comes with a marketing plan developed by students in Keuka College's master of science in management degree program.
Classes for the program, which is part of the school's Accelerated Studies for Adults Program, are held at Mohawk Valley Community College's Utica campus.
"We decided that we could use some help from young professionals who could look at our 50-year history and make suggestions on how to keep the base we have but attract younger people as well," said Brian Carroll, president of the nonprofit organization.
Carroll said the new name is "much easier for the consumer to understand."
"We truly hope these ideas will not only help to get their name out there in the community, but also help to create a general interest from a wider range of age groups," said Ryan Blehar of Verona, one of seven students who worked on the plan.
The Oneida Area Arts Council was organized in 1964 to bring a variety of cultural events to Oneida, and in the decades since, more than 200 different performances have graced the stage, according to the group's website. Four to five different shows usually take place a season in the Oneida High School auditorium.
The Keuka students devised their plan during a six-week course taught by adjunct instructor of marketing Kim Deruby, who contacted the organization last year with the idea to collaborate.
They worked in teams and looked at local resources, historical documents and market trends to come up with some fresh ideas for the organization.
And as a result, on top of the new name, the organization now has:
* A new logo designed by local advertising consultant and Keuka adjunct instructor Cookie Caloia, who conceptualized the students' rebranding vision.
* Electronic press releases, new flyers and new print materials.
* A new Mother's Day matinee that debuted May 12 and a new dinner theater experience to be held Aug. 8 at the Rusty Rail in Canastota.
* The organization also will stop offering shows during the winter when many of its older patrons are away, as recommended by the students.
To learn more about what the organization has planned, visit www.oneidaperformingarts.com.


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Duplicating Art board and its content
Bruno S posted a topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)Hi, I am a new user. Opening the software almost for first time. Is there anyway to duplicate my art board by dragging it next to it ? If possible I would like to also have the content of my artboard with this new duplicate. I am coming from AI and of course lot to learn, but so far I am really liking it. Thanks a lot
PDF Export 'Include Page Information' - Use artboard names?
Checkmate posted a topic in Suggestions for Affinity Designer on DesktopQuick request - there is an option in the PDF export 'More' section to include page information. This adds a title to each page of the resulting PDF. It would be great to be able to use the artboard names as these titles, rather than <filename>1, <filename>2 etc.
Designer import - Artboards as Pages
mmuller posted a topic in Discussions and Suggestions for Affinity Publisher Beta on DesktopWhen reading/importing a designer file into Publisher, it would be intuitive to have the option to import artboards as pages. Currently the whole document is imported as a single page with multiple artboards. A work around is to create a PDF and load that as then the pages are correctly handled - however the text isn't handled quite correctly - odd letterspacing, justification etc... Just a thought. Regards, Mark
Designer: Artboard re-scaling
BertD posted a topic in Bugs on MacHi, Couldn't find anything similar on the forum here. Have something strange going on when re-scaling an artboard and have attached a screenrecording to try and get the issue across. I have a mask apllied to an artboard, only covers about a third of the artboard, it's to let me isolate part of a design whilst working on it. I only switch it on when needed or move it around. Now I was running out of space on my artboard and wanted to make it a bit bigger. 1] As usual, just grabbed the move tool, selected the artboard by clicking on its name in the artboard view (not in the layer's list) with the mask tunred on. Then dragged the artboard out downwards which as you can see from the video goes a bit awry. 2] Closed the file and re-opened it. This time I selected nothing, just opened the artboard layer, turned off the mask and scaled the artboard downwards again. This then scales the whole design, not extending the artboard. 3] Closed the file and re-opened it. Turning off the mask but this time selecting the artboard by clicking on its layer icon, so it has a white square around the layer icon to indicate its selection. Dragging the handles of the artboard then makes it all go very crazy as you can see fom the video. 4] Closed the file and re-opened it. This time deleting the mask and re-scaling the artboard again as before. This time it goes as expected. Surely not the behaviour to be expected? I'm running v1.6.0 on a 2016 MacbookPro [touchbar], MacOS 10.12.6 with a Wacom Cintiq UX21 and an old 27" iMac as an external screen attached through a OWC USB-C dock. But I've disconnected everything and the behaviour is the same. Regards, Bert designer-artboard-scaling.mov
Unable to remove a locked guide just outside an artboard
SunnyFlaGrl posted a topic in Affinity on iPad QuestionsHello I am unable to remove a guide that I placed just outside an artboard. I am currently using Affinity Designer app for Ipad.
Pixel Selection Doesn't Work Outside of Artboard
serpenteagle posted a topic in Suggestions for Affinity Designer on DesktopThe pixel selection brush does not work on pixel objects when it is placed outside an artboard (i.e. the pasteboard). What's up with that?
Guides Disapear on Artboards Inside a Layer
serpenteagle posted a topic in Bugs on MacAnother bug.. Or maybe it's "by design"? Guides placed on artboards disappear when placed inside a layer. They are only visible when you physically select the artboard itself. Once you start adding shapes, they disappear This is not a problem with artboards that are not within a layer.
Artboard, layers questions
zenmom posted a topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)I'm a new-ish Affinity Designer user, and I love it! But I need help sorting out some mysteries, as described below. I've attached my file, "house plat 1st floor". On my house plan, there's an odd section in the upper outline, in the heavier line above and to the right of the label "David's kitchen". What's going on? I tried a couple things to fix it, but was unsuccessful. In some places the heavier outline is straight, and in others it's more "freehand" looking. I'm gradually getting more control over drawing lines, but are there any tips on how to always have straight lines when you want them? And finally... Since the building is bilaterally symmetrical, I drew the rooms on the right side. Then I copied the right side, pasted, flipped the pasted image, and lined it up to match the right side. Voila! Rooms now appear on the left side also. But now I'm getting odd behavior because half of the artboard seems to have cloned itself, which I didn't expect. Is there any way to fix this? I was assuming the artboard was just the workspace, but maybe it's something else? That's enough for now. TIA for any advice. [Note: I worked on this file in the Affinity Designer 1.7 customer beta. I posted these questions here b/c I don't think they're beta-related, but feel free to move the post if I'm mistaken.] house plat 1st floor.afdesign
Collapse 'Artboards' with one click
mayahan posted a topic in Older Feature Requests & Suggestion PostsHi, I just started using Affinity Designer at work and I love it so far. One of the features that will really come in handy is to collapse all artboards with one shortcut key. I usually end up with several artboards in an Affinity Designer file and it gets pretty annoying to navigate through layers on top of layers. So please add this feature to the next rollout of the app. Thanks!
HELP! Artboard won't export bleeds properly to .pdf
chelcod posted a topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)Hello! I am having issues with Affinity Designer not exporting the crop marks properly on a booklet I'm trying to send to print. The bleeds are not working properly. Each finished page is 7" x 10" and I am trying to export bleeds and crop marks at .125" around each edge. I tried transforming each page to 7.25 x 10.25 thinking maybe I had to take account of the bleeds in the page size, but that didn't seem to work either. I made sure to 'include bleeds' when exporting. I am on a tight timeline to send to print and I am unable to fix this myself. Is anyone able to help?
Copied artboard detached from origin ?
Lexis posted a topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)if i copy to an artboard, and then change the image on it, the image on the artboard i copied will also be changed..how can i prevent that ? I honestly don't get the point either. But I find it very handy that I can switch to edit mode with a double click on an artboard and change motif and text, but it would be nice if these changes were not transferred to the artboard I copied. Best L Ps. Affinity Designer 1.6.1 Running on a Mac 10.14.2
Has anyone able to use Affinity for final stock vector ?
eminor b5 posted a topic in Affinity on iPad QuestionsI have some problem with EPS8 exported from Affinity always have a big size of artboard when open in AI (illustrator) (stock agency rejected). Not so sure is it about compatibility issue? Is it possible to have an original artboard size for final EPS8 or anyone have the solution for final EPS8 from Affinity for the stock market? - Thanks in advanced.
Suggested Feature: Snapping for Artboards
Solanaar posted a topic in Suggestions for Affinity Designer on DesktopGreetings, I hope, this is actually a missing feature and not just a feature I missed. I find myself often wanting to readjust a previously created artboard to fit an object (shape, image, etc.) but without snapping this becomes messy everytime. Being able to make artboards snap would make this kind of work way smoother. Until this feature will be available I'll have to live with the workaround of moving the object outside the artboards and then creating a new artboard (funny enough when creating a new artboard snapping to object works fine, so why doesn't it work when readjusting?) Actually this feature would be a request for every affinity product that features artboards and snapping Thanks for reading!
[By Design] Unaligned artboards are 1px larger on export
mravcak posted a topic in Resolved (subforum for when Bugs get resolved)When exporting an artboard that is placed on subpixel (i.e. its X or Y coordinates are not an integer), the suggested artboard size on export is 1px larger than the real dimensions. Steps to reproduce: Create new document. Check 'Create artboard'. Set page width and height to 100px Select artboard, duplicate it, place the new artboard on X:120.5px, Y:0 Rename the new artboard to 'Artboard2' File > Export. Select PNG. Select 'Artboard2'. The suggested export size will be 101px x 100px. The same behaviour can be seen when exporting with Export persona. If the artboard is placed on round pixel dimensions (X:101, Y:0), the export size is correct.
Linking objects instead of copying them?
Futuremoose posted a topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)I am looking for a way to "link" an object(s) rather than copying and pasting, or "placing" in such a way that a change to the original object is reflected wherever it has been used. For example, see the screenshot (I am using artboards here, but just for this example). I would like to a change to the objects in the "logo" artboard to be reflected in the "letterhead" and "envelope" artboards, for example changing the text from "A Logo" to "My Logo". Is there some approach that would allow this? Doesn't have to be between artboards... logo could be a separate document, etc. Thanks... I love using Affinity Designer, and use it for all my vector based work now.
Ability to draw on more than one artboard at once
WatcherMagic posted a topic in Suggestions for Affinity Designer on DesktopNot super important feature, but it would be convenient. I'm working on a massive heightmap that I'm drawing as slices. Being able to cross the boundaries of artboards easily would be very nice.
"Fit to ArtBoard" how to?
All Media Lab posted a topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)Hi, In Illustrator I can set up a document 800px x 800px and create a logo on it with a much smaller size. Then I click on "Fit To Artboard" and in a millisecond my Art board is adapted to the size of my logo. How do I achieve this in Affinity Designer? Regards & Thanks, David
I have many artboards in Affinity Designer (more than 50) Each artboard will be a single page in a PDF document that I will export. As I understand it there are two routes to exporting PDFs: File > Export > PDF Make a slice for each artboard, and export each page as separate PDF The first option is problematic because in the exported PDF, artwork from one artboard, if larger than the artboard itself, is showing up on neighbouring artboards (i.e. pages). See the PDF attachment: the maroon rectangle overlaps the second artboard and (and the same in reverse for the green rectangle overlapping the first artboard). I'm aware that the obvious answer to this is move the artboards further away from each other but this isn't ideal for a few reasons: As I say, this document has over 50 artboards representing pages in the exported document so spacing them far enough apart from each other such that photos and other artwork don't overlap other artboards isn't feasible, especially as the artboards masks the artwork beyond the edge of the artboard; its impossible to see where the bounds of the artwork is to mitigate overlap on other artboards I'm actually trying to place two artboards side by side to represent each spread in the book in order to actually visualise what the art looks like together as a spread without a gap. So, I was wondering if there is an option I'm missing somewhere in File > Export > PDF that I can turn off artwork from separate artboards overlapping and appearing on other artboards (i.e. pages) in the export? At a push I'm aware that I can use option 2. above as a work around for this problem i.e. slicing up the artboards using export persona and exporting each board as a separate PDF document. But of course this leaves me with the hassle of having to combine all the PDFs back into one document using some third party program every time I want to export a version of the PDF document for preview. I'm also not sure what effect another round of compression will have on the document and am therefore reluctant to use this method especially as this will be going for print. Any help would be greatly appreciated! test5.pdf
[Fixed] [Bug] Grid offset in Pixel View
fernandolins86 posted a topic in Resolved (subforum for when bugs get resolved)Hi everyone, There is a bug in AD 188.8.131.52 (and probably earlier versions) in which when choosing the Pixel preview mode on the top toolbar the artboard background and bounds slides off by a large amount. This offset affects slices in the export persona as well. It makes it pretty much impossible to work on pixel-perfect images as the Export persona will offset the artboard randomly too. Please view the attached file, Thank you.
Resize artboard and scale child layers
toastersocks posted a topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)Hi, I'm trying to resize and scale the contents of an artboard that I duplicated. I've searched the forum but am only finding posts from people trying to do the opposite (expand the artboard without scaling its contents). In this post: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/15756-resizing-artboard-also-resized-layers-inside-of-it/?p=71554 MEB seems to suggest that using the Move Tool to resize an artboard will indeed scale its layers accordingly, while using the Artboard Tool resizes the artboard without scaling its contents. I've tried resizing the artboard with both tools but they both do the same thing (resize the artboard without scaling its contents). I've also tried using the transform panel but that also does the same thing. I've also tried using the Document Setup panel which does have options for changing size and scaling the contents or anchoring them to the page, but these options are greyed out and unselectable. How can I resize an artboard and scale its contents in one go? Any help on this would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Opening Illustrator files with objects out of bounds
funkmaster3000 posted a topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)Is there a way to open/import AI files that have objects out of bounds? Most of my Illustrator files have objects all over the place. When opening AI file in Designer what you see is only what's on the artboard and in my case it's most of the times nothing. So I have to open Illustrator, move objects and then open the file in Designer. Thank you.
[AD] How to make Artboard bounds fit object?
Friksel posted a topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (Mac and Windows)I try to precisely fit the artboard to an element, but somehow snapping doesn't work on artboards (?). So I have the following questions: 1) Is there a way to fit an artboard to a graphical element (like in Illustrator, with I believe doubleclick on an object)? 2) How can we use snapping to snap the artboard-bounds (with the arboardtool) to a graphical element?
Crash when editing guides
jport posted a topic in Bugs on MacI'm running AD 1.6.1. The app is crashing every time I edit a guide. In my file I add a vertical guide which puts it down the middle. When I double click it to edit the app crashes. It's the same with horizontal guides. Not sure if it matters, but I am using artboards. Couldn't find this posted already so perhaps it's a unknown issue?
Would like to see an option allowing the conversion of Designer files that include multiple Artboards to Publisher Pages. Currently it seems as though all Designer artboards are converted to a single giant page in Publisher. I have built a number of 24 - 60 "page" files using Designer in hopes that Publisher would have some option to see the artboards as pages. Bonus Request: Allow entering "Number of Pages in the New Document dialog, saving a step from going to the "Add Pages" dialog. thanks!
SVG Export
Andy posted a topic in Older Feature Requests & Suggestion PostsHi, new guy here. o/ I recently purchased and started using both Photo and Designer after having used Photoshop and Illustrator for many many years, not a heavy user but I know my way around it. Will take a while before I can switch completely, but I like the direction of both Affinity tools. Keep up the good work! First thing I tried with Designer is port some of the assets from AI and use Export Persona for exporting both PNG and SVG. While PNG works fine, SVG not so much. I've searched the forum, but wasn't able to find a concrete answer. Hence this topic. 1. Ability to retain width and height of the artboard as well as the viewbox. Checking off `Set viewbox` option in the export setting does set the height and width attributes, but it also removes the viewbox property, which is not ideal. For example AI handles this through `Responsive` setting in SVG export options; checking it removes width and height, otherwise both are always present. 2. Output SVG contains unwanted (unnecessary perhaps?) clipping elements and references and an empty artboard rect. In the below example only `<path />` is wanted and none of the other stuff. I imagine this is necessary if the slice is smaller than the artboard. But this is exactly what `viewbox` is for — to clip unwanted areas of an SVG. 3. Presentational attributes: `fill="#ebebeb"` instead of `style="fill:#ebebeb;"`. I do believe this was mentioned in one of the topics I found, but there was no clear answer to the issue. Perhaps something similar to AI SVG options where you can select how you want those properties to be exported. 4. Long-shot, but perhaps something similar to SVGO for minification. <svg width="100%" height="100%" viewBox="0 0 200 200" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:space="preserve" style="fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:1.41421;"> <rect id="Artboard1" x="0" y="0" width="200" height="200" style="fill:none;" /> <clipPath id="_clip1"> <rect id="Artboard11" x="0" y="0" width="200" height="200" /> </clipPath> <g clip-path="url(#_clip1)"> <path d="..." style="fill:#ebebeb;" /> </g> </svg>


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In this example we use selections to solve a one-off problem casually that would be more difficult to solve rigorously with SQL. The objective in the example's scenario is to visit a point of tourist interest while travelling from Chartres to Tours, in France. We will use the Transform panel as well as the Select panel.
In this example we have a database of archaeological sites in France ranging from Neolithic times onward, with information on each site and its location, as seen in the table below.
The table includes a field indicating the rank of the site that combines factors such as importance, state of preservation and so on. Higher ranked sites would be a greater priority to visit in the field for a tourist or researcher.
When the table's records are seen as a drawing layer in a map, as above, using an imageserver layer that shows a Bing street map as a background map allows us to immediately see where the various sites are located. The map above shows a zoomed in view with Chartres at the upper right and the outskirts of the city of Tours to the lower left with the thin line of a secondary road, the N10, running diagonally between them from Chartres to Bonneval, Chateaudun, Cloyes-sur-le-Loir, Vendome, Chateau-Renault and then finally Tours, just out of sight beyond the lower border.
Our task in this example is to prepare for an automobile excursion from Chartres to Tours. If there are any particularly outstanding archaeological sites very close to our route we would like to stop and to visit them. In particular, we would like to visit any outstanding dolmens along the way. A dolmen is a relic from Stone Age times, in particular the Neolithic, with most having been erected approximately five to six thousand years ago. Because of time constraints on our journey we can only consider sites very close to our route.
The classic spatial SQL approach to this task would be to obtain a drawing that shows the road network as line objects and to then use spatial SQL to find those records that are dolmens with a high rank which are within some maximum distance of the road line that represents the N10. However, it can take time to locate a suitable road network and then to pull out only that part of the N10 over which we will travel.
A simpler approach is to create a new drawing, which we call Buffer, drop it into the map, and then draw a line along our route. We then create a buffer and grab all of the Sites points within some reasonable distance, doing everything with interactive, point and click commands. In the illustration above, we have already drawn a line in the Buffer drawing.
We click on the Buffer layer to make it the active layer, and then in the Contents pane we choose the Transform panel.
We click the Buffer template and in the Distance box we choose Value from the drop-down menu and then enter 1500. That is a distance of 1500 meters as indicated by the m for meters. We press Update Field.
The Buffer transform converts the black line into a buffer area that extends on all sides 1500 meters from where the line used to be. In the illustration above we have used the Style panel to apply a yellow fill color to areas in the Buffer layer, and the Layers panel to set 50% opacity for the Buffer layer.
We now will create a layer with just those Sites points that fall within the buffer area. We click on the Sites layer tab to make it the active layer.
In the Transform panel we enter Overlay into the Filter box to reduce the long list of transforms to only those with "Overlay" in their names, and then we choose the Overlay Topology, Intersect template. The only other drawing in the map is the Buffer drawing, so the panel automatically loads that layer as the Overlay. We press Add Component.
We don't bother to set any options, so the new layer the system will create, which contains all the site points that are found within, that is, which intersect, the buffer area, will have a ponderous, default name, but that is OK.
We double-click the Sites layer tab to turn it off, and then we drop the new Sites Table Overlay Topology, Intersect Drawing layer into the map. As promised, the default name is, indeed, ponderous, but we really do not care since we will never have to keyboard it. We just drag it and drop it into the map. The new drawing contains a copy of all of the Site points that intersected the buffer. They are shown in default, gray formatting since this is a new drawing and we have not styled it.
There are still many dots in that layer, some of which may represent dolmens and perhaps some of which are even dolmens with a high rank. We do not know which, if any, of those dots are dolmens or if any have high interest, but these are the sites we feel are close enough to our route to visit if they are the locations of interesting dolmens.
We have already made some progress in spatial selection by narrowing down our search to a few locations near our route from thousands of points that are listed in the Sites table.
We next open the Sites Table Overlay Topology, Intersect table in a window. That is the table that lists all of the points that fell within the buffer zone. In the Contents pane we choose the Select panel.
In the Template tab we enter text to reduce the long list of templates to only those which contain "text" (case not significant) in their names, and then we choose the Text Contains template. We choose Value from the drop down field for the Search for box and we search within the Name field for records that contain the text Dolmen. Press the Replace Selection command button at the bottom of the dialog to select those records.
The records appear in red selection color.
The records also automatically appear in red selection color in the drawing layer as well.
Next, in the Select panel we choose the Greater or Equal template, choosing Expression in the Compare to box, to select records with a value of 8 or greater in the Rank field. We want to intersect that resulting selection with the selection that now exists, to give us only those dolmen from the existing selection that also have a rank of 8 or greater.
We get that combination by switching the command button to Intersect with Selection and pressing it, which intersects the Greater or Equal preview with the existing, prior selection to create a new selection in the table that is the intersection of both.
The result is a selection in the table that consists of those records which are dolmens with a rank of 8 or greater. The illustration above shows the table just after we have pressed the Intersect with Selection button. We can see that there is a selection in the table consisting of a dolmen with rank 9 that is near our route.
The drawing also shows the selected object, in this case, only one point, in red selection color. It is slightly overlapped by a nearby, non-selected point.
We can clean up the display by getting rid of points that are not selected.
To do that we first press Ctrl-I to invert the selection, or, to do the same thing with a menu choice we can choose Edit - Select Inverse. That inverts the selection so that all the other points in the layer are selected. We can then press Delete or choose Edit - Delete to delete those points, leaving only the one point of interest.
We Style the layer to increase the size of points and to use a bright green fill color for points. Out of thousands of possible sites we can see that we picked out the one site of interest along our route.
We turn off the Buffer layer and then zoom into the map to take a closer look.
With the map zoomed in we can see the dolmen is located immediately by the side of a country road perhaps thirty seconds of travel from the route we will be driving. A must see!
We zoom even further and add a Google satellite imageserver layer to get a photographic, overhead aerial view.
The dolmen we have found turns out to be indeed a fine dolmen, located by the side of a road just seconds away from the traffic circle on the N10 near Saint-Hilaire-la-Gravelle. We see it below in a photograph posted by a hobbyist.
Every day, people drive between Chartres and Tours around the traffic circle nearby without knowing that but a few seconds away stands a fine Neolithic monument, an emissary from the Stone Age that has awed residents for thousands of years. We too might have passed had we not utilized the power and convenience of transforms and selections to find this gem, hidden in plain sight, along our route.
We use dolmens as the plural for dolmen. Some writers prefer a plural form without an s at the end.
This example was contributed by a hobbyist as a real-life use of Manifold. Many people living in Europe have a hobby of visiting Neolithic and other archaeological remains that are scattered all throughout Europe. Some make it a point when travelling to bring along maps of interesting sites to visit that are near the route of travel. See photos of more dolmens in the Example: Layout Properties topic. See also the Example: Create Maps topic for a look at cromlechs, also monuments from the Neolithic.
The database of archaeological relics used in this example is based on the same database used in the Hunting Neolithic Relics YouTube video and the Select and Transform in a Neolithic Relics Database YouTube Video in the Manifold Sales YouTube video channel. Watch the videos to see Manifold technology in action.
Methods like those in this example can be used for many analogous tasks in business, government, military, environment, and social welfare activities. Those analogous tasks share the common objective that from a long text list we want to pick out items that have the right characteristics in the right location, and we don't want to get buried in extra work to be able to say in a formal way what is "the right location." We don't want to hunt for road networks in vector form and learn how to use them; we just want to pick out by eye what leaps out to us as "the right location" based on a map background that we can add in seconds.
A key step in this example was drawing a line along our proposed route, and then making a buffer from that line to grab all of the points that fell within the buffer. An even more casual approach would be to use a mouse-based selection tool, like box selection, to select points along the route. But even with selection tools such as polygonal lasso tools to select areas, that involves a significant amount of eye and mouse coordination that rapidly becomes very tedious with many points or long routes.
The approach we show in this example is much easier because without worrying about accuracy we just draw a line along our route. It works even if the route is illustrated, as in this example, by a raster image layer. The extra steps of using the Buffer transform and then the Overlay Topology, Intersect transform are so easy (do not make a big deal out of them... they are really easy... one step!) that it is far quicker to just sketch a line along the route of interest and use the approach in this example than it is to try to lasso with the mouse points that are near the route.
This example also shows how a flexible, casual approach can be effective in spatial data work. There are many tasks, such as the precise computation of property tax owed on a given parcel, where there is no substitute for rigorous, exactly precise computations integrating complex rules. But in other cases a less rigorous approach of using a mouse to pick items that seem "close enough" in a drawing combined with selection criteria in a table that also "seem right" can be the best way to do the job. Especially during the creative process of making "what if" explorations, never underestimate the value of "seems right" intuition.
Contents Pane
Contents - Select
Contents - Transform
Example: Select a Range of Records in a Table - We can select or deselect a range of records between any two records in a table window using fast and easy mouse commands.
Example: Mouse Selection in a Drawing Window - Using the mouse to select objects in a drawing window. This could be a drawing layer in a map or simply in a drawing window.
SQL Example: Using Selection Query Functions - How to manipulate selections within a query.
Example: Using the Select Panel Template Tab - A sequence of actions using Select panel templates.
Example: Using the Select Panel Saved Tab - How to save selections and then use them later.
Example: Construct JSON String using Select and Transform - Use the Select panel and Transform panel to manually construct a JSON string using values from other fields in a table. Shows how we can manipulate text to build desired contents in a field.


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The most common cause of arch pain is plantar fasciitis. Plantar fasciitis is the name that describes inflammation of the fibrous band of tissue that connects the heel to the toes. Symptoms of plantar fasciitis include pain early in the morning and pain with long walks or prolonged standing. Arch pain early in the morning is due to the plantar fascia becoming contracted and tight as you sleep through the night. When awakening and walking in the morning, the fascia is still tight and prone to irritation when stretched. When walking or standing for long periods, the plantar fascia becomes inflamed and painful. Treatment of plantar fasciitis is best accomplished with some simple stretching exercises, anti-inflammatory medications, and inserts for your shoes.
Repetitive exertive activity arch pain is usually sharp, and localized to a specific area, rather than the entire arch. Usually the pain occurs in the area just in front of the heel. It is present when first standing on the foot in the morning, but may decrease once you start walking around, but will, gradually becomes worse with continued walking or running. Swelling may be present. The pain subsides with rest, but stretching the arch while resting may cause the pain to return. Injury pain is constantly present, but worse when standing on the foot. This pain is localized to a specific area, but may radiate out from this area to the entire foot. The pain is sharp, and usually accompanied by swelling and occasionally "black and blue" discolorations. The pain due to the natural aging process is usually dull and aching, or stiff, and can be felt throughout the entire arch area, rather then in just one spot. This pain is present whenever weight bearing, and usually becomes worse with continued walking. The pain gradually subsides when resting, and usually does not return with stretching. Biomechanical defect pain is usually localized to a section of the arch, such as the inner, middle, outer, front, or back of the arch. This pain may be sharp or dull, but is always worse with continued walking.
The medical practitioner will examine how the muscles of your foot function. These tests may involve holding or moving your foot and ankle against resistance; you may also asked to stand, walk, or even run. Pain caused by movements may indicate the cause of the pain. The nerves in the foot will be tested to make sure no injury has occurred there. An x-ray, MRI, or bone scan of the foot and arch may be taken to determine if there are changes in the makeup of the bone.
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The right kind of self treatment can help you knock out Plantar Fasciitis, a common and annoying injury. Experiencing persistent pain and stiffness in the bottom of the heel or foot? The cause of this either sharp or dull discomfort could be plantar fasciitis, inflammation of the thick tissue, or fascia, that runs along the bottom of the foot. Common among distance runners with chronically tight hamstrings, back, calves and Achilles tendons, or those who run in shoes without proper arch support, the condition may also be caused by a muscular imbalance in the hips or pelvis. This imbalance can cause slight compensations in the stride that place more stress on one leg than the other, according to San Diego-based running coach Jon Clemens, who has a master?s degree in exercise physiology. While correcting the imbalance permanently requires a strength program that focuses on balance, calf- and pelvis-strengthening drills, said Clemens, treatment to temporarily relieve the inflammation can be performed easily at home.
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If pain or foot damage is severe, your doctor may recommend surgery. Procedures may include the following. Fusing foot or ankle bones together (arthrodesis). Removing bones or bony growths also called spurs (excision). Cutting or changing the shape of the bone (osteotomy). Cleaning the tendons' protective coverings (synovectomy). Adding tendon from other parts of your body to tendons in your foot to help balance the "pull" of the tendons and form an arch (tendon transfer). Grafting bone to your foot to make the arch rise more naturally (lateral column lengthening).
The best way to prevent plantar fasciitis is to wear shoes that are well made and fit your feet. This is especially important when you exercise, walk a lot, or stand for a long time on hard surfaces. Get new athletic shoes before your old shoes stop supporting and cushioning your feet. You should also avoid repeated jarring to the heel. Maintain a healthy weight. Stretch when you feel a tightening of the ligament that runs along the bottom of your foot. Stop impact sports when symptoms first occur.
Stretching Exercises
Plantar Fasciitis stretches can be incorporated into a comprehensive treatment regime which may involve: ice, heel wedge support, taping, massage, muscle strengthening, orthotic inserts for shoes, topical anti inflammatory gel or oral medication and/or corticosteroid injections. If you suspect you may have Plantar Fasciitis seek accurate diagnosis and treatment from a health professional to ensure a correct diagnosis and reduce the likelihood of developing chronic foot pain. Treatment interventions may be provided by your Physical Therapist, Podiatrist and/or doctor.


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