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Interested in Photosoc?
Hello, website visitor.
Welcome to the University of Sheffield's Photographic society website.
This website is not kept particularly up to date, and therefore if you have and questions regarding photosoc, please email:
We have a very active facebook group, which can be found by searching "Sheffield Uni Photosoc" in Facebook and selecting the GROUP (not the page).
We also have a mailing list, which you can join by clicking the mailing list link in the post below this one.
If you would like to join the photography society, membership is £8 for the year, this involves access to all of our thursday meetings, socials, darkroom and equipment rentals. You can join either at a meeting/social or through this page (click for link).
Meetings are at 7:15pm in the Diamond, LT6 (for the year 2016-17)
Hope to see you all soon,
xox Photocats
Sep 24, 2015 1
New mailing list!!!
We have a new email mailing list!
Subscribe here: photosoc.union.shef.ac.uk/mailing-list-3
We´ll be sending an email out at the beginning of every week, containing info on our upcoming meetings, trips and socials.
Sep 7, 2015 13
Keyring Competition Winners!
Dear Photocats,
It's been a week since our competition closed, the committee have cast their votes and the results are in!
Our 2015/16 membership keyrings will feature these lovely photos from Tom Williamson and Si Gao!
Congratulations to the winners and thank you for all your entries. Don't forget to enter our first noticeboard competition as well – as I mentioned during the AGM, I want to start a regular competition to get your awesome photos on display on our notice board so if you want to submit images, email them to email@example.com with the subject 'Noticeboard Competition'. The deadline is 1st October so you still have time, however you can enter as many times as you like so fire away! Let's see what you guys have been up to over the summer break.
See you all soon!
Katherine x
(PS. Don't forget to come say hi at the Activities Fair – 24th Sept!)
Aug 28, 2015 17
Keyring Competition
Hey Photocats!
This is just a quick reminder that you have until the end of this Sunday to enter your photos into our keyring competition! We're looking for your photos of Sheffield and the university to display for a whole year on our 2015/16 membership keyrings! If you don't have any photos of Sheffield or the university, please send in your favourite photos from our meetings, too.
Please send your entries to email@example.com with the subject 'Keyring Competition'.
• You can submit up to 4 photos
• The deadline is Sunday 30th of August
Also, don't forget about our noticeboard competition! We're looking to get your awesome photos on display on our notice board so if you want to submit images for this as well, email them to firstname.lastname@example.com with the subject 'Noticeboard Competition'. The deadline for this will be 1st October.
We're looking forward to receiving your entries!
Jul 29, 2015 0
Competition Time!
Hi Photosoc!
I hope you're all having a wonderful summer break! Some of you may remember that last year we held a competition to choose the photos to be used on our membership keyrings. As we're going to need to update our keyrings for the new year and we had so many lovely entries last time, we'd like to ask you to help us out once again!
If you have some photos of the university or Sheffield that you think would look great on our keyrings please send them to us at email@example.com with the subject 'Keyring Competition'.
• You can submit up to 4 photos
• The deadline is Sunday 30th of August
If you don't have any photos of the university or Sheffield, don't fear! We'd still love to see what you've gotten up to over the break so continue posting your photos to the group! As I mentioned during the AGM, I want to start a regular competition to get your awesome photos on display on our notice board so if you want to submit images for this as well, email them to firstname.lastname@example.com with the subject 'Noticeboard Competition'. The deadline for this will be 1st October so you have plenty of time for this one.
Much love and happy snapping!
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So long and thanks for all the cats
Dearest Photokitties,
This is it, it is time for me to say goodbye in my last ever email to you kitties.
I have had the best year, I hope you have too. Thank you for being such a wonderful society and please carry on being cat-tastic next year!
I am so proud to have been President. With the help of my brilliant committee Photosoc achieved some amazing things. We introduced the keyring membership system, had personalised hoodies made, arranged discount at Harrison Cameras, helped put together the RAG calendar, we had really successful day trips to Ladybower, York and 5 weirs walk, cat themed Halloween social, a great turn out at the Christmas meal, bought new equipment for you to borrow, took part in platform performance and of course, the biggest events of the year, our outstanding exhibition and residential trip to Chester. Not to mention all our weekly meetings!
I can't believe how quickly it has gone. *cry*
Here are some of my highlights: *cue emotional music*
Best of luck to everyone during exams, have a great life if you are graduating this year and if you are sticking around, see you at Photosoc meetings later this year!
I now handover to Manali Naik, the new President! Any queries, she will be happy to help. Best of luck to her!
Goodbyyyyyyeeeeeeee! meow.
May 4, 2015 17
Our last meeting!
Dear Photocats,
This week, will be our last meeting! We thought we'd finish with a meeting that involved being outside, so we could enjoy the spring weather and most of all, flowers! We will be practicing some Macro photography again, but this time with flowers and water droplets. The meeting will be on Thursday the 7th of May in The Botanical Gardens at 6:15pm (meet by the greenhouse). (Meetings will be free for members (remember to bring your membership keyring along!) and non-members will have to pay £2. You will NOT be able to buy membership at this meeting). If the weather seems bad on Thursday and it looks like it won't be dry, watch out for an email from me, in case we reschedule the meeting to The Arts Tower and decide to play with shop bought flowers instead. We are not having a tutorial beforehand, like we usually do, because we did a meeting on Macro last semester. So below are some tutorial pages and examples in case you want a reminder or some ideas of what to do in the meeting:
Also try a Google Image search for Macro flower water droplet photography (or words to that effect) for inspiration.
You need to bring a camera, a flash (if you have one, but it isn't essential), a macro lens (again, not essential), a tripod (once again, not essential) and a syringe/pipette/spray or squirty bottle full of sugar water (the sugar helps the water adhere to the flowers).
Next week we won't be having a meeting on Thursday because The end of year meal/Handover social is on the Saturday! We will be having a meal at Efe's on West street at 7pm then having a few drinks and heading to pop tarts. Here is the event page, we are limited on numbers so please click attending and post your meal choice asap to secure your place at the meal. If you would rather not come to the meal but meet us later that is fine, or alternatively if you would just come to the meal that's fine.


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First Friday I encountered a street performer who was happy to demonstrate his historic instrument.
Kansas City disfunctions and seems intent on protecting the rights of criminals while criminalizing those who speak out. Unfortunately, those who speak out must show the stamina to follow through, which is usually way beyond the capabilities of the average citizen.
Every year is different. Two years ago, we hadn't seen much in the way of severe weather in our area by the third week of April. This year, we've seen severe weather at the end of February. Last year, tragically, we saw more than our fair share.

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Birtley Athletics Club is only 14 years old but they have Olympic and World champion Jonathan Edwards as one of their admirers.
The Gateshead Harrier was on hand to cut the ribbon on a new synthetic long jump runway at their headquarters - and he was full of praise for the effort put in by everyone to bring a superb facility to Birtley which will be the envy of many clubs in the region.
After the opening ceremony Jonathan was the first to try the new runway, much to appreciation of many of Birtley's members who applauded every step as he `soared' into the sand.
"It's absolutely fantastic what Birtley have done here," said Jonathan, who is just starting gym work towards a busy season which will include the Commonwealth Games, European Championships and the Golden League.
"It's an inspiration to me to see the love and care that has gone into putting the pit together. You should all be very proud.
"This is certainly a lot better than when I started off my career in North Devon.
"The facility is very, very important and will help the development of horizontal jumping in the region.
"It's fantastic to see such enterprise and, of course, this is what club athletics is all about.
"The volunteer spirit creates a sportsman culture and hopefully Birtley will see the new facility produce many champions in the future."
Stephanie Hopkinson, Birtley's North East under-13 long jump champion, followed Jonathan on the runaway before every member formed an orderly queue to break in the new all-weather surface.
Birtley members masterminded the project from start to finish - and this is just the start for one of the region's most ambitious clubs as Ed Lown, the club's coach co-ordinator was proud to point out.
"Work on the throwing area is also nearing completion so the facilities for field event athletes are coming on nicely," said Lown.
"It's no secret that we would like to have a track of some nature at our base here. It's not just a dream and I'm sure if we continue to have the commitment we will achieve that in the future."
As well as the opening of the new jumping facility, Birtley also launched their new website (www.birtley-ac.freeserve.co.uk) and they would like to thank the Computer Centre in the town for that, as well as the local Co-op and Low Fell opticians, Summers, who helped sponsor the construction of the long jump facility.


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Writer: Kang Je-Gyu
Producer: Lee Seong-Hun
Studio: Showbox Ent. (South Korea), Columbia TriStar (USA DVD)
Major Stars: Jang Dong-Kun, Bon Win, Lee Eun-Ju, Kong Hyeong-jin
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War blew me away. It's a remarkable film, a war film that holds it's own with the best of its Western counterparts. It's a testament to the talent and quality that can be found in Korean cinema.
The film follows the Lee brothers, Jin-Tae (Jang Dong-Kun) and Jin-Seok (Bon Win), who live in Seoul with their family as the Korean War erupts in early 1950. Jin-Tae works as a shoemaker to put his brother through school. When the North Koreans invade, and Jin-Seok is forcibly enlisted into the Republic of Korea Army (RoK), Jin-Tae joins him to watch over him and try to get him home.
The only way to get Jin-Seok out of the RoK is for Jin-Tae to win the Taeguk Cordon of the Order of Military Merit, the Korean equivalent of the Medal of Honor. He volunteers for dangerous missions. By succeeding he gains attention from the staff officers and the adulation of his fellow soldiers. And Jin-Tae volunteers for more exceedingly difficult missions. But Jin-Seok sees this as changing his brother, who becomes more violent. And so Jin-Seok grows more distant from his brother.
That is what makes Tae Guk Gi so effective. It marries the dynamic of a deteriorating relationship between brothers to some remarkable war scenes. This is where war films go from good to great.
And the scenes are amazing. The first major battle sequence occurs in the early weeks of the Korean War when the North Koreans have all but taken the South. The Lee brothers and their unit are surrounded by the Nakdong River and are being starved to death. They decide to launch a desperation attack against the North Koreans to break out.
This battle is as visceral and jarring as any scene in Saving Private Ryan. More so in some ways, as this is a blood feud in every sense of the phrase. Soldiers are beaten to death with fists and rifle butts. The filming is done with the shaking camera style Spielberg used for Omaha Beach and it works. You are dragged along and feel the desperation of the RoK soldiers who are fighting for their lives.
There are urban combat scenes that look like they were ripped out of documentary reels. The moment when 600,000 Chinese counterattack across the border is a stunning visual to behold. The work of Hong Kyung-Pyo as cinematographer on this film is absolutely fantastic. Not only in the moments of war but in the moments of peace at the beginning of the film.
What also makes Tae Guk Gi a great film is that it doesn't pull punches with atrocities committed on both sides. We see the crimes of the North Koreans, with villagers slaughtered and people forced to fight for them. We already know about these. What we see and may be unfamiliar with are the South Korean atrocities. North Korean POWs are forced to fight to the death for RoK soldiers. In Seoul the Anti-Communist Federation executes suspected Communists without evidence as the Chinese approach to take the city for the North once again. This latter atrocity affects the Lee brothers in a personal way and drives the climax of the film. Hats off to Kang Je-Gyu for not holding back in his depiction of the war.
If there is anything negative to say about the film, it would be problems that are common to these types of films. Secondary characters tend to be caricatures to some degree. The plot gets rushed at points as Kang tries to cover an extensive period of time. But that does not detract in a major way from the overall success of this film.
I really cannot say enough good things about Tae Guk Gi. And it earns a really high spot on the current list. I'm placing it a hair behind Letters From Iwo Jima. I think Eastwood's film was better, but not by much. And yes, I am telling you this movie is better than Braveheart or Where Eagles Dare. It's the simple truth. And this should prove that a great war film doesn't need big names or big bucks. Tae Guk Gi was made for $12.8 million. It looks like it cost 10 times that much.
You must have this film in your collection. I promise you that you will not be disappointed. One word of advice; watch it in Korean with the English subtitles. The DVD has an English-dubbed option and it just looks wrong. Besides, films should be listened to in the language they were shot in...with the exception of kung-fu films from the 1970s and 80s.


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Written by ι Stock Market Media Group Staff — April 17, 2014
Nuvilex, Inc. (OTCQB: NVLX) has once again delivered a major announcement as it advances its pancreatic cancer treatment toward late phase clinical trials. Nuvilex continues to put forth what is turning into a well thought out game plan for the future of treating advanced pancreatic cancer. It's a game plan that could include obtaining accelerated FDA approval of its pancreatic cancer treatment if it can produce the same strong results in an announced Phase 2b clinical trial that were produced in two separate Phase 1/2 trials using the combination of the Cell-in-a-Box® technology with the anticancer drug ifosfamide.
The market may want to start connecting the dots with this international biotech because as Nuvilex releases each piece of its story, the path is leading to more and more impressive hands guiding Cell-in-a-Box® and Nuvilex right to the FDA's door. In fact, given pancreatic cancer is so deadly, it could be sooner rather than later that the medical community becomes familiar with the company in one form or another.
Nuvilex just named Clinical Network Services Pty Ltd (CNS) as its Contract Research Organization (CRO) for late phase trials. Yes, this is the same CNS that successfully took the Cell-in-a-Box® technology combined with ifosfamide through Phase 1 & 2 clinical trials. Well, now the two entities will join forces on a Phase 2b trial or what some call a "miniature Phase 3 trial." This two-arm study will see Nuvilex's treatment going head to head with Celgene's (NASDAQ: CELG) treatment of Abraxane® plus gemcitabine.
What investors may not realize is that through the FDA's Accelerated Approval Program, Nuvilex could receive FDA approval of its pancreatic cancer treatment using Phase 2b data. If CNS can once again lead the combination of Cell-in-a-Box® with ifosfamide to the same powerful results it generated in prior trials that still today outperform Eli Lilly's (NYSE: LLY) Gemzar® and Celgene's treatment, the FDA could grant accelerated approval for the treatment. This program is one of several tools used by the FDA to expedite the approval of medicines intended to treat serious or unmet needs.
Two months ago in February 2014, Chelsea Therapeutics International announced that the FDA granted accelerated approval of NORTHERA™ (droxidopa) for the treatment of symptomatic neurogenic orthostatic hypotension (NOH).
Three months ago in January 2014, the FDA approved GlaxoSmithKline's Mekinist (trametinib) under the accelerated approval program for use in combination with Tafinlar (dabrafenib) as a possible treatment for patients suffering from inoperable melanoma and certain types of metastatic melanoma.
Five months ago in November 2013, the FDA granted accelerated approval to Pharmacyclics, Inc.'s Ibrutinib (IMBRUVICA) for the treatment of patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) who have received at least one prior therapy.
The FDA's Accelerated Approval Program allows for the approval of an investigational drug or treatment based on a surrogate endpoint (a measurement that can "stand in" for an accepted measurement of disease progression) in early-phase studies if the condition is serious or life-threatening, and Nuvilex should have an excellent case for just such an approval.
If that were to happen, the company may or may not be required to conduct a Phase 3 trial while its treatment is being used by patients with advanced, inoperable pancreatic cancer. It would, however, undergo a Phase 4 or "confirmatory study" to further evaluate and confirm the efficacy and safety of the treatment, but it would do so with Cell-in-a-Box® combined with ifosfamide on the market.


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For those of you who fondly remember Unloved, the GZDoom mapset that was known for being so atmospheric and creepy, you'll be happy to know that the author released a commercial UE4 version of the game.
If you are interested, it is on sale now in the Steam store at quite a discount, but that will only last for a few days. Happy monster hunting!
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One of my favourite foods at Christmas time is mince pies. I have loved them since I was a child and always felt fortunate that my sister, Sam hated them with a real passion because it meant all the more for me. Every year I make mince pies but have to admit that I'd cheat with ready made pastry and mincemeat from a jar. Since Sam's wonderful birthday present I no longer buy pastry as my Kitchen Aid makes it beautifully. I felt this pastry deserved homemade mincemeat so I got out my trusted Good Housekeeping Cookery Encyclopedia and made mincemeat. I added rum to the ingredients as the recipe had no alcohol and I omitted the almonds. I made nine jars and was longing to taste the mincemeat but you have to leave it to mature for two weeks.
At last on Saturday the two weeks was up. I was a bit disappointed with the first batch, OK I admit it, I made them on Friday and felt the flavour was rather bland. Sundays batch was much better and todays mincemeat smelt delicious as soon as I removed the lid and tasted even better. Next year I know to leave the mincemeat to mature longer, ie make it in early November. Somehow I suspect I'll be making another batch a lot sooner as Dillon seems to have inherited my mince pie obsession.
It's probably a bit late for this year but here's the recipe if you're interested.
1 lb currants
1 lb sultanas
1 lb raisins
1 lb chopped mixed peel
1 lb cooking apples, peeled and finely chopped
1 lb dark, soft, brown sugar
8 oz shredded vegetable suet
1 teasp ground nutmeg
1 teasp ground cinnamon
Grated rind and juice of 2 lemons
Mix all ingredients well in large bowl.
Cover and leave to stand for 2 days.
Stir well and put into jars.
Allow to mature for at least 2 weeks before using.
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ON A crisp Sunday morning, the start of the Muslim week, a burgeoning congregation of Christians files into a church in Ankawa, a suburb of the Iraqi Kurds' capital, Erbil, to which several thousand Christians have fled in the past decade from the violence of Baghdad. Though physically fairly safe in their new abode, it is hardly a happy haven. Many are struggling to survive. Jobs are scarce, so some make the perilous journey back to the Iraqi capital every week to work.
The lot of Iraq's Christian population is particularly glum. Though a steady trickle had been leaving for decades, the exodus became a flood after the American invasion in 2003, when radical Islamists unleashed a sectarian onslaught against Shia Muslims, Christians and others. The ferocity of attacks such as the one against the church of Our Lady of Salvation in Baghdad in 2010, which left at least 58 Christians dead, speeded the departure of many more. In the past decade as many as two-thirds of Iraq's 1.5m Christians are thought to have emigrated.


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First things first, let's do the Katy Perry polishes with black shatter. Starting with Teenage Dream since it's the prettiest of the lot and worth buying (I purchased a full size of it because it's made of awesome):
This was 3-4 coats of Teenage Dream plus one quick swipe of Black Shatter.
Next is a ridiculous number of coats and still no blue colour pay off. This is Last Friday Night with Black Shatter.
Next we have Not Like The Movies with Black Shatter. These have no top coat so you can still see the matte finish of the black shatter.
Lastly we have The One That Got Away with Black Shatter. So you can see the Black Shatter finish is different every time and you need to be quick as it dries so fast! Two coats and you'd probably not get a shatter effect. Too thin and it turns into vertical stripes. I find it really annoying to apply actually. I don't know why it's so hyped up :-/ Especially since China Glaze is releasing coloured versions of the shatter formula. Let's look at some other polishes with Black Shatter since I was having fun playing this week:
China Glaze Snow with Black Shatter. I thought this would be a nice contrast and it was my first attempt at using Black Shatter. It was a bit of a fail :-S
Next I was looking for a cheetah kind of colour scheme so picked out Ignot O2m in 631 and added Black Shatter. Then I accidentally mangled the thumb!
And lastly I tried it over OPI's Austin-tatious turquoise. Honestly I'm just shattering everything I paint my nails with lately :-D I hope you enjoyed the swatches and if you're keen on getting this polish, good luck finding one if you're in Australia. I suggest pre-ordering asap! Until next time...


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There is an orphanage about a kilometer from LCC. I had been there once before today. During the previous visit we got to know the children's names, personalities, and a little bit of their humor. We played the most exciting game of Duck, Duck, Goose ever and threw teddy bears at each other.
Today was slightly different. We arrived at the orphanage and were greeted excitedly by Martinas, one of the children. He was dressed to play outside, and outside we were promptly led. We went to the gym to see if some of the kids playing there wanted to come with us. Martinas suggested (and decided) that we go to the park not too far from the orphanage. I actually didn't know that there was a park, but it's past a memorial cemetery and quite far down a bike trail in the woods. I had actually been there before, but by a very different and round about way one of the first days here. Regardless, it is a very nice playground. There is also a high ropes course being built in the woods around it. We stayed with six or seven kids for about 45 minutes laughing, chasing each other, and eating cookies. The kids know very little English, most of which comes from pop songs and, therefore, is practically useless. However, we can still have fun. Although most of them do speak Russian so my friends can translate for me. One girl named Evelyna has some physical handicaps, but has a witty, ornery, and contagious sense of humor to make up for it. She has a difficult time speaking, so she often spells words in order to communicate. However, she seems to be one of the few children who has a fairly good grasp on English (and Russian and Lithuanian). She always seems to understand what I'm saying no matter what language I happen to try. Today, she decided to chase me and get as close to me as possible without me noticing and then pretend to fight with me. Then she stops, gives me a judgmental look with her hands on her hips, and asks why I laugh so much. Then she proceeds to laugh at my reaction. She's quite hilarious for a 10-year-old.
Our time there was short today, but very enjoyable. All but two of the LCC students were planning on going to church in the evening and we had to catch the bus to make it there in time, so we had to go. Even after just 45 minutes, the children didn't want us to leave. On both sides, it made all of us sad. They love the attention and care they get from us, but we know that they have hard lives. Although they are sufficiently cared for, they still lack a proper family. We learned in our Study Abroad Seminar that adoption is very rare in Lithuania, and even more so for children with handicaps. It's strange to think that they will go through all their childhood without immediate family, and then they will enter adulthood, leave the orphanage, and still not have a family.
On a different note, I have been thinking about the friendships I've made here. Right now, they are rewarding and I love that I get to hear about people's lives. But what happens when I leave and most likely never see any of these friends again? What is the purpose of my investment? Should I invest in lives and friendships here? Please pray that the friendships I make here will not just be a relationship between me and person, but, that by being here, I could be used as a tool to assist people in their relationship with Jesus. What else is a lasting impact? Pray that I have opportunities to talk to people and live out my faith…or at least give them something to think about.


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Past and present at the present day
Debbie Michiko Florence begins a discussion about the use of present tense in fiction, particularly these days.
Linda Sue Park continues the discussion, with a decided preference for past tense. Such authors as David Lubar join in.
Debbie notes that Sally Keehn writes historical fiction--stories that take place in the past--in present tense. That seems unusual, but no more illogical than futuristic stories taking place in the past or present tense.
Linda Sue wraps up the discussion with another posting. Consensus agrees that changing or contrasting tenses can be more powerful than sticking with one--at least until such changes themselves become overly familiar.
Back in April I make a few comments on this choice in a presentation on narrative voices at the SCBWI New England conference. I choose to distinguish between verb tense and temporal perspective--two different, though overlapping, ways that narrative voices treat time.
I see verb tense as a choice authors can now make according to their individual tastes.
My taste happens to accord with Linda Sue's. Therefore, unless I'm telling a joke, I narrate a story in the past tense.
Of course, I often tell jokes.


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Watch Tuesday January 20, 2015 at 8pm on WORLD.
Seven years in the making, this award-winning documentary takes viewers on an intimate journey into the lives of three refugees who now call America home. American Heart, the feature documentary debut from Chris Newberry, centers on a remarkable health clinic tucked away in St. Paul, Minnesota, which serves as a crossroads for these chronically ill refugees and their devoted doctors.
In the opening scenes we hear a beeping monitor and see the jagged lines across a heart monitor, and a smiley-face get-well balloon. The patient is Alex Gliptis, an Ethiopian refugee suffering from PTSD, diabetes and HIV, who has a burning desire to go back to Africa. Alex tells us that sometimes it's kind of a dream that he is really in the United States. He tells us about his depression, sleeping disorder and about his medications. Yet, he still has bad dreams about the past and that in some ways he can't really believe that he got out.
Throughout the course of the film, we also meet Thor Lem, a former political prisoner from Cambodia who survived the killing fields, but is dying from liver cancer. Patrick Junior, a member of an oppressed ethnic minority in Burma is the writer of over 200 songs, many of them religious and uplifting. He loves to sleep with his guitar. The health care challenges they face are daunting, made more complicated by the trauma they carry from the past. Despite failing health and life-threatening health emergencies our protagonists lead remarkable lives; their outlook and trajectories surprising even to their doctors.


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a) wrap my head around the change
b) stay focused on the things I needed to do to wrap up at the last company
c) stay focused on the things I would need to carry forward to my new job
d) begin new job and have week 1 under my belt
Tomorrow I start week 2. It's all good though, and in the middle of all of that change and focus, we've had birthdays, summer school start and end for the big kid, the medium kid with us and lots of other life details big and small.
This weekend has really been the first weekend where I've felt free to relax. I don't have a bunch of if/then's or how or but's bouncing around in my brain. The change is done. Now I just have to settle into it. I have to remind myself that might take a little time even though I wanted to feel settled on my first day. But like I said, it is all good.
Like I was also saying, this weekend was the first one in quite sometime, where I felt a bit more relaxed and visited some of my favorite food blogs that I haven't seen much of over the past couple of months. I had lots of fun catching up on some great recipes and my hour's worth of browsing actually inspired over half of our dinner menus for the week, including tonight's which was so yummy.
For the main course we had:
|Photo respectfully borrowed from Annies-Eats.com
Oh. My. Goodness. These were so tasty. You can find the recipe in the two links above. I modified ours a bit. First of all, I used a sourdough hamburger bun (toasted). I followed her burger recipe with the exception of cornmeal and scallions. We didn't have any, so I used breadcrumbs and a shallot instead. I also totally cheated and used bottle BBQ sauce since we had some on hand. Oh - and we didn't grill. I just cooked these on the stove, because it was on the verge of raining, but even with my modifications - these were fantastic. Oh, and I had lemonade with mine instead of beer. :)
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I decided to pair them with a tried and true favorite from one of Heather's favorite bloggers - Homesick Texan. We no longer have corn on the cob any other way than this. It is the bomb. Seriously. Unfortunately for us, we didn't have parmesan cheese (a good substitute for the cojita cheese) on hand, so we went without, but honestly the corn is still great. I love the hint of spice that the chipotle gives it.
|Photo respectfully borrowed from browneyedbaker.com
And to top dinner off, we had these. I met these cookies earlier this year when I made them for the night of the Oscar's. It was love at first bite. These have 3 of my favorite cookie ingredients all in one - chocolate chips, peanut butter and oatmeal. So good. I've made these many times since the Oscars. I do three things differently than the recipe. First, I just measure. Second, I make the cookies smaller than what the recipe calls for. Third - I don't make them into balls and twist - I find that just using a spoon to make a rough ball shape is all the action required to give them a "crinkly top" I also think I prefer using mini chocolate chips vs. the big ones. But, seriously - the cookie dough - addictive. So, so good. Go try them today. You won't regret it.


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Cafe Adela in Maasin City is located next to a tennis court, next to and the open park. The capitol building is just around the corner. The cafe's open air setting proves attractive to patrons. Students, employees, tourists spend their down time here and chill with the nice surroundings and breeze.
Two parts have covered roofs. This one has white draped ceiling, with white tables and chairs.
The middle part of dining area is open. Bulbs hang above and lit up the place during night time.
Cafe Adela Menu
Aloha Pizza: Php180
Exceptional Tea: Php65
Cafe Adela at night
Capitol grounds, Maasin City
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
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What a wonderful process you'r in now Irit.ReplyDelete
Working with and transforming your materials in nature. I can see how you take one or some steps further each time.
Looks a bit like you are sculpting. So interesting where you are going.
It has been fun and inspiring to watch where the path is taking you to. Leaving the expectations open and free will unleash your imagination.ReplyDelete
PERFECT! Perfect match with nature, with a wonderful photographer Idan & model. What most is the creation, the design are so unique yet natural!ReplyDelete
Irit, when I saw these photos on Facebook I scrolled by them quickly, thinking they WERE photos of trees, etc! How fabulous your new work is -- just like all your other work! xoReplyDelete
Irit you are an amazing artist and I look forward to see what this leads to! It was a pleasure meeting you in Monterey!ReplyDelete
Thank you. Very kind of you to comment in my blog :)ReplyDelete
Some few days ago I saw these images at facebook. Seldom, if ever, I see something that can conquer it - so raw and so beatiful …ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you very much :) I must admit I have affection for disturbing designs.Delete
I enjoyed reading your blog and it really inspires me. I look forward to reading your wonderful posts. I love your pots!ReplyDelete
Glad to know I'm not alone in my tree bark obsession.ReplyDelete


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When buying a caravan, and you're told it is "fully insulated", it can mean a whole range of things:
Most vans are built something like this – a timber frame with pieces of styrofoam glued into spare space.
Some vans use a fibreglass wool insulation (like used in a house) – however, this tends to settle after a few kms on the road and the fibreglass wool compacts down to the bottom, leaving space above it. Even if it is glued on, only a thin layer of the fibreglass wool remains attached to the original location.
Composite panel construction (smooth sided vans) that have a bonded core don't suffer any of these limitations and provide superior insulative properties.


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Archive for February, 2012
Balance product
Products that improve balance topic of MS group meeting in Corte Madera
Marin Independent Journal
Posted: 02/10/2012 09:00:00 AM PST
Products that improve balance will be the topic of the next meeting of the Marin County Multiple Sclerosis Group set for noon to 1:30 p.m. Feb. 18 at Aegis in Corte Madera at 5555 Paradise Drive.
Cindy Gibson-Horn, chief technology officer of Motion Therapeutics Inc. of Oakland, will speak and give a demonstration of a new weighted vest called Balance Wear. The vest has been found to improve balance in random, controlled trials.
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Perhaps it's because I was linked to "All Power to the Pack Rats" directly after reading Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Real (for a commentary on T-Pain), but the piece (about Apple's evil plan to depict people with possessions as poor to promote a streamlined culture invested in its products) got me all stirred up.
It's not like the criticism that Apple instills a commercial desire for a techie Stepford-like lifestyle is new to me. I have been a stodgy rejecter of that Apple culture since the first iPod, because I resented the implication that 10 gigs was all anyone should need to house their entire music collection. It wasn't until Apple released the sixth generation iPod with 160 gigs of storage that I started considering it a real option. As chance would have it, I won a 16-gig iPod in a raffle at a convention, so I wound up with the absurdly pointless device anyway.
I used the iPod exactly once, on a flight to Spain the year Michael Jackson died. I loaded it up with MJ and what few other albums I could stuff into it, like my music collection was the beastly stepsister trying to squeeze into Cinderella's shoe. After I returned from vacation, I brought the iPod out onto my patio one day, intending to use it while I read in the sun, but as it wasn't my habit, I forgot it existed and a Florida summer storm came to claim it. (Yes, I tried putting it in rice.)
In my current job, I use an iMac, and I will admit my most recent phone purchase was an iPhone (please note, I chose it because it was the most affordable smartphone option through AT&T, which still strikes me as insane, so in that way, Apple at least once catered to one poor person despite its iKampf vision). But at home, I have an Insignia TV, an ASUS laptop, an old white MacBook that currently only runs one outdated version of Firefox, a PlayStation 3, a Sony record player and a Philips stereo. And a ton of records, many of which do not exist in any clouds that I know of. I am filthy, I know.
I am the pack rat that the aforementioned article is intended for. Catch me in a bar, and I'll hiss at you about the inadequacies of Spotify. I find most online collections to be incredibly cumbersome and difficult to manage, what with all the file naming and format options, and for me, when it's in the cloud, it's out of sight, out of mind. More importantly, online collections tend to be less curated than physical collections, because it's so easy to download music and then never come back to it. So if a friend is perusing your digital music library, looking to discover a new album based on knowledge of your tastes, the collection is less reliable, because we're all endlessly adding and rarely removing. Isn't this just hoarding in a new but just as unproductive manner?
Someone call Hoarders and find out if digitally hoarding is just as mentally debilitating as physically hoarding and get back to me, please. For now, I'll continue pulling off sleeves and dusting off old records.
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First, a quick excerpt from one of the blogs in the sidebar, Larval Subjects:
However, having witnessed twenty years of critiques of ideology I'm led to wonder what critiques of ideology have ever done to really change anything. The conception of politics as ideology critique seems to largely result among bookish academics that believe it is books and discourses are the primary real and who are therefore persuaded that change takes place through books and discourses. Like the obsessional– who might this obsessional be? –who talks endlessly precisely to avoid saying what really should be said, this conception of the political endlessly dissects various narratives and cultural formations to create the illusion of acting without ever hitting the real. Indeed, there's a very real sense in which those literary studies types so delighted by Zizek seem to be more motivated to find a justification for writing about their favorite movies and television shows rather than changing social organization in any significant way. [full post here]
I remember being told by one of my undergrad mentors that critical theory evolved out of the frustration of people who saw the energy of the '68 era, taught it to their students with fervor, and then discovered they'd produced a generation of smug middle-managers. Something was wrong; agency and social innovation wasn't happening; the revolution had been pre-empted [and this was before the tech boom!]. Something new had to be sorted out, or at least, the reasons why "NEW" was so difficult needed to be sorted out. Okay, fine.
In graduate school, critical theory morphed into cultural studies, and it can be a fun game to play, but I sympathized more with the rusty Marxists who were doing actual archeology over in the remnants of the steel mills, sifting through records and interviewing whoever was left who remembered the mills in their prime. I wanted a closer relationship between the talking about and the making of things. Let's talk about the steel, the RotoVap, the wings on a fruit fly.
Much more recently, I was on a search committee, and could hear colleagues speaking the critical/cultural theory language again, and it was like looking through a haze, or into a Turner painting. I kept thinking: there might be a ship in that painting somewhere, or the echo of a ship, or an cluster of ideas that people have agreed in the past to fit the concept "ship"…..if there was a ship, there would be people working on it, setting sails, adjusting the rigging to best make use of the wind. And all the theorizing about ship-ness would't matter one jot to the people just trying to get their work done and get home.
Second, go see an expert at work: Angry lets the light dawn upon a student: if you haven't bothered with a class, don't expect its prof to help you graduate!


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People have posted their weight loss goal. Anyone have a fitness goal? Who wants to run a full or half marathon? Anyone want just be able to run around the block? Personally, I would like to do a 100 mile ride this fall. When I was 30 pounds lighter, I did a 70 mile ride. I want to do the century.
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I am a runner who started swimming due to a stress fracture in my heel. All the swimming motivated me to sign up for the steelhead 70.3 ironman this summer. My ultimate goal goes back to my running roots: Badwater
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text: So I've been trying to teach myself how to play guitar for the past 2 years. I can play a couple songs good enough that people can tell what there are but I've found that I've kind of hit a wall when it comes to getting better. Any guitar players have any exercises or suggestions on how to get to be a better player? Right now I'd say my biggest problem is switching from regular chords to bar chords. Man I hate those!!!!


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|You can see we've eaten a few already and they are delicious! Notice the bag of "leftover veggies" on the side. That is leftover sweet potatoes and onions from the cooking day - I've made good use of them and you'll read about that soon!
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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is lashing out at lawmakers who booted him from office, calling his removal a "hijacking."
"I want you off the f***ing set, you pr***," Bale reportedly says at the start of the audio recording, which TMZ reported was sent by the film's executives to their insurance company in case the actor didn't finish filming the movie.
"I'm sorry," Hurlbut reportedly replies.
"No, don't just be sorry. Think for one f***king second," Bale reportedly shouts. "What the f*** are you doing? Are you a professional or not?"
The man said to be Bale appears to grow angrier as Hurlbut replies to him in a calm tone, "Yes, I am."
"No, no. Am I gonna f***ing rip your lights down in the middle of the scene? Then why the f***are you walking right through, 'Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh,' in the background," the man said to be Bale, sing-songs. "What the f*** is it with you? What the f*** don't you understand?"
For the Iranian government, it is an important milestone along the road to reclaiming Persia's ancient claim to major power status, which it feels the jealous west is trying to deny it.
It is also enormously significant in Iranian internal politics. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad got elected promising economic benefits for the common man and modernisation. He has made a complete mess of the first part of that mission. Delivering the second is important for his prospects of re-election in June, in the eyes of both the average voter and – even more importantly, given the controlled nature of Iranian democracy – the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.


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Three ESL Lessons: Practice Debating, Accepting Invitations, and Requesting Assistance
Don't Be Boring!
What do you call lists of vocabulary and grammar rules that students must memorize? The answer in one word is–boring. Knowing all of the grammar terminology and memorizing lists of words is meaningless to students without context. Teach how sentences ought to be structured and what vocabulary to use in different situations using these lesson ideas for English language class that incorporate a bit of the real world and a little fun.
Debating Death Penalty Reform
Capital punishment can arouse strong feelings in people. What better way to get a class ready to use agreement/disagreement vocabulary and grammar structures than to debate it?
Breaking News English has published a complete lesson plan, meant for higher-level students, about death penalty reform in China. The lesson includes several activities that incorporate new vocabulary from the articles. It does not, include however, much in the way of agreement/disagreement vocabulary. Pick which structures you want to teach, and ask students to debate the merits of the various sides of the topic. Several pros and cons, as well as discussion questions, are included in the lesson. The lesson also contains a writing activity in which the student must convince a government official of his point of view regarding capital punishment.
Students have to give, accept, and refuse invitations in English on a regular basis. Teach them how to politely refuse an invitation by coming up with an excuse why they cannot accept it when they do not have a legitimate reason to decline, or how to ask someone out on a date.
Structures such as "I'm sorry, but…" or "Would you like to…" and "Wh-" questions can be taught in this lesson. Incorporate plenty of speaking practice in activities such as having pairs of students write a short dialogue in response to an invitation to an annual dinner or a wedding. Students can then present their ideas to the class. Another activity could include giving cards with invitation prompts on them to pairs of students. Each student invites the other according to the prompt on his card, and the other asks "Wh-" questions to get more information about the event. For example, "When is it?" or "Where will it be?"
Asking for Help
At work, home, or in other public places, asking for help is an invaluable skill. Use role-play activities such as asking a landlord to help a tenant fix a problem in the apartment, explaining a car problem to a mechanic or asking a supervisor at work to explain a process at work, or asking where an item is in the grocery store. Pick one of these situations, or use your own, around which to build an ESL lesson. Students face these real-world scenarios on a regular basis. They can be relevant lesson ideas for ESL teachers.
Source: author's own experience
Breaking News English, "China's Death Penalty Reform," https://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0510/051030-death_penalty-e.html
ITESLJ.org, "Invitation to an Annual Dinner," https://iteslj.org/games/9934.html
ESL Lab, "Car Repair," https://www.esl-lab.com/repairs/repairsrd1.htm


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Services sector grew at a slower pace in September, after hitting a 43-month high level in the previous month, as flow of domestic and foreign orders turned weak amid competitive pressure, a monthly survey showed today.
The Nikkei India Services Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), which tracks services sector companies on a monthly basis, stood at 52 in September, down from August's 43-month high reading of 54.7, pointing to a slower rate of expansion.
A reading above 50 means the sector is expanding while a reading below that points to contraction.
The index showed 15th straight month of expansion in September, while inflationary pressure remained subdued as reflected in the RBI's rate cut decision yesterday.
"Service sector performance in India continued to improve relatively modestly in September, a trend that has been evident throughout the year-to-date," said Pollyanna De Lima, Economist at IHS Markit that compiles the data and author of the report.
As per the survey, new business orders placed with Indian services firms rose moderately in September, but competitive pressure and unfavourable weather conditions as factors weighed on the incoming work flow.
Reflecting softer expansion in activity at the end of both service providers and manufacturers, the seasonally adjusted Nikkei India Composite PMI Output Index fell to 52.4 in September, from August's 42-month high of 54.6.
"Nonetheless, the latest above-50 reading was the fifteenth in as many months, highlighting ongoing growth in the country," the survey said.
The PMI Composite Output Index posted its highest reading since the January-March 2015 quarter, suggesting a pick-up in GDP growth.
"This would be welcomed by policymakers after the below-expectations figure of 7.1 per cent y-o-y recorded in Q1," Lima said.
On Inflation, the survey said prices charged were raised in line with the higher cost burden.
"Food and petrol prices continued to climb in September, which placed pressure on operating costs. In response, private sector companies raised their own prices for the second straight month although inflation remained relatively soft," Lima added.
The Reserve Bank yesterday reduced the short-term lending rate (repo) by 0.25 per cent to a 6-year low of 6.25 per cent in this fiscal's fourth bi-monthly monetary policy statement.
On the employment front, the survey said both services and manufacturing firms reported stagnant staffing levels so far this year, but given the higher backlog of work across the private sector, businesses may be more willing to take on additional workers.
"The ongoing upturn in new work combined with muted employment growth led to backlog of work across the private sector... As a result of this, businesses may be more willing to take on additional workers as we head to the year-end," Lima said.
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In mid-February, the Bank of Japan (BOJ)—Japan's central bank—lowered its funds interest rate to -0.1 percent. It meant the BOJ would begin charging private Japanese banks for holding on to excess cash reserves.
This negative interest rate policy (NIRP) is not unique to the BOJ. By "going negative," Japan joins the European Central Bank and the central banks of Sweden, Switzerland and Denmark.
Why are so many central banks doing this? Economic growth in several developed countries has recently slowed down as businesses have grown accustomed to low rates. Central bankers hope that pushing rates down into negative territory will help their economies resume expansion.
How it Works
To understand how NIRP is supposed to help, try imagining what would happen if your personal bank accounts had negative interest rates. How would you react to paying to save money each month? What changes would you make to your finances?
You probably would reach the same conclusion as most people: "I need to minimize the money in my accounts." One option would be to invest the money so that it has a chance to grow; another option would be to spend it on a major purchase before you need to pay any interest.
These are essentially the same responses governments are hoping to incite from investment banks and large corporations. Economic slowdowns cause businesses to focus on saving money when central banks need them to spend it. The savings penalty created by negative rates squeezes hoarded cash out of corporate accounts and into new business investments.
NIRP also provides a strong signal that a central bank will do whatever it takes to promote healthy inflation and fight against a slowing economy. This means a NIRP can become a type of rallying point for businesses, creating enough confidence in future growth that companies proactively expand and turn their growth expectations into reality.
Effects at Home
The BOJ's move to negative rates has raised questions about the future of America's monetary policy. In a world where several central banks have continued to lower rates, the United States has been trying to raise them. Economists and investors wonder whether America will be able to continue bucking the downward trend or if its rate hikes need to be stopped.
Rising interest rates often accompany economic success. Because the United States' economic recovery has drastically outpaced most other developed economies since 2009, it needed to start increasing its interest rates first. As its economy improves, its interest rates should need to be raised.
However, central bank rates must be compared to each other. Although the United States has only recently started raising rates, rate cuts in other countries have led some to believe that its relative rates are increasing too quickly. If the relative rates climb too much, the dollar could become too strong and other countries would stop buying U.S. goods, hurting the chances of further U.S. growth.
Will America Go Negative?
While anything could happen in the future, most experts currently believe U.S. rates will not go below zero. The U.S. Federal Reserve has said it studies negative rates and simulates them for bank "stress tests" but doesn't envision needing them. After years of aggressive quantitative easing and zero percent interest rates, it's unclear what new benefits negative rates would even provide for the U.S. economy.
It's also important to remember that countries can influence rates in both directions. As the world's two largest economies, the United States and China are in position help stimulate other economies through trade. If their growth and consumption become strong enough, the world economy will improve and rates in other countries will be brought above zero.
Remember that past performance may not indicate future results. Different types of investments involve varying degrees of risk, and there can be no assurance that the future performance of any specific investment, strategy, or product referenced directly or indirectly in this newsletter will be profitable, equal any corresponding historical performance level(s), be suitable for your portfolio or individual situation, or prove successful. You should not assume that any information contained in this newsletter serves as the receipt of personalized investment advice. If a reader has questions regarding the applicability of any specific issue discussed to their individual situation, they are encouraged to consult with a professional adviser.
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MKS Base V1.5 E1 extruding too fast
The MKS Base V1.5 is a great little board for a discount 3D print controller however I ran into one problem that had me stumped for a while so I'm passing on my solution for getting the second extruder functioning correctly.
Issue: When attempting to configure the MKS board to use a second extruder I found that it was extruding almost 8 times as much as the E0 extruder. I attempted to configure Marlin to us a smaller number of steps for the E1 extruder but that didn't resolve the issue.
Problem: When flashing the firmware to the board I reviewed a bunch of posts that suggested that the MKS Base V1.5 was like the Ramps 1.3 or Ranps 1.4 board and to be fair when working with a single extruder it really seems to be. So when configuring Marlin I attempted to use the BOARD_RAMPS_13_EEB and BOARD_RAMPS_14_EEB but neither one would fix the issue.
Solution: Ok this gets a little weird because the fix seems unrelated to the problem but the solution is to change the pins config file for whichever ramps you are using. Just go to that file in Marlin and search for the pin names and change –
#define HEATER_1_PIN 7
#define FAN_PIN 9
I know that seems counter intuitive to fix the issue but I'm guessing the heater_1_Pin setting must somehow be used by the code to determine if the microsetps should be set to 16 on the E1 extruder.
Review of Taulman 645 Nylon Filament
I spent some time working with Taulman's 645 Nylon filament over the last several days and I thought I'd give my two cents. First, for small strong small parts it has real potential I printed some incredibly strong parts. I extruded out a 245C and kept my bed at 70C. I tried painters tape, glue stick and Kapton tape and for me strait Kapton tape worked best. My biggest issue in fact was the print was really difficult to remove from the bed, I actually broke one of my glass plates getting a print off. Now I hope you recognized that I clarified that I had great success with small parts because in all my attempts to print larger more complicated models I encountered failure. Simply put I could not stop the model from warping once the model was a larger size. I tried temperature, infill, skirt, print speed, outer wall size and nothing could stop the warping. So in a nutshell if you need small strong parts like nylon washers or rod clamps it's about the best filament out there but for large models you might need to look elsewhere.
RepRapWeb VS OctoPrint as it relates to Raspberry Pi
I have Now installed and had a chance to review Both OctoPrint and RepRapWeb browser based 3d printer controllers installed on a Rasperry PI. One thing I want to make clear before I start is this is not an evaluation of slicing tools of which each tool comes with at least one. Since slicing is a time consuming process with larger models I found a Raspberry PI and it's small CPU was just not the place to get that done.
So for now here is what I found, RepRapWeb is a cool new tool in the field, written entirely in Node.js for both client and server it's a really great work in progress for building a controller but its really not ready for "Prime time". As of this article, although it looks in the YouTube video that there is a integrated video component it does not have one yet; that is still in the works. So with no integrated video there is also no option for time laps videos either. The lack of integrated video was the show stopper for me as a web based controllers strength in my book is the ability to start a 3D print and then leave the 3D printer, checking it from your cell phone every once in a while to make sure something did not screw up. I know you could run a separate video feed on the Raspberry pi but I was looking for something I could view from my office and the company firewall only lets in port 80, so everything coming through that one port is a must. Another issue is the lack of security at the moment in the RepRapWeb, it completely open right now. OctoPrint on the other hand has a sign on, role based model in place to control the 3D printer.
The long and short of it is RepRapWeb has a great deal of potential if your hosting the application on a PC to use as a 3D print controller but right now as a Raspberry PI solution to control your printer remotely it still has a little ways to go. Id stick with OctoPrint.
Using applications on home U-Verse network from the internet
First, this is really easy to set up and since its U-Verse you already have a static IP address that comes with the U-Verse router/server.
1) Step one, Get your external network IP address. just type http://www.myipaddress.com/ in your browser and you get that.
2) You need to open the firewall for just the app you want. Any app you make available will be just a port on the external IP address. As an example my application which is on the default port 80 of an internal local server is set up as port 8091 of my external IP so I reach it with http://220.127.116.11:8091
a) Go to U-Verse control panel by typing http://192.168.1.254 in you browser
b) In the top tabs select "settings"
c) Under settings select tap for "Firewall"
d) Select the top bar option of "Applications, Pinholes and DMZ". You should see select a computer as step 1 and edit firewall as step 2. We are going to the step 2 first.
e) Near the bottom of page click "Add a new user-defined application"
f) This part is really strait forward –
i) give it a simple application name
ii) keep protocol on TCP
iii) Port range should is just the port where the application delivers the content in you local network. In a normal web server that's 80 so the values for both is the number 80.
iv) Leave timeout empty
v) Map to host Port is just whatever you want it to be but remember that is the port your external access is going to be using, I used 8091.
vi) leave the application type blank.
vii) hit add to list
vii) select the back button. You should now be back at the select a computer page.
g) Select you internal server by name or type it's IP if you have a static on setup
h) down below select "Allow individual applications"
g) back at the edit firewall you can now see your new application in the list. Just move it over to hosted applications using add and your done.
OK that's it you should now be able to test it using something from outside you local wifi network.
Setting up you RepRapWeb Raspberry pi b+ instance
Once you have a working IMG of the RepRapWeb application on your Raspberry PI you probably want to get it tricked out so you can get to controlling your 3D printer. This is a short description of what I did…
When login on to your image the login / password is not your standard one, it's pi / raspbian. After the image was created I connected it to the network by hardwire to setup my static IP and WIFI. I used a "EDIMAX wireless 802.11 nano USB Adapter" and that worked great for me. Here is the link I used as a reference http://raspberrypihq.com/how-to-add-wifi-to-the-raspberry-pi/
My interfaces file looks like this and my static ip is 192.168.1.97
just run "sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces" make the changes and your ready to disconnect you hard connection.
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.97
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.0
auto wlan0
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid "wifiname"
wpa-psk "password"
OK my next step was streaming video because lets face it you need to see what your doing. This takes a little while but the directions I found are great. Just go to http://jacobsalmela.com/raspberry-pi-webcam-using-mjpg-streamer-over-internet/ and follow those instructions. You want to follow the instructions to set it up as a service.
** A little disclaimer at this point, as if this writing the reprapweb application does not have a video feed embedded in it. I talked to Andrew and he said he's working on that now and it should be done soon. Until then you have to run a separate browser window for your video streaming. Not a big deal as mjpg_streamer has a default stream running on port 8080 so once your set up it's a snap to use.
First thoughts on installing and configuring 3D printer Web Controller REPRAPWEB
I'm beginning my install and configurations of a new 3D printing web based controller from XYZBots and wanted to pass on a few things. This controller is pretty strait forward but it sits on a Raspberry PI b+ controller and having never set on up before I ran into a couple of things. First, Make sure you follow the direction on the software site REPRAPWEB when setting things up or like me when you first plug in your board you'll get nothing but two solid lights on your board, one green and the other red. The issue is if the image you placed on the SD Micro card is not correct you get nothing and that includes nothing on the video to even tell you what is wrong. Below are my steps to get a functional image on the Raspberry pi b+. You'll know you've got a good image as the red light on the board stays red and the green light flashes as it accesses the card.
1) Run "sudo fdisk -l". Look at what is returned and then plug in SD Micro card and run again, you'll see the new device name. Mine was.
"Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 8192 62333951 31162880 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)"
2) Format the card with FAT32, I downloaded GParted app using Ubuntu Software center.
3) Download the latest image from software site REPRAPWEB. I took the image, I might play with the source some day but it won't be today.
4) Unzip the Download into directory and go to it.
** before I go further you need to remember two things. First, be careful you run dd command against wrong device you will be in a world of hurt. Second, in the directions on the software download site it explains that Raspberry Pi for this install does not use partitions. If you just use the device name you found in step 1 without modifying it and push the image across it will install on the SD micro card but Raspberry pi will not function.
5) to install the code to the SD Micro card run the following. Obviously you need to use the right image name if it's changed. What is most important is my Step 1 command returned and device of "/dev/sdc1" but my "of" parameter below only uses "/dev/sdc". The reason for that is removing the last number from the device copies the code in one partition. Also an FYI is this stuff is case sensitive the "M" in the bs=4M needs to be capitalized, found that out the hard way.
sudo dd if=reprapweb-2014-09-09-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/sdc bs=4M
The command takes a while but once it completes you can plug in the SD Micro card to you raspberry and your good to go.
Thoughts on NinjaFlex filament
Experimenting with NinjaFlex which as the name implies is a flexible 3D printing filament. So far my impression is that it's a great product if not a little difficult to work with. I'm guessing a Bowden would be even more difficult as this stuff is really, really bendable. I found my standard "Go To" setting for my printer just did not work. So to save anyone some time who might read this here is my quick list.
- This material seems to melt slower than normal PLA or ABS so I really had to slow my extruding down. I set all slicer settings to 15 mm per second and that seemed to get things going. Funny as it sounds even my manual extruding using "PrintRun" to get my printer set up extruded too fast.
- If you extrude too fast the extruder will bend the material so if you do start to see slippage in the extruder just give it up, pull out what is in there cut off the 2 inches and re-thread and try again. Once there is slippage the material deforms and the extruder can't grip it anymore.
- This stuff needs to run hot. I found 250 was a good number with 50 for the bed
- Give up using Kapton tape or some type of hair spray to cause it to stick to the bed. The only way I got things to work was Blue carpenters tape.
If it sounds like a pain to work with then, yea maybe just a little but the results are great. To print something with a little give and bounce is really a trip compared to standard hard plastic and by controlling the infill you can create objects that can go all the way from almost soft to hard as normal plastic.


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Jeffrey Hammond, spokesman for the state Health Department, said the regulations will be enforced through the state's regular onsite visits and by investigating patient complaints to the department's hot line.
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The use of telephone translation agencies in particular is becoming more common, he said.
That is the case at Albany Medical Center, which as a policy does not use family members or any untrained interpreters as translators. The center instead relies heavily on a 24-hour phone translator service and contracts with an outside agency to provide face-to-face translations and accommodations for the hearing impaired.
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This is the basic structure. As complement for this classes, there are some imported libraries from the THREE.JS community and the main branches along with other developed inside of MALLA-NET, covering features like physics (physijs), cinematic (cinematic.js, tween.js), particle systems, twitter API control, etc.
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