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I've Become A Mac User!
Posted 07 May 2011 - 09:20 PM
Do I need to just keep trying and figure it out? Do you organize and access your scrapbooking files and photos directly in Finder or do you use some organizing program, like PSE Organizer or ACDSee or Picasa or ???
Any other PC to Mac advice welcome too!
Posted 07 May 2011 - 09:38 PM
I had it before I started digital scrapping, but here's what I do.
I keep my photos organized in iPhoto in events.
What I did with my scrapbook pieces is to make a folder in "documents" called "scrapbook"
Inside that folder I have more folders numbered by my purchases ie "scrapbook 1" is my first purchase, etc.
Sometimes if my purchase was small, I'll have "scrapbook 7-8-9 in the same folder.
It works for me.
I HAVE found that often the SG tags to individual items are descriptive, so if I search in finder for "grass" very often grass will come up.
I don't know if this is helpful for you, but it works for me.
Posted 08 May 2011 - 04:17 AM
Play, play, play with your Mac - there are lots of different ways to do things! I use IPhoto right now for organizing my photos and I love it! I've found it's the easiest way for me to keep pictures organized the way I want them.
Posted 08 May 2011 - 09:02 AM
Posted 15 June 2011 - 08:42 PM
I keep my photos in iPhoto. I download my digi files into finder folders.
I haven't retagged - really don't need to with mac (photos or digi supplies)
Photos has faces and I can pretty much find what I'm looking for.
I keep a folder of most of my kit previews. When I see something I want, I just start typing the name in the spotlight search and it comes right up!
Like other said, keep playing and asking questions. We all learn that way.
Posted 16 June 2011 - 04:20 AM
I was so tempted with a Mac - and probably will do eventually - but the cost over here is a little prohibitive. I just upgraded to a bigger and better PC because that was within my budget. I hope to go MAC next time around. In the meantime, I hope you have tremendous fun working with your new "friend".
I Love My Mac Because All My Friends Live In It!
Posted 16 June 2011 - 11:49 AM
I have learned to use the Finder easily, and love how fast and easily it searches for items. I am just starting to figure out Lightroom and haven't decided whether to use that or Picasa. Meanwhile, I'm scrapping just fine without either!
Posted 16 June 2011 - 07:59 PM
(I can usually go two days without restarting, but on the third day it starts to get a little funky!)
It sometimes also appears if I have too many items open in PSE itself.
Posted 16 June 2011 - 08:19 PM
Ok, importing my scrapping supplies into iPhoto now....18,581 of them. This may take awhile, and then the tagging will begin. Been meaning to do this forever.
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Posted 17 June 2011 - 07:54 AM
Just curious, as I've been thinking about changing my scrapping supplies from my finder downloads folder to IPhoto too.
Posted 17 June 2011 - 08:42 AM
Does that work for you?
I keep my scrapping supplies in "Scrapbook" folders in my documents and I can open them in the same way.
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AirBridgeCargo Receives Russia's First Boeing 747-8 Freighter
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Moscow-based AirBridgeCargo, a subsidiary of Volga-Dnepr Group, plans to use the new aircraft to expand its network. "We have a firm belief that our established and new customers will greatly benefit from the additional features the airplane will provide such as enhanced payload," said Tatyana Arslanova, executive president of AirBridgeCargo Airlines. "With the introduction of the Boeing 747-8F, we'll have the youngest freighter fleet in the industry while maintaining the highest standards of environmental compliance."
AirBridgeCargo also holds an option for up to five more aircraft once the first five are delivered.

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what the Bronson genes look like in action.
The Bronson surname is part of Rosmer P. Kerr's heritage. Rosmer's eighth great-grandfather may have been:
- Richard Bronson, thought to be the father of John Bronson. If correct, he's my tenth great-grandfather.
- John Bronson of Hartford and Farmington, born probably before or about 1620. With his wife, whose name is shrouded in mystery, he had seven children. John John died at Farmington 28 November 1680. He was my ninth great-grandfather.
- Dorcas Bronson, whose birthdate isn't known. Some of her siblings were born 1641-1647. She is listed as the sixth of seven children, but if that's the case, she would have been quite a bit younger than her husband, Stephen Hopkins of Hartford, who was born 1634. Dorcas did outlive him by more than seven years, dying 13 May 1697. Dorcas and Stephen were my eighth great-grandparents.
Bronson, Henry. The History of Waterbury, Connecticut; The Original Township Embracing Present Watertown and Plymouth, and Parts of Oxford, Wolcott, Middlebury, Prospect and Naugatuck. Waterbury: Bronson Bros, 1858. My direct-line ancestors didn't live in Waterbury, but some of their children did. As a result, you'll find some Bronson genealogy (beginning on p. 137), some Hopkins genealogy (p. 151), and some Judd genealogy (p. 155) in this book. Images for The Bronson Look came from this book also.
Hinman, R. R. A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut, With the Time of Their Arrival in the Country and Colony, Their Standing in Society, Place of Residence, Condition in Life, Where from, Business, &C., As Far As Is Found on Record. Hartford: Case, Tiffany, 1852. Hinman's Bronson genealogy begins at the bottom of p. 341.


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Organizing Photos
Posted 04 May 2012 - 12:55 PM
Posted 04 May 2012 - 01:09 PM
--->2012-03-24 Family picnic
--->2012-03-27 dog pics
When they are numbered/labeled that way they stay sorted and it makes it so much easier to find. I too have folders on several hard drives- labeled, not labeled, you name it. It's a slow process, but it's getting there.
Never mind the Rubbermaid tubs full of old photos ad negatives .... that's another story.
Posted 04 May 2012 - 01:37 PM
Posted 04 May 2012 - 03:21 PM
Both PSE Organizer and Picasa have pretty good face recognition which helps with finding people photos. I use both but Picasa mostly for my scrapping supplies.
Edit: I took a look at Shutterfly and it appears that you retain all rights to your images. Your albums are not available to everybody, just people you send links to. The terms of use are a lot of legal gobbledy gook as far as I'm concerned, but that is what I gleaned from it.
Posted 04 May 2012 - 04:30 PM
I was organizing all my photos in to folders for each event,but I too am moving towards a yearly then monthly for the year.
I also am trying to get mine done this way. I just have several lifetimes of photos to scan and organize. Oh my!
Posted 04 May 2012 - 05:35 PM
Pat, thanks for checking with shutterfly. I've used them before. Picasa might not ever do anything but it just bothers me that they would even have the right. I guess I should sort & organize first. Wish me luck
Posted 15 February 2013 - 11:07 AM
Thanks in advance!
Posted 15 February 2013 - 11:38 AM
As far as those boxes and bins with prints from pre-digital times. Well, I'll just grab a handful (mostly unsorted). If its worth keeping, I scan, making folders up similar to my digi filing system, then put them into albums. And if I have duplicates I will put them in an envelope to send off to someone who will love seeing them. And many get tossed. I'm not getting too concerned with organized albums right now, just in general groupings. I have one separate album for family holidays, one for travel, and one for each of my sons and their families. And the ubiquitous miscellaneous one too. At some point I'll try to get those a little more organized and ordered, but just getting them into general categories and into albums (using large capacity, mostly loose leaf pages so they can be moved around). I try to work on the sorting project for a half-hour or so weekly, just to keep it moving, though its going very slowly.
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Posted 17 February 2013 - 09:14 AM
Thanks again for the tips!
Posted 17 February 2013 - 05:14 PM
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When I import my photos to my computer it organises and names the folders, all I need to do is add the note at the end for special events.
I find it difficult to delete photos as they can be used in so many ways, as Wendy suggested.
When scanning lots of images I scan in batches and separate later. Happy organizing!
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Posted 18 February 2013 - 10:08 AM
This morning I searched the forum for scanning tips and found quite a few. For example making sure the scan bed is speck free (this is so obvious but a good reminder) and to use coffee filters to wipe down (lint free).
Sandi, in my search I read one of your responses and you mentioned something about you tend to have themed albums instead of chronological order. (if I am remembering what I read correctly). Does that mean you, for example, might put all your Christmas photos together?
Also has anybody scanned polaroids with any luck?
Thank you!!.
Posted 19 February 2013 - 08:50 AM
Posted 19 February 2013 - 11:28 AM
YAY ME!! So I finally started sorting last evening. Wow talk about a blast from the past! lol I realized this is so important to do because the color in a lot of older photos have started changing color. I haven't started scanning them in yet as I have to share my laptop with my DD. (She'll be getting her own when she graduates from HS in June).
This morning I searched the forum for scanning tips and found quite a few. For example making sure the scan bed is speck free (this is so obvious but a good reminder) and to use coffee filters to wipe down (lint free).
Sandi, in my search I read one of your responses and you mentioned something about you tend to have themed albums instead of chronological order. (if I am remembering what I read correctly). Does that mean you, for example, might put all your Christmas photos together?
Also has anybody scanned polaroids with any luck?
Thank you!!.
Yes, I do work on themes instead of chronologically. As things are all finished, them I attempt to get them in some sort of chronological order. And yes I do have a Christmas album. Its my favorite.
I don't have many polaroids to scan so can't help you there.
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Posted 19 February 2013 - 11:36 AM
Well it's Sunday and I'm going to start sorting here in a little bit. I did have a question. Do you scan one photo at a time or several at a time. Right now I'm having to share the computer with my dd so I will have to work around homework time. At least I can start sorting.
Thanks again for the tips!
What I do with small prints is to mount them on a piece of cardstock and then scan several at one time. I use an adhesive that can easily be removed. My scanner can break them up into individual files for saving. Or, I just select them from a sheet of several photos, one at a time to bring into photoshop. I do try to fix color and any damage before saving a final version....its a tedious process, but I only scan a fraction of the number of photos I have, usually 2 or 3 from a roll of film shot at a particular time.. When the photos are dark backgrounds, I use a light colored card stock and if they are light I use dark card stock. I suppose you could use a mid tone neutral....whatever gives good contrast so selections are easier. I use my flip pal for an occasional photo, but mostly for documents. I found a few certificates one of my got in school, scanned them, now they are in a file with his name on my HD, and he gets the originals. If I ever find the photos that go with those events, I'll be able to include them on a LO for him.
I want you to know I will never get this all done, it will be a continual work in progress. He he he.
A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ~Author Unknown
Posted 19 February 2013 - 09:07 PM
In lightroom you can add a brief statement to the photo which stays with it,ie "Emma's first day at Montessori and she wouldn't get out of the car." I tag them with: who, what when and where--plus the why IF I can. The tagging and information become part of the metadata of the file. Kayla Lameroux has excellent information on using lightroom. She encourages looking at yourself as the 'curator of a family museum' and believes that organizing and cleaning up photos will be of more value to future generations than scrapped pages. I have many very old pictures I inherited and scanned, but am not sure who the people are and have NO idea what the occasion was. Even a brief story with a picture makes it meaningful.
So I was inspired and scanned over 10,000 slides my father had taken. Oh my! Better to have a root canal. I was able to convert those to DVD for him to watch complete with music. Then via Kayla, I discovered scanCafe. You buy a box, fill it and in weeks they send back, scanned and color corrected images ready for you to tag and file. I've decided to go this route, and NOT spend anymore time scanning.
I use Backblaze to backup and I also upload to Flickr. For $25 per year you have unlimited full resolution storage and download capability. In LR4, there is a very easy upload to Flickr button, or Smugmug, Blurb, etc. I just like Flickr and keep all of my work locked down to 'family only"
Posted 22 February 2013 - 09:13 AM
WOW Candy 10,000 slides that's crazy! I couldn't even imagine how long that must have taken. My dad had lots of slides but I don't think that many. I think my sister has them. I know she has lots of slides so I'll have to look into scanCafe for her. Thanks for the tip.
Sure I had started all this years ago! *sigh*
Posted 19 January 2014 - 09:09 AM
Well it's another year and I'm at it again! I am bound and determined to get this done.I'frustrated that I keep putting it off but now that we are empty nesters I've got to stop making excuses and just do it! lol New question. I have lots of photos that friends & family have sent over the years mostly at Christmas time. What do you y'all do with them? I'm not interested in scrapping them as I have too many of my own to do. I'd feel bad just throwing them out.
p.s. glad you kept this thread when you reworked the forum. Apparently I need to reread it every year! :-/
Posted 07 March 2014 - 09:02 AM
I am in the middle of sorting through all mine (and my mothers) old boxes of pre-digital photos and it's a huge chore (including slides). My daughter is 40 this year and this prompted me to do it as I am making an album for her. I like some of the ideas suggested here. I do file where possible in year, month and event and have done this for all my digital photos. I also feel bad - when going through my mother's photos as I know all the people in them - but they are of no interest to my children and most of the people are now gone. I can't throw them out, so have just filed them in a box. Scenery?? Unless I know where it is (my Dad always wrote on the back - I wasn't so organized!) then I am throwing them out. I also backup with Carbonite as suggested once by RO and also have two copies of all supplies and photos on EHDs using SyncToy (again suggested by Ro and works really well).
Good luck everybody with sorting scanning and cataloguing - it's an ongoing task but will be worth it in the end.
Posted 17 May 2015 - 08:40 AM
I'm working on getting motivated to clean up my digital photos, and digitizing my older photos, as well. Stumbled upon this thread and like the idea of sorting by year, then month, etc.
I'm wondering how those of you that did this find it's working.
Anything you would do differently or change?
I'm also hoping that by using PSE13 as my organizer, it will help me learn how to use it a little better. I upgraded from PSE5, so the learning curve is something else!
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Cryonic wrote:The advantage of using the Heavy Armor/Heavy Weapons is that you don't end up with huge numbers for damage and defense on these larger targets. So, instead of having to give things like tanks a toughness of 36 (which means the weapons they fire now have to be scaled up to something like 12d6 for another tank to have a decent chance of killing it).
That is definitely part of it.
Cryonic wrote:Also, IIRC, Heavy Weapons ignore non-Heavy armor. So a cannon will ignore even platemail worn by a knight, but won't ignore the armor of a castle wall.
Sorry, but nope. Heavy Weapons do not automatically ignore non-Heavy Armor. They may (most likely) have the AP to do so, but it is not automatic.


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Though it could be considered a daunting crowd to perform in front of, UCLA running back Johnathan Franklin says he doesn't feel any pressure.
"I'm playing for an audience of one and that's God," Franklin explained after practice. "All I can do is work as hard as I can and coaches are going to make their decisions regardless."
Franklin, an All-American his final season at UCLA, is crediting his late career success to the latest Bruin coaching staff led by Jim Mora.
"He totally changed the culture," Franklin said. "He placed the emphasis on toughness and discipline and with the offense giving a hit instead of taking a hit."
Mora, the former head coach of the Atlanta Falcons and Seattle Seahawks, brought his NFL experience to UCLA giving Franklin an advantage when he stepped on the field Senior Bowl. Franklin's North team is coached by the Oakland Raiders staff.
"Our (UCLA) practice was so similar to this," Franklin, who officially weighed in at 5-foot-10 201-pounds, said. "It's about finishing, blocking, and going to the next level. (Mora) has done a great job and he's always available when I need to talk to him."
Though the coaching changes during Franklin's run as a Bruin proved challenging at times, it also provided experience playing in different systems which in turn is preparing him for the next step.
"I've played in every offense," he said. "Hopefully it works in my advantage."
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I'll pretend posting to Advogato is a normal thing for me.
- Logitech Freedom Pro Just picked up the ergonomic wireless keyboard and mouse by Logitech. Nice. Much more 'ethical' than my old Microsoft Natural Elite 2.0. Cleaner too. I don't know what it is about Microsoft keyboards, but every one I've ever seen, whether in use or at the store, is disgustingly dirty. Anyoo, the only truly wacky thing about this keyboard is that it has no lights for caps lock, num lock, et. al. I'd like to try and get the other buttons into use somehow, but I dunno how to map them under X11. I remember using some app many moons ago that displays a keyboard and you can see the layout and what key you just hit, but I can't remember the name. Anybody know of something to do this?
- Rain - I woke up, and it was raining outside. We had some really nice weather previously. Unfortunately, this made me really cranky today, and I feel bad about the way I treated my girlfriend. Feeling slightly better now.
- Glasses - I got reading glasses so my eyes don't strain, resulting in headaches and eventual blindness. Incidentally, I look like Ryan Phillpe in Antitrust in them. Looking Dead Sexy (TM) good, looking like Ryan Phillpe, not so good. Unless I get to bonk Reese Witherspoon.
Codez -
I met with my friend Jeff Greeson yesterday. I help
him run his Mortal Kombat
site . We discussed a new site feature for whenever (?)
the new Mortal Kombat game might come out. Basically, he
wants to build a community to discover and verify new moves
as they are found. I think some really neat things can be
done with this:
- Trust/Scoring - We want to prevent people from trolling and submitting lots of bogus moves. Thus we will probably implement some kind of scoring, wherein if you submit a move and a moderator confirms it, you get points, and if it is denied, you get points taken away. Simple sounding, but from my readings at Advogato and intuitively, I know whatever I implement first will be completely wrong and subtly but massively abusable. We'll see what happens.
- Output generation - I'd like to output moves lists as PDF's. I'm pretty sure you can do this from PHP, and I imagine Python shouldn't be too hard either. I just wonder how hard it is to actually create a PDF in code. I'll fool around with it when I get to that point. If worse comes to worse, I'll just output TeX or HTML and convert it to something that prints pretty from a cron job.
- XML-RPC - I'd like to have web and curses interfaces to this system. I'm just really horny to write some kind of command interpreter. So I'm thinking I'll implement my first prototype in Python using the command interpreter module already available, and then branch out from there. In the end, I think XML-RPC might be neat to do, as I think PHP and Python both support it well. The only thing I'm concerned about there is security. Can you do XML-RPC with SSL? Or, perhaps can you sign XML-RPC messages with GPG or PGP?
- Prototypes and design - As above, I want to do my first prototype in Python, and then write a PHP version for the site. My only concern is that I'll use language goodies in Python I will be hard pressed to emulate in PHP. I also recall PHP3 being slightly hokey in places (I can't remember, so I'm not bitching), and I hope that won't snag me either.
- XML format and DTD's - Finally, I want some simple way to confirm a submitted move is a valid sequence. So I'm thinking of defining a DTD for the task. This means I have to learn how to write a DTD, that's not too bad. Writing a DTD is useless though unless XML parsers for PHP and Python are validating now. Last time I looked, all were non-validating. Frowns. Anyway, if DTD's are the way to go, then I could make this software pretty generic. You could just write a new DTD and use this with <favorite game here>. Then I could be famous and girls would throw their underpants at me.


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Anyone Using Acdsee, Question For You!
#1 dawnsmemories
Posted 14 January 2007 - 06:37 PM
Thanks for your help!
Posted 14 January 2007 - 07:20 PM
You can open files in your Photo Editor from within ACDSee.
To set this up, first go to Tools>Open In Editor>Configure Editor. From the Dialog Box that opens, select "Add." This will allow you to browse to your Photo Editor's (PSE?) .exe file. For PSE, you should be able to go to Program Files>Adobe>Photoshop Elements 4.0. Now, you can double-click on the icon that says "PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe". It will be at the end of the folder's list of contents.
Now, click "OK" in the dialog box, and making sure that PSE4 is highlighted, click "Set As Default" from the right side of the box, and then click "OK".
Now, when you find a file that you want to work with in PSE4, just right click on the file in ACDSee, and choose "Edit" (it will be the second choice down from the top). It should automatically launch PSE4, if it's not already open, and open your file in it.
Hope that helps! Let me know if you get lost!
Posted 14 January 2007 - 07:53 PM
And once you set that up -- the default editor as Heidi gave instr's for -
There are a couple of other options:
1) select one or more items & use Ctrl E and they'll open in PSE (the E stands for Editor)
2) and when you scrap - you have both windows open, so you can also click on the thumbnail & drag it into pse.
(that's what my sister does - I use Ctrl E -- both work)
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Posted 14 January 2007 - 08:03 PM
Thank you so much! I am printing them now and will work on it after 24!!!! Season premiere and can't miss it!
My sister & I wrote tutorials for ACDSee & they can be found here at our new website & you can also ask questions there. Although HeidiD can probably help here too!
Posted 14 January 2007 - 08:37 PM
To have a friend is to have a shoulder to cry on, a hand to hold and an extra pair of legs when yours are too weak to stand alone...
I have been living buried in books and writing classes... as an added note I must say that it is rather scary when you start dreaming and all you can see within your dreams is words floating everywhere!
Valerie Lynn Harrell is the published author of a book of poetry, titled "A Little Girl Lost... Was Found Through Her Writing"
Posted 14 January 2007 - 10:01 PM
I had ACDSee on this computer and took it off. I didn't realize all of it's capabilities at the time. I messed around with it I think for about a week and decided I didn't have time to learn it too. Apparently it is much easier than I thought, may have to reinstall it one day.
We've tried to make it easy for people. (I've answered so many questions on it - I finally wrote them down! and shared with everyone)
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Ellis and Peterson want to put the Island back to good use as a school for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder as well as stabilize its landscape so that it can serve as a bird habitat again. They propose to restore five of the islands's existing buildings for reuse by the school and use the existing structures that are further south for field offices for the New York City Parks Department, Cornell University Department of Ornithology and the Audobon Society. The four remaining structures on the island would be left to decay naturally into the bird habitat.
Ellis and Peterson attempt to use architecture to address the spectrum of needs of autistic children. They have designed the school in three clusters. The west cluster would be for children that are in the middle of the spectrum, the central and most protected cluster would be for children who are hypersensitive, and the east cluster, which has the most exposure to the public realm, would be for those students who are hyposensitive and need extra stimulation. The classrooms in all three clusters would be identical, while the roof and garden spaces would provide variety and identity to each cluster.
As for the rest of the island, Ellis and Peterson propose winding paths throughout to entice visitors to explore the island without disturbing the children, the school or the habitat for the birds. There would be open park spaces creating gathering spaces for the public, the school and various research functions happening on the island. For Ellis and Peterson, the island could be an interdependent system where "the unusual mix of program, site, and clients (neuro-typical children, autistic children, researchers, educators, and birds) actually reinforce and enable the success and growth of each other… human or bird."


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Obituary: Pete Seeger / Helped write the folk music textbook
May 3, 1919 - Jan. 27, 2014January 29, 2014 1:08 AM
Local political singer-songwriter and union activist Mike Stout admits that as a rebellious teenager in the '60s he was drawn more to folk-rocker Bob Dylan, who famously endured the wrath of Pete Seeger for going electric at the Newport Folk Festival.
However, as Mr. Stout matured into his mid-20s and began to dig into the roots of folk music, his appreciation grew for Mr. Seeger, an inspiration to any songwriter penning a tune about political or social injustice or using their music to fight for a cause.
Mr. Stout shared stages with Mr. Seeger at numerous concerts and rallies, including the Homestead Strike centennial concert here in 1992 and the School of the Americas Watch & Rally at Fort Benning, Ga., in 1999.
"For the people in music who delved in politics, he was our guiding light, he was our shield, and definitely our role model," Mr. Stout said of Mr. Seeger, who died Monday at 94. "The way we see music is not just entertainment. We see music as a teacher, and it teaches people the truth."
Mr. Seeger, with banjo in hand, helped write the textbook on folk music. Anyone who's ever taken music class in school likely has sung his standard "If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)," written while he was in the Weavers, the Greenwich Village-based group that formed in 1948 and helped spark the folk boom in the '50s.
Among the other classics he's written or co-written are "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" and the biblically inspired "Turn, Turn, Turn!" During the civil rights movement, he helped turn the spiritual "We Shall Overcome" into a protest anthem.
"I like songs with choruses because I like to hear the crowd sing with me," he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1974. "I don't have a great voice, so there's nothing in the way of virtuosity. But the lyrics are very important to me."
His songs were popularized by such artists as Peter, Paul & Mary, The Byrds, the Kingston Trio, Marlene Dietrich, Johnny Rivers and Judy Collins.
As a performer and activist, he was the living embodiment of Tom Joad's words from "The Grapes of Wrath": "Wherever you can look, wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there."
That put him on the frontline of movements ranging from support for U.S. intervention in World War II in 1942 to Occupy Wall Street. He stood with the left on such causes as civil rights, the draft, Vietnam, nuclear energy, the death penalty, labor unions, Hudson River cleanup, the Iraq War, right up to anti-fracking.
Seeger's rise
Mr. Seeger was born May 3, 1919, in New York City to a violinist mother and musicologist father, who divorced when he was 7. (His half brother, Mike Seeger, and half sister, Peggy Seeger, also became noted performers.)
His love for folk music and the banjo was sparked by a visit to a music festival in North Carolina in 1935. Although he had an interest in journalism, he dropped out of Harvard to pursue folk music and worked for a time with Alan Lomax at the Archive of American Folk Song of the Library of Congress.
In 1940, he co-founded the Almanac Singers, whose loose membership included his new friend, Woody Guthrie. During a stop in Pittsburgh, Guthrie wrote "Pittsburgh Town," about the labor disputes and smoky air plaguing the city, later recorded by Mr. Seeger.
Mr. Seeger, a member of the Communist Party in the '40s, served as an airplane mechanic in the Army during World War II, spending much of his time entertaining troops in the South Pacific.
In 1943 he married Toshi-Aline Ohta and they settled in the Hudson Valley, raising three children. (She died in July at age 91.) The Almanacs evolved into the Weavers in 1948 and scored a string of hits, including "On Top of Old Smoky" and "Goodnight, Irene."
Although he had drifted from the Communist Party, he couldn't shake the association and became a victim of the Red Scare. The Weavers were blacklisted from television and radio, and in 1955 Mr. Seeger was brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee, where he took the Fifth Amendment and was found guilty of contempt.
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Although the charges were eventually dropped, they played into his sometimes bumpy history with Pittsburgh.
A 1959 show at the Stephen Foster Memorial, complete with songs by the Pittsburgh-born folk icon, went off without incident.
But when he was booked by WQED and the Young Men's and Women's Hebrew Association for two concerts April 16, 1962, the Red Scare hit home. There were a public outcry and a Pittsburgh Press editorial on April 13 that denounced Mr. Seeger for his Communist past, stating, "Red propaganda is red propaganda, whether it's sung to the accompaniment of a guitar or shouted from a soap box in Union Square."
The concerts were canceled but moved to the First Unitarian Church in Oakland, where he played two shows to capacity crowds of 400. Some 60 people picketed in front of WQED that day.
A few years later, in 1967, Mr. Seeger's planned return to commercial television on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" was thwarted by CBS, which cut out his Vietnam protest song, "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy." He returned five months later to sing it on that same show, and after that, the backlash cooled down.
There wasn't even a mention of blacklists or red politics in the coverage of his 1972 show here for Miners for Democracy or his rainy 1974 show in Point State Park with the American Wind Symphony, as part of his campaign for clean river advocacy.
The commotion he caused here June, 30 1985, can be attributed to reverence and popularity. His concert at Hartwood Acres with Woody's son, Arlo Guthrie, turned into a mini-Woodstock when an estimated 50,000 people attempted to get there on the single-lane roads.
It was a benefit for the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank and much needed during a recession that saw a steep decline of manufacturing in Pittsburgh.
Three days before the concert, Mr. Seeger had told the Press, "I'm more of a communist now than I was when I was a card-carrying member. ... And I'm quite concerned that the human race will have to come to terms with the contradictions of some people having billions and other people not having enough to eat."
Traffic was so backed up, people abandoned their cars on Hampton lawns and walked to the show. In the aftermath, the county was forced to scale back the size of future shows.
Outlasting them
The legend of Pete Seeger was somewhat tarnished in the eyes of baby boomers for the scene at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 when the folk elder statesmen, enraged by Dylan's electric set, reportedly pondered cutting the power cable with an ax.
Like Mr. Stout, Pittsburgh rocker Joe Grushecky was on Dylan's side of that battle, but, he says, "Anyone who grew up in my generation knows what a towering figure he was. I've been aware of him my whole life. When you see how influential he was, it's just amazing."
Although he never shared a stage with Mr. Seeger, he sat in with Bruce Springsteen's Seeger Sessions Band Tour in New Jersey, which honored the folk legend.
Mr. Grushecky points to the Smothers Brothers incident as a testament to Mr. Seeger's stature. "Music was transformational then. It wasn't mindless entertainment." He adds that with Mr. Seeger having been a civil rights warrior, "I thought it was really cool that he lived long enough to sing at Obama's induction [in 2009]."
Having recorded an entire album about the plight of coal miners, Tom Breiding is a Pittsburgh-based folk musician working in the footsteps of Pete Seeger.
"I actually shed a tear today, and I was thinking that probably hasn't happened for an artist since John Lennon died," he said Tuesday. "I don't think anybody ever hit me like that since then."
Mr. Breiding was on the road in recent few years supporting the United Mine Workers' protests against Patriot Coal cutting retiree pensions and health care. His traveling companion was a copy of "Pete Remembers Woody."
"I listened to it for weeks on end and never grew tired of Pete telling his stories, and I just gathered so much strength and comfort knowing that in some small way I was doing what he had spent his life doing."
Mr. Stout remembers one small piece of advice he got from Mr. Seeger at a D.C. rally in 2000.
"I did a song called 'Solidarity Rocks' and at the end, I did a wild jump off the stage about six feet down. When I went backstage, Pete said, 'You're gonna get old fast doing that kind of stuff, son.' "
Pete Seeger didn't jump off of stages, but in a life of a standing up for people's rights, battling for justice and often taking unpopular stances, he took far more dangerous leaps.
"He went where a lot of us have gone, but he was the pathbreaker and he paid for it," Mr. Stout said. "A good part of his life he was blackballed. But he outlasted everyone that blackballed him and everybody that bad-mouthed him and everybody that tried to put him down. He outlasted them physically, and his music will outlast them for centuries."
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Lawrence Lessig recently posted a summary on the fsfe-uk list about problems that were blocking Theora adoption. Here's a rebuttal, for what it's worth.
His first point, that Theora isn't technically competitive with the lastest batch of encoders for the encumbered MPEG codecs, is entirely true. From Xiph's point of view is that that's a little like saying there's no point in using Linux because it doesn't work as well as Windows, but the technical disparity does need to be addressed.
Monty and Derf have been working on a new encoder the past few months, but there's nothing to show yet. We believe the Theora format has scope to offer similar compression efficiency to h.263 with less complexity. Beyond that, we look to the BBC's Dirac. But in the absence of software to prove the capabilities of the format, one has to take our word, as well as being interested in long term planning, for that to be a meaningful argument.
His second point, about people believing Theora is patented is just FUD as far as I know. We're not aware of any patents. The original developer of the VP3 format which became theora grants rights to any patents they might have on the implementation. Submarine patents are of course always possible, but they affect MPEG and Microsoft codecs just as much as independent designs.
I've heard this argument from two different directions. First from corporations who have already bet on one of the MPEG codecs and want to dissuade any competition, and second from Free Software people, who don't understand how patents work, shrug, say it's all equally bad, and then get behind the proprietary technology.
What happened with the html5 flame fest was that some corporations said they didn't feel the current demand for web content in royalty-free formats justified the additional exposure implementing them would create. That's true so far as it goes, but a very specific statement about their own interests and hardly a reason for anyone else to eschew royalty free formats.
There was a lot of talk at the recent FOMS meeting about how to address the FUD issue and educate the free community about patents. Hopefully some public documentation will come of it. It's been quite difficult to find legal counsel who understands the FLOSS development model well enough to toss ALL the traditional wisdom about patent risk out the window: namely to never do or say anything at all.
All that said, I completely agree with the recommendation that we get people talking. It can only help. Free software can't compete with the installed base of flash video at this point, but we should all be working to offer an alternative for those who can use it, and prepare the toolchain so we can provide the greatest support for software and creative freedom in the next round of web video.
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There's an article on linux.com ostensibly about the current state of the Theora reference encoder, and ongoing efforts to improve it.
It's a strange article though. It's misleading to say "no new MPEG-4 licenses are available" when talking about codecs, when the reference is that the systems patent suite is currently unavailable during negotiations. MPEG-4 visual and AVC suites are still available under the normal terms.
And then there's a long, verbatim quote from one of the XviD developers. I'm always interested to hear the attitudes behind such projects expressed clearly, and in this case the thinking seems to be that software patents are evil, he doesn't know anything about them, so everyone should ignore the issue completely because everything potentially infringes. Wow.
There's a huge difference between vague assertions that Linux in general must be infringing hundreds of (unnamed) Microsoft patents, and a very specific list of patents considered by their holders to be required to implement a specific specification. Pretending we can't make distinctions here is just FUD.
I complained about this to a colleague and he said, "Well, it's not a rah-rah theora article, if that's what you wanted." But actually it is. After describing the patent issue as unimportant, it then goes on to say how theora is "good enough" using mp3 as an example. But the codec that's most analogous to mp3 is h.264, not Theora. They are both patented. They both feel like "good quality" at file sizes that are convenient for use. And there is a huge push on to standardize on h.264 (aka MPEG-4 AVC) as a standard codec for from hardware vendors, software vendors and the file-sharing community. If software patents don't matter, and h.264 is technically superior, why does the article recommend theora at all?
The article does acknowledge that software patents can't be ignored is some other jurisdictions (the Xvid developer lives in Germany) and I actually agree that's the reason to use theora over h.264. But it's a big reason, one that isn't going away. And while the mp3 patents start expiring in the next five years, h.264 will be encumbered for a long time to come.
The last section is spot on though. Free formats will succeed by having excellent support in all tools, not by being free. We need to improve the reference implementation, and improve tool support if we want to get somewhere.
Quirks & Quarks Ogg Podcast feed
The CBC Radio weekly science show has for many years provided Ogg Vorbis files on their archive page. It's been great to see them doing the right thing with respect to free formats, and being able to listen to this excellent show when we when we weren't living somewhere where we could get CBC over the air.
But, since the invention of podcasting, clicking through a few webpages to download the media files has become inconvenient, and while they are providing a podcast feed for mp3 versions of their show, they're not doing it for the Ogg version.
So I made one. A little cron script looks up the current show's index page and builds an rss feed with enclosures for all the .ogg links. It's very basic, without proper titles, or descriptions for the segments, but it's enough to get them downloading in rhythmbox and iTunes.
Xiph.org now has a Planet.
jbig2dec license
We've switched the license on our JBIG2 decoder library from "GPLv2" to "GPLv2 or later", so it's now GPLv3 compatible.
This means, in particular, that jbig2dec can provide the JBIG2Decode filter implementation for the new GNU PDF library.
Yay sharing!
Today we heard that Diebold, infamous US voting machine company, shipped Ghostscript as part of their product.
If you work for a government that owns any, or work with them, please submit a request for the source code under the GPL. If that doesn't work, try the AFPL (for older versions). Let us know how it goes?
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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Topics: "IRRRB Okays Budget" & "Minnesota Ballet / DSSO Collaborate on Old Turtle"
Description: The Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board okayed at $31-million dollar budget this week. The 2012-13 budget includes some new programs, and continuing efforts to diversify the Iron Range economy.
And the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra and the Minnesota Ballet combine forces to produce the children's classic "Old Turtle".
Guests: Tony Sertich, IRRRB Commissioner; Robert Gardner, Minnesota Ballet Artistic Director; Rebecca Lynn Petersen, DSSO Executive Director


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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of utility grid networking equipment firm Silver Spring Networks (SSNI) are up $5.11, or almost 19%, at $32.50, in late trading after the company this afternoon reported Q2 revenue and earnings per share that topped consensus estimate in its second report since going public on March 13th.
Revenue in the three months ended in June, on an adjusted basis, rose 17%, year over year, to $86.5 million, yielding a net loss of 10 cents, excluding some costs.
On a GAAP basis, revenue of $103.5 million doubled from the prior-year period, yielding EPS of 19 cents.
Analysts had been modeling $80 million and a 17-cent loss per share.
The company's adjusted gross margin rose to 30.1% from a prior-quarter 29.2%, albeit down from 33.6% in the year-earlier period.
Management will host a conference call with analysts at 4:30 pm, Eastern time, this evening, and you can catch the webcast of it on the company's investor relations Web site.
Update: During the call, management reaffirmed a view for 18% revenue growth for the full year, stating ". Our revenue visibility has increased from our last call; We have significant amount of 2013 revenue under contract." That is consistent with the Street's average estimate for $359.5 million, up from last year's $304 million by 18%. The company expects gross margin on a GAAP basis to rise by 2 points to 36%. Full-year adjusted profit per share is expected to be 14 cents, above the consensus for 10 cents.
For the current quarter, the company sees revenue on an adjusted basis rising 8%, with non-GAAP margins at 38%, and non-GAAP earnings of 6 cents a share. The Street has been modeling EPS of 9 cents.


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TYSON: Yeah, yeah, its a jackpot actually. What we've always been curious about was whether any of them orbited their host star at the right distance where you could sustain liquid water- if you had an atmosphere. Nearly all of those planets were not in this 'Goldilocks Zone.' The one or few that were are huge Jupiter-sized planets where no one imagined that you'd have life on Jupiter. So, the holy grail in this exercise, was trying to find an Earth-sized planet in the Goldilocks zone around one of these stars, and that's what was just announced.
GELLERMAN: This Goldilocks planet- the one that's outside of our solar system, does it have a name?
TYSON: Uh, yeah, well it's GLEEZ-581G (?).
GELLERMAN: It kind of rolls of the tongue.
TYSON: I know, and Gleez is the name of the catalog. 581that'd be the number in the catalog. G is the Gth object found the system- so it's not a lone planet in orbit around the single star- there's other stuff there. And, so that's part of what's exciting about it is that it's a star system that it's a part of. It's where many of the exo-planets have been found.
GELLERMAN: So, what exactly is an exoplanet?
TYSON: That's just a word that we give to planets outside of our own solar system. So, we've got our 8… get over it. (Laughs).
GELLERMAN: (Laughs)
TYSON: And then we go to other stars and they've got planets of their own. And, they used to be called extra-solar-planets, but that's too many syllabuls and unnecessary, so, they're exoplanents. And then there's the field of study that is in search of life and it's exobiology. The exo is what gets you out of our own solar system
GELLERMAN: In exo-biology the ex could also be for extreme biology.
TYSON: Yes, in fact, excellent perceptive point. There's biology on earth thriving in extreme conditions that would kill us post-haste. And, we call those extremophiles, actually, lovers of extreme environments. That has allowed people who look for life elsewhere in the universe to cast a much wider net of the conditions under which they think life might thrive. Simply because of the broad conditions that we find life thriving here on earth- high temperature, low temperature, high pressure, high radiation- and you say 'hey, wait a minute! It doesn't just need a room temperature warm pond.' If it can thrive in all these conditions- bacteria life that is- then why can't we look in many more places than we have before?
GELLERMAN: Yeah, it turns out that life is so tenacious, it really can exist in very extreme conditions.
TYSON: Right. Not all life- there's some life that can, and does and thrives. And, what it means is, if you need intelligent life to have a warm pond- then you can just forget it (laughs). Figure out how to talk to bacteria and that might be all you'll be finding. But, none-the-less, it would still be remarkable to find life of any variety out there, even if it's just single-celled life.
GELLERMAN: But if we went to an exo-planet, we could literally trip over something and we might not know it's life.
TYSON: Yeah, that's an interesting philosophical point. Whether there could be forms of life that are beyond our awareness, or our capacity to even register as life- and I once sat a little too long with a philosopher and he said "I wonder if rocks are alive"- I said 'Ok, I'm done with this coversation."
GELLERMAN: (Laughs)
TYSON: (Laughs). I'm sorry- I'm not going with you there on that one, alright? Take that one back to the philosophy coffee lounge. But, normally when we think of life we think of a metabolism, and ability to process energy, we think of it's ability to make copies of it's self. But, now, by the way, biologists, as much as they might celebrate the diversity of life on earth, at the end of the day, they have to confess that they have only a sample of one. Because all life on earth has common DNA. All life we've ever investigated- oak trees, lobsters, jellyfish, humans. And, as a result, we're not really in a position to assert what the minimum criteria for life should be. And so, that's an unfortunate situation and part of what feeds this eager search for life elsewhere in the universe and nearby stars.
GELLERMAN: In astronomy, nearby is a relative term.
TYSON: (Laughs) I should have made that clear! This one is about 20 light years away- which if you wanted to visit it on the very fastest space craft we have ever launched- it would take about 300,000 years. SO you need really fertile people on board this spacecraft, or just be happy with the telescopes. I'd rather just stay at home on Earth. I'd be happy just looking at it through a telescope- staying at home on Earth and using my telescope to check it out.
GELLERMAN: Well, the Russians are going to be launching a space hotel soon. Within five years. Have you heard about that?
TYSON: Yeah, well, you know everyboday…here's the problem… normally we are at the head of this innovation and entrepreneurship, and my big concern is, just as an American, that the rest of the world has discovered space. We know that. China has just sent a mission to the moon just a few days ago, and here we are trying to convince ourselves and Congress that it's a cool thing to do. And, people aren't listening strongly in America as they are listening in other countries. So, sure, more power to them. Put up a hotel. And then that means they collect our rent, that's just how that goes.
GELLERMAN: Well, I'm just thinking about all the frequent-flier miles I could have by going to this Russian hotel actually.
DE GRASSE TYSON: (Laughs) I bet they'd have to recalculate what the unit of reward is.
GELLERMAN: Frequent light-years, actually.
TYSON: That's right.
GELLERMAN: Astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson. He's director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. Dr. T, always a pleasure.
TYSON: Thanks for having me!
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E-mu Proteus 2000
The Proteus 2000 is a reincarnation of the economic Proteus rack module series of the early nineties. While its synthesis architecture is virtually the same as the original Proteus, the Proteus 2000 is packed with major new features, sounds and expandability for the most demanding professionals!
It features 128-voice polyphony and 32 MIDI channels allowing it to handle even your most complex MIDI sequences. It ships with a whopping 32 MB of sample ROM memory which is expandable up to 128 MB using four internal ROM slots! The sounds it ships with are called the "Composer" soundset, offering you 1,536 presets (1,024 ROM, 512 user). The sounds cover the whole spectrum of synthesizer type sounds, from real instruments to bizarre sounds and effects.
As seen on previous Proteus modules, there are six individual polyphonic outputs. But unlike its predecessors there are now multi-mode resonant filters (plus 50 Z-Plane filters passed down from the Morpheus and UltraProteus). Plus four real-time controls allow you to access any of up to 12 parameters, giving you instant control over your sounds right from the front-face of the module. The Proteus 2000 is a light, compact module designed for use with sequencers. It can be your main sound module, or one of many. Either way there's an immense amount of great sounds at your fingertips for any music application! A 64-voice keyboard version is available too, the PK-6 Proteus Keys.
Current E-mu sound modules ship with one 32 MB sound-set each, but are expandable up to 128 MB via three additional slots for 32 MB expansion cards. These cards include (ranging from $249 to $395):
- 9061: Siedlaczek Orchestra 32 MB ROM.
- 9062: Pure Phatt 32 MB ROM - standard in Mo'Phatt, MP-7 and MK-6.
- 9063: Beat Garden 32 MB ROM - standard in Orbit 3.
- 9064: Ensoniq Project 32MB ROM - Containing sounds from EXP-1 Real World and EXP-3 Urban Dance expansion boards
- 9065: Vintage Collection 32MB ROM - Standard in Vintage Pro
- 9066: Protean Drums 32 MB ROM - Standard in PX-7
- 9081: Holy Grail Piano 16MB ROM - From Q-Up Arts, utilizes a new sample processing and preset programming technology called VMS, for Virtual Modeling Synthesis, developed exclusively for E-mu products
- 9082: Protozoa 16 MB ROM - Containing sounds from the Proteus 1, 2, 3 line.
- 9083: Definitive B-3 32 MB ROM - standard in B-3.
- 9084: Techno Synth Construction Yard 32 MB ROM - standard in Orbit 3.
- 9085: Orchestral Session Vol. 1 32 MB ROM - standard in Virtuoso 2000.
- 9086: Orchestral Session Vol. 2 32 MB ROM - standard in Virtuoso 2000.
- 9087: World Expedition 32 MB ROM - standard in Planet Earth.
- 9088: Sounds of the ZR featuring the Perfect Piano 32 MB ROM - standard in Ensoniq Halo.
- 9089: X-Lead 32 MB ROM - standard in Xtreme Lead-1, XL-7 and XK-6.
- 9140: Proteus Pop Collection - Standard in Proteus 2500, contains same 32 MEG sample set as the original E-Mu Composer ROM but has an all new set of 640 preset patches
With these expansion options, you could buy a PK-6, then add the sounds of the Orbit 3, XK-6, and the MP-7... or any other combinations you may want. If you like desktop synths, you can start with an MP-7 or XL-7, and then add these same expansion card options to add Proteus, Orchestral, or the new Halo sounds to them. E-mu/Ensoniq's interchangeable sound cards and a variety of keyboard/sound-module options means that there's a model out there for everybody now.
Lookup E-mu Proteus 2000 Prices
The link above will take you to an eBay search for this synth to see active listings with more images, specs and information. If you don't find it there, try looking in our forum marketplace. Our marketplace gets thousands of visits every week so make sure to check back often if you want to buy or sell a synth.
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User Comments & Reviews
Are you looking to buy or sell a E-mu Proteus 2000? Post an ad in Gear For Sale or a request in Gear Wanted. For spare parts and repair services check out Gear Services & Other Goods. Our forums also has a Buyer's Guide section where you can ask for advice on buying synthesizers.
- Demos & Media
E-MU EMU Proteus 2000 Demo Song
Manual - Download the original owner's manual from SoundProgramming.net.
- Specifications
- Polyphony - 128 voices
- Oscillators - 32 MB "Composer" Sound Set ROM (expandable to 128 MB), four 16-bit DACs
- LFO - 256 (2 per voice)
- Filter - 128 (multiple types with resonance, including Z-Plane filters)
- Effects - dual stereo-effects processor with 29 reverbs types, 15 delay types, 8 chorus types, 7 flange types, 5 distortion types
- Keyboard - None
- Memory - 1536 Presets (1024 ROM, 512 RAM)
- Control - MIDI (32 multitimbral parts)
- Date Produced - 1999
- Websites of Interest
Prodatum - Free Proteus 2000 Editor (Mac/Win)
- Shop for Keyboards, MIDI & Gear
Guitar Center: Synths and MIDI
Sweetwater: Hot items in Keyboars section
The Musician's Friend: Keyboard gear
AMS: Brand synths and accessories
The Woodwind & Brasswind Store
music123.com: Synth Blow Out Deal Section
zZounds: Keyboards and MIDI equipment
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Web Stories
Exhibit showcases history and arts of the book
Posted May 25, 2001; 09:59 a.m.
A new exhibition in the Milberg Gallery of Princeton University's Firestone Library celebrates the founding in 1940 of a unique collection at Princeton -- one that showcases the history and arts of the book through the finest examples of printing, typography, binding, papermaking, calligraphy and illustration.
"For the Love of Books and Prints: Elmer Adler and the Graphic Arts Collection at Princeton University Library" is on display through Oct. 7. The exhibition provides fascinating glimpses of the history of the revival of fine printing in early 20th-century America and of campus life at Princeton in the 1940s.
Hours for the exhibition are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Contact: Marilyn Marks (609) 258-3601


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Clearly, I can't figure out how this thing works. How the *HELL* do you post comments to this damn thing? Can I associate this diary entry with some particular article? And what's with this master/journeyman crap? Seems awfully elitist to me. Elitism sucks. Take a look at the the edge.org "I'm smarter than you are, and my membership in this 31337 organization proves it. I'm a Master!" Screw that!
My suggestion to whoever runs this thing: get RID of the certification program! It sucks! It demeans everyone involved! Think about it: were you part of the "in" crowd in high-school? On the football team? If you were, then you think elitism is OK. No, Elitism sucks, and most people who've endured high-school know that. Are you the boss, the CEO where you work? If so, maybe you think elitism is OK. It SUCKS! Just ask your employees. Do you live in a gated community in the suburbia, drive an expensive SUV, and go golfing? Then you think Elitism is the Republican way. It sucks! But you wouldn't know, never been to the ghet-to. Do you go dance-clubbing in Paris? Are you a fashion victim? Then of course you think Elitism is natural. But when you're kicked out of Les Bains-Douches on a Saturday Night, you know: Elitism Sucks! Do you write proprietary software? Of course! Elitism is great!
Elitism is a pervasive part of Human Existance. It permeates all social interaction. It distinguishes geeks from jocks. It turns ordinary people into social outcasts. I've been a social outcast all my life! So have most people on this planet! Good lord, why-the-hell would you want to promote an elitist system? You should be promoting Community! Belonging! Accepatance! Openess!


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Working to get Crosslake reorganized, efficient
It was another emotional week for the city of Crosslake beginning with the council meeting Monday night, March 11. We were surprised to hear the mayor would be reading a resignation letter from Jennifer Max, city clerk, but understood why as we learned she had taken a job in California to be near family. It seemed almost surreal when it was made known that there had been a change of heart and she wanted to stay – but with the proposal of an annual salary (including benefits) of $138,000+ per year.
At a time when many are struggling and there is a large number of empty storefronts in Crosslake it seemed that a starting salary of that magnitude in Crosslake just didn't make sense. We watched in disbelief as councilman Roe and a citizen tried to shame the council into blindly accepting this. After much drama there was finally a common-sense reaction to the situation.
Mayor Schneider and the remaining council asked for research to be done on comparable city employee's salaries through the League of Minnesota Cities. We appreciate knowing that the mayor and some council members are trying to control our city budget and expenses. It was found the proposal was in fact high – not a surprise. A temporary consultant, retired former Brainerd City Administrator Dan Vogt, was hired to help get the city reorganized in a timely manner.
We realize it's a big process to get our city reorganized and working more efficiently and it takes time. Especially when this council chooses to keep citizens involved and informed by holding open meetings. We've all heard of "transparency in government." We're seeing it in action in Crosslake. A lot has been accomplished already. We thank our new council members and mayor for keeping our best interests in mind.
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Just got my first pup that I will train as my gun dog. He seems to be picking things up very quickly, but almost constantly tries to chew on everything. I've had dogs my entire life, but none of them have ever tried to chew on things as much as this one does. I have a couple of questions about trying to be proactive in stopping this behavior.
1. Should he have a Nylabone in order to have something "correct" for chewing or will that just reinforce his instinct to chew?
2. What age is appropriate to begin using an e-collar to prevent unwanted behavior? Tri-Tronics discusses using one for this purpose, but doesn't mention at what age.
He is an 8 week old lab and is doing great. I don't want y'all to think that I don't understand that chewing is a natural thing to do - I definitely understand. I'm just trying to figure out the best way to stop it from becoming a long-term issue.
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The Western Retirement Plan offers a variety of investment options across the three primary asset classes: Cash/Money Market, Fixed Income/Bonds, and Equity/Stocks. Asset Allocation refers to the overall way you divide your investment across the different asset classes. Each asset class has different properties with respect to risk of loss, chance for growth, and how investment return is generated. For example, bonds generally provide most of their investment return through the stream of income received from interest payment. Equities generally provide most of their investment return when the underlying value of the stock increases and can be sold for more than its purchase price.
There are often a number of different investment options that can achieve a given asset allocation. Below you will find a proposed asset allocation as well as a recommended diversified portfolio considering the investment options under the Western Retirement Plans.
Based on your responses to the questionnaire, you should consider the following portfolio for your Western Registered Retirement Plan assets.
This portfolio is suitable for an investor who is looking for a portfolio that would provide mostly investment income and moderate growth on the accumulated assets, who has some knowledge about investments, who generally has a short to mid term investment horizon (typically five to ten years) and who is moderately concerned with market volatility.
Asset Allocation: 50% Equities, 50% Fixed Income
Western investment funds for a Moderate Growth portfolio
50% Diversified Equity Fund
50% Diversified Bond Fund
The proposed portfolio invests 50% of your assets in the Diversified Bond Fund and 50% in the Diversified Equity Fund. Bonds can provide a steady stream of interest income and generally have less volatility than equities. Investments in equities can provide significant growth over the long term, although over shorter periods of time these investments may experience some volatility.
The Moderate Growth portfolio is diversified geographically and by asset classes. Here is a breakdown of the different types of assets that the portfolio invests in.
Small cap equities refer to companies with a total value of less than $2 billion. Mid cap equities refer to companies with a total value between $2 billion and $10 billion. Large cap equities refer to companies with a total value greater than $10 billion.
The various components of the Moderate Growth portfolio are managed by 10 different investment managers, each with its own style. The table below lists the investment managers, the proportion of the portfolio that they manage and the investment style used.
Note that Investment Managers are selected by the Joint Pension Board. You have limited ability to change the relative weights of any manager within the portfolio. If you are interested in additional information on the Investment Managers, please visit the "Most Recent Reports from External Investment Managers" section of the HR website.
|Investment Manager
|% of the Fund
|Asset Class
|Manager Style
|Greystone Managed Investment
|Canadian Equities
|Connor, Clark & Lunn Investment Management
|Canadian Equities
|Beutel, Goodman & Company Ltd.
|Canadian Equities
|State Street Global Advisors
|U.S. Large Cap Equities – Hedged
|State Street Global Advisors
|U.S. Mid Cap Equities
|PanAgora Asset Management
|U.S. Small Cap Equities
|MFS McLean Budden
|International Equities
|AllianceBernstein Capital Management
|International Equities
|Harris Associates Investment Management
|Global Equities
|T. Rowe Price International
|Global Equities
|AllianceBernstein Capital Management
|Canadian and Foreign Fixed Income
|State Street Global Advisors
|Canadian Fixed Income
|Romspen Investment Corporation
|Canadian Commercial Mortgages
To compare this portfolio to your current allocation or to make an investment mix change, go to the Human Resources website and login to your Pension Account. You will find your current investment allocations summarized under the "Balances" menu.
Click here for instructions on how to complete an investment mix change online.
This tool should not be construed as financial advice by Western University to you. The investment portfolio generated by this tool is intended to assist you in building an appropriately diversified portfolio with a level of investment risk that you indicate you can tolerate based on your risk profile. It is not meant to predict which fund is going to be the best performing one over the short term. The recommended portfolio does not take into account any other assets or savings that you may have outside the Western Retirement Plans. You may wish to allocate your investments differently, based on any additional assets, savings, budgeting needs, financial objectives, or for other reasons. The decision is entirely your own. It is recommended that you revisit your investment allocation decisions at least annually or when there is a significant change to your financial situation. The tool has been created using assumptions about historical investment performance, but past performance cannot be relied upon to predict future results. By using the tool and any suggested investment portfolio, you are not guaranteed to achieve investment returns that will provide you with financial security in retirement. Consult a financial advisor for advice specific to your personal situation, or if you need guidance regarding your asset allocation.


text: Hey everyone im from the southeastern Indiana(Batesville/Greensburg area) and Im currently in the Air Force. Right now I'm stationed in Northern Florida but I am getting ready to leave for Japan in May for three years. When I come home i want to try to come to a reds game, does anyone know if they do any kind of military discount for tickets at the gate or any other way? Or if they do any kind of military discount?


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Maybe the ant bridged the pins and died causing a faulty input/output logic that caused the high power device to be powered to long, overheat and melt solder. It could also have been dead some time but damp air absorbed into it's body made it conduct.I have seen a working PC stored in the loft for a few weeks fail to boot properly when removed and powered on. The accumulated dust on the internals was fine when PC was used daily (probably overheated the thing slightly) but storage in the loft had allowed the dust to get damp and cause problems. A quick vacuum out and it started working again.
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and you might be able to find a newer version of SoftwareSerial.
Quoteand you might be able to find a newer version of SoftwareSerial.Like the one that ships with 1.0+.
Well, I tried it with arduino 1.0.5. I get this problem. So I could not figure out what is the problem exactly
Quote from: Vincent19 on Nov 02, 2013, 03:00 amWell, I tried it with arduino 1.0.5. I get this problem. So I could not figure out what is the problem exactly Do you have your own version of SoftwareSerial sitting in your hardware directory in the sketchbook? I believe that would preempt the system one.
What do you mean by own version of SoftwareSerial ?Thanks !
Quote from: Vincent19 on Nov 02, 2013, 02:43 pmWhat do you mean by own version of SoftwareSerial ?Thanks !If you load a board support package for a processor, it includes files that override the standard definition for header files. If that board support package was built a few years ago and targeted the older release of the Arduino IDE, it would bring in the standard print header file, and one function (write) changed to have a different calling sequence. So I imagine if you look around for a newer version of the board support package, and replace your version with the newer one, it may work better.Similarly, in your sketchbook directory you can have two directories (libraries and hardware) that are searched before the standard versions.
C::\Program Files(x86)\Arduino\libraries\SoftwareSerial/SoftwareSeial.h
Are you sure that this version of SoftwareSerial you are using, is from Arduino 1..0.x ?Code: [Select]C::\Program Files(x86)\Arduino\libraries\SoftwareSerial/SoftwareSeial.hTry to replace it and the coresponding .cpp file with the ones that comes with 1.0.x
QuoteC::\Program Files(x86)\Arduino\libraries\SoftwareSerial/SoftwareSeial.hThis looks like a user-downloaded library file, not the core library file. If is IS a user-downloaded library location, delete the SoftwareSerial directory.
But it come along when I download the arduino 1.0.5 file. Why you would say that it is user-downloaded library file ?
QuoteBut it come along when I download the arduino 1.0.5 file. Why you would say that it is user-downloaded library file ?Because the install path for the Arduino IDE and related code usually has the version number in the path. The sketch directory usually does not. Therefore, when I see a path without a version number, I assume that it is a sketch directory, and that is where user-downloaded libraries go. There are good reasons for following conventions.
So what should I do now ? Redownload the IDE ?
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Magic Kingdom Park
Walt Disney World® Resort
Valid Park Admission Required
All Ages
12 minutes
Join Jiminy Cricket and the Blue Fairy as they celebrate the power of believing. Your heart will soar as you hear a medley of famous Disney songs and the voices of Disney characters in the biggest fireworks extravaganza in Magic Kingdom park history!
Wish upon a star with:
And many others!
But trouble is brewing when Maleficent, the Evil Queen and other Disney villains drop in. Will Good triumph over Evil? Do wishes really come true? It's a spectacular story, so big only the sky can hold it!
Special Effects
Brilliant colors wash over Cinderella Castle—magenta, azure, periwinkle, pink and even pearly white. Blazing rockets race into the night sky before exploding overhead, leaving trails of smoke that catch the glow. The entire park thunders in the wake of great wish-making, synchronized to an unforgettable musical score.
Don't miss Tinker Bell when she takes flight over the park during the show! Stand somewhere in the Cinderella Castle forecourt or on the surrounding bridges for the best view.
Be sure to check the Times Guide at Magic Kingdom park for the schedule and showtimes. This is an outdoor show and subject to cancellation due to inclement weather. Showtimes are subject to change.
Enjoy a feast for the senses—dining on scrumptious sweets before thrilling to this dazzling fireworks display from a priority location. Book your reservation in advance!
Beam along with the show with special Made with Magic items that glow in sync with Wishes Nighttime Spectacular!
Reminder: this is not a reservation.