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Dear Tobias, [This mails is dated from 01/10/2010 and the Media Fragment specification has evolved significantly since this date but since we are moving to another short period of LC, I would like to answer to how we have addressed the comments from the Media Annotations WG]. Thanks a lot for your detailed review. > Section 1 / Overall structure: > > What I miss in this section is an introduction to the structure and the > content of the document that guides the reader through the document. It > should briefly motivate each section, tell the reader what to expect > from them, and also give hints on which section to read based on > different interests in the specification (i.e. a reader might only be > interested in the fragments URI syntax while another might be interested > in the server implementation part of it). Having said that, the > specification could more clearly seperate between the syntax and the > implementation part. Each section is now introduced with a paragraph that described what the reader will find. > Furthermore I think the order of the sections could be changed as you > could maybe group the sections related with the implementation. This > means that you could move Section 4 (the syntax section) directly after > Section 2. Another reason for the suggestions to move Section 4 is that > in Section 3 you describe how your specification shuld be interpreted > and implemented in both user agents & servers. However, the reader does > not know the details of the specification yet. The structure has slightly changed since your review. The Section 3 is mainly meant to be a discussion of the differences between URI fragments and URI queries since this is a question we frequently receive. The Section 4 is now only about the syntax of the Media Fragment URI syntax. The Section 5 is about how to process those media fragments, in particular if the UA will need to have some help from the server or not for requesting only byte ranges corresponding to the fragment. The Section 6 is about the semantics of Media Fragments with the typical errors implementer can come across. The Section 7 is non normative and meant to be notes for implementers. We do have a general conclusion and references and a number of annexes that collect all the ABNF syntax of the specification (for URI and for the HTTP headers) and how to process media fragments in the context of the RTSP protocol. > You refer to RTSP in the first section without giving a pointer or > explaining what RTSP is; this might not be known to all readers. This is now in the Annex D. > Section 2: > > The beginning of your terminology section was slightly confusing for me > as you state that "you use the term 'URI reference' as defined in..." > and in the next sentence say that due to simplicity reasons you don't > call "URI references" like that in your report. Therefore I suggest to > rather saying that you "use" the term as defined in RFC3986, you could > say that you adher to the semantics of the term "URI reference" as > defined in RFC3986. We have clarified this paragraph. > Section 4: > > Again, the editorial note from Philip in Section 4.2 makes a valid > point. If you foresee or allow in your specification that vendors should > be able to extend it, then you should provide details about the > extension possibilities or how the group thinks extensions should be > implemented and specified. This goes along with the conformance criteria > point from Section 3. The extensibility is now defined by the fact that a media fragment URI is a list of name-value pairs. The specification define a number of those name / values but future specification could define other ones that would be backward compatible. > Here I miss a discussion of the possibilities for combined use of the > different dimensions or at least a pointer telling the reader that you > discuss this in your Section 6. The resolution order of multiple dimensions is defined in the Section 7.3 but we consider it as a note for implementers and it is therefore non normative. > Section 5: > > Section 5.1.2 says that a user agent without knowledge of which bytes to > request for a media fragment should "guess" what to request. How would > this guessing look like? The UA would typically asks for some metadata in order to start the decoding pipeline of the video. In the case where the container format would be MPEG-4 or WebM, the UA will have all the information for mapping a media fragment expressed in seconds to byte ranges. This mapping can therefore be done purely on client side and the UA will only issue a classic range requests. > Section 6: > > Here you could give hints on how you expect user agents or servers > generally should implement error handling. This is still under discussion within the working group. We might strip out this section later on given the fact that a Test Suite report will be in preparation. > You often write that sth. "results in 206" -> here you should make more > explicit that you talk about HTTP Status codes. This has been clarified. > 6.2.1, third line says "t=a, or t=a" seems to cotain an error. No, this is what we meant (the comma is important). Whether we have #t=2, or #t=2 if the start time of the video s is > 2, then the UA will get content from s to e (the end of the video). > 6.2.1, eight line describes a case where b is beyond the end (e) of a > media resource. You say that a 206 should be returned, however you might > want servers or user agents to point out to this particular case, i.e. > that the requested end of the interval is beyond the end of the media > resource and thus cannot be requested. Do you foresee this somehow? Test cases are currently being discussed within the group. > Did you at any point in time think about the definition of specialized > error codes that might be returned to different (mis-) usages of the > syntax (similar to the status codes the MAWG defines in the API document)? We rely on the HTTP status code and in particular in the 4xx error codes (e.g. 416). > What I maybe miss in the spec are explanations on how the Media > Fragments URI 1.0 should be used in the use cases you describe in > another document or for purposes mentioned in the Introduction, i.e., > how should a "Semantic Web" guy use your URIs, why should he be > interested in it, etc... The conclusion adds a little bit more information. > To conclude, as said above, I have no substantial comments on the > content of the spec. I hope that my comments are useful and I am looking > forward to re-visit the final version of your document in the near future. Thanks a lot and apologies for this very late answer. Best regards. 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MI - Brittany Beers, 6, Sturgis, 16 Sept 1997
Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance
Missing Since: September 16, 1997 from Sturgis, Michigan
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: August 1, 1991
Age: 6 years old
Height and Weight: 4'0, 45 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Blonde hair, blue eyes. Brittney was missing her four upper baby teeth at the time of her 1997 disappearance. She often wore her hair pulled back into a ponytail.
<LI>Clothing Description: A white tank top or t-shirt with a floral design, pink tie-dyed shorts and white tennis shoes with a pink design on the sides at the time of her disappearance. Her shoelaces had a red stripe down the center.
Details of Disappearance
Brittney was playing outside of her family's residence at Village Manor Apartments during the evening hours of September 16, 1997. She went outside to ride her bicycle at approximately 7:30 p.m. Brittney's mother, Tina Stetler, left to run errands at approximately 8:30 p.m. and saw her daughter riding her bicycle around the neighborhood at that time. Brittney's half-brother told authorities that he saw his sister sitting on a bench about five minutes after their mother departed. A witness told investigators that he saw Brittney speaking to an unidentified male driving a red or brown mid-size vehicle shortly thereafter. Brittney walked over to the witness and told him that she "made a new friend." Brittney has never been seen again.
Stetler returned home at approximately 9:05 p.m. and asked Brittney's brother to find her. The authorities were summoned when the child could not be located near the apartment complex, which is located on U.S. 12, the major thoroughfare through Sturgis. Brittney's bicycle was discovered abandoned shortly after she was last seen. Sketches of the unidentified man seen speaking to Brittney were distributed through the area in the days following her disappearance. It is not known if the man is connected to her case. He was in his late twenties or early thirties with short dark hair and a thick moustache and was driving either a mid-sized red car or a brown Renault. Police are still looking for the man; he is not being called a suspect, but a witness whom they would like to question.
Michigan courts removed Brittney's older brother and younger sister from the family's home in 1998 after allegations of child physical and sexual abuse and neglect were issued. Brittney's father, Raymond Beers; his brother, James Beers; and Kevin Folsom, the father of one of her half-brothers, were allegedly involved in the abuse of the children. Folsom is now in prison for molesting Brittney. Her case received more publicity in 2000 after the arrest of a St. Clair Shores, Michigan man who had images of child pornography saved on his computer. One of the victims resembled Brittney, but was later determined not to be the missing girl. Brittney's case remains open and unsolved.
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If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Sturgis Police Department
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The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
Child Protection Education Of America
The Detroit Free Press
The Holland Sentinel
America's Most Wanted
The South Bend Tribune
Help Find Kidnapped Girl Brittney Ann Beers!
North American Missing Persons Network
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Where is Brittney Beers?
Posted: 09/15/1999 05:24 pm
Last Updated: 09/16/1999 09:10 am
The search continues for a missing little girl from Sturgis. Two years ago, 6-year-old Brittney Beers disappeared from outside her house. Today, the search continues. But police admit, at times, it's been a discouraging and disheartening investigation. Wednesday, police released an age-enhanced photo -- what they believe an 8-year-old Brittney Beers would look like. This picture of Brittney is now on 500 trucks traveling across the country. 200 more posters plaster NASCAR and Hot Rod associate vehicles.
Sturgis police chief Eugene Alli told newscenter 16, "We know with the passing of time people forget and we want the public and the family relatives to know that law enforcement has not forgotten." The Sturgis police department says the case remains a top priority. It is a case that has broken a community's heart.
Alli added, �The tips have almost dried up. That�s a statement of fact. We live with this case everyday the family lives with the case every minute of the day.�
And two years later, Brittney's family has gone through its own changes. Her mother Tina Stetler has lost custody of Brittney and her sister and brother.
Alli stated: �A girl of six-years-old does not disappear off the face of this earth. Someone knows what happened to her. We need that person or persons to call to make the most important call of their life.�
Almost 800 tips have come in about Brittney Beers. But again those tips have now wittled down to nothing. Sturgis police say this case remains their top priority. FBI, county, and state are also assisting, and a $30,000 reward has been posted for information on Brittney Beers location. If you have any information you can call Sturgis police at 616-651-3231.
Police may have lead in Brittney Beers case
Posted: 09/08/2000 12:26 pm
Last Updated: 09/08/2000 09:04 pm
Sturgis, MI - Three years ago, 6-year-old Brittney Beers went missing in Sturgis on September 16, 1997. The case has baffled police and has kept a community hoping for answers to her mysterious disappearance.
The little blond-haired girl disappeared in September of 1997. She was last seen in Sturgis sitting on a bus-stop bench outside her home three years ago. For three long years, the entire community has wondered what happened to her.
Pornography arrest
On Friday, Sturgis police said they may have found pictures of her as a result of a pornography arrest. The latest lead stems from a child pornography case in Macomb County, north of Detroit. Photographs found in the possession of the suspect bore resemblance to Brittney Beers. Macomb County Prosecutors sought help in identifying the girl pictured. The request caught the attention of police in Sturgis. The girl in the picture is believed to be about six years old and she is believed to be the subject of serious abuse.
�Some of the pictures in a way resembled Brittney Beers. We�re currently following up on that lead. We want to emphasize this is a lead, not absolute positive identification � contrary to what some people have said,� said Sturgis Police Chief Eugene Alli.
Neither Sturgis nor Macomb County police have arrived at a final conclusion. The picture of the unidentified girl was one of many found on the computer of 41-year-old Russell Tombs, who now faces criminal charges of child pornography. He is not talking to Macomb County investigators who made the arrest.
Cautiously optimistic
In comparing photos of the unidentified girl and Brittney Beers, the Sturgis police department at this time remains cautiously optimistic that this could provide a break in the case although that is by no means a certainty.
�We've had these peaks and valleys before. We've been there, had names that were supposedly identical same age, different parts of the country, only to find out there was a child by that name, but was not our missing child,� said Alli.
Striking resemblance, but girl may not be Beers
�The photos of Brittney Beers that have been forwarded to the police department do bear a striking resemblance to the child pictured in these photos, however, it is not exact,� said Carl Marlinga, Macomb County Prosecutor. Marlinga says the general consensus among investigators is that Beers is not the girl in the picture. They say the unidentified girl appears to be no more than six years old, and that the photos are recent. Brittney Beers today would be nine years old.
�Right now most of the people who have looked at it believe it is not the same child, but of course it could be. We don�t know when these photos were made. That�s part of the problem,� said Marlinga.
Even if it does turn out to be Brittney, police have only found the pictures, not the girl. There's nothing in the pictures to indicate where the pictures were taken, nor who took the pictures.
Contact information
Anyone with information related to this case is asked to contact the Sturgis Police Department at 616-651-3231 or the Kalamazoo FBI Office at 616-349-9607.
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not her. . .Police: Unidentified girl is not Brittney Beers
Posted: 09/11/2000 03:36 pm
Last Updated: 09/11/2000 03:41 pm
Sturgis, MI - An unidentified girl in a photograph is not Brittney Beers, according to Sturgis police. The picture was one of many found on the computer of 41-year-old Russell Tombs, who now faces criminal charges of child pornography . . .
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coincidence?SUSPECT STILL ON THE LOOSE
The suspect in a weekend abduction and sexual assault remains on the loose this morning.
This occurred in the same apartment complex as another high-profile kidnapping.
The boy was taken from the same complex where six-year-old Brittney Beers was abducted back in 1997.
FOX 28's Mike Brookbank found out police are calling it a coincidence ... and they're doing their best to keep the community focused on this latest abduction. . .
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additional info
It also appears there is a myspace account under the name "Brittney Beers"
Note: Sorry for so many posts but I felt that the posts needed to be kept separate to avoid blurring the subjects into one big mess.
Here's a link to her myspace. You have to be on her friends list to see her entire profile but you can see her picture. The age is close, but I don't think she really looks like the age progression picture.
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try this oneOriginally Posted by Paradise
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04-07-2006, 09:08 PM #8Originally Posted by docwho3
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truth about age on a myspace account?Originally Posted by Paradise
However, I was never putting this person forth as the missing person so much as posting the fact that the account existed because it came up in my search results. I do find it to be one of those interesting coincidences that I run into once in awhile when researching a case.
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There is a Brittney Beers on Facebook as well. The school says SD State 08'. Of course, in order to use Facebook, you have to be a university or high school student with a email address at your college/school, she would have to be a student there to get the facebook account. Therefore, it is not likely to be the missing Brittney.
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senseOriginally Posted by anthrobones
The original link that I had posted was to a myspace account belonging to a Brittney Beers who was 15.
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Nine Years Missing
The case of a missing Michiana girl remains open nearly a decade after she disappeared.
On Saturday, it was exactly nine years ago when Brittney Beers vanished from her Sturgis apartment community.
On the anniversary, Sturgis Police are renewing their commitment to the case.
Despite receiving more than 1,000 tips, Beers' disappearance remains a mystery.
Investigators say they will continue to work on this case until its solved, and they still encourage people to call in tips.
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Thanks for taking the time to post about Brittney. I often think of her and wonder what became of her.
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I came across this today and thought it was very nicely done.
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Something is wrong with me
I finally left the man who abused me. I am out of town salfe. But,I can't help but want to know he is safe. How he is doing,I want to see him and just be in the therapy room with him. I don't care about my own self. I took my medication so it's not that. something is wrong with me. I can't be admitted for help because I will lose my housing. I am stupid.
Oh, good!
Quoting Anonymous:
I am ok now,I am not with him right now. we are both going to the therapist office tomorrow night. we are going to couples therapy and he will get help and medcation.Quoting momwriter:
Quoting leahbeah143:
please don't think that you're stupid!
you're in a safe place now and bringing him back around would not be a good thing.
This, and I also agree with everyone else too. I have been there done that myself and I dont want to tell you what to do and frankly I just dont have the energy to put forth how I feel about it right now. I want you to be safe and really think about things because abusers rarely change and alot of times they seek help just to reel you back in again. And once they got you they stop getting help etc.
Quoting lancet98:
when a person has been abused for a long time they are affected by the same sort of psychological control - mind control or brain washing, really, as is used in cults and terrorists groups.
In that sense, it is kind of 'normal' for a person to want to have contact with their abuser.
The thing you must do, however, is stay away from him. If you go back the abuse will just start all over again.
there is nothing wrong with you. you are not stupid.
i went though all these emotions when i left my abuser.
you will get past it- be strong.
I went thru that too. Pls stay away from him. Nothing can make a man hit you if he loves you. Physical abuse should be a deal breaker. You deserve so much better! If he hits you,he does not love you. Best of luck hun.
he went with me to therapy today and said he was only playing with me. what he did was chace me with a strig wrapped arounf both hands and sat on top of me. I was screaming and he jumped off me. I thought he was trying to kill me. he pleaded with me that he was only playing with me. the therapist was fine today and they are ajusting my meds next week after my migraine goes away. he also told the doctor about how my nerves are worse than before and I told him that at times I feel he is trying to kill me. my weight loss operation keeps him from being able to give me some other medication.
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I went thru that too. Pls stay away from him. Nothing can make a man hit you if he loves you. Physical abuse should be a deal breaker. You deserve so much better! If he hits you,he does not love you. Best of luck hun.
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Honey,he WILL Not change, as these women have said,he is trying to "reel you back in". While his behavior might've scared him,it does not mean he will change,he will be "good" for awhile then you will see the behaviors start to creep in again,slowly at first til he really tries to kill you! Please don't go back. PS You are most def not stupid! As others are saying,what you are feeling is very normal for a woman in your situation! Take care...And listen to your professionals!


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Hi there, I just got the new BIOS update the other day and every time I plug something into the usb ports or even if I, say, am doing something that requires admin permission, the screen will turn black and the message on my monitor (Dell LED Full HD) "monitor is going into sleep mode" and the power led goes from white to orange. I haven't used it much since the update so I'm sure it will happen with other types of activities too so don't get too caught up on what I do when it happens. I then have to hit a key or move my mouse, like always, wake it back up and continue my work. It's not a huge deal but kind of annoying and I didn't have this issue before the BIOS update, thanks for your time.
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My new 8500 has BIOS A06 and a few days ago I started getting the same screen blanking when plugging/unplugging USB devices. I haven't noticed it lately though.
This morning the Dell Support Center program informed me that a new BIOS was available, version A09. I clicked the Upgrade button, but nothing seemed to happen. I realized it opened a Browser window (Firefox) and wanted to download the new BIOS. No instructions on what to do though. So after searching Dell's online I find this article: www.dell.com/.../xps-8500.
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Yes, there's better instructions below on the page, but how many 8500s do you think shipped with a floppy disc drive? The support program is also lacking. Many novices wouldn't know what to do after clicking the upgrade button. It's suppose to be a critical update, but it looks like it's mostly for Windows 8. I need to find what the previous, if any, BIOs like A07 or A08, are suppose to fix.
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Scientists from the California Institute of Technology and an international team of collaborators traveled around Tasmania, Australia with a 502-pound video camera.The Eye-in-the-Sea is part of a new brand of scientific investigation to evaluate how global warming affects marine life.
"It was truly one of those transcendent moments," says Caltech's Jess Adkins. Adkins is the lead scientist and an associate professor of geochemistry and global environmental science at Caltech. "We were flying--literally flying--over these deep-sea structures that look like English gardens, but are actually filled with all of these carnivorous, Seuss-like creatures that no one else has ever seen."
A preceding deep sea study used battery-operated instruments. However, the new camera uses real time data that streams to the shore, allowing researchers to have an improved comprehension of how pollution is affecting the ocean.
The ocean absorbs the majority of its carbon dioxide pollution from the burning of fossil fuels, creating increased acidity. Greenhouse gas pollution is also warming the ocean, a trend that can wipe out an extensive collection of marine life.
The area of the ocean being studied, the Tasman Fracture Zone, was previously explored at a depth of 5,900 feet. Using the new camera system, the researchers descended to 13,000 feet.
"We set out to search for life deeper than any previous voyage in Australian waters," scientist Ron Thresher said.
"The revolution in oceanography is to replace expeditionary science with a permanent presence in the ocean in the deep sea," added Widder.
"With rising sea levels as a result of ocean warming and ice caps melting, we need better observations recorded regularly and openly to better quantify what's happening to the oceans and the planet," said John Orcutt, a professor of geophysics at University of California.
The mission had two goals, stated Adkins: to try and use samples of deep-sea corals to recreate the paleoclimate and to comprehend the variations in CO2 discovered in the ice-core records.
Investigators also wanted to see the shifts in the ocean's life over the last hundred to one thousand years ago.
"We want to see what's happened to the corals over the Industrial Revolution timescale," says Adkins. "And we want to see if we can document those changes."
They also just wanted to see what is down there.
"In one sense, the deep ocean is less explored than Mars," Adkins adds. "So every time you go to look down there you see new things, magical things."
Amid the "magical things" discovered on the voyage was a new kind of carnivorous sea squirt that "looks and behaves like a Venus fly trap," says Adkins; new kinds of barnacles and a brand new species of sea anemone dubbed by Adkins to be "the bane of our existence," because it resembled the coral they were collecting.
The sea anemone was irritating, said the researchers, because they wanted to locate deep-sea samples of the fossilized coral, but could not find the coral below 7,800 feet.
"Not being able to find the coral down deeper was our single biggest disappointment on the trip," says Adkins.
However, the 10,000 samples found will aid the researchers in their work of decoding what has been going on in the ocean during the centuries of climate change. They will begin by dating the fossils gathered to conclude what part of history they came from.
"The deep ocean is part and parcel of these rapid climate changes," says Adkins. "These corals will be our window into what their impact is on climate, and how they have that impact. The info is there; now we just have to unpack it."
Image 1: The coral the researchers were looking for, d. dianthus, can be seen in the upper middle of the picture. Its look-alike anemone, a new species, is below and to the left. Credit: Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory, WHOI/Jess Adkins, Caltech
Image 2: This is one of the new species seen during the voyage of the RV Thompson. Credit: Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory, WHOI/Jess Adkins, Caltech
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When each of our 26 World Cup Stops to date reached the final night of celebration, that was when the real Media work began. With TV distribution to over 500 million viewers and Print / Photo items going to 192 Countries, our World Cup Media machine moves in to overdrive as the closing ceremony music begins to play and the athletes and fans enjoy the banquet.
With such wide World Cup media distribution, much is only seen locally. That is how the system works best. However, it does mean that you might not get a chance to see the exposure in other territories unless you catch it on your travels by accident. Many do as our TV shows are repeated over and over again and the Magazines pass from hand to hand.
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$60 to gauge your dog's genius
Sixty dollars! It's the only thing standing between me and a new Web app I sorely want: Dognition, which will confirm once and for all that my dog is a genius. (Admittedly, that genius is buried deep. Most people who know Ziggy don't immediately equate his aggression toward water pipes with intellectual prowess.)
Dognition, launched last week, is essentially an intelligence test for dogs. The brainchild of Brian Hare, an anthropology professor and director of the Canine Cognition Center at Duke University, it consists of assessment questions (e.g. "Does Benjy ever 'intervene' in an argument between other members of the household?" "When you laugh, does Benjy wag his tail?") and simple games involving plastic cups, treats, paper and sticky notes. Together, these tests measure canine IQ across five dimensions: empathy, communication, cunning, memory and reasoning. Nor are they just an opportunity for you to brag that your dog is smarter than your neighbors' mutt: The data gathered by the app flow into Duke University, where it will be analyzed and used as a launching pad for more focused experiments. For instance, if the collected scores show a pattern of dachshunds shining at spatial reasoning, the Duke team might investigate that in a lab setting (and possibly a Lab setting, too, for control purposes).
The app is like a chew toy for dog lovers like me who enjoy imagining the rich (I can only assume) internal lives of their pets. (Alexandra Horowitz's "Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know" bounded onto The New York Times best-seller list for a reason.)
After you finish the quizzes and games in Dognition, your results beam into Durham, get knocked through several algorithms, and come back to you in the form of a 15-page report on the intricacies of Benjy's cognitive style. It sounds enthralling. But — "No IQ score?" I asked Hare on the phone. He explained that dog intelligence, like human, is fluid and non-hierarchal. (He doesn't think people should get IQ scores, either.) You can't slap a number on a canine forehead or arrange pooches along a continuum from the Aristotles to the dropouts.
What you can do is suss out your pup's "mental strategy." Take one of the games in the Dognition playbook. Two cups are placed upside down on the floor. One has a morsel of food under it — and your dog knows it, because you've just lifted the rim up to show him. But then you let go of his collar and point to the cup without the food. If Benjy is primarily empathic, he trusts you and will follow your finger. If he relies on memory to make decisions, chances are he'll gravitate toward the cup with the treat.
This could help you finally solve some of your canine's behavioral problems. "One-size-fits-all training ignores the fact that dogs are individuals," Hare says. "Trainers could use Dognition to give owners tailored recommendations." He invites me to imagine a hypothetical puppy that doesn't seem to be catching onto basic commands. Perhaps, rather than being dim, she's a cunning operator who obeys orders only when she thinks her owner's watching (i.e., once the front door slams, chewing on the couch leg is fair game). Knowing such details about your dog might help you sympathize, design a better teaching program, and ultimately not end up resentful and with no furniture.
On the other hand, veterinarian Sarah Bowman of Washington D.C.'s City Paws Animal Hospital doubts that pet owners need a pricey program like Dognition to sniff out basic facts about their four-legged friends. "If your dog is a socialite or loves to have a job to do," she says, "you've probably already noticed that."
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Raw In Sect is a Greek band formed in 2005 and now consisting of Kostas Diamandis (vocals, guitars), Jim Alexiou (drums), Bill Kranos (guitars) and George Vasilopoulos (bass, backing vocals). The more I think about the band's name, the more I like it. It uses the word "raw", which is a good sign if you have my kind of taste in metal, and then it has that play on words, "in sect", which makes me think of both hooded, human-sacrificing, blood-worshippers and creeping, crawling, cannibalistic things with feelers and pincers and multi-faceted eyes. I suppose it's possible that I have an over-active imagination.
Anyway, Raw In Sect produced a three-song demo in 2007 and have now signed to a label called Aural Music, Wormholedeath for the release of their debut album, Red Flows. More good names: Wormholedeath and Red Flows. Plus, the band is scheduled to play three shows in Ireland with Suidakra in September. That's keeping some good company.
But a good band name and a flowing (red) album name will only carry you so far, i.e., right up to the brink of the music itself, and then you either fall off a cliff, crashing and burning, or you get into a good . . . flow . . . with something red and raw (and insectile) along for the ride. Which is it for this band? (more after the jump . . .)
(Our man Israel Flanders has a few words and musical teasers for the forthcoming albums by Textures, Evile, and Revocation, plus his plans for upcoming reviews.)
Alright, I decided it was time to do one of these "post random shit" deals. Mostly stuff I personally care about, but things you all might be interested in, too.
If you aren't aware of who Textures are, I'd wager you've been under a rock for some time. One of the very first djent bands to emerge after Meshuggah, these guys, I would dare have the nerve to assert, have more to do with modern djent as we understand it than Meshuggah does. With their unique brand of polyryhthmic grooving, clean ambience, and a history that has included two obscenely talented vocalists in their fold (ex-vocalist Eric Kalsbeek) and now ex-CiLiCe vocalist Daniel De Gogh, Textures has made their mark in a way that can't be ignored.
Their new album Dualism arrives in September, and I'm absolutely psyched. After the jump, I'm including the three studio reports released for this album, as the song clips included in these sound really awesome. Also below is a VERY GOOD high quality video of Textures playing one of the new songs live.
(NCS writer Andy Synn devotes his 15th SYNN REPORT to the late, lamented Ludicra, who called it quits earlier this week.)
Loyal readers, it is with a heavy heart that I compose this edition of The Synn Report. The recent untimely demise of progressive black metal act Ludicra has prompted me to push back the article I was writing in favour of a tribute to a band that ended its career all too abruptly, brimming as it was with future promise and potential.
Ostensibly a black metal act, although one difficult to pin down precisely, between their inception in 1998 and their recent lamentable dissolution, the San Franciscan group provided four albums (and one EP) of scintillating riffage and caustic vocals, laden with progressive tendencies and a thrashy, punky energy. Laurie Sue Shanaman's distinctive screams are wounded howls of passion with a restrained berserker frenzy, using her ethereal cleans to add an extra dimension of morose expression, ably supported by the harsh backing vocals of Christy Cather, a skilled and impressive guitarist, responsible for composing the group's jagged riffs along with her partners in crime John Cobbett and Ross Sewage.
Unlike the icy, bleak naturism of many of their peers, the crisp, cold exterior to Ludicra's sound evokes memories not of ice but of cold concrete; stark monoliths silhouetted against a dying sun, empty wind-swept streets once bustling with activity but now devoid of life – these are the images which come to mind when listening to Ludicra's "urban sprawl" black metal, matching breathtaking beauty with cold and chilling clarity. (more after the jump, including tracks from each of Ludicra's releases . . .)
As long-time readers of this site know, our genesis and growth have been intertwined with the fortunes of Bury Your Dead. When we decided to start this blog, it didn't take me long to think of the name, because at the time I was still royally pissed off about the departure of Mat Bruso from BYD, his replacement by Myke Terry, and the conversion of the band's music into near-generic metalcore with way too much clean singing. The old BYD had the ability to crank out some incredibly catchy hooks, grooves, and melodies without coming untethered from a solid center of hardcore fury. The "new" BYD wouldn't have scared a kitten.
Thankfully, this interlude in the band's history was finite. Bruso is back, and the band's sound has reverted to what it was before, ie, the kind of galvanizing, crowbar-to-the-head rhythms guaranteed to stir up the pit into a fine froth, and plenty of brawling attitude. Next week, we'll see the official release of BYD's return-to-form album, Mosh 'N' Roll, and the title pretty much tells you all you need to know. In the run-up to the album launch, a couple of tracks have debuted — most recently "Deadeye Dick", which appeared within the last week — and today we have the first official video, for the song "Slaughterhouse Five".
The song would have been right at home on Beauty and the Breakdown — an atonal, downtuned, groovy gut-puncher of a song, rolling like an avalanche of rebar rods clanging down concrete steps. The video suits the music, too — the kind of fun that leaves you looking for your teeth on a beer-stained floor and picking glass out of your scalp the next morning. Check it after the jump, and then after the video we've also got the song released erlier in the week — "Deadeye Dick".
(Israel Flanders is back again with something like his 100th review this week. Okay, that's an exaggeration, but he has really been cranking them out. Today, he's singing the praises of the new album from Symphony X — Iconoclast!
I'm bringing the game up to that next-level shit, son.
Symphony. Fucking. X.
The kings of the power thrash universe (though really why wouldn't they be? They've virtually pioneered their own sound), the undisputed lords and masters of melting your face with ballsy riffs, soaring vocals, and face melting shred. All in an inhumanly precise, well organized package with top-notch song writing to boot.
I was ABSOLUTELY PSYCHED for this album, and I'm glad it turned out as good as I thought it would. But there Is one small thing I wish to address here… if you can manage it, BUY THE SPECIAL TWO DISC EDITION. It is, according to the band, the "true" album, the way it was meant to be heard, and I am affirming this. The standard 9-song version just closes poorly and doesn't feel right when it ends. Not only is the special edition 12 songs long, but the track list is completely re-arranged, further cementing that this is how they intended the album to be heard. So yeah, I'm reviewing the special edition instead of the standard today.
The opening and title track are over 10 minutes long. Yeah. A 10-minute-plus opener. What do you got for that? That's what I wondered, and what I thought at first was, Nothing, as a cascade of odd-sounding, static-sounding ambience rushed in, and under it a piano started playing a sinister melody. You really don't know where the song is going, but everything will be alright my child.
EPIC FUCKING, LIKE, TAPPING ACTION BRO! (more after the jump . . .)
On July 24, 2011, Amon Amarth played the Tuska Open Air Metal Festival in Helsinki Finland. The first song on their set was "War of the Gods". The video after the jump records the performance from just behind and to the left of drummer Fredrik Andersson. It helps if you know the song already — as well you should — because the sound of the other instruments and Johan Hegg's vocals are muffled on the audio track, given the camera's position — but this is still very, very cool.
I don't know shit about drumming. Basically, to me, watching any capable extreme metal drummer in action is like witnessing a form of supernatural achievement. This is no different. Maybe what Andersson is doing on this song would be basic, ho-hum stuff to a metal drummer watching it. To me, it's phenomenal.
But that's only part of the attraction. That supernatural quality is enhanced in this clip by the eruptions of flame that occur throughout the video, as if ejected from the drum kit itself, and by the smoke that eventually enshrouds Andersson before ultimately clearing near the end. True Viking shit.
This gave me a giant [insert slang term for erect penis]. It fucking [insert verb] my [insert testicle reference]. I shot [insert semen idiom] all over my computer screen. Video after the jump.
On Tuesday of this week, my two NCS co-founders and I, plus other friends, attended the SUMMER SLAUGHTER tour stop in Seattle at a venue called The King Kat Theater. The doors opened at around 2:30 and the show went on until something like 11:30. I'd seen many of the bands before, the exceptions being Within the Ruins, Oceano, Powerglove, Six Feet Under — and the band I wanted to see most of all, Fleshgod Apocalypse.
When something is blatantly obvious, it's best just to admit it. So yes, I admit, I'm a Fleshgod Apocalypse pimp. I'm talkin' about the kind of BIG PIMPIN' that Jay-Z had in mind. I pimp FA at every fuckin' opportunity I get here at NCS. So, it will come as no surprise that although I found something to like about most of the performances I saw, the highlight of the tour for me was FA's set (followed closely by a skull-collapsing performance from Dying Fetus). I even got to meet three of the guys in FA and bore them with conversation after they played!
I also took a shitload of amateurish photos of FA's performance, including the one up above and about two dozen more (the best of a sorry lot) that I've posted after the jump. But before getting to that, I have a few awards to hand out (also after the jump). And at the end, I've got a link to an audio stream that just appeared today for a new song from FA's forthcoming album (it's called "The Egoism").
(NCS guest contributor Phro returns to us for the second time this week, with another review.)
Okay, so my last review was all a big lie. What, like you never played with imaginary friends before??? Anyway, this one isn't. So, pay attention and then go click the download link towards the middle.
Today, we're looking at a Ukrainian band called Hedonistic Exility. Both their name and the fact that they're from a Soviet bloc country are extremely cool to me. And the fact that Encyclopaedia Metallum states that their lyrical content is "Hedonism, Nihilism, Misanthropy, Abstract themes" makes me just WANT to love this band. The cover of their 2010 EP Deevolutional Stasis and their 2011 single PsychoTransNymphomania (both pictured below) are as fucking cool as they are…weird.
Honestly, I loved cyborg stuff a bit more than I should probably admit in public, so the Deevolutional Stasis album cover alone is enough to draw my attention. But what about the music? (more after the jump . . .)
(NCS writer Israel Flanders is a reviewing machine these days. Here's his latest, which concerns the new release by Sun Caged — The Lotus Effect.)
This album is as eccentric and beautiful as the cover.
Sun Caged is one of my favorite prog metal bands, stemming from the Dream Theater school of thought and doing it much MUCH (much) better. Hailing from the Netherlands, the band is a collection of really talented musicians, especially vocalist Paul Adrian Villarreal, guitarist/godlike shredder Marcel Coenen, and drummer Roel Van Helden. To repeat, this is one of my fav prog metal bands of all time and one that I feel is criminally overlooked. With that said, let's get started…
Approaching a description of this album will be difficult, considering it's such a journey. I mean, let's look at the opener, "Seamripper (And The Blanket Statement)". It opens with furious tremolo-oriented 8-string riffing and blast beats that would be found in a more extreme band, only to slip into a really catchy groove that sinks you into head-bobbing complacency. Almost immediately, it becomes apparent that Paul Adrian Villarreal has the most insane ear for superb vocal melodies. It's easy to become absorbed in the passion of his voice and the seemless flow of his choice of notes over the instruments' hypnotic groove, weaving in and out like a threaded needle through cloth. (more after the jump . . .)
I paused in my daily labors for a quick skimming of posts on other metal blogs and was struck — for about the millionth time — by all the dick, testicle, and cum references. And I'm not talking about the comments. I'm talking about the posts themselves. Surely you know what I mean — references to the writer's "nuts being crushed" by a song, or getting "a giant boner" from news about some album, or "jizzing" over the release of some album.
Hey, I have a dick as well as balls, and I have jizzed. However, to be brutally honest (which is the only kind of honest we know how to be at NCS), I have never experienced actual ball crushage, erection, or ejaculation from listening to music (even though, yes, we did have an NCS banner subheading recently that proclaimed, "I Think My Dixie Wrecked"). I know those kinds of references are just metaphors for pleasure, but why are they so fucking prominent in metal blogging?
I'm pretty sure most metal bloggers don't sprinkle their daily conversations with references to their junk or how hard they cum, and I can't imagine that most of them really get off on listening to other guys talk about their dicks. So why do those references litter so many blog posts? And am I the only one who stifles a yawn when I see them, over and over again? Is this kind of language just a crutch for people who are too lazy to come up with a more specific descriptions of music or their own reactions to it? Is it a reaction to sexual repression or involuntary abstinence? I dunno.
And what about female readers? Let's consider that for a minute. (after the jump . . .)


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I'm running Lubuntu 12.10 liveCD, persistent install on FAT32-formatted 4GB pendrive (3.2GB casper file - Unetbootin method).
I can install packages, that's cool.
I tried to install alternative kernel but it failed.
Now I have linux-image-3.4.9-rt17-avl2-pae package as 'obsolete'.
It's not installed but whenever I try to install new package or upgrade the system, I get error:
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lzma: (stdout): Write error: No space left on device
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of /cow.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub exited with return code 1
dpkg: error processing linux-image-3.4.9-rt17-avl2-pae (--remove):
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Mar. 16, 2012 at 5:57 pm
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It's so simplistic and original. This is refreshing and cute!
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I genuinely like this, which is not something I've had the pleasure of saying yet today
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Wow this is such a great photograph!!! It looks fun and freespirited. I like how the colors kind of blend together. Awesome!


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Good humour a hallmark of WestFest in Newcastle West
BY any yardstick it was a huge, and challenging, undertaking. Creating a programme of events that appeals to young and old, to families, couples and singletons, and to wrap it round with a sense of old-fashioned neighbourliness and a big dash of excitement is no easy feat. Yet once again, the organisers of WestFest have succeeded.
It helped that the sun shone and that the evenings were balmy. And it helped too that people came to WestFest, eager for a last blast of summer fun before autumn sets in.
And what they got was a mighty mix, carried off with supreme professionalism.
The gig-rig was impressive. The stewarding was first-class. The Gardai were a strong, vigilant but smiling presence. And stunningly, it all went off on time and by the clock.
Best of all, the crowds came. And they came with smiles.
"You could be abroad," one woman said as she made her way into the sun-baked grounds of Desmond Castle on Saturday for the Taste of WestFest Food Festival. Inside, a new square had formed where men, women and children wandered and chatted, sat watching the world and appreciating the aromas of local produce or queued for their little taste of heaven.
"Mary Black was good and got better as the night went on," declared one woman deep in conversation with another who had missed the gig on Friday night.
Elsewhere the fun-fair raged, the runners ran past the post and the fearless and the scared took their places for the bungee jumping.
Gavin James was the opening act on Saturday night with The Coronas as the headline act. In the thronged square, there were the zealots whose eyes were fastened on the stage and who knew all the words; there were those who would have liked to know the words but who rocked along notwithstanding and there were lots of young women on heels so lunatically high they were unable to rock. And then there were the rest of us, happy to be there and to share the space with the zealots, the high-heeled and the many, many youngsters.
Sunday night saw the selection of Eoghan Normoyle as the 2014 Knight of Desmond and the grand spectacle that was the fireworks finale. Against the dramatic backdrop of the Desmond Castle, the music soared into the night sky along with the fireworks before The HIgh Kings took over to play out the evening and the last act of the festival.
"Who wouldn't be happy?" Ida Dunworth, chairwoman of the organising committee said. "We had such numbers in the Square, there was no hassle, all went off well and everybody had a great time."
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The pelting rain Sunday only added to the reasons that parishioners of Whitestone's Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church were thankful for the roof over their heads as they opened the doors for the first time on a new house of worship.
Many of the 500 families that currently comprise the congregation were there Sunday for the inaugural service, along with state Sen. Frank Padavan (R-Bellerose) and state Assemblyman Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria), who represents the district where the church's founder came from.
"No feeling can describe what everybody was feeling that day," said the Rev. Dionysios Anagnostopoulos, the church's pastor. "I was not standing on this ground. I was floating from joy and everything."
The massive new structure with its tall domes, columned entrances and red roof is designed to hold 700 families at a time, its designers said. It certainly cannot be mistaken for any other church in the neighborhood.
The congregation was founded in 1975 by Elias Betzios, who moved from Astoria and found it too far to travel to worship. With a group of friends, they purchased an old Methodist church at 150th Street and 10th Avenue, performing renovations like breaking open a wall and commissioning a new set of icons.
"It's a dream of 34 years of this community," Anagnostopoulos said of the new church, noting parishioners donated the money for its construction, including one contribution of $1 million. "The old chapel was nothing to do with the Orthodox architecture. It was a different building, but we used it for our own needs because the money was not here."
Anagnostopoulos hopes the new building will allow the congregation to grow from 500 families to more than 1,000, drawing Greek Orthodox Whitestoners currently attending churches elsewhere in Queens.
"We love the new building," said parishioner Joanne Roufos, noting she hoped to see younger people among the new parishioners. "I think it'll keep up the warm, community feeling we have here in Whitestone among the Greek Orthodox community."
Gianaris praised the congregation for the ambitious project.
"I think it's going to quickly become a visual landmark in the area," he said. "It's a gorgeous building and I think it's going to enhance the neighborhood."
After the service, several hundred parishioners convened in the church's gymnasium across the street for a celebratory luncheon. On the concrete-block wall near the entrance hung a dog-eared architect's rendering of the new church, a reminder of the three-year planning process.
Anagnostopoulos said the hardest part was reaching a consensus on how they wanted the building to look.
"If you build a small house, you have problems like where are you going to put the bathroom, where is the kitchen," he said. "Imagine a big building like this one that needed more attention."
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