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Ronnie Fauss - Tia Maria (lyrics and chords)
Here's another song that I've been wanting to get the lyrics and chords for, for quite a long time, but it is also ungoogleable. So I've been a little busy today.
This song is by Ronnie Fauss and was on his EP Mulligan. I got it when it was a free promotional download from his website and have since bought two more of his (full length) albums. It is no longer available free (not legally, anyway), but it is available on CD from Amazon.
Unfortunately, there's no version of this on YouTube, so I don't have a video link. Since it's still a fairly new song that is still available commercially, I'm not going to upload it myself.
The chord progressions simply repeat themselves throughout the song, alternating between four-verse and five-verse stanzas. P.S. The five-verse stanzas are limericks!
Note that in the line "Tia Maria, she got a great idea..." the word "idea" is sung with three syllables, like "eye-dee-ah" so it fits the meter of the line.
G C G
Tia Maria, she makes the best sopapillas
She sings in a Tejano band
Tio Leo, he's got a job down in Rio
G D G
And he visits whenever he can
Maria she lies in bed night after night
C G D
Wishing that Leo was holding her tight
And she cries for her mate
G Em
But alas she just waits
C D G
'Til she's wakened by the cruel morning light
Tia Maria, she's got a daughter named Leah
Who don't know why her daddy's not home
Tio Leo, he bought Leah a Geo
His love comes in silver and chrome
Leah, she drives that thing all over town
With the music turned up and the windows rolled down
And she screams at the sky
And she goes and gets high
And she drinks 'til her sorrows are drowned
Tia Maria, she likes quesadillas
She eats them a pound at a time
Tio Leo, he's got a girlfriend named Cleo
Who's just about to enter her prime
Leo makes love like he's eighteen years old
While Maria feels as used as the laundry she folds
And she watches her soaps
And she smokes Leo's dope
'Cause she don't got nobody to hold
Tia Maria, she got a great idea
And hopped on that Rio-bound plane
Tio Leo put on a record by Dio
And crawled in the bed where his mistress lay
Maria walked in and she saw them in bed
That teenage Lolita and the man that she wed
So she grabbed Leo's gun
And she told him that he'd won
And she shot herself right through the head
Tia Maria, she made the best sopapillas
And she sang in a Tejano band
A Tejano band
W.C. Jameson - Love Songs in Spanish (lyrics and chords)
This is a song that's included on the Americapolitan Outlaw Sampler which is available free (legally) from Noisetrade. I liked this song immediately and wanted to add it to my book of songs to practice strumming on the ukulele, but it was ungoogleable (Google has taken legal action to prevent this word from appearing in a dictionary, so I'm going to use it as often as possible). That is, it doesn't look like anyone has ever posted a simple chord chart--or even lyrics--to any of the numerous websites where you can find such things.
So...the song actually is in C. I didn't just put it that way to make it simple.
Love Songs in Spanish - W.C. Jameson
C F C
She had a voice as sweet as Texas honey
Am F G
And a touch as soft as a summer breeze
C F C F
Her dark eyes shined like diamonds
C G C
When she sang love songs in Spanish to me
2. (repeat chords as in 1)
I met her in a tiny village by the Rio Grande
Felt the magic of her smile and could not leave
Barefoot in the sand, she played the mandolin
And she sang love songs in Spanish to me
Like the river that flows out to the sea
Like the song birds in winter she had to leave
F C F
I'm left here with my memory
3. (repeat chords as in 1 and 2)
I recall those nights with her alone
Moonlight bright, soft wind in the trees
We lay together down by the river
...when she sang love songs in Spanish to me
Never woulda guessed it
Just saw this photo over at If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger. Okay, I recognized James Coburn and Bruce Lee. The guy on the left I haven't ever heard of, named Mike Stone. But who is that fresh-faced young fellow second from right?
Chuck Norris?!
More computer history
Another blast from the past. This one is about laptops in the late 80s. I bought my first computer in 1990, and it was a laptop similar to some of these, with a supertwist screen but it also supported a CGA monitor, and I almost never used anything but the CGA monitor (which I had to buy separately). I think this video was from 1987, and the cheapest computer they list here sold for $1,995. Three years later, when I bought mine, I got it for only $800 because it was already behind the curve.
I don't remember the brand, but I bought it mail-order from DAK Technologies. It was a regular 8MHz 8088 with 640K of RAM and had two 3.5" DD (720K) floppy drives. DAK packaged it with a bunch of software. The one I used most was Wordstar, which was able to run on a single floppy--the other floppy was used to save your documents. This was also the computer that I played Ultima V on. I remember when you switched from above ground to a dungeon setting, it took so long to load the dungeon that I would go to the bathroom or refill my tea while I was waiting for it.
Oh yeah, it also came with a mouse! But the mouse worked only for specific software, and any program it worked for had its own mouse driver which you had to load before you started the program. I never really used the mouse because it was just easier and faster for me to type everything. I've always been a pretty fast typist. One of the other programs that was packed with it was a typing tutor program, and I timed myself on it several times. I often broke 90 wpm in speed drills.
The second computer I had, which I bought in 1993 I think, was a Leading Edge 486SX25 (25 MHz) with 4 MB of RAM and a 120 MB hard drive, and was the first computer I had that ran Windows (3.1). That was the computer that I later installed a 2400 baud modem in, then later bought a combination upgrade package that added a sound card, a CD-ROM drive and a 14400 baud modem. I also upgraded the RAM to 20 MB. This was the computer that I had when I first began accessing BBSes and the internet (via NovaLink).
The third computer was in 1995, I think, and was a 60MHz Pentium which came with its own modem and sound card/CD-ROM. I've forgotten what kind of RAM and hard drive it had, but this was my main Doom computer. I had tried playing it with the older 486, but it just couldn't handle it very well.
Playing with the runtastic app
Here is me playing with the runtastic.com smartphone app. Our first map is from Tuesday. I had never done this one before. I added the blue line in because it didn't start tracking me right away--I think it took a few minutes for the GPS to lock in. Anyway, the green and red dots should have been right on top of each other because this route starts and ends in the same place. This was my longest single route of the week at slightly over 4 miles, and with the partial that I also did, made it the longest day of the week--as far as distance goes. I tried using a different app to map the partial, but it didn't post to FB like it was supposed to, so I didn't get a map.
Wednesday's full route. The words "Five Palms" will cause all meter readers to shudder in horror. This is the worst part of town to work in because of the kind of lids that are used on the meter boxes there. Five Palms isn't visible on this map but it's in the area. The lids here are what we call "oval lids" because they are oval instead of round. There are numerous different kinds of oval lids, ranging from a major pain in the a** to a hellish, nightmare-inducing pain in the a**. The worst kind were obviously invented by a sadistic psychopath.
Wednesday's partial, in a different part of town where the work is much easier because all the lids are round here.
Thursday's full route. This is another rough one, mostly just because the terrain is so uneven. I've been doing it for so long that it doesn't bother me as much anymore, but I still admit it's a hard route. The green part is to show the part that I drive through instead of walking. There are only 75 meters in all that big area where the green is, and it takes an hour to walk it. In the rest of the route I can average around 140-150 meters per hour. After I started driving that green part, it took 30 minutes off my total time. P.S. One of my rules of routes is: If it incorporates or even touches Broadview, it's gonna be messed up. The same rule is also true if one replaces "Broadview" with "Vandiver."
Thursday' partial. Someone at some time in the past sequenced this one so that you're supposed to go down Poplar street, then climb a dangerously rusty and dilapidated 5-foot chain-link fence to get into the church property, walk all the way across it to McMullen, then climb a 6-foot chain link fence to get back out and read that one meter where I put that green dot. Well, that's not how I do it. After I finish everything else, I just drive over there and get that last meter.
Alamo Heights full route. This one's pretty rough, too, and it has some major hills that are just murder in hot weather. I drive that part that I drew on there in green. During the worst part of summer, I drive out those little dead-ends on the bottom section, too. That's where all the worst hills are.
Alamo Heights partial. On the other side of Broadway. This one is mostly alleys, which you can see because the red lines aren't going down the streets. But in this part of Alamo Heights the alleys are all paved, so it's not bad. I drive the green part.
On that lower left rectangle, you can see a little "blip" where the line isn't quite as straight. That was where I went into somebody's back yard so I could run some water and check if their meter was still working. That's some pretty good detail, I think.
Back in the olden days of 1995
I just had to share this video. It's all about using the internet in 1995, with a focus on CompuServe. It's a real blast of nostalgia, and made me laugh several times because I remember it all.
I first started using computer networks, of a sort, in late 1993, dialing up "phone BBSes" (bulletin boards). By 1994 I was trying out various online services, and CompuServe was the first one I tried, but I canceled it as soon as my free trial period ran out. In 1994, CompuServe did not yet provide internet access--it was strictly an in-house online service. The first actual internet access I had was a company called NovaLink, and I got 5 hours of access for $10 a month. By the way, at that time I was using a 2400 baud modem. So I wasn't able to do a whole lot, but I did go through all the stuff of installing Win32S so I could use NCSA Mosaic. At that time, Mosaic was the only web browser, and was the precursor to Netscape. Later on, I used Netscape. I had to buy it. It came on 2 or 3 1.5" floppies. The only thing I specifically remember about NovaLink is that one day I went to a web page where some guy had posted gifs of all the Rush album covers (at that time). It took a while to load, even though they were only small thumbnails. Oh yeah, back then Mosaic could display in-line gifs, but not in-line jpgs, so if someone wanted to show a jpg, they just had to link to it, and when you clicked on the link it would open an associated jpg viewer on your computer to view it. I used a program for jpg viewing that was called LView.
In 1995 I joined Netcom, which was unlimited access for $20 per month. By that time I had upgraded to a 14400 modem, and pretty soon after joining Netcom I upgraded again to 28800. The Netcom service came with its own software called Netcruiser, which incorporated all the stuff you'd need into one program (web browser, email, ftp, gopher, archie, usenet, etc.). Netcruiser also functioned as a Winsock so you could minimize it and run some other browser if you wanted, like Netscape.
I used an html editor called HotDog. I had to quit using it when I switched my screen resolution up to 800x600, because it wouldn't run under anything but 640x480. At that time I started using some freeware editor that I don't remember the name of anymore. Of course, back then all you had to know was basic html to create a website. When things got so complicated that you also had to learn CSS and all sorts of other stuff, I gave up on creating my own sites and just went for a while with some very simple sites on Tripod until Blogger came along.
I kind of miss the old days when every ISP also provided Usenet access. I was a big Usenet user back then. After I quit Netcom and started using other ISPs that didn't provide you with software (mainly just because I was trying to find something cheaper and ever cheaper)*, I used Agent for email and usenet. I loved Agent. It was one of my favorite programs ever.
Of course, I also used AOL on at least three different occasions. This video is from before the big AOL explosion. I also had Juno email for a while. Anyone remember Juno?
The thing about screen resolution was kind of funny to me, too. I remember going to the local Whataburger for the morning gathering of ham radio operators shooting the bull and drinking coffee**, and I announced, "Well, I changed my screen resolution up to 800x600." Back then this was a Big Thing. "So, how do you like it?" Everyone asked. Crazy.
*I actually used some free internet services for about a year. One was from KMart, and I don't remember the other one. When you first started the software, it would feed you a brief ad from the store, then dial you in.
**Back then Whataburger had this special deal where if you bought one of their plastic coffee mugs, you could get it refilled for a nickel. After a year or so they changed it to refills for a quarter. I wish I still had that mug, just because it was a good mug and it would be another bit of pleasant nostalgia to drink from it. I don't know what happened to it.
My sister has been using an app called Runtastic so I though I'd give it a try. It works a lot better than MapMyWalk--mainly because so far it isn't as crash-prone and it actually shares to FB. The only problem with it today it that I actually started it at the red dot but it didn't start tracking me until there where that green dot is--both dots should be right on top of each other.
So this was a little over 4 miles. My partial was 2.3 miles. I tried MapMyWalk on it again today just for kicks, but as before, it won't post to FB so I can't get a map off of it.
Another cool thing about this app is the map. The map that it posts is just a basic map, but the one you get to see on your phone has a color-coded route instead of just solid red. It ranges from red for the fastest parts down through orange and yellow to green for the slowest. So I can look back and see which parts of the route had the most troublesome meters.
This one has a voice thing too, which is kind of annoying. A British woman's voice announces every time you hit a new mile mark and says some other things. I didn't have it turned up loud enough to hear it that clearly today, but the first time she announced the mile I jumped and spun around with a "WTF?!" I hope no one saw me.
Explaining the past
Buzzfeed has "the 14 most irritating questions people born in the 2000s ask." Well, technically my daughter was born in 99, so she's still pretty close. I don't know why most of these would be "irritating." My son especially likes to ask me questions about my past, and it's one of the few things he'll sit still for and listen without interrupting with another question. And I like answering him. Isn't that what dad's are supposed to do?
1. My kids--aged 14 and 12--have used floppy disks.
2. My kids know the difference between a cell phone and a "land line."
3. Never came up. For the record, I never liked that show, either.
4. Also never came up, but I would be happy to explain it to them, if it did. Of course, they would easily understand the concept, as anyone should who has used a portable mp3 player.
5. My kids have used cassette tapes.
6. My kids have used dial-up. I hope they never forget it, so they always remember how fortunate they are to have a wireless service now. They have never used AOL, however, I have told them about it, and how there was a time when you couldn't pick up a magazine without an AOL CD falling out.
7. Never came up.
8. See #7.
9. I used to work at a beeper repair shop. Although my job there ended when my son was only about a year old, I still had beepers lying around. They played with them and know exactly what they were and how they worked. By the way, that beeper pictured was a total piece of c***. It was modeled after a Panasonic model that was also a total piece of c***. The best beeper Motorola ever made was the Bravo Plus.
10. I don't even know who he/she was.
11. My kids have played Carmen Sandiego games. Vintage games on a vintage computer.
12. I never heard of these, either.
13. My kids have used/watched VHS tapes.
14. Never came up, but I have a ready answer if it does.
And all this is leading up to the real point of this post. The other day my son was listening to one of those "country" songs, the one that's called "1980 Something," or something like that, which mentions a space shuttle exploding. He asked me about it, so I had to somberly tell him about the Challenger. In the process, I also had to explain to him what an o-ring is and how it works. "So," he said, "one little part made the whole thing explode?" "Yep." It was strange, yet gratifying, to see him sobered by something that happened 15 years before he was born.
Big news, which you already know if you're one of my FB "friends": I got a smart phone. It is a refurbished model, which means it's already obsolete by tech junkie standards, but as someone who has always explored the cutting edge with older equipment, I am having lots of fun with it.
I've been exploring lots of apps to see what I can find useful or just plain fun. I just recently discovered Google Sky Maps and almost thought it was technology sufficiently advanced as to be indistinguishable from magic.
But many of the apps that I am keeping on the phone are quite simple but, to me, brilliant. One is a pitch pipe app. It just shows you a picture of a standard C to C pitch pipe and you touch the note you want to hear. I've already used it for a chorus practice at our church when I had forgotten my real pitch pipe. Another music-related app is a digital tuner that shows you the note being played/sung as well as the frequencly in Hertz with a small bar graph at the bottom to give you a better visual image of how far sharp or flat the note is. I've used it to tune my daughter's guitar and my ukulele, although the uke is pretty good at staying in tune now that the strings are broken in. It tends to go about 1/4 step flat after a couple of days--equally across all strings, which is pretty weird. This app is called DaTuner Lite.
I also finally managed to find a play-against-the-computer "Scrabble" game, by which I mean the rules are exactly the same, the board is exactly the same, the points are exactly the same, but it's called Classic Words Free.
Of course it already had a Facebook app as a standard feature. I also found an RSS reader app called FeedMe which is working pretty well for quick updates. Just for kicks, I put the Netflix app on it but I haven't really used it yet except to try it out for a minute and make sure it works.
I also put a Bible app on it called MySword for Android. It's donationware, which means the free version is still pretty cool and is probably all I'll ever want, but for a small donation they'll send you a registration code to unlock all the features, and I think I'm going to do it because it's a great app.
I put the Winamp app on it because it makes it super easy to shoot mp3s into the phone from my computer over WiFi--no more USB cable! At a friend/co-worker's recommendation I installed an app called RainAlarm OSM that reads your location and then sends you an alert if rain is detected within a certain area (radius selectable in the preferences). I guess you can understand that, as someone who works outside all the time, rain is something I try to keep track of fairly closely.
Oh yeah, I also thought putting the IMDB.com app on it would be a good idea, because my wife is one of those people who, when she sees someone familiar in a TV show or movie, sits there and agonizes over where she's seen them before, and she won't be quiet about it until she's remembered. I thought this app would be a good way to keep that kind of stuff to a minimum.
Today, for the first time, I tried out an app called MapMyWalk. When you finish your walking workout, you can save it and you have the option of sharing it via FB or Twitter. Since this was the first time, and I wanted to see how it all worked, I didn't send it to FB but only saved it for myself locally. Unfortunately, once you do that, you can't go back and decide to share it after all, so I couldn't get a good picture of the map (my phone is so old it doesn't have the capability of taking screen shots). In the future, I think I will send it to FB just so I can get a pretty picture of the map. But I made a quick & dirty graphic here by taking photos of the screen and stitching them together so you can get an idea of what it looks like.
This is how my route today looked. I had what's called my "birthday route" today, which means they let me pick an nice, easy route and not get assigned an additional 1/4 to 1/2 route extra like we usually do. So I finished this morning by about 10:00, which was a nice birthday present. The app said this route was 5.56 miles long. I like it that the detail is good enough that I can see where I was and was not criss-crossing streets. It started there at the green square, then it goes straight up the west side of General McMullen. Then when I started back south you can see that the line gets all squiggly; that's where I began reading both sides of the street, which is what we refer to as criss-crossing. All the way back to Castroville Road, then up one side of that short stretch of Cortez, then criss-crossing again until I got to Jewett, then "looping" part of S. San Bernardo (that is, up one side and back down the other), then criss-crossing another section of S. San Bernardo with a small loop at the end where it dead ends, then back over to Cortez where I went down the other side of it from where I'd been before. Then that tail at the bottom is where I have to read several meters along Castroville Road. Then I walked back to my truck and turned it off about where that red square is, almost exactly where I was when I had first turned it on.
I've done this before with my GPS unit, but unfortunately I can't do anything with it once I'm finished except look at it myself because it doesn't have any kind of networking capability like the phone does, and it doesn't use Google Maps so the map it shows is very, very bare-bones.
It will be interesting to me to map out all my routes like this so I can get a bird's-eye view of them.
This was certainly strange
It's not unusual for me to see vacant houses with numerous newspaper lying in the yard--the resident apparently having neglected to cancel his subscription when he moved out. Or died, maybe? Anyway, I came across this one this morning.
Unfortunately, since as usual I don't want to be looking like I'm up to something in case someone is watching me (people tend to call in complaints if they see one of us pausing for a breath or taking a break), I didn't dig into it to see what the issue date was.
But it was quite strange to find this seemingly fresh copy of the San Antonio Light lying in someone's yard, looking like it had just been delivered that morning, when the Light was shut down 20 years ago.
Photo taken this morning on the east side, in the general area of where Houston and Commerce intersect.
An interesting night
Earlier tonight I heard a presentation by an Iraqi, formerly a Muslim, about how he came to know and convert to Christianity. It was very interesting. Afterward, he had a question & answer session, and many of the questions put to him had to do with the reality of being in Iraq versus what we were told here in the U.S.
He told us how, like all other Iraqi men, he had had to serve a mandatory term in the army (this was under Saddam Hussein). He was addressing the topic of Hussein's Iraq actually being a threat to the U.S. or not. He said, "When I was in the army, I fired only 7 bullets. Only one of them hit the target, and it wasn't even my target." Then he added, "By the way, I was in the Republican Guard."
Yeah. That was the supposedly "elite" troops that we constantly heard about in the news.
But like I said, his story was fascinating. It began when, as a teenager, he had a 4-year-old sister who died suddenly of an unknown illness. His mother, grief stricken, asked their local religious leaders for something from the Koran to comfort her, and no one could give her anything. It angered him so much that he temporarily became an atheist, because he refused to believe in a God that couldn't offer a few words of comfort to his grieving mother. Later, he read some popular books that contained some Biblical quotes and it began his interest in investigating the Bible. One of the books he pointed out was Peter Benchley's The Island. He managed to find a copy of the Gospel of John and mistakenly thought that it was the whole Bible. Since none of the quotes he had read were from John, he thought that they were all false. But then later he happened across a copy of the New Testament and saw that John was only a part of it. Then he realized that because several people from the New Testament often said, "As it is written..." there must be even more to it, and eventually he got hold of a full Bible with both Old and New Testaments. He had to borrow money from a cousin who had a steady job as a barber to buy it.
He had many valuable insights into living in the Muslim world, and I wish many more Americans could hear what he has to say. He admitted that he will probably never see any of his family again, and that it will likely not be safe for someone like him to return to the Middle East during his lifetime.
The history of music in 9 minutes
Israel "Iz" Kamakawiwoʻole - Facing Future
I just downloaded this one today. I feel I must say something about it.
Israel "Iz" Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole (click for the Wikipedia link if you want to see how to pronounce his last name) was a Hawaiian musician: singer and ukulele player. Follow the link again to read all the details of his life.
Although he was already well-known in Hawaii, this album got him worldwide exposure and his medley of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" has been used in numerous movies and commercials. I remember coming across a link to the "Rainbow" part of that medley on YouTube several months ago and was stunned by how hauntingly beautiful it was. It was also haunting because I realized I had heard it somewhere before, although I couldn't remember where, and at the time I was thinking, "how could I have forgotten I ever heard this?" And honestly, I don't even want to hear "traditional" versions of that song anymore.
This whole album is just awesome, and the whole thing will be going on my big favorites list. He sings mostly in Hawaiian, but there are a couple of songs in English, namely the medley I've already mentioned and his own special version of John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" that he re-wrote specifically for Hawaii.
His has a mellow tenor voice that sounds like streams of liquid gold floating across blue, sun-dappled waters. And although my clumsy strumming will never match his playing ability, and my own reedy tenor will never compare with his golden voice, I've already begun practicing the "Rainbow" part of the medley.
He died in 1997 at the young age of 38 from various complications brought on by his severe obesity. This was the second of four albums he made before his death. Four more have been released since then. In my opinion, anyone who even half-assedly wants to play the ukulele should have this album, and listen to it often.
This just in: redshirts were safer
Someone crunched the numbers to discover that wearing red on ST:TOS was actually safer than wearing gold (per capita).


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This high-fiber salad has a fresh taste and is a good source of protein.
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Try this spice rub on chicken, pork, turkey, beef and salmon.
This roasted vegetable salad has a restaurant-quality taste, but can be prepared easily at home.
Celebrate the fall with this delicious vegetarian tortilla soup recipe.
Make this perfect summertime dish using sliced fresh mozzarella, tomatoes and basil, then season with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
These carrots were featured at an event celebrating the new St. Charles Prineville.
This vegetarian chili can be spiced up or down depending on your tolerance level.
You'll have dinner ready in minutes with these crispy ciabatta pizzas.
Enjoy this lunchtime favorite with whole wheat pocket bread or wrapped in a lettuce leaf.
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Embrace the cold winter months with this savory squash soup flavored with garlic, ginger, curry and lemongrass.
This hearty stew is made of pork seasoned with green chilis and served over warm corn tortillas.
There may be nothing more refreshing than chilled gazpacho on a hot summer day.
Even if you're not gluten intolerant, these gluten-free cookies offer a hit of protein and fiber.
Grover Soup is a favorite recipe in the St. Charles Bend Corner Deli.
Add a little spice to your life with this inspired Thai chicken flat bread recipe.
Try changing up your standard meatloaf with this recipe for a healthy and tasty alternative.
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This recipe, from our very own St. Charles kitchen, packs a sweet and tangy punch — and for not a whole lot of calories or fat. Make it a meal and pair it with a lean meat such as grilled chicken or fish.
This roasted medley of pork and vegetables is a wonderful way to welcome fall to your kitchen and incorporate nutrient-packed root veggies into your diet.
There's nothing quite like a hot, soothing bowl of soup on a cold winter day.
This recipe, which is low in fat and calories, is a good source of Vitamin A and Vitamin C. Try serving it with brown rice, sliced fruit and a glass of low-fat milk.
This recipe, which features a nice variety of veggies, is high in Vitamin A, Vitamin C and protein.
This simple yet delicious recipe for cold gazpacho soup is the ultimate un-guilty pleasure!
This flavorful dish, which takes about 10 minutes to prepare, is just 110 calories (and no fat) per one-cup serving. It's also high in Vitamin C.
This recipe is quick and easy to make, and because it's low in fat in calories, it's also easy on the waistline.
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This hearty yet healthy version of shepherd's pie will fill you up while keeping you in fighting shape.
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This colorful summer salad is low in both fat and calories — each serving has 100 calories and 3 grams of fat — as well as a good source of vitamins A and C.
Serve this salad as a course or as an accompaniment to grilled seafood or chicken. It's tasty with classic barbecue, too.


You can use Search and Filter Pro with Beaver Builders Themer Post Module columns post layout, this guide goes through the tweaks needed and uses a CPT (custom post type) archive page.
Create your Posts Module with the columns layout on a CPT Archive page with Beaver Themer and add in your Search and Filter Pros shortcode. The Posts Module has to use the main query.
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Q: Is there any intermediate fields between these two fields? Is there any intermediate fields between the algebraic closure of the rational field and the complex field?
Can I get such a field by adding a transcendental number and then taking the algebraic closure over the complex field?
If so,how can I prove it?

A: Hint: what is the cardinality of the algebraic closure of the rationals? And therefore, what is the cardinality of an extension of this field by a sinlge transcendental element? And the cardinality of the algebraic closure of the new obtained field?
On the other hand, what is the cardiniality of the complex numbers?

A: Yes, of course there are such fields.
Let $L = \overline ℚ ⊆ ℂ$ be the algebraic closure of $ℚ$ within $ℂ$. Then $L$ is algebraically closed and algebraic over $ℚ$. For any transcendental number $α ∈ ℂ$, the algebraic closure $L_α = \overline ℚ(α) ⊆ ℂ$ within $ℂ$ of $ℚ(α)$ is an algebraically closed field with $ℚ ⊆ L_α$. So $L ⊆ L_α$. Since $α$ is transcendental $α \notin L$, so the inclusion is strict.
You can do this construction with every subset $A ⊆ ℂ$ instead of just some $α ∈ ℂ$. Whenever $A$ contains transcendental elements, you end up with a proper field extension $L_A$ of $L = \overline ℚ$. In fact, you can get every algebraically closed intermediate extension $E / L$ this way, because you may take $A = E$, so $L_E = E$. However, there might be extensions $E / L$ that are not algebraically closed …
However, you can't get all intermediate extensions by only doing this with single elements $α$ (or even finite or countable sets $A ⊆ ℂ$), as pointed out / hinted at by Pedro.
An alternative way to see that $L_α ≠ ℂ$ is to consider algebraically independent elements. Say, if $α, β ∈ ℂ$ are algebraically independent over $ℚ$, then $β \notin L_α$.

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Montreal school board to create virtual school for vulnerable students
The Quebec government has announced that it is ending online learning for students vulnerable to COVID-19 complications, but that isn't stopping one school board from going ahead with a virtual option.
In a statement, the Education Ministry said that since the province ended its public-health state of emergency in March, the measures taken to provide distance learning also ended with the 2021-22 school year.
"From now on, it is only through the development and implementation of a pilot project authorized by the Ministry that educational institutions can offer distance education services as part of the general education of young people," the statement read.
The English Montreal School Board (EMSB) has already said it will throw its hat in the ring. The board plans to work with the ministry to open a full-time virtual school for English students.
"Right now, there are no COVID protocols that exist [in the schools]," said Mike Cohen, a spokesperson for the board.
"We're very pleased that we've been given the opportunity to make virtual school available for those that really need it."
Unclear which students are eligible
Katherine Korakis, the head of Quebec's English Parents' Committee Association, said school starts in a week and parents were left in the dark about the province's plans.
"I think there is a lack of clarity of what the government is proposing," she said.
EMSB spokesperson Mike Cohen says everything is set up to ensure kids are safe as they return to Mackay Center and Philip E. Layton Schools. (CBC)
Korakis said parents are worried that their children, who fall into the category of immunocompromised or of living with someone who is, could be suddenly going back to school despite the risk.
It's not known which of those children will qualify for the EMSB's virtual school. Cohen said that the ministry will decide who can enroll, though he said it should be available to English students across the province, from kindergarten through to Grade 11.
Details should come in the coming days and eligible families will be able to register soon after, he said.
Marie-France Raynault, a senior strategic medical advisor for Quebec Public Health, said at a news conference Wednesday that pediatricians and oncologists are comfortable sending kids back to the classroom.
"They've seen that those who went to school did very well, and didn't have as many complications as was anticipated in the beginning," she said.
"Most of the children who are immunocompromised are able to go to school. Those are the discussions I've had with the specialists."
Homeschooling remains an option, advocate says
Gina Picone is a homeschooling parent on the Association québécoise pour l'éducation domicile's board of directors. If the distance learning option isn't available, she said, some parents may want to turn to homeschooling.
She said her organization went from a couple hundred members to a couple thousand during the pandemic, and it remains available for those parents who want to turn to homeschooling rather than sending their kids back to school.
Homeschooling is different than distance learning, she added, because the onus is put on the parents to manage the program. It can be overwhelming at first, Picone said, but her her organization is ready to help.
"It is a viable option," she said. "It can be done."

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The world's largest tech companies continue to produce dismal results as they try to diversify their ranks–particularly representation of blacks, latinos and indigenous people. This has prompted a new wave of companies bringing on board "diversity and inclusion" officers to tackle this problem, most recently AirBNB and Dropbox.
These roles look like good faith efforts and practical investments by seemingly well-intentioned companies who want to face this issue head on. It makes sense to install someone who is responsible for delivering results.
However, taking a look at Facebook, which has had a Global Head of Diversity since 2013, shows virtually no movement of the needle. Their head count of black employees has increased by 7, while they've shown an increase of 695 white employees in the same period. Google, who's had a diversity program manager since 2011, has shown no significant progress.
This is not an indictment of those currently occupying diversity and inclusion roles. Anyone charged with catalyzing significant change within a culture that is often characterized as less than welcoming has an enormous task at hand. And, while not completely resigning to the idea that this is a "pipeline" problem, sourcing candidates is a factor.
This is a nut many companies are trying to crack with less than stellar results. The idea isn't that we should be at parity but that we should at least see some semblance of progress.
Which leads to a larger question: why, in such a metric driven product building industry, does the approach to diversity initiatives look so different from how products are made–how problems are solved?
The technology industry solves problems in ways other industries aren't capable of. It seems reasonable that companies would use the same methodologies responsible for the success of their products and apply them to their cultures, especially considering the serious business implications of a company's workforce.
Apple, Google and Facebook release reports narrating their stalled results from prior years about their continuously homogenous workforce. Yet there seems to be no particular goal in mind consequently reducing diversity to an unknown fate.
Most recently, Pinterest and Twitter were lauded for the "radical" step of creating tangible metrics and releasing the data publicly, creating a new level of accountability and a way for a company to assess itself more objectively.
I know there is push back around creating these sort of goals, which are often pejoratively called "quotas". There exists a prevailing attitude that being explicit about the type of person a company wants to hire will lead companies to select people who are underqualified in order to satisfy a metric or tick a checkbox. But, like any other product or problem you're trying to hack, there should be some cursory idea of what success looks like, and a product oriented, metrics-driven approach dictates the necessary process.
Rethinking the idea that diversity and inclusion should fall solely under the domain of human resources should be the first step in shifting to a product-oriented approach. It seems logical that a people problem would live with HR, but product people–engineers and especially designers—have the skillsets that already solve some of the largest and most complex problems within a company.
Those skillsets and methodologies are not only applicable to building digital tools and experiences. Design is no longer just a tool to make products look appealing. Design has grown up and is increasingly being employed to tackle large strategic problems at the highest levels of business with a bias towards action and empathy.
This is not to marginalize the role of competent human resource professionals in hacking this problem, but a call to look inward at what seems like a painfully obvious approach and the use of existing.powerful tools to shift thinking.
A product-oriented approach normalizes the diversity conversation while leveraging a company's existing problem solving resources. The result would be designers actively speaking about their work dedicated to diversity and empowered by their companies to use their skillset in the same way we hear designers talk about their work on products.
We would begin seeing job descriptions for inclusion roles that aren't entirely HR-centric, and even designers or engineers filling these roles supported by cross functional teams and given adequate resources and space to actively design solutions.
Until companies begin to prioritize diversity with the same rigor as their products and specifically hire people with the ability to carry out that mission, we will continue to see nominal results that affect consumer perception and ultimately the bottom line.
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Earth is the most colourful place we know of. But the colours we see are far more complex and fascinating than they appear. In this series, Dr Helen Czerski uncovers what colour is, how it works, and how it has written the story of our planet - from the colours that transformed a dull ball of rock into a vivid jewel to the colours that life has used to survive and thrive". But the story doesn't end there - there are also the colours that we can't see, the ones that lie beyond the rainbow. Each one has a fascinating story to tell. Early Earth was a canvas for the vast new palette of the colours of life, with the diversity of human skin tones telling the story of how humanity spread and ultimately conquered the planet. Dr Helen Czerski explores the true masters of colour - which are often the smallest and most elusive - travelling to the mountains of Tennessee to witness the colourful mating display of fireflies, and revealing the marine creatures that can change the colour of their skin in order to hide from the world.
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Helen Czerski ventures beyond the visible spectrum in the final (and best) episode in this vibrant series, showing how electromagnetic radiation is so much broader than the narrow slice of reality we see with our eyes. Before delving into the details of UV, infrared and x-rays, Dr Czerski explores colour subjectivity by trying on a dress that recently divided the internet — to some it appeared blue and black, to others white and gold. It's a perfect fit. It's also a neat analogy of how people can have opposing views but both swear blind that their perspective is correct. The series ends with some amazing imaging techniques that show our bodies in a whole new light.
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Home News Plaid leader Calls For Urgent Advice On Use Of Controversial Chemical
The Welsh Government needs to issue advice on the use of controversial chemical glyphosate as a matter of urgency, says the leader of Caerphilly council's Plaid Cymru group, Colin Mann.
His appeal comes in a wake of a Freedom of Information request to Caerphilly council which revealed a glyphosate-based herbicide was used on roads and streets, in public car parks, rear lanes, footpaths, pavements and along bypass routes.
In March in California a jury ordered the chemical giants Monsanto to pay £226m damages to a man who claimed herbicides containing glyphosate had caused his cancer. The World Health Organisation has said it is "probably carcinogenic" to humans but the European Commission has granted the weedkiller another five-year licence.
The Freedom of Information request also revealed the council spent almost £127,000 on the weedkiller. The authority has insisted that the use of a glyphosate-based herbicide is currently the most effective and legal way of treating weeds on the highway, although it has tried hand weeding, burning and hot foam to kill weeds.
Councillor Colin Mann, leader of the Plaid Cymru group, said: "Reports in the media have highlighted health concerns about the use of glyphosate following a court case in the United States. Damages of more than £200m were awarded to a groundskeeper man who claimed herbicides containing glyphosate had caused his cancer.
"There seems to be conflicting views from the World Health Organisation and the European Commission about the use of this chemical which is in widespread use in Wales and further afield.
"Therefore, we urgently need a clear and unequivocal safety advice from the Welsh Government to provide assurance to residents and those who work with this chemical in Caerphilly and across Wales. Clearly, if effective and safe alternatives are available they need to be considered."


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Afterlife Beliefs & Practices FAQ Study
The World to Come
It's an individual Jew's ultimate reward, but the nature of the World to Come has always been disputed.
By Rabbi Louis Jacobs
Jewish Resurrection of the Dead
Jewish Messianism
The World to Come usually refers to one of three things: the way the world will be in the End of Days when the righteous are resurrected; a world of immortal souls that will follow the age of resurrection; or a heavenly world enjoyed by righteous souls immediately after death (i.e. prior to the End of Days). However, believing that the World to Come refers to one of these does not necessarily entail a negative belief in the others.
There is considerable ambiguity regarding the meaning of the rabbinic doctrine of the World to Come (Heb. Olam Ha‑Ba) and its relation to the resurrection of the dead. In the Middle Ages, Maimonides is alone in identifying the World to Come with the immortality of the soul [a "period" that follows the age of resurrection], while Nahmanides is emphatic that it refers to this world, which will be renewed, after the resurrection.
For instance, the Mishnah (Sanhedrin 10:1) states that one who denies the resurrection will have no share in the World to Come, upon which the Talmud (Sanhedrin 90a) comments that this severe punishment is meted out to him on the principle of measure for measure; since he denies the resurrection it is only just that he does not rise at the resurrection. In this passage, at least, the World to Come is identified with the resurrection, though it is not absolutely certain that the Mishnah itself identifies the two so closely.
In later Jewish thought the World to Come becomes a generic term for the Hereafter.
Rabbinic Teachings
The Mishnah quoted begins with the words: "All Israel has a share in the World to Come" but then continues that some Israelites, for example, those who deny the resurrection or that the Torah is from Heaven, do not have a share in the World to Come.
In the Tosefta (Sanhedrin 13:2) there is a debate between Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Joshua on whether the World to Come is reserved for Jews or whether this blissful state is the reward of Gentiles as well. Rabbi Joshua holds that "the righteous of all peoples have a share in the World to Come" and this became the official view of Judaism.
The other‑worldly thrust is evident in the whole of Jewish thought until the modern period. Of the numerous rabbinic teachings about the World to Come, the following are typical of this thrust.
The Mishnah (Bava Metzia 2:11) rules that if a man's father and his teacher have lost something, he should first try to restore the article lost by his teacher, since a father brings his child into this world whereas a teacher of the Torah brings his students to the World to Come. In Ethics of the Fathers (4:16) it is said that this world is like a vestibule before the World to Come. "Prepare yourself in the vestibule, that you may enter into the hall of the palace."
Yet the statement of the second-century teacher, Rabbi Jacob, also in Ethics of the Fathers (4:17) acts against a too‑hasty claim that according to the Rabbis this world is only a preparation or school for the World to Come and has no intrinsic good. Rabbi Jacob's famous teaching reads: "Better is one hour of repentance and good deeds in this world than the whole life of the World to Come; and better is one hour of blissfulness of spirit in the World to Come than the whole life of this world."
Significant in this connection is the saying of Rav (relied on by Maimonides for his identification of the World to Come with spiritual bliss of the soul rather than the resurrection): "In the World to Come there is no eating nor drinking nor propagation nor business nor jealousy nor hatred nor competition, but the righteous sit with their crowns on their heads feasting on the brightness of the Shekhinah" (Berakhot 17a). Yet the Jerusalem Talmud (Kiddushin 4:12) quotes the same teacher, Rav, who is so eloquent on the purely spiritual nature of bliss in the Hereafter, as saying that in the World toCome a man will be obliged to give an account and a reckoning before the judgment seat of God for every legitimate pleasure he denied himself in this world.
Very striking, too, is the saying (Berakhot 57b) that three things afford a foretaste in miniature of the bliss of the World to Come: the Sabbath, sexual intercourse, and a sunny day, although the Gemara is doubtful whether sexual intercourse should be included since it results in weakness of the body.
In the light of the above it is difficult to give an unqualified reply to the question of whether Judaism is a this‑worldly or all other‑worldly religion. Risking a generalization, it can be said that the other‑worldly thrust predominates in times of oppression and the this‑worldly in times of prosperity.
The Purpose of This World is to Get to the Next
Moses Hayyim Luzzatto's The Path of the Upright, compiled in the eighteenth century, is typical of the other‑worldly approach. Luzzatto begins his guide to holy living with these words:
"It is the foundation of saintliness and the perfect worship of God for a man to realize what constitutes his duty in his world and to which aim he is required to direct all his endeavors throughout his life. Now our Sages, of blessed memory, have taught us that man was created only to find delight in the Lord and to bask in the radiance of His Shekhinah for this is the true happiness and the greatest of all possible delights. The real place in which such delight can be attained is the World to Come, for this has been prepared to this very purpose. But the way to attain to this desired goal is this world. This world, the Sages remark, is like a vestibule before the World to Come. The means by which man reaches this goal are the precepts God, blessed be He, has commanded us and the place in which the precepts are to be carried out is only in this world. Man is put here in order to earn with the means at his command the place that has been prepared for him in the World to Come."
Luzzatto concludes this section of his work by saying that man is tempted in this life both by prosperity and by adversity and adds: "If he is valorous and wins the battle from every side, he becomes the perfect man who will have the merit of becoming attached to his Creator. Then he will emerge from the vestibule of this world to enjoy the Light of Life."
Luzzatto here seems to identify the World to Come, partly at least, with the fate of the soul after death [i.e. heaven, Gan Eden], though it is clear from the work as a whole that Luzzatto believes in the final resurrection.
A Hasidic View
In Hasidism and the Musar movement, the World to Come is conceived of partly in terms of spiritual bliss of the soul after the death of the body. It is not that the doctrine of resurrection is denied in these movements, but it is treated as a mystery so far beyond human apprehension that speculation on it is futile. Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady follows the intellectual thrust of the Habad movement, of which he was the founder, when he writes (at the beginning of his Likkutey Torah):
"It is well known that the concept 'the World to Come' means that souls enjoy the radiance of the Shekhinah and this delight that the soul enjoys is nothing other than comprehension of the divine. For we know from experience that there is no enjoyment and no delight whatsoever unless the thing enjoyed has been grasped in the mind. It follows that delight in the divine must first become substantial and have a separate identity in the process of the soul's enjoyment before the soul can enjoy it."
The idea is also found in Hasidic works that the saints can enjoy the bliss of the World to Come even while on earth. […]
Contemporary Views
Reform Judaism, following to some extent Philo and Maimonides, does preserve the concept [of the World to Come] but identifies the World to Come with the immortality of the soul.
Conservative Judaism, too, generally follows the Reform line, though both Reform and Conservative Judaism tend to veer towards the naturalistic understanding of the doctrine. This cannot be stated too categorically, however, and many Reform and Conservative Jews still accept the doctrine of the World to Come in its traditional formulation, at least in terms of the immortality of the soul.
Some of the Orthodox as well place the emphasis on the immortality of the soul but, if it is possible to speak of the official Orthodox position in these matters, it obviously includes the resurrection of the dead after the age of the Messiah in its doctrine of the World to Come.
Excerpted and reprinted with permission from The Jewish Religion: A Companion, published by Oxford University Press.
Pronounced: guh-MAHR-uh, Origin: Aramaic, a compendium of rabbinic writings and discussions from the first few centuries of the Common Era. The Talmud comprises Gemara and the Mishnah, a code of law on which the Gemara elaborates.
Hasidic
Pronounced: khah-SID-ik, Origin: Hebrew, a stream within ultra-Orthodox Judaism that grew out of an 18th-century mystical revival movement.
Pronounced: MISH-nuh, Origin: Hebrew, code of Jewish law compiled in the first centuries of the Common Era. Together with the Gemara, it makes up the Talmud.
Pronounced: TALL-mud, Origin: Hebrew, the set of teachings and commentaries on the Torah that form the basis for Jewish law. Comprised of the Mishnah and the Gemara, it contains the opinions of thousands of rabbis from different periods in Jewish history.
Afterlife and the Messiah 101
Judaism isn't entirely clear on what happens after we die.
Who is the Messiah?
Jewish sources have not, as a general rule, focused attention on the specific personal qualities of the Messiah.
Is There a Jewish Afterlife?
Judaism is famously ambiguous about what happens when we die.


Back in the day, I often pondered about how long-term travelers felt on the road - sometimes fantasized about it - and how it was possible that many of them ended up in a state of numbness where they "need a vacation from vacation". When one told me he went to the UK and just stayed in a castle for days - no tours whatsoever - I gasped in horror.
"Why?" the imprudent traveler in me wondered. There is much to see in the world, isn't there?
"I already saw and experienced what I wanted. There's nothing much the world outside offered that I didn't have." The depth of such wisdom was quite lost on me then, but now, years later, I'm beginning to understand.
A friend showed me one of her earlier pieces when she wasn't traveling for work yet. It was brimming with sheer optimism and zeal. "Disillusioned," she said, "but happy". With newly baptized travelers, there's an ever-present sense of awe, no matter how mediocre a sight is. Everything looks and feels shiny and pretty.
A couple of years ago, I cried on the plane from Singapore, watching the horizon turn from tangerine to violet. It was my first trip out of the Philippines (the first solo one too). Joy overwhelmed me so much that the tears only stopped halfway through the four-hour trip back home.
Then one day, I just woke up knowing that that feeling wanes fast when you travel for work. The more you see and experience, the more you lose that wide-eyed wonder. I used to think it was smug - even ungrateful and privileged - to say that, but turns out travel fatigue isn't a myth. It's as real as the breakfast you didn't want on your plate this morning.
We haven't gone long-term backpacking yet. I didn't set out to sojourn to achieve record-breaking statistics. When not doing it for work, I travel according to my own principles, my own terms, without regard for numbers. But still it got to this point when itineraries and trip planning no longer excite; when domestication appeals more than the outdoors. That point when your kid asks you to join her for a dip and you'd refuse every time because every nerve and bone seem to say no to the slightest idea of wanderlust. It wasn't like this two, three, four years ago. I am grateful for the opportunity to travel for work and always will be, but why do I not see and feel things the way I used to anymore? Have I turned jaded? Have I worn out my own sense of adventure?
Standards and world view drastically shift the more you walk the world. There are parts of you that will be compromised - your naivety and zest included. In these times, I envy Lia. For her, everything is awe-inspiring and brand new. How I wish we adults had an endless supply of awe like children do. Maybe the world would be different then --- or at least ours.


This episode we have some great topics, a tip and a Kestrel in a Pear Tree!
Since the world wide invitational, the alpha talent trees have been springing up. MMO-champion have linked to the new calculators, with the exception of the hunter and paladins, of course.
Can't we all talk to each other?
Nibuca from Mystic Chicanery wrote a great post this week regarding how healer mods talk to each other and how you can set it up so you can get as much information as you need. She lists several scenarios regarding healer makeups and how to get the heal information from each.
Now, healbot and grid don't use the same libraries, but if you install "LibHealComm-3.0 ? (the healing library) both healbot users and default UI users will communicate with grid users. Grid users can communicate with all, except for the default UI that can't hear the heals. With the lib, they are still able to send their heals out to others using mods.
Healers of all classes now have a new forums for their little hearts to heals and sing and dance. Created by several members of the blogger community, Plus Heals offers a great resource for healers at all levels of experience.
Horns from Another Warlock Nerf is writing a series of how2pvp. The Resilience post provides excellent information about how what exactly does resilience do, how much your class needs, what enchants you can get.
Euripedes from Critical QQ is here to answer all your questions regarding when and how to us your previous counterspell in arenas. The comments on the post also offer more tips.
Aurdon from I Sheep Things gives us a great tip regard Google Blog Search and how you can see what others are saying about you.
Twisted Blog of the Week and Guest-Anna!
This week our Blog/Blogger of the week is Kestrel from Kestrel's Aerie.
Kes is a veteran MMORPGer and a retired Air Force major, with degrees in psychology and business administration. When last employer made the decision in April 2008 to include his position in its latest cost-cutting move, he and his wife agreed Kes would be "mostly retired." They have three grown sons, two wonderful daughters-in-law, and the most beautiful granddaughter in the world. Now, they get to enjoy them more than ever!
Next week….hmmmm you may just have to wait and see, we may have a surprise for all of you.
Oh man do I need a better mic. That old tin can attached to a string isn't cutting it anymore.
Definitely TONS better than last week, with that ol' boring dworc.


I'd love to get your thoughts on the preview so far, which parts are most valuable, etc. I may reach out for more interview participants soon!
Hello everyone! We're continuing work on the dielines research and thank you to everyone who has submitted sample files so far! We're still gathering more samples, so if you have dielines with artwork and graphics placed that you can share with Adobe (for internal research purposes only) please feel free to send me an e-mail: jmathews@adobe.com.
The Dimension team is very interested in the topic of creation/modeling/editing as a whole. We haven't added any creation so far, but are actively researching this area. We have a new survey on modeling and editing and would love your thoughts on the topic!
Hi everyone! Thank you for everyone who has sent in sample dielines! As mentioned before, we're starting some research in this area and are looking for sample files to help guide the process.
We got a lot of submissions with general dielines but are currently looking for more samples that include artwork.
If you have dielines with artwork and graphics placed that you can share with Adobe (for internal research purposes only) please feel free to send me an e-mail: jmathews@adobe.com.
Hi everyone! Excited to say we're starting some research on this very interesting topic. At the moment the thing we'd like from you guys in the community is some examples of the types of things you'd like to create with this type of feature.
If you have example vector .ai or .eps format dielines that are representative of the products you make and are willing to share that with Adobe (for internal research purposes only) please feel free to send me an e-mail: jmathews@adobe.com.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'd love to know more about what people think about this as it's something we've explored at a high level. Would you expect to edit the dyeline at all or have smart object linking with Illustrator, etc?
I absolutely agree with the comments about the need for a comprehensive program that works with packaging dielines in Illustrator. I'm currently using Esko Studio software -- plugin for Illustrator with some standalone components -- and have the ability to generate structure files from my dielines (or at least use the measurements to do so) for a variety of pack types (boxes, various styles of flexible packages, cylindrical objects, etc.) and then import them back into Illustrator, directly onto the built files. Sometimes we find errors in our design layouts when we are able to use the actual dieline to create 3D renderings -- very helpful before going to press. We also need to generate images of packs that have not yet gone to print, so we can get sales materials to the sales reps for new products before we have actual product in hand. We need resulting images that are high enough quality for printing on sales collateral. I would LOVE for there to be an Adobe solution for this. And yes, we need support for multi-part packs -- neck labels and front/back labels, display cases with multiples of individual units, etc. As others have mentioned, 3D PDFs would be very helpful for sales teams to promote product. I'm not sure what video people were watching, just stumbled across this thread and excited to see so many others with the same needs!
I also get a message that the survey is private and can only be viewed by members of your organization. Happy to participate if that gets adjusted!
The survey says we'd need access prior to completing?
I agree with Jeff. We really really need 3D PDF. All of our contacts and customers are using Acrobat Reader to review designs, artwork, etc.. Allowing customers to view and rotate a design in Acrobat is absolutely mandatory. We can't expect customers to use multiple reviewing platforms and solutions. And in some larger companies, web access is restricted, and it can be a very big struggle convincing IT to allow acces to certain web portals.
from Tim's post, I'm not sure that 3D pdf remains a good format for sharing 3D.
A live "glb" preview in a browser is so nicier with PBR rendering than the flat gouraud shading of PDF looks poor.
Following Mark's post, I totally agree that it is mandatory to be able to see the same file in Dn (for rendering) than the File which goes in "production".
It should be tedious, errorful , and time consuming if you need to generate a dedicated file for the render.
I gues taht with smart options like "Layer Comp" that you can manage in a single file (with multiple artboards,) all the informatyion needed for the production and for rendering in Dimension. setting the visibility of some layers for one usage and some other for the other one in dedicated "Layer compositions".
For me, I would use it mainly as a pre-vis tool so that clients can see designs as they will actually appear when printed and folded. However, if it was possible to use Illustrator files (with dielines) as the image source when mapping in Dimensions, then you're also creating most of the artwork at the same time. It would also mean that only one 'live; file is required so it cuts down on duplication (exporting to .psd, etc.).
The Project Fantastic Fold is really looking amazing. But is this compatible with illustrator? I am a packaging designer and I am just keen to use this tool that would save so much time in terms of client presentation and artwork generation.
Illustrator 8.9.10 ... and the FOLDUP plug-in I use up to CS5 is only slightly improved. I wrote this in 2018.
Hey that looks really great. Will it be compatible with Illustrator? So a Design created in Illustrator with processcolors and spotcolors can be folded?
Will it be part of the Adobe CC?
Having some sort of asset generator built in as an automated workflow would be great.
The rotatable view of the dieline in its assembled state would be a game changer. I currently use LiveSurface Context for this sort of thing but it relies on 3D models provided by the software team, so developing custom dielines isn't possible. This would fix that major need.
I'm less concerned with dielines for packaging other than boxes. I saw that someone mentioned candy bars and shrink wrappers for bottles. I feel like Dimension already does these things effectively. The two things that would dramatically increase effectiveness for me would be 1) a wider assortment of packaging models (I currently have to hire a contractor to create 3D models of our rollstock plastic bags because nothing similar is available from Adobe's stock of models) and 2) if we could export the maps from Dimension after placing decals on a model. Even if we had to recreate the art in Illustrator because the map has been rasterized, it would at least give us the template for correct placement of art assets.
I'm a food packaging designer and that presentation looks fantastic. It would save so much time in terms of client presentation and artwork generation. At the moment I have to build a model in C4D and because the UV unwrapping is so complicated and time-consuming, I render a base model and apply textures in Photoshop using smart objects (Illustrator > Photoshop).
- Support for multipart elements: Often packaging consists of various parts/sections such as sleeve, fitting, lid, base, etc.
But for now, I'm really keen to use it and look forward to putting it through its paces.
Even if it's not completely related to packaging only, I was wondering if it is possible to work on an Import of AI files as decals with an automatic link of some layers to texture channel.
In packaging, you may have some graphics or lettering "printed" and also vernished and Embossed.
The vernish could be handled as a mask in a dedicated layer and the Embossing as a Normal file in a dedicated layer if it could be possible to have the relevant PS filter in AI.
With this, it should be really easy to refine the artwork in Ai if you have only one file to manage.