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I am really missing the ability to sort my inventory by weight and value when deciding what to drop when I am overly encumbered and unable to run. I read a rule of thumb that said to drop anything where value is less than 10x weight. Are there any better methods or guidelines for maximizing the value of the loot I carry back to a merchant?
Well, lacking a precise formula (even though there certainly is one, the problem can be nailed down mathematically since the only variables are the weight of items, the value of items, and the total amount that you can carry), all I can do is give you some tips:
These are the ones that come to mind right now.
It pains me to leave something behind in a cave or dungeon after hours of battle and scavanging for treasure, rare ingredients, weapons etc... but, where there's a will, you will find a way! Here are some handy tips for the hoarding junkies like me:
PS... none of these tips are spoilers, they will simply make your Skyrim experience that much more enjoyable or less frustrating (depending on whether you're a glass half-full or half-empty type :-) )
I'm sure there are many other things you can do as such is the wonderful, exciting adventure of Skyrim.
I hope you find some of these tips useful. Happy hunting!
For the PC gamer who doesn't mind installing mods, the SkyUI mod brings to Skyrim the ability to sort by Weight and/or Value.
From the mod's page:
Although it's more 'expanding' rather than 'optimizing', the one biggest thing you can do to maximize the loot you can carry, is to get a follower.
You can access their inventory through a dialogue option, effectively doubling your carrying capacity.
Additionally, and this could be considered a exploit so puritans aren't going to want to use it, you can dump all of your items either on the ground or in a chest, then tell your follower to pick them up or empty the chest. In this way your follower can carry literally anything, I've taken as much as 2000 pounds off mine, once I've reached my home. Your follower can't become encumbered, so you and she will be just as fast as if she were carrying nothing.
Be warned, if you do this, everything your follower has picked up will be marked as stolen! Even if you tell her to empty out a chest of things that you just crafted, in your own house, that no one else has ever touched. So you won't be able to sell them to non-fences, and they'll all be taken if you let yourself get arrested.
Another somewhat inventory related phenomenon I found is that if you give your follower a soul trap weapon and 100 soul gems, killing one petty soul will fill all the gems in her inventory. Definitely a bug, but an interesting one. Corollarily, if you give her grand soul gems but let her kill a petty soul will a soul trap weapon, they'll all be filled with petty souls, so watch out.
Well, I sneak around a lot in Boethiah's Ebony Mail, and I also have the Lightfoot perk (I power-levelled Sneak by sneak-attacking my own zombies to death... and yes, I shouted, "Get up so I can kill you again," at them in real life). My followers only ever get me spotted or trigger traps that I try to steer them around (watch "Lydia vs. Gate" on YouTube if you haven't seen it yet - there needs to be an "avoid that" command). I also don't fast travel because the game is so beautiful and I love to take in the views as I pick my way over mountains, and I usually try to do like four missions at once after letting them pile up for a bit while I wander around looking for work. So that's how I enjoy playing, and this is the looting system I've developed for it:
1. First thing I did after becoming Thane of Whiterun was to take a carriage to Solitude (I played the first 13 levels twice at two different friends' places when I didn't have the game yet, so I didn't count this against my "don't fast travel" rule) and nab the Steed Stone. Weightless armor and 100 extra carry weight is win. The Thieves' Guild gives you armor with an additional 20 carry weight, too, if you're into light armor.
2. Keep all your crafting stuff at home. If you don't have a home, buy materials and then craft on the spot and sell your stuff right away. The first thing you should notice when you do this is that those iron daggers are worth less than the materials used to make them - which leads us to our next point...
3. Once you're past level 10, shift to a 25:1 loot threshold. Honestly, you're not going to miss those banded iron greaves. You're a busy Dovahkiin, you have places to do and things to shout at, and there will be plenty of magical items on the way. The vendors have limited gold, so it's not like you can sell them the whole dungeon anyway. When you're 20, shift to 50:1. At 30, 100:1. You eventually come back to town with pockets full of enchanted staves, expensive jewelry, and precious gems. I bankrupt every town I visit and store the excess at home for enchanting practice, then visit the magic vendors and bankrupt them. And in order to do this intelligently...
4. Have a sales route. I stop by the alchemist first, because s/he only buys potions. If s/he has money leftover, I sell my dragon parts (if I have any). Then I visit the magic vendor and sell my staves and enchanted weapons. Then I go to the smith and sell the rest of my enchanted weapons. Then I go to the general store and sell everything else. Sell your mundane weapons last, if you plan on practicing enchanting (iron daggers of zombie-scaring are the best markup I've found). Stash the rest at home. And speaking of which...
5. Organize your house! Have a chest for each type of crafting, as well as the trophies you don't have room to display and the loot you haven't been able to sell yet. This makes it so much easier to get your "chores" done when it's time to work. Also, it helps you RP when you remember what came from where, and here's a little story to prove it (no spoilers, promise). I married the person who turned me into a werewolf, and I proposed with a pair of gold rings made from a gold ingot I lifted during our first hunt together. It had been months, but I knew it was the gold ingot because I am freaking organized and I kept track of where I put it. Better RP through personal organization!
6. Finally, what brings it all together: don't loot for looting's sake, quest for money's sake! I have more money than I know what to do with, enough to buy and fully decorate at least three more houses, and I've been gunning for these places ever since I finished my initial power-levelling push (grinding smithing, taking weapon perks, then doing whatever the Hell I like). I can't sell my loot fast enough, and I can't spend my money hard enough, because I can make stuff better than I can buy and nobody can buy everything I have to sell. So I guess that's the optimum looting strategy, if you ask me: do your quests out in the world, and only pause when you're so full of high-efficiency loot that you can't carry any more. You'll be rolling in riches in no time.
Also, for anyone travelling short distances while overencumbered,e.g. to a house or a chest, you move faster with your bow drawn. This can be further increased with the archery perk that increases your speed with an arrow drawn.
Well you actually don't want to sort by weight.
The important thing is the weight to value ratio.
I'd say that anything less than 1:10 isn't worth it.
So you only take loot that has gold value of 10 per every weight. For example, if something weighs 37 it should be valued at at least 370.
This generally fills your capacity by end of the dungeon, and if there is more then it's easy to start dropping things that are only 1:10, if for example you get stuff that is 1:13 or 1:15.
The only thing you need is extremely basic math. Just load up on stuff that's 1:10 and start dropping things based on ratio as you fill up.
I don't understand what is at all difficult about this unless you can't calculate that for example a silver sword that weighs 7 and costs 100 is more valuable than gauntlets that weigh 2 and cost 25..
If you really don't want to possibly drop something good then just take everything and start dropping based on ratio..
If you can't figure out the ratios...then nothing can help you but a calculator.
Optimizing loot simply means taking the stuff with best ratio, I don't understand what could possibly be at all challenging about this.
There is a formula. Profit = x. Weight of loot = w. Value = v.
X = V divided by W. I.e. Weight 3 and value 300. X = 100. And if weight = 25 and value = 50 then x = 2.
Your goal is to make X higher...the math is simple.
And if you need to be told not to carry everything you've ever looted with you (ie dragon scales and books)...you are hopeless.
That being said, I do KEEP all this stuff...that's what a house is for. (and dragon parts are used in crafting some of the best armor in the game)
note: the inventory is fine if you have any ability at extremely basic math. I guess this is a problem for a lot of people though..lol. I have no trouble finding anything or choosing what to keep. And after a while into first play through you should instantly know when looking through a corpse which items are worth taking without even looking at values, solely from memory. I.e. Storm cloaks: take shield, arrows, hide armor and hide gauntlets, and scaled helmet. Done in 3 seconds. These all have value of 1:10 or greater. Eventually against say silver hands, you pretty much only take the silver swords at 7:100. So on and so forth.
I almost always just barely max out inventor by the end of the dungeon with this simple method, essentially guaranteeing I always get the most possible profit every time.


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COLORADO SPRINGS (CNN) -- Authorities evacuated more neighborhoods Wednesday as firefighters tried to slow a wildfire that roared down foothills and razed residential areas in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Waldo Canyon Fire had engulfed 15,517 acres and was only 5% contained.
Late Tuesday, authorities said evacuations stood at 32,000. That number rose Wednesday to more than 35,000, with additional neighborhoods cleared, said Dave Rose, public information officer for El Paso County.
"We have rehearsed and practiced disasters," said Rose. "We have never seen one like this before."
"You saw yesterday as bad a fire behavior as you are going to see anywhere, anytime," said Rich Harvey, the fire incident commander, referring to extremely dry, hot and windy conditions. "We expect further trouble from the weather today."
The 1,000 firefighters braced for predicted thunderstorms Wednesday afternoon, which could worsen the situation. The storms bring with them strong winds that can gust unpredictably in any direction.
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Twelve wildfires were raging in Colorado. The Waldo Canyon Fire captured attention because of its proximity to landmarks such as Pikes Peak and the Air Force Academy, and also to Colorado Springs, a city of about 400,000 which is the state's second largest.
Winds gusting to 65 mph through mountain canyons blew the wildfire through containment lines into northwest Colorado Springs on Tuesday afternoon. It roared downhill, burning to the ground the Flying W Ranch, a popular Western-style tourist destination.
CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen likened conditions to a double-edged sword. While temperatures were down a bit Wednesday, high-based thunderstorms will be fed by rising air, wind and low humidity, he said.
Such storms produce lightning and rain, but dry air will suck up most of the precipitation before it hits the ground. Lightning can reach the parched soil and possibly ignite additional fires, according to Hennen.
Richard Brown, the Colorado Springs fire chief, described it as a "firestorm of epic proportions."
Gov. John Hickenlooper surveyed the Waldo Canyon Fire, telling reporters it was a difficult sight to see.
"There were people's homes burned to the ground. It was surreal," he said late Tuesday night. "There's no question, it's serious. It's as serious as it gets."
Hickenlooper said officials still have not determined how the fire started.
Authorities had not tallied the number of lost or damaged structures.
President Barack Obama called the governor and Colorado Springs Mayor Steve Bach. Obama will travel to the area Friday, survey the damage and thank responders battling the blaze, the White House said.
The flames came dangerously close to the U.S. Air Force Academy main campus and an evacuation order was issued for about 700 residents in its Pine Valley Housing and 1,400 in Douglass Valley Housing, said public affairs officer John Van Winkle. The facility was closed to visitors Wednesday, with only essential personnel asked to report.
The academy's powered flight, glider and parachuting operations have been called off since Saturday so that the U.S. Forest Service could use runways for helicopters used to fight fires along Colorado's Front Range, Van Winkle said.
The academy's Class of 2016 -- all 1,045 cadets -- is still scheduled to arrive Thursday, but officials are making contingency plans in case they have to report to a different location on the base.
Many Colorado Springs residents waited anxiously to get word of whether their homes had been spared. Becky Schormann was one.
Her family managed to take some sentimental items with them when they left, but still had to leave behind a boat, a pair of ATVs, a China cabinet and an antique doll collection.
"I keep telling myself: It's going to be OK," she said.
Schormann told CNN that flames came to within 20 feet of their home but were beaten back.
"Our volunteer fire department is just awesome," she said.
The Schormanns are staying in an RV at their daughter's home. The family's two dogs, a pony and a donkey also came along for the ride.
Rose, the county information officer, said one in four callers to the joint information center are offering food for firefighters, shelter for displaced neighbors or to volunteer in some capacity.
"It is a somber resolve," Rose told CNN. "There's no doubt that we have a grim reality that we have lost a number of structures. Our western border mountain vista has dramatically altered."
The 12 fires in the state had consumed 181,426 acres by Wednesday afternoon, according to the Colorado Division of Emergency Management.
The largest of the fires was the High Park Fire, which began June 9 and has now consumed 87,284 acres, the U.S. Forest Service said. It was 65% contained Wednesday. The total number of homes burned stood at 257. An estimated $33.1 million has been spent trying to contain the blaze.
A portion of neighboring Utah was under a red-flag warning, with at least three wildfires burning Wednesday.
Authorities said they found the body of one person after they entered the evacuated areas of the Wood Hollow Fire, about 30 miles south of Provo. The victim had not been identified, according to the Sanpete County Sheriff's Office.

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I am a founder of a start-up which has been taking shaping in the past year. In this time our team has conducted a substantial amount of research, planning and other work which resulted in a collection of a large amount of information in various shapes and forms (everything from Word documents to videos through Google Docs and PDFs of articles, spreadsheets and diagrams, etc. etc.)
A while ago we have recognised a need for a cohesive knowledge management system to cope with the growing amount of information and to be able to retain the usability of existing information. We had a number of brain-storming and planning sessions on how to try and organise our knowledge and had some initial success. However, we lack conceptual knowledge of established framework or pattern for creating a KM system (if there are such out there).
There are two aspect to this in my opinion:
- Structure and organisation of the KMS
- Process of including all existing knowledge into the newly established KMS
First is pretty self-explanatory while I'll clarify the second. It is fairly easy to follow a process once it is established, e.g. you come across a new article of interest and you "file" it according yo established system. On the other hand, the task of appropriately "filing" thousands of documents from a variety of formats/systems while your overall KM structure is still forming seems like an impossible task.
To summarise (the actual question in two parts):
- Are there established frameworks or patterns for setting up a knowledge management system? (this is not a technology but a conceptual question - I am not interested in software recommendations here)
- Once the framework is chosen, what is the approach to processing thousands of pieces of knowledge in various formats and media into the new system which is efficient, consistent and not deadly painful?
To end: I am aware of this question and believe that this one is substantially different (i.e. conceptual not technical)
P.S. I also think this is a fringe question when it comes to productivity and if somebody can suggest a better SE site for it I'd be happy to relocate :)


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The Harrison County lawyer prevailed 53-44 over House Minority Leader Tim Armstead of Kanawha County during a brief special session convened by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin.
Miley, 47, had been Judiciary Committee chair under former Speaker Rick Thompson, who resigned over the weekend to join Tomblin's Cabinet as secretary of Veterans' Assistance. Miley will preside over the House through the end of 2014, with all 100 seats on the ballot that year. The Legislature holds a regular, 60-day session each year along with monthly interim study meetings during much of the remainder. June's three-day series of meetings begin today in Wheeling.
In a floor speech after Supreme Court Justice Robin Davis administered his oath as speaker, Miley described growing up in a bipartisan household. Thanking his wife, daughter, parents and other family members present, he pledged to focus on education and the state's road and Internet infrastructure while linking both to economic development.
Those voting Tuesday included newly minted Delegate Timothy Kinsey, a retired banker appointed earlier in the day by Tomblin to take Thompson's seat representing Wayne County. The election tested the slim majority of Democrats, who hold 54 seats. They faced a tight window to unite: Finance Chairman Harry Keith White had also sought the speakership before endorsing his rival on Friday.
With three GOP delegates absent - Troy Andes of Putnam County, Amanda Pasdon of Monongalia County and Ron Walters of Kanawha County - Miley and Armstead followed a House tradition and each voted for the other. Delegate Ryan Ferns, an Ohio County Democrat, voted for Armstead during the roll call.
"West Virginia first. Party second," Ferns tweeted from his desk in the House Chamber.
Ferns afterward said he objected to outside groups interfering with the House's internal affairs. Several labor groups endorsed Miley's candidacy, and White had complained while in the running of the resulting lobbying.
"I think there were bully tactics involved," said Ferns, who had backed White. "I think it was excessive in the way it was done."
The state Chamber of Commerce had also weighed in, targeting several of Miley's supporters by seeking to link them to President Barack Obama. The president's deep unpopularity in West Virginia has become a recurring headache for fellow Democrats, who hold all but one statewide executive office as well as a majority of the Legislature and state Supreme Court.
Ferns also said he has no plans to switch parties, respects Miley highly and told his fellow Democrat beforehand he planned to vote for Armstead. Miley said he thanked Ferns for the heads-up, adding that he can handle honest disagreements.
"I would have liked to have gotten his support," Miley said. "All that means is now I have to earn his support going forward."
Miley's tasks also include deciding who should chair committees and fill the floor posts of majority leader and majority whip. Miley echoed his comments from his candidacy that he expected minimal change.
"I expect most of the leadership team to resemble what you've seen before," Miley said.
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FOLLANSBEE - A half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. will be a special addition to this year's Follansbee Community Days festival, thanks to the efforts of the Follansbee Chamber of Commerce, the Community Days Committee and others.
Chamber President Tony Paesano recently presented a $3,000 donation for a visit by The Moving Wall, adding to $2,000 raised by the Community Days Committee.
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WORKING TOGETHER — Tony Paesano, president of the Follansbee Chamber of Commerce, presented to the Follansbee Community Days Committee $3,000 donated by the chamber's various members for a visit during the festival by The Moving Wall, a lifesize replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. On hand for the presentation were, from left, front, Nina Meca, committee co-chair; Paesano, Tom Ludewig, committee co-chair; and Ron Recchio, committee member; and back, committee members Kathy Andreozzi, Tom DiBattista and Edo Mirasola. - Warren Scott
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Tom Ludewig, who co-chairs the committee with Nina Meca, said The Moving Wall is expected to arrive on July 11, and a special program is planned for 11 a.m. July 12, the first day of the three-day festival.
From July 12 through 14, a variety of food and craft vendors will line the Community House parking lot. Entertainment will include: Steve Breen, The Joseph Sisters and The Marcels, the latter famous for "Blue Moon" and other doo-wop hits, on Friday; the Brenda Casey Dance Studio, Michele Dance Studio, The Next, Vince Villanova Big Band and Joel Smith and Shout: Legends of Soul on Saturday; and Cindy's Fusion Fitness Zumba studio, The Studio, 1 Step Up Dance Studio, Center Stage Dance Studio, The Driftin' Hoopie Experience, Legend and Rag Doll (a Four Seasons tribute) on Sunday.
Festivities also will include the Community Days Parade at 1 p.m. July 13, a classic car show at 10 a.m. in front of the Follansbee Middle School Fieldhouse and a bocce tournament at 2:30 p.m., both on July 14; and fireworks following entertainment on July 14.
The festival again will be kicked off with a series of pre-events, beginning with a community prayer breakfast at 9 a.m. July 6 at the Community House. Tickets are $5 each and can be purchased at the Follansbee City Building or at the door.
The Community Days Kick-off in Follansbee Park on July 7 will begin with the second Follansbee Community Days Oil Can Derby at 9 a.m. on adjacent Mark Avenue.
The event is open to boys and girls, ages 8-15. The registration fee is $20 and forms may be picked up at Al's Auto Service on state Route 2. For information, call (304) 737-2271.
Starting at noon, there will be free hot dogs, sno cones and drinks, swimming at the city pool, children's games and, from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., music at the park's gazebeo from the Original Fantasy's, a local oldies rock and roll group.
The annual Follansbee Community Days Dinner will be held at 5 p.m. July 10. Tickets are $20 each and may be purchased at the Follansbee City Building.
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5 May 2010 3:09 AM #1
Good to have user confirmation
I feel it is good to have confirmation alerts while deleting/removing things like
-removing a field mapping in a jsonstore. If the user by chance clicks the remove button, the field gets removed without any user confirmation.
This may not be needed once we have the undo/redo option in place.
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This is a good idea, thanks Capt. Undo/Redo will be coming out with the next release, so yes, this will be "less" important, but still a good idea nevertheless.


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Asked this question in a different formulation in cstheory, got some pointers, but no definitive answer ... maybe someone here knows.
Suppose I need to compute the factorization of a block of consecutive numbers N, N+1, ... N+n.
As far as I understand, there are two extreme cases. On one hand, if n is very small, I can use algorithms for isolated numbers such as the quadratic sieve. Those are very nice because they make factorizations of 100-digit numbers tractable, but they have limited usefulness for smaller N's (for example, the complexity of the quadratic sieve for N=10^15 comes out to 60,000 operations).
If $n>\sqrt{N}$, I can compute primes up to $\sqrt{N}$ and then factorize the whole block directly in O(n) time.
In between these two extremes, isolated integer factorization methods are slow due to a big fat constant, and direct factorization is slow because it has a minimum running time of $O(\pi(\sqrt{N})) = \sqrt{N} / \ln \sqrt{N}$.
Is there any algorithm that will get me a better running time in this region? We can assume that I have all the prime numbers up to $\sqrt{N}$ computed and stored so the time to compute them does not have to be included.


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When you disconnect your phone, you hang up. Does this phrase apply to your cellphone?
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Yes, one can.
Of course, it is applying a term that no longer has the direct meaning that it once did, but then teamsters no longer control a team of horses, core-dumps no longer have anything to do with ferrite cores, salaries are no longer paid in salt, and most people don't look at the stars when they consider something.
As such, it is one of a great many terms that relate to an historical artefact that is no longer relevant to the modern use.
For that matter, we still call them phones, when most that you can buy today are not actually phones, but rather multi-purpose pocket-sized computers that have a phone application among a great many others.
Yes, you do. You can disconnect or hang up.
Even though we do not literally hang up the phone anymore, hang up has become idiomatic fro "disconnect the telephone connection".
This is not something new from the age of the mobile phone, even with a lot of "home phones" you have not been "hanging up" in the literal sense for a very long time.
On old telephones, you had to hang the "handset", rather the speaker part, back on a hook on the telephone. That hook would act as a switch to disconnect.
Compare it to to dial a number: we have not been dialling numbers in the literal sense for ages, the expression stems from the days when telephones had a dial that you would have to turn to form the number.
When we started effectively typing the number, we still called it dialling.
In Britain I don't remember ever using 'hang-up'as regards the phone. Though I do recall one or two of the old phones still lurking around in the 1950s where you did actually hang-up the receiver.
The term we always used was 'ring-off', though Americans did continue to 'hang-up' even after the arrival of the compact phone with the receiver rest.
So I simply continue to 'ring-off' with my mobile, though I notice that some younger people say 'end the call'.
Yes, it does. "Disconnect the call" is also possible (although more technical).
Although I'd avoid hanging up a mobile phone, and would rather ring off, the usage is widespread. Most mobile phones have pictograms showing telephone handsets on buttons that you press to start or end a call, justifying, in some way, the metaphorical shift. There's a reference to hanging up in the contxt of mobile telephone calls in Debrett here.
I also prefer to use 'ring' rather than dial, or for example, if my wife's got a friend's number on her mobile that I haven't got on mine, I'd probably say, 'Woukd you connect me to ...' Or 'would you ring ...'.
"ring off" is far older usage than "hang up" because it refers to (as someone said), turning the dynamo crank to inform the human operator to disconnect your circuit. Just plain "hanging up" was more advanced, after automatic switching arrived that could disconnect the circuit when you hung the receiver on the hook. So, the British are much farther behind in their word usage than the US. British still say "toilet", which was a euphemism - the original word means "grooming", as in "eau d'toilet" (literally: toilet water, as all 7 year-olds know.) But in the US we have had a string of successive euphemisms for the toilet, races of people, being handicapped (originally meant a disadvantage placed on a better player in a game) and so on. Maybe there is something to be said for not changing, until it no longer makes sense. New technology could bring new words instead of straining the old ones to incredulity and creating questions like this one.
From a cellphone industry insider's perspective, the terms used in the ETSI GSM specifications to describe the states relating to an audio connection are "on hook" and "off hook". This simply echoes the concept of hanging but from the equipment's viewpoint.
For an example reference (from a quick search for a public example) see this old ETSI specification, see section 5.2.5 etc.
"126.96.36.199 Lift the hand-set "Off Hook" - Dial tone is presented."
Hang up, because "Did you hang up on me?," expressed with righteous indignation, is still a basic verbal weapon of emotionally overwrought adolescence.
Whatever you say, do not use "slammed the receiver down" when referring to ending a call in anger. With a cell phone it could be a very expensive gesture!


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Hi my name is kgosi i live in south africa and i would like to learn more about ubuntu how to use it e.t.c. Can any1 refer any good books websites and tutorials. I would also like to learn about networks and embedded systems any good books websites e.t.c would be much appreciated
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That's a little hard to answer, there really isn't a comprehensive manual/information base for Ubuntu. However in most cases you can simply google specific things and find them with relative ease. That is personally what I do, any time I think of something I would like to do, such as add custom right click menu's or display all folder names in terminal (useful if you have a massive media library and want a comprehensive list, so you don't have to type it).
You just have to get out there and browse various websites that provide tutorials on things, the main ones I use are: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/ , http://www.techdrivein.com/ , http://www.webupd8.org/ , and lately: http://www.howtogeek.com/
If its basics you want the Ubuntu website covers nearly everything: https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-help/index.html
Its just about finding things you want to learn in specific areas of the Ubuntu desktop. The sites I listed above not only cover useful tweaks but also news about Ubuntu, future releases of Ubuntu, and useful programs. I hope that helps you out.
You can also go to www.linux.org, you've got basic tutorials to advanced tutorials which could help you a bit in your learning!


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New solution for ER crisis
SC immediate care facility among those aimed at reducing strain on hospital ERs
Published: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 12:06 p.m.
When the doors of the emergency room swing open, there's no telling who might enter.
Some who rush inside are in trauma and in need of immediate help. Others who visit the emergency room seek treatment for a runny nose, sore throat or a minor cough.
The Federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act requires emergency departments to screen and stabilize every patient who walks, limps, crawls or is rolled into the door, no matter the severity of their condition.
As a result, the emergency room is often crowded — a problem many hospitals across the country are actively trying to cure.
"Many (hospitals) are looking at ways to redirect patients that use their local ER as their primary care facility," said Shalama Jackson, communications manager with the South Carolina Hospital Association. It's about "looking at ways to help serve the community outside of the hospital ER."
She adds that while emergency rooms are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, it is one of the most expensive places to receive care.
Access Health, a nonprofit in Spartanburg committed to connecting lower income residents to affordable health care options, stresses the importance of finding a physician for their clients.
"So many people don't have insurance or a physician," said Carey Rothschild, director of the organization. "So what do they do?"
The answer: They go to the emergency room, where they pay about $250 for a sore throat — nearly five times what they would pay at a primary care center.
"We want to keep people out of the emergency room for non-emergent conditions," she said. "An emergency room is probably the least affective and most expensive way for people to get primary care."
After-hours care
But there's another problem: Many primary care facilities aren't open after business hours.
"A lot of people don't get off work until 5 and can't make it to the doctor's office," Rothschild said.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, two-thirds of emergency room visits occur after primary care offices are closed.
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, which has one of the busiest emergency departments in the state, receiving more than 100,000 patients a year, is developing a new health care model.
It will serve as an option to many of the primary-care patients who visit their ER and will have extended hours.
The Immediate Care Center, which is under construction at 1200 E. Main St., will act as both a primary-care and urgent-care facility.
"It's a way of decompressing a very busy ER," said Dr. Nick Ulmer, a vice president of clinical services with the hospital's medical group. "Whether you have a broken arm, a nail in your foot or a common cold, you can come here and get treatment."
It's a similar model to what many hospitals are doing throughout the state in an effort to eliminate some of the ER's traffic, according to the SCHA.
"I can't tell you how many other hospitals have done something like this, but there are a number," Jackson said.
The Immediate Care Center will consist of a staff of about 12 licensed health care professionals — doctors, nurses and radiologists. Walk-ins will be welcome, but appointments can also be made.
Ulmer says the model will provide a convenient, more timely option for patients with less acute situations.
But it's also an option for the many patients who don't have a primary-care physician.
"It will give patients a chance to establish a medical home," Ulmer said. "Without medical homes, patients often seek care in the emergency room because they don't have a relationship with a primary-care physician."
What makes it different
Sara Beth Hammond, vice president of Spartanburg Regional Physicians Group, says the model promises to be unlike any other primary-care center in the Upstate.
Medical staff will be available by telephone 24 hours a day to assist patients with appointments or medical questions.
Ulmer says it will differ from most doctor's offices in that a patient won't have to see so many different people during a visit.
Patients who enter the facility won't have to see someone behind a sliding glass window — a common sight in most doctor's offices — before being seen by a doctor.
A clinical staff person seated at a table in front of the door will assess the patient immediately and send them into separate rooms to wait for a doctor. Many of the rooms will feature couches that flip out into beds, comforting music and TVs that display need-to-know health information.
"Normally when you go to a doctor you check in with somebody, a different person calls you into a room, and then sometimes a different person comes in and does your vital signs, then the doctor does his deal," Ulmer said. "There will be so many people here that the process will hopefully be a lot faster. And you will never be left alone — you will be engaged the whole time."
It is hoped, Ulmer said, that this engagement will keep patients coming back.
He said patients will be asked about their insurance or how they will pay once they get into the rooms to avoid embarrassment.
"A nurse will swipe your credit card and collect your co-pay," he said. "And then she will ask why you're here and then she will queue up the doctor."
When the doctor leaves, the same nurse will come back and complete the checkup, Ulmer said.
"Everything happens in the room. It's all about privacy."
Hammond said the model is about maximizing both the patients' and the physicians' time to ensure a great experience.
"Improved access to care and shorter wait times will yield efficiencies that put more focus on the patient."
Rothschild said the Immediate Care Center, which is expected to open later this month, will be a welcome addition to the community.
But it's not just good because it might reduce ER crowds or provide people more access to health care, it's good for everyone, she said.
"When more people are having to use the emergency room because they don't have access, it costs all of us."
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Last year's soccer World Cup in South Africa brought about many vuvuzela silencing tools. What are the characteristics of vuvuzela noise that allow it to be silenced? What are some of the common techniques used for silencing vuvuzelas?
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It is not likely that you are going to be able to work around this using EQs, while leaving the rest of the sound intact / not weird sounding. The vuvuzela sound is quite broadband, as far as I know. (Never measured it though.)
It is neither likely that many facts are known about the characteristics of the vuvuzela. That means, probably the best way to get around with it, is: get your hands on a few of these annoying things, sample them, do some frequency analysis and see what their characteristics are.
Since the hum is the result of 1000s of vuvuzelas, you might well end up trying to work around it with a noise reduction plugin that can sample noise. I can recommend iZotope RX Denoiser for this purpose, although I don't know in advance what the results are going to be like. I would play around with it for some time though.
The characteristic that allows the vuvuzela to be isolated in removed is the fact that the sound is constant pitch. So removing it is a fairly simple exercise in EQ:
Not wanting to be funny, but WAVES released a preset pack for a processing chain to get rid of vuvuzela for post when the world cup came out. A friend of mine was doing extensive editing on footage for some tv stations and he said it actually works. Might be worth to give it a shot? if you have an iLok you can even get a 15day trial!
Vuvuzelas share the following common denominators:
All of this means some effective DSP can extract and banish the Vuvuzela's characteristic elephant-fart sound given a decent spectral fingerprint.
I was quite impressed by Audionamix (the French workers of acoustic magic) who came up with probably the most impressive operational system -- in 48 hours, apparently -- for minusing the Vuvuzela drone from broadcast audio; they demonstrated it in operation with some sample audio from German TV and later Canal+ (in France) implemented it into their signal chain for live broadcast. Unlike simple multiband compression and EQ, they repurposed their existing instrument extraction techniques (already available for those looking to upmix 2.0 masters to surround) and customised it just for Vuvuzela extraction.
They still have their minisite online at http://audionamix.com/Vuvuzela/; the statistics make for some interesting reading. Their demonstration video's also available on YouTube if you've not already seen it.


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Have you ever started asking a question on SO and then find out that someone had already asked it. And the person who answered it was you? I seem to find myself doing this fairly often.
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I had the inverse happen (not to me) once: I saw a question that I remembered being asked a while ago, but could only remember the kludgy solution, so I decided to post it just to bump the question up in the hopes that a greater CPAN guru would post a better answer. As I was posting it in flew said guru who ended up posting two different and superior answers. Turns out he only knew the answer because he had asked the exact same question, which was the question I remembered not remembering the answer to.
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No. But I have read an answer, thinking "that's a great answer", only to realize later that I wrote it. So far I haven't seen one of mine where I thought "wow, that's crappy" -- though I have edited a few to make them even better. :-)
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Posted 15 November 2008 - 12:01 AM
A Garden -- The physicality is modest, even in sections that call for large movement its not showy stuff. It matches the intimate quality of the score. The work is full of small details, especially in the gestures (arms specifically halfway between side and front, halfway between forward and down, palms turn over, little adjustments), all riding on top of a very clearly defined structure. Morris is sometimes accused of following the structural elements of the score too closely, but that doesnt feel forced here -- its very sympathetic.
Dancers look really good here -- Morris likes strong individuals and Carrie Imler is her usual sanguine self, especially in a series of pas de bourees with her head rolling from one side to another. Theres a great close canon duet with Jonathan Poretta and Barry Kerolis, and Benjamin Griffiths just sparkles in an allegro solo to what I think is a glockenspiel. Very like his work as Oberon in Midsummer, he skims across the space with some detailed and intricate footwork.
PNB has programmed this as the opening ballet, and its a good placement, but Im afraid that it might be dismissed as an appetizer, when theres really much more substance than you might see on a first look. I hope that they bring it back soon and give us another chance to see.
M-Pulse -- At this point I think Kiyon Gaines has more skill in developing movement than in structuring a whole dance. Hes really working on the details of pointework -- how women actually move through a whole phrase using the shoe, not just stepping up or stepping off. This is often a challenge for men, and Im thrilled to see that hes making this much progress. He gets some excellent performances from his cast, especially from Lindsi Dec and Kaori Nakamura, and they seem very excited to do the work.
Three Movements -- Ive never seen anything else by Benjamin Millepied, so Ive no way of knowing where he is in his development as a choreographer -- if this work is part of a logical sequence or if its a step in a different direction, but its certainly a handsome work. It has a very real life vibe to it from the start, especially in the relationships between dancers. It opens with two men playing around (rather like Fancy Free) and then Sokvannara Sar comes sauntering in, like a swaggering breakdancer. That characterization drops away after a few beats, but it reads really clearly when its there. And when Batkhurel Bold and Carla Korbes enter, they have this little hesitation, as if theyd opened a door to a club and werent sure if it was their kind of place. The work is full of individual moments -- Seth Orza channeling Patrick Swayze in Road House, William Lin-Yee loping across the stage, Bold rolling his shoulders like a street fighter, Lucien Postlewaite in a playful mood, Maria Chapman looking absolutely beautiful. Like the Morris, I really hope this comes back soon, so I can parse more of it.
(one other comparison to the Morris, not as happy -- the womens costumes for both pieces are very similar -- someone needs to watch out for that kind of stuff)
I dont read any reviews of a program until after Ive written my own, so it was especially twinge-y to see that one of my colleagues also made a reference to Jerome Robbins work, except that the connections seem particularly strong.
One Flat Thing, reproduced -- I know the audiences are still twitchy about this work, especially about the industrial noise score and the aggressively non-balletic movement vocabulary, but this is where the real estate agents get it exactly right when they insist that its all about location -- if this was being performed on the Meany Hall series (primarily modern dance) no one would be thinking twice. Peter Boal mentioned in a post-show Q&A that he is really committed to this piece, and is willing to go out on a limb to get people to look at it. Thats pretty obvious, just observing his programming since he got here, but I think its very interesting that its this work hes willing to expend his political capital on. I truly like the gymnastic quality of the work, and the exposed feeling of the staging (like other Forsythe, everyone is on stage all the time, waiting for their cues to come up). I dont know that I would have really gotten the Antarctic references in the work without having it spelled out for me in the program notes, but it does have a clearly dangerous environment, and if you squint just right you can see the glaciers in Forsythes distortions of ballet vocabulary and phrasing.
Posted 15 November 2008 - 09:58 PM
I found A Garden much more engaging than the excerpt I had seen before; It was very balletic but (as you said) not especially showy - as if it were choreographed more for an audience of dancers than a general audience? For me it was the high point of an evening full of them.
Both M-Pulse and Three Movements had a connected, continuous movement thing going on which I have always found very attractive - certainly I want to see them several more times to get a stable impressions! (Of course I love to see good partnering, and both of them had plenty!) The Millepied was clearly an audience favorite on Friday but I'm not certain whether I agree or not...
On Flat Thing, Reproduced remains a puzzle to me. On the surface, as you said, the "gymnastic quality" and "aggressively non-balletic movement vocabulary" are off-putting for me, a classicist at heart. But I left feeling invigorated and satisfied - the emotional response over-riding the intellectual. A number of people left before this work was presented, and a few within my earshot wished they had. But overall the audience on Friday was wildly enthusiastic - and I think I'm in their number. Or will be when I've seen it a few more times.
It was a wonderful program, very satisfying. In spite of the fact that I've been a subscriber for nearly 30 years, and never seen Bayadere live. Or Corsaire. Or Raymonda. Or Giselle. Or ... well, a great many of the classics which I've seen either on video or not at all. Even Coppelia seems to have fallen out of the repertoire?
Posted 16 November 2008 - 12:59 PM
On Flat Thing, Reproduced remains a puzzle to me. On the surface, as you said, the "gymnastic quality" and "aggressively non-balletic movement vocabulary" are off-putting for me, a classicist at heart. But I left feeling invigorated and satisfied - the emotional response over-riding the intellectual. A number of people left before this work was presented, and a few within my earshot wished they had. But overall the audience on Friday was wildly enthusiastic - and I think I'm in their number. Or will be when I've seen it a few more times.
It's occurred to me that, whether people like it or not, they have an intense, visceral response to this work, and that's pretty special in itself.
"One Flat Thing" is a highly structured work, but the patterns are very unlike most works in the classical canon, so they're maybe not as visible. I love these kinds of puzzles, but that's me, and might not be someone else. I think this piece makes more sense if you've seen some of the other Forsythe in the rep -- it's more stringent than "In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated" or "Artifact," but you can see a bit of where it comes from in them.
It was a wonderful program, very satisfying. In spite of the fact that I've been a subscriber for nearly 30 years, and never seen Bayadere live. Or Corsaire. Or Raymonda. Or Giselle. Or ... well, a great many of the classics which I've seen either on video or not at all. Even Coppelia seems to have fallen out of the repertoire?
I'm afraid that most of those works will not show up in the PNB repertory, unless the company makes a significant change in artistic direction. They still do "Sleeping Beauty," and we get the Stowell/Russell/Petipa "Swan Lake" later this year (and Boal mentioned in a post-show Q&A last year that he's hoping to add the Balanchine Coppelia to the rep) but beyond that I don't think we'll get any of the 19th century full-lengths. Boal's interests lie in more contemporary work -- I don't hold much hope that we'll see the Tudor rep again, much less other stuff.
But saying that, I'm looking forward to Jewels again, and to Dances at a Gathering in the spring, so I'm a hopeful girl at heart.
Posted 16 November 2008 - 08:14 PM
It would be such an opportunity for the Company and Seattle to host a symposium on the work or on reconstruction in general, culminating in a performance that PNB had more than a few days to prepare.
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Posted 18 November 2008 - 04:45 PM
First off, thanks of all of you who posted to this thread. You gave me much insight as I saw these performances. I even printed ALL the longer posts and took them with me for the last performance so I could read through them all at each intermission. I don't agree with you all on many things, but you all gave me new and enlightening ways of seeing what I was seeing.
I saw this program 3 times: 2nd performance (11/7); midway performance (11/13), and last performance (11/16-mat). I can't remember taking quite such an extensive journey while seeing the same program multiple times as I did with this program. I'll try to give a flavor of that journey.
I'll start with "One Flat Thing, Reproduced" (OFTR). I've seen this now 6 times (3 times last season, and 3 times this season). I didn't particularly like it the first time I saw it (I wrote about that at the time on BT). The 2nd time I started to warm up to it. But it was the 5th time when I had my breakthru. Doug Fullington gave me the key at his pre-performance lecture at my 4th performance: the dancers take all their cues from each other and none of the cues from the music (if you can call those sounds music). Of course, I had realized that there were some cues coming from various shouts (such as "reset", or "go"), but I didn't appreciate until Doug's comment that the dance had no relation in time to the music. I knew that the piece is sometimes done in ~15 minutes and at other times in ~20 minutes, but I never connected that at no time in the choreography do the dancers directly reflect the beat of the music (except perhaps incidentally). Suddenly, I saw the team work; suddenly I saw what I can only call PdDs, or quartets, or even corps work; suddenly I saw the precision; suddenly I saw big sweeping themes that repeated themselves just as they do in "Swan Lake" or in any other classic ballet; suddenly I saw the Balanchine in Forsythe's work.....it was a revelation. If Peter Boal hoped to reach at least some of his audience by the unusual move of repeating such a difficult work in the very next season, he reached me. I'm grateful to him. I can't say that OFTR is one of my favorite ballets, but I will say that it is one of the most important ballets I have ever seen, and that it taught me more about ballet than anything since "Agon".
Continuing my backwards remembrance. Millepied's "3 Movements" was my favorite. As Helene pointed out, his use of the stage, all of it, was remarkable. I'm a sucker for minimalist music in contemporary ballet (e.g., "In the Upper Room"). I love the way it tends to build and build to a feverish pitch. It carries my emotions on a roller coaster -- and there is nothing I like more in ballet than to be overwhelmed by emotion. The piece made me think of New York City: the streets; the bustle; the alienation; the fleeting, but powerful relationships; the raw emotion and the self-centeredness (don't get me wrong...I love NYC and NY'ers to boot). It seems that chocomel, tutu and I all felt something like this about this ballet. I want to mention one dancer of many I could highlight: Laura Gilbreath. To my eyes Laura is more and more a stand out dancer at PNB. Her long body, incredible extension, and dramatic abilities are making it hard for me to watch anyone else at times. This was one of those times. I don't suppose she can do all roles, but WOW when it fits, it's electric.
I remember to this day the first Kiyon Gains ballet I saw. I immediately said to myself (and to him directly at the Q&A that followed) that here was a powerful new choreographic talent. I have little doubt he has a bright future. To me "M-Pulse" is a cornucopia of ideas, endless ideas, perhaps not yet fully formed, perhaps without "structure" as Helene mentioned, but Kiyon is a well spring of choreographic possibilities that probably he himself has little idea where from. For example, there were movements that were reminiscent of break dancing, or some other "street" moves, that I found particularly striking. Kiyon spoke at one of last week's Q&As and made it quite clear that dancing was his main focus with choreography a side line -- it was obvious by his remarks that he can't get enough of the joy of actually dancing, but as Kiyon matures, and demand for his choreographic vision builds, we are all going to see his ballets one of these days. In another Q&A that didn't feature Kiyon, I asked Peter Boal how exactly did it occur that such a young dancer's work was featured in a regular season program. Peter said a few things, but the heart of it came when he made the simple declaration: "I believe in his talent." Well, that makes 2 of us. (BTW, I love Helene's phrase "lack of faux sophistication" when she wrote of this work. There is something so alive, natural, and genuinely joyous about Kiyon's vision -- he just does it instead of thinking about it.)
As nearly everyone else has commented -- Lindsi Dec is amazing in this piece. I have been a fan of hers for some time (yes, I say she will be among the next wave of promotions). I remember her in the "tall girl" role in Rubies, and other times when not only her dance, but also her style, was on display. Well, she was a force of nature in this piece. Later I discovered one of the reasons at a Q&A. Kiyon worked the hardest with Lindsi, and Lindsi worked hardest with Kiyon. It was nearly a co-creation. Peter Boal said that when negotiations were happening regarding whether Gaines or Millipied would get a particular dancer, Kiyon all but said without Lindsi the ballet would not be possible. To put a fine point on this, some of you know that I am the self-declared Lesley Rausch #1 fan. I picked the Sunday matinee just so I could see Lesley in this spectacular role. For the first time ever, I preferred someone else in a role over Leslie. Since Lelsey was 2nd cast, she likely just didn't have the time to rehearse the role sufficiently, and certainly not to the extent that Lindsi worked one on one, for many hours, with Kiyon the choreographer. This is not a knock on my idol Lesley, but a full out compliment to Lindsi.
I can't move on from "M-Pulse" without mentioning the "knock your socks off" solo done in the 1st cast by Carrie Imler and in the 2nd cast by Kaori Nakamura. This is a tour-de-force that requires a high speed, precise foot work, and dynamic performance while the dancer commands the stage with confidence and a big dash of panache and drama. In other words, a role taylor-made for Carrie Imler. Is there anything Carrie Imler can't do to perfection? She owns this role. Nakamura could not compete in my estimation. Kaori is one of the most refined and skillful dancers I know, but this role requires talent across all aspects of dance. Carrie is the only PNB dancer who has everything, perhaps not the best in every category, but who none the less has it all. She can do the last movement of Jewels and be a stomper in "In the Upper Room" with equal quality. She rarely fails to amaze. (Kiyon's problem with this piece may be that without Lindsi and Carrie the piece can't work.)
As others have said, I think Morris's "A Garden" suffered from being on a program with 3 other such powerhouse works (be they good or bad). Somehow "A Garden" got lost in the fireworks. But having seen the program 3 times, I had the opportunity to focus on "A Garden" too. I like Mark Morris ballets very much (I know not everyone does), and now I see more clearly why. He is so subtle, so sweet, so respectful of the classical tradition, not to mention his humor. Like Helene I was blown away by the point work in this ballet. If I were to dream of ballet, it is this ballet I would like to dream (OK, with different costumes ).
I can't finish without mentioning Kyle Davis. Kyle is the young dancer who recently won a Grand Prize at the prestigious Prix de Lausanne and decided to spend his year with PNB. He is officially listed as an apprentice. Remember this name. Rarely if ever have my eyes been so struck by a brand new dancer. He is so musical, so lyrical, so liquid, so confident. Strangely, his dancing made me think of the best of both male and female dancers -- almost as if he were both at once.
Posted 18 November 2008 - 06:04 PM
sandik, I too was struck by the "bell" sounds in during the performance. So at the intermission during my last performance, I went down to the orchestra to have a look. There were 2 instruments (or maybe just one) I presumed to be glockenspiels (with metal bars), as you surmised, sitting up close to the conductor's stand. Right behind them were 2 larger vibaphones (with wooden bars). There was also a celeste sitting next to the harpischord.
I was sitting in a high box so I could see most of the orchestra pit. I can't be sure, but it seemed to me that the celeste was played during "A Garden", and the glockenspiels and vibaphones were played primarily in the Steve Reich music.
Posted 18 November 2008 - 10:00 PM
OOPS, I forgot.....
sandik, I too was struck by the "bell" sounds in during the performance. So at the intermission during my last performance, I went down to the orchestra to have a look. There were 2 instruments (or maybe just one) I presumed to be glockenspiels (with metal bars), as you surmised, sitting up close to the conductor's stand. Right behind them were 2 larger vibaphones (with wooden bars). There was also a celeste sitting next to the harpischord.
I was sitting in a high box so I could see most of the orchestra pit. I can't be sure, but it seemed to me that the celeste was played during "A Garden", and the glockenspiels and vibaphones were played primarily in the Steve Reich music.
Thank you for doing the research -- I thought for a moment about the celesta (and just now I looked it up on Wikipedia -- they describe it as a "a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. " -- every field has its specific vocabulary!) and indeed for a moment I thought, "Nutcracker preview!," but for some reason it didn't sound right to me. But I think you'd identified it.
But whichever one it was, I think Morris just nailed it with that solo -- it's a fabulous example of the movement and the music inhabiting the same world.
Posted 19 November 2008 - 12:18 AM
I think Morris just nailed it with that solo....
I think we will agree..............so did Benjamin Griffiths ).
Posted 19 November 2008 - 10:54 PM
Boy, that would be a dream come true for me! I can't help remembering there was a close Kirov connection some years ago, placing PNB in a somewhat unique position. Fullington's work can't help but add to that. And the Kirov has done a restoration of Bayadere recently, including the last "destruction of the temple" act which nobody has seen (OK, I exaggerate, but not enough to matter) and which they seem reluctant to stage again. Heck, they even pulled together the music, an apparently enormous effort that should not be lost. I love a lot of things about that ballet, but it just never makes much sense - you would think the last act would help pull it together.
After watching the reconstruction of parts of "La Bayadere" in Doug Fullington's "Balanchine's Petipa" (Part II) presentation, I am guardedly hopeful that, someday, we might see this, or at least the Shades act.
It would be such an opportunity for the Company and Seattle to host a symposium on the work or on reconstruction in general, culminating in a performance that PNB had more than a few days to prepare.
Surely something could be done to bring these pieces together? It could be like the Wagner Ring of Seattle Opera, one of the few places anywhere to see the Real Deal, an international destination - maybe a summer festival sort of thing, every few years? Maybe alternating venues?
OK, I know, there's a recession coming on and I'm dreaming even without Solor's opium pipe. I'll keep dreaming though - sometimes reality is over-rated.
Almost forgot to mention - I've been watching a few Bayadere's recently, and Fullington's Entrance of the Shades, even in the studio without costumes or lighting, was to my eye just much more effective than the extravaganzas available on video. Like harpsichord music played on a Steinway, the modernized productions seem to lose as much as they gain.
Posted 01 April 2009 - 04:45 PM
From the "Introduction" link on the main page:
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Posted 04 April 2009 - 01:08 PM
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I'm buiding a site that lists the most recent posts on the front page, the site is a recompilation of interesting articles and images so it doesn't make sense to link to the individual post.
I currently have the title redirecting externally to the link, but I would also like to link externally via the post image.
I've set up a custum field "externalurl"
This is what I have so far in the loop.php which does not work:
if ( has_post_thumbnail() ){ ?>
<?php $thumbURL = get_post_custom_values('externalurl'); ?>
<a href="<?php echo get_attachment_link($thumbURL); ?>" rel="gallery" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
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Does anybody have any idea what I'm doing wrong? Any suggestions welcome.
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I know that it is important to keep letters when you're asked for proof of address, bank statements, licenses etc etc, but how long should you keep these? I currently have paperwork dating back to 1997 and it's taking up way too much space. I've noticed that you're normally just asked for 3 months worth of paperwork when you need to prove your address etc. Can there be a situation where you could be asked for more than 3 months worth to prove something else?
Assuming you're in the United States, see http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=98513,00.html and http://www.cpa.net/resources/retengde.pdf for some recommendations. How long you need to keep records depends on what they are. Anything from "discard as soon as the credit card bill arrives" (for receipts from credit card purchases that have no possible return or warranty impact) to "keep forever" (birth certificates, wedding/divorce records).
Many people are moving toward keeping things electronically. Scanned or born-digital documents don't take a lot of space, and are easy to keep forever. If you take this approach, be certain you have a good (and tested) backup process in place.
If you receive most documents in electronic form and scan the paper documents, you can retain them for ever without worrying about it. Storage media are now large and low cost.
1997? Wow.
Tax records need to be saved for three to seven years depending on jurisdiction. Take the advice given in other answers, and make individual decisions based on the nature of the record. By and large though, if you have paid a bill, shred and chuck it. The only time this (proof of address history) has ever come into play for me, and I have moved many times, was either to get credit or to vote. I don't think this is much of a concern anymore, but save one or two sample bills to prove address if a drivers license won't suffice.
If you feel the need to retain, scan and store digitally. If the record is important you might consider storing them in the cloud (eg: Google Docs or another online storage solution) and/or Email them to an online account you create just for that purpose. If privacy is a concern, ignore the last suggestion and burn a copy onto a CD/DVD and store somewhere else for safety.
Enjoy the newly freed space when you finally decide to purge!


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breaking news
Fabio wants a improved contract
I think do what olllie was doing maybe post the results each time and then post a league table every month or week depending on how many you want to post. Then do a screed shot of each of the team squads maybe on a custom layout showing attributes that people wanna see like goals assists other things like that. every month/ 3 months again depending on how many you wanna do then maybe a finance page every three months or on demand again up to you on the amount you wanna do!!
I am now happy to let Fergie deal with all contracts and transfer until the summer. After all that is what i pay him for
bit late now i wanted to see if a deal could be reached for him to move to United
BBC Final Results
Arsenal 2 -- 1 Blackpool
van persie Ronaldo
Rosicky Injured
Villa 4 - 1Birmingham
Agbonlahor Sidwell Amantitdis
Delph Young Mcfadden injured(5days)
Neymar injured(4 weeks)
Blackburn 1 - Chelsea 3
Nakamura Essien
Bolton 3 - 1Newcastle
llan Smith
Ninkovic Jonas Injured 3days
Beye Injured 3days
Fulham 0 - 1 Stoke
Henry off Faye
Liverpool 1 - 1Man U
Kuyt Valencia
Man c 1 - 1 Everton
Adebayor Castro (90 mins)
Sunderland 0 - 2 WBA
West ham2 - 0Wigan
Green Injured
Wolves 2 - 1 Tottenham
Maierhofer Crouch
Brown,Zubar Injured
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I am happy for whoever the blackburn manager to sort out player contracts etc. he can also sell whoever he wishes and bring in whoever he wishes!
Is there any way to expand that down to include goal scorers with the result?
give me a shout if you wanna see your teams line up for the match ??
I will be looking in the summer depending on how the strikers get on it the second half of the season so i will probably be back. What sort of fee would you be looking for?
give me a couple mins doing a write up of the scorers
Will that do paulo
Blackburns Starting 11
I dont want you to go to to much trouble mate if you are happy doing that then yeah thats great but it could get tediuos for you in the longrun !!!
Fa Cup just took place ill post up results in a min
can you please post up the transfer screens from all prem clubs on 1st of Feb so we can see that the managers have done in the transfer window?
Also what happened to United in the FA cup i cannot see us there are we out or playing on a different day?
Damn !!!!!!!!!!
Breaking News from the BBC sports desk
Javier Aguirre has been sacked by fulham his winning % was 30%
Has Alex Ferguson made any transfers in January after i made the ones at the start??
jus waiting for results to load up aha
Would it not be easier for you to do just one for each of the teams? if not can i get Uniteds transfer page?
wel fergie had one signing in jan and that was shane duffy
Breaking News
Capello Sacked by sunderland
What contract is he on at the moment? how much to remove him as manager?
hes on 80k with 4 years left so a heft 11.5 million
New manager of sunderland
Krasimir Balakov
Bloody hell i thought he had a yearly rolling contract with us these days oh well
I think that it is only fair that you make any replacement coach a care taker and let the chairman get rid of him free of charge and bring in his own so that the chairman is still incharge.
?Man City 0 - 1 Wigan
im off ill update more tomorrow
if anyone thinks i can do stuff better just tell me what and ill try to make it better
Can you tell me about Evertons transfer offer? Also a screenshot of my transfer page? Thanks
could you also put up the transfers of each team if possible so i can see what players coyle brought. the transfer history page if its not to much trouble please.
also on my finance screen could you change percentage of transfer to 0% please.
Who is the everton Chairman as i would like to enquire about buying Rodwell in the summer??
Can i also have a look at my transfer page when you get a chance.
how long is the tranfer window normally open?
and is it 2 foreign players your allowed to bring in?
so it that one per window or just two a year?
Can we have a definitive list of Chairman and someone update it when things change. What are we doing about the clubs at the moment that dont have Chairman there are players that i wanted to attempt to sign but not sure how to go about it!
Should we have a thread somewhere advestising the available spaces or some thing.
just wondering coz i was late in it was only a day.
there is a few 'foreign' players im interested in.
would be a good idea to start a new thred so teh OP can be updated.
and what is the script with clubs with out a manager?
oh and any chance of the transfers for my team mate.
Just thinking about FM rite. Can you set up future transfers using it?
Current Chairman:
Arsenal: MikelLUFC
Aston Villa: Johnlc
Birmingham: William Hall
Blackburn: lcfc1
Blackpool: Ollie
Bolton: Nottingham Forest
Chelsea: Was Galinsky and ive asked him if hes still playing
Everton: hitman19ko
Fulham: No one
Liverpool: Fu_19
Man City: Leicester Fan
Man Utd: Paulo1985
Newcastle: cplpeters1900
Stoke: Paul Daglish? ive aasked if hes still playing but waiting
Sunderland: Rhyscartwright91
Spurs: toon_balmy
West Brom: No one
West Ham: No one
Wigan: Liverbird93? same as mikeimp123
Wolves: I cant remember
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Toon balmy can I have a screenie of staff please?
Toon Balmy did you get my PM about Sunderland manager?
Breaking news
Tottenham are proud to announce that Glenn hoddle has be named there full time manager after a successful part of season the chairman and board thought it would be a good idea to give a 2 year contract at 25k a week and look to a successful partnership between him and the club and the fans.
Toon can i please have screenie of the top and bottom half of the United finances so that i can see the wage budgets
chelsea 4 0 everton
That cant be right Rooney alone is on 135k a week
United have not had a premier league Game for 2 weeks?????????
Can I up the Arsenal wage budget to 1.3 mill and how much to sack Wenger?
Something doesn't look right! have a look at the following posts:
725 - Forth round FA Cup - Blackburn loose 1-2 against Burnley
739 - Fifth round FA Cup - Blackburn beat Chelsea 2-1
782 - Sixth round FA Cup - Blackburn win 3-0 against Bolton
Is it me or am I right?
Last edited by lcfc1; 27-07-2010 at 17:01.
Toon Balmy just so you know I replaced Mancini with Paulo Sousa
you played on the 14th march and the 21st march
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