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Welcome to the first ever Miss TDP competition! Before continuing to the theme for round one, we ask that all members read the following rules and procedures if they are competing.
Due to a drop out, there was no voting elimination for the last round. The following members are still competing in this competition and are the only ones allowed to post here:
THIS IS NOT A DISCUSSION THREAD NOR THE PLACE TO SUBMIT DOLLMAKER ENTRIES! Before you post here, I suggest you stop. All non-entry posts will be deleted. If you have questions, direct them to Silver_Wolf_Kitty. If you want to discuss the contest, the official Miss TDP clique(found here) is suggested.
1. Character. When entering Miss TDP, you need to enter with one character and stay with it the entire time. This means that your dolls hair, eye, and skin colour must remain the same throughout, unless otherwise stated in the round theme.
2. Base. You must use the same base set throughout, so pick one with a variety of poses. This base should also be medium in size for handdrawn dollers (comparable in size to the "Moe" bases here: DHF : Doll on the Hill Factory). Dollmaker users should use the shuni style base.
3. Theft. No stealing the work of another. This applies to both handdrawn and dollmaker participants, so do not submit a doll that someone else made or, for handdrawn dollers, mix and match pieces of completed dolls that are not your own. All work should be original and failure to comply will result in disqualification.
4. Props. Props and backgrounds are encouraged, but should not be massive. We will ask too large of entries to reduce their size, so be reasonable.
5. Transparency. We ask that all dolls have transparent background and is a GIF file. If you dont know how to do this, see the following thread: How to Make Backgrounds Transparent
6. Forbidden. Sexually explicit, nudity(artistic nudity must be okayed first by Silver_Wolf_Kitty), or overly bloody dolls are forbidden. Entering one could result in disqualification.
7. Theme. Every doll should relate to the theme. While we encourage creativity, failure to keep with the theme can get you eliminated automatically that round.
8. Judges. No one is allowed to use friendship or promises to sway a judges decision. Threats, bribery, and attempts to interfere or discover the judges decisions in anyway will result in disqualification. Arguing with the judges can result in an automatic elimination.
9. Competing. You can only submit one entry for each cometition, so choose wisely. The rules are being changed to allow crossover, but we ask that handdrawn dollers stick to the dollmakers if they are inclined to compete in that arena.
10. Animation. Animation is forbidden in the competition. We understand that many users like glitter, blinking, etc, but it takes away from the creativity and creates an unequal playing field for those who cant animate.
The audition round procedures are no longer in place, these are the procedures that will be followed in the future.
1. Participants enter a doll every two weeks in the set thread. They may enter it sooner, however further edits are not allowed after the doll is entered. No matter what, the two weeks are a guaranteed time slot(unless all entries are received before it).
2. Any participants who fail to meet this deadline will be eliminated. Deadlines are not being extended for anyone, so do not ask. Special extensions may be asked in the event of a long trip or medical/family emergency, but you must contact Silver_Wolf_Kitty immediately if this occurs.
3. After two weeks, the judges will then provide critique on each entry and select a bottom two for the round.
4. Several days are given for voting on who should stay. Voting will be a public affair, but you shouldnt worry about hurting feelings. All you have to do is post in the voting thread with the name of the participant who you think should stay in the competition. You may provide an explanation, but that is up to you.
5. Votes are counted and the bottom participant is eliminated, then the next round begins.
The theme for round two is "Celestial Beings". It can be an alien, a goddess, an angel, basically anything that can be identified as "otherworldly". Competitors are allowed to change the skin, hair, and eye color for this round, as well as add extra limbs. We ask that all competitors identify what their doll is so we can critique it properly and determine if it fits the round.
When your doll is ready, we ask participants to post their handdrawn doll in this thread. Round two will close the evening of August 10th! After that, the judges will submit their critiques and then public voting of the bottom two for the round will begin.
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Base is the usual Medley base from CCG (21) Fantasies
Character: Saguna Alvin Nemo
Celestial Being: Kali, Hindu Goddess of Change and Time
This is an interpretation of the Hindu goddess Kali; while often seen as a violent goddess who drinks and becomes intoxicated from the blood of her enemies (and thus shakes the ground as she dances), she has a softer maternal side that while embraced in Hinduism, is rarely recognised in Western culture. She is usually depicted with either black or blue skin, and honestly? I couldn't figure out her hair color, so I went with red. She usually has four arms, but in some depictions has ten arms AND ten legs. O.o
Judges' Critiques
Kali was quite the challenege to take on; she really does have many forms, and choosing one to doll is hard. Kali can also be recognized as a goddess of both creation and destruction (not neccessarily of the world/universe as a whole), and wolf has decided to portray the maternal side of Kali. No explaination for the wine; I think it's just there to be... there. The skirt could use more embroidery; skirts like that either have a fun pattern, tons of embroidery, or both. And, yes, I do say this from personal experience. A headpiece would have been nice, as well.
Very nicely done and great idea. One thing I would have changed was either the shirt or the hair. With the top of the shirt being red and her hair being red, it clashes a bit. Very well executed though.
You definately chose an extremely difficult thing to doll considering how expansive Kali's forms really are. I like your interpretation of the fact that she drank blood of her enemies, which is assumably in the wine glass. Your shading was quite delightful and I loved your base edit for the skin, however you could've used a little more decoration on the skirt. It is very bland and typically there is some ornamentation on it. Also, I agree with Singer that you should've changed the hair. I feel a black would've looked much nicer and would've blended with the skin better rather than becoming one with the shirt.
I stare at the girl in the mirror: T-shirt, torn up jeans, no beauty queen.
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Character: Tiffany
Celestial Being: Stitch, from Lilo & Stitch (an alien.. XD)
Base: *DEAC loves you.
Well, here it is, It took me forever, and I'm pretty proud of it, thanks SWK for letting me do this one BTW.(: Two-toned blue skin, dark dark blue nose, blue and pink ears, and black eyes make her look like Stitch when his second pair of arms are pulled in, along with his antenna. Tiffany is dressed up like Stitch is when he and Lilo hula dance at the end of the movie, with bracelets, anklets, a head band, grass skirt, and red wraped top. (That outfit is not very comfortable, fyi xD). The only real changes to Stitch that weren't there originally was the hair (which I decided to be White, and then added Tiffany's signature orange streak to). :D
Judges' Critiques
That's just a cute idea! It's not your typical alien doll, but Stitch! I just love that. Her hair, however, doesn't seem to go; making all orange would have been better. The ears look a bit like paper cones folded to look like ears and less like real ears, but those ears would be hard to doll. Reshading the sotmach in that fashion must have taken quite a bit of time; I commend you.
Cute idea! Very well executed and just a cute idea over all. Though, creativity wise, its not that creative. You did get your idea off a tv series.
I really like this. I imagine editting that base must've taken quite a bit of time and I give you props for working so hard on it. Those ears look magnificent by the way :) Your orange streak doesn't seem to look right. It's super chunky and maybe making it a bit thinner would've helped make it look more appealing. Also, the grass accessories could've used a little more tweaking, they seem rather bland because of the lack of major shade differences in them. Overall, you did an amazing job though.
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Finally I finished!
Character: Lola
Being: Elemental Angel (All will be explained)
Base: DHF : Doll on the Hill Factory
Lola is an elemental angel so she can control any element. (earth,fire,water and air) for instance she can make it rain or create a flood with water. Burn down a forest with fire or even grow a forest. All this power must drive her slightly mad. The elements are shown in her clothing. Corset left: Fire. Corset Right: Air. Skirt left: Water. Skirt right: Earth.
She has the traditional halo and wings. I decided not to doll shoes because I don't picture an angel wearing shoes.
Judges please bear in mind that I had to do most of this doll on a laptop.
Judges' Critiques
The idea isn't bad, and I do like the tree, but the oufit doens't really blend. You could have made the outfit a scene, like have some wind, waves, and lightning all hitting a tree, the lightning making the tree catch fire, or something. It's not the shading that's bad, but the fact that the outfit was
just sort of thrown together.
Ok, first off, just because you did it on a laptop doesn't mean it should be judged any differently. I doll all the time on my laptop and, no I don't have a mouse, it turns out just fine. Yes, it may be a bit difficult but it doesn't give you any excuse as to why this wasn't your best.
Second, I like the idea, actually I love the idea, but it wasn't well put together. The hair is very nice and the wings are excellent, but the outfit just doesn't seem to go well together. The top to pieces (fire and air) should have been the exact same way. It doesn't look that great when you have one part sticking up and the other part rounded. The skirt is probably the part that draws the most attention in the fact that you have two completely different ends as well. You have water in a wave and then earth as a tree. Yes, they are both aspects of those elements but they don't look that great put next to each other. Also, with the top, they would have looked a bit better had the been the colours blended together at the middle.
I really do love the idea but it wasn't very well executed.
I believe that you could've had a really good doll if you had thought more about how to execute a scene involving all four of the elements. A combined scene on the skirt or corset would've looked amazing in my opinion and could've brought you to the top this week if you had thought more about it. I agree with the previous points about the mismatched outlines. While they can look good, they simply look messy here.
Character: Mandy
Celestial Being: Alien, or that's what it was supposed to be... xD It looked better with my alternate colour scheme, but this one's much lighter and more "Mandy"-like.
Base: nicolabear on deviantART
My lack of creativity pains me to my very soul... >.> I did come up with a couple of creative ideas, but they either weren't totally right for the contest, or just feel through because I wasn't sure if it looked like Mandy at all. I ended up making a three-eyed alien. I doubt aliens wear any form of clothing, but if they did, it would probably be very futuristic and spacey. :P That strange looking thing behind her is a UFO, and those little things on the other side are stars. The things coming out of her head are antennae. ^^ Hopefully my creativity isn't as lacking as I think it is... xD
Judges' Critiques
This judgement has been made not based on dolling skill, but creativity. Though, I feel bad for doing this, as you'd made something creative but not quite fititng before you settled with this.
But she needs more accessories, more color, or just something to make her pop some.
Very cute idea and I love how it turned out. The UFO could have used some colour where the is none in the middle. I love how it turned out though. And I love those boots!!
I think this is a cute doll, but I know you can do better. It definately needed some color to make it pop more and seem more "spacey". Your UFO also could've used a bit of work too(it looks like a flying nut, amusingly enough), but it was a wonderful addition. Maybe you could've added "lights" to it since that seems to be typically associated with UFO sightings?
Character: Ashley
Celestial Being: Valkyrie
Base: DHF
As you probably know, in Norse mythology valkyries are beings who choose which warriors will die in battle, and lead them to Valhalla. There, they also serve mead to the fallen warriors (kinda like celestial waitresses :P). Valkyries are often depicted with winged helmets and wielding spears.
Judges' Critiques
A Valkyrie! I hadn't thought of that! It's original, pretty well-made, and the clotihng is pretty close to accurate as far as Viking style goes. However, the vikings loved bright colors, and I'm not so sure about the belt. The belt looks a bit modern in design. The rest is great, I think.
I really do love how we have some mythology references here. And both have been well executed. I love the shirt and the helmet!!
I am in love with your idea, but you seem to be doing that every week! Your work on the helmet is simply beautiful, I love all of the small details you included. My one very tiny critique is that the "knee pads" of sorts should've been placed a bit higher, such as directly on the knees since I'm assuming that is where they below. They currently are right below the knees and it makes the lower legs look a bit stunted. The boots also could've used a bit more work, but I love this doll anyways.
Character: Gabriel
Celestial being: Alien
Base: Poupe-base by GigideMortimer by *GigideMortimer on deviantART
Gabriel is an alien, she is The Emerald Princess from the planet Nebula, she has an alien rune on her forehead which is the mark of Nebulian Royalty, she isn't deformed in anyway but I did give her Metallic skin and an alien hairdo & I deliberatley shaded the hair & top of the dress to give off a luminous effect.
Gabriel is a little disheartened, It is her 1002'nd birthday and although she loves her mothers's birthday gift which is a very rare hard to get hold of Human doll, What she really wanted was to get the next flight out of Nebula and go to Earth to visit her friends.
Judges' Critique
I like the alien princess design, though the bun-things look slightly pillowy. That symbol on herforehead is pretty interesting. The gem looks more like a plastic blow-up toy than an actual gem, but gems are a royal pain. I would know. The folds on the cape are lovely, and same with the dress.
I love it! So cute, and so totally someything I can believe. That doll is so adorable and that cape is amazing looking! Very well executed!!
This was a really creative doll and I liked the story behind it. I see some major improvements in your shading on this doll, especially in the draping of the "cape" she is wearing, but I still see some pillowy shading around the top and in the buns of the hair. The doll's doll(wow, never thought I'd use that phrase) could use a bit more work since the hair is looking pretty square. Other than that though, I commend you on a very creative doll.
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In 1898, Bier was responsible for the first successful attempt at spinal anesthesia, proving to the medical community that regional numbing was possible. This opened the door for countless advancements in surgery and medicine, and it was all thanks to one man who dared to ask the question, "What's the worst that could happen if I shot cocaine into my spine?"
Unlike the other entries on this list, Bier first experimented with his new anesthetizing technique on a surgery patient instead of himself. The man was suffering from adverse reactions to the general anesthesia, so Bier gave him what may have been the coolest experimental option in the history of medicine, offering to just inject 15 milligrams of coke directly into the man's spinal cord.
It worked, too. The patient felt no pain during or after the surgery, which encouraged Bier to do further testing using intrathecal injections. With the help of his colleague, Dr. Hildebrandt (who was weirdly also named August), Bier tried to inject himself to really understand the effects of the drug.
Kids, you can use that excuse the next time you get caught trying to "understand" a controlled substance.
Now, just stabbing a needle into your spine isn't easy work; usually the needle is separate from the syringe for the initial piercing, then the syringe is added once the needle is in place. In the case of Bier, the syringe didn't fit the needle, which meant that, for a significant amount of time, he sat there with spinal fluid squirting out of his back while Hildebrandt tried to jury-rig the syringe. By the time the two gave up, Bier didn't have enough coke or spinal fluid left in his system to completely numb him properly for testing.
"The good news is you can't feel pain. The bad news is I've paralyzed you from the waist down."
Now, an ordinary scientist would have waited until the drug had completely worn off before trying to proceed with the experiment. But not Bier. Hildebrandt volunteered immediately to take his place, and a moderately coked-up Bier consented. Hildebrandt's legs went numb after the injections, and the two celebrated their victory by testing his threshold of pain. First, Bier tickled and poked him. Then the experiment took a considerably darker, more violent turn as Bier ripped the pubic hair off his lab partner and burned his leg with a cigar.
When Hildebrandt swore he couldn't feel anything, Bier just started throwing everything at him. He smashed a hammer against his knee, punched his balls, pinched his nipples and kicked him in the shins, which we're sure are all legitimate steps in any scientific experiment, particularly one where both scientists are still reeling from injecting cocaine into their cores. Yet throughout the entire experiment, Hilderbrandt felt nothing.
That's the whole of Hildebrandt's legacy. Being punched in the balls.
It wasn't until Hildebrandt woke up in the middle of the night that he started violently vomiting. He became too weak to move for three days after the experiment, though we're guessing some of that had to do with the fact that his kneecaps were destroyed by a hammer. Bier also came down poorly from his science high, with dizziness, headaches and an inability to stand for long periods of time, but the work was done. They had proven the potential of regional anesthesia. Today, it's humbling to think that such a huge part of modern surgery hinged on a cocaine torture party in 1898.
#5. Friedrich Serturner Tests Morphine by Throwing a Teenage Morphine Party
So, already you can see that people who experimented with painkillers were something of a special breed. For instance, what's the first thing you do when you invent a brand new, super-powerful painkiller? If you said, "Invite a bunch of friends over and start giving that shit out like hors d'oeuvres," then you're thinking like the inventor of morphine.
Who popped his collar so hard his neck shot off.
In the early 1800s, German chemist Friedrich Serturner was the first to isolate the "sleeping agent" in opium, creating crystals of pure incapacitating, addictive pleasure. He tested the substance on two stray dogs because, hey, who's keeping track of stray dogs? The sedation test was successful, in that both dogs were sedated so hard they never woke up. After 100 percent of the testing with the mystery drug resulted in death, Serturner's next step was, naturally, to throw a party and give all his friends a higher dose.
Now, it may be crucial to mention here that Serturner was only 21 years old at the time. Historically, we've accepted that as an age for experimentation in every quadrant of life. We're hoping it explains some of his recklessness, but more importantly, it helps explain why all the friends he dosed with his new drug were only 17.
Presumably the most disposable demographic next to stray dogs and homeless people.
In what we have a hard time picturing as anything other than a fraternity hazing ritual, Serturner gave each of his teenage subjects (and himself) a 30-milligram hit of what we know today as morphine. Then they all waited out the night to carefully monitor how each person would respond as the drug worked its way through his system.
No, we're kidding. He waited 30 minutes before forcing everyone to take another equally massive dose. Then he did it again after 15 minutes, because sometimes science is boring unless you're doing it all at once.
"So now that the notebook has flown off with our faces, is anyone actually writing the results down?"
By the time they were done, he and his friends ingested 10 times the recommended dose of morphine in the span of an hour. When everyone started noticing abdominal pain and sleepiness, Serturner showed concern for what we're assuming must have been the first time in his life. He forced all of his underage friends to throw up what morphine hadn't been digested by swallowing vinegar.
Fortunately, none of the kids had to be buried with the stray dogs. But Serturner went on testing morphine secretly by himself for months after that, which is just a nicer way of saying he got addicted. But without his crucial (and recklessly insane) work, hospitals wouldn't have the most important painkiller ever created.
"You're welcome. Also, are any of you holding?"
#4. Testing the Effects of Isolation by Living in a Cave
During the 1960s, everyone was busy worrying about which would be more damaging in the long run: catastrophic nuclear disaster or free love. In either scenario, humanity was curious to know how long it could survive in bunkers once society collapsed.
The only difference in either scenario would be the number of radioactive tentacles that grew on your crotch.
In other words, scientists wanted to know the effects of living indoors in isolation, away from the sun and stars, for long periods of time. The question was also relevant to NASA, since a human living in space for months or years at a time would face the same problems (if there were any). But how do you even test something like that, short of finding some poor bastard willing to completely abandon the outside world for months at a time?
Enter Michel Siffre, a geologist who discovered a massive underground glacier in the Alps. Upon finding it, he decided the next logical step was to live in its icy core alone for two months, just to see how he'd hold up.
Getting the super-powered dog and the giant key was quite difficult.
When he emerged, he found that he had lost track of days (by about a month), but not of time. In fact, he had inadvertently created a natural rhythm of eating and sleeping while buried in what was presumably a frozen hell. And in case you think we're exaggerating, he suffered from severe hypothermia and his body temperature dropped to 93 degrees while living down there. He blamed it on the fact that his feet were always wet, which apparently means that no one bothered giving him some boots before he descended into a cave of pure ice, and more importantly, that no one thought to question why he didn't just conduct his time experiment in a lab with the blinds drawn instead of buried 375 feet inside a frozen glacier.
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Because then he couldn't cultivate a magnificent beard of despair, that's why.
But regardless, Siffre's bizarre experiment had proven that we are all equipped with internal clocks that are independent of our concept of day and night.
NASA caught wind of the experiment and asked him to do another isolation test, this time for six months, in another, warmer cave in Texas. By the beginning of the third month, Siffre started to lose his mind. The record player he brought with him broke, and he became extremely depressed, even contemplating suicide. To get an idea of how mentally and emotionally dulled he was by the end, he was struck by lightning during a storm through the electrodes he kept attached to his head to monitor his activity, but didn't realize he could just take them off until after he was struck three more times.
"Man, I've read this sentence about 20 times now. This is really irritating."
So while he learned valuable lessons about the human concept of time, he also made a pretty compelling case for Steve Buscemi's "space madness" in Armageddon.
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While AIDS is certainly the best known of the sexually transmitted diseases, it's very important that your teen know that there are other STDs that are highly communicable, including chlamydia, gonorrhea, genital herpes, pediculosis pubis (crabs), scabies, syphilis, trichomoniasis, and venereal warts.
Several of these infections can be extremely serious (some can eventually cause sterility in either males or females; others cause chronic pain and discomfort), and even life-threatening. What's more, several kinds of STDs, including herpes, syphilis, pharyngeal gonorrhea, and AIDS, can be contracted without having genital intercourse, as they can be spread orally.
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STDs can be totally avoided through abstinence or by having a mutually monogamous relationship with an unaffected person. Having multiple sex partners greatly increases the risk of contracting STDs.
If your teenager is sexually active, stress that a condom with spermicide is the best protection against STDs. Also stress that your teen should tell you or his doctor immediately if he notices any of the symptoms mentioned above.
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Hungarian Dances Nos. 1 and 5, by Johannes Brahms
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Prelude to Carmen, by George Bizet (arr. by Casey Kriechbaum)
Symphony No. 9: II. Largo, by Antonin Dvorak (arr. by Jerry Brubaker) MAY 19 ONLY
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Why do we only ever see the same side of the moon?
If this is to do with gravity are there any variables which mean we might one day see more than we have before?
The reason for this is what we call tidal locking:
Fig. 1: Tidal locking results in the Moon rotating about its axis in about the same time it takes to orbit the Earth. (Source: Wikipedia)
Fig. 2: Lunar librations in latitude and longitude over a period of one month (Source: Wikipedia)
All quotes and images from Wikipedia on Tidal locking and Wikipedia on Libration.
Primarily because of how the moon spins - it is spinning at just the right rate to keep us from seeing one side of it. Here's a handmade diagram to show what I mean:
The period of rotation of the moon is ~27.322 days, and the period of revolution is also ~27.322. This means that for every degree it turns around the Earth, it turns a degree around itself, so the same side always faces us.
This is due to tidal forces coupling the various oscillators in the system (revolution of moon, orbit of moon, revolution of Earth). When oscillators are coupled, they have a tendency to settle to a state that is either in phase or 180 degrees out of phase*. Both cases give rise to tidal locking here.
As an complement to the other answers, let me address the question of why planets tend towards tidal locking. In short, the torque applied by the differential gravitational force between both sides of the surface of the planet induces friction, which in turn dissipates aways the excess spin of the (proto) moon when it is not tidally locked. When locking occurs the dissipation is minimized.
The other answers here are fantastic at explaining in a technical sense.
For an everyday example, imagine taking something asymmetrical--like a marble with some clay stuck to it--and spinning it. The asymmetry eventually brings the object to spin in a certain way. The moon is like that, except way more complicated, since its interaction with Earth is a part of the equation.
RE: Always seeing the same side of the moon. It may also be attributed to a difference in density of the moon. It was established recently that there are gravitational variations around the moon that would support the possibility that there is a higher density of material on one side of the moon. The higher density area of moon would then always face the earth. This would be similar to taping a heavy weight to one side of a ball on a hard surface. The heavier side of the ball will always face down towards the floor and towards the gravitational force. This is the same result of the heavier side of the moon facing towards the gravitational force emanating from the earth. It's too much of a coincidence that the moon rotates perfectly to always keep the same side facing towards the earth. Especially since the moon is moving away from the earth and is changing it's distance and time to revolve around the earth constantly. I came up with this theory about 10 years ago and I have not seen any other theories that would convince me that this is not a real possibility. This theory would also explain why Mercury always faces the same side towards the sun. There are no tides on Mercury to affect how it is orientated and it would appear that both bodies are affected by the same forces in keeping the same sides facing the same direction.


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Are there some specific features which make Pro Tools so popular in high end audio? Most comparisons I've found with other DAW's are several years old and are pretty subjective. I'm interested in specifics.
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I've never answered a question here before. But as a Pro Tools veteran of 21+ years who's worked sessions for major artists from coast to coast, and as a former contributing editor for Recording Magazine, I feel pretty qualified to answer this one.
First of all, many people will be quick to tell you that Pro Tools is the industry standard because it was the first. While it's true that it was the first, and while there's no question that helped it establish an early foothold in the industry, that's not the reason it has remained the tool of choice for high-end professionals. The reason is that it really is the best DAW on the market, and always has been.
Do not let people tell you that Pro Tools owes its industry status to simple market inertia. That's just crazy. If a facility is investing a quarter million dollars in a Pro Tools system (not difficult to do), you can bet your ass they are investigating every possible alternative with a fine-tooth comb. When a company realizes it could buy FOUR full-blown Logic rigs for the price of a single PT rig, and still chooses Pro Tools, it's not because they are mindless lemmings.
During my years at Recording, we staged several DAW "shootouts" on both Mac and PC, in which we would invite writers, hobbyists, and industry experts to compare them side by side, feature for feature. When pure features (and not price/costs of ownership) were considered, Pro Tools was the winner going away every time. There was usually a unanimous consensus on that. Nothing else even came close. Granted, it has been a few years since I was involved in that, but I strongly suspect this is still the case.
You asked for specifics. I can tell you that Pro Tools strongest advantages are in the following:
Granted, a lot of this stuff may not be important to you, especially if you're a hobbyist or run a small commercial facility. But trust me, when you are shelling out well into six figures to outfit a room and paying engineers $100/hour to run it, it's pretty important.
There are some areas where Pro Tools hasn't traditionally been that strong. They were pretty slow early on with adopting MIDI features for example, and still lag in that area behind competing systems. I could probably thinkof a few others, but quite frankly none come to mind at the moment.
Be advised, all of my experience in this area is with Mac-based systems. I've never used or even seen Pro Tools run on a PC, so take that for what it's worth.
Specifically Pro Tools was very early on the market with professional level products, ie things you could record 24 bit on 32 channels or more on. This meant loads of studios invested in a Pro Tools system for those who needed to do that kind of editing. And that meant people learned to use Pro Tools because that was what available at the studio when they needed it, and that meant they wanted pro tools at the next studio, because they didn't want to re-learn.
And hence it became industry standard. It's like Windows. Everybody uses it, nobody wants to re-learn, etc. Technical aspects are no longer relevant. Only being early, available and good enough.
(This is not to be taken as a pitch against Pro Tools. I've never used it it's too expensive for me. I'm sure it's bloody awesome. But that's not the reason it's "industry standard".)
Their approach to building the entire DAW system was, from the outset, very different. And I believe that's what set them apart and got them entrenched in the professional audio scene.
You couldn't, for the longest time, buy a version of ProTools that just ran on whatever computer you had in your studio. Instead, you bought rack-mounted boxes from ProTools that were loaded with general computational devices and DSP devices for accelerated audio processing. There were hard limits on what you could do with the box: a box would support X simultaneous tracks of audio at Y sampling and bit depth and Z plugins running.
The use of dedicated hardware meant their development was simplified: they didn't have to write to buggy drivers, they didn't have to support myriad of hardware options. It meant they could converge faster, get things very stable. A ProTools setup was, especially in the early 90's, a setup that didn't crash (much, and not at all in comparison to things like Logic or Cubase or CakeWalk that ran on general hardware). It also didn't break a sweat when you ran it at the limit because the limit was set to ensure there was processing overhead available.
If you wanted more tracks, more plugins, better bit depths, you just bought another processing box and expanded the computational power of your ProTools setup. You didn't have to "know computers" to expand it. It was, more or less, a drop in upgrade -- add the box, connect it in, and you got extra tracks in your sessions. Easy.
The closed system also meant hardware controllers were easier to design. I'm fairly certain they were way out in front with the "hands on" interface, tactile sliders and knobs that controlled the "in the box" mix that was happening.
So if you wanted something reliable in your studio, at first you bought ProTools. And then, over time, if you wanted what all the other pro studios in the area had, you bought ProTools. And if you wanted to move mixes from one studio to another, you bought ProTools.
But at first, you bought ProTools because it was super stable, unlike all the other DAW options at the time.
The better DAW depends on what you need.
As said before, Pro Tools is weaker when it comes to MIDI, so it depends - film composers are MIDI people 90% of the time. Hans Zimmer, the biggest film composer out there, among many others such as Harry Gregson-Williams, does all his writing in Cubase.
However, they also have Pro Tools running simultaneously on another screen.
Williams has an intriguing setup which, I think, records whatever he composes on Cubase into a Pro Tools system simultaneous as audio tracks. Zimmer writes in Cubase, does the mixing in Pro Tools. So in some cases, one DAW is just not enough.
The truth is, Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic, Sonar, etc are pretty much all excellent and are capable of what you need.
I tried PreSonus and it's workflow is amazing, and that's the point - how's the workflow? As for Pro Tools being "first", first is a relative term. I'd always thought of Cubase (Steinberg) as being earlier than Digidesign.
Steinberg invented VST's, which is a huge big deal in the DAW world. But that's perhaps from a MIDI standpoint. If you're a mainly a MIDI composer, you really don't need to fork out at all on Pro Tools - it's major strength is Audio file processing.
Also bear in mind that in readers' poll's and music magazine reviews, Pro Tools hasn't been number one, and in many cases even top 4 or 5 for several years including 2011 and 2012. How good a DAW is depends on your needs as a musician, and your workflow style.
Pro Tools also had a foot up because of its integration with its own hardware which made it fit in to the studio environment nicely.. Cubase and Logic at el were more software based and better for smaller and home set ups.. all though they are all getting similar now and its more to do with preference, I think Pro tools is still used a bit more just because people do not want to fix what's not broken, but a few Studios are now using Cubase/Nuendo..
Eh. I sat at Avid in Tewksbury, MA in my own cube (I sold telecom to them) and have been a professional musician (opera house, Kennedy Center, DC), too, so I use my ears. Why, Avid didn't even have their trademark on movies when the credits scroll until just recently. And that's not uniform. Some have it; others don't. Other DAWs do everything that PT does without the "key", and nothing sounds as good as real sound. It's not about "how many songs can I get in this much RAM?" or what's the club or arena audience look like... It's about doing it live...
Different DAW's have strong points. FOR INSTANCE, SPIDER MAN and many more major motion pictures are MIXED on Digital Performer (They make it pretty evident if you ever been to NAMM).
Essentially a DAW is the "Room" Your recording in. For instance listen to typical top 40 artists recorded in pro tools and hear how it sounds full and piercing. THEN listen to Diplo who'm does everything in Abbleton live- Notice the songs sound like they are all in similar "room" Abbleton has more of a "Breathe" as opposed to a real nice tight quickly fading out signal in Pro tools.
Pro tools is great for mixing and mastering, and tracking because of the "Room" industry likes the way it sounds (But all DAW's sound like different rooms so be aware if you want different)
Abbleton is great for production and new ideas on the fly (You can run it in Protools and track)
Cubase is great for MIDI and production
Digital Performer is great for mixing and mastering


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U.S. Reps. Mick Mulvaney, Trey Gowdy and Jason Chaffetz sent this letter requesting information regarding the failures of healthcare.gov to Secretary of Health and Human Resources Kathleen Sebelius.
Dear Secretary Sebelius:
You have made a number of curious statements during your career in public life. Time and space do not allow for a full inventory.
In August of 2008, South Carolina legislative leaders held a press conference to unveil a plan to "fix" the economy and "create jobs." The big reveal consisted of a bunch of charts – including my favorite, a pyramid with 30 plus government agencies listed in it – and the announcement of a new group called the Knowledge Sector Council.
What was this council supposed to be?
At a time when our state and national debts have reached mind-boggling levels, South Carolinians received some encouraging news recently: The state's unemployment agency recently repaid $75 million to the federal government ahead of schedule.
The payment by the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW) takes another big bite out of nearly $1 billion borrowed from the feds for unemployment checks the state disbursed during the Great Recession.
Recently, James Burback penned a letter, "Open letter about gun range near new IL school," in the Oct. 20 edition of The Lancaster News complaining about a new indoor firearms range that has been permitted in the Indian Land area.
He apparently is particularly aggrieved that the range will be located on Harrisburg Road, not too far from the new Indian Land elementary school, and for the record, not too far from where he lives.
This Halloween, I think it would be fitting for State Education Superintendent Mick Zais to dress up as "Mayhem," the character from those amusingly tragic Allstate commercials.
The changes Dr. Zais is trying to steamroll through our state's education standards in a thinly veiled attempt to pave his way to re-election would leave the quality of South Carolina public education badly bruised and battered.
Each year during the S.C. Press Association's annual meeting, there's a special time for the necrology report.
It's a listing of those in the Palmetto State newspaper industry who have died since the last SCPA meeting.
I'm sure I'll get a certain tug on the old heartstrings when I read Barry Byers' name. That feeling will likely be similar to the one I felt last Friday afternoon – Oct. 18 – when I received word of Barry's death.
In the fall, tax bills are sent out to county homeowners. Tax bills are normally sent out in late September or early October in which many Lancaster County homeowners have already received their tax bills.
Tax bills are customarily sent out early to allow those with escrow accounts enough time to ensure the information is being forwarded to their mortgage companies and taxes paid, as well as allow those who have paid off their homes and don't have escrow accounts enough time to pay their taxes.
Whenever we read an editorial letter we are tempted to look for the author's bias and this may determine whether we will continue reading.
We are loyal to our own bias and often this closes our mind to consider the accuracy of the opinion or information. Having said this, I have been looking at the events in Washington and around the country. There seems to be a clear right and wrong that is either not being reported vigorously enough, or is being subjected to political spin to justify behavior, which I cannot believe is acceptable to the average citizen.
During my time as state superintendent, I've visited more than 220 schools, in every county in South Carolina.
One thing our education leaders repeatedly tell me, is "If we had the same flexibility as public charter schools, we could be more effective." I totally agree.
I support flexibility for schools and districts so they can make decisions that are best for their diverse communities.
I do not advocate increasing class sizes as The Lancaster News story, "Zais' proposal worries educators," said in the Oct. 11 edition.
October is National Long-Term Care Residents' Rights Month. It is a time to acknowledge the contributions and sacrifices many long-term care (LTC) residents have made to better our community and to call attention to the rights of residents in long-term care facilities.
This year's theme, "Speak Out Against Elder Abuse," was selected to call attention to the fact that elder abuse is an issue that shouldn't be taken lightly.
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NYU encourages you to resolve problems and address concerns that are affecting your performance. To resolve an issue, we believe that it is often most effective to start by discussing the issue with your immediate supervisor or manager. All matters will be handled with discretion in accordance with University Policy. If you believe that it would be inappropriate to discuss the problem with that person, you should initially contact your unit or school's Human Resources Officer. You can also contact NYU's Employee Assistance Program, Carebridge, by calling 800-437-0911."Problems" that involve issues of non compliance with law, University Policy, or unethical conduct can be addressed to the Compliance Officer, the Compliance Reporting Line, or by calling 877-360-7626.
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Emile Henry > Urban Colors > Urban Colors - Tangerine > Sweet Cup, Tangerine
Emile Henry Sweet Cup, Tangerine
Item #: 862102
The Emile Henry Espresso Cup has been handcrafted into an elegant shape and glazed in the sophisticated colors. This delightful cup, made in France, is ideal for the Espresso enthusiast as it is made from all natural Burgundy clay with the inherent heat retention properties that allow the holder of the cup to sip, and enjoy slowly, a hot cup of brew without losing the heat or the crema. This diminutive cup is 2.7inches and holds 2.4ounces. The cup is modern, elegant, casual and refined. When not being used as an espresso cup, this is a beautiful vessel to serve dips, sauces and condiments. The Emile Henry Espresso Cup is stackable, and extremely durable resisting chips and cracks unlike other ceramic products. And since this cup is made in same way as Emile Henry ovenware, it is microwave, hot oven and dishwasher safe. It can be used as a serving dish for soft boiled eggs or for heating butter or other foods in the microwave or oven.
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This delightful cup, made in France, is ideal for the Espresso enthusiast.
Capacity: 2.4 oz Size: 3"
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Emile Henry's Oven Ceramic bakeware and tableware is made in Marcigny France since 1850 from high fired Burgundy clay. The natural clay is unsurpassed for conducting and retaining heat. Emile Henry's Oven Ceramic is made with an exclusive process to produce strong and durable ceramic bakeware and tableware for everyday use.
- Resistance Against Mechanical Shocks: During everyday use, there are many opportunities to bang a dish or a set of plates. Particularly resistant to shocks, our ceramic is even used in restaurants!
- Resistance Against Temperature Changes: A dish or stewpot should be able to withstand wide variations in temperature. Our ceramics allow our products to be taken directly from the freezer to the hot oven (+250°C/500°F).
- Resistance Against Fading Colors: Heat, the dishwasher or sharp instruments will all have an ageing effect on a product. Our glazes are particularly resistant to the dishwasher and the most aggressive of detergents.
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We are proud to offer products made from very high quality ceramic, which pass very rigorous quality control by our team. We are therefore pleased to offer a 10 year guarantee on all Emile Henry products. Our warranty covers any production fault or quality problem with the product when used in a normal domestic environment, and respecting the care and use instructions. Any variation in the finish of the item is due to the handiwork carried out in our workshops and does not alter in any way the culinary qualities of our dishes. Warranty not valid for commercial and foodservice use. Register your Emile Henry product.
Dinnerware Set 8pc, Oak
Price: $192.00
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17 Jan 2013 4:19 AM #31
please, show me the answer. i don't see that
17 Jan 2013 4:36 AM #32
help 2
sorry for my stupid comment, but i can't find the solution for this problem. i am new at extjs, so please help me, if you can. I had same problem with

6 Mar 2013 8:30 AM #33
Pretty much the same problem
I have been fighting a similar issue for the past 2 days. Namely, my problem is related to the IE8 browser.
Is there any way i could make the browser accept text/html content type? Current Accept looks like this:
application/x-ms-application, image/jpeg, application/xaml+xml, image/gif, image/pjpeg, application/x-ms-xbap, application/x-shockwave-flash, */*
And the value the browser gets from the server is of a type: application/x-ms-application
The value returned from the server should be text/html as stated in the documentation, and the value returned is a String. It works for all other browsers apart from IE8 and lower.
I tried various ways, such as response.setContentType("text/html"); the @Produces annotation and aswell manually handling the JSON decode method.
None of it was successfull, as the IE8 somehow skipped the part where the response should be decoded...
I also found a link to a postclaiming to explain this issue on the forums, but i am somehow not authorized to access that post
Could you give me any hint, where to start next, what to do?
7 Mar 2013 2:33 AM #34
Solved the IE8 issue
Hope it will help someone,
The Spring controller that handled the upload was set to void, instead of String that it had so far... And the body contained something like :
response.setContentType("text/html"); response.getWriter().write(objectMapper.writeValueAsString(data)); return; //instead of the return objectMapper.writeValueAsString(data); that it had before
31 Oct 2014 11:32 PM #35
Presumably the file uploader thing should be looking at .textContent, not .innerHTML.Ext Every Day!
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19 Nov 2012 5:05 AM #1
Sencha Touch 2.1 marks Ajax JSON response as failed if server returns empty array
In Ext.data.reader.Reader nullResultSet is defined like this:
// Empty ResultSet to return when response is falsy (null|undefined|empty string) nullResultSet: new Ext.data.ResultSet({ total : 0, count : 0, records: [], success: false })
if (isArray && !data.length) { return me.nullResultSet; }
BTW. I can fix it myself, but currently there's no way to contribute to Sencha Touch, right? Any plans to use GitHub or something similar for hosting Sencha Touch code?
Here's how I fixed it (touch/src/data/reader/Reader.js)
if (isArray && !data.length) { - return me.nullResultSet; + return new Ext.data.ResultSet({ + total : 0, + count : 0, + records: [], + success: true + }); }
19 Nov 2012 12:50 PM #2
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Thanks for the report! I have opened a bug in our bug tracker.
17 Dec 2012 11:59 AM #3
I've just noticed that this ticket is closed, but not fixed, and it says "Looks like we can't reproduce the issue or there's a problem in the test case provided". What does it mean exactly? Do you want me to provide some more info or a test case?
23 Dec 2012 11:45 AM #4
To make it easier for you guys to reproduce this issue, here's a screencast: http://www.screencast.com/users/szim...0-1fc79e11833d
The first call to Ext.getStore("Resources").load() fetches 2 records and properly displays them in the list view. The second call fetches an empty array (valid JSON) and throws exception event instead of displaying empty list. If you want I can upload code to GitHub, but it's just a single list view + model with name field and store with REST proxy and JSON reader.
Hope that helps reproducing this issue.
2 Jan 2013 4:17 AM #5
Bump. I really do hope you'll reopen this issue after watching the screencast.
26 Feb 2013 4:04 AM #6
26 Feb 2013 6:01 AM #7
I have seen the same thing in my app. I worked around it by calling removeAll instead of setData when I get an empty array. If this is not a bug, it is annoying that they have decided to change the way empty arrays are handled. All of my web services and code were setup on the assumption that an empty array was okay.
27 Feb 2013 6:15 AM #8
It got fixed by returning empty ResultSet, with 0 members, BUT, status is set to false, so if you have some items in your store, and server response returns [], old entries from your store are not deleted from your store, event if they are not existing on server :-(
27 Feb 2013 6:23 AM #9
I fixed it by creating an `emptyResultSet` that is almost exactly the same as `nullResultSet` but has success flag set to true (a slightly more clean approach than in my first post).
But it would be nice if someone from Sencha confirmed if it's a desired behavior (and if yes, then why) or a bug.
27 Feb 2013 7:08 AM #10
I changed server API so it returns not only raw data but also 'success' property, that also solves the problem.


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My Macbook does not power up for more than a few seconds, and I have declared it dead. The only issue is that there is still a disk inside of it of Snow Leopard. The MB doesn't power on long enough to push the trackpad button, or do the PRAM Reset, or press the Eject button on the keyboard before shutting down again. Any ideas how to MANUALLY remove the disk?
Get a standard USB mouse, attach it and press and hold the primary mouse button, while starting. This invokes the eject before the blutooth drivers are even loaded.
Kind of a shot in the dark, but one reason a MacBook won't start up at all is that the battery is so dead that it tells the Mac not to run. Some models allow you to still run the computer with the power adapter attached and the battery removed. Have you tried that? If it works, you can keep things running long enough to eject the disk.
You can also (kind of a desperation move) work a thin bit of plastic (thinner than a credit card) around in the slot to try to get it under or on top of the disc and work it back and forth until the disc pops out.


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For integer $k>3$, is something known about the rational points on
$$ \frac{ x^k-y^k }{ x-y } - (x-y)^{k-2} = 0 $$
It is genus 0 curve for $3 < k < 100$.
Coprime integer solutions are unlikely because of the Fermat-Catalan conjecture.
Rational solutions with coprime numerators and denominator of suitable size appear unlikely because of possible abc triples related to $x^k = y^k+(x-y)^{k-1}$. (example with large denominator for $k=5$ is the point $(\frac{2}{31}, \frac{1}{31})$ with abc relation $2^5=1^5+(2-1)^4 31$


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We are very excited to have a new secret weapon onboard with Eddie White joining Pentaho as Executive Vice President of Business Development. Eddie is responsible for developing strategic relationships with big data vendors and commercializing Pentaho Business Analytics for major cloud/SaaS hardware and software vendors.
Eddie has more than 20 years of experience helping businesses meet and exceed their sales revenue and growth targets through, business development, strategic alliances partnerships, and acquisitions. Career highlights include:
- Directed global sales and business development as CRO, SVP of Global Sales and Business Development for leading Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) startup Sentilla Inc.;
- Led strategic business development and partnership activities for two flagship storage and infrastructure management business units with combined annual revenue of over $1bn at Computer Associates (CA) Inc., where he was VP of business and corporate development;
- Delivered OEM storage solutions for the client on schedule and budget as business development director at Adaptec Inc.;
- Managed storage business unit with P&L responsibility for a $60m p.a. at Eurologic Ltd.
- Graduated with a diploma in business studies and first class honors from University College in Cork, Ireland and received a bachelors of business studies with honors from Dublin City University.
As you can see from his career highlights, Eddie is a proven technology industry business development professional who has built partnerships and OEM relationships with companies of all sizes. He's exactly what Pentaho needs to keep us on the forefront of the big data revolution.
Welcome Eddie!