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SPOKANE, Wash. -- Spokane City leaders announced Friday that they are imposing a 120 day stay on complaints received about short-term online rentals in residential areas.
In a recent trend, many travelers around the world are choosing people's homes for a short stay rather than a traditional hotel or a quaint bed and breakfast. Earlier in March KREM 2 learned that legitimate owners of local bed and breakfasts and people who rent out a part of their homes to short-stay guests have been feuding over the legality.
City leaders said it is in an effort to understand the hospitality needs of the community and the effect of short-term stays in residential areas on neighborhoods and the hotel community.
READ: Battle over 'bed and breakfast' brewing in Spokane
During the stay, the city will continue to take complaints and concerns, but no action will be taken as it reviews all aspects with multiple groups.
City leaders said they will meet with Code Enforcement, Planning Department representatives, city council representatives, area Stake Holders and they will seek public input.
The stay on complaints begins April 1 and will last 120 days during the evaluation.


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Egyptians tell Israel to stuff its holocaust award
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A video game designer is seeking funds for "Deadskins," a proposed console game that many Natives will no doubt find troubling.
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In the storied history of the Montreal Canadiens only two men have served as captain for as many as ten seasons. Jean Beliveau was the first when he wore the C from 1961 until he retired after the 1971 season.
The second was Saku Koivu, who captained the Canadiens from 1999 until 2009.
Now a member of the Anaheim Ducks, Koivu will return to the Bell Centre for the first time since moving west and inking a two-year deal with the California club.
Though he loved his time in Montreal, Koivu is aware of how strange it will be walking into his old home.
"I used that facility for so long and it's a very familiar place but now being on the visiting team, an opponent, it's going to feel very weird." Koivu told the media.
Koivu was drafted by the Canadiens in the first round of the 1993 entry draft and made an early impact, putting up 20 goals in his rookie season.
In fact while with the Canadiens, he tallied 191 goals and 450 assists in 13 seasons.
Koivu, the 27th captain in team history, expects to get a good reception from the Montreal crowd in his return.
"Obviously you hope for the best but you never know," said Koivu. "I think we were able to build a special bond and relationship with the people of Montreal. They were behind me and supported me throughout my career and I don't expect anything but a positive reaction."
Koivu lost almost the entire 2001-2002 season battling non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. When he courageously returned to the line-up late in the season to help with the playoff push, he received a standing ovation from the Montreal fans that lasted over five minutes.
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LiveAuction of rare comics underway in Newcastle
This live event has finished
- The auction of several thousand comics dating as far back as the 1950s is due to start at noon. Highlights include Number One issues of Spiderman, Daredevil and Newcastle's very own Viz. Duncan Leatherdale reports live from the salesroom.
And that's it from me for now, the auction will continue for another hour or two.
Thanks for joining me at this exciting day for comic geeks everywhere!
X-Men Number One, published in 1963, now. Bidding starts at £100, £110, £120, £130, £140, £150, £160 SOLD for £160 to an internet bidder.
Ghost Rider One to Five (the film starred Nicholas Cage), went for £35. The run from Five to 71 has SOLD for £40.
Not long until X-Men One, before that though are two lots of Ghost Rider, going from One to 71, which could be interesting. The real defining feature of this auction has been the impressive, unbroken runs of comics, meaning you can basically buy a complete collection!
One chap with an impressive beard and pony tail just paid £20 for 60 issues of the Fantastic Four, from issue 200 to 322. That's just 33p per comic!
Issue 12 of the Fantastic Four, from 1961, which sees Mister Fantastic, The Invisible Woman, Human Torch and The Thing take on the Hulk, has sold for £50. It had a guide price of between £100 and £160. The cover was drawn by Jack Kirby. Could be deal of the day!
Somebody just got 96 copies of The Defenders, issues 19 to 144, for £15! The Defenders were like a poor man's Avengers, a superhero group with a rotating cast of members including Doctor Strange, Hulk and Nighthawk. The Silver Surfer was a late addition to the rota.
We are now working our way through several lots of Strange Tales, another Marvel publication which featured numerous characters including Doctor Strange and Nick Fury, director of SHIELD.
I shall stay until X-Men Number One goes under the hammer, sadly I will then have to head back to the office. But if you want to know what happens after that, get yourself to the Anderson & Garland showroom in Newcastle. Notable lots to come later include Issue Ones of Hawkman, Aquaman and The Green Lantern, the latter with a guide price of between £200 and £300.
Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, Issue One, published in 1968, has SOLD for £95 to an internet bidder, Issues Two, Three and Four went for £65, and a run from Five to 10 SOLD for £20!
Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, Issue One, published in 1968, has SOLD for £95 to an internet bidder, Issues Two, Three and Four went for £65, and a run from Five to 10 SOLD for £20!
Iron Man Number One started at £30, SOLD for £100. Two and Three SOLD together for £40!
Now Tales of Suspense, sister title to Tales to Astonish, is going under the hammer. It introduced the likes of Captain America and Iron Man.
Issue 181 of the Incredible Hulk, from 1974, has just sold for £195 despite having a missing Marvel coupon. It is the first comic to feature the Wolverine, and a copy recently sold on Ebay for more than £800.
Currently working our way through Tales to Astonish, which featured the work of notable artist Jack Kirby and was edited by Stan Lee. In 1962 it first introduced Henry Pym to the world, who went on to become Ant-Man, capable of shrinking down to the size of an ant and one of the original Avengers. It also reintroduced the Incredible Hulk after his initial run was cancelled.
Also in today's sale, Iron Man One, Two and Three. First published by Marvel in 1961, Iron Man has been made super cool by Robert Downey Jr.
Just changed auctioneers again, John Anderson is back. He earlier told me auctions can be tedious as a spectator sport, like watching horse racing if you are not putting any bids on. He said: "If you've not got an interest in it, you are just watching horses run around in a big circle."
We are through the Spiderman collection, now The Incredible Hulk Number Two, from 1962, has SOLD for £150. Just a side note, my nickname at school was the Incredible Bulk. Kids can be cruel.
Other great examples of comic book writings include Dr Strange: The Shambles From The Sea, and The Heap: The Nightmare Who Could Not Die!
I'm starting to feel numbed by numbers. Spiderman 125 through to 129 just sold for £320, more than my monthly mortgage, and I didn't even bat an eyelid.
Fantastic Four issue 41 is being sold in a lot with numbers 55, 60, 64, 65, 92 and 112, with a total guide price of between £20 and £35. Number 41 has the fantastic front cover blurb of "Possibly the most daringly dramatic development in the field of contemporary literature". I think I will make that my new Twitter profile.
There are also a fair few Fantastic Fours up for grabs, including issue 31 featuring the marvellously billed "mad menace of the macabre Mole Man"!
The oldest book in today's sale is cowboy comic Western starring the Wyoming Kid published by Detective Comics in 1952. Despite being more than 60 years old, it looks in decent condition, although it has no guide price.
Still plenty of familiar names to come, including the Incredible Hulk, Thor, the Invincible Iron Manand, their mega team up, the Avengers. It's not all Marvel though, DC are also represented with Batman and Superman lots.
Two and a half full sheets of A4 listings to go before the next really eX-citing lot, X-Men Number One!
One young chap keeps starting the bids at £20 for the Spiderman lots, sadly he keeps getting trumped by the internet bidders, much to the amusement of the auctioneer!
Into the Spiderman run now, almost a complete run until issue 300, the majority coming from a loft in Darlington. Number Three went for £80, Four £130, Five and Six together for £110 and Seven and Eight together for £95.
Spiderman Number One dates from 1963, not 1163. Apologies!
Spiderman Number Two, starts £50, SOLD for £280!
Amazing Spiderman Number One! Here we go! From 1163, bidding starts at £300, soaring up, £450, £500, £600, £720, all internet bidders, SOLD! £780, to Bidder 343397!
Spider Woman one to 46 and Ms Marvel One to 24 SOLD for £30, Spiderman One next!
It has taken one hour to get through 92 lots, there are 448 in total, Spiderman at 100, X-Men at 287 and Green lantern at 421.
Howard The Duck comics (49 of them) and the VHS movie now. SOLD for £40!
Only 20 lots now until Amazing Spiderman Number One, 30 pages of colour depicting two tales of Peter Parker, the photographer who develops arachnid skills after being bitten by a spider. The first edition pitches Peter Parker in a furious fight with the Fantastic Four. Guide price of between £600 and £1,000.
A change of auctioneer, Fred has taken over while John has gone to talk to Tyne Tees.
I have deliberately not registered to bid, this is because I do not trust myself and am fairly sure I wouldn't be able to claim a comic collection back on expenses.
When they first came out these comics would have sold for 25c in the states, around 9d in the UK. Now they are considered investments.
Most of the comics on sale today are in used but good condition, obviously looked after well and managed to avoid that great threat to all superheroes - the angry parent on a bedroom tidy up rampage.
Daredevil was created by legendary comic genius Stan Lee. When New York man Matt Murdoch is blinded by nuclear waste, his remaining senses develop to a super strength enabling him to hunt his father's killers. Gripping stuff
Now getting stuck into a run of Daredevils, 20 or so lots running up to issue 192, admittedly with some breaks. Seems to be doing well!
Daredevil Number Two, there are three copies, go for £45, £70 and £80!
The second Daredevil Number One now, goes for £320
The first Daredevil Number One now, bidding starts at £100. SOLD for £280 to the room, slight confusion as a late internet bid was expected but never came
Captain America will be big again this year with the spring release of the second film starring the brilliant Chris Evans as Captain Steve Rogers. This run of comics could be a good investment.
Cap Am 101 to 104 go for £35
Captain America 100 now, goes for £35 to online bidder. 101 to 104 next.
Marvel Kiss and the Beatles Story go for £10.
First fail sale, E-Man numbers two to 10. No interest in the room, not even for £5.
The next big lots are 41 and 42, both Daredevil Number Ones published in 1964, each valued at between £300 and £450. Hopefully the truly terrible film with Ben Affleck as the eponymous superhero won't have tarnished Daredevil's reputation among collectors.
Phew, we are off to a flying start. Now several job lots to come, American underground works featuring Robert Crumb and the like. The Marvel comics start soon with Captain America and the Marvel Super Special The Beatles Story, valued at between £24 and £45.
Viz six to 10 gone for £320 to same chap. Now 11 up to 30, £320 to the builder!
Viz Three now, £360 to the same guy who bought Number Two. He is wearing workman's trousers and boots, will need to do a couple of extra shifts at the building site to pay for those.
Viz number Two now, even rarer than Number One apparently. Published April 1980, number 89 from a first print run of 500. GONE! For £480!
Trying not to make eye contact with the auctioneer, up to £820 now, a wrong move could be very costly! DONE! Viz £880 to a internet bidder.
Viz Number One now, guide price of between £400 and £600. From December 1979. John: "I can confirm that despite the excellent condition this is a first edition first printing verified by Simon Donald himself."
Viz Number One now, guide price of between £400 and £600. From December 1979. John: "I can confirm that despite the excellent condition this is a first edition first printing verified by Simon Donald himself."
Fat Freddy's Cat and Fabulous Furry Freak went for £25
The Eagle soared out of the room at £520!
Lot 8 next, a mass of Eagle Comics, my Dad would like them but with a guide price of between £200 and £300 sadly he won't be getting them from me. Bidding started at £50, straight up to £160 on the web, then £250 online, £260 in room, £270 web, £280 room, it's madness! Up to £400 and counting.
Asterix collection up next, caught my eye. Two bidders, gone for £25 to an internet bidder.
The first lot, boxes of Red Dwarf and Empire magazines sells for £5.
Auctioneer John Anderson has taken to the podium, welcoming bidders in the room and online. "We are selling all comics as seen, I cannot accept comics returned after the sale simply because they turned out to have some defect noticed after the sale.
"On the other hand they are there for sale, I hope you have an enjoyable sale and you might even get some bargains."
Lot 13 is the first edition of Viz. Only 150 were produced, although issue One was reprinted. The World Record for a Viz One was set here at A&G when a copy sold for £950. Today's copy is in perfect condition, complete with a card offering a free ice cream printed on paper stolen by Viz creator Simon Donald from the Government department where he was working at the time.
Around three quarters of today's lots have come from a house in Darlington, chanced upon by a widow who discovered her late husband's collection in the loft. John Anderson from Anderson & Garland said it was a rare find that has got the nation's comic-lovers in much of a flutter.
The Spiderman (Lot 100) has a guide price of between £600 and £1,000. A mint condition copy could easily fetch more than £10,000. Today's entry is not mint but has been lovingly looked after.
There are 448 lots with the furious frenzy of bidding expected to last between four and five hours. Notable entries include issue Number Ones of Spiderman, X-Men, Viz, Aquaman, Daredevil and Hawkman.
LESS than 10 minutes to go until the auction kicks off. A couple of dozen collectors and dealers are ready for the bidding war, numbered paddles their weapons, comic book ownership their prize.


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In November, Clayton County voters re-elected Victor Hill as sheriff with more than 70 percent of the vote, even though he faces 32 felony charges. Today, the president of the Georgia Sheriffs' Association explains why his group doesn't want the sheriff-elect to take office until the criminal case is resolved. A state representative for Clayton County explains why the embattled official first deserves the right to prove his innocence.
Hill deserves right to prove innocence
By Darryl Jordan
Clayton County Sheriff-elect Victor Hill is a man who has admitted to the voters of Clayton County that he has made some mistakes in the past, when he was in office the first time. , and t Clayton County voters apparently have forgiven any past mistakes, because they elected him overwhelmingly in both the Democratic primary and general elections.
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Do you think more can be done amongst the youth and young people to combat cyber bullying?
We have already touched on ideas we can stop cyber bullying.
It is seen to be rampant amongst the young, but it also affects young adults (workplace bullying). Misuse of the Internet, especially when the use of the internet and social media is almost ubiquitous in today's wired generation is also becoming increasingly common.
We have all seen various cases of cyber bullying leading to suicide e.g Amanda Todd, Hannah Smith
I feel that one of the main causes of bullying is apathy amongst the crowds; we are too afraid to intervene in a bullying case for fear of being targeted ourselves.
It has also become common to set up memorial pages on Facebook after a person has died to spread awareness. However, these pages are often also targeted by other bullies and defaced. While we can spread awareness through Facebook 'likes', it often does not do anything to solve the issue.
Just a shout out, what do you all think can be done to create awareness / mitigate the problem? Government policies, school administration, amongst the youth.. etc.
Examples of things done to combat cyberbullying in your own communities / countries would be helpful too!
cheers :)
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Bryan Maloney 30+Aug 22 2013: Unpopular idea: Teach moral behavior as a good in and of itself. Not "being nice" but being moral. Bullying is never moral. Humility is moral. It's not apathy that causes bullying. That's silly. Nothing is more apathetic than a rock in my yard. It doesn't care at all what I do. It does not cause me to do anything. Apathy might permit bullying, but it no more causes bullying than the rock in my yard causes me to like chocolate. Blaming the uninvolved is almost as bad as blaming the victim. The bully must be blamed and those who brought up the bully. If the bully is of the age of reason, crush it with all necessary force. If the bully is not of the age of reason, crush its parents or guardians with all necessary force. Bullies do not understand kindness or humility. They only understand force and power. Thus, since the lack the moral capacity to exercise restraint, they must be restrained, just like any other badly-trained animal. Then, once the bully realizes that further bullying will always bring about overwhelming societal retribution, retrain the animal until it becomes a human being.
None of us are really born human. We are only born with equal capacity to become human. Most of us become human. Some of us are so badly brought up that we never become human. The worst of us choose to cease being human. Those members of our biological species who were not allowed to become human must be restrained until they are taught to be human. Those who have voluntarily ceased being human may be beyond correction, at which point they must be removed from the population. Bullying is a sign of either having not being allowed to become human or having decided to stop being human.
Aug 23 2013: Moral is a big word are you saying Moral right or Moral wrong, assuming the first, it would be moral wrong if I interfere with your Ideas but Moral right if we think alike, unfortunatly morals are tought so we let go of our Guards, when people who think outside the domeins of education impress them self we feel we are being bullid.
if at first we are tought that no one must mass up with my things the only way is to stand up for my self, no one alse will (do or die), every body in school knew that don't mass with me, 'cause they knew the Consequences of that, I will literal bite my out another then that I will team up with the strogest so you would never think of interfiering unless you wanted some unpleasent thing to happen to you.
what I'm tryin to say is teach kid to stand up for themself
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WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 10: Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) arrives for a hearing on Capitol Hill on October 10, 2012 in Washington, DC. The hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee focused on the security situation in Benghazi leading up to the September 11 attack that resulted in the assassination of U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens. (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
Updated: November 13, 2012 6:26AM
I find it funny that Mayor Rahm Emanuel says installing speed cameras throughout the city is being done for the safety of the children. Oh, how noble! But now the mayor is counting on those speed cameras to generate $30 million in revenue for the city in the first year.
Richard Clemens, Brideport
Firearms tax would accomplish nothing
For all practical purposes you can't buy a gun in Chicago, and the gun stores outside the city are few and far between. Nearby counties and states do have gun stores, where most of the firearms in Cook County are purchased. A county tax on firearms and ammunition would be spitting into the wind.
John Culloton, Norwood Park
The problem is spending
After reading "County looking at gun tax," I was not surprised to see that the county is considering this. After all, there is a violence problem and a budget problem, so what's the answer? Another tax increase. Quite frankly, this is the answer to every problem within the county and the state. The budget is in a shortfall, raise the payroll taxes; the county is financial ruin, raise property taxes and sales taxes; health care is costing our state a fortune, raise taxes on tobacco products.
Add another tax and those who want to purchase firearms or ammo will just go to other sources, out of the county or out of state. The real problem here is that our county and state simply cannot stop spending.
Jeff Pabst, Hanover Park
Congress hasn't done a thing in four years, but they finally found an urgent cause this week that simply had to be addressed. Yep, they couldn't pass up the chance to make the Obama Administration look weak on international security. They were sure that somehow President Barack Obama was responsible for the attack in Benghazi, Libya. Unfortunately Rep. Jason Chaffetz revealed that it was in fact the GOP that had pushed to cut funding for embassy security.
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FAO Schwarz, the great toy store, is the small building on the left.
My second-favourite shop in New York.
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Monday breakfast links
- Berners-Lee: reinventing HTML
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web and founder of the W3C, announces reforms:
It is really important to have real developers on the ground involved with the development of HTML. It is also really important to have browser makers intimately involved and committed. And also all the other stakeholders….
Some things are clearer with hindsight of several years. It is necessary to evolve HTML incrementally. The attempt to get the world to switch to XML, including quotes around attribute values and slashes in empty tags and namespaces all at once didn't work.
- 9 to 5 = average
- To be great in design takes passion and work.
- Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful to Feelings
- I love this.
- Web Directions North
- Our Australian friends set up camp in Vancouver, for what looks like a great two-day conference on standards-based design and development (Vancouver Canada, February 6-8 2007). Speakers include Kelly Goto (Gotomobile), Andy Clarke (malarkey), Adrian Holovaty (Chicago Crime, Washington Post), Douglas Bowman (Google Visual Design Lead), Dan Cederholm (SimpleBits), Joe Clark (joeclark.org), Dave Shea (CSS Zen Garden), Cameron Moll (Authentic Boredom), Molly Holzschlag (Molly.com), Veerle Pieters (Veerle's Blog, Duoh!), Kaitlin Sherwood (Google Maps US Census mashup), Tantek Çelik (Technorati).
- Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance
- By Andrew Kirkpatrick, Richard Rutter, Christian Heilmann, Jim Thatcher, Cynthia Waddell, et al. Don't let the unsexy title fool you. Vast and practically all-encompassing, this newly updated classic belongs on every web designer's shelf. (Better still, open it and read.)
- I Cannot Possibly Buy Girl Scout Cookies From Your Daughter at This Time
- By Charlie Nadler in McSweeney's.
- Gemini Girl
- New women's blog elegantly designed by Ray McKenzie.
- eMusic: 33 Folkways LPs
- Thirty-three important Folkways Recordings for download. Louis Bonfa, Mighty Sparrow, Woodie Guthrie, Henry Cowell and more.
- On having layout – the concept of hasLayout in IE/Win
- Technical but reasonably easy to follow discussion of why Internet Explorer's rendering of your design may
suckdiffer from your expectations
- "Apple's Backup App is Shit"
- God bless SuperDuper.
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Richard Flynn said on 30 October 2006 at 11:27 am:
As far as I'm aware, the post about Backup is about Backup 3, which is given to .Mac subscribers. The application is indeed something of a joke, and has been picked up by Gruber as such in recent days. However, this isn't what's being mooted for OS X 10.5 Leopard—'Time Machine', as the forthcoming OS feature is called, has nothing to do with the way Backup.app worked, as far as I know.
Chris Kelly said on 30 October 2006 at 12:05 pm:
Re: Backup – I think you are confusing Backup, a piece of the $99/ Yr .Mac package (which everyone is complaining about) with Time Machine, the selling point of Mac OS X 10.5. Still, God bless SuperDuper…
Joe said on 30 October 2006 at 1:19 pm:
About the Apple Backup deal. The upcoming version of Mac OS X has a different backup mechanism than the current Backup application that comes with .Mac — that's that thing called Time Machine. I certainly hope it's better than Backup. Getting more people backing up can only be a good thing, unless your backups don't work.
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Jemaleddin said on 31 October 2006 at 12:35 pm:
I don't konw why you "love" Brad's article about XHTML – he clearly doesn't know what he's talking about. If he'd ever actually served XHTML as applicatoin/xhtml+xml, he wouldn't have written such nonsense.
Jemaleddin said on 31 October 2006 at 4:30 pm:
I'm not trying to be a troll or anything – it's just that he's wrong. I've been burned by html/xml issues before and hate seeing people led down the wrong path.
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3 November 2006 at 3:12 am:
[...] And Zeldman reviewed the accessibility book: Vast and practically all-encompassing, this newly updated classic belongs on every web designer's shelf. (Better still, open it and read.) [...]
Ben 'Cerbera' Millard said on 7 November 2006 at 2:06 am:
I agree with what Jemaleddin says about being "led down the wrong path". I hope readers of this blog don't take the XHTML seriously.
Luckily, Jacques Distler has described the details of some problems with
text/htmldocuments using XHTML document types in the comments for the article. Using a hand-coded site the author claimed as being perfect XHTML as the example of why
text/htmlxHTML isn't compatible with
application/xhtml+xmlXHTML was a nice touch.
Was your linking to it ironic, like a 'look what the kids are still arguing about' type of thing? :)
Interview: Bruce Lawson » graphic:DESIGN:basics said on
13 November 2006 at 5:30 am:
[...] Yeah, one of the glasshaus editors, Chris Mills, commissions for friends of ED (who bought many Wrox and glasshaus titles). I've just finished a full revamp of an old glasshaus accessibility book, which rocks (Zeldman reviewed it: "Vast and practically all-encompassing, this newly updated classic belongs on every web designer's shelf). I'm also tech reviewing a beginner's guide to HTML. [...]
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18 November 2006 at 7:08 am:
[...] Noch jede Menge mehr Musik: Thirty-three important Folkways Recordings for download. Louis Bonfa, Mighty Sparrow, Woodie Guthrie, Henry Cowell and more. [via Zeldman] [...]
Daring Fireball Linked List: October 2006 said on
22 May 2008 at 5:42 pm:
[...] Brad Fults's point-by-point response to Ian Hickson's "Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful". (Via Zeldman.) [...]
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Later today, Atlanta's own Herman Cain is scheduled to formally announce his candidacy for president in a rally at Centennial Olympic Park. I'll be headed out shortly to watch the event in person.
UPDATE: The rally went as planned, a nice event drawing a lot of nice people honestly concerned about their country. I'd estimate the turnout at around 1,200, which is certainly respectable for a political rally on a beautiful Saturday in May.
In his remarks, however, Cain estimated the turnout at 15,000 — I'm sorry, that isn't even in the realm of possibility. In fact, I saw several people around me crane their necks, smile and shake their heads after Cain made that estimate. I guess it was a number thrown out to impress the TV audience, because nobody who was actually there in person would believe it.
Maybe it was the outdoor setting, or maybe Cain just got a bit overwhelmed by the occasion — after all, it's not every day a man announces a run for president of the United


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Tao sat on his couch, bored out of his mind. It was too quiet in his little studio apartment, but he didn't know who to call. That was always his problem. He didn't want to bother any of his friends with last minute hang out plans, so he never texted anyone. He breathed out a sigh and looked curiously when he heard a knock on the door. He got up and looked out the peep hole in his door. He didn't recognize the person he saw, so he just decided to ignore them. They would go away if they figured no one was home. He went back to the couch and sat down.
Suddenly the door burst open, he stood quickly, ready for a fight. The man ran into the apartment and Tao was the first to throw the first punch. His fist connected with the man's jaw and he stumbled back, but only for a moment. The man charged at him and swung his own fist, Tao dodging gracefully. The man had brass knuckles. Not something Tao wanted to feel against him. He was preparing for the next strike, but didn't hear the second man. The second sneaked up behind Tao and swung his metal pole, connecting with the back of Tao's head. Tao went down instantly, his blood soaking into the carpet. The two men went through his apartment and stole everything of value before getting out, leaving Tao unconscious on the floor.


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Save Oven Space! Make Your Dinner Rolls in the Slow Cooker
Oven space is always at a premium in the hours (and even the days) leading up to a big dinner like Thanksgiving. So here's a crazy idea: why not make make your dinner rolls in the slow cooker?
Zoë François of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes swears that it can be done. All you need to do is make the dough for the rolls and let it rise as usual. To bake them, line a slow cooker with parchment, roll the doughs into balls, and place them in the slow cooker a few inches apart. Cover and bake on high for about an hour and you're done.
The only downside is that you don't get a shiny golden top in the low and slow heat from the slow cooker, but Zoë says that you can brush the finished rolls with butter and run them under the broiler for a few minutes for just the same effect.
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Another downside- only 8 rolls!
Ooooooo!!!! That is a nifty trick.
I wonder if one could make them smaller and do two layers? Might have to try this soon. Would be great for potlucks at work.
My slowcooker is pretty deep, so I could actually fit two layers (with parchment paper in between) without making small rolls (I think). I am guessing it would work, but would take longer than 1 hour (probably 2).
@tallsarah - My thoughts exactly! With the way my family eats bread, we'd need at least three times that many. Even my fiance could polish off 6 in not time flat. I'd rather do a side dish like sweet potato casserole in the crockpot.
Who knew you could bake in the slow cooker?! The slow cooker is my new obsession.


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Hammers And Strings; An Ed Sheeran One Shot
I have been working on this for a very long time. I have been debating whether or not to post it, because of how hard it hits home for me. When i wrote a lot of these passages, I was sick, and scared. These thoughts are mine, these emotions are mine.
I hope that you enjoy it.
For obvious reasons, I had to choose a name for the female character. It is told in 2 points of view
Please leave feedback, and like this post, or reblog it. It would mean a lot to me, especially if you enjoy this.
Hammers and Strings: An Ed Sheeran One Shot
*Molly's POV*
The beginning of the rest of my life started at a piano, and since all things in life come full circle, that's exactly how it ended.
I sat down at a piano when I was nine, next to my older brother who had been taking lessons that entire year. Seventy-six inches and 88 keys of ivory laying before me, and I couldn't even comprehend the weight that this piano would hold in my life. My brother, he couldn't play much, just the right hand of "Heart and Soul." It sounded so lonely, that part he was playing without an accompaniment. A repeated verse begging for a harmony. His piano teacher had gotten up to get a drink, and left him at the piano alone. I looked at the sheet music, and down at the keys, and saw no correlation. The tiny black markings on the sheet in front of me sat meaningless on that page. I let the fingertips of my left hand rest quietly on the keys in front of me, and I pressed each key individual in an upward succession as he continued to play until I founded a key that was pleasing to my ear. That day, sitting next to my brother without any prior experience, I learned how to play the left hand of Heart and Soul by ear. That was the first time I had ever played the piano. The first time that anything made sense to me. 15 years later, I can still sit and play Claire de Lune with my eyes closed. I've never needed to see the music. I just needed to hear it. I feel most at home on this bench, my palms curved concavely, my fingers barely hitting the keys in front of me, all of my emotions poured into the sounds of the hammers and strings.
I met Ed the first time I publically played the piano, at an old rundown bar 15 minutes outside of the town I lived in. I had an incessant need to just perform a piece of music for someone other than myself, or my family, to hear. And that old run down bar was the closest open mic night I could find. I remember wheeling that piano into the room, the wheels squealing as I managed to position it in the middle of the floor. I sat down, placed the Clair De Lune sheet music in front of me, splayed out across the piano. I started to play, and like clockwork, as I got to the first set of arpeggios, my sheet music dropped from the piano swaying in the wind as it tumbled to the floor. I could practically hear the look of horror on everyone's face; the sheet music curse. But they didn't know that I knew this song like the back of my hand, and I closed my eyes, imagining that I was back in my own apartment playing for myself, and I finished the piece flawlessly. Ed Sheeran picked up all of my sheet music when I was done, gathered it in his hands and presented it to me as a smile spread across his face.
"You played that from memory?" he mumbled, unsure of his question, "That's incredible."
"I play everything from memory" I tell him, as I took the sheet music from him.
"Why is a girl like you in a bar like this?" he asked, raising his eyebrows, briefly looking around before back to me,
"Why not?" I shrug, almost narrowing my eyes at him in a playful way, "I just want someone to hear me play, even if it is a bunch of alcoholics. Nothing is lonely than the echo of your own music reverberating in an empty room"
"You're practically reading my mind" he nods, letting out a laugh at the irony, "I've been playing shows for nobodies just to be heard"
"You play?" I ask, nodding towards my upright piano, "let's hear it"
"Not piano" he shakes his head, motioning towards his half-size guitar, "but I'd love to be able to play something as beautiful as what you just played."
He lets the compliment slip out of his mouth and I grasp at it, holding it tight to me.
"Tell you what" I bite my lip, looking at him to gauge his reaction, "if you show me how a guitar works, I'll teach you how to play the piano"
A smile tugs at the corners of his lips as he holds his hand out to me.
"I'm Ed," he mumbles as my hand slips into his cool palm.
I believe in fate. I believe in love at first sight. I believe in being in the right place at the right time, and taking advantage of that specific time and place. My life with Ed started in an old run down bar where I played piano for a bunch of alcoholics to hear. He was the only one who appreciated it. He never stopped appreciating me. We settled down, got married, had a beautiful daughter, Eleanor. and we've been running through fast dreams ever since.
Molly's POV: Day 1
On a cold December morning, I slipped on a patch of ice as I was following Eleanor to the car. I landed on my back, knocking the wind out of my lungs, and I lay there for a few seconds before getting up. I took inventory on the damage, realizing that I hadn't broken anything and that I was fine. I got up, drove Eleanor to Pre-school and came home to clean up the house and get all of the errands done. By the time I had a free moment to sit down, I had forgotten all about the fall, until I was laying in bed with Ed later that night. I was lying on my stomach, my head at the foot of the bed, reading a magazine when Ed appeared in the doorway after putting Eleanor to bed.
"E said you fell down today" he speaks up walking into the room, pulling his t-shirt over his head, "she told me to tell you that she hopes you're okay"
I chuckle at her concern and shake my head, "I'm fine, Ed. I'm glad we've raised such a caring daughter though"
"What happened?" he asks, kneeling on the bed, his fingers finding the hem of my t-shirt, his cool fingers sending a shiver down my spine.
"I just slipped on some ice" I tell him, brushing him off. I hear his sharp intake of breath as his fingers push the material of my shirt up my back. I hadn't realized the severity of the pain until his fingers traced across my skin. I winced in pain at the touch
"jesus, Molly" he gasps, lifting his hands off of my skin, "We need to take you to the hospital"
"What?" I look at him, raising an eyebrow in surprise at his ridiculous statement, "Ed, it's just a bruise. I fell. I'm fine"
"Just a bruise?" his eyes widen as he motions towards the standing mirror. I get up off of the bed and turn to examine the damage. Breath catches in my throat as I see the purple and black spiderweb bruise extending from the middle to my lower back, the skin around it a bright yellow. I looked like I had been brutally beaten repeatedly in the back. My stomach dropped, the sight was nauseating, and the look of concern and fear in Ed's eyes made me sick.
"Okay" I tell him, nodding, "I'll call my mom, see if she can watch Eleanor"
That was the day I fell. The day my world turned upside down.
Ed's POV: Day 1
I was holding her hand when we found out, in a stale doctor's office.
I felt all of her hope, all of her strength drain from her body as her hand went limp in mine,
When they told us she was dying.
Stage 3 bone cancer is very unforgiving and stubborn as hell.
No amount of chemotherapy or radiation in the world could help her at this point.
But it didn't matter
They had given her a deadline—a timeframe for her fragile life.
As soon as the words left his mouth, as soon as they flew through the air, landing in a designated spot existing in space and time, they became real. A projection of this moment will be permanently burned into our minds. I will be able to listen to it over and over again until I cannot stand to hear her name, age and diagnosis for another second.
I hold her hand until she can bear to stand up.
We don't pick up Eleanor from her mother's house.
I drive us home, entering the darkness of our bedroom when we arrive.
She crawls into my arms, her face buried in the skin of my chest as her arms claw at my back, like she's trying to dissolve into me, and she cries.
Her sobs are heavy and loud for hours as she chokes on her own tears.
I hold her close and rub a hand up and down her back.
I muster up the strength to lie to her, as I whisper that it's going to be okay, into her hair until she gives up the fight and succumbs to unconsciousness.
When I'm sure she's asleep, I untangle myself from her arms and lock myself in the bathroom. I turn the lights off, sink down against the door, and lose it.
Tears stream down my face as I cry into the palm of my hands.
I am going to lose her to this.
And there's nothing I can do.
Molly's POV: Day 2
Life is not fair.
Life is not fair.
Life is not fair.
Life is not fair.
I'm only 25. I have a child, a 4 year old who needs me. I have a husband who is gone for most of the year on tour. I have a family, and a future and a plan and things I want to do. I want to grow up, and old, and see my 90th birthday. I want to see Eleanor grow up and graduate and get married and have babies. I want grandchildren. I want to spoil them. I want to have a 50th wedding anniversary with Ed. I want to retire. I want, I want, I want, I want. I just want to be alive.
I'm afraid of dying.
I'm afraid of leaving the people I love here.
I'm afraid of what my absence will do to Eleanor and Ed.
I'm too young to die.
I pay my taxes. I go to church. I believe in God.
Is all of this not enough?
Molly's POV: Day 30
We have spent so much of our lives together not speaking. I suppose that's what happens when you have a relationship like ours, where we are constants in each other's lives. At first, speaking was the most important part of you and me. We spoke in turns, spilling our life stories. He's one of those people who can tell me anything over coffee. For him it was always death before decaf no sugar, no cream, black –hold the bullshit. Together we were self-proclaimed poets, with a knack for good food and wine and emotionally charged conversations. I was a jazz listening, hipster hating, Arcade Fire Discover-ee who didn't use Oxford commas. And he was a guy not concerned with material possessions, loving everyone he's ever met in at least one way or another, who listens to The Black Keys and raps freestyle when he's drunk. Those conversations, the ones we spent making plans and creating a future, well they aren't important anymore. Had I known what I know now, I wouldn't have spent a minute of our time together tied down to wordy conversations. I would have spent more time with him. I would have spent more time between the sheets, skin to skin, tracing my fingers over the freckles on his skin, appreciating fluttered eyelashes on my cheeks. I would have held him close, told him I loved him more and more each day, I would have made more memories in this house with him, with our children. I would have spent more time appreciating the life I was given, the breaths I'm able to voluntarily take, my strong reverberating heartbeat, the blood coursing through my veins. Had I known what I know now, I would have spent less time thinking I had more than enough time.
Molly's POV: Day 47
There is a moment right after I wake up and take my first, what feels like voluntary, breath. At that precise point in time, nothing matters. I can feel my arms, feet, legs, all fingers and toes. I can breathe and swallow and blink and think for myself. But as soon as I sit up, as soon as I get up, everything starts. At first, I don't feel good. There's a tightness in my legs. My bones ache. It's a bad day already' and it' hasn't even' started. I watch as the blood rushes to the surface of my skin with the slightest touch, bump, or scratch. I examine the yellow bruise marking my thigh, where I ran into the corner of the coffee table a week ago I wish telling Ed that I'm getting sicker was as easy as this. I wish I could let the words melt though the door between us, into his mind, like the pain and blood melts through my skin .
I get up out of bed and head into the bathroom. I stand in front of the mirror, admiring the dark circles under my eyes, my messy hair, the way the skin practically sags around my joints. I step onto the silver scale in the corner of the bathroom and watch as the 130lbs I weighed last week reduce to 128lbs. That's not a lot, to a normal person. But 2 pounds, for me, means that I'm literally losing myself. I'm withering away to nothing. But I'm too tired to worry about my future.
Ed's POV: Day 50
I hate the stubbornness that is radiating off of her body, like the heat of a thousand Christmas lights stuffed into a jar that have been plugged in for three hours. I hate the way the words roll off her tongue, like she knows what she's talking about. We're still so young, but the way she's talking, I'm guessing she's going on thirty-five. I hate that all I want to do is keep on fighting, keep pushing and prodding and searching for an answer, and she just wants to accept it and wait. There she is, with her porcelain skin, as though someone in the world actually dreams of being made of such a fragile material. She's like glass, and I'm a nervous wreck.
"I don't want your damn pain medicine" she wraps her arms around her, an attempt at introversion, as her face contorts in pain, "It makes me sick."
"Come on, Mol" I tell her, practically begging her,
"I don't want to be numb," She yells at me. She picks up the glass sitting on her bedside table and holds it in her hands, cradling it in her palms as she musters all of her strength to throw the glass at me in anger. It lacks almost all momentum and travels slowly through the air, landing a few feet in front of her. I watch it shatter on the floor and I can't hear anything over the sound of a sob that rips through her chest.
"Molly" I exhale, running a hand over my face as I step over the broken glass, towards her.
"Can we just accept this for what it is?" her question is muffled by her hiccups as she tries to stop crying. She won't let me touch her, and I stand in front of her, feeling sorry,
"I won't" I tell her. I can feel the lump in my throat form, filled with denial. As soon as I say it, it becomes real. It'll be out of my control, something I can't fix. She'll be the girl I can't save. The love of my life with an expiration date so much closer than mine.
"Ed" her voice is low, "I'm going to wither away into nothing. I will no longer be the person you love. I won't be able to laugh, cry, argue, kiss you, hug Eleanor, or breathe. Everything is deteriorating and I'm going to die. But I don't want to spend my time numb."
"okay" I exhale, accepting defeat.
I help her out of bed and try to ignore her winces and groans of pain as she moves. I'm worried I'll never see her face light up again. I'm worried that this is as good as it will be from now on. And I'm scared.
Molly's POV: Day 65
There is a bird house in the tree directly adjacent to our back yard that houses a pair of cardinals. I've always been a bit fascinated by Cardinals. They mate for life. Once two cardinals find each other, they spend the rest of their lives with each other. When one mate dies, I've always expected the other cardinal to find another mate. But they don't.
The widowed cardinal sits and calls out for his mate. He sees his reflection in the window and flies into it repeatedly only to be disappointed that it's just a figment of his imagination. Eventually he'll come to terms with it and move on.
They also symbolize death. Ed and I are cardinals. While I'm still alive, while I'm still breathing, while I'm still able to walk around and think and breathe for myself before machines take over, we will be together. And when I die, after every minute of our lives together, he's going to hit the window. He's going to see me in places where I'm not. He's going to think I'm there, that I'm not really gone. A figment of his imagination. And maybe it'll happen for months, he'll eventually find someone else. And he'll stop forcing himself to believe in something that isn't there. He'll stop searching for someone who isn't coming back.
Ed's POV: Day 80
The most memorable moment of my life should have been something extravagant and worth remembering. It should have been winning a Grammy, or the Nobel Peace Prize, or finishing David Copperfield, Moby Dick, and A Tale of Two Cities, all in the same day.
But the most memorable moment of my life was the moment I realized that I could never grasp and hold onto the thing that matters most to me. I couldn't hold on to her. She meant everything to me, and because of that, I tried to anchor her soul to mine. It didn't matter how tightly I wrapped myself around her, she still managed to slip flawlessly through my fingers, out of the space between my ribs, fluttering away into the wind. I had never felt that way about anyone before, and I may never feel that way again—knowing that nothing will ever be as good now, as it was then, with her.
Ed's POV: Day 100
Her strength was the first to go. The ability to walk, to get out of bed, to do anything that requires any kind of momentum became difficult for her. I didn't mind helping her, because that's what you do when you're in love. You help the love of your life. She got to the point where she couldn't pick up Eleanor anymore. I think that stung the worst, knowing she'd never be able to hold her daughter in her arms again.
Her mind was next. She started to forget things. It started with little things, like telephone numbers, and dates. She couldn't remember the last names of her teachers from primary school. She had a hard time remembering our home phone number, and the street we lives on. And then it got worse. She'd forget how old Eleanor was. Or what her name was. I would ask her questions or say things to me, and a few hours later she would need me to repeat the same things to her. I would talk, and she'd try to listen, but the words wouldn't rest in her mind. She couldn't think about things any deeper than surface level.
But she never lost her spirit, or her love for Eleanor and I. She spent the last few weeks spending as much time as possible with us. It has always occurred to me that Eleanor would have to grow up without her mother, that she would be deprived of the simple pleasure of having her mother when she needed her. Dad's aren't always the most understanding or empathetic, and sometimes you just need a mother. Eleanor wouldn't have that, and that breaks my heart. But Molly gave her more love in those last weeks than Eleanor would ever need. And after I'd put Eleanor to bed, I'd crawl into bed next to Molly and hold her until she fell asleep. She told me that she loved me, over and over again, how life wasn't fair. How she'd miss me. Even though she was sick, she still knew how to make me fall in love with her, with the way she wrapped her arms around me, the way she pressed her lips to mine.
Her hands were the last to go. Even with machines matching each breath that she took, her fingers could still move over those 88 keys effortlessly. And the final day, as she sat at the piano and a drop of blood from her nose hit the keys in front of her, I knew that it was truly over for her. She'd never touch those keys again. She had left her life, on an unfinished measure of her favorite song. As I helped her over to bed, I wiped the tears from my eyes before I sat down on the bench. I didn't know what I was doing. I hadn't played a song on the piano for years. Even though I could read the music, match what I saw to what I played, I had never done this as gracefully as she had. But I picked up from where she left off, and my fingers moved in time with the arpeggios of Clair de Lune, and Eleanor sat at the foot of the bed, and like it was meant to be, Molly's last voluntary breath came as I finished the song. I called the ambulance seconds later, and watched them carry her lifeless body away. Eleanor didn't know what was happening, and explaining it to her was the hardest thing I'll ever have to do. Hearing her cry for her mother made me physically sick. But this was it. This was what I had been preparing for. To lose her.
This was the story of Molly. It started with a piano, and that's exactly how it ended.
Molly's POV: An Afterword
I have one shot at this letter. I have one shot to try to make this right, to try to make you understand, and to try to make you remember me. This will be between you and I, old friend. My best friend. The love of my life. I'm writing you this on one of my last good days. I don't know if it is my last good day, but I am writing to you now, so you know. I hope that you find this letter on one of your good days. I don't know how long it will take you to feel okay. I don't know if you'll ever feel okay, but know that I want you to. I want you to be happy, even if it can't be with me. I'm sat at our kitchen table, and I keep thinking about how our house smells like you. It's littered with your things, and I'm not even mad that there are so many things misplaced. I guess that's what it means to be in love. I love finding your things everywhere. It feels like finding something really old and familiar and remembering it exactly the way it was when it was in your possession, like it never left.
Know that I have taken the time to misplace a few of my things as well, so that when you're having a bad day, you'll be able to find something familiar of mine to give you the strength to carry on without me.
Oh Ed, I have loved you my entire life. I didn't know what it was like to be missing part of my heart until I met you. You gave me exactly what I needed, and you've given me all of the love I have ever imagined. I will always love you. You have always been the brave one, stronger than I was. And I want you to take that with you. Be brave, for me, for Eleanor, for you. I don't know how to tell you how much I love you. So I will leave it at that. I love you. I love you. I love you. You have made me the happiest person in the world, and for that, I am grateful. But I want you to move on, and find love with someone else. You deserve to be happy. So, so, happy. And I want that for you.
I know that things are going to be hard, and that you will find yourself alone on some days, and you should never be alone. But you are strong enough to get through this. Take care of Eleanor. She's going to need it. Hug her, listen to her, don't get mad at her when she cries, or when she gets mad that I'm not here. Tell her about me when she's older. And don't kill any of her boyfriends. Walk her down the isle, be a part of her life, hold our grandchildren. She's going to need a lot of hope and a lot of support to be okay. Tell her of all of the things that we did together. Tell her about me. Tell her how much I love her. Tell her this story. Tell her how it began, and how it ended.
I will leave you with this, and I know that this letter will never be enough, but it will do. I don't regret one minute of our life together.
I love you so much, Ed.


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Empowering great ideas with Big Data Analytics
Big data and the analytics associated with it are reshaping our future. However, the best tools are not always affordable to the best ideas. Big data analytics, especially the best of breed ones, are expensive.
As a company that provides this type of services, we had an idea outside of the box.
What if an organization that could really benefit the human condition had access to these tools?
How can we help bring them within their budgetary reach?
Now let me point out that we are not the Gates Foundation or some other deep pockets philanthropic group. Nor are we some mega corporation will cash to burn. Our company, Millennia, is just a small IT services firm with a lot of heart and ingenuity.
So here's a brief synopsis of what we have in mind:
• An organization with a real need to access and analyze big data to produce benefits for humanity, the planet, etc. My guideline here is we will not work for political groups, hate groups, or anything that even remotely can be discriminatory in nature to anyone.
• Determine a project scope, including the anticipated outcomes (that will change) & benefits
• Determine the costs, write the proposal, and propose it for crowd source funding
• If awarded, we will get the project up and running within a few months. There will be ongoing costs associated with the project, so the organization has to be aware of them and able to handle them.
If anyone would like to discuss this further, please hit me up.
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Jul 10 2013: So what is the 'idea outside of the box' here? That you provide a service as a small IT company for 'humanity projects' whose organization managed to rise crowd source funding to pay you?
The last three out of the four points in your synopsis are fundamentally for any commercial service provider, aren't they? And the first point? Isn't it 'just' a statement of your companies 'moral code' ?
Don't get me wrong, as I like this part of your code, yet what I am missing in your idea here is the 'Empowering' factor you claim it to have.
In short, the 'Empowering' element to get your IT company to work and analyze 'Big Data' for humanitarian projects is - as well and usual - to pay for this your service ... and, as you describe, that your company has no financial resources to 'burn cash', I would assume, that the flexibility in pricing those services is therefore limited.
So which element in your thought is 'outside the box' really? That you wouldn't work for 'intelligence services'? Whom and how do you truly 'Empower'? My understanding of 'Empowerment' of your 'chosen' clients would be more than just to refer to 'crowed sourced funding platforms' and such alike, to get you paid ....
Usually, humanitarian projects are chronically lacking sufficient budgets, so any Dollar spent to identify those in need would not be available for those any more and booked under generalized 'management costs'.
'Out of the box' thinking to me would tackle this problem in this, its core and some of the following comes to my mind on this:
Open source data analysis tools, algorithms and free 'data access' to vital sources. Smart and 'easy to use' analysis software to reduce the need of 'expert analysts'. 'Big Data Analysis @ home' modules to access distributed, free of charge computer power to get the data analyzed, based on a platform of distributed and 'free of charge' data storage on the Internet. A community of volunteers of programmers, mathematicians, etc to help non profit ...
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.Working with electronic music _ INDEXPAGE only because of FALSE POSITIVE MALWARE!
We got so many acts, so many labels, so many stuff all around the world now. Electronic music is everywhere. What is good electronic music for me today?
Complex question. I just can say, what electronic music for me should be. The music should be unique. It should be well designed. It should be interesting. Good music should be cool to hear not feeling like doing some trainings workouts. It should have soul and energie. I love electronic music, and just want to share my favorite music with you. Hand picked interesting stuff, with excellent quality, and try to play around, creating something unique with it. Thats why i use the modular mixing system. Give your music the option to breath, give your tracks a well done drive, do not use too much limiting and compression. Uuse Eq's wise do not cut out the mids complete.
Less is more. Better doing a simple track that is well done, since a complex one, with tons of fx the wrong way.
.Working with digital audio signals
I am a certified mastering engineer since 17 years now, with thousends ot hours studio experience. I did more than 4000 music masters. I am doing mastering stuff as well as creating tracks, and remixes. Have a look at the mastering section.
Limiting & compression are nice tools, if needed! Today, a lot of stuff (underground stuff as well as f.e. us/eu chart stuff) using too much of this earcandy tools. This crashes tracks! This crashes your ears, too. Do not try to make your music as loud as the brickwall limiter allows.
Try to form your signal. But only forming, not crunching or to much compressing it. I got tons of tracks a month. Most of them are well done, but sometimes i can not stand it, what some producers are doing to there tracks! Today the quality of samples and the quality of the daws is so high, that you do not use too much tools to model them out very well. Let your instruments talk to each other! Try to become Loudness master (EBU R128) if you make DVD stuff.
.Having fun with audio experiments
I created music software called "Fantom", wich is used to design the .hiB series. The software is for djing as well as for live mixing stuff. It is still beta. Fantom allows you to be more creative a simple way, then other software does. You can use it with one Laptop as well, as for two. You can connect them to give them a oldschool mixing feeling like on your turntables, and connect some midi stuff in there. You can realtime connect Cubase projects for upgrading your creative processing.
.Having fun with with creative .hiB modular mixing design
As you read before, my .hiB (high implemented beta test) is just more than a simple mixing series. What do i use for doing it?
For "The ContInoursly LiVe" series:
PC with my Fantom Software & Plugins, Software Synths with my Presets (I prefer a special version of Omnishere, Lennard sylenth1 etc.). A sample Bank with Samples (most preseted stuff i did for it) in Fantom, or wav. Format, Cubase projectfiles, Random Fx, Finished Tracks, Unfinished Tracks, pre remixed stuff, 2 Midi keyboards, Ideas, Mixing Hardware, Monitors, fun, random presets, a mic (very important!). With the mic. I can do some random stuff, everytime i use it the final result will be unique and never be the same again.
For "The passiV Progressive" series:
2 PCs (Laptops) with my Fantom Software & Plugins, Software Synths with tons of presets (I prefer a special version Omnishere, Lennard sylenth1 etc.) that the hardware can talk to each other. The Laptops can talk to each other, also like the midi keyboards, or the fx section also. A sample Bank with Samples in Fantom, or wav. Format, Cubase projectfiles, Random Fx, Finished Tracks, Unfinished Tracks, 2 Midikeyboards, Ideas, Mixing Hardware, Monitors, fun, random presets, a mic (very important!). How long did it take to create a new .hiB? It often took about 4-6 weeks till the final release is ready.
Thats why i do not have so much episodes. Diving into the sound needs time. Doing some pre remixes for one episode takes time. Vintage realtime ideas & fx take time and practise as well. Sometimes the software is still buggy, i have to start from scratch again, and again. All those processes take time. Till 2011 i tried to bring 192kbps mp3 to the limits. I have all my episodes as raw wav32 files rendered. Since 2012 I decide to render them as 320kbps files, for download. I try to learn now to bring 320kbps to the limit.
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My .hiB series shows up my latest skillz & visions in mastering, signal manipulation and modular mixing.
To create the show i just use my coded software & manipulation tools for windows pc. Every single episode is handmade, created mixed and mastered to make them unique.
Every episode has his own mastering, sounding style, sounding color, and to be honor, sometimes some mistakes. I am working on my plugins series for 8 years now. I use the latest steinberg sdk which can be downloaded for free. Till 2012 i did vst for coloring my music, rendering them, shaping of Attack & release phases of sounds, and a compressor, that can provide an increase in the apparent loudness of almost any programme, without obvious loss of quality or audible reduction of dynamic range, yet avoiding damaging increases in the peak level of the signal. The process can also bring power, presence and warmth to programme material and even provide headroom overload margin above digital maximum with a subtlety and musical character reminiscent of tube systems. My latest creative processing is the shakkser plug-in. Resulting from many years research into professional dynamics applications, it offers separate Compress, Limit, with full independent control of used parameters. Features such as selectable time constant curves and variable soft compress functions allow the user to confidently tackle all common uses of compression, from subtle unobtrusive level control and mastering functions to the production of great artistic effects.
The use of a feed-forward architecture with logarithmic side chain processing, making use of look-ahead techniques, ensures exemplary sonic characteristics and dynamic accuracy, with an artistic capability simply unavailable from other single units, analogue or digital.
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am a certified Adobe cs4 graphic artist freelancer, too. I create covers, logos and stuff like that. But I am not really focused on this. If you want a unique .reEto cover or Logo for your projects, than first take a look at the PRICING LIST and then contact me. I am a demoscene graphician, too. Some older portfolio stuff is here. I have graphemic synesthesia. With this ability I do some abstract Graphic stuff as well, as you can see in the graphic section. Thats why i use so "funny" names for my .hiB episodes. Some of my expressions are really wired, but i think, cool, too. Feel free to share stuff, you like. Some of my stuff is created as 1920 x 1080 wallpaper for download. I love tools like incendia, to create some 3D Multiprocessing Fractals. Some examples also found in the graphic section.
.Having fun with the werkkzeug4 realtime Demo engine
The .werkkzeug4 is a realtime demosystem creating exe files. The werkkzeug4 engine was coded by farbrausch, a german demogroup. What is a demogroup?
I am a farbrausch member. My passions are doing some music stuff, as well as complete demos. I love to use and modifie the engine, to create some cool realtime stuff. You can download the engine, and some example files here. Have a look at the news section, where i posted some farbrausch demo stuff there.
Have a look at the ryg blog and the "Debris opening the box" article. Creating Demos is fun. Doing some cool realtime stuff, with highly skilled people is one of my greatest hobbies. I learned so much about multimedia art the last years, and meet a lot of really cool demoscene dudes around the world. Come to a demoparty next to you, and visit me. (maybe)
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I have a complete and total inability to recognize sarcasm over the internet. Like. Not even a little bit. It doesn't matter how well I know the person or if we've never talked before, I just don't get it.
If you reblog one of my posts with a comment that could go either way, would you mind just, like, dropping me a line? Or saying something about sarcasm in the post? I know that's ridiculous but I do actually follow what people do and don't reblog and what people say about my posts, and it really confuses me in a way that makes me exceedingly nervous when I can't tell what's going on.
I'm awkward, is my point. And I don't want this to happen.
I won't be angry either way. I'd just like to know because I'm curious. There's one specific example that I really, legitimately can't tell and it's driving me crazy and I just feel so stupid.
I'm done now. Sorry for the interruption.
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