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Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Awards $325,000 to Support Racial Equity
LOS ANGELES—The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles (The Foundation) today announced that it has awarded grants totaling $325,000 to seven local organizations to support racial equity.
The funding is being directed to programs that span a diverse range of areas including health care for Black women and infants; job opportunities for at-risk youth and those exiting the justice system; access to quality education; and leadership opportunities for Black professionals. The seven recipients are: A New Way of Life Reentry Project, African American Board Leadership Institute, Anti-Recidivism Coalition, Jews of Color Initiative, Black Women for Wellness, Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade, and Social Justice Learning Institute.
President and Chief Executive Officer Marvin I. Schotland stated: "In response to the current social unrest, The Foundation decided to make these grants. These inspiring programs align with our institution's own values of creating a more civil, just and equitable society. We are proud to place our support behind these initiatives and look forward to following the progress of their meaningful work."
Schotland indicated that to enhance The Foundation's understanding of the important issues and organizations serving communities of color, it consulted with numerous prominent funders and experts in the field.
The Foundation CEO added: "These nonprofits have received prior support from trusted funders, as well as our foundation's own donors, which helped to inform our decision-making. Beyond that, we established criteria that included being Black-led, well-established, located in the communities they serve, and focused on providing direct services."
Susan Burton, founder and executive director of A New Way of Life, stated: "This grant will support our work and continued efforts in equity and opportunity for formerly incarcerated people and their children. With The Foundation's support, we are able to expand our housing services with two more safehouses during the pandemic for the women we serve. Thanks to The Foundation, a safe and stable home is possible for current and future residents during these difficult times."
Added Ilana Kaufman, executive director, Jews of Color Initiative: "With the generosity of The Foundation, the Jews of Color Initiative can expand our work to foster equitable Jewish communities and institutions by extending research and grantmaking efforts to support and advance the leadership and visions of Jews of Color."
About the Recipients
A New Way of Life Reentry Project provides women exiting prison (primarily women of color) with a safe, welcoming and structured place to stay, education and employment opportunities, case management, and legal services as they re-enter the community.
African American Board Leadership Institute trains and places well-qualified African American professionals on boards across a number of well-known public institutions, recognizing the need for more equitable representation among corporate, nonprofit, and government boards and committees.
Anti-Recidivism Coalition works to end mass incarceration and reduce recidivism rates in California through justice-reform advocacy, re-entry support, mentoring, counseling, housing, and its career-development training and partnerships, as one of the most difficult parts of re-entering the community is access to work.
Jews of Color Initiative works to advance and build the professional, organizational, and communal field for Jews of color. This includes commissioned studies on the number and experiences of Jews of color in the U.S., as well as working to promote racially diverse engagement, and grantmaking to support diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Black Women for Wellness is committed to the health and well-being of Black women and girls and focuses on research, education, outreach, and leadership development of Black women to address the health challenges in their communities, where infant mortality and maternal death during childbirth run two and four times higher, respectively, than among white women regardless of socio-economic status.
Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade is a longtime grassroots nonprofit based in South Los Angeles, focuses on addressing the unmet needs of low-income, underserved, under-represented, and disenfranchised individuals through initiatives such as its Youth Development Program which provides comprehensive services – mentorship, gang prevention, educational support, and career readiness – for at-risk youth and students.
Social Justice Learning Institute is dedicated to improving the education, health, and well-being of youth and communities of color across Inglewood, Compton, Watts, Lennox, Lancaster, and Palmdale through its Urban Scholars Program, which aims to increase students' academic achievement and provide them tools and resources to advocate for an equitable education.
About The Jewish Community Foundation
Established in 1954, the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles manages charitable assets of more than $1 billion entrusted to it by over 1,300 families and ranks among the 10 largest Los Angeles foundations. It partners with donors to shape meaningful philanthropic strategies, magnify the impact of their giving, and build enduring charitable legacies. In 2019, The Foundation and its donors distributed more than $129 million in grants to 2,700 nonprofits with programs that span the range of philanthropic giving. Over the past 10 years, it has distributed nearly $1 billion to thousands of nonprofits across a diverse spectrum. www.jewishfoundationla.org


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"In the end, he sees everything."
Directed by Omar Naim (Dead Awake, 2010) this film is set in the near future, where implants "Zoë Chips" have been in use for quite some time. The implants make it possible for a person to record every waking moment of their life, so that when they die a video can be put together for their eulogy. Alan Hakman (Robin Williams) is a "cutter", or rather an editor that takes a person life and condenses it into a video highlight of the positive sides of a person's life. He is excellent at what he does and has earned a reputation for making even the most dastardly person come across as an angel. Hakman has mastered the art of detachment, and can separate himself from some of the gruesomeness that he witnesses when editing these videos. However, this ability to detach has also garnered him trouble in his romantic relationships. He is involved in a rather tumultuous entanglement with Delila (played expertly by Mira Sorvino).
Then, while editing the life of a recently deceased corporate executive, he believes that he sees someone from his past in the man's memories. Though usually able to remain unmoved by other's memories, he cannot let this haunting notion go. He submerges himself in discovering the truth and finds that uncovering the truth will be more dangerous than he thought.
Hakman also comes to realize that Fletcher (Jim Caviezel), a former editor (ex cutter) has also been trying to get a hold of his most recent cut. But, Fletcher's motivations include a devious and menacing agenda.
The film leaves you with much to ponder about the future, about the fine line between what should be kept private for all time, and what should be openly shared with the public. But, most of all, it leaves you wanting to take a leisurely trip down your own memory lane!
The Final Cut is currently available to watch and stream, download, buy on demand at Amazon Prime, Starz, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play, iTunes, YouTube VOD online.


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A tale of "weeds and winners."
The New York Times (login required) has reported that, "The biggest donors in the Republican Party are financing a new group to recruit seasoned candidates and protect Senate incumbents from challenges by the far right conservatives and Tea Party enthusiasts who Republican leaders worry could complicate the party's effort to win control of the Senate."
The group's name, "Conservative Victory Project," appears to be somewhat misleading.
The "Project" and its super PAC's mission is to remake the Republican Party around the notion that true conservatives can't win.
Apparently they are searching for safe, "moderate" candidates like Rob McKenna, Reagan Dunn and Bill Finkbeiner here in Washington State. Now I understand why Randy Pepple, McKenna's manager, told Republicans in a Seattle Times article after the election, "There's no need for panic."
Relax. Just keep running so-called "moderates" who support abortion and are, at best, wobbly on marriage, while asking for evangelicals votes. Sounds like a winning model to me.
The New York Times is also reporting that "Karl Rove and his allies...will start by intensely vetting prospective contenders for Congressional races, to weed out candidates who are seen as too flawed to win general elections."
Are true conservatives seen as flawed "weeds" who can't win by the Republican Party?
Was John Koster, although highly qualified, denied support from the state GOP in the 1st Congressional district last November because he was seen as flawed? Or a weed? Or simply a true conservative?
Ben Shapiro says, "It is the American Crossroads [Rove's Super PAC] and its ilk that have run the GOP into the ground."
Shapiro says it was that kind of thinking that led to Barack Obama's first victory and the disaster in 2012.
He says, "If the Tea Party candidates lose, it's because they weren't good candidates; if GOP candidates lose, it's because they weren't good conservatives."
"The choice for actual conservatives," he says, "should be easy."
Grover Norquist says the Rove mission is nonsense.
Last November we spoke to this issue in a blog published November 27, 2012.
Now it has become a national issue. I stand by what we said then and what Shapiro, Norquist and others are saying now: A true conservative who understands the issues, can articulate true conservative policy and values, can win, if he or she is not shot down by their own colleagues.
The enemy is often within.
Could this be a new bumper sticker? WEEDS Can Win. Maybe not. "Weed" has already won in Washington State.
But I do think all us flawed weeds should, to quote a Founder, hang together or we will all hang separately.
Be Informed. Be Vigilant. Be Active. Be Discerning. Be Prayerful. Be Blessed.
Posing even greater danger to the defense of our Constitutional Republic than the RINOs are the Clergy In Name Only (CINOs). They control most of America's churches and greatly influence most of our population, but in the face of enormous threats to their churches, congregations, and nation, they cower and betray, intellectualizing or spiritualizing their thirty pieces of silver.
I agree completely. Folks complain about all the "church shoppers" out there, but one of the reasons for it is all of the apostate clergy.
The enemy (Norquist) of our enemy (Rove) is not our friend.
That would describe Grover Norquist.
Norquist is a sell-out on illegal alien amnesty and he makes no Judeo-Christian ethic apparent in his pronouncements. His yardstick for political success is calibrated only in dollar signs.
He calls his ilk the "leave us alone coalition." That is, libertarian.
Malkin says that Norquist and Rove have worked together. So our enemy AND our enemy are definitely not our friend!
The link can't be accessed though the the post, that's the point.
The foundations of both major parties have drawn away from principles and follow the almighty dollar. This is the direction our whole government structure has appeared to grow further and further by the decade. I do not know what the functional solution may be, we are mired in the framework of the bureaucracy we have built.
Gary, your blog expresses my observations/feelings. Remember John Carlson's run for Governor? Republican big whigs Gov. Dan Evans, Sen. Slade Gorton? What about Kirby Wilbur? George Rucklehaus? How on earth did John Koster loose???? How on earth did we elect a fraud to be our state auditor??? I believe that there are elements of the Washington State Republican party that want power just as much as the Democrats want control and they are willing to compromise their values. How do we find out who are the "Joshua's & Caleb's" of our Republican party?
I would caution against a move to Christian Dominionism or The New Apostolic Reformation. We are called to redeem the time, for the days are evil. We seem to imagine if we can just elect the right person, all will be well. This is a false doctrine, man at his best is still evil.
We can no more bring the kingdom to earth than we can move the ocean. We need to preach the Word, be ready in season and out; correct, rebuke, encourage- with great patience and careful instruction.
The time has come when men don't put up with sound doctrine, but gather around them teachers who tickle their ears with what they want to hear.
I'll leave you all with something to consider "It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to trust in princes" (Ps 118:8-9).
These is our marching orders guys! Stop trusting in politicians! We're only going to get disappointed.
Tea Party!!!!!!!!!!!! The only true conservatives.
You have hit the mark dead-on, Gary. It should be of concern to every Republican that the funding for stalwart conservatives like John Koster and others was purposely bypassed by the NRCC in favor of more "moderate" i.e. politically correct candidates.
For example, the NRCC spent a whopping $1.5 million for the losing congressional campaign of "Republican" homosexual activist Richard Tisei in Massachusetts, while spending only $80K to help Koster. Sadly, Kirby Wilbur and his Executive Director Peter Graves played a part in this travesty. The Koster team first encountered ideological tension with the WSRP in the summer of 2011 when we were just getting our efforts off the ground. The message delivered to me personally by the WSRP Executive Director Peter Graves was clear: The Koster team would need to fire its conservative (i.e. pro-life, pro-family marriage) consultant (Tom McCabe) and "moderate" its message if we expected any help from them.
It should be of concern to every Republican that the funding for a stalwart conservative like John Koster was purposely bypassed by the NRCC in favor of more "moderate" i.e. politically correct candidates. For example, the NRCC spent a whopping $1.5 million for the losing congressional campaign of "Republican" homosexual activist Richard Tisei in Massachusetts, while spending virtually nothing to help Koster.
Sadly, Kirby Wilbur and his Executive Director Peter Graves played a part in this travesty. While attending a function in Snohomish WSRP Executive Director Peter Graves pulled me aside and informed me that we would need to fire our conservative consulting firm (pro-life, pro-marriage, pro-limited government) led by Tom McCabe if we "wanted the cooperation of the WSRP".
The message was clear: Our choice of McCabe's firm was, as Graves described it, "unacceptable" and the Koster team would need to "moderate" its message if we expected any help from them. To his everlasting credit, John Koster stood on his principles and stood by his team, refusing to buckle under. John felt all along that if the "moderates" could dictate who would run his campaign, they would dictate how he would run his congressional office in Washington D.C. as well.
Thanks Lary . The GOP needs to get rid of the good old boys network that loves their high places of authority while doing nothing or actually hurting the party . Obama's campaign gave money to support him in this state even though it was a easy win for him regardless. But that money helped democratic candidates running for offices get their vote out .
Gary, thanks for your biblically balanced approach to the moral issues in our culture. You have maintained the correct balance with spiritual renewal first and political reform following. I have followed your ministry for some time. You are biblicly correct. God bless you. Keep up the great work.
As a Goldwater conservative RINO, I'm not much impressed with the radical anarchists' tea-party, the hateful rhetoric, nor much else that the Republicans seem to be offering these days. Guess with old age comes Liberalism? I'm also a fringe part of Conservative North Central Okanogan WA.
Personally, I hope Gary remains the face of the Republican party for years. Go Tea Party!
15 "Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will [a]know them by their fruits. [b]Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? 17 So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 So then, you will [c]know them by their fruits.
The GOP's fruit is the Medicare Donut Hole.


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Буду очень благодарен за совет как лучше всего группировать по дню - на данный момент это реализовано так:
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"Alison is a talented and respected business leader, and we are excited to welcome her to our Board," said Douglas T. Dietrich, Chief Executive Officer. "She brings a powerful combination of financial acumen, banking expertise, investor perspective and leadership skills built over a multi-decade career at leading financial institutions. The addition of Alison further broadens the expertise of our Board."
Ms. Deans is currently an independent consultant focusing on the investment advisory and diversified financial services businesses. From 2014-2015, she was Chief Investment Officer at CRT Capital Global, a diversified financial services business. Previously, Ms. Deans worked at Lehman Brothers/Neuberger Berman for six years where she held several senior roles, including Chief Investment Officer and Head of Equities and Private Asset Management. Under her leadership, Neuberger Berman's high net worth business grew through organic initiatives, lift-outs, acquisitions and asset inflows. Prior to Lehman Brothers, Ms. Deans served in senior positions at other financial institutions, including as Chief Financial Officer of Commercial Banking at BankOne and Director of Development at Citigroup. Ms. Deans began her career as a securities analyst covering the financial services industry where she was consistently top ranked in both the Institutional Investor and Wall Street Journal polls. She received a BSE in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Q: How can i hide a program from the tray? I dont't want to tray a program, i want to hide a program FROM the tray.
 I have a program running in the tray, and i want to hide that, also i have screenshot.
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A: Right-click on taskbar (in an "empty" space), select "Properties..." ->under "Notification area" section, click the "Customize..." button ->There you can select how the tray icons behave.
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TERRELL'S TUNEUP: GORDONDON'S GOLD
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
It's hardly a new phenomenon for musicians to go back and re-record their old songs for new albums. Mostly these are business ploys. A record company persuades an old pro to redo his songs and purposely make them sound as close to the original hits as possible. This way the company can market a "Greatest Hits" package without having to license the original recording from the old record company. Virgin Records did this with Roy Orbison in the 1980s.
Likewise, sometimes musicians who don't have the rights to their own early recordings will re-record and repackage those songs themselves. John Prine did this with Souvenirs, released on his own Oh Boy label in 2000.
But occasionally an aging artist will revisit his old songs as a purely artistic exercise. That seems to be the case with Recovery, the latest album by Loudon Wainwright III, which features songs from his first four albums, going back to the early 1970s.
Most of the 13 songs here were originally recorded with just Wainwright's piercing voice and his acoustic guitar. They've been rearranged for this album with the help of producer (and longtime Wainwright fan) Joe Henry, who brought in the same basic band he used for Wainwright's previous album, Strange Weirdos.
While this CD isn't just an exercise in nostalgia for baby boomers, the songs will bring back memories for old-time Wainwright fans. Listening to it last week, I immediately recalled the first time I heard Wainwright screeching "Me and My Friend the Cat" on KUNM late one night in 1972.
The song selection is nearly impeccable. If I were compiling a "Best of Loudon: The Early Years" retrospective, just about all of these songs would be there — though I would have included "Me and My Friend the Cat" and the terrifying "Hospital Lady."
Most of these tunes are like old friends to me — including the song "Old Friend," which is about a man realizing that he no longer has anything in common with a buddy but the past. Fortunately that's not the case with the songs here. Unlike some friendships, nearly all of the tunes have held up extremely well over the past four decades.
One of the most fascinating realizations in listening to these songs is how Wainwright, even though he was in his 20s when he wrote these songs, often wrote from the perspective of an old man looking back on his youth. "In Delaware when I was younger" are the first words on "School Days," the first track on his first album (Loudon Wainwright III, 1970) and one of the songs included here.
In "New Paint," a song about a man's awkwardness on a date with a woman, the singer sadly declares, "If I were 16 again, I'd give my eye tooth/I'm tired and I'm hungry and I'm lookin' for my youth."
And of course there's "Old Friend," where Wainwright sings, "The good old days are good and gone now/That's why they're good, because they're gone." When he first sang this, those "good old days" couldn't have been long gone, unless he was singing about some kid he hadn't seen since kindergarten
While the original versions of these songs were powerful, now — sung by a 60-plus Wainwright — they are infused not only with a tangible wistfulness but also with an earned wisdom. "New Paint" in particular takes on a new sadness. Nobody really believed Wainwright in 1973 when he sang, "Sometimes I feel ugly and old" and that he was a "used-up 20th-century boy." But now, aided by Greg Leisz's heartache steel and Patrick Warren's pensive piano, those lines are jolting.
"Motel Blues," a tune about luring a girl to his room ("Chronologically I know you're young/But when you kissed me in the club you bit my tongue"), takes on new implications. Singing it back in the '70s, Wainwright sounded desperate when he cried, "Come up to my motel room — save my life!" But now that line sounds literal, though Wainwright sings it as if he's resigned to the fact that the girl probably won't succumb to his pleas.
Perhaps the most powerful track on Recovery is "Saw Your Name in the Paper." This song was inspired by the death of Janis Jo though she's never mentioned by name. For years I've suspected that it might also have been partly directed at Wainwright's childhood friend Liza Minnelli. Maybe that's because of the line "Your mother must be happy — they said you stole the show."
But whether it's about Janis, Liza, or the next American Idol winner, the song is a meditation on the dark side of fame and the fickleness of the celeb-loving public.
"Maybe you'll get famous. Maybe you'll get rich/It's all right.
Don't be afraid. Lots of us got that itch/Lots of us, we need it. We need it really bad/Lots of us are desperate. Lots of us are sad."
And yes, as is the case with most of his tunes, the song turns out to be about Wainwright himself. It was written about the time he was being touted as a potential "new Dylan" (one of about 863 "new Dylans" of that era). Wainwright's only partially successful quest for fame has been a frequent topic in his songs. There was "AM World," "Two-Song Set," "The Grammy Song, "Harry's Wall" and of course, the title song of his 1983 album, "Fame and Wealth," just to name a few.
The one low point on the album is the last song. I won't call "The Man Who Couldn't Cry" a clunker, but this is the one early Wainwright song I wouldn't have included. I never understood its appeal, even when Johnny Cash covered it. It's the biggest production number on Recovery — with a string quartet — but this weird little parable doesn't hold a candle to the rest of the tunes.
But for the most part, Recovery reminds me why I first became a Wainwright cultist all those years ago and why he continues to be such a worthy artist.
Baby, it's a public radio world: You knew I couldn't resist doing a Loudon Wainwright III tribute on the radio. Tune in to Terrell's Sound World, 10 p.m. Sunday on KSFR-FM 101.1 for some old, new, and in-between Loudon. The Wainwright segment starts at the 11th hour. (And don't forget The Santa Fe Opry, 10 p.m. Friday, on KSFR.)
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TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST
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Bombay Sapphire Laverstoke Mill Distillery
BOMBAY SAPPHIRE LAVERSTOKE MILL
There's been a mill on the site in Laverstoke since 903 AD. Before it was producing award-winning Gin, the site was used as a water treatment facility, and before that, a paper factory. Bombay Sapphire production first began in 1761, when Thomas Dakin purchased a plot of land with the intention of using it to distil Gin.
The Dakin family bought a still a few decades later, and adapted it so the botanicals sat above the neutral base spirit, whereby the vapor would rise up and infuse with the botanicals, before cooling, condensing, and transforming into Gin.
The process, called vapor infusion, is still used to make Bombay Sapphire today. In the late 1800s, the Dakin family sold their distillery, and their recipe for vapor infused Gin, to G&J Greenalls – the second largest producer of spirits in the UK today.
It wasn't until 1985 that a new Gin was launched, based on the Bombay Original Gin recipe, as a lighter style Gin to rival the popular Vodka brands of the time. Bombay Sapphire Gin as we know it today was born.
What does Bombay Sapphire Laverstoke Mill taste like?
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Laverstoke Mill, London Road, Whitchurch RG28 7NR
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Bombay Sapphire is made using a carter-head still, through a process called vapor infusion. There are only a few of these types of still left in the world, and Bombay Sapphire has three of them.
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We're here at Laverstoke Mill Distillery, the home of Bombay Sapphire. This is our state of the art Gin Distillery, which opened its doors to the public in 2014 following a three year renovation. The Mill has been carefully renovated with sensitivity to the heritage of the sites, but with a focus on sustainability. Laverstoke Mill brings together artisanal craft and state of the art technology under one roof.
Bombay Sapphire is distilled using a secret recipe dating back to 1761 in a process called vapor infusion, which we still use today. The process starts with the sourcing and selection of our ten exotic botanicals from around the world. Ivano Tonutti, a master of botanicals plays a vital role building close personal relationships with our suppliers over many years. Ivano hand selects only the best quality ingredients from each supplier and without this rigorous quality control, Bombay Gins would not benefit from the delicate and refined flavors extracted from each botanical to create perfect balance in the Spirit. Bombay Sapphire is the only London Dry Gin to use 100% vapor infusion in its distillation, and here is how the process works. The still is charged with a blend of water and neutral grain Spirit. As the Spirit is heated, it turns to vapour and passes up through the column. Our columns control the flow of vapour at the right temperature to give the perfect flavour profile of Bombay Sapphire. Each of the precious botanicals are carefully placed in to perforated copper baskets. The precise quantity of each of botanical is a secret only known to the master of botanicals and the master distiller.
Unlike other Gin distillations, the botanicals are not boiled directly in the Spirit, instead, the Spirit vapor passes through the copper basket infusing the botanicals to extract and capture the aromatic flavor and aromas. The vapor then moves to condensing column where cold water running through the pipes gently cools the vapor, returning it to liquid.
This is the Spirit stage where we can continuously nose and taste the display throughout the entire batch to ensure that the quality is always perfect. The vapor infusion and single thought processes are expensive and time-consuming. And although there are quicker, easier and cheaper ways to produce a London Dry Gin, we prefer to use the traditional methods championed by the Dakin family. The process allows more the bright, fresh and uplifting botanical flows and aromas to be captured in the Spirit giving us a perfectly balanced and tantalizing spectrum of flavor.
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Recently we paid a small visit to the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre. Not for the Body Worlds exhibition though because sleeping late was by far more important than seeing something so incredibly awesome (hangs my head in shame).
This was just a "out of curiosity" visit. Ok to be honest, I am actually still 5 years old, so dip me in feathers and call me chicken I need to go do stuff like this. Cough.
If nothing else, the coffee surely hit the spot thanks to the Sci-Bono "barista".
Such pretty coffee – made me happy and it was goooood!
I don't know what I expected really. We visited (if I remember correctly) the Science Museum in Pretoria on a school trip when we were kids. And I remember big balls, buttons being pushed, things going into holes and erm, thinking back perhaps our teacher took us on a completely different road trip.
It didn't turn out exactly as I thought but it was still a good walkabout. In my mind it all played out much more excitingly, and it's not because I'm an adult now because I will play the hell out of anything for kids. And even as a kid I had the personality of a turtle so I didn't get excited that easily.
I think the display I enjoyed the most was the dinosaurs that came to life after pressing a button (I might have a small obsession). Roaring and shaking what their plastic maker gave them. Pity these are hidden from the rest of the displays. And I am pretty sure I annoyed the daylights out of the security guard who had to listen to three dinosaurs roaring for at least five minutes after I left.
Oh well, it was still pretty informative and I did enjoy a few displays like the music section (or sounds section). "Let's call it the beating the hell out of those bottles section." If you have kids, take them here because all the kids really seemed to enjoy it and it is learning while having fun – take their friends because there are plenty of group games and activities.
If you have a girlfriend who thinks she is a kid, rather take her to one of the markets down the road.


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Deep Diving crankbaits are big and heavy and have 3 to 5 inch bill lengths. Choose a fluorocarbon 12 to 15 lb. weight line in that it sinks and cuts through water. Throw the bait far and drop your rod tip and keep it down improving the angle of the retrieve. Select rattle baits and quiet ones. Sometimes a school may scatter and spook to a loud bait. I like fishing a silent runner and cover water to find the school suspending over structure, then switch over to a rattle if not producing.
Just like fishing shallow, the same rules apply going deep. Try to tick the bottom and if you can and bounce off the deep structure with a slow the retrieve. Many fish are not in a hurry, so slow it down. Select a parabolic bend heavy casting rod that can handle the pressure but still allow you to cast the crankbait far. A real low gear ratio reel 5:1 can really pay dividends here. If you don't have one, really focus on slowing down the retrieve of the reel you are using and mind your hook set. Use the reel to hook set by reeling fast with a firm but steady raise of the rod when the strike occurs. It is real easy to throw a hook on a large bucket mouth when he shakes his head and there is a tendency to jerk the bait out of the mouth when the strike does happen with a hard hook set.
Remember too that most fisherman don't take cranks deep and when you do happen upon a school, there is a large likelihood none of these fish have ever seen a crankbait. Deep Diving Crankbaits can be wicked and deadly effective when fishing dead summer or early fall when fish tend to be suspending deep.


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Start Button in Windows 8 to Return, But Without the Start Menu
By Laura Tucker / Apr 23, 2013 Updated Aug 18, 2015 / Windows
Every time an app or operating system receives improvements, there is always something left in the dust. Sure, the improvements are great, but to allow room for them, the developers have to drop something else. Windows is no different. The Start Button in Windows 8 was eliminated, as well as the Start Menu. Windows 8.1 is promising to bring back the Start Button, but without the Start Menu.
Users weren't very happy about Microsoft dropping the Start Button in Windows 8, and just the fear of losing it was the basis for an entire article. Even more so than losing the Start Button was losing the Start Menu. This led to even more articles being written on how to simulate having it back.
This backlash is apparently causing Microsoft to rethink a few things. The first major update to the most recent version of the OS, 8.1, will bring back the Start button. It will lead to access to the Start Screen and is said to look much like the Windows flag in the Charm bar. It's not the only change. A plan is also in place to add an option to boot directly to the desktop environment.
That's all well and good, but what about the Start Menu? Microsoft has no plan to bring that back, at least not with 8.1. Getting the Start Button back without the Start Menu is almost like they're teasing users. Is the Start Button even worth having without the Start Menu?
Fret not, though. There are still plenty of options out there to get the Start Menu back, whether or not Microsoft ever plans to do anything about it. Power8 not only gives you the Start Menu back, it allows you to tweak it to your liking. In addition to Power8, there are plenty of other options that will allow you access to a simulated StartMenu.
There's no announced date yet for the release of Windows 8.1, but expect it later this year. Remember that the Start Button coming back is as the result of customer feedback. Users can make a difference. So how about it? Will you keep complaining until you get the Start Menu back, or will having just the Start Button in Windows 8 make a return be enough? Speak up in the comments section below.
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Arboreal Tropical Forest Vertebrates: Current Knowledge and Research Trends
Title Arboreal Tropical Forest Vertebrates: Current Knowledge and Research Trends
Authors Kays, RW, Allison, A
Journal Plant Ecology
Keywords Amphibians, Birds, Canopy, mammals, Primates, Reptiles
We review the ecology and specialized methods required for studying arboreal mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, and use faunal checklists from 12 tropical wet forest sites and an analysis of all articles published during the past ten years in 14 major journals to assess current knowledge and general research trends for these groups. The percentage of arboreal vertebrates was remarkably similar at the different sites (76.2 ± 3.9%). Birds were the most arboreal group and amphibians and reptiles the least. The review of journals showed that primates were overwhelmingly the most studied group (336 papers), followed by bats (105), passeriform birds (73) and rodents (55). Judging by their portion of the arboreal vertebrate community and the number of papers surveyed, birds and amphibians and reptiles are vastly understudied compared to mammals, but this is largely due to the great number of primate studies. The number of publications on arboreal vertebrates has remained relatively stable over the last 10 years for all taxa except primates, which have seen a growth in publications. Canopy vertebrates from Brazil had by far the most publications (120), followed by Madagascar (61), Costa Rica (55) and Indonesia (42). We conclude by highlighting the priorities we see for future studies on tropical canopy vertebrates.
URL http://www.jstor.org/stable/20051050
DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-3606-0_9


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Mill Woods redevelopment to include first European-style bus terminal
The Mill Woods Town Centre redevelopment plan includes the mall and covers 25 hectares of land, which is larger than the similar Century Park site.
Elise Stolte
A rendering from RioCan's The Well project in downtown Toronto. The developer is proposing a similar green park as it redevelops its Mill Woods site.	Supplied, RioCan
Edmonton could see its first European-style bus terminal with a planned redevelopment of the Mill Woods Town Centre.
Think of sipping a cappuccino on a sunny patio as your bus arrives, or picking up a roasted chicken for dinner just steps away from your transfer.
Most Edmonton transit centres use small pedestrian islands surrounded by wide bus lanes and parking lots in a landscape dominated by concrete. But here, tight space requirements and a developer hungry to take advantage of the new LRT line will give Mill Woods a more pedestrian-friendly design, planner Armin Preiksaitis, who is working on an area redesign for the developer RioCan, said Wednesday.
"(Edmonton Transit) was looking at this pork chop design that was eating up a lot of the land … We were battling for a long time because we were looking at the development potential for this," said Preiksaitis of the firm ParioPlan, describing an agreed-on new linear transit station fully integrated into a retail district and a pair of new high-rise towers.
Transit riders wait on a long, wide covered sidewalk between the shops and the buses.
The new plan
City officials are planning to move the existing transit station north when the LRT arrives, locating it about 100 metres from the LRT station on 28 Avenue. That leaves enough space for RioCan to build two 18-storey towers on either side of the pedestrian walkway, surrounded on the ground floor with shops and cafes to take advantage of the foot traffic.
That should make the transit centres feel safer and more comfortable, Preiksaitis said.
A location map for the proposed RioCan development in Mill Woods, Edmonton. Supplied, RioCan
The rest of the redevelopment will be a mix of low and medium-rise apartments, adding 1,750 units to the area, plus offices and stores, he said. They would create new public streets through existing parking lots, with new bike lanes and wide sidewalks.
In the southeast area, they're planning a green pedestrian street, wide enough to accommodate a basketball court. That would be open to the public but owned by the development company so it can program the park and use it to attract tenants and shoppers to the town centre.
Redevelopment will likely happen over 25 years, said Preiksaitis. The mall itself has long-term leases and will remain as is for at least 10 years, but the towers near the LRT station could be built soon.
An open house organized by the city and developer is scheduled for Thursday evening at the Mill Woods Seniors and Multicultural Centre, at 2610 Hewes Way, from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Coun. Mike Nickel has been pushing for a park-and-ride in the area, worried the local neighbourhoods are already seeing "parasitic parking" with the existing bus centre and Grey Nuns Hospital.
But Preiksaitis said RioCan isn't interested in building parking — most of its existing parking is spoken for by tenants.
Michelle Ouellette, the city's senior planner on the file, said there are other privately owned sites in the area that could be used for LRT parking, but the city is still developing its park-and-ride policy. The existing transit centre 200 metres from the LRT could be available, but nothing's been decided.
As for the rezoning application, which goes to public hearing sometime after the open house, it aligns with all the city-approved local redevelopment plans and guidelines, she said. The zoning will also include an option for the city to purchase five per cent of the units for an affordable housing project at 85 per cent of the cost, she said.
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Metamachy is a game information page. It is categorized as: Orthodox chess, .
Metamachy. Large game with a variety of regular fairy pieces.
Author: H. G. Muller. Inventor: Jean-Louis Cazaux.
The board used for this game has 12 row(s), 12 column(s), 64 cells/squares.
Browse items that also start with the letter M.
Browse items that also start with the letters Me.
Browse items that also start with the letters Met.
Group ID 'metamachy'
Daniel Zacharias wrote on 2020-12-29 UTCExcellent ★★★★★
Metamachy is fun. The historical pieces are all interesting to play with, and the fast pawns keep the game from slowing down too much.
H. G. Muller wrote on 2020-05-01 UTC
The key word here is 'common'. If a variant uses a concept that is unique to it, nothing is gained by moving its description off-page.
Anyway, I'd like to avoid language that use words of contested meaning that are a source of universal confusion. The current phrasing doesn't use any such terms at all, so there is no need to refer to anything for an explanation. Unless the new rule is that we can also no longer say things like "moves dagonally" or "moves like in orthodox Chess", but have to refer to the glossary item for Bishop for that.
Fergus Duniho wrote on 2020-05-01 UTC
I think it is a very bad idea anyway to refer to a glossary where the reader has to browse through several items with long and complicated definitions to learn something that could have been said in half a sentence.
For the sake of sharing a common vocabulary and avoiding disputes over the meanings of words on pages for individual games, we're going with the glossary. You are welcome to participate in the project of updating the glossary.
capture zone - n. For a given piece, those squares on which it has the ability to legally capture a piece should the opportunity arise. This may include squares with nothing on them that it may presently capture. What matters is that if an enemy piece did move to a square, the piece could capture it. See threatened.
This is still no good. If the piece was pinned, he could still not legally capture an enemy piece that moved to that square. Unless you consider 'opportunity arises' to also mean "when it doesn't happen to be pinned, and when the that player is not in check". But then it could mean anything, e.g. why not "if there had been no pieces in its path blocking it", or "if it had been on a more suitable square". Involving vague, undefined concepts like 'opportunity' just makes things worse.
The FIDE rules do define 'under attack' as follows:
A piece is said to attack an opponent's piece if the piece could make a capture on that square according to Articles 3.2 to 3.8.
3.1.3 A piece is considered to attack a square even if this piece is constrained from moving to that square because it would then leave or place the king of its own colour under attack.
It seems the definitions in the glossary have removed the reference to articles 3.2 to 3.8 (which we have to generalize here) and replaced it by the the term 'legally'. This is where the trouble starts, because 'legal move' in the FIDE rules already has a specific meaning (involving check), while what the FIDE rule meant to say here was "would conform to the rules of motion for the individual pieces" (ignoring check, which is only mentioned in 3.9). And we appear to be missing the all-important qualification 3.1.3 in the definition of 'under attack'.
I am not familiar with the term 'capture zone', but it seems you want it to mean "the set of squares that the rules for moving the piece (given the board population elsewhere, but ignoring any check rule) would allow it to capture an enemy on.
Note that the concept 'attack' in the FIDE rules only serves the purpose of formulating the check and castling rule, for which purpose captures that expose their own King are also valid attacks. It is never used in connection with non-royal pieces. This definition of 'attacked' therefore can deviate from the colloquial meaning as used by chess players, who will say things like "my Queen is under attack by a Pawn". It is IMO questionable if they would say that when the Pawn was pinned. But apart from what I think, far more serious is that the FIDE concept of 'attacked' is at odds with the definition in Xiangqi. There the rules do apply the concept 'attacked' to non-royals, in connection with the definition of perpetual chasing. And in this context attack on (or protection of) a non-royal always means "by a fully legal capture (recapture)". 'Attacks' by pinned pieces are not recognized as attacks. (Attacks on the King by pinned pieces are recognized as checks, though.)
Since we run a website for chess variants, I think it would be ill advised adopting a terminology that was exclusively defined in the narrow context of the 'FIDE rules of Chess', but would fail to be useful in other chess variants, amongst which the world's most played variant. FIDE rules should obviously not be binding for us, or the whole concept of a chess variant would be outlawed.
So I think the definition "has a legal capture move to the square when it would have been occupied by an enemy" would be the best definition for 'attacked', with the note that when applied to a royal, every capture would be legal. (Note that the FIDE rules also explicitly point this out when they use the word 'attacked' in 3.9.1 for describing when castling is allowed, while in fact this is redundant, as 3.1.3 already defined 'attacked' in that way!)
It can seem awkward that 'attacked' means something else for a royal then for a non-royal, and that a King would be 'under attack' on the same square where another piece would not be under attack. But in chess variants we have to deal with that problem anyway, as there might be divergent pieces that capture royals in other ways than non-royals. Again Xiangqi comes to mind, where the king attacks the opponent king through a Rook move, but not other pieces. And of course the Ultima Chameleon. It would solve a lot of problems if we distinguished 'attacks a square' (non-royal) from 'checks a square' (royal).
Note that these complications are a result of applying the concept in anticipation of a move, rather than to an actual position. In the latter case it would be obvious whether a legal capture to a given square is possible or not. But for judging legality of castling, it requires several fictions: that it is the opponent's turn, and that you have moved your King to the square in question. Without those fictions, f1 would not be under attack by a Pawn on e2, as 3.7.3 (to which the definition of 'attacked' refers) clearly states that Pawns can only make diagonal moves to squares occupied by an opponent. As we all agree that white castling is not allowed with a black Pawn on e2, we apparently agree that the rule must not be applied to the position before castling, where the Pawn had no move to f1. The FIDE rules do not specify whether the intended fiction (for the "square the King must cross") is that we should imagine (1) the King having moved there, (2) a second royal piece having been placed on that square, (3) a new non-royal piece having been placed on that square. Because in FIDE this doesn't matter. But in other variants it could. E.g. when there is a non-jumping Dababba on d1, it could not capture to f1 after (2) or (3), but it could after (1). I think the natural generalization would be (1): you cannot castle to g1 when you cannot legally move your King to f1.
That brings me to another issue in Metamachy: what if there is a black Cannon on f1, a virgin King on g1 and h1 is empty. Can the King now move to i1? In interpretation (1) it could, as keeping in the direct line of sight of a Cannon never exposes you to capture.
Anyway, while awaiting for you to make a final decision of how or whether to fix the glossary to make it conform to the Metamachy rules, I repaired the damage you had done to the Metamachy article. I think it is a very bad idea anyway to refer to a glossary where the reader has to browse through several items with long and complicated definitions to learn something that could have been said in half a sentence.
Regarding this particular edit, the rule has been made less clear. I interpreted the glossary entry the same way H. G. did, so there is room for improvement.
I never meant that change to be the end of the matter, but I had to think a bit on how to revise the definition for capture zone. I have now revised it to use subjunctives and to explicitly distinguish between ability and opportunity.
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Group Hopes For Memorial
Nolan Stout | Daily News-Record
HARRISONBURG — A West Virginia organization hopes to erect a memorial in the Shenandoah Valley honoring those who have lost a family member to war.
A small group gathered at James Madison University's Memorial Hall on Monday to start planning a monument to Gold Star families in the area.
The effort is being led by Jerry Dumont of Broadway, an honorary board member of the Hershel "Woody" Williams Medal of Honor Foundation.
Since 2010, the Huntington, W.Va.-based nonprofit has been installing monuments for Gold Star families and the soldiers killed. The designation is for families who receive a Gold Star pin from the U.S. Department of Defense to commemorate their loss and their loved one's sacrifice.
The foundation's namesake won the Medal of Honor for his role in the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II.
The foundation has helped construct 35 monuments, with 42 others planned in 36 states. The only completed monument in Virginia is in Norfolk, and another is planned for Bedford.
On Monday, the local group discussed locations and fundraising for the project, which is estimated at $73,000. The initial fundraising goal, Dumont said, would be $13,500 for a down payment on the monument.
The monuments are typically 4 to 6 feet tall and have a cutout of a saluting soldier. Dumont said the names of local soldiers killed in action are usually listed on a plaque to the side of the monument.
Dumont's first idea for a location was undeveloped land next to the Harrisonburg Farmers Market, but Councilman George Hirschmann said the property is expected to become a park by 2020.
Hirschmann said the group could work with Build Our Park, a private-public partnership that includes the city and Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance, to include the monument in the 1.2-acre, $2.5 million park near City Hall.
The group decided to brainstorm other options and settled on the Rockingham County Fairgrounds.
"It would not be a bad second choice," Hirschmann said. "It wouldn't cater so much to the city as opposed to the Valley."
Greg Lawson, logistics officer for the JMU Department of Military Science, said it could be easier to coordinate with the fairgrounds than city government.
"I would think there'd be less bureaucracy involved," he said.
Lawson said the site also has more visibility than downtown Harrisonburg, better access and ample parking.
Dumont hopes to have a groundbreaking ceremony in October and a dedication by the spring. The next step is reaching out to the fairgrounds and local organizations to partner for donations.
Chad Graham, president and CEO of the foundation, spoke to the group via telephone and said the monuments allow the sacrifice by Gold Star families to be "perpetually" remembered. It also gives a place for the family and community to celebrate fallen soldiers.
"It is never easy to know what to say to a Gold Star family," he said. "What the monument has done and hopefully what our work has helped with is it provides a way for our folks to connect with these families."
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The Methamphetamine Precursor Control Act (MPCA, ) is an Illinois state law that was signed into law on November 16, 2005, and took effect on January 15, 2006.  The MPCA is an act used to create significant barriers such as the requirement to present ID to purchase cold medication that contains pseudoephedrine (Sudafed, Tylenol Cold and Claritin D) which could be used to produce methamphetamine. This is one of many state laws regulating the supply of pseudoephedrine that preceded the federal Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005.

The Act was introduced in the 94th Illinois General Assembly by senator James A. DeLeo as Senate Bill 273, on February 3, 2005.

Methamphetamine Precursor Control Act - Amended
In 2008, the Illinois state legislature amended the MPCA creating a regional authority to establish a pilot program that targets individuals who are circumventing the law. As a result, the Southern Illinois counties of Williamson, Jackson, Union, Saline, Franklin, and Johnson, comprise the Illinois Meth Precursor Control Pilot Authority (IMPCPA).

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Обыкновенное чудо:
 «Обыкновенное чудо» — пьеса Евгения Львовича Шварца.
 «Обыкновенное чудо» — экранизация пьесы, СССР, 1964 год, режиссёр Эраст Гарин.
 «Обыкновенное чудо» — экранизация пьесы, СССР, 1978 год, режиссёр Марк Захаров.
 «Обыкновенное чудо» — мюзикл по пьесе.


"I classify [an] art team as everyone working on Duke Nukem Forever. I try to exchange ideas and opinions with everyone, not just the art team."
Methods of team communication are possibly the most highly varied aspect covered by my survey. Some of the artists polled spend most of their time by themselves, others are in constant contact with the entire development team, and still others work predominantly with one or two members. Some work from home often, others not at all. It's interesting in that all of these artists have the same basic job description, yet their methods of getting the job done can differ severely.
Mike Miller, concept artist for Ion Storm, feels that working from home is very productive, and wishes he had the chance to do it more often. Other artists in the field tend to feel that working at home is more "different" than "better". Mike Hadwin of Ritual thinks that working at home allows him to focus a bit more on creativity, and a bit less on deadlines. However, this also sometimes leads to the development of new techniques, which is often a time consuming process. Personally, I've found that working at an office helps me stay on top of things, keep track of the project, and not get sidetracked.
Often it's not possible for this to happen (as a contract worker, much of the art I do is done at home, and then sent via the net to the people I'm doing work for) so I've managed to develop some methods which help me stay focused. One of these methods is constant contact with other members of the team. This is agreed upon by most of the artists I interviewed, though some don't spend all that much time working directly with their teammates. Kevin Kilstrom, the sole artist working on world-textures for Monolith's Blood 2, works primarily with the level designers, far more than with the other members of the art team. Rich Fleider (Rogue), on the other hand, spends much of his time working with the other members of his art team (especially on the character/monster models), as well as the Rogue level designers. Jeff Wand, works "for several minutes to a half hour a day [with other members of the art team]. Just enough to have an idea of what others are working on and to compare notes."
"The method of creation depends on what kind of look I'm striving for. If I'm going for a comic book feel, I'll go it alone and hand generate the texture using reference only as a visual aid. If I'm going for a photo realistic look, I'll use anything, and I mean anything. I usually have to sanitize the scanner after I'm done..."
So how do they go about creating their textures? We now know a bit more about the tools and communication methods that 2D artists in the gaming industry use, but how about their techniques? Well, for starters, 100% of the artists I surveyed have a background in non-digital, freehand art. That is, they can all pick up a pencil and draw something more basic than a square...and most can also pick up charcoal, paint, clay, and an airbrush and wield them all relatively effectively. I as well, have a background in freehand work. It's worth noting that every company I've worked for, or even contacted about work, has looked to make sure that I did indeed have freehand work on display in my portfolio.
Out of the artists surveyed, 66% had a bachelor's degree in art (of one kind or another), and the other 33% had taken at least some college level art classes. This is a far greater percentage than you typically see in other industry jobs, such as programming or level designing. My personal theory on why this is: I think both level designing and, to a slightly lesser degree, coding are both professions that some people are "just good at", without a lot of professional training. While there are many artists out there who have a lot of raw talent, it's very difficult to refine that talent without professional instruction. This doesn't necessarily make it any "better" or "worse" of a talent than the other two, just one that's often realized differently.
What type of training is good training? Any, really. Most computer artists will tell you that they have a wide background in traditional art types. I personally have experience with charcoal, pastel, acrylic paints, oil paints, collage, mixed media, pencil, ink, pottery, sculpting, layout concepts, and a bit of screen printing. My actual computer art knowledge, however, is almost entirely self-taught. It's definitely a benefit to be diverse, however. Monolith's Kevin Kilstrom has a background in "drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, screen printing, etc." Knowing the basics is important, too. A good background in figure drawing will help any art professional, simply via the discipline and understanding of shape that it imparts. Similarly, work in collage and mixed media often helps today's texture artists understand better how to make their 2D images more closely resemble the texture they're mimicking.
Choice in school varies wildly between artists, and it appears that there's no specific school good for teaching "game industry art". Several cutting edge art schools are offering "interactive multimedia" and "computer graphics" courses, however, so it's only a matter of time before we start seeing classes like "Textures 101: Building the basic wood" or somesuch. I'm familiar with several New York City area Art Schools. Pratt, School of Visual Arts, and Parsons all offer various types of computer-oriented art majors, with SVA having perhaps the strongest department. Pratt's strength lies in its foundation years, where it forces incoming students to learn not just their particular art preference, but to spend time working in a wide variety of mediums and styles. Parsons, too, offers a wide variety of majors, many of which involve the student in several types of art. The art departments at many "normal" colleges are often excellent, as well, many rivaling the quality of any dedicated art school.
As for individual classes, diversity is the key. Most of the artists I surveyed, however, mentioned basic figure drawing, painting, illustration, sculpture, and screen printing as being a part of their education. Drawing from life is also stressed. It never hurts to go outside, sit down with some charcoal or pastels, and draw the side of a building, or the leaves of a tree. Many "general drawing" courses offer this type of work, and I would definitely recommend that anyone interested in the 2D side of the gaming industry take at least one or two of them. It's much easier to texture if you already have some familiarity of how a texture "applies itself" to an object, and there's no better way to do this than going out and looking for yourself.
Texturing is, of course, one of the main jobs of the 2D artist. In the past, "texturing" meant taking a small palette of colors, and trying to make something vaguely recognizable out of them. It meant two-tone trees and bushes, three-color faces, or even in some lucky cases, 256 *gasp* colors to use on one sprite. In fact, it wasn't really even called texturing, just tiling or "drawing". The concept of texturing as it's seen now, didn't really come along to the PC gaming scene until the weirdos at id (and a couple of other places) got this crazy idea into their heads that maybe building games out of polygons might be a cool idea.
Photo realism is the name of the game these days, making your polygons look as realistic as is currently possible. There are many different ways that people create their textures, due to the huge variety of texture types and styles that need to be made. Many artists have taken to using scanned, photographed, or otherwise pre-made textures as a base for their work. They also spend a lot of time just looking at reference material in order to get an idea of the look they're shooting for. Says Kevin Kilstrom: "I prefer to work from reference materials. It's a lot faster and looks better." He's not alone in this opinion. Mike Hadwin agrees, "If a detailed texture needs to look exactly like the structure of an offshore oilrig, then nothing beats true to life reference materials."
Most 2D artists these days appear to adapt their methods based on what they need. Jeff Wand says that, for him, it always comes down to the same thing in the end: "By the end of the texture creation process, I'm always down to working on a pixel-by-pixel basis." Rich Flieder agrees, citing Dpaint as still his most-used tool. Kevin Kilstrom on the other hand states, "I almost never work pixel by pixel anymore. I did on Blood but that was a different engine." Mike Miller finds a mixture. "In the smaller details, I have to go pixel by pixel. Lower res stuff kind of deems it necessary. Other than that, I let the tools do the work," He writes.
Artists more and more are beginning to work with a scanned image as a base. Both Jeff Wand and Ruben Cabrera state this as a common method of working. Says Cabrera, "I start with a photographic base and work on top of that, but sometimes it's impossible or not realistic to go and take a picture of something, so there are techniques that I use that create realistic effects like broken glass, dirty materials, etc.". I have done some work with scanned images as well, and have found that sometimes it's extremely useful. I needed to make an oriental rug texture awhile ago, and the time I saved by tweaking a scanned image was significant. In the end however, a scanned image almost always needs a decent amount of hands-on reworking. Seamlessly tiling the image, changing the shading, perhaps adding some depth, and many more small tweaks are often necessary. With the advent of 16-bit and higher color palettes, however, 2D artists are finding that scanned images are an excellent way to help avoid the "cartoony" feel that totally hand-pixeled images often have.


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Q: Code/Resize massive image in Base64 using ionic or angular9 (NOT using Javascript) I am getting an massive image in ionic,so I need to code or resize it. I am quite lost... is it possible? My code so far is:
base64 = 'data:image/jpeg;base64, ';
defaultAvatar = './assets/img/resources/img-avatar.png';

if (this.staffService.getStaff() === null) {
      this.staffService.staffInfo().subscribe(data => {
        this.staffData = this.staffService.mapStaffData(data);
        this.avatar_imagen = this.staffData.image ?
          this.domSanitizer.bypassSecurityTrustResourceUrl(
            this.base64 + this.staffData.image
          )
          : this.defaultAvatar;
      });
    } else {
      this.staffData = this.staffService.getStaff();
      this.avatar_imagen = this.staffData.image ?
        this.domSanitizer.bypassSecurityTrustResourceUrl(
          this.base64 + this.staffData.image
        )
        : this.defaultAvatar;
    }

Used languages must to be Ionic or Angular. (NOT using Javascript)
Thanks you all.

A: Try to use use ng2-img-cropper to resize the image before uploading. In addition, you can customize dimension.
You can install the package named as ng2-img-cropper:
npm install ng2-img-cropper --save

You can read more about ng2-img-cropper here
If you want to avoid additional packages, then
you can use this TypeScript version of image resizing.
Moreover,  there is a little bit simplier example. However, you also need to create somewhere canvas and you can use ViewChild to work with it.


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The sun has finally started to shine and let us outside again. We were looking for a new local place to check out. We happened to stumble upon Pequisit Farm to spend an afternoon. Pequisit is a large farm/park, 33 acres to be exact, right in the heart of Canton. The property has acre after acre of wide open lawn to run, some shaded walking trails, and sports fields galore. There is also a nice playground, picnic area complete with fireplace, and community garden plots.
On the same property sits an old colonial era house that can be rented out for functions, as well as an old colorful eclectic barn. This barn/park is a favorite for professional photographers. I also hear this is a favorite place for weddings! I can see why.
It was very quiet while we were there; one other boy on the playground, a woman walking her dog and an older couple gardening. Very peaceful and beautiful place.


Do you know about the Canadian OwlKids Books and the OwlKids Magazines— Chirp, Chickadee, and Owl? Today I want to give you a sampling of some of their newest books.
Jack's Uncle Doug gives Jack a Think-a-Ma-Jink for his birthday – a wonderful way to make all his ideas become real – like cotton-candy-breathing dragons. But the Think-a-Ma-Jink gets destroyed, and Jack learns that he can has the power in his own imagination to bring his ideas to life. JJ loves this story!
Each animal has a two page spread– 1 page for the animal and 1 page for animal's sound, home, and what it eats. We read this book and looked up the sounds to hear them for ourselves. Whale sounds, penguin sounds, it was so fun!
How does the library get all its books?
How does batter turn into cake?
How does the steering wheel turn the car?
This book asks and answers some fascinating kid questions.
I think this is such a great introduction to the realities around the world.
We are huge fans of the Max Finder graphic novel mystery series. My first grader loves them and we sometimes even figure out the mystery! But not every time!
Wow, Thanks for making OwlKids Books Review. These books are perfect for my kids. They will surely love these books. I will buy some of these books for my kids.


Nowadays we are constantly being overwhelmed with information about Artificial Intelligence, and even though we all know about its existence and have an idea of what it can do, it's still very unclear to most people how to integrate it to their already existing solutions and daily tasks in order to get the most out of it. So if you are interested in investing on this technology for media management, keep reading to discover the key steps you need to follow to implement it in a successful way.
First of all, it is important to highlight how the generation of audiovisual content has grown exponentially in recent years. Users demand more and more content and the improvement of communication networks has made the massive consumption of this multimedia content anytime and anywhere, possible.
But the growth that is taking place makes it increasingly difficult to find the information you want. For example, in Broadcast and Media companies, archivists are finding it difficult to catalog and organize the metadata from all the audiovisual content created. In fact, not only media companies are facing this issue, currently companies such as universities, administrations, private corporations and others, are generating an increasing amount of audiovisual content and are starting to need tools to manage and catalogue it. Therefore, from VSN, we think that in order to implement this technology in the best and most efficient way, it is key that companies start first by asking themselves the following questions.
1 – First, we must have a clear objective: Why do I want to implement AI services in my company? What workflows, tasks or processes can be automated and improved with this technology? Always, of course, relying on calculations and realistic analysis.
2 – Next, we need to ask ourselves what type of content do I want to apply these AI services to? When implementing these tools, we must consider the fact that they are not equally efficient in all types of content (a plenary session in a congress is not the same as a football match) in order to assess its limitations without affecting the quality of the results.
3 – In order to achieve these objectives and analyze the content that I am considering, what are the technologies that could be most useful to me? Nowadays, we have at our disposal the most varied technologies for image, text and audio recognition, and of course, they all have different applications depending on our interests, so it is crucial to pick the ones that adapt best to our needs in order to not waste any time or resources.
4 – Another very important consideration: what business model and deployment of artificial intelligence will be more convenient for me? Here we should assess, on the one hand, if we want to have an AI engine of a private or public type and, on the other hand, if we would like to have it hosted on premise or in the cloud. Factors such as ownership, accuracy and safety of results are key in order to make a decision about what combination of AI system is more convenient for me in particular.
5 – And lastly, a question that we consider key when making a correct analysis is whether our MAM system is ready to integrate these technologies or not. Is my content management system ready to integrate these technologies? What workflows should I be allowed to perform? In the end, we need to understand that this technology is as valuable as the sets of images and metadata that the AI engine analyzes, on the one hand, and as the use and management that we do of all this information through the MAM, on the other hand. That is to say, it is useless to have a service that provides us with an infinity of information about our media files, if then we are not able to select the one that we really need and analyze it correctly thanks to our MAM. Therefore, getting the investment in AI to be useful and profitable requires having a MAM capable of linking and understanding all the "uncontrolled" information offered by the AI engines, filtering and exposing it in a logical and coherent way and being able to integrate several AI engines AI at the same time and adapt to various data models.
Only by analyzing all these questions and answering to each one of them, we will be ready to better consider whether if it is worth investing in AI or not, as well as to learn how to make the most of these tools in our daily operations. In the end, it is very important to have a realistic vision of where this technology can be useful and where it can be a waste of our time and resources.
Those interested in obtaining more detailed information about this technology or learn more about VSN's products and solutions that already have it integrated, can take a look at the VSNWebinar 'What's new & real for AI in Media Management?" available on demand or even visit VSN's booth (SL7606) at NAB Show in Las Vegas and book a product demo in advance via the VSN website.


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Question: If I get spray tanned once, will this help me tan better in the sun? Darker skin gets tanner quicker.
Answer: Absolutely not. Spray tan is just a cosmetic, and although your skin looks darker when you have it on, it has not produced ANY melanin that would protect your skin from sunburn or made it tan faster.
When you have spray tan on your skin still behaves as if it was lily white, so make sure you wear sunscreen and don't spend a lot of time in the sun or you will get burned, will peel and will look really ugly.
The good news is - since you are already brown you can take it easy with sun tanning and do it gradually. By the time the spray tan will wear off you will have a great natural tan and you will not even know when one starts and the other finishes.