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High School Animation Advice?
I'm a rising junior who has thoughts about my future. Actually, I dont exactly know why I'm thinking about this, but I got tired of studying for the SATs and wanted to ask something.
I always wanted to enter animation (ever since I was six and vandalizing walls with a crayon.) I never lost sight of my goals, and I'm doing fine in school. I want to eventually enter CalArts at one point in my life and do something awesome like work at Pixar.
Honestly, my parents don't exactly have such a high opinion on kids who enter art schools as undergraduates. They would probably hate the idea of me dumping my SATs and academic work to concentrate on some portfolio. It sounds like I'm not being assertive in this, but I sort of see their point; I worked hard to improve myself as a student in private school. I especially don't want to be the bum of the family who crushed my parents' aspirations.
Ultimately, I decided on going to another undergraduate school before applying for CalArts as a graduate student. I honestly don't know where I want to end up. I know the acceptance rate at CalArts is very low, so I want to land myself in a high ranked school. I figure that a well renown school has solid connections and a well established art classes. Then, with a lot of work and a solid portfolio,I can finally apply.
I want to ask if I'm being too indirect with my plan? I guess part of my reasoning is influenced by my other interests. I often was told that an overspecialized individual would have a disadvantage against a person with multiple solid specialties. I think I shown an aptitude for creative writing along with art. I only realized my ability to write recently, but I already won awards for my stories. I also attended a creative writing workshop down at Columbia, so I wish to use my gained knowledge for future endeavors.
I feel like CalArts concentrates on a visually based portfolio. While I feel like I can create a well thought out portfolio by the time I'm a senior, but I don't want to waste my writing or academic. It would probably put me at a disadvantage (I sort of established myself as a well balanced student.) I wish to take my time in college to establish myself before taking a step forward to my dreams (eg. taking life drawing classes, improving my art style, establish myself as a cartoonist/animator, etc.)
My dreams are awfully narrow in perspective, so I tell myself that I just have to force myself down that path (preferably with writing and art as my weapons in a battlefield filled with crushed dreams--I never realized how many people get rejected at CalArts.) I want to spare the horror of being rejected. I'll take whatever advice I can.
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PS- My SAT score is currently over 2200 (780 reading, 720 math and 740 writing) and will improve by October. I also plan on taking five-seven AP courses, continue running a debate club I established as a freshman, and really boost my GPA in junior and senior year. I don't think I'm limited with choices, but I definitely can't get into certain colleges without working my butt off...
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Hello Sang and welcome to AnimationNation.
I'm curious about what your parents would like you to do. What direction would they like you to go towards for your career? With the kind of academic performance you're achieving what would they like to see you do? Are they uncomfortable with the idea of an arts/animation oriented career?
Daily Z
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Hello Charles,
Thanks for the quick reply. I really appreciate it. This is the first time I used a forum, so your imput makes me feel great.
My parents are supportive of my choice in career. However, they strongly believe that I should be successful in whatever I want to pursue (manage to make money so I dont mooch off of them). My mother just wants me to go into a top tier college and my father doesnt want me to be a technician or something of a similar position. Similarly, I want to enter an animation field where I can utilize both creative writing and art in similar tangents.
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If I can extend my response:
I always wanted to fully devote myself to the field of animation; actually spend time creating something and contributing to it fully. I just feel like spending my time in high school should be about developing myself in other areas and preparing myself for a higher education.
Though I might be able to show myself in a holistic sense, I feel like animation requires a 100% devotion and effort...Something that I regrettably lack.
I apologize if I devalued the position of a technician. While I am impressed by their work, I wish to take more control of a project as a character designer or a director. I want to add my taste to the field--something I had the chance to experience when writing. I guess I sounded pretentious in my initial reply.
Once again, I thank you for spending the time to read my post. I just get worried that more animators have to attain extremely high standards in the current job market. Maybe it's the fact that I'm lost in the midst of my own thinking.
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If your parents are on your side for a career in animation and are not upset at the thought of someone as smart as yourself not becoming a lawyer or accountant or engineer then you're in a good place to start.
Next thing to consider is the cost of your upcoming education. How well prepared are you for going into the the expense involved. That's the next issue to address. Then you make the commitment and plan out how to pursue the goal and win the prize.
Daily Z
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We should include a subject on human relationships and emotions, probably called Human Science, in the core curriculum of our schools.
All of the world's problems stem from our failure to understand our emotions and feelings, and also our failure to understand the nuances of human relationships. If we can only teach our children how to make and maintain meaningful relationships, most of our problems would disappear to a large extent.
Agreed that there will still be exceptional cases where, in spite of the right emotional nurture, certain individuals will still make the wrong choices in life, but we can't ignore the huge difference in the life of millions! Just image, fewer divorces, fewer failures in love, fewer broken hearts, and certainly lesser crime!
We are teaching our children to be better doctors, engineers and other professions, but unfortunately we are missing out the main aspect of their upbringing: Being Human! Perhaps there was a time when we did not need to have to teach our children to be human, but seeing how capitalism has effectively dehumanized us, I strong believe it's time we start teaching our children how to be human and humane once again.
Your views on the subject will be truly insightful for me and also everyone on TED.
Sep 24 2013: Why not just fashion our school syllabi along emotional intelligence? Why not incorporate philosophy, ethics and civics once again back in school curriculum?
Our education system is designed in a way to make us too sure of everything. Keeping alive a benign yet questioning mind can realign our world.
Sep 24 2013: Absolutely! Thank you for your input Pabitra. Do you think the people who decide the future of your country would really care about awakening the minds of our children? How do you suggest we go about creating this more human syllabus?
Sep 25 2013: In today's world the people who decide the future of my country are just not doing enough. They should be thinking about the world and the position and responsibility of my country in that world as my country will soon account for one quarter of humanity.
The questioning has started already. First question that is being asked by the younger generation is what exactly is our tradition, is it blindly following what our elders have done? Look carefully at an Indian youth and you will see this question almost flashing like a neon sign.
There are ways and means of creating a more humane syllabus - those are mere technicalities. We need to think differently first and I am hopeful such thinking is happening in India.
Mark Laing
Sep 21 2013: This in some ways has been the complaint of post modernism. In this "ism" one can invent and reinvent themselves over and over but the difficulty with this is that as we recreate we lose the ability to be in touch with who we really are. This self awareness is already hard enough without adding more layers of personnae. Even what we do for a living can become another layer covering up who we are.
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Certainly many males are taught that emotions are not required. Many men have only 4 emotions, happy, hungry, angry and horny. Women can have 12 words for just angry and each one means a specific thing. But many women are passive with their emotions so that in relationships you now have the difficult presence of indirect emotional conveyance of females versus avoidance of emotions by males. This is obviously a generalization but I believe it still has merit.
I also believe that we need to honor our emotions as a form of intelligence just as much as we need to honor our thinking. We need our heart to temper our thinking just as much as we need our thinking to temper our heart. This I believe is where we find wisdom.
I think we all could benefit by not only learning about the value of emotions and what it takes to be in a good relationship but also what it means for us to be a valuable partner. Studies have shown that couples who attend pre-marital counseling do better than couples who do not. Although this could be due to the fact that they are already possibly more committed, I think it is still valid to recognize the value of a good education.
Sep 22 2013: Thank you for your valuable contribution Mark. What do you have to say about our diminishing social life? Today, we spend more time on facebook and other social networking sites than we actually do in spending time with the people who are physically around us, like say our neighbors. How does that affect our emotional intelligence? And is the current trend actually a result of our distorted perceptions of human relationships?
Mark Laing
Sep 23 2013: Pain often drives us into isolation. What better place of isolation than in front of a computer screen creating your super ego or avatar on the computer. Rejection and abandonment seem to be huge "pains" in the world today. Facebook and chat rooms provide what seems like a connection but are really an isolated version of "myself" that often is not accurate let alone true. To continue this endeavor is to continue to feel rejected and abandoned because no matter how much response we get, people are still only responding to something untrue. The conversation is empty calories. I have a cartoon in my office of a young girl at her desk on Facebook while a toy trunk of toys stare on missing the girl who once creatively played with them. It is sad because when you think about it, we are creating "connection" as an avatar unto itself. Even connecting isn't real anymore. I can speak to 100 people today, none of which were face to face.
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Our emotional intelligence will be consumed and over run by feelings of isolation, abandonment, rejection, frustration etc. etc. This emotional intelligence will only become intelligent when we realize what it is calling us to do is reach out and physically touch someone.
Sep 24 2013: This is exactly what I'm trying to get at. We need to teach our children to be human again. We are living in a virtual world that is increasingly getting isolationist and inhuman at the same time. Thank you for your valuable insights Mark. Do you have any practical suggestions to make regarding the idea I have shared?Sep 20 2013: Yes, companies offer all kinds of such classes tapping on human nature and relations to create better employees: assertiveness, leadership, conflict management, dealing with difficult customers, violence in the work place, team building, sexual harassment...training for supervisors including the different types of human personalities...and how to deal with them. By teaching human behavior in schools at levels adjusted to the age of the children should improve their understanding of others. Teaching basic psychology would increase awareness and tolerance for others based on understating people's motivation to act the way they do.
As a side note, I actually I just remember now that growing up in Easter Europe we used to get a grade for 'Behavior' that was included in calculating our overall grade all the way to the high school level. The grade was an evaluation of your behavior in interacting with your peers and teachers. I think that came from the socialist/communist ideas of creating perfect citizens. They don't have that here in US.
Sep 20 2013: Thank you for that valuable insight Anairda. You've made an excellent point here that we need to teach human behavior in schools adjusted to the age of the children, and it shouldn't be just a grade but a core subject in schools. The world needs people who understand the feelings and emotions of others and tolerates them. This is especially need in the context of globalization.
The world is getting smaller and so is our social life. I don't know if you have noticed but we no longer spend time with our neighbors. We would rather be glued to our TV sets, laptops or smartphones. We are living in a virtual world today on facebook and twitter. It's time we learn to be human again. :)
Coming to our forms of government, I'm strongly inclined to conclude that democracy has failed to achieve its goals. Along with education it's time for us to also think of a better form of government. Democracy worked well in Athens with a smaller, well educated electorate. But in the context of today's world democracy won't work because they are too many variables and way too many people to get a consensus to do anything good in the society. I digress! This topic would make an entire conversation in itself. But I feel we need to take the best concepts of every form of government and come up something more relevant to today's world.
Every form of government had a role to play in history and there are good lessons to learn from each. Communism had it's role in social awakening. Democracy had its part to play in liberating countries like India from slavery and colonialism and also to free human kind from the evils of apartheid and inequality but it did give rise to a monster: capitalism. I just got hold of a copy of The Communist Manifesto. There's no harm in seeing if there are any good things we can adapt from communism. :) We have to be open in our thoughts and our approach.
Thank you for your valuable views. I really appreciate it!Sep 20 2013: This is a good idea. But it should build on a foundation of human relationship that must have been set from good homes.
The best place for children to learn about human relationships is from fathers and mothers leading by example.
Rohit Daniel
Sep 21 2013: Hi Feyisayo. Thank you for your views. I totally agree that these things are best learnt at home from fathers and mothers. However, what do you have to say about families where both parents work and they hardly have time for their children? It's not uncommon these days for parents to put their children in playschools as early just a year old.
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Perhaps this is why we need to teach our children to be human again. To remind them and ourselves too that money and careers aren't everything in life. It's not possible to teach adults to sacrifice their careers to spend more time with their children. But it's definitely easier and absolutely worth it if we can teach our children to value relationships so that when they become parents tomorrow they would be good examples to their children.
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Particularly, the subject of human symbiosis.Sep 24 2013: I think to be human again means we must become a child...not childish but as a child. What do I mean by this? First that we begin to re-ignite creativity within us. This is not authentically achieved unless we add "wonder" to this. A child's creativity begins with wonder which in turn ignites creativity. Yet when a child starts with wonder, this pulls others into the experience. Think of walking with a small child and how they stop to examine everything and then the millions of questions that draw you into relationship with them. The adult in us feels we must always have the answer but if we can connect with our own inner child then we will connect with theirs as well. The "fact" that the sky is blue is not nearly as interesting as "how" blue it is.
My wife and I have decided that when our kids begin to give us grand children and they come for a visit, that we will always have a mystery to look at. The solving part is not as important as the discovery part. When as adults we create avatars of ourselves this is not discovery this is an attempt to hide from ourselves. Children so wonderfully assume that everyone is on their team and cares about them. Although this poses risks for safety and I am not suggesting blind trust and acceptance, I am advocating for developing ways that build interest in all tht is around us including others and just as we accept that the grass is green we learn to wonderfully accept others without the limitations of expectations.Sep 21 2013: i am not against this class but hasn't this been tried before at many different grade levels with many degrees of success? I wonder what lead to the success or failures of those programs.
There is a major lack of empathy and I wonder how you would teach it - especially empathy for those you do not know or are in a different culture, country, class, etc.Sep 21 2013: Know Thyself 101
Sep 21 2013: I think Harvard had a class on this....
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Or at least the Boston Globe ran an article...Sep 20 2013: In theory this idea is great, but I think you are forgetting something: most adults to not understand emotions and the nuances of human relationships themselves. I don't think this is simply a symptom of our time. In fact, I would argue that we are much more aware (perhaps dangerously TOO aware) of our emotions than decades, centuries, and even millenniums past. Consider the Ancient Greeks. Were there not just as many failures in love and broken hearts?
Daniel Quinn, in his novel "My Ishmael" enlightens readers to the idea that humans learn naturally. We are hardwired to learn from observation and experience. Quinn argues that schooling can sometimes inhibit natural learning, and I am inclined to agree with him. I don't think that "the meaning of love" can be taught, as you say. Enter a social philosophy class and you can argue about the definition of love until the cows come home, you may not find out what it means to YOU until you experience it for yourself.
Sep 20 2013: I absolutely agree with you Leilah. We cannot teach our children about love. You misunderstood me. :) I never said anything about teaching them the meaning of love. We can't teach our children the meaning of love. They have to find it out themselves through personal experience, but we sure can guide them in the right direction!
A wise man once said that there are two ways to learn things. One is through personal experience, the other and more smarter way is to learn from other people's experiences. Wouldn't it be nice if children had the knowledge of our experiences to help them make their own decisions? Yes they would learn from their own experiences but they would be in a better position to choose the right things in life.
Coming to awareness about emotions, yes in theory and in textbooks we are more aware about our emotions than our forebears but then again too much knowledge can be dangerous too! We have unnecessarily complicated simple things. We are delving into the deeper meaning of things when often a simple understand is all that is needed. This extra knowledge has totally confused everyone. We need to uncomplicate things.
Considering the ancient Greeks, yes there were many failures in love and broken hearts too. My questions is, why can't we learn from history and try to change things? Why should we just accept such things as the norm? Why can't we try to change things?
Humans learn naturally but looking at the world around us what do you think they observe and learn? Crime, divorce, anger, war, hatred, corruption! We are at a junction in history where we need to set things in order by teaching our children things that they wouldn't find around them.
I totally agree with whatever you've said and really respect your views but the times are such that they demand such measures. Schools are absolutely inhibiting natural learning and that is why we need to move away from science and arts to a more human approach to education. :)
Do give your views. :)
Sep 21 2013: Rohit, in another comment you said "had someone taught me the meaning of love at that age maybe that relationship wouldn't have ended so bad." Perhaps this is why I misunderstood. You said that the adults in your life at the time told you not to enter a relationship with this girl and that seemed to be the wrong approach. As an exercise, I'm curious, what would have been a better approach? As an adult with more knowledge about love, what would you say to your former self to prevent that heartbreak?
I agree completely, it is smarter to learn from the experiences of others than just from our own. And I think it is a great idea to teach more about life in schools that just arts and sciences. I myself have been saying that for years! I think the difficulty would be finding experts in this subject. Experts in math and science have studied those subjects for years and their knowledge is easily testable. Where would we go about finding experts on love, emotion, relationships, and empathy? How can we be sure that the teachers really understand the subject enough to teach it to our youth?
Sep 21 2013: Thank you for pointing that out Leilah. Yes I did mention that I would have loved it had someone told me about love back then but I would be foolish to believe that you can teach the meaning of love to children. As an adult though I would teach my former self that love is about giving and not taking. Love doesn't feel jealous and is not possessive.
You see one of the reasons why that relationship ended was because I was too jealous and possessive. In the end she just dumped. When I look back now I find it silly that I was so jealous and possessive. Tell me your first boyfriend was as jealous and possessive! At that stage we misunderstand a lot of things about love. Wouldn't it be nice to have someone to guide us in our journey towards finding the true meaning of life? :)
As a teacher I have tried my best to teach youngsters how to form meaningful relationships. I can't say I have succeeded 100%. I haven't even succeeded 50%, but yes I have seen a difference in the lives of the children I have been associated with.
Regarding finding experts, we got to start somewhere. Our world didn't come up with math and science experts overnight. These subjects gradually became mainstream subjects after decades, maybe centuries of learning. If we start now, someday we'll have human science taught as a separate branch of studies and there will be experts on this subject too.
For now I believe we have to have to set up a research team and come up with a definite plan. The next step would be to convince schools to include this subject as a core subject. Then we have to go about training the current teachers as best as we can. We have to make a start somewhere, don't we?Sep 23 2013: Yes! I do think we need to start somewhere! And I love your optimistic attitude :) I hope you realize that I only play devil's advocate in order to encourage progress. We must ask ourselves these difficult questions in order to get anywhere. It is not simply enough to say "we should start this program in schools" without analyzing what exactly we would teach and who exactly would teach it.
Rohit Daniel
Sep 23 2013: Leilah I really appreciate your opinions and your comments. We really need people like you to give realistic goals to dreamers like me. :) I have a dream and a vision which I want to share with everyone. I dream of a better world like everyone else. I can't make it better on my own, but together we stand a good chance. :)Sep 20 2013: Leilah, I agree that we are hard wired to learn by observation and some of us more than others. I also agree that a lot of parents are not fit to teach these complex issues to their children. That is exactly why teaching human behavior in schools would be beneficial. Just like children from illiterate families would not have a chance to get educated if you took that approach for human behavior. You don't have to teach love or hate because those are feelings that come from within; however you can teach about autism and let the non autistic children learn why the autistic child behaves in a certain way and how he might behave socially awkward but still have mental capacities that the normal children don't. Men know this days how women act differently at a certain time of the month due to hormonal causes. Kids would benefit to know that the kid that acts like a bully does it maybe to hide a personal feeling of insecurity, that some kids are introverts or timid...but they are worth being your friend as much as the cool extroverts...
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These just to give a few examples. Some people have and intrinsic talent to understand human motivation but some people don't and they need to be thought...and literacy in this area would benefit every one
Sep 21 2013: There is so much for me to learn from you Anairda. Life has certainly taught you many lessons and you seem to have learnt them well. This is exactly what I mean when I say we should teach our child human behavior in schools. We don't have to teach them how the human mind works or the theories on emotions. It should be more practical and should involve sharing our collective experiences with them. It's as simple as that! It could involve real life experiences, case studies, role playing, etc.
I don't know how things are in Europe and the US, but here in India things are bad. Neither parents nor teachers set a good example for the children. When children grow up seeing corruption all around them, they end up thinking that it's fine to pay a bribe. When they grow up, it doesn't hurt their conscience to accept and pay brides to get their work done. We need to teach them to think for themselves. We need them to understand that we can create a better world.Sep 21 2013: Anairda, I like this idea as well, of teaching children about autism and the underlying emotions of bullies and the meaning of introverts and extroverts. This all sounds great! I would like to point out that ALL of these topics would easily be covered in a basic psychology class. Sure, we can restructure the class a bit so that it is a bit more practical and less theoretical, but I think the basic idea is there: children will learn to understand the behaviors of others and hopefully therefore empathize.
I think what I'm getting at is that perhaps we do not need to create an entire new field of study, but just focus on the restructuring of subjects in schools. Focus on what subjects take priority. For example, I did not take a psychology class, was not even offered a class in psychology, until high school! If psychology is introduced at a younger age it might help to encourage empathy among youngsters. But this is just one idea …
I also think a major flaw in our education system, which adds to the inhibition of natural learning, is the concept of teaching through and lecturing as opposed to discussion and thinking! Perhaps philosophy should also be introduced at a younger age! This would encourage children to think for themselves, creatively and logically, and perhaps reflect on life more so that they can better learn from experience.Sep 18 2013: I would just love to echo everything you said. It is so needed and much more useful than some of the subjects they are learning in school now. Love this idea
Sep 19 2013: Thank you Camille. I just wish that more people will understand and see the relevance of the idea as you do. I speak from personal experience rather than just musing over things in my leisure time. Let me share one of my school experiences with you. As a kid I was always terribly afraid of girls. No one ever told me that girls don't bit. I literally never spoke to girls until I was in grade 10. I had my first girl friend in grade 11. All of a sudden everyone, including my mom, grownups and my teachers, began telling me that this wasn't the age to love, having a girl friend was wrong, and so on.
I was like come on, she was my first girl friend! I wasn't going to let her go just because they said it was wrong. I was in an experimental phase. I just defied orders and did not give a damn to their advice. She did end up ditching me and I ended up with bi-polar affective disorder for about two years after that experience. I dropped out of school for a year, and had a tough time getting back on track.
My point is, had someone taught me the meaning of love at that age maybe that relationship wouldn't have ended so bad. Maybe we would have always been friends (I haven't seen her in over 10 years now). By telling me not to do it, everyone just made me more determined to do it. That bitter experience really had an impact on my life and the way I viewed women and handled relationships for a long time to come. Only recently I've learnt the true meaning of love and I'm still learning about human relationships.
My point is, instead of telling our kids not to do something, why can't we teach them how to do it the right way? Everyone told me that love will hurt because they would have gone through break ups themselves. But had they used their experiences to guide me into making a meaningful relations my life would have been entirely different now. This is just one of those many experiences I have to share.
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I am first of all a long time yeast dough maker and familiar how things should be done. These are excellent! Because I have a dough hook, I put all wet ingredients including the butter (I warmed it with the milk)...then the dry ingredients from smallest amounts to the largest. Dough is slightly wet, and it would not hurt to add a little extra flour, perhaps a 1/2 cup.
I also egg washed (beaten egg with 1 TBL water)and brushed them. The rolls shined coming out of the oven. Will make these again. Urge you to give this a try.
Followed the recipe exactly - came out with "rolls" that were golden brown on top and gooey in the middle.... now trying to salvage to have some sort of bun with the beef dip... since the buns are key in that dinner. The parts that cooked tasted ok, but I am very dissapointed with the results.
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I am 10 years old and I love these rolls!!!!!!!!! If I had to chose ice cream or these rolls, I would diffenitly chose the rolls.
Followed the directions exactly and got nice fluffy, beautiful dinner rolls! Everybody loved them and they made great little sandwich rolls the following day. Watch the quantity though, this recipe makes 36 rolls which is a lot of rolls for a small family! I cut the recipe in half and still got 20. Also if you are having a hard time getting the dough to rise while in the bowl, heat up your oven and then turn it off and leave the bowl of dough to rest on top of your oven door while the door is open, it helped my dough to rise. Will definitely make again!
These are FANTASTIC!!!!
The dough is very sticky, and I did have to use about an extra cup of flour.
I used my KitchenAid Artisan stand mixer, and note to those of you who own the same model: there is too much dough for this size mixer and it got jammed all up in the arm. I had to stop the machine, divide the dough into two piles, and knead each one separately and then tossed them together in a bowl. Excellent, excellent, and excellent! They are soft and pillowy and turn out HUGE! I rolled my dough into the smallest of balls and they turned out the size of bakery muffins. My one and only (minor) qualm: I will add more salt to the recipe next time. Perhaps a half teaspoon and see how that goes. Thank you though, these are the rolls I've been looking for!
very easy! I'm not a bread maker but these turned out much better than store bought. I think I might try a bit more flour next time as one reviewer stated. The dough was very wet. Not so easy to work with. I found out you can make these the day before and freeze. I put them into a greased 8x8 pyrex dish and froze them just before the final raise. The next day it took about three hours to thaw and raise before they were ready for the oven. I don't know how well a larger dish would work though as the rolls in the middle took longer to thaw and raise than the ones on the outside. But they were delicious!
The rolls tasted good, but I would bake them in a bigger baking dish next time. I had to throw out 2 of the center ones because they just wouldn't bake and the rest of them were already really brown on the top and bottom.
I've made these twice. First time I was impatient and let the dough rise only once before shaping into rolls. Second time I replaced half flour with whole wheat flour. Both times they were delicious but the recipe dose need more flour.
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I posted these entries in another topic on the Forums. I think this is something that should be a dedicated subject so I'll re-post here for the community's reference.
The past few months I've been talking quite a bit about what I'm seeing on Kickstarter. A lot of activity and successfully funded projects.
Take a look at what I compiled in three of their categories.
The first one is Most Funded in Comics...
There are 11 projects funded at over $100,000 with the top project at over $1 million.
Of the top 11 projects all but 1 of them were funded this year in 2012. The other at #10 was funded last year in 2011.
There are 35 projects funded at $50,000 and above with all but one of them funded this year.
There are 71 projects funded at $25,000 and above with many more successfully funded at lower amounts.
Of these 71 projects, 60 of them were funded this year in 2012. There were 10 funded in 2011 and 1 funded in 2010.
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In the category of Most Funded in Film and Video...
There are 69 projects that have been funded at $100,000 or more.
Of these 69 projects, 52 of them were funded this year with 15 last year in 2011 and 2 in 2010.
Of the 69 projects that raised $100K of more on Kickstarter, 7 of the top 10 were funded within the last 6 months.
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This is the category that's the most impressive so far.
Most Funded in Games...
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There are 39 projects funded at $250,000 and above.
There are 27 projects funded at $500,000 and above.
There are 14 projects funded at $750,000 and above.
There are 9 projects funded at $1,000,000 and above.
The top 8 projects are funded at $2,000,000 and above.
The top 4 projects are funded at $3,000,000 and above.
The top project is funded at $8,569,474 which is the most funded project in all of Kickstarter.
The top 51 projects were all funded this year in 2012.
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Nico Hulkenberg feels it is a "bit risky" for Sauber to fast-track Russian teenager Sergey Sirotkin.
Sirotkin, who turns 18 this coming Sunday, is expected to line-up on next year's grid as part of Sauber's new deal with a group of Russian backers.
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St. Louis, MO (Sports Network) - Yadier Molina hit a grand slam before an early exit due to dehydration, and Carlos Beltran added a three-run home run as St. Louis ripped Philadelphia, 8-3, in the finale of a four-game set from a blistering-hot Busch Stadium.
Matt Adams launched his first career homer for the Cardinals, who salvaged a game in the series. Adam Wainwright (4-5) scattered seven hits and one run over six innings.
Juan Pierre totaled three hits and drove in two runs for the Phillies, whose four-game win streak came to a halt. Roy Halladay (4-5) lasted just two innings thanks to right shoulder soreness, charged with four hits and four runs and a walk.
"Of course I'm worried. Any time you have to fill a spot, it concerns me," said Phils manager Charlie Manuel on the possibility of losing one of his aces. "If we have to do it, we'll get somebody and fill it. The games will go on."
Halladay's first-inning struggles haunted him again on a day where game-time temperatures were well into the 90s.
Skip Schumaker and Matt Holliday hit consecutive one-out singles, a groundout advanced both, David Freese walked to load the bases and Molina barely cleared the wall in center to make it 4-0.
Mike Fontenot started the visitors' third with a single, was sacrificed to second, moved up on a Jimmy Rollins grounder and scored on a Pierre base hit.
Phils center fielder Shane Victorino robbed Adams of a homer to record the second out of the fourth, but the Cards moved ahead 7-1 in the fifth as Rafael Furcal walked, Schumaker singled and Beltran hit a three-run shot to right.
Molina exited in the midst of his fifth-inning at-bat, a casualty of the heat and humidity which is notorious in the region at this time of year.
"I was seeing three pitchers at once," Molina admitted. "That wasn't a good feeling. I felt kind of dizzy. This is the first time something like this has happened and I'm glad it wasn't any worse."
Adams victimized Chad Qualls for his first career homer, a line-shot to right for an 8-1 game.
A Victorino groundout scored Pierre in the eighth and Pierre singled home Freddy Galvis in the ninth.
Beltran recorded his fourth game of at least three RBI this season, and first since driving in four on May 11 against Atlanta. He has 26 career longballs against Philadelphia, third-highest among active players (Chipper Jones, 47 and Andruw Jones, 38)...Molina's slam was the third in his career and first since September 6, 2010 at Milwaukee...The Phillies haven't produced a four- game sweep in St. Louis since 1913...Both clubs are in action on Monday as the Cardinals begin a 10-game trip in Atlanta and the Phils head to Flushing to take on the Mets.


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ITEM#: 12067540These breathtaking sterling silver diamond hoop earrings contain over 26 round-cut diamonds. These earrings feature a choice of metal and diamond color. These sparkling earrings also feature saddleback clasps and are great for special occasions.
- Wear a beautiful pair of hoop earrings everyday or for that special occasion
- Jewelry is crafted of a choice of .925 sterling silver or goldplated silver
- Hoop earrings sparkles with 26 round-cut diamonds
- Diamond color J-K and clarity I3
- Total diamond weight is 1/4* carat
- Saddleback clasps
- Earrings measure 23.8 mm in diameter x 2.4 mm thick
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Wife loved these earrings. She wears them often and the look great on her.Read More
Disappointing product. The hoops bend and make them difficult to put on because the clasps don't connect properly. I would not by them again.Read More
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Love these when I wear a dress. Lol!!!Read More
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I purchased a pair of these earrings for myself and a friend. She is allergic to "fake" earrings and they make her ears breakout and ooze puss. Since these were sterling silver, she did not have an allergic reaction. Since there were diamonds, even if they were small, they have a nice sparkle factor to them. Also, the use of the diamonds on the inside of the back made it appear as if they were all around. I'd by these for more family and friends and I am more than satisfied with my purchase.Read More
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I bought four pair of these for my bridesmaids and had to return them. I was so disappointed. The color was horrible.. as my husband said they look like they came out of a gumball machine. I knew the price was too good to be true but I thought they would have been better then what I actually received. Two out of four was missing diamonds and even the silver was a dull color. The return was pretty hassle free but overstock deducts shipping charges from your refund which I think is ridicolus when the quality is so bad. $9.00 to return some earrings that fit in a small envelope. Please. Save your money!!!Read More
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had my eye on them for a while
I love hoops and black diamonds..
love hoops and black diamonds
i have some other pieces with sterling silver and black diamonds. this wll complete the ensemble.
How long are these in inches/millimeters?
Thank you for contacting us leia94loki97. Earrings measure 23.8 mm in diameter x 2.4 mm thick. 0.93 inch in diameter X 0.094 Inch thick. Please let us know if you have any further questions.
they are about 1". If you look on the product description, it shows you the exact size of the product.
I need to leave a review on these earrings- my daughter loves them and they are very pretty, but when she went to put one on the other day, it cracked in half. Help
How cheap do they look?
Hello stylewicked, These earrings are beautiful and have received excellent reviews! These have genuine diamonds and do not look cheap at all. I hope this helps. Thanks for shopping with us.
they are worth the money you are paying for them
they do not look cheap at all! I am in love with the items you can purchase with OS.COM. They are real sterling silver, real diamonds. They are also a great price! I like the fact that you can buy the matching bundles they offer for most of the jewelry items.
do these come in a box or on a cardboard tab?
This comes in a giftable box.
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Manchester United's 20th league title, van Persie's hat-trick, Suarez's bite and ban and the relegation fight are discussed on the new Podcast.
Sky Sports News Radio's Mikey Burrows is in the chair this week and is joined by TEAMtalk.com Editor Simon Wilkes and Manchester United fan Tom McDermott, with Aston Villa supporter Dave Reed also making a guest appearance.
The trio start proceedings with United's 3-0 win over Aston Villa at Old Trafford, where Robin van Persie scored a stunning hat-trick and a goal of the season contender to singledhandedly sink Paul Lambert's strugglers.
Where this current United team stands in the pantheon of Sir Alex Ferguson line-ups is debated, then Reed gives his views on Villa's fight for top-flight survival, admitting they need to get points on the board as soon as possible.
Wilkes feels Villa's away form may be the key to them staying up, then the trio turn their attention to the battle for Champions League football, with Chelsea widely tipped to be the team that misses out on the top four.
Luis Suarez's bite then comes on to the agenda, with Liverpool receiving praise for the way they handled the fall-out of the controversial incident.
McDermott feels the Uruguayan could be on his way out of Anfield this summer, while Wilkes and Burrows go toe to toe on the seriousness of Suarez's bite on Branislav Ivanovic's arm.
The promoted teams from the Football League get a pat on the back and there is plenty more debated on a packed podcast, with someone getting a mention for tweeting #ilovethepodcast to @TEAMtalk.
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Ghosts in the Graveyard--a Halloween Photo Shoot!
Step 1: Old-Timey Photoshoot!
Well, lets back up. I told my kids what I wanted to do. Surprisingly, they were all on board! Even the 4 year old! Yay!
So we dressed them up. I picked church clothes that looked the most old-timey. And the boys wore some bow ties that I hot glued together. The boys had vests...the girl had an old school dress and dark gray tights. Pretty plain.
Then we found some accessories. Old keys, a vintage pocketwatch and a lacy parasol.
Then we trekked around our neighborhood...with me in a hoodie and yoga pants...looking for great picturesque places...and the little cemetery a mile across the road from us. (yes, we walked...we are a 1 car household)
Then I would take pictures with my kids in them...then they would come stand by me and I would take a few of just the background.
The best part about this photoshoot is that I didn't need all my kids to smile at the same time! :) I just told them to look kind of sad...and we got some great shots!
was curious
have fun
Beats the heck out of the way we did it with film, calculating double exposures
in the camera, or printing a double exposure with two negatives in the darkroom!
Might even be better than using the built in double exposure settings in most digital SLR cameras these days!
Well Done! Bravo!
love the ghost like picture, in the graveyard! It looks real, how did you accomplish that! I love Halloween because I was born the day before Halloween. Great job!
But I am incredibly dense. I brought up both pictures OK. I tried to copy one to paste over the other and got strange boxes appearing. So exactly how do you do that? I could not rt click to do it, nor use the copy under the edit tab. I also could only get the layer(s) on the right side to toggle between the pictures. I'm goofing something real simple, I think. Any help? Thanks. Peter
You can do the control A to select all and then just click and drag that layer to the other picture....
I hope this makes sense! :) Good luck!
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text: Tim Wright (Skilldini) is one of the acknowledged masters of the classic Zombie Ball routine. Watch as silver ball balances on the edge of a scarf and then comes to life as it floats, jumps, vanishes, and reappears. Let Tim teach you his secrets of performing this reputation-making effect!Techniques and concepts discussed:Cloth Selection, Zombie Gimmick, Character Of The Zombie, Setting Up The Routine, Introducing The Ball, The Floating/Balancing Ball, The Vanish, Around The Back, Floating Down The Scarf, The Secret Weapon, Body Movement & Hand Work, The Floating Illusion and much more.Studying this DVD will greatly reduce the time it takes to master the Zombie. The DVD also features rare archival footage of Joe Karson who invented the routine and of Neil Foster who was considered the all-time master of the Zombie.


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SHARON – Kane seniors Evan DeLong and Cody Blankenship will be returning to Hershey for this week's PIAA Wrestling Championships. DeLong and Blankenship each won their weight classes at the Northwest Regional Tournament held Friday and Saturday at Sharon Area High School.
The Kane Competition Cheerleading team attended the Champion Cheer Central March Madness Competition at McDowell High School in Erie on Saturday and came home Grand Champions among all 40 plus teams in attendance. They also placed first in the non-tumble Varsity Division as well as first in the Small Varsity Division with their two different routines. The Best Stunts award also went to Kane.
SHARON – Three Kane wrestlers advanced to this morning's semifinals of the Northwest Regional Tournament at Sharon High School. The top four finishers at last weekend's District 9 tournament advanced to compete at Sharon along with the top six finishers from District 10. Kane's Austin Woolcock (113 pounds), Cody Blankenship (120 pounds) and Evan DeLong (170 pounds) won their quarterfinal match-ups to move into the semifinal round.
CLARION – Clarion-Limestone's size and experience was just too much for the Kane girls' basketball team to handle as the Lady Lions defeated the Lady Wolves 53-32 in the D9 AA semifinals on Thursday night at Clarion University.
These three Kane indoor track and field athletes each placed at last Saturday's Tri-State Track Coaches Association Championship meet.
The Kane Lady Wolves will look to upset a higher seed for the second time this postseason in tonight's District 9 AA semifinal game at Clarion University.
These seven Kane wrestlers qualified for the northwest regional tournament, which will take place at Sharon High School this Friday and Saturday. From left to right are, front row, Austin Hulings, Keaton Rounsville, Evan DeLong; back row, Cody Blankenship, Jon Gelsick, Darren Brown and Austin Woolcock. The top three finishers at each weight class in Sharon advance to the PIAA Championships in Hershey.
CLARION – The Kane wrestling team will be sending seven wrestlers to Friday's northwest regional tournament in Sharon, including two District 9 AA champions, Evan DeLong and Cody Blankenship.
Joining the two seniors will be Austin Woolcock, Jon Gelsick, Darren Brown, Austin Hulings and Keaton Rounsville.
CLARION – Ten of 12 Kane wrestlers to take part in the 2014 District 9 Class AA Championships remain alive in the hunt to advance to next weekend's Northwest Regional Tournament in Sharon. Seven Wolves will wrestle in this morning's semifinals while three are still alive in the consolations. Kane goes into Saturday's action in third place in the team score, with 66 points, behind Brookville's 72 and Redbank Valley's 70.5.
CLARION – The 2013-2014 Kane boys' basketball team left everything they had on the court in Thursday night's District 9 AA playoff game with Karns City. The Wolves and Gremlins battled it out for four quarters but it came down to the final seconds as a Kane basket was ruled after the buzzer to give Karns City a 44-43 win.


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Compact, Portable Speedlight Unit
i-TTL Speedlight optimized for use with Nikon's Creative Lighting System (CLS).
Nikon's Precision i-TTL Flash Control
Delivers accurate flash exposures and seamless fill-flash capability under difficult, challenging lighting situations.
Flash Value (FV) Lock
Locks in a specific flash output on the main subject, regardless of aperture, composition or the lens' zoom position.* *With select Nikon digital SLR
Wide-area AF Illuminator
Accurate autofocus in low-light situations is assured.
Flash Color Information
Provides more accurate color renditions and white balance accuracy on CLS compatible D-SLRs.
Hot Shoe and Wireless Operation
Use on-camera and as a wireless remote light source.
Auto Power Zoom Coverage
Provides a wide zoom range covering 24 to 85mm expands to 14mm with built-in wide-flash adapter.
Bounce Capability with Rotating Flash Head
Rotates 270° degrees and tilts 90° degrees to help reduce background shadows and allow for creative light control.
Auto FP High Speed Sync Mode
Available with Nikon CLS compatible cameras with high-speed sync capability.
Large, Bright LCD Display
With easy to read menus and intuitive controls.
Guide Number
Lens Coverage
24mm to 85mm (Manual Mode)
24 to 85mm (Automatic mode)
Bounce Function (Tilt)
Weight (Approx. without batteries)
Commander Function
Remote Function
Guide Number
30 m/98 ft. (at ISO 100, 35mm zoom-head position, 20°C/68°F) to 42 m/138 ft. (at ISO 200, 35mm zoom-head position, at 20°C/68°F)
Electronic Construction
Automatic Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) and series circuitry
Flash Exposure Control
i-TTL Balanced Fill-Flash with CLS compatible cameras
Manual Flash (with Nikon Creative Lighting System digital and 35mm SLR cameras)
Lens Coverage
14mm to 85mm (Manual Mode, with built-in wide-flash adapter)
24mm to 85mm (Manual Mode)
24 to 85mm (Automatic mode)
Other Available Functions
Test Firing
Monitor Pre-flashes
AF-assist illuminator
Bounce Function (Tilt)
Flash head tilts down to 60° with click stops at every 15° or up to 45° with click stops at every 15°.
Minimum Recycling Time
2.5 sec. (approx.) with Ni-MH AA-size batteries
2.9 sec. (approx.) with Ni-Cd AA-size batteries
3.5 sec. (approx.) with R6 AA-size batteries; manual
4.0 sec. (approx.) with Lithium AA-size batteries
Flash Duration
1/900 sec. at M 1/1 (full) output
1/1600 sec. at M 1/2 output
1/3400 sec. at M 1/4 output
1/6600 sec. at M 1/8 output
1/11100 sec. at M 1/16 output
1/20000 sec. at M 1/32 output
1/25000 sec. at M 1/64 output
Power ON/OFF
Press the power button for approx. 0.3 sec. to turn the SB-600 on or off.
Required Power Source
Four Alkaline, Lithium, Nickel, Ni-Cd, Ni-MH (AA-size) batteries; (All four batteries must be the same type)
Flash-ready Indicator
Lights up: recycled and ready to fire.
Blinks: flash fires at its maximum output, indicating light may have been insufficient (in TTL Auto Flash, Auto Aperture B Flash and Non-TTL Auto Flash A operations).
Ready Light
Flash Compensation
–3.0 EV to +3.0 EV in increments of 1/3 steps in TTL auto flash mode
Custom Setting
AF-Assist Illumination
Auxiliary ready-light
LCD panel illuminator
Power zoom function
Sound Monitor
Standby function
Wireless remote flash
Zoom-head position setting if the built-in wide-flash adapter is broken off accidentally
Minimum Number of Flashes / Recycling Time
90/4–30 sec. (1000mAh NiCd)
180/6–30 sec. (1.5V Nickel)
200/6–30 sec. (1.5V Alkaline-manganese)
220/4–30 sec. (2000mA Ni-MH)
400/7.5–30 sec. (1.5V Lithium)
Wireless Flash Modes
Wireless Communication Channels
Four: 1, 2, 3 and 4 Channels
Wireless Groups
Three: A, B and C
Other Functions
Button lock
Recalling the underexposure value in the TTL auto flash mode
Resetting the settings
2.7 x 4.9 x 3.5 in. (68 x 123.5 x 90 mm) (Approx.)
Weight (Approx. without batteries)
10.6 oz. (300 g)
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why can't a diffusion dome be used with the sb600?
How do you use this flash remotely?
SB-600 flash auto zoom with D5000
The zoom range of the 600 is 24-85mm which expands to 14mm with the built in wide adaptor.
PocketWizard plus ii?
thanks for help.