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I'm looking for a good resource to start learning 3d modeling. I'm looking for something that starts with the basics (e.g. terminology; what are quads, triangles etc.) before/while going into the actual modeling. Book, website, video, anything will do. I'm only concerned with the quality of the tutorials, how thorough they are. I have experience with texturing, level design and so on - but I've never created anything more than simple shapes/editing existing assets.
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Check out some of these Blender tutorials by David Ward.
Learn theory before practice. Make sure you know what translate, rotate, scale, local, world, vertex, face, edge, UV, texture, specular, rendering, rigging etc means. Also make sure you understand the differences between various display modes (it took me a while to understand the difference between textured and untextured, especially in the start where you only use colors. This looks like a good glossary ( http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Glossary )
Do not look up tutorials like rigging before you have mastered an interface. I suggest going with a simple program first to understand the basics (like sketchup) then move up to a more full-featured software like Maya (avoid Blender to start with...many people will encourage you to learn Blender, but the fact is that if you learn Blender first, all the others will be difficult. Blender has a unique interface, very unlimited, whereas more "standard" packages are more rigid. Rigidness should not exist, but it is a standard.)
Learn standard Keyboard shortcuts (yes, they exist!) like W for move, E for rotate and R for scale...learn regular commands and what they do, like extrude, cut, soften, merge.
Then go for easy projects starting with Architecture tutorials (they are easier for beginners, mostly primitives), like a simple building. Then go for larger scale Arch tutorials like a city or a house with windows and a porch etc.
Then move to organic modelling, like face, hands, animals etc.
Then you can move to UVmapping, texturing, rigging, physics, particles, sfx etc! Good luck!
If you run through the Blender Noob to Pro series, you'll have a good foundation.
If you download the free 1-month trial of Maya, the Getting Started Guide is included, and will also provide a good foundation.
At the very least, one or both of those will give you the terminology you need to craft useful search phrases to find the rest of the topics you're searching for.
Well, I recommend you to seek for a professional in your environment or if not, try searching for a person on the Net. Actually, talking and learning face to face gave me a lot.
Check BlenderCookie for very good quality tutorials. From here you will find beginners tutorials to professional courses.
Just about any intro to 3D book will go over basics of terminology, so you should start by deciding which software you want to learn on. Despite the nearly religious fervor a lot of 3D artists have all the different options (3ds max, Maya, Blender, etc.) are about equally good for learning on, so just pick whichever is most convenient for you (eg. your school's computers already have it installed) and then go to the bookstore to get an intro book for that software.
Eventually you'll want to branch out in your learning and look at other tools, but from the very beginning you gotta pick one.
Take a peek at some of these tutorials by Neal Hirsig, all are short and concise video tutorials for 3d modeling in Blender, for an absolute beginner to Blender and likely to modeling. If you're unsure of a function or attribute name, just search Wikipedia for it-- learning the difference between a quad and a tri takes all of a few minutes at most.
I'am a beginner too. You can start here. It's got Autodesk 3ds Max and Unreal Development Kit (beginner to advance).


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I am 16 and never really paid attention to math. For me it was just one more obstacle in passing the exams.
Now that I study computers, mostly on my own, I find that there is indeed a need for me to study math. Various topics like cryptography, etc require math. Where do I begin?
I am 16 and never really paid attention to math. For me it was just one more obstacle in passing the exams.
As all the answers mentioned Khan academy, it is definitely a good start to learn about the topics you have to know. But what are these topics?
In my opinion there are a few domains in math which should be covered when studying computer science. These domains are
But this list is just my point of view I would suggest - what you REALLY need, is the actual thing YOU have to find out!
Precautionary note: I am also a beginner here. (But!) You can still believe me because I know I am sincere.
The Rule of Thumb: Never go too hard on yourself; where there is a will—there is a way!
Chill down... there are a lot of resources on the web. You can always get books. Books are your best friend. I read books related to Mathematics whenever I am depressed. You can even watch lectures if you fail to understand the long texts. Another thing you need to do is to love Mathematics. Note that Mathematics is not just the high school mathematics.
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I think this is just wat you need: every basic math thing explained in video form: https://www.khanacademy.org/
I agree with the other answers saying you should start at khanacademy. You can start at the very beginning: Arithmetic and Pre-Algebra, and work all the way up to Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, and anything else (of course, only if you need to go that far). The site has got questions for almost every subject, so you can practice with the theory you've learned in the videos, but I reckon that won't be enough. So I recommend searching for extra questions just to really master every subject. You can also search for computer science courses if you want, you can find literally anything on the internet.
What has troubled me in the past with math is the way it is usually taught at school. You are given a formula, or a method to solve a particular type of question, without actually gaining the intuition as to why you should do it like that. If you just study math like this, it is harder than it needs to be. If you actually create an intuition, it will be a lot easier. This site can help you with that, if you ever come across anything and you don't know why it is used/when it is used/etc, just ask.
If you don't like math, just remember that it is the key to your ambition, and that you can fully explore 'the computer' once you get the math out of the way. It's like eating your vegetables before eating the nice meat. However, I think that you'll start to like math more if you do it correctly (as described in the 2nd paragraph), and it will get less tedious if you do.
I did M.Sc. in both math and computer science and from my experience I can recommend you the following things:
BEWARE! This is if you are dedicated to study computer science only. As you are young, I urge you to keep your options open. In real life you wouldn't like to limit your future possibilities, there is a wide range of computer applications in bioinformatics, physics, economics, and other domains. The wider perspective you will be able to gain now, the easier it will be for you later.
Also, there are some specialties like this book which can help you understand how beatiful math can be and what kind of wonders it has to offer. For me to deeply appreciate math is more important that just to know how to use it.
Take care!
Before you get too heavy in math, you might want to look more into exactly what kind of math you need.
My recommendation would be to look into discrete math, then just take some online courses, Khan Academy and Udacity are probably good places to start. The former for learning math in general, and the later for learning what math you probably actually need.
Unless your doing physics simulation, you should probably focus on discrete math and algebra instead of say calculus. You also might want to look into geometry (especially computational geometry) if your thinking of perhaps doing something with coordinates or graphics.
Math has many areas. I suggest the following:
Also, I can relate to your experience. I found that what turned me off math class was that teachers encouraged wrote learning instead of understanding. In retrospect, I think most of them wrote learnt the material and did not understand it themselves. I also had a teacher in primary school who rather than explaining maths, just said "yeah, what Andrew said" when Andrew called out the answer. Andrew had studied math one or two years ahead of the school curriculum. So there was nothing wrong with math, just math class.
To add to all this answers: many of them are really giving advice on a lot of topics which probably are to advanced for you now (but maybe not in a year...). Until you have got to speed in elementary algebra (yes, the high-school kind), everything will be difficult. So take just one of all those books you have been pointed to, which you like, and concentrate on doing exercises. Do all of them! until it becomes easy. Do them in as many different ways as you can find! Learn different proofs of the same theorem (the 12-something Paul Erdős (google him!) boasted of knowing 36 different proofs for the Pythagoreanas's Theorem!)
Others have been given software, but all of them were commercial. Here is a short list of free software you can find useful:
Sage is much easier to install in GNU Linux than under Windows, for the others it doesn't really matter.

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Suppose you have a rigid monoidal category. This means you have a left dual and a right dual. By Frobenius reciprocity, you can move objects from one side of a Hom to the other side at the price of dualizing (e.g. something like $\mathrm{Hom}(X \otimes Y, Z) = \mathrm{Hom}(X, Z \otimes Y^*$). However this comes in four flavors: you can tensor on the left or on the right and you can move from the input to output or vice-versa. For each of these flavors you need to remember whether to take left dual or right dual. Half of these are easy to remember: if you know how to move from input to output, then you have to use the other kind of dual to move back. But I can never remember consistent conventions for everything.
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August 17, 2012
Craft Beers at the V&A Waterfront
If you're at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town and have a fancy for speciality beer, then I have three must-visit places you need to stop at.
Den Anker – Belgian restaurant and bar
Location: Pierhead, V&A Waterfront
Contact: +27 (0)21 419 0249
Website: www.denanker.co.za
If you are keen for a taste of Belgian beer then there is no other place you should visit than Den Anker at the V&A Waterfront. There is a specific beer menu with some 16 imported Belgian beers. Four of these beers are on tap, including the establishment's very own Anker beer, especially made for the restaurant. The recipe for this beer was conceived by the late owner and the beer is produced in Belgium and flown to South Africa. You can opt to try all four as a beer tasting for R45.
Unfortunately, on the day I visited they were out of Augustijn, but the others were:
- Blanche de Bruxelles, a refreshing white beer (wheat) with a fresh and mellow flavour.
- De Koninck, a lightly amber-coloured beer typical of Antwerp.
- Anker Bier, brewed in Belgium exclusively for Den Anker. The beer is refermented in the barrel en route to South Africa.
If there is one beer you should try it must be the Kwak! At 8.9%, it is one of the stronger beers, but that is not why you should order it. It comes in its own special glass – well, all Belgian beers have their own unique glasses, but this one is especially unique as it has a round bottom and wooden holder.
The fact that you have to hand over your left shoe until you have finished the beer is quirky in its own right. Says Den Anker: "These glasses are extremely expensive and difficult to replace, which is why we keep your left shoe until we get our glass back. This is a Belgian custom which we've brought to Cape Town. We'll keep your shoe in the basket hanging from the rafters until you're done. Don't worry, we keep air freshener at hand. No shoe. No Kwak."
The Kwak pours golden-brown with a beautiful head. The flavour is complex, with sweet notes of caramel and brown sugar.
There is no better place to enjoy a fine day with views of Table Mountain while sipping on a Belgian beer than at Den Anker.
Mitchell's Brewery
Location: Ground Floor, Market Square, V&A Waterfront
Contact: +27 (0)21 419 5074
Website: www.mitchellsbreweries.co.za
If you are in the mood for local beer, because, as the saying goes, "Local is good," then you must visit Mitchell's Brewery, which has six locally brewed beers on tap. The six beers brewed and served on tap are as follows:
- Forester's Lager (3.6% alcohol): A refreshing pilsner-type beer light in colour and body. This delicious beer is lightly hopped, slightly sweet, pleasing to the palate and has a faint aroma. Forester's is an invigorating drink on a hot day.
- Bosun's Bitter (3.6% alcohol): The first "real ale" produced in South Africa, modelled on the English Yorkshire Bitter. Bosun's is full of body and character and not too bitter. This beer has much to offer those looking for robust flavour.
- 90 Shilling Ale (5%): 90 Shilling is a spicy ale with a gloriously round, full palate. This traditional Scottish ale will take you back in time as you savour the complex aromatic notes and full-bodied amber glow. (I was interested to hear that Mitchell's was sold to a Scottish brewery years ago and has since been bought back, and this was how the 90 Shilling Ale was formed.)
- Raven Stout (5% alcohol): A black, medium strength milk stout full of flavour. Raven Stout is well balanced and exhibits a pronounced bitter and distinct hop aroma.
- Milk & Honey Ale (5% alcohol): Milk & Honey is a slightly darker, robust ale. It has a touch of lactose and a drop of honey to sweeten things up. A beer to be treated with care and enjoyed on any occasion.
- Old Wobbly Lager (7% alcohol): With a bold and alluring flavour, this draught packs a proverbial punch. Some have referred to its aroma as that of a sunny meadow, but anyone who has tasted this malt knows that it deserves respect.
If you are not sure which one to taste, I recommend the R50 tasting that includes all six plus a Mitchell's key ring. There is also a Paulaner beer on tap for those that enjoy Weiss beer.
Mitchell's has a traditional pub feel, offering outside seating. There always seems to be great food specials. Current ones include:
- 350g T-bone with a half pint of Amstel beer for R78.50
- 350g Rump Steak with Heineken R97.50
Ferryman's Tavern
Location: Ground Floor, Market Square, V&A Waterfront
Contact: +27 (0)21 419 7748
Website: www.ferrymans.co.za
Right next door to Mitchell's is Ferryman's, which opened in 1989 and is a popular venue for locals and tourists alike. Ferryman's only has a single beer bearing its name – the Ferryman's Ale (5%), which is a heavy, spicy ale with complex aromatics and a full-bodied amber glow.
The tavern also stocks a few Mitchell's beers, such as Forester's Lager and Bosun's Bitter, as well as some international favourites like Guinness and Kilkenny. When I visited I got to look behind the bar at the keg system. See the picture below.
Like Mitchell's, Ferryman's offers great food specials. These are:
- 300g Rump plus Amstel R85
- 500g T-bone plus Windhoek R95
Ferryman's has a large outside seating area and a play gym for kids. In summer I've seen Ferryman's braaing (BBQ) lunchtime meals. This is the perfect place to soak up some sun and taste local braai flavours with local beer.
For more information about these craft breweries and bars, please visit www.waterfront.co.za.


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I lost the original plug-in charger that came with my iPad. I have tried using my iPod cable to charge my iPad (plugged into the USB port of my Windows laptop) but the iPad will not charge (or at least it charges extremely slowly). I also have tried using another USB plug adapter with the iPod cable (plugged into a wall outlet) and it also does not charge. What is going on here and how can I charge my iPad now that I have lost the original cable and outlet adapter that it came with?
The iPad uses a 10W charger. The iPhone has a 5W charger. Most older computers only support the original USB spec of 2.5W USB port power support. Your iPad, when on, uses more than 2.5W, so it will not charge unless it's turned off, and when off it will charge at less than 1/4 the speed of the normal iPad charger. That can be up to 16 hours for a fully depleted iPad.
Newer Apple computers, and computers that support USB3.0, support higher USB power standards, but if your computer doesn't then you'll need to invest in a new charger for your iPad.
Note that the iPad will generally charge off other USB chargers from other manufacturers, but only at a slower rate than the original iPad charger, unless the charger you use is specified to charge the iPad. When the original iPad came out 10W USB chargers were not common.
Because the iPad battery is so large, the iPad uses a more powerful charger to recharge its battery. The iPhone charger is 1 amp; the iPad charger is 2 amps. To get the extra juice, you need either a modern Apple computer (last 2 years) or an iPad specific USB charger.
Looks like this is a known issue. I didn't find any news of Apple attempting to resolve the issue though. Might need to pickup a wall charger or something. I would also call Apple and bug them about this.
I'm using the USB cord from my old iPod classic on my Windows PC, and my iPad charges just fine. Although I've never tested how fast it charges, I will often plug it in before bed and wake up to a fully charged iPad.
I have noticed that when the iPad is plugged in and it is not hibernating I get a "Not Charging" message on the screen. Once the iPad is asleep it charges.


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Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Program
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) program at Binghamton University coordinates study of the Middle East, North and Sudanic Africa, and European countries that have extensive Islamic contact. The program develops and integrates research and graduate and undergraduate instruction about the MENA area. Courses related to this area are offered in:
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Undergraduate Studies
Undergraduate students with majors in the humanities and social sciences may enroll in the Middle East and North Africa program and, upon successful completion of the program, receive a MENA certificate. To receive the certificate, students must meet all college and departmental major requirements and complete the MENA requirements, including a total of 8 MENA courses. Independent studies and honors work may be credited as MENA courses when approved by the appropriate department and the MENA committee. The program does not supplant the normal disciplinary specialization or undergraduate major, but permits certain selections that constitute a coherent course of study about this area within the framework of requirements for graduation.
Opportunities are available for travel and study in the MENA region under SUNY sponsorship (for example, in Binghamton's Arabic studies program in Morocco).


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Author Affiliations: Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Drs Drekonja, Kuskowski, and Johnson) and Departments of Medicine (Drs Drekonja and Johnson) and Psychiatry (Dr Kuskowski) and University of Minnesota Medical School (Ms Okoye), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Although urinary tract infection (UTI) is a frequent indication for antimicrobial therapy, the appropriateness of diagnosis and treatment duration is largely unknown.1 High-quality evidence supports withholding antimicrobial agents for asymptomatic bacteriuria and/or pyuria; similar evidence supports short-duration therapy in women with uncomplicated UTI.2,3 The optimal treatment duration for men (or women with complicating conditions) with UTI is less well defined, although available evidence and expert opinion suggest that longer treatment durations are needed.4- 6 However, it is unknown to what extent these recommendations are followed.
We retrospectively reviewed records of ambulatory patients diagnosed as having UTI at the Minneapolis Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (MVAMC) to determine the frequency of inappropriate UTI diagnosis (ie, receiving therapy for UTI in the absence of clinical manifestations), nonrecommended treatment duration (according to sex and presence or absence of complicating conditions [eTable 1]), and practice variability. Assessed outcomes were retreatment and adverse drug events (ADEs), including Clostridium difficile infection, 30 days after therapy. Any documentation of a conceivably relevant symptom or finding (eTable 2) qualified a UTI diagnosis as appropriate. Based on available evidence and expert opinion, we defined appropriate treatment duration as follows: if no complicating conditions, 3 days (women) or 7 days (men); if complicating conditions, 7 days (women) or 10 to 14 days (men).4- 6 A sensitivity analysis was performed, in which a less-restrictive definition of appropriate treatment duration was used (3 days for women without complicating conditions; otherwise, 7-14 days).
During the 8-month study period, 466 visits to the emergency department or primary care clinic were coded as UTI. Of these, 122 were repeated visits and 114 met exclusionary criteria (historical [vs current] UTI, hospital admission, and no documentation of UTI), leaving 230 unique (by patient) visits involving an acute UTI diagnosis. Of the corresponding 230 patients, 5 were documented as representing asymptomatic bacteriuria, despite being coded as UTI, leaving 225 patients as the study population.
At the index visit, nearly all subjects (98%) had a urinalysis performed; 95% of those yielded an abnormality consistent with UTI. In contrast, only 78% of subjects had a urine culture performed, including 77% of those with complicating conditions; 85% of urine cultures were positive (defined as any microbial growth). Clinical criteria for UTI were absent in 21% (95% confidence interval, 16%-27%) of subjects, implying inappropriate diagnosis and therapy. Of these 47 inappropriately diagnosed subjects, 13 (28%; 6% overall) reportedly had altered mental status or a cognitive or sensory impairment that could render the history unreliable, whereas 34 (72%; 15% overall) lacked even these questionable features.
Treatment duration qualified as appropriate in 57% of subjects (95% confidence interval, 50%-63%), and in the remaining 43%, treatment duration was either inappropriately short (28%) or long (16%) (Table). Appropriate therapy duration was significantly more common among subjects with vs without complicating conditions (68% vs 33%; P < .001). When we used a less-restrictive definition of appropriate duration for a sensitivity analysis, the number of subjects receiving appropriate-duration therapy increased to 177 (79%), leaving 48 (21%) still with inappropriate therapy duration.
Retreatment for UTI within 30 days occurred for 16% of subjects and was associated with insufficient initial therapy duration. Specifically, among 152 men with a complicating condition (68% of the total population), subsequent retreatment was significantly more frequent among those treated initially for only 3 to 7 days (17 of 49) vs the recommended 10 to 14 days (17 of 103) (P = .02). This difference persisted with the less-restrictive definition of appropriate therapy duration, with retreatment being significantly more common among those treated initially for 3 to 5 days (12 of 25) vs 7 to 14 days (23 of 127) (P = .003).
Adverse drug events were documented for 10 subjects (4%) (4 with rash and 6 with diarrhea), including 9% of those who were treated inappropriately. Clostridium difficile testing was done for 4 of 6 subjects with diarrhea; 2 (both inappropriately treated for UTI) had positive toxin and culture results, giving a 1% overall rate of confirmed posttherapy C difficile infection.
We retrospectively found that at our VAMC (1) 21% of subjects treated for UTI lacked evidence of clinically significant disease, (2) urine cultures were underused, (3) UTI treatment duration was often inappropriate, (4) retreatment was more likely when men with complicating conditions received too-short therapy duration (ie, 3-7 days), and (5) adverse drug events were common, including among patients treated unnecessarily. As for why asymptomatic patients are diagnosed as having and treated for UTI, some health care providers may feel uncomfortable ignoring bacteriuria and/or pyuria, despite an absence of relevant clinical manifestations. Although many health care providers realize that excessive antimicrobial use can be harmful and should be avoided, some clearly need to be reminded about the complete absence of evidence supporting antimicrobial therapy for abnormal urinalysis findings in patients who lack genitourinary symptoms and of the importance of adjusting treatment duration for symptomatic UTI according to host factors. Our findings suggest that management of UTI among veterans offers abundant opportunities for improving efficacy, reducing unnecessary antimicrobial use, and limiting harms.
Correspondence: Dr Drekonja, Infectious Diseases Section, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 1 Veterans Dr, Mail Code 111F, Minneapolis, MN 55417 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Author Contributions: Dr Drekonja had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Study concept and design: Johnson. Acquisition of data: Drekonja and Okoye. Analysis and interpretation of data: Drekonja, Kuskowski, and Johnson. Drafting of the manuscript: Drekonja. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Okoye, Kuskowski, and Johnson. Statistical analysis: Kuskowski. Administrative, technical, and material support: Drekonja and Okoye. Study supervision: Drekonja and Johnson.
Financial Disclosure: Dr Johnson has served as a consultant to Rochester Medical Corporation, a manufacturer of urinary catheters.
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Summer is usually a quiet period in Europe – but not at Pentaho. The EMEA sales and marketing team got together for a couple of days in San Francisco for a sales bootcamp, which combined hard work with a celebration of another record sales quarter in Q2. It was great to meet everybody, as we are distributed across 7 countries and typically 'meet' via Skype.
The organisation has been executing at an incredible pace. In fact, we achieved some significant milestones in the quarter:
- We announced great customers such as TV2 and Aspiro, both potential global leaders in the world of online entertainment.
- We announced a win over Business Objects at one of Europe's top cancer treatment facilities, the London Oncology Clinic.
- We lured our new EMEA Marketing Director, Jean-Jérôme Schmidt, from MySQL via Sage Technologies to Pentaho. With Jean-Jérôme's sales background and organisational expertise, we will be talking to and announcing more outstanding BI customers soon.
- As part of our commitment to the EMEA region, we launched a new website for the German speaking market, where some of our largest European customers are, in recognition of its importance to our business. A website for the French speaking market will follow soon!
Thanks to all this activity, we attracted great press coverage in Europe, with articles in Information Age, ComputerWorld, ZDNet Germany and Computer Weekly.
The Pentaho story continues to grow in EMEA, so I want you to stay up to speed. As offices are quieter during the summer break, it may be the time to watch the webinar series Pentaho has produced in seven languages in conjunction with its partners and which are now available on-demand for watching in English, German, Spanish, French, Norwegian, Italian and Portugese.
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1934 Ford Coupe - March 2011 Readers' RodsWritten by on March 1, 2011 Yesterday's Young guns
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"Here's my '34 coupe from the '50s. I bought it as a project car in 1957. It was channeled rather badly but I never tried to fix that. I chucked the original 21-stud Flathead, kept the odd stretched and reshaped dropped axle, and added a 265 small-block Chevy engine, a '37 Buick Roadmaster floor shift trans (I could never find the preferred LaSalle trans), and an F-100 steering column. I ran it in C-Altered at the old Montgomery, New York, dragstrip where I was also the flagman. I turned a less-than-stunning 16 seconds flat with three Strombergs, a Corvette distributor, and no other mods. In 1958 and 1959, these were fun times.
"I soon added the requisite street equipment and it was one of the very few rods on the roads of northern New Jersey at that time, owing largely to the state's arcane and seemingly arbitrary motor vehicle inspection rules. About 1960 I gave up fighting the state and advertised it for sale in Hot Rod magazine. Dozens of enquiries came in from all over the country. I eventually sold it to a guy from Brooklyn, New York, who told me he was going to make it into an all-out drag car with center steering. I never saw or heard of it again.
"I'm now retired and living in Florida. I'm still a rodder but my world is now the street. The last time I went to the drags they started with flags!"
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"In the heyday of muscle cars, you were hard pressed to find a coupe or roadster in Riverton, Wyoming. There were the usual early '60s cars, plus Camaros, Chevelles, GTOs, and even a Corvair with a small-block Chevy in the back seat. In 1971, I sold my '69 Super Bee so I could buy a house, but I still craved a hot rod.
"My buddy, Levi, acquired this '32 Pontiac coupe without an engine or tranny. I happened to have my brother's wrecked '61 Chevy hardtop with a 348 and three-speed, so I transplanted them into the coupe. Then I replaced the rear leaf spring that mounted the 9-inch rearend with coils and mounted a slave cylinder clutch. Hot rodding was alive and well in the Rocky Mountains. Drag races were every Sunday on the Paradise Valley Road."
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There are all kinds of surprises on Leon Long's big black Merc. The project was a five-year, complete body-off rebuild, and the final result is part lead sled, part street machine. Custom modifications include the 4-inch chop, shaved door handles, lowered stance, molded bumpers (painted to update the whole theme of the exterior), frenched headlights, and welded body seams. The body was completely stripped before being shot glossy black (those lines have to be perfect 'cause there's no hiding any dings). Underneath you'll find a Fatman Fabrications subframe. Peek inside and wow! That's not the '50s! Not with that completely new performance-oriented interior, featuring Dakota Digital gauges, high-tech buckets, custom console, ididit steering column, and Grant wheel. The drivetrain is every bit as up-to-date, from the LS1 engine to the 4L60E transmission. The rearend is a Ford 9-inch with 3.50:1 gears and a locker. We can already hear the hard-core traditional custom crowd crying, but if "custom" means "modified" and "unique" then Leon's got a true custom.
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Gotta love it! But I think they need a new color...peacock, maybe?
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I fixed an older Sansa for my dad (not easy to open these bad boys!), and now it's apparently not working again (I shoulda known, the wire for the battery was a bit short, and I can't fix it again, sadly). However, this seems like it would be the PERFECT present for him, apparently he loved using his Sansa. Hmmm....the question is, do I really want to spend that much on him? LOL
@carl669: Oh, that may work better! I plan on putting all the music on it before giving it to him anyway. It's pretty much what I did when I gave him the other one. I wanted to see if he'd actually use one before going out and buying him one, since he loved it so much I didn't buy him a new one (I was actually going to get him an iPod). I'm just going to get him another Sansa. Christmas present for him = done! Yay...getting closer and closer to finished with my shopping! Thanks for the great deal! :)
Don't buy the refurb, no warranty, $5 more gets you 1yr warranty.
The players are great but the display is hard to read in direct sunlight. Also the clip that allows you to "clip" it onto things breaks easily
Look at the bottom of the page - purple is the same price. Might be other colors too -- I'm just looking now...
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7 Arm Exercises for Immediate Results
Arm workouts for women just got a lot more effective thanks to celebrity fitness guru David Kirsch
Myth: If I workout my arms, they will get too bulky.
This is a common excuse women make, says Kirsch. Women are worried if they pump iron, they will come out looking "bulky and unfeminine," he says. Not true. Kirsch explains that the "the female body is not made to bulk. Unless you're genetically unique, you don't have the testosterone for Rocky Balboa biceps."
Myth: If I stop the training, my new muscles will turn to fat.
So false. "If you stop training, your body may get fat, but it won't be because you ever had muscles," says Kirsch.
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The spiderman push ups are a killer! I have been doing these for a month and I see so many results it is crazy! I can carry something that weighs more than 15 pounds and my arms don't feel like wings when I wave hello to someone haha!
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Helpful, thank you.
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helpful ideas, thank you! I'm tired of my flabby arms and summer doesn't seem that far away.
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Great ideas! I was just thinking about ways of toning my arms.
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I could never do boy pushups so I'm going to start with the knee pushups and hope to take it to the next level. Upper arms def need some toning help
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These are great ideas. I wonder what type of "immediate " results I can expect. My arms need a lot of work!
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5 Mind-Blowing Things You Won't Believe Were Built by Nature
Ask Indiana Jones, Lara Croft, and Nathan Drake: Archaeology is a fascinating discipline of hidden worlds, mysterious artifacts, and punched Nazis. But sometimes, in their excitement at having possibly discovered something, even the most stoic stubble-jawed professor can jump the gun and have his revolutionary new artifact turn out to be nothing more than a weirdly shaped rock. It's tragic, really: They punched that poor henchman's face into a plane for nothing.
#5. The Bosnian Pyramids
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In 2005, amateur archaeologist Semir Osmanagic announced an incredible discovery -- he'd found five huge pyramids in Bosnia, just like the ones in Egypt, only much bigger. Because Europe doesn't really have pyramids, this was a huge deal, but on top of that, these would be by far the biggest pyramids on Earth, and the oldest.
But they're not just intriguingly pyramid-like from a distance. Closer inspection found the tell-tale signs of human construction.
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All that delicious almond bark was a dead giveaway.
And a geologist was quoted as saying, "This is definitely not a natural formation." Given all this, Osmanagic received significant official backing and hundreds of thousands of dollars to unlock the mysteries of Bosnia's past.
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Most of which was spent on that outfit.
How did such enormous and ancient monuments go undiscovered until the 21st century? Well, they were so friggin' old that time had actually covered them in a layer of dirt and foliage so thick, they looked like regular mountains. Clearly we're talking about the houses of the Old Ones here.
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Or else they were just regular mountains.
There's a reason Osmanagic is an amateur archaeologist. On top of searching the world for hidden pyramids, his other hobbies include claiming that the Nazis "escaped to a secret underground base in Antarctica" and preparing humanity for the "cosmic vibrations" that were supposed to elevate us to a higher plane in 2012. He's basically the Ancient Aliens guy. We're sure he has some very interesting theories about 9/11 and chemtrails.
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Why do we get the feeling that "cosmic vibrations" was part of a pick-up line?
But that doesn't account for the fact that they really, really look like pyramids, right? There's the pointy triangle shape, the blocks that they're built from, and the fact that even regular archaeologists who aren't conspiracy theorists were fooled.
The answer is shockingly simple: The "building blocks" are just weak sandstones broken by tectonic stress to create the illusion of small blocks, and tougher stones are likewise broken into large blocks. It's all just natural stone with fissures and cracks, and it can be seen in formations across the world. Twelve thousand years ago, European man was capable of building only flimsy huts, as the actual archaeological evidence revealed, and which the Bosnian state, thankfully, acknowledged upon withdrawing funding. Governments are just like little kids sometimes -- they want to believe in the awesome fiction so badly that only when the X-Ray Spex show up in the mail do they begrudgingly admit they wasted their Popsicle money.
At least the kids would've enjoyed that they got a nice sledding hill out of the deal.
And as for the mysterious pyramid shape, well ... it's just a slightly pointy hill. Sometimes the world is kind of a drag, kids.
#4. Rockwall, Texas
Rockwall is a town in Texas most famous for its annual chili competition. Oh wait, no ... hold on, let us consult our notes. Ah, it says here that Rockwall is most known for the nearby rock wall. Who could have guessed? Discovered at the town's founding in the mid-19th century, the long, partially buried wall of mysterious origin even contained what appeared to be rooms and windows.
"More windows! We gotta make sure we're taking advantage of this scenic view."
Further studies dated it as being constructed up to 100,000 years ago as part of a gigantic, ancient fortress of an enigmatic and unknown civilization. Good lord, Battlestar Galactica's shitty ending was right all along.
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The entire structure is somehow supported by deceptively weak plot points.
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Despite a bevy of excited archaeologists feverishly speculating about ancient American cities from beyond time, calmer (smarter?) scientists have known since way back in 1909 that these are sandstone dykes -- basically fragments of sandstone filling in long cracks in the surrounding landscape.
Over time, heat and the movement of the Earth cause horizontal breaks in the stone, making it look like bricks. In the 1920s, the man-made theory was promoted by an acknowledged tomb raider named Count Byron Khun de Prorok (come on, he is clearly the villain of this piece -- there hasn't been a good count since Chocula). The Count had an agenda in mind from the second he stumbled across the wall: He wanted to link it with the fabled King Solomon's Mines. The excavations in the 1930s had been a prelude to opening the area up as a tourist site. And he would've gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for those meddling geologists and their rotten dog ... ged tendency to value facts over a good story.
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"I'm bored with this whole 'Promised Land' thing; let's go to Texas."
#3. The Underwater City of Japan
In 1987, divers off the coast of Japan found what appeared to be an underwater city, which has since been named the Yonaguni monument. It's a vast mess of pyramid-like structures, staircases, walls, pillars, and even an amphitheater submerged 80 feet underwater -- if you squint, you can almost see where an ancient merman carved "Slayer rulez" into that bench.
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"Seasons in the Abyss" was especially loved by Atlanteans.
Experts estimate the age of the monument to be up to 12,000 years old, and scarf-wearing archaeo-hipsters estimate the monument to be up to 12,000 times cooler than the sellout mainstream Atlantis. Numerous expeditions have been done, and huge press interest has been generated on a discovery that, if confirmed, could change everything we know about the origins of civilization.
The Truth:
Although Yonaguni really looks like a complete city with intact steps and walls, no actual artifacts have been found, and there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of an advanced society being in the area thousands of years ago, much less one with scuba gear and a very poor sense of civic planning. When you look at some similar formations nearby, above the water, suddenly it doesn't look so mysterious.
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But soak this baby and BOOM, 8th Wonder of the Ancient World.
The idea that Yonaguni is some kind of ancient city was championed by the author Graham Hancock, who writes books about bullshit lost civilizations for a living. There isn't a pile of three rocks in the world that Hancock hasn't declared to be the fingerprint of some mysterious lost people. The rest of the media are to blame here: The History Channel may not exactly be a serious source these days, but National Geographic gave credence to the idea, and Britain's Channel 4 gave Hancock a three-part series. We know it was a slow day on the programming slate, but come on, guys: That's no excuse for feeding pseudoscientists the press attention they require to keep from withering into a bunch of asshole-scented husks like the media vampires they are.


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Dietary Recommendations for Mesothelioma
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Are there any dietary recommendations or sources that you can recommend?
AnswerKeith Cengel, MD, Radiation Oncologist at Penn Medicine, responds:
There are no specific dietary recommendations at this time, although keeping in positive nitrogen balance (i.e. keeping enough calories so that the patient either gains or maintains weight) is critically important. There are many rumors surrounding acid or sugar, based on the fact that tumors are generally acidic and use more sugar than normal tissues. However, this is not new information and was in fact noted by Otto Warburg in the 1920's. Unfortunately, acid or sugar restriction based therapies have been tried with little success over the 90 years since, and they may even cause harm to patients if they result in patients losing weight.
A standard multivitamin is very reasonable, and a healthy and balanced diet is important. One very interesting new approach is that whole ground flax seed in the diet appears to have multiple potential benefits in both normal tissue protection and helping standard therapies work better, and we are currently testing this in clinical trials.
Learn more about diet during cancer treatment on OncoLink.
AnswerChristina Bach, MSW, LCSW, OSW-C, Oncology Social Worker at Penn Medicine, adds:
Nutrition care during cancer treatment is very important. Ask your physician if a referral to a nutritionist is available at your treatment site.
There are also great online resources available from the American Cancer Society, as well as Oncolink and LIVESTRONG. Remember that certain other medical conditions, like diabetes, also impact nutrition counseling during cancer treatment, as well as supplements can be used.
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By Jenny Lower 06/13/2013
The story of Helen Keller — the blind, deaf and mute woman who, with the help of her teacher Anne Sullivan, learned to communicate, becoming that rare woman to earn a college degree — has over time lost its rough edge. Trotted out now as a rote example of overcoming adversity, Keller has become divorced in the collective memory from her steely tenacity.
The Miracle Worker, William Gibson's 1959 play based on Keller's autobiography, did much to publicize her life, dramatizing her early encounter with Sullivan, herself a product of a school for the blind and a state orphanage. Coddled and pitied by her well-heeled Southern family, Helen lives like a wild animal, grazing off her parents' plates at dinnertime and throwing vicious tantrums. Desperate to forestall institutionalization, the family summons Sullivan.
Teacher and student become locked in a battle of wills for Helen's mind, the Yankee schoolmistress' headstrong determination pitted against the girl's frantic instinct for self-preservation. Their often physical tug-of-war, laced with slaps, scars and spit, can make for breathtaking theater. Led by some strong principal performances, Simi Valley ARTS' new production directed by David Ralphe strives for but falls somewhat short of the grittiness needed to temper what can become a saccharine tale.
As the eponymous teacher, Sommer Branham brings pluck and determination to her portrayal of Sullivan. Channeling Maria Von Trapp and Mary Poppins in the early scenes, Branham's lightly brogued Sullivan is initially too chirpy; she could use more of Anne Bancroft's husky contralto. But Branham has many fine moments once she arrives at the Keller household. A feisty, spirited presence, she draws the focus, as she ought, in nearly all her scenes, also taking the brunt of the physical acting in her encounters with Helen.
This play lives or dies by its youngest star. As Helen, Natalie Esposito proves herself a talented young lady, evoking realism without devolving into a glassy-eyed cartoon. Her scowls and smiles reveal an intelligence we can intuit but not understand. The lovely actress, however, might have been better served by a more disheveled appearance. Pre-Sullivan Helen comes off as curious, bratty — but hardly the uncontainable hellcat driving the Kellers to their wits' end.
The two actresses have impressive chemistry, but the staging often misses the bare-knuckle brawl dimension of their struggle. (Even so, Esposito and, presumably, Branham wear kneepads throughout.) The play's best scene, a family breakfast that erupts into a battle royale when Helen snatches food from Sullivan's plate, approaches the energy needed to sustain momentum throughout the rest of the play. But even here, in a series of traded almost-slaps, the production backs down. The hesitation is easily understood — who among us could hit a child? — but the restraint subdues the scene's vigor.
Sean Harrington's production design, despite a nifty pump that gushes real water, poses part of the staging problem. Significant real estate is devoted to Sullivan's garret bedroom, where hardly any action takes place. Meanwhile, the family dining room, the locus of several important scenes, is squished stage left with little room to maneuver. When it comes time for Helen to hurl a spoon or overturn a chair, we're peering through a thicket of heavy wooden legs and petticoats.
Ralphe has added some unexpected lyrical touches, like violinist Ray Dean Mize's accompaniment with selections from blind composers. The strength of the cast, including strong supporting turns by Genevieve Levin as Mrs. Keller and Stephen Weston as her stepson Jimmy, takes us far. But perfection remains tantalizingly out of reach, a locked safe we can't quite open.
The Miracle Worker, through July 7, Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center, 3050 Los Angeles Ave., Simi Valley. 583-7900 or simi-arts.org.
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I believe that this reporter, as many other theater-goers with the same expectations, has made several unfair comparisons in regard to the movie version of this stage play. The limitations of a live performance have made it possible to create a very viable representation of the demands of William Gibson's script. If people are coming to see a story being told from the perspective of what the author had intended, they will not be disappointed. if the audience expects, as the reviewer apparently has, to see Patty Duke, Anne Bancroft and Victor Jory - they will not be satisfied by these actors, who have chosen - along with the director and designer - to satisfy the telling of a story, not the recreation of the movie.


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House Bill 3 was written to protect juvenile victims who are being prostituted, and to strengthen human trafficking laws in Kentucky.
Lawmakers say their support for House Bill 3 was a no-brainer.
21st District State Representative from Warren County Jim Decesare (R) is a co-sponsor.
"The worst thing that could ever been done to a person is to steal someone's soul, and to steal their being and sell it off for the highest bidder. That's just wrong," Decesare says.
"I was really glad that passed, and I was glad it passed with such an overwhelming majority," says Rep. Jody Richards, (D) 20th District.
Since human trafficking became a law in Kentucky in 2008, there has been nearly 150 cases, and 20 were prosecuted.
Warren County Commonwealth Attorney Chris Cohron says child prostitution is a main form of human trafficking in Kentucky.
The bill adds a "Safe Harbor Provision" to protect children, where a they cannot be subject to any criminal penalties.
"The essence of that is to make sure the child is treated as a victim in these human trafficking cases and to get the resources to that child more directly and as quick as possible," Cohron says.
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A town hall style meeting Wednesday night crossed the state line. Virginia Congressman Morgan Griffith and Tennessee Congressman Phil Roe met with voters in Bristol. This wasn't a first for the Republican pair as they held a similar town hall style meeting about two years ago.
Both congressmen say it gives them a one-on-one opportunity to find out what's on the mind of their voters. Two states and two Republican congressmen, sitting face-to-face in Bristol with those they represent in Washington D.C. "The state line is important, but also we're one community when it comes to a lot of the issues that we're facing related to coal, to jobs, to Obama-care," said Congressman Morgan Griffith.
The concerns voters brought to the table ranged from the federal budget, to jobs. But the night's hot topic was healthcare. "They [Federal Government] said they were going to cut medicare and social security and senior citizens are on fixed incomes, so we need to figure that out," said resident Judy Tindell.
Others asked about a groundbreaking decision from the Pentagon allowing women to serve their country from the front lines. "I asked if they [Congressman Roe and Congressman Griffith] could impact that from a congressional standpoint and the answer was no, they didn't think they could," added resident Bob Greeson.
It was also a chance for the community to hear two different perspectives and learn more on discussions in Capitol Hill. "I'm here to represent them and when I find out what's on their mind I can go back and look at that piece of legislation and say 'Yes the people of my district, they're behind that and they'll support that.'" said Congressman Phil Roe.
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As we know, there are some open problems of formal languages. I am wondering if there is a somehow complete list of open problem of formal languages. If there isn't such a list, can we make it one as answer?
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Assume you chain random number generators, i.e use the result of one PRNG as the seed for the next. What kind of errors can that introduce in the randomness of the numbers generated?
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The practice you describe is acceptable and secure. As long as each of the cryptographic PRNGs has no weaknesses and you use a seed of sufficient size, this is safe.
Whether it is desirable is a separate question. Do you really have a valid reason why you need to do this? If not, it's just adding unnecessary complexity and extra "moving parts" that can go wrong somehow.
The construction is going to be at most as secure as the most secure of the PRNGs. So there will be no increase in security, only a worsening in terms of efficiency.
Note that if you use only secure PRNGs (indistinguishability from uniform given a uniformly chosen seed for some security level) the constructed PRNG cannot be less secure than this security level as it would otherwise serve as a distinguisher for the first of the PRNGs in the chain.
This is just a bad idea, use an entropy store like
I am pretty sure CryptGenRandom under windows is now an entropy pool. Although for the first 20 years or so it was a joke.


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- Standard Accessories Battery Charger, Battery Pack, Brush, AV cable, USB Cable, Hand Strap, CD-ROM
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- Optical Zoom in Motion Picture Yes
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- Orientation Detector Yes
- Slideshow Mode All / Picture Only / Video Only / 3D / GPS / Travel / Category / FavoritesBGM Effect (Natural / Slow / Swing / Urban / OFF)
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In papers I put the tables at the very end and do something like;
\begin{center} Insert Table~\ref{tbl:tab1_1} about here. \end{center}
in the body of the paper for a draft. When it comes to finalizing I'll copy and paste the tables into the body of the paper.
This is tedious. Is there a command thingy that I can place in the body of the TeXt to make the table "disappear" from the end of the paper and appear where I've placed the command?


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In "$\wedge,\cap,\times$ and $\vee,\cup,+$ are always interchangeable?" It has been shown that arithmetic shouldn't be included. So the new modified question is:
The analogy of $\wedge,\cap$ and $\vee,\cup$ are seem to be in Logic and Set Theory are seem to be so similar that one might might be forgiven to think they are the same thing but with different notation.
My question is are $\wedge,\cap$ the same thing and just different symbols are being used depending on the framework? same question regarding $\vee,\cup$
What about infinite cases? does this type of intuition break down between Logic and Set theory?


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I used coconut oil instead of the canola. Gave it the slightest hint of coconut flavor. Delicious!
Bev's Chocolate Chip Cookies
From EatingWell: Spring 2004, The Essential EatingWell Cookbook (2004), July/August 2012
EatingWell reader Beverley Sharpe of California contributed this recipe. She updated a favorite treat by cutting back on sugar and incorporating whole grains. To increase protein, she replaces the rolled oats with 1 cup almond meal.
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dont even taste healthy! i love these little cookies, in fact i'm having a hard time stoping at 1. adding the flax and almond butter adds more of a health benifit to these tastey things. also try adding 1/4tsp baking powder to really send nestle tollhouse a run for their money!!
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1/4 c ground flax seeds
did not use all whole wheat, I used 1/4 c whole wheat and 3/4 cup unbleached all purpose flour
1/2 cup of butter and 1/4 cup almond butter
and 1/4 cup of honey in addition to the sugars
did not use any canola oil either
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So you criticize the recipe,
So you criticize the recipe, even though you didn't follow it? Some people just shouldn't write reviews.
I followed the recipe but also added 1/4 cup ground flaxseed and 1/4 cup of chopped pecans. I will definitely be making these again!
I used Agave Nectar instead of the sugar and they aren't worth the calories to eat. Maybe they would be better with real sugar but I wouldn't serve these to anyone. I won't recommend this recipe to anyone


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the grade in topsail is shallow, all i've ever seen are closeouts
pismo/oceano beaches are candidates for most closed out in the world (why I don't surf there anymore). They get what should be rideable size waves almost every day, but it's always long period groundswell like the frikin wall of china. Takes like an hour of paddling your ass off to finally get a corner...gotta sit out there 4 hours just to fell like you've actually surfed. At least you guys get more peaky windswells to break up the frustration
got a couple fun ones this morning at that high tide spot by the pier in CB ....me and 40 other people. fortunately all it takes is one good one to salvage a session.
well you can blame or thank surfchex for the increase in people at the CB pier...I luckily have found that, thanks to the last NE punch, there are sandbars all up and down that stretch, in new places and will just walk down to the next honey hole. They don't work on all tides but hell they work! I always discover new spots while playing with the pooch:) a real win-win for both of us
and speaking of WB, what's with the death defying obstacles placed in the water at both Oceanic and Mercer's..ya know those leash-snagging orange buoys just by the piers on both sides? right in the muthaluvin best part of the break? How long til some kid (or grown up kid like myself) dies or almost drowns from one of those!?
Those buoys along wb are indicating where there are pilings sticking out of the ground. I'm assuming they were placed there a long time ago to act as groins and help hold the sand in place. If those are the orange buoys you are talking about I'm glad most are marked off because I stepped on one when they were marked and cut my ankle/foot up pretty bad.
you're right - there was plenty of waves to go around, but it seemed like every time the occasional stomach-high set came around (a testament in itself to how much we've all lowered our standards), there was somebody else on it.


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Welding and fabricating using exotic metals requires a special touch, one that Schwabel Fabricating Co., Tonowanda, N.Y., has built its business on for the last 53 years.
July 20, 2011
Resistance welding transformers generate a lot of heat, which is why most of them are designed to be water-cooled. But when condensation forms internally as a result of an improperly set chiller temperature, a number of catastrophic issues can arise. To avoid this, it's best to understand what causes internal condensation and how you can prevent it.
July 18, 2011
Ray Carrington will tell you that he is not an artist. However, the 81-year-old retired math teacher has metal sculputres on display throughout the nation, and continues to work on pieces to give away.
July 8, 2011
Today's job shops must be prepared to deal with a variety of materials for fabrication and welding. As each material may require a different mixed shielding gas for gas metal arc welding (GMAW), familiarize yourself with these gases and the most efficient supply methods for various applications.