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when a man sticks his erected penis into a womens vagina after promptly removing it from another.
Vicky laid on the bed wiped from the hardcore sex with Rick as he shoved his penis into Candy.
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ususally used to describe someones secrets that they dont want anyone to find out about. Everyone usually wants to know about others dirty laundry.
I found out about janes dirty laundry!
don henley did a good song describing dirty laundry
don henley did a good song describing dirty laundry
by w00tang August 04, 2005
clothes that are temporarily unwearable on account of excessive odor, grass stains, blood stains,I just missed my mouth stains, I just shit my pants stains, I just crawled out of a hole stains, I just kicked an old person stains,I just murdered a busload of people stains, and/or dirt stains.
My parents just made me throw my dirty laundry into a bucket that says: HAZARD; BIOLOGICAL WASTE.
by harharanemu April 02, 2006
A term possibly invented by Don Henley of the Eagles in his song of the same title. Junk news. Gossip. Heresay blown way out of proportion by the news media.
Don: "..Got the bubble headed bleach blond, comes on at 5..she can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye...get the widow on the set..give us dirty laundry."
by psiscott April 09, 2006
The Taliban
Dirty Laundry
by THUNDER goat- xbox gamertag July 26, 2011
Dirty Laundry is the name given to the act of wiping ones penis on the bed sheets and/or curtins after engaging in anal sex.
After I had anal sex with that homeless chick I couldn't find a towell so I had to dirty laundry it.
by TheMentant October 21, 2011
The act of shitting in someone else's clothes dryer. Preferably runny. After the act has been performed, the dryer is then powered on to the high heat cycle thus crusting the shit into the drum of the dryer.
I went over to John's house and left my dirty laundry in his dryer. After that I made a quick exit.
by Bob Nelson January 04, 2006
when you poop in someones mouth.
Jim gave her a dirty laundry and she had crap in her teeth for days.
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I will preface this with the fact that I am not a physicist...I am an engineer by trade. I am working on a research problem that will involve flight of an organism with varying shapes, and I am interested in finding an open-source environment that successfully models the varying forces and whatnot found in the atmosphere.
Basically, I want to create a 3D representation of my flyer and put it into an environment and be able to have natural forces act upon it (to see how it reacts).
Does such a beast exist?

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I do mean any statistics -- some controlled experiments, sieving through surveys, anything. I'm constantly being told old wives' tales by friends and old doctors' tales by doctors. I'm not asking for well-done science here, just if anybody has investigated anything at all -- any data.
Can the statement "Pacifier use causes increased risk of some kind of dental problem." be backed up by any statistics?
A study done in 2001 ended with the conclusion:
This is not to say that the changes to the dental arches were positive or negative, but that there most certainly was an impact. Note that "digit sucking" means thumb sucking.
Another study had similar results:
Length of how long pacifier is used matters:
There seem to be no shortage of studies done in this matter.
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I am running ubuntu 11.10 32bit. I have separate
/ and
/home partitions. I want to go back to Ubuntu 10.04. How can I do this without losing my
/home partition. Basically I want to save my preferences and all the settings I have saved, my emails accounts and other stuff. I have also setup github and bitbucket setup in this /home partition.
I am running ubuntu 11.10 32bit. I have separate
While installing , install Ubuntu in "/" partition as usual and dont format /home partition. It will remain as it is
And one more thing that you need to do is it should be indicated to the installer that you want to mount that particular partition under
I do it the other way around. I have a single partition, but while freshly installing a new version of Linux, I just copy the
And voila all settings are resorted back as my old installation.
WARNING : It sometimes can cause problem with certain applications. eg. recently I reverted back to 10.04 from the latest 11.10, which caused rhythmbox to cause some anomalous behavior, since it couldn't save the media library.


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I have Internet Sharing enabled:
The WEP password is
aaaaa. I understand that my MacBook Pro now acts as a wireless access point. My Windows XP PC can see this. However, when I enter
aaaaa as a password, I can't connect
Am I missing something? I've read about WEP being seriously outdated, that WiFi device manufacturers hadn't yet agreed on a unified way to treat passwords through WEP.
So I did some experiments. As a control setup, I'll hold my Mac password to
aaaaa or
AAAAA at all times. I've tried the following passwords on my Windows:
Mac password:
aaaaa - Fail
6161616161 - Fail (
61 is the hex ASCII code for
Mac password:
AAAAA - Fail
4141414141 - Fail (
41 is the hex ASCII code for
Yes, I also tried using 128-bit WEP, trying out the same experiments above for
aaaaaaaaaaaaa and
AAAAAAAAAAAAA. It still fails.


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Using Ubuntu 11.10, how do I format an external or USB drive? I don't find an option to 'format' when I right click. In the new version, the drives don't come up on the desktop but instead come on the Launcher.
You can use the disk utility(installed by default) to format the drive. There is an option 'format volume' select that option.
Formatting a USB drive (Updated for Ubuntu 13.04)
Type Disks in Dash
Click on the little gears to open the sub menu as seen in the image below, and click on Format.
Once the format window appear, choose the way you want to erase, The type of format, and volume name if you need, and then click on format as shown in the image below.
I would recommend you installing GParted which is quite a powerful tool but still easy to use:
when you installed and opened it, it should be self-explanatory, otherwise dont hesitate to ask in a comment.
You can try the GParted program for all your partitioning tasks.
You could search for it in the Ubuntu Software Centre or you could type this in the terminal:
With GParted you can format your External HDD partition to ext4, but the partition should be unmounted.
Select your external hard drive from the top right corner (it would be marked as /dev/sdb most probably), then right click on the partition and format.
After formatting, click on the accept button (it's in the middle of the menu bar) to save the changes.
Now you would have successfully formatted your external drive to ext4, and it would show up in GParted as a single ext4 partition.
As suggested by hellocatfood, after formatting the drive, one will have to take ownership of it as well. To do that, type this in the terminal:
One more thing-
Your partition should be mounted in
To find the mount point, run
If you have set the label with something descriptive, it should like similar to:
After you have the mount point, run
(hellocatfood is the name of the user)
Or as suggested by Mik, if the drive name has spaces it will need to be escaped or quoted:
Note also that you dont have to specify your user name here; the
This should give the ownership to the current user, and it would be persistent after reboots as well.
I took help for the permissions part from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1840948
and for finding out the mount point, from http://ubuntugenius.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/ubuntu-hardware-permissions-how-to-set-ownership-of-drive-or-partition-internal-external-hard-disks/
If anyone has any trouble please let me know.
There's a tool which is called Disk Utility (
On Ubuntu 16.04
Just right-click on your USB/External Disk and select format
Enter Name and click on Format...
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When the irrational numbers were invented/discovered, it was said the number line was "complete." Before that, I'm sure everyone thought all the numbers in the world were rational and their number line was "complete" as well. (And they knew it was dense as well, meaning between every rational $p$ and $q$ there exists another rational $r$.)
Well, What makes us so sure $\mathbb{R}$ is complete? The fact that all the "holes" between the rational numbers were filled in? Why can't there be more holes in the Real line, holes that we haven't discovered yet, that other types of numbers can fill in? How can we be so sure there aren't more numbers in-between the Real numbers?
Perhaps solutions to hyper-exponential (tetration) equations like $x^{x^x}=2$? (Alas, $x$ is probably real and likely irrational.)
Of course, the Complex numbers extend the Real numbers, but not in the same way that the Reals extended the Rationals, which extended the Integers, which extended the Naturals. In the first three extensions, everything stayed in one dimension. In order to introduce complex numbers, we had to add another dimension, and of course with quaternions, etc, we have to add more dimensions.
But when it comes to one dimension, are we done? Are we positively sure we've accounted for everything once the Real line was constructed? Didn't we miss anything?
Edits, for those who ask:
The construction of $\mathbb{R}$ shouldn't matter, but the one I'm familiar with is the one that uses equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences of rational numbers, so let's use that one.
The definition of "complete" that might be easier to go off of is the least upper bound property: "every nonempty subset of $\mathbb{R}$ that is bounded above has a least upper bound." Equivalently, and my more favorite definition, is the nested interval property: "every nested sequence of closed intervals has a non-empty intersection," but this one might be harder to use.


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I'm shopping for new pans right now and keep seeing cast iron advertized as "preseasoned". What does this mean? What are they preseasoning it with?
They're pre-seasoning with some sort of fat. It varies by manufacturer, though soy is probably fairly common (its both cheap and has a high iodine value). For example, Lodge uses soy oil.
To add to Jay's answer:
The oil that is used to preseason cast iron undoubtedly varies.
Looking at Lodge's website I found the following:
"The cast iron is sprayed with a soy-based vegetable oil and then baked on at a very high temperature. The heat allows the oil to penetrate into the iron, creating a black patina finish with superior appearance and performance than home seasoning."
Cast iron inherently rust easily and does not provide a smooth nonstick surface to cook on. Seasoning cast iron provides a protective layer that will protect it from rusting and give the cast iron a nonstick surface. This is the way people got nonstick cooking ware before teflon and its directives or invented.
The seasoning on cast iron is formed by fat polymerization. Fat polymerization is maximized with a drying oil. This is usually achieved by treating the cast iron with a oil and then heating it.
Preseasoned means that cast iron does not need to be treated right out of the "bag". However note that the seasoning does not last forever. There are 100s of sites on seasoning cast iron if you google "seasoning cast iron."
To add to the additional question that the OP added, it is usually treated with vegetable oil, animal fat(lard), or according to this website, it recommends flaxseed oil which is a "drying oil."


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Embracing Writer's Block, Part 4: We're Creative In Every Moment
(This piece was inspired by one of the many heart-opening conversations I had with Robin in the comments to an earlier post.)
There's a lot of advice out there about "how to be creative." On the surface, this sounds great — everybody wants to come up with useful and profitable ideas, right? But when I look more closely at this kind of advice, and what drives us to seek it out, I feel concerned.
On one level, none of us needs to be taught how to create. In every moment, we're creating (or, at least, playing a part in creating) our lives. We're choosing where to go, what to eat, what to say in a conversation, and so on. We make many of these choices unconsciously, but that doesn't change the fact that we make them.
Yet, somehow, I doubt this would satisfy most people looking for creativity tips. As someone I know who often complains about her "lack of creativity" put it: "sure, I choose the words I use when I'm talking, but so what? Everybody does that."
Being Creative and Being "Special"
I think my friend's words illustrate the real concern that often motivates people to seek creativity advice. They aren't actually interested in being creative — what they really want is to be special and unique. What's more, they worry that, without outside help, they'll always be mediocre and average.
In my experience, this need to be special, and self-loathing for being "average," causes people a lot of suffering. Ironically, I've found, it also hampers our progress in our work.
Speaking for myself, it's hard to move forward in a project when I'm demanding that my work be brilliant and 100% original. With that kind of mentality, I'm likely to second-guess, and probably delete, every line I write, and be left with a blank screen after hours of effort. Worse still, perhaps, I won't have fun, and I won't feel inspired to keep writing.
It's only when I drop my need for "uniqueness" that I start making headway again. In other words, it's only when I'm willing to take the risk of "being average" that I'm able to produce anything at all.
Who's Afraid of Averageness?
And when you think about it, is "being average" really such a huge risk? What would happen if someone told you that your work was average? Would you spontaneously combust? Or maybe dissolve into a pile of steaming protoplasm?
I'm no expert on spontaneous combustion, but I can tell you that some people have said far worse things about my writing, and somehow I'm in one piece. I'm still writing, to boot, and — for better or worse — showing no signs of stopping.
So, when someone comes to me bemoaning their lack of creativity, I often invite them to try this exercise. For a moment, consider the possibility that you don't have to try to be creative. You are creating your life, through the choices you make, in every moment. Imagine what you would and could do if you fully accepted that.
If we could let go of our draining struggle to "be creative," and trust that creativity is already and always ours, I think we'd free up a lot of energy to accomplish what we want, and give the gifts we want to give, in our work.


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text: I saw Dragon_queen's tutorial on Tohru and remembered to upload this tutorial. I've had this tutorial stored away on my computer for 3 months now...and I totally forgot about it. XD But here it is...finally. Here's a tutorial on my favorite character from "Fruits Basket", my handsome everlasting snow, Hatori Sohma. (And PS- I apologize for the small pictures.)


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LAMPASAS (October 30, 2012)--A former Lometa High School coach and athletic director has been indicted by a Lampasas County Grand Jury on three counts of online solicitation of a minor.
Wendell Earl Bradley, 51, was indicted by the Lampasas County grand jury in connection with incidents that were reported on Aug. 29 after several students said they received explicit cell phone sexual messages from someone.
Bradley was arrested Aug. 31 in Athens on a warrant issued in Lampasas County.
He posted a $30,000 bond and was released from the Henderson County Jail the next day.
Bradley resigned his position at Lometa on Sept. 16 after a meeting with the school board.
Following the meeting the board released a statement that said, "Tonight the Lometa Independent School District accepted the resignation of Mr. Wendell Bradley. The community is grieving over this matter, but we are moving forward."
Lometa ISD officials confirmed on August 31 that Bradley was placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation.
Lometa ISD Superintendent David Rice said the school has been working with the Lampasas County Sheriff's Office on the investigation.
"It's always a concern when you lose your head football coach but Aaron Nuckles has moved in as the interim coach as we continue our own investigation into what happened," Rice said.


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Bridgeport councilmen named in lawsuit
August 21, 2013
BRIDGEPORT — A case of alleged double-dipping has a pair of village councilmen in hot water. St....
@AreUkidding= I live in Bridgeport. I have for over 15 years. Where do you live?
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Not a one of you has a valid argument. If ANY of you live in the village will you please enlighten me on how Smith and his cronies 'Brought Bridgeport Back'? I think they were a waste of council seats. My guess is none of you actually live in Bridgeport. Then again could be Smith posting as these individuals. Hard to see the fact that this village didn't make any better choice than they thought they had prior. The mentality of some people never ceases to amaze me. Wake up people!!
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Also, the mayor hires his own personal business/himself to do excavation work for the city. That's not double dipping??? The family lives on a power trip and uses their power to get away with everything. The Sara Jessica Parker issue should have been the opportunity to get rid of all of them then. Now is the time!!
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Funny that everyone who signed the petition and is behind this are the MAYOR's relatives!! Let's see... the mayor's DAUGHTER, SON in law, GRANDAUGHTER, and his granddaughters husband!! Along with himself and his assistant. The entire family is crooked and is bringing their drama into the city of Bridgeport. The mayor as well as his family happen to have a dislike for everyone on council. Only because the entire council is trying to get rid of the family because they are nothing but trouble.
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The whole thing sounds shady. And what is the basis of this lawsuit? And everything about this incident fails to state it happened in 2011. Why wait until now? Election time, that's why. I would join a group of citizens here to sue Callerick. I'm sure we could dig something up. Just need a lawyer to step up.
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Let's play follow the interests, shall we: Shaheen is the owner of the apartment that recently burned down. Three kids were tragically killed. I'm not saying Shaheen was responsible for the fire. The cause is still to be determined. But, the demolished rubble is still there, yet to be fully cleaned up. That rubble is right next door to the Bridgeport Municipal Building and an eye-sore. Now, Mayor Calarik and his family have hired Shaheen to remove his political opponents for serving as ... wait for it... EMT's. Hmmm. Coincidence? I have my doubts. Perhaps the Mayor could help the Village more by getting Mr. Shaheen to clean up his mess before he cleans up the Mayor's political one.
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
I guess God had other plans...
I'm going back to my doctor tomorrow to see if we can figure out how long I need to keep the drain in and when I can schedule the next surgery (hopefully, AFTER my hubby is back in Afghanistan). I'm going to need at least 6 weeks after to recover before I can start running again so it's looking like my plans of running a half in May are going to be scrapped. Since it looks like I'll be missing out on peak running time here in Germany I'm considering having my tummy tuck sooner rather than later. I think I've reached a maintainable weight since I've been unable to run and go to the gym for most of the last 5 months and my weight has only fluctuated by a few pounds. The hardest part is picking which time of year will be best to recover in and, knowing that I am already going to be losing out on run time from my other surgery, it just seems smart to double up.
I'll definitely be posting my plans here as soon as I know them but, once again, I'm letting you all know that I am out of commission for running until further notice. :(
16 comments:
- Wells L said...
Oh girl! I'm sooo sorry!!!! I hope the pain isn't bad. I hate that you are over there alone! I will keep praying for you and hoping you have a speedy recovery in time for your husband to return for r&r!!!
Running will always be, health is more important and part of health! Get the surgeries - get to final stage of your awesome weight loss journey and maintenance (which is almost more impressive then loosing the weight - with little exercise - soooo impressive!!!).
Good luck and know (for what little it matters) - you have my full support. If there is anything I can do just say the word!
- January 22, 2012 at 1:14 PM
- Carlee said...
So sorry about this! I hope that good news is on the way for you. I know it stinks to put plans off, but there will be other half marathons, just don't lose that determination!
- January 22, 2012 at 7:18 PM
- Amanda - RunToTheFinish said...
aww so sorry to hear this. it's not fun to be set back in any way, less when it's something that keeps coming back on you
- January 25, 2012 at 5:01 PM
- Charlotte said...
I'm so sorry to hear about what you're going through :( Hope all your surgery woes will soon be over.
- January 31, 2012 at 1:27 PM
- Wells L said...
Knock knock - just checking in to see if you are ok? Hugs friend!
- February 17, 2012 at 3:52 AM
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Here is a link to a video of a self-balencing unicycle. I'm curious as to how this works. In particular:
What provides the torque to keep the rider from falling over? I know it's somehow provided by the motor, but this isn't an external torque (if we define the unicycle as our system), and I assume we need an external torque to change the angular momentum of the unicycle.
If you were to try to ride this thing on ice, I assume that it could not prevent the rider from falling over. Is this correct?
What would the free body diagrams look like for this unicycle when it is in the act of falling over? When it is righting itself?


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WELSHANS, Cora Vera Anderson, 86, of Washington, PA, passed away Nov. 19, 2012, at home.
She was born Dec. 4, 1925, in Washington, PA, to the late Cecil Clarence and Mary Jane Clutter Anderson.
She was a cook/server at Drover's Inn and a member of the Hooverson Heights Church of Christ.
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In addition to her parents, she was preceded by her husband, Joseph W. Welshans whom passed in 1994; a daughter, Linda Knight; a son-in-law, Ronald Pavlik whom passed in 1995; and a granddaughter, Jennifer Pavlik.
She is survived by two daughters, Marlene Curtis and her husband, Russell of W. Melbourne, FL, Marlene Pavlik of Pittsburgh, PA; three sons, Vernon Welshans and his wife, Roxann of San Antonio, TX, Ronald Emery and his wife, Joan of Follansbee, WV, Lawrence Humphrey and his wife, Vicky of WV; a brother, Cecil Anderson and his wife, Clara of Washington, PA; 17 grand children and one granddaughter due anytime; 17 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren.
No visitation will be held. A memorial service will be held in mid 2013. Arrangements by Reasner Funeral Home, Wellsburg, WV.
Online condolences can be made to Reasnerof Wellsburg.com.


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What is the exposure triangle? How do the "sides" affect my photographs?
"The Exposure Triangle" is a catchy phrase meant to encompass the three factors which affect the exposure of a photograph of a scene with a given amount of light. It's often given to new photographers as a learning aid. I'm not sure if he invented it, but it is certainly popularized by Bryan Peterson, as in his book Understanding Exposure. (The popular web site Steve's Digicams gives Peterson credit for the term, as do other authors.)
The three factors are:
Each factor is interchangeable in terms of exposure, so that a decrease or increase in one factor must be met by the same amount of change in another. (More on this below!) And each has intrinsic secondary effects on your composition — longer and shorter shutter speeds freeze or blur motion, smaller apertures give more depth of focus, and generally higher ISO causes more noise as one attempts to get more signal out of less light.
The problem with the phrase "exposure triangle" is that the relationship between these three factors does not actually share any of the properties of a triangle other than "threeness". That makes it a bad analogy, which can introduce more confusion than necessary, as new photographers attempt to reason from the information they've learned.
Let's say we have a triangle where the sides (or corners — it doesn't matter) represent a shutter speed of ¹/₆₀th, aperture of f/11, and ISO 100. We draw a triangle, and we label that "Properly Exposed for EV 13". (See the Wikipedia article on EV for where the value "13" comes from). So far, so good — we've got our triangle.
Now, what if we want to change the shutter speed to ¹⁄₃₀th, and the aperture to f/16? That should give the same exposure. But what happens to our triangle? Do we double the size of one line, and halve the other? Or is there some other relationship that's meaningful?
It doesn't take much mucking about with a pencil and paper to determine that, no, this just breaks down. If you attach any actual meaning to the dimensions of the sides or the angles of the corners, not only is there no relationship to the area or size of the triangle, many settings yield impossible triangles even though they're perfectly valid exposure settings.
An alternate approach would be to leave the triangle's geometry constant, and put labels along the sides. This is somewhat more useful for thinking about the non-exposure effects of the parameters, but fails on actually showing anything about exposure. (And worse, may cause confusion by implying a linkage between the factors where they come together at the corners — how does bokeh connect with motion blur?)
Basically, it'd be just as useful to say The Exposure Clover, or The Exposure Tricycle, or the The Exposure Set of Juggling Balls. Or the Exposure Branches of the U.S. Government, although that may be harder to draw in an intro-to-photography book. I humbly submit the following illustration for anyone's use; I'll leave the other suggestions as an exercise.
(But I'm not ending with unhelpful sarcasm, I promise. Keep reading below.)
I'm joking, but I'm also serious: there's nothing particularly useful about the triangle for explaining these factors, and in fact it might be detrimental. So, we might as well use something funny, if the only point is to be memorable and associated with the number three.
If you're not fond of math and details, you can stop right here. Just remember:
Or, (if you are interested in thinking of this geometrically) we can use a better representation: The Exposure Cuboid — a rectangular box. That sounds nerdier and not nearly as catchy, but it has the advantage of actually being useful. Each dimension — width, length, height — corresponds to one of the exposure factors, and the volume of the box corresponds to the the exposure.
This works out exactly right. Each of the three settings can be adjusted independently, and a doubling of any of them doubles the overall exposure — or cutting one in half cuts the overall exposure by half. This is just the same way that changing the length of one of the sides of a box changes its volume. So, we get both a visual analogy and an accurate mathematical representation.
And it's nice from a simplicity point of view, because we can start by leaving off one of the dimensions. If one were using this as a tool to actually explain exposure, we'd start with shutter speed and aperture alone — that's a (plain old regular two-dimensional) rectangle. The Exposure Rectangle still isn't quite as catchy as triangle, but at least everyone knows what a rectangle is, too.
Take some graph paper, and mark off shutter speeds along one side. Start at, say, ¹⁄₂₅₀th at the first mark, then double that time to ¹⁄₁₂₅th at the second mark, and then ¹⁄₆₀th at the fourth mark, and ¹⁄₃₀th at the eighth, ¹⁄₁₅th at the sixteenth, and so on. Actual doubling of time is directly represented by actual doubling of space. We'll get to the concept of "stops" in a bit. (And you'll notice that the number sequence I'm using isn't exactly doubling — for whatever analog-days reason, this is the standard sequence and it isn't exactly precise. That's another chapter, really — at this point, just consider it rounded-off and close enough.)
Along the other axis, we'll mark apertures. Start at the first mark with something small, like f/22. Then, follow the standard sequence of aperture values from there, again making sure to double for each rather than just marking each square — so, f/16 at the second mark, f/11 at the fourth, f/8 at the eighth, f/5.6 at the sixteenth, and so on.
Now, you can directly visualize the effect of increasing or decreasing one of the factors. The exposure of the scene is the area. Any combination of aperture and shutter speed which gives a rectangle of the same area will give the same exposure. Doubling the shutter speed actually doubles the exposure, just as one would expect.
If you draw a rectangle with one corner at the origin and going out to ¹/₆₀th and f/11, with the labels as above, you get a 4×4 rectangle — area 16. (Here, the actual number 16 is just an artifact of how we decided to start our labeling and the size of the squares — the actual number is meaningless.) Change to ¹⁄₃₀th and f/16, and it's 8×2, or ¹⁄₁₂₅th and f/8 for 2×8 — either way, still the same area.
And adding in the third factor, ISO, is simply extending this to the third dimension. This is harder to draw on paper or put in a book, but once you have the idea of the rectangle down, it's not a far leap conceptually. Imagine an ISO axis extending upward out from your page, labeled similarly to the others. The exposure value becomes the volume of the cuboid, and pretty much everything works the same way.
Another convenience is that shutter-priority or aperture-priority modes can be visualized as flat rectangles within the 3D box. Turn it so whatever two values are adjustable are conveniently aligned.
But a problem with this is that the paper — or cuboid — gets big pretty quickly. And those big areas get cumbersome to work with. That's where the concept of "stops" comes in. Rather than working with linear labels and area, we can work in a logarithmic space based on powers of two. That might sound intimidating, but it simply means that we count the number of doublings, rather than using the direct numbers. Again, sounds like I'm using too many big words, but the great thing is that counting is easy. In fact, you don't even have to count — every modern camera has a meter which "weighs" these things automatically and tells you how many stops you are off. Just like a balance scale.
That loses out on the concept of "threeness" entirely, and it feels a bit unnatural to add things to darken exposure. Someone spending a lot of time thinking about which direction is up isn't really learning the important part. It also doesn't cover flash duration properly. And I sure did end up putting way too much explanatory text there. That's problematic for an introductory diagram (although I'm sure with some work it could be cleaner).
Anyway, the point is: it's catchy to say "triangle", and since there's three factors, it seems obviously true, garnering automatic nods from people who are familiar with the concepts already. And for many people it's pretty harmless. However, there's a more useful geometric explanation which can actually be used to show how the factors really relate. The cuboid may feel like jumping in the deep end, but the rectangle shouldn't be too intimidating, and going on to the third dimension is a natural progression in the lesson.
If that seems too complicated, why bother with a geometric analogy at all? I know that in the last few years it's become a common idea and Peterson's books are very popular. I know many people even find it helpful. I'm not really on a Quixotic crusade to make sure every use of "the exposure triangle" is actively stomped out — but I do recommend against introducing it to new users. Putting the three factors in a bullet-point list works just fine, and doesn't add any inadvertent confusion. Or you can stick with the tricycle.
The source files for the latest version of this article, including SVG source versions of the images, are available on my web site.
The exposure triangle refers to the three major settings that effect exposure:
Digital Photography School has an excellent write up about this, but I will summarize as best as I can.
As the name suggests, each element effects image exposure, or how bright/dark the image is. Pick a side of the triangle, increase its value (aperture is special--a larger aperture corresponds to a smaller F-number), while holding the other sides constant, and the image will get lighter.
So for example you have an ISO of 100, Shutter Speed of 1/250s, and Aperture of F2.8, simply increasing the ISO to 200 will double the amount of light in the image. Likewise increasing the shutter speed to 1/125s, while holding other values constant, will again double the amount of available light in the image.
Now while, each of these three settings give you an independent control (the sides are not explicitly linked) of how much light goes into your image, each has a secondary use, often used for the artistic purpose of the photo.
As shown in the image:
ISO controls how sensitive the sensor/film is, which in turn effects how much noise/grain is in the image. For films, you could control the amount of grain in the image, usually for artistic effect. In modern digital camera's, ISO controls the amount of sensor noise comes from the camera sensor. While film grain was desirable in some situations, sensor noise is almost never desirable. So often photographers will pick the absolute lowest ISO setting they can get away with maintaining enough light to effectively shoot their images. The lower the ISO value, the less sensitive the sensore is, the more light required, and the less noise that is expected.
Aperture controls how large the lens opening is, allowing more or less light to come in, while also controlling the depth of field. The depth of field refers to the distance behind and in front of the focal point that is in focus. A shallow depth of field will "blur" out the background. This effect is often used for portraits to put more emphasis on the subject. The larger the aperture, the more light gets used, the shallower the depth of field.
Shutter speed controls how long the camera's shutters are open, again allow more or less light to come in, while controlling motion. A fast shutter speed effectively stops motion. This is useful for action shots, like sports. A slow shutter speed lets motion blur, many times used for artistic effect, such as blurring flowing water.
I've found various versions of "exposure triangles" in the web, and also here on this site, but if I see it well, they all just show a qualitative relation between ISO, shutter speed and aperture to the related "secondary effects" noise, motion blur and defocus blur/diffraction. But the most important parameter LIGHT simply is disregarded. Of course it is true, 4 parameters are too many for a triangle, but here is my try:
Imagine you print this colored large triangle on a thick cardboard:
Then you print these 2 images, preferrably on transparent film, and cut out all the triangles (they are just examples):
Now imagine you measured the light of the scene and you found e.g. sunshine with EV15. Place the transparent EV15 triangle on the cardboard diagram and align it with the edges for ISO, shutter speed and aperture. Wherever you place it (as long as camera and lens allow such settings) you will get the same exposure. So this is actually a quantitative exposure triangle, that can tell you the exact relation between the 3 (or 4) parameters of exposure. But with the little colored triangles it also shows the qualitative differences in noise, motion blur and defocus blur/diffraction, just like all the other exposure triangles do.
What do you think? Can this be helpful? And please excuse my english, I'm not used to writing in english about photography in a forum. Should I replace the wording anywhere?
Best regards and thanks in advance, Matthias
While the other answers explain the concept of exposure triangle quite well, exposure triangle has the downside that it gives impression you only have three variables to control exposure - shutter speed, aperture and ISO sensitivity. Actually there is fourth variable that works similarly in the system - illumination of the scene.
By doubling illumination, any of the other three variables can be reduced by one stop; and by halving illumination, any of the other variables needs to be raised one stop. It also works in opposite direction - e.g. increasing ISO by one stop allows halving illumination.
Relationship between shutter time and flash exposure is a bit quirky since flash illumination is not linear in time:
Illumination can be increased by
and reduced by doing the opposite -
Some light sources are not under photographer's control, but their behavior can be somewhat anticipated (such as sunlight or streetlights).
Photography means "writing with light". Exposure triangle gives the impression that you may not bring your own pen.
I've seen several illustrations and comments as to whether they do or not convey the relationship between the three parameters: ISO, shutter speed and aperture. Please allow me to point you to the illustration on my article on exposure triangle. Once you have seen the illustration, think of it the exposure triangle this way:
If you pull one of the angles of the triangle further from the center (thus increasing its value) then it will automatically, in turn pull one or both of the other angles (thus decreasing its/their value). While the exact math is not necessarily respected, the conceptual visualization is there.
Given all the excellent answers so far, I'd just add that whoever came out with this metaphor, probably had a bad (but catchy) selection of words, and what he meant to say is "the exposure tripod" - i.e., "the three legs of exposure". He did not intend to imply a relationship (dependency) between the 3 variables, but merely to name the parameters affecting the exposure.
Although there are already a couple of great answers here, let me provide my own take at the exposure triangle. This one is intended to be both genuinely triangular (meaning that it is triangular in a deeper sense than just having some "threeness") and mathematically accurate as a representation of the exposure equation.
The quantitative exposure triangle
Since this triangle only works for one specific exposure, I have arbitrarily chosen to draw it for LV4 (i.e. BV ≈ −1 in APEX parlance, or reading 9 on the yellow scale of the Lunasix 3):
Here is how it works: each point inside the triangle represents a combination of aperture, ISO and shutter speed. The specific combination can be read by following the colored lines and reaching the scales with the matching colors. For example, the yellow dot is (1/30 s, f/2.8, ISO 1600). All the points inside the triangle provide the same exposure.
This diagram is intended to illustrate the trade-offs one makes when choosing exposure parameters, brought by the fact that changing one parameter at constant exposure implies a needed change in at least a second parameter.
Example: Let's say we took a properly exposed image with the camera settings at the yellow dot, but we find this image somewhat too noisy. We want to re-shoot it after moving the settings one stop towards the "clean" side of the ISO scale, at the line labeled ISO 800. Then, we can either:
Obviously we could also take any path in between, and end with an unlabeled combination such as (1/20 s, f/2.5).
There is just one weakness in this representation: the fact that the orientation of the axes is not obvious at first sight. For example, the f-number increases faster when going straight up, whereas the aperture scale is drawn, for convenience, along the tilted left edge of the triangle. The implication is that, while it should be clear that the label "all in focus!" belongs to the top corner, it may be less obvious that the label "bokeh!" belongs to the whole bottom edge (along the red line for f/1.4), not just the bottom-left corner.
Another limitation is that this triangle is only valid for one specific exposure. Then, in principle, one would need a whole collection of such triangles, one for each possible exposure. I do not see this as a real problem though, because the triangle is intended more as a learning aid than as a computing aid:
Although the whole idea of this diagram came to me by looking at ternary plots, I also drew some inspiration from previous answers. The labels on my plot are shamelessly borrowed from mattdm's "The Exposure Triangle, Take 2" (awesome answer, but he got the aperture scale backwards). Actually, my triangle is intended to fit as "The Exposure Triangle, Take 3" in mattdm's logic progression. And then I borrowed the colored grid from Matthias' answer.
Besides the direct inspiration, this answer also bears a close mathematical relationship with those two previous answers:
I wonder if I am the first person to come up with this. It would be weird, as it seems so obvious in retrospect. I did an image search for "exposure triangle": there are tons of them but, with the sole exception of Matthias' diagram, none of those I found is quantitatively meaningful, although quite a few are almost there, only lacking the grid. I may then claim myself the inventor of this triangle. Please, tell me if you have seen it before, so that I do not embarrass myself for too long with such a claim.
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Rangers blank Red Sox; 4 hits for Beltre
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Adrian Beltre had a three-run double among his four hits, Derek Holland pitched eight scoreless innings for his fifth consecutive victory over Boston and the Texas Rangers beat the Red Sox 7-0 Friday night.
While Holland (2-2) had a season-high nine strikeouts and stymied the Boston bats (six singles), the Rangers had a season-high 18 hits. Red Sox starter Felix Doubront (3-1) allowed a career-worst 12 hits in only 3 2-3 innings.
Nine of Texas' hits off Doubront came with two outs, including Beltre's bases-clearing double to left-center in the fourth that made it 5-0 and chased the left-hander.
Beltre broke out of an extended slump, hitting only .129 (4 for 31) in his previous eight games and 2 for 20 the last five. While his home run the previous night produced the only run in the Rangers' 3-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox, Beltre grounded into an inning-ending double play with the bases loaded in the sixth, and struck out with two runners on two innings later.
Ian Kinsler and Mitch Moreland both had three hits for the AL West-leading Rangers, who were coming off their first series loss of the season and had lost four of their past five games. The entire team had only three hits against the White Sox on Thursday.
Holland is 5-1 with a 2.41 ERA in his six career starts against the Red Sox. The lone loss came as a rookie at Fenway Park in June 2009, his third career start.
After Holland threw 112 pitches, Derek Lowe worked a perfect ninth to wrap up the Rangers' fifth shutout this season.
Boston (20-9) still has the best record in the majors, but was shut out for the third time this season.
Mike Napoli, with a majors-best 22 extra-base hits and 31 RBIs in his first month with the Red Sox, was 0 for 4 in his first game back at Rangers Ballpark.
Napoli, who hit 54 home runs the last two seasons for the Rangers and made his only World Series appearance with them two years ago, was greeted with the old chants of "Nap-o-li!, Nap-oli!" when he batted for the first time. But the fans were cheering when the Red Sox first baseman then struck out.
That was a much different reaction than five-time All-Star slugger Josh Hamilton got in his return with the Los Angeles Angels last month, when the 2010 AL MVP was booed throughout that weekend series.
Texas went ahead to stay when Jeff Baker had a two-out double in the second and scored on Craig Gentry's infield single. The Rangers had three singles in the third without scoring before their five-run outburst in the fourth.
Moreland had a one-out single in the fourth before Gentry struck out. Then Kinsler and Elvis Andrus had consecutive singles, the second pushing home a run to make it 2-0. Lance Berkman walked to load the bases, and everybody was running on a full-count pitch when Beltre doubled to left-center. Nelson Cruz then had an RBI single.
An inning later, Moreland had another one-out single and scored on Kinsler's seventh double in his nine-game hitting streak.
David Ortiz beat out an infield single leading off the second, extending his season-opening hitting streak to 11 games since coming off the disabled list. Ortiz has an overall hitting streak of 23 games dating to last season, the longest active streak in the majors.
NOTES: Doubront has a career ERA of 12.60 in his four career appearances at Rangers Ballpark. ... After Beltre's single to right in the first, Andrus was tagged out when he went too wide around second base and couldn't get back in time, ending the inning. ... Boston is 8-2 in series openers this season.
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Could your family use a little more kindness? Put a stop to kicking under the dinner table, refusing to share, and forgetting to use the magic words with a refresher on manners. Keep in mind that kids learn how to be kind by watching their parents' actions, so try to compliment your partner and be compassionate during disagreements.
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King Abdullah chairs Cabinet session (1/23/12)
January 23, 2012
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz chaired the Cabinet session held at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh this afternoon. At the outset, he briefed the Cabinet on the contents of the messages sent to him last week by Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa and UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan.
The Cabinet discussed a number of reports on regional and international developments, focusing particularly on the crisis in Syria. The ministers were briefed on the call issued in Cairo yesterday by the Arab League Foreign Ministers Council for the Syrian government and opposition to begin serious political dialogue, under the auspices of the Arab League, to form a government of national unity. They also noted the Kingdom's decision to withdraw its monitors from Syria due to the failure on the part of the Syrian government to implement any of the conditions of the Arab plan, which aims at preventing more bloodshed.
The Cabinet was also briefed on a number of scientific and economic conferences and activities held in the Kingdom over the past week. It praised the outcomes of the 13th Gulf Industrialists Conference and the 6th Global Competitiveness Forum.
Turning to its domestic agenda, the Cabinet approved a memorandum of cooperation between the King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives and Uzbekistan's Al-Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies; endorsed the final accounts of the Saudi Industrial Development Fund for fiscal years 1418/1419 H., 1419/1420 H., 1422/1423 H., 1423/1424H., 1424/1425H., 1426/1427H., 1427/1428H., 1428/1429H., and 1430/1431H; authorized the Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources to sign an amended protocol between the Kingdom and China on cooperation in the petroleum, gas and mineral sectors; and declared that beneficiaries of the Pension System must to decide whether to join the unified system extending insurance protection for Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) state citizens who work in other GCC states.
The Cabinet approved the appointments of Nasser Al-Medlej as Financial Advisor at the Ministry of Defense (14th rank); Saud Al-Dayl as Ambassador at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Mansour Al-Ghamdi as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and Abdullah Bateen as Director General of Administrative and Financial Affairs at the Riyadh Principality (14th rank).


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A blend of time travel, gritty action and a jot of romance combine to make 'Looper' this week's platinum pick.
Looper (2012, Sony, R, $31; Blu-ray, $36)
In 2074, time travel is invented, but then outlawed. Crime syndicates use it to get rid of people by sending victims 30 years into the past where loopers — assassins paid with silver bars strapped to their targets — await to finish them off. Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is making a killing at it, but things get complicated when the mob sends a future version of himself (Bruce Willis) back to be exterminated.
USA TODAY's Claudia Puig says ***½ out of four: "Looper's heady blend of time travel, gritty action and a jot of romance is such a thrilling and cerebral mind-bender that it will likely have moviegoers gathering outside the theater afterward to hash out details of its intricately constructed universe."
TRAILER: Looper
Cosmopolis (2012, E1 Entertainment, R, $25; Blu-ray, $30)
David Cronenberg directs this tale of 28-year-old billionaire financial genius Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson), who spends the day making his way through Manhattan in his stretch limosine to get to his favorite barber. He conducts his business and his life from the car — seeing his doctor, having sex, speculating with his fortune. His life may never be the same by the end of his ride. Puig: *½ stars out of four
Little Birds (2012, Millennium Films, R, $15; Blu-ray, $21)
Fifteen-year-old Lily (Juno Temple) and BFF Alison (Kay Panabaker) long for more from life in their rundown trailer park on the beaches of the Salton Sea. Lily and Alison meet three street kids, and Lily cajoles Alison into following them to Los Angeles, where they find excitement and more trouble than they bargained for. They are forced to decide if that kind of life is really what they want.
The Trouble With Bliss (2012, Variance Films, PG-13, $15)
Morris Bliss (Michael C. Hall) is 35, unemployed and stuck living with his widowed father (Peter Fonda). But despite his deadbeat status, women seem to love him, and he unwittingly has a fling with the 18-year-old daughter (Brie Larson) of an old classmate, and is vigorously pursued by a married neighbor (Lucy Liu). He seems destined to go nowhere, but maybe his luck will change.


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On weekends, come to the Koshland Science Museum and experience hands-on activities led by museum volunteers. Build on the information you explore in the exhibits. Engage with the issues that affect you and your community. You can:
- Test your Memory: Improve your ability to recall everyday objects with a memory game
- Feel the Energy: Learn why some lightbulbs are more efficient than others
- Age in Three Minutes:: Experience the physical and sensory changes that occur during aging.
Hands-on activities are offered Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Hands-on science offerings may vary. These activities are included free with regular admission.
Test Your Memory
Test your short-term memory and ability to recall everyday objects. See how many objects you can remember after seeing them for a short period of time. Then, learn a few simple tips to help you improve your memory. Try the activity again and see if you can remember more items.
Before or after the activity, explore the Life Lab to investigate the science of healthy living and learn how your brain works.
Feel the Energy
Did you know that the lifestyle of an average American produces 20 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year? That's equal to the weight of more than five African elephants! Of the 20 metric tons, eight metric tons result from electricity consumption. One way to reduce these carbon dioxide emissions is by increasing energy efficiency.
In this hands-on activity, learn why some light bulbs are more energy-efficient than others. Crank a simple generator to feel the amount of physical energy it takes to light an incandescent bulb. Then, compare this with the amount of energy it takes to light an LED bulb.
Before or after the activity, tour the Earth Lab: Degrees of Change and play the role of a policy maker to identify priorities, evaluate tradeoffs, and decide how to respond to climate change.
Age in 3 Minutes
Grow old in three minutes (or less)! Experience the physical and sensory changes to your eyesight and tactile sensitivity that occur during aging.
Then, experience even more of the vision, movement, and memory changes associated with aging in the Life Lab exhibit. Put yourself in the place of a digital avatar known as AGNES--a woman in her mid 70s--to experience how these capabilities change with age.


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MyCiTi buses open up a whole new world of public transport
Photo by Richard Frank
Anyone who has travelled from Cape Town International Airport into the City of Cape Town has had to pay the price: it can cost anywhere from R200 for a private taxi into town. But a surprisingly small number of people – tourists and locals alike – know that they can travel the roughly 20km stretch into the CBD for only R50, simply by hopping onto a MyCiTi bus.
R50. That's less than the price of a large pizza or about the price of a movie ticket and a cooldrink. It's just a bit more than a six-pack of beer will set you back.
Unbelievable, but absolutely true.
The MyCiti buses are part of the City of Cape Town's new integrated rapid transit system. The buses are clean, fast, efficient and safe, and the staff members on duty are informative, friendly and helpful.
Scott Orlando from the USA – happy to be saving around R150. Photo by Ingrid Sinclair
It really is a world-class service and the fact that it's available to everyone at this amazing price means that Cape Town's public transport system has been upgraded to an international level.
You'll be given a smile and map of the CBD as you start the journey to town, so in a way the service continues to help you out as you make your way around the city.
Once you hop off at the Civic Centre in Cape Town (remember, it only cost you R50 to get here), you are within walking distance of Adderley Street and the Cape Town International Convention Centre, although true Capetonians know that almost everything is within walking distance in the City Bowl.
Don't believe that it's such good value? Hop on next time you need a ride.
Seeing's believing!
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Suppose we defined some mathematical object $P$, where $P$ is natural number, polynomial, endofunction, geometric figure, etc. What does the expression "$A$ is a set of $P$s" mean:
- Set inclusion) For all $a\in A$, $a$ is a $P$.
- Set equality) For all $a$, $a\in A$ iff $a$ is a $P$.
If both are used, which is the most widespread one (which I can use on the Internet not explaining what I mean)?
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Its that time of year again for Miss TDP to be brought out of hiding and revamped! Before continuing to our round one theme, we ask that all members read the following rules and procedures if they are considering competing as our format has changed from the first pageant.
This competition may take up to two or three months to complete, however all participants are not required to stick with the competition throughout. Yes, we have eliminated the voting process and instead will determine a winner by whoever has the most points at the end of the competition! This means people are allowed to enter the competition or leave it at any time, they only will miss out on potential points that could effect the standings in the end.
What you need to do is to create a character portraying the round theme.
There will be three rounds, and each round is worth ten points. These points will be awarded to each entry by the judges; Silver_Wolf_Kitty and Miranda_. The competitor with the most points at the end of competition will receive an award made for them by one of the forum staff.
THIS IS NOT A DISCUSSION THREAD NOR THE PLACE TO SUBMIT DOLLMAKER ENTRIES! Before you post here, I suggest you stop. All non-entry posts will be deleted. If you have questions, direct them to Silver_Wolf_Kitty, who is in charge of the entire competition.
General Competition Rules.
1. Character.
When entering, you need to enter with one character and stay with it the entire time. This means that your dolls hair and skin colour must remain the same throughout, unless otherwise stated in the round theme.
2. Base.
You must use the same base set throughout, so pick one with a variety of poses. This base should also be medium in size for handdrawn dollers (comparable in size to the "Maia" bases here:
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). Dollmaker users should use the shuni style base.
3. Theft.
No stealing the work of another. This applies to both handdrawn and dollmaker participants, so do not submit a doll that someone else made or, for handdrawn dollers, mix and match pieces of completed dolls that are not your own. All work should be original and failure to comply will result in disqualification.
4. Props.
Props and backgrounds are encouraged, but should not be massive. We will ask too large of entries to reduce their size, so be reasonable.
We ask that all dolls have transparent background and is a GIF file. If you dont know how to do this, see the following thread:
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6. Forbidden.
Sexually explicit, nudity or overly bloody dolls are forbidden. Entering one could result in disqualification. Also, animation and glitter is not allowed as it creates an unequal field for those who can't animate.
7. Theme.
Every doll should relate to the theme. While we encourage creativity, failure to keep with the theme can get you eliminated automatically that round.
No one is allowed to use friendship or promises to sway a judges decision. Threats, bribery, and attempts to interfere or discover the judges decisions in anyway will result in disqualification. Arguing with the judges can result in an automatic elimination.
9. Competing.
You can only submit one entry for each competition, so choose wisely.
10. Entries.
You may enter both competitions if you wish. Make sure, however, that you do not enter the same profile for both competitions; it must be different.
1. Participants enter a doll every two-three weeks in the set thread. They may enter it sooner, however further edits are not allowed after the doll is entered. No matter what, the two-three weeks are a guaranteed time slot(unless all entries are received before it).
2. Any participants who fail to meet this deadline will be eliminated. Deadlines are not being extended for anyone, so do not ask. Special extensions may be asked in the event of a long trip or medical/family emergency, but you must contact Silver_Wolf_Kitty immediately if this occurs.
3. After submission is closed, the judges will then provide critique on each entry and score the dolls based on creativity, adherence to the theme, and several other factors which will be revealed when critiques are posted.
4. After critiques are posted and points are updated, the next round will begin.
Round 1: Fairytales
Don't get too excited yet, these are not your typical fairytales, so there will be no Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, or Sleeping Beauty here. No, you are limited to portraying a character from one of the following five stories:
The Goosegirl
Sweetheart Roland
The Red Shoes
The Fairies
Your doll can be dressed as any character in these stories and creativity is highly encouraged, just identify the character when you submit your entry. There will be no point reductions for repeated characters. For this round you may change your character's hair colour, although it is better if you stick with your intended colour for the competition.
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Nice choices of classics and new stuff. Thanks for posting! I picked up Blake Shelton and Kenny Chesney.
Bob Marley's Legend for a buck. You can't beat that.
@craigthom: just about the only thing on that list i'd consider subjecting my ears to
Johnny Cash FTW!
I hear Taylor Swift songs on the radio and they're not horrible. However, every time that chick plays something live it sounds like cats in the night. There are a lot of good other choices on this deal. Thanks for the info!
@triplebud: So are you saying you would never ever wnat to hear her songs again...ever?
I don't like the way amazon sorts music, some items in a category do not belong there. I assume they do it to artificially fluff their numbers. Some music they put into several categories, then they all get counted.
Most of the albums I found werent that great for the type of music I am into. Saw some odies at decent prices, but nothing new.
I could NOT agree more. Swift is a talented songwriter, but a marginal singer being propped up and promoted by the industry. Obviously a good studio singer (with all the sound manipulations), but If she were a contestant on America's Got Talent, she MIGHT make the semi-finals... But even this past season she would have been beaten by a dog act!
Not a hater, just don't think she's all that.
99 cents for 26 motown #1 hits is pretty awesome. Sadly a credit that I had at Amazon that I did not know would expire has expired. So I need to spend real money.
We'll download singles but when it comes to a full album we still purchase a hard copy CD and rip our own MP3's off of that. So we'll pass on this.
@natalieug: That was my thinking until the last time I moved and had to drag all those boxes of CDs along.
Now that all my music is safely backed up at home and, for the most part, in two cloudy places (Amazon and Google), I just buy the mp3 albums.
@triplebud: I saw her on 60 minutes last night. There was something creepy about her, and I couldn't place it for about half the interview. Then it struck me. Her eyes are dead and emotionless in the interview. The only time they do emote is when she's on stage (Even when she's feigning amazement and surprise her eyes are dead though).
It's a creep-out. I could totally see her pulling a Fargo and feeding someone through a chipper-shredder with those dead eyes.
@thespiansmc: Yeah, I couldn't resist that one myself.
Night Visions by Imagine Dragons is an amazing CD. Do yourself a favor and listen to it. I almost want to buy it again just because I love it so much
I get deal expired. :'(