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This flawless queen.
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Conchita Wurst, who came to international attention after winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, made news at Paris Fashion Week by walking in the Jean Paul Gaultier Couture show. Wurst closed out the show, a position usually given to the designer's favorite or the most famous model. Previous closers have included Dita Von Teese and Beth Ditto. Jean Paul has long been an advocate for so-called "unconventional" models. Early on in his career, he put out a listing in French paper Libération that read: “Nonconformist designer seeks unusual models–the conventionally pretty need not apply.”

Conchita is also the latest in a line of pioneers who are challenging mainstream conceptions of gender. This might be a reflection of fashion's fickle nature or it could mean that our perception of beauty has broadened; the fashion world is notoriously exclusive, and does not often veer from its rigid strictures of what is stylish, which is why we should not only applaud the casting decision, but also celebrate those who have come before. Below are a few other drag superstars who have made names for themselves.

You better werk.
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The '90s ushered in the rise of the supermodel, and in 1992, it got its soundtrack, thanks to RuPaul's "Supermodel (You Better Work)." Soon after, in 1994, MAC Cosmetics tapped Ru to be the first face of Viva Glam, the line's campaign to raise awareness and outreach for those in the HIV/AIDS community, making Ru the world's first drag queen supermodel.

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Ain't it the truth.
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I'm sure you've heard the news by now. Ryan Gosling is rumored to be having a baby with Eva Mendes. Also rumored to be true: my inability to love ever again. For those of you who are coming to terms with the debilitating news, I'm here you for you. And in the spirit of solidarity, I've found a couple of items to ease the grieving process as you walk along your very own boulevard of broken dreams.

Depending on your level of acceptance, there are two ways of approaching this devastating devlopment. There's the mature path of calm acceptance. Sure, Ryan Gosling isn't with you and you're dealing with a wellspring of emotions, but you're sophisticated enough to know that this is your life now. However, that doesn't mean you've entirely recovered. You'd still like to be handled with kid gloves until you're fully healed. Thankfully, Nasty Gal is on it.

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Wow. In case you hadn't heard, Usher is going to perform at the 2014 VMAs. We've been thinking about Usher a lot lately, anyway. First of all, there's the "Good Kisser" remix by Disclosure. There's also the collab between Usher, Pharrell, and Nicki Minaj ("She Came to Give It To You") that already seems to be a floor burner. (Seriously, it's so catchy). But the one thing we really can't get out of our minds? That hat Usher keeps wearing.

Usher performing at the 2014 BET Awards.
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He's been taking a page out of the Pharrell playbook by resurfacing vintage headgear. And while Ush may have had his raccoon cap since February, he’s been getting some serious mileage out of it. He’s been spotted in the cap while doing press to promote season six of The Voice, during a late night appearance with Jimmy Fallon, and, most recently, at the BET Awards. Where Usher goes, the hat goes. But does that mean it'll make the trip to Inglewood in August?

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5 Seconds of Summer, 5 SOS

Sex Pistols and Nirvana, represent.
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By now, you've probably heard the news. But if you're like "Huh? News? What?," allow me to make your day: 5 Seconds of Summer is performing at the 2014 Video Music Awards! It's a REALLY BIG DEAL (!!!) that warrants all caps and many exclamation points because it'll be the boy band's biggest-ever televised performance in the U.S., which means they're going to be an even more major deal than they already are. Which means this performance is very important. Which means what they wear onstage for said performance is, like, make-or-break important.

Fortunately, the four dudes from Australia have their performance style on lock. For the uninitiated, here's a style primer. If you're an expert in 5SOS, or just someone who stares at pictures of them periodically, you know that they're into repping other bands while performing. Big time. They've created something of a roll call of all their musical inspirations and we're here to pay homage to their T-shirt collection. Check out our faves below!

5 Seconds of Summer, 5 SOS

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Cool tee, cooler face, coolest hair.

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Snoop Dogg gettin' sock happy.
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Just when us fashion nerds thought nothing could top Snoop Dogg's "Saint-Tropez" music video featuring Karl Largerfeld (seriously, that happened), today the rapper announced he's partnering with Swedish brand Happy Socks to create the Art of Inspiration collection, which "aims to encourage and explore creativity and artistic expression" ...through socks. Basically, this means you can wear Snoop Dogg art on your feet 24/7, which is all we've ever wanted. (How did they know?)

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Jared Leto at the Chanel Haute Couture Show and a look from Chanel's Paris-Dallas Métiers d'Art 2013/14 RTW show.
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We're already well aware that Jared Leto was trying to make leggings a thing (see: our boy wearing spandex on Instagram with the hashtag "realmenwearleggings"), but today he turned heads when he arrived at Chanel's Paris Haute Couture show in skintight gold tweed trousers paired with an inside-out graphic tee, chambray shirt, beaded necklace, and his signature ombré strands. There was something about his pants-tucked-into-cowboy-boots ensemble that made us want to investigate it a bit further, and as it turns out, he was actually pulling a look straight from Chanel's Paris-Dallas Métiers d'Art 2013/14 women's RTW show.

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As the longtime face of the Adidas NEO label he designs, Justin Bieber is no stranger to modeling. Also—hello—his fragrance campaigns, anyone? Over the weekend, he posted a bunch of very Blue Steel snaps to Instagram, indicating that he might be ready to take the modeling thing a little more seriously. Or maybe he's merely indicating that he really, really likes his shiny blue jacket and just wanted the world to admire it, too. Regardless, let's take a closer look at them, shall we?

Justin Bieber

Zoolander vibes.
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Wearing at least five more pieces of clothing than we've seen on him in a while, Justin gave his most soulful hat-tip in front of a very swanky woodgrain backdrop. He accessorized with a tasteful chain-link bracelet, and also an electric fireplace.

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A$AP Mob in 'GQ.'
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With its lively history and growing creative network, Harlem is hot right now. For the July issue, GQ decided to highlight the neighborhood using locals who may know a thing or two about it—enter A$AP Mob and Cam'ron.

The A$AP Mob, who were a natural fit for the feature not only because they've curated a book on the topic but also because they've added to Harlem's fashion-forward legacy, brought their A-game (heh) to the shoot. Posted up at the Apollo, Rocky, Ferg, and the rest of their crew make suits styled with T-shirts seem like an easy look to pull off. Rocky wears a suit by Balenciaga with a Billionaire Boys Club hoodie, and checkered Vans, meanwhile Ferg reps Boss and pairs his suit with a Bellerose T-shirt, Borsalino hat, and jewelry by David Yurman. Rocky also broke down his style for GQ, saying, "Harlem has always been known for its swagger and pizzazz. I get my high-end look downtown, but my street style comes from uptown." It's definitely working for you, dude—keep that combo going.

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Pharrell at the 2014 BET Awards.
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If 2014 has taught us anything it's that where there's an awards show, there's Pharrell in an outfit destined to inspire a parody Twitter account. Say hello to @PharrellsUggs, the latest addition to growing group that includes @Pharrellshat and @PharrellsShorts. After winning Video of the Year for "Happy," Pharrell took to the stage in a pair of Fair Isle Uggs. This surprised a lot of people on Twitter but what else would you expect from the person who made shorts acceptable on the Oscars red carpet? Pharrell's just doing Pharrell and staying true to his Etsy-chic, cozy style.

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Worth the fine, TBH.
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You got to hand it to Neymar. Aside from being Brazil's star player and all, he's a master of his appearance. Not only has he invented his own kind of mohawk, he also showed up at his team's first World Cup game with a new frosted-tip boy band 'do–a look that almost overshadowed his playing. Now he's getting people talking once again with another aesthetic choice: his underwear.

We thought that elaborate hairstyles were the best way for players to show off their personalities, but, um, we somehow totally forgot about what's on under their uniforms. FIFA, the organization that governs the World Cup, isn't pleased with Neymar after he exposed the waistband of his non-officially-sponsored underwear (yes, that's a real thing) at the end of last Monday's Brazil vs. Ghana match. The offense is even fineable.

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Q. I will be spending the holidays with my boyfriend’s family this year. It’s a casual get-together at home and he says everyone usually wears jeans. It is the first time I’m meeting many of them, so I want to look good, but I also don’t want to overdress. What should I wear?

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The title of this post reminds me of a scary movie I watched ages ago. The trailer looked pretty scary so my ex and I (scary movies enthusiasts) rushed to the video store and rented it, just to find out at the end that it was the worst movie ever made, oh no! wait, that was “The mist” :P
For the past 4 days Amsterdam has been covered with a thick fog, I kinda like it, it makes everything look mysterious and cosy…We wanted to shoot the pics on my favorite rooftop because the fog was so thick, I felt like I was going to be almost “inside a cloud” but as we arrived to the top, the fog started to fade and the effect I wanted was impossible to achieve, the good news is, this is a fashion blog, not a fog blog, so we still managed to get a decent Look of the Day shoot ;P

Jacket: ZARA / See through asymmetrical blouse: H&M Trend / Sweater: ZARA / Boots: River Island /  Bag: Proenza Schouler via Runin2 / Corduroy pants: TopShop

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  2. Your outfit is really cool…simple but stylish at the same time. And…I love braids!If you enjoy reading, get a look to my blog!www.yabooksreviews.blogspot.comThea

  3. That sweater is gorgeous! One of my favorite colors ever, and especially so for this season! Love ya girl! Always reading your blog every day!xoxo,colormenana.blogspot.com

  4. The fog blog haha great! I love your outfit! The shoes are absolutely amazing! I think the pictures worked out really well!Xx Jorienfab-by-me.blogspot.com

  5. Uhm, since the moment I put my eyes in this blog that I stay fascinated with it and your texts and phptos! Your pictures are amazing and I love your outfits! I'm following you, good work! kiss kiss

  6. Love adore this look. The chuck of a knit over the sheer is my favorite part. Your hair looks pretty legit with the half braid, too. Just love it all. :)

  7. I love the background, looks cool and "winter weather" appropriate. Your boots and bag are amazing, as always. I'm also loving the layers and the tiered effect.xoxohttp://www.thewrittenrunway.com

  8. LOOOOVE the leggings with the sweater! I am a firm believer that leggings are genius. Wear them as pants, with a tunic- or a sweater in this case,- under regular pants when its cold…. infinite possibilities. I am, however, also a firm believer that legging wearing should come with a weight limit. I'm sure that remark will be come back to bite me, but it is how it isand no one wants to see that. The model pulls it off with grace , tho! Especially with those gorgeous boots!

  9. Hahaha, 'the mist' ! I saw that movie a few weeks ago!:D The misty days here in Belgium remind me of that movie wich was soooooooo awfully bad it was funny:D Great outfit you're wearing!

  10. so beautiful , your hair are perfect. And this outfit looks so cosy :)Tonight I'm gonna watch one of these movie ("The Mist" or "The Fog" which one choose? ha ha) :PI love when the weather gives to us fog because as you said it seems the town is mysterious and everything :)You are great Andy, love U xxx <3

  11. Great outfit! Love your sweater and your matchy booties. I really like fog too, there's indeed something mysterious when there's fog around. I like it.

  12. LOVE YOUR BOOTS SO SO MUUUUCH!!!!¿¿¿THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING????hahahahaThe pullover is pretty too, no cool with it!!!great photos and nice smile!!!KISSES FROM MADRID!HERMANAS BOLENAhttp://hermanasbolena.blogspot.com/

  13. Love your look as always, but I totally disagree about the movie:) I find it very interesting, not an usual scary movie – the point is all about how people react in critical situations.. I think it's shown pretty realistic and was scared for that very reason:) (don't even remember if there were any creatures in the movie..??:))Tina*

  14. And then I fall in love again…………….with your bag. Sigh. Jealous!! hahaV Pantaleonwww.twitter.com/vdpantaleon

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Monday, August 13, 2012

The Moderate Paradox

The moderate solution is deeply seductive for Republicans, who see their opposition sliding to the extreme left and believe that they can sweep up the middle by just moving a little to the left. All they have to do is moderate their position on X, Y or Z, and they will win over all the unaffiliated voters who are a natural fit for their common-sense policies.

This seems like such a no-brainer that high-profile Republicans keep earnestly and then angrily  pushing for a surrender on one point or another as the key to becoming the moderate mainstream party. But no matter how many times the Republican Party plays this game, it never stops being the "extremist" party that is out of touch with whatever the new normal is.

Like Lucy's football, the moderate identity is a paradox. The more you pursue it, the less likely you are to reach it. Our current political grammar, which leans heavily on ideas such as moderation and extremism, was crafted by the left. Like Orwell's Newspeak, the meaning of such words is relative and varies unpredictably. That relativism has given us the moderate Taliban and the moderate Muslim Brotherhood. Before long, it might give us the moderate Al-Qaeda member.

"Moderate" and "Extremist" are words that are used with an absolute air, as if what they refer to is clear and fixed. Actually, the value of each is relative to the other. If the range of views among Muslims is such that the Taliban are actually somewhere in the middle, then they are indeed moderate. This does not mean that they are decent people or that we can reason with them. It just means that the spectrum of Muslim views is bad enough that, within that spectrum, the Taliban fall in the middle, rather than on the extreme end.

The relativism of moderation means that there is no fixed position that can be taken which will make one moderate. If you are on a ship that is traveling between New York and London, then standing in the middle of the boat will not put you in between the two cities except during the brief period when the ship's travel puts it at that mark. Similarly, adopting "moderate" positions when the culture is moving leftward will not make you a moderate. It will still make you a conservative.

The moderate positions of ten years ago are the conservative positions of today. Not in principle but in practice. When the culture is moving fast enough leftward, then anyone attempting to adopt a moderate position is already trying to conserve something, which makes him a reactionary in the eyes of the left.

To repeatedly attempt to be a moderate is to adopt the positions of the left at a slower rate than the culture as a whole. This is only useful as a cynical political position adopted by someone who believes in nothing at all. It is not good for anything else. That type of moderate is always standing in the middle of the ship as a showy pose, while pretending that the ship isn't moving at all.

The practiced moderate falls afoul of Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox. He is forever trying to reach a point that appears to be closer each time he reaches for it, but that he can never reach. But unlike that paradox, the reason that he can never reach it is because the moderate position is a moving target.

The moderate Republican calculates the position of the left, factors in the position of his party and stakes out a middle position. The Democratic Party moves six steps to the left making it extremist. And our moderate Republican decides that he has found his chance. If he just moves one step to the left, he will seize the moderate position and lay claim to the terra incognita of the middle ground. But when the Democratic Party moved six steps to the left, the new moderate position is actually three steps to the left. All that the moderate Republican has done is watered down his message and made himself slightly more palatable to the middle, but that will change next week when the Democratic Party moves another six steps to the left and the middle will move with it.

Moderation is an unreachable goal as long as the culture is constantly in motion. And it's off limits to Republicans as long as its trajectory is always moving to the left. The moderate position is not defined by the right so long as the right remains in place or moves to the left. The left is moving and so its movement defines what the new moderate position is.

The moderate is not a better man or post-partisan; he is chasing the left's bandwagon and temporarily occupying the open space that the left has created for him to occupy. The moderate is the left's camp-follower. The jackal who feeds off the scraps that the left has left behind for him before he has to move on to follow its new campground.

By constantly moving to the left, the left is exerting control of the political space, defining the Overton Window in terms of its own political leanings. Moderates become slow leftists and conservatives become slower leftists. The entire spectrum comes to be defined by the positions of the left. Everyone in the spectrum becomes a leftist of radical, moderate or conservative temperament.

I would like to say that this is something that will one day happen to us if we keep going as we are and that we can still avert through a steady regimen of diet soda and Churchill readings, but in fact it has happened already. On domestic policy, most of what we do is debate over how much to the left we should go or how far away from the left we should move. Social conservatism is being jettisoned to focus entirely on economic conservatism. And when economic conservatism is jettisoned what will be left?

We've spent plenty of time calling Obama a Socialist, but the reality is that, for the last 50 years, we've been debating just how much Socialism we should have. We have repeatedly concluded that the new proposal is too much Socialism, and that the amount of Socialism we have now could be reduced by 10 percent or so to leave over the perfect amount of Socialism. Is it any wonder that the left is winning?

The difference between the left and the right is that the left plays chess while the right plays checkers. The right sacrifices long-term principles to short-term advantages, while the left sacrifices short-term advantages to long term-victories. The left will accept being embarrassed. It embraces the extremism tag. It doesn't care that liberalism has a negative perception or that people consider its views to be too radical. Those same views that people consider too radical will be mainstream in a decade or two.

The left does not occupy the moderate space. Instead, its positions do, because it focuses on moving the dialogue further to the left. The right, which prides itself on being more sensible and avoiding extremist labels is instead tarred with the extremist label, not because it has moved to the right, as the leftist media often insists, but because it hasn't moved to the left quickly enough.

The same phenomenon has occurred with Islam. Every time Islamists pull in their direction, the dialogue space is expanded to define new versions of moderation and extremism. Many Muslim terrorist groups are now moderate, not because they are moderate in our terms, but because they are moderate in Islamist terms.

The most common reason why a Muslim terrorist group is labeled as moderate is because is it less open to killing other Muslims than some of its more extreme variants. Violence no longer defines extremism, only the full scope of that violence does. All Muslim terrorist groups, including the moderate ones, favor suicide bombings directed at infidel civilians. Not all favor suicide bombings directed at other Muslims. Those who do are often labeled extremist.

Muslim terrorist groups who treat Shiite Muslims as infidels are increasingly viewed as moderate, contrasted with extremist Muslim terrorist groups who declare other Sunni Muslims to be infidels. And the truly extreme Muslim terrorist groups are the ones who define even other Sunni Islamists as infidels over minor differences.

A Muslim terrorist group which is open to killing 72 percent of the planet is considered more moderate than one that is open to killing 83 percent of the planet, which is still moderate compared to the truly extremist terrorist groups who want to kill 94 percent of the planet. Since there are always new and more extreme Islamist terrorist groups springing up, the logical outcome of this madness will leave us with a moderate Muslim terrorist group that only wants to kill 99 percent of the planet, as opposed to the truly dangerous extremists who want to kill 99.9 percent of the planet.

The moderate paradox is that, while moderate positions are praised as superior to extremist positions, they are actually defined by extremist positions. The moderate is an echo of an extremist's voice, and is it the extremist who defines society, politics and culture. A moderate is a man who allows himself to be defined by extremists and there is nothing praiseworthy about that.

That is why the left is so obsessed with "right-wing extremism" and so eager to call for moderation on the Republican side. It knows that extremists shift the dialogue space to the right while moderates allow it to shift further to the left.

Moderates will not change America. Rather, they have already accepted that they will be changed. Change does not come from moderates, it comes from extremists whose eagerness to push the bubble is what brings change.

Pat said...

Thank you for this article it goes some way to explaining what has happened to the so-called right wing press here in U.K.

If they criticise immigration there is massive support on the 'comments' sections. On the other hand when they promote, full front cover, a G.B. Olympic track athlete (two gold medals), who was born in the Sudan and is now resident in Oregon, anyone questioning this adoration is 'red arrowed' to oblivion. Needless to say the Cycling team (7 gold medals) are way inside.

Looking at the front covers of all of them 'left' or 'right' on Monday you would have been unable to identify one from the other.

Is Mr. Phelps front page over there? He should be.

Some dude said...

In regards to your comment on the right wing press and immigration.

Quote from aristotle on tyranny

"Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him."

The purpose of the reckless immigration we see is because the pro-immigration lobby hates you and fears you. They wish to import cheap labor with no cultural ties to the dominant culture in the hopes that they can 1. easily manipulate the vote 2. undercut your power by bringing in competition 3. upset the surrounding culture of both the natural citizen and the immigrant where both will be at war with each other.

It's a power move.

Roadmaster said...

In the last 50 years I have moved from leftist revolutionary to moderate to independent to rock-ribbed conservative.

It is no coincidence that this transition follows the increase of wisdom awarded through experiencing life and studying the Bible.

Am I a simpleton because I see right and wrong? Good and evil? Truth and lies? To Leftists, probably, but although I could care less what they think, I am on extreme alert to what they do that is wrong, evil and lying.

Like Rush says, "middle of the road is where you find roadkill....."

Mr ED said...

The "Moderate" label (what happened to the No Labels crowd, one might wonder?) is just one more facet of the Leftists rope-a-dope, designed to keep their political enemies on the defensive where the visceral, childish Leftists feel most comfortable. Leftists do not, as a general rule, make cogent arguments, they just scream, taunt, threaten and cojole. Leftists are, by-in-large, children who desperately wish to believe the most insane premises and postulates, especially when those premises and postulates make the Leftists appear (appearances are everything to Leftist children) as heroic and corageous, even while they act as bullies, thugs and criminals.

To reiterate the simple truth behind the wizards curtain, none of these tactics work without the leftist control of the majority of the media. Criminal JournOlistas and radical writers of the "kino and fernsehen" will have to be removed from their pulpits before real, healthy change can possibly occur.

David Barry O'Connor said...

I've always been amused by Republicans (in my case, Massachusetts) who'll no sooner declare their party affiliation, then ad; "I'm more libertarian."
Ever cost-out a libertarian proposal?

Veritas said...

What is the natural result of this perpetual and inexorable shift toward "moderation" by the liberal elites who control the GOP and most of the so called "conservative media?"

Mittens Romney....

Achilles ToeJam said...

You nailed it Daniel!! I've always known what the problem was but couldn't articulated the mechanism properly by which the left always seems to come out winning, you have done that brilliantly. Now that we know what's going on how to we stop it and move the ball back up the field the other way? Do you really believe the American people will give up the amount of socialism they have grown accustomed to or worse dependent on in the short term rallying behind a long-term vision of restoration?
So many Americans have been dumbed down and psychologically conditioned for dependency.

Keliata said...

I agree with you, Mr. Ed.

Just a guy said...

The observations are correct but the conclusions are lacking. The country is moving left not because of political miscalculation by the far right. The country is moving left because it's the natural progression of continued education and understanding. Slavery wasn't abolished because it's supporters were soft politically. Slavery was abolished because it was wrong. It's the same with extreme conservatism. It's decline into the dustbin of history cannot be stopped, and that's good for everyone.

Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...

The country is moving left because the left is moving it left. It's not some magical outcome of human progress.

Anonymous said...

Both are IDIOTS! Do you walk the sidewalk on the left side of the street? Or the right? Or do you walk down the middle of the street?? Where you will most certainly be hit by traffic & regarded as an IDIOT? Common Sense dictates that you use the cross walks to cross the street & use both sides to your advantage!

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Advertisement for the F-35 in a Washington, D.C. metro station By making a programmatic request asking for additional funding for line 3 of the Army aircraft procurement budget, a member of Congress can direct taxpayer money to General Atomics. Increasing funding for line 7 of the Army missile procurement budget does the same for Raytheon. Line 19 of the Navy's weapons procurement funds a program supplied solely by Lockheed Martin.

Yesterday, we started exploring programmatic and language requests--the mechanism that allows individual members of Congress to ask the Appropriations Committees to provide additional funding for different programs in the President's Budget. House members face their next deadline for submitting requests, via an online system, tomorrow.

Unlike earmark requests, which Congress declared a moratorium on after Republicans captured the House in 2010, programmatic requests are not directed to a single recipient, but rather affect set levels and priorities for specific programs. The requests are not disclosed to the public.

In a letter sent to members, Rep. C.W. "Bill" Young, R-Fla., chair of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, instructed members to include the account and line number for each request. A spreadsheet listing all of them is available here. In addition to the spreadsheet, the Defense Department and the service branches publish thousands and thousands of pages of justifications for each program (you can access them all from the bottom of this page). These include descriptions like this one:

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program will develop and field a family of aircraft that meets the needs of the United States and its international partners. ... Its advanced avionics, data links and adverse weather precision targeting incorporate the latest technology available. The highly supportable, affordable, state-of-the-art aircraft commands and maintains global air superiority.

They also list the contractor--or contractors--that work on each program, like the F-35. That plane actually has more than one manufacturer involved. Lockheed Martin is the project lead while United Technologies' subsidiary Pratt & Whitney builds the engines (they're listed in the budget justification) and Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems also contribute to the project.

The F-35 in its various configurations can be found in the Airforce and Navy budget justifications--Navy Procurement Lines 5 to 8 (for carrier and short vertical take-off and landing configurations) and Air Force Procurement Lines 1-3. A member of Congress requesting additional funding for the Joint Strike Fighter is also requesting additional funding for Lockheed Martin and its partners.

There are 1,062 total procurement programs listed in Pentagon budget justifications. Sunlight has slogged through about 680 of them, of which about 145 list just one contractor. In other words, requesting additional funding for those 145 programs could benefit just one company. Generally, it's the bigger contractors that have programs all to themselves, companies like Lockheed Martin, Boeing and General Dynamics.

Some go so far as to spell out that a program is devoted to a single company, like this entry from a Fiscal Year 2013 budget justification for upgrades to an Air Force surveillance plane: "Delivery Orders were awarded on 31 July 2009 for the replacement portion of the RASP hardware and software subsystem along with Central Computer Subsystem upgrades and on 1 June 2010 for the replacement portion of the OWS computer. The contract is Sole Source to Northrop Grumman under the Joint STARS System Improvement Program II (JSSIP) contract."

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Mike was born December 9, 1950 to Leon and Bonnie Pace Snelson in Big Lake, TX. He was a highspirited, fairhearted, and loving husband, father, PopPop, son, brother, and friend. He owned and operated Snelsons Natural Gas Measurement and Testing for 25 years. He served three years in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War. He loved life and found great happiness through deep dedication to his family, friends, and business. Fishing was his passion and family was his life

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Super Off Road: The Baja (SNES)

Another racing game. My joy is uncontainable.

Thanks for the advice, Captain Obvious.

Wow, this's a pretty atypical looking racing game actually. A bit rough looking, but definitely unconventional in a good way.

Aww look at that little quad bike. Isn't he a little too tiny to come racing on the big boy track?

Oh crap, you can kill them if you hit them. And you get BONUS points for it?

Negative points I mean. Whatever, same thing. I just see a big number on screen and suddenly I start getting ideas....

Got an orange one!

Oh that was a BEAUTIFUL hit.

Damn, I was so close!

-$10k, in case you were wondering.

Oh, and finally yellow! I think that's the whole set.

Then it's back home for trophies, ladies...

And music!

Okay It's not really anything amazing, but compared to all the samey F1 games I've been playing lately this was a nice change. Onto the next one.

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5 Flaxseed Oil Side Effects and Best Dosage

Dosage Flax Oil While there are many health benefits, there are also some potential flaxseed oil negative effects. This page lists the main 5 side effects of flax oil  occasionally reported and suggests a dosage to reduce the chances of a negative reaction.

1. Blood Thinning Precautions

The omega-3 fatty acids in flax oil can help make blood platelets less sticky, potentially reducing the chances of a dangerous blood clot forming in our arteries.

This same effect though may amplify the action of blood thinning medications. It is very important to check with your doctor before taking flaxseed oil if you are using prescription drugs like warfarin, clopidogrel or even daily aspirin for blood thinning.

Supplementing at high doses with the oil may increase the risk of bleeding during or after surgery. It is recommended to stop taking flax, or any other omega-3 supplements, two weeks before undergoing major surgery.

2. Diabetes and Blood Sugar Levels

Taking large doses of flaxseed oil may slightly lower blood sugar levels. This would generally be a good thing, but there is some concern that diabetes sufferers taking blood sugar lowering medications at the same time as flax oil could reduce their blood sugar too low.

Once again, consult your doctor and avoid taking the oil at the same time as any important medications, regardless of the health condition.

3. Flaxseed Oil and Pregnancy

There are several reasons why flaxseed oil is more important for women, but it is not generally recommended for pregnant women in their second or third trimester. This is due to some research suggesting a possible increase in the chance of a premature birth with large doses. While far from proven, it would be best to discuss this with your obstetrician or other healthcare professional before taking it during pregnancy.

Some medical resources also suggest not using flaxseed oil when breast-feeding, though no research is cited for this warning. Perhaps a corresponding warning for excessive amounts of omega-6 fats in the diet would be also be relevant for breast-feeding women.

4. Allergic Reactions

Very occasionally, allergic reactions to flax oil have been reported that may include rashes, itching and swelling. These instances are considered very rare and have generally not been confirmed to actually be caused by flaxseed itself.

5. Gastrointestinal Problems

Side Effects of Flaxseed Oil Gastrointestinal problems are sometimes associated with flax, though this is usually the high-fiber ground meal, rather than the extracted oil.

Occasionally, upset stomach and/or diarrhea has been reported with taking 30 grams or more in one dose of flaxseed oil. This is a large amount and probably too much to start with initially. Below is a method for slowly increasing your dosage to get the maximum benefit while reducing the risk of side effects.

Best Flaxseed Oil Dosage

Flax is a powerful supplement and increasing your intake of omega-3 fatty acids and the other nutrients in it can have many health benefits. That said, some people do seem to react badly to large dosages of flaxseed oil, especially if they have never had it before.

To minimize the chances of side effects, it is best to start off with the oil slowly and increase your daily dose on a weekly basis. Particularly if your diet has been lacking in omega-3 fats in the past, it will probably be more beneficial to increase your dosage steadily over several weeks, rather than immediately taking your maximum dose.

Taking flaxseed oil in this way gives your body time to adapt to a new omega-3 to omega-6 fat ratio, minimizing the risk of side effects. You can also monitor any positive results from taking the oil and get an idea of your ideal daily intake.

Having flaxseed oil with a meal is usually recommended over having it on an empty stomach. Splitting the dosage between morning and evening is also generally preferred, rather than having it all in one go. It is also important to use a high-quality oil that is cold pressed and unrefined. There are several of the best of these listed in the page on where to buy flaxseed oil online.

With all this in mind, it can be a good idea to start your first week of flaxseed oil with just 1 gram in the morning with breakfast and 1 gram with your evening meal. This is only around a quarter of a teaspoon of the liquid oil or usually one capsule, but check the dosage information on the container.

For the following week this amount could be doubled to 4 grams a day. Split into 2 grams with breakfast or lunch and 2 grams with dinner. This is around half a teaspoon or two capsules.

By the third week you could double this again to a teaspoon or four capsules at around 4 grams per morning and 4 grams in the evening. 8 to 10 grams daily may be a good flaxseed oil dosage for most people. If you wish to increase the amount taken beyond here it would be preferable to add to the total amount by just an extra gram per morning and evening for the subsequent weeks.

If you do experience any side effects from taking flaxseed oil you could either stop immediately and try again from the initial dose, or even just 1 grams a day. Alternatively, you could cut the amount you take back by half or even a quarter and slowly built up by a gram a week to a level where you are seeing the health benefits without any side effects.

Some people report very positive results with 2 tablespoons a day of fresh flax oil. That’s around 30 grams. Others seem to have side effects with flaxseed oil at these larger amounts.

By starting a lower dosage and building up the amount of oil you take each week, your body is less likely to have a bad reaction to it. You may also find you are getting good results at 8 to 10 grams per day or even lower and don’t need to go up to the higher flaxseed oil dose.

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  1. Daniella says:

    How about one takes 1 tbs. flaxseed 2-3 times per week? This person being on Warfarin, but, not taking at the same time as Warfarin and again, only having a tbs. a couple times per week, that should not be a problem, correct?

    • Jim says:

      Hi Daniella,

      That doesn’t seem like a large amount as long as it is not taken anywhere near the medication. It’s still always advisable to consult your practitioner if you’re on important medications.

  2. Jennifer says:

    Do you have to take the oil separately or can you include it in meals and avoid treating it as a medicine?

    • Jim Dillan says:

      Hi Jennifer,

      If you can add it to your meals that would be great but flaxseed oil shouldn’t be heated so on a salad is fine but in baked goods or a frying pan isn’t.

      Hope this helps.

  3. James S. Kantor says:

    I have been taking one tablespoon of Barlean’s Organic every day or sometimes every other day, for the last two years. Recently I started taking two tablespoons a day. When I start taking two tablespoon of flax-seed oil I notice an increase in clotting time say after I shave, in one week.

    My family doctor said I could go back to my old dose but not to take two tablespoons a day.
    I started taking two tablespoons after reading The Healing Power of Flax by Herb Joiner-Bey, ND which is a great book and highly recommend. I would just not take a high dose. I was mixing my flax oil in smoothies, but when I went to two, I was also taking directly by mouth. The recomendation from the book was one tablespoon per 100 pounds of weight.
    I am a 55, yo white male, wt 200 lb in general good health. I do have hypertension and hypothyroidism, both treated.

    • Jim Dillan says:

      Hi James and thanks for the information. Two tablespoons is quite high and a bit of a jump from one straight to two. I prefer to see doses go up more slowly, perhaps at a quarter of a tablespoon at a time, though it sounds best to take your doctor’s advice if he thinks it may interfere with medication.

      All the best.

  4. phyllis23 says:

    My eye doctor said I should take flaxseed for dry eye. I bought Barlean’s 1200 mg capsules. Directions said 3-9 capsules. I took 3 capsules. Within 24 hours I developed itching all along my backside from upper thigh up to my waist. Wonder if taking 3 at once for my first time could result in this?

    • Jim Dillan says:

      Hi there,

      It suggested to work up to the higher doses with flaxseed oil and 9 1000mg capsules would certainly be too much for some people to start. That you had such a reaction with 3 could mean you are a bit sensitive to them.

      I’d suggest starting with one a day with food for the first week. If this is well tolerated move up to 2 and so on. If you have a reaction move down in the dosage and then try again after a week.

      Hope this helps,

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Just want to know which usenet client for Mac is the best

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I'd go with Unison.

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Unison if you're reading newsgroups.

SABnzbd+ if you're downloading files.

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I quite like MacSOUP (I liked it well enough in the OS9 days to buy it) but these days I just use Emacs with Gnus to read Usenet news. That way I've got a cross-platform reader and can easily share configurations between machines.

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I commonly have long terminal commands and whenever I try to use the command history (by pressing the up-arrow) the text formatting becomes all garbled and the cursor appears in the wrong place. At this point editing the command becomes impossible and the actual position of the cursor is not properly represented on the screen.

If I resize the terminal window to allows the entire command to fit on one line then the formatting gets corrected but sometimes I don't have enough screen real estate to accomplish this. Any ideas?

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Have you customized your shell prompt (e.g. colorization or something like that)? The usual reason that this happens is that you have non-printing characters in your prompt (e.g. color change sequences) and they confuse the shell about how wide the prompt is, and therefore how to wrap the command line.

Assuming you're using bash as your shell, the correct solution is to wrap the nonprinting sequences in \[...\] to let the shell know they're nonprinting. For instance, if you wanted your prompt to be blue (\e[0;34m to turn it blue, \e[m to go back to normal), you'd use:

PS1='\[\e[0;34m\]your prompt text here\[\e[m\]'
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Can't upvote this enough. Wouldn't have thought the prompt could be screwing it up so bad. –  Jonathan Dumaine Oct 17 '11 at 20:44

Is this happening on your local machine - by this, I mean you have not SSH'ed into another computer? If this is local, try quitting Terminal.app, deleting the .plist file, and re-opening Terminal.app.

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Whether or not this might work, it's crucial to explain that deleting the .plist file will delete ALL preferences for an app and that may or may not be what the OP wants. Better to just move it or rename it temporarily. –  fideli Oct 4 '10 at 19:50

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So I have an older Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop. The battery has used up all of its cycles pretty much. But that, I dont think is the issue. When I go to start the laptop I have to keep moving the monitor until the computer turns on. I'm assuming its a loose connection somewhere but I dont understand how the moving the monitor from almost closed to completely ajar would cause the machine to work/not work. Any ideas as to why this could be happening

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If it is the lid sensor, as Nifle suggests, you can use the Dell-provided service manual for your model of laptop to find it. It might be called the standby switch, but I'm not entirely sure.

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I have a good feeling this is the problem. Ive tried to turn the computer on with the screen detached but still connected and tried with the sensor pushed in/out but still no luck. I replaced the CMOS battery and no luck so I think im going to buy a sensor and see if that does it. –  meepz Oct 17 '10 at 17:17

Most laptops have sensors that enable the OS to shutdown/sleep/hibernate the computer when you fold down the monitor.

I expect something is wrong with that sensor.

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hm this sounds like it could be the problem. Do you know what the sensor would be called so I can check for it? –  meepz Oct 17 '10 at 0:23
@meepz - Sorry, no clue whatsoever. –  Nifle Oct 17 '10 at 0:29

Most likely two possibilities:

  • Video cable is loose
  • lid close switch/sensor is dirty / stuck

If there was a problem with the lid close switch, I would have expected that your computer will often suddenly go to standby if the lid is moved. Subsequently, you can tell Windows to ignore that switch via Control Panel->Power Options (see pic below).

You can check Here for more info.

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The problem now is that I can't even get the computer to turn on. Ive been trying to get it to turn on for a few hours now and no luck. Maybe the laptop has finally crapped the bed. Another thing is that the battery is completely gone so I dont know if this would affect startup despite having the laptop connected to the charger. Usually it doesnt but maybe since it is an older model it might –  meepz Oct 17 '10 at 17:18

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In Firefox (7.0.1) some pages are not updating. Example: The IP needs to be changed frequently for some testing, and going to a site like whatismyip.com will shows the old ip (the one that was first used when visiting). Changing the ip and going back to the site will not change the ip displayed on the site. But visiting it with IE WILL show the updated IP.

I've told him to empty firefox's cache, cookies, but that has done nothing

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Some of these "show IP" -sites are quite dodgy nowadays. You could check out another address, such as automation.whatismyip.com/n09230945.asp –  anttir Nov 7 '11 at 19:41
… or you could simply use ipconfig/ifconfig (or whatever GUI settings utility you have) to obtain the IP address(es) that your network interface is currently assigned from your network interface directly without all of the extra layers and additional mechanisms — and, as you are experiencing, scope for introducing all kinds of extra problems — interposed by using a WWW browser as a diagnostic tool. –  JdeBP Nov 8 '11 at 0:25

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The last time I had this happen to me was two weeks ago and I still haven't completely figured it out just yet. With that said, here's what I did and maybe it will work out for you. There might be a better, more complete and less destructive way to do this but this doesn't happen very frequently for me to test.

It's a two step process.

First, get Firefox to forget about the site, everything. You can do this by going to your history, right click on a link to a page on the domain you want to forget, and select Forget About This Site. After you do this, close Firefox.

Now you want to kill any traces of the old page from Windows' DNS cache. Go to the command prompt (Win + R, cmd) and enter the command ipconfig /flushdns. After this close it as we're done.

The next time you start up Firefox and visit that site, it should now (hopefully) be the most recent version and not a cached copy.

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Since you were able to run IE, I'm assuming here you are running some version of Windows. –  Jeff Mercado Nov 9 '11 at 20:17

Most Firefoxes don't misbehave this way. That particular one does because somebody configured it that way. That setting was originally intended to be a performance vs. accuracy tradeoff; nowadays it's mainly a way for folks to shoot themselves in the foot. With that configuration, the only ways to get a current copy of the page are Shift-ClickRecirc or key Ctrl-F5.

There's a setting in Firefox to control when to check for a stale cache. Probably in very old versions of Firefox it was easily visible under Tools->Options. Nowadays it's less visible. In the adddress bar type about:config, accept the warning, and go to the setting browser.cache.check_doc_frequency. Values are 0 (check once per session), 1 (check every time the page is accessed no matter what), 2 (never check no matter what), or 3 (check when the cached copy of the page says it might be out of date).

Given your description, somebody has changed it to "2". Change it back to the default "3". (Or if the computer is really old and slowness is a major concern, try "0", as it's a more reasonable compromise than "never".)

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Usually the pages are refreshed after closing firefox. This involves closing possibly multiple firefox windows. After this the firefox normally refreshes the content of most pages unless the firefox settings have been modified, such as

Usually F5 and ctrl-R work just fine. Once I had weird behaviour in Firefox but it was because there had been an update downloaded and it wasn't applied yet.

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Firefox is closed and opened, cache and cookies cleared too. Days can go by and the pages are still the same. He's no using a tool to check the ip without going to a site, but we're both curious now as to why this problem is happening at all. –  Teknophilia Nov 8 '11 at 0:57

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When saving a document in Writer, does All Formats (in the drop-down menu) mean that when sent as an email attachment, the document will always be faithfully displayed in any format (listed in the menu) in which it is opened by the email recipient?

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Open/libre office writer or something else? –  Journeyman Geek Jun 5 '12 at 9:40
No, it does not mean that. –  Oliver Salzburg Jun 5 '12 at 9:45
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No. All that "all formats" means is that the file selection dialogue will show you files of all formats rather than only that particular format.

There is no such thing as a universal file format nor a button to magically read the mind of your recipient to find out what format will suit them.

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I was attempting to install Visual Studio 2012 Express Version on windows 7, but got the following error.

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The error talks about some Interop Assem, which I believe is related to Microsoft Office. I tried to install the Interop Assem, but it seems that they cannot be installed for Starter Versions of the Microsoft Office.

So, how do I go about installing Visual Studio 2012 on my Windows 7 machine, without full version of Microsoft Office installed, Or the error is related to something else.

I have tried to install the following

Interop Assem

but the installation terminates without any status.

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I would follow the link, look at the logs and find a googleable error. –  Alex K Nov 15 '12 at 15:44
The interop assemblies are not (strictly) office related. They are VS prerequisites (msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb164686.aspx) and there's an error. You should look at the log file link shown in your window. –  Joe Nov 15 '12 at 15:46
Shall I post the complete contents of log file here ? @Joe, I had already visited the link you have mentioned. I tried to install that assembly, but the installation starts and terminates without any result. –  Nirvan Nov 15 '12 at 15:54
Please see the update included in the question –  Nirvan Nov 15 '12 at 16:00
@Nirvan - The problem is connected to install the .NET Framework 4.5 you need to figure out why its failing. The log file likely is way to long to post, so extract, the specific error. –  Ramhound Nov 15 '12 at 17:02

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I was trying to install from iso image and getting all kinds of different errors. I am not sure what was wrong, but when I tried to install online, the installation was smooth without any errors. I don't know whether this is an answer to the original question, but since the online installer worked, I would rather close this question.

Please note that Service Pack 1 is a requirement for installing VS2012 on Windows 7

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Well if using the most recent/on-line installer is the solution to this error you can accept your own answer and leave it to help anyone else who runs into the same issue. –  Alex K Nov 16 '12 at 10:45
Yes, will accept answer tomorrow(requires a delay of one day) –  Jatin Nov 16 '12 at 11:18
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I have 2 drives on my box: a primary, fairly small, SSD drive and a huge regular hard drive. I am running out of space on my SSD drive.

I already have instructions on how to move it, but I would like to know whether or not it's a good idea. What will be the impact on performance?

My box has 8GB of RAM and the page file itself is 8GB as well.

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one thing to consider is: if the computer does have to use the pagefile and there is a lot of hard drive usage happening, it is going to be better if the pagefile is NOT on the drive with all the reads and writes. So if you are playing a game that is constantly streaming LARGE amounts of data off the drive, then you are probably better off with the pagefile on a different drive. Mostly it won't matter and the raw speed of the drive will be the decider. –  horatio May 7 '13 at 17:45

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I would leave the page file where it is, unless you plan on moving it to another SSD. The pagefile is where Windows keeps less frequently used chunks of memory. One of the reasons to run Windows on an SSD is because pagefile swapping is so much faster.

I have a system with an SSD and a regular HDD. Any programs I install (especially games) go to the HDD. All music, movies and documents are on the SSD. The SSD only contains files necessary to run Windows.

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I'd argue that if you ever end up paging out to disk, regardless of where that disk is (e.g. HDD, SSD), you should probably consider adding more RAM to the system. Although SSDs are significantly faster than HDDs, especially for random seeking, SSDs still have 10-100x less throughput and response time than the equivalent RAM would.

If you end up paging out to disk, to either an HDD or SSD, your computer will become unbearably slow.

For that reason, I personally would (and do) put the pagefile on the HDD, since SSDs have a limited number of writes. Having a pagefile on the SSD would only cause the drive to wear out faster (assuming you're even using your pagefile to begin with).

TL,DR: If you're paging, your system is going to be very very slow, regardless of wether or not the pagefile is on an SSD or HDD, since both are many orders of magnitude slower than RAM is to begin with. Given that point, I would place the pagefile on the HDD, since SSDs have limited numbers of writes.

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Yuchi spent last night at the vets. This morning she was sedated, checked over, brushed out, dematted and vaccinated. She did not have the "kitty-make-no-babies" surgery because (praise be to the benfit of my slim purse!) she has already had that operation! (insert John Phillip Souza march *here*!)

Knowing that we won't be into the new trailer for another couple of days I went over to the pet store before I picked her up and bought a larger sized crate, one large enough for her to stand and walk around and also hold a small litter box.

She slept the first few hours she was home. She ate a couple of small meals and used her litter box. She wanted out of the crate so we let her out. She sniffed around, explored a bit and then called Sal a couple of rude names. She became belligerant so we decided to return her to the crate. Well! She got right snarly! It took some fancy footwork to get her back into the crate.

Over the next hour she grumped and snarled and growled enough for three cats her size. Apparently she is not impressed with the idea of being a house cat. She seems to feel that being fed and left to run wild in the neighborhood is just fine!
Sorry kitty. I know this will take some getting used to, but you are an indoor girl now.

Sal is being a perfect gentleman, but he is anxious. He snuggled up to me after we'd gotten her back in the crate and he was trembling. Poor big cream puff. He wants to be her friend so badly and she is acting just like a poop. Hopefully she will settle down within the next few days. It's a big adjustment for her, and she's probably feeling a little cranky from the vaccines, the sedation and the thorough going over she had. At least I hope her temperament isn't this bad normally!

On the moving front; Gary spent about four hours on TP II today, and says he'll be here first thing tomorrow morning to finish the job. We ought to be able to spend tomorrow night in TP II. This could be our last night in the Tinpalace! sniff (But not a sob, you note.)

I love this little trailer. It's cute as a bug's ear and has been lots of fun to live in, but the new one will be like a mansion, with its bathtub and washing machine. I promise pictures once we are settled and everything is in place. Right now it's wall-to-wall tools and boxes.

We lose our internet connection tomorrow and won't reconnect until after we are moved, so bye for now, and may peace of mind be your constant companion.

Susan said...

MY My. You are as busy as I am these days. Its tiring, but its living! Life keeps on happening, doesnt it. You may be exhausted but dont you feel as though you are serving a purpose? I have been run off my feet lately. So busy with the kids and work and the house. But it feels good. Dispite everything, I have peace and joy in my life, enough to balance the great sadness which we are living with each day. Ill be up on Sunday till Tuesday. Are you going to have me put to work? HeHeHe!

Outhouse Capital of Canada said...

I went and looked at the petroglyphs at vasseux lake, found it quite easy, I searched all around all those rocks but couldnt see any more.
I like exploring all those side roads looking for wildlife and other unusual things.


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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Well, I was going to start this post by asking who hasn't painted a trellis? But then I realized that I hadn't painted a trellis.

I know they've been done a bazillion ways, but somehow I'd never done one before this project (pictured above) came along. There are examples of painted trellis dating as far back as Pompeii. I love how loosely the trees were painted here.

I also looked at Renzo Mongiardino for reference material, among others. His work is amazing. Here's his watercolor design for a trellis room. I highly recommend getting your hands on a copy of his book, though it's gotten quite pricey.

Figuring out those measurements in the semi-circular niche looks like a headache!

 Of course, there's the excellent trellis-work in the murals at Schloss Schonbrunn too:

These next few hardly qualify as 'trellis', but I loved them so much I wanted to show you.

Then I looked through my books at hundreds of Historic ironwork references to find a nice central motif for the curved coves. Here are a couple of great reference images I looked at. I also posted a huge set of reference material here. You may find them useful!

Finally, I settled on this one...
I thought that the frame might look nice without all the central elements. I knew the designer would think it too fussy with the additional detail (and I didn't feel like painting it), so I removed the detail.

Next, I then created this image in Photoshop to suggest an idea for the curved cove of the ceiling.

The designer went for it.

At this point it occurred to me that I should do the whole job in Photoshop, print it on canvas and just paste it up on the ceiling. In retrospect, if I'd made a good paper template I probably could have. I made an important judgment call; I felt that my trips to the chiropractor were worth it for the extra exposure I gained by working on-site as opposed to hidden away in my artist's garret. And so I decided to paint this ceiling on site. Doing so much painting over my head, I realized the importance of being comfortable while you work: it's just a simple fact that you can't do your best work if you're in pain.

Here's how I laid out my design on the ceiling. First, paint the ceiling with the color of your trellis. In most cases, beige or green. Then glaze roughly over the surface (as your Step Two), with a lighter shade. Don't finesse or worry too much about this layer, as you won't see too much of it in the end. Make it quick (think 'money').

Now lay down your trellis pattern in blue tape.

Once you've gotten your trellis design laid in in tape, paint the entire surface with your base sky color.

If you want to do a simple or clouded sky, now's your time. In my case, I wanted a blank sky with trees peeking through the trellis. I didn't care about clouds in this case; it was more about the trellis than the sky. Before peeling off my blue tape lattice, I scumbled in some background foliage, then added some rough edges to give a sense of dimension to the leaves.

Here's the sequence spelled out a little more clearly: First, paint the entire wall surface with your trellis base color.

Now add a scumbled glaze layer on top.

 Now add your trellis design in blue tape.
Then paint the entire surface with your sky color, right on top of the blue tape. At this point you could just add a scumbled light layer on top of your base sky tone, like this...

If you wanted to end it here, you could just peel off your blue tape, which would give you a look like this;

Instead, I wanted a trellis that showed foliage behind, so I started painting leaves and plants before I pulled my blue tape;

Once you're satisfied with the background, pull your tape. You're now ready to start painting your shadows and highlights on the trellis itself.

I like to paint a drop shadow, though I know it's not strictly accurate in this case because there wouldn't really be a shadow thrown onto the foliage like that. Still, I feel that it gives my trellis extra dimension.

As a finishing touch, you could paint some leaves or blades of grass coming through the lattice work. This will bring your background forward, and make it feel a little more integrated. A unifying over-glaze on the entire surface at this point will also help to soften the overall look of your mural.

And there you have it!

Friday, May 14, 2010

Palazzo Farnese

I always wanted my own map room. Frescoes all over the walls, and a floor that slides open to reveal a secret 3D James Bond diorama of all the nuclear installations in the world, with blinking red lights. I would also like guys in black suits to run alongside my motorcade, and believe that the only way to enter a cocktail party is to rappel through the window in an orange jumpsuit, but now I'm off topic.

The Palazzo Farnese; what's not to love?

The contributions of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola, Giacomo della Porta and in particular, Michelangelo, tend to take center stage when speaking of this wonderful Palace. No less spectacular though is the grottesque ornamentation (pictured above). this absolutely stellar work received the spotlight in an issue of FMR magazine. For those who would like to dig deeper, I posted a set of large images of grottesca from the Palazzo Farnese here.

By the way, If Italianate painted ornamental ceilings are your thing, take a look at these amazing 3-D panoramic tours of the Quirinal Palace (Palazzo del Quirinale), the Italian Presidential home. Scroll down the page and click on any one of the thumbnails for a breathtaking trip to Italy.

 You may also like to view this post on my blog about Italian painted interiors, with large images.

Monday, May 10, 2010

The World of Ornament

This is from the Taschen website regarding their book, The World of Ornament:
"Imagine having an opulent compilation of history's most elegant and beautiful patterns and designs at your fingertips - to use, peruse, admire, and be inspired by. World of Ornament brings together the two greatest encyclopedic collections of ornament from the 19th century chromo-lithographic tradition: Auguste Racinet's L'Ornement polychrome Volumes I and II (1875/1888) and M. Dupont-Auberville's L'Ornement des tissus (1877). Adapted from historical items dating back to antiquity, such as jewelry, tiles, stained glass, illuminated manuscripts, textiles, and ceramics, these ornamental designs encompass a wide range of cultural aesthetics including classic Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan motifs, Asian and middle-Eastern patterns, as well as European designs from medieval times through the 19th century."

Okay, now imagine having that entire collection available online, completely free. Don't believe me? Check out this link. Use the top menu bar on the webpage to search through the different chapters. Pick one you like, then scroll over the large thumbnail on the left to see which filename to download. Right-click and save!

What an incredible resource the internet is!

Friday, May 7, 2010

Edward Lear

"I long to return to Sorrento,
To the lonely sea and sky.
I left my vest and socks there,
I wonder if they're dry."
Spike Milligan

Edward Lear (1818-1888) will forever be known mainly as the nonsense poet. I came across his poetry years ago through Spike Milligan, another mad genius. Lear traveled widely, eventually settling in San Remo, Italy in 1871.

He is less known as an artist, and yet he published many travel writings and illustrated many books. These images are from a beautiful set of lithographs by him, drawn on stone from life. I find these really charming.

Combine this reference material with the Schloss Schonbrunn murals or an Orientalist scene, and you have the makings of a classic mural.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Murals: Helping the Aristocracy get lucky for Centuries.

Chimpanzees have been known to use a leaf to attract a mate. A dried leaf to be exact, because it makes a nice crunchy sound when you crinkle it. The male will sit with his legs spread, and crunch leaves until someone takes notice, puts two and two together and decides that yes, he's the guy they want to get with.

Bowerbirds will dress up their homes with everything from mushrooms to poop in an attempt to seduce a partner.

Insects, next in line for World domination, give their abodes the Royal treatment in the work of Artists like Jennifer Angus and Jan Fabre, who re-decorated Belgium’s 19th century royal palace. It took four months and 29 assistants to glue 1.6 million iridescent green beetle carapaces to the ceiling of the Hall of Mirrors.

It seems that using tools as a sexual strategy is not limited to humans, but we seem to use a variety unseen in any other species. A woman (or man) in a pretty red dress, a flashy car blasting music at 120 decibels, or the walls of our homes decorated with books (why else do we keep books we'll never re-read?) or fancy artwork.

The effectiveness of each depends only upon which market you're in.

European nobility used decoration in their own seductive way. High-walled residences were often placed at the front of the property, with the large gardens at the rear, visible only to the chosen few (as opposed to American homes that tend to sit in the center of their land, without walls, and display their treasures conspicuously as you enter the home - a less subtle, but obviously effective strategy). The public spaces of stately European homes were often the least ornamented. As you were lured further into the private sanctuary, you'd find the rooms increasingly lavish until you finally arrived at the perfumed jewel box of the boudoir.

This method backfired a bit on the Hapsburgs, who practically inbred themselves into extinction. Inbreeding might actually explain some of their more bizarre priceless booty, but that's a story best explained by Darwin.

UglyHousePhotos gives us this marvel. I don't even want to know if this worked as an aid to procreation.

It's amazing how straight the line is between Homo Habilus tying a feather on his loincloth (what am I, an anthropologist?) to me painting a Chinoiserie mural for a wealthy client.

So here's to Decorative Art! Glad to be of service.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Perspective Drawing

John Morra's still life paintings have an architectural quality. In Mertz No. 7, above, our horizon line is level with the table surface. A Bladerunner landscape for ants. You can easily see that the items on the table are subject to the same laws of perspective that define the optical perception of buildings. The effect is magnified by placing the standpoint very close to the picture plane, creating an intimate effect. It's a cityscape in microcosm.

Perspective is just as important when dealing with objects in a still life as when painting a landscape.

Morra is a master of empirical observation, so I was curious when I saw his Still Life with Vessels, Pestles and Red Masher, 2008, (above) and noticed that the perspective of the saucepan on the left seems out of play with the rest of the elements in the painting. Again we are level with the tabletop, and are looking up at the upper rims of the vessels, yet the saucepan seems oddly tipped towards us.

I received a commission to paint a still life of antique medical implements, and chose to treat the composition similarly. This painting was to be viewed across a room, so I pulled the viewpoint back from the picture plane and raised the horizon line.

Unfortunately, the Ostrich and Kiwi eggs and the pile of books were the only items that weren't taken from a photographic internet reference, and the result is kind of lifeless and unnatural. It finally occurred to me that it's necessary to pay attention to the real world!

That's why it bothered me so much when I came across possibly the worst book ever on Perspective. Billing itself as a 'detailed training course,' it is peppered with snapshots of Italy and dares in the introduction to reference the treatises of Leon Battista Alberti and Filippo Brunelleschi, presumably to add a whiff of European old-world credibility. Do not buy this book. I'll use it as a jumping off point for a quick demonstration.

Here's an illustration from the book. They're trying to explain how to draw a 'flattened oval'. Presumably they mean an ellipse (a cone intersected by a plane), which is in effect a somewhat flattened circle. I overlaid a perfect red ellipse in Photoshop.

Here's how to show the perspective a little more clearly. First, I created a circle in red, overlaid on a grid.

Then I tilted the plane to simulate the effect of a circle lying on the ground directly in front of the viewer.

The book uses the following illustration in an attempt to show how a circle will optically flatten the closer it gets to the horizon line, until it eventually becomes a flat line. This is true, though their drawing is inaccurate and crude.

It then goes on to give an illustration of a bottle, and completely ignores this lesson. The bottle shown has two horizon lines; something I've never come across in nature. I drew the red lines to show the error: the bottom of the bottle has a vanishing point at VP 2, and the imaginary ellipse at the top vanishes at VP 1....Huh?

Okay, I went ahead and re-sketched their bottle a little more accurately to demonstrate what we've observed in Morra's work and what the author seems to have forgotten: that objects on a table-top adhere to the same rules of graphical perspective as the rest of the Universe, oddly enough.

At this point, we better take a look at what a Master had to say on the subject. This drawing pretty much ends all conversation on the matter. It's Uccello's drawing of a vase.

Not bad! [Uccello has positioned the viewer far from the vase]. You may also be interested in Uccello's drawing of a dodecahedron that I posted elsewhere on this blog.

Artist Adam Forfang is a painter of still lifes, among other things. Here's a detail from one of his paintings. I overlaid the red ellipses and grid to demonstrate that the horizon line is at the top of the bottle, and how the ellipses of the bottle seem to 'open up' the further they are from the horizon.

Pretty simple so far, right?

Let's look at a perspective of a polygon from the same book, and you'll see that it's evidently not so easy if so-called teachers can't get it right.

They start from this photograph. A difficult three-point perspective street-scape, and that's without taking the eight-sided polygon (octagon) of the fountain base into account. Tricky.

They then blunder into a sloppy attempt to render this graphically.

It's so bad I don't even know where to begin. I guess I could tear out the pages and use them to clean up after my daughter's Guinea Pigs. First I drew an octagon on a grid. You can see that the opposite edges are parallel.

Then I tilted it down directly in front of the viewer. The horizon line is marked. You can see that each pair of parallel sides has a common vanishing point. Each VP converges naturally on the horizon line.

"Ah", you say, "but what if I'm not standing directly in front of the fountain, as in the photograph?"

This time, before we tilt the grid down, we rotate the polygon however much you want. In this case, I rotated it an eighth. Then I tilted it down. The parallel sides still have Vanishing Points that converge on the horizon line [sides 4 & 8 also have a VP that's way off to the right]. VP 1 represents our new vantage point, as we have taken a couple of steps to the left of the center of the fountain.

 Here's how Luciano Testoni drew an octagon and extruded it.

This is another photo from the book, used as reference for a different lesson.

The author goes on to say that this is basically one-point perspective, with the vanishing point off to the right somewhere. This is inaccurate. The recessed doorway and windows have their own (second) vanishing point, and the wide-angle lens used for this snapshot has created a third perspective wherein the vertical lines of the photograph converge somewhere off the top of the image. Let's ignore that effect due to distortion for now, but the second perspective of the door recesses is important to understand.

Muralists and trompe l'oeil painters will regularly have to work out just this kind of issue in their work.

Trying to find the vanishing point and horizon out to the right was complicated a little by the fact that the house is on a hill, so the ground and door saddle have a different vanishing point all their own.

Here is the second vanishing point that we are concerned with, out to the left.

Now let's draw our own version of the arched doorway. I straightened the vertical lines, as one would expect to see in a Mural, to give us a simpler two-point perspective rendering.
A close-up of the window shows the construction lines more clearly.
Okay so far, but the archway at the top of the door poses a small problem: How do we correctly draw the back of the arch in perspective?
Again, this is a very typical scenario, and has many applications. First, let's draw an ellipse (in blue) that conforms to the section of the arch that we can see. The red dotted line is the center line of the ellipse. A red dot marks the center of our ellipse.

The red line going back to VP 1, and passing across point (b), will intersect our dotted center line of the ellipse. From that intersection point, draw a line receding to VP 2 [line shown in green, below].

Now we have to create a copy of our front ellipse. This will become the back of our arch. The tricky part is trying to figure out where to place it, and how much it will shrink in scale as it recedes.

To do that, we draw another red line coming from VP 1, and passing though point (a). Where it intersects the top green line (at the X), drop a dotted line down to the bottom green line.

This will be the center of the back ellipse. Create a copy of the ellipse, and slide it back along the green line until it is centered over that point. With me?

Okay, now we need to scale down our ellipse. As you know, objects appear to shrink in size the further way from us they get. Our ellipse is too big.

Scale it down evenly through it's center point until it's edge touches point (a):

Done! Now simply remove all the excess lines, and you have a properly rendered doorway in perspective.


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Embroidered Sweatshirts

Embroidered Sweatshirts

Many sweatshirts have their designs (logos and lettering) printed onto them instead of sewn on. An embroidered sweatshirt's designs are sewn onto the sweatshirt using different types of stitching, making the sweatshirt a little more unique. You can buy embroidered sweatshirts just as you would buy printed ones, but embroidered sweatshirts may be a little harder to find. Whether it have your favorite sports team, Disney character, or college logo, embroidered sweatshirts may be made to fit your taste. A lot of the time, embroidered sweatshirts are made custom for an individual. Sometimes someone will want their name on a sweatshirt along with a sports team logo or other design. Embroidery is a pretty and efficient way to meet this goal.

If you're trying to dress a sweatshirt up, embroidery is definitely a great option to do so. The stitching creates a more elegant look than a printed design. If you do decide to purchase an embroidered sweatshirt, you can truly customize it by choosing the type of stitching you like and the colors you want to be used. These options greatly appeal to some people.

Usually embroidered sweatshirts are priced a little higher than printed sweatshirts, depending on what designs you choose.

Zazzle.com is a website that offers a large selection of hooded sweatshirts with numerous designs and logos on them. They offer a large selection of embroidered sweatshirts, as well as options for custom embroidery. From different sayings to sports team logos, this website has something for everyone looking to purchase a sweatshirt. Visit their website here: Zazzle.com

CrookedBrook.com is a unique website that not only has a beautiful selection of sweatshirts, but gives you the option to create your own. They do print designs, and well as embroidered designs. You can choose the sweatshirt style you like, along with the color, and the company will do the rest. Check out their products here: CrookedBrook.com

CustomizedEmbroidery.com is one of the top websites that caters to custom embroidery. The site allows you to choose the type of sweatshirt you like (crew neck, pull over, zip up) and the color that suits you, and then their work begins! They will embroider anything from logos to designs. Check out their website here: CustomizedEmbroidery.com

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About the Area

Around Camden, Maine

Welcome to Camden, Maine “the village where the mountains meet the sea.” Camden is a beautiful seaside community of white, steepled churches, stately homes, excellent restaurants, unique shops, and galleries. One of Maine’s loveliest coastal villages surrounding a picturesque harbor, one of the most photographed in New England. You are sure to fall in love with this great small town of simple pleasures and unforgettable sunrises.

There is always something to do in Camden, no matter what the season. Summer and autumn are, of course, the most popular times of the year. Not only for the beautiful weather of the mid-coast, but also for the activities available.

Just a short ride or walk from the center of town is Camden Hills State Park with its thirty miles of trails throughout the slopes of Mount Battie. Take a picnic lunch, drive up the auto road or hike to the top and take advantage of the breathtaking views and excellent photographic opportunities.

Picnicking and hiking on Mount Battie are only the beginning. Rent a kayak and paddle on the quiet, crystal clear waters of Lake Megunticook, or off shore to the many islands outside the harbor. Swim in the warm waters of the lakes or in the brisk waters of the Atlantic. Relax on one of the peaceful, uncrowded beaches. Certainly, no visit is complete without spending some time sailing on a historic windjammer.

If you’re ready for a quieter time, come see Camden’s fine library with its noted collection of maritime paintings and ship models.

When you’ve worked up a good appetite, you can find a great meal at one of our many restaurants. Whether you want to be seated and served a multi-course meal in an elegant setting, or you want to sit at a picnic table and enjoy a great Maine lobster, yards from where they are caught, or anything in between, you can find it here.

There’s so much to do in and around Camden, Maine it can be hard to know where to start. Below you’ll find activity recommendations… whether you want to spend your time shopping, immersing yourself in the history of Maine, or hiking.

For more suggestions, visit the Penobscot Bay Chamber of Commerce’s website – Camden, Maine Vacation – or the official website of the Maine Office of Tourism – Visit Maine.

Dining and Drinking Around Camden, Maine

  • Cappy’s Chowder House – Camden (Short walk downtown)
  • Waterfront – Camden (Short walk downtown)
  • Peter Ott’s – Camden (Short walk downtown)
  • 40 Paper – Camden (Short walk downtown)
  • Francine Bistro – Camden (Short walk downtown)
  • Fresh – Camden (Short walk downtown)
  • Natalie’s – Camden (Short walk downtown)
  • Atlantica – Camden (Short walk downtown)

  • Cellardoor Winery – Lincolnville (12-minute drive)
  • Savage Oakes Vineyard and Winery – Union (18-minute drive)
  • Breakwater Vineyards – Owls Head (22-minute drive)
  • Sweetgrass Winery – Union (27-minute drive)
  • Tree Spirits Winery & Distillery – Oakland (1 hour 15-minute drive)
  • For a list of Maine wineries, click here.

  • Sea Dog Brewing Co. – Bangor (1 hour 17-minute drive)
  • Atlantic Brewing Company – Bar Harbor (1 hour 34-minute drive)
  • Allagash Brewing Company – Portland (1 hour 40-minute drive)
  • For a list of Maine breweries, click here.

Outdoors Adventures Around Camden, Maine

Camden Harbor Schooners

  • Schooner Surprise
  • Schooner Olad and Sailing Yacht Owl
  • Schooner Appledore
  • Schooner Lazy Jack II
  • Schooner Heron
  • Maine Windjammer Cruises
  • Camden Harbor Cruises

  • Curtis Island Light – Camden Harbor (Short walk downtown)
  • Indian Island Light – Rockport (9-minute drive)
  • Maine Lighthouse Museum – Rockland (16-minute drive)
  • Rockland Breakwater Light – Rockland Harbor (22-minute drive)
  • Owls Head Light – Owls Head (28-minute drive)
  • Marshall Point Light – Port Clyde (43-minute drive)
  • Grindle Point Light – Isleboro (1 hour 25-minute drive)

Wildlife Watching

  • Aldermere Farm to see the Belted “Oreo” cows – Rockport (6-minute drive)
  • Hardy Boat Cruises Puffin Watch – New Harbor (1-hour drive)
  • Cap’n Fish’s Whale Watch for puffin and whale watching – Boothbay Harbor (1-hour drive)
  • Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co. for puffin and whale watching – Bar Harbor (1 hour 48- minute drive)

  • Coastal Mountains Land Trust – Camden (20-minute drive)
  • Merryspring Gardens – Camden (20-minute drive)
  • Camden Hills State Park – Camden (21-minute drive)
  • Acadia National Park – Mount Desert Island (1 hour 40-minute drive)
  • Baxter State Park – Millinocket (2 hour 29-minute drive)

  • Laite Memorial Beach – Camden (Short walk downtown)
  • Lincolnville Beach – Lincolnville (11-minute drive)
  • Reid State Park – Georgetown (1 hour 20-minute drive)
  • Popham Beach – Phippsburg (1 hour 24-minute drive)
  • Old Orchard Beach – Old Orchard Beach (1 hour 54-minute drive)
  • York Harbor Beach – York (2 hour 17-minute drive)

  • Goose River Golf Club – Rockport (4-minute drive)
  • Rockland Golf Club – Rockland (12-minute drive)
  • Samoset Golf Course – Rockport (14-minute drive)
  • Northport Golf Course – Northport (25-minute drive)

  • Bicycle Coalition of Maine
  • New England Mountain Bike Association Trail List Trek Across Maine

Fall Foliage

Arts & Culture Around Camden, Maine

  • Conway Homestead and Museum – Rockport (4-minute drive)
  • Maine Lighthouse Museum – Rockland (16-minute drive)
  • The Farnsworth Museum – Rockland (18-minute drive)
  • Henry Knox Museum – Thomaston (19-minute drive)
  • Coastal Children’s Museum – Rockland (20-minute drive)
  • Sail, Power & Steam Museum – Rockland (21-minute drive)
  • Owl’s Head Transportation Museum – Owls Head (25-minute drive)
  • Penobscot Marine Museum – Searsport (35-minute drive)
  • Boothbay Railway Village – Boothbay (52-minute drive)
  • The Abbe Museum – Bar Harbor (1 hour 47-minute drive)

Festivals/Special Events

  • Camden Windjammer Festival – Camden Harbor (Short walk downtown)
  • Christmas by the Sea – Camden (Short walk downtown)
  • U.S. National Toboggan Championships – Camden (7-minute drive)
  • North Atlantic Blues Fest – Rockland (17-minute drive)
  • Maine Lobster Festival – Rockland (18-minute drive)
  • Common Ground Country Fair – Unity (52-minute drive)
  • American Folk Festival – Bangor (1 hour 16-minute drive)
  • Great Falls Brewfest – Lewiston (1 hour 27-minute drive)

Guided Tours

  • Red Cloak Haunted History Tours – Various locations in Maine
  • Camden Walking Tours – Camden (Short walk downtown)
  • Camden Garden Club’s Historic House and Garden Tour – Various locations in Camden
  • Wicked Walking Tours – Portland (1 hour 37-minute drive)
  • Portland Discovery – Portland (1 hour 38-minute drive)
  • Down East Scenic Railroad – Ellsworth (1 hour 47-minute drive)

Shopping Around Camden, Maine

Outlet Shopping

  • Freeport Village Station – Freeport (1 hour 21-minute drive)
  • Kittery Premium Outlets – Kittery (2 hour 18-minute drive)