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To be in the dark about the fate of a loved one who has gone missing can lead families to a quiet desperation of anger, frustration and deep sadness.
What we've seen time and again with missing persons cases is that there is always hope for answers and the possibility that a loved one, however improbable, could one day come home.
Today I joined with Doug and Mary Lyall of the Center for Hope, and DeCrescente Distributing Company, to announce a new pilot program, "Coasters for Hope", to help find Capital Region missing persons.
Starting December 16th, more than 5,000 "Coasters for Hope" drink coasters featuring pictures and information about seven local missing persons will be printed and distributed by DeCrescente to restaurants and taverns across the Capital Region.
The public-private partnership to create and distribute drink coasters to help find missing persons is the first of its kind in the Northeast.
Each drink coaster will have a number where people can anonymously call or text a tip to law enforcement about a missing person's case. A crucial tool in solving these cases is keeping information about missing persons in the public eye.
Just this year, three Cleveland women who had been missing for over 10 years were freed from captivity. Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped outside her California home when she was 11 years-old in 1991 and didn't escape captivity until 2009.
Coasters will be distributed by DeCrescente to Capital Region restaurants and taverns featuring information about the following Capital Region missing persons:
1. Suzanne Lyall of Ballston Spa, a 19-year-old UAlbany student missing since 1998
2. Ashley Carroll, age 24, of Troy, missing since 2010.
3. Craig Frear, age 17, of Scotia, missing since 2004.
4. Karen Wilson, age 22, a UAlbany student missing since 1985.
5. Lutricia Steele, age 27, of Schenectady, missing since 2008.
6. Peter Lorang, age 29, of Charlton, missing since 2001.
7. Tammie McCormick, age 14, of Saratoga Springs, missing since 1986.
To submit an anonymous tip about these or any other missing persons case, call 1-800-448-3847; text NYMISSING (+Tip) to 274637; or visit www.troopers.ny.gov and click on CrimeTip Link.
If someone sees one of these Coasters for Hope at their neighborhood restaurant or tavern then they may know something that could help solve a missing persons case.
The preliminary list of restaurants and taverns who have agreed to carry the Coasters for Hope includes:
1. The End Zone
2. Tin N Lint
3. Gaffney's
4. The Rusty Nail
5. The Mill
6. Bentley's
7. Ravenswood
8. Angelo's Prime Bar & Grill in Clifton Park
9. Parting Glass
10. City Tavern
11. Dango's
12. Peabody's
13. Clinton's Ditch in Schenectady
14. Peddlers Bar & Bistro in Clifton Park
15. LTs Grill in Niskayuna
16. Bailey's
17. J&A Prep Kitchen
18. Wolf's 111
19. Pizzeria Uno at Crossgates Mall
20. The Standard
21. Dave & Buster's at Crossgates Mall
22. Washington Tavern
23. Pub 869
24. Junior's
25. LionHeart
26. Recovery Room Albany
27. Recovery Room Colonie
28. Across The Street Pub
29. Maggie's
30. Prof M Barley's
31. Graney's


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While the federal government has final responsibility for many decisions related to the province's fishing industry, the provincial government can lobby on behalf of residents – and should be doing exactly that, according to NDP Fisheries Critic Lorraine Michael.
As the province's Supreme Court considered a challenge on the provincial government's decision to release Grieg Aquaculture from an additional environmental assessment, NDP Environment Critic Gerry Rogers (MHA, St. John's Centre) was asking questions in the House of Assembly.
This month marks the expiry of a federal/provincial/company agreement that has provided millions of pounds of fish annually for Ocean Choice International, with minimal local processing content in return. Today in the House of Assembly's Question Period, NDP House Leader Lorraine Michael (MHA, St.


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Trees May Store More Carbon in Warmer Climate
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A 7-year study in central Massachusetts shows that trees growing in warmer temperaturest can absorb more carbon thanks to a change in the availability of nitrogen in the soil, but this isn't quite as good as it might first seem because this would only partially offset emissions from other sources, including releases from forest soil caused by the warmer climate.
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A 7-year study at Harvard Forest in central Massachusetts looked at the impact of a 9-degree warmer climate on trees.
The study confirmed, as others have, that a warmer climate causes more rapid decomposition of the organic matter in soil, leading to an increase in carbon dioxide being released to the atmosphere.
But the study also showed, for the first time in a field experiment, that warmer temperatures stimulate the gain of carbon stored in trees as woody tissue, partially offsetting the soil carbon loss to the atmosphere. The carbon gains in trees, the scientists found, is due to more nitrogen being made available to the trees with warmer soil.
This happens because tree growth is often limited by the availability of inorganic nitrogen.
This faster growth and carbon sequestration is only a partial offset of the CO2 emitted by the soil, so we shouldn't get too excited about it. But if the effect is real, it should definitely be taken into account in climate models so we have a more accurate view of what might happen if we don't act to reduce the levels of atmospheric CO2.
Via Science Daily
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To: All Members (Region 1)
Date: 22 February 2017
Dear Brother/Sister
DEATH OF MEMBER – BRO. LAUCHLAN McLELLAN
It is with deepest regret that I have to inform you of the sudden and unexpected death on 17 February of our member, Brother Lauchlan "Locky" McLellan.
Locky aged 53, was stationed at the National Training Centre and HQ at Cambuslangand joined the Fire Service in September 1987.
Locky leaves behind his wife Ann, daughter Kirsty aged 27 and son Ross aged 17 and we have already taken steps to ensure that the necessary advice and assistance are provided to them as necessary.
Locky will be remembered fondly by all who knew him but right now his passing has left many in shock and deep sadness and I know that members will join me in sending condolences to his family, friends and colleagues at such a difficult time.
Best wishes.
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I started off the summer with all sorts of grand ideas: lemonade stands, beach trips, craft projects. Sadly, school starts in just a few days and our main summer activity seems to be benign neglect. Which is a necessary part of child development (or so I'm told). But sometimes, you gotta buck up and Be the Mom You Want to See in the World.
So, the boys and I celebrated the last Friday of summer vacation with a trip to San Francisco. We spent a day being tourists in our own backyard, exploring Fisherman's Wharf, Pier 39 and the Aquarium of the Bay.
With an Aquarium of the Bay coupon from SmartSave, a U.K. based company that offers discounts to many family attractions, my two kids and I were able to visit the aquarium for just $30. As a partner of The Bay Institute, the exhibits focus on the local sea life in and around the San Francisco Bay, such as jellyfish:
And starfish at the Touch the Bay ponds:
And our favorite part: the Under the Bay exhibit. It's a good sized walk-though tunnel that makes you feel like you are swimming through the bay, complete with dock pilings and all kinds of fish — including sturgeons, sharks and sting rays — only you get to stay warm and dry.
Look carefully at the photo above… that is an aquarium employee swimming around in scuba gear!
Sardines swirling overhead in Under the Bay.
Aaaack! We're being attacked by sharks! The boys even humored me by taking some funny green-screen photos to remember our outing.
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More than one person during my personal and professional love of, commitment to, and relationship with corseting and waist training, has asked if it has to do with some psychological need or lack in my life. Perhaps.
Certainly, I've been and am subject as are all women, to lifelong constant social, cultural, overt, covert, impersonal, and personal bombardments regarding my body: what's right for it's size, its shape, its too muchs and too littles. For women that also converts into social messages about youth and age, and the latter ain't pretty!
Such daily messages drill down into one's consciousness for better or worse. It's well known that women suffer more body dysmorphia than men, perhaps in all of western culture, but certainly in the United States.
The most recent reminder was occasioned by the death of Hugh Hefner of Playboy infamy, the man who proceeded our so-called president as the classic mysogenist spewing out hateful, wrong-headed messages about the female as victim and her "desireable no. 10" status as object and property of powerful men to do as they wish. (Then of course, some women further victimize ourselves and can inadvertently aid our oppressors first, by not speaking up or out, and second, by voting for an oppressor to sully the highest office of our country or the highest court of our land; a particular Supreme Court Justice and a particular so-called president come to mind).
Many of us women are, indeed, alienated from our bodies. Clearly, it's not limited to women, but our alienation takes on a unique complexion and adds a special burden to our lives.
The concept of alienation was brought to mind by a small article published in the New York Times Magazine last Sunday, "New Sentences" by Sam Anderson, who said:
"The little man (in my conscience) is a perfect metaphor for our alienation from our own bodies. We are our bodies, of course, and yet we do not speak the same language. They speak to us in urgent codes: swelling, cramping, twitching. We contain whole ecosystems of resistance to ourselves."
One of my conclusions about the possible value of wearing corsets and waist training, relates to body alienation and learning how to deal with negative resistance. It was reached many years ago and sparked by reading the seminal work by Professor David Kunzle on corseting–
— corsets actually put us "in touch" with our bodies and our spirits in a positive way.–
The sweet hug of corset-on-skin, the slightly unbearable pressure in lacing down or staying tightly corseted a half hour longer than pleasant in order to test one's limits, tends to bring one's consciousness right back into the present moment with nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. We can no longer ignore our noble or ignoble bodily urges and feelings: we have to pay attention. We have to feel life in the moment.
For me, that is one of the great pleasures I experience in corseting: feeling the moment.
It is a strategy I have adopted since trying on my first corset in 1989, in order to learn to live even more in the moment, to appreciate the fleeting of time, and to put my daily troubles into perspective.
To me, that's a positive reason to corset, and has nothing to do with body dysmorphia.
Perhaps Mr. Anderson might find comfort in the same strategy one day?
(Copper leather-lace-and-rhinestone corset, and smile!!!– by BR Creations for ROMANTASY)


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The mobile landscape is constantly evolving, and for people who are in the web marketing business, change means new opportunities. Those accustomed to traditional SEO methods have found adapting to the new environment is both exciting and confounding.
The Big Questions in Today's New Environment Include:
- What are the best ways to market apps in a pluralistic environment?
- How do I drive social media recommendations for apps?
- What are the most effective methods of driving subscribers and downloads?
Marketing From the Left and the Right
Sometimes the left hand forgets that the right hand is there. A holistic approach to app marketing, which includes both app store searches and mobile referrals, and web-based SEO, has been gaining ground as people see that employing only one tactic may not reach the tipping point of effectiveness.
Take simple, straightforward ASO, for example — the process known as App Store Optimization. This process leans heavily (in fact, almost entirely) on keyword title searches. This means that, as companies warm to the usefulness of ASO, the effectiveness of those keywords will be neutralized by over-use. This process creates overly-competitive keywords.
For many, this moment is close at hand. The numbers don't lie, and they're increasing rapidly (by a factor of three over a 2.5-month period). As more apps apply the ASO strategy, its effectiveness drops sharply, and that doesn't do anybody any good.
App Discovery on Fire
The mechanics currently being employed in the business of app discovery are primitive. Like all primitive tools, they will evolve into something more complex over time, especially as an already hyper-effective search engine like Google begins to consider its role in app searching within the app store. Google would have the groundwork in place to apply a more broad variety of elements into its ASO: factors like revenue, content analysis, reviews, purchases within apps, and more.
Many see this kind of expansion in sophistication of ASO as the next logical step in the app marketplace evolution. In the meantime, however, the need for a comprehensive strategy that will keep businesses competitive is paramount. Because SEO is a constantly changing marketing strategy, it continues to offer the most potential for marketing success, and while SEO is still web-based, and can't be applied to in-store app purchases, that doesn't mean it isn't still a useful, if overlooked, tool.
The Search for Real Value
The truth is, for user quality, finding apps via online search online beats all the competition. It leaves paid channels in the dust, and even out-performs social media. Given that this is true, it's also true that search constitutes only 4 percent of app installs by volume. That's 5.5 times less than social media. The disparity here is vast, and represents an under-utilized area of opportunity for the marketing community.
Even though SEO and ASO are vastly different creatures at the moment, the user quality offered by search means that SEO can work just as hard as ASO for app conversions. If properly applied to app-focused searching, SEO holds more potential than a battle over simple ASO keyword implementation might suggest.
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Police searching for man linked to hotel slaying
Fri., Sept. 14, 2012
Spokane police are searching for a "person of interest" in a Thursday morning murder at a downtown hotel.
Kevin Heaton, 35, has an extensive criminal history and should be considered "armed and dangerous," police said in a news release.
On Thursday morning, police responding to shots fired at the Days Inn hotel at 120 W. Third Ave. found Paul A. Haney, 33, of Yakima, dead from gunshot wounds in the parking lot.
Detectives searched three hotel rooms and found additional weapons and methamphetamine, the release said. A handgun was found near Haney's body and another handgun was found in another part of the parking lot.
A red moped was seized as possible evidence but detectives have not determined whether it was connected to a drive-by shooting the day before. The seized moped had been reported stolen Wednesday prior to both shootings, the release said.
Two people were arrested in Yakima Thursday on unrelated Department of Corrections warrants. Detectives traveled to Yakima and interviewed the people about their possible involvement in the homicide, the release said. Detectives also searched the vehicle they traveled in.
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What's a "sacred cow"? One such is a medical theory that's been etched in stone for years. For instance, to question the value of cholesterol lowering drugs is like damning motherhood. Or to challenge the belief that mammography does not save many lives may condemn you to hell. But everyone should be asking probing questions about the sacred cow of mammography.
Dr. Peter Gotzsche, a leading Danish researcher, claims there is no convincing evidence that annual mammograms decrease the risk of death from breast cancer.
To reach this conclusion Gotzsche and his colleagues analyzed international studies on half a million women.
Dr. Michael Baum, professor of surgery at University College, London, England says, "The latest evidence shifts the balance towards harm and away from benefits".
Today, women, health care professionals and the media all focus on the benefits of regular mammograms. Mentioning their negatives is considered unethical. But there is bad news and it's unethical not to publish it.
Many women are unaware that mammograms may do more harm than good. For example, if women between the ages of 40 and 49 have regular screening, three years later these patients have twice the death rate from breast cancer than unscreened women!
The cruel truth is that whatever way you slice the cake the decrease in cancer deaths by mammography is modest. Experts say that you have to screen 2,000 women for 10 years for one benefit. That's why some authorities argue women should not be exposed to radiation for such poor results. Or exposed to worry.
I've seen first-hand the profound anxiety of the patient whose report states that more x-rays must be taken because of a questionable first result. Then real fear sets in when the second report can't separate a cancerous lump from a benign one. More sleepless nights follow while waiting to have a breast biopsy and further delay for the result. Even if the final report is good, many worry that doctors might still have missed the cancer.
This is not a minor happening. Women who have regular mammograms for 10 years have a 49% chance of being recalled at some time for a biopsy. These terrible odds are worse than those in Las Vegas.
Mammograms can, on the other hand, also provide a false sense of security. Studies show that they miss 30% of cancers in women 40 to 49 years of age.
Another concern is that squeezing breasts during mammography causes more than pain. Some authorities say this pressure may also rupture blood vessels in or around a tumour causing the cancer to spread.
I think the larger question is whether breast cancer screening should be continued since the benefits are so small. Or only used when manual breast examination detects a questionable area.
Unfortunately women die of breast cancer for one prime reason. There is no way to diagnose it early.
The Cancer Society and others have lead women to believe mammography results in early diagnosis. This is a lie. It takes eight years before a lump is large enough to detect which provides time for cancer cells to spread to other areas. This is not early diagnosis. One critic said it well, "Finding a cancer this way is damage control, not prevention".
The debate about mammography will continue as economics plays a role. To deny its benefits means a huge economic loss to everyone involved in the procedure. And who wants to admit they've been wrong about the benefits of mammography after stressing its need for so many years?
What is rarely mentioned by anyone is the risk of radiation. In the U.S. women are advised to have a mammogram starting at age 40 as breast tissue is dense at this age which makes breast lumps less visible. In Canada the generally accepted age is 50. This involves a considerable number of x-rays by 70 years of age. And since women are often called back for additional mammogram studies, more radiation is needed.
Next week, why some experts believe women are developing breast cancer due to previous exposure to radiation. And some shocking findings about how little most people know about radiation dosage.


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82 top-quality typography tutorials
- The basics and advanced typography skills (1-11)
- Web typography skills (12-16)
- Typography in Illustrator (17-23)
- Adding colour to your type (24-28)
- Learn type through games (29-31)
- 3D text effects (32-38)
- Fire up your type (39-41)
- Snow and ice effects (42-44)
- Make your type metallic (45-49)
- Eye-catching type effects (50-58)
- Design your own type (59-65)
- Make a typography poster (66-68)
- Illustrative typography (69-82)
Let's get started!
The basics
First things first – master the basics
It's probably wise to get back to basics before you go running off into the typography sunset. Here, Cameron Chapman gives you the lowdown on everything from fonts to displays.
Designing headers and titles may be more artistic, but the set body text is just as important
In this typography tutorial, Cameron Chapman tells you that yes, designing headers and titles may be more artistic but the set body text is just as important. Discover why with this step-by-step guide.
Combining typefaces can be dangerous business, especially if you mix two that certainly don't belong together. Avoid any upset with this typography tutorial that shows you the importance of contrast and mood.
Now you've got the basics down and you've dabbled in paragraphs and combining typefaces, take a look at how to pull it all together. In this typography tutorial, Cameron Chapman rounds it all up and shows you how to finish in style.
This article features a detailed glossary of its main terms
This article introduces the fundamental concepts of typography, followed by a detailed glossary of its main terms.
Advanced typography skills
Typography tutorials: see why a well-planned grid is essential
Find out why a well-planned grid is key to creating a good typographical layout that is clean, consistent and easy to navigate.
Type classification, while helpful, is often convoluted, confusing and even controversial
Type classification, while helpful, is often convoluted, confusing and even controversial. Joseph Alessio gets to the bottom of what commonly used type terminology actually means.
In this typography tutorial, C Knight and J Glaser look at how frequently type needs to be broken down into different levels, such as topic, importance and tone of voice, and explore how this can be achieved visually.
Focusing mainly on the Character Formatting control panel, Jo Gulliver shows you how these options can be used on a day-to-day basis to help speed up your workflow in InDesign.
Usually present in wood engraving and sing lettering, line gradients are often shunned when it comes to a more basic design. Throw caution to the wind with this typography tutorial, showcasing how you can get that vintage feel with line gradients.
Jon Black offers an insight into the murky world of OpenType. In this typography tutorial, he'll de-code all you've ever needed to know about this cross-platform type format. Don't worry, you'll be an expert by the end of it.
Web typography skills
Generative typography has become a popular field for graphic experiments. Here Andreas Koller explains how to use algorithms to manipulate glyph shapes for text visualisation and abstract font faces.
Web typography has come a long way in the past couple of years and you may be feeling a little lost. Graphic designer, writer and publisher John Boardley sets the record straight with this easy to follow guide.
After you've taken a look at John Boardley's guide to web typography, this tutorial from Robert Bowen will show you how to take that new-found knowledge and use it effectively. You've no excuses now!
If you're using Google Web Fonts on your websites, then there's a very good chance that 1 in 5 visitors are seeing faux bold and italic versions of your fonts – even if you correctly selected and used all of the weights and styles. Laura Franz explains how to solve this issue.
Nathan Ford focuses mostly on a few simple macrotypographic techniques, with a dash of micro, and explains how to combine them all to build a more harmonious, adaptable and, most importantly, readable web page.
Typography in Illustrator
This tutorial demonstrates how to use simple Illustrator tools to create a trendy logo
This tutorial demonstrates how to use simple Illustrator tools to create a trendy logo. The process is quite simple and can be applied to all sorts of logos and illustrations for your future projects.
This tutorial shows you how to create a text effect using the Blend Tool in Illustrator and then se Photoshop for some final retouches to make the effect more subtle. The technique is very simple and it shouldn't take more than 30 minutes to achieve the same effect.
Learn how to use various shapes and gradient effects to create an airport timetable text effect
Typographic elements are ideal to create in vector form as you can scale and copy them as you like and change the colors to suit your designs. In this tutorial you'll learn how to use various shapes and gradient effects to create an airport timetable text effect that's perfect for websites, poster designs or even logos.
This tutorial demonstrates how to create a stitched label, as well as editing the text and apply the treatment to other fonts and vector elements.
Use Photoshop and Illustrator tools to create this eye-catching effect
You'll start in Illustrator in this tutorial to modifying the original font, then switch to Photoshop in order to play with textures and layer styles. You'll also deal with selection tools and simple methods to create 3D illusions in Photoshop.
In this Illustrator tutorial, you'll learn how to create a bending 3D text effect that will make any design stand out. In addition to using the 3D tools, you'll layer letter shapes to create color shifts with gradients and highlights. You'll also work in subtle patterns controlled with Opacity Masks.
Alex Gill shows you how to combine Illustrator's 3D capabilities with Photoshop work. This tutorial also covers the best way to manage your layers and how to add subtle lighting techniques to your type.
Add some colour to your typography
Create a design from multiple reference images, a simple sketch, and your own ingenuity
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to mix vector elements and watercolour effects with text to create a stunning design. It's a quick process that depends heavily on good choices of images and colours.
The best typography tutorials push the envelope and challenge the way you view design. Mateusz Sypien explains how to mix 3D and 2D for some simple, yet stunning text effects.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to bring a simple text to life and place everything in fantastic, coloured and glowing 3D space.
This is aimed at typography beginners and shows you how to create a legitimate spray paint effect that could come in handy for wallpapers. The techniques used are simple, so you'll have no problems here!
Sometimes it's the little touch ups that bring out the very best in your creative work. In this tutorial, you will learn to create a contrasting colour reflection which is not only elegant, but simply demanding.
Learn typography through games
Take a break with this Serif game
Learn typography through gaming! The aim of this awesome game from To The Point is to shoot only the serif fonts in the available time. Complete all the stages at 'Director Level' to beat the game. Good luck!
This game takes you through a series of various fonts which you have to name from a choice of four. It may sound easy but it's not!
Do you know your Arial from your Helvetica? Test your type knowledge with this challenging game sponsored by MyFonts.com, that'll probably show you that you don't know half as much typography as you thought you did.
3D text effects
Colorful gradients, lens flares, and textures are essential elements to any 1980′s inspired artwork
Colorful gradients, lens flares, and textures are essential elements to any 1980′s inspired artwork. In this tutorial you'll learn how to use Photoshop's 3D tools to create a 1980s inspired text effect.
Celebrate with ribbons and confetti!
This tutorial will explain how to use the Opacity texture map to create a ribbon-wrapped 3D text effect in Photoshop CS5 environment. Then, it will explain how to create the confetti brush and its layer styles.
Typography tutorials: Get your sweet fix with this 3D type
Mark Mayers indulges his sweet tooth, in this cute typography tutorial. Here, he'll show you how to use Photoshop CS6 Extended's new 3D tools to create your desired effect. You'll be using lots of free stock imagery and other Photoshop features.
Isometric-based letters are the perfect way to reflect structure in a display typeface, as Steven Bonner discovered with a commission for a magazine feature on contemporary architecture.
Typography tutorials: An eye-catching cityscape with 3D and typographical elements
Alex Varanese builds a deconstructed urban environment composed of 3D and typography. Like many of the typography tutorials here, the results can be stunning. Armed with this knowledge, what will you be able to create?
This tutorial will show you how to create 3D type in Photoshop, using a PS action in one of the steps, just to simplify the process. Let us know if it actually does!
Create this eye-catching design with Illustrator, Photoshop and Cinema 4D
Great-looking 3D typography often involves the use of several applications. In this tutorial, find out how to create a vintage lightbulb sign using Adobe Illustrator to create and export the basic paths, Cinema 4D to create the 3D render, and Photoshop for post-production.
Fire up your typography
Try a different approach to firey fonts
Here's a different approach to creating a firey text effect. This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be tricky!
Flames are particularly hard to render in Photoshop, but in this tutorial you'll learn how to use a photograph of fire to set text to the match.
Want to create type in 10 minutes? Head this way! Here, you'll learn how to create a smoke typography effect playing with some brushes and adjustment layers.
Snow and ice effects
Use layer styles and a simple brush to create this frosty text
This tutorial explains how to create a frosting-ice text effect, using a couple of Layer Styles and a simple brush. It will also show you how to modify some settings to adjust the final outcome.
Here you'll practise a dozen methods of how to archive a frozen look on a desired text in Photoshop. One of the most helpful icy typography tutorials we've come across!
Start early on your Christmas card fonts
Perfect for Christmas cards and winter themes, this snow globe effect will certainly make you stand out. This tutorial explains how to create it using a couple of brushes and layer styles.
Make your type metallic
Create attention-grabbing text with this Blender tutorial
3D software offers great opportunities to create some truly unique typography. In this tutorial, discover how to create a big, bold, attention-grabbing title.
Typography tutorials: Get that metal feeling with this eroded effect
Get an effect close to real thing with this eroded metal text tutorial. Throughout this tutorial you'll make use of various drawing techniques, channels, and patterns.
If you don't have a particular programme for 3D typography, never fear! This handy tutorial creates 3D effects using Photoshop and a splash of creativity.
In this tutorial you'll will learn how to combine Cinema 4D and Photoshop to create metal textured 3D typography that includes ornate and decorative swirls. Nice!
Follow this step by step tutorial to create a realistic pewter style metal text effect in Photoshop. The best part is it's really easy! Just a couple of Photoshop layer styles is all it takes.
Eye-catching type effects
Typography tutorials: Use Photoshop and Illustrator for this splash effect
This typography tutorial is brought to you by design blog Abduzeedo. Here, they'll show you how to use Photoshop and Illustrator to create a milky splash effect.
In this tutorial, you'll discover how to give your typography a suspended effect, with a few simple steps. A quirky way to improve your text creativity!
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to scan a text graphic and use its shape to create unique effects with ActionScript.
Text carving on wood is a brilliant typography technique that is perfect for projects such as invitations and brochures. There's a few tricks to learn along the way so pay attention!
Here Steven Bonner show you how to take a solid object and melt it into liquid using Illustrator, Photoshop and a combination of filters and hand painting.
The overriding theme of the typography tutorials here is one of experimentation. Who says type has to be plain to be bold? Tom Lane demonstrates how to draw on pattern work to add intricate detail to your type designs.
In this tutorial, Jessica Walsh explains how she created her 'Prosperity' typography out of geometric shapes, gradients, lines and a few useful Adobe Illustrator effects.
Embrace the frilly side of life with this tutorial from Abduzeedo. Gaining inspiration from a design by Ginger Monkey Design, they'll show you how to achieve a similar style, by mixing various vectors.
Another easy yet effective way to create realist text effects; this tutorial deals with the idea of fashioning plain text into something more.
Design your own type
Jamie Clarke shares his process behind diving in and and make your own font.
This excellent example of our best typography tutorials guides you through the process of creating a detailed and eye-catching font from your vector creations. And without sacrificing quality.
Starting from the all-important concept sketches, Computer Arts guides you through the process of fine-tuning ideas into fully defined letterforms. Then, use Illustrator to transform your glyphs from geometric shapes into a final headline type.
Typography tutorials: Sorin Bechira uses the Liquify tool to great effect
Sorin Bechira shows you how to create an illustration from type. See how he uses the Liquify tool to do this and how you can combine stock imagery with custom marks for some eye-catching results.
Typography tutorials: Use the blender tool for custom made typography
You may think that the blend tool is only reserved for very special occasions. The reality is, is that it can be used on a regular basis to create striking typography. Find out how with this typography tutorial.
If, like us, you love a good script typeface then head this way. Jesse Hora uses Adobe Illustrator to showcase three different approaches to creating three different script fonts.
Typographers and fans of creative fonts will be familiar with the work of self-taught, master pinstriper Glen Weisgerber. Painting letters for race cars, logos, guitars, trucks and motorbikes, Weisgerber has been at the top of his game since the 1970s and in this video tutorial he showcases his talents in a brilliant demonstration of roundhand lettering.
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Learn how to make a classic serif poster
From choosing the perfect font to bespoke glyphs and ligatures, Emiliano Surez reveals how to manipulate serif type in your design work.
In this typography poster tutorial, Vilaz's Pedro Vilas-Boas and Ctia Oliveira reveal some cool techniques for blending type and illustration in Adobe InDesign.
Our pals over at Computer Arts are nothing short of brilliant. Here, they give us another fantastic tutorial focusing on glyphs in typography, brought to you by art editor Jo Gulliver.
Illustrative typography
Get that extra dimension without the extra software
Want 3D effects but can't afford the software? Radim Malinic shares a shortcut for creating eye-popping headline typography without the need for plugins or 3D software.
This tutorial will explain three different ways to create very simple yet elegant header-style text effects, using only two Layer Styles.
See how well Illustrator and Photoshop work together with this nature-tastic tutorial. You'll produce elegant leafy lettering that can be used for a variety of projects.
Ryan Putman is a professional vector illustrator and all-round know-how of Adobe Illustrator. In this typography tutorial, he shows you how to get that Cowboy feelin' with this rough and ready Western type treatment.
Get the equalizer effect
After trawling the larger tutorial sites, independent Romanian graphic artist Alex Roman noticed a gap when it came to an effect such as this. He took it upon himself to create this awesome equalizer effect using Photoshop.
This tutorial will take you less than an hour to complete in Adobe Photoshop CS5. The teacher claims the tutorial is pretty simple, so this is definitely one to try out.
This is a very simple way to create glossy particles within a textured text effect, using two Layer styles, and two Filters.
Create a furry calligram in Illustrator
Sharon Milne has previously created the Meow Calligram and now she's back – instead, channeling her creative energy from her dog Poppy. In this typography tutorial, she'll show you how to manipulate a typeface through to rendering fur and adding those essential doggy features.
Have your typeface dripping with style with this tutorial
Create a buzz with this typography tutorial. Using Photoshop, you'll have your typeface dripping with style following this simple step-by-step guide to creating a honey-kissed typeface.
Create a great 3D effect in Photoshop
If you love to indulge in 3D, take a look at this typography tutorial from Tranfuchsian – a blog for designers, offering plenty of free vector resources and articles. Here, they'll show you how to light up your 3D typeface.
This sweet typography tutorial shows you how to create a candy-caned typeface that'll make any design platform the cutest it can be. Along the way, you'll learn how to create advanced vector pattern brushes and use adjustment layers.
Build a dreamy font
Here, you'll create a 3D Typography based design. All the elements will revolve around the centerpiece and theme: dreaming. The word will dictate the entire layout, with trees growing out of the letters, mountains and a glowing moon.
In this tutorial you'll learn how to create some 'cool' custom typography, using the Path option in Photoshop.
Using Photoshop, you're going to create retro-looking text that seems like it's constructed using folded strips of paper. Prepare yourself to heavily rely on Photoshop's Lasso Tool, as well as some other basic tools and simple techniques.
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Gavin's Deadly Choice: To stay fit and be positive
Former AFL legend, Brownlow Medalist and contemporary Indigenous artist, Gavin Wanganeen, is a descendent of the Kokatha Mula people. Kokatha people have a strong connection to country, culture and hold the Tjukupa (Lore) and caring for country. The Kokatha lands are located in the Central/South Western desert in South Australia.
Growing up, Gavin spent time on the State's West Coast where his maternal great grandfather, Dick Davey was a respected leader of both the people of Koonibba Mission, and the general community. Dick Davey continues to inspire and influence Gavin's painting, and his connection to culture.
"Football has given me some wonderful opportunities in my life, a strong sense of achievement and an understanding that role models can make a difference to people's lives.
"I believe Indigenous kids need a range of role models – some in sport but also, teachers, business leaders, nurses, researchers and artists."
Gavin Wanganeen is an important and inspiring role model within the Indigenous community due to his successful sporting career and transition to working artist.
Favourite healthy meal: Fish and salad.
Favourite exercise: Working out in the gym.
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text: To my mind an essential part of being prepared for lifes storms. The disaster doesn't have to be *htf but it could be the loss of your job, a natural disaster, ill health, huge unexpected bills or a family emergency. A store of shelf stable food and more in a chest freezer means the difference between eating 2 min. noodles for weeks or eating like a king (or a queen). Rules of thumb are: *Rotate your stockpile. *Stock what you eat. Eat what you stock. *Buy when items are on special and buy multiples. I find that items go on sale in cycles of approx. 6 to 8 weeks. so I don't buy that item until then. I buy and can meat when it's on sale. Canning makes the meat shelf stable for over 2 years. I write use by dates and price paid on the packet of the item in large print with a sharpie pen It makes it easier to keep track of used by dates and how much I spent on the item. Food is going up in price and the amount in the packets are going down. A stockpile is a hedge against inflation and it's hunger insurance. I also stockpile paper goods like paper towel and toilet paper. Petrol for the car and 9 kg bottles of gas for the camp stove. I live in a cyclone prone area so stockpiling and such comes as second nature.


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A frequent exporter of international stars (from Errol Flynn to Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts, Sam Neill and Nicole Kidman), Australia didn't make a significant splash with its own movies until the 1970s when a bold new generation of filmmakers including Peter Weir, George Miller, Fred Schepisi, Gillian Armstrong and Bruce Beresford made waves around the world. Today, Australian cinema remains a regular provider of fresh voices and idiosyncratic storytelling.
Scientology: The Ex-Files
In this powerful documentary, a band of former elite members of Scientology emerge from the secretive religion to allege extreme cruelty,...
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In this grisly saga of bizarre experiments, butchered teens, New Zealand doubling for suburban Illinois and a killer in a Tor Johnson mask.
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CanopyIn Singapore, February 9, 1942, the Japanese invasion is underway. Jim, an Australian fighter pilot, wakes up dangling from a tree by his parachute strings somewhere in the middle of a vast jungle overrun by hostile forces. As night devours day, he forges into the danger he must navigate in...Watch Movie
High ThereHunter S. Thompson meets Barry McKenzie in this dark nonfiction comedy about a real-life, legendary but down-and-out tabloid television journalist who heads to Hawaii to film a marijuana travel series, only to become lost as he uncovers a secret government war to control the marijuana trade. The...Watch Movie
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I've always loved stationery. Back in the '70s we collected stationery and traded them as they were rare in Manila. I think we had to buy them from PX stores (imported goods stores) or from the US.
I still collect stationery! I have boxes of them that I actually use. That's why I still write notes. Not everything needs to be digital!
If I don't write notes, my handwriting will be crap and I'll have no reason to buy stationery.
On my bedside I keep a notepad and pen for ideas and to-do lists. Yes, I am old school in many ways.
National Book Store is my happy place. It's a good thing I collaborate with them because I know their stock so well. I drop by very often to look at what's new.
Recently I walked into Noteworthy at Greenbelt 5 and found all my favorite stationery brands in one place. I just knew it had to be an NBS store, and it is!
It carries Itoya from Tokyo, a 112-year-old brand that offers Color Chart, leather goods and office accessories in bright and happy colors, plus the Romeo line of elegant pens and dark leather goods.
Caran d'Ache has writing instruments and an assortment of pencils, pastels, fiber-tipped pens and paints for art.
Sheaffer has pens and its trademark luxury fountain pens (which you can have engraved) while Filofax offers organizers, notebooks and refills.
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Rhodia, and more.
There's a corner for workspace essentials such as staplers, punchers, scissors and paper clips.
You can even order personalized inked stamps.
If you can't resist nice pens like me, then you'll be happy that they carry an assortment that includes my favorite Sarasa Clip.
A crowd-drawer at Noteworthy is the Paper Bar which allows you to customize notebooks. Just choose a cover, page inserts, and a spine. Have it assembled. Then have your name, initials, or short message stamped on the cover.
Noteworthy is located at Level 2, Greenbelt 5 in Makati (right next to Swatch).
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Humorous (fiction), 393 words, Level J (Grade 1), Lexile 520L
Can You Say Pterodactyl? is about a young pterodactyl who cannot say her own name. She encounters a duck and a wren that want to meet her and become her friends. She tries to say her name and scares the animals that she's trying to meet. Then an owl helps her learn to pronounce her name, and she successfully introduces herself.
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DCS: Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) Status
While much of the team has been hard at work on getting DCS World 2 ready, our map team and engineers have been busy improving the NTTR map and fixing bugs. While we have made the significant step of moving the map into full testing, there are several important areas that need to be addressed before we can release it as an open alpha to everyone. Some of these items include:
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When the map is available as an open Alpha, our plan is to still make this map available for free to those that purchased A-10C Warthog while it was in beta (prior to 21 February 2011). It will also be available for purchase from our e-shop for $39.99 USD.


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As an app developer, hitting one million downloads is like going platinum. So how do you reach that coveted milestone?
Do you have a killer idea?
Find out if anything similar already exists. If you find nothing similar, it might be a sign that your idea just isn't ripe yet. If the idea holds up, consider whether you have the skills and resources to make the app. The bar for quality has shot up over the years - what was impressive three years ago is run-of-the-mill now. You have to be very special to stand out.
Testing the water
The best way to test an app is to create a demo and then launch a crowd-funding campaign. Not only does crowd-funding help raise the money to develop the full app, it allows you to test your idea on a paying audience. In return, they get a copy of your app once it has been developed.
When we launched our app (Zombies, Run!) on Kickstarter in 2011 we gained around 3,500 backers and raised nearly $73,000, smashing our initial target. More importantly, we got the validation we needed for our idea. Since then our app has been downloaded more than three million times.
We're now taking the same approach for our next project, this time using equity crowd-funding site Crowdcube.
How can you get paid for your app?
Today, the vast majority of new apps are free. Ours is also free, but to remove the audio ads, we charge a small subscription. So, get people hooked on great content and then give them the option to pay for more. They won't be able to resist.
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Great customer service is the foundation of your app business. If you can respond quickly and clearly, and solve the user's issue, you'll develop a loyal fan base.
How can you build on your success?
Feedback can also give you with the seed of your next idea. Our charity Racelink platform is completely different to anything we'd made before, but came out of a suggestion by one of our users. It has led us to develop a whole string of relationships with the UK's biggest charities.
If I had to sum up my advice in one sentence, I would say: Love what you're doing and seek feedback at every step.
If you believe in your app, there is space in the market and you listen to what your audience wants, you'll be on the right track to hit that magic one million downloads.
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|aren't they cute?
Step 1: fold the top sides of the toilet paper tube down and staple in place - see picture above for example
|because the bleed so much we stacked or coffee filters
Step 4: once coffee filters are dry, fold them so they stagger in size and then place one coffee filter inside the other
|i original hadn't planned for a face but big buddy asked
Step 7: once all pieces are dry, place folded coffee filters in center of tube and staple into place.
|mini man's peacock
|big buddy's peacock
If you decided to do your own little peacock study, here are some books you and your children might enjoy.
|nonfiction, lots of facts, beautiful photos
|nonfiction, great for a preschooler or
beginner reader
|folk tale from India, beautiful illustrations, great lesson
on seeing value in others
You also might want to check out I Heart Craft Things' peacock crafts: Paper Plate Peacock & Peacock Craft, they are super cute.


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Pursuing the Unity of the Gospel: Part OneWednesday, July 18, 2012
Part One:
True Unity Has a FOCUSED Nature
One night while I was praying for my kids, one of them asked why we don't pray for all the other kids they knew. The answer was simple, yet somewhat revolutionary to them, especially in light of the way we are unwittingly trained to think by our culture.
I told them that we don't purposefully choose to not pray for all the other children they know. It just wasn't natural to pray for them simply because they weren't my children. It made sense. Yet in a certain strange way it cut across the grain of the way our culture has taught them to think.
My children belong to me. They are my children. God gave them to me. They are my primary responsibility, out of all the children in the world. They are the focus of my provision, protection, and play-time. They are special, set apart from all the other children in the world simply because they are mine.
Now I want you to notice the focus of Jesus' prayer. While the primary topic is undoubtedly unity, the only group of people for whom He prays for this unity is...His people. Jesus feels about His children the way I feel about mine. Out of all the people in the world, Jesus cares for His people above all. Look with me at the references in the text.
• V. 6 – "I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me…" It is this definite group of people to whom Jesus refers throughout the rest of His prayer.
• V. 7 – "Now they know that everything you have given me is from you."
• V. 8 – "For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them…and they have believed that you sent me."
• V. 9 – "I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours."
• V. 11 – "Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one."
• V. 12 – "I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled."
• V. 14 – "…these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves."
• V. 15 – "I do not ask you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one."
• V. 16 – "They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world."
• V. 17 – "Sanctify them in the truth…"
• V. 18 – "As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world."
• V. 19 – "And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth."
• V. 20 – "I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word…"
• V. 21 – "that they may all be one…that they also may be in us…"
• V. 22 – "that they may be one even as we are one."
• V. 23 – "I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and loved them even as you loved me."
• V. 24 – "Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am…"
• V. 25 – "O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me."
• V. 26 – "I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.
So what is ultra clear from the outset then is that the focus of everything Jesus prays for – and I stress everything – is on "the people whom you gave me out of the world", according to verse 6. This "people" refers first to His disciples, and second to everyone else who believes in Him, as verse 20 says so clearly.
In any local church, one of the doctrines we should hold dear is particular redemption, which teaches that Jesus Christ laid down His life for the sheep. The Bible teaches that He died for His church, for His people. The intent of the atonement in the Bible seems to have a bullseye, and it is those who were elect or predestined before the foundation of the world.
To be sure, the atonement, in my mind at least, is very much like a target. Just as there is a bullseye with other circles around it, the atonement has a bullseye – the church of God – with other circles around it which are the ripple effects that were inherent in the design of the atonement.
In the text here, Jesus says that the revelation of the Son of God has been given only to them. They alone are the recipients of His words and the spiritual meaning intended by them. They alone have believed in Jesus. They are the reflections of His glory. They are the ones whom the Father will keep to the end, with none being lost. They are the ones who will be filled with the joy of the Father. They are the ones who will be kept from the evil one. They alone will be sanctified and consecrated.
And what is more, they are clearly and undeniably contrasted over against the world in verses 9, 21, and 23. The reason they are contrasted is because the Father has loved THEM just as He has loved Jesus. God doesn't love the world that way, and herein is the doctrinal distinction between the love God has for the world in John 3:16, and the love God doesn't have for the world here in John 17. In John 3:16 His love for the world in general – all He created and everything in it – compelled Him to send His Son to die so that anyone in the world who believed could be saved from God's coming judgment.
This is a general love of God extending an invitation to special love. In John 17 the Father's love is specifically that special love, concentrated especially on "the people" He had chosen out of the world, according to verse 9. The "love with which you have loved me" in verse 26, is a special love given only to that special people, and not to the rest of the world.
Now, my desire is not to get too deeply into this doctrine. But I do raise it to emphasize the point that the atonement was not the only work Jesus did just for His people. Here in John 17 it is self-evident that His intercessory work was also just for His people. In fact, He makes it plain that He was NOT praying for the world, in verse 9. I don't know how it can be anymore plain than that.
I share this with you not to beat on some doctrinal drum of particular redemption, but to draw out the special love and emphasis that Jesus Himself places upon the group of people He prays for and came to die for. He is pouring everything He has, is, and will be into these particular people, and not into the rest of the people in the world.
And if Jesus is emphasizing that particular group of people who will be recipients of the answer to His prayers to the Father, they must be an especially important group of people. They are especially important NOT because they are inherently important, in and of themselves. Rather, they are especially important because the Father has loved them in a very, very special way, unlike the way He loves the rest of the world.
So then, the unity for which Jesus prays applies specifically and especially to "the people" the Father gave Jesus from out of the world, that is the elect, the church. This means the focus is NOT only the rest of the world, because Jesus isn't praying for the world. And this in turn means that any idea of true unity as Jesus prays for it, at least, is has only Christians in view, and not the world.
True unity, as Jesus prays for it, is focused on the saints. Which means then that true unity can only happen among saints, and never among those of the world. Why? Because it is the love of the Father that creates this atmosphere of true unity. And since only Christians have that special love of the Father, only Christians can enjoy true unity.
This prayer blows out of the water the theology of Unitarian Universalists. You literally have to rip this chapter out of your Bible if you want to be of that denominational stripe. In their theology everybody's united together in God's love and everybody's gonna be saved by God in the end. That's a load of crap, when compared to Jesus' prayer here. And that theology is dangerous because when it groups everybody into their theological categories, nobody needs the atonement of Jesus, which means no one goes to heaven.
So you have a group of people who are duped into a belief which will send them to hell, because they ignore the necessity of this special love of the Father. Ignore the special love of the Father for a special group of people, and you ignore the special group of people. Ignore the special group of people and you're not part of them. If you're not part of them, you are part of the world.
If you're part of the world, Jesus doesn't even pray for you! I don't know about you, but I want to be prayed for by King Jesus Himself, and that means I wanna be a part of the group He prays for, which means I wanna do whatever He commands to be a part of that group for which He prays. It's not rocket science, folks.
Now, if this unity is something that exists only among Christians, among the saints, among those who are truly a part of the church, why doesn't it look like we're all unified today? There are many reasons for that, and I don't have time to go into them all.
Perhaps the biggest reason is that local churches may be filled with many people who truly don't belong to God. And as a result, they are a part of the world. And as a result, they introduce and bring into the church all the worldly baggage they have so that the church may operate more according to the principles of this world than the principles of Jesus. That's one reason why. That's probably the biggest reason why, in my estimation. That's another sermon altogether.
But suppose everyone who attends your church is converted, and suppose everyone in the Lutheran church down the road is converted. Suppose we're all part of that special people for whom Jesus prays for unity. Why don't we see the unity Jesus prayed for?
Well, it's possible, first of all, that we might be misunderstanding what kind of unity Jesus is referring to here. You see, we hear "unity" and we immediately assume we know what Jesus means when HE uses the word. We might be right in our assumption. But we're foolish if we don't try to figure that out first before assuming. After all you know what they say about assuming, don't you?
That "unity" must not necessarily be the kind of unity our culture refers to. In other words, several churches just getting together and doing things together is not necessarily unity. It is not unity if the people in those fellowships are not, in fact, truly believers. True believers gathering together for the mission is unity. People from various churches gathering together is not necessarily unity. If unity is based around salvation, then only saved people can be unified together.
About the Author: Rob is a entrepreneur in Statesboro, GA, where he envisions and pursues missional-shaped business for the kingdom. He and his wife Sherri have been married for 18 years and together have three sons and a daughter. Rob believes the mission of the gospel is summed up in four simple phrases: know God, obey Jesus, make disciples, and plant churches. This is the pursuit of his life, as well as the point of his blog.


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Taking up the whole of the south wing of the house are two rooms sharing one bathroom.
Jack is on the right and Jill is on the left.
This wing is south facing meaning that these rooms are flooded with natural daylight, and really warm when the suns out!
NB that during Inner Guidance in-house retreats (Mid-Week Mini-Retreat and Next Level Living Retreat) only one of these rooms will be in operation and your room will therefore be en suite.


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Today is the start of a new week & it's also the last day of summer (although it hasn't felt much like summer over these last couple of weeks). I am happy that my son is home today from school because it is a PA day. The timing of this PA day is perfection considering the busy weekend that we have had. It was so lovely sleeping in & not having to be on the go, go, go. My daughter has loved having her big brother home. They are really starting to connect more these days which is just so lovely to see. Our prayer is that they will be close and watch out for one another. My son is protective of his sister so that part is covered thankfully 🙂
I am not sure what is in store for everyone this week, but I do pray that you will have a wonderful day and week ahead. May you find strength from God as you seek to accomplish those tasks that need to get done. May you experience joy as we move into the Fall season officially tomorrow. I personally love this season and watching as the leaves change and God's beauty surrounds us in the most colourful way.
Be blessed today and take some time to enjoy the simple pleasures of life like sipping a cup of tea & reading a good book. Or maybe take a brisk walk and let the outdoors inspire your soul. Do something today that makes you happy & will hopefully kick start off your week to be a blessed one. Happy Monday!!!!!


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The basic hypothesis of the project is that the technology of on-line storage, display, and communications will, by the year 2000, make it economically possible to place the entire contents of a library on-line and accessible from computer workstations located anywhere. The goal of Library 2000 is to understand the system engineering required to fabricate such a future library system. The project's vision is that one will be able to browse any book, journal, paper, thesis, or report using a standard office desktop computer, and follow citations by pointing--the thing selected should pop up immediately in an adjacent window.
Our research problem is not to invent or develop any of the three evolving technologies, but rather to work through the system engineering required to harness them in an effective form. The engineering and deployment of large-scale systems is always accompanied by traps and surprises beyond those apparent in the component technologies. Discovering relevant documents, linking archival materials together (especially across the network), and maintaining integrity of an archive for a period of decades all require new ideas.
This is the fifth and final reporting year of the project. The first four annual reports laid out the vision, described an overall architecture, and reported the development of a production scanning system. This year we report on the wrap-up of the project, including plans for preservation of the acquired data and transition of the technology, services, and acquired data to more permanent institutions.
Our overall scanning strategy is to locate the earliest-generation originals that are available, and extract the maximum amount of information possible with production-capable hardware. Two scanners can acquire 400 pixels per inch with 8 bits of grey scale; this resolution produces image files that are quite large, about 15 Megabytes per scanned page, thus requiring careful organization of storage and workflow. The scanning system acquires about 4 Gigabytes of raw data each day. Following each day's work, unattended overnight jobs archive the raw data to Digital Audio Tape and transfer it out of the scanning station to a server site for additional processing before storing it for distribution. This post-scan processing consists in reducing the data to an agreed-upon standard interchange form: 600 pixels per inch, one bit per pixel, using CCITT Group IV FAX compression in TIFF format, and also to a 100 pixel per inch, 5-bit form for fast display and quality control. These two forms remain on-line; the archive DAT retains the high-resolution data for future use. Near the end of the year, we began transferring the raw data from archive DAT to recordable CD, a more permanent storage medium.
Scanning production reports pages pages/ Gbytes week archived Cumulative total, June 30, 1995 499 29,430 400 July 1-September 30, 1995 106 13,987 1,166 October 1- December 30, 1995 246 19,538 1,628 January 1- March 31, 1996 146 16,980 1,415 April 1-May 30, 1996 53 8,246 1,030 Cumulative total, May 30, 1996 1,050 88,181 1,320
Note that twice as many pages were scanned this year as in the two preceding years combined. This increase confirms that the major production rate increases achieved during the 1995 reporting year were sustained this year. The number of reports scanned did not increase quite as rapidly, because removing of production bottlenecks allowed us to scan longer reports, which we had been previously avoiding.
Since scanning operations reached full stride, as mentioned above, near mid-year we decided to turn our attention to a problem we had deliberately deferred: scanning the oldest reports in the LCS and AI archives, dating from the mid-1960's. These reports are challenging for several reasons. First, they have been in storage longest and have endured more traumatic experiences than have recent materials. Second, they are generally not printed on acid-free paper, so they are beginning to turn yellow. (Fortunately, deterioration is not so advanced that they crumble when handled.) Finally, they are printed with older technologies (hectograph, mimeograph, and early offset) so there is a wide variation in appearance. As expected, the older materials slowed down production significantly. In addition, some of the poorly-printed materials required hand adjustment or post-scan touchup to be readable. After verifying that hand touch-up was feasible, we decided to defer further work on those materials, because they were absorbing too much personnel time.
The next step of the operation is post-scan processing, reducing and converting the image form and placing the processed form on-line for public access. In addition to images obtained from the production scanning operation, we receive authoritative PostScript for most new technical reports, and create image forms for them by direct conversion.
Reports placed on-line: reports pages Cumulative total, June 30, 1995 219 13,690 July 1-September 30, 1995 66 7,200 October 1- December 30, 1995 145 9,000 January 1- March 31, 1996 139 15,900 April 1-May 30, 1996 101 15,733 Cumulative total, June 30, 1996 570 61,523
The difference between the cumulative total of on-line reports and the cumulative total of scanned reports (from the previous table) is that the scanned images for about 500 reports currently reside only on archive DAT; these are being systematically reloaded and run through the on-line processing system.
Quality control reviews of scanned materials are part of the standard workflow; the review process is finding a small number of problems with the scanned images, but for the most part it appears that the procedures in use produce materials that pass review.
In our standard scanning workflow, the high-resolution image data is processed down to a lower-resolution form for on-line delivery, display, and printing with current technology, and the original high-resolution image data is copied to Digital Audio Tape (DAT) for future use when on-line storage capacities and processing speeds increase. Since DAT has an expected media lifetime of only a few years, and a probable technology lifetime of no more than a decade, longer-term preservation of the data requires transfer to a more stable medium.
Near the end of the year, we concluded that recordable CD (CD-R) has a suitable balance of properties for preservation: the increasingly popular use of CD-ROM's for computer applications ensures that reading technology will be available for a long time, and studies suggest that the media itself has a possible lifetime of 70 to 100 years. The lifetime requirement at hand is probably only a decade or two, but no other off-line medium provides an intermediate capability, CD-R costs are relatively low, and the projected lifetime provides a margin of safety. We therefore began transfering the data from DAT to CD-R, using a Yamaha/APS 4X CD recorder attached to the Macintosh PowerPC 8500. For recording software we are using Astarte "Toast CD-ROM Pro", version 3.0.
A second white paper, from TDK, describes heat-accelerated life tests on cyanine-dye disks, and the third white paper, from Kodak, describes heat-accelerated life tests on phthalocyanine-dye disks. These studies suggest that cyanine-dye disks may have a lifetime of 70 years or more if they are stored in suitably dark conditions, and that phthalocyanine-dye disks may have a lifetime of 100 years or more and are less sensitive to bright light.
Anecdotal evidence from on-line news groups suggests that some vendors of cyanine-dye blanks have had runs of bad media. Taking all these considerations into account, we have chosen to adopt phthalocyanine-dye disks as a standard. This choice currently restricts us to two original equipment vendors, Mitsui and Kodak. Since Kodak disks are manufactured with an extra layer of protective lacquer and with a machine-readable bar-code containing the disk sequence number, we have specified the use of Kodak blank media.
The goal of these details is that each CD be completely self-describing, and we have in addition attempted to provide enough information that if an error in workflow or a bug in the software has muddled the data, a future reader has a reasonable chance of figuring out what happened and possibly compensating. We have verified that the CD's are readable, the file systems are mountable, the text files can be read with any standard editor, and the image files can be opened and displayed properly on a Macintosh, an AIX/UNIX system, and a DOS/Windows 3.1 system.
Approximately 2,600 blank CD's will be required to complete the preservation project. Our plan is that the Document Services office will continue to perform restores from DAT and recording to CD as a background activity in the months after the contract with CNRI has expired. To this end, we attempted, in the last months of the project, to use our remaining funds to acquire blank media. As it happens, a world-wide shortage of blank CD-R media developed just before we began that acquisition, and it was necessary to do considerable shopping to locate supplies. We now have commitments from suppliers that appear to be sufficient to exhaust available funds. Approximately 1600 CD blanks are either in hand or scheduled for delivery; we intend to ask the Labaoratory for Computer Science for funds for to acquire the remaining blanks.
In response to these labeling problems, we chose to leave the CD's unlabeled. Instead, we use CD blanks that come with unique manufacturer-supplied serial numbers in both human-readable and bar-code forms, and create a paper label for the CD jewel box that identifies the technical report and connects it with the serial number on the CD. For this purpose, Mitchell Charity developed a web page form that accepts a report number, recording date, and CD serial number, and returns an appropriate PostScript label with matching human-readable and bar-code serial numbers for printout and insertion in the CD jewel box. These labels are printed on acid-free paper and because they do not touch the CD blank, we anticipate that they will not compromise its longevity.
The server that provides public dissemination of the reports consists of an IBM RS-6000 computer acquired for this project; it contain 512 MegaBytes of RAM and something over 50 Gigabytes of disk storage. We have been working on a plan that involves transfer of this computer to MIT Information Services (IS) and that the library and IS jointly take over its operation and care of the data so as to provide continued dissemination of the page images. This proposal is under consideration by both organizations.
In connection with both preservation and continued dissemination, we inquired of the plans of the other four CS-TR project participants. We have not heard from Carnegie-Mellon, but Stanford and Berkeley have both been working out arrangements that these two jobs should be transferred to their respective libraries. At Cornell, the Computer Science department is taking responsibility for both jobs following the end of the CS-TR funding.
"Bibliographic records freely available on the Internet can be used to construct a high-quality, digital finding aid that provides the ability to discover paper and electronic documents. The key challenge to providing such a service is integrating mixed-quality bibliographic records, coming from multiple sources and in multiple formats. This thesis describes an algorithm that automatically identifies records that refer to the same work and clusters them together; the algorithm clusters records for which both author and title match. It tolerates errors and cataloging variations within the records by using a full-text search engine and an n-gram-based approximate string matching algorithm to build the clusters. The algorithm identifies more than 90 percent of the related records and includes incorrect records in less than 1 percent of the clusters. It has been used to construct a 250,000-record collection of the computer science literature. This thesis also presents preliminary work on automatic linking between bibliographic records and copies of documents available on the Internet."
Jeremy has made a demonstration of this system available on the World-Wide Web, at the URL
http://cslib.lcs.mit.edu/cslib/As indicated in the abstract, deduplication is done in two passes, a gross comparison into potential clusters using a full-text search engine, followed by a fine comparison of items within each potential cluster using a string adjacency algorithm. As the collection of citations grew in size to its current 100 Megabytes, it became necessary to switch the search engine used in gross record comparison from Glimpse to the heavier-duty Library 2000 search engine, which is designed to deal with bodies of text in the Gigabyte size range.
For the fine matching pass, simple string comparison was too intolerant of spelling and typographical errors, so Jeremy wrote a string comparison program that uses n-grams (with n set to 3, so it is actually using trigrams) to do approximate comparisons of strings. The library computes a vector magnitude for the difference between any two strings by making a list of all trigrams that appear in either string and deleting from that list all trigrams that appear in both strings. The residual list (which may include repeated trigrams) is treated as a vector with one dimension for each different trigram and length along that dimension equal to the number of times the trigram appears. The program calculates the length of this difference vector and compares it with a threshold that itself is calculated from the vector length of the original strings. If the difference magnitude is less than the threshold the two strings are declared to be similar, otherwise not.
The result of the two passes is an automatic grouping of the raw citations into about 160,000 clusters of closely related citations (the same paper cited several different ways, or published in different places). The result of a query to this system is a list of composite records, one for each cluster that contain things that satisfy the query. Each composite record merges information from the various underlying citations, with different merge strategies for different fields. In case the user decides the item described in the composite record is of interest, it also contains links to whichever repositories are likely to contain an on-line version (based on the types of documents in the underlying raw records) and to nearby library catalogs that may lead to physical copies. The system also provides the ability to look at the underlying raw records, if there is any question.
Jeremy also studied false matches made by the duplicate detection algorithm. False matches occur when the matching algorithms place two actually unrelated records in the same cluster. Since most uses of clusters would merge clustered records together, such false matches would effectively hide one or the other of the falsely matched records, or lead to creation of a misleading composite record. To mitigate this problem, he investigated various methods of identifying those sets of duplicate records that contain an unusally wide variation in the source records.
The thesis is available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, and text
(without the figures) and as LCS Technical Report MIT/LCS/TR-678.
Links to each of these forms can be found under "publications" and
then "theses" on the Library 2000 home page,
We have also performed a significant act of technology transfer; after completing his thesis, Jeremy moved to the Baltimore/Washington area and is now on the technical staff at out sponsor, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives.
The summary of milestones for an entire series is a particularly valuable way to track scanning progress and identify potential problems. Each milestone, e.g. scanning completed, original document returned, etc., is displayed horizontally across the table, along with the date the last milestone was reached. This view helps identify reports that have stalled somewhere in the scanning process -- for example, a report that was scanned but never processed for distribution. The table summary also makes it possible to identify which reports have been scanned -- and which reports have been skipped for one reason or another.
The tracking system has been in production use at Document Services since January, and we incorporated it into our processing programs this spring, but we have not described it in any detail until now.
When we first designed the system, we identified 7 milestones that each document would reach as it was moved through the scanning operation:
We also included some extra fields in the database:
The database and the Web interface were implemented in Perl, and use both a DBM file for fast access and a transaction log for long-term reliability.
The system includes a library of Perl functions for performing queries across the database, updating entries, and displaying results. The library is intended to make it easier to develop custom reports based on the database contents -- for example a list of all the reports that have reached the "scanned and taped" milestone along with their page counts.
We did not use an off-the-shelf database program because we were not familiar with any affordable and simple systems that would allow multiple users to read from and write to the database concurrently. Our own implementation was relatively straightforward because of the nature of the database:
Gregory Anderson. The Library and the Network: Barriers, benefits, and outcomes. Seminar presented at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA., December 6, 1995.
Jeremy Hylton. Access and Discovery: Issues and Choices in Designing
DIFWICS. DLIB magazine (March, 1996 issue) Corporation for National
Research Initiatives.
Jeremy A. Hylton. Identifying and Merging Related Bibliographic
Records. Master of Engineering thesis, M. I. T. Department of EECS,
June, 1996 (actually completed in February, 1996). To appear as LCS
Technical Report MIT/LCS/TR-678.
Patents filed:
Mitchell Charity and Eytan Adar. Method and apparatus for retrieving
information from a database. Filed June, 1996.


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Ca n'a Pas D'Importance
01. À mes amis inconnus
02. Réponse à moi-même
03. Golf E 330
04. Ménage
05. Trouble
06. Un désir
07. 20000 ° réveil
08. Mon Pégaze
Robert Defer [aka Robby]: guitar
Bernard Heck [aka Barney]: vocals
Michel Arnold [aka Doudou]: guitar
Joseph Dato: bass
Jean-Jacques Martinez: drums
Obscure pearl coming from France, the group Hybride has little known history, being active in the second half of the 70s, when it launched its unique and rare album. The guitarist was Robert Defer, who joined Ange in the early 80s and other small local groups.
The disc "Ça n'a pas d'importance", 1977, is divided in 8 short tracks of typical hard rock of the late 70s, with a few doses of prog and other ballads. Lyrics in French and good work on guitars, with some fuzz moments, and heavy drums mark the sound. Emphasis on "À mes amis inconnus", "Trouble" and "Mon Pégaze", but the sound is quite competent, with several good moments.
Hard rock band HYBRIDE created in Belfort (Franche-Comte), where hailed her guitarist Robert Defer and much better known prog simfo-rock group ANGE. Apparently following the example of his famous countrymen HYBRIDE too soon began to execute Progressive Rock and even with the prefix Heavy.


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There's lots of serious eating ahead, with Thanksgiving next week and Christmas around the corner. If you're looking for a healthy appetizer to make for an upcoming gathering, give this Kale Pesto Crostini a try! It's easy to make, and doesn't sacrifice on taste while packing lots of healthy nutrients. Fans of my traditional basil pesto rave about this version, too!
This kale pesto recipe is similar to the version used in this linguine with kale pesto I posted last month, but there are a few tweaks. I made it with toasted pumpkin seeds instead of nuts. I've found this to be a great way to make a nut free pesto, which is great for those with nut allergy concerns.
The other big difference with this recipe is that kale is the only green, whereas I've previously used a bit of arugula. For this batch, I used a package of SuperKALE Salad from Cut 'N Clean Greens. This package makes an easy recipe even easier, as the kale in the salad package comes finely shredded, so you don't have to do any prepping of the kale. It also has a bit of shredded carrot in it, which adds some nice flavor. Just put it in the food processor, and give it a whir!
I brought these Kale Pesto Crostini to a recent Italian food and wine dinner my sister and brother in-law hosted. It was a big hit, though there was certainly plenty of other yumminess to be had at the gathering! We ate them up so fast, I didn't have a chance to get pictures. So I had to make some more for the photo opp! This time, I just used regular kale without the shredded carrots.
Wine Pairing: You'll probably be eating the Kale Pesto Crostini along with other apps, but if you want to pair to this, a nice, crisp white is a natural option. I brought a bottle of Pecorino, an Italian white grape varietal, and that worked very nicely.Print
Kale Pesto Crostini
Kale pesto crostini is a healthy recipe to make for your next gathering!
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 5 mins
- Total Time: 20 mins
- Yield: 8 servings 1x
- Category: Appetizer
- Cuisine: Healthy
- 4 cups tightly packed kale leaves, stems removed
- 3 garlic cloves
- 4 tbsp toasted pumpkin seeds
- generous pinch red pepper flakes
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1/2 cup (or a tad more) grated pecorino romano cheese
- 2/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1 medium baguette, sliced into 1/2 inch rounds
- chopped fresh tomatoes for topping (optional)
- Cooking oil spray, preferably olive oil
- Pre-heat an oven to 400
- Add the kale and garlic to a food processor, coarsely chopping to create enough room for the other ingredients.
- Add the remaining ingredients, from the pumpkin seeds through the olive oil, and puree until it comes to a nice smooth consistency.
- Spread the bread out in a single layer on a baking sheet or large piece of aluminum foil. You will likely need two sheets.
- Use the oil spray to coat one side of each slice of bread.
- Put the bread into the oven, and toast for about 5 minutes until it start to brown and get slightly crispy.
- Remove the toasted crostini from the oven, and spread a dollop of the kale pesto to coat one side of each piece of bread.
- Place on a serving platter, topped with optional tomatoes if using, and enjoy!


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April Housing Stats for DC and Montgomery County
Washington, D.C. – (RealEstateRama) — GCAAR is pleased to update its market information through a partnership with ShowingTime RealEstate Business Intelligence (RBI). Monthly analysis of theWashington, DC and Montgomery County, MD housing markets gets more detailed attention here, while GCAAR continues to be your source for ear-to-the-ground reporting from our REALTOR® members. Get monthly housing stats atgcaar.com.
Washington, DC – April 2016 Market Trends Report
Sales and Contracts Up for the Third Straight Month; New Pending Sales Increase 5.7 percent Across All Home Segments
April's median sales prices remained the same as last year at $525,000. The 771 April sales represented an 8.4 percent increase versus last year, and tops the five-year April average by 15.6 percent (104 sales). New pending sales increased by 5.7 percent overall with gains across all home type segments. Half the homes sold in April were on the market for 10 days or less and competition among buyers kept the average percent of asking price received at 99.0 percent. Read the full report.
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Sales Jump 8.6 Percent; Median Days-on-Market Drops to 15 Days
The 1,103 closed sales in Montgomery County in April increased 8.6 percent from last year's sales tally and exceeded the five-year April average by 13.8 percent. New contracts were up 6.0 percent compared to April 2015. Half of the homes sold were on the market 15 days or less, a three-day improvement from April 2015. Read the full report.
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Reading and Writing Tips from Global Educators
Reading and Writing Tips from Global Educators We are excited to have these great teachers from Australia, Bangladesh, Japan and Cambodia share their excellent tips for helping children read and write. Enjoy! Melinda Crean Primary school teacher, the creator and writer behind Top Notch Teaching blog. I also provide one-on-one