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My 1st Kit - Grandmommas Garden

This Kit is for my grandmother Blanche- I remeber she always had a yard full of beautiful flowers year round, we always had cut flowers all the the house.
In your memory gramma this 1 is for you.
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Cute as a Button

What we collect says a lot about our personalities.  Whether you collect buttons or coins, stamps or dolls... it all is a glimpse into your personality.  So when you are thinking about a theme for your wedding, look as close as your collections.  Whatever it may be, use your collection as your theme to help bring your personality to your wedding.

Let's start with a button collection :)  I hunted down some great ways to use your collection as your wedding theme.  Use it as a bouquet....for your favours....guest book...anything goes.  This is a great idea for the DIY bride who is crafty.  Enjoy!

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Thursday, February 18, 2016

Meet me in NC -- GPX Seminar and Salisbury Civil War Show

Hey everyone!!  I'm coming home to the Old North State once again for two events next week!

Interested in learning about Pulse Induction metal detectors for relic hunting (or Civil War detecting in general)?  I'll be giving a talk at the monthly meeting of the Triangle Relic Recovery club meeting this Tuesday, Feb. 23.  The meeting will be held at the Ridge Road Baptist Church in Raleigh at 7:30.  The main focus of my talk will be the Minelab GPX series of detectors, including practical use and setting for various conditions.  I will also have special deals available and some giveaway prizes for a few lucky attendees.

Ridge Road Baptist Church
2011 Ridge Road
Raleigh, NC 27607
(in the Fellowship Hall)
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Then I will be back next weekend for the Salisbury, NC Civil War Relic Show Friday and Saturday, Feb 26-27.  This should be a great show, with some fabulous relics on display.  I will have detectors and equipment available for purchase from Fort Bedford Metal Detectors, and to answer any questions about the hobby.  I'd love it if you could stop by and say hello!

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Re: [tycho-user] tycho-source-feature-plugin - no source generated

My bad, we had a typo in the category.xml :(
We now have a generated , properly-named source feature published in our repo. The only problems I see now are:
  1. it's missing a "label" attribute so shows up as "[project].source.feature.feature.group" - pretty nasty for our consumers.
  2. it's missing a "plugin" attribute identifying the branding plugin so it's not grouped with the rest of our plugins in the Help > About dialog. Certainly less but still important to us.
Thanks for all your help so far and what do you think about these last two issues?

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Craig Foote <craigfoote@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Oh yeah, I forgot to add that the generated source feature is not being added to the built site. I tried duplicating the existing feature in the category.xml and appending -sources-feature but it had no effect. How can we add the generated source feature to our site?

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Craig Foote <craigfoote@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi again Mickael,

When you said "files such as feature,properties if" did you mean "features.properties" or "feature.xml. build.properties"? Though we're getting farther, the source feature generated still has problems.

The generated source feature is named "[project.artifactId]-sources-feature", no timestamp. Can we change this to [project.artifactId].sdk_[version_with_timestamp]? I read https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/TYCHO-192 but this seems to be ignored:

Also the feature.xml is missing "provider-name" and "label" attributes which I would have expected to be copied over from the binary feature. It also would be nice to have a reference to the branding plugin though that may be affected by it not having any actual source and us having to specify it in the excludes block in the pom.

What do you think?

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Craig Foote <craigfoote@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Great, thanks again.

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On 05/02/2012 03:17 PM, Craig Foote wrote:
OK, thanks again Mickael. So your comment at https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=345234#c27 about a patch to make that optional hasn't been applied yet? Are there plans to do so or maybe a bug entered for that?
No, this patch was not applied. I'm now Ok with having to create a folder, but a more explicit message and documentation on it could be helpful.

Is it just an empty folder named "sourceTemplateFeature" at the root of the feature that's required?
Yes, but it is also meant to include there files such as feature,properties if you want to add content to the generated source feature.

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Friday, December 9, 2011

Where love affairs begin but never end…

 “Every corner you turn, expect to find something you will fall in love with.”

I do not mean the Italian men or women, (although I want to!!), but the place. And the place I am talking of is Firenze or Florence as the world calls it.

Florence, set on the Arno River is a lively, magnetic, romantic and unbelievably busy town oozing with architectural brilliance. Amongst many other things it is the birthplace of the Renaissance and is known as the Renaissance City. You can keep coming back to the town and not get enough of it even though it is relatively small. The town is an important part of history, and why wouldn’t it be after giving birth to world class artists like Bernini, Baroque, Michelangelo and Medici amongst others.

Stand on the Arno Bridge for hours and see the sun come up or go down, but you will not get tired of it. Get lost in the magnificence of an architectural marvel like the Duomo or overawed by Michelangelo’s David, but what you will fall in love with, eventually, is the city’s charming cobbled lanes and vibrant life that it exudes!

Someone had once told me that you can only “see” the city once you walk through it and there has never been a truer word. The place is a treasure chest of art and history- every corner we turned, every piazza we visited there had something delightful on offer. You can walk on the streets all day long absorbed by the busy-ness of this town.

Piazza della Signora, the town’s largest and busiest square emanates a bit of everything. Evenings fly by as you sit among the locals and while your time away in carefree chatter. You turn from observer to awestruck admirer while admiring the monumental structures of David (a fabulous copy of the original of course) along with other architectural wonders surrounding them. It’s almost as if Baroque, Bernini, Michelangelo seemed to think of the piazzas as their canvas as they set to immortalize the area with their work. People just sit there reading, accompanied by soft music played by musicians nearby, enjoying some alone time. This social gathering in the evenings is a ritual ardently followed by all Florentines- it is the only way to know the town gossip and what is happening in their neighbour’s lives.

In one of these cobbled and often crowded by lanes, a hungry soul finds Gusta Pizza. A restaurant that presents typical Italian pizza albeit with a lot of heart and love…literally! The speciality of this cosy little place is that their pizza’s, on request, are made in the shape of a heart. Their love for pizza and for the customers who buy it is clearly felt. For dessert one has to visit The Diner which offers the most mouth watering of dishes known as the carrot cake and as it melts in your mouth, even with a full tummy, you are left craving for more.

One of the most memorable places in the whole of Florence and every art lover’s fantasy is the Uffizi Gallery and the Museo Del Duomo, both are must visits. The Gallery houses the works of every sculptor, painter and artist the world worships- Bernini, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Tiziano, Rembrandt, Botticelli or Dante- you name it. It is truly awe-inspiring.

Some of the works are so good that many tourists end up buying a lot of these souvenirs as gifts or for personal use. Florence in that way is a shopping haven with something there for everyone. And the only advice one can give to a tourist is being a good haggler, always helps!!
Italians and style go hand in hand. Enter Ponte Vecchio and you will know why. It is only in Florence that one would find specially made rings of the most beautiful kind with a lot of filigree work which makes it really hard for men to control their better halves from lightening their pockets.

At the end of a long day when one seeks nothing but a place of relaxation, they visit Piazzale Michelangelo which not only gives you a breathtaking panoramic view of the Florence but is also home to Michelangelo’s famous sculpture of David.

It’s like what the Eagles once said,
…you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave…

 Claudio Spadi performs to a crowd with the Arno Bridge in the background

 Panoramic View from Piazzale Michelangelo

 Michelangelo's David at Piazzale Michelangelo

Riot on the streets near the Duomo

The Arno river, an eagle eye’s view.

Duomo of Florence

Sumptuous Gusta Pizza

View from the Uffizi Gallery

  1. Lovely! :) Really took me through the place.

  2. brilliant pictures =)

  3. Thank you thank you :D both :)

  4. Very nice, Devang - keep roving!! SCM

  5. u have captured and expressed italy(and florence) in a brilliant way...even the people living here for years cannot express it so well :P but u speak up for what we feel :) I guess thats what writers and photographers are meant to do ;) bravo!!!!

  6. thank you soo much divya :D I could keep writing about Florence and still feel its inadequate...that's how much i loved the place :D

  7. Such a beautiful travel piece. You should work for the lonely planet!

    -Seema (from SIMC)

  8. Awesome! Are you sure you want to be copywriter and not travel writer? ;)

  9. @ seema- i wish that happens..somewhere down the line... Wishful thinking for now...

    @neil- hahaha :D as long as the writer part remains constant..thank you :D


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Hi all,
Today I am releasing a super alpha version of the game so far.
However, it's still not much of a game. This is more like a tech demo.
This is mainly to get some very early feedback on what I've got so far,
to gauge the interest in it.
I also hope to pull in a bunch of testers to help me further develop the multiplayer aspect of the game.

Please note that it's still really buggy and unpolished, I also don't have a production server and am using my development server.
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Also, the game was developed with an Android 1.5 (stock G1) and doesn't fully work with 2.0+ just yet.
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Signing up for an account
Camera movement via trackball
Touch based movement, click on the tile where you want to move to.
Area to area teleportation, just step over some of the NPCs and you'll get teleported. (not polished)
NPC/Event/Player activation. Long touch a player or npc for the player menu to come up.
Tile animation, check out the water move.
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Character name display (though it hurts FPS, it'll be optional)
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February 24, 2006

Lock and load!
We’re goin’ for a walk in the park
Where things tend to explode.
Be humping till dark,
Out in the killing zone.
No, there’s no time to phone home.
So saddle up girls!
We’re only gonna walk twenty klicks...
Maybe thirty,
Gonna get our kicks
And Charley sure don’t have no choir girls
So be ready...
Be ready...
Keep it steady...
Be alert!
Every minute...
Your very life depends on it!
You don’t want to live forever, do you?
Death may be waiting for you
Behind the next bend in the trail
Watching for youJust you
And there’s nowhere to bail.
You have to face it
Prepare for it
Every day
Every way...Are you ready
To bite the bullet with your name on it?
Be steadyIn this fevered pit
So far from home
And so all alone...
You don’t want to live forever, do you?
Watch every step!
I mean, every step...
Or it could be your last one.
Move it out with a little pep!
If you want to see "The World" again, son?
But you can't think about "THE BULLET" too much
What’s that moving in the treeline?
Did that bush move?
Just keep movin’ it down the line.
Hug that beautiful
TerribleHorribleM-16 so fineGood eyes, good luck, and a good weapon must combine.
For the warrior his M-16's his best friend,Cause the other guy to his grave it'll send.
But if it don't...
You really don’t want to live forever,
do you?Just keep doing what your rich uncle...
Uncle Sammy, pays you the big bucks for.
This combat infantry chore...
No time to worry now ‘bout your moral decline
With the "boy scouts" divine...
So don’t let the fear get to you,
Around your heart entwine
Or you could go crazy.
You lose it now
Before you know it you'll be kickin' up a daisy.
Just watch your step!
Look at the ground where you’re gonna step...
Does it look like somebody’s been digging there?
Does it look like somebody packed somethin’ in there?
We gotta keep humping til night falls
So keep an eye out,
Or Charlies surprise package tamped in the ground
Gonna jump up and grab you in the b.....uh, neck!
You don’t want to live forever, do you?
Death may be waiting for you underground
So don’t look up....
Death may be waiting for you behind that bush
So don’t look down...Troop, you got two eyes haven’t you?
You can see everywhere at once can’t you?
Good thing
Or you would surely die...
What’s that, a sigh...
Sure you’ll live to see,
"The World."Just pray to God
It's not when the flag over you is unfurled.
Sure it’s a messy chore!
But somebody’s gotta do it,
And you answered the call
You know,
all gave some,
Some gave all...Besides,
You don’t expect to live forever, do you?
Travel light,Cause everything you girls take
Will be carried on your back every blessed klick
But I wanna see every swingin’ D...,uh. grunt
Just put one foot in front of the otherEvery klick...
Do the two-step shuffle brother,Just one foot after the other
Till you get wherever you're headin'
Where that is I don't know...
The army operates on a need to know basis,
An I guess I just don't need to know...
Nobody tells me a thing cause I'm just a grunt
Mine is just to do or...well, you know!
You didn’t expect to live forever, did you?
Do you have everything you need?
Let’s see.
First aid kit for when you bleed...
And you will bleed.
Dynamite...good ole TNT with which to play,
Always makes for a festive day.!
Three fragmentation grenades!
A percussion grenade!A white phosphorous grenade!
A smoke grenade!
A pound of C-4 exposive!Sixteen full ammo clips!
Entrenching tool!
Claymore mine!
Trip flare!
Three canteens!
Mosquito repellant!
Pancho liner bedding!
C-rations for three days!
Extra socks!
Extra socks?
Yea, you got everything you need...
Ready to go out in the bush
And do this killing deed!
Make your Uncle Sammy proud
Just don't walk too loud
Or you might wake up the dead...
Then you'll be dead.Just make sure nobody lags!
Army only moves as fast as its slowest man.
I wonder who carries the body bags?
Hope we have enough,
Could get pretty rough...
You don’t want to live forever, do you?
Wanna hump the radio
Too...Be the platoon RTO?
You still have to carry all that other stuffToo...
Do you want to walk the point
Way out front of all those other jerks.
Think of all the perks...
You get to be the first
To see where the Vietcong lurks
You get to be up where the action is!
See firsthand
Where the bullet with your name on it is!
Just pray Charley doesn’t see you first...
Might ruin your whole day
With an AK-47 burst...
That would take all the fun out of this little fray
This Vietnam passion play
That we offer our lives for...
That we pound the jungle floor for,
Sicken our very souls for...
But what ya gonna do,
You don’t want to live forever, do you?
Can you believe it,
Some rear echelon dudes across the pond
Are badmouthing this war for which we’re so fond.
In that faraway place known as "The World,
"They even say they abhor
Can You believe it?
That’s bull s...uh, hockey,
What they wanna do, live forever?

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Sunday, December 28, 2008

The Dark Knight, Revisited

Last summer, like most people who saw TDK in the movie theatre, I felt justifiably wowed by the production and the intelligence that went into the flick. On second viewing, and on the small screen at that, I find more sympathy for its critics. The nihilism is pretty much unrelenting.

Without the benefit of surprise, the Joker character Heath Ledger and the Nolans put on screen is less fascinating and more loathsome. I still hold my earlier opinion he's too much of a controller to be an "agent of chaos," but it's still one of the best depictions we'll ever see of a dog that needs to be put down.

I have to wonder about all the Oscar talk: after last year's honors for No Country for Old Men, how much of a backlash would there be if Hollywood goes this dark for the second straight year? What does it say about us, as a culture, that our entertainment industry would put so much quality effort - and praise - into products that embrace nihilism to this extent two years straight?

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Cross-site scripting and a simple solution

Most of us hardly give security vulnerabilities any consideration when creating a web-application. It's something that takes care of itself right? Mostly we get away with it because our applications may not be affected the moment it goes live. So it becomes a habit to ignore taking care of it.

But its a ticking time-bomb. Its strange because the cost associated with additional security considerations are negligible compared to the losses that can arise when the application is actually comprised!

One such vulnerability is XSS or Cross-site scripting. It comes out at number 1 for the second time running in the OWASP Top 10 2007 .

XSS accounts for 80% of today's Internet security vulnerabilities says one source.

First, let's learn about our adversary. XSS vulnerabilities can be categorized into three distinct types. Each of these can be exposed in a variety of ways - this is only limited by the imagination of the attacker.

  • DOM-based XSS vulnerability is when the problem exists in the page's client script itself. This shouldn't happen unless your web-application itself is hijacked by a malicious attacker who then adds script that attack "safe" standard local HTML pages (that are usually installed with most applications, including IE). What can be done about it falls more into the scope of a system administrator. The other 2 are our responsibility...

  • Non-Persistent or Reflected vulnerability is the most common type of XSS. This is seen easily when there are inputs by the client into a web-page and this is displayed on a page returned by the server. Basically, this would mean that only the user who makes the inputs are affected.

  • Then there's Persistent or Second-order or Stored XSS. This is when the impacted data is stored on the server (file/database/LDAP/etc) - it is the most dangerous kind as it can affect any user to whom the compromised data gets displayed to.
How does all that sound to those of us who copy/paste a few snippets to address XSS (add code to ensure that no < or > make it through our inout fields, etc.) - although the solution seems to be a matter of restricting user input (or our output), we are all not exactly security experts to know about the dangers (never mind that the experts themselves are having a tought time).

This is where we can use library/frameworks developed by those who know the range of attacks out there.

One such tool is Antisamy, an open-source free library from OWASP.
Antisamy can be used to verify that provided input (submitted by the user for example) does not contain any XSS vulnerability. It's highly configurable using XML files so that you can decide the amount of security you need for your inputs.
And the best part is that it generates user-friendly responses pointing out the vulnerability which can be shown to the user.

See below code showing how easy it is to use:
* @throws PolicyException
* @throws ScanException
* @throws IOException
public static void testAntiSamy() throws PolicyException, ScanException, IOException {
// Create a sample input, inputString, that can have malicious code as well safe parts.
String inputString = null;
StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
buf.append("This is all normal text.\n");
buf.append("But suddenly out of the blue...\n");
buf.append("An eveil laughter crackles in the cold night...\n");
buf.append("Did you hear that??!!\n");
buf.append("How about this twisted one: \n");
buf.append("Or this eveil smile!!! \n");
buf.append("Its actually worse than the laugh right? Right?\n");
buf.append("ok ok. Heres a normal smile \n");
buf.append("Hows that!");
inputString = buf.toString(); // //readFile1("Antisamy/Other/SampleInput.htm");
System.out.println("Original input:");

// Use the predefined Antisamy policy file and apply this on the inputString
Policy policy = Policy.getInstance("Antisamy/Sample_policies/antisamy-anythinggoes-1.2.xml");
AntiSamy as = new AntiSamy(policy);
CleanResults cr = as.scan(inputString);

// Display cleaned input using getCleanHTML() of CleanResults.
System.out.println("\nCorrected output:");

//Display the errors encountered in the input using getErrorMessages()
System.out.println("\nError Messages:");
Java Sourcecode to HTML automatically converted code (Java2Html Converter 5.0 [2006-03-04])
by Markus Gebhard markus@jave.de
Further information: http://www.java2html.de/

So it's just a matter of taking the input and validating it based on the rules specified in the xml file through the CleanResults class. There are so many useful methods in this class - get all the details by downloading javadocs (get the source too) alongwith the library (make sure you have not just the main Antisamy library but also the supporting libraries) and sample application configuration files from the Antisamy page.

Practically speaking though, Antisamy is best suited for you when you already have a server-side trip - so its easily used for type 3 XSS. For type 2, if you have a client-side only thing going on, then you have to consider the consequence of having a server round trip just for the validation...

Have a safer day at work (do share any inputs you may have).

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  1. i keep having the problem of referencing the xml file

    Policy policy = Policy.getInstance("Antisamy/Sample_policies/antisamy-anythinggoes-1.2.xml");

    even if i put the whole path name, there's a problem. May I know is there any particular directory i should put the xml file?

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Thursday, April 21, 2011

What's for supper? Easy smoked sausage recipe

Last weekend Mr. Fixit checked out a European butcher where we hadn't shopped before, and came home with a long skinny stick of smoked sausage.  We haven't had much smoked sausage here in a long time, mostly because of sodium limits.  This one turned out to be a bit different from the dark, thick-skinned, German style smoked sausage we are used to; it was lighter and hammier, more like kielbasa.  But that was fine, because what I did with it would have worked with either style.

Here's the recipe:

In the slow cooker, put some sauerkraut, as much as you want.  Add sliced smoked sausage (I didn't slice it too thinly).  Add cut-up carrots, or baby-cut ones if that's what you have.   I pre-cooked them for five minutes in the microwave, to give them a head start. Put the lid on and cook until everything is heated through; the smoked sausage is basically cooked already, like pre-baked ham.  I gave it about three and a half hours on high, with the carrots already started.

We served it with frozen perogies.

And what do you do with the leftovers?

Combine with a quart of chicken broth and some leftover smack-'n'-cheese, and you have Cheesy-Carrot-Cabbage Chowder for lunch the next day.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Children shouldn't read dead things. (Living Books)

The focus of this week's Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival, hosted at Fisher Academy, is Living Books, and it is based on this paper that she wrote, that was later incorporated into School Education, part of her six-volume series on education.

What is to be said about living books that hasn't already been said, said often, and said well?

And yet our public libraries seem to sell off more good books than they buy; the mall bookstores, as always, have mostly glitz-for-girls and scary-for-boys; and the sold-to-schools book flier that we brought home from last weekend's homeschool meeting--well, we won't even discuss what abominations were in that one.  Homeschoolers, in a way, are lucky...the rest of the world knows about the big online booksellers, but we also know about smaller vendors who aren't embarrassed to combine Alfie and Plutarch in the same catalogue.
"Now do but send to any publisher for his catalogue of school books and you will find that it is accepted as the nature of a school book that it be drained dry of living thought. It may bear the name of a thinker, but then it is the abridgment of an abridgment, and all that is left for the unhappy scholar is the dry bones of his subject denuded of soft flesh and living colour, of the stir of life and power of moving. Nothing is left but what Oliver Wendell Holmes calls the "mere brute fact.""--Charlotte Mason
Dry bones, no flesh, no colour...books fresh from the morgue?  Whatever these textbooks were, as Miss Mason says in her paper, they obviously weren't the books that got Swedish schoolgirls fighting a duel about their favourite kings.  Or the books that got Marva Collins' students working literary quotes into their everyday talk:
"Once when a student told a lie in class, someone said, 'Speak the speech trippingly on thy tongue,' and another chimed in, 'The false face does hide what the false heart does know.'  If a girl was acting too flirty, the other girls would accuse her of acting like the Wife of Bath....Another time when a rubberband shot across the room, I asked Michael whether he had done it.  He said no and blamed it on Phillip, who said, 'Et tu, Michael? This was the most unkindest cut of all.'"--Marva Collins' Way, by Marva Collins and Civia Tamarkin
The books are still there for the finding.  I expect that when I go to the Big Used Booksale at the end of this month, I'd be able to find multiple copies of Shakespeare plays, anthologies of poems, hundreds of paperback classics used for one class or another and then discarded.  They're getting a bit harder to find, but they're still out there....and they're "in here" too (online as e-texts).  If we're brave enough to trust our children's minds to the great thinkers, the great humorists, the great observers, then Pascal and Plutarch, Voltaire and Vermeer are easy enough to pull up, download, reserve through even a small library, or find on a used-classics shelf.

Charlotte Mason explains that yes, mathematics may help you develop your mind in a certain way; that learning Latin is certainly good for developing certain strengths, "intellectual muscle" and so on; but none of these alone are going to give you "fact clothed in living flesh, breathed into by quickening ideas."  This argument is not quite clear in the Parents' Review paper, as there appear to be a few words missing; it is clearer when you compare it with the same page from School Education:
"Mathematics, grammar, logic, etc., are not purely disciplinary, they do develop (if a bull may be allowed) intellectual muscle. We by no means reject the familiar staples of education in the school sense, but we prize them even more for the record of intellectual habits they leave in the brain tissue, than for their distinct value in developing certain 'faculties.'"--School Education, Chapter 16
But she also has a warning for those who would take even good books and grind, pre-digest, or otherwise manipulate either books or school subjects to make them work the way we think they should:
"The fault does not lie in any one of these or in any other of the disciplinary subjects, but in our indolent habit of using each of them as a sort of mechanical contrivance for turning up the soil and sowing the seed.  There is no reprieve for parents."
There's no getting out of it or around it; there are no short cuts, magic machines, or snake oil potions that can take the place of good books, well served at the right time.  And there is no magic clicker to tell you exactly what those are and when--even Charlotte Mason was chary about giving a list of the "hundred best books for the schoolroom."  She didn't want people just taking such a list and trying to plug it in, "make it work."  Now that is not the same as saying that any books are fine, including nose-picker histories and vampire romances; Miss Mason had definite opinions about good and bad books, and personally chose the best books she could find for her schools.  But it's not about the booklist, in the end; it's about awakening to the possibilities of books.
"Once she [Erika, a six-year-old student] began reading and saw what fun it was, there was no stopping her.  She became addicted to books.  If she wasn't reading one of the Judy Blume books or one from the Laura Ingalls Wilder series, then she was trying out the Fables of La Fontaine or the Song of Roland.  One day, as I went around the class asking each child what new bit of knowledge he or she had learned that day, [she] said, 'I'm like Socrates*.  The only thing I know is how much I don't know.  I'm learning something new every day.'"--Marva Collins' Way

*In this term's Plutarch study of Solon, we learned that Solon said the same thing. I don't know Socrates very well: did he also say he was learning something every day, or was Erika misquoted? It doesn't matter much, but I'm curious.

Related posts:

Notes from a Book Talk
A Month with Charlotte Mason, #24
Me not just dumb monster, me read Plutarch
Hearts and Minds
Thinking Like a History Teacher

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

What's for supper (last night)? Sloppy Joes and frugal thoughts

We used to make Sloppy Joes with canned Manwich Sauce (bought on sale for 99 cents).  A few years ago we started making them from the Beany Malone recipe, and we liked them pretty much except that I had to remember to keep a jar of chili sauce around.  Later I modified the recipe (less chili sauce, no salt) to have a lower sodium content.

When I thought about making Sloppy Joes yesterday, I wasn't sure how long the half-eaten jar of chili sauce in the fridge had been there--that's how long it's been since we've made them.  Then I remembered the Sloppy Joe recipe at A Year of Slow Cooking, which is also in Stephanie's first cookbook.  It's a different style from Beany's--mostly spices and seasonings added to the browned meat, plus water and a can of tomato paste.  I made it on the stove instead of in the slow cooker, and added in a chopped pepper, because peppers, after several weeks, finally went on sale for under a dollar a pound. Mr. Fixit, who sometimes has problems eating tomato-ish, onion-ish dishes, said that this recipe didn't cause him any aftergrief.  I also noticed that it's very easy to control the sodium in this recipe--the amount of salt you add to the mix is up to you.  No MSG or anything else nasty either.

So unless I happen to have a fresh jar of chili sauce on hand, we will probably keep making Stephanie's recipe.

Oh, and the frugal thoughts?

Just that if you had to go out and buy all those seasonings at once, you might not consider Sloppy Joes to be a frugal dish.  But I already had everything called for, even onion flakes and celery seed, so for us the cost of the "mix" was very low.  I think about it the same way if I'm making granola:  the last batch I made (from the Common Room recipe here) had coconut, orange extract, wheat germ, almonds, and sunflower seeds in it; but those were ingredients I already had on the shelf and wanted to use up, not things I went out and bought specially.

A teaspoonful of spice is different from a cupful of coconut, of course.  The trouble with buying spices, unless you scoop them in bulk, is that you have to buy a whole package or jarful in the beginning.  (I buy both frugal-brand-in-a-bag and bulk seasonings.)  But you do start to accumulate them after awhile, so putting a bit of paprika and cumin and cornstarch together to make Sloppy Joe mix barely registers in the cost of a meal.  It's like starting a new hobby, something like folk art painting or knitting where you have to start out buying not only tools but every single colour of paint or yarn that you need; eventually you can stop buying so much and just use what you have, replacing only as needed.

Of course it costs the same in the end, since eventually I have to replace the ingredients used up (or maybe I don't bother for awhile). But if they're there on the shelf, you might as well use them.

P.S.  Crayons wants to know if people make "Tidy Joes."

Monday, April 11, 2011

How homeschoolers do things: a letter-writing unit

In this case the point of interest is not so much how we're doing a language unit on letter writing, as the timing of it.

Actually that was accidental.

I had planned to have Crayons do some work on letter writing, starting this week.  Last week we finished reading Jean Webster's novel Daddy-Long-Legs, which is mostly written in letter form.

So there you go.  Crayons' interest in letters is still high; and Judy's letters in D-L-L cover everything from descriptions of her college life, to crotchety whinefests, to apologies afterward; from purely businesslike memos to one loveydovey epistle at the end.  (Sorry for the spoiler if you haven't read it.)  A very good example of how writing style needs to vary depending on the situation.

The book we're using is a hand-me-down from the Apprentice.  It's the Reader's Digest Kids Letter Writer Book, by Nancy Cobb, published in 1994.  The bonus for us is that it's Canadian.  All the address examples, cities, provinces, postal codes are Canadian ones.  I don't know if the book was also published in an American version--maybe someone will let me know.*  (The Apprentice originally got it as part of a kit with stationery, pens etc.)

We read the list of reasons you might want to write a letter ("Help you make a new friend," "Send hard-to-say-thoughts," "Be Serious (write to the prime minister)"), and then compared the first two sample letters in the book: one "friendly," one business-style.  As a mini-assignment, I had Crayons write a short business letter to her dad or someone else that she would normally send a more personal letter.  She wrote a very economically-worded request for a particular birthday present.  (Those double-digits are coming around soon.)

There are lots of other sample letters and tips in the book.  I'm not sure how many of them we'll use, but I know there's enough to keep a fourth-grader going for awhile.

*I did find this reference to a later version--maybe this one is American?  "LETTER WRITER STARTER SET : Have Fun, Keep in Touch, Be Heard, and Get Things Done --- By Letter!"

Wednesday, April 06, 2011

A strange but still productive week

The weather here is still on and off--mixed snow, rain and general gloom.  Sore throats and general malaise have several of the Squirrels not up to doing much this week.

However:  so far we have managed to:

make a quart of yogurt (this is a good home ec lesson for days when you don't want people sneezing all over the ingredients--just one person has to actually handle the milk and starter)
make a pot of pepperoni-lentil-beef broth-carrot soup, good for what ails you
start a jar of lentil sprouts
make a big pan of orange-coconut-almond granola (we're short on boxed cereal)
bake gingerbread
wash a bunch of laundry
fold a bunch of laundry
iron some grab-bag fabric for sewing
read half of Plutarch's Life of Solon (that was Mama Squirrel)
listen to a good chunk of the audio book of Number the Stars (that was Ponytails)
read several fairy tales from The Fairy Ring (that was Crayons)
turn more plastic spoons into little people (Crayons)
keep reading The Book of Three (Mama Squirrel and Ponytails)
finish Daddy-Long-Legs (Mama Squirrel and Crayons)
"But there is a different kind of virtue, the kind that children know about, the feeling of self-worth and happiness that comes from purely personal achievement.  The kitchen is just about the only place in the house where a whole family can re-learn this kind of virtue, where there is comfort, joy and enormous pleasure in doing something simple together, and then enjoying it together."--James Barber, The Urban Peasant

Monday, April 04, 2011

There are no guarantees...but it's still worth our time.

Do you ever feel like you're wasting your time reading all those books to your kids?

What if you spend the summer reading oh, I don't know, something BIG to them...maybe the entire Chronicles of Narnia...and at the end they know the stories, but don't seem to have made any particular connections, at least that you can see, with the symbolism or character examples?  What does Lucy learn about the dangers of eavesdropping after looking into the magic book?  How does Aslan's ripping off an enchanted dragon's skin (in Voyage of the Dawn Treader) symbolize our need for submission to Christ's sometimes painful cleansing of our sins?  Why is it such a puzzle about who gets to go into the New Narnia at the end of the last book?  (Wasn't that a bit unfair on Susan? How about Emeth the Calormene?)  What if all this seems to go over their heads?  What if they never grasp the world's desperate need for more Puddleglums, those who will not be lulled by false logic and propaganda, even if it means sticking one's foot in the fire?

Charlotte Mason says that's a necessary risk that we take when we tell (or read) stories.  The mind feeds on ideas, not dry information; to use her food metaphor, we may not get exactly what we need from any particular meal, but it's certain that we won't get anything at all from a meal made of sawdust.  Even when we read the best books, we (or our hearers) won't receive or understand everything, all of the time; but that still gives us a better odds of getting (or giving) at least some nourishment, than in presenting what she calls "pre-digested" or sucked-dry material.

In Philosophy of Education, she writes of the child:

He is an eclectic; he may choose this or that;

our business is to supply him with due abundance and variety

and his to take what he needs.

Urgency on our part annoys him.

He resists forcible feeding and loathes predigested food.

What suits him best is pabulum presented in the indirect literary form
which Our Lord adopts in those wonderful parables
whose quality is that they cannot be forgotten though,
while every detail of the story is remembered,

its application may pass and leave no trace.

We, too, must take this risk.

Banana...and butterscotch...and strawberry--yes, it did work (What's in your hand?)

 What do you do with two frozen bananas,  some leftover strawberry crisp, and a handful of butterscotch chips?

Make muffins.

The recipe is our usual Canadian Living Banana-Yogurt Muffins, with a few butterscotch chips stirred in.  I thawed and mashed the bananas, added the rest of the batter ingredients, and then mashed the strawberry crisp with a fork and plopped a small spoonful on top of each muffin (before baking).  Jam would work instead.  I left a few untopped, for those who like them better plain.

Photos: Ponytails.

Saturday, April 02, 2011

In which "Cuisinart rods"* become yesterday's homeschool

Boy, do I feel like a relic.

Today was our local homeschool conference.

I presented a workshop about making the most of a limited homeschool budget. As an example of homeschool resources that are inexpensive and versatile, I mentioned Cuisenaire rods. I didn't bother bringing any to demonstrate with.

Later in the day, a couple who had been in the workshop came up and asked me about the rods I had mentioned. I suggested looking for them at one of the larger booths--a very good, longtime vendor--that I knew carried Miquon Math.

Well, they still have rods in their catalogue, but they didn't even bring any with them today! I said, "I'm guessing maybe Cuisenaire rods aren't such a big seller as they used to be?" Yep.

And to top that off, the virtual online rods formerly at the Arcytech site have also disappeared, along with all the other good Java manipulatives they used to have. So you can't even "pretend play" with them.

Hoo boy. Maybe my next year's workshop should be "things we used to use way back when."

*Clarification:  the people at the conference did not call them Cuisinart rods.  I was just joking about that because I posted a long time ago about the crazy names and spellings I've seen for the rods.


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Monday, November 14, 2011

Quick Christmas card

I've been so busy with the mini scrapbooks that I knew I had to go make a quick Christmas card. There's still something about making my cards.
The tree and words are from the Loads of Love stamp set. I wrapped the center white cardstock with the Baker's twine and used the glitter red paper along the sides. The image is added using dimensionals so it stands up from the base card. I ran the base card front through the Big Shot using the square lattice embossing folder. There's nothing wrong with keeping it simple.

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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Using Sandpaper

I can't tell you how many sheets of paper I ruined by not getting the cut deep enough, especially on thicker card stock. For some reasons sometimes your cut does not go all the way to the bottom layer of paper, but if you turn your cut upside down you can see the outlines where it is supposed to be, instead of tearing it out and then trimming with scissors, try a piece of sandpaper, sand the back of the cut very carefully until you have that bottom layer sanded off, then it will fall out cleanly, even though I cut a lot of paper each day, this still happens to me so I keep sandpaper around. Oh, and buy it in a the home department of your store, scrapbook sandpaper cost so much and you get itty bitty squares of it. I buy it and cut it in smaller peices, sharpens my scissors at the same time, oh or use it to sharpen your trimmer blade. Make sure and get the sandpaper that is a finer grain so you don't tear up your paper sanding it. I also keep a nail file handy for sanding down smaller pieces, it's easier to grip than a large sheet of sandpaper.

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Lisa said...

Now that's a handy idea. Thanks for the tip Diana!


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Thursday, April 2, 2009

First quarter book report

At the end of 2008 I saw many bloggers list all the books they had read that year. I read a lot of books, too, but since I didn't write them down I'm not sure how many I actually managed to finish. (With over 200 newspaper and magazine issues that make up most of my reading during the year, I have less time nowadays for books.) I decided that for 2009 I would keep track of all the books I read, and make note of it. So here's my report for the first quarter of 2009; there's a guide to abbreviations below, and the number in parentheses refers to how many times I've read the book.

Key: F: Fantasy; H: Historical; M: Mystery; MG: Middle Grade (ages 8-12); NF: Nonfiction; SF: Science Fiction; YA: Young Adult (age 13+)

01/08/09: Leslie Connor, Waiting for Normal (MG, 1)
01/05/09: Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (1)
01/19/09: Kim Stanley Robinson, Forty Signs of Rain (SF, 1)
01/26/09: Robinson, Fifty Degrees Below (SF, 1)
01/30/09: Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice (10? 15? I've lost count)
02/01/09: Richard Peck, The River between Us (YA, H, 1)
02/08/09: Robinson, Sixty Days and Counting (SF, 1)
02/12/09: Julia Barrett, Presumption (H, 1 or 2)
02/15/09: Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book (MG, F, 1)
02/18/09: Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains (YA, H, 1)
02/20/09: Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary (3 or 4)
02/22/09: Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now (YA, 1)
02/26/09: Emma Tennant, Pemberley (H, 1)
02/27/09: Tennant, An Unequal Marriage (H, 1)
03/05/09: The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century (SF, 1)
03/07/09: Richard Peck, The Teacher's Funeral (YA, H, 1)
03/10/09: Stephen R. Donaldson, The Mirror of Her Dreams (F, 4-5*)
03/12/09: Donaldson, A Man Rides Through (F, 4-5)
03/14/09: Jane Dawkins, Letters from Pemberley (H, 1)
03/15/09: Stephenie Meyer, Twlight (YA, F, 1)
03/21/09: Carrie Bebris, Pride and Prescience (H, M, 1)
03/24/09: James Kennedy, The Order of Odd-Fish (YA, F, 1)
03/31/09: George Cantor, A Season in the Big House (NF, 1)

*but not in the past 10 years

23 books total
8 middle-grade/young adult
6 Sci-Fi or Fantasy
7 Austen-related

That's actually more books than I thought I'd read, almost two per week. It's because I'm spending at least 30 minutes a day on the exercise bike, which is great reading time. It's also more first-time reads than I usually have; most often I'm re-reading an old favorite, but this year I'm trying to keep up with the children's marketplace. It will be interesting to see if the proportions change next quarter. How many books have you read so far this year, and which was your favorite? I believe of the books I read for the first time this quarter, I would choose either The River between Us or The Graveyard Book as my favorite.

  1. It's my kind of woman who creates a whole coding system for her book lists...

  2. Yes, I think I've mentioned before that I'm totally anal retentive about organizing books, music, etc.

  3. You've read so many books this year so far!

    I started keeping a list last year as well. And then a friend showed me this site, which has made my life so much easier. Give it a try, if you're into that whole organizing sort'a thing. ;)


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Monday, July 27, 2009

Photo of the Week--7/27/09

We had a full day to spend exploring the area around Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world, before leaving on our cruise to Antarctica. We took a taxi to a ski lift which took us up to the Martial Glacier. Being early summer, there was still quite a bit of snow on the glacier, although there was enough meltwater to create lovely streams running down the mountainside. Quite a nice way to get acclimated to the southern season, I think.

  1. I am so jealous of all the amazing places you had been able to travel. It seems like every picture you post is adding a new distination to my list of places to see. I can't wait until the kids are a bit older and we can start showing them the world :)

  2. That is fun, but don't wait until they're too old, then all they want to do it sit in the hotel and watch TV. :D


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Jetty Cafe – Dennes Point

Stillness prevailed.

You could hear the sound of bird wing.

A Sea Eagle sweeping

A Dolphin leaping.

Sea – a great swatch of interference colour,

Opalescent, blue and then orange in my peripheral vision.

The door open.

Kris and Ray give welcome

As though I was the Prodigal Son.

Such is their style in all they do.

Pass the intimateArtGallery

Into the communal gathering space.

Fireplace, leather lounge, books on cookery dominate free standing shelves.

Chalkboard menu

Demonstrates the passion, flare and personality of the cook.

Nourishes the soul.

On the bench, Mulberry, Frangipani tart,

Gold foil hued biscuits.

A pan of fish on the stove,

Dutch potatoes being smashed.

Vivaldi music gently permeates the air.

I sit and drink my tea.

The D’Entrecateux Channel now forms relief patterns.

My miniscule notebook/sketchbook is being scribbled in.

Like Flaubert, I observe intently,

Oh!  If I could only find the right word!

Just a squawk and a misplaced vowel from me.

People arrive by sail boat.

Fisherman, tourists looking lost,

A bevy of women flock to a corner,

One with great presence and authority,

Forceful opinion.

Ambience has changed.

Ruby red wine, bubbling white.

The fish is served, utter simplicity.

I give thanks to being in this place.

Individual taste and flavours give me hope.

I get up, say ‘Au revoir’ and walk up the road to home.


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Main Menu

…The Game For Brave People is scary?

The Oribi Gorge used to be the king of swing, but if you want a ride on the new World’s Highest Swing, you now need to head over to China. There, in Harbin City, you can swing on the observation deck of a TV tower that reaches 1,100 ft up into the sky. After strapping yourself into the steel seat, you simply swing out and over the city below. Though the observation deck is only 700 ft. off the ground, I’m sure this ‘Game For Brave People’ is still quite a stomach turner.

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Saturday, December 22, 2012

BioBook, A Gates-Funded iPad Textbook, Would Create A Free Database For Customized Learning

The BioBook is an interactive iPad biology college textbook that allows students and professors to create their own customized learning experience.

Since the launch of the iPad, colledge educators have been seeking an inexpensive alternative to paper textbooks that could leverage the collective knowledge of teachers and students. With a $249,000 grant from the Gates Foundation's Next Generation Learning Challenge, Dr. Daniel Johnson of Wake Forest University and education technology firm Odigia might have found it. Their BioBook, an iPad and web-enabled interactive biology textbook, creates a fully customizable experience for both students and educators.

For educators, the BioBook allows professors to track individual student progress and develop their own textbooks from a national database of professor-generated, mix-and-match chapters. On the student side, linear chapters are remixed into "branches and leaves," where students explore concepts as interlinked ideas, moving from fundamental facts to an array of detailed chapters, which students can explore in their own way.

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Josh Jaramillo2, Ali Boolani1, Bert Jacobson2 , Enoch Hill1, 1Tennesse State University, 2Oklahoma State University

Stretching is a common activity prior to sport performance. However, the efficacy of stretching as it relates to activity, in addition to the type of stretching remains questionable. Furthermore, while lack of range of movement may hinder some activities, it is also questionable if flexibility is associated with speed. PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was two-fold: to compare types of pre-activity stretching and to correlate the degree of flexibility with short distance (40 yd.) speed. METHODS: Following IRB approval 50 subjects volunteered for the study. Pre-tests included a warm-up and a timed 40yd sprint followed by randomly assigning the subjects to either 10-min static or dynamic stretching, after which a post-test 40yd sprint was timed. The second day began with an initial warm-up, a pre- 40yd sprint, and counterbalanced stretching bouts followed by a post-40yd sprint. To assess the relationship between flexibility and sprint speed, the sit-and-reach test was administered and the results were correlated with subjects’ speed. RESULTS: ANOVA with repeated measures yielded significantly better (F=3.89; P<0.01) in forty yard dash times by the dynamic stretching group over the static stretching group. Additionally, there was not any significant association found between flexibility and speed in the 40yd sprint. CONCLUSION: The data supports previous research suggesting that dynamic stretch is superior to static stretch and that dynamic stretch positively affects sprint performance. Degree of flexibility, as measured by the sit-and-reach is not a predictor of speed, but rather muscle type ratio may be more accurately a determinant of speed. It is suggested that for speed performance, dynamic stretching be included in the warm-up protocol.

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Creation Kit Navmesh Error

For a more detailed walkthrough on how to fix errors in a navmesh click here Finalizing This is generally the last thing done on a cell. I'll do my best to keep an eye on things and update the thread here, but if you hear of a fix before I do, could you update us here too, Fields are grayed out and saving the plugin will present you with an error. So.... http://digitalezines.com/creation-kit/creation-kit-error.html

I really wonder why navmeshes work in an ESM and not in a plugin. Then I reopened it in CK and without doing ANYTHING else I opened navmesh mode and clicked one triangle and hit the finalize cell button. But due to individual conflicts between navmeshes there still could be navigation problems in some places for NPCs that could be sorted only maually. It's easy to take for granted the amount of information we use when playing. https://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=Fixing_Navmesh_Deletion_Tutorial

There is a cut object feature which it accessible through the toolbar and through Advanced Navmesh Generation. I am genuinely curious what the deal is, but as stated, no problems have occurred in any of the mods I saved. i'm actually quicker like this in ext's than with a "brute force" method)...and i should add to all this: that's all stuff i gathered from modding skyrim. Ideally of course we shouldn't have to do this at all but at least now it can be done safely.

Loading... There are four types of auto-generation: Object Based, Havok Based, Recast Based, and Advanced. A solid navmesh provides the foundation needed to set up good NPC and combat gameplay. EDIT:: Read this thread.

There's nothing more I can do about it right now and unless JustinOther can pull a miracle rabbit out of his hat, there's no hope of it ever being fixed. Draw Cover - This is a great visual debugging tool that lets you see where cover is being drawn. Open Edge, No Cover - Drawn as a yellow line. There is no documentation at all on LOD generation.Large statics will disappear in game, despite being visible in the CK.

Keep the CK open and load the file in TES5Edit. Existing user? Edge cover is represented by a black bar on the side of the cover rectangle when in Draw Cover mode. Sign in to add this to Watch Later Add to Loading playlists...

At the top left is a box to search for form IDs. Once you've selected the Triangles and/or Vertices you wish to delete, press either "R" or "del" to delete the selection. You accidentally merged two navmeshes the CK listed as islands.In either case, if the error being shows is consistent, you have a vanilla navmesh that's been deleted.SolutionThis can be fixed relatively Used to be able to do this with path grids, but I guess not anymore.

Because of this navmesh has to be handled a little differently. this contact form Expand the tree so you can see your navmesh data listed. remove non-heightmap generation, as the public version shouldn't have it Retrieved from "http://geck.bethsoft.com/index.php?title=Navmesh_Creation_Workflow&oldid=11906" Categories: Articles Needing AttentionIncomplete ArticlesNavMesh Navigation Main Page Recent changes Random page Community Portal Toolkit Help Tools What Pathing Tests can be used to test this.

You will be warned to think about what you're doing. It's a good idea to have the lower edge be in front of the top edge, otherwise the NPC/Creature can get stuck trying to drop down. If your outdoor area is too complex to use heightmap generation, you may want to investigate simply doing the navmesh by hand. have a peek here Once you've learned the fundamentals and had some practice you'll be a navmesh expert in no time.

You may find it easier to cut out navmesh by hand. Go ahead and fill up the rest of the cave section. No navmesh is drawn under overhangs.

i cant figure it out Just the same here.

WitchOfTheWinds 3,415 views 6:46 Loading more suggestions... Site Content Copyright Valve Corporation 1998-2015, All Rights Reserved. In TES5Edit, note the form ID highlighted in yellow that starts with 00. Try to set these heights as accurately as possible.

You can increase performance when working in big exteriors by setting uGridsToLoad=3 in the GECKCustom.ini file. You should be seeing something like this now: Now right click on the form ID for the navmesh you want to fix (in this case 01022CC9) and select "change form ID". I personally use 64 or 32, as the heightmap generation process seems to give better results with these values. Check This Out Heightmap Resolution defines how fine of a grid is used when generating.

Share this post Link to post Share on other sites AndalayBay    260 Dragonborn Member++ 260 Posted 2 Jun 2012 None of this has been fixed in the CK yet. When done, you'll notice different colored edges in your navmesh. I've only done some minor paste/copy/edits but haven't had a problem. Back to top Back to Knowledge Base 0 user(s) are reading this topic 0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users Reply to quoted postsClear AFK Mods → AFK Mods →

how do i tie in the navmeshes i add to the outside without deleting or breaking open vanilla meshes?Sorry dont mean to wring you dry on the subject but this is Actors would simply be unable to move in the affected areas.


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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Support Vector Machines

Week 7 of Andrew Ng's Machine Learning class covers support vector machines, pragmatically from the perspective of calling a library rather than implementation. I've been wanting to learn more about SVMs for quite a while, so I was excited for this one.

A support vector machine is a supervised classification algorithm. Given labeled training data, typically high-dimensional vectors, SVM finds the maximum-margin hyperplane separating the positive and negative examples. The algorithm selects a decision boundary that does the best job of separating the classes with the extra stipulation that the boundary be as far as possible from the nearest samples on either side. This is where the large margin part comes from.

(from Andrew Ng's ml-class.)

The cost function used with SVMs is a slightly modified version of that used with logistical regression:

With SVMs, we replace the sigmoid functions with linearized version called cost1 and cost2.

Some error is accepted, allowing for misclassification of some training examples in the interest of getting the majority correct. The parameter C acts as a form of regularization, specifying tolerance for training error.

But, what if the boundary between classes is non-linear, like the one shown here?

(from Andrew Ng's ml-class.)

The SVM algorithm generalizes to non-linear cases with the aid of kernel functions. A straight line in n dimensions, a hyper-plane, can be viewed as a linear kernel. The other widely used class of kernel functions is the guassian kernel. It's my understanding that the kernel function maps a non-linear boundary in the problem space to a linear boundary in a higher dimensional space.

(from the wikipedia entry for support vector machine.)

The SVM algorithm is sped up by a performance hack called the kernel trick, which I understand just in general outline: The kernel trick is a way of mapping observations into a higher dimensional space V, without ever having to compute the mapping explicitly. The trick is to use learning algorithms that only require dot products between the vectors in V, and choose the mapping such that these high-dimensional dot products can be computed within the original space, by means of a kernel function.

There is some equivalence between SVMs and neural networks that I don't quite grasp. The process of computing the kernel function on the input vectors is something like the hidden layer of the neural network, which transforms and weighs the input features. I'm not sure if the analogy between SVMs and ANNs goes deeper. Also by virtue of the kernels, SVMs are a member of a more general class of statistical algorithms called kernel methods.

The exercise was to build a spam filter based on a small subset of the SpamAssassin public corpus of 6047 messages, of which roughly a third are spam. I trained an SVM and tried in on email from my spam-magnet yahoo email address, and it worked!

So, I guess the up-shot is that I'm still a little hazy on SVMs, if a bit less so than before. If I really want to know more, there's the source code that came with the homework. Or, I could read A training algorithm for optimal margin classifiers.

More SVM links

2012 conference dates

Here are a few conferences for 2012 in computing or bioinformatics:

Also, here's the full list of O'Reilly conferences. Last year's Strata on big data/data science was really fun.

Biovis, not to be confused with VizBi (see above) is part of VisWeek and will be in Seattle next October.

We'll soon be adding our own Systems Bioinformatics Workshop to the schedule, probably sometime in the Summer. Hope to see you there.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Matrix arithmetic

Here are a couple bits of basic linear algebra that'll come in handy in the Machine Learning class.

How to multiply matrices

Matrix Identities

If X and Y are two vectors of length m:

If X is (m x n) matrix and Y is (n x 1) vector

Paul's Online Math Notes on Linear Algebra


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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Recovery weeks seem odd to me. The idea of doing less work to get stronger is the complete opposite of the natural thought process. I guess the key is knowing when and by how much to back off the throttle. I don't think there would be any 10 minute steady states intervals at 320 watts in my definition of a recovery week. Thanks to TJ, I don't have to think too much about it. He prescribes it and I just have to do it.
Snapshot of what I've been doing to prepare me for the start of the MTB racing season. The late nights in the basement after the whole house was sound asleep are countless. If I don't have to see the trainer till November, it will be too soon.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

The good, the bad and the ugly!

The new selle should be here by Friday. I read a lot of reviews and they all say the same thing.........comfort on the boys! The current Selle XC gel-flow isn't making the grade.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

All work, no play

It's Sunday and in Eau Claire that can only mean one thing.....rain. So it was decided that Jim and I would head out to Lowes Creek and work on the new berm on Skull. The once super slow blind turn that leads to the creek crossing is now nothing more than a brake check. It turned out pretty nice and once it sets up, will be a lot faster and more fun. With all the other trail work Corba has done, the course will be super dialed in for the Firecracker.

Thanks for the tools Craig!

Saturday, April 25, 2009

3 X 20s on the knobbies

TJ had me down for 3x20 intervals in the woods, but with all the rain over the past few days, the trails were in no shape to ride. Although not nearly as entertaining, Jim and I hit the ultra flat Red Cedar Trail with the SISU hard tails. It's very scenic, but neither of us finds too much joy in doing out and backs.

These are only fun once they're over!

Friday, April 24, 2009

Consistency is the name of the game when doing interval work on single track. Relying strictly on perceived exertion, the twenty minute steady-state repeats on the same track were separated by less than 25 seconds. Race season is coming up fast.

Wed group ride

As always, the group ride was was a good time. Most of the usual suspects were there and once the roll-out was finished, we got some pretty good pedaling in. Sprinting is a lot more fun when you ride the train in.....thanks guys.

Really good size group of riders, 38 in all.

That is not a support vehicle! I think there was some motor pacing taking place :)

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Durand road race recap

The morning started out a bit hectic after I realized my rear wheel was rubbing on the frame. Craig M tried to help me late last night, but we didn't have the tools to work on the carbon wheels. So we were off to the bike shop first thing this morning to see if I could get some preferential treatment. Eric at Anybody's had the tools and the knowhow to fix the wheel, but there was a problem, the wheel wasn't the issue. After some quick analysis, it was determined that a file had to be taken to the drop out?? It was now 9:30 and we had a 45 minute ride to Durand and I still needed to register and be on the line at 11:00. As it turned out, there was time to kill.

Recap: This is the second RR I have ever done, so it was decided that I would race the cat 5/cit and use it as a learning experience. Bob waived the flag and we were off. Everyone warned me to conserve as much energy and do as little work as possible. I was good with that notion and experimented with different positions throughout the group. It was a good way to get a feel of the strengths and weaknesses of the other riders. After the first big climb Aaron S. and I decided to test the field with a pretty hard effort, but nobody came with us, so we re-grouped and came through the finish line to head out for a second lap. This time the pace was picked up and guys were starting to take fliers off the front. I had a hard time not answering, which turned out to be the right move as we eventually brought them back together. About half way through the second lap, a pretty solid rider got away and we were not doing a very good job of working together to close the gap; and we were running out of pavement fast. Knowing it wasn't the smartest move, I decided to put my head down and go to work on the gap. When we came up on the leader, I pulled through really hard to make sure he couldn't get a wheel. However, six or so guys still had my tire as we made the final right turn and started heading to sprint. I looked for a wheel after the hard pull, but none seemed to be available, and I was left alone in the wind. I was pretty shelled at this point, but managed to pull out a fourth place finish inches behind the leaders. The fitness seemed to be there, but my road racing strategy needs a lot of work. I think Time Trials are in my future before anymore road races. Check out the Motion Based file here
heading in for the sprint

Sitting comfortably on second wheel

Good times on the hills for sure!

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Tucson Mini Camp day 2

TJ took me out to experience the real deal. It became pretty apparent early on why they call it Mountain biking. The scenery was second to none and the trails were like nothing I've experienced. Good times for sure.

Slightly after the trail head. I think I took more pics than I did pedaling.

Navigating the pass. Unlike TJ, I had to perfect the hike-a-bike on the super technical stuff. How he clears this on a hard tail is a mystery.

Looking back at the GPS file, I was clearly lost for the entire ride.

It was a great day of biking, but after 4 hours in saddle and 4,500 feet of climbing, I was ready for the hotel. If I thought there was a lot of climbing today, day 3 on Mt. Lemmon was going to be a real eye opener.
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