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I have a pair of Yongnuo RF-603 radio flash transceivers, two SB-600s & D200. I'm planning to build a large rectangular softbox that'll use both speedlights for extra power. Is there a synch cord splitter or other DIY method of triggering two flashes from the one hotshoe or synch port on the receiving trigger? I realize I can use the D200 to master the two speedlights via CLS, but this can be dicey if I'm outdoors and lose line-of-sight, or use a long lens at long distance, or embed the lights within the softbox.
Another option to consider is getting one pair of radio triggers and then using an optical device like the Wein Peanut to make the second flash into a slave, if it doesn't already have that capability. I've used this kind of setup to fire extra flashes and stretch my existing wireless trigger capability.
Note that if you go with the wired trigger bridged off a single wireless device that the trigger voltage for the two flashes should be the same to avoid any problems with the flash units. Since you mention that you're using two flashes of the same type you're covered.
If you have the PC-Sync cable connectors (either directly to the camera and flashes or indirectly through a hot-shoe converter), and have minimal soldering skills, you can cut a PC-Sync cable and solder standard audio 3.5mm phone jacks so you can disconnect it and do all sorts of nice things. For example, use a standard phones extension cables to extend the range of the flashes or use an audio splitter to split the PC-Sync to a Y form - to connect a camera to two flashes.
As for the radio triggers, it seems like all the cheapo ones have 4 channels or more to choose from. I will not be surprised if receivers of the same model share the same frequencies so one transmitter can trigger two or more receivers.
I am assuming the yongnuo trigger is TTL judging from the hotshoe pics, sadly the pdf on their site isn't loading for me. If you wanted to go the wired route and connect to two flashes together I can recommend the latest Yongnuo FC-682/M TTL cord. Unlike it's older model, the new one has two TTL hotshoe mounts so that once mounted on the wireless trigger you can mount one flash onto that, and then another at the end of the cord. Obviously doesn't give you as much reach as having another wireless receiver but if you're mainly going to use it for a softbox this shouldn't be a problem


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I have been playing Standard Constructed (Type 2) games so far but it seems that there are a lot of formats which are gaining popularity. I'm looking for the most popular ones which are recognized officially as well so I can attend competitive matches.
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The popularity of the different formats is a tricky subject. First, it's very difficult to define. You could go by total number of players (is there a strong community?), number of tournaments (is it competitive?), available prize pools (is it serious?), size of tournaments (there's a difference between 10 tournaments of 8 people and 1 tournament of 80 people!), or any number of other metrics.
Secondly (and most importantly) this is not a constant thing across the world. Different places (even as fine-grained as different neighborhoods in the same city) have different popularity levels of different formats. For example, I live in Calgary, Alberta. Down in the south, there is little interest in Draft, but a lot in casual formats like EDH. There is very little for competitive magic, even for just winning packs at FNM. But in the north, there are a couple places that draft regularly with multiple pods with fewer casual events.
If you asked someone in the south what the most popular format was, they will probably say Commander or Standard. In the north, they're more likely to say Draft/Sealed and if you force them to say a constructed format, they're more likely to say Modern than Standard.
The bottom line is, I think you're asking the wrong question. What I would advise you to do is to ask at your local game store what formats are popular in your area. Consider looking for a secondary store to play at that might have formats you're looking for, too. Knowing what's popular nationwide or worldwide is going to be less useful to you.
WotC has a page with basic explanations of the different sanctioned tournaments formats. You can refer to this page to learn more about the various tournament formats.
Constructed formats
"In a Constructed format, you build your deck in advance, using the cards in your collection. A Constructed deck must have a minimum of 60 cards, with no more than four copies of any card (excluding basic lands)."
In order of popularity, they are:
Note that support for Legacy, Modern, and Vintage outside the US varies greatly by region.
Limited formats
"Unlike Constructed formats where you play with an already built deck, Limited formats require you to build a deck from a defined pool of cards. This pool might be defined by the contents of a few booster packs that you open at the event, or it may be from cards that you select in a Booster Draft."
The two Limited formats are (once more, in order of popularity):
Every Pro Tour includes a Limited component, and many Grand Prix tournaments are Limited. Limited is also very popular at the FNM level, at about the same level as Standard.
Team tournaments
Rarely, a tournament will be a team event. These are essentially labels that modify one of the Constructed or Limited formats above.
(Most often, when players refer to a Magic "team," they just mean their practice buddies. Top players tend to prepare for tournaments with other top players, because it's the best way to hone your skills and try to predict the metagame.)
Non-sanctioned competitive formats
There are many Magic formats that are not officially approved for DCI-sanctioned tournaments. To my knowledge, the most popular non-sanctioned formats with serious competitive scenes are:
It's also not uncommon to find multiplayer Commander tournaments at major gaming conventions, but these aren't really part of a large competitive circuit with a defined metagame.
Okay, but how can I find out what's popular in my area?
Wizards of the Coast has a Store & Event Locator feature on their website. Note that you can search by formats and event types; note also that it will mostly show game stores unless you filter out events like Friday Night Magic, Prerelease, and Game Day. When you click on a store, you'll see a schedule of their events, which will usually give you an idea of the formats they support. This list is only as good as the information that retailers feed back to Wizards' staff; the game stores do at least offer a reasonable starting point — you can visit a promising site in person and find out more information about what the local players are doing.
MTGMom is a calendar that lists major tournaments and qualifiers in the US and Canada in one handy page. Her list includes SGC and TCGPlayer events as well as WotC-sponsored ones.
For MTGO players, Magic Online has its own calendar page.
The Big 3 constructed formats are
Standard: by far the most popular tournament format.
Modern: also a somewhat popular format and is becoming more popular
Legacy: still fairly popular, but it's stagnant.
There are also limited competitions, which are usually either Sealed(6 new packs) or draft


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Powers, religion, and 'literary modernism's religion of art'
Suitable Accommodations is the title of the recently published collection of letters of J.F. Powers. We'll be featuring a review in our upcoming Fall Books issue, but in the meantime its appearance seems just as much an occasion for advancing hypotheses on why he's not more widely read today, or even so widely remembered, as it is for discussing the letters. After all, many of these theorists posit explicitly or implicitly, Powers's Morte D'Urban beat out, among others, Nabokov's Pale Fire, Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools, and John Updike's Pigeon Feathers for the 1963 National Book Award -- shouldn't that still count for something? (Moldering copies of the latter two books could still be found on my parents' bookcase decades later, but anything by Powers? No.)
Following are excerpts from some recent commentary. Do you put stock in any of these more than others? Was it Powers's style, or his topic? Was he over-rated, or did something about the world he was documenting change fundamentally?
Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker:
[W]hy has Powers been so much eclipsed? [Joseph] Bottum suggests that it has something to do with the decline of the priestly vocation in America, but an outsider may wonder if it doesn't have more to do with a less, shall we say, catholic self-definition of the faith. If the Lubavitchers had become the dominant force in American Judaism, there wouldn't be much room for an Isaac Bashevis Singer, let alone a Philip Roth.
Joseph Epstein in the Wall Street Journal: "Powers's fiction was too subtle to acquire a large readership."
Gary Wills in the current New York Review of Books:
Though he was meticulous in his craft—seeing little details, inching out believable dialogue—he had a very narrow range. Both his completed novels, and twenty-five of his short stories, are about priests, and all priests of a stalled middling condition. I did not see, as a Catholic high-schooler, what his non-Catholic admirers made of them. We were supposed to find there the message that God works even in ordinary circumstances. He was the Catholics' American author, to be read with the French Bernanos and Bloy, the English Waugh and Greene—Walker Percy came too late for my classes, and Flannery O'Connor was too knottily Gothic and Southern for the nuns to press her on us. But Powers was not in the same league as the European authors. Bernanos made a deep holiness in his country priest convincing, Greene brought faith to showdown battles with sin, and Waugh traced an airy providence hovering somewhere over the story….
The Powers priests, by contrast, are not saints, and not sinners, and not historical forces—indeed, they seem to have no spiritual experience at all. The sacraments mean things like resenting a priest for dawdling in the way he hears confession, leaving his fellow priests to service his long lines. The priests, when not talking "shop"—things like printers for their devotional brochures—mainly talk about sports. In all this, they are like Powers himself, who shared banter with his priest friends on baseball, horse races, and boxing. The fictional priests are as little interested in great art or poetry, music or philosophy, as their creator.
D.G. Myers in his review of the letters for the Daily Beast:
Although he had fun describing himself as lazy ("Sleep when I want to. Listen to music"), Powers was an extremely hard worker of a special kind made famous by literary modernism's religion of art. He was a restless fingerer of prose. He turned sentences around, looked at them, turned them around again, ate lunch, lay down, threw them out, started over. His friends warned that his "perfectionism" (his own word) would make him wacky. Lowell worried that he had whittled away his talent in the pursuit of "some ironic integrity."
But he was neither the first American writer nor the last to choose perfection of the work as a way of life. Powers may have existed at the opposite end of the economic scale from F. Scott Fitzgerald, who wrote constantly for money. Yet both men were chronically in debt, Fitzgerald because he pissed away his money, Powers because he never had any money to piss away. It is depressing to see the same literary ambition—the refinement of a style—lead to the same economic result in two different generations. Since about 1970, creative-writing programs have solved the economic problem of American writers by covering the production costs of perfectionism, which can no longer be recouped by sales, grants, visiting appointments, artist-colony stays, and the hope that something will turn up.
And Myers again, writing about Powers in connection with the August passing of Elmore Leonard:
I am not saying that his perfectionism (his own word) makes Powers the better writer. Quite the opposite. I am beginning to wonder if the obsession with specificity and exactness, with perfecting a verbal surface, was not simply a fashion which has passed from the literary scene, and not an article of artistic faith at all. If Powers will not be remembered perhaps the reason is that his principle of style, like a green felt hat trimmed with sequins and gold braid and covered with a black lace veil, belongs to a past that is irrecoverably past. Call it the Age of Finish, a closed chapter of literary history. And Leonard, if he is remembered, will be remembered by an age that is not so fussy with its words.
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Fifty years have flown by? I remember the excited revews of Morte d'Urban. (Thomas Merton called it "a work of literary genius.")
It was okay, not fabulous. I'm not surprised Powers has been forgotten, like so many other writers we were supposed to like or be interested in because they were Catholic. For hundreds of them, see Catholic Authors, by Matthew Hoehn, OSB. (1948 and 1952.)
The Garry Wills review was depressing, imho. How sad to think of Powers' poor wife and family.
J. F. Powers over-rated? He is one of the greatest American short story writers -- a pitch-perfect stylist, a keen observer of human nature, dead serious, and funny. Saul Bellow, John Updike, James Wood, Flannery O'Connor, Mary Gordon and Donna Tartt are just a few who recognize his astonishing (and enduring) gifts. Want to understand why so many lay people and women religious are pissed off about flat-footed, dim-witted, soul-numbing clericalism? Read the first story, "The Lord's Day," in his Collected Short Stories. And any writer who can use a sack-race (as he did in "Wheat that Springeth Green") as a metaphor for our journey toward God, has my attention and affection.
Not having read Powers, I have trouble believing that he holds his own in the league of modernist writers -- that is, among heirs of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, and in there with Updike, Bellow, Roth. My main reason is that he wrote so much about Catholic priests -- which suggest a narrow niche and probably the old-fashioned literary techniques to go with it. Even among Irish short story writers, excessive focus on priests would have been seen as a sign of minor talent. The great ones, Lavin, Frank O'Connor, O Faolain, could deal with priests consummatelly but had a much wider reach.
And then, it seems that he wrote about one kind of priest, frozen in time, and did not address the changing psychology and social insertion of clerics, one of the great unwritten stories of our time.
Not having read Powers
Well, there ya go!
I see what you mean about Powers and his priests. And what's with Melville and his sailors, O'Connor and her grotesques, Faulkner and his Yoknapatawpha, Celine and his three dots, Dickinson and her dashes (heck, you can sing almost everything she ever wrote to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas")...?
Even those who liked him (like Mary Gordon) knew his work wouldn't last.
Here's a link to an article by a former student of his, an admirer, who gives some interesting details. (He met his wife through Sr. Mariella Gable, OSB, who was forced to have a lobotomy, as HER admirers know.)
Morte d'Urban, in spite of all the awards, good reviews, etc., sold only 25000 copies. I wonder if this collection of his letters will cause anyone to go back and read his books.
(Powers turned down the job Commonweal offered him.)
Need I speak to you of the dangers in pockets?
No, of them I have heard and will avoid them as occasions of sin, though in themselves they are not evil.
I thought Morte D'Urban was one of the funniest books I ever read. Even though I probably missed most of the humor (being about a pre-Vatican II Church I know nothing about) I still thought it was a hoot.
Ms. Powers joins other children of writers in revealing what life with their famous fathers was really like. (Bellow, Cheever, Salinger, Hemingway, et al.)
A commenter below the Adam Gopnik review in The New Yorker quotes Noel Coward:
We know that you're sad,
We know that you've had
A lot of storm and strife,
But is it quite fair
To ask us to share
Your dreary private life?
Gerelyn, the Rosengren piece was interesting indeed. Thank you. You seem to have a vast library of excellent links at your command.
Irene, I re-read Morte d'Urban a few years ago and thought it a brilliant novel of mid-century, middle-American Catholicism. It was also very funny.
Thanks, Lauretta!
(Here's a link to the five-star review I wrote for Suitable Accommodations:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009LRWUDI )
I'm looking forward to Commonweal's review of the book. (I hope it's not restricted to subscribers.)
It is true that great novelists can focus on a limited population -- Melville, Proust, Faulkner -- but when they do so they revolutionize our view of that popularion and use it for deep soundings of human nature. I think the pre-Vatican II Catholic priesthood could indeed be used in this way, as in several novels of Georges Bernanos. But by all accounts Powers just got stuck in priest-novels without novelty of vision -- had he a novel vision we would have heard of it, as we've heard of Greene and Bernanos.
"But by all accounts..." And you've probably read 'em all as extensively as you've read Powers.
On the page for the hardcover edition, Amazon provides lots of samples from Suitable Accommodations. Anyone unfamiliar with Powers will learn a lot about him from the letters.
I searched for "Mariella" to read his letters to Sr. Mariella Gable.
(Anyone unfamiliar with her or unfamiliar with what bishops could and did do in the 1950s can get a taste of it here:
http://www.csbsju.edu/csb-archives/csbhistory/csbpublications/othercsbpu... )
"And you've probably read 'em all as extensively as you've read Powers."
It would not take long to read Powers' output.
Three volumes of stories and two novels followed over the next four-and-a-half decades—or an average of about 6,000 words a year, if that. Literary fame came too: Evelyn Waugh singled him out at the very beginning of his career as perhaps the best young American writer (although the best American writer of all, he added, was the creator of the Perry Mason series);
(If you were marooned on a desert island, would you take Powers' oeuvre or Erle Stanley Gardner's?)
A dean emritus of my college once held a seminar on a book, with the premise being that particpants were required not to have looked at the book in any fashion beforehand. Something about recollection or apokatastasis. Anyhoo, he was senile. Those in command of their mental faculties know better than to assay at critiquing unread books.*
Really, really good books get forgotten. Doesn't mean they weren't really, really good. I don't think that there is some sort of literary process of natural selection in play, where deficient books fail to live on. One simple reason for the sucess of the NYRB imprint is its focus on revitalizing forgotten gems. Maria Dermoût's The Ten Thousand Things springs to mind.
*That said, I feel confident in saying that there's no way in the Seven Hells that that book was better than Pale Fire.
Evidently, Harry Levin agreed with you, but he let Elizabeth Hardwick and Gore Vidal have it their way:
I've only read Nabokov's "Speak Memory," "Lolita" and "Ada." Midwestern Catholic rube that I am, I'll admit I enjoy reading Powers more than I enjoy reading Nabokov.


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PNCA the Focus of OPB's Oregon Art Beat October 8
In honor of the PNCA's Centennial academic year, the College is the focus of Oregon Art Beat's first episode of the season. Former faculty member "Lucinda Parker '66":http://www.pnca.edu/exposure/stories/18/embodying-exuberance, current BFA faculty member "Paul Missal":http://www.blackfish.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=17 and alumnus "Ty Ennis '06":http://www.newamericanartunion.com/Artists/Ty_Ennis/ will be featured. View the episode Thursday, October 8 at 8pm on OPB TV. Episode repeats Sunday, October 11 at 6pm. "Read more.":http://www.opb.org/programs/artbeat/episodes/view/1101
MFA in Visual Studies Presents Martin Kersels
The MFA in Visual Studies program presents Los-Angeles-based artist Martin Kersels in a free, public lecture at 6:30 p.m. Thursday October 8, part of PNCA's Graduate Visiting Artists Lecture Series.
Los Angeles-based artist Martin Kersels has long used art as a forum for wrestling with the limitations and possibilities of being a fully embodied, sentient and emotional being.
He employs a range of media, from sculpture and photography to video and performance. He has worked on staff at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the UCLA Art Department, and currently serves as a faculty member and co-director of the art program at the California Institute of the Arts.
Kersel's work has been featured in exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the J. Paul Getty Museum and ACME in Los Angeles, Deitch Projects in New York, and the Galerie Georges-Phillipe and Nathalie Vallois in Paris. His pieces are in the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, La Reina Sofia in Madrid, and the Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Pompidou in Paris.
MFA in Visual Studies Lecture | Martin Kersels
6:30 p.m. Thursday, October 8 | The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 N.W. Davis St.
Etsy Participates in PNCA–CYAN/PDX Cultural Residency Series
PNCA welcomes Etsy's Matt Stinchcomb for the PNCA-CYAN/PDX Cultural Residency Series, including a public lecture and a range of interactions with the PNCA community.
Portland's DIY culture continues to be recognized internationally as a central hub of the American DIY movement, celebrated as a collective of creative talent with a progressive approach to the entrepreneurial spirit. Presented by the PNCA–CYAN/PDX Cultural Residency Series.
Salon | Digitally Building the DIY Community
Buy, Sell, and Live Handmade
A Conversation with Matt Stinchcomb of Etsy
5:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 7
CYAN/PDX, 1720 S.W. Fourth Ave.
A Gerding Edlen Project with Pacific Northwest College of Art. Part of the PNCA– CYAN/PDXCultural Residency Series.
MFA in Visual Studies Lecture: Ward Shelley
Brooklyn-based artist Ward Shelley delivers the first lecture presented by the MFA in Visual Studies program. Shelley specializes in large-scale projects that freely mix sculpture and performance. Over the last five years, Shelley has concentrated on bizarre functioning architectural pieces in which he lives and works during the exhibition, monitored with live surveillance video equipment. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Brooklyn Art Museum, and The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
This lecture took place at Museum of Contemporary Craft on September 24, 2009.
Listen to a Podcast of "Ward Shelley":http://homeroom.pnca.edu/download/585576.
PNCA Hosts University of Iowa International Writing Program
This year for the first time PNCA will be hosting five writers through the International Writing Program, which since its founding in 1967 at the University of Iowa, has brought together more than 1,000 rising and established literary stars from 120 countries to develop a community of writing to enhance international understanding.
The writers' week at PNCA is organized by PNCA faculty member and writer-in-residence Barry Sanders and includes both immersion in the campus curriculum along with collaborative public programming. The experience provides writers from around the world with a sense of American innovation and openness, and exposes U.S. readers, writers, and artists to international perspectives on the art and process of writing.
Participating writers include: Fflur Dafydd, a novelist, literary critic and musician from Wales; Soheil Najm, a poet from Iraq; Osman Conteh, a novelist from Sierra Leone; Fedosy Santaella, a fiction writer from Venezuela; and Lijia Zhang, a nonfiction writer from China.
Don't miss the first event, hosted by PNCA:
Reading + Reception | 6:30 p.m. Monday, October 5
PNCA Main Campus Building, Swigert Commons, 1241 N.W. Johnson St.
Download the "International Writing Program at PNCA schedule (PDF)":http://homeroom.pnca.edu/inline/584932.pdf for a full list of events and visiting writers' bios.
MFA in Visual Studies Presents Artist Ward Shelley
Join PNCA's MFA in Visual Studies Program for the kickoff of its lecture series with an intimate lecture by artist Ward Shelley, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, September 24 in the Lab at the Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 N.W. Davis St.
Brooklyn-based artist Ward Shelley specializes in large-scale projects that freely mix sculpture and performance. Over the last five years, Shelley has concentrated on bizarre functioning architectural pieces in which he lives and works during the exhibition, monitored with live surveillance video equipment.
Shelley also works with the collaborative artist group BBS and talented young artists such as Douglas Paulson and Alex Schweder, with whom he realized the monumental Flatland project at New York's SculptureCenter in 2007. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Brooklyn Art Museum, and The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
MFA in Visual Studies Lecture | "Ward Shelley":http://www.wardshelley.com/
6:30 p.m. Thursday, September 24 | The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 N.W. Davis St.
Craft Conversation: David Eckard and Anne Marie Oliver
Don't miss an exciting opportunity to discuss the dynamic work included in the Museum of Contemporary Craft's exhibit Call + Response with PNCA Faculty David Eckard and Anne Marie Oliver, 1 p.m. Saturday, September 26 at the Museum, 724 N.W. Davis St.
Anne Marie Oliver, Assistant Professor of Intermedia and contemporary art theory, Pacific Northwest College of Art, and David Eckard, Chair of the Sculpture Department and Instructor in Foundation and Intermedia departments, Pacific Northwest College of Art will discuss the collaborative process they engaged in for Call + Response.
Drawing on the musical concept of "call and response," this project provides a rare platform for artists and art historians to engage with each with other in vibrant conversation. A multi-layered exhibition, Call + Response features diverse works by eight pairs of art and art history faculty members from colleges and universities who have taught in Oregon for roughly ten years or less.
Through multimedia content, contextual writing, the presentation of studio works and public programs, this intriguing project celebrates and provokes the recent influx of ideas brought to Oregon by these faculty members – who are breaking ground within their fields nationally and internationally. In effect, Call + Response considers what role these individuals, and their institutions, play within the state's shifting creative landscape.
Learn more about Call + Response at the exhibition microsite:
Committed to the advancement of craft since 1937, Museum of Contemporary Craft is one of Oregon's oldest cultural institutions. Centrally located in Portland's Pearl District, the Museum is nationally acclaimed for its curatorial program and is a vibrant center for investigation and dialogue, expanding the defi nition of craft and the way audiences experience it. Visit the Museum online at www.MuseumofContemporaryCraft.org.
Special Event | Craft Conversation: David Eckard and Anne Marie Oliver
Saturday, September 26, 1 p.m. | Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 N.W. Davis St.
Printmaker Zha Sai Exhibits New Work
Chinese printmaker Zha Sai exhibits her woodcuts in an exhibition entitled "Rhythm of the Shadows" at PNCA's Print/Photo Gallery from September 21 through October 9. Image: The Sway of the Shadow, 2006, reduction woodcut, 11.4" x 11.4"
Her work is strongly influenced by the natural environment. She lives in Wuhan, the capital of the Hubei Province in Central China. Although it is a large city with a population of nearly 14 million people, it is surrounded by forests and lakes and is still known as "The Place of a Thousand Lakes". She is also influenced by music, especially the music of Antonín Dvořák. From these inspirations she has made compelling work in the form of reduction woodcuts.
Zha Sai comes to the Northwest under the auspices of Art Partners, a two-artist collaboration comprised of Seattle artists Cathe Gill and Barbara Pitt that has promoted artist exchanges since 1999 with artists from China, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Kuwait. Her exhibition here is an initiative of the Printmaking Department at PNCA.
Lecture | Zha Sai
12:30 Monday, October 5
PNCA Main Campus Building, Swigert Commons, 1241 N.W. Johnson St.
Memorial for Manuel Izquierdo
A public memorial will be held in honor of former Faculty Emeritus Manuel Izquierdo on Saturday, September 26, from 4-6 p.m. at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Swigert Commons, 1241 N.W. Johnson Street in Portland.
All are welcome to attend.
Learn more about "Manuel Izquierdo":http://www.pnca.edu/exposure/news/649/remembering-pnca-faculty-emeritus-manuel-izquierdo.
Read the Oregonian's "Manuel Izquierdo, 1925-2009: an appreciation":http://www.oregonlive.com/O/index.ssf/2009/07/manuel_izquierdo_19252009.html by D.K. Row.
September Shows of Note
Don't miss these exciting art shows featuring work by Pacific Northwest College of Art "alumni":http://www.pnca.edu/about/alumni/shows.php through September.
And get ready, as Portland-area and Portland Art Dealers Association galleries celebrate PNCA's Centennial with a range of "openings":http://www.pnca.edu/exposure/news/675/portland-galleries-celebrate-pnca in October.
Public Art/Public Parks Lecture
What is public art? How does it happen? How can I experience it?
Please join us for a casual conversation about public art with special guests Eloise Damrosch, Executive Director of the Regional Arts and Culture Council ("RACC":http://www.racc.org), and Portland-based artist and PNCA faculty member Victor Maldonado as they discuss Portland's rich legacy of public art.
Be the first to see a new map created by Maldonado—a walking map of public art featuring work by PNCA faculty and alumni in celebration of the College's Centennial year. Receive a copy of the Public Art Walking Tour Map, produced by RACC and "Travel Portland":http://www.travelportland.org.
Lecture | Public Art/Public Parks
5:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 23
"CYAN/PDX":http://www.cyanpdx.com, Amenities Room, 1720 S.W. Fourth Avenue
PNCA in The Oregonian
Read more about two exciting new PNCA projects as recently featured in The Oregonian. "Pacific Northwest College of Art and Museum of Contemporary Craft finalize joint agreement":http://www.oregonlive.com/art/index.ssf/2009/09/pacific_northwest_college_of_a_2.html is DK Row's report on the formal operations agreement between PNCA and MoCC. Meanwhile, in "Design the wall, build the wall":http://blog.oregonlive.com/portlandarts/2009/09/design_the_wall_build_the_wall.html, Barry Johnson ruminates on the launch of the new MFA in Applied Craft and Design, jointly offered by PNCA and Oregon College of Art and Craft, and the build-out led by design/build expert Steve Badanes.
Deborah Hopkinson Wins Oregon Book Award
Deborah Hopkinson, PNCA's VP for College Advancement, is the winner of the Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature, a part of the prestigious Oregon Book Awards, it was announced today. She received the award in honor of her book Keep On! The Story of Matthew Henson, Co-discoverer of the North Pole (Peach Tree).
The Oregon Book Awards, sponsored by Literary Arts, are presented annually for the finest accomplishments by Oregon writers. A finalist for the awards three times, this is Deborah's first win. She was selected as the only finalist in her category, a significant honor.
"Read more about the Oregon Book Awards.":http://www.literary-arts.org/awards/
The Time-Based Art (TBA) Festival is Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's annual convergence of contemporary performance, dance, music, new media and visual arts projects in Portland, Oregon.
In collaboration with PICA, Pacific Northwest College of Art co-hosted a series of noontime chats with festival artists and members of the creative community, along with two exhibitions by "Brian Lund":http://www.pnca.edu/exposure/calendar.php?event_id=1378&list_type=09&cat=1&year=2009 and "Robert Boyd":https://www.pnca.edu/exposure/calendar.php?event_id=1399&list_type=9&cat=1&year=2009, on view at the Feldman Gallery through October 24. In addition recent alumni Tyler Wallace '09 and Nicole Dill '09 presented a mobile performance and outdoor video installation, "Between Us":http://www.pica.org/festival_detail_new.aspx?eventid=504. Art collective "The Oregon Painting Society":http://www.oregonpaintingsociety.org presented a performance at The Works. Members include PNCA alumni Jason Traeger '08, Liam Drain '08, Barbara Kinzle '08, Brenna Murphy '09 and current PNCA student Julia Perry '10. Faculty member Stephen Slappe presented a web project and installation, "We Are Legion":http://www.welcometothelegion.org. Ethan Rose, who will present a collaborative installation with glass artist Andy Paiko at the "Museum of Contemporary Craft":http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org in November, presented an installation of music boxes. The work of Slappe and Rose will be "on view at The Works":http://www.pica.org/festival_default_new.aspx?yr=2009 through October 18.
Photo by Heather Zinger '10
"Visit PNCA's Flickr page":http://www.flickr.com/photos/pnca/collections/72157622189397431/ or photos of TBA:09 events at PNCA, and works by PNCA faculty and alumni.
"Listen to audio podcasts of TBA:09 Noontime Chats at PNCA.":http://feeds.feedburner.com/PICA
Opening: Public Art on MAX Green Line
Join PNCA and TriMet in celebrating public art along the Mall segment of the new MAX Green Line, featuring work by PNCA faculty and alumni.
Participating PNCA artists include Daniel Duford, Chris Gander, Emily Ginsburg and Bob Hanson.
Meet many of the artists, then begin a walking tour of 13 new works and 10 re-installed sculptures along Southwest Fifth and Sixth Avenues between Union Station and Portland State University. A number of the artists will be stationed near their sculptures and available to answer questions.
Special Event | 4:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 16
Reception begins at the Mall Field Office (245 N.W. Fifth Ave.) – 4:30 p.m.
Welcome and remarks – 4:45 p.m.
Walking tour – 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Space is limited, please R.S.V.P. to firstname.lastname@example.com or call 503-962-2244.
PICA TBA@PNCA Ends Soon
PICA TBA@PNCA creates a unique forum for artists, designers and creative thinkers to explore this dynamic festival and push contemporary art forward.
Don't miss the last upcoming PICA TBA@PNCA events:
"Inside/Outside: Back to Back Theatre":http://www.pnca.edu/exposure/calendar.php?event_id=1418&list_type=09&cat=1&year=2009 on September 11
"Theme and Variation: Raimund Hoghe":http://www.pnca.edu/exposure/calendar.php?event_id=1419&list_type=09&cat=1&year=2009 on September 12
"PICA's TBA Festival":http://www.pica.org/ ends September 14.
MFA in Applied Craft and Design Lecture: Steve Badanes
Renowned design build specialist Steve Badanes delivers the first lecture presented by the MFA in Applied Craft and Design, a joint program offered by Oregon College of Art and Craft and Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Badanes is a founding member of Jersey Devil, a design/build practice specializing in innovative and energy-efficient structures. He is also a Professor at the University of Washington in the Department of Architecture.
This lecture took place in the MFA in Applied Craft and Design Studios at the Bison Building, Portland, Oregon on September 2, 2009.
Listen to a Podcast of "Steve Badanes":http://homeroom.pnca.edu/download/582053.
MFA Studio Open House
Join Oregon College of Art and Craft and PNCA for a public studio open house and a performance by Grammy-nominated alt-country singer Tift Merritt, celebrating the launch of the joint MFA degree program.
Merritt creates "a uniquely satisfying stew of rock and roll, soul, folk and country," according to her fan site. Her 2008 album Another Country garnered four stars by the British music magazine MOJO.
The MFA in Applied Craft and Design is a unique graduate program designed for students eager to explore the fusion of tradition, innovation, and practice, with design theory and hands-on making. The event will showcase the collaborative efforts of its students, who built their own studio space with renowned design/build specialist Steve Badanes, founding member of Jersey Devil.
Learn more about the program through the eyes of its students—visit the "MFA in Applied Craft and Design blogs":http://www.pnca.edu/i/blog.php?id=25.
MFA Studio Open House and Celebration
8 p.m. Saturday, September 12
MFA in Applied Craft and Design Studios @ The Bison Building
421 N.E. 10th Ave. and Glisan St.
MFA in Applied Craft and Design Lecture: Steve Badanes
Renowned design build specialist Steve Badanes delivers the first lecture presented by the MFA in Applied Craft and Design, a joint program offered by Oregon College of Art and Craft and PNCA.
Badanes is a founding member of Jersey Devil, a design/build practice specializing in innovative and energy-efficient structures. He is also a Professor at the University of Washington in the Department of Architecture.
MFA in Applied Craft and Design Lecture | Steve Badanes
6:30 p.m. | MFA in Applied Craft and Design Studios @ The Bison Building, 421 N.E. 10th Ave. (corner of Northeast 10th Avenue and Glisan Street)
Artist Sandow Birk Talks to The New York Times
Sandow Birk talked to The New York Times about his series "American Qur'an." Birk will be exhibiting a series of prints commenting on the debaucheries of contemporary warfare this November in PNCA's Feldman Gallery.
Printed in collaboration with master printer Paul Mullowney of HuiPress in Makawao, Hawaii, "Depravities of War" features traditional woodblock printing techniques on Japanese paper and imagery that follows the course of war – from the recruiting and training of troops to the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath.
Read The New York Times article on Sandow Birk, "Personal Meditations on the Koran":http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/arts/design/30fink.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&sq=sandow%20birk&st=cse&scp=1 by Jori Finkel.
Exhibition | Sandow Birk's "Depravities of War"
November 1–December 31
First Thursday Opening | 6:30 p.m. November 5, 2009
PNCA Main Campus Building, Feldman Gallery + Project Space, 1241 N.W. Johnson St.
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The 9 Most Inappropriate Soundtrack Choices of All Time
Choosing the right song for a TV Show, movie or ad campaign is an art form. You have to convey the right message and the right mood all while rocking your audience's face off.
However, getting it horribly wrong and picking the worst possible song is a much funnier art form. We're gonna focus on that second one.
#9. GE Sings About Buying Your Soul
"Sixteen Tons" by Merle Travis
Used in:
Commercial for GE clean coal.
Why they thought it would be appropriate:
The ad was part of a campaign to make coal sexy again (remember when coal used to be sexy?) and involved underwear models dressed up as coal miners. So we guess they figured using a coal mining song with a slower tempo would give the ad a bit of dignity and distract people from the fact that their commercial is just the coal mining scene from Zoolander played straight.
Why it wasn't:
Take a closer look at the lyrics of the chorus:
You haul Sixteen Tons, whadaya get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't call cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
This is a classic example of someone breaking the Golden Rule of advertising: never imply that your product or service prevents people from getting into heaven.
Doomed to Hell.
Obviously on a rational level, we know that General Electric doesn't make coal miners sign over their souls, but they don't seem overly eager to distance themselves from the practice either. Probably just leaving their options open. Y'know, in case the unions start acting up again.
#8. No Matter What "Turning Japanese" Means, It's Offensive
Song:"Turning Japanese" by The Vapors
Used in:
TV coverage of the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea
Why they thought it would be appropriate:
Well, it's a song with Japan in it. Sure, a song with Japan and South Korea would be better, but nothing rhymes with Korea except diarrhea. And with Japan hosting one of the world's biggest sporting events, it's like we're all turning Japanese! It's the perfect song for showing how open the world is to Japanese culture, right?
She's actually a white girl from Texas.
Why it wasn't:
Well, no. Most people think "Turning Japanese" is about a man masturbating to pictures of his ex-girlfriend. The idea here is that the face you make when you masturbate is all squinty and slit eyed.
Just like Japanese people! Get it!?
The Vapors deny it, which is probably what we'd do if the entire world found out we were racists, perverts, and pathetic all at once. By the time 2002 rolled around, it didn't matter--the song was an Asian-mocking masturbation joke complete with a Japanese protest song called "Turning Hakujin" (Japanese for white person).
Plus, even without the racism, the lyrics are incredibly creepy. "I want a doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside"? What the fuck? Seems a little edgy for a soccer tournament, right? Although if that qualifies as a good match, we've got the perfect song for the next Jergens campaign.
#7. Ronald Reagan Doesn't Understand Irony
Song:"Born in the U.S.A." by Bruce Springsteen
Used in:
Why they thought it would be appropriate:
Reagan was all about patriotism, and what's more patriotic than someone yelling the name of the country they were born in over and over? Plus, it got across the message that Reagan was born in the U.S.A. (where as his opponent, who knows?) and that he supports people who were also born in the U.S.A. (that's you, the voters!)
Why it wasn't:
Because every single verse is about how the US Government is one giant son of a bitch. You can see how Reagan could have been confused. The story it tells mimics his own life so closely. "Born down in a dead man's town" (born in Illinois). "The first kick I took is when I hit the ground" (became a movie star). "End up like a dog that's been beat too much" (ended up being the president of the most powerful nation in the world).
Bang Bang!
Yes, "Born in the USA" is a classic song about how "The Man" keeps you down. Reagan was running for his second term as "The Man." Appropriating the song as his own made him seem like that kid in grade school who'd try to deflect insults by pretending they were compliments ("If by assface you mean someone who's smarter than you, than yeah, I guess I am an assface, thanks").
#6. The Future's So Bright It Will Melt Your Fucking Eyeballs
"The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)" by Timbuk3
Used in:
An impressively comprehensive list of late 80s and early 90s movies used the song to accompany optimistic scenes or montages: Kuffs, My Best Friend's a Vampire, Tommy Boy, The Allnighter.
Why they thought it would be appropriate:
It's got probably the most upbeat title ever. The only draw back of the future is that it's so fantastic, it's forcing you to wear shades and look cool.
"Can't talk right now, the future's too bright."
Why it wasn't:
According to the writer, the song is about how the 80s would inevitably end in nuclear holocaust. The future's bright because an atomic bomb's gone off. We don't know why they think wearing sunglasses will help.
To be fair to all those Hollywood soundtrack coordinators, it's easy to miss the hidden message.
Sure, there are a few hints in the video: they're in the desert, there's what looks like an atomic flash, there's, eh, a donkey with a TV on its back... frankly, it just never seemed like the kind of song we needed to pay attention to.
The future's so bright, I gotta put a TV on a donkey.
We don't like the precedent Timbuk3 are setting. Imagine if every cheesy 80s band decided to tell us the real meanings behind their songs. Sure, maybe "Hungry Like A Wolf" was actually about cannibalism in the Donner party and "Rock You Like A Hurricane" was about the devastation caused by Hurricane Gilbert, but we think we're happier not knowing.
#5. Complaining About Crass Commercialism Doesn't Prevent It
Song:"Look What They've Done to my Song, Ma" by Melanie Safka
Used in:
Oatmeal Raisin Crisp Commercial
Why they thought it would be appropriate:
They wanted you to look at what they'd done to their oatmeal. The lyrics of the song were so close to matching up perfectly to the ad's message, they just needed a tiny adjustment. So they changed the chorus from "look what they've done to my song, ma" to "look what they've done to my oatmeal." Because "oatmeal" totally rhymes with "song, ma."
Why it wasn't:
1: "Oatmeal" doesn't rhyme with "song, ma."
2: The way the lyrics are phrased gives the impression that some shadowy government agency has taken General Mills oatmeal, put raisins in it against their will, and now they're trying to stir up public outrage.
3: They fucked up a song someone wrote about how people keep fucking up their songs. Either they were completely oblivious to irony, or they really had it in for Melanie Safka. People who make oatmeal aren't known for their sadistic sense of humor, but then people who make oatmeal aren't really known for anything, so maybe this is typical behavior for your average oatmeal baron.


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just a short overview on how to place an attachment to your replies. It's done on a mac.
just a short overview on how to place an attachment to your replies. It's done on a mac.
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Wow! That is short. Maybe attachements done with a Mac are not visible when viewed on a PC? I do not see the rest of the article.
Was a very short attachment Dennis.
You tube needed to upload the video, it takes some minutes. I wanted to test before placing the link. I loose my replies on NN Forum when I go to another site. I always have to place and edit later on. I hate this.....
Have a nice day you early morning or better late evening bird. Please tell me if something is wrong or should be changed. It is just a very quick early morning shot before I leave to work.
Cheers Dennis,
Looks like I caught your post before you had the chance to come back and add the video to your original post. All better now.


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Say I have a finite set $A$ and know its cardinality. How can I prove that, by repeatedly applying some algorithm, which removes a known number of elements from $A$ each time, its cardinality will stop at some value? It should stop because the aforementioned algorithm requires a fixed number of elements present in the set.
I tried induction, but couldn't figure out a condition over $n \in \mathbb{N}$ that resembled this problem. I also thought about limits of sequences, but this would be a finite sequence.
Any hint is appreciated! Thanks in advance.


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Hugh Grant becomes father for 2nd time
Posted at: 02/16/2013 1:38 PM
(AP) LONDON - Hugh Grant says he has become a father for the second time.
The "Four Weddings and a Funeral" star used his Twitter account to announce Saturday: "Am thrilled my daughter now has a brother. Adore them both to an uncool degree."
He said both children "have a fab mum" and: "To be crystal clear, I am the Daddy."
The birth was confirmed by Grant's publicist, Carrie Gordon.
Grant's sometime girlfriend Tinglan Hong gave birth to the couple's daughter in 2011.
Grant, 52, a critic of what he sees as press intrusion, told Britain's media ethics inquiry that he and Hong had been harassed by paparazzi when their daughter was born.
He joined Twitter last year as (at)HackedOffHugh to promote press reform in the wake of Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal.
(Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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I'm slowly gearing up to run a one-shot of Dread, but I'm finding myself a little wary of the elective pull rules. They feel a little "cheap" to me, and I'm not quite sure how often I should be bringing them up.
Here's the example given in the book:
A trained surgeon [...] may not know that the patient has a rare allergy to the anesthetic being used. In these cases, asking for another pull will most likely alert the player that there is something wrong. [...] In this case, the host may opt not to offer the pull. [...] If the player does ask to make an elective pull, the host can assume the character is investigating for further complications.
The adventure I'm planning on running has one elective pull spelled out. But the question I have is how often should I be adding elective pulls to the complications I create?
Is this something I should be trying to add in as often as possible, to help train the players to make the pulls (and give value to the pulls themselves)?
Or is it something that I should do fairly rarely, to help add impact when something does go horribly wrong?
Clarification: How often should I penalize the players for not taking/not thinking to take an elective pull? I.e. how often should situations like the one quoted above come up?


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WHEELING - Sen. Joe Manchin wants an audit of U.S. Department of Defense spending.
A defense authorization bill passed in the U.S. Senate included nine amendments authored by Manchin, one of which would require the Department of Defense to conduct an audit of its spending. Manchin co-authored the amendment with Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.
Manchin is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which is responsible for writing the National Defense Authorization Act. The measure passed the Senate last Wednesday 98-0, and will now go before the House.
"I want an audit. I want to know what their costs are, and what they are spending," Manchin said.
A second of Manchin's amendments - co-sponsored with Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa - would require a report on defense contractor salaries. This report would include the number of defense contractors who make more than $230,700 - which is the salary of the vice president - as well as those earning more than the annual salary of the U.S. president, which currently is at $400,000. The report also must provide an assessment on whether there are federal civilian employees who perform duties and services comparable to contractors.
Manchin, meanwhile, is listed as the sole author of the Manchin Executive Compensation Benchmark Amendment. The provision reduces the cap on allowable compensation for defense contractors, but still retains the flexibility for the Secretary of Defense to establish targeted exceptions for scientists, engineers and other specialists, if needed. The amendment would uphold the president's requested policy that limits the executive compensation benchmark to $230,700.
Manchin contends too often contractors are being hired to perform jobs that can be done by trained members of the military.
"We have fewer people in uniform ... but higher cost. And it makes no sense," Manchin said.
Other amendments by Manchin pertain to the rights of women in the military and military families:
The Manchin Standardization of the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System - This amendment ensures that enrollment eligibility requirements are standardized across all military installations.
Manchin Support Military Families Amendment - This amendment requires the Department of Defense to provide a report on the future of military family programs and the costs associated with each program.
Manchin Veterans Employment Reporting Amendment - The base bill has a provision that requires quarterly reports on the number of service members that are involuntarily released from active duty.
Manchin Military Families Have A Voice Amendment - The bill establishes a Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission that will recommend any changes to benefits or retirement no later than 15-months after bill becomes law.
Manchin Equal Access for Mental Health Assessments Amendment - The nature of war has changed dramatically in the past decade, with women and supporting troops fulfilling the same roles as front-line troops in certain circumstances, Manchin explained.
Manchin Women in Combat Amendment - Requires the Department of Defense to report on the feasibility of implementing recommended changes to roles of women in the military.


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2 Jan 2013 12:39 PM #1
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JavaFX may be another way to use Ext in a desktop wrapper?
Since it isn't practical to use Ext4 in Air, and since the Sencha Desktop Packager is beyond the budget for single developers, I have been keeping an eye out for alternatives that can run Ext4. Yes, there is appjs etc and the other Chromium derivatives which may be a possibility. I haven't really explored them.
I have just been looking at JavaFX which has a WebEngine object that can run HTML and JS in a native window. If you go to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/ja...les/index.html then click the Ensemble link it downloads a Java app that shows all the UI controls etc for JavaFX. Now, if you scroll down to bottom of the left nav bar to Web / Web view, you have a browser window into which you can type a URL. So, I ran the ExtJS 4 sample pages and tested various things, all of which worked. (I then tried the Sencha Touch examples and they didnt work, so their browser engine doesn't seem to be compatible for Touch. No big deal, it was just to see.)
Reading the JavaFx API docs it seems that it is possible to access JavaFX objects from the webview javascript and vice versa. So, I imagine that using that would make it possible to access the native OS file system, microphone, video, etc as well as whole applications that can be launched via JavaFX.
I have not yet done any testing beyond the above. Has anyone else? Is this a viable option for desktop ExtJS4 apps?
Of course, the JavaFx UI seems pretty rich and maybe in some instances the app should just be written in JavaFx altogether. My preference at this stage is that I would like to write in Ext for browser based apps, Sencha Touch for mobile (especially once things like model and store configs can be shared between Ext and Touch), and package ExtJS in a desktop app for when I want to use OS components.
Any thoughts?
Have a wonderful 2013,
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JavaFX, Adobe AIR, ExtJS Desktop
Hello Murray,
I did a lot of work in the past on AIR with Makana. I still really like AIR as one has gotten used to its interactive methods, os command calls, SQLite support etc. And well its been around for some time and I too have got all my preloaded templates for dealing with the sandbox.
On JavaFX, go one way or the other(ExtJS). Java is Java. I've done lots of work with the proprietary company and this is a massive enterprise. Two seprate worlds, two seprate directions, two seperate everything.
People mentioned as alternatives:
appjs - www.appjs.org
tidesdk - www.tidesdk.org (http://www.tidesdk.org) (formerly titanium desktop)
I'm preparing a large migration project to 4.1.3 from 3.3. And yes, I do have to consider the AIR App of our suite.
However, I would like to bring up one thing/question. What are the features of ExtJS 4.1.3 that has you so motivated to port/use Sencha Desktop (21K$? - 2.1K/user).
Good Luck Murray with your choice.
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That is a good question! It is exactly what I am trying to find out. At this post http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...664#post925664 Scott from Sench support said he would try to get an answer to my questions there.
How does it compare with Air in terms of access to the native OS etc? Can you just drop ExtJS files into it and does everything work as expected?
Thanks, sorting this out is important and I would prefer not wasting time on (potentially expensive) trials and errors! ;-)
2 Jan 2013 8:20 PM #5
Native OS support is decent and NodeJS integration is very good. Overall, the process was simple:
1. Create standalone application
2. Zip
3. Run through the executable or combine/ create package as per instructions
2 Jan 2013 8:28 PM #6
Will test it. Does it offer digital signing?
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My blog post about how to use node-webkit for packaging ExtJS4 apps is here:
It is a reasonable look at it and probably raises a number of questions. Still, it is a promising start.


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Otoe County Treasurer Nicki Kreifels presented a list of taxpayers and unpaid taxes Tuesday asking for letters from the county attorney's office rather than striking the taxes from the record.
She suggested sending letters to eight taxpayers with taxes due as far back as 2008. She also suggested that the Otoe County Sheriff's Office deliver the letters because the distress warrants issued earlier by her office have been ineffective.
Letters will be sent to the owners of seven trailer houses, inlcuding five at Nebraska City, one in Syracuse and one in Unadilla. An average of $281 is owned on the trailer houses.
Named for owing personal property taxes are TMS Construction, Allstar Heating and Air, Radtke Farms, Chesterfield Financial Corp, Pure Foundation, Goldrush Preservation and Michael Gott.
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) -- The Southern Kentucky Book Fest is scheduled for Saturday, and it will be the 15th year for the popular event.
Thousands are expected to attend the festival, being held at the Carroll Knicely Conference Center in Bowling Green.
Among the hundreds of authors scheduled to be on hand are actor Henry Winkler, who is a bestselling writer of children's novels.


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I have two tables: one, the resulting table from converting osm.xml via osm2po so I can use pgRouting, and another one that contains information on what edges each public vehicle passes through (|vehicle_code|edge_ids|). Note: one edge_id might contain many public vehicle codes.
So after executing pgRouting shortest path query, I want to know which vehicles are the best to use to navigate the shortest path to avoid too many transitions.
I'm kinda new to SQL; please help. Thanks!


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WACO (December 12, 2012)--Tour the Texas manor Hawkesdene Thursday and help raise money for the Waco Mammoth Site Children's Discovery Area.
Hawkesdene derives its name from the Old English word "dene," which means valley, and from the owners, Jim and Nell Hawkins.
Hawkesdene boasts six acres of land and 15,000 square feet that have entertained former president George W. Bush and former senators Sarah Palin and Rick Santorum, among others.
For $100 per person, trolley service and a tour will be given of the elegantly decorated home.
Money raised will be spent on the $1.2 million development at the Waco Mammoth Site to include educational kiosks, hands-on learning areas, play structures and a fossil dig.
Tickets must be purchased in advance of the tour from the mammoth site.
The home is located at the edge of Lake Waco and trolley service will be provided from Christ the King Baptist Church at 4777 Lakeshore Drive.
Holiday at Hawkesdene will be held from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m.
Tickets can be purchased by calling (254) 750-7937.


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Issue Date:
September, 2013
The September issue of Environment & Climate News reports the Oregon Senate has rejected a bill that would have extended the state's Clean Fuels Program beyond its scheduled 2015 expiration date. Oregon environmental activist groups made extending the transportation fuel restrictions their top priority during the 2013 legislative session, but the Democrat-controlled state Senate determined the Clean Fuels Program did not warrant an extension.
Also in this issue:
- Under a directive from Republican Gov. Rick Scott to assess whether the public lands they manage are fulfilling their "core missions," Florida state agencies are taking inventory of state-owned lands for possible sale back to the people.
- Hawaiians are reaping the benefits of the state's growing biotechnology industry, with the cultivation of genetically modified seeds and crops becoming an increasingly important component of Hawaii's economy.
- The Washington State Department of Agriculture rejected a request to ban a garden pesticide that environmental activist groups have attempted to link to declines in the honeybee population.
- In the latest clash between renewable energy developers and environmental activists, a California appeals court approved plans to build one of the world's largest solar power projects about 50 miles south of Silicon Valley.
- Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley filed suit in federal district court claiming the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration violated federal law with newly imposed fish-catch restrictions.
- Expert witnesses called by Sen. Barbara Boxer to testify during U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works hearings rejected a key assertion made by President Barack Obama on climate change.
Newspaper Articles in this Issue
Washington Ag Department Rejects Asserted Pesticide Link to Bee Decline– August 16, 2013
EPA Restrictions Force Carnival Cruise Lines out of Baltimore– August 15, 2013
It's Time to Restore EPA's Original Purpose– August 14, 2013
Massachusetts AG Coakley Sues NOAA over Fishing Limits– August 14, 2013
Climate Scientist John Christy Presents Powerful Data– August 13, 2013
Geothermal Power Plants Are Causing Earthquakes Near San Andreas Fault– August 13, 2013
Global Warming Alarmism Memorably Debunked– August 12, 2013
Why the Climate Models Are Wrong– August 12, 2013
Boxer's Own Experts Contradict Obama on Climate Change– August 11, 2013
Obama's Climate Plan: Kill Birds and Bats by the Hundreds of Millions– August 10, 2013
Fracking Brings Employment and Economic Revival– August 9, 2013
Oregon Senate Rejects Bill to Extend Clean Fuels Program– August 9, 2013
Wisconsin DNR Grants Exploratory Permit for Iron Ore Mine– August 8, 2013
Florida Water Managers Mull Selling Some State Lands– August 7, 2013
Hawaii Is at the Forefront of Genetically Modified Crops– August 7, 2013
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Breaks July Records– August 7, 2013
California Court Rebuffs Environmental Groups, Approves Solar Project– August 6, 2013
New Jersey Legislature Approves Logging in Forest Stewardship Bill– August 6, 2013
Supreme Court Upholds Property Development Rights– August 5, 2013
Survey: Public Overwhelmingly Opposes Carbon Tax– August 5, 2013
Study: Global Warming Will Increase Water Availability in Himalayan Watersheds– August 5, 2013


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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - Carrollton used the inside, outside game to capture a Division II sectional championship Friday.
Stephen Ericksen (the inside muscle) and Andrew Collins (the outside bomber) combined for 42 points as the Warriors dispatched Indian Creek 63-46 inside the Health and Physical Education Building on Ohio University's Eastern Campus.
With the victory, Matt Voll's 16-8 club advances to the district finals opposite the survivor of today's Big Red-St. Clairsville tussle. That contest is set for Thursday, introductions starting at 7 p.m.
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UP?FOR?TWO — Indian Creek senior Alex Young goes up for two of his 23 points in Friday's 63-46 loss to Carrollton in a Division II sectional co-final at Ohio University-Eastern.
Joe Dunlevy's Redskins drop the curtain at 15-8.
Ericksen, the husky 6-4 senior, scored 18 points (10 following offensive rebounds). He was a perfect eight for eight from the floor. Collins, a 6-1 senior guard, paced the winners with 24 (he drained six triples, a couple coming from NBA range).
As a team, the Warriors shot a torrid 61 percent (24 for 39) in handling Creek for the second time this season.
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Carrollton 63, Indian Creek 46
Indian Creek 10 11 12 13 - 46
Carrollton 14 16 14 19 - 63
INDIAN CREEK (15-8): Kamarec 1 0-0 2; Furda 4 0-2 9; Roar 0 0-0 0; Young 10 3-4 23; Haught 0 0-0 0; Huynh 0 0-0 0; Anderson 0 0-0 0; Durbin 1 1-2 4; Foldi 0 0-0 0; Connor 0 0-0 0; Woodbury 0 0-0 0; Sullivan 0 0-0 0; Winland 3 2-2 8. TOTALS: 19 6-10 46. 3-pointers: Furda; Rebounds 18 (Young, Kamarec 5); Turnovers 6.
CARROLLTON (16-8): Lovett 0 0-0 0; Peterson 3 2-7 8; Warner 1 0-0 3; Hartong 2 0-1 4; Johnson 0 0-0 0; Leary 1 0-0 3; Pesiuk 1 0-0 3; Deitz 0 0-2 0; Collins 8 2-2 24; Dobrijevic 0 0-0 0; Krantz 0 0-0 0; Ericksen 8 2-5 18. TOTALS: 24 6-17 63. 3-pointers: Warner, Leary, Pesiuk, Collins (6); Rebounds 29 (Ericksen 12); Turnovers 17.
"The difference in the game was they had open looks and knocked them down," Dunlevy said. "They shot it very well. We're not used to giving up that many points. They moved the ball well on the offensive end. Give them credit for their shooting performance."
Carrollton gave those in attendance a sign of things to come by connecting on five of eight first quarter field goal tries (three makes came from behind the arc) to grab a 14-10 advantage. Seniors Matt Furda and Shane Winland kept the Redskins close by scoring four points each. The opening stanza featured two ties and four lead changes.
A nifty drive to the hoop by Creek senior Alex Young made it 16-12 early in the second. The Warriors would then go on a 9-0 run to break things open.
Jake Peterson started the burst with a jumper. Caleb Hartong followed with a pair off a rebound then Ericksen used his inside strength to score. A Collins triple put the Warriors ahead 25-12. Voll's crew took a 30-21 lead into the intermission.
Five markers by Collins, who also dished out four assists, stretched the advantage to 44-33 after three. Ericksen recorded eight in the fourth to put the game out of reach.
"Andrew (Collins) definitely had a good shooting night," Voll noted. "When he makes one or two early, his confidence really goes up. It was his night tonight. Our kids recognized it and found him at the right times.
"Stephen (Ericksen) plays hard every night. He really finished well. Both kids stepped up and played like all league and district players."
As Dunlevy pointed out, Ericksen has "such a soft touch for a big kid. He's a load in there and definitely was a problem for us tonight."
Ericksen finished his double-double by grabbing 12 of Carrolton's 29 rebounds.
Young made his last game in a Creek uniform one to remember. He scored 23 points and shared the team rebounding lead with fellow senior Frank Kamarec, each collecting five. As a team, the Redskins pulled down 18. Young also recorded three assists and two steals.
Furda added nine and Winland eight.
"In the last three years, our seniors (Young, Kamarec, Furda, Winland and Drew Sullivan) have won close to 50 games," Dunlevy pointed out. "They are great kids; great students and they come from great families. I'm going to miss them.
"Tonight just wasn't our night. That happens in the tournament. When you have one bad quarter, you go home."
Dunlevy pointed out "all I ask of our kids is to take what they have and try as hard as they can.
"That's what these seniors have done for us," he continued. "I was happy with their effort during the summer, in practice and on the court."
Voll and his Warriors are in "a wait and see" as far as preparing for the district game goes.
"Indian Creek is a heck of a team that is extremely well-coached," he said. "Both teams that are playing Saturday are the same way. We'll wait and see and then work on putting something together for Thursday."


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Zen/Buckyballs prohibited? Have you seen this proposal?
As a past purchaser of Zen magnets I was sent an email about the proposed regulations on these types of magnets. The proposal is, quite frankly, insulting to me as a parent. With 2 children under 11 we have "somehow" managed to keep our sets of zen magnets from ending up in our kid's intestines. Anyhow, what do you think of the proposal?
The email I received said today is the last day to comment on the above proposal, so if you do have strong feelings about this you may want to post there as well.
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1. Don't be surprised if this question disappears. Woot has been pretty strict on these products not being sold or discussed since the whole thing started.
2. This is pretty ridiculous. Maybe make them only be able to be sold to 18+ but removing them from the market altogether is just wrong.
i think this is going bye bye
It is, especially considering they'd just be hurting a specific company - not removing neodymium magnets from the market entirely.
Even if the toys are pulled all together, if kids feel the urge to eat magnets eBay will still be there to feed them.
Also let me say: We had magnets when I was a kid too, and we were smart enough to never eat more than 1 at a time.
@drchops: LOL. Yes. Thank you for this.
Seriously parents... Take some responsibility...
It's about time! Buckyballs have been far too tasty and far too dangerous for too long! Make these Buckyball corporate fat cats pay for making a product that could be swallowed.
Comment added. Not sure if this topic is still up, though.
Don't take it too personally: You know full well that there are some really stupid and irresponsible parents out there. That the proposal tries to do something about it in no way implies that you are one of the stupid or irresponsible parents - only that they exist, and we all know they do.
So, about the kids: Should innocent children be sentenced to painful horrible medical problems and possible death from septic infection just because they had the misfortune of being born to idiots?
There are two solutions: Punish the kids of smart parents by taking away cool toys due to the existence of stupid parents; or make a law that says any injury to a child caused by idiotic parenting must also be delivered upon the parent. Parents would be less likely to let their kids swallow multiple magnets if the punishment was for the parents to be force fed several magnets, one at a time, over a period of a couple hours. Unfortunately, the 2nd solution is unlikely so we're stuck with the first.
I didn't think we could discuss bucky balls.
The Buckyball CEO is an a-hole. So, frankly, if this is going to shut down his business, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
That's just karma.
This proposal is about all of the strong small magnets in general, I just named the 2 brands I'm most familiar with. If naming the particular brands is an issue, I'd have no objection to a re-word of the question. Not trying to stir up trouble if there's some issue between them and Woot for whatever reason.
Yes, some parents are stupid beyond belief. I'm sure some of them have children who've been horribly injured by lawn mowers, blenders, stove tops, scissors, and so forth. Does that mean I and the rest of responsible parents in this country should be prohibited from owning these items? Where do we draw the line? If it's at things I don't really need that are recreational items, better be prepared to give up those back yard trampolines, hot tubs, and scores of other "fun" items as well.
@caisburning: This proposal affects much more than buckyballs. It will also ban Zen Magnets, the company that Buckyballs CEO attacked in the first place. I'll be severely disappointed if WOOT censors a mere discussion about a product that the government wants to ban. It seems woot forums have become more walled-up ever since Amazon took over.
Once again the complete lack of consistency on this site is exposed. I don't think I've seen a b-ball question survive this long so the censorship is completely dependent on who is working.
For the record, I think the ban of the products (and the discussion) is completely silly. I've heard stories of unattended children swallowing household cleaners and dying from it but there's no legislation to ban bleach, or antifreeze, or rat poison or any of the millions of products that are dangerous.
Kids will always find dangerous products to eat and we (unfortunately) can't regulate who gets to be a parent. That's a piece of legislation I would completely support!
@caisburning: Whats the story with the CEO ?
@ohcheri: The apparent lack of consistency usually stems from internal discussions re-evaluating issues as they come up. We live in a pretty fast-paced world and that frequently requires changing to adapt. In this case, we decided that this is a valid consumer issue and presents no potential danger to the community -- i.e., if they are actually unsafe, you can't buy them from this link.
Personally, I think the more information out there about the safety of consumer products, the better.
When these were first out I bought 6 sets for stocking stuffers for the older kids. A someday landing in jail nephew stole them all. Guess I'm glad now.
The biggest problem:
"In the mid-2000s, construction toys for children featuring small, powerful magnets were introduced into the toy market."
Both of these items are not toys for children. They are for adults and they happen to be shiny so I guess that is why children go for them. If something is not made for children, then it is the job of the parents, not the government, to keep it away from them. Children grow up, so there is no reason why we should have to baby proof the world because parents are not doing their job and taking responsibility. Children also ate the Tide packets because they thought it looked like candy but the calls to ban that have died down. Just because a product is fun or engaging does not mean it is meant for children. This is a parents' matter, not a federal one.
Another brillant quote:
"It is unlikely that even strengthened warnings would substantially reduce the incidence of magnet ingestions. This is particularly true for incidents involving older children and adolescents. Moreover, children who are old enough to understand the warnings still may not abide by them."
Translation: People are really frieking stupid and we need to save them from themselves. Also, we have to play to the dumbest denominator, instead of assuming the intelligence of the average person, which is the identified standard in court cases or decades.Apparently in the eyes of the law, a reasonable rational person is the standard but here the standard is the dumbest person that they can find that will ignore all written warnings and product attributes to swallow the magnets. God help us all if that standard is ever applied to poison companies or in any product liability suit.