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- Preparing for a standalone Melodyne workflow
- Setting up a session
- Using a live editing approach for vocal correction
- Batch correcting vocals
- Correcting the pitch and rhythm of vocals
- Creating new background parts
- Adding special effects
- Revising an edit in Melodyne Studio
- Changing the tempo of your audio
Skill Level Intermediate
By separating all of our sibilances and pitch changes in advance, we can focus on our corrections without having to stop to make separations as we go. Now, this approach, by separating each note first, can help you, because you can go through the entire vocal if you want, make all the separations, and then go back through and really focus on just catching the pitch. Now, this is a technique that I learned from a really good friend of mine, and I find that I do it even when I'm editing live or in any other mode, I really end up separating first, even if it's just on a phrase by phrase basis. So let's go back into our Edit Window and pick up where we left off on that lead vocal.
So I am going to select Lead vocal and leave it on Play visible. Now, here we can see that the initially selected track is also shown in the background, but it's yellow rather than orange, or in other words, a lighter color of the foreground color, because you can actually change that color in Melodyne if you want. And we will pick up where we left off. I'm just going to quickly listen to what we just did. (music playing) All right. So we need to pick up on, she's got the magic. So from thereon let's finish the verse separating first.
So we'll catch all of our S's, she's got the magic, we got that separated, we got our breaths out, any S's or plosives or anything that we need to separate like this note change here. Separate things like breaths, and basically just go through and separate before we do anything else. So with this approach really our goal is to make everything that we're going to fix ready to be fixed before we actually do any fixing. So here we are in the pre-chorus of the song, still just separating, taking breaths off so they don't get pitch corrected, sibilances, pitch changes.
Now, sometimes you'll try and separate a note in one place, and it will happen in a different place. You can just undo it and zoom in and try again and usually you'll get it the second time. I'm just going to do separations up through the chorus, and then we will go back and pick up where we left off and actually correct those things, so that we can see how separating things in advance will help us. So now I'm going to select our scrollbar on the bottom, which in Melodyne is really useful, because you can see the actual waveform, so you can really easily center your Edit Window to your desired location. So now we're back to where we started separating, and we can go through and start correcting pitches and tightening things up as we go.
(music playing) We can double-click. We can switch tools and tighten up. (music playing) If we want to leave some of that in there, perhaps we want to exaggerate it. We may actually want to make them separate notes. (music playing) And we can also play around with doing certain effects like we did earlier with the Auto Tune-like effect, see what that sounds like here. (music playing) We may or may not want to use that. (music playing) In this case probably not, it's a little early in the song to introduce that, but it's always worth trying, because you never know if you're going to like it, or you might stumble upon something that's actually more useful than you might have thought.
(music playing) Again, here I can select several notes in a phrase all at once and double-click to get them all to the center pitch. (music playing) Now tighten up parts of the line. I'm going to change this drift a little bit to make it not quite so noticeable. And I'm going to leave this section here, because I kind of like a little bit about vibrato, but I'm going to tighten it up. So essentially I'm separating that last note, and I'm going to use the Option, or Alt key, to drag it up a little bit sharper, so that the bottom of that vibrato kind of matches the curve of the earlier part of that pitch.
Now, you'll notice that as I drag it... (music playing) ...you can hear the pitch being played, if you will, and you can hear that the pitch changes. And this is a really handy thing, because you can hear the pitch for the note that you're moving so that you can get it just dialed in to right where you want it. And you can actually turn this off if you find it annoying, or you don't want to use it. So you don't actually have to hear the pitch as you move the note. So if you do want to turn that off, you can go to the Melodyne > Preferences, and on the Other tab you can choose to unselect Monitor Note Pitch on Editing.
And now when you move the note, you will no longer hear it making any sound as you move it. I actually do kind of like it, because it's useful even though it is somewhat annoying, so I'm going to turn it back on. And we're just going to continue editing here. (music playing) Okay. So on the line because what she got, there's some stuff we want to tighten up in there. (music playing) And this is a good example for a normal type of usage, because the vocal is already pretty close to what we're going to want in our end result.
Our vocalist is really good, we're just tightening up little things to make it match what we hear as far as what this pop song needs production wise. So I'm just tightening it up a little bit here and there, snapping certain notes into place. We can also use our Pitch Drift tool, tilt the note in certain cases where we want it to start a little closer to the center and end a little closer to the center. We can use our Pitch Modulation tool if we want to tighten up the actual modulation of the note over time. We're just going to go through and kind of correct all the stuff now that we have already separated where those pitch changes happen. (music playing) Notice a few things that are definitely not right there now that I have changed them, so let's fix them.
(music playing) We'll see if that's better. (music playing) I think this note might need to be up there. (music playing) That was right the first time. (music playing) There we go. (music playing) We can also try doing pitch bends in the middle. (music playing) Kind of just get the inflection that you want to get, and for this we'll probably keep it a little tighter.
(music playing) And maybe I don't want a pitch bend on this part of the note, so maybe I'll tighten it up and make the whole thing a little bit more straight. (music playing) And maybe this sounds a little too tuned on the word got. That went a little too far, so I can try softening up the transition, which is better, or I can just back off the Pitch Modulation and drift edits that I made, by going to Edit Pitch and Reset Modulation and Drift to Original, or I could just choose Reset All Pitch Related Changes to Original.
And again, if you find yourself using these frequently, you may want to set a shortcut of your own for them. So I'm going to do the same thing that I did, but just a little softer so that it's not quite as noticeable. (music playing) And again, I'll probably soften up that transition and keep moving on. (music playing) Already pretty close here. I'm going to grab certain sections in one pass. (music playing) Pretty good. I'm just going to tighten up the Pitch Drift a little bit better there.
(music playing) And maybe one more there. (music playing) I actually kind of like the vibrato big, so I might start the vibrato a little softer so that it has a chance to grow. (music playing) Got a few things here we want to fix a little bit. So we're just using that double-clicking technique for now. There are definitely other ways to do it, which we'll look at in a minute. (music playing) So this pitch is too sharp, so I'll just click it and drag it down.
(music playing) That was too sharp as well. (music playing) And again, once we get the basic shape of the melody where we want it, we can just start tightening it up and getting it into the realm that we want. Now, in some songs--maybe not a pop song like this-- you may not want it to be as tight or as tune sounding. And if that's the case, that's one of the best uses for Melodyne, because it can help you do little pitch corrections like that without actually overdoing them or making them sound fake. Granted in a pop song like this Melodyne is really powerful, but using it in a more natural context is also a really powerful way to use Melodyne.
(music playing) I'm going to zoom out a little so I can see this phrase a little faster. (music playing) So again, a couple of note separations that it looks like I did catch, I thought I hadn't, and I'm just going to make sure all these bottom notes are on the same place. Some of them I want to tighten up just a hair, because they get a little bit sharp at the end. (music playing) And again, here we'll make these top notes land in the right place.
That's the main notes here. (music playing) I'm pretty much where we want to be. I might actually reset that one and actually reset the Pitch Modulation that I changed as well. And instead of changing the Pitch Modulation, another approach is just to make the entire note a little bit flatter so that the peak of the pitch stays where you want it to stay. So now, the note center itself is actually flat, but because the Pitch Modulation goes sharp, we have now made that section of the pitch land in the right place.
(music playing) A little bit flat, so split the difference, and you can always listen as you move the notes. (music playing) And there we are in the chorus of the song. So this technique is often the best approach for making sure that all the note changes and sibilance are addressed as you go, and that you don't miss any, but there are obviously endless ways to approach editing a vocal, or anything, in Melodyne. So you'll probably find other ways that you want to work, and you'll probably want to go back and double check your work anyway no matter which approach you use.


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2015- 2016
Hello members of the Hispanic Caucus. Let me introduce myself and the new HC Board members. I am the new president of the Hispanic Caucus. The new HC board members were installed at the November 2015 ASHA HC meeting.
My name is Linda I. Rosa-Lugo and I am an Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida. I have been a member of HC for a long time and have served as VP for Professional Practice under Melissa Garcia, Past President. The new board and I have been busy behind the scenes discussing the mission and vision of the HC as well as new areas of interest and initiatives.
We are working on a new website and Facebook page that will allow greater interaction with our members and potential members. Please stay tuned as we keep you updated.
Here is our new board! Click on Meet the Board and Committees for our contact information and to find out more about us.
President: Linda I. Rosa-Lugo
2016 ASHA Convention
The 2016 ASHA Convention will be held at the Pennsylvania
Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
November 17–19, 2016.
The call for papers has been announced. For more information please see http://www.asha.org/events/convention/. The Hispanic Caucus hopes to see you all there – we will
post information on our member meeting as the time draws nearer.
Updating The ASHA Hispanic Caucus on YouTube
In 2012-2013 one of our past presidents, John Consalvi launched our very own YouTube Channel, found at this URL YouTube.com/AshaHispanicCaucus
We will be updating this site and adding new videos as they are submitted to us. We look forward to sharing these resources.
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The Hispanic Caucus is excited to announce a new, convenient way for you to join! Fill out and submit the online membership application and pay your dues securely over the internet using PayPal.
Click here for more details!
As We Work on Updating Our Hispanic Caucus Facebook page our primary concern remains, to connect and share information:
Join us on the Hispanic Caucus Facebook page. We welcome you to make announcements, pose questions, share information, and network on the Hispanic Caucus Online Forum. All you need is a free, g-mail account to register and participate. This feature is powered by Google and allows you to receive e-mails, or periodic e-mail digests, of activity on the forum. (Not a regular g-mail user? You can create an account and forward your g-mail messages to your regular account. After you've registered, from the main page simply click: "settings > forwarding and POP/IMAP" and enter the address where you would like your messages forwarded.)
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TQF#23 has science fiction from Wayne Summers and John Greenwood, fantasy from Richard K. Lyon & Andrew J. Offutt, horror from Anna M. Lowther and John Hall, and reviews galore. Altogether, there are 52,534 words of free reading material in this magazine (but no one will blame you for skipping the 4,394-word editorial).
Language: English
Written in: 2008
Published: 2008-12-30
Word count: 52,691 words (≈ about 4 hours)
Tags: science fiction, fantasy, horror, magazine, tqf
Stephen Theaker is the co-editor and publisher of Theaker's Quarterly Fiction, and the compiler of the British Fantasy Society's review magazine, Shelflings. His reviews have appeared in Interzone, Black Static, Prism and the British Fantasy Society Journal. His novels are not well-regarded.


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Spices may protect against consequences of high blood sugar
Herbs and spices are rich in antioxidants, and a new University of Georgia study suggests they are also potent inhibitors of tissue damage and inflammation caused by high levels of blood sugar.
A lack of knowledge
Most college students understand how they can prevent the transmission of HIV but are less knowledgeable about HIV testing, according to a new University of Georgia study.
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In the Southeast, thrips are tomato and pepper farmers' No. 1 enemy.
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OverviewMania is a mental illness characterized by an excessively elated mental state and hyperactivity that is out of proportion to reality. In this state, common sense inhibitions may be lost and excessive risk-taking behavior may be manifest. Depending on severity of symptoms, mania may be classified as psychotic or nonpsychotic (hypomania).
A useful online overview can be found at wikipedia; the definitive printed reference is the DSM-5 manual, which is not freely available online.
It is outside Dr. Weyrich's scope to prescribe anti-psychotic drugs to treat mania, but Dr. Weyrich can provide adjunctive therapies that may be very beneficial, and allow the doctors prescribing anti-psycotics to minimize the doses (and side effects).
Mania may be benefited by balancing neurotransmitter and sulfur-containing amino acid levels in the body, particularly serotonin, dopamine, and cysteine, through targeted nutrition guided by lab testing [Hinz2015] . Dr. Weyrich has been trained in the Neuro-Research protocols and offers these nutritional protocols as a complement to other therapies.
In addition, Neuro-feedback may also be useful for treating persons prone to mania. Neuro-feedback is a form of biofeedback based on using Quantitative Electro-encephalography (QEEG) to obtain a "brain-map" of the patient, which is then compared to a database of "normal" brain-maps of age-and-gender-matched individuals. Neuro-feedback techniques are then used to teach the patient how to "restructure" the activity of his/her own brain to match the corresponding normative database brain-maps. Dr. Weyrich has been certified in Neuro-feedback since 2008, and recently completed an additional residency training program at ADD Clinic of Scottsdale, AZ.
Note that brain-mapping, neuro-feedback, nutritional supplements and testing are not covered by most insurance policies, but may be eligible for payment out of Health Care Savings Accounts.
However, the greatest impediment to treatment of mania is that the patient is often uncooperative and unwilling to be treated. Psychotic mania is often treated either as an in-patient or as a court-ordered supervised out-patient. Under these circumatances, balancing neurotransmitters and neuro-feedback techniques may be difficult to implement.
EtiologyThe cause of mania is poorly understood, but some practioners have noted an association between hypothyroidism, adrenal insufficiency, and mania; treatment of these disorders appears to also benefit mania [Zondek1944a; Starr2005, pg 124].
Differential Diagnosis
- Lyme Disease
- Bipolar Disorder
- Depression
- Hypomania
- Cyclothymia
- Mania may or may not have psychotic symptoms.
- Mania may be mis-diagnosed when the underlying disorder is actually bipolar or cyclothymia, if only manic states have been observed.
- Hypothyroid
- Adrenal Insufficiency or Fatigue
- Vitamin B12 deficiency [stuart2006].
- Drug intoxication, e.g. cocaine or methamphetamine abuse, or side effects of SSRIs
ICD-10 Codes
- F30.10 Manic episode without psychotic symptoms, unspecified
- F30.11 Manic episode without psychotic symptoms, mild
- F30.12 Manic episode without psychotic symptoms, moderate
- F30.13 Manic episode, severe, without psychotic symptoms
- F30.2 Manic episode, severe with psychotic symptoms
- F30.3 Manic episode in partial remission
- F30.4 Manic episode in full remission
- F30.8 Manic episode, other
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Skip to comments.Sexism isn't a issue for liberals if the target is a GOP woman like Sarah Palin or Michele
Posted on 02/03/2011 3:02:51 AM PST by Scanian
Just this week, notorious camera hog Sen. Chuck Schumer said perhaps the dumbest thing I have ever heard a politician say.
In attempting to make a point about how the organs of power on Capitol Hill need to work together to prevent a government shutdown, Schumer reconfigured the three branches of government. "You know," he said, "we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President." It should be noted that this isn't the model described in most civics textbooks, which list the three branches as legislative, executive and judiciary.
Now imagine if a Republican had said that. Better yet, a Republican woman. She would be called stupid. She would be mocked on cable news and spoofed on "Saturday Night Live." Her credibility would be questioned, and if she were attractive, she'd be discounted as a dingbat or a bimbo.
But that's not the case here. Schumer's gaffe was met with little fanfare or ridicule from the mainstream media. His interviewer, Candy Crowley, a shrewd veteran journalist, didn't even question his error.
Granted, mistakes are made on live television. And Schumer was probably tired. People in the public eye talk so much that they are prone to more verbal flubs than the rest of us. For example, when President Obama said there were 51 states, and mispronounced corpsman ("corpse-man," he said). But while Republican women like Sarah Palin and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) have been impaled for lesser missteps, Schumer and Obama can always expect a pass.
GOP women have been called names for doing a lot less than Schumer, or for doing nothing at all: Former California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, for one, was called a whore during the midterms.
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English is dead.
English is dead.
First thing I noticed BUT the newspaper usually chooses the headline, title or whatever you want to call it.
No Obama said there were 57 states
"this isn't the model described in most civics textbooks"
...True. The NEA is working for civics textbooks to say Obama, Michelle and Hillary make up the 3 branches.
He said there were 57 states. Journalism is dead too.
I can think of plenty of other things, even excluding momentary brain lapses like "57 states". How about Biden claiming FDR reasured the country by going on TV in 1929 (3+ years before he bacame president and 20 years before the country had TV). Then there's Sen. Patty Murry (D-WA) who shortly after 9/11/2001 that Osama Bin Laden was popular in Afghanistan because he built hospitals and day care centers. Can't think of anything a pol has ever said that was dumber than that.
How about misattributing the quote on the rug in the Oval Office?
Guess I missed that one. Hard to beat OBL building day care centers though. It shows such a collosal ignorance of fundamentalsst Islam, it's just plain scary to think someone that dumb is still a Senator almost 10 years later.
The left of center NYDaily News writes such a column. I guess they're getting in on the Sarah Palin sells newspaper act with a twist to the right.
This entire ordeal is begging for an historical study.
You are playing my song.
Lefties are all haters but the most vicious are homosexuals, the epicenter being the "Gay Mafia" that runs the NY Times.
Don't read the "comments" there.
These authors buy their degrees from Amazon... $19.95 plus shipping.
It's not a dumb senator who is to blame. It is a dumb electorate.
The most outspoken feminists appear to be ugly bull dykes.
"Stand up Chuck"..."Oh, God Love you!"
Biden @ his best.
All women are Dems and want abortions and socialism. If they don't they must be destroyed.
Pray for Egypt
Does anyone really believe Eye Candy Crowley would have questioned his error even if she knew it was an error?
Sen. Chuck Schumer is an idiot. he should be dismissed from the senate s a know nothing nobody. We have first graders that can correct him on that statement.
Evidently, you don't buy Chucky's claim that he scored a perfect 1600 on his SAT's?
There was either "special sauce" added to that number or Chuck suffered some unfortunate intracranial accident since his younger years.
Judging from the mountain of lies we've observed from that side of the isle, the huge lack of principles that make up their mojo, and the usual antisocial, wolf-like stare Chucky is unable to disguise..it's not hard to deduct that he somehow juiced his numbers a tad.
Yes, conservative women deserve to be abused is the mantra of the left.
Just like the women suffragettes were fed broth with worms and raped while imprisoned.
Leftists are insane.
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Very much into drawing with colored pencils lately! Here are som works in progress from my instagram.
Happy friday peoples!
I had the pleasure of working with the Adam&Eva hairdressers this fall, creating their spring campaign! Such a fun and exciting project!
It is finally out now, so swing by a salon to check it out!
Click here to see the rest of campaign in the gallery.
Out in salons now x
some quick warm-up sketches i ended up quite liking. x
Happy saturday x
Easing in to the new year with a hair study! Happy 2015, peoples!
For semi-daily updates, feel free to follow me on instagram, im @esrarois!
SO excited to be working with one of my absolute favorites, Stella McCartney, for the launch of "Stella Superheroes" at Farfetch earlier this month.
See the full series in the gallery. (photos courtesy of Vogue.com and Stellamccartney.com )


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AP Poll: Obama pulls away to 7-point lead
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama has surged to a seven-point lead over John McCain one month before the presidential election, lifted by voters who think the Democrat is better suited to lead the nation through its sudden financial crisis, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that underscores the mounting concerns of some McCain backers.
Obama grabs lead in key swing states
By STEVEN R. HURST
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new poll released Wednesday showed Democrat Barack Obama pulling ahead of Republican opponent John McCain in the key swing states of Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania, as their vice presidential running mates were sequestered in preparations for a much-anticipated debate.
In a separate poll by The Associated Press and GfK, Obama surged to a seven-point lead, 48-41 percent, nationally a dramatic shift from an AP-GfK survey that gave McCain a slight edge nearly three weeks ago.
But since the presidential election is won on a state-by-state basis rather than a nationwide popular vote, Obama's lead in the swing states in a survey by Quinnipiac University may be more telling.
The Quinnipiac survey over the weekend showed Obama's support had jumped to 50 percent or above in the must-win states, reflecting voter preferences after he and McCain held their first presidential debate last week.
The new survey shows Obama leading McCain in Florida 51 percent to 43 percent, in Ohio 50 percent to 42 percent and in Pennsylvania 54 percent to 39 percent. Since 1960, no president has been elected without winning two of those three states.
Another poll, by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, found that Obama had expanded his lead to seven points, 49-42. In Pew's previous round of questioning, Obama was leading by just two points, 46-44.
The new polls was only the latest bump in the campaign trail for McCain, who is trying to retake control of the contest during particularly trying times for Republicans, who were largely blamed for the House of Representatives' rejection of the Bush administration's $700 billion plan to rescue the teetering American financial system.
That vote on Monday caused the stock market to plunge 778 points the largest one-day point decline in history.
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The reduced rhetoric appeared to be part of an effort by both candidates to improve chances for passage of the legislation and to project themselves as statesmen in the midst of crisis.
McCain spoke at the Truman Library and Museum in Missouri.
"Crises often have a way of revealing our better selves of showing what we are made of, and how much we can achieve when we are put to the test. This is true as well of the grave challenges we face in Washington. Yet it should not require extreme emergencies when the future of our entire economy is on the line to bring out the best in us, or to bring us together in service to the common good," McCain said.
Obama picked up the bipartisan tone, telling an audience in Wisconsin that he realized Americans were "cynical and fed up with politics. I understand that you're disappointed and even angry with your leaders. You have every right to be.
"But despite all of this, I ask you to believe believe in this country and your ability to change it," he said.
With fewer than five weeks remaining in what has been an extended and brutal contest for the White House, the top issue for voters is the staggering U.S. economy, which has slammed Americans with home mortgage foreclosures, job losses, record fuel prices and evaporating retirement savings.
The rescue plan the Senate was to vote on Wednesday included a measure, called for a day earlier by both candidates, that would increase the federal government guarantee on bank accounts to $250,000 from a limit of $100,000.
As the Senate prepared to vote, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was at McCain's Sedona, Arizona, compound to bone up for Thursday's only debate between vice presidential candidates. Her opponent in the face-off, Sen. Joe Biden, meanwhile, was preparing at his Delaware home, but also planned to return to Washington for the vote.
The House was thought preparing to take a fresh run at the rescue plan put forward by the administration of President George W. Bush 11 days ago, although no vote is yet scheduled.
Perhaps sensing deepening voter anxiety over the economy, both men had already begun working on Tuesday to cool the partisan heat over the crisis by calling for Congress to regroup and act quickly to prevent the feared financial collapse and foster confidence in the banking system.
Both presidential candidates are under pressure to reassure voters that they can prevent an economic meltdown of a kind unseen since Franklin D. Roosevelt was voted into the White House in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.
Also Wednesday, former President Bill Clinton set aside whatever bitter feelings he holds from wife Hillary Rodham Clinton's loss in the Democratic primary campaign, telling Florida voters the choice between his fellow Democrat and McCain was not even close. Clinton was dispatched to boost a voter registration drive in the key battleground state.
"Here's why you ought to be for Barack Obama," Clinton told a crowd in Orlando. "He's got better answers. Better answers for the economy, for energy, for health care, for education. He knows what it will take to get this country back on track."
Likely voters now back Obama 48-41 percent over McCain, a dramatic shift from an AP-GfK survey that gave the Republican a slight edge nearly three weeks ago, before Wall Street collapsed and sent ripples across worldwide markets. On top of that, unrelated surveys show Obama beating McCain in several battlegrounds, including Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania three states critical in the state-by-state fight for the presidency.
Several GOP strategists close to McCain's campaign privately fret that his chances for victory are starting to slip away.
These Republicans, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid angering the campaign, point to several factors: Obama's gains nationally and in traditionally GOP states, no McCain gain from the first debate, McCain's struggles with economic issues as the financial crisis has unfolded and deepening public skepticism about his running mate, Sarah Palin.
They said McCain's options for shaking up the race are essentially limited to game-changing performances in the final presidential debates or in Palin's vice presidential debate with Joe Biden Thursday night. Short of that, they said, McCain can do little but hope Obama stumbles or an outside event breaks the GOP nominee's way.
Democrats hope Obama is starting to build a lasting lead.
"We have a light optimism," said David Redlawsk, a delegate to the Democratic National Convention who teaches political science at the University of Iowa. "We've already learned in the last several weeks that we can be whipsawed back very, very quickly."
Not all Republican insiders are pessimistic.
Obama's failure to achieve a double-digit lead and maintain it "has given a lot of hope to Republicans," GOP pollster Whit Ayres said. Yet he also allowed, "You can't have a playing field that leans this heavily toward the Democrats and not be nervous."
Added Neil Newhouse, also a Republican pollster: "If anybody thinks we're in for a straightforward next month of this campaign all they have to do is look back at the last 30 days" of topsy turvy developments.
To be sure, the election is still a month away, plenty of time for anything to happen in politics.
Yet the AP-GfK poll shows McCain faces substantial hurdles.
With the perilous financial situation at the forefront of voters' minds, 60 percent in the survey say it's more important to them to choose a president who would make the right economic decisions than a commander in chief who would make the right decisions on national security. Obama leads among economic voters, with 63 percent support, while McCain is ahead among security voters, with 73 percent.
As the two senators prepared to vote late Wednesday on the administration's $700 billion bailout plan, 16 percent of likely voters said they thought McCain hurt negotiations over the proposal when he bolted back to Washington last week to get involved. Just 5 percent thought Obama did damage when he returned after a summons by President Bush to attend a White House meeting on the crisis.
McCain also lost ground among likely voters on experience, though he still leads on the issue, while Obama's marks ticked up slightly. And McCain slid a bit as voters measured which candidate "cares about people like me," while Obama gained.
Adding to McCain's woes, just 25 percent of likely voters say Palin has the right experience to be president if needed, a huge drop from 41 percent in the previous poll last month. She posted an enormous loss in confidence among Republicans; three in four had called her experienced enough before, but not even half say that now.
"If she was running the helm, she wouldn't know what she's doing," said Caitlyn Pardue, a Republican from Rohnert Park, Calif., who decided last week that she probably would vote for Obama after determining that Palin "doesn't have the breadth of knowledge." Pardue, 60, called McCain's selection of Palin "pretty ill-advised" and added: "It shows irresponsibility to me."
In Port Orange, Fla., Jaimye Strickland just decided this week that she'll probably support McCain even though she's "hoping and praying" he doesn't end up following Bush's path. "I'm afraid of Obama," the Republican, age 56, said. "He doesn't have the experience that McCain does." She also said she worries that "he has some Muslim ties," even though she knows he's a Christian.
Outwardly, McCain's campaign expresses optimism, and advisers say they expect the race to reset itself several more times.
But privately some advisers acknowledge the difficult seas he is trying to navigate as the economy dominates the race. The Republican has previously agreed that the subject is not his forte, and historically the party in power loses elections during economic recessions.
Seeking traction, McCain sought to change the story line as the week began by questioning Obama's character, particularly during a crisis.
"A vote for Senator Obama will leave this country at risk," McCain said in a scathing speech. "We need a president who will always tell the American people the truth. ... Country first or Obama first?"
Efforts also were under way Wednesday that suggested McCain and the Republican National Committee would start ramping up TV advertising and going on the air in more media markets to close the spending gap in Florida, Missouri and other key states. Industry officials say Obama is shelling out $13 million this week compared with $11 million by McCain and the RNC combined.
Meanwhile, it appears Obama may be padding his edge in the Electoral College vote count in battleground states.
Polls show he has started pulling away from McCain in pivotal vote-rich states that Democrat John Kerry won four years ago and that McCain has made targets this year, including Michigan and Pennsylvania. Surveys also show that Obama is a few percentage points or more ahead in Ohio and Florida, two critical states that Bush won four years ago and that McCain must retain to have any hope of winning the White House.
Quinnipiac University surveys released Wednesday found that Obama's support jumped to 50 percent or more in three of those states: Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania. Combined, they offer 68 of the 270 electoral votes needed for victory on Nov. 4. New CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corp. polls also showed Obama ahead in Nevada, Virginia, Minnesota and Florida, and tied in Missouri.
At the same time, McCain and his Republicans find themselves in the undesirable position of having to defend traditionally GOP states they hadn't anticipated would be competitive. Obama successfully put Indiana, Virginia and North Carolina into play by pouring money and manpower into the states at levels until recently unmatched by Republicans.
The AP-GfK poll involved telephone interviews of a nationwide sample of 1,160 adults, including 808 likely voters, from Saturday through Tuesday. Interviews were conducted on both landline and cell phones. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points, 3.4 percentage points for likely voters.
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Before Bob McKeon, owner of PictureItOnCanvas.com, ran his first Groupon offer he processed between 100 and 150 canvas prints per month. He was a one-man shop, working with only three part-timers in an 800-square-foot space carved out of a San Diego winery. While he wasn't getting rich, life was good, he said today at the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition 2011 in San Diego. "At four o'clock I'd have a glass of wine and put my feet up on my desk," he said.
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Avnet Inc. (AVT)
Q4 2008 Earnings Call
August 6, 2008 2:00 pm ET
Vincent Keenan - Vice President of Investor Relations
Roy Vallee - Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Raymond Sadowski - Chief Financial Officer
Rick Hamada - Chief Operating Officer
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Vincent Keenan - Vice President of Investor Relations
Good afternoon and welcome to Avnet's Fourth Quarter Fiscal Yearend 2008 Corporate Update. If you are listening by telephone today and have not accessed the slides that accompany this presentation, please go to our website, www.ir.avnet.com and click on the icon announcing today's events.
In addition to disclosing financial results that are determined in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principals, or GAAP, the company also discloses non-GAAP results of operations that exclude certain items. Reconciliations of the company's analysis of results to GAAP can be found in the Form 8-K filed with the SEC today and with several of the slides in this presentation and on Avnet's Investor Relations website.
As we provide the highlights for our fourth quarter and fiscal yearend 2008, please note that we had excluded restructuring, integration and other items from both the current and prior year period in the accompanying presentation and slides. Additionally in discussing pro forma sales or organic growth prior periods are adjusted to include acquisition.
Before we get started with the presentation from Avnet management, I would like to review Avnet's Safe Harbor statement.
This presentation contains certain forward-looking statements which are statements addressing future financial and operating results of Avnet. Listed on this slide are several factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. More detailed information about these and other factors are set forth in Avnet's filings with the SEC.
In just a few moments, Roy Vallee, Avnet's Chairman and CEO, will provide Avnet's fourth quarter and fiscal yearend 2008 highlights. Following Roy, Ray Sadowski, Chief Financial Officer of Avnet will review the company's financial performance during the quarter and provide first quarter fiscal 2009 guidance, after which a Q&A will follow.
Also here today to take any questions you may have with related to Avnet's business operations is Rick Hamada, Avnet's Chief Operating Officer, Harley Feldberg President of Electronics Marketing and John Paget, President of Technologies Solutions.
With that, let me introduce Mr. Roy Vallee to discuss Avnet's fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008 business highlights.
Roy Vallee - Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you Vince and hello everyone, thank you all for taking the time to be with us and for your interest in Avnet. Fiscal year 2008 was more of a challenge than we anticipated when we initially established our plans and budgets in the June 2007 timeframe. But August, they have all publicized issues about housing, credit and all began to spread throughout the economy and we begin to experience slower growth in our end markets. While slower organic growth has had a negative impact on our progress toward our long-term financial goals. We remained focused on driving return on capital employed to 12.5 to 14%. As we have stated many times, our Valued Based Management or VBM discipline is embodied by this key metric, which when coupled with growth is a proxy for shareholder value creation.
Similar to the mix of data points we read about on the economy, the details of our results are also mixed and raises the question, is the glass half empty or half full. Now that we have closed the books on this fiscal year, we can see that we missed our sales budget, earnings per share finished below our plan, and operating profit margin was down year-over-year. Well, that sounds like a glass half empty kind of year.
Putting things in perspective, however, we believe we can also view fiscal year 2008 as a glass half full year. We delivered record sales and EPS for the fiscal year, increased working capital velocity and generated a significant amount of cash from operations. As a result of the performance of our entire global team, Avnet was able to increase return on capital employed by 7 basis points at the enterprise level and grow economic profit dollars despite the well publicized difficult environment. This was accomplished through a disciplined VBM approach to managing our operations and making value-creating acquisitions. That sounds like a glass half full kind of year.
In addition to the consistent focus on our growth and margins, VBM requires that we pay similar attention to the management of working capital. In fiscal 2008, this was especially important as the slowdown in organic growth and business mix shifts reduced our operating income margin. This meant that working capital velocity had to improve. Our team did an excellent job reacting real time to market conditions and as a result improved working capital velocity, reduced our cash cycle by two days and generated more than $450 million of cash from operations. This performance further strengthened our investment grade balance sheet thereby providing the financial flexibility for us to continue investing in value-creating M&A to supplement our growth and enhance our competitiveness.
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This was a true showstopper dish. I mean, anything with goat cheese is bound to be a winner, but OMG. I made everything exactly as directed, leaving out the Marsala, and I only marinated them for probably and hour and a half or so, which was plenty long enough. I love how relatively easy this dish is for such spectacular results. Will definitely be making again, and I love one user's suggestion of adding walnuts for heartiness to make them a complete meal!
Very good and pretty easy! It could definitely be made just as the recipe states but I made a couple of small changes. I didn't have a full 4 hours to marinate and they came out fine with just 90 minutes or so to marinate. I also added nearly a cup of chopped walnuts to the filling while the ingredients were cooking which gave the mushrooms enough heft to be a main course. I would have liked to add some rice but I didn't want to tinker with the recipe too much my first time. Next time I will also coarsely chop the stems and button mushrooms on a cutting board instead of getting the food processor dirty. Last, the amount of filling and marinade was too large. I have enough left over to make 2 more portobellos, so now I know I can really use this recipe to stuff 8 portobellos instead of 6. I served these for a vegetarian dinner with bread, salad, and squash and everyone liked them!
These are wonderful and flavorful. I did two things different - used fresh spinach and didn't marinate for 4 hours (maybe only 30 minutes). I was in a hurry and couldn't give them the love they deserved. My goat cheese didn't crumble so much as schmeer, but it added a creaminess to the stuffing which worked fine for me especially considering it all melts together anyway. If I'm dead set on crumbles, I usually put the package in the freezer for a bit to get it nice and cold, but I actually don't thing the crumbled vs. the creamy mixture makes all that much of a difference and it mellows out the BAM goat cheese bite that intimidates those who aren't all that big of fans of goat cheese. Next time I will add finely chopped red pepper and use a fraction of the olive oil in the marinade, crumble the cheese--I enjoy that in your face bite :) --, and may use less salt too only because it was a touch too salty by the end. Others didn't notice, I'm just sensitive to it. All in all, taken almost verbatim, I can say this is a very lovely dish. Take Mardanco's advice and pour the marinade over the grill side and stack. That is brilliant. And if you are grilling, don't decrease the oil too much (or oil the grill A LOT) or they will stick if you don't get the grill super hot.
these mushrooms were delicious...it helps to pour marinade on gill side of mushroom and stack mushrooms on top of each other to elimnate the need to keep turning them during the 4 hour marinating period
I don't get why people like nansalmon changes most of recipe - at least 5 ingredients either changed or omitted and then says "other then that I didn't change a thing and the dish was delicious" that is not rating the recipe, that is rating her/his own recipe. will be making this tonght with some of the 30 beautiful portobellos given to me by a dear friend, will review after I make it
Add some of the marinade to the stuffing mixture along with some halved grape tomatoes for added color. This is a fantastic lunch for the girls served with a salad.
this is a recipe that is user friendly. i will make it again and again.
I actually had some leftover red lentils and used them instead of the breadcrumbs - they smushed up really well with the goats cheese (had an herbed version in the fridge) and it was much more satisfying (plus gluten free). I as well skipped the frozen spinach and used a comparable green called callaloo and tossed it in to cook at the end of the onions, etc. The marinade was quite strong - should have read the reviews first to lessen the amounts of the strong flavors of the balsamic and tamari (soy sauce). Served over black rice. YUM! Need something light and fresh after (cue an awesome fruity dessert)
My husband loved this, but my daughter and I couldn't eat it. The filling was fine, but the marinated mushrooms were too strong in flavour, we found it overpowering.
I thought the combination of soy sauce and balsamic seemed a bit strident, so I used rice vinegar. Didn't have Marsal, so I left it out. From the local organic market here in Mexico I had fresh spinach (steamed it) also had local goat cheese (not the crumbly supermarket kind, more creamy, so I just rolled little balls of it and put them in the stuffing), also I don't eat wheat, so I crumbled some Thai red rice crackers for the breadcrumbs. Didn't have the Parmesan, so I grated a wonderful local aged Manchego (a nice hard cheese like the Spanish one). Oh, and I didn't bother with the button mushrooms, just used some extra Portobellas. Other than that, I didn't change a thing and the dish was delicious.


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Definition of kymograph in English:
An instrument for recording variations in pressure, e.g., in sound waves or in blood within blood vessels, by the trace of a stylus on a rotating cylinder.
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3D Party (Week 15)Cornelius had a very big face with a balding hair line and big popping eye balls. He knocked on my door early Sunday morning and as I looked through the peep hole, I saw his very large face staring back at me. I was still recovering from my hangover from the night before so I freaked out thinking it was one of the 3d creatures from one of my reoccurring bad dreams. He yelled "open the door... read more »
3D Modeling History Lesson (Week 14)This week was a very busy week for me. It started off with my Mum calling saying she was not feeling well and requesting that I come see her immediately. So I said I would stop by that evening around 6pm after my appointment. However, my appointment was rescheduled so I decided to visit a friend of mine that lives about a 1 mile from her to kill time. As I was approaching my friends place I... read more »
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Mr Tapia - The Nasty 3d Director (Week 13)I met Mr. Tapia last weekend at a friends wedding. He was sitting on the same table with me and so we got talking. I discovered that he was a 3d Art Director at a production studio in Hollywood. We exchanged business cards and I setup an appointment to meet with him on Tuesday for lunch at his office. I arrived at his office early for lunch and decided to use the restroom while the... read more »
3Doodler gadget makes handheld 3D modeling possibleThe 3Doodler, a sort of handheld 3D modeler.The gadget extrudes heated plastic, similar to an electric glue gun, that allows users to make a variety of objects. The company plans to offer stencils on its website for beginner users to make everything from the Eiffel Tower to a horse-drawn carriage. See the 3Doodler in action in the video below: read more »
2015 Ford Mustang Rendered in 3D [Video]Even though the 3D rendering is far from being finished, with minor changes to be added in the future - the author says the quarter window "may need a little tweaking" and the taillights are obviously similar to those on the current musclecar - this "360 degree spin" video is one that Mustang enthusiasts can't miss. Compare with the 2013 version below: read more »
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Google Earth No Longer Accepting Hand-Built 3D ModelsWith only a few weeks left until new 3d models in the Google 3D Warehouse are no longer loaded into Google Earth, we are seeing that 3d modeling is becoming more of a specialized industry for 3d artist that continue to build amazing 3d models. While we can appreciate that Google is pushing more toward 3D Imagery instead of hand-built 3d models, it will be a long time before the... read more »
Soccer 3D Modelers (Week 11)It has been several years since I played the game of soccer or as some will say football. My buddy Larry who is an avid soccer player told me over the weekend that two of the guys that play on his soccer team were 3d modelers. He said that they were also brothers and very well connected in Hollywood with access to key people at some of the top production studios. So I decided to go with him... read more »


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October 27, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Kazakh Foreign Minister Qasymzhomart Toqaev is expected to address the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna today.
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READY TO LEAD THE OSCE? Kazakhstan has been lobbying to be granted the rotating chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 2009. In March, current OSCE head Karel De Gucht visited the country and said Kazakhstan is better prepared to head the OSCE than any other Central Asian country. But concerns about the state of democracy, the media, and ethnic relations make Kazakhstan's bid extremely controversial....(more)
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