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There has been much discussion of ladies' heavy metal around the Who What Wear office. Clearly we're not discussing Iron Maiden, fine band it may be, but the surge of metal details on accessories. These components may be in silver, gold, or pewter—we don't care, we like them all. It's just lovely to have another wearable way to incorporate the punk/space vibe from the spring runways (example: Balenciaga) into our wardrobes.
But lest you shrug your shoulders and feel like you've been there, done that, we'd like to point out that these details are different from the boho grommets that made the rounds over the past few years. This trend has a much more rock'n'roll feeling which is accomplished via mesh, chains, and clean, masculine lines. The pyramid studs (another popular detail) are particularly close to our hearts because they remind us of Hermes watches and cuffs.
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The newly released CKAN 2.7 adds new functionality and makes DataStore search up to 17x faster at the same time.
This article covers:
update This post now appears on the ckan.org blog
I had the pleasure of co-hosting CKANCon last week and presented a short talk on ckanapi and ckanext-scheming.
Here's a link to my slides.
For pyrf I needed to take data from a frequency plot, which could be any number of points, and present it as a spectrogram that fills the view size exactly. In the spectrogram I only care about the maximum values that appear in the range of frequencies represented by each pixel.
If I could just divide the number of source bins by an integer factor the solution would be simple:
return np.amax(data.reshape((-1, factor)), axis=1)
But I have to be able to handle any number of source bins and output that to any number of pixels.
Fortunately numpy is awesome.
I've been working on two new CKAN extensions that I'm really excited about. Since I helped build the custom metadata schema for http://data.gc.ca/ I've never been completely satisfied with the approach we took. These new extensions are the start of a proper solution to the compromises we made.
The new extensions are:
I will be speaking about contributing to Open Source software by webcast at the Global IT Architect Association's E-Summit on Open Source on May 16 at 2pm ET. It's free to join, listen in and ask questions.
What does bar.foo do? - An exploration of Python assignment, objects, attributes and descriptors
This is a talk I gave March 27, 2014 at the Ottawa Python Authors Group meetup.
Follow along with the IPython notebook version if you would like to play with the code examples.
Tags: Ottawa Software Python OPAG
Mahdi Yusuf, one of the Ottawa Python Authors Group organizers and curator of Pycoder's Weekly, has just posted his complete catalog of Python tutorial videos for free:
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When passing boot parameters, anything not recognized by the kernel itself is passed unchanged. The same happens with the 'init' program --the real one I mean, not the puppy init script. It also ignores anything it doesn't recognize. The params are not set into the environment but are available from /proc/cmdline.
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The puppy init script picks up boot parameters by name.
So if you don't get the parameter name correct, then init script will never know about it.
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One more question:
I understand that the latest losetup does not support all the crypto stuff in the current init.
If that is so, do I take this oportunity to introduce new crypto stuff e.g. ecryptfs?
Or do I simply port the crypto stuff from the current init?
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Some folk have noticed that sometimes /initrd/tmp/bootinit.log contains messages from losetup complaining about some sfs's being of incorrect length.
I can confirm that if the 32 byte IDSTRING is removed from the end of these sfs files, losetup no longer complains.
Note: The new init does no use these IDSTRING's anyway.
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Posted: Wed 31 Aug 2016, 10:45
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The new init is not a clone of the old init.
The init script should as simple as possible, basically build an aufs stack and get out of there.
So, search for files only if it can't be avoided, and stop as soon as we've found it.
Only wait for usb storage, if it's actually needed.
Move complexitiy out of init to places where the full system is available.
So, processing of extra sfs's is gone, left to sfs_load.
For the sfs files, we know the name of the file we are looking for and the directory we are lookinng in,
so their presence can be established with a simple [ -f ] test.
Build the stack one file at a time, so if there's a problem with one of them we just continue without it.
Current testing is just for being non-zero size, [ -s ] test.
Extra integerity testing could easily be included if the necessary utility was included in initrd.gz.
Of course if it's the main puppy...sfs, we abandon the boot.
A normal frugal install consists of a single directory containing all the necesary files.
So, find the directory that contains puppy...sfs by name, and use the files in it. Don't search for vmlinuz or use DISTRO_IDSTRING.
Any other setup is an exception, any exceptions should be specified with a boot parameter.
(Support for SAVEMARK, initmodules.txt, and underdog.inx files, should ideally be removed.)
Provide extremely flexible boot parameter specification facilities so that virtually any exception can be covered.
Since boot parameters might be considered a bit exotic for some users. Provide an alternate that can be supported from a utility in the running system.
So, include "/BOOT_SPECS" file contained in initrd.gz. The file contains variable definitions, these can be used to override the variables that would otherwise be set by boot parameters.
Could include SAVEPART, PIMOD, or UNDERDOG variables. Of course any init variable could be set. In testing I use it to set TZ to my time zone.
Still needs a utility for the running system to edit a copy of the file and then merge it into initrd.gz. We already have the software technology to do this.
Ideally this could be complex enough to present the user with a series of checkboxes for pfix parameters, or a file selector to generate a PSAVE variable.
Yes, this won't help anyone booting from a cd, but maybe that's on the decline and booting from a writeable device like a usbstick or usbhd is becomming the external boot device of choice.
Although it might be possible to do something with an "open" cd, along similar lines to the "copy folders", I'm not inclined to spend the effort there.
What it does support:
Message translation for non-english puppies using a locale file of messages.
Booting in pupmode 5,6,7,12,13,77
Support for specifying partitions as a name, label, or uuid.
Logs if a specified file is not found.
Save layer upgrading
Savefile and savefile resizing
Encrypted savefile, but this should possibly be removed because current losetup does not support it.
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Posted: Wed 31 Aug 2016, 14:29
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"basically build an aufs stack and get out of there" That is the definition of what should happen in the *initrd*. The real init should be just that sysvinit with nice flexible shells scripts which setup things in the normal way, using fstab to mount the entries -using real mount.
Study the simple init process of any real slackware distro. Most distros have replaced all the sysvinit stuff with systemd which is much less flexible.
There should be no GUI stuff during bootup -if anything (for running 'Live') use the dialog utility. Keep it spare with any questions to the user during bootup -rather wait until the desktop is up and provide setup utils there for network, etc.
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Posted: Wed 31 Aug 2016, 15:28
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gyro wrote:
Yes, this won't help anyone booting from a cd, but maybe that's on the decline and booting from a writeable device like a usbstick or usbhd is becomming the external boot device of choice.
Although usb and HDD booting is by far the most common approach I would highlight use of CD booting as the only real method by which a normal user can emulate a ROM boot - by which I mean that the code loaded into ram is pristine and unchanged each boot.
Both usb and HDD are writable media and can't be 100% relied on if the user wants identical boots each time, and also wants session changes dumped.
A closed CD is (as far as I am aware) unwritable and an extremely useful method to ensure reproducability of performance.
If we had some method of producing ROMs into which we could burn our favourite puppy we wouldnt need CDs but in the meantime i would love to see acceptance of optical media continued if possible.
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It seems to me that fewer and fewer new computers have optical drives.
But, I actually intended that paragraph to refer to the previous paragraph, i.e. the as yet unwritten utility that supports the /BOOT_SPECS file and so exposing boot parameters via a gui app. This utility wouild merge an updated version of the file into the initrd.gz of the running system. Much more complicated to do with a cd/dvd, than a writable device, and hence more likely to not get done.
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Post subject: the new init
gyro, please excuse; I'm just a user, not an expert.
Over the last several months, I've seen mentions of "the new init".
How can I tell whether a Puppy has this new init?
What are the main ways it works differently from older ones?
Thank you,
Sheldon Isaac
Oh, here's some info from the Puppy I'm in now, musher0's simplified Xenial:
uname -a
Linux puppypc2261 4.1.2-EmSee-32-pae #1 SMP Wed Jul 15 12:39:34 BST 2015 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
ls -lat /sbin/init /initrd/pup_ro2/sbin/init /initrd/init
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54996 Dec 2 02:47 /initrd/init
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10013 Oct 18 20:09 /initrd/pup_ro2/sbin/init
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10013 Oct 18 20:09 /sbin/init
Dell E6410: BusterPup, BionicPup64, Xenial, etc
Intel DQ35JOE, Dell Vostro 430
Dell Inspiron, Acer Aspire One, EeePC 1018P
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Posted: Mon 11 Dec 2017, 10:33
Post subject: Re: the new init
sheldonisaac wrote:
How can I tell whether a Puppy has this new init?
The existence of files "/initrd/init" and "/initrd/tmp/HAVE_PARTS" would indicate that you have it.
Modern puppies built using woof-ce "testing" have it.
sheldonisaac wrote:
What are the main ways it works differently from older ones?
There are lots. If you really want to know then please read the preceeding posts in this thread.
But some are:
Internal algorithm is very different.
Has better support for internationalisation.
Extra-sfs's are now solely the responsibility of "sfs_load".
Better support for using boot parameters to specify the puppy sfs files to load.
Support for saving onto a partition other than the puppy frugal install partition.
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Hello. I posted a thread asking for removal of flash drive boot code.
New flash drives ( USB & SD ) last about as long as H.D.s now.
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Hello. I posted a thread asking for removal of flash drive boot code.
New flash drives ( USB & SD ) last about as long as H.D.s now.
That's only if you have a USB 3.0 connection. Many people here run older hardware. For me even the old USB boot code doesn't wait long enough. See thread:
Tahrpup Can't find Save folder on Large USB Hard Drive
Also note that if one connects many USB devices to a HUB they won't get USB 3.0 speed.
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Or a new boot code to force the pupmode.
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Guntram enters the common room, disheveled black hair waving gently. He wears his chainmail, his pack, and his flail. Guntram smiles as he looks around and quietly says to himself
"The Goddess has blessed me on my journey. I have found stout companions and we prepare for our grand adventure! What does the Goddess have in store for me?"
Guntram makes a sign with his hand, a circular motion, over his chest then looks to the sky. More loudly he states:
"Good morning my friends! Let us eat this bounty before us and then embark!"
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A Mexican politician once described for me the closed-door negotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, that took place 20 years ago. It was easy to tell which team was the U.S.'s and which was Mexico's: "We were the guys with the Armani suits and the Montblanc pens. The Americans wore department store suits. They had Bics." The Mexicans, he said, looked down on their gringo counterparts as uncouth plebeians, because the Mexicans were part of their country's elite, its aristocracy, its masters of the universe.
Above all, they were PRI-istas – members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ruled Mexico as a one-party, vote-buying dictatorship from 1929 to 2000. The PRI called itself the inheritor of the Mexican Revolution; but as literary giant Carlos Fuentes saw it in his epic novel The Death of Artemio Cruz, the party instead betrayed the revolution's democratic values and stood for little more than the cynical accumulation of power and spoils – each generation of "new masters equally ambitious and rapacious." Its regime was so crooked that when an opposition candidate looked set to win the 1988 presidential election, PRI bosses shut down the vote-tallying computers and declared their man the winner. By the 1990s, Mexico had one of the world's highest number of billionaires even as its workers earned some of the world's lowest wages. And its NAFTA negotiators considered themselves the smartest guys in the room – until the peso crashed in 1994, and with it the PRI dictatorship soon after.
(PHOTOS: Mexico Elections: Former Ruling Party Eyes Return to Power)
Now, 12 years after it was finally toppled in the 2000 presidential election, the PRI is back. It never really left: its provincial machinery remained potent; the party still holds more than half of Mexico's 31 state governorships. But on Sunday, July 1, it's all but certain to recapture Los Pinos, the Mexico City presidential residence. PRI candidate Enrique Peña Nieto – an energetic 45-year-old former state governor who calls himself the centrist "face of the new PRI," but whom critics deride as just a good-looking front man for the party's nefarious dinosaurs – holds a double-digit lead in the polls over his closet rival, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD). "The PRI has eminently changed because Mexico has," Peña insisted to me this month after a campaign rally in the town of Tepeaca south of Mexico CIty. "This is another Mexico today, a democratic culture, and we're competing strongly again precisely because our proposals promise even more change."
Still, that doesn't explain why at least a plurality of Mexicans (Peña is expected to get about 40% or less of the vote) are poised to hand the keys to the entire country back to a party they once couldn't trust to honestly count a box of ballots. And the answer, ironically, lies in the fact that Mexico is indeed a democracy now – but still a fledgling democracy, and one that has so far failed to meet most Mexicans' expectations.
Mexicans do have clean elections today, but that doesn't make up for their security dystopia – a drug war that has seen more than 55,000 murders since 2006 – and their financial frustrations – a limp economy that has averaged only 2% growth since 2000. The conservative National Action Party (PAN) that defeated the PRI in 2000, and which is still in power under current President Felipe Calderón, looks exhausted. (Mexican presidents are limited to one six-year term; PAN candidate Josefina Vázquez Mota is running a distant third.) The PRD, meanwhile, doesn't yet look equipped.
(MORE: Mexico Can Survive a New President)
So Mexicans are taking a gamble. They know how responsible the PRI was in the 20th century for so many of the problems they still live with in the 21st, from the terrifying power of the nation's drug cartels – originally nurtured by the epic corruption of past PRI governments – to the business monopolies and rampant inequality that keep almost half of Mexico's 112 million people in poverty and looking for work in the U.S. But voters are betting that the party has spent the past dozen years out of power righting itself just enough to help right the country. López, who has enjoyed a recent surge in the polls thanks in part to student protests against the PRI-vival, warns, "The old mafia of power is imposing itself again." Yet many Mexicans seem to think the PRI, as Peña argues, "is the only political force that can get things done" at this fragile moment in Mexico's history.
Peña, a personable, telegenic lawyer married to a Mexican telenovela (soap opera) star, is the scion of a prominent old PRI family from Mexico state, adjoining Mexico City. He's not known as a particularly deep or detailed thinker. But whereas many PRI officials allegedly remain as corrupt as they were in the old days—the U.S. recently accused one former PRI state governor of laundering drug cartel money—others like Peña, who was Mexico state Governor from 2005-11, have won kudos for "being much more responsive to voters instead of trying to co-opt them with grubby clientelism and handouts, as the PRI had always done in the past," says political analyst Federico Estévez of the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) in Mexico City.
Peña backers point to his landmark energy proposal as evidence of his reformist bona fides. Mexico's state oil monopoly, Petróleos de México, or Pemex, has always been a sacred as well as a cash cow, but poor management and weak investment have taken their toll. So Peña is calling for what would have been blasphemy inside the old PRI: a constitutional amendment to permit private, minority investment in Pemex.
(More: A Return to Power: Mexico's PRI Tries to Sell Itself As the Party of the Future)
Upgrading Pemex, however, could prove a lot easier than downgrading Mexico's horrific drug war. Peña says he disagrees with Calderón's bold but ill conceived strategy of sending troops against the traffickers, but he realizes Mexico can't yet trust its corrupt and incompetent cops to do the job either. Peña's major alternative idea so far is a "national gendarmerie," a force of soldier-police officers that to many people sounds like a fancier name for what Calderón already has on the streets. Like Calderón, Peña wants more professional and uniform training of judges, prosecutors and police, but that's a long-term project.
It's Peña's short-term agenda – or assumptions about it – that has raised eyebrows in Mexico and the U.S., which has pledged $1.5 billion in drug-war aid. Peña asserted last month that "our priority should be reducing the violence," adding that the crimes he wants to focus on are murder, kidnapping and extortion. Many wondered if that meant he intends to go soft on drug trafficking, much as the PRI did in the late 20th century as a way of getting the cartels to agree to reduce narco-violence. "We really don't believe [Peña] thinks that way," one U.S. official involved in drug interdiction told me, reflecting on Washington's strained relationship with the PRI when it ruled Mexico. "But you'd be naïve not to be mindful of his party's past." Peña denies the inference: "I want to signal very clearly that there will be no truce or deals with either organized crime or drug trafficking," he told me. "It's our duty to finish them off."
But critics ask: Where was all the progressive spirit when the PRI, which controls the lower house of Mexico's dysfunctional Congress, was blocking many of the PAN's reform measures over the past decade, including the overhaul of an ossified political system that still bars independent candidates in election? What's more, they say, if Peña and the PRI are serious about fixing onerous millstones like the business monopolies that choke Mexico's economy, they should back off their own cozy relationship with leviathans like Mexico's largest television network, Televisa. It was the PRI's virtual media ministry in the 20th century and has been accused of giving Peña inordinate, and inordinately flattering, coverage.
(MORE: Is the Party of Mexico's Old Dictatorship Poised to Return to Power?)
Peña calls the charges part of an "anti-democratic conspiracy" against the PRI. But either way, especially if López keeps Peña below 40% of the vote on Sunday, it will be hard for the PRI to recreate the 20th-century reign that Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa called "the perfect dictatorship" (since it was "camouflaged" with elections so as not to look dictatorial). Mexicans are betting that if Peña and his party still consider themselves the smartest guys in the room, they're intelligent enough to realize that holding on to power today requires creating a more perfect democracy.
-with reporting by Dolly Mascareñas/Mexico City


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Coconut Flour Waffles and Pancakes
The warm, sweet flavors of waffles make us think of lazy weekend mornings, enjoying a big breakfast with loved ones. This breakfast is an indulgence that we don't enjoy too often, but it is great for a special occasion.
- 1 cup 1 cup 1 cup Raisins
- 1 Tbsp 1 Tbsp 1 Tbsp ground Cinnamon
- 1 Tbsp 1 Tbsp 1 Tbsp Coconut Milk
- 1/4 cup 1/4 cup 1/4 cup Coconut Flour
- 1/4 tsp 1/4 tsp 1/4 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/4 tsp 1/4 tsp 1/4 tsp ground Nutmeg
- 4 4 4 Pastured Eggs
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl, blend all ingredients with a hand mixer.
- Heat waffle iron to "waffle" setting—typically medium-high heat.
- Drop batter into center of waffle iron to cover about 3/4 of area.
- This batter does not expand the way traditional flour waffles do.
- Waffles are done when they easily separate from the waffle iron, about 3–5 minutes.
- For the toppingHeat coconut oil in a nonstick frying pan on medium heat.
- Slice banana and add to frying pan.
- Sear banana slices until brown and crispy on the bottom side, then flip.
- Add pecans to frying pan and lightly toast with the seared banana slices.
- Top over waffles or pancakes and serve.
To make pancakes, use 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon instead of 1 tablespoon. In a medium-sized mixing bowl, blend all ingredients with a hand mixer. Heat coconut oil in a nonstick frying pan or griddle to medium heat. Pour 1/8 cup of batter into frying pan or griddle. Cook for 2 minutes, flip, then cook for 2 more minutes. repeat with the remaining batter.
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The St. Wendel Christmas market and medieval market, based around the town hall, cathedral and in the pedestrian precinct, with their fantastically decorated wooden huts and medieval goings-on have long been well known.
Tradesmen and craftsmen in historic clothing take you on a romantic and mystical trip through time. Every afternoon, the Three Wise Men's train of camels makes its way through the town accompanied by musicians and fire eaters. On arrival at the beautifully decorated stable, actors in brightly coloured costumes perform the story of Mary and Joseph. Children's eyes shine when they're allowed to climb into Father Christmas' slay with his reindeer and ride down the hill on real snow or go on a treasure hunt, spin thread or do archery in the tent area.
Other highlights are the giant Christmas pyramid, the dwarf wood with 200 little men decked out in conical hats, the "heavenly mile", with life-size figures from the Erzgebirge, trumpet sounding every evening at 7.30pm in front of the basilica, the great nativity scene exhibition and much more.
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Reverse engineering 101
Note: this article is about a passed event.
|Reverse engineering 101
|Learn the internals of your programs by stirring the code
| From 2011/10/15 02:00:00 PM
to 2011/10/15 07:00:00 PM
|Presenters (0):
|Den Bunker
|brain transplantation if IQ LTE 90
Agenda points
- Teaching basic ASM knowledge (understanding it is faaaaar more easier than writing it)
- Understanding the structure of an application in general
- Understanding it on the platform of choice (a practical example of the previous)
- Gluing the things together
Meeting notes
Join note taking during the meeting: http://piratepad.be/p/VoidWarranties
Learning some basic reverse engineering tasks. Concrete the following will be (attempted) to be teached:
- understanding how a compiler implements control structures such as (but not limited to) IF-statements, FOR-loops, WHILE-loops,...
- understanding how an application is structured
- basic altering practises and how to combat them
I expect that all participants have the requested software and documentation ready on THEIR machine. The Internet connection of the space is too slow to use if somebody has forgotten to download some tools or documentation. I will be very strict: if will walk through the dependencies and people who do not meet them will not be allowed to attend. We will be short in time already, and we do need a break sometimes to let our brains cool down and process the incomming information.
If I alter this list within 24h before the start of the event, I will provide the changed files/data on USB Flash disk, SD card and optical medium (CD or DVD, whatever fits the data best). I will only provide copies of the changed data, not the full list, so you're still required to have everything mentionned before the deadline.
Hardware requirements
Any recent x86 compatible computer capable of running the mentionned software, storing the requested documentation, and at least 2000MB of storage to store work/data files generated during the event. Debugging info takes a lot of space on your hard drive - take that into account.
As a general rule, I propose the following (if you use a VM, this should be the VM settings, not the host computer specs):
- PIV at 2000Mhz or faster (single core/thread, more is better)
- 1536MB RAM (debugging tools tend to cache data in RAM for fast access, less RAM requires more disk space, and slows the whole process. I shouldn't explain why)
- 5GB of free space after installing documentation/tools mentionned, in addition to the recommended amount of free space required by your OS/Version.
Software requirements
- WINDOWS! WINE can rune some tools, but the combo debugger+wine is not really stable and gives lots of unexpected crashes and issues. Install Windows in a virtual machine if you don't want to reformat, but read the previous point. Any recent version will do, but Windows XP Professional SP3 (x86, no 64bit) is the most appropriate for this situation. If you want to use another version, because you already have that installed or such, you should test all mentionned applications for compatibility and explore the differences in usage between x86 and x86_54 architectures. In normal use this is not important, but this workshop is about internals, and x86 and x86_64 are different internals, though comparable.
- OLLYDBG. [1] Version 1.10 will be used.
- IDA Pro evaluation version. [2] Use the demo. If you want to explore after the demo expired, use the freeware 5.0 version. In the workshop I will be using version 6.1 Pro (full version), but I will mention differences between the trial and full builds.
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- Knowledge of one or more programming languages.
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Build on a child's love of movies to explore film as a way of telling stories. Using this printout, a child can sketch out an original movie scene or take a favorite movie scene and break it down into characters, setting, camera angles, props, music, and action!
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- Share the printout and explain that its a way of pulling apart a scene to see its different parts. Its kind of like ingredients in a recipe. Start with an example scene, such as in The Wizard of Oz, when Dorothys house lands on the Wicked Witch. Who are the characters, the setting, objects (props)? Where was the camera to capture the action?
- Now, the fun part. What will the childs movie scene be about? One possibility: His or her dream moment on a sports team (winning the U.S. soccer team a gold medal, the World Series, center court at Wimbledon, or the Super Bowl). Also consider doing a biographical scene: the best moment in the childs life so far. Who was there, what was the mood, and what music was playing (or would have been if it had been a movie)?
- Talk about how a movie scene fits together like a puzzle. Change one piece, like the setting or the music, and it changes the whole picture. For instance, what if Dorothys home landed not in Oz, but in New York City? Help the child experiment with removing or changing an element in the scene.
- Take it to the next level by using a video camera to film the scene (or re-enact) the scene the child examined. Without a big movie budget, the young director will have to improvise. Maybe siblings or friends can be pulled in as charactersas long as they dont demand million dollar paychecks!
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- Encourage the child to take part in school or local theater productions. No better way to understand the elements of a script than to bring one to life!
- Just for fun, have the child examine a favorite home video using the directors printout. Who are the main characters in a wedding video or preschool performance and what was the action? Does your slice of life video have the makings of a real movie sceneor a YouTube hit?


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Italy v Scotland, Six Nations, February 27
Italy eye rare home success
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February 22, 2010
Simon Danielli punished Italy at Murrayfield in 2009 © Getty Images
Mauro Bergamasco Mirco Bergamasco Diego Dominguez Massimo Giovanelli Brendan Laney Kenny Logan Andrea Lo Cicero Vaina Luca Martin Scott Murray Chris Paterson Simon Taylor Alessandro Troncon
Italy missed out on a hat-trick of victories over Scotland last season and will be keen to notch their first Six Nations triumph since 2008 at the Stadio Flaminio on Saturday.
The Azzurri won the Championship matches against Scotland in both 2007 and 2008 (though Scotland did manage an interim Rugby World Cup pool match victory at Saint Etienne in 2007).
The nations meet for the 16th time since 1996 in a major Test and it is the 10th time they have met in the Six Nations since 2000, when they launched the current version of the tournament. Scotland head the overall series by 10 wins to five.
Scotland hold the record for the highest score, the biggest winning margin and highest try-return of the series. They won 47-15 and scored six tries at Murrayfield when the sides met in a World Cup warm-up match in August 2003.
Italy's best result is their 37-17 Six Nations win at Murrayfield in 2007, when they scored four tries.
Diego Dominguez, with 29 points for Italy in Rome in 2000, holds the series record for most points scored in a match. Brendan Laney scored 24 for Scotland, also in Rome, in 2002.
Kenny Logan set the record for most tries in a match, scoring two for Scotland when the sides first met, at Murrayfield, in 1996. Luca Martin crossed twice for Italy there in 1999.
Logan also heads the list of try scorers for the overall series, crossing four times in six appearances between 1996 and 2003. Five Italians, including the Bergamasco brothers, have scored two tries in the matches.
The other major records for the fixture include Chris Paterson's overall tally of 107 points from 11 appearances (compared with 94 for Italy by Diego Dominguez), and Scott Murray's 11 appearances (1998 to 2007) in the series. Paterson and Simon Taylor have also played 11 times.
Alessandro Troncon and Andrea Lo Cicero each played 10 times for Italy.
The only player dismissed during a Scotland-Italy match was Massimo Giovanelli at Murrayfield in 1999.
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Color: Beth Minardi
Cut: Mark Garrison
Assisted by: Mark Mileti, Raquel Martuscelli, Edina Hasanovic
Photography: Roberto Ligresti
Make-up: Renee Garnes
Nails: Amanda Smith
Fashion styling: Rod Novoa
One of the finest collaborators and mentors in the professional salon industry is Beth Minardi. She has trained and guided some of the best colorists in the beauty world. It was no surprise to MODERN that Minardi brought along styling superstar, colleague and salon owner Mark Garrison to help introduce her Beth Minardi Signature Shades, shown here in print for the first time.
For this session, Minardi requested a dark-haired model to show how to use color to break up density and add dimension. "Bright and summer does not mean blonde," she says. "Let's bring on the brightness—a 'summerier' way of looking at brown hair. I want to show a brighter way of approaching a warm brunette."
According to Minardi, it's the influence of subdued tones that makes it modern. "The way to refine and brighten drab winter hair is to saturate the hair with sunshine, and make it a brighter, lighter sunny side of darker hair."
Minardi selected model Anastasia because of her "exotic beauty," she says. "A blonde wouldn't work against her palate. It wouldn't happen to her in nature. I am looking for longterm loveliness. This color will look good for 10 weeks."
When asked how she would retouch this color design, Minardi adds that the "retouch" question is always a favorite at her seminars. "Today's retouch is different. I rarely use the exact same formula or application for a retouch because I see every retouch as a correction. There is new growth, or the hair color is faded or changed. When we look at a client today, we must look at what we like and don't like, and what she likes and doesn't like. Formulas must change. That is what makes us artists."
1. First isolate a triangular section at the crown. Begin the color below the crown. Apply equal parts Beth Minardi Signature Demi Creme 3BR + 4BC (to make rich, deep chestnut root) with 5-volume developer according to manufacturer's mixing ratio. Apply this shade in the back. Apply to the base and brush out slightly.
2. Now go in and foil in the back. Apply Beth Minardi Permanent Color 6RC + 7COR (to make a vibrant copper red) with 20-volume developer. Apply from base color to half way down the foil.
3. Place using Minardi's "Foil to Foil" technique.
4. Continue working up throughout the back. Bring the base shade down and continue with the vibrant copper red.
5. The color placement is "mixed up." Some color goes from mid shaft, others closer to base. Continue with this irregular pattern up to the crown.
6. Now go to the face frame. Take very fine weaves, almost back to back, in a strong diagonal in the temple. Alternate three formulas.
Formula 1: Beth Minardi Signature Demi Creme 1 oz 6BR with 1 oz 5 volume
Formula 2: Joico's Vero Light Off-Scalp Lightener, blended with 20 volume, applied from off scalp to ends
Formula 3: Beth Minardi Signature Permanent Creme Color 1½ oz 8RG + ½ oz 4R with 20 volume (to make a soft golden red).
7. Behind the diagonal section go to fine horizontal sections. Alternate lightener and the demi shade of cherry brown in a zig-zag pattern.
8. Work up to the top center parting, continue to alternate in fine sections.
9. Now go to the isolated triangular section at the crown. Apply first to the base and blend to the ends: 4RR Beth Minardi Demi Liquid with 5 volume (to create a cool sparkling ruby red).
10. Draw through to the ends.
11. Process for 25 minutes at room temperature. Shampoo and condition.
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As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft's BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly about using Excel 2013. Much of the content will be a result of my daily interactions with business users and other BI devs. In order to not forget what I learn or discover, I write it down … here. I hope you too will discover something new you can use. Enjoy!
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So, you have connected Excel to your SSAS cube. You really wish you could easily drill to details using Excel. You can do this in Excel 2013 by double clicking the cell or right clicking the cell to get the shortcut menu which includes the option as well.
It is really cool that you can just double-click the cell and get there directly. By default, it returns the first thousand rows of detail from the underlying cube data.
You can change this in the connection options for your SSAS connection.
One "gotcha" on this is that It doesn't work on a calculated cell, but it works fine on standard measures. If you use a lot of calculated members, you will get the error in both cases. So if this option is important for the users of a specific calculation, you may need to get it into cube as a standard, not calculated, measure.


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I am furious.
To put this in perspective, while I was away my supervisor called and pretty much insisted that I attend this conference. He said it would all be organised, that I could wait until I got home to do the paperwork and that everything would be fantastic. There was a university vehicle, so I wouldn't even have to worry about getting there, and so on and so forth.
OK, fine. I didn't want to do it, but I agreed eventually, realising that it would be good experience, and I've never done a proper presentation at a conference, only presented a poster, which is tedious and time-consuming and all-out horrible.
I haven't been able to track down the guy who will be driving there tomorrow, so today I went and got his phone number from his supervisor and tried to get in touch. No answer.
To put this in context, these people are the type that I think are very insecure and possibly unpopular way back in high school or something. They feel the need to develop an image of being 'cool' and they do so in the easiest way: they exclude other people. they are generally quite entertaining and as such the undergrad KIDS-es adore them, and they sue that to their advantage by shamelessly playing favourites. Amongst their peers they make sure that everyone knows what they are up to, and that everyone who is not a member of their little 'fan club' is quite aware that they aren't invited.
I'm sure if they weren't so desperate to feel adored they would be pretty nice - on several occasions on various trips I have spent time with them, and we usually get along really well, but the minute the trip is over and we're back in our labs they act as if we've never met. I refuse to hero-worship people who I don't find as funny as they think they are, or as 'cool' as they try to be. I left high school 6 years ago and I was glad to wipe my hands of the politics and mind games. I have great friends and we have fun, but I will NEVER try to exclude anyone (and if I do, please slap me or something!) unless there is a very good reason.
The whole cliqueyness of the situation drives me nuts, and as such I just plain avoid people like that, but, unfortunately when you work on similar stuff you end up running into each other from time to time.
Anyway I finally managed to ask the conference organiser if she knew how many people were going to be travelling in the university car, as it had also been volunteered to take people from the airport to the conference - a meagre 4 or so hour drive. She replied that my name was not on the list, and that the car is full. so now, THE DAY BEFORE I've had to shuffle plans and organise to take my car down, and then come back the day before I was planning on leaving so I won't have to leave my car in the middle of nowhere.
I'm not angry because they've excluded me once again. to be honest I expect it from them. I'm not angry that I have to make another plan, I rarely claim anything that I spend on my work, and I paid for my last conference myself because I didn't have the energy to do all the paperwork, so I WILL be claiming back fuel for this trip. It's not even that I'll miss out on a cool talk about tree frogs.
What really upsets me is that I had to find out from a complete stranger what the people downstairs from me are doing. They didn't even bother to ask me, or tell me or anything. If it wasn't for the organisers being really nice in scheduling my talk early so that I can leave, I would actually cancel my attendance right now. And now I get to look forward to driving somewhere completely new to arrive in the dark and to leave less than 24 hours later.
The bonus is that while I only have a skeleton of a talk right now, I don't feel nervous anymore. The people there are going to be the same cliquey 'family' as I always encounter (I know a few of them personally) and to be quite honest, I don't care what they think of me.
I just want this to be over.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
When music fades away in the roar
I am furious.
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What a wonderful world...
Yip, another day, another random song stuck in my head... And for some reason, lately it's been songs that I haven't heard in years! I wonder how it all works, how DO songs get stuck in your head? And how does your brain decide which song to torture you with?
I ended up erdoing all my analyses yesterday, not as efficiently as I would have iked, as after 5pm facebook becomes available here (it's blocked before that) and I ended up chatting to an old friend from high school. It was really cool to find out about what she's been up to, it turns out that I'm not the only girl out there who has refused to grow out of the tomboy/klutzy stage and who can actually change a tire! And she's doing really niteresting research, which makes me kind of jealous.
Anyway I'm starting to panic about this conference. I don't usually mind public speaking, becasue I learned how to get over the jitters: it's FUN to give talks if you can get so excited about your subject matter that you desperately want to tell people about it.
See my problem here?
And I still have to: organise how the heck I'm getting to the conference tomorrow, pack, organise diving equipment and deliver it to Luke (this includes buying one or two things and finding all the stuff all around my house), get my car cleaned (I always feel guilty leaving a dirty car at home), buy seasickness tablets and actually rpepare for the conference.
So I'm going to go and try to harness my panic into productiveness!
Man I need a holiday!
And a big bout of irresponsibility!
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Monday, November 24, 2008
You are my sunshine...
No, this is not a post about the snookums in my life. Unfortunately I am more or less married to a PhD at the moment and therefore have very little time or inclination for any more of a personal life than the few friends who have stuck by me through all the cranky days, going away for months at a time and general depression that is usually associated with being stuck for 4 years in a degree that you hate.
I've just got the song stuck in my head, which is pounding by the way! I started a migraine on Friday and it hasn't gone away yet, so I'm on a strict regime of 7 or 8 Advil in the course of the morning, washed down with at least 5 cups of coffee. It seems to work, but it takes a few hours to kick in.
Anyway this is just a little post because I really have to get back to work...
On Friday our department had a year-end function. It was nice in that there was free food and drinks, and anyone who reads PHD comics will know that free food is the holy grail of post-grad students! I also sat with Luke and Terri, who is someone I know vaguely - we tend to book out the same vehicle at the same time and she's always really nice about letting me change her over to another vehicle, but other than that I don't think I've ever had a real conversation with her. She was nice though and I'm glad I got to know her a little bit.
But anyway, at one stage I went back to the lab to get another Advil, and when I got back to the party I was cornered by one of the staff members. To put it in perspective, she is kind of a friend of my family in that she goes to my church and she taught my admission to communion classes when I was 8 or so, so she has always taken a little bit more of an interest in my academic career than I would have liked. On top of it all, she's a very difficult person, violently disliked and incredibly difficult to work with or for, which is always a joy as she quite often requests me as a TA for her courses.
As she hasn't seen me in probably about 6 months she wanted to know all about everything and I answered her questions while backing away slowly until I came up against one of the huge metal doors in the building. She continued to invade my personal space a little bit (I'm still not used to having other people within shouting range, so I found it incredibly uncomfortable) and wanted to know all about my plans for when I'm finished.
Oh, an aside: questions that nobody may ask me under any circumstances:
- how is your project going?
- when do you intend to finish?
- How was fieldwork?
- Did you get the data you needed?
- What are you going to do when you graduate?
She worked her way down the list at an alarming pace and then asked me what I had planned for after I graduate. I replied: "Well, I'm hoping to finish mid 2010 and then get as far away from this university as possible. I don't know what I'm going to do, I'll figure that out closer to the time" She launched into another series of questions (or prompts) with:
"Well are you going to do a post-doc? Do you want to go overseas? Do you..." I interrupted her by saying yes, overseas could be fun and I've made a few contacts for postdocs in America and I could probably find one in Australia but I'm not sure that I want a career in academia so I'm going to have to see if there's anything else available when I finish.
She showed her incredible listening skills by telling me to take time off from academia. I answered that I don't WANT to be an academic, but it's a pretty big decision because, according to my supervisor if you take a year off you end up out-of-touch with the academic world, you lost track of developments in your field, you lose touch with contacts you've made and so on. She (who by the way is less qualified than me, but anyway) then went on a tirade about what nonsense that was and that I have to go and work somewhere so I can learn to have successful interpersonal relationships. I managed to bite back the giggles at the irony of the situation and pointed out that I've been working in the holidays since I was 15 and that I've maintained a steady weekend job for the last 6 years, so I know how to get along with a boss.
Fortunately someone wanted to open the door I was leaning on, and when I turned I saw a friend of mine who understood what I meant when I started mouthing "HELP! HELP!!!" at her, and I was able to extract myself from the situation.
Anyway, the whole thing made me angry. I know that I'm unhappy in research and I'll probably end up in a completely different career. I know that I have to get through this, even if it's in a head-down-and-sprint way. And I don't need the unsolicited advice of someone who has never been in my situation in order to figure out what I want to do with my life.
The weekend was a lot better after that. I managed to get some tricky work done, saw Lara for the first time in months which was awesome! I missed the girly giggling fits! And had a picnic at the zoo where I was bundled up in a blanket and pushed down a hill.
And now I'm back to work to get ready for the conference. Fun times!
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Friday, November 21, 2008
Who wrote that cheese?
I have spent the majority of my academic career (i.e. as a student, I don't claim to ahve entered the lofty world of academia just yet) leaving what most people consider the most important part of anything I've written to the end. I'm talking about... The Title.
A title should be catchy, memorable and make people want to read your work. It should be short enough, but not too short to avoid giving some kind of description of your study, while maintaining a professional, but accessible tone. I suck at making up titles.
Biologists, particularly in the more up-and-coming fields of Zoology, are the worst. Behavioural studies, which I am involved in, are often labelled as "sexy science" because laymen like reading about what the panda did or didn't do, and they generally can get a foot into the door of popular science stuff, which, unfortunately attracts stuff that is mildly necessary, like interest in your work, or funding. I find the whole situation quite tiresome.
Don't get me wrong, some people are great at coming up with titles. There are papers that I read over half a decade ago (showing my age a bit) that I remember clearly from the title. But unfortunately, as anyone who has ever spent an afternoon hearing the terrible puns that seem to emanate from zoologists, most titles these days are either completely dull and dry and boring (including most of mine) or else so pathetically cheesy that I battle to take their work seriously.
I am trying to get ready for a conference at the moment, and when I sent in my abstract (that's like a summary of what I'm going to be talking about), I found myself stuck in the mental quicksand that is writing a title. Fortunately I have a very creative brother who works in marketing and I sent him an email begging for help. I asked him to try and use puns, and that the cheesier it is, the better. He repleid pretty quickly with six or seven options, having taken full opportunity to poke fun of me by making the AWFUL in their cheesiness.
Adn you know what the worst part was? Most of them were fantastic, and I picked one, adjusted it slightly, and sent it to the conference organisers!
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Labels: the weird world of academia
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Reintegrating into society
So, after 3 months of being pretty much completely isolated from the rest of the world, I'm back in Johannesburg, one of the biggest cities in Southern Africa. Actually, according to a quick google-search I just did, it is THE biggest city in Southern Africa. I love Joburg, I've lived here all my life. It has a buzz and a 'vibe' (inverted commas to stop me sounding like a yuppie) and a friendly atmosphere and it's beautiful in its own way. At the same time it's crowded and polluted and noisy and rushed. So rushed. Every time I go away I need a few days to learn to slow down, because here everyone is in a hurry. I'm not sure if all the rushing makes us efficient, or we just like to create the illusion that we are, but everyone is stressed out and hurrying from one task to the next. I like to sit back and watch the mayhem, but I'm afraid I'm as guilty as the next Jo-burger in wishing that we could cram another 6 or 7 hours into every day.
So getting home is one of the things that I hold on to when fieldwork gets difficult. I have friends here who I miss like crazy and I hope that they miss me while I'm away. I have my family and my animals and the bedroom that I've slept in since I was 10 and the zoo and my lab...At the same time, for the last few days of fieldwork I dread the idea of coming home. I always realise that the place I'm staying as actually beautiful, if you ignore the scorching heat, the falling down cliffs and the tangles of thorny plants that seem to conspire to grow between me and wherever I'm going.
I would sit outside on the veranda on a super-comfy green vinyl sunbed-type chair (it's hideous, but I could sleep in it if there weren't so many insects bashing against the windows right behind it) in the evenings and look at the sky where the stars are so bright that I could take a walk around the farm at midnight without a torch and still be able to see where I was going. The sky isn't black at all, but a beautiful indigo colour. And I would sit and listen to the night-jars and the spotted-eagle owls and the frogs, and the insects would buzz around me (particularly the dung-beetles and moths the size of my hand) and every now and then bats would swoop down and grab insects just millimetres from my head.
Sometimes I would see antelope in the garden, trying to be quiet while crashing through the bushes, sometimes at night I would see a jackal, sitting under a banana-palm, just waiting, and looking a lot like one of my dogs back home. As much as I'm almost completely bird-impaired, I find it easy to learn frog-calls, so after a day or two listening to the frog-call CD on my ipod (yes, I have frog calls on my ipod, so what?) I would sit outside at night and identify who was sitting in the little catchment behind the house, yelling their little amphibian lungs out. I have a definite soft-spot for tree frogs, and I often heard a close relative of my favourite frog in the whole world. On a few occasions I went looking for them and once I spotted the little guys being SO cute! Unfortunately I never got close enough to catch him, so I couldn't take a picture, but I felt that even a sighting made the stumbling around in the mud completely worth it!
Contrary to popular belief, life in the middle of nowhere is far from silent. When the reed frogs going it sounds like a million car alarms going off at the same time, but I never found it intrusive at all. All the birds and animals and insects (OK, the insects got annoying, there were a bunch of crickets that got into the house, and they were LOUD!). The water is from a borehole (and I know all the dangers f drinking borehole water) and tasted fantastic, I got to make campfires if I felt like it, wear clothes that had been ripped to shreds and stitched up with cotton that didn't match. For 3 months I didn't have to think about blow-drying my hair, wearing make-up, if there were fights between friends I was far enough away to avoid being caught int he crossfire.
I'm not saying that fieldwork is all fun and games, it's hard, hard work, with long hours, no weekends, and the exhausting feeling of powerlessness where your life is controlled by the weather. At the same time though, it's simpler. You can judge a day as a success or failure by how many animals you caught, if all the measurements are taken. If something goes wrong there is nobody else around so you learn how to fix it. It's a wonderful simplicity.
To come home is hard. For one thing my friends are used to me popping in and out of their lives, so I'm not really greeted with much surprise. I'm always happy to see them and they seem happy to see me, but it usually feels like I never left. I battle with insomnia from the noise and the light of the city. I have a constant headache from the noise and the pollution. I'm exhausted from all the human interaction but I can't sleep and recover.
And the worst part: after all that, I have to go back to the lab and learn to think all over again. I have a nice new pile of data to organise and analyse and interpret. And it's hard. My concentration-span (already pretty pitiful) has shrunk down to less than 5 minutes. I literally look at a set of numbers, do one thing to them and then need a break. I'm up against a pretty important deadline and I'm over 2 weeks behind schedule because no matter how hard I try I Just. Can't. Concentrate. Cue the reawakening of my fear of public humiliation!
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Labels: coming home, crisis, fieldwork
Monday, November 17, 2008
more illegible candlelight musings
Due to a complete lack of popular demand for the rest of the random notes I wrote in the dark, I decided to post them anyway in order to procrastinate actually writing something now! I'm battling to focus on my work, which ios a major problem as I'm bashing my head against a deadline, so I must avoid any procrastination fodder!
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Candlelight musings
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Gabriella Imperatori-Penn
- Yield
- Makes 8 servings
- 1 1/2 3- to 4-inch-long cinnamon sticks
- 2 whole nutmegs
- 1 1/2 tablespoons whole allspice berries
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 2 cups Simple Syrup
- 2 1/4 cups Charbay Rum or 10 Cane Rum
- 1 1/4 cups fresh lemon juice
- 1 1/4 cups fresh orange juice
- 1 teaspoon Fee Brothers Peach Bitters or other bitters
- 1 block of ice
- Lemon and orange slices
- Place cinnamon and nutmeg in resealable plastic bag; crack into pieces using mallet or rolling pin. Transfer to spice grinder. Add allspice; blend to coarse powder. Transfer 1 tablespoon to shallow dish; mix in 1/3 cup sugar. Set spiced sugar aside.
- Stir remaining spice powder in medium saucepan over medium-high heat until just beginning to smoke, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Cool 5 minutes. Repeat heating and cooling process 3 more times until spices are very fragrant but not burned. Add syrup; bring to boil. Reduce heat; simmer 5 minutes. Strain through sieve into bowl. Cool.
- Mix 3/4 cup spice syrup, rum, lemon juice, orange juice, and bitters in punch bowl. Add ice and citrus slices. Rub 1 orange slice around rim of 8 glasses to moisten; dip glasses into spiced sugar. Place glasses around punch bowl.


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Using Audio Effects in Premiere Pro
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[ADOBE® TV PRESENTS] [mechanical sounds of truck transforming] [Jason Levine] [Karl Soule] [mechanical sounds of truck transforming] [sound of rocket engine as mechanical bird lifts off] [Short and Suite - On the Road with Jason and Karl] Hi there! Karl Soule for Short and Suite. Today we're going to talk a little bit about how audio works inside of Premiere Pro. There's actually two different ways of working with audio, and some people kind of get the two confused a little bit, and I want to kind of explain why we do it the way we do it. To get started, I've got a timeline sequence here. This is actually a fairly complex audio mix here. You can see that I've got something like 23 different tracks of audio for this particular timeline sequence, and that's not outside the realm of possibility of what you can do with Premier Pro. When you're working with audio in Premier Pro, you can have 2 different types of tracks: you can have stereo tracks or mono tracks. Now, that's not 100% accurate--you can also have a third type of a track, which is a 5.1 surround track. But typically cameras these days--most of your source material is not going to come to you with 5.1 audio, so those are not used as frequently. When you're working inside of Premiere Pro, you have a couple different ways of applying effects to your audio clips. The first way is the same way you work with video. You can take a particular audio clip and you can just come over to your Effects panel, choose the Audio Effects folder, and go in and make sure and choose either the--I've got the Stereo folder open here, but there's also a Mono folder-- so the different effects for stereo and different effects for mono. If you're working with a stereo track, you want to make sure and pull from the Stereo folder. If you're working with mono tracks, you want to make sure and pull from the Mono folder. If I want to take one of these effects and apply it to this audio clip, all I have to do is drag it and drop it and I've now applied an audio clip to just this chunk of audio here. Now, you'll notice the way my project is organized here-- and I'll go ahead and just zoom in just a little bit here-- I have a lot of clips called Adam Voiceover. A lot of the Adam Voiceover clips--I've got them all placed on a single audio clip and this is a common way of organizing files. So I might have a particular track in here that might be labeled something like "Foley" or "footsteps," or "music" is another good example. So I might organize my project based on tracks. If I want to apply effects to all of the different clips on a given track and just make sure that everything on that track has the same audio effects supplied to it, a different way of doing this would be to actually use this Audio Mixer panel. Right now, you don't see any effects or any place to add effects on these different tracks, but if I come over here to this little tiny triangle, and twirl this down, you'll see I have this special panel here, and from here I can go in and I can actually apply the same effects on a track-by-track basis. So there's these 2 different ways of working with these 2 effects. If I go ahead and I apply one on an entire track-- let me go ahead and just choose like an Eq effect here-- to actually work with this effect--if I double-click on this, you'll see that this opens up in its own separate panel here and I can begin to play with the Parametric Equalizer here inside of Premiere Pro. If I want to work with the effect on an individual clip basis, what I need to do is open up the Effect Controls panel-- I want to make sure that I have the clip selected, go to the Effect Controls panel, and from here, I can go in and I can work with the same effect and play with these same parameters within the Effect Controls panel. You can see here exactly--we now have the custom setup. We can actually work with and play with this particular effect from within the Effect Controls panel. So you kind of have these 2 choices, and it really depends on what you're trying to accomplish. One of the most important things that I tend to do is when I'm working with a complicated mix like this, I may want to apply some sort of a compression to the overall output file. Once I've gotten all of my levels balanced, I just need to apply some sort of an effect to the final output and that's where this Audio Mixer can really come into play, because if I scroll all the way across here, you'll notice that the far right track here is something called "Master," and this is where I can come in and I can actually apply effects to the Master. And so, this is going to take all of the individual channels, mix them together, and give me the opportunity to apply an effect onto that final mix-down. So it can be a really powerful way of just getting some additional crunch or play with the dynamics a little bit, maybe just compress everything down a little bit. So it's another really powerful way of working with audio. So don't think that you have to jump over to a program like Soundbooth to play with audio. Premiere Pro is actually a really powerful tool for working with audio in and of itself. Soundbooth is great; especially if you have to do specific frequency removal or cleanup-- a fantastic tool for that, as well as all of the great sound effects and the scores that are available over there. But Premiere Pro has some really, really potent capabilities for working with audio right on the timeline. Thanks again. My name's Karl Soule. [ADOBE® TV PRODUCTIONS] [TV.ADOBE.COM]
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In her masterful first novel Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh delivers the compelling story of three women who marry the same man -- an enigmatic opportunist named Ken Kimble.Birdie. 1961.He was the choir director at a Southern Bible college. At practiceMoreIn her masterful first novel Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh delivers the compelling story of three women who marry the same man -- an enigmatic opportunist named Ken Kimble.Birdie. 1961.He was the choir director at a Southern Bible college. At practice she followed his hands with her eyes. Watching him, she thought of the Pietà: Mary weeping over her sons crucified body, his naked arms smooth as milk, his chest delicately ribbed like the underside of a flower.
She imagined his shoulders bare beneath his shirt, his body long and white. One evening he approached her after practice.Joan. 1969.She met him at a pool party in Florida. His lank dark hair hung to his shoulders- he wore faded jeans and a colorful cotton blouse. His eyes were a startling blue. No man had touched her in a year. He was engaged to someone else.Dinah. 1979They met by accident in Washington, D.C.
Their paths had intersected once before, when she was a teenager. Youre a beautiful girl, hed told her, oblivious to the hideous scar on her face. He was old enough to be her father.Kimble is revealed through the eyes of the women he seduces: his first wife, Birdie Bell, who struggles to hold herself together in the months following his desertion- his second wife, Joan Cohen, a lonely heiress shaken by personal tragedy, who sees in Kimble her last chance at happiness- and finally Dinah Whitacre, a beautiful but damaged woman half his age.
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On Sunday May 27, Nottingham plays host to the third - and biggest yet - Dot To Dot Festival. We say biggest with good reason: as well as there being over 80 artists confirmed to appear at this year's event, there will also be a couple of new venues - Nottingham Trent University and Lee Rosy's Tea Rooms - hosting performances alongside the more established venues such as Rock City, the Rescue Rooms, Stealth and the Social.
Additionally, this year the festival spreads its wings to accommodate a whole separate city: a day earlier (Saturday 26, then), Dot To Dot will be down the M5 in Bristol, where at least 40 artists are confirmed to play across three of the city's main venues: the Thekla Social, Louisiana, Fiddler's. For details on the Bristol line-up/s, click to here (and here for the Dot To Dot website).
DiS's Nottingham contingent has been excited about the festival for many a month now, so without further ado, here's Dom Gourlay's guide on who he's literally busting a gut to see…
Yo! Chomsky
Initially formed for a laugh by a bunch of media students at Nottingham University, their recent show with Hadouken! proved that their Beastie Boys via the Human League electro grime is here to shake things up. Anyone not taking them seriously does so at their own risk.
Yo! Chomsky play the Rescue Rooms at 2:30pm
Blonde Redhead
Possibly the oldest band playing at this year's festival, Blonde Redhead have been around for almost fifteen years now without ever really gaining the commercial recognition their complex and critically acclaimed noise-saturated arrangements merit. Thankfully, all that seems set to change if reviews of their most recent record 23 (See DiS's review here) are anything to go by, and with their visits to the UK becoming more and more sporadic, don't let this opportunity pass you by. They are one of the most genuinely intriguing bands in the world right now.
Blonde Redhead play the main room of Nottingham Trent University at 10pm
We Are The Physics
Hailing from Glasgow and mixing Devo-style jerkiness with Albini-esque polemics, We Are The Physics are one of those bands who demand to be seen by as many people as possible, and to date, unless you hail from north of the border, chances are you won't be one of the lucky few to have caught them thus far. Not to worry, as this is as good an opportunity as any...
We Are The Physics play the upstairs room of Nottingham Trent University at 9:30pm
DiS has been raving about Chester-Le-Street-based five-piece Catweasels for a good few years now. Formerly prefixed by (The), Catweasels mix old and new wave sensibilities with a melee of sounds that occasionally winds up echoing the moan of Mansun being inappropriately manhandled by Interpol. Other times they just go for the jugular by composing grandiose pop a la XTC, the sort that you wouldn't expect anyone with a DIY aesthetic to pull off. They manage it in pretty spectacular style. Again, this is their first show in this part of the world. Are we excited? You bet we are...
Catweasels play Lee Rosy's Tea Rooms at 5:30pm
You Slut!
You Slut! might be the possessors of the best name at this year's festival by a long shot, but that only tells half the story. One listen to their "Rifftastic-post-progressive-indie-power-rock-math-disco-pop warfare" - their words, not ours - should be enough to convince anyone that the East Midlands is alive and well and simply bursting with creativity, and is about to explode any time now. Go see, then tell all your friends how great You Slut! are.
You Slut! play Lee Rosy's Tea Rooms at 3:30pm
The full (provisional) timetable for Nottingham reads as follows:
Rock City Basement (14+ venue)
1:15-1:45 The Recovery
2:15-2:45 Furthest Drive Home
3:15-3:45 Sunset Cinema Club
4:15-4:45 Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man
5:15-5:45 Brigade
6:15-6:45 The Scare
7:15-7:45 Drive By Argument
8:15-8:45 The Dykeenies
9:15-9:45 Lethal Bizzle
10:15-11:00 Gallows
Rock City Main Hall (14+ venue)
2:15-2:45 I Was A Cub Scout
3:15-3:45 Help She Can't Swim
4:15-4:45 Pull Tiger Tail
5:15-5:45 Foals
6:15-6:45 Kate Nash
7:15-7:45 New Young Pony Club
8:30-9:15 Kano
10:00-11:30 The Cribs
Nottingham Trent University Main Room (14+ venue)
2:45-3:15 Six By Seven
3:45-4:15 Absentee
4:45-5:15 Maps
5:45-6:15 Annuals
7:00-7:45 Architecture In Helsinki
8:30-9:15 Broken Family Band
10:00-11:00 Blonde Redhead
Nottingham Trent University Upstairs (14+ venue)
2:30-3:00 Love Ends Disaster!
3:30-4:00 Radar
4:30-5:00 Nova Saints
5:30-6:00 Olympus Mons
6:30-7:00 Candi Payne
7:30-8:00 Draytones
8:30-9:00 Goodbooks
9:30-10:00 We Are The Physics
10:30-11:00 The Thermals
11:30-12am Bearsuit
Lee Rosy's Tea Rooms (14+ venue)
3:30-4:00 You Slut!
4:30-5:00 Talibam!
5:30-6:00 Catweasels
6:30-7:00 Fanfarlo
7:30-8:00 Karima Francis
8:30-9:00 Tom Mansi
The Social (18+ venue)
1:15-1:45 Grave Architects
2:00-2:30 House Of Brothers
3:00-3:30 Blood Red Shoes
4:00-4:30 Bobby Cook
5:00-5:30 The Changes
6:00-6:30 Sky Larkin
6:45-7:15 Emmy The Great
7:45-8:15 Emma Pollock
8:45-9:45 Moon Music Orchestra / Findlay Brown
10:15-11:00 Scout Niblett
11:30-3am Grimewatch with Boy Better Know and more TBA
Rescue Rooms (18+ venue)
2:30-3:00 Yo! Chomsky
3:30-4:00 Ratty Rat Rat
4:30-5:00 Mighty Roars
5:30-6:00 These New Puritans
6:30-7:00 Pete And The Pirates
7:30-8:00 Fear Of Flying
8:30-9:00 Laura Marling
9:30-10:00 Kid Harpoon
10:30-11:00 Late Of The Pier
11:30-12am Datarock
12:45-1:30am Hot Club De Paris
Stealth live room (downstairs) (18+ venue)
4:00-4:30 The Whip
5:00-5:30 Holy Hail
5:30-6:00 Metronomy (DJ set)
6:00-6:30 Thieves Like Us
6:30-7:00 Metronomy (DJ set)
7:00-7:30 La La Lepus
7:30-8:00 Mum (DJ set)
8:00-8:30 We Smoke Fags
8:30-9:00 Mum (DJ set)
9:00-9:30 Kap Bambino
9:30-10:00 Opticks (DJ set)
10:30-11:00 Opticks (DJ set)
11:00-11:30 Dolby Anol
11:30-00:15 TAPEDECK (DJ set)
00:15-1am Bonde Do Role
1-1:30am TAPEDECK (DJ set)
1:30-2:30 Chromeo
Stealth DJ room (upstairs) (18+ venue)
4:00-6:00 Paul Thomson (Franz Ferdinand)
6:00-8:00 Nightmoves
8:00-10:00 Riotous Rockers
10:00-12am Surkin
12-2am Para One
2-4am Erol Alkan
Tickets are still available, priced at £20 (14+ venues only) and £22.50 (covering all venues) HERE.
For more information on the festival, visit the Dot To Dot MySpace.


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