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Sammy Sosa says he wasn't trying to look white like Mike.
The ex-Cubs slugger said a European skin cream he uses at bedtime combined with a strong camera flash caused his face to appear ghost white in a recent headline-grabbing photo from Las Vegas -- and he "respected" Michael Jackson too much to try to match his appearance.
"I'm doing well, doing well, thanks to God. A little surprised by the tsunami of attention," Sosa told a reporter for Spanish TV network Univision, the New York Daily News reports.
"I use a cream to keep my skin smooth and soft," he said without naming the product. "I apply it before I go to bed. When I was playing for Chicago all those years, I was in the sun a lot for one o'clock games."
Sosa said he's such a fan of the mystery cream, in fact, that he's in negotiations with its maker to go to bat as a company pitchman.
When Sosa's ghostly photo from the Latin Grammys first appeared, speculation centered on whether his lighter appearance was the result of vitiligo, a skin-whitening condition that Michael Jackson said he suffered from.
Sosa denied he was trying to emulate the late King of Pop.
"Not at all, I respect him very much," he said. "I'm not a racist. I'm not like that. I'm just a happy person."


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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Wacky Reference Wednesdays, No. 40
In this page from Mythos: Captain America, I portray both Captain America and his soon-to-be sidekick Bucky Barnes. Bucky's face is based on my former intern, Orpheus, who was kind enough to send me turnarounds of his head. You may also notice I'm holding my favorite magazine, Illustration. Buy it! It's awesome.
By the way, we're exactly 2 weeks away from my lecture at the Brooklyn Public Library. I'll have an official press release soon, but here's the basic info:
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Free Admission
Dweck Center, Brooklyn Public Library
Posted by Paolo Rivera at 9:17:00 PM
Labels: Mythos, Sequential, Wacky Reference Wednesdays
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You've mentioned interns before and I've always been curious about just what chores an intern would be able to handle for an illustrator....or is it more of a mentoring thing?ReplyDelete
I didn't really want an intern at first, but Orpheus and his professor, Jose Villarubia, convinced me that I did.ReplyDelete
For the most part, he cut down paper and colored in my sketches. Other than that, he just helped me with anything that could save me time.
Nowadays, he does flats over my inks, which is all done over ftp and e-mail.
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TSLA stock bump when design studio is fully populated?
TSLA stock bump when design studio is fully populated?
I think you'll see a big yawn from the market when the design studio is opened up. There might be a blip when the Model X is revealed though.
I don't think there'll be serious movement until test drives start and we get some gushing press reviews. Or at least I hope the press reviews will be gushing.
Agree with Mycroft- design studio is pretty much ether for trading.
Model X release - next week? - should certainly establish TSLA as THE player in private electric transport. If they can tickle a starting X price under of $35-$40k the stock is upper 30s by year end. Of course the macro, (euro holding up and) kicking the can further is critical.
" If they can tickle a starting X price under of $35-$40k "
No way. The X will be priced at least as much as the S and if 4-wheel drive is standard, then it will be significantly more than the S. That's why I don't think they'll announce any pricing with the X prototype reveal. Too many variables with the economy and inflation.
@Mycroft: completely agree. Starting with the same basic platform as the Model S, there's no way that the Model X ends up cheaper: the chassis is larger, more adult seating, plus larger battery packs required for the same distance (because the CdA and weight will be higher than the Model S). I'm guessing a $10k premium for the base model, vs. base Model S.
For what it's worth... I'm guessing pretty much same pricing/options as for the Model S. Just like Volvo who for a long time sold station wagons and sedans at the same price (or do they still?).
Odd news recently on new car sales... According recent reports, hybrid car sales are down, and even eco car sales are either down or flat. The new Fiat 500 is tanking (but then again, I liked it better when they called it the 'Volkswagen")
I have a feeling gasoline is replacing a nice dinner out for many now days (based on how few restaurants are surviving now days), however IMHO, by summer, it's going to be replacing a lot of dinners out, cocktails out, and a nice vacation for many out there! eeeek!
The Fiat 500 is tanking because it's over-priced for the MPG.
I see they've dropped the prices nearly $1,500!!! Maybe they'll start selling now.
At Model X $50k base price, who do you think the SUV conquest buyers will come from? I don't believe Escalade folks are good EV prospects, based on my day-to-day observations. Porsche Cayenne buyers, maybe?
sorry, WHERE do you think the SUV conquest buyers will come from?
X3/X5, Q5/Q7, GLK/M. And, obviously, families who would otherwise consider a "premium mini van". Sounds like a contradiction in itself, and according to some interviews with Elon, that's precisely the niche they are targeting.
Yes, and I also get the feeling that it will create its own "niche" -- the first true crossover? Sedan/minivan/SUV ++.
I'm hoping we can replace my wife's '05 Honda Odyssey with an X. Sure the 'base' price will be 50K, but base for the '12 equivalent of her van is already 41K.
Wow, 41k is quite an odyssey.
My neighbor is passing on the Model S because he will be buying 2 Model X's (one for him and one for his wife).
She currently drives a Cadillac SRX and he drives a BMW (3 series I believe).
Peak Oil bruin: that's not even top-of-the-line. The touring elite package starts at $43,675.
Teotawki - that's the most mundane 44k - makes me wonder a bit more about the dollar/yen and general dollar depreciation!
Mundane 44k. Indeed!
So... 44k +over 4k in sales tax for another dinosaur burner...
...or 50k with no sales tax for a luxury crossover that only burns electrons???
I think she'll want to make the right choice, if she can wait that long.
I can see the Model X being priced either around the same but likely more than the Model S. I think it could do quite well. A lot of people do like their SUV's, but they don't love the fuel costs. With a Model X, an SUV owner could have their cake and eat it too. I wouldn't be surprised if some people bail on the Model S after the Model X is announced. I know a few people who are interested in it. But I'm off on tangent here. This discussion is about the stock effect on the options. I think that depends on how its played by the media. If the media makes a big deal of it, it could have an effect on the stock price in one way or another.
"Odd news recently on new car sales... According recent reports, hybrid car sales are down, and even eco car sales are either down or flat. "
New car sales are down period. They were juiced by 'cash for clunkers', but frankly most of the population can't afford new cars.
Tesla, by targeting the luxury market, is targeting people who can still afford new cars. Smart of them. :-)
Regarding the stock, I rarely try to predict short-term movements, so I dunno... should be interesting to watch.
Stock only budged a very small amount in afterhours trading in the hours following the pricing release. We'll see tommorrow if the street thinks it will change TESLA's direction.
Hoping the market doesn't take notice on the pricing. Might not be a good thing. Can we just fast forward to the Model X reveal or the 5 star safety rating announcement. That's when the bump up will come.
The street is clueless when it comes to TSLA:
- They fail to see the ground breaking nature of the MS and TSLA
- TSLA is expecting to make a huge double digit margin vs single digits for ICE manufactures
- They compare with current PEV's/EV's, which are a joke vs the MS
- They bought a 4B$ factory for almost nothing
- Mercedes has a right of 1st refusal to buy the company out
- All the numbers they have put out are based on 1 shift/20,000 units not 3 shits with 3+ models
- The average selling price of the MS will be >80K not 50K
- They will have many models, including a <30K mass market car and a super sports car in Roaster 2.0 by 2016
- They will turn a profit before 2014. They will print money thereafter.
- Elon Musk is the greatest visionary CEO since Steve Jobs
- The enormous number of TSLA shorts will be victims of the "worse short squeeze of all time."
True, True. . .
- Mercedes has a right of 1st refusal to buy the company out
What's that? I haven't been paying close attention to Tesla financial status and I don't have any clue what Mercedes has to do with Tesla.
Yes, i remember hearing about Mercedes paying for that priveledge while Toyota fell asleep at the wheel. In the end i don't think Mercedes will do it, therefore that would inhibit an early Toyota buyout. Either way it pretty much guarantees a much more expensive buyout from Toyota.
What privilege? What exactly does that mean? Refusal of what?
I have no idea what you guys are talking about.
Privilege of "first refusal". Means TM has to allow Daimler to match any buyout offer and take control if TM goes up for sale.


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Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier
I was brought up not to speak ill of the dead, a habit that has stuck.
Therefore, Jean-Claude Duvalier is dead. Nothing else.
— Otto Rock (@incakolanews) October 4, 2014
...though wanted to add a few words so the blog is the medium. I was brought up by people and in a culture that states you shouldn't speak ill of the dead, which has become ingrained. It's not a bad thing, it's not a good thing, it's just a thing. This is about as far as my cultural constipation will allow me to go:
UPDATE: Thanks due to reader FR for mailing in, a correction ensues: Baby Doc applied for asylum in France but never formally received it from the country. He did however live in the country and under its protection for nearly 25 years.
The Friday OT: Radiohead; Electioneering
It's Dilma Time:
Margin calls on mining stocks
Paul Singer and Elliott Associates are so dumb on Argentina that...
...they use IKN as source material. From this post today comes this visitor:
Oh Paul, this pissant blog is your idea of DD in a multi-billion dollar fight? I've lost all respect for you now...
Quid pro quo, Scotia
Here's the intro...
Scotia Precious Metals Research has incorporated Q3/14 realized precious and base metal prices into our financial forecasts and fine-tuned our production estimates to account for factors such as weather for the mid-tier gold/silver producers. We expect a strong production rebound from Teranga after a weak Q2/14 and a >20% bump for B2Gold following the SAG mill replacement at Masbate. Silver Standard, Argonaut, Golden Star and Allied Nevada should also improve materially. SEMAFO may not be able to continue its Q2/14 level of production as the rainy season in Burkina Faso is expected to hamper Q3/14. Lower grades and recoveries are likely to push Timmins production lower as well. Free cash flow (FCF) is still hard to come by with none of our silver names expected to achieve it. For the golds, SEMAFO and Timmins are forecast to make FCF again in Q3/14 to be joined by Argonaut, Rio Alto and Osisko. Page 7 of this report provides a ready reference as companies begin reporting their Q3/14 operating results next week. We have also provided at-a-glance graphs and trend-lines to better illustrate how production and costs are expected to play out for the balance of 2014. We see the best value from companies exemplifying rising production profiles and improving all-in sustaining costs. Our top picks are Detour Gold, B2Gold and Rio Alto.
...and here are those page 7 charts:
Today's best fake newspaper front page comes from Argentina
UPDATE: There's also another version going around with "Massa" instead of "Macri" in the headline.
Chart of the day is...
Lake Shore Gold (LSG.to) 3q14 numbers
Presidential Approval in The Americas
The latest ridiculous metals expert* handwringing is on platinum
*utter dumbass
To 31 Floors
I was just sent a link. I don't know who you are, but thank you.
Great Panther Silver $GPL (GPR.to) is re-writing the way junior mining companies do business
The traditional way junior mining companies do business:
- Raise some capital
- Explore property
- Discover, develop
- Raise larger amount for capex to build mine
- Go into production
- Make profit from mining
- Raise some capital
- Explore property
- Discover, develop
- Raise larger amount for capex to build mine
- Go into production
- Raise more money to keep operations running
- Produce more metal
- Raise more money to keep operations running
- Produce more metal
- etc
Peru's export drop: It's mining, stupid
The main reason is mining. The combo of lower prices for copper and gold plus the lower production of gold has, and using the correct technical vocabulary, knocked shit-tonnes off the dollar value of country exports.
Chart of the day is...
Radius Gold (RDU.v) NAV vs market cap
- 7.6c worth of BTO.to shares* at current prices
- 0.3c worth of FCV.v shares at current prices
- 0.2c worth of MED.v shares at current prices
- 2.7c worth of cash estimated to end 4q14 (including G&A burn and current small drill program expense)
- No debt.
*i checked, RDU still hasn't sold a one since its 2q14 filing
Franco Nevada $FNV and RBC bought deal fall-out news
Goldbugs on Greenspan
2002: Greenspan's an idiot
2003: Greenspan's an idiot
2004: Greenspan's an idiot
2005: Greenspan's an idiot
2006: Greenspan's an idiot
2007: Greenspan's an idiot
2008: Greenspan's an idiot
2009: Greenspan's an idiot
2010: Greenspan's an idiot
2011: Greenspan's an idiot
2012: Greenspan's an idiot
2013: Greenspan's an idiot
A well-reasoned article on the bull case for the US Dollar
Charts of the day are...
...five year price and five year LME stocks for zinc:
These things are rarely exact correlations, but those two aren't a bad match.
Posted while your humble scribe does his think zinc thing. Window open, no decision yet.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner: Judge Griesa "senile"
Which may or may not be true, but it's one helluva quote.
Brazil elections: What you're seeing unfold today, IKN Weekly subscribers read in August
Cartoon of the day
Week. Year. It's from The Poke and entitled "This Comic Perfectly Encapsulates Twitter", but it's also the precise and exact reason:
1) Comments are no longer available at IKN
2) I reply to hatemailers in the way I do*
That's just wonderful.
*lots of swear words, then encourage you to reply and make the mail really long before telling you i'll never open any mail you send and then permanently block your mail address, you fuckwit
A message for Ovais Habib
Dear Ovais,
Love and kisses, Otto
And Robex (RBX.v) provides the NR of the day
The Company's management confirms that the problems relating to the proper functioning of the elution system have been resolved and that the last elution proved positively conclusive.
Robex's management wishes to inform the market that the research of solution with the current elution problems did not give the expected results. Continuing with these current installations will strongly affect the profitability of the Nampala site.
This thing isn't like that thing, Fortuna Silver $FSM FVI.to edition
This Thing is the headline to today's NR:
Fortuna Silver Increases Silver in Reserves by 26% and Silver in Inferred Resources by 67% at San Jose Mine, MexicoThat Thing comes as one of the fottnotes to the table in the very same NR (IKN highlights)
Mineral Reserves for San Jose are estimated using a break-even cut-off grade of 128 g/t Ag Eq based on assumed metal prices of US$21/oz Ag and US$1,260/oz Au; estimated metallurgical recovery rates of 89% for Ag and 89% for Au; and projected operating costs for year-end 2014. Mineral Resources are estimated at a Ag Eq cut-off grade of 100 g/t, with Ag Eq in g/t = Ag (g/t) + Au (g/t) * ((US$1,260/US$21) * (89/89))
Monday music: Laurent Voulzy; Le reve du pecheur
And yes, that's Souchon in the vid.
"Listening to "analysts" at a goldbug conference is just like wandering into a fundamentalist prayer meeting. The informational value is zero, you'll never learn anything; it's nothing more than a fantastical prayer-ritual full of magical thinking, mythologizing about imaginary demons, and fantasies about a future heaven where God gifts his Chosen people with a gold-backed dollar and Ron Paul in the White House."...comes from this. Recommended reading.
Buenaventura $BVN news
This week's big fun conference in South America
The purpose of the Global Offset and Countertrade Association (G.O.C.A.) is to promote trade and commerce between companies around the world and their foreign customers through a greater understanding of countertrade and offset.
The organization, originally known as the American Countertrade Association (ACA) has a membership of over 100 international firms (including most of the the largest aerospace companies), who get together once or twice a year to discuss offset policy and counter-trade initiatives.According to the GOCA website, the definition of "countertrade" is defined as the "use of reciprocal trade tools, such as barter or other export activities to meet hard currency needs, primarily in commercial transactions."
The IKN Weekly, out now
A reminder that earthquakes don't kill people
- At 7.0mag, a normal city would be shaken and see damage, but wouldn't see the tens of thousands of deaths that Port-Au-Prince Haiti saw in 2010 when its multi-storey buildings pancaked.
- The 2007 quake on the coast of Peru at Pisco was 8.0 and a very big one, but occurred in a place where most buildings are ready to take a big hit. So it's worth noting that of the 430 people who were killed in the region that evening (not the town, but the whole region), 148 were in the old and un-proofed Pisco cathedral when its roof collapsed.
- On the other hand the 8.8mag Bio Bio Chile in 2010 was simply massive, the 6th largest recorded in modern times and affected some densely populated zones. Chile reported 370,000 damaged buildings and although 550 dead is 550 too many for comfort, it's also tribute to building standards there that the total wasn't counted in the tens of thousands; and that 550 total included tsunami victims unfortunately located at sea's edge at the wrong time.


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26 Rainy Day Activities for Kids
Are your kids bored and anxious for something to do when the weather is wet?
The editors of My Kids' Adventures have searched the web for fun ways your family can make the most of a rainy day together.
In this article I'll share our 26 favorite rainy day activities for you and your kids to celebrate a rainy day. With silver linings from A-Z, you're sure to find a fun way to bring some sunshine to the gloom.
Why Play on a Rainy Day?
There are lots of adventures you can have with your kids, even when the weather is bad.
Rainy weather lets you experience the world in new ways from every one of your senses and discover a whole list of things you can only find in stormy weather, like rainbows and lightning, umbrellas and puddles. We've found activities to help your family explore them all: the sights, sounds, smells, feelings, and yes, even some rainy-day–specific foods to taste!
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Doesn't mean I do!
Apparently it would take a Call to Arms booty bag, 2 additional levels, duel wielded legendaries and a harem of fair Gnomish beauties if it meant there was a chance tanks had to fight this guy.
Me, I don't care too much.
There is one thing I really like about this fight.
People expect to fail, so no one gets uptight if they do and they celebrate (for a good half a second) when we take it down.
Unfortunately, the same can't be said for other fights.
Rom'ogg Bonecrusher will get you a little sympathy… a little.
You are still a noob if you don't get your chains down in time, or get away in time, but as long as there are a couple still standing, he will go down and all is forgiven.
For me he can be a pain.
Yes I have the /tar chain macro (It's on about 4 buttons so I shouldn't be able to miss), but with my latency, I'm often firing up a cast 1 second after I already died.
Still, blink works wonders and I can normally get away (even if it means blinking with the chains, then dpsing them off)
Asaad is Squidly's bane.
Gnomeaggedon can jump and cast… in fact I'm not sure if Gnome can cast while standing still since he got mobile scorch, it just doesn't feel safe… solo leveling will do that to a Gnome.
Squidly on the other had has to stand still for 2,000,000 SECONDS PER CAST… no exaggeration, go on… look it up
Throw in a touch of lag and Asaad's Static Cling cast bar is a mix of
When the hell am I ever going to cast a spell in this fight
Oh hell, I hope this healer can cleanse the cling, otherwise I am once again a Van de Graaff generator… well until I die… again.
There is really only one foe in Cataclysm Heroics that Gnomeaggedon fears.
The Lag Monster!
Ohh actually, I have learned to live with him, no it's not the Lag Monster.
No it's not even Corla (prounouced Cooor she's a hotty la la la)
It's him!
or is it Me?
Either way, if there is one way to piss a bunch of people off really fast in a REALLY EASY, EVEN A NOBTWADDLE LIKE YOU CAN DO IT fight, it's to let one of these loose.. actually there are two ways:
- it could be you wiping the party by letting him evolve, or
- it could be you evolving and doing the wiping.
Then to add insult to injury, you get to live while the rest of the party does the "run of cranky".
Only once in all the times that I have done Blackrock Caverns on heroic have I managed to prevent the Twilight Herald from enraging.
I carefully watched my guildy (Dingo the class confused Warlock.. more on him sometime soon) and moved when he did, and got to the end of the fight beaming!
Even that joy was short lived when I realised the healer was in the beam with me.
My UI, for some unknown reason either doesn't show when the cooldown expires after 14 seconds, or does it so discreetly that I have never discovered where it is.
I usually manage to get out before I reach 80 the 1st time… but after that, well tanks, get ready to tank my Enraged Twilight Herald!
I did this last night.
As soon as I enraged I apologized.. after all I had lots of time to type while I was on the rampage. I wasn't the only one to enrage, but I was certainly bore the brunt of the abuse.
Who was that?
The suck on the left
Do better next time!
Yeah sorry about that guys, I'll do better this time. In fact I always try to do better, so no need to pay out.
I did better the next time, but not well enough. Once again I wasn't the only one to screw up and at least this time I wasn't enraged, so I could at least help sort the out issue.
Unfortunately, even though the boss was at only 20% health, the tank decided that if you enraged it, you tank it.
So we wiped on what was a easily recoverable fight…
But the suck screwed up, so the suck left.
Then I went to the next heroic, topped the dps, sheeped and resheeped everything that was mine, counterspelled and spell stole like a pro.
The level of intolerance on individual fights that may cause difficulties for individuals just astounds me.
But then, I'm not sure why I expect anything different. It is well known that people find it hard to empathize with what another person may be going through, to understand that there are circumstances possibly beyond that individual's control that may effect their behaviour… and that is IRL, not in WoW.
Ah well…
Every god has to have his one vulnerability, and the Twilight Herald's are mine.
Gnomer and Out!
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Cross-Browser CSS3: Solutions and Considerations, by Louis Lazaris, is a compact and practical reference for dealing with browser inconsistencies in CSS3-based designs.
When designing and developing CSS3-based websites, it's common place to run into cross-browser challenges, especially when dealing with markets and niches whose audiences are still using older versions of Internet Explorer.
In this eBook, Louis Lazaris discusses the factors that need to be considered before attempting to use, or mimic, a CSS3 feature in all non-supporting browsers.
This eBook provides readers with long-term principles that should guide their development, and provides numerous sources (including CSS3-based JavaScript libraries and plugins) to help developers make informed decisions on what's available.
All the information in the eBook is presented in a balanced manner, with careful consideration for both benefits and drawbacks to each method, to ensure that your projects are as fast-loading and maintainable as possible without sacrificing your brand.
The author of Cross-Browser CSS3, Louis Lazaris, is a writer, freelance web developer, and 10-year veteran in the web design niche. He blogs about front-end development on his site, Impressive Webs, and writes regularly for a number of popular web design blogs. He is also co-author of HTML5 and CSS3 for the Real World, published by SitePoint.
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- Meeting the increasing demand for dental 3D printing solutions in Korea
- Identifying new opportunities to expand digital dentistry in Korea
Stratasys AP Ltd., a subsidiary of Stratasys, Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS), a leading manufacturer of 3D printers and production systems for prototyping and manufacturing, today announced the appointment of Medicodi and PD Dental as new channel partners in Korea. The new partners will focus on the distribution of Stratasys' award-winning 3D printing technology to the dental market. This appointment marks the increasing demand for 3D printing and the large potential for digital dentistry in Korea. By combining Stratasys' 3D printing technology with Medicodi and PD Dental's expertise and experience in the field, the company expects to vastly expand the penetration of digital dentistry in Korea.
The partnership with Medicodi, a leading Korean dental device distributor, together with PD Dental, a dental solutions provider, will provide dental labs and clinics in Korea with immediate access to local support and expertise on Stratasys' leading 3D printing solutions for digital dentistry.
"Over the past few years, we have provided industry-driven 3D printing solutions to support the growth and advancement of digital dentistry in Korea and around the world," said Gilad Gans, Executive Vice President for Global Field Operations, Stratasys. "Korea is a strategic market in Asia Pacific, and we are confident that these local partnerships will help address the unique needs of the country's dental industry."
3D printing is at the heart of the new digital era in dentistry. Combined with intra-oral scanning, CAD/CAM and design software, 3D printing helps dental labs produce a range of orthodontic appliances such as dental stone models, clear aligners and true-to-life veneer prototypes accurately and rapidly. Stratasys' dental solutions are based on its' award winning 3D printing technology and printing materials specially designed for dental applications. Stratasys dental solutions provide labs with an ideal platform for a fully digitized workflow, enabling more efficient and cost effective production.
"We are very pleased to be appointed as Stratasys' dental distributor in Korea," said Sun-Kyu Choi, CEO of Medicodi Inc. "We are a strong believer in Stratasys' cutting edge 3D printing technology and the value it brings to the dental industry. With Stratasys, we will play a critical role to provide professional 3D printing solutions to dental labs and clinics, maximizing our customers' competitiveness and effectiveness."
"There is a strong demand for digital dentistry and we believe it is the ideal next step for dental professionals," said Hyun Jong Park, CEO of PD Dental. "We are partnering with Stratasys, the leader in 3D printing, to lead the transition to 3D printing in the Korean dental market."
For more on Stratasys Dental Solutions for Dental Clinics and Labs interested in digitizing their workflow, contact Medicodi (+82-70-7500-9926) or PD Dental (+82-1544-2889), also visit http://www.ObjetDental.com.
About Medicodi
Medicodi Inc. is a committed dental solution provider, delivering the value to dental professions. Its core value is to provide a competitive edge to dental professions through an improved digital workflow. Medicodi provides customized digital solutions to dental schools, hospitals and clinics with the extensive product portfolio: Dental consumables, Autoclave, Dental unit & chair, Digital X-ray systems and 3D printing system. As an authorized service provider for multinational brands, Medicodi prioritizes the one-day equipment service completion. Its reputation has been built through customers' trust for its professional service. The best customer service is for the better performance as well as its stable growth as a company.
About PD Dental
PD Dental is a specialized importer and distributer of prosthetic dentistry products including 3M, Dentsply and Heraeus. With its distribution service, it provides prosthetic dentistry and dental clinic related solutions and professional services. Visit http://www.pddental.co.kr for more information.
About Stratasys Ltd.
Stratasys Ltd. (Nasdaq: SSYS) is the corporate entity formed in 2012 by the merger of 3D printing companies Stratasys Inc. and Objet Ltd., based in Minneapolis, Minn. and Rehovot, Israel. The company manufactures 3D printers and materials for prototyping and production. Prior to merging, the two companies' revenues totaled $277 million for 2011. Its patented FDM® and Inkjet-based processes produce prototypes or manufactured goods directly from 3D CAD files or other 3D content. Systems include affordable desktop 3D printers for idea development, a range of systems for prototyping, and large production systems for direct digital manufacturing. Since June 2012, the company's range of over 130 3D printing materials is the widest in the industry and includes in excess of 120 proprietary inkjet-based photopolymer materials and 10 proprietary FDM-based thermoplastic materials. Stratasys also manufactures Solidscape 3D Printers and operates the RedEye On Demand digital-manufacturing service. The company has over 1100 employees, holds over 500 granted or pending additive manufacturing patents globally, and has received more than 20 awards for its technology and leadership. Online at: http://www.stratasys.com or http://blog.stratasys.com / http://www.objet.com or http://blog.objet.com.
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Kitchen Floor Plan Ideas
Kitchen floor plans come in many configurations -- L shapes, U shapes, galleys, and more. Find one that suits you to a T.
In a kitchen broken up by several doorways, the solution was an island-based layout that divides the 22x13 space into five zones: cooking, food storage, baking, breakfast, and meal prep/clean up. Wide traffic lanes throughout promote easy movement to and from the kitchen, as well as around the island.
The range, housed in a separate niche, is the cook's domain, located safely away from the busiest traffic routes. The cook and guests can smoothly converge at the island, with one side housing the sink and dishwashers, and the other offering seating for casual diners.
The refrigerator and microwave are set opposite the cook's side of the island: convenient during meal prep, but also easily accessible to those just seeking snacks and beverages. A walk-in corner pantry is roughly equidistant to the range, island, and refrigerator, leaving a short commute for comestibles.
Stealing a couple of feet from the adjacent garage made this kitchen wide enough for an island, which holds the cooktop in a central spot. Downdraft ventilation eliminates the need for a hood, which would have put a visual barrier in the middle of the room.
The island is framed by generous stretches of countertop space, including one wall that accommodates the sink, dishwasher, refrigerator, and microwave. This consolidation of essentials -- all opposite the cooktop -- saves steps for the cook.
The working part of the 15x18 kitchen opens into an eating area, creating a setup for casual meals or parties. For more formal occasions, a doorway to the adjacent dining room eases serving and cleanup.
This 15x20 kitchen employs the L-shape-with-island layout that has become popular in contemporary design. The configuration accommodates a long island while enclosing the kitchen on only two sides, leaving the room mostly open to adjacent living areas. In this case, a partial wall separates the kitchen from the dining room. The two spaces retain their visual identities, yet there's easy movement between them, a boon for entertaining.
The long L trades the traditional work triangle approach for widely separated zones -- one for cooking, one for prep/clean up, and one for food storage. The island acts as a way station -- an intermediate stop between zones.
This layout also is good for multiple cooks and helpers because there is plenty of counter space for all. Guests who aren't helping can share the island with those who are.
This plan takes the L-plus-island idea and gives it a tweak by abbreviating the short leg of the L and making it even with the outside edge of the island. This creates an express lane for traffic moving through the 12x18 kitchen on the way to the family room while shielding cooks and helpers as they move among the sink, dishwasher, range, and refrigerator.
The island is a shared buffer zone, providing counter space on the cook's side and seating on the other for guests, spectators, and casual diners. A short pass-through between the kitchen and dining room serves as a butler's pantry. It includes a wine cooler and storage for bottles and glasses.
This is a galley-plus-island setup, in which the single wall of the classic galley kitchen is paired with a parallel island. The result is step-saving efficiency with openness.
The sink, dishwasher, refrigerator, and microwave are all right next to each other on the same wall, with the cooktop on the island. The island provides lots of counter space, as well as seating and a wine cooler.
Unlike galley kitchens of old, which tended to be wedged in the back of a home, this 10x11 kitchen is part of a great-room floor plan that includes a living room, dining room, and family room.
Take a galley-plus-island plan, add a third parallel section -- a long dining table -- and you get a trifecta of kitchen efficiency in a 17x22-foot space. The design is based on the 40-inch rule adopted by some restaurants: With 40 inches between counters, a person only has to take one step and make a pivot to get to the next counter.
The restaurant approach is appropriate given how the island includes diner-style seating on one side, with a table for 6 or 8 just behind the stools. From the cook's perspective, the range, refrigerator, and island sink form a tight triangle, and the pot-filler faucet over the cooktop saves steps, too.
By surrounding a center island with more than an L but less than a full U, this 14x21 floor plan is able to provide long stretches of countertop space and a wide opening to the adjacent dining room.
The layout is clearly zoned, with the refrigerator and pantry forming a food-storage area, the sink and dishwasher paired for cleanup, and the range anchoring the long cooking/prep wall. The microwave is tucked into the cook's side of the island.
For casual meals, a small eating area takes advantage of window views at one end of the room. Formal occasions move to the nearby dining room, and the open space between it and the kitchen is ideal mingling space for guests.
This basically U-shape layout combines galley efficiency and intimacy with the openness of contemporary plans.
One hardworking wall holds the refrigerator, cooktop, and a wall oven, as well as a pass-through to the adjacent family room -- a handy feature when entertaining or serving snacks at family gatherings.
The sink shares a second wall with the dishwasher, forming a convenient cleanup zone.
A two-level island completes the 13x18 kitchen, providing prep space for the cook and an eating/beverage bar for guests. From the island, the cook can see into the living and dining areas thus staying part of the action.
This L-plus-island layout is the epitome of efficiency and simplicity. The island sink, range, and refrigerator form a perfect right triangle, allowing the cook equal access to the three main kitchen elements.
With the kitchen open to the dining room and family room, the island naturally attracts guests, but its mass shields the cooking area. Standing at the sink, the cook enjoys views through the dining room window. And the refrigerator's position allows family members and guests to grab things out of the refrigerator without entering the cooking zone.
A U-shape perimeter around an island is a popular kitchen layout, and the two long legs of the U in this 15x19 room are especially long, sized to keep pace with the island in the middle.
The island is practically a kitchen unto itself, with a sink, dishwasher, refrigerator drawer, warming drawer, and microwave, in addition to seating at one end. It's a great place for kids and guests to help themselves while the serious cooks work on the two long walls. One of those walls is for cooking -- it holds the cooktop and separate oven -- while the opposite wall is for cleanup, home to the main sink and dishwasher.
The refrigerator sits in a corner accessible to everyone. A beverage station equipped with another sink, a built-in coffeemaker, and a wine cooler fills the short end of the U, with an eating area off the open end of the U.
This is a rare P-shape plan, which is appropriate given that its distinguishing element -- a peninsula -- starts with that letter of the alphabet. The peninsula links an L-shape perimeter portion with the opposite wall and an island. One wall of the L is the cooking zone, where a cooktop mounts above two built-in ovens. The other wall of the L is the cleanup zone, anchored by the main sink and the dishwasher.
The opposite wall consolidates food storage, placing the separate refrigerator and freezer at one end, and pantry storage at the other. A prep sink occupies the middle ground. The peninsula section is clear counter space, though the microwave is mounted below. The island, set outside the working area, accommodates casual meals, conversation, and homework.
The shape of this floor plan is something more than an L but not quite a U. Functionally, the layout is more of a galley. And the space is notable for its lack of an island.
At 11 feet wide, the space was too narrow for the typical island, but what it lacks in breadth, the kitchen makes up for in its 20-foot length. This allows the long wall to pack in the cooktop, dishwasher, sink, and oven, while the slightly shorter wall accommodates separate refrigerator and freezer units, as well as a welcome stretch of prep space. A banquette eating area at one end makes efficient use of perimeter space and draws on light and views from the window.
Architecture often dictates the shape of the kitchen. In this case, the owners wanted to preserve their 18th-century home's massive fireplace, so they created a 35x26 combined kitchen and dining area that flows around the two-sided hearth and adjoins the living room.
The working kitchen is an L-shape perimeter augmented by a small island. The refrigerator, dishwasher, sink, and range sit in the long leg of the L, while the short leg offers unbroken counter space. The island, next to the fireplace, offers additional work space and storage. Traffic between the kitchen and dining area flows naturally around the fireplace.
The working part of this kitchen is an efficient two-wall galley, with the refrigerator, cooktop, and wall ovens set opposite the sink. But the sink wall "floats" islandlike in the middle of the room, attached to a cozy banquette that resembles a restaurant booth and is positioned to take in garden views. It offers a wealth of storage on each end, including a place for the microwave.
A wide traffic zone follows the perfectly square perimeter of the 16x16 kitchen, which opens to the dining room at one end.
Few people want their kitchen completely closed off from the dining room, but not everyone wants the two spaces to be completely open to each other either. This plan finds a good middle ground, using a dividing wall to set a clear boundary between the kitchen and dining room while maintaining some openness in the 18x12 footprint.
The dividing wall, which holds the dishwasher, extends from an L-shape perimeter. One leg of the L is home to the refrigerator and range, while the other provides prep space around the sink, highlighted by angled windows. The dividing wall extends to the ceiling, but it includes a large pass-through to the dining room in the middle as well as two-way cabinets on either end.
Galley kitchens are typically intimate, but that doesn't mean they have to be tiny. At 9x19-feet, this galley is long on space, but it maintains the style's inherent efficiency.
The sink, dishwasher, and cooktop line the exterior wall, while the refrigerator, wall ovens, and microwave occupy the opposite wall. Windows above both the sink and the cooktop treat the cook to natural light and pleasant scenery.
One end of the interior wall features an eating bar that links the kitchen to the adjacent family room. At the other end of the kitchen, a doorway leads to the formal dining room.
The layout of this spacious kitchen was determined by the location of the only window, which brightens a cleanup zone that includes an extra-large sink and two dishwashers.
The adjacent wall incorporates the range, while the refrigerator and separate freezer are paired on the other side of the room. An island with seating, a microwave, and a warming oven bridge the distance between the walls.
The kitchen segues into an open dining area, turning the 25x15 rectangular room into an all-occasion cooking and gathering space that comfortably accommodates multiple cooks and guests.
With an island and eating area in its middle, this 26x19 kitchen (in a rough U-shape floor plan) is geared for people and performance. Function is focused on an L-shape section that includes the refrigerator at one end, a double oven on the other, and the sink and dishwasher about halfway between.
The cooktop takes up one side of the island, but the other is for seating, giving guests a great view of the action. The eating area offers more seating and casual dining space.
A third wall caters to guests as well: It boasts a beverage station equipped with a sink, wine cooler, and icemaker.
Food is the focus of most kitchens, but in this one, eating literally takes center stage -- a dining table and chairs sit smack dab in the middle of the nearly square 16x15 space.
The range is a focal point, too, anchoring one wall and flanked by tall storage units for pots and pans, spices, and oils. One wall features a refrigerator at each end, with a small prep sink and lots of counter space in between. This breakfast/coffee station means guests can serve themselves without invading the cook's regular space. The opposite wall, with a full sink, is the everyday prep and cleanup zone.
A U-shape layout often opens to an eating area or a family room, but in this 21x13 kitchen, the U faces an impressive wall of storage. The U features the range on one wall, the refrigerator and wall ovens on another, and the sink and dishwasher set beneath a large window.
A narrow table in the middle doubles a slender island, offering seating for two and acting as a way station between the perimeter zones. The storage wall features floor-to-ceiling pantry cabinetry and shelves for cookbooks and office/desk equipment.
Many U-shape layouts include an island in the center, but this 17x20 one features an island with a capital I. The large, I-shape island was designed to accommodate everything, whether a family-size breakfast or a buffet dinner. The cooktop is at one end, putting the chef in the seat of power, while the raised bar at the other end hides clutter from the adjacent dining area. The island also holds the microwave and wine cooler.
When it comes to function, the U-shape perimeter is no slouch, either. It incorporates two sinks, the dishwasher, the refrigerator, and the wall ovens in addition to plenty of counter space.


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CLEARWATER - Candles were burning inside Murphy Brown's darkened house when he arrived home shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday.
CLEARWATER - Candles were burning inside Murphy Brown's darkened house when he arrived home shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday.
The electricity had been cut off earlier in the week for failure to pay the bill. He could see the glow of solitary flames through the windows as he crossed the yard and let himself in the back door.
The first thing he did was check on his two sons, Zander and Zayden. Peeking into their room, he saw that the boys, ages 9 and 5, were tucked in their beds, quiet and still beneath the covers. "It looked like they were asleep," Brown recalled Sunday.
Moving through the candlelit house, he entered another bedroom. There he found his wife, Dawn Brown, hanging by her neck from an electrical cord attached to a ceiling fan.
He grabbed her. Her body was stiff. He struggled to unwind the cord from its hideously tight grip, but couldn't. "I tried to unwrap it, but it was too late," he said.
Brown's wife, the mother of his children, was dead. Shock submerged him, a powerful wave, but he rose for air and reached a moment of clarity filled by one thought: I hope she didn't do anything to the kids.
Mothers kill their children. There are strange, brittle women whose names and faces were made famous by a crime the mind balks at understanding: Susan Smith, Andrea Yates, Dorothy Dianne Rose. Tampa mother Julie Schenecker has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of her 16-year-old daughter, Calyx, and 13-year-old son, Beau, in January last year.
Dawn Brown's name is poised to be added to the list.
According to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, the 34-year-old is suspected of killing her two sons and then taking her own life sometime between Friday night and early Saturday morning, when Murphy Brown, 36, discovered their bodies at the house on Sidney Street in unincorporated Clearwater.
The Sheriff's Office is awaiting the results of autopsies before declaring the boys' cause of death.
Some who knew Dawn Brown, while allowing she was emotionally unstable, expressed shock that she would involve her sons in the unexpected spasm of violence that ended her life. In the maelstrom of financial and legal problems that bore down on her in recent months, Dawn largely protected her children, continuing to care for them even as she and her husband had trouble caring for themselves, relatives said.
"She loved them two kids," said Byron Brown, the children's paternal grandfather. "Murphy did, too. That's one thing I can say: They took good care of the kids. But their home life wasn't the greatest."
In his first remarks to the media since discovering his family dead Saturday morning, Murphy Brown told the Tampa Bay Times that his wife, while she grappled with severe depression, was a good mother � and a good person, once you got to know her.
"She was a good mom," he said. "She was very organized, smart. If you talked to her, she was very friendly to you, but she was shy. She didn't like to initiate conversations. You'd have to get to know her before she opened up."
He said he wished reporters had found a different photo than the one they used in their stories and broadcasts, a mugshot in which Dawn fixes a wan stare at a police booking camera.
The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office charged Dawn last year with welfare fraud, a felony. Murphy Brown said the case arose because Dawn did not report to authorities, after a period of unemployment, that he had obtained a new job as a bus driver for the Pinellas County School District. The government checks kept coming, and they needed them, he said.
"It caught up with us," he said.
Dawn believed the felony charge, pending in court at the time of her death, would spoil her dream of becoming a schoolteacher. She sank into a depression exacerbated by financial woes. The couple began missing mortgage payments, bringing on a foreclosure.
On Thursday, Brown said, Progress Energy cut power to the home because his utility payments were behind. They faced it with equanimity, he said, and he planned to obtain $1,600 by today to get the lights turned back on. The boys thought it was "cool," he added, to spend a few days roughing it.
On Friday, however, he talked to Dawn about wanting to leave her. He said he wanted to take the kids. He and Dawn had been married since 2004.
"I'd been wanting to leave for a while," he said. "She was angry about a lot of things, and she was pushing me away."
Friday night, Murphy went out with friends. He had a lingering feeling that Dawn had been hurt by their conversation about splitting up, though he had no idea how deep the wound would be.
"She wanted to hurt me, because I wanted to leave," he said.
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Nobody can talk about the boys without crying.
Zander, Murphy Brown said, was a gentle baby, the sort who makes life easy for parents by being born without the widely inherited tendency to scream and squall. He and Murphy shared a birthday.
"He was the perfect baby, man," Murphy Brown said, his voice thick. "We thought Zander was such a good child, we decided to have another child."
That led to Zayden, who learned from Zander how to ride his bicycle and love the outdoors.
"They was a throwback, because they liked to play outside," said Byron Brown, who last saw the boys when he took them to the sprinkler playground at Dell Holmes Park in St. Petersburg about three months ago. "Most kids these days like to stay inside."
Four counselors will be available today at McMullen-Booth Elementary School, where Zander was a student, said Pinellas County schools spokeswoman Melanie Marquez.
The boys had a dog, Shadow, who is now staying with Byron Brown. Sunday, Brown sat on his front porch in south St. Petersburg, smoking a cigar, squinting at the street. Shadow began howling.
"That's the dog," he said, managing a small smile through his tears. "I guess it's missing them, you know? They played with him every day."
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Murphy Brown tries not to think about what happened after he found his wife dead. But the memory repeats itself, an unwelcome guest barging again and again through a door in his mind he can't quite shut.
When he realized Dawn was gone, he went into the boys' bedroom. They lay peacefully beneath their sheets, no signs of injury. "Whatever happened, they were nice and clean in bed," he said.
Murphy drew back the covers and shook his sons.
"They were lifeless," he said. "Their arms and legs were stiff."
He ran into the street. A friend had returned with him in his car from the bar where they had spent the evening. The friend called 911.
Murphy is now staying with relatives in St. Petersburg. He says he'll never return to the house in Clearwater, and has asked relatives and friends to retrieve his possessions.
He is a tall, heavyset man. Recounting the events to a reporter Sunday at the house he has moved into, he stared straight ahead, looking at a memory more vivid than the morning sunshine or the cigarette in his hand.
He answered questions. He paused for long moments. He wept. After a while, he had a question of his own.
"You're a reporter," he said, his gaze snapping into focus. "Have you ever seen anything like this before? Do people ever recover?"
Peter Jamison can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or (727) 445-4157.


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Sadomasochistic posing professor found fit to teach
The Albuquerque Journal reported yesterday that University of New Mexico professor of English Lisa Chvez* was found fit to teach by the UNM Deputy Provost Richard Holder. Provost Holder reported to the English department faculty that he determined that the faculty member had posed on a sadomasochism website with at least one of her graduate students, and that Professor Chvez should not have to face a faculty ethics inquiry.
In a March 10 letter to English department faculty, Deputy Provost Richard Holder said he thinks associate professor Lisa Chvez used poor judgment in participating in the Web site's activities with one of her students.
But, Holder goes on to say, "In my mind this participation did not rise to the level of calling into question her 'unfitness for duty.' "
Holder's decision isn't sitting well with some English department faculty members, 13 of whom had signed a petition calling for the Faculty Senate Ethics and Advisory Committee to review Chvez's conduct. The petition expressed "serious ethical questions" about Chvez posing with a graduate student who was enrolled in one of her classes at the time.
"It's not a faculty rights issue, I don't think. It's not an academic freedom issue. It is a faculty conduct issue," professor Gary Scharnhorst said. "I believe that she crossed the line having inappropriate relationships with graduate students."
Scharnhorst said none of his colleagues are angry that she posed on the Web site.
"What everyone finds troublesome is the fact that she was involved with graduate students," he said.
Another English faculty member, Anita Obermeier, stated that the issue had "pullled the department apart" and that the non-referral of the matter to the Ethics Committee "was a huge slap in the face." (double entendre intended?)
The university had hired an attorney to investigate the professor's behavior and the investigator determined-
Chvez had been moonlighting for People Exchanging Power, a group based in Albuquerque that advertises conversation for cash. The group specializes in fetish exploration…
The investigation determined that "no crimes were committed, that no faculty member engaged in undue influence over any students or created a hostile learning environment, and that there was apparently no use of University-owned computers or telephone equipment."
"The investigation revealed that the PEP website involvement of two graduate students preceded the involvement of Professor Chvez, and that both she and a third graduate student learned of the PEP website from the graduate students whose involvement preceded their own," Holder states.
"All four of these adult women reported that their activities were consensual, and all disclaimed any recruitment, solicitation, or coercion."
Holder said faculty members are free to appeal his decision to the provost.
The dankprofessor finds the UNM decision to be at odds with the present campus trend that embraces a feminist orthodoxy that when it comes to student professor relationships in some way involving sex such means that differential power precludes consent no matter what the student or students might state. Rather than accepting carte blanche that these students could not consent, the University of New Mexico did the right thing by looking into the particulars of the situation. The university did not engage in any a priori assumptions. Findings of no undue influence, no hostile environment, no use of university facilities means in the dankprofessor's opinion, that there is no case against the professor. Bravo to the University of New Mexico administration for doing the right thing.
However, the dankprofessor is not naïve. It is not over. Offended faculty are likely to appeal. The offended faculty will be spurred on by some offended alumni, and I am sure a myriad of others. And if the appeals are unsuccessful and the good professor returns, she will be faced with a very hostile environment, no collegiality for her and I am sure no preferred teaching schedule, and she will be held under a microscope by faculty attempting to find that she has violated some university rule. Such may sound terribly cynical to many of the dankprofessor's blog readers. However, for those believing I am embracing cynicism, the dankprofessor's response is that it is realism that I am embracing. No pipedreams from me when it comes to contemporary university life.
For updates on the Chavez story, click here and here.
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[…] As previously reported by the dankprofessor, Professor of English Lisa Chavez had been investigated by the UNM administration for posing nude on a sadomasochism website, People Exchanging Power (PEP). She had posed nude with some of her students who had previously been involved with PEP. The investigation determined that Chavez had not exerted undue influence on these students, that the student involvement was consensual. […]
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This poses three types of stigmas. The first one is that she's a female taking control of her own sexuality. That is especially threatening in a Puritanical culture such as ours that demonizes female sexuality and sexual liberation as deviant. The second one is that she is engaging in BDSM activities. The BDSM community is marginalized all over the world and sex-negative feminists want to portray those of us involved in BDSM as "sick" while the Religious Right believes unconventional sexual practices are an aberration to God. The third one, of course, is that she is a professor posing with students.
My best wishes go out to Chavez.
Comment by Nadya | October 14, 2009 |
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