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28 Affordable MCM Style Sofas
Retro Renovation
Scrolling around through Pinterest the other day, I stumbled upon a blog post that should be bookmarked by any mid century modern lover who may be planning a new sofa purchase — a resource guide with 28 sources for affordable mid-century modern style sofas…
The folks over at Retro Renovation set out in search of sofas with mid century styling that fall under $2,000. They came back with 28 different stores to visit - hitting everyone from the usual suspects (DWR, Room and Board, CB2) to less prominent brands (Lazar Industries, EQ3, Perch Furniture).
Check out the full post: 28 Places to Shop for an Affordable Mid Century Modern Style Sofa on Retro Renovation.
(Image: An IKEA KIVIK sofa from James' Seattle Apartment With NYC Style House Tour)
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What coffee table is that? Lexmod? CB2?
Is there a website like Apartment Therapy, but for poor people? I got excited, then saw that under 2k is considered reasonable. *sigh*
SamEB, there are a lot of sofas on the list that are well below $1,000. Macy's is below $1,000 for sure and some of the CB2 sofas, when they're on sale, are as well. IKEA is obviously on that list too. I know what you mean by affordability, but a cheap sofa is sometimes just a cheap sofa. High quality sofas will, for the most part, end up costing more money.
SamEB, a cheap sofa will, in the end, end up costing you more. Most IKEA sofas, for example, only last a few years at most before they are saggy and falling apart. My kiln-dried $1400 CB2 sofa, by comparison, is 3 years old and still looks and feels brand new. This is one of those furniture purchases where you get what you pay for!
After much debate we just took the plunge and bought the IKEA Karlstad as we needed a big sectional but everything (and I mean everything) comparable was beyond out of our price range. My parents have an old Karlstad that is also holding up really well. Sometimes as awesome as it would be to be able to buy a pricier sofa, real life doesn't allow you to 5K on a sectional and there's a reason alternatives like IKEA exist.
I so needed this! My sofa needs an upgrade yesterday! Definitely willing to spend the extra money this time to get a sofa that holds up and looks great versus saving money now cohabiting with broken down furniture again.
We're currently on a sofa hunt. I think the size of the users is something to consider. My husband is large (6'7" and 275+ lbs). He also "plops" down on furniture. SO... we have to really invest in our sofas, chairs, beds, etc., or find some way to reinforce them. For small people, though, it may be different. A house full of 5'6" 130 pound women may see an lower price-range sofa last for years. So, what's good for one household isn't necessarily right for another.
Just a thought. :)
$2000 is a lot of money. That is out of my price range, but when it came to buying a sofa for my apartment I got the nicest I could afford. It was totally worth it. I spend a lot of time lounging around, reading, eating, and watching t.v. on my couch. I'm glad I got one that is sturdy, comfortable, and stylish. If anyone is interested, I highly recommend the Corona from Macy's. It is worth the $700 sale price!
After seeing how soft the sofa market on Craigslist is in my area (when selling 2 leather sofas in good shape), I decided that our next sofa purchase will be from CL. We have 2 big dogs and a cat so anything that we buy in "new" condition quickly goes to "used" condition anyway, so no point in spending double to buy new only to have it look used in 6 months.
We don't love our IKEA Kivik--it's the same one in the photo above. The cushion covers are always sliding down so there's no nice line of trim--it's a saggy mess. We fix them all the time and they just slide down. I even tried to velcro them to the cushion--no luck. I wish we'd ordered a different couch--our options were limited because of our tiny entranceway and didn't want to wait the 8 weeks ordering a couch was going to take. Just a heads up!
I'm with StudioStarter. I love my Corona from Macy's, although I think it's discontinued. I just looked on the Macy's site, and the Clare and Jillian look almost identical to it. They're both on sale for $699.
I had a sofa from Macy's that was similar to the Corona style, and although it looked good, the microfiber cover wears down fast and the cushions flattened within months to the point where the springs are squeaking. I sold it for half the price within a year of owning it and now own the black leather Karlstad sofa that was bought during an Ikea sale where they offered a 15% discount that is applied to their gift card. I think its a great sofa for under $1,000 and has a look similar to Knoll and many varieties of mid-century Swedish leather sofas. The cushions are comfortable and don't sink in while sitting on them; its almost like sitting on one of those gel inserts for shoes.
Better yet check out the classifieds on apartment therapy!!
I really question what is considered "MCM"... Half of these truly fit that description.
And once again, you truly get what you pay for.

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A giant white plane reminiscent of Captain Ahab's whale took to the skies over Everett this week.
The aircraft is the first 747-8 Intercontinental scheduled for delivery. The reason for its understated and logo-less paint job—it has been purchased by an unnamed VIP customer.
Boeing Vice President of Marketing Randy Tinseth said the flight this week is the first production flight of the aircraft.
"During the flight, the pilots checked the Intercontinental's systems to make sure the airplane is ready for delivery," Tinseth said in his blog.
"There's something very elegant about an airplane painted in simple white. And when that airplane just happens to be the first 747-8 Intercontinental scheduled for delivery, it's even more beautiful."
The newest generation of Boeing's classic jumbo 747 is more fuel-efficient, quieter and bigger than its predecessor.
A delivery date for the first of the new 747-8s has not yet been announced.
Watch the video below to see another of the first 747-8s arrive at the Paris Air Show back in June.


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Manifestum SciComArt—
Manifestum SciComArt—
"Because any time that science develops a tendency for its methods to become too authoritarian,become too dogmatic, science turns to art and to the methodology of art,which is a plurality of methods. The methods of science are characterized by doctrines, by enforced methodology. Art lives on the tolerance of methods, on the diversity of methods.
Cajal is an example of the mutual influences of art and science of a higher order.
In his book from 1984 Science as Art, Paul Feyerabend tried to show the mechanisms of the social construction of science which are comparable to the mechanisms of the social construction of art.
He (Bruno Latour) claims that in reality there is an exchange between society and nature and art and natural sciences, which has created hybrids."
Weibel P, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Methodological Convergence of Art and Science. Art @ Science, 1998. Vienna/New York. Christa Sommerer/Laurent Mignonneau.
During the year of 2012-2013 I followed a series of workshops on contemporary art, entitled "O Ollo da Arte"- "The Art's Eye", by Antía Otero, at NORMAL. As a result of the projects developed, a final collective exhibition was set.
As a scientist I enrolled in these workshops as I intended to explore the intersection between science and art not only as a vehicle for science communication but also as a personal journey of my professional experience through an "external eye".
Project: I publish therefore I am
Inspired by the concept "I think therefore I am" from René Descartes, the purpose of my project "I publish therefore I am" was to give life to scientific thoughts. In the same way as art is founded on life, and both art and science are direct products of human thinking, I played with scientific thoughts that I've used as matter (scientific papers) giving them different forms, among them, life itself (in the shape of an organ). At the same time it was my intention to bring to notice the current scientific publishing and rating system.
Hereby you can find the work presented:
Photography: I publish therefore I am
No longer can one be defined by what one thinks, it has to be peer-reviewed and published.
Installation #1: The heart has its authors
The heart has its authors of which 1st Author does not know of. We find this in a thousand instances. It is the heart which feels Science, and not the authorship powers. This, then, is the perfect circuit: Science felt in the heart. – adapted from Blaise Pascal
Installation #2: Impact Faktor
Where does the true heart of science rely on? How many scientists are needed to artificially build a heart? How can we define the exact social and moral impact that science plays in society?
Collages: untitled
These collages were assembled images from different scientific magazines.
Interview: Estíbaliz Espinosa
During O Ollo da Arte workshop at NORMAL, Antía Otero suggested that I contacted Estíbaliz Espinosa, a female writer from Galicia, whose work is driven by one of the great motors of both scientific and philosophical thoughts, curiosity. This interview (available soon) focused on the intersection of science & art, science & literature. It took place at Casa das Ciências and Parque de Santa Margarita, in the middle of a windy afternoon at A Coruña, Spain.
[in vivo]: by Estíbaliz Espinosa
Furthermore, Estíbaliz came to visit the facilities of the Institute where I'm currently working – INIBIC, and she had her first contact with human cells, biomaterials, microscopes, cell culture lab, that she gently called cells' nursery. These inspired her for a beautiful contribution in the exhibition that she compiled in her own blog and by which I'm greatly honoured and thankful.
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed."
Einstein A, The World as I see it. Living Philosophies, 1931. New York, USA. Simon & Schuster.
About Roman Ondak, Measuring the universe, at Tate, UK. "In the end everything will be gone…"—
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"Art and Science at their most fundamental are expeditions into the unknown, in which artists and scientists seek aesthetic representations of worlds beyond appearances."
Miller AI, Insights of Genius. Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art, 2000. Cambridge, MA, USA, The MIT Press.


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- Sigal Tifferet
- Kfar Vitkin
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How can a talented teenager prepare himself for a scientific career? What do you scientists recommend? (Personal experiences, please).
My son is 16 years old and is very interested in science (Physics, Biology, Math). He would like to hear your recommendations on how to prepare for a scientific career. Is this a critical period to learn things that will be difficult to learn later? Are there non-academic experiences he should try? We are especially interested in personal experiences of all of you scientists out there.
Let me add that my son (Alon) is the one who nudged me a few times to post this question. He studies at a democratic school, meaning that he has full freedom to do whatever he pleases with his time at school. A big portion of his choices are science-related, but he does other things as well (basketball, juggling).
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May 18 2011: Alon: Thank you for your interesting response. I am not interested in philosophy of science. But figuring out how things work is one of my biggest interests. Being skeptical is interesting.
Sigal: Alon is skeptical from birth, this is one of the things I do foster in all of my kids, but I do believe much of it is genetic. His grandfather, for instance, specializes in decision making and fallacies (this is a popular area for Israelis, perhaps due to Tversky and Kahaneman).
May 25 2011: Alon,
I think your answer is one way to see it. And I don't think it is wrong.
I asked this question to myself, and that was what led me to investigate the philosophy of science, or rather to the central question of (what we call) epistemology ("explainology"): "how can we know what we know?" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology).
As science, through all the investigating and thinking and experimenting, appears to be a very good way to obtain knowledge.
So I think science actually follows the the answers to that epistemological question.
that said, I wanted to tantalize your interest in philosophy a bit... but I can understand that doing actual science (or using it,...) might be a lot more fun to do than philosophizing about it...
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From Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I'm Tracy Hancock.
Making headlines today:
Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said at the launch of the long-awaited 'Green Drop' report that South Africa would need about 23-billion-rand to prevent the country's wastewater treatment works from collapsing.
The report assessed 449 treatment plants out of the country's 852 systems. It revealed that 55% of these scored below 50%, while 38% scored between 50% and 89%. Only 7% were classified as excellently managed.
However, Sonjica refuted claims that sanitation was in a crisis.
The Green Drop programme is an incentive-based regulatory approach, but is linked to other regulatory initiatives within the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs. It will include drastic measures when continued failures are recorded.
The proposals include reducing the number of Setas from 23 to 21, amalgamating several Setas to secure greater efficiencies, which will result in six new Setas being established, and recertifying the remaining 15 with minor changes.
Nzimande said the governance mechanisms for Setas were also being reviewed and legislative steps would be taken to improve their functioning.
French energy technology company Areva plans to develop a solar power business in South Africa.
That's a round up of news making headlines today.
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My earlier coverage of the Second Circuit's ruling in this case can be accessed here.
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You can access yesterday's ruling of the Supreme Court of Virginia at this link.
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My earlier coverage of yesterday's Second Circuit ruling appears here and here.
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1 cup old fashioned rolled oats
1 cup oat flour
1/3 cup protein powder (I used vanilla brown rice protein powder)
1 T chia seeds (optional)
1 t cinnamon
pinch of sea salt
2 medium ripe bananas, mashed
3 egg whites
1/2 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk
2 T smooth natural peanut butter (or almond butter)
1/2 T honey
5 drops of liquid stevia (or 1 T more of honey)
1 t vanilla
1/4 cup carob chips (or chocolate chips)
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- In a bowl combine all dry ingredients: oats, oat flour, protein powder, chia seeds, cinnamon, and salt.
- In a large bowl combine all wet ingredients: bananas, egg whites, almond milk, peanut butter, honey, liquid stevia, and vanilla.
- Slowly pour and stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until everything is well mixed, then gently stir in the carob chips.
- Pour the batter into a greased 8 x 5 in. or 8 x 8 in. baking dish.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes; remove from oven and cool for 15-20 minutes.**
- Cut into 8 squares and enjoy.


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Adrey Hepburn. Luc Fournol Photograph.
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Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962)
Jean-Gabriel Domergue 1889 -1962 was a French painter specialising in portraits of Parisian women. From the 1920s onward he concentrated on portraits, and claimed to be "the inventor of the pin-up". He also designed clothes for the couturier Paul Poiret. He died 16 November 1962 on a Paris sidewalk.
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Sequestration will probably just end America, basically.
Look. I'm the first person in line to support draconian cuts to our nation's vital services. Highway systems? Who needs 'em. Four year public universities? That sh*t's cray. I'm serious. I mean, not specifically serious. But a few less Cultural Relations Studies professors wouldn't be the end of the world.
But the Sequester has become the high school drama queen of budget cuts. Instead of working the problem out rationally, making strategic cuts to bloated, ineffective or, even better, non-existent government programs, the Sequester levies 2.3% cuts across the board to useful and non-useful programs without critical distinction, tears it's $200 prom dress to shreds, pulls out it's hair extensions by the roots, locks itself in the bathroom, takes six days worth of Vitamin D caplets and claims to be thiiiis close to killing itself over the toilet unless you extend it's curfew by one hour. You want budget cuts, fine. Consider yourself to have one less budget to cut.
Republicans are responding to this in typical Republican fashion. You want to slice up the federal government and make us fly coach where we don't get free alcohol and those fluffy fleece blankets? Fine. I hope your Medicaid patients who will determine the public relations results of this disaster starve to death in the streets. The Democrats, on the other hand, have taken to scaring the sh*t out of Americans. First, the government was going to shut down. Then, everyone's paychecks were going to be late.
And now? The aliens are coming.
The Obama administration on Monday warned the nation to expect an increase in illegal immigration if the automatic budget cuts go into effect Friday — the latest caution from a White House determined to raise the heat on congressional Republicans…
"I don't think we can maintain the same level of security," Ms. Napolitano said. "If you have 5,000 fewer Border Patrol agents, you have 5,000 fewer Border Patrol agents."
But Republicans said the White House is setting up "a false choice" between tax increases and security. They said the other alternative is to make $85 billion in spending cuts in other parts of the budget, rather than the across-the-board cuts that make up the sequester.
"You don't like Mexicans, Republicans? We'll here's more Mexicans! What are you gonna do now? They're going to take over our borders with their hearty work ethic and their tasty home-made food, and you're gonna be screwed! Probably because we'll recruit them to vote illegally for Democratic candidates! And while we're not coming out and exactly saying it, we're pretty sure they're going to raise the dead from their graves to assist in their dramatic national takeover. That's right, America. I didn't want to have to be the one to tell you this, but if you don't stop the Sequestration, there'll be zombies."
Napolitano even raised the Homeland Security Threat Level lest the point that we will be over-run with the residents of other countries – that her department has demurred to collect and return because someone in Arizona decided to question the Federal government's commitment to enforcing their own laws – be missed by travelers who will now be subject to even greater scrutiny for carrying 2.5oz bottles of baby shampoo through airport screening checkpoints.
The real problem here is it's likely no one will notice a few more illegal aliens – certainly not Janet Napolitano – unless they come pouring over the border with semi trucks that transform into giant alien robots, and even then, most Americans would probably just question the true difference between being governed by mechanical men from another planet and the current system in place and come out with a "wait and see" approach. Because – and this is key – the Obama Administration is unlikely to have found that perfect level of government where everything is absolutely essential to our ability to function as human beings. And when the Sequester passes, and the world doesn't immediately descend into post-apocalyptic madness, it may cause the kind of existential crisis that typically drives human beings to write screenplays about people with terminal illnesses and take to wearing caftans and day drinking on their porch.
But probably with Mexicans. Because, obviously.
P.S. Apparently, in the event the Mexicans don't cross the border in droves as warned, the Obama Administration is releasing them from several detention centers. No word yet on the zombies.


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This blog became as a little place to put my poupée girl's fanarts, But now I have improved my model doll that I call as my fashion on line girl.
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Esse blog começou como um cantinho pra exibir minhas fanarts pupisticas entre outras fashionices, mas agora eu fiz um upgrade nas minhas dolls, e ela virou a fashion on line girl.
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Iseult, the Shadow Queen, from Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Stories, is a celtic briton queen (one of the lastest) and my favorite character of the Saxon Stories books.
She appears in The Pale Horseman. Iseult was married to a minor king named Peredur who kept her virginity in the belief that it maintained her powers of prophecy. Seeing that Uhtred's arrival would result in her freedom, she convinced Peredur to hire on Uhtred and his ship's crew when they appeared off the coast in order to fight the Danish warlord Svein of the White Horse, who had captured a nearby fort. Svein and Uhtred ended up colluding to turn on Peredur and pillage his settlement, and Uhtred claimed Iseult and began living with her although he was still married to Mildrith. Although Iseult healed Alfred's son Edward from an illness that nearly killed him and created herbal medicines for Alfred that made him healthier, she was feared and distrusted by the Wessex court because of her paganism. Alfred used her as a "surety" to ensure that Uhtred would not betray him and go to the Danes. She was later baptized, which helped alleviate some of the resentment against her. She prophecised that Uhtred would father three children, two sons and a daughter but refused to go into any detail when pressed. She was killed during the Battle of Ethandun when the Danes attacked the Wessex caravan behind their line.
Iseult is my favorite character from the whole series, and when she was killed, I was in mourning for weeks, unable to continue the story. I like of Gisela, Aethelflaed and Brida, but none can be compared to Iseult for me…
As I couldn't find good images about the britons of this period, I used my feeling (and my poor knowledge about the celtic culture) to make this outfit, and that is how I imagine Iseult in her first appearence in the story.
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LOST 6.2: A Game of Trust
- Thursday, February 11, 2010
Why is Aldo being such a punk over simple questions? It is so the audience won't mind what happens to him? (We've seen this ploy before with Juliet's ex-husband and with Radzinsky; the whole, "Well, see, they were total Jerky Jerkersons, so getting decleated by a bus or going crazy down in the Swan hatch and blowing one's head off are good things" thing). But we're in Season Six. What is the PROBLEM if Justin wants to tell Jin that, yes, the Ajira flight DID land on
Sawyer thinks "some of us are meant to be alone." He doesn't blame Jack (it appears), or Kate, for Juliet's death. He blames himself, for asking her to stay way back in 1974 on that same dock where he tells Kate. He's back to an "every man for himself" mantra now. He thinks none of these people are his friends, and the last thing he wants to do is stay with them. When he uncovers the ring he was going to give to Juliet in 1977, it's here in 2007-08, showing that it moved through time - buried under the floorboards of that house for 30 years - just like the rest of our characters. Dogen tried to plead with Sawyer to stay rather than leave the
Kate uses yet another name of a saint as her alias, this time Joan.
What was Kate doing in the "Authorized Personnel Only" room when the cops came to visit Claire? She was in there before they showed up. Did she know they'd be coming for her? I guess that's a safe assumption. But how did she know when, and how did no "authorized personnel" come across here while she was in there?
I loved Miles' line about how he and Hurley will "be in the food court if you need us." Seriously. This
Also loved how Arzt's big booty almost impeded Kate's escape from the airport, and how he pulled out his best Midnight Cowboy reference with "I'm walkin' here!"
Black-and-white: speed limit sign; stuffed Orca, same as the one Aaron once brought downstairs during an argument between Kate and Jack; Sawyer pulls a black box with a white lid out from under the floorboards; Aaron's ultrasound photo Claire holds; on the monitor when Aaron was shown there was a bigger-than-expected glare of bright white light over him. Accident? Symbolic?
The Numbers: 15 mph sign as Kate's cab leaves the airport; the taxi's license plate begins and ends in 4.
Deaths: Aldo; Justin? Both are shot by Crazy Claire, but it looked like Justin may have suffered just a fleshwound. Sawyer also shot an Other offscreen when he escaped, but we don't know if it was lethal.
Sigh, well… At least the preview for next week include a line from Dead Locke to Sawyer, saying, "I promise - I'll tell you everything."
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I rated this as 'has potential' because I think it would make a great ravioli or phyllo dough filling, but I did not appreciate the consistency or flavor as a dip.
Roasted Sweet Potato Dip
Yield: 3 cups (serving size: 1 tablespoon)
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- Calories: 24
- Calories from fat: 38%
- Fat: 1g
- Saturated fat: 0.1g
- Monounsaturated fat: 0.5g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.3g
- Protein: 0.5g
- Carbohydrate: 3.4g
- Fiber: 0.6g
- Cholesterol: 0.0mg
- Iron: 0.2mg
- Sodium: 16mg
- Calcium: 10mg
- 3 cups chopped peeled sweet potato (about 1 pound)
- 2 1/2 cups chopped onion
- 1 1/2 cups chopped carrot
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/4 cup tahini (sesame-seed paste)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
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- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Combine first 4 ingredients in a large bowl. Place sweet potato mixture on a jelly-roll pan; bake at 350° for 1 hour or until sweet potatoes are tender.
- Combine sweet potato mixture, tahini, salt, and pepper in a food processor, and process until smooth. Serve with breadsticks, if desired.
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Hi all I have this problem...When I use the glow brush it , well doesnt glow the color Im working on, it keeps washing out to white, I mean it "Glows" but the only color I can acheive is white, does anyone know why this is happening? I have watched Ryan Churches videos and it seems to work just fine for him, but maybe it something personal..Ha Ha...Any help would be greatly appreciated
And I m using version 8 on a mac
It took me a few hours to remember where in the Painter community I saw it, but Feng gave us a tip a while back that should help. It's in this thread:
Painter 9 - Glow brush problems
Use the Search feature whenever you want to find some info. There's a lot of good stuff in just this forum alone. I found this thread by doing a search using the word glow and searing in the Painter forum.
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thanks Jin...The problem I was having was exactly what Feng talked about, I didnt know you had to put your color selection on the lower (darkest) setting of the color you want thr tool to "glow" to...Very cool, I appreciate this.
Thanks again
Though Feng says we can find this info in the Painter documentation, I wasn't able to find it doing a search in Painter IX Help > Help Topics.
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Introducing Karateka Classic
Update: Karateka Classic is now live in the App Store and on Google Play.
I've heard from a lot of people who've expressed the desire to replay a certain 1984 side-scrolling, bird-punching game that traumatized them in childhood, exactly the way they remember it — on their mobile devices.
So, by popular demand, I'm happy to announce that Karateka Classic is coming to the App Store and Google Play this Thursday. It's not a remake, not a port, but a faithful pixel-perfect emulation of the original Apple II game, with Olivier Goguel's ActiveGS emulator running my 6502 assembly language code, graphics, and my dad's music.
In engineering the app, Olivier has added a number of nifty touches, including the ability to choose between color CRT, amber, or green screen, as well as a few touchscreen-friendly updates, and a certain peculiarity of the 5.25″ floppy disk version which I won't spoil here.
I'll be curious to hear your thoughts. Does Karateka Classic match your memories? How does it compare to the Karateka remake? And is it better to kick, or always punch the hawk?
Download links will be posted here late Wednesday night. Oh, and the price will be 99 cents.
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Fantastic game, one of my favorites.
Oh, that's a nice surprise! I have such great memories of Karateka on my old Apple II!
So.. I'm guessing we will be able to choose disk side B?
Looking forward to tomorrow!
P.S.: I always preferred kicking the hawk
Thanks for this, Jordan!
Looking forward to it!
Thank you, Mr. Mechner!! I have been waiting years and years to finally be able to play the classic KARATEKA again!! It was my first real favorite video game growing up, and I can't wait until Thursday to rescue the princess again!!
Thanks a lot! I was looking forward to have the classic version for the iPhone, my favorite Apple II game of all time!
I was deeply frustrated and disappointed by the new Karateka, it's unbelievable that everything that makes the original so nice was removed – the original game has a serious tone, realistic animation and sophisticated concept art, while the new Karateka is just some childish cartoon with terrible movements, really bad voice acting and uninspiring gameplay.
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time translated the atmosphere and the subtle but efficient storytelling of the original in a perfect way; that game is a modern masterpiece (it's a shame that the sequels abandon everything nice on it to become a cheap God of War rip-off). Why Karateka didn't follow the same path of Sands of Time?
Looks promising. We'll be featuring it on PGR tomorrow, good luck with the launch!
Great news, although I would have preferred the Commodore 64-graphics and SID-sound!
Jordan – will the Android-version sport the new leaderboards- and achievement-API announced by Google yesterday at Google I/O?
Great game! But you should have updated the ending animation, as an extra reward to the (old time) player. Hero and Mariko leaving the room holding hands or something
I was looking for exactly this!
Now, if we could get a POP on Android like this! I think it's the DOS version that sticks in my head…
I'm really looking for an update with the C64 version as a bonus (way better sound effects and soundtrack).
For me couldn't be better. Thank you Jordan Mechner for this awesome game, and for the memories. It's perfect. The modern version is awesome too.


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Dr. Rebecca Kings 35-year career with the state ended last week when she was fired from her job as head of oral health at the state Department of Health and Human Services.
A tense meeting with DHHS Secretary Dr. Aldona Wos and other top staff over how to implement budget cuts helped usher King to her exit.
King released copies of her supervisors letters about her firing, along with her response. King said in an interview that she also believes her lack of cooperation in ferreting out hygienists who took vacation time to lobby legislators against cuts in oral health contributed to her getting fired.
Wos did not respond to a request for an interview. Danny Staley, acting director of the public heath division, directed questions to the departments public information office.
Department spokesman Ricky Diaz said the department was not looking to punish hygienists who went to legislators about oral health. He provided a copy of the dismissal letter King gave reporters, but he said he could not comment further on a personnel matter.
The exchange of letters offers a glimpse into DHHS under Wos, where personnel and salary decisions have overshadowed its work administering Medicaid, overseeing mental health services and guarding public health.
The change in administration from Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue to Republican Gov. Pat McCrory came with predictable turnover in top offices.
But the agency has also added high-paying positions for state employees and for others through personal services contracts. Kings former supervisor, Dr. Laura Gerald, resigned her job as public health director in late July, citing differences with the agencys direction and policies.
Kings firing also comes as state workers are increasingly worried about their job security. In recent weeks many have learned that their positions are now exempt from civil service protections, meaning they can be removed from their job without cause. McCrory increased at will positions at DHHS nearly fivefold under state laws that allowed him to designate more of those positions throughout state government.
King said she had been an at-will employee for several years. Staley laid out reasons for her dismissal, but if she had been removed without cause, the state would have had to offer her another job at the same pay.
Meeting did not go well
King met with Wos and others agency officials on Aug. 19 to talk about how to absorb a 30 percent budget cut, according to the documents.
The state budget eliminates 15 jobs in the section. Before the final budget agreement, the Senate had proposed shutting down the section.
Their perception was that I was challenging, King said in an interview. I was nervous. King said she wanted to provide good information on how cutting her office 30 percent would affect services.
I went back to the office and thought that did not go well. I did not realize how badly it had gone.
In an email to colleagues, King said Wos repeatedly interrupted her during their meeting. I have never been treated with such disrespect in any work setting, King said in the email.
Even if I had deserved it, which I did not, no employee should be treated that way.
The Oral Health Section provides dental services throughout the state. Hygienists screen childrens teeth, direct them to dentists and put sealants on the teeth of the youngest schoolchildren.
A group of hygienists went to the Legislative Building in June to ask lawmakers to spare their jobs after the Senate budget proposed eliminating the section.
King also provided July 9 emails exchanged with a personnel analyst asking about hygienists who were on leave the day hygienists went to the legislature.
King said the agency wanted her to ask hygienists if they went to the legislature about the budget cut.
That question gave me the creeps, King said in an interview. Its not my business what people do on vacation time.
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Staley, who was named acting director of the public health division after Gerald resigned, sent King an Aug. 28 letter about meeting with him and a human resources representative about the decision to fire her, because she did not promptly provide ideas on dealing with the budget cut and based on her conduct in the meeting with Wos.
Staley, who has been with the public health division for a little more than two years, wrote in the letter that he was extremely embarrassed by Kings behavior, and that Rod Davis, the agency CFO thought you were attempting to ...get (yourself) fired.
You began you presentation by voicing your disagreement with the budget reduction, Staley wrote. You directed your comments to Secretary Wos in an accusatory and unprofessional manner. You stated that the Department did not support the Oral Health Program and this reduction came on the recommendation from the Department. You stated the Secretary provided no support with the legislature to prevent the budget reduction from happening.
Kings accusations prompted Wos to call legislative lobbyists to confirm that the agency supported the program, Staley wrote.
King replied with a letter to Staley apologizing if she appeared to be accusatory or unprofessional. Perception is everything, but I did not feel that it was such and it was not meant as such, she wrote.
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