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Weekly Photo Challenge: In Silhouette
"The dark-veiled silhouette; that solitary form patrolling without visible strain or vainglory, a demented dreamland of fearful potential." Kathryn Hulme
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A Silhouette can be described as an "image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, its edges matching the outline of the subject… typically presented on a light background … or none at all." I've always found them fascinating to look at even though, and I've shared some of these in another Silhouette post, I rarely think of using the technique when I take pictures. I'm not sure why, but I will pay more attention. How about you? Do you look for silhouette moments?
The word has an interesting history and is taken from the last name of Étienne de Silhouette. Étienne was a Minister of Finance in France in the 18th century. Because of an economic downturn during that period, he had to impose severe taxes on the wealthy, people looked for cheap ways to do things and his name was co-opted to represent anything made quickly and cheaply. To make sense of the term, we can look to the fact that cut paper silhouettes were the first way of capturing figures in early photographic portraits and forms.
"Rocks were not simply decorative silhouettes. They were part of the earth's bones, with an anatomy of their own, caused by some remote seismic upheaval." Kenneth Clark
There is also evidence that silhouettes were used in Ancient Egypt and Greece to create art forms; mainly in creating portraits of the human shadow… and perhaps shadows in nature. Over the years, they continued to gain popularity in traditional portraiture, Art illustrations, early theater and Movies, graphic design, sports shooting, and photography; they remain a popular technique in photography. The term is often used in the fashion Industry to express the form and fit of a designer's vision.
As I sifted through my photo collections to find images that might fit this challenge, I was reminded of a cameo brooch my mom had when I was little. It was a black silhouette portrait of a woman from the chest up set against a pink background. They were very popular at one time and probably served as my earliest understanding of what a silhouette looked like. Another was catching a glimpse of my shadow at dusk and, of course, cutting those paper dolls and forms in kindergarten. Do you remember your first memory of a silhouette? Or the first time you caught a glimpse of your shadow in the setting sun?
More below!
"Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan – that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds." Le Corbusier
I've enjoyed revisiting this popular technique and now that I've learned a bit more about it, I will be more conscientious of capturing photographic moments that exemplify the form. Do you remember your earliest memory of creating paper silhouettes or seeing them in your home? Our memories are reservoirs of great stories and experiences, and photography has a way of pulling them up for us to look at. The photos above and here need no explanation. They were mostly shot at dusk; I believe it's probably the best time for silhouette photos. Do you have a favorite? Do share.
This post was inspired by a Daily Post Prompt: Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette This week, share a photo with a silhouette. Revisit Wenjie Zhang's post on the quality of light for quick tips on backlight, or dive into silhouette tutorials by Digital Photography School and PetaPixel for more guidance.
Positive Motivation Tip: Take time to refresh your memory of special moments in your life. Take a few photos at dusk and reminisce. Your life is worth reflecting over…
More Weekly Photo Challenge Posts
PHOTO CREDITS/ATTRIBUTIONS: All Photos: One collage of Silhouette shots from Wikipedia and the rest from my Personal Collection.
Until Next Time…
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Rane permalink18/08/2014 9:41 am
Wow .. who would have thought a Silhouette had such a deep meaning .. Great motivation tips .. really need to try taking pics at dusk and dawn
FX777 Classified Articles permalink18/08/2014 10:49 am
Most photographers preferred to shoot a silhouette because of its beauty and meaningful images. Fernando Lachica
19/08/2014 7:51 pm
Yes, I can imagine that… I just want to remember to do more. I never thing of the shot.
18/08/2014 12:23 pm
Such a beautiful collection of photographs. Loved them 🙂
19/08/2014 7:50 pm
TY Khushboo! Mush appreciated.
18/08/2014 3:27 pm
Really well done !!!
19/08/2014 7:50 pm
TY dear one… Miss you all. Must stop by again.
20/08/2014 7:42 am
You know I will 🌈
20/08/2014 5:20 pm
Aye Captain! 🙂
20/08/2014 11:20 pm
Throw me a lasso !!
21/08/2014 2:58 am
You are so funny! Thanks for the laughter. 😆
22/08/2014 6:58 am
This should be fun I think!
18/08/2014 5:18 pm
Wow you have an impressive talent Elizabeth! I admire someone who can take a great photograph. Mine are sorely lacking, LOL, but it is one of the areas I plan to work on..
19/08/2014 7:49 pm
I'm a work in progress… I have tons of awful photos too. Haha! 🙂
18/08/2014 6:11 pm
I haven't had a picture of my silhouette. That's a great way of showing photography skills.
19/08/2014 7:48 pm
Give it a try soon… 🙂
18/08/2014 7:05 pm
You have shown us a great collection of various kinds of silhouettes and the one that stands out the most to be is of the children doing handstands with the setting sun behind them – magic!
It was also interesting to read how the word came to be, thank you for that.
19/08/2014 7:48 pm
Oh dear Babs TY! I must come around soon.. Miss all of you.
Fred permalink18/08/2014 7:43 pm
Beautiful photos with those jump shots in silhouette! I think I will try them one day myself. Silhouettes really add drama to the shots.
19/08/2014 7:47 pm
They sure do… TY! I need to remember that.
Anna Sundqvist permalink18/08/2014 8:29 pm
Truly beautiful photos. So tranquil ! I love the idea of a photo challenge – it really challenges you to look at things from a completely different angle.
19/08/2014 7:46 pm
True… and it saddens me every time I miss one. I really love them. TY!
18/08/2014 8:47 pm
Love your photos of the sun sets.. It's so amazingly shoot! Keep on snapping great photos!
19/08/2014 7:51 pm
Thank you… I'm glad you liked them. 🙂
Papaleng Pagulong permalink18/08/2014 9:40 pm
Interesting information about silhouette. I dig silhouette images specially sunrise and sunset photos. . Yours collection is awesome, in particular those Nature shots.
19/08/2014 7:53 pm
Thank you so much. The nature shots were accidental and so I'd love to learn to just do it properly.
hannizenvato permalink18/08/2014 10:18 pm
I think it's all about timing. When we travel (that's when I take most of my photographs), it's usually during the day -after breakfast- and back at the hotel in the late evening. It's easier to take silhouettes when you're in the great outdoors with the sun in front of you and no other obstacles in your way. I loved the photos you put up especially the 3rd batch bottom left with the blue sky and the last batch bottom right with branches
19/08/2014 7:45 pm
You are right. It really is about timing…
Hina Naz permalink19/08/2014 12:32 am
Wahoo lovely collection of pictures. Honestly I love sun set …. Dawn and dusk most beautiful moments for me
Bintu @ Recipes From A Pantry permalink19/08/2014 12:52 am
My gosh – what beautiful images. I would love to be able to take images like this.
phyliciamarie permalink19/08/2014 2:42 am
The collection of photos you put up there are actually good representations of silhouette. They always look very artsy when taken properly. I especially love those taken with sunsets. 🙂
19/08/2014 3:29 am
Wow those photos looks amazing! Did you use any software like Lightroom to further improve the image quality? Or you just took them on the spot with your camera? What camera and lens are you using? I would love to try taking a picture of a silhouette someday.
19/08/2014 7:43 pm
I wish I had software to do tons of things in photos but I don't even know of Lightroom. Some were purely accidental and others were timing. TY!
19/08/2014 5:31 am
You were able to get a lot of good photos. One photographer friend thought me to focus the aperture on the subject and just allow the natural light to come in for silhouette.
19/08/2014 7:42 pm
Great tip! Ill keep that in mind for future reference. You take great photos. TY! 🙂
19/08/2014 8:43 am
I usually associate silhouette with emotional and thoughtful photos. Although we can do happy ones, emotional ones tend to have more feel! Haha, what do you think?
19/08/2014 7:41 pm
It all depends on what rocks your boat… I see them in many lights and all quite beautiful. 🙂
mrslookinggood permalink19/08/2014 8:47 am
All beautiful silhouette photos. This is one type of photography that I rarely use as I'm not much of a photographer.
To answer your question, I don't remember making paper silhouettes when I was younger. And my favorite photos here are the kids playing and the silhouette of the tree with a ripple of water. Both gorgeous shots!
19/08/2014 9:55 am
Beautiful silhouettes, Elizabeth 🙂
19/08/2014 7:45 pm
Oh TY so much dear friend… Hope all is well.
20/08/2014 5:29 am
nice photos and thanks for sharing even the etymology of the word! well researched! keep it up 😀
20/08/2014 7:34 am
Thank Yan! I have to return and respond to all.
21/08/2014 2:03 am
there's something about silhouettes in photos. though it does not show a face or emotion, it still has the power to produce gorgeous sometimes dramatic images. that's quite a challenge for the photographer or painter to achieve that compared to the regular visuals we see
21/08/2014 4:58 am
Beautiful. I agree with you that it adds another dimension to what we see in photography. What makes it special is that it can be unintentionally dramatic.
Wanderlust Vegans permalink10/02/2017 2:27 pm
I hadn't heard about the history of the silhouette before. The origins of the word is different than I expected.


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Java 1.7 / Eclipse.
Also getting a warning @ public class Practice : The serializable class Practice does not declare a static final serialVersionUID field of type long.
If anyone knows what the means that would be super helpful, Any help is much appreciated.
I went ahead and uploaded the applet : http://Pixeltainment.comule.com
import java.awt.*; import javax.swing.*; public class Practice extends JApplet { // What the Init method is .. is basically being about to put stuff ... in it ? private double sum; public void inti(){ // Init() is short for initialization String fn = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter first Number"); String sn = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter second number"); // Convert the string to double double n1 = Double.parseDouble(fn); double n2 = Double.parseDouble(sn); sum = n1 + n2; } public void paint(Graphics g){ super.paint(g); g.drawString("The sum is "+sum, 25 , 50); } }


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Microsoft has made its second release under the General Public License in two days with software for the open-source online learning system Moodle.
Microsoft released the Live Services Plug-in for Moodle under the GPLv2, a move outlined in a blog post by Peter Galli, a community manager for Microsoft's Platform Strategy Group.
The plug-in adds Microsoft's Live@edu services such as e-mail, calendar, instant messaging and search directly into the Moodle user experience and makes them available via single sign-on, he wrote.
Moodle is a free open-source course management system that teachers use to create online learning Web sites for their classes, and it has about 30 million users in 207 countries, according to Galli.
The Microsoft Live Services Plug-in for Moodle is the first of what will be a set of software releases for the education community that Microsoft will make available for download online via its Education Labs Web site, the company said through its public relations firm.
Until Monday, Microsoft had not released anything under the GPL -- a popular open-source license it's criticized in the past -- but now the company seems to be embracing it.
While Tuesday's release certainly is not as significant as Monday's unprecedented release of 20,000 lines of code to the Linux kernel, including drivers for virtualizing the open-source OS on Microsoft's Hyper-V software, it is indicative of a trend the company started about two years ago to work more closely with the open-source community. This trend is in part a nod to the growing heterogeneity of IT environments, in which Linux and proprietary technologies like Microsoft software are increasingly being deployed side by side.
But even while on one hand Microsoft is working more closely with the community, on the other it continues to strike patent deals with open-source companies to collect royalties for patents it says it holds on technologies found in Linux and other open-source software. In general, Microsoft continues to uphold its proprietary intellectual property licensing strategy -- the opposite of the philosophy behind open source.
The most recent patent deal came last week with the Japanese company Melco Holdings -- the parent company of Buffalo Inc. and
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Before I give you a few blog updates, I just wanted to share a quick story I posted on my personal Facebook wall yesterday:
I had an interesting experience of Walmart of all places today. As many of you know, I spend the majority of my day house-bound if not bed-bound. This has been a little better week so today, I was able to leave the house for the second time this week (look out world!). As I was getting ready to check out, I noticed an older lady behind me with her cane in her cart and she just looked tired. I told her to go ahead of me and she just looked so relieved. As she unloaded her cart of TV dinners and various types of juice, she proceeded to tell me that she had finally had someone come over to sit with her husband who has severe Alzheimer's and dementia but only had a short amount of time. As she unloaded her cart, she said that she was no longer able to cook full meals like she would like because she's afraid of leaving the stove plugged in as she's afraid her husband would turn it on and cause damage. She was constantly worried about him running off or getting himself hurt. You could tell that it had been quite some time since she had had any time for herself. It broke my heart. As she was checking out, I overheard her talking to the cashier. She told a little bit of what was going on and how she was so thankful that I had allowed her to go ahead of me in line and how much it helped her. She said there were so few nice and courteous people left in the world any more and how thankful, blessed, and overcome with gratitude she was. All because I let her go in front of me in line at Walmart. My hips were throbbing and I was in so much pain but something in my heart told me that she needed to go before me. Once she told me her story, it took everything I had not to break down. The most simple thing can make the biggest impact in someone else's day. I'm not sharing this as a pat on the back to me but as a reminder to myself to do it more often. You never know how much a simple act of kindness can change someone's day (or life).
It was definitely a very powerful and moving experience. One of those types of experiences where you feel like you need to take your shoes off because you are standing on sacred ground. God gave me such a powerful reminder today that life is so much bigger than me and even when I feel like I am drowning in my own problems, there are always people suffering more than I am. My husband came sympathize with her more than I can on the struggles of being a caregiver but before she left the store, I just wanted to chase her down and give her a huge hug. Then I realized she may have thought I was some kind of major creepo. Maybe I should have done it anyway. Sometimes its the most simple things that are the most important.
With that being said, I wanted to post a quick life and blog update. I really want to get back to the roots of A New Kind of Normal. I thought last year was hard but this year has proved to be even worse and I have felt so lost. I felt like I have just wandered in circles. I've tried to come back to posting but each time I've done so without a plan in mind so in all of my posts, its apparent that I am just wandering in circles and that is SO not what I want for this space. I want A New Kind of Normal to be a place of inspiration, encouragement, support, and most of all empowerment but in order for that to happen, I first need to feel inspired, encouraged, and empowered.
I am going to take the next week and a half off from blogging in order to get myself organized and my content structured so that this blog can go back to being what it was made to be. I am going to be reading, researching, and finally putting all those blogging boards on Pinterest to good use! I am also in the process of renovating our office/guest room/beauty room so I will have a space where I can truly feel inspired so that also has me really excited! There will definitely be a big reveal when everything is ready!
Things here at A New Kind of Normal will kick back up in May. Sharing Our Spoons will be starting up again so May 3rd will be the first post where we can share our goals for the month. Check-ins will take place the first Tuesday of every month as a way that we can support one another to be the healthiest versions of ourselves possible on all fronts. I am also restarting sharing the stories of our fellow spoonie warriors as a part of Sharing Our Spoons which will be featured once a month so if you are interested in being interviewed and sharing your story, please shoot me an email!
My goals are to post four times a week with Tuesdays being directly chronic illness/health related; Wednesdays will be Chronic Style days; Thursdays will be geared more towards home and family life; and Fridays will be focused on faith and emotional health. As you can see, I really want to hone in on this idea of holistic health and taking care of ourselves as a whole. When you are chronically ill, so many times there is always the bulk of focus placed on our physical health when there is so much more to us than that. I want A New Kind of Normal to become a thriving community of the most bold and vivacious spoonies anyone have ever met.
I am excited and already feeling empowered just by writing this post and I am hoping that you understand and that you too will feel excited and empowered about what is coming ahead. While I will not be posting here until the first of May, I can still be found on social media (Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter).
I am now also on Snapchat (@anewjamee) but I am still trying to get that one figured out! If you have any tips on getting the hang of it, please let me know! And friend me:
I hope this post finds you all doing well! In the next few weeks, if there is anything that I can be praying for you about or helping you with, please let me know! We can become stronger, inspired, and empowered together! I love you all and I truly mean that!


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|Llewellyn's 2019 Daily Planetary Guide
|Yoga for the Creative Soul
|The Pure Heart of Yoga
Soul flight is the separation of the mind from the body of a living human being. It encompasses all projections of consciousness, both those widely known and others seldom recognized as astral travel. Soul flight is a much more varied experience than most people realize.
The most common kind of soul flight is dreaming. The dream world is an astral reality that we visit in our sleep. Usually we only observe in our dreams, even when we are playing a part in the drama, but when we become self-aware in a dream, and able to act independently, it is known as lucid dreaming, and this too is a kind of astral travel. Some individuals who come very close to dying experience a spontaneous soul flight that is known as a near-death experience. It has also long been recognized that a severe physical shock on the body, such as a fall from a high place, can temporarily knock out the astral double, dividing the mind from the flesh. These forms of soul flight are spontaneous and can happen to anyone.
Thousands of years ago shamans developed techniques to cause the deliberate separation of the mind from the body. These include chanting, dancing, exhaustion, pain, alcohol, tobacco and drugs. European witches of the Middle Ages carried on this shamanic tradition of soul flight with the use of a complex ointment that they applied to the entire surface of their naked bodies. This is known as the witches' flying ointment. It was an effective method for inducing the projection of the astral double, but it was dangerous, because its ingredients were highly poisonous.
In our modern world astral projection takes different forms. During the Cold War, the Pentagon set up a secret remote viewing project known as Project Stargate for the purpose of psychically gathering information on the Soviet Union. Few involved in it realized that it was just another technique to project the mind astrally. Few who have endured an alien abduction incident realize that their experiences are astral rather than physical. Yet alien abduction is a type of soul flight.
The average person only associates astral projection with the work of the spiritualists and Theosophists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The most famous of these was the spiritualist Sylvan Muldoon, who may be said to have written the book on astral travel. In fact, he collaborated on several highly popular and influential books. In them he described techniques to achieve soul flight, but readers are often frustrated when they attempt them because they discover that they do not work, or only work in a limited way.
My book, Soul Flight, is the first to integrate both ancient methods of astral travel and modern methods. It is based on the premise that shamans, witches, and magicians of previous centuries used ritual in their astral projections for a good reason—because it works. Ritual not only aids in the projection of the mind from the body, but also serves to protect both the mind and body when they are separated. A very simple yet powerful ritual framework is presented in Soul Flight by which a ritual space is created as a sanctuary, safe from the intrusion of unwanted astral travelers.
Flight to specific astral levels is achieved by means of an astral elevator, which is visualized as part of this ritual structure. The metaphor of the elevator has long been used by experts in astral projection as a way of raising the mind to higher astral levels. In Soul Flight, the elevator can be set to carry the traveler to specific astral locations that lie both above the middle realm of our physical reality, and below it. The modern astral traveler can visit such subterranean realms as the world of the fairies, which lies just below our own physical world.
By examining the full spectrum of soul flight, ancient and modern, the best has been gathered into a safe yet powerful technique for astral projection within a ritual framework. This is your passport to the astral world, where endless realms both familiar and unimagined wait to be explored. Enjoy your flights!
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Our county fair is coming up next month and that means the oldest country kid is busy making projects to enter. This easy DIY beehive decoration is one of the projects he made! I don't know about you, but I think it is super cute!! And I love how the wind makes the bees on the wire dance around the hive. This is such a fun project, not only to make, but to interact with when it is done.
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No Bake Butterfinger Pie
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No Bake Butterfinger Pie is a HUGE hit with everyone! I was informed it was not leaving our house to be shared with others. So wrong! It's so easy to make you will wish you didn't know the recipe. This pie is pretty irresistible. It's rich, creamy and simply decadent.
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Mashed potatoes are a favorite side dish in our house and I always seem to make too much of them. We will save the leftovers, but they are never as good the next day after being put in the microwave! These cheesy potato muffins are a great way to use up the leftover mashed potatoes and have something different the next day!
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I am working hard and really trying to amp up my fruit and vegetable intake. Eating healthier, exercising and living life to the fullest are right up there with breathing right now for me. I wanted a protein packed dip to eat with my fruit, had a stockpile of peanut butter, so this easy 2 ingredient Skinny Peanut Butter Fruit Dip was perfect.
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INDIANAPOLIS --The NCAA Division I Men's Golf Committee has selected the teams and individuals to participate in the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships.
Six 54-hole regional tournaments will be conducted May 15-17. Thirteen teams and 10 individuals not on those teams will compete at each of three regionals while the other three regionals will have 14 teams and five individuals not on those teams. The low five teams and the low individual not on those teams from each regional will advance to the finals.
The finals will be conducted May 23-28 at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kansas. Wichita State is the host institution for the 2014 championships.
Listed below are the teams and individuals selected to participate in the championships. Teams winning automatic qualification are designated by their conferences in parentheses.
Auburn University Club – Auburn, Alabama
Hosted by Auburn
1. Alabama [Southeastern Conference]
2. Virginia Tech
3. Texas [Big 12 Conference]
4. Auburn
5. New Mexico [Mountain West Conference]
6. BYU [West Coast Conference]
7. Kennesaw State
8. Colorado
9. Louisville
10. UNC Greensboro
11. UC Davis
12. Sam Houston State [Southland Conference]
13. St. John's [Big East Conference]
14. Alabama State [Southwestern Athletic Conference]
1. Blake Morris, Mississippi
2. JD Tomlinson, Florida
3. Jared Bettcher, Troy
4. Marco Iten, Austin Peay
5. Theodore Lederhausen, Harvard
The Club at Old Hawthorne – Columbia, Missouri
Hosted by Missouri
Teams (seeded in the following order):
1. Oklahoma State
2. Virginia
4. Arkansas
5. Arizona State
6. Iowa
7. San Diego State
8. Missouri
9. Iowa State
10. Middle Tennessee State
11. Ohio State
12. Denver [The Summit League]
13. Loyola (Md.) [Patriot League]
14. Bryant [Northeast Conference]
1. Pep Angles, Central Arkansas
2. Matt Mabrey, Tulsa
3. Logan McCracken, Tulsa
4. Daniel Wood, Kansas State
5. Alex Taylor, Fairfield
Lonnie Poole Golf Club – Raleigh, North Carolina
Hosted by NC State
Teams (seeded in the following order):
1. Georgia Tech [Atlantic Coast Conference]
2. Washington
3. Florida State
4. Texas A&M
5. Mercer [Atlantic Sun Conference]
6. Kentucky
7. Texas Tech
8. Wake Forest
9. South Alabama
10. Memphis
11. Minnesota [Big Ten Conference]
12. Rice [Conference USA]
13. Bethune-Cookman [Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference]
1. J.T. Poston, Western Carolina
2. Evan Russell, Hartford
3. Franco Castro, UNC Charlotte
4. Brandon Matthews, Temple
5. Richard Fountain, Davidson
6. Eric Brady, East Carolina
7. Andrew Dorn, Coastal Carolina
8. Ben Wheeler, Coastal Carolina
9. Sean Bosdosh, Maryland
10. Zach Seabolt, Winthrop
Rich Harvest Farms – Sugar Grove, Illinois
Hosted by the Northern Illinois
Teams (seeded in the following order):
1. California
2. Illinois
6. Clemson
7. Kent State [Mid-American Conference]
8. Purdue
9. Mississippi State
10. Cal State Fullerton [Big West Conference]
11. New Mexico State [Western Athletic Conference]
12. Jacksonville State [Ohio Valley Conference]
13. Cleveland State [Horizon League]
14. Saint Peter's [Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference]
1. Niall Platt, Notre Dame
2. Chris O'Neill, Michigan
3. Danny Pizetoski, Richmond
4. Juan Veloza, Towson
5. Rob van de Vin, IUPUI
Eugene Country Club – Eugene, Oregon
Hosted by Oregon
1. Stanford [Pac-12 Conference]
2. Houston
3. Oklahoma
4. South Carolina
5. Baylor
6. Liberty [Big South Conference]
7. Oregon
8. Tennessee
9. North Florida
10. East Tennessee State
11. Chattanooga
12. Wichita State [Missouri Valley Conference]
13. Northern Colorado [Big Sky Conference]
1. Cody Blick, San Jose State
2. Kyle Westmoreland, Air Force
3. David Fink, Oregon State
4. Owen Taylor, Sacramento State
5. Byron Meth, Pacific
6. Tyler Torano, Loyola Marymount
7. Alex Wennstam, GRU Augusta
8. Pete Fernandez, UC Irvine
9. Alex Franklin, Oregon State
10. Frederick Wedel, Pepperdine
Briggs Ranch Golf Club – San Antonio, Texas
Hosted by UTSA
Teams (seeded in the following order):
1. Georgia
4. Vanderbilt
5. South Florida
6. SMU [American Athletic Conference]
7. Georgia Southern [Southern Conference]
8. Georgia State [Sun Belt Conference]
10. Northwestern
11. College of Charleston [Colonial Conference]
12. VCU [Atlantic 10]
13. Columbia [Ivy Group]
1. Eric Oja, Arizona
2. Grant Forrest, San Diego
3. Grady Brame, Southeastern Louisiana
4. Victor Lange, Louisiana Tech
5. Alex McMahon, Arizona
6. Preston Stanley, Houston Baptist
7. Martin Simonsen, UTEP
8. Stuart Smallwood, Texas State
9. Peter Kim, Army
10. Peter Ballo, Sacred Heart
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As already mentioned, I'm a late admirer of Veronica Mars. During Seasons 1 and 2, so, like, two weeks ago, you could say I was obsessed. I am currently paused after 6 episodes of Season 3 because that fake fat Zac Efron character is grossing me out and also because I can sense that terrible things are about to go down. And my worry is that they'll go down without time to be fixed. Veronica Mars was cancelled after S3. And while Duana keeps holding my hand encouraging me to go on, I don't know that I'm ready to deal yet. There is a very good chance I may never finish the season at all. (You can't make me Duana!)
Needless to say, I am invested in the show and the character. And still, surprisingly, pretty indifferent to Kristen Bell.
About this sloth video then...
Here, watch it first, for those of you who haven't yet:
Funny, right? Really, really funny. Totally funny. She's funny, no doubt. And good for her for sharing something that makes her look so nerdy. No wonder they love her at Comic-Con.
You know...
You know this isn't the spontaneous, let me tell you the best story off the top of my head moment on a talk show, don't you? You know that this was PRODUCED, right? That this is exactly how she planned it? I mean, she got the call to be on Ellen. And she decided that she'd talk to Ellen about the sloth loving. So she found her sloth home video. And during the pre-call with Ellen's staff, she told them she had a tape. And she sent them the tape in advance. SO THAT THEY COULD ADD THE SUBTITLES.
Does it bother you that there are subtitles on the video? Slightly???
This was my email response to Sasha and Duana. To which Duana answered, indeed, "a touch. But not that much. Honestly. There are so many more people deserving of your hate."
So OK fine, maybe a little. Maybe I like her more a little. In the way that I might like a person who meticulously plans how wide she'll smile and how loud she'll laugh. Kristen Bell is not the cuddly tiny thing you want to hug because she cries on command at the thought of the sloth. Rather, here is a hard, prepared, calculating actress. She knew EXACTLY the reaction she wanted from you. So long as you're OK with that...
I suppose I could get to a place where I might be OK with that because ultimately I think Kristen Bell is smart, smarter than most of the f-cking idiots considered to be her peers.
Smart enough to play Johanna Mason?
Apparently she's been lobbying for the part of Johanna Mason in The Hunger Games movies. Duana is currently harassing me over email about this. Literally. The cunning and the manipulation, certainly. I don't know about the voice though. I always "hear" Johanna to have a deeper voice. Suggestive, yes, but not necessarily "sassy". Bell's voice though, well, it is nothing if it's not sassy. I'm not sure if I can handle Gossip Girl fighting it out there in the arena, you know?


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File/RAM Disk driver for Windows.
From discussion in Shao's topic GRUB4DOS RAM Disk Recognized by RAMDISK.SYS, I try making a Windows driver to read GRUB4DOS' drive map table and use GRUB4DOS RAM drives in Windows. This driver is the result. It emulates SCSI adapter and disk. It can use RAM disk loaded by GRUB4DOS in Windows.
Shao's driver WinVBlock can also use GRUB4DOS's RAM drives. You can visit his thread for more detail.
This driver is not suitable for people who are not familiar with making and manipulating disk image or don't know how to use GRUB4DOS.
It may take a long time to study about them depending on each person.
What is this driver for ?
When your Windows has problem running or is infected with viruses, it is difficult or sometimes impossible to fix it from within windows itself.
Options to fix it or recover data from it would be
- Boot DOS. You can get data from FAT partition. With some add-on you may be able to access data in NTFS partition.
- Use Linux or other OS to access your data with some limitation in its NTFS features.
- Windows PE run from CD or USB drive
- Remove harddisk from the computer and put it in another computer with Windows installed. You can access NTFS partition, scan virus, modify registry, create partition, delete partition, format, install new Windows in existing NTFS partition without formatting.
Windows PEs created from Winbuilder are useful for data recovery and manipulation of harddisk partition.
They are normally run from CD-ROM. If you don't want to burn CD, or the computer you want to run it on don't have CD-ROM drive, another option is run from USB drive.
GRUB4DOS has ability to load disk image to RAM and create RAM drive for use in DOS, Windows 98. You can boot DOS, Windows 98 in RAM.
Newer Windows based on Windows NT cannot use GRUB4DOS RAM drive unless you have driver for it.
With FiraDisk driver you can use GRUB4DOS RAM drive in Windows XP-7. It can be used to boot Windows.
If you have FiraDisk integrated in PE ISO. It is possible to use GRUB4DOS to load PE from ISO file into RAM and run PE from RAM.
When you run Windows from RAM. You can use your recovery tools, antivirus, partition managers to modify your harddisk. You can also delete/rename some folders (Document and Settings, Program Files, Windows) and reinstall Windows in old NTFS partition without deleting your data files and don't get old and new files mixed.
You can store multiple ISO files on the same drive and choose it in GRUB4DOS at boot time.
Can run in
- Windows XP 32-bit
- Windows Server 2003 32-bit
- Windows 7 32-bit
- Windows 7 64-bit (Test Mode)
Latest version = 0.0.1.30
Driver files : http://www.mediafire...er-0.0.1.30.zip
Source files : http://www.mediafire...src-0.0.1.30.7z
F6 Floppy image : http://www.mediafire...-0.0.1.30-f6.7z
Test-signed 64-bit driver is included. If you want to test it in Windows Vista or Windows 7 64-bit, you must enable TESTSIGNING Boot Configuration Option before you install this driver.
If you don't want to be warned about unknown publisher, you may install my self-signed test-signing root certificate before you install this driver. TestSignRootCA.reg ( 4.78K )
Old versions v0.0.1.0 - 0.0.1.28 MF
Status / change log
- Sector-mapped virtual drive is not supported.
- Added: boot option indicates that the virtual drive is required for booting.
- Added: Read options from GRUB4DOS RAM drive.
- Fixed: CD-ROM emulation in Windows 7.
- Fixed: BSOD when unloaded.
- Added: Allow disabling detection of GRUB4DOS and Memdisk by settings in registry.
- File-backed virtual drive "cdrom,file=..." does not work in Windows XP-2003 text-mode setup. But "cdrom,vmem=..." works.
- Find disk image file without knowing drive letter of backing drive. ( use find:\ instead of <drive letter>:\ )
- It is possible to boot Windows XP in disk image file.
- Detect MEMDISK (v3.86) RAM drive.
- Test SSE2 memory copy code.
- Fix: Slow transfer speed of RAM drive.
- Bug: Cannot boot Windows XP setup from RAM CD-ROM.
- Fix: Windows Server 2003 compatibility.
- Fix: Can read hexadecimal number (0x12345678) in boot option parameters.
- Virtual floppy disk drive.
- New "physicalmemory" boot option keyword.
- Bug: Cannot read hexadecimal number in boot option parameters.
- File-based drives can be created using /firadisk boot.ini option.
- Fix: Detection of GRUB4DOS' RAM CD-ROM.
- Bug: Incorrect detection of size and address of GRUB4DOS' RAM CD-ROM.
- Support multiple virtual drive.
- Support CD-ROM ISO loaded with GRUB4DOS.
- No floppy drive emulation. Floppy disk image mapped to (fdx) will appear to be removable disk.
- Support 1 virtual hard drive that has been loaded with GRUB4DOS's map --mem command.
- Windows XP can run from virtual hard drive in RAM.
Planned features in future versions:
- Add/remove drives from CLI or GUI.
- Registry
- key HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FiraDisk
- value StartOptions type REG_SZ
data = list of drive description to create separated by semicolon.
Example: disk,vmem=find:\file1.img;cdrom,vmem=find:\file2.iso;floppy,vmem=c:\file3.img;disk,vmem=c:\file4.img,size=1052835840
There are 3 types of virtual drive : disk, cdrom, floppy
There are 3 main types of media/image :
file=path : File read/write.Optional parameters
vmem=path : Memory mapped file.
vmem without path : Allocate from virtual memory (RAM+pagefile).
offset=numberIf file does not exist and size is specified, new file will be created.
ro : read-only
boot : indicate that the virtual drive is required for booting Windows.
If file exists but is smaller than offset+size, it will be extended.
- value DisableDetectGrub4dos type REG_DWORD
- value DisableDetectMemdisk type REG_DWORD
- value DisableDetectedRAMDrives type REG_DWORD
0=enable 1=disable
- value StartOptions type REG_SZ
- key HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\FiraDisk\Parameters
- value StartOptions same format as above.
You can write to this value at first stage of Windows XP setup by using TXTSETUP.OEM section [Config.FiraDisk].
- value PnP type REG_DWORD
0=Create new FiraDisk Enumerator device at startup. 1=Don't create new FiraDisk Enumerator device.
- value StartOptions same format as above.
- key HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FiraDisk
- GRUB4DOS RAM drive
Create a small RAM drive with drive number between 0-127 and write FiraDisk options to it.
Begin with [FiraDisk] (case insensitive)
followed by \n
then StartOptions=data\n
and end with \0.
Backslash is escape character in write command.
You can use / instead of \ in data field. When FiraDisk read this data, it will convert / to \ automatically.
map --mem (md)0x800+4 (99) map --hook write (99) [FiraDisk]\nStartOptions=cdrom,vmem=find:/file1.iso;floppy,vmem=find:/file2.img;\n\0
Firadisk driver installation instruction for Windows XP
Test FiraDisk with GRUB4DOS mem drive (non-boot drive)
Test FiraDisk with GRUB4DOS mem drive as boot drive
How to create/mount raw disk image with FiraDisk 0.0.1.12 (updated 2009-09-30)
Not very convenient though.
How to clone Windows XP by copying files to different disk (or image)


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A Couch in New York1997 Romance | Comedy
This is a romantic comedy with an analytical edge from noted Belgian director Chantal Akerman. Set in New York, the fun begins when freewheeling French dancer Beatrice and stodgy psychoanalyst Henry Harriston agree to exchange apartments. He will live in her bohemian Paris flat and she in his upscale, neat-as-a-pin Manhattan abode. The two have never met when they change places. Poor frazzled Henry is hoping that some quiet time in Paris will provide him with some badly needed cultural enrichment and relaxation from the demands of his wealthy clients. Unfortunately there is no rest, as he is constantly assailed by Beatrice's numerous suitors. Beatrice also deals with an onslaught of Henry's needy patients. Poor Henry can no longer stand being away and so quietly returns home. He notices a stream of patients coming from his home and they look unusually happy and well-adjusted. Even his dog looks happier. Wanting to learn her secret, Henry masquerades as a one of his own patients. It is not long before romantic sparks begin to fly.~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide


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Whether they're having the likes of J. Mascis, Moby or Les Savy Fav's Tim Harrington guest at their recent twelve hour gig in New York, or appearing on the (admittedly hidden-in-a-bag-of-free-gifts) cover of NME, Fucked Up certainly seem to be the hardcore band du jour.
Indeed, Harrington and singer leader Pink Eyes share more than just mutual admiration; both squeeze into XL clothing, sport bald head & beard and are prone to end up stripped down to their underwear and bleeding at their famously raucous live shows. But Fucked Up are definitively their own beast, having beguiled fans with 18 minute singles, lack of MySpace and bizarre monikers since their inception in 2002.
The Chemistry of Common Life is going to do nothing to taint this reputation - it's inventive, incessant, demanding and immersive. It's also seductive; even those who dismiss hardcore as nothing more than a bunch of sweaty guys listening to bad metal and bellowing like mating rhinos may find themselves drawn in by it's velvety charms.
Opener 'Son the Father' almost sets a trap for the unwary, starting with a gentle Gaelic flute before quickly demolishing it with a wall of frenetic thrash, distinguished by a brattily delivered " hard enough being born in the first place, who would ever want to be born again" The diversity of their influences is what impresses, as almost every song here is enhanced by some unexpected feature, be it guest Katie Stelmanis-Cali's operatic vocals on 'Royal Swan' (against which Pink Eye's gruff delivery sounds like a rhythm track), or 'Magic Word''s percussive organ and farsifa riff, which wouldn't sound out of place transposed onto a world music record.
Despite this wealth of charming curve-balls, the beating heart of almost every track is pulse-quickening riffage and vein-poppingly delivered vocals. Pink Eyes' themes range from religion and mysticism to literate navel-gazing, but in this still finds room for the likes of "Hands up if you think you're the only one who's been denied", which no doubt draws the expected crowd reaction live.
Truth be told the record is hard to quantify - it's so dense and layered that attempting to describe why it works just makes it seem contrived, while it's success should measured by the fact that it sounds anything but. There may be more guitar tracks here than on Be Here Now, but unlike that unruly mess each song is so carefully constructed, with every element meshing seamlessly with the rest, that the band must have felt that with every session they were laying down a magnum opus.
To cut a long story short, Fucked Up are probably going to be making a lot of new friends this year. Even if their guitarist is called Gulag.
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Until today, scientists only knew of three classes of 3 dimensional solids. Now they've got a fourth. This new flavor of shapes are called Goldberg polyhedrons, and they are the first new class of shapes discovered in over four hundred years.
The criteria for being your own type of three dimensional solid is all about whether your edges are equal lengths, and whether your faces are regular polygons. Discovered by UCLA neuroscientist Stan Schein and UCLA neuroscientist James Gayed, Goldberg polyhedra (pictured left) do have sides that are all the same length, but it's polygonal faces have equal angles. And surprisingly enough, that's a combo that's actually never been seen before. The Goldberg polyhedra's properties, specifically their equal angles, give them a rounded, spherical appearance.
The mathematicians who discovered these unique shapes don't see them solving any problems right now, but envision at least a few fun applications. Their distinctive roundedness could improve the way a golf ball slices through air. In another way, they do strongly resemble viruses. If it turned out that viruses obeyed Goldberg polyhedron geometry that could really help to inform the development of drugs. But most important for this team, they will join the ranks of three very influential thinkers in textbooks all across the world.
[Science News via The Conversation]


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Tens of thousands of years ago, humans prevailed over a Neanderthals. A new study suggests that man's best friend might have helped us win the battle.
According to anthropologist Pat Shipman, the reason for humanity's evolutionary success may have have been our kinship with domesticated dogs. The Atlantic reports on research first published in American Scientist:
Shipman analyzed the results of excavations of fossilized canid bones — from Europe, during the time when humans and Neanderthals overlapped. Put together, they furnish some compelling evidence that early humans, first of all, engaged in ritualistic dog worship. Canid skeletons found at a 27,000-year-old site in Předmostí, of the Czech Republic, displayed the poses of early ritual burial. Drill marks in canid teeth found at the same site suggest that early humans used those teeth as jewelry — and Paleolithic people, Shipman notes, rarely made adornments out of animals they simply used for food. There's also the more outlying fact that, like humans, dogs are rarely depicted in cave art — a suggestion that cave painters might have regarded dogs not as the game animals they tended to depict, but as fellow-travelers.
Shipman points out two possible reasons why man cozied up to his best friend: On the utilitarian side, dogs could be helpful in the hunt. Dogs could help humans track down animals to hunt and help carry the haul afterwards. Cooperation between humans was mutually beneficial for both species.
But more intriguingly, Shipman speculates that humanity's "expressive" eyes—which allow us to communicate without talking—might have something to do with our friendly relationship with dogs. Research suggests that like humans and unlike other animals dogs can interpretate eye communication. This in turn would have aided our cooperation. Shipman notes that there's a lot more work that needs to be done before we can prove that eye contact had anything to do with it, but here's some highly unscientific evidence for how this works:
Seriously, how could you say no to those eyes? [American Scientist via The Atlantic]
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