Board One Side What are some cell phones from Cingular that are sliding to the side and have a key board?
Well Good Morning all!
I'm going to get a new cellphone and I am with Cingular. I text a LOT. So, I need to have one that slides open to the side/ flips open to the side that has a keyboard. Pressing like a certain number 4 times to get the letter I want and accidentally hitting it one extra time in horrible.
Thanks for your help!
Oh, and by the way if you can send pictures that would be great
There's nothing really out right now besides the Duo, but that isnt worth your money anyways. AT&T is getting 3 new phones shortly that will slide out with nice big screens - like many of Verizon's phones. There's a Pantech slider that looks really neat! I just found out about it and dont have pictures, just saw it in an email.
So if you can, wait a month and get one of these new text friendly phones.
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Small Thread Conversion Where do I go to convert silent 8mm film to a more current medium?
I have all of Dad's home movies (from the 1960's) and have been given the responsibility (from my 10 other siblings) to "preserve" the footage on DVD (for example) but I don't know where to go or what questions to ask in making that conversion. I am talking abou the film that came on small reels and were then threaded onto the projector and shown on a screen (or wall) (or bedsheet). All suggestions/referrals will be appreciated. I have found only ONE website that seems trustworthy and guarantees that the original film will NOT be ruined in the process.
call camera and video shops. if they don't do it they can point you in the right direction. I got a quote on this about 10 years ago (from a camera store) and it was something like $30 for every 5 minutes, but technology is different now and it might be cheaper.
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Put a good conditioner like Man 'n' Tail on your hair and it'll make it softer and make the curls stick together better and not frizz. Good Luck!
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Tips for soft, shiny, HEALTHY hair using oils (Part Two)
How to get my hair soft like after haircut?
I really love how my hair feels after a nice haircut and styling. It's really soft and doesn't tangle in the wind. Know what I'm talking about? Well I was wondering how I can achieve this look at home.
Any tips or products would be appreciated.
What I do is when I wash it, I shampoo and condition it like normal, rinsing and everything. Then I do conditioner again and comb it with a wide tooth comb. Then you rinse it out and ta-da!
Another thing that works is the John Frieda products, the "luminous color glaze" particularly. You can get that at drug stores like CVS or whatever.
And whenever you straighten or curl your hair, use a protecting serum.
Last thing-- shiny spray. garnier fructis has a really effective one
Board Set Double Can someone help me configure audio on WinTV32 / WinTV 2000?
I am getting no audio when running WinTV2000. I have the audio wire running from the capture card's Out to my board/sound card In. I have set the audio in WinTV to LineIn volume to 100%. Still, nothing.
I have also double checked the settings for my Soundcard and it is set for LineIn recording.
Open the mixer (the volume app) and check that line-in is enabled and all that.
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Acey-Duecy Board Game?
I have backgammon - but I was raised playing Acey-Duecy. I found an Acey-Duecy game online but it is rather ancient. Any good places to play online? Safe downloads? Anyone else play this game while they were growing up over backgammon?
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Also, the old game I found online doesn't let you change the preferences. I'd love a game that will allow you to play doubles as just doubles (2 moves not 4 moves) unless you throw an acey-duecy.. then you can take 2 sets of doubles and go again.
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What's this game have to do with Sailors?
Yahoo games or IGN should have what you want. I like the old versions also. This game sometimes uses sailors as the board pieces.
im starting to collect imperial guards in 40k but im not sure if i should paint them normal green like on the front of the box or paint them in snow camo?? what do you all think??
There are advantages both ways.
Having a unique and distinctive army is always an attractive option, and a snow camo - whilst not exactly unique - would certainly make them different to 90% of other Guard armies. That said, an arctic camouflage is no easy task to achieve. In real life, "arctic camo" generally means "white and nothing but white", which looks dreadful on the tabletop. An arctic/wasteland or arctic/woodland camo, however, is dramatic and striking.
Of course, "dramatic and striking" also means hard work on the painting side. Here's an arctic camo I did for a Space Marine scout:
Getting a smooth, crisp white base requires layer after layer of thinned Skull White, even over a strong base coat, like Astronomican Grey. The results are totally worth it, but painting an entire Imperial Guard army in this scheme is something that would require dedication lasting weeks at least, if not months.
By contrast, going for the traditional woodland/wasteland scheme may not be as dramatic, but can be achieved far, far quicker. In addition, you'll find plenty of painting tutorials on the web - not least on the Games Workshop website - explaining how to achieve this effect or similar effects with minimal trouble, making it far easier to get a finished, painted army on the tabletop more quickly.
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Chinese Snuff Bottles â Sensations in Glass!
The first bottles we decided to buy that were not carved out of stone were made of glass. A huge range of glass bottles is to be found in all shapes and colours as well as a variety of manufacturing techniques.
Much more research is needed in order to date these bottles, but it is generally now agreed that glass and metal bottles were the earliest materials to be used. The problem is that glass has been used throughout the whole snuff bottle period right up to the present day.
The Chinese had little use for glass prior to the 17th century mainly because of their highly refined porcelain skills. They had no glass windows, favouring translucent paper. We are not sure if glass had been used centuries earlier in China but it was certainly introduced to them by Europeans in good time for snuff bottles.
Cameo Glass
They considered it as a valuable material and excelled in producing very fine works of art. Sometimes they treated it just like a stone and carved bottles out of a solid piece, otherwise they blew glass into moulds. Creating many unusual bottles ranging from transparent to white as backgrounds for colour overlay work. They were also able to control bubbles and by the addition of white flecks in the glass, colours such as these apt names suggest were created: - Sodden Snow, Camphor, and Snowflakes.
These bottles would then be dipped into bright coloured molten glass which later would be carved away to leave a cameo style of design. Some were dipped more than once to provide more than one coloured layer. Another technique was to apply to different areas of the bottle coloured molten blobs of glass. When these were carved the bottle could have up to as many as eight different colours cameo carved without increasing the number of layers.
Quality Counts
To a connoisseur, the number of colours or layers is not so very important, as it was not such a difficult process and a far softer material to carve than stone. What really should be valued is the quality of the carving and the overall design. Quite often a wonderfully carved and well-designed single colour overlay will be worth far more than a multicolour but poorly finished bottle.
To assess these bottles the colour is a consideration but great attention is paid just as with stone cameo carving, to the quality of the carving and especially to how well the background is finished close to the edge of the overlay. I have selected a ruby red single overlay as a good example to photograph. It shows a coiled `Chih Lung' or dragon on both sides; also having mythological animal mask and mock ring handles on each shoulder 1750 - 1860. The dragon is a birth sign used rather like our zodiac signs. (See the photograph by clicking on the link at the end of this article).
There is a group of rather special, very finely worked overlay bottles known as the `Seal School' because they always include a seal with the design. They were made later and date back from the second half of the 19th century.
Although these were made in the same way, the overlay is far more delicately carved and often even the thickness of the overlay is controlled to create shading. They normally used opaque white bottles as the background but some were also worked on other opaque colours. So far, I have never seen any on the clear or snowflake backgrounds. The photograph* shows a fine seal school bottle depicting a pair of cats at play with hovering insects amongst the flowers. On each side there is a bowl of fruit on a table and on the reverse is another scene of a drunken poet asleep in a garden. (*See the photograph by clicking on the link at the end of this article).
Layers of Glass
Apart from these overlay types there are many interesting mottled, swirling and colourful designs as well as the plain colour bottles, both uncarved and carved.
Many of these were quite complex in the way they were made: some were blown into moulds then finished by hand; others involved blowing a clear glass into a mould but then another layer was blown inside the first bottle. This layer was a thin colourful one, sandwiched by yet a third clear layer that was also blown in. When looking down at the neck of one of these bottles you can clearly see these three layers.
A variety of colours were successfully used, together with gold in the creation of snuff bottles. There is no doubt that their advanced knowledge acquired in firing porcelain, and how metallic oxides react, was put to good use in glass.
It has also been suggested that apart from mixing in metals, even small particles of precious gemstones such as Sapphires, Emeralds and Rubies were added to the molten glass.
Particular attention was given to the feel of the finished material, which was achieved by the type of polishing and even the weight was controlled by the addition of lead. With transparent bottles the inside could be controlled and made to appear crazed as these names suggest - Cracked Ice, Fish Net or Sea Spray.
Most of the really fine snuff bottles were made in the Imperial Workshop and other small glass works around Peking.
Stone Imitations
With such expertise the Chinese were able to make astounding imitations of other materials. There are many bottles that look and feel just like Jade, Aquamarine, Agate and other stones. There has been a view in the past that the Chinese made these as fakes with the intention to deceive. I am sure that this was not the case, as it was far too easy to find them out by careful inspection. Under magnification little holes on the surface that could not be polished out and tiny bubbles would be seen proving it must be glass. Lastly, glass unlike the stones can be scratched quite easily by steel.
The Chinese enjoyed making convincing imitations of highly valued minerals as a demonstration of their skill. One other mineral cleverly copied was Realgar with its bright red and yellow swirling colours, impossible to use because of a high arsenic content, so these copies would have caused a lot of intrigue.
Imperial Yellow
I have already mentioned that a wide range of colours was used for glass bottles. Such colours as sapphire blue and ruby red seem to have been the most popular of the earliest ones. However the Emperor Chien-Lung had a favourite colour that he decreed could only be used by the Imperial family and this was an opaque shade of yellow that is now referred to as `Imperial Yellow'.
Not all bottles of this colour really are Imperial as after his death this colour was available to all. A true `Imperial Yellow' bottle must be one from his period and that can only be confirmed by the quality of the bottle and the carving. The `Imperial Yellow' bottle pictured is well carved with an archaic design on both sides and is of the period 1736 - 1795. (See the photograph by clicking on the link at the end of this article).
Painted On The Inside
There remains one other area of glass bottles that really amazes everyone, these being the `Inside painted' bottles. I have only a couple of examples in the collection, as I do not generally favour them as in my view they were never made for use. Once snuff was put into them the picture would not show up well, and the spoon would soon ruin the painting.
I should also explain that they did not restrict inside painting to glass but have applied the same techniques to Crystal and Chalcedony. The vast majority however are in specially designed glass bottles of a uniform shape.
What is remarkable is that through such a tiny hole in the neck they could paint on the inside landscapes, animals, calligraphy and even portraits. In order for the image to show through the glass the painting had to be done in reverse, all such fine details as the eyelashes for example, had to be painted first! All of these bottles are signed by the artist and many, some very attractive ones too, are still being made today.
For our own collection I felt that we should have one or two examples and I was lucky enough to buy the earliest known, dated and signed inside painted bottle by Kan Huan-Wen. He is one of the first well-known artist and highly respected. He has painted inside a rock crystal bottle, a scene of Buddhist Lions with a poem on the reverse. This bottle is signed and dated 1822. (See the photograph by clicking on the link at the end of this article).
Later we acquired another rock crystal example, and these two are the only inside painted bottles that we have. I think that this one is quite remarkable, as the interior space is so limited, it is hard to imagine how such a beautiful painting was achieved on one surface without completely ruining the other.
It originally would have been a rather poorly made double bottle. I do not know if the damaged half that has been removed was done so before it was painted, but I believe that it would have been. This was a very badly hollowed out bottle, of little value, before it was painted.
To my mind it is the fact that it was so poorly hollowed that makes the painting even more amazing! Have a look at the photograph. A continuous scene of fish amongst aquatic plants was painted in red, gold, pink; white, green and grisaille dated 1896 and signed Chu Chan-Yuan. This crystal has a natural flaw in the stone that adds to the under water appeal of this picture. (See the photograph by clicking on the link at the end of this article).
Most of the glass bottles purposely made for inside painting are much larger than this crystal one. Some of the paintings achieved however are hard to believe possible. There are even portraits that are so well done that they just look as good as black and white photographs!
About the Author
John N. Cohen A past director of Jacey Cinemas Ltd. Later the proprietor of a design & photographic studio, now a director of Jacey Homes Ltd., a property development company. Interests and Hobbies: A top international award winning photographer who also became a well known Asian antiques collector and an enthusiast of Jensen British classic cars. Other interests are skiing and Salsa dancing.
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The author has been a very keen collector for many years in helping to create ‘The Cohen collection’.
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