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Lookie now.
Don't forget, this is what it looked like just a few short weeks ago.
So what do you think of our new winged friends?
Love the whimsy.... what a great place to work;)
Cool birds!
I love that you didn't get too carried away with a theme. If I have to watch one more Trading Spaces re-run with a theme, I'll toss my biscuits.
Birds are so in right now. You did a nice job.
And you couldn't be more right about photographing a room to give yourself more perspective. When we photographed our house to sell it, it was amazing what I had overlooked in person but noticed in the photos. Smart!
Thanks, everyone!
They are kind of trendy aren't they, Rural? And I'm usually so anti-trendy...
Kelly I love the birds. You are so creative! I am missing that bone in my body. You are welcome to come to St. Louis anytime and redesign my house. :)
Courtney, I am SO JEALOUS that you're getting to put together a nursery. If I was up there I'd drive Tim crazy baby shopping with you!
Oh wow! This is just perfect. How did you get the birds on the wall and where in the WORLD did you get the peacock pillow? My sis in law has a teeny tiny obsession with peacocks and this would just be a perfect gift.
And is that a Wheaten Terrier? My BFF for 20 years has a Wheaten and they are the coolest dogs.
Thanks for stopping by my blog for the giveaway. You are so creative and I love project blogs. And I'm a Courtney too!
Uh, no you aren't a Courtney, you are a Kelly. Oops. Just reading further.
Teehee, no worries, Coco.
The birds are wallpaper and the whole project was SO EASY. I kept thinking they'd peel up or it would be messy or they wouldn't cut right, but nope. EASY. Which, like, hardly ever happens when I try something new!
We don't know what kind of dog Satchel is, because we adopted her at only a few weeks old. She was found wandering the streets of Miami. At the time, we were told she was a Schnauzer Terrier mix who would be about 15 pounds. 40 pounds later, people tell us that she looks like a Wheaten or a Labradoodle or a Golden Doodle. We call her The Mystery Dog. Even the vet is confused.
Oh, and the peacock pillows are from Pottery Barn!
I want my office to look like this. The birds are perfect!
Love the peacock pillow!
i'm so glad you stopped by my blog...because now i get to discover yours!
it has been so fun to look at all your projects...you have been busy! and you are super talented!
i answered your question about the sliding barn door on my blog, but i will add the answer here as well:
the sliding barn door was custom built for us from my husbands deisgns by our trim carpenters...the same guys that built the coffered ceiling and added all the trim to the rest of the house.
i'm pretty sure it would be pretty easy to make your self! i believe it was made from mdf and some 1 x 4's. let me know if you need any more info
best of luck in all your remodeling!
i'm excited to see what you continue to do!
all the best,
Thanks, Betsy!
Autumn, I've been dying to build a barn door very similar to the one your husband constructed. I had a client who wanted to do one with granite. Clearly he had no idea how heavy granite is! Do you know what supplier he used for the hardware? I think Schlage carries a commercial grade system like this?
I love the subtle vintage whimsy of the birds & I am just drooling over the peacock pillow fabric. To.die.for. So loving this space!
(I meant to to tell you I ADORED your feature on Brooklyn Limestone's blog a few weeks ago. That bathroom transformation was AMAZING.)
I am obsessed with birds and love this space! It looks so chic, so crisp and clean and fresh!
Love the birds. Very, very cool. I'm sharing this post with my daughter.
Thanks, Jenny. It was very easy to do.
The birds are great and the perfect added touch! And I'd love to work in that space... it seems so breezy and light.
Thanks for dropping by my blog. I'm off to wander around yours now :)
very nice!!! great work!!!! love your birds... but yes the bird mobile might be too much bird! ;)
I promise I was totally kidding, Erika. But I do really like that mobile! Okay, I love it!
I love the whimsy and airiness (if that's how you spell it) of your office. The shadow of the candelabra on the sheers seems so dreamy. And the paper you used for the birdies is so pretty. Such a sweet touch.
Thanks, Adrianna. I love the lightness and sort of ethereal quality of sheers. When they're naked (like i like to use them) -- without curtains -- it leaves a place feeling a tad unfinished. Which I like.
Love the birds! I might have to hang onto that idea for MB's big girl room!
I also love love love those chairs. We have a desk chair issue in our house that needs solving!
You're so right! My little spray painted birdie DOES look like your ceramic one! :)
Pretty office, btw!
Thanks, Chelsea!


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6 People Saved by Literally the Last Person They Expected
We all have at least one enemy we'd love to see crawl on their knees to beg for our help, only for us to say no and laugh at their misery because screw you, Joey, we'll never forgive you for dropping our ThunderCats Pogs in the toilet. Some of the most powerful people in the world have found themselves in this exact situation ... and when the time came to tell their rivals to eat shit, they instead turned around and said, "Sure thing, buddy, let me help you with that."
#6. Bill Gates Saves Apple from Bankruptcy
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Few corporate rivalries have gotten so nasty as the one between Microsoft and Apple. Both companies have been known to get their hands dirty and leave morals aside to get ahead of the other. Microsoft has made millions of dollars shamelessly copying Apple's patents, and Apple did those "I'm a PC, I'm a Mac" commercials.
So they're pretty much even.
But Apple wasn't always the giant it is today -- in fact, in 1997 the company was on its last legs. Co-founder Steve Jobs had been out of the company for the past 12 years, and business had been dropping steadily since then (the aforementioned "Microsoft keeps stealing our shit" shit didn't help). In desperation, Apple allowed Jobs to rejoin the company, but he knew they were going to need a little more help than he could provide to save it from bankruptcy.
Fortunately, Jobs convinced an old pal to come to the rescue. His name? Bill "I Invented Motherfucking Windows" Gates.
From Steve Jobs' private collection.
Yep, Microsoft's president ended up saving his biggest rival, although his motives weren't entirely selfless. Apple had been trying to sue Gates for patent infringement, but Microsoft's lawyers kept the lawsuits dragging for years. However, everyone knew they couldn't keep stalling forever, and a ruling in Apple's favor could have cost Microsoft billions. So Jobs went up to Gates and hammered out a little deal: He would drop the suits if Microsoft invested $150 million into Apple. Also, Microsoft had to continue developing its Office software for the Apple OS.
"Everyone loves Clippy, Bill. Gotta have that Clippy. This is non-negotiable."
Gates agreed, and the cash influx not only helped with Apple's financial troubles, but also made other investors want to get in on that action -- if even Apple's biggest competitor was investing in it, the company had to be on to something. Apple was saved and, as you may know, went on to push the boundaries of computing by inventing the devices that we all say we hate but secretly have. Think about it: Without Gates giving Apple the cash lifeline, there would be no iTunes, iPod, iPhone, or iPad, which means half of you wouldn't be reading this article on the toilet.
#5. Pepsi Protects Coca-Cola's Industry Secrets
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The 20th century was marked by a brutal rivalry between two international giants; a "cold war" that resulted in a lot of heavy-handed propaganda, a race to get to space, and David Hasselhoff performing overseas. We're talking, of course, about Pepsi and Coca-Cola.
Historically, Coca-Cola has always managed to stay several steps ahead of its rival, and one of the reasons for its success are its fiercely protected secrets (for instance, only two people in the world know Coke's formula). So, let's say that you come across some top secret Coca-Cola product info, and let's say you're an unscrupulous ass looking to get rich through illegal means. The question isn't "Who would you sell the info to?" It's "How much would you ask Pepsi for?"
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"I was thinking all of the dollars, but I'm flexible."
So it isn't surprising that, when Coca-Cola employee Joya Williams contacted PepsiCo offering some highly confidential documents and product samples she had sneaked out of the building, Pepsi expressed interest in purchasing its rival's secrets. After all, such information could have given the company an edge and potentially allowed it to make millions at the expense of Coca-Cola.
However, while Williams and her accomplices celebrated the deal with some Mountain Dew, it turned out that Pepsi had already called her bosses at Coca-Cola. Also, the FBI.
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The FBI files called it the worst cola betrayal since New Coke.
Working together with the two companies, the feds sent in one of their Cola Affairs agents to take care of business. Setting up a sting, the FBI recorded Williams' pal (who only went by "Dirk") handing over a product sample and brokering a deal where the agent promised $1.5 million in exchange for the secret files. Finally, after the FBI captured video footage of Williams stealing more files, the gang was rounded up and sent to the slammer.
It's rare for giant corporations to look out for each other like this, especially if they're longtime rivals fighting bitterly over market share. Unfortunately, this display of friendship didn't inspire Joya Williams and her pals, who lied and tried to blame each other during their trial.
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"I swear, I thought she was talking about the other kind of coke."
#4. A Founding Father Defends British Soldiers in Court
Despite not being as massacre-y as our history books tell it (as we've mentioned before), the Boston Massacre was nevertheless the biggest shit's-getting-real moment between the colonists and Britain before the American Revolution broke out. Eight British soldiers fired into an angry mob, leaving five dead, several wounded, and a whole city looking ready to premature revolution all over the goddamn place.
The soldiers were taken to trial in an effort to quell the masses. Unfortunately for them, they were in Boston, one of the colonies' most anti-British cities at the time. Any lawyers who even dared to represent them risked not only their livelihoods but also their lives. The soldiers had found themselves in a situation where no amount of blindly firing into a crowd could get them out of.
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This would mark the last time people in Boston complained about violence toward Yankees.
But then one 30-something lawyer agreed to help them out -- his name was John Adams, the fourth most famous Founding Father, known for being the second president of the United States and for just generally making revolution stuff happen. Against Britain.
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And whose sensibly short name made many a history test easier. We salute you, sir.
Adams was so into the principles that made the revolution that he was even willing to apply some of the biggies, like equality and justice, to the very people he later fought against. And boy did he apply them. Not only were six of the eight released free of charge, but the two who were convicted of manslaughter were let off on a sentence that involved a branding of the thumb and, well, that's it. If the court case had gone on any longer, Adams probably would have also convinced the jury that King George is an alright guy, bald eagles are kind of stupid looking anyway, and representation? Heck, who needs it.
"Look, they can't be that bad. They have wigs."
He was proud of it, too. In old age, Adams claimed it was "one of the best pieces of service I ever rendered my country," which means either it's one of the finest examples of what he believed America stood for, or he was just forgetting which one "my country" was in his senile years.

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FOX Sports' Jon Morosi and Ken Rosenthal report that Cuban shortstop Aledmys Diaz had a private workout for the Yankees Friday.
Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports reports that the Diamondbacks "have let teams know Shelby Miller is available in a trade."
Bruce Levine of WSCR-AM and 670thescore.com reports that the Indians "have the best names on the table" for Aroldis Chapman.
Carlos Rodon (wrist) will make a rehab start with Triple-A Charlotte on Monday.
Logan Morrison (wrist) remained out of the Rays' lineup Sunday.
Tyler Skaggs will make his season debut for the Angels on Tuesday in Kansas City.
Orioles activated RHP Darren O'Day from the 15-day disabled list.
The White Sox have suspended Chris Sale five games for his conduct in a clubhouse incident prior to Saturday's game.
Josh Reddick (back) remained out of the Athletics' lineup Sunday.
Lorenzo Cain (hamstring) will do some running on Sunday.
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The accident was report at 2:39 p.m. Saturday at U.S. 73 at the Salt Creek Bridge.
A 57-year-old Revenel, S.C., woman was driving west on U.S. 73 in a 2012 Dodge Avenger and had gotten lost. She realized she was traveling in the wrong direction. She attempted to turn left into a field entrance in order to turn around.
A 21-year-old Atchison woman was driving west in a 1995 Ford F-150. She attempted to pass the Dodge vehicle on the left, not realizing the other driver was making a turn, according to the report.
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The NSA, phone "meta-data" and the Patriot Act.
June 18, 2013 - Jordan Travis
It's time to fix the Patriot Act. Since the disclosure of phone data collection and Internet data mining by the NSA, Pres. Obama has said he'd be willing to review the law, adopted amid the hysteria immediately following 9/11. It might be that as our lawmakers review this law (several provisions of which was scrapped by the Supreme Court shortly after being passed) they'll find, or we should tell them, that it ought to be fixed like a chipped glass: with a short trip to the trash bin.
Why try to fix a law that would allow such grotesque invasions of our privacy? It's clear that a law that would allow for the subversion of what we hold dear as Americans has no place in the books. So maybe I ought to revise my opening statement: It's time to junk the Patriot Act.
Instead, maybe our lawmakers should look at the lessons we learned from 9/11 and our battle against terrorism foreign and domestic since then. This includes the Boston bombings (as an aside, having known several Chinese international students, I felt especially sad that Lingzi Lu would come to America to learn, only to die in a terrorist attack). Using these lessons, and the ones we learned from the many instances of Patriot Act-compliant government over-reach, we could come up with a replacement. Something that could protect us from our enemies here and abroad, while protecting our freedoms at the same time.
You know it's time to change when Ai Weiwei, famed artist and dissident, tells the Guardian that America is behaving like China. This coming from a guy who was arrested, ostensibly for tax evasion, but almost certainly for his criticism of the Chinese government. Rather than defend these odious programs, Obama and his administration ought to be laying them out for all to see, and asking everyone: Here's what we're doing, is your safety worth it?
We're starting to get a sort of sanitized version of that with the Congressional hearings that started Tuesday, served alongside a heaping pile of "ends justify the means" bluster about the terrorist plots this phone call data helped to foil. Unfortunately, we're also hearing missives eerily similar to those given by George W. Bush when the "roving wiretaps" program was revealed: it's a threat to national security that we're even discussing this.
We can't allow that same mentality to lull us in to accepting the gradual erosion of our freedoms.
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Jul-24-13 8:58 AM
We have become a reactionary dictatorship since September 11, 2001.
Jul-16-13 7:16 AM
Having the patriot act is almost as bad as having a credit card.
Jul-14-13 9:15 AM
I would argue that its time to lose the Patriot Act not fix it. This is a massive ill written knee-jerk piece of garbage legislation ram-rodded through congress on the heels of 911. It has done the American people the greatest disservice in the history of our nation. It has been and still is a direct threat to our constitutional rights and liberties, it facilitates a growing police state, and basically make you and I all suspects in this "war on terror."
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Pasta Salad with Shrimp
1 pound pasta (I prefer spaghetti broken into 2" pieces)
16 ounces Italian Dressing
1 T. grated parmesan cheese
1 T. sesame seeds
1 T. poppy seeds
2 teaspoons seasoning salt
1 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 large cucumber, chopped
1 red onion, diced
1 tomatoes, chopped
1 cup sliced green or black olives (or 1/2 and 1/2)
1 lb. peeled and deveined shrimp
In a medium bowl whisk together salad dressing, cheese, seeds, salt, paprika, garlic powder and peppers until well blended.
Bring 1 quart of salted water to a boil. Place thawed shrimp in water, bring back to a boil and turn off the burner and cover pan. Let stand 5 min. Drain and cool shrimp. Toss shrimp in 1/2 cup of dressing and place in refrigerator while you mix the rest of the salad.
Cook spaghetti according to package directions. Drain, rinse in cold water and drain again.
Transfer to large mixing bowl. Stir in cucumber, onion, tomatoes, and olives into salad dressing. Pour over spaghetti and toss. Place shrimp on top. Garnish with parsley, additional tomatoes, and parmesan cheese.
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Hundreds of Kentucky residents bought support our troops signs this weekend. People from all over the state drove to Bowling Green to pick up a "Support our Soldiers" sign. Many buying the signs say they want to show the troops they care despite the recent anti-war demonstrations.
Martha Sisco, the woman selling the signs, says within minutes all 300 of the signs were sold out. She is now taking orders to be picked up next weekend.
If you would like to call and reserve a sign the phone number is (270) 622-7214. Signs can be picked up in the Wal-Mart parking lot in Bowling Green next Saturday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.


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For example, Iike cayenne pepper is spicy and marjorum has a smoky flavor. I just want to learn the different flavors of each seasoning, so I can know exactly what seasonings to use for the different types of food. Trying to educate myself, I want to become a chef someday.
Spices can sometimes taste different when their context(other spices and foods) or preparation is altered. Other than trying known recipes, I occasionally taste an unfamiliar spice in several states over a period of time:
Some spices have surprised me, such as turmeric, which was familiar to me with savory dishes, but which I had never previously tried with sugar. Some spices taste about the same everywhere raw or cooked but you'll find new uses, like cinnamon in broth, while others will only be useful cooked or uncooked.
I once read that mixing a bit of spice in an unflavored yogurt and allowing it to rest is the best way to learn its basic taste.
Excellent question! I've wondered this myself many times, and I can't claim to know the best way. This is what's worked for me.
I browse through recipes, food blogs, and videos that I find interesting. I try making some of what I see and learn by taste. In other situations, I just get an idea by reading about the recipe. From there, I might associate cayenne with spiciness and try to remember that when I eat foods with cayenne in them. Overall, it just happens with time and experience.
One other thing that helps is to stick to making one or a few types of cuisine, at least for a few preparations. Cultures tend to have their own core spices. I find that if I've only tasted a spice once or twice, it's not easy to remember, so I need to have a few repeat encounters with it in a few-week span before I feel familiar with a it.
Not to sound obvious, but the best way to learn what each spice tastes like is... to try them!
Smell them, taste them, and explore different combinations with different foods.
Start with the classics (for instance, taking recipes from a book) and start exploring variations of those. Sometimes you will end up with awefully tasting things, that is a necessary part of the learning (and part of the fun too).
Don't restrain yourself to recipes. If you think cumin tastes good with xyz, there you go, put it in, even if it is not the classic spice to put in it does not mean you cannot use it.


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The 6 Worst Hiding Places in the History of Crime
#3. Living in a Toys R Us
Jeffrey Manchester earned the nickname "Roofman" following his string of at least 40 crimes in which he drilled holes in the roofs of fast-food joints and then dropped down inside to burglarize them, Mission: Impossible-style. But after becoming the first person to ever escape from Brown Creek Correctional Institution in Polkton, North Carolina, by clinging to the underside of a delivery truck -- a move so cliche that even '70s action movies tsk and shake their heads when they see it -- Roofman decided that earning a nickname that sounds like the lamest superhero ever wasn't quite enough of a legacy for him.
"It used to be Roofieman, but then girls started avoiding me in clubs."
So he decided to turn over a new leaf and leave his life of crime behind him. He took on the new persona of "John," a generous churchgoing volunteer who was always giving toys to kids and even developed a healthy relationship with a new girlfriend.
Only, wait a minute -- Roofman hadn't turned over a new leaf at all, because all those toys he was giving to needy children were stolen from the Toys R Us he was living in by night.
And they were all Jabba and Jar Jar toys, the monster.
Yep, you read that right: The guy just decided to set up shop in the place he was stealing from. Roofman hid in a cubbyhole in a bike display until the store closed, then, once everyone was gone, he emerged from his hiding place to ride bikes around the store, race remote-control cars on the roof and mess around with the employees' work schedules like some kind of asshole gremlin. He even had everything there that he needed to sustain himself, because he ate stolen baby food. OK, maybe that last part wasn't quite so awesome.
When Roofman's dream home became too crowded during the holiday shopping season, he built a secret passageway into the abandoned Circuit City next door, where he constructed the ultimate man-boy cave, complete with posters, action figures, a toy basketball hoop and a DVD player to watch superhero movies while wishing for a cooler nickname.
"Maybe I could be Spider-Man without the hyphen. Like Dr. Ralf Spiderman. That could work."
He had everything an ethically challenged man-boy could possibly wish for, right? Apparently not, because his ultimate plan was to rob the Toys R Us.
So Roofman used a baby monitor to watch over the store's employees from his secret lair, and on the day after Christmas, he burst into the store with a gun he had stolen from a pawn shop and attempted a takeover-style robbery. But two of the employees said "We don't get paid for this shit" and slipped out, forcing Roofman to abandon his plan and allowing the police to discover his secret hideaway and the clues that led to his eventual identification and recapture.
"Man, old habits die hard. I get less time for this, right?"
Some people are just never satisfied, we guess.
#2. Napping on Top of a Fridge
Scrap-metal thieves do big business in times like these, with metal prices on the rise. A trio of them in New Jersey set their sights on the basement of a restaurant in South Brunswick, New Jersey, that was full of copper pipe. Also, apparently all metal thieves in South Brunswick were separated at birth.
Although there may have been a Klingon involved with the guy on the right.
Not long after Christian, Israel and Richard up there got their Sawzall party started in the basement of Big Ed's Restaurant, the shindig got crashed by the cops, who had noticed their vehicle illegally parked behind the establishment. The three crooks scattered.
Christian was nabbed right away; Richard turned up at a cheap motel about an hour later. But Israel was nowhere to be seen.
"I'm gonna live it up ridin' the copper train!"
After a couple of hours of fruitless searching in the area, the police decided to return to the scene of the crime to survey the damage. When they went to the basement, where the thieves had done thousands of dollars' worth of damage ripping copper pipes out of the restaurant equipment, they heard an ungodly sound coming from the top of a refrigeration unit. Apparently in all the excitement of the police bursting in and the ensuing piss-your-pants-and-run confusion, the thieves had left one of their saws running.
Except no, it wasn't a power tool at all -- it was Israel, fast asleep and loudly snoring on top of the refrigerator. He had hidden there while the cops chased his companions and dozed off while the cops were off scouring the countryside for him. The Taiwan animation company Next Media Animation reported the event in their usual bizarre style.
Yeah, this wasn't exactly Ocean's Eleven here. But we can find at least one guy with a dumber story ...
#1. In the Trunk of a Judge's Car
When a 16-year-old criminal escaped from a holding cell at a Michigan courthouse after being detained for a probation violation, he knew he needed a getaway vehicle. He used his uncanny teenage mischief-sense to scan for the one unlocked car in the lot.
Teenage senses aren't very sophisticated.
The criminal gods were smiling on him -- he immediately found one ripe for the taking. Then he jacked the car and went on a three-state doughnut-and-powerslide spree, right? Not exactly. What he actually did was pop the trunk, climb inside and shut himself in. Presumably he was looking less for a means of escape and more for a comfy place to curl up for a nice nap and possibly a little asphyxiation.
But that actually wasn't the worst part of his plan. The car he was stowing away in belonged to a freaking judge, the honorable Peter Maceroni.
Yeesh. Poor guy looks like somebody stuffed a feather in a cap.
This is the point in any good Hollywood comedy where it would have turned out that the judge was just about to embark on a cross-country road trip along a carefully planned route made up of only the bumpiest country roads. But, instead, courthouse security saw that next to the vehicle was some stuff the criminal had knocked out of the car's glove compartment in the course of unlocking the trunk and very quickly put two and two together. We have to say, for the teenage fugitive, it was probably the best possible ending to the story.
"I know how this looks, but the thing is -- I'm an idiot."
For more criminals a few bricks short of a full house, check out 6 Baffling Mistakes Criminals Apparently Make All the Time and The 7 Most Retarded Criminal Excuses of All Time.


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8 Aug 2011 10:52 PM #1
nothing working in chrome (13.0.782.107)
When I create a scene, can be anything even a stage with just a square, the only thing that shows in chrome is the stage. Works just fine in Safari, and on iOs. I have tried this today in both windows7 and OSX 10.7 Strange behavior as I swear I tried this a week or two ago and it worked great in chrome.
9 Aug 2011 5:02 PM #2
Yeah, looks like there was a change in the newest Chrome. Not sure if it is a Chrome bug or not, but a workaround is to remove the following css from the exported file.
-webkit-transform-style: preserve-3d;
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12 Aug 2011 3:31 PM #4
For those interested about the chrome rendering behavior there is a bug report:
29 Aug 2011 11:45 AM #5
not working in chrome 13.
thanks yeah, that fixed it for me in chrome as well. though it doesn't appear that any font-styles are set when I export, so browser just picks up defaults...
though pretty minor. I can set that stuff. nice work though. great toolset.
3 Sep 2011 12:23 AM #6
No CSS in export folder
Hi i am just trying to fix this bug but in the export
folder there is no css file
I am so new to this...
3 Sep 2011 4:52 AM #7
I found a way...
I open the HTML in Dreamweaver and deleted the line and everything worked ok....
BUT when i opened it in Explorer...again nothing happened
When i opened it from my Android the animation run fine but it was always going back to first frame !!!
I would really like to solve these problems because i like sencha and i think is far better than Edge preview
and more usable !!!
6 Sep 2011 9:38 AM #8
Yeah, the CSS is inlined in the HTML file. IE is not supported and Android support is experimental at this point.
7 Sep 2011 8:03 AM #9
Thanks and keep up the good work !!!
As i said its far better than Edge at the moment
30 Sep 2011 12:43 AM #10
i JUST DOWNLOADED THE SOFTWARE..LOOKS EASY AND FINE...BUT WHEN I TRY TO PREVIEW IN BROWSER (GOOGLE CRHOME) IT'S NOT WORKING....[COLOR=#fafafa !important]


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11 May 2011 6:23 AM #1
VERY SLOW behavior of fields in nested panels (compared to extjs 3)
here is an exemple to show how SLOW can behave extjs 4 (the same type of code is IMMEDIATE in extjs3)
in the code below, I create 4 comboboxes that I put in multiple nested panels (7 levels of nested panels)
complex applications can easily reach this number of nested panels
selecting an element in the first combo, will show / hide the others. this operation can take several seconds even with chrome, it's crazy.
Ext.onReady(function() { Ext.tip.QuickTipManager.init(); // Store creation Ext.define('State', { extend: 'Ext.data.Model', fields: [ {type: 'string', name: 'abbr'}, {type: 'string', name: 'name'}, {type: 'string', name: 'slogan'} ] }); // The data for all states var states = [ {"abbr":"AL","name":"Alabama","slogan":"The Heart of Dixie"}, {"abbr":"AK","name":"Alaska","slogan":"The Land of the Midnight Sun"}, {"abbr":"AZ","name":"Arizona","slogan":"The Grand Canyon State"}, {"abbr":"AR","name":"Arkansas","slogan":"The Natural State"}]; var store = Ext.create('Ext.data.Store', { model: 'State', data: states }); // a Combobox var simpleCombo2 = Ext.create('Ext.form.field.ComboBox', { fieldLabel: 'combo2', displayField: 'name', width: 320, labelWidth: 130, store: store, queryMode: 'local', typeAhead: false, forceSelection: true, allowBlank : false }); // a Combobox var simpleCombo3 = Ext.create('Ext.form.field.ComboBox', { fieldLabel: 'combo3', displayField: 'name', width: 320, labelWidth: 130, store: store, queryMode: 'local', typeAhead: false, forceSelection: true, allowBlank : false }); // a Combobox var simpleCombo4 = Ext.create('Ext.form.field.ComboBox', { fieldLabel: 'combo4', displayField: 'name', width: 320, labelWidth: 130, store: store, queryMode: 'local', typeAhead: false, forceSelection: true, allowBlank : false }); // a Combobox with a listener var simpleCombo = Ext.create('Ext.form.field.ComboBox', { fieldLabel: 'combo1', displayField: 'name', width: 320, labelWidth: 130, store: store, queryMode: 'local', typeAhead: false, forceSelection: true, allowBlank : false, listeners : { select : function() { simpleCombo2.setVisible(!simpleCombo2.isVisible()); simpleCombo3.setVisible(!simpleCombo3.isVisible()); simpleCombo4.setVisible(!simpleCombo4.isVisible()); } } }); Ext.create ('Ext.panel.Panel', { title : 'a panel', layout : 'anchor', border : true, autoScroll : false, renderTo : Ext.getBody(), items : [{ items : [ { items : [ { items : [ { items : [ { items : [ { items : [ { items : [ simpleCombo, simpleCombo2, simpleCombo3, simpleCombo4] }] }] }] }] }] }] }] }); });
Last edited by tprodigy1; 10 Jun 2011 at 11:11 AM. Reason: tested with 4.0.2
11 May 2011 7:04 AM #2
I'm sure someone will come along to slap your wrist about the evils of "overnesting", but i get it - sometimes you need to deeply nest to get the extensibility you're after.
Anyway, not my real point. There are a few posts about performance, so I think the issue is getting attention - one member posted profiler timings at various levels of nesting to illustrate the point. I was told last week to expect a 4.01 sometime soon (possibly this week), and another maintenance release later in the month.
keeping my fingers crossed for a fix,
11 May 2011 7:27 AM #3
in my example, for sure it seems "overnested", but extjs is designed like this, and in a real application, if you just setup a form panel, containing a tab panel, in wich you want to put dynamic and custom controls that fit in a column layout and so on ..... I can tell you that you reach these levels
and it is very surprising that extjs3 could handle this well, but extjs4 won't
also, I noticed that in tabPanels switching from a tab to another is also very slow, (while, again, it was immediate in extjs3 as it was just a matter of show/hide a DIV)
to me, this is a blocking issue, I cannot switch to extjs4 until it does at least what extjs3 did
11 May 2011 7:47 AM #4
I also mention slow work of ExtJS 4.0.
At the moment I don't know use ExtJS 4.0 or not.
And what is bad it is very slow even in Chrome.
I think more about why it is so and come to coclusion.
(I don't know am I right or not.)
MVC technology slows code in 2.5 times.
For that reason MVC is not used in client side.
I was very supprised that ExtJS 4.0 use MVC.
Also I did many works in Raphael. Unfortunately, it is too slow.
At the moment there is not alternativa to actionscript.(((
I wish that broweres increase their perfomance.
So I don't know shoud I use in future ExtJS 4.x or not.
But I was really upset when learn more about ExtJS 4.0.
I waited another...
Two weeks ago I did a decision that in 2 years I will not use ExtJS 4.x.
I will use ExtJS 3.3.1 and 3.3.3.
And I will change my decision only if Sencha increase perfomance or invent something more.
I also think about "Light ExtJS".
In fact ExtJS at the moment is used only for ERP/CRM.
I did not face another progets.
I very want to use ExtJS for alternativa to JQuery in doing sites.
But even if we use JSBuilder(ExtJS 3.x) for generating framework with only Ext.Window we get
about 200~300 kbs.
I know that in ExtJS 4.0 it is possible to use Ext.Loader.
But real working sample I didnot face to.
I usually use all widget of ExtJS on one page.
Grid,charts,trees,panels, windows, forms and so on.
I think that Sencha should think more about devision of points to use ExtJS.
1 - For ERP/CRM at the moment only this is possible
2 - For sites.
If Sencha will do it I am sure ExtJS became very popular and replace JQuery and other frameworks.
26 May 2011 7:01 AM #5
Same problem with small code.
I tried to set up my layout: A header, a left panel, a center and right panel.
Left panel is collapsible. That's ok.
But if I add an accordion in the left panel with a little text content, that's finished, even in chrome it is slow to collapse my panel.
I do a search on google the first result:
"Ext JS 4 Preview: Faster, Easier, More Stable | Blog | Sencha"
Same code with ExtJS 3 -> No problem.
What can I do ?
26 May 2011 7:07 AM #6
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We started four years ago with ExtJs 2, we migrated to 3 now I am busy for some days with migrating to 4. The first problem is run into is that it is very difficult to get the same look and feel on small issues as in ExtJs3. Now I read also about performance issues, I am getting worried.
- Event handlers on keymap and navs are completely changed.
- Events in ExtJs 3 are simply missing in Ext Js , like the beforeselect event.
- Every added css in our application must be altered and must be put on other elements than before. - Resizer behaviour is totaly different on FormFields, it simply works slowly and difficult on a Anchor Layout.
- Why the Form layout is removed?
- Look at the class hierarchy at http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-0/#/api/Ext.grid.Panel. An OO fanatic is doing overtime. OO programming is known to get things slower if it becomes a mission on it own. The only thing they had to do was just cleaning the number of output divs/elements at dom level.
It looks like ExtJs is a completely different product. Where's Jack?
27 May 2011 4:30 AM #10
Here is an example with an accordion and static html content. (resize panel to remove display artefacts).
Play with the panel (open/colapse/resize), you will notice the problem.
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The government leaflet, Over the Garden Hedge (below)can give you advice on methods of approaching your neighbour. If, however, negotiation and mediation fail, you can then submit a formal complaint to the Council for it to act as an independent and impartial third party.
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Software/Hardware Hacking at Noisebridge, where we dig deep into the Sifteo cubes http://sifteo.com
Sifteo cubes are the best hackable platform, here is a summary of what they have:
- an accelerometer
- a touch screen (128x128)
- 4 proximity sensors (to recognize other cubes touching their 4 sides)
They are wirelessly connected to a base with:
- an STM32 (cortex M3)
- a mono speaker
- a usb connection to log anything to a computer
The base can communicate with up to 12 cubes (maybe 24 if you ask nicely).
It can be programmed with a simple C++ SDK (a bit like arduino but much more powerful).
Examples of a few projects that could be done:
- magic light juggle: acceleration change the color/brightness and the cubes disappear in the air
- siftephone in: listen to a smartphone vibrations with Sifteo's accelerometer
- siftephone out: talk to a smartphone using sound with audio system such as chirp.io (a 1st proof of concept can be found here)
- music & light: implement a BPM counter to blink color screens on the music rythme by listening to the vibrations sensed by accelerometer
- midi controller: play music using the cubes as midi instruments with Ableton or Renoise (a 1st proof of concept can be found here)
- internet of things: control anything remotely using python to forward Sifteo logs to an email or a server such as heroku or parse.com
- simple hacks involving microcontrollers such as Arduino can be tried too but the project must be worth it ;p (it's a bit more complicated)
If interested, please don't just show up, your participation/preparation is important:
- ask Cédric at least 24h in advance to bring more cubes
- download the SDK: https://developers.sifteo.com/download
- start to play with the examples in the free simulator: https://developers.sifteo.com/docs/SifteoSDK/1.0.0


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The best spots in Cape Town to celebrate National Braai Day
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This Friday is Heritage Day, but just as commonly known as National Braai Day. South Africans all over the country will be stocking up on meat and getting ready to celebrate their heritage with friends, family and some lekker boerewors.
There has been a huge buzz leading up to National Braai Day, with Jan Braai breaking the world record for braaiing 30 hours non-stop at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town. He also earned the backing of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who is calling for everyone to support National Braai Day.
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- Little Bay in Cape Town – A perfect spot for families
- Silvermine – A gorgeous, quiet setting around the dam – a favourite among friends and families
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Hair Dyes and Perms During Pregnancy
It's hard enough to feel beautiful when you're pregnant, but then along comes the warning that hair dyes and permanents might be harmful to a fetus. This subject causes great debate among hairdressers, doctors, researchers, and expectant mothers. In the end, all we know is that not much is known about the effects of these beauty products on the fetus.
Certainly there are chemicals in hair dyes and permanent solutions that are toxic and known to cause cancer and genetic mutations. The question is, how much does it take to cause this damage? Studies on animals that show harm to the fetus have used doses 100 times higher than would ever be used on your own head. As the debate rages on, you can safely keep your hair dyed and permed if you use a bit of caution.
- Avoid perming or dying in the first three months of your pregnancy.
- Choose semipermanent dyes over permanent dyes. Better yet, stick with natural henna products.
- Wear gloves and open the windows if you apply the solution yourself.
- Because the chemicals are absorbed into the bloodstream through the scalp, not the hair itself, it's probably safe to have your hair highlighted, frosted, painted, or streaked. These methods keep most of the dye away from the scalp.
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New York University Professor Catherine Robson will deliver "Remembering the Memorized Poem: Recitation's Legacy in Britain and the United States," a lecture focused on the impact of mandatory poetry recitation in schools, on Wednesday, April 24, at 5 p.m. at New York University's Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science, 100 Washington Square East (enter at 31 Washington Place [wheelchair accessible]).
Few poems have worked their ways into as many hearts and minds in the English-speaking world as W. E. Henley's "Invictus" and Rudyard Kipling's "If –." Robson will explore the rich particularities of the production and reception histories of these poems and use "Invictus" and "If–" to examine the nationally distinct after-effects of mandatory poetry recitation, the pedagogical exercise that once occupied a central position in American and British public education.
The evening will also include film clips of Ronald Reagan, Morgan Freeman, and Timothy McVeigh, who employed "Invictus" as his final statement before his 2001 execution, as well as poetry recitations by NYU students.
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When I try to install software updates using the "Software Update" GUI, I am asked for the root password. Although, I can 'su' in a terminal, the password is not recognized as correct in the GUI prompt. I believe this is due to the user account name being different from the root account name. How can I still use the GUI then?
AFAIK, you need to use your own password, and be in the sudoers file. Can you run "sudo su" form a terminal? If you can't, that would be an indicator that you're not in the sudoers file, hence the password rejection.
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6 Movie Heroes (Who Sucked At Their Jobs)
#3. Father Lankester Merrin from The Exorcist
The exorcist from The Exorcist. If you've been seduced by Satan, bedazzled by Beelzebub or just want some free wine and wafers, then Father Merrin is your go-to guy.
Why He Should Be Good At His Job:
Father Merrin is the Vatican's point man when it comes to Satanic possession. When a little girl from Georgetown starts inexplicably acting like GG Allin, her mom hires Merrin to exorcise the demon. The man's street cred alone should be enough to kick Lucifer in his fiery red nutsack.
Why He Sucked At It:
When a film begins, the audience is generally treated to a scene of the protagonist doing something totally gee-whiz--be it Indiana Jones cracking his whip or pornstar Lisa Ann getting manwiched by a gang of lost pizza delivery boys.
In a movie titled The Exorcist in which Father Merrin is the titular exorcist, he doesn't perform an exorcism until the last quarter of the movie, and even then Merrin doesn't deliver. His grand duel with Satan ends with him dying of a heart attack off-camera, leaving only the odor of his evacuated bowels and wafts of "Tubular Bells" as evidence of such a showdown.
Thanks for all that unnecessary build-up, movie. You should've just named yourself The Expendable Guy.
#2. Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars
Oh shit, we went there.
Why He Should Be Good At His Job:
He has telekinetic powers, can outrun a '69 Camaro, kick heroin in a day and deflect lasers using an even bigger laser... all while sporting the burliest beard this side of Kashyyyk.
He's Obi-Wan-Goddamn-Kenobi, and if it hadn't been for that Jedi vow of celibacy, he would've been all over more coed rump than butterfly tattoos.
Why He Sucked At It:
The entire Star Wars series is one long story of Obi-Wan falling asleep at the wheel. Despite all his vaunted Force and beard powers, Obi-Wan fails to prevent almost every major tragedy in the franchise's history.
Let's start with a critique of his precognitive Jedi mind tricks. In The Phantom Menace, Obi-Wan rightly calls that training Anakin Skywalker is a very bad idea. Even Yoda and Samuel L. Jackson concur, and when the most badass man and Muppet in the universe agree with you, you know damn well you're onto something.
Had Obi-Wan just Force-punted the brat from Jingle All The Way out a window right then and there, we would've been spared two films of Hayden Christensen (and treated to three new films of Han and Chewie: Intergalactic Party Cruisers). But no, he takes Anakin under his wing and adopts a million-man clone army along the way.
Oh, and did we mention that all the clones are of Jango Fett, the murderous bounty hunter who tried to kill Obi-Wan multiple times? Doesn't he notice that cloning the galaxy's deadliest hitman a bazillion times over is a totally Sithy thing to do?
Well, when Anakin and the clone army inevitably starting killing everybody, Obi-Wan finally gets his shit together long enough to lop 75 percent of Anakin's limbs off. And instead of ending the whiny Sith, Obi-Wan leaves.
He just fucking leaves the scene.
Come on, Obi-Wan, it's Darth Vader! He chopped up a hundred younglings just hours earlier! Also, it's not against the Jedi Code to mercy kill someone if he's slowly and painfully burning to death. Obi-Wan just trots off, leaving Vader wiggling around like a grilled Vienna sausage for the Emperor to find, repair and turn into a cybernetic James Earl Jones.
Obi-Wan's contingency plan is even more inept. When Darth Vader comes back to bite him in the ass, Obi-Wan picks the worst alias possible. Did he really think hiding as "Ben" Kenobi, the guy living down the road from Darth Vader's relatives on Darth's home planet of Tatooine was going to fool anyone?
We're not sure who's more incompetent: Obi-Wan (whose pseudonym included his last name) or the Empire (which--with its nigh unlimited resources--should've found Kenobi in 20 minutes, not 20 years).
This took too long.
So now that we've hit a new low and knocked the Jedi master who helped raise us down a peg, is there any cinematic heroes left who are above our rebuke?
#1. God from Evan Almighty
Jehovah, Yahweh, The Alpha and the Omega. He also invented the Batmobile.
Why He Should Be Good At His Job:
He's God.
Why He Sucked At It:
God instructs Congressman Evan Baxter (Steve Carell) to build an ark so his family and neighbors can survive a horrific flood in their Beltway suburb. The cause of this deluge is a burst dam, which was shoddily built by corrupt Congressman Justin Long (John Goodman).
In the end, Evan learns the value of an A.R.K. (Act of Random Kindness), Long is exposed as a crook and Washington D.C. is ravaged by a tidal wave. Wait, what?
Look, we understand that the Lord works in mysterious ways. We also get that in the original Noah story, God punished mankind for devolving into a bunch of raging douchebags.
But in Evan Almighty, in the process of punishing only one (one) dude and teaching another guy to be a marginally better human being, God wreaks Hurricane Katrina, Jr. on a million or so Washingtonians.
Of course, Evan Almighty was a PG-rated family comedy, so we don't see any corpses. But seriously, you can't flash flood D.C., with its subway system and marshy topography, and expect everything to end up all sunshine and lollipops.
And even if you did save everyone using God Magic, did we need the collateral damage? Seeing as how the film contains such profound themes as "the environment is good" and "government waste is bad," it makes zero sense that God would engineer an ecological catastrophe that basically defunds FEMA for the next decade.
We forgive you for not making any you-damn sense, Lord. After all, Brick Tamland was created in your image.
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What is the grammatically correct way to say the following sentence?
"I have come away with a new found respect for the author..."
"I have come away with a newly found respect for the author..."
What is the grammatically correct way to say the following sentence?
Both are grammatical. That which is newly found, has been found recently for the first time. That which is new found has been found again with renewed delight and interest.
I think both are grammatically correct but that "newfound" has simply become far more popular than "newly found". I'd even go so far as to say that "newly found" sounds somewhat strange to the modern ear. Consider the Ngram below, which clearly shows that "newfound" has all but replaced "newly found" in contemporary English.
It's "newfound" - one word. I believe this is the correct term in this case, as "newfound" is an adjective and "newly" is an adverb. Perhaps others know better, though. SE is flagging "newfound" as misspelled, so let's see what others have to say. FWIW, dictionary.com does list "newfound" as "newly found or discovered: newfound friends." :)
The words "newfound" and "newly found" are not quite synonyms. Or at least, they're usually used for different classes of nouns. Checking Google hits, choosing two random pages (19 & 28), and eliminating proper nouns, 9 out of the first 12 hits for "newfound" were emotions, abilities, or abstract ideas, whereas 11 of the first 12 hits for "newly found" were actual physical objects. The examples are below. So going by these examples, "respect" should be "newfound".
See this Google Ngram for more evidence of this distinction (it's newly found species but newfound feelings). The physical/abstract distinction isn't quite right, because newfound friends is more frequent than newly found friends, although not as much so as something like respect.
"New found" is an idiom, which is used only in precisely this form. It means "new", but with a connotation of surprise, or of a significant change of view.
I would find "newly found" strange (except in the literal sense of something that has just been discovered).
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Intercultural Festival has been a Grand Valley tradition since 2005, but has roots dating back as far as the founding of Grand Valley State College in 1963. We host this event each year as a way to recognize the ways in which we are all diverse. Intercultural Festival recognizes that culture represents a spectrum of traits in people that are not only confined to ethnicity.
The festival is a way to recognize how we all belong to a culture and that we should celebrate it. The goal for the event is to have the audience feel like they are at a festival. We want our guests to enjoy good food, music, dance, displays, and most of all, we want them to walk away having learned something new about a culture different from their own experiences over the course of the week!
As one of the spring traditions, Intercultural Festival has been incorporated into Laker Traditions as one of Grand Valleys showcase events that occurs throughout the year! New to this year, the event will be a weeks worth of events showcasing student organizations, professors from various departments and guest speakers to highlight the variety of cultures that make up the Grand Valley community and bring us together as a student body at Grand Valley State Univeristy.
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Kirstenbosch Gardens – A Cape Town Tourism Flickr photo essay
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is beautiful throughout the year. Harris Steinman has captured this in the series of flower photographs below.
Limestone sugarbush – Protea obtusifolia
Harris says, "When we walk around Kirstenbosch the physical act of seeing is modified and affected by all our other senses, as well as by subconscious memories and emotions of previous events in our lives. For one person a particular vista may stimulate recollection of an intense romantic interlude, while for another individual the same scene may generate feelings of displeasure. I have no doubt that every visual impression triggers an emotional response, possibly only unconscious and minor, but present nevertheless.
Chironia linoides
"Such emotional responses are not only influenced by the whole scene but may be subtly adjusted by elements such as colour, shape, pattern or texture in our surroundings. The mood or emotion evoked may be brief and fleeting, but if one is able stay a while these feelings may grow perceptibly.
Pincushion spray – Leucospermum cordifolium x
"I have no idea how the images came about – I did not follow a predetermined plan or formula but over a period of several years responded subjectively to the visual impressions offered to me in Kirstenbosch: to the interplay between light and shade, to plant shape and structure, to colour, pattern and texture, and to the elegance, delicacy and tranquillity of the subjects. To put it simply, the images were created by my response to the wide range of visual impressions that were presented to my 'soul' or subconscious. When I framed them in my viewfinder, they simply felt 'right'.
Mountain heather Erica corifolia
"The psychologist Carl Jung reminds us that a 'collective unconscious' binds us and is shared by all humanity. Subconscious common elements in all of us influence our responses to visual stimuli, even if we have had no previous personal experience of them. It is therefore possible that an image that caused me to stay a while may do the same to you, even if it stimulates a different emotion for no apparent reason. There is beauty even in imperfection."
Summer sunshine splash!
Extracted from: Kirstenbosch, beyond words by Harris Steinman
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Fluor's design will include the use of its patent-pending 3rd Generation Modular Execution approach. The modules will be fabricated offsite and delivered to the jobsite to increase project safety, quality and improve schedule delivery. The design will be completed by Fluor's office in Calgary, Alberta.
Fluor Corp. on Monday was awarded a contract by
Canada-based Suncor Energy to provide front-end project
management and engineering services on the energy
companys MacKay River Phase 2 oil sands project near Fort
McMurray, Alberta.
Fluor booked the contract into backlog in the third quarter of
2012 for an undisclosed value.
This project is an excellent opportunity
for Fluor to continue providing our engineering and design
expertise on high profile oil sands projects, said Peter
Oosterveer, president of Fluors energy and chemicals
This region in northern Alberta serves as a significant
oil resource for North America and it continues to play a key
role in Fluors energy business.
Fluors design will include the use of its
patent-pending 3rd Generation Modular Execution
approach to perform the project. The modules will be fabricated
offsite and delivered to the jobsite to increase project safety, quality and improve
schedule delivery, according to the company.
The design will be completed by Fluors office in
Calgary, Alberta, with support from its offices in the
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I've known Fluor as one of the most reputable front-runners in using cutting-edge technologies in design and engineering of oil and gas process plants. I love the way Fluor professionally wins contract opportunities by incorporating new-challenging technologies in its proposals let alone its saving approach in project duration and costs. Good luck Fluor in utilizing your 3rd Generation of Modular Execution approach. I wish I was part of the PMT for this job!
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Finished the first 3, no sweat.. now I've reached the first fork. Looking for some advice on which path to take? Trying to get all the brutal achievements.
Well, the most obvious path would be to do Smash and Grab, and then do The Dig (Xil) as soon as it appears, because that opens up the Zeratul missions, which will allow you to fill up your Zerg and Protoss research points.
For most missions, the order doesn't matter, but there are a few key units that it pays to get as soon as possible.
Vikings are useful in several missions, so I think it pays to finish the colonist storyline as soon as you can. In particular, they can be used to knock out Protoss air in "Welcome to the Jungle" (they're way better than goliaths). They're also useful for getting the research in "The Dig".
Battlecruisers can also get help get through some of the tougher missions like "Engine of Destruction", so complete "Maw of the Void" as soon as it's available.
The Zeratul missions don't benefit from any units or upgrades obtained in previous missions, so complete them as soon as possible to get the research.
I personally found this very very helpful.
From TeamLiquid:
The easiest way to get all the brutal achievements is to cheat: do the whole thing on hard/normal, and get the best stuff, then, when you've completed it, go back using the archive and replay the missions on brutal.
You can finish them without having to complete the secondary objectives, and still have all the best gear. This makes the campaign much easier: trying to complete the secondaries on Brutal is a nightmare. Mind you, if you realize you made a poor decision the first time you went through, that's too bad.
I played the whole thing through on hard, getting all the achievements for every mission, so it was easy, once I finished, to just go back and replay every mission on brutal difficulty. Sadly, I often found it easier to beat it on brutal, than it was to get some of the achievements on hard.


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The staff of HOT ROD magazine collects some odd things, and, depending on the individual, each desk can either be a neat and tidy workstation or a wasteland where press releases go to die. One quick trip into the offices and cubicles netted us some interesting doohickeys, speed parts, and toys you might enjoy seeing.
01] Video Producer Travis Labella's Mopar models have seen better days. They were meant for display-only duty, but by the looks of them they've seen some demolition-derby action. Now they sit on his desk while he cranks episodes of HOT ROD Unlimited at YouTube.com/MotorTrend.
02] Freiburger's office is filled with unopened mail, a few pieces of HOT ROD memorabilia, speed parts, and his custom-painted racing helmet. It's been 200 mph in Lingenfelter's ZL1 and 250-plus on the Bonneville Salt Flats.
03] Freiburger's business-card holder is from Mini-Blowers.com and is a two-piece, cast-aluminum scale representation of a GMC 6-71 supercharger.
04] Associate Editor Jesse Kiser was part of a relay team that assembled a NASCAR R07 Chevrolet engine at a Quaker State event at the '11 SEMA show. Although his team didn't win, Jesse handed off the build with his team in the lead, so we can't really knock him. For his effort, he got this laser-etched piston that's one of the coolest paperweights in the office.
05] Mike Finnegan has his Hilborn Hemi EFI manifold sitting prominently on his desk. When a breeze blows just right over the stacks it makes this eerie noise that sounds like it's saying, "Build the Gasser." Or maybe that's the Roadkill YouTube comments. And we take it back—this is the coolest paperweight in the office.
06] But wait, there's another manifold. Underneath Staff Editor Brandan Gillogly's desk is this '60s-vintage big-block Chevy tunnel-ram that was irresistible on eBay Motors. The Ridge Runner Ram was designed by Ralph Ridgeway, designer of one of the first small-block Chevy tunnel-rams. It bears a striking resemblance to an early Rochester fuel-injection manifold. Hmmmm.
07] If you read the miniature-engine story in the March issue, you might remember this tiny spark plug. At less than an inch long, it's probably not long before Staff Editor Elana Scherr turns it into a piece of jewelry, but until then, it's on her desk.
08] This big-bumpered, 1⁄64-scale Dodge is from Chris Burden's Metropolis II kinetic sculpture that's currently on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In the sculpture, this Charger would be part of a noisy, congested city that includes 1,100 cars doing a scale 240 mph on a six-lane highway, but Elana got it as a gift. Now it's free to do donuts on her bookshelf.
09] Most of the HOT ROD staff uses laptop computers for working on the road and just docks them at the office. That leaves precious little real estate for USB drives. Brandan got this parallel twin USB port for Christmas (thanks, Jennifer!) and plugs it in to use a portable hard drive or ungainly thumb drive. The engine rumbles when you plug it in or hit the kick-starter or shifter. His cubicle neighbors love it.
10] Jesse "New-In-Box" Kiser won't let us open his HOT ROD die-cast cars. Each car is modeled after a former HOT ROD feature car, including the '08 Ridler-award-winning Ferrambo.


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When opening a document from a documentlibrary in Word/Excel/Outlook the FileOpen Dialog shows all the files in the document library.
I have a lot of documents in there, with metedata in columns. How do i show those extra columns (in the fileopen/save dialogs), and how do i enable filtering of those columns?
Just finding my file based on only the filename is hard, using the metadata would be a great improvement.


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MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. - Madonna High School graduate Bernadette "Bernie" Puzzuole is serving as the Pittsburgh Airport Area Chamber of Commerce's interim president and chief executive officer, replacing the late Sally Haas.
The 12-month appointment took effect Feb. 4, when her resignation from Rothman Gordon, P.C., took effect. Puzzole, born in Steubenville and raised in Weirton, had practiced law with Rothman Gordon for 20 years.
Puzzuole, daughter of Antoinette Puzzole and the late George Puzzuole, earned her bachelor's degree in education from West Liberty State College, graduating with honors, and her master's degree in speech communications from West Virginia University. She spent 20 years teaching in the Indian Creek Local School District, serving as president of the Indian Creek Education Association for five years.
She earned her juris doctorate from Duquesne University School of Law, graduating cum laude. She specialized in the areas of real estate, corporate and non-profit law while she was with Rothman Gordon, and was active in the Allegheny County Bar Association, chairing the Women in the Law Division in 2002-03 and co-chairing the Gender Bias Committee from 2008 to 2013.
Over the years, Puzzuole had become closely involved in the PAACC, serving as a member of the PAACC board of directors, a member of the executive committee and the first female chair of the board.
She also chaired the incubator committee for the PAACC, which is working to implement a state grant to create a business resource center in the airport corridor. Puzzuole lectured for the PAACC's Fast Trak and Core Four Business Entrepreneurs Programs, participated in the Women's Interest Network and volunteered as a teacher in the PAACC Choices program for middle school students.
"We couldn't have asked for a more capable and knowledgeable person to step up for such a challenge," said Dean Hastings, PAACC chair and Multi Print Media Inc. president. "Bernadette is a longtime board member who has worked closely with Sally for many years on some of the PAACC's most monumental initiatives, so she brings to the table a great depth of knowledge and passion regarding the PAACC mission, operations and membership. We will surely move through this transition period with more ease and fluidity with Bernadette at the helm."
Puzzuole said she was honored to have been able to work with Haas on "projects and initiatives that were so relevant to our business community."
PAACC serves 31 communities, primarily across Pennsylvania's Allegheny, Beaver, Butler and Washington counties as well as Eastern Ohio and West Virginia's Northern Panhandle.


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Setting up Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service as a Weblogic Authentication Provider
By Christopher Karl Chan on Feb 04, 2012
There may be many reasons why it might be beneficial or necessary to configure a separate LDAP for your BPM/SOA suite implementation. Corporate LDAPs are often huge, slow, ill maintained, restricted to change and even full of circular references.
One of my customers were setting up their environments for current latest version of Oracle BPM 11g. One of the steps was to configure a directory to handle both authentication and user groups. The chosen LDAP of choice was a poor sister of Active Directory called LDS. I say poor because it is not exactly the same and the AD weblogic providers are designed to work with the elder brother. Therefore the standard procedure of setting up a AD provider just didn't work with LDS, because of some missing attributes in LDS. But I made it work anyway. This is how I did it.
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For ultra-quiet, warm or cool humidification, this Digital Ultrasonic Humidifier has the features you're looking for when it comes to creating a comfortable environment. High frequency vibrations turn plain water into a micro-fine mist. You can choose between warm or cool mist creating fresh, clean air for spaces up to 650 square feet. With the pre-heat function, mist is gently sprayed at a comfortable 104 degrees or the unit can be quickly changed for cool mist operation.
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The Hydro Stick keeps the Digital Ultrasonic Humidifier clean and fresh between recommended cleanings. Indicators tell you when the water is empty; and when cleaning is recommended. Timers allow you to set your desired functions while you sleep or away. And of course, you can choose between warm or a cool mist operation, create a comfortable environment in any 650 sq. ft. space.
• Digital Ultrasonic Humidifier creates comfort in any room
• Intelligent Temperature Compensation technology monitors the temperature and automatically adjusts the output when conditions change
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New business volume grew 16.5% in the equipment finance industry in 2011, according to the 2012 Survey of Equipment Finance Activity (SEFA) released by the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association.
New business volume grew 16.5% in the equipment finance
industry in 2011, according to the 2012 Survey of Equipment
Finance Activity (SEFA) released by the Equipment Leasing and
Finance Association.
The growth in volume surpassed the 3.9% increase reported for
2010, marking the second year of growth following a 30.3%
decline in 2009 and a 2.2% decline in 2008.
The SEFA, which is based on responses from 109 ELFA member
companies, covers key statistical, financial and operations
information for the $628 billion equipment finance
The equipment finance industry helps a wide range of
commercial businesses to acquire the equipment they need to
conduct their business operations, said William G.
Sutton, ELFA CEO.
The 2012 SEFA data show the equipment finance sector
continued to gain momentum as the economy improved in 2011.
More recent data collected in 2012 indicate that steady growth
is continuing, even amid a slow economic recovery.
Key findings for 2011 as reported in the 2012 SEFA
Overall new business volume grew 16.5%, a
significant increase over 2010 growth of 3.9%.
All market segments showed growth in volume, except
for the smallest segment. New business volume fell 4.8% for the
micro-ticket segment but grew 15.2% for the small-ticket
segment, 21.8% for the middle-ticket segment and 10.2% for the
large-ticket segment.
By organization type: Independent equipment finance
organizations saw the strongest increase in new business volume
(19.7%, up from 5.2% in 2010), with banks close behind at 19.3%
(up from a 0.9% decrease in 2010). Captives saw their volume
grow by 10.5% (down from 11.3% in 2010).
From an asset perspective, the equipment types that
saw increases in new business volume included agriculture;
computer equipment; construction; furniture, fixtures
and equipment; industrial/manufacturing; materials handling;
printing and transportation. The equipment types that saw new
business volume decline included medical; mining, oil and gas
extraction; office machines; telecommunications and
Delinquencies and full-year losses (charge-offs)
continued to decline. Delinquencies in the overall portfolio
were just 1.4% past due 31 days or more in 2011, the lowest in
at least five years. Delinquencies remained an issue for
certain industries, especially construction and printing.
Charge-offs fell from 1.0% in 2010 to 0.4% in 2011.
Employment levels remained stable, although as
portfolios improved, positions in collections declined and
positions in bookings increased.
Given the current financial markets, cost of funds
declined significantly. Competitive pressure did drive pre-tax
spreads lower in 2011, but still they remained higher than they
were in 2008 and 2007.
Credit approvals increased, as did the percentage
of those approved applications being booked and funded. Over
70% of overall credit applications were approved and just under
50% of submitted applications were booked.
Net income increased overall in both dollar terms
and as a percentage of total revenues. Return on average equity
remained healthy at 15.5%. Return on average assets increased
to 2.0%, returning to levels seen earlier in the decade.
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6 Surprisingly Advanced Ways Animals Use Medicine
We humans think we're so smart. We invented penicillin. We used to go to the moon. Sure, animals are good for a laugh or two, but if one of them gets sick, who's going to take care of it? Either it's some sympathetic human or nobody. It's not like animals have doctors and medicine.
Well ... that's half right.
#6. Chimps Use Parasite Flushers
We hate to be the ones to bring this up, but you know you could have parasitic worms writhing inside you right now, right? Hopefully you washed your hands after you went to the bathroom and cooked your food thoroughly and didn't drink stagnant puddle water. But every now and then, those suckers will slip through -- right into your insides.
Put down whatever you were eating -- it's Cracked Science Time(TM)!
Which leads you to wonder how apes and chimps deal with them -- it's not like there's a Purell plant out there, and it's pretty rare that you see jungle animals in an apron and flip-flops grilling up their steaks for safety's sake (although ... can you imagine?). And as brilliant as chimpanzees are, it's not like they've got culinary schools set up to tackle the dangers of invisible-to-the-naked-eye parasites. Do they?
The Medicine: Trichome Plants
It turns out those dumb chimps pretty much completely figured out parasites on their own.
You see, chimpanzees have a very impressive range of facial expressions ...
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"Angry and nauseous commenter."
... so when biologists saw them eating the bitter stem of a certain plant and making absolutely disgusted though hilarious faces, it was clear that they were not doing it because they liked the flavor.
In other words, the general assumption of "If it tastes bad, it must be good for you" wound up applying to chimps, even though you'd think that, as animals, they wouldn't know anything beyond "This is gross, spit it out." And yet there they were, forcing themselves to eat a plant called Vernonia amygdalina like it was medicine they were choking down.
Seriously, they'd even fold the leaves up and swallow them whole to avoid chewing them, like a 5-year-old who has been browbeaten into clearing his plate of broccoli. And also like the 5-year-olds swallowing greenery whole, the stuff would leave the body pretty in much the same form it came in. In the case of the chimpanzees, though, the pooped-out leaves were covered in intestinal worms.
That didn't look like a vegetable and hookworm burrito in any way at all.
Scientists found that those plants all had one specific trait in common: They were covered with trichomes -- tiny, sharp hooks that speared the undesired subtenants and gave them a slide-ride all the way down the intestine and out. Good riddance!
So, how did the chimpanzees learn to use leaves like that? Well, just like '80s teens who picked up drug habits in the home, they learned it from their parents, specifically their mothers. But then we still have to give credit to the first chimp who put two and two together ("Hey, this leaf is covered in my butt worms, let's try that again"). Imagine if you found yourself battling poop bugs in the jungle. Would you know to how to find the one plant that would clean your system out? Exactly. Chimps 1, stranded hypothetical humans who contracted intestinal worms 0.
#5. Deer Use Antiseptics
OK, you think, but those were chimps. Primates are pretty smart, they can use tools and whatnot. It's not all that weird that they'd figure out that a certain leaf can cure their worm problem.
Well, how about, say, deer? Their survival is due to being super fast and extremely cautious. But you wouldn't call them smart. They don't solve puzzles or even build shelters. So, you'd logically assume that deer, lacking opposable thumbs, stitchery skills and accredited medical schools, would pretty well be hosed in the event of a serious injury.
Like, say, being shot by a hunter in front of your adorable fawn.
The Medicine: Antiseptic Treatments
You'd be wrong. In Europe, hunters that pursued wounded animals found that injured deer would often find some moss and mash their wound up against it or roll around in spots where soft clay could be found. Or, they would wade out into moor water and peat. After seeing this enough times, it didn't take a genius to deduce that they had a reason for it.
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As for cramming moss into their wounds, it's no coincidence that traditional human medicine has often used dried moss and peat as wound dressings for all of recorded history. In fact, during World War I, the Germans used sphagnum moss to make bandages that proved vastly superior to the cotton pads available at that time.
After the advent of antibiotic powder, the moss pads fell out of fashion. But as more types of bacteria grow resistant to conventional antibiotics, medical scientists have come back full circle to sphagnum, proving that it indeed has antiseptic properties. And apparently the deer have known this all along.
"I'm going to celebrate by running out in front of your car."
#4. Parrots Have a Hangover Cure
You'd think that life as an herbivore would be pretty simple -- plants can't run away or fight back, so all you have to do is wander around and find them. But that's not true -- the wrong plant, or the wrong part of the right plant, will poison the shit out of you. Plants are like any other living thing: They want to keep living, and they are willing to kill your ass if you threaten them.
"Oh yeah, you're totally gonna regret eating 15 of me tomorrow morning."
So if you're, say, a macaw parrot, you like to use your gargantuan beak to crack open the seeds of fruit to get at the calorie-rich, oily goodness inside. But plants don't like that (they want their seeds to get planted and to grow, not to wind up mashed to bits in the belly of some flamboyant bird), and so, thanks to evolution, those seeds are laced with toxic alkaloids.
Advantage: plants. The stuff builds up in the macaws' system and makes them sick, and it's not like the stupid birds can go to the doctor and get an antidote.
The Medicine: Detoxifying Clay
Take a tour along the Amazon River and you'll see hundreds of brightly colored macaws feeding on clay along the river banks (bring earplugs -- those birds are also incredibly loud).
Those sites are usually referred to as parrot licks, because for a long time, people thought the birds ingested minerals that way, much like how deer and sheep use salt licks. Surprisingly, a closer look at the kind of earth ingested showed that it had little to no nutritional benefit to the birds, and yet they were oddly specific in consuming just that special kind of clay. Because they're birds, and they're stupid. Right?
"I don't taste great. I'll try the other foot."
The answer, of course, is that the clay contains elements that neutralize plant toxins they've ingested.
Experiments showed that parrots that had consumed clay carried about 60 percent fewer toxic alkaloids in their bloodstreams than their earth-deprived brethren, which means that the plants will have to come up with another method of keeping the parrots away from their family jewels. We suggest flamethrowers.
A beakful of clay keeps the poison at bay.
Think of the chain of events that would lead humans to come up with the same solution after overindulging. Actually, don't. We've already seen The Hangover II.


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Prince Muqrin chairs Cabinet session (8/26/13)
August 26, 2013
Second Deputy Prime Minister Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz chaired the Cabinet session at Al-Sallam Palace in Jeddah this afternoon. At the outset, the Cabinet expressed its condolences to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz, and Prince Muqrin on the death of Prince Musaed bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud. After accepting the condolences, Prince Muqrin thanked all the employees in various sectors who served the pilgrims and Umrah (minor Hajj) performers during the holy month of Ramadan, allowing the rituals to be performed comfortably and safely.
Following a briefing on the latest developments in a number of Arab countries, the Cabinet praised the message delivered by King Abdullah on the events in Egypt. It welcomed his strong support for the Egyptian people against terrorism, sedition and external interference and hoped that security and stability will prevail in Egypt.
The ministers reiterated the Kingdom's call for the international community, represented by the Security Council, to shoulder its responsibilities towards the Syrian people, who continue to suffer from appalling massacres. They warned that a failure to act in the face of the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons against its own people will only invite more tragedies.
The ministers also condemned the terrorist bombings that targeted two mosques in the Lebanese city of Tripoli, leading to a large number of deaths and injuries.
Turning to local affairs, the Cabinet discussed the annual reports on the General Authority for Survey and the Ministry of Education and listened to a briefing on the draft executive program and timetable for the privatization of flour mills.
Addressing its remaining agenda items, the Council of Ministers approved the accession of the Ministry of Education to the National Committee for Geographic Information Systems; approved the amendment of the name of the National Committee for the Care of Psychiatric Patients and Their Families contained in the Council of Ministers Resolution No. (104) to the National Committee for the Promotion of Mental Health; approved the Regulation of Protection from Abuse; and approved the organization of the National Center for Health Information.


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Stardict uses a tray icon , also allows multiple instance of itself , but sadly , i don't use a panel , so no notification area available.
But when I hit on close , it minimized to tray , is there a way to find its "Window" ? if the WId was found , activate this window by sending some X message ? I'm not sure if it's possible. (for hidden windows)
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Old Greenwood was rated among Golf Digest's "America's Top 100 Greatest Public Courses" in 2011, and The Golf Club at Gray's Crossing ranked in Golfweek Magazine's "Top 50 Best New Courses" in 2008. Both of our golf courses are Audubon International Gold Certified Sanctuaries, representing the highest level of environmental commitment. Only 16 courses in the world have achieved this level of distinction. And our Golf Academy at Old Greenwood is led by the 2011 NCPGA Teacher of the Year, Keith Lyford. So if you are looking for a golf experience that is second to none, we invite you to come enjoy our world-class amenities and services in one great golf destination.
If you need lodging in the Truckee/North Lake Tahoe area, we have an excellent selection of accommodations to fit every preference and budget. With two golf courses and two beautiful mountain dining venues to choose from, Tahoe Mountain Club is the perfect location for your next group golf outing, wedding, banquet, or special event.