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Michael Pappas
May 7th, 2005, 01:41 PM
What's the Kell factor in 720p?
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Michael Pappas
May 7th, 2005, 01:41 PM
What's the Kell factor in 720p?
Chris Hurd
May 7th, 2005, 02:10 PM
According to a brief Google search, some folks put it as low as 0.67 and others say it's as high as 0.9.
Michael Pappas
May 7th, 2005, 02:32 PM
Do we have a lines of res on that? Isn't 1080i like in the 800+ ball park. What would 720p be?
According to a brief Google search, some folks put it as low as 0.67 and others say it's as high as 0.9.
Chris Hurd
May 7th, 2005, 03:03 PM
See the ASTC DTV comparison chart at http://www.evansassoc.com/lib/Atsc-dtv.html -- they're assuming a Kell factor of 0.9 for all progressive modes including 720p.
0.67 comes from http://www.dtvforum.info/lofiversion/index.php/t531.html
For anybody who may be wondering what the heck we're talking about, see "The Kell Factor Explained" at http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/kell.htm
Michael Pappas
May 7th, 2005, 03:33 PM
Good Links! What I wanted exactly!
Thanks DVINFO Master............
Graeme Nattress
May 7th, 2005, 08:16 PM
I've got to re-read Poynton, but I think things are a bit more complex than that:
Interlaced video is filtered to stop line twitter, progressive, as true progressive for a true progressive display is not.
Both interlaced and progressive video are effected by the Kell factor, which relates to the perceived resolution of a display.
The "interlace factor" and the "Kell factor" are two different things, but it sounds like a lot of people lump them together. As far as I understand, Kell did his experiments with progressive video.
Anyway, let me re-read Poynton and sumarise back here....
Chris Hurd
May 7th, 2005, 09:25 PM
Don't forget the Nyquist limit. Aaaaggghhh! The Nyquist limit!
Michael Pappas
May 7th, 2005, 10:40 PM
Oh there you go, you had to bring up seaquest..Oh oh I mean Nyquist.
Yeah Nyquist. Good band, right. Ohhh, Sh&* , I can't know everything.
What the hell are Nyquist's for gods sakes?
Michael, - not knowing
Don't forget the Nyquist factor. Aaaaggghhh! The Nyquist factor!
Chris Hurd
May 7th, 2005, 11:30 PM
See "Sampling and Nyquist's Theorem for Audio and Video"
located at http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/nyquist.htm
and then see also "Nyquist and TV Lines, what is the resolution of a digitized TV image"
located at http://www.spectra-one.com/digitalvideo.html#digtv
Steve Mullen
May 8th, 2005, 01:31 AM
I've got to re-read Poynton, but I think things are a bit more complex than that:
Interlaced video is filtered to stop line twitter, progressive, as true progressive for a true progressive display is not.
I too have wondered if the .7 Kell factor is multiplied by a the interlace filter factor.
So I created a model of interleave handing line pairs usind row-pair summation. Then used the created frames as the basis for Kell.
I've concluded Kell of .7 is applied equally to interlace and progressive V rez. The reasons P looks so much higher in V res I don't think is based upon two filter functions killing I V rez. Otherwise, NTSC V rez wouldn't be about 340-lines.
And, yes Kell is .7 done on P video.
Chris Hurd
May 8th, 2005, 01:37 AM
Steve! Somehow I just *knew* this thread would attract you. And there really hasn't been any substance to it yet, until now! Heh.
My own understanding -- correct me if I'm wrong -- is that we have the Kell factor to thank for 720p looking as good as, or in some cases better than 1080i, but I often wonder if I'm not confusing Kell vs. the interlace factor.
Mike Tiffee
May 8th, 2005, 08:23 AM
I'm getting a headache- too much for a Sunday morning.. and to think, all these years, I've just used my eyeballs and trusted the messages I recieved from my brain!
no, seriously, thanks for the info, interesting!
Michael Pappas
May 8th, 2005, 09:10 AM
Now that we have the factor, what is the scientific rez of 720p, approximate area?
I'm getting a headache- too much for a Sunday morning.. and to think, all these years, I've just used my eyeballs and trusted the messages I recieved from my brain!
no, seriously, thanks for the info, interesting!
Barry Green
May 8th, 2005, 04:54 PM
It depends on what you're imaging. If you lined up perfectly, pixel-for-pixel, with a 1280x720 grid (on a piece of paper, for example), then 720p would yield 1280 x 720.
Interlaced video never will. The interlaced factor is always going to cost you about 30% of your resolution -- the interlaced factor meaning that fields are blended together to reduce flicker. So the very best you'll ever get out of a 1920x1080i system would be about 1920x800x30.
Not so with 720p. With 720p, every pixel stands alone, and is not de-interlaced or filtered. So you could, under ideal circumstances, get 1280x720x60.
When the Kell factor comes into play is when you haven't lined up exactly perfectly with the source material. When the grid on the paper lines up on the CCD perfectly, you will have perfect line-for-pixel reproduction on a progressive camera (although never on an interlaced camera). But when the grid lines and the CCD pixels don't line up perfectly, when lines straddle pixel boundaries, that's when the Kell factor comes into play. The Kell factor is an attempt to take into account the resolution that's lost when the pixels and lines aren't perfectly matched, so some gray area comes into play.
Michael Pappas
May 8th, 2005, 05:21 PM
Thanks Barry!
It depends on what you're imagin
Graeme Nattress
May 8th, 2005, 07:22 PM
Barry, your description of the interlace factor is great, but your description of Kell sounds more like the description of a Nyquist factor. I've still not read Poynton over again to get this right in my head though... Kell is often made up to be some kind of über-factor that covers interlace/Nyquist and whatever else reduces perceived resolution, but Kell itself is applicable to both interlace and progressive, as would a Nyquist factor.
In any sampled system, there are two filters - the anti-alias filter on the input and the reconstruction filter on the output. The beam of a CRT does a sort of gaussian reconstruction, which would have very much a different visual appearance of, say, an LCD screen, so does this effect any of the above factors, in that Kell was working originally with progressive video on a CRT??
Barry Green
May 8th, 2005, 09:35 PM
Well, that is indeed a question -- and when do we attribute resolution loss to the interlace factor, what circumstances have us attribute it to Nyquist, and at what point do they interrelate to Kell?
Seems to me the Kell factor should be equally applicable to horizontal pixels as well. The interlace factor only ever affects vertical resolution, but half-sample offset (whether Kell or Nyquist) should affect horizontal as much as vertical...
Perhaps as was said earlier, the Kell factor is a catch-all that covers all of the above?
Steve Mullen
May 9th, 2005, 03:30 AM
1080 x .7 is just over 700-lines. And 480 x.7 is about 340 which definitely is NTSC V rez. So the Kell seems accurate for both NTSC and 1080i.
720 x .7 is just over 504-lines.
Your explanation of Kell is corrrect for progressive yet remains equally correct for interlace even though row-pair summation SEEMS to make interlace seems different.
Essentially, Kell in progessive covers the probability of non-alignment (thereby causing mixing of lines) while in interlace it covers the FORCED mixing of two lines by row-pair summation.
Amazing they both come out to the same number!
Steve Mullen
May 9th, 2005, 03:38 AM
Barry, your description of the interlace factor is great, but your description of Kell sounds more like the description of a Nyquist factor.
Totally different. Nyquist forces the addition of optical and electrical low-pass filters (before the A/D) at under half the frequency response (H V rez) of the lens and CCD to avoid A/D sampling down at 2X higherto not yield aliasing.
Both factors plus MTF limit sharpness making all claims of CCD and format rez damn near meaningless!
Graeme Nattress
May 9th, 2005, 05:42 AM
"Both factors plus MTF limit sharpness making all claims of CCD and format rez damn near meaningless!" - Nyquist certainly doesn't make these resolutions meaningless!!!
The Nyquist limit of, say 720 pixels horizontal, would be a "resolution" of 720, but that's only if you have perfect brick-wall filters and the like. A very reasonably amount for a deduction to account for the slope of the filters is about 30%. That is because resolution in pixel terms or TVlines terms is based upon lines, not line pairs. Nyquist deals with cycles / frequency / line-pairs. You need twice as many sample points (ie pixels) as their is cycles, ie line pairs.
Graeme Nattress
May 9th, 2005, 08:11 AM
Ok, it looks to me that we have three different factors here that lower resolution (or should I say, perceived resolution):
Nyquist (caused by pre-filtering to stop aliassing, ib both horizontal and vertical directions, usually done by an optical filter)
Interlace (a vertical filtering to stop line twitter)
and Kell.
According to Poynton, Kell tried to quantify the the resolution loss in the TV system when it was noted that the image had a lower resolution than had been predicted based upon Nyquist's work. This was back in the 30s, and was indeed with progressive images. The first figure Kell gave in 1934 was 0.64, and a later 1940 paper by Kell gives the factor as 0.8, but it should be noted that the Kell factor is a subjective measurement. It depends on the spot profile of the beam in the CRT, and hence, I believe that the Kell factor would be different depending on the technology the display uses - be it CRT, plasma or LCD, so there cannot be just one Kell factor.
The problem with the Kell factor, again, according to Poynton, is that it is ambiguously defined and therefore depending on the type and circumstances of the experiment you use to measure it, you'll get different results, and because it's subjective, different experimentors will get different results even when conducting the same experiment.
Because of this, Poynton refers to the above as the "Kell Effect", in that he was the one who discovered this resolution loss, but because it's hard to quantify and different circumstances will produce different results, he refuses to assign a number to the "Kell Factor".
As Kell's initial work only concerned progressive video, there was no accounting for interlace at all. Poynton comments that many people have lumped the interlace factor and Kell factor together into one über-factor, but I think this leads to further confusion.
So yes, there is a resolution loss above and beyond what would be predicted from sampling theory, and yes, this is above and beyond the filtering that is there to stop interlace twitter (if you're in an interlaced system) and yes, this is called the Kell Factor or Kell Effect, but it's very hard to put a number to it that is accurate as it will differ on so many factors including the viewer. It's roughly around 0.7, but again, I have no idea how that changes for modern viewing technologies like LCD or DLP or Plasma.
I hope that helps, and if anyone has any further insight, or even ideas on how we could conduct our own experiments to find our own personaly Kell factors, then that would be very interesting indeed.
Steve Mullen
May 10th, 2005, 01:32 PM
Ok, it looks to me that we have three different factors here that lower resolution (or should I say, perceived resolution):
What I think we all agree on is that the resolution we GET is much lower than what Sony or JVC advertise.
And this is true of both V and H rez.
Worse, it is possible create a higher rez camera -- as with the VX2100 -- by raising the anti-aliasing cut-off but introducing serious aliasing.
WE HAVE ALSO YET TO TALK ABOUT THE FACT THE SONY IS UNDER-SAMPLED. THE CCD REZ IS LESS THAN THE FORMAT. We typically sawthis in the early days of Hi8 and DV camcorders.
One Sony rep. claimed green shift increased H rez to 1920. I've estimated 1440 under ideal conditions. But the reality is that on a green & black rez chart there are only 960 H pixels. That's dramatically less than 1280 in 720p.
And we have Panasonic trying to sell a pro 1080i camera that scales-up 1280x720! At least Sony is dong 1080p and downscaling to 720p.
Barry Green
May 10th, 2005, 02:36 PM
One Sony rep. claimed green shift increased H rez to 1920. I've estimated 1440 under ideal conditions.
Pixel-shifting 960 up to 1920 is impossible. Your estimate of 1440 under ideal conditions is correct. Graeme knows more about this than I do, but the BBC estimates that the most you'll get from pixel-shift is an increase in proportion of the square root of two (1.414 times as much horizontal resolution) and that a factor of around 30% increase is more realistic to expect.
It is a valid technique, it does work, and it works well, but it seems to primarily work when chroma sampling is less than 4:4:4. If you're shooting 4:2:2 or 4:2:0, pixel-shifting seems to be a no-lose proposition. You get more actual resolution, bigger pixels, less noise, better sensitivity, and better dynamic range. If you're aiming for 4:4:4, pixel shift would seem to interfere with the cleanest 4:4:4, but none of these cameras do 4:4:4 so it's really not an issue.
But the reality is that on a green & black rez chart there are only 960 H pixels. That's dramatically less than 1280 in 720p.
Yes, but the reality is that you're never going to be shooting a green & black rez chart. That's a test that's designed specifically to "break" the system. In any real-world situation, the pixel shifting is going to deliver better results overall than the non-shifted system will (excepting the case of 4:4:4).
In real-world circumstances, if even the tiniest hint of red or blue (or white or purple or cyan or orange or any color whatsoever, in any amount) is present, the pixel will be detected by two or three CCDs, and the pixel-shift resolution algorithm will be able to use both and construct a genuine, legitimate luma sample. Only when shooting a single pure color (red or green or blue) will you find resolution lacking, and that's just not going to happen in the real world.
And we have Panasonic trying to sell a pro 1080i camera that scales-up 1280x720!
Yes, and it looks fantastic. 1280 horizontal is all the system needs, because the codec only records 1280 horizontal pixels. Had they put 1920 pixels on the CCD they would have unnecessarily limited latitude and sensitivity, and increased noise, for no gain.
Not sure how 720 pixel-shifts up to 1080. That's a 50% increase, which is within the limit of horizontal pixel-shift, but I am still researching how vertical pixel-shift works.
At least Sony is dong 1080p and downscaling to 720p.
What Sony camera does 720p? I can't think of any Sony product that records 720p. And only the CineAlta F900 & F950 line support 1080p, the rest of their cameras are all 1080i-only, no?
Michael Struthers
May 10th, 2005, 05:49 PM
There's a new Sony dsr450ws with a 24p progressive mode for 20k.
Tommy James
May 10th, 2005, 06:36 PM
Actually with some forms of pixel shifting technology resolution can be theoretically expanded infinitely with the resolvability of the glass being the limitation.
Tommy James
May 10th, 2005, 07:27 PM
Actually the JVC HD10 camera with 1280 x 659 pixels has a resolution of 650 vertical tv lines and a resolution of 700 horizontal tv lines. I have always wondered how 1280 pixels could produce only 700 horizontal tv lines and it was explained that the resolution charts use a circular object with the height identical to the width so according to the 720p format the maximum horizontal resolution can never exceed the vertical resolution which is 720 lines. However if a resolution test chart was used that took into consideration widescreen aspect ratios JVC claims that the horizontal HDTV lines of resolution would be 1244.
So if the Sony camera is producing 960 TV lines of horizontal resolution that is 89 percent of the achievable limit of the fomat with the upper limit being 1080 horizontal tv lines of resolution.
Graeme Nattress
May 10th, 2005, 09:12 PM
"Actually with some forms of pixel shifting technology resolution can be theoretically expanded infinitely with the resolvability of the glass being the limitation."
I'd love to see a reference for this as it goes right against sampling theory. If you want to be able to expand resolution in this manner you'd need a lot more than just one shift. You'd need many ccds, each shifted from each other, which just isn't going to happen. As Barry pointed out, the only hard and fast mathematical theory of pixel shifting I could find showed that for a factor of n resolution increase you'd need n^2 shifts. Given that we have two shifts, that gives a theoretical max of 1.414 (root 2) and the BBC say in practical terms it's more like 1.3.
As for measured resolution on a bayer chip camera - there's no way they can get 1244 lines (not TV Lines) off a 1280 resolution sensor - it's just not going to happen. As for the FX1, I thought people had measured it at about 800 lines, which sounds reasonable for a pixel-shifted 960 sensor that's lens limited.
Tommy James
May 11th, 2005, 05:28 AM
Well of course you would need more than one shift. To resolve infinite detail you would need an infinite number of shifts. The efficiency of detail gained with each shift would be meaningless because of the sheer number of shifts involved would more than overcompensate for any efficiencey losses gained in the process. What is to be noted is that only one sensor is needed. All that is need is the ability to move this sensor to different locations in order to create more samples of information. For multiple shifts servo motors can accomplish the task. In the first run you offset the sensor half a pixel width horizontally then you take another sample after you move the sensor half a pixel vertically. Then you shift the sensor a quarter of a pixel width horizontally and vertically then shift it an eighth of a pixel width and then sixteenth and keep repeating the process until you are satisfied with the resolution gained. Using this technology one megapixel chips have been used to gain 20 megapixels of information but theoretically there is no limit to the detail that can be resolved other than the limits of the glass.
Graeme Nattress
May 11th, 2005, 06:08 AM
That's pretty much what the people were doing in the paper I read, but they were using the natural, random vibration of the CCD over time, to get high resolution stills out of it. Seemed to work very well from the pictures they showed.
However, certainly with regards to smaller chip video cameras, we'll reach lens limits long before we need to resort to such measures.
Tommy James
May 11th, 2005, 06:11 AM
As to the JVC HD10 video camera first of all it does not use a bayer CCD but rather a state of the art hybrid complimentary primary color filtration system that has a color resolving power close to the limits of what the MPEG2 compression codec allows. Other than improved low light performance the advantages of 3 CCDs are dubious because any additional information gained by the use of 3CCDs would be thrown away after compression. Many people accuse JVC of producing shoddy products but it was JVCs decision at the time that it would be better not add additional weight and charge the consumer a thousand dollars more for 3CCD technology that is really not needed especially since the camera did an outstanding job of color reproduction and resolved images with 3 times the detail. However had JVC known that the consumer would refuse to buy the camera regardless of its superior quality then 3 CCD technology would have been included even if it meant overcharging the consumer.
So the horizontal resolution of the single chip JVC HD10 camera stands at 1244 HDTV lines or 700 regular TV lines which is very close to the achievable limit of the format. This exceeds the spatial resolution of the Panasonic Varicam which uses a 960 x 720 chip. However the Panasonic has better temporal resolution.
The Sony HDV camera has a horizontal resolution of at least 800 regular TV lines which would equal 1440 HDTV lines of horizontal resolution.
Tommy James
May 11th, 2005, 06:16 AM
Another example is that the JVC HD100 uses pixel shifting technology to generate the equivalent of 3 megapixel JPEG still images that can be shot continuously.
Graeme Nattress
May 11th, 2005, 07:09 AM
It doesn't matter what pattern it uses - it's still resolution reduced compared to a 3CCD solution. And all it takes is for you to look at the picture without any added electronic sharpness (oh dear, you can't) to see that it's soft and quite low rez.
I severely doubt that the benefits of 3ccds will be thrown away after compression, and indeed the HD100 looks just so much better than the HD1 or HD10.
Now don't get me wrong - I'm a strong supporter of single chip cameras, but they've got to have bigger chips, and they've got to have at least as many pixels on their one chip as the 3 chips would have in total. Do that, and you'd have a single chip camera that would be very superb indeed.
Radek Svoboda
May 11th, 2005, 09:33 AM
1080 x .7 is just over 700-lines. And 480 x.7 is about 340 which definitely is NTSC V rez. So the Kell seems accurate for both NTSC and 1080i. 720 x .7 is just over 504-lines.
Amazing they both come out to the same number!
Steve, are you trying say that it not matter if footage is progressive or interlaced, Kell factor of .7 is added to pixel count to get actual resolution?
That would make PAL DVD 504x336 lines, HD100 896x504, and HDCAM 1008x756 lines. Sony actually advertises 1000 lines on HDCAM.
I thought that you consider vertical resolution only as "the" resolution of camera.
I also thought 720-60p resolution is same as 1080i-60i resolution. Interlaced resolution must go down with movement, doesn't? Further decrease in resolution due to HDV MPEG2 processing.


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Oh my! Have I been busy lately, or what? Crazy busy. And for some reason I can't seem to put my finger on exactly what's been going on. Well, lets see...wonderful time with friends, taking kids (and a friend!!!!) to the zoo so they could do the sky trail adventure course and then taking them home due to heat exhaustion.
Ariana and I have been baking lots of cakes for her cake decorating class. Practice, practice, practice. I'm hoping the cake I make and decorate today will be worthy of the Ladies Society Bake Sale tomorrow, because I SO don't need to eat more cake. (Last night I practiced butter cream frosting roses until the frosting in the bag was gone. It's quite hard on the hands.)
I have another bride to take care of this week: adding straps/sleeve thingies to a strapless gown and making crowns. I already made her veil. Whew. Wedding's next week.
AND...drumroll...school starts on Monday. Home school that is. Am I really ready? Not so much. I guess I could put it off, but the thought of one more week of the kids spending way too much time playing on the computer makes me nuts. I'd rather have them learning on the computer. Ha ha ha.
Plus we have some relatives visiting this week. Egads, it's going to be busy! At least my schedule is not up to my neck in doctor's appointments, which is a nice change of pace.
There's always lots to be grateful for.


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I've previously live-tweeted my thoughts while watching classic Doctor Who but as I'm trying to cut down on social media and also so I can provide a more cohesive body of thought, I figured I'd switch tracks and post longer essays. Today's episode is the start of Pertwee's era. (For a really great article about this serial, read this.)
General Thoughts:
I love Liz Shaw. She's the first female companion since the departure of Ian and Barbara who is an adult and who comes to the show with her own fully developed personality. There are things I like about all the other companions, but the previous few seasons have been mostly young companions who end up being "adopted" by the Doctor. Nothing wrong with that kind of relationship, but it's nice to have a mix of companions and one reasons I loved Donna in the new series.
The wheelchair chase scene is delightful.
The color titles are gorgeous.
The dollmaking sequence comes out of nowhere, and you don't really know what is going on, but that makes the scene unexplicably creepy…or maybe it's just generally creepy to see dolls being assembled.
The Autons really do have a high creep factor, even more than those from the new series because the plastic masks for the actors are much less smooth and perfect, so each one is unique and misshapen…like the face is partially melted.
Pertwee makes the part his from the start, bringing a sense of humor but also a keen intelligence and energy that feels more focused that Troughton's version. His is a more direct Doctor.
Sad Auton is sad.
The back and forth between the Doctor and Liz is lovely and even when explaining things beyond Liz's experience. Sure, he calls her "my dear," but he is not at all condescending or insulting, clearly accepting her as a colleague.
The tentacled Nestene conciousness is really silly.
First instances:
- First mention of two hearts
- Seeing the Doctor create his new outfit
- the Autons
Favorite lines:
- Liz (to the Brigidier): No need to get tetchy.
- Doctor (referring to the Time Lords): They've trapped me here…the mean, despicable, underhanded lot.
- Doctor: Money? My dear chap I don't want money. Got no use for the stuff.


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|Glenda Ritz
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Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz is, as most of you know, the only Democrat in a state-level executive office. She represents not only schools, students, and teachers, but she also must realize that she represents the Democratic Party now as the highest-ranking state officeholder for the D's.
That's why the rest of this post is going to get a little hard. I don't like to criticize our own, but I will if I think the politician deserves it. Glenda Ritz, you deserve it today.
Ritz, who took office in January, redesigned her office space to the tune of $86,000, according to WISH-TV. Ritz's office said that the money for the redesign came from savings generated by Tony Bennett's Administration.
Does Ritz understand how bad this looks?
There seems to be a bit of a "bunker mentality" from people I talk to in the Superintendent of Public Instruction's Office, and it's well-earned. A source told me that Bennett's folks left nothing in the office when he left. The office was essentially left bare, according to my source. Perhaps that's partially what this redesign was maybe helping to fix. After all, we don't have the invoices in front of us. That bunker mentality though is that many in the Statehouse are working against Ritz and trying to undercut and undermine her authority.
What better way to give them grist for their mill than to personally direct what seems to be an $86K redesign of office space?
Memories are still fresh of state agencies wasting taxpayer dollars. It was just over a year or so ago that WTHR did an expose piece on the Hoosier Lottery's extravagant new offices. That led to the ouster of the Lottery Director and led to a mad dash to recoup funds. Ritz's spending on her office is a mere drop in the bucket compared to what the Hoosier Lottery spent, but it still is a problem given the political climate we live in. There will be no resignations over this, and there shouldn't be. It doesn't look like she went overboard. The right way to do this would have been to get out in front of the story instead of having to react to it. It's a lesson in politics, as Jim Shella said in the report. In the world of politics, though, perception is reality.
If there's one thing Republicans like to pull on Democrats, it's that we like to spend money and do it wastefully. Of course, we know that both sides spend and tax, but it's the Dems that usually find that charge sticking to them more. Moves like this by Ritz and her office do nothing to dispel these political charges, only perpetuate them.
Maybe we're only getting one side of the story here, but this seemingly shortsighted move by the Superintendent of Public Instruction plays into past stereotypes of Democrats and only fuels the firestorm against her. Any time Ritz now tries to claim schools are underfunded and that more money needs to be spent to help struggling schools, this story will be brought up. Can't you just see them now?
Hoosier common sense apparently was not in these plans. Let's hope next time it is.


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Napoli start Lorenzo Insigne and Goran Pandev against Chievo, as Edinson Cavani is out of action, but Sergio Pellissier also failed a fitness test.
Cavani pulled up during training with a thigh problem and failed a fitness test this morning, so is in the stands of the San Paolo.
The Partenopei therefore look to Insigne and Pandev to revive their fortunes after two straight defeats in the space of a week against Juventus and Dnipro.
Chievo have traditionally caused problems for Napoli, so will be eager to take advantage for another upset.
Alberto Paloschi, Bostjan Cesar, Gennaro Sardo and Lorenzo Squizzi are out of action.
Hitman Pellissier was expected to be back in the starting XI, but failed a last-minute fitness test and so Marco Rigoni partners Cyril Thereau in a 4-4-1-1 system.
Napoli: De Sanctis; Campagnaro, Cannavaro, Gamberini; Maggio, Behrami, Inler, Zuniga; Hamsik; Insigne, Pandev
Chievo: Sorrentino; Frey, Dainelli, Andreolli, Dramé; Luciano, L Rigoni, Hetemaj, Vacek; M Rigoni; Thereau
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I'm relieved July 1 falls on a Tuesday this year, unattached to a weekend. It means, yay, that I won't have to mark the Canada Day holiday by accompanying my husband on a three-night excursion to his parents' lakeside "cabin."
No toilet, no way
There's no way I'm up for lugging my two-year-old son and eight-months-pregnant belly off on a prolonged visit to a place with no running water or beds fit for sleeping. Yeah, the fresh air's nice and the scenery is lovely, but right now I'm just too fat and uncomfortable to care. I'd be more gung-ho if there was an actual toilet.
My husband is among the many Canadians who love spending our country's birthday at lakes and cottages and campgrounds. There's no better time of year for being outside, building campfires, eating out of Coleman coolers, and swatting at different kinds of bloodthirsty insects.
This year, stuck in the city, my husband will have to settle for joining me on an outing to the local fireworks show. July 1 is Canada's biggest day for fireworks. Millions of us head off at dusk to catch the annual displays. We seem to like that kind of thing, sitting in fields on a warm evening, gazing up at the sky.
A quieter patriotism
Fireworks—loud, colorful, demanding attention—aren't really an apt symbol for the Canadian way of being patriotic. We are usually reluctant when it comes to making a big public fuss of July 1. When we do, we come up with things that seem contrived, a little forced, a party thought up by some official Canada Day committee in a boardroom somewhere.
It's like the concerts that our national broadcaster, the CBC , televises live from Parliament Hill every year. The events go on for hours, with speeches from government figures and commentary from TV news people trying desperately to look like they're having fun. The musical entertainment always includes at least a few fiddle tunes and some well-known Canadian singers half of us have never heard of. The whole spectacle is just so painfully self-conscious.
Every now and then on Canada Day a car or pickup goes cruising down the street with a large Canadian flag flapping out its window. People turn their heads, wondering, no doubt, at the brazenness of it.
Not that we aren't proud of our country, or that we have a problem with recognizing the anniversary of our confederation. We just tend to be proud quietly. It seems to make us uncomfortable, the prospect of getting all boisterous about how happy we are to be Canadian. We probably wouldn't know how to go about it anyway.
Mouthy Joe Canadian
Maybe that's why those Joe Canadian beer commercials from a while back were so popular (long story, see web site ). Joe, with his every-person pro-Canada ranting, was a role model for mouthy, un-self-conscious nationalism. Never mind that he was the centerpiece of a beer advertising campaign. People just loved the way he fearlessly shouted, without a hint of irony, "I am Canadian!"


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There was a knock at the door early yesterday morning. I was in the middle of getting dressed so took a little while to get to the front door, all the while hoping it wasn't one of those annoying door-to-door sales people that have a knack for ridiculous timing. I opened the door to see my friend Nat getting back into her car 'sorry can't stop, enjoy' she yelled (or something along those lines) as she took off on her way to school, I'm guessing. All I could do was yell thanks and wave frantically through the fly-screen. What a lovely way to start the day (and so much better than if it had been one of those pesky sales people!).
There on the doorstep she'd left a little bag of freshly picked vegetables from her mothers garden. It contained a bunch of deep red rhubarb that will most probably end up stewed with apples and eaten for breakfast, a few kumara (aka sweet potato), long red chillies, some beautiful baby beets and a bunch of flat leaf parsley. Yum.
I immediately knew I wanted to make some form of salad from all those hand-picked goodies, especially the flat leaf parsley which I love to eat just like a salad green. I tend to soak and cook my own chickpeas from dried, but on this occasion instead of finding a jar of chickpeas in the pantry, all that stared out at me was the jar. Tinned it would have to be.
Along with the chickpeas, I finely diced and roasted the kumara until golden and crispy around the edges, threw in a whole load of that parsley, a little crumbling of salty feta and drizzled the lot with a punchy spiced lemon dressing.
I couldn't leave today without mentioning the Olympics could I? I love, love, love them. The telly has never been on so much in this house and I'm super excited to see NZ doing as well as they are. I'll also be keeping my eye out to catch an old friend paddling in the C1 heats on Friday. Many moons ago when we were both teenagers we represented NZ at the Waka Ama/Outrigger world championships. We had always hoped that Waka Ama would become a recognised sport at the Olympics, but sadly it hasn't yet. Never mind, he's found a way around it by transferring over to K1 (in Beijing) and C1 this time round in London. I can't tell you how proud I am of him and wish him all the best.
What are your favourite events to watch? Me, I love the rowing, gymnastics, basketball, track + field and swimming.
roast kumara, chickpea and feta salad with spiced lemon dressing
I usually like to cook my own chickpeas from dried, but when I'm short on time or have forgotten to soak them overnight I turn to tinned chickpeas which I always have in the pantry. Just make sure you drain them well, rinse under cold running water and then drain again before using.
serves 2-4
- 1 large kumara (sweet potato), diced into 1cm cubes
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 1/2 cups cooked chickpeas/400g tin, drained and rinsed well
- 1 cup packed flat leaf parsley leaves, roughly chopped
- 1/2 small red onion, finely sliced
- 1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese
- 1 tablespoon fennel seeds
- 1 tablespoon coriander seeds
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh thyme
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 2 long Thai red chillies, de-seeded and finely chopped
- juice of 1 large lemon (approx 1/2 cup juice)
- 1/3 cup (80ml) extra virgin olive oil
- sea salt, to taste


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WINNERS & RESULTS: MRT's March Mania Bracket Challenge
Published 10:19 am, Tuesday, April 5, 2011
In one of the most exciting and strange NCAA March Madness tournaments ever, local contestants "travolta" and "randyposto" came out the winners in our Reporter-Telegram Bracket Challenge.
"Travolta" picked 42 of 63 games correctly, including both Final Four match-ups and the championship game, to win the crown in the Round-by-Round scoring. Second place finisher "jen1957" picked 45 of 63, but lost by a narrow six points in the overall scoring, which awards more points by correctly guessing games in the later rounds. (For full results of the Round-by-Round game, click here.)
"randyposto" took the Full Bracket championship by correctly picking the University of Connecticut as the 2011 National Champion from the game's start. Second place "rasa5945" also picked UConn, but had scored slightly lower in the earlier rounds. (For full results of the Full Bracket game, click here.)
Trinity basketball coach Jim Clark was the winner of both the Full Bracket and Round-by-Round games among our VIP Pickers.
No $1 million prize was awarded this year for a perfect bracket submission.


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proof of PTAH inequality
In order to prove the PTAH inequality two lemmas are needed. The first lemma is quite general and does not depend on the specific and that are defined for the PTAH inequality.
The setup for the first lemma is as follows:
We still have a measure space with measure . We have a subset . And we have a function which is positive and is integrable in for all . Also, is integrable in for each pair .
Define by
Lemma 1 (1)
(2) if then . If equality holds then a.e [m].
Proof It is clear that (2) follows from (1), so we only need to prove (1). Define a measure . Then
so we can use Jensen's inequality for the logarithm.
The next lemma uses the notation of the parent entry.
Lemma 2 Suppose for and . If then
Proof. Let . By the concavity of the function we have
where for .
so that
It is enough to prove the lemma for the case where for all . We can also assume for all , otherwise the result is trivial.
Let and so that .
so that
Multiply (3) by to get:
Claim: There exist , such that
If so, then substituting into (4)
So it remains to prove the claim. We have to solve the system of equations , for . Rewriting this in matrix form, let , , and , where and if , . The columns sums of are , since . Hence is singular and the homogenous system has a nonzero solution, say . Since is nonsingular, it follows that . It follows that for some and therefore . If necessary, we can replace by so that . From (5) it follows that for all .
Now we can prove the PTAH inequality. Let .
We calculate by differentiating under the integral sign. If then
If then by writing
where it is clear that each integral is 0, so that . So again, (6) holds. Therefore,
Now by Lemma 1, with we get .
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Three held over pub shooting murder
Detectives have arrested three men over the killing of a man at a suburban pub.
They are being questioned about the shooting of Darren Cogan, 22, at a bar on Tyrconnell Road in Inchicore, Dublin, on June 25 2011.
One man was arrested on Thursday morning while two other were arrested on Wednesday.
They were all detained in the Dublin area and are aged from their mid 20s to mid 30s.
The three are being held at Kilmainham and Kevin Street Garda stations under section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act 2007.
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The Leukaemia Foundation is enormously grateful to our wonderful volunteers, who selflessly give their time to make a real and positive difference to the lives of people with blood cancer and their families.
Put simply, we simply could not operate without them.
These outstanding men and women donate their time and many talents in various ways. Our volunteers include school students, corporate staff, retirees and health experts, inspired to make a real difference in our community.
Volunteers are recruited through the media and word of mouth, and many approach us when their own life is touched by blood cancer. Each volunteer is interviewed, security cleared, inducted and trained, including our volunteer drivers who transport people to and from treatment.
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We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to our volunteers for your tireless work, energy and passion for the Leukaemia Foundation and the families we support. Your service to the community is invaluable.
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text: [[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Too-Cute-2_6864.jpg]][[caption-width-right:300:All together now... ''Aaaaaaaaaw!'']]->''Welcome to a world where cuddly knows no bounds,\\a place where precious is redefined.\\Witness the miracle of cute.\\From their first triumphant calls to the wild\\to their adventures with new friends,\\it's three different [baby animal] coming of age stories...''->''...and they're awe-inspiringly adorable.''->''Because these animals are just too lovable,''->''too curious, [[note]]"determined" in the Puppies episodes[[/note]]''->''Too Cute.''An ''Creator/AnimalPlanet'' series focused on baby animals in all their cuteness. Most episodes feature three litters of either {{Cute Kitten}}s or [[PreciousPuppy Precious Puppies]] for the first ten to twelve weeks of their lives, showcasing various milestones while being as adorable as possible.After three years of cuteness, the show received a SpinOff called ''Too Cute! Pint-Sized'' in 2014.The first season of the show was originally on ''Creator/{{Netflix}}'', but was eventually taken down. Season 4 can now be found on ''Creator/{{Hulu}}'' if you subbed to ''Hulu Plus''.----!!This series contains examples of:* TheAce: German Shepherd pups Riley and Bo.* {{Adorkable}}: Winston the Bengal kitten.* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: Jack Russell Terrier Mackenzie's three daughters Apple, Buttons, and Cocoa.* AnimalThemeNaming: ** Savannah kittens Tiger, Cougar and Cheetah.** The three Pomeranian puppies are named after birds: Sparrow, Wren, and Finch. It makes more sense since they're raised on a farm full of various birds.* BabiesEverAfter: At the end of a "Growing Up" episode, we see that one of Truly Elegant's kittens Gizmo is now the proud mother of kittens herself.** In ''Pint-Sized'', British Shorthair Pippa is featured alongside her own babies.* BewareTheNiceOnes: Reginald the Persian kitten can only take so much grooming.* BigEater: ** Eleanor the Bengal kitten. To be fair, she ''is'' the biggest in Madeline's litter.** One particular scene has Shih-Tzus Ruby and Oreo's three daughters Ruby Jr., Kyra, and Lola all eating out of their parents' bowl of kibble. Oreo wants to know what's going on at the time.* BigFancyHouse: The animals featured in the series tend to live in really nice places, some of them so big that they're almost mansions.* BittersweetEnding: All the episodes usually end with the puppies/kittens getting adopted by new families. While it's nice to see them get new, loving homes, it's also a bit sad to see the group of animals you spent an hour watching having to go their separate ways.* BookEnds: Oreo arrives at his refuge home as a defenseless little baby. By the end of his episode, the now OlderAndWiser Oreo is seen befriending another baby kitten [[spoiler:before he's properly adopted]].* BrattyHalfPint: Oskar the pug puppy.* TheBully: Della the Chihuahua is this to Shorthair kittens Noodles and Cheddar.* BumblingDad: Sabu the Maine Coon, towards his kittens and especially [[PluckyGirl Lulu]]. Justified since he's basically [[OneOfTheKids a teenager]], having been around 10 months old when the kitties were born.* CantCatchUp: Rat Terrier pup Liam seemed to be this, except for being the only one who could catch up with Minnie the pony.* ChewToy: Peaches the Shar-Pei is this to her brother Raisin, but she takes it in stride by using brains instead of brawn to deal with him.* ChocolateBaby: Siberians Solomeya and Maksim are both white-furred, but their litter is filled with black kittens... just like the handsome tom next door. '''''Oops.'''''* ChristmasEpisode: "Puppy And Kitten Holiday Special".* ClipShow: ** "Sweetest Animal Friends" features old clips from the Domestic Shorthairs of "Kittens and Pocket Pets", the Mini Australian Shepherds of "Puppies and Ducklings", and the Ragdolls / German Shepherd of "Kitten Dolls".** "Fluffiest Kittens" features old clips from the Siberians of "Kittens and Pocket Pets", the Persians of the very first episode, and the Maine Coons of "Kitten Cottonballs".** "#[=MerryCuteness=]" features several dialogue-free versions of clips from earlier episodes set to Christmas music.* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Winston.* ContentWarnings: Parodied: "The following program contains material that is just too cute. Viewer discretion is advised."* CowardlyLion: ** Tiger the Savannah kitten.** Cosmo the Russian Blue kitten starts out like this, but as time goes by, he becomes more adventurous.** In more or less the same vein as Cosmo, Atlas the Norwegian Forest kitten was this, too.* CuteKitten: So many!* CutenessProximity: This is how the ''viewer'' feels.* DaddysGirl: Mittens with her stepfather Maksim.* {{Determinator}}: Rottweiler runt Bear and Maltese mix puppy Ralphie.* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Wilbur the Pit Bull.* EdibleThemeNaming: Butters and her kittens Noodles and Cheddar, Tonkinese brothers Muffin and Cookie, Shar Pei brothers Raisin and Pancake and their sister Peaches, mini pot-bellied piglet Pretzel, Munchkin kitten Porkchop, Shiba Inu puppy Cinnamon (as well as her mother Spicy), Japanese Chin mom Cookie and Cocker Spaniel puppy Coffee. Singapura triplets Pepper, Saffron and Basil from the same episode as Porkchop follow this for condiments, as well as Burmese kitten Pepper.* EdutainmentShow * FamilyThemeNaming: More than half of the litters wind up with themes. * FieryRedhead: Bronson and Buster, in contrast to their brunette brother Liam.** Siberian kitten Calvin, much to his parents Boris and Coorah's frustration.* FloralThemeNaming: Lily and Rose, the daughters of the Persians Mercedes and King Tut.* FragileFlower: The Chatham Hill Retriever puppy Nora.* FraternalTwins: Hairless, all black Bella and fuzzy black and white Buttons, both Chinese Cresteds.* FromSpecialToSeries: ''Too Cute'' began life as a series of three specials (Kittens, Puppies, and Baby Sloths) that aired in 2011.* GenderBlenderName: Sapphire the goat is a boy.* GenkiGirl: Pipsqueak the pygmy goat.** Carly the Japanese Chin puppy.** Penny the Springer Spaniel.** Doodle the long-haired Dachshund.* GentleGiant:** Lukie the dog.** Timber the German Shepherd.** Mari the German Shepherd.* GirlPosse: Mixed-breed puppy Java and her sisters. The narrator even refers to the latter two as Java's "girl gang."* GrumpyBear: Brussels Griffon puppy Humphrey.* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Eventually, the orphaned Oreo is taken in by the mother cat Ginger. It helps that Ginger's actual kittens Chester and Murray are already Oreo's buddies.]]* HasTwoMommies: Since Queenie and her eldest daughter Princess had their litters only one day apart, they raise their kittens together.* HeartwarmingOrphan: ** Oreo the Tuxedo kitten.** Kitten siblings Miles and Maisey.** Tallulah the Syrian brown bear cub.** Josh Earl the baboon infant.** Mixed-breed kitten Louise and her siblings.* HeterosexualLifePartners: Wally and Buster the Dandie Dinmont terriers.* HotBlooded: ** Cougar the Savannah kitten. It shows when she flips out at the vet, and in order to calm her down, her ears are rubbed.** Coco the Frenchie is very hyperactive, and sometimes it gets on her brother Chauncey's nerves.** Pickle the Dachshund puppy.* IneffectualLoner: Thor the Pit Bull puppy has eight other siblings, and spends most of their segments trying to find some peace and quiet.** Trixie the Chihuahua puppy just wants to be by herself, but that's difficult to achieve when you're in a big family.* IntergenerationalFriendship: Typically combined with InterspeciesFriendship below.** Tailed Manx kitten Charlie seems to have one with nineteen-year-old Siamese Buddy.* InterspeciesFriendship:** The Domestic Shorthairs were raised in a New York apartment full of various animals, most notably alongside a guinea pig named Ariel.** German Shepherd Mari with the tiny Ragdoll Snowball.** As well as Jaegar, another German Shepherd, with tiny Toyger kitten Tanya.** It takes a little patience, but Maggie the mini Potbellied Pig eventually warms up to peppy Penny, a Springer Spaniel.** Basset Hound puppy Max and hamster Dot.** Cow Cat kitten Moo and his adopted skunk brother Duke.** Coton de Tulear puppy Snowflake and her adopted pygmy goat sister Pipsqueak.** Siberian kitten Boris and miniature pony Kitty.** The Cornish Rex kittens and Timber, yet another German Shepherd.** It takes a little while before the hoglets eventually warm up to Doodle the long-haired Dachshund.** Tallulah the Syrian Brown Bear cub forms one with Kai, yet another German Shepherd.** Merlin the Airedale Terrier puppy and Jerome the goat.** Cairn Terrier puppy Doogie eventually manages to befriend Geronimo the cat.** Havanese puppy Hazel and her fellow hedgehog Prickles. * {{Irony}}: The Portuguese Water Pups don't like water! Domino eventually gets used to it, while his brother Ace... not so much, but he withstands a bath with Domino's encouragement.* ItRunsInTheFamily: Rory the Chesapeake Bay Retriever puppy inherited the white diamond-shaped mark on his chest from his grandfather, who was a champion show dog. His cousin Thor also has the mark.* {{Keet}}: Josh Earl the baboon infant.** Also Sapphire the goat.* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Moxie the French Bulldog watches reruns of this show.* LovableJock: Angus the French Bulldog. His daughter Coco is a female example.** The Chatham Hill Retriever puppies' dad Mozart.* MamaBear: ** Truly Elegant the Persian chases off a pug that was harassing her kittens.** Butters the Shorthair was once a street cat that would fight off her enemies. Being a mother in an apartment full of other animals made her very wary of her kittens' safety.** Lola the Powderpuff Chinese Crested catches Cleo the Sphynx messing around with her daughter, Bella.** Gidget the Yorkshire Terrier has her duty of protecting the household as well as her puppies, especially against the guinea hens in the yard.* MassivelyNumberedSiblings: Sometimes this is the case for the dog litters. Usually combined with TooManyBabies.* MeaningfulName:** Abyssinian kitten Tiny Dancer is the runt of Avalon's litter.** Jack Russell Terrier puppy Cocoa's fur is white with brown spots lighter than her sisters.** Blue, the Sphinx kittens' father, has blue eyes.** Callie, a cat named after her perfectly-blended calico coat [[InTheBlood just like her mama]].** Midas the Cocker Spaniel puppy has golden-colored fur.** Blanco is the only white puppy in his litter of brown mixed breeds. He does get some brown spots as late as three weeks old.** Sheep lamb Cocoa has brown wool.** Two of the Russian Blues are called Sputnik and Cosmo. * MessyMaleFancyFemale: Major and Roxy the Samoyeds, respectively.* MommasBoy: ** Tiger sticks close to mother Jas Queen as much as possible.** Moose the British Shorthair always wants to be by mother Roxy's side. Amusingly, their coat patterns match almost completely.** Percy the Standard Poodle puppy always does what his mother Lotus Rose expects of him.* MultigenerationalHousehold: Alongside their mother Beth, the Chihuahua puppies live with their uncle Coco Puff and their grandparents Montana and Ned. Their great-grandma Hannah even lives right next door.* MusicalThemeNaming: Several litters have ended up with musical themes. ** One litter of Tibetan Spaniels wound up named [[Franchise/TheBeatles John, Paul, George and Ringo]]. ** One litter of Bernese Mountain Dogs ended up with two of the pups named [[Music/{{Metallica}} Lars]] and [[Music/GunsNRoses Axel]]. ** The European Burmese kittens follow this trope. To be specific, two of them are named Ludwig and Melody, which makes a lot of sense since they're reared in a music teacher's house.** Dolly Purrton (doubling as a PunnyName). Her daughter Jolene, meanwhile is named after one of Dolly Parton's songs.* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: The Tibetan Spaniel brothers were named after members of Music/TheBeatles. ** In "Pint-Sized", Dolly Purrton (doubling as a PunnyName).* NoDialogueEpisode: "#[=MerryCuteness=]" contains no narration, just clips of the animals being cute set to Christmas music instrumentals. The only talking in the episode is near the end, when a child adopting one of the animals says "This one likes me."* NominalImportance: Typically, two kittens or pups per litter are specifically named and get plenty of focus, along with their parents. In smaller litters, all the members get named.* NoSenseOfDirection: Olaf the Siberian Husky puppy has some problems returning during his exercises.* OddFriendship: See InterspeciesFriendship above.* OddNameOut: Burmese runt Pepper when compared to her siblings, Luna and Midnight.** Shiba Inu puppies Roxie, Misty, and... Cinnamon.* OhCrap: Boris the Siberian has this reaction when he loses track of his son Calvin.* OncePerEpisode: At least one 'first trip to the vet' is shown, and there's always the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue.** In the hour-long episodes, one commercial break includes a "Too Cute Quiz", where the narrator asks a question along the lines of "Which of the three breeds in the episode (insert historical fact here)?" The ''Pint-Sized'' episodes instead have a look behind the scenes, often showing how the animals are very interested in the camera and other equipment.* OneOfTheKids:** The Rottweiler puppies' uncle Mack.** The Maine Coons' father Sabu, who is nine months old and is a bit of a rough-houser.** The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel pups' teenage aunt Zsa Zsa.** The Irish Terrier pups' teenage brother Gianni.** The Persian King Tut, the father of the other Persian Mercedes' kittens.* OutnumberedSibling:** Roo, the only boy in an otherwise all-girls Beagle litter.** Out of the Lab mix litter of five, Safari is the only boy.** Blanco is the only boy out of the mixed-breed puppy litter.** Tofu is the only boy in the Cornish Rex litter.** American Bobtail Ruby Jo, the only girl in a litter of mostly boys.** Pip, the only girl in the hedgehog litter.** Clover, the only girl out of the otherwise all-boys Mini-Lop rabbit litter.** Daisy, the lone girl in a trio of bulldog puppies.** Calvin is the only boy in a litter of five Siberian kittens.** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Brandy, is stated in the show to be the only girl in a litter of four Ragamuffin kittens. However, the kittens' owner admits that there is indeed another female in the litter. [[note]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqion7VwiBI shown here]].[[/note]]* {{Pacifist}}: Tiny Dancer. She's a lover, not a fighter.* PaperTiger: Pucci the Chihuahua might be able to grab his owner's attention and doesn't always get along with the Himalayans, but getting hissed at by Belle is enough to intimidate him.* ParentalSubstitute: Sinta the German Shepherd acts like a mother toward orphaned Tuxedo kitten Oreo.** Poncho the Golden Retreiver is chosen by baboon infant Josh Earl to be his father figure. ** The mixed breed kittens, especially Louise, see the two Dandie Dinmont terriers as possible candidates for this trope.* PassingTheTorch: British Shorthair Roxy hands over her job of calming vet patients to her daughter Pippa; the latter then gives it to her own daughter Kate later on in "Pint-Sized."* PluckyGirl: Maine Coon kitten Lulu doesn't let anything scare her, not even her BumblingDad.* PreciousPuppy: So many!* PunnyName: Two "Cow Cats" are named Moo and Bessie. ** In "Pint-Sized", Dolly Purrton. * RealMenWearPink: The entirely pink-skinned Sphynx Gremlin is the biggest and bossiest in his litter.* RebelliousSpirit: Sawyer the German Shepherd pup. He gets better when we eventually catch up to him on a "Growing Up" episode and even becomes a teacher [[GenerationXerox like his mother Minnie]] at the end.** Standard Poodle puppy Bebe.** Tonkinese kitten Nancy, much to her mother Ginger's dismay.** Cockapoo puppy Freddy.* RecordNeedleScratch: Used when Shiba Inu Spicy comes back in the room where her daughters Roxie, Misty, and Cinnamon are tearing up the pillows.* RedOniBlueOni: ** Chow Chow pups Oscar and Tony, respectively.** Dachshund pups Pickle and Rollo, respectively. Ironically, Rollo wears a hot dog track suit with ketchup.** Best friends Tinsel the Teacup Pig and Minnie the Flemish Giant rabbit, respectively.* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The main attraction of the show, of course. * RuleOfCute: The show survives on this rule, the audience is attracted and held by the cuties on the screen.* RuleOfThree: Each episode features three litters.* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Manx kitten Charlie is the only one in his litter to be born with a tail.* ShaggyDogStory: PlayedForLaughs with the Ragamuffins: unlike most cats, they dislike climbing, so when Otto tries to reach the food on the counter, it's an epic journey... only for their owner to put the plate down on the floor right as he makes it up. Meeeeeeep.* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Himalayan mother Ariel and her twins, Jacques and Belle, are all named for Disney characters (two Disney Princesses and a mouse friend of a third). ** In a later episode, two Savannah kittens are Zazu and Nala, after characters from ''Disney/TheLionKing''.** Boots and Little Bear's father King Arthur is named for, well, KingArthur. ** The hoglets' parents are named [[Literature/TheBible Samson and Delilah]].** Miniature Poodle mom Minnow is named for the boat the cast of ''LiveActionTV/GilligansIsland'' originally travelled in. *** What's even funnier is that her father is named Gilligan.** The Shar-Pei mother's name is Baby Jane after the titular character in [[Film/WhateverHappenedToBabyJane this 1962 horror film]].* ShrinkingViolet: ** Rottweiler puppy Lila, probably due to having ten rowdy brothers and sisters to deal with.** Tortoiseshell kitten Daisy.** Mini-Lop rabbit kitten Clover.** Maltese mix Coco.* SiblingRivalry: Rollo and Pickle, but it becomes a FriendlyRivalry the moment Pickle escorted Rollo to the finish line after Pickle won the race.* SickEpisode: The Tonkinese Queenie gets sick soon after the birth of both her kitties and her grandkittens, so Princess must take care of [[PromotionToParent both her half-siblings]] and her own babies until the matriarch gets better.* SleepCute: Used for the background of the opening [[ContentWarnings advisory]], and a staple of the actual episodes.* {{Sleepyhead}}: Great Dane puppy Marvin.** Savannah kitten Zazu.* SliceOfLife: For the most part.* SomethingCompletelyDifferent:** "Sweetest Animal Friends" is a ClipShow that focuses on the stories of 3 litters from previous episodes: the Domestic Shorthairs (Noodles, his brother Cheddar, their siblings and their mother Butters) from "Kittens and Pocket Pets", the Mini Australian Shepherds (Finn, his sister Jojo, their siblings, and their mother Rosie) [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and the ducklings]] from "Puppies and Ducklings", and the Ragdolls (Snowball, her siblings, and their mother Ruffian) and Mari the German Shepherd from "Kitten Dolls".** "Extra Special Pets" focuses on pot-bellied piglets, lop-eared bunnies, and hedgehog hoglets.** "Fluffiest Kittens" is another ClipShow, that focuses on the stories of 3 kitten litters from previous episodes: the Siberians (Mittens, her sister Socks, their four siblings, their mother Solomeya, and their stepfather Maksim) from "Kittens and Pocket Pets", the Persians (Reginald, his sisters Gizmo and Priscilla, their other two sisters, and their mother Truly Elegant) from the very first episode, and the Maine Coons (Dante, his sister Lulu, their three siblings, their mother Sierra, and their father Sabu) from "Kitten Cottonballs".** Two "Animal Best Friends" specials focus on the stories of Tallulah the bear cub and Kai the German Shepherd, Joey the kangaroo and his Muntjac deer pal Darby [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Poppi the lemur]], brown lamb Cocoa and his goat buddy Sapphire, Snowflake the Coton de Tulear puppy and Pipsqueak the pygmy goat (the only friendship from a previous episode), baboon infant Josh Earl and his [[ParentalSubstitute surrogate father]] Poncho the Golden Retriever, and Minnie the Flemish Giant rabbit and her best friend Tinsel the Teacup Pig.** An episode titled "Baby Sloths" features only two actual baby sloths in focus, though a few others are seen; however, much of the special focuses on the adult sloths in a rescue sanctuary, and it's generally [[MoodWhiplash a complete stylistic break from the rest of the show]], even including the founder and employees of the sanctuary in the story. It also is probably the only episode that will ever directly mention death. It ''is'', however, still too cute.** A Christmas special, "#[=MerryCuteness=]", is a clip show completely free of narration.* SpinOff: ''Too Cute! Pint-Sized''. There, Pippa the British Shorthair cat is revealed to have a litter of her own.* SquirrelsInMyPants: Pip, a baby hedgehog on an all-exotics episode, likes climbing up into people's trouser cuffs. (Bristle-side out, luckily.)* StealthPun: Halle the pug is a stickler when it comes to order, making her a stuck-up bitch.* TangledFamilyTree: Queenie is Princess' mother, which makes Queenie's litter Princess' half-siblings.* TeamMom: Sinta the German Shepherd watches all of the other animals in the house, including little kitty Oreo. * ThemeNaming: All over the place. * ThemeTwinNaming: Siberian kittens Mittens and Socks have four other siblings, but are frequently called 'twins'.** Safari and Sally the Lab mix puppies.** Buttons and Bella the Chinese Crested pups.* ThirdWheel: A non-romantic variant with siblings: Rufus the Rhodesian Riddgeback puppy is frequently ignored by his two sisters, Gemma and Clover, who are inseparable.* TinyTyrannicalGirl: The tiny Toyger kitten Tanya has no problem bossing around the much bigger Jaegar.* TitleDrop: At least once at the beginning, and at the end of each episode.* VisualPun: ** In their update, it's noted that Domestic Shorthair Boots remains a few steps ahead of her brother Little Bear... while they're both sitting on the stairs.** Additionally, in the Russian Blue episode, the narrator says that Cosmo is still a few steps behind his siblings. Actually, a whole flight behind. (He's upstairs while his siblings are downstairs.)* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Sometimes, they won't mention what happened to one of the named animals, such as not mentioning Cheddar at the end of the Domestic Shorthair episode.* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: ** Each episode ends with pictures showing how the babies have grown, and a brief update on how they're doing.** In the 3rd season, we eventually get to know what happens to some of the animals in the "Growing Up" episodes.----


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The Top 5 Boxing Fights of 2011 (So Far)
We're almost 24 hours away from Klitschko vs Haye -- a fight that has been three years in the making. Pending any upsets against Mayweather or Pacquiao, this is the fight that's going to define 2011.
So, whether Klitschko vs Haye lives up to expectations, or is a tremendous bust, I'd like to highlight the fights this year that have been barn burners.
Here's the fights that have made 2011 a great year (so far) in boxing.
Maidana vs. Morales
No one thought that Morales had any more fuel in the gas tank to continue his career. And for the first round, this looked to be the case. However, Morales came to fight.
For the next 11 rounds, that's exactly what he did -- with one eye. Ultimately, he lost. But that night, he won new fans.
Sturm vs. Macklin
This was ultimately a controversial match -- with many fans believing Macklin was robbed by judges. Yet, from the opening bell, both fighters went nose to nose delivering bodyshot hooks and uppercuts that are seldom seen nowadays.
They may have been in a ring, but the fight might as well have been in a phone booth.
Donaire vs. Montiel
Nonito Donaire has been overshadowed by fellow Filipino Pacquiao. There is a reason, though, he's ranked the #3 pound-fo-pound fighter in the world. Part of this reason was his fight against Montiel.
Here Donaire note only blew away Montiel -- a man previously deemed Donaire's equal -- he knocked him down and caused Montiel to twitch spastically. TKO for Donaire. It was impressive Montiel even got up.
Berto vs. Ortiz
Based on previous performances, most people wrote off Ortiz as a disappointment. Previously hyped as Oscar de la Hoya's heir apparent, his last fight was a yawning draw against Lamont Peterson. This was Ortiz' first fight as welterweight, though -- it looked like the weight class he should have been at all along -- because when he showed up, he looked like a monster.
At opening bell, Ortiz came roaring out. He disassembled the previously undefeated Berto -- becoming the WBC welterweight champion in the process. At least for this night, Ortiz lived up to the hype.
Pascal vs Hopkins II
In this rematch, Hopkins was out to prove the impossible -- that a 46-year-old man could fight what was previously regarded as the best Light Heavyweight in the world and win. In doing so, he became the oldest man ever to win a championship belt.
It became clear that this fight was about brains vs brawn, of psychological warfare. This culminated in Hopkins doing push-ups in the middle of the ring before Round 7 to taunt Pascal. Hopkins not only won, he did so with flawless execution against a man 18 years his junior.
7/05/2011 9:00pm, #2
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P-Will getting knocked unconcious with his eyes open was my favorite... Or was that last year, I can't remember... I keep forgeting this is July 2011...


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text: > -----Original Message----- > From: deFreese, Barry [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 9:10 AM > To: 'firstname.lastname@example.com' > Subject: RE: K3 Install killed my machine > > > > Yes. But what I realized last night after some prodding from > Derek was that > the first time I rean configure I used the > modules.x86.pc.full module file. > So even though I took your advice and pulled down the > modules-light.x86 file > and re-ran configure, the config.status file was still using the other > module. (At least I think. I havent tried to re-run make yet > but I am doing > that this morning). > > Thanks again!! > > Barry deFreese OK, I am now able to make oskit with the modules-light.x86 file. Got mig OK. Now when I try to make kernel-ide+ethernet_vortex I get an error: make: *** No rule to make target 'kernel-ide+ethernet_vortex'. Stop. I saw in bug-hurd some discussion about this problem but didn't quite understand the answer. Anyone got a quick fix? I believe it has to do with $prefix? Thanks!! Barry deFreese Technology Services Manager Nike Team Sports (949)-616-4005 firstname.lastname@example.com -- "Technology doesn't make you less stupid; it just makes you stupid faster." Jerry Gregoire - Former CIO at Dell


text: Thomas Gleixner <email@example.com> writes:> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Eric W. Biederman wrote:>> Think of SMM mode is a lightweight hypervisor that we can't get rid>> of, if you want to understand the worst case.>> >> In theory SMM mode is completely unnecessary as soon as we enable>> ACPI. In practice ACPI appears to frequently trap into SMM mode.>> SMM does more than that. It emulates legacy hardware and fixes> chip(set) bugs as well. Disabling it just makes your box stop> working. There are certain types of systems where essential safety> nets rely on SMIs (you can deep-fry P4s by disabling SMIs).There is truth in that but it is over dramatic. P4s don't deep frythey almost always turn off before they overheat (you make takephysical damage to your motherboard though).The best definition I have heard of SMM mode is: smack the stupid OSthat isn't doing what it should be doing at runtime mode.It is the way board designers and BIOS writers can work around whatthey perceive as broken OS code, that keeps them from doing whatthey need to do. Getting them to give up SMM mode even thoughtechnically possible is requesting they give up a degree of controland thus a major social engineering challenge for anyone who wishesto achieve it.So any time we tread on territory that could mess up SMM modewe need to be careful, especially as we can not turn it off todiagnose problems. The interactions can be hard to root cause.Replacing overlapping MTRRs with a non overlapping set to allowX to set a WB region as YH is doing appears safe and reasonable, andworth doing. Going one step farther and reducing some of the WB memory to UCso we can free up an MTRR for video and to accelerate X is abit chancy and something I don't feel comfortable with enablingby default. Especially as we have a better long term fix onthe way.This problem is hitting enough people and the odds of somethingreally bad happening when you take a 100x or 1000x slowdown in SMM are pretty low so I do think it is useful to have a kerneloption that rounds down the amount of memory you have converts WBmemory to UC to accelerate X.Hopefully by this point we are all now reminded how this caninteract with SMM mode (although no one has ever seen a badinteraction) and how interacting with SMM mode can be a problem.Eric


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What's in the 2013 Assault Weapons Ban?
I have a long history with Dianne Feinstein, starting when my father wrote a concerned letter about an amendment to the Constitution that would attack flag burning. His position was that a constitutional amendment banning flag burning cheapens the very symbol of freedom that it attempts to protect. Even as a young boy, I was insulted by her dismissive tone and flippant response towards my father, which basically said her opinions were more important that the Constitution.
Then, as now, she felt inalienable rights were actually privileges awarded by the wise men and women of Washington to the serfs in the hinterlands.
That being said, what's in her new Assault Weapons Ban being passed around Congress? You can read it yourself at the link, but I spent a good deal of time poring over it and here's the basics.
What's in The Feinstein Assault Weapons Bill
- "Assault Weapons", a term with no technical definition, are defined in the bill as follows
- A semiautomatic rifle that has a detachable magazine and any one of the following:
- a pistol grip, or a forward grip, or a folding stock. A pistol grip is defined elsewhere as "any other characteristic that can function as a grip". Read this as "whatever we say it is".
- a grenade launcher (never mind that grenades are already illegal)
- a barrel shroud (Feinstein thinks you should burn yourself)
- a threaded barrel
- A semiautomatic rifle that can hold more than 10 rounds, except for .22LR rimfire rifles with tubular magazines. Never mind that .22LR kills more people than any other round.
- A semiautomatic rifle with any parts that make it shoot faster.
- A semiautomatic pistol with one or more of the following:
- a threaded barrel (no silencer, just threads)
- a second pistol grip (which is defined as anything that can function as a grip).
- a barrel shroud
- the magazine is located outside the pistol grip (like that makes a difference WHERE the bullets come from?)
- a semiautomatic version of an automatic pistol (because, lets be honest, looks matter).
- A fixed magazine that holds more than 10 rounds. Have you EVER seen a gun like that?
- A semiautomatic shotgun that has one or more of the following:
- a pistol grip (defined as anything that is a grip)
- a fixed magazine with more than 5 rounds
- a detachable magazine
- a forward grip (guns get deadlier when you hold them like a badass)
- a grenade or rocket launcher (Rockets and grenades are illegal already. Also, who mounts those on a shotgun?)
- A shotgun with a revolving cylinder (Ok, that actually sounds neat)
- A list of 157 rifles, which importantly include
- Any AR pattern rifle
- Any AK pattern rifle
- Barrett semi-auto 50 cals (they use $20,000 guns all the time in the 'hood)
- Tommy guns (I'm so sorry about this one)
- Uzis
- Mini 14's and Steyr AUGs
- AK and AR pistols (I'll miss the Krinkov)
- The Saiga 12 in all its various forms (R.I.P.)
After defining what is illegal, the Feds carve themselves out, saying that all this illegal stuff is perfectly fine as long as you're an agent of the state. Policemen (campus police included), military and former policemen are all carved out. Even those involved with the transport of nuclear material get carved out. Not former military, though, as Feinstein stated here she believes veterans might be incapable of rational thought.
All existing guns and high-capacity magazines are grandfathered in, but cannot be transferred except through licensed dealers.
Most importantly, these exempt weapons, unless they are in reach of the owner, must be locked up in a safe which cannot be accessed by anyone else at all times.
At this point in the bill, it launches into what seems to be a ridiculous attempt to stifle criticism by listing around 100 pages of guns that are "exempt" from the bill. These are such fearsome guns as the Iver Johnson Commemorative Series single shot shotgun, and the Shiloh Sharps 1874 Business Rifle, which by no stretch of the imagination could ever be included in any assault weapons ban anywhere, ever. Also among the enormous list are handmade double-barrel shotguns priced in the many thousands of dollars. Its worth a look all by itself.
In the middle of this list of impossibly irrelevant guns exempted from the bill is the bone stock SKS, which is a fabulously cheap, deadly piece of Russian steel that holds 10 rounds, and can be reloaded faster than an AK-47. Why this got carved out, I can't say.
Next, There is an odd carveout for "temporary transfers", which are for "target shooting" at "a licensed target facility", so long as the gun is kept on the premises at all times, and the person being transferred to is not known to be prohibited from possessing a "grandfathered semiautomatic assault weapon."
The bill finishes on a high note, describing the use of taxpayer dollars to buy high capacity mags from citizens.
All in all, the bill is true to Feinstein, treating her beloved employees of the state as though they were cut from a finer cloth than the commoners.


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