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Creating Google Earth Time Display Data with ArcGIS
The release of Google Earth 4 brought many new enhancements to an already fantastic geographic viewing tool, but in my opinion the most important new functionality is the introduction of the new Time control which allows you to incorporate time information into your existing GIS data. The addition of this fourth dimension greatly enhances the capabilities of Google Earth by enabling you to analyze patterns in your data over time. In this how-to article you'll discover how to create time enabled, Google Earth format files (kml/kmz) using a combination of ArcGIS Desktop, Spatial Analyst, Google Earth, and your favorite text editor.
A new Time control has been added to the user interface which allows you to control the time period of the globe. The Time control, which is both functional and minimal, is only visible on the Google Earth display when TimeSpan tags are detected in your kml/kmz file.
The user interface for the Timer control consists of a draggable area containing a start and end date which you can expand or shrink along with controls for starting the time animation and displaying the Time properties form.
Time properties including the time zone, animation speed, and other options can be set from this dialog. Data that has been tagged with time information will appear or disappear depending on the current time of the map. The TimeSpan tag represents an extent in time bounded by begin and end dates/times. The tag describes the beginning instant of a time period while the tag describes the ending instant of a time period. In the example below, the beginning time date is January 1st, 2003 and the ending time date is December 31st, 2003.
In this article we will integrate ArcGIS and Google Earth to analyze building permit data for the City of Austin, Texas for the years 1997 to 2003. Our analysis will be performed through the use of ArcGIS with the Spatial Analyst extension to create both raster and vector output files which will then be used to construct KML format files that display the results of our analysis through Google Earth and its new Time control. Before we get into the details of how to create a Google Earth file that contains a time based analysis of geographic data perform in ArcGIS lets first take a look at the finished product. If you haven't already done so make sure you download a copy of Google Earth 4 before continuing with this article. To accomplish this task I have created two distinct output kml files. The first is a vector analysis of building permit data by census tract and displayed as a graduated color map. To visualize the results of this analysis please click here. Using the same data I have also created a "heat map" in raster format which can be viewed here.
Step 1 – Obtain GIS Data
I first obtained building permit data from the City of Austin, TX for the years 1997 through 2003 which had already been geocoded and stored as point data in shapefile format. Each year was stored in a separate shapefile. For more information regarding building permit data for the City of Austin please visit their website. This data was then loaded into ArcMap along with census tract polygons for purposes of a spatial join with the building permit data.
Step 2 – Process Data in ArcMap
In this particular case the goal was to create two distinct output kml files; one for the vector analysis and the other for the raster ("heat map") analysis. In the case of our vector analysis I also added a census tract polygon layer that covers the Austin, Texas area. A series of spatial joins were then performed between each of the point shapefiles containing building permit data and the census tract polygon layer. For more information on performing spatial joins in ArcMap please reference the desktop help file. The result of each spatial join was the addition of a new field in the census tract polygon layer containing a count of the number of building permits issued for each tract. At the end of this processing I had fields for each year containing the number of building permits for that year. The addition of building permit counts by year is illustrated in the figure below.
Using each field in succession I then created a graduated color map for each year. Finally, using the Export Map function in ArcMap I then exported image files for each year in .png format. For example, I exported the building permit graduated color map from 2003 as go_Census_Tracts_2003.png. These image files will serve as the basis for our display of time data in Google Earth.
For our "heat map" raster density analysis the processing of our building permit data was analyzed using the Point Density tool in the Spatial Analyst extension of ArcGIS.
Just as with our vector graduated color maps I created individual raster layers for each year and exported to a .gif format image file using Export Map. You can see an example of this type of raster "heat map" in the figure below.
One final task that I performed in ArcMap was to gather the geographic extent in decimal degrees of the output images. This was accomplished very easily by setting my Data Frame Properties Display to "Decimal Degrees" and then moving the cursor to the maximum and minimum extents of the display and manually gathering the coordinate locations.
One additional consideration that you need to take into account is the transparency of your output images. Setting a transparency value allows you to see the underlying data sources provided by Google Earth while at the same time visualizing the results of your analysis. In this case I have set a transparency value of 50% on each output image through the Layer Properties Display tab. This step isn't absolutely necessary though as transparency values can be set for the images in Google Earth.
Step 3 – Create KML/KMZ File
The final step in the creation of Google Earth time display data is the creation of the actual kml/kmz files that will display the data. There are a number of different ways that this can be accomplished, but for purposes of this article we're going to actually create the final output file through a text editor (Notepad) so that you can get a good understanding of how this process works. However, we will create the initial baseline kml data file through Google Earth.
Open Google Earth, and create a folder to put the graphic files into by selecting Add à Folder in the Places Pane. Go ahead and give the folder a name like "Austin Building Permits 1997 – 2003" like you see below and click OK.
Now, right click on the newly created folder and select "Save As" and write out the file in .kml format (not .kmz for now). This will create the baseline structure of the kml file that we'll now work with in your favorite text editor for the remainder of the tutorial. Close Google Earth and navigate to where you've saved the kml file and open it with your favorite text editor. You should see something like the figure below.
This will serve as your baseline file which we'll now use to add image overlay and time display tags. Each image that we exported from ArcMap will need to be imported into the kml file as an image overlay. Below you will see an example of how to use the tag to import your image files as image overlays in Google Earth. This first ground overlay tag represents the 1997 building permit data at a census tract level.
There are a couple of things that I'll point out about the attributes of the tag. Notice that the attribute contains a pointer to the image file that I have exported from ArcMap. In our kml file this is a hard-coded path to the image, but later we'll see how you can alter this to a relative path name for easy distribution of your files. The other thing to note is the tag which contains bounding coordinates for you image. This is how you specify where Google Earth should place your image. Back in Step 2 we gathered the geographic coordinates of our display in ArcMap, and now it's time to put these coordinates to use. By using this set of kml tags you have specified a pointer to an image file that you have created along with the bounding coordinates for where the image will be displayed in Google Earth. This code should be placed just below the 1 tag line.
Now that you know how to define an image overlay we need a way to add time data to each image so that Google Earth can display each of the images in a time based format. Earlier in the tutorial we said that the tag can be used to accomplish this task. By adding in the tag to our kml as you see below we can define the period of time for which each of our image overlays will be visible in Google Earth.
At this point we have fully defined the kml for a single ground overlay to display our building permit data for the year 1997. You will need to perform the exact same steps to import each of the remaining images in your collection to the kml file. This can be a tedious process, but through the use of cut and paste you can greatly simplify the task. You can download the full text of the code created in this tutorial by clicking here.
Once you've fully defined the kml tags for each image you can save the file and then open in Google Earth. You should see something similar to the following:
Notice that each image overlay has been added to the folder and the Time control is now visible and ready for use in Google Earth. There is one additional task that I would recommend performing to make the sharing and distribution of your files more efficient. Recall that in our kml file we have hard-coded the paths to our image files. By converting the kml file to a kmz format we can embed the images into the compressed kmz format file and in so doing alter the path to our images to a relative path rather than a hard-coded path. This can be easily accomplished in Google Earth by right clicking the folder and selecting Save As and selecting the .kmz format.
The physical structure of the resulting kmz file is shown below.
Notice that all the image files have been loaded into the kmz file and a new doc.kml file has been created. The contents of the doc.kml file are nearly identical to the kml file we created earlier with the exception that the paths to our image files are now relative paths.
To view the contents of a .kmz file you can simply rename the extension to .zip and then open the zip file.
Step 4 – Using the Time Control
As is the case with most Google Earth functionality, the time control is incredibly easy to use. When Google Earth detects the use of tags in your kml/kmz files it will automatically display the control.
Play Button – Used to start a time display animation from your kml/kmz file
Pause Button – Used to pause the time display animation
Display Time Properties – Displays the time properties form
Time Span – Draggable area that consists of a time span (start date and end date)
In this how-to article we have discovered a simple process for visualizing geographic data that has a time element through the use of ArcMap and Google Earth. This type of analysis is important in many GIS studies because it helps distinguish patterns in your data over time.


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I am a huge fan of the disappearing nine patch. I did as directed with 6 inch blocks rather than 5 inch, and sewed 9 blocks in 3 rows of 3, but if I was ever going to do this with a less scrappy quilt, I would definitely strip piece it. Forget randomness. I'm seriously in love with strip piecing.
These are the squares of the 8 fabrics that I am using. The reds, blues, the swirly yellow, and dark brown were all fat quarters that I got on SALE at JoAnn's. The leafy yellow and swirly tan are cut from full yard pieces from my most recent purchase from fabric.com. I think my favorite is the blue and brown print. What about you?
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So far, I am a big fan. What new blocks and/or patterns have you tried lately?
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Classical Connections
The Amernet String Quartet, Ensemble-in-Residence at Florida International University, presents a weekend of chamber music at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 16 in Town Hall at Rosemary Beach. Tickets are $35 at sinfoniagulfcoast.org.
Delta Delta Delta
The Delta Delta Delta Emerald Coast Alumnae Chapter will meet at 11 a.m. Feb. 16 at Mitchell�s Fish Market, 500 Grand Blvd. in Sandestin. Ashley Bailey, crime prevention specialist Okaloosa County Sheriff�s Office, will speak on Identity Theft. Lunch follows. Make reservations at 267-1277 or email firstname.lastname@example.com by Feb. 10.
Choctawhatchee Audubon Society
� Feb. 16: See wintering loons, grebes, ducks, waxwings, and the usual resident species, on a bird walk at Bluewater Bay, Raintree, and White Point. Meet at the Bluewater Winn-Dixie at 7:30 a.m. Call 897-2666.
Biophilia Center
At Archeology for Kids learn the science of archeology and create your own ceramic pendant artifact, much the same way traditional Native American ceramics were decorated, at 11 a.m. Feb. 16 at the E.O. Wilson Biophilia Center. Standard admission rates apply. Call 835-1824.
Gumbo Cook-Off
The 24th Annual Sandestin Gumbo Cook-Off will be held from 12-4 p.m. Feb. 16, rain or shine. Gulf Coast restaurants will feature top-secret recipes. Sample a variety of gumbo � dark of light roux? Chicken and sausage or seafood? Then, vote for your favorite for the "People's Choice Award." Celebrity judges will name the �Area�s Best,� and award the most creative set-up as �Best Display.� Live music by Dikki Du & the Zydeco Krewe. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25/day of event.
Topsail tours
Topsail Hill Preserve State Park in Santa Rosa Beach will hold the following tours. All programs except Breakfast with a Ranger require a $6 entry admission into the park. Outside tours are canceled during severe weather. For information, call 267-8330.
� Feb. 16: Find out about exotic plants and why they are eradicated at 2 p.m.
� Feb. 23: Hike the tram road to the shore of Campbell Lake, one of the rarest types of habitat in the world, at 2 p.m.
Father-Daughter Dance
The sixth annual Father-Daughter (grandpa, uncle, cousin, family friend) Dance will be held from 5-7 p.m. Feb. 17 at Good News United Methodist Church. Tickets are $35 per couple and $10 for an extra girl. Corsages are also available for $5 through advanced purchase only. A dinner will be provided by Townsend Catering Company and every girl leaves with a prize. Scholarships are made available to any family in need. All proceeds support children's ministries. To purchase tickets stop by Good News or call 865-3893.
Gospel Quartet in concert
The Dixie Echoes Quartet will present a concert of gospel music at 3 p.m. Feb. 17 at the Santa Rosa Beach Community Church, 3524 U.S. Hwy. 98 West. There is no admission cost but a love offering will be taken.
Yaani Drucker
Yaani Drucker presents �Waking Up to Truth, Undoing the Illusion of Separate Existence� at 4 p.m. Feb. 17 at the Coastal Branch Library, 437 Greenway Trail in Santa Rosa Beach. Each week is a separate, unique and enlightening experience. Presentations continue Sundays through March 10.
Seniors Seminar
Mainstay Financial Group will present a special seminar, �Annuities: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,� at 10 a.m. Feb. 18 in the Suite 3 Resource Center conference room at Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast. To register for this free seminar, call 278-3600.
Tijuana Flats fundraiser
Tijuana Flats will raise money for the Junior League of the Emerald Coast by hosting an evening fundraiser from 5-10 p.m. Feb. 18 in Fort Walton Beach. Attendees can enjoy 2-4-1 draft beers, the corn hole game and bottomless chips and dips. Kids are invited to decorate the patio with sidewalk chalk. The Junior League will raise money for their Child Clothing Project. Ten percent of each guest's check will go to the Junior League of the Emerald Coast. Dine-in, drive thru and carryout orders apply.
The Northwest Florida Coast Chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association will meet at 11:30 a.m. Feb. 19 at Harbor Docks in Destin. Featured speaker Vicki Guennewig, former vice resident, Public Affairs for Cooper Industries Inc., will speak about charitable giving and community affairs programs. The cost is $12/students, $15/members and $20/non-members. Bring cash or check for payment. RSVP by 5 p.m. Feb. 15 to email@example.com.
Relay for Life
The DeFuniak Springs Relay for Life will hold its first Team Captain meeting Feb. 19 at the Continental Worship Center, 2132 U.S. 90 in DeFuniak Springs. This year�s theme is �Tune Out Cancer.� Individuals who participate will raise funds over the next few months, culminating in the event at Walton High Schools on April 26 and 27. Other Team Captain�s meetings will be held March 19 and April 23. Call 978-1168.
Prime Time programs
Walton County Library �Prime Time� programs continue at 10 a.m. Wednesdays at the Coastal Branch Library, 437 Greenway Trail in Santa Rosa Beach. Program brochures are available at the Coastal library and posted on www.youseemore.com/walton. Register early at 267-2809.
� Feb. 20: Diane Merkel, historian and author of DeFuniak Springs, will speak on Walton County History.
� Feb. 27: Jennifer Jones, owner of �Nature of the Beach,� will present a power point presentation on native plants, pollinators, wildlife and you.
� March 6: Charlene Grafton presents a health related topic titled; �The Importance of Your Family Health History.�
Republican Women
The Walton Republican Women Federated will meet at 11 a.m. Feb. 20 at Carrabba�s Italian Grill at Silver Sands Outlet. Dr. David Goetsch, vice-president emeritus of Northwest Florida State College, will be guest speaker. Cost of lunch is $18/members and $20/guets. Reservations required by noon Feb. 18 at 837-5321.
Americana Under the Stars
Topsail Hill Preserve State Park presents a new concert series, Americana Under the Stars, that will showcase singer/songwriters from across the country at 7 p.m. Thursdays. Performers follow an open mic showcase of local musicians from 5-6:30 p.m. Must be present to sign up.
Admission to the park is free and there is a suggested $5 donation to the Friends of Topsail Hill Preserve State Park. Bring your own food or beverages, if desired.
Feb. 21: Lucky Mud
Feb. 28: Emmett Carlisle
United Way luncheon
The United Way of Okaloosa and Walton Counties will host the Campaign 2012 "LIVE UNITED � Results You Can See" celebration/annual meeting from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 21 at the Shalimar United Methodist Church. Lunch will be $15 per person and corporate tables of 8 are available for $120. RSVP by Feb. 3 to 243-0315 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Emerald Coast Meditation Society will meet 6:30 p.m. Feb. 21 at 480 N. Co. Hwy. 393 in Santa Rosa Beach. Speaker will be Kimberly Constance, a holistic health practitioner, reiki master, pranic healer and massage therapist. Email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Fish fry
Saint Rita Catholic Church, 137 Moll Drive in Santa Rosa Beach, will host a fish fry from 3-7 p.m. Feb. 22. Cost is $9/adults and $3.50/children. Take out available. Proceeds support outreach programs. Call 267-2588.
Artist of the month
Friends of the Coastal Branch Library present the works of Seagrove Beach resident Lisa Mitchell during March at the Library, 437 Greenway Trail in Santa Rosa Beach. She was influenced by both the German Expressionists and French Fauve artists and paints mainly in oils and acrylics. Call 267-2809 for more information.
Farmer�s Market
A Farmer�s Market will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 2 on the Town Center Lawns in Rosemary Beach.
Music in Pictures
More than 14 schools in Walton County will participate in this Rosemary Beach Foundation event at 3 p.m. March 3 in the Town Hall in Rosemary Beach. The awards ceremony and concert will feature Florida State University College of Music faculty Benjamin Sung, violin, and Gregory Sauer, cello.
Wednesday Night Concert Series
The Village of Baytowne Wharf presents a free concert with Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials from 6-8 p.m. March 6 in the Events Plaza. Call 267-8186.
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Taste of the Bayou
Okaloosa-Walton Child Care Services presents the 17th Annual Fare for Child Care Taste of the Bayou with an auction and fine tasting from 6-8 p.m. March 8 at St. Mary Church Parish Life Center in Fort Walton Beach. To donate items, call 833-9339 or 833-9330, ext. 204.
30A Wine Festival
2nd Annual 30A Wine Festival returns to Alys Beach on March 9 and 10 and is a showcase of premiere wine producers and local culinary favorites. This intimate two-day event features wine tasting seminars, a walkabout and grand tasting, band party at nightfall, and Sunday�s exclusive event, Ros� & Croquet. Tickets are $300 per person and include entrance to all festival activities including seminars, grand tasting, dance party featuring Knoxville�s favorite party band, the ChillBillies, and Ros� & Croquet (appropriate croquet attire encouraged). Visit www.30AWineFestival.com for more information and to purchase tickets.
Wild Game/Seafood Dinner
The Point Washington United Methodist Men's Group will host its annual Wild Game and Seafood Dinner at 6 p.m. March 9 at the church, 1290 N. County Highway 395 in Santa Rosa Beach. Cost is $20. The event is open to men and women, and there will be music from the church Praise Band and door prizes. Guest speaker will be John Riley, an inspirational speaker with a unique God-given ability to communicate great Biblical truth in a simple and understanding manner. Church members, hunters and fishermen, will cook their game or catch with special recipes. For ticket information call 231-4928 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday or email email@example.com.
Book Lover�s Club
The Coastal Library Book Lover�s Club will be held from 10-11 a.m. March 12 in the community room of the Coastal Branch Library, 437 Greenway Trail in Santa Rosa Beach. New members are welcome along with their friends. Book to be discussed is �Unbroken� by Laura Hillenbrand. Call 267-2809 or visit www.youseemore.com/walton.
� April 9: �The Dressmaker of Khair Khan� by Gayle T. Lemmon
Spring Fling Concerts
Enjoy live music on the lawn with some of the best touring acts in region during Spring Fling Concerts from 6-8 p.m. Thursdays beginning March 14 at North Barrett Square in Rosemary Beach.
Hats for Hope
The Destin Woman�s Club will host Hats for Hope, a fashion show and luncheon, at 11 a.m. March 16 at the Linkside Conference Center at Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort. Features include a raffle row, designer table and silent auction delights. Proceeds will benefit Shelter House, the domestic violence center serving Okaloosa and Walton counties. Tickets are available at Today�s Boutique in Destin, P.S. Gifts in Fort Walton Beach and Bayou Books in Niceville as well as online. Tickets are $45.
St. Patrick�s Parade, Festival
The Sixth Annual 30a St. Patrick�s Parade and Festival, the largest celebration in NW Florida of Ireland's St. Patrick�s Day, begins at 3 p.m. March 16 on Scenic 30A and ends at Gulf Place, where Irish Dancers and Celtic Bands perform through the evening. For details visit www.30aparade.com
St. Paddy's Day Delight
Celebrate the luck of the Irish from 6-9 p.m. March 17 at the Village of Baytowne Wharf. Henri's Notions will provide traditional Celtic music in the Events Plaza and don't miss a one of a kind performance by the Drake Irish Dancers.
Cooking School
The Taste of Home Cooking School presents its 19th annual spring show sponsored by WZEP Radio Station, with culinary specialist Michelle �Red� Roberts, at 6:30 p.m. March 19 at Walton High School in DeFuniak Springs. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. Tickets are $10/general admission and $45/VIP which includes reception with Roberts before show, reserved seating and special prizes. Tickets are on sale at the WZEP studios in DeFuniak Springs, at www.tasteofhome.com/Cooking-Schools, or call 892-5130.
Children�s Theatre
The Seaside Rep presents Children�s Theatre at 5 p.m. March 20, 27, April 3 and 10 in North Barrett Square in Rosemary Beach.
30A Car Show
The 12th Annual Route 30A Antique and Vintage Car Show will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 23 in Rosemary Beach. Enjoy live music, demonstrations and numerous award categories at the free event. Rain date is March 24.
Call 951-2148.
Sinfonia: Bond and Beyond
The Sinfonia celebrates its seventh season (007) and 50 years of James Bond at 7:30 p.m. March 23 at the Emerald Coast Convention Center on Okaloosa Island. Featured will be the music that made the Bond films famous with award-winning singer Debbie Gravitte, who joins the orchestra to perform Bond favorites such as "Diamonds Are Forever," "Secret Agent Man," "Goldfinger," and more. Tickets are $125 at sinfoniagulfcoast.org.
Easter Explosion
Skip, hop, or jump your way to the Village of Baytowne Wharf from 12-3 p.m. March 30. Enjoy face painting, crafts and an inflatable fun zone, plus a stiltwalker making balloon animals and a visit with the Easter Bunny.
Easter in Rosemary
A non-denominational church service will be held at 8:30 a.m. March 31 on the Eastern Green in Rosemary Beach. Bring a low-rise chair.
An Easter Egg Hunt begins at 9:45 a.m. on the Western Green, rain or shine.
Several Town Center restaurants offer a special Easter Brunch.
Bocce tournament
Enjoy a day of sun, sport and sipping wine at the Seventh Annual Bombora Spring Bocce Tournament beginning at 11 a.m. March 30 on the East and West Long Greens in Rosemary Beach. For information or to register email email@example.com.
Pajama Time Story Time
Join storyteller Ms. Cheryl at 6 p.m. every Monday in the children�s room of the Coastal Library for some bedtime stories in your pajamas. This will be a quiet time for little readers to relax to a bedtime story in the comfort of their caretaker�s arms. Call 267-2809.
Yoga Express
In celebration of the 30A Songwriters Fest, yoga classes will be offered at 9 and 11:30 a.m. Saturday and 10:30 a.m. Sundays at The Studio in Seaside. The drop in rate is $15; mats and towels are available.
Baby Boot Camp
Boot Camp in Santa Rosa Beach offers a 55-minute workout designed specifically to help new and seasoned moms with stroller-age children get back into shape after having a baby at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday mornings and at 5:45 p.m. on Wednesdays.
Narcotics Anonymous
Narcotics Anonymous Last Chance Group meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 1st Presbyterian Church, 1063 Circle Drive in DeFuniak Springs. Progressive Recovery group meets at 7 p.m. everyday at 249 E. Hewitt Road in Santa Rosa Beach.
Zumba classes
Zumba With Marcia classes will be held at 6:30 p.m. Mondays, 6 p.m. Thursdays, 8:30 a.m. Fridays and 9 a.m. Saturdays at Premiere Performers Academy in Santa Rosa Beach; 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays at The Studio in Seaside; and 8:30 a.m. Wednesdays at Rosemary Beach Fitness Center.
Rudy Applewhite
Tommy Bahama�s Restaurant & Bar, 525 Grand Blvd. in Sandestin, presents Rudy Applewhite from 4-9 p.m. every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Call 654-1743,
Dannica Lowery
Dannica Lowery performs live from 6-9 p.m. every Tuesday at Shorty�s Surfside Bar, 63 Hotz Ave. in Grayton Beach. Call 468-0417.
Rosalina plays classic standards and show tunes on keyboard from 6-9 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays at Christiano's Ristorante in Santa Rosa Beach. Call 267-2185.
Fusion fitness classes
Hope Lutheran Church, 3422 U.S. 98 W in Santa Rosa Beach, will offer fusion fitness classes at 9 a.m. Thursdays. Attendees may bring a mat, towel, water and light hand weights. Suggested donation is $5. Call 267-0322.
Jazz class
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Hunchback of Notre Dame I and II, The (US - BD)
Gabe revisits one of Disney's most underrated films and its awful sequel...
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Disney's first three animated features, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Pinocchio, and Fantasia certainly didn't shy away from nightmare imagery and a post-Silent Era sense of expressionistic horror, but the studio only twice chose well-known horror stories as adaptation material. The first time was The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, which was adapted as one-half of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mister Toad. The Disney version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow fully embraced the tropes of theatrical gothic horror while keeping its scares reined in just enough to not alienate the intended audience. The short runtime kept the frightening bits from sinking too far beneath the surface and a good time was had by all. The second time Disney adapted a horror story, they chose Victor Hugo's far more existentially terrifying The Hunchback of Notre Dame – an indomitable dark story about physical deformity, intolerance, prejudice, misogyny, sexual deviancy, physical abuse, and, most terrifying of all, the pains of a broken heart. It's brutal stuff. Given the wild critical and box office success of the long run of animated features that make up the studio's so-called 'Second Renaissance,' Disney was apparently prepared to roll the dice and embrace every inch of it, especially since Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, the directors of the Best Picture-nominated Beauty and the Beast, were behind the production.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a dark film, especially by the Disney animation standards of 1996. The filmmaker's willingness to adopt darkness is the source of the film's greatest strengths and weaknesses. The darkness tends to work well for the genuine heft of the melodrama. Some sequences are positively heartbreaking in a way that wouldn't have worked if the production shied away from the story's more horrifying aspects. Sometimes, the lack of shyness is a bit shocking, as in the case of the film's notorious centerpiece song, 'Hellfire' – the villain's furious ode to his sexual desires. The darkness becomes a weakness when the production loses its nerve and rolls out tonally uneven comedic relief in the form of three gargoyles voiced by Charles Kimbrough, Jason Alexander, and Mary Wickes. Besides throwing the film's tone all out of whack, the gargoyles also aren't very funny. I suppose the fact that they might not be real and merely a figment of Quasimodo's emotionally disturbed imagination is actually more depressing than anything implicitly stated throughout the film. Perhaps they aren't funny because Quasimodo is too sad to be funny. The gargoyles are also a symptom of a bigger overall problem where serious subject matter is suddenly treated as traditionally cartoony. Likely the worst mismanagement of tone is the scene where the gargoyles sing Quasimodo a light-hearted, jazzy ditty about how great he is as Paris burns under Frollo's tyranny.
Obvious tonal problems aside, The Hunchback of Notre Dame may be Disney's most underrated animated feature. It's an incredibly brave and beautiful production that comes awfully close to the kind of artistic ambition too often muffled by the studio's need to make money and appeal to the widest possible audience. The unexpectedly creepy/downtrodden subject matter and willingness to embrace the religious iconography of the story are only pieces of the puzzle. Hunchback of Notre Dame is possibly the closest the studio ever got to a true opera – where the story is actually told through song and where song can break into spoken dialogue, rather than being entirely separate entities. The approach is never entirely embraced, but we get a glimpse of what might have been during the opening number, 'The Bells of Notre Dame.' This intro, where Clopin the clown tells Quasimodo's back-story, is so musically melodramatic and visually vivid that it turns emotionally overwhelming and sets a bar the rest of the film can never quite meet.
Hunchback of Notre Dame II
This second film is an unusually chintzy production, even by STV standards. Disney's early STV animation sequels, specifically the Aladdin sequels, looked pretty rough, but once they started getting attention, they really upped the animation quality. Somewhere around Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (also directed by Bradley Raymond in 1998 – two years before Hunchback II was completed), they managed to find a middle ground between multi-million dollar theatrical output and perfectly acceptable B-product. You can always tell the difference between the original and the STV sequel, but usually the animation work is better than average. Hunchback of Notre Dame II's animation is rivaled even by some of the studio's weekly television output. The characters are slightly off-model, their movements are stilted (including long, contemplative pauses), optical zooms are used in place of animated camera moves, animation cycles are over-used, and painted highlights float around between frames. Much of the film also appears to be animated on 'twos', meaning there are only 12 frames per second, rather than 24 (sometimes, movements are sped-up in a failed attempt to cover the lack of frames). And it doesn't just look cheap – it looks old.
Shockingly, the production managed to bring back the entire surviving cast, including Demi Moore and Kevin Kline (which might be an expression of how quickly their careers had dropped in the six years between films) and even added the still hot Haley Joel Osment and Jennifer Love Hewitt. I could barely tell you anything about the film's plot, because it was all so mawkish that I felt like I was watching a Sunday morning Christian propaganda piece. Basically, Quasimodo has taken on the role of nanny to Esmeralda and Phoebus' son, which is among the most insulting situations the character could end up in, following the events of the first film. Not only does the poor sap lose the girl, he has to take care of her lovechild. Anyway, events eventually lead our hero to a place where he gets to have a girlfriend. It's awful, but it is mercifully short – under an hour without credits.
My expectations of these post-digital, giant-budget, Disney Blu-ray releases are set high enough that it's hard to even find anything to say beyond, 'Wow, this looks great.' Hunchback of Notre Dame's new, 1080p, 1.66:1 transfer is no exception to the rule and…um, wow, it looks great. Things start with a nice detail upgrade. The image is so sharp that it even gives away surprising 'shortcomings' in the cell animation, such as a sketchy quality to Phoebus' hair. The 3D digital characters that fill out the backgrounds of crowd shots also have issues blending with the hand drawn animation – something I never noticed while watching the film on television or DVD. The overall palette is often quite dark for a Disney film, with large sections of the story taking place during overcast skies, dusk, dawn, or dead of night. The base palette is made up of mostly blues and purples, which are contrasted by fiery oranges. The occasional daylight sequence is incredibly vibrant, but the more common dark sequences are given pop via various characters' trademark wardrobe items, such as Esmeralda's pink scarf, Frollo's rings, and Phoebus' yellow armor. The backgrounds are among the most consistently complex of any animated feature I've ever seen. In 1080p, the fine lines of the buildings are incredibly crisp and the painted gradations are smooth without banding effects. When comparing the older DVD release to the Blu-ray, the biggest upgrade is the clarity of the Festival of Fools sequence. Wonky-looking CG characters aside, there's just so much going on here that the compressed image turns fuzzy with digital artefacts, especially when colourful confetti is thrown into the mix. On Blu-ray I see no real signs of compression or blocking effects.
It's hard to judge how much of the sub-par image quality of Hunchback of Notre Dame II's 1080p, 1.78:1 transfer is truly a lack of caring on Disney's part and how much is just crummy animation. The basic image quality is strong enough to support the former theory. It's surprising how grainy the image is and how often print damage artefacts appear. It really does look like an older film than the original and all the cell dirt and scratches certainly don't help matters. But, the colours are quite vivid without digital compression issues and solidly separated (assuming the cell paint isn't running). Details are also strong, though detail isn't really an important part of this simplified production. Instead of the sharpness making the difference in busier painted details, this HD image reveals the actual texture of the paint strokes and paper.
This new, uncompressed DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 immediately begins to show off its richly layered, multi-channel abilities with the bells, organs, and droning male chorus of Alan Menken's opening score. The centered vocals during the more incidental 'storytelling' songs are a bit loud and occasionally overpower the underlying music. This isn't a problem for the bigger show-tune moments, where the sheer quantity of instruments and back-up vocals create so much noise there's no chance for the lead vocals to banish anything. 'Hellfire' features the most in the way of additional sound effects; mostly, you know, fire, which blazes violently from the stereo and surround channels. Non-musical moments where the track impresses include the horrifying bit where Quasimodo is pelted with vegetables (the jeers of the crowd engulf the viewer while chunks of salad fly in from various channels), the proceding chase (which is heightened by the film's most cartoonish sound effects), various storm sequences, and, of course, ringing church bells.
Hunchback of Notre Dame II sounds fine, I guess, in lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, but the weak budget certainly rears its head in terms of a really thin sense of ambience and immersion. There is one brief bit where Quasimodo invites his new girlfriend to 'listen to the sounds of Paris' and the channels are inundated with bells and laughter, along with some storm sounds and scenes with minor crowd noise, but these are exceptions. The effects work is largely canned, too, including really obvious pieces of sound straight from a digital sound effect library. The music sounds decent (you know, for bad music) and is convincingly symphonic, rather than synthetic or electronic, though the singing center channel is almost always cranked a hair too loud.
As is tradition with these double-film Blu-rays, all of the extras were available on previous DVD releases. The Hunchback of Notre Dame extras begin with a commentary track featuring producer Don Hahn and directors Kirk Wise & Gary Trousdale. This is another one of those well-prepared Disney animation commentaries with the behind-the-scenes story of the film unraveling in a relatively screen-specific manner. Fortunately, this is one of the more lively examples of the usual approach. The participants, specifically the directors, have a charming repartee and a good sense of humour about the project. They also don't spend an excess of energy patting backs. They give credit where it is due and move on. The most interesting aspects of the track pertain to the changes that were made to the film during production. It seems that there were two movies being made – a heavy version and a light version. This perhaps explains the uneven tone and also reveals the fact that the film could've been much, much worse. There's also a nice bit where they discuss preparing themselves to defend the naughtiness of 'Hellfire' to the Disney heads, which proved unnecessary when their bosses loved the sequence.
The Making of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (28:00, SD) is a made for TV behind-the-scene featurette hosted by a super-obnoxious Jason Alexander. The whole thing is very fluffy, EPK material, but does eventually include some information about the adaptation process, casting, animation, computer enhancement, music, and design/art direction. These extras end with a multi-language reel (3:20, SD) and trailers for other Disney releases.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame II extras include a behind-the-scenes featurette/extended trailer hosted by Jennifer Love Hewitt (4:50, SD) and A Gargoyle's Life: It's Not Easy Being a Gargoyle (2:40, SD).
Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame really does deserve a second look. It seems to have been largely forgotten in the pantheon of the studio's 'Second Renaissance,' because it's kind of weird and not very kid friendly – not because it's genuinely bad. It is certainly uneven (the comedy doesn't really work at all), but, at its heights, it stands proudly among the best the studio has to offer. The sequel, on the other hand, is possibly the worst STV Disney animated sequel I've ever seen. But you can just pretend that's an extra on this two-movie Blu-ray set. Actual extras are a bit thin, but the A/V quality of the original film is top tier stuff.
* Note the images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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I've read the book but from the book I got "everybody and everything is awful, so put up with it because it's not gonna change." This film seems to argue that if you look attractive enough you will be rewarded. Compassion and human decency? Ha-ha-ha, nice one!
It's more or less the theme of the original story – because it's a horror story. Which is why it's odd they chose to adapt it.
"Hey, kids - if don't look dashing you as well kill yourselves as you will never be loved" was the message I picked up from this film. Needless to say, I didn't like it.
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Release Date: 12th March 2013
Discs: 3
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: Various
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French and Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish and French
Extras: Filmmaker's Commentary, The Making of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Multi-Language Reel, Behind the Scenes with Jennifer Love Hewitt, A Gargoyle's Life, Trailers, DVD Copies
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise, Bradley Raymond
Cast: Tom Hulce, Tony Jay,Demi Moore, Kevin Kline, Michael McKean, Jason Alexander, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Haley Joel Osment
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Musical and Romance
Length: 169 minutes
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Officials eye carp to clear watermilfoil
Big, weed-eating, non-breeding fish may be unleashed on Candlewood Lake within a year or two to chomp at one of the lake's worst problems -- its infestation of Eurasian watermilfoil.
What's slowing the project now is a state regulation that needs to be changed. If that happens -- as it may this year -- there could be sterile grass carp in Candlewood in 2015.
Area leaders said on the whole they favor the plan, especially compared to the alternative of controlling the watermilfoil using herbicides or mechanical harvesters.
"Our town has the largest share of the lake," said New Fairfield First Selectman Susan Chapman. "I think it's a good idea. It's definitely worth looking into."
New Fairfield is the only town in the state that's used grass carp in a publicly owned body of water -- Ball Pond.
"It's been very successful there," Chapman said.
Area selectmen heard a presentation about the carp at a meeting of the Housatonic Valley Council of Elected Officials last week.
Phyllis Schaer, chairwoman of the Candlewood Lake Authority, and Larry Marsicano, the authority's executive director, spoke at the meeting.
Schaer said the authority, in studying the use of carp, have consulted with state and federal agencies, as well as the Ball Pond Advisory Committee and the Lake Waubeeka Association in Danbury.
She said Tuesday that even stocking carp for a serious infestation of the lake -- with watermilfoil covering about 500 acres of the its 5,420-acre surface -- it would cost about $45,000.
"That's about one-tenth of the cost of herbicides," she said.
Sherman First Selectman Clay Cope Tuesday praised Schaer for her presentation.
"Obviously, this will have to be discussed by our Board of Selectmen," Cope said. "But personally, I think it's sort of a no-brainer."
Brookfield First Selectman Bill Tinsley said the possible solution is "not just cost-effective, but effective in a lot of ways."
Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton said he'd favor the idea as well, but only if FirstLight Power Resources, which owns the lake, supported it.
"They have to put that in writing," Boughton said.
FirstLight spokeswoman Carol Churchill said in an email statement Tuesday that if the towns and the authority got a permit from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, then "we would not oppose it."
But the DEEP permit may prove to be a hang-up.
Peter Aarrestad, director of the fisheries division of the DEEP, said state regulations say before grass carp can be introduced into a body of water, each property owner around the body of water must be individually notified and grant permission.
With so many property owners along the lake's 60 miles of shoreline, that might prove too cumbersome.
"It would be hundreds of people," Marsicano said.
But Aarrestad said the DEEP is in the process of streamlining that regulation, with the changes before the current session of the General Assembly. If approved, they would speed the permitting process for Candlewood Lake.
However, Marsicano said, it does not seem feasible for the legislature to finish its work, and for the authority and the five towns surrounding the lake to complete a permit application to stock the carp, then get DEEP approval, all in one year.
"I think we're looking at the early summer of 2015," he said.
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Cytos Provides Update of Phase 2b Clinical Trial of CYT003 in Allergic Asthma
Guidance for top-line results in 1H 2014 reiterated
Jan 16, 2013, 01:05 ET
SCHLIEREN, Switzerland, January 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Cytos Biotechnology Ltd (SIX:CYTN) today announced an update on the Phase 2b clinical trial with its lead product candidate, CYT003, in allergic asthma. The clinical trial will recruit approximately 360 adult patients with moderate to severe allergic asthma not sufficiently controlled on current standard therapy. The study will be conducted at more than 90 centers in North America and Europe, and is expected to read out top-line data in 1H 2014. Regulatory approvals to conduct the trial have been obtained in various countries in Europe and North America including the United States, where an IND (Investigational New Drug) application has been approved by the US Food & Drug Administration.
In the course of periodic drug quality measurements, a technical issue was identified with the rubber stoppers used to close the injection vials containing the clinical trial material. Cytos will replace this clinical trial material and have new material available at clinical trial sites in Q2 2013.
Overall guidance for the clinical trial remains unchanged. Cytos expects to have top-line data available in the course of 1H 2014 and full data towards the end of 2014.
Christian Itin, Chairman and CEO of Cytos Biotechnology, comments: "We appreciate the support of our investigators and are looking forward to evaluating CYT003 in patients with allergic asthma."
About Cytos Biotechnology Ltd
Cytos is a public biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of targeted immuno-therapies. The Company's lead product candidate CYT003 is a first-in-class biologic in Phase 2 clinical development as a potential new treatment for allergic asthma.
CYT003 acts via a novel, allergen-independent mechanism of action to selectively suppress the body's immune response to allergens, a predominant risk factor for asthma. In a successfully completed Phase 2a study, CYT003 was shown to maintain asthma control and lung function and asthma control in patients with persistent allergic asthma, even as standard inhaled corticosteroid treatment was withdrawn. CYT003 has been shown to be safe in over 450 patients to date.
Cytos was founded in 1995 as a spinoff from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. It is located in Schlieren (Zurich), Switzerland. The Company is listed according to the Main Standard on the SIX Swiss Exchange Ltd under the symbol CYTN.
This foregoing press release may contain forward-looking statements that include words or phrases such as "are intended for", "are designed to", or other similar expressions. These forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of significant uncertainties, including scientific, business, economic and financial factors, and therefore actual results may differ significantly from those presented. There can be no assurance that any further therapeutic entities will enter clinical trials, that clinical trial results will be predictive for future results, that therapeutic entities will be the subject of filings for regulatory approval, that any drug candidates will receive marketing approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or equivalent regulatory authorities, or that drugs will be marketed successfully. Against the background of these uncertainties readers should not rely on forward-looking statements. The Company assumes no responsibility to update forward-looking statements or adapt them to future events or developments.
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Linked by Kaj-de-Vos on Thu 20th Dec 2012 00:22 UTC
As the Syllable project predicted many years ago, version 3 of the REBOL programming language has finally been open sourced, under the Apache 2 licence (screenshot on Syllable Desktop). Also, the alpha version of the high-level Red programming language, supporting Syllable Desktop, has been released, by now in version 0.3.1 (screenshot, demo program, video at the Science Park in Amsterdam).
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by cipri on Mon 24th Dec 2012 17:51 UTC in reply to "RE[11]: Comment by cipri"
Then some people such as yourself went poisonous and tried to sabotage our work.
when i started the discussion by then it was with a good intention, because at that time stagnating and I didnt understand what was going on, and everybody was silent. Just later I understood, that already at this point it was already too late for syllable. In fact there would have been a little chance in that moment of the discussion. At that moment most devs except you, vanders and necroromancist.... where already not supporting you anymore.
You gave youself the title of "co-leader" (next to vanders), even nobody has elected you. Your work was mostly related to scripting and applying the patches of the others, and you stared to imagine that you are a great developer and need to decide the direction of syllable.
Kaj, i dont want to harm you feelings, but as a scripting guy, it's very unlikely that c++ devs, kernel devs, filesystem engineers,... will pop up to follow you and saying:"scripting guy, tell us what to do next."
Even if you can find "long term followers", they will be of about your own skill, or inferior. And with such a "team" of course you can't get anywhere.
The other strategy can be of course to borrow as much as possible from linux, but since syllable is quite buggy and misses a lot of "instrastructure".... the amount and quality of the ported software is (mathematically speaking) bounded.
related to pyro:
I must admit i tried to tell the people from pyro (syllable fork), that it has not much sense to fork a system like syllable that is not in clean compileable state, that is missing a lot of features, buggy, etc.... when they could have forked haiku, which has all goals of syllable (and from which syllable itself tries to copy, or to be compatible with), and which is in a much more advanced state beating syllable in every domain even at scripting (well, except perhaps at... wallpapers, syllable is better at this, since it seems they also put more effort in wallpapers than haiku).
But they insisted on syllable, and to me this behaviour seems like blind syllable-love.
Now kaj, finally, you are the king of syllable, the only problem is that the castle is broken and the servants are gone, and you need to live on credit and it's unsure for how long you can hide that the king is bankrupt.
I have no problem with syllable, but i would like to see real news about syllable and not this kind of fake news, because it reminds me that once, many years ago syllable the little os with a big future, and now it's clinically dead since years popping up with fake news.
If you dont have technical improvements to report, then instead of such fake news, i would really love to see honest interviews with vanders related to technical stuff related to syllable (e.g. he could explain how a native syllable driver differs from a linux one, etc.), related to his decission to step back from syllable. There is a lot of interesting information related to syllable/atheos/pyro that would make a nice read and from whoes history we all could learn something.
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by Kaj-de-Vos on Mon 24th Dec 2012 20:51 in reply to "RE[12]: Comment by cipri"
So let's see... Syllable was great. I was worthless. All the devs left because worthless me was somehow able to chase them away. The devs were united in their disgust of me, so they forked Syllable into Pyro. Seeing that only worthless me was subtracted from the Syllable project, Pyro went on to become a great success and conquer the world.
Hmm, somehow that doesn't add up.
Happy Xmas to you, too.
RE[14]: Comment by cipri
by demetrioussharpe on Tue 25th Dec 2012 03:36 in reply to "RE[13]: Comment by cipri"
So let's see... Syllable was great. I was worthless. All the devs left because worthless me was somehow able to chase them away. The devs were united in their disgust of me, so they forked Syllable into Pyro. Seeing that only worthless me was subtracted from the Syllable project, Pyro went on to become a great success and conquer the world.
Now, you're getting ahead of your self. OS development is hard work. You'd already know this had you actually done any. We'll worry about being a great success & taking over the world AFTER we hammer this code into shape. When that's done, maybe we'll become a huge success, but there's a lot of hard work between then & now. You & I (plus a lot of other people) intimately know that you were a huge part in the neglect of the codebase having features. It's hard to understand why someone who wasn't doing any of the coding had so much 'NO' power concerning certain things. You can only use that word so many times before people stop doing work. It's clear from your attitude & behavior that you have absolutely ZERO leadership skills. However, all of that is besides the point. Instead of trying to push the focus of failure towards us, maybe you should work on your OS.


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