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Surviving Trent are his parents, Dudley and Sandy Lang, of Towaoc; his grandmothers, Marie Lang and Doris Lehi, both of Towaoc; his siblings, Duran Lang of Towaoc, Dwight Lang of Towaoc, Desmond Lehi of Tucson, AZ, Marlene Lang of Buffalo, WY, Michelle Lang of Buffalo, WY, Denni Bearing of Buffalo, WY, and Syria Lang of Towaoc; by his girlfriend, Chrisedda Stash of Blanding, UT; and by numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.
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Children's Center. Our new state-of-the-art facility provides SFSU students, faculty, and staff with a nurturing, safe, developmentally appropriate child care program on campus for children aged six months to five years.
Crafts Festival. Held twice a year, once in the Fall and once in the Spring. The Crafts Festival brings some of the best artisans from around the state to exhibit their wares. All merchandise is chosen with quality and the student budget in mind.
Legal Resource Center. The Legal Resource Center is an informational resource that allows the student to make an informed decision about any legal problem. The center aims to educate students about the law and their rights, so that they may be active participants in their own legal matters. An attorney is available on an appointment basis to consult with students, $10 per half hour. Consultations are confidential.
Performing Arts. The Performing Arts provides the student body with a variety of concerts, sneak previews, lectures, films, and cultural events, and gives students behind-the-scenes, hands-on experience in performing arts productions.
Project Rebound. Project Rebound is a program specifically developed to assist ex-offenders in adjusting to society by acquiring an education. Rebound travels to institutions to speak to inmates, male and female, to encourage them to get an education through San Francisco State University.
Women's Center. The Women's Center provides a physical space in which every woman on campus can spend time comfortably and an atmosphere which encourages her to develop friendships with her sisters. The Women's Center also has resource files, a referral service, and a library open to all students.
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Health Insurance. The ASI offers a low-cost health and dental insurance plan to students.
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Typing Center. The Typing Center has regularly maintained electronic typewriters available for student use. The typewriters are available from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Use of the typewriters is free to students with a valid SFSU I.D. card.
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LENNOXVILLE, Quebec, Canada (BP) -- Canadians easily dismiss Christianity, especially in Quebec. The history of mistrust is woven deep within the fabric of Québécois culture, a culture that's decidedly Catholic and, at the same time, increasingly secular.
But Lucas Aube in Lennoxville, Quebec, has worked to make rejecting Christ a greater challenge than ever among the thousands of students of Bishop's University and Champlain College.
It hasn't been easy.The immediate response many give to Christian outreach has been one of disdain, skepticism and even, as Aube has experienced, disgust at the crazy religious people. Intentionally engaging people in ways that destroy stereotypes is changing that perspective.
"We are living as the hands and feet of Jesus on a weekly basis," said Aube, who is planting Encounter Church with a goal of having a self-sustaining church that reaches students and the families in the surrounding communities.
Aube is one of six missionaries featured this year in the North American Mission Board's 2014 promotion of the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering. The church plant he pastors is part of NAMB's effort to help Southern Baptists start 15,000 new churches in 10 years. Half of NAMB's financial support comes from the Annie offering.
Aube and his leaders train members to share their stories and to talk of faith in Christ as a journey and a process.
"When you talk to them in these ways they see you as at least an option on part of their journey instead of something to avoid at all costs," Aube said.
"They expect Christians to be nasty and terrible to them," Aube said. "They're blown away with the love and hospitality that we are showing them. The barriers seem to be coming down. They're like, 'Wow. We can't believe you guys are Christians. You're so nice.' They're blown away that Christians are there in a way that has no strings attached."
Aube is quick to point out how crucial partnerships with other churches have made his ministry possible.
A team from First Baptist Church in Midland, Texas, learned of Encounter on a mission trip to Quebec, and the church has been part of the ministry ever since. First Baptist Midland has been integral to Encounter's continued growth and vital for weekly outreach efforts -- efforts that require significant resources.
"Without them we would not be able to continue the work we have here," said Aube, who says FBC Midland helps provide the food that goes into weekly meals to several hundred students.
Hospitality along with Tuesday night home cooked meals for about 300 students have provided the primary opportunities for students to emerge from atheism, agnosticism or some other belief into belief in the Gospel.
"These opportunities really take a lot of time and energy and sometimes you feel like it's going nowhere," said Aube. "But over time we've seen people experience radical transformation."
Aube says that students actually look forward to hanging out with the people of Encounter. Chances are that before university, going to church for a meal was the last thing on their list.
"The students love it," says Aube. "Because that trust relationship is there we've been able to go deeper in conversation. On Tuesday nights, for example, they say, 'We're going to church to have a meal.' That's their language. We've never used that language with them."
Aube says that in a lot of ways the work of reaching students in Quebec often boils down to working hard to remove every barrier, but then working hard to get out of the way to watch the Gospel bring people to life.
"At its very core the Gospel is offensive," Aube says. "We aren't supposed to add to that offense. We are supposed to seek and create opportunities for the Gospel to do the work."
To view a video on Lucas Aube's work and learn more about his ministry, visit www.anniearmstrong.com.
Adam Miller writes for the North American Mission Board.


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Recently, while undertaking a study of commutative algebra, I learned three concepts: (i) a local ring, (ii) a regular local ring and (iii) a regular ring.
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Zebra mussels are having a devastating effect on the state's natural resources. They negatively impact native fish and mussels and foul beaches with their sharp shells. They wreak havoc for boaters by damaging boat hulls and reducing the performance of boating equipment. Zebra mussels can clog water intakes, costing taxpayers millions of dollars.
Zebra mussels have already invaded Lake Texoma, and could take over all freshwater sources in Texas.
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Megan Mullally is one of those actors who just kind of radiates confidence and poise. In the nearly 100 roles she's had on film & TV, that's made her stand out. She's kind of a character actress - a lot of the time she plays people with huge personalities.
If you're a fan of Parks and Recreation, you'll remember she played Tammy, the ex-wife of Ron Swanson- a kind of menacing, toxic seductress. Ron is played by Nick Offerman, by the way - Megan's real-life husband.
She also has some unforgettable credits on shows like Bob's Burgers, Childrens Hospital, even a few episodes on 30 Rock.
But she's probably best known for her role in the groundbreaking sitcom "Will & Grace" where she plays Karen Walker- a kind of deranged, sociopathic, judgmental socialite who works for Grace on the show.
During its original run, between 1998 and 2006, the show earned 16 Emmy awards and over 80 nominations. Last year, the show returned for a 9th season. Megan, who's already won two Emmys for her role as Karen, is now up for her third award in the supporting actress category.
Megan tells Jess about why she feels she was born - yes, literally born - to be in showbiz. Plus, she talks about the time she sang the theme song from "Green Acres" on stage at the Emmys with Donald Trump.
If you haven't seen the new season of Will and Grace, you gotta! It's free to stream on NBC's website right now.
Click here to listen to Megan Mullally's interview on YouTube.
Director and actress Tracee Ellis Ross was born in Los Angeles to music executive Bob Ellis and singer Diana Ross. Yes, THE Diana Ross!
For a while she worked in indie films and made for TV movies, then in 2000 she broke through on the sitcom "Girlfriends" - she starred as Joan Clayton. The show ran for eight smash hit seasons on UPN and the CW.
In 2014, she took on a role in a new series: ABC's "Black-ish." Starring alongside Anthony Anderson, Tracee plays Dr. Rainbow Johnson, an anesthesiologist who's married to Andre, Anderson's character. The show focuses on Dre and Bow, as they're called. They've settled down in the suburbs and started a family. As the kids grow up and the family settles in, Dre and Bow realize the life their kids are leading is very different from their own. The show touches on race, class, and politics.
The role has earned Tracee a Golden Globe award for Best Actress, and now she's up for the same honor at this year's Emmys.
Tracee talked with Karen Tongson, professor of English and Gender studies at USC, and co-host of Pop Rocket, Bullseye's sister show over here at Maximum Fun.
In their conversation, Tracee and Karen go deep into her acting and work directing Black-ish, and she talks about what it was like to grow up in a New York apartment when your mom is Diana Ross.
You can stream or buy all four seasons of Black-ish on a bunch of different platforms right now. Like we said before, she's up for the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series at the Emmy Awards this year. Wanna see if she'll win it? Tune in September 17.
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In this week's Outshot, Jesse talks about Diana Vreeland, the subject of the 2011 documentary "The Eye Has to Travel." It's about the life of Diana Vreeland. You could say she was a fashion editor, but that certainly undersells her. She is the fashion editor's fashion editor - a transformational figure who carried women's style from the Edwardian to the modern. She convinced the world to wear blue jeans and bikinis. She ran Harper's Bazaar, then Vogue, and changed them both forever. Above all else, she spoke with the perfect combination of audacity and charm.
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- "...To the last, I grapple with thee; from hell's heart, I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."
- - Moby-Dick, quoted (in two parts) by Khan Noonien Singh (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
Moby-Dick was a novel by American author Herman Melville. The story describes Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to hunt down the eponymous white sperm whale that had maimed him years earlier. In the end, Ahab's thirst for vengeance destroyed both him and his ship.
In 1986, a tour goer in one of Doctor Gillian Taylor's tours at the Cetacean Institute asked her if whales attacked people like in Moby-Dick, leading Dr. Taylor to explain that they did not, because most whales didn't have teeth. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
Khan Noonien Singh had access to a copy of Moby-Dick published by Signet during his exile on Ceti Alpha V. During his search and battle with James T. Kirk, he quoted lines from the novel. While some were direct quotes (such as the line above), Khan changed others to reference space. For example, Khan stated "I'll chase him round the moons of Nibia and round the Antares maelstrom and round perdition's flames before I give him up!" (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
Its cultural significance was such that the story was well-known to most people on Earth regardless of their literary knowledge. In 2063, Lily Sloane compared Jean-Luc Picard's hatred for the Borg to Ahab's desire to destroy the white whale when he insisted on fighting them rather than destroying the Enterprise and the Borg along with it, sending Picard into such a rage that he destroyed the display of Enterprise's past in the ship's observation lounge – but when the captain, realizing she was absolutely right, paraphrased a verse from the forty-first chapter, ("And he piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it.") Sloane, clearly unfamiliar with the words, admitted she had never actually read the book. (Star Trek: First Contact)
When Qatai invited The Doctor to join him on his quest to destroy the telepathic pitcher plant in 2375, The Doctor replied, "My Ishmael to your Ahab?" (VOY: "Bliss")
Tom Paris was fond of Moby-Dick when he was a child. (VOY: "Thirty Days")
Background information Edit
According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 12), Moby Dick was first published in 1851.
In addition to First Contact, the original series episodes "The Doomsday Machine" and "Obsession" were also loosely based on the story of Moby-Dick.
Moby-Dick was at one point to have featured in DS9: "Extreme Measures", as evidenced by an early revision of the episode's final draft script (submitted when the installment was titled "Night Tremors"). In that script, Miles O'Brien referred to the story as a "tough book" and explained that he believed this because "I remember him spending pages and pages talking about the different kinds of harpoons," though Julian Bashir replied, "I actually like the level of detail." In the final version of the episode, Moby-Dick was replaced with A Tale of Two Cities.
Patrick Stewart played Captain Ahab in a 1998 made-for-TV adaptation of the novel.
The comic book story "Behemoth, Part 1" and Part 2" are based on Moby-Dick. [1]
External links Edit
- Moby-Dick at Wikipedia
- ISBN 0393972836 – search for Moby-Dick at external book sources
- Power Moby-Dick, full text of the book online with annotations
- Moby-Dick at Project Gutenberg


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Denver....it' been there before and it should be again!
Sansweet is going to Chicago Comic-ConThink the reason they didn't announce the date/place during SDCC was because they wanted to wait 2 weeks and announce the date/place in the actual place C5 will be? Makes you wonder, don't it!
And believe it or not, Florida knows a little bit about air conditioning during the summer.
Chicago is a direct flight for me, but would still prefer Minneapolis for personal reasons. But I'm only going if Colman is going.
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In the wake of his latest failed attempt at anger management, Alec Baldwin has decided to take a cue from the late, great James Gandolfini.
Asked by Vanity Fair Monday night whether he'll ever tweet again, Baldwin replied, "Never. No."
"I went to Jimmy Gandolfini's funeral, and when I was there I realized Jimmy Gandolfini didn't have Twitter," the "30 Rock" star said at the afterparty following a photography exhibit he curated at Gallery 151 in New York City. "Jimmy Gandolfini was so beloved as a person, and he was so admired as an actor, and he didn't give a f--k about social media."
PHOTOS: Alec Baldwin's 7 most rage-filled feuds
Not to mention, Gandolfini's funeral was the event from which the whole scandal sprang that led to Baldwin quitting Twitter last week.
The consensus now is that Britain's Daily Mail errantly reported that Hilaria Baldwin tweeted an upbeat message about anniversary gifts (the couple just marked their first year of marriage) during the service at Manhattan's Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine.
But when the story first broke, Baldwin rushed to Hilaria's defense in a most verbally agressive fashion, slamming Mail reporter George Stark for getting the story wrong, calling him a "toxic little queen" and other slurs that later prompted the actor to rethink, delete and, ultimately, pull the plug altogether on his latest Twitter account, ABFoundation.
PHOTOS: Alec & Hilaria Baldwin's road to marriage
Baldwin didn't attribute his decision to ditch Twitter forever specifically to his latest war of words (which also led to him issuing an apology to GLAAD as well), however.
"I really learned a lesson at the funeral," he told VF. "I said to myself, This is all a waste of time. Meaning it's fun sometimes, but less and less, and less. It's just another chink in your armor for people to come and kill you. I stopped and said to myself, I'm going to try where I just don't do this anymore.
"I'm having a baby," Baldwin continued. "And everyone has seen how certain things have played out with my daughter, which as been very painful--it's been really unpleasant. That has consequences, and I do not want that to happen with my next child. I have one dream in my life and that is that this daughter I'm having--she comes to me about seven or eight years from now, she has a friend, and she's at her house and she says, 'Daddy, Susie's mom says you used to be on TV. Daddy, is that true?' She has no knowledge of me as a public person. That would be heaven for me."
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So, the non-acting grass is once again looking greener to the thesp, who's on the big screen next in Woody Allen's latest film, Blue Jasmine.
"I'd love to [quit acting] if I could, yes," Baldwin said Monday night. "That would be the greatest thing in the world."
Reminded that his fans would hate such a thing, he reiterated, "No, I would love to. If I could find something else to do."
Well, he has a podcast and other cultural-man-about-town pursuits, so...maybe he doesn't mind his day job so much after all. (And we've heard the good-riddance-to-Twitter stuff before, too.)
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In the North Pacific is an area the size of Turkey of floating plastic rubbish. It is rubbish from the land that is polluting our oceans, choking and trapping millions of fish and animals. We can keep plastic trash out of our ocean and save ocean life.
The trash vortex is an area the size of Texas in the North Pacific in which an estimated six kilos of plastic for every kilo of natural plankton, along with other slow degrading garbage, swirls slowly around like a clock, choked with dead fish, marine mammals, and birds who get snared. Some plastics in the gyre will not break down in the lifetimes of the grandchildren of the people who threw them away.
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DRM and us
Cory Doctorow says he does not tell artists to give their work away for free, as some people incorrectly claim, and anyone who thinks he does is wrong. He just believes that preventing copying is impossible, and that copying is only going to get easier, so adapting to this reality just makes sense for "copyright giants." The topic dear to his heart is what he describes very clearly in "The real cost of free": "the risks to freedom arising from the failure of copyright giants to adapt to a world where it's impossible to prevent copying."
His personal answer to copyright is to give away his "ebooks under a Creative Commons licence that allows non-commercial sharing." He then attracts readers who buy hard copies. Having two books on The New York Times bestseller lists in the last two years, he says, validates his particular approach.
But his piece online at The Guardian, published today, takes on a much broader issue than how he's perceived by others or even the idea that copy-prevention is futile. "… here's what I do care about. I care if your plan [to stop people from copying your work over the internet or to build a business around this idea] involves using 'digital rights management' technologies that prohibit people from opening up and improving their own property; if your plan requires that online services censor their user submissions; if your plan involves disconnecting whole families from the internet because they are accused of infringement; if your plan involves bulk surveillance of the internet to catch infringers, if your plan requires extraordinarily complex legislation to be shoved through parliament without democratic debate; if your plan prohibits me from keeping online videos of my personal life private because you won't be able to catch infringers if you can't spy on every video."
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Working with Microsoft Excel
If You've Never Used Excel
Even if you've never used Excel, you'll find that it's pretty easy to figure out on your own, especially if you're already used to using Word. Don't be afraid to use trial-and-error. If you accidentally make a change you don't want, immediately hit the 'undo' button (the arrow just to the right of the floppy disk-looking 'save' button, up in the top left corner of the screen), and everything will revert you back to where it was before.
If you can't figure something out that way, Excel Help is your friend. Access it by clicking the little circle with the question mark up in the top right corner or the screen. Either put in search terms or simply browse the menus and sub-menus until you find the topic you want.
Google can also be your friend. Sometimes it's just as fast, if not faster, to do a Google search for how to do something.
Basic Tasks
- '''To see how to insert cells, rows, or columns:''' go to Excel Help and follow this path: Worksheet and Excel table basics: entering or editing data: insert or delete cells, rows, or columns.
- '''To see how to delete rows or columns: ''' go to Excel Help and follow this path: Worksheet and Excel table basics: entering or editing data: insert or delete cells, rows, or columns.
- '''To delete cells: ''' DON'T. Deleting cells will mean other cells have to shift into their place, and that can get tricky. Clear cell contents instead.
- '''To clear cell contents: ''' highlight cells you want emptied (by the cell or in blocks of cells or in whole columns/rows by clicking on the column letter or row number at the edges of the sheet), right click, and choose 'clear contents.'
- '''To see how to format cells: ''' go to Excel Help and follow this path: Worksheet and Excel table basics: formatting data. Click on applicable topics. Note: it's especially helpful to know the 'number' tab. Occasionally, inputting a number in a cell will result in Excel trying to process it as a date. (example: if you input 2-4, Excel will convert that to 4-Feb.) If this becomes a problem, change the formatting for that cell to the 'text' category. The corner of the cell will show a green triangle, but that's perfectly fine.
- '''To change column width: ''' Make sure that column is selected, then hover the mouse near the edge of the column up in the column header (A, B, C, etc.) until it turns into a symbol that looks like a vertical line with arrows pointing out of each side, click and drag to resize.
- '''To do word wrap in a cell (so that the cell shows its entire contents): ''' Make sure the cell or cells are selected, find the box in the top menu marked 'Alignment,' and select the last icon in the top row. (You can also do this through the 'format cells' menu, under the 'Alignment' tab.)
- '''To freeze the header row (so that it stays at the top even as you scroll down): ''' If it's the first row (which it should be), you don't have to highlight it; just click on the 'view' tab at the top of the screen, select the 'freeze panes' dropdown menu, and select 'freeze top row.' If it's not the first row, highlight the row(s) you want to freeze, click on the 'view' tab at the top of the screen, select the 'freeze panes' dropdown menu, and select 'freeze panes'
Helpful Hints For When You're Working On Metadata
Dealing with repetitive words/phrases
When working on a collection, you might find certain words or phrases pop up a lot. Excel is sometimes smart enough to take care of that problem for you by filling in the rest of the cell if the first letters/words are similar to what it's seen before. (Watch that: sometimes it fills in things in a way you don't want it to!)
There are several ways of dealing with repetitive data so you don't have to type it over and over again.
- '''Copy the contents of a whole cell to another by copy/paste''': copy that cell by clicking on 'copy' in the 'Clipboard' menu or using control + C, then paste that info into another cell by clicking 'paste' in the 'Clipboard' menu or using control + V; repeat as needed.
- '''Copy the contents of a whole cell to another by cell border dragging''': when the cell to be copied is selected, click on the little black box on the bottom right corner of the border and drag that border until it encompasses the nearby cells you want it to (typically, down a column). Important note: For text, this will copy the cell contents as is. For numbers, it will increase them by increments. This change by increments is good if you're inputting consecutive numbers like filenames. But if you want the numbers to repeat as is, you need to have at least two consecutive cells with the same number, then highlight both of them before your drag the border.
- '''Invent your own system of placeholders''': Proceed carefully!
When typing a long phrase over and over, it's sometimes helpful to invent an abbreviation for it (typically an acronym; example: 'Woodward Iron Company' becomes 'WIC' or 'wic') which you will later change back into the long phrase with the find/replace tool. Make sure such an acronym is not already a word, so that you won't be replacing all those instances of that word with your phrase. One way to take care of that is to use all caps, then check the box for 'match case' when you get into the find/replace menu.
Procedure for find/replace:
- From the 'Home' tab, look at the 'Find & Select' menu and click 'replace.'
- Input your abbreviation in 'Find what' and your longer phrase in 'Replace with.'
- Select the 'Find All' button and review the results to make sure you're find/replacing what you actually want to.
- Select the 'Replace All' button.
- Close the 'Find and Replace' screen.
Note: You can also do this sort of find/replacing of placeholders visually. If, for instance, several cells in a column will be the same (example: a repeated measurement), you can fill them in with some placeholder word so that you could go back and find those cells later and use copy/paste and/or dragging the border to fill them with the correct data. This obviously only works on whole cells. I often use the word 'same,' to remind myself that the data should be the same as the previous cell.
Highlighting cells by formatting cell/text color
Sometimes, you'll find it helpful to highlight a cell, by changing either the text or background color so that it will stand out. You shouldn't leave cells like this in the longterm, unless you really need to draw attention to an error; but as you're working, highlighting cells can help you keep your place or remind you of something you need to go back and do. Just don't forget to reformat the cell to normal before you finish for the day. Start by highlighting the cell(s) you want to format, then do one of the following:
- While on the 'Home' tab, look at the 'styles' menu (or select its dropdown) and select one of Excel's preset cell formatting options (for example, the pink 'Bad' or the orange 'Input'). When you want to change it back, follow the same procedure, only select 'Normal.'
- While on the 'Home' tab, look at the 'font' menu. Click on the symbol with the paint can to change the fill color of the cell; change back by selecting 'No Fill.' Click on the symbol with the big A to change the font color; change back by selecting 'Automatic.'
- Right click selected cells and the 'font' menu will pop up. Follow procedures from # 2.
Adding a comment to a cell
Sometimes, it's helpful to add a comment to a cell in order to explain its contents, why it is the way it is or what needs to be done with it. Try to use these sparingly on the finished spreadsheet, and only of great necessity. Comments are better used as you're working, as a reminder to yourself about something. Just make sure you delete comments when you're done working if they're just reminders to yourself and not more formal notes to other students working on the collection, or for those who might be finalizing the spreadsheet, like Jeremiah, Jody, Marina, Nitin, or Kate.
You can add a comment to a cell by right-clicking it and selecting 'add comment.' It will pop up a box that you can type in and format as you would any other text (bold, underline, etc.). Click anywhere outside of the text box to save and add it to the cell. If you want to edit or delete the comment, right click the cell and select those commands from the menu.


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Over the last few years, two programs have raised the bar for entry-level video and DVD creation: Pinnacle Studio 8 and Roxio Easy Media Creator. Both products have gone through some changes since those releases—Studio has entered the "Studio Plus" era, and Creator 7 works for Sonic now. But it was those two releases that changed the stakes of the game: Studio 8, by pioneering DVD menu creation from the timeline and (in version 9) importing pro-style cleaning effects like auto color correction from higher-end stablemate Edition; and Creator 7, by revolutionizing consumer media creation application design with unprecedented integration of a wide range of tasks.
Creator 7's influence has been more noticeable; all the top products in the field seem to have "8-in-1" or "9-in-1" offerings these days, particularly those with Roxio-like roots (i.e., products that debuted as CD recording tools). Nero is the most prominent. I don't find Nero's multitask implementation as smooth as Roxio's, but there's no denying its market impact; its surprisingly strong showing in EventDV's Reader's Choice Awards DVD Authoring category (at this writing, it's running fourth behind pro contenders Apple DVD Studio Pro, Adobe Encore DVD, and Ulead DVD Workshop) demonstrates its appeal in the videography market for DVD creation. What's more, Nero isn't really worried about competing with Roxio these days; they've carved out a sizeable portion of the DVD burner bundling market, and have placed most of their emphasis on advancing their Nero Digital AVC.
What's most interesting to me about Nero's performance in the Reader's Choice voting is what it tells me about DVD authoring for those in the videography community who read EventDV: namely, that the sophistication and specialization they're looking for in camcorders, NLEs, and compositing/effects tools doesn't match up directly with their DVD ambitions. Which makes a lot of sense: not all projects warrant complex DVD navigation in the way they demand polished video; for many clients—even those who expect their videos to look as good as TV broadcasts or movies—DVD bells and whistles just get in the way. In many cases, advanced DVD navigation is a premium option that the client didn't pay for, and when the package calls for a simple menu, why not use a simpler and more straightforward tool? And why not use a tool that does a lot more than author DVDs—copy and back them up, for example—and costs a lot less than the dedicated tools?
We've seen the appeal of iLife in the Mac world, and though there isn't such an obvious, built-in solution on the Windows side, Roxio's Creator 7 was the first product to stake a reasonable "iLife for Windows" claim. The problem with that claim, for our purposes, was the program's dreary DVD implementation. Creator 7 set a new standard for versatility and strength in a variety of areas, but proved a frustrating finisher if your DVD project didn't fit into its strange and confining menu structure.
Which left the door wide open for an all-purpose tool to finish the DVD job better, and counter with other individual strengths. Nero 6 Ultra provides one alternative, with its ace in the hole being its Nero Digital codec support (how powerful that ace will prove depends on the company's success in seeding the CE market with Nero Digital playback support); Cyberlink's just-released "9-in-one" PowerDirector 4 is another option.
Then there's NTI's CD & DVD-Maker 7, a new full-step upgrade that—like Roxio and Nero—has deep roots in CD recording, but has recently flowered into an all-purpose media importer/exporter. It has a nice video editor in HomeVideo-Maker, though it can't match Roxio for the consumer video editing prowess of VideoWave—but you're probably getting your video editing done somewhere else anyway. It doesn't boast any groundbreaking codec support like Nero Digital, but its backup chops, thanks to the inclusion of NTI's Backup Now! Deluxe 3, are the best in the business. (Unfortunately, you only get a 30-day trial of Backup Now! Deluxe, but the built-in backup features are good too.) It's got a cool just-for-fun automatic video editor (of course, if you're a commercial videographer, you probably want to steer clear of automatic video editing unless you're looking to get bounced out of the business fast), a photo slideshow editor, NTI's venerable Wave Editor audio tool (a longtime favorite of mine), and DVD, VCD, and Super VCD authoring capabilities as well. It's also as stable and robust as they come.
Getting Started Those familiar with earlier CD & DVD-Maker versions will notice that NTI has changed the color scheme: they've switched from Georgia Tech Yellow to Carolina Blue as the dominant hue in the opening navigational screen. But the general idea remains the same: click on any icon on the circle (your choices are Data, Video, Photo, Backup, Copy, and Audio) to reveal a pop-up menu with a variety of options within each category (except for Copy, which takes you directly to the disc copying screen).
Audio has some nice options like Wave Editor, for trimming, changing the volume, and applying various effects and filters to existing WAV files on your hard drive; this utility compares well to Nero's own Wave Editor. Live Audio is a very usable A/D conversion and recording tool for capturing and burning audio from vinyl via Line-In or live performance via your PC's microphone jack. Unfortunately, you can't control levels, record to your hard drive, or chop up your captured audio into tracks either manually or automatically before burning, which limits its effectiveness and makes it a poor match for Roxio's Sound Editor.
Backup accesses CD & DVD-Maker's backup functions, both file/folder and disc image, including multidisc spanning; Data and Copy take you, predictably, to data recording and bit-for-bit disc-copying functions. The most interesting capability found behind the Photo icon is "Create a Cinematic Slideshow." Like "Create a Cinematic Video," the slideshow tool licenses muvee AutoProducer technology to commandeer slideshow creation and automate pacing and style. You add the pictures, select the music, and choose the style, and the application does the rest. As ever, I'm amazed by the underlying muvee technology, but I question its applicability to anything but consumer use. Another shortcoming of this utility, compared to other slideshow tools, is that you have to wait for it to render an MPEG file before you can preview any of it.
Also under Video is DVD Fit, a serviceable feature for anyone who's sitting on DVD-9s that they want to make into DVD-5s. It doesn't unravel CSS or remove any sort of copy protection found on commercial DVD releases, but it does the legal part of the 9-to-5 job as well as you'd hope.
Video and DVD Of course, most of what we're interested in here is video editing and DVD creation—and most of us can even boil that down to the DVD side. In addition to the fun-but-frivolous auto-production Cinematic stuff (which is a wonderful consumer feature that all consumer tools should license), you've got all the essential elements of basic video post-production here: capture, storyboard, clip-trimming, DVD menu creation, and multiformat/medium export. The main HomeVideo interface is navigated through three tabs: Capture, Edit, and Create.
Within Capture you get scene detection and capture duration options; you can also use the capture interface to rip CD-Audio tracks for use in your video. Tested on a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4 Sony VAIO with a Sony Handycam DHC-40, capture went smoothly, with nary a dropped frame in the resulting DV-AVI file even though I had numerous applications (Word, Outlook Express, and Ulead's PhotoImpact) running simultaneously. If you choose to detect scenes by content, you'll have to crank it well beyond the default sensitivity setting to get it to detect any scenes unless you've done a lot of cheesy on-camera fades or left unseemly gaps in your original footage.
Once you've captured your clips, click the Edit tab to enter the storyboard video editing interface. Here you can use scrubbers to split and trim your clips; adjust brightness, hue, contrast, saturation, and speed (all very accessible); and also restore your original settings if you don't like an effect you've added. Under the Effects tab, you can rotate and crop your image and add goofy filters—affable fun and games stuff, but no cleaning or functional image enhancement effects like, say, reducing video noise you might have added by adjusting the brightness on a too-dark clip.
HomeVideo-Maker has a nice selection of transitions, and many, such as the slides and "Special" transitions, can be reversed or otherwise modestly customized. You can increase or decrease the duration of your transitions as well. HomeVideo-Maker also has an easy-to-use, basic title creator that gives you control over style, font, and size, then lets you apply text effects as well.
The Export tab within the Edit window lets you create output files in a variety of formats, including AVI (for saving to your hard drive), DV (for writing back to tape), VHS (for analog output if your PC is so-equipped), and email (for creating compressed WMV or QT files with frame size, quality, and email program choices).
All, essentially, consumer stuff that's limiting but nicely presented, usable, and well-organized. Almost certainly less than what you need if you're producing video for business or commercial purposes. That's par for the course with an application called HomeMovie, but it still leaves hope for finding something more applicable in the DVD creation interface (say, if you imported a DV file edited in and exported from another NLE). To outstrip some of the other basic DVD tools—Roxio being a prime case-in-point with its mandatory tiny, filmstrip-style chapter menus—all it needs to do is let you create something simple that doesn't stand in the way of a user trying to navigate the video.
What you get, as it turns out, is just that. Chapter menus are where they should be: good-sized thumbnails, with room for titles. You get DVD+R DL support too, which will be increasingly important in 2005, and apparently support for the latest recorders and media—the software had no trouble burning to my state-of-the-art Memorex 16X or the latest Verbatim and Ritek media.
Within the DVD interface, you can also do animated menus, with complete control over the loop time. In general, if what you're looking for is basic video editing, slideshow creation, DVD authoring, and CD/DVD recording capabilities (or even just the last three) in a $69-$99 tool, my current recommendation remains Ulead MovieFactory Disc Creator 3.5 (version 4 coming soon); I like its DVD authoring interface the best (nobody can touch its playlist functionality, for one), and all the other elements are rock-solid.
But CD & DVD-Maker 7 does better than Movie Factory on one significant count: complete control (up to 60 seconds) over animated menu loop time (MF restricts you to 10, 20, or 30). That's one fantastic feature. It doesn't make CD & DVD-Maker best in its class, but if you're looking for a consumer media creation tool or just something to make DVD authoring easy and animated menus are a must-have feature, CD & DVD-Maker 7 is the easy-authoring alternative for you.
System Requirements• 900MHz+ Pentium 3 PC with 256MB RAM running Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP • 1024x768, 16-bit or better graphics card • 500MB HDD space for installation (10GB free space for DVD copying or authoring)
Synopsis: As video production pros, most of us aren't in the market for consumer media creation tools. But that doesn't account for the oft-noted pro appeal of iLife on the Mac side, and suggests that many Windows users might find uses for a comparable jack-of-all-trades tool. NTI's CD & DVD-Maker 7 aims to be just such a tool, and it outstrips leading all-things-to-some-people competitor Roxio on the DVD authoring side, where videographers looking for a quick and clean DVD finish may need such a tool most. Much of the emphasis here is on automatic movie creation (courtesy of muvee), which is an excellent call for NTI's consumer audience but of little more than busman's-holiday interest to event video pros.
Price: $79.99
For more information, contact: Newtech Infosystems www.ntius.com


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The coach's embrace-the-challenge mantra has transformed a long-bedeviled franchise.
The coach's embrace-the-challenge mantra has transformed a long-bedeviled franchise into one seemingly poised for a deep playoff run.
The Clippers' conversion from NBA franchise to Doc Rivers Inc. can be traced to the summer night their new coach sat across from their freakishly athletic center at a trendy Japanese restaurant in West Hollywood.
Over albacore tuna and yellowtail sushi, Rivers laid out his plan for DeAndre Jordan to become his team's defensive captain.
The coach ticked off a handful of names: Dennis Rodman, Tyson Chandler, Ben Wallace. None were big scorers. All had won NBA titles by playing relentless defense.
"You can have a dramatic impact on the game," Rivers told Jordan, "without being a great scorer."
Rivers couldn't be sure how Jordan would take what he had to say. There had been reports that the Clippers had tried to include the unfocused big man as part of the deal that brought Rivers to Los Angeles in June for a first-round draft pick. Jordan had to wonder: Did the man sitting before him even want him here?
But the longer Rivers talked, and the more sushi they ate, the more Jordan was reassured. Rivers made Jordan feel as if the Clippers could not win a title without him playing a major role.
"From the moment that we first talked and had a face-to-face conversation," Jordan said, "I knew how genuine he was in believing in me."
It wasn't long before Rivers instilled a similar self-confidence in the rest of the Clippers, selling them on what he believed to be the optimal version of each player.
Forward Blake Griffin, known for his high-flying dunks, would take more midrange jumpers to diversify his offense. Star playmaker Chris Paul would look for his shot more often and be more aggressive. There was even a directive for rookie forward Reggie Bullock to "shoot the ball and defend like crazy."
From the Clippers' first pre-season practice, there was one message, one goal and one throaty voice presiding over it all. Rivers was remaking seemingly every aspect of his team to fit his championship vision. And his title-starved players were eager to listen.
"Doc's done a good job of letting everybody know, 'This is how it's going to be. This is what it is. You have to fall in line or you're not going to play,'" Griffin said. "When that's a real threat, that's when it works."
Doc's orders have elevated a team that has been a punch line for most of its 44-year existence, making it a more realistic title contender than the teams that lost early in the playoffs the last two years. As they head into the playoffs this weekend at Staples Center, the Clippers have won a second consecutive division title and set a franchise record for regular-season victories.
Doc's done a good job of letting everybody know, 'This is how it's going to be.'"
— Blake Griffin
Rivers wants more, of course. A championship would give him something besides giant pictures of his best players to hang from the rafters inside the team's home arena.
"I just think, what's wrong with going for it?" said Rivers, 52. "And if you fail you fail, but damn it, I don't want any parameters of, 'Well, we still had a good year.' I just think let's go for it, let's see what happens and if we don't make it, let's go for it again. But let's get our heart broken or let's fall in love, one of the two."
As he observed Jordan at the dinner, Rivers' long-held perception of "this angry guy" softened considerably. Jordan's body language over the years told Rivers that the center was often upset that he wasn't a bigger part of the offense. Now Jordan appeared eager to adapt — to be part of a journey bigger than himself.
"That day made me feel really good about our team," Rivers said. "When I drove home from dinner that night, I was like, wow."
The one player he thought would be a problem was suddenly the least of his worries.
Quiet was hard to find around the Rivers' household when Doc was growing up.
His father, Grady Sr., was a voluble police lieutenant in the Chicago suburb of Maywood who instilled in his two sons many of his favorite mantras, such as "Finish the race" and "Trust everyone, but cut the cards." The elder Rivers would do whatever it took to watch his sons play basketball in high school, even if it meant sitting along the baseline with his police radio blaring during the quiet of a free throw.
Doc's older brother, Grady Jr., spent much of his time extricating his sibling from fights that invariably started because the young boy had a tendency to talk too much. Being chatty was a birthright in the family.
"His mom's father was a politician and he had a way with words," said Rivers' uncle Jim Brewer, the former Laker and member of the 1972 U.S. Olympic basketball team.
The words that perhaps molded Rivers the most were written on the gym wall by his high school basketball coach, a former Marine named Glen Whittenberg: "If you think you're so important to this team, stick your foot in a bucket of water. When you take your foot out, the hole you leave will be how much you'll be missed when you walk out the door."
The teenager, whose given name was Glenn, became "Doc" the summer Marquette assistant coach Rick Majerus spotted him wearing a Julius Erving (a.k.a. Dr. J) T-shirt at a basketball camp. He didn't like the name at first but eventually relented.
Rivers went on to star at Marquette for three years before becoming an All-Star point guard with the Atlanta Hawks. He spent the 1991-92 season with the Clippers, helping them reach the playoffs for the first time since the franchise moved to Los Angeles in 1984.
It seemed obvious to those around him that the demanding yet galvanizing Rivers would eventually coach. He established a reputation as an ally of his players in his first season with the Orlando Magic in 1999-2000, when he was selected the NBA's coach of the year. He also quickly won over the media by participating in a flag-football league.
But Rivers never made it past the first round of the playoffs in Orlando and he was fired early in his fifth season. It took him four years and the accumulation of three stars — Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen — to win his only NBA title with the Boston Celtics in 2008.
Rivers might have finished his coaching career in Boston, but last summer the team was facing a complete overhaul and the prospect of a dreadful season seemed far less enticing than the chance to guide the Clippers' promising core of Paul, Griffin and Jordan.
Rivers showed from his first day on his new job that he could work a room like a seasoned politician, making eye contact with just about everyone, joking and offering a warm pat on the shoulder as he walked by.
He likes to spend the first few minutes of every pregame session with reporters chatting about random topics: NFL free agency, USC basketball or even Warren Buffett's NCAA tournament bracket challenge.
"We need another week," Rivers said last month when asked who he was picking to win the college championship. "I don't want you to try to fill out that billion-dollar pool, OK?"
One of the reporters said that if he won, he would quit and leave the Clippers beat.
"Then I will help," Rivers deadpanned, triggering laughter in the room.
The coach also likes to keep things light with his players. He pretended to reel in Paul with an imaginary fishing rod at a recent practice when the point guard's session with reporters was longer than Rivers would have liked.
There are times when Rivers makes his point by keeping his mouth shut. He hasn't said one word to star sixth man Jamal Crawford, one of the league's most skilled scorers, about his offense.
"It's always defense and that's it," Crawford said. "Defense and he always tells me to be aggressive."
Rivers made transition defense a priority and changed the way his team guarded three-point shooters by having players apply pressure on the perimeter more quickly. The adjustments have worked. The Clippers are holding teams to 33.1% shooting from beyond the arc — ranking as the best three-point defense in the NBA — after being 26th last season.
'Whenever I go off course," Jordan said of his defense, "Doc brings me right back in and reminds me what I need to do."
Days off have become routine for a team that has slogged its way through an 82-game schedule. Beat reporters have come to expect an email from the media relations department reading: "The Los Angeles Clippers will not practice tomorrow" after almost every game.
Most players show up anyway for individual workouts, a tribute to the collective mission.
Rivers tries to lighten his players' mental workload as well as preserve their bodies. The coach repeatedly heard that his players hated the long film sessions from previous seasons, so he plays only snippets as they stand around a screen next to the practice court.
It was during a solo film session that Rivers discovered his biggest challenge. Watching footage of the Clippers' first-round playoff loss to the Memphis Grizzlies last season, Rivers saw that missed shots and turnovers didn't doom the team as much as slouched shoulders and grimaces.
"I told them that right when I got here," Rivers said as he sat in his office that overlooks the practice court. "I'm like, 'Watching that series last year, if I was the other team, I know I've got you. I can just look at you.'
"What I'm just trying to get them to understand is bad things happen and you can still win. Don't worry about it. There's going to be no perfect basketball played in the playoffs. We're going to play awful in a couple of games and if we keep our mental focus, we can still win those games."
A lot can go wrong in a six-month season. Paul and Crawford have missed extended periods because of injuries. Forward Matt Barnes sent out a rogue tweet including the N-word. Forward Glen Davis verbally challenged Rivers after he was quickly removed from a game.
Through it all, the players haven't splintered. They have avoided infighting in the locker room and have won 12 games in which they've trailed by at least 10 points. Rivers made everyone feel valued by treating All-Stars Paul and Griffin the same as end-of-the-bench center Ryan Hollins.
Let's get our heart broken or let's fall in love, one of the two."
— Doc Rivers
"At the beginning of the season, I would say we weren't as close," Jordan said. "We would kind of break a little bit, but [Rivers] would always say, 'You've got to come together when it gets harder. You've got to embrace being good. You have to embrace the game being challenging and hard.'
"So now when things happen, I don't think we get flustered as much or even at all. We just keep going."
Rivers doesn't believe he has done anything special. He credits his players.
"Let me be clear: It's not me," Rivers said. "It's them. Like, they decided to improve, not me. I push them, but at some point a player has to make a choice: Does he want to want to work on it and improve? Blake has been phenomenal. But Blake decided to improve. Not, Doc Rivers said, 'You improve' and you improve."
The NBA's awards season could reflect the Clippers' growth.
Griffin has been talked about as a contender for most valuable player and Jordan has become the shot-blocking, rebound-grabbing force Rivers envisioned, putting him in the running for both defensive player of the year and most improved player. Crawford has a chance to win the sixth-man award given to the best player coming off the bench.
One award has already been unofficially bestowed, though it would be more meaningful if the Clippers can make a deep playoff run.
"Doc is the true MVP," Crawford said, "to get everybody to buy in."
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Nick Liberto
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Nick Liberto competed for the Retrievers as a fullback in 2011 and 2012, before injuries forced him off of the playing fields. The senior biological sciences major earned America East Fall Honor Roll accolades in 2012 and was tabbed to the Commissioner's Honor Roll last fall.
Liberto earned First Team All-State and All-County honors after his final fall campaign at Perry Hall High School. He was named to The Baltimore Sun's All-Metro Second Team in 2010 and earned a trip to the state finals in 2008 with current Retriever teammate Joseph Glos. Liberto was an honor roll student in all four years at Perry Hall, where he also earned the governor's Top 5% Award.