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I messed up today
I messed up today. I veered off of my script(what I am suppossed to say and do when my N calls me) and I answered the phone instead of waiting 20 minuets and calling him back. I allowed him to "push my buttons" and get me upset and yelling. I said alot of things I shouldn't. I fed the vampire, so to speak. I went off on him and cussed him out. I think it was because I had a "hugging" dream about him again. I hate those dreams. I allowed him to threaten me. And to frighten me. I took a giant step backwards in doing this. I wish the court would hurry up and make it to where I don't have to talk to him. I am not in a strong enough state right now to dodge his manipulations. I just need more NC time before I can interact with him. On any leval.
I feel bad. I am trying to forgive myself. I am just mad at myself because now I am afraid of him again. I hate that. I wish I wouldn't have answered the phone.
I didn't evan look at the caller ID when I answered because I was driving and in a hurry. I thought it was my mom calling. Oh well. What's done is done.


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Archived News 2018
The Climate Communication Project Survey
NCAS are involved in The Climate Communication Project, which is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council as part of their Engaging Environments call. The project aims to understand and evaluate existing expertise in the UK on communicating and engaging the public with climate change. A survey of the climate communication community forms part of this project and will allow us to understand how a range of specialists carry out their work, to share and promote best practice in the UK, and to point to areas where more investment and attention is needed.
We are interested to hear from people in the UK with knowledge and experience of communicating and engaging the public with climate change, including the communication of climate science, public engagement around climate or energy policy, the application of social science understanding, and creative approaches to engagement.
We are seeking the views of people working in research, for a charity, the public sector, in the arts, or elsewhere, in the UK. The survey contains questions about the type of work you do, your views on communicating and engaging the public with climate change (e.g. what is appropriate and what is effective), and asks about your experiences of different activities used to do so.
For more information and to complete the survey visit The Climate Communication Project Survey.
The survey should take around 20 minutes to complete, depending on the level of detail you provide. The deadline for responses is Friday 30th March 2018.
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Michele Knight: Here's What Every Psychic Wants To Tell Sceptics
Criticism, scepticism and ridicule can be real stumbling blocks for those on a spiritual path. Michele discusses how she rises above it all
As a child I was blessed in many ways because in my family matters of spirit were accepted as just part of everyday life, and any interest in occult matters was actively encouraged. Other kids may have thought my conversations about past lives were a little odd, but children are generally more open about things, so criticism about my gifts was something I didn't really encounter until I got older.
Knowing my truth
Once we begin to question our abilities or our intuition it can be hard for us to continue to develop them because we all innately want to be accepted. Even when we get older it can be very difficult to find the right response to challenge people who dismiss our beliefs with harsh words.
I remember one occasion when I was at the wedding of my best friend and she introduced me to another old friend of hers who was much older than me. This woman asked me what I did for a living and proceeded to tell me I was a professional con artist! Obviously when people say things like this it can be incredibly painful – not to mention challenging. All genuine people on the spiritual path spend their life trying to help and heal people, and are passionate givers, so to be told you are a fraud and nothing less than a criminal can detonate powerful feelings.
The right to believe
When I was young, I used to react very defensively, flying off the handle and losing my temper and my cool in the process. But I no longer take this kind of criticism personally.
Everyone has the right to their own beliefs, just as I have the right to mine which have been proven to me time and time again. Like anyone on the spiritual path, I have had the most incredible and magical experiences and validations. Someone telling me it isn't so has no credence as thousands of experiences have been more than proof. So why do I need to defend them?
Accept and be accepted
We live in a time where people's beliefs still lead them to try to kill one another, which puts everything into perspective. Here in the UK we are lucky enough not to live in a fundamentalist society; we have the freedom to choose our beliefs and practice them, just as sceptics like Richard Dawkins have the freedom to question them. What matters is we honour this and don't take what others say to heart. If we were all open and tolerant of each others' beliefs, the world would be a finer place.
Always remember when facing criticism you have every right to express the unique soul that you are.
About the author
Michele Knight is a well-loved psychic, astrologer and best-selling author, who chronicles her inspiring journey, and the lessons she's learnt along the way with Soul & Spirit magazine each month.
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Balancing real life with the responsibility of being Heaven's warrior is a challenge for Ellie. Her relationship with Will has become all business, though they both long for each other. And now that the secret of who she really is has come out, so have Hell's strongest reapers. Grown bold and more vicious, the demonic threaten her in the light of day and stalk her in the night.
She's been warned.
Cadan, a demonic reaper, comes to her with information about Bastian's new plan to destroy Ellie's soul and use an ancient relic to wake all the souls of the damned and unleash them upon humanity. As she fights to stay ahead of Bastian's schemes , the revelations about those closest to her awaken a dark power within Ellie that threatens to destroy everything—including herself.
She'll be betrayed.
Treachery comes even from those whom she loves, and Ellie is broken by the deaths of those who stood beside her in this Heavenly war. Still, she must find a way to save the world, herself, and her love for Will. If she fails, there will be hell to pay.
Thoughts: I can't even begin to explain how much Courtney outdid herself with this book. Angelfire was fantastic, but Wings Of The Wicked was pure brilliance. Pure perfection. I'm in complete awe.
We start off right in the action, Ellie in full kick-ass swing... Preliator style. She's still trying to juggle fighting and her normal life and it's all exhausting. And hunts only seem to becoming harder as stronger reapers come after her. Then she receives a message, a help of sort from someone she least expects... Cadan. She's not sure to trust him, but before soon everything comes crashing down. The worlds worst reapers are after her, her emotions and Will's are all over the place, she's getting help from someone she least expects, and her human life is crashing down around her. Ellie must figure out a way to set things right before she loses everything she loves.
I'm not even sure I'm going to be able to put into words how amazing this book was. So please bear with me while I just spit out complements. Wings of the Wicked starts off right in the action, the first page, hell, the first chapter packs a serious punch. And things just continue from there. My emotions were reeling all over the place throughout this book. This book has everything you could ever ask for. There's normalcy, angels, demons, fights, love, gut-wrenching heartache, action, laughs, kick-ass moments, and everything in between.
Ellie is an outstanding all-around fantastic protagonist. Shes strong, yet vulnerable. She's kick-ass... I mean she can just be like 'Oh hey reaper, *chop with my fancy angel fire swords*, there goes your head!" And she does it. She's still caring towards her family and friends and completely cares about them, while also understanding and caring for her duties as the Preliator too.
There were so many other characters that I loved through out this book. Nathaniel and Lauren were the ones you cannot help but love. Marcus... funny, flirty, strong. Ava... I still don't like her, but she certainly can kick ass. Kate, always being the funny, caring best friend! Ellie's Nana, I loved her role in this book! And, oh hmmm Cadan. In Angelfire, I liked Cadan a lot but I didn't love him. At least not like I loved Will. I have to admit in Wings Of The Wicked, I ADORED Cadan. I finally grew to love him. His wittiness, his vulnerability we get shown, and his strength. And, I cannot wait to see more of him in the next book.
Finally, Will. It is impossible to not fall in love with him. His perfect body, his perfect green eyes, his perfect protectiveness, his perfect emotions, his perfect willingness, his perfect love for Ellie. I love everything about him. I loved watching him kick reapers asses, I loved watching him fight for Ellie and doing everything he does for her. I love all the little things he does, as well as the big things. He's given up his life for her, and I can't imagine not loving him. He's an overall perfect character to me.
I could probably rant on forever, but I won't. I just want to tell you all that Wings Of The Wicked is thrilling, emotional, kick-ass, fun, beautiful, and absolutely perfect. Courtney pull out all her weapons and wrapped them up into one big, gorgeous masterpiece. I was sucked in from page one and pulled completely through to the end. I loved every chapter, every page, every line, and every word.
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Paul Holmes 15 Jan 1995 // 12:00AM GMT
by Paul A. Holmes
During the 1930s, hundreds of African-American workers from the deep south were brought in by the New Kanawha Power Company, a subsidiary of the Union Carbide Corporation, to construct a tunnel in West Virginia. Over a two year period, 500 workers died and 1,500 were disabled by silicosis, a lung disease. Men literally dropped dead on their feet breathing air so thick with silica that they could not see more than a yard in front of their faces. Those who came out for air were beaten back into the tunnel with ax handles. A spokesman for the company told congressional hearings: "I knew I was going to kill those niggers, but I didn't know it was going to be so soon." A local undertaker testified that he had agreed to an unusually low rate for his services, because the company assured him before the project started that there would be a large number of burials to perform.
The unequal distribution of environmental risk in this country is not a recent phenomenon. But it is one that corporate America is becoming increasingly concerned about, as minority communities become organized and empowered in a way that they were not in the past.
"A silent war is being waged against Black neighborhoods," says Charles Streadit, president of Houston's Northeast Community Action Group and one of the pioneers of the environmental justice movement. "Slowly we are being picked off by industries that don't give a damn about polluting our neighborhood, contaminating our water, fouling our air, clogging our streets with big garbage trucks and lowering our property values."
Any company that has tried to build a new plant anywhere in the United States over the past decade is likely familiar with the NIMBY syndrome, the not-in-my-back-yard attitude that prevails in almost every community in the country. Everyone acknowledges that we need an industrial base; no one wants to live next door to it.
In response to the difficulties caused by grassroots opposition to new plant construction, most companies have followed the path of least resistance. They have chosen to build new plants largely in those neighborhoods that are less inclined—or, if inclined, less well equipped—to fight their presence. For the most part, this has meant poorer neighborhoods, and all too often neighborhoods with a high Black or Hispanic population.
On those rare occasions that waste management or disposal facilities are built in predominantly white, middle-class neighborhoods, they tend to have a detrimental impact on property prices. The middle-class flees, and poorer, often minority, families move in, often enthusiastically, since the presence of the facility implies the presence of work.
Almost everyone—representatives of industry and community activists—agrees that this is an accurate summary of the way the process works. The raging debate is over the degree of corporate cynicism involved, and the solution to the problem.
A rare and revealing glimpse into the siting process was provided in North Carolina in June 1991, as Chem-Nuclear Inc. was reviewing a number of options for siting a new low level nuclear waste dump. A report prepared by the company's public relations agency, Epley & Associates, and leaked to the media, suggested exaggerating the number of sites under consideration so as to diffuse protests, and recommended not siting the plant in high-income, largely Republican neighborhoods because of the political heat such a decision might generate for the Governor. At the time Chem-Nuclear was insisting, as most companies do, that the site was being selected based only on scientific concerns and matters of public safety. The Epley report indicated the extent to which politics clearly plays a part in such decisions.
"Polluters know that communities of low-income and working-class people with no more than a high school education are not as effective at marshaling opposition as communities of middle- or upperincome people," says Regina Austin, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. "People of color in the United States have traditionally had less clout with which to check legislative and executive abuse or to challenge regulatory laxity."
On the other hand, the issue is open to distortion by activists. International Paper was recently criticized by the Council on Economic Priorities and picketed by environmental activists over an incident of supposed environmental racism at one of its facilities in Mississippi. The facility, according to reports released by CEP and others, was sited within a few hundred yards of a local school, and children were at risk in the event of an accident. "The fact was, we had some land we were not using, and the local council was looking for somewhere to build a school, and in an effort to be a good neighbor we donated the land," says Thomas Jorling, vp of environmental affairs at the company. "Now we are being portrayed as the villains."
The statistics too appear to be in question. A report cosponsored by a number of civil rights groups, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and released late last year indicated that people of color were 47% more likely than whites to live near commercial waste storage, treatment or disposal facilities (TSDFs).
On the other hand, a study on "environmental equity" conducted by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, released at almost the same time, found no "significant and consistent national evidence of commercial hazardous waste facilities being disproportionately located in minority communities." The UMA survey looked at census tracts, while the NAACP focused on larger zip code areas. UMA characterized the typical TSDF neighborhood as "more industrial, predominantly white, working-class communities."
The two sides of the debate cannot even agree on a term that describes the phenomenon. Activists prefer the blunt, emotionally charged epithet "environmental racism," while industry groups favor "environmental justice," arguing that the problem is the unequal distribution of environmental risk, and not the term "racism" suggests a motivation for this distribution that simply does not exist.
The first lawsuit charging environmental discrimination was filed by the people of Houston's Northwood Manor subdivision in 1979, charging Browning-Ferris Industries with singling out their neighborhood for placement of a municipal solid waste landfill. From the early 1920s through the late-'70s, all five city-owned landfills and six of eight incinerators had been placed in mostly Black neighborhoods, although African-Americans made up only 28% of the city's population. The lawsuit was defeated, but it marked the beginning of a new era for the growing environmental justice movement.
The next momentous step forward for the movement came in 1982, when several mainstream civil rights organizations were involved in protests in Warren County, North Carolina, a mostly African-American community that had been selected as the burial site for soil contaminated with PCBs. Demonstrators were led by representatives of the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Congressional Black Caucus, the first time civil rights groups had lent their might to the environmental struggle.
In 1987, the Commission for Racial Justice issued its landmark report Toxic Wastes and Racen the United States, and the Commission chair, Benjamin Chavis, coined the term "environmentalracism" to describe the report's findings.
It was not until October 1991, however, that the movement for environmental justice began to show up on corporate issues managers' radar screens. That was the date of the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., and the start of the effort to build a national movement around what had previously been a community issue, and to coalesce the different ethnic groups that had become involved. The summit was attended by 650 grassroots leaders representing more than 300 community groups.
"This is already a very big issue in some parts of the country, especially here in California, and it has the potential to become a major national issue over the next couple of years," says Jeff Raleigh, head of the environmental practice at public relations powerhouse Hill & Knowlton, who is headquartered in San Francisco. "Corporations need to start addressing this issue now, or they are going to be in a lot of trouble down the line."
The National Association of Manufacturers and the Chemical Manufacturers Association take the issue so seriously that they made it the focus of a two-day conference in Washington, D.C., last September. One interesting aspect of the environmental racism issue is the extent to which most of the community organizations involved attempt to distance themselves from the mainstream environmental movement, which is regarded by many at the community level as a middle-class, white liberal movement with romantic rather than pragmatic ideals, more interested in the plight of spotted owls and small fishes than in the conditions of real people.
The Southwest Organizing Project of Albuquerque, one of the largest grassroots groups, is typical: "SWOP does not consider itself an environmental organization," it says, "but rather a community-based organization which addresses toxic issues as part of a broader agenda of action to realize social, racial and economic justice. We do not single out the environment as necessarily having a special place above all other issues."
Other groups see the environmental movement as part of the problem. Farm labor organizers, representing a largely Hispanic workforce, say that the green movement's success in protecting wildlife by banning pesticides of great persistence has led to their replacement by pesticides that degrade rapidly but are more acutely toxic. These substitutes, they say, pose a greater risk to farm workers. The impression is that the welfare of wildlife is being placed ahead of the welfare of poor people.
Therein lies the great latent power of the environmental justice movement, and the reason many industry representatives believe it has the potential to become a major force. It is more pragmatic than the mainstream green movement, less Luddite, prepared to acknowledge the economic benefits of industry while searching for ways in which industry can function less harmfully. And it is about the concrete, human implications of poor environmental stewardship rather than the abstract impact of industry on wildlife and wetlands.
A Bill of Rights published by SWOP sums up these beliefs: "We have the right to clean industry; industry that will contribute to the economic development of our communities and that will enhance the environment and the beauty of our landscape," but "we have the right to say no to industries that we feel will be polluters and disrupt our lifestyles and traditions."
It is difficult to imagine a statement of environmental concern with more universal appeal.
"This is a movement much more akin to the civil rights movement of the '60s than to the environmental movements of the '80s," says John Kyte, director of environmental affairs at the National Association of Manufacturers. "It is a grass roots movement. The people leading the movement are much more personally involved in the issues. It is also different in terms of its aims. We have people in this movement talking about survival issues, about very tangible quality of life issues."
The movement has been most successful in targeting government, and the way in which environmental regulations are enforced. A 1992 study by staff writers from the National Law journal uncovered iniquities in the way the federal EPA enforced its laws. "White communities see faster action, better results and stiffer penalties than communities where Blacks, Hispanics or other minorities live," the authors concluded. "This unequal protection occurs whether the community is wealthy or poor."
Penalties under hazardous waste laws were 500% higher in communities with the greatest white population than in communities with the greatest minority population, the report claimed. Superfund sites in minority areas also took 20% longer to be placed on the national priority list.
In February 1994, the Clinton administration responded by issuing an executive order that requires federal agencies who policies affect health or the environment to identify and address "disproportionate ly high and adverse human health or environmental effects of programs, policies and activities" on minority and low income populations. An interagency working group will monitor progress.
Meetings between activists and government agencies at the same time were remarkable, as a rainbow of environmental groups pummeled government officials with verbal bashings some observers compared to those administered by AIDS activists a few years ago. Like AIDS activists, the environmental justice movement was demanding full participation in research, even helping to design the studies. Carol Browner, EPA administrator and one of the activists' targets, said after the meeting she was "not proud" of the way the EPA had handled the issue.
"You can't be an agency of the people and for the people if people don't participate in your decision-making," says Browner. "There is no doubt in my mind that an informed, involved community will make for better environmental decisions than any distant bureaucracy.
The media, on the other hand, has been somewhat skeptical. In the wake of the 1991 Summit, a Houston Post editorial suggested that the environmental justice movement was "crying wolf." The newspaper pointed out that "white people also have been the victims of toxic waste dumps.... Just look at Brio, Love Canal and Times Beach.... Pretty soon, legitimate charges of racism may be at risk of going unheeded, simply because so many people claim racism is around every corner."
In 1992, Extra!, the publication of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, carried a story called "Media White-Out of Environmental Racism" which suggested a media cover-up, caused by the mass media's hesitance in criticizing corporate interests, a lack of interest in stories about people of color that do not present them in a negative light, and a strategy of diverting attention from the issue by the E.P.A.
Having said that, the media is clearly taken a greater interest in the issue over the past couple of years, with major feature stories appearing in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Time and Christian Science Monitor.
"The first thing companies need to do is make it clear that racism is not behind this issue," says Jeff Raleigh. "There are a number of factors involved. There's zoning, which restricts the number of locations companies can consider. There are infrastructure concerns: industry can only realistically locate in areas where there are road and rail links and other industries that supply the resources it needs. And the fact is that if you build in white, middle-class neighborhoods, people will move out and property values will fall and poorer people will move in. There's an element of chicken and egg. The most important point is that companies are not locating plants in these communities out of deliberate racism."
Another important communications message must be that many African-American communities have actively courted hazardous waste facilities, seeing economic benefits that outweigh what are often infinitely small risks. The benefits that business can bring to the community must be explained, Raleigh says.
The University of Pennsylvania's Regina Austin, however, points out that promised economic benefits often fail to materialize. The new jobs created are filled by skilled labor from outside the community, she says, while increased taxes go not to social services or education, but towards expanding the infrastructure to better serve and attract industry.
"Sure, Browning-Ferris pays taxes, but so do we," says Houston's Charles Streadit. "We need all the money we can get to upgrade our school system. But we shouldn't have to be poisoned to get improvements for our children."
A radical shift in the way company's select sites for new facilities is not likely, however.
"Realistically," says John Kyte, "companies are not going to turn around and start siting hazardous waste facilities in affluent white communities. Companies do not have those choices, because of the rise of zoning. But I think we will see changes in the ways companies make siting decisions."
He cites two recent decisions, one in Louisiana's Cancer Alley and another in Northern Louisiana, in which environmental justice campaigns succeeded in denying companies the right to construct new facilities, and says companies are learning from such incidents.
"The most common complaint that I hear is that people do not like either business or government to come into their communities and tell them that decisions have already been made, so the first thing we need to do is make the whole process more collaborative, to bring local residents in early in the process and make sure they understand all the risks and all the benefits, so they can make their own decisions. Companies need to be able to listen to these concerns and acknowledge them."
The CMA has applied its Responsible Care principles to such situations. John Holtzman, the CMA's senior public relations executive, says that first and foremost, CMA supports full compliance with all environmental laws, regardless of the racial or socio-economic composition of the communities in which its members operate. Responsible Care also commits members to communicating with the public and responding to community concerns.
ail Walker, president of the environmental consulting firm EnviroCom, based in suburban Chicago, says companies need to remember that the need to communicate with local communities
It is just as great in low income, minority areas, where education levels are not as high, as it is in any other community.
It may also be necessary to come up with new ways of communicating, beyond glossy brochures and items in the local newspaper, to bring people into the plant and meet with them face-to-face.
"Sometimes these communities, because they have not had access to education, are not as articulate in expressing their concerns, but that doesn't mean the concerns are not there," Walker says. "Management cannot overlook those concerns. In fact, it must find a way of addressing them at a level that the community understands and relates to."
Dow Chemical, meanwhile, has decided that the best way to deal with the problem in Louisiana's so-called Cancer Alley—an 85-mile corridor of chemical plants in an area which a large African-American population—is to buy out residents of the entire town of Morrisonville, near one of its plants. The company built a subdivision four miles downriver, where some residents were able to move into new homes and establish a new community, spending some $10 million on the project.
Clearly, this has the potential to be an expensive issue.
"Some people believe this issue will die when Bill Clinton leaves office," says NAM's John Kyte. "I think that's a short-sighted viewpoint. This movement has a lot of people around and behind it, and many of those people believe it is a survival issue. They are very, very committed. I think this is an issue that will be around for a very long time."


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In an odd sort of way, I have been involved in ministry for the last 13 years. My work mainly consists of logistical support, program management, information and referral, appointment scheduling, building management, and supervising/office management. I also provide crisis response, professional counseling, and security. All of which centers around the religious setting in an operational context.
I serve those who serve, and I provide care to the caregiver. I have overseen thousands of religious services, managed thousands of various faith based programs, provided support for hundreds of memorial services, and have responded to more life-and-death cornerstones than I care recall.
I have been an advocate for religious groups seeking the opportunity to express their faith in the absence of official faith group representation. I have trained lay leaders in the proper conduct and practice in the confines of our organization.
I have instructed hundreds of newly christened members of my organization towards a path of success, professional growth, and transition.
In these things I have all manner of pride. I do what I do because of the positive impact I am able to leave with people from all faiths, creeds, nationalities, races, gender identities, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
But my organization is changing; dramatically. I don't know how long I can stay here in good conscience. I stand at a proverbial crossroads filled with uncertainty, anxiety, and fear.
Lots of fear.
I am looking at career alternatives. I have spent the last year looking at where my skill set would fit outside of this organization. Religious ministry and counseling both appear viable, as well as teaching, but there are certain roadblocks (schooling, certification, etc.) which stand in my way. They are not impassable roadblocks, but roadblocks which present significant difficulties with the resources I currently have available.
An interesting prospect I have looked into is that of Funeral Services. Many of my specific skill sets, personal talents, and interests fall within the realm of funeral services. Being able to offer compassion, consolation, counseling, information and referral, are the very things I do now. Arranging services is another thing I do at this moment.
The practice of embalming and body restoration would be a new realm for me, but one I know I could handle. I have an interest in biology and anatomy which would bolster my capabilities with the not so "glamorous" side of mortuary affairs.
Yesterday, I took a bold step; one of faith and hope. I've applied to a college with a program certified by the American Board of Funeral Service Education (ABFSE). Strangely, I have an overwhelming sense of peace with this step. It feels right. I'm scared, but it feels right.
An opportunity like this could change my family's life for the better. And I would always be in a place to help others.


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Join George Maestri for an in-depth discussion in this video Creating a head turn: Head shape, part of Creating Animated Characters in After Effects.
One of the ways you can add more life to your character is to create a more realistic head turn. So in this chapter, I am going to show you how to create a dimensional head turn where the features of the character's face actually move across the face and give you the impression that the character has more volume. Let me show you this head turn that we are going to do in this chapter, so that way we have a little bit of reference. So I've just basically added this head turn. So now you can see the eyes, the nose, the mouth all move across the face, and the face itself actually changes shape.
So now that we understand where we're going, let's go ahead and get started. So I am going to go ahead and just open a project, and in this case we are going to open the first one in this chapter, which is 06_01. And this is basically the same character we had before with a few changes; I deleted the blinks and the mouths, and we are going to add those in just a little bit later, because when you do a head turn like this, the standard replacement mouths don't quite work, so we are going to have to do another method if we are going to use this sort of head turn.
But let's go ahead and start. Now the easiest way to do it is to use time remapping, and we can use time remapping for things other than replacement animation. So in this case, we can use it to smoothly animate between a left, a center, and a right head turn. So let's go through and select everything that we have on the head. So here, I have Mouth 01, and I scroll down, and basically the head goes all the way down to Left and Right Ear.
So basically all of these top layers, from Left and Right Ear, through Head, all the way up to the Mouth, and this selects everything on the head. Now, just like when we do replacement animation, we're going to create a precomp. I am going to go into Layer > Precompose, and let's just call this HEAD; hit OK. So now I have a composition called HEAD. We can double-click on i, and you can see if I Fit to this, we've got a lot of extra space around it.
So let's go ahead and trim this down. We are going to use Region of Interest, and just draw a box around the character, and maybe zoom in here, and let's go ahead and fine tune this box. I want to make sure I have enough room, not just for the character, but also for the head turn. So maybe give him a little bit of room on the sides, but not too much; just enough. So that should be good, and once I have that all blocked out, all I have to do is Composition > Crop Comp to Region of Interest.
So now I am going to create the head turn within this. Now, the first thing we need to do is decide how many frames are we going to create this head turn over. In other words, how many steps are we going to give the animator in this head turn. I think a good value is somewhere around 20, and so let's go ahead and do that. So I am going to go into my Composition Settings, and I am going to make my Duration not 20, but 21, and let me show you why: because what that does is it makes that last frame that we can scroll to 20, then we have 21 at the end there.
So now that I have the proper number of frames, let's go ahead and just animate the shape of the head. So the first thing I want to do is select all of my parts, and hide them. So I am just going to go and hide all of these layers, and I also want to hide the Left and Right Ear. So I just want to keep the Head, and we're just going to animate the shape of the head. So we can do that by just using a simple distortion. We can actually put an effect on the head; we are going to go Effect > Distort, and I think Bezier Warp is actually a really good one to use for this, because all it does is just put a little box around it that we can reshape and kind of morph the head.
So the first thing I want to do is make sure that I have a position for the center. So I am going to go to Frame 10, which is the center of my animation, and under Bezier Warp, I am going to select all of the controls here, and then just set a keyframe for everything. So now I've got this locked down in a center position. Now all I need to do is create my left and right head shape. So I am going to go all the way down to Frame 0, and let's go ahead into our Bezier Warp, and we are just going to alter the shape.
So I am going to take this corner here, and if you think about it, when the head turns, the chin kind of moves from one side to the other. So I am going to bring the chin out a little bit here, and again, this is just the shape of the head. We're going to worry about facial features later. So when you take a look at this, you can see how now it's going from the jaw straight at you, to maybe the jaw over here. And let's do the same for the other side. I am going to select that Bezier Warp again, and again I am going to push it in here to kind of round out where that jaw was, and then just pull out the jaw a little bit on this side here.
And again, I want to make this pretty symmetrical. So now I've got this. Now this is just a very smooth shape transition, but if I go into my master composition -- let's go ahead and fit this here -- you'll see that my head shape is already there, and I can take this, and just like with replacement animation, I can do right-click over it, Time > Enable Time Remapping. And when I do that, all I have to do, again, is just delete that last key, and now what I can do is I can go from Frame 0 to Frame 20, and you can see how it changes shape.
So I am getting a smooth in-between. Now one of the things I am noticing here is that when I get to the very last frame, it disappears. And we can fix that, because what happens here is when we shrink it down to 21 frames, this is the 21st frame, and there's no bitmap over it. So all I have to do is right-click and drag this over, and we go here; now that last frame won't disappear. In fact, I need to do this for everything in the composition, so in fact, I should probably select everything and then just make sure that it's one frame over that end, and that way we won't run into this problem later.
So now we have the basic head shape, but now let's go ahead and go through the rest of the head, and start adding in the other components of the head turn.
- Importing Illustrator or Photoshop files into After Effects
- Animating shapes
- Organizing scenes with null layers
- Working with the Puppet tool
- Creating replacement animation using time remapping
- Automating head turns
- Creating a master control node with Expression Controls effects
- Setting up a scene for animation
- Animating dialogue


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I've been making homemade laundry detergent, about 4 1/2 years now. When he had our son, Landon, I wanted to make sure his clothes would be free from any chemicals. I was buying a special detergent for babies, but that small bottle was expensive! I looked online for something cheaper and homemade. I came across a recipe on pinterest and did a lot of research on homemade laundry detergent. The best part is, you can tweak the recipe to suit your own laundry needs.
Homemade Laundry Detergent
This recipe makes a large batch of laundry detergent. This is a powder detergent and is safe for any type of washer. I've used it in my old top load washer (with the large agitator in the middle) and in my front load washer. It works with hot, warm and cold water settings. I mainly use the cold water setting and it works fine. I love my homemade laundry detergent! When I make a new batch, I look for things to wash. One batch will last me about 6 -7 months. I do laundry 4 – 5 times a week. I use 2 Tablespoons of the detergent per load. More or less, depending on the size of laundry load.
The ingredients needed are: Felsnaptha soap, baking soda, borax, washing soda, and laundry scent crystals (optional). You will need a bucket to store the homemade laundry detergent in. I keep mine in an old laundry detergent bucket with lid. Another good storage bucket is the cat litter buckets, with lids.
Here's what I do: I grate the laundry soap in my food processor with grater plate ( It's just soap, the food processor gets washed with… soap anyway.)
It looks like cheese, but smells clean.
I will empty the grated soap into a large bowl. Grab three large handfuls of grated soap and place back in food processor with chopping blade. Add 1/2 cup baking soda to the grated soap in food processor. Process until the mixture gets nice and powdery. Continue until all of the grated soap is in powder form. Pour into the bucket.
Grab your bucket and empty the remaining ingredients. Just open the boxes and dump them right into the bucket. Add your soap mixture in and mix it all together with your hands. If your using the laundry scent crystals add them to the laundry mixture. I only used half a bottle of the laundry scent crystals.
That's it! Extremely easy to make!
Homemade Laundry Detergent
4 Bars Laundry soap – Felsnaptha
1 (4 lb) box of baking soda
1 (4 lb) box of Borax
1 (5.5 lb) box washing soda
1/2 container (28 oz) Laundry scent crystals *optional
STEP ONE:Grab a large bucket with lid and set aside. Remove the Felsnaptha soap from wrapper and slice in half, down the long side (do this to all four bars). Grate the soap in food processor with grater plate. You can also grate the soap by hand with a normal kitchen grater. Grate all 4 bars of soap.
STEP TWO: Remove the grated soap from food processor and place in a large bowl. Switch the food processor back to the chopping blade. Grab three large handfuls of grated soap and place back in the food processor. Add 1/2 cup of baking soda to the food processor with grated soap (this step helps the soap turn into powdery pieces). Process until it gets powdery and crumbled. Empty into the bucket. Continue this step until all the grated soap is gone and in powder form.
STEP THREE: Grab the remaining ingredients and pour into the bucket. Mix everything together. If using the laundry scent crystals, add them in. I used only half a bottle. All done. Go start a load of laundry. I use about 2 Tablespoon for an average load. Use less for smaller loads and more for extra large loads.
NOTES: I have found the felsnaptha soap in the laundry aisle and near the bar soap section. Check both areas in your local store. The washing soda, Borax and laundry sent crystals can be found in the laundry aisle. The big box of baking soda can be found in the baking aisle or the laundry aisle. You'll need a medium – large bucket to mix and store the laundry detergent. An old laundry bucket or empty cat litter bucket works fine. Empty protein powder containers would work. For the scoop – I use an old scoop from a protein powder container. A baby formula scoop would work well too.


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Sen. Lindsey Graham's journey to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act that started as a lonely crusade has in just one week picked up both followers and steam – but prospects for winning congressional approval remain murky.
Despite a handful of Senate GOP co-sponsors and high-profile endorsements from governors and conservative thought leaders around the country, the South Carolina Republican still lacks the 51 votes needed to pass his bill to reshape the American health care system.
Graham has just 12 calendar days to seal the deal. Republican lawmakers have been seeking to repeal and replace Obamacare through a procedural maneuver known as reconciliation, which allows the Senate to limit debate with 51 votes. Republicans control 52 of the Senate's 100 seats.
The House is in a recess this week, and the Senate is expected to leave midday Wednesday because of the Jewish holiday. The two chambers do not plan to reconvene until next Monday.
The 51-vote threshold expires on Sept. 30, though. After that, it will again take 60 votes to cut off a filibuster on health care, almost certainly an impossible task.
Graham's ability to deliver depends on a number of factors, many of which are beyond his control.
The crux of his legislation is that all money spent on Obamacare would be sent back to states as block grants to be used for health care purposes exclusively. States' rights Republicans see this approach as a return to federalism, a way of getting Washington out of the kind of decision-making best left to local officials who understand their communities best.
But ideological purists see Graham's bill as "Obamacare-lite." By maintaining the law's taxes on the wealthy as a way to finance the block grants, the bill doesn't really repeal the law, critics argue.
"Graham/Cassidy keeps Obamacare and tells the states to run it," Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., tweeted, referencing the bill's other lead sponsor, Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. "No thanks."
Other Republicans have expressed concerns. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said last week she did not think the new proposal would adequately cover Medicaid costs. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, is reportedly undecided. She and Collins are both supporters of Planned Parenthood, a national women's health services provider that performs abortions. Graham's bill would defund Planned Parenthood.
Many lawmakers are concerned about the process. They're uneasy about not putting a major piece of legislation through the standard legislative process featuring committee hearings and a full cost analysis from the Congressional Budget Office.
The CBO announced Monday it could produce "preliminary" findings early next week, but a fuller picture of the legislation's long-term impact would not be available for "at least several weeks," long past the Sept. 30 deadline.
That means Graham backers would be forced to justify moving ahead without a complete picture of how states would fare under his bill. The CBO won't be able to quickly predict how many Americans would lose or gain insurance, whether premiums would rise or by how much and if the overall legislation would add to the national deficit.
This is weighing heavily on Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who along with Collins and Murkowski voted to kill the Senate GOP's last health care overhaul effort back in July.
McCain, who was diagnosed with aggressive brain cancer this summer, is struggling on a number of fronts: He wants to support his close friend, Graham, but insists health care legislation is too monumental to be rammed through the process without enough time for debate or a chance to offer amendments.
At the same time, McCain has relied on the counsel of Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, who announced on Monday he was supporting the Graham bill.
Graham's own governor in South Carolina has so far remained noncommittal, a sign of just how politically risky many Republicans see this exercise.
Speaking to reporters in the state capitol Monday morning, Gov. Henry McMaster said he was still "studying" the proposal, despite having had multiple conversations with Graham and personal pleas from Pence.
McMaster's unwillingness to offer a full-throated endorsement – or any endorsement – won't sink the effort. But Graham has made wooing governors a centerpiece of his longshot strategy. And with Graham seeking to sell the bill as a consensus-builder among the Republican Party, Democrats opposed to his measure could seize on McMaster distancing himself as a sign the legislation does not have sufficient support to move ahead.
McMaster hasn't elaborated on why he's been slow to endorse the health care legislation, but he could fear backlash from conservatives who share Paul's view that the proposal doesn't fully repeal Obamacare.
He may also be worried about unknowns in a bill to dramatically transform the country's health care system. Facing re-election and multiple primary challengers next year, McMaster would be faced with guiding the transition into a new health care system that is likely to be controversial and take time to work out inevitable kinks — and could end up not being as beneficial to the state as proponents have sold it.
"I think most things would be better than Obamacare," McMaster told reporters Monday. "Of course, block grants are much better than other ways to do things … but again, this is a very serious question, and I'm studying it very closely."


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- Search terms are not case-sensitive. All alphabetic characters in the search expression are converted to lower case before the search is performed.
- Example: centers for disease control
Phrase Searching
- Search for complete phrases by enclosing them in single quotes. Words enclosed in single quotes will appear together in all results exactly as typed.
- Example: 'world health organization'
Phrase Searches Including Words Used As Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT)
- Search for complete phrases including words used as Boolean operators by enclosing the phrase in single quotes and placing double quotes around the Boolean operator.
- Example: 'women "AND" coronary heart disease'
Multiple Words
- When searching multiple words, the system will automatically supply the Boolean "AND" operator between each word. The words entered will all occur somewhere in the records retrieved, though not necessarily in the order entered. The examples below will retrieve the same results.
- Examples:
- World Health Organization
- world AND health AND organization


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AS9100 is an Aerospace Management System which is a widely adopted and standardized quality management system for the aerospace industry. It encompasses ISO 9001, with additional requirements for quality and safety relevant to aerospace, and defines the quality management systems standards for the industry.
AS9110 is an Aerospace Management System for Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) Stations. It is based on AS9100 and adds specific requirements that are significant for the maintenance of commercial, private, and military aircrafts. Certification as an MRO supplier to AS9110 provides an additional layer of control, but is not a replacement for regulatory oversight or customer monitoring.
AS9120 is an Aerospace Management System for organizations that resell, distribute and warehouse parts found in aircraft and other aerospace components. This standard is also based on AS9100 but adds specific requirements for organizations that procure parts, materials and assemblies and sell these products in the aerospace industry. AS9120 addresses chain of custody, traceability, control and availability of records.


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Jeff Handy is the president of information technology company, Fulcrum IT. Responsible for the overall vision and performance of the firm, Handy's top three priorities when making decisions for the company include its employees, clients and shareholders. The executive recently spoke to Executive Biz about his challenges, the company's goals, the one thing his firm does better than anyone else in the same industry and why developing culture within the company is so important.
ExecutiveBiz: Of all your responsibilities what do you consider your most important task of the day?
Jeff Handy: It's pretty easy. It starts with our employees and making sure they are taken care of and after that just making sure the decisions that I need to make aren't holding up progress or the ability of our people to do their jobs. If our people are capable of doing their jobs and are taken care of I think the rest of it kind of takes care of itself.
ExecutiveBiz: What challenges do you find in your position?
Jeff Handy: I think the primary one, especially with the growth rate we are experiencing is maintaining our vision and focus. We're seeing opportunities every day and we want to stay true to our mission and vision statements. We have to spend a lot of time evaluating opportunities to make sure that they are aligned with where we are headed.
ExecutiveBiz: What does your company do better than anyone else in the same market?
Jeff Handy: I think training – when you look at Fulcrum IT you'll see that we probably have the most aggressive training program in the market space. A facet of that is since I've been the president and CEO of the company we've never turned down a training request of an employee. I would challenge anyone in this market space to be able to say that. We literally have not turned down a training request and we encourage it of our employees. It benefits them professionally and it benefits our clients as their skills are enhanced and then of course it benefits the company in what we are able to deliver to the clients. When I think about the balance between the three stakeholders I go back to training – its one I feel is a no brainer so we've invested in that.
ExecutiveBiz: Where would you like to see Fulcrum IT in five years?
Jeff Handy: The patented answer is we want to be an "X" million dollar company and I'm sure that's what a lot of CEO's would answer. We would like to be a $500 million company but I think perhaps more importantly we want to be regionally branded on the east coast as the top provider of IT solutions to the federal government. I think that driving the brand will take care of our other goals. That would be where we would like to be in five years.
ExecutiveBiz: Is there anything else you would like to add about your company, about yourself, about your employees or about what you do?
Jeff Handy: If there were any one thing I would add is, I've never really spoken to anyone outside of the company when I deliver a briefing or overview of the company without mentioning culture. We've tried to develop a unique culture here; one that includes our employees and their voice. We bring 10 percent or 15 percent of our employees in for conferences once a year to tell us how we can improve, what's keeping our clients awake at night and contribute to the direction of the company. I think the culture is one of inclusiveness, transparency and integrity and also one where we take care of our employees and their professional goals.
ExecutiveBiz: That's really different – companies actually caring about their employees.
Jeff Handy: We care and believe the collective minds will be far greater than any one executive might understand about where we should be headed. I think the collective thinking that we encourage here with our employees is unique and part of who we are.


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Well, isn't this just timely.
Those of you who read this blog regularly (Hi, mom!) know I try to catch it when Portland makes a Top 10 or national 'Best of' list of one kind or another. And boy, keeping up with those things is a workout. Barely a month ever goes by when the city's isn't fawned over by some national publication or another, which is all well and good for Portland's marketing brochures, but makes it hard for me to take even a little break from this blog.
Portland's been lauded for its coffee, its farmers markets, its beer, its healthy living, its environmental friendliness, its drivers and on and on and on. Sometimes I provide links to all of those previous lists, but it's after 10 p.m. on a Friday and I've already worked a pretty long week, so you're going to have to take my word for it or go pawing through my blog's archives. It's all there.
One of the more recent plaudits was being named by Business Insider as one of the 14 places on Earth people really need to visit in 2014, alongside places like Australia's Great Barrier Reef and the entire country of Brazil, and ahead of space. Yes, space.
This latest list is particularly timely, as we just weathered one snowstorm starting on Thursday, and we're due to get another one Saturday. So tonight, wedged between those two storms, we're going to puff out our chests and brag about this: Bustle.com named Portland among the country's "toughest" winter towns, under a headline of "These 7 Cities Can Actually Handle a Snowstorm."
Maine's largest city, which gets about 61.8 inches of snow annually and needs an average of 12 inches of the white stuff for schools to close, comes in at No. 4 on the list. (Portland actually had 93 inches of snow last winter, thanks in part to a record-breaking 31.9-inch wallop in February.)
Portland finished a spot ahead of No. 5 Minneapolis and one behind No. 3 Rochester, N.Y., which averages 99.5 inches.
In the top spot on the list was Park City, Utah, which, according to Bustle.com, gets 411.1 inches of snow every year. (That seemed like an absurd number to me, so I poked around in some other places online, and it seems to actually range between 140 inches in-town to the upper 300s in the higher elevation resorts — still a lot of snow, but not quite what Bustle was reporting.)
Anyway, because we only really care about Portland, here's what Bustle says about the Forest City:
Like Boston, Portland got hit pretty hard by Nemo last year, with 31.9 inches of snow — half the state's annual average — blanketing the city. But here's something sure to warm a book-loving heart: When a beloved local bookstore, Longfellow Books, sustained major damage, the whole community banded together to help repair the store and reopen it. It has bounced back wonderfully, so if you find yourself in the area, be sure to check it out.
As my colleague, Troy R. Bennett, captured in photographs yesterday, Casco Bay Lines held a ship christening in the middle of Thursday's blizzard-like conditions, helping prove the point.
So what "tough" thing are you planning to do in Saturday's storm? Assuming Mother Nature doesn't wimp out… I think I'm going to stay off the roads, throw in a Blu-Ray movie and sip on some hot cocoa. But in a very defiant way.


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The Town Sound from the Tri-County area will present a concert at Corinth Presbyterian Church in Mechanicstown during a family night to be held on Sunday, Sept. 16, at 7 p.m. The public is invited. A love offering will be taken and refreshments will follow.
Town Sound is a group of 13 male vocalists singing in barbershop harmony. They have appeared at various community events, Hospice talent shows, Great Trail nursing home and churches.
The leader is Dave Speakman, and the group also consists of Aaron Speakman, Dwaine Monk, Stu Grunder, John Nezbeth, Lou Vogus, Dave Royer, Jim Hanna, Gary Price, Larry Stoffer, Vince Slabaugh, Gary Wartluft and LeRoy Welkart.


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Transformers Movie 2007 Storm Surge Review
General Information:
Release Date: First Quarter 2008
Price Point: $5.99
Retailer: Target Exclusive
Accessories: Gun, Cyber-Key
- On Card
- Card Scan (Back)
- Official Photo (Vehicle Mode)*
- Official Photo (Robot Mode)*
- Vehicle Mode
- Vehicle Mode (Side)
- Vehicle Mode (Back)
- Vehicle Mode (Front view)
- Vehicle Mode (Angle view)
- Vehicle Mode (Weapons deployed)
- Vehicle Mode (Weapons deployed, side view)
- Vehicle Mode (Back)
- With Cybertron Shortround (Vehicle Modes)
- Robot Mode
- Robot Mode (Side)
- Robot Mode (Back)
- Robot Mode (Angle view)
- Robot Mode (Close up)
- Robot Mode (Holding gun)
- Robot Mode (Cyber Key inserted)
- Robot Mode (Weapons flipped out)
- With Cybertron Shortround (Robot Modes)
*Images from target.com.
At the beginning of 2008, Hasbro launched its final group of redecos from various lines that formed a Target exclusive set of Scout Class figures. This line was comprised of an assortment of characters such as Skyblast and Hardtop. In this group the unique Cybertron Shortround figure was given a new deco and identity as Storm Surge. Check out Shortround's review for a thorough look at this figure. This review will focus on the changes made to this figure for this release.
Vehicle Mode:
While Shortround utilized a very pastel type color scheme, Storm Surge was designed to look more like a vehicle you would find in real life. This resulted in more conventional colors being used on this figure. The grey color from Shortround has been replaced with a bright white, and the pastel blue parts replaced with a slightly metallic grey. The lower edge remains black however.
Storm Surge amuses me in vehicle mode because his colors are those used by some U.S. Coast Guard vehicles. Paint applications are done in blue, light blue, orange and silver. The top part is mostly painted blue with smaller details such as the fan covers and an angled stripe on the side colored orange. The fans themselves are painted silver and his windows are light blue. Black paint is used for smaller details such as a "S7" and cube Sector 7 logo on the side. His gun has been cast in grey and has an orange stripe painted onto the front end. The total irony of this is that Storm Surge is a Decepticon, and I'm sure the last thing he cares about is saving anyone!
Storm Surge has been given the Decepticon Cyber Key with the sharp edges and crest in the center. The key is cast in translucent blue plastic. The Decepticon symbol in the center and the edges of the key have been painted silver, which looks fantastic. Insert the key and his weapons flip out just as fast as Shortround's. The edges of the missiles have been painted orange, matching the look of his gun.
Robot Mode:
Storm Surge's robot mode introduces a new plastic color into the mix while showing more of another. More grey parts appear on his head, lower claws and his mid-body. Blue plastic is used for his upper legs, giving color continuity between his upper legs and the parts painted blue on the lower legs. The blue plastic is also used for his joints such as the shoulders and elbows. This is a different pattern than Shortround, who used black for the mid-body (matching the lower portion of the vehicle mode).
Storm Surge's paint scheme is different than Shortround's in this mode as well. The blue paint on the white portion of the vehicle mode winds up getting distributed here between the upper body and legs. The same light blue paint used on the windows of the vehicle mode now appears on the robot eyes, chest and mid-body, where it forms a series of very nice looking outlines. Black paint is used to paint details on the head's "helmet" section.
All of the figures' joints are still tight and the gun attaches to his claw hands just fine.
Final Thoughts:
I've often said that if you must do a redeco, make it as different in pattern and colors from the original release as you can. This figure manages to do that and introduce a touch of irony into its color scheme as well. This is a super cool redeco and a neat addition to the Movie universe. Recommended!


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I really like files. Most programs running on your computer probably store at least some information in files. And the great thing about files is that you, the humble user, can really jam your fingers into them and wiggle them around if you have a mind to. You might be able to modify a file to jump yourself forward 10 levels, migrate your data from a crappy piece of software to a better one, or turn something a funny color. This lets you feel like a badass pirate hacker without having to go to the terrifying trouble of actually breaking any laws.
Before you can do any of this, you have to figure out how the program structures its files. In this post we're going to reverse engineer the structure of a synth sound (or "patch") in LogicPro, Apple's powerful music production software. We'll use this to write a tiny bit of code that can generate and modify Logic patches. We will do this completely outside of Logic, but files that we'll create will still be completely usable inside it.
If you create a Logic synth sound that you like, you can save the plugin settings as a preset so that you can quickly load it again in a different track. Logic stores these presets as
.pst files. There is nothing at all special about them; they are normal files that behave in exactly the same way as any other file you may be used to. You can view them in Finder, copy and paste them, and even share them over the internet so that other people can try out your sounds for themselves. In order to try out your Phat Sub ES2 patch, I just have to get the
phatsub.pst file from you, open it up with the ES2 synth plugin and warn my neighbors that they're in for an evening of bass in their face.
Like all files,
.pst files are just a collection of bits on your hard disk. If we knew how the bits in a file were read and written by Logic, there would be nothing stopping us (apart from perhaps the legal department of Apple Inc.) writing our own tools to create
.pst files that could still be read and used by Logic. We're going to reverse engineer the structure of the
.pst file format for the ES M, Logic's simplest synth. This will allow us to do anything with ES M patches that we can do with code. For example:
To achieve this, we're going to:
.pst file
Once you've understood this process you will be able to repeat it yourself to reverse engineer the file format for any plugin in Logic.
When inspecting an unfamiliar filetype, it's worth trying to open it in a standard text editor just in case the creators of the filetype helpfully structured it in a human-readable format along the lines of:
volume: 1.0
decay_time: 1582.1
# …etc
Unfortunately, they rarely do, and Logic is no exception. When opening a .pst file with a standard text editor, like OSX's default TextEdit, we get total nonsense.
The file was never meant to be viewed like this. We should instead inspect the file using a more advanced editor like Sublime. Sublime is able to realize that the file should not be interpreted as text, and instead allows us to work with the raw bytes.
This will be much easier to work with. Now that we can sensibly view the file, we can start trying to understand it.
We open up the ESM synth module.
For simplicity we set every parameter in our patch to 0, or whatever you might consider the baseline for the setting. We then save this patch and call it "baseline". We open it in Sublime and view the bytes.
5800 0000 0100 0000 1000 0000 4741 4d45
5453 5050 c900 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0040 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 803f 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 80bf 0000 0000
Promisingly, we see that many of the bytes in our basic, initialized patch now read "0". Now we're going to adjust the different settings in the ES M one-by-one and see what happens to our patch file. We jam up the cutoff frequency up to 100%, and see that some of the bytes on the third row have changed:
5800 0000 0100 0000 1000 0000 4741 4d45
5453 5050 c900 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0040 0000 0000 0000 c842 0000 0000 <---
0000 803f 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 80bf 0000 0000
We can infer that these are the bytes that are responsible for storing the cutoff frequency. We do the same thing with volume decay, and see that this time some bytes on the fourth row have changed:
5800 0000 0100 0000 1000 0000 4741 4d45
5453 5050 c900 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0040 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 803f 0000 0000 0000 0000 0040 1c46 <----
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 80bf 0000 0000
We can repeat this process to work out the bytes responsible for storing each and every setting.
Finally, we need to work out how the bytes that represent a setting are translated into the value that the setting takes on the synth. There are many standard ways of storing numbers as bytes, and after some fiddling around we realize that this file is storing numbers as 16-bit little-endian floats. Since we can easily write code to manage this conversion for us, a detailed understanding of what this means is not remotely necessary.
We repeat the process of adjusting settings on the synth and comparing the bytes of the resulting patch to our baseline patch. We deduce that the file is structured as:
Figuring out the structure of the file was by far the hardest part of this process. It now takes very little, very un-fancy code to start being able to write our own patch files. First we write a small class that takes care of converting from human-readable param names and values to bytes:
class ESMPatch
SETTING_NAMES = %w{
glide octave mix cutoff resonance filter_decay filter_intensity filter_velo
volume_decay volume_velo overdrive volume pos_bender_range
neg_bender_range tune
def initialize(name:, settings:)
missing_settings = SETTING_NAMES.select {|s| settings[s.to_sym].nil?}
if missing_settings.length > 0
raise ArgumentError, "Missing #{missing_settings.join(', ')}"
@name = name
@settings = settings
def to_bytes
SETTING_NAMES.map {|s| number_to_bytes(@settings[s.to_sym])}.join('')
def save
File.open(patch.filename, 'w') { |file| file.write(self.to_bytes) }
def filename
def number_to_bytes(number)
# See http://apidock.com/ruby/Array/pack
We can use this class to build and save patches like so:
patch = ESMPatch.new(
name: "mysweetpatch",
settings: {
glide: 0, octave: 16, mix: 62, cutoff: 91, resonance: 13, filter_decay: 512,
filter_intensity: 12, filter_velo: 42, volume_decay: 3456, volume_velo: 1002,
overdrive: 99, volume: -2, pos_bender_range: 4, neg_bender_range: 2,
tune: 0,
Running the above code will create an ES M patch called
mysweetpatch.pst with the properties that we specified. We can open it in Logic, and make real life beats with it.
To take this even further, you can imagine packaging up the standard parts of this ES M class into a library that would make it easy to encode the structure any other synth or FX unit that we care to reverse engineer. The additional code we would have to write for each synth could then be as simple as:
class ES2 < LogicSynthUnit
header "\x58\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00"
setting :volume, format: float, default: 0.0
setting :unison, format: bool, default: false
setting :env_1_attack, format: float, default: 0.0
setting :env_1_decay, format: float, default: 0.0
setting :env_1_sustain, format: float, default: 0.0
setting :env_1_release, format: float, default: 50.0
# …and so on
LogicPro is just a really, really huge arsenal of tools that create and read files. Apple could theoretically open up the specifications for their file formats and make interoperability between different music programs easier, like Microsoft has done with docx and other Office formats. This wouldn't really make any sense for anyone, since I don't believe that anyone would actually want or use this kind of transferability, but it is neat that it's using the same primitives as Powerpoint.


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Killenaule's Michael Cleere co-opted to South Tipperary Labour seat
Killenaule man Michael Cleere was co-opted to fill a Labour Council seat at this month's meeting of South Tipperary County Council. The seat was left vacant last March by the departure of Bobby Fitzgerald.
Cllr Cleere was proposed by Cllr Seanie Lonergan and seconded by Cllr Eddie O'Meara on Monday. Michael was described as a "stalwart and reliable life-long Labour man" by Cllr Lonergan. Cllr Cleere was unsuccessful when he contested the Labour seat in the Fethard area of South Tipperary County Council in the last local elections. It's understood he will campaign again next year to retain the seat. He is well known around Killenaule for his work as a bus driver with the local Day Care Centre, and work with the elderly. Four candidates put their names forward during the co-option process, with Cllr Cleere emerging victorious with the most votes by proportional representation.


text: The San Francisco Chronicle had a column that I probably wouldn't have clicked on, except I did so accidentally. Apparently SF residents are getting fed up with seeing "some guy ... standing on the corner throwing up on himself." Wow, well, that's disgusting, but I can't help but think that the SF residents cited in this article are less concerned with solving the homeless problem than with having to deal with looking at it. Maybe instead of complaining about it they should give some money to their local homeless shelters--or better yet, lobby their local government to make sure there are enough resources devoted to the homeless.


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Sun Safety For Kids
There are many reasons why parents should be concerned about sun safety for kids. Increasing temperatures worldwide along with the impact of UV rays put more people at risk of sunburns and skin cancer. Ultraviolet rays from the sun not only affect the skin but also our eyes and immune systems. Despite all these factors, children will be children and still love to be out in the sun having fun. It is quite impossible and ill-advised to discourage their time in the sunshine playing, so parents and caregivers need to be up to date on summer sun safety along with passing important life-long habits on to their children.
Some children's sun exposure is a greater risk compared to others. For example, if there is a history of skin conditions and skin cancer in the family. Also, sun safety for babies is paramount and should begin when your child is an infant and continue throughout their life. Additionally, if a child has very fair skin, develops moles on their skin, the sun will most likely put them at a greater risk of developing a skin condition including skin cancer later in their life.
With this information, the main question on your mind may be, "How can I keep my child safe from the sun?" The answer: there is no way you can keep your bundle of joy away from the sun. You can only keep them safe in the sun, and there are plenty of ways to ensure sun safety for kids.
Stay out of the sun when it is the hottest outside~Parents and caregivers should be keen to notice the movements of the sun provide the best sun safety. From about 10 or 11 in the morning, all the way through the afternoon up to 4 in the late afternoon, the rays of the sun are the most intense and sometimes at the same level with the vigor of your child!
If they are playing next door with friends, at play group in your community or in the back yard, ensure that they have their sunscreen on at all times. Also, be aware that sunburn does not have to occur only at the beach – it can occur anywhere the sun shines and even on seemingly cloudy days.
Choose the right materials for summer clothes~When shopping for the summer clothes, there is one small thing that you can do to choose protective clothing for yourself and your kids. Simply put your hand underneath the material. If you can see your hand underneath it, place it back on the rack. If you cannot see your hand underneath, that is a better material to protect against the sun. The more tightly woven the material, the lesser the UV rays can reach the skin.
Know how to apply sunscreen the right way~An important aspect for sun safety for kids is the use of sunscreen and sun block. Yes, there is a method to applying sunscreen. You should apply sunscreen on your child about 30 minutes before they go out in the sun. This will provide the melatonin safety that they require. Apply the sunscreen on the "forgettable" areas – the places that you would normally overlook on your child's body. The lips, ears, feet, shoulders and the back of the neck need some screen.
Also, reapply sunscreen every 2 to 3 hours as recommended by dermatologists~Do it after your child has had a swim, because water will have washed away the protective layer on their skin. The same logic applies to children engaging in sports activities where they are sweating. Apply it generously. The measures are taken to ensure sun safety for kids are more important than the number of sunscreen bottles you will go through in a season so stock up, use liberally and don't forget to check the expiry dates! Sunscreen leftover from last year may be past the due date thus, provide no protection for your child.
Make sunscreen time fun!~Children often complain when mommy or daddy is eating up their playtime with all the gooey sunscreen stuff. Have fun with your child when protecting their skin from the harmful effects of the sun. It will give the kids something to look forward to as well as create a habit that they will hold onto for a long time in their lives. Child safety sun wear such as hats and sunglasses should be incorporated into the pre-playtime routine to gear the kids up for fun in the sun.
These simple measures will go a long way to creating the best habits for your child and pass on valuable information geared towards sun safety for kids throughout their lives.


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Flying Experiences contracts with many independent suppliers and the terms and conditions of such independent businesses apply to Flying Experiences customers.
Customer Bookings:
All bookings are subject to availability from Flying Experiences suppliers and are generally for one person only. Customers are asked to provide as much notice as possible when booking. Many peak dates, particularly at week-ends are very popular and may not be available unless a substantial period of notice is given. In any event bookings should be made a minimum of 14 days in advance. Do not make any travel or accommodation arrangements until your booking has been confirmed in writing. You are required to check that the experience is to be provided on the day stated by reconfirming your booking directly with the venue at least 24hrs prior to your departure. .
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Vouchers are non-transferable but may be exchanged once only for a different Experience before the expiry of the original voucher. Exchange vouchers are non-refundable. Exchanges will be confirmed by the issue of an additional Gift Pack and will be charged at £15 plus any difference in the price of the Experiences. No exchanges can be made for a different Experience after booking a specific date for the original Experience.
If the Experience booked or exchanged is of a lower value than the voucher to be redeemed then the balance remaining will be held on the account of the original purchaser for a maximum of nine months. After nine months all credits will be forfeited.
Our suppliers are asked to provide high standards of safety for all participants but Flying Experiences is unable to inspect or supervise all of the events provided by a wide range of suppliers worldwide and we cannot provide any guarantee of the supplier's safety or performance standards. Many Experiences are dangerous and necessarily involve some personal risk. Some suppliers will require participants to sign disclaimers and may retain the right to assess the competency of participants. Their judgement shall be final as to whether participants are competent and safe to participate in Experiences.
All vouchers must be returned to us before exchange vouchers can be sent. Flying Experiences cannot be held liable for any missing or lost vouchers and all vouchers must be produced to the supplier before the start of the Experience. Flying Experiences reserves the right to ask for any evidence that it may reasonably require to authenticate the identity of the customer or participant.
All vouchers are valid for at least nine months from the date of issue. Full details are provided in Gift Packs. Vouchers may be extended for an additional period (details available on request and extension periods vary according to Experience) but notice from the customer for all such extensions must be prior to the expiry of the original voucher. Extensions will be confirmed by the issue of an additional Gift Pack and will be charged at £15 plus any increase in the price of the Experience.
Variations & Cancellations by Flying Experiences or its Suppliers:
Flying Experiences acts as a booking agent for Experiences supplied by many independent suppliers. As part of Flying Experiences' quality management procedures, the performance of suppliers is regularly assessed. Flying Experiences may need to change suppliers to ensure a very high standard of Experience with consequential variations in locations and the details of equipment, schedules, timings and facilities may be subject to change in the interests of the customer. If specific equipment or personalities are material to the Experience event then we will notify you of any changes prior to the Experience event. If cancellation or changes are beyond the control of Flying Experiences our liability shall be limited to providing an Identical Experience at a later date. We shall make every effort to provide these and the most current information is detailed on our website at www.flyingexperiences.com
Where there are substantial changes we shall inform customers at the time of booking or by communicating with them prior to the Experience event. Please provide a contact telephone number for Flying Experiences to be able to contact you in the event of cancellation of the Experience event. We ask you to provide a mobile number if you have one to enable us to contact you in the unlikely event of problems as late as the day of your travel to the event. Many outdoor Experiences are weather dependent and although every effort will be made by both Flying Experiences and the supplier to provide as much notice as possible, last minute cancellations or changes as a result of unfavourable weather may be necessary.
Experience Locations:
The currently available locations are detailed on our website at Flying Experiences.com. We retain the right to add or withdraw locations of Experiences at any time. If your chosen location is changed or withdrawn by us then we will offer an alternative location or you may exchange the Experience for another of any type. Locations described as 'Nationwide' or 'UK wide' or similar may be limited in some areas of the UK.
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Any times stated for the duration of Experiences are provided as a guide only. Suppliers may often entertain customers at the Experience venue for longer than the time taken to actually carry out the Experience and, conversely, the times stated may include some time waiting your turn with other customers and be longer than the time spent actually carrying out the Experience. The duration of the flight is from chock to chock and is approximate. The total time at the venue is to be considered to be an integral part of enjoying an Experience.
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Lots of great green business stories hitting the web this week including Kohl's preparations for an electrified vehicle future and Facebook's decision to reduce its coal-generated electricity use.
Kohl's prepares to launch EV charging station pilot
Electric vehicle owners will soon have another place to stop for a recharge when they are out and about – Kohl's. Kohl's department store is preparing to launch a pilot program at 33 of its stores. Customers at select Kohl's locations in Arizona, California, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Oregon, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington will be able to charge their EV for free.
Facebook plans to move away from coal-generated electricity
Greenpeace has been urging Facebook to reduce its use of coal-generated power for quite some time now. Well it looks like their efforts are paying off as Facebook has committed to transitioning clean and renewable energy to provide power to Facebook facilities.
Challenge: Outgreen the greenest restaurant
Uncommon Ground, located in Chicago, is the greenest restaurant in the nation according to the Green Restaurant Association. But who did the company beat to win this award? Company owners beat themselves. That's right, a second Uncommon Ground location is the second greenest restaurant in the nation. While the owners are proud of their accomplishments, they are encouraging other restaurateurs to outdo them – outgreen the greenest restaurant in the nation.
Storage battery industry could reach $50 billion in the next few years
As more automakers develop hybrid and all-electric vehicles and more money is spent to expand the nation's renewable energy sector, the storage battery industry will see an increase in demand. This demand could mean a $50 billion market by 2015.
Coke has big plans for its PlantBottle
Coca-Cola's plans to expand the use of its PlantBottle, a beverage container made entirely from plant-based materials, received a boost this week thanks to a new multi-million dollar partnership.
"Agreements with Virent, Gevo and Avantium were announced yesterday following a two-year analysis of different technologies by the drinks company's technical advisory board."


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Totally 29 RF components are integrated in the assembly. Eight voltage-controlled 60dB PIN diode attenuators and eight fast PIN diode switches (Switch ON/OFF: 50ns MAX) are used to process the RF signals along different paths of interest.
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Creator of Die Zombiejäger does the Hammer Dance
This is me, Jonas Wolcher birthday (April 15th) gift to you all fellow fans, followers, friends and neighbors is the Hammer Dance. One of my favourite dance styles which is easy to do. It looks funny and yes I agree it's a bit ridiculous but I love doing this. Especially on a crowded dance floor. The song I picked was a special version of La Style's classic techno "James Brown is Dead". TECHNO INDUSTRIAL EXITOS 90'S
L.A. Style – James Brown Is Dead
Label:Bounce Records – IND 616.6
Format:Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Released:1991 Genre:
Electronic Style:Techno
- James brown is dead (Digital mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtoIx...
Ladies and Gentlemen. Beware. Here is The Hammer Dance.


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This seems to be a nice surprise, but today an article on Forbes reported that Amazon is currently eyeing the mobile market, with plans to launch a Windows-based smartphone device in Q4 2012. Here's an excerpt from the article:
Taipei-based Kevin Chang, Citi's hardware research analyst, believes Amazon will have a smartphone ready to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2012. Spring-boarding off channel checks, Chang suggests Amazon is jointly developing the phone with Foxconn Technologies, which also manufactures Apple's iPads.
Channel checks suggest the Amazon smartphone will have a 4-inch touch panel display, an 8 mega pixel camera, and adopt a Microsoft operating system. The phone will probably run on a Texas Instruments OMAP4 processor and Qualcomm's dual mode 6-series standalone baseband.
Kevin Chang also suggests that the device will have a production cost of about USD150 to USD170, but carriers will likely to sell the device at cost. It is said that Amazon is aiming to profit by selling its eBooks and music via the smartphone device, rather than from selling the device itself.
However, with Amazon just recently launching the Android-based Kindle Fire tablet, we do question as to whether Amazon would invest in a completely different platform for its smartphones. A recent survey by IDC claimed that both Microsoft's Windows Phone mobile OS and Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet are amongst the top in attracting developers' interest, with developers most interested in Microsoft's strong developer tools and Kindle Fire's low cost and rich content library. If this story holds true, the two companies could possibly leverage the best of both worlds to create an even stronger ecosystem. What do you think about this news? Let us know in the comments below!


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Scented lotions and body creams are a wonderful alternative to perfume. They add another dimension to traditional perfume, the sense of touch. I love the feeling of a scented body cream once I slather it on after a refreshing shower. My skin feels silky soft and caressed by a delicate veil of scent. I start my day feeling pampered like a queen and ready to seize the day! Continue reading


text: Saw this compelling documentary on Tuesday night BBC 4 2300-0030 where the guilt of the fathers is discussed by the two sons.Both fathers were career Nazis,one German and the other,Austrian.The third member of the documentary party was Philippe Sands QC, whose family,apart from his grandfather,some eighty strong were among the 3500 murdered in Galicia in 1942.Sands continually probed Horst von Wachter's reasoning of protecting his Austrian father throughout the documentary.Sands led the group to the memorial at the open neglected site where the 3500 murdered were shot and buried as they fell...very emotive coverage. One,Niklas Frank readily accepts his father's involvement in the atrocities that took place in the East....he remarks that his father Hans Frank,a father he clearly resents, the Governor General of Poland, loved Hitler more than his family. The other, Horst von Wachter,whose father Otto was the Governor of Galicea and who involvement is clear to see as validated by documentation, directing and implementing the Final Solution strives to establish that his father was a good man despite evidence to the contrary.His father,Horst claims was instrument in assisting the Ukrainians to wrest independence from the SU by forming in 1943, his "Ukrainian Division," designated by Himmler as the14th Waffen SS Galacia Division 1. Horst becomes upbeat when in the Lviv area (Galacia) now Ukraine,the party attend an SS commemoration where burials of the recovered dead are shown as being laid to rest.The participants are wearing Nazi uniforms and Horst seems to be more than content that his father is revered by this Ukrainian group. As regards the fate of the fathers,Frank was executed after the Nuremburg tribunal trials,while von Wachter,in Italy as his last posting escaped justice, being assisted to vanish within Italy by the Catholic church.Apparently he picked up an infection from swimming in the Tiber in 1949 and died from the effects...some claim that he was poisoned....taken to hospital he revealed his true identity but the Polish government may have been aware of his presence in Italy for they attempted to have him extradited without success. Nazi sons Niklas Frank and Horst von Wachter look back at 'What Our Fathers Did' | Daily Mail Online My father, the good Nazi An excellent documentary which revisits the events of the Final Solution on the Eastern Front.