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Let's say you've got a set of photos in a trip and, apart from a few really noteworthy, all others are nice photos, but not so much for you to spend a lot of time processing on them. In such circumstances, what is your normal workflow (I am particularly interested about LR4 with or without Nik Software)?
I'm not sure I ever have images I truly don't care about at all. I'm always for keeping them or against keeping them, at least.
My System
I use stars and flags in Lightroom:
The higher the rating, the more redundant backups I have.4
In my system, every photo gets a rating or gets rejected. The only photos that are unrated are those I've imported but haven't yet bothered to make a decision about. I have a Smart Collection that warns me about such photos, reminding me that I have to do something about them.
If you find yourself with months-old unrated photos, either give them a token rating (★) or give them the boot. You clearly don't care enough about them to do anything else.
My Workflow
I call my workflow for getting photos into this scheme THE CHAINSAW. Think of a chainsaw ice sculptor: he starts with a big block of unformed material and his job is to rapidly cut away everything he doesn't want.
In Lightroom, go to the Filter Bar and click Attribute. Clear any settings that may be here already, then click the middle of the three flags (unflagged) and set the Rating part to "equals no stars." Then save it as a Custom Filter, calling it THE CHAINSAW. I put it in all caps because I use it on every import, so I want to be able to pick it out of the list instantly. Plus, chainsaws are dramatic. (Feel free to pronounce the name in your WWF announcer voice.)
In a folder of unprocessed photos, activate THE CHAINSAW (tthbbitrrrrrrr!), then turn off all the UI distractions by pressing F.5 All you should see is the first "undecided" photo in this folder, full-screen.
Now put your fingers on the 1-4 keys and your thumb on the X key.6 Taking at most a few seconds per photo, rip through the set, giving them an initial rating or rejection. Trust your expertise and go with your initial "flash" impression. If you find yourself dithering, it's probably a ★★★ photo; rate it and move on.
When all the photos are rated or rejected, delete the rejected photos: Ctrl/⌘-Backspace.7
Turn THE CHAINSAW off with Ctrl/⌘-L, then press F to leave no-distractions mode.
Then go back and start working on the ★★★+ photos. If there are a lot of them, do the ★★★★★ photos first, then ★★★★. Spend time on ★★★ photos only if you still have time left or find yourself needing a filler of some kind.
Some photos may increase by a star or two after being edited. This should not worry you. Your initial flash impression was correct.
That we deleted the trash without attempting to rescue anything first is also not a problem. We can't expect more than a few stars of improvement, which isn't enough to bring a zero-star photo up to the level where we would really care to spend time on it in the first place. You'll find people who will tell you to keep absolutely everything, just in case, but I believe these people are packrats. Yes, technically there is a bit of ore there in the tailings pile, but it's not worth the time and effort it takes to refine it.
Excepting those that are part of an HDR set, ★ and ★★ photos never get any more attention at this stage. I typically put off HDR experiments until after I've gotten through the ★★★★+ photos at least.
Finally, I run my various Publish Services for on- and off-site backups, empty the Trash/Recycle Bin, and erase my memory cards. I may also schedule an on-exit catalog backup via Catalog Settings at this point.
"Don't care" photos? I don't edit them at all, so the only way they factor in my workflow is that I don't flag them with anything. Why spend time on something you don't care about? I'd delete them, but then again, I'm a digital packrat who only throws away really bad photos, such as badly focused ones.
Maybe you meant photos that are good but not great? Those, I usually just crop and sharpen, plus a bit of color correction and curves as needed.
My filter for "I don't care" pictures are these steps:
This kind of situation ussually happens to me when I'm part of a Photo Journey with the Photo Club I'm part of. Also I'm always carrying a camera and not all the photos taken with it are artistic ones, Most "don't care photos" are photos of fellow photographers making funny contorsions to get the right angle, or funny photos of friends or family fooling around.
Such photos are ften taken in raw and with some odd settings left from the prevoius inspired masterpiece. For such coming-from-the-trip folders full of photos my workflow is as follows:
This ensures that the entire documental shots are at least kept and propperly stored because I simply like to document everything. Some photos turn out to be valuable after a long time has passed because you suddenly realize a friend that you can't see anymore was portrayed last time in that waky pose while he/she was actually spoiling your shot.
As per the "artistic shot" attempts that went wrong, I delete them and keep in the hard dive only the RAW and the Finished JPG for the good shots. I dont care throwing away the "almost right" RAWs as they were all backed up at the beginning of the workflow.
By the way: I back up as soon as I can and before any editting just preventing any non reversible accidental step I may take.
I'm not sure what information you're really asking for here. For images that don't warrant more extensive editing the it's just Adobe Camera Raw (the Photoshop plugin version of Lightroom) white balance / exposure compensation / rotation & cropping, all of which can be done in about 30 seconds. I keep the RAWs along with these edits stored in sidecar files, if I need the images I batch convert to JPEG using photoshop (I have a set of actions defined for different purposes, print, large screen viewing, web etc.)
I use Aperture, which is a product similar to LightRoom.
When I have a bunch of, say vacation shots, I select an "Auto Enhance" preset in the import. This gives the images a little more contrast, vibrancy, and sharpness. This gives all the images a little more "pop". This is particularly needed because I only shoot in raw.
When looking through the images, and I find something worth working on, I simply reset all adjustments, and start all over. Often, I complete the image in Aperture, but if a little more editing is required, I open it in Photoshop. I also open the image in Photoshop if I am to apply any NIK filters. This is primarily because the NIK filters don't support non-destructive editing in Aperture, but they do in PS.


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We had two unused heads of cauliflower in the fridge, so I whipped up this soup for lunch. I was aiming for a creamy yet hearty texture, and this really fit the bill.
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 onion, diced
- 2 celery stalks, sliced
- 3 leeks, thinly sliced (just the white parts)
- 2 heads of cauliflower, cut into florets
- water
- 1 head of garlic
- 1 cup nutritional yeast
- plain soymilk
- salt and pepper to taste
- dried herbs for garnish (I used parsley, but I think chives would be nice)
1. Saute onions, celery, and leeks for 15 mins on med-hi in a big stockpot. Seriously. This recipe makes a lot of soup.
2. Meanwhile, peel all the cloves in the head of garlic. Place in a pouch of aluminum foil with a splash of oil. Roast on a med-hi BBQ for about 15 mins.
3. Add in cauliflower florets. Add in water until it sits just under the veggies (i.e. not covering them). Cover and simmer until cauliflower is soft and easily broken up with a spoon.
4. Add in garlic cloves and blend in the pot with a hand blender. Blend in soymilk until desired consistency is reached (I used about 3 cups). Blend in nutritional yeast and salt and pepper to taste. Garnish each bowl with dried herbs when serving.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Cauliflower and Roasted Garlic Soup
We had two unused heads of cauliflower in the fridge, so I whipped up this soup for lunch. I was aiming for a creamy yet hearty texture, and this really fit the bill.
Posted by Vegan Dad at 8:41 PM
Labels: cauliflower, soup
10 comments:
- Lynn / vigilant20 said...
I never thought of making a soup from cauliflower. I have a bunch in my freezer too....mashed cauliflower maybe?
- November 11, 2007 at 11:50 PM
- Happy Herbivore said...
you are a constant help. I have two heads sitting in my fridge & started searching through fellow vegan blogs trying to find a way to use them..again you delight & save the day!
- November 12, 2007 at 9:30 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
(Cue Mighty Mouse theme song). Glad to be of help. It's funny, our cauliflower is still local, and thus dirt cheap, and thus crowding our small fridge. I am sure come February, when the price reaches 5 bucks a head, I will be looking back fondly on the days when I had cauliflower coming out of the wazoo.
- November 12, 2007 at 9:40 AM
- Patchoulia said...
I found this soup really, really bland. I can't figure out what I did wrong.
- August 12, 2008 at 9:19 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
Bland is not good. It really shouldn't be, with the entire head of garlic and the leeks. Plus , the nutritional yeast, salt, and pepper. It should be smooth and comforting . . . mellow, but not bland.
- August 12, 2008 at 9:23 AM
- Patchoulia said...
I know--I was surprised too! I was so excited about it, too!
Maybe too much water, not enough blending. I think it's time for a new hand blender.
- August 12, 2008 at 3:23 PM
- Meredith said...
I know this recipe was posted ages ago, but I have to comment! Just found your blog this afternoon and decided to make this yummy sounding soup. I halved the recipe (that's a LOT of cauliflower!), added parsnips and artichokes in place of leeks, seasoned with thyme, and mashed the simmered veggies with an old fashioned masher (I am a poor 20-something with no hand blender). It is by far the best first-try I've ever had on a soup recipe, and also my first ever vegan soup. So delicious! Thanks for the inspiration, vegandad.
- December 29, 2008 at 11:54 PM
- beckiwithani said...
Just got here from the Happy Herbivore. The soup (and other recipes) look amazing! Our family is newly vegan(ish), so I'm always on a search for recipes. Thanks.
- January 13, 2009 at 1:25 PM
- beckiwithani said...
I ended up making this into a bean-and-cauliflower soup, with a strong ginger flavor and very little garlic. So pretty much a different soup altogether ... but all thanks to your inspiration!
- January 23, 2009 at 8:08 AM
- Kelley said...
uh oh, now I'm torn between this and the cauliflour chowder for dinner tonight. . .
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WAMI Speech Recognition + Ext Scheduler
Just finished a simple demo using the WAMI speech recognition API. It's pretty cool and very easy to work with. The commands in my example are structured like this:
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starttime: one two three etc... (only whole hours for simplicity)
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quote: Prove to me your civil rights were violated by the NSA data collection methods and i might change my mind.
quote: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
quote: against unreasonable searches and seizures
quote: Do you honestly think the NSA should be given unlimited powers to spy on everyone without a shred of accountability and following due legal process?
quote: Do you honestly think the NSA will not abuse its powers against us? Remember, there is no such thing as illegal and running afoul of the law when you work for the NSA.
quote: Prove that what the NSA is doing is unreasonable considering the current state of war this country is in
quote: Prove that what the NSA is doing is unreasonable considering the current state of war this country is in. Prove that this system was abused in a fashion that you are implying.
quote: I will find you, and I will kill you.
quote: In short people need to get over themselves! unless you are calling Afghanistan the NSA can give a rats ass about you! you are not special despite what you have been taught.
quote: First they came for the communists, and I didn't care because I wasn't a communist.Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't care because I wasn't a Jew.Then they came for the homosexuals, and I didn't care because I wasn't gay.Then they came for me, and there is nobody willing to help me.
quote: You're an idiot.
quote: Think about what you just said on a different level. Currently you see things in black and white. What if it isn't? Because this NSA spying scandal is anything but ordinary.
quote: It's easy to say you are free when you don't have your freedom forcibly taken away from you.
quote: Your government is busy chipping away your freedoms under the excuse of "national security". What have you ever received in return? Nothing.
quote: Shades of grey..learn something then get back to me.
quote: What i did imply was that they have done nothing illegal based on the Government we elected into place that created the NSA prism project.
quote: Gathering intelligence in order to determine potential threats does not fall under unreasonable search and seizure of personal effects.
quote: Since we cannot racially profile like other countries do perhaps you have a better way of securing this republic?
quote: I have a gun cabinet full of reasons why my freedom will never be forcibly taken away from me; that you can bank on.
quote: Yep, and look what happened to the hours before the Boston Marathon Bombing. They knew it's going to happen. The Russians even warned them about it. They did nothing. They just let the whole thing blow up and clean the mess afterwards.
quote: Has their been another 911 style attack? somethings working wonder what it is.
quote: To answer this question you would need to answer the following questions: has anyone planned such an attack? Has anyone been capable of executing such an attack? How close to executing the attack did they come? What prevented them from executing the attack? Was it prevented by the NSA program? I'm sure you'd have a damn hard time answer those questions for the time between 2001 and 2013, since almost all intelligence activity is classified.
quote: And i am glad of it! because in order to find out that information you have to give away methods and capability to any potential enemy!Frankly if you want those answers for your own piece of mind suit up get your clearance and go work for the NSA! hey you can be an evil civilian to back up evil government programs(its obvious to me that the civilians are the weakest link here).On a side note ask yourself why else would they collect this information? if they were truly evil do ya think the NSA would need legislation to spy on you? so far i have heard because they (the evil government) wants to create an Orwellian surveillance state...to what ends? Soviet Era citizen spying was unique to the culture and the paranoid government at the time it was used to suppress overall discontent with the state and is part and parcel to authoritarian rule. You think the soviets waited for the approval of the proletariat to start surveillance programs analogous to the NSA with the patriot act?Seriously people need to think rather than just emote the meme of the day.
quote: Originally posted by Fern (Anandtech forums super moderator):We just got caught spying on the entire world - and I'm referring here to spying on regular citizens (ethically if not legally violating their right to privacy) - and going into full 'bully mode' makes us look even worse.Russia? We don't even have an extradition treaty with Russia. We didn't want one and I think that's the right call. Trying to bully Putin just reveals our impotence. Probably gives him a good giggle too. We need to drop the 'bully crap' with them, it makes us look stupid.I also think there are many out there who, based on current evidence, are getting downright hysterical in there claims that Snowden is some kind of major spy, a traitor about to give up all kinds of damaging info on the US. Some are borderline apocalyptic in their predictions etc. How about chilling on that crap? Even it was true we look absolutely desperate etc. And maybe we shouldn't be alienating Snowden so much. It validates his fear of the US govt, and I think, makes him more sympathetic to people.And our intelligence service looks not only malevolent and stupid, but utterly incompetent. One low level who doesn't even work for the US govt bring down multi billion $ intel infrastructure?
quote: If i overhear a conversation from the window of your house with someone am i violating your 4th amendment rights? Do you have a reasonable expectation to privacy on a cell phone call? email? chats? These are the questions we need to be asking ourselves.
quote: You trust a bank with your money but you don't trust the duly elected Government(by the people for the people) with your phone conversations?
quote: If i overhear a conversation from the window of your house with someone am i violating your 4th amendment rights?
quote: Do you have a reasonable expectation to privacy on a cell phone call? email? chats? These are the questions we need to be asking ourselves.
quote: unless you are calling Afghanistan the NSA can give a rats ass about you!
quote: The Government didn't give anyone a choice. The only possible way your fucktard analogy makes sense is if my bank just grabbed my money without my knowledge, and was holding it for me secretly.
quote: Oh we have asked ourselves these questions, and the answers are yes.
quote: Are you fucking stupid?
quote: Umm I'm pretty damn sure half of the country is NOT placing calls to Afghanistan. So why exactly is our Government collecting call data and other info for such a huge number of people?
quote: You know what, you're just the worst. You're scum. You should be banned and vilified everywhere you go from here until you die. Which I hope is soon.
quote: I suggest while in your little one dimensional, myopic world you you take the time to consider the reason why you are free to say whatever you like its because of people like me along with many others that took an oath to protect the constitution and unfortunately twits like you.
quote: Tell me Einstein since you seem to have some super powers capable of collating all relative intelligence information from individual phone calls to and from the country(or some other secret method) how else would you do it?
quote: Read much? know what happened in Cypus? Dolt!
quote: All I am saying is people need to think and not just emote other peoples paranoid delusions.
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quote: In the context of a cryptanalytic effort, maintenance of technical data bases requires retention of all communications that are enciphered or reasonably believed to contain secret meaning, and sufficient duration may consist of any period of time during which encrypted material is subject to, or of use in, cryptanalysis.
quote: ... the reason why you are free to say whatever you like its because of people like me along with many others that took an oath to protect the constitution and unfortunately twits like you.
quote: This guy like Edward Snowden don't feel the law applies to them. They grew up without learning consequences for their actions and feel they can do anything without repercussions. Smart millennials can learn from these guys..you will be prosecuted for your dumb actions.


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Bolshoi Academy 2012 - American is top grad!Joy Womack et al
Posted 06 June 2012 - 04:06 PM
Mario Vitale Labrador also featured. Both Joy & Mario turned heads here in DC, when the Bolshoi Academy performed in 'Proteges III' at the Kennedy Center a year ago.
Clips here: http://www.youtube.c...ser/fiordililia (scroll down until you see Paquita; Joy in bright red tutu)
One will note with great interest that this concert featured mainly Petipa-era classics (Paquita, Naiad & the Fisherman, Harlequinade, and such)...unlike the Vaganova Academy, devoting one-third of the evening to Nacho Duato. (!!!) If there ever was a doubt, this just confirms that Moscow is the new bastion of classicism in Russia.
Posted 06 June 2012 - 05:58 PM
P.S. One afterthought: perhaps they are trying to make sure their dancers catch the eye of the Duato-directed Mikhailovsky? With the idea that that could be a main source of jobs for them? I could sort of understand that way of thinking. Still, although I try not to pick sides, I think that on this one I'm "team Bolshoi."
P.P.S. Big congratulations to Joy Womack...
Posted 07 June 2012 - 04:00 AM
Mariinsky Theater
Mikhailovsky Theater
Boris Eifman Theater of Ballet
Source, Vaganova Academy web (only the Russian version of the site): http://www.vaganova....?id=105&pid=265
So there we have it. The Mikhailovsky (Kekhman/Duato troupe) has a hand in the 'results' of the school. (In the past, it was unofficial -- those not selected to the Vaganova tried to get jobs in other Petersburg troupes -- but now it is 100% official.) Once the 'divertissements' third of the program is revealed, will we see portions of Eifman ballets? (I've seen Eifman attending these concerts for years but he has never tampered with -- imposed his works -- on the programs presented. He simply goes to enjoy and possibly spot a dancer or two who may be offered a place in his troupe, if said dancer is not lucky enough to be offered a place at the Mariinsky.)
And I have no problem with 20th-C CLASSICAL or neoclassical works being in the program of a top ballet academy's graduation concerts. In the past, bits of Balanchine (Tchai pdd, Tarantella), Bryantsev (Spirit Ball pdd) and Yakobsen (Blind Girl, etc.) have been featured. Large excerpts of the mid-century Gayane were featured in the last two concerts. But this? Sorry, this is an insult to classicism and to everything that the Vaganova Academy has represented.
By the way, I began a thread on the 2012 Vaganova Academy concert here (within the Kirov-Mariinsky forum):
Posted 17 June 2012 - 01:15 PM
Posted 17 June 2012 - 01:31 PM
Here are the direct links:
Clips here: http://www.youtube.c...ser/fiordililia (scroll down until you see Paquita; Joy in bright red tutu)
End of finale:
Her posture is so plumb: her core looks rock solid.
Posted 17 June 2012 - 02:03 PM
Posted 17 June 2012 - 03:43 PM
Her posture is so plumb: her core looks rock solid.
Fantastic performance -- exquisite phasing, subtle use of the head, beautiful shoulders, arms. Wow!
This is thrilling.. It's rare to find someone who can convey upper-body subtleties and perform strong turns with equal skill.
Aurora mentions that Ms. Womack is considering two offers. Which would be the better choice, given the differences between the two companies -- a corps position with the Bolshoi or a soloist position with the Mikhailovsky?
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Also, her fellow-American-student at the Bolshoi Acad, Mario Vitale Labrador, has joined the Mikhailovsky Ballet as a Soloist, according to this:
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I saw on a board the other day someone referring to insecticide as "薬", which doesn't really fit with the English conception of "medicine". I looked up "薬" in Kenkyuusha, and sure enough, "chemical" was listed as a meaning (along with "enamel", which is just weird if you ask me, but anyway . . .). My question is, how broadly does the "chemical" sense apply in normal usage? For example, would an adhesive,a cleanser, or a solvent be classed as "薬"? Additionally, are there other senses which might surprise an English speaker?
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If you pronounce it くすり, then it basically exclusively refers to something that will have a positive effect on living beings (primarily therapeutic but also in a more lax manner). In a strict sense くすり will be material, but it can also be used as a metaphor:
Metaphorically, it can be applied to non-living things as well, but it must have an positive effect: 日本経済に処方するくすりとなるか?
When it's pronounced やく, it's basically exclusively used in conjunction with other kanji, as in 薬品、爆薬、薬量、薬価 etc. etc. Here it can more broadly refer to chemicals. If you are a chemist, a cleaner may well be a 薬品. If you are a layperson, to call an ordinal cleaner "薬品" sounds a bit odd. If it's some kind of an potent, special cleaning agent or something, then ppl use 薬品. I guess that's similar to English.
You might hear the word "ヤク", which I believe comes from 薬. This is exclusively a slang for entertaining drugs (basically illegal drugs).
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18 Nov 2012 1:26 PM #11
Curious as to why everyone in this thread is Publishing during development? I just have a browser pointing to the app.html in the project folder - just Save (Ctrl-S) and then refresh the browser window...
18 Nov 2012 1:38 PM #12
26 Nov 2012 8:22 AM #13
I totally understand your situation and I'm sorry what was already a bad dev cycle has been made worse by Architect.
I've spoken to the Desktop Packager team and future iterations will have a way to stream APIs. This way I can execute a command and have the results returned as js callbacks. Once this is in place we'll have an integrated command window/shell.
I've opened a ticket to return to the dialog for publishing, it's DSGNR-2753
I'm going to play with sending the output to the log (see bottom bar) as an option, this way there will be no pop up at all. It's likely to be an option set by the user.Phil Strong
26 Nov 2012 4:09 PM #14
Nice, thanks once again Phil.
Architect is coming along nicely, I still have a huge wishlist but I use it nearly every day and it does save me time.
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Can someone please define what exactly is the "Stack". I know its an industry term but its very vague. I am referring to Infrastructure terminology not "Stack" in terms of memory allocation.
It refers to the technologies used that make up your service: your web application language/framework depends on (is stacked on) your web server, which talks to (stacks on) a specific database flavor, and these run on (stack with) specific operating systems. So you might have a stack like this:
to make up the LAMP stack, or like this:
to make up a WISC (windows) stack. Other common "stacks" are WIMP (Windows, IIS, MySql, PHP) and WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP).
And those are just a few of the simple ones. It doesn't even begin to take into account Oracle, Ruby, Java, Python, and numerous other options that could sit at various points. You could have a MySql running on linux serving as the database for a web app running in Windows, or a web service tier using a completely different technology set from your application tier (which might even be a desktop app). The important thing is we often talk about whether your stack is windows-based or linux-based.
It's important because software developers tend to develop products with a specific stack in mind. As long as you match up to their stack, the product should work as expected.
In general this mean the technologies used to deliver the product. So in the case of Stack Exchange (formally known as Stack Overflow), we say we use a Windows Stack even though there is some Linux because we use SQL Server, Windows IIS, and .Net
Any technology that has dependencies can be portrayed as a "stack." Basically the protocols or technologies higher up in the stack cannot work without everything below it.
For instance:
The "Cloud Stack" refers to Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS), Platform as a Service(PaaS), and Software as a Service(SaaS). There are various versions with more layers, but the basic one looks like this:
Software runs on a platform, a platform runs on Infrastructure. Take out the infrastructure, and you have nothing to run your platform or software on.
A stack when referring to infrastructure refers to the unique mix of technologies required to deliver an IT managed service to the business. When specifically referring to deleivering web based services, some of the most common stacks are WIMSA (Windows, IIS, SQL Server, and ASP) WISC (Windows, IIS, SQL Server, and C#), WISP (Windows, IIS, SQL Server, and PHP), WAMP (windows, apache, mysql, PHP) LAMP (linux, apache, mysql, PHP).
There are usually more technologies involved in deleivering these types of services however they are not referred to in the stack as those technologies are largely transparent to the technologies involved.
If they are network admins they may be referring to the TCP/IP stack.
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Ah, recently in a Wedding Crashers a Vince Vaughn character "confesses" to a priest about the girl and pours himself and the guy a glassful of Glenlivet (?) I believe it was Glenlivet... now I will HAVE to see it again at some point to check for sureIain wrote:If I remember rightly, Dudley Moore (in the movie Arthur) swigs great quantities of The Glenlivet when he has a nervous meeting with his father-in-law. There's a crucial scene with a bottle of TG near the start of The Man Who Would be King too, when Michael Caine waxes lyrical about "Glenleevit" whisky.
Tom wrote:yes, "on the rocks"... for a supposedly scot that lived hundreds of years, you would think he held at least some notion of tradition...
jimidrammer wrote:He also tells Brad Pitt to never drink Scotch less than 12 yo as part of his spy training.
Lawrence wrote:Tattieheid, it's a great movie, poor Mac, all lonely back in Houston with his shells and no drams..........
Nock wrote:Just the other night I rented the easily forgettable movie Constantine staring actor Keanu Reeves (Matrix). So I am watching the scene where the heroine tracks down our hero to his apartment. He is drinking the last of a bottle of red wine when she nocks. He invites her in and then goes and grabs another bottle (which he doesn't offer to her by the way).
It is a bottle of Ardbeg TEN !!!
What is even more amusing (then how dorky it was of me to notice) is that the liquid that he pours is WAY too dark to be Ardbeg (our ever so pale Isla malt). Yet, the label is unmistakable.
I will leave you with another sighting.
In the movie 28 Days Later our group of heroes stop at an abandoned grocery store to search for food. While there the character played by the Irish actor Brendan Gleeson gives a little lesson on picking out Whisky. The movie never shows the bottle, but you do see him pick up several dark green boxes with the delightful gold-lion-crest symbol of Lagavulin on its top.
Any other random sighting you care to share?
(I in no way encourage people to see these movies. But if you must, at least enjoy these minuscule details as only the whisky obsessed can)


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I'm trying to figure out if there's more than just tradition to the advice to eat three meals a day. Is the advice valid? Does it come from reliable sources?
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It's a conspiracy.
Most people eat how they eat because of culture: it's how they were raised, or it's how their peer group acts.
There are good reasons to eat three times a day, and studies, but these are either exploratory (admitting that the ideal number, size, and composition of meals is unknown, and attempting to obtain data to lessen our collective ignorance) or ex post facto (taking what we already do, and attempting to prove that it's swell).
There are good reasons to eat three times a day, but they're not scientific studies. I'd bet that most people who eat three times a day do so for practical or social reasons: that's when they get a break from work, that's when it's socially acceptable, that's when it's expected, and...it's convenient to eat a few large meals, and I get hungry if I eat fewer than three meals in a day.
The BBC sheds some light on the history of the three-meals-a-day mindset:
The article jumps around a bit, but the end result is clear: economics and the vagaries of culture and history have much more effect on when the majority of people people eat meals.


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Discover Puyallup's History! Visit the Library's History Room
Aug 21, 2013 5:30 pm-7:30 pm
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History at your finger tips! The Puyallup Public Library is starting a program that will open the library's History Room archive to the public on a monthly basis. The archive will be open for public exploration and research on Wednesday, August 21st from 5:30-7:30 PM.
Volunteers will be available as guides to the photograph collection, past City Directories, Puyallup High School yearbooks and a wide range of other materials that have historical significance to the community. Materials available date back to the early 1900s.
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I have 20,000 polylines in a .gdb that represent about 5,000 building footprints. Some of the building footprints have pretty substantial gaps (image below). I would like to snap the polylines closed into polygons so that I can extrude the buildings... Is there an app for that?
I have access to ArcView 9.3, but that hasn't been very helpful. I am hoping that there is something in the opensource community with a "Clean" or somesuch functionality.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts!


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City of Dragons: Volume Three of the Rain Wilds Chronicles (Hardcover)
New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobbone of the most important writers in 21st-century fantasy (Contra Costa Times)continues her enthralling fantasy saga of dragons and their keepers
City of Dragons
Volume Three of the Rain Wilds Chronicles
Once, dragons ruled the Rain Wilds, tended by privileged human servants known as Elderlings. But a series of cataclysmic eruptions nearly drove these magnificent creatures to extinction. Born weak and deformed, the last of their kind had one hope for survival: to return to their ancient city of Kelsingra. Accompanied by a disparate crew of untested young keepers, the dragons embarked on a harsh journey into the unknown along the toxic Rain Wild River. Battling starvation, a hostile climate, and treacherous enemies, dragons and humans began to forge magical connections, bonds that have wrought astonishing transformations for them all. And though Kelsingra is finally near, their odyssey has only begun.
Because of the swollen waters of the Rain Wild River, the lost city can be reached only by flighta test of endurance and skill beyond the stunted dragons strength. Venturing across the swift-running river in tiny boats, the dragon scholar Alise and a handful of keepers discover a world far different from anything they have ever known or imagined. Immense, ornate structures of black stone veined with silver and lifelike stone statues line the silent, eerily empty streets. Yet what are the whispers they hear, the shadows of voices and bursts of light that flutter and are gone? And why do they feel as if eyes are watching them?
The dragons must plumb the depths of their ancestral memories to help them take flight and unlock the secrets buried in Kelsingra. But enemies driven by greed and dark desires are approaching. Time is running out, not only for the dragons but for their human keepers as well.
About the Author
Robin Hobb was born in California but grew up in Alaska, where she learned to love the forest and the wilderness. She has lived most of her life in the Pacific Northwest and currently resides in Tacoma, Washington. She is the author of the Rain Wilds Chronicles, the Farseer Trilogy, the Liveship Traders Trilogy, the Tawny Man Trilogy, and the Soldier Son Trilogy. Her books under the pseudonym Megan Lindholm include Wizard of the Pigeons, The Windsingers, and Cloven Hooves. She is also the author of The Inheritance, a collection of stories written under both names. Her short fiction has won the Asimov's Readers' Award and has been a finalist for both the Nebula and Hugo awards.
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This is also scheduled to be a Lightning Deal on Amazon at 4pm Central. It may be even cheaper!
Looks like you can combine 2 for a dual "blade"... in for two to try it out.
My bad. The Lightning Deal is for the more expensive Force FX version. $50 is a good deal on it right now though.
How am I to "Act just like OBI-WAN KENOBI" with Darth Maul's lightsaber?
For full awesome you need to buy six:
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BELL COUNTY (October 21, 2012)--The number of deer-involved vehicle accidents has doubled in some parts of Bell County in the past few months.
Animal control officials in Harker Heights and the surrounding areas say the growing population, along with construction of new residential and office buildings, have forced some deer to move.
"Over the past five to seven years where the deer used to inhabit is now residential housing, so the deer have to migrate somewhere else, which is causing them to be more and more on our roadways," said Sgt. Roosevelt Wilson, Jr. of Harker Heights Police Dept.
Animal control officials say they cannot predict whether the deer problem will persist.
"It all depends on how much building we plan on doing," Wilson said.
"If we continue to grow the way we're growing in this area, then it's going to be a problem until the deer migrates somewhere else," he added.
Deer rutting, also known as mating, season also adds to the deer versus vehicle problem.
"As the seasons change, that's when you see a difference in their behavior: they're skittish, they're jumpy, they dart off in the road, you have bucks that are vicious," said Morgan's Point Resort resident Carol Risher.
Risher is used to deer roaming around her home in a deer-populated area of Central Texas, but she said this time of year always makes her nervous.
"They don't care who you are or where you're at, they'll charge you if they feel you're invading their territory," Risher said.
Those who know deer and understand their behavior best say slow and alert is the best way to stay safe.
"You just have to be careful and make sure you're not rushed while you're driving, or if you're walking, be aware of your surrounding," Risher said.
"As soon as they see the deer, they should gradually slow down. That'll give them a chance to either maneuver away from the deer or come to a complete stop," Wilson said.
Deer rutting season is usually mid October through mid December.


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to merge files together. Unfortunately I don't get a new line after each file but it ends and the new file starts on the same line.
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The 5 Most Incredible Scenes Ever Preserved by Fossils
#2. Spiders Caught in the Act of Being Terrifying
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Bones are great and all, but wouldn't it be cool if we could see prehistoric animals just as they were in life, frozen in action in some sort of glassy time capsule? That's what amber is good for -- ancient fossilized tree sap that preserves mosquitoes so perfectly that Jurassic Park scientists can slurp still-viable dino blood out of them. OK, they can't really do that, but amber still does a fantastic job at preserving all sorts of creatures, such as this unfortunate gecko:
Oregon State University via ScienceDaily
At least he probably had insurance.
Most creatures found trapped in amber were just crawling around minding their own business, so amber nuggets are typically fairly boring. But on certain rare occasions a critter might get caught by surprise while doing something interesting, and when this happens, it's usually a spider eating something alive. Because if Mother Nature is going to bother capturing a perfect still-life for us humans to enjoy later, why leave behind something awesome like a flawlessly preserved T. rex when she could instead present us with everlasting horror?
Oregon State University via Discovery News
We'd feel sorry for this wasp, but seriously, fuck wasps.
Here we have an orb-weaver spider bearing down on a wasp caught in its web, and even after 100 million years the silky web strands are still intact. Today, this type of wasp is a parasite known for injecting its larvae into spider eggs. So either the wasps were already hijacking spider eggs way back in the dino days and this fellow just happened to get caught in the act, or his descendants started a wanton campaign for vengeance, slaughtering unborn spiders to redeem the species' honor.
Baby-killing wasps weren't the only creatures on the spiders' menu, though. This next petrified snapshot shows a female spider devouring her own mate in a fit of coital munchies:
Fossil Mail
Don't knock getting devoured while having sex until you've tried it!
But perhaps even more unlucky than the lady spider's mate/appetizer is the poor bastard of a beetle who was trapped nearby, presumably while sitting very, very still and keeping very, very quiet:
Fossil Mail
... and masturbating furiously.
The most chilling aspect of these pieces is that even as they were being swallowed up in gooey tree sap, the spiders clearly didn't give a single shit and kept right on with their grisly business, thus proving that these eight-legged hell-creatures have been dedicated to keeping terror alive since the beginning of time.
#1. Prehistoric Porn
You know what's missing from our comprehensive archive of kickass fossil scenes? Disturbing dead animal pornography.
Dr. Diying Huang via NBC News
Jurassic flies, boning. And now, our amazing journey through prehistory is complete.
Every single animal living on the planet right now is the product of tens of millions of generations playing vigorous sessions of groin-tag. With those numbers, it stands to reason that sometime, somewhere, somehow, a happily humping couple would suddenly die in a compromising position, and we'd duly post their humiliating pictures on the Internet. Here's a pair of turtles who died of asphyxiation while having sex:
Naturmuseum Senckenberg via LiveScience
These aren't actually fossils. Turtles are just a bit slow to finish is all.
Trilobites were the dominant life forms of the Paleozoic seas, and they certainly didn't rise to such incredible numbers without stripping off their shells and engaging in vast, slithering, naked orgies:
University of Cincinnati
If there wasn't already a bizarre "-philia" for this kind of thing, we probably just inspired one.
So out of all these fucking fossils, which one takes the crown as the definitive voyeuristic glimpse of the sex that time forgot? To answer this question, we turn to Dorion Sagan, son of "The" Carl Sagan, who waxes erotic on the world's first recorded ejaculation in his book Death and Sex:
Brain Pickings
Wait, is your mom in the room? Keep scrolling, keep scrolling!
"Another sample of rock, sliced thin and observed with a microscope, shows Aglaophyton's antheridium, its male sex organ -- filled with sperm cells ready to explode. Here, preserved by chance, with neither compromised actors nor moral qualm, is a geographic equivalent of the 'money shot' of pornographic films -- an ejaculation event 140,000 times older than Homer's Odyssey, 400 times older than the human species, and almost as old as the appearance of animals in the fossil record."
We couldn't possibly have put it any better than Mr. Sagan, so we'll just add this single word in closing: ew.
Mr. Yee plans to leave behind an epic fossil when he dies. In the meantime, he writes the Internet's largest daily fortune cookie and sells awesome T-shirts.
Related Reading: Some prehistoric monsters are still around, like the lamprey (AKA condom full of teeth). For a look at the weird directions human evolution could have taken, read this article and learn about our Hobbit cousins. And did you know the Loch Ness monster might have been a Plesiosaur? It makes sense.


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Originally Posted by neo_viThis can't happen when u re smart than the virus program. I've all the keygens and cracks but i'll archive it and protect it with a password. there are many other techniques too..
I tell you the best way to test various softwares or testing various untrusted softwares (keygens use or patched ) on your machine. Just use VIRTUALBOX (by SUN Microsystems). Try all untrusted softwares firstly in Virtual Windows, if everything seems fine, then try it in your real time operating system.
Virtual Box allows you to run another operating system like Windows XP,Windows Vista, Linux, Apple's OS, Sun's OS with in your windows like any other application software.
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Sometimes, boredom takes us great places. At 20, a musician named Michael, who had amassed some fairly significant musical experience playing in a "crappy punk band" in high school, was living at home with his mom in Cabot, Arkansas, just a little perplexed about what to do with his life. Driven by boredom, armed with a guitar and a swift talent for using home recording software, Michael transformed himself into Totally Michael, a buoyant musician with a penchant for pop hooks and an adoration for blink-182.
After figuring out that the Internet was a pretty good place to pass around your music, Michael landed his first gig playing his own going away party in early 2005 just before he moved to Bloomington, Indiana. He got dressed up as a "sexy" bee (fishnets!), prepared some audience participation games, greatly inspired by the stage antics of the band Soophie Nun Squad, and played four or five songs. It seemed to take and over the next few years Michael penned a hefty dose of uplifting feel-good hits, played some shows in basements and local bars, went on his first tour in his car (where he got to see both a blimp and the ocean for the first time!), transitioned from the bee suit to a pumpkin suit to a pair of short shorts and a tee-shirt that read "I'm Tight Like Spandex," and spread joy whenever he went with his participatory shows.


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Assistance With Medication Co-Pays
The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Last Modified: December 13, 2011
I am self-employed and have no prescription coverage. I have not been able to work much since my diagnosis of cancer therefore my income has really been greatly reduced. One of my prescribed medication costs $30 per pill. Is there any help to receive medications at a reduced cost or at no cost?
Jodi Sandos, MSW, LSW, Oncology Social Worker at Penn Medicine, responds:
Many pharmaceutical companies have Patient Assistance Programs (PAP) available for their oncology medications. It would require you complete an application and provide income and financial information. Patients can be approved and receive the medication at no cost. Depending on the program and the medication, the medication would get delivered to the patient at home or in some cases delivered to your doctor's office (who prescribed the medication).
There are also organizations that can assist with co payments for medications.
Below are some of the resources:
Healthwell Foundation www.healthwellfoundation.org
Patient Access Foundation www.patientaccessnetwork.org
Patient Advocate Foundation www.copays.org
Patient Services Incorporated www.uneedpsi.org
Needy Meds www.needymeds.com
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Lionel Messi vs. History
Messi Breaks Yet Another Scoring Record—Or Does He?
FIFA, the governing body of world soccer, raised the white flag against history last week, announcing it wouldn't verify records or statistics in any competition apart from its own. Smart move.
The decision means FIFA won't be the final adjudicator when it comes to determining legitimate soccer records, nor will it have to trawl back through the archives—assuming there are any—turning itself into part-detective, part-historian. Most of all, FIFA won't ever have to say to one of its member nations something like: You know, it is great that so-and-so achieved this and that decades ago, but a lot of time has passed, it was against third-rate opposition and we're not sure to what degree we should trust contemporary newspaper accounts.
You can't blame FIFA for its stance. Nobody's records get validated, which means that everybody's records are validated. It is a bit like telling your kids that you can't be sure whether Santa Claus exists, but you'll make it a point not to find out so that everyone can believe what they like. (Come to think of it—not a bad idea.)
FIFA found itself in this position beginning in October, when Spanish media noticed that Barcelona's Lionel Messi was on a goal-scoring tear. They started to wonder how many goals he had notched in the 2012 calendar year, and by mid-autumn, it became clear that if Messi maintained his goal-scoring pace, he would score more than the 85 goals German center forward Gerd Muller notched in 1972.
We had been here before. In May, when Messi scored for the 68th time in the 2011-12 season, Messi had eclipsed the generally accepted record for goals in a single season—the 67 set by Muller for Bayern Munich in 1972-73. Messi would end the campaign with a remarkable 73 goals for Barcelona in all official competitions. To most, the record made sense. While Muller played in fewer games—49 to Messi's 60—you were basically comparing apples to apples.
Having enjoyed a countdown to one record, the media indulged in another. Note that this wasn't Roger Maris's 61 or Wilt Chamberlain's 100. Few knew it even existed. Soccer generally isn't too preoccupied with records, and furthermore, this one felt somewhat contrived. For a start, unlike the seasonal record, Muller's mark of 85 goals included 13 scored with West Germany, and eight of those came in international friendlies. You can sort of see the logic—at a stretch—of including international goals. But why add international friendlies to the tally and not club friendlies?
Then there was the fact that you were counting goals in a calendar year rather than a single season. It seemed awkward, given that players enjoy a long break in the summer and a calendar year encompasses the tail end of one season and the start of another, meaning opponents, situations and even teammates vary.
Still, it was a chance to celebrate another bout of record-breaking by Messi. And he duly delivered, reaching the mark of 86 with two goals against Betis on Dec. 9 and boosting his tally to 88 with another two against Cordoba in the Spanish Cup on Wednesday.
By that point, things had become complicated. Bruno Lucena, a statistician employed by Brazil's Flamengo, claimed that the legendary Zico had scored 89 for the club in 1979. That figure was never in doubt. The question was how many came in club friendlies and noncompetitive matches (and what the latter even means). Brazil only adopted a traditional league home-and-away format in 2003; before that, the national championship had been awarded using various formulas, and local tournaments were often deemed just as important. Think of it as pre-BCS college football.
Well, anyway, Messi could simply break Zico's mark in Barcelona's final two games of 2012 and put all this to bed, right? Not so fast.
There is another claim to the record, and this one is a wholly different proposition. In the 1972 season, Godfrey Chitalu, a legendary striker for Zambia's Kabwe Warriors, scored 107 goals for his club and country, according to a submission to FIFA made by the Zambian Football Association. (This total is for the 1972 season. For the calendar year of 1972, it could be as high as 113, depending on which report you believe, according to Jerry Muchimba, the soccer historian who led the research on behalf of the Zambian FA.) Photographs from the time show Chitalu, who died in a 1993 plane crash, holding a ball with the inscription: "1972—Godfrey Chitalu—107 goals." At the very least, it is evidence that Chitalu himself believed he had scored 107.
So, after all, it isn't surprising that FIFA elected not to wade into this mess. "There could be players perhaps from pre-war days, since deceased, who may also lay claim to such a record," FIFA spokesman Alex Stone told AFP. "All of these claims are impossible to definitively verify against each other, without having all the record available."
There is good news in all this, though. Chitalu, a legendary player and manager who was mostly forgotten outside Africa, is getting some much-deserved attention. And nobody is using the controversy over Chitalu's 107 (or 113) to belittle Messi's achievement. Even he would find scoring 20-plus goals in his last two games of 2012 rather impossible.
—Gabriele Marcotti is the world soccer columnist for the Times of London and a regular broadcaster for the BBC.


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In Zechariah's vision of four chariots in chapter 6 of his book, an angel tells him that the chariots are going to go to the "four winds of heaven," (verse 5)—in every direction. However, in verse 6, the angel says that two of the chariots are going north, and one south, and the fourth chariot is not mentioned at all! What happened to the fourth chariot? Why did two go north? What is going on here?
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Before explaining the meaning of the chariots and the direction they take it would be could to identify why they are 'going out to the four winds of heaven, after presenting themselves before the LORD'. As this part is not fully explained within the text it would be helpful to refer to similar ideas in the Bible:
With these references in mind it seems that the four winds in the Bible are often associated with the providence of God that are before the Lord and go out under the agency of angels. God sends out His providence and sovereignty in employing his angels between heaven and earth, as his servants for the accomplishment of his pleasure. This he does all over the earth (N,S,W,E) wherever the wind blows. This is certainly the meaning for in Daniel this ministry of angels make the waters rage and bring for the four empires from the sea which in Revelation 17:15 are 'peoples, multitudes, nations and languages' or the Gentile world. This providence under the agency of angels is further confirmed by the very nature of angels.
This must be on account that the angels are spiritual, agile, powerful, quickly and accomplishing the work that is appointed to them and is wrapped up in the providential workings of these four kingdoms.
I assume the direction is the direction the kingdoms first took, or a significant direction, but then they 'patrolled the earth' that is they went all over. I would have to look at a map, but considering that the four chariots were probably Babylon, Persian, and Greek and then Roman.
The Babylon (Red) needs 'no mention' as that was already history past. Persian going north must be the direction that the Persian expansion started. I just looked for a map and yes this is true, see here.
The Greeks (White) must have also expanded into the same region, because they overtook the Persians (Black). These kingdoms in the north (Persian and Greek) removed the Babylonians and kept them removed, which is why it set 'God's spirit at rest'. For as this freed Israel so they could fall back into line with God's providential outworking of the Davidic kingdom and preparation for the Messiah. The Romans are not really considered in relation to restoring Israel as it was the Persians who did that, the Greeks are only included because of the suddenness of the conquest that Alexander made (represented as a leopard in Daniel 13:2 with regard to this speed). The Greeks can be said to have been 'directly following the Persians with great speed', or 'the white ones go after them'. Thereby the Greeks solidified the establishment from exile from the Babylonians, whereas the Persians were the principle cause for that restoration. The Romans sort of start a new Chapter and their Kingdom is so strong and last so long that we treat them somewhat independently for the first three.
All that is left is to understand how the Romans (dappled, or patchy) would be the ones going south. This seems easy to confirm. Italy is definitely the most Northern of the four kingdoms so they moved south to conquer the entire Greek kingdom.
I think we underestimate how clear that the beasts in Daniel and also these chariots are these four kingdoms. The reason is that before the Babylonians there really was not a great kingdom in this region, and then each one was taken by the next until the Roman Empire gave sway to be the greatest kingdom ever to be in the world until that time. The fact that Christ was prophesied to come during that kingdom and then virtually demolish it, which did happen when Christianity first took over Rome, is both amazing and factual.
The reality of the constant overturning of Kingdoms from the Babylonians until Christ, was so new to the world, and must have been so tumultuous among the people that it is as thought the world was in birth pangs to receive its Lord. Meanwhile the world had reached its pinnacle in wisdom and learning from the Greeks and strength from the Romans, so when the resurrected Christ came in power by His spirit and overturned the world, it shows that the world had come to an end.
Christ came not just at the perfect time to fulfill the Law, but the most perfect time to destroy the world as well. His kingdom reigns. This is what the four chariots eventually established a place for, His throne. A throne that fulfilled the mountain of the Law, on which Moses received it, and raised up the new mountain, carved out of the first one, destroying the world.
Not "in all directions"
From the Av there is no sense that they are going in all four directions, but that God is the "Lord of all the earth".
The red horse
The meaning of the missing red horses is that there is no more judgement. Christ has removed judgement from the word of God.
Paraphrase: I understood the spiritual meaning, there were four revelations coming out of the cross, and the cross was a mixture of earthly and heavenly.
Paraphrase: The first testimony was strength over the flesh, and the second was strength in the mercy of the new birth.
Paraphrase: The third message was strength in Holiness. and the fourth message strength in the body of Christ (the church, as the mottled flocks of Jacob)
The four spirits are just another phrase for the four revelations or testimonies of God through the four voices.
Grace and Holiness return to heaven The mixture of grace and holiness remains on earth. Christ is the one who reconciles Grace and Holiness on the Cross.
The bay horse is a mixture, in one sense Christ and in another the church. They remain on earth as his witnesses.
The horses representing Holiness and Grace have been reconciled and heaven is at peace.
What of the red?
We determined tentatively that red was the color of sin and the judge of sin.
Since there is no red horse remaining, it means that judgement has ceased. Sin has been removed. This is a parallel prophecy to judgement being removed from the word as the axe head was removed from the water, and the water was turned to wine.
This exposition adds to the confirmation of the interpretation in the linked answer on colors.
The horses are INSIDE the chariots, carried by the chariots.
The chariots are not drawn by the horses. The chariots release the horses and the horses go the directions described.
ב מרכבה = in chariot
UFOlogist's or Star Trekker's view (disclaimer: I am not ufologist but I do like Star Trek):
The four mother ships carried little horse-like transport vehicles.
Four battleships carried torpedoes that were shot out in the described directions.


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So the title says it all. If I am scavenging wood in the wilderness, does some of it burn toxic? If so what kinds. This question is derived from this answer.
Yes, some sources create toxic smoke/fumes, notably:
I'm not sure of a comprehensive list, but be wary of any poisonous wood / shrub, it's probably more likely to burn toxic. As pointed out in the comment, unless you can identify vines well then it may be a good idea to stay away from all of them - dead ones are hard to identify.
In addition, be aware that any wood containing sap (pine for instance) will tend to spit, so don't cook directly on such a fire, otherwise your food may get coated! These are generally OK to use if your food is well above the fire though.
I also wouldn't use any processed wood that may contain glue, varnish etc. - highly likely it could burn toxic. I know this is for a survival situation, but sometimes you can come across "easy" treated wood that's been dumped off someone (old furniture for instance.) I wouldn't just immediately grab it, especially if you're using it for cooking.


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Colposcopy is a procedure that uses an instrument with a magnifying lens and a light, called a colposcope, to examine the cervix (opening to the uterus) and vagina for abnormalities.
Cytoscopy is a procedure in which a long, lighted scope is used to examine the urinary tract, bladder, urethra, and openings to the ureters and is used when problems with the urinary tract are suspected.
A dilation and curettage procedure, also called a D and C, is a surgical procedure in which the cervix is dilated so that the cervical canal and uterine lining can be scraped with a spoon-shaped instrument to remove abnormal tissues.
Endometrial ablation is a procedure to permanently remove a thin tissue layer of the lining of the uterus to stop or reduce excessive or abnormal bleeding in women for whom childbearing is complete.
An endometrial biopsy is a procedure performed to obtain a small tissue sample from the lining of the uterus.
Laparoscopy is a procedure that utilizes a laparoscope, a thin flexible tube containing a video camera to examine the organs of the abdominal cavity.
Loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP) uses a wire loop heated by electric current to remove cells and tissue as part of the diagnosis and treatment for abnormal or cancerous conditions in a woman's lower genital tract.
A Pap test is a screening test to collect and microscopically examine cells taken from the cervix.
Ultrasound, or sound wave technology, is used to examine the organs and structures in the female pelvis.
This procedure, also be referred to as uterine fibroid embolization (UFE), is a minimally-invasive surgery that involves identifying which arteries supply blood to the fibroids and then blocking off those arteries.
Hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus. Different portions of the uterus, as well as other organs, may be removed at the same time.
Hysterectomy is the surgical removal of a woman's uterus. When this surgery is done through small incisions using a thin, lighted scope with a camera on the end (a laparoscope), it is called a laparoscopic hysterectomy.


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Our review of Deep Blue Sea (Blu-ray), published October 3rd, 2011, is also available.
The Charge
Emotionally stranded and physically isolated.
The Case
My wife watches a good deal of the review assignments I receive with me, and though we have somewhat different cinematic tastes and preferences, we're usually able to find at least some middle ground in terms of what we liked and disliked about a movie. Not so with Terence Davis' The Deep Blue Sea, a film that she loathed and I loved. It's the sort of thing that is likely to inspire strong feelings one way or the other for most viewers, and it's my hope that this review will help illuminate which side of the spectrum you're likely to land on.
The tale centers on a woman named Hester (Rachel Weisz, The Mummy), who is married to the elderly, wealthy Sir William Collyer (Simon Russell Beale, My Week with Marilyn). Sir William is an emotionally reserved man who lives a remarkable passion-free life, which leaves Hester feeling more than a little unsatisfied. She seeks solace in the arms of a Royal Air Force pilot named Freddie (Tom Hiddleston, War Horse), who delivers a great deal of passion but who is incapable of providing the level of comfort and security Sir William offers. When Sir William finds out about the affair, he angrily separates from Hester, who quickly proceeds to move into an apartment with Freddie. However, her new relationship soon develops liabilities of its own.
One of the elements of The Deep Blue Sea that lingered with me for quite some time after I finished viewing it was just how quickly the film rushes through Hester's romance with Freddie. We see a series of memories flying by during the film's opening reel: a moment in which Freddie tells Hester that she's genuinely the most beautiful woman on earth, some laughs in a bar, an unexpected yet happy encounter at a train station. It's all capped off by a brief scene of rapturous lovemaking. The camera hangs above the two lovers during the afterglow, as Freddie closes his eyes contentedly and Hester looks on him with undying adoration. She leans over and appreciatively licks him on the back of the shoulder. These moments don't last long, but they're quite important, as they represent the only stretch of the film in which Hester seems genuinely happy.
At a certain point, it becomes obvious that the relationship between Freddie and Hester simply isn't going to work out. Her neediness and his previously-disguised ugliness eventually come to the surface and cause a rift between them, and things begin to turn sour at a remarkable rate. In the midst of all of this, Sir William returns and gently asks Hester to return to him. In his bashful and sweet-natured way, he admits his shortcomings, forgives Hester of hers and expresses his deep desire to care for her as best as he knows how. He is imperfect, but he truly loves her. Hester is receiving a gracious second chance that many people wouldn't be fortunate enough to receive, but she repeatedly tosses it aside in favor of fruitlessly attempting to reignite her relationship with Freddie. As things (predictably) continue to go poorly, she even begins to grow suicidal.
From a logical perspective, Hester's actions make no sense. After being dragged into misery by Freddie, you would think she would be eager to return to the simple comforts of her former life. However, during those all-too-fleeting moments of ecstasy I mentioned earlier, Hester experienced what she believed to be life at its very fullest. In the wake of that experience, everything else seems curiously unfulfilling. She experienced this beautiful thing with Freddie, and has convinced herself that with enough effort she might be able to recapture it. She is blind to her own desperation, and blind to the fact that her clingy behavior is a part of what has driven Freddie away from her. In a way it plays like a feminine variation on Steve McQueen's Shame, featuring a lead character with an unhealthy emotional addiction rather than a purely sexual one. When observed from a distance, it's possible to regard both films as silly and overheated, but observing addiction is a much different thing from being ensnared by it.
During one of the film's best and most affecting scenes, Sir William asks Hester whether she's objectively certain about her feelings for Freddie. Hester smiles and admits to being surprised by the suggestion that Sir William thinks it's possible for her to be objective under the circumstances. In another great moment, Hester's landlady softly clucks her tongue at Hester's behavior and offers a piece of blunt wisdom: "There's a lot of funny ideas about love. Real love is wiping someone's ass and helping them preserve their dignity." It's a sharp rebuke of the self-induced journey Hester is on, but she is entirely incapable of freeing herself from its grip. Her moments of joy flew by with alarming speed, but her moments of despair—often presented with long, Bergmanesque close-ups and underscored by the aching passion of Samuel Barber's "Concerto for Violin and Orchestra"—feel so overwhelmingly inescapable.
Rachel Weisz doesn't get the credit she deserves. Her choices are consistently bold and risky (even when they're bad), and no one could ever legitimately accuse her of indulging in the sort of "give-me-an-award" overacting that so many successful thespians eventually fall into. In The Deep Blue Sea she's required to do more with her eyes than with her dialogue (a rare requirement for a film based on a play), and she pulls off the feat admirably. In her performance, we're able see the misunderstood, complex woman trapped inside this seemingly foolish emotional junkie. Tom Hiddleston handles both the cavalier charm and the sour brutishness of his role quite well, while Simon Russell Beale plays his crucial role with affecting understatement. There's also a brief but memorable turn from Ann Mitchell (EastEnders), who depicts Sir William's overbearing mother in a revealing scene that wasn't featured in Terence Ratigan's original play.
The one area where I would take issue with the film is in its portrait of post-WWII London, which is stylized and romanticized within an inch of its life. Some of it works, but some of it is simply distracting. I adored the scene in which a bar sing-a-long of "You Belong to Me" fades into a more intimate dance accompanied by the same song, but not so much the melodramatic (even by this film's standards) flashback sequence in which a group of distressed citizens sing "Molly Malone" as bombs drop overhead. This London of old has been recreated very lovingly, but there's so much affectionate attention to detail that it almost doesn't feel like a real place. It undercuts the raw emotions the film is dealing with.
Speaking of visuals, I can't really comment on the self-professed standard definition 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, as the studio sent us a screener disc sporting typically sub-par video and audio (not to mention the words "Property of Music Box Films" flashing across the screen and abrasively interrupting some important moments). Additionally, while the artwork for the official release promises a host of bonus features, I was not given access to any of them.
The Deep Blue Sea isn't for everyone, but it is an ambitious and moving work that understands the inexplicable foolishness of the human heart. However, if it strikes you from the wrong angle, you may simply find it inexplicably foolish. I hope some of you will give it a chance and find it rewarding.
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I'm working on an app that allows users to buy tickets for events, one tab will have an event search and a second will provide a way of getting to the basket (there are others in addition to those).
Once someone has added a ticket the most obvious thing is to flip them over to the cart tab where they can pay for their order (I suspect most users won't be buying tickets to more than one event but some might).
But is this bad UX or would it be better for them to stay on the event search tab and add a badge to the cart tab with the number of tickets they've added?


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How to create a grig of Obect of Obect that extends BaseModelData
Hi all,
I'd like to create a basic grid with 2 field that are 2 different BaseModelData Objects.
I fill in the elements in the store and I can see them while debugging (whatch function in Eclipse) but I'm not able to show them in the grid.
How should I write into the column model for the items to show?
for example
in my case name should be an object, so what I expect is something like:
19 Jan 2012 5:49 AM #2
msimone..Did you get any solution on this?
I am also doing same thing...
20 Jan 2012 1:02 AM #3
You can create a GridCellRenderer that returns value you want to display from you object.
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