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The short answer is yes.We have been doing 4-6 shots for stitching and the results are excellent. When compared to work done nearby with a Better Light scanning back setup, I'd say the final results will be far more influenced by any subsequent file work than by the equipment used. And for the highest quality work, any camera's file will need some additional work.
Do you need to stitch? (I really don't know.) I've never tried to do this kind of thing, but I was sitting in a hotel room with my 800e on the table and I picked it up and shot a painting, hand-held and far enough back that I could encompass a 40x40, and when I zoomed in, I could see the weave of the canvas under the paint. This was in poor light at 3200. With decent light and a tripod, would you really need multiple shots for what mecurious is trying to do? I was using the 800e with a Nikon 85mm f1.8G.
The D800 or D800E are up to the task.I assume you know about having even , no glare lighting, and about shootign raw files (NEF) oinstead of JPEGs. As for input I would look at two toolsets: The Xrite ColorChecker Passport system (target + software) or Datacolor's SpyderCHECKR target and software. I use both but these days have been using the Datacolor SpyderCHECKR more often. All cameras have a color bias and the goal of both of both products is to neutralize those color capture characteristics of your cameras. The Xrite ColorChecker Passport system creates a custom Color Calibration program which works in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw. You shoot an Xrite 24 patch ColorChecker target and the software builds a DNG calibration for your camera based and you choose that "profile" ( it is not an ICC profile) in the Camera Calibration tab in LR or ACR. it works well in my my experience but I've read some complaints that the profile created was too contrasty. Without knowing how they shot or lit the target I note but reserve judgement on that criticism. The SpyderCHECKR works differently. You photograph the target and after making any necessary exposure adjustments in Lr/ACR you export a processed version of the file and open in it the Datacolor software and it creates a preset of H/S/L (hue/saturation/lightness) values which you can apply during either importing or when processing images shot previously with the same camera. Both the Xrite and Datacolor products are user friendly to implement and produce excellent results., . The end result differences are like the differences between two vanilla ice creams - which flavor of neutral color rendering do you prefer.For output I would be looking at an Xrite i1 Pro 2 solution. I haven't been happy with the results from other products and I am pretty picky. Regarding the need for stitching: you might need to or you might not, it depends on what surface you are printing on. Canvas, textured and matte papers have a far lower resolution than gloss or semi-gloss media so a single D800e frame might be absolutely fine with no interpolation at up to 40 inches and possibly more. It also depends on the printer you are using. The native resolution for the first rate Canon iPF and HP DesignJet series is 300/600dpi while Epsons have a native resolution of 360dpi. If you do need to stitch for this kind of work you'll be best served by a lens that allows you to keep the lens stationary but shift the camera body laterally and vertically.As to lights: As I said before you want very even lighting from corner to corner to center. By very even I mean within 1/10th of a stop. You also want the lighting to be consistent from frame to frame and from power settign to power setting. I like the Broncolor pack and head systems and the Paul C. Buff Einstein 640 monolights for this. When photographing painting I prefer to use polarizing gels on the lights and a polarizing filter on the camera. This called cross polarization as the polarization axes are at a right angle (90 degrees) to the orientation of the filter on the camera,. Some people believe this is unnecessary however.
The D800 or D800E are up to the task.The SpyderCHECKR works differently. You photograph the target and after making any necessary exposure adjustments in Lr/ACR you export a processed version of the file and open in it the Datacolor software and it creates a preset of H/S/L (hue/saturation/lightness) values which you can apply during either importing or when processing images shot previously with the same camera.


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Could there be a silver lining when you suddenly discover that you are pregnant after breaking up with your boyfriend? Chen Ya Ting (Chen Yi Rong) decides to return to her hometown to have her baby when she learns of her unexpected condition. There, she meets three men – Qi Tian (Kingone Wang), Zhang Yao Yang (Xie Kun Da) and Ding Hao Quan (Zhuang Kai Xun) – who also have returned to the town for their own personal issues who want to step into her life to help her father her child. What will Ya Ting do? "Happy 300 Days" is a 2013 Taiwanese drama series directed by Zhang Jia Xian.
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Insulin resistance is a decreased ability to respond to the effects of insulin, especially by muscle and fat (adipose) tissues. Insulin is a hormone produced by the beta cells in the pancreas. Small amounts of it are normally released after each meal to help transport glucose into the body's cells, where the glucose is needed for energy production. Since cells must have glucose to survive, the body of an insulin-resistant individual compensates by producing additional amounts of the hormone. This results in a high level of insulin in the blood (hyperinsulinemia) and over-stimulation of some tissues that have remained insulin-sensitive. Over time, this process causes an imbalance in the relationship between glucose and insulin and, without treatment, may eventually cause health complications affecting various parts of the body.
Hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance is associated with alterations in the concentration and relative amounts of the body's lipids, significantly increasing the amount of triglycerides and LDL (low-density lipoprotein, the "bad cholesterol") in the blood and decreasing the amount of HDL (high-density lipoprotein, the "good cholesterol"). It may also increase a person's risk of developing a blood clot, cause inflammatory changes, and increase a person's sodium retention, which can lead to increased blood pressure.
The cause of insulin resistance is not fully understood. It is thought to be due partly to genetic factors, including ethnicity, and due partly to lifestyle. Most people with insulin resistance do not have any symptoms. In most cases, the body is able to keep pace with the need for extra insulin production for many years. If the body's insulin production fails to keep up with demand, then hyperglycemia will occur. Once glucose reaches a high enough level, type 2 diabetes is present. The high glucose level can damage blood vessels in many organs, including the kidneys. Insulin resistance is therefore a risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes. Changes in lipids can cause fatty plaque deposits in the arteries and lead to cardiovascular disease (CVD) and strokes.
Metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance are two terms that have often been used interchangeably to characterize some of the abnormalities associated with increased resistance to insulin and increased production of insulin, and to recognize these changes as risk factors for future disease. Metabolic syndrome is essentially a subset of insulin resistance; although several different sets of diagnostic criteria for metabolic syndrome exist, all include obesity, alterations in lipid levels, and impaired glucose processing in the definition of this disorder. The goal of screening for metabolic syndrome is to identify and work with obese, sedentary people to decrease their health risks through lifestyle changes.
Insulin resistance is not a disease or specific diagnosis, but it has been associated with conditions such as, as mentioned, CVD, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and hypertension as well as polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Some researchers also believe that there may be a link between insulin resistance and certain forms of cancer. The mechanisms of these associations, however, are not well understood. It is important to remember that many people who have these conditions do not have insulin resistance and, likewise, many people who have insulin resistance will never develop these conditions. These are just patterns of association that have emerged. They are frequently seen together and it is thought that insulin resistance may contribute to their development and exacerbate them when it is present.


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This may interest some of you. While this is a real band recording, I do use JABB when I am writing. I put together a little QT with the score and audio. I wrote this one a few years ago but have just finished the recording.
The high res will only work on a larger monitor. The low res will work on a laptop but you can not read the notes very well.
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Being Young and Irish
Last Saturday, I had the great pleasure of helping out at the first in a series of 'Being Young and Irish' workshops. The workshops, initiated by President Michael D. Higgins, are aimed at getting young people (aged 17-26) to submit ideas on "taking charge of change" and articulating their vision of Ireland's future. As the volunteers, we had the easy job; nearly 100 participants (the guys in the spiffy blue t-shirts) worked throughout the day to generate ideas for a charter which will be presented to senior members of government later on this year. Given my involvement with ReachOut Ireland, I was particularly pleased to see mental health consistently high on the agenda throughout the day. For more information, check out these links in The Sociable, Irish Times, The Irish Examiner as well as the Film, Fashion and Pop Culture blog. All in all, an excellent way to spend my break weekend! Next marathon is on Saturday (September 15th) in Sligo.
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The Obama administration has been very skillful in framing itself as the good guy in the latest looming fiscal disaster, this time under the heading of "sequestration." On Friday, across-the-board cuts of $85 billion are set to go into effect, wreaking havoc on most government operations. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, the Children's Health Insurance Program and what's left of welfare are not directly affected, but these so-called "entitlement" programs have, in fact, always been the primary targets of this cascade of manufactured crises. Disaster capitalism is manifesting itself as disaster governance, and President Obama is fully complicit in the corporate-imposed charade. Indeed, Obama is most culpable for infecting the nation with austerity fever.
It was Obama who swallowed whole the corporate argument, previously championed by Republicans, that the national debt was Crisis Number One and that entitlement programs were the root cause. From the moment in January of 2009 when Obama served notice that Social Security and all other entitlements would be put on the chopping block, he became the chief mover and shaker for so-called entitlement reform. He created the model for austerity, through his Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction commission. It was Simpson-Bowles that provided the basis for the massive cuts offered by President Obama in 2011. When the Republicans balked at even a modest tax increase for the rich, it was the White House National Economic Council Director, the corporate deal-maker Gene Sperling, who came up with the sequestration scheme, which was timed to explode right after the 2012 elections. The idea was to make every popular constituency in the country scream – and accept the inevitability of massive entitlement cuts.
Let me repeat: Sequestration was Obama's idea. So-called entitlement reform is Obama doctrine. Austerity was embedded in the Democratic Party's agenda under President Obama. More than any other individual, it was Barack Obama who engineered the current disaster scenario. These waves of austerity crises were not inevitable, but they are the inevitable result of President Obama's calculated statements and actions since Election Day 2008. The Republicans are his partners, not his opponents. The closest thing he has to an opposition – at least on paper – is the Congressional Progressive Caucus, whose two co-chairs introduced a bill that would turn the austerity juggernaut on its head. It's called the Balancing Act of 2013, and would replace all of the sequestration cuts with new revenues, and then add a $276 billion stimulus to the economy. Needless to say, the progressive bill will get nowhere, not just because of Republican opposition, but because the top Democrat, Barack Obama, wants to go down in history as the smart austerity president. Just as he said he wasn't opposed to wars, but only to dumb wars – which is why he has built tens of thousands of the smartest drones and smartest bombs ever devised by man. He's outsmarting what passes for a Left in the United States at every turn. They cheer him as he effectively consummates his grand bargain with the GOP, in a cacophony of manufactured crises, exhausting what little opposition remains. That's why we at BAR call him the more effective evil.


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The Game The Liberty men's basketball team returns to action Monday night, playing host to UNCW. Head coach Dale Layer's squad looks to rebound from back-to-back losses, while the Seahawks hope to earn their third straight win. UNCW leads the all-time series, 2-0, after defeating the Flames in the Vines Center during the 2011-12 campaign, 77-68. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m., with the contest airing live on ESPN3, Liberty Channel and the Big South Network.
Milestone Watch – Antwan Burrus posted 10 points, this past Saturday versus Western Carolina, surpassing the 800-point mark for his Liberty career. Burrus (802) now needs 198 more tallies to join teammate John Caleb Sanders in Liberty's 1,000-point club. The redshirt senior forward also needs seven more blocked shots (currently at 106) to become No. 2 all-time in the program's record books.
Bench Points – Liberty has been outscored off the bench, 64-33, in its last two contests. During the span, the Flames' starters have accounted for over 75 percent of the team's scoring.
Three-ball – Liberty's sharp shooters could have some time in the lime ight during the clash with the Seahawks. Through its first four games, UNCW is allowing approximately nine three-pointers per game. The Flames will look to bounce back after hitting just three treys against Western Carolina, the team's fewest since knocking down a trio of three-pointers in an 82-80 win at Campbell, last season.
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
Out of Africa....
Since this was my second trip to the Dark Continent, I was somewhat prepared... but not entirely, as it turned out. When I asked why shops shut by 4 .30pm and remain closed over weekends ( more or less), locals explained it had to do with safety in a terrifyingly violent society, which sees armed robberies on a daily basis. The streets are empty after dark, and visitors are advised never to flash their cell phones or any cash. Public transport barely exists and cabs are unsafe. Night life comes to a standstill by 10pm ( that's when Mumbai gets into first gear!). Despite that, there are some fabulous restaurants like Harvey's, and once the South African Sauvignon Blanc starts to flow, nothing matters, not even the possibility of getting mugged en route to the waiting car!
The whales in Capetown greeted me by name, and the penguins rushed to shake my hand. It was only the baboons who refused to make eye contact, but I wasn't interested in flirting with them either. After eating kudu samosas at Moyo's, and ostrich fillets at a superlative restaurant in the Tokwara vineyard, my palate had broken free and was feeling adventurous enough to sample anything - from wilde beast steaks to zebra medallions. It is easy to be seduced by Capetown's many splendours. But I left my heart in the prestigious Stellenbosch university campus. To call it 'pretty' is to undermine its spectacular beauty, spread over acres of flowering trees and lushly landscaped gardens. I was bewitched. So, when the erudite Rector of the University asked whether I'd like to come back and take a few creative writing classes there, I jumped at the chance and said 'yes, yes, yes' instantly.
The skies over Capetown are like no other in the world ( Paris comes in at second spot). Driving to the Southern tip, better known as the Cape of Good Hope ( or, the Cape of Storms), I couldn't get over their vastness, as the two oceans ( Indian and Atlantic) collided angrily along the rocky shore, while in the distance, the waters merged with the heavens above. I balanced uneasily and unsteadily over the rocks, while Calvin, my charming minder, clicked pictures for the album.
My flight back was rather dramatic.... but more on that tomorrow. I am satiated after a hearty meal of desi ghar ka khaana ( velvety baigan bharta and garlicy toor daal ). Babita, my masseuse , had pounded my weary bones for an hour earlier. Sleep beckons.... if I were Shashi Tharoor, I'd tweet .... cho chweet!! But mercifully....I am not. If I can upload my amazing pictures cuddling lion cubs, I'll do so tomorrow. But for now.... good night.
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Lion cubs ???
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(Right now, I have a date with the lions.)
- September 20, 2009 at 12:50 AM
- The Panorama said...
South Africa is beautiful so I can't wait to see the pics:) Welcome back!
- September 20, 2009 at 2:25 AM
- Pratap said...
Its good to have you back.
Look forward to seeing your pictures.
And hearing your take on the tweet about the holy cows :-)
- September 20, 2009 at 5:42 AM
- Harish said...
Welcome back De. U really had a phataka time in Africa. Lion Cubs and all aaaah! Waiting waiting for the pictures.
BTW, i loved your ending ka Tichki about Shashi Tharoor. He is quite active on twitter, reacts to all comments and inquiries, and quite smartly.
I feel, we take things a little too literally. The very Hyperventiling Jayanti Maami needs some serious Twitter Tuition. I started this Twitter Poll in a lighter vein, asking people to respond to the Cattle Class Issue, and here are the results.
If we should take language literally, we should take objection to slumdog too na. Remember, i thought Slum Dog was derogatory... i was ignorant, and was corrected by you. Now, shashi tharoor says that he didnt mean aam junta but referred to the term in a non-literal meaning, he meant reforms, etc.
Anyways, It is a matter of immense pride to be called cattle class traveler.
There is some Mandatory Distance that should be maintained when livestock is transported, as compared to that, local trains mein there is no distance maintained. A man in the gents compartment is treated with the aroma of sweat and armpits. And his body is corroded, felt, molested, pushed, punched and sometimes even wanked by all and sundry... as compared to that, Gow Maata is privileged.
I want to be a Gow Maata next birth... and want to be endowed with the whole silicon valley like Rakhi Sawant... And I want Jayanti maami to travel with me. Bhagwaaaan ! please full fill my wishesss!
- September 20, 2009 at 10:16 AM
- Theyoginme said...
welcome back - you were missed!
- September 20, 2009 at 11:30 AM
- The Unsure Ascetic said...
You cuddled lion cubs? Praise God. It is my dream to pose for a picture like that.
- September 20, 2009 at 3:18 PM
- Vikram Pyati said...
I am a regular reader of your blog. Are you on Twitter ?
- September 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM
- ethereal-lily said...
I would suggest you visit kenya as well. You would have a wonderful experience with wildlife at masai mara :)
- September 20, 2009 at 4:25 PM
- Deviraju said...
welcome back De!
waiting for yr take on 'Wanted'...hav seen it?
- September 20, 2009 at 4:28 PM
- Blah said...
well! this write-up evokes a sense of ecstasy. I so wanna to go to Africa now..perhaps, you have provided a nice word picture and thus made things easier for me...neways m eagerly waiting for ur take on the movie "dil bole hadipa"..
- September 20, 2009 at 9:41 PM
- maglomaniac said...
Having to have fun with such a profound list of scholars must have actually been amazing.
- September 21, 2009 at 12:37 AM
- Chandni (Chanz) said...
Even I have heard that South Africa is a place where the word 'night life' does not even exist.
My mom and dad made a trip about 5 yrs back. And the tales that I have heard are too scary to be true. But I suppose that's because the people there are extremely poor.. I personally have never gone there but I was told that even the airports there are worse than the railway stations here in India. I is quite sad.
But I am glad that you are back. I keep up with your blog but this is the first time that I am commenting..
Hope to see some pictures soon...
Best wishes
- September 21, 2009 at 10:46 AM
- Reflections said...
Everytime I read u I never cease to be amazed by the power u have over words.....as I read, the visuals just keep dancing in front of my eyes.
ummm...not tht it really matters but who were those baboons;-D????????
- September 23, 2009 at 12:08 PM
- Unknown said...
They eat wilde-beast too.
- October 5, 2009 at 3:32 AM
- Unknown said...
nice about africa....
Work from home India
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Sambhar as you all know is a typical South Indian dish and is a everyday staple food in every household in South India.Sambhar is mixture of lentils and vegetables cooked with spices and tamarind.Each state in the South prepares it with a typical variation, adapted to its taste and environment.There are so many variations and methods to prepare sambhar,but I find this method very easy ,quick and tasty...You can use any veggies of your choice or you can prepare only any one or two vegetables together like doodhi,ridgegourd,drumstick,Snakegourd,potatoes with onions to name a few. You can use as much as veggies you like.
Toor Dal/Tuvar/Togari bele-1cup
Turmeric-1/4 tsp
Green Chilles-2,slited
Sambhar powder-1 1/2tsp( any brand, I use Mtr sambhar powder)
Tamarind-small lemon sized
Tomato-1 big
Few Curry Leaves
Salt to taste
Fresh or desicated coconut-1tbsp
Drumstick-1,peeled and chopped into 3inch pieces
Carrot-1,cut into roundels
Indian Brinjal-2,cut into lenthwise pieces
Potato-1medium sized
Beans-5-6,cot into 2halves
For tempering:
Dry red chillies-2
Methi seeds-4-5 seeds
Curry leaves-few
1.Chop all the vegetables into chunky size pieces.Wash and rinse tamarind in warm water for 15minutes,squeeze the juice from pulp and keep it aside.Wash toordal and rinse for 15-20minutes in water.
2.Boil 2/1/2cup -3cups of water in a pressure cooker pan,when it begin to boil add rinsed toordal,turmeric and all the above ingredients including vegetables,tamarind juice and sambhar powder,close the lid and whistle,pressure cook for 2-3 whistles.Wait for pressure to release.Open the lid and add jaggery and boil for
few minutes.
3.Heat oil or ghee in a small tadka pan,add mustard,wait until it splutters then add methi,hing,dry chillies and curry leaves fry for second and add this to sambhar.
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LifeWorks Northwest - King/NE Portland
Had my own bathroom and kitchen, you cook your own meals, shop for your food, although building is ran down, bed was comfortable. They made every possible effort to provide services that I needed.
Sobriety House, Inc.
They let me work day labor on the weekends. I have been Clean & Sober for 25 years. They had a 3/4 house where I could rent an apartment and had a meeting there once a week for my aftercare treatment. I have been sober since leaving the program. The program taught me that there was another way of life that included Prayer and Meditation. 1 of my counselors taught me how to meditate and how to grow Spiritually. I had to get rid of my old ideas about what I thought about Religion and to choose a God that I wanted in my life.
Lutheran Community Services Northwest- Portland Office
providing a good support network
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Mark Messer, LSWPrimary Therapist Ohio Addiction Recovery Center
Mark is a native of Columbus, Ohio. In 2014, he graduated from The Ohio State University with and Undergraduate degree in Social Work. He is a Licensed Social Worker (LSW) and specializes in chemical dependency counseling, adolescent therapy, family dynamics, and strength based therapy. He started with Ohio Addiction Recovery Center in October 2015, shortly after opening. He has recently started working in Equine Assisted Therapy, and Recreational Therapy. I He believes in putting his heart and soul into savings the lives of every client he comes into contact with.Show Bio
Clifford Q Cabansag, MD, CTTSAddiction Medicine Physician Lindner Center of HOPE
As an addiction specialist, Dr. Cabansag brings addiction medicine expertise to the Lindner Center of HOPE team. Prior to joining us at LCOH, Dr. Cabansag trained as an Addiction Medicine Fellow at Cincinnati VAMC / University of Cincinnati, which was one of only 10 such fellowships to be recognized by the American Board of Addiction Medicine in their 2011 inaugural accreditations. While there, he received extensive training in substance use disorders, particularly in opioid, tobacco and alcohol use disorders. Likewise, his training included the treatment of co-occurring psychiatric disorders as well as motivational interviewing.Show Bio
Nancy Jones Keogh, PhDClinical Director Community Health Center
Dr. Nancy Jones Keogh joined Community Health Center in 1996 and serves as the Clinical Director overseeing all behavioral health programs. Her areas of expertise include psychological assessment and diagnosis, treatment of anxiety disorders and addiction treatment. In addition to her duties at CHC, she is in private practice and is a member of the medical staff at Akron General Medical Center and is an adjunct clinical faculty member at The University of Akron.Show Bio
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Dir/scr: Aaron Douglas Johnston. US. 2013. 72mins
With its low-key Iowa backdrop and engaging non-professional actors, Aaron Douglas Johnston's immersive and gently watchable My Sister's Quinceañera is one of those unusual and quite rare US indies that favours a modest insightful story over overburdened storylines punctuated by cameo performances from well-known faces.
The film's gently immersive naturalism and strong use of the unshowy locations help give My Sister's Quinceañera a sense of honest and compassion.
The film had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Set amongst Mexican-American residents of small-town Iowa, the film dwells simply and honestly with the pressures of family ties. Silas (Silas Garcia) lives with his mother (there is no sign of a father) and extended family of siblings. It is summer and he and his best friend talk idly about leaving…he has no fixed plans, but knows quite simply that he needs to leave.
The family prepares for the festive celebration of the 15th birthday of Silas' sister. For the family the quinceañera is an important event, marking the moment when a girl becomes a woman. A beautiful dress is bought, there is dance practice (where Silas watches, and slowly gets to start a tentative romance), bickering between his younger sisters and a white stretch limo is hired.
The film's gently immersive naturalism, with many of the non-professional actors related and therefore displaying a natural warmth and affinity with each other, and strong use of the unshowy locations help give My Sister's Quinceañera a sense of honest and compassion. The story maybe low-key – and subdued even – and gently undramatic, but the characters and their modest journey is very watchable and beautifully played.
Production companies: Double Life Productions, Stichting Small Town
Producer/contact: Aaron Douglas Johnston, firstname.lastname@example.com
Cinematography: Hayo van Gemert
Editor: Xander Nijsten
Production designer: Sanne Himmelreich, Rianne Ebeling
Music: Juho Nurmela, Alekos Vuskovic
Website: http://www.mysistersquinceanera.com/
Main cast: Silas Garcia, Samantha Garcia, Becky Garcia, Elizabeth Agapito, Tanner McCulley, Nicole Streat, Josefina Garcia


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Made up of three levels, Five is a much more complex map than Kino der Toten. Like Kino der Toten, there is a power switch you must turn on. It's located in the basement, but reaching it is an expensive feat worth about $4,000. That's easily five rounds if you can pinch every dollar. Remember that the strategy for building a small fortune in the beginning stays relatively constant with the only variable being positioning and pacing.
Starting Off[edit]
Hold out in the starting room for about four rounds, essentially saving money for turning the power back on. To get to the basement, you need to access the first floor elevator, clear up a couple blockades, use the elevator again to reach the basement and voila. With the power back on, the teleporters will work, but in order to get the PAP upgrades, you'll need to set the Def Con level to 5. To do that, activate all four switches in the war room.
The Pentagon Tech[edit]
Unique to this map is the Pentagon tech who randomly spawns once the power is turned on and whose toughness increases in the later rounds. His baneful existence is meant to piss you off by stealing your weapons and rocking in general a fair bit of bullet resistance. That means you'll need to be hitting him hard with a lightning storm of ratatatat (that's the sound a machine gun makes, apparently), grenades, and Claymores.
The Pentagon tech's arrival is preceded by the lights turning blue, so when that happens it's time to set up the streamers and cake as a welcome. By streamers and a cake, we obviously mean Claymores. The cake is a lie. Plant them by the elevator and prepare to inundate the cretin with grenades and relentless gunfire. Reloading wastes time when it is of the essence, so for this reason have both your weapons fully stocked. If he runs at you, switch over to a weapon that you're less likely to choke someone over if you lose it.
However, as annoying as he is, it's definitely worth killing him, as doing so rewards you with Fire sale which is the mystery box with a reduced cost of 10 per use. Even better if you manage to eliminate the bastard before he succeeds in making away with anyone's weapons, the Bonfire sale cuts PAP upgrades down to $1,000 and bestows the mystery box discount as well.
Five's Unique Features[edit]
Five's special weapon, Winter's Howl, is a handy weapon that freezes Zombies. One suggestion for finding the mystery box is to look through the windows so you're not wasting any money unlocking doors unnecessarily. Besides that, the elevator and teleporter are your ticket out of any emergency situation. There aren't a whole lot of places in Five where you can hold down the fort. Think on your feet -- you'll be running a lot -- and communicate: these are the two best pieces of advice we can give.
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Well, there you have it. We've lent you the knowledge, so now all you have to do is walk the walk.
With more practice and these tips now at your fingertips, your survivability will be so considerably improved that the rest of your friends or hapless strangers from the internets will unavoidably fall prey to these powerful undead Nazis while you laugh at their misfortune.


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How To Choose
When choosing a glider for yourself, you will need to take time to first consider if you are ready to adopt a glider. The deposit is Non-Refundable. Deposits can hold your Sugar Gliders up to 30 days. If you need help, please visit us Glider Request page.
Things to think about before choosing a glider are:
- Do you have other pets
- Can you keep your glider safe
- Do you have time to bond with your glider
- Do you already to have a glider? Will they be good cagemates
- Can you arrange to pick your glider up at the airport?
Please be sure to read our FAQ's to be sure you can become a responsible Sugar Glider owner.
We do not ship gliders through the typical mail system. Our gliders are sent through commercial flights with our specially made live animal shipping process.Learn More
Care Tips
Here are a few tips for caring for you glider
Sugar gliders are very active animals with high metabolisms. Therefore it is important that you keep sugar glider food in their cage at all times. For the primary meal, we recommend you serve them the fresh diet listed here on a daily basis in the late afternoon, periodically providing healthy treats and mealworms. And of course make sure they have fresh filtered water at all times. In addition to the primary meal, keeping cereal and monkey biscuits in their cage as "free feed" options is highly recommended.
The Pet Glider Fresh Diet: The Pet Glider Fresh Diet consists of apple sauce, yogurt, calcium-fortified orange juice, oatmeal, protein (chicken, turkey or eggs), fresh or frozen vegetables and fruits. 1 ½ tablespoons per glider per day served in late afternoon. The recipe follows.
Vitamins: You must sprinkle a good multivitamin/multi-mineral, with calcium, on your gliders food everyday. These should be specifically made for sugar gliders with calcium to phosphorous ratio of at least 2:1.DO NOT USE REPTILE VITAMINS FOR YOUR SMALL MAMMAL! The Pet Glider Complete Multi-Vitamin with Calcium is the only human grade vitamin supplement on the market. It is sold by many other breeders and supply companies all over the United States. It comes in a 180 and 360 day supply and can be purchased through The Pet Glider store on our website. We cannot stress enough how important additional vitamins are to the health of your sugar gliders. The sugar glider's high diet of fruits and vegetables contains inverse amounts of phosphorous to calcium. High phosphorus and low calcium leaches calcium from their bones making the bones brittle and easily broken or fractured. Calcium deficiency will make your glider sick, then will cause hind leg or total paralysis, and will kill them. If you notice any trembling or shaking (on a consistent basis, not just when scared), or any trouble climbing in the cage or hanging on to the perch, contact your exotic animal vet immediately. Neocalglucon or Calciquid (calcium glubionate in a sweet syrup), is an excellent product to rebuild calcium quickly, your vet (one who is very knowledgeable in sugar gliders) can instruct you on how much and how often to give this calcium supplement. Do not feed these high phosphorous foods: beef, most seeds, nuts and cottage cheese – eliminate these foods from your gliders diet. Corn is also high in phosphorus and should be fed sparingly and an occasional almond is fine. Just think moderation. Prevention is your safest bet, so use vitamins daily and we feel ours is the best. CLICK HERE TO ORDER
Fresh Water: You must be sure to provide your sugar glider with fresh water daily. We recommend you use filtered water and never let your water bottle be empty. As an additional beverage, you can mix ½ filtered water with ½ 100% fruit juice; like 100% apple juice, but we recommend that only 3 times per week. WE DO NOT recommend Glideraide because it is high in sugar and it contains an unspecified amount of vitamins which could be too much when combined with other vitamins given on a daily basis. We recommend the Lixit glass water bottle and it is available on our store on our website. CLICK HERE TO ORDER
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Monkey Biscuits: We recommend and sell the Mazuri Growth and Repro biscuits which consist of 25% protein. Monkey Biscuits are not a nutritional requirement for our diet, however, they contain a dental guard and will help keep your sugar glider's teeth clean and healthy. Our recommendation is ½ to 1 biscuit per glider per day. CLICK HERE TO ORDER
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Pacific Pool Plumbing necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 30 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
We are a swimming pool plumbing contractor looking to completely redesign our current tri-fold brouchure/mailer. We want it to be a postcard design, 2 sided color.
Desired Color Scheme:
any colors
Desired Style:
clean, fresh, eye grabbing, catchy
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png)
The brochure we have now is cluttered and does not have as may photos as we would like.
Postcard size 6" x 9"
We do not want all of the employees names and phone numbers listed. This is the only info we will need listed.
Pacific Pool Plumbing, Inc   License # C-36 758171
19921 Temescal Canyon Rd, Corona, Ca 92881
Phone (951) 735-7844 Fax (951) 734-4076
You may take any photos or information that you need from our web site or from here (you may view the old flyer here): http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/…cificpool/
We want out website listed: http://www.PacificPoolPlumbing.com make take photos from our website to put on the postcard.)
 3 Keywords on the flyer are to be: Highest Quality, Unmatched Service, Competitive Pricing
The text that we want included on the brochure will be as follows:
- We service ALL of Southern California
- Licensed for over 30 years
- Plumbing crews that can handle any job (ex: in-floor cleaning systems, commercial projects, residential, remodels, waterfalls, fountains, ponds, etc.)
- Full time service crew, that provides next day or second day service on a routine basis
- Field supervisors to make sure your job is done per your request and to answer any questions that you may have
- Full time office personnel to help with scheduling, service, billing and any other issues
- We will be happy to bid difficult or large jobs, and our experienced staff can help with plumbing design and layout
- We are very competitively priced with other licensed and insured plumbing contractorsI will need any area on the postcard to attach a stamp and mailing label . It will also need to include our return address.
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Are you having trouble managing your product development or software projects? Are you having trouble finishing work?
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- Do you have way more than 40 hours of work sitting on your desk—and they've been there for months?
- Are your projects late?
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- Do your products disappoint your customers?
- Are you losing great people?
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I'm a management consultant for software managers and leaders. I can help you solve your problems and seize the opportunities you know exist—but can't find yet.
Through my management consulting services, I help you identify your unique strengths and manage your weaknesses, whether it's managing your projects, hiring technical people, leadership skill development or managing risk. I suggest options for you, and then you decide on an appropriate set of actions. If you like, I help you plan how to accomplish those activities and coach you through those changes.
If you're struggling with your projects right now, see my public project management workshop: Manage It! Pragmatic Project Management. If you know that you want to move to an agile approach to projects, see my Deliver What the Business Needs Using Agile and Lean Project Management workshop. If you're trying to make agile work with a distributed team, see my experiential workshop, Making Geographically Distributed Agile Projects Work.
Sometimes, I assess projects or functional groups. Sometimes, I coach managers or leaders in the organization.
I offer interactive workshops for all managers and leaders in the organization: project management training, program management training, building your hiring skills and interviewing skills, leading people, and adaptable problem-solving.
I offer Agile training also: Deliver What the Business Needs Using Agile and Lean Project Management training, how to make the transition to Agile project management, and Hiring for an Agile team. I also offer a simulation-based workshop, Making Geographically Distributed Agile Projects Work for those of you attempting to move to agile with teams all over the world. If you have agile projects working and want to make the organization congruent with the projects, consider Designing the Agile Organization.
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WEG Electric Motor Corporation is the largest Latin American electric motor manufacturer and is present on five continents in more than 60 countries. The company develops a large part of its own technology and has been using CFD to improve products performance.
One particular interest is the cooling systems of electric motors. The cooling system is responsible for keeping the temperature of the internal components within a specific range to maintain or increase the life of the motor.
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today was a special day – it was our last day serving coffee & toast out of our little tent inside of the construction site that is soon to be The Mill. we heard from many of our regular customers that they didn't want the tent to go, that they'd come to love the tent vibe, where they'd eat their toast & coffee while leaning next to a sack of concrete, all to the soundtrack of chainsaws in the backyard. but friends, all things must pass, and so today we said goodbye to the tent. hopefully this wonderful little lady will keep coming to visit us, even though we'll be tent-less.
but why why why, why is the tent going away?
because we've got a frikkin cafe bakery to open dudes, and we can't do it with a tent plopped right down in the middle of the space.
so here we go, for real this time – we're closed to finish the build out, and we're gonna open up that whole sucker at the end of the month.
but since i have you here, i'd love to share a bit with you about what i've been doing for the last month or so. mostly i've been at The Mill, test baking up a storm, but also setting a loooooooot of tile on the walls and counters. mind you, i had no idea how to set tile a few weeks ago, but truth is, you can do anything if you put your mind to it. check it out! ain't it purty?
but make no mistake, i haven't completely given up adventuring outside of the bakery, oh no. just last weekend i had the pleasure of going on a moonlit trip to a secret lake, where me and my man love Rafi had ourselves an extremely brief night swim. i even did a front flip off a rock into the water, which made me very proud of myself. check out our cute little butts:
i hope Rafi doesn't mind that i'm showing you his bum.
i've had to stop delivering bread for the time being, as i am just too darn busy with the build out. regardless, i got a glimpse of what it's like to be one of those lucky bread loaves, as i did find time to give my good friend Ben Hardy a ride around the Mission in my bread trailer.
i've also really been exploring my hippie roots, making breads like this one, which was a 100% whole grain sourdough loaf, made with a blend of red wheat, white wheat, and spelt, then covered in wheat bran and oatmeal. i mean, come on, it doesn't get much more crunchy than that, but what can i say, i LOVE it.
expect a lot more of that stuff once we get rolling. and baguettes! i've fallen in love with making baguettes. and people tell me that they taste pretty fine. expect to see a lot of these once we've opened up, too.
and, well, a picture is worth a thousand words, so i will let you figure out what the heck is going on here:
soooo, i'll see you on January 30? i hope so. just a quick sneak peak about what we've got in store beyond the bread: toast out the wazoo, a few cookies for you to munch on with your afternoon cup of joe, perhaps a brownie or two spiked with some FourBarrel espresso, oven-baked oatmeal w/ maple syrup, house-made granola w/ yogurt, cornbread w/ crumble top, and maybe just maybe we'll have some afternoon *P*I*E* for ya. only time will tell now won't it.
really cannot wait y'all, so pumped to share this with all of you.
loves yas
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Nerf guns are fun, but sometimes it's hard to use one without looking like you're at an eight-year-old's birthday party. One toy gun tinkerer, however, made his own - and it's like something out of a Bond flick.
The DIY pistol is by no means the first in adult-looking Nerf weaponry, but I've never seen one so slickly minimal, and so downright classy. The aluminium and wooden construction look sexier than anything that resembles an actual piece of military hardware.
The entire assembly is homemade, housed inside aluminium and PVC piping. A spring was culled from another gun, and the entire mechanism is deliciously hidden away. Simon, the gun's creator, was even kind enough to put his directions online, should you feel like building your own moon assassin sidearm. [Asciimation via MAKE]


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The Atlanta Falcons avenged their only defeat of the season by downing fierce division rivals New Orleans 23-13 on Thursday, leaving the Saints' playoff hopes hanging by a thread.
Having lost to the Saints in New Orleans three weeks ago, the Falcons turned the tables on home turf to improve to 11-1 on the season, all but wrapping up the NFC South.
Saints quarterback Drew Brees completed 28 of 50 passes for 341 yards, but was left to rue five interceptions, the most of his career for a single game, as his team dropped to 5-7 with just four games remaining.
It was the first time since week four 2009 Brees failed to throw for a touchdown, leaving his NFL record of consecutive games with a touchdown throw at 54.
Atlanta led 17-0 early in the second quarter, but a Mark Ingram touchdown reduced the lead to 17-7 and it appeared New Orleans would finish the half with more points.
The Saints mismanaged the final drive of the first half, allowing the clock to expire despite being in the red zone, stalling a comeback run.
The Green Bay Packers (7-4), Seattle Seahawks (6-5), Tampa Bay Buccaneers (6-5), Minnesota Vikings (6-5), Washington Redskins (5-6) and Dallas Cowboys (5-6) all sit in front of the Saints in the battle for two wild-card berths.
Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan was 18 for 33 for 165 yards and a touchdown.
"Playing New Orleans has been difficult for us the last couple of years, we've been in close games, and we just haven't been able to pull them out. Tonight feels good," Ryan said. "It was a great game played by our defense. Our defense came out here and created five turnovers. We started off hot on offense and got some points early, kind of struggled the rest of the game, but our defense kept us in it and it was a good team win."
With the division title just a Tampa Bay loss or another win away, focus is already turning to whether the Falcons can reverse their run of poor playoff performances.
In 2008, 2010 and last year the Falcons bombed out of the playoffs with big losses.
"It's not something we can worry about right now," Ryan said. "I think if you're worried about January in September, October, November and December you're wasting your time."
Ryan did admit past disappointment was a big factor in the impressive 11-1 record.
"I think everybody is a little bit hungrier," he explained.
"We have had some disappointments at the end of our seasons the last couple of years, but I think those disappointments have stuck with everybody and motivated everybody and we have latched on to that momentum and built on it," he said.


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Clergy and Economists: Allies Not Adversaries
Members of the clergy and those who work as economists have formed their understandings of the world by examining it through different windows. Yet, the social objectives of both are remarkably similar, even though their windows on the world suggest different approaches to achieve those objectives. The differences between them are in their emphasis on how to achieve their common objectives. These differences in approach are important and should not be understated, but neither should they be overstated as they almost always are.
While the clergy and economists emphasize different paths to their common objectives, those paths complement each other. Yet they are commonly discussed as if they represent morally irreconcilable differences in objectives because people tend to confuse means with ends.
My hope is that members of the clergy, in their desire to achieve a better world, will begin to see economists as allies instead of adversaries. This hope may be dismissed as preposterous by some since, as an economist, I argue that market incentives are the most effective way of achieving many of the social outcomes most of the clergy favor. But those most opposed to market incentives for achieving desirable objectives have the most to gain by taking a look through the economic window. Much of the skepticism, indeed hostility, towards markets is based on distorted and mistaken views of how markets operate and what they accomplish.
Religious differences notwithstanding, most people respect the clergy for their noble objectives and effort to achieve those objectives by encouraging and celebrating "the better angels of our nature" mentioned in Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address. Most approve of the clergy's concern with encouraging behavior such as sharing with, and serving the interests of, others; helping the poor; sacrificing for the good of the wider community; acting as good stewards of the earth's resources; being concerned with protecting the environment; and generally living a life that promotes social cooperation and harmony.
Such a claim on behalf of economists would be met with incredulity and probably derision. The common view is that they are primarily interested in money and financial success; more likely to celebrate economic competition than social cooperation, with little regard for those left behind; prone to see profit and private property as ends in themselves, with little regard for the unfortunate consequences that can result from their pursuit, including the harm imposed on the environment and future generations; and more concerned with how greedy individuals can secure more for themselves than with how they can share with, and promote the general well-being.
This view of economists, and their objectives, is a caricature. Like most caricatures, it may contain an ounce of truth. But it also contains several pounds of distortion. Economists are indeed interested in money, competition, profits, private property, and the influence of self-interest on human action. But they are interested in these things not as ends, but as a means of achieving more social cooperation, service to others, and better stewardship of the environment and our resources.
The Narrow and the Noble
It is useful to consider two broad approaches to improving the world. The first is to improve people so that they do the right things out of a sense of moral duty. The second approach is to improve incentives so people are motivated to do the right things because it is in their interest to do so. A reasonable generalization is that the clergy emphasizes the former approach to improving the world, while economists emphasize the second.
While improving incentives lacks the sense of moral uplift provided by improving people, better incentives can, and often do, lead to a better world. The point is not that improving the world by improving people is futile. Looking through their window may result in economists being too dismissive of the possibilities and benefits of improving people. But looking through their window may cause the clergy to be too dismissive of better incentives as a sorry substitute for morality improvement. A more reasonable view is that both improving incentives and improving people complement each other. This was recognized by Dennis Robertson, a colleague of John Maynard Keynes at Cambridge University (but not a Keynesian himself), who observed:
There exists in every human breast an inevitable state of tension between the aggressive and acquisitive instincts and the instincts of benevolence and self-sacrifice. It is for the preacher, lay or clerical, to inculcate the ultimate duty of subordinating the former to the latter. It is the humbler, and often invidious, role of the economist to help, so far as he can, in reducing the preacher's task to manageable dimensions.
In addition to Robertson's recognition that the clergy and economists have, in their different ways, joint responsibilities in working toward a better world, it is important to note that he also recognizes that human nature consists of both the acquisitive and the benevolent. This is an obvious point, noteworthy only because so many people assume that economists believe human behavior is motivated entirely by self-interest, or more pejoratively, greed. That is not true now, and never has been. Economists have always recognized that people are motivated by some mix of the narrow and the noble. Indeed, Adam Smith, who is often mistakenly dismissed as an apostle of greed, begins his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, with the sentence, "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it."
Economists do commonly assume that people are motivated solely by self-interest to better understand what social institutions, and the incentives they embody, best motivate widespread cooperation among those who have no direct knowledge of, or concern for, each other.
Complementary Views
I am not trying to convince members of the clergy to forsake the perspective from their window on the world and shift their allegiance to the economists' perspective. First, I couldn't succeed even if that was my purpose. People invest serious effort in achieving an understanding of the world, and this understanding, along with an accompanying belief system, provides a valuable sense of coherence and meaning to our lives not easily given up.
Just as I cannot imagine giving up my economic understandings, and the beliefs informed by them, I certainly don't expect to convince members of the clergy to give up their understandings and beliefs.
Second, I have no desire to convince members of the clergy to shift their perspective to that provided by the economic view of the world. The window that informs the clergy is an important one. The clergy have insights and understandings that are useful in improving our lives and our world in ways that cannot be clearly seen, if seen at all, through the economists' window. And by specializing in helping people improve themselves through spiritual and moral teachings, I believe the understandings of the clergy complement those of economists in achieving the noble objectives we have in common.
My desire is to convince members of the clergy that they and economists really do share common objectives and have complementary approaches for achieving them. When economists talk about such things as private property, exchange, market prices, money, and financial profits and losses, we honestly believe we are talking about social arrangements that make the world a better place - a more humane and prosperous place, where billions of people cooperate through a global network of communication, service and sharing to reduce poverty, feed the hungry, care for the sick, protect our environment, conserve and expand our resource base, and promote a host of other noble objectives. Some members of the clergy, along with others, will disagree with this economic understanding of the world. But please don't conclude from this, as many do, that economists are not committed to achieving these noble objectives.


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From: Daniel Worley <dan@e...>
Date: Fri Jan 21, 2000 9:30 am
Subject: Soundproof Cabinet
Hello, acoustics list members,
I hope I'm on topic with your list. I would like to buy or have built a
4-bay (19" bays), 33"-high, soundproof, equipment cabinet. I'm not a
builder (heck, I can barely spread peanut butter), so I need to get
someone experienced I could pay to build it, or find a company that
already makes something close to what I need.
I have no closet space and I run a digital studio. The fan noise to all
this gear is driving me nuts. I've looked into some of the stuff that's
on the prosumer market, i.e., IsoBox--it's not what I want. I see
pictures of these beautiful cabinets in recording studio magazines, but
I can't find any information on who makes them.
I said soundproof, but maybe I don't need--or can't get--it completely
soundproof. I want it closed off and vented to either the basement or
outside. It would be nice if it had glass doors in front, and, of
course, I need some way to get to the cabling.
The whole thing has me stumped so I was hoping you guys could give me
some ideas or point me in the right direction. I realize I will have to
buy keyboard and monitor extensions, that's not a problem.
Here's a list of some of the stuff I would like to stick in this thing.
Mackie d8b CPU
Sony DSR-80 DVCAM VTR (sounds like a jet taking off)
Mac G3 and 9600 (why did I buy towers? these could be a problem)
Various hard drives for A/V
CDR-RW (I can't believe how loud this thing is)
2 ADATs
That's it for the major noise producers. The samplers and stuff can't go
in there; I don't need them on all the time anyway.
One thing I'm worried about is vibrations and resonsance with all this
stuff in one cabinet.
If you can help, that would be great.
Dan Worley


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Round 56
Round 56 - Twist of Fate finishes on Friday, 9th May at 20:00 GMT.
The End of Round Ceremony (EoRC) is scheduled to be held on the same day at 21:00 GMT for an hour in #planetarion on irc.netgamers.org (accessible via the com unit). It will consist of:
-interviews with the top players
-interviews with the top galaxy
-interviews with representatives of the top alliance
-the alliance competition (allcomp), where users will [tag] in their nickname for their alliance, and the winning alliance will win 3 credits.
Round 56 Havoc
Havoc this round will be slightly different.
Havoc will start at 09:00 GMT on Saturday, 10th May and continue until Thursday, 22nd May at 20:00 GMT.
Havoc setup as follows:
-All researches completed
-500 million resources total (split over metal/crystal/eonium according to race)
-3000 asteroids total (split over metal/crystal/eonium according to race)
-30 of each factory, 30 wave amplifiers, 50 security centres and 30 of each refinery ADDED to each planet
-Fleets recalled
-XP kept
-Asteroid mining limits increased to 8 million asteroids total
-Maximum construction limit set at 800 constructions
-Ticks set at every 15 minutes.
-All alliances will be deleted
-Every cluster will be placed into its own alliance (with alliance defence enabled). They will all be of HC rank and it will not be possible to demote or remove a member.
-Every galaxy will have its own special asteroid, allocated randomly to a member of the galaxy. This will either give a bonus in resources, research time, construction time or production time (all bonuses will be 10%).
-An additional bonus set of donations will be given on Saturday, 17th May.
-Which cluster will win? Game on!
World Cup
To celebrate the world cup, we will be running some world cup speedgames.
These will consist of:
-(up to) 8 man galaxies
-2 minute ticks
-Specialised stats
-Golden asteroids
-No bash limit
-A slightly different setup to be announced closer to the time
These will be held as follows:
Warmup Match
-Signups open on Thursday, 19th June at approximately 20:00 GMT.
-Ticks run from 12:00 GMT Saturday 21st June - 12:00 GMT Sunday 22nd June
-Open "beta"
-No specification of one galaxy being a particular country
-General free for all
-Havoc for the remainder of Sunday!
-Signups open on Thursday, 26th June at approximately 20:00 GMT.
-Ticks run from 12:00 GMT Saturday 28th June - 12:00 GMT Sunday 29th June
-Each team must be Europe or non-Europe aligned (as a minimum, country-specific tags are welcome)
-Recommended country-themed galaxy flags
-Europe-based galaxies will be in C2
-Non-Europe-based galaxies will be in C3
-No interaction between the clusters
-Top 5 galaxies in each cluster as of 12:00 GMT on Sunday, 29th of June qualify for the final.
The final!
-Signups open on Thursday, 3rd July at approximately 20:00 GMT.
-Ticks run from
12:00 GMT Saturday 5th July - 12:00 GMT Sunday 6th July
-Teams based on those who qualified previous weekend; up to 3 "substitutions" allowed from the previous galaxy list
-All European teams in C2
-All Non-European teams in C3
-Cluster-wide alliances
-Prizes for winners
Round 57
Round 57 signups will open on Friday, 23rd May at 20:00 GMT. Round 57 will require you to pay for a credit if you wish to upgrade your account.
Submissions for Round 57's name are NOW OPEN - please e-mail suggestions to
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Round 57 Ticks will start Friday, 30th May at 20:00 GMT and continue for 7 weeks, until the 18th of July.
-Maximum buddy pack sizes will increase to 4, with 1 late joiner to galaxies formed from these buddy packs from tick 336 onwards. Galaxies formed by buddy packs of 3 will gain 2 late joiners at tick 336.
-Stats are yet to be confirmed.
More changes will be announced closer to signup.
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Zendesk Support can monitor one or more Twitter accounts and convert tweets to tickets as needed. All tweet activity between agents and Twitter users is added as ticket comments. Using the Twitter channel, you can do the following:
- Convert a tweet into a ticket and respond to the user with a tweet, or move the conversation to email
- Bulk convert multiple tweets into tickets in one step
- Convert tweets to tickets outside of Zendesk Support by liking a tweet in twitter.com and many other Twitter clients
- Automatically capture public mentions and direct messages as tickets
- Append ticket links to outgoing tweets
- Select which of your accounts agents are allowed to use when sending outgoing tweets
- Monitor and take action on Twitter activity using business rules
If you are looking for information about how your agents can work with Twitter-generated tickets, see Managing tickets from Twitter.
Only administrators have access to the incoming tweets; however, once they've been converted to tickets all agent types have access to them unless you've otherwise restricted their access to certain types of tickets (by restricting them to an organization, or by customizing Enterprise agent roles to exclude this permission, for example).
It's important to note however that once a tweet becomes a ticket it behaves just like any other ticket in Zendesk Support. The one exception to this is that you have the option of replying back to the Twitter user with a public tweet or moving the conversation to email.
Topics covered in this article:
- How tweets become tickets
- Adding Twitter accounts to your Twitter channel
- Editing Twitter account settings
- Removing Twitter accounts from your Twitter channel
- Appending ticket links to outgoing tweets
- Managing Twitter tickets with business rules
- Understanding why your Twitter channel might be deauthorized
How tweets become tickets
You can control if and how incoming tweets become tickets. Here are several scenarios for managing incoming tweets and converting them to tickets.
- Likes. Convert tweets outside of Zendesk Support by liking them in your Twitter client. This approach allows you to manually choose tweets to convert before they ever reach Zendesk Support.
- Mentions and direct messages. Automatically create tickets from public tweets that contain your Twitter account handle or from direct messages. Sometimes, tickets that are not support requests and that don't need follow-up are created. You can manage these out of your ticket queue by manually solving and closing or deleting them.
- Triggers. Use one or more triggers to monitor new support requests that originate from your Twitter channel. You can use the trigger condition Ticket Channel, which has the following three Twitter sources: Twitter, Twitter DM (direct message), and Twitter Like. The advantage to this approach is that you have much more control over the creation and management of Twitter-based tickets. See Managing Twitter tickets with business rules below.
Which approach you take might be based on your overall Twitter traffic or the number of administrators who are available to monitor and convert tweets, or the number of agents you have available to deal with support requests. You may want to use a combination of all of these approaches.
Adding Twitter accounts to your Twitter channel
To start, you need to add at least one Twitter account to your Twitter channel. You can add as many Twitter accounts as you need. For example, your company may have different Twitter handles for different aspects of the company (sales, support, operations, and so on).
You can also watch this short video.
To add a Twitter account
- Click the Admin icon (), then select Channels > Twitter.
- Select the Twitter accounts tab.
- Click Add Twitter account.
- You'll be prompted to log in to Twitter and then authorize Zendesk Support to use your account. Enter your login information and then click Authorize App.
After your account has been authorized, your newly added Twitter account will be listed on the Twitter accounts tab. You'll want to edit the account's settings to control how tweets to this account are handled (see Editing Twitter account settings for descriptions of the settings).
By default any responses to a tweet will be from the account the tweet was directed to. You can select a different account from the Reply as drop-down list under the ticket reply box. If you want to automatically respond from one account, you can disable Allow replies via this account when editing your other Twitter accounts (see Editing Twitter account settings).
Automatically converting tweets to tickets
As shown in the table above, you can choose to automatically convert public mentions and direct messages into tickets (Capture public mentions as tickets and Capture incoming direct messages as tickets). If you enable these, the option to manually convert tweets to tickets will no longer be available for that Twitter account.
Editing Twitter account settings
After you've added a Twitter account, you should configure some basic settings for the account.
To edit settings for a Twitter account
- Click the Admin icon (), then select Channels > Twitter.
- Select the Twitter accounts tab.
- Click Edit beside the Twitter account you want to edit.
- Update settings as needed.
The settings are described in the following table.
- Click Update Twitter account.
Allow replies via this account
This setting allows agents to use this Twitter account when replying to a Twitter ticket.
Agents can select the account below the reply box on a Twitter ticket:
Replies to tickets from Twitter retain the original inbound format.
For example, if the ticket was created from a direct message (DM), then the agents reply from within Zendesk will also be a DM. If the ticket was created from a tweet mentioning your Twitter handle (for example @Zendesk), then the agents reply from within Zendesk will be a reply tweet, threaded to the senders original mention.
Make this the default account
Note: This setting appears in the Support interface when Allow replies via this account is set to yes.
Use this Twitter account by default to reply to tickets that were created from tweets to your other Twitter accounts that don't allow replies.
When yes, the Reply as drop-down list shows the name of this Twitter account by default. However, agents can still choose a different reply-enabled Twitter account from the drop-down list, if desired and available.
You can only have one default account at a time. Your old default account becomes a non-default account set to no.
Bulk updating tickets
Setting a default Twitter account can affect bulk ticket updates in a few ways.
When a customer replies to a Twitter account that allows replies:
When a customer replies to a Twitter account that doesn't allow replies:
For information about how to bulk update tickets, see Bulk updating tickets.
Capture public mentions as tickets
This automatically converts any public tweet containing your Twitter account handle (for example, @mondocam) to a ticket.
Capture incoming direct messages as tickets
This automatically converts incoming direct messages into tickets so that your customers can contact you privately rather than publicly. Depending on your Twitter settings, you can either receive direct messages from anyone or only from Twitter users you follow. You can reply to anyone who sends you a direct message.
Track Likes
This automatically converts a tweet that you like to a ticket. For example, if you're managing your Twitter stream using twitter.com, you have the option of manually liking the tweet by clicking the heart icon.
Learn more about liking tweets in Twitter help.
Removing Twitter accounts from your Twitter channel
You can remove a Twitter account from your Twitter channel by deactivating it or unlinking it. If you deactivate an account, it is inactive in Zendesk Support and you can reactivate it at any time. If you unlink an account, it is removed from Zendesk Support.
To deactivate a Twitter account
- Click the Admin icon (), then select Channels > Twitter.
- Select the Twitter accounts tab.
- Click Deactivate beside the Twitter account you want to deactivate.
The Twitter account is deactivated. It will not turn tweets into tickets and you cannot reply using it. You can reactivate account at any time.
To unlink a Twitter account
- Click the Admin icon (), then select Channels > Twitter.
- Select the Twitter accounts tab.
- Click Unlink beside the Twitter account you want to remove from your Twitter channel.
- Click OK to confirm.
The Twitter account is unlinked.
Appending ticket links to outgoing tweets
Another option for your outgoing Tweets is to append a shortened URL to the ticket you created from the tweet. This allows the Twitter user to access the ticket page in the Web portal via their Twitter account. In other words, remote authentication is used to log in through Twitter to Zendesk Support (end-users must sign in to Zendesk to see the ticket page).
Once a Twitter user has access to the ticket page, they can add a longer comment than they could have in Twitter given the 280 character limit of a tweet. They can also update their user profile (adding their email address for example).
You have the option of allowing the agent to decide if a shortened or the original URL is used in the response. And, you can choose one of several URL shortening services to use.
To append ticket links to outgoing tweets
- Click the Admin icon (), then select Channels > Twitter.
- Select the General settings tab.
- Enable the ticket links by clicking Yes next to the Append ticket links to outgoing tweets? option.
- If you want agents to decide when to use shortened URLs, deselect the Always include shortened ticket URL option. It is selected by default.
- Click Save tab.
Managing twitter tickets with business rules
A number of conditions are available to manage your Twitter tickets using business rules.
Like the other Zendesk Support channels, you can detect a ticket's source using the Ticket Channel condition in automations, reports, triggers, and views. There are three Twitter source types you can use in the Ticket Channel condition: Twitter, Twitter DM (direct message), and Twitter Like.
If, for example, you wanted to create separate views of each of the Twitter source types, you simply choose the Ticket Channel condition and then select the type.
In addition to the Twitter channel source types, you also have three other Twitter conditions that are available in triggers:
- Requester's Twitter followers are...
- Requester's number of tweets is...
- Requester is verified by Twitter
The Requester is verified by Twitter condition is a special type of Twitter account that has had its identity verified by Twitter (by submitting proof of business, for example). Knowing that a Twitter account has been verified may be important to you in determining how to handle Twitter tickets. For more information, see FAQs about Verified Accounts in Twitter help.
And of course, you can also adds tags to your Twitter tickets and use them to manage your Twitter tickets through your workflow.
Understanding why your Twitter channel might be deauthorized
Zendesk Support constantly monitors your Twitter accounts for new public mentions and direct messages. If Zendesk Support cannot connect with your Twitter account, it will send an email notification to all admins on your account .
If you receive notification that your Twitter channel has become deauthorized, you need to reauthorize the affected Twitter account in Zendesk Support. To do so, click the Admin icon () in the sidebar, then select Channels > Twitter.
Common reasons your Twitter channel might become deauthorized include:
- The password on your Twitter account has changed.
- The Twitter account no longer permits Zendesk Support to view its timeline and tweet on its behalf.
This can happen if the Zendesk Support Twitter app has been removed from your Twitter account's list of allowed apps.
- Zendesk Support receives a consistent response from Twitter indicating that we are not authorized to access your Twitter account's content.
This should only happen due to an error in Twitter's platform.


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Store Your Bike for Winter
With the changing seasons come changes in life. Transportation is one of the most obvious. Winter is coming. And that means no more bike rides along the park. And, for the most part, no more biking around town. It's time to put your bike in storage. Here are some tips to make it simple.
Clean and Maintenance
Now that you're off the dusty trail for a while, take some time to wipe down and clean your bike, especially your tires. Lubricate the chain to prevent rusting. And lubricate the tires to prevent cracking from changes in temperature. Removing dirt from the frame helps keep it rust and scratch free, and it'll prevent discoloration in the paint.
Another part of bike maintenance is airing up the tires to recommended levels. Proper air inflation not only prevents cracking in the tires, but it also helps maintain the structural integrity.
Hang, Box, or Stand
If you will have your bike in storage for a long time, longer than a season, you might want to invest in a bike box. They save space and protect your bike from scratches and dents during storage.
However, you can just hang your bike on a wall either in your house or in a garage. Especially if you'll take it back out one the first of spring.
Likewise, if you invest in a storage unit, you could get a temperature-control unit and just roll it in to storage. This is a good idea, especially if you have other things you'd like in storage.


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Laser Tattoo Removal Essex
Tattoos are forever. Tattoo removal with nanosecond Q-switched lasers has been the mainstay for tattoo removal over the last decade. Lasers are the most effective method to remove tattoos because they are able to, specifically, target different ink colors. The skin will turn white over the area where the tattoo is treated. While the treatment itself is relatively simple and fast, it does require that you be in good health to go through with it. Before you undergo the removal process, our technician will ask about your overall health.
These will all contribute to the length of time it will take for a safe laser tattoo removal and ultimately, the cost. Be warned, though: getting a big tattoo removed can take a long time. You're good candidate for tattoo removal if you have medium to fair skin and your tattoo contains dark but not dense ink at a superficial depth. Medical Tattoo – In some cases, healthcare professionals will place tattoos to mark certain areas of the body, aiding in radiation treatment.
Only small tattoos are amenable to surgical removal. However, the number may vary widely – some are gone after one or two treatments and some tattoos may require greater than 10 treatments. Although the procedure is very effective for removing tattoos, it takes time and patience. Our practice has the ability to make tattoos disappear from your body with state-of-the-art technology.