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This month's graphic design quest gathers some of the better tutorials for designing logos. While they're certainly not complete, these just sort of stood out from the rest. I almost NEVER advocate using Photoshop for designing logos, but it does work. For the best design work of this sort, use Adobe Illustrator! These tutorials will help you develop your own design processes for designing logos.
On all the pages except Chuck's, always look out for broken links. I cannot believe how many people on the web allow their content links to go dead! Tsk, tsk, tsk. Anyway, if you hit a dead link please tell me about it! As always, we remind you, especially Windows users -- be careful what you click. There are malware, phishing stalker and predator links abundant in many of the replicated sites these days. Whatch those little popups in the text. Just stay on the tutorial / content paths and you'll be okay.
Step-by-step Logo
This is another excellent tutorial from the pen of Chuck Green and his IdeaBook. Herein, Chuck illustrates a thorough discussion on creating logos in Photoshop
Step-by-step Logo
Logo Design Process Tutorial
Another set of tips on creating logo is presented in this tutorial from the Dry Icons people. Visit their site and download all the free vector graphics you can stomach. dryicons.com
Logo Design Process Tutorial
The Process of Redesigning a Logo
Kristof Saelen is the Principal of EvilNation in Belgium and the designer of the Digital Web Magazine logo. He furnished this tutorial for beginners to learn how to redesign a logo ... any logo.
The Process of Redesigning a Logo
Logo / Branding for the Godbit Project
Nathan Smith brings us this thoughtful although somewhat sophomoric, as he talks about the influences and factors that went into branding the Godbit Project.
Logo / Branding for the Godbit Project
Creating the Logo / Identity for a Church
This is a detailed tutorial on creating a logo in Photoshop. The tutorial was written by the very talented, Mark Misenheimer of Misenheimer Creative, Inc. -- an expert freelance graphic designer who has been in the design business for years in design Project Management, Logo Design. (Adjust the web page to your monitor, it's sort of weird and squeezes the graphics!)
Creating the Logo / Identity for a Church
Sikbox Logo Design Process
Here's another tutorial from Fabio Sasso, from Porto Alegre, Brazil - http://fabiosasso.com -- learning the process of creating the Sikbox logo.
Sikbox Logo Design Process
Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for Vivid Ways
Chris Spooner brings us this discussion on creating a logo in a comprehensive illustrated tutorial. Chris is a designer who has a love for creativity and enjoys experimenting with various techniques in both print and web.
Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for Vivid Ways
Creating a Typographic Logo in Photoshop
The tutorial here discusses steps in creating a unique and cool logo using modified typography in Photoshop. (Careful there are so many animated ads and shrouded scripts running on the page you may want to just immediately print to PDF file and get out!) Does it work? Let's see how it works in grayscale and pure black and white -- two brutal tests. An truly good logo will work well in all three.
Creating a Typographic Logo in Photoshop
Which ever example above you find suits you, experiment and try your favorites from all of the above. Once you are comfortable, you'll develop the right questions to ask the client before beginning the project. Hopefully, with the right questions, and the answers to those questions -- along with your design process -- you'll go on to design some outstanding logos! Have fun, and ...
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Merida, Mexico - A man in a white tank top, black drawstring shorts and flip flops drags a beat-up bike from the front room of an abandoned house on a wide boulevard lined with mansions.
For 30 pesos, less than $3, the rusted, one-speed "Cherry"-brand bike is mine for the next two hours.
I pedal along the Paseo Montejo, passing pastel-colored mansions, once the homes of wealthy plantation owners, now the headquarters for banks, insurance companies and car dealerships.
A group of children play a game of Twister on the sidewalk. Others join an impromptu art class, dipping their fingers into jars of paint set out on card tables in the street.
A girl cruises by in high-top pink tennis shoes with a matching pink tricycle. Then comes a mother and her two daughters on a white three-wheeler the size of a washing machine.
Along the "Bici-ruta" (bicycle route), three miles of city streets closed to auto traffic on Sunday morning, no one wears spandex. No one owns a fancy racing bike. No one bothers with a helmet.
Weekends are family time in Mexico, and no city seems to celebrate them with more gusto than the Yucatán's capital of Mérida.
The party gets a jump start on Saturday night with musical performances in several locations, then builds to a crescendo on Sunday with dancing in the Parque Santa Lucia and the region's largest Mayan handicraft market on the Plaza Grande, the site of the ancient Mayan city of T'ho.
It's all free, and as with any good party, everyone's invited. Some highlights:
• Noche Mexicana: Local dance groups perform and craft and food vendors set up stalls Saturday nights in a park at the top of the Paseo de Montejo. Named for the Spanish conquistador Francisco de Montejo, who founded Mérida in 1542, the boulevard is sometimes called Mérida's "Champs-Élysées" because of its wealth of 19th-century buildings such as Palacio Cantón, home to the Anthropology & History Museum.
I found a table on the patio of the Tala Bistro in the Hotel Casa San Angel, the former home of a well-known mathematician, now an antique-filled boutique inn. On the menu was a Yucatán specialty, Sopa de lima (lime soup), and fajitas made with hormone-free beef. Locals gathered around red plastic Coca-Cola tables for cold drinks made with rice milk and tacos filled with shaved pork cooked to order by the street vendors.
The concerts are free, and there are plenty of folding chairs, but arriving early is essential. It was standing-room only by the time the costumed dancers took to the stage at 9 p.m.
• Corazón de la Mérida: "In the Heart of Merida" is another Saturday-night celebration, this one on Calle 60, a narrow main drag, and the side streets surrounding Plaza Grande in the 470-year-old city's historic center. Towering above the shade trees is the 16th-century Cathedral de San Ildefonso, built by the Spaniards with stones from Mayan pyramids.
I watched a lone man sitting on the curb playing a saw as if it were a violin, then peeked in at a classical-guitar concert in the Teatro Peón Contreas, a hall that could be mistaken for a museum with its marble staircase and frescos by Italian artists.
Vendors came by with caramel apples and pink and yellow cotton candy on a stick. A clown kept the crowd entertained with a dance routine that called for the audience to mimic his and a partner's moves. "Dancing with the Stars" it was not, but still lots of fun.
• Mérida en Domingo: The all-day festivities begin at 8 a.m. when the streets along the Bici-ruta close to traffic, then continue through the afternoon and evening with musical, comedy and dance performances at various locations.
I was in awe of this woman in a tight, pink dress, red-sequined sunglasses and white sandals staying cool in the 90-degree heat while dancing with her partner for nearly an hour on a bandstand in the cozy Parque Santa Lucia, once a stagecoach stop, now the site of a weekly antiques and crafts market.
People-watching is best from the terrace of La Dulcera Colón, a century-old ice-cream parlor across from the Plaza Grande. The air smells of roasted corn, vanilla milkshakes and grilled pork. Women from the nearby Mayan villages stroll shaded walkways with handwoven blankets and scarves draped over their arms, hoping to convince tourists to lighten their loads.
Most afternoons folk dancers in crisp white shirts and colorful dresses take to the streets for traditional dances performed in village fiestas called vaquerias.
Linger long enough and you might get lucky as I did and see a troupe doing "La Danza de la Cabezade Cochino," the dance of the pig's head, a traditional ceremonial dance in which the head of a barbecued pig (made of plaster these days) is passed around on a platter balanced on the heads of the male dancers.
Note: The U.S. State Department has issued an extensive new travel warning about safety in Mexico. The report is the most detailed the U.S. has published to date on the effects of drug-related violence. It's fortunate for anyone thinking of visiting the Yucatan that Merida is on the list of many cities where tourists can expect to travel safely.


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Thursday, November 30, 2006
Nature calls
I read a lovely poem the other day to my husband. It was about a duck sitting peacefully in the middle of a calm lake while the sun set. So peaceful. So serene. My husband raised one eyebrow. "The duck's probably sitting there because if it gets too close to the reeds a coyote or fox will finish it off". My husband. Always the pragmatist. And the trouble is he's turned me into one as well. I used to have a romantic notion about nature and life. As a city girl transplanted to the country I used to see a deer and get excited, now I watch it with a wary eye to make sure the dumb thing doesn't suddenly decide to spin around, jump the fence and hit my vehicle. Which has happened. Too many times. I used to love the sound of coyotes serenading us at night. Until they started eating my chickens and luring my dog into the bush and attacking it. And then there's squirrels. So cute. So fun to watch. Until they chewed a hole in the screen of my kitchen and promptly chewed a chunk out of ten loaves of home made bread cooling on the counter, made merry in the house pooping as they went knocking down ornaments and dragging sundry items to sundry places. Me and the squirrels are now at war. Me and nature have a different understanding now. And while I can still enjoy a sunset, appreciate the changing seasons, revel in a long walk outdoors, I know that deep in the bushes are the coyotes and the deer and the squirrels. And they are watching me.
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- Elsie Montgomery said...
Hi Carolyne, just so you know that other people besides perverts are reading your blog... yikes.
I remember some coyote pups coming right under my bedroom window to serenade me. Such nerve. And deer eat the garden and bunnies eat the bushes, but even if we don't like Bambi any more, he is still an improvement over the neighbor's yappy cockapoo (or whatever it is) that they let out every night just after my husband nods off to sleep!
A toast to those eyes in the bush!
- batgirl said...
Something about age and experience that ruins everything! We had our first little snowfall the other day (we've had a pathetic start to winter in CT). I watched out the window while my labradors cavorted with wild abandon, chasing each other and plowing their little noses through the strange white stuff. The little boy at the bus stop across the street made snow balls, then threw them up and caught them. He kicked the snow, tasted it. But how many adults were grumbling- too cold, too slippery, I hate shoveling..
- Bonnie Way aka the Koala Mom said...
Carolyne; very funny! I'm a country girl too, so hear the coyotes howling out in the fields and see the deer traipsing around. No squirrels, however, where we lives (thankfully!). Our biggest problem was the fox taking the chickens... until we decided we didn't want chickens anymore, and he solved our problem of having to get rid of them...
Can you tell us all some more about how you dispatched the squirrel?
Carolyne, could you tell the world how you dispatched one of those squirrels? And how you did it?
- 2nd Cup of Coffee said...
Wow, this was so descriptive. And really, you just write about wildlife entering your home as if it's a nuisance, and that's all. I'd be screaming all over the page! This was a lovely post.


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Death I know you are lurking,
in this hot and desolate land,
where men are clashing in battle,
You lower your dreaded hand.
Not knowing from minute to minute,
when you will choose my fate,
will it be as I sit to dine?
Or at rest when the hour is late?
Death you come as a thief in the night,
nowhere for one to cower,
no one knows the time of your coming,
which day or even the hour.
Oh Death I know you are present,
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I pray you will go away from here,
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Hi Everyone,
It's been a pretty busy week. We have just come back from spring break and my professors believe this is the perfect time to have projects due and to hold exams. So no sleep for me here.
I have had a couple better results in tournaments, I am currently undergoing swing changes so it's taking me a little bit to trust it in tournaments but hopefully this next tournament will be good.
Over spring break we went back-to-back for two tournaments. First one was out in Arizona. I finished tied 24th with 71, 78, 70. Then we drove to San Diego and the next day started a match play tournament. I lost my first match 5/4, won my second 3/1 and then lost my last one on the last hole. The team finished 7th out of 12 but we did beat a couple of top 10 ranked schools including Stanford so we are happy about that.
I leave this Friday for Colorado's home tournament which is actually hosted out in Napa, California. There is a chance of flooding this weekend in California so hopefully we are able to play all three rounds.
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I am blessed with a few good friends, whom I've known for more than 10 years! Believe it or not! Time really flies and boy, oh boy, we have grown so much… lived through so much… all the ups and downs… you named it, I believe we have gone through most of it if not all. I really do appreciate their friendship and the support they have given me *feeling grateful*!
Anyway, Joyce and I visited Sherry today, her family celebrates Hari Raya. It's been a while since I last saw her and we had a wonderful time chatting the day away! The food was superb and so was the company
After that, we went for karaoke, minus Sherry as she wanted to nap. Me with my slightly horsy with phlegm voice, I did try my best, but not sure how Joyce can tahan the whole afternoon! LOL!!! Well, I did sang fewer songs, mind you Joyce is a fantastic singer compared to me, so as not to screech the whole afternoon
A day well spent with good friends is a memorable day indeed *blissful sigh*!
Oh yea… early in the morning, I witnessed a very touching scene in PJ State. A Benz was cruising by when it suddenly stopped and honked at a homeless woman. The driver, an old man, gestured for the woman to come closer, opening the door and gave her some $$$! I was surprised… touched… and this happened on the first day of Raya… may God bless this old man, wherever he is


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Easy and Delicious Baked Mostacholi
1 lb mostacholi noodles (or any other shape you like)
1 green pepper
8-10 large mushrooms (button, baby bellas, or whatever you prefer)
2 28 oz cans of spaghetti sauce (or make your own, if you're more industrious than I am!)
vegan ricotta (I use ricotta recipe from this site by "theposters" from the "Spinach and 'Ricotta' Stuffed Shells" posting. It's delicious!)
vegan parmesan (optional)
2-4 garlic cloves (depending on how much you love garlic)
olive oil (enough to saute veggies)
desired italian spices--I use oregano, basil, thyme
I couldn't believe how easy this was, or how much everyone loved it! I usually serve it with salad and garlic bread on the side, naturally :-) You can substitute whatever veggies you think would be good (or that you have in your pantry!) I've also thought about adding veggie crumbles or mock chicken to this recipe, but haven't gotten to try that yet!
1. Start noodles--cook until aldente, then drain the water.
2. In the meantime, chop green pepper, garlic, and mushrooms and saute them over medium heat for a few minutes (until cooked through).
3. Add italian spices.
4. Add all but about 1/3 cup of spaghetti sauce to veggie mixture (save just enough to cover the bottom of your baking dish).
5. Add pre-made (or bought) vegan ricotta mixture to sauce and veggies and mix.
6. In a large baking dish, spread a thin layer of sauce (enough to cover entire bottom of dish) on the bottom of the dish.
7. Layer half of pasta on top of sauce, followed by a layer of half of the sauce mixture on top of pasta.
8. Layer the rest of pasta and layer the last of the sauce mixture on top of the noodles.
9. cover sauce mixture with grated vegan parmesan.
Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 30-45 minutes.
Source of recipe: I had a version of this recipe at a restaurant and experimented to come up with a vegan one.
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How do you get healthy when you're out of shape? By making small changes that add up to big health improvements. These small ways to get healthy make a difference because they work together to create change that lasts.
If you've read any of my health and fitness articles, you know that I lost weight and got healthy after getting married. Since most people gain weight after the wedding, this is a big deal!
My husband isn't a health nut or fitness trainer; he's just a skinny guy with a healthy relationship to food. I learned how to eat mindfully and listen to my body from him. These tips for getting healthy are easy and even fun – and they'll take you from wondering how to get healthy to marveling at what a big difference a few small changes make.
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1. Avoid coffee, lunch or dinner dates. Instead of meeting a friend for coffee (and sitting on your butt, ingesting calories, and not burning anything besides your money), invite them for a walk. You can do this at work, too – my supervisor and I went for a walk to discuss a few work issues, instead of sitting in our office – and it was way healthier and more interesting than sitting face to face!
2. Challenge your friends to a kick boxing or belly dancing class. Walk through the park, go biking in summer, ice skate or cross country ski in winter, walk the mall, take a yoga or cardio class, or run on a treadmill next to your friend.
3. Ask your friends and family how they stay healthy – and for tips on how you can get healthy. Even your least healthy friends know small ways to get healthy that make a big difference! They may not follow their own health and fitness tips, but they have some gems tucked away. Learn from them. Do as they say, not as they do.
How do you get healthy and lose weight? Read Weight Loss Shortcuts From Dr Oz – From Apples to Gym Bags.
4. Figure out what your obstacles are to getting healthy. Are you married to a guy who is out of shape? Do you work nights, which can stop you from getting healthy? Are you the mom of seven kids, and you don't have time to exercise? Before these small ways to get healthy can make a big difference in your life, you need to know what's holding you back.
5. Become aware of your emotional issues. Maybe you stuff your face every night because you're unhappy. Maybe you hate the way you look, so you don't even try to walk around the block. Maybe you're jealous of your coworker or friends, so you've given up on getting healthy. the sooner you identify your emotional issues, the quicker you'll achieve physical health.
6. Move your body before your brain wakes up. I do at least 10 minutes of yoga every morning, before my first cup of coffee. I love love love checking my email and blog statistics, but I don't let myself indulge in what I really love until I stretch my body. Most mornings, I do a 20 minute strength training or Pilates workout; my "off" days are yoga.
If you want to get healthy, don't go to the gym. Read 8 Reasons Home Workouts Are Better for Weight Loss Than Gyms.
7. Dance! Do you watch Ellen? She's on to something there, with the dancing at the top of every show. That's a small way to get healthy that makes a big difference: make yourself an upbeat iPod play-list or CD and dance around as you straighten up at home. Or, find a hip-hop or African dance class at the gym. Learn to belly dance at an adult education class or at the Y…or plan a girls' night out dancing!
8. Set fitness goals that are realistic and specific. Remember that the most realistic weight loss or fitness goals are small, achievable, measurable, and FUN! It won't work to decide to you want to lose 100 pounds by Christmas. Instead, decide you want to lose one pound this week. That's a small way to get healthy…and it'll make a big difference because 50 weeks will pass and you'll have lost 50 pounds!
9. Surround yourself with fit, healthy friends. You can't choose your family, but you can choose to surround yourself with friends who are happy, healthy, and emotionally fit. Their health will rub off on you – just like my husband's healthy eating habits rubbed off on me.
10. Think of food as a fuel. This is another thing my husband does, that I now do. I still stuff my face when I'm scared, sad, or lonely – but at least I'm aware of it, and I do it far less than I used to. Food is supposed to support my life – it's not an emotional crutch. It's those small changes in the way you think that make a big difference in your health and fitness goals.
12. Weigh yourself every day? I'm tossed on this one – I don't know if it's an effective tip for people asking "how do I get healthy?" I tried it, and found it sorta depressing at my normal ups and downs – it's like checking your stocks every day, to see if they're up or down! The daily fluctuations don't matter; it's the long term that matters. So, you need to ask yourself if weighing yourself every day will make a difference to you. If it does, then have at 'er!
For more small ways to get healthy, read Beginners Yoga Tips – How to Practice Yoga Without Getting Hurt.
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For a few weeks every autumn, nature becomes the greatest attraction in Illinois. The banks, bluffs and rolling hills along the Great River Road offer many opportunities for scenic views. As the days grow shorter and cooler, plants prepare for winter. Their bright green colors fade, allowing the gold, orange and red colors to show. The diverse selection of plants, trees and shrubs along the byway deliver a full range of fall colors. So take a drive this fall, experience nature and get inspired by autumn's splendor!


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Travelling In Style Wherever You Go
Whenever you are in need of going somewhere what do you do? Well, most of us have our own vehicles which we can use. However, at times we could be without a vehicle. At such a moment, we have to rent a car and drive it ourselves or use the public transportation or use a driving facility offered by a company. If you choose the last one you get to sit and travel while a really good driver takes you to where you want to go.
If you are actually looking for such a chauffeur service, there are a number of companies offering that facility. However, only the best company will be able to offer you the comfortable facility you are looking for at all of the following occasions.
Daily TravelIf you are someone looking for a comfortable vehicle with a quite well mannered and safe driver for your daily travel to the office and back you could do well with hiring such a company for the job. If you have you kids to drop off to and all that on the way too, having someone who can help you out is always a good idea.
To and From the AirportThere are also times when you need to have a vehicle to come home or go to any other important place once you land. You can get the help of a reliable company and use their luxurious airport limousine services in Singapore for the job. Make sure the company is reliable because not all of them arrive at time and that can be a problem for you if you are especially hoping to go to a meeting.
Trips with the Family There are also times when you want to go out with your family and that too in style. For that you would need a really good vehicle such as a limousine. A reliable company will be able to provide this kind of a vehicle with a driver so you can enjoy your day or days travelling with the family more.
One Day ServicesThere are also times when you want to have a good vehicle for just one day. This could be because your whole family is hoping to go to a special occasion. This could also be something related to your professional life such as making travel arrangements for your business partners.
A good vehicle facility providing company will be able to help you out with the best vehicles and the best drivers in all of these occasions without leaving any reason for you to worry about.


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Ulster wrapped up the Under 20 Interprovincial Championship with a 12 – 17 win against Munster on Saturday afternoon having completed a "Grand Slam" against their Provincial rivals along the way.
Didn't get to see this one as I was over in Cardiff and to tell the truth I haven't been able to find much detail on the match.
However, Ulster went into the match with only two changes to the 23 players that secured the wins against Connacht and Leinster. Out half Sean O'Hagan (injured) was replaced in the starting line up by Dungannon's Jack Milligan, with Alexander Thompson (Queen's University) and Ryan Campbell (Malone) called into the panel for their first involvement this season.
Malone's Adam Liddell was the hero of the hour, crossing for two tries, both of which were converted by Milligan, who also added a penalty.
All in all, a good series for the youngsters, who tried to play expansive rugby whenever I saw them, and it looks like there is another set of exciting backs coming through. Out half O'Hagan, centre Sam Arnold and the back three of Liddell, Jacob Stockdale and Jack Owens appear to be the pick of the bunch and up front I was impressed with Lorcan Dow.
I'm looking forward to see who progresses into the Ireland U20 set up this season. It might be a bumper year and with the IRB 2015 JWC being held in Parma, Viadana, Calvisano and Cremona at the end of this season I might just pencil in a wee trip!
Ulster Squad (v Munster)
1. Michael Lagan (captain, Ballymena)
2. Zac McCall (Queen's University)
3. Angelo Marica (Belfast Harlequins)
4. Tom Donnan (TBC)
5. Nigel Simpson (Queen's University)
6. Callum Irvine (TBC)
7. Ross Todd (TBC)
8. Lorcan Dow (Queen's University)
9. Conor Young (Instonians)
10. Jack Milligan (Dungannon)
11. Jacob Stockdale (TBC)
12. Conor McKee (Queen's University)
13. Sam Arnold (Ballynahinch)
14. Adam Liddell (Malone)
15. Jack Owens (Queen's University)
Replacements (from):
Andrew McGrath (TBC)
Darryl Morton (Armagh)
Dane Fitzpatrick (Ballynahinch)
Josh Davidson (TBC)
Caleb Montgomery (TBC)
Josh Fullerton (Belfast Harlequins)
Josh Bingham (Malone)
Michael Cartmill (Malone)
Alexander Thompson (Queen's University)
Ryan Campbell (Malone)
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I've been taking a lot of ribbing and been the target of many snickers lately, all because of my appreciation for the Jonas Brothers, and I can't understand why. They're really talented, and make some great pop music, so why should I be embarrassed to like them? Is it because I'm a guy? Who says boys can't love the Jonas Brothers? It's just wrong to say that only girls can be into the Jonas Brothers. That's sexist. The Jonas Brothers make music that can touch both girls and boys equally. Who cares if I'm 38 years old? And straight? There were similar reactions when I admitted to listening to Vanessa Hudgens… that's just close-minded. Next people will be telling me that I should stop watching The Wizards of Waverly Place! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go write in my diary.
Who knew that atlases were so obscene?
1. Fucking, Austria
2. Come-by-Chance, Newfoundland
3. Conception Bay
4. Intercourse, Pennsylvania
5. Bangkok, Thailand
6. Pacific Rim
7. Dong-A University, Korea
8. Lake Titicaca, Bolivia
9. Little Beaver State Park, West Virginia
10. Grand Teton, Wyoming
Whether at the movie theatre, a live performance, or a sporting event, there are certain things that will always provoke extreme reactions in the audience, whether covering their eyes, plugging their ears, or curling into a fetal position. Here are the top five ways to ensure that your audience will squirm:
#1 Trauma to the groin. This classic can run the gamut from America's Funniest Home Videos baseball-to-the-crotch gags to Bill Pullman having his testicles punctured in The Serpent and the Rainbow, but rest assured that the audience (especially but not limited to the men) will be shifting in their seats.
#2 Injury to fingernails. A personal phobia of mine, examples include Jeff Goldblum's nails falling off in The Fly and the more subtle shot of the pit in Silence of the Lambs, where detached fingernails in its walls reveal not only the cruelty of Buffalo Bill but the futility of escaping his clutches.
#3 Teeth falling out. Not being punched out or chipped, which is bad enough but manageable. No, this is when someone gets a confused look on their face, feels around inside their mouth, and comes out with a tooth, root and all. I happened to have seen two movies on consecutive nights which both included this very scenario: District 9 and Moon. The fact that the tooth is naturally bloody doesn't help.
#4 Hyperextension of joints. This is most often seen in sports, in particular football. A player is tackled, but his foot remains firmly planted on the ground, and the knee is pushed back in a direction it was never meant to go. I was unlucky enough to see a rather brutal example of this at a Pirates game on Independence Day 1999, when Jason Kendall's season was brought to an end after trying to beat out a throw to first. It still haunts me.
#5 Sharp objects anywhere around the face. It's hard to narrow this down, because we're all justifiably sensitive about our faces, and there are so many examples in cinema that are iconic: the razor blade to the eyeball in Un chien Andalou, the knife that Roman Polanski uses to cut Jack Nicholson's nose in Chinatown, the razor (again) that exacts such fitting revenge against the Fascist commander in Pan's Labyrinth. If you've seen any of these movies, there's a good chance that you closed your eyes and missed these scenes, and yet have a clear visceral image of them nonetheless.
Dustin Hoffman: He asked me where he could find Scrabble dictionaries, and I told him
Renee Zellweger: We talked about Charles Bukowski
Eric Clapton: I held his credit card in my hand
Molly Shannon: She needed me to recommend a business book
David Rasche (TV's Sledge Hammer!): He walked into the little, out-of-the-way bookstore where I worked, and I immediately knew who he was, but couldn't remember his name until after he left
Margaret Atwood: While passing her a mound of books to sign one-by-one, I attempted small talk by repeating a story I'd been told about her meeting Rafael Nadal in Spain
David Suzuki: He pressured me to give a free copy of one of his books to Adam Van Koeverden (which I wouldn't do)
John Ralston Saul: He wanted to know why we didn't have copies of his book for him to sign
I saw something after getting off the streetcar tonight that was oddly disturbing: a lock of human hair sitting by itself on the sidewalk. Part of what bothered me was its size: five or six inches long. It was alone, not in a pile with other hair or garbage. It was an immaculate tableau: a perfect twist of hair. What path did it take to arrive there? It joins the other strange objects found around my neighbourhood, like the pants and shirts found draped across fences in a startlingly regular fashion. As odd things go, it's not at the level of the human ear that Kyle MacLachlan finds in a field in Blue Velvet or the weird little stick figures which haunted the crew of The Blair Witch Project–it's much more banal–but perhaps that's what makes it all the more strange.
Robert James Bell…
… has been there, but he's never done that. It looked fun, but kind of dangerous.
… enjoys eating. His favourite obscure super-hero is Matter-Eater Lad.
… 's lifelong goal is to create a workable phonetic alphabet for English. Despite brilliant flashes of inspiration, the work remains unfinished.
… can't believe he ate the whole thing. Twice.
… doesn't know what he wants to be when he grows up. He recently grew up.
… enjoys picking out Toronto landmarks in bad Hollywood movies. He's seen many.
… , like Alan Moore, knows the score. He just doesn't know which game is being played.
In the tradition of recent celebrity meltdowns such as Christian Bale's lambasting of a member of the Terminator: Salvation crew and Alec Baldwin's leaked phone call to his daughter, word is spreading that Michael Cera, the Arrested Development and SuperBad star, lost his cool on the set of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, filming in Toronto. But whereas the tapes of Bale and Baldwin became fodder for late-night comedians as well as the mainstream media for months, Cera's outburst has been universally described as "not a big deal" and "adorable". The targets of Cera's rant included the crew (who he labeled as "f**king incompetents"), the director (a "no-talent pustule"), and even craft services (they "couldn't poach an egg if their lives depended on it"). In the tape, which goes on for over 20 minutes, Cera gets more and more agitated, and his bile even extends to the people of Toronto (who "have no idea of how lucky they are to have a star, which I am, in their shithole city"). Meanwhile, the tape reveals that, rather than defending themselves, the film crew are laughing at the clearly-incensed actor. "We all thought he was doing a bit," reported one crew member, while others nodded in agreement. "He's just so cute and awkward… it never occurred to us that he was actually upset." Director Edgar Wright says "I thought it was something that he'd set up with the crew for the blooper roll on the DVD. It was classic Cera and I, along with everyone else, thought it was hilarious! Honestly, none of us thought he was even capable of getting angry." The incident that sparked the tirade isn't clear, but is rumoured to be the state of the bathrooms at Lee's Palace, a popular concert venue where part of the movie was filmed.
The first single I ever bought was Taco's "Puttin' on the Ritz" b/w "Living in My Dream World" (despite the image here, back then most 45s came in rather bland paper sleeves with holes cut out of the centre so the label could be read). I listened to it incessantly and it was perfect every time. The footsteps echoing away at the end of the song are on the single, and definitely in the video (which I saw recently as part of VH1's countdown of the greatest one-hit wonders of the 80s), but I don't remember hearing them on the radio–this was probably my first exposure to the concept of "radio edits".
I think the record cost $1.49, twice as much as a comic book, so a significant investment and tough decision to make. I bought it at Tecumseh Mall's Woolco in Windsor, Ontario, memorable as well for Whoppers (the chocolate-coated candy balls, not the hamburger), corn dogs, and the store where Todd Troy was caught trying to steal a Playboy.
I digress. Taco. The early 80s was a great time for synth-pop music that seemed to originate in another dimension: I probably wasn't familiar with Kraftwerk then, but their offspring, like Gary Numan (my sister had a 45 of his "Cars" and that was another favourite of mine), Thomas Dolby and A Flock of Seagulls were all well-represented on the charts, even if they didn't have much staying power. Taco, however, was more novelty than musician ahead of his time. This description from allmusic.com is succint: "Born Taco Ockerse in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 21, 1955, he recorded 'Ritz' in Germany in 1981; a year later, the song (originally popularized by Fred Astaire) hit the upper reaches of the U.S. pop charts, accompanied by a video depicting the singer decked out in a bow-tie-and-tails ensemble emblematic of the Depression-era movie musicals his image strived to emulate." And while I have subsequently purchased other albums by Gary Numan and Thomas Dolby (whose album Aliens Ate My Buick is, I believe, one of the overlooked classics of the late 80s) I've never once listened to one other note of Taco's oeuvre, although I wish him well, as someone whose music has given me a lot of joy over the years; even now, when I hear "Puttin' on the Ritz", I can't help but smile, and yes, dance just a little bit.
In a case reminiscent of Dan White's infamous "twinky defense", area man Ron Terwilliger is claiming that the taste of Juicy Fruit gum drove him to kill a family of four. "He grabbed a stick, pulled it out, and the taste moved him when he popped it in his mouth–moved him to go on a violent rampage which led to the tragic deaths of Gary and Melinda Braun, as well as their children Dylan, 8, and Sabrina, 5," according to Terwilliger's attorney, Lise Boudreau. Terwilliger was unavailable for comment, as he has been confined pre-trial to a mental institution, where unofficial sources say he does nothing but rock back and forth on the floor, mumbling "it's got a taste that gets right through ya" over and over again. Terwilliger, 49, a former TV commercial jingle writer, may have been haunted by his unsuccessful efforts for "the one-of-a-kind flavor that satisfies your cravings for something sweet" in the 80s, the notorious "Juicy Fruit is a Hoot!" campaign. Wrigley, the manufacturer of Juicy Fruit, has so far refused to comment.


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I was out in Yellowstone last week soaking up various wildlife and a bit too much rain ... good to be back until the 95F heat yesterday.
Taking a little break from the Excel templates; the dev folks are planing an Excel patch in the next week or so that will add a mass of new functionality. At the risk of completely mis leading you I'm going to hang back a while. What I have written so far holds true and will continue to do so.
This week, I have been mostly eating 'mapviewer' ... answers on a post card please, TV show and character. I had a request to show how BIP can call mapviewer and render a dynamic map in an output. So I hit the books and colleagues for some answers. Mapviewer is Oracle's geographic information system, hereby known as GIS. I use it a lot in our BIEE demos where the interaction with the maps is very impressive. Need a map of California and its congressional districts? I have contacts; Jerry and David with their little black box of maps. Once in my possession I can build highly interactive, clickable maps that allow the user to drill into more information using a very friendly interface driving BIEE content and navigation. But what about maps in BIP output?
Bryan Wise, who has written some articles on this blog did some work a while back with the PL/SQL API interface. The extract for the report called a function that in turn called the mapviewer server, passing a set of mapping requirements, it then returned a URL to a cached copy of that map. Easy to then have BIP render that image. Thats still very doable. You need to install a couple of packages and then load the mapviewer java APIs into the database. Then you can write your function to the APIs. A little involved? Maybe, but the database is doing all the heavy lifting for you.
I thought I would investigate another method for getting the maps back into BIP. There is a URL interface you can call, this involves building an XML message to be passed to the mapviewer server. It's pretty straightforward to use on the mapviewer side. On the BIP side things are little more tricksy. After some unexpected messing about I finally got the ubiquitous Hello World map to render using the URL method.
Not the most exciting map in the world, lots of ocean and a rather long URL to get it to render.
Notice all of the encoding in the URL string to handle the spaces, quotes, etc. All necessary to get BIP to make the call to the mapviewer server correctly without truncating the URL if it hits a real space rather than a %20. With that in mind constructing the URL was pretty simple. I'm not going to get into the content of the URL too much, for that you need to bone up on the mapviewer XML API. Check out the home page here and the documentation here.
To make the template portable I used the standard CURRENT_SERVER_URL parameter from the BIP server and declared that in my template.
Ignore the 'myserver', that was just a dummy value for testing at runtime it will resolve to:
Not quite what we need as mapviewer has its own server path, in my case I needed 'mapviewer/omserver?xml_request=' as the fixed path to the mapviewer request URL. A little concatenation and substringing later I came up with
Thats the basic URL that I can then build on. To get the Hello World map I need to add the following:
<map_request title="Hello World" datasource="cagis" format="GIF_STREAM"/>
Those angle brackets were the source of my headache, BIPs XSLT engine was attempting to process them rather than just pass them. Hok Min to the rescue ... again. I owe him lunch when I get out to HQ again! To solve the problem, I needed to escape all the characters and white space and then use native XSL to assign the string to a parameter.
<xsl:param xdofo:ctx="begin"name="pXML">%3Cmap_request%20title=%22Hello%20World%22
I did not need to assign it to a parameter but I felt that if I were going to do anything more serious than Hello World like plotting points of interest on the map. I would need to dynamically build the URL, so using a set of parameters or variables that I then concatenated would be easier.
Now I had the initial server string and the request all I then did was combine the two using a concat:
Embedding that into an image tag:
<fo:external-graphic src="url({concat($mURL,$pXML)})"/>
and I was done. Notice the curly braces to get the concat evaluated prior to the image call.
As you will see next time, building the XML message to go onto the URL can get quite complex but I have used it with some data. Ultimately, it would be easier to build an extension to BIP to handle the data to be plotted, it would then build the XML message, call mapviewer and return a URL to the map image for BIP to render. More on that next time ...
I am exploring the capabilities of mapviewer with BI to produce dashboards reports. Need a little handholding.
Have used mapviewer in the past and know database very well. But new to BI publisher.
Where do I start after installing bi publisher.
Thank you very much
If you are looking at dashboards and ad-hoc reporting and merging maps into the dashboard. There is configurable out of the box mapping integration with OBIEE 11g. Its covered in the documentation.
If you are looking specifically at BIP, then this comes with the braoder suite or can be installed on its own. If its BIP, then this article and a couple of others on the blog will help.


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Series 02 Episode 14 – The Financial Permeability
Scene: The apartment. The guys are studying a complex chart on the whiteboard.
Leonard: Hmmm.
Sheldon: The problem appears to be unsolvable.
Raj: Maybe you could run some computer simulations.
Howard: There are too many variables. It would take forever.
Leonard: We've got to be missing something. Let's start again. The movie is playing here at 7:20, here at 7:40, here at 8:10 and here at 8:45.
Sheldon: Right, these theatres have to be eliminated.
Leonard: Why? They're state-of-the-art digital projection, 20-channel surround sound.
Sheldon: Yes, but they have no Icee machines. Despite my aggressive letter-writing campaign, I might add.
Raj: What about the multiplex here? The seats are terrific.
Sheldon: They have Twizzlers instead of Red Vines. No amount of lumbar support can compensate for that.
Leonard: Well, it's gonna take at least an hour to eat, and I don't see a Sheldon-approved restaurant proximate to a Sheldon-approved theatre.
Raj: We could eat after the movie.
Sheldon: Unacceptable, the delay would result in tomorrow morning's bowel movement occurring at work.
Raj: Hang on, hang on. There's a 7-Eleven here. We smuggle Slurpies, which are essentially Icees, in under our coats, after having a pleasant meal either here, here or here.
Howard: Wow. I don't see how we missed that.
Sheldon: Excuse me, in what universe are Slurpies Icees?
Raj: That's how we missed it.
Leonard: Sheldon, would you be prepared, on a non-precedential basis, to create an emergency ad-hoc Slurpie-Icee equivalency?
Sheldon: Oh, Leonard, you know I can't do that.
Howard: Okay, I guess we only have one option.
Raj: Yep, I don't see any way around it.
Leonard: Bye, Sheldon.
Howard: See ya.
Raj: Later, dude.
Sheldon: They're right, it was the only option.
Credits sequence.
Scene: The hallway. Sheldon is opening the apartment door. Penny comes running up stairs.
Penny: Ooh, ooh, shut the door, shut the door.
Sheldon: Why?
Penny: Just do it! (Penny runs in. Sheldon shuts door. Penny opens door again) Get inside and shut the door.
Sheldon: Well, you didn't specify.
Penny: Is Leonard around?
Sheldon: He went to the movies without me. It was the only option. I'm sorry, I don't understand which social situation this is. Could you give me some guidance as to how to proceed?
Penny: The building manager's showing an apartment downstairs, and I haven't paid my rent.
Sheldon: Oh, I see. Penny, I'm not sure I'm comfortable harbouring a fugitive from the 2311 North Los Robles Corporation.
Penny: It's no big deal. I'm just a little behind on my bills because they cut back my hours at the restaurant and my car broke down.
Sheldon: If you recall, I pointed out the "check engine" light to you several months ago.
Penny: Well the "check engine" light is fine. It's still blinking away. It's the stupid engine that stopped working. It cost me like twelve hundred dollars to fix it.
Sheldon: You know, it occurs to me you could solve all your problems by obtaining more money.
Penny: Yes, it occurs to me, too.
Sheldon: Hang on a moment. (He opens a jar. Snakes jump out. He then pulls out a large wedge of money) Here. Take some. Pay me back when you can.
Penny: Wow, you got a lot of money in there.
Sheldon: That's why it's guarded by snakes. Take some.
Penny: Don't be silly.
Sheldon: I'm never silly. Here.
Penny: No, I can't.
Sheldon: Don't you need money?
Penny: Well, yeah, but…
Sheldon: This is money I'm not using.
Penny: But what if you need it?
Sheldon: My expenses account for 46.9% of my after-tax income. The rest is divvied up between a small savings account, this deceptive container of peanut brittle and the hollowed-out buttocks of a superhero action figure who shall remain nameless for his own protection. Or her own protection. Take some.
Penny: Really? I mean, are you sure?
Sheldon: I see no large upcoming expenditures unless they develop an affordable technology to fuse my skeleton with adamantium like Wolverine.
Penny: Are they working on that?
Sheldon: I sincerely hope so.
Penny: Okay. Well, thank you. Oh, God, no, I can't. Sheldon honey, I don't want things to be weird between us.
Sheldon: Won't it also be weird if I have to say hello to you every morning on my way to work and you're living in a refrigerator box and washing your hair with rain water?
Penny: I'll pay you back as soon as I can.
Sheldon: Of course you will. It's impossible to pay me back sooner than you can. Assuming you subscribe to a linear understanding of time and causality.
Penny: I'm regretting this already.
Scene: Entering the lobby of the building.
Sheldon: You know, I've given the matter some thought, and I think I'd be willing to be a house pet to a race of super-intelligent aliens.
Leonard: Interesting.
Sheldon: Ask me why.
Leonard: Do I have to?
Sheldon: Of course. That's how you move a conversation forward.
Leonard: Why?
Sheldon: The learning opportunities would be abundant. Additionally, I like having my belly scratched.
Leonard: Hey, Penny. How was work?
Penny: Great. I hope I'm a waitress at the Cheesecake Factory for my whole life.
Sheldon: Was that sarcasm?
Penny: No.
Sheldon: Was that sarcasm?
Penny: Yes.
Sheldon: Was that sarca..
Leonard: Stop it!
Sheldon: Penny, you appear to have a package here.
Penny: Oh, thanks. This must be the beret I ordered. A couple of months ago. It was back-ordered.
Sheldon: Did you know the beret is an example of piece of women's fashion adapted from male military uniforms? Another fascinating example is the epaulet.
Leonard: He's not lying, he does find that fascinating.
Penny: Okay, whatever. It's not like I'm running up and down the streets just buying myself berets. I bought one, like, a month ago, and it was back-ordered, look, it finally arrived, all right?
Sheldon: All right.
Penny: Oh, my God, would you just get off my case?
Leonard: Weird.
Sheldon: Oh, good, that was an unusual interaction. I wasn't sure.
Leonard: Did you guys have an argument?
Sheldon: No.
Leonard: Well, you clearly did something to aggravate her.
Sheldon: I'm at a loss. If you like, you can review my daily log of social interactions and see if there's a blunder I overlooked.
Scene: The apartment.
Leonard: Here you go. Oh, you owe me another two dollars. The price of mu-shu pork went up.
Howard: It's getting tougher and tougher to be a bad Jew.
Leonard: Here you go, Penny. Shrimp with lobster sauce.
Penny: Thank you, Leonard. What's my share?
Leonard: Don't worry about it. It's my treat.
Penny: No, really, how much?
Leonard: It's, whatever. Ten, eleven dollars.
Penny: Well, which is it, ten or eleven?
Leonard: Fourteen fifty, but it's no biggie, you'll get the next one. (Raj whispers something to Howard)
Penny: What?
Howard: He was just wondering if he wore skintight jeans and a tank top if he'd get his shrimp lo mein for free.
Penny: What are you saying? That I'm using my body to get dinner? That I'm some kind of Chinese food prostitute?
Howard: Yeah, Raj, what are you saying?
Penny: 'Cause let me tell you something, buddy, I pay my own way in this world, okay? I don't rely on anybody! (Raj runs out of the room) What was that about?
Howard: He has a nervous bladder when he's stressed out. Kind of like a puppy.
Penny: Here, Leonard, ten, eleven, twelve, uh, fourteen dollars.
Leonard: It was fourteen fifty, but it's okay.
Sheldon: Oh, good. Dinner's here.
Penny: Yes, dinner's here, and I'm having some. I'm having takeout food.
Sheldon: Okay.
Penny: You're damn right it's okay. I've been having leftovers at the restaurant for like four days, and I wanted something different. So sue me.
Sheldon: Forgive me, Penny, but that would be the very definition of a frivolous lawsuit.
Penny: Sheldon, look, I will pay you back as soon as I can. You just have to give me more time.
Leonard: Oh, wait, you lent her money?
Penny: She needed money. You seem under pressure. Did I not lend you a sufficient amount? Because I can give you more.
Penny: Oh, you know, you would just love that, wouldn't you? Yeah. You would just love to open up your little snake can and throw some money at the girl who can't pay her bills.
Leonard: Where are you going?
Penny: Going home, where I won't be interrogated like a criminal. I forgot my fortune cookie.
Sheldon: In case either of you have larceny in your heart, you should know that I've moved my money out of the snake can.
Leonard: But if you're ever short, there's always a couple of fifties in Green Lantern's ass.
Scene: Penny's apartment.
Leonard: Hey.
Penny: Hey.
Leonard: A little mood lighting, huh?
Penny: Yeah. When I didn't pay my bill, the Department of Water and Power thought I would enjoy the ambience.
Leonard: Yeah, they're very considerate that way.
Penny: I used Sheldon's money to pay my rent, then I had like fourteen dollars left over.
Leonard: Fourteen dollars, huh?
Penny: Put it back in your pocket, or I'll find some other place to put it.
Leonard: Back in the pocket it goes. Look, you do understand that Sheldon really doesn't care when he gets the money back. It's actually one of the few idiosyncrasies that doesn't make you want to, you know, kill him.
Penny: Yeah, well, that's not really my big problem.
Leonard: So you're a little behind on your bills. Everybody gets behind on their bills.
Penny: Yeah, I know, it's just, this wasn't the plan, it wasn't supposed to go this way.
Leonard: Well, what was the plan?
Penny: Um, waitress for six months and then become a movie star.
Leonard: Was there a plan B?
Penny: TV star.
Leonard: It's probably not as bad as you think. Let's take a look. Maybe we can find some corners to cut. Oh, here's something, if you don't have electricity, then you probably don't need cable. Just a suggestion. 170 dollars for acting classes?
Penny: Oh, no, I can't give up my acting classes. I'm a professional actress.
Leonard: You've had an acting job where you got paid?
Penny: That is not the definition of professional.
Leonard: Actually, it kind of… let's keep looking. Whoa, what's eighteen hundred dollars to the Los Angeles County Superior Court?
Penny: Oh, that's nothing.
Leonard: Nothing? It sounds like you got caught speeding going 4,000 miles an hour.
Penny: Well, remember Kurt?
Leonard: Your ex-boyfriend?
Penny: Yeah. He got arrested for taking a whiz on a cop car.
Leonard: What?
Penny: He was drunk.
Leonard: I would hope so.
Penny: Anyway, he had a bunch of outstanding tickets and a bench warrant, so I, you know, I paid his fines.
Leonard: Did he pay you back?
Penny: No, but he will.
Leonard: And that's based on the inherent credit-worthiness of people who get drunk and urinate on police vehicles?
Penny: Leonard, I'm not gonna call up Kurt and ask him for money.
Leonard: Well what are you gonna do?
Penny: I don't know, but I may have to find a cheaper place to live.
Leonard: Oh, no. Oh, you don't want to do that.
Penny: Why not?
Leonard: Well, moving is a big deal. You have to go to the supermarket and get boxes, and if they're not clean, then your books smell like melons, and it's just, like… Why don't you just get a roommate and stay here?
Penny: Well, do you know anybody?
Leonard: Well, I'm sure the guy living with Sheldon wouldn't mind moving in with you.
Penny: Oh, Leonard, honey, if we started living together, I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off you.
Leonard: Really?
Penny: And you thought my acting lessons were a waste of money.
Scene: The apartment.
Howard: Ugh. This mu-shu pork's burning a hole through my duodenum.
Raj: Leviticus 11:3: "Only that which parteth the hoof and cheweth the cud among the beasts shall ye eat."
Howard: Hey, do I mock you with the Bhagavad-Gita every time you scarf down a Whopper?
Leonard: Hey, what's going on?
Raj: We're on a quest through the Valley of Fire to acquire the sacred crown.
Howard: You want the Valley of Fire? It's right here.
Leonard: Hey, you guys want to go on a real live quest?
Sheldon: Outside? I just made cocoa.
Leonard: – Come on. It'll be fun.
Howard: What is it?
Leonard: Do you guys remember Penny's ex-boyfriend Kurt? (They all hold their hands above their heads) Yeah, that's him. It turns out he owes Penny a lot of money, and I'm gonna go get it from him.
Who's with me?
Howard: Ooh, double sixes.
Leonard: Really? You're just gonna let me go by myself?
Raj: Oh, cool, I got a sword.
Leonard: I could use some help.
Raj: Here.
Leonard: You guys are unbelievable, you play a game to simulate adventure, but when there's real adventure out there in the real world, you just wimp out.
Sheldon: Leonard, do you not recall the last time we visited this gentleman, we returned home without pants?
Leonard: I do.
Sheldon: Are you sure? Because your proposal suggests that you don't.
Leonard: I'm not afraid of him.
Sheldon: All right. Leonard fairly calls the question, who is in favour of abandoning our game and confronting Penny's steroid-infused ex-boyfriend in a suicidal mission to extract money from him? Say hi to Kurt for us.
Leonard: Excuse me. When Frodo left the Shire to take the one ring to Mordor, didn't Samwise, Pippin and Merry go with him?
Sheldon: They did.
Leonard: Well?
Sheldon: They had a terrible time of it, Leonard.
Raj: Plus, no one stole their pants.
Leonard: Fine. Just enjoy your little game. I'll make this quest on my own.
Howard: Leonard, wait. Take a jacket, it's spritzing a little.
Leonard: You guys suck. (Leaves. Comes back) Come on, please? He's so big.
Scene: Outside Kurt's door.
Leonard: Okay, is everyone clear on the plan?
Howard: Yes. Koothrappali's going to wet himself, I'm gonna throw up, Sheldon's gonna run away, and you're going to die. Shall we synchronize our watches?
Leonard: Guys, there are four of us and one of him.
Sheldon: Which means his triumph will be even larger. Minstrels will write songs about him.
Leonard: Okay, how about this? I'll do the talking, you just stand behind me and try to look formidable.
Raj: I should've peed before we left.
Kurt: Yeah?
Leonard: Hi, Kurt.
Kurt: Lenny, right?
Leonard: I don't really go by Lenny, but that's okay. Um, you remember Sheldon, Howard and Raj.
Kurt: No. What do you want?
Sheldon: You don't remember me? How could he not remember me?
Leonard: Sheldon, not now.
Sheldon: I remember him.
Leonard: Okay, here it is. Penny's in kind of a financial jam, and the money that you owe her would go a long way to solving her problems.
Kurt: And she sent you to get it from me?
Leonard: No, no, she's too proud to ask for the money. I, on the other hand, feel you should honour your debt.
Kurt: You do?
Leonard: Feel is a kind of a… it's a strong word. Um, I just think it would be a nice gesture on your part.
Kurt: She'll get it when she gets it.
Howard: Well, there you go. Problem solved.
Raj: A successful quest. Now let's go find a gas station with a clean bathroom.
Leonard: No, the problem isn't solved. He just blew us off.
Sheldon: I've got it. He didn't remember me because the last time we met I was in a Halloween costume.
Howard: Come on, Leonard, let's go
Leonard: No. You can leave if you want to. I'm gonna see this through.
Howard: Okay. (They leave)
Leonard: I guess, technically, that was my fault. (Knocks) I'm not leaving here without Penny's money.
Kurt: What happened to your backup?
Leonard: I don't need backup. I have right on my side. And I'm wearing cargo shorts under my pants.
Scene: Leonard's car.
Sheldon: Congratulations. You may not have succeeded in getting cash, but you did secure a formal acknowledgment of the debt. (Leonard has "I owe Penny $1800, Kurt" written on his forehead.)
Howard: Maybe we should have your head notarized.
Raj: If anybody cares, I still have to pee.
Scene: Outside the apartment. Penny knocks.
Leonard: Hey.
Penny: Hey, is Sheldon here?
Leonard: Yeah. Hang on. Sheldon!
Penny: Nice hat.
Leonard: It's kind of a fashionable look these days.
Penny: Maybe if you're working on a tuna boat.
Sheldon: Hello, Penny.
Penny: Sheldon, here is your money. Thank you very much. It helped a lot.
Sheldon: Sarcasm?
Penny: No.
Sheldon: Darn. I can't seem to get the hang of that.
Leonard: Hey, I know it's none of my business, but where did the money come from?
Penny: Well, I cut back my expenses like you said and picked up a few more hours at the restaurant, but the biggest thing was, out of the blue, Kurt shows up and gives me the money he owes me.
Leonard: Really? Did he say why?
Penny: Yes, he said he was feeling guilty and wanted to do what was right.
Leonard: That's it? Did he give any reason as to why he came to this moral epiphany?
Penny: Nope. I just think he's really changed. We're having dinner tomorrow night, and I get to wear my new beret. Bye, guys.
Leonard: Bye.
Sheldon: Well done, Leonard. The true hero doesn't seek adulation, he fights for right and justice simply because it's his nature.
Leonard: Penny's hooking up with her jerk of an ex-boyfriend and I have indelible ink on my forehead!
Sheldon: That's your badge of honour, your warrior's wound, if you will. I was wrong, minstrels will write songs about you.
Leonard: Great.
Sheldon (sings): There once was a brave lad named Leonard, with a fi-fi-fiddle-dee-dee. He faced a fearsome giant, while Raj just wanted to pee.


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May 9
1949 - Billy Joel
Happy birthday to William Martin "Billy" Joel, singer, songwriter and pianist, born on this day in 1949. Since releasing his first hit song "Piano Man" in 1973, Joel has become the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, achieving 33 Top 40 hits.
Born in The Bronx and raised in Hicksville, New York, Joel decided to pursue a full-time musical career after seeing The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, joining local group The Echoes when he was just 14.
He moved out to Los Angeles early in 1972, and started performing under the stage name Bill Martin. It was during a six-month residency at The Executive Room piano bar on Wilshire Boulevard where he composed his signature hit "Piano Man."
Joel scored the worldwide #1 "Uptown Girl" in 1983, which was written about his then girlfriend and future wife, who featured in the video, supermodel Christie Brinkley (who he married in 1985). The couple, who divorced in 1994, have remained the best of friends, we are told.
So, let's have some things you didn't know about "the Piano Man." During the '90s he turned his lifelong passion for boats into a money-making venture, forming the Long Island Boat Company, who make powerboats. Joel also opened a shop to manufacture custom-made, retro-styled motorcycles and accessories.
In 1987 he became the first US pop star to bring a fully-staged rock production to the Soviet Union under the US Soviet General Exchanges Agreement of the Reagan-Gorbachev 1985 Geneva summit.
And here's one for trivia buffs: Joel is the only performing artist to have played both Yankee and Shea Stadiums, as well as Giants Stadium, Madison Square Garden, and Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum! Not bad for someone who attempted to commit suicide by drinking furniture polish. Joel later said of the incident, "I drank furniture polish because it looked tastier than bleach."
1980 - Boomtown Rats
"I Don't Like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats won the best pop song and outstanding British lyric categories at the 25th Ivor Novello Awards.
The Boomtown Rats' lead singer was inspired to write the song after reading about the tragic shooting spree which happened on January 29, 1979. Sixteen-year-old Brenda Spencer killed two people and wounded nine others (including a police officer) when she fired from her house across the street onto the entrance of San Diego's Grover Cleveland Elementary School using a .22-caliber rifle her father had given her for Christmas.
Spencer's family tried unsuccessfully to prevent the single from being released in the United States. Despite being a major hit in the United Kingdom, it only reached #73 on the US charts.
Spencer showed no remorse for her crime and when asked why she did it, she answered, "I don't like Mondays, this livens up the day."


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There's been lots of talk of AMP in SEO circles lately, but what exactly is it and do you need to be worried about it?
The Mobile Revolution
Mobile has become more and more important in terms of SEO in the past year, with mobile searches finally overtaking desktop. It's hardly any wonder when you think how much time we all spend with smart phones in hand…
It's no surprise, then, that Google is working hard to provide a better experience for its mobile searchers. We first saw this with the 'Mobilegeddon' update back in April 2015. That was when Google categorically stated that if your site wasn't mobile friendly then it wouldn't rank for searches made on mobile devices. Ouch! Think about that for a second: if more than half of the searches are done on mobiles, if your website isn't mobile friendly you could be losing more than half your potential visitors!
(If you want to check how mobile friendly your site is then visit their mobile friendly test: https://www.google.co.uk/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/)
But even mobile friendly pages can be a pain to load when you don't have great signal. Indeed even when you have 4G they can sometimes be sluggish because so many these days are full of 'images and interactive elements. Be honest, most of the time when you're looking for something on your mobile you aren't interested in pretty pictures and funny videos, you just want the information you're looking for. And usually you want it fast.
Accelerated Mobile Pages
This is the latest solution to that problem. Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) are pages with all the fancy stuff stripped away. They're 'back to basics', simply coded pages, which are designed to load at lightening speed.
It doesn't take a genius to see how this can benefit both users and businesses, and there will be a raft of marketing and tech companies falling over themselves to offer to implement the technology on your website.
But before you go full steam ahead and allocate a chunk of budget to doing this, just stop and think about who your potential visitors are. Why are they searching for you? Will it make a huge difference to them if your page loads in 4 seconds or 1? If you're an emergency locksmith and I'm stuck in a secluded carpark at midnight with my keys locked in my car then the answer is probably yes. Or if I'm wandering around Tesco and need to know the ingredients for the casserole I'm making tonight, maybe yes too.
For the vast majority of business, however, there won't be this urgency. You don't need to fall over yourself to get AMP implemented by next Tuesday. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be on the horizon – something you can plan into your next website overhaul or upgrade perhaps.
It might be that your target market simply don't use mobile! Do you even know how much of your website traffic comes from mobile? Are you measuring what percentage of visitors who become customers are coming from mobile? Does it make you think you should be measuring it at least? I hope so….
Whatever happens, don't be scared into thinking your world will end if you don't have Accelerated Mobile Pages on your website. There are plenty of people who will be only to happy to play Chicken Little and try and convince you the sky is falling…. and of course take your money to put it right.
If you'd like to read more about the AMP Project then visit their website at https://www.ampproject.org/


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When it comes to coworking spaces in Melbourne, there's never been more choice. The city's vibrant entrepreneurial spirit has attracted Australia's major coworking networks to set up. There are also quite a few cosier options that cater to more specific needs. That's why we put together this guide to the best coworking spaces in Melbourne.
If you prefer, you can also view all this info in our Google Sheet: Coworking Spaces Australia. If you know of a space that's missing, reach out to get it added to the list. We update the list weekly to keep it up to date.
Major Coworking Spaces In Melbourne
The Commons (pictured), Collingwood
- Rates available on contact
- 500mbps Internet
Spread across two locations, The Commons is one of the most popular coworking spaces in Melbourne. They offer a range of benefits for their community including yoga, beer & cider, outdoor seating and conference rooms. Learn more about The Commons.
Spaces, Richmond
- Hot desks from $320/m +gst, Permanent from $650/m +gst
- Superfast WiFi
Spaces Melbourne's resplendent workspace is located in the city's creative district, surrounded by great places to eat and drink. Spaces have a range of different rooms and workstations. And their Business Club gives members the perfect place to meet clients and enjoy a coffee. Get more info about Spaces Melbourne.
Hub, Southern Cross
- Hot desks $300/m +gst, Permanent $640/m +gst
- Fibre Internet
Hub's Melbourne coworking space is right near Southern Cross train station and caters to a diverse community of professionals. When you join Hub, you get access to an all-inclusive workspace with weekly learning, social and networking opportunities. Take a look at Hub Melbourne.
Inspire9, Richmond
- Hot desks from $35/d +gst, Permanent from $320/m +gst
Inspire9 is one of the most flexible coworking spaces in Australia, with a wide variety of membership plans from part-time to 24/7 residency. Inspire9 is Melbourne's original community-led coworking space for startups, freelancers and creatives. Visit Inspire9.
York Butter Factory, CBD
- Hot desks from $100/d +gst, Permanent from $600/m +gst
- 100mbps Internet
York Butter Factory is more than a coworking space. They're an ecosystem of industry leaders, mentors, investors and corporate partners. They also run over 200 events every year, so it's no wonder Australia's most innovative tech startups flock to them. Learn more about York Butter Factory.
Blix Spaces, Port Melbourne
- Hot desks from $45/d +gst, Permanent from $800/m +gst
- Fibre Internet
Blix Spaces offers over 55 workstations, 3 meeting rooms and 5 private booths, all fully equipped with fast fibre optic internet. On top of essential kitchen and shower facilities, Blix members also count upon an industrial coffee machine, assorted fruit platters, sparkling water and a fully stocked bar. Need we say more? Check out Blix Spaces.
The Junction St Kilda, St Kilda
- Permanent desks from $500/m +gst
Recently refurbished, The Junction St Kilda is a collaborative working environment for a range of startups, freelancers and small businesses. The Junction offers a modern work environment with air conditioning, bathrooms & kitchen and great links to public transport and Albert Park Lake. Consider The Junction St Kilda.
Boutique Coworking Spaces In Melbourne
One Roof Women, Southbank
- Hot desks from $27/d +gst, Permanent from $410/m +gst
One Roof provides everything a female entrepreneur needs to thrive under, you guessed it, one roof. One Roof offers a range of flexible membership options and facilities to its community of nearly 70 women-led businesses across all industries. Learn more about One Roof.
Hive Studio, Collingwood
- Permanent desks from $270/m +gst, Privates from $630/m +gst
Hive Studio is a cosy coworking space in Collingwood. Hive's sunny offices are popular with designers, coders, startups and writers who prefer a quiet, community-minded work environment. Click through for more on Hive Studio.
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Raymond West
Nigel Keonen's memories of Ray, who sadly died on 4th October 2012 after a long illness with Parkinson's disease.
I got to know Ray when I joined the Club in late 80's, and we teamed up skiing on the holidays along with many other members. He was always good at organising groups, taking them around the areas on piste and later he did off piste tours in Klosters. Probably his greatest day was when we all went on the Vallee Blanche off-piste run down the Mer De Glace and Ray helped to organise the bus to take us from Flaine to Chamonix, also the two guides that were going to lead us safely down the glacier!
Ray used to go on virtually all the Ski Club holidays and along with Pat and Harry Ashworth, were the key pins! Whenever we arrived on a club holiday in the 3 valleys (Meribel or Courchevel) with the forecast of a week of clear blue sky, Ray would say on the first morning: "Lets get over to Val Thorens before the weather closes in". It never did of course!
On my first holiday with the Club, staying at the Tremplin Chalet in Meribel, ski races were always organised by holiday companies for the last day for anyone to compete in. Ray had been struck down with a tummy bug day before, but had dragged himself out to race! When he was midway through his run, the French commentator lady announced that "Ray was really leaving his mark on the course"!
He was a keen wind surfer and used to take his trailer of boards / sails all over England and Wales. When windsurfing with the Day's boys in Aberdovey, Elaine got swept up the estuary, we followed her to check she was alright, but when I shouted to him regarding the situation, Ray said "OK but I think I can get in one more run across"!!
He also had many off shore cruising trips and had his own 24ft sailing yacht on Windermere, where he also had a holiday home.
Ray was a keen hiker, and was at home in the hills, he loved his days out in Derbyshire.
He was also a keen dancer in both formal and modern jive/salsa.
I always picture Ray with his trailer of windsurfers, sails, masts, booms and various gear which were cobbled together over many years. When we got to water's edge, it was like doing a jigsaw puzzle working out which bits went where. At the end of the day, Ray would be still out on the water with his "inimitable bow-legged stance".
Ray and I had some great times together;
Whether it was hiking in the peak district with his beloved Sheltie dogs, skiing on Club Holidays, windsurfing in Aberdovey and Rhosneigre or sailing his cruising yacht on Windermere.
They broke the mould after Ray was made.
He gave me some great experiences and will be sorely missed!!


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Smt Soldering Handbook
Author by : RUDOLF STRAUSS
Languange : en
Publisher by : Elsevier
Format Available : PDF, ePub, Mobi
Total Read : 54
Total Download : 572
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Description : Surface Mount Technology has had a profound influence on the electronics industry, and has led to the use of new materials, techniques and manufacturing processes. Since the first edition of this book was written, electronic assemblies have continued to become still smaller and more complex, while soldering still remains the dominant connecting technique. This is a comprehensive guide to current methods of soldering components to their substrates, written by one of the founding fathers of the technology. It also covers component placement, the post-CFC technology of cleaning after soldering, and the principles and methods of quality control and rework. New sections deal with Ball-Grid-Array (BGA) technology, lead-free solders, no-clean fluxes, and the current standard specifications for solders and fluxes. Dr Rudolf Strauss has spent most of his working life with a leading manufacturer of solders and fluxes. He was responsible for a number of innovations including the concept of wave soldering, and for many years has been active as lecturer, consultant, and technical author. His book explains the principles of soldering and surface mount technology in practical terms and plain language, free from jargon. It is addressed to the man, or woman, who has to do the job, but it will also be of help in planning manufacturing strategy and in making purchasing decisions relating to consumables and equipment. Written by founding father of SMT technology Standard specifications have been fully updated New chapter covering Ball Grid Array (BGA) technology


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I have a lot of books sitting on my office floor. There are more books there than I can probably read in the next few years. The titles and topics cover everything you could imagine from the Dead Sea Scrolls to churches that abuse. There are some impressive author's names nestled against the stained green carpet of my office. Names like Luke Timothy Johnson and Dietrich Bonhoffer. The books are all marked up inside with thoughtful, insightful ponderings and notes, sometimes with depths greater than the author's writings. You see, I just inherited the entire library of my father-in-law, Dempsey Stripling.
He died of a heart attack on January 27. It was sudden! It was shocking! It is still surreal!
If the world were to sum up his life they would probably say he didn't mean much, just another preacher, just another person. He never amassed a great fortune. He never enjoyed great fame. He never wrote a book, or hit the speaking circuit. But what he did do was amazing. He actually changed people's lives! Many people set out to do that, but few actually do!
In the days after his passing, the family heard from people all across the country. In fact, we heard from people all across the world. They would tell Rochelle, "your dad changed my life." People would say, "I've never known anyone who had so much integrity." We heard things like, "he always made me feel special" and "he was the best man I'd ever known." When I come to think about it, he was the best man I've ever known too.
The funeral services were held in the next town away, in a church with a large sanctuary. We knew that the small Salado, TX funeral home could not hold all the people. It turns out, no place could hold the love Dempsey had for people. And he let people know it.
I must confess that I am often concerned about all the wrong things: myself, my career, my ministry. But Dempsey's life was always about the right things: faith, family and fidelity. I wish you could have known him. You would have been better for it.
As Gayle Sayers once said of Brian Piccolo, I say to you: I love Dempsey Stripling, and I'd like all of you to love him.
If you want a full description of my father-in-law, it is found in Matthew 5. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God."


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District 5180 Human Trafficking Project
In 2011, President Obama issued a Presidential Proclamation designating each January to be National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. The anniversary of this proclamation became known as National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, which is held on January 11th each year.
Slavery was officially abolished in the US in December 1865 by the 13th Amendment, however, its forms still exist to date. The US is the source, transit and destination country for modern slaves: children, women and men.
Whether from another country or the US, they are all subjected to injustices of human trafficking, including sex trafficking, forced labor, involuntary servitude, and forced marriage.
Rotary District 5180 jumped in to help with this issue by creating an initiative, with funding from The Rotary Foundation and Rotarians locally and globally, to provide human trafficking education to our youth in schools and to reach the public with an outreach campaign.
If you or someone you know is being trafficked contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline at call 1-888-373-7888 or text BeFree (233722)