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The State of Recorded Sound Preservation in the United States
Catching up now that I'm back from a family reunion: The State of Recorded Sound Preservation in the United States: A National Legacy at Risk in the Digital Age. What is happening to our collection of sound recordings now that we're turning the corner to digital formats? This August 2010 publication is published by the Council on Library and Information Resources and the Library of Congress.
Background, as stated by Librarian of Congress: A collection of "disturbing anecdotal evidence" described the thread to sound recordings (dating back to the 19th century) came to the attention of Congress, which passed the The National Recording Preservation Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-474). That law directed that the Librarian of Congress "...implement a comprehensive national sound recording preservation program…" and study the issues that need to be addressed in order to preserve our national heritage in sound recordings. This publication is part of the result.
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New blog carnival: Digital Storytelling
At Creating Lifelong Learners, Mathew kicks off the Digital Storytelling Blog Carnival. The carnival is monthly, and is geared toward video (if you've seen my movie, Interviewing my Mom about her Mom, you know that 'video' is subject to wider interpretations). A good set of links if you're interested in telling stories using digital video. Submit entries here.
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Library's digital storytelling station
Covina library has digital storytelling station to collect stories about city's 125-year history. Cool. It's local, very local. I'll go and see. It's from a grant award. If it goes well, more of these may pop up in libraries in the State of California.
After winning a competitive grant from the California State Library this summer, the Covina Public Library received a "digital storytelling station," a massive cabinet full of digital equipment valued at about $3,000.
The equipment, which includes a new Apple iMac computer, a digital camera, a printer, a scanner, a tape deck, a record player and a DVD player, was awarded to the library with the hope of documenting Covina's history through the eyes of those who lived it.
"We are very excited about this great library program that uses cutting-edge information technology to explore and preserve California's untold history," said Susan Hildreth, state librarian of California. "We look ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on December 13, 2007 in
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Whither Audio or Video
Recording family stories: Which is better, audio or video? This question came up last week at the L.A. Podcasters meetup while talking to a podcaster (Karen "KFC" Blanchette, aka Podchick) about this site's topic–recording and preserving family memories.
She asked me, "Why not video?"
I've been asked that before.
I talked about the barrier that video imposes—how things need to look good. The interviewee has to make him or herself presentable, and the environment also has to look good. I said, "The last couple of family members I interviewed, it would have been much harder to do on video. One was in a room that wasn't photogenic at all, and when I interviewed my great aunt, she wore her robe and sat on the couch. I don't think that she'd have let me videotape her wearing a robe. My boyfriend's mother, who'd had cancer and lost hair from chemotherapy, always said, 'Don't take my picture!' so there's no way she would have talked on ...Read More
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CES and Macworld are nigh
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and Macworld are this next week. Various news websites are all a-twitter about what news and annoucements will be coming out of each show. Who's going to introduce what? I'll be following along, on the lookout for whatever news comes out of each show, especially as it affects tools for recording and preserving family memories.
On the Macworld front, there'll be software and hardware announcements and new releases. Same thing with CES, only it'll be more hardware than software.
I wish I were there to speak face to face to the vendors to ask how the new new new stuff they've been working on is supposed to last for decades, yea, even for generations. This is a whole part of industry that thrives on innovation, leaving behind yesterday's woo-woo cool thing in order to focus on the next new hot thing. I mean, really.. they just have to make their quarterly numbers.
I'm not attending either show, but feel a bit nostalgic about both: My first trade show ever was working at Comdex in Las Vegas (alas no more; it ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on January 06, 2007 in
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aaaand Action! This is your life
Starring in your own movie about your own life. Marsha King of the Seattle Times on the trend of people to hire others to make custom movies, books, and other biographical memoriabilia. Mentions the Association of Personal Historians.
As a man who rarely talks about himself, this wasn't his decision ... to be a movie star.
His adult children, nudged by a grandkid who heard about the idea, hired a film company to capture his personal story on a professionally produced DVD, complete with live interviews, old photos and music.
"He just had a lot of stuff to tell. We've been wanting to get it down on paper," daughter-in-law Kathy Echelbarger said. "We just thought it's a great way to get all this family history."
The explosion of interest in tracing one's roots has given rise to another phenomenon. Ordinary people—particularly baby boomers and their elderly parents—are hiring filmmakers and writers to immortalize ...Read More
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Boots on the Ground: The Technology I Use
James L Clark, (US Army Civil Affairs soldier serving in Iraq), draws his personal history of war inspiration inspired by past war historians, and takes full advantage of personal media to record his personal history of the war in Iraq. He describes the equipment he uses to make photos, video, and audio recordings.
Not many people think about their deployment as being anything more than just that—a deployment. They accept their responsibility, duty, and privilege to serve our country in a war zone as "just part of the job." The problem with this thinking is that it ignores the incredible opportunity that each soldier has to document not only "the" war but "their" war.
Dr. Forest C. Pogue was an official US Army historian during WWII and attained the rank of master sergeant. He was a proponent of "oral history" techniques and collected many such histories from the war during his career. During D-Day, Dr. Pogue (then SGT Pogue) interviewed wounded soldiers about their experiences both on the ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on July 19, 2006 in
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From camcorder to iPod
Engadget previews Bella Catapult, a portable digital encoder "that will let you toss those MiniDV cassettes straight out of your bag and replace them with your iPod or nearly any other USB 2.0-compliant storage system." Due to ship 2nd half of 2006. Price: under $300. Looks sweet.
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New evidence reaffirms that migration is costly but still worthwhile for Bangladeshis
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) presented their Final Report on The Bangladesh Household Remittance Survey 2009 in a workshop held in Dhaka on May 12, 2010. This survey collected data from a nationally representative sample of 10,926 migrant households. The findings of the survey confirm most of what we know about migration and remittance based on smaller surveys and anecdotal evidence. In particular, the findings are in line with the ones from the World Bank Survey (2007), which was smaller in scope.
I summarize below what appears to me as some emerging stylized facts about the profile of Bangladeshi migrants and their remittance behavior.
Migrants tend to be young (32 years old on average) married males who have at least completed primary education (over 75 percent). They go to the Middle-East (nearly 73 percent) and Asia (22) with the help of relatives (55 percent) and intermediaries (45 percent) after obtaining a low skilled or semi skilled job contract (79 percent) for which they had to wait for about 6 months.


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Do you count shopping as your cardio, therapy, and stress-relief? Have you ever forgone food for Fendi? If you're anything like us, you answered affirmatively to these telltale indicators of a serious retail habit. For anyone still in denial, check out the 14 signs that you have a full-blown shopping obsession.
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Part 1 - The Bodice Pieces
Firstly if you're not one of those lucky people that own the Lydia pattern from Burdastyle never fear! The Sewaholic Renfrew Top is also a great fit for this purpose. Also I just stumbled upon this great Blank Canvas Tee that might work as well (and it's free!). Or why not follow this great tutorial on how to make a copy of your favourite top and make yourself a perfectly fitted pattern for free!
Whether you're copying a pattern or drafting your own pattern for the bodice what you're aiming to do is copy the bodice pieces until the waistline. This should naturally be your slimmest point and if you get the waistline length right the peplum will fall nicely down to your hips and be quite flattering.
Whatever pattern you end up using make sure to cut out your front and back pieces to your waistline and sleeves as normal.
Part 2 - The Peplum
This bit is not nearly as hard as you think it might be. I figured it out from using this nifty little circle skirt calculator I found on Pinterest. As you can see below I opted for a half circle "skirt".
Now firstly this little calculator was set up in inches so I just continued on that way. I plugged in a comfortable measurement of my waist to get the waist radius measurement. Then I measured from my natural waistline down to where I wanted the top to fall. I included my seam allowance in this measurement so I didn't add it into the worksheet above.
Time to draft it up on some paper using the below implements.
My special little brain only knew one way to set this up so if you think of a much simpler/niftier option please let me know. Wrap some thread around one pencil and stickytape it in place. Then measure out the length of thread to your measurement from the worksheet, wrap the thread around the second pencil and stickytape. Draw out the waist line.
Undo your thread and redo it this time with your hem cutting line measurements.
You probably can't see the first line I drew on that paper because clever me decided to use pencil during a tutorial. Note to self pencil lines do not come up well in photos.
What you'll end up with is this cool looking semicircular drawing. This is the point at which I thought I was doing it wrong. I wasn't sure where I needed to cut the edges to make sure it fitted my waistline. I figured if I took my waistline measurement, halved it and cut off the semicircular shape there it would work. And it did! Hurrah.
Please note I did get cleverer at this point and started using a blue sharpie so you could actually see what I was doing. Better late than never right?
And there you have it you've drafted a peplum that fits you perfectly!
Part 3 - Putting them together
Cut out all your pattern pieces followed by facings for the bodice front neckline, bodice back neckline and peplum bottom.
You should end up with all the of following pieces ready to sew together.
Sew your pieces together. If you're lucky enough to have a serger/overlocker - do your thing. If you have a regular sewing machine you could either sew a zig-zag stitch or you could use an overcasting foot to replicate the kind of stitches you'd get on a serger/overlocker.
Part 4 - Hemming
Hemming also wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be. I had assumed that the peplum would be difficult to hem since it's curved but the facing will make it a treat!
Sew your facings together with right sides facing before pinning them onto the top. You want to sew the right side of the facing to the right side of the top, stitch along the length and flip the facing over to topstitch it down. In the case of the sleeves I simply folded them over and did a straight stitch right round them. Lazy I know but I don't think my biceps are in danger of being so large as to pop a stitch anytime soon.
Now go wear it!
This top can now be twinsies with my Blue Jersey Peplum Top!


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Have you stayed at__Hotel Bel-Air__since they reopened last October? If your answer is no, you must.
As part of__The Dorchester Collection__ (whose portfolio includes the Beverly Hills Hotel; Le Meurice and Plaza Athénée, in Paris; the Dorchester and 45 Park Lane, in London; Coworth Park, in Ascot; the Hotel de Principe di Savoia, in Milan; and Le Richemond, in Geneva), the Hotel Bel-Air property has been renovated to perfection, and you will find it as charming and luxurious as a five-star hotel can be! First of all, the size is just right. If you prefer your hotels to feel more on the cozier side, this place is it. It's not small by any means, as there are 58 guest rooms, 45 suites, and seven specialty suites sprawled across 12 acres of lush gardens. But it feels like a deluxe boutique hotel on a grand scale.
Almost every room is designed differently: unique in color, layout, and texture. And nearly all have a terrace, some with an outdoor gas-powered fireplace—divine! I fell in love with the Grace Kelly Suite. It possesses an old-world regal charm but with a modern and extremely polished look, in that classical Hollywood sense. None of the rooms, lofts, or suites feel fussy; glamour and grace is evoked throughout. Huge applause to the famed interior designer Alexandra Champalimaud for the property's redesign. Oh, and the Bel-Air's restaurant is by Wolfgang Puck____. Need I say more?
And then there's the luxurious La Prairie Spa____. With seven treatment rooms and a separate manicure-and-pedicure room, the spa delivers heavenly anti-aging treatments and so much more, for both women and men. I tried two treatments that have recently been added to the spa menu:
1)* *The Illuminating Manicure and Pedicure: After a good soak, my nail technician performed a gentle exfoliation with the help of La Prarie's Cellular 3-Minute Peel, Cellular Microdermabrasion Cream, and White Caviar Spot Treatment. Then the Hydralift Firming Mask was applied, before my hands were placed inside heated mitts. I must admit, my hands felt restored and luxurious, but they got spoiled some more with a soothing hand massage with La Prairie's White Caviar Illuminating Hand Cream S.P.F. 15. Think of this as the ultimate facial, but for the hands! And the Illuminating Pedicure felt just as pampering, addressing age and sunspots on my legs and feet. Then the treatment ended with a very soothing massage featuring their nourishing Skin Caviar Luxe Body Emulsion. It was delightful.
- The next morning brought the 90-minute Energy Enhancer, which I desperately needed to get over my tiredness from traveling, and it sure did the trick! First, the therapist performed a gentle exfoliation all over my body, and then a soothing but slightly tingling mask was applied. Then came the body wrap. While I was in a cocoon, an intense foot massage was performed, for the ultimate tension reliever (you can also opt for a scalp massage, or both!). Then, after I washed myself in their fabulous rain shower (within my own treatment room, of course), a gentle massage was performed, applying La Prairie's signature scented Cellular Energizing Body Lotion, which is heavenly. This treatment certainly boosted my energy and spirit, which is exactly what it's supposed to do.
Side note: Did you know that the La Prairie room amenities are exclusive to the Hotel Bel-Air? Among U.S. hotels you will find them only at this property—fabulous!
In the Bel-Air's late afternoon golden sunlight, I was blissfully walking across the property's short bridge, and happened to notice the famous __Hotel Bel-Air swans____!__They looked so idyllic, as truly majestic and elegant as one can imagine—a perfect representation of the Hotel Bel-Air.
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Mucho Macho Man won a three-horse driving finish Saturday afternoon at Santa Anita Park to win the 30th running of the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic.
Taking the lead from 8-5 favorite Game On Dude around the far turn, Mucho Macho Man drew clear and then held off furious charges by Will Take Charge and Declaration of War to win America's richest thoroughbred race by a nose.
Will Take Charge, 8-1, finished second and European invader Declaration of War, bet down to 6-1, was another nose behind in third in the 11-horse field.
Mucho Macho Man, second to Fort Larned in last year's Classic at Santa Anita, won the Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita on Sept. 28 and remained in Arcadia until Saturday's race. The 5-year-old son of Macho Uno gave Gary Stevens the Distaff-Classic double as Stevens won the Classic for the first time in 14 tries.
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My question deals with the makhraj of the middle of the tongue. Is the articulation point for jeem and sheen not a little..
Assalaamu 'alaykum,
My question deals with the makhraj of the middle of the tongue. Is the articulation point for jeem and sheen not a little more forward than that of yaa'. I tend to articulate the letter jeem with the middle of my tongue colliding with the ridge just before the concave part of roof of the mouth. When I articulate the letter sheen, the sound is produced in the same area but the sound is diffused over my teeth, which amplifies the sound. Is this right or do all three of these consonants need to be pronounced in the region behind the ridge I mentioned? Is the jaw in the same position in all three letters?
Thank you very much.
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
The articulation point itself for the three letters, , , and unlengthened is the same, but the characteristics of each letter changes how much occlusion of the actual point takes place. The point is the middle of the tongue and the roof of the mouth. The hollow part of the roof of the mouth is the part of the roof that the middle of the tongue collides with to produce these letters. If one used the middle of the tongue and the ridge behind the teeth, the sounds will not be correct.
The is a strong letter having imprisonment of both the running of the sound and the breath, so the articulation point is completely occluded when pronouncing this letter. With this occlusion, the sound cannot run at all. If one can run the sound of the , then it is not correct.
The letter has running of both the breath and the sound, plus it has another characteristic that matches the description in the question--that of diffusion of the sound throughout the mouth. If though, it is pronounced too far forward in the mouth, the sound will be velarized (will have tafkheem) and that is not a characteristic of the letter. There is loose contact of the tongue with the roof of the mouth because of the running of the sound, but the diffusion characteristic is considered a strong one.
The unlengthened has running of the sound, but not of the breath. This letter has the least contact of the tongue to the roof of the mouth of the three letters.
The jaw position will change with the vowel that accompanies the letter; opening of the mouth for the fat-hah, circling of the lips for the dhammah, and lowering of the jaw for the kasrah.
You are most welcome.
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Pawing through the 2015 Ford F-150 website, a reader noticed a picture of the gauge cluster reporting an average fuel economy of 18.8 MPG. Is this arbitrary or a secret clue to the new truck's actual efficiency?
The picture was found here, scrolling down to the "Technology That Works" section and flipping to the third picture from left.
This is definitely a reach, but it seems more likely that there'd be some method to which numbers Ford used in this illustration beyond pure randomness. 18.8 MPG should be achievable with a current F-150, so perhaps that will be what Ford tells us. But you never know where Easter Eggs might be hiding!
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September/October 2001
Pushing people to adhere to complicated drug regimens may seem to some like intimidation of innocent victims just to maintain high profit margins for multinational pharmaceutical companies. Or, could it be that high levels of adherence may help the medications work effectively and keep people healthier and living longer. In order to get the most benefit out of each drug regimen, people taking the drugs must answer these questions for themselves: Are these medications going to help me? How will these drugs affect my quality of life? Many research dollars have been spent to try to balance drug benefits and quality of life. Understanding drugs and how they work will result in longer durability (how long the drugs will keep viral loads undetectable) for each regimen. If we can string together many regimen combinations to keep the virus from replicating and causing damage, there will surely be better drugs and options for us down the road.
Of course, this will all come at a price. Drugs available today to treat HIV infection have many side effects and problems associated with them. Many of the problems we see today are not understood and continue to be a concern for doctors and patients alike. Not too many years ago, we didn't see a lot of these problems simply because people did not live long enough for the situation to manifest itself. With increased durability of drug regimens, and possible sequencing of interruptions in therapy, everyone's goal is to keep people healthy for longer periods of time. [See: "To Start or Not to Start?"]
It is important that we all understand how adherence plays a role in keeping viral loads undetectable. It has been shown in many reports that at least 90-95% of all doses must be taken properly to get the maximum benefit from the drugs. Less than perfect adherence teaches the HIV virus to get past the drugs (resistance). For those that take medicine twice a day, that means that missing one dose a week can put you near the edge. The effect of poor adherence does not always show up right away. You may even get a great viral load test result after poor adherence. Less than perfect adherence will show its nasty head in the durability of the regimen. Your health care provider may have to switch out your drugs sooner than you would like.
In a European study, after two years on therapy, 60% of the people enrolled in the study were undetectable on their first regimen, only 50% got to undetectable on their second regimen and only one out of three could get to undetectable on their third regimen. What this means to you is that the fewer drug changes a provider has to make, the better your chances are getting to undetectable. As we switch around drug regimens, the schedules often become more complicated and the number of tablets usually increases making life with HIV more complicated.
Help your health care provider pick a drug regimen that works best with your lifestyle and schedule. Everybody wants a "one-pill-a-day" regimen, but we are not there just yet. There are some changes that can be made in number of pills and doses per day. Communicate with your doctor about any concerns you may have before even starting therapy or switching to new drugs. There are only so many drug combinations available, you don't want to waste any options if you don't have to. When an HIV-positive person begins their first drug regimen, this is usually the most potent regimen, often with easier dosing schedules.
We must be clear on what adherence is and what it is not. Adherence is the ability to take each dose of medication at the prescribed time, with or without food when indicated, and without other drugs interacting with the ones used to treat HIV. Adherence is not being a couple hours late taking a dose, or forgetting to eat when the prescription says to take with food, and "empty stomach" usually means to take the drug one hour before a meal, or two hours after. Food can either reduce the level of drug in the body (like with Videx), or in another case, taking a drug without food can also lower drug levels (as with Fortovase). If the drugs you take don't get into the blood, it is almost like not taking the drugs at all. Here are some more tips that may help:
Do not stop taking your anti-HIV medication, even for a day, without first talking with your health care provider.
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David Herbert Lawrence, novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist, was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, on September 11, 1885. Though better known as a novelist, Lawrence's first-published works (in 1909) were poems, and his poetry, especially his evocations of the natural world, have since had a significant influence on many poets on both sides of the Atlantic. His early poems reflect the influence of Ezra Pound and Imagist movement, which reached its peak in the early teens of the twentieth century. When Pound attempted to draw Lawrence into his circle of writer-followers, however, Lawrence decided to pursue a more independent path.
He believed in writing poetry that was stark, immediate and true to the mysterious inner force which motivated it. Many of his best-loved poems treat the physical and inner life of plants and animals; others are bitterly satiric and express his outrage at the puritanism and hypocrisy of conventional Anglo-Saxon society. Lawrence was a rebellious and profoundly polemical writer with radical views, who regarded sex, the primitive subconscious, and nature as cures to what he considered the evils of modern industrialized society. Tremendously prolific, his work was often uneven in quality, and he was a continual source of controversy, often involved in widely-publicized censorship cases, most famously for his novel Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928). His collections of poetry include Look! We Have Come Through (1917), a collection of poems about his wife; Birds, Beasts, and Flowers (1923); and Pansies (1929), which was banned on publication in England.
Besides his troubles with the censors, Lawrence was persecuted as well during World War I, for the supposed pro-German sympathies of his wife, Frieda. As a consequence, the Lawrences left England and traveled restlessly to Italy, Germany, Ceylon, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, the French Riviera, Mexico and the United States, unsuccessfully searching for a new homeland. In Taos, New Mexico, he became the center of a group of female admirers who considered themselves his disciples, and whose quarrels for his attention became a literary legend. A lifelong sufferer from tuberculosis, Lawrence died in 1930 in France, at the age of forty-four.
Selected Bibliography
Amores (1916)
Bay (1919)
Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923)
Collected Poems (1932)
Collected Poems (1964)
Complete Poems (1957)
Fire and Other Poems (1940)
Last Poems (1932)
Look! We Have Come Through (1917)
Love Poems and Others (1913)
Nettles (1930)
New Poems (1918)
Pansies (1929)
Poems (1939)
The Ship of Death (1933)
Tortoises (1921)
Apocalypse (1932)
Democracy (1936)
Etruscan Places (1927)
Fantasia of the Unconscious (1922)
Letters (1932)
Mornings in Mexico (1927)
Movements in European History (1921)
Pornography and Obscenity (1930)
Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious (1921)
Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine (1934)
Sea and Sardinia (1921)
Selected Literary Criticism (1955)
Studies in Classic American Literature (1923)
The Letters of D. H. Lawrence (1991)
Twilight in Italy (1916)
Aaron's Rod (1922)
Complete Short Stories (1955)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
Sons and Lovers (1913)
The Boy in the Bush (1924)
The Captain's Doll (1923)
The Lost Girl (1920)
The Man Who Died (1930)
The Plumed Serpent (1926)
The Rainbow (1915)
The Short Novels (1956)
The Trespasser (1912)
The White Peacock (1911)
Women in Love (1916)


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It's like your grandmother wanting to get an R-rated glamor-shot makeover.
Not only do you definitely not want to see her all tarted up in a push-up bra and marabou-trimmed satin mules, you have to run out of the room hollering over the sound of her voice whenever she so much as mentions it.
Same thing, aviation-wise, when it comes to Burbank airport, since 2003 called Bob Hope Airport. Before that it was the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport, the neighborhood airport for the 818 area code and parts of the 626 and 323.
Like your granny, it's 80-ish years old, and also like your granny, it has sacrificed uber-modernity for the sake of comfort and shabby charm, and that's the way we've liked it.
At the Burbank airport, you don't expect first-class lounges with massages and lattes; you don't look for caviar snacks orGucci boutiques. And you'd be shocked to the core if Burbank suddenly, like your grandma's glam shot, tried to turn into one of "those airports."
So it was with trepidation that I heard the news that the airport gods are giving serious consideration to a Burbank airport makeover, with a bigger terminal, one that's farther from the runway, as the FAA specifies. Burbank might be called on to vote on this by summer 2015.
Long before then — next Tuesday evening, as a matter of fact — everyone, and not just Burbank voters, can speak up about anything that might be done to or at the airport, at a town hall at Burbank City Hall.
I think people should show up in their jammies, with travel mugs of coffee. Because that's what is at stake here: your friendly local airport, the one you can drive right up to in your PJs with your hair still wet and dump your passenger at curbside, or if you're flying yourself, just schlep across a few yards of asphalt from the garage to the terminal.
The Burbank airport is practically home, at least homey, as airports go. Going to LAX is like being forced to appear at KGB headquarters, a grim, dispiriting, soul-grinding plunge into an unsettling place that is simultaneously rigid and chaotic. Even if you get out of it OK, you're never the same.
Happily, the new Burbank terminal would still have only 14 gates, which keeps the scale of the place more or less intact.
There's one issue the makeover masters didn't raise, and they definitely should.
It's time to rename the place.
Bob Hope was a nice man, grateful to his adopted country, devoted to performing for troops in the USO — but not, I think, the right namesake for an airport. He did live in the 'hood, Toluca Lake, but so did Valleyites Bing Crosby and Clark Gable and Edgar Rice Burroughs, and nobody was pushing to change the name to Tarzan Airfield or Der Bingle Airport.
The 1979 naming of John Wayne Airport in Orange County, in the year Wayne died, was a clear bid for national billing by a parochial airport. It was the same with Bob Hope Airport. The name change had been proposed in 1985, but it didn't pass until 2003, right after Hope died.
Ten years later, travelers are still saddled with a sentimental impulse, an airport named for a man who was famous to his generation but who may now be better known for the airport than for his movie or charity work. I don't know anyone who uses it who calls it "Bob Hope" or "the Hope" airport. And Burbank/the Valley aren't parochial anymore.
So, as long as the airport is in redo mode, here's a perfect new name. It honors someone who became a local, who made a tremendous contribution to aviation, someone whose statue already stands in an airport hallway, someone whose name is world renowned and is still in the news long after she's died. It's a forehead-smackingly obvious choice:
Amelia Earhart.
And ladies and gentlemen of the airport authority, I'll donate the first gallon of paint for the new name. In sky-blue.
Patt Morrison is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times
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Dell Buyout Talks: How a Role for Michael Dell Would Play
Michael Dell's involvement in any buyout of his namesake computer giant Dell Inc. would be testing the waters of management buyouts, a tactic that has invited controversy in previous deals.
Mr. Dell holds nearly 16% of the shares of Dell Inc. and has in the past said he has considered taking the company he started in his college dorm room private. The company has so far declined to comment on the reports that TPG and Silver Lake are exploring a possible buyout.
Most analysts are taking Mr. Dell's involvement as a given because his stake would help any bidders he favored and potentially make it difficult for ones he didn't.
Earlier buyouts have raised eyebrows for just such involvement, though deal makers say concerns can be mitigated when the proper process is put in place including proper board committees.
On the one hand, a CEO and board face a duty to get shareholders the best possible price in any sale. But having a stake in the buyer — as a CEO that's part of a buyout group would — can be seen as complicating the matter since a buyer wants a lower price.
Also, a CEO who is synonymous with the company's success, such as Mr. Dell, can be a bargaining chip for the CEO's partners. Without the leader, the company may look less attractive to other bidders, arguably titling any auction in favor of the management group.


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D.C. Monday = Don't come to work
Washington is getting a snow day.
Both the House and Senate have canceled votes scheduled for Monday evening due to the impending snowstorm that is poised to hit the Washington-area starting Sunday night. The Office of Personnel Management also announced Sunday that the federal government will be shuttered Monday.
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The House had been scheduled to vote on series of suspensions on Monday — usually noncontroversial legislation that requires two-thirds support of lawmakers to pass, not a simple majority. Among one of the measures that had been scheduled for Monday is a resolution that calls for ending the violence in Venezuela, sponsored by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.).
The office of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Sunday that those votes will be moved to Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Last votes of the week are still scheduled for Thursday.
In the Senate, a cloture vote on the nomination of Debo Adegbile for assistant attorney general that had been scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Monday will now be held Tuesday at noon, according to the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
The schedule changes come as the crisis over Russia's incursion into Ukraine escalates and lawmakers mull action against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the second-ranking Senate Democrat, said Sunday that lawmakers should "quickly" pass a resolution condemning Putin's actions. Meanwhile, Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said lawmakers will consider targeted sanctions in the matter.
"The United States and our European allies should immediately bring to bear all elements of our collective economic strength to stop Russian advances in Ukraine," Corker said in a statement Saturday night.


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So Many Linux Desktops: Which One is Best?
GNOME in a Nutshell
How do you choose which GNU/Linux desktop to use? No easy answer exists, because the choice is so full of difficulties.
For another, few guides exist, and those you can find online are often outdated. For example, not too many years ago, the consensus was that KDE was easier to use than GNOME and felt more like Windows. Then the KDE 4 series was released. Now, few people would agree that the generality is still true.
In much the same way, comparisons of such elements as the speed of a desktop are next to impossible, because they can vary so greatly with the distribution. In Debian, KDE and Xfce are both extremely quick, while in Kubuntu and Xubuntu (their Ubuntu incarnations) they often seem slower than GNOME.
But the biggest reason that no definitive answer is possible is that the choice of a desktop is highly personal. And no wonder, considering that many of us spend twelve hours a day or more in front of our choice. More than anything else, that's why, when someone new to GNU/Linux asks me what desktop they should use, I answer the same way that I do here, summarizing the general feel and some of the desktop-specific applications, then adding any cultural issues that might affect them.
Regardless of which of the most popular desktops you settle on -- GNOME, KDE, and Xfce -- the choice is too personal to trust to endorsements.
GNOME in a Nutshell
GNOME was started in 1997 because of concerns over KDE licensing. Originally short for GNU Network Object Model Environment, the name no longer stands for anything. Usually, it is pronounced with the first "G" being sounded, making it two syllables.
While GNOME and its priorities have changed several times in the last twelve years, today GNOME is best known for an emphasis on simple, highly usable designs. The principles behind these designs are summarized in the GNOME Human Interface Designs. When followed, these principles usually result in highly organized menus and a limited set of configuration options.
Combined with the high profile activities of the GNOME Foundation, these designs probably explain why GNOME is the desktop of choice of business in North America, and currently a friendly choice for newcomers. However, others find GNOME too restrictive and too quick to dictate to users how they should use their computers.
Not too long ago, GNOME had fewer applications written for it then KDE, but now that no longer seems true, at least so far as basic applications are concerned. Although GNOME often comes with Epiphany, a Mozilla-based browser, and includes office apps like AbiWord and Gnumeric, most users favor Firefox and OpenOffice.org instead.
At the heart of GNOME are the file-browser Nautilus, which includes a simple but adequate CD-burning feature, and Evolution, GNOME's answer to Window's Outlook. Gedit, GNOME's graphical text editor, is also highly prized by some users, especially when it is pimped out with all the plug-ins that are available for it.
However, the place where GNOME excels the most is one that many users never see -- accessibility. Especially in Orca, GNOME has become the premier system for free software users with visual impairments, many of whom say that, without GNOME, they could never afford to use a computer at all.
One of the controversies in GNOME is the use of Mono, a GNU/Linux version of Microsoft's .NET that many people feel is encumbered by patents that might theoretically be used to damage free software. In most distributions, however, you can use delete applications built with Mono such as Tomboy, F-Spot, and Banshee and replace them with alternatives.
Another uncertainty about GNOME is that, in a less than a year, it is scheduled to roll out GNOME 3.0, a major rewrite of the desktop. So far, little has been published about exactly what the rewrite will look like, but some users worry that it will be a radical rewrite that will lose the user-friendliness of the current releases.
Distributions that use GNOME as a default include Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora. New users should find any of them easy to learn and reasonably quick considering all the features included.
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text: Hobart - Russia's Elena Vesnina won her first WTA tour title when she beat 2012 champion Mona Barthel 6-3, 6-4 in the final of the Hobart International tournament on Saturday. The unseeded 26-year-old played composed tennis throughout against the German, four years her junior, winning the match in just under 84 minutes. Vesnina had lost six previous finals, three in 2011 alone, and sank to her knees in relief when a Barthel backhand sailed wide of the tram lines to give her a first title. She meets France's Caroline Garcia in the first round of the Australian Open in Melbourne, while Barthel meets Ksenia Pervak of Kazakhstan.


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An ignorant/misled stackexchange moderator deleted a correct answer to a very difficult question. Only from my years of experience in the field did I even know it was remotely possible to answer. Then I spent hours researching (No results on Google) and typing it all up. Now nobody can see it and I have no recourse. No options whatsoever to request a review or undeletion. I can edit my answer but it will remain deleted and invisible. Silver lining: At least I can still see my own deleted answers... SO thanks for that I guess. (Get it? Capitalized SO for "StackOverflow", their #1 sub-site.)
My original answer follows:
Your suggested solution to edit the save is a sound one. I'd love to do it. However there is a major problem that stops me:
For most of the file formats developed and used by Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft III - The Reign of Chaos and Warcraft III - The Frozen Throne there exist reverse engineered specifications. Except for saved games. As far as I know, anyway. *.W3Z remains to be cracked.
There exists however, a hostbot for custom games called Ghost++ that can automatically pause and save the game it is hosting at the very exact moment a player has disconnected from it. Furthermore, the last few frames/packets are automatically discarded to essentially "go back in time" to before the crashing player lost their connection. Recovering from this saved game is used occasionally by unofficial tournaments to avoid a rematch in the event of a disconnect or crash. Very useful and impressive technology.
Note: Use the !hostsg command to host a saved game with Ghost++.
Their website is http://www.codelain.com/forum/
The project is open source, so we can look at exactly how they achieved this "going back in time" to save before Warcraft 3 realizes a player has disconnected. Probably what they implemented is simply ignoring the timeout event or disconnect packet and instead instructing the host or fake player next frame to pause the game and save.
Please keep us updated with anything you find. I am very interested in Warcraft 3 internals. Especially if you get your hands on a saved game's file structure documentation, or find a save game editor.
Daniel "3ICE" Berezvai
What happened to it? I'll tell you:
Frank reviewed this Dec 4 at 4:23: Recommend Deletion (This does not provide an answer to the question. To critique or request clarification from an author, leave a comment below their post - you can always comment on your own posts, and once you have sufficient reputation you will be able to comment on any post. - From Review – Frank Dec 4 at 4:23)
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Fuck you Frank, you probably know nothing about hostbots. And lack skills in reading comprehension...
Just because I don't explicitly spell it out for you, doesn't mean the Ghost++ hostbot I suggested in paragraph three is not the solution here. Did you stop reading after the second paragraph? Or did you skip straight to the end, and misunderstand my last one?
During these trying times of persecution and singling out for e-torture, I was still a new user with no tools with which to defend myself. I had a measly 1 point of reputation (for clicking on "Tour" and scrolling down), and you don't allow comments by new users until they amass a whooping 50 points. Fifty! (Fuck stackexchange for that brilliant policy too.) After this swift treatment of injustice, any lesser mind would have been deterred from ever using the SE again, you know. Is that what you want? To scare new users away, before they even have a chance to establish themselves? Did it ever occur to you that I might have left a comment instead of an answer if I was able to leave comments? (Don't bother, I wouldn't have anyway...) Go ahead, count the line breaks I used, or even just each paragraph! Comments aren't supposed to be this long! My answer deserves to be a full fledged answer! Not a tiny comment with all paragraphs shoved into one line. (By the way yes, stackexchange does that too. Bullshit formatting. If the user wants a two line comment, let them leave a two line comment!)
Besides, this is the only answer the question has gotten since over one year ago. Unless you deleted all the other ones too. Achievement farming at others' expense. How's your shiny gold "reviewer" badge coming?
The only other answer came after I bumped the question. And it is a mere copyedit of mine, just a lot shorter with my cheerful commentary and positive spirit removed. Credit thieves... (Of course he got downvoted because he made incorrect assumptions.)
They don't even do MD right. I had to do this: Don't mind me, just adding back the first line of my answer that was deleted... I guess saying "Hi," is frowned upon? I want to say hi! Let me. And my name goes on its own line


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Hinds-Bock's "Automatic Answer" muffin batter depositing machines provide high production from a compact automatic machine.
The industrial muffin lines produce up to 18,000 pounds per hour and include pan oiling, paper cup denesters, single or multiple batter depositors with diving positive shut-off spouts, bulk loading, intermediate hoppers and dry ingredient depositors. Batter depositors feature diving positive shut-off spouts for bottom up filling. This prevents stringing or trailing of batters and allows for clean handling of even the thickest products. Spout centerlines are adjustable with no extra tooling required.
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Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program
The federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Program was established by the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (Internal Revenue Code Section 42) to create market incentives for the acquisition and development or rehabilitation of affordable rental housing. The equity capital generated from the tax credits lowers the debt burden on LIHTC properties, making it easier for owners to offer lower, more affordable rents; while investors, such as banks, obtain a dollar-for-dollar reduction in their federal tax liability. Over the past twenty-five years, this program has become an important tool for addressing the nation's affordable housing needs.
The Internal Revenue Service is the federal agency responsible for administering the LIHTC program. LIHTCs are distributed to State Housing Finance Agencies on an annual basis. The state HFAs then allocate the credits to qualified affordable housing development projects on a competitive basis. HUD collects overview data on LIHTC projects, and provides resources for using the program to develop affordable rental housing.
OCC Resources
"Low-Income Housing Tax Credits: Affordable Housing Investment Opportunities for Banks," (PDF) Community Development Insights, March 2014. This edition of Community Developments Insights describes how LIHTCs are used to develop affordable rental housing and how banks can benefit from investing in LIHTC-financed projects. It describes the two approaches for investing in LIHTCs: direct investments in individual affordable housing projects and fund investments that have multiple projects managed by third parties. The report outlines risks and regulatory considerations of LIHTC investments and describes how these investments would be considered under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA).
"Low-Income Housing Tax Credits," (PDF) Community Developments Fact Sheet.
"Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Funds: Investment Opportunities for Banks," OCC Web and Telephone Seminar, Executive Summary, September 10, 2008.
Federal Resources
Internal Revenue Service
Internal Revenue Code, Section 42 Low-Income Housing Credit.
"IRS Resources About Tax Exempt Bonds," Internal Revenue Service, U. S. Department of the Treasury.
State Housing Finance Agencies
National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) - NCSHA was created by the nation's state Housing Finance Agencies (HFAs) as a nonprofit affordable housing advocacy organization that represents state HFAs, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, two (non-HFA) state agencies that allocate LIHTCs, and for profit and nonprofit firms in the affordable housing field. The website also has a directory of state housing finance agencies.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
"Low-Income Housing Tax Credits," HUD User, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A searchable dataset of all of the LIHTC projects placed into service.
Industry Organizations and Professional Associations
Novogradac Affordable Housing Resource Center - News, facts and figures, federal and state guidance, research and reports, and other resources on the LIHTC program.
CohnReznick Affordable Resource Center has a variety of materials including a report entitled The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program at Year 30: An Operating Expense Analysis and use this link: that looks at how LIHTC properties have performed through 2016.
Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition - The Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition is a group of developers, syndicators, lenders, nonprofit groups, public agencies, and others concerned with the low-income housing tax credit.
Affordable Housing Investors Council (AHIC) - AHIC provides information about the benefits of investing in affordable housing tax credit properties, educates corporate investors on all aspects of affordable housing, and discusses issues of importance to investors in the industry.
National Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies (NALHFA) - NALHFA is a national association of professionals, including city and county agencies, non-profit organizations, underwriters, consultants, financial advisors, bond counsels, and rating agencies, who help finance affordable housing in the broader community development context at the local level.
National Association of State and Local Equity Funds (NASLEF) - NASLEF promotes the efficient management of state and local equity funds to create or rehabilitate affordable rental housing throughout the United States.
National Housing & Rehabilitation Association (NH&RA) - The National Housing & Rehabilitation Association (NH&RA) is an association for professions in the historic rehabilitation, affordable housing, new markets, and renewable energy tax credit programs. In addition, the association produces Tax Credit Advisor publications for organizations interested in financing tax credit projects.
National Not-For-Profit Syndicators and TA Providers
National Equity Fund (NEF) - NEF, an affiliate of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), was created as LISC's tax-credit syndication arm in 1987 to help deliver additional capital to Community Development Corporations (CDCs) focused on affordable housing development.


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Catharine A. MacKinnon
Catharine A. MacKinnon
James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law
Catharine A. MacKinnon is a lawyer, teacher, writer, and activist on sex equality issues domestically and internationally. She is Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and from 2008-2012 was the first Special Gender Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Widely published in many languages, her dozen books include Sexual Harassment of Working Women (1979), Feminism Unmodified (1987), Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989), Only Words (1993), Women's Lives, Men's Laws (2005), Are Women Human? (2006), and her casebook Sex Equality (2001/2007). She conceived sexual abuse as a violation of equality rights, pioneering the legal claim for sexual harassment as sex discrimination in employment and education; with Andrea Dworkin, she recognized the harms of pornography as civil rights violations and proposed the Swedish Model to abolish prostitution. Her approach to equality has been largely accepted in Canada and elsewhere. Representing Bosnian women survivors of Serbian sexual atrocities, she established legal recognition of rape in genocide, winning with co-counsel a $745 million verdict at trial. She works with Equality Now, an international NGO promoting sex equality, and the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW).
Areas of Interest
- Constitutional Law
- International Law
- Comparative and Foreign Law
- Gender and the Law
- Sexuality and the Law
Education History
- B.A. Smith College, 1969
- J.D. Yale Law School, 1977
- Ph.D. Yale University, 1987
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At a time when graphical DVD rippers and encoders propose to make the backing up of your movies just a click away, a text-based application may actually be the best tool for the job.
I've tried graphical rippers such as AcidRip, dvd::rip, thoggen, and RippedWire, with varying degrees of success. However, I've also had my share of headaches. Most times, any crashes or problems I experienced were related to the graphical components of the application or the desktop. It's not pleasant (to say the least) to leave your computer eating electricity all night, only to find in the morning that the ripping and encoding of a DVD failed because of an error purely related to GTK+ or Qt. It's even more frustrating when you realize that most of these applications are front ends to command-line programs. For instance, AcidRip is a wrapper for MEncoder (not that MEncoder doesn't need a front end), and RippedWire sits on top of HandBrakeCLI. Once you click the Go button, the application basically becomes a giant progress bar, hogging your desktop and system resources.
After having trouble running a GUI-based ripper/encoder on my fresh install of Arch Linux, I stumbled upon undvd. Its only core dependencies are lsdvd and MEncoder, so I decided to give version 0.3.1 a try.
Being a command-line application, undvd installed in the blink of an eye. Running
scandvd.sh with a DVD loaded in the drive provides you with a simple screen that shows you the titles available on the disc, and basic instructions on how to watch them using MPlayer, or rip them. After that,
scandvd.sh will exit. After deciding upon the title to rip, run
undvd.sh, specifying a few, simple parameters. For instance, to rip and encode the first title of a DVD, together with an English audio and subtitle track, you can run
undvd.sh -t 01 -a eng -s eng.
A more complex example rips the second track of a DVD (with a French audio track, without subtitles), forcing one-pass encoding. It assumes the DVD is encrypted (and requires libdvdcss to read) and rips straight from the optical disc, using a picture-smoothing filter and Xvid compression:
The result (in both cases) is an AVI file of surprisingly good quality. Other options include forcing two-pass encoding, selecting a target size for the AVI file, and video scaling.
undvd rips and encodes the titles to the folder from where you called the application, so beware of disk space issues. The default is for undvd to dump the entire DVD to disk, after which you can remove it from the drive. undvd then rips and encodes from the ISO image on disk. This protects the DVD from overuse and eliminates failed operations due to read errors. However, you can also rip directly from the DVD or from a folder.
I'm usually a nitpicker when it comes to lack of options, but my first encounter with undvd managed to make me a believer. The interface is simple but effective, and pressing the Enter key a couple of times -- or writing a short string of arguments -- is more practical in my book than navigating through tabs and checkboxes.
h264enc and xvidenc
Shortly after discovering undvd, I came upon h264enc and its siblings, xvidenc and divxenc. The author describes h264enc as an interactive script and defends the advantages of a bash script over a GUI application in his informative FAQ. h264enc does basically the same job as undvd (it also uses MEncoder), but it allows for more fine-tuning of the encoding options. The beauty of h264enc is that you can make the ripping/encoding process as simple or as complicated as you want. You can pass through as few menus as possible, or you can take your time tweaking the options. Forty-one quality presets, including presets for portable devices like Apple's iPod, make your life easier.
The man page shows you everything you need to get started. Running
h264enc -scan scans the DVD for information on chapters, audio, and more, and presents it to you. After that, you can run h264enc with the necessary parameters to your liking. For instance, to rip the second track of your DVD again, type
h264enc -2p -p hq. This makes a two-pass encoding with the High Quality preset. h264enc then shows a series of interactive menus where you can choose your DVD drive, the video track to rip, the audio track, chapters, angles, and so on. You can also choose postprocessing filters (such as deinterlacing, noise removal, and image sharpening) and define the video bitrate, target size, audio codec, and more. If you're in a hurry or confused, simply choose the defaults. h264enc encodes the files to the H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 standard, using the AVI container by default. You can choose other containers, such as Matroska Multimedia Container (MKV), Ogg Media (OGM), and MPEG-4 Part 14 (MP4). You can also store your settings for a particular job in a file, thus creating your own presets. Storing different settings for different jobs allows you to create batch jobs, which is a great feature to have at hand.
The quality of the final product varies according to the quality of the original video and the settings you choose. After some experimentation and following the advice of the FAQ, I achieved excellent results. Using three-pass encoding with a Very High Quality preset and a target size of 1400MB, for example, gave me a video file practically indistinguishable from the original DVD in terms of picture quality.
I use undvd for most tasks, and h264enc when I need more control over the output (for extreme high-quality rips, or movies with low image quality). Still in the realm of text-based applications, you also might want to consider RipDVD and HandBrakeCLI as sound alternatives. HandBrakeCLI in particular supports multiple CPU cores -- something most other rippers and encoders don't do. Although HandBrake isn't as easy to use as h264enc or undvd, a recent article may help with that. dvd::rip also supports multiple CPU cores, as well as the ability to set up a cluster to increase processing power.
These applications show that a command-line based workflow, in the context of common desktop tasks, still has its place, especially when you want power and simplicity.


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Mike Watts knew it would be an interesting year when Clarksdale, Miss., received 5 to 6 inches of rain in a few hours in mid-May. From that point, land on the Fullen Farms operation Watts manages near Clarksdale received much more rain than "normal."
Despite all the moisture, Watts was able to contain the size of his cotton plants, a factor that contributed to the successful defoliation of the crop on Fullen Farms, which is headquartered in Ripley, Tenn.
"With all the rains that we had this year, I used up to 140 ounces of Mepex plant growth regulator, trying to hold back the crop," says Watts. "We hit it with a 24-ounce rate several times and finally slowed it down.
"I had planted DP 444 BG/RR, Phytogen 370 WR and ST 5599BR. The Phytogen 370 WR wasn't as aggressive as the ST 5599BR," he noted. "We held the crop back successfully with Mepex and later were able to do a great defoliation job."
Watts attributes much of that success to receiving information and expertise almost on a daily basis from his local retailer, Jimmy Sanders Seed Co.
"We've been with Jimmy Sanders for two years now," says Watts. "I've worked with (Sanders' agronomist) Jim Corley all during that time. I rely on him for recommendations on weed control, soil sampling, fertilizer application, variety selection, defoliation and insect control.
"Jim is a good field rep and keeps updated on all the newer products and stays in close relationships with the products' representatives."
One example of this teamwork was defoliation. "Defoliation is a gamble on what you do every year," he says. "I've had good success with defoliation this year. Matter of fact, our aerial applicator said we had done the best defoliation job he had seen this year."
Using Corley's advice, Watts applied Adios and a boll opener, Super Boll. He went back on his ranker cotton with a second shot with Dropp/Def/Prep. The Dropp helps hold down regrowth.
Watts says Corley also helps him keep up on the profusion of generic products, which can save him money. "We want to use good products and want good people backing up those products," Watts says. "Jim and I discuss the prices on several products and select the one that we feel will work the best while being price competitive."
Sanders also does Watts' soil sampling and fertilizer application. He might have some bean ground sampled every year but otherwise is on a five-year grid program. He has grid almost all of his operation, except for the bean ground.
"On one corn field that I had land-formed about five years ago, we did a 10-acre grid on it, and we now variable rate our potash and phosphorus. My cotton is on 5-acre grids because cotton is a little more sensitive."
Sanders also helps with insect control. "We also use a consultant, Greg Williams out of Memphis, who is very good," Watts says. "Jim, who is also an entomologist, helps me on a daily basis and gives me a second opinion.
"Whether we're talking cotton, corn, or beans, Jim and I look at the situation and determine together what materials to put out. And we consider the growing conditions.
Things like the available moisture all figure in, and he's a specialist on it. It's key having someone local who can help us adjust our program to the growing conditions, which can change quickly."
This past season, Watts farmed 1,600 acres of cotton, 400 of corn, 300 of wheat and 700 of soybeans. About 1,300 acres of his cotton were irrigated. He can irrigate about two-thirds of his land.
Watts also uses Sanders when he does his winter planning. "Sanders helps with the resources for the upcoming year," Watts says.
"We always try do the best job possible for our growers," says Corley.
"We try to give them honest, dependable, timely information. We also try to get in their fields on a timely basis when they need us. When they are rolling, we talk daily — sometimes several times daily."


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James Beard Awards Reflections
I am just home from the James Beard Awards and the various after-parties. Here are some not-so-random thoughts on the evening:
The Beard Awards are never going to become the Oscars of the food world, as they are sometimes described. Why? Because unlike the Oscars, the general public really doesn't care who wins the Best Chef Southeast Award. That said, winning a Beard Award is profoundly meaningful for the chefs and restaurateurs who earn them for the simple reason that they are being recognized in an awards ceremony attended by many of their peers across the country.
The Beard Awards are never going to be particularly entertaining. They are essentially trade awards with a slight veneer of entertainment thrown in for good measure.
There is something very cool about the Beard Awards. Unlike the Oscars and the Emmys, the public can buy tickets and rub shoulders with the Bobby Flays, Thomas Kellers, and Tom Colicchios of the world. I remember the first time I bought a ticket to the Beards ten years ago I couldn't believe my food fortune.
The food this year, built around an artisanal producer theme, was actually better than it has been in recent years. Simple dishes like scrapple with a poached egg on toast, fried stuffed squash blossoms, and, my favorite, biscuits with country ham and homemade preserves, abounded. The dishes were cooked by great chefs from around the country.
As for the winners themselves, there was a little more emotion and realness emanating from the stage at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall this year. It was really heartening and moving to see Alinea's Grant Achatz, who has been battling tongue cancer, speak when he accepted the award as Best Chef in America. I certainly would not have known it by the clear way he spoke. I thought to myself, if winning a Beard Award is going to help Grant in his ongoing battle, the various committees that the Beards comprise should just take turns giving him awards. Serious eaters need you, Grant.
The America's Classics were awarded to Bagaduce Lunch in Brooksville, Maine, Jumbo's in Miami, Maneki in Seattle, Irma's in Houston, and Tufano's Vernon Park Tap in Chicago. These are the most emotionally resonant awards given out because the winners are working cooks and restaurateurs and not fancy-pants chefs, and they have usually been doing their thing for a long time without getting much recognition. I remember giving Willie Mae Seaton an America's Classic Award a few years ago, and when the septugenerian Seaton tottered to the stage and began to cry as she accepted the award, I started to cry as well. Who wouldn't have? It was an incredibly emotional moment for all concerned.
It is with great sadness that I report that Gina DePalma, our brilliant Rome bureau chief and the pastry chef at Babbo, lost for the eighth time in her bid to win the Best Pastry Chef award. Gina has become the Susan Lucci of the Beards, and it's a damn shame because she can make pastries as well as she can write.
How Did I Fare in My Predictions?
- David Chang won Best New York Chef, as I predicted
- Joe Bastianich and Mario Batali triumphed in the Best Restaurateur category, again as I predicted, and Joe gave a surprisingly moving speech describing how he learned to be a restaurateur by cleaning the sidewalks in front of his parents' restaurant as a boy
- I correctly guessed that Gramercy Tavern would win for Best Restaurant
- I thought Mozza Osteria was going to win Best New Restaurant, but Michel Richard's new restaurant in D.C. did. Richard did a jig across the stage as he accepted the award
- I forgot to pick a winner in the Best Chef category, but anybody who was not rooting for Grant Achatz has no heart or soul
So until next year, when all of you should consider going to the Beards. You'll eat well and hobnob wth chef TV stars.
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The swords can be american themed, much like one that generals would use, and the blocks could be all rickety looking and rough
okay. step one is im going to get some of the main blocks out of the way. below i am going to put grass, dirt, sand, wood planks, sand bricks, stone bricks, and normal bricks. please give me feedback on these so i can tweak them and make them better, since i am still learning
Perhaps darken the grass and dirt a bit? It looks a bit too bright to me.
For my next six, I'm going to redo brick, then I'm going to do cobblestone, birch tree trunk, birch tree planks, wood trunk and wood veneer
I personally think the sand is a little too bright, And Clean looking.Also, You should totally make tumble weeds as a texture.
I think the brick is way to bright. I think you should darken it a little. Other than it it looks good


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