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How To French Manicure At Home
The Ultimate At-Home Manicure: Nail It With These French Manicure Instructions!
Salon care, for all its diehard advocates, requires an outlay of money and time that many folks would just as soon devote to other purposes.
In fact, the majority of women fall into this camp. They do their own manicures and pedicures at home, in some instances with results that rival those produced by the very best nail technicians.
And you can, too, with just a little guidance, a few basic implements, and of course a lot of practice. Who knows? You might become so skilled that you'd never trust your fingers and toes to anyone else again and prefer your home French Manicure
Getting Started and Gearing Up
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To do your nails like a pro, you need to act like a pro. That means owning the right gear and working in an environment hat is as clean and antiseptic as you can make it. Let's begin with a list of necessary items:
Isopropyl rubbing alcohol to be used for disinfecting implements; look for 70 percent or higher alcohol content.
Cotton balls or roll of uncut cotton. Prepackaged cotton balls are the more convenient choice, but the roll is cheaper in the long run, and allows you to cut pieces to the exact size and shape you need.
Orange stick
Emery board or diamond file
Toenail dippers
Pair of small, sharp manicure scissors for trimming hang-nails
Base coat to help polish adhere and to fill in cracks, pits, ridges, and other surface irregularities
Nail hardener or strengthener (optional): use only if your nails have a tendency to split, crack or peel. A few of the older-style hardeners and strengtheners still contain the preservative formaldehyde, a chemical known to cause allergic reactions with alarming frequency. Be sure that yours doesn't.
Polish in several colors. A few basics such as dear, coral pink, and rose red are musts, but beyond that you are limited only by your imagination, your budget, and the restrictions imposed by your natural skin and hair coloring. To prevent washed-out color during those bare-toed summer months, choose formulations with built-in sunscreen, which makes the polish stable in UV light.
Sealing coat (also called a top coat). Used to add glossiness to – and improve the durability of – the enamel or colored nail polish you apply.
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Your Work Area : Sanitation and Safety
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Cleanliness and sanitation are no less important in your home than in a salon, perhaps even more so, seeing as how you live there. Yet, while most of us live in neat, tidy quarters, the environment may not be antiseptic (or germ-free) as it ought to be for a full manicure or pedicure. Here are a few pointers to get you headed in the right direction.
If you'll be working in the bathroom, try to perform your manicure or pedicure immediately after the room has been thoroughly cleaned and disinfected. The germs that thrive in dirty toilet bowls and messy sinks, after all, aren't necessarily the kind you want to invite to your cuticles for a dinner party.
Clean and sterilize all of your tools just as if you were employed at a professional salon (see above for details). Ideally, tools should be cleaned before and after each treatment. Isopropyl rubbing alcohol can serve as your alternative to the hospital-grade disinfectant used at salons.
Don't use the same emery board over and over again. An old board can pick up germs just lying around in your purse, medicine cabinet, or cosmetics bag; and a dull board, like a dull razor, is actually more likely to damage your nails than a sharp one.
Keep your hands away from your eyes, ears, lips, and nose during the course of the manicure or pedicure. Most allergic reactions to nail polish, for example, don't result from the effect of dried polish on the nails, but from wet polish that has accidentally come in contact with the sensitive skin around the eyes.
And as for polish remover, we'll just quote a common warning found on the back of many bottles: Harmful to synthetic fabrics, wood finishes, and plastics. If the stuff can do damage to wood and plastic, just imagine how even a smidgeon of it would feel in the corner of an eye.
If you must smoke during the course of your manicure, do so outside while your nails are drying, far removed from potentially flammable substances like polish remover. Or better yet, don't smoke at all!
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Now that you're ready to start, the first question on your mind might well be: How often should I do my nails? Our reply: Probably more often than you think. Unless your nails grow very slowly, a weekly manicure is a beauty must.
For pedicures, you can space treatments every 2 to 3 weeks, owing to the slower growth rate of toenails versus fingernails. Let your nails go longer than these guidelines and our feeling is that they will have grown out to the extent that no amount of touching up will look good. Of course, they're your nails, your hands, your feet.
Check them out after the suggested amount of time has passed, then decide if you're comfortable with the look or not. The one redeeming virtue of the at-home manicure or pedicure—beyond the satisfaction of having done it yourself—is that takes just 15 or 20 minutes to do both hands (or feet) once you've become adept at it—a small price to pay when weighed against the $15 to $35 you would have paid for the same treatment at a good salon.
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Step 1: Removing Old Polish
Remove existing polish with a moisturizing polish remover like Sally Hansen Pro Vitamin B5 Acetone-Free Nail Polish Remover. To soften the old polish, apply a cotton ball or cotton pad lightly saturated with polish remover to the nail and hold it there for a few seconds. Then, wipe from the base of the nail outward until every trace of polish is gone. After you've done all ten nail plates, clean up any remnants of old polish that are still clinging to the cuticles and nail folds with a cotton ball lightly moistened (but not saturated) with polish remover. Since these are sensitive areas, you want to use as little polish remover on them as possible.
Step 2: Filing
Reshape the nails with an emery board, using the fine side of the board. Do not file back and forth in a sawing motion. Instead, always file in one direction, exerting gentle, even pressure. Angle the board against the bottom edge of the nail, and work from one side (far left or far right) to the other. This helps prevent splitting.
When all ten nails have been filed to your satisfaction, soak your fingertips in warm water for 10 minutes or so. This will not only re hydrate your nails and thus counteract the drying effects of polish remover, but also soften your cuticles in preparation for Step 3.
A Few Tips to File Away ...
Overall, filing beats clipping hands down as a method for trimming and shaping the fingernails, because it's less stressful to the nail plate. Improper filing, however, can lead to both nail trauma and displeasing aesthetic results. Translation: You could crack or break your nails, and they could wind up looking positively horrid!
To file correctly, hold your emery board at a 45-degree angle to the nail's edge and, as we've noted, work in a single direction from one edge to the other. Square-tipped nails are stronger than tapered ones, so file straight across the tips if your nails are at all prone to peeling or splitting. For the same reason, be careful not to over-round the nails near the edges, and never file downward at the sides. Lastly, don't get near your nails with a file unless they've grown out enough o maintain a good, solid base at the bottom.
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Step 3: Cuticle Care
Our best medical advice is that you leave your cuticles alone. But since so few people actually follow this guidance, we feel obligated to tell how to care for them as gently and safely as possible. Here's how: Soften the cuticles with warm-water soaking, a rich moisturizer, or cuticle oil, according to your preference.
Once the cuticles have been softened, gently push them from view with the tip of a finger (not the edge of a nail!) or an orange stick. If you have any hangnails, clip them at this point with a small pair of manicure scissors, following the guidelines below. Next, buff your nails thoroughly, and clean under the nail tips with an orange stick wrapped in wet cotton.
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Step 4: Applying Base Coat
Place one hand—palm down, fingers outspread—flat on the table. With the other hand, apply the base coat of your choosing. A well-applied base will not only make your polish stick better, but also allow it to coat more evenly and smoothly by filling in any surface irregularities. Two thin layers of base coat, incidentally, work better than one heavier layer.
If you experience problems with splitting, cracking, or peeling of the nails, you may also want to apply a nail hardener or strengthener as your second coat. Your strengthener can be used to coat the entire nail, or applied solely to the nail tips, where these problems typically occur.
Tru Nails Professional and Sally Hansen both sell very effective, salon-quality strengtheners that can be found at better beauty supply stores.
Brushing Up on the Basics of Applying Base and Color
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Allow one coat to dry completely before you apply the next one
Always brush from the base of the nail to the tip, using just enough polish to cover without build-up, and working from the center of the nail to the sides
Cover the entire nail with a thin, even coat
Avoid brushing base or color into the nail folds and cuticles as much as possible
To prevent chipping, remove just a hairline of polish from the edge of the treated nail by running your opposite thumb along it
A warm shower or foot soaking is the easiest, safest way to clean up polish that has strayed outside the fingernails or toenails. The moisture and heat will peel the excess polish right off
Applying Color
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If you choose to color your nails, apply two coats of polish to achieve deep, full, chip-resistant color. Again, as with your base, you'll be better served if you don't just glob the stuff on. Thickly coated color likes to chip and crack.
Think think—and think even!
Work from the base of the nail to the tip, center to sides, and be careful to avoid brushing polish into the nail folds or cuticle. This can make your nails look ragged around the edges, and can be a real pain to repair unless you start over from square one. Plus, it's always best to keep both polish and remover away from these easily irritated areas.
So Many Coats, So Little Time...
If you apply base, color, and sealing coats according to our guidelines, you'll wind up with four to five sheer layers of polish on your nails, each of which takes several minutes to dry thoroughly.
Though it may be tempting to save yourself some time by applying just two coats (say, one each of base and color), we can assure you that the resulting manicure will not be as attractive or as durable as it could be.
More layers, as long as they are properly applied, mean stronger nails, a longer-lasting manicure, and better retention of necessary moisture, which is why almost all nail salons favor a multi layer treatment.
Since it doesn't pay to cut down on the number of coats you apply, the key is to minimize the time you spend waiting for each separate coat to dry.
There are two very painless ways to go about this:
One, soak your just-brushed nails in ice water to help the recently applied polish set more quickly. While you won't be able to use your hands as if the polish were completely air dried, your nails will be ready to accept the next coat in fairly short order.
Second, choose one of the many quick-setting, quick-drying polishes now on the market.
The Sealing Coat
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Application of a sealing coat is the final step in your at-home manicure. Once your color (or clear) coat has dried, brush on sealer from the base of the nail to the tip. Carry the sealer all the way to the tip's edge and then over, so that a little coats the underside of the nail as well. A well-formulated sealer will not only protect the finish of your color coat but also enhance its glossiness.
Choosing Your Nail Color
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One of the more enjoyable aspects of applying color is, of course, selecting the shade you want to wear. We won't pretend to tell you what color your nails should be under all circumstances. So much, in the end, depends on your skin and hair coloring, the other makeup you're wearing, your clothes, the season, the occasion, and the overall effect you're trying to achieve.
But we will say this much: Allow yourself to have some fun! You could wear a different color every day of the coming year, and not scratch the surface of what's available these days. Metallics, glitters, offbeat pastels, and hues too weird for words now share the stage with the corals and clears and roses and rubies that used to dominate department store displays.
So, even though it's wise to have a few basic shades that will take you anywhere, anytime (as we advise below), don't let yourself get stuck in a one- color rut. Experiment. Be creative. Take a dare. You'll have a blast in the process, and possibly discover that colors you hardly considered before are actually just your style. You never can tell: The polish you try on a whim today could be the inspiration for the blouse or scarf you'll be wearing tomorrow!
If you're in the mood to stir things up color wise, check out Mini Pots of Color by Creative Nails. They're fun, funky, and fairly reasonably priced for a six-pot pack of multihued mischief
The downside of using nail color creatively is that mistakes can and will be made every now and again. The most common: nail polish that clashes with either your lipstick or your clothes. For those times when you can't afford a mishap or simply don't wish to think too hard about what color to use, we recommend choosing two or three shades that blend well with the bulk of your wardrobe, or sticking to a pale pink that you can wear with everything but orange tones.
Among the pinks, Revlon Ballet Buff, Essie Ballet Slippers, and OPI Coney Island (an especially clear, non-Tinkerbell shade) are all as classical as Mozart, while YSL #98, a pale opalescent lavender, takes racy right to the edge (but within the bounds) of good taste. For darker complected women, Cover Girl NailSlicks In The Buff and Elizabeth Arden Choco are two unassuming, yet flattering, shades that rarely disappoint.
A note on Hangnails
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A hangnail is a small strip of skin that has become separated from the nail fold or cuticle. Hangnails can be surprisingly painful, and are typically caused by nail biting, nail chewing, accidental ripping of the skin, or incorrect use of nail implements such as orange sticks or cuticle pushers.
To treat a hangnail, snip away the detached skin flap with manicure scissors, and promptly apply a topical antibiotic such as polysporin and bacitracin to prevent infection. When you snip, be extremely careful to avoid cutting the cuticle or nail fold, as doing so will not only cause the cuticle to grow back thicker and coarser, but also greatly increase your risk of infection.
If you accidentally cut yourself while treating a hangnail or manipulating your cuticles, keep a very close eye on the injury. If it shows any sign of infection or doesn't heal fully and cleanly within a day or two, see your dermatologist for help.
At Home French Pedicure
How To French Manicure
The steps we have described for your at-home manicure is nearly in every important respect, the essentials of performing a do-it-yourself pedicure. The lone exception is that toe-nails, owing to their thickness, should be clipped rather then filed when they exceed an acceptable length.
Proper clipping of the toenails is a must not only for practical and aesthetic reasons, but also because it helps prevent the occurrence of ingrown nails, a common but painful condition that, if left unchecked, can require surgical treatment.
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Guarded humor returns to the Web
For days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, nothing
was funny. Even on the Net, where irreverence, political incorrectness and offensiveness
are the norm, moods ranged from somber to vitriolic.
Humor sites such as The Onion, Modern Humorist and TopFive.com
stopped publishing altogether. And while some passed around attack-related jokes,
e-mail was mostly filled with rumors, check-ins and reassuring essays.
Now, apparently the Net may be ready to laugh again
although not at everything. People are starting to pass around attack-related
humor with e-mail messages containing morphed song lyrics and doctored pictures.
Osama bin Laden jokes are all the rage. And satire sites are warily testing
the waters.
"It was kind of scary, wondering if anyone would be able
to get their humor back," says Christine Delicino, who helps run a private e-mail
humor list. "It took a good week before people felt safe enough with their own
grief to create humor."
The jokes often feed from rage, such as a "missing" picture
of bin Laden on a "goat milk" carton (containing language unsuitable for a family
newspaper) to changed lyrics for The Devil Went Down to Georgia, now
The Devil Down Near Jordan.
More significant, perhaps, is what humorists have not been
seeing. Gallows humor usually spreads within hours of any large news event involving
death. But only now is it starting to trickle in, says Chris White, who edits
popular humor sites DailyProbe.com and TopFive.com. Gallows humor is "a defense
mechanism," he says.
White stopped publishing both sites right after the attack;
now he's choosing topics carefully. The Daily Probe features a terrorist "wanted
list" that shows various celebrities in bin Laden-style dress and beard, all
with variations on bin Laden's name (Bigmomma bin Laden, ZsaZsama bin Laden).
TopFive features "The Top 14 Signs New York City Has Rudy Mania."
White says deciding what to parody, and when, was difficult.
"It's a very weird thing, being a humorist," he says. "When something like this
happens, you're one of the few professions where people expect you to stop working."
But, he adds, "eventually, after a few days, I think people really need that
release. They have to let something out of their systems."
Modern Humorist editor Michael Colton felt the same way.
He'd sent readers an e-mail explaining why the site closed down for a week,
and got "500 responses, all positive, saying they need comedy more than ever."
Colton knew that staples such as Bush satire would not
work. But, he says, "we couldn't ignore what was going on. So we decided to
do a Falwell piece." Jerry Falwell, who publicly blamed certain groups such
as feminists and homosexuals in part for the attack, was a safer topic, he says.
"At the center is this unspeakable tragedy, and there's
really not much humor can do relating to it," Colton says. "There are things
at the periphery I think are fair game."
While most commercial Web sites are staying away from Bush
satire, Swiss Web developer Niklaus Haldimann fully expected to be flamed online
for his Military Codename Generator, posted Saturday and popular among the Web
logging crowd. You use the generator to pick the region to invade, pick the
type of attack, and it gives the operation a name: An air strike on China, for
example, results in the name "Maritime Sentinel."
"The Generator was intended as criticism on the blunt,
ignorant, unthoughtful rhetoric of the Bush government," he says in an e-mail.
But many have taken it merely as entertainment.
Regardless of the form, people want to laugh, says Jim
Griffith, who moderates the Usenet newsgroup rec.humor.funny. "People have been
dealing with this for two weeks, and it's time to get on with our lives. This
is the perfect way to do it for a lot of people."
Satellite radio on the air
XM Satellite Radio, which postponed its launch on the day
of the attacks, officially got its 100-channel digital radio service off the
ground Tuesday. Initially available in San Diego and Dallas-Fort Worth, XM plans
to expand service within three weeks throughout the Southwest and Southeast,
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"A couple weeks ago, Qualcomm launched tiers for the Snapdragon platform. The S4 Plus is built for a wide array of smartphones. It's dual-core, up to 1.7GHz, up to Adreno 305 GPU, it has built-in 3G and 4G LTE, USB 2.0, and Bluetooth. It's a nice bit of kit, and for the geeks out there it will be the Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960, specifically, according to Qualcomm."
"It's interesting that they would only mention the Plus at this point, because Microsoft said today that Windows 8 would support multiple cores (up to 64 cores, which are of course powered by fairy earwax and happy thoughts). The S4 Pro is the one that can have up to four cores and an Adreno 320 GPU, but we've not seen any of these yet, so perhaps they're just waiting to announce that at a later date. Regardless, nice to know where your guts are coming from."
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multiple cores (up to 64 cores, which are of course powered by fairy earwax and happy thoughts).
... you forgot about Unicorn power too! ;-)
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I was hoping the 4 in S4 had a better meaning. A quad core would be nice. Although dual core @ 1.7 seems fast.
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We have a question for you today. Which stock would you rather buy: BHP (ASX:BHP), Rio (ASX:RIO), or Fortescue (ASX:FMG)? With BHP you get iron ore, nickel, uranium and even some oil (BHP is also Australia's second-largest gold producer)…and the chance that analysts will value it more richly than 10 times earnings. Rio gives you copper and iron ore and diversified international portfolio of properties. And Fortescue?
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We're asking these questions this morning because we've tried to put ourselves in the position of David Neal, the British-born manager of the Future Fund. Neal has the unenviable task of investing AU$50 billion in public pension money into the market in order to cover an estimated AU$148 billion in liabilities by 2020. He's got some time. And more importantly, he's going to have even more money to work with as soaring tax revenues boost the value of the fund in coming years.
But investing AU$50 billion isn't as easy it sounds. Is there anything good left to buy? After last week's bond market volatility, you'd want to rethink the stability of fixed- income sovereign bond markets. Resources? Or just a market-tracking index fund?
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Neal holds a degree in Electronic and Structural Materials Engineering from Oxford. He has no experience as a money manager, but we won't hold that against him. There are plenty of financial professionals who do have experience as money mangers…and still do a lousy job. The key to strategic investing, we say as someone who edited a newsletter called Strategic Investment for five years, is to keep your eye on the bigger picture and keep the questions simple: who wins and who loses from the major trends?
Neal has said that "diversification is good." Good luck finding it, Mr Neal. The whole world has one thing in common today…it's a boom fuelled by cheap money. In that sense, it's a great time to be managing AU$50 billion. But if you were hoping to find any undiscovered assets out there…or an asset class that provides Australia's future pensioners with a surefire hedge against a global market bust, well, we wouldn't want your job today.
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Graham Carr may currently still be on Newcastle's books as the Chief Scout, but the days when Newcastle did intensive scouting and recruitment from France are over and with Rafa Benitez in charge of things it looks like Rafa is keen to bring in British players to augment the squad.
That doesn't say the Newcastle manager, who is in charge of all transfers into and out of the club andalso responsible for scouting – will not bring in some players from the continent.
Rafa Benitez will make big changes at Newcastle
But they will be players known to Benitez and one such player we have linked with this summer is 33 year-old Real Madrid and former Liverpool right back Alvaro Arbeloa, who is free agent.
Rafa is keen to build up the squad with experience and some grit and Arbeloa would be an excellent acquisition for us – he is also used to winning games.
Newcastle have made some poor transfer dealings over the last couple of years and wasted a lot of transfer funds.
They include players like Many Riviere, Remy Cabella, Florian Thauvin and Henri Saivet who have all not been good enough, even though the fees we paid and the wages we offered them were high.
All four will be up for sale with Remy Cabella certain to sign on for Marseille on July 1st for around €8M, according to multiple reports.
At the very least Newcastle would like to get the above four plus Yoan Gouffran off the books this summer, and if we cannot sell them outright, the club will look to loan them out to at least get their wages off the books.
Benitez took almost two weeks to negotiate the right deal for himself and one that he also thinks is right for the club.
He is now charging ahead with the way he wants to run the club and getting good support from Lee Charnley – who he likes working with – so let's hope all that continues.
Rafa can not only improve the team so we are a (the) top club in the Championship this coming season, but also have the basis of a team that can challenge for the top six next season in the Premier League – assuming we get promoted.
Along the way Rafa will also have the club implement his recommended changes such as at the training ground to drag Newcastle United into the 21st century of football.
We will soon become a proper football club and we are certain Newcastle have the perfect man for the job in Rafa Benitez.
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lomateron posted a topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingIf I have 10 different shaders for drawing 10 different shaded objects that need the same view matrix do I need to update this view matrix for every shader which means that I have to call gl.uniformMatrix4fv() 10 times every frame? In directx 10 in one file I can have 10 shaders and only one global "viewMatrix" variable which means I only need to update the view matrix one time per frame. Can something similar be done in webGL?
lomateron posted a topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingI have an ID3D10EffectVectorVariable in HLSL code it looks like this: int4 array; float4 VS() { uint x = 0; //"x" is loaded from texture can be a value bigger than 3 int grab = array[x]; if(x > 3) { grab = 0; } //blablabla } is this code safe?
lomateron posted a topic in Graphics and GPU Programmingif I have a technique that uses the geometry shader, is there any reason to use the vertex shader to do something( except for passing input assembler data to the geometry shader )? Is it faster to do the heavy part of an algorithm in the vertex shader and use the geometry shader only to generate the extra mesh?
lomateron replied to lomateron's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingHLSL trigonometric functions are sin() cos() tan() etc...
lomateron replied to lomateron's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingHLSL trigonometric functions have some magic going on behind it, that's why I want them to do a length() for uints, they could make something that will let the function calculate all vectors that have a length less than 2^32
lomateron replied to lomateron's topic in Graphics and GPU Programmingwait what? uint operations are more accurate than float operations, as I said you can change the definition of 0 to 1 at your own taste, so I can make (0 to 1) = (0 to 2^25) and this will make it 2 times more accurate than (0 to 1) float
lomateron replied to lomateron's topic in Graphics and GPU Programmingfloat operations have a margin of error too, when using uints you just have to change your definition of what 0 to 1 means, for example 0 to 1 in my world physics engine is 0 to 2^9 uint.
lomateron replied to lomateron's topic in Graphics and GPU Programmingjust tested HLSL intrinsic length() vs my integer length2D() and length3D() my functions are deterministic, HLSL intrinsic length() isn't, tested on an old ATI vs a new NVIDIA, on HLSL 4. You should test it yourself and that should be enough reason, for the people that want determinism.
lomateron replied to lomateron's topic in Graphics and GPU Programmingso there is that case when the length of the vector is 1 and another case when its 0 and some other cases when it is bigger than 2^32 but there are a whole lot more cases when it actually makes sense and those outweighs the other, so it actually makes sense to make that function, its the same with float operations isn't it, its even worse, there are more cases when length() doesn't work with float vectors. what do I propose whent its bigger than 2^32? return the same value when any number is divided by 0.
lomateron replied to lomateron's topic in Graphics and GPU Programmingarrrgg I messed up in the title, pls read the whole question, I would like to request to the people that make the intrinsic HLSL functions to make a length() function for uint vectors that gets a correct answer for every vector value uint4(0 to 2^32,0 to 2^32,0 to 2^32,0 to 2^32)
lomateron posted a topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingThe problem is that float operations are not deterministic on GPU so sqrt() should support ints for those people that want determinism. I created my own sqrt() for ints, Its actually a function to get the length of a 2D uint vector but it has the limitation of only getting the correct results for numbers from 0 to 2^15. uint length2D(uint2 u, uint b) { //dot uint l = u.x*u.x + u.y*u.y; //aproximation of sqrt() b = b + ((u.x + u.y - b) >> 1); //aproximate it more using babilonian method b = (b + (l / b)) >> 1; b = (b + (l / b)) >> 1; b = (b + (l / b)) >> 1; return b; } "b" is the biggest value in the "u" vector oops its actually a request for a faster length() function for ints that can support every vector dimension(from 2D to 4D) and correct answer for every number from 0 to 2^32.
lomateron posted a topic in Graphics and GPU Programmingat 7:15 in this video https://youtu.be/XISqvBVyASo?t=435 He says it's grid free, you can download the demo to play with the balls and in some worlds you can move the balls anywhere you want, no walls
lomateron replied to lomateron's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingMy final optimized solution which has a near clipping plane and an infinite far plane: Only 2 variables of the Projection matrix are needed, the ones that modify Pos.xy so we don't need to pass the whole 16 floats of the matrix to the shaders. Lets call these 2 variables ProjecXY Now in the vertex shader instead of doing this: Pos = mul(Pos, Projection); do this: Pos.xy*= ProjecXY; Pos.w = Pos.z; Pos.z = NEAR_PLANE; //NEAR_PLANE = 0.5f and finally reverse the depth test instead of passing if smaller, pass when greater
lomateron posted a topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingThe near and far planes operation makes the depth resolution poop. I want every object in front and in the field of view of the camera to be rendered doesn't matter the distance, until its so small it can't be seen but still rendered. In the vertex shader after the Projection multiplication I have tried this: float4 r = mul(Pos, Projection); r.xy /= abs(Pos.z); r.z = Pos.z*MAX_DEPTH; r.w = 1.0f; if(Pos.z<0.0f) { r.w = -1.0f; } return r; MAX_DEPTH is (1.0f/16777216.0f) so that any float distance gets rendered...16777216 = 2^24 but it still doesn't works, well the mesh is rendered correctly but when the camera is near and you read the depth and positions pixels across the mesh they are off and this off thing increases as the pixels gets near the camera I want to know what is happening to SV_POSITION after it leaves the vertex shader? I know that "xyz" get divided by the abs() of "w" what other operations happen in that part were it gets divided by "w"? if someone has already a way to render the way I want can you share it too?
lomateron posted a topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingUsing directx 10 I changed DepthClipEnable = FALSE; and changed the viewport to vpTRY.MinDepth = 0.0f; vpTRY.MaxDepth = 16777216.0f; but I still can't render a 10.0f float value to the 32 bit depth buffer What else do I need to configure?


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Building Trust in Your Branch
This week I read a wonderful quote: "Trust leaves on horseback and returns on foot." It's so easy to lose trust in a hurry and so difficult in today's society to gain it back. Let's take two minutes to talk about trust in your financial institution.
Building Trust with Customers
The more you convince customers they are more than a wallet, the more they will trust you and return to you for loan products. If you want customers to trust you, what are your requirements of your operation? Deliver on your promise of being a financial friend. No high pressure sales, no banking jargon, and no skimping on detailed responses to their questions. Customers are more interested in their relationship of people inside the branch, than in the name on the outside of the building.
Are you serving customers the same in the last t10 minutes you are open as during the middle of the day? If you are open, then you should. If your employees want to shut down early and focus on the end of the day details of paperwork, balancing, etc, instead of fulfilling the customer commitment of great service, then post those hours you plan to only provide good service. Your branch hours are a contract with your customers. They trust you will treat them properly at any time you are open.
If customers mean more to you that a wallet, show you appreciate them, get to know your regulars, and truly engage them in short conversations like you would a friend. I'm not saying impose, but gentle interaction and acknowledgement build trusting relationships.
Building Trust with Employees
The Law of the Lid states you can't expect more than you are willing to do. Are you cutting corners on your employee interactions? Are you simply pencil-whipping performance evaluations just to get them done? Are you telling them to do one thing, yet you aren't following through with the same behavior? Employees are watching your actions and will do as you show them. Ever wonder why some employees might think it's OK to make negative comments about fellow employees? They saw that behavior somewhere. Have employees failing to fulfill commitments? Take a deep look inside: How well are you fulfilling your commitments to them?
Trust is always a two-way street. If you are a manager or owner who insists employees do as you say not as you do, you have unrealistic expectations. The top dog sets the view, actions, and habits for the rest of the pack. Are you setting the trustworthy tone for your branch?


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Children, vagrants, and loyal so-and-sos – it is now time for you to gather round the fireplace and listen in astonishment and wonder as Granny Sarah tells you the fabled story of The Purple Gravy.
(Though, if Granny Sarah was smart, she would save the story of The Purple Gravy for the month winding up to Thanksgiving. Then she'd publish it, sit back, and watch it go viral. But Granny Sarah is a willful sumbitch who may or may not be dumber than a box of pubic hair. And she wants to tell the tale of The Purple Gravy RIGHT. NOW.)
So hitch up your britches, have a seat, and listen as Granny Sarah spins the extraordinary yarn that is:
Thanksgiving 2009 was not a good Thanksgiving.
Unfortunately I can't tell you much about it, because I have sworn to protect the privacy of a certain douchebag who ruined the whole holiday, but suffice to say it was *extremely* uncomfortable and stressful. By the time Thanksgiving dinner FINALLY rolled around after the longest and most distressing three days of my life, everyone involved was at the end of their wits. (Yep. End of their wits. I said it.)
My sister Cheeks, who is an amazing cook, was the one in charge of the gravy that year. But thanks to The Douchebag Who Must Not Be Named, she was frazzled, distracted, and overcome with anxiety. She went to strain the turkey drippings — and forgot to put a receptacle under the strainer. The base for our gravy went right down the sink.
Fortunately, we had back-up gravy, and a Thanksgiving dinner crisis was neatly averted.
Still, Cheeks was bound and determined to make up for The Great Gravy Disaster of 2009. Enter Thanksgiving 2010.
We went to my parents' house for Thanksgiving that year. It was just Cheeks, my parents, my husband, my son, and myself. The marked absence of The Douchebag Who Must Not Be Named was noted as an auspicious start to the holiday weekend. There was also a Wii and Super Mario involved. Things were going to go great!
And things did go great… for about twelve hours. Then I got the stomach flu the day before Thanksgiving and started barfing all over everything and shitting all over everywhere.
It was a 24-hour bug. Which was fortunate because my sister and I were in charge of preparing the Thanksgiving meal, and I needed to be back on my feet in order to cook. And I was. THANKFULLY. (See what I did there?)
Here are some pictures:
As we laid out our strategy for the meal, Cheeks asked me if she could handle the gravy, to compensate for the previous year's "incident." Knowing my sister to be an excellent cook, and well aware that The Great Gravy Disaster of 2009 had been a once-in-a-lifetime culinary whoopsie, I said:
"Go for it."
Famous last words.
Fast forward four hours. The turkey was done and had come out of the oven to cool. Almost as if I knew this was going to be a blog post someday, here is a picture of me posing with it.
Cheeks strained the turkey drippings, this time making for damned sure that there was a receptacle underneath the strainer to catch them. With a good quantity of drippings well in hand, she began to prepare the gravy, though she was worried it was going to end up a little thin. I said:
"Add a little corn starch."
More famous last words.
Per my instructions, she started adding some corn starch. In fact, here's a photo of her doing it:
I turned my attention away from Cheeks and her gravy preparations and focused on one of the other tasks that needed to be completed before the turkey was cool enough to carve. But I wasn't at it long before Cheeks said:
Which was then followed by a "COME TASTE THIS" that did not sound promising. Not promising at all. It was certainly not a "Mmm! This is delicious! Come taste this." It was definitely more along the lines of a "This tastes like throw-up. Seriously. Come taste this."
Cheeks handed me the gravy. And I tasted it. And it tasted bad. Like — BAD. Not rancid bad. Not "I think this might be poisonous" bad. Not even "two flavors that don't go together very well, like orange juice and toothpaste" bad. Just horribly, completely, indescribably BAD.
I spit it out into the sink.
"What the hell happened?" I asked Cheeks.
"I don't know!" she said, stupified.
Me: "Well, what did you do?"
Her: "I kept adding corn starch to it until it thickened up."
Me: "How much did you add?"
Her: "I dunno. Like… about a cup?"
ARGO Cornstarch recommends using 2 tablespoons per cup of broth to give it a thicker, more gravy-like consistency. Let's be generous and say we had two cups of turkey broth going on that fateful day. If we take Argo's suggested ratio as Bible truth, Cheeks *should* have used four tablespoons to thicken that shit up. One cup, which is roughly what Cheeks put in the gravy, equals SIXTEEN TABLESPOONS. Which is why the gravy tasted like baby powder soup.
And we did NOT have back-up gravy.
We panicked. We knew it was unthinkable to have a Thanksgiving dinner without gravy. It was, as Wallace Shawn says in The Princess Bride, "inconceivable!" So we practically broke our butts running to the Internet.
Neither Cheeks nor I remember the exact recipe we found but it was something like this – a red wine and onion gravy that did not require ANY meat stock, since we did not have even one drop left to use. We thought it sounded kind of barfy, but as actors on BBC America say, "Needs must." So we made it.
It was purple.
It didn't actually taste that bad. It wasn't GOOD, exactly, but it wasn't bad. My seventy-year-old father barely touched it, of course, but the rest of us managed to suck some down. We finished Thanksgiving dinner, marveled at Cheeks' continued bad luck with gravy, and went to bed.
Which was when my sister got the 24-hour stomach flu and spent the rest of the night puking up purple gravy.
And the moral of this story? ALWAYS have at least two jars of back-up gravy. ALWAYS.
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Nexus - RocketTheme Drupal Theme
主题名称: Nexus
版权所有: RocketTheme
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演示地址: Live Demo
Nexus is the November 2010 release from RocketTheme. Its primary focus is that of style control, allowing for quick, simple and wide reaching changes of the theme's styling with a few theme parameter toggles. Also sporting a recoded layout, perfectly catered for search engine optimisation.
Implement of custom, non-standard fonts using CSS is another key feature of Nexus.
Features and Screenshots
* SE0 Optimised Layout
* Custom Fonts
* Style Control
* Complex Typography
* Fusion Menu & SplitMenu
* 10 Preset Styles
* 35 Block Regions
* FF3.5, Opera 9.6, Safari 4, IE6,7,8 Compatible
* W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional. W3C CSS 3 Valid
Fusion Menu
Fusion is effectively a dropdown menu which combines the former RokMoomenu and Suckerfish systems into one, offering both a javascript enhanced and basic, simple dropdown modes. The menu itself is built on the rewritten core of the latest revision of RokNavMenu, the core application behind all RocketTheme menus.
Fusion offers a series of new abilities ranging from Menu Icons, Subtext support and much greater controls over the Multiple Column ability for dropdowns.
Search Engine Optimised Layout
The structure places the main content before the side columns in the code hierarchy which is beneficial for SEO purposes as your primary content is crawled first by the search engines such as Google.
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