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Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), a global science and technology company, and Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) today announced they have signed a partnering agreement for Leidos to act as an expert service provider for the Fortinet Security Fabric portfolio of solutions. The agreement expands Leidos' depth and breadth of existing managed security services offerings.
Through this partnership Leidos will be positioned as the largest managed security service provider (MSSP) organization that is authorized to offer FortiSIEM services to date. Ideally suited to serve Fortune 1000 and federal government customers, FortiSIEM services provided by Leidos combine the capabilities of Security Operations Centers and Network Operations Centers into a unified Security Information and Event Monitoring solution to provide actionable analytics and enables information technology to tightly manage network security, performance and compliance across their global infrastructures. The partnership also enables both Leidos and Fortinet to leverage technology and talent to remain agile and adaptable in a constantly changing cyber threat landscape.
"We are very pleased and excited to partner with Fortinet at a time when it is critical to have the right technologies and resources to combat a fluid cyber threat landscape," said President of Leidos Cyber Inc., Bob Meindl. "Combing the Fortinet suite of technologies with Leidos' cyber expertise allows us to provide comprehensive cybersecurity services to protect our customers in today's threat environment."
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Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network - today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud, or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 300,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.
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Here's the new tree with modified texture co-ords. I couldn't replicate it in-game so I think it's something happening on your end. GLES20 texturing offset issue perhaps?
If still no good then send me the tree you were using before and I'll only modify the fork and lower leaves. Unless you are happy with your current tree.
Any luck with the bow?
I could rework it if you want, but I imagine you are pretty sick of it.
I see, that texture on gate is not ideal. I could not render this object in 3Ds max (everything was gray) and do not know why, house was OK...
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Our Verdict
As much as I love the Angry Birds franchise, the joy of flinging little birds at green pigs has waned as of late. Between Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio, and the disastrous Bad Piggies, Rovio clearly needs to explore new horizons for its physical puzzler. So the Finnish developers turned to the final frontier and the only franchise in less need of a new entry: Angry Birds Star Wars. In a nod to the first Star Wars film (Episode IV), you start the game with little red birds with blond hair. These are meant to represent series protagonist Luke Skywalker, and you first start out in battles with little Sandpeople-themed pigs. Luke will later develop the ability to use a lightsaber, giving the little red birds much more power. You'll also unlock a force-using Obi Wan bird, a gun-slinging Han Solo bird, and a hulky, growling Chewbacca bird. While adorable, Angry Birds Star Wars rarely approaches levels beyond mere gimmick. Sure, you're able to fling birds in both normal gravity and space areas, but aside from different backgrounds and costumery, the levels themselves feel stale, as if they already exist in previous Angry Birds installments. It's only when you utilize Obi Wan's force powers, take on Darth Vader, or utilize Han's blaster that the game really explores new game mechanics. Lasers can bounce off certain surfaces, creating opportunities for interesting ricochet attacks involving turrets or Han's blaster. Meanwhile, Obi Wan can force push most objects around the stage, meaning you'll need to experiment with how to best fling debris. And Darth Vader is just a pain—he's hard to kill, he stops Obi Wan's force powers, and throws other challenges your way. What a jerk. It's hard to knock a franchise that is built on fundamentally sound game mechanics: You fling your little birds, they crash into things, rinse, repeat. But with the promise and imagination of the Star Wars universe, its hard not to be a little bit disappointed in the offering so far. Perhaps the promised Hoth levels will push the game into some new directions beyond just new background designs and pigs in costumes.


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Major Anonymous account suspended by Twitter
YourAnonNews, a Twitter account used by members of Anonymous to relay messages pertinent to the hacktivist movement, has been suspended.
Twitter users aligned with Anonymous and other online collectives announced the suspension just shy of 12 noon EST on Wednesday, December 19. Minutes later, another account affiliated with the group reported that YourAnonNews was suspended for allegedly sharing links to personal information."You may not publish or post other people's private and confidential information," the @Anon_Central Twitter account says they were told by the social network.After over an hour, the YourAnonNews account was restored. The group returned to Twitter by posting a message they allegedly received from the Twitter Trust and Safety department confirming that sharing personal information was responsible for the suspension. YourAnonNews has received added attention in recent days following a campaign-gone-viral that has targeted the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), an infamous religious group that has planned to picket the memorials of the victims of last week's school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. Only hours after the massacre, members of the church said they'd be demonstrating outside of Sandy Hook Elementary School to protest the funerals of over two dozen people slain by 20-year-old shooter Adam Lanza. In response, Anonymous members asked others from within the international hacktivism collective to help silence the WBC's attempt to disrupt the memorial."We will not allow you to corrupt the minds of America with your seeds of hatred. We will not allow you to inspire aggression to the social factions which you deem inferior. We will render you obsolete. We will destroy you. We are coming," members of Anonymous said in a statement released over the weekend.As the operation against WBC escalated, members of Anonymous posted home addresses, cell phone contacts and Social Security numbers for leading figures within the church. As recently as Thursday morning, YourAnonNews and other Twitter accounts affiliated with the movement tweeted information regarding the suspected whereabouts of Westboro members who had already arrived in Newtown. The evening prior, members of the online trolling group Rustle League claimed to have hacked the YourAnonNews account. Members of Rustle League attributed themselves with hijacking the Anonymous account as posting a series of tweets directing users to x-rated imagery, although the statement cited by @Anon_Central suggests that it was the sharing of sensitive personal information pertaining to the church that triggered the suspension.Only days before the suspension, YourAnonNews announced that they had created a back-up account in case of such an event. Minutes after the original account was suspended, YANBackUP announced that they were requesting more information from Twitter.With over 700,000 registered followers, YourAnonNews is among the most widely cited Twitter accounts affiliated with the international hacktivism movement. As an unofficial conduit for a loose-knit hive-mind collective, YourAnonNews has been instrumental in announcing operations and missions led by Anonymous. Throughout 2012, those operations have been among the most daring in the movement's history, targeting governments and federal agencies not just in the United States but across the world.Following the January 2012 shut-down of the Megaupload.com file-storage site, members of Anonymous waged an online assault on the US Justice Department and the high-powered lobbyists who opposed the website. In that instance, Anons took credit for momentarily taking offline the websites for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the DoJ, the Recording Industry Associate of America (RIAA) and others.One month later, the WikiLeaks whistleblower site began publishing a massive trove of emails obtained by Anonymous from the Stratfor global intelligence firm. That correspondence has since provided first-hand accounts for several international news stories involving law enforcement corruption and mass surveillance.Barrett Brown, an activist who has formerly been linked to Anonymous, said, "The Stratfor operation may yield the most revelatory trove of information ever seized" by the collective.Later on in 2012, Anons helped orchestrate a mass operation to take down websites belonging to the Israeli Defense Forces and the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after his forces opened fire on civilians on the Gaza Strip. By taking the real-world war onto the Internet, Anonymous made headlines around the globe. When the FBI infiltrated the group and arranged for mass arrests earlier this year, YourAnonNews tweeted, "We don't have a leader . . . A movement against authority without leaders drives authority insane; they can't break down a movement by corrupting the leader.""Don't you get it by now? #Anonymous is an idea. #Anonymous is a movement. It will keep growing, adapting and evolving, no matter what," the account opined after the arrests of Anons. Following Wednesday's suspension, the back-up account wrote, "Remember, YAN isn't Anonymous… just a part. We move on."


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How the Iraq decision was made
The Italian dinner in Georgetown with Michelle Obama would have to wait.
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, jumped into President Barack Obama's limousine at the close of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit on Wednesday night. As the motorcade snaked its way through Washington, Dempsey briefed Obama on the deteriorating situation in Iraq. Rather than head out immediately for a rare night on the town, the president ended up in the Oval Office, weighing a military mission.
Over the next 24 hours, Obama had opened the next phase in his personal tug of war with Iraq, ordering airstrikes in a country he thought he had escaped.
( Also on POLITICO: Neocons to Obama: No half-measures)
Obama made the decision after three major meetings with his national security advisers from Wednesday night through Thursday afternoon, a senior administration official said Friday, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
The president received detailed assessments of the threat that Islamist militants posed to American interests and the consequences of not aiding the Yazidis, a religious and ethnic minority, who were trapped on a mountain surrounded by the extremists. He agreed on Wednesday night during his Oval Office meeting with Dempsey, national security adviser Susan Rice, chief of staff Denis McDonough and others that there would at least need to be a humanitarian response.
Only then did Obama head to dinner with the first lady and White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett at Fiola Mare, a high-end restaurant on the Potomac River waterfront in Georgetown.
But Thursday morning, the urgency to act in Iraq became clear: Obama's advisers warned that there would likely be a genocide.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama's liberal problem)
"I had not heard the word 'genocide' used in the Situation Room before," the official said. "That word has a lot of weight."
The reports from the intelligence community and the State Department were vivid and compelling, the official said: People were dying of hunger and thirst, women risked being enslaved and the existence of a religious minority looked imperiled. It more than met the legal definition of genocide, aides told Obama.
"While we have faced many difficult humanitarian challenges, this was in a different category," the official said. "This was qualitatively different from even the awful things we have confronted in different parts of the region because of the targeted nature, the scale of it, the fact this is a whole people. That kind of shakes you up, gets your attention."
After a 90-minute meeting Thursday morning, the president headed to Fort Belvoir to sign a veterans health bill, making no mention of the worsening conditions in northern Iraq or his private deliberations on what to do about it.
( Also on POLITICO: A test of genocide prevention)
But as soon as he returned to the White House, he convened another meeting in the Situation Room. It was then that he decided to go beyond just a humanitarian response to authorize airstrikes.
The major concern was the seizure of the Mosul Dam. If it were ever breached, the result would be catastrophic, causing the flooding of Baghdad and the Kurdish capital of Erbil, officials said.
"We were watching some metrics to have a sense of tipping points," one official said. "And one of them was very much the dam."
The discussion Thursday afternoon focused on the scope of the mission, with the president making clear that there would have to be strict parameters.
Obama opposed the Iraq war from the start, a position that boosted his national appeal when he ran for the Senate a decade ago, and he made ending the conflict a centerpiece of his 2008 presidential campaign. The last American troops left Iraq in 2011, an accomplishment that Obama touted throughout his reelection campaign as a promise delivered.
There would be no forces on the ground, and the mission would be defined narrowly: protecting American personnel and facilities, and addressing a humanitarian crisis, officials said.
"Part of deliberations yesterday were about refining the objective of the mission but also the limitations," the official said. "He did not want to create a slippery slope. He wanted to identify clear objectives."
When Obama stepped in front of the cameras Thursday night, the first wave of the U.S. operation had already begun — the dropping of food and water into the areas where the Yazidis were trapped.
At the time, however, airstrikes were still only a threat.
"There is no decision that I take more seriously than the use of military force," Obama said Thursday night in the State Dining Room. "Over the last several years, we have brought the vast majority of our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan. And I've been careful to resist calls to turn time and again to our military, because America has other tools in our arsenal than our military. We can also lead with the power of our diplomacy, our economy and our ideals.
"But when the lives of American citizens are at risk, we will take action," he said. "That's my responsibility as commander in chief. And when many thousands of innocent civilians are faced with the danger of being wiped out, and we have the capacity to do something about it, we will take action. That is our responsibility as Americans. That's a hallmark of American leadership. That's who we are."
By Friday morning, the military mission was underway.


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[PROPOSAL v2] Fix platform device irq domain support and gpio irq DT
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
== Description ==
Fix IRQ Domain DT support issues and gpio IRQ
Today the kernel have multiple issues arround the IRQ
* IRQ Domain platfrom driver support
Today if you register an irq domain via a platform driver and then use the irq
in DT such as this
eth0: ethernet at 30000000 {
compatible = "micrel,ks8851-mll";
reg = <0x30000000 0x1
0x30000002 0xff>;
interrupt-parent = <&pioD>;
interrupts = <21 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_BOTH>;
pinctrl-names = "default";
pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_board_eth0>;
status = "okay";
the irq in the platform resource will not be fill as the resolve is done at of_platform_populate
To fix this we need to resolve the irq at driver probe time.
* Multiple interrupt-parent support
Today if you need the irq from 2 interrupt controler it's impossible.
Such as a hw irq and a GPIO irq both provided via dt
To fix this implement a new property "interrupt-lines"
that will work in a same way as gpios by providing firt the phandle of the controller
and then the cell data
interrupt-lines = <&aic 0 4 0 & pioD 21 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_BOTH>;
* gpio irq DT
Today you need to use a gpio as IRQ you need to configure it and then use it
As a in the kernel we make the disctinction between standard IRQ and gpio IRQ.
This should have never been the case and need to be fix up widely.
By droping all the gpio_to_irq in the drivers and ONLY provide interrupts
== Related work ==
== Scope ==
I think this will take about 3 to 5 month depending on the discussion on the
kernel mainling list with an effort of about 240 to 300 hours.
== Contractor Candidates ==
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com>
== Comments ==
By Linus Walleij
Actually I have that problem today. An MMC card slot
with two IRQs for the traffic and another totally different
IRQ for the card insertion IRQ, sitting on a different controller,
and this one is not even a GPIO, so I cannot cheat and have
it as a GPIO that I then translate into an IRQ.
Overall Jean-Christophe's proposal is correctly pinpointing
some serious unhandled corner cases we have in DT land.
Best Regards,


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Boma, Connolly drop big bombs on Blue Devils
One sophomore hadn't played all night but came in and knocked down a big shot. Another sophomore had played most of the game and came through with a couple of big plays that pushed Dwight to a 58-53 victory over Peotone in an Interstate Eight Conference basketball game Friday night at Kresl Gymnasium.
Caleb Boma connected on a lead changing 3-pointer and then came up with huge steal that led to a pair of clutch free throws to give the Trojans some breathing room down the stretch.
"In the second half, you could almost see Caleb growing up right there on the court," DTHS head coach Eric Long said. "(Peotone) is as good a man-to-man team as there is out there and for him to handle the clutch situation as well as he did was absolutely big time."
Boma's triple came from the top of the key after the Trojans had worked the ball deep inside. Carson Banks had the ball down low and then kicked it out to a wide-open Boma, who drilled the shot that gave Dwight a 48-46 lead.
This came with 2:50 left in the game and about 30 seconds after the other sophomore had connected on his big shot.
Dwight was trailing 45-42 after Triston Dircks fouled out. He was the second DTHS player forced to ride the pines after picking up their fifth foul. Blake Huseman had fouled out 13 seconds earlier. An injury to another guard created a depth issue.
Devin Connolly solved the problem when he came in after sitting all night and calmly drained a 3-pointer from the corner to cut the DTHS deficit to 46-45 with 3:17 to go in the game.
Boma then hit his triple and, after Peotone head coach Cory Dillard used a timeout, came up with a steal and was fouled.
Boma canned both tosses to push Dwight's lead to 50-46. Connolly and Boma — as well as Ryley Christoff — each made two more charity tosses in the final 42 seconds to seal the win.
"When we had opportunities, we capitalized. That shows huge progress for a young team," Long said. "(Connolly) came in and knocked a 3 down and hit a couple of free throws in the end."
The ending was much more exciting to Dwight fans than the beginning, when the Trojans ran into trouble against the Blue Devils' defense. DTHS turned the ball over 10 times in the first quarter and 26 times for the game — but only three came in the fourth quarter.
"We've got to do a better job of taking care of the ball, but I thought late in the game was the best we took care of the ball," Long said. "That was a key to the win because we were shooting well from the line."
Peotone jumped out to an 18-8 lead in the quarter but began feeling the effects of a tightly called battle. Both teams reached the bonus before the first quarter concluded.
The Trojans only took 11 shots from the field in the first half primarily because they were either turning the ball over or going to the free throw line.
DTHS was 17 of 23 from the line in the first half and finished at 29-for-37 for the game.
"I thought this was a game, with the ups and downs, with the strangeness of play going on, you had to be mentally tough to keep the concentration level and I thought we did that," Long said.
Dwight's first "up" started with five seconds left in the first quarter when Huseman scored in transition to cut the deficit to 18-10. These were the first points of what became an 11-0 run.
Huseman's 3-pointer with 5:48 tied the game at 18-18 and Christoff made a free throw for Dwight's first lead. The game stayed close the rest of the way.
Boma matched his uniform number with 13 points to lead the Dwight (3-4, 1-2) scoring attack. Banks added 12 points and Huseman checked in with 10 markers. Jayson Powell had 7 points while Connolly and Christoff tallied 5 points apiece. Owen Pulver added 3.
Collin Irvin grabbed 8 rebounds as DTHS won the battle of the boards 30-24.
Adam Slager had 10 points and 7 rebounds for Peotone. Josh Vincent also had 10 points while Brady White and Andrew Marganski chipped in 8 points each.


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Lars Kynde is a composer and sound artist. He started playing cello and percussion as a child and has played ever since. After he graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen as a composer, he moved to the Netherlands to explore his interests in the relationship between music and visual art. To broaden his knowledge about visual art, he pursued a degree in ArtScience, a two-year interdisciplinary master programme, at the Royal Academy of Art in Hague. After a number of years living in The Netherlands, he is currently once again based in Copenhagen.
Lars Kynde is a composer that delights in creating the instruments on which his compositions are played - in fact these two aspects of music making are not so easily separated in his case and the invention of new instruments and the music created for them melt into surprising new forms. Kynde's works focus on the mutual influence of the music, the instrument and the notation system. By building physical sculptures, mechanical machines and three-dimensional scores he seeks new ways of constructing and comprehending musical structures. The instruments contain a duality that enables them to be presented both as instillations on exhibitions and as instruments in concerts.
Kynde often collaborates with artists in other fields to create a boarder range of musical experience. He has performed and exhibited extensively abroad, including in Mexico, Australia and most of the European Countries.
With inspiration from historical performance practices in combination with modern technologies and free imagination Kynde's works suggest an alternative basis for future music.
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In 1958, a schoolboy named Robert Leifert wrote to the author and humourist, James Thurber, and asked for some assistance with a school project. Sadly for Robert (or luckily for Robert, depending on your viewpoint) it seems he caught Thurber on a bad day, and before long the youngster was the proud owner of the following delightfully grumpy response.
Let's hope it was of some use.
(Source: Selected Letters of James Thurber; Image: James Thurber in 1954, via Wikipedia.)
Mr Robert Leifert
New York City, New York
January 4, 1958
Dear Robert,
Since a hundred schoolchildren a year write me letters like yours—some writers get a thousand—the problem of what to do about such classroom "projects" has become a serious one for all of us. If a writer answered all of you he would get nothing else done. When I was a baby goat I had to do my own research on projects, and I enjoyed doing it. I never wrote an author for his autograph or photograph in my life. Photographs are for movie actors to send to girls. Tell your teacher I said so, and please send me her name.
One of the things that discourage us writers is the fact that 90 per cent of you children write wholly, or partly, illiterate letters, carelessly typed. You yourself write "clarr" for "class" and that's a honey, Robert, since s is next to a, and r is on the line above. Most schoolchildren in America would do a dedication like the following (please find the mistakes in it and write to me about them):
To Miss Effa G Burns
Without who's help
this book could never
of been finished it,
is dedicated with
gartitude by it's
Show that to your teacher and tell her to show it to her principal, and see if they can find the mistakes.
Just yesterday a letter came in from a girl your age in South Carolina asking for biographical material and photograph. That is not the kind of education they have in Russia, we are told, because it's too much like a hobby or waste of time. What do you and your classmates want to be when you grow up—collectors? Then who is going to help keep the United States ahead of Russia in science engineering, and the arts?
Please answer this letter. If you don't I'll write to another pupil.
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"Can I have two tickets from the boundary of zone three to three bridges please? I've got an annual gold card."
He gives me two tickets from Blackheath, costing over £18, instead of £13.
When I question it, I'm told its because I've only got one annual gold card.
"But my wife has one too- she's travelling with me!"
"If I can't see it, you can't have it. It's policy".
So I cancelled both tickets, go and get my wife's card, and finally buy the correct tickets.
Why can't I choose the start and end location of any ticket I choose to purchase? With a single annual gold card, I'm entitled to up to three off peak discounted tickets if the other people are travelling with me.
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Mike Scaccia, the guitarist for Ministry and Rigor Mortis, died on Saturday night at the age of 47. Scaccia was performing onstage at the Rail Club in Fort Worth, Texas, as part of a 50th birthday celebration for Rigor Mortis singer Bruce Corbitt, when he collapsed. Shortly afterwards, he was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Scaccia had reportedly asked for the strobe lights in the club to be turned off during the performance moments before he collapsed with a seizure, according to the rock blog Blabbermouth.net
Ex-Ministry bassist says 'Ministry Movie' tough to watch
Scaccia was born in Babylon, N.Y., on July 14, 1965, and formed thrash metallists Rigor Mortis in 1983. Six years later, the guitarist was invited by Al Jourgensen to join Ministry. The first full-length Ministry studio recording to feature Scaccia was the group's most commercially successful release, 1992's "Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs," which spawned such industrial metal classics as "N.W.O." and "Jesus Built My Hotrod," and was supported by an appearance on Lollapalooza that same year.
Additionally, Scaccia appeared on recordings by a host of Ministry offshoot bands, including the Revolting Cocks, Lard, and Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters. The most recent Ministry album that Scaccia appeared on was this year's "Relapse."
Al Jourgenson collapses onstage in Paris
On Corbitt's Facebook page, the singer posted the following statement shortly after Scaccia's passing: "My brother is gone! The only reason I am who I am is because of this man. If it wasn't for him I wouldn't even be in a band. RIP Mike Scaccia! The greatest guitar player I ever knew!"
Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen later posted a statement on the band's Facebook page:
"I just lost my lil' brother and my best friend – the 13th Planet compound is devastated, completely in shock and shattered," the note reads, in part. "Mikey was not only the best guitar player in the history of music, but he was a close, close, close part of our family – and I just lost a huge chunk of my heart today. Our lives are forever changed. Life without Mikey is like orange juice without pulp – kind of bland. I have no words to express what this guy meant to me, my family, my career. . . . Everything!"
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Simple frame-and-panel doors in 30 minutes
In the time it takes to sit through a sitcom on TV, you can have some real fun creating sturdy, no-fuss doors.
Simple frame-and-panel doors in 30-minutes
Frame-and-panel doors add class to any project, but they don't have to add a lot of assembly time. Using the straightforward process detailed here, you can crank out great-looking doors for many applications, including furniture, cabinets, and built-ins. Frames use 3⁄4 "-thick stock with 1⁄4 " panels in various materials and veneers. A general-purpose saw blade will do the job, although a dado stack cuts smoother tenons.
Started with a well-tuned tablesaw
Take a few minutes to tune your tablesaw before cutting any project parts. Check that the fence and miter slots run parallel to the blade. Attach an extension to the miter gauge, and use a drafting triangle to square the gauge to the blade. Then lock your blade at precisely 90° to the tabletop. Okay, let's start the stopwatch.
How to determine frame-and-panel door dimensions
To size an inset door for a specific opening, first subtract 1⁄8 " from the size of the opening to allow a 1⁄16 " reveal around the door. Then figure the part sizes as follows:
*The length of the stiles A equals the door height.
*The rail length B equals the door width minus two times the stile width C plus 3⁄4 " for the two 3⁄8 " tenons.
*The panel width D equals the length of B minus 1⁄16 ".
*The panel length E equals just less than the stile length A minus two times the rail width C plus 3⁄4 ".
Rip the rails and stiles to width
Step 1
Calculate your door dimensions using the plan, slide 2. From 3⁄4 " stock, rip all rail-and-stile stock to width C (2" wide in the photo). Cut extra stock just in case you make a mistake. See slide 3.
Success secrets: For uniform color and grain match between the frame parts, cut them from the same board. The technique we'll use later to cut grooves and tenons requires stock exactly 3⁄4 " thick, so thickness plane all frame stock at one time. Then take advantage of these doors' easy assembly, and complete the remaining steps before the wood has time to move.
Cut the stiles, then the rails
Step 2
Attach a spacer block near the front of the fence with double-faced tape, and lock the fence where the distance between the block and blade equals the stile length A. Cut the stiles, re-adjust the fence, and cut the rails B.
Success secrets: Because the workpiece slides free of the fence-mounted spacer block before you cut, there's little danger of kickback. Cut your longest frame parts (usually the stiles) first. Why? If you make a measurement mistake, you can reuse the miscut piece for the shorter rails.
Test the blade height in scrap
Step 3
Adjust the blade height to 3⁄8 " and set the fence to center the blade on the edge of a frame scrap. Make a test cut and measure the depth. If your blade has alternating-bevel teeth that leave an uneven groove bottom, sand it flat.
Success secrets: Grooves, as illustrated on slide 3, can be cut in fewer passes with a regular blade instead of a thin-kerf blade. Once you perfect the depth, lock the blade height to ensure uniform cuts on each piece. Reduce tear-out by using a zero-clearance tablesaw insert.
Test-cut for groove width
Step 4
Move the fence away from the blade about 1⁄16 ". Cut one groove in scrap, then turn it end-for-end for a second pass. Measure the width of the groove, and gradually move the fence away from the blade until the two cuts produce a 1⁄4 "-wide groove. (Every fence movement doubles the width of the groove.)
Success secrets: Measure your panel thickness before cutting grooves into the frame. Actual panel stock thickness may vary slightly from 1⁄4 ", especially if you try some of the decorative panels. You can increase or decrease the groove width up to 1⁄16 " to accommodate your panel thickness.
Groove the rails and stiles
Step 5
Cut a kerf on one edge of a stile or rail. Rotate the part end-for-end and make the second pass to complete the groove, as in Step 4, slide 7. Repeat both cuts for the remaining rails and stiles.
Success secrets: For consistency, use a feather board as shown. Feed stock over the blade as quickly as possible to avoid burning the inside of the groove, which can reduce the strength of the glue joint. (Scorched surfaces do not absorb glue well.)
Plan your panels
Step 6
For maximum visual impact, center prominent grain shapes, such as cathedral pattern. To visualize the final look, mask out the width of the panel using two strips of cardboard spaced apart the same width as the panel. If necessary, add two more pieces of cardboard to mark the top and bottom of the panel. Then mark the area to be cut.
Success secrets: If your plywood has a glue line on its face, avoid it on the panel or center it as a pattern element.
Cut panels to size
Step 7
Using the marks from slide 9 as a guide, cut the panel to size.
Success secrets: To prevent tear-out, use a zero-clearance throat insert. If cross-cutting tear-out extends more than 3⁄8 " in from the ends of the panel, replace or resharpen your saw blade.
Cut test tenons in scrap
Step 8
Install a dado blade slightly wider than 3⁄8 ", and raise it to just greater than 1⁄4 " high. Attach the spacer block used in Step 2, slide 5, to the front of the fence; then set the fence to leave a 3⁄8 " gap between the spacer block and the left side of the blade. Butt the end of a frame scrap against the spacer block before dadoing each face.
Success secrets: To reduce tear-out, use a zero-clearance dado-blade insert.
Test-fit the tenons
Step 9
Check the tenon fit on a stile groove. If the tenon is too thick, raise the blade height, and recut until it fits. Now check the tenon length. To cure gaps at the groove bottom, nudge the fence away from the blade. To eliminate gaps at the tenon shoulders, move the fence closer to the blade. Then cut tenons on the ends of each rail.
Success secrets: A too-thick tenon can be fixed easier than one that's too thin. Anticipate minor differences in groove widths by leaving a little extra to be removed in the next step.
Fine-tune the tenon thickness
Step 10
To thin slightly oversize tenons, make a sanding block by attaching 100-grit, adhesive-backed sandpaper to one face of a hardboard scrap. Sand using the same number of passes on each side of the tenon to keep it centered.
Success secrets: This also eliminates minor scoring from the dado blade, producing a stronger glue joint. By applying sandpaper to just one face of the scrap, you avoid marring the tenon shoulders.
Glue and assemble the frame
Step 11
Dry-fit the joints with the panel to confirm the correct panel size. Then glue one tenon on each rail, and seat them at the ends of a stile. Insert the panel, glue the other two rail tenons, and add the other stile. Clamp and check for square by measuring diagonally for equal distances between the corners.
Success secrets: To keep loose panels from rattling, apply a spot of glue to only the centers of both rail grooves.
Optional step: Sand the grooves flat
If the groove bottom is ridged from the blade's teeth, lower the blade height about 1⁄64 ". Then attach a strip of adhesive-backed sandpaper to the edge of a 7⁄32 "-thick hardboard scrap, and use it to sand away the ridges. Sand with the same number of strokes in each groove for consistent depth.
To eliminate this step, cut grooves with a flat-tooth ripping blade or high-quality dado set. Both leave fewer ridges or score marks on the groove bottom.
Use different materials for different looks
Just because these doors are quick to make doesn't mean they cramp your creativity. To go beyond the basics, rout a cove, round-over, or ogee profile around the front edges of the assembled door. (Do the rails first to limit tear-out.)
For contrast, mix wood species, such as a walnut panel in a maple frame. Then try one of the combinations shown above or one of the following panels:
- Punched tin alone or over hardboard.
- Mirrors or decorative glass.
Tip of the Day
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sa.global inaugurates new development centers in Shanghai and Hong Kong
Shanghai – October 6, 2008
sa.global, a Global Microsoft Dynamics solutions provider announced the establishment of two new development centers in Hong Kong and Shanghai. The two new development centers of sa.global in China, will assist mid sized and large organisations to effectively and efficiently handle all business operations and processes related to management of finance, projects, customers relations, human resources, and other business sectors using Microsoft Dynamics products.
sa.global as part of their strategic expansion program will be able to manage all business operations in Eastern Asian region with greater efficiency and also expand their client base in the region. sa.global will now be able to provide local support to their global implementations and to customers who look at achieving business efficiency through Microsoft ERP products.
Stephen James, the CEO of sa.global on the launch of the development centers said "Hong Kong and Shanghai are both strategically well placed to provide our expertise across the East Asian region. Our setup here along with our deep talent pool of Microsoft Dynamics professionals can assist companies achieve their goals using our Microsoft Dynamics product & service range which can be tailored to their requirements."
sa.global's new development centers in Hong Kong and Shanghai aims to provide its customers a time-to-market and high quality business solutions through its wide range of Microsoft Dynamics products.
According to Stephen, "Most organisations now perceive the competitive advantages of Microsoft Dynamics products which help them to analyze and learn more about their business and make better business decisions. sa.global visualizes the evolution of these organisations business requirements and tailor Microsoft Dynamics products accordingly to suit their business needs."
sa.global through their above new establishments seeks to provide customer satisfaction, profitability, operational efficiency and business transparency through Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions.
About sa.global
sa.global provides global solutions and services for Microsoft Dynamics™ AX customers. Established since 1990 with implementation experience in over 50 countries worldwide, our reach extends across the globe via our offices in 5 continents. Our Centers of Excellence in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America provide consistent roll out and support wherever you are located.
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It's that time again. New topic to write about on our outside blogs.
Topic: Historic Homes and Buildings
Ideas for this post
- Historic districts
- Individual Historic home
- Historic buildings
- Historic landmarks
- Historic rules specific to your area
- Tax rebates for restoring a historic home
- Historic Societies
- Prepare a post that will go on your outside blog - if you want, you can post it and edit it later with others blogs.
- Post with links, the title of your post, your name and your area (keyword rich) ex. Check out this post by Laurie Manny if you need inspiration: Come home to Historic Long Beach CA
Plan to Add section in blog for something like:
- Historic Homes around the Nation
- Other Resources on Historic Homes;
Deadline: Midnight September 22, 2007 (Saturday) - then we can edit them with everyone's links and info
NOTE: I will have a separate post for everyone to post their links to when done- Then we can update our own post as we go.
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Oh, good. Just what the world of women's health needed: Presidential candidate and cyborg Mittens Romney has inserted his large, square head into the middle of the Planned Parenthood/Susan G.Komen debate. And, of course, he thinks Komen did the right thing.
The biggest public relations disaster in Komen history was a good move, argued the former governor of Massachusetts on a Minnesota radio show. And if he were elected, he'd defund Planned Parenthood himself, because the organization supports abortions with taxpayer money.
There are many flavors of wrong in Romney's statements, but let's start with the most obvious: Susan G. Komen for the Cure is incredibly unpopular right now. According to a recently conducted poll, 53% of respondents disagreed with Komen's decision, and 49% of participants said the move would make them less likely to contribute to Komen in the future. In contrast, only 39% of participants said they agreed with Komen's decision, and only 29% said the decision made them more likely to contribute. Centrism!
As the Huffington Post notes, Romney sought the endorsement of Planned Parenthood back when he needed to pretend to be pro-choice in order to win an election. He even told a Planned Parenthood survey that if elected, he'd use Massachusetts taxpayer money to fund abortions for low income women. Now, obviously, he's overcompensating in the other direction, acting so nuttily right wing that he's alienating an entirely new audience.
Mitt Romney wants to be President so bad that it hurts a little to watch. It's like watching Christina Aguilera try to sing "At Last" at Etta James's funeral, or watching any American Idol contestant ever try to sing a Christmas song.
It's one thing to be on the wrong side of history, but it's another thing entirely to declare, after history has already happened, you'd choose to be on the wrong side, even with the advantage of hindsight. Did Mitt Romney also place a large bet on the New England Patriots to win it all on Monday morning?
Mitt Romney: Susan G. Komen was right to cut Planned Parenthood [HuffPo]


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Companies, agencies, still struggling with big data's learning curve
Even as enterprises launch big data initiatives, many face gaps in computing power, analytics and workforce skills, CompTIA survey finds.
Most organizations need to address a range of issues before launching big data projects, starting with getting a handle on what big data actually is, according to a report released by the Computing Technology Industry Association.
CompTIA's Big Data Insights and Opportunities study finds low levels of familiarity with big data among IT and business executives surveyed. Only 37 percent of them report being very familiar with the concept of big data.
Approximately one in five businesses claim to have a big data initiative underway, while 36 percent plan to start one in the next 12 months, according to CompTIA officials, who conducted online surveys of 500 IT and business executives and 435 executives in U.S. IT firms in July 2012.
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Big data is defined as a volume, velocity, and variety of data that exceeds an organization's storage or compute capacity for accurate and timely decision making.
"As expected for an emerging technology with an evolving definition, many executives are still moving along the big data learning curve," said Tim Herbert, vice president of research with CompTIA, a non-profit association for the IT industry.
Although government IT executives accounted for less than 5 percent of those surveyed by CompTIA, other studies indicate that government executives are struggling with some of the same issues related to using big data for real-time decision-making as their private-sector counterparts.
While agencies are looking to leverage big data, most lack the data storage, computational power and personnel they need to take advantage of opportunity, according to a study released in May 2012 by MeriTalk, which was sponsored by NetApp. The report, "The Big Data Gap," revealed that federal IT professionals believe big data can improve government but that the its real potential is locked away in unused or inaccessible data.
Federal IT professionals agree there are many benefits to big data, but the technology and applications needed to successfully leverage big data are still emerging, the MeriTalk report stated. Sixty percent of civilian agencies and 42 percent of Defense Department and intelligence agencies said they are just now learning about big data and how it can work for their agency.
Accounts of large retailers, government agencies, health care providers, utility companies and other organizations doing impressive things with big data offer a glimpse of the potential of this trend. But the reality is that most organizations have far more basic data-related needs, said CompTIA's Herbert.
"Not every business will need a big data strategy," Herbert said. "But just about every business will need to effectively aggregate, store, manage and analyze the data they do have, regardless of its volume, velocity or variety," he said.
Slightly more than one-third of respondents surveyed by CompTIA say they are exactly or very close to where they want to be in managing and using data. In relatively few areas do businesses report proficiency – just 20 percent of respondents say they are currently doing well at analyzing Web traffic patterns; 15 percent at measuring e-mail marketing campaign effectiveness; and 12 percent at social media monitoring.
"Basic work needs to be done before many companies are ready for a big data initiative," Herbert noted. "Many companies are still struggling with analytics, storage, backup and business continuity."
The CompTIA study reveals a number of other data-related challenges:
• Nearly three in four companies report a high or moderately high degree of data silos within their organization, making it difficult to view data holistically.
• Many do not have a complete or accurate understanding of their data profile, especially as it relates to unstructured data, such as audio and video files and social streams of data.
• Just one in three companies have a comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery plan in place.
As companies work to improve data utilization and move closer to realizing the possibilities of big data, they also will have to contend with the possibility of gaps in workforce skills, the report states.
Herbert noted that big data initiatives often require bringing together technical, analytical, statistical and creative thinking skills. Unfortunately, these skill sets have been somewhat compartmentalized, a situation many companies will need to address, he said.
Because of the complexities with many aspects of big data, many businesses will also turn to outside experts for assistance in meeting their objectives. Over the next two years, 28 percent of respondents indicated they plan to contract with an IT solution provider or vendor for services ranging from cloud storage integration, data center management or predictive analytics application deployment, according to the report.
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1513 companies, including many wind energy players, have joined a call on EU governments to set an ambitious renewables target for 2030.
Gathering in Barcelona for the industry's annual event, EWEA 2014, wind energy companies lent their support to a declaration addressed to EU heads of state and government, due to discuss 2030 climate and energy targets in ten days' time in Brussels.
"An ambitious target, binding on Member States, is the most cost efficient way to realise our goal of 100 percent renewables in the long term. Not to mention boosting a sector which provides 250,000 people with work in Europe", stated EWEA 2014 conference chair and managing director of ENERCON, Hans-Dieter Kettwig.
"This is a critical moment for the industry", pointed out European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) CEO Thomas Becker. "Will EU decision makers think long term and choose a framework that allows this sector to provide economic growth and energy security, or will they give in to the short-term interest of the fossil fuel industry?"
The EWEA Annual Event 2014 runs from 10 to 13 March in Barcelona.
More information: www.ewea.org/annual2014


text: JulyDiaz 2797 Posted February 13, 2014 Things get grizzly as Andy Daly & Matt Gourley bring us the next podcast pilot hosted by Broadcaster and Game Show Host Chip Gardner. With his trusty longtime announcer Tip Thompson, Chip & Tip will recall past game show failures, play some of their favorite games from over the years, and share tips & recommend chips to listeners in a segment called Chip's Tips & Tip's Chips. Plus, Chip will debate formidable opponent Carol Channing for the honorary position of Mayor of Hollywood and we are taken through a day in the life of a feeble-minded man named Chocolate Pudding in Chocolate Pudding Does Whatever The Fuck He Wants. If you're in Los Angeles, don't miss a LIVE taping of The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project with Irish storyteller Patrick McMahon on Tuesday, March 11th at Molly Malone's Irish Pub. Go to http://www.mollymalonesla.com/ for more info! 1 Share this post Link to post


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A useful definition of metadata is contained in the publication of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), called Understanding Metadata:
Metadata is structured information that describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use, or manage an information resource. Metadata is often called data about data or information about information.Metadata can be either structural or descriptive. I believe here, we are talking about structural metadata or the design and specifications of data structures, not the particular content of the individual instances of application data. In this sense the description of the Meta-genealogy becomes the basis for standardization, not the other way around. If we wait for some agreement on standardization, we will never obtain the objective of providing an accommodating structural metadata.
I think a simple example helps to start the concept of the difficulty of talking about standards without the underlying structural metadata. Nearly all of the currently available genealogical database programs use a naming structure that has spaces for a surname and a given or first name. Some of the programs resolve the issue of a middle name by labeling the first data entry blank as "First Names." In addition, many of the programs provide places for a prefix or title and a suffix or other name. So what do you do with a name such as
Raul Ortega Rodriguez
Do you have a separate version of the program with an accommodation for Spanish surnames or do you simply ignore the problem and provide a "one size fits all" solution based on English surname patterns? This example may be trivial, but the idea is to define a metaname field that will contain every instance of naming practices in every kinship structure. To see why this this is necessary, simply ask this question about the name above: What is the surname? Which of the two names is the one a genealogist would need to search on? Is the answer both names?
In this sense, a workable metadata approach to genealogy would be culturally neutral. Avery interesting attempt at creating such a system is that developed by the commentator, Tony Proctor, on his website http://www.familyhistorydata.parallaxview.co/home where he is developing the STEMMA data model.
However, I am not just talking about a system that allows developers to implement cross-cultural data transfers, I believe we need to develop a more fundamental way of looking at the larger world wide context of creating a universal family tree structure. Not in the sense that we create a centralized collection but allowing the relationships between the data components to be restructured through continuous adaptation to additional data. The closest structure that currently reflects this ability is wiki-based. But even wiki-based systems can bog down in cultural specific network connections.
The beginning of a discussion in this regard should consider some of what has already been accomplished with large online databases. For a review of the current status see the following:
Hillmann, Diane I., and Elaine L. Westbrooks. Metadata in Practice. Chicago: American Library Association, 2004.


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We essentially have a financial illiteracy epidemic on our hands right now. The events of the past few years have proven how little most of us know about responsible money management, and it seems that our children know even less. – Founder and CEO of CardHub
As most people know, following through on New Year's resolutions is often harder than it sounds — a lot harder.
According to How Stuff Works, a website popular for its insights into the mundane inner workings of daily life most of us take for granted, 77 percent of Americans give up on their New Year's resolutions before even taking the first step toward trying to fulfill them.
"One of the most common reasons we break our New Year's resolutions is that we get a little overzealous when we make them and we over-commit," Maria Trimarchi writes on HowStuffWorks.com. "And as a result, 40 percent of us blame our busy schedules for our lack of follow-through."
A busy life is simply something most Americans have to deal with. Yahoo Finance reported last June that 65 percent of Americans say they are not able to make time for themselves at least once a day, despite the fact that 98 percent of those same respondents said that doing so is very important.
As New Year's resolutions begin to drop off of the radar, making sure your personal finances are in order should hopefully continue as a top priority and not be tossed out with some of the more frivolous goals.
To help you stay on track for this year's financial goals, DeseretNews.com had the chance to talk with a few financial experts about some fundamental financial goals that, if properly executed, might set the stage for a better year financially.
Getting out of debt
First and foremost, the experts we spoke to emphasized the importance of getting out of debt.
According to a report by CardHub, Americans chalked up close to $11.9 billion in new credit card debt during the third quarter of 2013. As debt continues to be a growing concern among financial advisors, it's no wonder that CardHub's founder and CEO Odysseas Papadimitriou suggests that eliminating the personal debt crisis should be in the forefront of everyone's mind this year.
"Given how corrosive credit card interest is to investing and retirement planning as well as how vulnerable the lack of an emergency fund makes us to the vicissitudes of the economy, paying off amounts owed should be a major priority in the New Year," Papadimitriou told DeseretNews.com in an email.
Improve your child's financial literacy
Financial concerns shouldn't be limited to the big kids only.
As Neale Godfrey wrote in the Huffington Post on Jan. 8, financial literacy is "the key to a financially secure and independent future for our children."
But as Godfrey also points out, most schools in America aren't fitting the bill: "The task falls on parents," she wrote.
"We essentially have a financial illiteracy epidemic on our hands right now," Papadimitriou also said in the email. "The events of the past few years have proven how little most of us know about responsible money management, and it seems that our children know even less."
Teach by example
The best way to teach is by example, and what better place is there to show children how it's done than in the home, and with the home?
John Bodrozic, co-founder of the home-management web tool HomeZada, has a few pointers for organizing and cost-cutting home maintenance, a major regular expense that oftentimes can get out of hand.
"Keeping up with routine maintenance keeps your equipment running longer which saves on replacement costs," Bodrozic told DeseretNews.com. "It also keeps the home running efficient and in a healthy manner."
According to Bodrozic, one of the best ways to keep up with the many home improvement projects that might pop up in 2014 is to create a property maintenance calendar. Doing so might just be the difference you need to maintain the value of your home.
Bodrozic also suggests keeping close tabs on all home related expenses, including "understanding the difference between what the purchase price was, the tax assessed value, any appraised value for a refinance, and the insured amount to re-build the home."
According to an Echo Research survey, roughly 72 percent of Americans in 2013 said they were planning on doing at least one home improvement project that year — everything from remodeling to basic repairs. If the same is to be said for 2014, curbing any unnecessary home expenses could lift a huge financial burden, and possibly be the difference between a firm financial foundation, and a crumbling infrastructure.
Of course, there are plenty more steps to consider while working toward a more financially secure 2014, but hopefully these steps will provide a stable start.
JJ Feinauer is a graduate of Southern Virginia University and a content writer for the Moneywise page on DeseretNews.com. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com, Twitter: @jjfeinauer.


text: Because the Arduino is in such high demand for producing multiple musical tones at the same time; [Jeremy Blum] has successfully figured out the math and other necessaries that will take your once previously single tone producing MCU and turn it into a 5 tone producing machine. unsurprisingly its really just some creative use of PWM control but it all works out in the end anyway and helps prevent you from purchasing additional sound generating chips. This truly does open up some new doors, as [Jeremy] shows with his still in production thingamakit like project: ReacXion.


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Jina Lee
Jina prepared a special series in the occasion of the windows gallery in Amsterdam:
Gold in the Eyes of the Artist
her works are
stone powder with gold, Korean water colors with gold and Acrylic with gold on the Japanese paper.
Short bio:Her unique work was exhibited with success in Korea. She than set her sights on broadening her exposure. For more than eight years now, Jina has lived and painted throughout China, traveling as far as the Xinjiang province in the Northwest.
Jina likes birds, which are found in each work she creates, whether as obvious figures in the foreground or as subtle sweeping lines behind the central figure(s). The avian motif represents Jina as an individual, as well as linking earthly life to less tangible realities, and to another common theme, that of dreaming. The power of dreams is represented by circular clouds swirling through the lives of the subject, who often stands with eyes closed. This dream may be a fantasy, a wish for the future, or a road to destiny. Daisies often grow at the feet of Jina's subjects, showing personal strength and the power to overcome difficult challenges. Finally, the theme of Family is perhaps the most obvious throughout her works, with many of her paintings including her real-life parents and loved ones. These pieces emanate great warmth and show the tender link between parents and children.
Her work encompasses a dynamic relationship between subtlety and passion, as well as simplicity and boldness, and bears a strong heritage of the traditions of Korean watercolor and 'Chae saek hua (a painting style using rich colors made from stone powder). Combining these with a deep understanding of early European Renaissance portraits, and the Gongbi style of Chinese water-ink painting, Jina has brought new depth and dimension to such themes as love, longing, and loss; and to family, nature, and soul. Jina's creations are an intimate mixture of the love and vision in her life, and of naturally vibrant, hand-made pigments. She spreads her story vividly and richly over multi-layered "Hanji" paper


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Interview with Sandra Masters
Susana: Why did you decide to write Regency romance?
Sandra: I was an only child whose parents both worked. Before and after school, I was alone, and the only reading materials my parents had was the book Heidi and The Encyclopedia Britannica. You can imagine that the Encyclopedia was dry reading. History intrigued me, particularly the historical period of the Regency era. At the age of thirteen, after a brief stint in a convent in New Jersey, I accepted that the life of a novice nun was not my calling. Interestingly, when I arrived there in Morristown, the convent was an old historical mansion with parquet floors and grand staircases, not mention a soaring ceiling, usually found in Regency mansions.
Visions of dukes, duchesses, viscounts, earls, danced in my head. So I kept on writing. I sometimes think that in another life, I was born during the Regency period. I've never created a duke I couldn't love.
Online classes, seminars, conferencing, monthly meetings, networking, etc. over the past five years made me realize I had to study the craft. Decades later, when I decided that to see my name in print was a goal before I left the planet, I broke through the ceiling. My debut novel was Once Upon a Duke, released July 14, 2015. I've been on a marvelous journey ever since, with my fourth book in The Duke Series whose release date is November 4, 2016, The Duke's Magnificent Bastard.
Susana: When do you write?
Sandra: Writing to me is not a pastime or a way to make money, it is an obsession. I write twelve to thirteen hours a day, every day, and then I read in the wee time of a morning, which doesn't leave too much time to clean the house. The dust puppies will always be there.
Susana: What is the genre of your new story The Duke's Magnificent Bastard?
Sandra: This novel is a multi-cultural Regency romance story of a seventeen-year-old Anglo-West Indian bastard, Thorn Wick, now acknowledged by his father, The Duke of Althorn, who was never made aware of his birth. Our hero admires the ward of his father from afar, an aristocratic flirtatious English lady, Alicia, who has designs on him until the reality of loving Thorn too much almost destroys her. Throw in our noble Duke, an evil witch doctor, a Barbados tribal chieftain intent on redemption, horse racing for the Regent, amazing "heavenly" Argamak Turkmen horses, a conspiracy to bring down the monarchy, and our plot thickens. Lust, desire, passion all conflict to epic proportions. Honor, truth, and justice test his values. Just when he starts to believe in fairy tales, another obstacle looms to thwart his plans. And then there's love!
Susana: Where did you get the idea for this story?
Sandra: Ever since I can remember, the subject of bastardy fascinated. I read John Jakes eight-book series that spanned generations and centuries and decided I wanted to create a 'magnificent' bastard of my own.
Susana: How does Thorn react to the stigma?
Sandra: In 1820 Regency England, there is the stigma attached to our hero, Thorn Wick. Yanked from the West Indies, the half-breed, is transported to London, England where he is considered illegitimate. Can anyone imagine the emotions that consumed him? Except for the noble duke's recognition and that of the family who supports him, acceptance is difficult. Thorn fights against all the odds.
Prepare to be transported from island life in Barbados to aristocratic England and then back to Barbados where stunning revelations wrack our hero's world.
Susana: What stunning revelations?
Sandra: Without spoiling the story for readers, all I can say is that there is a native uprising against foreign plantation owners, the discovery of the truth about Thorn's mother's death, and a flight to save his life as he swims out to a waiting ship bound for England and a bad storm.
Susana: Thank you for allowing me to be a part of Susana's Parlour.
Now, for the readers, I'd love to ask them what they like to see in a Regency romance!
About The Duke's Magnificent Bastard
After three years in England, Thorn Wick, the duke's bastard son, perfectly flawed, still fights for acceptance in his father's world as a renowned golden horse trainer. Just when he starts to believe in fairy tales, another obstacle looms to thwart his plans.
Alicia Montgomery, ward of the duke, is in love with Thorn. Strong willed and adventurous, she determines she can convince him to admit his feelings until the reality of loving Thorn too much almost destroyed her.
On a dangerous mission to Barbados at the request of his father, Thorn is stunned when secrets are revealed about his mother. Will Thorn extract revenge for the foul deed?
Can Alicia quell Thorn's demons and prove to him love can pave the way to their happiness?
Can Thorn relinquish his past because he now has a present and a future? Will he accept the man he has become? Will he return to his father and Alicia and fulfill their destiny?
Coming November 4th, 2016, available for pre-order now at Amazon.
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About the Author
From a humble beginning in Newark, NJ, retired business executive Sandra Masters had a short stay at a convent in Morristown, NJ, to the board rooms of NYC to the ballrooms of the Regency period. Spicy Sensual Seduction with Swagger.


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2011 - 4th of July Fireworks - Derry NH
Taken from the top of the bleachers at the Pinkerton Academy High School track. You can see the Pinkerton Academy bell tower at the bottom of most of the pictures. It looks as if the fireworks are launching right out of the tower in some of the pictures. Fireworks are launched from Hood Middle School.Read More
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ESPN hopes Braud, Dodd stories turn tide
NEW YORK - ESPN's news-making coverage this past week on baseball MVP Ryan Braun and another alleged case of sexual abuse by a sports figure are a boost and, no doubt, relief to the network's journalists after a tough month.
Critics roughed up the sports network for its handling of abuse stories involving former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and ex-Syracuse basketball assistant Bernie Fine. And some in sports wonder whether a network that pays millions of dollars in rights fees to televise sports events can critically report controversial sports stories. ESPN says it can.
"There is some impetus to do more enterprise and investigative reporting," said Vince Doria, ESPN's vice president and director of news. "That's an important area for the company."
ESPN broke the story on Saturday that Milwaukee Brewers slugger and reigning National League MVP Braun had tested positive for a substance banned by baseball and is fighting to avoid a 50-game suspension.
A day earlier, ESPN's Tom Farrey reported that two former youth basketball players accused ex-Amateur Athletic Union president Robert "Bobby" Dodd of molesting them as children. One of the accusers, Ralph West, said he came to ESPN after reading the grand jury allegations against Sandusky and sought out Farrey because of a book the reporter wrote on amateur athletics.
Most in-depth or investigative reporting on ESPN is featured on either the daily show "Outside the Lines," particularly its weekend edition, or the occasional series "E:60," which focuses on longer-form, off the news storytelling.
The network just hired Don Van Atta Jr., a former New York Times investigative reporter. Among its other prominent reporters are Mark Fainaru-Wada, who wrote "Game of Shadows" about steroid charges against Barry Bonds, former New York Daily News reporter T.J. Quinn and Paula Lavigne, who has looked into health issues in sports. Ten journalists are specifically assigned to ESPN's enterprise unit, with another four attached to "E:60."
Both breaking news and investigative reporting efforts were faulted in ESPN's response to the Sandusky and Fine stories.
In the days after the lurid grand jury report that made Sandusky a household name, ESPN was criticized for being slow to grasp the story's significance and follow up on its threads. Sara Ganim, a reporter from the Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa., was widely regarded as the toughest and most aggressive reporter on the story.
It took three days before ESPN "finally seemed consistently to ask the right questions and find the appropriate moral outrage," wrote Jason Fry and Kelly McBride of the journalism think tank the Poynter Institute. Both are working as ESPN ombudsmen. Some of ESPN's early coverage, such as a blog post that discussed how the scandal would affect Penn State's football recruiting, seemed ill-timed considering the more important questions about damaged youths, they noted.
"This was a story that I don't think anyone terribly distinguished themselves on, with the exception of Sara Ganim," Doria said.
He believes perceptions rather than reality fueled some of the impressions. For example, ESPN had several reporters on the scene, but seemed flatfooted when it didn't have a truck able to feed live pictures when students spontaneously protested head coach Joe Paterno's firing, in contrast to some cable news networks, he said.
ESPN was first on the air with a story about molestation allegations against Syracuse's Fine. As the story developed, more people wondered why ESPN wasn't reporting on the charges eight years earlier.
The network in 2003 investigated a former Syracuse ball boy's claims against Fine. Like the Syracuse Post Standard, which was looking into the same charges, the story wasn't reported at the time because no one backed up the charges. Both organizations went public in 2011 when a second person told his own story of alleged abuse. It also came to light that ESPN had for years a tape of Fine's wife discussing the alleged abuse with the first accuser, although with a lack of specificity.
Critics, including the ombudsmen, suggested ESPN gave up pursuing the initial story too quickly - a decision that could have serious implications if alleged abuse continued in the intervening years.
"We do not believe that ESPN acted with gross negligence," Fry and McBride wrote, "but rather a lack of persistence."
Doria concedes ESPN acted cautiously following the Fine story, primarily because of the seriousness of the allegations and the damage that could be done if the ball boy's story proved to be untrue. Whether more could have been done with the audio recording is a fair discussion to have, he said.
"We get a lot of scrutiny," he said. "Some of it is fair scrutiny, thoughtful scrutiny, well-intentioned scrutiny. Some of it, not so much. I would ask them to look at our record."
Tom Scocca, managing editor of the sports website Deadspin, was sharply critical of ESPN's coverage in these cases. He also questions the extent to which ESPN can cover issues where it has a clear financial interest, such as the ongoing realignment in college sports conferences, driven primarily by television money.
ESPN can do a good job looking into NCAA violations at specific sports programs, but Scocca wondered if the network would it want to take a comprehensive look at whether major college sports are corrupt when the company's money is helping to feed it. Similarly, was there much incentive to pursue a messy, not clear-cut story about potential child abuse at a college basketball program fresh off an NCAA championship?
To a certain extent, though, fending off such criticism is like proving a negative.
"To maintain our credibility as journalists, which is an important thing, we need to do this reporting regardless of the business relationships," Doria said.
As the "big dog" in sports media, ESPN expects to get a lot of attention over how it handles stories, Doria said. The network hasn't hidden from openly discussing its role in the stories, which amid criticism of its actions earned the network some praise from media blogger Erik Wemple of The Washington Post.
The Dodd story also indicates ESPN may have more opportunities to test itself on these types of issues. The Sandusky case has triggered a lot more story tips.
"Some of them look like they're valid and worth following up on," Doria said. "Some of them are people calling because it looks like something to do."


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Production on Starz' 'Spartacus' Six-Part Prequel to Begin This Summer
Andy Whitfield to Appear In Two Episodes Along With Lucy Lawless, John Hannah, Peter Mensah Plus Other Returning and New Characters
LOS ANGELES, May 11 -- NCTA Cable Show 2010 -- Pre-production is underway on a six-part prequel to Starz' hit original series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand."
Andy Whitfield, who played the title character in the series, will appear in the prequel briefly, but Lucy Lawless and John Hannah take center stage in this story of the rise of the House of Batiatus and its champions before Spartacus arrives as a captured Thracian slave. With the title still to be determined, the prequel will begin production this summer in New Zealand, and is slated to air on Starz in January 2011.
John Hannah returns as Batiatus, owner of the Ludus, along with his wife Lucretia, played by Lucy Lawless. Other returning actors include Peter Mensah (Doctore), Manu Bennett (Crixus), Antonio Te Maioha (Barca), Nick E. Tarabay (Ashur), Lesley-Ann Brandt (Naevia) - and others. New characters will also be added - most notably the gladiator who was champion of the House of Batiatus before Spartacus or even Crixus - who will help fill in the story about the people and politics in the House of Batiatus and ancient Capua as a whole.
Production on the second season of "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" was postponed this spring to allow Andy Whitfield to be treated for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in New Zealand. His doctors indicate that the actor is responding well.
"The prequel story maintains the excitement and entertainment value of the first season of 'Spartacus,' giving audiences the engaging experience they've come to expect," said Starz President and CEO Chris Albrecht. "We look forward to continuing the Spartacus story."
Produced by Rob Tapert, Sam Raimi, Joshua Donen and Steven S. DeKnight, "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" was the highest rated show for the 18-49 demographic among all cable networks for 12 of the 13 Fridays on which it aired based on coverage rating.* The production team remains intact for the six-part prequel.
Starz Entertainment, LLC, is a premium movie service provider operating in the United States. It offers 16 movie channels including the flagship Starz(R) and Encore(R) brands with approximately 17.1 million and 31.1 million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment airs more than 1,000 movies per month across its pay TV channels and offers advanced services including Starz HD, Encore HD, Starz On Demand, Encore On Demand, MoviePlex On Demand, Starz HD On Demand, Encore HD On Demand, MoviePlex HD On Demand, and Starz Play. Starz Entertainment (www.starz.com) is an operating unit of Starz, LLC, which is a controlled subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, and is attributed to Liberty Starz(NASDAQ: LSTZA), a tracking stock group of Liberty Media Corporation.
*Source: Nielsen Live + SD Coverage Ratings for A18-49 each Friday between 1/29/10 - 4/16/10 among all basic and premium cable channels.


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Virginia Tranel
Photo: © Tony Smith
About the Author
Virginia Tranel was born and raised in Dubuque, Iowa, and graduated from Clarke College with a degree in English and Spanish. In January 1957, she married Ned Tranel and moved west, settling finally in Billings, Montana. Her essays have appeared in magazines and anthologies, including the Notre Dame Press anthology of best essays, Family.


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Spinning the college-loan web
Offering spin to the painfully real problem of life-altering student debt is not helpful to the young people whose favor President Obama hopes to gain.
But this didn't stop Obama from pretending that his administration is offering substantive relief to the indebted. In the process, he has set up more students, both existing and potential, to believe that their school financing choices don't have long-term consequences for themselves and their families.
In the name of expanding college access, the president signed an executive order June 9 extending a 2-year-old plan that allows people repaying federal direct student loans to cap their payments at 10 percent of their income. The administration estimates that its action will allow nearly 5 million additional borrowers to lessen their debt burden once the extension goes into effect in December 2015.
Realistically, according to financial aid experts such as Mark Kantrowitz, the publisher of Edvisors Network, an educational website for would-be borrowers, Obama's effort will barely move the needle.
"We're probably not going to have many new borrowers saying: 'I'm going to qualify for this, I should look into it,'" Kantrowitz told CNNMoney, calling the program a small-scale "safety net" to keep a select group of borrowers from defaulting.
In Obama's extensive remarks announcing this "new" effort to make college affordable, the president noted an important underlying issue to the student loan debt crisis, perhaps without realizing it.
Referring to how some students are amazed at the difficulty they have in paying off their loans, Obama sympathized that these overextended borrowers were "just doing what they've been told they're supposed to do."
And that's the problem.
For years, students have been coached to go to college, go to college, go to college. College, to hear it told, is the only way to attain a life not mired in poverty, and everyone must attend, at any cost, to follow their dreams, their bliss, their heart.
I'm not saying there isn't a certain amount — albeit a very small amount — of wisdom in this message. But the cheerleading, the expectation-building and the raising of false hopes have to stop.
You rarely hear anyone but financial experts practically begging students and families to understand the difference in cost between top-tier schools and more affordable local choices. Only since the worst of the student debt crisis has the difference between government and private student loans, which offer significantly fewer consumer protections, been widely acknowledged.
And despite at least two decades' worth of mandatory counseling concerning college loans — at the point when students sign promissory notes explicitly spelling out that their loans are due within months of graduation and are not dischargeable in bankruptcy — there's still shock and outrage that the debt is necessary and so hard to pay off.
Though college is exceptionally more expensive today than in the past, it has always been a costly investment. If an education could be attained only by financing it like a home mortgage, it was a risk that paid off only if the student graduated from a university with a credential that was sought after in the employment marketplace.
This distasteful reality, however, hardly squares with the "do what you love and the money will follow" sloganeering that pervades almost every contemporary conversation about paying for college.
But instead of pressing Americans to get smarter about spending for education, expanding programs especially to help first-generation college applicants navigate the financial aid labyrinth — or making headlines with the part of his plan that will investigate the efficacy of existing loan counseling programs — the message the president seems to want to send is: Don't worry, be happy.
Whether you pick a major with good job prospects, graduate or drop out, whether you planned as rigorously as would be expected for a five-figure financial investment or blindly rolled your dice, the government — in this case, Obama's initiative — will take pity upon your inability to live the life you were promised by those who swore that going to college was your ticket to prosperity.
This sort of pandering won't even scratch the surface of our country's trillion-dollar-plus student debt time bomb. Worse, it does nothing to help the prospective college students who are still in a position to make better higher-ed financing choices than did their predecessors.
Esther Cepeda's email address is email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter, @estherjcepeda.